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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Master david

Master david was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE

An obvious vanity delete, though it doesn't qualify for speedy under WP:CSD. Fire away. • Benc • 22:08, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete But why not a speedy under point 4 'Very short articles with little or no context' and arguably point 1 'No meaningful content or history'? Jongarrettuk 22:16, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete. This is so illeterate gibberish it certainly conforms to "no meaningful content or history". jni 06:07, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, preferably speedily. IMHO all articles containing the words "gamefaq" and "pwnage" should be shot on sight. --Ianb 06:10, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Speddy delete.--MaxMad 13:04, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Not only vanity but vanity that is being actively vandalized by another anon IP since the VfD tag was added. Obvious delete.  It would be a stretch (though, admittedly, a very short stretch) to speedy.  Rossami 21:13, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vanity, nigh-nonsense.   — Gwalla | Talk 01:52, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I didn't have any trouble stretching this. It was a prank.  Pranks are speedy delete candidates.  It's gone. Geogre 21:19, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Kvichak River

The Kvichak River (Yup'ik: Kuicaraq ) is a large river, about 50 mi long, in southwestern Alaska in the United States. It flows southwest from Lake Iliamna to Kvichak Bay, an arm of Bristol Bay, on the Alaska Peninsula. The communities of Igiugig and Levelock lie along the Kvichak River. The Kvichak is navigable along its entire length, and is used as a short cut by boats getting between Cook Inlet and Bristol Bay via the Lake Iliamna portage.

The Kvichak River is home to the largest red salmon run in the world. Commercial harvests are worth hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars annually.

The Kvichak River is part of the watershed downstream of the proposed Pebble Mine.

Historically, the river was navigated and subsistence fished by local Alaska Natives. The name of the river means from- or up to- great water, a reference to Iliamna Lake, Alaska's largest freshwater lake.

The Kvichak River was a finalist for the 2017 Riverprize Award for being one of the best-managed and sustainable rivers in the world.

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Kvichak Bay

Kvichak Bay is an arm on the northeast side of Bristol Bay in southern Alaska, at 58.43333°N, -157.9°W. It is 80 km long and 48 km wide. The Kvichak River flows into the bay at its furthest northeast point, while the Naknek River comes in from the east about 16 km to the south of the Kvichak.

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Talk:Lollianus

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This is patent nonsense. Lollianus is a Roman personal name, belonging to no particularly distinguished individual, let alone having mythological connections. -- Bill 22:12, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete - doesn't this also qualify as a speedy under 4 'Very short articles with little or no context' or 'No meaningful content or history'? Jongarrettuk 22:18, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment: Shouldn't we have a list of Roman personal names somewhere? IIRC, there weren't very many of them. Quintus, Marcus... They were typically just abbreviated with one or two letters. - RedWordSmith 00:00, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * One or the other of us :-) should be careful with my terminology.... In the sense of praenomina, you're right: there were only 18 of them: Aulus, Marcus, etc. In the sense of "names of people", there were as many as there are now: Vinucius, Frugi, Albinus, Cicero, Quintilianus, etc. Lollianus is one of the latter; it's attested, and is a derivative of the gentilitial name of the gens Lollia (-ianus names often freedmen of the corresponding -ia gens); the most famous Lollia was a wife of Caligula's. Anyhoo, a list of Roman personal names in that sense would be much like a modern phone directory. In your sense, you're right: it's something that belongs onboard. Bill 01:14, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * The underlying article has been completely rewritten, with factual information this time, and nothing about Greeks or mythology. Keep, I guess. (Suppose I ought to point out that "Valentinium" is not so great, but am not gonna to start edit until this is settled, of course.) I think it ought to be a disambig page but (a) it doesn't seem worth doing unless each person is expanded; (b) -- now we get to the bottom of things -- I'm not too sure how to do it properly..... — Bill 01:34, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)ing
 * dpbsmith seems to have turned it into a keepable disamb page. Niteowlneils 03:44, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. We're not a list of baby names, and don't need articles listing every fred or bob in the world. --Improv 16:24, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Agree, but now you've put me in the distasteful position of supporting a very minimal article the sole purpose of which seems to be to salvage something that the original "author" couldn't get in.... OK, so it's the work of two minutes with Google once past the first stupid sub-stub, but it now falls under the legitimate envelope of prosopography — I notice we have no article, we should — of which large books are sold at high prices, like the PIR (Prosopographia Imperii Romani) because scholars consider them useful. Reluctantly, then, keep — Bill 18:10, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment I don't say it should be kept, I just couldn't stand staring at it the way it was. At this point I think it would be silly for me to vote delete at this point, or to revert the article to the original stub and then vote delete. But if the name does not refer to anybody that anyone is likely to write an article about, the page should be deleted. [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 21:05, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep if any of the possible articles are notable enough, otherwise delete. — siro  χ  o  22:51, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * That too makes good sense; but it's very hard to say whether any of them would be, and at what point in the development of Wikipedia. On a quick run, with further tips from the Web then back to my books, I found for example 5 more Lolliani: four of them mentioned in the Scriptores Historiae Augustae — one of whom is the most likely to get the first article, since he is one of the so‑called "Thirty Tyrants" (although the SHA is a dubious source) — and another, at least a century later, a Mavortius Lollianus to whom Firmicus Maternus dedicated his handbook on astrology. That now brings the total to 9, and I bet if I had access to the PIR or something like it, there'd be dozens more. Since the PIR is a valid work, it's equally valid for Wikipedia to start working on something like it (just as we have the beginnings of an atlas, of a dictionary of mathematics, of a bibliography of popular songs, etc.): but it would be in itself a huge undertaking. Since Wikipedia is open-ended, I'm now saying keep as long as we get away from the bad beginning. — Bill 23:32, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Keep now as a disambiguation. I just added Lollianus Spurius. Geogre 21:23, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Fair 'nuff; sensing general agreement, I've removed the Vfd, added the three others in the HA, etc. We seem to have set a precedent here, nudging Wikipedia towards a full-fledged prosopography, for which for the moment we're hardly equipped. Still, no harm done. — Bill 21:51, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * If nobody else is going to ask, I will. What the heck is a prosopography? AHD4 says
 * A study, often using statistics, that identifies and draws relationships between various characters or people within a specific historical, social, or literary context
 * which somehow leaves me none the wiser. I really need to know, because the next time someone asks me what I do online, I want to be able to say "downloading prosopography." [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 23:26, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Yuk what a nasty and incomprehensible definition. I suppose we should have an article, of course! Prosopography (from Greek προσωπος, prosopos, original "face", then "person" — both Greek spelling and exact etymology off the top of my head so don't take it for Gospel) is just the discipline that seeks to identify people from what may have been written about them. Usually people in classical Antiquity, and "what is written" is usually just tombstones and scraps of inscriptions: prosopographers assemble this scant info and say that one guy must have been the son of the other because that stone inscription looks later than that other papyrus, and besides, some historian mentions X but he really meant Y but misspelled it; or that C and D are actually the same person (like Cat Stevens, Stephen Demetre Georgiou, and Yusuf Islam, all the same person). To get anywhere, all these scraps have to be organized, exactly like we're doing with the name Lollianus here. Speaking of Cat Stevens — and without regard to the merit of the whole business — the problem the US gummint had with him a coupla weeks back was a prosopographical one: their lists had Youssouf Islam, but he spells it Yusuf, and he got on that plane.
 * A prosopography is a very large dictionary of all these personal names, organized to try to help scholars make sense out of it all: a bit like a phone directory in which your nicknames and Internet handles would be cross-indexed with your name (but also the names of anyone else who had the same or similar nicknames and handles). Best, Bill 23:44, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Now I think I understand it. So, when a character in Robert Heinlein's Double Star makes a joke to the effect that it scholars have discovered that the Iliad was not really written by Homer at all, but by another Greek of the same name... that is a prosopographical joke. Right? [[User:Dpbsmith|Dpbsmith (talk)]] 00:46, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Yes. Bill

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Pak

Pak or PAK may refer to:

Places

 * Pakistan (country code PAK)
 * Pak, Afghanistan
 * Pak Island, in the Admiralty Islands group of Papua New Guinea
 * Pak Tea House, a café in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Arts and entertainment

