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Gortin

Gortin is a village and townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is ten miles (16 km) north of Omagh in the valley of the Owenkillew river, overlooked by the Sperrins. It had a population of 360 at the 2001 Census.

History
In the 1840s Gortin was in the barony of Strabane. Its 410 inhabitants lived in 81 houses indifferently built and so placed as to form one irregular street. A writer at the time described the surrounding scenery, though bold, as "generally destitute of beauty from the want of wood, which is found only at Beltrim, a residence surrounded by young and thriving plantations".

A court baron for the manor of Eliston, in which debts to the amount of 40 shillings was recoverable was held on the first Tuesday of each month and petty sessions were held once a month. The fair was held on the first Wednesday of each month and a pleasure fair was held each Easter Monday. Gortin, as well as a large area of country surrounding the village and is called Beltrim Castle, was the residence of the Hamilton (later Cole-Hamilton) family. The present castle is a modern building and the only part of the original castle which remains standing is a gable wall which at present no part of the modern building. The landlord built two Protestant churches on the estate, which was so large that the landlord was able to ride around it on horseback in a day. He was a keen sportsman and preserved the game. It was well known that if a tenant on the estate possessed a dog which could and did kill a hare and the story went to the landlord's ears, the tenant got orders to have the dog destroyed at once, and if the tenant was not prepared to do so he got "notice to quit". There was a bailiff kept on the estate whose principal duty was the control of the bog for turf cutting, who as well as his other duties, kept an eye on the progress of the tenantry and if anyone of them reclaimed any land or otherwise improved his holdings, so that the tenant was able to produce a couple of extra stacks of oats, his rent was immediately increased. The landlord served on the Grand jury, was a Magistrate, and chairman of the local petty sessions, chairman of the local board of guardians, who supervised the local workhouse and was always able to "rule the roost" and everyone else connected with these bodies were merely "yes" men.

Workhouse
The workhouse was built in 1841 at a cost of 2,689 pounds (the site cost another 200 pounds) to accommodate 200 paupers. It consisted of a main building about 200 yards in length and three stories high, together with a general hospital and a fever hospital as well as outhouses and stores etc. It is no longer in existence nor is the village distillery which was in operation then. There was also a police station: a parish church (it was in a dilapidated state and was about to be rebuilt); a parochial school, and a dispensary. The fever hospital still stands and is now the Manse or residence of the Presbyterian minister. There is a graveyard at the southern end or gable of it containing 33 graves of people who died in it, or in the central hospital or in the workhouse. In the famine years porridge was distributed at the workhouse to any person who asked for it provided they had a utensil to carry it away. There was also seed potatoes and oats and grass seed distributed, and a fee was charged. When the end to these places came, the remaining inmates were transferred to Omagh, and the workhouse and other buildings were sold. The Presbyterian Church bought the fever hospital and grounds, to be converted into a residence for their minister; and the Catholic Church bought the workhouse and grounds; and a new church and parochial house has been built on the foundations of it. While all the knocking down and leveling of the site was taking place the Parish Priest had a home fitted up for himself, it was part of the workhouse. The Minister had about the same time moved into his and some strangers were told one day at that time, that religion was in a very bad way about Gortin at present, for the Presbyterian minister was in the fever hospital and the Parish Priest was in the workhouse.

Economy
There was a Tannery about 100 years ago, and hides and skins were tanned from a substance obtained from the bark of oak trees. The oak bark was steeped in pits, built of stone and lime, and are still traceable in a yard in the village. The leather made here was used for making harness for horses as well as boots and shoes, which were made locally. There was a company of Imperial yeomanry stationed here about 150 years ago, whose principal duty seemed to be of searching for illicit spirits or poteen. The yeomanry were supplied with a metal badge worn on their uniform about the same size as the badge worn by taxi drivers and had embossed on it the words, "Gortin Imperial Yeomanry". The which was used as their barracks has been rebuilt. It was the first house in Gortin to have stairs and two floors.

There was a brewery here at one time. It has been closed for about 100 years and a story still exists that an Excise officer from Omagh paid a visit to it once and he was never seen afterwards. There were two bakeries in Gortin at one time and the owner of one of them was in the habit of hitching up of two horses to the same number of carts and going to Dublin for two loads of flour. Each owner of the bakeries had a horse and bread cart delivering bread over the country. There was also a saw mill driven by a steam engine with the assistance of a windmill which also supplied power to a mill, for grinding Indian corn into meal and crushing oats, and for printing. There was an ordinary corn mill for grinding oats into meal.

A stream of water or burn which runs through the village supplied the brewery with water as well as the saw mill and the two other mills. There was no other power at the time. These mills have been closed for about 100 years and are now derelict. Up to about 80 years ago, a pound existed on the outskirts of the village. This was a fenced enclosure where cattle and sheep which were found trespassing and in some cases destroying crops could be impounded and held until released by the owner on payment of a fee to the pound keeper for every day or part of a day on which the animals were held.

There was a licence issued to the pound keeper otherwise he could not charge a fee for the detention of the animals, hence the saying 'your cow is in the pound.' Two trades have disappeared from the village during the past 70 years. One of them was a nailer, who made all sizes of nails from iron, called mailrod. The nails were not coated with any substance, the only tools used were a hammer and tongs, an anvil and a chisel. The other trade was a cooper, who made atts for holding butter and pails, tubs and barrels. The articles were all made to order.

The Troubles in Gortin
On 25 May 1975 Albert Ballantine, a 19-year-old Protestant was killed by the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF).

Places of interest

 * Nearby Gortin Glen Forest Park was opened in 1967 and covers an area of 15.34 km2.
 * The Ulster History Park closed down in recent years. It has since been redeveloped as part of the Glenpark Estate, a popular tourist attraction and accommodation.

Sport

 * Gortin St. Patrick's is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club.

Notable people

 * Janet Devlin: X Factor finalist and established singer-songwriter.

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BTN

BTN may refer to:

 * Bhutan, a country in South Asia (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code: BTN)
 * Bhutanese ngultrum, the currency of Bhutan by ISO 4217 currency code
 * Bauxite and Northern Railway, a railroad operating in Arkansas, United States
 * Behind the News, an educational news & current affairs programme for children in Australia
 * Beyond the Neighbourhood, a 2007 album by an English indie rock band Athlete
 * Big Ten Network, a regional sports television network in the United States
 * Biro Tata Negara (National Civics Bureau), a Malaysian government agency
 * Botanic Gardens MRT station, Singapore (MRT station abbreviation BTN)
 * Bornfree Technologies Network, a private television broadcaster from West Nile, Uganda
 * Bank Tabungan Negara, a bank in Indonesia
 * British Television Network, BTN, a fictional British state television broadcaster in the film V for Vendetta
 * Marlboro County Jetport, an airport near Bennettsville, South Carolina, United States (IATA airport code BTN)
 * Brighton railway station, a railway station in Sussex, England
 * Burlington Union Station, a railway station in Vermont, United States (station code BTN)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/You're the man now, dog

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The result of the debate was Speedy redirect to YTMND. Fernando Rizo T/C 23:08, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

You're the man now, dog
First off, this phrase is already described in great detail on YTMND. Second, it's definitely a dicdef, and therefore has been moved to Wiktionary. All we can do with it now is delete it. Oy, I changed my mind, I think it should be a redirect to YTMND now. —M ESSED R OCKER (userpage) (talk) 21:08, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to YTMND. -- Bobdoe (Talk) 20:49, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to YTMND. ~ Syrae Faileas 20:54, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 21:33, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge if anything's missing and redirect. - Mgm|(talk) 21:47, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
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Khazanah Nasional

Khazanah Nasional Berhad (lit. 'National Treasure Limited'; doing business as Khazanah Nasional or simply Khazanah) is the sovereign wealth fund of the Government of Malaysia. One of the largest sovereign wealth funds in the world, it was established to invest surplus revenues for Malaysia. Through its investments and activities, the fund seeks to deliver sustainable economic and societal benefit for the nation. This includes achieving long-term risk-adjusted returns across the portfolio, as well as undertaking investments that catalyse new growth areas, strengthen Malaysia’s economic competitiveness, and contribute to priority socioeconomic outcomes.

Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, it has regional offices in the United States, Turkey, China, United Kingdom and India. Khazanah's portfolio covers a broad spectrum of sectors. Its key focus investment areas include Leisure & Tourism, Banking, Sustainable Development, Healthcare and Consumerism. While it does not receive regular capital infusions, Khazanah relies on its ability to generate returns and tapping capital markets to fund its investments.

Khazanah is a member of the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IFSWF),  which maintains and promotes the Santiago Principles on best practices in managing sovereign wealth funds. It is also a signatory of the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI), signatory of the Malaysian Code for Institutional Investors and a member of the Institutional Investor Council  Malaysia (IIC), a member of the FCLT Global (Focusing Capital on the Long Term), and signatory of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission's (MACC) Corporate Integrity Pledge.

It is owned by the Malaysian government and administered by the Minister of Finance Incorporated, except for one share held by the Federal Land Commissioner. It is governed by a board of directors comprising representatives from the Government and the corporate sector with diverse professional backgrounds and expertise. In October 2023, the fund has US$35.8 billion in assets under management. Khazanah is one of the two Malaysia's government-linked investment companies (GLICs) that manages money from the government's excess funds, the other being Retirement Fund (Incorporated).

Status
Khazanah is a company incorporated in Malaysia, and operates under the provisions of the Malaysian Companies Act. It is neither a government agency nor a statutory board, rather it is a national institution that served as a trustee that manages government-owned commercial assets and also investing in multiple high-tech and strategic sectors.

Unlike any other investment company, Khazanah does not sell its investments and assets to Bank Negara Malaysia. It also assuming the functions of managing billions of ringgit worths of assets owned by the Federal Government. Modelled after the Singaporean sovereign wealth fund, Temasek Holdings, Khazanah also has its own board of directors and a professional management team.

The Prime Minister of Malaysia, who serves as a Khazanah chairman, have the rights to determine the Khazanah's direction, including to appoint and retaining the members of Khazanah's board of directors and existing managements.

In a 2016 forum, Azman Mokhtar, former Khazanah's Managing Director, said Khazanah had the continuation of a pro-growth and pro-society focus in the 2017 Malaysian Budget, with companies of various sectors under its portfolio remained to be the nation's growth engines. Former Prime Minister and Khazanah chairman, Ismail Sabri Yaakob in the fund's 2021 report, said that Khazanah is in a perfect position to embarked on its Advancing Malaysia initiative. He noted that Khazanah's ability to overcome the specific challenges impacting certain sectors and create sustainable growth for the long term.

History
Khazanah was incorporated under the Malaysian Companies Act 1965 on 3 September 1993 as a public limited company and commenced operations a year later to manage and maximise the return of government assets and equities, thus taking over the functions of the Minister of Finance Incorporated, which administered the fund.

In July 2003, the fund had offer up to 186 million of covered warrants to retail, institutional and selected investors. Later on, Khazanah sets the indicative issue price of its covered warrants at RM6.50.

In 2004, Khazanah became a regular issuer in the global capital markets and supporting Malaysia’s aspiration in being the leading hub for Islamic finance through landmark transactions. This include the world’s first exchangeable sukuk and the country's first sustainable and responsible investment sukuk. In May the same year, the Malaysian Government announces a strategic revamp for Khazanah. The revamp saws the fund received a new mandate from the government to be an active shareholder while driving transformation of the Malaysian government-linked companies (GLCs).

In 2005, the fund launches a transformation program and a guideline for the government-owned companies.

In 2018, the Government of Malaysia initiated a corporate restructuring and reorganisation of Khazanah, which involved leadership changes, a refresh of its mandate and objectives, and a review and revaluation of its investments.

In April 2020, Khazanah announced it was contributing RM20 million in total to support the relief efforts in response to the ongoing worldwide COVID-19 pandemic.

Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim announced in February 2023 that Khazanah will spearheaded the formation of the National Heritage Fund to attract all private participations in restoring historical heritage sites.

On 16 March 2023, Khazanah launched a new initiative called the Future Malaysia Program, under its Dana Impak mandate. The initiative was introduced to support the local ecosystem of entrepreneurs, start-ups, venture funds, and corporate venture programmes through its local and international partners.

The fund assigned its inaugural issuer credit rating of A3 and A− from Moody's Investors Service and S&P Global Ratings, in April 2023, respectively.

Investments
Khazanah pursues its overall mandate through its 4 investment structures which consists of Investments portfolio, the Dana Impak portfolio, developmental assets and special situations.

1990s
In 1995, Khazanah acquire 40% of majority stake in Putrajaya Holdings to undertake the development of Putrajaya. In 1996, the fund formed a joint venture with Bank Industri Berhad and Wafer Technology to develop local expertise in wafer fabrication, which is a core area in the Malaysian semiconductor industry.

In September the same year, Khazanah, through its agreement deal with Usaha Tegas, announced it has acquired 15 per cent of Measat Broadcast Network Systems Sdn. Bhd., the principal owner of Astro satellite television through the subscription of new shares.

Khazanah began issuing a RM1 billion bond where it was the first of a series of bonds aimed at providing a benchmark yield curve.

On 5 December 1997, Khazanah signed a co-operation agreement with British Aerospace for a partnership to develop Malaysia's capability in designing and manufacturing of aerospace products, while enablling Malaysian companies received access to international aerospace work and future aircraft programmes.

In 1999, Khazanah engaged in local bank restructuring by acquiring the equities of several banks, including RHB Bank and Maybank.

2000s
In May 2000, Khazanah invested 30% of stake in telecommunications company, TIME dotCom Berhad for investors.

In 2001, Khazanah through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Syarikat Danasaham acquire UEM Group for RM3.8 billion. The acquisition aims to recover UEM and heavily-indebted Renong.

In 2007, Khazanah began its Northern Corridor initiative to spearhead the development of Northern Corridor Economic Region.

Khazanah, together with the Dubai Banking Group and Asia Capital Reinsurance (ACR), has established a joint-venture company, ACR ReTakaful Holdings in May 2008 with a capital base of US$300 million.

In 2008, Khazanah invested in Biotropics Malaysia Berhad to spearhead the development of Malaysian traditional herbs including Tongkat Ali.

2010s
2011 saw the establishment of M+S Pte. Ltd., a joint-venture between Khazanah and Singaporean investment holding arm, Temasek Holdings. The joint investments saw both Khazanah and Temasek undertaking projects in Iskandar Malaysia and Singapore. Khazanah owns 60% of the joint-venture company while Temasek owns the remaining 40%.

In October 2011, Khazanah issues the first Renminbi sukuk, which is the world's first Renminbi offshore sukuk.

In August 2012, Khazanah's wholly-owned subsidiary, Themed Attractions and Resorts invests in Puteri Harbour Family Theme Park for RM115 million.

In July 2013, Khazanah through its insurance arm, Avicennia Capital reached an agreement to acquire 90% stake in the Turkish healthcare insurance company, Acibadem Saglik ve Hayat Sigorta for US$252 million.

In August 2014, Khazanah announced its intention to purchase the remaining ownership of Malaysia Airlines from minority shareholders and delist the airline from Malaysia's stock exchange, thereby renationalising the airline.

The fund through its special purpose vehicle, Bukit Galla Investments, has invested in Chinese mobile lending and credit analytics platform, WeLab in January 2016.

In July 2019, they targeted to expanding its investment exposure in the United States and looking to invest primarily in technology firms utilising data analytics.

2020s
In 2021, Khazanah allocates RM6 billion investments through its Dana Impak. The allocation was made to improving household incomes and achieve other socio-economic outcomes.

Khazanah announced in September 2022 that it would eyeing potential investments in Southeast Asia and India while looking at the right time to execute them.

