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Collaborative Learning

Collaborative learning refers to methodologies and environments in which learners engage in a common task where each individual depends on and is accountable to each other. This learning project provides resources and best practices for learning about and designing effective collaborative learning activities.

Learning Tasks

 * Compare learning alone in a quiet room focused on a specific learning topic with collaborative learning in a group, where learners/students interact with eachother and solve a problem jointly.
 * What are benefits and drawbacks of both scenarios?
 * How would you mix those learning scenarios?
 * When you prefer learning alone and when would you prefer learning collaboratively? Explain to the other students why you prefer which scenario. What can be the implications of the teacher knowing those preferences of the students?
 * Can you identify learning topics that might be better addressed in collaborative setting? (e.g. due to complexity of topic, requirements of different expertise, ...) provide example for the topics.
 * Compare Collaborative Learning with other collaborative approaches like Collaborative Mapping. What are similarities and differences?
 * Look at grand challenges like climate change or COVID-19. Are these topics appropriate for collaborative learning even if there are no easy answers for these global challenges? The teacher will not and cannot expect from the students to solve such kind of a problem. How would you as teacher introduce the learning task and how would you describe the expected outcome for the students? (e.g. improve Risk Literacy, ...)

Resources

 * /Benefits/
 * /Best Practices/
 * /Examples/
 * Learning Modes
 * /Rubrics/
 * /Stages of Group Development/
 * /Team Evaluation Form/
 * /Team Formation/

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Mike Pickering

Mike Pickering is an English musician, DJ, songwriter, A&R Executive from Manchester, UK.

Career
Pickering was a DJ at The Haçienda's Nude and Hot nights, and later Shine. He worked for Factory Records, where he signed Happy Mondays, To Hell with Burgundy and James, among others. With Hillegonda Rietveld, he was joint founder, writer and producer of Quando Quango, and he later founded M People, for whom he wrote and produced many songs and played saxophone live.

Pickering then worked for 20 years as A&R within the Columbia label of Sony BMG, where he worked with the Gossip, Calvin Harris, Kasabian, and the Ting Tings.

In other media
Pickering appeared as himself in the film 24 Hour Party People. He supports Manchester City Football Club, and appeared in the documentary film about the club, Blue Moon Rising in 2010 alongside Noel Gallagher.

source: wikimedia

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Cecil Benjamin

Cecil R. Benjamin is an American political activist and executive, who served as the Chair of the Democratic Party of the Virgin Islands.

Career
Benjamin was previously a teacher and served as the President of the St. Croix Federation of Teachers and the International and National Vice-president of the American Federation of Teachers.

Benjamin has also served as the commissioner of the Virgin Islands Department of Labor.

In 2016, Benjamin served as a super delegate from the U.S. Virgin Islands at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He supported Hillary Clinton in this position.

Benjamin served as the Chair of the Democratic Party of the Virgin Islands. Benjamin was the U.S. Virgin Island's representative and nominated Joe Biden for the party's nomination. In his video message, Benjamin stated “greetings from the Virgin Islands of the United States, where a young Alexander Hamilton was raised. Vacation home of our nominee, with turquoise waters, white sand beaches and friendly people, we cast our 13 votes for Joseph R. Biden, who will achieve full voting rights in Congress and our right to vote for president.”

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User:Crystaljs98/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Gun Violence

 * Article Evaluation
 * This article does a good job comparing statistics of gun violence all over the world but I didn't see specific examples. How many of those killed were results of domestic violence reports by women that weren't taken seriously. I also want to add that police brutality is a form of gun violence that the BLM movement is fighting against. I don't see anything about police officers misusing firearms in this article, ICE and Immigration forces worldwide also contribute to gun violence so I want to add some information on that as well. Just because they are people in power does not mean it isn't violent to murder people.
 * Sources
 * https://www.infobae.com/america/mexico/2020/07/09/feminicidios-en-mexico-el-63-de-los-asesinatos-de-mujeres-fueron-cometidos-por-el-crimen-organizado/
 * https://everytownresearch.org/report/guns-and-violence-against-women-americas-uniquely-lethal-intimate-partner-violence-problem/
 * https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
 * https://www.pnas.org/content/116/34/16793
 * https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/06/05/policekillings/
 * https://www.aclu.org/issues/immigrants-rights/ice-and-border-patrol-abuses

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File talk:Map of Mt. Maunganui, NZ.png

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of a fair use image as a replaceable image. Please do not modify it.

The result was to delete the image. A map certainly could be created which is a free alternative. Magog the Ogre (talk) 00:10, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Thnidu (talk • contribs) 19:56, 10 July 2012
 * It's almost identical with the map found at http://www.finda.co.nz/business/listing/ywnv/mt-maunganui-visitor-information-centre/, which is also from Google Maps. Edited and pasted from "Commercial".
 * I've reduced it by 50%. That makes the town names almost too small to read, impairing potential commercial reusability but still showing the shape of the land. Edited and pasted from "Minimality".
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it.

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Summary
{Information }}
 * Description=Illustrations for the Editing course
 * Source=DAZ Studio and GIMP
 * Date=2007-4-20
 * Author=User:Robert Elliott
 * Permission=Public Domain
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User:Hkeil/sandbox

== Article Evaluation - 'Investigative Journalism' ==
 * There's not actually too many sources linked to the end of sentences. Most of the links in the article are to other Wikipedia articles.
 * Yes, everything is relative to the topic
 * Article is fairly neutral; it mainly just lists examples of investigative journalism
 * I think the viewpoints of the article are a little underrepresented
 * Checked 3 sources, all links work and go to relevant articles
 * A lot of the facts that are listed as the tools investigative journalists might use do not have sources connected to them
 * There is a little bit of conversation in the Talk section, mostly just listing of sources
 * Article rated B-class in quality scale
 * Article is in WikiProject Journalism

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/marceloburlon.eu

Links

 * marceloburlon.eu resolves to [//<IP_ADDRESS> <IP_ADDRESS>]
 * Link is not on the blacklist.
 * Link is not on the domainredlist.
 * Link is not on the Monitorlist.
 * None of the mentioned users is on the blacklist.
 * Link is not on the whitelist.
 * Link is not on the monitor list.
 * Link is not on the whitelist.
 * Link is not on the monitor list.

Users
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Additions
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Lee Ji-ae

Lee Ji-ae (born May 13, 1981) is a South Korean former announcer and television personality. She is a former cast member in the variety show Real Men.

Career
In 2006 Lee passed the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) announcer recruitment exercise and was part of the 32nd batch of announcers. Initially she also applied to join the Republic of Korea Army but received her acceptance letter from KBS first, hence her career choice.

She was first posted to the Gangneung office and presented special features and programs concerning rural affairs (Gangneung is located in the mainly rural Gangwon Province) and KBS1TV's flagship arts and culture program Culture Zone (문화지대). In 2008 she replaced Lee Hyo-ri as one of the MCs of popular talk show SangSangPlus (상상 플러스), garnering her greater public recognition and praise from viewers. Since then she went on to host programs such as Top Band and the KBS Entertainment Awards.

In 2014 she resigned from KBS and signed with ChorokbaemJuna E&M, which later became Starit Entertainment following a series of mergers. Following her resignation from KBS, she went on a brief hiatus to earn her master's degree at Hanyang University.

Personal life
In 2010, Lee married former MBC announcer Kim Jung-geun. The couple have a daughter (born in 2017) and a son (born in 2019).

Her husband's role as one of the union leaders during the 2012 KBS and MBC joint strike came to light, partly due to the fact that the couple worked for the competing broadcasters. After the strike ended, Kim was suspended and had his financial assets frozen when the president of MBC sued him and a fellow employee for leading the strike. In response, Lee expressed her support for her husband during an interview and publicly called on the government to intervene.

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Ludwig Kunstmann

Ludwig Kunstmann (9 December 1877 – 27 March 1961) was a German sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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Cecil Edgar Tilley

Cecil Edgar Tilley FRS HonFRSE PGS (14 May 1894 – 24 January 1973) was an Australian-British petrologist and geologist.

Life
He was born in Unley, Adelaide, the youngest child of John Thomas Edward Tilley, a civil engineer from London, and his wife South Australia-born wife, Catherine Jane Nicholas.

Cecil was educated at Adelaide High School, then studied Chemistry and Geology under William Rowan Browne at the University of Adelaide, and the University of Sydney, graduating in 1915. In 1916, during the First World War, he went to South Queensferry near Edinburgh in Scotland to work as a chemist Department of Explosives Supply. He returned to Australia in December 1918.

He won an Exhibition of 1851 scholarship to the University of Cambridge in 1919, where he studied petrology under Alfred Harker, and completed his PhD in 1922. From 1923 he was employed at Cambridge University, first as demonstrator in petrology, and then lecturer in petrology in 1929. In 1931, following the retirement of Harker, he was appointed as the first Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology. Most of the remainder of his life was spent in England, though he spent 1938–9 in Australia and visited regularly after the Second World War.

In 1929, while investigating a volcanic plug at Scawt Hill, near Larne, Northern Ireland for the Mineralogical Magazine he identified and named the new minerals larnite and scawtite.

In 1938 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and served as their Vice President 1949/50. He won the Society's Royal Medal in 1967.

From 1948 to 1951 he was President of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain. He was President of the Geological Society 1949/50. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1957.

He died at home in Cambridge on 24 January 1973 aged 78, and his body was cremated.

Family
In 1928 he married Irene Doris Marshall at Holy Trinity Church, Kingsway, London.

They had one daughter.

Publications

 * Alfred Harker 1859-1939 (1940) co-written with Albert Seward
 * Waldemar Christofer Brogger 1851-1940 (1941)
 * Hawaiian Volcanoes (1961)
 * Origin of Basalt Magmas (1962)

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User:Fredmaurer/sandbox

Notes - Web Design

Lead - The lead for the article is a good starting place. I would just make the information more categorized.

Sections - There would need to be more sections. There are only a few sections like the history, occupations, different ideas.

Information - existing section - There is a lot of information that is on the article. But, it could be categorized, and worked on.

Balance - There is a good balance between the categories like the history to the introduction to the tools.

Neutrality - There are good neutral facts, but would need to be added more.

Specific Planned Actions -

Add more information, and maybe some pictures. '''

Web Design Final'''

Things that are going to be added - I am going to be adding a picture of different features of web design.

Occupations:

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Beaucarnea recurvata

Beaucarnea recurvata, the elephant's foot or ponytail palm, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae. The species was native to numerous states of eastern Mexico but is now confined to the state of Veracruz. Despite its common name, it is not closely related to the true palms (Arecaceae). It has become popular in Europe and worldwide as an ornamental plant. There are 350-year-old Beaucarneas registered in Mexico.

