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Чемпион WWF в полутяжёлом весе () — упразднённый чемпионский титул в реслинге, продвигавшийся американским рестлинг-промоушном World Wrestling Federation (WWF, ныне WWE).

Титул оспаривали полутяжеловесы в максимальном весе 97,5 кг (в последние годы до 100 кг). Он был создан 26 марта 1981 года для Universal Wrestling Association (UWA) в рамках партнерства между WWF и UWA. 16 июня 1995 года титул перешел к Michinoku Pro Wrestling, но из-за того, что WWF владела титулом, он был возвращен WWF в 1997 году, в котором компания начала новую историю титула. Первым чемпионом в UWA был Перро Агуайо, однако WWE считает первым чемпионом Таку Митиноку, его чемпионство началось 7 декабря 1997 года. История титула была прекращена 8 марта 2002 года, а последним чемпионом стал Икс-пак.

История создания
С 1981 по 1990-е годы WWF сотрудничала с Universal Wrestling Association (UWA), мексиканским промоушеном, основанным на луча-либре, в результате чего был учрежден титул чемпиона WWF в полутяжёлом весе для UWA. Когда UWA прекратила свою деятельность в 1995 году, титул перешел к японским промоушенам Michinoku Pro Wrestling (MPW) и New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). В 1997 году, в результате того, что WWF владела торговыми марками на чемпионский титул, NJPW была вынуждена вернуть титул WWF. Месяц спустя WWF начала использовать этот титул в США. После того как в марте 2001 года World Championship Wrestling (WCW) и его активы были проданы WWF, концептуально похожий титул чемпиона WCW в первом тяжёлом весе также использовался промоушеном, а затем полностью заменил титул чемпиона в полутяжёлом весе.

Турнир чемпионата
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Таблица турнира за титул Чемпион WWF в полутяжёлом весе
После возвращения чеспионата WWF устроили турнир чтоб определить первого чемпиона.

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История титула
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История чемпионата в федерациях
Титул оспаривался в разное время в федерациях в партнёрстве с WWF и только в 1997 году WWE вернули себе титул.

Упразднение
В марте 2001 года WWF выкупили активы своего главного конкурента World Championship Wrestling (WCW). После завершения серий «Вторжение» в 2001 году на Survivor Series (2001), чемпионат WWF в полутяжёлом весе был упразднён и объединён с пришедшим из WCW чемпионатом WCW в первом тяжёлом весе. Несмотря на это титул защищался X-Pac-ом на домашних выступлениях вплоть до 8 марта 2002 года, пока WWF окончательно не упразднили титул. В дальнейшем чемпионат WCW в первом тяжёлом весе был переименован в чемпионат WWF в первом тяжёлом весе. В последующее время когда WWF проиграв суд Всемирному фонду дикой природы, сокращение которого пишется как WWF стала называться World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), что повлекло за собой переименование всех титулов компании. Чемпионат стал носить называние чемпионат WWE в первом тяжёлом весе в соответствии с изменением названия компании в мае 2002 года, защита титула проходила до сентября 2007 года.

Статистика

Действующий чемпион

См. также
 Список неиспользуемых чемпионских титулов WWE
 Чемпион NXT в первом тяжёлом весе
 Чемпион WWE в первом тяжёлом весе (1991–2007)

Примечания

Комментарии

Источники

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 История титула на официальном сайте WWE

Упразднённые титулы UWA
Упразднённые титулы MPW
Упразднённые титулы NJPW
Упразднённые титулы WWE


Today we welcome Karen Schlabach as guest blogger. Karen is the Youth Missioner for the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas. She has served in both volunteer and paid positions for parish youth ministries and diocesan youth ministries for eight years. Prior to that she worked in higher education and now has a passion for improving students' transition from youth to campus ministries. This letter originally appeared in Karen's Youth Ministry newsletter.
I recently had the opportunity to go to the National Youth Workers Convention where the head of Youth Specialties, Mark Matlock, identified five things he thinks Youth Ministry is doing for the Church today. I shared some of these during my presentation at our Diocesan Convention. It strikes me that these are all things that are done, no matter the size of your congregation.
My hope is that we are raising young people who are committed to Christ, committed to the Episcopal Church, and have the Christian Leadership experience to make a difference.
While I'm on vacation I have arranged for a series of guest bloggers and re-posts from blogs that I have really enjoyed. Today I am pleased to share this blog post by Scott Pontier, Lead Consultant with Ministry Architects. It originally appeared in the Ministry Architects blog on Friday, August 2.
The Best Gift in Ministry!
Believe it or not, one of the best gifts someone in ministry can receive is a clear, results-based position description. Better than thank you cards. Better than extra days off. Even better than a pay raise. Anyone who truly wants to lead in his or her ministry area knows that such a gift from his or her supervisor is priceless. How come?
Because everyone leading in ministry wants to know what success looks like.
They want to know how to win. They want to know what it means for them to knock the ball out of the park, to go home knowing they achieved their goals. Most importantly, we all want to know what "winning" means to those who are measuring our performance, which, in most cases, is our boss.
One of the ministry teams I have been a part of was not so big on that kind of clarity. We liked to think in terms of "influence" and "teamwork" and "collaboration" and that was about as clear as our job descriptions got. Sure we had something on file, but our supervisor measured our performance in many other ways.
This was a gift for those who were highly motivated and creative. Essentially you had permission to simply create your own job description and if it lined up with your supervisor's vision and if you had a personality that drew other people to you, then you were in luck.
Eventually I realized that it was going to be impossible for me to win. I didn't know what that meant for us anymore. There was no clear target, no "north star" for the ministry. In student ministry that usually devolves into simply looking for "better" or "more" – concepts that can mean different things to different people. That's when I realized that defining success is important not just for the piece of paper, but for all the audiences involved in the ministry.
Yourself. You need to know what success looks like for you and that should line up with your organization's version of success. I've seen people take ministry jobs and try hard to make everyone think the ministry was successful, so that they had the ability to pursue what THEY really wanted. For some of them it was name recognition that they were pursuing, or the latest ministry book they wanted to author, or the band they were in getting a record deal. Be clear about what ministry success looks like to you, and make sure it lines up with your organization's version of success.
The congregation. In the business world, they might say "the customer," but in ministry we usually have a specific congregation or flock that we are serving in. And make no mistake, you are, indeed, there to serve. Finding out what success looks like the group of people that you are serving with makes a big difference. I've seen too many youth pastors who had no idea what their congregation's version of success was. Usually this doesn't end well for anyone. For better or worse, every church, every ministry has a collective success story they are hoping to write. Take the time to listen to it.
The supervisor. Whether that's the senior pastor or another staff member, make sure that this person's vision of your success is crystal clear. I've had those times where it seemed like the only line of defense between myself and failure was my supervisor. What would've happened if that line wasn't there? Do the work of clarifying the win with your boss. If he or she isn't clear on what success means for your position, spend time crafting it together.
Unless, of course, you feel comfortable being evaluated on "better" and "more" as measuring sticks. Maybe you are an unstoppable good idea machine that will always propel you forward without ever running out of gas. I don't know too many of those people.
Otherwise you can take the advice of Andy Stanley when he says that progress happens when you "clarify and evaluate" the win. We are all evaluated on something. It might be a feeling. It might be an anecdote. Or it might be a clearly communicated objective. If you want your evaluation to be something that helps make you successful in ministry, work hard to get clear on the win for your position and help your supervisor communicate that to your congregation and staff.
At Ministry Architects, one of the things we are great at is writing results-based job descriptions for staff and volunteers for the churches we are working with. We do that, not because we are sticklers for having things written down, but because we believe in our very core that ministries will have the most success when everyone is pulling in the same direction. We know how to help churches win and we know that to do that we need to be clear with everyone on what we are evaluating and what role everyone is playing.
You don't need a job description on a piece of paper hidden in the back of a folder somewhere. But you might need help getting clear on what version of success you and your team are trying to pursue.
HINT: Click here for a free sample.
In the world of fiction and magic today would be Harry Potter's 33rd birthday. It's making quite a stir on social media so I thought I would jump on the bandwagon.
We began reading Rowling's magical series to our sons when Arthur our oldest was 10; the same age Harry Potter was in the first book in which we are introduced to the boy condemned to live in the cupboard under the stairs of the horrible Dursleys on Privet Drive. Bedtime reading has been a generational experience in our family.
We read each of the Harry Potter books as they were released, which conveniently coincided with Arthur's age being the same as Harry's in each new volume. As the boys became better readers they themselves would take their own turns reading aloud in the kitchen while I prepared dinner, just to get a head start on the bedtime reading. We actually read all seven volumes aloud together, finishing the final chapters on Interstate 90 in Montana as we were driving Arthur to begin his first year at the University in Missoula.
But the transformational moment happened for me back at the beginning of our adventure together reading about Hogwarts.
Joren, my younger son, was seven years old when we began reading Rowling's series. Joren has tremendous memorization skills and, even as a little guy, could quote his favorite passages to fill in his father about what had happened in the most recent bedtime reading installment. The passage I have inserted at the top of this post was one of those verbatim pronouncements that he made in the living room. It's the moment in the final chapter of the first book that helps us understand the gifts and strengths Harry possesses to help balance all that he has lacked in his childhood.
Albus Dumbledore is explaining to Harry Potter why Voldemort couldn't kill him as a baby and why he still can't kill him now. Joren's mind captured this concept like a steel trap, reassured at the tender age of seven, that the love of a parent was not to be taken for granted or ignored. He was clearly reassured by this explanation from the beloved professor after the trauma and drama of Harry's scary encounter with the Dark Lord.
Amen to that! I knew he would be just fine. And that moment helped me as a mother and a youth minister recognize the value of doing everything I can, all the time, to cast light on how the Gospel is present in our everyday lives; in arts and literature, in story and action, in living and breathing. The Gospel is in our very skin as baptized followers of Jesus.
I've included some more Harry Potter links below if you would like to explore just a few of the ways Episcopalians and Christians have employed Rowling's writing to help teach and preach the Good News. Have fun with them and please feel free to add others in the comments.
Church Divinity School of the Pacific is engaged in discernment about youth ministry. Yesterday's article from Episcopal News Service offers some interesting perspectives. Here are a couple of provocative excerpts from the article with a link for the full text.
I would love to read your reaction in the comments below.


