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ICCF numeric notation

ICCF numeric notation is the official chess notation system of the International Correspondence Chess Federation. The system was devised for use in international correspondence chess to avoid the potential confusion of using algebraic notation, as the chess pieces have different abbreviations depending on language.

In ICCF numeric notation, each square of the chessboard has a two-digit designation. The first digit is the number of the ; files are numbered 1 to 8 from left to right from White's point of view. The second digit is the ; ranks are numbered 1 to 8 from nearest to farthest from White's point of view. Each move is denoted by either four or five digits: the first two digits denote the square the moving piece leaves; the following two digits denote the square at which the moving piece arrives; and, where applicable, the fifth digit denotes the piece of promotion.

Details

In numeric notation, each square is designated with a two-digit number via a coordinate system. The first digit describes the file and the second digit the rank. Files are numbered 1 to 8 from White's left to White's right, and ranks are numbered 1 to 8 from White's near side to White's far side. A move is defined by pairing two square designations together, one for the starting square and one for the ending square. For example, the move that would be written 1.e4 in algebraic notation would be written ''1. 5254'' in numeric notation: the pawn starts from square 52 (file 5, rank 2) and moves to square 54 (file 5, rank 4). Numeric notation does not explicitly mark the type of moving piece,, or checks; every move is written as four digits unless resulting in promotion.

For promotion, a fifth digit is added to the move's notation: 1 for queen, 2 for rook, 3 for bishop, and 4 for knight. For instance, a pawn on f7 moving to f8 and promoting to a rook would be written as 67682. A variant four-digit notation where the ending rank is omitted (because it is always 8 for White and 1 for Black) also exists (e.g. 6762); however, this is considered confusing and contradicts the standard.

Castling is written using the king's start position and end position. Castling is written as 5171 for White and 5878 for Black, and castling  is written as 5131 for White and 5838 for Black. The rook's start and end positions are implied.

History
German professor J. W. D. Wildt of Göttingen devised numeric notation circa 1803. Johann Koch used the system 25 years later; the system is sometimes named after him. Ivan Savenkov supported its use in 1877, and it bears his name in Russia.

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William Sharpe (North Carolina politician)

William Sharpe (December 13, 1742 – July 1, 1818) was a lawyer, politician, American Revolution patriot, and a delegate to the Continental Congress from Rowan County, North Carolina, which became Iredell County in 1788.

Early life
Sharpe was born in Rock Church, Cecil County, Maryland, in 1742. He was the son of Thomas Sharp, Jr, and his wife, Elizabeth, of Maryland. He pursued classical studies and law. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina in 1763. He married Catherine Reese in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina on May 31, 1768. He moved to Rowan County, North Carolina in late 1768 or 1769. He lived in the area of Rowan County that became Iredell County in 1788.

Career
William Sharpe was a member of the Fourth Creek Congregation in Rowan County, North Carolina (near what became Statesville, North Carolina in 1789) and created a map of the church members in 1773. Sharpe was a member of the North Carolina Provincial Congress in 1775. Prior to the onset of the American Revolutionary War, he served on the Rowan County Committee of Safety.

During the war, he was an aide to General Griffith Rutherford of the Salisbury District Brigade in the Indian campaign in 1776. William was one of four commissioners appointed by Governor Caswell to form a treaty with the Indians in 1777. William served as Colonel commanding the 2nd Rowan County Regiment of the North Carolina militia from 1776-1777. When the 2nd Rowan County Regiment became the Burke County Regiment of militia, he served as its commander from 1777 to 1781. (Note there was another Captain William Sharpe, who served in the Rowan County Regiment from 1780 to 1781. The relation to Colonel William Sharpe is not known.)

Sharpe served as a delegate to the North Carolina constitutional convention in Halifax in 1776, and helped to frame the first constitution of the State. He was later appointed in 1779 as a delegate to the Continental Congress, 1779–1781, and elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1781 and 1782.

Sharpe placed the first bill before the legislature of North Carolina to propose a publicly supported university in the state. This bill failed, but was taken up at the next seating of the legislature and was promoted by one of the state's Revolutionary War leaders General William Richardson Davie. It subsequently passed in 1789, creating the University of North Carolina.

He died near Statesville, North Carolina on July 6, 1818 and is interred in Snow Creek Burying Ground.

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 * However spirited gunnery and perfectly timed radical simultaneous turns enabled the American vessels to thwart the attackers
 * the fearless destroyer
 * the valiant ship
 * she demanded the attention of her antagonists by peppering them
 * stouthearted captain

 * This is typical of material sourced from the DANFS; see WikiProject Ships/DANFS conversions for general advice. More serious than this POV is the absurd claim, "Although Japanese records deny that these torpedoes hit the cruiser [Haguro], there is no evidence to indicate any other explanation for the geyser effect observed" — as if the crew of Haguro wouldn't know if they had been torpedoed or not! Gdr 09:33, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

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Oregon Department of Transportation

The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) is a department of the state government of the U.S. state of Oregon responsible for systems of transportation. It was first established in 1969. It had been preceded by the Oregon State Highway Department which, along with the Oregon State Highway Commission, was created by an act of the Oregon Legislative Assembly in 1913. It works closely with the five-member Oregon Transportation Commission (the modern name of the Highway Commission) in managing the state's transportation systems.

The Oregon Transportation Commission, formerly the Oregon State Highway Commission, is a five-member governor-appointed government agency that manages the state highways and other transportation in the U.S. state of Oregon, in conjunction with the Oregon Department of Transportation.

Inception
The first State Highway Commission was created on August 12, 1913, and was composed of Governor Oswald West, Secretary of State Ben W. Olcott and Treasurer Thomas B. Kay. On January 12, 1915, James Withycombe became Governor and replaced Oswald West on the commission. The 1917 Oregon Legislative Assembly redesigned the State Highway Commission, with citizens appointed to replace the elected officials.

The new commissioners held their first meeting on March 6, and the commission was then known as the Oregon Highway Division. As Oregon's transportation needs started to grow, the division expanded and, in 1919, it employed their first State Bridge Engineer, Conde McCullough.

Events
By 1920, Oregon had 620 mi of paved roads and 297.2 mi of plank roads for a population of 783,389 and, by 1932, the work that had been started on the Oregon Coast Highway (also known as U.S. Route 101) in 1914 was completed, except for five bridges, which meant greater responsibility for the division. This work was complete when the construction of the bridges over the Yaquina, Alsea, Siuslaw, and Umpqua rivers and Coos Bay were completed, closing the last gaps in the highway. By 1940, the highway division was managing more than 7000 mi of state, market and country roads in Oregon, with nearly 5000 mi being hard-surfaced.

In 2018, the city government of Portland, Oregon and ODOT entered into an intergovernmental agreement in which the Portland city government takes over the cleanups of transient camps on ODOT right-of-way in select locations in Portland in exchange for payments from ODOT.

In 2019, ODOT installed boulders at five locations in Portland to deter transient camps around the freeways. The installations have received support from neighbors while criticized by homeless advocacy groups.

Exploding whale incident
On November 12, 1970, the department was tasked with disposing of a dead sperm whale that washed ashore on the beach near Florence. The department exploded the dead whale using half a ton of dynamite to blast it off the beach. Pieces of dead whale went everywhere including the beach, bystanders, a parking lot and a park, severely damaging at least one car. Willamette Week reports "The decision to publicly dynamite an enormous mammal has become one of Oregon's all-time most bizarre moments."

This became known as the "exploding whale incident".

Directors

 * John Fulton — July 1, 1969 – December 31, 1970
 * George Baldwin — January 1, 1971 – June 30, 1971
 * Sam Haley — July 1, 1971 – July 8, 1973
 * George Baldwin — July 9, 1973 – April 30, 1976
 * Bob Burco — May 1, 1976 – January 8, 1979
 * Fred Klaboe — January 9, 1979 – December 31, 1981
 * Fred Miller — January 1, 1982 – February 16, 1987
 * Bob Bothman — February 17, 1987 – June 30, 1991
 * Don Forbes — July 1, 1991 – 1995
 * Grace Crunican — 1996 – 2001
 * Bruce Warner — 2001 – 2005
 * Matthew Garrett — December 19, 2005 – June 30, 2019
 * Kris Strickler — September 2019 – Present

Slogans

 * 1913 - "Get Oregon Out of the Mud"
 * 1957 - "Building Oregon Thru Better Highways"
 * 1958 - "Oregon Freeways...Symbol of 2nd Century Progress"
 * 1961 - "Freeways are Easier"
 * 1967 - "Fifty Years of Building Better Highways in Oregon" (not technically correct; the department was formed in 1913)
 * 1978 - "Keep Oregon Green and in the Black"
 * 1986 - "ODOT on the Move"
 * 2006 - "The way to go!"

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Agnes Mary Clerke

Agnes Mary Clerke (10 February 1842 – 20 January 1907) was an Irish astronomer and writer, mainly in the field of astronomy. She was born in Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland, and died in London.

Family
Agnes Clerke was the daughter of John William Clerke (c. 1814–1890) who was, at the time, a bank manager in Skibbereen, and his wife Catherine Mary Deasy (born circa 1819) whose father was a judge's registrar. She had two siblings; her older sister, Ellen Mary (1840-1906) and her younger brother, Aubrey St. John (1843-1923). Her elder sister Ellen also wrote about astronomy. All of the Clerke children were entirely home schooled.

Catherine Clerke was educated at the Ursuline Convent school, and therefore placed a great deal of importance on the education of young girls.

Life and work
Following in her father's footsteps — while studying classics, he had also taken courses in astronomy — she developed an interest in astronomy from an early age. Using her father's 4-inch telescope in her observations, she had begun to write a history of astronomy at the age of 15.

