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Ted Hitler
I have removed the reference to "Ted Hitler" in Stephen Colbert because I didn't see how it was noteworthy enough. Then I checked the page history and found out (eventually) that you created the redirect Ted Hitler. I'd like to list that redirect for deletion since you only created it (mostly) as a joke and no articles currently link to it. - dcljr (talk) 9 July 2005 10:15 (UTC)

Image
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Permission to use an image
Hi Tom I have written a textile text book for school and undergraduate students, part os which looks at colouring fabrics and would like to include your image of a tie dye t shirt you uploaded to Wikipedia. as much as the licence states the image can be used my publisher is insisting that I have written permission from authors of all images I am using. I look forward to hearing from you Regards Bev's Book (talk) 17:12, 24 November 2015 (UTC)Bev's Book

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Hi, This media was seemingly uploaded prior to current image polices,

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User talk:Seth Goldin

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Reversion of North Carolina
(Copy from Pollinator talk page) I would like to know why you disregarded my edit of the article on North Carolina. I feel that maybe you thought I inserted an unnecessary opinion, but it was historically the popular opinion. That's a fact.

Are you an administrator? I feel that if you are, this is inappropriate behavior. --Seth Goldin 13:56, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * You expressed an opinion in slangy, unencyclopedic language. Also the facts do not bear out the opinion - North Carolina has an excellent port at Wilmington. Pollinator 14:07, Dec 10, 2004 (UTC)

Mercantilism
I removed your defintion because it was wrong. What you were describing is autarchy. - SimonP 21:13, Dec 12, 2004 (UTC)

Nuss procedure
Hi Seth, I made some style changes at the time, I have made a few more, can you check that I have not introduced any inaccurcies? Rgds, Rich Farmbrough, 23:56 11 April 2007 (GMT).

DMOZ
Hey Seth. I removed the lniks because most of them are inappropriate for Wikipedia. I went around the system by getting editor status at DMOZ and adding the links there. DMOZ is the Open Directory Project. For more information check out WP:External link. §hep  •   ¡Talk to me!  21:50, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

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Nossa Senhora da Conceição

Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Portuguese, 'Our Lady of (Immaculate) Conception') may refer to:

Angola

 * Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição da Muxima, a church in Muxima District, Bengo Province
 * Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Luanda), a church in Luanda

Brazil

 * Our Lady of the Conception Cathedral, Aracaju (Nossa Senhora da Conceiçao (Aracaju)), the cathedral see of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Aracaju, Sergipe
 * Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of the Conception, Manaus (Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Manaus), a Catholic cathedral in the city of Manaus, Amazonas
 * Basílica Nossa Senhora da Conceição da Praia, a church in Salvador, Bahia

Cape Verde

 * Nossa Senhora da Conceição church (Boa Vista), a church in the Povoação Velha village
 * Nossa Senhora da Conceição (São Filipe), a parish in the municipality of São Filipe

India

 * Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception Church, Goa (Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Imaculada Conceição), in Panaji, Goa

Portugal

 * Alandroal (Nossa Senhora da Conceição), a parish in Alandroal
 * Nossa Senhora da Conceição, a parish in Vila Real
 * Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição Velha, Lisbon
 * Hermitage of Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Tomar), church near Tomar, Santarém District
 * Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Ermida do Paiva), Castro Daire, Viseu District
 * Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, in Mafra, Portugal
 * Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Santa Maria da Feira), Santa Maria da Feira, Aveiro District
 * Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição do Colégio dos Jesuítas, church in Santarém

São Tomé and Principe

 * Our Lady of Conception Church, São Tomé: Igreja de Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Agua Grande

Azores

 * Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Angra do Heroísmo)
 * Church of Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Santa Cruz das Flores), in Flores Island

Other uses

 * Nossa Senhora da Conceição (1771 ship)
 * Nossa Senhora da Conceição Fortress, a Portuguese fortress in Póvoa de Varzim

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Hey, thanks for catching my misspelling of Cincinnati on Roger McDowell - I would've never noticed that! :) —Wknight94 (talk) 01:35, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

No problem! I did it all for Roger. --Masterofzen 14:41, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Heh heh. BTW, I'm not done destubbing his page so don't fret if things are missing or incorrect.  Feel free to let me know what you think anyway or if you know of interesting stuff I could put in there for him.  I made it my personal crusade to make comprehensive articles for all of the members of The Glorious '86 Mets!  :)  Well, at least make them the most comprehensive sources of '86 Mets players info on the web... —Wknight94 (talk) 15:52, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Audio theatre an article to audio dramas
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Talk:Elizabeth George Speare

(link)
Shouldn't the link be put at the end of the article? Or even put on to a page about the book itself? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.189.91.28 (talk) 22:39, 9 December 2004 (UTC)

 * Scratch that; I can't find anything on the link having anything to do with Ms. Speare or her book. I strongly suggest someone with appropriate powers remove it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.189.91.28 (talk) 22:50, 9 December 2004 (UTC)

 * I think that this page is very informational,but I do suggest that the links should be taken off because the links do not work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.52.209.145 (talk) 22:15, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Hola!!

try reading THE BRONZE BOW because it is quite interesting!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.52.209.145 (talk) 22:15, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi um the links need to be taken off they don't work :( 66.160.215.230 22:07, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

(mystery)
Speare was known for her marvelous mystery book, that have won many awards! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.114.45.147 (talk • contribs) 21:15, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

WHERE DID SHE GO FOR ELEMENTRY, HIGH-SCHOOL, & MIDDLE-SCHOOL?!?!?!
I've deleted non-wiki edit which followed this heading--Plad2 (talk) 05:30, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

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FISHING IN fLORIDA IS GREAT, BUT WHO WANTS TO CRAWL AROUND IN A CYPRESS SWAMP LOOKING FOR CATFISH, BUT WHILE IM SITTING THER WAITING FOR BITES i WONDER '"WHO CREATED THIS WORLD," "WHERE DID WE ALL COME FROM,'"THE ANSWER IS IN THE BIBLE IN THE FIRST VERSE OF THE BIBLE IN GENESIS 1:1 SAYS ,"IN THE BEGGINING GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.THAN I WONDER IS THE BIBLE REAL THE ANSWER IS YES BECAUSE ITS THE ONLY BOOK ON EARTH THATS LASTED OVER 2000 YEARS AND IS STILL AROUND TODAY. READ "THE BIBLE" IF YOU WANT TO LEARN SOME REAL KNOWLEDGE.

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Charlie Dominici

Charlie Dominici (June 16, 1951 – November 2023) was an American singer, best known as the second vocalist for the progressive metal band Dream Theater, having replaced Chris Collins (while the band was called Majesty) and later being replaced by James LaBrie. Dominici fronted his own self-named progressive metal band, that released three albums.

Biography
Charlie Dominici was born in Brooklyn, New York, and soon after moved with his family to the Five Towns region in Nassau County, Long Island. His album debut was with folk duo Billy and Charles (consisting of Dominici and Carly Simon collaborator Billy Mernit) in 1970. Professionally, he came into prominence as a member of Franke and the Knockouts, in which he played guitar and sang backing vocals. He auditioned for Dream Theater in 1987 and was hired for the job in November of that year.

Dominici performed on the band's debut album, 1989's When Dream and Day Unite. However, Dominici was older than the rest of the band and there were personal and creative differences at work. It was felt that, despite being a very talented singer, his decidedly "pop" vocal style did not fit in with the distinctive progressive direction that the band's compositions were taking. According to Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy, "It was like having Billy Joel singing in Queensrÿche." A good singer in the wrong band, they amicably parted ways shortly thereafter.

