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Posted Jul 11 2012 1:05pm
Parents don't cause eating disorders. We don't trigger, contribute to, or encourage them. Our loved ones are born with a predisposition that that we can't cause even if we tried. The predisposition is relatively rare and the environmental factors associated with triggering them are nearly ubiquitous and have little effect on the population compared to those who fall ill.
But that's just the cause part. We CAN fail to recognize the signs and act. We DO contribute to overall mental health and to the course of illness if present. We CAN prevent the illness from guiding our actions.
Some parents fail their kids. Some of us get sucked into guilt and responsibility and become enablers as a result. Other parents simply refuse to cause distress for their kid, or endure the temporary hate and ugliness of what needs to be done. Too often we believe nonsense others sell us that appeals to our weaknesses or vanity or just plain fear. Parents discover there isn't money, enough professional help, government funding, nearby clinics, support from friends and family, and insurance coverage and just settle or quit.
I'm the first person to defend parents as a group and to give all parents the benefit of the doubt. But you know what? I'm also the first to hold us responsible for what we do in response, too. Not that we can always stop the course of the illness -- sometimes we truly can not -- or control all the circumstances. But too often parents just decide they know enough, have done enough, and feel unequal to the necessary tasks. We keep thinking there's another answer, another response that's easier. We keep asking the same questions but don't want to hear the answers, leave it to others to tell us what to do, and fail to see our own complicity in the dynamic keeping the person ill.
The point is, it's not ABOUT us or our comfort. Fear, weakness, lack of information, helplessness, exhaustion: these are OUR problems to solve. The way the illness distorts their thinking and robs them of insight and makes them say or do hurtful things: that's reasonable and expected. It is our job, no matter how hard, to do it anyway. WE became parents. Our kids got a bad hand of cards. But eating disorders are treatable illnesses. It sucks. It isn't about us. It's about what they need from us.
As harsh as I feel as I say this, there is no greater cruelty than regret.
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Stripped last year of his seven Tour de France titles because of doping charges, Armstrong addressed the staff Monday and said, "I'm sorry." The person said the disgraced cyclist choked up and several employees cried during the session.
The person also said Armstrong apologized for letting the staff down and putting Livestrong at risk but he did not make a direct confession to the group about using banned drugs. He said he would try to restore the foundation's reputation, and urged the group to continue fighting for the charity's mission of helping cancer patients and their families.
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1. Criminalization is Pretty Harmful Too
Here is some push back on the idea that decriminalization of things will lead to harms, as if criminalization isn't a massive source of harm.
Is prison harmful? Is ripping apart families harmful? Is the endemic sexual assault found in prison harmful? What about the risk of violence, or the torture of solitary confinement? Or overcrowding, or lack of medical care? How about the collateral consequences of imprisonment–unemployment, being barred from public housing, food stamps, federal education aid and a whole host of professions or voting? What about the impact on communities where many people are shuffled between prison and the neighborhood? What about the police harassment that comes with hyper-aggressive law enforcement?
[Speaking of which, High incarceration may be more harmful than high crime h/t Gerry Canavan.]
Americans Remain Divided on Completely Meaningless Question
A recent Gallup poll (h/t Jonathan Cohn) provides another illustration of a point I've made before–view of Americans as presented in the media are a product of the weird sorts of questions asked by pollsters. Now, what on earth is this asking? Do people really have opinions on "how active" government should be, unmoored from the specific things government does? We know that many people would like government to address a range of problems – like poverty and lack of health care and improving public education. But "every area it can"? Why should anyone have an opinion about that?
The reason this makes sense to Gallup and their audience is because many things government does are naturalized. meaning it's not seen as a choice. Property protection, contract enforcement, the military, prisons and policing–these things are likely covered under most people's understandings of "basic functions." But of course, government could be sprawling and expensive while only doing these things (especially the last two). Political scientists have been pleading for over a generation with people not to ask only about "government" in general but to pair that with more specific questions. I'd go further and say asking about "government" when we know full well it means different things to different people makes no sense unless you are trying to mislead. That's not to say that's what's happening here. It's exceedingly common to see people act like talk about "government" is not inherently contestable and ambiguous. Those who want government to act to serve the interests of those at the bottom often use this language. But it doesn't make it useful for understanding people's positions on what government should be doing (let alone for enlisting support for specific policies).
For what it's worth, this is why 'big government' is a concept that causes such confusion. As near as I can tell, 'big government' means actions that punish the powerful or help out the disadvantaged, while not big government are actions that punish the disadvantaged or serve the interests of the powerful. So 'anti-government' conservatives railing against 'big government' can expand the carceral state, the national security state, the bloated military. And that's why people can say 'keep the government out of my Medicare'. It looks foolish because we don't mean the same thing by these terms as those we criticize. It would make both polling and politics easier if we all meant the same thing by terms.
But sadly, that's not how things work.
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Economic inequalities then—inequalities in freedom as producer and as consumer—are embodied in unequal legal rights. In assigning and enforcing legal rights to the fruits of transactions, the law is doing more than protect the winnings in the game of production and exchange. It is dealing unequal hands to the players. Further state intervention to alter the distribution of rights and liberties, to the advantage of those whose liberty is most restricted as a result, in part, of state action cannot be properly described as "statism" in any obnoxious sense. There may, however, be good reasons of policy against disturbing many of the present inequalities. But elucidation of this matter will require another chapter.
Freedom Through Law: Public Control of Private Governing Power, Robert Hale
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Amidst all the debate about charter schools, one thing has often been left out. They are not delivering on what their advocates claimed they would do, as the New York Times reports:
A primary rationale for the creation of charter schools, which are publicly financed and privately run, was to develop test kitchens for practices that could be exported into the traditional schools. President Obama, in recently proclaiming "National Charter Schools Week," said they "can provide effective approaches for the broader public education system."
But two decades since the schools began to appear, educators from both systems concede that very little of what has worked for charter schools has found its way into regular classrooms. Testy political battles over space and money, including one that became glaringly public in New York State this spring, have inhibited attempts at collaboration. The sharing of school buildings, which in theory should foster communication, has more frequently led to conflict.
Now, I'd push back a bit here. Read the rest of this entry »
Americans Sound Confused About Equality if You Ask the Wrong Question
According to Drew Desilver at the Pew Research Center, most Americans (65%) agree that the gap between the rich and everyone else is growing, which is true. "But ask people why the gap has grown, and their answers are all over the place."
Among people who said the gap between the rich and everyone else has grown, we asked an "open-ended question" — what, in their own words, the main reason was. About a fifth (20%) said tax loopholes (or, more generally, tax laws skewed to favor the rich) were the main reason. Ten percent pinned the blame on Congress or government policies more broadly; about as many (9%) cited the lackluster job market, while 6% named corporations or business executives.
But well over half of the people who saw a widening gap cited a host of other reasons, among them (in no particular order): Obama and Democrats, Bush and Republicans, the education system, the capitalist system, the stock market, banks, lobbyists, the strong/weak work ethic of the rich/poor, too much public assistance, not enough public assistance, over-regulation, under-regulation, the rich having more power and opportunity, the rich not spending enough, and simply "a lot of greedy people out there."
This is presented as a combination of public confusion and disagreement. Read the rest of this entry »
Who Will Push Back? Without Strong Democratic Teachers' Unions, We're All Screwed
Kindergartner students in the deep blue state of Massachusetts are being shamed by publicly posting their test scores. Here's Sarah Jaffe reporting on "data walls":
Last year, K-12 teachers in the Holyoke, Massachusetts school district were told to try a new tactic to improve test scores: posting "data walls" in their classrooms. The walls list students by name and rank them by their scores on standardized tests. This, they say administrators told them, would motivate children to try harder on those tests.
Teachers did so, many unwillingly. Agustin Morales, an English teacher at Maurice A. Donahue Elementary School in Holyoke felt pressure to comply, but finds the data walls cruel. One of his top students did poorly on a standardized test in November and found her name at the bottom of the data wall. Afterward, in a writing assignment for class, she "wrote about how sad she was, how depressed she was because she'd scored negatively on it, she felt stupid."