In 1861, aged 19, her family moved to Dublin, and in 1863 to Queenstown (present-day Cobh). At the age of 25, partly for health reasons together with her elder sister Ellen, she went to Italy where she stayed until 1877, chiefly at Florence, studying science, languages, and other subjects that would be useful in their later lives. In 1877, she settled in London.

Upon her return, she was able to get two articles, "Brigandage in Sicily" and "Copernicus in Italy", written while she had been in Italy, published in the Edinburgh Review of October 1877. This led to her being asked by Adam and Charles Black, publishers of the Review, who also published the Encyclopædia Britannica, to write biographies of a number of famous scientists for the ninth edition of the encyclopedia.

This led to a number of other commissions, including the publication of the article on astronomy for the Catholic Encyclopedia.

During her career she wrote reviews of many books, including some written in French, German, Greek, or Italian. In 1885, she published her best known work, A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century. This book became commonly used for its discussion of the spectroscope.

In 1888 she spent three months at the observatory at the Cape of Good Hope.

In the autumn of 1890, Clerke and her brother Aubrey were founding members of the British Astronomical Association.

In 1893, Clerke was awarded the Actonian Prize of 100 guineas by the Royal Institution. As a member of the British Astronomical Association she attended its meetings regularly, as well as those of the Royal Astronomical Society. In 1903, with Margaret Lindsay Huggins, she was elected an honorary member of the Royal Astronomical Society, a rank previously held only by three other women, Caroline Herschel and Mary Somerville (in 1835), and Anne Sheepshanks (in 1862).

She died of pneumonia in 1907 at her home in South Kensington.

Personal life
Agnes and Ellen were devout Catholics all their lives. Neither ever married.

Legacy
The lunar crater Clerke is named after her.

In 2002, Mary Brück wrote Agnes Mary Clerke and the Rise of Astrophysics.

In 2017, the Royal Astronomical Society established the Agnes Clerke Medal for the History of Astronomy or Geophysics, which is awarded to individuals who have achieved outstanding research into the history of astronomy or geophysics. The first recipient was Clive Ruggles.

In 2022 Jessie Kennedy and the Celestial Quartet performed a concert in Skibbereen in honour of Clerke. The performance included songs specially composed by Jessie Kennedy and by Tess Leak, using words of Agnes and her sister, Ellen, and a cello trio, the Agnes Clerke Cello Trio, composed by Diana Llewellyn.

Selected writings

 * A Popular History of Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century. Edinburgh, 1885 (4th rev. ed. London, 1902)
 * The System of the Stars. London, 1890 (2nd ed. London, 1905)
 * The Herschels and Modern Astronomy. London, 1895
 * The Concise Knowledge Astronomy (co-authored with John Ellard Gore and Alfred Fowler). London, 1898
 * Problems in Astrophysics. London, 1903
 * "Modern Cosmogonies". London, Adam and Charles Black, 1905.

She also wrote 55 articles for the Edinburgh Review, mainly on subjects connected with astrophysics, and articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, the Encyclopædia Britannica and the Catholic Encyclopedia, and several other periodicals. Her articles in the ninth edition (1875–89) of the Britannica included Galileo Galilei, Alexander von Humboldt, Johannes Kepler, Antoine Lavoisier and the zodiac.

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William Smith (Maryland politician)

William Smith (April 12, 1728 – March 27, 1814) was an American politician and representative of the fourth congressional district of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives.

Formative years and family
Born on April 12, 1728, in the Province of Pennsylvania in what is now Donegal Township, Lancaster County, Smith moved to Baltimore, Maryland in 1761.

Smith's daughter, Mary Smith, later married General Otho Holland Williams, the founder of Williamsport, Maryland.

Career
Appointed to the committee of correspondence in 1774 and to the committee of observation in 1775, Smith also served in the Revolutionary War as deputy adjutant general to Generals Horatio Gates and Nathanael Greene.

In 1777, Smith was appointed by the Continental Congress to the naval board. That same year, Smith was chosen as a Maryland delegate to the Continental Congress.

He subsequently pursued a career as a merchant, and was then elected to the 1st United States Congress, serving in that capacity from March 4, 1789, until March 3, 1791.

Smith was subsequently appointed as the first auditor of the United States Treasury, and served in that post from July 16, 1791, to November 27, 1791. He then returned to local politics and was elected to the Maryland Senate in 1801.

Death and interment
Smith died in Baltimore and was interred in the Old Westminster Graveyard.

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Fall from grace

To fall from grace is an idiom referring to a loss of status, respect, or prestige.

Fall from grace may also refer to:

 * Fall of man, in Christianity, the transition of the very first man and woman from a state of innocent obedience to God to a state of guilty disobedience
 * Fallen angel, a wicked or rebellious angel that has been cast out of Heaven

Literature

 * Fall from Grace (Greeley), a novel by Andrew Greeley
 * Fall from Grace (Collins), a novel by Larry Collins
 * Fall From Grace: The Failed Crusade of the Christian Right, 1990 book by Michael D'Antonio
 * Fall from Grace, a 2015 novel by Wayne Arthurson
 * Fallen Grace, a novel by Mary Hooper

Music

 * Fall from Grace (band), a punk rock band which debuted in 2004

Albums

 * Fall from Grace (Death Angel album), 1990
 * Fall from Grace (EP), a 1997 EP by the band Ensign
 * Fallen from Grace, a 2007 album by American hip hop group Insane Poetry
 * Fall from Grace (Infernal album), 2010
 * Fall from Grace (Borealis album), 2011

Songs

 * "Fallen from Grace", a song from the 1990 album Brigade by Heart
 * "Fall from Grace", a song from the 2013 album Searching by Jay Diggins
 * "Fall from Grace", a song from the 2013 album Sequel to the Prequel by Babyshambles
 * "Fallen from Grace", a song from the 1987 album Monolith by Amebix
 * "Fallen from Grace", a 2008 song from MyEarthDream by Edenbridge
 * "Fall from Grace", 1995 song from Amanda Marshall by Amanda Marshall
 * "Fall from Grace", 2001 song from the album All in Hand by Rosemary's Sons
 * "Fall from Grace", 2001 song from the Stevie Nicks album Trouble in Shangri-La
 * "Fall from Grace", a song by Morbid Angel from their 1991 album Blessed Are the Sick
 * "Elizabeth III: Fall from Grace", song from the album Karma by American power metal band Kamelot
 * "Fall from Grace", a song from the 2002 album On a Wire by The Get Up Kids
 * "Fall from Grace", a song from the 2011 album The Hymn of a Broken Man by Times of Grace
 * "Falling from Grace", a song from the 1983 album A Child's Adventure by Marianne Faithfull
 * "Falling from Grace, Pt. 1, Wake The Nightmares", song from the 2003 album "Soundchaser" by Rage
 * "Falling from Grace, Pt. 2, Death Is On Its Way", song from the 2003 album "Soundchaser" by Rage
 * "Fall from Grace", a song from album Singles by Future Islands

Film

 * Fall from Grace (1990 film), a 1990 film about Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker
 * Falling from Grace (film), a 1992 film starring John Mellencamp
 * A Fall from Grace, a 2020 film directed by Tyler Perry

Other media

 * Fall from Grace, a 1994 Daredevil story arc
 * Fall-From-Grace, a character from the 1999 computer role-playing game Planescape: Torment
 * "Fall From Grace", an episode in the TV series Shark
 * "Fall from Grace" (House), a 2011 episode of the TV series House

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Famous in the Last Century

Famous in the Last Century is the twenty-fourth studio album by British rock band Status Quo, released in 2000. According to the band's autobiography, the idea to record it came from manager David Walker, who said they should celebrate the millennium with an album containing twenty of their favourite hits from the past century. "Another bloody covers album!" grumbled Francis Rossi. "We went along with it, as usual, but inside I felt like a fraud... for me it was the worst Quo album there had ever been - or ever will be!"

"We didn't wanna do it," Rossi said, "but it sold. I don't think we'll do another one." However, 2003's Riffs was another covers collection.

Famous in the Last Century reached No.19 on the UK Albums Chart, a better position than the previous Quo album of mainly original material, Under the Influence. Two singles from it – "Mony Mony" and "Old Time Rock and Roll" – were minor hits.

Jeff Rich left the band after recording this album and was replaced by Matt Letley.

A DVD & VHS of the same name was filmed at the Shepherd's Bush Empire on 27 March 2000. It is a mimed performance of the album. The group did a live gig after the filming of the video, and a few tracks from it were released as B-sides.

Track listing

 * 1) "Famous in the Last Century" (Bown) 1:04
 * 2) "Old Time Rock and Roll" (George Jackson, Thomas E. Jones III.) 2:57
 * 3) "Way Down" (Martine) 2:51
 * 4) "Rave On!" (Petty, William "Billy" Tilghman, Sunny West) 2:51
 * 5) "Roll Over Beethoven" (Berry) 3:07
 * 6) "When I'm Dead and Gone" (Benny Gallagher, Graham Lyle) 3:11
 * 7) "Memphis, Tennessee" (Berry) 2:31
 * 8) "Sweet Home Chicago" (R. Johnson) 2:44
 * 9) "Crawling from the Wreckage" (Parker) 2:42
 * 10) "Good Golly Miss Molly" (Blackwell, Marascalco) 2:05
 * 11) "Claudette" (Orbison) 2:01
 * 12) "Rock'n Me" (Miller) 2:46
 * 13) "Hound Dog" (Leiber, Stoller) 2:19
 * 14) "Runaround Sue" (DiMucci, Maresca) 2:29
 * 15) "Once Bitten Twice Shy" (Hunter) 3:40
 * 16) "Mony Mony" (Bloom, Bo Gentry, James, Ritchie Cordell) 2:58
 * 17) "Famous in the Last Century" (Bown) 1:15

Australia bonus tracks

 * 1) "Pictures of Matchstick Men" (1999 Version) (Francis Rossi) 3:23
 * 2) "Raining in My Heart" (Special Guest Brian May) (Boudleaux Bryant, Felice Bryant) 3:31
 * 3) "Fun Fun Fun² (With the Beach Boys) (Brian Wilson, Mike Love) 3:59
 * 4) "Whatever You Want² (Andy Bown, Rick Parfitt) 4:16

2006 reissue bonus tracks

 * 1) Gerdundula (live) (Manston/James)
 * 2) 4500 Times (live) (Rossi/Parfitt)
 * 3) Rain (live) (Parfitt)

Personnel

 * Francis Rossi - Vocals & lead guitar
 * Rick Parfitt - Vocals & guitar
 * John Edwards - Bass
 * Andy Bown - Keyboards
 * Jeff Rich - Drums

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About Last Night (EP)

About Last Night is an EP by New Buffalo, released on 10 September 2001.

