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Talk:Background check

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Question
Would a background check routinely involve investigation of medical records? -- FirstPrinciples 10:15, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Not for most pre-employment background checks. However, it could become an issue in applying for health insurance for someone who is self-employed. I know this from personal experience. 205.217.105.2 15:56, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Question 2
When applying for an employment position through an agency, most employment agencies will tell you to change your resume to fit the job description, otherwise they wont submit you. As everyone needs a job, and relies on the employment agencies judgment (after all they are the highly paid experts!) they comply with the instruction. Companies know this too, but let it happen. Is this so the company knows it will then have leverage should it ever need or wish to terminate a persons services in the future without having justifiable grounds? Should the employment agency not be the entity held liable in such instances?

- — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.170.93.21 (talk) 00:45, 21 February 2014 (UTC)

Background Checks
To answer your question no. When needing a background check, there are various searches that can be made to suit the need of the person needing the info. There are various sites you can find that can provide information online. However, when needing a proper background check always retort in using a Licensed Investigator. ParentFL 07:03, 22 September 2006 (UTC

Can you really get a free credit report?
Companies get paid alot of money for digging up our personal details. I think we should have a right to look at these files given to our banks, employers, etc. Is there anyplace we can get a free credit report, and not one that tries to trick us into signing up for some service for a "free report?"

--RAKO —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.166.190.192 (talk) 05:31, 25 December 2006 (UTC).

merge
Pre-employment screening should fit neatly under this title unless it would make the combined article too big. :) Dlohcierekim 22:14, 12 May 2006 (UTC) Is ther any way to clear your background history? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.20.163.25 (talk) 17:24, 21 March 2009 (UTC)

Merge?
Pre-Employment screening encompasses both the process of performing background checks and that of screening for drugs. I could see both this section and drug tests fitting under P-E S, but not the other way around. :)

More info
The article seems to mostly be about background checks by employers. However, there are many background check websites for the common public to use on... anyone. Is there any information that can be included about this, and what (if any) actions can be taken against invasion of privacy a la public records? Gemini79 06:03, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Bacground Checks Article
Have redirected the above article here, but you might want to use the following info:

A method of acquiring information on an individual through third-party services, government organizations and private individuals in the hopes of making a determination on the future actions of an individual based on past actions. Can be abused an used to commit identity theft. The right to request background checks is enforced by the Patriot Act, as well as other Federal laws which surround the right of organizations to pursue information to make financial determinations before submitting to contracts.

Regarding the proposed Merge
I see no reason to merge this article in any other suggested way. The other article's length could be shortened and made more concisely focused on its related topic. Corporate fudiciary 14:11, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Merged. The article now needs cleanup for style and redundancy issues. theProject 01:18, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Advertising cleanup needed
The article now needs cleanup also for advertising... ("There are many companies... one of them is...")66.213.22.193 (talk) 21:17, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Regarding bankruptcy
There is no empirical or statistical evidence I can locate that correlates between a person who has filed or declared bankruptcy and the same person "stealing from the company." If such evidence exists, and can be cited, it should be noted and changed back. Remember, for every Enron executive who "steals" from the company, there are thousands or millions of people who declare bankruptcy each year due to job loss or medical emergencies. Additionally, the original version would seem to suggest that the preponderance of bankrupt individuals are actually in a POSITION to steal from the company, ie. comptrollers, cfo's, accountants and such. Even in the widely known Enron scandal, and others like it, the actual "bankruptcy" of high level executives occurred AFTER the theft or misuse of shareholder dollars, and was used to (in some cases) attempt to shift assets or shield personal responsibility. I feel it is unfair to categorize a hard working auto worker with 30 good years of service to Ford Motor Company as a potential theft risk because he/she declared bankruptcy after the factory closed and he/she was unable to obtain employment. Or a greeter at Wal-Mart who has just rejoined the workforce following a million dollar medical issue that resulted in bankruptcy. Bankruptcy arises from many events, not all of which are criminal. Nor are all bankrupt persons presumed to be criminal. If anyone has evidence and citations to the contrary, I would love to see them. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.26.75.251 (talk) 09:16, 23 April 2007 (UTC).

possible copyright violation?
It seems that much of the text of this article is identical to text on other websites, such as

http://www.nwlpcbackgrounds.com/101.pdf and http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/31952

There are more, but the above two seem not to be Wikipedia mirrors. I don't know which site contains the original work of authorship. Rather than figure out which parts of the text are original Wikipedia contributions and which are taken from other websites, I am blanking the whole article. 69.140.152.55 (talk) 02:41, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
 * The pdf given has a creation date of January 29th, 2007. The pre-screening part of the article was merged in in December 2006.   In addition, there is no copyright information in the PDF file.
 * The second article there has a date of July 12th, 2007. By comparison, the lead paragraph of the Wikipedia article was modifed in April 2007.   In addition, the page carries no copyright and says, "The American Chronicle and its affiliates have no responsibility for the views, opinions and information communicated here. The contributor(s) and news providers are fully responsible for their content."
 * I believe that both of these are infringements on Wikipedia, and not the other way around.  Astgtciv (talk) 17:30, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the reply on my talk page. I might add though that the create date on a .PDF is not necessarily the date of authorship; for example, the author of the file may have written it before 2006, but may have converted it to .PDF in 2007. 69.140.152.55 (talk) 03:06, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
 * I've restored the copyvio tag. Unless there's a clean revision in the page history, future edits should be made in the temp page. Additional comment: the absence of a copyright statement does not mean a work is public domain or freely licensed. -- Robocoder ( t|c ) 17:08, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
 * While lack of copyright statement does not indicate a work is compatible with GFDL, I have removed the copyright tag as evidence supplied by Astgtciv seems to clearly substantiate that the Wikipedia material was introduced first. As Copyright violations notes, "Text that can be found elsewhere on the Web that was in fact copied from Wikipedia in the first place is also not a copyright violation – at least not on Wikipedia's part." There is not at this point any compelling reason to believe that Wikipedia copied the article, given that the article's listed publication postdates the addition of the material to Wikipedia. In terms of the PDF, not only does the material on Wikipedia predate the dating of the PDF (substantially, as it started here), but there is a subtle difference at the origination that the article started with the words "Employment Screening is used", which were modified to "Pre-employment screening is used" here, five months later. The latter wording is adopted by the .pdf in question. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 14:33, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

This entry is useless
Probably 90% of people coming to read this are looking for a few websites that actually provide background checks for free. The last paragraph of the article is great about mentioning a lot of websites that are moving to the ad model but there are absolutely no links and no references. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.233.237.190 (talk) 17:57, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is specifically not supposed to be a directory of web sites. Try Dmoz.org. - MrOllie (talk) 18:03, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

Proposed merge
I think that Trends in pre-employment screening should be merged here, it's barely been touched in two years and doesn't stand alone as a topic. Fences &  Windows  21:31, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Background Checks Systems - BCS
The National Background Check System phrase terminology is not to be confused with "Background Checks Systems". Background Checks Systems (BCS) receives quite a bit of email and phone traffic from anxious firearm buyers asking about delays in their background checks when in reality they should be contacting either the firearms dealer or the National Background Check System.
 * This private domain was registered in 2000 prior to the US Federal government using this wording terminology for their background check service.
 * BCS Background Screening, LLC is a private company that provides online background checks to business consumers.
 * The National Background Check System is part of the United States federal government and their fingerprint based background checks are cross-matched from the NCIC national crime information center.
 * National Background Check System's (NICS) is only available to firearms and gun dealers.

Joeg524 (talk) 01:31, 24 March 2012 (UTC)Joeg524

Possible information included
In the Possible information included section is talks about drug tests and polygraph tests but shouldn't the article make clear that that is generally an American thing? Most countries do not invade their citizens' privacy by conducting drug tests except for a few specific jobs. And in almost all parts of the world except for the USA the polygraph test is completely discredited and never considered to be reliable in employment or courts of law. The land of the free indeed!-- XANIA - ЗAНИAWikipedia talk | talk 20:52, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

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Neutrality
Large parts of this article are written in an extremely biased (employer-friendly) way.

