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Squire Patton Boggs

Squire Patton Boggs is an international law firm with over 40 offices in 20 countries. It was formed in 2014 by the merger of multinational law firm Squire Sanders with Washington, D.C. based Patton Boggs. It is one of the largest law firms in the world by total headcount and gross revenue, twelfth largest firm in the UK by revenue, and one of the top 12 by number of countries occupied.

Its largest offices are in Washington, D.C., Leeds, London and Cleveland, each having more than 100 lawyers. The firm serves a diverse base of legal clients ranging from Fortune 100 and FTSE Index 100 corporations to newly emerging companies, private clients and local and national governmental entities. The company lobbies on behalf of the entity of the Saudi government that was directly responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi; after the murder, the company continued to represent the entity for years until a pressure campaign led the company to drop the client. Due to its lobbying role for Saudi Arabia, multiple members of Congress refused to interact with representatives of the firm.

Squire Patton Boggs is currently among the largest lobbying firms in the world. The lobbying arm, long managed by Thomas Hale Boggs Jr., is currently managed by Edward Newberry and Robert Kapla.

Squire, Sanders & Dempsey
The firm was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1890 as Squire, Sanders & Dempsey by Cleveland attorneys Andrew Squire and James H. Dempsey, and Judge William B. Sanders.

Until the 1990s, it was primarily an Ohio law firm, with the exception of Washington, DC, and offices in several other US cities and Brussels. It was one of the first US law firms to expand into Eastern Europe in the wake of the Cold War, under the leadership of firm chairman Thomas J. Quigley. It opened several offices in the former Soviet bloc region during the 1990s, taking on a key role in the privatization of state enterprises in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Ukraine and Poland. It subsequently absorbed a number of other legal practices including several Pacific Rim offices of Graham & James and the Florida-based law firm of Steel Hector & Davis. The firm also made overtures toward mergers with Denton Wilde Sapte, Seyfarth Shaw and Bryan Cave under Stanton's leadership.

Hammonds
Hammonds was an international law firm headquartered in Leeds, United Kingdom, with offices in Beijing, Berlin, Birmingham, Bradford, Brussels, Hong Kong, Leeds, Madrid, Manchester, Munich and Paris. Hammonds' origins date back to the founding of a legal practice in Yorkshire in 1887. Although it was a major firm in Yorkshire and the West Midlands region, it did not open a London office until 1991.

In 2000, Hammond Suddards and Birmingham-based Edge Ellison (previously led by Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham) merged, forming Hammond Suddards Edge, at that time the 11th-largest law firm in the UK. The firm's rapid expansion left it £30 million in debt in the early 2000s and led to a downsizing through 2005. The firm was ranked 20th in the UK by turnover in The Lawyer UK 100 2006, with a turnover of £132 million. Throughout 2005-2009, the firm underwent significant restructuring under the stewardship of Managing Partner Peter Crossley. As of 2009, the partnership consisted of approximately 180 partners and more than 1,000 employees. Hammonds converted to a Limited Liability Partnership in May 2008.

Hammonds and Squire, Sanders & Dempsey announced that they were in merger talks in August 2010. The partnerships of both firms voted in favor of a merger in November 2010, and it was completed on January 1, 2011, forming the Squire Sanders Swiss association. The merger with Hammonds added offices in Madrid, Berlin, Paris, and Munich to the Squire Sanders network, in addition to significantly boosting its presence in the UK where it previously had only 30 lawyers. London overtook Cleveland as the largest office of the combined firm.

The American Lawyer estimated Squire Sanders to be the 24th largest law firm in the world by number of lawyers and 41st by annual revenue as of 2012.

Patton Boggs
The firm of Patton Boggs was founded in 1962 by James R. Patton, Jr. and joined soon after by George Blow and Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr. It has "participated in the formation of every major multilateral trade agreement considered by Congress." Boggs joined the firm in 1966 after serving as an economist for the Joint Economic Committee and in the executive office of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

According to OpenSecrets, Patton Boggs was one of the top law firms contributing to federal candidates during the 2012 election cycle, donating US$1.7 million, 67% to Democrats. By comparison, during that same period Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld donated US$2.56 million, 66% to Democrats. Since 1990, Squire Patton Boggs contributed US$14.12 million to federal campaigns, and since 1998 spent US$2.72 million on lobbying.

The 2014 Vault.com survey of more than 18,800 associates ranked Patton Boggs as having the best record for pro bono work in the country, and the firm was among the prestigious white-shoe law firms.

Patton Boggs underwent layoffs and partner exits in 2013 amid a 12% drop in revenue. In May 2014, Patton Boggs paid $15 million as a settlement to Chevron after it pursued damages against Patton Boggs over a lawsuit involving Chevron and Steven Donziger, which Politico described as symbolizing the firm's "weakness and desperation". Patton Boggs entered merger talks with Squire Sanders in 2014 and the firms announced that they would merge on June 1, 2014 under the name Squire Patton Boggs, adding 330 lawyers to the firm's existing headcount.

Squire Patton Boggs now maintains one of the largest lobbying practices in Washington, D.C., gaining extensively from the merger with Patton Boggs, which was the largest US lobbying firm by revenue between 2003 and 2013.

Squire Patton Boggs

As a result of the merger, Patton Boggs closed its Anchorage, Alaska office, and a number of high-profile attorneys left the firm, including Benjamin Ginsberg and two other prominent Republican lawyers who joined Jones Day, and a number of healthcare-policy lawyers who joined Akin Gump.

The combined firm adopted Squire Sanders' existing merit pay system for partners over Patton Boggs' more traditional "eat what you kill" system. Partner compensation under the merit system ranges from US$300,000 for some non-equity partners to US$3 million for the three most highly compensated partners.

The firm currently posts an abnormally high leverage ratio, with almost eight lawyers to every partner, according to its 2014-end-of-the-year numbers for full-time lawyers. The D.C. offices of Squire Sanders and Patton Boggs recently moved into the same building, previously the long-standing home of legacy Patton Boggs. The combined firm kept separate revenue pools for its two legacy partnerships from the June merger until the end of 2014, but these are now unified.

In 2016, the firm announced a merger with San Francisco-based disputes and compliance boutique Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, adding 50 lawyers in California, China, Hong Kong, and Germany, including a new office near Stuttgart, in Böblingen.

In July 2016, the firm opened an office in Darwin, NT, Australia as part of its Asia-Pacific practice group.

The firm announced that effective 1 January 2017, Fred Nance would become Global Managing Partner of Squire Patton Boggs, U.S. LLP, managing 955 attorneys in 36 offices in 16 countries, including U.S., Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. This incorporates 688 lawyers in the US and the Dominican Republic. Nance has also been named to the firm's six-member executive committee, where he will be the first African-American partner. Nance has had a storied career with Squire, negotiating a pact between the NFL and the city of Cleveland to return the Browns to the city; becoming a finalist for the position of NFL Commissioner in 2005; saving 1,000 and securing 600 more Defense Finance and Accounting Services (DFAS) jobs for the city, when the Pentagon said it could no longer afford them; and signing up a young high school basketball player, LeBron James, as a client in 2002.

In January 2022, Michele Connell was appointed co-Global Managing Partner alongside Mr. Nance until January 2023 at which point she assumed the role after a transitionary period.

In December 2017, the firm acquired litigation boutique Yarbrough Law Group in Dallas, enhancing the firm's litigation capabilities and continuing its rapid global expansion in cybersecurity and data privacy law.

In February 2018, the firm opened a new office in Atlanta, Georgia and in 2020 it continued its global expansion, opening an office in Milan, Italy.

The company has lobbied on behalf of the Saudis and continues to do so even after it was speculated that their client Prince Mohammed bin Salman had ordered the 2018 murder of a Saudi-born Washington Post journalist named Jamal Khashoggi for criticizing the absolute monarchy.

