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536622 | Pacific Fur Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Fur%20Company | Pacific Fur Company
Crooks was sent with a small group to fetch the horses and while they reached Fort Lisa on the 23rd, they had to wait until the 25th for Lisa to arrive to finalize the transaction. The party left the following day and returned south to Hunt's camp.
## The Rocky Mountains.
While at the Arikara vill... | 6,130,700 |
536622 | Pacific Fur Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Fur%20Company | Pacific Fur Company
Hunt's plans, who according determined it best to avoid the Niitsitapi peoples.
The expedition left their Arikara hosts in late July for the nearby Grand River. After following the Little Missouri River, the party to rest for several days while transactions were made with a band of Cheyenne. In tot... | 6,130,701 |
536622 | Pacific Fur Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Fur%20Company | Pacific Fur Company
Apsáalooke on horseback invited them to visit their nearby village. Hunt recalled the importance of mercantile deals with the Apsáalooke stating that:"We spent the first day of September buying some robes and belts and trading our tired, maimed horses for fresh ones... thereby augmenting the number ... | 6,130,702 |
536622 | Pacific Fur Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Fur%20Company | Pacific Fur Company
St. Anthony and made a camp there. The post was and was later abandoned. While at the location work began creating enough canoes necessary to take the party down Henry's Fork and later the Snake River or so called "Mad River" to the Columbia. This was done as it felt no longer necessary to travel wi... | 6,130,703 |
536622 | Pacific Fur Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Fur%20Company | Pacific Fur Company
down the Snake River proved highly difficult due to the many rapids such as Caldron Linn. The party was forced to perform multiple portages due to these fierce currents. Over course of the remainder of September through early November, four incidents of canoes capsizing killed one man meant major lo... | 6,130,704 |
536622 | Pacific Fur Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Fur%20Company | Pacific Fur Company
agreed to end travel by canoe, finding the mode of transportation too difficult continue using. Hunt ordered several groups go in various directions to contact neighboring Indigenous for material support. In the meantime the PFC expedition began to deposit its trade goods in small caches to lighten ... | 6,130,705 |
536622 | Pacific Fur Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Fur%20Company | Pacific Fur Company
tablets." On 9 November the two groups began traveling on either side of the Snake. Soon the cliffs became too steep to allow an easy descent to the river banks for water. Sources of hydration became very limited and despite intercourse with several groups of Indigenous the situation didn't improve.... | 6,130,706 |
536622 | Pacific Fur Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Fur%20Company | Pacific Fur Company
of Northern Shoshone were visited and vitally needed food sources such as horses along with "some dried fish, a few roots, and some pounded dried cherries" were purchased. A Shoshone was convinced to act as a scout to guide the PFC group to the Umatilla River. On 23 December, thirteen men assigned t... | 6,130,707 |
536622 | Pacific Fur Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Fur%20Company | Pacific Fur Company
along with the party. They finally arrived at Fort Astoria on 18 January 1812. The party was described as clothed in "nothing but fluttering rags." While waiting for the main contingent under Hunt to arrive, the men informed the personnel of the overland journey's progress from St. Louis.
Hunt's gr... | 6,130,708 |
536622 | Pacific Fur Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Fur%20Company | Pacific Fur Company
the expedition finally reached the banks of the Columbia River. Hunt soon entered discussions with the Wasco-Wishram when entering their villages. It was here he learned the destruction of the "Tonquin" the previous year. The remaining three horses of the party were used to purchase two canoes from ... | 6,130,709 |
536622 | Pacific Fur Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Fur%20Company | Pacific Fur Company
recently faced issues with provisions. Due to seasonal salmon runs harvested by various Chinookans however, there was a sizable food supply at Fort Astoria.
# Activities in 1812.
## Attempted expedition to interior.
In late March, three clerks in command of fourteen men were ordered to depart for... | 6,130,710 |
536622 | Pacific Fur Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Fur%20Company | Pacific Fur Company
of trade goods and later some personal items were however stolen. Stuart ordered his men to complete the portages during the night. A skirmish arose at sunrise between arriving Wascos and Reed, who was defending several bales of goods with one man. After being grievously injured, Reed lost the box c... | 6,130,711 |
536622 | Pacific Fur Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Fur%20Company | Pacific Fur Company
conflict raised security concerns of crossing into further Indigenous nations, forcing the three parties to all travel to Fort Okanogan. Arriving there on the 24th of April, the clerks, voyageurs and trappers departed for Fort Astoria on the 29th, leaving Alexander Ross and two men at the station. S... | 6,130,712 |
536622 | Pacific Fur Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Fur%20Company | Pacific Fur Company
of an Umatilla noble, Yeck-a-tap-am, who "in particular treated us like a father." After being robbed by another band of Natives, Crooks and Day were able to find the Umatilla once more. Taking two worn men with them, the party reached Fort Astoria on 11 May.
