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Simms Taback

Simms Taback (February 13, 1932 – December 25, 2011) was an American writer, graphic artist, and illustrator of more than 35 books. He won the 2000 Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration, recognizing Joseph Had a Little Overcoat, and was a runner-up in 1998 for There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.

Biography
He was born to a working family of a housepainter and a seamstress, socialists and labor organizers. His first name is after Harry Simms, Jewish labor leader.

Taback graduated from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and served in the United States Army during the Korean War. He was a designer for CBS Records and The New York Times. He was the founder and president of the Illustrators Guild (later the New York Graphic Artists Guild) and taught art at the School of Visual Arts and Syracuse University.

Taback designed the first McDonald's Happy Meal box in 1977. He died in 2011 of pancreatic cancer.

Selected works

 * Jabberwocky and other nonsense (Harlin Quist, 1964), three poems by Lewis Carroll, 1871 to 1889
 * Too Much Noise (1967), by Ann McGovern
 * Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (Random House, 1977), movable book based on a Yiddish folk song
 * Jason's Bus Ride (1987), by Harriet Ziefert
 * Road Builders (1994), by B. G. Hennessy
 * Sam's Wild West Show (1995), by Nancy Antle
 * Two Little Witches: a Halloween counting story (1996), by Harriet Ziefert
 * There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (1997), illustrating the American folk poem
 * Joseph Had a Little Overcoat (Viking, 1999) —the Caldecott Medal-winning edition for U.S. picture book illustration
 * This is the House that Jack Built (2002), based on the nursery rhyme
 * Kibitzers and Fools: tales my zayda (grandfather) told me (2005), traditional Jewish tales
 * I Miss You Every Day (2007)

Original works

 * Animal Parade
 * City Animals
 * Dinosaurs
 * Farm Animals
 * Safari Animals
 * Quack Like A Duck!
 * Who Am I?
 * Who Said Moo?
 * Where Is My Baby?
 * Where Is My Friend?

Winner

 * 1999: National Jewish Book Award for Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
 * 2000: Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration for Joseph Had a Little Overcoat

Finalist

 * 1998: Caldecott Medal for U.S. picture book illustration for There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.

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Simon the Shoemaker

Simon the Shoemaker (Σίμων Ἀθηναῖος, σκυτοτόμος; fl. c. late 5th century BC) was an associate of Socrates, and a 'working-philosopher'. He is known mostly from the account given in Diogenes Laërtius' Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers. He is also mentioned in passing by Plutarch and Synesius; a pupil of Socrates, Phaedo of Elis, is known to have written a dialogue called Simon.

Influence
Xenophon reports that because youths were not allowed to enter the Agora, they used to gather in workshops surrounding it. Socrates frequented these shops in order to converse with the merchants, Simon being one among them. Simon committed these conversations to writing, as far as he could remember them. These were the first Socratic dialogues. Indeed, Simon’s excellence in the art of shoemaking would have been a form of expertise that Socrates, of Plato's Apology, held up as the only example of genuine knowledge.

Simon's writings attracted the notice of Pericles, who offered to provide for him if Simon would come and reside with him. The cobbler refused on the grounds that he did not wish to surrender his independence.

Postmortem
A number of later philosophers associated Simon with a certain philosophical way of life.

The Cynics seem to have idealized Simon. Among the surviving Cynic epistles, there are some spurious Socratic Letters, written in the 2nd or 3rd century, in which various pupils of Socrates, including Antisthenes, Aristippus, and Xenophon, debate philosophy from a Cynic point of view. Simon is described in these letters as an ideal Cynic-type figure. One of these letters purports to come from Simon himself, and is addressed to Aristippus:

I hear that you ridicule our wisdom in the presence of Dionysius. I admit that I am a shoemaker and that I do work of that nature, and in like manner I would, if it were necessary, cut straps once more for the purpose of admonishing foolish men who think that they are living in great luxury. Antisthenes shall be the chastiser of your foolish jests. For you are writing him letters which make fun of our way of life. But let what I have said to you in jest suffice. At any rate, remember hunger and thirst, for these are worth much to those who pursue self control.

In the Cataplus of Lucian, a group of dead people, including the tyrant Megapenthes, are carried to the Underworld in Charon's boat. Lucian pairs his ideal Cynic, Cyniscus, with the cobbler Micyllus, who is the only one who accepts his fate – albeit with resignation. Here, Lucian follows a literary convention of his time by pairing a Cynic with a shoemaker.

From influence of the Cynics, the Stoics drew inspiration from Simon as well. Zeno of Citium is said to have produced a collection of anecdotes about Crates. Stobaeus preserves one:

Zeno said that Crates was sitting in a shoemaker’s shop and reading aloud Aristotle’s Protrepticus, which he had written for Themison, the Cyprian king. In it he said that no one had more advantages for being a philosopher, for he had great wealth so that he could spend money on this activity and still have his reputation intact. And Zeno said that while Crates was reading, the shoemaker was attentive but all the while kept on with his stitching. And Crates said, "It seems to me, Philiscus, that I should write a Protrepticus for you, since I see that you have more advantages for being a philosopher than the man for whom Aristotle wrote."

Doubt
Some scholars have suggested that Simon was a purely fictional figure. The central contention of his existence is his omission in the works of Plato, Xenophon, and Aristophanes – the primary sources on Socrates. Other scholars, point out that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

If he is indeed fictional, he would have most likely been invented by Phaedo of Elis in his dialogue Simon - of which, only a few fragments survive.

Support
Archaeological investigations have revealed the remains of a shop near the Tholos in the southwest corner of the Agora of Athens which has yielded quantities of hobnails and a pot base with the word "Simon's" (ΣΙΜΟΝΟΣ) inscribed on it. Skeptics assert that it cannot be certain if this is Simon's shop.

In the Cynic epistles, Simon is referenced by Antisthenes and Aristippus, and even partakes in the exchange. However, these letters are later Roman creations.

Within the Heracles of Antisthenes, references Simon. Thus, it would be unlikely that he would be a literary creation of two early writers: Antisthenes, and Phaedo of Elis.

In the recording of Simon's dialogues, Diogenes Laërtius' lack of order and the repetition of some titles point against the works being fabrication.

R. F. Hock concludes that the lack of information and interest on Simon the Shoemaker is testified by the fact that he "came to function in a very specific context" and he "was admired really only by strict Cynics."

Works
According to Diog. 2.123, Simon's writings were the first Socratic dialogues. It has been suggested that all of his works could have fit under the length of two Stephanus pages.

As with Simon himself, the reality of these lost works has also been doubted, but the lack of any order in Diogenes’ list and the repetition of some titles point against its being a fabrication.

Diogenes Laërtius lists thirty-three conversations (dialogi) which were contained in one volume. The titles of his works are as follows:

 * Of the Gods
 * Of the Good
 * On the Beautiful
 * What is the Beautiful
 * On the Just: two dialogues
 * Of Virtue, that it cannot be taught
 * Of Courage: three dialogues
 * On Law
 * On Guiding the People
 * Of Honour
 * Of Poetry
 * On Good Eating
 * On Love
 * On Philosophy
 * On Knowledge
 * On Music
 * On Poetry
 * What is the Beautiful
 * On Teaching
 * On the Art of Conversation
 * Of Judging
 * Of Being
 * Of Number
 * On Diligence
 * On Efficiency
 * On Greed
 * On Pretentiousness
 * On the Beautiful
 * On Deliberation
 * On Reason, or On Expediency
 * On Doing Ill

However, in recent times it has been argued that what Diogenes Laërtius meant was, rather, that Simon had been the first with whom Socrates entertained philosophical conversations.

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James Corry (political scientist)

James Alexander Corry (1899 – December 26, 1985) was a Canadian academic and the thirteenth Principal of Queen's University, Ontario, from 1961 until 1968.

Born in Millbank, Ontario, he graduated in 1923 from the University of Saskatchewan. He attended Lincoln College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. In 1927 he became a professor of law at the University of Saskatchewan. In 1936 he joined Queen's University as a professor of political science. In 1957, when the Queen's Faculty of Law was re-established with his assistance, he was one of the three charter professors, along with Daniel Soberman and Stuart Ryan. From 1951 until 1961 he was a Vice-Principal of Queen's. Mackintosh-Corry Hall at Queen's is co-named in his honour.

Honours

 * He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
 * He received honorary degrees from 14 universities, including Sir George Williams University (1973), which later became Concordia University.
 * In 1968 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.

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Mark Napier

Mark Napier may refer to:

 * Mark Napier (artist) (born 1961), American internet artist
 * Mark Napier (historian) (1798–1879), Scottish historian
 * Mark Napier (ice hockey) (born 1957), former Canadian ice-hockey player
 * Mark Napier (MP), British Member of Parliament for Roxburghshire, 1892–1895

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User:Hinrik/Alfie Kohn

Alfie Kohn is former teacher turned lecturer and author of numerous books on education, psychology and parenting.

