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Speedy deletion nomination of Qualcomm Allplay
Hello Mgillespie,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Qualcomm Allplay for deletion, because it seems to be promotional, rather than an encyclopedia article.

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You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. MB298 (talk) 23:44, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Africa Twin
Hello Mgillespie,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Africa Twin for deletion, because it seems to be promotional, rather than an encyclopedia article.

If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.

You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Fitindia (talk) 12:24, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

 * I'm sorry, the above editor made a mistake. I was removing the redirect from the XRV750 and putting the content back to the Africa Twin article, in light of the new Africa Twin model. His nomination was wrong, as it most certainly isn't promotional. Spacecowboy420 (talk) 12:33, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

 * do what the hell you want. Wikipedia is a joke.  I can't be bothered creating useful pages anyway.   Too many keyboard warriors with hidden agendas deleting long standing pages.   How on earth can a page that's been on Wikipedia for 10years, without issue need "speedy deletion"?  I had this pathetic nonsense from  User_talk:MB298 in the past, and Wikipedia is now dead to me, both from a content, donation and creation point of view.

 * Yeah. Wikipedia would be good, if people actually wanted to create, rather than editing to prove a point. All is good, I will work on the Africa Twin article, and incorporate the new model. Spacecowboy420 (talk) 13:04, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

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Dessert spoon

[[File:Loeffel 03.JPG|thumb|left-to-right: Serving spoon

Tablespoon (tbsp.)

Dessert spoon (dsp.)

Teaspoon (tsp.)]] A dessert spoon is a spoon designed specifically for eating dessert and sometimes used for soup or cereals. Similar in size to a soup spoon (intermediate between a teaspoon and a tablespoon) but with an oval rather than round bowl, it typically has a capacity around twice that of a teaspoon.

By extension, the term "dessert spoon" is used as a cooking measure of volume, usually of 10 ml or $1/3$ fl oz.

Dining
The use of dessert spoons around the world varies massively; in some areas they are very common, while in other places the use of the dessert spoon is almost unheard of—with diners using forks or teaspoons for their desserts as a default.

In most traditional table settings, the dessert spoon is placed above the plate or bowl, separated from the rest of the cutlery, or it may simply be brought in with the dessert.

Culinary measure
As a unit of culinary measure, a level dessertspoon (dsp., dspn. or dstspn.) equals 2 teaspoons. In the United States this is $1/3$ of a fluid ounce. In the UK it is 10 ml.

Apothecary measure
As a unit of Apothecary measure, the dessert-spoon was an unofficial but widely used unit of fluid measure equal to two fluid drams, or $1/4$ fluid ounce. However, even when approximated, its use was discouraged: "Inasmuch as spoons vary greatly in capacity, and from their form are unfit for use in the dosage of medicine, it is desirable... to be measured with a suitable medicine measure."

In the United States and pre-1824 England, the fluid ounce was $1/128$ of a Queen Anne wine gallon (which was defined as exactly 231 cubic inches) thus making the dessert-spoon approximately 1/4 USfloz. The post-1824 (British) imperial Apothecaries' dessert-spoon was also $1/4$ fluid ounce, but the ounce in question was $1/160$ of an imperial gallon, approximately 277.4 cubic inches, yielding a dessert-spoon of approximately 1/4 impfloz.

In both the British and American variants of the Apothecaries' system, two tea-spoons make a dessert-spoon, while two dessert-spoons make a table-spoon. In pharmaceutical Latin, the Apothecaries' dessert-spoon is known as cochleare medium, abbreviated as cochl. med. or less frequently coch. med., as opposed to the tea-spoon (cochleare minus or minimum) and table-spoon (cochleare magis or magnum).

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Remington M1867

The Remington M1867 is a rolling-block rifle that was produced in the second-half of the 19th century. It was the first rifle using metallic cartridges to be adopted by the Norwegian and Swedish armies. Nominally, it had a caliber of 4 decimal lines, but the actual caliber was 3.88 Norwegian decimal lines or 4.1 Swedish decimal lines (12.17 mm), and it fired a rimfire round with a 12.615 mm (.497 in) lead bullet. The 12.17 mm caliber was chosen because the Swedish army had approximately 30,000 new muzzle-loading M1860 and breech-loading M1864 rifles in 12.17 mm caliber in stock, rifles that were suitable for conversion to M1867 rolling-block rifles. With the exception of the first 10,000 rifles and 20,000 actions (for conversions of older rifles), which were made by Remington in the US, all Remington M1867 rifles and carbines were made under license in Norway and Sweden, by Kongsberg Vaapenfabrik in Norway, and by Husqvarna Vapenfabriks Aktiebolag and Carl Gustafs stads Gevärsfaktori in Sweden with the two Swedish manufacturers producing about 80% of the weapons.

Birth of the M1867
In the 1860s the Norwegian and Swedish armies realized that their standard rifles, both percussion lock breech-loading rifles and muzzle loaders, were rapidly becoming obsolete in the face of the new metal cartridge combining bullet, primer and propellant load. In early October 1866, a joint Swedish-Norwegian arms commission was established in order to select a suitable cartridge and rifle for the two nations.

Several different cartridges and rifles were considered by the commission. A partial list includes:
 * Needle-guns
 * A Prussian needle gun designed in 1866.
 * Larsen and Steenstrup - two different modifications of the standard issue army rifle at the time.
 * A modified Swedish standard army rifle.

 * Non-repeating rifles for metallic cartridges:
 * Peabody - American lever-action
 * Remington - American, rolling-block
 * Larsen - two related, but different Norwegian designs. One lever-action, one bolt action

 * Repeating rifles for metallic cartridges:
 * Spencer - American design, removable magazine in the buttstock
 * Henry - American design, tubular magazine under the barrel
 * Larsen - Norwegian modification of the Henry

 * Repeating rifles for paper cartridges:
 * Palmcrantz - Swedish design (See Helge Palmcrantz)

 * Percussion rifles:
 * Burnside - American design with metallic cartridge
 * Sharps - American design using paper cartridges

After various tests, including repeated firings, it was clear that the needle guns were not particularly well-suited. These - along with the repeating rifles - were dropped from further testing. Further testing - which included test firing by previously untrained troops - showed that both the Peabody and the Remington was suitable for issuing to the field army. In the end, the commission based their decision on price and complexity. The Remington totalled a mere 25 parts to the Peabody's 37, and it was approved for use by both the Norwegian and the Swedish armed forces, as their standard military rifle, on 22 November 1867.

The M1867 in Norway
A grand total of 58,450 Remington M1867 were delivered to the Norwegian Armed Forces from 1867 until 1883, when production was curtailed to make room for the Jarmann M1884. All production rifles were meant to be manufactured at Kongsberg Våpenfabrik in Norway, but since the factory needed to be upgraded with more modern machinery, 5000 of the first rifles delivered to the Norwegian Army were manufactured by Husqvarna Vapenfabrik in Sweden in 1871-72. The difference is minor, the Norwegian rifles have brass buttplates and head of the cleaning rod, and steel mounting bands, while Swedish rifles have iron furniture. For the first few years the barrels of the M1867 were made of iron, but after 1871, steel became the standardized material. The price for each barrel was slightly higher, but the better design reduced misfire damage and ultimately resulted in cost effectiveness. Additionally, the designers improved the lock by replacing two lockscrews with a lockplate.

From the early 1870s the Norwegian armed forces used the 12.17×44mm RF, which apart from the case length and overall length of the cartridge was identical to the original Norwegian-Swedish 12.17×42mm RF. In spite of the difference in length the two cartridges were interchangeable and could be chambered and fired in both Norwegian and Swedish rifles. The official military designation for the cartridge was '12mm Remington' from 1879.

The sight of the rifle was the last item to be standardized because no one could agree on which would be best. The early production rifles had an L-shaped sight that could be flipped over, but the final design was a unique combination of other ideas. Earlier models were supposed to be changed to this final design, but it is still possible to find M1867 with the original sights intact.

Each rifle was delivered with a sling, a long bayonet, a three-pronged screwdriver, an oil bottle, a cleaning rod, and a muzzle plug to stop moisture from getting into the barrel. Early muzzle plugs were a short, conical dowel made of wood, but soon a brass cup with a cut out for the front sight replaced it in service.

In 1880 Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk delivered 72 conversion kits for the rifles which allowed less expensive 22LR ammunition to be fired from the M1867 for training. These kits consisted simply of tubes to be inserted into the rifle from the breech, containing a chamber for the 22LR and a short barrel. The intention was to allow for cheaper training. Later, in 1884, several M1867 were permanently modified to fire 22LR with an improved model of this device.