 * PAK (band), an American band
 * Perfect All-Kill, a music chart achievement in South Korea
 * Pak, Nintendo's sensational spelling of the word "pack" as a name for their game media and accessories:
 * Controller Pak, the Nintendo 64's memory card
 * Expansion Pak, a RAM add-on for Nintendo 64
 * Game Pak, game cartridges designed for early Nintendo systems
 * Option Pak, any of a number of special attachments for the Nintendo DS
 * Rumble Pak, a haptic feedback device
 * Transfer Pak, a data-transfer device
 * Tremor Pak, a third-party Rumble Pak

People

 * Pak (Korean surname), or Park
 * Pak (creator), formerly Murat Pak, digital artist, cryptocurrency investor, and programmer
 * B. J. Pak (born 1974), Korean-American attorney and politician
 * Bo Hi Pak (1930–2019), prominent member of the Unification Church
 * Gary Pak (born 1952), Asian Hawaiian writer, editor and professor
 * Greg Pak (born 1968), American comic book writer and film director
 * Igor Pak (born 1971), Russian professor of mathematics at the University of California
 * John Pak (born 1998), American professional golfer
 * SuChin Pak (born 1976), South Korean-born American television news correspondent
 * Ty Pak (born 1938), Korean-born writer and speaker
 * Yangjin Pak, South Korean archaeologist

Science, technology and military

 * PAK (file format), used by computers
 * Panzerabwehrkanone (Pak or PaK), German anti-tank guns
 * p21 activated kinase, any of a family of enzymes
 * 9mm P.A.K., a firearm cartridge for a non-lethal gas pistol noisemaking gun

Other uses

 * Pak Airways, a former Pakistan airline
 * Pak language (disambiguation)
 * Panhellenic Liberation Movement (ΠΑΚ), a Greek organisation that campaigned against the 1967–1974 military regime
 * Kurdistan Freedom Party (Parti Azadi Kurdistan), a Kurdish nationalist militant group
 * Privatisation Agency of Kosovo, a government agency

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Winston Field

Winston Joseph Field (6 June 1904 – 17 March 1969) was a Rhodesian politician who served as the seventh Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia. Field was a former Dominion Party MP who founded the Rhodesian Front political party with Ian Smith.

Early life
Field was born and raised in Bromsgrove and attended Bromsgrove School as a day student, in Worcestershire, England, and moved to Southern Rhodesia at the age of 17 in 1921. A tobacco farmer near Marandellas (now known as Marondera), in Mashonaland East, Field was President of the powerful Rhodesian Tobacco Association from 1938 to 1940, when he left for military service during the Second World War.

Initially enlisting in the Rhodesian Forces as a sergeant, he was court-martialled and demoted to the rank of private for striking a subordinate. Field then transferred to the British Forces, joining the Worcestershire Regiment as a Second Lieutenant from 1941, served in the D-Day Normandy landings in 1944, and ended the war with the rank of Major in the 6th Durham Light Infantry.

Early political career
Field was first elected to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Federal Assembly for Mrewa in a 1957 by-election under the Dominion Party ticket. The Federation Minister of Justice, Julian Greenfield, found him "somewhat impulsive and opinionated but entirely straightforward".

When the Rhodesian Front was founded in early-1962 by Ian Smith and Douglas "Boss" Lilford; a very wealthy right-wing tobacco farmer, they needed an establishment figurehead and Field was chosen. He was a solid, trustworthy figure and no racist, even though "nearly everyone else in the new party was to the right of him". His wife said "he didn't really want to take it on, he wasn't really a political animal".

Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia
The "imperious and intolerant" Field was elected, to his and many others' surprise, as Rhodesia's first Rhodesian Front Prime Minister at the 1962 general election and served until he was replaced by Ian Smith in 1964. Field lent an air of respectability to the Rhodesian Front government, though his Cabinet was derided by one newspaper as "by no means an inspiring list". Broader afield, the Australian journal The Bulletin noted of Field that "those who know him best do not for a moment suppose that Winston Field has been slow to attract attention because he is personally diffident or lacking in character. On the contrary, they see him as a man of cold reserve, not softened by his past defeats, not at all intimidated by the terrible power over other men’s lives now put into his hands by the white voters of Southern Rhodesia."

At the time of Field's election, it was assumed that the UK would delay the process of independence for Rhodesia until "an African majority assumed power in Salisbury". Many in the Rhodesian Front felt that Field did not fight hard enough for independence, in particular that the British had hoodwinked him on visits to London in June 1963 and January 1964 over promises of independence. His relatively short tenure in office saw the dissolution of the Central African Federation on 31 December 1963, though he did win the majority of the Federation's military and other assets for Southern Rhodesia.

Field's Cabinet included John Gaunt, a former Federal MP for Lusaka and a former District Commissioner in Northern Rhodesia. Aware of discontent in Cabinet fomented by Gaunt, Field demanded his resignation in the spring of 1964. Gaunt asked him to wait over the weekend whilst he cleared up some matters in his office. In that time, Gaunt and Smith organised a plot against Field, now seen as ineffectual after his failure to win independence. Ken Flower, head of Rhodesia's Central Intelligence Organisation, an organisation Field had ordered be set up, had in fact warned him sometime previously there was a conspiracy against him, involving several of his ministers.

The caucus of the Rhodesian Front decided to ask for his resignation on 2 April 1964 and the decision was conveyed to Field the next day, though the formal demand was not made until a Cabinet meeting a few days later. Field was replaced as leader of the Rhodesian Front and as Prime Minister of Rhodesia by Ian Smith on 14 April 1964, despite the Governor Sir Humphrey Gibbs urging him to fight against the rebels in his party.

Later life
Field retired from parliament at the May 1965 election, at which the Rhodesian Front under Ian Smith was returned with a greater majority, and was succeeded in his Marandellas seat by David Smith.

Field died at the age of 64 in Salisbury, Rhodesia, in 1969. On his death, Clifford Dupont, serving as Officer Administering the Government since Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence on 11 November 1965, observed: "Some day the story will be told of how much this country owes to Mr. Winston Field, who devoted his whole life to the good of Rhodesia. I, myself, have lost a friend, and I join Rhodesians everywhere in mourning the passing of this great patriot."

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IBM 8100 DPCX

DPCX (Distributed Processing Control eXecutive) was an operating system for the IBM 8100 small computer system. IBM hoped it would help their installed base of IBM 3790 customers migrate to the 8100 and the DPPX operating system. It was mainly deployed to support a word processing system, Distributed Office Support Facility (DOSF) which was derived from the earlier IBM 3730 word processing system.

Like DPPX, it was written in the PL/S-like PL/DS language. The applications, including much of DOSF, however, were written an interpreted language that was "compiled" using the System/370 assembler macro facility.

The 8100/DPCX/DOSF system was the first type of distributed system to connect to the IBM Distributed Office Support System (DISOSS) running on data host. Later versions of DISOSS relied on SNA Distribution System (SNADS) and eventually became peer-to-peer communication of documents which complied with Document Interchange Architecture (DIA) and Document Content Architecture (DCA) as other types of distributed system gained DISOSS support – Scanmaster, Displaywriter, and 5520 Office System.

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Advanced Aeromarine

Advanced Aeromarine (later HighCraft AeroMarine) was an aircraft manufacturer based in Ocoee, Florida. It built light aircraft and sailplanes, developing a number of successful designs that have been produced by a number of different firms over the years.

Aeromarine designs were licensed to Advanced Aviation for some time before being acquired by Keuthan Aircraft.

List of aircraft

 * Advanced Aeromarine Buccaneer, 1980s Single-engine two-seat amphibious ultralight. High-wing pusher configuration
 * Advanced Aeromarine Carrera, 1990s Single-engine two-seat ultralight. High-wing pusher configuration
 * Advanced Aeromarine Sierra 1990s Sailplane. Pod and boom configuration
 * Advanced Aeromarine Mallard

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The Wake (UK band)

The Wake are a British post-punk, synth-pop and later indie pop band, formed in Glasgow in 1981 by Gerard "Caesar" McInulty (formerly of Altered Images), Steven Allen (drums) and Joe Donnelly (bass), the latter replaced by Bobby Gillespie. Steven's sister Carolyn Allen also joined on keyboards, and remained in the band thereafter. Gillespie left the band in 1983, replaced by Martin Cunning and then by Alexander 'Mac' Macpherson.