## The "Beaver".
The "Beaver" was the ... | 6,130,713 |
536622 | Pacific Fur Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Fur%20Company | Pacific Fur Company
governor Alexander Andreyevich Baranov at New Archangel. The cargo was purchased by the Russians amounted to ₽124,000 in value, with payment in seal skins located on Saint Paul Island. Orders from Astor dictated that the ship to return to the Columbia, but the "Beaver" was in poor repair and sailed ... | 6,130,714 |
536622 | Pacific Fur Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Fur%20Company | Pacific Fur Company
Astorians. The supplies and reinforcements brought aboard the "Beaver" made management consider "grander schemes" for the summer. New establishments would be created to challenge the NWC across the region in addition to pursuing trading expeditions among various Indigenous nations. A total of almost... | 6,130,715 |
536622 | Pacific Fur Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Fur%20Company | Pacific Fur Company
four Americans. John Day became afflicted by mental instability and Stuart paid several Multnomah men of Cathlapotle village to transport him back to Fort Astoria. The group would make the important discovery of the South Pass, critical for the later westward movement of tens of thousands of America... | 6,130,716 |
536622 | Pacific Fur Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Fur%20Company | Pacific Fur Company
left Fort Astoria under supplied and heavily reliant upon neighboring Chinookans for sustenance. Competition from the interior based North West Company threatened to the loss of major fur producing Oregon Country regions. The Overland Expedition would arrive many months later than planned by Astor. ... | 6,130,717 |
536622 | Pacific Fur Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Fur%20Company | Pacific Fur Company
to Fort Astoria in January 1813. As Franchere recalled, a council of clerks and management noted that the Astorians were "almost to a man British subjects", forcing them to agree to "abandon the establishment" of Fort Astoria and its secondary stations. A British warship was learned from NWC clerks ... | 6,130,718 |
536622 | Pacific Fur Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Fur%20Company | Pacific Fur Company
Later in March 1814, the NWC's ship arrived on the Columbia, delivering much-needed supplies to Fort George. She then sailed on to China, and England. She carried some PFC personnel, many of whom were former employees of the NWC, back to England, from where they returned to Montreal.
# Legacy.
Dur... | 6,130,719 |
536622 | Pacific Fur Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Fur%20Company | Pacific Fur Company
China. The Columbia also offered a less costly means of supplying the interior NWC posts in the region.
The Treaty of 1818 established a "joint occupancy" of the Pacific Northwest between the United States and the United Kingdom was confirmed, each nation agreeing not to inhibit the activities of e... | 6,130,720 |
536622 | Pacific Fur Company | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pacific%20Fur%20Company | Pacific Fur Company
he fur trade across the Pacific Northwest. This was done in a manner that "the Americans were forced to acknowledge that Astor's dream" of a multi-continent economic web "had been realized... by his enterprising and far-sighted competitors." The PFC held additional influence on the region in some pa... | 6,130,721 |
536697 | Authentication protocol | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Authentication%20protocol | Authentication protocol
Authentication protocol
An authentication protocol is a type of computer communications protocol or cryptographic protocol specifically designed for transfer of authentication data between two entities. It allows the receiving entity to authenticate the connecting entity (e.g. Client connecting... | 6,130,722 |
536697 | Authentication protocol | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Authentication%20protocol | Authentication protocol
persons from access to this data emerged. Stealing someone's identity is easy in the computing world - special verification methods had to be invented to find out whether the person/computer requesting data is really who he says he is. The task of the authentication protocol is to specify the ex... | 6,130,723 |
536697 | Authentication protocol | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Authentication%20protocol | Authentication protocol
complete - must include a specified action for every possible situation.
An illustration of password-based authentication using simple authentication protocol:
Alice (an entity wishing to be verified) and Bob (an entity verifying Alice's identity) are both aware of the protocol they agreed on ... | 6,130,724 |
536697 | Authentication protocol | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Authentication%20protocol | Authentication protocol
to many threats such as eavesdropping, replay attack, man-in-the-middle attacks, dictionary attacks or brute-force attacks. Most authentication protocols are more complicated in order to be resilient against these attacks.