Track listing

 * 1) "16 Beats" – 3:32
 * 2) "About Last Night" – 4:33
 * 3) "Home" – 3:26
 * 4) "This Is More" – 3:25
 * 5) "Just a Little Time" – 4:06

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William Gentry

Major General Sir William George Gentry, (20 February 1899 – 13 October 1991) was a professional soldier in the New Zealand Military Forces who served during the Second World War. He was Chief of the General Staff of the New Zealand Military Forces from 1952 to 1955.

Born in 1899 in London, United Kingdom, Gentry's family emigrated to New Zealand in 1910. He joined the New Zealand Military Forces in 1916 as a cadet. Following graduation from the Royal Military College in 1919, he was posted to the New Zealand Staff Corps and held a number of staff positions in New Zealand and abroad. He saw active service during the Second World War as part of the 2nd New Zealand Division, initially as a staff officer but later on as a brigade commander. After the cessation of hostilities in 1945 he held senior staff positions in the New Zealand Military Forces. From 1952 Gentry served as Chief of the General Staff until his retirement in 1955. He died in 1991 in Lower Hutt.

Early life
Gentry was born in London on 20 February 1899 to Frederick Gentry, a leather salesman, and his wife, Eliza Lawson. When he was 11 years old, his family emigrated to New Zealand, settling in Wellington. Educated at Wellington College, he was one of the limited number of New Zealand entrants in 1916 who enrolled in the Royal Military College at Duntroon in Australia.

Military career
Gentry graduated from Duntroon in 1919 and was posted to the New Zealand Staff Corps. He was seconded to the British Indian Army for two years, serving on the North-West Frontier during the Waziristan campaign and the Moplah rebellion. On returning to New Zealand, he held a number of staff positions in the Central Military District and was promoted to captain in 1926. In 1934 he was sent to England on attachment to the Corps of Royal Engineers for 18 months and also attended engineering courses. He then served at General Headquarters in Wellington as staff officer, Engineers, before returning to England to attend the Staff College at Camberley, graduating in 1939.

Second World War

Shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War, Gentry was promoted to major. He briefly served with the British Expeditionary Force in France before traveling to Egypt to join the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force (2NZEF). Promoted to lieutenant colonel, he served as assistant adjutant and quartermaster general of the 2nd New Zealand Division during the Battle of Greece. In the Battle of Crete he was acting general staff officer (GSO1) in the stead of Brigadier Keith Stewart, who was fulfilling an equivalent role with Creforce. Gentry performed his duties competently and was in the 1942 New Year Honours appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services during this time. He was also, much later, awarded the Greek Military Cross.

In October 1941, after the departure of Stewart to take up the position of Deputy Chief of Staff in New Zealand, Gentry became GSO1 of the 2nd New Zealand Division. In this role, he served under Major-General Bernard Freyberg, who commanded the division, and developed a relationship where he could question Freyberg "without arousing impatience or irritation". He earned a Distinguished Service Order (DSO) for his conduct during the First Battle of El Alamein. The citation for his award read:

"Colonel Gentry was GSO 1 of 2 New Zealand Division in the battle of Alamein. He displayed conspicuous skill and organising ability in the field during the complicated mobile operations leading up to the stabilisation of the Alamein line and the hard fighting which immediately ensued. This officer during a period of great stress and often under heavy fire, displayed the greatest coolness, skill and determination which was an inspiration to all with whom he came in contact."

In September 1942, he was promoted to brigadier and appointed commander of the 6th Infantry Brigade, the previous commander having been made a prisoner of war. Despite having no experience in commanding infantry, he led the brigade well until August 1943, at which time he replaced Stewart as Deputy Chief of Staff to Lieutenant General Edward Puttick. He served in this role for nearly 18 months before rejoining the 2NZEF.

After a period in Egypt in command of New Zealand troops there, from February 1945 Gentry commanded the newly formed 9th Infantry Brigade. His new command included the Divisional Cavalry and Machine Gun Battalion, both of which had been converted to an infantry role and were joined by the 22nd Battalion. After a period of training, the brigade participated in the final stages of the Italian campaign and Gentry was awarded a Bar to his DSO for his leadership of the brigade during this time. Command of his brigade was passed to Stewart on 10 November 1945 and Gentry returned to New Zealand. He was discharged from the 2NZEF in March 1946.

Later life
After serving for a time with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the organisation responsible for the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF) in Japan, Gentry had a second term as Deputy Chief of Staff, this time to Major General Norman Weir. In 1949 he attended the Imperial Defence College (now known as the Royal College of Defence Studies) in England. After completion of his courses, Gentry returned to staff duties in New Zealand, serving as Adjutant General to Stewart, now Chief of Staff, and worked with him in preparing plans for the Government's commitment to deploy military forces to the Middle East in the event of hostilities with the Soviet Union. This work led to several clashes with the Government. In the 1950 Kings's Birthday Honours,he was promoted Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). In 1953, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal.

Promoted to major general, from 1952 to 1955 Gentry served as Chief of the General Staff of the New Zealand Military Forces. He represented New Zealand in ANZUS and was involved in planning for the defence of Southeast Asia. In the 1954 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath. The following year he retired from the military. In a break with convention he was not rewarded with a knighthood for his services. This may have been due to some ill-feeling within the Government regarding his work developing proposed plans for New Zealand's Middle East deployment. He was appointed knighted three years later by the newly elected Labour Government in the 1958 Queen's Birthday Honours.

In his retirement Gentry had a strong relationship with the Boy Scouts Association and served as its New Zealand president from 1957 to 1967. He was awarded the association's Silver Wolf. He died on 13 October 1991 in Lower Hutt, where he had lived for many years, at the age of 92. His wife, whom he married in 1926, died in 1994.

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XIO

XIO is a packet-based, high-performance computer bus employed by the SGI Origin 2000, Octane, Altix, Fuel and Tezro machines. The XIO forms a bus between high-performance system devices and the memory controller.

XIO is usually used in a star topology, using a router ASIC called Crossbow (Xbow) to connect up to eight fully symmetrical devices in a system (one of them is usually the memory controller / CPU bridge, called HEART in Octane or Hub in Origin). Other devices known to have XIO interfaces are:
 * BRIDGE: XIO to PCI-64 bridge (Octane, Origin)
 * XBRIDGE: XIO to PCI-X bridge (Altix)
 * HQ4: command processor of ImpactSR cards (Octane)
 * KTOWN: frontend for InfiniteReality2 cards (Onyx, Origin variation)
 * XC: Crosstown converter
 * BUZZ: "OpenGL-on-a-Chip" ASIC used in ODYSSEY/VPro graphics (V6/V8/V10/V12)

The XIO employs two source-synchronous channels (one in each direction), each 8 or 16 bits wide. They are clocked at 400 MHz to achieve peak rates of 800 MB/s (i.e. in megabytes). Each of the devices can utilize the full bandwidth, as the XBow router prevents collisions by being able to route between any two points.

Transfer is organized into micropackets. These contain a total of 128 bits of data and 32 bits of control. The control information encapsulates an 8 bit sideband (used by higher layers for framing), sequence numbers (for go-back-n link-layer retransmissions) and check bits (CRC-16).

It is probable that XIO uses STL (which SGI likes to call SGI transistor logic) low-voltage single-ended I/O standard. CrossTown is a version of XIO utilizing PECL for differential I/O standard (like NUMAlink) for longer connections.

Higher-level encapsulation differs from NUMAlink (like used to connect HUB chips in Origin-series machines). It is well suited for short memory transactions.

XIO uses very delicate compression connectors, which should be handled with extreme care.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Desrosiers

Sample: likes to shove his penis up his best-friend and bandmate Pierre's bottom and

Profane, garbage, unencyclopedic.--Jondel 08:48, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

This has got to be a speedy candidate, right? Rhymeless 09:02, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Comes up though on Google searches, maybe just a clean up (?) --Jondel 09:28, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Or rather, a delete and restart. If we have a page on Desrosiers, do you want this to be the first entry of the history? Rhymeless 09:36, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * How did my name become the first entry in the history? There was an ip address before this. ? Speedy delete, I didn't create this!!--Jondel 09:50, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * I am in full agreement with Rhymeless, and have speedied it as obscene nonsense. If someone wants to start an article on David Desrosiers, they deserve the courtesy of not having this in its history. p.s. Jondel - the reason you were the first entry is that Topbanana already speedied this once, and it looks like he did so in between you hitting "edit" and you hitting "save", when you added the delete tag. —Stormie 10:14, Aug 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info. I'll be careful. --Jondel 10:19, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)


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Teen Beat

Teen Beat was an American magazine geared towards teenaged readers, published 1967–c. 2007.

