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Davis Wade Stadium

Davis Wade Stadium, officially known as Davis Wade Stadium at Scott Field is the home venue for the Mississippi State Bulldogs football team. Originally constructed in 1914 as New Athletic Field, it is the second-oldest stadium in the Football Bowl Subdivision behind Georgia Tech's Bobby Dodd Stadium, and the fourth oldest in all of college football behind Penn's Franklin Field, Harvard Stadium, and Bobby Dodd Stadium. As of 2022, it has a seating capacity of 60,311 people.

History
The stadium was built in 1914, as a replacement for Hardy Field, and was called New Athletic Field. The first game it hosted was a Mississippi State win over Marion (Ala.) Military Institute, 54–0, on Oct. 3, 1914. In 1920 the student body adopted a resolution to name the field Scott Field in honor of Donald Scott, an Olympic middle-distance runner and one of the university's football stars from 1915 to 1916. Prior to the 2001 season the stadium was named Davis Wade Stadium in honor of longtime MSU supporter Floyd Davis Wade Sr., co-founder of Aflac, because of a large financial contribution he made toward stadium expansion. The playing surface retained the name Scott Field and the official name of the facility is "Davis Wade Stadium at Scott Field".

Renovations and expansions
In 1928 permanent seating for 3,000 was built on the west side—the lower level of the current facility's west grandstand. In addition, there were portable stands with a similar capacity bringing the seating total to around 6,000. In 1936, with the use of WPA labor, concrete stands seating 8,000 people were added to the west sidelines and steel bleachers were built on the east sideline and end zones. This brought the total capacity to 20,000. 1948 saw the stadium enlarged once again with the expansion of the west sideline structure and the addition of 12,000 concrete seats and stands in both end zones to bring the total capacity to 35,000. In 1983, the end zone seating was removed, reducing the capacity to 32,000. A 1986 expansion costing $7.2 million, raised without state budget appropriations, added almost 9,000 seats, consisting primarily of a 5,500-seat upper deck as well as permanent lighting and a computerized scoreboard which was replaced in 1997 with a Sony JumboTron. The Frank Turman Fieldhouse received an additional floor to its facility in 1990. Named Leo W. Seal M-Club Centre in honor of Leo W. Seal Sr., a 2-year letter winner at State, it is a meeting place for the letterman organization, the M-Club.

In 1999, the Turman Fieldhouse underwent numerous changes, including remodeled dressing rooms for both teams, and an all-new recruiting lounge, and the stadium began a $50 million expansion and renovation partially funded by Floyd Davis Wade Sr.. The expansion was completed in 2002 bringing the total capacity to 55,082, including 50 skyboxes, 1,700 club-level seats and a second upper deck seating 7,000.

In the fall of 2008 construction was completed on an all-new $6.1 million 112 ft wide by 48 ft tall HD video display board in the south end zone above the Leo Seal M-Club Center. The LED video system is the tenth largest high-definition video board in college football. The new board was used for the first time on November 1, 2008, during the Mississippi State Bulldogs vs. Kentucky Wildcats football game. The main video display is complemented with two HD LED advertising boards on each side of the main board, as well as a HD LED "ribbon ticker" which spans the width of the structure below the main board. Therefore, the total video board square footage (on one structure) is 6896 sqft. To complement the all-new video system, a new state-of-the-art sound system has been installed by Pro Sound, headquartered in Miami, Florida.

A $75 million expansion, completed in August 2014, increased the capacity of the stadium to 61,337, created new concessions and restrooms, and created a new west side concourse. Part of the expansion included sealing off the north end zone and installing a large HD video board, similar to the one in the south end zone which replaced the JumboTron that was installed there in 1997.

On June 22, 2022, MSU unveiled a renovation plan called "Balconies at Davis Wade Stadium". The new concept replaces seats on the west side of the upper deck with tiered open-air boxes. The idea behind the renovation is to provide fans with children and those hoping for a more social gameday experience to have the ability to walk around and socialize with fellow fans without having to leave the seating area. The balconies are each 9 feet, 6 inches deep with the exception of the top balconies which are 12 feet deep, and each balcony is equipped with a drink rail in the front. Fans will be able to come in the day before gameday to service their balcony by bringing supplies, chairs, fans, etc. in preparation for the game the following day. Sections 301, 302, 312, 313, along with parts of sections 303 and 311 will have their current bleacher seats removed and be replaced with the new boxes. The renovation is expected to reduce the total seating capacity of Davis Wade Stadium by almost 2,000 seats and is estimated to cost $2.5 million. Currently, the balconies are expected to be completed by mid-August and in operation by the first home game of the season against Memphis on September 3, 2022.

Traditions

 * The Junction, located on the south side of the stadium, is a grassy park where Bulldog fans tailgate under tents during sports weekends. It is named The Junction for the railroad that ran through the tailgating area in the campus' past. It also replaced "Malfunction Junction", a set of adjacent intersections where 5 different streets converged on campus. The streets were rerouted around the area and a pedestrian park was built on the site. While many Bulldog fans tailgate in other places on campus, The Junction is unique in that it allows thousands of fans to tailgate under tents directly in front of the stadium without cars or traffic. The Junction has been referred to as the “premier tailgate experience” by the Birmingham-based firm contracted for its design and development.
 * The "Dawg Walk" is held approximately 2 hours before each home game. This is where the team and coaches walk through The Junction to the stadium with the Famous Maroon Band performing and thousands of Bulldog fans lining the walk, cheering the players on.
 * Beginning with the first game of the 2014 season Mississippi State started a new tradition when then head coach Dan Mullen asked the DJ at Davis Wade Stadium to play "Don't Stop Believin'" between the third and fourth quarters of each Bulldog home game. MSU fans took to the song and began to sway and ring their cowbells in sync with the beat while singing along and have done so at every home contest since.
 * One of the Bulldogs' proudest and longest traditions is the ringing of cowbells. From 1977 to 2009, "artificial noisemakers" were banned by the SEC, including cowbells, but fans continued to bring them in even though administrators encouraged fans not to use cowbells and security guards "searched" them upon entry. There could be as many as 40,000 cowbells in the stadium during a big game. In the 2010 season, a compromise was reached on a trial basis allowing fans to legally bring cowbells under SEC rules to games at Davis Wade Stadium as long as the cowbells were only used at sanctioned times: Pregame, quarter breaks and halftime, timeouts, and when Mississippi State scores. Prior to the 2014 season the SEC adopted a new stadium sound policy that gave MSU fans even more leeway to use the cowbells. The new policy "allows schools to play music and use their sound systems at any time during a game, except from the time the center stands over the football to when the ensuing play is whistled dead. The new rule also includes traditional institutional noisemakers, including MSU fans' cowbells."