# Types.
## Authentication protocols developed for PPP Point-to-Point P... | 6,130,725 |
536697 | Authentication protocol | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Authentication%20protocol | Authentication protocol
is one of the oldest authentication protocols. Authentication is initialized by the client sending a packet with credentials (username and password) at the beginning of the connection, with the client repeating the authentication request until acknowledgement is received. It is highly insecure b... | 6,130,726 |
536697 | Authentication protocol | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Authentication%20protocol | Authentication protocol
not expected, as the CHAP authentication would be compromised by PAP sending the password in plain-text.
### CHAP - Challenge-handshake authentication protocol.
The authentication process in this protocol is always initialized by the server/host and can be performed anytime during the session,... | 6,130,727 |
536697 | Authentication protocol | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Authentication%20protocol | Authentication protocol
was originally developed for PPP(Point-to-Point Protocol) but today is widely used in IEEE 802.3, IEEE 802.11(WiFi) or IEEE 802.16 as a part of IEEE 802.1x authentication framework. The latest version is standardized in RFC 5247. The advantage of EAP is that it is only a general authentication f... | 6,130,728 |
536697 | Authentication protocol | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Authentication%20protocol | Authentication protocol
access to server data (Authorization) and monitoring network resources and information needed for billing of services (Accounting).
### TACACS, XTACACS and TACACS+.
The oldest AAA protocol using IP based authentication without any encryption (usernames and passwords were transported as plain t... | 6,130,729 |
536697 | Authentication protocol | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Authentication%20protocol | Authentication protocol
RADIUS.
Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) is a full AAA protocol commonly used by ISP. Credentials are mostly username-password combination based, it uses NAS and UDP protocol for transport.
### DIAMETER.
Diameter (protocol) evolved from RADIUS and involves many improvements... | 6,130,730 |
536697 | Authentication protocol | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Authentication%20protocol | Authentication protocol
and later. The authentication process itself is much more complicated than in the previous protocols - Kerberos uses symmetric key cryptography, requires a trusted third party and can use public-key cryptography during certain phases of authentication if need be.
# List of various other authent... | 6,130,731 |
536712 | Red Bank | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red%20Bank | Red Bank
Red Bank
Red Bank may refer to:
# Places.
- Belize
- Red Bank, Belize, a village in Stann Creek District, Belize
- Canada
- Red Bank, New Brunswick, a rural community in Northumberland County
- United States
- Red Bank, California
- Red Bank, Indiana
- Red Bank, Missouri
- Red Bank, New Jersey, in M... | 6,130,732 |
536698 | Settler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Settler | Settler
Settler
A settler is a person who has migrated to an area and established a permanent residence there, often to colonize the area. Settlers are generally from a sedentary culture, as opposed to nomads who share and rotate their settlements with little or no concept of individual land ownership. Settlements are... | 6,130,733 |
536698 | Settler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Settler | Settler
"Indians"). In some cases (such as Australia), as colonialist mentalities and laws change, the legal ownership of some lands is contested by indigenous people, who either claim or seek restoration of traditional usage, land rights, native title and related forms of legal ownership or partial control.
The word ... | 6,130,734 |
536698 | Settler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Settler | Settler
to the American English use of "pioneer" to refer to a settler—a person who has migrated to a less occupied area and established permanent residence there, often to colonize the area; as first recorded in English in 1605. In United States history it refers to those people who helped to settle new lands. In Cana... | 6,130,735 |
536698 | Settler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Settler | Settler
the first to an area, whereas settlers can arrive after first settlement and join others in the process of human settlement. This correlates with the work of military pioneers who were tasked with construction of camps before the main body of troops would arrive at the designated campsite.
In Imperial Russia, ... | 6,130,736 |
536698 | Settler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Settler | Settler
such as the Great Trek by the Boer-Afrikaners in South Africa, or the Oregon Trail in the United States.
## Anthropological usage.
Anthropologists record tribal displacement of native settlers who drive another tribe from the lands it held, such as the settlement of lands in the area now called Carmel-by-the-... | 6,130,737 |
536698 | Settler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Settler | Settler
instead of Kurds following the Second Iraqi-Kurdish War.
