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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Disco at the Planet of the Apes

 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 speedy; created by 68.97.208.12 on his vandalism spree. mikka (t) 01:59, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Disco at the Planet of the Apes
I could be wrong, but a Google search for this supposed program yielded nothing. Quite possibly a hoax. Uvaduck 14:46, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, I don't think you're wrong. Although it would be great if you were, in a way :D james gibbon  15:05, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete absolute nonsense! Pretty funny, but geez! I want you fellow wikipedians to imagine for a second what a Planet of the Apes Dance Special would look like...not to say that I personally wouldn't watch it, but I'm pretty sure I would have remembered it being on TV..even back in 78. If anybody can prove me wrong on this, well I guess I'm a monkey's uncle! Hamster Sandwich 17:14, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, apparent hoax. What a pity; I would pay good money for the DVD. Fernando Rizo T/C 17:26, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Even if not a hoax, this can never be more than a substub. Robert A West 20:55, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unverified. Sounds like the Star Wars Christmas Special. --  Etacar11   00:31, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete hoax. JamesBurns 09:22, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * BJAODN, perhaps? DS 12:16, 27 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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User talk:Steamsocks

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User talk:Sparks25

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User talk:Starbuckml

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Image copyright problem with Image:MikeBirbiglia.jpg
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Nomination of Dog Years (album) for deletion
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Keith McLeod

Keith McLeod (born November 5, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player and current varsity boys basketball head coach at East Canton High School in Canton, Ohio. He is 6ft 2in tall. He has also played in the NBA for the Minnesota Timberwolves, Utah Jazz, Golden State Warriors and Indiana Pacers, in the CBA for the Yakima Sun Kings, in the USBL for the Saint Joseph Express, in the NBA D-League with the Albuquerque Thunderbirds, Canton Charge, and Erie BayHawks, and in the Italian top league for Mabo Prefabbricati Livorno, Lottomatica Virtus Roma and Montepaschi Siena.

College career
In 2001, he was named in the All-MAC second-team. McLeod was the 2002 MAC men's basketball player of the year, leading the Bowling Green to the MAC championship game and a berth in the NIT. At the time of his graduation he was the school's second all-time leading scorer with 1,895 points.

Professional career
He was not taken in the 2002 NBA draft, but was selected in the 2002 USBL Draft by the Saint Joseph Express, and in the 2002 CBA Draft by the Yakima Sun Kings.

He was traded on July 13, 2006 to the Golden State Warriors along with Devin Brown and Andre Owens for Derek Fisher.

On January 17, 2007, McLeod was dealt to the Indiana Pacers along with teammates Mike Dunleavy Jr., Ike Diogu and Troy Murphy for Stephen Jackson, Al Harrington, Sarunas Jasikevicius and Josh Powell.

On July 11, 2008, McLeod signed a one-year deal with the Dallas Mavericks. He was waived by the Mavericks on October 23, 2008 (before ever playing a game for them), and later played for the Albuquerque Thunderbirds of the NBA D-League. Unfortunately, McLeod will never make his way back into the NBA and his final game was played on April 18, 2007 during his time with the Pacers. On that day, the Pacers loss to the Washington Wizards 95 - 98 with McLeod recording 11 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists.

On September 1, 2010, McLeod signed a 1-year deal with the Greek club Panionios B.C.

McLeod signed with the Canton Charge of the NBA D-League in 2011. He was later traded to the Erie BayHawks.

In October 2012, McLeod joined BC Kalev/Cramo of Estonia and poured in 25 points in his first game in the VTB League for the club, including a game winning basket at the buzzer.

On June 13, 2016, McLeod agreed to become an assistant to head coach Matt Hackenberg on the Canton Glenoak High School boys varsity basketball team. His primary focus will be on player development with the Golden Eagles.

Education
McLeod attended Canton McKinley High School and graduated with a BS in Computer Science from Bowling Green State University.

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User talk:Universaliss

Problems with the wiki model?
Due to its nature, the wiki model fails in preserving accurate information content. This is more pronounced in more contentious issues in the sphere of the humanities. Conflicts of opinion or attribution may arise in scientific topics, but they much more easily resolvable and less emotionally vested than say articles relating to religion.

For all its promise and potential, the wiki model effectively removes the concept of authorship, ownership of an article (not in the intellectual property sense though) and the quality of the information in it.

At best, the resulting articles reflect the opinions or inclinations of the users, rather than any disinterested discourse. If the majority of, or the most active the users are politically pro- position A on a given issue or history, for instance. An article deriving from position B on the same issue will not maintain its integrity for long. As a result, disputes arise, and eventually a sysop or admin will intervene to freeze an article - usually in the form that favors the position of the majority, position A.

This neither makes the article's content more accurate, nor more democratic - simply because the active user base need not reflect the population at large, who are mostly not even aware of wikipedia.

A case in point:

the Qiyamah (the muslim account of the judgement day) article. A user insisted on a certain order of events, even though neither does he speak arabic to read the Qur'an, nor does the qur'an itself give a clearly discernible succession of events, especially when it comes to minor details. He insisted for instance that the moon gets eclipsed, in contradiction of the authoritative classical commentaries on the quran. To him the classical arabic muslim commentators of the quran were irrelevant, and he insisted on restoring the passage every time I deleted it. Nor was it clear to him that such minutiae are completely irrelevant when treating a subject such a judgement day, in which the fashion in which the moon is destroyed or whatever is hardly relevant to the main thrust of the article. I could not impress on him these points, and as it stands, he keeps restoring that faulty and irrelevant piece of information into the article. Some that contravenes my original intent and attitude towards the article. I do not know how to resolve this. And I am convinced that this must be the case in all articles relating to religion (particularly the islamic religion). To point out to him that the most authoritative sources we have on the meaning of the verses are the muslim commentators themselves, which have been accepted as authoritative by a consensus of muslim scholars for centuries, earns me the label "fundamentalist."

Likewise, in trying to derive the information on the day of the judgement only from the Quran and the hadith, in order to avoid spurious accounts and interpretation prone details, and to make the article a survey of what islam's primary texts say about that day, again earned me the labels "fundamentalist" and "salafi" whatever that means from a user called Zora.

I believe this is a serious shortcoming of the wiki medium.

Another case study (political articles):

Take for instance articles on the middle east. Much as the narrative that predominates western press is largely non representative of the narratives local to the middle east, wiki articles reflect the same biases and therefore perpetuate a political will, rather than a scholarly treatment of the subject.

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Howard Mackie

Howard Mackie (born January 22, 1958) is an American comic book editor and writer. He has worked almost exclusively for Marvel Comics and is best known as the co-creator of the Danny Ketch version of the Ghost Rider character.

Early life
Mackie grew up in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, mostly raised by his mother, as his father died when he was seven.

Editor
Mackie started his career in comics in 1984 as an assistant editor for Mark Gruenwald. Early in Mackie's career, a running gag in Gruenwald's columns was that Mackie was a mysterious figure whose face no one at Marvel had ever seen. Promoted in early 1987 to Managing Editor of Special Projects, Mackie then oversaw Marvel's "New Universe" line.

Writer
Mackie first gained attention as a writer in 1990, when he and artist Javier Saltares launched a new Ghost Rider series for Marvel, revamping the character and introducing a new host, Danny Ketch. Mackie wrote Ghost Rider until issue #69 (Jan. 1996). He authored two Ghost Rider/Wolverine/Punisher team-up one-shots, Hearts of Darkness (1991) and its sequel The Dark Design (1994).