Passages like the following (just one of many examples) are inappropriate:

"Due to bad hire, employers lose in a multitude of ways: financial-wise, reputation-wise and time-wise. The research shows that as many as 77% of them have lost significant sums of money to carry out the re-recruitment. Moreover, the companies have suffered losses after hiring the dishonest employee due to his low competences (57%), lack of diligence at work (28%), spending on additional training (28%) or problems with attendance (15%) and employee theft (7%). The demand for pre-employment screenings is constantly growing among Polish entrepreneurs." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Curb it (talk • contribs) 09:47, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

Indeed. Let us cull it. Zezen (talk) 16:38, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

Edits
Kleinerdiner (talk) 04:00, 21 December 2020 (UTC)

The article has multiple overlapping sections and sources. For example dating has no citation and in the firearms purchase section. I have also changed some of the diction in the article to give it more a concise and clear tone. I have made no edits to overlapping sections. Such as "security" and firearms being the same section

I have updated the first paragraph to include more information on backgrounds check and better cover the base of the article I have changed the purposes header to uses.

The section on brazil should be culled or receive a citation. The wording is vague and its meaning in legal terms or general terms is indiscernable. The section on firearms regulation should have a link to the bills that mandate background checks for silencers automatic weapons and et cetera. Irrelevant sections on dating should in my opinion be culled

All in all this article needs to be made more concise and its word choice should be revaluated whoever authored it has clunky and hard to comprehend word choices that make it harder to read.

Phone number section?
why is the last section “phone number” with a list of relate to articles 2A01:4B00:8810:400:68DF:CB96:8769:429D (talk) 18:22, 25 December 2021 (UTC)

Equivalent
Also called background investigation, as the US Encyclopedia of Intelligence says. A friend checked the term in the book and announced me. – Hamid Hassani (talk) 04:40, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

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Dziekuję! Vuvar1 16:45, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Titanic change
In the RMS Titanic article you recently edited you said 13 people were taken out of the water after the ship sank. I want to double check on who is right, what source are you using? (When you add up the numbers in the sentences afterwards it adds up to 9 people.) Thanks MechBrowman 00:52, August 13, 2005 (UTC)

e-mail
Ilya, I sent you an email using the "e-mail this user" link. Please check your mailbox. --Irpen 15:14, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I've read, but there is nothing related to articles' topics Ilya K 15:19, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Yes, that is correct. --Irpen 15:46, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I replied to your message about Percentage of speakers at my own talk.

I think it is better to keep discussion in one page to preserve the context. Please keep an eye at my talk and thanks for moderating the horrible personal attack on me from user:AndriyK in ua-wiki. Is it OK if I respond to your messages at my talk? (I keep an eye on your talk also). --Irpen 19:01, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Take a look at this. --Irpen 00:22, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Dear Ilya, you may agree or disagree with me on issues but please check the actions of our compatriot. I am afraid that he is really giving us, Ukrainian editors, a bad name, hurting Ukrainian topics and the world peace. I have exhausted my patience trying to talk to him

On the side note, re your objection that google lists WP mirrors, true but it is easy to add "-wikipedia" to a google string. In fact it was tekn into account in update of the counts. Regards, --Irpen 20:22, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

Russian architecture
Hi, You have put the POV tag on the top of the Russian architecture but forgot to explain your grievances. Unless, you eplain your problems with the article, I will have to remove the tag. abakharev 12:29, 29 October 2005 (UTC)

MozarT
I noticed that you tagged this redirect for speedy deletion, but it does not appear to qualify under any of the current speedy deletion criteria. The closest match appear to be criteria R4 (recently created typo), but as the redirect has been in existence since 7 February 2001 it hardly qualifies as recently created. If you still feel this redirect should be removed, please feel free to list it at Redirects for deletion. --Allen3 talk 13:44, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

And please read Wikipedia_talk:Redirects_for_deletion for discussion and a straw poll you can vote on about this issue. jni 13:48, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Kuban
Will you trust 1926 USSR census that among Kuban population 62% were Ukrainians? Ilya K 16:41, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Russian Empire 1897 census - Kuban oblast http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus_lan_97.php?reg=100

Great Russian 816734 Malorussian  908818

Ilya K 17:09, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Did you read the census appendix that I have provided? It itself says not to trust it?Kuban kazak 17:58, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Why Wikipedia Sucks
Well it does, really. I just want to say that your intervention was refreshing, I just read the Ukrainian version, while it does not look "featured"(to which it went right from stub status), but it is better by far, thanks to references, the numbers show how horrible it was, actually I've heard of famine on Volga from my family, I've got one dead, and I can understand what happened in Ukraine is different.–Gnomz007(?) 23:59, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration accepted
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Russian architecture is still going
Hi Ilya. You placed a POV notice at the top of Russian architecture at the end of October. I've since done some work to make the wording about architecture of Kievan Rus’ better reflect a neutral point of view, but haven't removed that section from the article. The way it is written now, it corresponds to the general plan of articles on "Russian architecture" found in the Penguin Dictionary of Architecture, the latest Encyclopædia Britannica, and the Columbia Encyclopedia, except that I've been more careful than those sources to not apply the adjective "Russian" to the architecture of Rus’.

AndriyK and Andrew Alexander won't let it go; they insist that the portion of Kievan Rus within the modern boundaries of Ukraine cannot be mentioned in this article. Would you please have a look and comment? Would you consider the current wording neutral? If not, how can it be improved? If you don't agree, at the very least, find a respectable reference that can give those two some ammunition, so things can get moving. The article has been stagnant since this came up, and those two stubbornly generate thousands of words of argument without a single useful citation to support their point of view (AndriyK cited a couple of tourism web sites without any authorship information, and the Columbia Encyclopedia, which flatly contradicts his viewpoint). They wouldn't file a request for comment, so I have done so, but I'm afraid it won't help. Thanks. —Michael Z. 2005-12-6 20:31 Z

Mykola Khvylovyi
Good work on Ukrainian literature articles. Just curious why you changed the title of this article (and didn't change the name in the text). What orthography standard should we use? I usually try to use the one that comes up most commonly. Best, Tfine80 05:33, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