Description
It is an evergreen perennial growing to 15 ft with a noticeable expanded caudex, for storing water. The single palm-like stem produces terminal tufts of strap-shaped, recurved leathery leaves, sometimes hair lock-shaped in the ends, and with occasional panicles of small white flowers once the plant reaches over 10 years of age.

The only moderately swollen trunk at the base is slender over it and only slightly branched. The almost spherical caudex in the youth stage later becomes 4 to 6 meters long and reaches a diameter of up to 50 centimeters and more at the base. The bark is smooth. The green lineal, slightly rejuvenated and bent leaves are thin, flat or slightly ridged. They are 90 to 180 inches long and 15 to 20 millimeters wide.

Habitat
Its habitat is low deciduous forest, with average temperatures of 20 °C and an annual rainfall of 800 mm, and a well-marked dry season of between 7 and 8 months. These types of forests are in an altitudinal range of 0 to 1700 meters above sea level. They grow on rocky soils deficient in nutrients, cliffs and steep mountains. The plant is resistant up to 10 °C, and grows in full sun or partial shade. The plants are very slow growing and very tolerant to drought, in a pot or planted as an ornamental garden tree.

Cultivation
Having gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. B. recurvata is often grown as a houseplant or an outdoor plant in temperate climate gardens. Slow-growing and drought-tolerant, Beaucarnea recurvata is hardy to 10 °C, grows in full sun to light shade, and requires proper soil mix to drain when watered. However, be cautious not to over-water, as this will foster pests like the mealybug and cochineal insect. If going to be kept in places with strong winters, it must be an indoor plant as it cannot resist cold temperatures. To maintain its original shape, the ends of its leaves should not be snipped, and when repotted it must keep all of its roots.

Conservation
The species of the genus Beaucarnea are mostly in critical condition due to various anthropogenic activities, which has led to severe fragmentation and destruction of their habitat. Additionally, the collection of seeds, seedlings, juveniles and adults for commercial use has affected population size and the proportion of sexes, thereby reducing fertilization possibilities and, consequently, seed production. This exploitation process exposes this species, in a state of threat or extinction, by reducing the minimum viable size of the populations, as well as the deterioration of their genetic diversity. Beaucarnea recurvata, is considered to be threatened according to Official Mexican Standard 059-ECOL-2010 of SEMARNAT in Mexico.

The species is listed in Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) meaning international trade in the species and its parts/derivatives is regulated by the CITES permitting system.

Toxicity
The species is not toxic to dogs, cats or horses.

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natureza

Etymology
. Cognate of 🇨🇬; also compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) nature (which exists)
 * 2) nature (natural world)
 * 3) nature, essence
 * 1) nature, essence

Etymology
From or, since the suffix is usually appended to adjectives, from  with posterior regular elision of intervocalic /-l-/ (compare 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) nature, essence

Etymology
. cognate with 🇨🇬. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) nature natural world
 * 2) nature, character, distinguishing features
 * 1) nature, character, distinguishing features

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Wikipedia:Stop that, it's silly

'Right! Stop that!'

Just like Monty Python's Flying Circus, sometimes, discussions on Wikipedia get a little bit beyond the grounds of sensibility, and so sometimes The Colonel needs to make an appearance to urge people to stop whatever they're doing instantly before things get too silly.

To bring the colonel into the conversation, simply place colonel on a user's talk page.
 * Make sure the user gets the joke before you randomly bring the colonel in.
 * For similar fish-based variations, see trout and friends.

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Knowing Knoppix

Knowing Knoppix is a guide to the Knoppix Linux distro for the complete beginner.

Knoppix is an astoundingly clever product. It runs Linux completely from a CD, DVD or USB drive. There is no need to install. It bypasses all the software already installed on your PC or laptop and automatically detects the hardware in your computer (subject to suitable hardware). When you've finished using Knoppix, simply restart. Your computer will return to your regular system, and it will behave as if nothing has happened. Knoppix is Free Software and open source under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

This beginner-friendly book is designed to help with these situations:
 * You can't start Windows! Disaster? Possibly not. It is often possible to rescue files using Knoppix from crashed Windows computers, even when Windows cannot be started. This guide takes you step by step through the process.
 * You are curious about Linux, and you want to discover what all the fuss is about.
 * You want a useful guide to help you get started with Knoppix.

Table of Contents

 * 1) Introducing Knoppix
 * 2) Knoppix for the first time
 * 3) The K Desktop Environment
 * 4) Knoppix essentials
 * 5) Identifying hardware
 * 6) Reading the hard disk
 * 7) CD reading and writing
 * 8) Using an external USB drive
 * 9) Using a floppy or zip disk
 * 10) Networking
 * 11) Internet
 * 12) Peripheral devices
 * 13) Sound
 * 14) Multimedia
 * 15) Other applications
 * 16) Recovering from freezes
 * 17) Getting help
 * 18) Finding permanence
 * 19) Advanced startup options

Appendices

 * 1) Alternatives to KDE, with screenshots
 * 2) Full list of Knoppix boot options

Requirements
To run Knoppix in full and follow the instructions in Knowing Knoppix, you need:
 * At least 256 Mb RAM
 * Pentium compatible PC (350 MHz or faster is the practical minimum)
 * Bootable CD-ROM/DVD drive, or any CD-ROM/DVD drive plus 1.44 Mb floppy drive or mainboard that can boot from USB drive
 * SVGA compatible graphics card

Contributors

 * Phil Jones is the original author of this book. (January 2005)
 * The Source as well as the Complete book can be found...
 * Here: http://neo.dmcs.p.lodz.pl/pios/knowing-knoppix_2004-12-30.pdf
 * Or here: http://www.disa.bi.ehu.es/spanish/asignaturas/ii/knowing-knoppix.pdf
 * Or here: http://web.archive.org/web/20090201000000*/http://pjls16812.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/knowing-knoppix/knowing-knoppix_2005-11-21.tar.gz
 * Snargle split and bookified it.

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Tarion

Tarion, formerly known as the Ontario New Home Warranty Program, is a not-for-profit consumer protection organization established by the Government of Ontario in 1976 to administer the province’s new home warranty program. It is financed entirely by new home enrolment fees.

Mission
By law, all new homes built in Ontario are provided with a warranty by the builder. Tarion’s role is to ensure that buyers of newly built homes in Ontario receive the coverage they are entitled to under their builder’s warranty.

Tarion’s responsibilities include:

 * 1) Educating new home buyers and new home owners about their warranty rights and responsibilities;
 * 2) Facilitating the fair resolution of disputes between homeowners and builders over warranty coverage, repairs or customer service;
 * 3) Assessing warranty claims to determine if they are valid either through an on-site inspection or alternative method of investigation;
 * 4) In cases where a builder fails to address a valid warranty claim, resolving the claim directly with the homeowner either through compensation or repairs by a third party; and,
 * 5) Managing a guarantee fund to protect new home buyers, out of which compensation for warranty claims is paid.

Effective February 1, 2021, Tarion's previous licensing responsibilities have been transitioned to the Home Construction Regulatory Authority. The HCRA is now responsible for regulating new home builders and vendors in the province.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Freedom Underground

The result was delete. Awyong Jeffrey Mordecai Salleh 07:16, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Freedom Underground
Delete non-notable web forum, no claim of notability is made. RWR8189 22:41, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Keep

 * Yes, a notability claim(s) is made.

 * I suggest you actually read these articles, or at the very least, give them a cursory glance, before reflexively insisting that they be deleted.

Ruthfulbarbarity 23:21, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

 * As is, delete per WP:V. -AED 00:02, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

 *  AFD relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so that consensus may be reached.  Please add new discussions below this notice. Thanks, Mailer Diablo 10:07, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Delete Alexa ranking of 182,567; linked to by 14 sites. No indication that it passes WP:WEB. -Elmer Clark 12:11, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per Elmer Clark. User:Angr 15:09, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Yes, I did give the article a cursory glance, and I saw no reliable sources indicating any sort of notability per WP:WEB. -- Kinu t /c  20:50, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Wow! It consists of up-to-date news! Uhh, Delete Resolute 05:19, 20 August 2006 (UTC)


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User:Dramachandran77/sandbox

= Stuart A. Gabriel = This page provides information on Stuart A. Gabriel who is the director of the University of California, Los Angeles's (UCLA) Center for Real Estate, the Arden Realty Chair, and a professor of finance researching topics of real estate and housing and mortgage markets.

Overview:
Gabriel received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Upon completing his education, Gabriel worked in numerous positions in academia, the Federal Reserve , and the private sector. In addition to each of these positions, Gabriel is also a member of two research organizations. Throughout his career, Gabriel has earned numerous awards for teaching, research, and his commitment to the Jewish World Watch organization. In his research, Gabriel has made contributions to the studies of urban economics and housing market s. Specifically, Gabriel has contributed new ways to measure the stability of the mortgage market, examined the effectiveness of government interventions in housing crises, observed Congressional influence on the subprime loan market , and demonstrated disproportionate clustering in geographic areas based on race.

Education:
Stuart Gabriel has received three degrees all from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1976, he received his Bachelor of Arts degree. He received a Master of Arts degree in 1980 before then obtaining his Ph.D. in Economics in 1981.

Federal Reserve:

 * Economic staff member at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington D.C.
 * Visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank in San Francisco

University of California, Los Angeles:

 * Director of the Ziman Center for Real Estate
 * Arden Realty Chair
 * Professor of Finance at University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Management

Research Organizations:

 * President Emeritus of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association
 * Fellow of the Homer Hoyt Institute for Advanced Real Estate Studies

Private Sector:

 * Board of Directors member at KBS Real Estate Investment Trust II, Inc.
 * Private Consultant for investment firms and the government.

Awards:
At the University of California, Los Angeles, Stuart A. Gabriel has received many awards for both research and his teaching excellence. "[The classroom] can be very dynamic, and that occurs when there is significant energy on the part of students and instructor, such as what arises in the context of a compelling and timely case study discussion. It’s exciting to see students who become enthusiastic and intellectually intrigued by the course material — it’s that curiosity that carries the student forward to be a lifetime learner.”

- Stuart A. Gabriel. In addition to his awards for research and teaching, Gabriel and his family were also awarded the Jewish World Watch's annual Global Soul award which was awarded to recognize their service and allegiance to the organization.