In April 2023, Khazanah invests USD $40 million in Indian logistics company, Xpressbees.

The fund invests in Malaysian homegrown insurance technology company, PolicyStreet in June 2023, aiming to enhanced protection for the nation's underserved market.

The fund announced that it will be spearheading a green investment platform to attract domestic and overseas investments.

In July 2023, Khazanah partnered with the Singaporean venture capital firm, Antler to help the firm expand its operations in Malaysia while to support the local startup ecosystem.

As early as January 2024, Khazanah and CGC Digital have jointly invested in Southeast Asia's digital finance platform, Funding Societies.

Sustainability
In its sustainability framework that launched in 10 June 2022, Khazanah have set a target of achieving carbon neutral operations by the end of 2023. Another environmental sustainability target is also to aim for net zero emissions by 2050.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Timmonsville Whirlwinds

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The result of the debate was delete. Sjakkalle (Check!)  06:50, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Timmonsville Whirlwinds
Complete worthless load of tripe vanity. I wish I could shoot the people who make this stuff through the head. --Blackcap | talk 20:45, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * O.K., I'm sorry, that was a bit much. I was getting frustrated. Please forgive me. --Blackcap | talk 21:59, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. I suggest the nominator read over WP:COOL a few times.  :)  Thatdog 22:05, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Whew! Read it twice, my heartrate seems to be coming back to normal. --Blackcap | talk 22:17, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity, not notable Sliggy 22:47, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn. Alf 23:28, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn footballcruft. -- Etacar11   03:42, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity --JeremyStein 19:55, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - Not notable - Tεx  τ  urε  21:10, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
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Cwmfelinfach

Cwmfelinfach is a small village located in the Sirhowy valley of south-east Wales. It is part of the district of Caerphilly within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire. It is located north of Wattsville, about 5 miles north of the nearest town Risca, and south of Blackwood. To the east the valley is bordered by the hills of Pen-y-Trwyn (1,028 ft / 313 m). To the west is Mynydd y Grug (1,132 ft / 345 m).

Cwmfelinfach can be translated from Welsh as "valley of the little mill".

The photograph shows Islwyn Road in Wattsville, rather than Cwmfelinfach.

History
The village was a small hamlet until the late 19th century; the majority of housing is therefore traditional terraced housing from the early 20th century. A map of 1885 shows the Melin (mill) and the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist chapel, Capel y Babell. The grave of William Thomas (Islwyn), a 19th-century poet in the Welsh language, can be found here. Cwmfelinfach was home to a coal mining community during the early to mid 20th century. The colliery, known as "Nine Mile Point", opened in about 1905 and closed in 1964. Nine Mile Point Colliery was the site of the first ever sit-in of miners; during 1935 there was a "stay-down strike" involving 164 colliers. They were protesting over the use of "Scab" miners (men not members of the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, unlike the rest of the "Points" workforce) and their ordeal only ended after the company promised that no non-Federation men would be employed at the colliery; the stay-down strike lasted for 177 hours. Miners from other collieries in the area, some taking similar action, supported their action.

Transport

The village is served by regular buses operated by Stagecoach Group to Tredegar and Blackwood in the north, and Newport city centre in the south.

Cwmfelinfach is also part of the Celtic Trail cycle route (National Cycle Route 47) which connects West Wales from Fishguard through to Carmarthen, Llanelli, Swansea, Merthyr Tydfil, Newport, and the Severn Bridge in the East.

Notable People
Owain Smith was a well known gambler from Cwmfelinfach, born in 1890. He was tragically killed in an altercation by Dafydd "Dai" Gwillym from Ynysddu, in 1910. His family had strong ties with the local Nine Mile Point Colliery, originally known as the Coronation Colliery. He is buried at Babell Chapel in Cwmfelinfach, next to his son, Llewellyn Smith.

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Hello, MichaelWaite, and welcome to Wikipedia! I just wanted you to know that talk pages are only for discussions about the page they represent. I've removed your posting on Talk:Cwmfelinfach as it wasn't really in relation to the page. If you want to post that a page is your first entry, your User page is the perfect place to do that. Take a look at some other Wikipedians' user pages if you'd like more of an idea of what to use them for. Thanks! --Blackcap | talk 21:20, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

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Robert Horton (businessman)

Sir Robert Baynes Horton (18 August 1939 – 30 December 2011) was a British businessman. He was a director of the European Advisory Council and of Emerson Electric Company. He spent 30 years working for BP, formerly British Petroleum. He became Chief Executive and Chairman of the Board of BP in March 1990, but was forced out in 1992.

Early life and education
Sir Robert was the son of William Harold Horton and Dorothy Joan Horton (née Baynes). He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, University College, Dundee, then part of the University of St Andrews, but now the University of Dundee, and graduated the MIT Sloan School of Management as a Sloan Fellows  in 1971.

He was chairman of the Tate Gallery Foundation 1988-92 and Business in the Arts 1988-96. He was a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts. He was chancellor of the University of Kent from 1990 to 1995, and a portrait of him hangs in the Senate Building there. He was also a Governor of King's School, Canterbury 1984-2005.

Career
Sir Robert joined BP in 1957, and from 1960 on held a series of positions in oil supply, marketing, finance, and planning. In 1980 he became chief executive officer of BP Chemicals International and held that position until December 1983 when he was elected to the BP board as a managing director, with responsibility for finance, planning, and the Western Hemisphere. On his election as chairman and chief executive officer of Standard Oil in April 1986, Horton resigned from BP. But following the merger of BP and Standard Oil in July 1987, he was appointed chief executive officer of BP America, Inc. As chairman of British Petroleum in 1990, Sir Robert Horton aimed to reorganise the company in such a way as to attract and advance outstanding personnel. He was forced out in 1992 after "management turmoil and disagreements with the company's board."

He was chairman of Railtrack from 1993 to 1999 and led the organisation through the early years of its existence, including an industrial dispute from June to September 1994. He was non-executive chairman of Betfair from 2004 to 2006.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ǧ

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The result of the debate was keep. --Tony Sidaway Talk 02:00, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

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Single letter in little-used language. Doesn't display (but maybe that's my browser). Probably has at least seeming synonyms i.e. blank boxes. Maybe delete isn't right but how should this/these be handled? Dlyons493 20:47, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * It shows up fine on my browser (Safari) as a capital G with a háček - a little upturned circumflex over it. On a quick random search for articles on single letters WP has articles on Z, ü, æ, ø and ç, so I vote Keep and hope that someone expands the stub. Tonywalton [[Image:Pentacle_1.svg|15px]] | Talk 21:05, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, it's OK on Safari. Seems to be %C7%A6 in Explorer, so probably there won't be synonyms after all.  Maybe this more a browser than a wiki issue?  Dlyons493 21:35, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * If you're looking for suggestions on how to handle these, I would start with adding an image that shows what the letter is supposed to look like regardless of what Internet Explorer does. -Aranel (" Sarah  ") 21:37, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I wasn't sure whether your nomination was "odd character" (which by the way looks fine on Firefox and Mozilla too, though IE5:Mac won't deal with it at all) or "article about a single letter". If the latter I'd say 'keep', if the former, Arenel has a good point, but searching for the article would be a bit tedious if your browser wouldn't allow you to input the character. 81.153.185.255 21:50, 25 August 2005 (UTC) Tonywalton [[Image:Pentacle_1.svg|15px]] | Talk 21:51, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * It's Unicode 01E6, UTF-8 C7 A6, so no aliases. It's a defined character. Tonywalton [[Image:Pentacle_1.svg|15px]] | Talk
 * Keep. Encyclopaedic topic. David | Talk 21:54, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as above and per numerous precedents such as ß. Martg76 23:03, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, per above. And use Firefox for viewing pleasure. feydey 23:07, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Why not? N (t/c) 23:55, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Seems to be concensus on notability of single letters - so Keep. Re viewability I'll think about Aranel's suggestion - easy enough to upload a graphic for a single one, but I don't see any way of discovering others systematically.  Dlyons493 00:07, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - But can somebody upload a GIF of the letter to resolve the text display browser problem? Won't display using 64-bit MSIE 6.0, either. -PlainSight 04:24, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Done (PNG, at least). Tonywalton [[Image:Pentacle_1.svg|15px]] | Talk 12:24, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, obviously. —RaD Man (talk) 06:31, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment there appear to be a few of these, going by (which these aren't). P̌ has a cleanup-importance stub on it.  "P̌" is  'p with a háček' for IE users. 192.18.1.9 15:08, 26 August 2005 (UTC) Tonywalton [[Image:Pentacle_1.svg|15px]] | Talk 15:09, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I've expanded it a little, and I think it deserves to stay on analogy with other articles about letters with diacritics (like Ñ). After all, they're not hurting anyone and they satisfy the curiosities of linguistically inclined such as myself. If you're having troubles viewing it on your browser, I suggest you download the Gentium font, which contains just about every Latin and Greek character encoded in Unicode. — Ливай | Ⓣ 15:15, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Consistent with other letter articles. These are Latin letters, in the sense that Latin is a script that includes the letters used in Latin and all those added for languages that use basically that set plus a few. Nobody has come up with a better name.--Prosfilaes 20:55, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
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This one needs a pronounciation guide Little Professor (talk) 19:02, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

