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Kearny Connection

The Kearny Connection is a railroad junction in Kearny, New Jersey that allows passenger trains from New Jersey Transit's Morris and Essex Lines to enter/leave Amtrak's Northeast Corridor (NEC) and travel to and from New York Penn Station. The junction, which opened in 1996 and utilizes Swift Interlocking, is nearby the Sawtooth Bridges.

Location and design
The Kearny Connection is located west of Secaucus Junction and lies immediately north of the Waterfront Connection which serves to connect Hoboken Division with the NEC. Two tracks, one in each direction, carry trains from the former DL&W main line, which passes under the NEC, onto the NEC. The new junction on the NEC is designated "Swift Interlocking" and is seven miles west of New York. There is a difference in voltage/frequency between the Northeast Corridor and the Morris and Essex Lines so only electric locomotives and EMUs that can switch between the two electrical systems are able to travel through the junction.

Predecessors
There is precedent for trains from the Morris and Essex lines to route through a connection to a PRR-associated railroad and use its terminal for better access to New York City. The Morris and Essex Railroad, from the time of its arrival in Newark in 1836 until it established its own depot in Hoboken in 1855, built a junction with the New Jersey Rail Road (the Pennsylvania Railroad's predecessor) in Newark, to get to the NJRR's Paulus Hook terminal in Jersey City and its ferries to Manhattan, although this was to the south of Hoboken rather than to the north. To be precise, the junction was with the NJRR's Market Street branch, which joined with the NJRR main line in Newark to cross the Passaic on the Center Street Bridge, then through the Bergen Hill Cut to its Paulus Hook terminal in Jersey City. Nearly all of this has since been removed; the exceptions are tracks for PATH and the P&H through the Bergen Hill Cut, and a small portion of the NJRR mainline east of the former Center Street Bridge (now called the Center Street Branch), but that is now only connected to the M&E albeit further east in Kearny.

Impact
With the opening of service on June 10, 1996, travel time to Midtown, Manhattan was reduced by 20 minutes, eliminating the need for riders to first travel to Hoboken Terminal and transfer to PATH trains for transport under the Hudson River. New Jersey Transit dubbed the new service Midtown Direct. By the 2000s, of 138 inbound and 150 outbound daily weekday trains on the three Morris and Essex Lines, 73 inbound and 71 outbound trains (about 50%) use the Kearny Connection.

The project's construction took three years, and $70 million to complete. The reduced commute times and the "one-seat" commute provided by the Kearny Connection increased ridership on the Morris and Essex Lines and increased residential property prices along the line. In 2010, it was estimated that the state of New Jersey collected hundreds of millions of dollars annually in additional property tax revenue due to the increased property prices along the Morris and Essex Lines.

The Kearny Connection's popularity and success led to other transportation improvements such as the opening of the Secaucus Junction station seven years later. Additional attempts to create "one-seat" commutes to Midtown for riders from the Raritan Valley Line and the Montclair-Boonton Line using dual-mode Bombardier ALP-45DP locomotives have been stalled due to rush-hour capacity issues at Penn Station in New York. A proposal for "one-seat" commutes to Penn Station for Pascack Valley Line, Main Line and Bergen County Line riders via a loop at the Secaucus Junction station is part of the Gateway Project plan but faces criticism due to the existing overcrowding at Penn Station.

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Talk:List of school districts in Manitoba

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I have seperated the Band Operated schools and divisions from the Provincial schools and divisions for a couple reasons:

1) The funding sources are very different 2) Band Operated Schools do not have to follow the Manitoba Public Schools Act regulations, though most do out of courtesy, and to have their secondary graduated recognized by Canadian Colleges and Universities.

Calling for assistance
Well, I never would have guessed there were this many schools a province with a population this small. I can't imagine how many schools there are in Los Angeles, or London. Anyway, I'm solliciting the assistance of some of the Divisions who list their school names rather ambiguously, and also sought the help of the Manitoba Teachers' Society in drawing some academic attention to this article and the Wikipedia in general. Here's hoping! Weaponofmassinstruction

 * Thank you! to Cheryl Moore for providing me with a concise list of the River East-Transcona schools. Weaponofmassinstruction

On the way out
Sorry, didn't realize there was size restrictions on a per-page basis. No problem. As I mentioned in the last edit, I've snagged the data, and will be putting it up again in different divisional pages listing in Catagories as appropriate. Weaponofmassinstruction 00:38, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

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Bold texti looooovveee LA... not... mr. bloom is kinda annoying.. though it is kinda funni when he disses jess. that cracks me up. i mean she acts like she's a dumb blonde in disguise(which she probably is)... she asks the dumbest questions. im blonde and i definately wouldnt ask all of those questions. now... to dillan. he thinks he's sooooo funni and he does the dummest things but watevs idc. i hav noooo problem with that. at least he doesnt act like a dumb blonde. well.... tootles. o yea i cant wait 2 c my bf during x-mas. i luv him.