History
The Wake released their first single on their own Scan 45 label, coupling together "On Our Honeymoon" and "Give Up". This single eventually caught the attention of New Order manager Rob Gretton, who helped the band sign to Factory Records in 1982 and record an LP (Harmony) at Strawberry Studios in Stockport. This was followed by a number of singles on Factory and its Belgian sister label Factory Benelux. In 1983, The Wake toured with New Order, and thus received critical attention but were often unfavourably compared to their more celebrated labelmates. Gillespie was asked to leave in 1983, subsequently playing drums with The Jesus and Mary Chain and achieving fame with his own band Primal Scream. After a short-lived stint with McInulty's ex-classmate Martin Cunning on bass, Alexander 'Mac' Macpherson permanently replaced Gillespie. That same year the band recorded a session on John Peel's BBC Radio 1 programme and David 'Kid' Jensen's BBC radio 1 show. The band toured extensively and scored an indie hit with their 1984 single "Talk About The Past" which featured Vini Reilly of Durutti Column on piano. The recording and release of their seminal 1985 album Here Comes Everybody marked the apex of their career. Further releases were few and far between: one more single "Of The Matter" emerged in 1985 before their last release for Factory, a 4-track EP entitled "Something That No One Else Could Bring" finally appeared in 1987.

In 1988, disillusioned with the lack of proper promotion and indeed apathy from Factory Records, The Wake left the label and signed to Bristol's legendary Sarah Records, releasing two singles and two LPs, the last being 1994's Tidal Wave of Hype. By this point, once again down to a three piece featuring McInulty, Allen and Allen, they also shared personnel with another Glasgow-based band on Sarah, The Orchids, with whom they had also played a few live gigs. When Sarah shut down in 1995, The Wake effectively dissolved.

For a few years, McInulty concentrated on other activities outside of recording music – notably writing scripts for plays that featured Allen in an acting role. McInulty and Allen eventually took up writing music again, and after a few tentative demos for possible new material later hooked up with Bobby Wratten (The Field Mice/Northern Picture Library/Trembling Blue Stars) under the name The Occasional Keepers. They released the albums "The Beauty of an Empty Vessel" and "True North" on LTM Recordings, which also incidentally reissued the entire Wake, Field Mice and Orchids back catalogues on remastered CDs containing all the original albums and single/EP cuts collected together.

Recent developments
In autumn 2009, The Wake (McInulty and Allen) came together once again to record a new album, "A Light Far Out", the recording of which took time to complete. On 12 December 2009 the group performed live with other Factory labelmates such as Section 25 and A Certain Ratio, at the Plan K venue in Brussels.

On 28 February 2010, the band performed a 45-minute set at the London Popfest at the Islington venue, the Lexington. They were a last-minute replacement for another band who had dropped out. The set included early tracks such as "Testament", "The Old Men" and "Favour", as well as "O Pamela" and "Here Comes Everybody", from their Factory Records period, plus later Sarah Records recordings. Since then the group have also performed in New York and Paris.

In December 2011, the band revealed in an interview with Jacob Graham of The Drums that the new album "A Light Far Out" was set for release in early 2012.

The album "A Light Far Out" was released on CD in April 2012 on LTM Records, containing 7 vocal tracks and 1 instrumental, "Faintness". The group marked Record Store Day in 2013 with a vinyl release of the album on the revived Factory Benelux imprint, and in July 2013 performed at the Indietracks Festival.

Further reissues of their first two Factory albums came in 2013 - with a double vinyl edition of "Harmony" which coupled the original album with the 12" single "Something Outside" plus three radio session tracks. This was released by Factory Benelux. Their second album "Here Comes Everybody" was then reissued in a special commemorative Record Store Day-only format, by US label Captured Tracks, comprising a hardback slipcase containing the original album plus a bonus album of singles and EP tracks that were issued between 1983 and 1987, together with an exclusive pamphlet/lithograph containing a band interview.

Autumn 2014 saw the first ever definitive compilation of The Wake's previously released material, titled "Testament - Best Of" and released by Factory Benelux in vinyl and CD formats. The vinyl format featured a slightly abbreviated track listing to the CD, but also came with a special bonus CD composed wholly of previously unreleased demos and live cuts. The regular CD itself featured 14 tracks culled from various singles and albums, plus one bonus, exclusive new track (an outtake from their 2012 album "A Light Far Out") entitled "Clouds Disco".

This exclusive CD track was then later issued as a 7" vinyl single to mark 2015's Record Store Day.

In late 2015 both Sarah Records albums by The Wake were reissued as remastered CDs, now expanded to include all tracks from the singles Crush the Flowers and Major John.

Discography
Chart placings shown are from the UK Indie Chart.

Albums

 * Harmony (Factory, 1982)
 * Here Comes Everybody (Factory, 1985) (No.20)
 * Make It Loud (Sarah, 1990)
 * Tidal Wave of Hype (Sarah, 1994)
 * Assembly (live, LTM, 2002)
 * Holy Heads (compilation of the two Sarah albums, LTM, 2002)
 * A Light Far Out (LTM, 2012)
 * limited vinyl edition on Factory Benelux (FBN-64), April 2013
 * Harmony (double vinyl reissue - second disc includes 'Something Outside' 12" A+B sides plus session tracks) (Factory Benelux) 2013
 * Here Comes Everybody (very limited Record Store Day double vinyl edition - compilation of the album plus 1983-1987 singles/EP tracks in special hardback slipcase packaging with pamphlet and extras) (Captured Tracks) 2013
 * Testament - Best Of (compilation of singles and album tracks 1982-2012) (Factory Benelux) 2014

 * As the Occasional Keepers (in collaboration with Bobby Wratten)
 * The Beauty of an Empty Vessel (LTM, 2005)
 * True North (LTM, 2008)

Singles and EPs

 * "On Our Honeymoon" (7" SCAN, 1982)
 * "Something Outside" / "Host" (12" Factory Benelux, 1983) (No.23)
 * "Talk About the Past" (7"/12" Factory, 1984) (No.11)
 * "Of the Matter" (7" Factory, 1985) (No.22)
 * Something That No One Else Could Bring EP (12" Factory, 1987)
 * "Crush the Flowers" / "Carbrain" (7" Sarah, 1989)
 * "Major John" / "Lousy Pop Group" (7" Sarah, 1991)
 * "Clouds Disco" [limited edition Record Store Day release] (7" Factory Benelux, 2015)

Covers

 * The covers for the single "Something Outside" and the album "Here Comes Everybody" were adapted respectively from "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge" and "Schaumachinerie" (a poster for the opera Victory over the Sun) works by El Lissitzky.
 * A cover version of The Wake song "O Pamela" appears on the Nouvelle Vague album, Bande à Part.
 * A cover version of The Wake song "Talk About the Past" appears on Blouse & Craft Spells "Gruesome Flowers 2: A Tribute to The Wake" 7" vinyl

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hydrogenobaculum

Hydrogenobaculum was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE

Childish spam. -- Bill 22:20, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete No meaningful content or history (IMO a speedy). Jongarrettuk 22:29, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Should be speedy. Delete. --Slowking Man 01:32, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete. No meaningful content or history. jni 06:35, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Patent nonsense. The only use of this article might be BJAODN, but I'll pass this time. (By the way, Hydrogenobaculum are bacteria, not mushrooms.) Delete. -- Mike Rosoft 14:18, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nonsense. --Improv 16:25, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Possibly speedy under case 2 (newbie test page) - evidence: history includes basic edits and page-blanking, user contributions.  Rossami 21:21, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nonsense.   — Gwalla | Talk 01:54, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Speed deleted as patent nonsense. Wile E. Heresiarch 22:47, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Aero Adventure

Aero Adventure LLC (formerly Aero Adventure Aviation and before that Arnet Pereyra Inc.) is an American aircraft manufacturer based in DeLand, Florida.

In 1996, the firm acquired the assets and production rights of Keuthan Aircraft.