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Savage4 TMUs
I saw you changed the # of TMUs back to 2. That's what I thought too, until I read up a bit on Beyond3D's forum. The catch to the Savage4 is that they claim single-pass multitexturing, not single-cycle. That means it's not a 2 TMU chip, but a single TMU chip. The core can do multitexturing, but it takes more than one clock cycle so it's not as efficient as it could be. There's a link down in the references section to the forum thread. --Swaaye 20:57, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I really got other results 3DMark 2000 ver 1.1 : single - 121 MT/s, multi - 242 MT/s. 1024x768x16 bit 16 textures (that is default)on Prosavage DDR KM400 Unichrome. Forum is not reliable source. If you looked at Anandtech reviews linked from wikipedia article, you should doubt how Savage 4 with one TMU could rival for exmple 2 TMU Riva TNT2? Also I have ran Quake 3 on Savage3D an Savage4. Using lightmaps instead of vertex lighting halved Savage 3d (1 TMU) performance, but was free on Savage 4. Also I have loooked reviews at ixbt.com (they have english version http://www.digit-life.com/) they noted that in opengl early drivers didn't get benefit at all from multitexturing, and more recent did'nt get much, so maybe it's a driver problem? Ilya K 13:22, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * It could be driver related. It is S3 we're talking about here. :) I'm actually surprised that the guys at Beyond3D think it's 1x1. At that time most cards were 1x2 or 2x1. However, that forum is populated by more than a few 3D programmers and engineers, so I believe they are correct. They say 3DMark2001 may not work correctly on the card, likely due to driver reasons. It's an amazing forum if you want to really learn about the underlying technology of these cards. Feel free to post in that old thread. I'm sure they would be happy to try to solve this mystery. About the fillrate halving, yes you are right on it being pixel and not texture fillrate. My mistake. I had forgotten that is how it goes. --Swaaye 15:23, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * OMG, looking at such an old thread. I think you are right - it's mentioned in many sources that Savage 4 had only 1 TMU :( --Ilya (talk) 08:37, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Anna Sedokova
Hello and cheers from Colombia. I've just created the article about Ms. Anna Sedokova, but I don't speak Ukrainian, so I wrote the information I could retrieve so far. Would you please check it out and, if you wish, add some information? Thank you in advance. --Julián Ortega - drop me a message 21:08, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Ha, ha, ha. That's OK. I just want to know why is that name written in so many ways (I used Anna Sedakova because it appears that way at her official site, but I've seen Anya Sedakova, for example). Is that because one is the "Ukrainian way" and the other is the "Russian way"? Cheers and thanks for answering. --Julián Ortega - drop me a message 21:46, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
 * No, it's because in slavic languages there are lot of variations. It' like Richard and Dick, Thomas and Tommy. For Ann there may be Anna, Anya, Anka and An'ka, Anyuta, Nyuta, Nyura, Anechka (Rus.), Annushka (Rus.), Hanna (Ukr.), Hannusia (Ukr.) Hannochka (Ukr.), and maybe even more :) Ilya K 21:54, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, well, thanks a lot again. Is the same thing on her last name? About Mr. Marquez article, you should ask the Portal:Colombia editors. Maybe the red links prevent it to be featured... Cheers! --Julián Ortega - drop me a message 19:31, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Block on uk.wikipedia.org
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I have set up a request to move the page Kiev to Kyiv.

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Looking through the archives, I saw that you had contributed to this page earlier. I would like to hear what you have to say on this topic.

Thank you

Horlo 02:55, 30 July 2007 (UTC)Horlo

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Talk:Artsah

To move this page
Rovoam, we can move this to Artsakh (with the 'k'), but doing so reguires a voting process; this is because there is already a redirect page there that pointed at the Nagorno-Karabakh page and there have been multiple edits on the redirect page. For now, of course, it is fine here. I've now changed the redirect to point here for now. Davenbelle 10:21, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)

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Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport station

The Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport station is a two-level station on the IND and BMT Archer Avenue Lines of the New York City Subway. It is located at the intersection of Sutphin Boulevard and Archer Avenue in Jamaica, Queens. It is served by the E and J trains at all times, as well as the Z train during rush hours in the peak direction. This station has four tracks and two island platforms, with two platform levels: E trains stop on the upper level while J/Z trains stop on the lower level.

The station was planned as part of the construction of IND and BMT's Archer Avenue Line as outlined in the Program for Action in 1968. The construction began around 1982 and it was opened to service on December 11, 1988. Originally named Sutphin Boulevard, it served as a replacement for the former Sutphin Boulevard elevated station on the demolished segment of the BMT Jamaica Line two blocks north. In 2003, when the AirTrain JFK opened at the adjacent Jamaica station, the JFK Airport suffix was added.

History
The plans for the Archer Avenue Lines emerged in the 1960s under the city and MTA's Program for Action. Because of the 1975 New York City fiscal crisis, the Archer Avenue Line's construction was delayed. Design on the station started on October 1, 1974, and was completed on February 24, 1982, by Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum. Bids on the station's construction were received on July 9, 1982, and the contract was awarded to Carlin-Atlas Corporation for $17.91 million. Work on the station started on July 15, 1982, and opened along with the rest of the Archer Avenue Line on December 11, 1988.

In 2003, when the AirTrain opened, this station was renamed as Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport, as the station connects with the AirTrain at Jamaica Station.

In 2020, the MTA announced that it would reconstruct the track and third rail on the IND Archer Avenue Line, which had become deteriorated. From September 19 to November 2, 2020, E service was cut back to Jamaica–Van Wyck, with a shuttle bus connecting to Sutphin Boulevard and Jamaica Center. The MTA then announced it would reconstruct the track on the BMT Archer Avenue Line. Starting on July 1, 2022, J service was cut back to 121st Street, and Z service was temporarily discontinued, with a shuttle bus connecting to Sutphin Boulevard and Jamaica Center. The work was completed in September 2022.

The MTA announced in December 2021 that it would install wide-aisle fare gates for disabled passengers at five subway stations, including Sutphin Boulevard, by mid-2022. The implementation of these fare gates was delayed; the MTA's chief accessibility officer indicated in February 2023 that the new fare gates would be installed at the Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport and Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center stations shortly afterward. Additionally, in February 2022, the MTA announced that the IND platform (but not the BMT platform) would receive platform screen doors as part of a pilot program involving three stations. The announcement came after several people had been shoved onto tracks, including one incident that led to a woman's death at another station. The MTA started soliciting bids from platform-door manufacturers in mid-2022; the doors are planned to be installed starting in December 2023 at a cost of $6 million. Designs for the platform doors were being finalized by June 2023. On December 4, 2023, wide aisle turnstiles were installed, making the station the first in the New York City Subway system to have such turnstiles. A customer service center at the station opened the same month. The station was cleaned and repaired in 2024 as part of the MTA's Re-New-Vation program.

Station layout
The Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport station contains two levels, each with two tracks and an island platform. The E train serves the upper level (IND) at all times. The J and Z trains serve the lower level (BMT); the former operates all times and the latter operates during rush hours in the peak direction. The next stop to the west is Jamaica–Van Wyck for trains and 121st Street for  trains. The next stop to the east is Jamaica Center–Parsons/Archer. Like the other stations on the Archer Avenue Line, Sutphin Boulevard is fully ADA-accessible. Both platforms are 600 ft in length, standard for a full-length B Division train.

As with other stations constructed as part of the Program for Action, the Sutphin Boulevard–Archer Avenue–JFK Airport station contained technologically advanced features such as air-cooling, noise insulation, CCTV monitors, public announcement systems, electronic platform signage, and escalator and elevator entrances. This station had six escalators and two elevators when it opened. The station's mezzanine is located above the IND platform under the intersection of Sutphin Boulevard and Archer Avenue.

There are gray vertical acoustic tile side walls and a glassed-in crossover. The mezzanine is glass and stainless steel and features a "Sutphin" mosaic on the geographic north wall. The station's tiling scheme is creme along the platform walls, with some patches of maroon and orange tiling in various places.

Exits

Stairs go up to all four corners of Sutphin Boulevard and Archer Avenue. The two northern staircases go down to an unstaffed fare control area, which consists of four High Entry-Exit Turnstiles. The full-time fare control area is at the southern end and includes seven regular turnstiles. On the southeast corner, two escalators (one up, one down) and a staircase lead to street level, just outside the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR)'s Jamaica station. Additional staircases lead from street level to each of the LIRR platform. Three elevators provide access to the street level and the LIRR station's main mezzanine areas. Connection is also available to AirTrain JFK, which provides service to John F. Kennedy International Airport; the AirTrain JFK also has its own entrance from the street just south of the LIRR station. As part of upgrades to the Jamaica Transportation Center Station Plaza, two new subway station entrances, with canopies, are planned to be constructed.

Ridership
In 1990, after the Archer Avenue line opened, the station had 2,491,760 boardings. By 2007, the ridership in this station had more than doubled to 6.064 million annual passengers. In 2018, the station had 7,282,128 boardings, making it the 146th most used station in the -station system. This amounted to an average of 23,388 passengers per weekday.

Bus and rail connections
There are connections to the Long Island Rail Road and AirTrain JFK at Jamaica station.