History
On the outskirts of Cwmfelinfach no the border of Wattsville is the old site of Nine Mile Point Colliery. This was the site of the first ever 'sit in' of miners — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.40.235.61 (talk) 14:45, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

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Orange (software)

Orange is an open-source data visualization, machine learning and data mining toolkit. It features a visual programming front-end for explorative qualitative data analysis and interactive data visualization.

Description
Orange is a component-based visual programming software package for data visualization, machine learning, data mining, and data analysis.

Orange components are called widgets. They range from simple data visualization, subset selection, and preprocessing to empirical evaluation of learning algorithms and predictive modeling.

Visual programming is implemented through an interface in which workflows are created by linking predefined or user-designed widgets, while advanced users can use Orange as a Python library for data manipulation and widget alteration.

Software
Orange is an open-source software package released under GPL and hosted on GitHub. Versions up to 3.0 include core components in C++ with wrappers in Python. From version 3.0 onwards, Orange uses common Python open-source libraries for scientific computing, such as numpy, scipy and scikit-learn, while its graphical user interface operates within the cross-platform Qt framework.

The default installation includes a number of machine learning, preprocessing and data visualization algorithms in 6 widget sets (data, transform, visualize, model, evaluate and unsupervised). Additional functionalities are available as add-ons (text-mining, image analytics, bioinformatics, etc.).

Orange is supported on macOS, Windows and Linux and can also be installed from the Python Package Index repository (pip install Orange3).

Features
Orange consists of a canvas interface onto which the user places widgets and creates a data analysis workflow. Widgets offer basic functionalities such as reading the data, showing a data table, selecting features, training predictors, comparing learning algorithms, visualizing data elements, etc. The user can interactively explore visualizations or feed the selected subset into other widgets.
 * Canvas: graphical front-end for data analysis
 * Widgets:
 * Data: widgets for data input, data filtering, sampling, imputation, feature manipulation and feature selection
 * Visualize: widgets for common visualization (box plot, histograms, scatter plot) and multivariate visualization (mosaic display, sieve diagram).
 * Classify: a set of supervised machine learning algorithms for classification
 * Regression: a set of supervised machine learning algorithms for regression
 * Evaluate: cross-validation, sampling-based procedures, reliability estimation and scoring of prediction methods
 * Unsupervised: unsupervised learning algorithms for clustering (k-means, hierarchical clustering) and data projection techniques (multidimensional scaling, principal component analysis, correspondence analysis).

Add-ons
Orange users can extend their core set of components with components in the add-ons. Supported add-ons include:

 * Associate: components for mining frequent itemsets and association rule learning.
 * Bioinformatics: components for gene expression analysis, enrichment, and access to expression databases (e.g., Gene Expression Omnibus) and pathway libraries.
 * Data fusion: components for fusing different data sets, collective matrix factorization, and exploration of latent factors.
 * Educational: components for teaching machine learning concepts, such as k-means clustering, polynomial regression, stochastic gradient descent, ...
 * Explain: provides an extension with components for the model explanation, including Shapley value analysis
 * Geo: components for working with geospatial data.
 * Image analytics: components for working with images and ImageNet embeddings
 * Network: components for graph and network analysis.
 * Text mining: components for natural language processing and text mining.
 * Time series: widget components for time series analysis and modeling.
 * Single-cell: support for single-cell gene expression analysis, including components for loading single-cell data, filtering and batch effect removal, marker genes discovery, scoring of cells and genes, and cell type prediction.Kaplan-Meyer plot.png
 * Spectroscopy: components for analyzing and visualization of (hyper)spectral datasets.
 * Survival analysis: add-on for data analysis dealing with survival data. It includes widgets for standard survival analysis techniques, such as the Kaplan-Meier plot, the Cox regression model, and several derivative widgets.
 * World Happiness: support for downloading socioeconomic data from a database, including OECD and World Development Indicators. Provides access to thousands of country indicators from various economic databases.
 * Fairness: add-on for evaluation and creation of fair machine learning models without discrimination. Widgets range from computing fairness metrics like statistical parity to post-, pre-, in-processing methods to build fair models.

Objectives
The program provides a platform for experiment selection, recommendation systems, and predictive modelling and is used in biomedicine, bioinformatics, genomic research, and teaching. In science, it is used as a platform for testing new machine learning algorithms and for implementing new techniques in genetics and bioinformatics. In education, it was used for teaching machine learning and data mining methods to students of biology, biomedicine, and informatics.

Extensions
Various projects build on Orange either by extending the core components with add-ons or using only the Orange Canvas to exploit the implemented visual programming features and GUI.

 * OASYS — ORange SYnchrotron Suite
 * scOrange — single cell biostatistics
 * Quasar — data analysis in natural sciences

History
In 1996, the University of Ljubljana and Jožef Stefan Institute started development of ML*, a machine learning framework in C++, and Python bindings were developed for this framework in 1997, which, together with emerging Python modules, formed a joint framework called Orange. Over the following years, most contemporary major algorithms for data mining and machine learning were implemented in C++ (Orange's core) or Python modules.
 * In 2002, first prototypes to create a flexible graphical user interface were designed using Pmw Python megawidgets.
 * In 2003, the graphical user interface was redesigned and re-developed for Qt framework using PyQt Python bindings. The visual programming framework was defined, and the development of widgets (graphical components of the data analysis pipeline) began.
 * In 2005, extensions for data analysis in bioinformatics was created.
 * In 2008, Mac OS X DMG and Fink-based installation packages were developed.
 * In 2009, over 100 widgets were created and maintained.
 * Since 2009, Orange is in 2.0 beta, and web site offers installation packages based on the daily compiling cycle.
 * In 2012, a new object hierarchy was imposed, replacing the old module-based structure.
 * In 2013, a significant redesign of the graphical user interface included a new toolbox and depiction of workflows.
 * In 2015, Orange 3.0 was released. Orange stores the data in the NumPy arrays; machine learning algorithms mostly use scikit-learn.
 * In 2015, a text analysis add-on for Orange3 was released.
 * In 2016, Orange is in version 3.3. The development uses a monthly stable release cycle.
 * In 2016, Start of development and release of Image Analytics add-on, with server-site deep neural networks for image embedding
 * In 2017, Spectroscopy add-on for the analysis of spectral data was introduced.
 * In 2017, Geo, an add-on for dealing with geo-location data and visualisation of geo maps was introduced
 * In 2018, the development and release of add-on for single-cell data analysis was started.
 * In 2019, Orange's graphical interface is developed as a separate project, orange-canvas-core
 * In 2020, Explain add-on with widgets for explaining classification or regression model is introduced. It explains which features contribute the most and how they contribute towards predicting a specific class.
 * In 2022 World Happiness, an add-on for the Orange3 data mining suite, is introduced. It provides widgets for accessing socioeconomic data from various databases such as World Happiness Report, World Development Indicators, OECD.
 * In 2022, Explain add-on is extended with an Individual Conditional Expectation plot and the Permutation Feature Importance technique.
 * In 2023, Fairness add-on is introduced. With widgets to calculate Fairness metrics, as well as widgets for pre-, post-, and in-processing methods, it allows to build fair models without discrimination.