After the Jarmann M1884 replaced the M1867 as the main rifle in the first lines of the Norwegian Army, the M1867 was delegated to rear units until at least the mid-1890s. Roughly 5,000 were modified in 1888 and 1891 into carbines, firing 8 mm rimmed centerfire ammunition. These remained in use until 1908, when they were finally replaced by Krag–Jørgensen carbines.

From 1900 onwards, the Norwegian Army sold the obsolete M1867 to the public for a nominal price. Many of these were converted into hunting rifles and shotguns, so that it has become difficult to find an M1867 in its original form.

The 8 mm carbine conversions were kept in reserve until World War II, when most of the estimated 4,900 units were destroyed by German forces.

Today, an unmodified M1867 in decent shape might be worth 4,000 - 6,000 Norwegian kroner (roughly 600 - 900 USD), while an M1867 in perfect condition might go for as much as 10,000 kroner (roughly 1,500 USD). However, as mentioned most of the M1867 were modified after they were sold to civilians, and most collectors seem to agree that the modified arms are worth a lot less.

The M1867 in Sweden
About 200,000-220,000 military rifles and 7,000 military carbines using the m/1867 action were manufactured as complete weapons in Sweden, 100,000-120,000 rifles and 4,000 carbines by Carl Gustafs Stads Gevärsfaktori (a government owned arsenal) and 100,000 rifles and 3,000 carbines by Husqvarna Vapenfabriks Aktiebolag. In addition to that 10,000 complete rifles and 20,000 actions made in the US were bought from Remington. The standard rifle received the Swedish designation "gevär m/1867" (and a version with only minor differences the designation "gevär m/1867-68"). Approximately 30,000 Swedish muzzle-loading rifles m/1860 and breech-loading rifles m/1864 (some of which had been converted from m/1860, note that the Swedish breech-loading rifle m/1864 although being referred to as a "kammarladdare" was not the same rifle as the Norwegian Kammerlader) of the same caliber, rifles that were almost new and in most cases had never been used, were also converted to M1867s using rolling-block actions made both by Remington and in Sweden. The Swedish designations for the converted rifles were "gevär m/1860-68", "gevär m/1864-68" and "gevär m/1860-64-68" depending on how many steps of conversion they had gone through (the two latter conversions are easily recognized by having the rear sight very far back, a result of the barrels being shortened from the breech end). About 7,000 short carbines with the Swedish designation "karbin m/1870" were also made, and in addition to that about 9,600 "gevär m/1864-68" were shortened to carbine length in 1886-87 and given the designation "karbin m/1864-68-85". Other varieties were "gevär m/1867-74" with a new rear stock design and "kammarskjutningsgevär m/1884" and "kammarskjutningskarbin m/1884" in 10.15x61R Jarmann (rifles and carbines primarily used for gallery shooting, that is short range training).

Both M1867's for civilian use and M1867's used by the Swedish Frivilliga Skarpskytterörelsen ("The Volunteer Sharpshooter Movement", patterned on the British Volunteer Force and numbering 40,000 men in 1865, all of them provided with military rifles and wearing military style uniforms by the Swedish armed forces) were made for, or converted to, centerfire 12.17×44mmR cartridges since, unlike the 12.17×42mm rimfire cartridges used in the military, the centerfire cartridges could be reloaded. One model of Swedish military M1867 rifles modified to use the 12.17×44mmR centerfire cartridge was the "gevär m/1867-74".

A new Norwegian-Swedish arms commission set up in the 1880s suggested that the Norwegian M1884 Jarmann rifle should replace the m/1867 in both Norwegian and Swedish service but the Jarmann rifle was rejected by the Swedish Army since the 10.15x61mmR cartridge used by the Jarmann rifle was seen as being too little of an improvement over the 12.17 mm cartridge used in the M1867 rifles. So as a stop-gap measure rifles and carbines with rolling-block action were converted to a for that time period very modern centerfire cartridge, the 8×58mmR Danish Krag (bullet diameter .322 in/8.17mm, bullet weight 237 grains/15.29 grams, muzzle velocity 1,965 ft per second/600 m/s), with the designation "gevär m/1867-89" used for converted rifles and "gevär m/1889" used for new rifles. rolling-block rifles chambered for the 8×58mmR were shorter than the M1867 rifles, with an overall length of 1,240 mm (48.8 in) and a barrel length of 840 mm (33.1 in).

During the last years of the 19th century the M1867 in all its different guises was finally replaced in Swedish military service by Mauser bolt action repeating rifles and carbines (with a modified Mauser 1893 action), under the designations "karbin m/1894" and "gevär m/1896", in caliber 6.5×55mm.

The M1867 rifle became very popular among civilian hunters in Sweden, particularly for moose hunting, which led to Husqvarna Vapenfabrik producing about 85,000 rifles with the M1867 rolling-block action for the civilian market, in addition to the more than 100,000 they made for the armed forces. Surplus military rifles were also sold to civilians, most them being converted to 12.17×44mmR centerfire cartridges.

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Treenail

[[File:Sharpening_trenails.jpg|thumb| Oak trenails that will be used to pin a wooden structure together. The one in the front has been used and pulled out, showing the way forces have permanently deformed the wood.

]] A treenail, also trenail, trennel, or trunnel, is a wooden peg, pin, or dowel used to fasten pieces of wood together, especially in timber frames, covered bridges, wooden shipbuilding and boat building. It is driven into a hole bored through two (or more) pieces of structural wood (mortise and tenon).

History and general use
The use of wood as a tenon can be traced back over 7,000 years, as archaeologist have found traces of wood nails in the excavation of early Germanic sites. Trenails are extremely economical and readily available, making them a common early building material. Black Locust is a favorite wood when making trunnels in shipbuilding in North America  and English Oak in Europe  due to their strength and rot resistance, while red oak is typical in buildings.

Traditionally treenails and pegs were made by splitting bolts of wood with a froe and shaping them with a drawknife on a shaving horse. They can also be made with a tine-former, a hollow metal tube with a flaring flange on one end and a sharp edge on the other, usually mounted by the flange atop a low bench called a driving stool. Each roughly-shaped bolt of wood is placed above the sharp end of the pipe and hit with a wooden mallet, but not hard enough that the mallet hits the sharp edge of the pipe; the next billet drives the preceeding one the rest of the way through, and it falls through a hole in the bench into a bucket.

Treenails are cut from a single piece of wood and perform well because of the natural grain. The grain of the treenail runs perpendicular to the grain of the receiving mortises which adds structural strength. Treenails are typically 1.25 - 1.5 in in diameter and are hand whittled with rough facets. The mortise is drilled 1/16 in smaller than the treenail to create a tight fit and take advantage of friction in the mortise. In cases where the treenail is 24 in or longer, the treenail should be shaped 1/8 in smaller than the other half. In the same case the mortise is drilled in two parts, with a smaller auger for the smaller part of the treenail and a typical auger for the standard part. Other trenails are tapered with the large end being 1/8 in longer than the mortise. After treenails are hammered into the mortise, they can be trimmed, split, and wedged with a small piece of oak that increases friction force. As an alternative to the wedge, the treenail can receive a plug or a punch to the center that expands the entire circumference. While this method prevents leaks by reducing gaps, plugs and punches are more likely to fall out in cold temperatures. Ideally, the nose of the treenail is driven 4–5 cm clear of the timber before being trimmed.

Unlike metal nails, trenails can not be removed (without great effort) or reused. As the wood shrinks or expand the fibers create a friction that interlocks it into the mortise snugly. If a treenail breaks or fails but the wood it is fastening remains intact the remaining trenail can be cut out and replaced with a larger treenail that fits snugly. In addition, treenails have the ability to move over time and retain structural integrity.

Uses in building structures
Early mortise and tenon trusses with spans of less than 30 ft used treenail fasteners. When used in a truss, the connecting mortises are drilled off center such that when the treenail is inserted it creates a tighter joint. Because of the large number of trenails required in a truss, the treenails can be turned on a lathe with a head and a tapered end, often kept extra-long for the tightest fit. The bottom chord often requires 2–3 pegs and is the weakest part of the truss. Hence the treenail can not prevent failure in spans of over 30 ft. In cases where significant shrinkage may occur, it may be necessary to use iron U-straps or reinforcements.

Uses in ships
Ancient shipbuilding used treenails to bind the boat together. They had the advantage of not giving rise to "nail-sickness", a term for decay accelerated and concentrated around metal fasteners. Increased water content causes wood to expand, so that treenails gripped the planks tighter as they absorbed water. However, when the treenail was a different wood species from the planking, it usually caused rot. Treenails and iron nails were most common until the 1780s when copper nails over copper sheathing became more popular. As late as the 1870s, merchant ships used treenails and iron bolts, while higher quality ships used copper and yellow metal bolts and dumps. In the 1870s, treenails were typically used in a ratio of four treenails to one bolt, although sometimes more bolts were used. In later corvettes, the ratio was changed to two treenails to one bolt.