Facts

 * Between October 2009 and September 2014, Davis Wade Stadium hosted 31 consecutive sellouts. That stretch included 9 of the top 10 crowds to attend a game at the stadium. The streak ended with a contest against the University of Alabama at Birmingham (the crowd was one of the top 10 in stadium history but was not enough to keep the sellout streak alive in the newly expanded stadium).
 * The original Bulldog mascot, Bully I, is buried on the 50 yard-line under the players bench.
 * The high definition video board is currently the 4th largest video board in the SEC and the 10th largest on-campus video board in the nation.
 * The entire concourse area underneath the East Upper Deck is sealed and climate-controlled.
 * Davis Wade Stadium is one of the locations of the Egg Bowl, the annual rivalry match up between the Mississippi State Bulldogs and the Ole Miss Rebels of the University of Mississippi. The game alternates between Davis Wade Stadium and Vaught–Hemingway Stadium on the Ole Miss campus. The 100th game between the teams was played at Davis Wade Stadium. Because of the way the locations alternate from year to year, Mississippi State hosts on the odd-numbered years and Ole Miss hosts on the even-numbered years.
 * The first Division I-A college football game played after the September 11 attacks was at Davis Wade Stadium between Mississippi State and the South Carolina Gamecocks on September 20, 2001, and broadcast on ESPN.
 * Mississippi State is credited with being the first to use the song Who Let The Dogs Out? at a sporting event. MSU used the version recorded by Chuck Smooth rather than the Baha Men version. It was played before and during Mississippi State football games and was used for the Dawg Pound Rock once it was moved from the field to the sidelines. Although put on hiatus during Sylvester Croom's tenure as Mississippi State head coach, the Dawg Pound Rock and the song made a popular return in the 2009 season.
 * In 2011 Bleacher Report called it one of college football's top 50 stadiums to see before you die.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/6-2

 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 move to Talk:Volleyball/pagehistory to retain attribution, and content pasted to talk to let the volleyball editors figure out where to merge it in, because I don't know where to squeeze this in. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 18:01, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

6-2
I think this belongs in the Volleyball article rather than in an article of its own. 6-2 could mean anything. Deb 17:52, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge. Merge to Volleyball.  Wikibofh 18:14, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge As above. Sonic Mew 18:38, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or speedy delete via criterion #1: no content here.  Further, a merge should have a redirect, and redirecting this means claiming that 6-2 means just one thing.  This is just a sentence that could go somewhere in the Volleyball article. Geogre 18:43, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, no merge nor redirect, in strong agreement with Geogre. Not significant in a volleyball context (yes, I play the sport).  Barno 20:06, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge somewhere, useful information. Could be renamed to 6-2 (volleyball formation) or whatever. Geogre has a very interesting interpretation of "no meaningful content", worth recording for posterity. Kappa 21:25, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: I'm an optimist and believe that posterity will be smart enough to know which sport they're interested in, and I'm a pessimist who believes that no one will go to 6-2 (volleyball formation) when they want to know about the 6-2 formation, that they'll just go to Volleyball, so the redirect would be misleading, and the merge is unnecessary. Geogre 12:58, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Move to 6-2 (volleyball) and delete the redirect. RickK 21:42, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Move to 6-2 (volleyball) and delete redirect, per Rick. I thought this was about St. Louis beating Boston the other day, but then I realized that would be 9-2. -- BD2412  talk 01:56, 2005 Jun 10 (UTC)
 * Move to Volleyball and Delete the redirect. Vegaswikian 03:24, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete almost a speedy candidate due to lack of content. JamesBurns 06:06, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to 4 (number), or possibly to Backgammon. Merge as above, no redirect necessary imho. Radiant_ >|< 09:28, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to Volleyball and Delete the redirect. No need for its own article. carmeld1 16:11, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages.  Please do not edit this page .

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Walker (mobility)

A walker (North American English) or walking frame (British English) is a device that gives support to maintain balance or stability while walking, most commonly due to age-related mobility disability, including frailty. Another common equivalent term for a walker is a Zimmer (frame), a genericised trademark from Zimmer Biomet, a major manufacturer of such devices and joint replacement parts. Walking frames have two front wheels, and there are also wheeled walkers available having three or four wheels, also known as rollators.

Walkers started appearing in the early 1950s. The first US patent was awarded in 1953 to William Cribbes Robb, of Stretford, UK, for a device called "walking aid", which had been filed with the British patent office in August 1949. Two variants with wheels were both awarded US patents in May 1957, and the first non-wheeled design that was called a "walker" was patented in 1965 by Elmer F. Ries of Cincinnati, Ohio. The first walker to resemble modern walkers was patented in 1970 by Alfred A. Smith of Van Nuys, California. In 2023, designs for the first open source walker were released after testing that could be digitally-replicated with a low-cost 3D printer, customized and reduced mass by 20%.

Design
The basic design consists of a lightweight frame that is about waist high, approximately 12 inches (30 cm) deep and slightly wider than the user. Walkers are also available in other sizes such as pediatric (for children) or bariatric (for obese persons). Modern walkers are height adjustable and should be set at a height that is comfortable for the user, but will allow the user to maintain a slight bend in their arms. This bend is needed to allow for proper blood circulation through the arms as the walker is used. The front two legs of the walker may or may not have wheels attached, depending on the strength and abilities of the person using it. It is also common to see caster wheels or glides on the back legs of a walker with wheels on the front; additionally felt products adapted to glide with the legs such as adhesive feet, along with tennis balls with holes cut into them to place them onto the legs are also utilized on surfaces such as hardwood, epoxy and linoleum flooring common to institutions.

Use
The person walks with the frame surrounding their front and sides and their hands provide additional support by holding on to the top of the sides of the frame. Traditionally, a walker is picked up and placed a short distance ahead of the user. The user then walks to it and repeats the process. With the use of wheels and glides, the user may push the walker ahead as opposed to picking it up. This makes for easier use of the walker, as it does not require the user to use their arms to lift the walker. This is beneficial for those with little arm strength.

A walker is often used by those who are recuperating from leg or back injuries. It is also commonly used by persons having problems with walking or with mild balance problems.

Also related is a hemi-walker, a walker about half the size of a traditional walker which is intended for use by persons whose dexterity is limited or non-existent in one hand or arm. These walkers are more stable than a quad cane (a cane with four points that touch the ground, as opposed to one), but are not recommended as highly as a traditional walker for those who can use it.

Walker cane hybrid
A walker cane hybrid was introduced in 2012 designed to bridge the gap between an assistive cane and a walker. The hybrid has two legs which provide lateral (side-to-side) support which a cane does not. It can be used with two hands in front of the user, similar to a walker, and provides an increased level of support compared with a cane. It can be adjusted for use with either one or two hands, at the front and at the side, as well as a stair climbing assistant. The hybrid is not designed to replace a walker which normally has four legs and provides four-way support using both hands.

Rollators
A different approach to the walker is the rollator, also called wheeled walker, invented by the Swede Aina Wifalk in 1978. Wifalk had polio. Although originally a brand name, "rollator" has become a genericized trademark for wheeled walkers in many countries, and is also the most common type of walker in several European countries.

The rollator consists of a frame with three or four large wheels, handlebars and a built-in seat, which allows the user to stop and rest when needed. Rollators are also often equipped with a shopping basket. Rollators are typically more sophisticated than conventional walkers with wheels. They are adjustable in height and are light-weight, yet sturdier than conventional walkers. The handlebars are equipped with hand brakes that can be lifted or pushed downward to instantly stop the rollator. The brakes can also be used in maneuvering the rollator; by braking one side while turning the rollator towards that side a much tighter turning radius can be achieved.

A study in the 2000s found an increase in the use of rollators by young people "usually in their thirties who are setting a new standard for walking among young people". The researchers conclude that this might be helpful in alleviating the stigma that using a rollator currently carries.

A Norwegian-made version of Wifalk's rollator won the 2011 Red Dot Design Award in the "Life science and medicine" class. The European norm for walking aids EN ISO 11199-2:2005 applies to rollators and walking frames.

Disabled dog walker
This type of walker provides support and stability to the dogs, while allowing them to rely partly on their hind legs and continue using them. It is suitable for dogs with mobility problems with hind legs (or unstable). It also helps them to exercise their back legs and can help maintain any partial mobility they may have left or, in some cases, help to improve it.

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Hi, I saw you do a lot of editing on the Silkroad Online Article. I wanted to catch some of the old History. There was an original page that was fairly inclussive on the game play and things. I was curiou what happened to it, there is only a stub now, since you seemed invlolved with SRO I thought you might have some insight. I don't have a page of my own yet so just edit back. i'll check in again...thanks Sparta/KugeHammer33 Tuv888 (talk) 19:53, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
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City of Heroes talk page
Not sure what might have happened, but it looks like your last edit to the talk page deleted quite a bit of it. Ravensfire2002 (talk) 03:56, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Speedy deletion
You're right, it is public domain. I think I was put off by the user's comment that it was ok to have it on Wikipedia since it passes fair use. Which of course if it was copyrighted wouldn't be true. Nevertheless I'm not sure if I should restore the article. It might be public domain but to just copy court cases to wikipedia seems kind of pointless. Garion96 (talk) 08:06, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

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Hi, Matt? Could you change the Sport in Canada icon for this one? Thanks! --NaBUru38 (talk) 15:31, 6 November 2016 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Nils Bildt
Hello Matt Fitzpatrick,

I wanted to let you know that I just tagged Nils Bildt for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.