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Waterfront Connection

The Waterfront Connection allows NJ Transit trains to switch from the former Pennsylvania Railroad main line (now the Newark Division) to the former Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad main line, now NJ Transit Rail Operations. The connection opened on September 9, 1991, at a cost of $16 million.

The connection consists of a single track that splits from the Northeast Corridor main line to New York Penn Station as it rises to go over the main line of NJ Transit Rail Operations to Hoboken. The connection rises to the east with a bridge over PATH's westbound track and a Conrail freight line, merging into the Hoboken line from the south. The red through-girder bridge here was built for it; for its first 10+ years it was not electrified. The Waterfront Connection lies immediately south of the Kearny Connection, and serves the complementary purpose. The two connections allow any trains originating from the west of Kearny, regardless of line, to terminate at either Hoboken or New York Penn Station.

Most revenue trains which travel over the Connection originate on the North Jersey Coast Line, with five rush hour trains in each direction originating/terminating at Hoboken. One morning train from the Raritan Valley Line also uses the connection to reach Hoboken. The Waterfront Connection allows diesel trains to operate direct from Hoboken to Bay Head, the last stop on the North Jersey Coast Line. Since the North Jersey Coast Line's electrification ends at Long Branch, rush hour passengers south of Long Branch can take diesel trains all the way to Hoboken or change at Newark Penn Station for service to New York City. As of 2015, the ALP-45DP has allowed the introduction of one-seat rides from New York Penn Station all the way to Bay Head.

With the advent of the Waterfront Connection, NJ Transit no longer needed a separate fueling facility on the diesel portion of the North Jersey Coast Line since diesel engines can make the trip directly to Hoboken. Faced with pressure from Bay Head residents in 2002, the Bay Head fueling facility was shut down and trains now refuel exclusively at Hoboken or at Raritan Yard.

Predecessor
As part of NJ Transit's "Bergen Shore Express" summer promotion 1986–1988, NJ Transit Rail Operations trains from the Bergen County Line turned southwest at West End Junction onto the Morris & Essex line, switched onto the Center Street Branch, PATH tracks, and then the Northeast Corridor to head for the North Jersey Coast Line. The switches that allowed this have since all been removed.

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Turning a blind eye

Turning a blind eye is an idiom describing the ignoring of undesirable information.

Although the Oxford English Dictionary records usage of the phrase as early as 1698, the phrase to turn a blind eye is often attributed to an incident in the life of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson. Nelson was blinded in one eye early in his Royal Navy career. During the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801 the cautious Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, in overall command of the British forces, sent a signal to Nelson's forces ordering them to discontinue the action. Naval orders were transmitted via a system of signal flags at that time. When this order was brought to the more aggressive Nelson's attention, he lifted his telescope up to his blind eye, saying, "I have a right to be blind sometimes. I really do not see the signal," and most of his forces continued to press home the attack. The frigates supporting the line-of-battle ships did break off, in one case suffering severe losses in the retreat.

There is a misconception that the order was to be obeyed at Nelson's discretion, but this is contradicted by the fact that it was a general order to all the attacking ships (some of whom did break off), and that later that day Nelson openly stated that he had "fought contrary to orders". Sir Hyde Parker was recalled in disgrace and Nelson appointed Commander-in-Chief of the fleet following the battle.

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Arakan (disambiguation)

Arakan is a historical region of Burma.

Arakan may also refer to:

 * Arakan Division, a British colonial division
 * Rakhine State, a province of Myanmar
 * Arakan Mountains, Myanmar
 * Arakanese people
 * Arakanese Indians
 * Arakanese language, a former Tibeto-Burmese language, now split into two distinct languages: Rakhine and Marma
 * Arakan Campaign 1942–43, a campaign during World War II
 * Arakan, Cotabato, Philippines
 * Arakan River, Philippines

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Concession stand

A concession stand, or refreshment stand (American English, Canadian English), snack kiosk or snack bar (British English, Irish English) is a place where patrons can purchase snacks or food at a cinema, amusement park, zoo, aquarium, circus, fair, stadium, beach, swimming pool, concert, sporting event, or other entertainment venue. Some events or venues contract the right to sell food to third parties. Those contracts are often referred to as a concession, hence the name for a stand where food is sold. Usually prices for goods at concession stands are greater than elsewhere for the convenience of being close to an attraction and thus often contribute significant revenue to the venue operator (especially in the case of movie theaters). Additionally, outside food and drink is often prohibited to incentivise spending at the concession stands.

History
Concession stands were not originally operated by the movie theaters, and food was often sold by people attending the film or by vendors outside of the theater.

