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Ukraine – Forward!

Ukraine – Forward! (Україна – Вперед!, Ukrajina – Vpered!, Russian: Украина — Вперёд!) is a social democratic  political party in Ukraine. From its registration in December 1998 until March 2012 it was named Ukrainian Social Democratic Party. The party has, according to official figures, about 86,000 party members. The official name of the party is: Party of Natalia Korolevska "Ukraine – Forward!" (Партію Наталії Королевської "Україна - Вперед!", Партию Натальи Королевской "Украина — Вперёд!")

Ukrainian Social Democratic Party was from its first election in 2002 a long-time member of Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (BYuT) but its leader Korolevska fell out with the BYuT's new leaders and they expelled her party from the bloc in March 2012. As a part of BYuT the party was always represented in the Ukrainian Parliament. But after running independently in 2012 it failed to win parliamentary representation. Party leader Korolevska did become Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine in the second Azarov Government on 24 December 2012. In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election members of the party took part in the elections on the party list of Opposition Bloc; Opposition Bloc won 29 seats. From 2018, the party became a member of the Opposition Platform — For Life bloc, a pro-Russian political alliance, though the party no longer exists as a result of it being banned.

Ukraine – Forward! is commonly seen in Ukraine as a pro-business party and as representing corporate interests, although during the presidency of Viktor Yanukovych and throughout Euromaidan, the party also campaigned for Yulia Tymoshenko's release from jail.

Party of Human Rights
The party traces its history back to 1994 when the Minister of Justice of Ukraine Vasyl Onopenko created his party, Party of Human Rights, which in January 1995 has united with the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Party of Justice, later named as the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united). Onopenko became famous for leaving the office of Minister of Justice in protest to the events of 1995 connected with the burial of the Patriarch Volodymyr and became known as the Black Tuesday. A major break up of the party took place in 1998, after which Onopenko once again created a new party.

Ukrainian Social Democratic Party
The Ukrainian Social Democratic Party (Українська соціал-демократична партія, УСДП, Russian: Украинская социал-демократическая партия, УСДП) was founded in 1998 by former members of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united). The first leader of the party was Vasyl Onopenko who in the Presidential elections in 1999 got 0,47% of the votes.

At the parliamentary elections on 30 March 2002, the party was part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Electoral Bloc alliance. Three members of the party were included to the parliamentary faction of the Yulia Tymoshenko Electoral Bloc: Vasyl Onopenko (MP), Volodymyr Levtsun (MP), Anatoliy Semynoha (director of "Agro-Ros").

During the parliamentary elections on 26 March 2006 the party also took part in the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc. Out of 129 seats won by the bloc only eight were given to members of the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party.

 * Top 10 members

In November 2006 Yevhen Korniychuk became the chairman of the party. He served as the First Deputy Justice Minister in the Second Tymoshenko Government.

In the parliamentary elections on 30 September 2007, the party was again part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc., that won 156 out of 450 seats. Again the party only received eight seats in parliament.

 * Top 10 members

In August 2011 Korniychuk voluntarily resigned from his post in connection with criminal investigations against him. The leadership of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc had accused him of working together with their arch-rivals Party of Regions. Former member of All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" (that party was also a member of the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc) Natalia Korolevska was elected party leader on 23 December 2011.

Ukraine – Forward!
Party leader Korolevska was expelled from the “Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko-Batkivschyna”-faction (formerly BYuT faction) in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) on 14 March 2012. The same day the party stated on its official website "We are deeply shocked and outraged by the betrayal of the leadership of the faction "Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko-Batkivschyna". These events also made the party leave the Dictatorship Resistance Committee. But it assured it was still "in opposition to the current regime, the Yanukovych regime". On 15 March 2012 the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party was expelled from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc for alleged "cooperation with the presidential administration and the ruling regime". On 22 March 2012 party congress the party was renamed Party of Natalia Korolevska "Ukraine – Forward!" (Партію Наталії Королевської "Україна - Вперед!", Партию Натальи Королевской "Украина – Вперёд!"), known in short as Ukraine – Forward!.  Former members of Korolevska's old party All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" have joined the renamed party since. In June 2012 the party stated it would not cooperate with the Party of Regions in a new parliament. The party did participate in the October 2012 parliamentary elections. In March 2012 the parties popularity in opinion polls had reached a level far below above the election threshold (which was raised to 5% in November 2011 ) with about 1% of the votes predicted to go to the party but in May 2012 the prediction had increased from 1% to 3.8%. Experts believed the party was gaining potential voters from former supporters of Sergiy Tigipko and his Strong Ukraine. Famed Ukrainian footballer Andriy Shevchenko joined the party immediately after his retirement in July 2012; he took second place on the party list for the October 2012 parliamentary elections. During the campaign for this election the party was one of the biggest spenders. The party official reported it had spent US$7.6 million on the election campaign in multi-member constituencies. Political scientist Artem Bidenko estimated that the party had spent some US$150 million on the campaign. In June 2012 the party was advertising on 320 billboards in Kyiv alone and on 900 across Ukraine. One of their election billboards claimed that “an average wage of 1,000 euros and a pension of 500 euros” was realistic for Ukraine (the monthly average wage was €300 at the time). An elaborate pre-election campaign for the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary elections was carried out with massive use of television , in particular promotional videos  , external media  , press  and even polls  .
 * Top 10 members

The election campaign of the "Ukraine — Forward!" party, according to experts' estimates as a result of monitoring outdoor and television advertising, cost 150-200 million US dollars. The party filed a lawsuit against the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) and the "Democratic Initiatives" foundation for publishing the results of a joint sociological survey, which specifically indicated that 2.1% of voters in 2012 were ready to vote for the party, arguing the number was much higher. In an interview conducted in Russian (the party’s primary language until 2014) with Kommersant’s Ukraine correspondent, Party leader Natalia Korolevska stated: ( "- Sociological wars are conducted before every election, but there has never been anything like this before. That is why after having received the data of the internal opinion polls, which confirmed our 7% of the votes, we decided to take legal action. We think this will help us avoid manipulation. Sociology manipulates people's opinion and is one of the elements of election fraud - people are foisted a fabricated result on them in advance.

- If the elections show that your rating is much lower than 7%, will you withdraw your lawsuit against KMIS and the Democratic Initiatives Fund?

''- We will not withdraw the lawsuit because we know for a fact that their study was not conducted. And the election will show that our rating is 10%!"'')

-Natalia Korolevska

However, in the election, despite its vast and widely criticised spending on promotion, the party won 1.58% of the national votes and no constituencies (it had competed in 105 constituencies ) and thus failed to win parliamentary representation. On 11 October 2012 the party had filed a lawsuit at Kyiv's economic court against the Democratic Initiatives Foundation and Kyiv International Institute of Sociology with a demand that they retract their reports about the low rating of the party; on 29 November 2012 the party revoked this lawsuit.

Despite that in June 2012 the party had stated it would not cooperate with the Party of Regions in a new parliament and in October 2012 had threatened Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych with impeachment Korolevska became Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine in the Party of Regions lead and appointed by Yanukovych second Azarov Government on 24 December 2012.

For the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the party joined the Opposition Bloc along with other five parties; in these elections Opposition Bloc won 29 seats.

2012 Manifesto
During the campaign for the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party promised to relieve small and medium business to the maximum possible extent, “an active part of a fair and efficient state”, “securing social justice and high social standards”, “more welfare” and counteraction against “societal rifts along cultural, linguistic, religious and national lines” and they committed to introduce “total citizen control on all government levels”.

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 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. Golbez 08:22, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Pocketonline
This article was marked as {{db}} by Melaen (talk · contributions) for vanity, but that is not a criterion for speedy. I myself abstain. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 20:31, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * at the very least it is poorly written. I suspect that it is vanity. I haven't seen a page on Google matching this description. deleteWAvegetarian 21:13, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Seems to be some sort of forum in an asian language, possibly anime-related because all the avatars seem to be anime characters. Both low Google score and Alexa rank signify low notability. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  22:36, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Attack page on a non-English website.  Double Blue  (Talk) 01:21, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable. JamesBurns 06:20, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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James M. Mead

James Michael Mead (December 27, 1885 – March 15, 1964) was an American politician from New York. A Democrat, among the offices in which he served was member of the Erie County Board of Supervisors (1914–1915), New York State Assembly (1915–1918), United States House of Representatives (1919–1938), and United States Senate (1938–1947).

A native of Mount Morris, New York, Mead was raised in Buffalo. He attended the public schools of Buffalo and began working for railroads at age 12. He rose through the Switchmen's Union's ranks to become president of the Buffalo local. From 1911 to 1914 he was employed as an officer with the United States Capitol Police. While working in Washington, Mead attended courses at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Mead began a political career in 1914 with election to Erie County's Board of Supervisors. He subsequently served in the state Assembly from 1915 to 1918. In 1918 he won election to the U.S. House, where he served from 1919 to 1938. In 1938 he was elected to the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Royal S. Copeland. He served in the Senate until 1947. In 1946, he was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for governor of New York. He was then appointed to the Federal Trade Commission, on which he served from 1949 to 1955.

