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Talk:River Great Ouse

Name

 * The River Great Ouse is a river in the east of England.

Does anyone actually call it the "River Great Ouse"? I would have thought the British convention "River X" does not apply where the name is already qualified: "River Nile" yes, "River Blue Nile" no. Perhaps as the title of the article title it's ok for clarity, but the intro should mention the form(s) people actually use. I would propose
 * The Great Ouse is a river in the east of England.

And is it pronounced "ooze"? Joestynes 09:33, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I think I can help here, I live just 400 m from the river in Eaton Ford, Cambridgeshire and I can assure everyone that the river 'is' properly called 'The River Great Ouse', it's often abbreviated locally to just 'Ouse', and is sometimes referred to as the 'Great Ouse'. It is pronounced 'ooze', and in fact 'Ouse' and 'ooze' are cognate words, coming from either Saxon or Brythonic (I forget which) and referring to something wet and flowing or to the act of flowing. Basically, it's the River Great 'River'!

 * There's also a tributary called the 'River Little Ouse', and there are several other rivers also called Ouse, notably one in Yorkshire.

 * At the time of writing there are 214 000 [Google hits] for 'River Great Ouse', and a look at some of those websites should make it pretty clear that the full name really is used very widely. I agree that it's unusual, perhaps even strange, but that is what people call it. I hope that helps! Chris Jefferies 23:46, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Very little of it is in East Anglia. RJP 23 Apr 2005

As far as the name goes, I may be remembering wrong (I was quite young when I lived near the river) but ISTR that it was usually called The Great River Ouse, and its tributary was The Little River Ouse. Grutness...  wha?  12:25, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Size
Is there a definition of 'largest' for rivers? The post said it was the 'largest' Ouse - it seems pretty clear it's the longest, but the outflow of the Yorkshire Ouse is much more (51m3/s v's 16m3/s) and the catchment area of the Yorkshire Ouse is bigger too - 10,000 km2 v's 8,000 km2. I've just taken out the word 'largest' for now, but if there's a technical definition and it is larger, we should put it back. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Atreic (talk • contribs) 19:22, 24 May 2015 (UTC)

Northants
I was surprised to find no mention of the Northamptonshire part of the river in the template, and no mention of Brackley in the text (the first town that the G.O. passes through). I've added it to both - by the way, shouldn't the list of tributaries in the text and template at least look vaguely similar? There's not a huge overlap betwen the two... Grutness...  wha?  01:21, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

 * The point about the tributaries is a good one; the list and the template have separate origins. The template claims to show 'major tributaries' so should certainly not include Hen Brook and Duloe Brook as these are very, very minor.

 * I've fiddled with both the list and the template to bring them in line. I've also removed the smaller tributaries from the template. Can others check again please, some of these tributaries may be out of sequence. Also, do we have any consensus on what we mean by a 'major' tributary in the template? Chris Jefferies 17:08, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

 * The list of rivers, Rivers of the United Kingdom lists the tributaries from the sea up. At first sight, this seems a rather back-to-front approach but it has a logic to it. You start from the sea and go to the higher order streams (those with tributaries with tributaries etc.) first, then the lower. It would not be possible to work the other way round.

 * As to which size of tributary is too small to be noted, the logical approach would be to judge by flow rates or the like but that is not practical so I suggest that the tributary in question should be named by the Ordnance Survey 1:50 000 map and/or the stream in question should be shown extending from a minimum number of kilometre grid squares. For example, the Alconbury Brook near Huntingdon is shown in 30 Km squares and may be deemed to qualify while the South Brook, a little upstream, barely counts 20 and perhaps, does not qualify. There are bound to be cases like the South Brook where several squares are only just entered but you have to judge somehow.

 * Working upstream, The tributaries are: Babingley River (22 Km squares), Middle Level Main Drain, Nar, Well Creek/Popham's Eau, The Cut-off Channel, Wissey, Little Ouse, Lark, Cam, Alconbury Brook, Kym (23 Km squares), Ivel, [here my OS 1:50 000 coverage ends] Tove,

 * The Old and New Bedford Rivers are not really tributaries. They link one part of the Great Ouse to another. They are in reality, part of the Great Ouse after the manner of the modern relief channel to the east of the lower Great Ouse. The Cut-Off Channel on the other hand is a modern catchwater drain. It is linked to the Great Ouse only at the Cut-off Channel's downstream end. (RJP 20:31, 25 July 2005 (UTC))

Flood warnings?
An anon editor has added some text on a current flood warning. It seems to me that this should be deleted. A record of major historical floods might be a different matter. --Concrete Cowboy 16:48, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * I have deleted as this is transient information and Wikipedia is not a news service. --Concrete Cowboy 17:06, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Minor tributaries
To avoid Wp:trivia, it seems to me that tributaries that are too small to have their own article should not be listed. I believe that this was agreed earlier. So I shall delete. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 13:35, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Information consistency
The header box read: Length 	150 miles (240 km) Source elevation 	115 m (380 feet)

I've swapped it so it reads Length 	240 km (150 miles) Source elevation 	115 m (380 feet)

I think we should be consistent, either "imperial measurement (metric measurement)" or the other way round in both.