Dominici remained in contact with Dream Theater throughout their career, despite lapsing out of the music business and obtaining a job as a finance manager in the automobile business. Dominici was hired by Mike Portnoy to sing at his wedding to Marlene Apuzzo. He started working on an album with his brother, guitarist Kane Daily, that never saw the light of day. In 2003, he released a song on his website titled "Now the Time Has Come" but it was taken down after a few months, and the track did not feature any guitars, only piano.

Dominici's voice was also heard on the YtseJam Records release "When Dream and Day Unite Demos" which featured pre-production and vocal demos of several songs, as well as Dominici singing Beatles Covers and the traditional Christmas song "O Holy Night".

On March 6, 2004, Dominici joined his former bandmates onstage in Los Angeles for the first time in 15 years for a special performance celebrating the 15th anniversary of the band's first album, singing on "To Live Forever" (a non-album track written in the same time period) and "Metropolis" along with LaBrie and former keyboardist Derek Sherinian. This performance was later released as "When Dream and Day Reunite", the DVD version which also features footage from the band's 1989 tour with Dominici.

Despite having not actively sung since leaving Dream Theater in 1989, this performance gave him the itch to make music again and in 2005, he released a solo album entitled O3: A Trilogy, Part 1, the first album of a three-album concept piece. The second installment of the trilogy was released in February 2007 and the final part was released in April 2008.

Dominici opened for Dream Theater at three shows at their Chaos in Motion Tour in June 2007.

On 17 November 2023, Dominici's former Dream Theater bandmates announced that he died at the age of 72.

With Billy and Charles

 * Billy and Charles (1970)

With Franke and the Knockouts

 * Franke and the Knockouts (1981)

With Dream Theater

 * When Dream and Day Unite (1989)
 * When Dream and Day Unite Demos (2004)
 * When Dream and Day Reunite (CD and DVD) (2005)

With Dominici

 * O3 A Trilogy: Part One (2005)
 * O3 A Trilogy - Part 2 (2007)
 * O3 A Trilogy - Part 3 (2008)

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Nossa Senhora da Conceição (Angra do Heroísmo)

Nossa Senhora da Conceição is a parish in the municipality of Angra do Heroísmo on the island of Terceira in the Azores. The population in 2011 was 3,717, in an area of 2.44 km².

Notable natives

 * Helder Antunes


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Graham Yost

Graham John Yost (born September 5, 1959) is a Canadian film and television screenwriter. His best-known works are the films Speed, Broken Arrow, and Hard Rain and the TV series Justified and Silo.

Early life, family and education
Yost was born in Etobicoke in the Toronto metropolitan area. He is the son of Canadian television personality Elwy Yost, the longtime host of the public broadcaster TVOntario's Saturday Night at the Movies.

He graduated from the University of Toronto Schools and Trinity College at the University of Toronto.

Career
Yost wrote for the TV sitcom Herman's Head and the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. In 2002, he created the television drama series Boomtown. He created the short-lived NBC drama Raines (2007). Yost teamed with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, along with two of his fellow Boomtown writers Michelle Ashford and Larry Andries, to write and direct episodes of the HBO miniseries The Pacific. Yost is the creator and executive producer of the FX series Justified. He was an executive producer on the FX show The Americans. In 2016, he took over as head writer and executive producer of the Amazon Studios series Sneaky Pete. In May 2014, it was reported that Yost would develop a project for WGN America. Based on the Alex Kershaw book Avenue of Spies, it would be set in Nazi-occupied Paris at the start of World War II.

Awards and nominations
Yost won Emmy Awards for his involvement in the miniseries From the Earth to the Moon and The Pacific, which was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award. He also won a Golden Globe for his work on the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers, for which he was one of the writers.

Credits

 * Hey Dude (1989–1991) (story editor; wrote 13 episodes)
 * Herman's Head (1991) (wrote "The Last Boy Scout")
 * The Powers That Be (1992–1993) (4 episodes)
 * Speed (1994) (writer)
 * Broken Arrow (1996) (written by)
 * Speed 2: Cruise Control (1997) (characters)
 * Firestorm (1998) (rewrite)
 * Hard Rain (1998) (written by)
 * From the Earth to the Moon (1998) (supervising producer; wrote 2 episodes and directed "Spider")
 * Challenger (2000) (writer)
 * Mission to Mars (2000) (screenplay)
 * Planet of the Apes (2001) (uncredited co-writing)
 * Band of Brothers (2001) (wrote 2 episodes)
 * The Last Castle (2001) (screenplay)
 * Young Arthur (2002) (writer)
 * Boomtown (2002–2003) (series creator and executive producer; wrote 6 episodes)
 * Summerland (2004) (wrote "Skipping School")
 * Sixty Minute Man (2006) (writer)
 * Raines (2007) (series creator and executive producer; wrote "Pilot")
 * The Pacific (2010) (co-executive producer; directed and co-wrote "Gloucester/Pavuvu/Banika" with Robert Schenkkan)
 * Justified (2010–2015) (series creator and executive producer; wrote 12 episodes)
 * Falling Skies (2011) (executive producer; wrote "The Armory")
 * The Americans (2013–2018) (executive producer)
 * Sneaky Pete (2015–2018) (executive producer; wrote 7 episodes)
 * The Grizzlies (2018) (writer)
 * Slow Horses (2022–present) (executive producer)
 * Silo (2023–present) (series creator and executive producer)
 * Justified: City Primeval (2023) (executive producer)
 * Masters of the Air (2024) (co-executive producer)

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Ferdinand von Saar

Ferdinand Ludwig Adam von Saar (30 September 1833 in Vienna, Austria – 24 July 1906 in Döbling) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet.

Together with Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach he was one of the most important realistic writers in the German language of the ending 19th century in Austria. His work was set to music by composer Pauline Volkstein.

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Splash (fluid mechanics)

In fluid mechanics, a splash is a sudden disturbance to the otherwise quiescent free surface of a liquid (usually water). The disturbance is typically caused by a solid object suddenly hitting the surface, although splashes can occur in which moving liquid supplies the energy. This use of the word is onomatopoeic; in the past, the term "plash" has also been used.

Splash also happens when a liquid droplet impacts on a liquid or a solid surface; in this case, a symmetric corona (resembling a coronet) is usually formed as shown in Harold Edgerton's famous milk splash photography, as milk is opaque. Historically, Worthington (1908) was the first one who systematically investigated the splash dynamics using photographs.

Splashes are characterized by transient ballistic flow, and are governed by the Reynolds number and the Weber number. In the image of a brick splashing into water, one can identify freely moving airborne water droplets, a phenomenon typical of high Reynolds number flows; the intricate non-spherical shapes of the droplets show  that the Weber number is high. Also seen are entrained air bubbles in the body of the water, and an expanding ring of disturbance propagating away from the impact site.

Sand is said to splash if hit sufficiently hard (see dry quicksand) and sometimes the impact of a meteorite is referred to as splashing, if small bits of ejecta are formed.

Physicist Lei Xu and coworkers at the University of Chicago discovered that the splash due to the impact of a small drop of ethanol onto a dry solid surface could be suppressed by reducing the pressure below a specific threshold. For drops of diameter 3.4 mm falling through air, this pressure was about 20 kilopascals, or 0.2 atmosphere.

A plate made of a hard material on which a stream of liquid is designed to fall is called a "splash plate". It may serve to protect the ground from erosion by falling water, such as beneath an artificial waterfall or water outlet in soft ground. Splash plates are also part of spray nozzles, such as in irrigation sprinkler systems.