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Template:Politics of Panama
the font size just exploded in size. there are hundreds of sidebars which are assuming the table layout for embedding content. you should at the very least fix Template:Politics sidebar title and Template:Region history sidebar title and Template:Politics sidebar title. Frietjes (talk) 00:14, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
 * and the margins are all screwed up on many like in Politics of Angola. Frietjes (talk) 00:16, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
 * and the text is running outside of the sidebar in Template:Sex differences on Firefox. this really should be reverted for more testing. Frietjes (talk) 00:18, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

Well, that could've gone better. Reverted; thanks for the assist. The missing margin was an oversight on my part, and is fixed in sandbox. I think there's a way to make Template:Politics sidebar title not table dependent; I'll work on that before syncing the module again. Template:Sex differences seems to be a unique case, adjusting the template's inline width style will probably fix it, but I'll add a testcase for long titles to be sure. Matt Fitzpatrick (talk) 00:51, 3 June 2017 (UTC)
 * if you can figure out how to fix that problem in a clean way let me know. we have the same problem in Module:Military navigation where I ended up doing some invasive processing of the title line (search for "add allow wrap") to allow long links wrap in the title. Frietjes (talk) 12:08, 3 June 2017 (UTC)

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Edit on Template:Football box
Hello, could you please fix the template, your edit seems to have broken instances where multiple times are included. See 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification – UEFA Group C for an example. Also, could address be changed to location (matching Template:Football box collapsible)? And if the score parameters can be separated, shouldn't the penalty score do the same? Thanks, S.A. Julio (talk) 04:51, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

As you have edited the football box template, perhaps you'd be so good as to either edit the 2018 ConIFA World Football Cup article to ensure that the dates are displayed correctly, or else explain precisely what you've done and how it can be fixed. Hammersfan (talk) 21:55, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Seems to be an issue with the time formatting again (when the time incorrectly uses a full stop instead of a colon). The article has now been fixed by using a colon, but the template should maybe still accommodate for this (along with a tracking category/warning message for bad formatting). Thanks again! S.A. Julio (talk) 02:53, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Also noticed an issue on UEFA Euro 2020, where two possible stadiums are listed. S.A. Julio (talk) 03:06, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

I've also noticed now that the alignment is very awkward since the date and time is left aligned. Can this be restored to right alignment? Also, the date/time and the venue seem to be slightly above the teams and score, can this be adjusted? An example of both issues can be seen on 2018–19 UEFA Nations League A. Thanks, S.A. Julio (talk) 16:43, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Personally i think it just does not look good. Why the change? Kante4 (talk) 19:46, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
 * I overlooked the cellpadding on the previous version's one-cell "tables". The replacement divs should now have equivalent top and bottom padding. Last week, I couldn't think of a way to right-align the date and time in desktop and left-align it in mobile, without abusing one-cell "tables" and making any sort of future TemplateStyles upgrade difficult. But I think I have an idea how to do it now. I'll try it over the weekend. Matt Fitzpatrick (talk) 22:57, 6 April 2018 (UTC)

Football scorecard template
The new format of the football scorecard is incredibly clumsy and awkward... Particularly the area where the stadium name, attendance and referee name is mentioned... Why was such a change done?? Cricket246 (talk) 16:35, 27 March 2018 (UTC)

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trivial and not convinced
Re your edit and similar. You did not provide a source that states this "reading order". Also, of course the top reading line has the "F' (unless your reading order has a jump upwards in a line?). Just as well one could read lines in the order "F, H, R, S". Or clockwise, starting top or leftmost. Who knows.

Also, changing templates while it has absolutey no effect is trivial, and should not be done. -DePiep (talk) 16:07, 25 February 2021 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the feedback. Template talk:Chembox might be a good place to work this out. Another editor might know something I don't. I'll leave a message there. Matt Fitzpatrick (talk) 16:21, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

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The Miserly Knight

The Miserly Knight, Op. 24, also The Covetous Knight (Скупой рыцарь, Skupój rýtsar’), is a Russian opera in one act with music by Sergei Rachmaninoff, with the libretto based on Alexander Pushkin's drama of the same name. It contains roles for five male singers, but no females. The composer decided essentially to set the Pushkin text as written, and had Feodor Chaliapin in mind for the role of the Baron, however, Chaliapin withdrew from the production over artistic differences.

The first performance was on 24 January (11 January OS) 1906 at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, with the composer himself conducting, in a double-bill performance with another Rachmaninoff opera written contemporaneously, Francesca da Rimini. The director was Vasiliy Shkafer.

Productions of the opera have been rare. In addition, the characterization of the moneylender, who is identified in the story as being Jewish, has been criticized as anti-Semitic.

Synopsis

 * Place: England
 * The Middle Ages

Scene 1
Albert is a young knight who devotes himself to jousting and courtly pleasures, but is now deeply in debt as a result. His father, a very wealthy but equally frugal baron, refuses to support his son's lifestyle. Albert's ability to maneuver in society is now limited, and he tries to obtain a loan from outside his family. A money-lender denies Albert a loan, but instead offers Albert poison, to allow Albert to murder his father. Albert is appalled at such a suggestion. He resolves then to go to the Duke to make his appeal.

Scene 2
The Baron descends to his cellars, exultant now because he has accumulated enough gold to fill his sixth and final storage chest, and gloats before them. However, he realizes that if he died soon, his son Albert could then claim the fortune and fritter it away on his sensual pleasures.

Scene 3
Albert has appealed to the Duke for help in obtaining money from his father. Albert hides, as the Duke summons the Baron to a meeting. The Duke asks the Baron to support his son, but the Baron accuses Albert of wanting to steal from him. Albert then angrily reveals his presence and accuses his own father of lying. The Baron challenges Albert to a duel, and Albert accepts. The duke rebukes the father, and banishes the son from his court. However, stressed by this confrontation, the baron collapses fatally. As the Baron dies, his last request is not for his son, but the keys to his chests of gold.

Recordings
Audio Video
 * Melodiya Records SRBL 4121 as The Covetous Knight: Lev Kuznetsov, Ivan Budrin. Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra; Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor. 2 LPs, with Isle of the Dead, by the U.S.S.R. Symphony Orchestra with Yevgeny Svetlanov, conductor.
 * Deutsche Grammophon 453 454-2 (1997): Sergei Aleksashkin (The Baron), Sergei Larin (Albert); Vladimir Chernov (The Duke); Ian Caley (Jewish Moneylender); Anatoly Kotscherga (Servant); Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra with Neeme Järvi, conductor
 * Chandos 10264: Mikhail Guzhov, Vsevolod Grivnov, Andrei Baturkin, Borislav Molchanov, Vitaly Efanov; Russian State Symphony Orchestra; Valeri Polyansky, conductor
 * Russian Season"The Miserly knight" LDC 288 080 DDD (1994): Mikhail Krutikov (Svetlov) (The Baron), Andrey Chistyakov, conductor. Bolshoi Orchestra.
 * Opus Arte OA 0909: Sergei Leiferkus, Richard Berkeley-Steele, Maxim Mikhailov, Vyacheslav Voynarovsky, Albert Schagidullin, Matilda Leyser; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Vladimir Jurowski, conductor

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Eastphalia

Eastphalia (Ostfalen, pronounced [ɔstˈfaːlən]; Eastphalian: Oostfalen) is a historical region in northern Germany, encompassing the eastern Gaue (shires) of the historic stem duchy of Saxony, roughly confined by the River Leine in the west and the Elbe and Saale in the east. The territory corresponds with modern southeastern Lower Saxony, western Saxony-Anhalt, and northern Thuringia. Together with Westphalia, central Angria, and Nordalbingia, it was one of the four main Saxon administrative regions.