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In February 2010, Rodney and Ahmor Orr organised and led a mission trip to the Philippines mainly to work alongside a local church and see the work first-hand. For the six adults who joined the trip, it was their first time to visit the country and see extreme poverty lived out on a daily basis. The group visited the poor communities in the dumpsite area, people who live in the cemetery beside grave stones and people whose houses were built on bamboo stilts whose lives were constantly at risk during typhoon season. The living conditions were dire. But there was also good news. The church the team was working with has already an on-going ministry amongst those people and communities, but resources are limited and they need a lot of help. Natural and man-made disasters have frequently left thousands of people homeless, no employment, and children missing education with no hope for the future. The church has become a place of refuge and help to hundreds of people. It became evident that something more has to be done in order to help these families get out of the poverty trap. Giving children a good education would be a good start.
The trip was the catalyst; the need to help and to do more was crystal clear. The charity 'Hopelink' was born.
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UCLA Prof. Gordon Klein Sues After Suspension and Smears For Refusing Preferential Exam Treatment For Black Students
"This dispute originated in June 2020 when a non-black student asked Plaintiff to grade his "Black classmates" differently than other students. Plaintiff rejected this request….
Posted by William A. Jacobson Tuesday, September 28, 2021 at 09:40pm 58 Comments
In the weeks and months after the death of George Floyd a vicious and malicious cancel culture purge swept academia, with professors who expressed views not in complete sync with radical campus opinion being subjected to firings and attempted firings, harassment and intimidation, and defamation.
Some of the cases we covered in that time period included St. Joseph's Math Professor Gregory Manco, Harvard Law Professor Adrian Vermeule, Cornell Chemistry Prof. David Collum, UCF Psychology Prof. Charles Negy, U. Chicago Geophysicist Prof. Dorian Abbot, McGill Univ. Anthropology Emeritus Prof. Philip Carl Salzman, U. Miami Law Prof. Dan Ravicher, USC Business Prof. Greg Patton, Princeton Classics Prof. Joshua Katz, several Skidmore College professors, University of North Texas Music Theory Prof. Timothy Jackson, Michigan State Physics Prof. Stephen Hsu, and of course, me. Since then, the list has expanded.
In many if not most of the cases, Presidents, Deans, and other administrators were aiders and abetters.
But of all the cases, the attack on Prof. Gordon Klein at UCLA's Anderson Business School was perhaps the most insane – truly other-worldly.
Prof. Klein's alleged offense was that he insisted on treating black students equally. He refused a request by a white student to allow black students preferential treatment on final exams. Because such a racial preference would violate UCLA's anti-discrimination policies (and maybe even the law), Klein refused. Students then launched a defamatory campaign against Prof. Klein, and the cowards who run UCLA's Anderson School capitulated, denouncing and suspending Klein. He eventually was reinstated — because he did absolutely nothing wrong — but not before his reputation and career were severely damaged.
We covered Prof. Klein's situation initially in these posts:
UCLA Prof Living Under Police Protection for Refusing to Exempt Black Students From Exams
UCLA Reinstates Prof Suspended for Refusing to Change Exam or Grades for Black Students
Prof. Klein has just filed a lawsuit in California state court, and among the things he wants, is for UCLA administrators to be held personally liable.
In the Complaint, Prof. Klein alleges, among other things:
1. Plaintiff Gordon Klein ("Plaintiff"), a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles ("UCLA" or "University"), was severely punished by UCLA after he refused to implement a different grading policy solely for black students.
2. This dispute originated in June 2020 when a non-black student asked Plaintiff to grade his "Black classmates" differently than other students. Plaintiff rejected this request, knowing that his employment contract – and California law – required him to apply the same grading standards and requirements to all students. He also refused because his faculty supervisor recently had encouraged instructors to reject requests for special exam accommodations.
3. After Plaintiff's email reply to the student was posted on social media, some furious individuals called Plaintiff "woefully racist" and organized an online campaign to attack Plaintiff and the UCLA Anderson School of Management ("Anderson School"), where Plaintiff teaches. The Anderson School hastily buckled under this pressure and sought permission from the University to impose disciplinary sanctions on Plaintiff, including terminating his employment.1 But, as noted below, the University rebuffed the Anderson School, warning that "the School may not take any action . . . at this time" against Plaintiff.
4. Despite this firm directive, the Anderson School administration abruptly suspended Plaintiff from his teaching duties, banned him from its campus, and hired others to replace him in future scheduled courses. Moreover, the Dean of the Anderson School, Defendant Antonio Bernardo ("Bernardo"), disparaged Plaintiff to alumni and the general public based on the private communications between Plaintiff and the student who had requested preferential race-based grading policies ("Student"). Dean Bernardo even went so far as to publicly disclose the adverse personnel action the School had improperly imposed on Plaintiff.
5. After examining the facts, the University eventually closed its investigation and reinstated Plaintiff.2 Later, the UCLA Senate Committee on Academic Freedom criticized the Anderson School administration, noting that it had violated Plaintiff's rights and, more broadly, that such conduct "chills" instructors from expressing views that differ from prevailing campus orthodoxy.
6. Plaintiff brings this action not only to redress the wrongful conduct he has endured but also to protect academic freedom.
The Complaint provides details on the nature of preferential treatment demanded and the shameful capitulation at the Anderson School:
19. After the homicide of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, a group of students and others initiated a coordinated email campaign for the claimed purpose of encouraging UCLA instructors to grant final exam accommodations for their "Black classmates."
20. These students circulated online a document entitled "Letter Writing for Finals Accommodations for Black Students." This template asked professors to adopt grading policies that "exercise compassion and leniency with Black students." In particular, according to the Student, an objective of this template was to encourage professors to give only black students optional, "no-harm" final exams. A "no-harm" exam is a test whose score is counted as part of a student's course grade only if it raises the student's overall blended course average, but not if it diminishes it.6 Students who take an exam on a "no-harm" basis thus tend to receive higher course grades than those who do not….
22. On or about June 1, 2020, in apparent response to this concerted email campaign, Plaintiff's immediate supervisor at the Anderson School, Professor Judson Caskey ("Caskey"), circulated guidance "strongly encouraging" Anderson School instructors "to follow the normal procedures" if "students ask for accommodations such as assignment delays or exam cancellations." That is, according to the University's investigation, Caskey "advised faculty not to make exam-related adjustments" or grant "accommodations on the basis of race, protests, or police brutality."
23. That same day, a faculty colleague informed Plaintiff that, if instructors did not capitulate to these students' demands, they would be labeled with the hurtful and derogatory term "yt," or "whitey," and their supervisors' contact information would be highlighted in red on a spreadsheet circulated among participants of the online email campaign. The color red signaled to allies that they should email complaints to the non-capitulating professors' supervisors. In response, to protect individual faculty members from harassment, several UCLA academic departments banded together to issue joint statements of refusal. Notably, the Anderson School did not.
24. Plaintiff's faculty colleague further told him on that occasion that, rather than resist this pressure campaign, many professors were giving away unearned "A" grades like "free candy at Halloween." ….
31. Although UCLA has argued that the Student posed "reasonable exam administration inquiries," in reality, the Student's request was exceedingly unreasonable and, indeed, unworkable. For instance, offering black students "no-harm" exams effectively would give them the option to not take the final exam in a class where final exam performance was the entire basis for their course grade, leaving an instructor without any data on which to base course grades. Moreover, adoption of the Student's request would have imposed on Plaintiff the unseemly and cumbersome task of determining which students studying remotely were black….
The Complaint then alleges as series of actions by the administration to publicly shame Klein, including public announcements, official tweets, and disclosure of employment action taken against Prof. Klein:
43. Bernardo knew or should have known that widespread public disclosure of his decision to place Plaintiff on administrative leave and relieve Plaintiff of his teaching duties (the "Confidential Personnel Action") would have devastating consequences for Plaintiff. Moreover, Bernardo knew or should have known that public disclosure of the Confidential Personnel Action would violate the University's admonition he had received the previous day that "further inquiry is warranted before action can be taken" against Plaintiff. And Bernardo knew or should have known that public disclosure of the Confidential Personnel Action would violate University rules prohibiting such disclosure.
44. Additionally, the above email created the false impression that Plaintiff was not committed to an equitable learning environment, that Plaintiff had demonstrated a disregard for the "core principle" of equal treatment for all, and that Plaintiff had engaged in an "abuse of power." None of this was even remotely true….
47. Indeed, the extraordinary nature of the Confidential Personnel Action itself, combined with Bernardo's accusations about Plaintiff, created the public misperception that Plaintiff's conduct must have inflicted severe harm on a student and been so egregious that it rose to being an abuse of power untethered from the core principles of the University. Therefore, Defendants' public disclosure of the Confidential Personnel Action – in and of itself – has resulted in substantial harm to Plaintiff, as herein alleged. Moreover, in our modern world of instantaneous and far-reaching online communication, it was reasonably foreseeable by Defendants that their accusations against Plaintiff and their public disclosure of the Confidential Personnel Action would be widely circulated online, thereby dramatically multiplying Plaintiff's reputational damage.
Although he eventually was reinstated, Prof. Klein alleges continuing damages:
66. As a proximate result of Defendants' unlawful conduct herein alleged, Plaintiff began losing clients of the Expert Witness Practice immediately following media reports in June 2020 of these actions and events. Media reports intensified after Defendants publicized the Confidential Personnel Action and undertook public attacks against Plaintiff. For example, on or about June 3, 2020, Plaintiff was interviewed for an expert witness engagement by lawyers from one of the premier law firm clients of the Expert Witness Practice, following which the attorney and client immediately agreed to retain Plaintiff. That day, an intermediary who arranged for the interview emailed Plaintiff stating: "Gordon, good news! [The attorney and client] would like to retain you for the [] case." A few days later, however, after Defendants' unlawful public disclosure of the Confidential Personnel Action had been widely reported by the media, Plaintiff's engagement on the case was terminated. Plaintiff has not received any further work from this premier client. In addition, the intermediary with whom Plaintiff had a longstanding business relationship modified its website to eliminate any mention of its association with Plaintiff, and its marketing head has ceased all communications with Plaintiff.
67. Similarly, also on or about June 3, 2020, another longstanding elite law firm client of the Expert Witness Practice suddenly terminated Plaintiff's existing engagement on a major antitrust case. This client even refused to pay an invoice that Plaintiff previously had transmitted for past services rendered regarding this ongoing case.
68. Simply put, the Expert Witness Practice largely dried up as a proximate result of Defendants' unlawful conduct herein alleged.
The damage from weaponized students, often aided and abetted by woke faculty and weak administrators, has had a profound chilling effect in academia. People like Prof. Gordon Klein deserve hero status, they stood tall and refused to bend the knee or apologize for insisting on treating all people equally.
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UserP | September 28, 2021 at 10:10 pm
When you make demands for special treatment for certain people there should be some justification for it. What is the justification for special treatment for blacks other than the color of their skin? There is no more valid justification based on skin color than there would be for eye color or hair color. Any valid justification should be on a case by case basis.
The Friendly Grizzly in reply to UserP. | September 29, 2021 at 6:44 am
The special treatment is to keep blacks enrolled in sufficient quantity to keep various alphabet agencies in Washington, and at state level, contented.
UserP in reply to The Friendly Grizzly. | September 29, 2021 at 8:16 am
That makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over.
Dolce Far Niente in reply to UserP. | September 29, 2021 at 10:17 am
The underlying justification for preferential treatment of black students by these woke whites is their secret yet core belief that blacks are inferior intellectually to whites and must be given preference and easier standards in order for blacks to appear to compete equally with white students (or God forbid, Asians).
Blacks need to be protected and coddled, say the white progressives; on their own, they can't even acquire picture ID!
JoAnne in reply to Dolce Far Niente. | October 2, 2021 at 3:32 pm
Nailed it. I remember when the Dems started the whole preferential treatment for students in college back in the late sixties. I worked in medicine and thought this was really stupid. Who would you pick as your brain surgeon if you had no idea which doc had been allowed to skate through medical school?
Ohio Historian in reply to UserP. | October 2, 2021 at 10:10 am
Just having this thought, that somehow "blck students" will perform in an inferior manner, is bigotry. As I keep saying, the bigots are on the left.