Over its history, the magazine had multiple teen idols on its cover, including John Travolta, David Cassidy, Leif Garrett, Menudo, Michael J. Fox, Debbie Gibson, the Coreys (Feldman and Haim), Molly Ringwald, Tom Cruise, New Kids on the Block, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Devon Sawa, Jonathan Brandis, and more recently, Hanson, Ricky Martin, Leonardo DiCaprio, Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, Hilary Duff, Michael Jackson, Raven-Symoné, Lindsay Lohan, and many others.

Publication history
First published in August 1967, the magazine was preceded by sister publications 16 Magazine, which debuted in 1956, and Tiger Beat, which was first published in 1965.

Teen Beat was published by Sterling's Magazines from 1967–c. 1985, including a period when it was part of Sterling's Ideal Publishing Company. (Sterling's also published Metal Edge, Metal Maniacs, Country Music Special, and others.) In the mid-1980s, Sterling's 'Ideal teen magazines' Teen Beat, Tiger Beat, Super Teen and Super Teen's Loudmouth were acquired by Macfadden Publications. In 1985 Michael Liben was the publisher of Teen Beat.

The mid-1990s saw a slump in the overall teen magazine market. In 1998, the conglomerate's line of youth music publications was sold off to Primedia. In 2001, after publishing up to twelve magazines each year, Primedia decided to reduce its number of publications to only four magazines per year, deciding to keep 16, Tiger Beat, Teen Beat, and BOP Magazine. In October 2001 the frequency of Teen Beat switched to quarterly.

Teen Beat ceased publishing c. 2007.

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Taraclia

Taraclia (Тараклия) is a city located in the south of Moldova. It is the capital of Taraclia District, bordered by the autonomous region of Gagauzia, by the Cahul District and the Odesa Oblast of Ukraine. The great majority of its inhabitants are ethnic Bulgarians.

The Taraclia State University, co-funded by Bulgaria and Moldova, was established in 2004. The languages of education are Bulgarian and Romanian.

History
According to official figures, Taraclia was founded in 1813 by Bulgarian immigrants, although they have been settling there much earlier. The city is one of the oldest Bulgarian settlements of the nineteenth century in what was then the southern Bessarabia.

The first settlers arrived at Taraclia during the Russo-Turkish war of 1806–1812. In 1821 it has settled a large group, which was originally located in the nearby village Aluatu. After the Russo-Turkish war of 1828–1829 a large proportion of Bulgarian immigrants settled in Bessarabia and specially in Taraclia, about 49 families have settled in the city. The last wave of migration happened in 1854, when 241 people settled there. Having the rights of colonists, they built houses and churches and had children, taking advantage of several decades of privileges granted to them by the Tsarist Russian government.

In the middle of the 19th century, the famous explorer Apollon Skalkowski wrote about them: "Residents, good hosts, herds of large cattle, sheep, and a great deal to the success of horticulture and viticulture, and women bred mulberry trees, collect the cocoons and have silk in large quantities"

During the interwar period, the city was the seat of Plasa Traian, in Cahul County, Romania.

Demographics
According to the 2014 census, the population of Taraclia amounted to 12,355 inhabitants, a decrease compared to the previous census in 2004, when 13,756 inhabitants were registered. Of these, 6,126 were men and 6,229 were women.

Footnotes:

* There is an ongoing controversy regarding the ethnic identification of Moldovans and Romanians.

* ''Moldovan language is one of the two local names for the Romanian language in Moldova. In 2013, the Constitutional Court of Moldova interpreted that Article 13 of the constitution is superseded by the Declaration of Independence, thus giving official status to the name Romanian. ''

Media

 * Vocea Basarabiei, 101,9

Notable people

 * Timofei Silistaru

Twin towns – Sister cities
Taraclia is twinned with:

 * 🇧🇬 Aksakovo, Bulgaria
 * 🇧🇬 Nova Zagora, Bulgaria
 * 🇧🇬 Sliven, Bulgaria

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Source-synchronous

Source-Synchronous clocking refers to a technique used for timing symbols on a digital interface. Specifically, it refers to the technique of having the transmitting device send a clock signal along with the data signals. The timing of the unidirectional data signals is referenced to the clock (often called the strobe) sourced by the same device that generates those signals, and not to a global clock (i.e. generated by a bus master). Compared to other digital clocking topologies like system-synchronous clocks, where a global clock source is fed to all devices in the system, a source-synchronous clock topology can attain far higher speeds.

This type of clocking is common in high-speed interfaces between micro-chips, including DDR SDRAM, SGI XIO interface, Intel Front Side Bus for the x86 and Itanium processors, HyperTransport, SPI-4.2 and many others.

Reasons for usage
A reason that source-synchronous clocking is useful is that it has been observed that all of the circuits within a given semiconductor device experience roughly the same process-voltage-temperature (PVT) variation. This means signal propagation delay experienced by the data through a device tracks the delay experienced by the clock through that same device over PVT. This advantage allows higher speed operation as compared to the traditional technique of providing the clock from a third device to both the transmitter and the receiver. Another benefit is that higher complexity data-recovery or clock-data-recovery circuits (such as PLLs) are not required when this technique is used.

Or rather than higher clock speeds, large systems that take advantage of source-synchronous clocking can have the benefit of a higher tolerance of PVT variation of its individual components.

Timing Analysis
Synchronous logic elements such as flip-flops have static timing criteria that must be satisfied in order for them to work correctly. In a system-synchronous clock topology where a skew-aligned clock is fed to all devices, the criteria are

$$T_{clock} > T_{setup} + T_{ko} + T_{skew}$$

A source-synchronous clock topology eliminates two of these factors, $$T_{ko}$$ and $$T_{skew}$$. The former is eliminated since both clock and data signals are driven by identical flip-flops on the same silicon at the same temperature and voltage, thereby equalizing the $$T_{ko}$$ seen by both clock and data. The latter is eliminated for the same reason - since the clock and data are driven by identical devices and (ideally) connected with wires of equal length, the skew between clock and data is greatly reduced. For this reason, $$T_{clock}$$ can be reduced significantly. Since frequency is inversely proportional to clock period, the clock frequency increases as a result.

Drawbacks
One drawback of using source-synchronous clocking is the creation of a separate clock-domain at the receiving device, namely the clock-domain of the strobe generated by the transmitting device. This strobe clock-domain is often not synchronous to the core clock domain of the receiving device. For proper operation of the received data with other data already present in the device, an additional stage of synchronization logic is required to transfer the received data into the core clock-domain of the receiving device. This stage can often be found alongside source synchronous logic. This usually results in greater system complexity compared to globally clocked systems, but the benefits are generally much greater than this increase in complexity.

Implementation Variations
In bi-directional data transfer buses, two opposing unidirectional strobes can be sent from each device. Often the strobe is free running in this case. That is, the strobe continues to toggle whether there is data being transferred or not.

Another variation is the sharing of the same bus to transfer the strobe. In this case the strobe can only be transferred by the device that is sending the data and may require transmission of pre-ambles and post-ambles to indicate the start and end of the strobes. (Example: DDR2).

In large ASICs or processors, multiple strobes and data groups (data bits that are associated to the same strobe) may exist between the same two devices to account for the slightly different PVT variations in different regions of the same die.

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Talk:Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics

What a nasty and thoughtless way of expressing things
"The reigning gold medallists from the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, in both the men's and women's event, the United States failed to retain its men's title, which went to Argentina, but successfully defended its women's title. Both the men's and women's gold medal games were held on August 28, 2004."

"The United States failed to retain its men's title" is a nasty way of denigrating the efforts of the Argentinian team and the team that finished in second place, too. There is no justification behind assuming that the championship somehow "belonged" to the Americans to begin with. All of the teams entered the tournament on an equal footing, and the Argentinians simply played to the best of their abilities, and they won the gold medal fair and square, including with an 89 - 81 face-to-face victory over the Americans. Likewise, the Italian team that won the silver medal fair and square on their own efforts. There is no need to insult the Argentineans, the Italians, or the Americans.

If someone does not change the slanderous way that this article is presently written within a couple of days, then I will. 98.67.110.231 (talk) 04:00, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

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George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave

George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave, (23 February 1856 – 29 March 1928) was a British lawyer and Conservative politician. He was Home Secretary under David Lloyd George from 1916 to 1919 and served as Lord Chancellor from 1922 to 1924 and again from 1924 to 1928.

Background and education
Cave was born in London, the son of Thomas Cave, Member of Parliament for Barnstaple, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Jasper Shallcrass. He was educated at the Merchant Taylors' School, London and St John's College, Oxford. After being called to the bar in 1880, he practised as a barrister for a number of years, being made King's Counsel and recorder of Guildford in 1904.

Political career
In 1906 he was elected Conservative Member of Parliament for the Kingston Division of Surrey, was appointed Vice-Lieutenant of Surrey in 1907, and a member of the Royal Commission on Land Purchase in 1908. Having served as standing Counsel to the University of Oxford for two years as well as Attorney General to the Prince of Wales, in 1915 Cave was appointed Solicitor General and knighted. The following year, he was made Home Secretary in Lloyd George's coalition government, a post he held for three years. As Home Secretary, he introduced the Representation of the People Act 1918 and he was very prominent in the debates in the House of Commons on the police strike of August 1918.

In 1918, Sir George Cave was ennobled as Viscount Cave, of Richmond in the County of Surrey. The following year, he became a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, and chaired a number of commissions, including the Southern Rhodesian commission and the Munitions Enquiry Tribunal. In 1922, he became Lord Chancellor in Bonar Law's government, and again served in this capacity in Baldwin's first administration. He chaired the post war report that led to cuts to the minimum wages and regulation of collective bargaining, recommended by the Cave Committee in 1922.

Having been appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) in 1921, he was also elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1925, defeating former Liberal Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. Asquith was deeply upset by the defeat, partly because he felt that Cave, an old friend, should not have stood against him.