Etymology
The name Ostfalen probably means "east plain". Falen is a Germanic word meaning "flat", "level" and "plain" and is related to the Old Swedish word fala, found today in place names such as Falbygden and Falun, as well as in the northern German town of Fallstedt. The North German Plain of Eastphalia and Westphalia, divided by the Weser river, stands in contrast to the hilly region to the south, the Central Uplands of Franconia and Thuringia. Unlike the name Westphalia, which was perpetuated by the Duchy of Westphalia held by the archbishop-electors of Cologne, the name Eastphalia gradually fell out of use when the Saxon stem duchy dissolved upon the deposition of Duke Henry the Lion in 1180.

German linguists reintroduced the term in the 19th century in the course of researching Eastphalian as a West Low German dialect. With the rise of racial studies in the 19th and early 20th century, mention began to be made – notably by Hans F. K. Günther – of a "Phalian" subtype (fälische Rasse) of an "Aryan race", which he stated was the primary subtype found in Germany.

History
With Charlemagne's defeat and baptism of Duke Widukind in 785 during the Saxon Wars, his lands were integrated into the Frankish Empire and the Saxons were increasingly converted to Christianity. The bishoprics of Halberstadt and Hildesheim were established in eastern Saxony, bounded by the Oker river, in 804 and 815 respectively. The medieval Duchy of Saxony was divided between the districts of Eastphalia (Ostfalahi), Westphalia, Nordalbingia, and Engern.

The Eastphalian territory at the Harz mountain range was the hereditary lands of Henry the Fowler, the first Saxon duke to become King of the Romans in 919, and his descendants of the Ottonian dynasty. They left several Romanesque abbeys and castles, a cultural landscape that today encompasses three World Heritage Sites with the medieval town of Goslar and Quedlinburg, as well as St. Mary's Cathedral and St. Michael's Church at Hildesheim. As the Eastphalian territory bordered on the lands of the Polabian Slavs beyond the Elbe and Saale rivers, it became the starting point of the German Ostsiedlung ("settling of the East") started by the invasions of King Henry and continued by the Saxon margraves.

After the Welf duke Henry the Lion was placed under Imperial ban in 1180, Eastphalia was increasingly subdivided into smaller states, foremost the Welf Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg and the counties of Anhalt, Wernigerode and Blankenburg as well as the Imperial city of Goslar, but also the ecclesiastical territories of the Archbishopric of Magdeburg, the prince-bishoprics of Hildesheim and Halberstadt and Quedlinburg Abbey. The Saxon tradition was perpetuated by the Ascanian dukes of Saxe-Wittenberg, who secured for themselves the electoral dignity and later established the Electorate of Saxony on the upper Elbe.

Subdivisions
Eastphalia consisted of several Gaue. The exact list is not known for sure and differs among authorities. From North to South, the Gaue were (where available, modernized names are used):
 * Bardengau around Lüneburg (sometimes considered part of Engern, not Eastphalia)
 * Drevani (a Slavic tribe)
 * Chojna (sometimes considered part of Drevani)
 * Osterwalde (Salzwedel)
 * Gretinge (Hohne)
 * Mulbeze
 * Balsamgau (Stendal)
 * Flutwidde
 * Astfala (Hildesheim)
 * Derlingau (Evessen)
 * Nordthüringgau
 * Gudingau (Elze)
 * Valothungo (sometimes considered part of Gudingau)
 * Scotelingo (sometimes considered part of Gudingau)
 * Aringo (sometimes considered part of Gudingau)
 * Flenithi (sometimes considered part of Gudingau)
 * Suilbergau
 * Ambergau (sometimes considered part of Salzgau)
 * Salzgau (Salzgitter)
 * Densigau (sometimes considered part of Salzgau)
 * Harzgau (Halberstadt)
 * Schwabengau
 * Hassegau (Mansfeld)
 * Friesenfeld (sometimes considered part of Hassegau)

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Market Court (Sweden)

The Swedish Market Court (Marknadsdomstolen) is a Swedish government agency that answers to the Ministry of Integration and Gender Equality. It is located in Stockholm.

The Market Court is a specialized court that tries cases related to the Swedish Competition Act as well as cases involving the Swedish Marketing Act and other consumer and marketing legislation.

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Swedish National Food Agency

The Swedish Food Agency (Livsmedelsverket), formerly the National Swedish Food Administration (Statens livsmedelsverk) is a Swedish government agency that answers to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Affairs. The agency is located in Uppsala.

It is the central supervisory authority for matters relating to food and drinking water. It has the task of protecting consumer interest by working for safe food of good quality, fair practices in the food trade, and healthy eating habits.

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Newlands Stadium

The Newlands Stadium, referred to as DHL Newlands for sponsorship reasons, is located in Cape Town, South Africa. The stadium has a capacity of 51,900 people, but is not an all-seater venue.

Various sports teams use the stadium as their home base, including:
 * Stormers in Super Rugby
 * Western Province in the Currie Cup

Tenants Stormers finished in first place in the 2012 Super Rugby season for the first time in their history. Western Province also use the venue for home games. The city's soccer clubs Ajax Cape Town, Santos and the dissolved club Vasco da Gama have in the past occasionally hosted matches at the Newlands Stadium.

History
The decision to buy the ground the stadium stands on was made by the Western Province Rugby and Football Union in 1888. The first official match at Newlands took place on 31 May 1890 when Stellenbosch defeated Villagers there in front of a crowd of about 2,400 people. The following year the stadium hosted its first rugby test when the British Lions toured South Africa.

It was not until 1919 that the first permanent concrete stands were erected on the grounds. Later, in 1927, the new grandstand was erected and the field layout was changed to run from north–south. Yet more changes came in 1931 when the South stand was also enlarged.

In the 1950s parts of a new grandstand as well as South stand were completed, facilities such as lifts and a Presidential room were added, a fourth bay was added to the grandstand, and an extension was added to the lower gallery.

The 1970s saw the stadium change once again as the headquarters of SA Rugby moved to Newlands, and several stands were built or renovated, while the 1980s saw private suites and function rooms erected on top of the North stands as well as demolition of the old South stand and inauguration of the new Danie Craven stand (also with private suites and function rooms). The 1980s also saw 10,253 seats added to the stadium.

Between 1990 and 1995 the stadium was under constant renovation, adding technology, increasing capacity, and upgrading facilities, as part of a 3-phase redevelopment plan in anticipation of the 1995 Rugby World Cup, when Newlands hosted the opening match of the tournament.

After the World Cup, development continued with several redevelopment and expansion projects to make the stadium more modern and increase capacity. There are four main stands at Newlands: the all-seated Grandstand and Railway stands along both sidelines, and the Danie Craven and Jan Pickard stands behind the goals. Both of the end stands feature many of the ground's corporate boxes: the Craven stand also has a large standing terrace area, while the alcohol-free Pickard stand is mostly seating while also playing home to the stadium's video screen.

The stadium's name was changed several times by various sponsors, first from Newlands to Norwich Park Newlands in 1996, then to Fedsure Park Newlands in 2000 due to a merger between Fedsure and Norwich, and finally back to simply Newlands by Investec when they became the main sponsor in 2002. In late 2005, Vodacom became the stadium's main sponsor, but followed Investec's precedent and kept the stadium name as Newlands. However, since 2011 the ground has been known as DHL Newlands after Western Province and the Stormers changed sponsors.