In retirement, Mead was a resident of Florida. He died in Lakeland on March 15, 1964. Mead was buried at Oakhill Cemetery in Clermont, Florida.

Early life
James M. Mead was born in Mount Morris, New York on December 27, 1885, a son of Thomas and Jane (Kelly) Mead. Mead moved to Buffalo with his family at the age of five. He attended Buffalo's grammar schools and began working at age 12. He was employed by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad; his career included jobs as a water boy, lamp lighter, section hand, spike mauler, shop mechanic and switchman.

Mead later worked for the Pullman Company as a mechanic on sleep car dynamos. He was subsequently employed as a switchman on the Erie Railroad, and was eventually elected president of the Switchmen's Union's Buffalo local. From 1911 to 1914 he was employed as an officer with the United States Capitol Police.

Start of career
Mead also continued his education during his railroad and police careers; he attended Buffalo's Caton School of Engineering and completed an engineering course of instruction at the Buffalo Institute of Technology. He also took courses at Canisius College and Catholic University. While working nights for the Capitol Police, Mead attended the Georgetown University Law Center during the day.

As a well-known semiprofessional football and baseball player in the Buffalo area, Mead developed a following that aided his entry into politics. In 1913, Mead was a successful candidate for a seat on the Erie County, New York Board of Supervisors and he served in 1914. In 1914 he ran for the New York State Assembly. He won the Erie County 4th District seat and won reelection in 1916. Mead served in the sessions of 1915, 1916, 1917, and 1918. In the Assembly, Mead won a reputation as a champion of worker's rights, including passage of a "full crew" law for freight trains, a law requiring workers to be paid every two weeks instead of every month, and an act mandating improved safety measures in train engine cabs. Among his successes were laws to improve the conditions of women and children in factories and enhancements to the state's worker's compensation laws. Mead's affability and power of persuasion marked him as an effective legislator despite the fact that he was a Democrat in a body controlled by Republicans.

U.S. House
In 1918, Mead defeated incumbent Republican congressman William Frederick Waldow for New York's 42nd District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was reelected nine times, and served from 1919 to 1938. From 1931 to 1938, Mead served as chairman of the Committee on Post Office and Post Roads. In Congress, Mead was a strong advocate for worker's rights, and received credit for aiding the passage of several labor measures, including the Railway Labor Act, Railroad Retirement Act, and Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act. Mead was the author of a law mandating a reduction in work hours for post office department employees to 44 hours per week, and later to 40 hours.

While supplementing his education by taking college courses during his Congressional service, Mead was well known for staying in good physical condition by trotting from campus to campus. At 6 feet 2 inches and 200 pounds, he maintained the athletic build of his youth, and was known as the House's best baseball and softball player. After 28 of his colleagues died during one session, Mead recognized the need for a Congressional gym and took the lead in organizing it and bringing it into operation.

According to John W. McCormack, who served as Speaker of the House from 1961 to 1971, the House's Democratic leaders were grooming Mead to become Speaker. McCormack went on to say that the only reason he (McCormack) was placed on the path that enabled him to become majority leader and then Speaker was that Mead left the House when he was elected to the U.S. Senate.

U.S. Senate
In 1938, Mead defeated Republican Edward F. Corsi to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant after Royal S. Copeland died. He was re-elected in 1940, defeating Republican Congressman Bruce Barton.

In the Senate, Mead succeeded to the chairmanship of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate the National Defense Program (the Truman Committee) after Harry S. Truman was elected vice president in 1944. Under his leadership the committee continued Truman's effort to weed out wartime waste, corruption and inefficiency.

The committee's investigations under Mead's leadership resulted in Representative Andrew J. May's imprisonment for bribery and an extended debate on whether Senator Theodore G. Bilbo would be permitted to take his seat after winning reelection in 1946. The committee uncovered evidence that the racist Bilbo had sanctioned violence against African American veterans who attempted to vote in Mississippi's 1946 elections. In addition, there was evidence that Bilbo had accepted bribes from defense contractors in exchange for actions on their behalf during the war. The issue was resolved when Bilbo's credentials were tabled so he could return to Mississippi and seek treatment for oral cancer, an illness which proved fatal.

Later career
Mead was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor in 1942. He was the Democratic candidate for Governor of New York in 1946, losing to Republican incumbent Thomas Dewey.

After Mead's defeat, he served on the Federal Trade Commission. Appointed in 1949, he became chairman six months later. He remained on the commission until 1955. From 1955 to 1956, he was the director of the Washington office of the New York Department of Commerce. Mead was also a New York delegate to the Democratic National Convention every four years from 1936 to 1952.

Legacy
In 1937, the Works Progress Administration built a Buffalo public library that was later named the James Mead Branch Library.

Buffalo-area mail carriers recognized Mead's accomplishments on behalf of postal workers by naming their union local in his honor.

Later life
After retiring from New York's Department of Commerce, Mead moved to Florida. He settled in Clermont, where he owned and operated an orange grove.

Retirement and death
Mead died in Lakeland, Florida on March 15, 1964. He was buried at Oakhill Cemetery in Clermont.

Family
In 1915, Mead married Alice M. Dillon (1885–1964). They were the parents of a son, James Michael Mead Jr. (1918–1997).

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User:Devnevyn

Should really be just "Nevyn" but it's always already taken, so I go by devNevyn.

I'm also the guy over at http://www.nevyn.nu/ and joachimb@gmail.com

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KV42

Tomb KV42 (Kings Valley 42) is an ancient Egyptian tomb in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt. It was constructed for Hatshepsut-Meryetre, the wife of Thutmose III, but she was not buried in the tomb. It may have been reused by Sennefer, a mayor of Thebes during the reign of Amenhotep II, and by several members of his family. The tomb has a cartouche-shaped burial chamber, like other early Eighteenth Dynasty tombs.

Discovery, layout, and contents
The tomb was uncovered by two local Copts, Chinouda Macarios and Boutros Andraos, in late 1900; they obtained an excavation permit through their statement that they knew the location of a tomb. However, Howard Carter notes in his report that "I doubt the secret was really their own, as the site was discovered by and known to Monsieur Loret some eighteen months previously, and probably their informations was obtained from his workmen." The excavation commenced on 27 November 1900 and the blocking in the doorway was officially taken down on 9 December. Only the lower part of the door sealing was original, the rest being composed of fallen rock. It was immediately apparent that the tomb had suffered from ancient robbing and had been inundated with water. "On inspecting the interior, the former plundering of this tomb was only too evident, for the funereal furniture, vases, and Canopic jars, were mashed and lying about the ground of the passages and chambers, evidently just as the former robbers had thrown them, some being partly buried in the fine yellow mud, now dry, which had covered the floors of the lower chambers."

The cartouche-shaped burial chamber contained an unfinished stone sarcophagus, the lid of which was propped up with a piece of wood. The tomb contained a set of well-preserved canopic jars belonging to Sentnay, the wife of Sennefer. Analysis of the remnants of the embalming balm from two of these jars housed in Museum August Kestner, Germany, identified they were composed of a complex blend of plant oils, beeswax, fat, bitumen, and Pinaceae and dammar or Pistacia resins, many of which were imported into Egypt. A set of fragmentary jars were located, along with an alabaster offering table, both inscribed for a woman named Baketra who bore the title "royal ornament". Additionally, four canopic jar lids in the form of bearded heads were found which Carter suggested belonged to Sennefer. An unspecified number of model vessels inscribed for both Sennefer and Sentnay were also found. The wood once present in the tomb had rotted, though there was evidence of sledge-style bases and wooden coffins, the ivory inlay of which "was impossible to preserve, as, on being touched, it instantly fell to pieces." Carter suggested that the tomb was robbed for its metal during the Twenty-second Dynasty, as the foreman found "some gold leaf and an exquisite gold inlay rosette, probably the bottom part of a menat wrenched off..." in the upper passageway. He also suggested that the tomb had been reentered "in comparatively late times," as antiquities were found scattered on the dry mud inside and many pottery vessels were encountered sitting on the steps outside the burial chamber. The small room off the burial chamber contained approximately twenty to thirty whole and broken earthenware jars, some of which were still sealed. Carter thought the space might contain a burial shaft as there was a dip in the floor but excavation proved this was not the case.

Only the burial chamber was decorated. Part of the ceiling is covered with yellow stars on a blue background; in the rest of thebroom only the upper parts of the walls containing the dado and khekher-frieze were painted.

Graffito
A graffito inscription occurs at the entrance of the KV42: "3rd month of summer, day 23: work was begun on this tomb by the necropolis team, when the scribe Butehamun went to the town to see the general's arrival in the north." This may record the uncovering and emptying of the tomb on the orders of Piankh, the High Priest of Amun, either for reburial elsewhere or as part of a state-sanctioned campaign of robbery.