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Jimmy Thomas

Jimmy Thomas (January 20, 1939 – April 25, 2022) was an American soul singer and songwriter. He was best known as a vocalist for Ike Turner. Thomas joined Turner's Kings of Rhythm in 1958, and remained with the band when the Ike & Tina Turner Revue was formed in 1960. He released solo singles on Turner's labels Sue, Sputnik, and Sonja Records. After his departure from Turner, Thomas continued recording as a solo artist, eventually relocating to London. He formed his own label, Osceola Records, in 1979.

Early life
Thomas was born in Osceola, Arkansas on January 20, 1939. Raised by his aunt and uncle, Thomas grew up listening to blues musicians such as Big Maceo, Tampa Red, Walter Davis, and Sonny Boy Williamson. In his teens, Thomas formed his first band called the Rock and Roll Trays. They performed popular R&B and blues tunes in clubs around Osceola. In 1958, Albert King recommended that Thomas travel to East St. Louis and audition for a spot as a vocalist in Ike Turner's band the Kings of Rhythm.

Kings of Rhythm
By 1956, Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm were one of the most popular live attractions in the St. Louis and East St. Louis club scene. In 1958, Turner was looking for a new vocalist following the departure of Clayton Love. Thomas replaced Love and was soon joined by singer Tommy Hodge. Around the time Thomas and Hodge joined the Kings of Rhythm, Turner shifted from his usual blues oriented sound to producing R&B material. That year, Thomas made his recording debut during the group's Cobra Records sessions in Chicago. He was featured on Turner's singles released on Stevens Records in 1959. In St. Louis, Thomas also performed with Benny Sharp, Eugene Neal, and Albert King.

Ike and Tina Turner Revue
In 1960, Turner wrote "A Fool in Love" for Art Lassiter. When Lassiter failed to show up for the recording session, one of Turner's background vocalists, Little Ann, sang the lead. Little Ann was renamed Tina Turner, and the single was released on Sue Records. Following the success of the single, Turner formed the Ike & Tina Turner Revue which included the Kings of Rhythm and a trio of female vocalists called the Ikettes. In 1961, Thomas and Ikette Wilhelmina Weaver (as Jimmy & Jean) released the single "I Can't Believe" / "I Want Marry You" on Sue. After Ike & Tina had a string of hit records, Turner relocated the band to Los Angeles in 1962. When the hits dried up they began to tour vigorously. Thomas recalled, "We would only be in L.A. three months out of the year, we be touring like nine months." Since they couldn't rely on records, the revue strengthened their live act by added dance routines. Thomas and Tina Turner would change the routines and have dance battles onstage.

In 1962, Thomas released his single "You Can Go"/"Hurry And Come Home" on Sue Records. In between touring, Turner formed multiple record labels to release singles. Thomas released solo singles on Turner's labels Sputnik and Sonja. In 1964, the revue released their first live album, Ike & Tina Turner Revue Live, which features Thomas' rendition of "Feel So Good" by Junior Parker. His rendition of "Down In The Valley" is included on the revue's follow-up live album, Live! The Ike & Tina Turner Show, released in 1965.

Solo career
While the Ike & Tina Turner Revue were touring the UK with the Rolling Stones in 1966, Thomas befriended producers Denny Cordell and Tony Visconti, who invited him to learn production. Thomas released the single "Where There's a Will (There's a Way)" on Mirwood Records in 1966. After leaving Ike & Tina Turner, he worked local jobs in Los Angeles before relocating to London in 1969. He began producing his own solo records such as the Northern soul classic "The Beautiful Night" released on Parlophone in 1969. In 1973, Thomas wrote and produced a solo LP, Abyss, released on Contempo, a London label owned by John Abbey, founder of Blues and Soul magazine. Thomas formed his own label, Osceola Records, in 1979.

Beginning in the 1970s, Thomas provided background vocals for various acts, including Gary Wright, David Essex, Voyage, Mikael Rickfors, Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, Madness, Miguel Bosé, Blue Mercedes, and Kevin Rowland.

Death
His death in April 2022 was confirmed online by his friend P. P. Arnold.

Albums

 * 1973: Abyss

Ike and Tina Turner

 * 1964: Ike & Tina Turner Revue Live
 * 1965: Live! The Ike & Tina Turner Show
 * 2012: Ike Turner Studio Productions: New Orleans and Los Angeles 1963–1965

Singles

 * 1961: Jimmy & Jean – "I Can't Believe" / "I Want Marry You" (Sue 743)
 * 1961: "I Must Be Crazy"/"Every Day I Wake Up Crying" (Play Back Record PO-0037A)
 * 1962: "You Can Go"/"Hurry And Come Home" (Sue 778)
 * 1963: "The Darkest Hour"/"The Little Cheater" (Sputnik 10001)
 * 1964: "You've Tasted Anothers Lips"/"I Love Nobody But You" (Sonja 2004)
 * 1966: "Where There's A Will"/"Just Trying To Please You" (Mirwood 5522)
 * 1969: "The Beautiful Night"/"Above A Whisper" (Parlophone R 5773)
 * 1970: "(We Ain't Here Looking For) No Trouble"/"Springtime" (Spark SRL 1035)
 * 1971: "White Dove"/"You Don't Have To Say Goodbye" (Sire 45-4121)
 * 1973: "All God's Children"/"The Weak-End Is Mine" (Contempo C 8)
 * 1975: "Beautiful Night"/"I Can't Live My Life Without You" (20th Century Records BTC 1002)
 * 1981: "Hang Right On In There"/"Driving Wheel" (Osceola Records OSC 2)
 * 1982: "Standing Alone In A Crowd"/"Mister Are You Famous" (Cricket LBW 002)
 * 2002: "We Got Togetherness"/"Secret Doors To Secret Places" (Smoke City SMC 9001)

Features

 * 1959: "Jack Rabbit"/"In Your Eyes Baby" (Stevens 104) with Icky Renrut (alias for Ike Turner)
 * 1959: "Hey – Hey"/"Ho – Ho" (Stevens 107) with Icky Renrut (alias for Ike Turner)
 * 1980: "Just A Matter Of Time" (Laser LAS 34) with Zen

Backing vocal credits

 * 1971: Street Singer – Mick Softley
 * 1971: Footprint – Gary Wright
 * 1972: Queues – Vigrass & Osborne
 * 1973: Rock On – David Essex
 * 1973: Now Hear This – Hanson
 * 1976: Thunder into Our Hearts – Jabula
 * 1978: Midnight Ride – Barbara Pennington
 * 1981: One Step Higher – Voyage
 * 1983: Blue Fun – Mikael Rickfors
 * 1985: Easy Pieces – Lloyd Cole & The Commotions
 * 1985: Mad Not Mad – Madness
 * 1986: Salamandra – Miguel Bosé
 * 1987: Face To Face – Barclay James Harvest
 * 1988: Rich And Famous – Blue Mercedes
 * 1988: When The Night Begins – Ellert
 * 1999: My Beauty – Kevin Rowland

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East Anglian English

East Anglian English is a dialect of English spoken in East Anglia, primarily in or before the mid-20th century. East Anglian English has had a very considerable input into modern Estuary English. However, it has received little attention from the media and is not easily recognised by people from other parts of the United Kingdom. The dialect's boundaries are not uniformly agreed upon; for instance, the Fens were traditionally an uninhabited area that was difficult to cross, so there was little dialect contact between the two sides of the Fens leading to certain internal distinctions within that region.