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Kitty Canutt

Kitty Canutt (July 15, 1899 – June 3, 1988), stage name Kitty Wilks (born Katherine Derre in New York City), was an American professional bronc rider. She was the All-Around Champion Cowgirl at the 1916 Pendleton Round-Up in Pendleton, Oregon, for her bucking horse and relay race events. It was at this rodeo that she met Yakima Canutt (Enos Edward Canutt), a winner of the title of All-Around Cowboy at the Pendleton Roundup in 1917, 1919, 1920 and 1923. They were married at Kalispell, Flathead County, Montana on July 20, 1917, and were residents of Los Angeles in 1920. They divorced 1922. She married Robert C. Long in 1923.

She was known as the "Diamond Girl" or "Diamond Kitty" because she had a diamond set in her front tooth. She would occasionally remove and pawn the diamond when she needed contest entry money.

In 1919, Kitty won the Ladies' Relay Race at the Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daniel Brackins

 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. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 22:16, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Daniel Brackins
Orphaned page about an apparently non-notable Aikido practioner/teacher who googles to 13 hits, untouched since last Christmas. According to the article, Brackings is "credited with establishing Bushin Aikido" - which also googles to some 12 hits. Delete as vanity, non-notable. Vlad M V ٭ talk 15:46, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Bye, Dan. Phils 16:28, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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 * Delete, not notable, vanity. Megan1967 10:19, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Zot!

Instead of linking to a nonexistant extry on The Golden Age of Science fiction, maybe it should link to the Golden Age part of the history of science fiction article? I'll leave that to someone else as I leave it to others to learn the Wiki script. Scott Dubin

Does anyone know the details of Dekko's storylines, other than Hearts And Minds? I am dying to know what his previous plots were. -- BBlackmoor (talk), 2005-10-29 T 05:45:30 Z

Dekko was an artist (Arthur Dekker, as I recall) and a friend to Zot's uncle Max. He developed cancer, and had to have his arm amputated and replaced by a robotic prosthesis. Unfortunately, the disease had spread, and over time more and more of his flesh had to be replaced. At the same time, Arthur's relationship with his girlfriend began to fall apart, his art became more and more abstract and less and less humanistic, and he eventually became obsessed with the machines slowly replacing his body -- to the point that he started designing their appearance himself (hence the Chrysler building head). I think his girlfriend died in here somewhere, but I don't remember the exact details (sorry!). Dana 03:41, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

The fate of Sarah, Dekko's girlfriend (or wife?) is never explicitly stated. It seems that Dekko did something to harm her, physically or psychologically, and this contributed to his psychosis; Sarah shows up in Dekko's hallucinations as his alter-ego, representing natural and organic qualities in contrrast to Dekko's linear, mechanical aspects.

I hace added a themes section and expanded the summary significantly, but not exhaustively. If anyone wants to contribute, feel free.

1965
I tried to come up with a way to add a sentence or two to the main article to discuss the bizarre nature of Zot's world--being stuck in a permanent retro-"1965". Nothing sounded right, per Wikipedia guidelines. Someone else want to take a crack at it? SteelWheel 08:43, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

Award references
I have a hard time referencing stuff, but a reference for the award nominations is http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/award/eisner.php —Preceding unsigned comment added by Setitup (talk • contribs) 01:16, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

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Inaccuracy regarding obtaining of slip
I do not mean any disrespect to the author of this page, but in my two years of visiting Japanese temples, I never encountered an omikuji that functioned in the fashion described (the fortune, rolled up, falls from the hole). In my experience, a stick is removed from the box instead, bearing a number. This number corresponds to a drawer in a cabinet, which contains the appropriate paper slip. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.168.102.54 (talk) 10:18, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

 * I noticed that "falls from the hole" thing too and removed it. While it may be like that at some shrines, I've never seen it. But you can get your omikuji in many different ways. Drcwright (talk) 05:42, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Cost
I have never encountered omikuji that costs just 5 yen. Every shrine I have visited asks for 100 yen. Even the omukuji vending machines used on this article have "100 Yen Coins Only" written on them. Is there a citation for the 5-yen donation being widespread? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.216.30.67 (talk) 02:32, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

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2005 Mexican elections

A number of local elections took place in Mexico during 2005:

Baja California Sur

 * Governor, five mayors, and 21 (15+6) local deputies
 * See: 2005 Baja California Sur state election

Guerrero

 * Governor, mayors, and local congress
 * See: 2005 Guerrero state election

Quintana Roo

 * Governor, eight mayors, and 25 (15+10) local deputies
 * See: 2005 Quintana Roo state election

Hidalgo

 * Governor, mayors, and local congress
 * See: 2005 Hidalgo state election

Colima

 * Governor (extraordinary election)
 * See: 2005 Colima state election

Nayarit

 * Governor, mayors, and local congress
 * See: 2005 Nayarit state election

Estado de México

 * Governor
 * See: 2005 México state election

Coahuila

 * Governor, mayors, local congress
 * See: 2005 Coahuila state election

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Robert Schlaifer

Robert Osher Schlaifer (13 September 1914 – 24 July 1994) was an American statistician who was a pioneer of Bayesian decision theory. At the time of his death he was William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration Emeritus of the Harvard Business School. In 1961 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

Biography
The son of Osher Schlaifer (who was later the superintendent of schools in Dundee, Illinois), a native of Vermillion, S.D., and a graduate of Amherst College, Schlaifer had a unique background for a statistical decision theorist. He was trained as a classical historian and classical Greek scholar: he attended the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and earned a Ph.D. in ancient history at Harvard in 1940. He taught history, economics and physics at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard. During the Second World War he started writing technical reports and produced a major volume on the development of aircraft engines. He got an appointment at the Harvard Business School and when the statistics teacher retired he started to teach statistics—starting by teaching himself. He had very little mathematical background and Raiffa recalled how they worked together: "I would teach him something about linear algebra in the morning and he would show me how it could be applied in the afternoon." (from the interview with Fienberg)

Schlaifer made an important contribution to Bayesian decision theory. His work and his character are described in the following appreciations.

In 1992 the Decision Analysis Society awarded Schlaifer the Frank P. Ramsey Medal for distinguished contributions to the field of decision analysis. In making the award Bob Winkler noted Schlaifer's pioneering efforts in decision analysis.
 * His 1959 book, Probability and Statistics for Business Decisions, was a landmark effort, coming only five years after L. J. Savage, in his classic Foundations of Statistics, presented a development of subjective probability and utility but then inexplicably reverted to minimax arguments in the latter part of the book. Schlaifer, with no formal training in statistics or mathematical modeling, got it right and took the first steps toward bridging the theory/practice gap.

Winkler also quoted the following assessment from Howard Raiffa, who worked with Schlaifer and was the recipient of the first Ramsey Medal in 1984:
 * "The basic ideas of statistical decision theory were conceived by (Schlaifer) independently of the work of L. J. Savage or de Finetti, and early on he saw that those ideas were broadly applicable to problems in decision making under uncertainty. He was a pioneer in the practical assessment of subjective probabilities and utilities… (Schlaifer) influenced my intellectual development more than any other individual — more than Abraham Wald or von Neumann or Savage or Arrow."

In the preface to the second 1971 edition of Foundations of Statistics Savage wrote:
 * This is a welcome opportunity to say that his [Schlaifer's] ideas were developed wholly independently of the present book, and indeed of other personalistic literature. They are in full harmony with the ideas of this book but are more down to earth and less spellbound by tradition.

Schlaifer's book with John W. Pratt and Raiffa was published posthumously and his co-authors wrote this dedication:
 * Robert O. Schlaifer (1915–1994): An original, deep, creative, indefatigable, persistent, versatile, demanding, sometimes irascible scholar, who was an inspiration to us both.

Role in development of aircraft engines & fuels
Schlaifer was involved in the development of military aircraft engines and fuels prior to World War II. He found that the best way to get a good engine quickly was to bring to test as soon as possible a number of alternate designs, pick one that combined good characteristics with few development problems, and then work intensely to develop it.

Some publications of Robert Schlaifer

 * Greek Theories of Slavery from Homer to Aristotle, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Vol. 47 (1936), pp. 165–204.
 * Demon of Paeania, Priest of Asclepius, Classical Philology, Vol. 38, No. 1 (Jan., 1943), pp. 39–43.
 * Development of Aircraft Engines. Boston : Division of Research, Graduate School of Business Administration, Harvard University, 1950.
 * Probability and statistics for business decisions. An introduction to managerial economics under uncertainty New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1959
 * Applied statistical decision theory (with Howard Raiffa) Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1961.
 * Introduction to statistical decision theory John W. Pratt, Howard Raiffa, Robert Schlaifer preliminary edition, 1965. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1995.
 * Analysis of decisions under uncertainty. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1969.

