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 * Speedy Delete as copyvio from this site[ --[[User:JJay|JJay]] 22:38, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
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You might want to tag it. AFAIK, it can be deleted after seven days if it's untagged.--Shanel 22:09, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

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Enimex

Enimex was an airline based in Tallinn, Estonia. It operated cargo and passenger charter flights, and wet lease operations worldwide. Its main base was Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport.

History
The airline was established and started operations on 26 September 1994. In March 2006, Estonia's Civil Aviation Administration cancelled the Enimex licence for passenger flights.

Fleet
During its existence, Enimex operated the following aircraft:

 * Antonov An-28
 * Antonov An-72
 * BAe ATP

Accidents and incidents

 * 29 November 1999 − Antonov An-28 ES-NOF on cargo flight from Oslo to Budapest with a stop at Szczecin crashlanded on a field in Poland. No fatalities, but the airframe was written off.
 * 23 November 2001 − ELK Airways flight 1007 operated by Enimex the Antonov AN-28 ES-NOV on the attempt to land on Kärdla Airport in bad weather crashed into trees about 1.5 km from the Airport. Of the 14 passengers and 3 crew on board, 2 passengers were killed. The investigation determined that the cause of the accident was pilot error. After a 9-year trial, a case was closed due to lack of public interest.
 * 21 April 2002 – Antonov An-72 ES-NOP of Enimex was damaged in a hard landing at Wamena, Indonesia; a minor fire broke out. Due to the dead battery of the fire truck, some firefighters ran to the accident scene with hand-held fire extinguishers. After 20 minutes, the truck's battery was charged, but the aircraft had to be written off. There were no fatalities.
 * 10 February 2003 − Antonov AN-28 ES-NOY on a regular cargo flight from Tallinn to Helsinki, crashed shortly after takeoff from Tallinn's Lennart Meri Airport. The aircraft came to rest about 300 meters from the runway. Two of the three crew members on board were killed.

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Talk:Sweetest Day

Need more details
This article doesn't have nearly enough information. First of all, who celebrates the Sweetest Day and how do they celebrate it? Do people give candy, jewelry, flowers or other gifts? Is it mainly lovers that give these gifts or mainly family, friends, coworkers, etc.? Do people wear special colors on the Sweetest Day? Do they go on dates with their lover? Do they hold parties? In Pennsylvania we don't celebrate this holiday and I don't understand how it is celebrated. Please add more info!

Thanks!

Where is it celebrated?
Grew up in Indiana in the 60s and 70s and never heard of this holiday - moved away for 30 years and came back 10+ years ago and still don't hear about anyone celebrating it. In fact, have lived all around the country and the only place I've ever lived where it is conspicuously celebrated is Cleveland which just happens to be where apparently this thing started.

Comment from
I'm moving this here from Talk:Sweetest Day/Comments. ZimZalaBim (talk) 17:40, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * This article should not be supported by WikiProject Holidays because Sweetest Day is not a holiday; it is an annual promotional event sponsored by industry. Sweetest Day has never occurred without first being promoted by industry. Miracleimpulse 05:39, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I wasn't aware there was a Holiday Wikiproject, or that they in anyway were supporting (or are even aware of) this article. It's never referred to as a "holiday" in the article other than when it is called a "Hallmark holiday".  It is part of the Holiday category, but unless you take an extremely narrow definition of what "holiday" means, in reality most Americans don't make much distinction between holiday, observance, and celebration.  If your problem is with the Holiday category I can point you to all sorts of "holidays" that don't meet the traditional meaning of holiday.  Beyond that, what the observance is today is quite different from its apparent origins no matter what story you believe, much like St. Valentine's Day Valentines Day, Christmas, and St. Patricks Day are all considerably different today than their origin.--Isotope23 18:12, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I think "supported by" is the wrong wording. I changed it to "within the scope of", to match the other WikiProject banners. --Transfinite 19:00, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * The banner basically implies that the article will be monitored for improvement and/or vandalism by the project, with perhaps additional work on improvement, references, copyediting, and so on. The specific origins of any holiday are often open to question, and I very seriously doubt if this was the first "commercial" holiday. In fact, I'm virtually certain it isn't. Whether it is or isn't however, it would probably be a violation of NPOV to not include the article within the scope of the project, as it is included in the Category:Holidays and its subcategories, which are the scope of the project. And, it is only a recently revitalized project, so I can easily believe you hadn't heard of it before. Badbilltucker 19:14, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
 * To be honest I have not paid too much attention to most Wikiprojects outside of Wikiproject:Schools so there is probably a lot I don't know in that regard. Anyway, input on this article is always appreciated.--Isotope23 19:20, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

How does this then differ from Valentines Day and Mothers Day - two holidays that owe themselves to the greeting card industry. BTW, I was born in Detroit and grew up in Indiana, and I never even heard of this holiday (or whatever it is) until I lived in Cleveland and have never heard of it since moving from there.Jmdeur (talk) 20:44, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

Comparison to Valentine's Day
isn't this kinda exactly like valentines day?24.144.137.244 19:04, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I think I commented about this earlier as well (might be in an archived talk page now). I had no idea Sweetest Day had anything to do with candy, aside from chocolate covered strawberries, until I read this article. Judging by all the red hearts and roses, I just assumed it was another excuse to buy cards and flowers for your "sweetie." --Birdhombre 04:45, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