Roy Jenkins, an admirer of Asquith, described him as the least distinguished Lord Chancellor in the first three decades of the twentieth century.

Family
Lord Cave married Annie Estella Sarah Penfold Mathews, daughter of Captain William Withey Mathews and Jane Wallas (née Penfold), and sister of Sir Lloyd Mathews, in 1885. They had met by 1880, and he proposed to her in 1883. Lord and Lady Cave had three sons and one daughter, although each of them died on the day they were born, or soon afterwards. Their names were Ralph Wallas (1885), Lloyd George (1893), Honor Elizabeth (1895), and Mathew George (1899). They are all buried at St. Mary's in Richmond. Cave died in March 1928, aged 72, at St Ann's, Burnham, Somerset, and was buried at Berrow in the same county - his wife's brother-in-law, W. K. Laurence, had been buried there only a week or so earlier, after dying tragically after a fall at Clevedon.

On the day of his death his resignation as Lord Chancellor had been accepted and it had been announced that he would be created an earl, and so his widow, Estella, was created Countess Cave of Richmond, with remainder to heirs male of her body.

Having no children who lived to adulthood, the viscountcy became extinct on Lord Cave's death, as did the earldom when his widow died in 1938.

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Talk:Blam Blam Blam

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The primary source of information in this page was Simon Grigg's Propellor records bio of the blams, rewritten into my words and with additional information. Simon Grigg has seen this entry and agrees that it's ok.

Ross-c 09:21, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Paul Streekstra?
The label on my cassette version of Luxury Length credits the album as "Paul Streekstra and Blam Blam Blam". Googling him suggests that he was/is mostly an engineer. Does anyone have more information? dramatic (talk) 04:09, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

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Talk:Jools Holland

Categories

 * removed Category:British architects. In my opinion the categorisation should be substantialized by providing evidence in the article Pethan 19:15, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * remove from Category:British architects. Architecture is not what Holland is known for. Also, unless he uses a different name, he's not a member of RIBA and not registered with the ARB. In the UK it is not legal to describe yourself as an architect if you are not a member of a professional body. -- Solipsist 09:17, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
 * Following Pigsonthewing additions to the article about Holland's interest in architecture, helping to design a studio complex does not equate to being an architect. The best reference I can find to Holland helping to design his studio complex at 115/117 Humber Road, SE3, is on page 6 of this pdf newsletter which describes Holland as an 'enthusiastic amateur architect'. Even then the studio is a copy of a Clough Williams-Ellis design, and I doubt that Holland was the registered architect for the project. There are many other more relevant people who should be in Category:British architects before Holland, and most of them, such as Clough Williams-Ellis, don't even have articles yet. -- Solipsist 16:46, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Christopher Wren was not a member of RIBA; the category is neither "RIBA members" nor "Professional architects"; Wikipedia is not subject to the laws governing professional architects in the UK; and Holland's work as such has been well documented, not elast on television. If there are many others who shoudl be in the category, you can add them, and if they have no articles, write them.Andy Mabbett 17:05, 18 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Put a link between OBE and Order of the British Empire

No mention that he conducted the interviews for the Beatles Anthology project

Re Do this Article
This article needs to re written or re done. It need longer and proper paragraphs unlike strande of sentences close to each other. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.186.9.2 (talk) 07:26, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

Mockney
Jools as a Mockney

I added Jools as a mockney -- heres my evidence, and his 80's early 90's spoken style was consistently MOCKNEY -- eres jools holland doin the ole mockney chat --

http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9RL7JJQDzE

A mockney is someone who is middle, or from upper middle class roots, as Jools certainly is, who assumes a cockney accent -- here is more footage. He was a mockney -- http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=hqqjy3Mnn8Q see from the circa 2.00 minute mark.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.152.210.166 (talk) 06:00, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

 * "middle class" roots - Not sure about that having read his autobiography, broken family, moving from one rented house to another after not paying rent, smoking at 7 or 8, lots of other stuff in their, but none to suggest a comfy middle class background --C Hawke (talk) 15:20, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

 * Well, you should read the memoirs of his fellow Squeeze musicians then -- I will find and post the link later, which makes it clear, that they were very suprised, given his public persona ( mockney accent ) to meet his upper middle class parents, whom they likened to Terry Thomas so refined was their accent. I will post the link later. Anyway -- his accent as shown by those youtube vids -- is classic phony mockney. Do you need any more examples? If so here you go --

 * http://kr.youtube.com/watch?v=bBIzdPrOq14

 * And there are loads more. That accent is not a real London working class accent -- it is MOCKNEY. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.138.57.171 (talk) 15:54, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

 * It seems that you are basing this claim - like your other multiple ones of the same sort - on nothing more than your own interpretation of what you think the subject in question talks like, and whatever Holland's parents' accents are or were is neither here nor there. As CHawke notes, there are plenty of factors in Holland's life - as there are in many people's - which might explain why they don't talk like their parents, and unless there is properly citable evidence of deliberate affection, your claims cannot be added to this (or any other) page. Nick Cooper (talk) 16:35, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

 * If you are basing the claim on what his parents sound like then you may want to read his autobiog at some point as it is clear that he spent large amounts of his childhood with either his grandparents or just hanging around - he describes being left to his own devices and mixing with all sorts of people in his early years.--C Hawke (talk) 16:52, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

 * You need a source for the statement - anything else is original research (WP:OR) -- Ian Dalziel (talk) 17:25, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

 * Given the fact that Squeeze got together when he was in his late teens and the fact mentioned above of the suprise of his band mates when meeting his parents, this would indicate that any accent and behavious was established by this time, not at a later date in his adulthood.--C Hawke (talk) 18:25, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

 * Indeed. This particular anonymous IP seems to have a "thing" about what s/he claims are the "Mockney" accents of various people, but with virtually no justification beyond claiming that they have one. Nick Cooper (talk) 07:08, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

PHOTO!
After all the bizillion performances that Jools Holland has made, the careers he's helped launch over so many years on his late night programme, there MUST be a better photo of Holland perhaps introducing a band, or from a fan behind the scenes? Maybe on Flickr? I was astounded that his page was only barely more than a stub. I also concur with the need for a rewrite-- (fortunately there is so little here that a lot can just be surgically removed with some delicacy!) --leahtwosaints (talk) 18:58, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

 * +1 there must be a better pic; this is ugly and hiding instead of documenting; cannot e.g. the german wikipedia pic be used?
 * Hunter
 * -08:28, 27 August 2023 (UTC) 2001:9E8:8A47:6000:4D92:125D:796F:1041 (talk) 08:28, 27 August 2023 (UTC)

Personal - four children
His website mentions them - they merit a mention here, too. http://www.joolsholland.com/aboutjools.htm Maybe somebody in the UK will know something about them, i.e., mother(s), ages. 24.128.188.152 (talk) 00:02, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

Cooling Castle
I have removed the inaccurate reference to Cooling Castle - about his ownership and that he lives there. This request has come directly from Jools Holland. —Preceding unsigned comment added by JABEYE (talk • contribs) 16:32, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

 * Seems a strange thing to want removed. Valid reference from a respected reliable source, which includes comment from Jools himself. -- EdJogg (talk) 00:21, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

Night Music
Jools Holland was the co-host of the American TV program "Night Music" from 1988 to 1990. See Sunday Night (American TV program). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.18.238.170 (talk) 20:26, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

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George Cave

George Cave may refer to:

 * George Cave, 1st Viscount Cave (1856–1928), British lawyer and politician
 * George Cave (footballer) (1874–1904), English footballer
 * George W. Cave (born 1929), CIA operations officer and authority on Iran

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Rear-Admiral Eustațiu Sebastian-class corvette

The Rear-Admiral Eustațiu Sebastian-class corvette (also known as the Tetal-II or Modified Tetal class by NATO) is a series of two corvettes used by the Romanian Naval Forces for Black Sea duty. They have a displacement of 1,385 tonnes, a helicopter aft, and as main armament a 76 mm gun, torpedo tubes and anti-submarine warfare rocket launchers.

These ships are updated versions of the Admiral Petre Bărbuneanu (Tetal-I)-class corvette.

Ships

 * Contraamiral Eustațiu Sebastian (Cvt 264) Launched 1988 – In service
 * Contraamiral Horia Macellariu (Cvt 265) – Launched 1991 – In service

Two other ships were laid down, but never finished. They are now awaiting disposal in Mangalia military harbor.