georgfelis | September 28, 2021 at 10:30 pm
So it's racist not to be racist, and the only way not to be racist is to be racist in exactly the right way. (Which of course doesn't make you non-racist, but only *slightly* less than average racist, provided you continue to be racist in that exact fashion, varying according to the whims of certain unelected individuals who feel like it today.)
Ok, who got lose in the Matrix compiler and dumped a bunch of dirt in the circuits?
JoAnne in reply to georgfelis. | October 2, 2021 at 3:33 pm
Bahaha!
E Howard Hunt | September 28, 2021 at 10:42 pm
There are none so blind as those who will not see. The issue is not special grading. The issue is that these "students" lacked the merit to be enrolled in the first place.
The Friendly Grizzly in reply to E Howard Hunt. | September 29, 2021 at 7:01 am
Merit? "Merit" is just another thing brought about by the white male capitalist heteronormative hierarchy…
(what buzzwords did I leave out?)
UserP in reply to The Friendly Grizzly. | September 29, 2021 at 12:53 pm
and other precipitants indicitive of same
JoAnne in reply to The Friendly Grizzly. | October 2, 2021 at 6:50 pm
Raaccciiisssttt! There, now it's perfect!
Vince Vonheeder in reply to The Friendly Grizzly. | October 5, 2021 at 6:05 pm
Probably should have been cisheteronormative, but what do I know, I'm barely keeping up as it is.
artichoke in reply to E Howard Hunt. | September 29, 2021 at 10:15 am
It would be nice to get rid of special preferences in the admissions office. But here we are. I won't call a student in front of me incompetent, unless they haven't completed the stated prereqs in which case I'll tell them to go do that. I'll set an exam, same for everyone, and they'll do however they do.
I want to avoid the toxic question of who is meritorious. Give everyone the same chance to show merit.
maxmillion | September 28, 2021 at 11:49 pm
Sadly, this is a cohort that feels entitled to such special treatment because they've been getting it for their entire lives.
The Friendly Grizzly in reply to maxmillion. | September 29, 2021 at 7:06 am
Max, it is never enough. EVER. Back in around 1972 I was residing in Fresno, and trying to finish up my degree attending classes part time.
Registration week came upon us, and as I was walking across campus to submit my paperwork, I overheard the conversation of two whim-whine "of color".
Both had accents and grammar that was MAYBE fit for Compton or Watts; certainly not a college campus. One was complaining long and loud about how the paperwork they handed her wasn' t filled out. The registrar's office had the NERVE to expect her to fill it out herself.
I guess the whites, Mexicans, Asians, et al were not aware this was something to be done by others, and that they did it themselves.
Ohio Historian in reply to The Friendly Grizzly. | October 2, 2021 at 10:14 am
I just participated in an open house done for a library in a Columbus community. I watched the people handing out water and snack bags get chewed out because they weren't giving out bigger bags so that this entitled minority person could take as much a bunch more.
NYBruin in reply to maxmillion. | September 29, 2021 at 5:00 pm
The underlying threat of violence also helps
amatuerwrangler | September 28, 2021 at 11:50 pm
A lifelong violent felon dies in a scenario set in motion by his own criminal activity, a half-continent away from UCLA and only because they shared a skin color with him, students wish to have academic standards waived because the death made them feel bad.. Or something. There is no reason for this need.
How did this particular death bother them more than those that happen virtually daily right there in the city that hosts the university. How are these people expecting to survive, let alone prosper, when they are so fragile?
This is another example of the tyranny of low expectations.
artichoke in reply to amatuerwrangler. | September 29, 2021 at 10:25 am
It didn't bother them more. The professional agitators are always looking for something to be bothered about. There's a weekly "Justice for X.Y" march in Portland OR, X.Y is some person whose name I don't remember, it's always the same person, and the thing they're complaining about (which was not obviously unjustified iirc) happened years ago. It's just an event for them now.
Same with George Floyd. Even his family was taken aback by it. The video did look very bad, we learned in the trial that the camera angle had a lot to do with it but the jury didn't even care. Inside the jury room and out, reason was thrown to the winds and the irresistable "wake of George Floyd" sucked everything along with it.
It was a national/worldwide psychosis. I think we're recovering from it now, and this well-founded lawsuit is a part of that recovery.
Antifundamentalist in reply to artichoke. | October 2, 2021 at 10:19 am
This whole fiasco was started by the request of a WHITE student. Racism is alive and well in America, and it is all about keeping Blacks in their place (in places that they are only permitted to occupy rather than places they indisputably earned)….. the racists aren't who they are purported to be.
UserP in reply to amatuerwrangler. | September 29, 2021 at 11:30 am
On the contrary they have high expectations for these people. They are all qualified to be democratic governors, congressmen, senators, supreme court justices and some even president. "If Obama made it, you can too!"
Char Char Binks in reply to amatuerwrangler. | October 1, 2021 at 7:34 pm
It bothered them greatly enough to keep them from studying for the test because they treated george fentanyl like a close family member. They wouldn't have cared at all about george in life, but drew a line, and a connection, after his death. Never mind that they would have been unprepared for the test regardless.
The Chauvin jurors did the same, as did blacks across the nation. They even said watching a black man die was like watching their cousin, uncle, or brother die, and they are building the same solidarity and sympathy now for daunte wright. No black should have been empaneled on the Chauvin jury, any more than an actual member of the fentanyl family.
oldschooltwentysix | September 28, 2021 at 11:52 pm
They messed with the wrong hombre. He is going to be compensated big time. It's the only way they will learn the lesson.
gourdhead in reply to oldschooltwentysix. | September 29, 2021 at 8:46 am
I truly hope so.
MajorWood | September 29, 2021 at 12:04 am
The best one though was the little white SJW at Oberlin who requested this in a lengthy email, and the prof answered back with "no." She then posted to twatter with a trigger warning because "no" is viollent language. And that is why we continue to mock her relentlessly. And apparently she got a job at Oberlin after graduation, because I suspect her options anywhere else were nil-sky.
Jmaquis | September 29, 2021 at 2:38 am
How insulted would one feel when their race was deemed to be inferior for all to see, by this obvious smear? That due to nothing more than skin colour you weren't expected to have enough brain power to pass a test and that every other race on Planet Earth was deemed to be superior? That everyone within any variance of this same colour/race was officially declared to have so much less intelligence than the other races, that they required a pass for said stupidity?
Who are the obvious RACISTS in this technicolor fuck-up?
The Friendly Grizzly | September 29, 2021 at 6:55 am
Something that came to mind to me just now, over my breakfast coffee.
Why are there no black>/s> , uhh colored students uhh, students of color protesting the double standards?
If they really ARE "as good as" all the rest of the racial groups, they should stand up and say so.
I, if I were an employer, would not even consider hiring blacks unless I knew their grades were legitimate. Maybe hire ones over from Africa on student visas and scholarships; they seem genuine.
MAJack in reply to The Friendly Grizzly. | September 29, 2021 at 8:47 pm
AKA "the boomerang effect".. Who in their right mind, but a brain dead Marxist, would hire any minority these days. I did in the past, but no way Jose today. You are asking to be sued, harassed, fired etc.
Pasadena Phil | September 29, 2021 at 6:56 am
The most awesome news of the day:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/09/28/florida-governor-ron-desantis-announces-lawsuit-against-joe-bidens-illegal-human-trafficking-operations/
Texas should be doing the same thing and right now!
JoAnne in reply to Pasadena Phil. | October 2, 2021 at 6:59 pm
Every state being dumped on should join. I'm totally disgusted with most of Idaho's Congress Critters. They're supposed to be so conservative, all I've seen so far is cowardice.
amwick | September 29, 2021 at 7:03 am
THey picked the wrong guy to screw with… This guy is a professor, kinda on the side, and a good one. His real business is as an expert witness.. You cannot make this up…OHhhhhhhhhhhh I hope he kicks butt.
HIs question about a white student from Minneapolis was brilliant…
MarkS | September 29, 2021 at 7:42 am
Why did the professor even respond to such a ridiculous request?
Mike in Cinci | September 29, 2021 at 8:37 am
He is plugged in to the legal community. Even if they shunned him, it sounds like he found a lawyer who realizes the deep pockets at UCLA.
tbonesays in reply to Mike in Cinci. | September 30, 2021 at 5:15 am
He's probably thinking about a 6-digit settlement from UCLA. But really this could be stopped with a ,3-digit fine served on UCLA administrators. They can violate other people's freedom all-day long knowing the endowment/tuition/taxpayers will foot the bill.
Clown 1396 XL | September 29, 2021 at 8:44 am
In this case-and this is a thing-white elites speak on behalf of blacks. It is a form of power consolidation and virtue signaling that whites see blacks as a community instead of individuals, and then claim to know what they want and then speak for them. Why was the white student asking for accommodations for blacks, instead of the blacks asking for it themselves? I hope Prof. Klein prevails. And I think he should sue take legal action against certain students too.
caseoftheblues in reply to Clown 1396 XL. | September 29, 2021 at 12:20 pm
True but it's also as prevalent that blacks see whites as a group and not individuals and seemingly are allowed to tell all whites exactly what their life experience as a white person is….what it should be…oh and they also get to tell us what we are "actually" thinking…and what we should think
gourdhead | September 29, 2021 at 8:47 am
Our colleges need many more like this professor.
alerob | September 29, 2021 at 10:22 am
World…….You are officially upside down.
bullhubbard | September 29, 2021 at 10:25 am
The rotten fruit of the cultural revolution: inmates running the asylum.
Add to that the consumer model of higher ed, et voila! The customer is always right and the ninny pretending to care about the fate of the black man to score virtue points rules the cuckoo's nest.
My outrage gland is dried up. US higher ed is a lost cause. Those with an interest in the humanities should learn at the library or hire a tutor. Pursuing engineering or the hard sciences, you still need to avoid the commissars of the administration, keeping your head down and being a good student.
There is much to be said for this approach. It worked for me in graduate school because it was the only way to succeed: Your life is one continuous circuit from the seminar to the library to the room, where all is reading and writing with occasional breaks for food and a beer blowout on Saturday nights..
What a shit show.
2smartforlibs | September 29, 2021 at 11:02 am
We are generations deep into the exempt class. We wouldn't be here if, in fact, the left wanted a level playing field as they claim.
TheFineReport.com | September 29, 2021 at 11:56 am
What a continuing disaster for black students: marking them incompetent, denying them the opportunity to prove themselves on merit. Same with anyone, of any race, etc.
But then, the collapse of our society is the left's goal. And the left runs UCLA.
https://farleftfacts.org/far-left-ideology/radicalization-attributes/cloward-piven/
casualobserver | September 29, 2021 at 12:03 pm
Don't forget another factor. Tucker just recently revealed that the "student" who filmed herself (xe-self???) confronting two "white" guys at Ariz State is not just a PhD candidate at that school. She is getting some social justice advanced degree as Ford Fellowship sponsored individual. There are many billion dollar philanthropies that are no longer liberal but far-far-left progressive and making this possible where it might not have been before.
TheFineReport.com in reply to casualobserver. | September 29, 2021 at 12:45 pm
Namely Jeff Bezos and his former wife.
M.Miller | September 29, 2021 at 12:14 pm
All this grade tampering does is make it easier for employers to chose who to hire. Honest grades or tampered grades? Who would you hire? The interview process for the tampered grades would be far more intense and detailed, at best. I for one wouldn't hire tanned anyone because the odds are they're are not honestly qualified.
TheFineReport.com in reply to M.Miller. | September 29, 2021 at 12:46 pm
That crisis is exactly the goal of these 'programs: keep racial rage burning.
Paul Marotta | September 29, 2021 at 12:58 pm
Need to tell the student who posed the question, "That's a great idea! How much of your grade would you like to give them?"
Guahan | September 29, 2021 at 1:33 pm
If the students at Anderson who initiated this witch- hunt haven't been included as defendants in Prof. Klein's lawsuit, they should be added. They are as culpable as Anderson's administrators. For too long, students have been allowed to escape the consequences of their outrageous behavior.
tbonesays in reply to Guahan. | September 30, 2021 at 5:17 am
The students should have freedom of speech. The 20 year olds do not expect the elders to dance to their tune.
DVessar | September 29, 2021 at 2:00 pm
The same happened to me. After working 15+ years and receiving many awards I resigned because of being forced to pass students whose writing skills were, at best, at a six grade level. Over the last few years, I was forced to continually lower my standards in grading. It got to the point that I would give D students' a C, and some F students' a D. However, I refused to give any students with a less than 50 GPA a passing grade. They offered me an early retirement and I took it. My health immediately improved.
TheStarChamber | September 29, 2021 at 4:13 pm
Very cowardly of Anderson School and its leadership. Very cowardly.
Stuytown | September 29, 2021 at 4:17 pm
Prediction: LA Times requests the courts release the professor's private Facebook posts.
Anyone want to bet?
n.n | September 29, 2021 at 4:38 pm
Some, Select [Black] Minds Matter
dr. frank | September 29, 2021 at 4:38 pm
Are Deans drinking or taking drugs at their jobs?? To wit, Oberlin College and Smith.
MAJack | September 29, 2021 at 8:48 pm
To loosely quote Jack Nicholson in the first Batman movie, "Higher Education in America needs an enema!".
Char Char Binks | October 1, 2021 at 8:24 pm
Such weaponized snottiness. We need to shut down "higher" education. It's just not worth it, all in all.
Ruckweiler | October 2, 2021 at 2:07 pm
First thing we do is remove tenure from ALL to include these so-called administrators, if they have it. Second, avoid these schools like the plague.
theJackal | October 4, 2021 at 7:55 pm
Promptness: racist
Math: racist
Proper grammar: racist
Laws: racist