Uses in railroads
Similar wooden trenail fastenings were used as alternatives to metal spikes to secure railroad rail-support "chairs" to wooden sleepers (ties) in early Victorian times. Treenails were extensively used constructing railroads in North England.

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Cybercenter

Cybercenter may refer to:

 * Data center, a facility used to house computer systems and associated components
 * Internet café, a place which provides internet access to the public, usually for a fee

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Adventures in Rainbow Country

Adventures in Rainbow Country was a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television in the 1970–71 television season. Reruns were later shown on the American children's cable channel Nickelodeon during the early 1980s. A half hour family drama, the show starred Lois Maxwell (of James Bond fame) as Nancy Williams, a widow raising her children Billy (Stephen Cottier) and Hannah (Susan Conway) in rural Northern Ontario.

Setting
The show was filmed in 1969 around Whitefish Falls, which is near Espanola, Ontario, Canada. Many scenes were also shot at Rainbow Lodge on Birch Island and on Manitoulin Island.

Production and broadcasts
The show was very popular in Canada and technically never cancelled or axed. No further episodes were produced after the first season. There were 26 episodes produced in total.

The series was also broadcast in the 1970s in Australia on the ABC.

It has continued to air in repeats, both in Canada and internationally – in Canada, the show had been seen on DejaView and Silver Screen Classics. In Great Britain it aired on ITV. In Australia, the series is screened on GEM.

Cast

 * Stephen Cottier as Billy Williams
 * Buckley Petawabano as Pete Gawa, Billy's Ojibwa friend
 * Susan Conway as Hannah Williams
 * Albert Millaire as Roger Lemieux, photographer/journalist
 * Wally Koster as Dennis McGubgub, bush pilot
 * Alan Mills as Dougal MacGregor, tugboat skipper
 * Lois Maxwell as Nancy Williams

Guest appearances
Actors who made appearances on the show included Donald Harron, Ken James, Chris Wiggins, Austin Willis, Peter Donat, Gordon Pinsent, Margot Kidder, Len Birman, Percy Rodrigues, Duke Redbird, Jean-Louis Roux, Murray Westgate, Anthony Kramreither, Ratch Wallace and Eric Christmas.

Episodes

 * 1) "La Chute" (20 September 1970)
 * 2) "The Tower" (27 September 1970)
 * 3) "The Frank Williams' File" (4 October 1970)
 * 4) "Skydiver" (11 October 1970)
 * 5) "The Kid from Spanish Harlem" (18 October 1970)
 * 6) "Panic in the Bush" (25 October 1970)
 * 7) "Long Tough Race" (1 November 1970)
 * 8) "The Town That Died" (8 November 1970)
 * 9) "The Eye of the Needle" (15 November 1970)
 * 10) "Girl on a Tightrope" (22 November 1970)
 * 11) "The Return of Eli Roqcue" (29 November 1970)
 * 12) "Roar of the Hornet" (6 December 1970)
 * 13) "Lac du Diable" (13 December 1970)
 * 14) "The Muskies Are Losing Their Teeth" (20 December 1970)
 * 15) "Milk Run" (27 December 1970)
 * 16) "A Wall of Silence" (3 January 1971)
 * 17) "Where the Rice Grows Wild" (10 January 1971)
 * 18) "Bird Watchers" (17 January 1971)
 * 19) "The Boy Who Loved Animals" (24 January 1971)
 * 20) "Mystery at Whaleback Bay" (31 January 1971)
 * 21) "Night Caller" (7 February 1971)
 * 22) "Lake on Blue Mountain" (14 February 1971)
 * 23) "Stolen Tugboat" (7 March 1971)
 * 24) "The Hermit" (14 March 1971)
 * 25) "Pursuit Along the Aux Sauble" (21 March 1971)
 * 26) "Dreamer's Rock" (28 March 1971)

Legacy
The Sudbury and Manitoulin Districts are to this day known as the Rainbow Country tourist region, as a result of this series.

A cast, crew and fan reunion event took place in Whitefish Falls from 11 to 14 August 2006.

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Talk:Interstitial fluid

Interstitial
"Interstitial fluid is a type of extracellular fluid. It is formed when materials such as Oxgen and Nutrients diffuse out of the capillaries to be taken in by the body's organs. Interstitial fluid contributes to the formation of lymph."

This sounds like something Galen would say. Maybe it should be redirected directly into lymph.

Other component?

 * Interstitial fluid is one of the two components of extracellular fluid besides plasma.

What is the other of the two components besides plasma (three components total, counting plasma)? Or is plasma the other component, for a total of two components? The interpretation of the statement is ambiguous. In the former case, the third component should be mentioned in passing. In the latter, the sentence should be rephrased (e.g., "one of the two components of extracellular fluid, the other being plasma") to eliminate the ambiguity. I'd make the change, but I don't know which connotation is correct. — Jeff Q 02:38, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Since nobody responded to my query, I removed the ambiguity using the second inference, which appears to be backed up by the extracellular fluid article. — Jeff Q (talk) 10:56, 3 May 2005 (UTC)

Merge
Since Intercellular Fluid, Tissue Fluid, and Interstitial Fluid all refer to the same thing, these all should be the same article. Intercellular Fluid redirects to Tissue Fluid already, so all that needs to be done is to merge Interstitial Fluid into Tissue Fluid and create a redirect. Albert109 05:41, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Interstitium
Interstitium redirects here, but the article fails to explain this concept which it should. Actually, shouldn't the entire article be moved to interstitium? as that concept is slightly wider and we don't need separate articles. // habj (talk) 23:09, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Osmotic Equilibrium

 * Because the blood in the capillaries is constantly flowing, equilibrium is always reached.

I could be missing something here, but doesn't the fact that the blood in the capillaries keeps flowing mean that equilibrium is *never* reached? And doesn't that make more sense anyway, since at equilibrium no more exchange of water or solutes would occur?

Or have I missed something?

James barton (talk) 22:35, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

i was jus curious and wanted to ask n people to knw if they they were curious tht wht basically is the difference between a lymph n an interstilial fluid??thnx —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.96.227.90 (talk) 10:27, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

More General Definition
The biological definition given here is too specific- by definition, the fluid in the interstices in any material is interstitial fluid. It is true that the vast majority of google hits refer to the biological fluid, but the term is also used in geology and ecology to refer to the water between grains of sand in soil or in the substrate below a lake or river (google "soil interstitial fluid") Seasonal Variation in Interstitial Fluid Quality of the Andoni Flats, Niger Delta, Nigeria MICROBIAL ECOLOGY OF CONDUIT STREAM SEDIMENT INTERSTITIAL FLUIDS OF THE SOUTH CENTRAL KENTUCKY KARST AQUIFER Perhaps all this material should be moved to extracellular fluid and this should be a very short page stating that interstitial fluid usually refers to one kind of extracellular fluid in cellular organisms, but can also refer to fluid in soil or porous minerals or any material that has interstices? Eaberry (talk) 22:11, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

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Roberto Fontanarrosa

Roberto Alfredo Fontanarrosa, known popularly as El Negro Fontanarrosa (November 26, 1944 in Rosario – July 19, 2007), was an Argentine cartoonist, comics artist and writer. During his extended career, Fontanarrosa became one of the most acclaimed historieta artists of his country, as well as a respected fiction and short story writer. He created two hugely popular comic strips, as well as their parodic protagonists: Inodoro Pereyra, a gaucho, and Boogie, el aceitoso, a gun-for-hire. He also created the comic book Los Clásicos según Fontanarrosa ("The Classics According to Fontanarrosa"), which contained a selection of humorous parodies of universal literature mainstays originally published in the magazine Chaupinela, in the 1970s.

In 2013 an Argentine animated film directed by Juan José Campanella and loosely based on Fontanarrosa's short story Memorias de un wing derecho was released to box office success.

Early life
Fontanarrosa was born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, and he lived and worked there until his death. He was widely known by the affectionate nickname El Negro.

Career
"'People would say that I'm a comic writer, at most, and that will be true. I don't care too much how people will define me as a writer. I don't want to be a Nobel laureate. It will be enough for me if anyone tells me 'I laughed my ass off with your book.''"

Fontanarrosa began his career writing and drawing comic strips and later branched out into writing narratives with short stories, especially about football (soccer). His most famous strips are Inodoro Pereyra, featuring a gaucho and his talking dog Mendieta, and the hitman Boogie el Aceitoso, which came to life as a Dirty Harry parody.