To mark the second anniversary of Khashoggi's abduction and murder, and protest the years-long extrajudicial imprisonment and torture of Saudi Arabian feminist activist Loujain al-Hathloul, on 2 October 2020 Amnesty International projected images onto the D.C. office of Squire Patton Boggs — drawing attention to the extensive lobbying Squire Patton Boggs has and continues to engage in on behalf of M.B.S. and other Saudi Aristocrats allegedly responsible, as well as countless other crimes against humanity.

Notable cases and representations

 * Represented comedian Dave Chappelle in various transactions since 2005, including his $60 million contract with Netflix in 2016.
 * Represented basketball player LeBron James in contract negotiations since his professional debut in 2003.
 * Represents Takata Corporation before the United States Congress, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and United States Department of Transportation on issues relating to air bag safety.
 * Represents the Palestinian Authority in relation to procuring aid from the United States government.
 * Represents DuPont in multidistrict tort litigation relating to PFOA contamination at the Washington Works plant in West Virginia.
 * Represents the government of Turkey as a subcontractor to Gephardt Group in public relations activities related to the Syrian conflict.
 * Advised the government of Myanmar on its 2014 telecom joint venture with KDDI and Sumitomo Corporation.
 * Squire Sanders represented The Sugar Association and sugar producers in litigation against the Corn Refiners Association and high fructose corn syrup industry regarding the marketing of HFCS as an alternative to sugar. Patton Boggs advised two of the corn refiners involved in the case, leading to an inadvertent conflict of interest following the firms' merger.
 * Patton Boggs worked in the mid-1990s for the Guatemalan dictatorship, insisting that Sister Dianna Ortiz, who was tortured and raped by members of a death squad, was actually the "victim to an out-of-control, sadomasochistic lover."
 * Patton Boggs was sued for damages by Chevron with respect to its activities since Spring 2010 on behalf of Burford Capital and other beneficiaries of a US$18 billion judgment obtained by plaintiffs in Ecuador with respect to environmental and health damages resulting from the actions of Texaco, its subsidiary, in the Lago Agrio oil field. The action against Patton Boggs was part of litigation that had been in progress for at least 20 years in a number of national and international venues and on which Chevron was estimated to spend US$250 million a year. In March 2014, the judge in the case issued a scathing ruling that concluded that the plaintiffs' lawyer had indeed violated the RICO statute. Patton Boggs agreed to a settlement in the Chevron litigation, and two partners involved in the litigation left the firm, shortly prior to its merger with Squire Sanders, although an ethical claim filed against the firm shortly before the merger was left outstanding.
 * Squire Patton Boggs represents the Central Bank of Venezuela in a Federal court action to prohibit a website, www.dolartoday.com, from publishing a free market exchange rate of the Bolivar Fuerte (BsF "Strong Bolivar") based on what buyers and sellers voluntarily pay at a Colombia border town when trading freely. The dolartoday rate differs by a factor of more than 100 from the official government imposed rate of 6.3.  (At which, at the time of this edit, a carton of 30 eggs in Venezuela would in theory cost US$66.66 at the government-imposed price of 420 BsF per carton.)
 * Squire Patton Boggs represents defendant Efraín Antonio Campo Flores, one of two Venezuelan Defendants charged with violating various sections of Title 21, USC, by conspiring to fly five kilograms and more of cocaine into the United States. The other Defendant is Franqui Francisco Flores de Freitas.  As was widely reported in the press, Mssrs. Campo Flores and Flores De Freitas are cousins, and they are nephews of Cilia Flores, a former Speaker of the Venezuelan National Assembly and current First Lady of Venezuela by virtue of her marriage to Nicolás Maduro Moros, President of Venezuela.  Also and at the time of this edit, the international press have widely reported that undercover DEA agents filmed the criminal conspiracy of Mssrs. Campo Flores and Flores De Freitas, and that Haitian and DEA authorities subsequently apprehended them at a hotel in Haiti after traveling by private jet from Caracas.  Thereafter, and upon executing a search warrant on the Casa de Campo, La Romana, Dominican Republic home and 135 foot yacht of Mr. Flores De Freitas, authorities confiscated 10 kilograms heroin and a still undetermined amount of cocaine in 54 packages.  Weeks later and presumably after further investigation, Campo Flores requested a public defender reportedly because Squire Patton Boggs, in attempting to comply with the Money Laundering Act of 1986 and subsequent case law, was unable to verify the legal -or clean- origin of their two-million dollar up-front retainer to represent Mr. Campo Flores.
 * Squire Patton Boggs represented U.S. Ambassador Peter Romero in the Stanford Financial Group Ponzi scheme case.
 * Georgian tycoon (later prime minister) Bidzina Ivanishvili was Patton Boggs's third-largest lobbying client in 2012. Patton Boggs also lobbied for ExxonMobil, Shell, Raytheon and Goldman Sachs around the same time.
 * in 2016, Squire Patton Boggs signed with Saud al-Qahtani to be paid $100,000 per month, plus expenses, for "legal and strategic policy advice and advocacy on foreign policy and related issues in the U.S. Government".
 * In February 2021 a White House report into the abduction and murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul on 2 October 2018 implicated "The Center for Studies and Media Affairs at the Saudi Royal Court" - headed at that time by Saud al-Qahtani. After the launch of a campaign by DAWN (the advocacy group founded by Khashoggi) Squire Patton Boggs ended its contract to provide legal services to the "Center" on 17 September 2021.
 * Squire Patton Boggs were donors to Trump hardliner Paul Gosar, the congressman from Arizona, who tweeted "Fight for Trump!" and "The time is now! Hold the line" to promote the 6 January 2021 rally which led to the violent attempt to overturn the US election results at the Capitol. Squire Patton Boggs did not withdraw funding until six days later, after the New York Times publicised the connection.
 * The company received the worst grade in a scorecard assessing law firms in terms of their impact on climate change.
 * In 2022, Trump's Save America political action committee paid Squire Patton Boggs almost $250,000 in legal fees.
 * In March 2024, Squire Patton Boggs was sued by Dutch company R.D. Project Development for allegedly failing to pay rent on their subleased Moscow offices after opting to cease office operations during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Locations
As of December 2019, Squire Patton Boggs has 45 offices in 20 countries on five continents. The combined firm advises a diverse mix of local and cross-border clients, from Fortune 100 and FTSE 100 corporations to emerging companies and from individuals to local and national governments.

Squire Patton Boggs

 * John Boehner, former Speaker of the House of Representatives
 * John Breaux, former United States Senator from Louisiana
 * Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr.
 * Al Cardenas, former chairman of American Conservative Union
 * Joe Crowley, former United States Representative
 * Bill Shuster, former United States Representative
 * Jack Evans, District of Columbia Council member
 * Randy Evans, former ambassador and general counsel to Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
 * Jack Kingston, former United States Representative
 * Petr Kolář, Czech diplomat
 * Joseph LeBaron, American diplomat
 * Trent Lott, former United States Senator
 * Jim Matheson, former United States Representative
 * Don McGahn, Trump Administration White House Counsel
 * David Aldrich Nelson, former judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
 * Stephen T. Owens, litigator
 * Kasim Reed, former Mayor of Atlanta
 * Rodney Slater, former United States Secretary of Transportation
 * Frank G. Wisner, American diplomat
 * Miomir Žužul, Croatian diplomat and politician
 * Luka Misetic, American lawyer
 * Wayne Barnes, international rugby union referee

Squire Sanders

 * Francis Allegra, judge on the United States Court of Federal Claims
 * J. Edward Day, former United States Postmaster General
 * William Louis Day, former judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
 * Ronald J. James, former Assistant Secretary of the Army
 * W. John Kenney, former Undersecretary of the Navy
 * Rob Portman, United States senator from Ohio, former director of the Office of Management and Budget
 * Louis Stokes, United States House of Representatives

Patton Boggs

 * Salman Ahmed Al-Ansari, Qatari lawyer and footballer
 * Nicholas Allard (born 1952), Dean and President of Brooklyn Law School
 * Ron Brown, former United States Secretary of Commerce and Democratic National Committee chairman
 * Timothy Chorba, former U.S. ambassador to Singapore
 * Lanny Davis, special counsel to President Bill Clinton
 * Benjamin Ginsberg, Republican strategist behind the 2000 presidential election Florida vote recount
 * Don Johnson Jr., former member of House of Representatives and U.S. Trade Representative
 * Sean Parnell, former governor of Alaska
 * Joseph E. Schmitz, former Defense Department Inspector General

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1898 German federal election

Federal elections were held in Germany on 16 June 1898. Despite the Social Democratic Party (SPD) receiving the most votes, the Centre Party remained the largest party in the Reichstag after winning 102 of the 397 seats, whilst the SPD won just 56. Voter turnout was 68%.