List of Aircraft

 * Aventura
 * Ultralight and experimental amphibious aircraft, marketed for homebuilding. Pusher propeller, high-wing configuration, single-seat,  40 hp Rotax 447 engine

 * Aventura II
 * Two-seat version of Aventura. 100 hp Rotax 912S engine

 * Aventura Sport
 * Two-seat version of Aventura. 64 hp Rotax 582 engine

 * Aventura XLR
 * Two-seat version with more streamlining. 100 hp Rotax 912S engine

 * Barracuda
 * Single-engine two-seat utility aircraft, convertible to fly with floats

 * Toucan
 * Ultralight training aircraft, marketed for homebuilding. Pusher propeller, high-wing configuration, two seats in tandem, 64 hp Rotax 582 engine

 * Pegasus
 * Single-engine two-seat utility aircraft, marketed for homebuilding. Composite construction, 115 hp Rotax 914 engine

 * Kappa 77 KP 2U-SOVA
 * Single-engine two-seat utility aircraft, for homebuilding. Designed in Czech Republic, marketed in USA by Aero Adventure

 * Sabre II
 * Two-seat land development of the Buccaneer, produced by Arnet Pereyra and not continued once the company name was changed to Aero Adventure Aviation

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Sauli Niinistö

Sauli Väinämö Niinistö (born 24 August 1948) is a Finnish politician who served as the 12th president of Finland from 2012 to 2024.

A lawyer by education, Niinistö was Chairman of the National Coalition Party (NCP) from 1994 to 2001, Minister of Justice from 1995 to 1996, Minister of Finance from 1996 to 2003, Deputy Prime Minister from 1995 to 2001 and the NCP candidate in the 2006 presidential election. He served as the Speaker of the Parliament of Finland from 2007 to 2011 and has been the honorary president of the European People's Party (EPP) since 2002.

Niinistö was the NCP candidate in the 2012 presidential election, defeating Pekka Haavisto of the Green League (VIHR) with 62.6% of the vote in the decisive second round. Niinistö assumed office on 1 March 2012; he is the first NCP president since Juho Kusti Paasikivi, who left office in 1956. In May 2017, Niinistö announced that he would seek reelection in the 2018 presidential election, running as an Independent candidate. The NCP and Christian Democrats (KD) supported his candidacy. He won reelection in the first round on 28 January 2018 with 62.7% of the vote and his second term began on 1 February 2018.

Early life and education
Niinistö was born in Salo in 1948. His parents were the circulation manager of Salon Seudun Sanomat Väinö Niinistö (1911–1991) and nurse Hilkka Niinistö, née Heimo (1916–2014). Niinistö's godfather was Fjalar Nordell, founder of Salora.

Niinistö graduated from the Salon normaalilyseo high school in 1967, after which he went to study at the University of Turku. From there he graduated with a Master of Laws degree in 1974. He completed court training in 1977.

Career
Niinistö ran his own law firm in Salo between 1978 and 1988 before entering national politics.

Niinistö served on the municipal council of Salo from 1977 to 1992 and was elected a Member of the Parliament of Finland from the district of Finland Proper in 1987. In 1994 he was chosen to lead the NCP as party chairman and subsequently became Justice Minister in Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen's first cabinet in 1995.

Switching portfolios, Niinistö became Finance Minister in 1996, continuing in Lipponen's second cabinet from 1999 to 2003. In both administrations, Niinistö was deputy prime minister under social democrat Lipponen. As lllFinance lllMinister, Niinistö was known for his strict fiscal policy. He was the first Finn to make a purchase with euros on 1 January 2002. Niinistö was urged by his party to stand as a candidate in the 2000 presidential election, but he refused the candidacy for completely related to his private life reasons. He announced his gradual retirement from politics in 2001, and he was succeeded that year by Ville Itälä as party leader. After the end of his term as a cabinet minister in 2003, Niinistö became vice president at the European Investment Bank.

In March 2005, Niinistö announced his candidacy for the 2006 presidential election. He represented the NCP, challenging the incumbent President Tarja Halonen. He qualified for the second round runoff (as one of the top two candidates in the first round), held on 29 January 2006, but lost to Halonen. The costs of Niinistö's campaign were circa 2,225,000 euros, including 492,864 euros and 717,191 euros contributions from NCP. His financial declaration in 2006 was made more detailed in 2009 because of controversies.

In 2006, Niinistö announced that he was standing again for the 2007 parliamentary election. He said, however, that he had no plans to take any high-ranking political job such as the prime ministership in the future. He received 60,563 votes in the 2007 elections, a record in a Finnish parliamentary election; it was about 21% more than the 1948 record of Hertta Kuusinen. After the 2007 election, Niinistö decided to accept the position of the Speaker of the Parliament. Niinistö negotiated the merger of the European Democrat Union (EDU) into the EPP in 2002 and became its Honorary President.

Niinistö was elected as the president of the Football Association of Finland on 8 November 2009, replacing Pekka Hämäläinen, but the three-year term was interrupted when Niinistö was elected president of the republic.

Presidency (2012–2024)
Niinistö was the NCP candidate for a second time in the 2012 presidential election. With 37.0% of the vote, he won the election's first round and faced off against Haavisto of the Green League in the decisive second round. He carried the second round with around 62.6% against Haavisto's 37.4%. Niinistö's margin of victory was larger than that of any previous directly elected president. He won a majority in 14 of 15 electoral districts. Niinistö's election budget was circa 1.2 million euros.

After becoming the President, Niinistö pledged to establish a special task force aiming at preventing alienation among the country's youth and expressed concern about the problems of sparsely populated rural areas. Niinistö stressed the significance of mutual understanding with the cabinet and Parliament. His acceptance speech thanked those who backed him in the campaign and those who disagreed with him. Niinistö said that the differing views expressed should be taken into consideration.

In May 2017, Niinistö announced that he would seek re-election in the 2018 presidential election, running as an independent candidate. His candidacy was soon supported by the National Coalition Party and Christian Democrats. In the election, Niinistö received 62.7% of the votes, becoming the first president in Finland to win the first round of an election by popular vote.

By 2022, Niinistö was estimated to have an approval rating of 92 percent, but rejected efforts by a grassroots movement to allow him to run for a third term.

Foreign policy
As President, Niinistö visited Russia and met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in February 2013 to promote bilateral trade (e.g. Shell, Cargotec, YIT). He discussed ice hockey and business, but not human rights issues or the selling of Russian military equipment to Syria and its transport through Finland. Niinistö's contacts with the Russian leader have led him to be dubbed as the "Putin whisperer" by some commentators.

At the same time as the sanctions against Russia, mainly caused by the Russian invasion in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, Niinistö said that the focus should be on easing tensions and increasing understanding between Europe and Russia. He stated that Finland should serve as a broker between Russia and Europe. He also stated that "Russia understands that the conflict in Ukraine has generated debate in Finland over this country's own security policy. It's important that President Putin understands Finland's position on NATO membership in this debate. Finland accepts that Russia is working to find a solution to the acute conflict in Ukraine, but it needs to do more."

The foreign minister of Russia, Sergey Lavrov, used a statement of Niinistö in his arguments about future choices for the next Prime Minister of Finland, saying, "'Does Northern Europe need this? How will Russia react?' President Niinistö asked these questions with the subtext. He knows that the answer is negative: nobody needs this"; Lavrov added "President Niinistö realizes that what happened in Ukraine is impossible in Finland."

In his 2015 New Year's Speech, Niinistö stated: "We condemned Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea as soon as it happened and then condemned Russia's actions in eastern Ukraine. We have done this in the EU context but have also made this clear in our direct contacts with Russia. We condemn any illegal occupations, illegal use of force or attempts to limit the sovereignty of independent nations. Such actions never achieve anything but danger and increased tension. While power may have once grown out of the barrel of a gun, these days it leads to nothing but chaos."

Niinistö met with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on 26 October 2016 in Tehran, Iran. He also met Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. They discussed closer economic cooperation, human rights in Iran, the situation in the Middle East and the threat of terrorism. Niinistö said: "Iran was one of the first countries to recognise Finland's independence, and now our countries will further deepen their cooperation."

In April 2017, Niinistö openly supported the One-China policy.

In 2018, Niinistö said during his re-election campaign that he would block arms sales to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, due to their involvement in the Saudi Arabian–led intervention in Yemen.