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User talk:SirJective/Double entries

Fixed Teen Beat.--Patrick 09:27, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Thank you. Could you please take some time and fix a few more entries? Then as I wrote it "can only take weeks" until the list is empty. And if you do so, would you mind also removing these entries from the list? --SirJective 11:28, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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James Jackson

James Jackson may refer to:

Military

 * James Jackson (British Army officer) (1790–1871), British Army general
 * James Jackson (colonial administrator), British Army officer, acting commandant of St Mary's Island, 1829–1830
 * James S. Jackson (1823–1862), Union General in the American Civil War
 * James W. Jackson (c. 1824–1861), shooter of Elmer Ellsworth during the American Civil War
 * James Jackson (Medal of Honor) (1833–1916), U.S. Army officer
 * James F. Jackson (born 1951), Lieutenant General in the United States Air Force

Politics

 * James Jackson (Georgia politician) (1757–1806), Revolutionary War soldier, Georgia congressman, senator and governor
 * James Jackson (congressman) (1819–1887), Georgia Congressman, grandson of Senator James Jackson
 * James H. Jackson (b. 1939), American politician, science teacher, coach and businessman in Iowa.
 * James M. Jackson (1825–1901), West Virginia Congressman
 * James Jackson Jr. (New York politician) (c. 1826–1891), New York politician
 * James Jackson (Massachusetts politician) (1881–1952), American politician in Massachusetts
 * James Jackson (Rhode Island politician), American politician from Rhode Island
 * James K. Jackson, Secretary of State of Alabama, 1894–1898

Religion

 * James Jackson (historian) (died 1770), Anglican clergyman and author
 * James Jackson (priest) (1778–1841), Anglican priest
 * James Jackson (clergyman) (c. 1789/90–1851), Canadian Methodist minister

Sports

 * James Jackson (footballer, born 1900) (1900–c. 1976), British footballer for Aberdeen and Liverpool
 * James Jackson (cyclist) (1908–1977), Canadian Olympic cyclist
 * James Jackson (American football) (born 1976), football player
 * Boo Jackson (born 1981), former American basketball player

Other

 * James Jackson (steelmaker) (1771–1829), English manufacturer who established the first steel mill in France
 * James Jackson (physician) (1777–1867), Massachusetts physician
 * James Hayter Jackson (1800–1877), New Zealand mariner, whaler and trader
 * James Caleb Jackson (1811–1895), inventor of granula
 * James U. Jackson (1856–1925), founder and developer of the city of North Augusta, South Carolina
 * James Ranalph Jackson (1882–1975), Australian painter
 * James R. Jackson (1924–2011), American mathematician
 * James Jackson (psychologist) (1944–2020), social psychologist and member of the National Science Board
 * James A. Jackson (born 1954), British professor of geophysics at Cambridge University
 * James D. Jackson, sociology professor and candidate in the United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi

Jim Jackson
Jim Jackson may refer to:
 * Jim Jackson (musician) (1876–1933), musician of the 1920s and 1930s
 * Jim Jackson (baseball) (1877–1955), Major League Baseball outfielder
 * Jim Jackson (Australian rules footballer) (1890–1976), player and coach at Hawthorn
 * Jim Jackson (ice hockey) (born 1960), hockey player
 * Jim Jackson (sportscaster) (born 1963), ice hockey sportscaster
 * Jim Jackson (basketball) (born 1970), American professional basketball player

Jimmy Jackson
Jimmy Jackson may refer to:
 * Jimmy Jackson (footballer, born 1875) (1875–?), Scottish footballer for Newcastle United and Woolwich Arsenal
 * Jimmy Jackson (racing driver) (1910–1984), American racing car driver
 * Jimmy Jackson (footballer, born 1931) (1931–2013), Scottish footballer for Notts County
 * Jimmy Jackson (wrestler) (1956–2008), American freestyle wrestler
 * Jimmy Jackson (tennis) (born 1975), American tennis player

Jamie Jackson
Jamie Jackson may refer to:
 * Jamie Jackson (footballer) (born 1986), English footballer, currently playing for Buxton
 * Jamie Jackson (actor) (born 1970), Australian actor

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Savanté Stringfellow

Savanté Stringfellow (born November 6, 1978, in Jackson, Mississippi) is a U.S. born long jumper. A student at the University of Mississippi, he was selected for the United States 2000 Olympic Team.

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Mòd

A mòd is an Eisteddfod-inspired festival of Scottish Gaelic song, arts and culture. Historically, the Gaelic word mòd, which came from Old Norse mót, refers to a Viking Age Thing or a similar kind of assembly. There are both local mòds, and an annual national mòd, the Royal National Mòd. Mòds are run under the auspices of An Comunn Gàidhealach. The term comes from a Gaelic word for a parliament or congress in common use during the Lordship of the Isles. A mòd largely takes the form of formal competitions. Choral events (in Gaelic, both solo and choirs), and traditional music including fiddle, bagpipe and folk groups dominate. Spoken word events include children's and adult's poetry reading, storytelling and Bible reading, and categories such as Ancient Folk Tale or Humorous Monologue. Children can also present an original drama, and there are competitions in written Scottish Gaelic literature. Unlike the National Mòd, local mòds usually only last a day or two. They attract a much smaller crowd and the only notable social event is the winners' ceilidh. As there are fewer competitions than in the National Mòd, this ceilidh is often more like a traditional ceilidh with dancing and guest singers between the winners' performances.

Culturally, mòds are comparable to an Irish feis or the Seachtain na Gaeilge, or the Welsh eisteddfod, but without the ancient history or the fanciful 18th-century "druidic" pageantry created and introduced into the National Eisteddfod of Wales by Iolo Morganwg.

In British Columbia, the Gaelic Society of Vancouver held a local Mòd biannually from 1990 to 2007.

The first US National Mòd was organized by Donald F. MacDonald, the founder of the Grandfather Mountain Highland games in North Carolina, and held at Alexandria, Virginia in 1988. The US National Mòd is now held as part of the annual Highland games at Ligonier, Pennsylvania and sponsored by An Comunn Gàidhealach Ameireaganach ("The American Scottish Gaelic Society").

List of mòds

 * Royal National Mòd
 * Caithness and Sutherland Mòd
 * Dalriada Mòd (Lochgilphead area)
 * Easter Ross Mòd
 * East Kilbride Mòd
 * Edinburgh Mòd
 * Glasgow Mòd
 * Harris Mòd
 * Inverness Mòd
 * Islay Mòd
 * Kyle Mòd
 * Lewis Mòd
 * Lochaber Mòd, based in Bun-sgoil Ghàidhlig Loch Abar
 * Oban Mòd
 * Mull Mòd
 * Perthshire and Angus Mòd
 * Skye Mòd
 * Stirling Mòd
 * Uist Mòd
 * Wester Ross Mòd
 * Ardnamurchan Mòd

Scottish diaspora

 * Nova Scotia Gaelic Mod
 * Vancouver Mòd (see Canadian Gaelic)
 * U.S. National Mòd, held annually as part of the Highland games at Ligonier, Pennsylvania and sponsored by An Comunn Gàidhealach Ameireaganach ("The American Scottish Gaelic Society").

In popular culture

 * 1955 The Mòd at Grand Pré: A Nova Scotian Light Opera in Two Acts, Libretto by Watson Kirkconnell, music by E.A. Collins. Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

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Admiral Petre Bărbuneanu-class corvette

The Admiral Petre Bărbuneanu-class corvette (also known as the Tetal-I class by NATO) is a series of four corvettes designed and constructed for the Romanian Naval Forces primarily for anti-submarine warfare. Only two corvettes out of a total of the four are still in service. Designed and constructed in the 1980s, they are a product of the Cold War with their armament and sensors based on Soviet designs. This class of corvettes was superseded by the Rear-Admiral Eustațiu Sebastian (Tetal-II) class.

Design and description
The Admiral Petre Bărbuneanu class was based on the Soviet Navy's Koni-class frigate but designed in Romania to a smaller size, though retaining their anti-submarine warfare (ASW) role. They incorporated Soviet weapons and sensors into their design. Vessels of the class have a full load displacement of 1440 t and measure 92.4 m long with a beam of 11.7 m and a draught of 3 m. The ships are powered by four diesel engines driving four shafts creating 20000 bhp. This gives the corvettes a maximum speed of 24 kn.

The vessels are armed with four Soviet-designed AK-276 76 mm/59 calibre guns in two twin turrets with one turret situated forward and aft. The 76 mm guns have a range of 16 km and fire up to 90 rounds per minute. For anti-aircraft (AA) defence, the corvettes have four AK-230 30 mm/65 calibre AA guns in two twin mounts positioned aft, forward of the aft 76 mm turret. The 30 mm guns have a range of 4 km and can fire up to 500 rounds per minute. They also mount two single-mounted 14.5 mm machine guns along the amidships. For ASW purposes, the Admiral Petre Bărbuneanu class mounts RBU 2500 16-tubed ASW rocket launchers that are trainable with a range of 2500 m. The ships have four 533 mm torpedo tubes in two twin mounts situated aft to either side of the aft 76 mm gun turret. They can fire Type 53-65 torpedoes which have a range of 25 km.

Admiral Petre Bărbuneanu-class corvettes are equipped with Soviet MR-302 (NATO reporting name: Strut Curve) air search/surface search radar, MR-104 Rys (NATO reporting name: Drum Tilt) and MR-105 Turel (NATO reporting name: Hawk Screech) fire control radar. They have Hercules MG-22 hull-mounted sonar for underwater search and two PK 16 chaff launchers and RW-23 (NATO reporting name: Watch Dog) electronic support measures. The corvettes have a complement of 98.

Construction and career
The vessels were constructed at the Mangalia Shipyard for the Romanian Naval Forces. The first ship to commission was Amiral Petre Bărbuneanu in 1983. Three more corvettes would follow before the project was terminated in 1987 in favour of a new design that incorporated a helicopter flight deck. In 2004, two of the corvettes, Vice-Amiral Vasile Urseanu and Vice-Amiral Vasile Scodrea were decommissioned. The remaining ships are based at Constanța.

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Royal National Mòd

The Royal National Mòd (Am Mòd Nàiseanta Rìoghail) is an Eisteddfod-inspired international Celtic festival focusing upon Scottish Gaelic literature, traditional music, and culture which is held annually in Scotland. It is the largest of several major Scottish Mòds and is often referred to simply as the Mòd.

The Mòd is run by An Comunn Gàidhealach (The Gaelic Association) and includes competitions and awards.

History
The Mòd was founded by An Comunn Gàidhealach. St Columba's Church, Glasgow, also greatly influenced the Mòd's inception when, in 1891, its choir was invited to give a Gaelic Concert in Oban, presided over by Lord Archibald Campbell. The concert was attended by much of the Scottish nobility, including Louise, Princess Royal and Duchess of Fife. After the concert, the choir were entertained to supper at the Alexandra Hotel, and a description of the entertainment is given in one of William Black's novels. This concert was the prelude to the first Mòd, which was held at Oban the following year and St. Columba Choir won the award in the Choral music competition. The poet, traditional singer, and Highland Land League activist Màiri Mhòr nan Òran (1821–1898), performed in the first Mòd's Gaelic song competition, but she was not awarded a medal.