Simultaneously with his comic book career, Fontanarrosa went on to write three novels (Best Seller, El área 18 and La Gansada) and seven books of short stories (Los trenes matan a los autos, El mundo ha vivido equivocado, No sé si he sido claro, Nada del otro mundo, El mayor de mis defectos, Uno nunca sabe and La mesa de los galanes), all of them filled with a combination of subtle and broad humor. There are also a number of book compilations of his newspapers' strips.

His work has been seen in different Latin American newspapers including Argentine Clarín, Colombian El tiempo, Uruguayan La República, and Mexican magazine Proceso. In 1977 he was approached by Les Luthiers (the famous Argentine humour/music group), who wanted him to collaborate on a script they were writing for a film starring the six group members; the film never bore fruit, but he instead became a creative partner, often writing jokes and situations for them, and most of their shows from 1979 onwards feature his input alongside Les Luthiers'.

He was granted the Platinum Konex Award in 1994, and the Konex Merit Diploma in 1992, 2004 and 2012 (posthumous).

In November 2007, a posthumous work of Fontanarrosa was made public: the animated film Fierro was released, for which he had co-written the script and designed all the characters shortly before his death.

Illness
In 2003 he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and was reliant on a wheelchair. He continued to work, and participated in the meetings of the Third International Congress of the Spanish Language, in 2004, where he gave a humorous lecture about taboo words and the final speech. On 26 April 2006, the Senate awarded him the Domingo Faustino Sarmiento Mention of Honour for his career and his contribution to Argentine culture.

On January 18, 2007, he announced that he would be no longer drawing his own strips because he had lost full control of his hand, but stated that he would go on writing the scripts for his characters.

Death
On 19 July 2007, Fontanarrosa suffered a respiratory failure, and was taken to a hospital. He died there about one hour later. His funeral service and the funeral procession on the next day were attended by thousands of common citizens, writers, actors, and political authorities. The procession stopped beside the Gigante de Arroyito stadium (home of Rosario Central, a team of which Fontanarrosa was possibly its most notable fan) and then continued north to the neighbouring city of Granadero Baigorria, where Fontanarrosa was buried at the Parque de la Eternidad cemetery.

The main national news services and printed media of Argentina devoted special segments to Fontanarrosa's legacy and to the funeral service. The national government declared a Mourning Day for National Culture, and the municipal government of Rosario ordered flags to be flown at half mast.

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Talk:Genetic determinism

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I added a few things to the article: NPOV dispute, added a link to Mind-Body problem page, added a link in support of "genetic determinism" and one in opposition, as well as categorized the off-site links. I also added the page to the Neuroscience category. I'm going to leave the rest as-is until I get some kind of response or lack of response to the changes.

--Head of the Caligula Appreciation Society 09:22, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)

"Fifty years of genetics" - Where did you get this number? You could be right, but I don't understand the significance of the number of years? Did something happen in(around) 1954 to change our view of disease. Please put a link and clarify.

"However the majority of the complex of traits that make up the physical human phenotype and all its variations are not 'caused' by genes, rather they result of a network of environmental and molecular interactions." - This is definitely not a NPOV.
 * Please elaborate. It looks like pretty basic and well established developmental genetics to me, one that all biologists would accept. Joe D (t) 21:38, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

"Genetic determinists want to extend the notion that genes have a role in physically determinism further, by claiming that our behavior is determined by our genes." - Using "want to extend the notion" makes it seem like genetic determinists have an unscrupulous desire to manipulate people into believing in a whimsical idea. Webster's Dictionary

Biological determinism is nature and nurture. Gentic is just nature. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.253.87.141 (talk) 14:39, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

--Head of the Caligula Appreciation Society 08:39, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)

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 * "Critics of the concept of genetic determinism claim that there are complex traits that make up the physical human phenotype and all its variations are not "caused" by genes, rather they result of a network of environmental and molecular interactions."

I tried to adapt this, but I'm struggling. It does indeed demolish the idea that genes alone determine phenotypes, but the problem is nobody claims anything different. High school students know that phenotypes arise from complex interactions of genetic influences and various forms of environmental influence. Joe D (t) 21:38, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Biological determinism
Shouldn't this page in some way be merged with biological determinism ? They're roughly talking of the same thing, from a slightly different angle, no ? At least, their relationship could be made clearer ... Flammifer 03:59, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

 * These points of views may seem identical at first, but genetic determinism assumes by necessity that all biological factors and traits are predefined by genes. So from the viewpoint of genetic determinism, the boilogical version includes nothing new. However, not everyone agrees that genes are responsible for everything. There may beo ther, also not environmental factors (environmental determinism). Example: If the same genes were expressed twice (a kind of thought experiment), would we get the same result? I think this is the main distinction between these two determinisms. Anyway, I agree that this should be commented and the relationship made clearer. Karol 07:54, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

 * I think that would still be considered environmental. It's clear that the two pages are presenting the same idea, so they should be merged ASAP. Richard001 (talk) 10:40, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

 * Well, it's taken nine years, and it should have been done long ago, but since I agree with Flammifer and Richard001 that there is no significant difference between the concepts, despite Karol's brave attempt to distinguish between cymbals and loud cymbals, I've boldly merged the articles now. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:01, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Critique
A Unificationist scholar wrote:

 * Some people have mistakenly concluded that our genes control everything about our lives and determine our destiny. According to this view, known as genetic determinism, our attitudes, behavior, intelligence, health status, and physical traits are entirely fixed by our genetic makeup. This view leads to a number of problems. It could be used to “explain away” racial prejudices, or to justify violence and criminal behavior. Also, if we are simply the product of our genes, can we solve our social problems and build a world of peace simply by doctoring people’s genes through the techniques of genetic engineering? Moreover, what happens to our concepts of free will, social responsibility, and accountability for our actions?

This was from a speech given this week at a world peace conference in New York. I don't know if it has been published yet. Uncle Ed 14:10, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

I am not sure the above is useful or applicable since it employs the argument, much of which is delivered throughout this article, of an apparent straw man technique that is referenced in the beginning of this article. Stevenmitchell 03:29, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

View not held by serious scientists
I had This view is now considered "a nonsense not held by any serious scientist"  which Snalwimba has removed as "shameless self-promotion" but I'm not convinced that that's a good reason to remove a reference from a reliable source. If anyone else wanted to replace this - thus overcoming Snalwimba's objection, I'd be very much in favour. They could even mention the authors, which I did not to avoid "self-promotion" if they wanted to.NBeale (talk) 06:39, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

 * NBeale, two points. Firstly, if genetic determinism is a scientific "nonsense" as your edit suggests, then surely there must be something from the scientific literature that's a more appropriate source.  Secondly, you really need to read WP:COI and reflect on it.   SNALWIBMA  is right — "shameless self-promotion" is exactly what this looks like.  Your book is not a popular review of genetics that might be an appropriate source — the pertinent point appears to be that it is simply your book.  It seems rude to ask given your expertise in Christian thought, but I presume you're aware which is the most deadly sin?  --P LUMBAGO  07:13, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

NBeale – Nobody is disputing the fact that extreme GD is a nonsense not held by any serious scientist. I deleted the reference to your book because I felt (and still feel) that: Sorry to write harshly, but you really need to think about issues of WP:conflict of interest in your WP edits. SNALWIBMA ( talk - contribs ) 07:57, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1) It is not a good source for the statement that raw/pure/extreme "genetic determinism" is not serious science but a fringe misinterpretation of science. Far better to source that from a scientific source, and I have found and inserted what I hope is a suitable reference that says much the same thing (though perhaps not in the best place – maybe it should go in the lead rather than the next section.
 * 2) There is no problem with you adding a reference to your own book if it is a reliable, relevant and useful source, but it is not. And it is especially inappropriate for you to do so if you do not do it properly, by failing to give basic details such as authors' names. Far from looking like modesty, that looks like false modesty, and therefore shameless self-promotion. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia, not an extension of your blog. If the book was really a good source on the subject, it would be entirely proper for you or anyone else to add the reference. But is isn't, and you know it isn't, and that is why you inserted it in what looks like a sneaky way, and why you are now not simply reinserting it, fully referenced.