--mgaved (talk) 17:28, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

 * Does anyone have a source for the length? Hunter-Blair (The River Great Ouse and tributaries) quotes 260km, the EA (here) quote 240km of navigable waterway on the Great Ouse system (ie including tributaries). Most of the web sources seem to have copied one another, judging by the surrounding text. Bob1960evens (talk) 14:03, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Sandalls Cut
Looking at the deposited plan for the railway that runs adjacent north of Ely (Lynn and Ely Railway Act 1845), I note that the river at this location is labelled Sandalls Cut, in the ownership of the South Level Drainage and Navigation Commissioners. This is up to the junction with the river Lark. However, this name does not appear in the wiki and there is only one reference on the wider internet. Does anyone have any more information, such as when Sandalls Cut was built? Pubwebmaster (talk) 10:32, 24 January 2017 (UTC)

Two different lengths given
That given in the lede and that in the infobox differ due to conversions - and I can't remember how to fix the problem! Geopersona (talk) 20:02, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
 * convert assumes that trailing zeroes indicate precision, so 230; 2,300; 23,000; 230,000; 2,300,000 etc means "give the conversion correct to two significant figures". See debate at template talk:convert. Problem is fixed by adding a decimal point. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 20:27, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
 * Ahh, yes! thanks Geopersona (talk) 20:58, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
 * And re the IP's changes to the length, I'd quibble with other lengths derived from that source (and indeed from various others!) but until we can find a better more accurate one it's all we've got to go on, given WP's (understandable if sometimes frustrating) longstanding policy re preferring reference-ability over accuracy. cheers Geopersona (talk) 10:21, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I have invited the IP editor to contribute a better source. How else can we know what is 'accurate'? --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 11:25, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Well indeed, but as I've been finding elsewhere, better sources are thin on the ground. It's a shame that a trusted body like OS (or the Environment Agency or its equivalents in other of the UK's four nations) isn't able to provide that sort of detail as a public service. There are sporadic references to river lengths in SSSI citations and the like, not least in those cases where the entire watercourse is protected in that fashion - they can be expected, though not guaranteed, to have a certain level of accuracy. Geopersona (talk) 14:22, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I have taken quite some time to survey the river's entire length using the measuring tool available at the wheresthepath website and it gives a distance from the source to the point at which it enters the Wash at high tide of some 270km or 168 miles. I am fairly confident of the accuracy of that figure to within 1km but . . . it depends on channel choices at various points (besides islands, it boasts a few anabranches) and, more particularly in this context, it is very obviously original research (OR) on my part so entirely ineligible for inclusion in the Wikipedia article. What it does provide (at least for me, not necessarily for others of course as they can't be assured of my competence or care in this - and that's where the WP policy comes in) is a guide as to how accurate any referenced figure for the length that may be happened upon, actually is. See also discussion at Talk:River_Wye. Anyway, that remains the challenge, to find that reference for the Great Ouse. Oh, and we could also do with finding a reference/s for where the river is deemed to start and where it is deemed to end - I've yet to see ones that suitably pin either end down. Geopersona (talk) 21:02, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm sure you already know that your WP:OR can't be used. I suppose you might persuade the Environment Agency to publish something but frankly I would be astonished if they did. As for the source and without spending ages on it, the first place on the map that I can see the name used is south of Syresham, [here] (1952 6" map). But it all comes out in the Wash. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 12:11, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes John - as I very clearly stated, OR is ineligible for inclusion - we both know that! Nor had I imagined that EA would be overly interested in taking up that challenge; they've other things to do with their depleted workforce. But what we do have is an unsatisfactory situation here in WP - and hence in an awful lot of mirror sites and other web locations which derive their figures from WP without further thought. A quick trawl of over 60 of the main rivers featured in WP articles in England and Wales reveals that more than 50% of the given lengths are entirely unreferenced so we haven't even any established figure to go on and one or two more or less admit to being OR. I shall seek to remedy those more blatant ones first. Geopersona (talk) 20:53, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

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Dillard's

Dillard's, Inc. is an American department store chain with approximately 282 stores in 29 states and headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas. Currently, the largest number of stores are located in Texas with 57 and Florida with 42. The company also has stores in 27 more states; however, it is absent from the Northeast (Washington, D.C., and northward), most of the Upper Midwest (Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota), the Northwest, and most of California, aside from three stores.

20th century
Dillard's is the outgrowth of a department store founded in 1938 by William T. Dillard; its corporate headquarters remain located at the eastern edge of Little Rock's Riverdale area and many of its executives and directors are members of the Dillard family. The family retains control of the company through its ownership of Class B Common Stock; the Class A common stock is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. Dillard began his first store in Mineral Springs, Arkansas, in what was locally known as "the tater house". It was located across the street from the community's Methodist church. The building that housed the original store was torn down in the early 2000s. Dillard sold the original five and dime store in Nashville, Arkansas, to develop a department store in Texarkana, Arkansas, initially as the minority partner in Wooten & Dillard. In 1956, Dillard led an investment group that acquired the Mayer & Schmidt store in Tyler, Texas. This store eventually took on the name "Dillard's Mayer & Schmidt" until 1974, when it was replaced with a mall-based location south of downtown Tyler.