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1903 German federal election

Federal elections were held in Germany on 16 June 1903. Despite the Social Democratic Party (SPD) receiving a clear plurality of votes, the Centre Party remained the largest party in the Reichstag after winning 100 of the 397 seats, whilst the SPD won only 81. Voter turnout was 76.1%.

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1893 German federal election

Federal elections were held in Germany on 15 June 1893. Despite the Social Democratic Party (SPD) receiving a plurality of votes, the Centre Party remained the largest party in the Reichstag after winning 96 of the 397 seats, whilst the SPD won just 44. Voter turnout was 72.4%.

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1912 German federal election

Federal elections were held in Germany on 12 January 1912. Although the Social Democratic Party (SPD) had received the most votes in every election since 1890, it had never won the most seats, and in the 1907 elections, it had won fewer than half the seats won by the Centre Party despite receiving over a million more votes. However, the 1912 elections saw the SPD retain its position as the most voted-for party and become the largest party in the Reichstag, winning 110 of the 397 seats.

Parties hostile or ambivalent to the ruling elites of the German Empire – the Social Democrats, the Centre Party, and the left-liberal Progressives – together won a majority of the seats. This allowed a successful censure vote against the government of Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg over the Saverne Affair in 1913 and the passage of the Reichstag Peace Resolution of 1917. However, the Centre and the Progressives were unwilling to act consistently in opposition, which left the government largely free to do as it wished.

Some historians, such as Fritz Fischer, have theorized that the First World War was partly a result of the strategy of the conservative Prussian Junkers to deal with the result. In an attempt to increase support for conservative parties and policies and to distract the population from the SPD, they hoped to drum up patriotism in an external conflict with Russia or another Eastern European state such as Serbia.

Georges Weill, an SPD candidate who won a seat in Metz, defected to France at the start of World War I.

Electoral system
The members of the Reichstag were elected in single-member constituencies via the two-round system. There was no requirement that constituencies had to be of equal sizes population sizes, meaning that rural constituencies, which tended to have smaller populations, were overrepresented.

Since 1869, suffrage was available to all residents who:

 * were male,
 * were at least 25 years old,
 * were nationals of one of the states,
 * were resident in one of the constituencies,
 * were not active soldiers,
 * were not convicts,
 * did not live on poverty relief,
 * were not incapacitated.

Since 1888, a constitutional amendment required elections to be held every five years.

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1920 German federal election

The 1920 German federal election was held on 6 June 1920 to elect the first Reichstag of the Weimar Republic. It succeeded the Weimar National Assembly elected in January 1919, which had drafted and ratified the republican constitution. The election was delayed in three electoral districts – Schleswig-Holstein and East Prussia until 20 February 1921, and Upper Silesia (Oppeln) until 19 November 1922 – due to territorial plebiscites.

The parties of the Weimar Coalition, the Social Democratic Party (SPD), Catholic Centre Party (Centre), and German Democratic Party (DDP), had won the last election in a landslide and were largely responsible for drafting the new constitution. This coalition suffered major losses to opposing parties on the left and right and won just 44% of the vote between them. The Independent Social Democrats, rejecting compromise with the moderate and conservative parties, emerged as the second-largest party behind the SPD. The right-wing nationalist German National People's Party (DNVP) and conservative German People's Party (DVP) placed third and fourth, ahead of the Centre and DDP. A total of ten parties won seats, including the Bavarian People's Party (BVP), which had split from the Centre and took a more right-wing course, and the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), which remained marginal with 2% of the vote and 4 seats. Voter turnout was about 79.2%, down about four percentage points since January 1919.

The election was held ahead of schedule in the aftermath of the attempted Kapp Putsch, which had been defeated by a combination of civil disobedience and a general strike after the Reichswehr refused to intervene. This event radicalised large sections of both the left, who were alarmed at the disloyalty of the military, and the middle classes, who feared further unrest and violence. Also playing a major part in the national mood was the deeply unpopular Treaty of Versailles, which the Weimar Coalition parties were blamed for accepting.

The Reichstag was divided between left, centre, and right, none of whom commanded a majority. After negotiations, a centre-right minority government of the Centre, DDP, and DVP, led by Constantin Fehrenbach, took office with external support from the SPD.

Electoral system
The Reichstag was elected via party list proportional representation. For this purpose, the country was divided into 35 multi-member electoral districts. A party was entitled to a seat for every 60,000 votes won. This was calculated via a three-step process on the constituency level, an intermediary level which combined multiple constituencies, and finally nationwide, where all parties' excess votes were combined. In the third nationwide step, parties could not be awarded more seats than they had already won on the two lower constituency levels. Due to the fixed number of votes per seat, the size of the Reichstag fluctuated between elections based on the number of voters and turnout.

The voting age was 25 years. People who were incapacitated according to the Civil Code, who were under guardianship or provisional guardianship, or who had lost their civil rights of honour after a criminal court ruling were also not eligible to vote.

East Prussia and Schleswig-Holstein
The election result was amended by voting in the East Prussia and Schleswig-Holstein constituencies on 20 February 1921.

Upper Silesia
The election result was amended by voting in the Oppeln constituency on 19 November 1922.

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May 1924 German federal election

Federal elections were held in Germany on 4 May 1924, after the Reichstag had been dissolved on 13 March. The Social Democratic Party remained the largest party, winning 100 of the 472 seats. Voter turnout was 77.4%.

Electoral system
The members of the Reichstag were elected by two methods. A total of 35 multi-member constituencies were to have representatives elected via party-list proportional representation. A party was entitled to a seat via this method for every 60,000 votes they obtained in a constituency. At the second level, the 35 constituencies were combined into 16 constituency associations. A party could claim an additional seat if its vote remainder in the electoral district after distribution of seats by the first method was more than 30,000. As seats were allocated based on vote count, there was not a set number of seats in the chamber.

People who were under the age of 25, incapacitated according to the Civil Code, who were under guardianship or provisional guardianship, or who had lost their civil rights of honour after a criminal court ruling were not eligible to vote.

Between 4,514 and 4,638 candidates were nominated by at least 32 parties.

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1907 German federal election

Federal elections were held in Germany on 25 January 1907. Despite the Social Democratic Party (SPD) receiving a clear plurality of votes, they were hampered by the unequal constituency sizes that favoured rural seats. As a result, the Centre Party remained the largest party in the Reichstag after winning 101 of the 397 seats, whilst the SPD won only 43. Voter turnout was 84.7%.

This election was known as the "Hottentot Election" due to the scandal over the ongoing genocide of the Khoisan people in German South West Africa.

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Talk:Chesterton, Indiana

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For years the Town of Chesterton has been plagued with Sewer issues including rate hikes, operational deficits, ageing combination storm and sanitary sewers, down town sewer pipe failures, and treatment plant bypasses. (1) In recent years the ill run Chesterton Wastewater Treatment Plant Bypassed nearly 499,999 gallons of raw sewage into nearby East Arm of the Little Calumet River.