"The People On Wall Street Aren't Seeing What's Really Going On In America"
"I do a lot of traveling around the country and there's still a lot of folks who say 'there's no jobs out there'.
I watch [CNBC] every day and I just don't see it.
I don't know if the people on Wall Street are not really getting out and seeing what's really going on [in America].
When you go to small towns, like I do, and talk to people - people don't have much confidence in the numbers you hear."


Here is a local map of Linlithgow showing some useful places such as the railway station, supermarkets, doctors' surgery, etc. Williamscraig is located at the foot of the page, in the middle.
For Italian food, Bar Leo, 50 High Street Linlithgow.
For Indian food there is Delhi's Winter in the Regent Centre.
For real ale and good food try the award-winning Four Marys at the Cross, Linlithgow.
For upmarket modern Scottish cuisine, Livingston's Restaurant behind Bar Leo in the High Street.
There are numerous cafes and bars in Linlithgow, including the Taste delicatessen.
There are supermarkets in Linlithgow, approximately one and a half miles away. From Linlithgow there are train and bus links to the main shopping centres in Glasgow and Edinburgh, Falkirk and Stirling.
Livingston Designer Outlet is approximately 20 minutes drive.
A picnic in the hide and seek Williamscraig Woods with the bears, and camp fire.
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Just because you have arrive to phrases with the reality that you need a hearing aid, does not mean that you will have no issue adjusting to one. Working with change is hard sometimes, and even the best hearing aids will demand a little adjustment time period. Don't expect to fall in adore with it overnight, or to totally forget that you are sporting it right away, but with a small time, it will turn out to be like an old reliable buddy.
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Knowing this, we can split these gadgets down into two main best hearing aids categories: analog and digital. Analog is on the way out, technology-sensible, in favor of electronic. Electronic designs offer better sound copy and your Audiologist can adjust them to your specific needs.
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If you asked me this question about 6 months ago, I would have said that it's ok at a very low heat but in general, its safest to just use for cold applications because it oxidises really easily' But, if you asked me this question today, then I'd say that yes, if its a good quality Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO), go ahead, its a wonderful choice.
A while back, I was thinking to myself how EVOO is really high in antioxidants and I wondered why these antioxidants didn't stop it from oxidising when heated. Makes sense right? Yet the popular myth that it 'oxidises when heated' is circulating amongst the health conscious, so you've probably heard it and are a little skeptical right?
A little digging and I found the science that backed up my thoughts on the oxidation theory. This study revealed that the high levels of polyphenols and tocopherols (antioxidants) in EVOO render it highly resistance to oxidative deterioration during both storage and at high temperatures.
Another study was undertaken where varieties of olive oil were deep fried to see how they stood up against oxidation. Only after 24-27 hours of deep frying, was harmful oxidation recorded. The researches stated that the "amount of natural antioxidants, are important parameters in their predictive behaviour along the frying process, but mostly that olive oil is clearly resistant to frying conditions" So unless you plan to deep fry something for 24hrs, I think your safe!
Then there was this study, where two kinds of EVOO were heated to 180deg for 36 hours, yep 36 hours! The researches of this study stated that the properties of the oil remained quite constant, "exhibiting a high stability against oxidation" and that it "maintained most of its minor compounds and, therefore, most of its nutritional properties". Pretty impressive stuff.
Remember my original posts on fats? (catch up here and here) I spoke about saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. Well, olive oil is mostly monounsaturated fat (meaning it has just one unsaturated bond, which is a weak point for oxidation, while polyunsaturated fats like canola oil and rice bran oil contain multiple unsaturated, weak bonds) This is another property that lends to the stability of EVOO for cooking, athough to a lesser degree than those wonderful antioxidants I mention above.
Always read the ingredients list to ensure you are getting pure olive oil, not a blend (some companies like to pull a swifty with their marketing). Always choose Extra Virigin Olive Oil when possible, its the oil that comes from the first press, so its the best. Never buy your olive oil in a clear bottle (choose dark bottles) as over time, light will deteriorate your oil. And lastly, go for glass or stainless, plastic can leach yucky chemicals into your liquid gold.