"So why do I hate data walls?" he continued. "Because of how she felt that day. She felt worthless. She felt like she wasn't as good as other people."
Morales isn't alone in opposing the data walls. They're widely seen as just the latest front in a war being fought by educators, parents and students nationwide against what teacher educator Barbara Madeloni calls "predatory education reform."
Earlier, Jaffe wrote about the difficulties of kindergartners given standardized tests in New York , which "pit children against one another instead of teaching them to share, which can turn even a kindergarten classroom into a den of hyper-individualistic bootstrappers." And indeed, like the data wall and the shaming it facilities, "This is a feature, not a bug, of the testing regime."
These sort of stories should not be dismissed as outliers. They are part of the same drive to relentlessly rate the relative merits of students, teachers, and schools, to place them in competition with one another, to address education problems by mass firings of teachers or mass closure of schools, to devalue the contributions of experienced teachers as well as traditional (or more accurately, real) public schools.
The State of the Union is Ambivalent (2013)
Last year Elias Isquith asked me to contribute a piece to a forum he did on the State of the Union speech. There was some dispute between the contributors over how they read the speech which was my jumping off point. I'm posting it again before this year's speech because most of what I had to say is still applicable, even if some of the details have changed.
The fact that people have such different readings of this speech isn't that surprising. It reads to me like it was designed to do just that – let each of us hear what we want to hear. Our normal way of understanding the SOTU is outward. We tend to think of the president seeking to persuade the opposition or independents. But there are two ways we might think of 'us' as the target. First, speeches can be used to mobilize one's own supporters to action. Second, they can be used to demobilize one's own team. But ultimately, the impact depends on how we react. We can use the good things that were mentioned as a resource, in making demands. Or we can assume that the White House has the issue in hand and therefore we can stand down – at least until we get marching orders. The latter is a losing proposition, regardless of your thoughts about the president's own motives. I cringe at the barrage of emails about supporting the president's agenda. We should have our own agenda, and pressure him to support us.Of course, we all know that the president faces a hostile Republican majority in the House, and an obstructionist Republican minority in the Senate which, as a result of Harry Reid's unwillingness to undo the filibuster, has a great deal of power. Because of the sequester, there will likely be fiscal legislation, and because of Republicans' fear over losing the Latino vote in perpetuity, immigration legislation will at least get a hearing.
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Paul is a "male body" created by Justin Crowe which is making a statement about technology and sexuality. Paul is 3 ft tall without a head, legs and arms but with an integrated smartphone charger.
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CNET reports Paul is challenging the impact technology has on human sexuality. "Sexuality itself remains the same, but the tools we use to express it are changing. Because the digital nature of the Internet has robbed us of some of our most 'human' experiences like observing body language, tone of voice, or even physical interaction, our culture has created alternative tools to achieve comparable feelings in this new realm," Crowe told CNET.
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I'm little over 9 months post and still not feeling good, I have some days that i feel some how OK but most of the time I still struggle with many symptoms. panicky, tired, twitches all over my body,shooting pain all over, headaches, some anxiety, vision problems like blurry vision or hard to read or concentrated, numbness on legs or feet at night when sleeping, back of my neck feels tired all the time and head feels heavy, and just last night I was arguing with my daughter and my breath went away and feel like I was going to pass out. I'm really concern about all this because I dont know if this is normal after having mirena out for almost 10 months. Please if any of you out there are 9 months post or longer and still having problems please let me know. I'm scare to death and wish i could be my self again.
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Dotster domain expiry and renewal process
Currently we are having two domain names hosted here, one of it is registered through them. For this reason, we are require to renew the domain via this registrar and uses their domain setting interface. When registering the domain name with the web hosting company, the biggest worry is the future renewal process and price. Some web hosts are charging far more than they should be, and ripped off their customer account. What we seeing here with Dotster.com is far more better than expected.
Today we received this email stating our domain is expiring soon. Here is the email:
Your Domain Is Scheduled To Expire in 60 Days 2015-01-13
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will automatically initiate a one-year renewal 15 days prior to the expiry
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You should see a list of your domains, and a column on the far right
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Dotster reviews on actual website speed test
Dotster speed test for basic hosting. What is website speed test and loading time?We are going to check their server and find out either its speed is fast or slow. With our hosting account, we are checking this server performance and test its response time. From latest website speed test, we know the server is responsive and get connected in 0.32 second. But the server loading time is rather slow at 2 seconds to load the website.
Writing quality web content
Marketing is technically the most vital aspect in business. It brings your product to the knowledge of people, aims to entice and manipulate them into purchasing what you offer, and that more or less needs very careful strategy. You decide about the price, about the design, the packaging, the advertisements and all those publicity stunts with the hope of getting a large share of consumers in the market. And because of the very competitive nature of business, marketing has reached surprisingly farther heights.
Digital marketing is the perfect example of how far marketing has gone. It all makes sense, as the internet, more than anything, connects people, encloses them into this intangible space in which they are force-fed with contents coming from other people, and organizations alike. The online world provides a ridiculously wider audience, and it would be a complete waste if businesses don't take advantage of it.
However, it seems as if the difficulty in marketing over the internet grows as time goes by, what with all the online presences being established here and there, the unprecedented marketing ploys of different establishments in order to attract the target market, and the list goes. More than anything, the current dog-eat-dog situation in the digital marketing competition just reminds organizations that they should always keep their eyes open, or God forbid their online endeavors won't end up so well. That means they have to be cunning and out-of-the-box and ahead-of-the-game. Albeit all these campaigns and innovative online strategies popping up every so often, the traditional principle still reigns: content is king.
Websites of establishments contain articles that consistently bring up the good about their products or services. That's technically the only rule in web development. No room for self-deprecation, and it's all a go. The thing is, there's a fine line between content that spills out the good, and good content. Apparently, the latter covers the former, so the talk goes: why is it important to have a good content? Here are a few reasons why writing quality content for your website is more than necessary.
- The internet, as mentioned above, apparently has wider reach. That means more people can view your website, and more people can also mean greater diversification. You can't just settle on content that is put up just for the sake of having content; you have to entice the many. And that many involves internet-users who actually think. Netizens are wiser and more impatient than ever, and the last thing they need is yet another dull website.
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- A good content actually creates a good image. If your website contains rational and sensible stuff, then it wouldn't be so hard to capture the audience and gain a good reputation.
The tips listed below can help in writing quality content for your website.
- Content is about the information you could give regarding your establishment. And as informative as your article sounds to a lot of people, truth is still a top priority. Your website needs credibility to earn your prospective consumers' trust, and that can only be gained with truthful web content. In writing quality content for your website, careful research should always be done to avoid errors on your facts. At the same time, these facts should remain factual, and not bent into an illusion you'd like your audience to see. Remember that deception always does not end up so well, so it is always better to stick with truthful information, no matter how unsatisfying.
- The tone used on your website should also be put into careful consideration. A conversational type of content more often than not makes your readers feel more comfortable and more involved. A more formal tone projects a more serious and professional atmosphere. Although the latter is more appropriate to create a we-mean-business atmosphere, a conversational tone is still recommendable, as it keeps the whole website from being so serious and somehow languid.
- Catch your readers' attention right away by emphasizing what interests them. Internet-users initially just scan website for interesting stuff, and once they notice the thing that eventually catches their attention, they'd most likely peruse the whole article. Apparently, it would be difficult for them to scan content with a plain text from start to finish. Bold, italic, and underlined texts are created for a reason, so use them to your advantage in writing quality content for your website.
- Make your content easily readable. Instead of long droning paragraphs, try clustering and creating subtopics or using bullets and numberings. These do not only help you organize the whole flow of the content, these also help in reducing the monotonousness of your website, making it easier for your readers to scan and read thoroughly.