 * The lead author of QoT is a world-renowned scientist and FRS. The source you have found is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at an obscure university. It is - to say the least - far from obvious that this is preferable. The reason I am not re-inserting it, fully referenced, is that you would simply delete it so I have better things to do. I'm sorry if this looks like false modesty to you, but 99.99% of Wikipedia users would neither know nor care. We should be writing for them, not for us. NBeale (talk) 08:34, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Your argument from authority (X is a world-renowned professor, Y is a mere associate dogsbody) is completely irrelevant. But I agree with your second point – we should indeed be writing for the readers, not in order to inflate our own egos and promote our own books. SNALWIBMA ( talk - contribs ) 09:17, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

 * (Edit conflict) Erm, "writing for them, not for us"? Nice one — I've not laughed so hard in ages.  Incidentally, said FRS is not a biologist, so it is likely that there is a more appropriate source for such a biological topic.   SNALWIBMA  found one, and was honest enough to note that he hoped it was suitable.  Finally, that 99.99% of Wikipedia wouldn't know that you were self-promoting is probably true; that they wouldn't care that articles are being co-opted for promotion is less obvious.  --P LUMBAGO  09:19, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

 * Francis Collins says something relevant here but it's not I think as much to the purpose. I don't say that X is a dogsbody, but science actually works by incremental empirical additions to authority, and Wikipedia is in a sense entirely built on authority, so I don't quite see why you (and Grayling) are so excited about this as though it is a problem. NBeale (talk) 09:52, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

 * Seriously? You can't imagine why anyone interested in the honest pursuit of scientific progress might be nonplussed by an appeal to authority?  That either shows a lack of imagination or a subservience to post-surname acronyms.  Furthermore, unless by "authority" you mean (in some convoluted way) "objective evidence" or "scientific consensus" (or some such), the notion that science is comprised of "additions to authority" is a nonsense.  Simply possessing, say, FRS status does not automatically grant authority in all matters scientific.  And certainly not on topics that one has no direct research experience in.  It might float the boat in circles that are used to hierarchy, deference and ideas from "on-high", but status alone doesn't cut much ice in working science.  Anyway, as  SNALWIBMA  already notes above, you seriously need to get reacquainted with WP:COI.  --P LUMBAGO  14:57, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

 * Ideally (in principle etc..) every (important etc...) statement in a scientific publication is supported either by evidence from the work reported or a reference to a suitably authoritative source for that statement. Of course experiment (or analysis) may show that the authority is mistaken, but that's a different matter. And pretty rare. In WikiPedia we have no WP:OR so it's all authority. Of course being an FRS does not make you omnicompetent (eg Dawkins) but it puts you in a stronger position to be a source if you say "no serious scientist hold view X". NBeale (talk) 15:34, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Article is confusing
It introduces the idea as meaning that genes alone [not environment] determines behaviour, then gives what is calls the modern perspective, which *seems* to argue the opposite, then concludes that genetic determinism is standard. So is the "modern synthesis" not the standard model? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.134.76.208 (talk) 23:50, 6 May 2010 (UTC) Sorry you must mean the creditable version of 'genetic determinism'. That's not clear from scanning the article so I'll make a minor alteration - hope that's OK.

Starting sentence is wrong
Genetic determinism is the belief that genes, along with environmental conditions, determine morphological and behavioral phenotypes. Morphological and behavioral phenotypes are determined by the interaction of the organism's genome and it's environment along with its behaviour. That's it, there isn't anything else that determines its morphological and behavioural phenotype. This applies to all life forms on earth. The problem that this article correctly addresses is genetic determinism, the belief that genes determine the organsm's phenotype (so please someone remove that environmental conditions from that sentence). Just to be clear environmental conditions are the two main things, matter (all states including other living things such as pathogens) and energy (in the form of electromagnetic radiation usually) that come in contact or penetrate the organism's skin or membrane. Environmental conditions may also refer to things like financial situation and career or socioeconomic status and social environment including relationships as well as sleep, physical exercise and emotional stress although these strictly speaking are behavioural factors or conditions rather than environmental. The point is that phenotypic morphology and behaviour is due to the complex interaction of these and it's genome and the first sentence needs to be changed. Besides this, even if there was an additional factor affecting the phenotype of an organism which there isn't, still, the first sentence should not include the phrase environmental conditions in it. U1012738 (talk) 19:42, 11 November 2013 (UTC)

Citations list useful for updating this article and related articles
You may find it helpful while reading or editing articles to look at a bibliography of Anthropology and Human Biology Citations, posted for the use of all Wikipedians who have occasion to edit articles on human genetics and related issues. I happen to have circulating access to a huge academic research library system at a university with an active research program in these issues (and to other academic libraries in the same large metropolitan area) and have been researching these issues from time to time since 1989. You are welcome to use these citations for your own research. You can help other Wikipedians by suggesting new sources through comments on that page. It will be extremely helpful for articles on human genetics to edit them according to the Wikipedia standards for reliable sources for medicine-related articles, as it is important to get these issues as well verified as possible. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 03:36, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

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Forgotten war

"The Forgotten War" (capitalized) most often refers to:

 * Forgotten War (book), a 2013 book about the Australian frontier wars
 * Korean War (in the United States)
 * Ifni War (in Spain)

The term forgotten war is also sometimes, though much less commonly and less specifically, used to refer to:
 * Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War
 * Philippine–American War
 * War of 1812 (outside of the United States)
 * First Barbary War and Second Barbary War
 * Campaigns in Finland during World War II (outside of Finland); see Military history of Finland during World War II
 * Forest Brothers resistance in the Soviet-occupied Baltic states
 * Laotian Civil War (outside of Laos)
 * Burma Campaign (outside of Burma)
 * Spanish Civil War (outside of Spain)
 * Soviet–Afghan War
 * First Chechen War and Second Chechen War (outside of Chechnya)
 * War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (outside of Afghanistan)
 * War in Donbas (2014–2022) (outside of Ukraine)

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Good Morning Australia (1981 TV program)

Good Morning Australia (or GMA) is an Australian breakfast television program that was broadcast on Network Ten. It aired from 23 February 1981 until 18 December 1992. It was seen as an Australian equivalent of ABC's Good Morning America and ITV's Good Morning Britain.

History
The original Good Morning Australia breakfast television program was a news and entertainment show broadcast by Network Ten on weekdays from 7:00 to 9:00am. It debuted on 23 February 1981 with Gordon Elliott and Sue Kellaway co-hosting and with Di Morrissey as the roving reporter. Kellaway departed shortly after the program began and was replaced by Kerri-Anne Kennerley, who stayed with the program until the end of 1991 when she was replaced by Sandra Sully, Joy Smithers and then Sandra Sully again.

The male co-host position on GMA was filled by Tim Webster, Mike Gibson, Terry Willesee, Webster again, Mike Hammond and Ron Wilson.

The breakfast program competed with the Nine Network's Today (which launched in 1982 with Sue Kellaway, initial co-host of the Ten show) and usually placed second in the ratings behind Today.

In 1992, Good Morning Australia moved to the 6:30 to 8:30am timeslot, coinciding with the launch of The Morning Show with Bert Newton. Good Morning Australia, as a breakfast news program, was cancelled at the end of 1992. The name was taken over by Bert Newton's morning program and became Good Morning Australia with Bert Newton, which ran until 2005.

Since the demise of the original Good Morning Australia, other breakfast programs have arisen such as Sunrise and ABC News Breakfast, Weekend Today, Weekend Sunrise and Weekend Breakfast.


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Jaime Lyn Bauer

Jaime Lyn Bauer (born Norma Marvhne Bauer; March 9, 1949, in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American television actress, best known for her soap opera roles as Lorie Brooks on The Young and the Restless and as Laura Horton on Days of Our Lives.

Life and career
Bauer was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. She was Miss Phoenix winner and 1968 Miss Illinois pageant. In 1972, she made her big-screen debut in the sex comedy The Sexpert. She later starred in the sexploitation thriller The Centerfold Girls (1974). She turned down seven-year contract with Universal Pictures in 1973 and chose a three-year contract with the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless. She played the role of Lorie Brooks from 1973 to 1982 with reprises in 1984, 2002, and 2018. In 1982, she had a cameo appearance in the comedy film Young Doctors in Love.

Bauer guest-starred on numerous primetime TV shows, including The Rookies (in an episode that served as the pilot for S.W.A.T.), The F.B.I., Bronk, Baretta, Kate McShane, CHiPS, Time Express, Lottery!, Mike Hammer, The Young Riders, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Hotel and Knots Landing. She starred in a number of made-for-television films, including Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women (1979), Pray TV (1981), and Where the Hell's That Gold?!!? (1988). In 1983, she was regular cast member in the short-lived NBC prime time soap opera Bare Essence. In 1992, she starred in the Judith Krantz's Secrets, an Italian prime time soap opera starring alongside Peggy Lipton, Timothy Gibbs, Fabiana Udenio and Sally Ann Howes.

In 1993, Bauer was cast as Laura Horton on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives. The character of Laura, previously played by Susan Flannery and Rosemary Forsyth (among others), had not been seen in 13 years. She played Laura from 1993 to 1999 with reprises in 2003, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2018 and 2021.

In addition to being on the cover of Playboy in February 1970, Bauer was to appear again in January 1982, in "The Women of the Soaps: The Bad and the Beautiful".

In 1982, Bauer married Emmy award-winning make-up artist Jeremy Swan. They have three children.