On 16 July 2018, Niinistö officially hosted U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Putin for the US-Russia Summit in Helsinki. Niinistö was involved 73rd United Nations General Assembly in New York on 25 September 2018. President Niinistö spoke about Russia and Baltic nations affairs at the UNGA 2018.Niinistö visited China on 13–14 January 2019 and met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, they went through common issues between Finland-China to raise friendship and partnership. Xi Jinping and Niinistö jointly launched the 2019 China-Finland Year of Winter Sports. In October 2019, Niinistö condemned Turkey's military campaign in Kurdish–controlled areas of northern Syria. He said that two NATO member states are "quite involved" in Syria.

Russian invasion of Ukraine and accession of Finland to NATO
In an interview with The Washington Post in January 2022, Niinistö stated that he could not speak to Putin's intentions regarding the frozen relations between Russia and the West, but cited what he described as Finnish "wisdom" on experiences in dealing with Moscow. "Finns certainly learned the wisdom that a Cossack, that means a Russian soldier, takes all that is loose. You have to be very, very, clear, where the fixed line is." When he was asked to shed light on his thoughts about Putin after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Niinistö replied: "The masks have now been taken off, showing only the face of war."

On 4 March 2022, Niinistö visited Washington, D.C., to meet President Joe Biden and number of other US politicians and security personnel. The meetings were initiated by Niinistö's office earlier the same week. In a press conference with Finnish media, Niinistö said that in the meeting the presidents discussed the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its impact on European and Finnish security. Furthermore, they agreed on deepening Finnish-US security co-operation and bilateral relations.

On 12 May 2022, ten weeks after the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Niinistö and prime minister Sanna Marin advocated in a joint statement for a 'NATO membership without delay'. Niinistö also made his last call with Putin that month, telling him that Finland's decision to join NATO was the Russian leader's "own doing."

On 21 May 2022, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told Niinistö that "overlooking threatening terrorist organisations that pose a threat to a NATO member is not in the spirit of the alliance." On the same day, Niinistö, after a telephone conversation with Erdoğan, announced that they were ready for dialogue with Turkey regarding Finland's membership in NATO and that they always condemned terrorism. On 8 June 2022, Niinistö said he was surprised by Turkey's opposition to Finland's NATO membership. During Niinistö's presidency, neighbouring military cooperation ties between Finland and Sweden were further strengthened, culminating in joint, rather than separate, NATO accession bids initiated by both countries. Amid threats of a veto from the Turkish Government over Sweden's accession, Niinistö stated that he was steadfastly committed to the application being joint and that it would mean that Finland would have to decline the invitation into NATO if Sweden’s membership application was vetoed. Finland and Sweden agreed to a deal with the Government of Turkey that would allow the countries to join NATO on 28 June 2022, in the wake of the veto threat.

Pardons
As President of Finland, Niinistö held the power of pardoning for individual criminal sentences and related sanctions. In 2019 and 2020, he did not pardon anyone, and pardoned on average only three people per year. In comparison, his predecessor Tarja Halonen reached a figure of 20 pardons per year on average. Niinistö had explained that he was in good agreement with the policy of the Supreme Court of Finland, which had always processed the case first before the President saw it. Niinistö supported the abolition of the presidential pardon in his presidential campaigns, calling the institution an outdated "royal tradition".

Post-presidency (2024–present)
In March 2024, Niinistö was called upon to make and prepare a draft report for the EU on improving crisis resistance of European societies at the request of Ursula von der Leyen as President of the European Commission. The report was described to be a society-wide review of Europe's crisis resilience, covering both conventional defense, new and emerging cybersecurity and hybrid threats as well as the impact of people's mindsets on European societies’ collective crisis resilience to several threats.

Political positions
Niinistö opposes the president's right to pardon prisoners and only pardoned one prisoner during his first year as president. He opposes same-sex marriage but thinks that same-sex couples should have the right to adoption and a common surname. He supports euthanasia under certain circumstances. In December 2017, Niinistö stated that Finland should not apply for NATO membership in the current circumstances. According to Niinistö, as a member of NATO, Finland would lose the opportunity to stay out of the crisis. However, Niinistö wondered that in the event of a crisis between Russia and the EU, Finland should consider membership very seriously.

Personal life
Niinistö married Marja-Leena Alanko in 1974 and they had two sons. Marja-Leena was killed in a car crash in January 1995. Niinistö wrote about the time after the death of his first wife in his book Viiden vuoden yksinäisyys (translation: "Five years of loneliness").

While a cabinet minister, Niinistö, as a widower, was romantically involved with MP Tanja Karpela, a former beauty queen and later Minister of Culture. Karpela's Centre Party was in opposition and Niinistö was considered the second-most influential man in government. In 2003 Karpela and Niinistö announced their engagement, which was ended in 2004.

In 2005, Niinistö met Jenni Haukio, who at the time worked for the National Coalition Party and interviewed Niinistö for the Nykypäivä magazine. They later became romantically involved but kept the relationship secret from the public until the wedding on 3 January 2009. In October 2017, the couple announced that they were expecting a child, and they subsequently had a son, who was born in February 2018. In 2017 Niinistö and Haukio's dog Lennu went viral across the world.

Niinistö is the uncle of Ville Niinistö, a Green League MP from Turku, former leader of the Green League and former Minister of the Environment. Whereas, ex-Minister of Defence Jussi Niinistö is not related, and their family names have different origins.

Niinistö is a survivor of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. He escaped the ensuing tsunami by climbing a utility pole with his son in Khao Lak, Thailand.

Niinistö is a devout Christian and member of the Lutheran Church.

Niinistö enjoys roller skating in his spare time, and in the winter he often plays ice hockey.

Beside his native language, Niinistö also speaks English and Swedish.

In popular culture
Niinistö appears as an animated character in the political satire TV series The Autocrats.

National orders

 * 🇫🇮 Finland: Grand Master and Commander Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
 * 🇫🇮 Finland: Grand Master and Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion of Finland
 * 🇫🇮 Finland: Grand Master and Commander Grand Cross of the Order of the Cross of Liberty

Foreign orders

 * 🇦🇹 Austria: Grand Star of the Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (5 February 2016)
 * 🇩🇰 Denmark: Knight of the Order of the Elephant (4 April 2013)
 * 🇪🇪 Estonia: Collar of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana (9 May 2014)
 * 🇫🇷 France: Grand Cross of the Order of the Legion of Honour (9 July 2013)
 * 🇩🇪 Germany: Grand Cross Special Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (17 September 2018)
 * 🇮🇸 Iceland: Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of the Falcon (28 May 2013)
 * 🇮🇹 Italy: Grand Cross (2008), last with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2017)
 * 🇱🇻 Latvia: Commander Grand Cross with Chain 1st Class of the Order of the Three Stars (9 October 2013)
 * 🇱🇹 Lithuania: Grand Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great with Golden Chain (15 May 2013)
 * 🇱🇺 Luxembourg: Grand Cross of the Order of the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau (10 May 2016)
 * 🇲🇽 Mexico: Collar of the Order of the Aztec Eagle (25 May 2015)
 * 🇳🇱 Netherlands: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Orange-Nassau
 * 🇳🇴 Norway:
 * Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav (10 October 2012)
 * Grand Cross of the Royal Norwegian Order of Merit (5 June 2007)
 * 🇵🇱 Poland: Knight of the Order of White Eagle (30 March 2015)
 * 🇸🇪 Sweden:
 * Knight (2012) with Collar (2016) of the Royal Order of the Seraphim
 * Recipient of the 70th Birthday Badge Medal of King Carl XVI Gustaf (30 April 2016)
 * Recipient of the Golden Jubilee Medal of King Carl XVI Gustaf (15 September 2023
 * 🇺🇦 Ukraine: Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, 1st class (23 August 2021)

Honorary doctorates

 * 🇫🇮 Finland: Honorary Doctor of Administrative Sciences – University of Tampere (2010)
 * 🇫🇮 Finland: Honorary Doctor of Laws – University of Turku (2011)
 * 🇭🇺 Hungary: Honorary Doctor of Laws – Eötvös Loránd University (2012)
 * 🇫🇮 Finland: Honorary Doctor of Sports Sciences – University of Jyväskylä (2013)
 * 🇫🇮 Finland: Honorary Doctor of Veterinary Medicine – University of Helsinki (2015)
 * 🇫🇮 Finland: Honorary Doctor of Economics – Aalto University School of Business (2016)
 * 🇫🇮 Finland: Honorary Doctor of Laws – University of Helsinki (2017)
 * United States of America: Recipient of the Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Minnesota (23 September 2017)
 * 🇫🇮 Finland: Honorary Doctor of Military Sciences – National Defence University (2018)
 * United States of America: Was Honored Global Citizen Awards – Atlantic Council (2022)
 * 🇫🇮 Finland: Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, University of Helsinki (2023)