I've commented out the commons link for now
The commons site for Sweetest Day is being used to push the same original research that was rejected by consensus in this article. Sorry, but you can't use commons as a go around for consensus here. You are trying to make the same arguments based on the same sources that were repeatedly rejected and disproven on this talkpage. Until this is resolved at commons, the link should stay out. I've commented out the link for the time being.--Isotope23 17:25, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Beyond that, commons links go at the bottom, where I commented out, not at the top where you keep adding it Miracle. As I said earlier, as long as you are pushing the same original research that was rejected here at the commons gallery, the link should not appear here.  Commons isn't a way for you to circumvent the consensus against your version.--Isotope23 00:24, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

 * The Commons Sweetest Day gallery is now protected. I am re-inserting the link. Miracleimpulse 23:43, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * As it's been stated numerous times before, Commons links go down in the external links section... I've uncommented the correct link at the bottom.--Isotope23 02:33, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Dead American Greetings Sweetest Day link
Why should a Wikipedia article contain a link to a cached version of an otherwise dead promotional link from American Greetings? Is this advertising at any cost? Miracleimpulse 23:43, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * It seems informative, and providing a link to the cache seems more valuable than just deleting it (especially since you seemed to revel in its going dead - POV????) Not a dog 00:10, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Suggested changes to the Sweetest Day article
The following changes should be made to the Sweetest Day article:

Removal of industry promotional statements
The following industry promotional statements should be removed from the Sweetest Day article:

 * Sweetest Day is an observance celebrated primarily in the Great Lakes region and parts of the Northeast United States on the third Saturday in October.

 * It is described by Retail Confectioners International, as "much more important for candymakers in some regions than in others (Detroit, Cleveland and Buffalo being the biggest Sweetest Day cities)" and an "occasion which offers all of us an opportunity to remember not only the sick, aged and orphaned, but also friends, relatives and associates whose helpfulness and kindness we have enjoyed."

 * Sweetest Day now largely involves giving small presents such as greeting cards, candy, and flowers to loved ones. While it is not as large or widely observed as Valentine's Day, it is still celebrated in parts of the United States, despite persistent allegations of being a "Hallmark holiday."

These statements are all either direct quotes or are sourced to promotional or unsourced websites.

Also, the references to Bill Lubinger should be removed because first of all, the Bill Lubinger article is mostly misinformation and secondly because the article no longer appears on the internet and I don't believe it was actually published in the paper version of The Cleveland Plain Dealer. If it was, please provide the page number on which it was published. Miracleimpulse 20:33, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

--Transfinite 05:42, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
 * The article has to quickly say what Sweetest Day is. "Promotional event" is POV, you don't like the word "holiday", so it is an "observence".
 * In order for the article to be NPOV, it has to include the quote from Retail Confectioners International, or something similiar. The article can't be an attack piece on the candy/greeting card industry.
 * The last sentence states how the holiday/observence/promotional event/whatever is celebrated, and goes on to call it a "Hallmark Holiday", which is a fairly cynical turn of phrase.
 * Are you sure you want to remove the Bill Lubinger article? That is where the "concocted promotion" quote in the lead section is sourced to.  If the Lubinger article goes, that goes too.

Transfinite's comments * followed by my responses:

 * The article has to quickly say what Sweetest Day is. "Promotional event" is POV, you don't like the word "holiday", so it is an "observence".

 * "Promotional event" is in no way POV. The phrase simply states what Sweetest Day is. "Deceptive promotional event" or "a promotional event marketed through mass deception or on false pretenses" would be POV, but simply calling Sweetest Day a "promotional event" is not POV. Sweetest Day has never occurred without first being promoted by industry. Therefore it is neither a holiday nor an observance. Sweetest Day is not recognized or observed by any state, local or federal government, nor is it recognized by any religion, faith or ethnic group. Sweetest Day is not even recognized by the City of Cleveland where it allegedly was founded. The only group which recognizes Sweetest Day are the industries which profit from it's promotion. I suppose we could call it an "industry observance" but "promotional event" is really more appropriate.

 * In order for the article to be NPOV, it has to include the quote from Retail Confectioners International, or something similiar. The article can't be an attack piece on the candy/greeting card industry.

 * Take a closer look at the Sweetest Day page on Retail Confectioners International's website. Under "How It Started" Retail Confectioners International uses the standard verisimilitude to promote Sweetest Day. A verisimilitude is a highly deceptive cleverly-written statement which resembles the truth but actually is a replacement for the truth and intented to deceive. Inclusion of any industry verisimilitude in the Sweetest Day article without identifying it as such totally slants the article in favor of industry. All industry verisimilitudes should be immediately removed from the Sweetest Day article in order for the article to remain NPOV.

 * The last sentence states how the holiday/observence/promotional event/whatever is celebrated, and goes on to call it a "Hallmark Holiday", which is a fairly cynical turn of phrase.
 * The term "Hallmark holiday" is actually a promotional term for Hallmark Cards. Again, to express this idea the term "promotional event" is more appropriate. The statement also includes buying suggestions, which again slants the article in favor of industry. Today Sweetest Day remains a promotional event sponsored by industry; it has not undergone some miraculous metamorphosis into a beloved holiday of any type.

 * Are you sure you want to remove the Bill Lubinger article? That is where the "concocted promotion" quote in the lead section is sourced to.  If the Lubinger article goes, that goes too.