The Fischer–Tropsch synthesis of long-chain hydrocarbons is described here along with the process involved. Catalysis plays a fundamental role within this method, and therefore information on the diverse catalysts used is given here. Different kinds of reactors and configurations are also used, and a description of the solutions used is provided together with the main reactors' parameters and catalysts utilized. Naturally, the diverse reaction parameters are also affecting importantly the yields and the rates involved and, for these reasons, this part is taken into account as well. The kinetics of Fischer–Tropsch synthesis is characterized by several models which are provided in literature, and some emphasis is given here on the theory related to the chain growth probability and the distribution of the products in FT synthesis. The chapter ends with the theory of the syngas treatment in FT synthesis. The wet-cold gas cleaning process is treated here together with the dry-hot gas cleaning process. Finally, some details on biomass gasification methods are given along with the main chemical reactions involved.
Nature is like a painting of Monet, very often when you get close to part of nature, it's like walking up to an impressionist painting: you see less and less. All you see is little dots. In order to understand the meaning and the importance and the law contained in physics, you must step back and back to see the all and the perfection.
Robert B. Laughlin, Nobel Prize in Physics 1998.


This special issue of JHL reconstructs the diachrony of a number of innovations in the coding of argument structure, particularly in the domain of verbal indexation, in four Amazonian language families (Chapacuran, Sáliban, Tukanoan and Tupi). It is one result of an international workshop on "Diachronic Morphosyntax in South American Languages" held in Lyon (France) in 2015, with financial support from the Collegium de Lyon (Institute for Advanced Study) and the LabEx ASLAN of the Université de Lyon. The goal was to encourage methodologically innovative (and more rigorous) historical studies of morphosyntactic patterns in languages or language families of South America. The five papers that comprise this collection all demonstrate the viability of syntactic reconstruction, even in languages with little or no written history.


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Recommit to protecting customer data
by Margot Carmichael Lester | Mar 19, 2018 | Public Relations/PR practice
Given all the headlines about Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, many of us are now acutely aware of how brands we interact with gather and use (sometimes improperly) our personality and personally identifiable information. That makes now the perfect time to remind you own customers and users about how you collect, employ, re-sell and protect their data.
I know your legal team has its own approach to this -- which is absolutely necessary -- but consider a plain language version that outlines clearly how and why you do what you do with information gathered in surveys, user profiles, etc. Customers need to truly understand how and why you use their data
Shopify's privacy policy simultaneously makes the attorneys and the users happy. Here's an excerpt from their site:
Similarly, Tumblr's terms of service are clearly "translated" using a conversational tone:
As we see from these examples, plain language isn't boring. Plain language ensures that the concept is, as my Grandmother Memory would say, "plain as day". (Y'all might say "clear".) Now matter how you say it, straightforward, uncomplicated language has power. It doesn't dilute the idea, it distills it. (For those of you not familiar with making moonshine or other spirits, that means it's more potent!)
Taking this extra step shows users that you're not hiding behind a lengthly legalese set of terms, which gives them stronger confidence in giving you their information. And right now, trust is a more important driver of loyalty than almost anything else.
While you're at it, make sure you've got a clear crisis response plan, including a dormant crisis website, for when there is a breach or other improper use of data -- because there likely will be.
How to write using plain (but not boring!) language
Cyber Crisis Communications How-To
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Are you prepared?


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Sayyed Abd al-Rahman al-Haydari al-Gillani (arabe :عبد الرحمن الحيدري الكيالي ; né en 1841 et mort en 1927) était un homme politique irakien, premier Premier ministre de l'Irak moderne. Né dans une famille pieuse de Bagdad, qui avait fondé un ordre mystique soufi, il est choisi en 1920 pour diriger le Conseil des ministres irakien.

Il a usé de son influence pour s'opposer à l'accession au trône de l'émir Fayçal. Il démissionne de son poste après la nomination de Fayçal comme roi d'Irak. Néanmoins, le roi le renomme Premier ministre pour affaiblir l'opposition.

