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Brink!

Brink! is a 1998 American sports drama film that depicts the sport of aggressive inline skating. Written by Jeff Schechter and directed by Greg Beeman, the film stars Erik von Detten as Andy "Brink" Brinker, a high school inline skater who joins a group of skaters to help his financially troubled family. The plot adapts and updates the 1865 novel Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge. The film was released as the third Disney Channel Original Movie.

Plot
Andy "Brink" Brinker and his in-line skating best friends—Peter, Jordy, and Gabriella—who call themselves "Soul-Skaters" (they skate for the fun of it, not for the money), clash with a semi-professional skating team, Team X-Bladz—led by Val—with whom they attend high school in southern California.

On the first day of school, the Soul-Skaters and Team X-Bladz race on school grounds. Boomer, a skater for Team X-Bladz, is seriously injured during the race, causing Brink to stop mid-race to help him. Brink and the other racers are caught and suspended. Brink learns that his family is in financial trouble; his father, Ralph, has been on disability for six months and is unsure if he will get his job back when he's well. Brink secretly goes against what he believes and joins Team X-Bladz for $200 a week, as a replacement for Boomer. Ralph didn't want his son to spend even more time skating so he forbids him from taking the job. However, Brink disobeys him. Ralph being unaware that his son took the job and since Brink had said he wanted to work, Ralph gets him a part-time job at Pup-N-Suds, a dog grooming business. This, however, is a job which Jordy, Gabriella, and Peter are aware of because Brink had told them that he's working there. For a while, Brink manages to keep his other job in Team X-Bladz a secret from his family and friends by juggling school, both jobs, and practice with the Soul-Skaters. However, Jordy, Gabriella, and Peter discover the truth when they catch him skating for Team X-Bladz at an invitational prior to an upcoming local competition. Brink's friends feel he betrayed them and choose to ignore him upon discovering his alignment with Team X-Bladz.

Brink tries to rejoin the Soul Skaters, but is rebuffed. Val offers Brink a chance to re-join X-Bladz by noting the team won't hold him leaving against him. While scouting the route for the downhill leg of the upcoming competition, The Soul-Skaters and Team X-Bladz agree to a downhill race, with Gabriella against Brink. During the race, Val sabotages the course by tossing gravel onto the road - but tells Brink to take a different route. Gabriella wipes out big and sustains cuts and bruises. Brink realizes what Val did.

Brink visits Gabriella at her house and she calls him a sell-out. Ralph learns about the accident from Gabriella's mother and Brink confesses that he took the job with X-Bladz even though he was told not to. Ralph has a heart-to-heart with Brink and asks him why he didn't tell the family about it. Brink finally confesses his true reasons for joining Team X-Bladz and wanting to be a somebody from it. He admits that though he got what he wanted, it has gotten him into a mess. Brink mentions he has lost his friends and doesn't have fun skating with X-Bladz. Ralph reveals that although the family is in financial trouble, Brink should not be skating for the money and would rather skate for fun.

Inspired by his father, Brink confronts Val at the local boardwalk, quits Team X-Bladz, and returns the team gear (skates / helmet). Val tells Brink to not renege on his contractual obligations with Team X-Bladz. This leads to a heated argument between both boys and Brink to toss a milkshake in Val's face. Val charges at Brink, but Boomer stops him and calls him a fool for not thinking any consequences for his actions, especially when he has injured Gabriella. However, Brink doesn't point out his problem because of his stupidity. For preference, he assures him that he's no fun to skate with. By the time, he storms off the scene along with Boomer, he makes a bet with Val.

In the days before the competition, Brink meets his friends at the skate yard. After giving them new skates, Brink tells them of his plan to sponsor the team under the name "Team Pup 'N Suds". When questioned, Brink admits he got an advance from PupNSuds from his wages to pay for the skates. They forgive Brink and accept him as their friend again.

As friends once again, they compete in the competition with their families' support. In the end, it comes down to Brink and Val in the championship race. Throughout the downhill championship, Val continually attempts to shove Brink off the course. When Val crashes off the course, Brink returns to help him up. Val yanks Brink to the ground to try to get a head start, while ESPN cameras stream the interaction to onlookers. After getting up, with Val in the lead, Brink takes a shortcut to win the race.

Immediately after the race, while Val storms off, Team X-Bladz manager, Jimmy, who saw Val's cheating and kicked him off the team, offers Brink captain of Team X-Bladz whose members reconcile with Brink, disgusted over their former leader's cheating. However, Brink declines. He happily re-joins the Soul Skaters and receives the trophy.

Cast

 * Erik von Detten as Andy "Brink" Brinker
 * Sam Horrigan as Val Horrigan
 * Christina Vidal as Gabriella Dellama
 * Robin Riker as Maddie Brinker
 * Geoffrey Blake as Jimmy
 * Patrick Levis as Peter Calhoun
 * Joey Simmrin as Arne "Worm"
 * Asher Gold as Jordy
 * Walter Emanuel Jones as "Boomer"
 * Katie Volding as Kate Brinker
 * David Graf as Ralph Brinker
 * Kevin Clifford as Garbage Man

Soundtracks
Original music composed by J. Peter Robinson, additional music by Phil Marshall
 * "Give" by The Suicide Machines
 * "Sooner or Later" by Fastball
 * "Apology" by Clarissa
 * "Come on Brink" by Mark Mason and Rick Allen

Reception
In 2012, Complex ranked the film at number 1 on the magazine's list of the 25 best Disney Channel Original Movies (DCOMs). In December 2015, Dylan Kickham of Entertainment Weekly ranked Brink! at number four on a list of the top 30 DCOMs. Kickham wrote, "Along with the hilariously nostalgic lingo, Brink! earns its place in the pantheon of great DCOMs for mixing adrenaline, drama, and one-time Disney golden boy Erik von Detten." In March 2016, the film was ranked at number 37 on MTV's list of the best DCOMs, consisting of 99 films. In May 2016, Aubrey Page of Collider ranked each Disney Channel Original Movie released up to that point. Page ranked Brink! at number 17, writing, "It's been official pretty much since it aired: Brink! is a classic. And, it's potentially the best aggressive inline skating movie ever been committed to film – though it might also be the only one."

Filming
"Brink!" was filmed in Kirkland, Washington and Los Angeles, California.

Scenes at the X-Blade Warehouse were filmed at the Skatelab Skatepark in Simi Valley, California. The down hill practice skate scenes were filmed in San Pedro. The skating competition was filmed at Zuma Beach in Malibu.

Actress Brie Larson auditioned for the role of Katie Brinker, which ultimately went to Katie Volding.

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Montana Freemen

The Montana Freemen were an anti-government Christian Patriot militia based outside the town of Jordan, Montana, United States. The members of the group referred to their land as "Justus Township" and had declared their leaders and followers "sovereign citizens" no longer under the authority of any outside government. They became the center of public attention in 1996 when they engaged in a prolonged armed standoff with agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Ideology
The Montana Freemen, who were direct ideological descendants of the Posse Comitatus movement, espoused the doctrine of individual sovereignty and based on this belief, they rejected the authority of the federal government of the United States. On March 2, 1995, William Stanton, a Garfield County rancher, became the first Montana resident ever to be convicted of terrorism; District Judge Kenneth Wilson sentenced Stanton to 10 years in prison (the maximum penalty) for using violence for political ends. The following day, four armed men who styled themselves the "Garfield County Freemen" were arrested when they entered the Musselshell County Courthouse and tried to file papers protesting the seizure of Rodney Skurdal's house by the Internal Revenue Service.

Liens
The Freemen, led by LeRoy M. Schweitzer, used inter alia Anderson on the Uniform Commercial Code and Bankers Handbook to draw notices of lien against public officials. The liens were then allegedly sold to generate equity to fund an effort to make a "firm offer to pay off the national debt." The Freemen claimed that the liens conformed to the Uniform Commercial Code and that their township's court had an interest in a tort claim for damages incurred by the named public officials for violations of their oaths of office. They also claimed that support of the corporate credit system was an unconstitutional and corrupt act which has throughout the last half of the twentieth century "...[deprived the majority of Americans] of their property until [their] posterity wakes up homeless...", a paraphrased quotation attributed to Thomas Jefferson.

Bank fraud
The Freemen were known to produce their own very realistic counterfeit checks and money orders, sometimes ordering items and deliberately overpaying so they could demand refunds. The president of one bank reported that over an 18-month period his bank received two to five complaints a week about Freemen checks. In 1995, members wrote a fraudulent check to try to purchase $1.4 million worth of firearms, ammunition, and bulletproof vests.