Research:
Stuart Gabriel has contributed to the field of urban economics by studying housing markets in the United States and what factors influence them. Notably, Gabriel along with cowriters Marcell Chauvet and Chandler Lutz published a paper in the Journal of Urban Economics that demonstrated a link between Google search queries on mortgages and an increase in the mortgage default risk. The authors find evidence that suggests that: "mortgage default risk tabulated through internet search queries acts as a leading indicator of the most up-todate, real-time measures of housing market performance."

- Marcell Chauvet, Stuart Gabriel, and Chandler Lutz, 2016. Gabriel has also conducted research analyzing the financial crisis including a forthcoming article in the Review of Financial Studies examining the effectiveness of foreclosure prevention laws in California. This research finds that the California Foreclosure Prevention Laws prevented approximately 250,000 foreclosures in the state while also producing $300 billion in housing wealth. Thus, Gabriel and his co authors note that these findings suggest that policy interventions in the housing market can substantially reduce housing distress.

In line with how government programs can influence the housing Market, Gabriel has also examined more directly, how representation in Congress influences access to subprime lending. More specifically, it is found that when borrowers are represented by Congressional Leaders and by members on the House Financial Services Committee, they are more likely to get better credit access as well as discounted prices. Gabriel's paper, published in the Journal of Housing Economics, serves to confirm the findings of previous research that Congressional leadership does provide preferential treatment to their constituents in access to subprime loans.

Examining the relationship between home location choice, wealth, and race, Gabriel finds that even after economic status is taken into account, persons who are racially black still disproportionately locate in urban areas while very few locate in more suburban and rural areas. This research serves to confirm previously anecdotal evidence of disproportionate home location based on race. "...as evidenced in Chicago and the other sampled areas, a simulated and appreciable improvement to black economic status fails to result in large-scale suburbanization of blacks. However, that same simulated endowment increase does elevate black homeownership, particularly in closer-in urban neighborhoods."

- Stuart Gabriel and Gary Painter, 2008 Due to his contributions, Gabriel is often sought out as an industry expert, contributing to media such as the New York Times, the Los Angeles times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, and NBC. Gabriel has published over 75 articles in journals pertaining to urban economics and finance. In addition to his research contributions, he also sits on the editorial boards of multiple academic journals.

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File:Girls Aloud - Whole Lotta History CD1 Cover.jpg

Summary
The cover of Girls Aloud's fourth single off Chemistry, Whole Lotta History.

Rationale of fair use for Whole Lotta History

 * 1) No free or public domain images have been located for this album.
 * 2) The image is of lower resolution than the original cover.
 * 3) The image does not limit the copyright owners' rights to distribute the single in any way.
 * 4) For an article about a single, the cover artwork is very important and adds significantly to the article.
 * 5) This image is used on various websites, so its use on Wikipedia does not make it significantly more accessible than it already is.
 * 6) The cover is being used for informational purposes only.


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NGC 1460

NGC 1460 is a barred lenticular galaxy in the constellation Eridanus. It was discovered by John Herschel on November 28, 1837. It is moving away from the Milky Way at 1341 km/s.

Distance and size
At a distance of nearly 63 million light-years, it is a member of Fornax Cluster. Its size on the night sky is 1.4' x 1.0' which is proportional to its real size of 30,000 light-years, which makes it one of the smaller galaxies in Fornax Cluster.

Characteristics
NGC 1460 has a Hubble classification of SB0, which indicates it is a barred lenticular galaxy. But, this one contains a huge bar at its core. The bar spreads from the center to the edge of the galaxy, as seen on the Hubble image in the box. This bar is one of the largest seen in barred lenticular galaxies.

NGC 1460 is also an early-type galaxy. Despite their name, early-type galaxies are much older than spiral galaxies, and mostly comprise old, red-colored stars. Very little star formation occurs in these galaxies; the lack of star formation in elliptical galaxies appears to start at the center and then slowly propagates outward. This galaxy is early-type lenticular, but lenticular galaxies have as same process as elliptical galaxies.

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How to become a school administrator

Introduction
A school administrator is a profession that manages parts of a school, a school, or group of schools. What power and duties an administrator has depends upon the school system they are part of. How to become a school administrator varies from country to country. you need qualifications

United States
Becoming an administrator in the US isn't as straight-forward as in many other countries that have a single Department of Education structure. In the US, every state has different standards for certification. It is highly suggested that if you are looking to become an administrator in the US, to contact the individual state's Department of Education in order to obtain the requirements for licensure. Typically, the requirements center around having a Master's degree in administration and/or passing the School Leaders Licensure Assessment.

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Good People

Good People may refer to:

 * Good People (film), a 2014 American film
 * Good People (play), a 2011 play by David Lindsay-Abaire
 * "Good People" (song), by Jack Johnson
 * "Good People", song by Bliss n Eso featuring Kasey Chambers, 2021
 * "Good People", song by Audio Adrenaline from Bloom, 1995
 * Good People, 2023 album by Majid Jordan
 * A euphemistic name for fairies

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User:Casvilar

My name is Cynthia (Cyndi) Svilar. I am enrolled in the IST program at Indiana University. Our course work in R626 - Instructional Strategies and Tactics, has brought us to a project using Wikiversity as a delivery method. It is exciting to learn to use this tool within the structure of this course.

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Category talk:Arab Jews

Removal of Arab Jews
@User:Greyshark09 The category for "Jews and Judaism in the Arab world" already includes subcategories such as "Jews and Judaism in Egypt". There's no reason to add "Jews and Judaism in the Arab world" to categories such as "Egyptian Jews" or "Moroccan Jews", which are categories for individual Jews from these countries. Please revert your edits. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 14:57, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

@User:Greyshark09, a possible compromise would be to have two categories. One for Category:Arab Jews and one for Category:Jews from the Arab world. Thoughts? Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 13:39, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't mind category:Jews from the Arab League. Arab world is a more historic concept for Arab empires.GreyShark (dibra) 10:37, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
 * User:Greyshark09, That doesn't work because which countries are in the Arab League can change over time. Libya and Syria have both been suspended from the Arab League. Syria is currently suspended. An Arab country not being in the Arab League doesn't magically make it non-Arab. The "Arab world" is the part of the world that is Arabic speaking. I don't know what sort of point you are trying to make by bringing up long-gone Arab empires. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 10:59, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
 * See WP:CURRENT. This is how it works. If Jew was living in Syria in 1980s - he was living in Arab League. If another Jew is living there in 2015 - he is not in the Arab League. If a Jew was living in Syria in 1980s - he was a Syrian Jew, if he is living there in 1915 he was not Syrian (but Ottoman).GreyShark (dibra) 12:10, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Why do you think Arab world is better? Spain was in the Arab world once; it is not now.GreyShark (dibra) 12:11, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
 * "Arab world" is more expansive than "Arab League", which is a political organization founded in 1945. The Arab world existed before 1945. The Arab world would still exist even if the Arab League was dissolved. If Spain was still an Arab country, the Arab categories would be relevant, but it hasn't been an Arab country in centuries. Certain Arab categories may or may not be applicable to medieval Arab-Islamic Spain, but I would have to ponder that question more. There should be a category for Jews from Arab countries, but if it exists it should have the same naming pattern for Christians, Muslims, and others from the Arab world. This could entail the "Arab Jews" category being used as I originally wanted. It could entail categories such as Category:Muslims from the Arab world and Category:Christians from the Arab world. But it is incoherent and segregationist to have a different naming scheme for Jews and Jews alone, while people of all other religions are classified as "Arab [religionists]". Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 23:13, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
 * So you think that the Yezidis from Iraq and Syria should be called Arab Yezidis and Mandaeans from Iraq and Jordan be called Arab Mandaeans (and so on with other ethno-religions)?GreyShark (dibra) 13:06, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

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flame out

Etymology
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Verb

 * 1)  To become suddenly angry; to break out into indignation or similar emotion; to flare up.
 * 2)  To fail due to extinction of flame.
 * 3)  To fail, usually spectacularly.
 * 4)  To stop due to exhaustion.
 * 1)  To fail, usually spectacularly.
 * 2)  To stop due to exhaustion.
 * 1)  To fail, usually spectacularly.
 * 2)  To stop due to exhaustion.
 * 1)  To fail, usually spectacularly.
 * 2)  To stop due to exhaustion.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Russian: ,

 * Finnish: romuttua

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scatolia

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  The act of smearing faeces.
 * 2) * 2004, AH Begg, C McDonald, "Scatolia in elderly people with dementia", International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 53-54, Published Online: 13 Oct 2004
 * Fourteen cases of scatolia (smearing of faeces) were studied and all were found to be constipated when they smeared.
 * 1) * 2004, AH Begg, C McDonald, "Scatolia in elderly people with dementia", International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 53-54, Published Online: 13 Oct 2004
 * Fourteen cases of scatolia (smearing of faeces) were studied and all were found to be constipated when they smeared.

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Talk:Don Wittman

Breaking news January 8
Wittman is retiring, he has terminal cancer. Anchoress (talk) 01:01, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Categories
Where did the categories go? NorthernThunder (talk) 02:00, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
 * They're back - one of the tag. Dl2000 (talk) 04:04, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

Western Express
This might seem an odd addition, but for many people -- including yours truly -- Wittman is best remembered for hosting the Western Express lottery show, more than his work in sports broadcasting. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 13:54, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Main image
Surely there's got to be a better image of him out there. I know Wikipedia is anal when it comes to copyrighted/fair use images, but the one used here is so blurry you can barely make out his face. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:24, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

title: Talk:Don Wittman


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Öxabäcks IF

Öxabäcks IF is a sports club in Öxabäck, Sweden, established in 1931. The women's soccer section was established in 1966 as one of the earliest organized women's soccer teams in Sweden and adopted the name "Öxabäck/Marks IF" in 1991 to show up more of its connections with Mark Municipality before adopting the previous name some years later.

The women's soccer team won the Swedish national championship in 1972 (unofficial), 1973, 1975, 1978, 1983, 1987 and 1988. and the Swedish Cup in 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989 and 1991. The club was relegated from Damallsvenskan during the 1998 season.

