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Talk:Internet generation

Are there any references for this neologism? --Madchester 07:22, July 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Track listing for the MC Lars CD that coined the term . I've yet to see it used online, though I've seen the term used in several magazines, but obviously can't provide a link to them sorry. --80.4.224.6 02:03, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
 * At any rate, it's bordering on original research and has a strong POV to it. Alphax τεχ 01:00, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

HOLD ON!
I've got an idea- how about we change the internet generation to start at 1996 and keep it going until around 2008, and we can group everyone from 1986-1995 in 'The Echo Boom' generation, as children of the baby boomers, since there was another baby boom in that time. Echo boomers tend to be more closely associated with the Baby Boomers than the Gen Xers anyway, and I think this is a signifigant point, and will very possibly end most of the quarrell over this touchy subject. How about it? Dan
 * OR, that's why. we dont get to define the term ourself, we are stuck with what other people use. DGG (talk) 03:58, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.34.162.74 (talk) 05:09, 8 February 2007 (UTC).

KEEP IN MIND!
This article refers to the AMERICAN fraction of the people who were born at this time- note it is in the catogery: American Generations.

Mark for Deletion
Article is heavily flawed, and not based on any proven fact. Also mis-states by saying this generation saw the birth and rise of the internet - the internet was born FAR before this generation - it's rise may have happened during this time, but birth, no way.
 * Delete I'm for the deletion of this article. It has a bunch or pointless information and not enough facts to back up it's statements (the "MySpace generation"?). --AlexJohnc3 My Talk Page 17:07, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete This page is total rubbish. Completely unfactual, coining terms denoted by commercial operations and TV (Myspace generation? Ipod Generation? "Loli-boomer"?!). As already stated, everything in this article is already covered.--Mincetro 03:29, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete This article is subjective, as someone who was born in 1988 could have begun using the internet at the age of 6, whereas someone born in 1990 could not use the internet until the age of 13, persay. Everything in this article is already covered by the term Generation Y, and therefore should be deleted. --User:Anonymous 19:39, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment Should this article go into the AfD's while we vote on it? I don't have much experience with deleting articles, so I just wanted to confirm that. -AlexJohnc3 My Talk Page 19:43, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Comment See this page's deletion page and continue to discuss there. Keep...except for MyPod I personally DO find this article interesting and informative. But I to agree with alexjohnc3, I've never heard my generation refered to as MyPod, nor have I heard Loli-gen. I HAVE heard of millenials, internet generation, generation D, and most often generation M and Y. As part of this generation, I do believe that this should be kept sans some material. I think that each of these names needs to be supported by something. At least loli-gen had a reference!! ForestAngel 04:35, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Add more infomation
More should be added to this article. I'm part of the igeneration myself and use Wiki continuously. It would be great to see some additions. Thank you.

Yes, I agree. Having all the various names for the Internet or iGeneration in one place makes this article better than it was before. I think we should keep it and try to add some additions and improvements rather than delete it.

In need of a major overhaul.
This article is simplistic and a mess. It is folly to classify taste in music for this generation in a Rap/Emo dichotomy. More emphasis should be put on differences from Gen Yers and the technology that has done so much to define iGen. We deserve far better.

 * I think it's been cleaned up. The neutrality also no longer seems applicable.

Yeah, the article is basically just an extended definition and footnote to Generation Y, but as the iGeneration matures, it'll become more relevant as a term. It just seems like terms bandied around by the media trying to catch up with what's going on. Apple has a new thing coming out called, not supririsingly, 'iGeneration.'

Load of Crap!

 * Agreed. This article, to put nicely, is a load of crap. The Generation Y and iGeneration articles are telling different stories, yet they basically cover the same article at the moment! This article is also home to heavy stereotyping and out of date information. For instance, the Pop-Rap & R&B scene has lost a lot of popularity since the Early 2000s. The Definition of Emo is also dated to when the fashion also first appeared, and this article seems maybe in a POV of about 2002 or 2003. In need of a major overhaul as it is dated and again to be honest, a load of crap. Boochan 11:30, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, what about this crap about MySpace generation. This is way too centric and partisan to a single webspace. Plus it might be gone in a few years anways. Needs a major rewriting.

 * I support this, MySpace and all the rest are just hype words. whats next? Ajax Generation? It doesnt even make sense to call MySpace users a Generation, MySpace is only up for a few years, a whole Generation is something that takes much longer then that.

 * As the title say this is a load. It sounds like a kid wrote this from his narrow minded point of view. (Other person: no, a kid wouldn't even write something like this- plus I doubt he would be insulting himself.) Granted my point of view isn't any better but I do know that this is not accurate one bit. The internet generation did start some time in the 80's and that was the time when hackers were dominant (before kiddie scripting came about). If you want to do an article about myspace, itunes, and all the future money squeez ideas do that in the kiddie scripting generation but as far as the "real" internet generation is concerned there were no ipods, myspace, etc. There were BBS, Hacking, Dial-Up, 1337, Unix, Dos, Window9x, Open Source, and more but, it's not like this new gen with all their fancy expensive gadget's and their ignorance on the internet I don't know what generation that is but it's not the internet generation! --Dvelez1985 00:07, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Maybe it's just me but this paragraph stinks and I have removed it: "The name "iGeneration" is based on the popular iPod music device, as the majority of iPod owners are members of this generation[10]. The term foregrounds the paradoxical ways in which this generation's idiosyncratic subjectivity and individualism ("I") develop within global capitalism and its technological mediation in a way that both constrains and expands the possibilities for identity-formation, akin to how Michel Foucault points to the relationship between sexuality and discourse in the nineteenth century's generative effects of power." A rather wordy and unwieldy sentence that veers into Original Research, citing that a barely established term is supposedly based around the name of a consumer product? The lowercase 'i' doesnt stand for iPod or individualism or any of that crap, as anyone would notice upon reading this article, it stands for 'internet'. Reads like a factually incorrect amateur-intellectual essay. 3dom 09:18, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I'll have to disagree with you there. the lowercase 'i' is almost certainly a reference to the iPod and other Apple products.   210.49.114.110 12:47, 10 February 2007 (UTC)M

 * Agree as well. There were a lot of people using Walkmen back in the 80's & 90's, no one calls them WalkGeneration. Terms "iGeneration" and "MySpace Generation" are truly a load of crap and should be removed.

 * Well I agree that these terms are not that notable. Why someone hasn't just taken some initiative and deleted it yet is beyond me, so bye-bye Myspace generation.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anthonzi (talk • contribs) 18:46, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

9/11 anybody?
As a member of iGeneration, I thought it ought to be said that 9/11 is probably going to wind up being the defining event of our lives. While I know a lot of people will disagree, 9/11 changed everything. It also might be appropriate to mention the effects of such polorizing elections/political culture in the United States right now, in addition to talking about other current events. I know it's hard to guage where this generation is politically, but it would be good to at least mention some life-changing events.

I'm also a member of the iGeneration and i got admit, 9/11 kind of changed everything. It happened while we were still kids (or teens i guess) 9/11 should diffently be put in there.

Well since the terms generation Y and iGeneration apply to those born *outside* the US as well as those inside the US the majority of generation yer's would not experience the political ramifications of 9/11 in any substantial way that would act as the defining feature of the generation. I would hardly call the events that occurred 'lifechanging' to the whole generation, sure it happened but did it directly affect those outside the US as a 'lifechanging' incident. I'm sure since trends of apathy amongst this generation and becoming less 'ideological' and more materialistic and issue orientated society September 11 has little ramifications. The effects of 9/11 will also be offset by the proclamations (within this article) of this generation being more detached and less interested in allegiances to their people and place. This is not my opinion, it's fact, it's on wiki. Nam was defining, Cold war was defining, WW2 was defining not 9/11 unless nothing happens of relative importance in the next 10 years.

The Internet will have a more profound shaping influence on world culture than 9//1, which only 'woke up' Americans to a reality of terrorism that millions of people live with every day in other parts of the world. Still, 9/11 may be the defining feature of the next generation, after the Internet generation.

This article lists the years of the generation as starting in 1994. These people would ahve been 8 or so when 9/11 happened. I doubt it affected them that much. I'm saying this from the perspective of someone who was 10 then, so I'm not that far away from it. ɱў ɭ ĩє What did I do wrong 17:04, 2 June 2007 (UTC) ___________ In my opinion, what will eventually define the generation line between the internet generation and the next one is if someone was old enough to remember pre-9/11 days. Growing up in a nation where you have seemingly little worries about the outside world in reguards to foreign policy, terrorism and the like is severly different from growing up in a world where fear of attack is thrown about as a daily reminder of the past. That, in addition to the huge effects of the internet that first effected this generation, growing up with it as relatively commonplace also changes much, and serves as a dividing line between this generation and past ones (growing up with the internet mostly in place and booming).

Pic favor??
What is with this article. It skims through a load of issues that are part of the so called igeneration. Why is it even here?????

heee...

oh, i don't know. (ThirdPlateauDreamer 06:23, 27 November 2005 (UTC))

Isn't it the job of wikipedians to add to it?

What's Next?
What, so the IGen ends in 1999 - what do we call the next lot, anybody????

I'm sure they'll come up with some swanky name, but these things are always done in hindsight, no?

Rap and Emo ARE popular as of the mid-2000s
While I, a not-so-proud Gen Yer dislikes rap and emo, they are popular now in the mid-2000s and aside from indie stuff (which doesn't count for much IMO) they define Gen Y the way Grunge, Hair Metal and New Wave define Gen X.