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Talk:Creature of Habit

For a December 2004 deletion debate over this page see Votes for deletion/Creature of Habit

I'd redirect this to Habit, psychology, and maybe instinct.Pookleblinky 08:45, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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Wayne LaPierre

Wayne Robert LaPierre Jr. (born November 8, 1949) is an American gun rights lobbyist who was the CEO and executive vice president of the National Rifle Association of America (NRA), a position he held between 1991 and 2024.

On January 5, 2024, the NRA posted on X that LaPierre would resign from his position on January 31. The announcement came amid allegations of corruption and ahead of a civil trial in Manhattan.

Personal background
Wayne Robert LaPierre, Jr. was born on November 8, 1949, in Schenectady, New York,  the eldest child of Hazel (Gordon) and Wayne Robert LaPierre, Sr. His father was an accountant for the local General Electric plant. The LaPierre family trace their patrilineal heritage to a 17th century French ancestor who emigrated from the Brittany region of France to New France (now Quebec, Canada). His family moved to Roanoke, Virginia, when LaPierre, Jr. was five years old, and he was raised in the Roman Catholic church. LaPierre first received a student deferment, then a medical deferment (the cause of which is still publicly unknown) and therefore was not drafted into military service during the Vietnam War.

After divorcing his first wife, LaPierre married Susan Znidorka in 1998.

Career
Wayne LaPierre has been a government activist and lobbyist since receiving his master's degree in government and politics, including positions on the board of directors of the American Association of Political Consultants, the American Conservative Union, and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

National Rifle Association activity
Since 1991, he has served as EVP and chief executive of the NRA, the largest gun rights advocacy and firearms safety training/marksmanship organization in the United States. LaPierre joined the NRA in 1977 after working as a legislative aide to Democratic Virginia delegate and gun rights advocate Vic Thomas. LaPierre announced his forthcoming resignation from the NRA on January 5, 2024, to take effect January 31.

In 2014, NRA contributions totaled $103 million and LaPierre's compensation was $985,885. In 2015, NRA contributions totaled $95 million. In that year, LaPierre received a $3.7 million deferred compensation distribution from his "employee funded deferred compensation plan", which was required by federal law, and according to the NRA raised his total annual compensation to $5,110,985.

Fraud and financial misconduct lawsuit
On August 6, 2020, following 18 months of investigation, New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a civil lawsuit against the NRA and LaPierre, as well as treasurer Wilson Phillips, former chief of staff and current executive director of general operations Joshua Powell and general counsel and secretary John Frazer, alleging fraud, financial misconduct, and misuse of charitable funds, and calling for the dissolution of the association due to chronic fraudulent management. The NRA attempted to have the case moved to Texas and the dissolution lawsuit dismissed, but federal Judge Harlin Hale of the Northern District of Texas ruled that the effort was made in bad faith. LaPierre's compensation and exorbitant corporate spending on personal items such as expensive suits, home landscaping and mosquito treatment, chartered jet flights, and a traveling "glam squad" for his wife, drew attention in the eleven-day hearing. In March 2022, New York Supreme Court Justice Joel Cohen denied the claim to dissolve the NRA, while allowing the lawsuit against LaPierre and the organization to move forward.

On February 23, 2024 a six week-long civil trial concluded with the jury ordering LaPierre to repay the NRA $4,351,231 of the $5.4 million the jury found he had misspent. It also ordered the NRA’s retired finance chief, Wilson Phillips, to repay $2 million, found that the NRA omitted or misrepresented information in its tax filings, and violated New York law by failing to adopt a whistleblower policy.

Views on gun rights
LaPierre has called for the presence of "armed, trained, qualified school security personnel" at schools. At a press conference in the wake of the December 14, 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, LaPierre announced that Asa Hutchinson, former Arkansas congressman and DEA chief, would lead the NRA's National School Shield Emergency Response Program, saying "The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun."

LaPierre blamed the Sandy Hook incident, and others like it, on "lack of mental health reform and the prevalence of violent video games and movies".

LaPierre has stated his support for the following:
 * Increasing funds for a stricter and more efficient mental health system, and reform of civil commitment laws to facilitate the institutionalization of the mentally ill when necessary.
 * Creating a computerized universal mental health registry of those adjudicated to be legally incompetent, to help limit gun sales to the mentally ill.
 * Increasing enforcement of federal laws against and incarceration of violent gang members or felons with guns.
 * Project Exile and similar programs that mandate severe sentences for all gun crimes, especially illegal possession. LaPierre stated, "By prosecuting them, they prevent the drug dealer, the gang member, and the felon from committing the next crime... Leave the good people alone and lock up the bad people and dramatically cut crime."
 * Restriction on "bump-fire"-type rifle stocks, in the aftermath of the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting.
 * Bans on fully automatic firearms.

Criticism
In 1995 in the aftermath of the Waco and Ruby Ridge incidents, LaPierre wrote a fundraising letter describing federal agents as "jack-booted government thugs" who wear "Nazi bucket helmets and black storm trooper uniforms to attack law-abiding citizens." The term "jack-booted government thugs" had been coined by United States Representative John David Dingell Jr., Democrat of Michigan, in 1981, referring to ATF agents, and came to be frequently repeated by the NRA. Former president George H. W. Bush was so outraged by the letter that he resigned his NRA life membership. In response to growing criticism, LaPierre apologized, saying he did not intend to "paint all federal law-enforcement officials with the same broad brush".

In 2000, LaPierre said President Bill Clinton tolerated a certain amount of violence and killing to strengthen the case for gun control and to score points for his party. Clinton White House spokesman Joe Lockhart called it "really sick rhetoric, and it should be repudiated by anyone who hears it". In 2004, citing Democratic candidate John Kerry's history of authoring and supporting gun control legislation, LaPierre actively campaigned against the senator in the 2004 presidential elections.

In response to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, he connected gun violence with "gun-free zones", violent films and video games, the media, weak databases on mental illness and lax security, and called for armed officers at American schools in an effort to protect children from gun violence. Following the event, several in the media criticized LaPierre's statements, including the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial board and The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg. Others also criticized the NRA's remarks, including Republican Party strategist and pollster Frank Luntz.

In response to the February 14, 2018 Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, LaPierre delivered a speech on February 22 at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) held in National Harbor, Maryland, in which he criticized the FBI, the media and gun control advocates. "As usual, the opportunists wasted not one second to exploit tragedy for political gain. The elites do not care one whit about America's school system and schoolchildren. If they truly cared, what they would do is they would protect them. For them it is not a safety issue, it is a political issue ... [Gun control advocates] don't care if their laws work or not. They just want get more laws to get more control over people. But the NRA, the NRA does care." David Graham of The Atlantic questioned his reference to "elites," since LaPierre earns millions from his work. LaPierre also argued that the constitutional right to keep and bear arms "is not bestowed by man, but granted by God to all Americans as our American birthright."

On April 27, 2021, a video emerged of LaPierre shooting an African bush elephant at point-blank range on a 2013 hunting trip in Botswana, "demonstrating that the nation's foremost gun advocate could barely shoot." The video drew criticism from conservation groups.

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User:Halibutt/Erika of Rumia

This is a translation of an article Erika z Rumii by Piotr Szubarczyk and Piotr Semków from the Gdańsk office of the Institute of National Remembrance, published in the May issue of the "Biuletyn IPN". No copyright information was provided by the publisher and it is assumed that copyrights belong to the authors. Copyright for the harsh English translation - Halibutt

Also, please note that this is but a reference for those who take part in Talk:Erika Steinbach discussion and as such should not be merged with the article itself (what for?). The translation has many mistakes and grammatical errors, but correcting it would be a simple waste of time. This is not and is not supposed to be a separate Wikipedia article

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Erika of Rumia

 * The last act of WWII in Pomerania ended on May 10, 1945 when last German forces capitulated on Hel Peninsula. Erika Hermann, one and a half years old - known today as Erika Steinbach - and her half year old sister, together with their mother Erika Christa Hermann nee Grote, were already in Germany by then. They were not included in a plan prepared by the allies during the Potsdam conference regarding the transfer of German population. They left for the homeland of their father, Wilhelm Karl Hermann - to Hanau on the Main.