- Israel – Israelis who moved to areas captured during the Six-Day War in 1967 are termed Israeli settlers. In recent years Israeli settlers have been settling in Palestinian territory such as the Gaza Strip and West Bank. However, this has caused politi... | 6,130,738 |
536698 | Settler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Settler | Settler
During 1948 Palestine war, in which Israel was created, over 750,000 Palestinians were displaced from their homes and not allowed to return.
Settlements can make it very difficult for native people to continue their work. For example, if the settlers take part of the land which the olive trees grow on then the... | 6,130,739 |
536698 | Settler | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Settler | Settler
ce fiction or fantasy fiction and/or video games.
- Mascot for Texas Woman's University, more specifically there called the "Pioneer."
# Causes of emigration.
The reasons for the emigration of settlers vary, but often they include the following factors and incentives: the desire to start a new and better lif... | 6,130,740 |
536718 | Red Bay | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red%20Bay | Red Bay
Red Bay
Red Bay may refer to:
- Red Bay, Alabama
- Red Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Red Bay, County Antrim, a townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland
- "Persea borbonia", sometimes called Red Bay tree | 6,130,741 |
536722 | Red Bluff | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red%20Bluff | Red Bluff
Red Bluff
Red Bluff may refer to:
- Canada
- Red Bluff, British Columbia, a community near Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada
- Red Bluff First Nation, a First Nations band government headquartered near Quesnel, British Columbia
- United States of America
- Red Bluff, California
- Red Bluff Creek (disam... | 6,130,742 |
536711 | HMAS Teal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMAS%20Teal | HMAS Teal
HMAS Teal
HMAS "Teal" (M 1152) (formerly HMS "Jackton") was a operated by the Royal Navy (RN) and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN).
# Construction.
The vessel was built by Philip and Son, Dartmouth and launched on 28 February 1955, and commissioned into the Royal Navy as HMS "Jackton".
# Operational histor... | 6,130,743 |
536711 | HMAS Teal | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMAS%20Teal | HMAS Teal
history.
## Australia.
The ship was purchased by the RAN in 1961, and was commissioned as HMAS "Teal" on 30 August 1962.
During the mid-1960s, "Teal" was one of several ships operating in support of the Malaysian government during the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation. She fought an action on 13 December 19... | 6,130,744 |
536725 | HMAS Toowoomba | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMAS%20Toowoomba | HMAS Toowoomba
HMAS Toowoomba
Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy have been named HMAS "Toowoomba", after the city of Toowoomba, Queensland.
- , a "Bathurst"-class corvette active between 1941 and 1946, before transferring to other navies
- , an "Anzac"-class frigate entering service in 2005 and active as of 2016... | 6,130,745 |
536717 | Information Technology Association of America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Information%20Technology%20Association%20of%20America | Information Technology Association of America
Information Technology Association of America
The Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), formerly the Association of Data Processing Service Organizations (ADAPSO), was a leading industry trade group for information technology companies. The Association's me... | 6,130,746 |
536717 | Information Technology Association of America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Information%20Technology%20Association%20of%20America | Information Technology Association of America
and formally incorporated in 1962. Initially headquartered in Abington, Pennsylvania, then relocating to downtown New York city, ADAPSO published directories of the nascent industry, commissioned well-regarded surveys of the computer industry, and organized user-centered "M... | 6,130,747 |
536717 | Information Technology Association of America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Information%20Technology%20Association%20of%20America | Information Technology Association of America
that it had agreed to so-called "merger of equals" with the Government Electronics and Information Technology Association (GEIA), and that the combined association would retain the ITAA name. Until earlier in the year GEIA had been an affiliate of EIA (a trade association f... | 6,130,748 |
536717 | Information Technology Association of America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Information%20Technology%20Association%20of%20America | Information Technology Association of America
Electronics Association) to form TechAmerica. Hank Steininger was the last ITAA board chair prior to the merger.
# Surveys.
ITAA conducted surveys of CIOs.
# Real ID.
ITAA actively lobbied on behalf of the funding for the Real ID.
Some have asserted that Real ID will t... | 6,130,749 |
536717 | Information Technology Association of America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Information%20Technology%20Association%20of%20America | Information Technology Association of America
the card.