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Tepatitlán

Tepatitlán de Morelos is a city and municipality founded in 1530, in the central Mexican state of Jalisco. It is located in the area known as Los Altos de Jalisco (the 'Highlands of Jalisco'), about 70 km east of state capital Guadalajara. It is part of the macroregion of the Bajío. Its surrounding municipality of the same name had an area of 1,400 km2 (500 sq mi). Its most distinctive feature is the Baroque-style parish church in the centre of the city dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi. Other notable sites include the kiosk that sits on the Plaza de Armas in downtown (ornamented with iron, it was built in France, and brought to the city), the Temple of San Antonio, and the city hall (Palacio Municipal). The latter is one of the most distinctive features in the city, built in neoclassic-baroque style.

The nickname of the city is "Tepa". It is also the largest producer of eggs in Mexico, the largest pork producer in the state, and the primary milk basin in the country, as well as a large producer of tequila. The fleur-de-lys can be seen in a number of public spaces and buildings, including the Santuario de Guadalupe and the Santuario del Señor de la Misericordia, which houses an oak-carved crucifix that, according to the legend, was found by a poor farmer on the Cerro Gordo in 1835; every year from 25 to 30 April, the city hosts the Feria Tepabril which celebrates the Señor de la Misericordia.

Etymology
Tepatitlán means "Hard Stone Place", in the Nahuatl language. But recent artifactual discoveries indicate that the name may actually have a different meaning than the one that is conventionally accepted. The matter has yet to be settled conclusively by scholars and officials.

Señor de la Misericordia Patronage
According to popular legend, in 1835, Don Pedro Medina, a poor, old farmer, saw from the outside of his home in the countryside an intense light, coming from the Cerro Gordo. The first few days, he thought it must have been some kind of coal or wood furnace. But he kept seeing the light for a few more days, so he decided he would climb the mountain up to the place to see what was going on. When he finally got to the place where he had seen the light, he found nothing, until he turned his head towards an oak tree, and found in it, an image slightly reminiscent to a crucifix. He was so amazed, he decided it he wanted everyone to see his "Father" as he called it, and so, decided to chop the tree down, and take it into the city. Pedro Medina was a poor man, so to get it from up on the mountain, to his ranch, he had to ask his neighbor for a couple of oxen to bring it down. However, when they cut the image down and attached it to the oxen, it would not move, so Medina told his "compadre" to turn the image face up, and as soon as they did this, the oxen moved with immense ease. In town, the veneration to the holy image grew so big, that Don Pantaleon Leal offered Don Pedro Medina his home as a shrine to the image. And after a few years, in 1831, the Shrine erected in his honor stands, and every year, the city fills with over 2 million visitors to venerate the image and ask God for favors. His feast is celebrated on 30 April, day on which he was brought into his current shrine, and grand festivities are held, for he is the patron of the city.

Demographics
According to the 2020 Census by INEGI, the municipality has a population of 150,190, of which 98,842 live within the city limits of the municipal seat, Tepatitlán, and the rest in the outlying communities and ranches. The city is the state's seventh-largest incorporated community and serves as a significant city outside of the capital, providing the most important university in the region of Los Altos, and an important economic and business center.

Around 81% of the population of the municipality is urban, concentrated mostly in the municipal seat, and other large towns. The annual growth rate is at about 18.9%, placing it among the fastest growing populations in the state.

Parroquia de San Francisco de Asís
The Parroquia de San Francisco de Asís is neoclassic in style, with baroque reminiscence. This temple was built from 1742 to 1775, from piedra braza. It is topped with two slender neoclassical towers, 63m in height each, and three airy domes, all designed by the tepatitlense mason, Don Martín Pozos. The façade is dominated by a curious architectural element: a semi-hexagonal pórtico, which was added as a support for the heavy and slender towers which, as Pozos was told, would collapse if he did not add support. On the inside, it is decorated by the main altar, constructed entirely of white marble from Carrara, and the sculptures of the four Evangelists, sculpted by the Italian architect Augusto C. Volpi, whose depiction of St. John is very detailed. Another example of the local craftsmanship is the sculptural group of La Piedad, carved in oak wood by Agustín Espinoza. Another feature of this church is its clock, located on the south tower, facing the Plaza de Armas, which has been giving the time to the residents 141 years non-stop.

Other examples
The Santuario del Señor de la Misericordia, the temple of San Antonio, with a great history during the second Cristero War, the building that houses the City Museum, and various constructions of the 19th century, are many other attractive sites in the city which are worth a visit.

Presidencia Municipal
It was in 1727, that the older "town hall" was expanded with the terrain donated by Mrs. Elena de la Rua, and after it started functioning as city hall, it was completely remodeled from 1905 to 1908 under the direction of Don Francisco de Paula Palomar, who designed it with a near-neoclassic style, mixed with French Baroque in its decor; and in 1954, it was added to the design its current aspect, so jolly, and unique in the western Mexico. Of neoclassic style, the City Hall is a two-story building that holds on the walls of the staircase, a mural of the history of the city, measuring 80m².

History
The area was primitively inhabited by the Otomi people, a hunter-gatherer society. After that, the Tecuexe arrived in the area, also known as the tecuanni, which means cruel or sanguinary, as a reference to their fighting nature. The city had various locations across time: the first, known as Pueblo Viejo in the Raumalelí hill; afterward, they moved to the Cerrito de la Cruz, which today is home to a hilltop chapel, and finally, under the leadership of Mapelo, to its current location. In the year of 1530, the Spanish captain Pedro Almíndez Chirinos arrived at the area, sent by Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán to explore the region up to the state of Zacatecas, and so he arrived in Zapotlán del Rey, Acatic, Zapotlán el Grande, and Tepatitlán, ending up in the Cerro Gordo. Around the same time Almíndez Chirinos arrived, a group of Franciscan Friars Christened the area, built the first church by the name of San Francisco de Asís, and evangelized the natives. Because of this settlement, the village took the name of San Francisco de Tecpatitlán (The ancient way of spelling the city's name). During the Mexican War of Independence, the village's population, composed and dominated by some Creoles and Mestizos, showed itself to be indecisive about joining the war effort, but after Independence Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla entered triumphantly in Guadalajara, the indifference turned into enthusiasm for the cause. One Tepatitlense, Col. Albino Barajas took part as an insurgent in the Battle of Calderón Bridge. By decree of 27 March 1824, Tepatitlán turned into one of the 26 departments into which the state of Jalisco was divided, and was conceded the title of villa. From that same year, it became part of the Third Canton, seated in La Barca, a situation in which it remained until the early 20th Century, when the state's territorial division in cantons disappeared. During the regime of the Second Mexican Empire under Maximilian I of Mexico, according to the provincial statute of 10 April 1862, Tepatitlán, together with most other villages in the Los Altos region, became part of the Department of Aguascalientes. By decree number 41, published 20 September 1883, the town was conceded the title of city, with the denomination Tepatitlán de Morelos in honor of the Revolutionary insurgent José María Morelos y Pavón.

Historical Timeline

 * 1530: Led by Captain Pedro Almíndez Chirinos, a group of Spanish men arrive at the area previously inhabited by Otomí Indians
 * 1742: Construction of the San Francisco Parish is begun in the middle of a settlement
 * 1811: On 19 April, the peoples of the city endorse Rev. Ramos, who besieged the city of Tepatilán, fighting fiercely for eight consecutive hours against the so-called "Faithful Royalists" after which he took the Plaza de Armas, which was named de Armas (of Arms) after this incident
 * 1824: On 27 March, the state grants Tepatitlán the title of "Villa" (town)
 * 1835: Don Pedro Medina finds the miraculous image of the Señor de la Misericordia
 * 1864: On the first of January, Tepatitlán was invaded by the French troops of Zuavos Argelinos (from North Africa) who were led by General François Achille Bazaine, and destroyed part of the Municipal Archive. Afterward, various groups, led by the French Commanders Munier and Ceynet, fought fiercely against the guerrillas, who led by Rafael "El Chivo" Nuñez, Mauro Vázquez, Lucio Benavides, Félix Pérez, Francisco Cabrera, and other leaders, fought for liberty from the French rule; especially Colonel José Antonio Rojas, who at the head of his 1,000 "Rojeño" riders took in one month four important plazas (quite apart from each other): Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Ciudad Guzmán and Tepic
 * 1883: On 20 September, decree no. 41 was published, whereby the "Villa" of Tepatitlán de Morelos was declared a city by the Governor of Jalisco
 * 1927–1929: Tepatitlán was witness and actor in the battles between Cristeros and Federals during the Cristero War; within its urban perimeter, the bloodiest battle of the whole war was fought, and on that sole day, the federal army lost more than 3,000 troops.