 * The town of Rumia was never their Heimat. Erika Grote came there from Berlin where she lived at Lessingstrasse 41 (born in Bremen, January 27, 1922) to join her fiancée Wilhelm Karl Hermann (born January 29 in Hanau). The latter since 1941 served as a NCO (feldwebel) of Wehrmacht at a helping unit (jednostka pomocnicza in Polish, no idea how to translate that - Halibutt) at Luftwaffe airport in Rumia, then renamed to Rahmel. They did not own anything there. They stayed with a family, most probably with local Kashubian Paulin family. They were not given a house of any Polish family expulsed from the "liberated" town. Such a privilege was granted only to the officers from the airport. Some of them lived in "Claassen Hotel", others in houses of expulsed Poles, who had been given a one-way ticket for a freight train. Direction - Częstochowa, Siedlce, Radom and other towns of the so-called General Government. Rahmel was then a part of Reich. For several dozen thousands of people from Gdynia, Rumia and other towns of the area it was a real tragedy. The builders of the "Polish California", real pioneers of the II Republic, linking their fate with the ever-growing city of Gdynia, were deprived of their all property in a matter of minutes. They were told that they could take not more than 25 kilos of luggage, that they must leave their homes cleansed and that the keys must be left in the doors. Their situation was yet better than those who were found a threat for the Reich: members of the Związek Zachodni (Western Union, a society promoting the development of Pomerania - Halibutt), Polish social organizations, teachers, priests and other members of intelligentsia. Those were simply killed over death pits near the village of Piaśnica, where 12,000 people were murdered. Among those killed was mayor of Rumia Hipolit Roszczynialski. His brother, priest Edmund Roszczynialski (currently being beatified) was murdered in a nearby village of Cewice. The inhabitants of Rumia were also sent to Stutthof concentration camp, where many of them died.

 * Here follows a part with a short history of Rumia. It is very similar to that of the Rumia article at Wikipedia, so I'll simply leave it out. If you really think you need it - just let me know.

 * To Biała Rzeka, a district of Rumia, feldwebel Wilhelm Karl Hermann was sent in 1941. There was a German military unit carrying out servicing duties at the airport stationed there. In Rumia there also were plane assembly works in which Polish, British and French POWs were working. Parts of the planes were also produced in a local labour camp where men and women of Polish, Italian, Russian and other nationalities were held. The planes assembled there were Focke-Wulf, Junkers and Heinkel. The Germans enlarged the airport significantly and attached it to the Gdynia-area airfields sector.

 * Wilhelm Hermann was stationed in Biała Rzeka, but he did not have many friends among the military men. He was seeking contacts in the town. He didn't have any relatives there, although it is said that the butcher named Hermann might've been his distant relative. However, the surname Hermann was quite frequent among the Pommeranian Germans. The most notable to bear that name was Fritz Hermann, SS-Brigadefuehrer, Head of the Civil Administration of Danzig (Regierungspräsident, Prezydent rejencji), sentenced to death after the war for crimes he committed in the 1940-1943 period.

 * Feldwebel Wilhelm Hermann became friends with the family of local water works (Wasserwerk), Paweł Obersieg. The Obersieg family was enlisted on the Reichsdeutsche list and since Paweł was a waterwork engineer, he was chosen as the manager of the works. However, after the war he did not want to leave for Germany. Thanks to help he provided for local Poles and Kashubians during the war he's been verified and stayed in Rumia until his death in the eighties. His wife was Kashubian. They spoke German and Kashubian at home and, like most Kashubian families, prayed only in Polish language. Because of that and because of accusations of listening to the BBC, Obersieg had serious problems during the war. However, he managed to get out of them. Perhaps because of the fact that he helped many people during the war and perhaps because of the fact that he's been the major... moonshine supplier for local population. He managed to keep the latter information secret and the local authorities did not know that until after the war. However, when in March 1945 the Soviets reached Rumia, they dug out all the secret tanks in Waterworks garden. By then Obersieg family managed to escape. A week before, Paweł Obersieg was ordered by local German authorities to blow up the Water works as soon as the Red Army reaches Rumia. He disobeyed the order and hid with his family. When on March 25 Feldgendarmerie entered their home to arrest the "traitor", he was already away. Thanks to Obersieg's deed the Water works were spared and the Germans had no time to destroy them. Contrary to the nearby radio station at Dębiogórska street which was blown up the very same day.

 * Since the very beginning of his service in Rumia, feldwebel was often visited by his fiancée from Berlin - Erika Grote. Soon, on January 18, 1943 Wilhelm and Erika got married. Their best men were two officers from the airport - Froeh and Ludwig. Six months later, on July 26, 1943, their first daughter Erika was born. It remains a secret why was she born in Obersieg's flat in the Water works. It's hard to find an answer now, after 60 years. Perhaps Erika saw Obersieg's flat as better equipped for a safe birth giving? Or perhaps, as local city legend has it, she came there looking after her husband who became a great fan of Obersieg's moonshine? For several weeks after the daughter was born Erika stayed with the Obersieg family.

 * Probably in January 1944 Wilhelm Karl Hermann was sent to the Eastern Front. Erika was pregnant with their second daughter by then (she was born in October). At that time there still was no panic among local Germans, nobody hanged true and supposed deserters on street lights in Gdansk, there was still no great wave of people fleeing the East Prussia to Tricity. However, Erika decided to come back to Germany earlier. Not waiting for the worst to come she packed her belongings and returned to Hanau in January 1945. The informations of her miraculous salvation from the Wilhelm Gustloff disaster are false. Erika did not want to obtain a ticket for Gustloff since she reached Germany two months before Gustloff started her first voyage on the Gdansk-Germany route. On the Institut für soziale Dreigliederung (http://www.dreigliederung.de/) page it is argued that Erika Steinbach does not find the 15 millions of German DPs from Eastern Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Southern Europe victims of Hitler. On the Wikipedia, die freie Enzyklopädie page it is said that frau Steinbach was born in a Luftwaffenoffizier family (I corrected that some time ago - Halibutt)... "Airforce officer family" - that sounds much better than the family of a feldwebel who had nothing to do with aeroplanes.

 * There is no airfield in Rumia any more. It was bombed to the ground by the RAF in early 1945. After the war concrete tablets were used for reconstruction of homes destroyed by the war. There is also no house of Erika Steinbach. She never had one there.

 * The authors used documents from the Gdansk division of the IPN and relations of inhabitants of Rumia who met Hermann family during the German occupation.

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This article is not supposed to be merged with anything. It is but a translation I made for one of the discutants at Talk:Erika Steinbach. Perhaps one day it should be moved to Wikisources or Wikibooks, but merging it with Erika Steinbach has no sense at all. I could've placed it at my own sub-pages, but since it is linked in the discussion only it doesn't matter where it is placed. [[User:Halibutt|Halibutt]] 15:02, Jul 16, 2004 (UTC)

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LeRoy Pope Walker

LeRoy Pope Walker (February 7, 1817 – August 23, 1884) was the first Confederate States Secretary of War.

Early life and career
Walker was born near Huntsville, Alabama in 1817, the son of John Williams Walker and Matilda Pope, and a grandson of LeRoy Pope. He was educated by private tutors, then attended universities in Alabama and Virginia. Before reaching the age of 21, he was admitted to the bar. He married Eliza Dickson Pickett on July 29, 1850. He held various offices in Alabama; in 1853, he resigned his position as a circuit court judge in order to focus on his legal practice. He actively promoted secession.

Civil War
Largely on the advice of several of Walker's supporters, including his brother Richard, President Jefferson Davis appointed him to the post of Secretary of War, though Walker was not personally known to Davis. He was energetic and confident in support of the Confederacy, but had no military training. The stress and difficulties of his cabinet position seriously affected his health. In March 1861, the Southern states that had seceded from the Union appointed special commissioners to travel to those other Southern states that had yet to secede. Walker was chosen as the commissioner from Alabama to the Tennessee Secession Convention, where he publicly read Alabama's Articles of Secession and tried to persuade Tennessee politicians to vote to do likewise.

In April 1861, shortly after the Civil War began with the bombardment of Fort Sumter by rebel forces, Walker predicted that Washington, D.C., and Boston would fall to the Confederacy before May 1 of that year. However, this never happened.

Starting in August 1861, Davis encouraged Walker to become a Confederate representative to Europe; Walker did not accept this, but on September 16 he resigned his post. Davis made him a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army, and he commanded the army garrisons in Mobile and Montgomery, Alabama, before resigning in March 1862. He returned to the army in April 1864 to serve as a military judge.

Post-war

After the war, Walker returned to his legal practice and continued to be interested in politics. He died in 1884 and was buried in Maple Hill Cemetery in Huntsville.

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LeRoy Pope

LeRoy Pope (January 30, 1765 – June 17, 1844) was an American planter, lawyer, and early settler of Madison County, Alabama. He purchased much of the land on which downtown Huntsville, Alabama, now stands, and for his role in the establishment and early growth of that city, has been called the "Father of Huntsville."

Early life
Pope was born on January 30, 1765, in Northumberland County, Virginia, the son of LeRoy Pope, Sr. and Elizabeth Mitchell. He was educated in his home state, and moved with his parents to Amherst County, Virginia. He is said to have served in the American Revolution, and was present at the siege and battle of Yorktown, but no official documentation of this service exists.