 * Here is the Bill Lubinger article which was published online in October 2005. First of all, there was no 4-page Sweetest Day section included in The Cleveland Plain Dealer's October 8, 1921 issue. There was a 4-page Sweetest Day section included in the October 8, 1922 issue of The Cleveland Plain Dealer, however it made no mention of any of the things mentioned in Mr. Lubinger's article. Read it for yourself; it's right here in high-resolution. With this in mind, Mr. Lubinger's article can only be construed as being some sort of inverted promotion the purpose of which is to justify the observance of Sweetest Day. The article is 95% misinformation and deserves no mention in an encyclopedic article about Sweetest Day. During the Sweetest Day promotion of 2006 at least 3 internet websites quoted Mr. Lubinger's article because of it's inclusion in the Wikipedia article. Wikipedia should not be used to promote false information about Sweetest Day or anything else. As far as losing the phrase "concocted promotion" is concerned, that Sweetest Day is a "concocted promotion" will be evident to anyone who reads the Sweetest Day article once all the industry promotional phrases are removed.

Miracleimpulse 16:13, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Addition of facts
The following facts should be added to the article:

 * 1) In 1922 Sweetest Day/Candy Day was also promoted in New York City, Chicago, Detroit, Buffalo, Cincinatti and other cities across America by the candy industry. (Note: was Herbert Birch Kingston involved in these other promotions of Sweetest Day?)

 * 2) Sweetest Day was also referred to as "Candy Day," both in Cleveland and other cities where it was promoted.

 * 3) Some candy giveaways for Sweetest Day were executed days before the event and then covered by local media.

 * 4) All candy was not given to poor people. In 1921 Sweetest Day in the Year Committeeman L. E. Gruber presented the mayor of Cleveland with a 15-pound box of candy for the mayor's wife.

 * 5) In 1922 82-year-old Vera Sissons was selected by the Sweetest Day in the Year Committee to be Queen of the Sweetest Day. Ms. Sissons resided at the Home for Aged Women. Include image of Vera Sissons.

 * 6) A list of companies which participated in the first 2 Sweetest Days in Cleveland should be included in the article, in order to demonstrate the true scope of the first Sweetest Day promotions in Cleveland. That list includes:

The Cleveland Plain Dealer Newspaper, The Cleveland Business Exchange, The Cleveland Advertising Club, Hotel Statler, Whitman's Candies, Loew's Park Theater, Loew's State Theater, The Ohio Theater, Apollo Chocolates, F.H. Roberts Company, Crane's Party Box, Ohio Confection Company, Euclid's Chocolates, Nimburger Hahn (Louis Hahn?) Candies, Shoot's Chocolates, Thurston's Magic Box Candies, Johnston's Candies, Hoffman's Candy And Ice Cream Companies, H.M.D Candies, Midland Candy Boxes, Standard Drug Stores (16 locations), Troughton's Sugar Jar Candies, Weideman's Candies, Addison Pharmacy, Alpha Pharmacy, The Bank Lunch, Benfield And Benfield (Benfield Drug Company), Bruggator And Ripley, H.D. Butler, W.W. Brown Company, Buckstein Drug Company, Cleveland Pharmacy, Deklyn's Candies, Deutch And Rosengarten, Fischer Rohr Company, Cedar Drug Company, Geiger Moss Drug Company, Geraldine Ferrar Company, Gerson Drug Company, Glick's Candies, Gordon Square Pharmacy, Hough Avenue Drug Company, The J.M. Gasser Company, Kappus Drug Store, Lakewood Pharmacy, Lake Shore Pharmacy, Liggett's Pharmacy, Marshall's Drug Stores (26 locations), Maxixe Cherries, Miller's Drug Stores, Parkgate Pharmacy, Price Drug Company, J.G. Reed And Company, M. Rinzler, Ritter's Candies, Seltzer Drug Company, G. Schneider-Richards Company, The Superior Peanut Company, H.M. Stage Company, Andrew E. Walleck Company, Weinberger-Euclid Drug Company, J.L. Westaway Company, Winton Hotel Drug Company, W.L.Wilson Company, Wyandotte Pharmacy, Wrigleys Gum, Reymer's Chocolates and BonBons, Edwards Candies, MacDiarmids Candies, Phelp's Candy, Mary Lincoln Candy Company, The Cross Candy Company, Forbes Chocolate Company, M. S. Stores, Romance Chocolates by The Wynne Wood, The Orient Company (baskets for candy), The Geo. H. Bowman Company, The May Company, Bailey's Department Store, Benedict's (dancing), Huyler's Candies, Martha Washington Candies, Bordens Chocolates, Schrafft's Chocolates, Playhouse Chocolates, Stranahan Brothers Company, Jackson-Trace Company, Beeman's Pepsin Gum, The Handy Service Store, and Ex-Lax (The Sweet Chocolate Laxative), Fanny Farmer Candies, The Loft, Inc.

More to come! Miracleimpulse 21:35, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Removal of holiday infobox
Sweetest Day is not a holiday it is an annual promotional event. Addition of the holiday infobox is purely promotional. It contains buying suggestions for Sweetest Day. Miracleimpulse 21:47, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