Intended ownership
There is no agreement on the original owner of the tomb. The unfinished quartzite sarcophagus is seen as an indication that the tomb may have at some point been intended for Thutmose II. However, no trace of royal funerary equipment was found in the tomb, making it doubtful that the tomb was ever used for a royal burial. The lack of the customary figural decoration with scenes from the Amduat, which in this period were only executed after the funeral, also supports the idea this tomb was never used. The discovery of foundation deposits by Carter in 1921 point to the intended owner being Queen Merytre-Hatshepsut. Unusually, the vessels in this foundation deposit are inscribed in hieratic written in ink instead of the usual incised, blue pigment-filled hieroglyphs. This may indicate the vessels are secondary, to claim the tomb left vacant by Thutmose II. If the tomb ever held the body of Thutmose II, it would have been usurped from the queen.

Sennefer and Senetnay
Carter ascribed the tomb to Sennefer, a mayor of Thebes, based on the presence of a set of canopic jars belonging to Sentnay, four male canopic jar lids, and numerous model vessels inscribed for the pair. Catherine Roehrig, in her tracing of the tomb's contents, proposed that Sentnay, as the royal nurse of Amenhotep II, was originally granted a burial elsewhere in the Valley and later re-interred in KV42 with two other individuals as part of a cache, possibly as late as the 21st Dynasty. Nicholas Reeves sees the presence of parts of the original blocking and the storage jars as proof that the tomb was used for a primary burial. He suggests that Sennefer and Sentnay were granted use of the tomb by Amenhotep II, something which Marianne Eaton-Krauss considers highly unlikely given that Yuya and Tjuyu, the parents in-law of Amenhotep III were granted a much smaller, undecorated tomb (KV46) despite their close relationship to the king.

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Overseas collectivity

The French overseas collectivities (collectivité d'outre-mer abbreviated as COM) are first-order administrative divisions of France, like the French regions, but have a semi-autonomous status. The COMs include some former French overseas colonies and other French overseas entities with a particular status, all of which became COMs by constitutional reform on 28 March 2003. The COMs differ from overseas regions and overseas departments, which have the same status as metropolitan France but are located outside Europe. As integral parts of France, overseas collectivities are represented in the National Assembly, Senate and Economic and Social Council. Though some are outside the European Union, all can vote to elect members of the European Parliament (MEPs). (All of France became one multi-member EU constituency in 2019.) The Pacific COMs use the CFP franc, a currency pegged to the euro, whereas the Atlantic COMs use the euro itself. As of 31 March 2011, there were six COMs:

 * French Polynesia became a COM in 2003. Its statutory law of 27 February 2004 gives it the designation of overseas country inside the Republic (pays d'outre-mer au sein de la République, or POM), but without legal modification of its status. French Polynesia has a great degree of autonomy, two symbolic manifestations of which are the title of the President of French Polynesia (Le président de la Polynésie française) and its additional designation as a pays d'outre-mer. Legislature: Assembly of French Polynesia since 2004.
 * Saint Barthélemy, an island in the Lesser Antilles. St. Barthelemy was separated from the overseas department of Guadeloupe in 2007. It has a territorial council and executive council, and with separation ceased to be part of the European Union.
 * Saint Martin, the northern part of the island of Saint Martin in the Lesser Antilles. St. Martin was separated from the overseas department of Guadeloupe in 2007. It has a territorial council and executive council, and with separation remained a part of the European Union.
 * Saint Pierre and Miquelon, a group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. It has a territorial council. It is the last remaining part of New France to be under French rule.
 * Wallis and Futuna, three small islands in the Pacific Ocean has a high administrator and territorial assembly.
 * French Southern and Antarctic Lands, On 5 July 2019, the Crozet Islands, the Kerguelen Islands, and the Saint Paul and Amsterdam Islands were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as the "French Austral Lands and Seas" because of their pristine wilderness, biodiversity, and enormous bird colonies.

Former COMs and overseas territories

 * Mayotte was a COM from 1976 until 31 March 2011, when it became an overseas department.
 * New Caledonia was classified as an overseas territory beginning in 1946, but as a result of the 1998 Nouméa Accord, it gained a special status (statut particulier or statut original) in 1999. A New Caledonian citizenship was established, and a gradual transfer of power from the French state to New Caledonia itself was begun, to last from fifteen to twenty years.

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Talk:Leroy Jenkins (musician)

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I recently posted a small disambiguation notice above the actual article to prevent people from actually vandalizing the page with that info. Someone should expand the World of Warcraft article to include more information on that. --XeroHedgehog 00:53, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I think the WoW reference needs a place on the Leeroy Jenkins page. Just like so many other pages have references to cultural phenomenon (take pirates or ninja's for instance).

Shouldn't the stuff in the article about the World of Warcraft thing be taken out? --GaidinBDJ June 29, 2005 18:56 (UTC)
 * His character was possibly named after him, then again, leeroy Jenkins could ahve been named after the TV Evangelist of the same, simliar, name (LeRoy)... IronCrow (talk) 08:12, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

Poor guy... supplanted by a fake dwarf in a computer game. At least he still has that outlandishly long track from For Alto.

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Operational-level agreement

An operational-level agreement (OLA) defines interdependent relationships in support of a service-level agreement (SLA). The agreement describes the responsibilities of each internal support group toward other support groups, including the process and timeframe for delivery of their services. The objective of the OLA is to present a clear, concise and measurable description of the service provider's internal support relationships.

OLA is sometimes expanded to other phrases but they all have the same meaning:
 * organizational-level agreement
 * operating-level agreement
 * operations-level agreement.

OLA is not a substitute for an SLA. The purpose of the OLA is to help ensure that the underpinning activities that are performed by several support team components are aligned to provide the intended SLA. If the underpinning OLA is not in place, it is often very difficult for organizations to go back and engineer agreements between the support teams to deliver the SLA. OLA has to be seen as the foundation of good practice and common agreement.

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C-sharp major

C-sharp major (or the key of C-sharp) is a major scale based on C♯, consisting of the pitches C♯, D♯, E♯, F♯, G♯, A♯, and B♯. Its key signature has seven sharps. Its relative minor is A-sharp minor (or enharmonically B-flat minor), its parallel minor is C-sharp minor, and its enharmonic equivalence is D-flat major.

The C-sharp major scale is:

A harp tuned to C-sharp major has all its pedals in the bottom position. Because all the strings are then pinched and shortened, this is the least resonant key for the instrument.

Scale degree chords

 * Tonic – C-sharp major
 * Supertonic – D-sharp minor
 * Mediant – E-sharp minor
 * Subdominant – F-sharp major
 * Dominant – G-sharp major
 * Submediant – A-sharp minor
 * Leading-tone – B-sharp diminished

Compositions
Most composers prefer to use the enharmonic equivalent D-flat major since it contains five flats as opposed to C-sharp major's seven sharps. However, Johann Sebastian Bach chose C-sharp major for Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in both books of The Well-Tempered Clavier. In Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6, Franz Liszt takes the unusual step of changing the key from D-flat major to C-sharp major near the start of the piece, and then back again to B-flat minor. Maurice Ravel selected C-sharp major as the tonic key of "Ondine" from his piano suite Gaspard de la nuit. Erich Wolfgang Korngold composed his Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, Op. 17, in C-sharp.

The Allegro de concierto by Spanish composer Enrique Granados is written in C-sharp major. Canadian composer and pianist Frank Mills originally wrote and performed his instrumental hit "Music Box Dancer" in C-sharp major; however, most modern piano editions have the piece written in C major.

Louis Vierne used C-sharp major for the "Dona nobis pacem" of the Agnus Dei of his Messe solennelle in C-sharp minor.

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Genseiryu Karate-Do Westwijk

the Netherlands.

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Women for the Future

All-Ukrainian Political Union Women for the Future (Всеукраїнське політичне об’єднання "Жінки за майбутнє") is a political party in Ukraine registered on 30 March 2001. The party was created by Lyudmila Kuchma, a wife of the then serving President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma. Among notable party candidates was Dmytro Firtash.

At the legislative elections of 30 March 2002, the party won 2.1% of the popular vote and no seats; although final poll results had predicted 5% till 6% of the total votes for the party. At the legislative elections of 26 March 2006, the party was part of the Opposition Bloc "Ne Tak". The party did not participate in the 2007 elections.

In a 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election by-election on 15 March 2020 in electoral district 179 located in Kharkiv Oblast the party's candidate Olha Kovalenko received less than 160 votes (winner Yuliya Svitlychna received about 30.000 votes).

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Mozart and Salieri (opera)

Mozart and Salieri (Моцарт и Сальери ) is a one-act opera in two scenes by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, written in 1897 to a Russian libretto taken almost verbatim from Alexander Pushkin's 1830 verse drama of the same name.

The story follows the apocryphal legend that Antonio Salieri poisoned Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart out of jealousy over the latter's music. Rimsky-Korsakov incorporated quotations from Mozart's Requiem and Don Giovanni into the score. Richard Taruskin has placed this opera in the historical context of the development of the realistic tradition in Russian opera.

Performance history
The first performance took place at the Solodovnikov Theater in Moscow, presented by the Moscow Private Russian Opera, Moscow on 7 December 1898 (O.S. 25 November). The conductor was Iosif Truffi and scenic designer was Mikhail Vrubel.

Feodor Chaliapin, who originated the role of Salieri, claimed to have often sung the piece as a monodrama, as the role of Mozart goes no higher than g and was within his range.