Climate
Tepatitlán has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cwa) that is close to a tropical savanna climate (Köppen: Aw), with dry, mild winters and warm, wet summers. The land and soils are "skinny", as described by Agustín Yáñez, but have been transformed productively due to decades of efforts by humans. The canyon of the Rio Verde, with its tropical climate at the bottom, about 500 m deep, contains isolated hot springs, visited by animals in colder months.

Fauna and flora
Similar to other parts of México, mammals found in the region include species such as the badger, cacomistle, coatimundi, coyote, hare, gray fox, opossum, peccary, rabbit, raccoon, red brocket deer, spotted and striped skunk, squirrels, and white-tailed deer. Elusive, and present in smaller numbers, are the wild felines, the bobcat, jaguar, jaguarundi, ocelot, and puma (mountain lion or cougar). Many birds are common or migrate to the area, including caracara, crows, doves, eagles, egrets, falcons, grouse, guan, hawks, jays, owls, ravens, vultures, wild turkey, as well as numerous hummingbirds, passerine species, pigeons, starlings and songbirds. Many northerly species of birds migrate to the area, annually, during winter. Reptiles and amphibians include both venomous and harmless snakes, lizards such as alligator, beaded, and fence lizards, skinks, hognose snakes, milk snakes, kingsnakes, and rattlesnakes. The common Mexican tree frog (Smilisca baudinii) can be seen and heard on warm nights. Monarch butterflies can be observed in the region during (or upon completion of) their great migration to México from the USA and southern Canada. Tarantulas and several arachnids are endemic to the area.

Among the varied flora are many succulents and trees, such as agave, avocado, conifers, echeveria, and many cactus (especially opuntia) species. Ash trees grow in abundance, as opposed to the once-plentiful oak groves; demand for firewood has depleted their previously vast numbers. Also seen growing are introduced species, including several types of acacia, eucalyptus, pineapple guava, pomegranate, and walnut trees. Herbs and perennials include epazote, hoja santa, Mexican fleabane, tithonia, and wild chives, as well as fennel, licorice (anise), and Cuban oregano (also called Mexican mint). It is a paradise for citrus.

It was announced, in 2009, that the Federal Government would spend around 350 million pesos on the construction of the Centro Nacional de Recursos Genéticos, which is a part of an ecological preserve.

Government
The Government of the municipality of Tepatitlán de Morelos is organized into the H. Ayuntamiento (City Council), which is composed of 17 members from a number of agencies. These include the Presidential Coordination (C. María Elena de Anda), General Secretary, Higher Administrative Office and other departments.

Administrative divisions
The municipality of Tepatitlán de Morelos is divided into 7 subdivisions: 6 Delegaciónes (delegations) and a Municipal Seat as follows:

Education
As well as one of the most important cities in the state, it is one of the most educated, with a literacy rate that exceeds 97%. The city is home to the public university "Centro Universitario de los Altos" (CUAltos), a regional branch of the University of Guadalajara, opened in 1994. The campus offers 15 undergraduate degrees, including business administration, law (LLB), international business, accounting, livestock engineering systems, computer engineering, agribusiness, medicine, nursing, nursing in nutrition, dentistry, psychology and veterinary medicine, as well as a master's degree in animal nutrition.

There is another public university with a focus on technology, "Tecnológico Mario Molina" and private universitites like Universidad América Latina, Universidad Nueva Ciencia, Universidad Solidaria de los Altos de Jalisco (USAJ), Universidad de las Culturas and Universidad Interamericana para el Desarrollo.

The city also has 213 basic education schools, 35 secondary schools, and 13 "high schools.

Notable people

 * Edgar Solis – Footballer. Born 5 March of 1987. He made his debut in the First Division of Mexico in 2005 with the Club Deportivo Guadalajara, has also played for the Atlante Fútbol Club and Estudiantes Tecos, currently playing for Club de Fútbol Monterrey of Liga MX.
 * Diego Jimenez. Born 7 April of 1986. Soccer player, best known as "Tepa" Jimenez, debuted in 2007 on the computer Atletico Tecomán Mexico. He also played for the Monarcas Morelia and New York Red Bulls. Currently plays for Estudiantes Tecos the Ascenso MX.
 * Miguel González, baseball player, born in Pegueros, Municipio de Tepatitlán de Morelos, Jalisco right pitcher, currently with the Baltimore Orioles in the MLB.
 * Alan Estrada, actor, dancer and singer.
 * Alvaro Rodriguez, Illegitimate son of Mexican singer Juan Gabriel and Walter Mercado.

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What is the inscription on the plaque at the entrance of the tunnel on the Northbound lanes?

According to this page the tunnel was completed in 1949.

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Chongqing Nankai Secondary School

Chongqing Nankai Secondary School is a public secondary school in Shapingba, Chongqing, China.

In a 2016 ranking of Chinese high schools that send students to study in American universities, Chongqing Nankai Middle School ranked number 28 in mainland China in terms of the number of students entering top American universities.

History

In the summer of 1936, educator Zhang Boling, the founder of Tianjin Nankai High School, went to Chongqing and built a private school, Nanyu Secondary School (南渝中学; Nanyu means South Chongqing). After the Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Tianjin Nankai High School was heavily damaged by Japanese air raids. Many students and teachers fled to southwestern China. Many went to Chongqing, and joined Nanyu Middle School, while others went to Zigong and joined Shuguang High School, another high school under Zhang Boling's management. In December 1938, Nanyu Middle School changed its name to (Private) Chongqing Nankai Secondary School. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, its name was changed to Chongqing No. 3 Secondary School. In the 1980s, it reverted to the name Chongqing Nankai Secondary School.

The school campus covers an area of 362 mu (24 hectares). The campus has facilities such as science and computer laboratories, an astronomical observatory, a library, a school history museum, an indoor sports hall, a grand auditorium, an artistic centre, two outdoor stadiums, an indoor swimming pool, student dorms and Business Street. The school’s library has over 150 thousand volumes.

Chongqing Nankai Secondary School has a teaching staff of about 200, including 90 senior teachers, 9 special-graded teachers and 9 research fellows. Over 105 young teachers have a master's degree or above. The school participates in academic exchanges and has established academic relations with schools in the United States and Japan. About 30 teachers have been sent abroad on lecture tours or for advanced studies. Teachers in the school have won national prizes for improvement in teaching method and some teachers were specially rewarded by the state council.

More than 20 graduates have become the deputies of People’s Congress and members of The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in the school.

The school enrolment is over 6000, about 3000 of them living on campus. Every year about 99% of graduates enrol in colleges, among whom about 90% enter national universities. The number of students admitted by Peking University or Tsinghua University has been the highest among schools in Chongqing for years.

Celebrated scientists including some thirty academicians of the Chinese Academy of Science and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, educationalists, leaders of the CPC and the central government have graduated from the school in the past six decades.

The school has developed an education technology center, astronomical observatory, website and distance educational network.

Overview
The school previously owned significant assets in Nankai Cheng, but these were sold for commercial purposes in 1994. This gave the school a chance to heavily improve its campus environment. Now Chongqing Nankai Secondary school has another campus, called Naikai (Rongqiao) middle school, which is located at Fenglin Rd, Nan'an, Chongqing, China. The new campus opened in 2004 used to only had students in 7th and 8th grade and those in 9th grade usually went back to the old main campus in Shapingba. 2015 class was the last class to have the tradition of returning. Since 2016 students in Naikai (Rongqiao) no longer transfer back to Naikai Secondary School. Instead, all middle school students will finish all three years in the new campus.

Academicians

33 graduates are members of the Chinese Academy of Science and Chinese Academy of Engineering:
 * Zhu Guangya (朱光亚)
 * Zhou Guangzhao (周光召)
 * Yuan-Cheng Fung (冯元桢)
 * Guo Kexin (郭可信)
 * Liang Sili (梁思礼)
 * Zhou Heng (周恒)

Politicians

 * Zou Jiahua (邹家华)
 * Zheng Bijian (郑必坚)
 * Yan Mingfu (阎明复)

Economists

 * Mao Yushi (茅于轼)
 * Wu Jinglian (吴敬琏)
 * Morris Chang(张忠谋)

Arts and Media

 * Yan Su (阎肃)
 * Roy Wang (王源)

Notes and references
Notes

References

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Lloydtown, Ontario

Lloydtown is a hamlet located in King Township, Ontario, Canada. It is often associated with the surrounding and larger Schomberg, though it has its own unique characteristics and heritage.

History
The Lloydtown Rebellion of 1837 was part of the Upper Canada Rebellion. During the 1830s, Lloydtown was well known as a site for reform sympathisers, and regular meetings were hosted by Jesse Lloyd. On November 24, 1837, a final meeting to review plans was held between Lloyd and William Lyon Mackenzie. Hoping to take advantage of the departure of troops to Lower Canada in response to the Lower Canada Rebellion, Mackenzie had planned to seize a government arms cache in York on December 7.