I think I'll comment on this, since I am the one who added the thing. The observence part I tried to make NPOV, by including what the "industry" said it was for ("Remembering friends and loved ones"), and what it seems to be actually about: buying cheap useless junk. The Valentine's Day article says the observences are "Sending greeting cards and gifts, dating". If you think the wording should change from "buying" to "sending", I have no problem with that. Besides that, I don't see the problem. It has the area it is celebrated/promoted in (which is sourced info), type (which is required for that template), and the date it happens on. --Transfinite 05:10, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Again, Sweetest Day is neither a holiday nor an observance anywhere. A promotional event does not warrant a holiday box, unless of course you are trying to deceive people into believing that the promotional event is in fact a holiday. Also, there is no referenced information stating that Sweetest Day is celebrated anywhere. That information is industry promotional hype and deserves no mention in an encyclopedic article. The holiday box has got to go! Miracleimpulse 16:16, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Um, Sweetest Day is observed by a large number of people, ergo, it is an observance. That's a neutral description of the event. ANd this citation confirms (from a reliable source) that the day is observed. Not a dog 16:42, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Your citation confirms that Sweetest Day was created by industry and is therefore a promotional event. The definition of observance states that an observance is "The custom of celebrating a holiday or similar occasion." Under "similar occasion" it states "An occurrence or condition of affairs which brings with it some unlooked-for event; that which incidentally brings to pass an event, without being its efficient cause or sufficient reason; accidental or incidental cause." This aptly describes the event called Sweetest Day. We have determined that Sweetest Day does not qualify as a holiday. The term which best describes Sweetest Day is event, and given that Sweetest Day has never occurred without first being promoted by industry, it is best referred to as a promotional event. I have no problem with the first statement in the article reading: "Sweetest Day is the observance of an industry-generated promotional event." Sweetest Day is a promotional event which masquerades as a holiday, and for the Wikipedia article to call it a holiday or an observance furthers this industry deception. In order for the Sweetest Day article to remain NPOV and not promote the industry agenda, Sweetest Day must be defined as an event only, specifically an industry-generated promotional event. Again, the holiday box should be deleted immediately. Miracleimpulse 17:38, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I don't think anyone here would deny that Sweetest Day was created by industry (it isn't a naturally occurring phenomenon). But that doesn't mean it isn't "observed" - just like President's Day is observed, or Martin Luther King day, or Boxing Day, or Dingus Day...all of which were created by some entity (whether industry, government, or religion is irrelevant to its social construction). As you say, it is an "event" - and event that is "observed". 'nuff said. Not a dog 22:53, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Plenty of events are observed. This does not mean they are categorized as "observances." Above all, Sweetest Day is a promotional event and should be categorized as such in this article. Categorizing Sweetest Day as either an observance or a holiday slants the article in favor of the industry agenda. Industry has been promoting Sweetest Day on false pretenses for over 80 years. Wikipedia should not be used (as it has been for the past several years) to promote Sweetest Day on these false pretenses. Sweetest Day is a promotional event. End of story. Miracleimpulse 23:29, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah, and plenty of events are promoted, that doesn't mean they all should be categorized as "promotional events". Above all, Sweetest Day is a day that is observed, and should be categorized as such in this article. Categorzing Sweetest Day as an promotional event slants the article in favor of your anti-industry agenda. (right back at ya!). :) Not a dog 00:02, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * So: Sweetest Day is the observance of a promotional event sponsored by industry. Problem solved, compromise reached. Now let's change the article. Miracleimpulse 00:18, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Where is your evidence that it's not an observance? You keep going on and on at length about the origins of the so-called "event," but that has no bearing on how it's celebrated today. Come here to Cleveland on the third Saturday of October and you'll see plenty of Valentine's gunk rebranded for Sweetest Day at drug stores and floral shops. Other than maybe Malley's, I've not heard one peep from candymakers about Sweetest Day here. It's all the card and floral shops that jump into the marketing blitz. I've been to more than one restaurant that served free chocolate-covered strawberries on Sweetest Day. Or are you going to claim that American Greetings is in cahoots with the food service industry too? --75.117.252.7 03:25, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * The food service industry, the flower industry, the jewelry industry, the greeting card industry, the candy industry and others: all are promotors of Sweetest Day. Each and every year since 1921 the promotion of Sweetest Day has preceded the alleged "observance." World War II did not interrupt the promotion of Sweetest Day. Vietnam did not interrupt the promotion of Sweetest Day. Industry has now promoted Sweetest Day 7 times since the events of 9/11/2001. First and foremost, Sweetest Day is a promotional event and should be categorized as such by this Wikipedia article. Unless of course Wikipedia is also being used by industry as a tool for the promotion of Sweetest Day. Miracleimpulse 13:46, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * By that definition the Christian Churches are not an appropriate source for discussion of Christmas or Easter, because they are promoters of those holidays. Guy (Help!) 14:09, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Hello Guy! Why did you delete the Herbert Birch Kingston US census forms from Wikipedia without nomination or debate? What kind of impartial admin action was that?? Miracleimpulse 14:15, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

BOYS vs GIRLS As I write this, the article says "This holiday is celebrated by boys since girls mostly celebrate valentines day". As a person who observed this day growing up in Detroit, I have to say that the statement is not true. Furthermore, males and females both celebrate valentines day. In both cases candy and cards are given to loved ones of any gender. This sentence should be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.9.198.83 (talk) 01:49, 23 October 2018 (UTC)

Detroit
Detroit attributes Sweetest Day to Fred Sanders. There's Freep articles to source from. MMetro (talk) 13:30, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

I don't live in the area that observes "Sweetest Day", but my grandparents did. They also grew up in and around that era. I must agree, it may not seem deserving of recognition to some. But to those whom grew up with it and passed it down, it is a part of their memories and maybe some heritage. I say leave it be. It is as much a special day as some of the other days that are concidered "holidays"; only it is not nationally observed. So what. Like I said to someone or to someone's family memories, it is special. Let it stay where others, wheither they observe it or not, can stumble across a marking in history. Cheffy74 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cheffy74 (talk • contribs) 12:54, 11 March 2009 (UTC) This holiday is pretty strange.... seems to me like another excuse for Valentine's Day.

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Quidenham

Quidenham is a small rural village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of 22.51 km2 and had a population of 576 in 183 households at the 2001 census, falling to a population of 560 living in 189 households at the 2011 Census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of Breckland.