In Britain the first UK performance was presented on 11 October 1927, again with Chaliapin as Salieri, while the first U.S. one took place in Forest Park, Pennsylvania, in 1933.

A recent UK revival took place in August 2016 at the 10th Grimeborn Festival at Arcola Theatre in London; the stage director was Pamela Schermann and musical director was Andrew Charity.

Synopsis
Time: End of the 18th century Place: Vienna, Austria

Scene 1
Salieri enjoys high social position as a composer, and has dedicated himself to the service of his art. Secretly, however, he is jealous of Mozart's works because he recognizes their superior quality, especially given what he sees as the "idle" character of Mozart. Salieri invites Mozart to dinner and plans to poison him.

Scene 2
Mozart and Salieri are dining at an inn. Mozart is troubled by his work on his Requiem, which a stranger in black commissioned from him. Mozart recalls Salieri's collaboration with Pierre Beaumarchais and asks if it could be true that Beaumarchais once poisoned someone, for genius and criminality are surely incompatible. Salieri then surreptitiously pours poison into Mozart's drink. Mozart begins to play at the keyboard, as Salieri begins to cry. Mozart sees this, but Salieri urges Mozart to continue. Mozart begins to feel ill, and leaves. Salieri ends the opera pondering Mozart's belief that a genius could not murder: did not Michelangelo kill for his commissions at the Vatican, or were those idle rumors?

Recordings
Audio Recordings (Mainly studio recordings) Source: www.operadis-opera-discography.org.uk Motsart i Salyeri (Russian)
 * 1948, Samuil Samosud (conductor), Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre, Sergey Lemeshev (Mozart), Alexander Pirogov (Salieri)
 * 1951, Samuil Samosud (conductor), USSR Radio Orchestra and Chorus, Ivan Kozlovsky (Mozart), Mark Reizen (Salieri)
 * 1974, Stoyan Angelov (conductor), Bulgarian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra, Svetoslav Obretenov Chorus, Avram Andreev (Mozart), Pavel Gerdzhikov (Salieri), Teodor Moussev (piano), Raina Manolova (violin)
 * 1986, Mark Ermler (conductor), Bolshoy Theatre Orchestra and Chorus, Aleksandr Fedin (Mozart), Yevgeny Nesterenko (Salieri), Vera Chasovennaya (piano), Sergey Girshenko (violin)
 * 1994, Yuli Turovsky (conductor), I Musici de Montréal, I Musici de Montréal Choir, Vladimir Bogachev (Mozart), Nikita Storojev (Salieri)
 * in German Mozart und Salieri 1982, Marek Janowski (conductor), Dresden Staatskapelle, Leipzig Radio Symphony Chorus, Peter Schreier (Mozart), Theo Adam (Salieri), Peter Rosel (piano)

Video

 * VHS 1981, Live performance, Alexei Maslennikov (Mozart), Artur Eizen (Salieri), L. Novikov (Violinist), Orchestra and Chorus of the Bolshoi Theatre, Ruben Vartanian

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Team of Winter Generation

The Team of Winter Generation (Команда Озимого Покоління; Komanda Ozimogo Pokolinnja) was an electoral alliance in Ukraine. At the parliamentary elections on 30 March 2002, the alliance won 2.0% of the popular vote and no seats.

The alliance had the following members:
 * Constitutional Democratic Party (Konstitucijno-Demokratyčna Partija)
 * Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine (Liberal'no Demokratuyčna Partija Ukrajiny)
 * Party of Private Property (Partija Privatnoi Vlasnosti)
 * Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party (Ukrajins'ka Selkans'ka Demokratyčna Partija)

Team of Winter Generation strongly resembled the successful 1999 electoral campaign of the Russian Union of Right Forces. The total expenditure of the campaign was estimated at $15 million. The party focused on creating a liberal, youthful image. Non-members could win a place on the party list by winning a TV-show on ICTV. The party score was not better in its target group then in other age groups.

Top 10 members

 * Valeriy Khoroshkovsky, member of parliament, unaffiliated
 * Inna Bohoslovska, member of parliament, Constitutional Democratic Party
 * Mykola Sytnyk (Veresen), unemployed, unaffiliated
 * Ostap Protsyk, director of Agency for the European integration, unaffiliated
 * Valeriy Voshchevsky, leader of Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party
 * Iryna Horina, commerce director of "Faktor-5", Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine
 * Vadym Hurzhos, chairman of supervising council for "Galakton", Party of Private Property
 * Lev Khlyavych, deputy chairman of "Ukrinmedstrakh", Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine
 * Bohdan Shevchuk, general director (acting) of Agro-Industrial Complex "Pivdennyi", unaffiliated
 * Yevhen Podosyonov, vice-president of LAZ, unaffiliated

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William and Emma. Picture from official website gallery.

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Jimmy Sangster

James Henry Kinmel Sangster (2 December 1927 – 19 August 2011) was a British screenwriter and director, most famous for his work on the initial horror films made by the British company Hammer Films, including The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Dracula (1958).

Early life
The son of an estate agent, Sangster was born in Kimmel Bay, North Wales and was educated at Ewell Castle School in Surrey, and Llandaff Cathedral School in Cardiff. He began his film career, aged 16, as a clapper-boy.

After service with the RAF, he worked as a third assistant director on Ealing Studios productions, then joined Exclusive Studios (later Hammer Films) in 1949.

Career
Sangster originally worked as a production assistant at Hammer Films, as well as being an assistant director, second unit director and production manager. After Hammer's success with The Quatermass Xperiment, he was approached to write X the Unknown, to which he replied "I'm not a writer. I'm a production manager." According to him, Hammer Films' response was: "Well, you come up with a couple of ideas and if we like it, we'll pay you. If we don't like it, we won't pay you. You're being paid as a production manager, so you can't complain." Sangster later turned to direction with The Horror of Frankenstein and Lust for a Vampire (both 1970) for the studio, but with far less success. His third (and last) film as director was Fear in the Night (1972), which resurrected the psychological woman-in-peril thriller he had begun with his script for Taste of Fear (1961). All three of the films he directed featured actor Ralph Bates, a friend of Sangster's and one of Hammer's better-known performers for the company during the 1970s.

Sangster scripted and produced two films for Bette Davis, The Nanny (1965) and The Anniversary (1968). His other scriptwriting credits included The Siege of Sidney Street (1960), which starred Donald Sinden and in which Sangster appeared as Winston Churchill. His many television screenwriting credits include Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Movin' On, The Magician, B. J. and the Bear, Most Wanted, Ironside, McCloud, The Six Million Dollar Man and Wonder Woman.

He is also the author of the novels Touchfeather; Touchfeather, Too; Foreign Exchange; Private I (aka The Spy Killer); Snowball; Hardball; and Blackball; all of which have been republished by Brash Books. His other books include the novel Your Friendly Neighborhood Death Peddler, the non-fiction memoir Do You Want it Good or Tuesday? and the 2003 screenwriting manual, Screenwriting: Techniques for Success. In 2019, Brash Books announced the discovery of an unpublished Sangster novel, Fireball, which they will be releasing in 2020.

Personal life
Sangster died at his home in Kensington, London on 19 August 2011. He was survived by his third wife, the actress Mary Peach; a son from an earlier marriage, Mark James Sangster; and two grandchildren, Claire and Ian Sangster.

Filmography

 * As a director

 * As a screenwriter

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Talk:C-sharp major

Are key signatures with double sharps unheard-of-as-of-2004?? Georgia guy 20:38, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm sure they've been heard of, it's just that they have no practical value. Single flats and sharps can be confusing enough when you're trying to sight read a piece. Anton Mravcek 19:39, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

C# Maj scale discrepancy

I'm wondering if anyone can indulge a quick question from someone in the midst of teaching themselves basic music theory with the help of wikipedia and a text book. In an effort to grasp the concept of scale composition and tetrachords, I am constructing the major scales using the basic formula for their foundation and then checking my answers here. But with this particular scale, I ran into a brief problem it seems. My original idea was that to follow the Tone-Tone-Semitone-Tone-Tone-Tone-Semitone pattern, C# Maj would need to look like this:

C# - D# - F - F# - G# - A# - C - C#

But in the article, my F and C are replaced by E# and B# respectively, which I was under the impression did not jhjhjhjhhjkkjkjkk"guess" be correct as well as the scale as listed here? If not, which weird quirks have I failed to take account for?

 * Yes, your guess (C# -fgtghbjh D# - F - F# ...) is correct, at least in theory. If you try to apply it to practical situations, you might run into trouble, however.