Movie theaters were at first hostile to food being brought into their facilities, but during the Great Depression, theaters added concession stands as a way to increase revenue in the economically stagnant times. By the 1930s, concession stands were a main fixture in many theaters. During World War II, candy was scarce at concession stands because of the sugar rationing going on at the time, and popcorn became more popular than before.

In the late 1940s, and early 1950s, as movie ticket sales were down, sales of food at concession stands increased. In the United States, concession owners are represented by the National Association of Concessionaires and the National Independent Concessionaires Association.

Gallery
 File:Concession stand at Hanlans Point.jpg|A concession stand by the name of "Flora-Dew" at Hanlan's Point in Toronto, Ontario. The image was taken in 1928 and depicts a typical stand from that time period. File:Hillsboro Stadium concession stand.JPG|The concession stand at Hillsboro Stadium, in Hillsboro, Oregon, is an outdoor stand at a football field. File:GreatHallPittmurals.jpg|At Heinz Field, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the "Goal Line Stand" incorporates sports and food into their concession stand. File:Mustamakkara Tapola.JPG|Tapola, famous purveyors of mustamakkara, at the Tammelantori square in Tampere, Finland File:Overijse frietkot A.jpg|A mobile snack bar in Overijse, Belgium.

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Flicky

Flicky (フリッキー) is a platform game developed by Sega and released as an arcade video game in May 1984. It was licensed to Bally Midway for distribution in the United States. In Flicky, the player controls the eponymous blue bird and must gather all the small birds called Chirps in each round and bring them safely to the exit. There are cat and lizard enemies which can disperse the Chirps and kill the player, but Flicky can use items on the playing field to protect herself and the Chirps from danger.

The idea for Flicky came from Sega senior leadership, who wanted to exceed the success of Namco's Mappy (1983). Yoji Ishii and Yoshiki Kawasaki developed Flicky at Sega over one year. Originally, the game simply had the player catch ambiguous dots in a maze. Taking inspiration from a popular song in a Japanese variety show, Kawasaki gave the game an urban theme and bird characters. The game was originally titled "Busty", then "Flippy", before finally settling on "Flicky".

Flicky was first ported to the SG-1000 in Japan, and then later to other Japanese home consoles. In 1991, Flicky was released in North America and Europe on the Sega Genesis. The character has made cameo appearances in other Sega games, most notably within the Sonic the Hedgehog series.

Gameplay

Flicky is a platform game in which the player takes control of a flightless blue bird named Flicky. With only the ability to run side-to-side and jump, the player must collect all the small, yellow birds called "Chirps" and take them to the exit to clear each round. According to game artist Yoshiki Kawasaki, Flicky is just a friend to the Chirps although some players may think she is a mother to them. The Chirps follow Flicky in a chain until they are collected at the exit. Bonus points are awarded for bringing multiple Chirps back in a single chain. There are 48 total stages. Each stage takes place on a single wraparound screen that scrolls horizontally with Flicky always in the center. After all the stages are completed, the game loops infinitely on an increased difficulty mode.

Collected Chirps will disperse if their chain comes in contact with an enemy. Some of the chirps wear sunglasses; these chirps behave more unpredictably when dispersed. There are two enemy types in the standard rounds, house cats called Tigers and green iguanas called Iggys. These enemies can be simply avoided but can also be defeated with throwable items available on some levels. These items include telephones, flower pots, cups, and bottles. Flicky can pick up an item by walking into it, and throw it by jumping. Sometimes diamonds may appear, which cannot be thrown but rather provide bonus points. There are also bonus rounds in which Flicky attempts to catch as many falling Chirps as possible in a net.

Development
The spark to develop Flicky came from Sega's desire to exceed Namco's Mappy (1983) which had become very popular in Japanese arcades. Sega game designer Yoji Ishii's boss wanted him to design a similar "dot eater" game but better.

Flicky was developed over the course of one year and was designed by Yoji Ishii in collaboration with artist Yoshiki Kawasaki. The game evolved from a simple game that Kawasaki first envisioned where the player would catch dots in a maze. He took inspiration from a popular song about sparrows on power lines from a 1970s Japanese variety show, ''Migoro! Tabegoro! Waraigoro!'', and so made the main character a sparrow and the platforms and walls wires. However, he found the power line theme boring, and thus changed the background to an apartment building after taking inspiration from one outside his office window. Kawasaki felt that anyone who is around children has experienced the emotion of wanting to keep children safe from the outside and returning them safe to their home. From this, the team wanted to imbue a message to "protect the children" with the game, and according to Kawasaki, "it's that emotion that drives Flicky".