Standoff
In late 1994, foreclosure proceedings were initiated against the farm that contained Justus Township. The Freemen refused to be evicted from the land. They had also conducted their own mock trials of numerous public officials, and issued their own writ of execution against a federal judge. The FBI investigated the group and initiated a sting operation aimed at one of the Freemen's financial programs, which led to the arrest of two members of the group in March 1996. The FBI also had warrants for eight other persons suspected to be at the farm, but before they were able to arrest them an armed confrontation developed and the FBI withdrew to a safe distance to avoid violence. The similar 1993 standoff in Waco, Texas, involving the Branch Davidians, as well as the 1992 incident between the Weaver family and the FBI at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, were still fresh in the public mind, and the FBI was extremely cautious and wanted to prevent a recurrence of those violent events.

In late April, political activist Bo Gritz was allowed by the FBI to enter Justus Township so he could try to negotiate a conclusion to the standoff. Gritz was accompanied by Randy Weaver, whom Gritz had convinced to surrender to the U.S. government during the Ruby Ridge standoff in 1992. However, the FBI refused to let Weaver enter the ranch. After holding five meetings over four days with the Freemen, Gritz left in frustration, commenting that the group had presented him with a mixture of religious and legal "mumbo-jumbo".

After 81 days of negotiations, the Freemen surrendered to authorities on June 14, 1996.

Members and sentences

 * LeRoy M. Schweitzer – 22 years. Died in federal prison on September 20, 2011, of natural causes, at age 73 years.
 * Emmett Clark – Pleaded guilty and sentenced to time served plus 3 years under supervision.
 * Richard Clark – 12 years.
 * James Hance – 5 years, 7 months.
 * Lavon T. Hanson – Pleaded guilty under plea bargain and sentenced to 1 year, 1 day.
 * Dana Dudley Landers – Pleaded guilty and sentenced to 1 year, 9 months with credit for 2 years, 3 months already served.
 * Russell Dean Landers – 11 years, 3 months; later extended by 15 years (see below). Died in prison on April 10, 2021, aged 69
 * Daniel E. Peterson – 15 years (see below).

LeRoy Schweitzer was convicted of conspiracy, bank fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, false claims to the IRS, interstate transportation of stolen property, threats against public officials, armed robbery of a television news crew, and firearms violations. He received a 22-year sentence for 25 convictions in a South Carolina federal prison. After Ervin Elbert Hurlbert and Donald Little, who identified themselves as "Montana Marshals", attempted to free Schweitzer from the prison, he was moved to the Administrative Maximum (ADX) facility at the Florence Federal Correctional Complex at Florence, Colorado, in 2006. Schweitzer died, aged 73, in ADX Florence on September 20, 2011.

On April 7, 2008, Russell Dean Landers's sentence was extended by 15 years for attempting to extort his release from prison. He and two other inmates at the federal prison in El Reno, Oklahoma, had demanded millions of dollars from prison officials for the use of their names, which they claimed were "copyrighted". They were found guilty of "conspiring to impede the duties of federal prison officials and extortion in (their) efforts to gain release from prison by making financial demands on prison staff and attempting to seize their property."

On April 6, 2010, Daniel E. Petersen was sentenced to serve additional time for filing bogus liens against three federal judges from prison, including the judge who had originally sentenced him to prison. In 1996, Petersen had been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison, after being convicted on 19 counts, including bank fraud and armed robbery. While he was serving his sentence in a federal prison in Minnesota, Petersen devised a scheme in which he would retaliate against those three judges. After an investigation, federal prosecutors found that Petersen had invented a company that supposedly held assets that included a $100 trillion default judgment against the United States. He then sold "shares" of the phony company to fellow inmates and others. He claimed that these shares were backed by "redemption certificates", which would be redeemed when the "judgment" was collected. The judgment which he referred to came from a self-created court, after then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright declined to respond to his demands. He demanded $100 trillion, as well as $1 billion per day in interest, because he believed that the United States government was unlawfully confining him. Petersen followed up by filing liens against property which was owned by the three federal judges. He also offered bounties for the arrest of the same judges to facilitate their transport to Minnesota to respond to his liens.

Scott Roeder, convicted for the 2009 murder of physician and abortion provider George Tiller, was also reportedly involved with the Freemen.

A 2011 National Public Radio report claimed that some of the people who were associated with the Montana Freemen were imprisoned in a highly restrictive Communication Management Unit.

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Haunted History

Haunted History is a 1998 UFA/Cafe Productions series exploring the supernatural. Executive Producer Ed Babbage for Cafe (London). The American version of the show also debuted in 1998 (as a special) with the same premise of exploring the world to investigate the "haunted history" of reportedly haunted locations.

Premise
Tell ghost stories related to famous people and events using a mixture of experts and dramatic reconstructions of both the supernatural events and the history underlying them.

Season One (UK)

 * Episode 1: Legacy of the Battle of Little Bighorn examines the ghost stories associated with Custer's Last Stand.
 * Episode 2: Echoes of an Earthly Hell: Perched on a craggy peninsula on the south coast of Tasmania are the ruins of the infamous Port Arthur Penal Settlement. Do psychic echoes reverberate here?
 * Episode 3: Ghosts of Slavery The Myrtles is a two-hundred-year-old Louisiana plantation house with a turbulent past. A ghost story from America's South.
 * Episode 4: The Witches Who Cannot Forget: The story of Matthew Hopkins, Witchfinder General and the Witch Trials, and the ghosts which are still said to linger.
 * Episode 5: Verdun: The Secret Battle Underground: claims of ghosts haunting tourists in the tunnels of the fortifications of this terrible First World War battle.
 * Episode 6: Mary Queen of Scots: The Tragic Queen: retells the tale of the tragic Queen and the many ghost stories today associated with her romantic life.

US version
Haunted History premiered as a special in October 1998. The series began on 26 October 1999 on the History Channel and ran until 11 August 2001. It was produced by Greystone Communications. The show featured haunted locations where ghosts have been reported from all over the United States, the United Kingdom and the Caribbean. It was executive produced by Craig Haffner and Donna E. Lusitana, and produced by Greg Goldman, Jim Lindsey, and Jonathan Moser, among others.

Opening: "Stories of the supernatural: fact or fiction? Through a veil of sightings and encounters, we catch a glimpse of our historical past on our journey through Haunted History."

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There is now a French version of this up and running. It can be found at fr:Modèle:Îles anglo-normandes. --Wonderfool t(c) 01:58, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

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Have restored flags to template pending discussion. Do people prefer that they remain or go? Man vyi 05:55, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for not reverting altogether. There's been a big discussion over at template:Canada, where User:Astrotrain added the flags in a similar fashion and edit warred over them. They eventually went. See also WikiProject Countries/Templates/Navboxes, where no other templates includes such flags (except United Kingdom, and these are very small. They were, ironically, removed by Astrotrain back in February.) Circeus 14:44, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Plaid pantry

Plaid pantry
 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 Keep Redwolf24 06:07, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Delete nn corner store vanity, ad. TheMidnighters 01:58, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Three hundred stores is sufficiently notable. Pburka 02:01, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * So any store is notable as long as there are 300 of them? Even if there's no other usefull/notable information concerning them? Just wondering if there's any Wikipedia policy for something like this. --TheMidnighters 02:15, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I think it's just discretion for this issue gren 07:39, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete I have to agree with Midnight...this is not notable. freestylefrappe 02:34, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't know if there's an official policy. I couldn't find anything on Wikipedia talk:Companies, corporations and economic information. But a company with 300 convenience stores must have hundreds of thousands, or perhaps millions of customers. To me, this level of exposure constitutes notability. Pburka 03:28, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Weak keep, while Pburka makes a good point, it gets only 415 unique Googles. This is surprisingly few; I suppose this must be because it is of only very local consequence. However, to be of only local consequency and get hundreds of Googles is also fairly unusual. -Splash 04:49, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Pburka. --Pagrashtak 05:21, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep -- as long as article is careful about verifiable information and doesn't lean towards advertising. gren 07:39, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Move → Plaid Pantry, keep as per Pburka. …Markaci 2005-07-26 T 07:41:40 Z
 * Keep (and move to Plaid Pantry, as Markaci suggested). Now that I think on it, I've seen those stores very often in Portland.  I imagine there is some interesting cultural and company historical information that could go in the article.  I'll add it to my ToDo list, for when I get back to Portland. JesseW 07:49, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep (and rename, as above). The article is poor currently but could surely be expanded into something useful. Agentsoo 09:36, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep as Plaid Pantry. Too many localized chains have articles to deny this one. To be encyclopedic they should have more information than a phonebook ad however. --Wetman 10:10, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep I'm from the Northwest, and it's definitely iconic... compare to WaWa Predawn 18:24, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Humblefool

Humblefool
Final (30/4/0) ending 01:59 2 August 2004 (UTC)

I have no idea how long I've been here... I think it's under a year, since I got this comuter for NaNoWriMo 2004, but I digress. 600 odd edits to both the article and WP: namespaces. I use VfD often, stemming from everybody's favorite relaxation game, Newpages patrol. I was involved in the Iasson RfAr. What can I say? The mop has its call, and those of us who want the work answer...