Rap LOSING popularity since the early 2000s? R U kidding me? 2002/2003 is when it hit its current popularity; it was in somewhat of a slump between 1997 and 2001/02 because of Teen Pop. Today rap beats the early 90s in popularity.

2003-2005 are probably the best years rap has seen popularity-wise; the same can't be said for quality though. That's 1987-1993 :)

That's great. If you can cite a source, you can put it into the article.--205.133.240.254 22:46, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, 2003-05 seems about right. We seem to be pushing forward to the past now, with rock/metal taking the stage. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.188.131.228 (talk) 14:36, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Holocaust and WWII references
The Holocaust/WW2 references in this article are either completely out of place or just plain wrong and need to be rewritten and shortened. I'm not insinuating that a POV dispute over the fact that the Holocaust and WW2 were traumatic, terrible events that the generation described in the article will only experience through films, but the mention of Schindler's List et al is entirely unnecessary, as it's obvious the real Holocaust could not have been a formative experience for them, nor could any horrible part of history, I'm not sure why we have to single out certain things. For that matter, this also brings up a fallacy of the article, which is to assume that the lack of personal acquaintance with Holocaust survivors or WW2 veterans is hugely significant to a generation's outlook and furthermore that it's unique to the so-called iGeneration. Honestly, it's not as if such events had great significance for the previous two or three generations (Y, X, and baby boomers) either, although they may have been born very close to them and known people for their entire life who had participated or were victimized. That was the whole idea of the baby boomer/1960s culture-- they weren't defined by such things. The baby boomers born 55 or 60 years ago did not experience WW2 or the Holocaust either except through later stories told by others, or through media, and I suspect most people involved in these events did not talk about them much with their young kids. I'm not sure what the big difference is with regard to the Holocaust/WW2 between someone born in 1950 and someone born in 2000. Any way either of them experiences the things will be indirect. I was born way before this iGeneration (early '80s), and I never personally knew a Holocaust survivor, I learned from Schindler's List and from reading as well. [Yes, but woldn;t it possible for you to talk to one? vs. those being born now. Is that a significant difference or not? Maybe, maybe not.]

These people are missing the entire 20th century. Let's not reduce it to specific wars or issues.

 * I agree, that whole section seemed to be unnecessary and distort the flow of the text. Anyway, I was born in 1980, and also haven't known any holocaust survivor myself, although I met one for a history class in school, once. It was interesting, but the former commentors statement about its effect on world outlook seems justified. 81.232.72.148 01:23, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes, the world outlook: is that a defining feature of a generation? Do people born in the 1990s' see the world in a different way that those who gew up in the 1920s? It would be hard to argue there's no difference... Thus, let's focus on what the word 'generation' even means: that is what is up for debate.

List of famous people
i removed the list of famous people, as it is pointless and too celeb-centric -Fabhcún 23:06, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Generation V notice
I just categorized Generation V. I believe that article is synonymous with this or Generation Y. I am however not American and have very little knowledge about this subject so I leave it to you people to determine. Regards, Gardar Rurak 07:55, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

I support merging into Gen Y
I definitely support redirecting this article to Generation Y. iGeneration is definitely not the more common (see GoogleFight). [[Yes, but igeneration is an emerging terms, and the numerical difference is actually not that much, especially considering GEn y has been around longer; and isn't the point to make a distinction from Gen Y?] It is also a copy from the likes of iTunes, iPod, etc., which isn't very appropriate for a term that's supposed to be used by researchers, demographers, etc. (In this regard it's a lot like the term myspace generation.) The fact that it's a neologism from a mass-market product very particular to its time means that it is likely to be short-lived, and will date terribly. In comparison, Generation Y follows the very well-established term Generation X, suggesting it is likely to be more used by those in the field, and for a much longer time.

"Generation X" another media buzz word that came into vogue with Coupland's novel of the same name. The people of that generation didn't say 'yes, that's us' any more than Generation Y. I think a term that has something to do with the Internet is better than some abritrary letter. The term is also there to put a marker in for what comes after Generation Y. One basic reasoning behind 'generations' in the first place is the idea of a shared cultural historical epoch that shapes identity in a way that is somehow generalizable: major historical events, changes in technology, etc. I guess we have to ask outselves if there's any use to the term 'generation' at all. if there is, does it make sense to start mapping out what follows Generation Y, or will it just be Y from here on in: turtles all the way down... In four or five years, it may be 'obvious' that there is an emerging generation that cannot simply be lumped together with Y. The value of Wikipedia is that the article is endlessly revisable as new understandings of this 'thing' that may or may not be a 'generation' come into focus. It makes sense to lump iGeneration, myspace generation, etc. together because they're essentially all provisional names for the same category of generation: something on the horizon after Y, which doesn't have much thinking behind it other than 'what comes after X.'

This article also suffers a lot because it just doesn't receive the attention of the Generation Y article.

El T 12:21, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree in the merger, but i also believe the generation is defined over too larger range to be it genuinely considered a generation where members experienced the same trends. I mean come on, those born in the first year would not have know or used the internet to much later on in life, the 2000 gen of yer's have led i life not knowing a world without internet first hand. I reckon the generation could also habe another neologism, e-generation or @generation but there are nth amount of descriptors we can use to identify the generation, thus the merging of this article is justified as this clearly does not stand alone as a unique subset of the y generation universally recognized, currently there are no real sub divisions in the period of births between 1975-2001 but there should be. From my perspective the fall of communism and the profiliration of ICT resources really defined the generation between 1976-1996 i do not know why it has been extended to 2001 maybe for american convience that 9/11 provided the major defining event not the fall of the berlin wall and the USSR. Cold War vs. Effects of Terrorism only time will tell, but i must admit that anti-communist frontiers are a feature of xer's (vietnam).

Cleanup notice
Although there was no conclusion to delete the article, it cannot remain the way it currently is. Most times sources are either unstated or not notable. For example, the infamous loli-boom/boomer comes up with few results on a Google query, of which most are unrelated or created by the originator of the term. I therefore marked the article for cleanup. Don Cuan 19:14, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and took out: references to the "Myspace" generation, iPod generation, and the paragraph about privacy.Anthonzi (talk) 19:11, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Who Comes Up With These Idiotic Year-spans?
Seriously...1985-1999? What idiot decided that? Also, this article assumes that most of us born in this timeframe have no recollection of life without the Internet? Hell, I remember life without Microsoft Windows and I was born in 1987. The Internet didn't become a full-fledged part of mainstream culture (i.e. everyone didn't have Internet access and used it heavily) until the mid-late 1990s (1994 at the very earliest). Meaning that anyone born in the 1980s had to have some recollection of life without the Internet, unless they came from wealthy backgrounds.131.156.238.75 01:53, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

I think this generation should be from 1988 - 1999, and lump the 1985 - 1987 with the Boomerang.

What was the discussion that led to this year-span? This article is very 2000-centric, with the majority of the internet population boom joining in the last 6 years, not to mention numerous references to commercial products that gained popularity this decade. 1999 seems like a ludicrous choice to draw the line. 3dom 09:38, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

I was born in 1986. I didn't use a computer until 8th grade.--205.133.240.254 22:47, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Ditto
Ditto here- I was born in 1990 and didn't have the internet until 2002. I remember when no one had even heard of the internet. And who says just because I was born in 1990 that I accept it as part of life? I hate the internet- I think it's screwed up the world more than anything ever before- look at terrorism, child molestors, the increased crime rates, and our increasing isolation from each other. You are correct, it seems like the generation should be something more like 1994-2006 or something, because most people didn't have the internet until the year 2000. What's next, the iPod generation? Come on!

Anyway, I think the year span should go along with the year of the public release of the internet, if this article is even going to stay here, - 1992. Why not group 1985-1991 with the Boomerang and 1992-2004 with the Internet? Makes more sense to me. But this article should probably just be grouped in with Generation Y.

 * If you "hate the internet" then why the heck are you on it? Besides, no one forces you to look at any of the stuff on the internet, you find it all yourself. If you don't like it, don't use it. Jackoff.**  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.47.249.251 (talk) 17:20, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

You were born in 1990, and you remember when no one had heard of the internet. Stupidtroll is stupid. 14:40, 18 May 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.188.131.228 (talk)

Internet generation?
Internet? Blah! That's funny! Most of my classmates say: "Technology is not my cup of tea." And what's Myspace?

Yes, but they've at least heard that The Internet exists...  Unlike your friend, those born in 1940 couldn't have heard of the Internet because it didn't exist yet.

I wanted to add to the page this sentence: The iGeneration could become/could be seen as the name of the current style of late 90's early 2000. In which the "I", besides internet, can also be seen as the 'improved' individuality of products. Think about covers for telephones and iPod's and stylable sneakers. The machinal individuality of faded jeans is another example. This reflects the social change to people being more on there own (among others because of the internet but also other "i" products). (source for demographic proove needed) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.89.139.101 (talk) 12:42, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

This article is incredibly insulting
"Thus, the Internet Generation has no recourse to a memory of (or nostalgia for) a pre-Internet history, a factor which greatly differentiates them from older generations, even Generation Y, who had to learn to adapt to new technologies. The iGeneration simply takes the Internet for granted as natural, readily accepting the utility of services such as internet forums, Wikipedia, search engines, MySpace, and imageboards as part of its global cultural ecosystem."

PLEASE. I was born in 1993. I do not consider this at all.

Response: Oh, so you remember a world before the Internet? So...you're writing on Wikipedia, but the Internet has no relevance for you? People of the "TV generation" don't have to ever have watched TV. The point is that they don't (can't) remember TV as a 'new technology,' much like you didn't exist in the pre-Internet world.