Kawasaki used a poorly calibrated graphics tablet to draw all the game graphics. The Chirps were originally ambiguous dots that would disappear when collected. Kawasaki changed this so the dots trailed the player, then increased their size to 8x8 pixels to make way for a more interesting design. The size was just large enough for a simple chick design. To add difficulty to the game, some Chirps were programmed to behave more unpredictably when touched by an enemy. These Chirps were given sunglasses and deemed the "bad" Chirps. When game testing began, the team had created 100 levels but only four background designs, and there was barely any space left in the game. Kawasaki was able to change the colors of the backgrounds to create more variety. After testing, Iggy was added to the game.

Flicky was originally titled "Busty", but an American Sega branch asked the team to change it because of the term's slang usage in English. The game was then titled "Flippy" but this was changed shortly before release. In 2002, Ishii stated this was because of trademark issues in the United States, but in 2018 said it was because "Flippy" was too similar to "Mappy". Flicky was released in arcades in May 1984.

Ports
Like many early 1980s Sega arcade games, Flicky was ported to the SG-1000 console. The port only retains 40 of the arcade levels, with some of them restructured, and does not feature the Iggy enemy. In addition, the behavior of the Chirps is slightly modified and some of the graphics were changed. This version was later ported to several other home platforms in Japan including the MSX, Sharp X1, Fujitsu FM-7 and NEC PC-8801. In 1991, Flicky was ported to the Sega Genesis and released in both North America and Europe. In Japan, this port was only released through Sega Meganet.

Reception
In July 1984, Game Machine listed Flicky as being the second most popular table arcade unit in Japan during that period.

The Genesis port of Flicky was reviewed by multiple Western publications, most of which found the game to have highly addictive and enjoyable gameplay while criticizing it for having poor graphics and sound. Reviewers noted poor initial impressions based on appearance and sound, finding the sprites to be simple, the colors garish, and the music repetitive. However, when they began to play the game, they found that the simple appearance complemented the simple yet engaging gameplay. Computer and Video Games described Flicky as a guilty pleasure and discussed its cute appearance in positive light. Reviewers from Electronic Gaming Monthly concluded that the game was aimed for children based on the game's cuteness aesthetic, and provided lower scores accordingly. Critics from both Computer and Video Games and Mean Machines wrote that employees in their offices were disappearing into their game room to play Flicky. Julian from Mean Machines wrote: "It's crazy, I know, that a game so crappy, so laughably-simple and pathetic sounding as this can prove to be more addictive, more challenging and more long-lasting than virtually any other Mega Drive game, but it's true." In 2017, Gamesradar ranked Flicky 42nd on their "Best Sega Genesis/Mega Drive games of all time."

Legacy
Numerous Sega video game compilations feature Flicky. A CD-enhanced version of the Genesis port was featured in Wondermega Collection, a compilation bundled with the Wondermega hybrid console in 1992. Wondermega Collection will be included as part of the Sega Mega Drive Mini 2 mini console in Japan, releasing in October 2022. The Genesis version was compiled into Game no Kanzume Vol. 1 (1994), a Sega CD compilation in Japan which featured CD quality remixes of the original soundtrack. The Genesis port was also featured in Sonic Mega Collection (2002), Sega Genesis Collection (2006), Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection (2009), Sega Mega Drive Classic Collection (2010), and even Genesis-based plug and play devices. The arcade version has been released in Japan on the Sega Ages: Memorial Collection Vol. 1 (1996) for the Sega Saturn, and the Sega Memorial Selection (1998) for Windows. Flicky has also been ported to mobile devices. The first port was in 2001 for the Sega Ages line in Japan. In March 2003, a similar variant appeared on the Sonic Cafe service, again exclusive to Japan. In 2007, the Sonic Cafe port was upgraded with better graphics and ported to North America for the Sega Mobile service. The Genesis port was released on Steam in 2010.

The Flicky character has made cameo appearances in several other Sega arcade games, effectively becoming a mascot for Sega's early arcade years. In Teddy Boy Blues (1985), she appears as a shooting target among other Sega mascots such as Pengo. In the puzzle game Bloxeed, she can be used as a special weapon to drop blocks on the playing field. She is also playable in SDI (1987) with the use of a cheat code. Flicky has a minor cameo appearance in Flash Point, where she will wish the player good luck before each round, and in the racing game Super Monaco GP (1989), where she appears on the racetrack banners and the game over screen. Flicky has also become an entire species and reoccurring minor character in the Sonic the Hedgehog series and is featured most prominently in Sonic 3D: Flickies' Island (1996), the game mechanics of which were inspired by Flicky. Flicky has continued to have minor cameo appearances in other Sega titles, including Shenmue (1999), Gunstar Super Heroes (2005), and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (2007).