New York City Bus routes and MTA Bus routes  also stop at the station.


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List of Sri Lankan broadcasters

This list of Sri Lankan broadcasters includes notable broadcasters from the country of Sri Lanka.

A

 * Chitrananda Abeysekera
 * Karunaratne Abeysekera

B

 * K. S. Balachandran
 * Leon Belleth
 * Nihal Bhareti
 * Jimmy Bharucha

C

 * Vernon Corea
 * Vijaya Corea

D

 * Owen de Abrew
 * Premakeerthi De Alwis
 * Asoka de Silva
 * Dayananda de Silva
 * Sugathapala De Silva
 * A.W.Dharmapala
 * KDK Dharmawardena

F

 * Elmo Fernando
 * Eric Fernando
 * Prosper Fernando

G

 * Christopher Greet
 * H.M.Gunasekera
 * Dayananda Gunawardena
 * Thevis Guruge

H

 * Bob Harvie
 * Tim Horshington

J

 * Tilak Jayaratne
 * Mervyn Jayasuriya
 * Sumana Jayatillake

M

 * S.P.Mylvaganam

P

 * Eardley Peiris
 * Norton Pereira
 * Palitha Perera
 * Shirley Perera

R

 * Prabha Ranatunge
 * Greg Roskowski

S

 * Seelaratna Senarath
 * Kailayar Sellanainar Sivakumaran
 * Satsorupavathy Nathan

V

 * Vasantha Vaidyanathan

W

 * Livy Wijemanne

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User talk:Tabib/Nagorno-Karabakh

What's wrong in this version of the article

 * The version of the article states that "as of 1989 Karabakh had a population of 192,000". This is not correct. Last official demographic data for this region have been received as a result of the Soviet population census in 1979. At that time the general population of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Region was 162,200 persons from which 123,100 were Armenians (75,9 %), and 37,300 - Azeri (22,9 %).Rovoam 10:26, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I’m surprised that you are not aware (or maybe you are?..) of simple historical fact that the last population census in Nagorno-Karabakh was conducted in January 12, 1989 as part of the All-(Soviet)Union census. I could bring you dozens of Azeri and Western sources, but here’s an excerpt from newspaper “Azat Artsakh”, published by Karabakh Armenians themselves:
 * According to the results of the 1979 census Karabakh had 162.2 inhabitants, of them 123.1 thousand Armenians, 37.3 thousand Azerbaijanis and 1.8 thousand of other nationalities. The sixth census in Karabakh was carried out during the Karabakh movement in 1989. At that time Karabakh had a population of 189.1 thousand: 145.5 thousand Armenians and 40.7 thousand Azerbaijanis. The number of people of other nationalities totaled 2.9 thousand.
 * (Source: “Census to be conducted”, Azat Artsakh newspaper, January 26, 2005) It’s never late to learn something new…--Tabib 09:01, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * It is historically incorrect to state that Nagorno-Karabakh was a part of Aghbania, or Caucasian Albania. These are the reasons:
 * Karabakh name was invented in XIV century by Turks. At that time Albania did not exist.
 * Neutral sources testify, that Armenians prevailed in region during more than millennia (see main talk page for details).
 * The territory of this region was part of Armenia, as you can clearly see on the old maps, presented on the main talk page for the article.Rovoam 10:26, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Rovoam again employs his tactics of intentionally complicating the things in order to confuse people and derail the discussion. Contrary to Rovoam’s argument:
 * Naming of Karabakh as “Karabakh” in medieval period and Artsakh’s Albanian belonging are two different things, two separate historical issues. By saying that “Nagorno-Karabakh comprised one of the historical parts of Aghbania, or Caucasian Albania.”, (initial page sentence deleted by Rovoam), we simply state that the territory of what today is known as Nagorno-Karabakh area was part of Caucasus Albania. It’s very simple, correct and unambiguous logical sentence.
 * I have numerously stated in a clearest language I could and bringing authoritative historical and contemporary sources that Artsakh was a historical region of Caucasus Albania and was conquered at times by the ancient Armenian kingdom. I also explained that except for antique authors who lived somewhat during the I BC. and I AD, i.e. Strabo, Plinius, Ptolemeus etc. no sources show that Armenians ever controlled Artsakh. Armenian kingdom had conquered Artsakh from Albanians approx. in II-I cc. BC, but as ancient Armenian historian Moses of Chorene testifies, by I BC Albanians returned Artsakh and it became part of Albania again. Here are the specific posts on Albanian belonging of Artsakh in the main discussion page (by the time of posting this message): Artsakh province of Caucasian Albania (includes my initial arguments and a proposed paragraph on Artsakh’s history), Maps Comment (comments on the maps posted by Rovoam proving contrary to his allegations that Artsakh was not a part of Armenian homeland), Albanian province of Artsakh and Armenian claims (quoted authoritative, even including ancient and contemporary Armenian (!), sources testifying that Artsakh was part of Caucasus Albania);  Devil’s advocacy and the irrefutable facts (responding to counterarguments), On subjugation of Albanian church to Armenian etc. Unfortunately, Rovoam simply chooses to ignore these authoritative sources.
 * I have given my comments on maps posted by Rovoam in a rather detailed and exhaustive fashion in which I addressed both the historical Armenian homeland questions and the issue of “Greater Armenia” kingdom. It’s unfortunate that Rovoam continues to use these evidences for his POV purposes, whereas these maps (esp. medieval ones) actually disprove Rovoam’s allegations. Please, see relevant page discussion. --Tabib 09:01, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * The Caucasian Albania has nothing to do with modern conflict between Armenians living in Karabakh and Azeri people. Rovoam 10:26, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Right, and that is exactly what I've been trying to tell you throughout the whole discussion (surprisingly, now you bring this argument to me). So, the sentence you deleted "Nagorno-Karabakh comprised one of the historical parts of Aghbania, or Caucasian Albania. In ancient times the region was called Artsakh." is simply a statement of historical fact, and has nothing to do with current politics.--Tabib 09:01, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * According to history, the Christianity was accepted in Albania in 4th century, not in 5th century, as it is incorrectly stated in this version of the article. Christianity in Albania was introduced even before by Gregory the Illuminator and his grandson Grigoris, who became the first bishop of Albania (during time of Albanian king Urnair). This historical fact can be easily verified. See Moses Kalankaytuk "History of Alwania" for details.Rovoam 10:26, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Certainly Christian missionaries appeared in Albania and in Caucasus in general long before V c. The first Christian missionary to come to Albania was St Eliseus yet back in I c. AD. But I am tired to repeat over and over again that Christianity became official religion in Albania in 488 AD after church meeting in Aluan (a settlement once situated in present-day Karabakh). This is 5th century and not 4th. probably we proceed from different starting points here: I proceed from the time Christianity became official religion, rovoam proceeds from the time when Albanian king Urnayr was baptized by St. Gregory. So, the initial sentense was: "In the 5th century Christianity become the official religion in Aghbania." While this is perfectly correct sentence, I am prepared to accept editions to it which would reflect that Christianity had an influence in Albania even before that. So, what about such a sentence: "Christianity first came to Aghbania with the mission of St. Eliseus yet in I c. AD. Christianity was widely accepted in the Vth century after St. Gregory the Illuminator converted and baptized Albanian king Urnayr. In 488 AD, following a church assembly near Aluan (situated in present-day Karabakh area), Christianity become the official religion in Aghbania." Hope it's ok now?--Tabib 09:01, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * The statement that Karabakh’s de-facto belonging to Azerbaijan was recognized in 1919 by the Allies has no meaning at all. The Allies could not act as UN or similar international organization.Rovoam 10:26, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually nobody said that Allies acted as "Un or similar organization", this is your misinterpretation. The proposed paragraph stated:
 * "Despite the fact that the Ottomans were defeated in the course of World War I, Karabakh’s de-facto belonging to Azerbaijan was recognized in 1919 by the Allies, who recognized Khosrov-bey Sultanov appointed by the Azerbaijan government as general-governor of Karabakh. Whereas Azerbaijan commended this decision as a recognition of its rights to the territory, the Armenian side criticized it reasoning that this decision was adopted because of the Allies' economic interests in the oilfields nearby Azerbaijan's capital, Baku."
 * As I've said earlier, Karabakh’s de-facto belonging to Azerbaijan was recognized yet in 1919 by the Allies and on April 3, 1919 the commander-in-chief of the Allied troops in the Caucasus general Thompson officially recognized the authority of the Karabakh general-governor Khosrov-bey Sultanov appointed by Azerbaijan. This is an indisputable historical fact, which should be clearly stated in the final page content--Tabib 09:01, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Interactor

An interactor is a person who interacts with the members of the audience.

or

An interactor is an entity that natural selection acts upon.