(2)On another instance the waste water treatment plant was unable to determine their bypass amount because their meter was un-operational. However, plant operator reported a bypass lasting nearly 40 minutes with estimated flows topping out at 7,000 gallons per minute. (3) In September of 2009 a bypass of 500 gallons was recorded from the wastewater treatment plant due to a tornado related power failure. (4) Another instance of a bypass occurred in the spring of 2009. One evening from 7:45 P.M. to 11:45 P.M. the Wastewater treatment plant recorded a four hour long bypass event dumping an un-allowable amount of sewage into the Little Calumet River leading eventually to Lake Michigan.

Although Chesterton may seem like a great place to live, in reality don’t fish in the creeks, rivers, and streams, don’t swim in Lake Michigan, and if the wind is out of the northwest don’t breathe in the steel laden air.

(1) “Chesterton Utility summer rate policy gave customers big break this year” By KEVIN NEVERS Chesterton Tribune Posted 9/20/2005

(2) “Chesterton Utility bypasses in river during Tuesday storm” Chesterton Tribune Posted 7/9/2008

(3) “Get set: South Calumet Rd and Porter Ave intersection to close” By KEVIN NEVERS Chesterton Tribune Posted 9/22/2009

(4) “Election board finalizes plans for school referendum in part of Pine Twp” Chesterton Tribune —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.99.241.10 (talk) 21:25, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Self-serving references w/o significance.
I found these four citations spread through out topics (places, people, events) in Northwest Indiana. The few I checked, these were one of 4-5 references, where the topic is simple and straight forward. It appears that the Museum referenced and/or the individuals are increasing their web-presence without providing additional support for the topics where they are included. Recommend removal do 1 or 2 of the more significant citations. Identified a minimum of 29 such pages.

 * phrases referenced:
 * Dune Acres, Indiana - an area that many citizens, scientists, and politicians fought hard to preserve. - 3 references. NOTE:  no link to the Indiana Dunes article has been created in the article, but the citation is present.
 * Northwest Indiana - It is also the home of the Indiana Dunes, parts of which have been preserved through conservation efforts. - 4 references. NOTE:  see above.
 * Ghost legends of Indiana - Diana of the Dunes One of the most well known, and most celebrated ghost legends in Indiana is that of Diana of the Dunes. NOTE:  the text is not linked to the Diana of the Dunes, which is also a wiki page.

--Chris Light (talk) 19:45, 13 August 2015 (UTC)
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 * The cultural impact of a museum in a small community: The Hour Glass of Ogden Dunes. The Shouth(sp!) Shore Journal, 2, pp. 16–28.
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 * D Smith, S. & Mark, S. (2006). Alice Gray, Dorothy Buell, and Naomi Svihla:Preservationists of Ogden Dunes. The South Shore Journal, 1, 15-21
 * http://www.southshorejournal.org/index.php/issues/volume-1-2006/78-journals/vol-1-2006/117-alice-gray-dorothy-buell-and-naomi-svihla-preservationists-of-ogden-dunes

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Schools
Yost elementary is located in Porter. Jackson and Liberty are are technically Valparaiso. All of these schools are considered Duneland Schools, but are not all located in Chesterton. 2601:243:C800:E500:817B:6F86:9CD3:BF23 (talk) 23:31, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

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Scottish Certificate of Education

The Scottish Certificate of Education (or SCE) was a Scottish secondary education certificate, used in schools and sixth form institutions, from 1962 until 1999. It replaced the older Junior Secondary Certificate (JSC) and the Scottish Leaving Certificate (SLC), and it was the Scottish equivalent of the General Certificate of Education (or GCE), used in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. One primary distinction between the Scottish Leaving Certificate and the Scottish Certificate of Education was that the latter had less strict regulations in terms of compulsory subjects and workload of the individual curricula.

Levels of Award
The SCE was intended to cater for the increased range of subjects available to pupils since the raising of the school leaving age from 14 to 15. It initially included examinations and awards at both Ordinary Grade ('O-Grade') and Higher Grade ('Higher'). The Ordinary Grade award was replaced with the Standard Grade award, and the Higher Grade award was revised, during second half of the 1980s. These changes placed increased emphasis on coursework and the application of knowledge within tests.

The now-obsolete Certificate of Sixth Year Studies (a qualification taken by many in their final year after passing the subject at Higher Grade) was not a part of the Scottish Certificate of Education. However, both were awarded by the Scottish Examination Board (and its successor, the Scottish Qualifications Authority).

Successors
The Scottish Certificate of Education was replaced by the Scottish Qualifications Certificate (SQC) which was first issued from January 2000, after the last examinations of the Scottish Certificate of Education in 1999. The SQC also incorporated the CSYS (although this was in the final stages of being replaced with the Advanced Higher) and the Record of Education and Training (RET).

The SQC certifies the new qualifications that were introduced in 2014. These include the new National 3, 4 and 5 qualifications, revised Higher and Advanced Higher qualifications as part of the Curriculum for Excellence.

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Marketing intelligence (MI) is the everyday information relevant to a company's markets, gathered and analyzed specifically for the purpose of accurate and confident decision-making in determining market opportunity, market penetration strategy, and market development metrics. Marketing intelligence is necessary when entering a foreign market.

Concept
Marketing intelligence determines the intelligence needed, collects it by searching the environment, and delivers it to marketing managers who need it. Marketing intelligence software can be deployed using an on-premises or software as a service (SaaS, or cloud-based) model. These systems take data from disparate data sources, like web analytics, business intelligence, call center, and sales data, which often come in separate reports, and put them into a single environment. In order to collect marketing intelligence, marketing managers must be in constant touch with relevant books, newspapers, and trade publications. They must talk to various stakeholders like customers, distributors, and suppliers. In addition to this, they must also monitor social media and carry out online discussions. Marketing managers can design reports that correlate and visualize data coming from a variety of departments and sources (even, in some cases, external data). This allows them to see current key performance indicators in real-time (or as quickly as sources provide data) and analyze trends, rather than wait for analysts to deliver periodic reports.

Marketing intelligence systems are designed to be used by marketing managers and are often viewed by employees throughout an organization. Notable systems on the market include Contify, Uptime, Leadtime, Pardot, Marketo, and Hubspot. They may have user interfaces that more closely resemble consumer software than the software around individual data sources, which are designed for use by analysts. Business intelligence, for example, can collect highly accurate, timely, granular data, but often requires IT support to build and edit custom reports.

Organizationally, marketing intelligence can be the name of the department that performs both the market intelligence and competitor analysis roles. Business intelligence of any kind may also be their responsibility, in tandem with (or solely performed by) the Finance department, for measuring market share and setting growth targets, the mergers and acquisitions group for exploring acquisition opportunities, the legal department to protect the organization's assets or research and development for cross-company comparison of innovation trends and the discovery of opportunities through innovative differentiation.

Steps
With the following steps being applied, a company's marketing intelligence system will prove to be beneficial to its effective functioning.