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John Alexander Low Waddell

Dr. John Alexander Low Waddell (January 15, 1854 – March 3, 1938, often shortened to J.A.L. Waddell and sometimes known as John Alexander Waddell) was a Canadian-American civil engineer and prolific bridge designer, with more than a thousand structures to his credit in the United States, Canada, as well as Mexico, Russia, China, Japan, and New Zealand. Waddell’s work set standards for elevated railroad systems and helped develop materials suitable for large span bridges. His most important contribution was the development of the steam-powered high-lift bridge. Waddell was a widely respected writer on bridge design and engineering theory, as well as an advocate for quality in higher education engineering programs. The company he founded in 1887, 'J.A.L. Waddell, Consulting Engineer,' would eventually become the modern day Hardesty & Hanover, a leading moveable bridge engineering firm. Many of Waddell's surviving bridges are now considered historic landmarks.

Early life and education
John Alexander Low Waddell was born on January 15, 1854, in Port Hope, Ontario, Canada, to Robert Waddell (b. 1815) and Angeline E. Jones. His mother was the daughter of William Jones, late colonel of the 27th regiment and sheriff of the city of New York and a member of the State legislature in 1844. Waddell was the oldest child of eight.

Homeschooled to nine years of age, Waddell was reportedly in poor health throughout his youth. He later attended Trinity College School in Port Hope until turning sixteen, when his parents sent him on a ten-month voyage to Hong Kong and Shanghai on the clipper ship N.B. Palmer. In 1875, Waddell obtained his first degree, in civil engineering, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. In 1882 he married Ava Everett of Council Bluffs, Iowa, the daughter of prominent lawyer Horace Everett. In 1904 he earned a Doctorate of Science (D.Sc) from McGill University.

Career
Waddell began his career by returning to his homeland as a draftsman in Canada's Department of Marine and Fisheries in Ottawa, where he spent a few months designing buoys, lanterns, and similar marine appliances. His next position came as a 'rodman' (surveyor's assistant) on the Canadian Pacific Railway.

He returned to the United States where he designed mines for a West Virginia coal company. In 1878, he returned to Rensselaer and taught mechanics courses until 1880. Waddell then traveled west, obtaining additional degrees from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and spending some time working at the Raymond & Campbell firm in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

In July 1882, he was hired as a foreign advisor by the Meiji government of the Empire of Japan and taught at the Tokyo Imperial University while writing two books. That same year, he was also awarded an honorary Bachelor's and Master's of Science each by McGill University.

Private practice
Waddell returned to the United States in 1886, and one year later established a private engineering practice in Kansas City, Missouri, as J.A.L. Waddell, Consulting Engineer. The firm would later evolve over the decades with various junior partners, including Ira G. Hedrick in 1899, John L. Harrington in 1907, Waddell's own son Needham Everett in 1915, and Shortridge Hardesty in 1927. After Waddell's death, the company became, and continues today as, Hardesty & Hanover.

The company enjoyed great success with railroad clients in particular during its early years; in addition to the wide adoption of Waddell's "A" truss design along the St. Louis Southwestern Railway and Nippon Railway, one 1906 newspaper article from Brownsville, Texas, reported that Dr. Waddell had been responsible for all the bridges on the International–Great Northern Railroad.

Midway through his consulting career, Waddell opened a New York City office, which soon became the firm's headquarters in 1920 amidst the economic boom of the Roaring Twenties. Many of metropolitan area's most important postwar infrastructure projects were awarded to the company, including the Goethals Bridge and Marine Parkway–Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge.

Waddell was also an adviser to the Ministry of Railways, Republic of China. When in China he along with Meloy was entrusted by MIT and Harvard University to talk over with National Southeastern University (later renamed National Central University and then Nanking University) and reached the agreement on founding Sino-American joint engineering college in Shanghai, but it soon ceased due to the wars outbroken in the area.

He was widely recognised, being awarded honours by Japan, Russia, China, and Italy, holding five honorary doctorates (including those from Japan, Canada, and Puerto Rico) and being elected an Honorary Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1936.

Truss bridge
One of Waddell's earliest contributions to the field of civil engineering was the "A" Truss bridge. Patented in 1893, the cost-effective design allowed for cheap and rapid construction, and could easily carry the heavy loads generated by steam locomotive-powered trains. Replicated throughout the Empire of Japan and the American West and Midwest, this basic design contributed to the rapid expansion of several railway companies during the Second Industrial Revolution.

Vertical-lift bridge
Lifting and swinging bridges had been used for generations, but not on the scale that they exist today. Waddell was the first to invent a modern design, originally intended to span a short channel across Minnesota Point in the harbor of Duluth, Minnesota. His design won a city contest in 1892, but the War Department objected to the proposal. The city built an aerial transporter bridge in that location in 1905. In 1929, it was remodeled into the Aerial Lift Bridge, similar to Waddell's design.