Definition
Interactor is a concept commonly used in the field of evolutionary biology. A widely accepted theory of evolution is the theory from Charles Darwin. He states, in short, that in a population there is often variation in heritable traits among individuals, in which a form of the trait might be more beneficial than the other form(s). Due to this difference, the chance of getting more adjusted offspring to the environment is higher. The process describing the selection of the environment on the traits of organisms is called natural selection. Based on this idea natural selection seems to act on traits of individuals, which evolutionary biologist like to call the interactor. So stated in a different way; an interactor is defined as a part of an organism that natural selection acts upon.

Replicators
Other terms that are often mentioned in the same context as interactors, are replicators and vehicles. When replicators are mentioned, they mean things that pass on their entire structure through successive replications, like genes. This is not the same as an interactor, as interactors are things that interact with their environment and natural selection can act upon. Due to this interaction with the environment, interactors cause differential replication. However, some things (for example genes) can be both replicators and interactors.

Vehicles
Vehicles are often used as a synonym of interactors, only in a way that vehicles can "drive" natural selection, as if they have the behaviour to steer natural selection in a specific way. The term "vehicle" makes it look that way and therefore some people (like Hull) prefer the word "interactor" to "vehicle" for the same concept. An example of an interactor is the shell colour of snails (see below).

Research on common garden snails as illustration for natural selection and interactors
A study on common garden snails was performed and showed how natural selection on an interactor works. This species is highly suitable for evolutionary research due to their easily to score phenotype and their very straightforward genotype causing the phenotypic variation. Phenotypic variation among common garden snails can be found in their shell colour and banding and both colouring and banding is regulated by one single gene. The snail shells have variations in colours namely brown, pink and yellow; with brown being more dominant than pink and yellow. Furthermore, banding variation can be described as unbanded and banded, with banded individuals differing from another by the number of bands. One of the conclusions that could be drawn out of this research is that in grasslands, yellow individuals had a higher survival rate and were more abundant in these grasslands. This means that natural selection acted on the shell colour, which means that shell colour is the interactor in this example. Furthermore, they found that the brown individuals were more abundant and had a higher survival rate in woodlands than the yellow individuals. Moreover, a specific form of natural selection called thermal selection showed that shell colour worked in the interaction with the environment by yellow shells being more abundant, so more adjusted to reflect heat, in warmer places.

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Ecuatoriana de Aviación

Empresa Ecuatoriana de Aviación, more commonly known as simply Ecuatoriana, was the national airline of Ecuador. The carrier had an operational hiatus between September 1993 and August 1995, resuming operations on 23 June 1996, after VASP became the controlling shareholder. The airline folded permanently in 2006.

Compañía Ecuatoriana de Aviación
Compañia Ecuatoriana de Aviación (CEA) (Ecuadorian Aviation Company) was established in May 1957, after a group of American and Ecuadorian investors decided to set up an airline. At first, 50 percent of the airline was owned by Americans. Operations started in August 1957. Serving a relatively small country, the airline had a varied fleet that consisted of Curtiss C-46, Douglas DC-4, Douglas DC-6 and one Junkers K 16 aircraft. The Junkers airplane was a rarity, as Junkers airliners were already considered to be classics at the time.

Ecuatoriana began serving both domestic and international destinations immediately after it started flying. International routes proved to be rather long trips: there were jets already in operation when Ecuatoriana began flying (before the Boeing 707 made its first flight), but they were predominantly used by European airlines. Ecuatoriana's equipment necessitated a stopover in Panama City for its first international route, from Quito to Miami. Likewise, routes from Quito and Guayaquil to Santiago de Chile included stopovers in Lima, Peru.

The airline's livery featured a tailfin logo of alternating blue and white diagonal stripes. The airline operated Lockheed L-188 Electra four-engined turboprop airliners on longer distance scheduled passenger services, including the key Quito-Bogota-Miami route, between March 1967 and March 1975.

Empresa Ecuatoriana de Aviación

American investors pulled out of the company during the early 1970s, prompting the creation of a new company. Empresa Ecuatoriana de Aviación, a state-owned company, took over the routes, liabilities, and assets of CEA. It was established in July 1974, becoming the flag carrier of Ecuador. By this time, the airline had modernized its fleet to include the Boeing 707, and a new, colorful "rainbow" livery attracted airplane spotters at new destinations such as New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport and Buenos Aires' Ezeiza International Airport. Some of Ecuatoriana's aircraft became flying canvases for abstract artwork. These distinctively-painted aircraft were seen as a response to Braniff's Alexander Calder-painted aircraft. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Braniff was Ecuatoriana's main competitor on many routes, including Miami-Quito/Guayaquil.

In the 1970s, most South American national airlines were operated by national air forces. Through the Defence Ministry, the Ecuadorian Air Force bought two refurbished Boeing 707s for the airline from Israeli Aircraft Industries in a deal worth US$4700000 1974 million. Ecuatoriana also acquired a Douglas DC-10 from Swissair and opened non-stop routes to Canada. Having jet equipment meant that long flights with stopovers were no longer necessary, and non-stop routes were opened all over South America and to other North American cities.

Ecuatoriana also opened flights to destinations such as Mexico City and Madrid, Spain. The Quito and Guayaquil to Madrid routes in particular proved extremely competitive, as Iberia was popular among travelers who flew those two routes.

During the 1980s, Ecuatoriana de Aviación began conducting business with the European Airbus consortium, buying Airbus A310 jetliners. Ecuatoriana debuted a pair of Airbus A-310s in the early 1990s.

Collapse
Rumors that government officials flew their family members for free on Ecuatoriana hurt the airline's reputation. During the late 1980s, Ecuatoriana had also developed a reputation for being unreliable. Lengthy flight delays and cancellations were commonplace. Faced with these problems, as well as competition from other carriers such as the privately owned Ecuadorian carrier SAETA, American Airlines (which had assumed Eastern Air Lines' Latin America routes in 1990), and Continental Airlines, which began serving Ecuador from its Houston hub in 1991, Ecuatoriana ceased operations.

Affected by the general economic crisis in South America during the 1990s, Ecuatoriana encountered deep financial problems. The airline stopped flying at the end of September 1993. Some of its leased airplanes, two A310s leased directly from Airbus and its single DC-10 were taken back, with the latter stranded in Panama since Ecuatoriana was not able to meet the lease payments. Ecuatoriana was forced to rely on competitors TAME and SAETA to fly its North and South American routes, after a deal with Costa Rican LACSA broke down. At the end of 1994, SAETA made a $31 million bid in an attempt to acquire Ecuatoriana, but this didn't go through.