In 1992, Mackie became the regular writer of Web of Spider-Man with #85. He would remain on various Spider-Man titles through the Clone Saga. In January 1999, Mackie became the writer of both The Amazing Spider-Man and the Peter Parker: Spider-Man series when those two titles were relaunched with new first issues. Mackie left the Spider-Man franchise with The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 2, #29 (May 2001).

Mackie's work on the X-Men line included writing the spin-off title X-Factor from #115–149 (1995–1998) as well as its successor title Mutant X (1998–2001). He wrote several mini-series featuring Gambit, Wolverine, and Rogue.

In late 2009, Mackie teamed with Tom DeFalco to write the six issue miniseries Spider-Man: Clone Saga, whose story was based on Mackie's original notes for the 1990s crossover. It was later collected in the trade paperback Spider-Man: The Real Clone Saga.

Mackie wrote The Ravagers series for DC Comics in 2012 as part of the "Second Wave" of The New 52.

DC Comics

 * Batman Black and White vol. 2 #1 (2013)
 * Ravagers #1–7, 0 (2012–2013)
 * Speed Demon #1 (1996)

Marvel Comics

 * Air Raiders #1–3 (1987–1988)
 * The Amazing Spider-Man vol. 2 #1–29 (1999–2001)
 * The Amazing Spider-Man 1999
 * The Amazing Spider-Man 2000
 * The Amazing Spider-Man 2001
 * Astonishing X-Men #1–3 (1995)
 * Avengers Spotlight #21–25, 27–29 (1989–1990)
 * Blaze: Legacy of Blood #1–4 (1993–1994)
 * The Brotherhood #1–9 (2001-2002), as Writer X
 * Chuck Norris Karate Kommandos #4 (1987)
 * D.P. 7 #21 (1988)
 * Gambit #1–4 (1993–1994)
 * Gambit vol. 2 #1–4 (1997)
 * Ghost Rider vol. 3 #1–69, Annual #1 (1990–1996)
 * Ghost Rider/Blaze:Spirits of Vengeance #1–23 (1992–1994)
 * Ghost Rider/Wolverine/Punisher: Dark Design #1 (1995)
 * Ghost Rider/Wolverine/Punisher: Hearts of Darkness #1 (1991)
 * Ghost Riders: Crossroads #1 (1995)
 * Impossible Man Summer Vacation Spectacular #1 (1990)
 * Iron Man #211 (1986)
 * Logan #1 (1996)
 * Logan: Shadow Society #1 (1996)
 * Marc Spector: Moon Knight #25, 32–33 (1991)
 * Marvel Comics Presents #24–31, 64–71, 90–95, 97, 99–106, 117–122 (1989–1993)
 * Marvel Holiday Special #1 (1992)
 * Midnight Sons Unlimited #1 (1993)
 * Mutant X #1–32 (1998–2001)
 * Mutant X 2000
 * Mutant X 2001
 * Peter Parker: Spider-Man #1–19 (1999–2000)
 * Power Pack #34 (1988)
 * Powerline #8 (1989)
 * Psi-Force #22 (1988)
 * Rogue #1–4 (1995)
 * Scarlet Spider #1–2 (1995)
 * Sensational She-Hulk #50 (1993)
 * Solo Avengers #12, 18–20 (1988–1989)
 * The Spectacular Spider-Man #263 (1998)
 * Spider-Man #24, 44–98, −1, (1992–1998)
 * Spider-Man: Made Men #1 (1998)
 * Tales of the Marvel Universe #1 (1997)
 * Uncanny X-Men '96 #1
 * Venom: Nights of Vengeance #1–4 (1994)
 * Venom: Separation Anxiety #1–4 (1994–1995)
 * Web of Spider-Man #84–96 (1992–1993)
 * Webspinners: Tales of Spider-Man #13–14 (2000)
 * What The--?! #6 (1990)
 * X-Factor #115-141, #143-146, #148-149; #-1 (1995–1998)
 * X-Men Chronicles #1–2 (1995)
 * X-Men Unlimited #7–8, 15 (1994–1997)

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User talk:Jvalletta

Welcome!
Hello, Jvalletta, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions; I hope you like it here and decide to stay. We're glad to have you in our community! Here are a few good links for newcomers:

 * If you haven't already, drop by the new user log and tell others a bit about yourself.
 * Always sign your posts on talk pages with  so others will know who left which comments.
 * The Five Pillars of Wikipedia
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I hope you enjoy editing and being a Wikipedian. Although we all make mistakes, please keep in mind what Wikipedia is not. If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to see the help pages or add a question to the village pump. The Community Portal can also be very useful.

Happy editing!

-- Sango  123  14:49, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

P.S. Feel free to leave a message on my talk page if you need help with anything or simply wish to say hello. :)

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UTC−04:00

UTC−04:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of −04:00.

It is observed in the Eastern Time Zone (e.g., in Canada and the United States) during the warm months of daylight saving time, as Eastern Daylight Time. The Atlantic Time Zone observes it during standard time (cold months).

It is observed all year in the Eastern Caribbean and several South American countries.

As standard time (Northern Hemisphere winter)
Principal cities: Halifax, Saint John, Fredericton, Hamilton

North America

 * Canada – Atlantic Time Zone
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 * Newfoundland and Labrador
 * Labrador
 * Except the area between L'Anse-au-Clair and Norman Bay
 * Nova Scotia
 * Prince Edward Island
 * Denmark
 * Greenland
 * Pituffik (Thule) (former settlement), Qaanaaq (present settlement)
 * United Kingdom
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As daylight saving time (Northern Hemisphere summer)
Principal cities: New York, Washington, Philadelphia, Boston, Atlanta, Miami, Detroit, Baltimore, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Orlando, Charlotte, Charleston, Wilmington, Key West, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec City, Iqaluit, Nassau, Havana, Kingston, Port-au-Prince, Cockburn Town, Providenciales

North America

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Caribbean

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 * United Kingdom
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As standard time (year-round)
Principal cities: Caracas, Manaus, La Paz, Georgetown, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, St. John's, Bridgetown, Roseau, Santo Domingo, Gustavia, St. George's, The Bottom, Oranjestad, Philipsburg, Lower Prince's Quarter, Basseterre, Castries, Kingstown, Port of Spain, San Fernando, The Valley, Road Town, Plymouth, Brades, Little Bay, San Juan, Charlotte Amalie, Oranjestad, Kralendijk, Willemstad, Pointe-à-Pitre, Les Abymes, Fort-de-France, Maracaibo, Blanc-Sablon, Harrington Harbour

South America

 * Bolivia
 * Brazil
 * The states of Amazonas (except westernmost municipalities), Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rondônia and Roraima
 * Guyana
 * Venezuela

Eastern Caribbean

 * Antigua and Barbuda
 * Barbados
 * Dominica
 * Dominican Republic
 * France
 * Guadeloupe
 * Basse-Terre
 * Grande-Terre
 * Les Saintes
 * Marie-Galante
 * La Désirade
 * Martinique
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 * Saint Martin
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 * Netherlands
 * Saba
 * Sint Eustatius
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 * Saint Kitts and Nevis
 * Saint Kitts
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 * Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
 * Saint Vincent
 * The Grenadines
 * Trinidad and Tobago
 * Tobago
 * Trinidad
 * United Kingdom
 * Anguilla
 * British Virgin Islands
 * Tortola
 * Virgin Gorda
 * Anegada
 * Jost Van Dyke
 * Montserrat