It is situated 10 mi north-east of the town of Thetford and 24 mi south-west of the city of Norwich.

The place-name 'Quidenham' is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086, where it appears as 'Cuidenham', and means 'Cwida's ham or village'. The name 'Cwida' corresponds to the Old High German name 'Quito'.

There is a local tradition that Queen Boudica or Boadicea is buried in Quidenham.

Quidenham Hall is now a monastery of Carmelite nuns. A hospice for sick children occupies the site of some former staff cottages on the property. It is run independently of the monastery under the management of East Anglia's Children's Hospices (EACH), a registered charity under the patronage of the Princess of Wales.

The church of Quidenham St Andrew is one of 124 existing round-tower churches in Norfolk.

Quidenham was the location of the music festival Play Fest, which ran for two years from 2011 until 2013.

The civil parish includes the historic parish and still separate settlement of Wilby, which has its own historic church. Further, the old parishes of Eccles and Hargham now form part of Quidenham civil parish, each with their own historic church still in existence.

Snetterton Motor Racing Circuit is partially located in Quidenham parish, albeit 2 mi to the north-west of the village. Eccles Road railway station, on the Breckland Line between Cambridge and Norwich, is a similar distance to the north of the village.

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I realize this article has a lot of overlap with Erlangen program and homogeneous space, but it seemed like a good idea to start a separate article. The article on the Erlangen program is (and should be) primarily historical in nature, while the article on homogeneous spaces is both wider in scope than the present article as well as having a rather different emphasis. Commments and contributions are welcome. -- Fropuff 22:11, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

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Charles A. Allen (American politician)

Charles A. Allen (1884–1964) was an American politician. He was a member of the Los Angeles City Council from 1941 to 1947.

Biography
Allen was born in Missouri in 1864. A captain in the National Guard, he was given the nickname "Cap". He was in the grocery business and ran several Los Angeles area markets. He was also active in clubs and civic associations. He became supervisor of the Los Angeles City Hall parking garage in 1935.

In 1941, while on leave from the latter position, Allen ran for Los Angeles City Council District 8 in an election to succeed 12-year veteran Councilman Evan Lewis. He won that year and was reelected twice more.

In the April 1947 primary election, his victory – already certified by the City Council – was set aside by court order, a recount was made, and he had to face a final election the next month, which he lost to Kenneth Hahn.

He died in Whittier, California on August 23, 1964, and was interred at Mountain View Mausoleum in Altadena.

Member of the Los Angeles City Council
Allen was sworn in on May 14, 1941, to fill the unexpired term of Councilman Evan Lewis, who had died on May 5. Lewis's term was to end on June 30, and Allen's elected term was to begin July 1.

Minorities, 1945
During debate on a proposal to establish an interracial committee "devoted to the interests of so-called minority groups," Allen said he was opposed because he was, "convinced that this is a Communistic setup and that the people who have been associated with this effort have been misled." The proposed ordinance was killed by an 8-6 vote.

Radio, 1946
He voted in favor of a resolution condemning the sending of individual letters by city councilmen to support any given radio station in making an application to the Federal Communications Commission. He denounced an organization, the Hollywood Community Radio Group, Inc., which had solicited such letters because its membership, he said, "contains names of persons with reputed Communist sympathies."

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Orsay est une commune française, située dans le département de l'Essonne et la région Île-de-France.

Géographie
Orsay est située à 22 km au sud-ouest de Paris, dans la vallée de Chevreuse. Elle est desservie par le RER B et un vaste réseau routier et autoroutier.

Lieux-dits et écarts

 * Le Guichet

 * Mondétour

 * Le Petit Madagascar

 * Corbeville

Communes limitrophes

 * Bures-sur-Yvette
 * Gif-sur-Yvette
 * Saclay
 * Palaiseau
 * Villebon-sur-Yvette
 * Les Ulis

Histoire
L'existence d'un village de ce nom est attestée depuis 999, et c'est en 1157 que la première église y est consacrée. À partir du XVIe siècle, le domaine d'Orsay et notamment les terres dites de 'la Bouvêche' appartiennent à la famille Boucher ; c'est notamment en l'honneur de Charles Boucher d'Orsay, prévôt des marchands de Paris, que Louis XIV fit nommer « quai d'Orsay » le quai, qu'il avait aidé à assainir, qui fait face au Louvre : c'est ainsi que le nom d'Orsay a été ensuite associé à la gare plus tard reconvertie en musée, expliquant cette bizarrerie que le musée d'Orsay n'est pas situé à Orsay. Le nom est cependant surtout connu depuis le XVIIIe siècle lorsque la famille des Grimod du Fort y achète des terrains et prend le nom de comte d'Orsay.

Depuis 1957 quand, à l'initiative notamment de Frédéric et Irène Joliot-Curie, l'Institut de physique nucléaire s'implante dans la vallée de Chevreuse, celle-ci, et Orsay en particulier, est devenue un important centre scientifique avec notamment la création de l'université de Paris XI dont la faculté des sciences d'Orsay est le plus important centre.

Jeunes
La ville d'Orsay est au cœur de l'Université de Paris XI, et concentre donc une forte communauté d'étudiants, à travers les différents UFR, l'IUT, l'IFIPS, et les résidences universitaires.

Patrimoine religieux
Une seule église catholique, Saint-Martin - Saint-Laurent face à l'Hôtel de Ville.

Paysagers
Les restes du parc du château sous forme du lac du Mail et du lac de Lozère.