- Technicalities can change impression. Factual errors, as mentioned above, can negatively affect the image of an establishment. Technical errors on the other hand can do just as much. Grammar lapses and similar mistakes can make the business sound particularly less professional. Remember that websites are part of your establishment's online reputation, so you should carefully proofread your content as much as possible in writing quality content for your website, to avoid these probable errors.
Digital marketing can be tough if you don't learn the ropes fast enough. It's all about the publicity after all, and the trends by these internet-users are rather hard to predict. Writing quality content for your website is perhaps one of the most challenging parts of marketing, as an effective website does not only show content that tells good about your business; it shows good content as well. The competition is toughening more and more, and you can do nothing but pace up with the flow. With the use of a very powerful tool that is the internet, writing quality content for your website might just be the solution you've been searching for.
Pros and cons of using free website hosting
Free website hosting can be a great tool if you are just starting an online business or web page and funds are restricted. Particularly in a tough economy such as the ones the world is currently experiencing, you should be more cost conscious than ever, but even so it may not be the best option available depending on what your needs are. There are many pros and cons to this type of hosting plan, and you should pour in the research necessary ahead of time before determining whether or not to use it.
Here are some things to keep in mind on the positive and the negative side as you embark on your online journey.
- Pros or advantages. The first pro of free web hosting is right there in the description – "free." Obviously the effects of not having to pay for something can really help one out in the early stages of a business. When you have other costs and concerns to worry about, every little bit of savings does in fact help. Another great pro of free web hosting is that it allows you to start small and learn the ropes before expanding your needs. There are many web tools that can be used to build and promote a great website and being able to get used to these things before upping your investment is a very worthwhile thing. In other words, free web hosting gets you used to the lay of the land without causing you to bleed funds, something that is vital to every business this day and age. Still, it's not all wine and roses using a free web hosting provider, as you're about to see.
- Cons or disadvantages. Free hosting plans are limited in what they will offer you. While the prospect of "no risk" sounds great, it is only true for as long as you aren't dealing in high traffic volumes. As you prepare to take your site to the next level, you quickly become aware of the limitations of a free hosting plan and how they affect your overall performance. Nothing drives folks away faster from your web page than poor functionality, and as your traffic increases, a free hosting plan will simply not be able to sustain the influx. Yet another con is the fact that many free hosting plans do not allow you to brand your business in the way that you would like. Take "Blogger dot com," for instance. Sure you can start a blog there, but it will have the extension of "blogspot dot com" after your root domain. Hardly professional looking.
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Graeme Souness has revealed that he rejected the chance to play for hometown team Heart of Midlothian when he was a youngster.
The Edinburgh product, who went on to star for Liverpool and Middlesbrough, has spoken of how he occasionally followed the Jambos at Tynecastle and even trained with the club when he was a teenager before taking the opportunity to sign with Tottenham in 1970.
"I was very much a local boy in terms of Hearts. I remember going to see Tommy Traynor play, Jim Cruickshank was in goal, Donald Ford up front," he said.
"I watched all these players but it wasn't a week in, week out kind of thing. I didn't walk in with my maroon scarf on. It was occasional.
"My family were all from Leith, but I was brought up in Saughton Mains and Hearts were the local club.
"I stayed in Gorgie for three years when I went to live with my grandmother in Wardlaw Place, which was three streets from Tynecastle.
"I actually trained with Hearts for a period of time when I was a young boy. I was about 13 and I used to train at Tynecastle and over at Parkhead as well.
"I did have an opportunity to sign for Hearts but I decided to go to England instead."


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->'''Sky Masterson:''' We're going to my favourite restaurant. El Cafe Cabana. [In] Havana. \\
'''Sarah Brown:''' ''[shocked]'' Havana, Cuba? \\
'''Sky Masterson:''' Well, what other Havana is there?
-->-- ''Theatre/GuysAndDolls''
''London, England. Not to be confused with London, Ontario.''
There are a great many American cities and towns named after places from Europe: mostly British places, but French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch names crop up across the USA, not to mention numerous variations and simplifications of Native American spellings. This reflects the USA's origins as being colonized by people from across Europe. Interestingly enough, lots of major American cities are far bigger than their European counterparts ever were (UsefulNotes/{{Cleveland}}, UsefulNotes/{{Boston}}, Stockton, Rochester, York/New York, and UsefulNotes/{{Portland}} are the most obvious examples, and the only two major exceptions are Birmingham and Manchester).
Unfortunately, this results in some confusion and frustration for many Americans. Since the USA is big and though sparsely populated home to quite a few cities, and many of these cities have similar if not identical names (for instance, there are ''thirty two'' states that have a city named "[[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Springfield]]"), Americans often describe an American location as "''City Name'', ''State''", and describe a foreign location as "''City Name'', ''Country''" to parallel that. This works well in the USA, but becomes rather jarring and annoying for foreigners, who find it annoying that after being shown Tower Bridge, the Houses of Parliament, and St Paul's Cathedral [[TheMummyTrilogy all in one shot]], they still need to say "UsefulNotes/{{London}}, England."
In France, the tendency is to ram the identifier into the town name itself, so one gets places like Saint-Marie-Sur-Aube and Saint-Marie-Sur-Orne and Saint-Marie-En-Provence, etc. The American equivalent would be if towns were actually named "Springfield-in-Massachusetts" and "Springfield-in-Illinois."[[note]]There is a Washington-On-The-Brazos in Texas though.[[/note]] Some British towns, such as Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Stratford-upon-Avon and Berwick-upon-Tweed, follow this scheme as well (though in that case the -upon- always comes before the name of a river that goes through the city), as well as Frankfurt am Main in Germany (which most people know only as Frankfurt, anyway, as Frankfurt (Oder) isn't nearly as important). The logical equivalent in America for this would be hypothetical city names such as "New-York-Upon-Hudson" and "Washington-Upon-Potomac."[[note]]And again, some American cities do this, like Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio (the lake in this case being Erie), which distinguishes it from plain old Geneva, Ohio a few miles south, and by extension also the original Geneva (both the canton and the city) in UsefulNotes/{{Switzerland}}, which, of course, is helpfully on a lake (Lac Léman).[[/note]]
The Japanese equivalent is to rename a town or city that shares its name with a more famous counterpart so that it also includes the name of the ancient province. Nagano City in Osaka had the same name as that ''other'' Nagano (the one with all the skiing), so they changed it to ''Kawachi''-Nagano. Happens a lot with similarly-named train stations, too.
A slightly different form is sometimes used: Americans from small towns will usually specify their state simply to give a general idea of what region they're from. If someone says he is from Miamisburg, Ohio, it isn't because there's another Miamisburg out there (there isn't, as far as we know), but because people from other states have no idea where in the world Miamisburg is. The foreign equivalent might be for someone from a small town to give the name of the nearest major city.
Gets used in the TitleIn a lot. An example of CreatorProvincialism. Often mocked, although it's still a popular trope. Named by Bill Bryson. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_most_common_U.S._place_names The Other Wiki]] has a list of the most commonly used city names.
In case you were wondering, aside from London, England there are at least: 1 London, Belize; 1 London, Canada; 1 London, Equatorial Guinea; 1 London, Finland; 1 London, Kiribati; 1 London, Nigeria; 3 Londons, South Africa; and 17 Londons, United States of America as well - a total of at least 27 cities, towns, or villages whose full name is "London". There are many more such communities with "London" as part of their name and at least 2 London Islands.
* Inverted with a Nike ad during the 2012 London Olympics. Since they weren't an official sponsor, they couldn't explicitly mention the Olympics. They could, however, show athletes in all the ''other'' Londons around the world, as long as they didn't have any references to London, England, or to the Olympics. After some controversy, it was decided that this was legal. Watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hEzW1WRFTg here]].
* An old ad for a Capital One features a family complaining about their credit card service not offering them free airline miles for purchases, so the dad invents a machine to teleport them to their vacation destination. The father enters the destination as [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg,_FL St. Petersburg, Florida,]] with the family dressed in beach attire. The machine teleports them to cold St. Petersburg, Russia.