En 1922, il participe à la négociation du traité anglo-irakien qui assure à l'Irak une indépendance formelle. Avec ce traité le Royaume-Uni fait de l'Irak un mandat, en contrôlant le ministère de la Défense et le ministère des Affaires étrangères. Mais il s'oppose à ces conditions et à ce traité et il démissionne de son poste.

Un autre membre de sa famille, Rachid Ali al-Gillani, accèdera au pouvoir quelques années plus tard.

Personnalité politique irakienne
Premier ministre d'Irak
Naissance en janvier 1841
Naissance en Irak
Décès en juin 1927
Décès en Irak
Décès à 86 ans


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Debates on debate: Zelensky has released a new video
April 16, 2019 by ukraine
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Presidential Candidate Vladimir Zelensky
The showman said that the team of his rival in the election of Petro Poroshenko is trying to split people.
Ukrainian presidential candidate Vladimir Zelensky has published a new video message on the debate with Petro Poroshenko. The video appeared on the evening of April 17 on Zelensky's Facebook page.
Showman standing in NSC stadium Olympic said his rival's team is trying to change the conditions of the debate.
"We continue the debate on the debate. First, everyone discussed the date, then the NSC Olympic. Now the new conditions of the presidential team ", – said Zelensky.
According to him, the team of Poroshenko decided to define his scene next to the one that already is mounted.
"Where did you see the candidates' debates in two stages? They keep dividing people!" Zelensky noted.
He also indicated that he plans to make a fan zone in the field. Olympicwhere everyone will have access. However, according to the showman, the president's team wants to split the fans of the race participants.
Zelensky stressed that for his team the main condition for the debates is the free access of people and announced the time of its accomplishment on April 19 at 7:00 p.m.
Previously, it was reported that Poroshenko agreed to participate in the debate on April 19, but in the period from 16 to 18 hours. At 8 pm on the same day, both candidates should reach the public television debate as required by law.
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// .NAME vtkPolyDataAlgorithm - Superclass for algorithms that produce only polydata as output
// .SECTION Description

// vtkPolyDataAlgorithm is a convenience class to make writing algorithms
// easier. It is also designed to help transition old algorithms to the new
// pipeline architecture. There are some assumptions and defaults made by this
// class you should be aware of. This class defaults such that your filter
// will have one input port and one output port. If that is not the case
// simply change it with SetNumberOfInputPorts etc. See this class
// constructor for the default. This class also provides a FillInputPortInfo
// method that by default says that all inputs will be PolyData. If that
// isn't the case then please override this method in your subclass. This
// class breaks out the downstream requests into separate functions such as
// ExecuteData and ExecuteInformation.  For new algorithms you should
// implement RequestData( request, inputVec, outputVec) but for older filters
// there is a default implementation that calls the old ExecuteData(output)
// signature. For even older filters that don't implement ExecuteData the
// default implementation calls the even older Execute() signature.

#ifndef __vtkPolyDataAlgorithm_h
#define __vtkPolyDataAlgorithm_h

#include "vtkAlgorithm.h"
#include "vtkPolyData.h" // makes things a bit easier

class vtkDataSet;
class vtkPolyData;

class VTK_FILTERING_EXPORT vtkPolyDataAlgorithm : public vtkAlgorithm
{
public:
  static vtkPolyDataAlgorithm *New();
  vtkTypeMacro(vtkPolyDataAlgorithm,vtkAlgorithm);
  void PrintSelf(ostream& os, vtkIndent indent);

  // Description:
  // Get the output data object for a port on this algorithm.
  vtkPolyData* GetOutput();
  vtkPolyData* GetOutput(int);
  virtual void SetOutput(vtkDataObject* d);

  // Description:
  // see vtkAlgorithm for details
  virtual int ProcessRequest(vtkInformation*,
                             vtkInformationVector**,
                             vtkInformationVector*);

  // this method is not recommended for use, but lots of old style filters
  // use it
  vtkDataObject* GetInput();
  vtkDataObject *GetInput(int port);
  vtkPolyData *GetPolyDataInput(int port);

  // Description:
  // Set an input of this algorithm. You should not override these
  // methods because they are not the only way to connect a pipeline.
  // Note that these methods support old-style pipeline connections.
  // When writing new code you should use the more general
  // vtkAlgorithm::SetInputConnection().  These methods transform the
  // input index to the input port index, not an index of a connection
  // within a single port.
  void SetInput(vtkDataObject *);
  void SetInput(int, vtkDataObject*);

  // Description:
  // Add an input of this algorithm.  Note that these methods support
  // old-style pipeline connections.  When writing new code you should
  // use the more general vtkAlgorithm::AddInputConnection().  See
  // SetInput() for details.
  void AddInput(vtkDataObject *);
  void AddInput(int, vtkDataObject*);

protected:
  vtkPolyDataAlgorithm();
  ~vtkPolyDataAlgorithm();

  // convenience method
  virtual int RequestInformation(vtkInformation* request,
                                 vtkInformationVector** inputVector,
                                 vtkInformationVector* outputVector);

  // Description:
  // This is called by the superclass.
  // This is the method you should override.
  virtual int RequestData(vtkInformation* request,
                          vtkInformationVector** inputVector,
                          vtkInformationVector* outputVector);

  // Description:
  // This is called by the superclass.
  // This is the method you should override.
  virtual int RequestUpdateExtent(vtkInformation*,
                                  vtkInformationVector**,
                                  vtkInformationVector*);

  // Description:
  // This method is the old style execute method
  virtual void ExecuteData(vtkDataObject *output);
  virtual void Execute();

  // see algorithm for more info
  virtual int FillOutputPortInformation(int port, vtkInformation* info);
  virtual int FillInputPortInformation(int port, vtkInformation* info);

private:
  vtkPolyDataAlgorithm(const vtkPolyDataAlgorithm&);  // Not implemented.
  void operator=(const vtkPolyDataAlgorithm&);  // Not implemented.
};

#endif

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import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class PredefinedComponent {

	private String componentName;
	private String codeFileName;
	private String drawerName;
	private String categoryName;
	private String preferredName;
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El maluro elegante o  ratona australiana de alas rojas (Malurus elegans) es una especie de ave paseriforme de la familia Maluridae endémica del suroeste de Australia Occidental. Presenta un dimorfismo sexual muy marcado: los machos adoptan un plumaje nupcial de brillante colorido, con la frente, píleo, nuca y auriculares de un azul claro iridiscente y hombros rojos que contrastan con la garganta y espalda negras, las alas y cola pardo-grisáceas y las partes inferiores pálidas. Los machos en plumaje postnupcial, las hembras y los juveniles tienen un plumaje predominantemente pardo grisáceo, aunque los machos pueden tener algunas plumas azules o negras aisladas. No se reconocen subespecies separadas. Está próximamente emparentada con las similares ratona variada (M. lamberti) y ratona de pecho azul (M. pulcherrimus). Sin embargo, no se han registrado híbridos en las áreas donde se superponen sus áreas de distribución, lo que las convierte en especies completamente separadas. Aunque la ratona de alas rojas es localmente común, existen evidencias de que su número está en declive.

Tiene un pico estrecho y puntiagudo adaptado a sondear y atrapar insectos, ya que es principalmente insectívora. Es sedentaria, vive y se alimenta al abrigo de los matorrales en los bosques húmedos dominados por Eucalyptus marginata, permaneciendo cerca de la cubierta vegetal para evitar a los depredadores. Como otras ratonas australianas es una especie que vive en pequeños grupos, con cría cooperativa, que defienden pequeños territorios durante todo el año. Los grupos constan de una pareja monógama con varios ayudantes que colaboran en la cría de los pollos. Se ha registrado una mayor proporción de ayudantes hembras en esta especie que en las de las otras ratonas australianas. Utilizan llamadas y exhibiciones visuales tanto para comunicarse como en la parada nupcial. Además los machos arrancan pétalos amarillos y los exhiben frente a las hembras como parte de la parada nupcial. Usan los cantos para reclamar su territorio, y pueden distinguir a los demás individuos solo por su voz.

Taxonomía
La ratona de alas rojas fue oficialmente descrita por el ornitólogo John Gould en 1837, que adoptó el término latino  elegans (elegante) como nombre para la especie. Estableció su localización en la costa este, aunque lo rectificó al darse cuenta de su error por colecciones posteriores de John Gilbert del Suroeste de Australia. El ornitólogo aficionado Gregory Mathews describió en 1916 la subespecie warreni en los bosques de eucaliptos del sur basándose en el color más oscuro del plumaje de las hembras. Aunque como otros investigadores no han observado esta característica existe el consenso en no reconocer subespecies diferenciadas. De hecho hay muy poca variación de talla o color entre los individuos y poblaciones de esta especie.