The floorball section merged with Örby IF and Berghems IF in 1999 to create Team Tygriket 99 – later IBK Tygriket 99.

title: Öxabäcks IF


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Wikipedia:Help desk/Archives/2015 April 12

= April 12 =

chicago blackhawks current roster
Hello,

I am seeing via the final regular season blackhawks game that number 81, Marian Hossa, is wearing an "A" on his jersey and it doesn't say it on the blackhawks page. The last time the roster was updated was 3/28/15. I hope you can fix that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Toews1994 (talk • contribs)
 * Who is this "you" that you speak of. You are Wikipedia.  If you see a mistake and don't fix it, it is only your fault and your fault alone that it is still wrong, and you have no one to blame, and no one to ask for help, except yourself.  We're all waiting.  -- Jayron 32 02:21, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Anonymous edits count?
As can be simply seen from the edit history of Conversion therapy, an editor warred with me. Then an anonymous user came and changed the version; does it even count? as far as I know from the Hebrew wiki, anonymous edits don't effect edit conflicts and there are many reasons for that. What is your stance? Ben-Natan (talk) 04:32, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

 * Ben-Natan does not provide a full account of what happened at Conversion therapy. He has attempted repeatedly to remove material about President Obama's support for banning conversion therapy for minors, despite two users (an IP address and myself) agreeing that the material has to be included in some form. He has accused the IP address of being a sockpuppet of mine, falsely and without evidence. FreeKnowledgeCreator (talk) 04:40, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I engourage other users to go and see if your acquisitions are true; btw I didn't make such accusation but presented a question - "Sign up if you want to influence - Maybe it's FKC from another PC?" you didn't read well... Ben-Natan (talk) 05:04, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * See boomerang. Maproom (talk) 07:13, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

 * User:Ben-Natan, yes you reverting an IP is counted as edit warring if done enough times. So if I make an edit and you revert it, followed by someone else restoring my edit and you then reverting them. Then finally an IP restores my edit and you revert them, then yes you are edit warring and you have now reverted 3 times. It does not matter what other Wikipedia's do as each one has their own rules. CambridgeBayWeather, Uqaqtuq (talk), Sunasuttuq 05:26, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Referencing errors on NTV (India)
Reference help requested.

The article NTV (India) seems to have a problem with references. I don't know what is wrong with it. can you fix that problem??

I referenced it as I would normally. There is no problem with me Ok. See my edit

Thanks, Supdiop (talk) 11:50, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

 * Hello, unfortunately I had to remove the added section for now. Please don't copy material from copyrighted sources into Wikipedia (see WP:Copyrights). Information needs to be phrased in your own words or put into short attributed quotations. Adding "Controversies" sections is difficult in general: it's probably best to look for additional sources about this incident to provide a balanced and neutral summary (see WP:NPOV). Regarding your reference question, Help:referencing for beginners contains a summary about this topic. You can also click on the "help" link in such error messages to show some basic information about the problem and possible solutions (in your edit 2 previous "ref" tags had no content and no closing "/ref" tag).GermanJoe (talk) 12:45, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Tag filter on log page
I've never figured out the point of having the tag filter at Special:Log — why would you use it there? And how do you use it? I told it to filter for HHVM, the first entry at Special:Tags, and it gave me a page I've never seen before: A database query error has occurred. This may indicate a bug in the software.
 * Function: IndexPager::buildQueryInfo (LogPager)
 * Error: 2013 Lost connection to MySQL server during query (<IP_ADDRESS>) So I still don't know what it's supposed to do or to look like. Nyttend (talk) 12:16, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

 * HHVM may be a poor exsample. The HHVM filter was slow for me but eventually gave a page where all entries were from 10 December 2014 but did not say "HHVM". I guess the tag stopped being applied that day and is still searchable but not displayed, at least not on log actions (I can see it in some edits before 10 December). mw:HHVM/About says "The tags were hidden from the default view on November 10." I'm not sure how to interpret that. It was added on 10 November so it's not meant to say 10 December. Try "mobile edit" instead. That gives meaningful results (but only uploads) for me. Most of the tags will never be applied to a log action. "self-renaming and bad user talk moves" is one that does. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:43, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * But why would I want to search tags by log entry anyway? Isn't it easier just to go to Special:Tags, pick the tag you want, and look through its items?  After all, the tag filter requires that you specify a tag; you can't have it present you with all tags at once, or even two or three.  Nyttend (talk) 14:32, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * The tag filter option is in many places like logs, page histories, user contributions, recent changes, new pages. I see no good reason to remove it from one place just because it may be more useful in the others. Some users may not know where else to find the option or that it even exists. There may be other wikis which apply more tags to logs. The tag filter on logs of course only finds log entries with that tag so other pages don't have the same functionality in some cases. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:01, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Demetriss Tapp and Person County N.C.
On your notable people in your article for Person County N.C. I think you should include Demetriss Tapp a Country music singer and song writer who resides in Hendersonville Tenn. And is still involved in Country music and television. Please do some research on her and consider adding her to your notable people list. Thank you and have a great day. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs)
 * Lists of people from X should normally only include people who have their own articles as established "notable" persons. It does not appear that Tapp qualifies. In any instance, content would need to be verified by a reliable source. -- TRPoD aka The Red Pen of Doom  19:04, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * If you think this person meets Wikipedia's standards for inclusion (see Notability (music)), you might submit that information at Requested articles/music/Performers, bands and songwriters or be bold and write the article yourself. After the artist has an article it would be very appropriate to include them on the "Notable people" section of Hendersonville, Tennessee. SchreiberBike | ⌨   19:42, 12 April 2015 (UTC)

Reference desk protected from non-insiders
I would have liked to add some thoughts on the mathematical reference desk, but some of he wikipedia insiders decided to make it only editable to insiders.

What a pity.

Wikipedia, which anyone can edit ... anyone "worth of" ... .

Good bye, everyone.

<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:51, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * It's not "insiders", it's autoconfirmed users, which only means Wikipedia users with a small bit of editing history rather than none at all. And even that is because of recent constant vandalism. Such an action is only taken when there is no other action available, it's not done on a light whim. The page might be restored to be editable by anyone later, after the vandalism has gone away. It's very often I see reactions like these, people see Wikipedia administrators take action against constant vandalism, and immediately think they're making Wikipedia editable by a select few glorified "insiders" only. It's only an act to prevent vandalism, there's no further agenda involved. J I P  | Talk 19:35, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Let me clarify a little. The edit protection is temporary, due to a guy using multiple accounts to commit lots of vandalism (example), and hopefully he'll get bored soon and allow us to end the protection.  Unless we want to spend hours hitting "undo" every couple of minutes, we have to choose between protection and having no Reference Desk content at all.  Nyttend (talk) 01:46, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

 * Maybe you really believe what you are saying, but being accused of being a sock puppet is a cheap accusation which cannot be disproved. Trying to argue against it will be called trolling. I've been accused more than once, and now it is "never again". Cheers! <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 13:57, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

 * Your IP address has changed between edits. The ability to maintain an editing history is one of the various advantages of creating an account.  The idea that editing from an IP address is a better protection of privacy than editing pseudonymously is a myth; in fact, registered accounts have better privacy than IP addresses, which can be geolocated.  Registering an account has other advantages also. Robert McClenon (talk) 14:21, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
 * To the best of my knowledge, no one has called the OP a sock puppet here. The page is temporarily protected because it has been constantly vandalised. No one has said the OP here is the vandal. This is just a routine measure against vandalism and only temporary. It's not a personal vendetta against the OP, or anonymous users in general. Don't take it personally and claim "Wikipedia is for insiders only! I'm leaving!" just because one page is temporarily protected. J I P  | Talk 19:09, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Oh, no. You cn't get an account from a dynamic IP that changes on a daily base.I tried and the account was instantly blocked based on the fact that some real troll had used one of those IPs in the past. So it is a vendetta against anonymous users. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 10:44, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * There's no issue with short term IP address leases for accounts on Wikipedia. Even if you're stuck in an IP address range that has account creation blocked because of persistent vandalism, you can still Request an account.  Rwessel (talk) 12:08, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I have different experience. Once your accused to be a troll for having a tainted IP, everything you do or say is taken as proof that you really are a troll. Kind of a witch trial. User:999Bedbugs — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs) 13:08, 14 April 2015
 * Honestly I'm out of my depth here. The Sockpuppet investigations/Technoquat, in which user:999Bedbugs got included, is huge and complex, and I really can't get my head around it to form any sort of opinion.  I can say that there is *no* desire to block an editor unjustly.  The SPI archive may give you some information about what the exact issues were.  Looked at alone, the edits made by that account don't appear to be particularly objectionable, but my ability to compare them in form, content and timing to the other accounts in the SPI is minimal at best.  Since the talk page is blocked, the way to request an unblock is via Unblock Ticket Request System.  There are also some helpful links on that page.  I will also comment that the unblock request placed on the 999BedBugs talk page 16 June 2013 was less than helpful, you'll need to provide a real reason in your unblock request.  "Your reason here" does not count, and would obviously be dismissed out of hand (as it was), and probably taken as a sign of bad faith (see Guide to appealing blocks).    Rwessel (talk) 18:04, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * It's also unclear from [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:999Bedbugs&diff=prev&oldid=560179284] whether 999Bedbugs actually wanted to be unblocked or only wanted an explanation. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:09, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Update table for Australia under the "Joint Issues" article
Hello, I would like to update the table for Australia under the " Joint Issues"  article but I don't know how. Below is a copy of the table with my amendments and additions. Maybe someone canhelp with this. The references are the Australia Post Bulletins auspost.com.au/stamps

(Year / Postal Administration / Topic / Note / Date of Issue) ADD 1983 /New Zealand /closer Economic Relations Agreement/ Stylized Kangaroo and Kiwi? Feb 2, 1983 ADD 1990 / USSR	/ Scientific Cooperation in Antarctica / / June 13, 1990 ADD 1994 /Thailand & Laos / Opening of Friendship Bridge between Thailand and Laos / Views of Friendship Bridge/April 8, 1994 AMEND 1999 / Canada / Maritime Links /“Marco Polo” Joint Miniature Sheet / March 19, 1999 AMEND 1999 / Ireland / Maritime Links / “Polly Woodside” Joint Miniature Sheet / March 19, 1999 AMEND 2000 / Greece / Sydney and Athens Olympic Games / Sydney Opera House, Parthenon and Olympic Flame /September 15, 2000 ADD 2009 / Norfolk Island & Cocos (Keeling) Islands & Christmas Island & Australian Antarctic Territory / Species at Risk/ Joint Territories Issue, including Joint Miniature Sheet / August 4, 2009 ADD 2010 / Papua New Guinea / Kokoda Trail / /	April 20, 2010 ADD 2011 / Cocos (Keeling) Islands & Christmas Island & Australian Antarctic Territory / World Wide Fund For Nature 50th Anniversary / Joint Territories issue / August 30, 2011 ADD 2013 / Israel / Battle of Beersheba / / May 30, 2013 ADD 2013 / Germany / Ludwig Leichhardt / Explorer / October 10 &15, 2013 ADD 2014 / Norfolk Island / Centenary of Australian Territory /	Norfolk Island Pines / July 22, 2014 ADD 2015 / New Zealand / ANZAC Centenary / / April 7, 2015

 * I assume this about Postage stamps and postal history of Australia. I have copied it to that article's talk page, where someone may deal with it. Maproom (talk) 21:15, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * It's actually probably for the Joint issue article. Rojomoke (talk) 04:01, 13 April 2015 (UTC)


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Timbuktu (disambiguation)

Timbuktu is a city in Mali.