In 1960, Dillard acquired and turned around the failing Brown-Dunkin store in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The success of this turnaround was followed in late 1963 by acquiring the Joseph Pfeifer store in Little Rock, Arkansas, and in early 1964 acquiring the other main store in Little Rock, Gus Blass Co. Dillard used this as an opportunity to relocate his headquarters to Little Rock. In 1969, Dillard and his investors took Dillard Department Stores, Inc., public on the American Stock Exchange.

The chain then expanded rapidly as an anchor in suburban shopping malls, and took advantage of market conditions to acquire smaller chains and its ability to turn around locations that other companies could not operate profitably. Expansion of the Dillard's chain increased rapidly during the 1970s, mainly through expanding into new malls being built in smaller cities in Texas.

In 1971, five Texas units were acquired from Fedway, a division of Federated Department Stores; the stores were rebranded as Dillard's in 1972. In 1974, five Leonard's stores were acquired in Fort Worth, and a commitment to open a new downtown Fort Worth store at the Tandy Center, the site of the original Leonard's. Also in 1974, the former Brown-Dunkin, Blass, Pfeifer and Mayer & Schmidt stores were fully renamed Dillard's.

In the 1980s, the company purchased many local chains. In 1982, Dillard's leased three units of the defunct Lowenstein's chain in Memphis, Tennessee. In early 1984, Dillard's acquired 12 Stix, Baer & Fuller stores in St. Louis and Kansas City from Associated Dry Goods Corp. In fall 1984, two department store divisions were purchased from Dayton-Hudson Corporation: Diamond's and John A. Brown, with locations in Arizona, Nevada and Oklahoma. Twelve stores in Kansas and Missouri belonging to R. H. Macy & Co.'s Midwest Division, which was later dissolved in 2006, were acquired in early 1986, while the three-unit Hemphill-Wells company in West Texas was purchased in the summer. The stores at Sunset Mall in San Angelo and South Plains Mall in Lubbock were both converted, and the third in downtown Lubbock was closed.

In 1987, Dillard's purchased 26 of Joske's 27 stores in Texas and Arizona and the four-unit Cain-Sloan chain in Nashville, Tennessee, from Allied Stores Corp. This deal gave Dillard's two major anchor locations at several malls in Texas and Arizona with many of the second locations being converted to a separate, expanded home and men's stores, a format that Dillard's utilized greatly, both to grow its store size cost-effectively and to prevent competitors from gaining valuable real estate. Additionally, the Joske's acquisition gave Dillard's entry into the Houston market. That same year, Dillard's co-founded CDI Contractors, a construction company that would help build, remodel, and repair most of its locations, with William "Bill" Clark and Braggs Electric Construction Company.

Dillard's in 1988 acquired the former Selber Bros. clothing department store chain, founded in 1907 in Shreveport, Louisiana, which also had a few locations in Texas.

In 1988, Dillard's purchased the three-unit Miller & Paine chain in Lincoln, Nebraska, as well as more significantly, a half-interest and operational control of The Higbee Co., based in Cleveland, Ohio, with partner Edward J. DeBartolo Corp. D. H. Holmes Co., Ltd., of New Orleans, was purchased in 1989, bringing 18 units primarily in Louisiana, as well two former Diamond's units in Tucson, Arizona.

The Ivey's chain of 23 stores in Florida, North Carolina and South Carolina was acquired from BATUS in 1990. This was followed by Maison Blanche selling eight stores on Florida's Gulf Coast to them in 1991. The locations were at Tyrone Square Mall (1973), University Square Mall, WestShore Plaza (both 1974), Countryside Mall (1976), Southgate Plaza (1978), Edison Mall, Coastland Center (both 1985), and Lakeland Square Mall (1988). In 1992, the remaining interest in the Higbee's stores was acquired, as well as five Ohio stores from Horne's (as part of a legal settlement, Dillard's having canceled a 1988 deal to acquire the chain).

Also in 1992, three stores from the Hess's chain liquidation (five other former Hess's were acquired in 1994), two E. M. Scarbrough's locations in Austin, Texas, two Thalhimer's in South Carolina and Tennessee, a former Lord & Taylor store at Oak Court Mall in Memphis, Tennessee and three Belk-Lindsey stores in Florida (Gulf View, DeSoto, and Eastlake). Except for two Belk of Columbia stores that were acquired in 1995, acquisitions were eschewed for a couple of years until early 1997 with the purchase of 15 stores—10 Mervyn's boxes in Florida and five southern Virginia stores from Proffitt's that were acquired from Hess's in 1993. The Mervyn's deal included five purchased from Lord & Taylor in 1991: Cutler Ridge Mall (1982), Coral Square (1984), Miami International Mall, Boynton Beach Mall (both 1985), and Treasure Coast Square (1987). Three additional stores were acquired from Jordan Marsh in 1992: Pompano Fashion Square (1970), Broward Mall (1978), and Melbourne Square (1983), and the remaining two at Lakeland Square Mall (1986) and Pembroke Lakes Mall (1992). The Proffitt's conversion gave them two that were also taken over from Rices Nachmans in 1985 at Coliseum Mall (1973) and Pembroke Mall (1981), and three newly built stores Patrick Henry Mall, Greenbrier Mall (both 1987), and Chesapeake Square (1988). Three suburban Macy's stores in Houston at Willowbrook Mall, Deerbrook Mall (both 1984), and Baybrook Mall (1985) were absorbed while the location at The Galleria (1986) was not affected.