OK, two more things, before they come up: I sometimes forget to preview (as seen by the creation of this page) and I'm a deletionist. - humblefool® 01:59, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

Support
 * 1) =No Big Deal. Hfool has been consistently impressive within a short period.  Slac  speak up!  06:35, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Am I convinced of good faith? YES.  [[smoddy ]] 10:57, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Support Good work on VfD, calm and rational, would make a fine admin. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 13:14, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Support. Humblefool impressed me greatly when I inexplicably (to him, anyway) reverted his edits twice, in a case of mistaken identity. He was polite then, and I haven't seen anything different since.  Joyous  (talk) 15:29, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Support, I have bumped into the user a couple of times and had no negative experiences; seems to have his head on the right place. --Sn0wflake 15:46, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Support. Seems like a good user, has sufficient experience with multiple namespaces, and is a fellow deletionist.  I also like the fact that during the recent CSD proposal, he put a notice for that in his signature to remind other people to vote on the proposed changes to policy. --Idont Havaname 17:54, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Support my usual "fits the criteria on my userpage" reason, that's sufficent information for me to support Y0u (Y0ur talk page) (Y0ur contributions) 19:30, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Support I guess he's just got connotations
 * 9) *No relation to either, I might add, User:Wonderfool. humblefool® 00:02, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Support experienced user.  Grue   02:58, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Support, I was impressed by his conduct during the Iasson RfC and RfAr and I've seen nothing since to suggest his other conduct has been any less than what I expect of an admin. Thryduulf 10:37, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Support. Familiar with WP procedures, and I agree with Thryduulf. --Deathphoenix 16:46, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Support I've come across this user's work before and I have no reason to think he'd be anything less than a great admin. Dan100 (Talk) 17:08, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Support. Always professional and pleasant on VfD. His personalized VfD user talk page message exemplifies the kind of conduct that is expected of an admin. Fernando Rizo T/C 00:54, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 15) *I forgot I even had that....I'll use it now though! humblefool® 02:41, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) Support. Polite contributor who does good work. Sietse 06:25, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 17) Support. Good and experienced user. Deletionism is never a worry when I consider candidates. Sjakkalle (Check!)  07:57, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 18) Support. Very impressive work with VfDs and the imageboard-related articles. - Thatdog 08:40, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 19) I don't like the bit about being deletionist but I'll have benefit of the doubt. JuntungWu 12:31, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 20) Merovingian (t) (c) 04:42, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * 21) Support. In my humble foolish opinion, we need people involved in the arbitration and new page patrol.--Jondel 08:35, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 22) Agree with the above. Radiant_ >|< 15:54, July 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * 23) Support -- Francs2000 | Talk [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg|25px| ]] 20:52, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 24) Support. We could certainly use more humble admins. CDThieme 23:39, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 25) Hayupp. Deletionist or not, Humblefool does good work. Grutness...  wha?  07:59, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 26) Support for the humblest of fools. khaosworks 01:08, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * 27) Support. Despite the fact that I couldn't convince him on IRC to mail me money for this vote, I will vote for him anyway.  kmccoy (talk) 03:02, 1 #* Support Talked to him on IRC, seems to know his stuff.--Tznkai 04:16, 1 August 2005 (UTC) I am invalidating my votes. See my user page for my reasons.--Tznkai 22:06, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 28) Support. Seems to have a history of fine quality editing. Flowerparty talk 05:11, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 29) Support Sharp and level-headed. Would have no problem exercising care as a sysop. --malathion talk 07:33, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 30) Support Good work with VfD, and even though you're a deletionist I think you'd make a fine admin. - ulayiti (talk)  17:12, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 31) Support, Pavel Vozenilek 20:31, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 32) Support -Splash 15:28, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Oppose
 * 1) Oppose 1607 in 13 months isn't very impressive. But edititis isn't why I'm voting against you. You make it known that you are a deletionist. I can respect that. But if the only you want to be an admin is to put pages up for speedy deletion and VfD, I don't think you deserve this job. --Ryan 06:06, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Non-admins can and do put pages up for speedies and VfD. Slac  speak up!  06:35, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I think he meant that admins have more influence over the outcome of such processes, in the sense that users tend to show a little more regard for the opinion of admins... I guess. :P Maybe. --Sn0wflake 15:39, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that's pretty much it. I don't want someone to become an admin, just so they can do around speeding up the deletion process. If he could do VfDs and Speedy Deletions without Admin, he shouldn't have answered the first question below with that answer. --Ryan 20:08, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Reading the answer now, I do see where you're coming from... and I don't really have too much of an answer. I'm not concerned with speeding up the deletion process, just closing the old ones.  Copyright problems also interests me, if I could find the process for closing reports there.  I'm not too involved in nastily contentious articles that might need protection... But I will read WP:AN and related and do what I can there, too.
 * Also, where'd the 13 months come from? I started editing for real on 17 November, 2004.  That's what, 9 months?  humblefool® 20:46, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Humblefool's answer seems fairly reasonable, as VfD could certainly use more people interested in closing discussions. As for speedy deletion, I believe that it does not matter much wether the admin has a tendency to keep or delete articles; there will always be somebody ready to jump at your neck and treat you as if you had commited a federal offence in case you lean too much towards either tendency. I wish I were joking. But I digress. --Sn0wflake 21:24, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Nine months or not, I've seen 3000 edits in six months or less. But it's not fair to compare you to others. I understand all too well that there is life outside of Wikipedia, and we can't donate all our time to editting. I'm considering changing my vote to Neutral. I'll take a closer look at some of your work. I haven't seen you before, so I didn't have much to base my vote on. All I had were your edit count, information on your user page, your answers to the questions below, and a glimpse at your editting. --Ryan 01:30, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * After taking a look at some of the articles you've done substantial work on, I'm still not convinced you are ready for this task. Most of them were stubs or slightly expanded stubs. The article about shaving cream could at least have a picture of a can of Edge or something. I'm sorry, but I think I have to stick to my first instinct on this one. --Ryan 01:38, July 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Oppose Editing speed is so slow that he/she could easily be a sockpuppet.     ( ! | ? | * ) 12:58, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) *I'm a Sockpuppet? I didn't know that!  I wonder who's got their hand in me?   No, no, go ahead and oppose, but this caught me from left-field.  Made me laugh, too.  I edit slowly because I like to stop and read things I come across on totally unrelated pages of the Wiki as I'm doing things. humblefool® 20:18, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Oppose Not enough edits. Dmn / Դմն 20:02, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Oppose for the same reasons as Dmn.--Wiglaf 19:21, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Neutral

Comments Questions for the candidate
 * Articles-614; Talk-84; User-116; User talk-110; Wikipedia-640; Wikipedia talk-37; Image-4; Template-2, for a grand total of 1607. humblefool® 02:16, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Redux:.   Total now 1807. humblefool® 20:18, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Me? :) Redux 02:34, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
 * 1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
 * A. Newpage vandalization, speedy deletion, Vfd closure, rollback (oo, rollback!  The antivandal power!), the generic answer, I guess.  I'm sure that I'd find something to do.
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. For a while, I worked on the now defunct substub page, picking random articles and working them up. Abhijeet Sawant, Abiotic components, Adaptive structuration, Agrarian law, Amateur writing, Adam Opel, Amitava Kumar, etc.  That was good, in my opinion.  I enjoyed that process.  Imageboard has been rolling for a while now too.
 * 3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
 * A.I firmly believe that too much wiki a wikiwacko makes. I promise that I'll never forget the point of the Wikipedia:  that we're making an encyclopedia, not an argument.  Content can always be worked out.  Vandals don't bug me; the damage is undo-able.  User:Iasson did bug me, but not in a terrible way.  There is no problem in the wiki that should drive anybody committed to it away.
 * Feel free to ask me more questions if these answers seem a little, uh, vauge. I have trouble staying on topic sometimes, especailly to really broad questions.