 * Suppose you write a piece in C# major (can't imagine why, though). Your piece begins with a scale run upwards, notated C# - D# - F - F# - G# - A# - C - C#. A harpist tells you she'd like to play your piece but could you please transpose it C major? No problem, just flat every note. The scale run upwards with which your piece begins would become C - D - Fb - F - G - A - Cb - C. If instead you had notated it C# - D# - E# - F# - G# - A# - B# - C#, you might be able to achieve the transposition by merely deleting the key signature, your scale run becomes C - D - E - F - G - A - B - C. Anton Mravcek 21:20, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

 * If you write a piece in C# major, the most frequently used pitches will be the seven notes of the scale, though of course chromatic pitches may occur. If you write them as C#, D#, E#, F#, G#, A# and B# then you just need to write a key signature of seven sharps. If you write E# as F and B# as C then you have to write natural signs before every note, and sharp signs when you want F# and C#. Much more tedious to write and much more confusing to read. 91.107.151.155 (talk) 22:44, 26 September 2010 (UTC)

Bartok and Bach
I deleted this line: Béla Bartók's String Quartet No. 3 is one of the few in C sharp major. I've been trying to figure out this quartet, and while I can't claim to understand it very well I can say it definitely isn't in C#. There's no key signatures at all, and the harmony seems to be polymodal at best, and more in C than C# if anything.

Also, the line: Although most composers prefer to use the enharmonic equivalent D-flat major because it has just five flats as opposed to the seven sharps of C-sharp major, Johann Sebastian Bach actually chose C sharp major for Prelude and Fugue No. 3 in both books of the Well-Tempered Clavier. --this seems a bit misleading since Bach was working in Well temperament, in which D-flat major and C-sharp major are not enharmonic equivalents as far as I know. Given the form of the work and the tuning used, it should be not surprise that Bach used C-sharp major. This sentence gives the impression that it is surprising. If I get more time I'll see if I can phrase it better. Pfly 22:03, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

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The Reaping

The Reaping is a 2007 American supernatural horror thriller film, starring Hilary Swank. The film was directed by Stephen Hopkins for Warner Bros. Pictures, Village Roadshow Pictures and Dark Castle Entertainment. The music for the film was scored by John Frizzell.

Plot
Katherine Winter and colleague Ben investigate claims of miracles. On an expedition to the city of Concepción, Chile, they investigate claims that the corpse of a priest who has been dead for 40 years remains in pristine condition. Eventually, they discovered that toxic waste helped preserve the body.

In Louisiana, Katherine receives a call from a friend, Father Michael Costigan, who says that his photographs of her have developed burn marks that when assembled, form a sickle-like symbol "ㄜ", a possible warning from God, which she ignores. She meets Doug Blackwell, a teacher from the nearby town of Haven, who asks Katherine to find out why Haven's river has turned red. The locals believe this is a biblical plague caused by a girl, Loren McConnell, who they believe killed her older brother.

They travel to Haven, where Katherine sees the river is indeed entirely red. Katherine and Doug come across the ruins of an old church, which Doug explains was destroyed 100 years ago by several hurricanes, forcing the entire town to relocate. Meanwhile, Ben witnesses dead frogs seemingly falling from the sky. Doug invites them to spend the night at his house, where he reveals he comes from a long line of only children. That night, their dinner becomes rotted with flies instantly.

Katherine and Ben get a call asking them to come to a nearby farm, where they find that the cows are dying of an unknown disease. Ben begins to question whether the events could have biblical causes, but Katherine remains unconvinced. The owner of the farm tells them that the McConnell family has been visited by people who appear to be Satan worshippers and that he saw evidence of a religious sacrifice. Later that evening, Katherine tells Doug why she left the church; 5 years ago, she was an ordained minister. While doing missionary work with her husband and daughter in southern provinces of Sudan during the Sudanese Civil War, the locals sacrificed her family, believing they caused a drought. Katherine then has intense dreams that she and Doug have sex.

Katherine goes to talk to Loren. Loren remains silent the whole time. Katherine notices that her leg is soaked in menstrual blood. Katherine helps clean her up and has a vision of Loren turning the river red. Loren's mother appears, asking if Katherine is there to kill Loren. Before she can explain, Loren attacks her and Katherine runs away. Ben and Katherine examine Loren's brother's body, finding the sickle-like symbol branded into his lower back. Test results prove that the river contains human blood. The citizens, meanwhile, are shaving their children's heads, due to an outbreak of lice. Ben and Doug try to get the mayor to evacuate the town, but he and his staff are killed with boils.

A posse gathers to kill Loren to try to stop the plagues. Katherine calls Father Costigan, who explains that he's researched a satanic cult that sacrifices every 2nd-born child once they reach puberty to create a "perfect child with the eyes of the Devil" to bring them power. He believes that Loren is the devil's child. He also states that an angel, who cannot be harmed by the cult, will destroy them. He insists that Katherine is the angel, as the term is sometimes used to mean servants of God. At that moment, a supernatural force burns Costigan's room, killing him. Katherine returns to the McConnell house, where she finds the cult's sacrificial chamber. There, Loren's mother says that Loren is "his servant" now, then kills herself. Outside, Katherine finds locusts everywhere. As the townspeople arrive and prepare to kill Loren, the locusts attack and kill the posse. Doug runs away and falls into the river. Katherine locks herself in the house and Ben hides in a crypt, where he discovers skeletons and bodies of sacrificed children. He calls Katherine when Loren appears outside.

Katherine finds Ben dead. She confronts Loren as darkness falls and fiery hail and thunder rain from the sky. Katherine is about to kill Loren when suddenly she says something that Katherine told her daughter in Sudan. Katherine asks how she can tell what is real. Loren answers "faith", and shows her a vision of the truth. The cult, which encompasses the entire town and Doug, is shown trying to kill Loren since she has reached puberty. Loren escaped and her brother Brody stabbed her, but her wound miraculously healed, and Brody died. Katherine realizes that Loren is the angel sent by God. She also sees that Doug killed Ben. The townsfolk surround them as Doug tells her that only an ordained servant of God can kill Loren. He reveals that his family recruited the entire town into the satanic cult, as the hurricanes that destroyed the old church led them to believe that God had abandoned them. He invited Katherine to investigate the plagues because they hoped she would join them since she had turned her back on God. Katherine refuses. A sudden fire then rains down on the town, killing the Satanists who all happened to be first-born. Doug grabs Katherine as he is being lifted off the ground and killed, with Katherine being spared.

As Katherine drives Loren away, Loren reveals that Katherine is pregnant. Since this is her second child, Katherine realizes that her unborn son, fathered by Doug, is the prophesied demonic child.

Production
Filming for the movie took place in and around Baton Rouge, Louisiana with many scenes shot in an abandoned WalMart store. Swank convinced the producers to move the film's setting from New England to Louisiana. When Hurricane Katrina occurred midshoot (August 26, 2005), the production of the film was suspended for one week. Many scenes were shot at Ellerslie Plantation near St. Francisville, Louisiana. The DVD special features record that the producers considered shooting in another city, but decided that Louisiana needed the economic benefit of the movie being shot there.

Before and during the making of the movie, skeptic investigator Joe Nickell was consulted. The type of skeptical investigations by the movie's main character in the first part of the movie is roughly based on Nickell's investigations of claims of the paranormal since 1969.

The film was originally scheduled to play in theaters on August 5, 2006, then November 5, 2006; it was then switched to March 30, 2007, (the date featured on the above poster), then April 6, 2007, and then to April 5, 2007. It was finally released on April 5, 2007, to coincide with Holy Thursday.

Box office
The Reaping opened in 2,603 theaters and earned $10,025,203 in its opening weekend. The film grossed $25,126,214 in the United States Box Office and $62,771,059 worldwide.

Score
The score was originally written by Philip Glass, and went as far as the recording; however, the producers were not completely satisfied and decided to give it another try. John Frizzell was then brought in to compose a new score.

Reception
The aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes gives the film an approval rating of 8% based on 134 reviews, and an average rating of 3.49/10, with the consensus stating: "It may feature such accomplished actors as Hilary Swank and Stephen Rea, but The Reaping also boasts the apropos tagline "What hath God wrought?". It's schlocky, spiritually shallow, and scare-free."

Comments by Jacqueline van Rysselberghe
Jacqueline van Rysselberghe, the Mayor of Concepción, Chile, formally objected to the producers of the film over its portrayal of the city in the opening scene. She pointed out that rather than being the dirty underdeveloped tropical city as shown in the movie, Concepción is an industrialized city with many universities and was surprised that such inadequate research of the setting had been carried out for a high budget movie.

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Template talk:Self-contradictory

vague phrasing
Now here is a Template you can just apply whenever you don't "get it" after a quick skim-through. No need to air what you personally find self-contradictory at the relevant Talk page. Just paste this tab and move on. Tailored for the after-school hacker who is mildly bored with Wikipedia but unwilling to commit overt vandalism. --Wetman 20:38, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I changed the wording from the sarcastic-sounding "if you can guess which parts" to phrasing that includes a link to the article's talk page, encouraging this use instead. If the template still seems useless to you, you may want to nominate it at WP:TFD. --Tabor 19:06, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

reference to talk
Changed reference to talk to be more similar to that used in Template:POV, in order to imply some kind of onus on the person who adds the template to also start the relevant discussion. Arbitrary username 19:56, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Made the template suitable for application to a single section as well, as some articles have contradictions concentrated like that. For example, brick has three different standards in the same section, two of which claim to be universal.  Falcon 00:33, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Added the contradict-section template to the template messages page. Falcon 00:35, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Parameters?
Should this template have parameters, such as This article appears to contradict {other article}.? If a consensus is reached, I will revise the template to reflect this. --Richard0612 18:13, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

 * In my opinion this would be useful, but perhaps it should have its own dedicated template, such as contradictother? --Tim1988 talk 18:31, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

section parameter
I added a new section parameter to this template that allows it to be used for both sections and entire articles. With this new parameter contradict-section may no longer be needed. Can be used with other 'about' parameter.