The deal-making culminated with the purchase of Mercantile Stores Co., Inc., in 1998. The purchase of this Fairfield, Ohio-based department store company brought several chains, including Bacon's, Castner Knott, de Lendrecie's, Gayfers, Glass Block, Hennessy's, J.B. White, Joslins, Lion Store, Maison Blanche, McAlpin's, Root's and The Jones Store. Dillard's sold 26 stores of the former Mercantile Stores to May Department Stores Co. and Saks Incorporated and traded an additional seven stores to Belk for nine of theirs in southern Virginia and Chattanooga, Tennessee. Overall this deal enabled Dillard's to enhance its position in several markets in the South, Midwest and Mountain states.

Also in 1998, the chain entered California, opening its first store in a former Weinstock's at Weberstown Mall in Stockton, California. In 1999, Dillard's opened stores at Mall of Georgia and Arbor Place Mall near Atlanta.

21st century

After the acquisition of Mercantile, Dillard's ceased expanding through acquisitions, although eight locations of the defunct Montgomery Ward in the Midwest, and four locations from ZCMI in Utah and Idaho were acquired in 2001, when stores opened at Chandler Fashion Center in Chandler, Arizona, The Mall at Stonecrest in Lithonia, Georgia, The Mall at Wellington Green in Wellington, Florida, International Plaza and Bay Street in Tampa, Florida, and The Shops at Willow Bend in Plano, Texas.

In 2004, Dillard's store credit card operation, operated as Dillard's National Bank, was sold to GE Money Bank. Customers can now be issued Dillard's/American Express cards as well as the traditional Dillard's store charge cards. These cards can be used at any store that accepts the American Express brand.

In 2005, Dillard's opened stores at Perimeter Mall and Atlantic Station in Atlanta, Georgia as well as St. Johns Town Center in Jacksonville, Florida.

In 2008, Dillard's closed their travel agency, Dillard's Travel, alongside all in-store locations due to economic conditions. Dillard's Travel previously operated in 43 of the 318 stores. Also in 2008, stores opened at both The Shops at Wiregrass and Pier Park in Florida. Dillard's also announced that it had completed a transaction to acquire the remaining fifty percent (50%) interest in CDI Contractors, LLC and CDI Contractors, Inc., which it did not already own.

In late 2018, Dillard's announced a location would open in fall 2019 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, at the site of the former Younkers in Empire Mall.

By August 2020, it had not yet opened. In September 2019, Dillard's remained headquartered in Arkansas, with 260 "full-line" stores and 29 clearance centers. It had locations mostly in the South and Southwest of the United States, in 29 states overall. The company was also a significant owner of property in the United States, and it owned 44,300,000 sqft of the 49,000,000 sqft it used for its business and retail operations.

In March 2020, Dillard's attracted note in the press for keeping many of its 290 stores open during the coronavirus pandemic, with Dillard's stating "we are open with limited hours where not ordered to close by state or local government mandate."

In April 2020, Dillard's closed around 200 out of its 285 stores in response to COVID-19. Its online store remained open. In May 2020, Dillard's had reopened all but two of its locations in Tampa Bay, according to its website at the time. That week, management and Dillard's CEO, William Dillard II, informed its annual meeting that the company's first quarter had been the worst in its history, due to the coronavirus, saying Dillard's business had become "total chaos" by the end of April as a result. At the time, Dillard's had 257 department stores, and 28 clearance stores, and had reopened stores in 21 states or more.

In August 2021, the company released its second quarter report. It did not release "store comps relative to pandemic-dominated 2020; comparable store retail sales compared to 2019 rose 14%." After an $8.6 million net loss in August 2020, the company noted that it instead had made a net income in August 2021 of $185.7 million.

For 2023 (for the 53 weeks ending 3 February 2024), Dillard's net income was $738.8 million. Net sales for the same period were $6.75 billion. Operating expenses to 3 February 2024 were $1.77 billion.

In 2024, the company introduced "The Coterie Shop" a concept of online and conventional special occasion and casual clothing shops from Abbey Glass, Buru, Crosby by Mollie Burch and Fanm Mon. The Coterie Shop will be featured in Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.