1995 Rugby World Cup
In 1995 the stadium was one of the host venues for the Rugby World Cup held in South Africa. The stadium hosted two pool games in Pool A. The stadium also hosted one quarter final with England defeating Australia 25–22. The stadium was then used for the semi-final between England and New Zealand, with England losing 29–45.

Future
It was speculated that WP rugby would sell Newlands, and that the Stormers and Western Province would play their home matches at the newly built Cape Town Stadium for their home games. However, the Western Province Rugby Union decided at the time that they would not be using the stadium, but would rather remain at Newlands.

This changed in 2020 when it was confirmed that the stadium would be sold to a preferred bidder via a sealed-envelope bidding process and demolished in 2022 for residential and retail developments to be built. The sale was delayed when a group of former rugby players, led by former Springbok, Wynand Claasen, submitted an application to have the stadium declared a heritage site. As of 1 March 2023 this process is still ongoing.

It was reported on 1 March 2023 that Cape Town Stadium has become the official home of Western Province Rugby after the union signed an Anchor Tenant Agreement.

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Yonkers Marathon

The Yonkers Marathon, is a marathon race held annually in Yonkers, New York. Founded in 1907, it is the second oldest marathon in the United States, after the Boston Marathon. It is held on the third Sunday in October. In addition to the marathon, there is a half marathon race and a 5K course. At the end of the race there is a gathering and festivities centered on Van de Donck Park.

History
The first Yonkers Marathon was held on Thanksgiving Day 1907. From 1907 to 1945, the race was typically held in November. Johnny Hayes and Jim Crowley won the first two races. Sammy Mellor helped establish the Yonkers Marathon with Edward Wetmore Kinsley, and finished second in the event's first two runnings. In 1909 the race was sponsored by the Mercury Athletic Club.

From 1938 to 1965, and again in 1974, the Yonkers Marathon was recognised by the Amateur Athletic Union as the USA Marathon Championships, and in relevant years as a qualifying event for the US Olympic team.

The race has averaged roughly 200 finishers during the 2010s, double the number from the prior decade. The 2015 (90th anniversary) course was USA Track & Field certified and served as a qualifying event for the Boston Marathon.

The 2020 edition of the race was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, with all registrants automatically receiving refunds.

The 2022 edition saw 101 finishers and Juan Fernandez De Cordova won the event in 2 hours, 48 minutes and 3 seconds.

Course
The double-loop course of the Yonkers Marathon has been known as being tough and hilly; New York City Marathon founder Fred Lebow cited it as one of his favorite marathons. For its 90th running in 2015 the track had a newly designed course that added greater variety by eliminating the double-loop, and replacing it with a single-loop that followed a scenic route along the Hudson River, and then all over the city, past parks, past the Dunwoodie Golf Course (offering a glimpse of the distant New York City skyline), and through a variety of neighborhoods. In 2016 the course reverted to the double-loop.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Àlvaro Algren

 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. Golbez 08:20, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Àlvaro Algren
all google hits were either from wikipedia or some forum on MSN - not notable. StopTheFiling 17:56, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Notability not established, possible vanity.  It was made by one annonymous user. Sonic Mew 18:43, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. JamesBurns 06:07, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:AARP

Edit Request: History and Advocacy sections
NOTE: I’m proposing the following edits for FleishmanHillard on behalf of AARP. I am a paid editor and aware of the COI guidelines. I’m submitting these edits to correct inaccuracies and provide additional detail for the infobox, lead, personal life and philanthropy sections and have provided related sourcing for review. Please let me know of any questions or comments. Thanks for your time and consideration. - “History section” Andrus decided to seek group insurance coverage for retired teachers through NRTA. She was rejected by dozens of private insurance companies because companies at the time deemed adults over age 65 to be “uninsurable.” In 1955, Continental Casualty Co. agreed to offer coverage to retired teachers in New York State. The experiment was a financial success, and three years later, the NRTA Health Plan was expanded nationally. In 1958, Dr. Andrus created the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) as a sister organization to NRTA. Through membership in AARP, the general population age 55 and older gained access to the insurance benefits previously limited to former teachers. Dr. Andrus continued to run AARP until 1967, when she died of a heart attack at age 82. AARP severed ties with Davis in 1979 and began dropping Colonial Penn products. AARP sought competitive bids for insurance coverage and in 1981 chose Prudential Insurance Company of America to underwrite the group health plan for AARP members.
 * I am suggesting the following History section edits to 1) add additional context explaining how AARP was formed by Dr. Ethel Percy Andrus, 2) clarify the details surrounding the end of AARP’s relationship with Leonard Davis and 3) request that content better suited for the Criticisms section of the article be moved to that section.
 * Edit request 1: Suggest adding a paragraph after the first paragraph of the section and before the third paragraph that explains how Dr. Andrus evolved the NRTA into AARP. See paragraph below. This change would provide factual background about the effort she undertook to start the organization. Currently, her role as founder is downplayed. ✅. I consolidated this and the original first paragraph because there were overlaps in the content.
 * Edit request 2: Suggest replacing last sentence in current paragraph two “Critics of AARP…” with the following two sentences that more clearly represent the transition from Colonial Penn to Prudential. Current sentence as written sounds it’s stating what may possibly have happened vs fact. ✅
 * Edit request 3: Suggest moving the current paragraph 3 to the Criticisms section of the article. It fits better there with the rest of the content about Simpson’s investigation in the 1990s. Also, source footnotes 15 and 16 don’t support the points made in the paragraph. Source 15 does not mention Blahous or the statement he is credited with. And source 16 links to a blank Des Moines Register archive page. ✅. The content left wasn't sourced and was already in the Criticisms section, so I completely removed it. Heartmusic678 (talk) 12:28, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

“Advocacy Section” ‘’’Health care’’’ AARP testified before Congress in support of the Older Americans Act and the amendments to Social Security that created the Medicare Program, which President Johnson enacted into law in 1965 By 2009, more than 50 million Americans were without health insurance coverage at some point during the year. AARP backed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) proposed by President Barack Obama In early 2017, AARP strongly opposed the American Health Care Act of 2017, saying that older Americans would be unfairly burdened with higher premiums and smaller tax credits.[28]  In 2017, AARP successfully opposed legislative efforts to repeal the ACA
 * Suggest adding a sentence to the end of the first paragraph under ‘’’Health care’’’ that provides more context on AARP’s initial advocacy in support of Medicare. ✅.
 * Request update to last paragraph of this section that includes additional detail on AARP’s record with the ACA. ✅.

‘’’New Section’’’
 * Suggest adding one new subhead/category to the Advocacy section – Age Discrimination. Intention is to improve the article by including additional categories in which AARP has a prominent advocacy record. See recommendation below.

‘’’Age Discrimination’’’

AARP advocated for The Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975. In 2009, AARP backed the “Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act” (POWADA) which aims to restore fairness for workers 40 and older by treating age discrimination as seriously as other forms of workplace discrimination.

Thank you for your time and consideration. Justin Goldsborough (talk) 21:39, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
 * ✅. Heartmusic678 (talk) 13:01, 18 February 2022 (UTC)

Kaiser Health News article
Here's a good story in Kaiser Health News. While I do appreciate the skills of the AARP communications department, and FleishmanHillard, I think even they would agree that WP:NPOV improves the article and makes it more credible.

The Criticism section avoids one of the most common criticisms of AARP in WP:RS -- its conflicts of interest -- which are detailed in this KHN story. While AARP is a non-profit, it gets most of its income from royalties, including UnitedHealthCare. In their policy decisions and product recommendations, are they serving the interests of their members, or their own interests of collecting revenue (and executive payments)? Bruce Vladic said that AARP "is in the insurance business." The conservative group American Commitment said that AARP "has grown in to a marketing and sales firm with a public policy advocacy group on the side." This conflict of interest came up when AARP supported Medicare Advantage in 2003, which this Wikipedia article does discuss under "Health Insurance". However, one of the big problems with this Wikipedia article is the section on "Single Payer," which contains a snippit from John Conyers and three paragraphs of AARP official statements explaining why single payer wouldn't work.