Examples of use:

Let me know if you have any other questions or if this causes other issues I am not aware of.--NMajdan •talk 18:54, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

The tag contradicts itself
The part about see the discussion on the TALK page, lol. Af648 10:45, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Talk
This template would link to the talk page and the copyeditor would include a section in the talk page talked contradict to specify the contradiction. In other case, the contradict template could be deleted from the article, because one does not know the contradict reason and talk about it. --Mac (talk) 07:31, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Agreed. I have noted a non-obvious contradiction in Grease (film), and would like to have single template that advises of the contradiction and also refers to the talk page. Mitch Ames (talk) 00:29, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

 * Agreed, working on it now. Spitfire 19 (Talk) 19:47, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

 * Yes check.svg Done Spitfire 19 (Talk) 19:47, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

friggen hilarious
oh I just couldn't help but comment

I think that this tag/notice is so friggen funny! I mean its like something off of unencyclopedia andyzweb (talk) 05:31, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

Link to talk page should be improved, maybe parametrized
If you tag an article as self-contradictory, the template generates a link to the talk page, but not to a specific section in the talk page. If you tag a section as self-contradictory, the template generates a link to a section in the talk page titled "section" (in lower case yet).

If people are going to create a section in the talk page to talk about the contradiction, then it would be more helpful if the template actually linked to that section of the talk page.

I suggest that (1) by default the link should always be to a section titled "Contradiction" in the talk page, and (2) a new parameter should be added to the template, allowing the section title in the talk page to be specified. For example, on the page Sky,

would link to Talk:Sky, but

would link to Talk:Sky.

The parameter name "talk=" is just the first thing I thought of; if there are other templates with a similar parameter, the same name used for those should be used here.

Of course, in some cases there is no need for talk page discussion anyway, because the "about=" parameter says it all and the person fixing the error knows how to correct it. But in that case my proposal would make no difference; if the section "Contradiction" does not exist, the link will still go to the top of the page. --208.76.104.133 (talk) 21:54, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

P.S. In writing the above, I chose my example as a joke, inspired by an example in the Indian Hill style guide for C. But the joke turns out to be on me: there actually is a section on the talk page for Sky with the title: "The color of the sky is in dispute again!"!. --208.76.104.133 (talk) 22:00, 14 January 2011 (UTC)

Remobe "about" parameter
See Template talk:Contradict-other for a proposal to remove the "about" parameter from this template. Debresser (talk) 17:38, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

Template: inconsistent
If I understand its documentation, template inconsistent should be used whenever a particular sentence(?) can be tagged, meaning inconsistent with something in the rest of the page.

If so, that should be mentioned here. Offhand I suppose that the {inconsistent} are a majority of the merely {contradict} --in contrast to contradict-other. --P64 (talk) 14:46, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Missing or defective parameters
The parameters of this template are severely lacking. If there's a date one, I couldn't get it to work. In the preview, the year would show up but not the month; when I didn't input any date information, none displayed, not even the year. And there doesn't seem to be a working way to direct the link to a specific section of the talk page. I inserted |article and that did what it was supposed to, but it also made the talk page link to #article. I tried changing the order of the parameters without success. Hope someone can address this. --BDD (talk) 16:31, 28 June 2012 (UTC)

 * Appears to have been updated since then or a temporary problem. Hyacinth (talk) 20:50, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

The "See also" section could benefit from some clean-up
The 3 & 4 lines would be clearer in this form: 176.221.120.163 (talk) 20:40, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Contradiction-inline, inline equivalent of Contradict
 * Contradict-inline, inline equivalent of Contradict-other
 * Fixed.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  07:20, 5 February 2016 (UTC)

Requested move 13 March 2016

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: moved, largely as proposed, which garnered a clear majority of support (and the lone dissenter on a couple of issues was reasonably well refuted). I say "largely" because Template:Contradiction inline will not be moved as it has been merged since the RM began and Template:Contradict-inline will not because it has been struck by the nominator. No prejudice against starting a new RM for that template. Jenks24 (talk) 14:39, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

* Template:Contradict-inline → Template:Contradicts inline – These names are a confusing mess on multiple levels. See details in post below. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  14:00, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Template:Contradict → Template:Self-contradictory
 * Template:Contradiction inline → Template:Self-contradictory inline
 * Template:Contradict-other → Template:Contradicts other
 * Template:Contradict-other-multiple → Template:Contradicts others

Update: Template:Contradiction inline has merged into Template:Contradict-inline, since the default (no parameters) behavior of the latter would simply serve precisely the same function as the former. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  20:47, 1 April 2016 (UTC)

In more detail: The current names are hopelessly confused and confusing (dare I say self-contradictory?): All this non-standard abuse of hyphenation is slowly being purged from the template names in favor of plain English over the last several years. The only hyphenation in the proposed names is that used for compound modifiers in standard English. The word "contradict" by itself has been used in the original names in mutually conflicting ways, and the modification "contradiction" used inconsistently. The proposed new names clearly identify exactly what the problem is in each case, in natural language that makes sense in the differing banner and inline contexts of the templates, instead of making editors try to guess, and without resorting to contorted, redundant constructions like "contradict-other-multiple".
 * Contradict, banner; two parts of article are self-contradictory; rename to Self-contradictory
 * Contradiction inline, inline; statement contradicts itself or something in same passage; rename to Self-contradictory inline merged to Contradict-inline
 * Contradict-other, banner; one article contradicts another; rename to Contradicts other (could merge, with some work, into the next one, using the shorter name)
 * Contradict-other-multiple, banner (and misleadingly and ungrammatically named); one article contradicts more others; rename to Contradicts others
 * Contradict-inline, inline; statement contradicts material in one or more articles (default = self-contradiction with present article); rename to Contradicts inline (with redirs from Contradicts other inline, Contradicts others inline, Self-contradictory inline, etc.
 * Inconsistent, inline; statement contradicts other material in same article; not renamed but should merge and redirect to the previous one

As a separate matter, can be merged into  (presently ), because the problem being flagged is the same: the claim in question contradicts other material that is specified by the template, and it doesn't matter whether that's in another section of this article, or a section at a different article.

Also, a bot or some AWB scripts could be used to merge (presently ) into  (presently ), and moved to  as a unified template; the two templates serve the same purpose, but have incompatible parameters, but the one with the unhelpful parameter configuration is used too many times to manually replace it. The old has already been merged.

Whatever the ultimate outcome, AutoWikiBrowser/Template redirects should be updated to normalize all instances to the new names, and AutoWikiBrowser/Dated templates updated to use them. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  14:00, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Support, makes sense, and gives easier coding. I don't know much about the coding, but since SMc and I seem to the only folks here today, and the request seems well reasoned, and he brought the refreshments, a second to this motion. Randy Kryn 21:00, 13 March 2016 (UTC)

 * One of the proposed renames is an obvious oversight: Template:Contradict-inline → Template:Contradicts inline should be Template:Contradict-inline → Template:Contradicts other inline.
 * Regarding Template:Contradict-other-multiple → Template:Contradicts others I would prefer Template:Contradicts multiple other. Debresser (talk) 22:27, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
 * @, Template:Contradict-inline should not be Template:Contradicts other inline; that template can be used to flag contradiction anywhere, including in the same article (the default behavior!), so such a rename would just lead immediately to another RM to correct it. Template:Contradicts inline really was chosen for a reason. Secondly, two major aspects of this rename are conciseness and natural language (i.e. parseability, memorability). No one wants to type out "contradicts multiple others", and "multiple others" is a redundant way of saying "others"; that they are multiple is known because "others" is plural.  I really did think about this carefully. So, please reconsider your proposed changes to the original proposal.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  22:38, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I meant to ping you on this, not Randy.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  06:42, 27 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Hi. Editors are thinking I made those two suggestions, so please reread my comment, which doesn't mention any suggestions. Thanks. Randy Kryn 22:45, 17 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Noted. I didn't scan the posts correctly, and pinged you the first time instead of Debresser (fixed).  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  06:45, 27 March 2016 (UTC)

 * Support - per OP. I also support Randy Kryn's suggestions as they seem reasonable.  InsertCleverPhraseHere  02:19, 14 March 2016 (UTC)

 * Procedural close two of the destinations are the same for Contradict-other-multiple and Contradict-other. WP:RM is not WP:TFD and TFD handles any merger requests for templates. -- 70.51.46.39 (talk) 07:25, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Um, no they're not. The one would go to Template:Contradicts others, the second to Template:Contradicts other. Please read more carefully before leaving drive-my closure proposals.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  22:38, 17 March 2016 (UTC)

 * Update As noted above, the redundant Contradiction inline has merged to Contradict-inline.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  20:51, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. --SmokeyJoe (talk) 13:15, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

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Michèle Le Dœuff

Michèle Le Dœuff (born 1948) is a French philosopher with a scholarly interest in the philosophy of Francis Bacon, and Sir Thomas More's utopianism. She questions the boundaries of philosophy, while insisting upon philosophy's importance (for example, in "Ants and Women"). She is critical of professional philosophers' neglectful attitude to science, and argues that disputes within sciences are often epistemological (that is, properly philosophical). In Hipparchia's Choice (1989) she questions philosophy's pretensions to being a unique practice which achieves a pure clarity: philosophy is inevitably shaped by language, metaphor, and power relations. According to Le Dœuff feminists make a special contribution. Their critique of gender categories in philosophy, science, and the humanities is empirical, philosophical, political, and interdisciplinary. Feminists see clearly how discourses are elevated to the status of 'philosophical' by a process in which social power is involved.