Différents espaces forestiers:
 * le Bois des Rames autour de la faculté,
 * le Bois Persan

Architecturaux

 * la Grande Bouvêche
 * la Pacaterie,
 * le Temple de la Gloire (bâti pour le général Murat)
 * le château de Corbeville (fait actuellement partie du centre de recherches du groupe Thalès)

Archives

 * Registres paroissiaux et d'état civil depuis :
 * Délibérations municipales depuis :

Voir aussi

 * Communes de l'Essonne
 * Université de Paris XI

Liens externes

 * Site officiel de la ville d'Orsay
 * Faculté des sciences d'Orsay
 * Site de la MJC d'Orsay

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"It's All About You (Not About Me)" is the first single from Tracie Spencer's third album, Tracie. The single was released on May 25, 1999. It was written by Heavynn, Karlin, and Schack. This was Spencer's first single since "Love Me" in 1992. A remix version features Black Thought from The Roots.

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"It's All About You (Not About Me)" was a successful comeback single for Spencer, hitting #6 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart and #18 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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The music video was directed by Francis Lawrence.

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S. N. Behrman

Samuel Nathaniel Behrman (June 9, 1893 – September 9, 1973) was an American playwright, screenwriter, biographer, and longtime writer for The New Yorker. His son is the composer David Behrman.

Early years
Behrman's parents, Zelda (Feingold) and Joseph Behrman, emigrated from what is now Lithuania to the United States, where Samuel Nathaniel Behrman was born, the youngest of three sons, in a tenement in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1893. His parents spoke little English, and his father was a Talmudic scholar. (Though known for his sophisticated comedies and worldly characters, Behrman fondly dramatized his family-centered, impoverished childhood in one of his last plays, the 1958 The Cold Wind And The Warm, an autobiographical drama starring Eli Wallach, Maureen Stapleton, and Morris Carnovsky. ) His own path, however, took him far from the Orthodox world of his parents.

A schoolmate and intimate friend, Daniel Asher, brought him to the theater when he was eleven to see Devil's Island, inspiring in him a love of the stage. "When he was a boy, Behrman saw all the famous plays and players of the first decade [of the twentieth century] as an usher in a Worcester theater." At fifteen, he ran away from home with another schoolmate for four days and stayed in New York City. Life in Worcester began to appear increasingly limited. At seventeen, he saw a production of George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra at Boston's Park Street Theatre that determined him on his course; that play "seduced me to the theatre," he later remarked. After graduating from high school, Behrman attempted a career as an actor on the vaudeville circuit. Bad health forced him to quit, and he returned home to Worcester and attended Clark University. There he studied under the noted psychologist G. Stanley Hall and heard Sigmund Freud lecture on his 1909 American tour. He immersed himself in the plays of Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw, Arthur Pinero, and Maurice Maeterlinck.

College
College was a mixed experience for Behrman. He was repeatedly suspended for failing mandatory physical education classes. Daniel Asher, who devotedly believed in his friend's future, urged Behrman to take courses at nearby Harvard University. There he enrolled in an English composition class with the renowned writing instructor, Charles Townsend Copeland. He was suspended at Clark again in his sophomore year, at which time he transferred to Harvard. (in 1949, Clark University awarded Behrman an honorary degree.) While in Copeland's class in 1915, he sold a short story to the magazine The Parisienne. He then submitted one of his dramatic manuscripts to George Pierce Baker, whose playwriting workshop was one of the university's most respected courses. (Other famous alumni of the class include Eugene O'Neill, Thomas Wolfe, Sidney Howard, and Philip Barry.) Baker was impressed with Behrman's student work. In the New York Tribune nineteen years later, he would title an essay "Baker's Last Drama Lecture: From Aeschylus to Behrman," in tribute to his famous student. In 1916, Behrman was the only undergraduate in the legendary "47 Workshop" playwriting class, where he studied George Meredith's comedy. He earned his B.A. at Harvard and went on to graduate studies at Columbia University.

While at Columbia, where he received his M.A. in 1918, Behrman studied under the noted theater critic and historian Brander Matthews. He was supported for a time by his brothers Hiram and Morris, who ran a successful accounting firm and who were willing to help their younger brother complete his education and try to establish himself as a writer. Living in a cold-water flat in Manhattan, Behrman worked in his twenties as a book reviewer, newspaper interviewer, and press agent, collaborated on three undistinguished plays, and published short stories in several magazines, including The Smart Set, the monthly edited by H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan. His first play under his own name, The Second Man, was a dramatization of a story he had written for The Smart Set in 1919 and, when produced by the Theater Guild in 1927, made his reputation. Noël Coward, who became a friend, acted in the London production.

Writing career
From the late 1920s through the 1940s, S. N. Behrman was considered one of Broadway's leading authors of "high comedy," was often produced by the famous Theatre Guild, and wrote for such stars as Ina Claire, Katharine Cornell, Jane Cowl, and the acting team of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, who became his good friends. One journalist remembered him from this period as "slim, dark-eyed, curly-haired...with the brooding melancholy of a young Jewish intellectual." Theater critic and historian Brooks Atkinson described Behrman as "one of the Guild's most adored authors." Along with Elmer Rice, Maxwell Anderson, Robert E. Sherwood, and Sidney Howard, he was later one of the five founding members of the Playwright's Company. Among his greatest Broadway successes were Biography (1932), End of Summer (1936), and No Time for Comedy (1939). His stage adaptation of Enid Bagnold's novel Serena Blandish became a success for actress Ruth Gordon. A well-read man of wide culture, he also adapted plays by Jean Giraudoux and Marcel Achard and "Jane," a short story by his good friend W. Somerset Maugham. With composer Harold Rome, he adapted Marcel Pagnol's Fanny trilogy into a musical play for the stage. His 1942 Broadway play, The Pirate, was turned into a musical for the film version in 1948, also called The Pirate.