US territories

 * United States
 * Puerto Rico
 * Spanish Virgin Islands
 * United States Virgin Islands
 * Saint Croix
 * Saint Thomas
 * Saint John
 * Water Island

Other Caribbean locales

 * Netherlands
 * Aruba
 * Bonaire
 * Curaçao

North America

 * Canada – Atlantic Time Zone
 * Quebec
 * East of the 63°W longitude (Le Golfe-du-Saint-Laurent Regional County Municipality)

Southern Ocean

 * Some bases in Antarctica. See also Time in Antarctica
 * Brazil
 * Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station
 * Russia
 * Bellingshausen Station

As standard time (Southern Hemisphere winter)
Principal cities: Santiago, Asunción

South America

 * Chile (except Easter Island and Magallanes/Antarctic)
 * Paraguay

Antarctica

 * Some bases in Antarctica. See also Time in Antarctica

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John Tsang

John Tsang Chun-wah, GBM, JP (born Mui; born 21 April 1951) is a Hong Kong former senior civil servant and government official who was the longest-serving Financial Secretary of Hong Kong SAR to date, from 2007 to 2017.

Born in Hong Kong and raised and educated in the United States, Tsang received a bachelor's degree in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master in public administration from Harvard University. Tsang returned to Hong Kong and joined the government in 1982. He was the private secretary to the last colonial governor Chris Patten. After the handover, he served as Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology from 2003 to 2006 and as director of the Office of the Chief Executive in Donald Tsang administration from 2006 to 2007.

In July 2007, he was appointed Financial Secretary of Hong Kong by Donald Tsang. He proposed the Scheme $6,000 tax rebate to all Hong Kong residents in his 2011 Budget. He continued to serve as Financial Secretary in the Leung Chun-ying administration until January 2017, when he resigned to run in the 2017 Chief Executive election. Despite his lead in the opinion poll by large margin throughout the campaign, he lost the bid to Carrie Lam.

Tsang is currently engaged in a number of diverse activities. He is founder of Esperanza (a non-profit organisation), vice chairman of Ion Pacific (a financial institution that specialises in technology investments), senior advisor of Bowtie (a virtual insurance company), host of a weekly music programme on the private Commercial Radio, and fencing coach of the secondary school La Salle College.

Early life and education
Tsang was born on 21 April 1951 at Maternity home in Dukes Street, Kowloon Tong in Hong Kong, his great-grandfather was from Taishan, Guangdong, who made his fortune beginning as a labourer in San Francisco. His grandfather was a well-off Chinese physician-turned-businessman. His father, Tsang Chuek-ho, was the eldest child of eight siblings. Graduated from normal schools, Tsang Chuek-ho and his wife Li Pik-sheung planned to move to the United States, where his sister was living, through Hong Kong in the 1940s.

While waiting for the immigration process, the family settled in Hong Kong and had four children. Tsang Cheuk-ho and his children adapted the surname Mui when he was adopted by a relative in Hong Kong; they reverted to their original surname after emigrating to the United States. John Tsang, the eldest child, was born as Mui Chun-wah in Hong Kong on 21 April 1951 and lived in Sai Yeung Choi Street in his childhood.

Tsang was a primary and secondary school student at La Salle Primary School and La Salle College in Hong Kong. When he was 13 in 1965, Tsang and his family moved to the United States. He first resided on the 8th Street in Lower East Side, Manhattan, New York City. He enrolled in Stuyvesant High School the following year, from which he graduated in 1969. Eric Holder, the first African-American Attorney General of the United States, was his classmate. During the early 1970s in the United States, he was involved in the defend the Diaoyu Islands movement.

He then studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also holds a master's degree in bilingual education from Boston State College and a Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Civil service career
Through his teens and twenties, Tsang lived in the United States and worked as an architect. In November 1982, he returned to Hong Kong after working with the Boston Public Schools Board as a special advisor, at the midst of the Sino-British negotiation over Hong Kong sovereignty, and joined the civil service under the encouragement of Donald Tsang, with whom he became friends when they were at Harvard together. He started his civil service as an Administrative Officer in 1982, in which his first position was a two-year stint to 1984 as Assistant District Officer for Shatin, serving under Donald Tsang, the District Officer. He went on to serve in the former Finance Branch, Monetary Affairs Branch and the former Trade Department. From 1987 to 1992, he was first Administrative Assistant to then Financial Secretary, Sir Piers Jacobs.

He was Assistant Director-General of Trade from 1992 to 1995 and Private Secretary to the Governor, Chris Patten, from March 1995 to June 1997. In July 1997, Tsang was appointed Director-General of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in London. In 1999 he returned from London and assumed the office of Commissioner of Customs and Excise, appointed by then Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa. Tsang was Secretary for Planning and Lands from 2001 to 2002. After the Principal Officials Accountability System was introduced in July 2002, his title was changed to the Permanent Secretary for Housing, Planning and Lands (Planning and Lands), Permanent Secretary having become the highest ranking in the Hong Kong Civil Service.

From August 2003, Tsang served as Secretary for Commerce, Industry and Technology. In this role he was also Chair of the Sixth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization, held in Hong Kong from 13 to 18 December 2005. For his outstanding performance in the World Trade Organization, he received the praise from Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party.

Tsang then became the director of the Office of the Chief Executive, working directly for his friend Donald Tsang. He held the post from 2006 to June 2007.

Financial Secretary
In 2007, Tsang was appointed Financial Secretary of Hong Kong when Donald Tsang began his second term. In 2012, he was re-appointed as the territory's financial chief by Leung Chun-ying. Although Hong Kong's economy generally grew at a stable rate under Tsang and the government recorded surpluses every year, Tsang was criticised for his drastic miscalculations of the government's surpluses and his fiscal conservative philosophy.

After seven consecutive years of budget surplus, Tsang's 2011 annual budget came under heavy fire from the Legislative Council. His original proposal of putting HK$6,000 directly into workers' Mandatory Provident Fund (MPF) accounts was condemned. About 10,000 protesters demonstrated in Central. The mismanagement of the funds led to a number of controversies. Tsang eventually backed down and carried out the Scheme $6,000 to give a HK$6,000 cash handout to all adult holders of a Hong Kong permanent identity card. In the same budget, Tsang initiated iBond, a Hong Kong dollar retail inflation-indexed bond to further develop the local bonds market, attracting 155,835 applications in 2011, which rose to 525,359 by 2013.

In January 2011, the government's IT chief information officer Jeremy Godfrey stepped down from his job for "personal reasons". On 10 May 2011, in a letter to the Legislative Council, he said the real reasons why he resigned were related to Permanent Secretary for Permanent Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Elizabeth Tse and John Tsang. It turns out that there had been arguments over the implementation of the Internet Learning Support Program (ILSP). It was revealed that Tse and Tsang had forced the HK$220 million contract to be awarded to a company called Internet Professional Association (iProA). This company was founded by Elizabeth Quat, a member of the pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB). Tsang responded that the accusations were ridiculous and absurd. Godfrey then stated that Quat herself had nothing to do with the ILSP controversy, but said the IT decision was politicised.

In the 2013 budget, Tsang said he understood the people's concerns because he himself was a member of the middle class. He supported this claim by saying middle-class people are those who drink coffee and enjoy French films. He was ridiculed by the public for the remarks, given that he earned a basic monthly salary of HK$302,205 and lived in a luxury government residence.