 * 1) Train and Motivate Sales Force: A company's sales force can be an excellent source of information about the current trends in the market. They are the "intelligence gatherers" for the company. The acquired facts can be regarding the company's market offerings, whether any improvements are required or not or is there any opportunity for new products, etc. It can also provide a credible source to know about competitor activities, consumers, distributors, and retailers.
 * 2) Motivate Distributors, retailers, and other intermediaries to pass along important intelligence: Specialists are hired by companies to gather marketing intelligence. In order to measure the quality of production, the way the employees are behaving with customers, quality of facilities being provided; retailers and service providers send mystery shoppers. Firms can also assess the quality of customer experience with the shops with the use of mystery shoppers.
 * 3) Network Externally: Every firm must keep a tab on its competitors. Competitive intelligence describes the broader discipline of researching, analyzing and formulating data and information from the entire competitive environment of any organization. This can be done by purchasing the competitor's products, checking the advertising campaigns, the press media coverage, reading their published reports, etc. Competitive intelligence must be legal and ethical.
 * 4) Set up a customer advisory panel: Companies can set up panels consisting of customers. They can be the company's largest customers or representatives of customers or the most outspoken customers. Many business schools set up panels of alumni who provide their knowledge and expertise and help constitute the course curriculum.
 * 5) Optimal usage of Government data resources: Governments of almost all countries publish reports regarding population trends, demographic characteristics, agricultural production, and a lot of other such data.  All this data must be or can be referred to as base data. It can help in planning and formulating policies for the companies.
 * 6) Information bought from external suppliers: Certain agencies sell data that can be useful to other companies. For example, television channels will require information on the viewership, ratings of TV programs, etc. An agency that calculates this information and generates this data will provide it to companies that need it.
 * 7) Collect Competitive Intelligence through online customer feedback: The customer's view of a product is essential for any company. Ultimately it's the customer who's buying the product. Hence customer feedback must be taken. Online platforms like chat rooms, blogs, discussion forums, and customer review boards can be used to generate customer feedback. This enables the firm to understand customer experiences and impressions. It becomes easier for companies to apply a structured system to do so as it can then scan out the relevant messages without much trouble.

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The town of Porter is in an Indiana county of the same name. Both the county and the town were named after Admiral David Porter. Porter was a successful Admiral for the United States prior to the Navy's official beginning. Two of his sons were the first and second official Admirals for the navy. His adopted son, David Faragot was decorated as the first Admiral in the Navy of the United States of America and later was the first Secretary of the Navy. His biological son David Dixon Faragot was the second official Admiral in the Navy and is pictured with Abraham Lincoln, General Sherman and General U. S. Grant in the White House painting entitled The Peace Makers. The painting took place on Admiral David Dixon Porter's ship near the end of the Civil War. The four men were discussing the best way to end the war without doing the nation further damage. The people of Porter Indiana named the town after David Porter because they were impressed with his bravery in sea battles. Porter's two famous sons learned their skills as Admirals from their father as they accompanied him on his naval exploits. Main Library Porter, Indiana. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.193.200.141 (talk) 16:19, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

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Name of Pines?
I find that I cannot edit the name of this page, due to my both not finding my old password and my old e-mail account being defunct. So I had to settle for changing it within the page and writing this here. Pines is only the Town of Pines in the same sense that its neighbors are the Town of Beverly Shores and the City of Michigan City. Why is Pines listed as the Town of Pines rather than Pines? I don't know. I assume a long spiel here on the subject of place names is not desired. Pines' name presumably came from the township name (Pine Township) but the subdividers and the incorporaters did not leave a handy explanation behind them. IanHistor 21:47, 29 June 2006 (UTC) Do you other people actually enjoy this? It's ungenerous of me but I really am tired of it. I just plain do not get why people can't grasp that Pines' name is Pines. "correct town name, its official name is Town of Pines" Of course, all of Porter County's towns' names officially include "Town of". Why the heck didn't you go look up the other towns' official names, see that each of them begins with "Town of", and then "correct" those, too, to Town of Beverly Shores, Town of Burns Harbor, Town of Chesterton, Town of Dune Acres, Town of Hebron, Town of Kouts, Town of Ogden Dunes, and Town of Porter? Why the heck are you all just picking on Pines? Do you really believe that Pines' full legalease (legaleze?) name is "Town of Town of Pines"? Well, it is not. "Everything I can find seems to indicate that 'Town of' is part of the name, like places with '___ City' in their names, not just an indication of its municipal status" Likewise, why the heck are you picking on Pines? Why didn't you go change Michigan City's article to "City of Michigan City"? That's the only municipality around here which includes either the word city or town in it's name. Why does someone from Ohio feel compelled to come here and make this imbecilic change to this article, without even looking to see how each other local municipality is treated in the same position? I corrected an old error but then, 3 years later, you figure you're hot-stuff for finding that old error and changing the piece back. Errors at Wikipedia can never be long-term corrected because someone will always find then and bring them back. That stinks about Wikipedia.

But then Wikipedia is just a collection of jokes. "The commercial airport closest to Town of Pines is the Gary/Chicago International Airport in Gary." I will give anyone out there a million dollars if you can find one Pines resident who has ever used Gary's airport. It's mentioned because that is the hobby of a Wikipedia poster. It makes no more sense than including that the closest stretch of tollway to Pines is I-90 in Jackson Township. So what? That has nothing to do with Pines.IanHistor (talk) 06:39, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

 * For the record, the town's official name is Town of Pines, and not merely in the same way as, say, "Town of Beverly Shores". It's listed specifically as Town of Pines by just about every major source for place names, including the U.S. Census Bureau, Google Maps (note the absence of "Town of" in any other town's name), and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (which does have a municipal listing for "Town of Town of Pines", by the way.) Leaving out "Town of" in the name would be akin to leaving out the "City" in Michigan City, Indiana. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 23:40, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

WOW! This is sure scary. Thank you for giving me some insight into how on earth the terrorists of today could actually believe the things they do. Because they were told it's so. I thought I lived in the United States of America. You seriously believe that the federal government determines what incorporated municipalities of each state are to be officially named rather than those individual states which incorporated those communities? Why on earth would you imagine such a thing? How on earth do you Wikipedians get this idea that we should look to federal sources, such as the USPS or Census Bureau or the US Bd on Geographic Names, let alone sources such as Google Maps, for info about locally incorporated towns' names? One has nothing to do with the other. I can find you national sources which claim that all Americans should be killed to cleanse the earth. Do you believe that makes it so? They have nothing less to do with Pines' name than the US Census Bur. I realize it's official Wikipedia policy that primary research is not allowed, and published material must be cited, but citing incorrect claims (in your case, due to those sources having previously relied on other incorrect claims themselves) does not have anything to do with the truth. "the town's official name is Town of Pines, and not merely in the same way as, say, 'Town of Beverly Shores'." No, you are lying. "It's listed specifically as Town of Pines by just about every major source for place names" which has nothing to do with the truth. I'll very happily bet you a thousand bucks that I can find a thousand errors in Google Maps' data. Hundreds of people claim that the Who was the first heavy metal band. That does not make it so. Thousands of people insist & are sure that Barack Obama wasn't born in America. What that proves is that they're nuts, not that our President is an alien. Please please please visit one of the urban legend web-sites and you shall see that what many sources agreeing with each other shows is that errors are constantly repeated and reinforce each other; errors never die. Citing erroneous information does not prove that it is true. "Leaving out 'Town of' in the name would be akin to leaving out the 'City' in Michigan City, Indiana." No, you are 100% wrong and doomed to be so forever, as long as you follow the Wikipedia policy of caring entirely about what has been published before and caring zip for what is actually true. Theoretically it sure should be nice that so many people are willing to volunteer to spend their time on Wikipedia for no pay but why oh why are none of them interested in factual truth but rather just in sharing their fun at having found big-name sources disagreeing with the local facts of the matter?http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/11/02/091102crbo_books_kolbert?currentPage=1IanHistor (talk) 09:07, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Certainly stating that the nearest commercial airport is the one on Gary is rather silly.
 * However, in regards to your other point, there do seems to be quite a number of sources that state that the name of this town is "Town of Pines". Can you, Ian, provide any evidence that it's just "Pines".  I know from my familiarity with the area that no area resident ever actually refers to it as "Town of Pines", but then again they could just be shortening the name for convenience sake, like the way that Michigan City is sometimes just referred to as "City".
 * So, while I sympathize with you, it's up to you to provide evidence that the official name is "Pines". Maybe a photo of the "Welcome to . . . " sign, or a copy of the official town letterhead, or some such.  Whaddya think?? Mr. Harman (talk) 06:01, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