Linguist Peter Trudgill has identified several sub-dialects, including Norfolk (Broad Norwich), Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, and various Fenland dialects.

History
In Jacek Fisiak's and Peter Trudgill's book, East Anglian English, they describe the important influence East Anglian English has had on the development of the English language. In addition to its influence in the Standard English that is known today all around England, there is evidence according to Oxford Dictionary that East Anglian English grammar was heard in North Carolina.

Very little is known about the Anglo-Saxon East Anglian dialect; a Suffolk charter (of Æthelflæd, before 991) is included in. S. L. Bensusan set out to record elements of the East Anglian dialect and records a statement made by a local when she caught him making notes on the sleeve of his shirt: "Whatever you bin makin' them little owd squiggles on y'r cuff fower?" Bensusan replied that he was "writing history". He then recorded her retort: "You dedn't wanter done that. Telly f'r why. When you've got y'r shirt washed there won't be nawthen left. I've never wrote nawthen all me born days, ne yet me husban', an he got all his teeth an' I kin thread me needle without spectacles. Folk don't wanter write in this world, they wanter do a job o' work."

Grammar

 * Third-person singular zero is the lack of -s in third-person verb conjugations and is considered as the "best-known dialect feature" of East Anglian English. Examples include "she go" or "that say".
 * Use of the word do with the meaning of or, or else, for example "You better go to bed now, do you’ll be tired in the morning"
 * That is used in place of central pronoun it, e.g. "that's cloudy", "that's hot out there" and "that book, that's okay, I like it". The final example still uses it, but only when it is the object of a verb. The word that usually denotes it when it is the subject of the clause, so that "it is" becomes "that is" and "it smells funny" becomes "that smell funny". This does not imply emphatic usage as it would in Standard English and indeed sentences such as "When that rain, we get wet", are entirely feasible in the dialect. (Incidentally, it is almost never heard as the first word of a sentence in the speech of a true Norfolk dialect speaker, e.g. "It's a nice day today" is virtually always rendered by "Thass a nice day today".)
 * Time is used to mean while, for example, "You sit down, time I get dinner ready."
 * Now can also mean just, i.e. "I am now leaving" also means "I am just leaving".
 * Some verbs conjugate differently in Norfolk or Suffolk. The past tense of 'show', for example is 'shew', and of the verb to snow, 'snew', swam becomes 'swum'. The past of drive is 'driv'. e.g. 'I driv all the way to Yarmouth, and on the way back that snew.' 'Sang' is always 'sung' ('She sung out of tune'), and 'stank' is always 'stunk' ('After they had mucked out the pigs their clothes stunk'). Many verbs simply have no past tense, and use the present form. e.g. 'Come', 'say' and 'give'. 'When my husband come home, he say he give tuppence for a loaf of bread' meaning 'When he came home, he said, he gave tuppence...'. This even applies to a verb like 'go'. 'Every time they go get the needle out, it moved'. Verbs whose past participles differ from their active past tenses e.g. 'spoken', are mostly ignored in Norfolk. e.g. 'If you were clever you were spoke to more often by the teacher', or 'If I hadn't went up to Mousehold that night'.
 * The present participle, or ...ing, form of the verb, such as running, writing etc. is mostly rendered in the Middle English form of 'a-runnin, 'a-jumpin etc. 'She's a-robbin' me'.

Vocabulary

 * abed – in bed
 * bishybarnybee – a ladybird
 * bor – neighbour (or friend) in Norfolk
 * cor blarst me – "god blast me", when expressing, shock, surprise or exasperation
 * craze – nag. e.g. he kept crazing me to buy him sweets, or I'd craze her and craze her)
 * dag – dew
 * dene – the sandy area by the coast
 * dew yew keep a throshin – means "carry on with the threshing" on its own in Norfolk but also means goodbye or "take care of yourself"
 * dickey – donkey; however note that the word 'donkey' appears only to have been in use in English since the late 18th century. The Oxford English Dictionary quotes 'dicky' as one of the alternative slang terms for an ass.)
 * directly – "as soon as" or "immediately"), as in "Directly they got their money on Friday nights, the women would get the suits out of the pawn shop"
 * dodman – a term used to refer to a snail
 * dow – a pigeon
 * dwile – floorcloth
 * dudder – shiver or tremble (not necessarily unique to Norfolk, it appears in the OED as dodder)
 * finish, at the/in the – eventually, as in "he gave it to her at the finish"; or "You might as well have went in the beginning, 'cause you had to go in the finish".)
 * get on to someone – to tell someone off, as in "They all went quiet, but they never got onto father no more")
 * gays – the pictures printed on a book or a newspaper
 * grup – refers to a small trench
 * guzunder – chamber pot (derived from "goes-under")
 * hutkin – used for a finger protecter
 * mawkin – a scarecrow
 * mawther – local word referring to a girl or young woman
 * on the huh, on the moo - askew
 * pit – a pond
 * ''push – a boil or pimple
 * quant – punt pole
 * ranny – term meaning 'shrew'
 * sowpig – a woodlouse
 * staithe – an archaic term still used to reference any landing stage
 * stroop – the throat

Accent
East Anglian English shows some of the general accent features of South East England, including: However, several features also make East Anglian accents unique:
 * Non-rhoticity; in fact, one of the first English-speaking regions to lose rhoticity;
 * G-dropping;
 * The trap–bath split, though the quality of may be fronter than RP;
 * The foot–strut split, though the quality of, , may be more back and close than that of RP;
 * Widespread glottal reinforcement of stop consonants, so that are pronounced with the glottal closure slightly following the oral closure, so that upper is pronounced as, better as  or now commonly , and thicker as.

Vowels

 * Norfolk smoothing results in a pronunciation of two or three vowel syllables with a single long vowel; for example, player is rather than . Where the suffix -ing is preceded by a vowel or diphthong, there is a smoothing effect that results in a single vowel. Thus go+ing is usually pronounced as a single syllable  rather than as a two-syllable word ending in, and doing is  rather than . This phenomenon is the only one in East Anglia that is spreading, in the 21st century, from north to south (the opposite direction from the typical south-to-north influences coming out of London).
 * The vowel found in // is a very front vowel, unlike RP or London English where it is a back vowel.
 * Words containing sounds (as in ) can be more fronted or raised compared against most other English dialects: often,  or.
 * Single-syllable words with the vowel spelt $⟨oo⟩$ such as roof and hoof have the vowel to give  and  respectively.
 * The toe–tow merger typical of most Modern English dialects may continue to be resisted. The vowel ( in RP) generally has a quality that can be represented with a narrow glide like  in Norfolk: thus words with the spelling $⟨oa⟩$, $⟨oe⟩$ and $⟨oCe⟩$ such as boat, toe, code sound to outsiders like boot, too, cood respectively. An exception is that of words spelt with $⟨ou⟩$, $⟨ow⟩$, $⟨ol⟩$ such as soul, know, told which have a wider glide quite similar to the RP, or even wider . However, the toe-tow merger is indeed well-established in Ipswich (Suffolk) and Colchester (Essex), in the 21st century expanding gradually into Norfolk.
 * A third phonetic distinction once existed within the set, causing a subset of these words (specifically, certain closed- and single-syllable words), such as coat, don't, home, stone, and whole to be pronounced with . Thus, whole was a homophone with hull: . This was extremely old-fashioned even by the late 20th century.
 * The pane–pain merger typical of most Modern English dialects may continue to be resisted. In the speech of older Norwich residents and in rural East Anglia, the vowel,, is  in words spelt with $⟨ai⟩$ or $⟨ay⟩$ such as rain and day, but  or  (similar to air) in words spelt $⟨aCe⟩$ such as take, late. This has largely given way throughout most of East Anglia to a merger towards.
 * The near-square merger variably occurs, particularly among the working class, so that the and  vowels  and  sound the same in Norwich. Thus beer and bear sound the same, the vowel quality being . This may be considered to be a related case to that of smoothing.
 * as in is pronounced  or : . Since the mid-20th century, this very open realisation has largely disappeared, at least in urban East Anglia.
 * (as in ) is traditionally, a narrower glide than RP, but since the second half of the 20th century, a backer realisation is favoured,.