Es una de las doce especies del género Malurus, localizado en Australia y las tierras bajas de Nueva Guinea. Dentro del género pertenece a un grupo de cuatro especies muy similares conocidas colectivamente como ratonas de hombros castaños. Las otras tres especies de este grupo son M. amabilis de Cabo York, M. lamberti extendida por la mayor parte del continente y M. pulcherrimus del Suroeste de Australia y la península de Eyre. Estudios moleculares muestran que la especie más próxima a la ratona de alas rojas es la ratona de pecho azul Malurus pulcherrimus.

Inicialmente las ratonas australianas se incluyeron en la familia de los papamoscas de viejo mundo (Muscicapidae) y luego en la de las currucas (Sylviidae) antes de ser emplazadas en su propia familia, Maluridae, en 1975. Posteriormente análisis de ADN han mostrado que la familia está relacionada con las familias Meliphagidae y Pardalotidae agrupándolas en una gran superfamilia Meliphagoidea.

Historia evolutiva
El ornitólogo Richard Schodde en su estudio monográfico de 1982 propuso que el origen del grupo de las ratonas de hombros castaños estaría en el norte debido a la gran variedad de formas existente en el norte y su ausencia en el sureste del continente australiano. Los ancestros de estas aves se extendieron hacia el sur y colonizaron el suroeste durante un periodo más templado y húmedo hace dos millones de años, al final del Plioceno o el principio del Pleistoceno. Las condiciones más frías y secas que vinieron posteriormente provocaron una pérdida de hábitat y la fragmentación de las poblaciones. Las aves del suroeste darían lugar a las ratonas australianas de alas rojas mientras que las del noroeste originarían a las ratonas variadas (Malurus lamberti). Al volver las condiciones templadas y húmedas permitieron a los pájaros extenderse hacia el sur otra vez, mezclándose las poblaciones de nuevo en el centro suroriental de Australia, hacia la península de Eyre, donde originaron a la ratona de pecho azul (Malurus pulcherrimus). El clima más frío que siguió aisló a las poblaciones haciendo que evolucionaran a especies separadas. Finalmente al final de la última glaciación, hace 12.000–13.000 años, las formas del norte se extendieron de nuevo hacia el sur, haciendo que la distribución de las tres especies se solapen. Esta hipótesis está pendiente de ser confirmada por los estudios moleculares.

Descripción

Las ratonas de alas rojas miden unos 15 cm y pesan entre 8–11 g. La longitud media de la cola es de 7,5 cm, de las más largas del género. El pico es relativamente largo, de 10 mm de media en los machos y 9,3 mm en las hembras, estrecho, puntiagudo y más ancho en la base. Con una forma similar a la de otras aves que se alimentan sondeando y picando insectos.

Como otras ratonas australianas, presenta un marcado dimorfismo sexual, los machos adoptan un llamativo plumaje nupcial con plumas iridiscentes en la cabeza y la garganta con hombros rojos en contraste con el negro y el pardo-grisáceo del resto del cuerpo. El brillante azul de la corona, parte inferior de la espalda y cobertura auricular destacan sobre la negra garganta y nuca en las exhibiciones de la parada nupcial. La larga cola es pardo-grisácea y las partes inferiores son blanquecino-grisáceas. Los machos en plumaje postnupcial, las hembras y los juveniles son predominantemente de color pardo grisáceo, aunque los machos mantienen algunos vestigios de plumas azules y negras. Los machos tienen el pico negro al igual que la lista loral y el anillo ocular (zonas desnudas entre el pico y el ojo y alrededor de éste), mientras que las hembras tienen el pico negro pero la lista loral rojiza y el anillo ocular gris pálido. Los machos inmaduros desarrollan las zonas negras a las seis semanas y generalmente mudan obteniendo un plumaje nupcial incompleto tras el primer año, lo que les da una apariencia desigual o jaspeada con una mezcla de plumas grises y azules en la cabeza, y grises y negras en el pecho. Las aves nacidas al principio de la estación de cría tendrán más proporción de plumaje nupcial que las que nacieron al final de la estación. En su segunda estación de cría tendrán un plumaje nupcial más completo, aunque necesitarán un tercero para desarrollarlo totalmente. Se han observado varios machos con plumaje nupcial en el mismo grupo al mismo tiempo, aunque se desconoce si hay relación de dominancia entre ellos o cuales son sus distintos estatus reproductivos.

Ambos sexos mudan en otoño tras la estación de cría, entonces los machos desarrollan su plumaje postnupcial. Volverán a mudar al plumaje nupcial al final del invierno o la primavera. Las plumas del cuerpo son reemplazadas en ambas mudas mientras que las de las alas y cola se cambian solo en primavera, aunque pueden ser reemplazadas en cualquier época si resultan dañadas o arrancadas. El colorido azul de los machos, particularmente el de las coberturas auriculares, es muy iridiscente debido a las superficies planas y rizadas de las bárbulas de estas plumas. El plumaje azul también refleja la luz ultravioleta, más incluso que en el resto de las ratonas, ya que su visión se extiende parcialmente a esta parte del espectro.

Cantos y reclamos
La comunicación vocal entre las ratonas de alas rojas se usa principalmente entre individuos del grupo social y para señalar y defender su territorio. Son capaces de distinguir a los individuos por su canto, lo que es importante para diferenciar a los miembros del grupo de los extraños. El canto básico, o tipo I, es un sonido agudo que dura entre uno y cuatro segundos que consta de diez a veinte elementos cortos por segundo, cantado tanto por los machos como por las hembras, particularmente usado cuando hay una disputa en los límites del territorio. Los cantos se producen con más frecuencia antes o justo después del amanecer. Las aves se mantienen en contacto mientras buscan alimento con un suave y repetido «see-see-see» que va bajando en tono, mientras que un fuerte y agudo «tsit» sirve como voz de alarma.

Longevidad
La supervivencia de las ratonas de una estación a otra es bastante alta para aves tan pequeñas, y la ratona de alas rojas es la que tiene la tasa de supervivencia más alta de todas, el 78% de los machos reproductivos y el 77% de las hembras sobreviven a la siguiente estación de cría. No es infrecuente para las ratonas de alas rojas llegar a los diez años de edad, y el individuo más viejo conocido hasta la fecha alcanzó los dieciséis años de edad.

Distribución y hábitat

La ratonas de alas rojas viven en el extremo húmedo del Suroeste de Australia, desde el río Moore al norte de Perth hasta la región de Margaret River en el sur y hacia el este hasta Albany. Es común en parte de su área de distribución, aunque hay evidencias de que está declinando su número debido a la desecación de las zonas pantanosas. Vive en el sotobosque bajo los eucaliptos, Eucalyptus diversicolor y Eucalyptus marginata. Los bosques antiguos parecen ser hábitats menos favorables y estas aves se sienten más atraídos por las zonas alteradas por la tala. Los incendios producen la desaparición de la población, que retorna tras un periodo de dos años. Las plantaciones mixtas de pinos (Pinus spp.) y eucaliptos generalmente son poco apropiadas ya que carecen del sotobosque necesario.

Dentro de los hábitats forestales las ratonas de alas rojas prefieren las zonas más húmedas como los barrancos y riveras con Lepidosperma effusum. En los límites de su área de distribución al norte convive con la ratona variada y en su límite este con la ratona de pecho azul, ocupando estas dos últimas especies las zonas más secas quedando la ratona de alas rojas restringida a los bosques más húmedos. La ausencia de formas intermedias en estas zonas refuerza el estatus de especie separadas de todas ellas.

Comportamiento
Su forma de locomoción habitual en el suelo es saltando impulsándose y aterrizando con ambas patas simultáneamente, aunque estas aves pueden correr como se observa cuando realizan exhibiciones de distracción frente a depredadores. Se equilibran ayudados de su cola proporcionalmente larga, que mantienen generalmente alzada y rara vez quieta. Sus alas cortas y redondeadas les proporcionan un buen impulso inicial y le son útiles para vuelos cortos, aunque no sirven para viajes largos.

Las ratonas de alas rojas presentan cría cooperativa, las parejas o pequeños grupos familiares son territoriales y defienden sus dominios de otros grupos durante todo el año. Sus territorios tienen una media de entre 0,4–2,4 hectáreas en su hábitat óptimo del bosque de eucaliptos, aunque suelen ser más pequeños y restringidos en los menos favorables matorrales de rivera. El área que abarcan es el suficiente para mantener al grupo en los años pobres o para acomodar a los nuevos miembros tras la época de cría. Los grupos varían desde dos hasta nueve miembros, con una media de cuatro individuos, los más numerosos en todas las ratonas australianas estudiados hasta la fecha. Probablemente esto es debido a la alta tasa de supervivencia anual que limita el territorio disponible. Aunque las tasas de reproducción son bajas, las aves jóvenes disponen de pocos territorios vacantes en los que dispersarse. Socialmente se unen en parejas monógamas, y su emparejamiento dura generalmente hasta la muerte de uno de los miembros. En este caso el superviviente elige un nuevo compañero generalmente entre los ayudantes del grupo. Aunque no estudiado directamente en esta especie, parece ser que las ratonas de alas rojas como el resto de las ratonas son sexualmente promiscuas, y ambos miembros de la pareja se aparean con otros individuos. Los ayudantes femeninos son más frecuentes en esta especie que en las demás ratonas estudiadas en profundidad, como la ratona soberbia (M. cyaneus). Más de la mitad de los grupos tienen dos o más ayudantes, a menudo hembras, que alimentan a los pollos y disminuyen la carga de trabajo de la hembra reproductora. Se ha constatado que los ayudantes incrementan el éxito reproductivo de la pareja en esta especie aumentando la media de pollos supervivientes de 1,3 a 2. Hay algunas evidencias de que los grupos con ayudantes masculinos pueden aumentar sus límites territoriales tomando nuevas zonas con su ayuda.