Climate
Lloydtown has a continental climate moderated by the Great Lakes and influenced by warm, moist air masses from the south, and cold, dry air from the north. The Oak Ridges Moraine affects levels of precipitation: as an air mass arrives from Lake Ontario and reaches the elevated ground surface of the moraine, it rises causing precipitation.

Notable people

 * Alfred M. Cook, American politician and farmer, was born in Lloydtown.

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Pottageville, Ontario

Pottageville is an unincorporated community located in northeastern King Township, in Ontario, Canada. It is near Schomberg. It is named for one of its early settlers, Edward Pottage.

Ecology
Parts of Pottageville, particularly the ecological areas outside the village, are located on the northern face of the sensitive Oak Ridges Moraine. Characteristic of other parts of the moraine, the ecological areas of Pottageville exhibit a range of features.

Pottageville Wetland Complex
The Pottageville Wetland Complex is a provincially significant 7.8 km2 wetland complex composed of 43 individual wetlands. The wetland consists of 93.1% swamp, 6.3% marsh and 0.6% fen. A diversity of soil types is present in this complex, including: humic and mesic (63%); clay and loam (16.7%); sand (15.9%); silt or marl (2.6%); and fibric (1.8%). The site is principally palustrine (93.6% with inflow, 3.6% without inflow), with small areas which are of riverine (2.2%) and isolated (0.6%) nature. The vegetation found within the complex is also varied, though primarily deciduous (62.6%). Other constituent vegetation includes coniferous trees (16.5%), tall shrubs (11.1%) and dead trees (3.5%).

Pottageville Southeast Upland Forest
The Pottageville Southeast Upland Forest, situated north of Happy Valley Forests, is a 0.9 km2 forest on the north-facing slope of the Oak Ridges Moraine. It consists primarily of Maple, Beech and Hemlock trees. A number of creek valleys, containing tributaries of the Holland River, are found within the forest. It is classified as a regionally significant Life Sciences Area of Natural and Scientific Interest by the Government of Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources.

Pottageville Swamp
The Pottageville Swamp is a 6.58 km2 provincially significant Life Sciences Area of Natural and Scientific Interest. The swamp complex includes a 2 km2 section Pottageville Swamp North, a deciduous swamp which extends north from Highway 9 and consists largely of muck overlaying glaciolacustrine deposits. The southern extent of the swamp is a 5.27 km2 area of "poorly drained soils".

The swamp was originally contiguous with the Holland Marsh, but became isolated from it during the 1920s when the land was prepared for agricultural use through drainage projects, which has had a "drying effect" on the bog The swamp and bog were classified via the International Biological Program.

Climate
Pottageville has a continental climate moderated by the Great Lakes and influenced by warm, moist air masses from the south, and cold, dry air from the north. The Oak Ridges Moraine affects levels of precipitation: as an air mass arrives from Lake Ontario and reaches the elevated ground surface of the moraine, it rises causing precipitation.

Notable Features
From the late 1950s until 2009, Pottageville was the home of the Toronto Gymnosophical Society. The society had become known affectionately as Glen Echo Nudist Park, a nudist resort. It boasted a 10,000 square foot clubhouse, a spring fed pond for swimming, volleyball courts and many acres of wooded recreation where members could camp or construct their own cottages. The camp was owned and operated by Mary & Edward Todorowsky.

Pottageville is home to a closed airport, identifier CA-0295. A narrow gravel strip is what is left over after an attempt to have an airport. A nearby water ditch was dug to allow float-equipped aircraft to land there. The locals got together and forced the closure.

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moved from artcile page: Dubious entry i live in the uk and watch this program frequently and have never heard this term used for it (unsigned but from Plugwash)
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Linguistic philosophy

Linguistic philosophy is the view that many or all philosophical problems can be solved (or dissolved) by paying closer attention to language, either by reforming language or by better understanding our everyday language. The former position is that of ideal language philosophy, one prominent example being logical atomism. The latter is the view defended in ordinary language philosophy.

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Freedom at Midnight

Freedom at Midnight (1975) is a non-fiction book by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre about the events around the Indian independence movement and partition. It details the last year of the British Raj, from 1947 to 1948, beginning with the appointment of Lord Mountbatten of Burma as the last viceroy of British India, and ending with the death and funeral of Mahatma Gandhi.

The book is told in a casual style, similar to the authors' previous works, Is Paris Burning? and O Jerusalem!.

Content
The book provides a detailed account of the last year of the British Raj; the reactions of princely states towards independence, including descriptions of the colourful and extravagant lifestyles of the Indian princes; the partition of British India (into India and Pakistan) on religious grounds; and the bloodshed that followed.

There is a description of Shimla, the British summertime capital in the Himalayas, and how supplies were carried up steep mountains by porters each year. Also covered in detail are the events leading to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, as well as the life and motives of Jawaharlal Nehru and Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

Regarding partition, the book—providing maps of Punjab, Bengal, and Kashmir—relates that the crucial maps setting the boundary separating India and Pakistan were drawn that year by Cyril Radcliffe, who had not visited India before being appointed as the chairman of the Boundary Commission. The book depicts the fury of both Hindus and Muslims, misled by their communal leaders, during the partition; and the biggest mass slaughter in the history of India, as millions of people were uprooted by the partition and tried to migrate by train, oxcart, and on foot to new places designated for their particular religious group. Many migrants fell victim to bandits and religious extremists of both dominant religions. One incident quoted describes a canal in Lahore that ran with blood and floating bodies.

Background
The authors interviewed many who were there during the events, including a focus on Lord Mountbatten of Burma. They subsequently wrote a book based in particular upon their research on the British officer, titled Mountbatten and the Partition of India, containing interviews with Mountbatten, and a selection of papers that were in his possession.

Response
Freedom at Midnight aroused controversy for its portrayal of the British expatriates, the native rulers of India, and members of India's first cabinet. James Cameron described it as the result of deep research into events often neglected by other historians.

This book was one of the inspirations for the 2017 film Viceroy's House.

This book was one of the inspirations for the 2000 film Hey Ram.

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Einsiedeln

Einsiedeln is a municipality and district in the canton of Schwyz in Switzerland known for its monastery, the Benedictine Einsiedeln Abbey, established in the 10th century.

Early history
There was no permanent settlement in the area prior to the early medieval period, but numerous artefacts left by prehistoric hunters, dated to the Mesolithic to Bronze Age were recovered.

The original "hermitage" is associated with St. Meinrad, a Benedictine monk from the family of the Counts of Hohenzollern. According to legend, Meinrad lived on the slopes of Mt. Etzel from 835 until his death in 861.

During the next eighty years Saint Meinrad's hermitage was never without one or more hermits emulating his example. One of the hermits, named Eberhard, previously Provost of Strasburg, erected a monastery and church there, of which he became first abbot. Work on the monastery is said to have begun in 934. Following a miraculous vision by Eberhard, the new church was dedicated to the Virgin Mary. At the time of the foundation of the Abbey, the local hunters and small farmers of the forest, placed themselves under the authority of the noble-born Abbot. The surrounding population was known as Waldleute (forest people) because of the forests around the Abbey. The Abbey encouraged the Waldleute to settle in surrounding villages and begin farming. The settlement of Einsiedeln is first mentioned in 1073.

The alpine valleys were used to raise cattle, which became increasingly more important to the village. By 1250 the major business in the village was breeding and raising cattle. Expansion of grazing land into nearby alpine valleys led to a two century conflict with Schwyz.

Old Swiss Confederacy
As early as 1100, the villages of Einsiedeln and Schwyz were in conflict over land near the two Mythen mountains. Over the following century, conflicts over the land led to many court battles and actual battles. In 1173 when the Habsburgs gained rights over the village of Schwyz and in 1283 when they raised the Abbey to an independent principality under the Habsburgs, this raised a local conflict into a regional one. The Habsburgs were able to quiet the conflict for a few years, until 1291 when Schwyz, Uri and Unterwalden revolted against the Habsburgs. In 1314 the conflict flared up again with an attack by Schwyz into Einsiedeln. This attack triggered a series of border raids that, along with other events, in 1315 led to a Habsburg invasion and their crushing defeat at the Battle of Morgarten. It wasn't until 1350 that the conflict was resolved and the borders between Einsiedeln and Schwyz were fixed.

In 1394 the Abbey came under the protection of Schwyz and the rights of high justice went over to Schwyz. Low justice though remained with the Abbey. Einsiedeln is the birthplace of Paracelsus, a Renaissance physician and alchemist who is credited with first naming zinc.

In 1399 the Drei Teile ("Three Parts": a council that included the Abbey, the Waldleute from the surrounding villages, and Schwyz) is first mentioned. Initially the Drei Teile only addressed any issues that affected the free Waldleute. In 1564 they were able to issue a binding ordinance for all three groups. In 1657 the Drei Teile changed its name to the "Session". The relationship between the three parties was not always smooth. In 1764, an attempt by the Abbot to require tradesmen to only practise their trade in Einsiedeln and preventing skilled workers from settling in among the Waldleute led to open conflict. Schwyz supported the Abbey against the Waldleute and in 1766 crushed the revolt. However, the Abbey lost much of its independence and thereafter was treated more as a subject of Schwyz instead of a partner.