In Hollywood, Behrman enjoyed a lucrative second career as a screenwriter. He wrote screenplays for Greta Garbo, including Queen Christina, Conquest, and her final film, Two-Faced Woman. With Sonya Levien, he co-wrote the screen play for the 1930 film version of Ferenc Molnár's Liliom, starring Charles Farrell and Rose Hobart. His experiences in Hollywood found dramatic form in the play Let Me Hear the Melody (1951), a failure that closed in pre-Broadway tryouts. He also collaborated on the screenplays for Anna Karenina (1935), A Tale of Two Cities (1935), and Waterloo Bridge (1940).

Berhman's comedies repeatedly celebrate tolerance, yet show how tolerant people in their generosity are often vulnerable when confronted by fanatics or ruthless opportunists. In End of Summer, a liberal household is threatened by a devious psychoanalyst who is able to play upon the family's weaknesses in his desire for wealth and power. Behrman's protagonists often feel inadequate to deal with the evils and injustices in the world. The hero of No Time for Comedy, a successful author of stylish comedies for his actress-wife, feels the need to write a serious play in response to the Spanish Civil War. When he fails at this attempt, he resolves to go to Spain himself and fight. The play asks the question: Is there a place for comedy in a violent and unjust world? The protagonist of Biography laments a political landscape that is divided between left- and right-wing extremes, leaving little space for a tolerant, humane middle ground.

Behrman's columns for The New Yorker included profiles of such notable figures as composer George Gershwin, Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár, Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann and entertainer Eddie Cantor as well as longer pieces that became highly regarded biographies of writer and dandy Max Beerbohm and art dealer Joseph Duveen. His autobiographical essays, also serialized in The New Yorker, appeared in two volumes, The Worcester Account (1955) and People in a Diary (1972). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1959.

Behrman was known for his warm, witty personality and enjoyed good relations with many other writers, both in and out of the theater world. A newspaper interview he conducted with Siegfried Sassoon, when the British poet was visiting New York after World War I, led to a lifelong friendship and many visits to Sassoon's country house when Behrman was in England. While not gay himself, Behrman was especially supportive of the tribulations of Sassoon's always turbulent love life. Work on dramatizing a short story by Somerset Maugham led to a relaxed, bantering relationship with that British writer as well and many visits to Maugham's home on the Riviera. Publisher Bennett Cerf repeatedly urged Behrman to write a biography of Maugham, feeling that he knew him as well as anyone. It was a project Behrman toyed with throughout the 1960s, but ultimately declined on the advice of New Yorker editor William Shawn. When in Italy, he was a welcome guest of Max Beerbohm, whose biography he wrote in 1960, four years after Beerbohm's death.

Major works
Behrman's two most anthologized plays, which continued to be revived in regional theaters through the twentieth century, are Biography (1932) and End of Summer (1936). Like many of Behrman's plays, they are character studies more than plot-filled dramas.

Biography tells the story of Marion Froude, a noted portrait painter, who has been prevailed upon by an abrasive leftwing publisher, Richard Kurt, to write her serialized memoirs for his magazine. A former lover with senatorial aspirations, Leander Nolan, hopes to marry into a conservative, politically well-placed southern family. He wants Marion to abandon the project, fearing that he will be named in her book and his plans derailed. A liberal woman who has painted both Roman Catholic prelates and Lenin himself, Marion must choose (she destroys her manuscript in the end), but is ultimately alienated by both Kurt's proletarian rigidity and Leander's smug conservatism. Biography starred Ina Claire and ran on Broadway for 219 performances.

End of Summer is about three women of different generations and values: forty-ish Leonie Frothingham, her elderly mother, and her nineteen-year-old daughter, Paula. The three women, insulated from the Depression and its harsh realities by their money, live in summer comfort on an estate in Maine. A visiting psychiatrist disrupts their complacency. He is attracted to both the divorced Leonie and her daughter but schemes to marry Leonie to gain control of her money, until his plan is revealed by Paula. Other characters, including a young man romantically attached to Paula and a Russian emigre-friend of the family, visit the house and talk about their lives, aspirations, and political leanings. Will, Paula's potential fiancé, cannot reconcile his activist politics with the thought of marrying into a family with so much money. One writer described End of Summer as "a Chekhovian play which emphasizes the disappearance or demise of an old, conservative order [represented by Leonie's mother] and the emergence of the new, more radical way of American life." The play also starred Ina Claire and ran on Broadway for 153 performances.

People in a Diary (1972), a memoir, could also be regarded as a major Behrman work and a well-crafted example of its genre. Published eighteen years after his first memoir, The Worcester Account, it is a collection of autobiographical essays and sketches culled from the sixty volumes of diaries Behrman had been keeping since his time at Harvard in 1915. "An odd quirk of destiny has put a great many people in my way," he wrote in a significant understatement, declaring that his purpose in the book was to "revive their society" and the vibrant times they had shared. The cast of characters in People in a Diary gives an idea of the breadth and depth of Behrman's life: e.g., Greta Garbo, Laurence Olivier, Louis B. Mayer, Jean Giradoux, Somerset Maugham, Eugene O'Neill, Noël Coward, Maxwell Anderson, Elmer Rice, Sidney Howard, Felix Frankfurter, Bernard Berenson, the Gershwins, and the Marx Brothers. The book also contains some biting observations about the direction modern America had taken in the 1960s as it waged war in Vietnam and became more obsessed with money and imperial ambitions.