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The Aziz Corporation
Promotion. -- Bill 22:23, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * So it is. Delete Jongarrettuk 22:28, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Probably a borderline speedy deletion candidate. Either way, delete it. --Slowking Man 01:28, Oct 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Advert.   — Gwalla | Talk 01:55, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Sorry, just added as a link for the Bio entry for the chairman Khalid Aziz (You may want to look and vote on that page too)''' --Lancew 16:22, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bowled

 * Delete - All this is covered in more detail in the Cricket entry. The word "bowled" doesn't seem to need a separate encylopaedic entry and may be confusing to people looking for other uses of the term.  I'm aware that there's a lbw page - but that's a very specific cricket usage. --Tomheaton 22:23, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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HWM

HWM may refer to:
 * Harlow Mill railway station, in England
 * Hazardous waste management
 * Hersham and Walton Motors
 * High water mark
 * Hot Water Music
 * Hull-White model
 * HWM (Hardware Mag), a Singaporean tech magazine

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Commerce Bancshares

Commerce Bancshares, Inc. (NASDAQ: CBSH) is a regional bank holding company based in Missouri, United States, with primary hubs in Kansas City and St. Louis. It is the corporate parent of Commerce Bank, which offers a diversified line of financial services, including business and personal banking, wealth management and investments through its affiliated companies.

Commerce operates more than 275 branch and ATM locations across Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Oklahoma and Colorado and has operating subsidiaries involved in mortgage banking, credit-related insurance, venture capital and real estate activities.

As of March 31, 2023, Commerce Bank was the 61st largest commercial bank in the United States, as reported by the Federal Reserve Bank.

History
Commerce was founded by Francis Reid Long with $10,000 in capital in 1865, just as communities were rebuilding during Reconstruction. Originally known as the Kansas City Savings Association, it was acquired in 1881 by Dr. William Stone Woods and renamed the National Bank of Commerce, claiming at the time to be the largest bank west of Chicago. Harry Truman, the 33rd President of the United States, worked as a clerk and cashier at the bank in the early 1900s. When describing Dr. Woods, Truman once said, "There are dozens of stories about his close accounting of the nickels and pennies, but if he chose to back a man, he stayed with him through thick and thin if that man had energy and character." Dr. Woods would go on to transform the Kansas City bank into a modern financial institution.

Truman's housemate at the time was fellow Commerce employee Arthur Eisenhower, brother of future war hero and President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Arthur went on to work at Commerce for more than 50 years.

The bank became Commerce Bank in 1903 with William Thornton Kemper Sr. as its first president. Kemper set up one of his sons, James M. Kemper, at Commerce and his other son, Rufus Crosby Kemper Sr., at the competing City Center Bank, which later became UMB Financial Corporation. Members of the Kemper family still play a dominant role at both banks. They also are a major force in Missouri philanthropies, with their names attached to numerous buildings throughout the state, including Kemper Arena.

In 1928, Commerce opened the nation's first 24-hour banking transit department, where checks or transit items drawn from out-of-town banks could be cleared and collected. The bank was an early adopter in other ways as well. In 1955, it installed the latest moving "electric stairs" in the Walnut Lobby of its Kansas City headquarters. In that same lobby, President Bill Clinton announced his 1994 plan for welfare reform, using the occasion to recognize the bank's participation in "welfare-to-work" programs.

After World War II, Commerce Bank continued to play an important role in the Midwest's growth. It funded business growth, working with H&R Block, Sprint (originally called United Utilities), and Trans World Airlines, which had its main overhaul base at Kansas City International Airport. In 1954, the Commerce Trust Company allowed Walt Disney and his wife, Lillian, to take out a $60,000 loan against Disney's life insurance policy to help fund the development of a new theme park Disney envisioned. Disneyland opened in California a year later, and by the end of its first year in operation, the park had already attracted 3.6 million guests.

From the 1960s to the 1990s, Commerce grew alongside the American economy, expanding throughout Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois. In 1968, Commerce became the first bank in Missouri to enter the credit card business. In 1969, Commerce helped Ewing Kauffman, the owner of Marion Laboratories buy the Kansas City Royals. Commerce remains the Royals' bank. After a young Johnny Morris opened a bait and tackle shop in the back of his father's liquor store in Springfield, Missouri, Commerce provided the line of credit he needed in 1974 to open a second store in a chain known today throughout North America as Bass Pro Shops. When the financial crisis caused a recession in 2008, Commerce was the country's sixth largest bank to decline financial assistance from the U.S. Treasury Department's Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. Appearing regularly on lists recognizing top banks, Commerce later added Colorado and Oklahoma to its banking footprint, with additional commercial offices throughout the Midwest and commercial payments services available in 48 states. In 2023, Commerce completed Commerce Bank Tower, a 15-story building adjacent to Commerce Bank's office building at 8000 Forsyth Blvd. in Clayton, Missouri.

Lines of business
Commercial Banking – Commerce Bank serves more than 13,000 businesses through its commercial banking and payments solutions. The bank's commercial services include corporate lending, merchant and commercial card products, payment and treasury solutions, leasing and international services, as well as business and government deposit, investment and cash management. The commercial banking business contributed 53% of Commerce Bank's pre-tax income in 2022.

Consumer Banking – Commerce Bank's consumer banking serves more than 812,000 households from more than 275 branch and ATM locations in its retail network, along with online and mobile banking. The bank's consumer services include checking, savings, installment loans, personal mortgages and debit and credit cards. The consumer banking business contributed 23% of Commerce Bank's pre-tax income in 2022. Wealth Management – Commerce Trust, a division of Commerce Bank, provides investment management, financial planning, trust and private banking services to high-net-worth individuals and institutions. Commerce Family Office, an operating unit of Commerce Trust, provides investment consulting, tax planning, trust administration, philanthropy and family governance to ultra-high-net-worth individuals. With more than $37.2 billion in total assets under management on December 31, 2022, Commerce Trust ranked 20th in bank-managed trust companies in 2022, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence. Commerce Bank’s wealth management businesses contributed 24% of the bank’s pre-tax income in 2022.

Awards and recognition

 * Bank Di rector's Top 25 Banks – In 2023, Bank Director named Commerce Bank one of the Top 25 U.S. Banks.
 * Forbes'  World's Best Banks – In 2023, Forbes named Commerce Bank one of the World's Best Banks for the fifth consecutive year.
 * Forbes' America's Best Banks – As of 2023, Commerce Bank has been named one of America's Best Banks 13 of the past 14 years.
 * Forbes ' Best Banks in Missouri – In 2023, Commerce Bank was ranked the 4th best bank in Missouri on Forbes' list of America's Best Banks in    Each State.
 * Forbes'  America's Best Midsize Employers – In 2023, Commerce Bank was recognized on Forbes’ America’s Best Midsize Employers List for the sixth consecutive year.
 * Forbes'  Best Employers in Missouri – In 2022, Commerce Bank ranked 49th on this list.
 * Newsweek's America's Greatest Workplaces – In 2023, Newsweek named Commerce Bank to its list of America's Greatest Workplaces.
 * Global Finance named The Private Bank at Commerce Trust the 2021 Best U.S. Regional Private Bank in the Midwest. The award recognizes The Private Bank's efforts to stretch its capabilities during the pandemic to work with clients experiencing cashflow difficulties.
 * Human Rights Campaign's 2022 Corporate Equality Index (CEI) – Commerce Bank received a score of 90 on the nation's foremost benchmarking    survey and report that measures corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality.

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Talk:Sharashka

Spelling
Isn't the Cyrillic "ш" more properly romanized as "shch" or is that only in the middle of a word?Ellsworth 22:28, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * No. It is the letter "" that is tricky. Mikkalai 05:19, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Thanks. That makes sense. Well, not really, but I'm just ignorant. Ellsworth 13:30, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Well, Germans are even in bigger trouble: they have to write "schtsch"; unbelievable, isn't it? There was a popular joke about a Russian tsarina of German origin that she managed to make 8 mistakes in a two-letter word, "Щи" (a kind of Russian vegetable soup). Mikkalai 16:54, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)

All forced?
So who was and wasn't forced to the sharashka?