I think the common theme in all of this is that AARP started as an insurance company, and expanded into a large, effective public policy lobbying organization representing seniors, generally advocating liberal and Democratic policies (supporting Obamacare). But many of its critics point to its financial conflicts of interest, which benefit the organization and its well-paid executives, at the expense of its members. This accusation came up particularly in the debate over single payer.

https://khn.org/news/article/aarp-health-marketing-partnerships-medicare-medigap/ AARP’s Billion-Dollar Bounty By Fred Schulte Kaiser Health News JUNE 6, 2022

There is also a link in this article's archives to an article in the New York Times on AARP by Paul Krugman.

--Nbauman (talk) 17:56, 7 June 2022 (UTC)

Edit Request: Advocacy section
NOTE: I’m proposing the following edits for FleishmanHillard on behalf of AARP. I am a paid editor and aware of the COI guidelines. I’m submitting these edits to correct inaccuracies and provide additional detail for the Infobox and Advocacy sections and have provided related sourcing for review. Please let me know of any questions or comments. Thanks for your time and consideration. - “Infobox section”

I am suggesting the following change to the Infobox to improve the accuracy of the article.

 * Edit request 1: Suggest removing the role of National Volunteer President that currently names Catherine Alicia Georges. This role was ended in 2020 and no longer exists within AARP. Source:

“Advocacy section”

I am suggesting the following Advocacy section edits to 1) add additional context about the history of the Medicare Part D signing, 2) provide historical context to AARP’s lobbying efforts against the pharmaceutical industry, 3) detail AARP’s efforts to improve brain health, which are an important part of the organization’s healthcare story.

 * Edit request 2: Two requests here: 1) Update third paragraph under Health care to include President George W. Bush’s endorsement of the 2003 Medicare reform. These changes add context detailing the importance of this legislation to the then-current administration. 2) Update last sentence of paragraph to provide a source for Divided We Fail and include additional context about the program.

AARP's public stances influenced the United States Congress' passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, which created Medicare Part D, in 2003, and also influenced Congress by resisting changes to Social Security in 2005. President George W. Bush called the Medicare legislation “the greatest advance in health care coverage for America’s seniors since the founding of Medicare.” In 2007, AARP launched the “Divided We Fail” campaign with the Business Roundtable, the National Federation of Independent Business and the Service Employees International Union. The campaign urged presidential candidates in both major parties to commit to making health insurance coverage more affordable and to strengthen Social Security.

 * Edit request 3: Add additional paragraphs at the end of the health care subcategory to detail AARP’s extensive history lobbying against the pharma industry. These two paragraphs would go after the paragraph that starts with “By 2009, more than 50 million Americans”.

In 2019, AARP mounted a multi-million dollar campaign against the pharmaceutical industry and its high drug prices, an effort that positioned AARP as the “drug industry’s primary opponent.” Max Richtman, head of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, said, “PhRMA is an 800-pound gorilla. And I think they’re meeting another 800-pound gorilla in AARP.” AARP supported a bipartisan bill that year by Sens. Charles Grassley (R-IA), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) that set caps on drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries and increased pressure on drug companies to lower prices. In 2021, AARP launched the “Fair Rx Prices Now!” Campaign to support legislation that would enable the Medicare Program to negotiate prices with drug companies as a means of lowering prices for consumers, limit price increases for certain drugs and cap out-of-pocket spending by Medicare beneficiaries.

As early as 1959, AARP began advocating for lower prescription drug costs to ease the burden on older consumers. Founder Ethel Percy Andrus testified during the 1962 Senate hearings on pharmaceutical industry pricing practices. “Our concern is relief from suffering and improvement of health. We feel that 15 to 20 percent profit earned by several large manufacturers is detrimental to this concern,” Andrus told the committee in 1962. AARP regularly publishes Rx Price Watch Reports noting pricing trends in popular drugs for seniors and AARP's advocacy for lower prices has put it at odds with the drug industry. AARP and PhRMA continue to drive the debate about prescription drug prices in Washington.

 * Edit request 4: Add a paragraph to the end of the healthcare section after the two above highlighting AARP’s significant investment in brain health research (more than $60 million).

In a 2014 study conducted by AARP, 93% of people identified maintaining brain health as a high priority as they age. The organization created a brain health assessment and program called Staying Sharp and it formed the Global Council on Brain Health – an independent, international group of brain health experts and researchers that publishes findings such as the impact of music on brain health. In 2018, AARP donated $60 million to the Dementia Discovery Fund for research into the causes and treatments of Alzheimer’s Disease.

Thank you for your time and consideration. Justin Goldsborough (talk) 00:17, 6 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I've implemented request #1. I don't have the time to read through the rest right in-depth now; some of the language is non-neutral (AARP mounted a multi-million dollar campaign against the pharmaceutical industry and its high drug prices, an effort that positioned AARP as the “drug industry’s primary opponent.”, for example, contains a quotation that is not attributed to anyone and puts in WikiVoice the claim that the pharmaceutical industry's drug prices are objectively high). And sources like GoBankingRates (see original article) seem more like PR blogs rather than reliable sources. I might take a shot later today at rephrasing some of the information, but the proposed paragraphs in requests 2-4 appear to have issues w.r.t. NPOV and source reliability and cannot be implemented as-is. —  Red-tailed hawk (nest) 18:18, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Thanks for taking the time to review this request. I will update the wording and sources in edit requests 2-4 to align with your feedback and Neutral point of view. Once updated, I'll share back on this Talk page and reply to let you know if you wouldn't mind doing a second review. Appreciate it. Justin Goldsborough (talk) 19:53, 9 September 2022 (UTC)

Follow Up To Edit Request: Advocacy Section
Thank you for your feedback on the Advocacy section edit request from July 6, 2022. The request has been updated based on your suggestions. I added more notable sources, eliminated questionable sources and rephrased language to include a more neutral POV. A summary of the updates for each edit request below has been added.

NOTE: I’m proposing the following edits for FleishmanHillard on behalf of AARP. I am a paid editor and aware of the COI guidelines. I’m submitting these edits to correct inaccuracies and provide additional detail for the Infobox and Advocacy sections and have provided related sourcing for review. Please let me know of any questions or comments. Thanks for your time and consideration. - — Preceding unsigned comment added by Justin Goldsborough (talk • contribs) 15:25, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

‘‘‘Advocacy section’’’

I am suggesting the following Advocacy section edits to 1) add additional context about the history of the Medicare Part D signing, 2) provide historical context to AARP’s lobbying efforts supporting lower prescription drug prices and the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, 3) detail AARP’s efforts to improve brain health.

“Edit 1”

 * Original request: 1) Update third paragraph of Health care section under Advocacy to include President George W. Bush’s endorsement of the 2003 Medicare reform. Details importance of this legislation to the then-current administration. 2) Update last sentence of paragraph to provide a source for Divided We Fail.
 * Updates: Added an additional source that speaks to the motivation behind “Divided We Fail” launch.
 * Placement: Third paragraph under Health care in Advocacy section after sentence ending in “Social security in 2005.” Replace final sentence of that paragraph with content below.

President George W. Bush called the Medicare legislation “the greatest advance in health care coverage for America’s seniors since the founding of Medicare.” In 2007, AARP launched the “Divided We Fail” campaign with the Business Roundtable, the National Federation of Independent Business and the Service Employees International Union. The campaign urged presidential candidates in both major parties to commit to making health insurance coverage more affordable and to strengthen Social Security.