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Talk:Tweaking (behavior)

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The article is misleading - tweaking is a term used to describe the final stage of the effects of drugs like meth, speed and others. After the initial rush, then the prolonged high, the "come-down" is the tweaking, where users become uncomfortable, twitchy and cannot sleep. Users often try to combat tweaking with alcohol or heroin. - Berty

I spoke with a friend of mine who's a Substance Abuse Pre-doctoral and asked him if "Tweaking" or "Tweaker" are terms you actually use in the field, and he said no. I think this page needs to be either merged in to some sort of "Slang" category under Methamphetamine, changed to be more "professional" sounding, labeled as non-professional/slang or removed completely. Thoughts? --kvidell 20:48, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Edited the page to reflect it's slang-use. kvidell 21:15, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

While the "prevention" section seems to have good intentions (I find the suggestion of having a focus to be excellent advice for users of both legal and illegal substances), the rest of the article is extremely derogatory and pejorative. It seems to echo ridiculous pseudoscientific babble straight out of a DARE pamphlet; most of it smells like it started with cautious scientific/medical observations, and then underwent an injection of disgusting cliches and stereotypes. Punding and other psychotic behavior by methamphetamine abusers is serious stuff, and need not be turned into scaremonger-sludge. Not being an expert on the drug, I slapped an NPOV tag on the article and left it be; I hope somebody more qualified than I will come along and give it a dose of unbiased scientific reality. 71.136.50.128 09:50, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

This article sucks. a "prevention" section doesn't make any sense as tweaking is not something undesirable to the drug user. shaddix 11:21, January 01, 2006 (UTC)

Hello kvidell, shaddix and nameless IP--I am the author of the Prevention section. My qualifications do not extend to professions that make money from the health-related industries that deal with both the sales of drugs/medicines and treating those who take substances that are deemed a threat to society by the powers-that-be. However, I have had extensive experience with individuals who take speed; I have probably spent more time around actual users of drugs than any graduate student, even one studying to become a "Substance Abuse Professional", and it should be remembered that anyone in the business of assisting addicts to recovery is going to see a completely different side of these individuals than anyone who sees them in regular life. He or she will also be biased towards the subject by default being in the recovery industry, which makes the money it does only as long as drugs remain illegal and their use deemed antisocial.

That said, it does not always mean they're wrong - especially in matters related to science. Information coming from one who has been friend and coworker to probably hundreds of tweakers in my oddly-long-all-things-considered lifetime, obviously has its own bias.

But I felt compelled to offer it all the same. We get only the "approved by the US Federal Government" version of information about drugs from virtually every source. It is indeed serious stuff and I myself suffered from the confusion engendered in me by the drug education I received in the US public school system: the blatant lies of the ONDCP propagandists based upon the not-at-all-unbiased research of NIDA, which never pays researchers to find anything but negative data, so negative data is all the ONDCP reports upon. While no longer involved as much with the tweak scene as I had been 12 years ago, I stated what I did because I have seen different behavior in methamphetamine users than people who've never known them and seen them will come to expect. The "punding" behavior - stacking, counting and so on, might occur one in a hundred and it will be a person who is obsessive-compulsive to begin with. The drug does make one twitchy and hairtrigger and certain individuals always made me more nervous when they were on it than when they weren't. I've seen domestic violence result over an amount of the drug that would be about $60.00 (USA).

I've also seen the drug save college degrees and jobs: some people are of nature slow and "phlegmatic" in temperament, they lag behind in a world going forward too fast for them, and for these people, at those times, I honestly cannot say whether it was wrong for them to use the drug. Neither can I say that it was a bad idea for the awkward, shy, unsocialized girl who was my best friend for years who took it for about half a year and then stopped taking it, but only after having became interested in other people for the first time in her life to use it.

I added the comments that I did because this article came up at random when I first joined Wikipedia, and I thought, I should put something here that might actually help people. I disclaimered myself sufficiently by the first paragraph, I hope.

Regarding shaddix's comment about tweaking not being undesirable to the user: in this case, I was referring to the negative tweak that users do not generally desire. Most folks I have known who take speed don't like to get caught up in worrisome or angry thinking while they're tweaking. They would take speed because they were "slow" people living in a fast-paced and very competitive world, both at work and at play, they were always having to be "bright-eyed and bushy-tailed" and the internal clockwork of their minds just didn't have what it took on its own to catch up. There were some others who would tweak specifically for entertainment, or to stimulate various creative engines, Writers, artists and musicians sometimes find sleep deprivation psychosis useful.

There are some things, it seems, that it's just impossible to say anything useful about without showing bias. I tried to be as neutral as possible, but how neutral is it to merely say "Drugs are bad, mmmkay"?

^- this comment wasn't signed.

While I'm not entirely sure it is or should be Wikipedia's mission to help drug users become better, more well-adjusted drug users, the article certainly does serve a purpose. Reading elsewhere, I came upon someone mention local people tweaking. Were this article not here, I'd have had no idea what he was on about. A general slang article, I probably wouldn't have found.

--Sircus 06:21, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

pejorative?
as someone who works directly with meth users and can testify to what is being said, I see absolutely no problem in how the subject matter is presented and described as is. It appears accurate to me and I certainly don't detect any serious bias. Unless this has been edited since kvidell's original comment, I don't see that any of his/her remarks to be valid at all and honestly it sounds a bit like this person is pushing their own personal agenda, whatever that is. It's not appropriate in my mind to throw around the "scientific objectivity" trump card to discredit information when it would just be easier for that person to admit that they 1) don't know what they are talking about; 2) have no personal experience about what is being talked about, or 3) don't AGREE with the information as presented. It sounds to me like kvidell doesn't AGREE with the information and is offering his/her editorial information instead, which is certainly biased to the hilt. If you want "objectivity" about stuff like this, here's what you need to do: shut your computer off, close the textbook, leave your cozy 3 bedroom condo in the burbs, drive down to the slummiest, scuzziest part of town, find a rundown tenement with boarded up windows and nervous looking people pacing at the street corners, ask one of them where you can score some jib, and see for yourself.  Or be a social worker, your choice.

Tweaking, Tweaker, is from Tweak
What's with the bullshit 'two week' => 'tweek' definition? Tweaker is from the word Tweak. Ie if you've been on amphetamines, you'll often start exhibiting very OCD like behaviour, and can't resist 'tweaking' every little thing to 'perfection', whether that's carefully lining up all the jars on a shelf, adjusting the volume controls of music that's playing, or carefully taping, then retaping posters to a wall. A lot of it is quite pointless like the punding examples.

- Anon. Wellington. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.154.238.36 (talk) 22:20, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Confusion in the Article
Ok, currently the leading sentence for the article says "Tweaking is a slang term of someone in a state of confusion."

I'd maintain that equating it with 'confusion' is *not* an accurate or standard definition. If you google usages, orlook at the Urban Dictionary, that's not how the term is used - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tweaking

I feel uncomfortable about making a bit edit, but from various descriptions of people who are described as 'tweaking or tweakers' are not so much confused, as agitated, and either on stimulants of some sort, or emulating it and intent on making minor 'improvements' to their surroundings. Like if someone has been severely over-caffeinated. Possibly talking too fast, intently, eyes too open, quick jerky motions, and, like the root word, intent on fiddling and 'tweaking' with things. Slightly OCD behaviour, often making very small changes which are barely noticeable as improvements. So, for example, if someone gets very 'tweaky' about painting something, or programming something, or compiling a playlist of music, they wouldn't be confused, but being over-intent about 'perfecting' it, even if they weren't doing an awful lot, linked with fidgeting a lot, or doing pointless repetitive tasks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.154.238.36 (talk) 05:24, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

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Esaias Boursse

Esaias Boursse (March 3, 1631 – November 16, 1672) was a Dutch painter. His paintings were mainly genre works.