On 7 December 2013, Tsang was hit in the head by an egg thrown by a League of Social Democrats (LSD) protester, Derek Chan Tak-cheung, at a government forum. Tsang joked about the incident, saying that a doctor had advised him not to eat too many eggs. "Luckily I'm not wearing a good suit today. I appear to have foreseen the incident."

To distance himself from Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, who took a hardline stance against localism in Hong Kong, Tsang expressed his affection for local culture, especially by showing his support for the Hong Kong national football team against China during the World Cup football qualifiers. He also wrote in his blog that localism could become a "strong and constructive force" that binds society together. His popularity rating had been over 60 out of 100 in 2015 and 2016, according to tracking polls by the University of Hong Kong public opinion programme, being the most popular principal official in the government.

Tsang resigned as Financial Secretary on 12 December following months of speculation that he would run in the 2017 Chief Executive election during which he led opinion polls against incumbent Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying. His resignation was approved by Beijing's central authorities on 16 January 2017, the same day his rival Carrie Lam resigned from her post as Chief Secretary for Administration. The unusual month-long gap between his resignation and Beijing's approval caused critics to speculate that Beijing was reluctant to allow him to join the race.

2017 Chief Executive bid
Tsang officially declared his candidacy on 19 January with a slogan of "Trust, Unity, Hope", after more than a month-long pending of his resignation by the central government which put his campaign in limbo. There were reports that central government officials had given "red light" to John Tsang running in the election and had allegedly asked John Tsang not to run for more than ten times, including rumours of him being offered the deputy governor post at the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in return for not joining the race. Tsang refuted such claims, only saying that there were "friends" who supported him and some who did not. To contrast his archrival former Chief Secretary Carrie Lam who was perceived to follow Leung Chun-ying's hardline and divisive policies, Tsang described himself as a good listener who accepted different views, appealing to "all 7.35 million Hongkongers so that together we can make Hong Kong a better place." Tsang also launched his election Facebook page, which drew more than 100,000 likes in a day.

Tsang unveiled his 75-page election platform entitled "Convergence of Hearts, Proactive Enablement" on 6 February, with the promise of revisiting the possibility of the Article 23 national security legislation with the possibility of relaunching political reform without mentioning the "831 framework". Other policies included introducing a progressive profit tax, developing New Territories North and East Lantau and abolishing all Territory-wide System Assessment (TSA) and Basic Competency Assessment (BCA) tests, among others.

Amid the alleged pressure from the Liaison Office which actively lobbied for Carrie Lam and speculations that he was not Beijing's favoured candidate, Tsang struggled to seek nominations from the pro-Beijing electors and had to heavily rely on the Democrats. He received a few pro-Beijing electors' support, including Liberal Party honorary chairman James Tien who was the most outspoken supporter of Tsang since the early stage of the campaign, as well as the party's honorary chairwoman Selina Chow and leader Felix Chung. He also received a nomination from Thomas Wu, son of real estate tycoon Gordon Wu of the Hopewell Holdings, the only tycoon to nominate Tsang. 123 of his total number of 160 nominations came from pro-democracy camp, of which majority of them were from the professional sector, including the Democratic Party which made it the first time a pro-democratic party to nominate an establishment candidate. On 25 February, he became the first candidate to submit his nominations. He was criticised by pro-Beijing media and politicians for taking pro-democrats' support, Tam Yiu-chung said that Tsang now clearly represented the pan-democrats while Ta Kung Pao editorials attacked Tsang for "making deal with the devils".

Tsang performed well in the election debates. In a two-hour televised debate co-organised by seven electronic media outlets on 14 March, Tsang quoted Lam's nickname "CY 2.0", which meant the second version of the divisive incumbent Leung Chun-ying, saying that people fear society will suffer "split 2.0" if Lam wins. Former candidate Regina Ip and political scientist Ma Ngok said that Tsang won the debate. According to a poll conducted by the University of Hong Kong Public Opinion Programme (HKUPOP) after a forum co-organised by a group of Election Committee members on 19 March 62 per cent out of the 717 respondents said they would vote for Tsang if eligible, against 24 per cent for Lam and seven per cent for Woo.

Ahead of 26 March election, Tsang held a rally on 24 March evening in Edinburgh Place, Central, the final stop on his half-day bus parade on Hong Kong Island. Around 3,500 showed support at the rally, with some 449,000 people watched the rally on his Facebook page and more than 18,700 comments were left on the page. Film director Johnnie To, Tsang's wife Lynn and his former political assistant Julian Law Wing-chung were among the six guests who spoke at the rally. In Tsang's speech, he said: "We are here to show our love for this city of ours ... I hope the Election Committee members, who have the power to vote, would heed our call and heal the rift, and make Hong Kong the home we imagined it should be." He also made a reference to the 2014 Occupy protests, saying: "Here we stand near Lung Wo Road and Connaught Road, Occupy happened near this place in more than two years ago, but I hope our rally today can give a new meaning to this place. I hope you will remembered that on 24 March 2017, we gathered here for the unity of Hong Kong."

On 26 March, Tsang received 365 votes in the 1,194-member Election Committee, losing to Carrie Lam who received 777 votes. His votes came from 98 percent of the 325-member "Democrats 300+" coalition, who voted as masse for the candidate leading in opinion polls, as well as a few pro-Beijing electors. Tsang fought back tears as he implored supporters to carry on the dream for democracy and not to give up on Hong Kong in his concession speech. "I believe this dream to turn Hong Kong more democratic ... has made every Hongkonger willing to dream on – till our dream comes true one day."

Post-election life
In late October 2017, Tsang again gained media attention when it was reported that a RTHK 10-episode show titled Hong Kong Stories in which Tsang was a voluntary guest host would be suspended from airing as he had failed to declare this employment after leaving the government. Chief Executive Carrie Lam urged Tsang to "respect the system" like other officials to declare his employment accordingly. Tsang revealed that he had been in touch with permanent secretary Jessie Ting Yip Yin-mei at Chief Executive Carrie Lam's office as early as mid-September regarding the television series and provided information as requested.

In March 2018, John Tsang announced plans to establish a fund to help young entrepreneurs in Hong Kong. He wants to match his experienced and knowledgeable network of contact with aspiring entrepreneurs. He also joined a fintech-focused merchant bank Ion Pacific as its vice-chairman and Benefit Vantage Limited (BVL) as a chairman and investor in June 2018. BVL's main focus is cybersecurity and they are currently taking their authentication solution IPification to the market.

In 2020, Tsang co-founded middle-of-the-road political group "Hope for Hong Kong", signaling his change of political stance from pro-Beijing to centrism. He also appeared in "In Geek We Trust", a drama of ViuTV in 2022.

Personal life
Tsang is married to Lynn Tsang (曾黃蓮華; née Wong) who he met as a nurse while doing volunteer work in the United States in 1975. The couple have a son Terence Tiu-lung (雕龍; literally "carving of dragons") and a daughter Prudence Man-sum (文心; literally "literary mind"); the combination of the siblings' names alludes to The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons, a Chinese classic on literary aesthetics. The family remained a low profile despite Tsang's senior political position.