“Edit 2”

 * Original request: Add additional paragraphs at the end of the Health care subsection to detail AARP’s lobbying history.
 * Updates: Removed Stat News source, replaced with new Forbes source as proof point for “Stop Rx Greed.” Removed quotation in question from Stat News article. Removed GoBankingRates source.
 * Placement: Add additional paragraphs at the end of the Health care section under Advocacy after the paragraph that starts with “By 2009, more than 50 million Americans”.

In 2019, AARP mounted a multi-million dollar campaign against the pharmaceutical industry and its high drug prices called “Stop Rx Greed” and supported a bipartisan bill by Sens. Charles Grassley (R-IA), and Ron Wyden (D-OR) that set caps on drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries and increased pressure on drug companies to lower prices. In 2021, AARP launched the “Fair Rx Prices Now!” Campaign to support legislation that would enable the Medicare Program to negotiate prices with drug companies as a means of lowering prices for consumers, limit price increases for certain drugs and cap out-of-pocket spending by Medicare beneficiaries.

As early as 1959, AARP began advocating for lower prescription drug costs to ease the burden on older consumers. Founder Ethel Percy Andrus testified during the 1962 Senate hearings on pharmaceutical industry pricing practices. “Our concern is relief from suffering and improvement of health. We feel that 15 to 20 percent profit earned by several large manufacturers is detrimental to this concern,” Andrus told the committee in 1962. AARP regularly publishes Rx Price Watch Reports noting pricing trends in popular drugs for seniors.

“Edit 3”

 * New request: Add paragraph that speaks to AARP’s role with the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.
 * Placement: Health care section under Advocacy. After new paragraphs in Edit 2

AARP pushed Congress to include drug pricing reform in the proposed Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, ran ads countering drug industry claims and mobilized its 38 million members to lobby their representatives to pass the bill. The Act was signed into law in August of 2022. The Inflation Reduction Act requires HHS, for the first time, to negotiate prices with drug makers for many of the most expensive drugs covered under Medicare. It also penalizes drug companies that raise prices more than the rate of inflation and sets a cap of $2,000 on annual out-of-pocket drug spending for Medicare’s more than 63 million beneficiaries beginning in 2025. These provisions in the act could be life-changing for older Americans who rely on high-priced prescription drugs, saving some thousands of dollars a year.

“Edit 4”

 * Original request: Add a paragraph to the end of the Health care section highlighting AARP’s significant investment in brain health research (more than $60 million).
 * Update: Added more notable sources and removed paywall source.
 * Placement: Health care section under Advocacy. After new paragraph in Edit 3.

In a 2014 study conducted by AARP, 93% of people identified maintaining brain health as a high priority as they age. AARP created a brain health assessment and program called Staying Sharp and it formed the Global Council on Brain Health – an independent, international group of brain health experts and researchers that publishes findings such as the impact of music on brain health. In 2018, AARP donated $60 million to the Dementia Discovery Fund for research into the causes and treatments of Alzheimer’s Disease.

Thank you for taking the time to review this request. Justin Goldsborough (talk) 01:33, 18 January 2023 (UTC)

 * Pictogram voting keep.svg Go ahead: I have reviewed these proposed changes and suggest that you go ahead and make the proposed changes to the page. Johannes (Talk) (Contribs) (Articles) 08:47, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

 * Thank you for your response. I have made the proposed changes to the article. Justin Goldsborough (talk) 21:39, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:Online Gaming Organizations

I did some surfing to find out if there are sociology studies on this, but don't have a clear idea what's out there yet. My thought is that once this article is fleshed out, it might list a number of such organizations without describing them individually. This would, hopefully, avoid controversy as the details of which one does what or when are not particularly relevant to the social phenomenon. --Habap 17:58, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I believe I have a fairly clear idea and I agree with your thoughts. Trying to list everything under exactly the same term will only lead to inaccuracies and generalisations. Best to create subsections about varies forms of groups. This is currently the problem with the Clan (computer gaming), this article is more NPOV(starts by explaining that there is broad range of these groups) and is a much better basis for writing a full description. --FlooK 19:59, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Merge
If you followed the link here about merging this article with the one about gaming clans please see the discussion on Talk:Clan (computer gaming) --FlooK 06:16, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

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Charles Mopeli Stadium

Charles Mopeli Stadium is located in Phuthaditjhaba, South Africa. It is mostly used by the PSL club Free State Stars and the National First Division club African Warriors. The stadium has a capacity of 35,000.Charles Mopeli Stadium also hosted one of the biggest Nedbank Cup fixture between the Soweto giants Orlando Pirates and the under dogs Maluti FET College F.C.

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Swedish Seed Testing and Certification Institute

The Swedish Seed Testing and Certification Institute (Statens Utsädeskontroll) was a Swedish government agency that answered to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Consumer Affairs. The agency was the official authority in Sweden for controlling the quality of seeds used in agriculture. It was located in Svalöv. On January 1, 2006 it was made a part of the Swedish National Board of Agriculture and is thus no longer an independent agency.


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How does one pronounce that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.195.142.56 (talk) 18:01, 9 June 2005 (UTC)

Prodrazvyorstka or Prodrazverstka? It says the latter in my history book! It probably doesn't matter too much, but I'll put a redirect to Prodrazvyorstka from Prodrazverstka anyway (try saying that sentence!)TDE 20:29, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
 * We pronounce it "prod-ruz-vyór-stkah". (sorry, I don't know how to write it correctly in English).
 * In russian there is letter Ё (yo), but in this case it's pronounced like that vowel in "girl". That's why it should be transcripted this way. The second variant would have been used if there were "Е" (pronounced like yeah). Ъыь 18:11, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Towards the end of the article, it is stated "Moreover, it did much damage to the agricultural sector and caused peasant's growing discontent. As the government switched to NEP, prodrazvyorstka was exchanged for prodnalog (food tax) by the decree of the 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in March 1921." yet gives no details as to how and why this happened and provides no citations for this information. Also, it should be "peasants'", not "peasant's", unless it's referring to a single, un-named peasant. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.245.234.249 (talk) 18:16, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Merge discussion
I suggest to merge Lenin's hangin order here for better background. Historical documents such as this are to be considered in context of historical realities at that time to avoid misinterpretations. (Igny (talk) 02:33, 24 July 2010 (UTC))

Terminology
I'll be honest, I really don't know how to edit anything on Wikipedia. But if someone does, could they include a re-direct from the term Razverstka, as that seems to be a more common English term for the Russian translation? Maybe even re-naming the article, since it seems that most modern English scholarship on the subject uses that term? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.97.120.33 (talk) 03:03, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

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Bela Čikoš Sesija

Bela Čikoš Sesija (born Adalbert Csikos Sessia; 27 January 1864 in Osijek – 11 February 1931 in Zagreb) was a Croatian Symbolist painter, art teacher and one of the founders of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb.

Biography
Čikoš Sesija's father was a Captain in the border patrol of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. One of the Čikoš' ancestors was a hero at the Battle of the Sesia in 1524 and, as a result, was knighted with the name "Sesija".

Due to his father's reassignments, the family moved frequently and his education was sporadic until he entered the Cadet School at Karlovac in 1874. After graduation, in 1882, Čikoš Sesija was assigned to the 78th Osijek infantry regiment under Baron Josip Šokčević. He moved up in the ranks quickly, becoming a full Lieutenant in 1886, but resigned the following year because he refused to help support Károly Khuen-Héderváry's policy of Magyarization.

Despite having shown no particular aptitude for art, Čikoš Sesija enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, where he studied with Julius Victor Berger. While there he received two gold medals, in 1889 and 1891, for scenes depicting ancient history. In 1891, he also enrolled in a special course in Orientalist painting taught by Leopold Müller. After Müller's death in 1892, he returned to Zagreb and participated in decorating the "Pompeian Room" at the local offices of the "Department of Education and Religious Affairs" (now occupied by the "Institute for Croatian History"). His work there was supervised by the head of the department, Izidor Kršnjavi, who would become his patron and mentor. The first thing Kršnjavi did was send him on a study trip to Venice with Robert Frangeš-Mihanović and Ferdo Kovačević. This was followed by studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich with Wilhelm Lindenschmit.