Store formats
The chain continues to expand and has recently added stores in non-traditional mall shopping centers. Currently, the largest Dillard's store at 365,000 sqft is located at Scottsdale Fashion Square, an enclosed super-regional mall in Scottsdale, Arizona. Within the Dallas/Fort Worth area, the chain has two flagship stores with a 299000 sqft store at the Northpark Center in Dallas and a 310000 sqft store at the North East Mall in Hurst. Its flagship store in the East Coast region, at 260000 sqft, was located in the MacArthur Center in downtown Norfolk, Virginia, closed in 2023. It announced construction of a new "flagship" store in Lubbock, TX on Nov 15th, 2022. This store will be 220,000 sq ft. The home store for the chain is in Little Rock; the divided store is located in the trend-conscious Park Plaza Mall, one of the city's oldest continuously operating shopping centers in its midtown section.

Clearance Centers
As of April 2020, Dillard's operated 28 clearance stores in the United States. Dillard's Clearance Centers occupy 26 mall spaces throughout multiple states for the clearance stock of clothing from prior seasons. They are usually located within lower-income areas as the no longer high priced items are not as covetable for the general clientele Dillard's procures. The 265 regular department stores ship the clearance clothing at already 65% off to these Clearance Centers where the clothing is then marked down further to liquidate the heaps of clothing and shoes.

The Clearance Centers rival that of a Marshalls or TJ Maxx with unknown sizes or quantities of a specific item. However, all the clothing at Dillard's Clearance Centers are direct from the normal Dillard's Department Stores close to and surrounding the one outlet. The goods that are sent to these stores are including, but not limited to: overstocked, offseason, didn't sell well, or damaged. This is an easy way to buy all of the brand-specific items at a cheaper, more economical price.

The hours may vary a little bit by store or holiday; however, the generic hours of a Clearance Center are Tuesday through Saturday from 12 pm to 7 pm and Sunday from 12 pm to 6 pm. On Mondays, the Clearance Centers are closed for the restocking of the Clearance items.

On a week-to-week basis, each Dillard's Clearance Center receives further markdowns by each department; older merchandise is marked down to an amount ending in "99 cents," representing a 65% discount.

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John Brophy (labor)

John Brophy (1883–1963) was an important figure in the United Mine Workers of America (UWMA) in the 1920s and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the last major challenger to John L. Lewis' power within the UMWA and, after Lewis hired him back, a key leader within the CIO.

The Mine Workers
Brophy was born in Lancashire, England to a family of miners. His family emigrated to the United States when he was nine years old and found work in the central Pennsylvania coal mines. Brophy began working in the mines at age eleven; by the age of fourteen, he had joined the UMWA. He rose within the union to become president of District 2 of the UMWA.

Brophy ran against Lewis for President of the UMWA in 1926 on a "Save the Union" slate, calling for nationalization of the coal industry. He probably would have won the election if the vote had been held democratically.

Lewis drove Brophy and his supporters from the union after his victory in 1926. More specifically Lewis accused Brophy of dual unionism, based on the support that he had received from the Trade Union Educational League, an arm of the Communist Party which had supported his candidacy. The CPUSA later burned its bridges with Brophy, denouncing him as a reformist, after it adopted a policy of opposition to mainstream unions during the "Third Period".

Brophy was a self-educated man, who spent his time after Lewis' expelled him from the UMWA studying economics and philosophy. He was also deeply religious, relying on Rerum novarum, the papal encyclical of Pope Leo XIII supporting the right of workers to form unions, as the bridge between his faith and his commitment to the rights of workers.

In September 1927, with an American workers' delegation headed by James H. Maurer as its chairman, Brophy visited Soviet Union and exchanged opinions with its leader, Joseph Stalin.

The CIO
Brophy was outside the labor movement for the next few years until 1933, when Lewis brought him back to work for the UMWA as it regained its membership in the early days of the New Deal. Lewis made him the CIO's first National Director from 1935 to 1938, then reassigned him in favor of one of his own loyalists. Brophy remained with the CIO after Lewis left it in 1941; his open disagreement with Lewis' opposition to Roosevelt's candidacy in 1940 probably would have led to his departure from the CIO if Lewis himself had not left it.

Lewis' successor as CIO President, Philip Murray, named Brophy the Director of Industrial Union Councils (IUC). He was instrumental in setting up IUCS in cities across the country, viewing them as the "community organizations of the CIO" that "can rally not only the support of all unions in the community, but they can also play a leading part in strengthening progressive sentiment in other unions and outside the organized labor movement.” Brophy argued that most people shared the goals of the CIO, and asserted that what they lacked was “the leadership that organized labor alone can give…" His position as Director of IUCs proved to be an important one in the expulsion of CP-led unions from the CIO following World War II. He was one of the strongest advocates for centralized control of the CIO's political action committees and the industrial councils, which were made up from delegates from the more or less autonomous unions affiliated with the CIO but which were themselves creations of the CIO, obliged to follow CIO policy imposed from above. In November–December 1942, he led a team whose report led to formation of the CIO-PAC in July 1943. In 1948 he led the crackdown on local labor councils and state bodies within the CIO that had endorsed American Labor Party candidate Henry Wallace or opposed the Marshall Plan in contravention of national CIO policy.