# Publications.
ITAA published a series of newsletters, beginning with "ADAPSO News" in the early 1960s. Its last regular newsletter, the "ITAA E-LETTER", covered issues of the networked economy, including information and telecommunications public policy, and th... | 6,130,750 |
536717 | Information Technology Association of America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Information%20Technology%20Association%20of%20America | Information Technology Association of America
Respond to Outsourcing, Labor Shortages & Job Creation? 29-Apr-04 ITAA website newsroom
- E-Democracy: The Lowdown on E-Voting June 1, 2004 Issue of CIO Magazine
- World Information Technology & Services Alliance web site
- ADAPSO and ITAA Records, 1960-1999, Charles Bab... | 6,130,751 |
536717 | Information Technology Association of America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Information%20Technology%20Association%20of%20America | Information Technology Association of America
e Institute, University of Minnesota. Schoenberg describes his role in ADAPSO and its successor ITAA, of which he served as Chairman of the Board in 1982.
- Oral history interview with Oscar Schachter, Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota. Schachter discusses... | 6,130,752 |
536694 | Democracy for America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democracy%20for%20America | Democracy for America
Democracy for America
Democracy for America (DFA) is a progressive political action committee, headquartered in South Burlington, Vermont. Founded by former Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean in 2004, DFA leads public awareness campaigns on a variety of public policy issues, trains a... | 6,130,753 |
536694 | Democracy for America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democracy%20for%20America | Democracy for America
America".
Following his unsuccessful run for the Democratic nomination in the 2004 presidential election, Dean used the organization to build on the grassroots momentum for Democratic candidates around the country. DFA used the Internet-based, grassroots organizing that Dean had created for his p... | 6,130,754 |
536694 | Democracy for America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democracy%20for%20America | Democracy for America
Barack Obama, while building their membership to over a million like-minded progressives across all fifty states.
In 2007, DFA became the first carbon-neutral political action committee in the United States.
Arshad Hasan served as Executive Director from 2007 to 2013, after which Charles R. Cham... | 6,130,755 |
536694 | Democracy for America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democracy%20for%20America | Democracy for America
own records, the group endorsed over 578 candidates. Candidates wishing for an endorsement may apply on the organization's website.
DFA initially endorsed Bernie Sanders in the 2016 U.S. presidential race after earning a record-breaking 87.9% of the vote in their online poll.
The organization sw... | 6,130,756 |
536694 | Democracy for America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democracy%20for%20America | Democracy for America
Franken for U.S. Senate in Minnesota
- Misty K. Snow for U.S. Senate in Utah
- Mark Begich for U.S. Senate in Alaska
- Ned Lamont for U.S. Senate in Connecticut
- Jeff Merkley for U.S. Senate in Oregon
- Elizabeth Warren for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts
- Howard Dean for DNC Chair
- Deval P... | 6,130,757 |
536694 | Democracy for America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democracy%20for%20America | Democracy for America
Linda McCulloch for Montana Secretary of State
- Debra Bowen for California Secretary of State
- Denise Juneau for Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction
- Donna Edwards for U.S. Representative in Maryland from Maryland's 4th district
- Jim Himes for U.S. Representative for Connecticut's... | 6,130,758 |
536694 | Democracy for America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democracy%20for%20America | Democracy for America
the left of many national and state Democratic lawmakers.
DFA's liberal policies have led them to oppose established Democrats whose policies contradict their own. In 2006, the group supported Ned Lamont over incumbent Sen. Joseph Lieberman in Connecticut's primary and general elections. Lamont e... | 6,130,759 |
536694 | Democracy for America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democracy%20for%20America | Democracy for America
Maryland's 4th congressional district
During the 2008 Minnesota Senate election between Al Franken and Norm Coleman, Democracy for America partnered with the Progressive Change Campaign Committee for the "Donate a Dollar a Day to Make Norm Go Away". Through the campaign, participants give a donat... | 6,130,760 |
536694 | Democracy for America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democracy%20for%20America | Democracy for America
any Democrat. In the Pennsylvania Democratic primary, DFA endorsed Joe Sestak in his successful primary challenge to incumbent Senator Arlen Specter, who switched to the Democratic Party in April 2009 after 44 years as an elected Republican. DFA also endorsed Democratic challenger Elaine Marshall ... | 6,130,761 |
536694 | Democracy for America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democracy%20for%20America | Democracy for America
to John McCain in the 2008 presidential election.