[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Played with in an early ''Comicbook/{{Cable}}'' story where Cable goes on a date with [[ActionGirl Domino]]:
--> '''Cable:''' Well, it was either this or big macs in Paris.
-->'''Domino:''' I like Paris.
-->'''Cable:''' Paris, '''Oklahoma'''? [[note]]Funnily enough, [[CriticalResearchFailure there is not Paris, Oklahoma]]. There is, however, a Paris, Texas and a Paris, Illinois.[[/note]]
* When Lynn Johnston indicated in her comic strip ForBetterOrForWorse that eldest son Michael was going to a university in London, everyone thought that she meant ''London, England''. He ended up attending the University of Western Ontario in ''London, Ontario''. Lynn herself admitted that this was deliberate to throw people off.
* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'' has an important sequence set in Venice, Italy.
* Parodied in ''Film/TeamAmericaWorldPolice'': Every time the location changed, there would be a subtitle that stated the place's name and its distance in miles from AMERICA!.
-->'''Joe''': Cairo... [[CaptainObvious that's in Egypt]]."[[note]]As opposed to Cairo, Illinois[[/note]]
** A similar, but more extreme, parody occurs in the Canadian radio series ''Radio/AsItHappens'' - something of a mixture of ''Series/SixtyMinutes'' and ''Series/TheDailyShow'', with a small bit of ''Radio/APrairieHomeCompanion'' thrown in - which, regardless of the context, when discussing locations in the British Isles will always give the name of the location, and its exact distance from Reading[[note]]presumably the one near London, England and not the one in Pennsylvania[[/note]] as a RunningGag.
* Subverted in the movie ''Paris, Texas.'' A man is going around with a photograph telling people it is of Paris, even though it is clear that the photo shows a desert landscape. Incidentally, the real Paris, Texas looks nothing like what is shown in the photo. ''Paris, Texas'' the movie is shot in the deserts of West Texas, which is all rugged desert, while [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_Texas Paris, Texas]] the city is in East Texas, which is mostly grass plains and forest.
* Country-based example from ''Film/{{Transformers}}'': "Qatar, The Middle East".
** That may be more of an assumption that ViewersAreMorons than any other issue.
** Combined perhaps with Creators Are Morons, since the same movie also gives us the caption "ThePentagon, Washington D.C."[[note]]The Pentagon is actually located in Arlington County, Virginia--over the Potomac river from D.C.[[/note]]
* Played with in ''Film/RoadTrip'', where "Austin, Texas" morphs into "Boston, Massachusetts" and several variations on those. The trailing state doesn't seem to do much to help locate the town in question.
* In the movie ''Mississippi Masala'', when Demetrius is taking Meena to meet his family this happens. When Meena says she is from India, his great-uncle asks if she means Indianola, Mississippi.
* A "Cairo, Egypt" label appears in ''Film/TheMummyReturns''. Yes, a series that takes place ''almost entirely in Egypt'' still feels the need to specify "Cairo, Egypt." Weirdly no labels tell us that Hamunaptra, an important location in the film, is in Egypt.
* Parodied in Creator/JohnCleese's made-for-TV film ''The Strange Case of the End of Civilization As We Know It'', in which a dim-witted US President (a NoCelebritiesWereHarmed version of Gerald Ford) orders a secret service agent to catch "the first plane to London, France."
* Parodied in ''Film/{{Orgazmo}}'', which unnecessarily pairs it with the EiffelTowerEffect: The opening shot is the Hollywood sign followed by the caption "Hollywood, California".
* Deliberately averted in the title of the movie ''Film/TheCarsThatAteParis'', which is set in Paris, Australia.
* ''Film/TenaciousDInThePickOfDestiny'': J.B. travels to Hollywoods all across America before he gets to Hollywood, California.
* ''Film/ScotlandPA'' takes place in modern-day Scotland, PA instead of Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'s Scotland.
* The gays-and-Italians comedy ''Mambo Italiano'' plays with this trope as part of its Old World in the New World theme.
-->'''Angelo''' ''[on the phone to a customer of the travel agency he works for]'' Yes, I apologize, but... I know your client is in the U.K. But you didn't say Glasgow, you insisted on New Glasgow. That's north of Montreal. So I chartered a bus. I say New Glasgow. You misunderstood. I don't mean to be confrontational, but there is no New Glasgow in Scotland. Well, no, they don't need a new one, they have the old one. It's actually quite simple. You see, many years ago people from Glasgow, Glasconians, left the old Glasgow and they came here. And they built a new Glasgow. And they called it New Glasgow because it was new. According to theoretical physics, eventually we'll be able to fold space so that the new Glasgow will overlap the old Glasgow. But until then, let me assure you that they are quite different places. Did I mention that New Glasgow just got waterslides? Those are fun.
** His dad explains the naming misconceptions involved in a simple immigration:
-->'''Gino:''' Nobody told us there was two America: the real one, United State, and the fake one, Canada. Then, to make matter even worse, there's two Canada: the real one, Ontario, and the fake one, Quebec.
* ''[[Film/TheNakedGun Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear]]'' opens on a pan of Washington, D.C., then focuses onto the White House when a helpful "The White House" pops up on screen, followed several seconds later by "Washington, D.C."
* Spoofed in the ''Aqua Teen Hunger Force'' movie, where the opening scene (set in Egypt) is subtitled: "Egypt, Millions of Years Ago, 3 p.m., 1492, New York."
* In ''Film/InTheHeatOfTheNight'', Creator/SidneyPoitier's character Virgil Tibbs is questioned as to where he resides:
-->'''Tibbs:''' Philadelphia.\\
'''Police Chief Gillespie:''' Philadelphia, Mississippi?\\
'''Tibbs:''' Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
* MarsAttacks has a jarring example. Tom Jones, a famous Welshman, says, in a Welsh accent, "When I was growing up in Cardiff, Wales".
* Played with to great effect in ''Film/TheHarveyGirls'', which features a minor character explaining that she's from Paris:
-->''"I was born in Paris''\\
I was raised in Paris''\\
Went to school in Paris''\\
Where I met a boy,''\\
I was married in Paris,''\\
Almost buried in Paris,''\\
But I finally left Paris''\\
...Paris, Illinois!"''\\
(Yes, there is such a place, 150 miles south of Chicago on the Indiana border.)
* ''Film/XMen'':
** ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'':
*** A variation with territory and country listed occurs in the case of "Northwest Territories, Canada." The American writers clearly didn't do their research because a portion of this region didn't enter the Canadian Confederation until 1870 (and the other sections were later divided up into separate provinces and territories over the next few decades), so in 1845, it should've been referred to as "North-Western Territory, British North America." James Howlett and Victor Creed were therefore born as ''British'' citizens (although presumably it would've been easy for them to obtain Canadian citizenship after the Dominion of Canada was founded in 1867).
*** "Lagos, Nigeria."
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'':
*** "Geneva, Switzerland," "Villa Gesell, Argentina" and "Moscow, Russia." (In 1962, it should have been called "Moscow, USSR," as Russia was only a Republic within the Soviet Union.)
*** A variation which features a specific location and country is "Oxford University, England" (the correct term is the formal "University of Oxford").
* ''[[Literature/TheBourneSeries The Bourne Ultimatum]]'': Conklin has to point out he wants Vienna, Virginia instead of Vienna, Austria.
* The DanBrown novel ''AngelsAndDemons'' did a similar joke with Geneva.
* Most of those "solve-the-mystery" books (including ''Literature/EncyclopediaBrown'', of course) have at least one where the key to solving the mystery is knowing that there are apparently cities named Athens, Jerusalem, Palestine or Paris in Texas. It's always one of those four, and more importantly, ''it's always in Texas.''
** To be more general, the discovery that ThereIsAnother place where something happens is a staple of NoManOfWomanBorn stories.