Timbuktu and similarly spelled words may also refer to:

Places
Timbuktu is a common placeholder name for a distant and remote location. Specific locations include:
 * Timbuctoo, California, a ghost town and unincorporated community in Yuba County, California, U.S.
 * Timbuctoo, New Jersey, a small settlement along Rancocas Creek in Westampton Township, New Jersey, U.S.
 * Timbuctoo, New York, a failed farming community of Black people in the Adirondacks.
 * Timbuktu (crater), an old crater on Mars
 * Timbuktu, Oregon, a historic locale in Washington County, Oregon, U.S.
 * Tombouctou Region, administrative subdivision of Mali

People

 * Timbuktu (hip hop artist), Canadian hip hop artist
 * Timbuktu (musician), Swedish rapper, reggae and hip hop artist

Film

 * Timboektoe (2007), a Dutch youth film
 * Timbuctoo (film), a 1933 British film
 * Timbuktu (1959 film), a 1959 film with Victor Mature
 * Timbuktu, a 2004 film directed by Alan Gilsenan
 * Timbuktu (2014 film), a 2014 French-Mauritanian film

Literature

 * Timbuctoo, an 1829 poem by William Makepeace Thackeray
 * Timbuctoo (novel), a 2012 novel by Tahir Shah
 * Timbuctoo, a series of children books by Roger Hargreaves, based on Mr Men and Little Miss, first published in 1978
 * Timbuktu (novella), a book written by Paul Auster
 * The Train to Timbuctoo, a 1951 picture book by Margaret Wise Brown

Music

 * Timbuktu!, a musical play

Brands and enterprises

 * Timbuktu (software), a remote control software product
 * Timbuk2, a line of messenger bags

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LAX Automated People Mover

The LAX Automated People Mover is an under construction automated people mover (APM) system that will serve the area around Los Angeles International Airport (LAX).

The system will be owned by Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) and operated by LAX Integrated Express Solutions (LINXS). The line will run for 2.25 mi and have six stations that connect the LAX Consolidated Rent-A-Car Facility (ConRAC), the Los Angeles Metro Rail system, and the LAX West Intermodal Transportation Facility (West ITF) with the airport's central terminal area (CTA).

The line was initially planned to open in 2023, but as of July 2024 is planned to open in January 2026 An additional $200 million was authorized by the Board of Airport Commissioners on May 2, 2024 to fund change orders in an attempt to firm up the schedule. An additional $400 million is currently being requested for Board and City Council approval.

Route description
The LAX Automated People Mover (APM) will run 2.25 mi along a line of six stations, with parallel tracks forming a pinched loop.

The APM will serve three stations in the central terminal area (CTA) each with footbridges with moving walkways to nearby terminals. The west station will serve terminals 3, 4, and B (the Tom Bradley International Terminal), the center station will serve terminals 1, 2, 5 and 6, and the east station will serve terminals 7 and 8 with a future connection to terminal 1. Continuing to the east, the line will travel over Sepulveda Boulevard and skirt along the airfield where Terminal 9 is planned.

At that point, the line turns to the north, crossing Century Boulevard to reach the LAX West Intermodal Transportation Facility (ITF), a large parking structure with a kiss and ride area and access to the LAX City Bus Center and nearby hotels.

From there, the route continues east along 96th Street, passing the line's maintenance yard and crossing over the Metro Rail tracks as it arrives at the East ITF station atop the LAX/Metro Transit Center station.

Trains then travel a short distance to the east and enter the LAX Consolidated Rent-A-Car Facility (ConRAC), a massive parking structure that will house all of the major rental car companies that operate at LAX.

Hours and frequency
The APM is expected to operate 24 hours a day. During peak hours (9 a.m. to 11 p.m.) trains will arrive every two minutes. The line will have a ten-minute end-to-end travel time.

Rolling stock
The system's fleet will consist of 44 Innovia APM 300 vehicles built by Alstom (initially Bombardier Transportation). Each vehicle can accommodate up to 50 passengers and their luggage, with 12 seated and the rest standing. During peak periods, vehicles will operate in four-car trains, with nine trains on the line. Trains will operate with a top speed of 75 km/h and an average speed (including stops) of 13.5 mph.

Capacity
Each 4-car train carries up to 200 passengers. With a headway of 2 minutes during peak hours, up to 30 trains per hour enter LAX through CTA East, carrying up to 6,000 passengers per hour (p/h/d). With 14 peak hours per day, up to 84,000 passengers could enter daily during peak hours. If off-peak trains also carry up to 200 passengers and run 16 trains per hour instead of 30, up to 3,200 off-peak passengers per hour could enter. With 10 off-peak hours per day that is up to 32,000 daily off-peak passengers. Combining peak and off-peak passengers gives up to 116,000 daily entering passengers, or 42.34 million entering passengers per year. The opposite direction capacity is the same, giving a capacity to move 85 million passengers per year.

Station listing
The following is the complete list of stations, from west to east.

Traffic reduction
The ConRAC facility is projected to eliminate over 3,200 daily car-rental shuttle trips. The East and West ITFs are projected to reduce parking and hotel shuttle trips and car trips into the CTA. The LAX/Metro Transit Center is projected to displace car trips by increasing transit ridership. Riders will include many of the over 57,000 airport and airline badge holders, in addition to airline passengers.

Upcoming Airfield & Terminal Modernization Project (ATMP)
The upcoming Airfield & Terminal Modernization Project (ATMP), scheduled for 2028, includes roadway improvements in the vicinity of the West ITF, with an elevated roadway system to separate airport traffic from local traffic. Upon completion of these planned improvements, access from the north on Sepulveda Boulevard will be convenient to West ITF; access from Interstate 405 will be convenient to East ITF; and access from the south on Interstate 105 and the Sepulveda tunnel will be convenient to the planned APM station at Terminal 9.

Architecture
The six APM stations each feature a line of 20-foot diameter circular skylights, with an additional one in the mezzanine of the LAX/Metro Transit Center. The West ITF parking garage also features similar circular lighting fixtures. The new pedestrian walkways employ a Vierendeel truss, featuring rectangular rather than triangular bracing. The old-style pedestrian walkways with triangular bracing still service parking lots P1, P4, P5, and P7. The APM concrete guideway features "gentle sweeping curves and clean uniform look". Each station features a single island platform, with level boarding, which serves trains in both directions. The proposed Terminal 9 infill station is the exception, with a pair of separate side platforms serving both directions.

The East CTA station features a viewing platform for the Theme Building (see Gallery); the West CTA station features a viewing platform for the Tom Bradley International Terminal; and the pedestrian "bridge to nowhere" gives the appearance of a viewing platform for Terminal 1.

Background
The Los Angeles International Airport has long struggled with gridlocked traffic on World Way, the main road that circles through the airport's central terminal area, that can often back up onto Century Boulevard or the Airport Tunnel, which connect the airport to Interstate 405 and Interstate 105 respectively.

Ahead of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, a second level was added to World Way, sending vehicles dropping off departing passengers to the upper level and those picking up arriving passengers to the lower. The relief was short-lived, and by the 2000s, the airport had ranked as one of the nation's most congested and hardest to navigate. That led airport managers to spend over US$15 billion to modernize the airport, with an automated people mover (APM) being one of the major improvements. The project was given added urgency in 2017 when Los Angeles was awarded its bid to host the 2028 Summer Olympics.

Planning
After receiving three bids, Los Angeles World Airports announced it had chosen LAX Integrated Express Solutions (LINXS) to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the APM for a period of 25 years. LINXS is a joint venture, public–private partnership of ACS, Alstom, Balfour Beatty, Fluor and Hochtief, with assistance from HDR and Flatiron West. The Los Angeles City Council approved the US$4.9 billion project on April 11, 2018.

Beyond the construction of the APM guideway and stations, LAX has also planned several projects that will enable or connect to the APM. New vertical cores will be built near each terminal, enabling vertical movement of passengers with elevators and escalators, as well as pedestrian bridges over World Way with moving walkways to connect terminals to the APM stations and to existing airport parking structures. LAX is building cores between terminals 5 and 6, at terminals 7 and at terminal B (the Tom Bradley International Terminal) at the cost of $490 million. New cores were also included in larger renovation projects at terminals 1, 2, 3 and 4.

The APM will also connect to the LAX West Intermodal Transportation Facility (West ITF), a US$294.1 million, 4,300 space parking structure with a lot to pick up and drop off passengers and areas for shuttle buses, the new LAX Consolidated Rent-A-Car Facility (ConRAC), a massive parking structure that will house all of the major rental car companies that operate at LAX in one location located adjacent to Interstate 405, and to the LAX/Metro Transit Center station (East ITF), connecting passengers to the Los Angeles Metro Rail C and K Lines and other transit services.

Altogether, these projects are called the Landside Access Modernization Program and are expected to cost a total of US$5.5 billion.

Construction
In 2018, 2,100 parking spaces in lot C were removed to reconfigure the area for the West ITF. Utility relocation started in the second quarter of 2018. Construction on the West ITF officially began in the summer of 2019 and ConRAC broke ground in September 2019. The first large concrete pour for the APM occurred in September 2020 at the West ITF station.

Construction on the 2.25 mi of two-track elevated guideway began in the spring of 2019 with the first underground support columns being placed. The first concrete for the columns was poured in January 2020. The pouring of the concrete for the guideway began in September 2020 and it was completed in May 2022. A total of 69,700 cubic yards (53,300 m3) of concrete was poured and one million work hours were completed to complete this project. Connecting Los Angeles's Metro Rail system to the airport, which was studied by transit planners since the 1980s, started when Metro commenced construction on the LAX/Metro Transit Center station on June 21, 2021. It is a new station that will connect Metro and other transit services to the East ITF station. The new station will link the LAX Automated People Mover to the C and K rail lines, Metro Bus, and other municipal bus operators, including Santa Monica Big Blue Bus. Additionally, a customer service center and Metro Bike Hub will be constructed.

After two years of construction, West ITF's economy parking structure opened on October 19, 2021. Until the APM opens, temporary shuttle buses transport passengers between the airport and the facility.