Moving South
In 1790, Pope and a host of friends and relatives removed to the town of Petersburg, in Elbert County, Georgia, where he was a tobacco planter. In 1809, was among the first wave of wealthy settlers to Madison County, Mississippi Territory (now Alabama). He acquired a large tract of land which included the highly sought-after Big Spring, where pioneer John Hunt had settled in 1805. Hunt, like many other squatters, could not afford to purchase his land.

Pope was successful in petitioning the territorial legislature to select his land as the site of Madison County's seat of government. He named the new town Twickenham after the home in England of his distant relative Alexander Pope. In 1811, the town was renamed Huntsville in honor of the pioneer Hunt.

LeRoy Pope's mansion, called Poplar Grove, was erected in 1814, in time to entertain General Andrew Jackson on his return home from the Battle of Horseshoe Bend. It was one of the earliest brick structures in Alabama, and remains a prominent Huntsville landmark atop Echols Hill in the Twickenham Historic District. It was restored in the early 21st century.

Public life and civic leadership
Pope was a wealthy and successful planter, and was active in the early government and civic leadership of Huntsville and Madison County. He presided as chief justice of the first county court, and was among the founders of the first Episcopal church in Huntsville, organized in 1830. He was named by the legislature as a commissioner for the Planters' and Merchants' Bank of Huntsville, Alabama's first banking corporation, and for the Indian River Navigation Company.

He was married to Judith Sale, daughter of Cornelius Sale and Jane Dawson of Amherst County, Virginia. His daughter Matilda Pope married John Williams Walker, who became Alabama's first senator, and was the mother of LeRoy Pope Walker, Confederate secretary of war and brigadier general; Richard Wilde Walker, Confederate States senator; Percy Walker, United States representative; and several other children. Another daughter, Maria Pope, married Thomas George Percy, Sr., and was the ancestor of such notables as Senator LeRoy Percy of Mississippi, the poet William Alexander Percy, Senator Charles H. Percy of Illinois, and the author Walker Percy.

Pope died in Huntsville on June 17, 1844, and is buried in Maple Hill Cemetery.

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Kjetil Rekdal

Kjetil André Rekdal (born 6 November 1968) is a Norwegian football manager and a former player. He was most recently the manager of Cypriot club AC Omonia.

Rekdal began his playing career in Molde FK, playing afterwards for clubs in the Bundesliga, Ligue 1 and Belgian Pro League. Playing as a midfielder during his time as a player, his 83 caps with the Norway national team makes him the seventh most capped player in the team's history.

Rekdal previously managed Vålerenga from 2000 to 2006, during which he won both the cup and league title. He has also been in charge of 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Lierse and Aalesund. During his time at Aalesund, the club earned two cup titles and saw a period of success previously unmatched in their history, which was attributed to Rekdal.

Club career
Born in Vestnes, Rekdal started playing football for the local club Fiksdal/Rekdal in 1979. Later as a 16-year-old he started his professional career with the local top flight club Molde FK, becoming the second-youngest player in the league. In 1988, he signed with the Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach and stayed with them for two years before moving to the Belgian Pro League side Lierse S.K. and remaining there until 1996, with the exception of the 1994 season which he spent on loan helping his former club Molde FK gaining promotion to Tippeligaen and winning the domestic Cup.

In 1996, he signed for Ligue 1 club Rennes. The highlight of his playing career was a highly successful spell at Hertha BSC in Germany between 1997 and 2000. His final years as a player and then player/manager was spent in Norwegian club Vålerenga, where he picked up another cup winner's medal in 2002 before retiring in 2004. In the summer of 2007, Rekdal officially rejoined his youth club Fiksdal/Rekdal.

International career
Rekdal has 83 games for the Norway national team, after his debut against Italy in 1987, and played in two FIFA World Cups (1994 and 1998). He scored 17 goals for the national team, among those a long-range goal at Wembley against England in 1992, the only goal in the game as Norway beat Mexico in the 1994 World Cup, and a penalty in the 1998 World Cup against Brazil to win the game 2–1, prompting the commentator to say how "the man with the yellow boots has hurt those wearing the yellow shirts...Delight for Egil Olsen". The two World Cup goals make him the highest scoring Norwegian in World Cup history, with one goal more than Arne Brustad, Dan Eggen, Håvard Flo and Tore André Flo.

Vålerenga
Rekdal has proven himself a successful coach, leading Vålerenga from relegation in 2001, and famously weeping as his team avoided relegation the following year and back into position as one of the dominating clubs in the Tippeligaen. In 2004, he led the team to second place, losing the first place on goal difference to Rosenborg, and in 2005, his team finally won the league for the first time in 21 years, ending Rosenborg's 13-year reign as champions of Norway. along the way receiving legend-status in the club, partly due to the fact that he refused an offer of a six-digit coaching salary in order to help the club financially.

Lierse
Rekdal resigned as coach at Vålerenga on 21 August 2006, following a string of poor results. He was appointed manager of his former club Lierse on 21 November 2006. When he arrived at the club, Lierse lay bottom of the table with only two points in fifteen matches. At the end of the season, they ended up with 26 points and avoided direct relegation. In the play-offs, Lierse only managed to win three of their six matches and were relegated to the Second Division after all.

1. FC Kaiserslautern
In May 2007, Rekdal signed on to manage Kaiserslautern in the German 2. Bundesliga. He left the club in early February of the following year, the club lying in sixteenth place.

Aalesund
He joined forces with Norwegian top flight outfit Aalesund in 2008 after moving back to Norway. Joining the club mid-season, he found Aalesund lying in a relegation spot, but managed to get a relegation play-off spot, where Aalesund beat challengers Sogndal 7–2 on aggregate, thereby securing a new season in the Tippeligaen. In 2009, he led Aalesund to the club's first victory in the Norwegian Cup, where they beat arch rivals Molde 3–2 after a penalty shootout in the final. In 2010, he led the club to the fourth place in Tippeligaen, the club's best result ever. In 2011, he received wide praise when his club came close to the historic feat of qualifying for the 2011–12 UEFA Europa League, losing the last play-off game to the Dutch side AZ Alkmaar, having won the first leg 2–1. The same year he again led Aalesund to win the Norwegian Cup Final, thereby securing a UEFA Europa League qualification spot for the third consecutive year. His contract with Aalesund was terminated on 26 November 2012. After he won his second Norwegian Cup with Aalesund in three years, he was once again said to take over as national team coach after Drillo.

On 26 November 2012, the board of directors of Aalesund announced the termination of Rekdal's contract. The board stressed that it was not due to the season results, but rather as a result of a general review. Analysts noted that the sacking was likely a result of a power struggle within the club between Rekdal, the sports director and the chairman of the board.

Return to Vålerenga
Rekdal started his second tenure for Vålerenga, when he was appointed as head coach on 8 January 2013.

On 13 July 2016, it was announced he would end his tenure as head coach of Valerenga after the 2016 season and will move into the position as sporting director to make way for Ronny Deila whom will take over as head coach.

Start
Rekdal was appointed as head coach on 1 June 2018 after former head coach Mark Dempsey was sacked on 18 May 2018. Rekdal signed a two-year contract with Start.

Rekdal took over the team, after 12 games of the season had been played; during his spell, only six teams gathered more points, yet the team was relegated [at the end of that season].

That job ended; In an interview in 2020, he said that frequent visits to [places for betting/gambling or] one or more casinos, was not well-received by [his previous employer] Start.

Personal life
Born 6 November 1968 in Rekdal in Vestnes, into a family of six, including three younger siblings, his younger brother Sindre played also professional with Molde FK helping them win the domestic cup in 1994. Among his interests and hobbies is freshwater fishing and card-games such as Poker, having competed in amateur tournaments internationally.

Rekdal moved to Ottestad neighborhood in Hamar in 2013, with his wife and four children.

During his time at Lierse, Rekdal had a clause in his contract which allowed him to keep up to date with Leeds United results at half-time intervals, via BBC Radio. He is a fanatic supporter of the Yorkshire club.

Rekdal is highly superstitious. To avoid bad luck, he never appears on matchday without his locally produced trademark Pear-flavoured soft drink.

While coaching Aalesunds FK, he appeared in the home matches of tier five club Fiksdal/Rekdal as a player, stating that he wished to contribute to the club with which he started his career.

Career statistics

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

As player
Molde
 * Norwegian Football Cup: 1994

Vålerenga
 * Norwegian Football Cup: 2002
 * Norwegian First Division: 2001

As Coach
Vålerenga
 * Eliteserien: 2005
 * Norwegian Football Cup: 2002
 * Norwegian First Division: 2001

Aalesund
 * Norwegian Football Cup: 2009, 2011

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