Entre los principales predadores de nidos se incluyen las urracas australianas (Gymnorhina tibicen), los pájaros matarife (Cracticus spp.), los cucaburras rientes (Dacelo novaeguineae), los currawongs (Strepera spp.), los cuervos (Corvus spp.) y los charlatanes verdugo (Colluricincla spp.), además de mamíferos introducidos como los zorros (Vulpes vulpes), los gatos y las ratas negras (Rattus rattus). Como las demás ratonas australianas, las ratonas de alas rojas usan una exhibición conocida como carrera del roedor para distraer a los depredadores y alejarlos del nido. Cuando la realizan bajan la cabeza y la cola, despliegan las alas erizando las plumas y empiezan a correr rápidamente cambiando de dirección continuamente y dando voces de alarma. A este comportamiento deben su denominación de ratonas.

Se ha observado en esta especie exhibiciones de aleteo en varias situaciones: de las hembras respondiendo, presumiblemente aceptando el cortejo del macho, de los juveniles pidiendo comida, de los ayudantes hacia los adultos y de los machos inmaduros hacia los reproductores. La llevan a cabo bajando la cabeza y la cola, extendiendo y agitando las alas manteniendo el pico abierto en silencio.

Alimentación
Como las demás ratonas, la de alas rojas se alimenta activa e incansablemente, buscando alimento entre los helechos (Pteridium esculentum) y los matorrales, además de entre la hojarasca del suelo cerca de los lugares resguardados. Ocasionalmente asciende a los árboles por encima de los 5 m por encima del suelo y el sotobosque, principalmente al final del verano y otoño cuando la corteza desconchada de los eucaliptos ofrece una rica fuente de artrópodos. Aunque las aves allí están expuestas a los potenciales predadores y permanecen poco tiempo. Se alimentan de una gran variedad de pequeñas criaturas, principalmente insectos, comen todo el año hormigas y escarabajos, y añaden a su dieta arañas, chinches y orugas en la estación de cría. Durante la primavera y el verano los pájaros están activos a intervalos durante el día, y comparten el tiempo de alimentación con cantos. Los insectos son numerosos y fáciles de atrapar lo que les permite descansar entre incursiones. A menudo el grupo se refugia y descansan juntos durante las horas del día de más calor. En cambio en invierno encontrar comida es más difícil y tienen que pasar el día buscándolo continuamente. Las hormigas son una importante fuente de alimento durante este periodo, constituyendo la base principal de su dieta.

Cortejo y cría
Durante el cortejo los machos de las ratonas de alas rojas, como otras especies de su género, arrancan pétalos de flores para exhibirlos frente a las hembras como parte del ritual de cortejo. En esta especie los pétalos utilizados son amarillos, y rara vez, blancos. Los pétalos se exhiben y presentan frente a las hembras tanto en el territorio propio del macho como en los demás. La exhibición conocida como abanico facial se observa usado tanto en comportamientos agresivos como en paradas nupciales; y consiste en erizar y agitar las plumas auriculares. Las plumas de las partes superiores, de azul claro, se usan de forma más prominente durante las exhibiciones que en las demás especies de ratonas.

El periodo de cría es más corto que en las demás ratonas australianas, y va desde octubre (raramente septiembre) hasta diciembre. Los nidos son construidos únicamente por las hembras, generalmente situado entre la densa vegetación a unos 20 cm por encima del suelo. Es una estructura redonda y abovedada tejida con hierbas sin apretar y telarañas, con la entrada en un lado. El interior suele estar revestido con hiervas más finas y fibras obtenidas de Clematis pubescens y Banksia grandis. Tienen una puesta y rara vez dos en cada estación, la segunda unos 51 días tras la primera. Generalmente una puesta costa de dos o tres huevos de color crema blanquecino mate con motas rojizas, que miden unos 12 x 16 mm. Las hembras incuban los huevos solas durante aproximadamente una hora seguida cada vez, tras lo cual el macho la llama y se van a comer rápidamente durante 15–30 minutos antes de volver. Su larga cola a menudo está doblada por el estrecho espacio del nido y suele usarse como indicador de anidamiento. La incubación dura unos 14 o 15 días, un día menos en la segunda puesta, y se estima que el 94% de los huevos eclosionan con éxito. Los pollos recién nacidos son altriciales, desnudos, de color rojizo y ciegos. Con un día su piel se oscurece a gris azulado por la afloración de los cañones de sus plumas bajo su piel. Los cañones de las plumas primarias emergen al tercer día y se empiezan a abrir los ojos al quinto, para estar totalmente abiertos al día siguiente. Todos los miembros del grupo alimentan a los pollos y eliminan sus sacos fecales durante 11–12 días, tiempo en el que empluman. Con este tiempo aunque están totalmente cubiertos de plumas, sus colas y alas no han crecido del todo y vuelan mal. Sus alas tardan diez días más en desarrollarse totalmente, tiempo durante el cual los pollos permanecen generalmente bien escondidos bajo la cubierta vegetal cerca del nido. Los padres y los ayudantes les alimentarán durante un mes más tras abandonar el nido. Las aves alcanzan la madurez sexual al año de edad, pero las hembras no suelen criar hasta su tercer año ya que los territorios son escasos. Los nidos de las ratonas de alas rojas pocas veces sufren el acoso de los parásitos de puesta, aunque se han registrado casos llevados a cabo por el cuco de Horsfield (Chrysococcyx basalis) y del cuco cola de abanico (Cacomantis flabelliformis).

Referencias

Bibliografía

Enlaces externos

 Ficha en BirdLife international (en inglés)
 Lista roja de IUCN
 Ficha y videos de la ratona de alas rojas en Internet Bird Collection (en inglés)

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Aves endémicas de Australia
Taxones descritos por John Gould
Animales descritos en 1837


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Hello community - I could use some advice! I'm a 1st year PhD student, and I went through a difficult time during my MA that I'd like to get some help with.
I worked as an Residential Advisor (RA) on campus for 4 years before my MA and during. It was a great job, but was also a lot of responsibility. The final year I was there (which was during my MA) I had a student living in my halls who was experiencing severe mental health issues. This was not a new situation, as sadly lots of students need extra support, and I had worked with students like this before.
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I also feel terrible every day about what I said to the Head of Department. They were the best teacher I'd ever had and they are also one of the foremost scholars in my current field. Eventually, the investigation into what happened with the student was closed quite recently - nothing ever came of it, and they graduated after an extra year out as far as I know. (2)
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My question is whether I should try to reach out to this academic to explain what happened to me and why I acted how I did and to apologise? If so, how should I do it? Via email, or in person? Or maybe it's too late? I just feel terrible because to them, it must have looked like at one point that I just withdrew myself from the Department (when I was previously a hugely active member of the PG community there) and then blamed it on them. (3)
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by eng77
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I am sorry for these bad encounters. It is brave from you to admit you were mistaken. I think the best is to write an apology Email. Late is better than never. You can include a statement like "I do not expect a reply". Everyone makes mistakes and those academics must have seen worse. Then put all behind you and just move on with your life. Alternatively, you can send a greeting card with a short apology.
by Cat123
You had a lack of support in your RA role and were dealing with a complex situation you should not have been left alone to deal with like it sounds you were. This put you under a lot of stress. It clearly still affects you how things were left with your Department so I would advise getting in contact as I think this would help you. I would disagree with putting statements like 'I do not expect a reply' however. Personally I would start with saying what you are doing know, hopefully you are getting on well with the PhD and could mention that. Try to keep the message positive and not too long. Then mention your previous RA role and briefly the issues you were dealing with without naming the student concerned and impact this had on you, and then apologise for what you had said. I'm pretty sure they will understand. I emphasise keeping this brief as they are more likely to then read and reply to the message.
by rewt
The situation wasn't your fault and the university should not have forced you to deal with it by yourself. Your former head of department is human and will understand that. If you were close to him, he would be happy to hear that you are doing a PhD and succeeding in life.
I think you could send an email saying; that you were unhappy about how you left things after your last meeting, you had some difficult issues (add details if you want), that you have started a PhD at X studying Y and want to keep in touch in future. So that you aplogise as part of a keeping in contact email.
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