Čikoš Sesija then married his cousin Justine, then together embarked on another study trip to Italy. This was followed by more studies in Munich, with Carl von Marr, after which he settled in Zagreb, joining the circle of painters who gathered around Vlaho Bukovac. His mentor, Kršnjavi, was not happy about that, believing that Bukovac was a bad influence. This led to a conflict that caused him to leave Zagreb, in 1895, taking a job as a drawing teacher in Ogulin. A year later, he was back in Zagreb, with his own studio and reconciled with Kršnjavi. In 1902, he left Zagreb again; this time largely for economic reasons, and traveled to America with fellow painter Robert Auer. After a mostly unsuccessful year, he came back and opened a private art school, together with Menci Klement Crnčić. Four years later he, Crnčić, Auer, Frangeš-Mihanović, Rudolf Valdec, Oton Iveković and Branko Šenoa would join together to help create the "Royal College for Arts and Crafts" (now the Academy of Fine Arts at the University of Zagreb).

In his later years Čikoš Sesija became increasingly withdrawn. He died suddenly, while at his easel, working on a canvas called "The Death of Innocence".

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Janet Radcliffe Richards

Janet Radcliffe Richards (born 1944) is a British philosopher specialising in bioethics and feminism and Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Oxford. She is the author of The Sceptical Feminist (1980), Philosophical Problems of Equality (1995), Human Nature after Darwin (2000), and The Ethics of Transplants (2012).

Biography
Richards was lecturer in Philosophy at the Open University 1979–1999, and Director of the Centre for Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine at University College London until 2007. Since 2008, she has been Professor of Practical Philosophy at Oxford University.

She was in a relationship with philosopher Derek Parfit from 1982, and they were married from 2010 until his death in 2017.

Work
Richards is the author of several books, papers and articles, and has sat on a variety of advisory and working committees in areas of philosophy and bioethics. She is also a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and posts regularly at the University of Oxford's Practical Ethics: Ethical Perspectives on the News website.

Her identification with feminism and her focus on bioethics both occurred "by accident" during the writing of her first book, The Sceptical Feminist: A Philosophical Enquiry (Routledge, 1980; Penguin, 1982) – bioethics being central to the abortion debate. The book proved to be controversial within and without feminism, e.g. in regard to standards of rationality, fashion and style, and her liberal stance.

Her second book, Human Nature After Darwin: A Philosophical Introduction (Routledge, 2001) explores the so-called Darwin Wars, including what implications Darwinism raises for philosophy and the application of critical thinking to various arguments put forward in the debate. It was originally written as an introduction to philosophical techniques for Open University students using the controversies relating to Darwinian thinking and human nature.

Richards is a firm believer in effective altruism and is since April 2014 a member of Giving What We Can, a community of people who have pledged to give at least 10% of their income to effective charities.

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Olympic Stadium (Phnom Penh)

The Olympic Stadium (ពហុកីឡាដ្ឋានជាតិអូឡាំពិក) is a multi-purpose stadium in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. It has a capacity of 50,000. Despite its name, the stadium has never hosted an Olympic Games.

History
Construction on the National Sports Complex started in 1963 and was completed in 1964. Designer Vann Molyvann made use of massive earthworks to create the stadium, digging up 500,000 cubic meters of earth to shape the grounds.

The stadium might have been built to host the 1963 Southeast Asian Peninsular Games, but the games were cancelled due to political problems in Cambodia. There was the short-lived GANEFO games, that were held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in November 25~December 6, 1966 and were named 'First Asian GANEFO'. The stadium has played host to appearances by visiting dignitaries and state occasions, and has been the home of Cambodia's national athletics teams.

The stadium played a small and integral part in the 1966 FIFA World Cup, when North Korea faced Australia in qualification as the remaining two Asia/Oceania zone teams.

As North Korea lacked diplomatic relations with most countries and did not have a FIFA-standard venue at the time, and the Australian immigration laws in force meant the North Korean team would be unlikely to receive visas to enter the country, finding a suitable venue for the match proved difficult until Chief of State Norodom Sihanouk, an ally of Kim Il Sung, informed FIFA the matches could be held in Phnom Penh.

The matches attracted 60,000 and 55,000 fans, with Sihanouk decreeing half would cheer for Australia, while the other half would cheer for the North Koreans. The matches were held on 21 November 1965 and on 24 November 1965, with North Korea winning both (6–1 and 3–1): as all fifteen African teams had withdrawn in protest after FIFA declined to allocate them a direct place in the final tournament, the Final Round was scratched and North Korea also qualified for the World Cup, where they reached the quarter-finals.

Among the facilities are Olympic size swimming pools for swimming and diving and an indoor volleyball court with a capacity of up to 8,000, now known as the Olympic Stadium Indoor Arena. The diving boards and swimming pools were restored in 2017 after years of disuse, and are now enjoyed daily by the general public.

During the Khmer Rouge era, the stadium was used as an execution site where officials of the Khmer Republic, formerly led by Lon Nol, were killed.

In the decades following the Khmer Rouge era, the stadium facilities fell into disrepair. In 2000, the stadium complex was redeveloped by a Taiwanese firm, the Yuanta Group, which refurbished the stadium and also redeveloped parcels of the complex into condominiums and commercial properties.

The stadium has come to be a popular attraction for Phnom Penh residents, who attend daily exercise sessions, as well as football games and other activities.

In May 2007, the Irish singer Ronan Keating performed in concert in the stadium's Indoor Arena, the first concert by a major international act in Cambodia.

In November–December 2007, the World Organization Volleyball for Disabled held its World Cup in the stadium's Indoor Arena, the first major international sporting event in Cambodia in more than 40 years. Cambodia, seeded fourth in the world, finished third.

In 2010, the stadium hosted all the football matches for the Cambodian Premier League, known for sponsorship purposes as the Metfone C-League.

In 2015, the stadium's grass pitch was replaced with artificial turf.

The 2023 Southeast Asian Games will not be held at the Olympic Stadium, but at Morodok Techo National Stadium. Although not host as a main venue, but it hosted the Men's football tournament and Women's football finals.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Cambodia, the stadium was used as a temporary testing facility and later used as an overflow hospital.

In 2023, the stadium's capacity was decreased to 30,000 via installation of additional 25,000 individual seats to ensure compliance with the FIFA's and AFC's regulations.

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Alexander Dargomyzhsky

Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky (Александр Сергеевич Даргомыжский; 14 February 1813 – 17 January 1869) was a 19th-century Russian composer. He bridged the gap in Russian opera composition between Mikhail Glinka and the later generation of The Five and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Biography
Dargomyzhsky was born in village Troitskoye, Belyov uyezd, Tula Governorate (now Arsenyevsky District, Tula Oblast), and educated in Saint Petersburg. He was already known as a talented musical amateur when in 1833 he met Mikhail Glinka and was encouraged to devote himself to composition. His opera Esmeralda (libretto by composer, based on Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) was composed in 1839 (performed 1847), and his Rusalka was performed in 1856; but he had little success or recognition either at home or abroad, except in Belgium, until the 1860s, when he became the elder statesman, but not a member, of The Five.

His last opera, The Stone Guest, is his most famous work, known as a pioneering effort in melodic recitative. With the orchestration and the end of the first scene left incomplete at his death, it was finished by César Cui and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and was much prized by The Five for what was perceived as its progressive approach to operatic expression. It was premiered in 1872, but never became a lasting standard operatic repertoire item.

Dargomyzhsky also left some unfinished opera projects, among them an attempted setting of Pushkin's Poltava, from which a duet survives. Besides operas, his other compositions include numerous songs, piano pieces, and some orchestral works.

He died in Saint Petersburg in 1869, aged 55.

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