## Domestic issues.
In 2011, DFA was primarily focused on the fight over worker's rights in Wisconsin. DFA has 25,000 members in Wisconsin and more than 2,000 of them volunteered for this campaign. With partners, primarily the Progressive Change ... | 6,130,762 |
536694 | Democracy for America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democracy%20for%20America | Democracy for America
more than 100,000 doors in Wisconsin in six weeks.
During the Wisconsin Campaign DFA and PCCC ran five TV ads. WaronWorkingFamilies.com, www.RecalltheRepublicans.com, Luther Olsen vs. Poy Sippi Elementary School, Alberta Darling vs. 6 yr old Gabriel, Alberta Darling vs Her own Republican Voters.
... | 6,130,763 |
536694 | Democracy for America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democracy%20for%20America | Democracy for America
mirroring the advocacy of the group's founder, Howard Dean. The organization launched a website, "Stand with Dr. Dean", to campaign for a reform of the American health care system with the creation of a public option. A petition on the website had gathered more than 400,000 signatures by November ... | 6,130,764 |
536694 | Democracy for America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democracy%20for%20America | Democracy for America
favors legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States. In 2009, the organization sent volunteers to Maine to campaign against Ballot Question 1, which nullified a same-sex marriage law passed by the state's legislature. In 2010, DFA worked with the Courage Campaign to push for the repeal o... | 6,130,765 |
536694 | Democracy for America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democracy%20for%20America | Democracy for America
the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, DFA introduced their "Boycott BP" initiative to get BP to make the clean-up effort in the gulf, rather than their bottom line, the company's #1 priority.
## Foreign policy issues.
Democracy for America favors the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq.
Befo... | 6,130,766 |
536694 | Democracy for America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democracy%20for%20America | Democracy for America
Iraq war critic Barack Obama, who later went on to become the 44th President. In February 2009, President Obama stated unequivocally that American combat operations in Iraq will end no later than August 31, 2010.
## 2016 U.S. presidential election.
DFA endorsed Bernie Sanders in the 2016 U.S. pr... | 6,130,767 |
536694 | Democracy for America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democracy%20for%20America | Democracy for America
workshops that bring hundreds of local activists, campaign staff and candidates together for 2 days of intensive campaign training. Topics have included; online organizing, shutting down a campaign, canvassing and phonebanking, recruiting volunteers, how to increase voter turn out, developing a fi... | 6,130,768 |
536694 | Democracy for America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democracy%20for%20America | Democracy for America
or liberal bloggers, known as the "Netroots Nation Scholarship". In 2010, DFA sent 60 online activists to Netroots Nation, held in Las Vegas, NV from July 22–25. Other sites for the Netroots Nation Convention have included Austin, TX in 2008 and Pittsburgh, PA in 2009.
# Dean Corps.
In 2010, DFA... | 6,130,769 |
536694 | Democracy for America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democracy%20for%20America | Democracy for America
Community" was a political and social networking tool that allowed DFA members to meet like-minded people in their area, form groups and organize events. Members typically met on the first Wednesday of every month in organized groups around the country. DFA Community is currently listed as having ... | 6,130,770 |
536694 | Democracy for America | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Democracy%20for%20America | Democracy for America
over 600 online groups, with representation in every congressional district. While DFA members in local groups regularly implement the priorities of the national organization, DFA local groups are voluntary, autonomous, and not officially affiliated with the national organization. Some of DFA's mo... | 6,130,771 |
536727 | Big Sandy Creek | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big%20Sandy%20Creek | Big Sandy Creek
Big Sandy Creek
Big Sandy Creek may refer to:
- Big Sandy Creek (Colorado), a tributary of the Arkansas River
- Big Sandy Creek (Montana), a tributary of the Milk River
- Big Sandy Creek (Sabine River tributary), a tributary in Texas
- Big Sandy Creek (Trinity River), a tributary in Texas
- Big Sa... | 6,130,772 |
536720 | Big Muddy Creek (Missouri River tributary) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big%20Muddy%20Creek%20(Missouri%20River%20tributary) | Big Muddy Creek (Missouri River tributary)
Big Muddy Creek (Missouri River tributary)
Big Muddy Creek is a tributary of the Missouri River, approximately 191 mi (307 km) long, in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan and the U.S. state of Montana. It flows through the Big Muddy Badlands.
It rises in southern Saskatch... | 6,130,773 |
536720 | Big Muddy Creek (Missouri River tributary) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big%20Muddy%20Creek%20(Missouri%20River%20tributary) | Big Muddy Creek (Missouri River tributary)
Indian Reservation. It joins the Missouri west of Culbertson.