After a lengthy privatization process, with the participation of nine consortiums that included ACES, Air France, British Aerospace, Carnival Airlines, Challenge Air Cargo, Continental Airlines, Aerogal and TACA, the consortium led by Brazilian airline VASP (and local investor Juan Eljuri) won the bid through the Guayaquil and Quito stock exchanges, buying 50.1 percent in August 1995 (at $1500 per stock), with a five-year business plan and an effective injection of $10 million during the stock bidding. The government retained the remaining 49.9% and announced it would keep 25% of the remaining stocks (administered by TAME), with 24.9% to be sold within six months. The process was not exempt from political controversy, as the Comptroller, the Supreme Court and the Congress all questioned the process.

With privatization complete, Ecuatoriana received some Boeing 727s, which were repainted in Miami and at Tucson International Airport in Tucson, Arizona. By 1996, short domestic and international services were restarted, with a livery that resembled VASP's. A single DC-10, also borrowed from VASP, allowed the airline to reintroduce services to Madrid's Barajas International Airport.

March 2000 saw the airline flying to Buenos Aires, Cancún, Guayaquil, Manaus, Mexico City, Panama City and Santiago using Airbus A310-300,  Boeing 727-200 Advanced and  McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30. That year, Ecuatoriana was caught up in the aftermath of the collapse of Ecuador's economy and once again found itself in financial trouble, and VASP decided to sell its part of the airline, with both Aero Continente and Lan Chile being bidders at that time. Despite claims that Lan Chile was not interested in Ecuatoriana, the Chilean carrier was operating its own aircraft on behalf of Ecuatoriana on the lucrative routes to the US after Ecuatoriana's aircraft were repossessed by lessors in late 2000. Following the rejection of Aero Continente's bid and the suspension of Ecuatoriana's air operator certificate, Ecuador's civil aviation authority cleared Lan Chile to start up a subsidiary named Lan Ecuador to fly many international routes previously operated by Ecuatoriana.

Lan Chile owned 50 percent of the airline, wet-leasing two Boeing 767s to the company, but in 2004 sold its part to Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano. By early 2005 LAN had taken over Ecuatoriana's routes and fleet.

Destinations

Ecuatoriana served the following destinations throughout its history:

Historical fleet

The airline operated the following equipment at various times during its history:

 * Airbus A310-300
 * Boeing 720B
 * Boeing 727-200
 * Boeing 707-320B
 * Boeing 707-320C
 * Douglas DC-4
 * Douglas DC-6
 * Lockheed L-188 Electra
 * McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30

Accidents and incidents

 * On 14 March 1972, Douglas C-47 HC-SJE was reported to have been damaged beyond economic repair in an accident at Sangay.

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Seven Kings railway station

Seven Kings railway station is on the Great Eastern Main Line, serving the district of Seven Kings in the London Borough of Redbridge, east London. It is 8 mi down the line from London Liverpool Street and is situated between Ilford and Goodmayes. Its three-letter station code is SVK and it is in Travelcard Zone 4. The station was opened on 1 March 1899 by the Great Eastern Railway. It is currently managed by the Elizabeth line, which operates services between Shenfield and Heathrow Terminal 5.

Great Eastern Railway (1873-1922)
The railway through the site of Seven Kings station was first built in 1839 by the Eastern Counties Railway, as the first part of what was later to become the Great Eastern Main Line. Trains initially ran between Mile End and Romford.

By the 1860s, the railways in East Anglia were in financial trouble and most were leased to the Eastern Counties Railway (ECR). Although they wished to amalgamate formally, they could not obtain government agreement for this until 1862, when the Great Eastern Railway (GER) was formed.

As London grew, developers starting acquiring land to build new properties. The GER realised that the two track main line was not enough to cope with the new suburban and longer distance traffic, and still provide a reliable service for the minor stations. The answer was a programme of quadrupling (providing two additional tracks) along the route and this work took place in phases. Seven Kings station was opened by the Great Eastern Railway on 1 March 1899 and was provided with four platforms with the local services calling at the two northernmost platforms and the other two being used when they were not available. For a short period, the station was the end of the new four track section with two tracks north to Romford. The four tracking was extended to a junction south of Romford in 1901.

Seven Kings West signal box was located west of the station between the two sets of running lines and later, in 1903, controlled the line to the Fairlop Loop (see below). There was another signal box called Seven Kings East located on the up side east of the station.

In 1903, the GER opened a new line to the Hainault Loop and a three way, triangular junction was opened south of the station. The southern part of the triangle diverged at Ilford Carriage Sidings Junction and was used by regular passenger services. The northern leg of the junction was used by excursion traffic (to Epping Forest) and goods trains. The triangle was also used to turn locomotives from Ilford engine shed, which was located just south of Ilford Carriage Sidings Junction.

Table 298 of the Bradshaw's timetable guide of July 1922 shows Seven Kings to have a regular services of trains from Liverpool Street or Fenchurch Street. These trains terminated at Chadwell Heath, Romford or Gidea Park.

In 1923, the GER amalgamated with other railways to form the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER).

London and North Eastern Railway (1923 - 1947)

During this period, local stopping trains were generally hauled by LNER Class N7 locomotives on trains of corridor type carriage stock.

Plans were drawn up in the 1930s to electrify the suburban lines from Liverpool Street to Shenfield at 1,500VDC and work was started on implementing this. However, the outbreak of World War II brought most of the project to a temporary halt and it was not until 1949 that the scheme was completed.

Seven Kings East Signal Box closed on 19 December 1943. The signal box at Seven Kings West was closed as part of the re-signalling (to colour light signalling) and electrification scheme on 7 August 1949. Responsibility for signalling trains through the area was taken over by a new signal box called Ilford Car Sheds.

The south part of the triangular junction was closed to passengers on 30 November 1947. The site was used for the new Ilford Depot which was to house the new Class 306 EMUs.

British Railways (1948 - 1994)
On 1 January 1948, following nationalisation of the railways, Seven Kings became part of the British Railways Eastern Region. The electrification scheme and its associated works were finished and, from February 1949, the Class 306 EMUs operated the service to steam timings with an accelerated all-electric schedule being introduced in September 1949.

The 1500 DC electrification system was converted to 25/6.35 KV AC operation between 4 and 6 November 1960.

The northern leg of the triangular junction was closed on 17 March 1956 and the site was then used for a further extension of Ilford depot.

In 1980, the first Class 315 EMUs were introduced to replace the Class 306s and were used on passenger trains serving Maryland.

A number of the platform buildings were demolished in the early 1980s.

The railway was sectorised in 1982; Seven Kings and the trains calling at it became part of the London and South-East sector. On 10 June 1986, this was rebranded to become Network South East which was responsible for working services up to privatisation.

The privatisation era (1994 - present day)

In April 1994, Railtrack became responsible for the maintenance of the infrastructure; it was succeeded by Network Rail in 2002.

Between privatisation on 1 April 1994 and 4 January 1997, the station was operated by a non-privatised business unit. Since then, passenger services calling at the station have been operated by the following franchises:
 * First Great Eastern 5 January 1997 – 31 March 2004
 * National Express East Anglia 1 April 2004 – 4 February 2012
 * Abellio Greater Anglia between 5 February 2012– 30 May 2015
 * MTR TFL Rail between 31 May 2015 and 23 May 2022, after which the line was rebranded as the Elizabeth Line who are the current operator.

In June 2017, new trains began entering service in preparation for the opening of Crossrail. New lifts, signage, help points, customer information screens and CCTV were installed. The platforms at Seven Kings are too short for the 200 m long 9-carriage trains, so selective door opening is utilised to prevent the doors opening in one carriage.

In February 2019, step-free access was introduced to Seven Kings station.

The Class 315 trains were finally taken out of service in 2022. Through services to central London, Heathrow Airport and Reading started running on the Crossrail line (rebranded the Elizabeth line) on 22 November 2022.