Tsang is a practicing Roman Catholic and a martial arts and fencing enthusiast. He learned Hung Kuen with martial arts master Kwong Tit-fu during his life in the United States and got to know Tai Chi master Bow-sim Mark and her son Donnie Yen. He has been voluntarily coaching the fencing team of his alma mater La Salle College since 1985, Sammy Leung was among his students. He also cameoed as a fencing coach in a government's tourism promotion video. He is also nicknamed "Mr Potato Chips" and "Uncle Pringles" for a moustache similar to one worn by a character on a potato crisp brand's packaging. He has a pet dog Shiba Inu named Oliver, in which he gave to his daughter as a Christmas present in 2008. Oliver is often featured in Tsang's greeting cards.

In 2009, Tsang suffered a health scare on his return from a G-20 summit in Pittsburgh. On 27 September he was admitted to Queen Mary Hospital with a coronary artery blockage and underwent an angioplasty operation. He recovered and was discharged from hospital on 3 October, assuring the media that the operation would not affect his work.

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Lipstick on Your Collar (TV series)

Lipstick on Your Collar is a 1993 British television serial written by Dennis Potter. It was first broadcast on Channel 4 in February and March 1993. Expanded from Potter's earlier television play Lay Down Your Arms (1970), it features Ewan McGregor in his first major role.

Plot
The main story is set in a British Military Intelligence Office in Whitehall during 1956, where a small group of foreign affairs analysts find their quiet existence disrupted by the Suez Crisis. Mick Hopper (Ewan McGregor) is completing his national service as a translator of Russian documents. Bored with his job, Hopper spends his days creating fantasy daydreams that involve his colleagues breaking into contemporary hit songs. Sylvia Berry (Louise Germaine) is married to the violent Corporal Pete Berry (Douglas Henshall). Sylvia is an object of desire for Mick's fellow clerk Private Francis Francis (Giles Thomas) and a middle-aged theatre organist named Harold Atterbow (Roy Hudd). In contrast to the street-wise Hopper, Francis is a clumsy Welsh intellectual whose academic career has been interrupted by his army call up. The appearance of the bookish niece of a seconded American officer enables the two conscripts to pair off with suitable partners, after initial mismatching.

The main theme of the series is conflict between the old order, as represented by the middle-aged officers in Whitehall plus Francis' prudish Uncle Fred and Aunt Vickie, and the new 'rock n roll' generation represented by Hopper and Sylvia. Though chronologically the series is set in the late summer and autumn of 1956 culminating in the invasion of Suez, many of the songs used, including the title song, were not released until later in the 1950s.

Some of the side themes include the influence of American rock and roll on British society, the gulf between the senior analysts, who are regular army officers, and the conscripted other ranks, the work of Russian playwright Chekhov, and an appreciation of opulent theatre organs. The unusual context – a military culture transplanted into a civil service style office environment – reflects Potter's own national service during the 1950s.

Cast

 * Giles Thomas as Pte. Francis Francis
 * Ewan McGregor as Pte. Mick Hopper
 * Louise Germaine as Sylvia Berry
 * Roy Hudd as Harold Atterbow
 * Douglas Henshall as Cpl. Pete Berry
 * Peter Jeffrey as Col. Bernwood
 * Clive Francis as Maj. Hedges
 * Nicholas Jones as Maj. Carter
 * Nicholas Farrell as Maj. Church
 * Shane Rimmer as Lt. Col. Trekker
 * Kymberley Huffman as Lisa Trekker
 * Maggie Steed as Aunt Vickie
 * Bernard Hill as Uncle Fred
 * Debra Beaumont as Nina

Additional information
Lipstick on Your Collar is an expansion of the earlier play Lay Down Your Arms (1970). Some critics view it as being the final entry in the musical trilogy Potter began with Pennies From Heaven (1978) and The Singing Detective (1986). This was the final serial produced during Dennis Potter's lifetime and was nominated in 1994 for two BAFTA Awards, in the categories "Best Makeup" and "Best Music".

Music
The series contained among others the following music:
 * "Lipstick on Your Collar" by Connie Francis (opening theme)
 * "The Man with the Golden Arm" by The Billy May Orchestra
 * "The Great Pretender," "Only You (And You Alone)" and "My Prayer" by The Platters
 * "Earth Angel" and "Sh-Boom" by The Crewcuts
 * "Little Bitty Pretty One" by Thurston Harris
 * "Garden of Eden" & "Green Door" by Frankie Vaughan
 * "Blueberry Hill" and "I'm in Love Again" by Fats Domino
 * "Don't Be Cruel" by Elvis Presley
 * "The Story of My Life" by Michael Holliday
 * "It's Almost Tomorrow" by The Dreamweavers
 * "Your Cheatin' Heart" by Hank Williams
 * "In a Persian Market" and "In a Monastery Garden" composed by Albert Ketèlbey played by Nigel Ogden
 * "Blue Suede Shoes" by Carl Perkins
 * "Raining in My Heart" by Buddy Holly
 * "Be-Bop-A-Lula" by Gene Vincent
 * "By a Sleepy Lagoon" by William Thorp and Mike Houghton
 * "Jealousy" by William Thorp, Mike Houghton and Jack Emblow
 * "Unchained Melody" by Les Baxter
 * "Try a Little Tenderness" and "So Tired"
 * "I'm Beginning to See the Light" composed by Duke Ellington and Harry James
 * "Young Love" by Sonny James
 * "The Fool" by Sanford Clark
 * "Band of Gold" by Don Cherry
 * "Sanctuary of the Heart" by Albert Ketelby played by Nigel Ogden
 * "Robin Hood (TV Theme)" by Garry Miller
 * "Heartbreak Hotel"
 * "It'll Be Me" performed by Jerry Lee Lewis
 * "Love Is Strange" performed by Mickey & Sylvia
 * "Lotta Lovin'" by Gene Vincent
 * "Lay Down Your Arms" by Anne Shelton
 * "I See the Moon" by The Stargazers

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Thomas Bilney

Thomas Bilney (c. 1495 – 19 August 1531) was an English Christian martyr.

Early life
Thomas Bilney was born around 1495 in Norfolk, most likely in Norwich. Nothing is known of his parents except that they outlived him. He entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge at a young age, around the year 1510. During his life he was nicknamed Little Bilney because of his short stature.

Education
At Cambridge, he studied law, graduating LL.B. and taking holy orders in 1519. Finding no satisfaction in the mechanical system of the schoolmen, he turned his attention to the Greek edition of the New Testament published by Erasmus in 1516.

During his reading in the Epistles, he was struck by the words of 1 Timothy 1:15, which in English reads, "This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am the chief."  "Immediately", he records, "I felt a marvellous comfort and quietness, insomuch that my bruised bones lept for joy, Psal. 51:8. After this, the Scripture began to be more pleasant unto me than the honey or the honeycomb; wherein I learned that all my labours, my fasting and watching, all the redemption of masses and pardons, being done without truth in Christ, who alone saveth his people from their sins; these I say, I learned to be nothing else but even, as St. Augustine saith, a hasty and swift running out of the right way".

The Scriptures now became his chief study, and his influence led other young Cambridge men to think along the same lines. Among his friends were Matthew Parker, the future Archbishop of Canterbury, and Hugh Latimer. Latimer, previously a strenuous conservative, was completely won over, and a warm friendship sprang up between him and Bilney. "By his confession", said Latimer, "I learned more than in twenty years before".