Biography
He was born in Amsterdam, the youngest son of immigrants from Wallonia. His parents, Jacques Boursse and Anna des Forest, married in 1618 in Amsterdam. Nothing is known about the education of Esaias Boursse, other than that he travelled to Italy in about 1650 to study the great Renaissance examples. No reminders of those examples are to be found in his work. In the past art historians have tried to place him among Rembrandt's pupils, but there is no objective evidence to prove this, although the painters were neighbours in the Sint Antoniebreestraat in Amsterdam (nowadays called Jodenbreestraat, still housing the Rembrandt House Museum).

Boursse's financial position will not have been good, since in 1661 he sailed with the Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, on the ship Amersfoort. It travelled to Ceylon (nowadays called Sri Lanka). Boursse drew the inhabitants, landscapes and city views, which have been preserved in an album which can be found in the print room of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. In 1663, the painter was back in Amsterdam.

In 1672, Boursse sailed with Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie again. On November 16 he died at sea, on board the ship Rhenen.

The life of Esaias Boursse is the story of a painter who could not earn a living by painting alone and therefore had to look for an alternative source of income. That he was no exception is proven by the life stories of for example Jan Steen (who was also an innkeeper) and Johannes Vermeer (who was also an art dealer). A major difference though, is that Steen and Vermeer had to feed and house a (large) family. Boursse seems to have remained unmarried and childless. Financially, Boursse's career was a success.

Work
Boursse's work mainly deals with family life. Women spinning or sewing and families around a fireplace are examples of what to expect. Stylistically, his work is reminiscent of Pieter de Hooch, Quiringh van Brekelenkam and Cornelis de Man. About 28 paintings remain of his work, mostly in private collections. Works by Boursse to be found online are:

 * Rijksmuseum Amsterdam: "Interior with a woman sewing" (1661)
 * Wallace Collection London: "Interior with a woman cooking" (1653)

Good examples 'in real life' (not online though) are also to be found in Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum in Aachen, the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, the Frits Lugt-collection (Fondation Custodia) in Paris and the Johannesburg Art Gallery.

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George Weaver (educator)

George Augustus Weaver (November, 1871 - January 20, 1939) was a physician, surgeon, and educator. His contributions to the education of black students led to a library being named in his honor in Tuscaloosa.

George Weaver was born in 1872, the son of Lawrence and Lucy Elizabeth Weaver of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Lawrence Weaver was a blacksmith, businessman and landowner as well as a trustee for the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church of Tuscaloosa. He was the father of six children and sent all of them to college. George Augustus Weaver was his oldest child and graduated from Talladega College in 1892.

George Weaver was the principal of a school for black students in Gadsden, Alabama for one year and then attended Howard University. He graduated from Howard University with a medical degree in 1899 and interned at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.

Weaver returned to Tuscaloosa in 1900 and was a surgeon at Stillman Hospital, located on the campus of Stillman College. Dr. Weaver was most active in church, civic and fraternal affairs. His Fraternal affairs includes: Charter Member, 1st Worshipful Master, of Rescue Lodge #234, F & AM PHA in 1905, and Grand Senior Warden of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge F & AM State of Alabama in 1906-07. He was a trustee and deacon of the First African Baptist Church. During this time he made his personal library available for black students to use in their studies.

In 1960 Mrs. Ruth Bolden, the first librarian for what is now the Weaver-Bolden Library Branch (part of the Tuscaloosa Public Library system), requested that the library be named for Dr. Weaver to honor his contributions to young people and his generosity with his own books to the students of the area.

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List of political and geographic borders

Boundaries
Below are separate lists of countries and dependencies with their land boundaries, and lists of which countries and dependencies border oceans and major seas. The first short section describes the borders or edges of continents and oceans/major seas. Disputed areas are not considered.

Continents
(Notes: Dependencies and islands remote from continental land masses are not considered and are excluded from this list section; thus only continental land borders are considered.  The only countries listed either straddle continents or are on a continent border.)

Section Key:

( * ) = represents a country that crosses a continental land border

Countries
(Notes: Dependencies are excluded from this section. See below.  Only land boundaries are considered; maritime boundaries are excluded; see the List of countries and territories by maritime boundaries.   Disputed territories are not considered, other than the inclusion by necessity, in a neutral fashion, of Western Sahara.)

Section Key:

( * ) = represents a sea (or other body of water)'s parent ocean; also it may represent a dependency's parent country

(Note: All official and unofficial claims by countries and/or governments on the continent of Antarctica are excluded from this section list.)

Dependencies
(Note: This section lists only dependencies with land boundaries)

Section Key:

( * ) = represents a sea (or other body of water)'s parent ocean

Oceans
Section Key:

( * ) = represents a dependency's parent country

(Note: Seas are excluded from this list section.)

Seas
Section Key:

( * ) = represents a dependency's parent country

(Note: This section only includes large bodies of water that are designated as a "sea" by a large portion of geographers worldwide.)


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Greencastle, County Tyrone

Greencastle is a hamlet in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It is within the townland of Sheskinshule.

The village sits at a crossroads in the foothills of the Sperrin Mountains with the Owenkillew and Owenreagh rivers running nearby. It had a population of 153 people in the 2001 Census.

In 2012, a Real IRA training camp was discovered in the hamlet, leading to four people jailed for terrorism offences in 2014.

Sport

 * An Caisleán Glas CLG made history by becoming the first club from Tyrone to win the All-Ireland Junior Club Title on Saturday 10 March 2007 in Croke Park, Dublin. They beat Duagh from Kerry 0-13 to 0-12 in an entertaining game played under floodlights.
 * Sperrin Og made history by becoming the first ladies club from Tyrone to win the All-Ireland Junior Club Title on Sunday 20 November 2011 in St. Peregrine's, Dublin. The beat Aherlow from Tipperary 2-09 to 1-10 in an entertaining game, in front crowd of 700 supporters.
 * St. Patricks, Greencastle
 * In 2006 Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School in Greencastle launched a Cookery Book with recipes from Ireland's top GAA players, to mark the school's 25th Anniversary and raise funds for the Cormac McAnallen Trust. Those attending the launch included Mickey Harte (Tyrone manager), Stephen O'Neill (Tyrone player), Séan Kelly (former Gaelic Athletic Association President), Danny Murphy (Ulster GAA Secretary), Liam McNelis (secretary of The Cormac Trust), Steven McDonnell (Armagh GAA player), Paddy Crozier (former Derry GAA manager), Brian McIver (former Donegal GAA manager), Adrian Logan (former UTV sports presenter) and Austin O'Callaghan (BBC NI).

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Alan Millar

 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 (no consensus) although I suspect there is more information about Mr. Millar in this VFD debate than there is in the article about him. Sjakkalle (Check!)  12:29, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Alan Millar
I'm not posting this for Speedy Delete because the page has had several edits and some content changes. I do not believe this person is notable, or at the very least, there is no reason listed. What's odd is that the original version of the article listed this Alan Millar as an athlete (though it was quickly changed to the academic definition). Unless someone can find something noteworthy about this guy, I recommend a delete versus an expansion. Syrae Faileas 20:51, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Listed in Marquis Who's Who 2004. Edited McMillan Studies in Contemporary Philosophy in 1987. Editor with Jose Luis Bermudez of an Oxford University Press volume called Reason and Nature: Essays in the Nature of Philosophy and appears to have contributed a range of articles to journals and books. Capitalistroadster 00:26, 26 August 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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Green & Black's

Green & Black's is a British chocolate company founded in 1991. The company produces a range of organic food products, including: chocolate bars, ice cream, biscuits and hot chocolate.