Accidents and incidents
On 23 January 1963, eight people were injured in a collision between two trains on the main line just outside of Seven Kings station. An express train from Harwich Parkeston Quay to London passed a signal at danger and ran into the rear of a Southend-London stopping service at "fairly low speed". The express train was subsequently found to have a fault with one of its brakes. A Ministry of Transport report on the incident stated that the express train's driver "cannot be excused entirely from responsibility" given his passing of the red signal. The line was reopened four hours after the incident.

Location
Seven Kings is the closest station to Ilford EMU Depot.

London Buses routes 86 and N86 serve the station.

Services
Most services at Seven Kings are operated by the Elizabeth line using EMUs, with a very limited service operated by Greater Anglia using  EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
 * 8 tph to London Paddington of which 2 continue to Heathrow Terminal 5
 * 8 tph to Shenfield

During the peak hours, the station is served by a number of additional services between London Liverpool Street and Gidea Park. These services do not call at Whitechapel. The station is also served by a single early morning Greater Anglia service from Colchester to London Liverpool Street.

On Sundays, the service to and from Shenfield is reduced to 4 tph, with alternating services running only as far as Gidea Park.

To facilitate staff access to Ilford depot, there is an early-morning service operated by Greater Anglia from Colchester to Liverpool Street that calls at Seven Kings.

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Josefstadt

Josefstadt (Josefstod; "Joseph-Town") is the eighth district of Vienna (8. Bezirk, Josefstadt). It is near the center of Vienna and was established as a district in 1850, but borders changed later. Josefstadt is a heavily populated urban area with many workers and residential homes. It has a population of 24,279 people (2014). With an area of 1.08 km2 (.42 sq.mi.), Josefstadt is the smallest district in Vienna, and was named after the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I.

It consists of the former Vorstädte of Josefstadt, Breitenfeld, Strozzigrund, and Alt-Lerchenfeld, as well as parts of St. Ulrich and Alservorstadt. The district borders are formed by Alser Straße (north), Lerchenfelderstraße (south), Hernalsergürtel and Lerchenfeldergürtel in the west, and Auerspergstraße and Landesgerichtsstraße in the east.

Josefstadt has developed into a middle-class neighbourhood. Most mayors of Vienna have lived here, as does Austria's former president. Due to its proximity to the University of Vienna, Josefstadt is also the home of many students.

On the basis of the 2005 municipal elections, Josefstadt became Vienna's second district ever (after Neubau) to have a Green district director.

Geography
Josefstadt is located in the center of the city of Vienna. Covering an area of 1.08 km2, it is the smallest district of Vienna, where Josefstadt occupies only 0.26% of the area of Vienna. The district lies between the Vienna belt and the so-called two-line, and it is one of the most densely built districts of Vienna. Only 2% of the district area are parks.

Topography
The Josefstadt district lies on a plateau between two streams now channeled Wienerwald, with Josefstadt not quite where the streams can reach. The Alser Bach (now led under the Lazarettgasse) and the Ottakringer Bach (today between Lerchenfelder Street and Neustiftgasse), before the construction, had dug deep valleys with a partially strong gap in the area, resulting in significant differences in height within the district areas. The western border on Lerchenfelder belt lies at an altitude of 204.5 meters, while on the eastern edge of the district, the Friedrich-Schmidt Square reached a height of 180 meters. Also, between the north and south of the county area, there are differences in altitude. Thus, the intersection Kochgasse/Alserstraße, in the north, reached to 185 meters in height, the plateau Florianigasse-Skodagasse to 198 meters in height, and the intersection of Lerchenfelder Street with Kaiserstrasse (in the south) to 196 meters in height.

District sections
Josefstadt was formed from the former suburbs Altlerchenfeld, Breitenfeld, Josef city and Strozzigrund. Added to this was the proportion of the Alser southern suburb and a small part of St. Ulrich. In the northeast area of the district, between High Street and Florianigasse and Feldgasse, lies Alservorstadt (suburbs), where the northern part of the district is called Alsergrund. In parts, the Alservorstadt section includes the Municipal District, the Regional Court, the Museum for Ethnology, as well as the largest park in the district, the Schoenborn Park. In the north-west of the district, Breitenfelder Kirche (church) lies between the belts Florianigasse and Feldgasse of Breitenfeld. The north of the Josefstädter Street and the southeastern area of the territory belongs to the sub-district Josefstadt. The most important buildings are the Theater of Josefstadt and the church Piaristenkirche "Maria Treu." Around Strozzigasse, there is the small district-section Strozzigrund, with the tax office. Included is the Strozzigrund in the west and east of Altlerchenfeld, where in the Pfeilgasse, several student residences are located. In the southeast area of the district, in the southern area of Piaristengasse, a small part of St. Ulrich is located, whose largest part is located in the adjacent district Neubau.

A breakdown of the district area is also in the Zählbezirken of official statistics, in which the district census of each municipality are combined. The three Zählbezirke in Josefstadt are Laudongasse, Josefstädter Straße (street) and Bennoplatz.

Notable residents

 * Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt
 * Anton Wildgans
 * Karl von Frisch
 * Heinz Fischer
 * Kurt Gödel
 * Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
 * Ödön von Horvath
 * Milo Dor
 * H.C. Artmann
 * Ignaz Semmelweis
 * Johann Adam Hoyer

In popular culture
The 2007 ORF comedy drama series Mitten im 8en ("In the middle of the 8th") was set in Josefstadt, with the title referencing to it being the 8th district of Vienna.

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Sony Life

Sony Life Insurance Co., Ltd. (ソニー生命保険株式会社; Sony Seimei Hoken Kabushiki Gaisha) is a Japanese insurance company, initially founded in 1979 as a joint venture between the Sony Group Corporation and Prudential Financial headquartered in Tokyo.

History
Sony Prudential Life Insurance Co., Ltd. (Sony Prudential Life) was established in August 1979 as a joint venture between Sony and Prudential Financial. This company began operations in April 1981 with its Lifeplanner system. Sony and Prudential agreed to end their joint venture in July 1987. In September 1987, Sony Prudential Life was renamed to Sony Pruco Life Insurance Co, Ltd. In April 1991, Sony renamed this company to Sony Life Insurance Co, Ltd. (Sony Life).

Sony Life established Sony Life Insurance (Philippines) Corporation in August 1998. The company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Life.

In 2001, Sony Life accounted for 5% of Sony's overall revenue.

Sony Life opened an office in Beijing in October 2008. It opened an office in Taipei in July 2009.

Shareholders

 * Sony Financial (100%)

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Rosa arkansana

Rosa arkansana, the prairie rose or wild prairie rose, is a species of rose native to a large area of central North America, between the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains from Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan south to New Mexico, Texas and Indiana. There are two varieties:
 * Rosa arkansana var. arkansana
 * Rosa arkansana var. suffulta (Greene) Cockerell

The name Rosa arkansana comes from the Arkansas River in Colorado. The species' wide distribution and consequent genetic drift has led to an extensive synonymy. It is a perennial subshrub and its native habitats include prairies, roadsides, and ditches. The plant attracts butterflies and birds.

The name prairie rose is also sometimes applied to Rosa blanda, also known as the meadow rose or smooth rose, which is also widely spread, but somewhat further to the north.

Symbolism
Wild rose is the state flower of the U.S. states of Iowa and North Dakota. In Iowa, convention states the species is Rosa pratincola (currently treated as a synonym of Rosa arkansana). North Dakota, on the other hand, specifies either Rosa arkansana or Rosa blanda. Alberta's "wild rose" is Rosa acicularis.

Cultivation
Rosa arkansana is grown as an ornamental plant, and has become naturalized in parts of Massachusetts, New York, and North Dakota.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Aldo A Rossi

 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 delete. Joyous 18:32, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)

Aldo A Rossi
Non-notable, vanity. User:68.8.146.121 on a quest to document family history (cf. original article for Alejandro Velasco Astete). Rl 10:40, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, Does not appear to be notable. Inter 18:26, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, possible family vanity. Megan1967 22:50, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Pete Frame

Peter Frame (born 10 November 1942 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England) is an English music journalist and historian of rock music.