Again... insulting. I don't know why I should take this stuff from 50-year olds who have way too much free time. What I am trying to do is get this perticular article cut out- along with the other generation articles if the members consider them sterotypical or insulting. Can a celeberity choose to not have an article? I thought so. It is the same thing here. Yes I do remember a world before the internet... I doubt the internet has become popular before the year 2000. (my first computer simply did command lines.) That is why none of us knew what the Y2K actually was before it actually happened. I nominate this article to be CUT OUT. just CUT THE CRAP PEOPLE.

Response: Actually, the Internet started taking off in the mid 1990s with the development of the World Wide Web. Thus, you were 2 when it took off. Its popularity or not isn't based simply on your particular experience and your family's computer-buying history. But seriously, don't all generations feel that the labels don't apply to them. :) Why are you so mad about it? Aren't all descriptions of generations stereotypical?  Do Are all gen Xers slackers?  Are all Baby Boomers former hippies who sold out and became yuppies? Does that make these generalizations wrong?  Should be do away with all generation labels? When it comes down to it, isn't this whole debate rather silly?  Isn't the whole idea to IMPROVE articles by writing them communally, not simply cut them out when someone gets offended?

Actually, I think we should cut out the generation idea alltogether. Well it is OK to look at generations before 1900 because they are usually all dead. Mabye we can even cut at 1920. But I personally think that sterotyping generations is wrong, period. You call the G.I. generation the generation that fought WWII. And ALL of them DID fight WWII (all-since the draft, right?) But I don't think they want to remember times on the battlefield while browseing the internet. Also, the MTV generation. Though MTV has only become popular reccently, you name 1974-1985 as the MTV generation- though MTV wasn't launched until it was half over. (1981)

 * Obviously you misunderstand how people grow up. I'll give you a tip, when people are born, ie are 0, they don't tend to partake in the broader rhythms of society! In fact, they tend to be confined to their cot, and don't actually leave their house of their own accord! Amazing hey, but people born in 1981 weren't really big watchers of MTV when it launched - which completely destroys your argument above. The youngest people who did not know a world without MTV were in fact 5 or 6 years old when MTV came about - hence a starting date for the MTV Generation of about 1975 or so. Geddit?58.175.240.247 (talk) 18:28, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

O.k. So first of all, why isn’t anyone sighing their posts? Are you all afraid of retaliation for stupid ideas? Anyway, I'm a member of the "ingeneration" and I too find this article extremely insulting. (Although I think it should remain in place with some fixes) I absolutely do not take the Internet for granted and to me it still seems like a farley new thing.

When I was in elementary school, I remember kids where just starting to get CD players and only a hand full of the class usually had a computer to do word processing on. The computers at school had 16 colors maybe and we played games that where less graphically detailed than what a 5 year old could draw. As far as the internet goes, me and my class mates didn't even begin to really use the internet for assignments or fun for that matter until around the 5th grade (1999 for me) and it was only that soon because I was in a special program that was testing how technology can affect the learning of young children. I got my first e-mail account when I was 11 and my first computer when I was 12. Sure, I pretty much grew up with computers around me but I can remember a time when I didn't have access to the computer and I most definitely appreciate the wonders of the Internet.

 * These comments of yours make no sense. You say you didn't really use the Internet or computers until 1999! Well, I can let you in on a little secret there buddy, the Internet was in widespread use in the developed world starting in about 1994/95, and expanding from there, that incidentally is why the tech boom went from 1996-2000 - It didn't start in 1999 - IT WAS JUST ABOUT TO END IN TEARS BY THE TIME 1999 ROLLED AROUND! I don't know where you went to school, but you were obviously about 5-6 years behind much of the rest of the developed world.
 * I finished at school in 1997 (Yep, graduated high school - and yet, from 1994 onwards EVERY KID AT MY SCHOOL was compulsorily required to purchase a laptop for attendance at school - and that was hardly strange, many, if not most, schools where I come from had compulsory laptops for all students from around 1994/95 onwards, if not before for some schools.)
 * Your advocacy for 1999 as some sort of important date in terms of widespread acceptance of the Internet is complete bunkum! By the way, I should declare, I am an Aussie. Usually we are 12-18 months behind the US/Japan in terms of diffusion of new technology amongst the populace. If I can pinpoint 1994/95 here in Australia, I'm pretty certain things were well underway over in the Good Ole USA.58.175.240.247 (talk) 18:28, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

I think it's amazing that I can scan a document into a computer and send it via e-mail in minutes when only a couple of decades ago this would have taken many days or even weeks depending on the location. It absolutely amazes me that I can chat for hours to a friend in Mexico when it would have cost a fortune to talk on the phone that much a decade ago. I also have enough intelligence to realize that a large portion of the world (including countless young adults) have never seen or had access to a computer.

When every household in the world has a computer or at least very easy access to one, I will consider the present generation one that may take the internet for granted but until than I find the assumption an obtuse one. It makes me angry when people automatically think that all teenagers take things for granted. My mother is a baby boomer and I can assure you, she takes the Internet and her cell-phone (which I pay for) more for granted than I do. She freaks out when she can’t reach me because my cell-phone is off and when she wants me to look something up on the internet she starts bugging me about it almost instantaneously when at least members of my generation realize that it takes time to sign on to the internet and look up information. Also, I’m taking college classes while in high school and I find it very interesting that my instructor who is in his 60’s is extremely knowledgeable in Java Programming while I’ve managed to fail the class twice while still working my butt off. Also, for everyone's information I do not have a myspace account and I don't plan on ever having one. Besides, myspace is a relatively new invention and as others said, it will most likely go out of stile like other things have in a matter of a few years. I seriously doubt is validity as a label of my generation.

For all you adults out there, who are feeling so high and mighty and judgmental, STOP BEING SO FREAKIN’ HYPOCRITICAL!!!! For those of you who have the wisdom that’s supposed to come with age, I apologize for this rant and I appreciate your ability to see beyond a label. Jazzyrhythms 23:22, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Your argument hold no water, just because MTV Generation is listed between 1974-1985 does not mean MTV had to exist by 1974. People born during those times were aware of the current changes in culture and society that were on-going, especially those prevalent by the launch of MTV in 1981 as a major example. Piecraft 02:11, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

 * This is a nice essay. You have some direct from the source material right here.  I agree with most of what you are saying(not to imply any disagreement either ^_^)Anthonzi (talk) 20:00, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Bullcrap. I was born in 94, and this article is spot-on and relevant. And what's this about celebrities being able to choose not to have an article? The fuck? Do you know what wikipedia is? 14:44, 18 May 2008 (UTC)~ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.188.131.228 (talk)

Current Event Label
I put on the label because people were writing stuff that was true 5 years ago. What the heck? Therefore I put that on.

Last Part Of Article
"Probebly the Worst Generation Ever, except for the fact that whoever wrote those 5 words doesn't know how to spell; thus, this being the best generation ever." This sentence should probably be deleted. It's at the very end before the References. I don't know how to edit articles, so can someone fix that? "Probably" is spelled wrong...and it seems a bit on the "We're better than you" non-neutral stance. ~Joy

New Grouping
I think the name should be changed from iGeneration, it sounds to comercial and I know many of this (my) generation who don't own an Ipod or use Myspace, I don't think these really define this generation. Besides there should be one collective generation from 1990-2000 or 1990-2010. All born or will be born during this period could be called the "Digital Generation" because of the mass use of electronics and computers by this generation. Any support??? Please add comments. User:Editor=toast

Wikipedia documents, not decides. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.188.131.228 (talk) 14:45, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

This generation should be expanded
This should stretch to at least 1989, maybe earlier, as the people born in 1989-93 were too young to remember the pre-Internet era and have grown up with the Net even more so then those born 1994- due to their longer involvement with it. +Hexagon1 (t) 07:53, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

igeneration dating?
If we're in it right now how come it stops at 2001?

Rc Her 23:22, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

The "Simpsons Generation"
I'd always thought, and discussed amongst my friends as, those born from 1990 into the early '90s as being The Simpsons Generation. The internet, portable music devices, computer games and many other items that gained mass popularity in the '90s were invented or had already existed for some time in the 1980s. However, one of the most defining cultural icons of current western (or even more specifically English-speaking) culture - The Simpsons - was "born" on 17 December 1989. (Although Simpsons shorts had been shown on the Tracey Ullman show before that the Simpsons did not exist as a TV program in its own right until that date). Those children born in the early '90s shared the infancy with the show, and have never seen a week go by in their whole lives without an episode of the show on TV.

Anyway, just some musings from an apparently case-book Generation X-er, who moved to a big city at age 17, is single and living in a rented flat because holding down a steady job and a steady relationship at the same time requires too much effort, and who, on a sunny Sunday morning is lying on the lounge listening to Madonna because he's too lazy to put his Mac laptop on the floor and go outside and have a life...