Modern history
During Napoleon's invasion of Switzerland in 1798, the Abbey was suppressed for about three years and the land was added to the city of Schwyz. Following the collapse of the post-invasion Helvetic Republic, in 1803 as part of the Act of Mediation Einsiedeln became a Bezirk (or District) in the Canton of Schwyz. During the Restoration starting in 1815, the Abbey's power began to grow in the Canton. A desire for reform led the Districts of March, Küssnacht and Pfäffikon to declare themselves Kanton Schwyz äusseres Land (Canton of Schwyz, Outer Lands) with a liberal constitution in 1832. The Abbey stood on the side of the conservative faction in the Canton, which caused tense relations between them and the surrounding villages until the creation of the Federal State in 1848.

Geography
Einsiedeln is situated in the valley of the Alp river. It comprises six localities: Bennau, Egg, Willerzell, Euthal, Gross and Trachslau. The village of Biberbrugg is shared with the municipality of Feusisberg. Einsiedeln has a total area of 99.1 km2, of which nearly half (47.1%) is agricultural and only slightly less (44.5%) is forested. The rest of the land is either settled (5.5%) or non-productive (less than 2.8%).

Einsiedeln is located approximately 7.5 km from the southern end of the Lake of Zurich, and 2 km west of the artificial Sihlsee lake. It is on a plateau (ca. 880 m above sea level). The town is located at an altitude of 470 m higher than Zürich, with which it has a railway connection.

Einsiedeln is also the capital and only municipality of the District of Einsiedeln.

Demographics
Einsiedeln has a population (as of ) of. , 13.4% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 14.8%. Most of the population speaks German (92.3%), with Serbo-Croatian being second most common (1.9%) and Albanian being third (1.4%).

the gender distribution of the population was 50.4% male and 49.6% female. The age distribution,, in Einsiedeln is; 3,211 people or 25.4% of the population is between 0 and 19. 3,628 people or 28.7% are 20 to 39, and 3,964 people or 31.4% are 40 to 64. The senior population distribution is 1,009 people or 8.0% are 65 to 74. There are 609 people or 4.8% who are 70 to 79 and 201 people or 1.59% of the population who are over 80. There is one person in Einsiedeln who is over 100 years old.

there are 5,093 households, of which 1,649 households (or about 32.4%) contain only a single individual. 347 or about 6.8% are large households, with at least five members.

In the 2007 election the most popular party was the SVP which received 43.5% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (18.8%), the FDP (17.7%) and the SPS (14.8%).

The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Einsiedeln about 66% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule).

Einsiedeln has an unemployment rate of 1.29%. , there were 551 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 209 businesses involved in this sector. 1,630 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 199 businesses in this sector. 3,017 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 486 businesses in this sector. From the, 9,834 or 77.9% are Roman Catholic, while 1,240 or 9.8% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there are less than 5 individuals who belong to the Christian Catholic faith, there are 288 individuals (or about 2.28% of the population) who belong to the Orthodox Church, and there are 5 individuals (or about 0.04% of the population) who belong to another Christian church. There are 332 (or about 2.63% of the population) who are Islamic. There are 106 individuals (or about 0.84% of the population) who belong to another church (not listed on the census), 486 (or about 3.85% of the population) belong to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 329 individuals (or about 2.61% of the population) did not answer the question.

Historic population
The historical population is given in the following table:

Transport
Einsiedeln railway station is a terminal station of the Zürich S-Bahn on the lines S13 and S40, provided by the Südostbahn.

Climate
Between 1961 and 1990 Einsiedeln had an average of 156.7 days of rain per year and on average received 1753 mm of precipitation. The wettest month was June during which time Einsiedeln received an average of 206 mm of precipitation. During this month there was precipitation for an average of 15.3 days. The month with the most days of precipitation was May, with an average of 15.3, but with only 158 mm of precipitation. The driest month of the year was February with an average of 108 mm of precipitation over 15.3 days.

Sports
Schanzen Einsiedeln is the national ski jumping venue of Switzerland.

Tourism
The village of Einsiedeln is a popular tourist destination in central Switzerland. The Benedictine Einsiedeln Abbey, located within the village, is considered one of the most important Roman Catholic pilgrimage sites in Europe and is called "the most important place of pilgrimage dedicated to the Virgin Mary in Switzerland". In addition to the Abbey, Einsiedeln is also a popular destination for sports year round. The village has 3 ski areas which include lifts as well as ski jumps.

Since the Middle Ages the Graces Chapel and a statue of the Black Madonna have been the centerpiece of the pilgrimage. The statue is so famous that a copy can also be seen in the French Jura town of Pontarlier. Between 150,000 and 200,000 pilgrims visit the Graces Chapel each year.

Besides being a site for pilgrimages, Einsiedeln is a tourist destination for those interested in winter sports. The village has its own ski jump, ski lifts, ski tows and winter sports centres, which are in the nearby area of Hoch-Ybrig and Brunni. The Schwedentritt cross-country skiing trail starts next to the Einsiedeln Abbey.

The nearby reservoir, Sihlsee, is used in summer for swimming, surfing and sailing, and in the winter for ice-skating. The dam, which retains the lake, produces electricity for the trains and protects the city of Zürich further down the valley from the flood of the Sihl.

These days, fewer pilgrims come to Einsiedeln. For that reason, some of the former hotels have now closed. At the same time, the village has experienced a boom with day tourists, owing to the clear air and mountain views. Because of the high quality of life locally, the population is growing faster than is normal in Switzerland.

Notable people

 * Paracelsus (1493 in Egg – 1541), physician, alchemist and astrologer of the German Renaissance
 * Albrecht von Bonstetten (c.1443 – c.1504), a Swiss humanist, entered Einsiedeln Abbey at a young age, made deacon of Einsiedeln in 1469
 * Johann Baptist Babel (1716–1799), preeminent sculptor of Baroque era, settled in Einsiedeln in 1746
 * Joseph Charles Benziger (1762–1841) founded the Catholic publishing house RCL Benziger
 * Josef Benedikt Kuriger (1754-1819), sculptor, goldsmith
 * Gall Morel (1803 - Einsiedeln Abbey 1872), a poet, scholar, aesthete and educationist
 * Joseph A. Steinauer (1834–1907), Swiss emigrant to America who, with his two brothers, founded Steinauer, Pawnee County, Nebraska
 * Aloysius Maria Benziger (1864–1942), a Swiss Catholic bishop and pioneer missionary
 * Meinrad Lienert (1865–1933), a Swiss writer, poet, journalist and editor
 * Artur Beul (1915–2010), a Swiss songwriter
 * Lee Scratch Perry (1936–2021), Jamaican record producer and musician
 * Eric Honegger (born 1946), a Swiss politician and businessman, lives in Einsiedeln
 * Milica Pavlović (born 1991), Serbian pop-folk singer
 * Sport
 * Josef Wehrli (born 1954), a Swiss former professional racing cyclist
 * Marcel Fässler (born 1976), a Swiss professional racing driver.
 * Andreas Küttel (born 1979), a Swiss former Ski Jumper "World Champion 2009"

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Crossness

Crossness is a location in the London Borough of Bexley, close to the southern bank of the River Thames, to the east of Thamesmead, west of Belvedere and north-west of Erith. The place takes its name from Cross Ness, a specific promontory on the southern bank of the River Thames. In maritime terms, the tip of Cross Ness, in the past referred to as 'Leather Bottle Point', marks the boundary between Barking Reach and Halfway Reach. An unmanned lighthouse on Crossness is a navigational aid to shipping.

Sewer
Crossness is the location of the Crossness Sewage Treatment Works, which includes the historic Victorian Crossness Pumping Station, built at the eastern end of the Southern Outfall Sewer as part of the London sewerage system designed by Sir Joseph Bazalgette and constructed between 1859 and 1865.

Lighthouse
Crossness lighthouse is a steel lattice structure. The light is at an elevation of 41 feet (12.5 m) and gives a white 5-second flash visible for 8 miles (12.9 km).

Access and recreation
Crossness Nature Reserve is east of the sewage works.

The Ridgeway path, owned by Thames Water and built on top of the southern outfall sewer, stretches 3.5 mi between Plumstead railway station and the Crossness sewage treatment works. The nearest station to Crossness is Abbey Wood, almost 2 mi away.

The Thames Path Extension - from the Thames Barrier to Crayford Ness - runs along the southern bank of the river through Crossness.