Preaching and imprisonment
In 1525 Bilney obtained a licence to preach throughout the diocese of Ely. He denounced saint and relic veneration, together with pilgrimages to Walsingham and Canterbury, and refused to accept the mediation of the saints. The diocesan authorities raised no objection, considering his diverging views to be of minor relevance to the essentials of the Christian faith, and he was orthodox on the authority of the Pope and Church, and on transubstantiation.

Cardinal Wolsey took a different view. In 1526 he appears to have summoned Bilney before him. On his taking an oath that he did not hold and would not disseminate the doctrines of Martin Luther, Bilney was dismissed. But in the following year serious objection was taken to a series of sermons preached by him in and near London, and he was dragged from the pulpit while preaching in St George's Chapel Ipswich, arrested and imprisoned in the Tower. Arraigned before Wolsey, William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, and several bishops in the chapter-house at Westminster Abbey, he was convicted of heresy, sentence being deferred while efforts were made to induce him to recant, which eventually he did.

Release, re-arrest and execution
After being kept for more than a year in the Tower, he was released in 1529, and went back to Cambridge. Here he was overcome with remorse for his apostasy, and after two years he was determined to preach again what he had held to be the truth. The churches being no longer open to him, he preached openly in the fields, finally arriving in Norwich, where the bishop, Richard Nix, caused him to be arrested. Articles were drawn up against him by Convocation, he was tried, degraded from his orders and handed over to the civil authorities to be burned. Protestant writer D'Aubigne's 1882 Martyrs of the Reformation relates that Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall "who was not a cruel man, was deeply moved, and then a strange struggle took place—a judge wishing to save the prisoner, the prisoner desiring to give up his life."

The sentence was carried out at Lollards Pit, Norwich on 19 August 1531. After witnessing Bilney's death, Bishop Nix is reported to have said, "I fear I have burned Abel and let Cain go".

A parliamentary inquiry was threatened into this case, not because Parliament approved of Bilney's doctrine but because it was alleged that Bilney's execution had been obtained by the ecclesiastics without the proper authorisation by the state. In 1534 Bishop Nix was condemned on this charge to the confiscation of his property.

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Maidstone Grammar School

Maidstone Grammar School (MGS) is a grammar school in Maidstone, England. The school was founded in 1549 after Protector Somerset sold Corpus Christi Hall on behalf of King Edward VI to the people of Maidstone for £200. The Royal Charter for establishment of a grammar school was also granted at this time.

Admissions
Maidstone Grammar School is a selective school, taking boys at the age of 11 and over based on their 11+ results, and also admits male and female pupils at 16+ based on their GCSE results.

The school currently has 1292 pupils and 112 members of staff, with 69 teachers as of the academic year 2018–2019.

Buildings
The main school building surrounds a Tudor-style quadrangle with a cloister on one side. Two new blocks were added in the 1960s and 80s to complete a second quadrangle, nicknamed the 'Court'. In 2005, a new refectory and teaching block (renamed the 'Walker Building') opened, followed by Sixth Form buildings in 2011.

Additional funding from Kent County Council allowed the school to open a designated Performing Arts building, new sports pavilion, and computing and science block between 2017 and 2019. The pavilion was constructed to replace the traditional pavilion which had fallen into disrepair, with a second floor having recently been added to house the Modern Foreign Languages department. As well as that, the school opened a refurbishment of the War Memorial Library and a new all-weather sports pitch.

Houses
A house system was inaugurated in 1899 with three houses of 'School', 'East Borough' and 'West Borough'; allocation was based on local geography. In September 2007, the school reformed the tradition with the introduction of six new school houses, named after military vehicles: Challenger (purple), Churchill (yellow), Endeavour (red), Hurricane (green), Invincible (blue), and Spitfire (white). It was again reformed in September 2017, splitting the school into four houses, named after locations of the school: Barton (blue), College (green), Corpus Christi (red), and Tonbridge (yellow). This was due to the transition into vertical forms, where each form consists of a few members from every year.

Sixth form
Each year the school takes up to 200 students into Year 12, including about thirty external pupils of mixed gender from any school according to their GCSE results. The sixth form teaches AS and A-Level courses. In order to be accepted you need an average of 5.7 on your GCSE results and at least 5 in both Maths and one of the English subjects.

Sport
The main sports at the school are rugby, football and cricket, but participation also includes rowing, cross country, athletics, handball, and basketball. The school has won various district and county competitions.

In the 1999/2000 season, the 1st XI football team reached the final of the ESFA U18 Cup, narrowly losing to The Kingsway School

In the 2004/05 season, the U15 rugby team won the Schools Vase, having won the Kent Schools Cup earlier in the season, beating Oakham School 33-7.

Combined Cadet Force (CCF)
The school has a Combined Cadet Force, with Navy, Army and RAF sections accepting students on a voluntary basis when they reach year nine. The Combined Cadet Force, in particular the Army section, has roots in the Royal Engineers. The Navy section is affiliated with HMS Collingwood and, a land establishment in Portsmouth, and also has an affiliated ship (HMS Kent (F78)). The RAF section regularly enters teams into both regional and national competitions and have won a total of nine Air Squadron Trophies

In 2001 two senior students plead guilty to a series of violent and racially aggravated charges relating to abuse of junior CCF cadets. Staff were accused of turning a blind eye or, according to the prosecutor, involved in some of the incidents.

School song
In 1908, Rev C. G. Duffield (the headmaster from 1898 to 1913), wrote Latin lyrics to the music of music-master Dr H. F. Henniker for Gaudeamus, the school song. The words, based on verses in Virgil's Aeneid, are still sung on special occasions such as upper and lower school speech days.

Notable events
In May 2016, former Maidstone Grammar School teacher Steve Restarick was found guilty of fraud charges, involving embezzling £6,258 of the school's resources over several years.

In December 2020, Maidstone Grammar School was widely reported in the news for choosing to delay the reopening of the school over concerns of the impact of Brexit on its students and staff being able to access the school.

In 2024, the school celebrated its 475th anniversary, celebrating the event by offering new ties and hoodies to students. On the week of the event, multiple Old Maidstonians gave speeches to the current students. A 475 showcase was also held, utilising part of a play written by a former teacher at the school.

Notable alumni (Old Maidstonians)
Former pupils of the school are called "Old Maidstonians" and include:

Art, Music & Literature
 * Dan Abnett, comic book writer
 * William Alexander (painter)†
 * Richard Beeching, Chairman of British Railways
 * Edmund Blunden†, writer & poet
 * Daniel Blythe, writer
 * James Butler (artist) MBE, sculptor
 * Philip Langridge† CBE, tenor
 * Philip Moore, Organist of York Minster from 1983 to 2008, Organist of Guildford Cathedral from 1974 to 1983
 * Christopher Smart†, poet

Business & Commerce
 * Richard (Dick) Beeching, Baron Beeching†, physicist, British Railways Chairman, cause of the Beeching cuts
 * Sir Jack Hughes, property mogul & philanthropist
 * Mark F. Watts, lobbyist & former Labour MEP

Media, television & film
 * Nick Angel, film and television producer
 * James Burke, science historian and TV presenter
 * David Chater, television foreign correspondent and former Chairman of the Old Maidstonian Society
 * Andrew Dilnot CBE (briefly), Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford since 2002, and former presenter of BBC Radio 4's More or Less
 * James Hillier (actor)
 * Paul Lewis, financial journalist and presenter of Money Box & Money Box Live on BBC Radio 4
 * Kevin Loader, film and television producer
 * Shaun McKenna, screenwriter
 * Stuart Miles, Blue Peter presenter from 1994 to 1999
 * Tom Riley, film and television actor