It's nice to hear from someone else familiar with around here for a change (rather than distant people who entirely rely on distant sources) but, no, as I've commented many times in many Wiki threads, as long as the official Wiki policy is to require published sources and deny primary research, I'm never gonna turn up reliable info proving this town's name. I could scrounge up lots of published uses of just "Pines" in daily newspapers but those, while meeting Wiki's criteria, would be no more reliable than looking to the claims of a bum in the gutter. (If you're familiar with our local papers here, you understand that jibe.) Yes, I could break down, send a request to Pines' government (as they don't happen to have a daily staffed municipal building, as in e.g. Michigan City), but I'm too lazy or mean-spirited or interested in my experiment in just how uninterested Wikipedia policy-makers are in factual accuracy vs. casual proofs. There's an Arcadia book on the city of Portage which claims that the incorporated town of Ogden Dunes has never existed and is simply a part of the city of Portage. There are dozens, if not hundreds (depending on how you count them), more errors in that book, published several years ago by a supposedly reputable publisher, let alone dozens more more minor errors in other "historical" books published about Porter County. That doesn't prove those errors are true. It shows (to me, although admittedly to few others) that errors can be found all over the place. I suspect (though am not willing to invest the time & effort in proving) that, if I questioned each town board member and town employee of Pines, some would claim the name of their town is simply Pines while others would, having heard the same misinformation as everyone else and accepted it, claim that they live in the town of Town of Pines (and I suspect that they're even several who have never given the matter any thought at all and maybe even one who couldn't comprehend that the two versions of the name are even different). Does that prove that both answers are true? If the US Census Bur claimed that the tallest building in Edon, Ohio, is the post office, would you simply accept that?IanHistor (talk) 23:30, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Various sources have been provided to show that the official name is "Town of Pines"; the Topoquest map also shows it that way. Granted, there are errors in census data, USGS data, Google Maps data, et cetera -- I've seen them before.  And granted, errors can start small and propagate all over the place.  Nevertheless, federal sources like the census and the USGS are deemed to be fairly reliable generally and are commonly used as Wikipedia sources, even knowing they are not infallible, and so far we have seen no definitive source that disagrees in this case.  I'm not sure that your righteous anger about this issue is appropriate here; certainly calling people liars isn't helpful, as we're to assume good faith.  You say it's wrong; perhaps it is.  Please prove it, for Wikipedia's sake.  Omnedon (talk) 14:10, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

That's what this is all about. Wikipedia is not meant to be an accurate encyclopedia but rather it is meant to be the place for everyone to look to for information about everything as one great big, happy family. "are deemed to be fairly reliable generally and are commonly used as Wikipedia sources" "we have seen no definitive source that disagrees in this case" I do not understand these concepts. I take it we do all agree that there is one true answer to this question. Ok. There are only two places directly responsible for that name--the Porter County government (which granted it) and the town's own government (which chose it). If Wikipedia is interested in the matter, why wouldn't one of the decision-makers contact either and then dig into it until one or the other gives a moderator the answer? Nothing I can provide myself would prove it any more than my offering up published mentions of "Pines" proves anything. I would happily give up and simply ignore Wikipedia but I'm afraid that I'm constantly met with people interested in various of my hobby interests who rely on Wikipedia for info and are shocked when I suggest that not everything on Wikipedia is reliable and should be checked for accuracy. I'm doomed to pay attention to Wikipedia and its policies. I reassure myself, that I'm not simply ignoring ignorance and questionable logic, by my periodically correcting various little details (on regular pages rather than talk pages) but 90% of those corrections are removed and replaced by the original myths that people have heard and don't wish corrected. That's ok for the people who look through the history of each Wiki-page and see what details people have inserted over the years, before removal, but I know that few people go to that trouble, rather than the much simpler visiting of the main pages and that's that. I'm afraid this situation is like the historians and the reporters and the authors who occasionally look to me for info. These matters are fun for me up to the a point but I'm afraid I'm far too lazy to do enough Wiki-work to Wiki-prove the answers to questions such as this one. So I've simply gone on record here. Heck, nobody from the town itself has ever joined in the question, either here on Wiki or in the many other places which contradict each other, as to what is the real name of their town. As they apparently don't care at all, I suggest you start calling it one big woods, known as Pines, and drop the idea of it being a municipality entirely. I also enjoy maps. I once shared one with a foreign author for an interesting-sounding book project of his. That's about my limit however.IanHistor (talk) 23:30, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

 * Ian, you believe that the town is officially named "Pines" and not "Town of Pines", and you are complaining bitterly and sarcastically about this article's use of the latter, as well as about Wikipedia generally. Please refer to Verifiability and consider doing the research you mentioned, so that you can find a reliable source which you can cite and, on that basis, change the name of the article.  As an editor, you are a decision-maker and are empowered to do this yourself, as we all are.  Otherwise, please stop complaining; multiple sources support the current title and no sources have yet been cited that refute this. Omnedon (talk) 23:52, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
 * First of all, Ian, please try to be civil. Everyone is more likely to take you seriously and listen to your points if you don't call people liars and repeatedly insult Wikipedia, and your comments have been getting out of hand. And to everyone else involved in this discussion, I did some research, and the town may actually be known as Pines. The EPA (an official government source, for what it's worth) refers to the town as just Pines here, as do area news pieces here, here, and here. I also saw it called "The Pines" here and here, though neither of those two are really reliable sources. This isn't enough for an immediate pagemove, but it's worth thinking about. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 23:59, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, I also have found the town referred to as "Pines" and "The Pines" and "Town of Pines" on various websites. Even on the Porter County website one can find various versions of the name used in meeting minutes, et cetera; unfortunately the county site doesn't seem to have a definitive list of settlements or an official labeled county map, though perhaps I missed them.  Omnedon (talk) 00:19, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I had the same problem: the closest thing to an official map I could find was a blurry GPS network map which refers to the town as Pines, but that's hardly authoritative. I tried to find some official surveys here but didn't know what section or township code to search for; if you can figure that out, by all means look at that. Unless we find anything more conclusive, we should probably stick with Town of Pines for now. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 01:41, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Town of Pines is mostly in Section 2, Township 37 (North), Range 5 (West). Unfortunately not much useful documentation for that section.  Huwmanbeing  ☀  ★  23:10, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

"Everyone is more likely to take you seriously and listen to your points if you don't call people liars and repeatedly insult Wikipedia" On the contrary, the only reason I am being noticed here is because of these actions instead of my simply correcting an error, which is then usually simply replaced by the original error-maker, without the matter even being taken notice of by anyone else. "I also saw it called 'The Pines'" Yes, I guess I should be happy that none of you Wikipedians do live in this area or you'd be claiming that Dune Acres' official name is D.A., Valparaiso's is Valpo, and Ogden Dunes' is The Dunes, due to those municipalities often being called those things by locals--even in published materials. "please try to be civil." Surely you jest. You, Catalyst, had never before taken any interest in the incorporated town of Duneland Beach, Indiana, until you expended the effort to search and find that I'd also corrected an error concerning it yesterday and so reverted Wiki's references to Duneland Beach back to their original, incorrect status, apparently to punish that meanie IanHistor. How can this be taken as anything but vandalism? "by the looks of it, it's still unincorporated" Yow, this is how Wikipedia is meant to work? I would make a lousy teacher. Воядт was a funny movie but it sure is frustrating e-meeting him.IanHistor (talk) 11:19, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

As you're interested in maps, Omnedon, I would even scan and post one (or a dozen) of my Porter County Surveyor's county maps showing Pines as Pines but I don't believe that would end this. What's worse, the last one lists Porter's name as "Town of Porter", and we know what my mentioning that would cause. Oh no!IanHistor (talk) 11:19, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