Brophy also served as a CIO representative to international labor organizations such as the World Federation of Trade Unions and the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and as a labor representative on a number of government agencies, such as the National War Labor Board, the Committee on Fair Employment Practice established by Executive Order 8802 and the Wage Stabilization Board. He continued serving with the AFL-CIO after the CIO reunited with the AFL in 1955.

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The Serpent's Egg (film)

The Serpent's Egg is a 1977 American-West German drama film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring David Carradine and Liv Ullmann. The story is set in 1920s Berlin and features English and German dialogue. It was Bergman's only Hollywood film. The title is taken from a line spoken by Brutus in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "And therefore think him as a serpent's egg / Which hatch'd, would as his kind grow mischievous; / And kill him in the shell". Even though the film was a critical and commercial failure upon its initial release, Bergman was reported to be happy with the film.

Plot
In late 1923 Berlin, Abel Rosenberg, an unemployed alcoholic and former trapeze artist, struggles to cope with the hardships of post-war Germany. After discovering his brother Max's suicide, Abel is offered money by his old boss to come back to the circus. However, he declines the offer, feeling that he won't be as good without his brother. Abel meets Max's wife, Manuela, to break the news of his death. Unable to provide a clear reason for Max's suicide, Abel only recalls a sentence from Max's note mentioning "poisoning."

Seeking solace in alcohol, Abel goes on a drinking binge and spends the night at Manuela's house. They discuss Abel's future career prospects, but when Manuela leaves for work, Abel steals from her to buy more alcohol. Later, Abel is taken by the police to identify several bodies, all of which were found near his home. Suspicion falls on Abel, and he attempts to escape but is recaptured.

Manuela visits Abel in the hospital, revealing that all her money is gone. Abel is released due to lack of evidence and returns home with Manuela. However, they face eviction when it is discovered they are not married. Manuela confesses that she is a prostitute, having concocted an office job to hide her shame. As tensions rise in November with the threat of armed confrontations between extremist parties, Abel and Manuela live in fear on the outskirts of Berlin.

One morning, Abel secretly follows Manuela and discovers she has been going to church. She confides in a priest, expressing guilt over her husband's death and the fear consuming their lives. Abel later learns that Manuela secured their apartment by providing sexual favors to the owner of the brothel where she works. Initially disgusted, Abel eventually returns to Manuela and they share a passionate kiss. However, their time together is cut short when soldiers overrun the brothel, killing the owner.

Abel finds a job as a file clerk in a hospital, while Manuela works at the clinic. They live in an apartment surrounded by abandoned buildings. One night, Abel discovers files detailing inhumane experiments conducted on patients at the hospital. Overwhelmed by fear, Abel withdraws from intimacy, and Manuela experiences extreme mood swings. After a drunken incident and a sexual encounter with a prostitute, Abel returns home to find Manuela dead and cameras scattered in the apartment.

Fleeing the scene, Abel ends up in an abandoned industrial building and fights off an unknown attacker in an elevator, decapitating him. Returning to the hospital, Abel confronts the doctor about the experiments. The doctor claims the subjects were volunteers driven by desperation. Abel is shown footage of Max injecting himself with a serum that ultimately led to his suicide. The doctor justifies the experiments, stating they will benefit mankind. As the police arrive, the doctor commits suicide with cyanide.

Abel is placed in a psychiatric ward to recover. The chief of police informs him that the circus has offered his old job, and he is forced to accept. It is revealed that Abel escapes from police custody on the way to the train station and disappears. The voice-over suggests that Abel evades capture and is never seen again.

Cast

 * Liv Ullmann (Manuela Rosenberg)
 * David Carradine (Abel Rosenberg)
 * Gert Fröbe (Inspector Bauer)
 * Heinz Bennent (Hans Vergérus)
 * James Whitmore (Priest)
 * Glynn Turman (Monroe)
 * Georg Hartmann (Hollinger)
 * Edith Heerdegen (Mrs Holle)
 * Kyra Mladeck (Miss Dorst)
 * Fritz Straßner (Doctor Soltermann)
 * Hans Quest (Doctor Silbermann)
 * Wolfgang Weiser (Official)
 * Paula Braend (Mrs. Hemse)
 * Walter Schmidinger (Solomon)
 * Lisi Mangold (Mikaela)
 * Grischa Huber (Stella)
 * Paul Bürks
 * Toni Berger (Mr. Rosenberg)
 * Erna Brunell (Mrs. Rosenberg)
 * Isolde Barth
 * Rosemarie Heinikel
 * Andrea L'Arronge
 * Beverly McNeely
 * Hans Eichler (Max)
 * Kai Fischer
 * Harry Kalenberg
 * Gaby Dohm
 * Christian Berkel (Student)
 * Paul Burian
 * Charles Regnier
 * Günter Meisner
 * Heide Picha
 * Günter Malzacher
 * Hubert Mittendorf
 * Hertha von Walther
 * Ellen Umlauf
 * Renate Grosser
 * Hildegard Busse
 * Richard Bohne
 * Emil Feist
 * Heino Hallhuber
 * Irene Steinbeisser

Production
Elliott Gould claimed that Bergman had written the lead role for him, but that producer Dino De Laurentiis overruled it, with David Carradine cast in his place.