Nvek 01:56, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I really don't think so. I've never seen an episode of the Simpsons in my life, depite being born in 1992. If we're going to define it by a TV show, why not Law & Order, which premiered in 1990. The audience of the Simpsons was, at it's greatest, around 20 million, which obviously would not include a whole generation. ɱў ɭ ĩє  What did I do wrong 17:46, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Ah you see, this falls under No original research. So no original research please.Anthonzi (talk) 18:59, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Deletion
Im putting this page up for deletion or this page should me merged with Generation Y. There is no point for this page. I was born in 93' and we didnt have internet for another decade. Just because something is popular now doesnt meen we can defy it by a generation. Now mybe generation z but not Y MarkDonna 20:53, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
 * either way is good. But there are some ongoing afds that we might want to see the results of--perhaps in the meantime, place a suggested merge tag for this fringe theory/neologism. I notice that none of the RSs given seem to support this term. DGG (talk) 01:33, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

I think a clean up is in order, but dang i was born in the hills of MO in 1976, and i had internet access (at school too,) in 93-94, and the internet really started to take off when i was in college c.1996.--71.97.164.222 06:55, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Unless there are real sources for the use of the term, deletion would be in order. DGG (talk) 17:41, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

I support deletion of this page and similar pages. There should be a merge between all the "current generation" topics into a shorter simple page. User: Editor=toast —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 17:03, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree that this page should be deleted. I don't see any of the content as notable.Anthonzi (talk) 18:26, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Privacy
As a member of this generation, I must say that the sense that this generation doesn't mind privacy loss due to the internet as completely false. personal data really isn't one's focus, on the contrary, the Internet is used mainly as a way to maintain real world contacts and get easy access to broadcasted data, not access personal data on strangers. In fact, the aninimity of the internet allows any sort of personal information to be completely hidden (like a minor clicking a "yes, I'm 18" link in order to gain access to porn)

In other words, that section of the article needs to be balanced out.--70.244.83.88 02:34, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Kool, I agree. Then I will go ahead and edit this out.  Feel free to argue for these statements, but I haven't seen anyone make a case.Anthonzi (talk) 18:31, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Generation C
There seems to be a page for this, yet they're both described as being pretty much the same thing. Looks like the authors of both are unaware of each other. Could someone perhaps link the two, or merge the smaller into the larger at the very least?

As a matter of personal taste, I prefer the term iGeneration, if only because it was (Likely) coined by someone who's a part of it, and not "The Media". 86.131.13.121 11:50, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

"Dave, what were you thinking?" 201.21.119.90 04:27, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Ref to NY Magazine
Apparently many people here think their writer got it wrong. But that is personal opinion and individual OR. We dont report our own opinions here, but the sources, and NY Magazine is a reliable source. If there are other good sources contradicting it, add them. DGG (talk) 04:00, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

Merge this and Google generation?
It might be a good idea, considering the notability of both is in question.--h i s  s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 00:44, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

 * DO NOT label any generation with a corporate ID! Thanks.** —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.47.249.251 (talk) 17:21, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Once more: We're here to document, not to decide. If it has been labeled as such in a reliable source, it should be labeled as such in Wikipedia. 14:49, 18 May 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.188.131.228 (talk)

alternate names
These need sources. DGG (talk) 00:05, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Page Merged
I have now merged this article with Generation Z per the discussion on its talk page %% -SYKKO- %% (talk to me) 05:16, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

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Polish Socialist Youth Union

The Polish Socialist Youth Union (Związek Socjalistycznej Młodzieży Polskiej, ZSMP) is an old youth group based in Warsaw. Founded in 1976 under the communist rule, the ZSMP is a former member of the World Federation of Democratic Youth. Along with the Socialist Youth Union, they formed the youth faction of the Polish United Workers' Party.

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Novelty (album)

Novelty is the second studio album by the American post-hardcore band Jawbox, released by Dischord Records in May 1992. The songs "Tongues" and "Ones and Zeros" were previously released as a single, and "Static" was featured on a split 7-inch with Tar. A video was produced for the track "Cutoff."

Novelty was the band's first album with guitar player Bill Barbot.

Critical reception
Trouser Press opined that "the mushy mix wastes the dual guitars, and [J] Robbins' vocals frequently seem dreary and monochromatic." The Washington Post wrote: "Punchy but hardly pop, such songs as 'Cutoff' and 'Static' possess both focus and bristling energy."

Personnel

 * J. Robbins - guitar, vocals
 * Kim Coletta - bass
 * Bill Barbot - guitar, background vocals
 * Adam Wade - drums

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Lager Sylt

Lager Sylt was a Nazi concentration camp on Alderney in the British Crown Dependency in the Channel Islands. Built in 1942, along with three other labour camps by the Organisation Todt, the control of Lager Sylt changed from March 1943 to June 1944 when it was run by the Schutzstaffel - SS-Baubrigade 1 and Lager Sylt became a subcamp of the Neuengamme concentration camp (located in Hamburg, Germany).

Alderney camps
Each Alderney camp was named after one of the Frisian Islands: Lager Norderney located at Saye, Lager Helgoland at Platte Saline, Lager Sylt near the old telegraph tower at La Foulère and Lager Borkum, situated near the Impot. Two of these camps were the only Nazi concentration camps on British soil.

The Borkum and Helgoland camps were "volunteer" (Hilfswillige) labour camps and the labourers in those camps were treated harshly but better than the inmates at the Sylt and Norderney camps and were paid for work done. Lager Borkum was used for German technicians and volunteers from different countries of Europe. Lager Helgoland was filled with Russian Organisation Todt workers. (For further information on Alderney camps, see Appendix F: Concentration Camps: Endlösung – The Final Solution; Alderney, a Nazi concentration camp on an island Anglo-Norman. )

Lager Sylt
Today, little remains of the camp. Three gateposts to the rear of the island's airport mark the entrance; one has had a commemorative plaque attached. Some ruins remain, including a number of sentry posts, some foundations and a small tunnel, which led from the camp commandant's house to the inside of the camp. The commandant's house was later moved to another part of the island.

It was built by the Organisation Todt (OT) in January 1942 by and for their forced labourers who would be employed in building fortifications including bunkers, gun emplacements, air-raid shelters and tunnels.

Sylt camp held Jewish enforced labourers. The prisoners in Lager Sylt and Lager Norderney were slave labourers forced to build the many military fortifications and installations throughout Alderney. Norderney camp housed European (usually Eastern but including Republican Spaniard) and Russian enforced labourers.

The Lager Sylt commandant, Karl Tietz, had a black French colonial as an under officer. Shocked to see a black man beating up white men from the camp, a German naval officer threatened to shoot him if he saw him doing it again. Tietz was brought before a court-martial in April 1943 and sentenced to 18 months penal servitude for the crime of selling cigarettes, watches and other valuables he had bought from Dutch OT workers on the black market.

It was taken over by the Schutzstaffel – SS-Baubrigade I, which was first under supervision of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp; from mid-February 1943 it ran under the Neuengamme camp in northern Germany, located near the old telegraph tower at La Foulère. It was used by the Organisation Todt, a forced labour programme, to build bunkers, gun emplacements, air-raid shelters, and concrete fortifications on the island.

Post-war
Alderney has been nicknamed "the island of silence", because not much is known about what occurred there during the occupation. The German officer left in charge of the facilities, Commandant Oberst Schwalm, burned the camps to the ground and destroyed all records connected with their use before the island was liberated by British forces on 16 May 1945. The German garrison on Alderney surrendered a week after the other Channel Islands, and was one of the last garrisons to surrender in Europe. The population were not allowed to start returning until December 1945.

Over 700 of the OT workers are said to have lost their lives in Alderney, or in shipping that was sunk; the remaining inmates transferred to France in 1944.

The States (Alderney's governing body) decline to commemorate the sites of the four labour camps. Local historian Colin Partridge feels this may be due to the locals' desire to dissociate themselves from the accusations of collaboration. A faded memorial plate, tucked away behind the island's parish church, vaguely mentions 45 Soviet citizens who died on Alderney in 1940–1945, without saying how they died and why.

In June 1963, Roland Puhr, the first commandant of the Lager Sylt camp, was arrested in East Germany for unrelated atrocities committed in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. He was sentenced to death, and executed in 1964.

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Michael Geist

Michael Allen Geist is a Canadian academic, and the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-Commerce Law at the University of Ottawa. He is the editor of four books on copyright law and privacy law, and he edits two newsletters on Canadian information technology and privacy law.

Geist writes syndicated columns for some of Canada's largest newspapers, including the Globe and Mail, the Ottawa Citizen and the Toronto Star. His blog on the Internet and intellectual property law is a three-time Best Canadian Law Blog winner.

Geist was named one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40 in 2002, and Canadian Lawyer magazine identified Geist as one of the country's 25 most influential lawyers. He has been listed globally as one of the top fifty influential people in regard to intellectual property by Managing Intellectual Property. Geist has received the Electronic Frontier Foundation's EFF Pioneer Award, and the Public Knowledge IP3 Award, regarded as two of the top digital rights awards in the world.

All Geist's books and articles are published under Creative Commons or open access licences.

Education
Michael Geist attended the University of Western Ontario, and Osgoode Hall Law School at York University where he earned a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree. He obtained a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Cambridge, and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree and Doctorate in Law (J.S.D.) from Columbia Law School.

Career
Michael Geist joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa in 1998, and was promoted to full professor in 2012. He has held visiting positions at the University of Haifa, Hong Kong University and Tel Aviv University. Geist is a Former Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, and is a member of the University of Ottawa's Centre for Law, Technology and Society.

In addition to professional journal publications, Geist is the author of Internet Law in Canada, 3rd Edition, and has edited four books on copyright law and privacy law in Canada. Geist is author of a popular blog on the Internet and intellectual property law, and author of the "Law Bytes" podcast.

Geist has served on numerous boards and advisory panels, including the board of Ingenium: Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation; the board of Internet Archive Canada; the Electronic Frontier Foundation Advisory Board; the Canadian Legal Information Institute Board of Directors; the Privacy Commissioner of Canada's Expert Advisory Board; the Information Program Sub-Board of the Open Society Institute; and Waterfront Toronto's Digital Strategy Advisory Panel.

Copyright Law
Geist supports a consumer-oriented approach to copyright law, and he led the public response to proposed legislation in 2007. Geist's research "played a key role in influencing policy-makers during the enactment of Bill C-11, which modernized the Copyright Act of Canada for the digital age." His work has been cited in several Supreme Court of Canada copyright decisions.