 * Ian, the name "Town of Pines" is used in several cited federal sources, but that's not the case with Porter or any of the others, nor does the USGS refer to Valparaiso as "Valpo". As has already been acknowledged, the situation with Town of Pines could be an anomaly, but you have yet to cite any sources that demonstrate this.  Be warned that if you continue to be insulting, you may run into problems here; if you want to discuss, that's welcome, but if you want to rant, you're in the wrong place.  Please read Civility. Omnedon (talk) 14:48, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Ian, please try to remain civil. I changed back Duneland Beach for the same reason I support keeping this at "Town of Pines", namely the lack of any reliable source; besides, that has nothing to do with Town of Pines or the discussion at hand. As Omnedon said, please read Civility, and Verifiability while you're at it. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 04:06, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
 * IanHistor: It's been a while since I've seen this much hysteria and sarcasm from an editor. If your goal is to try to persuade people to support your position, you have an odd way of going about it.  As to the name of the article, good articles depend on sources, and as the others have already pointed out, most official sources that WP relies on for this kind of thing say "Town of Pines".  If you have sources that say otherwise, that's good.  Cite them.  But please, if you can't or won't cite sources, don't expect to change things just by hectoring other contributors.  Huwmanbeing  ☀  ★  13:12, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

The Indiana Association of CIties and Towns list gives the name as "Pines" on its list of city and town members (http://www.citiesandtowns.org/topic/subtopic.php?fDD=2-6). As a Michigan City native, I have almost always heard the place referred to as "the Town of Pines" (always with the article "the"). I conjecture that there are a couple of reasons: 1. Avoid confusion with Pine Township; 2. The single syllable name "Pines" doesn't really roll off the tongue. "Town of Pines" sounds better. JohnSiegmund (talk) 18:51, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Admittedly, it is nearly seven years since the last post to this discussion, but I work for the Census Bureau and will use our sources to investigate the true legal and official name. The town incorporated at some point in the 1950s and has been reported in Census Bureau censuses as "Town of Pines town" since 1960. We have conducted a generally annual Boundary and Annexatio Survey that is mailed to local officials to review since 1972 and no town authority has ever reported the name as incorrect. The Census Bureau also submits a list of incorporated municipalities to both the county government for their review and to the State of Indiana for their certification. Again, the name and legal description, "Town of Pines town," has been affirmed all these years. The Census Bureau is an agency that collects and reports data and not one that assigns legal names; the Census Bureau is only as good as the authoritative state and local sources on which it relies. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.96.148.133 (talk) 13:13, 23 January 2017 (UTC)

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Joystiq

Joystiq was a video gaming blog founded in June 2004 as part of the Weblogs, Inc. family of weblogs, now owned by AOL. It was AOL's primary video game blog, with sister blogs dealing with MMORPG gaming in general and the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft in particular.

After declining readership, it was announced that Joystiq would be shut down on February 3, 2015, as part of moves to downsize AOL's operations by shuttering its "underperforming" properties.

Predecessors
As of early 2004, Weblogs, Inc. was seeking to add a blog to its repertoire for the sole purpose of covering news related to video games, as evidenced by the now-defunct The Video Games Weblog, founded February 27, 2004. On March 12, Weblogs, Inc. CEO Jason Calacanis announced two spinoff projects: The Unofficial Playstation 3 Weblog and The Unofficial Xbox 2, both of which are now similarly retired, though they would set a precedent for the launching of Joystiq's Fanboy blogs in 2005. However, none of these three initial weblogs were ever aggressively marketed, and The Video Games Weblog made its final post on May 18, 2005, amassing 175 blog entries in total (a rather scant amount by Weblogs, Inc. standards). All three blogs are now listed as "On Hiatus/Retired" in the Weblogs, Inc. directory. David Touve, the primary contributor to these early blogs, would later act as Joystiq's features editor for a short time in late 2005 before resigning due to the birth of his child.

Formation
Later that year, following 2004's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Peter Rojas, the founder of and lead contributor to the company's flagship blog Engadget, formally introduced Joystiq to the masses, positioning the blog as an extension to Engadget's Gaming subdomain. However, being a separate and wholly video game-related entity, Joystiq allowed for much more in-depth analysis of the video game industry than the primarily consumer electronics-oriented Engadget. While Joystiq had featured content as early as April 2, the blog is not officially considered to have been launched until Rojas's public revelation on Engadget on Wednesday, June 16, 2004.

Changes in site format
The first major shakeup in Joystiq's history occurred in June 2005, when senior editor Ben Zackheim, after being offered a position at America Online's Games division, announced his resignation due to a conflict of interest. He was succeeded by Vladimir Cole, a blogger who had been hired February 2005 and who held the position of Editor-in-Chief until February 2007, when Christopher Grant took over after Cole took a job with Microsoft's Xbox division. Weblogs, Inc. was acquired in October 2005 by America Online.

On November 21, 2005, coinciding with the North American launch of the Xbox 360, Joystiq welcomed its first spinoff project: Xbox 360 Fanboy, a blog devoted solely to the in-depth coverage of its namesake hardware. For the next three weeks this trend would continue, with PSP Fanboy launching on November 28, WoW Insider on December 6, and DS Fanboy on December 12. On February 15, 2006, a sixth blog was introduced: Revolution Fanboy, (which was later renamed to Nintendo Wii Fanboy), while March 29 heralded the arrival of PS3 Fanboy, completing Joystiq's trifecta of specialized next-gen coverage. While some have criticized the practice of splintering off Joystiq's primary areas of expertise as nothing more than a thinly veiled bid to increase traffic, Jason Calacanis has justified these actions by asserting that as Joystiq grows so too does its potential audience, and thus separate blogs are necessary to fulfill these specialized niches.

On January 26, 2006, Joystiq coined the phrase "DS phat", a nickname for the old-style Nintendo DS that helps differentiate between the old DS and the DS Lite.

On November 2, 2007, Massively was launched to cover MMOs in general.

On January 27, 2009, the Fanboy sites were rebranded and integrated directly into the main Joystiq site. DS and Wii Fanboy were merged into Joystiq Nintendo, as were PSP and PS3 Fanboy merged into Joystiq PlayStation, and Xbox 360 Fanboy became Joystiq Xbox. Until 2010, these sites continued to feature specialized posts in addition to relevant content from the main Joystiq site.

On June 11, 2010, as part of the new "Futurestiq" iteration of the site, the three platform-specific sites shut down, with staff folded into Joystiq full-time.

In January 2012, Ludwig Kietzmann became the editor-in-chief after Grant left to form a new video game news website with Vox Media, owners of The Verge, known as Polygon.

Shutdown
In January 2015, co-owned blog TechCrunch reported that AOL was planning to shutter underperforming content properties, particularly in the technology and lifestyle verticals, to focus on its stronger properties, video, and advertising sales. On January 27, 2015, Re/code reported that Joystiq was among the sites that were "likely" to be shut down as part of this restructuring plan. Readership of Joystiq had seen sharp declines, falling by at least 18% over the previous year.

On January 30, 2015, various Joystiq staff members, and eventually the site itself, confirmed that the site, along with its spin-offs Massively and WoW Insider, and fellow AOL property TUAW, would cease operations after February 3, 2015. Gaming-oriented coverage was assumed by Engadget. After the shutdown, on February 10, 2015, the staff of Massively launched a successor site, Massively Overpowered, dedicated to the continuation of their MMO coverage.

Editors
The Joystiq staff before the closure included editor-in-chief Ludwig Kietzmann, managing editor Susan Arendt, feature content director Xav de Matos, reviews content director Richard Mitchell, news content director Alexander Sliwinski, senior reporter Jess Conditt, and contributing editors Sinan Kubba, Danny Cowan, Mike Suszek and Earnest Cavalli. Thomas Schulenberg and Sam Prell maintained the blog on the weekends as the weekend editors and Anthony John Agnello served as community manager.