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Talk:Not in Our Name

Well-intentioned but problematic edits
Recent anonymous edit looks at least partly useful, and clearly well intentioned, but:

 * What is the basis for saying that the RCP is no longer prominent among the leadership? If this is true, at what point did they cease to be prominent among the leadership? Was this a sudden change of leadership or a gradual process? They certainly are still ardent supporters of NION, so I find this slightly suspect.
 * "Not In Our Name was the first group to come out against the war on Afghanistan..." I don't believe this is true, even if we confine discussion to the U.S., which this remark fails to do. ANSWER had already organized rallies, the first of them September 29, 2001, half a year before NION was even founded. I personally attended a rally in London with about 50,000 people around that time, though I couldn't offhand tell you the name of the organizing group.
 * "This of course does not inherently mean it is any better or worse for being a part of UFPJ." This is pure POV. It is the one thing I will delete without waiting for a response.

These changes were made anonymously, so I have no easy way to get hold of the contributor. I will leave a message on the relevant IP talk page and hope that person uses a fixed IP address, but if I haven't heard anything back within 24 hours, I will proceed to revert the things I think are wrong. If you are the person in question: it would be much simpler to discuss this if you open an account and log in. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:59, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * I share your concerns, to the word. Please revert if you don't get a satisfactory answer promptly. RadicalSubversiv E 06:36, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Given the lack of answers, I am largely reverting. If any of what I am reverting is actually accurate, please restore, with citations. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:12, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Jmabel & Radicalsubversiv, I don't remember what I originally wrote, but changed the first part based on fact. I'm the current National Coordinator of the Not In Our Name project, and while I think that supporters of the RCP are certainly supporters of Not In Our Name, I would actually say that "ardent" is a bit... overstating it.

You're right about the other remark, and I neglected to add that it was in the U.S. I was trying to find a way that we were the first to come out broadly, reaching outside of the movement, but I'll have to think about it more. Obviously my description was lacking.

Lastly, I disagree that the last comment is pure POV, I added that because I think that some people think one way or the other about us being a member of UFPJ. We are no better off than groups who are a part of the ANSWER coalition, nor is it worse. I was trying to neutralize what seemed to me to be a leaning towards Not In Our Name being "better-than" simply because we are a member of UFPJ. I am not all that familiar with Wikipidea, and made those changes unaware of the fact that accounts even existed to be created. I stumbled on a page that alerted me to the tabs at the top, which included "discussion." And lo, I found this! I'm not even really sure that you will get this msg... but I'll check back in a few days to see. I am really glad that wikipedia exists. It's awesome.--Aimara 17:59, 18 August 2005 (UTC) Aimara

 * Yes, absolutely, a message here is the best way of communicating about the article. In general, directly editing an articl about oneself is frowned upon, but not banned: probably this talk page is exactly the best place to bring up issues about an article about your group.

 * You might also want to check out Original research: basically what it comes down to is that Wikipedia is specifically not intended to be a primary source: any information in Wikipedia should be indepenently verifiable. Also WP:NPOV: the narrative voice of the article should stay neutral, any opinions should be clearly attributed. Thus, what Michael Albert had written about ANSWER ans NION is appropriate to mention; if you have your own distinct view, even though you are directly involved, Wikipedia cannot be the original place to propagate it, but if you have made public statements elsewhere (either an article, or quoted publicly), you are more than welcome to aim us at that; if worst comes to worst, while it is stretching things a little, what we've done a few times in the past is to come up with a way to verify your identity (basically, one of us would contact you through NION and by you passing back the message we would know you are who you say you are), etc. Obviously, we try to avoid that sort of thing, partly because it is pushing the boundaries of how we operate, and there is a "chain of trust" issue (what if I was faking having received confirmation, etc.) I'm sure you understand: the last thing you want is a situation where an imposter might claim to represent an organization and, yes, we've had people try to do that.

 * I know this is a little screwy; User:Cberlet/Chip Berlet has been up against a similar situation, as have others. It's tricky when a subject of an encyclopedia is also one of its contributors. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:18, August 20, 2005 (UTC)

you are welcome to verify through calling our national office (though it is likely you will have to leave a msg and i'll call you back). given all the hurricane katrina craziness, cindy sheehan, and renquist kicking the bucket, i probably won't be able to contribute much else for the time being. thanks for all the info though! Aimara 01:26, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Strange strange sequence
NION! is an American organization, so I (European) did not know about it before I found it in the anti-war template, or, what is the same thing, before I got addicted to wikipedia ;-D

I just read this article for the first time and it struck me: how very strange is the sequence of chapters. As a reader wanders into this article, the first thing he reads is criticism of another antiwar coalition (ANSWER) and specifics on the leadership of some group (RCP) which has so many other specialized ideas. This only widens the distance between article and the ordinary anti-war interested reader.

It is not a problem to me that ANSWER is critized, or that leadership is discussed. I only wondered: Why put sectarian issues first? Why not put priorities first: the anti-war movement? arguments? documents? protests? ... Sure, later on you can get into issues within the anti-war movement and name the differences. Fine. But, please, now this article leaves this impression: "NION is different from ANSWER and ANSWER has degressed and NION has not and NION has done different things... oh, that reminds me, NION has done anti-war protests." Strange strange sequence. -- 145.97.204.116 22:27, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Morton devonshire? hammer and sickle?
I realize that you feel that the subject of the article is communism, but I don't quite understand for what purpose you blanked a large part of the article and inserted an image of a hammer and sickle--205.188.116.132 06:46, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Role of RCP
I realize that the RCP played a significant role in the founding of NION, and I agree that it should be mentioned, but I'm not at all sure that it was founded "largely by members of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP)" (emphasis mine), and in any case their role, including their continuing role, should be cited for. Given that this edit was by User:Morton devonshire, the same person who earlier added a hammer and sickle to the page, I don't trust it. - Jmabel | Talk 18:03, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I largely take that back, it's well cited for later in the article (though I'm not sure it belongs in the lead unless RCPs ongoing role can be demonstrated). That's the problem with someone cries wolf: you stop believing him even when he's saying something solid. - Jmabel | Talk 18:07, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Signatories → List
I suggest splitting the Signatories section into a new standalone list e.g. "List of Not in Our Name endorsers" or something like that. The list would be described as: "The following is a list of noteworthy people who have signed Not in Our Name's 'Pledge of Resistance' or 'Statement of Conscience:' " or something similiar --DieWeisseRose 02:19, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I have listed them going across rather than down page. I feel that it does not need to be a separate page. -- Alan Liefting ( talk ) - 03:44, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

NION no more
NION released a statement back in March that they've disbanded: "It is with some sadness... that we inform our supporters... that we closed our national office and related infrastructure on March 31, 2008." I'm too busy (read:lazy) to add this, but someone should, methinks. 76.66.209.194 (talk) 15:32, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

title: Talk:Not in Our Name


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Batu Islands

The Batu Islands are an archipelago of Indonesia located in the Indian Ocean, off the west coast of Sumatra, between Nias and Siberut. The three primary islands, of approximately equal size, are Pini, Tanahmasa, and Tanahbala. There are seventy-five smaller islands, of which the largest are Sipika, Tello and Sigata (all off the west coast of Tanahmasa), Simuk (considerably further to the west) and Bojo (to the south of Tanahbala); less than half are inhabited. The total land area of the seven administrative districts is 1,201.1 km2. The islands are governed as a part of South Nias regency within North Sumatra province. In Indonesian and Malay, batu means rock or stone.

The equator passes through the archipelago, north of Tanahmasa and south of Pini. Administratively, Pini (with offshore islets) forms the Pulau Pulau Batu Timur (East Batu Islands) District of South Nias Regency. The rest of the archipelago at the 2010 Census formerly comprised the Pulau Pulau Batu (Batu Islands) and Hibala Districts of the same regency; however, both have been subsequently divided to form new Districts - Tanahmasa District has been formed from part of Hibala District, and three new districts have been formed from parts of Pulau Pulau Batu District - namely Pulau Pulau Batu Barat (West Batu Islands), Pulau Pulau Batu Utara (North Batu Islands, which lie to the north of Tanamasa) and Simuk Districts. The original districts remain with reduced areas and population, and thus the islands now form seven separate districts.

Notes: (a) Hibala District now comprises 42 islands, chiefly Tanahbala Island but including Bojo Island to its south. (b) The 2010 population of Tanah Masa District (comprising that part of Tanahmasa Island previously part of Hibala District) is included in the 2010 population of Hibala District. (c) Pulau Pulau Batu District now includes various small islands, including Tello, Batumakele and Sibele. (d) The 2010 populations of Simuk District (Simuk Island), Pulau Pulau Batu Barat District and Pulau Pulau Batu Utara District are included in the 2010 population of Pulau Pulau Batu District. (e) comprises numerous small islands including Sigata, Sipika, Pono, Sibaranu, Hayo and Bintuang. (f) comprises numerous small islands including Marit, Lorang, Memong and Lorang.