It was explored in 1805 by the Lewis and Clark Expedition, who called it Martha's River in their journals and noticed on their return voyage in 1806 that it had changed its mouth on the Missouri.
Along with the Mi... | 6,130,774 |
536737 | HMAS Townsville | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=HMAS%20Townsville | HMAS Townsville
HMAS Townsville
Two ships of the Royal Australian Navy have been named HMAS "Townsville", for the city of Townsville, Queensland.
- , a "Bathurst"-class corvette that was launched in 1941, served until 1946, and was scrapped in 1956
- , a "Fremantle"-class patrol boat launched in 1981, in service unt... | 6,130,775 |
536736 | Big Sandy Creek (Montana) | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big%20Sandy%20Creek%20(Montana) | Big Sandy Creek (Montana)
Big Sandy Creek (Montana)
Big Sandy Creek is a tributary of the Milk River, approximately 50 miles (80 kilometers) long, in northwestern Montana in the United States.
It rises in the southern Rocky Boys Indian Reservation in the Bears Paw Mountains and flows southwest, then north past Box El... | 6,130,776 |
536700 | Trade association | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trade%20association | Trade association
Trade association
A trade association, also known as an industry trade group, business association, sector association or industry body, is an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry. An industry trade association participates in public relations activities s... | 6,130,777 |
536700 | Trade association | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trade%20association | Trade association
countries with a social market economy, the role of trade associations is often taken by employers' organizations, which also take a role in social dialogue.
# Political influence.
One of the primary purposes of trade groups, particularly in the United States and to a similar but lesser extent elsew... | 6,130,778 |
536700 | Trade association | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trade%20association | Trade association
to influence the activities of regulatory bodies.
In the United States, direct contributions by PACs to candidates are required to be disclosed to the Federal Election Commission or state and local election overseers; are considered public information; and have registration requirements for lobbyists... | 6,130,779 |
536700 | Trade association | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trade%20association | Trade association
the association's products and services, explains the benefits of membership to prospective members, and promotes members' businesses (for example, by means of an online listing of members and description of their businesses).
- Members newsletters or magazines. Whether produced in print or online, a... | 6,130,780 |
536700 | Trade association | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trade%20association | Trade association
publish membership directories and yearbooks to promote their association to opinion formers, lawmakers, regulators and other stakeholders. Such publications also help to promote members' businesses both to each other and to a wider audience. A typical membership directory contains profiles of each as... | 6,130,781 |
536700 | Trade association | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trade%20association | Trade association
important reason why companies join a trade association in the first place.
Examples of larger trade associations that publish a comprehensive range of media include European Wind Energy Association (EWEA), Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) and the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).
... | 6,130,782 |
536700 | Trade association | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trade%20association | Trade association
only the industry's products as a whole, painting them in a positive light in order to have the public form positive associations with that industry and its products. For example, in the USA the advertising campaign "Beef. It's what's for dinner" is used by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association to... | 6,130,783 |
536700 | Trade association | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trade%20association | Trade association
is that, while they are not per se "profit-making" organizations, they are in reality fronts for cartels engaged in price-fixing, creating and maintaining barriers to entry of industry, and other subtle self-serving anti-competitive activities not in the public interest.
## Anti-competitive activity.... | 6,130,784 |
536700 | Trade association | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trade%20association | Trade association
representing the established players in an industry can set rules that make it harder for new companies to enter a market.
## Cartels.
In September 2007, the German trade association for Fachverband Verbindungs- und Befestigungstechnik (VBT) and five fastener companies were fined 303 million euros b... | 6,130,785 |
536700 | Trade association | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trade%20association | Trade association
circles organised by VBT".