The line was initially planned to open in 2023, but as of July 2024 is slated to open in January 2026. Schedule delays have coincided with top management changes. John Ackerman became the new LAWA CEO in February 2024. In March 2024 Terri Mestas, Chief Development Officer, accepted a new position, and three new appointments were made to the executive leadership team: Marla Bleavins as Chief Airport Administrative Officer, Robert Lowe as Chief People and Culture Officer, and Becca Doten as Chief of Staff.

, station construction progress is 93% complete and guideway construction/installation finishes are 94% complete. The corresponding completion percentages are omitted from the February 2024 monthly report. , overall construction progress is 97.3% complete. On April 29, 2024, the project test drove the one-car Maintenance Service Vehicle on the guideway between the Maintenance and Storage Facility (MSF), West ITF, and ConRAC.

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Scott Wilson (footballer, born 1993)

Scott Kristien Scott-Wilson (born 11 January 1993), known as Scott Wilson, is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Bath City.

Career
Wilson started his career in the youth team of his hometown club, Bristol City, but never made a first team appearance. He left Bristol City following two loan spells away from the club.

Wilson joined Macclesfield in 2017 from National League side Eastleigh and signed a one-year deal at the club. On 9 December, he scored a hat-trick against fellow title challengers Wrexham to climb Macclesfield into first position of National League.

On 19 July 2019, he signed for League Two side Oldham Athletic on a free transfer, penning a one-year contract. He featured mainly as a substitute up until January as the Latics struggled towards the bottom end of the table. On 28 February 2020, he signed for National League side Notts County on loan until the end of the 2019–20 season.

On 1 July 2020, Wilson was released by Oldham Athletic.

On 7 July 2020, he signed a short term contract with Notts County so that he could feature in the play-off games following the suspension in the league due to COVID-19. However, he didn't feature in any of the matches as County lost the play-off final to Harrogate Town, and he was subsequently released.

On 23 October 2020, Wilson joined National League side Dagenham & Redbridge on a free transfer.

On 29 January 2022, he joined fellow National League side Aldershot Town on an initial short-term loan.

On 19 July 2022, Wilson signed for National League South side Bath City.

Honours
Macclesfield Town
 * National League: 2017–18

Individual
 * National League South Player of the Month: August 2023

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Talk:Donetsk Metro

Assessment comments
This article gives a good overview of the system, a bit of the history in its planning and how it is expected to open. Some areas for improvement include: I've gone through the article with a quick copyedit to fix some grammar problems. Slambo (Speak) 17:55, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * There are no references listed. External links are not the same as References because there is nothing to tell the reader that they were actually used and without the date the links were accessed, there is no way of knowing which version of the extrnal page was used as a reference.  Are there any newspaper references that could be cited for this article's information?
 * There is discussion about financial troubles, but nothing to say what is the cause of the troubles. Are these financial problems related to other political forces or are they restricted to the metro itself?
 * The route map showing all three lines is good, but as someone who has yet to travel outside of the western hemisphere, I don't have a good frame of reference for how the planned lines interrelate with the city's population centers.
 * The image and station list placement squeezes the text into a very narrow column between them. I'm tempted to float the station list to the right with the images, but there's got to be a better way to display this information.
 * Thanks for leaving the assessement comments! Answers: the bottom two external links were used as references, I'll fix this right now; I don't know for sure what were the financial problems, probably for the transportation section of Donetsk city; the map, I didn't draw but I can try to fix it up, possibly overlap from another map?; and about the fourth comment- I don' t know, I have a widescreen and it looks fine for me. Cheers, —dima /sb.tk/ 18:38, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

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Jack J. Clark

Jack J. Clark (September 23, 1879 – April 12, 1947) was an American director and actor of the early motion picture industry.

Biography
Clark was born on September 23, 1879, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was persuaded to enter motion pictures in 1907 by Sidney Olcott of the New York-based Kalem Studios during the silent film era. Clark traveled through 24 countries with the film company becoming one of the first American film stars to film on foreign location. While in the Holy Land, Kalem Studios produced the first passion play, From the Manger to the Cross, casting Jack Clark as John the Apostle. Clark and co-star Gene Gauntier were married during the filming, in 1912. They divorced in 1918.

During a three-year leave from the film industry in the early 1920s, Jack was instructor of dramatic arts at Villanova University. He organized a dramatic workshop and produced the mystical play Vision. About the same time he staged a pageant, Charity, with a cast of 600 persons, which established new records at the Philadelphia Metropolitan Opera House. He also wrote and produced a dramatic musical pageant, Columbus, which, with a cast of more than 1000 was staged at the Philadelphia Academy of Music for the Knights of Columbus.

In 1929, Jack Clark married Francis Rose Musolf. They remained married until his death.

Among Clark's plays were The Prince of Pilsen and 45 Minutes from Broadway. He acted in more than 200 films including The Colleen Bawn (1911), From the Manger to the Cross (1912), The Shaughraun (1912), The Last of the Mafia (1915), A Fool's Paradise (1916), Audrey (1916), Pajamas (1927), Love and Learn (1928), and Broadway Howdy (1929). Among the films he directed or produced were The Yankee Girl (1915) and The Mad Maid of the Forest (1915).

Jack Clark died on April 12, 1947, in Hollywood, California.

1910

 * The Conspiracy of Pontiac
 * When Lovers Part

1911

 * For the Love of an Enemy
 * Her Chum's Brother
 * The Little Sister
 * Grandmother's War Story
 * Sailor Jack's Reformation
 * A War Time Escape
 * A Sawmill Hero
 * The Lass Who Couldn't Forget
 * By a Woman's Wit
 * The Fiddle's Requiem
 * When the Dead Return
 * The Carnival
 * In Blossom Time
 * Tangled Lives

 * The Railroad Raiders of '62
 * The Little Soldier of '64
 * To the Aid of Stonewall Jackson
 * Hubby's Day at Home
 * The Colonel's Son
 * The Romance of a Dixie Belle
 * Special Messenger
 * Rory O'More
 * Losing to Win
 * The Colleen Bawn
 * The Fishermaid of Ballydavid
 * Among the Irish Fisher Folk
 * The Franciscan Friars of Killarney
 * Arrah-na-Pogue

1912

 * A Southern Boy of '61
 * The O'Neill
 * His Mother
 * The O'Kalems Visit Killarney
 * The Vagabonds
 * Far From Erin's Isle
 * You Remember Ellen
 * A Visit to Madeira
 * The Kalemites Visit Gibraltar
 * Along the Mediterranean
 * American Tourists Abroad
 * The Fighting Dervishes of the Desert
 * Missionaries in Darkest Africa
 * Making Photoplays in Egypt

 * Captured by Bedouins
 * Tragedy of the Desert
 * Winning a Widow
 * A Prisoner of the Harem
 * Down Through the Ages
 * The Ancient Port of Jaffa
 * Ancient Temples of Egypt
 * The Poacher's Pardon
 * From the Manger To the Cross
 * The Kerry Gow
 * The Mayor From Ireland
 * Ireland, the Oppressed
 * The Shaughraun

1913

 * The Wives of Jamestown
 * The Lady Peggy's Escape
 * A Daughter of the Confederacy
 * The Mystery of Pine Creek Camp

 * When Men Hate
 * In the Power of the Hypnotist
 * In the Clutches of the Ku Klux Klan

1914

 * For Ireland's Sake
 * Come Back To Erin
 * The Eye of the Government
 * The Little Rebel
 * Through the Fire of Temptation
 * A Fight for a Birthright
 * Marian, the Holy Terror
 * Twilight
 * His Brother's Wife

1915

 * The Last of the Mafia
 * The Smuggler's Lass
 * The Woman Hater's Baby
 * The Ulster Lass

 * The Mad Maid of the Forestl
 * Gene of the Northlandl
 * The Little Rebel

1916

 * A Fool's Paradisel
 * Audrey

 * Scorched Wings
 * The Innocent Lie

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Talk:Two Years' Vacation

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 * ...that some elements of the Jules Verne adventure story Two Years' Vacation are to be found in William Golding's Lord of the Flies, written 66 years later?

Comment left in article 4/23/2006
I am in grade 6 and reading this book in french and I have to say, it is awful. THe language is way to hard and whenever my homeroom french teacher assigns homework involving reading "2 Ans", everybody else who reads it (including me, a good 9 people) moans aloud and complains. Left 23:09, April 23, 2006 <IP_ADDRESS> (moved here by Ruhrfisch 00:12, 24 April 2006 (UTC))

Story of Fifteen Boys
-was a movie I watched growing up. It's an Anime made in 1987 by Nippon Animation based on the book. I'm surprised there's no mention of it here or on IMDB. I haven't read the book myself, but the plot of the movie matches what is written on this page. More information can be found here: LINK REMOVED. <IP_ADDRESS> 03:25, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Instructional design/Affective behaviors/Oh No! Not Another Lecture

I have added an advanced organizer and the learning objectives. I still need to figure out how to edit the blog so that headings are in English. I have never had this trouble with blogger.com before. They must have set up some kind of default settings for different regions where people log on from.

I am still not sure what to do about the reference to the article from the green book. It really is an important article but I don't know if it (or a similar paper) is available online. Does anyone have any suggestions? Jonesbre 11:57, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

Hi Team, I wanted to include some notes regarding design decisions. This lesson is definitely a work in progress. Please jump in and add any suggestions for improvement.

First, I was working with the following objective.

"After observing an example that teaches an affective behavior, evaluate how well the instructional strategies and methods used meet the apparent objectives."

I was originally thinking of preparing a lesson based on personal stories/anecdotes. I was looking for an entry point and remembered the IST colloquia page. The Bonk lecture jumped out at me because of the discussion that came up regarding the value of the lecture as a mirco strategy. I decided then to change course and see if I could prepare a lesson that might bring about affective change in our classmates.

I didn't want to jump right in with the video, so I prepared a short survey about attitudes/beliefs related to lecturing. My thinking was that this would get learners/users to think about their own opinions/feelings regarding lectures. Please post any additional statements here or in oncourse and I will add them to the quia survey.

I also came across the Martin and Reigeluth paper in the green book and thought it contained some important considerations regarding design for the affective domain. At the same time, I liked the table that Chrisie included in her lesson and wanted to experiment. I do not have my heart set on including this table in my lesson if anyone on the team would like to move it to their lesson.

As for the task and assessment, I wanted to target Level 3 (Valuing) behavior in our learners. I liked the idea of contributing to a blog that we discussed in our telephone conference. I was hoping learners would be able to pick out at least three lecture strategies they liked and discuss the merits. I also brought back the idea of having learners share their stories/anecdotes. I know Prof. Honebein was thinking about having learners set up their own individual blogs, but I thought it would be neat to have one blog with a collection of stories.