Consonants

 * Yod-dropping occurs after all consonants. Yod-dropping after alveolar consonants is found in many English accents, and widely in American pronunciation, so that words like tune, due, sue, new are pronounced, , , , sounding like toon, doo, soo, noo. Additionally, in East Anglia, yod-dropping is found after any consonant, and this seems to be a unique regionalism. Therefore, RP  is pronounced as Norfolk  (where  stands for any consonant). For example, beautiful, few, huge, accuse have pronunciations that sound like bootiful, foo, hooge, akooz. A parallel case involves the vowel of : in RP the word is pronounced with initial , but Norfolk speakers omit the  and smoothing results in  so that cure sounds like cur.
 * H-dropping is rarer than in most other parts of England. (However, H-dropping is indeed typical in urban Norwich.)
 * Clear L is possible in all contexts in speakers born before 1920. In contexts where RP pronounces as "dark L", these older Norfolk speakers have "clear L" so that the sound in hill and milk sounds similar to the clear L heard at the beginning of words such as lip. The process known as L-vocalization (whereby, for example, the  in hill, well, help is pronounced as a back rounded vowel like ) is not as widespread in this accent as elsewhere in Southern England, though it is increasingly prevalent in Suffolk.

Prosody
In addition to the above phonological features, East Anglian English also has a distinct rhythm. This is due to the loss of unstressed syllables associated with East Anglian speakers. There appears to be no agreed framework for describing the prosodic characteristics of different dialects (see Intonation). Writing in 1889, the phonetician Alexander John Ellis began his section on East Anglian speech with these comments:

"Every one has heard of the [Norfolk] 'drant', or droning and drawling in speech, and the [Suffolk] 'whine,' but they are neither of them points which can be properly brought under consideration here, because intonation has been systematically neglected, as being impossible to symbolise satisfactorily, even in the rare cases where it could be studied."

There does appear to be agreement that the Norfolk accent has a distinctive rhythm due to some stressed vowels being longer than their equivalents in RP and some unstressed vowels being much shorter. Claims that Norfolk speech has intonation with a distinctive "lilt" lack robust empirical evidence.

Norwich accent
In addition to above features, one specific accent is associated with urban Norfolk and namely its largest city, Norwich.
 * Whereas RP has the rounded vowel  in words containing the spellings $⟨f⟩$, $⟨ff⟩$, $⟨gh⟩$ or $⟨th⟩$ (such as often, off, cough, trough and cloth), Norfolk may have  as in the vowel of . This is a manifestation of the lot-cloth split.
 * The vowel of  is traditionally realised as an unrounded vowel . However, the rounded RP variant is encroaching even in urban Norwich.
 * In older Norfolk dialect the spelling $⟨thr⟩$ could be pronounced as and the spelling $⟨shr⟩$ as ; thus three sounds the same as tree and shriek is pronounced as.
 * Norfolk smoothing (mentioned above) is particularly advanced.

Portrayal
The treatment of the Norfolk dialect in the television drama All the King's Men in 1999 in part prompted the foundation of the Friends of Norfolk Dialect (FOND), a group formed with the aim of preserving and promoting Broad Norfolk.

Arnold Wesker's 1958 play Roots used Norfolk dialect.

During the 1960s, Anglia Television produced a soap opera called "Weavers Green" which used local characters making extensive use of Norfolk dialect. The programme was filmed at the "cul-de-sac" village of Heydon north of Reepham in mid Norfolk.

An example of the Norfolk accent and vocabulary can be heard in the songs by Allan Smethurst, aka The Singing Postman. Smethurst's Norfolk accent is well known from his releases of the 1960s, such as "Hev Yew Gotta Loight Bor?". The Boy John Letters of Sidney Grapes, which were originally published in the Eastern Daily Press, are another valid example of the Norfolk dialect. Beyond simply portrayers of speech and idiom however, Smethurst, and more especially Grapes, record their authentic understanding of mid-20th century Norfolk village life. Grapes' characters, the Boy John, Aunt Agatha, Granfar, and Ole Missus W, perform a literary operetta celebrating down-to-earth ordinariness over bourgeois affectation and pretence.

Charles Dickens had some grasp of the Norfolk accent which he utilised in the speech of the Yarmouth fishermen, Ham and Daniel Peggoty in David Copperfield. Patricia Poussa analyses the speech of these characters in her article Dickens as Sociolinguist. She makes connections between Scandinavian languages and the particular variant of Norfolk dialect spoken in the Flegg area around Great Yarmouth, a place of known Viking settlement. Significantly, the use of 'that' meaning 'it', is used as an example of this apparent connection.

The publication in 2006 by Ethel George (with Carole and Michael Blackwell) of The Seventeenth Child provides a written record of spoken dialect, though in this case of a person brought up inside the city of Norwich. Ethel George was born in 1914, and in 2006 provided the Blackwells with extensive tape-recorded recollections of her childhood as the seventeenth offspring of a relatively poor Norwich family. Carole Blackwell has reproduced a highly literal written rendering of this.

An erudite and comprehensive study of the dialect, by Norfolk native and professor of sociolinguistics Peter Trudgill can be found in his book The Norfolk Dialect (2003), published as part of the 'Norfolk Origins' series by Poppyland Publishing, Cromer.

Notable speakers

 * Horatio Nelson (1758–1805) – "I am a Norfolk man, and glory in being so"; also said to Captain Hardy "Do you anchor" (an order, not a question, in the Dialect)
 * Bernard Matthews (1930–2010) – turkey tycoon
 * Chris Sutton (b. 1973) - footballer turned pundit
 * Martin Brundle (b. 1959) - racing driver and commentator
 * Basil Brown (1888–1977) - Archaeologist; whose Suffolk dialect was later portrayed by Ralph Fiennes in the 2021 film, The Dig
 * Maurice Wood (1916–2007) – Bishop of Norwich, recorded the gospel in Norfolk dialect
 * Sidney Grapes (1887–1958) – author of The Boy John Letters
 * The Nimmo Twins – comedy duo
 * Singing Postman – aka Allan Smethurst (1927–2000)
 * Keith Skipper – former Norfolk broadcaster and dialect expert
 * Peter Trudgill (b. 1943) – professor of sociolinguistics, author of several books on the Norfolk dialect and currently honorary professor of sociolinguistics at the University of East Anglia
 * The Kipper Family – exponents of comedy folk, whose traditions are being kept barely alive by Sid Kipper
 * Ted Snelling – Norfolk dialect expert and narrator of his audio book "Grandfather's Norwich"
 * Sam Larner (1878–1965) – fisherman and traditional singer
 * Harry Cox (1885–1971) – farmworker and traditional singer

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Percy Jocelyn

The Rt Rev. and Hon. Percy Jocelyn (29 November 1764 – 3 September 1843) was Anglican Bishop of Clogher in the Church of Ireland from 1820 to 1822. He was forced from his position due to being caught in homosexual practices, which had been outlawed under the Buggery Act 1533.