He has produced outlines of the history of rock bands for various magazines, such as Sounds, NME, Melody Maker and Rolling Stone. In 1969, Frame founded the English alternative rock magazine ZigZag. He was its editor, from its beginning until February 1973, and again from March 1976 until July 1977. He was also an A&R man for B&C Charisma Records, and the manager of the band, Starry Eyed and Laughing.

Five volumes of his Rock Family Trees have been published; the first two were joined as The Complete Rock Family Trees. He is also author of Rockin' Around Britain.

In October 2007, his 500-page book, The Restless Generation - How rock music changed the face of 1950s Britain, was published by Rogan House.

Television series
The Rock Family Trees books were used as the basis for the BBC Television series Rock Family Trees in the 1990s, narrated by John Peel.

Series one

 * The Fleetwood Mac Story - broadcast 24 June 1995. Featuring the formation and spin offs of Fleetwood Mac.
 * The Birmingham Beat - broadcast 1 July 1995. Featuring The Moody Blues, The Move and Electric Light Orchestra
 * Deep Purple People - broadcast 8 July 1995. Featuring the formation and spin offs of Deep Purple.
 * New York Punk - broadcast 22 July 1995. Featuring The New York Dolls, Blondie, The Ramones, Talking Heads, Television, Jayne County and Patti Smith.
 * The British R&B Boom - broadcast 29 July 1995. featuring British R&B acts Manfred Mann, Cream, Graham Bond Organisation, The Yardbirds and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.
 * The New Merseybeat - broadcast 5 August 1995. Featuring Echo & The Bunnymen, Teardrop Explodes, Big in Japan, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, OMD and Ian Broudie.

Series two

 * California Dreamin'  - broadcast 4 September 1998. Featuring American folk rock of the 1960s including The Lovin' Spoonful, The Mamas and Papas and Barry McGuire.
 * Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath - broadcast 11 September 1998. Featuring the formation and spin offs of Black Sabbath.
 * The Mersey Sound - broadcast 18 September 1998. Featuring Merseybeat acts The Beatles, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Gerry and the Pacemakers and The Searchers.
 * Banshees and Other Creatures - broadcast 25 September 1998. Featuring bands to evolve from the English Punk scene including Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Sex Pistols, Public Image Ltd, Adam and the Ants and The Cure.
 * The Prog Rock Years - broadcast 2 October 1998. Featuring Yes, Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Asia.
 * And God Created Manchester - broadcast 9 October 1998. Featuring The Buzzcocks, Joy Division, New Order and Happy Mondays.

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Dexerials

Sony Chemicals Corporation (ソニーケミカル株式会社) was a Japanese company established 1962, and was a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation. In 2008, Sony Chemical & Information Device transferred its thermal transfer ink ribbon business to Dai Nippon Printing. In 2012, Sony Chemicals Corporation was separated from Sony Group and renamed Dexerials Corporation. As of 2020, Sekisui Chemical is the largest shareholder of the corporation.

Holdings

 * Sony Chemicals Corporation of America (100%)

Categories of product

 * Electronic materials and parts
 * Joining materials
 * Others

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Piaristenkirche, selfmade photograph

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301 Bavaria

Bavaria (minor planet designation: 301 Bavaria) is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the intermediate asteroid belt, approximately 54 km. It was discovered by Johann Palisa on 16 November 1890 in Vienna.

This is classified as a carbonaceous C-type asteroid with an estimated diameter of $54.32 km$. It is spinning with a rotation period of $0.055$.

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302 Clarissa

Clarissa (minor planet designation: 302 Clarissa) is a typical main belt asteroid. The asteroid was discovered by the French astronomer Auguste Charlois on 14 November 1890 in Nice. The origin of the name is unknown. In 1991, 302 Clarissa was being considered as a possible fly-by target for the Cassini spacecraft, but was later removed from consideration.

This body is orbiting the Sun with a period of 1362.5 days and an eccentricity (ovalness) of 0.11. The orbital plane is inclined by 3.4° to the plane of the ecliptic. There are no major planetary resonances near the orbit of 302 Clarissa. It has a retrograde spin with a rotation period of 14.4797 hours. Stellar occultation data provides a size estimate of $38.53 km$, while IRAS data gives a diameter of $1.5 g cm^{−3}$. It is classified as a F-type asteroid and is probably composed of carbonaceous material.

302 Clarissa provides the eponym for a small collisional asteroid family of mostly C-type asteroids. This group consists of 179 bodies with orbits clustered around 302 Clarissa. The family has a small extend of semimajor axis values, suggesting this is a young group; its estimated age is $0.052$ Myr. 70–90% of the objects in this family have a retrograde spin, suggesting the parent body may have possessed a similar rotation. This family is one of five that are candidate sources for the near Earth asteroids 101955 Bennu and 162173 Ryugu.

Spacecraft visits
At present, Clarissa has not been visited by any spacecraft. As of 1991, mission planning for the Cassini–Huygens spacecraft included a flyby (spaceflight) of Clarissa while leaving the inner solar system in November 1998, however due to delays, the launch of Cassini-Huygens was moved from November 1995 to October 1997, thus negating the option to pass near Clarissa. Cassini-Huygens passed by asteroid 2685 Masursky on 23 January 2000 instead.

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303 Josephina

Josephina (minor planet designation: 303 Josephina) is a large Main belt asteroid. It was discovered by Elia Millosevich on 12 February 1891 in Rome. It was first of his two asteroid discoveries. The other was 306 Unitas.

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RfC: Replace with page like Module:Sandbox
I think this page would be more useful as an actual sandbox vs a disambiguation page. Like Module:Sandbox, where users can create their own subpage(s) to use as (a) sandbox(es). – BrandonXLF   (t@lk)  21:53, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
 * User:BrandonXLF, there's Template:Template sandbox, although I've never used it myself. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 08:23, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

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Sorry, Primefac, I saw the doc page looked odd—Usage now shows —saw that I was the last reviewer, and assumed it was my mistake. So, what's the intent in writing  instead of  ? Cheers. — Guarapiranga ☎ 06:06, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

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User:Jansegers

Pieter Jansegers is a teacher of French and a computer enthusiast.

http://jansegers.mezoka.com

-- Jansegers a family name to be proud about.

Pierre Jansegers was the name of a striker in the beginning of the 20 century that did die for the fight for the social wellfare system in Belgium.

http://www.uqac.uquebec.ca/zone30/Classiques_des_sciences_sociales/classiques/bertrand_louis/histoire_demo_belgique_2/gravures_tome_2_pages_html/hist_t2_fig_89A.html

But many other people do have the family name Jansegers and we are quite actively involved in the creation of the multimedia society. In lots of fields.

Currently the page I created on us is under discussion. That's alright: discussion is the starting point of change and in any case it is the fundament for serious decisions about the futur use of Wikipedia.

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At the moment, a page of mine that I did create on Wikipedia about people with the family name Jansegers that have a homepage or a notable history is under debate.

I will respect the decision whatever it will be by the Wikipedian editors.

I just want to add an element into the debate:

My aim by creating the page was to represent the activity of all people I know off that have my family name.

At the moment, my listings in most of the search engines do block the entrance of the other jansegers folks unless they go for paid inclusion.

I wanted to correct this by creating the wikipedia article on people with my family name.

The essential thing about the choice of doing so on a wiki platform is the ability people have to add themselves.

Could Wikipedia consider the opening of a family name listing of active web people. Dmoz can't follow up in this area, search engines are becoming increasingly more inapt for search of real common people home pages.

In any case, I'm trying to get back the information I collect on the page about my cognates.

Jansegers - I'm afraid I did create this user page in an somewhat unorthodox manner, like I'm quite used to work in a wiki environment, I just did it rigth away. -

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