I hope this gives you a better understanding of my thought process with this lesson. Again, I welcome any comments/suggestions. Jonesbre 07:08, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

hi looks interesting
I am a teacher and i was looking for things to do with psycho-social dynamics and the search led me to this. Very interesting stuff... i will explore a little... --Fidocancan 19:06, 28 November 2007 (UTC)


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24th Special Tactics Squadron

The 24th Special Tactics Squadron is one of the Special Tactics units of the United States Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC). Garrisoned at Pope Field, North Carolina, it is the U.S. Air Force component of Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). The unit's webpage describes it as "the Air Force's special operations ground force".

Mission
As the Air Force's Tier 1 unit, the 24th STS provides special operations airmen to the Joint Special Operations Command, including Pararescuemen, Combat Controllers, Special Reconnaissance, and Tactical Air Control Party personnel. 24th STS members are also trained to conduct classified and clandestine operations such as direct action, counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency, hostage rescue, and special reconnaissance. 24th STS members conduct some missions on their own, but are mostly known as enablers to the Army's 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (a.k.a. Delta Force) and the Navy's Special Warfare Development Group, or DEVGRU (a.k.a. SEAL Team 6).

The Special Tactics Squadron is the oldest of the U.S. military's special forces groups, dating to World War II, before the U.S. military adopted a widespread special operations doctrine.

World War II
The squadron traces its lineage to the 24th Air Corps Interceptor Control Squadron, formed in October 1941 at Hamilton Field, California. It was the director unit for the 24th Pursuit Group, which was formed simultaneously at Clark Field, Philippines, as the headquarters for pursuit squadrons of the Philippine Department Air Force.

After completing training, the squadron sailed for the Philippines on the USAT President Garfield on 6 December 1941. After the following day's Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor and Clark Field, the President Garfield returned to port on 10 December and the squadron returned to Hamilton Field.

Although nominally assigned to the 24th Group from January through October 1942, the squadron served with air defense forces on the Pacific coast until it was disbanded on 31 March 1944, when the Army Air Forces converted its units in the United States from rigid table-of-organization units to more flexible base units. Its personnel and equipment were transferred to the 411th AAF Base Unit (Fighter Wing) at Berkeley, California.

Special operations
The 24th Special Tactics Squadron was called Brand X from 1977 to 1981. Then it was called Det 1 MACOS (Detachment One, Military Airlift Command Operations Staff). In 1983 it was renamed Det 4 NAFCOS (Detachment Four, Numbered Air Force Combat Operations Staff), in 1987 it became 1724th Combat Control Squadron, and then in the same year the 1724th Special Tactics Squadron. In 1992 it was finally renamed 24th Special Tactics Squadron.

In 1989, the 1724th Special Tactics Squadron participated in the United States invasion of Panama. In 1993, the 24th STS deployed 11 personnel including the unit commander, Lt. Col. Jim Oeser, as part of JSOC's Task Force Ranger during Operation Restore Hope. Several airmen were decorated for providing lifesaving medical care to wounded soldiers in the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu: Pararescuemen Technical Sergeant Tim Wilkinson received the Air Force Cross and Master Sergeant Scott Fales the Silver Star. Combat Controller (CCT) SSgt. Jeffrey W. Bray received the Silver Star for coordinating helicopter attack runs throughout the night around their positions.

From 15 to 20 September 2000, the 24th STS and the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron took part in the annual Canadian military exercise, Search and Rescue Exercise (SAREX). This was the first time Special Tactics units took part in SAREX.

The squadron was heavily involved in combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, where the unit was part of the JSOC groupings Task Force 121, Task Force 6-26 and Task Force 145. During Operation Rhino, two 24th STS operators were among the members of Task Force Sword that established a forward arming and refueling point (FARP) at Dalbandin, on the border with Pakistan. On November 13, an eight-man 24th STS element, supporting thirty-two Rangers from B Co., 3rd Ranger Battalion, executed a combat jump to seize a desert landing strip (LZ Bastogne). It was 24th STS's second combat jump of the war. At LZ Bastogne, 24th STS was responsible for preparing the airstrip to receive two MC-130 Combat Talons, each ferrying two of Delta Force's AH-6 Little Bird gunships, which would (once unloaded) proceed to use LZ Bastogne as a FARP for their operations. 24th STS was so frequently tasked with the mission of using a penetrometer to ensure the soil could support the weight of the Combat Talons carrying Little Birds, that they did more HALO jumping than any other unit in JSOC with at least 10 separate combat HALO jumps during the early days of the war.

In 2003, members of the unit made two combat jumps in the initial phases of the Iraq War alongside the 3rd Ranger Battalion. The first was on 24 March 2003 near the Syrian border in the Iraqi town of Al Qaim, where they secured a small desert landing strip to allow follow-on coalition forces into the area. The second combat jump was two days later near Haditha, Iraq, where they secured the Haditha Dam.

On 8 April 2003 Combat Controller Scott Sather, a member of the 24th STS, became the first airman killed in combat in Operation Iraqi Freedom, near Tikrit, Iraq. He was attached to a small team from the Regimental Reconnaissance Company. The RRD team and Sather were operating alongside Delta Force, under Lieutenant Colonel Pete Blaber, west of Baghdad. They were tasked with deceiving the Iraqi army into believing the main U.S. invasion was coming from the west in order to prevent Saddam Hussein from escaping into Syria. Sather Air Base was named after him.

The 24th STS was a part of JSOC's Task Force 145 which was a provisional grouping specifically charged with hunting down high-value al-Qaeda and Iraqi leaders including Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in June 2006.

The squadron lost three members – PJs John Brown and Daniel Zerbe and CCT Andrew Harvell – in 2011 when the Chinook in which they were flying was shot down in Afghanistan. To honor them, 18 members of AFSOC marched 800 miles from Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas to Hurlburt Field, Florida.

Notable members

 * PJ Tim Wilkinson received the Air Force Cross for his actions during the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu. Wilkinson was portrayed by Ty Burrell in the 2001 film Black Hawk Down which chronicled the events of the Battle of Mogadishu.
 * CCT John Chapman was posthumously awarded the Air Force Cross, later upgraded to the Medal of Honor. He is the first US Air Force member to receive the Medal of Honor since the Vietnam Era, for his actions in the Battle of Takur Ghar during the War in Afghanistan. In 2005 a U.S. Navy Buffalo Soldier-class container ship was renamed the TSgt John A. Chapman in Chapman's honor. However, it would take 16 years for him to be awarded one, due in large part to the Navy SEALs' attempts to block his Medal of Honor.
 * PJ Ramon Colon-Lopez, a former Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was a member of the 24th STS twice. From February 1999 – January 2005 Colon-Lopez was a Special Tactics Element Leader and April 2009 – April 2011 he was the Squadron's Senior Enlisted Advisor. In 2007 Colon-Lopez was one of the first six recipients of the newly created Air Force Combat Action Medal. He was awarded the AFCAM for a 2004 operation in Afghanistan during which he led an Advance Force Operations Team.

Lineage

 * 24th Fighter Control Squadron
 * Constituted as the 24th Air Corps Interceptor Control Squadron on 14 October 1941
 * Activated on 21 October 1941

 * Redesignated 24th Fighter Control Squadron on 15 May 1942
 * Disbanded on 31 March 1944

 * 24th Special Tactics Squadron
 * Designated as the 1724th Combat Control Squadron on 1 May 1987
 * Redesignated 1724th Special Tactics Squadron on 1 October 1987
 * Reconstituted and consolidated with the 1724th Special Tactics Squadron on 1 March 1992
 * Consolidated with the 24th Fighter Control Squadron on 1 March 1992
 * Redesignated 24th Special Tactics Squadron on 31 March 1992

Assignments

 * Fourth Air Force, 21 October 1941
 * 24th Pursuit Group, 15 January 1942 (apparently attached to Fourth Air Force until 7 July 1942, then to IV Fighter Command)
 * San Francisco Air Defense Wing (later San Francisco Fighter Wing), 15 October 1942 – 31 March 1944
 * Twenty-Third Air Force, 1 May 1987
 * 1720th Special Tactics Group (later 720th Special Tactics Group), 1 October 1987
 * 724th Special Tactics Group, 29 April 2011 – present

Stations

 * Hamilton Field, California, 21 October 1941 (aboard the USAT President Garfield, 6–10 December 1941
 * Berkeley, California, 7 October 1943 – 31 March 1944
 * Pope Air Force Base (later Pope Field), North Carolina, 1 May 1987 – present

Unit Awards

 * Other
 * Air Commando Association 2012 AFSOC Squadron of the Year

Commanders

 * July 2003 – July 2005, Lt. Col. Mark F. Stratton
 * June 2005 – June 2007, Lt. Col. Robert G. Armfield – Previous 24th STS assignments: Director of Operations (January 1998 – July 2002)
 * June 2009 – April 2011, Lt. Col. Matthew Wolfe Davidson – Previous 24th STS assignments: Flight Commander (August 1998 – January 2002), Deputy Commander (June 2008 – June 2009)

General and cited references

 * Attribution

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Adriana Galván

Adriana Galván is an American psychologist and expert on adolescent brain development. She is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she directs the Developmental Neuroscience laboratory. She was appointed the Jeffrey Wenzel Term Chair in Behavioral Neuroscience and the Dean of Undergraduate Education at UCLA.

Biography
Galván completed her bachelor's degree in Neuroscience and Behavior at Barnard College, Columbia University in 2001. Galván continued her education in neuroscience under the guidance of B.J. Casey at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, where she completed her PhD in 2006. She obtained post-doctoral training under the supervision of Russell Poldrack and Susan Bookheimer at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Behavior at UCLA from 2006 to 2008, prior to joining the UCLA faculty in 2008. She was the honored recipient of the UCLA Department of Psychology Distinguished Teaching Award (Senior Ladder) in 2015.

Galván is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and a recipient of a U.S. Fulbright Scholarship. Her research program has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation,   Russell Sage Foundation,  Jacobs Foundation, and the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program.

Galván's research team studies the development of the brain from childhood into adolescence and adulthood, using various neuroimaging techniques to study psychological and neurobiological functioning. Her studies have explored neural mechanisms underlying decision-making and risk-taking,  the influences of stress and other experiences on behavior and brain functioning,  and neurobiological factors associated with cigarette smoking in adolescence. Other influential work has focused on how sleep affects the developing brain.

Awards

 * William T. Grant Foundation Young Scholars Award (2013)
 * American Psychological Association (APA)Division 7 Boyd McCandless Award (2014)
 * Cognitive Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award (2016)
 * APA Early Career Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award in Developmental Psychology (2016)
 * National Academy of Sciences Troland Award (2019)
 * Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) (2019)

Books

 * Galván, A. (2017). The Neuroscience of Adolescence. Cambridge University Press.