The film was released one year after Bergman had left Sweden for West Germany following a tax-evasion charge.

Reception
The Serpent's Egg opened to mostly negative reviews from critics. In the Chicago Reader, Dave Kehr opined that Bergman "comes very close to camp" and argued that the suffering throughout the work "... has no shape or substance, apart from pointing out that Nazis and their progenitors were not nice people." Roger Ebert wrote that "... there is no form, no pattern, and when Bergman tries to impose one by artsy pseudo-newsreel footage and a solemn narration, he reminds us only of the times he has used both better." The film holds a rating of 20% on Rotten Tomatoes from 20 reviews.

title: The Serpent's Egg (film)


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 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was REDIRECT to Needville, Texas. —Korath (Talk) 15:27, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

Needville Harvest Festival
It's a local festival. Since most every town has one of those, I fail to see why this one is notable. Radiant! 09:38, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep or merge with Needville . Redirect to Needville, Texas. bbx 15:53, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, redirect then. Delete. I have just merged this into Needville, Texas. HyperZonktalk 17:33, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Needville, Texas. Delete. Merge with Needville, Texas . Too short in its current state to deserve its own article. – flamurai (t) 17:50, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Porsche Boxster

Super Replica Link from their web site(s)
Consumer Alert: There is a Panamanian "kit car company" company that uses You Tube extensively as a source of promotion to solicit and defraud consumers. They have now started using Wikipedia as a second platform by which to claim legitimacy. The wiki entries that they have created on themselves have thus far been removed, but they are now linking into legitimate articles, and this Porsche Boxster is one of them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.244.183.6 (talk) 16:12, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Engine - horsepower
Not really important but since my editing of the engine power was reverted I had to check other sources. It seems to me that the numbers in the US is different from the numbers in Europe? In Europe the first models of the 2.5l had 204 bhp, the 2.7l 220 bhp, and the 3.2 S 252 bhp I have the 2000 Boxster S myself and it says 252 bhp in the manual. Of course, the differences are so small that they are unimportant, but still found it a bit strange.

Europeans rate horsepower using DIN standards (Deutsche Industrie Norm, I believe it means). U. S. makers rate horsepower using SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) criteria, and the two differ slightly. When a Eurpean car is sold in the U. S., its horsepower rating is converted to an SAE, via a simple conversion factor. DIN hp is always a bit higher than SAE hp, so if that weren't donethe Europoean makers would have minutely better bragging rights.

Stephan Wilkinson —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.238.96.49 (talk) 19:31, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Hmm ... A more likely suspect might be differences in emissions equipment, which most definitely has an effect on performance and horsepower. I've seen this horsepower discrepancy before between European and US versions of the same car, and it was due to the catalytic converter. Usually the US model comes out on the short end, losing a few horsepower. BMW's 3 series specifically comes to mind. --68.183.100.3 (talk) 06:49, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Links
I don't know what the standards are for external links, but there seem to be a few links that aren’t exceptionally useful. If someone could chip in a second opinion on these it would be very helpful (after a quick glance at the pages, I don’t see any great reason to keep them – and the last one should probably have the “very helpful” comment removed?): Nick
 * 986 and 987 Forum boards
 * Porsche Pete's Boxster Board
 * Used Boxster Buyer's Tips from a Boxster Owner - Very Helpful!

Mid-engine
"The Boxster has a mid-mounted engine"? Has it? I thought it was tail mounted. // Liftarn

 * Yes, the engine is mid-mounted. It's the Porsche 911's engine that is rear-mounted. SamH|Talk 10:29, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Anywhere handling, braking and balance cannot be compromised the mid-engined design will be used. In most automobiles, and in sports cars especially, ideal car handling requires balanced traction between the front and rear wheels when cornering in order to maximize the possible speed around curves without sliding out.

 * The mid-engine layout as used on the first Porsche, the James Dean Porsche 550 the neat little Porsche 914, the current Boxster's, and Cayman's, make these cars more like racing cars than the big front-engined 924, 944, 928, Cayenne, and Panamera, or the soon to be extinct from all but vintage car racing, the rear-engined 911.

-oo0(GoldTrader)0oo- (talk) 19:00, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

And it is very low too!-Ez5698

Porsche Boxster
What year did the Boxster switch from a "plastic" rear window to a glass one?

 * The glass top comes on the '03 and up models.

I think it should also be mentioned that the Boxster competes directly with the Audi TT, Saab 9-3, 350z, and the honda s2000.

What is the average RWHP of a 2000 boxsterS ? Because the Brake horsepower or Bhp is higher than the actual RWHP.