The four new districts in the Batu Islands are Pulau Pulau Batu Barat (West Batu Islands), Pulau Pulau Batu Utara (North Batu Islands), Simuk (Simuk Island) and Tanah Masa (that part of Tanahmasa Island previously part of Hibala District).

People
The people of the Batu Islands have had substantial interaction with the populations of Nias, to the north, whose language they share. The islands have occasionally been a destination for slaves who escaped from Nias, and in the past decade have become a destination for surfing boat charters from Padang, on the Sumatran mainland. The population at the 2010 Census was 28,468.

The islands were visited by Simon Reeve during Equator, a 2006 BBC TV Series.

Wildlife
A population of the Sunda clouded leopard had been recorded here.

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Westend (Frankfurt am Main)

Westend-Nord and Westend-Süd are two city districts of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The division into a northern and a southern part is mostly for administrative purposes as the Westend is generally considered an entity. Both city districts are part of the Ortsbezirk Innenstadt II.

The Westend with its Wilhelminian style buildings is a beloved residential quarter and has the highest real estate prices in Frankfurt. Many old villas serve as offices for law firms and companies of the financial community. Along with the Bahnhofsviertel, the Nordend and the Ostend, it is part of Frankfurt's dense inner city districts.

Western Boundaries
Like the other districts constructed in the Wilhelminian period the Westend has been within the town walls of Frankfurt since the building of the Frankfurter Landwehr. Largely consisting of fields and heathland, it was area made up of isolated farming estates. Streets in the area still carry the names of these estates which were called Hellerhof, Hynsperghof and Kettenhof.

Classicism and the Wilhelminian period
At the beginning of the nineteenth century the old Frankfurt fortifications were razed. Soon numerous classic suburban villas with generous gardens sprang up along the Bockenheimer Landstraße, the arterial road in the neighbouring town of Bockenheim. Among them were the Gontardsche garden house and the Villa Leonhardi designed by the architect Nicolas Alexandre Salins de Montfort, as well as the Rothschildpalais of Friedrich Rumpf. Around the middle of the nineteenth century the area through the town was divided up and the streets and Squares were laid out. The narrow, built-up Frankfurter Neustadt was bursting at the seams and so people were continuously moving to the outer western town. Paris became an archetype for street construction, therefore wide boulevards as well as squares with radial streets leading outwards began to appear.

In 1858 the first Frankfurt Zoo was laid out on the Bockenheimer Landstraße, which was later moved to the Ostend. The Westend then became a residential quarter for the affluent, as in other towns and cities with a Westend. Many villas and grand residential houses sprouted, of which many still stand today. At the end of the nineteenth century nearly the whole southern part of the Westend was built-up. In the northern part was the newly laid Palmengarten, the Grüneburgweg with its emerging Grüneburgpark as well as the Irrenanstalt (the so-called Irrenschloß, a psychiatric hospital) founded by Heinrich Hoffmann on the Affenstein. Around the well-contained development Mayor Franz Adickes had the Alleenring built at the beginning of the twentieth century, which at the same time bound all the new boroughs of the city together.

The northern borough was less densely built-up due primarily to the generously laid borders of the Grüneburgpark. In 1930 Hans Poelzig erected the IG Farben Building. Until the Second World War nothing else changed much. In the Third Reich the borough was abolished and the Westend became part of Frankfurt-Nord. Police station nine in Lindenstraße 27 was the center of the Frankfurt Gestapo. The Westend was spared from carpet bombing during the airraids of the second world war. Initially, after the war almost the whole Westend-Nord (from Wolfgangstraße) was declared a restricted zone. The American military set up their headquarters in the I.G. Farben building. Surrounding boroughs were converted into housing estates for GIs. In 1948 barbed wire was removed from the restricted zones.

Skyscrapers and street riots
In the 1950s the Westend was still a clean residential area for around 40,000 people. The houses had only four floors as a general rule.

The first skyscraper
In 1938 Frankfurt came upon the chance to purchase a 58 hectare area between Bockenheimer Landstraße, Unterlindau, Staufenstraße and Reuterweg at a very reasonable price, which had previously belonged to the well-established Jewish Rothschild family, land which the Nazi government had put into probation. Although the 1950 selling price was later improved, the return of a third of this area was demanded to be returned as part of the Rothschild inheritance. After this, approval of the construction of a multi-storey development on the Rothschild's returned land was received (they sold it to Schweizer Zürich-Versicherung and Berliner Handels-Gesellschaft) and office towers were established directly opposite the old opera house.

The Zurich building built in 1960, and demolished again soon after was the first multi-storied building in Frankfurt Westend. The city transformed the remaining part of the area into the Rothschildpark, which is accessible to everyone.

The abolition of housing space
After the abolishment of control of living space in 1960, Hans Kampffmeyer, the head of the social democratic planning department developed the concept of decentralising the inner city. The adjacent boroughs were to become an extension of the Westend. The so-called Fünf-Fingerplan of 1967 designated that through the Westend five leading axles – Mainzer Landstraße, Bockenheimer Landstraße, Reuterweg, Grüneburgweg and Eschersheimer Landstraße – should be developed under an intensive construction plan. From this came a wave of property speculation, numerous nineteenth century building were demolished in the following years, their long established tenants driven out by rough methods. Several hundred houses stood empty in the Westend of 1970, often in completely shabby condition.

The development soon encountered resistance by the population. The middle classes reacted with the creation of the first Bürgerinitiativen (citizen's initiative), the Aktionsgemeinschaft Westend (AGW). The AGW put together a land register of monuments and buildings worthy of preservation and by 1970 obtained a modification ban for Westend. Henceforward, the city wanted to turn around the development plans for any newly introduced developments. 1972 saw the federal state of Hesse issue a regulation against dwelling misuse.

At the same time the Frankfurter Häuserkampf (house squatting) developed, which was mainly driven by students at the University situated in the Westend. Many houses were occupied, which received constant supplies to demonstrate on the streets with the police. Joschka Fischer was also involved in this. The high point of the Häuserkampf was between 1970 and 1974.

In 1972 an attack on the American headquarters in the I.G Farben building was carried out by the Red Army Fraction, in which a soldier died.

In the 1970s yet another row of multi-storey buildings were built in Westend such as the AfE-Turm on the university grounds. The City-Hochhaus at Platz der Republik, in those days the highest skyscraper in Germany (and burned down in 1973 to the jubilation of several students) was however finished later.

Although in 1976 a construction plan was decreed that no more skyscrapers would be planned, exceptions were approved in the southern part of Westend along Mainzer Landstraße and the Alleenring. Today the southern part of Westend has grown together extensively with the Bankenviertel. On the edge of Westend the second highest skyscraper in Germany, the Messeturm, rose up to 257 metres.

Situation and demarcation
Westend lies at the northwestern border of the inner city and north of Bahnhofsviertel and Gallus. Its longest border separated it from Bockenheim to the west. To the north the Westend meets the borough of Dornbusch, and to the east of is Nordend. The northern border of Westend is identical to that of the former Frankfurter Landwehr, which protected the territory of the free city of Frankfurt for centuries.

Normally the people of Frankfurt say Westend is hemmed in by Reuterweg, the Bockenheimer Anlage at the Opernplatz, the Taunusanlage, Mainzer Landstraße up to Platz der Republik, Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage, Senckenberganlage, a small piece of Zeppelinallee, then from the southern boundary of the Palmengarten, Siesmayerstraße, Grüneburgweg up to its bend in the south east and Fürstenbergerstraße to the corner of Reuterweg.

The official urban districts of Frankfurt are not covered completely by these borders. According to these the whole Messe (fair) grounds, except in the west border area of Bockenheim and in the east of the district up to Eschersheimer Landstraße, also belongs to Westend.

Skyscrapers in Westend-Süd
The western part of the Innenstadt, the eastern part of the Bahnhofsviertel and the southern part of the Westend form Frankfurt's central business district, the Bankenviertel. The concentration of skyscrapers here is higher than anywhere else in Germany. The skyscrapers which are located in the Westend line up from the Bockenheimer Anlage via the Taunusanlage and Mainzer Landstraße to Platz der Republik. From east to west along this stretch are the Parktower (115 m), the Opernturm (170 m) the Deutsche Bank Twin Towers (each 155 m), the Trianon (186 m), the Frankfurter Büro Center (142 m), the Westend Tower (208 m) and the City-Haus (142 m).

There are more tall buildings at the Messe grounds: the world-renowned Messeturm (257 m, the tallest skyscraper in Europe between 1991 and 1997), the Westend Gate (159 m, the tallest skyscraper in Germany between 1976 and 1977).