* In ''Literature/AmericanGods'' the main character spends some time in Cairo, Illinois (where it's pronounced "Kay-ro"), and meets some [[PhysicalGod beings from the other Cairo]].
* A plot point in one of Creator/AgathaChristie's Literature/TommyAndTuppence stories is that there are two towns in England called Maldon; one in Surrey and one in Sussex. The characters know of Maldon, Surrey, so don't bother reading the "Maldon, Su..." address on a telegram properly, Only later does Tuppence realize that the telegraph office only give the county if they need to specify between two places with the same name. (The ''real'' town of Maldon is in Essex, however.)
* In Cordwainer Smith's "Instrumentality" series, one of the most important cities on Earth is "Meeyameefla," obviously meant to be Miami, Fla. - note that FL is the more common abbreviation of Florida since ZIP codes were introduced.
** But thanks to Music/LouReed, to a lot of people it's always going to be "Miami, F-L-A".
* In James Blish's classic ''Literature/CitiesInFlight'' series, Earth's cities, fitted with antigravity generators and spacedrives, roam the Galaxy looking for work. Nevertheless, they still use names like "Chicago, Illinois" or "Scranton, Pennsylvania". This even becomes a plot point when one character spots the error in a city's name and realizes it's actually an alien battlestation.
* In PiersAnthony's THE MACROSCOPE, an amateur astrologer, on being told that the subject was born in Philadelphia, feels the need to ask "Pennsylvania or Mississippi?"
* In the ''Literature/{{Bunnicula}}'' book ''Return to Howliday Inn'', one dog is happy to hear that his owner is in London, probably sipping tea with the Queen and everything. He is then informed that London is a town just over the border of the next state.
* In the Creator/TomHolt novel ''Here Comes The Sun'', a trainee [[PaintingTheFrostOnWindows weather spirit]] manages to get the Nile to flood Memphis, Tennessee.
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* When ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' (previously set almost exclusively in [[AliensInCardiff Cardiff]]) became a joint production involving the American {{Starz}} network as well as BBC UsefulNotes/{{Wales}}, the setting of the fourth series ''Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay'' was expanded to span both the UK and US, and the trope was applied to both American and British locations.
* In an ''Series/AllInTheFamily'' episode, Archie loses his Christmas bonus after he messes up a shipment meant for London, Ontario.
* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] on ''OneLifeToLive'', blue-blooded matriarch Vicki (then Davidson) decides she needs to go on a trip to find herself and get her head together. When she calls her family, she tells them she's in Paris. Instead of clarifying, she deliberately lets them think she's in the famous Paris, rather than working as a diner waitress in Paris, Texas.
* In a ''[[ThirdRockFromTheSun 3rd Rock From The Sun]]'' episode, the Big Giant Head threatened to send Dick to Mars if he failed at something:
-->'''Dick''': Oh, well, Mars isn't too bad.\\
'''Big Giant Head''': Not ''that'' Mars!\\
'''Dick''': [[BigNo Nooo!]]
* The mystery show ''EerieIndiana''.
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' is rather bad at this. Not to mention a teleported character being described as "Somewhere in Africa" (which, to be charitable, ''might'' have been intended to reflect his own confusion), and another TitleIn informing us that Peter is in Cork, ''Ireland'', there is a whole subplot set in Odessa, Ukraine - apparently just for the sake of a joke, since [[ContrivedCoincidence Noah is from Odessa, Texas]].
* ''[[MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'' mocked this once when a caption said "Illinois, USA". As opposed to Illinois, Mongolia.
* Played with in ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' in the Cycling Tour episode when any time a city is mentioned it cuts away to Eric Idle in a military uniform standing in front of a map and pointing out the city's distance from 3 unrelated cities around Europe. By the third or fourth time he's eventually told to shut up by the characters in the sketch.
* Played with in an episode of ''Series/{{Mash}}'' where Maj. Winchester is attempting to get a call through to Boston. The RunningGag throughout that episode is that the person he's talking to attempts to clarify his references to Boston with "Boston Massachusetts?", causing him to become progressively more annoyed in his response.
--> '''Maj. Winchester:''' Yes, Massachusetts, you geographic whiz.
--> '''Maj. Winchester:''' ''(through gritted teeth)'' ''No!'' It's spending the weekend in ''Florida!''
** Crowned during the episode's denoument, during which he is finally able to send a sober and confessional telegram to his sister, as dictated over the phone to the telegraph operator:
--> '''Maj. Winchester:''' ... to Honoria Winchester, Beacon Hill, Boston. ''[beat, then with a defeated air]'' Ye-es, Massachusetts.
* Averted in ''Series/{{Jericho}}''; going on the title alone you'd have no idea it took place in the United States, let alone Kansas.
** That was kind of the point, since the show took place after a catastrophic bombing that left the residents isolated and unsure if the United States still truly existed.
* Mentioned in an episode of ''FullHouse'' when Jesse's grandfather suddenly passes away during a visit. His body is being flown back home for the funeral, and Jesse tells the others that he needs to make sure the airline sends him to Athens, Greece, instead of Athens, Georgia.
** Georgia has a lot of Greek and Turkish inspired names, for some reason. Like Smyrna, Atlanta, Clyo, and even Sparta.
* Averted in ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'', which regularly used scene-setting "Somewhere In (Insert Place Here") captions.
* ''Series/PicketFences'' had an episode that dealt with ThePope going to Rome. Not Rome in Italy but Rome, Wisconsin (the setting for the show).
* The "gives the name of their State as well as their small town name for context" is poked fun at in ''Series/HarryAndPaul'' with the eccentric American tourist couple Ronald and Pam who always introduce themselves as being from Badiddlyboing, Odawidaho.
* In one episode of ''Series/TheLucyShow'', Lucy takes the trope even further by specifying that she's taking a trip to "London, England, In Europe."
* ''NightCourt'': Dan's grandfather named the tiny town of Paris, Louisiana where Dan grew up, after the city he was station in during WorldWarOne - Paris ''Illinois'', that is.
* ''Series/TheBennyHillShow'': In "Murder on the Oregon Express", Benny as HerculePoirot mentions "Paris, France, Europe" on a couple of occasions.
* In the ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' epsisode "Ms. Knope Goes To Washington", Leslie is annoyed to discover that when she mentions her beloved hometown of Pawnee, she has to specify that it's the one in Indiana as there are "Pawnees" in several other states. (TruthInTelevision. TheOtherWiki recognizes four "Pawnees" in the U.S. and one "Pawnee City".)
* An episode of ''Series/IDreamOfJeannie'' involves Jeannie going to Reno filing for separation from her Master, Tony, who thinks she's gone to Reno, Nevada, when she really went to "Reno, Persia."
* Channel 4's cult late-night video review show Vids featured a notable example. The show was filmed in Glasgow (or Glasgow, Scotland, if you prefer). Presenter Nige, in the guise of cheesy American host McLumperty, once introduced the location as "Glasgow - London, England".
* ''CriminalMinds'' will often use this in their captions- even, at times, for big cities like New York and Los Angeles- just so viewers know where the team is that week. It's justified so that the show can spend more time explaining the cases and getting to the action, especially when a case involves multiple cities at once.
* ''Series/TheBeverlyHillbillies'': In the film, Jethro is first mentioned when Elly May says he's coming from Oxford to visit them. The next scene shows him leaving Oxford, Arkansas.
* In one episode of ''BoyMeetsWorld,'' Shawn decides to run away to Europe and buys a train ticket to Paris. It has to be pointed out to him that he can't take a train from America to France and he's actually bought a ticket to Paris, TX.
--> '''Shawn:''' I thought that meant ''taxes.''
* There's an obscure Halloween song called ''[[OurVampiresAreDifferent Redneck Dracula]]'' about a vampire from Transylvania, ''Kentucky''.
* "A Day in The Life" by Music/TheBeatles. John Lennon based it on newspaper stories he read, and as mentioned below British newspapers often will list county names after town names. Hence "4,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire."