Previous Joystiq staff members include editor-in-chief Chris Grant, managing editor James Ransom-Wiley, features editor Kevin Kelly, reviews editor Justin McElroy, editors Griffin McElroy, J.C. Fletcher, and Mike Schramm, East Coast Editor Andrew Yoon, and West Coast Editor Randy Nelson.

Podcast
The original format for the Joystiq Podcast was hosted by Chris Grant, Ludwig Kietzmann and Justin McElroy. The three would discuss various gaming-related news stories. Segments included, 'What Have you Been Playing?', 'Brush With Fame', 'The Big Three', 'The Do It Line!' and 'Reader Mail'. Various podcasts have included guests from other gaming websites such as CheapyD, Chris Remo, and Stephen Totilo.

The first episode of the subsequent Joystiq Show, posted on June 17, 2011, promised a more serious, academic format, with a multifaceted examination of Duke Nukem Forever including an interview with voice actor Jon St. John and a review roundtable. Over time, the show's format evolved to include more off-the-cuff discussion, while maintaining the topical nature.

The latest iteration of the podcast, the Super Joystiq Podcast, was announced at Joystiq's PAX East 2012 panel and officially released on May 4, 2012. This podcast features every editor, grouped together in a different configuration every week, each participating in an intro, news, preview, or "Joystiq Research Institute" segment.

Awards
While Joystiq has been nominated for several awards in the category of technology-related weblogs, it has consistently been overshadowed in this regard by blogs representing a far wider spectrum of technology, including Slashdot, Gizmodo, and its ubiquitous sibling Engadget. Joystiq has, however, been included in a number of listings of outstanding weblogs, including Forbes.com's Best of the Web and the Feedster 500.

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Jean III de Grailly

Jean III de Grailly (aka. John De Grailly, died 7 September 1376), Captal de Buch,, was a Gascon nobleman and a military leader in the Hundred Years' War, who was praised by the chronicler Jean Froissart as an ideal of chivalry.

Biography
He was the son of Jean II de Grailly, Captal de Buch, Vicomte de Benauges, and of Blanch de Foix, a cousin of the counts of Foix.

Attached to the English side in the conflict, he was made Count of Bigorre by Edward III of England, and was also a founder and the fourth Knight of the Garter in 1348. He played a decisive role as a cavalry leader under Edward, the Black Prince in the Battle of Poitiers in 1356, with de Buch leading a flanking move against the French that resulted in the capture of the king of France, (John II), as well as many of his nobles. John was taken to London by the Black Prince and held to ransom.

In 1364, he commanded the forces of Charles II of Navarre in Normandy, where he was defeated and captured by Bertrand du Guesclin at Cocherel. After his release the following year, he defected to the French side and was made lord of Nemours by Charles V of France. However, he soon re-established his loyalty to the English, and in 1367 he went to Spain with the Black Prince, fighting at the Battle of Nájera. Here he again faced Bertrand du Guesclin, but this time it was du Guesclin who was captured, and the Captal was put in charge of the prisoner. He was rewarded for his service by being made the Constable of Aquitaine in 1371.

Again fighting for the English, he commanded an English relief force when the French attacked La Rochelle in 1372. While attempting to lift the siege of Soubise, his force was surprised by a French force led by Owain Lawgoch, a Welsh soldier of fortune in the French service. The Captal and Sir Thomas Percy, seneschal of Poitou, were captured. The Captal spent the remainder of his life as a prisoner at the Temple in Paris, because Charles V believed him too dangerous to ransom back to the English.

Froissart gives an account of the Captal de Buch's chivalry and courage at the time of the peasant uprising in 1358 called the Jacquerie (see link).

Jean de Grailly was a prisoner of the French from 1372 onwards. He had refused his freedom as it would have meant taking up arms against the king of England, which he swore never to do. His personal allegiance to the Black Prince was so strong that, upon hearing of the prince's death, he lost all resolve, refused food and died a few days later in Paris.

Since he left no heirs from his marriage to Rose d' Albret, his uncle, Archambaud, Count of Foix and of Bigorre took the title Captal de Buch, which passed to his descendants the Counts of Foix.

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Haim Yavin (חיים יבין; born September 10, 1932) is an Israeli television anchor and documentary filmmaker. He was one of Israel's leading news presenters, associated with the job for so many decades that he was known as "Mr. Television."

Biography
Heinz Kluger (later Haim Yavin) was born in Beuthen, Oberschlesien, Germany (now Bytom, Upper Silesia, Poland). His family immigrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1933. After his marriage to Yosefa, the couple lived in Jerusalem's Talbiya neighborhood. They currently live in Tel Aviv. His son is author Jonathan Yavin.

Media career
Between 1968 and 2008, Yavin was the anchor of Mabat (lit. "Outlook"), the primetime news roundup on Israel's state television station, Channel 1, which he helped found. He is known in Israel as "Mr. Television" and dubbed "Israel's Walter Cronkite" by the American press. He is often perceived as the "voice" of Israel. One of his famous sentences is "Ladies and gentlemen – a turnaround!" ("גבירותי ורבותי – מהפך!") after Menachem Begin's Likud won the 1977 election. He also served as chief editor of Mabat.

Yavin sparked political controversy with his five-part documentary series The Land of the Settlers, aired on Israel's Channel 2 in May 2005. The program concluded that Israeli settlements were endangering Israel, and Israel should withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, with Yavin stating that "since 1967, [the Israelis] have been brutal conquerors, occupiers, suppressing another people." Israeli settlers were outraged by this partisan approach by a leading newscaster. At the time, Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan had not yet been implemented, and the series was viewed as propaganda in support of it. The chairman of the Yesha Council called on Channel One to fire Yavin. Instead, the Israel Broadcasting Authority signed him on for another year.

In August 2007, Yavin announced his retirement. He read the news for the last time on February 5, 2008.

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In 1997, Yavin was awarded the Israel Prize, for communications.

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= Removal of Non-Encyclopedic Content = I removed these sections (last edit with them in it: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Winamac,_Indiana&oldid=447972819)

I feel they have very little encyclopedic content. I do feel that Power of the Past could be respectfully mentioned in the article, or that the Isis movie theater has existed in the same location since 1936 if there were sources for that. If anyone has time/resource to articulate these appropriately that would be nice. --nezZario (talk) 22:07, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Restaurants Winamac, Indiana offers a variety of restaurants to choose from, whether you are looking for a sit down experience or a fast food experience. Fast food venues in Winamac include McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Arbys, Dairy Queen, and Subway(attached to a gas station). Sit down choices include, Kostas-a local family diner, Vicky’s-known for their breakfast, Poblano's-a local Mexican restaurant, Chinawok-a local Chinese restaurant, Pizza King, and Cruzers.

Entertainment For a small town, Winamac offers a variety of entertainment. The Isis movie theater has existed in the same location since 1936. This theater offers a limited number of show times, but ticket prices are extremely reasonable. The theater even offers a 3-D experience. For even more affordable entertainment, a RedBox was recently put in near the local CVS. Overnight DVD rentals are only one dollar, creating affordable entertainment for all. Winamac also offers a well kept town park. Different events are held at the town park throughout the year, including the Power From the Past Show. Power From the Past is a show that features both John Deere and International Harvester tractors. Along with the tractors featured at the festival, there are daily events, food vendors, and a flea market to keep guests entertained.

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For some reason this URL here, without the "XXX" in the URL, was in the external links: http://www.vicXXXtoryrecords.com/tours/artist/islander

I have no idea why. I am just noting this here because ... Am I missing something? I don't see how this has anything to do with Winamac.

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