Traffic
As a predominantly residential area the Westend mainly has narrow roads, which are calm in relation to traffic. Apart from a few exceptions all the roads are one-way streets, which change directions at cross roads. Therefore, the Westend is much loved by driving schools. The exceptions are streets which lead out of the Westend borough into other parts of the city. Initially these streets are Eschersheimer Landstraße, the Anlagenring and the Alleenring, which carry a majority of the rush-hour and Messe traffic. Other important traffic-bearing streets are Bockheimer Landstraße as the main street to the Messe lying in an east-west direction, and the fairway made up of Reuterweg, Bremer Straße and Hansaallee as an arterial road in the North and Grüneburgweg as another east-west connection. Apart from that Grüneburgweg is also the Westend-Nord Westend-Süd border.

The Westend was one of the first boroughs with a connection to the tram network. In those days the main route lead through Bockenheimer Landstraße. Since the building of the C-route of the Frankfurt U-Bahn the Westend still only had Messe line 16, which travels through the western edge and over the Alleenring. The Westend was also attached to the underground from its very beginning. The A-route traffic ran through a tunnel under Eschersheimer Landstraße. The Westned had another U-Bahn route since 1986 underneath Bockenheimer Landstraße. The C-route runs from the Alte Oper to Bockenheimer Warte. A third U-Bahn route was added in 2001. The D-route runs underneath the Alleenring and serves the eastern Messe grounds. A railway junction developed at Bockenheimer Warte. Through the stations at Taunusanlage in the east and Messe in the west, the Westend is also linked into the Network of the Rhine-Main S-Bahn.

Public services
Despite the high population density and the good traffic infrastructure the Westend has no hospitals, fire departments or police stations. All emergency services are however located close by in Nordend. In contrast the Westend has many superior educational facilities available. Near to the university the Westend has the Frankfurter Musikhochschule and the Sigmund-Freud-Insitut. Numerous schools can be found in the Westend of which several of primary schools (Elsa Brandström-Schule, Engelbert Humperdinck-Schule und Holzhausenschule), the I.E. Lichtigfeld-Schule of the Jewish community, a private school (Anna-Schmidt-Schule) and several grammar schools:
 * Bettinaschule is a grammar school with an emphasis on modern languages. It was founded in 1898 under the name Viktoriaschule as a higher girls school and renamed after Bettina von Arnim in 1947.
 * The Goethe grammar school was separated in 1897 as a Realgymnasium (an old special type of grammar school which no longer exists) from the urban high school created in 1520.
 * The classical Lessing grammar school likewise developed in 1897. It continues the humanistic tradition of the old Frankfurt grammar schools. The school building has been situated in Hansaallee in the Westend since 1902.

Economy
Korean Air operates its Germany office in the district.

Campus Bockenheim of Goethe University and Senckenberg Museum
Along the Senckenberganlage from Georg-Voigt-Straße to Bockenheimer Warte lies the Campus Bockenheim of Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. The buildings still date from the start of the university or further back in time.

The construction of the Senckenberg Museum is also impressive. It was erected for the Senckenberg natural sciences society from 1904 to 1907 from plans by Ludwig Neher. The museum was erected in the tradition of the baroque castles. The full, representative facade, which captivates through the building of wings for the Physical Association and the Senckenberg library in the form of open arcades, is worth seeing.

Amerikahaus
The building, (known as "Haus der Völkerfreundschaft" to the locals) inaugurated in 1958 on the corner of Reuterweg and Staufenstraße, was supposed to bring the American culture in the form of books, films and music, closer to the people of Frankfurt.

Messeturm, Festhalle and Hammering Man
The Messeturm is the second tallest building in the European Union. It is located on the western end of Westend-Süd at the fairground. Alongside is the Festhalle, a civic center, with a freely supported dome construction of glass and steel between stone corner-towers. It belongs to the first building which were constructed on the fairground. Regular exhibitions and concerts take place here. On the forecourt of both buildings stands the Hammering Man, a moving statue by American artist Jonathan Borofsky.

Campus Westend of Goethe University at IG Farben Building and Grüneburgpark
The established corporate headquarters of IG Farben were erected at Grüneburgpark in Westend-Nord in 1928. After World War II the IG Farben Building became the main location of the American armed forces in Europe. Since 2001 it serves as the new campus for the Goethe University. The surrounding Grüneburgpark lies in the curve of Miquelallee and is one of the biggest parks in Frankfurt.

Horse stables
One of the few original, preserved buildings remaining is the former Livingstonsche Pferdestall in Ulmenstraße. It is the only building left of a magnificent mansion complex of Max Livingston.

Westend Synagogue
The Westend synagogue, located in Freiherr-vom-Stein-Straße 30, is the largest synagogue in Frankfurt and one of three currently used synagogues in Frankfurt. Built originally during 1908 to 1910, it served the liberal community until its closing and partial demolition in 1938. However, on account of the buildings' close proximity to residential buildings, firemen sped to extinguish the fire sparked by non-Jewish German civilians and Sturmabteilung troops. After the war the synagogue was reinaugurated on 6 September 1950, this time by Orthodox Jews; it now houses the Yeshiva Gedolah Frankfurt. The synagogue's original design resembled Assyrian–Egyptian architecture. Throughout the various renovations that took place this orientation was preserved.

Suhrkamp Haus
The functional structure of the Suhrkamp publishing house is located in Lindenstraße, the architectural reputation of the residence corresponds inversely to its literary importance.

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Kara Ro

Kara Olivia Rheault (born November 9, 1975), best known as Kara Ro, is a Canadian boxing and MMA trainer, and a retired boxer. She held the Women's International Boxing Association lightweight title in 2005.

Early life
Ro has enjoyed an extensive career as an athlete and as a professional trainer. As early as the first grade, she received awards for her athleticism. In high school, while maintaining academic excellence, Ro excelled in athletics. She was a member of eight high school teams including basketball, volleyball, co-ed volleyball, track and field, tennis, badminton, swimming, and baseball. Ro was awarded M.V.P. in basketball, volleyball, co-ed volleyball, and track and field and was the city champion in tennis and triple jump.

Ro was the youngest player elected to the city's All-Star basketball team and won numerous awards as a tournament All-Star in volleyball. Ro's achievements and leadership awarded her both the junior and the senior athlete of the year awards. As a university student, Ro played volleyball for the University of Windsor. Not only was she elected captain of the team, but she also ranked in the top ten in Canada.

After her second year at university, Ro was introduced to the world of boxing. After two years in Windsor boxing clubs, Ro decided to go to Detroit, Michigan. In addition to many outstanding boxing awards in her amateur competitions, Ro won the prestigious Ringside National Tournament.

Boxing career
Ro fought and won all 17 of her pro bouts between 2002 and 2011, and won the vacant Women's International Boxing Association version of the women's world lightweight title in June 2005. Chronic back injuries affected her ability to walk after surgery for extended periods. Ro fought only four times in the next six years.

Radio show
Ro retired to marriage and family life, and has become a noted amateur and professional MMA and boxing trainer in the Windsor and Detroit areas. She also hosted the Canadian radio show 'TKO with Kara Ro', a noted radio talk show which is unrelated to boxing.

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 * It's a type of experiment. See double-blind trial. --Viriditas  | Talk 13:41, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

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Pini

Pini may refer to:

Surname

 * Anthony Pini (Carlos Antonio Pini; 1902–1989), Argentinian cellist, soloist, orchestral section leader and chamber musician
 * Antonio Pini-Corsi (1858(?)–1918), Italian operatic baritone
 * Carolina Pini (1988–), Italian soccer player
 * Ermenegildo Pini (1739–1825), Italian clergyman, naturalist, mathematician, geologist and philosopher
 * Giorgio Pini (1899–1987), Italian politician and journalist
 * Giovanni Pini (1992–), Italian professional basketball player
 * Karen Pini (Karen Jo Pini; 1957–), first runner-up at the 1976 Miss World pageant
 * Lucila Pini (1930-1974), Brazilian sprinter
 * Marcela Pini (1972-), Uruguayan activist and psychologist
 * Matt Pini (Matthew James Pini; 1969–), Australian-born Italian naturalized rugby union player
 * Napoleone Pini (1835-1907), Italian zoologist and palaeontologist
 * Rodolfo Pini (1926–2000), Uruguayan footballer
 * Ryan Pini (1981–), 3-time Olympic swimmer from Papua New Guinea
 * Tiziana Pini (1958–), Italian actress and television personality
 * Wendy and Richard Pini (1951– and 1950–), creators of the Elfquest series
 * Yoav Pini Jarafi (born 1993), Israeli footballer who plays as goalkeeper

Given name

 * Pinhas "Pini" Badash (1952–), Israeli politician
 * Pini Balili (born 1979), Israeli footballer
 * Pinchas "Pini" Ben-Porat (1914-1955), one of Israel's first aviators
 * Pinchas Eliezer "Pini" Dunner (born 1970), orthodox rabbi living in Beverly Hills, CA
 * Pini Gershon (born 1951), Israeli basketball player and coach
 * Pini Shomer (1951–), Israeli former politician
 * Pinhas "Pini" Zahavi (1955–), Israeli football agent

Other uses

 * Pini (web series), the 2010 web series that was broadcast on Ynet
 * Pini people, an Australian Aboriginal people of Western Australia
 * Pini, a village in Victor Vlad Delamarina Commune, Timiș County, Romania
 * Pini, one of the Batu Islands
 * Poggio dei Pini, in south-west Sardinia, Italy

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A Period of Transition

A Period of Transition is the ninth studio album by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, released in 1977 (see 1977 in music). It was his first album in two-and-a-half years. At the time of its release it was received with some disappointment by critics and fans: "Most were hoping for a work of primeval vocal aggression that would challenge the emerging élite of Morrison pretenders, whose ranks included Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger, Phil Lynott, Graham Parker and Elvis Costello." However, the album is still notable for several major compositions, including "Heavy Connection", "Flamingos Fly", "The Eternal Kansas City" and "Cold Wind in August".