The engine is in the middle of the car (mid engined) and all i know is that the 3.4 litre flat 6 in the modern boxter s develops 295 BHP —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.42.197.27 (talk) 22:39, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

video game
I remember that when the boxster was released there was a playstation racing game, presumably made for marketing puirposes, where the boxster was the only car you could drive. I think perhaps it should be mentioned here, but I can't remember the name of that game. 85.28.65.75 15:51, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

 * It was Porsche Challenge. According to Moby Games, "The game was developed in collaboration with Porsche. As a result of this collaboration the game features only Porsche Boxsters as cars and focuses more on realistic look and feel of these Boxsters than on fast and furious action and spectacular crashes." --Edvvc 22:26, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

Zscout370's deletion of the majority of the links
Zscout370, why did you delete the majority of the external links? They most assuredly weren't spam -- two were from Porsche's own website! I understand that some of them may technically have violated some oft-ignored linking rules (for example, external forum links are ostensibly forbidden, although many car articles have them), but but Boxster FAQ if nothing else is beyond reproach. Please don't just delete the links again without commenting here first. Stephen Hui 05:39, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Everything from the official website of Porche to the the FAQ, I would not mind keeping. However, it was brought to our attention offline that many of the Porche articles are getting spammed with links to the autowiki and by fourms. I am going to remove the forum links again. User:Zscout370 (Return Fire) 05:47, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Engine output figures
The European and American engine output figures apparently differed. I reverted the last edit because it changed one model year's listed figure from the American one to the European one. We should probably list both for all model years, but we shouldn't mix them between model years, especially without having an appropriate notation. For example, before my edit the 1997 car's output was listed at the American car's 201 hp, while the 2000 car's output was listed at the European car's 204 hp, making it sound like the 2000 was essentially no more powerful than the 1997. Stephen Hui 21:18, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

"Boxster's discs rust unusually quickly"
I'm deleting this assertion because I can't find any data to justify its inclusion per WP:Verifiability. The two sources the original posted added were both columns written by individuals describing their own cars; while they may have had problems, that doesn't mean it's a common issue. Automobile didn't have the problem in their long-term test, nor did MotorWeek or European Car. Popular Mechanics did an owner's survey, and rusty brakes didn't get mentioned. Neither Consumer Guide nor MSN Autos mention brakes as a problem area in their reliability surveys. So why exactly does this merit inclusion in an encyclopedia?

From the linked Wikipedia policy page:

 * Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, has said of this: "I can NOT emphasize this enough. There seems to be a terrible bias among some editors that some sort of random speculative 'I heard it somewhere' pseudo information is to be tagged with a 'needs a cite' tag. Wrong. It should be removed, aggressively, unless it can be sourced.

Stephen Hui 14:48, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Shares everything forward of the windshield with the 996
Is it worth noting that the Boxster shares the same front of the car with the 996 Carrera, in terms of suspension, steering, etc. and body / headlights (at least up until the 996 got the Turbo's headlights to differentiate it from the Boxster)? Geoff126 19:15, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Do you have a source? The 996 grill looks different than Boxster's...  swa  q  17:18, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

 * This is widely recognized in the Porsche community; you probably have your choice of sources. For example, Bruce Anderson writes in "Porsche Market Update: Boxster & 996" (Excellence #167, September 2008, pp. 115-119), "From the doors forward, they [Boxster and 911] are nearly the same car, using the same forward chassis (Carrera 4 and Turbo excepted), suspension, fenders, hood, headlights, and much more." Slaquer (talk) 04:43, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

 * At the time Porsche really didn't have much choice. The 1993 concept was quite a bit smaller than the production car and frankly, it was well-known at the time that Porsche's finances during that era couldn't allow for that much difference in development, particularly with the virtually all-new Type 996 911 about to be released. It made sound business sense to share as much development between the two platforms as possible, particularly in areas of crashworthiness and engine development; besides, this sort of shared commonality is something that all automobile companies do as common practice. And Porsche throughout its own history has done this to some level across model lines and with separate generations within a particular model. According to the noted Porsche authority, the late Paul Frère, in his book, "Porsche 911 Story" (7th edition), Porsche "had to share most of its most important components with the new 911". It's a classic Wendelin Wiedeking move, Porsche's managing director during the Boxster's birth and development.Monoblocks (talk) 18:18, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Design credit and where it's due
It was my understanding that then Porsche design chief Harm Lagaay was the instigator/motivator for the original Boxster concept, but that the design itself was actually penned by Grant Larson. Monoblocks (talk) 18:18, 5 March 2010 (UTC)

Manual listed twice for 0-60, tiptronic missing
In the Model History box, in the year 2000, for the base model, manual is listed twice and tiptronic not at all. I know the tip is a bit slower 0-60, but I just wanted to toss it out there to someone with the actual figures so they could verify the accuracy for both. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.183.100.3 (talk) 06:34, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

IMS failure rate figures
Hopefully someone can source the section about the IMS failure rate being 5% ... I've researched the subject extensively and have never seen any verifiable figures. In fact, from all I've learned, Porsche keeps that number very quietly to itself. I'd love to know what the actual rate it. But to tease out an actual number, versus mere speculation, has proven beyond my research abilities.

--68.183.100.3 (talk) 07:06, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Porsche 981 Article Expansion
As of right now the information about the 981 seems limited. Perhaps we can do more work to expand it? I will start by adding the top speed, 0-60 mph time, and possibly some other information. HEROofOURtime (talk) 01:28, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

 * 1) REDIRECT Talk:Porsche 718 (production car)

title: Talk:Porsche Boxster