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Majority minority in the United States

In the United States of America, majority-minority area or minority-majority area is a term describing a U.S. state or jurisdiction whose population is composed of less than 50% non-Hispanic whites. Racial data is derived from self-identification questions on the U.S. census and on U.S. Census Bureau estimates. (See race and ethnicity in the United States census). The term is often used in voting rights law to designate voting districts that are designed under the Voting Rights Act to enable ethnic or language minorities "the opportunity to elect their candidate of choice." In that context, the term was first used by the Supreme Court in 1977. The Court had previously used the term in employment discrimination and labor relations cases.

 * Seven states are majority-minority: Hawaii, New Mexico, California, Texas, Nevada,  Maryland, and Georgia. Hawaii never had a white majority.
 * Washington, D.C., and all populated United States territories (Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa) are also majority-minority. None of the current United States territories ever had a white majority.
 * As of 2011, minority births (children under age 1) are the majority among births nationwide.
 * As of 2017, minority children comprise the majority among children in fourteen states: the six that are already majority-minority, plus the following eight: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, Delaware, Alaska, New York, and Mississippi.
 * As of 2019, children are majority minority nationwide.
 * Per the 2020 United States Census, the percentage of non-Hispanic white residents is below 60% in seventeen states: the six that are already majority-minority, plus the following eleven: Georgia (50.1%), Florida (51.5%), New Jersey (51.9%), New York (52.5%), Arizona (53.4%), Mississippi (55.4%), Louisiana (55.8%), Alaska (57.5%), Illinois (58.3%), Delaware (58.6%), and Virginia (58.6%). Per the 2022 American Community Survey, the non-Hispanic white population declined below 50% in Georgia (49.63%).
 * The whole United States of America is projected to become majority-minority by the middle of the 21st century if current trends continue. The U.S. will then become the first major post-industrial society in the world where the dominant group established in an earlier period transitioned from majority to minority under the influence of changing demographics. With alternate immigration scenarios, the whole United States is projected to become majority-minority sometime between 2041 and 2046 (depending on the amount of net immigration into the U.S., birth/death rates, and intermarriage rates over the preceding years).

States
From colonial times to the early-twentieth century, much of the Deep South had a black majority. Three Southern states had populations that were majority-black: Louisiana (from 1810 until about 1890 ), South Carolina (until the 1920s ), and Mississippi (from the 1830s to the 1930s ).

In the same period, Georgia, Alabama, and Florida had populations that were nearly 50% black.

Maryland, North Carolina, and Virginia had black populations approaching or exceeding 40%. Texas's black population reached 30%.

The demographics of these states changed markedly from the 1890s through the 1960s, as two waves of the Great Migration resulted in more than 6,500,000 African Americans to abandon the economically depressed, segregated Deep South in search of better employment opportunities and living conditions, first in Northern and Midwestern industrial cities, and later west to California. One-fifth of Florida's black population had left the state by 1940, for instance. During the last thirty years of the twentieth century into the twenty-first century, scholars have documented a reverse New Great Migration of black people to southern states, but typically to urban destinations in the New South, which have pleasant climates and developing economies.

Washington, D.C., was one of the magnets for black people during the Great Migration, and reached a majority-black status during the migration's latter stages. The black proportion has declined since the 1990s due to gentrification and expanding opportunities elsewhere, with some leaving the district because of rising housing costs or for opportunities in the South. Many black people have moved to Maryland, Georgia, Florida, and Texas. They are joined by others migrating to jobs in states of the New South in a reverse of the Great Migration. Per the 2020 Census, the Black population represented 40.9% of the D.C. population — a considerable decline from 75% in the late-1970s. At the same time, Asian and Hispanic populations have increased in the District, and it is still classified as a majority-minority area.

Since 1965, changes in the origin of foreign immigration have resulted in increases in the number of majority-minority areas, most notably in California. Its legal resident population was 89.5% 'non-Hispanic white' in the 1940s, but by 2020, was 34.7% 'non-Hispanic white'.

In 2010, minority children comprised the majority among children in the six states that were already majority-minority, plus the following four: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi.

Hawaii is the only state to have never had a non-Hispanic white majority. In addition, all populated United States territories have never had a non-Hispanic white majority. New Mexico is the only state where a single non-white group, Hispanic Americans, make up over 50% of the population; this is in addition to a large Native American population making up almost 10% of the population.

Cities
Many cities in the United States became majority-minority by 2010. Out of the top 15 cities by population, Columbus, Ohio is the only city not classified as majority-minority.

As of 2012, 50 metropolitan areas in the U.S. are majority-minority.

As of 2015, 12% of U.S. counties are majority-minority.

Data collection
The first data for New Mexico was a 5% sample in 1940, which estimated non-Hispanic whites at 50.9%. Hispanics are not classified as a race, according to the U.S. census, but as an ethnic and cultural group of any race. Of respondents who listed Hispanic origin, some identified as being of the White race, roughly half gave responses tabulated under "Some other race" (e.g. giving a national origin such as "Mexican" or a designation such as "Mestizo" as race), and much smaller numbers listed Black, American Indian, or Asian as their race.

In U.S. censuses since 1990, self-identification by respondents has been the primary way to identify race of residents. Presumption of race based on countries or regions given in the ancestry question is used only when a respondent has answered the ancestry question but not the race question. The U.S. census defines "White people" very broadly as "people having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa, i.e. Caucasoid. This definition has changed through the years.

Although the census attempts to enumerate both citizens and non-citizens, the undocumented immigrant population of the United States has proven hard to quantify; the census uses a 12 million base estimate nationally.

Institutions
In the United States for the 2018/2019 school year, 78.7% of white public school students attended schools where they are the majority, compared to 55.9% of Hispanics, 42.0% of African Americans, and 14.3% of Asians. At a national level in the US with regards to racial classification, public schools obtained majority minority status in 2014.

Other uses
Normally, a state is classified as majority-minority because of the ethnic or racial makeup of residents, but other criteria are occasionally used, such as religion, disability, or age. For example, the majority of Utah residents are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Christian denomination that is a religious minority throughout the rest of the United States. In addition to Mormon-dominant Utah, Roman Catholic majority Rhode Island and Louisiana are the only states in the U.S. where a single denomination constitutes a majority of the population. (By contrast, numerous denominations are classified as Protestant.) But, no U.S. state has a majority composed of any non-Christian group, except for Hawaii, where 51.1% of the population follow religions that would be non-mainstream in the rest of the United States. Hawaii is classified as religious majority of Unaffiliated, including agnostics, atheists, humanists, the irreligious, and secularists (non-practicing).

Criticism
In January 2016, CUNY sociologist Richard Alba wrote an article in The American Prospect arguing that the way in which majority-minority calculations are made by the Census are misleading. Anyone identifying as of Hispanic, Asian, or Black ancestry is classified as non-white, although they may also have white ancestry. Alba argues that the incomes, marriage patterns, and social identities of people of who are mixed Hispanic-white and Asian-white are closer to those of white people than monoracial Hispanics or Asians. Thus, when the Census projects that non-Hispanic whites will be less than 50% of the population by the 2040s, Alba believes these people of mixed-race ancestry are improperly excluded from that category.

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Molden

Molden is a general molecular and electronic structure processing program.

Major features

 * Reads output from the ab initio packages GAMESS (US), Gaussian, MOLPRO, PySCF and from semi-empirical packages such as MOPAC, and supports a number of other formats.
 * Displays molecular orbitals or electron density as contour plots or 3D grid plots and output to a number of graphical formats.
 * Animates reaction paths and molecular vibrations.
 * A Z-matrix editor.

Molden program has been tested on different platforms, namely Linux, Windows NT, Windows95, Windows2000, WindowsXP, MacOSX, Silicon Graphics IRIX, Sun SunOS and Solaris.

Ambfor, the main force field module of Molden, is an external program that can be initialized from Molden. Ambfor admits protein force field Amber and GAFF (General Amber Force Field). Use of Ambfor is automatic when a protein is studied with Molden. The GAFF force field is used only small molecules. Both Amber and GAFF are based on atomic charges. The differences are largely in computational cost, with GAFF being very expensive.

Molden can read several file formats with crystal information.

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Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine

The Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine (Ліберально-демократична партія України) is a political party in Ukraine registered in July 1992.