The Mòd has been held most years in October since 1892. The only years in which the National Mòd was not held were during the First World War of 1914–1919, the Second World War 1939–1946, and the Covid pandemic year of 2020. The "Royal" was not originally part of the name. It is still the practice of the St Columba's Church to send a concert party to start off the fund-raising when the Mòd visits Oban. As well as winning the premier choir competition for the first three years, the congregation has also had many Mòd gold medallists over the years.

The Mòd itself has been greatly influenced by the National Eisteddfod of Wales, although it tends to be somewhat more restrained in its ceremonial aspects.

According to Ronald Black, "In 1923, following the example of the Welsh Eisteddfod, An Commun Gàidhealach simplified the structure of its annual poetry competitions into a single contest for a Bardic Crown (Crùn na Bàrdachd), the winner to be acknowledged as Bard of An Commun (Bàird a' Chomuinn Gàidhealaich) for the coming year. The man behind the move, not surprisingly, was Angus Robertson, then President of An Comunn. Offering a distinctive middle path between traditional and modern verse, the competition produced much work of note which deserves to be put into perspective... (Many subsidiary prizes remained; Sorley Maclean won a junior one in 1928, while in 1946 Derick Thomson won a gold medal as the most distinguished entrant in the literary competitions generally). The Bard was crowned each year at the closing concert of the Mòd. Astonishingly, unlike in Wales, the winning poem itself formed no part of the proceedings... In 1978 no award was made because not entry was of adequate quality. It was the second time in five years that this had happened, and in March 1979 An Comunn announced that the Bardic Crown would no longer be awarded."

A watershed moment took place during the 2011 Royal National Mòd at Stornoway, when the poetry of Lewis MacKinnon, composed in the Canadian Gaelic dialect spoken in Antigonish County, Nova Scotia, won the Bardic Crown. It was the first time in the history of the Mòd that such an award had been granted to a non-Scot.

Competitions
The Mòd largely takes the form of formal competitions. Choral events and traditional music including Gaelic song, fiddle, bagpipe, clarsach and folk groups dominate. Spoken word events include children's and adults' poetry reading, storytelling and Bible reading, and categories such as Ancient Folk Tale or Humorous Monologue. Children can also present an original drama, and there are prose and poetry competitions in written Scottish Gaelic literature. The Mòd also runs an annual shinty competition, the Mòd Cup, between the two shinty teams closest to where the Mòd is taking place.

The winners of each day's competitions are invited to perform in the winners' cèilidhs held every evening.

The Mòd is a celebration of [Scottish] Gaelic language and culture, which raises its profile and contributes towards the aim of securing its future.

Improvements in and the recent mass expansion of Scottish Gaelic-medium education across Scotland has meant that beginning in 2007 the junior fluent speakers' section increased to such an extent that the organisers were forced to extend some Mòd competitions beyond one day.

Culturally, the Mòd is comparable to the Welsh Eisteddfod and the Irish Oireachtas na Gaeilge.

The Mòd Fringe
The Mòd draws a large crowd, which leads local venues to put on various events in addition to the official Mòd events. These events are collectively referred to as the Mòd Fringe.

To participants, the Mòd is also an opportunity to meet with old friends and make new ones.

Controversy
There has been some recent criticism of the "Gold Medal" event, which favors the style of Gaelic singing as adapted into the Victorian era art song tradition, which was popularized in the early 20th century by Marjory Kennedy-Fraser. Some 21st century Scottish traditional musicians now allege that the contest has long marginalised more traditional singers like the late Flora MacNeil and their styles. This is not a new criticism, however. In conversation with American ethnomusicologist Amy Murray, Fr. Allan MacDonald (1859-1905), an iconic poet in Scottish Gaelic literature, once said that the choral arrangements of Gaelic songs usually performed at the Mòd during its inception were based on "collections noted both on the staff and in Tonic Sol-Fa, with of course all the twists and turns cut out", and were "As though you were to fit a statue into a box by taking off the nose and ears."

More recently, Scottish traditional musician Fergus Munro has also gone on the record, as Scotland has grown increasingly secularised, as a critic of what he alleges is a growing tendency to exclude both Christian poetry and Gaelic psalm- and hymn-singing from the Mòd.

Furthermore, the Mòd is popularly known as the "Whisky Olympics", which is considered, "either a vicious slur or fair comment".

Media coverage
BBC Scotland has traditionally broadcast Mòd highlights on BBC One, BBC Two and Radio nan Gàidheal. Since its introduction in 2008, BBC Alba has provided coverage in Gaelic. Presenters have included traditional musician, Gaelic speaker and broadcaster, Mary Ann Kennedy and Gaelic broadcaster Cathy Crombie.

Past and future festivals
The Mòd is held each October, and has been held in the following locations throughout Scotland, both Highland and Lowland.

These are the host locations to date:

 * Aberdeen - 1946, 1955, 1964, 1976
 * Airdrie - 1993
 * Aviemore - 1969
 * Ayr - 1973
 * Blairgowrie - 1996
 * Dingwall - 1905, 1931, 1991
 * Dundee - 1902, 1913, 1937, 1959, 1974
 * Dunoon - 1930, 1950, 1968, 1994, 2000, 2006, 2012, 2018
 * East Kilbride - 1975
 * Edinburgh - 1899, 1910, 1919, 1928, 1935, 1951, 1960, 1986
 * Falkirk - 2008
 * Fort William - 1922, 1927, 1932, 1981, 1985, 1999
 * Glasgow - 1895, 1901, 1907, 1911, 1921, 1933, 1938, 1948, 1958, 1967, 1988, 1990, 2019
 * Golspie - 1977, 1995
 * Greenock - 1904, 1925
 * Inverness - 1897, 1903, 1912, 1923, 1936, 1949, 1957, 1966, 1972, 1984, 1997, 2014, 2021
 * Largs - 1956, 1965, 2002
 * Lochaber - 2007, 2017
 * Motherwell - 1983
 * Oban - 1892, 1893, 1894, 1898, 1906, 1920, 1926, 1934, 1953, 1962, 1970, 1978, 1992, 2003, 2009, 2015
 * Paisley - 2013, 2023
 * Perth - 1896, 1900, 1924, 1929, 1947, 1954, 1963, 1980, 2004, 2022
 * Rothesay - 1908, 1952
 * Skye - 1982
 * Skye and Lochalsh - 1998
 * Stirling - 1909, 1961, 1971, 1987
 * Stornoway - 1979, 1989, 2001
 * Thurso - 2010
 * Western Isles - 2005, 2011, 2016

The locations for upcoming Móds are:
 * Oban - October 2024
 * Lochaber - October 2025

The southernmost host location is Ayr, the easternmost Aberdeen and the northernmost is Thurso. As can be seen from the list, certain locations are more favoured. Areas with large amounts of hall space and accommodation are favoured.

Some notable areas of Scotland that have never been visited by the Mòd include Arran, Islay (which has a significant Gaelic-speaking population), Dumfries and Galloway, Fife, Angus (outwith Dundee), most of North East Scotland, Loch Lomond-side etc.

The Mòd has never been to the Scottish Borders or the Northern Isles, but there is little connection between these areas and the Gaelic language.

Unlike the National Eisteddfod, the National Mòd has never been held in England.

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Subantarctic fur seal

The subantarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus tropicalis) is a species of arctocephaline found in the southern parts of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans. It was first described by Gray in 1872 from a specimen recovered in northern Australia—hence the inappropriate specific name tropicalis.

Description
The subantarctic fur seal is medium in size compared with other fur seals. Males grow to 2m and 160 kg, whereas females are substantially smaller—1.4m and 50 kg. Both sexes are strongly sexually dimorphic, with creamy-orange chests and faces. Their bellies are more brownish. Males have a dark grey to black back, while females are a lighter grey. Males have a characteristic dark tuft of hair on the top of their head that stands erect when they are excited. Pups are black at birth, but molt at about 3 months old. The snout is short and flat, and the flippers are short and broad. Subantarctic fur seals live for about 20–25 years.

Distribution
Arctocephalus tropicalis, the subantarctic fur seal, is geographically widespread; as their specific and common names imply, they generally breed in and inhabit more northerly (subantarctic, or "tropical") locations than the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) does. The largest known breeding colonies are on Gough Island, in the South Atlantic, and Île Amsterdam, in the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean. Breeding grounds are also located on Marion Island in the Prince Edward Islands—which is shared with the Antarctic fur seal—as well as the Crozet Islands and Macquarie Island. In places where the two species intermingle, A. tropicalis can be identified visually by the lighter, orange colouring on its chest. Occasional hybridisation has been known to occur between the two seals in these areas.

About 300,000 subantarctic fur seals are remaining today, a number likely to be substantially lower than when they were first discovered in 1810, as they were hunted excessively for their pelts throughout the 19th century. Populations from ancient history, prior to human contact, were likely even higher. However, the species recovers rapidly, it seems, albeit in areas wherein it is protected by the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals (CCAS). A small population on Heard Island is considered endangered. The Antarctic fur seal was also rigorously hunted, to the point of all but one breeding colony remaining by the year 1900, resulting in an increasingly low species-wide genetic variability; meanwhile, the genetic diversity amongst subantarctic fur seals has remained high. There appear to be three distinct genetic lineages in the subantarctic species, though none of them represent any particular geographical area.