According to Geist, proposed Canadian legislation in 2007 included the worst aspects of the 1998 U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) "with strong anti-circumvention legislation — far beyond what is needed to comply with the WIPO Internet treaties" and with no protection for "flexible fair dealing. No parody exception. No time shifting exception. No device shifting exception. No expanded backup provision. Nothing."

Geist has continued to play a prominent role on copyright in Canada, with numerous articles, speeches, books, and appearances before House of Commons and Senate committees. In October 2011, when the Canadian government attempted to pass a new bill on copyright reform which included digital lock rules, Geist argued that, based on former submissions to the government on Bill C-32 and the 2009 national copyright consultation, the bill was too restrictive and was primarily about satisfying U.S. pressure, not public opinion."

Trade: ACTA, the TPP and USMCA
Geist is considered an expert on intellectual property and digital trade issues associated with trade agreements. He played a key role in the failed international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), criticizing the ACTA negotiation process for lack of transparency, and warning of possible negative consequences for Internet users. He was similarly active in assessing the implications of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and reforms to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), later called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) in the United States or CUSMA in Canada.

Telecom: Usage-based billing and Net Neutrality
In 2011, Geist criticized the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission's (CRTC) history of inability to foster an atmosphere of competition that would allow third-party internet service providers (ISPs) to gain a foothold in the Canadian market. He did note, with the CRTC's usage based oral hearing on July 19, 2011, that they were making efforts to address this lack of competition and criticized Bell Canada and other major companies for their involvement in limiting smaller ISPs. Also in 2011, he wrote a report on the transport costs of a gigabyte for a Canadian consumer from an ISP and concluded it was roughly eight cents per gigabyte. This report was later denounced by the major ISPs, most notably Bell Canada.

Geist has been a vocal supporter of net neutrality in Canada, writing widely on the subject and frequently discussing the issue in the mainstream media. In 2017, he appeared before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics to explain his key concerns to Members of Parliament.

Privacy
Geist has regularly appeared before House of Commons committees to discuss privacy protection and potential reforms. He is the editor of the Canadian Privacy Law Review and served on the Privacy Commissioner of Canada's Expert Advisory Board. He is the editor of the 2015 book, Law, Privacy and Surveillance in Canada in the Post-Snowden Era.

Website blocking
In 2018, Geist opposed a proposal to establish a website-blocking system in Canada to be overseen by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. He wrote dozens of widely cited posts on concerns with the proposal. The CRTC rejected the proposal on jurisdictional grounds in October 2018.

The Online Streaming Act (Bill C-11)
Geist criticized the Online Streaming Act (Bill C-11) because it could limit consumer choice if imposing restrictions causes streaming platforms to charge more, or pull out of Canada. Also, altering how discovery works would be detrimental to content creators. He said the government, through its regulator the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), "gets to determine what gets prioritized…It's going to make choices – elevating some and deprioritizing others. That clearly has an impact on individual Canadians' expressive rights."

The Online News Act (Bill C-18)
Geist expressed three major concerns with the Online News Act, Bill C-18. He opposes, in principle, requiring payment for links, indexing, and any other mechanism to facilitate access to news because of "the harm to freedom of expression and the free flow of information online". Also, the Act would only apply to Google and Meta platforms, leaving out similar companies such as X (formerly Twitter), Apple, Microsoft, and generative artificial intelligence companies, such as OpenAI.

Further, the definition of eligible news businesses was expanded, and goes beyond the standards established under the Income Tax Act which govern Qualified Canadian Journalism Organizations. As a result, Geist said "the bill would require payments to broadcasters without any actual journalism or original news content. That isn't funding for journalism or journalists.  It is creating a subsidy program that only requires a CRTC-issued licence."

Books

 * Law, Privacy and Surveillance in Canada in the Post-Snowden Era, Editor.
 * The Copyright Pentalogy: How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law, Editor.
 * From Radical Extremism to Balanced Copyright: Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda, Editor.
 * In the Public Interest: The Future of Canadian Copyright Law, Editor.
 * Internet Law in Canada, 3rd Edition.

Awards and recognition

 * 2023, Privacy and Access Council of Canada Fellowship Award.
 * 2018, Appointment to the Order of Ontario.
 * 2018, Vox Libera Award for his contribution to freedom of expression by Canadian Journalists for Freedom of Expression.
 * 2016, University of Ottawa Open Scholarship Award.
 * 2011, 2012, 2013, Named one of the 25 most influential lawyers in Canada by Canadian Lawyer magazine.
 * 2010, Kroeger College Award in Public Affairs, for Policy Leadership.
 * 2010, Listed globally as one of the top fifty influential people in regard to intellectual property by Managing Intellectual Property.
 * 2010, IP3 Award from the Washington-based public interest group Public Knowledge.
 * 2009, Les Fowlie Award for Intellectual Freedom from the Ontario Library Association
 * 2008, Electronic Frontier Foundation's EFF Pioneer Award.
 * 2003, Canarie's IWAY Public Leadership Award.
 * 2002, Named one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40.

Videos

 * NAFTA and the Digital Environment, November 2017
 * Copyright and NAFTA Renegotiation, October 2017
 * Canadian Copyright, OA, and OER: Why the Open Access Road Still Leads Back to Copyright, October 2017
 * Canada and the TPP: A Digital Policy Failure, October 2015
 * Why Watching the Watchers Isn't Enough, January 2015
 * Beyond SOPA: ACTA, WIPO and Global Copyright, January 2012
 * Speech at International Data Protection and Privacy Commissioner's conference, September 2007

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Taenia pisiformis

Taenia pisiformis, commonly called the rabbit tapeworm, is an endoparasitic tapeworm which causes infection in lagomorphs, rodents, and carnivores. Adult T. pisiformis typically occur within the small intestines of the definitive hosts, the carnivores. Lagomorphs, the intermediate hosts, are infected by fecal contamination of grasses and other food sources by the definitive hosts. The larval stage is often referred to as Cysticercus pisiformis and is found on the livers and peritoneal cavities of the intermediate hosts. T. pisiformis can be found worldwide.

Description
T. pisiformis typically infect dogs and other carnivores such as coyotes and foxes. In rabbits, T. pisiformis larvae attach themselves to the liver and intestines, forming cysts 6 - 18 mm in diameter. This is referred to as cysticercosis.

In adult T. pisiformis, the long hooks of the scolex are on average 239.9 µm and the short hooks are 140.1 µm. The dimensions of the suckers are 322.3 x. They can have from 34 to 38 hooks, which can be up to 234 um in length. Adult T. pisiformis can grow between 0.5 to 2 m.

The intermediate host is represented by hares and rabbits, in which are found the mesacestoide (the larval stage) known as cysticercus pisiformis. This is found in the peritoneum of the intermediate host and can be ingested by the definite host when the dog or cat feeds on the viscera of such an infected intermediate.

Life cycle
Eggs are introduced into the environment through infected canine feces. In the feces are the gravid proglottids that house the T. pisiformis eggs that will eventually be released from the proglottid onto nearby vegetation. The eggs are then ingested by a rabbit or from any member of the Leporidae family. Once inside the rabbit's gut the larva or oncosphere phase will then penetrate into the intestinal wall until they reach the blood stream. When the worm reaches the liver the larva transforms into a cysticercus form. This cysticercus will stay in the liver for about two to four weeks, then move to the peritoneal cavity where it will wait for the definitive host to eat the rabbit. The definitive hosts are ether dogs or other members of the Canidae family. Once ingested the cysticercus finds its way into the intestine and attaches to the intestinal wall with hooks and suckers. After the worm has time to develop and grow in size, the gravid proglottids is released from the distal end of the parasite and passed in the feces to start a new cycle.

Adult morphology
The adult stage consists of a scolex with four suckers and an armed rostellum, a short neck region, a series of immature proglottids with undeveloped reproductive organs, a series of mature proglottids with fully developed male and female reproductive organs, and a series of gravid proglottids with an expanded uterus filled with eggs.

Pathology
In rabbits, there are not really defined clinical signs seen for any range of intensity except when there is an externally high intensity. In this case, rabbits look weak or ill. The major illness seen is signs of liver failure. In very few cases the cysts will migrate to the lungs or brain; these cases can cause breathing complication or seizures. In the most extreme cases, the rabbit will have sudden death.

For dogs, there are normally no clinical signs seen for low to moderate infections. In highly infected cases the dog will experience blockage in the intestines. In all cases the proglottids will be seen in the feces.

Diagnostics
When looking for signs of infection in the intermediate host or definitive host, the signs are not very externally seen. For the intermediate host there will be between two and 20 pea-sized cysts found inside the liver. The cysts that are found have one scolex inverted to the middle of the cyst. This shape is called a cysticercus, that is part of the metacestodes stage of life. The ones found in the liver form these bladders that are specifically called Cysticercus pisiformis for T. pisiformis. These signs can only be seen when a necropsy is done to the rabbit. When looking for an infection in dogs there is a more straightforward method. There will be gravid proglottids with striated eggs seen in the feces. This can be found using a fecal float on a sample that can easily be done by a vet.

Treatment and prevention
Taenis pisiformis infection is very hard to treat in wild rabbits and canines, but it is easier to control pet infections. One way to stop the infection is to prevent dogs from eating wild rabbits or rodents. If the infected rabbit is not eaten then the worm cannot finish its life cycle. Household rabbits usually do not get infected if they are strictly indoor pets, but infection can happen if they are let outside into open grasses.