* The rarely performed "verse" of "White Christmas" includes the line "there's never been such a day in Beverly Hills, L.A." [[note]]Beverly Hills actually separated from Los Angeles and became an independent city in 1914. Not to mention that LA is also the postal abbreviation for Louisiana.[[/note]]
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* Subverted in ''ForBetterOrForWorse'' when Michael was a student in London, Ontario; since the Patterson family lives in that province, Lynn Johnston deliberately didn't specify it, knowing a lot of readers would think he was studying in England.
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* Pro wrestling announcers are really terrible about this. Regardless of how long they've been in the company, how often they've played the ForeignWrestlingHeel, or how obvious they are about it, the announcer always makes sure to mention they're from [[Wrestling/ChrisJericho "Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada"]] or "Swansea, Wales, UK." The most frustrating is Ezekiel Jackson, who is announced as being from "Guyana, South America." Weirdly, they never call it "Death Valley, California" when introducing TheUndertaker (likely to invoke the PartsUnknown vibe, as it wasn't originally clear if his Death Valley was an actual physical location).
* In ''{{Hair}}'' Claude has a song about "Manchester England England."
* ''Make a Wish'', a musical set in GayParee, had a song titled "Paris, France."
* ''Theatre/PaintYourWagon'':
-->'''Sandy''': What's your statistics, pardner?\\
'''Crocker''': Edgar Crocker, from London, England.\\
'''Sandy''': Well, come along then, Edgar Crocker, from London, England!
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* PlayedForLaughs in [[GrandTheftAutoViceCity Grand Theft Auto Vice City]]'s radio station VCPR, in the episode about morality:
--> '''[[CorruptChurch Pastor Richards:]]''' I tell you, they'd throw down that bear pelt, saddle up the sled dogs, and get pulled all the way to Vice City. And I should know. I'm from ''Mars''!
--> '''[[OnlySaneMan Maurice Chavez:]]''' No, you're not?
--> '''Pastor Richards:''' Uh... Mars, [[SweetHomeAlabama Alabama]]. I founded three colleges there.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Spinnerette}}'' features a minor character called the [[Music/WarrenZevon Werewolf of London]], Ontario.
[[folder:Web Original]]
* In [[http://notalwaysright.com/giving-the-french-stick/10042 this]] Website/NotAlwaysRight story, a foreigner learns that there's a reason why Americans do this --to his frustration. He just wanted to make fun!
* Played with [[StealthPun subtly]] in the WebAnimation/HomestarRunner flash game ''"Where's An Egg?"''. Although most of the details in the game suggest that it takes place in Soviet-era Moscow, the [[AllThereInTheManual manual]] states that the protagonist is actually part of the Boise police. That might seem odd, since Boise is the capital of Idaho, but it is actually a [[GeniusBonus sly reference]] to the city of ''Moscow'', Idaho.
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' parodied this. Apu tells of his vacation plans to see Paris... in fact, several Parises, including [[Creator/ParisHilton Hilton]], Texas, and France. They also revel in its avoidance when discussing Springfield and which state it is (or isn't) in. By the way, assuming it were a real American town, it could be any of 28 Springfields in 24 states ([[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Wisconsin has five]]).
* In one episode of ''WhereOnEarthIsCarmenSandiego?'', the detectives figure out they need to head to a river that's between Cairo and Memphis. When they arrive at the Nile, they find out they should have gone to the Mississippi (one of them is Memphis, Tennessee, while the other is most likely Cairo, Missouri - while the Mississippi runs by Cairo, Illinois, it's on the same side as Memphis).
* An episode of ''HiHiPuffyAmiYumi'' had Ami excited to meet her pen pal from Paris, who she thinks is handsome. But it turns out he's a short nerd from Paris, Idaho.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "The Lion and the Unicorn", Alfred travels to England to help an old friend of his. When he calls Bruce to tell him, Bruce asks "London, England?", and Alfred answers, "There is only one." Whether he meant "only one London" (which would be an odd CriticalResearchFailure on Alfred's part) or "only one ''London, England''" is up to debate.
** Given that Alfred has a tendency to get a bit patriotic when the UK comes up, he could have meant there was only one London worthy of the name.
* ''TotallySpies'' averts this: wherever the girls go, only the name of the city pops up at the bottom of the screen, without a state or country (i.e. you never, ''ever'', see "Beverly Hills, California" in these captions). They still use the EiffelTowerEffect whenever applicable, though.
* Parodied in the "Anne Frank movie produced by Jerry Bruckheimer" found in ''WesternAnimation/MonkeyDust'' which finds Hitler in Berlin, England; because of course [[EvilBrit Hitler is English]].
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* As noted above, the name was coined by Bill Bryson. He discussed it in an essay in which he suggested that the stereotypically lower intelligence of Americans compared to people of other nationalities is not down to some sort of racial defect, but a result of Americans being regularly freed from any need to think, ever. This trope, he argued, is one way in which American newspaper-readers are not required to cognitively exert themselves in the same way that British newspaper-readers are.
* Miami University is almost universally known as "Miami of Ohio" to distinguish it from the much more famous University of Miami in Florida.
** Somewhat ironic given that, as students and alumni of the university are often proud to declare, "there was a Miami in Ohio when Florida still belonged to Spain" (Miami University in Oxford, Ohio - itself an example of this trope - was established in 1809, Florida was ceded by Spain to the United States in 1819, the city of Miami was settled in 1825, and the University of Miami was established in 1925). As so many entries on this wiki attest, being the first does not necessarily mean being the most well known, hence the need for clarification.
** Gregg Easterbrook of ESPN.com loves obscure colleges with goofy names, his two favorites being [[http://www.calvulcans.com/index.aspx?path=football California of Pennsylvania]] and [[http://www.iupathletics.com/index.aspx?path=football Indiana of Pennsylvania]].
** Miami, Oklahoma is pronounced "Mi-am-ah" in the local dialect to avoid confusion with the Florida city. The local Department of Commerce has even set up signs with this pronunciation.
** It gets worse, in an OnlyInFlorida fashion: Florida not only boasts a city named Miami, it also boasts a city named Miami City. Miami City, Florida, is in Escambia County, the western-most part of Florida's "panhandle", and just about as far away as you can get from the Miami as you can get and still be in Florida.
* There are several towns throughout the U.S. which run along the lines of "State Name" + City, and then, of course, the state name is read. The most famous of these is New York, New York. There's also Iowa City, Iowa; Oregon City, Oregon, among others. Reading the state name afterwards in the manner of this trope can seem [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment redundant]], of course, unless...
** There's also a Michigan City, Indiana, just 6 miles from the Michigan border (and also located along Lake Michigan). And there's also a Nevada City, California (in Nevada County), but it's much further from the Nevada state line. There's also the famous old silver mining town of Virginia City, Nevada (Virginia is on the other side of the country). Or Colorado City, Arizona, home of some Mormon polygamist sects. Then there's Iowa, Louisiana; Virginia, Minnesota; Oregon, Ohio; Delaware, Ohio, Oregon, Illinois...
*** There's also Nevada, Missouri... kinda. The name of the city is not pronounced the same way as the state (nuh-VAY-duh for the city; nuh-VAD-uh for the state).
** In the United States, there are several municipalities with directions in the names and are ''not'' in the same state as their namesake cities. So you have East St. Louis, Illinois; East Chicago, Indiana; and West New York, New Jersey.
** Kansas City is the best-known U.S. example, being a fairly large city that straddles the Kansas-Missouri border. There is both a Kansas City, KS and a Kansas City, MO, right next to each other. And the one in Missouri is ''larger''.
*** If you say Kansas City without a modifier, it is almost always assumed that you mean Kansas City, Missouri. Which can be useful if you wish to mislead someone...there's a reason it's called the KansasCityShuffle, after all.
** This is not a uniquely American phenomenon:
** In Japan there are several prefectures that share their names with their capital cities. Osaka, Kyoto and Fukuoka (the last of which is a clue to the location of the Anime/ExcelSaga anime) to name some. Tokyo used to be like this as well before they merged the Tokyo (city) government with the Tokyo (prefecture) government to form the modern Tokyo Metropolis.