Breeding
As with other otariids, subantarctic fur seals gather in large rookeries on the shore to breed. They have a polygynous mating system in which dominant males will defend their harem of 6-20 females. Fights between males for mating rights are violent and can result in severe injuries. Apart from physically fighting, males will also compete against each other through vocalizations and threat displays. The breeding season takes place from November to January. For females, gestation lasts around 51 weeks, at the end of which they will give birth to a single pup. 8–12 days after giving birth, they will breed again. Males are capable of mating at around 3–4 years of age, but they are unlikely to be able to hold a harem until they are 10–11 years old. Females reach sexual maturity at around 5 years.

Life cycle
After being born, pups spend around 11 months feeding on their mother's milk, which contains around 39% fat. The length of their lactation period is typical of otariid seals, and contrasts with the far shorter 4 month lactation period of the Antarctic fur seal. They stay at the rookery during this period. Weaning occurs shortly before the next offspring is born. They molt their black coat at around 3 months of age. As adults, they continue to molt their coat annually between March and May.

Diet and foraging
Subantarctic fur seals hunt in shallow waters at night, when myctophid fish come close to the surface. They also feed on squid. Other prey can include crustaceans, and occasionally rockhopper penguins and other seabirds.

A study conducted on subantarctic fur seals at Marion Island from 1996 to 2000 concluded that Myctophid fish constituted the largest part of the seals' diet, with fish from the families Channichthyidae, Paralepididae, Nototheniidae, Microstomatidae and Notosudidae being eaten in smaller numbers. The size of prey fish ranged from small Myctophids with an average length of 25mm, to large Patagonian toothfish with an average length of 70 cm.

Travelling
Subantarctic fur seals are unique in their tendency to occasionally travel very long distances from their home islands. Young males have been seen travelling thousands of miles from their native habitat, being sighted in countries such as Brazil, Angola, Australia and New Zealand. In July 2015, a young male seal was caught and later released by local fishermen off the coast of Kenya, more than 4,000 miles (6.400 km) from its home. This is the furthest north that a subantarctic fur seal has been recorded travelling to. Lactating females have been recorded travelling up to 530 km from their colonies in order to forage for food.

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Graham Brazier

Graham Philip Brazier (6 May 1952 – 4 September 2015) was a New Zealand musician and songwriter. He first came to prominence in the band Hello Sailor. After Hello Sailor, he formed a band called the Legionnaires. When he was growing up, he lived above his mother's bookshop in Dominion Road in Auckland and he collected first editions.

Early life
His childhood was fashioned seeing R.A.K. Mason, Rex Fairburn, Kevin Ireland and other writers in the shop. Graham left Mt Roskill Grammar at age 15 for his first job at Whitcombe & Tombs. He began writing songs when he was 19.

Career
Although Brazier claimed he turned down an offer to join The Doors post-Jim Morrison, it was stated by Doors ex-manager and biographer, Danny Sugerman, to be "somewhat exaggerated".

Two Brazier associated songs are included in the official top 100 New Zealand songs. They are "Blue Lady" alongside his first band, Hello Sailor, as well as "Billy Bold" from his solo career.

It was reported on 7 October 2012 that Brazier was charged with assaulting his two former partners. He pleaded guilty to two counts of male assaults female and one count of common assault.

Brazier suffered a heart attack in August 2015, and died in Auckland on 4 September 2015.

Brazier's posthumous solo album Left Turn at Midnite, completed after Brazier's death by close friend producer Alan Jansson, was released in May 2017.

Solo discography

 * Inside Out (Polygram), 1981
 * Brazier (CBS), 1987 (spent one week in the NZ album chart at No. 49 in February 1988)
 * East of Eden (Wildside) March 2004
 * Left Turn at Midnite (Ripe Coconut) May 2017

Aotearoa Music Awards
The Aotearoa Music Awards (previously known as New Zealand Music Awards (NZMA)) are an annual awards night celebrating excellence in New Zealand music and have been presented annually since 1965.

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 * 2011 || Graham Brazier(as part of Hello Sailor) || New Zealand Music Hall of Fame || inductee ||

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Reaction Motors XLR99

The Reaction Motors LR99 engine was the first large, throttleable, restartable liquid-propellant rocket engine. Development began in the 1950s by the Reaction Motors Division of Thiokol Chemical Company to power the North American X-15 hypersonic research aircraft. It could deliver up to 57,000 lbf of thrust with a specific impulse of 279 isp or 239 isp at sea level. Thrust was variable from 50 to 100 percent, and the restart capability allowed it to be shut down and restarted during flight when necessary.

Design and development
The engine is propelled by liquid oxygen and anhydrous ammonia, pumped into the engine by turbopumps at a mass flow rate of over 10,000 lb per minute.

After one hour of operation, the XLR99 required an overhaul. Operating times nearly twice that were recorded in tests, but declared largely unsafe. The basic X-15 aircraft carried fuel for about 83 seconds of full-powered flight, while the X-15A-2 carried fuel for just over 150 seconds. Therefore, each XLR99 was capable, in theory, of between 20 and 40 flights before an overhaul.

Like many other liquid-fuel rocket engines, the XLR99s used regenerative cooling, in that the thrust chamber and nozzle had tubing surrounding it, through which the propellant and oxidizer passed before being burned. This kept the engine cool, and preheated the fuel. The basic engine has a mass of 910 lb.

Operational history
The LR-99 was used exclusively to power the X-15 research aircraft after initial trials that used a pair of Reaction Motors XLR11s.

Applications

 * North American X-15

Variants

 * XLR99-RM-1: prototype engines for initial testing and flight trials.
 * YLR99-RM-1: Service test engines fitted to X-15s for later flights.

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Dave McArtney

David Ewan McArtney (5 April 1951 – 15 April 2013) was a New Zealand musician and songwriter. He is best known for his work with the band Hello Sailor and his band Dave McArtney & The Pink Flamingos.

In 1989, McArtney returned to university, completing his Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature, majoring in Renaissance poetry. He then went on to complete a Master of Arts (Music) degree in 2013.

He also produced for other musicians (including The Narcs) and composed music for film and television productions, including Incredible Mountains (1983), Queen City Rocker (1986) and Raglan by the Sea (1987). He worked as a tutor at the Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand (MAINZ) from 2003 until his death.

Personal life
McArtney was born in Oamaru on 5 April 1951. His family moved to Auckland and then Wellington in the early 1960s, as his father who was an accountant with ANZ Bank moved with his job. McArtney started studying law before forming Hello Sailor with Harry Lyon and Graham Brazier. He died in his home in Point Chevalier, Auckland, on 15 April 2013.

The Pink Flamingos
After Hello Sailor disbanded in 1980, McArtney formed the Pink Flamingos with Dragon keyboard player and songwriter Paul Hewson (not Bono) and a revolving line-up of players. McArtney was signed to PolyGram records and released their debut album Dave McArtney & The Pink Flamingos in 1981. Paul Hewson left the band, which then released the EP Remember The Alamo and extensively toured New Zealand. The band then relocated to Sydney and signed to Polygram Australia, releasing their second album We Never Close in 1982. Later that year the group disbanded, with McArtney moving to London. Returning to New Zealand in 1984, McArtney recorded the Pink Flamingos' third album, The Catch, released under CBS.

Awards

 * Twice nominated for the APRA Silver Scroll in 1981 and 1995.
 * Five awards including Group of the Year, Album of the Year and Best Male Vocalist at the 1981 Recording Industry Awards for the album Dave McArtney and the Pink Flamingos.
 * In the 1984 New Zealand Music Awards he won best producer for the Narcs single "You Took Me Heart and Soul".

Aotearoa Music Awards
The Aotearoa Music Awards (previously known as New Zealand Music Awards (NZMA)) are an annual awards night celebrating excellence in New Zealand music and have been presented annually since 1965.

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 * 2011 || Dave McArtney (as part of Hello Sailor) || New Zealand Music Hall of Fame || inductee ||
 * 2011 || Dave McArtney (as part of Hello Sailor) || New Zealand Music Hall of Fame || inductee ||

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Bhadrachalam

Bhadrachalam is a census town in Bhadradri Kothagudem district in the Indian state of Telangana. It is an important Hindu pilgrimage town with the Bhadrachalam Temple of Rama, situated on the banks of Godavari River. It is located 312 km east of state capital, Hyderabad,115 km from Khammam,178 km from Suryapet,180 km from Warangal,187 km from Vijayawada,220 km and 350 km from Visakhapatnam.

History
The town has a documented history of a Rama Temple constructed c. 17th century CE by Kancherla Gopanna.

Gopanna (1620 - 1688), popularly known as Bhadradri Ramadasu or Bhadrachala Ramadasu, was a 17th-century Indian devotee of Rama and a composer of Carnatic music. His devotional lyrics to Rama are famous in South Indian classical music as Ramadaasu Keertanalu, and have made Bhadrachalam a place of religious importance for Hindus.

The Bhadrachalam area also has several Hindu temples associated with the epic Ramayana. It is referred as "Dakshina Saketa Puri" in the movie "Sri Ramadasu".

Geography
Bhadrachalam is located at 17.67°N, 80.88°W. It has an average elevation of 50 metres (164 feet). The zero feet gauge level of Godavari River at Bhadracham is equal to +32.6 m msl.

Demographics
India census, Bhadrachalam had a population of 55,352. As of 2001, Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Bhadrachalam has an average literacy rate of 73%, higher than the national average of 59.5%. 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Transport
The state bus service TSRTC operates a bus station in Bhadrachalam connecting the town to various places of the state. Andhra Pradesh state bus service APSRTC operates buses frequently to Bhadrachalam.

The nearest railway station is Bhadrachalam Road railway station, 40 km from the town.

Bhadrachalam is connected to Hyderabad, Khammam, Suryapet, Nalgonda, Warangal, Nizamabad, Ramagundam, Godavarikhani, Miryalaguda, and Karimnagar cities in Telangana state as well as to Rajamahendravaram, Kakinada, Amalapuram, Guntur, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh State.

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