If the infection is already present then use one of these drugs: Epsiprantel, Praziquantel, Mebendazole, Niclosamide, Bunamindine hydrochloride or Fenbendazole. This will kill the adult stage but not the cyst or egg stage, so several treatments may be needed. Daily doses of Praziquantel for about one to two weeks' time will be effective against larval cysticercosis in rabbits. One dose of Niclosamide or Praziquantel can be very effective in dogs.

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/MonadnockMountain

Mount Monadnock

A picture by me, Shiva shankar. This is 360° view of mountain Monadnock from top of it. -- Shivu 07:28, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

 * Nominate . - Shivu 07:28, July 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * The joins are visible, and the current placement in the article is very poor - it's only 16 pixels tall. —Cryptic (talk) 09:00, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeh you might need to adjust the brightness/contrast of the individual pieces so that the finished result is seamless. Enochlau 10:53, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Or use autostitch which can do miracles with this kind of pictures. For non commercial purposes is free. Nova77 22:18, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * V2 and v3 are using autostich. Thanks to Nova77 for pointing at better tool. --Shivu 10:37, July 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * You can still see the individual sections due to the large variations in the contrast/brightness unfortunately. Enochlau 03:06, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * V4, this is with different combination on brightness/contrast setting. --Shivu 15:26, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry to say, but it's still not right - in a panaorama, you must not be able to see easily where the individual sections start and end. Oppose. Enochlau 03:08, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Good panorama, but I'm not sure what to vote for. — Stevey7788 (talk) 21:11, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * the two versions next to the original are the result of the request from users. --Shivu § Mesg 4 Mè §  03:29, July 21, 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Apple symbol

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. Woohookitty 00:48, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

%EF%A3%BF
The article is about a character that is only used in Macintosh computers. Even the title is not properly visible on non-Macintosh computers. Useless article. Delete. — J I P | Talk 07:28, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Apple Symbols (typeface). This can be counted as a Delete, if needed. Delete. --Blu Aardvark 07:31, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * This page isn't relevant to that article. The Apple Symbols (typeface) article is about a specific font which provides a wide variety of previously unusable symbols to Mac users.  The "Apple" symbol is a character which is available in a large number of Macintosh fonts, but is not present in "Apple Symbols".  --Murgatroyd 07:43, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Ah. OK. Change to delete, then. --Blu Aardvark 07:48, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Article title is in the Unicode private use area, and so its appearance depends entirely on what font you're using (I see it as a Euro symbol with an extra line).  It's completely worthless as a redirect, since nobody who isn't using a Mac will be able to type it. --Carnildo 07:39, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Macincruft. - Thatdog 08:32, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete The private use Unicode sequence for "Apple logo" is "F000". I'm not sure what this one is, but it's certainly non-notable. -Harmil 11:54, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * No, it is not. Per ROMAN.TXT, the relevant official document. David Remahl 07:57, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or Redirect. Neither IE nor Firefox on most PCs can understand the symbol (I just see a question mark). However, if there's a relevent article, I think it should re-direct, as I can imagine other Mac users typing the symbol into the search box to see if there's a relevent article (and to test Wikipedia's capabilities). — Asbestos | Talk  14:09, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to some generic Mac article somewhere james gibbon  15:03, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * This does not look like it can be expanded so its probably a dicdef. Either transwiki or redirect.  Vegaswikian 04:51, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect so noone will have trouble seeing an interrogative mark on a PC, and Mac Users curious to see something about  will have a redirect. ATMB 12:23, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Apple typography which describes the codepoint's use on the Mac platform. This could be reevaluated if other significant uses of the same codepoint are identified. Carnillo: No, it is not completely useless since people who are using a Mac will be able to type it. This is in line with the policy on redirects (i.e. "if someone may find it useful") David Remahl 07:57, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete/Redirect. No non-Mac computer can render this, unless you install the Mac version of whatever your default OpenType font (such as Times New Roman or, in this case, Arial), and even that manual quick-fix locks out Linux, Unix, etc. etc. etc. Not to mention the URL. Say I link a friend to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EF%A3%BF. ooooh yeah, they're really gonna want to click on a link that looks like geek crap. This page would be fine if it showed a giant picture of the symbol for those who can't see it--like Ankh does--but as it is, no, just... no. Too narrow. Well, I'll vote to keep if I get to start an accompanying article about ÿ :) --yes, that's the Windows symbol, which even my beloved Firefox can't display. Only a certain percentage can see it, heck, not even all IE users at that, so it too would make a weak and "discriminatory" page, just like this. --and what would this page ever be beyond a stub? I mean, it's not like @ where you can talk about its long and varied history and myriad uses... GarrettTalk 08:42, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete useless trivia not warranting an article even if the damn symbol did show up. carmeld1 03:23, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Evrard de N...?

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. Sjakkalle (Check!)  12:15, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Evrard de N...?
A nameless non-person, the prior of a non-existent priory? --Wetman 07:28, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * That was deep. But yes, a person without a name who supposedly led an organization that turned out not to exist = Delete.  Dcarrano 23:36, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non-existence. --Etacar11 01:13, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete hoax. JamesBurns 08:51, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: no reason for a separate article to exist until and unless this person is identified in which case there might be grounds if it proves that he did anything else interesting. —Phil | Talk 12:28, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
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Decani

Decani (Latin: 'of the dean') is the side of a church choir occupied by the Dean. In English churches, this is typically the choir stalls on the south side of the chancel. The opposite side is known as Cantoris. The abbreviations "Dec." and "Can." are used.

The association of the Dean with the south side has propagated from the Sarum (now Salisbury Cathedral) liturgical norm, a practice that then propagated through pre-Reformation England and Wales. There are some notable exceptions in the monastic cathedrals, where the senior cleric under the bishop was the prior; he often sat on the liturgical north. Hence, in Durham Cathedral, Ely Cathedral, St Davids Cathedral, Carlisle Cathedral, and Southwell Minster, decani is on the north.

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George Band

George Christopher Band (2 February 1929 – 26 August 2011 ) was an English mountaineer. He was the youngest climber on the 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest on which Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to ascent the mountain. In 1955, he and Joe Brown were the first climbers to ascend Kangchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world.

Biography
George Band was born in Taiwan and educated at Eltham College. He did his National Service with the Royal Corps of Signals and read Geology at Queens' College, Cambridge, followed by Petroleum Engineering at Imperial College, London.

Having started climbing in the Alps while a student at Queens', he was the youngest climber on the 1953 British expedition to Mount Everest on which Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made the first ascent of the mountain. Two years later he and Joe Brown became the first climbers to ascend Kangchenjunga, the third highest mountain in the world on the 1955 British Kangchenjunga expedition. Out of respect for the religious feelings of the people of Nepal and Sikkim, they stopped about ten feet below the actual summit.

Following these early mountaineering successes, George Band spent most of his professional life in oil and gas exploration. In 2005, aged 76, Band made the trek to the south-west Base Camp of Kangchenjunga in Nepal. He was president of the Alpine Club and the British Mountaineering Council, and he traveled around the world. He wrote the books, Road to Rakaposhi and in 2003, Everest 50 Years on Top of the World (the official history - Mount Everest Foundation, Royal Geographical Society and the Alpine Club). In 2007 he wrote " Summit", a book celebrating 150 years of the Alpine Club. He was Chairman of the Himalayan Trust (UK). George Band was an Appeal Patron for BSES Expeditions, a youth development charity that operates challenging scientific research expeditions to remote wilderness environments.

George Band was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.

George Band died of natural causes in Hampshire, England, UK, on 26 August 2011, aged 82.

Books published

 * Road to Rakaposhi (1955)
 * Everest: 50 Years on Top of the World (2003)
 * Summit (2006), a celebration of 150 years of the Alpine Club.

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Die PARTEI

Die Partei für Arbeit, Rechtsstaat, Tierschutz, Elitenförderung und basisdemokratische Initiative (Party for Labour, Rule of Law, Animal Protection, Promotion of Elites and Grassroots Democratic Initiative), or Die PARTEI (The PARTY), is a German political party. It was founded in 2004 by the editors of the German satirical magazine Titanic. It is led by Martin Sonneborn. In the 2014 European Parliament election, the party won a seat, marking the first time that a satirical party has won a seat to the European Parliament. With the 2019 European Parliament election, the party gained a second seat, held by Nico Semsrott.

Name
Partei für Arbeit, Rechtsstaat, Tierschutz, Elitenförderung und basisdemokratische Initiative ("Party for Labour, Rule of Law, Animal Protection, Promotion of Elites and Grassroot-Democratic Initiative") is a backronym for PARTEI, the German word for party. The phrase die Partei ("the party") is evocative of totalitarian parties—such as the SED (the former ruling party of East Germany) or the Nazi Party—and is thus a tongue-in-cheek reference to the ostensibly totalitarian ambitions of its founders. This is exploited and parodied in advertising in which the SED party hymn, Die Partei hat immer recht (The Party is always right) is played. Note that the actual text of the song starts with "Die Partei, die Partei, die hat immer recht" (The party, the party is always right) which when spoken can alternatively be parsed as "Die Partei "Die PARTEI", die hat immer recht" (The party "Die PARTEI" it is always right).

Platform
Amongst other things, the PARTEI parodies existing parties' features and election tactics and its parody events sometimes include visiting other parties' events.