Early life
He was the third son of The 1st Earl of Roden, whose family estates were in Castlewellan, County Down, by his wife Lady Anne Hamilton. He graduated with a BA from Trinity College, Dublin. At Trinity, he was regarded as something of a bookworm, spending much of his time in his rooms on Library Square. He was later described as "a tall thin young man with a pale, meagre and melancholy countenance, and so reserved in his manners and recluse in his habits that he was considered by everybody to be both proud and unsociable".

He was rector of Tamlaght, archdeacon of Ross (1788–1790), treasurer of Armagh (1790–1809), a prebend of Lismore (1796–1809), and bishop of Ferns and Leighlin (1809–1820) before becoming bishop of Clogher.

1811 Scandal
In 1811, James Byrne (who had been a coachman for Jocelyn's brother, John) accused him of "taking indecent familiarities" and of "using indecent or obscene conversations with him". Byrne was sued for criminal libel by Bishop Jocelyn and on conviction was sentenced to two years in gaol and also to public flogging. After he recanted his allegations at the prompting of the bishop's agent, the floggings were stopped.

1822 Scandal

On 19 July 1822, Bishop Jocelyn, then aged 57, was caught in a compromising position with a 22-year-old Grenadier Guardsman, John Moverley, in the back room of The White Lion public house, St Albans Place, off The Haymarket in Westminster. He and Moverley were released on bail, provided by The 3rd Earl of Roden and others. Jocelyn broke bail and moved to Scotland where he worked as a butler under an assumed name. He was declared deposed in his absence by the Metropolitan Court of Armagh in October 1822 for "the crimes of immorality, incontinence, Sodomitical practices, habits, and propensities, and neglect of his spiritual, judicial, and ministerial duties". A public subscription was raised to raise money for James Byrne, whose 1811 conviction was now recognised as a miscarriage of justice.

Bishop Jocelyn was the most senior British or Irish churchman to be involved in a public homosexual scandal in the 19th century. It became a subject of satire and popular ribaldry, resulting in more than a dozen illustrated satirical cartoons, pamphlets, and limericks, such as:

 * The Devil to prove the Church was a farce
 * Went out to fish for a Bugger.
 * He baited his hook with a Soldier's arse
 * And pulled up the Bishop of Clogher.

The scandal was so great, that in the days following, "it was not safe for a bishop to show himself in the streets of London", according to Charles Manners-Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury at the time. In August 1822, The 2nd Marquess of Londonderry (better known to history as Lord Castlereagh), who was both the Foreign Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons, had an audience with King George IV where he said that he was being blackmailed, and that "I am accused of the same crime as the Bishop of Clogher". Lord Londonderry committed suicide shortly afterwards and was thought to have been in a paranoid state at the time.

Legacy
After Bishop Jocelyn's death, it was reported that he had been living quietly for four years at Salisbury Place, Edinburgh, under the assumed name Thomas Wilson, and had previously lived in Glasgow. The plate on his coffin carried no inscription except (in Latin): "Here lie the remains of a great sinner, saved by grace, whose hopes rest in the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ".

However, some years ago the Jocelyn family vault in Kilcoo Parish Church in Bryansford, County Down, Northern Ireland, was opened and it was discovered that it contained one more coffin than the number of grave markers indicated, and that the extra coffin was unmarked. This extra coffin may be that of the dethroned Bishop of Clogher.

For 178 years after the scandal, the Church of Ireland refused to let historians see its papers on the affair. In the 1920s, Archbishop D'Arcy of Armagh ordered that they be burned, but this order was not obeyed. The files were released for Matthew Parris's research for his book The Great Unfrocked.

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Crane (rail)

A railway crane (North America: railroad crane, crane car or wrecker; UK: breakdown crane) is a type of crane used on a railway for one of three primary purposes: freight handling in goods yards, permanent way (PW) maintenance, and accident recovery work. Although the design differs according to the type of work, the basic configuration is similar in all cases: a rotating crane body is mounted on a sturdy chassis fitted with flanged wheels. The body supports the jib (UK; North America: boom) and provides all the lifting and operating mechanisms; on larger cranes, an operator's cabin is usually provided. The chassis is fitted with buffing (UK) and/or coupling gear to allow the crane to be moved by a locomotive, although many are also self-propelled to allow limited movement about a work site.

For cranes with a jib that extends beyond the length of the chassis, an idler car (also known as a 'jib carrier' (UK) or 'boom car' (North America)) is provided to protect the jib and to allow the crane to be coupled within a train. The idler car is usually a long, flat wagon (i.e. a flatcar) that provides a means of securing the jib for transportation; storage areas for special equipment or supplies are usually fitted too. It was not uncommon for the idler car to be built on a withdrawn revenue-earning wagon, such as on the Great Western Railway after the Grouping and in the 1930s (where they were referred to as 'match trucks').

Usage
Railroad cranes are usually designed specifically for one of three purposes:

Goods yard cranes
Usually the smallest of the railroad cranes, goods yard cranes were used in the larger goods yards to provide lifting capability in areas away from the ground-mounted goods cranes normally provided in such yards.

They were often small enough to be operated by hand, and were not normally self-propelled, instead requiring the use of a shunting engine to move them into position. Once cheap road-going mobile cranes were available, these superseded the rail-mounted variety due to their greater flexibility and mobility.

Maintenance cranes
The most varied forms of crane are used for maintenance work. General purpose cranes may be used for installing signalling equipment or pointwork, for example, while more specialised types are used for track laying.

Breakdown cranes
The largest cranes are used for accident recovery work, usually forming part of a breakdown train that includes staff accommodation and recovery equipment. These are large enough to lift derailed rolling stock back onto the track, although two or more cranes may be required to safely recover a locomotive. In North American terminology, a 'breakdown crane' is often referred to as a 'wrecker' and the train of which it is a part is referred to as a 'wreck train'. The members of the crew that recovers the wrecked car(s) or locomotive(s) are referred to as 'wreckers'.

Construction
A railroad crane generally resembles a conventional fixed-location crane except that the platform the crane sits on is a heavy-duty reinforced flat car. Directly underneath the center of gravity for the crane is a pivot point that allows the crane to swivel around 360°; in this way the crane can locate its boom over the worksite no matter what its location is along the track. The trucks on the car under the crane will often include traction motors so that the crane is able to move itself along the track, and possibly tow additional cars.

Larger cranes may be provided with outriggers to provide additional stability when lifting. Sleepers (ties) are often carried on the idler car to put under the outriggers to spread the weight applied to the trackbed.

Breakdown cranes (sometimes called wrecking cranes or 'big hooks' ) were necessary to every railroad to recover derailed rolling stock and locomotives, while also assisting with bridge building and yard construction.

History
In the early days of the railways, locomotives and rolling stock were small enough to be re-railed manually using jacks and tackle, but as they became bigger and heavier this method became inadequate. Enter into this the steam crane and cable winch. Appearing about 1890, the cranes (the proper rail terminology is “Derrick”) increased in size, commensurate with the rise of steel Pullman cars, so by 1910 steam cranes reached their peak of development (on the railroad). Many of these 1910-era cranes were so useful and powerful, that they remained in service until the 1980s. The combination of a quick-firing steam boiler, heavy steam winch, and cable hook could little be improved upon, and thus remained in service. Also, steam engines did not mind being parked for months, with a little care, and were ready to go to work when needed.