The album was coproduced by Mac Rebennack, who also played keyboards and guitar; he had appeared with Morrison at the 1976 concert filmed as ''The Last Waltz.

Recording
Clinton Heylin remarks on "Flamingos Fly" and "Joyous Sound": "Just seven songs were recorded [for A Period of Transition] and two of these had already been cut at the Record Plant back in 1975." Both of these versions were included on the 1998 compilation album, The Philosopher's Stone. "Flamingos Fly" was also recorded in 1973 with Jackie DeShannon and appeared on her 2003 reissue album Jackie... Plus, along with three other original Morrison compositions from that recording session. It did not take Morrison long to play the song in concert – a week after the recording session on 18 April 1973, the song featured in a concert in Los Angeles at the Shrine Auditorium. This performance remains the only known live version of the song.

Composition
"You Gotta Make It Through the World" is according to Morrison, "a survival song". Dr. John felt that it had "a real spiritual sound". "It Fills You Up" is an attempt by the singer to explain the inspirational spirit that is often found in his music. "The Eternal Kansas City" is, according to Dr. John, "the song that Van got the whole album hooked up around.  It was a real deep thing for him to focus on.  It goes from a real ethereal voice sound to a jazz introduction and then into a kind of chunky R&B." The song, "Joyous Sound" is described by Brian Hinton as "more like the real Van as he starts to wail and the lyrics describe themselves." Morrison said of the track, "Flamingos Fly", "I've done three versions in the studio. I've done it slow, a ballad version.  I've done a mid-tempo version and I've done this version.  This is the version I like best for release." "Heavy Connection" is said to be "psychic stuff" with the lyrics vague and secret but speaking of a love connection "when you came into my dreams/like from a whisper to a scream." The last song on the album is "Cold Wind in August". Dr. John describes it as a "cross current from forties to seventies music. It's like where Ray Charles left off.  It's a real tear-jerker that gets back to the basics of music." "Flamingos Fly" was covered by Sammy Hagar, a year before A Period of Transition was released, on his first solo album Nine on a Ten Scale.

Critical reception
In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, Greil Marcus dismissed the songs as "a lot of neo-R&B huffing and puffing" and said "Morrison's performances rarely find a focus, almost never hit a groove... The key to the album's sluggishness is the dullness of the horn charts." Robert Christgau wrote in The Village Voice: "In general this is an unexciting record – but not definitively. It's full of the surprising touches... that signify talent putting out." Peter Knobler wrote in Crawdaddy, "The agonies of Morrison's earlier works are submerged—not obliterated, mind you, or denied, but not crowding out the obvious pleasure that carries the album forward." The Globe and Mail called A Period of Transition "a fine record marred by a few more bad moments than he's allowed before," but noted that "an artist like Morrison is constantly challenging his own tastes and beliefs."

Cash Box said of the single "Joyous Sound" that "Morrison relaxes with the pure sound and accent of the syllables in his vocal, while the band cooks throughout." Record World said that it's "a bright, happy jump song with a trademark Morrison horn arrangement."

In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine was more positive and said the album is "warm, welcoming, infused with spirituality and humor. Still like any period of transition, this is somewhat tentative and uneven, with its best moments, being at best, minor masterpieces." Biographer Steve Turner called the album "lethargic and uninspired" but said that perhaps it was the album Morrison needed to make after being largely absent from the music business for almost three years.

Aftermath
Expectations were high and Morrison has admitted to working at his best when not under the pressure of high expectations from the industry and fans. In June 1977, he explained his feelings about this:

"I think I needed to break a lot of that expectancy down. I know from experience that I go to see some artists expecting a particular thing. If they don't come up with that then I'm disappointed, but if I have no expectations they usually do something I haven't heard before and I'm turned on.  The moment you expect something, you never get it."

The album charted moderately well but most critics were disappointed, after waiting three years for a new album from Morrison. He had hired Harvey Goldsmith as manager and began a much more public media profile after the album's release. He recorded a session of The Midnight Special for NBC that was broadcast in April 1977, appearing with Carlos Santana, George Benson and Etta James. Morrison also began giving interviews again, commencing with his first interview since 1973 to Cameron Crowe from Rolling Stone. In the interview when asked by Crowe: "Is the album a document of the actual period? Is the transition over?" Morrison replies: "All of that. It's been going on for about three years ...it's like, there's been lots of highs and there's been depressions... there's been starts and stops...it's just a period, you know."

Album cover
Morrison has said that the title of the album referred to its front cover. Photographer Ken Mcgowan captured Morrison in various reflective, introspective moods until he realises with a half smile in the last shot that all such moods are transitory.

Track listing
All songs written by Van Morrison unless noted.

 * Side one
 * 1) "You Gotta Make It Through the World"  – 5:10
 * 2) "It Fills You Up"  – 4:34
 * 3) "The Eternal Kansas City"  – 5:26

 * Side two
 * 1) "Joyous Sound"  – 2:48
 * 2) "Flamingos Fly"  – 4:41
 * 3) "Heavy Connection"  – 5:23
 * 4) "Cold Wind in August"  – 5:48

Personnel

 * Musicians
 * Van Morrison – acoustic and electric guitars, vocals, harmonica
 * Ollie E. Brown – drums, percussion
 * Marlo Henderson – guitar
 * Jerry Jumonville – tenor and alto saxophones
 * Reggie McBride – bass guitar
 * Joel Peskin – baritone saxophone
 * Mac Rebennack (Dr. John) – piano, electric piano on all tracks, guitar on "It Fills You Up"
 * Mark Underwood – trumpet
 * Robbie Montgomery, Roger Kennerly-Saint, Gregory Wright, Carlena Williams, Paulette Parker, Candy Nash, Toni McVey, Gary Garrett and Joe Powell – backing vocals

 * Production
 * Producers: Van Morrison, Dr. John
 * Engineer: Gary Ladinsky
 * Assistant Engineers: Mike Beiriger, Richard Kaplan, Bart Johnson, Mick Glossop
 * Art Direction/Design: Mike Doud-AGI Hollywood
 * Photography: Ken McGowan
 * Management: Harvey Goldsmith
 * Cover Concept: Van Morrison

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Need for major improvements
As Bailey is among Britain's most famous photographers, I think he deserves a far better article than the one we have at present. I'll try to contribute myself but I happen to be bogged down in lots of other areas at the moment and could do with some help. Hope I'm not alone in supporting this cause. - Ipigott (talk) 17:33, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

 * Yes, the article does rather go on about how exciting and fashionable everything was in "swinging London" etc etc etc; and says little about the photography, which I'm ashamed to say I had dismissed as merely a superior and sometimes arresting kind of fashion/celeb photography. (Nothing necessarily wrong with the latter; but given a choice between photos of Beautiful People and those not of Beautiful People, I'll take the latter.) Well, Francis Hodgson points out that I was very wrong. -- Hoary (talk) 01:14, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

 * You have an excellent memory. Glad to see the article is moving in the right direction. --Ipigott (talk) 09:02, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

 * I'll be pretty busy for the next couple of days, and during this period will only make enough changes to reassure you that I haven't forgotten about the matter. After that, I hope to do more. Do please join in! -- Hoary (talk) 10:05, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Photograph
Are you sure that is a picture of David Bailey; looks nothing like him. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.139.65.52 (talk) 19:16, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

Date of Birth
The date of birth in the first paragraph doesn't match that in the info box. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.155.87.116 (talk) 06:35, 23 May 2017 (UTC)

More to the point it says "In 1959, Bailey became a photographic assistant at the John French studio" but this is 5 years before his stated date of birth. It goes on to say "Along with Terence Donovan and Brian Duffy, Bailey captured and helped create the 'Swinging London' of the 1960s" but if he was born in 1964 he would have been a toddler! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.2.218.13 (talk) 22:24, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Clearly his D.O.B is incorrect. David Bailey was born in 1938 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.2.218.13 (talk) 22:22, 6 July 2019 (UTC)

Marriages
If David has been married nine times, why are only four wives listed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.231.25.179 (talk) 17:31, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Addresses
A revision of 2013-03-04 added Glastonbury, Somerset, as Bailey's present home but did not include a cited source. My search of the Electoral Roll and today indicates:
 * his present address remains as previously included (on Dartmoor, near Plymouth), with a company address in London.
 * there are several people named David Bailey (but who are not him, being much younger) listed on the Electoral Roll and BT Phone Book as living in the Glastonbury area. I suspect one of them caused confusion.