As an organization, the party traces its history to 1989 as the Ukrainian branch of Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union and was based on the People's Union in Support of Reforms (Perestroika). In fall of 1990, it split, and its Kiev branch (Kiev Liberal Democratic Union) later joined the Party of Democratic Revival of Ukraine. Their logo is nearly identical to the logo of the Liberal Democrats of the United Kingdom.

At the parliamentary elections 1998, the party was part of the European choice of Ukraine alliance. At the parliamentary elections 2002 the party was part of the Team of Winter Generation alliance. Both alliances won a marginal number of votes and no seats. On 3 March 2006, the party announced at its website that it will not take part in the parliamentary elections on 26 March 2006 because of "regional egoism". The party did not participate in the Ukrainian parliamentary elections of 2006 and 2007. In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the party competed for 1 constituency (seat), but it did not win this constituency and thus missed parliamentary representation. The party did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

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Category:Gold compounds

List of compounds containing gold.

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Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party

The Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party (Українська селянська демократична партія) is a former political party in Ukraine. It was registered with the Ministry of Justice on 15 January 1991. The party merged into the (then) new party United Left and Peasants in December 2011.

==History == The party ran for the parliamentary election 1998 as the part of "European Choice of Ukraine" block winning 0,13% of the votes and no seats. At the parliamentary elections on 30 March 2002, the party was part of the Team of Winter Generation alliance, which won 2.0% of the popular vote and no seats. At the parliamentary elections on 26 March 2006 the party was part of the electoral Lytvyn's People's Bloc, which won 2.44% of the popular vote and no seats.

In the 30 September 2007 elections, the party was a part of the Peasants' Bloc "Agrarian Ukraine" which again failed to win parliamentary representation.

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Atlantic Branch

The Atlantic Branch is an electrified rail line owned and operated by the Long Island Rail Road in the U.S. state of New York. It is the only LIRR line with revenue passenger service in the borough of Brooklyn.

The line consists of two sections constructed separately. The portion of the line from Atlantic Terminal to Jamaica was constructed as part of the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad and opened in 1836, while the portion from Jamaica to Valley Stream was constructed as part of the South Side Railroad of Long Island in 1867.

Description
Partly underground and partly elevated, the Atlantic Branch runs from Atlantic Terminal in Downtown Brooklyn to Valley Stream, in Nassau County, where it becomes the two-track Long Beach Branch with the two-track Far Rockaway Branch splitting southward just east of the Valley Stream station.

The section between Atlantic Terminal and Bedford Avenue is underground along Atlantic Avenue. From there the line is elevated above the median of Atlantic Avenue to Dewey Place (with a stop at Nostrand Avenue) before returning underground. At East New York the line rises to street level to cross above the north-south, freight-only Bay Ridge Branch, then descends underground once more. Between East New York and Jamaica, the closed but intact station at Woodhaven Junction is visible.

At 121st Street in Richmond Hill, Queens, the line rises to street level and passes the Morris Park Facility before joining the elevated Main Line at Jamaica. Immediately east of Jamaica, the line turns southeast, ducking beneath the eastward Main Line tracks. It curves parallel to the Montauk Branch after a few miles and continues next to it to Valley Interlocking in Valley Stream.

History
The current Atlantic Branch is the successor to two separate lines: the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad (opened 1836) along Atlantic Avenue from Flatbush Avenue to Jamaica, and the South Side Railroad of Long Island (opened 1867) from Jamaica to Valley Stream.

Atlantic Terminal to Jamaica
The Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad opened the line from South Ferry to what is now 151st Street in Jamaica on April 18, 1836.

Initially the line turned halfway between Classon and Franklin Avenues, running halfway between Herkimer Street and Schuyler Street (now Atlantic Avenue) along the line of the present Herkimer Place. It turned slightly to the southeast near Howard Avenue, crossing the centerline of Schuyler Street about one-third of the way between Hopkinson Avenue (Thomas Boyland Street) and Paca Avenue (Rockaway Avenue). It crossed into the town of New Lots just beyond Stone Avenue (Mother Gaston Boulevard).

The Atlantic Branch was one of the first lines in the LIRR system slated to be electrified. In anticipation of this the entire line to Jamaica was to be grade separated. Between 1903 and 1905 the line was depressed into a tunnel from Flatbush Avenue to Bedford Avenue, then placed on an elevated viaduct from Bedford Avenue to Ralph Avenue then depressed back into a tunnel until Manhattan Crossing located just west of East New York station. At East New York the line returned to grade level then rose onto another elevated viaduct until Atkins Ave. The rest of the line from Atkins Ave to Morris Park located just west of Jamaica remained at grade level along Atlantic Avenue with numerous grade crossings with the anticipation of grade separating the line later on. Additionally a new terminal and yard was built at Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues. Electric service commenced in 1905 with the line consisting of two tracks between Flatbush Avenue and Woodhaven Junction and four tracks beyond that point to Jamaica.

LIRR then ran two services along the line: the traditional commuter type services from points on eastern Long Island to Flatbush Avenue, along with what was called the "local rapid transit" service, frequent elevated/subway like service at lower fare between Flatbush Ave and Queens Village. Although referred to as a rapid transit service, standard LIRR cars were used, and the service was operated by regular railroad rules. At this time the line from Jamaica to East New York had many more stations along Atlantic Avenue spaced at closer intervals, much like a rapid transit line. The four tracks between Jamaica and Woodhaven Junction lent itself to this service with the "rapid transit" trains using the outer two tracks while commuter trains used the inner two tracks.

In November 1925, 25 "local" trains left Brooklyn each weekday for Queens Village, 12 more ran to Hillside, and 16 more ran to Jamaica. All trains made all stops, 15 of them west of Queens Village. Fare was probably 10 cents for 13 miles Queens Village to Brooklyn, compared to about 40 cents on "express" LIRR trains making six or seven stops (but a monthly ticket good on any train was $7.10).

For a while the LIRR operated joint service along the Atlantic Branch with the Brooklyn Rapid Transit company (BRT) consisting of two connections, one with the Fifth Ave El at Flatbush Avenue, and another with the Broadway and Lexington Avenue els with a connection built at Chestnut Street in Brooklyn. This allowed BRT trains to access the Rockaways and Manhattan Beach, while affording the LIRR a connection into Manhattan to the BRT terminal located at Park Row over the Brooklyn Bridge (this service predated the opening of the East River Tunnels to Penn Station). Nevertheless, the Interstate Commerce Commission ended this service in 1916 when they classified different operating standards between rapid transit trains (such as BRT trains) and regular heavy rail railroads (such as the LIRR).

By the late 1930s, it was clear that the rest of the line needed to be grade separated. Much of the surrounding area along Atlantic Avenue in Ozone Park and Richmond Hill began their suburban development leading to more traffic along Atlantic Avenue which was plagued by the line's many grade crossings. The City of New York along with the LIRR thus allocated the funds to depress the rest of the line from Morris Park to East New York in a tunnel. Building of the tunnel commenced in 1939 (although plans to build the tunnel date back to 1893) with two of the line's four tracks being pulled out of service and the rapid transit service being discontinued.

On December 28, 1942, the tunnel was completed and opened with the two remaining at-grade tracks pulled out of service. Around this time Atlantic Avenue was raised over the East New York station via a viaduct that separated the road and the railroad. The elevated trestle from East New York to Atkins Avenue was also demolished as it had been included in the new tunnel to Jamaica. Only one station was included in the new tunnel: Woodhaven Junction, where the Atlantic Branch crossed under the Rockaway Beach Branch. An interlocking and track connection was built just west of the Woodhaven Junction station to connect the two lines, but these closed after the abandonment of the Rockaway Beach Branch between 1955 and 1962.

Jamaica to Valley Stream
The portion east of Jamaica was opened by the South Side Railroad of Long Island on October 28, 1867, as part of its initial line from Jamaica to Babylon. With the consolidation of the South Side into the Long Island Rail Road system in 1876, all passenger trains were rerouted to use the LIRR main line from Berlin Junction (west of Jamaica) to Rockaway Junction and the LIRR's Rockaway Branch to Springfield Junction, where it crossed the South Side. This change took effect June 25, 1876, and resulted in the closure of the South Side's Berlin, Beaver Street (Jamaica), Locust Avenue, and Springfield stations. This formed the current configuration, where the Montauk Branch follows this route, mostly ex-South Side, and the Atlantic Branch (then the Old Southern Road) uses the old South Side to Springfield Junction.

The line was soon reopened due to a lawsuit, but closed again by Austin Corbin as of January 6, 1881.

Effective May 17, 1906, when an electrified third track opened alongside the Montauk Division from Springfield Junction to Valley Stream, the Old Southern Road and this new track became part of the Atlantic Division.

Grade-crossing elimination work between Laurelton and Jamaica began in May 1958.

Stations
East of Valley Stream, the Far Rockaway Branch continues to and the Long Beach Branch continues to.

, the Atlantic Terminal, Nostrand Avenue, and East New York stations are primarily served by a shuttle running between Atlantic Terminal and Jamaica. These stations are also served by trains on the West Hempstead Branch, as well as a limited number of weekday trains on the Hempstead and Babylon branches. Other trains traveling east of Jamaica run to, , or.

title: Atlantic Branch