Waddell adapted his vertical-lift concept in 1893 and it was finally built as the South Halsted Street Lift-Bridge over the Chicago River. While the city of Chicago was the first to build a lift bridge of Waddell's design, the second had to wait for his partnership with mechanical engineer John Lyle Harrington, formed in 1907. Waddell & Harrington designed a vertical lift bridge (since demolished) for the Iowa Central Railway over the Mississippi River at Keithsburg, Illinois, in 1909. The pair designed more than two dozen more vertical lift bridges over the next five years before Harrington left in 1914, among them the ASB Bridge in Kansas City Missouri.

List of major projects

 * South Halsted Street Lift-Bridge, Chicago, Illinois (1893)
 * Chicago_"L", Chicago, Illinois (1894-97)
 * Waddell "A" Truss Bridge Parkville, Missouri (1898)
 * Kansas City Southern Railroad Bridge, Cross Bayou Shreveport, Louisiana (1890, re-erected 1926)
 * Hawthorne Bridge, Portland, Oregon (1910)
 * Armour-Swift-Burlington Bridge, Kansas City, Missouri (1911)
 * Steel Bridge, Portland, Oregon (1912)
 * Colorado Street Bridge, Pasadena, California (1913)
 * 11th Street Bridge (aka Murray Morgan Bridge), Tacoma, Washington (1913)
 * Snowden Bridge, Bainville and Fairview, Montana (1913)
 * Caddo Lake Drawbridge, Mooringsport, Louisiana (1914)
 * Twelfth Street Trafficway Viaduct, Kansas City, Missouri (1915)
 * Detroit-Superior Bridge, Cleveland, Ohio (1917)
 * Interstate Bridge, Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon (1917)
 * Washington Bridge, Milford and Stratford, Connecticut (1921)
 * Memorial Bridge, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Kittery, Maine (1923)
 * CRRNJ Newark Bay Bridge, Elizabethport and Bayonne, New Jersey (1926)
 * Outerbridge Crossing, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and Staten Island, New York (opened June 29, 1928)
 * Goethals Bridge, Elizabeth, New Jersey, and Staten Island, New York (opened June 29, 1928; replaced 2017)
 * Lower Hack Lift, Kearny and Jersey City, New Jersey (1928)
 * Route 46 Hackensack River Bridge, Little Ferry and Ridgefield Park, New Jersey (1934)
 * Fourteenth Street (L&I) Bridge, Louisville, Kentucky (1918)

Death
Four years after the death of his wife Ada, Waddell died on March 3, 1938, in his Manhattan apartment at the Hotel Earle. According to an obituary his death was caused by complications from a stroke, suffered 3 months prior. Waddell is memorialized with his wife at Fairview Cemetery in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Partial bibliography

 * The Designing of Ordinary Iron Highway Bridges, [1884] (1891), 5th edition (in English). New York: John Wiley & Sons, 252 pages.
 * System of Iron Railroad Bridges for Japan (1885). Tokyo: Tokyo University, 258 pages.
 * De Pontibus: A Pocket-book for Bridge Engineers, (1898) 1st edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 403 pages.
 * Principal professional papers of Dr. J. A. L. Waddell, civil engineer, Waddell, J. (Ed.). (1905). Retrieved from  on December 31, 2017.
 * Bridge Engineering, Volume I and Volume II, (1916). New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2,177 pages.
 * Engineering Economics, Waddell, John Alexander Low., University of Kansas, 1917. Accessed at on December 31, 2017.
 * Economics of Bridgework: A Sequel to Bridge Engineering (1921). New York: John Wiley & Sons, 512 pages.
 * The engineering profession fifty years hence. Lancaster, Pa.: Press of the New Era Print. Co. (1918).
 * Memoirs and Addresses of Two Decades, with Frank Woodward Skinner, edited by J.L. Harrington (1928). New York: Mack Printing Company, 1,174 pages.
 * Vocational Guidance in Engineering Lines (1933) by the Committee on Engineering Education of the American Association of Engineers. Waddell was a contributor.

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Talk:Sexual freedom

How many people think sexualitly shpould be up to the people such as gays and lesbian

Don't reditect to Sexual norm
It's misleading to reditect Sexual freedom to Sexual norm.--Sum (talk) 18:43, 20 November 2010 (UTC)

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Sunday Night Sex Show vs. Talk Sex with Sue
These are not the same show. It's incorrect to say that the Sunday Night Sex Show "airs as" Talk Sex with Sue. The Oxygen network airs both of them, so maybe it would be more appropriate to say that Talk Sex with Sue is the "American version" of the show. Oxygen shows reruns of the Sunday Night Sex Show, and then Talk Sex with Sue is shown live on a different date/time.