It's common for various countries to have secret research labs, including the USA, where the scientists are engaged in work that is so sensitive they are deprived of outside contact. But when does a lab become a camp?
 * In the case of "sharashkas", never. A lab was created in a camp instead, from qualified convicts, collected from everywhere. And no one was actually "forced", given a choice between logging in taiga and designing planes. (Did you actually read the article?) Mikkalai 19:30, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * What's in an article and what actually happened are two separate things, hence the question.
 * Are you satisfied with the answer? What exactly is the problem with the article? Mikkalai 01:41, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Not really. Wikipedia is created by *amateurs*, hence the question. I was just trying to establish something.
 * If you are unwilling to explain what exactly is bothering you, you are welcome to find a better source of information. Unlike religion, wikipedia does not claim to have ultimate answers. Mikkalai 17:17, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I explained this in the first line of this section. Is that really "rocket science"?

 * First, it were prisons for those, who were tried for political (and other?) crimes, so this is unlike the US secret laboratories. All the prisoners, just as all other citizens of the USSR, had to work. But they were given a choice - to work with other prisoners of camps or to continue to work according their speciality and proffesion.--Nixer 18:25, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Nuclear Sh.
Never heard about that. AFAIK all scientists in nuclear project was freemen, "vol'nyie". Could somebody give me some names of the scientists being centenced and inprisoned, and being serving for the Bomb during that? --GS 14:35, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Polikarpov for a brief period
Let's at least modify that. This is poorly phrased. First, "fortunately" rarely belong to encyclopedia. Secondly, it sounds strange as may be inferred that it is fortunate that he was an aircraft designer for only for a brief period. But my main consern is with the word "fortunately" in there, although I agree that that's good that one less person suffered. Should we say: or something like that? Can't come up with a good prasing off hand. --Irpen 23:49, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * ...aircraft designer (arrested for a brief period)

 * I agree. With all due respect, if someone more notable than WP editors expressed their opinion, we can consider including it. Just saying "fortunately" is WP:OR. ←Humus sapiens←ну? 23:55, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

History
Some sources talk about such 'prison design bureau' in the end of 1920-s. Polikarpov and Grigorovitch were the first designers in Special Design Bureau, created in 1929 by Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, head of OGPU. http://www.airwar.ru/enc/fww1/i5.html Ходок (talk) 16:08, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Radical meaning?
In the introduction there is the phrase "radical meaning" in explaining where the name Sharashka may have originated.--- "Russian slang expression sharashkina kontora "Sharashka's office", possibly from the radical meaning "to beat about""

What is this supposed to mean? It doesn't make sense, but I don't know anything about this, so I'm not going to replace it with something else, or delete it. If anybody knows what was meant I think it needs to be changed. MS — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.174.236.153 (talk) 05:58, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

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об использовании на производстве специалистов, осужденных за вредительство
There is something fishy with reference to this document: It mentioned in passing in a number of texts, but I failed to find it. At the same time, it turns out there were 15 circulars issued, listed in archives as "Circulars of VSNkH об использовании на производстве специалистов, осужденных за вредительство " Фонд № Р-101. Оп.2 т. с. Д. 63 - Altenmann >talk 23:55, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

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IBM 3790

The IBM 3790 Communications System was one of the first distributed computing platforms. The 3790 was developed by IBM's Data Processing Division (DPD) and announced in 1974. It preceded the IBM 8100, announced in 1979.

It was designed to be installed in branch offices, stores, subsidiaries, etc., and to be connected to the central host mainframe, using IBM Systems Network Architecture (SNA).

Although its successor's role in distributed data processing was said to be "a turning point in the general direction of worldwide computer development," the 3790 was described by Datamation in March 1979 as "less than successful."

System description
IBM described it as "a programmable, operator oriented terminal system."

Components
The 3790 supported
 * up to 16 IBM 3277 display stations
 * an integrated floppy disk unit
 * an integrated 120 lines per minute (lpm) line printer
 * up to three 3292 auxiliary control units
 * up to four 3793 keyboard-printers
 * a Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC) communications interface
 * A 1200 baud internal or external modem

The base unit of the 3790 was the IBM 3791 programmable control unit, which was offered as a choice of:
 * the model 1, supporting 8.3MB of disk storage
 * the model 2, with up to 26.9MB.

Attached to the 3791 were:
 * The 3792 auxiliary control unit, which had options for attachment of
 * up to two dial-in IBM 2741 communications terminals,
 * up to four 3793 display stations, and a line printer.
 * The 3793 printer-keyboard (up to four).
 * The 3411 model 1, Magnetic tape unit and controller (added in 1977) and
 * up to three 3410 tape units attached to the 3411 unit.

Host software

 * Function Support Program.
 * Subsystem Support Services.
 * VTAM (with the host running DOS/VS, OS/VS1, or OS/VS2)
 * User Application Support Program.

Reception
The 3790 failed to achieve the success IBM intended, due to several issues. It had a complex programming language, The 3790 Macro Assembler, and the customers found it difficult to deploy applications on it. The Macro Assembler ran only on an IBM mainframe and then the compiled and linked object was moved to the 3790 for testing.

The 3790 was designed as a departmental processor, but the requirement for an IBM mainframe development environment inhibited adoption in its target market of mid-size companies. The result was lackluster interest in the product. In addition the 3790 was priced higher than minicomputers of comparable processing power.

One of the products IBM released to help developers was Program Validation Services (PVS). With PVS, one could test a program in the mainframe environment using scripts. The scripts were cumbersome to create, and prone to errors. Since mainframe time was expensive and often difficult to obtain very few programmers used PVS for anything other than initial testing.

The manual for the Macro Assembler was bulky (about 4 inches thick) and difficult to use as a reference. Another programming issue was code design and size; the hardware architecture loaded code into memory on 2k segments, for optimal execution time it was critical to ensure that processing intensive loops did not cross the segment boundary and incur delays swapping segments in and out of memory.

IBM recognized the problems with the Macro Assembler and created an automated program generator named DMS. DMS later became Cross System Product (CSP) on the 8100. DMS was essentially a screen painter; it could do simple edits such as field range checking or numeric tests but more complex logic still had to be coded using the Macro Assembler.

IBM 3730
The IBM 3730 is a word-processing variant of the 3790, announced in the late 1970s. It used 3790 hardware but its software made it a dedicated shared-logic word-processing system which could support a dozen or more word-processing IBM 3732 terminals, which were derived from the IBM 3270 family of terminals. Defunct IBM 3777 terminals which had been returned by customers were re-engineered and equipped with a specialized word-processing keyboard, and shipped back to other customers as part of the 3730 word processing system. The 3730 could be connected using Systems Network Architecture to a central mainframe running IBM DISOSS which was a centralized document exchange software running on CICS.

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Game Pak

Game Pak is the brand name for ROM cartridges designed by Nintendo for some of their earlier video game systems. The "Game Pak" moniker was officially used only in North America, Europe, and Oceania. In Japan, Nintendo uses the term Cassette (カセット) when referring to Famicom, Super Famicom and Nintendo 64 game paks, and Cartridge (カートリッジ) for the Game Boy line and Virtual Boy.

They include:
 * Nintendo Entertainment System Game Pak
 * Super Nintendo Entertainment System Game Pak
 * Game Boy Game Pak
 * Nintendo 64 Game Pak

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User:Rj/et

Marriages and Children of Eliabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor has been married eight times to seven husbands:

 * 1) 05/06/1950 - 01/29/1951, to Conrad "Nicky" Hilton Jr., Hilton Hotel heir
 * 2) 02/21/1952 - 10/04/1956, to Michael Wilding, actor
 * 3) * Son, born 01/06/1953: Michael
 * 4) * Son, born 02/27/1955: Christopher
 * 5) 02/02/1957 - 03/23/1958, to Michael Todd, film producer
 * 6) * Daughter, born 08/06/1957: Elizabeth Frances
 * 7) ??/??/1959 - 03/06/1964, to Eddie Fisher, singer, actor
 * 8) 03/15/1964 - 06/26/1974, to Richard Burton, actor
 * 9) * Daughter, born 1961 and adopted in 1964: Maria Carson
 * 10) 10/??/1975 - ??/??/1976, to Richard Burton (2nd Marriage)
 * 11) 12/04/1976 - 11/07/1982, to John Warner, United States Senator
 * 12) 10/06/1991 - 11/??/1996, to Larry Fortensky, teamster, construction equipment operator

With the exception of Mike Todd, all of the marriages ended in divorce. The marriage to Todd was ended by his death in an airplane crash.