Green & Black's was bought by Cadbury in 2005, and later became part of Mondelēz International (formerly known as Kraft Foods). It has principal manufacturing sites in Canada, Poland, and Italy.

Founding
Green & Black's was founded in 1991 by the couple Craig Sams and Josephine Fairley, organic food pioneer and journalist respectively. The name was derived from a wordplay — "Green" standing for the environmental concerns of the founders, and "Black" for the high cocoa solids chocolate they wished to provide. In 1994, the company began purchasing Fairtrade cocoa from Maya farmers in Belize for the Maya Gold chocolate bar, and was awarded the Worldaware Business Award in 1994 for good business practice, as well as the UK's first Fairtrade mark. The company has a small office in Punta Gorda, Belize.

Ownership changes and fairtrade
In May 2005, Cadbury Schweppes (latterly Cadbury plc) bought Green & Black's for an undisclosed sum, estimated to be around £20m. Cadbury pledged to run the company as a separate business.

Green & Black's Australia chocolate announced that it would convert 90% of its range to Fairtrade by the end of 2010, and its entire range by 2011. In August 2017 the company launched its first product line, the Velvet Edition, which is neither Fair Trade nor Organic.

Operations
Green & Black's has operations around the world, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and other nations.

United States
Green & Black's sells chocolate bars in the United States. They are sold in stores such as Whole Foods Market and Walgreens. They have various chocolate bars, in various flavors such as "Dark 85% Cacao" and "White". All are Fairtrade Certified.

Recalls
On 15 October 2012 Mondelēz Global LLC conducted voluntary U.S. recall of Green & Black's organic peanut and sea salt milk chocolate bar due to possible health risk.

Books

 * Sweet Dreams – The Story of Green & Black’s Craig Sams and Josephine Fairley, ISBN 1905211457 (2008) Random House

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Talk:Copyright social conflict

NPOV
I flagged this article because, well, look at the sheer number of arguments for vs. against copyright, mostly, and, before I edited it, "arguments in favor" wasn't even its own section. I realize that Wikipedians (myself included) are a pretty darned anticopyrightly lot, but that still doesn't make it neutral. --Orborde 02:24, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

I took a shot at adding some changes and balancing things out, as well as working the "anti" arguments down to some more general examples. For:against ratio is now 5:8, which I don't believe is unreasonable. I'm going to provisionally remove the NPOV flag, but if you or anyone believes that a problem still exists please state it here or change away! Seraphimblade 09:02, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

 * It's difficult to quantify an argument simply in terms of how many reasons you have - although (and this is a personal opinion) the ani-copyright people are correct here. Good job on presenting both sides, though :) Disavian 23:18, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup Notice
I noticed that the cleanup sign has been on the article since May 2005, yet no one bothered to specifiy exactly what was wrong with it, or even come into the discussion area to say they are doing it? Exactly what lackings are there in the article that make it so a clean up message is necessary?

List the problems here so people can see what's wrong and correct it instead of guessing. --ShaunMacPherson 20:52, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Definition

 * [...]a name given to the broader copyright social conflict between content creators

In my experience, the conflict seems to be between those who obtain financial profit from the content (i.e., producers, distributors) and the general public, rather than between the public and content creators themselves. Some big-name artists might be bothered by what they call illegitimate distribution of their works, but (again, in my experience) less famous creators tend not to oppose royalty-free distribution as it gives them some extra free exposure, or, in the case of some--esp. those not working for independent labels--they actively encourage it (as is the case with a personal friend who burns what technically would be illegal copies of his own CDs and gives them away, rather than have people pay a ridiculous price--his words--to buy them through the normal distribution channels). Just FWIW.--81.42.165.32 23:54, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I think you are mostly correct - that many content artists see no conflict since they are happy to share their work into a copyleft license, or even into the public domain. However, we maybe dealing with a biased sample, that is the RIAA MPAA and other companies with the money can make their 'complaints' heard and get the visibility which simply drowns out the grumbelings of individual artists without the resources to be similiarly heard. An example, I hear individual artists complaining about their work being 'stolen' all the time, especially in the anime community.

 * Should we put that:

 * 'Even though some content creators are fighting for the status quo of copyright, some (many?) artists and content creators agree that copyright needs reform. One organization who advocates reform is the Creative Commons?'

 * to make the statement more accurate?--ShaunMacPherson 17:48, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Transfer to wikireason
It's not a sister project yet, but some day a debate like this should be transferred to http://wikireason.net. Mathiastck 22:09, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Thousand Oaks, California

"African American" Actors?
I'm wondering why Martin Lawrence, Will Smith, and Jada Pinckett Smith are all refered to as "African-American" actors instead of just actors. The page doesn't call out the ethnicity of anyone else on the page, and to do so in these few cases just seems rather gratitous. IvyMike 03:21, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

I deleted these references. I didn't notice them before. Also quirky: all the A-A Actors were called POPULAR actors, but no others were. A modern version of the old line "He's a credit to his race." Gone. LorenzoB 05:54, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

 * To call them "African American" actors or "Popular African-American" actors is trying to pinpoint the city has minority residents, but not a good way to represent that. Thousand Oaks is 80 percent white alike nearby Simi Valley was portrayed a bastion of conservative suburban white Americans voting in the Republican party. In relation to the issue, I do know Thousand Oaks and nearby unincorporated Oak Park have one of the highest Jewish American populations per capita in the country. 71.102.13.174 (talk) 01:21, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Copy and pasting
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 * We could, but I'd want every entry to have a reference, like in Westlake Village, California. — howcheng  {chat} 18:56, 26 August 2016 (UTC)

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Kentilla

Kentilla is a text adventure game written by British developer Derek Brewster and published by Micromega in 1984.

It was re-released as a budget title in 1986 by Mastertronic who ported the game to the Commodore 64 with music by composer Rob Hubbard.

Reception
Crash were impressed by the Spectrum version of the game, stating "Kentilla is a sure winner as an adventure with many devious problems which should keep any adventurer busy through the coming winter months and it’s excellent value for money." It was given a 10/10 Overall rating.

Zzap!64 enjoyed the Commodore 64 version which was given a 90% overall rating.

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/George W. Bush arrives in Uganda

George W. Bush arrives in Uganda
The value of this photograph is in its recontextualising a commonly viewed image: Bush greeting crowds with a wave. The three children waiting to greet the president are thrust into the foreground, but we can still make out the figure of GWB at the top of the steps performing a characteristic wave. The viewer is forced to consider common elements of such occasions such as security guards and children with flowers, which are usually marginal to photojournalism.

The picture appears here and is public domain as a work of the Executive Office of the President of the US.

TomStar81 05:34, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Nominate and support. - TreveXtalk 20:52, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Nuetral --Is there by chance a higher resolution shot available? TomStar81 22:10, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I can't find anything higher than this 514x342 shot, unless there is a standard procedure for getting hold of high-res copies of images taken by the White House? TreveXtalk 15:30, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The President and Mrs. Bush are a little blurry and too far away. I also don't think it does anything particularly important for the article Foreign relations of Uganda, which is an important aspect of FP's. --ScottyBoy900Q ∞  03:18, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. A good picture, but it doesn't add significantly to a Wikipedia article. It would be better to submit it as a featured picture on Wikimedia Commons. Burn the asylum 09:19, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. You can't see Bush, and the image is too small. --62.255.32.12 16:52, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. It's hard to see the president and first lady since they're blurry and in the background also doesn't add a lot to the article. Jtkiefer  T - 04:47, August 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose, nice composition, but the flowers distract from the actual focus of the picture and Bush is too far away to be easily recognized. - Mgm|(talk) 19:18, August 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose - ZeWrestler   Talk 03:37, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose and impeach. -- Darwinek 08:41, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Nice. --ScottyBoy900Q 04:35, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose --AllyUnion (talk) 10:36, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Support -- It's not about Bush - it's about the Office of the President and the huge (and recognizable) Air Force One that he(/she) travels in - this could be any US President and that is part of the magic of this image. (Nice composition, too!) Leonard G. 02:51, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Snoozer. --Deglr6328 03:05, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. — BRIAN 0918 • 2005-09-4 17:27
 * Oppose. It's too small, and if I didn't know it was Bush beforehand, I wouldn't have a way of figuring it out just by looking at the image. Tito xd 07:03, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Support: excellent juxtaposition of the Ugandan children against the massive form of Air Force One. Jdhowens90 09:13, 5 September 2005 (UTC)


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Cutworm

Cutworms are moth larvae that hide under litter or soil during the day, coming out in the dark to feed on plants. A larva typically attacks the first part of the plant it encounters, namely the stem, often of a seedling, and consequently cuts it down; hence the name cutworm. Cutworms are not worms, biologically speaking, but caterpillars.