 * How is it different, I watched the vids of "Talk Sex" on Oxygens web site and its the same show as Sunday Night, the same graphics, callers from Canada and it says the name "Sunday Night Sex Show" on the monitor behind Sure. So how is it a different show? 74.109.62.238 04:06, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: History of Sexuality
— Assignment last updated by Nyxtingale (talk) 04:27, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Educational administration

Educational administration 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

It's a series of questions about copyright and fair use of materials in an educational context. The article contains no actual information, would be at the wrong title if it did, and hasn't been touched since it was written two months ago. -- Cyrius|✎ 21:41, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete as fragment, improperly titled, stub, possible copyvio, already covered under Fair use. Wyss 23:25, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete. No information. - Andre Engels 10:14, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I don't get it; it's something about copvios in schools, right? Delete until it actually makes sense, please. Alphax (talk) 05:36, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)

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Pie-IX station

Pie-IX station is a Montreal Metro station in the borough of Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM) and serves the Green Line. The station opened on June 1976, in time for the 1976 Summer Olympics - as the station serves the Olympic Stadium and the Olympic Park. From 2023, the station will connect to the Pie-IX BRT.

Overview
The station opened on June 6, 1976, as part of the extension of the Green Line to Honoré-Beaugrand station, in time for the 1976 Summer Olympics.

Designed by architect Marcel Raby, the station was built in open cut. The centre of the station is taken up with a vast mezzanine bisected by a long ticket barrier. This space, as well as a secondary access to the Angrignon platform, allows the station to handle very large crowds from the Olympic Stadium. The mezzanine gives direct underground city access to the Stadium. The station has two exits of its own, one incorporated into the stadium's parvis, and another across the street.

Accessibility
In 2020, work began to make the station universally accessible at a cost of $81m. The work included the installation of four elevators, widened staircases, as well as extensive station renovation. The project was completed in November 2022, making Pie-IX the Metro's 22nd accessible station.

Artwork
The station includes four Olympic-themed works of art: three sculptures by the architect Marcel Raby featuring different takes on the Olympic rings, and one long mural in concrete and aluminium by Jordi Bonet entitled Citius, Altius, Fortius ("stronger, higher, faster" - the motto of the Olympic Games).

As part of the work to make the station accessible, an artwork by Francis Montillau was installed in spring 2023.

Origin of the name
This station is named for Pie-IX Boulevard (pronounced pee neuf). This street was named in 1912 for Pope Pius IX (1792–1878), elected Pope in 1846.

Connections
From 2023, the station will also connect to the new Pie-IX BRT at Pierre-De Coubertin Boulevard. Unlike other BRT stops on Pie-IX Boulevard, the Pierre-De Coubertin stop will be located curb-side for easy access to and from the Metro station.

Nearby points of interest

 * Olympic Park
 * Olympic Stadium
 * Biodome
 * Rio Tinto Alcan Planetarium
 * Montreal Botanical Garden
 * Château Dufresne - Musée des arts décoratifs de Montréal
 * Collège de Maisonneuve
 * Olympic Village

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USS Queenfish (SS-393)

USS Queenfish (SS/AGSS-393), was a Balao-class submarine, the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the queenfish, a small food fish found off the Pacific coast of North America.

Construction and commissioning
Queenfish was laid down by the Portsmouth Navy Yard at Kittery, Maine, on 27 July 1943; launched on 30 November 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Robert A. Theobald; and commissioned 11 March 1944, Lieutenant Commander Charles E. Loughlin in command.

First patrol: August – October 1944
After shakedown off the United States East Coast and further training in Hawaiian waters, Queenfish set out on her first patrol 4 August 1944, in Luzon Strait. She joined "Ed's Eradicators", a wolf pack which also included USS Barb (SS-220) and USS Tunny (SS-282). The wolfpack was under the command of E. R. Swinburne, who rode aboard Eugene B. Fluckey's Barb.

Tunny had to withdraw after being damaged by air attack, but on 31 August, Queenfish made her first kill, the 4,700-ton tanker Chiyoda Maru. On 9 September she scored twice more, on 7,097-ton passenger-cargo ship Toyooka Maru and 3,054-ton transport Manshu Maru.

ComSubPac ordered the Eradicators to assist another wolf pack ("Ben's Busters" consisting of USS Growler (SS-215), USS Sealion (SS-315), and USS Pampanito (SS-383)), in rescuing Allied prisoners of war (POWs) who had been on transports (including SS Rakuyō Maru and SS Kachidoki Maru) in Japanese Convoy HI-72. The Japanese had picked up their own survivors from the wreckage, but they made no attempt to save any survivors from among the 2,100 British and Australian POWs embarked in the transports. The submarines managed to get 127 out of the water. An approaching typhoon terminated the hunt and the patrol. Queenfish put into Majuro for refit on 3 October.