Military
 * Captain Ben Babington-Browne†, of 22 Engineer Regiment of the Royal Engineers, killed on 6 July 2009 after a Canadian Bell CH-146 Griffon crashed in Zabul Province, Afghanistan
 * Lt-Gen Sir Frederick Dobson Middleton CB, Commandant from 1874 to 1884 of RMC Sandhurst
 * Air Vice-Marshal Philip Hedgeland† CB OBE, expert in airborne radar, Station Commander from 1966 to 1967 of RAF Stanbridge, and helped develop the H2S radar in the war at the Telecommunications Research Establishment in Malvern
 * Air Marshal Sir Timothy Jenner CB, Station Commander of RAF Shawbury from 1987 to 1988
 * Air Vice-Marshal Giles Legood MBE QHC, Chaplain-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force Chaplains Branch and Archdeacon for the Royal Air Force

Politics & government
 * Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges†, MP from 1812 to 1818 for Maidstone
 * Nick Gibb (briefly), Conservative Minister of State for School Standards from 2010 to 2012 and from 2015 to 2021, and MP for Bognor Regis and Littlehampton since 1997
 * Stuart Gilbert† Director of National Saving in the 1980s
 * John Pugh, Liberal Democrat MP 2001-2017 for Southport
 * Adam Sampson, Legal Services Ombudsman from 2009 to 2014 and Chief Executive from 2003 to 2009 of Shelter
 * Mark F. Watts, Labour MEP from 1994 to 1999 for Kent East, then South East England from 1999 to 2004
 * Phil Wynn Owen CB, civil servant

Religion
 * Rt Rev David John Atkinson, Bishop of Thetford from 2001 to 2009
 * Leo Avery†
 * Rt Rev Bob Evens, Bishop of Crediton 2004-2012
 * Henry Gould† vicar of St Paul's Cathedral 1908-1913
 * George Harris (Unitarian)†
 * Very Rev Robert William Pope OBE†
 * Martin Warner (bishop) SSC, Bishop of Whitby 2010–12, Bishop of Chichester 2012-present

Science & academia
 * Peter Day†, Fullerian Professor of Chemistry from 1994 to 2008, and Director of the Royal Institution from 1991 to 1998
 * Frank Finn†, ornithologist
 * Peter Heather, historian
 * Geoffrey Hosking, Professor of Russian History from 1984 to 2007 at University College London
 * William Morfill†, Professor of Russian from 1900 to 1909 at the University of Oxford
 * John Orrell†, theatre historian
 * John Pond† Astronomer Royal 1811-1835
 * Ivan Roots† Historian, Biographer of Oliver Cromwell
 * Bill Saunders, Professor of Endodontology, and Dean of Dentistry since 2000 at the University of Dundee, and President from 1997 to 1998 of the British Endodontic Society

Sport
 * Bill Leyland, London Broncos rugby league footballer
 * Oliver Leyland, London Broncos rugby league footballer
 * David Flatman, Bath Rugby Union player
 * Tom Parsons, Kent and Hampshire county cricketer
 * Frank Sando, Olympic athlete, two-time winner at the International Cross Country Championships (1955, 1957), represented Great Britain in two consecutive Summer Olympic Games
 * Steven Haworth, wrestler also known as Nigel McGuinness and Desmond Wolfe
 * Michael Malone, four-in-hand carriage driver, Scots Greys Regiment.

Other
 * Julius Brenchley†, explorer
 * Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland†
 * Sir Thomas Fane†

Notable staff

 * William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, taught English and Music at the school between 1938 and 1940, when he met his wife Ann Brookfield.
 * John Nunn, chess grandmaster.
 * Steve Restarick, former professional footballer, taught P.E. at the school before his suspension in 2014 amid fraud allegations.

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Talk:Lord President of the Court of Session

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I think that this article should be moved to Lord President of the Court of Session. The Lord Justice General is a title held by the Lord President additional to his main.

The Civil Law role of the Lord President is more senior, and the Lord President is also styled as Lord President of the College of Justice which includes the Supreme Courts, the Faculty of Advocates, and other senior officers.

I would like to see this page edited to better explain the origin and current function of the Lord President.

Davidkinnen 14:51, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Requested move
It was suggested that this article should be renamed Lord President of the Court of Session. The vote is shown below:

Lord President is the senior of the two titles that he/she holds

 * Could go either way. The Lord Justice General is, historically, the older and more senior role, but it is probably true that in recent times the LP role is considered more senior. I intend to spend some time filling out the history and role of these posts (also Lord Advocate and Solicitor General) as the articles are very brief.--George Burgess 21:11, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

This article has been renamed after the result of a move request. violet/riga (t) 22:42, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen
Appendix I to the Oxford Companion to Law, 1980, lists George Gordon, 1st Earl of Aberdeen as Lord President from 1681 to 1682. However the article on him suggests that he was in fact Lord President of the Privy Council of Scotland, a separate office.--George Burgess 21:07, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Merge?
There is a page elsewhere entitled Justiciar of Scotia. My view is that there needs to be some sort of a merge with appropriate redirections. David Lauder 20:27, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Disagree. As explained on this page "the office of Lord Justice General is derived from the justiciars who were appointed from the twelfth century". What is required is a reference on the justiciar page to explain that the LJG is the successor to that office--George Burgess 13:03, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I am trying, with some difficulty, to find when the post of Lord Justice General was constituted. Can anyone offer me a book source? David Lauder 10:04, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

inconsistency with pages
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Ardor (film)

Ardor, is a 2002 South Korean film directed by Byun Young-joo. It stars Yunjin Kim of Lost fame. It is based on the novel A Special Day That Comes Only Once In My Life (내 생에 꼭 하루뿐일 특별한 날) by Jeon Gyeong-rin.

Plot
A thirty-year-old housewife, Mi-heun, is visited by a woman in a red sweater. She smirks and tells Mi-heun that her husband is her lover. These few words take away and shatter Mi-heun's life as she knew it, a true terror on an unforgettable Christmas evening.

Swept away by the peaceful, silent town of Butterfly Ville, Mi-heun and her family begin a new life as if nothing had happened. However, the aftermath of that night still haunts Mi-heun with headaches as she vexatiously tries to vent out her heartache, alone. But nothing seems to change.

In-kyu is a not-so-busy country town doctor who enjoys fishing in the nearby lake. The rest of his time is spent on fishing girls out for sex. As the doctor is beginning to enjoy and is getting comfortable with his small-town life, he meets her.

As Mi-heun sits blankly under the blazing sun at a rest stop, a sharp voice comes to her like an alarm and awakes her. She refuses him with all her body and might, but at the same time, falls into him with her entire body and soul.

In-kyu gives Mi-heun an overwhelming answer to her question. When she felt like she was at the end of her ropes, she falls into a dangerous game of sex that would never allow for love. Unaware to herself, she starts to enjoy the lover's game more and more.

Mi-heun's husband wants to make a pond outside their new house. Hyo-Kyung hopes to make the pond to raise some fish and live happily there, together, as a family. However, the one person who should be there sharing his small dream is not there. The lonely pond remains as Mi-heun is walking through the heavy woods that are found outside the only motel in town. What will become of the husband who waits for his wife, and the two star-crossed who choose the path of no return? Is there an end to their never-ending desires?