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Maurizio Bevilacqua

Maurizio Bevilacqua (born June 1, 1960) is a Canadian politician who served as the 4th mayor of Vaughan from 2010 to 2022. He was a Liberal member of Parliament (MP) from 1988 to 2010 and was one of eleven candidates for the 2006 leadership contest, but dropped out of the race on August 14, 2006. He has been described in the media as a "right-of-centre, business friendly Liberal".

He resigned his seat in the House of Commons of Canada and announced on September 3, 2010, that he would be a candidate for mayor of Vaughan. On October 25 he was elected mayor.

Early life
Born in Sulmona, Italy, he arrived in Canada in 1970 at the age of 10. As a youth, he attended Emery Collegiate and received a Bachelor of Arts from York University. He is also a graduate of Fordham University- The Jesuit University of New York City where he earned his Master of Arts degree. He has two children, Jean-Paul and Victoria.

Politics
He first got involved in party politics by working as a staffer for Sergio Marchi, and would later participate in student politics at York University.

Initially elected in the 1988 election, he defeated the Progressive Conservative candidate by only 77 votes. Due to the closeness of the race, the results were voided by the courts, and a by-election was called for 1990.

Bevilacqua won the 1990 by-election in York North by over 7,000 votes, despite a strong effort by the New Democratic Party.

Bevilacqua represented the districts of York North (1988–1997), Vaughan—King—Aurora (1997–2004) and Vaughan (2004–2010). He is a former secretary of state (Science, Research and Development) and (International Financial Institutions). He is also a former parliamentary secretary to the minister of Labour (Human Resources Development) and to the Minister of Employment and Immigration (Human Resources Development). He was formerly a consultant.

He was the longtime chair of the Commons finance committee. While a fiscal conservative, Bevilacqua has supported same-sex marriage.

2006 Liberal leadership bid
On April 19, 2006, he declared his candidacy for the leadership of the Liberal Party, joining Martha Hall Findlay, Michael Ignatieff, and Stéphane Dion as official entrants into the leadership race. His supporters included MPs Gerry Byrne and Roy Cullen, former Cabinet minister Roy MacLaren and former party pollster Michael Marzolini. He also attracted the support of former Chrétien organizers Tennio Evangelista, Jeff Angel and Jeff Smith. His campaign for the Liberal Party leadership was not successful and he dropped out of the race on August 14, 2006 to support fellow Liberal Party leadership candidate Bob Rae.

Mayor of Vaughan (2010 - 2022)
Bevilacqua officially announced in early September 2010 that he was running in the 2010 Vaughan municipal election for the position of mayor. The announcement came shortly after his resignation as Member of Parliament for Vaughan.

He defeated controversial incumbent Linda Jackson, the former mayor who was still facing charges from election finance irregularities stemming from her 2006 mayoral victory.

Bevilacqua was re-elected mayor of Vaughan in 2014 and again in 2018, both times with greater than seventy percent of the vote.

On June 1, 2022 Bevilacqua announced he would not be seeking re-election in the 2022 election and subsequently endorsed Steven Del Duca to succeed him.

Municipal
Source for results: Source:

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IBM System 9000

The System 9000 (S9000) is a family of microcomputers from IBM consisting of the System 9001, 9002, and 9003. The first member of the family, the System 9001 laboratory computer, was introduced in May 1982 as the IBM Instruments Computer System Model 9000. It was renamed to the System 9001 in 1984 when the System 9000 family name and the System 9002 multi-user general-purpose business computer was introduced. The last member of the family, the System 9003 industrial computer, was introduced in 1985. All members of the System 9000 family did not find much commercial success and the entire family was discontinued on 2 December 1986. The System 9000 was based around the Motorola 68000 microprocessor and the Motorola VERSAbus system bus. All members had the IBM CSOS real-time operating system (OS) stored on read-only memory; and the System 9002 could also run the multi-user Microsoft Xenix OS, which was suitable for business use and supported up to four users.

Features
There were three versions of the System 9000. The 9001 was the benchtop (lab) model, the 9002 was the desktop model without laboratory-specific features, and the 9003 was a manufacturing and process control version modified to be suitable for factory environments. The System 9002 and 9003 were based on the System 9001, which was based on around an 8MHz Motorola 68000, and the Motorola VERSAbus system bus (the System 9000 was one of the few that used the VERSAbus). Input/output ports included three RS-232C serial ports, an IEEE-488 instrument port, and a bidirectional 8-bit parallel port. For laboratory data acquisition, analog-to-digital converters that could be attached to its I/O ports were available. User input could be via a user-definable 10-key touch panel on the integrated CRT display, a 57-key user-definable keypad, or a 83-key Model F keyboard. The touch panel and keypad were designed for controlling experiments.

All System 9000 members had an IBM real-time operating system called CSOS (Computer System Operating System) on 128KB of read-only memory (ROM). This was a multi-tasking operating system that could be extended by loading components from disk. IBM also offered Microsoft Xenix on the System 9002, but this required at least 640KB of main memory and a VERSAbus card containing a memory management unit. The machines shipped with 128KB of main memory as standard, and up to 5MB could be added to the system using memory boards that plugged into the VERSAbus. Each board could contain up to 1MB, which were installed in 256KB increments.

History
The System 9000 was developed by IBM Instruments, Inc., an IBM subsidiary established in 1980 that focused on selling scientific and technical instruments as well as the computer equipment designed to control, log, or process these instruments. It was originally introduced as the IBM Instruments Computer System Model 9000 in May 1982. Its long name led to it being referred to as the Computer System 9000, CS-9000, CS/9000, or CS9000. Originally, the CS9000 was available for scientific instrument users, it was not offered to customers who wanted to use it for other purposes. The CS9000 was unsuccessful in this niche; the cheaper IBM Personal Computer was adequate for many instrumentation tasks, and IBM's larger general-purpose computers were used for more demanding tasks.

In 1983 IBM began encouraging value-added resellers to sell the CS9000 as an alternative to large computers like DEC Professional and Honeywell Level 6. IBM formally repositioned the CS9000 on February 21, 1984 as a family of computers, renaming it to the System 9000, which consisted of the System 9001 and 9002. The 9001 was a renamed CS9000, which retained its focus on the instrumentation market, while the 9002 was a general-purpose business computer that ran the IBM CSOS or Microsoft Xenix operating systems and supported one to four users. The 9002 was unsuccessful in the business market, due to the lack of business application software support from software developers other than IBM. IBM finally introduced a new model, the System 9003, in April 1985 as a computer-aided manufacturing computer, but it was also unsuccessful. As a result, manufacturing of the System 9000 family was stopped in January 1986, and it remained in limited availability until it was discontinued on 2 December 1986. Reasons cited for the failure of the System 9000 were its poor performance and high price, which led to the IBM PC being used where price was of concern, and to other 32-bit microcomputers being used where performance mattered. IBM closed its Instrument division in January 1987, reassigning the approximately 150 employees that had worked for it to other positions.

Reception
Noting the obscurity of its 1982 release, BYTE in January 1983 called the System 9000 "IBM's 'Secret' Computer" and stated that it was "in its quiet way, one of the most exciting new arrivals on today's microcomputer scene". The magazine speculated that with some changes it would be "a natural candidate for a business or general-purpose computer". A later review by a member of Brandeis University's chemistry department criticized several aspects of the hardware and software, but praised the sophisticated BASIC and IBM's customer service. The reviewer concluded that "the CS-9000 is a very fast and powerful laboratory computer [that is] very affordable".

IBM 9000
At least some ads by dealers in 1983 referred to "The IBM 9000: Multi-User Micro," although the name "IBM Computer System 9000" was also advertised.

IBM also sometimes referred to the System 9000 as "IBM 9000" in their own marketing, at least when referring to their C compiler for the system.

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