The PARTEI refers to itself as a haven for voters disappointed by other parties. It plans to engage in a (self-declared) "populist campaign" centering on:
 * Rebuild the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain between East and West Germany, changing east Germany into an "SBZ", a Sonderbewirtschaftungszone (Special Economic Zone). East Germany was referred to by the same acronym between 1945 and 1949 when it was called Sowjetische Besatzungszone (Soviet Occupation Zone). The aforementioned phrase was used to refer to the GDR for years afterwards, especially by right wing politicians who did not wish to acknowledge or recognize its existence. The government even issued a book called SBZ von A bis Z about things happening in the GDR.
 * Introduce an official "Knoppers break" in German schools (to take place at 09:30)
 * Reform of the health insurance system
 * Reduce working hours and abolish the Hartz IV laws and others introduced by "the neoliberal Schröder regime" (as an alternative to the Agenda 2010)
 * Discuss and ratify a new constitution by the people (per article 146 of the German Constitution)

Sonneborn explains this as follows: "Better that we get those votes than some sort of neo-Nazis." In order to achieve its majority, the PARTEI is willing to form a coalition with any other party other than the Free Democratic Party because "We don't form coalitions with joke parties."

It formed an "anti-constitutional platform" in an attempt to get the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution to surveil PARTEI. The effort failed when the federal office refused, calling the PARTEI a frivolous political party. The goals of the anti-constitutional platform were:

 * Abolish federalism
 * Wage a war of aggression against Liechtenstein in order to force democratization and abolish serfdom
 * Change the first article of the German Constitution ("Human dignity is inviolable") so that CEOs of certain TV channels would not be considered to be possessing human dignity

According to Die PARTEI, political goals are overrated; on the other hand, PARTEI promises a "modern" version of politics—i.e., they will ask for popular opinion and, once in power, will do something completely different.

The party describes itself in the left-right politics scheme with "There cannot be anything, mustn't be anything and won't be anything left and right of the party!" (This is a reference to a famous sentence by Bavarian Minister-President Franz Josef Strauß: "There must not be a democratically legitimised party right of the CSU.")

The PARTEI often caricatures the slogans of other political parties in their own campaigns. Examples include "Hamburg – city in the North!", "overcome contents" (Inhalte überwinden), "Education starts with 'E'" (Bildung fängt mit 'B' an), "Youth crime – not with us!", and "A unicorn for everyone" (Einhorn für alle).

By using satirical ways of running a campaign or making politics, the PARTEI highlights problems in the established system. For instance, the PARTEI successfully effected reforms of German party financing by selling 100-euro notes (and two postcards) for €105. German political parties are funded by the federal government based on their election results, donations, membership numbers, and income from the sale of merchandise (e.g. t-shirts, stickers). The far-right eurosceptic party Alternative for Germany (AfD) sold gold bars to its members, taking advantage of the fact that at the time the funding was based on revenue and not profit. This dramatically increased the AfD's federal funding. The PARTEI's campaign "Buy Money!" ("Geld kaufen!") led to a successful court decision and a change to party financing laws, closing the loophole.

Despite starting out as a purely satirical party intended to gather protest votes, Die PARTEI has since adopted some actual policy positions, including environmentalism, anti-authoritarianism, pro-Europeanism, and some others described as left-leaning. The party has also been described as humanist. In their 2021 party program, Die PARTEI supports the implementation of universal basic income.

Background
Titanic, whose employees would go on to populate the ranks of the PARTEI, began its political activities even before German reunification in 1990 — it campaigned against it. As Titanic co-founder Chlodwig Poth explained, the magazine sought to parody the Bild newspaper's masthead, which read "The unity of our fatherland in freedom, that is our mission". Titanic has had the slogan "The definitive division of Germany – this is our mission" in its masthead since December 1989.

At the heart of the PARTEI's political efforts lies the aim of resurrecting the Berlin Wall and all other border fortifications along the border with the former German Democratic Republic. This goal has however been hidden away in the last point of the party manifesto and was characterized by party chairman Martin Sonneborn as merely a "populist vehicle". He held out the prospect of a referendum after the PARTEI's accession to power. In order to raise the necessary finances for the erection of the Wall members are requested to donate the proceeds of their savings contracts. Sonneborn described the project as follows: "I give you and all the German public my word of honor, I repeat—my word of honor—that under us there will be no order to shoot at the Wall". (This is a reference to a false statement by former East Germany SED party leader Walter Ulbricht who in 1961 claimed that "Nobody has the intention of building a wall" shortly before the wall was actually built and a reference to "Waterkant-Gate" of politician Uwe Barschel.)

The territory of the former GDR is thus to become a "Special Cultivation Zone" separated from the rest of Germany by edificial means in order to emphasize the visionary idea of such a zone and is to benefit from a de-bureaucratized and streamlined administrative system. Additionally, the PARTEI is demanding health care reform, protection of natural resources and a program for reduction of working time as an alternative to Agenda 2010, an unpopular set of labor market reforms introduced under Chancellor Schroeder in 2003. It also supports improved co-determination rights for citizens, in particular it demands that a new constitution be passed on the basis of wide-ranging discussions, to be ratified by the people (in line with article 146 of the constitution).

Founding
The PARTEI was founded on 2 August 2004, by the editors of Titanic, a Frankfurt-based satirical magazine. The leadership of the PARTEI and the Titanic editorial team are close; former Titanic editors-in-chief include PARTEI chairman, Martin Sonneborn, and current honorary chairman, Oliver Maria Schmitt. Despite the fact that the PARTEI's official headquarters are located at Mauerstraße in Berlin, the fax number given turns out to be the same as that of Titanic editorial offices. Titanic is the official print organ of the PARTEI.

Titanic has a history of participating in election campaigns. For the 2002 German federal election it set up a stand claiming to be the Free Democratic Party and shouted racist slogans. In January 2003, Titanic staff pretended to be candidates of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Hesse. For the 2003 elections in Bavaria it surrendered in the name of the Bavarian Social Democrats ("SPD: Wir geben auf").

Participation in German politics
The PARTEI has participated in four federal elections (2005, 2009, 2013 and 2017) and most state and municipal elections since 2005, achieving its best results in a few districts in Berlin and Hamburg without however doing well enough to gain any seats.

German federal election, 2005
In June 2005, the PARTEI joined forces with the Anarchist Pogo Party in an alliance called Zweckbündnis ("marriage of convenience") for the 2005 federal election.

One campaign tactic was to auction its advertising times in German television (all German political parties are allotted TV time for campaign spots for free) on eBay. An allusion to a scandal of masked advertising on public television, the (mostly satirical) TV spots were presented in the corporate design of a German airline company, Hapag-Lloyd Express (HLX).

Nominating candidates only in the cities of Hamburg and Berlin, the PARTEI gained 10,379 votes (0.022% of all votes on national level).

German federal election, 2009
Die PARTEI, along with several other parties which had already participated in earlier federal and state election, was refused permission to take part in the 2009 federal elections.

In July 2009, Roderich Egeler, Bundeswahlleiter (Federal Returning Officer) and president of the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, denied official party status and the approval for participation in the 2009 federal election. He criticised lack of seriousness and organisation within the party. He claimed his decision was based on a fax by Die PARTEI which expressed that there is just one single Landesverband (organisation in one of the states). Die PARTEI rejoined that no such fax existed and announced legal action. T-shirts saying "Where is my vote, Wahlleiter?" were sold as part of a protest campaign and the party demanded that Egeler resign after he did not revise his decision.

On 13 August 2009, a movie called Die PARTEI – Der Film was released in theaters.

On 3 November 2009, the party launched a challenge to the validity of the 2009 federal elections at the Bundestag. Die PARTEI also saw itself validated by Bundestag President Norbert Lammert's maiden speech in which he criticized the election registration process, because "representatives of the established parties decide whether or not to register the competition". The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's report on Germany's 2009 elections suggested reforming election registration in order to allow unregistered parties to appeal before elections. On 6 December 2010, the party filed an official complaint with the Federal Constitutional Court. It was officially accepted in February 2011 but ultimately the court rejected it in April 2011 on the grounds that the party chairman as the complainant did not have the necessary right to complain.

State elections
Die PARTEI garnered 0.17% of the votes cast in the state elections in Germany's largest state, North Rhine-Westphalia, on 9 May 2010. The candidate for the office of prime minister was forensic biologist Mark Benecke who was supported by several well-known artists. Many German-speaking celebrities are PARTEI members, some of whom participate as their candidates during election time, among them Rocko Schamoni, Heinz Strunk, Mark Benecke and the rappers Maxim and Nico from the Berlin hip-hop group K.I.Z. Rodrigo González, Hella von Sinnen, Dirk Bach, and Guildo Horn all had their pictures taken with top-flight officials from the PARTEI to express their support during the 2010 state election.

Die PARTEI participated in state elections in Berlin, Hamburg and Baden-Württemberg in 2011. In the 2011 Hamburg state election held on 20 February 2011, Die PARTEI won 23,994 votes (0.7% of the total). In St. Pauli the party came in sixth place, winning 1,450 votes (4.9%), after SPD (37.4%), Greens (21.5%), The Left (20.1%), Pirate Party (6.7%) and CDU (5.8%). In five districts (Hammerbrook, St. Pauli, Sternschanze, Veddel and Kleiner Grasbrook) the PARTEI beat the well-established FDP. The PARTEI did best in the Kleiner Grasbrook district, where it attracted 39 votes, or 5.3%, drawing level in the district with Germany's largest party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

City council elections
Die PARTEI took part in municipal elections in North Rhine Westphalia on 30 August 2009, garnering 0.69% of the votes in Krefeld. On 17 May 2011, Manuel Lindlar, who had originally been elected to the Leverkusen city council via the election list of the "Die Linke" party, defected to the PARTEI. In 2012 Dirk Scholl, also former member of Die Linke, defected to the PARTEI in the city council of Saarlouis. In the elections for the city council of Lübeck in May 2013, the PARTEI won one seat. In the election for the city council of Cologne in October 2015, the candidate Mark Benecke received 7.22% of the votes. The vote had been postponed once because candidate Henriette Reker was injured in an assassination attempt.