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Het Schip

Het Schip (English: The Ship) is a building complex in the Spaarndammerbuurt neighbourhood of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The complex in the architectural style of the Amsterdam School was designed by Michel de Klerk in 1919. It originally contained 102 homes (now 82) for the working class, a small meeting hall, a post office, and an elementary school. Since 2001, the former school and post office are used as a museum about the Amsterdam School.

Historical background
In the 19th and early 20th century, Amsterdam faced a major housing shortage, with many working-class people living in cramped quarters with no electricity or running water. Heating was usually provided by burning peat, and poor families often lived in a single room together.

In response to these squalid conditions, the Dutch government passed the National Housing Act (Woningwet) in 1901. This law set up much higher standards for housing and resulted in both the demolition of older, inadequate tenement buildings and the creation of new housing blocks with much better living conditions and prices that made them accessible to Amsterdam's poorer citizens. The new law also set aside financial resources for the development of low-income housing. One of the affordable housing developments created in the wake of the passage of the National Housing Act was the Spaarndammerbuurt, where Het Schip and several other Amsterdam School social housing projects are located.

Much of the new low-income housing was financed by cooperative housing associations run by groups such as workers' collectives, socialist organizations, religious groups. One such group was Eigen Haard, or "our own hearth," a socialist group that commissioned Michel de Klerk to design and build three blocks of proletarian housing, including Het Schip.

Amenities
The apartments of Het Schip were a radical departure from the poor living conditions of many of Amsterdam's working-class people in the 20th century. Relatively spacious, they include several separate rooms as opposed to the one-room dwellings still common at the time. They also included flush toilets and had ample natural light and ventilation from windows. Ground-floor apartments also had gardens.

The building also includes a post office, which the poor had previously had little access to. The post office contained a telephone box from which families could make calls.

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National Association for the Education of Young Children

The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is a large nonprofit association in the United States representing early childhood education teachers, para-educators, center directors, trainers, college educators, families of young children, policy makers, and advocates. NAEYC is focused on improving the well-being of young children, with particular emphasis on the quality of educational and developmental services for children from birth through age 8.

History
In the 1920s, concern over the varying quality of emerging nursery school programs in the United States inspired Patty Smith Hill to gather prominent figures in the field to decide how to best ensure the existence of high-quality programs. Meeting in Washington, DC, the group negotiated the issue of a manual, called "Minimum Essentials for Nursery Education," that set out standards and methods of acceptable nursery schools. Three years later, the group cemented the existence of a professional association of nursery school experts named the National Association for Nursery Education (NANE). NANE changed its name to NAEYC in 1964.

The association has existed for over 90 years. Its holds three national early childhood conferences per year, the NAEYC Annual Conference, the NAEYC Public Policy Forum and the NAEYC Professional Learning Institute. The NAEYC Annual Conference is the largest early childhood education conference in the world. The association publishes periodicals, books, professional development materials, and resources, all of which relate to the education of young children. The association is also active in public policy work. The association is well known for accrediting high-quality child care/preschool centers, and more than 10,000 centers, programs and schools have earned NAEYC Accreditation.

Accreditation
NAEYC accredits early childhood programs according to health, safety and education standards it first launched in 1985 and modified and released in September 2006. The new standards were intended to provide a more reliable and accountable accreditation system and to encourage the field of early childhood education to strive for a new level of excellence.

NAEYC also accredits academic degree programs for early childhood educators.

Structure
NAEYC has a structure of state and local Affiliates that are semi-autonomous but that are required to contribute part of the membership dues to the national organization. The Office of Affiliate Relations provides direct services to NAEYC State Affiliates and Regional Affiliates to support them in their efforts to build capacity and become high-performing, inclusive organizations.

Current programs
NAEYC provides many different programs to assist professionals who work to educate young children. They are a leading publisher of educational resources, which include books, videos and posters that can assist in the teaching of young children. NAEYC also publishes a scholarly journal to help early childhood professionals and parents stay informed about the latest research on educating children age 0-8, Young Children. In 2007, NAEYC also developed Teaching Young Children, a magazine written for preschool teachers. The magazine provides useful, research-based ideas that teachers can use in their classrooms. Every year the NAEYC offers several conferences where participants can learn about and receive professional development in their field as well as focus on the improvements that have been made in the practices, policies and research.

Another important program sponsored by the NAEYC is the "Week of the Young Child". This is a week-long promotion every spring that brings public awareness to the importance of early childhood development and education.

Policy and advocacy
NAEYC encourages its supporters to be informed of current issues and legislation that affect the lives of young children. At the NAEYC Children's Champions Action Center, individuals can find information about the federal legislative process, learn how to contact members of Congress, and see the daily agenda for the House and the Senate.

NAEYC believes that our nation is at a crossroads. An integrated system of early childhood care and education that includes comprehensive approaches that directly involve families and communities in program design, implementation, and evaluation must be developed. NAEYC believes Americans can invest now in our children and families and enjoy long-term savings, with a more vibrant nation of healthy, achieving children and more stable families. Or, they can fail to make the investment and pay the price: increased delinquency, greater educational failures, lowered productivity, less economic competitiveness, and fewer adults prepared to be effective, loving parents to the next generation of children.

Federal, state and local government, communities, parents, and the private sector must share in the responsibility of ensuring the well-being of children and families.

In order to keep the programs going, NAEYC members must pay dues for funding of the programs they run.

Journals, publications and position statements
The following periodic publications are released and sponsored by NAEYC:

Young Children

Young Children is a peer reviewed journal published bi-monthly by the National Association for the Education of Young Children. In this journal, issues are organized around topical clusters that devote special attention to issues in the field of early childhood education.

Teaching Young Children

Teaching Young Children is a magazine specifically designed for preschool teachers. It highlights current thinking on best practices in early childhood education, innovations in the field, research and its implications, and interesting ideas for and from preschool teachers. The articles and other features reinforce the accreditation criteria for the NAEYC Early Childhood Program Standards on Relationships and Teaching and encourage effective teaching in the preschool years.

Previously Published

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Early Childhood Research Quarterly is a research journal that is published four times a year, and contains current research in early childhood.

In addition to these periodicals, NAEYC produces formal position statements from time to time to "state the Association's position on issues related to early childhood education practice, policy, and/or professional development for which there are controversial or critical opinions." These position statements are typically produced by NAEYC to include in-depth discussion of specific issues such as Early Learning Standards, Teacher Certification or Media Violence. In a few instances, NAEYC has issued position statements jointly with other authorities. A recent example is the 2012 position statement titled "Technology and Interactive Media as Tools in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children from Birth through Age 8", produced jointly with the Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media at Saint Vincent College.

Caring for Children in Low-Income Families: A Substudy of the National Child Care Survey, 1990

Caring for Children in Low-Income Families is a study that NAEYC conducted with The Urban Institute in 1990 on affordable child care facilities for low- income families. This book explores multiple different aspects of the lives of low-income children and day care. The study also examines aspects of the family lives. For example, whether a home has a single parent, two parents, unemployed parents, or other odd family situations and how that affects the children and their abilities to receive proper education. This was a very thorough and detailed study conducted by NAEYC and it helped them to better suit their own child care facilities to adapt to the needs of low-income families.


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Stopford Brooke

Stopford Brooke may refer to;

 * Stopford Brooke (chaplain) (1832–1916), Irish writer, critic, clergyman, and royal chaplain
 * Stopford Brooke (politician) (1859–1938), British Member of Parliament, 1906–1910

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