Feeding and hiding
Cutworm larvae vary in their feeding behaviour; some remain with the plant they cut down and feed on it, while others often move on after eating a small amount from a felled seedling; such a wasteful mode of feeding results in disproportionate damage to crops. Cutworms accordingly are serious pests to gardeners in general, but to vegetable and grain farmers in particular. For example, it has been suggested that in South Africa, Agrotis segetum is the second worst pest of maize.

Note that the cutworm mode of feeding is only one version of a strategy of avoiding predators and parasitoids by day. Many other caterpillars, including Noctuidae and some kinds of processionary caterpillars, come out at night to feed, but hide again as soon as the sky begins to grow lighter. Some, for example Klugeana philoxalis, attack low-growing forbs such as Oxalis in the dark, and drop to the ground as soon as a light is flashed on them. Others will climb trees such as species of acacia nightly, leaving trails of silk, but they leave individual trails, not common trails like processionary caterpillars. The fruit-piercing moth Serrodes partita similarly lives under litter beneath its food plant, the tree Pappea capensis.

Species and habits
The term cutworm applies mainly to larvae of various species in several genera within the Noctuidae, a large family of moths; however many noctuid species are not cutworms, and some moths whose larvae have essentially the same habit, which justifies calling them cutworms, are not noctuids. The turnip moth (Agrotis segetum), A. ipsilon, A. exclamationis, and other members of this genus, are well-known noctuids whose larvae are very damaging. Cutworms are notorious agricultural and garden pests. They are voracious leaf, bud, and stem feeders and can destroy entire plants. They get their name from their habit of "cutting" off a seedling at ground level by chewing through the stem. Some species are subterranean and eat roots. One of the most common garden pests is the variegated cutworm (Peridroma saucia), which can defoliate entire gardens and fields in a matter of days.

Appearance and control
Cutworms are usually green, brown, grey, or yellow soft-bodied caterpillars, often with longitudinal stripes, up to 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) in length. There are many variations among the genera. There also are variations in their biology and control, so the following extension material must be applied only as appropriate to the region.

In many climates, cutworms will winter under the soil, either as final instar larvae or as pupae. This affords farmers an opportunity for control. Winter ploughing will kill many of the pests, and expose many more to predators. In suitable areas this is a powerful means of control, for example in grain fields. The same principle permits some domestic gardeners to kill the caterpillars without the problems associated with the use of pesticides; the first line of control can be to till the soil some weeks before planting to destroy any dormant larvae. Also, at any time during the season, if the population has been reasonably well controlled, but there are signs of localised cutworm attack, the domestic gardener may be able to deal with the problem simply by digging the soil and wet foliage to about 2 inches deep, and killing the caterpillars manually.

Starvation also can be effective when it is practical to keep weeds down before the growing season, by systematic cultivation. Together with reducing manure and compost, relying instead on other forms of fertilizer, this can improve control by discouraging cutworm moths from laying their eggs, and depriving the larvae of food.

Baits also can be effective where starvation strategies have been applied reasonably successfully; a sweetened bran mash containing a suitable stomach poison can be very effective against the small numbers of surviving caterpillars. The mash should be too crumbly and too thinly scattered to leave any lumps on the ground that domestic animals or desirable wild animals might otherwise pick up.

Because cutworms attack the first part of the plant they find at night, plant collars made of aluminum, or even cardboard barriers, can offer effective protection. Alternatively, a gallon planter with both ends removed may be used.

Natural enemies
Cutworms are hosts for numerous parasitoid wasps (including species of Braconidae, Ichneumonidae, Tachinidae and Eulophidae) and flies, with rates of parasitism sometimes as high as 80 percent. They are also hosts for fungi, entomopathogenic nematodes and viruses, and prey for ground beetles.

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Gevgelija

Gevgelija (Гевгелија; ) is a town with a population of 15,685 located in the very southeast of the North Macedonia along the banks of the Vardar River, situated at the country's main border with Greece (Bogorodica-Evzoni), the point which links the motorway from Skopje and three regional capitals, Belgrade, Zagreb, and Sofia with Thessaloniki in Greece. The town is the seat of Gevgelija municipality.

Name
In Macedonian the town is called Gevgelija (Гевгелија). It is known as Yevyeli (Γευγελή) in Greek, Gevgeli (Гевгели) in Bulgarian, Đevđelija (Ђевђелија, ) in Serbian and Gevgeli in Turkish. Furthermore, in Megleno-Romanian, the city is known as Ghivgheliia.

Gevgelija is known as the "Balkan Las Vegas".

History
In the late 19th and early 20th century, Gevgelija was part of the Salonica Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. According to the statistics of the French geographer Alexandre Synvet, the town had a total Christian population of 290 families (1.740 people) in 1878, consisting of 35 Bulgarian Christian ones and 255 Greek Christian families. The town had also 4 Greek schools. According to Bulgarian Exarchate secretary Dimitar Mishev (D. M. Brancoff), in 1905 the town had a population of 4,375 Christians, consisting of 2.240 Patriarchist Bulgarians (Grecomans), 1.840 Exarchist Bulgarians, 80 Serbian Patriarchist Bulgarians (Serbomans), 8 Uniat Bulgarians, 90 Roma people, 72 Vlachs (Megleno-Romanians), 30 Albanians and 15 Greeks.

From 1929 to 1941, Gevgelija was part of the Vardar Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Transport
The town is served by Gevgelija railway station, outside the city limits on its eastern edge.

Demographics
According to the 2002 census, the town of Gevgelija had 15,685 residents, most of whom were ethnic Macedonians.

As of 2021, the village of Gevgelija has 15,156 inhabitants and the ethnic composition was the following:

 * Macedonians – 13,621
 * Aromanians – 260
 * Serbs – 196
 * Turks – 53
 * Romani – 21
 * Albanians – 8
 * Bosniaks – 8
 * others – 134
 * Person without Data – 855

Geography

Located between the mountains Kožuf and Pajak only 70 km from Thessaloniki and 165 km from Skopje, the town acts as a rail depot between the two countries, making it a central location in its region. Its position in the south of the country gives it a warm Mediterranean climate (Csa classification), making it the optimal location in North Macedonia for cultivation of fruits and vegetables such as figs, lemons, and grapes. The town is also a centre for raising silkworms, an integral part of the country's silk trade. Alongside its agriculture, Gevgelija's economy consists of a light industry sector. Tourism is growing, with a spa located in a nearby village.

Climate
Gevgelija has a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen climate classification: Csa).

Sports
Local football club FK Kožuf have played in the Macedonian First Football League.

Twin towns – Sister cities
Gevgelija is twinned with:

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I was wondering what that was a picture of. If it is your reproduction (or photo) of some sort of military insignia then your work is a derivative of the original insignia and therefore the image's licensing status is governed by the licensing status of the original insignia (so it might not be free). Thanks, Yonatan (contribs/talk) 02:39, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

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You might want to look at what's going on at Ayn Rand Institute. ThAtSo 16:24, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

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I uploaded the image to Wikimedia commons, where every language Wikipedia can use it! See the page on Wikimedia Commons. :) - Flubeca Talk 12:43, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
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