*** Although in Japanese, it's easy to distinguish because the names are given endings to denote location. Cities are [Name]-shi and prefectures are [Name]-ken. Important locations such as Tokyo and Kyoto actually get their own unique suffixes, making it even harder to confuse the areas.
** In China over 200 cities share names with the prefecture they belong to. What's worse is they (as the prefecture capital) divide themselves into districts (each district on equal level of counties), and all-city institutions are combined with prefecture governments--so the prefecture is called "prefecture-level city" despite it's 10~1000 times larger than urban area of the central city, creating confusion even among locals.
*** Also, some cities have a county of same name adjacent to it, e.g. (urban) Handan City is surrounded by Handan County, Handan City (prefecture).
*** Chongqing Municipality (a combination of four former prefectures) is sometimes mistaken as world's largest city with 29 million population (the urban Chongqing is large and important anyway, but it has only ~8 million population).
*** When Chaohu prefecture dissolved (the peripheral counties divided between neighboring prefectures, and urban Chaohu transferred to Hefei prefecture's control), some foreign newspapers claimed that a city as large as Los Angels disappeared from map (4 million population in prefecture, but the urban area of Chaohu have a population of 800,000--a "small" city by Chinese standards).
*** This phenomenon is so widespread that [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:China_Prefectural-level.png the majority of China's population are affected by it]] (Note: pink, purple and green is where this trope applies)
*** What's really odd is even Taipei and Kaohsiung are once considered "prefecture-level city" by PRC, and marked as such on maps, despite PRC never controlled them. After actual administrative divisions in Taiwan changed in 2010, this practice declined, although PRC maps are still reluctant to show reality: Baidu map only marked Keelung, Taipei, Hsinchu, Taichung, Chiayi, Tainan, Kaohsiung as seven points, displayed several ROC national highways, and no details (Note that New Taipei is not shown at all, pretending it's still a county, see also below).
** In Taiwan, here's also New Taipei City, formerly known as Taipei County, not to be confused with the capital of the Republic of China, Taipei, one of two enclaves of New Taipei.
** There's also Québec City, Québec.
*** Only to English-speakers. Locals simply call it Québec, which is distinguished from the province by the lack of a definite article. Also confusion is easily avoided with the proper pronoun - "Au Québec" (In Québec) for the province, "À Québec" (At Québec) for the city.
* Someone in Vancouver, Washington has printed T-shirts reading "Vancouver (not B.C.), Washington (not D.C.), Clark County (not Nevada), next to Portland, Oregon (not Maine)".
** Vancouver, Washington is just 300 miles from the much larger Vancouver, BC, so it's not uncommon to hear residents of the Pacific Northwest refer to the American town as Vancouver, USA.
** Speaking of Washington, do you mean the state on the west coast, or the nation's capital in the District of Columbia on the East Coast? For further confusion, before it was made a state, Washington was known as Columbia Territory. Of course, locals always call it "DC" or "The District" so as not to confuse anyone. If you say "Washington" to a Washingtonian, they're going to assume you're talking about the state. Hence why most people just say "Washington State". And if you say "Washington" and you ARE referring to DC, then they're going to laugh at you for being a stupid tourist.
* When UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush met Music/CharlotteChurch, he allegedly asked her what state UsefulNotes/{{Wales}} is in. There's a Wales in Alaska, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, North Dakota, Utah, and Wisconsin, but you'd think the accent would be a tip off.
** Most likely a state of grumpiness.
* There was a story about an elderly Dutch man and his grandson who somehow ended up on a flight to Sydney... Nova Scotia, instead of the more well-known, oft-visited UsefulNotes/{{Sydney}}, UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}.
** Then there's the deliberate version around twenty years ago in which a Winnipeg radio station had a contest, the prize being a trip to UsefulNotes/{{Miami}}. This being the middle of a frigid Manitoba winter, there was a massive response. The winners were told to show up at the radio station to board a bus, which they presumably thought would take them to the airport. However, it took them to the small community of Miami, Manitoba. They were not amused.
** Before computerisation, it was not at all uncommon for luggage, and sometimes passengers, for Melbourne, Florida to wind up in Melbourne, Australia. It still happens, but nowhere near as often.
** Also happened with Burlington, Vermont, and the smaller Burlington, Iowa.
*** There are also three Melbournes in England: one in [[UsefulNotes/TheMidlands Derbyshire]], {{Yorkshire}} and [[UsefulNotes/EastAnglia Cambridgeshire]]. Although the last one is spelt Melbourn.
* There is a town of Sault Ste. Marie in Ontario, Canada. It's right on the border with... Sault-Sainte-Marie, UsefulNotes/{{Michigan}}, USA.
** Likewise Nogales, Sonora, Mexico and Nogales, Arizona, USA. Note, however that as described above Vancouver, Washington is on the Oregon state line, ''opposite'' the [[UsefulNotes/{{Vancouver}} Canadian border]].
** Lloydminster, Alberta/Saskatchewan, needs a slash - as it's not two cities, but a single municipal entity with the provincial border straight down its middle, founded before either province.
** There's also Texarkana, Texas and Texarkana, Arkansas. Again, they border each other.
** Niagara Falls, Ontario is quite well-known; not as well known is Niagara Falls, New York, immediately adjacent to it.
* Most places in Vermont that appear to be named after places in England, are in fact named after places in Connecticut that were named after places in England.
* Until late 2007, [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] was headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida. There have apparently been cases of stuff intended for them ending up in St. Petersburg, Russia.
** The Other Wiki once had a talk page battle over its St. Petersburg article should refer to which city above, or to be a disambiguation page.
* Not only can London, England be confused with London, Ontario, but Ontario, Canada can often be confused with Ontario, California perhaps less surprisingly, given that Ontario, California is a small, relatively insignificant city which happens to have LA/Ontario International, a large, significant airport.
** It doesn't help that both Canada and California can both be abbreviated "CA".
** There is also an [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontario,_Oregon Ontario, Oregon]].
* There is ''a lot'' of cities named Warsaw, mostly in the US, but also in Canada, all named after the capital of Poland. Being mostly settled by Polish immigrants might have had something to do with it.
* Ontario (the province) has, in addition to London, communities named Cambridge, Windsor, Southampton, Ayr, Paris, Elmira, Athens, Delhi (though they pronounce that one "DELL-high"), and probably many more. They used to have a Berlin, but that was changed to Kitchener in 1916 [[WorldWarI for some reason]].
* There's a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_Virginia Washington, Virginia]] not far west from the more well known D.C., and signs that lead there say "Washington, Va." The denizens there call it "Little Washington."
** Justified as according to [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} That Other Wiki]], G.W. himself surveyed the area, and the town was incorporated before his death. Also, it's the oldest town of Washington in the U.S.A.
*** Likewise there is the town of Washington, North Carolina. It is also referred to as Little Washington.
*** And of course, they're all named after George Washington, a descendent of William de Wessyngton of the town of Washington just outside Sunderland, England. (Not Washington, West Sussex.)
* There's half a dozen Californias in England, and there used to be an annual Washington to California cycle race.
* The tiny island of Kiritimati has a London, a Paris and a Poland.
* Maine has a ''lot'' of cities named after countries, which leads to the famous photograph of [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MOYA2WwtOq0/Skqyqz_HqCI/AAAAAAAAAsM/V5590qMfHV4/s1600-h/signMaine062909.jpg a rather surreal road sign]].
* Hamilton, Ontario and Hamilton, New Zealand often have similar cultural events, causing Google confusion.
* Speaking of New Zealand, until 1871 there were two Palmerstons - one in the South Island between Oamaru and Dunedin and one in the North Island on the Manawatu River. The one in the North Island was renamed "Palmerston North" by the Post Office, despite being the larger of the two (Palmerston "South" has a population of 1500, while Palmerston North has a population of 81,000).