Representative publications

 * Casey, B. J., Getz, S., & Galván, A. (2008). The adolescent brain. Developmental Review, 28(1), 62–77.
 * Galván, A. (2010). Adolescent development of the reward system. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 4, 6.
 * Galván, A. (2013). The teenage brain: Sensitivity to rewards. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22(2), 88–93.
 * Galvan, A., Hare, T. A., Davidson, M., Spicer, J., Glover, G., & Casey, B. J. (2005). The role of ventral frontostriatal circuitry in reward-based learning in humans. Journal of Neuroscience, 25(38), 8650–8656.
 * Galván, A., Hare, T. A., Parra, C. E., Penn, J., Voss, H., Glover, G., & Casey, B. J. (2006). Earlier development of the accumbens relative to orbitofrontal cortex might underlie risk-taking behavior in adolescents. Journal of Neuroscience, 26(25), 6885–6892.
 * Galván, A., Hare, T., Voss, H., Glover, G., & Casey, B. J. (2007). Risk‐taking and the adolescent brain: Who is at risk? Developmental Science, 10(2), F8-F14.

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Pazeh language

Pazeh (also spelled Pazih, Pazéh) and Kaxabu are dialects of an extinct language of the Pazeh and Kaxabu, neighboring Taiwanese indigenous peoples. The language was Formosan, of the Austronesian language family. The last remaining native speaker of the Pazeh dialect died in 2010.

Classification
Pazeh is classified as a Formosan language of the Austronesian language family.

History
Due to prejudice faced by the Pazeh, as well as other indigenous groups of Taiwan, Hoklo Taiwanese came to displace Pazeh.

The last remaining native speaker of the Pazeh dialect, Pan Jin-yu, died in 2010 at the age of 96. Before her death, she offered Pazeh classes to about 200 regular students in Puli and a small number of students in Miaoli and Taichung. However, there are still efforts in revival of the language after her death.

Phonology
Pazeh has 17 consonants, 4 vowels, and 4 diphthongs (-ay, -aw, -uy, -iw).

 * 1) and  do not actually share the same place of articulation;  is alveolar or prealveolar and  (as well as ) is interdental. Other coronal consonants tend to be prealveolar or post-dental.
 * 2) The distribution for the glottal stop is allophonic, appearing only between like vowels, before initial vowels, and after final vowels. It is also largely absent in normal speech
 * 3) is spirantized intervocalically
 * 4) is actually an alveolar/prealveolar affricate  and only occurs as a syllable onset.
 * 5) varies between glottal and pharyngeal realizations  and is sometimes difficult to distinguish from

Although Pazeh contrasts voiced and voiceless obstruents, this contrast is neutralized in final position for labial and velar stops, where only and  occur respectively ( is also devoiced but a contrast is maintained). and are also neutralized to the latter. Voiceless stops are unreleased in final position.

Mid vowels ( and ) are allophones of close vowels ( and respectively).
 * Both lower when adjacent to.
 * lowers before . and  are in free variation before
 * Reduplicated morphemes carry the phonetic vowel even when the reduplicated vowel is not in the phonological context for lowering.
 * → ('keep clapping').

is somewhat advanced and raised when adjacent to. Prevocally, high vowels are semivocalized. Most coronal consonants block this, although it still occurs after. Semivowels also appear post-vocally.

Phonotactics
The most common morpheme structure is CVCVC where C is any consonant and V is any vowel. Consonant clusters are rare and consist only of a nasal plus a homorganic obstruent or the glide element of a diphthong.

Intervocalic voiceless stops are voiced before a morpheme boundary (but not following one). Stress falls on the ultimate syllable.

Sound changes
The Pazih language merged the following Proto-Austronesian phonemes (Li 2001:7).

 * *C, *S > s
 * *D, *Z > d
 * *k, *g > k
 * *j, *s > z
 * 1) *S 2, *H > h
 * *N, *ñ > l
 * *r, *R > x

Pazih also split some Proto-Austronesian phonemes:
 * 1) *S > s (merged with *C) ; *S2, *H > h
 * 2) *w > ø, w
 * 3) *e > e, u

Grammar
Like Bunun, Seediq, Squliq Atayal, Mantauran Rukai, and the Tsouic languages, Pazeh does not distinguish between common nouns and personal names, whereas Saisiyat does (Li 2000). Although closely related to Saisiyat, the Pazeh language does not have the infix -um- that is present in Saisiyat.

Morphology
Pazeh makes ready use of affixes, infixes, suffixes, and circumfixes, as well as reduplication. Pazeh also has "focus-marking" in its verbal morphology. In addition, verbs can be either stative or dynamic.

There are four types of focus in Pazeh (Li 2000).
 * 1) Agent-focus (AF): mu-, me-, mi-, m-, ma-, ∅-
 * 2) Patient-focus (PF) -en, -un
 * 3) Locative-focus (LF): -an
 * 4) Referential-focus (RF): sa-, saa-, si-

The following affixes are used in Pazeh verbs (Li 2000).
 * -in- 'perfective'
 * -a- 'progressive'
 * -ay 'actor focus, irrealis', -aw 'patient focus, irrealis'
 * -i 'non-agent-focused imperative'

The following are also used to mark aspect (Li 2000).
 * Reduplication of the verb stem's first syllable – 'progressive'
 * lia – "already"

Affixes
The Pazih affixes below are from Li (2001:10–19).

 * Prefixes
 * ha-: stative
 * ka-: inchoative
 * kaa-: nominal
 * kai-: to stay at a certain location
 * kali- -an: susceptible to, involuntarily
 * m-: agent focus
 * ma- (ka-): stative
 * ma- (pa-): to have (noun); agent-focus
 * maa[ka]- (paa[ka]-): – mutually, reciprocal
 * maka- (paka-): to bear, bring forth
 * mana- (pana-): to wash (body parts)
 * mari- (pari-): to bear, to give birth (of animal)
 * maru- (paru-): to lay eggs or give birth
 * masa-: verbal prefix
 * masi- (pasi-): to move, to wear
 * mata-: (number of) times
 * mati- (pati-): to carry, to wear, to catch
 * matu- (patu-): to build, erect, set up
 * maxa- (paxa-): to produce, to bring forth; to become
 * maxi- (paxi-): to have, to bring forth; to look carefully
 * me-, mi- (pi-), mi- (i-): agent-focus
 * mia- (pia-): towards, to go
 * mia- which one; ordinal (number)
 * mu- (pu-): agent-focus (-um- in many other Formosan languages); to release
 * pa-: verbalizer; causative, active verb
 * paka-: causative, stative verb
 * papa-: to ride
 * pu-: to pave
 * pu- -an: locative-focus, location
 * sa- ~saa-, si-: instrumental-focus, something used to ..., tools
 * si-: to have, to produce; to go (to a location)
 * si- -an: to bring forth, to have a growth on one's body
 * ta-: agentive, one specialized in ...; nominal prefix; verbal prefix
 * tau-: agentive
 * tau- -an: a gathering place
 * taxa-: to feel like doing; to take a special posture
 * taxi-: to lower one's body
 * taxu-: to move around
 * ti-: to get something undesirable or uncomfortable
 * tu-: stative
 * xi-: to turn over, to revert

 * Infixes
 * -a-: progressive, durative
 * -in-: perfective

 * Suffixes
 * -an: locative-focus, location
 * -an ~ -nan: locative pronoun or personal name
 * -aw: patient-focus, future
 * -ay: locative-focus, irrealis
 * -en ~ -un: patient-focus
 * -i: patient-focus, imperative; vocative, address for an elder kinship
 * CV- -an: location

Syntax
Although originally a verb-initial language, Pazeh often uses SVO (verb-medial) sentence constructions due to influence from Chinese.

There are four case markers in Pazeh (Li 2000).

 * 1) ki Nominative
 * 2) ni Genitive
 * 3) di Locative
 * 4) u Oblique

Pazeh has the following negators (Li 2001:46).

 * ini – no, not
 * uzay – not
 * kuang ~ kuah – not exist
 * mayaw – not yet
 * nah – not want
 * ana – don't

Pronouns
The Pazeh personal pronouns below are from Li (2000). (Note: vis. = visible, prox. = proximal)

Numerals
Pazeh and Saisiyat are the only Formosan languages that do not have a bipartite numerical system consisting of both human and non-human numerals (Li 2006). Pazeh is also the only language that forms the numerals 6 to 9 by addition (However, Saisiyat, which is closely related to Pazeh, expresses the number 7 as 6 + 1, and 9 as 10 − 1.)

 * 1 = ida adang
 * 2 = dusa
 * 3 = turu
 * 4 = supat
 * 5 = xasep
 * 6 = 5 + 1 = xaseb-uza
 * 7 = 5 + 2 = xaseb-i-dusa
 * 8 = 5 + 3 = xaseb-i-turu
 * 9 = 5 + 4 = xaseb-i-supat

The number "five" in Pazeh, xasep, is similar to Saisiyat Laseb, Taokas hasap, Babuza nahup, and Hoanya hasip (Li 2006). Li (2006) believes that the similarity is more likely because of borrowing rather than common origin. Laurent Sagart considers these numerals to be ancient retentions from Proto-Austronesian, but Paul Jen-kuei Li considers them to be local innovations. Unlike Pazeh, these Plains indigenous languages as well as the Atayalic languages use 2 × 4 to express the number 8. (The Atayalic languages as well as Thao also use 2 × 3 to express the number 6.) Saisiyat, Thao, Taokas, and Babuza use 10 − 1 to express 9, whereas Saisiyat uses 5 + 1 to express 6 as Pazeh does. The Ilongot language of the Philippines also derives numerals in the same manner as Pazeh does (Blust 2009:273).

Furthermore, numerals can function as both nouns and verbs in all Formosan languages, including Pazeh.

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Not German
Although Don has spent time in Germany, he is not German. In a 1983 Hit Parader magazine interview, he said "my parents are from Oslo, Norway." That would make him a Norwegian-American.--MarshallStack 15:02, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

Back for the Attack: Book?
There is a listing on a certain online book retailer that reads:

"Back for the Attack" (Paperback) the author is Don Dokken

Does anyone know what this book is? There's no photo or reviews, but the sales rank is 'high' for a book that's not currently available. Is it a biography? It couldn't be a tab book as Don didn't write George Lynch's guitar parts.

I thought this would make a nice Wiki entry, if someone could find out about this book. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 03:25, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

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