In the 1980s, big, hydraulic controlled diesel cranes appeared. Also, these cranes had the ability to travel on the highway so as to better able to get to the scene of an accident. They are much more mobile, and are able to manoeuvre around an accident scene, better than a crane only limited to rail access. In the United States the advent of contractors to cleanup and re-rail a line to productive status came in around the late 1970s and early 1980s. The use of caterpillar tractor mounted sidebooms (pipelayers) enabled the contractors to mobilize around a site without having the need for crane mats and multiple lifting locations.

In the 1990s a new generation of railway cranes was developed. While the conventional diesel hydraulic road cranes were adopted with some small trolleys to move on the rail track, the new generation had a professional high speed railway chassis for up to 75 mph. The superstructure is also diesel hydraulic with telescopic boom and counterweight and designed to the railway's specific needs. These cranes can travel with suspended loads and keep levelled even on an elevated track, due to the automatic cant compensation. It is possible to work on one outrigger only, work with boom in horizontal position under bridges or under the overhead wires. Capacities are as high as 200 tonnes. It makes this new generation useful for maintenance work and switch and crossing renewal, as well as recovery work.

Germany

 * Deutsche Maschinenbau-Aktiengesellschaft
 * Kirow Ardelt GmbH
 * Krupp Ardelt
 * Leo Gottwald KG

Great Britain

 * Cowans, Sheldon & Company, Carlisle – cranes are labelled Cowans Sheldon
 * Ransomes & Rapier
 * Thomas Smith & Sons (Rodley) Ltd – cranes are labelled Smith Rodley (not "Smith & Rodley")
 * Taylor & Hubbard Ltd, Leicester
 * Appleby Brothers
 * Craven Brothers Ltd.
 * Stothert & Pitt

United States

 * American Hoist and Derrick
 * Arva Industries
 * Badger Equipment Company
 * Bucyrus
 * Industrial Brownhoist
 * Link-Belt

 * Lima
 * Little Giant Corporation
 * Marion
 * Ohio Railroad Crane
 * Swingmaster Corporation
 * Cullen Friestedt Co (Burro), numerous successor companies later owned Burro

Russia

 * Kambarka Engineering Works
 * JSC "Kirovsky mashzavod 1 Maya"

Preservation
Most heritage railways in the UK have one or more preserved railway cranes, either just as historic exhibits, or as fully functioning examples assisting with the operation of the railway. Although not normally required for re-railing activities, they are exceptionally useful for track relaying and the restoration of locomotives and rolling stock, and help to avoid expenditure on outside contractors.

Three cranes of various sizes are preserved at the Western Pacific Railroad Museum at Portola, California. They are all cranes once owned by the Western Pacific Railroad and two of them, a small, self-propelled Burro Crane and a large, 200-ton capacity Industrial Brownhoist crane, are maintained in operable condition.

All Japanese railway cranes had already retired. Road cranes are used for re-railing and maintenance works. Type "so-30" railway crane for accident recovery is preserved at Otaru synthesis museum. Type "so-80" railway crane for accident recovery is preserved at Sakuma railpark. Type "so-300" railway crane for bridge construction is preserved at Usuitouge tetsudo bunkamura.

Several breakdown cranes are preserved in the various Australian states. Examples preserved in New South Wales as X10 Class and include 1048 a 30T steam crane built by Cowans Sheldon, preserved at Rothbury. 1050 a 50T steam crane built by Craven Bros, preserved at Dorrigo. 1055 a 35T steam crane converted to diesel built by Ransome & Rapier, preserved at Canberra. 1060 a 120T steam crane converted to diesel built by Krupp Ardelt, preserved at Dorrigo. 1073 a 70T steam crane built by Craven Bros converted to diesel, preserved Richmond Main. 1080 a 50T steam crane built by Industrial Brownhoist, preserved Junee. 1081 a 50T steam crane built by Industrial Brownhoist, preserved Dorrigo.

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Nine Noble Virtues

The Nine Noble Virtues, NNV, or 9NV are two sets of moral and situational ethical guidelines within certain groupings of Heathens, typically those with folkish views such as Odinists and members of the Ásatrú Folk Assembly (AFA). One set was codified by former member of Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists and National Socialists, John Yeowell (a.k.a. Stubba) and John Gibbs-Bailey (a.k.a. Hoskuld) of the Odinic Rite in 1974, and the other set codified by Stephen A. McNallen of the Asatru Folk Assembly in 1983. However, others believe that the earlier set, the one the Odinic Rite claim they codified, were originally put together and labelled as the Nine Noble Virtues (the “9NV”) by Edred Thorsson during his time with the original AFA. They are supposedly based on virtues found in historical Norse paganism, gleaned from various sources including the Poetic Edda (particularly the Hávamál and the Sigrdrífumál), and as evident in the Icelandic Sagas).

The Nine Charges are a different list of more explicitly phrased moral or ethical guidelines codified at about the same time. The Six-Fold Goal is yet another list of virtues, given as "Right, Wisdom, Might, Harvest, Frith and Love" by Stephen Flowers (a.k.a. Edred Thorsson) in 1989.

The Aesirian Code of Nine is also used by some practitioners of Heathenism, consisting of "honor, knowledge, protect, flourish, change, fairness, conflict, balance and control."

Nine Noble Virtues
The list of "Nine Noble Virtues" is due to either John Yeowell (a.k.a. Stubba) and John Gibbs-Bailey (a.k.a. Hoskuld), members of Odinic Rite, or alternatively due to Edred Thorsson, at the time member of the Asatru Free Assembly. Stephen A. McNallen compiled a similar list under the title "Some Odinist Values" in the Asatru Folk Assembly journal The Runestone.

"Nine Noble Virtues"
 * 1) Courage
 * 2) Truth
 * 3) Honour
 * 4) Fidelity
 * 5) Discipline
 * 6) Hospitality
 * 7) Self Reliance
 * 8) Industriousness
 * 9) Perseverance

"Some Odinist Values"
 * 1) Strength is better than weakness
 * 2) Courage is better than cowardice
 * 3) Joy is better than guilt
 * 4) Honour is better than dishonour
 * 5) Freedom is better than slavery
 * 6) Kinship is better than alienation
 * 7) Realism is better than dogmatism
 * 8) Vigor is better than lifelessness
 * 9) Ancestry is better than rootlessness

Nine Charges
The Nine Charges were codified by the Odinic Rite in the 1970s.
 * 1) To maintain candour and fidelity in love and devotion to the tried friend: though he strike me I will do him no scathe.
 * 2) Never to make wrongsome oath: for great and grim is the reward for the breaking of plighted troth.
 * 3) To deal not hardly with the humble and the lowly.
 * 4) To remember the respect that is due to great age.
 * 5) To suffer no evil to go unremedied and to fight against the enemies of Faith, Folk and Family: my foes I will fight in the field, nor will I stay to be burnt in my house.
 * 6) To succour the friendless but to put no faith in the pledged word of a stranger people.
 * 7) If I hear the fool's word of a drunken man I will strive not: for many a grief and the very death groweth from out such things.
 * 8) To give kind heed to dead people: straw dead, sea dead or sword dead.
 * 9) To abide by the enactments of lawful authority and to bear with courage the decrees of the Norns.

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User talk:Linus

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Avahi (software)

Avahi is a free zero-configuration networking (zeroconf) implementation, including a system for multicast DNS and DNS Service Discovery. It is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

Avahi is a system which enables programs to publish and discover services and hosts running on a local network. For example, a user can plug a computer into a network and have Avahi automatically advertise the network services running on its machine, facilitating user access to those services.