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Alfie Kohn

Alfie Kohn (born October 15, 1957) is an American author and lecturer in the areas of education, parenting, and human behavior. He is a proponent of progressive education and has offered critiques of many traditional aspects of parenting, managing, and American society more generally, drawing in each case from social science research.

Kohn's challenges to widely accepted theories and practices have made him a controversial figure, particularly with behaviorists, conservatives, and those who defend the practices he calls into question, such as the use of competition, incentive programs, conventional discipline, standardized testing, grades, homework, and traditional schooling.

Biography
Kohn was born in Miami Beach, Florida. He earned a B.A. from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island in 1979, having created his own interdisciplinary course of study, and an M.A. in the social sciences from the University of Chicago in Illinois in 1980. He lives in the Boston area and works as an independent scholar,   writing books about research in the areas of education, parenting, and human behavior.

Education
Kohn's ideas on education have been influenced by the works of John Dewey and Jean Piaget. He believes in a constructivist account of learning in which the learner is seen as actively making meaning rather than absorbing information, and he argues that knowledge should be taught "in a context and for a purpose." He has written that learning should be organized around "problems, projects, and questions – rather than around lists of facts, skills, and separate disciplines." Along with this belief, Kohn feels that students should have an active voice in the classroom with the ability to have a meaningful impact on the curriculum, the structure of the room, and any necessary disciplinary measures.

Kohn has been critical of several aspects of traditional schooling. Classroom management and discipline are, in his view, focused more on eliciting compliance than on helping students become caring, responsible problem-solvers. He has also denounced the effects of the test-driven "accountability" movement – in general, but particularly on low-income and minority students – arguing that "the more poor children fill in worksheets on command (in an effort to raise their test scores), the further they fall behind affluent kids who are more likely to get lessons that help them understand ideas." More recently, Kohn has been critical of the place homework holds in the American classroom, noting that research does not support claims of any benefit from homework, academically or otherwise.

Parenting
While Unconditional Parenting (2005) is Kohn's first book that deals primarily with raising children, he devoted two chapters to this topic in Punished by Rewards (1993). He discusses the need for parents to keep in mind their long-term goals for their children, such as helping them grow into responsible and caring people, rather than on short-term goals, such as obedience. The key question, he argues, is "What do kids need – and how do we meet those needs?"

One of Kohn's most widely circulated articles is "Five Reasons to Stop Saying 'Good Job!'" which argues that praise, like other forms of extrinsic inducements, tends to undermine children's commitment to whatever they were praised for doing (i.e., children are taught to do things in order to get praise rather than do the things because it is right to do so, or because it is enjoyable to do so). Later, he expanded this critique to suggest that positive reinforcement, like certain forms of punitive "consequences," amount to forms of conditional parenting, in which love is made contingent on pleasing or obeying the parent.

Another book by Kohn, The Myth of the Spoiled Child (2014), addresses common assumptions about "overindulged" kids, "helicopter" parents, self-esteem, and self-discipline, and it criticizes what he calls "the deeply conservative ideology" behind complaints that children receive trophies, praise, and "A"s too easily.

Management
Two of Kohn's books, No Contest (1986) and Punished by Rewards (1993), address competition and "pop behaviorism" in workplaces as well as in families and schools. Both attracted considerable attention in business circles, particularly when the late W. Edwards Deming, known for inspiring the quality improvement movement in organizations, endorsed both books. Kohn spoke at conferences and individual corporations on management during the 1990s, and his work was debated in the Harvard Business Review, CFO Magazine, the American Compensation Association Journal, and other publications.

Works
Kohn has published 14 books. This includes eight on issues in education (e.g., homework, standardized testing, grades, teaching styles), two on parenting, and four on general topics (e.g. human nature, competition, motivation). His books have been translated into two dozen languages.

 * No Contest: The Case Against Competition (Houghton Mifflin, 1986/1992)
 * You Know What They Say...: The Truth About Popular Beliefs (HarperCollins, 1990)
 * The Brighter Side of Human Nature: Altruism and Empathy in Everyday Life (Basic Books, 1990)
 * Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes (Houghton Mifflin, 1993/1999)
 * Beyond Discipline: From Compliance to Community (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, 1996/2006)
 * What To Look For In A Classroom... And Other Essays (Jossey-Bass, 1998)
 * The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards" (Houghton Mifflin, 1999)
 * The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools (Heinemann, 2000)
 * What Does It Mean To Be Well Educated? And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies (Beacon Press, 2004)
 * Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason (Atria Books, 2005)
 * The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing (Da Capo Books, 2006)
 * Feel Bad Education: And Other Contrarian Essays on Children and Schooling (Beacon Press, 2011)
 * The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom about Children and Parenting (Da Capo Books, 2014)
 * Schooling Beyond Measure...And Other Unorthodox Essays About Education (Heinemann, 2015)

Edited by Kohn:
 * Education, Inc.: Turning Learning into a Business (Heinemann, 2002)

DVDs of Kohn's lectures:
 * Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason.
 * No Grades + No Homework = Better Learning.

Kohn has written articles for academic journals, magazines and newspapers. Among the publications to which he has contributed are The Atlantic, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Parents.

Recognition

 * Laureate, Kappa Delta Pi (International Education Honor Society)
 * National Council of Teachers of English George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language, 2000, for The Schools Our Children Deserve
 * National-Louis University Ferguson Award for Distinguished Contribution to Early Childhood Education, 2002
 * American Psychological Association's National Psychology Award for Excellence in the Media, 1987, for No Contest
 * National Parenting Publications Awards (NAPPA) Gold Award, 2006, for Unconditional Parenting
 * Canadian Teachers' Federation's Public Education Advocacy Award, 2007

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Helen Gandy1

Helen Gandy
Self-nomination. This article is about Helen W. Gandy, who was J. Edgar Hoover's secretary at the FBI for 54 years. The article, which is longer than Hoover's, includes information on her background and career and a detailed account of her role in the destruction of Hoover's famed files. There is also a bibliography. The article, which was proposed for deletion in February, was earlier this month on WP:PR here. PedanticallySpeaking 16:05, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Good research work, however the sectionning strikes me as being a bit odd. The lead and 'Background' are too short compared to the other sections. Maybe using subheadings would be a good idea. Also, why not add a picture? Phils 16:51, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Afraid I don't have a picture to add. I'll look at sectioning, however.  PedanticallySpeaking 17:06, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment, the article has improved heaps, however it says nothing about her life after she left the FBI and how she died, I assume you have the obituaries since you listed them in the reference section, what happened?, its like an unfinished story as is--nixie 05:12, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * The obits I cited were very brief. The Orlando Sentinel was a one sentence death notice.  The Washington Post and New York Times obits were probably under 100 words and have nothing more than what is in the article.  Cause of death was a heart attack, as it says in this article.  PedanticallySpeaking 14:45, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)


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Vlado Kreslin

Vlado Kreslin (born 29 November 1953) is a Slovenian singer-songwriter and folk rock musician.

Life and work
Kreslin was born in the village of Beltinci in the Prekmurje region of Slovenia, then part of Yugoslavia. He began his musical career in his student years, first coming to acclaim as the lead singer with the rock group Martin Krpan. He later continued playing a mixture of Slovene folk and rock music with the Beltinška Banda, a folk group from his native village, whose other members were all over 70 years old, and the group Mali Bogovi. Both groups (with him) often perform together, mixing several generations onstage together.

Today he is one of the best-known and highly esteemed Slovenian musicians and songwriters, drawing on Slovene folk and ethnic heritage, occupying his own niche in the Slovenian music scene. He has been referred to as an ethno-revivalist for his modernization of Slovenian folk songs such as "All the Wreaths Have Wilted". Modern Slovenian rock bands such as Siddharta have worked with him. He has also performed with R.E.M., the Dubliners, Allan Taylor, Hans Theessink, Vlatko Stefanovski, Antonella Ruggiero, Barcelona Gipsy and Klezmer Orchestra. The Walkabouts.....

His annual concerts at Cankar Hall in Ljubljana have become a traditional event in the city's yearly cultural calendar. He is constantly performing worldwide and has opened twice for Bob Dylan and some other world acts. His genre is a type of blues mixed with Slovene folk music. In addition to performing songs in Slovenian, Kreslin's repertoire also includes songs sung in English, Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian and Italian, as well as folk songs sung in various dialects (from his native Prekmurje, Međimurje, the Slovenian Littoral, Istria, and elsewhere).

Many of his songs and poems have been the basis for books and films, most notably Namesto koga roža cveti, which inspired Feri Laišček's award-winning book of the same name and was the basis for the movie Halgato. He has also been an actor in several movies, including Halgato and Slavic Angel, and the play Three Other Sisters in Milwaukee.