German federal election, 2013
On 22 September 2013, Die Partei reached 0.2% of German voters in the 2013 federal election.

German federal election, 2017
On 3 September 2017, members of Die PARTEI assumed full control over 31 secret Facebook groups dedicated to the AfD, a right-wing party, by infiltrating those groups and ascending to the rank of a group administrator. This was made public by altering the group names, removing all other administrators, making those groups public and uploading a video which shows a member of Die PARTEI, saying that all people in this group are now being fooled by real people instead of robots. According to the video, these 31 groups encompassed about 180,000 members. Die PARTEI gained 1% of all votes, five times the turn out of 2013.

In November 2020 MP Marco Bülow (former member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany) joined the PARTEI, which entered the Bundestag for the first time in its history.

German federal election, 2021
In 2021, Die PARTEI received 1% of the vote for their party. However, they won a total 1.2% in constituencies which is twice what they received in 2017.

EU politics
In the May 2014 European Parliament election, the PARTEI managed to get elected to the European Parliament with 180,000 votes (0.6% of the total in Germany). Top candidate Sonneborn announced that all candidates from their list, starting with him, would take the seat for one month, then retire and thus get the most money out of the European Union. He also said he believed that they were "not the craziest party in the European Parliament".

Its campaign slogan was "For Europe, Against Europe", which Sonneborn explained that the PARTEI was inclusive—it welcomed the 70% of Germans opinion polls said were not interested in Europe, "But we also say yes to Europe so everybody opposed to or in favour of Europe can vote for us". Specific campaign pledges included promising to "build a wall around Switzerland, put Chancellor Angela Merkel on a show trial in the Berlin Olympic stadium and to frack the rotund politicians Sigmar Gabriel and Peter Altmaier for cheap gas".

In the 2019 European Parliament election, the PARTEI won nearly 900,000 votes or 2.4% of the German total, thus winning two seats which are held by Martin Sonneborn and the Kabarett artist Nico Semsrott. Semsrott left the party in January 2021 over a design draft for a T-Shirt Sonneborn had shared and which contained a racial slur.

In late 2014, after the now defunct Eurosceptic parliamentary group, Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy briefly ceased to exist, due to no longer meeting the criteria of 7 different countries being represented, The EFDD approached Sonneborn with the offer of joining their group. Sonneborn told The EFDD that he would only join if the group renamed itself “Sonneborn’s EFDD".

The LISTE – the PARTEI student organization
Between 2005 and 2009, the PARTEI's student organizations began to make themselves felt in student parliaments in Bochum, Aachen, Berlin, Dortmund and Düsseldorf. In most cases the groups branded themselves as List for Grass-Roots Democratic Initiatives, Education, Animal Breeding and Promotion of Elites (German acronym LISTE—Liste für basisdemokratische Initiative, Studium, Tierzucht und Elitenförderung). The student organization has 8,000 members nationwide, according to its own reports.

During the 2009/10 legislature, the PARTEI student organization was able to advance its own man to the post of the President of the Düsseldorf student parliament. In the 2010/11 legislature, the PARTEI student organization now controls the post of assistant President of the student parliament at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen University of Applied Sciences, their LISTE standing for "List for Integration, Freedom from university fees, Technology and Promotion of Elites"). On 20 April 2011, Tobias M. Bölz, chairman of LISTE at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology was elected to the chairmanship of the executive committee of the student body, having been president of the student parliament in the previous legislative period.

The Hintner Youth
In line with the motto, "We need a children's and youth wing, because we need a children's and youth wing!", the Hintner Youth, named after the PARTEI's general secretary Thomas Hintner, was founded on 5 June 2005, during the state conference in Mannheim. The Hintner Youth's official greeting is, "Hi Hintner!", thus alluding to the Nazi Party's Hitler Youth and greeting.

The Hintner Youth's uniform, with its blue shirt, gray trousers and red scarf are reminiscent of East Germany's Pioneer Organization and the Free German Youth (FDJ).

The PARTEI school
The PARTEI runs a school in Schwerin, which by allusion to the official SED schools is simply known as the "PARTEI school". The school's purpose is not only to improve PARTEI official's political literacy but also to provide general educational programs, including IT and foreign languages. The school's director is Heike Zeilinger, with Ulf Mittelstädt and Michael Padefke as heads of the individual departments. According to the PARTEI the school has no real estate of its own.

State organizations
The chairpersons of the German states are:

Literature

 * Martin Sonneborn: Das PARTEI Buch. Wie man in Deutschland eine Partei gründet und die Macht übernimmt. ['The PARTY book. How to found a party in Germany and take over.'] Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 2009, ISBN 978-3-462-04090-6

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Not sure how you want this handled, I am about to go to bed. HighInBC Need help?  04:56, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I've blocked this account directly. There is some logged out editing that's disruptive. I'm not quite sure if this user is willing to edit constructively. Mike V • Talk 14:22, 30 June 2016 (UTC)

I will edit constructively from here on in. I wanted to report that user, but I had forgotten my original login (this one), so I created another user account after I realized that it would look foolish to report a user while not logged in. Again, this is my bad and I apologize. Loknar (talk) 00:31, 3 July 2016 (UTC)

The IP that I am requesting be unblocked is 2601:240:C700:FDCF:915E:8BB3:1E04:F14C, which I think was blocked at the subnet level, /64. I made a mistake that night and that lead to this chain of misunderstandings. I will not conduct any further disruptive editing. There was only one user I wanted to report for bias edits and that was the genesis of this problem. Loknar (talk) 19:25, 9 July 2016 (UTC)

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Following a successful appeal to arbcom, this account has been unblocked. In the future, please take careful note of the sockpuppetry policy, particularly the section related to legitimate uses of alternative accounts. Happy editing! Opabinia regalis (talk) 05:41, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
 * Indeed, and once again our apologies for not having dealt with the matter more quickly. Happy editing, Drmies (talk) 17:48, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

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Wow! This is some name! I can use it to test my eyesight ;) =Nichalp   «Talk»=  07:33, July 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * I wanted to get the Polish name started, and once I got the English name right, I made the move. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 07:54, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Suggestion: The pronounciation of the Polish name would be great. I'm not sure how those extra-alphabet characters reads. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  10:23, July 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * That is a good idea, but I am not sure who I can ask to pull it off. I do not speak Polish or have the accent. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 22:24, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

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Kannapolis City Schools

Kannapolis City Schools is a local education agency headquartered in Kannapolis, North Carolina. It encompasses parts of Cabarrus and Rowan Counties, yet operates independently of both county-wide school systems. This is a legacy of the fact that Kannapolis was originally a company town for Cannon Mills (Kannapolis was not incorporated as a city until 1984).

Grades K-12

 * Grades K-5: G.W. Carver Elementary School (Founded 2017), building was previously used for Kannapolis Middle School and Kannapolis Intermediate School)
 * Grades 6-8: Kannapolis Middle School (Eagles; kelly green and navy blue) (founded 1981, moved to current facility in 2005)
 * Grades 9-12: A.L. Brown High School (Wonders; kelly green and White) (founded 1924 as J. W. Cannon High School, renamed and moved to current facility in 1952)

Elementary Schools
 * Forest Park Elementary
 * Shady Brook Elementary
 * Jackson Park Elementary
 * Fred L. Wilson Elementary
 * North Kannapolis Elementary (formerly Woodrow Wilson)
 * G.W. Carver Elementary School

New policies
In 2017–2018 school year, Kannapolis opened a new part of the middle school. Now the upper building houses 6th grade and the lower building houses 7th and 8th. The elementary schools now house k-5 again. The former intermediate school has been renamed George Washington Carver, and is an Arts magnet elementary school.

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Fosters Freeze

Fosters Freeze is a chain of fast-food restaurants in California. Its first location, on La Brea Avenue in Inglewood, California, was opened by George Foster in 1946 and is still operating.

The chain's name refers to its soft-serve ice milk and milkshakes. Its marketing slogan is "California's Original Soft Serve." Its mascot is Little Foster, a smiling ice cream cone.

History
George Foster moved to California after World War II to open outlets for Dairy Queen, since he owned the development rights in the state. However, state laws protecting the dairy industry prevented the use of “dairy” in restaurant names. So instead, in 1946, Foster opened a restaurant named after himself, Foster’s Old Fashion Freeze. (The apostrophe was later dropped.) In 1951, he sold the chain's 360 locations for $1 million. By 1987, it had been reduced to 189 locations.

El Pollo Loco signed a master franchise contract with Fosters Freeze in 1994, allowing service of Fosters Freeze soft-serve ice cream in El Pollo Loco locations. In 2002, 163 El Pollo Loco locations sold Fosters Freeze products, and their overall sales increased by three to six percent. The contract ended in 2014.

The historical significance of Fosters Freeze restaurants attracts patrons and has united community members to preserve them. In 2006, residents of Menlo Park presented their city council a petition with about 400 signatures to prevent the demolition of their local Fosters, although it finally closed in 2015. The Santa Cruz location is listed in the city's historic building survey.

In 2015, a restaurant franchise investment group bought Fosters Freeze. It modernized the brand and operations; sales have increased every year since then. As of 2021, the company plans to add locations for the first time since 2006.

As of January 2024, there are 62 Fosters Freeze locations, all in California.

In popular culture

 * The Beach Boys song "Fun, Fun, Fun" was inspired by the Fosters Freeze location in Hawthorne, California.
 * The Fosters Freeze in Atwater Village, Los Angeles appeared in the movie Pulp Fiction.
 * In the drama film Twentynine Palms (film), the main characters eat soft serve at a Fosters Freeze.

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