Software architecture

Avahi implements the Apple Zeroconf specification, mDNS, DNS-SD and RFC 3927/IPv4LL. Other implementations include Apple's Bonjour framework (the mDNSResponder component of which is licensed under the Apache License).

Avahi provides a set of language bindings (Python, Mono, etc.) and ships with most Linux and BSD distributions. Because of its modularized architecture, major desktop components like GNOME Virtual file system and KDE input/output architecture already integrate Avahi.

Avahi vs. Bonjour
The Avahi project started in 2004 because Apple's Zeroconf implementation, Bonjour, used the GPL-incompatible Apple Public Source License. In 2006 Apple relicensed parts of Bonjour under the Apache License.

Avahi's performance resembles that of Bonjour, sometimes exceeding it; however Avahi can lose services when managing large numbers of requests simultaneously.

History
Avahi was developed by Lennart Poettering and Trent Lloyd. It is the result of a merger in 2005 of Poettering's original mDNS/DNS-SD implementation called "FlexMDNS", and Lloyd's original code called "Avahi". While most of today's code originates from the former project, the name of the latter was used for the joint project. Development on "FlexMDNS" started in late 2004, and work on the original "Avahi" began in early 2004.

Avahi was originally developed under the freedesktop.org umbrella, but has now become a separate project. Avahi, however, makes use of freedesktop.org's D-Bus IPC layer.

The name Avahi is the Malagasy native name and scientific Latin name of a genus of woolly lemur, a family of primates indigenous to Madagascar. Trent Lloyd found the name and liked it, and it stuck. The logo reflects this.

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Steve Rauschenberger

Steve Rauschenberger (born August 29, 1956) is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Illinois State Senate from 1993 to 2007.

Early life
Steve Rauschenberger was born on August 29, 1956, in Elgin as one of six children to John Rauschenberger, a member of the Illinois Republican State Central Committee, and Shirley Rauschenberger. He attended Elgin Area School District U46 public schools and was a National Merit Finalist in high school. In 1978, he earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from College of William & Mary in Virginia. In 1980, he purchased his family's business, Rauschenberger Furniture Co., and went on in 1985 to buy Ackemann Brothers Corp., of which he is currently president and general manager. He became active with his children in Boy Scouts and served as a member of the Elgin Downtown Advisory Commission.

1992 Election
In 1991, Republican Senator John Friedland chose not to run for re-election in the 33rd district. At that time, the 33rd included Streamwood and Bartlett in Cook County, Elgin, South Elgin, West Dundee, East Dundee, Carpentersville, Maple Park, Hampshire, Burlington, Sugar Grove and Campton Township in Kane County and Hinckley in DeKalb County. Rauschenberger ran for the seat, citing a change in the tax code that cost retailers millions by forcing them to change their accounting practices. In an upset, Rauschenberger defeated State Representative James Kirkland in the March primary. In May, businessman and lawyer Thom McNamee became the Democratic nominee. Rauschenberger ran on a platform of privatization of government services, opposition to tax hikes, an increase in earned income tax credits, opposition to the proposed Fox Valley Freeway and restoring the state's financial health.

Tenure
During his early years in the Senate, he was a member of a group dubbed the "Fab Five." The group was made up of conservative state senators elected in 1992 who were anti-tax, pro-balanced budget and often challenged the Republican leadership of Senate President Pate Philip and Governor Jim Edgar. The group's other four members were, Peter Fitzgerald, Dave Syverson, Patrick O'Malley and Chris Lauzen. As a result of the group's clout Rauschenberger became chair of the influential Appropriations Committee during his first term. As Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Senator Rauschenberger negotiated the multibillion-dollar state budget. He also served as the Senate negotiator for KidCare, the state health insurance program for children in low-income, working families.

During the 2001 redistricting process, Rauschenberger was drawn into the 22nd legislative district which included much of his old territory in Elgin, Dundee and Hanover townships and added Schaumburg Township. He won re-election in the new district with 56% of the vote. In 2003, when the Democratic Party took a majority in the Illinois Senate, he lost his chairmanship of the appropriations committee, but was appointed to be an Assistant Republican Leader under Frank Watson. He also served as Minority Spokesman on the Joint Task Force on Immigrants and Refugees

In the Senate, Rauschenberger's legislative agenda including supporting statewide tax caps, increasing the income tax exemption, enacting "pro-life" policies and balancing the budget. He also received high ratings from the Illinois Federation of Independent Business during his tenure.

During his time in the Illinois Senate, Rauschenberger was active with the National Conference of State Legislatures including serving as co-chair of the Taskforce on Telecommunications and Electronic Commerce, an executive board member and Vice President. In 2006, he was elected President of the NCSL. He was also active in the Republican Party serving as the Hanover Township Republican Committeeman from 1994-2002 and as President of the John Ericsson Republican League, a Swedish American Republican organization.

United States Senate election, 2004
In May 2003, Jim Edgar announced that he would not seek the US Senate seat being vacated by retiring US Senator Peter Fitzgerald. Rauschenberger was one of the many people speculated who could run for the seat. On September 23, 2003, Rauschenberger announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate. Despite being heavily out matched in fundraising, he rode a late surge fueled by sweeping editorial endorsements, including the Chicago Tribune to finish third in the March 16, 2004 Illinois U.S. Senate Republican primary election that was won by Jack Ryan.

During the general election, Jack Ryan dropped out of the race after revelations regarding his divorce. Subsequently Rauschenberger became a front-runner to replace Ryan as the Republican nominee in Senate race against then-State Senator Barack Obama, including being promoted by Don Manzullo. Rauschenberger announced on July 8, 2004 that he would not seek the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate—in part because he was never convinced he would have the financial support needed to wage a competitive campaign against Barack Obama who had announced two days earlier having raised $4 million in the second quarter of 2004. His withdraw was followed by speculation about a potential Mike Ditka candidacy.

Illinois gubernatorial election, 2006
In August 2005, Senator Rauchenberger sought the Republican nomination Governor of Illinois in the 2006 election. However, citing a crowded field, Rauchenberger dropped out of the race for governor and joined Ron Gidwitz's campaign as his running mate for lieutenant governor. Though the two positions are nominated in the primary independently, candidates for both often run together during the primary campaign, promoting a single "ticket." During the race, he vowed to drop out if Judy Baar Topinka won the nomination. He ultimately lost to Topinka's running mate and DuPage County States Attorney Joe Birkett.

Post political career
After leaving the Senate in 2007, he founded Rauschenberger Partners, a lobbying firm where he serves as president. He also took on the role of President of the United Republican Fund until his resignation in 2010. In 2008, he ran to become the Republican National Committeeman representing Illinois, but lost to Pat Brady at the 2008 State Convention of the Illinois Republican Party.

During the 2008 Republican Party presidential primaries, Rauschenberger ran to be a delegate to the 2008 Republican National Convention from Illinois's 14th congressional district for the presidential campaign of former Governor Mitt Romney.

During the 2010 election cycle Rauschenberger chose to run against Mike Noland, his successor as state senator and the Democratic incumbent. He was endorsed by Illinois Citizens for Ethics, Illinois Family Action, Illinois Federation of Independent Business, National Rifle Association, the Chicago Tribune and the United Republican Fund of which he was president. On election night, Noland defeated Rauschenberger by 585 votes.

In May 2015, Rauschenberger became president of the Technology & Manufacturing Association, a nonprofit organization that represents precision manufacturing and supplier companies in Illinois.

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