In 2009, he was invited by Yale University to be honored at a Master's Tea, and there he was awarded the honorary title of Quincey Porter Fellow. His poems have been published in Poetry in Translation and Confrontation, and in 2012, Guernica Editions will publish his book of poems, Instead of Whom Does the Flower Bloom. In 2014, Ruth Dupre and author from Dallas, Texas wrote a book  "Vlado Kreslin, Slovenia and Me". In 2018, a documentary on Vlado Kreslin was filmed by Miran Zupanič (Arsmedia).

Discography
The following are recordings:

Vlado Kreslin – cassette (ZKP RTV Ljubljana, 1985)

 * Od višine se zvrti - Martin Krpan, LP (ZKP RTV Ljubljana,1986)
 * Bogovi in ovce – Martin Krpan, LP (ZKP RTV Ljubljana,1990)
 * Namesto koga roža cveti - CD (ZKP RTV LJubljana,1991)
 * Spominčice – Vlado Kreslin in Beltinška banda, CD (Bistrica1992)
 * Najlepša leta našega življenja – Vlado Kreslin in Beltinška banda, CD (BIstrica,1993)
 * Nekega jutra, ko se zdani – Vlado Kreslin in Mali bogovi, CD (BIstrica,1994)
 * Pikapolonica – Vlado Kreslin, Mali bogovi in Beltinška banda, CD (Čarna,1996)
 * Muzika – CD (Založba Kreslin, 1998)
 * Ptič – Vlado Kreslin CD (Založba Kreslin, 2000)
 * Kreslinčice – Vlado Kreslin 2 CD((Založba Kreslin, 2002)
 * Woyzeck – Vlado Kreslin (SNG Drama, Ljubljana), CD 2002
 * Generacija – Vlado Kreslin CD (Založba Kreslin,2003)
 * Koncert – Vlado Kreslin LIVE CD and 2 DVD (Založba Kreslin, 2005)
 * Cesta – Vlado Kreslin CD (Založba Kreslin, 2007)
 * Drevored – Vlado Kreslin CD (Založba Kreslin, 2010)
 * LIVE in Cankarjev dom – Vlado Kreslin(1992–2011)(Založba Kreslin, 2011)
 * Umjesto koga roža cveti – Vlado Kreslin (Dallas, 2013)
 * Če bi midva se kdaj srečala – CD (Založba Kreslin, 2015)
 * Balkan Reunion – Barcelona Gipsy & Klezmer Orchestra & Vlado Kreslin CD, (Diggers Music, Barcelona, 2016),
 * Never Lose Your Soul – Guisse – Kreslin – Leonardi CD (Intek, 2017)
 * Greatest Hits – Vlado Kreslin 2 CD (Croatia Records, 2019)
 * Kreslinovanje – Vlado Kreslin 2 Live CD (ZKP RTV Slovenija, 2019)
 * Kreslinovanje – Vlado Kreslin LIVE 2 LP (ZKP RTV SLo, 2019)
 * Kaj naj ti prinesem, draga – Vlado Kreslin CD (2019, Založba Kreslin)
 * Namesto koga roža cveti - Vlado Kreslin LP (ZKP RTV SLO, 2021)

Books

 * 1991 – Namesto koga roža cveti / Sonček je in ti si skuštrana – Vlado Kreslin and Zoran Predin, book of poems (Lokvanj in Založba M&M)
 * 1999 – Besedila pesmi – Vlado Kreslin, lyrics with translations in English, German and Italian and a dictionary (Založba Drava, Celovec in Založba Čarna, Ljubljana)
 * 1999 – Pesmarica – songbook (Založba Kreslin)
 * 2003 – Vriskanje in jok – book of poems (Založba GOGA)
 * 2006 – Venci – Povest o Beltinški bandi, book of poems and DVD (Založba Kreslin)
 * 2009 – Pojezije – book of poems (Založba Kreslin)
 * 2010 – Umijesto koga ruža cvijeta – book of poems (transl. A.Burić, založba Šahinpahić, Sarajevo)
 * 2010 – Prije nego otvoriš oči – book of poems (transl. G.Filipi, založba Dominović, Zagreb)
 * 2012 - Pesmarica 2 (Založba Kreslin)
 * 2012 – Instead of Whom Does the Flower Bloom – The Poems of Vlado Kreslin (transl. Urška Charney,Guernica Editions Inc.Toronto)
 * 2018 – Zakartana ura - book of poems (Beletrina)
 * 2019 – Prokockani sat - book of poems (transl. M.Vujčić, I. Sršen, Sandorf Zagreb)

Film

 * Geniji ali genijalci (Vozny) music,1983
 * Ljubezni Blanke Kolak (B.Jujaševič), music, 1986
 * Čisto pravi gusar(A.Tomašič), music,1986
 * Korak čez (I.Šmid) music Martin Krpan, music,1987
 * Nekdo drug, actor,1989
 * Halgato (A.Mlakar) actor and music, 1994
 * Poredušov Janoš(A.Tomašič), music,1998
 * Poj mi pesem ( M.Zupanič) bio documentary, 2018

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Talk:Freight

FREIGHT is the amount charged by transporting company for carriage of a unit of weight / volume / Value of the goods.

To keep the content of this page accurate, only companies with revenues over $200 million annually are cited in each category.

Too American
This is a common American Shipping issue and the article is outstanding and informative in its current form. I suggest those who are critical of it have no need for the information provided 12.2.142.13 (talk) 13:12, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

This page is way too American. Prices are all quoted in USD and there's no mention of freight outside the US. --81.77.15.123 15:35, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

How To
I suggest removing the entire section on how to ship freight. Needless in an article describing what freight is.

Total Rewrite?
A total rewrite is required, as others have pointed out, it's far to USA centric, prices quoted could now be out of date and thus miss-leading (never mind only referring to USD), whilst weights and measures are given in US measurements when they should be in international ISO units and cross referenced to a conversion chart/article.(SouthernElectric 09:28, 5 October 2007 (UTC))

Total Rewrite - Not necessary
it may be hard to edit this topic to focus on a more global standard. this is because it is typically harder to find information on this subject in other countries. the U.S. has clearly defined regulations pertaining to freight transport.

i would leave the subject matter as is.--70.51.184.192 (talk) 01:30, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Removed text
I removed the beginning of this article, as it was advertisement/promotion for the "freight watch group". To reflect Wikipedia's purpose of presenting facts, not teaching them, I removed the summary from this article. It was pedagogical, not fitting for an encyclopedia article. The rest of the article still has issues.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.73.251.22 (talk) 04:47, 3 January 2008 (UTC)

Merge proposal
I think the Truckload carrier, Less than truckload, Cargo, and Bulk cargo articles should be incorporated/redirected into this one. They all cover the same topics. Also, "cargo" and "freight" are the same thing... the rest of these articles cover different types of freight. I think it would be more efficient to incorporate all of them into one article. Anyone disagree? ErgoSum88 (talk) 00:07, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

 * I have no strong views on Truckload carrier or Less than trucklload, though Less than truckload seems a pretty substantial article in its own right. I strongly oppose merging Bulk Cargo, which has a specific meaning as one of the five major types of shppping cargo. A merge with a generalised term like freight would be extremely unhelpful in ports-related articles where the term is used to explain particular port operations. Euryalus (talk) 20:54, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

True, LTL is a substantial article, but it is mostly "how-to" information and it needs a total rewrite. Once it is rewritten I don't think it would be enough to fill an entire article. The same is true for bulk cargo, except for the few sentences at the introduction, it is mostly a list of companies and types of bulk cargo. This could be moved to "list of bulk cargo types/companies." --ErgoSum88 (talk) 18:34, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

 * Bulk cargo needs an expansion to properly outline what bulk cargo is, rather than a merge. Merging it into a more general article will make it impossible to use as a wikilink when describing what a bulk cargo port is, requiring an explanation of bulk cargo on every ports page instead of referring to a centralised article. How about I rewrite bulk cargo in the next few days and then we have another look at it. Euryalus (talk) 20:01, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Merging LTL and TL
Not a good idea. My 15 years experience in LTL, TL and parcel has shown me LTL is a closer cousin to Parcel... still not the same animal though. Putting LTL and TL together though might be similar to merging shark with whale... the look the same from the outside looking in but are totally different on the inside including operations, margins, difficulty of entry into the market, etc. If I knew more about TL I'm sure I could go on. Most of my experience is LTL and what I read in that section was accurate... I found no inaccuracies in my first reading of it. Cabello (talk) 13:31, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

 * My suggestion was not to merge TL and LTL, but to merge them here here into "Freight." Considering they are both relatively short articles that cover some of the same topics. It would make more sense to have them as subsections of this article rather than having their own articles, considering they are both types of "freight." On top of that, all of these articles are poorly written, and are not encyclopedic in content. These article could do with a complete rewrite and re-organization. It would not be like merging "shark" with "whale" but it would be like merging "shark" and "whale" together with "marine life." My issue was not that the information was "inaccurate" but that the information was redundant. --ErgoSum88 (talk) 16:21, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

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