# Copyright trade groups.
- IFPI, the International Federation of Phonogram and Videogram Producers, represents the recording industry worldwide, with over 1450 members in 75 countries and affiliated industry associations in 48 countries. The IFPI works in partnership with... | 6,130,786 |
536700 | Trade association | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trade%20association | Trade association
that create, manufacture and market sound recordings
- Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (RIANZ), non-profit trade association of producers and artists in New Zealand
- Mexican Association of Producers of Phonograms and Videograms (AMPROFON)
- Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA... | 6,130,787 |
536700 | Trade association | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trade%20association | Trade association
Phonographic Industry (BPI), UK music industry association. Founded the BRIT Awards, and give Gold, Silver and Platinum disks for UK-based sales
- Federation Against Copyright Theft (FACT) is the main UK anti-copyright infringement organization, mainly for films
- Australian Recording Industry Assoc... | 6,130,788 |
536700 | Trade association | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Trade%20association | Trade association
Multimedia and Digital Systems (ROMS) organization on collective management of rights of authors and other rightholders in multimedia, digital networks and visual arts
- Anti Video Piracy Association of Singapore (AVPAS) for anime
- GEMA society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rig... | 6,130,789 |
536750 | Red Cliff | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red%20Cliff | Red Cliff
Red Cliff
Red Cliff or Red Cliffs may refer to:
- Chibi City, a city in Hubei, China, the name is translated as "Red Cliff(s)"
- Battle of Red Cliffs (208-209 AD), battle at the end of the Han Dynasty in China taking place in Chibi near modern Chibi City
- "Red Cliff" (Peking opera), a Peking opera play b... | 6,130,790 |
536750 | Red Cliff | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Red%20Cliff | Red Cliff
ed Cliff" (Peking opera), a Peking opera play based on the Battle of Red Cliffs
- "Red Cliff" (film), 2008 Chinese film based on the Battle of Red Cliffs
- Red Cliff, Colorado, a town in the United States
- Red Cliff Bridge
- Red Cliff, East Riding of Yorkshire, boulder clay cliff on the Humber estuary ba... | 6,130,791 |
536713 | Downtown New Haven | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Downtown%20New%20Haven | Downtown New Haven
Downtown New Haven
Downtown New Haven is the neighborhood located in the heart of the city of New Haven, Connecticut. It is made up of the original nine squares laid out in 1638 to form New Haven, including the New Haven Green, and the immediate surrounding central business district, as well as a si... | 6,130,792 |
536713 | Downtown New Haven | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Downtown%20New%20Haven | Downtown New Haven
one of the most residential downtown areas in the United States, with nearly 7,000 inhabitants. The expansion of housing options in recent years has helped support downtown businesses and has brought about a surge in economic activity. Secondary streets and areas at the periphery of the neighborhood ... | 6,130,793 |
536713 | Downtown New Haven | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Downtown%20New%20Haven | Downtown New Haven
and east of the Green, is sometimes considered distinct from but intermingled with Downtown.
## Chapel Street.
The area bounded by Chapel and Crown Streets is a popular stretch of restaurants, boutiques and bars located across from the Old Campus of Yale University. Includes such historic establish... | 6,130,794 |
536713 | Downtown New Haven | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Downtown%20New%20Haven | Downtown New Haven
Center for British Art are also located here.
## Broadway.
The Broadway area is a commercial center that has since the 1990s been bought piece-by-piece by Yale University and redeveloped into "The Shops at Yale" shopping district. This section was previously notable as home of the Yankee Doodle Cof... | 6,130,795 |
536713 | Downtown New Haven | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Downtown%20New%20Haven | Downtown New Haven
the New Haven Green, contains shops and eateries that are primarily owned by Yale University and cater to its student population. This area serves as a center for New Haven's East Asian community, with several restaurants and grocery stores catering to this population and an annual Chinese New Year f... | 6,130,796 |
536713 | Downtown New Haven | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Downtown%20New%20Haven | Downtown New Haven
museums, theaters, and book stores. The district is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and includes areas along Crown Street.
- Criterion Cinemas, a seven-screen movie theater showing first-run and international films.
- Grove Street Cemetery
- Harkness Tower
- Knights of C... | 6,130,797 |
536713 | Downtown New Haven | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Downtown%20New%20Haven | Downtown New Haven
a four-star high-rise hotel.
- Shubert Theatre
- Toad's Place (officially within the Dixwell neighborhood)
- Yale Center for British Art
- Yale Repertory Theatre
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Yale University's Old Campus
# Notable sites of the past.
- Chapel Square Mall (1967–2002). Now con... | 6,130,798 |
536713 | Downtown New Haven | https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Downtown%20New%20Haven | Downtown New Haven
y Gateway Community College.
- Kresge's. Converted into a parking garage.
- Macy's. Demolished in 2007. Scheduled for replacement by Gateway Community College.
- New Haven Arena (1914–1924, 1926-1972?)
- New Haven Coliseum (1972–2007). Razed and filled with a parking lot.
- Shartenberg's Departm... | 6,130,799 |
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