I'm making an edit to that effect, but not including full address information; Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons is clear on the issue of privacy. It's not possible to provide an exact web page source beyond the main website of the Electoral Roll search. Twistlethrop (talk) 12:53, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

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Stigler Commission

Formally known as the Price Statistics Review Committee, the Stigler Commission was convened in 1961 to study the measurement of inflation in the United States. Headed by economist George Stigler, its mandate was to conduct research into all types of price indices, including the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Based on its recommendations, the Bureau of Labor Statistics established a price research division.

The next major commission like it was the Boskin Commission in 1996, which was solely focused on evaluating the CPI.

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Kalamaria

Kalamariá (Καλαμαριά, Port Side) is among the most densely populated suburbs in Thessaloniki, located about 7 km southeast of the downtown area, with a population of 92,248.

History
The area was first settled by humans in prehistoric times, and remains from that settlement have been found around the Mikro Emvolo cape.

The name Kalamaria was first used in 1083 to denote the area southeast of Thessaloniki, including but not limited to the area of the present-day municipality. During the Byzantine and the Ottoman periods, the area was mostly uninhabited, except for a few fishing lodges.

The first settlement was created in the early 1920s to house Asia Minor refugees from the Greek diaspora in Georgia and Asia Minor, who fled or were forcibly sent to Greece as a result of the Greco-Turkish War. As many as 100,000 refugees relocated to Thessaloniki, primarily to the city's suburbs. Refugees from Asia Minor and East Thrace mainly settled in Kalamaria. In 1931, an antisemitic riot, led by National Union of Greece, took place in Camp Campbell, located in nowadays Kalamaria, where a Jewish neighborhood was completely burned, leaving 500 families homeless and one Jewish resident dead.

Kalamaria has seen substantial recent growth as part of a population shift from rural and urban areas to suburban areas, particularly to those east of Thessaloniki. Between the 1981 and 2001 censuses, the population of Kalamaria grew by about 36,000 (or 69%). Up until 1943 Kalamaria was part of the Municipality of Thessaloniki. On 1 January 1943 it became an independent administrative unit.

Kalamaria had a population of 14,000 residents as recorded by an inventory in 1947, but this has considerably increased, as shown by the Greek census of 2001 where Kalamaria had a total of 87,255 residents. Kalamaria has the second highest population in the Council of the Town Planning Group of Thessaloniki but also of Northern Greece and ninth in all of Greece.

Though it was originally separated from the main City of Thessaloniki, the municipality has grown so much in the post-war period that the older physical boundaries are virtually non-existent. Nowadays, the border between the two municipalities exists purely for administrative purposes.

Traditionally the areas of Krini and Aretsou had been used as beaches and places for summer baths for the citizens of Thessaloniki, after WWII until the 1980s. The pollution of the Thermaic Gulf made this practice impossible since then.

The total area of the Municipality of Kalamaria covers 6.401 km2. About two thirds of the perimeter are 6.5 km of coastline. The municipality is separated into 10 geographical districts, which have been given names reminiscent of the refugees' former homelands.

 * Nea Krini (Νέα Κρήνη)
 * Karabournaki (Καραμπουρνάκι)
 * Nea Touzla (Νέα Τούζλα)
 * Kouri (Κουρί)
 * Katirli (Κατιρλί)
 * Aretsou (Αρετσού)
 * Agios Ioannis (Άγιος Ιωάννης)
 * Vyzantio (Βυζάντιο)
 * Agios Panteleimonas (Άγιος Παντελεήμoνας)
 * Navarchos Votsis (Ναύαρχος Βότσης, "Admiral Votsis")
 * Finikas (Fenekas in local language) (Φοίνικας)

Sporting teams
Kalamaria has in total 14 sporting teams including Apollon Kalamarias.

Climate
Kalamaria, like much of Thessaloniki metropolitan area lies in a transitional climate zone between semi-arid and temperate climates, classifying as cold semi-arid climate (BSk) according to Köppen climate classification. Kalamaria records 408 mm annual precipitation, evenly spread throughout the year with a slight decrease during the summer months, while the average annual temperature is 17.1 °C. Temperatures in the warmest months rarely (if ever) exceed 40 °C while frost may occur several days per year during the winter months. Thunderstorms are more common during the warmer half of the year. Snowfall is not very common though it occurs almost annually, but it usually does not cause heavy disruption to daily life.

Transportation
The main roads that feed into the municipality are those of Konstantinos Karamanlis Avenue (formerly Nea Egnatia) to the east (which links with the A25 (the Thessaloniki-Chalkidiki motorway)), Taki Ekonomidi Avenue (which links the popular district of Nea Krini with Thessaloniki's city center), Megalou Alexandrou Avenue - the biggest avenue in Thessaloniki and the EO16 which provides the main access from Kalamaria to the airport and the outer south-eastern suburbs of Thessaloniki. Other main road links exist with Thermi, while the southeast end of the Thessaloniki ring road (which bypasses the Thessaloniki Urban Area) lies to the southeast of Kalamaria.

Streets

 * Chilis Street
 * Plastira Street
 * Passalidi Street
 * Sofouli Street
 * Ethnikis Antistaseos Street
 * Kerasountos Street
 * Mitropolitou Kallidou Street
 * Komninon Street
 * Karamanli Street
 * Venizelou Street
 * Korai Street

 * Vrioulon Street
 * Sarafi Street
 * Smirnis Street
 * Papagou Street
 * Fleming Street
 * Taki Ikonomidi Street
 * Panormou Street
 * Andrea Papandreou Street
 * Propontidos Street
 * Kountourioti Street

Twin towns — Sister cities
Kalamaria is twinned with:
 * 🇦🇱 Saranda, Albania
 * 🇧🇬 Dimitrovgrad, Bulgaria
 * 🇨🇾 Paphos, Cyprus
 * British military cemetery, Mikra.jpg]]🇺🇸 Clearwater, Florida, United States
 * 🇸🇰 Liptovský Mikuláš, Slovakia

In addition to this, Kalamaria is partnered with:
 * Partnerships
 * 🇸🇪 Solna, Sweden
 * 🇭🇺 Fonyód, Hungary

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Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics – Men's long jump

The men's long jump was a track & field athletics event at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris. It was held on July 14 and July 15, 1900. 12 athletes from six nations competed. The event was won by Alvin Kraenzlein of the United States, the second consecutive victory for the American team. Myer Prinstein, also an American, took silver. Patrick Leahy, an Irish athlete competing for Great Britain, took bronze; it was the first long jump medal for a non-American athlete as the United States had swept the 1896 medals.

Background
This was the second appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. None of the jumpers from 1896 returned. The top three jumpers in the world at the time were Americans Alvin Kraenzlein and Myer Prinstein and Irishman Peter O'Connor. All three were entered, but O'Connor did not appear.

Great Britain and Hungary each made their first appearance in the event. France, Germany, Sweden, and the United States all appeared for the second time.

Competition format
Unlike in 1896, where there was a single round of jumping, the 1900 competition featured two rounds: a qualifier and a final. The top five jumpers in the qualifier advanced to the final round. Scores from the qualifier carried over and could be used for the final result.

Records
These were the standing world and Olympic records (in metres) prior to the 1900 Summer Olympics.

(*) unofficial

Results
All twelve jumpers competed in the qualifier, with the top five moving on to the final.

For the final, scores from the qualifier remained valid. Prinstein, citing an agreement between Kraenzlein and himself not to compete on a Sunday, did not compete in the final on 15 July. Kraenzlein, however, did compete and outperformed Prinstein's mark from the previous day. This infuriated Prinstein, who attempted to strike Kraenzlein. Sources vary as to whether any of the blows actually landed, however.

Delannoy did not improve upon his qualifier mark and dropped to fifth place.