Death
S. N. Behrman died in 1973 at the age of eighty. He was survived by his wife, Elza Heifetz Behrman, the sister of violinist Jascha Heifetz, whom he had married in his forties, and a son. His stepdaughter was Barbara Gelb, the biographer, along with her husband, Arthur Gelb, of Eugene O'Neill. Brooks Atkinson wrote of Behrman, "[His] ethical and political principles have never been appreciated. It is an ancient rule that prizes are not given to comic plays about serious subjects. The court jester invariably ranks with dilettantes and flaneurs." In Atkinson's view, this "short, rounded, merry, owlish-looking...marvelously erudite and civilized" man was far more than merely a writer of Broadway entertainments. His widow died in 1998 aged 92.

Plays

 * Bedside Manners (1923), with J. Kenyon Nicholson
 * A Night's Work (1924), with Nicholson
 * The Man Who Forgot (1926), with Owen Davis
 * The Second Man (1927)
 * Love Is Like That (1927), with Nicholson
 * Serena Blandish (or The Difficulty of Getting Married)(1929)
 * Meteor (1929)
 * Brief Moment (1931)
 * Biography (1932)
 * Love Story (1933)
 * Rain From Heaven (1934)
 * End of Summer (1936)
 * Amphitryon 38 (1937)
 * Wine of Choice (1938)
 * No Time for Comedy (1939)
 * The Talley Method (1941)
 * The Pirate (1942)
 * Jacobowsky and the Colonel (1944)
 * Dunnigan's Daughter (1945)
 * Jane (1946)
 * I Know My Love (1949)
 * Let Me Hear the Melody (1951)
 * Fanny (musical) (1954), with Joshua Logan
 * The Cold Wind And The Warm (1958)
 * Lord Pengo (1962)
 * But For Whom Charlie (1964)

Books

 * Duveen: The Story of the Most Spectacular Art Dealer of All Time.  (1952)
 * The Worcester Account (1955)
 * Portrait of Max: An Intimate Memoir of Sir Max Beerbohm (1960)
 * People in a Diary: A Memoir (1972)

Screenplays

 * He Knew Women (1930)
 * Liliom (1930), with Sonya Levien
 * Lightning (1930), with Levien
 * The Sea-Wolf (1930)
 * The Brat (1931), with Levien
 * Surrender (1931), with Levien
 * Daddy Long Legs (1931), with Levien
 * Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932), with Levien
 * Tess of the Storm Country (1932), with Levien
 * Brief Moment (1933)
 * Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (1933)
 * As Husbands Go (1933)
 * My Lips Betray (1933)
 * Queen Christina (1933)
 * Biography of a Bachelor Girl (1934)
 * Anna Karenina (1935)
 * A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
 * Conquest (1937)
 * Parnell (1937)
 * The Cowboy and the Lady (1938)
 * No Time for Comedy (1940)
 * Waterloo Bridge (1940)
 * ''Two-Faced Woman (1941)
 * The Pirate (1948)
 * Quo Vadis (1951)
 * Me and the Colonel (1958)
 * Fanny (1961)
 * Stowaway in the Sky (1962)

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Icon Water Limited, trading principally as Icon Water, is a water and wastewater public utility that is an Australian Capital Territory-owned corporation. The company provides drinking water and wastewater services to the ACT. Icon Water is also a 50% owner of ActewAGL, a multi-utility provider of electricity and gas services in the ACT and south-east New South Wales. Icon Water Limited is also the owner of Bendora Dam, Corin Dam (further upstream), Cotter Dam (further downstream) and Googong Dam in New South Wales. Water is gravity fed to Canberra via the Bendora Gravity Main and pumped from Googong Dam. Icon Water operates, and maintains 50 service reservoirs, 25 pump stations, 2 water treatment plants, 27 sewage pumping stations, 4 sewage treatments plants, over 3,400 km of sewer pipelines and over 3,400 km of water pipelines.

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The origins of the Icon Water Limited (previously ACTEW Corporation) go back to the Australian Public Service. The Australian Capital Territory Electricity Authority was established in 1962, with functions transferred from the Commonwealth Government to the ACT Government. In 1988 its functions were transferred to the Australian Capital Territory Electricity and Water Authority.

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Andy Johns

Jeremy Andrew Johns (20 May 1950 – 7 April 2013) was a British sound engineer and record producer who worked on several well-known rock albums, including the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St. (1972), Television's Marquee Moon (1977), and a series of albums by Led Zeppelin during the 1970s. His sound is exemplified by Free's album Highway, which he engineered and produced.

Biography
Johns, the younger brother of engineer Glyn Johns, attended The King's School, Gloucester, in the mid to late 1960s. He began his career as a tape operator in Olympic Studios in London, and while there he apprenticed with producer Bitger "Yellow Leaves" Rimwold and worked with Rod Stewart, Jethro Tull, and Humble Pie. Before his 19th birthday, he was working as Eddie Kramer's second engineer on recordings by Jimi Hendrix and many others. In a career spanning more than forty years, he engineered or produced records by artists ranging from Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones to Van Halen. Records he worked on have sold in excess of 160 million copies.

Johns was the father of Hurt's former drummer, Evan Johns, and of rock singer/guitarist Will Johns, and uncle of producer Ethan Johns (son of Glyn Johns).

Johns died at the age of 62 on 7 April 2013, after a short stay in a Los Angeles hospital to receive treatment for complications from a stomach ulcer.

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