** Likewise there were two Havelocks, one in Marlborough and one just outside Hastings. The latter was renamed Havelock North, despite being larger.
** There are also numerous Māori place names that are doubled up or very similar. For example, there is Waitangi, Bay of Islands and Waitangi, Chatham Islands. Just to add to the confusion, Waitangi in the South Island Māori dialect is 'Waitaki', which is the name of a major South Island river.
** Back in the days when telephone exchanges had names rather than area codes (and you needed an operator to make a long distance call), the exchange for Kawakawa Bay was renamed "Ruakawakawa" to distinguish it from the (larger, but still small) town Kawakawa. ("Rua" = "two" in Maori.)
* This sort of naming is extremely common in Atlantic Canada. In addition to all the repeats of Scottish, Irish, or English place names, you can get a Lower ____, ____, Middle ____, Upper Middle ____, North ____, and so on, generally quite close together along the course of a river. In Nova Scotia there is a Lower, Middle, and Upper Sackville. Sackville is a couple hours of driving away in New Brunswick across a big huge marsh. North Sydney and Sydney are right next to each other, and there is no Burlington in Nova Scotia (You've got to go to Ontario to find it), although you will find both Lower and Upper Burlington on a sufficiently detailed map of the province.
* When Advertising/BurmaShave put up joke signs promising "[[http://www.snopes.com/business/market/mars.asp Free! Free! A trip to Mars / For 900 / Empty jars!]]", they weren't actually expecting someone to take them up on it. When store owner Arliss French shipped in 900 jars he'd gotten customers to donate, the company gave him and his wife a vacation in Moers (pronounced "Mars"), Germany.
** Pronounced "Mars" by Americans who don't know any better, maybe, but not by its inhabitants or German-speakers in general.
* In Russia and the former SovietUnion, there are several cities that have nearly identical names. A few of these have changed since TheGreatPoliticsMessUp due to PleaseSelectNewCityName.
** Novgorod (sometimes called "Velikiy (Great)" Novgorod) and Nizhny Novgorod ("Lower Novgorod").
** Rostov Velikiy ("Great Rostov") and Rostov-na-Donu ("Rostov-on-the-Don").
** [[TheCityFormerlyKnownAs Leningrad, Russia (Saint Petersburg)]] and Leningrad, Tajikistan.
** Moskva (UsefulNotes/{{Moscow}}), Russia and Moskva, Tajikistan.
* There is a town in Pennsylvania with the extremely confusing name of London Britain (note the lack of a comma).
* Austria. For a country smaller than Maine, they sure have a lot of identical names, which they distinguish by adding "at XXX" or "in YYY".
** Hadersdorf im Kamptal / Hadersdorf-Weidlingau; Neusiedl am See / Neusiedl an der Zaya / Neusiedl bei Güssing
** And lots and lots of places named St. [name of the saint the local church is dedicated to].
** There is also both a district and a city named Salzburg, the latter being the capital of the former.
** Anyone from Austria will tell you, if you write them a letter, you have to list the country as "Austria/Europe" (it even says that on people's business cards), otherwise your mail may very well end up in Sydney.
* Averted with Cambridge, Massachussetts...or at least their university. Deciding that Cambridge University (or variations thereof) may get confusing, they called it Harvard instead.
* Happens a lot with many Latin American and Spanish cities, for obvious reasons:
** There's a Guadalajara in Mexico, another in Spain and another in Colombia (but it's named "Buga" for the locals).
* West, Texas, is commonly referred to by locals and travelers passing through as West-Comma-Texas to differentiate it from the geographic region. Incidentally, West is in ''Central'' Texas (or North Texas- there's some overlap).
** And on that note, North Texas (centered on the [[UsefulNotes/DFWMetroplex Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex]]) is nowhere near the geographic northernmost part of the state (more commonly known as the Panhandle).
* Before it was annexed by the city of UsefulNotes/{{Pittsburgh}} in the latter half of the 19th Century, the neighborhoods south of the Monongahela River, and where most of the steel mills that made the region notorious, were a separate city called Birmingham, Pennsylvania. At this time the city of Birmingham, Alabama became the largest steel center in the south. Combined with their namesake city in England, there were ''three'' cities named Birmingham that were leading the English-speaking world in steel production.
* When the athlete from Georgia died during the Winter Olympics, they had to specify that they meant Georgia the country, not the state.
** This duplication was also used by Music/TheBeatles in a joking line about "Georgia girls" in ''Back in the U.S.S.R.''
* Aside from the famous Bethlehem (city of David, alleged birthplace of JesusChrist), which is in Palestinian territory, there is an Israeli town which is called "the Galilean Bethlehem" (''Beit Lehem [=HaGlilit=]'') for clarity. Which isn't even counting other countries--there are 13 in the United States, including ''two'' in North Carolina.
* In UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers it's not uncommon to see the name of a town in England followed by the county eg Wigan, Lancashire. It seems this is not usually done so the town is not confused with another (although there are numerous villages in England with the same name) but instead to give the reader a general idea of the town's location. However it can often lead to a lot of confusion, for example in the case of Wigan, Lancashire. Lancashire is the traditional county Wigan is located in but it is currently in the county of [[UsefulNotes/FootballPopMusicAndFlatCaps Greater Manchester]]. Whether the traditional county or the current county is used is decided upon by some unknown criteria and can be confusing.
** Some newspapers when referring to a village the reader is most likely unfamiliar with, write "[village] near [nearest town]", e.g.: Clenchwarton near Kings Lynn.
* It is customary in Chinese history books to give the name of the corresponding modern county when mentioning the site of an ancient city or battle. Many students have wryly observed that, considering that there are 2862 counties in the modern PRC, it's not all that helpful.
* In British media, the prefix "County" indicates to viewers/readers unfamiliar with Irish geography that the location in question is in Ireland. Irish naming conventions make liberal use of this trope to distinguish counties from identically-named towns and cities within them (the cities of Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick all sharing names with their respective counties). In contrast, the only traditional English county which conforms to this convention is County Durham - again, to distinguish it from the city of Durham.
* Most Catholic countries seem to have the problem of places named after the saint the local church is dedicated to. There are not that many saints, so the entire German-speaking area, for example, is full of "St. Johann"s and "St. Michael"s. It doesn't help much that a lot of saints share the same names - there are eight different saints named Mary, for example.
* Oakland, California and Auckland, New Zealand. While distinguishable in writing, a Californian pronounces Oakland the same way a New Zealander pronounces Auckland. Several Americans have ended up on the wrong side of the Pacific from this confusion, including [[Series/FullHouse Stephanie and Michelle Tanner]].
* There is an anecdote of a trucker taking a shipment to LA--Los Angeles, California--that was actually intended to go to Louisiana (postal abbreviation LA).
* UsefulNotes/LosAngeles invokes this when it says that .la is the first top-level domain ever given to a city. It isn't--.la is the Country-Code Top-level domain for ''UsefulNotes/{{Laos}}''.
* In a particularly unpleasant example of even the Brits finding this trope useful, [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25659531 this BBC article]] about a US military helicopter crash near Norfolk. [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-25661782 The day after the BBC reported on a US military helicopter crash near Norfolk.]]
* In UsefulNotes/{{Australia}}, much the same system is used, and for much the same reason, although place names tend to be derived primarily from British sources, with a scattering of native names and assorted other European names (mostly either those of early explorers of Australia or the sites of battles that British Empire troops fought in). While the situation is not nearly as complicated as that of the US (fewer states generally meaning fewer duplications), there are still, for example places named Richmond in five of Australia's six states[[note]]not West Australia[[/note]].


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Two dogs, belonging to the army, are now being trained for guard duty by the Madras city police. Another couple of dogs are also being trained by the police on behalf of the Railway Protection Force. It is learnt that such dogs will also be trained on behalf of the Customs and the Air Force. The work of the police dogs in Madras has now attracted country-wide attention.
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