Second and third patrols: October 1944 – January 1945
Queenfish's second war patrol was conducted in the northern part of the East China Sea. This time Loughlin had pack command as well as ship command. "Loughlin's Loopers" included Barb and USS Picuda (SS-382). On 8 November Queenfish sank 1,051-ton Keijo Maru and the 1,948-ton Hakko Maru. On 9 November, she sent 2,131-ton Chojusan Maru, a former gunboat, to the bottom. Alerted by ComSubPac to the approach of a large convoy from Manchuria carrying reinforcements for the Philippines, the "Loopers" and another wolfpack, the "Urchins", combined to attack. Queenfish struck first on 15 November, sinking the 9,186-ton escort carrier JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIER Akitsu Maru. Over the next two days the subs destroyed eight ships of the convoy, including the 21,000-ton carrier and the largest of the troop transports. The attacks cost the Imperial Japanese Army defending the Philippines the bulk of a division.

Having received the Presidential Unit Citation for her first two patrols, Queenfish spent her third war patrol, 29 December to 29 January 1945, in the Formosa Straits and waters adjacent to the China coast without sinking any ships.

Fourth and fifth patrols: February – April 1945
Queenfish returned to the same area for her fourth war patrol, 24 February to 14 April, as a member of another wolf pack. Cdr. William S. Post, Jr., the senior commanding officer in USS Spot (SS-413), also had USS Sea Fox (SS-402) in his wolfpack, "Post's Panzers", the second of that name. After Spot expended all her torpedoes, she left to reload; pack command devolved on Loughlin.

On 1 April Queenfish sank 11,600-ton passenger-cargo ship Awa Maru, killing 2,003 people. The ship had been guaranteed safe passage by the United States government, since she was to carry Red Cross relief supplies to Japanese POW camps. The sinking occurred in fog, and Awa Maru was not sounding her fog horn, as required by international treaty. The incident caused considerable controversy. When the one survivor picked up by Queenfish, Kantaro Shimoda, told his story, Queenfish was ordered back to port; Loughlin was relieved of command, tried by court-martial and convicted of one of three charges, negligence in obeying orders and received a "Letter of Admonition" from the Secretary of the Navy. Loughlin survived the war, and though he never again commanded a vessel, he continued his career and eventually attained flag rank.

On 12 April Queenfish rescued the 13-man crew of a U.S. Navy PB4Y-2 aircraft of VPB-108 which ditched on 8 April after becoming lost. Queenfish spent her fifth patrol under Cdr. Frank N. Shamer on lifeguard duty in the East China Sea-Yellow Sea area. She was at Midway preparing for another patrol when the war ended.

Post-World War II operations, 1945 – 1963
After overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Queenfish assumed duties as flagship, Submarine Force, Pacific Fleet. Homeported at Pearl Harbor after the war, Queenfish returned to the Far East during March 1946 and in June–July 1949, but spent most of the period to 1950 in training operations in the eastern Pacific. In late 1947 she operated in the Bering Sea.

In February and March 1950 Queenfish took part in combined Operations with units of the U.S. Pacific and British Fleets. She made cruises to Korean waters in 1951 and 1953. In February 1954 she sailed to her new homeport of San Diego. The next four years were spent operating off the west coast of the United States, with the exception of two weeks in Hawaii in late 1956. On 16 January 1958 she departed for a six-month deployment to WestPac, returning to San Diego 27 July to resume operations off the west coast of the United States.

Queenfish was reclassified AGSS-393 1 July 1960. She decommissioned and was struck from the Navy List 1 March 1963. Slated for scrapping, she was instead sunk as target by the nuclear-powered submarine USS Swordfish (SSN-579) on 14 August 1963.

Honors and awards
Queenfish was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation, and received six battle stars for World War II service.

 * United States Navy Presidential Unit Citation ribbon.svg Presidential Unit Citation

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Milorg

Milorg (abbreviation of militær organisasjon – military organization) was the main Norwegian resistance movement during World War II. Resistance work included intelligence gathering, sabotage, supply-missions, raids, espionage, transport of goods imported to the country, release of Norwegian prisoners and escort for citizens fleeing the border to neutral Sweden.

History
Following the German occupation of Norway in April 1940, Milorg was formed in May 1941 as a way of organizing the various groups that wanted to participate in an internal military resistance. At first, Milorg was not well coordinated with the Special Operations Executive (SOE), the British organization to plan and lead resistance in occupied countries. In November 1941 the Milorg became integrated with the High Command of the Norwegian government in exile in London, answering to the British Army's Department British Field Office IV, which dealt with sabotage operations, but Milorg's British counterpart, SOE, was still operating independently. This lack of coordination led to a number of deadly incidents, creating bitterness within Milorg. SOE changed its policy at the end of 1942, and from then on Milorg and SOE efforts were coordinated. Mainly for fear of retaliation, like the Telavåg tragedy in 1942, Milorg kept a low profile at first. But they became more active as the war progressed. Its first permanent bases were established in the summer of 1944. At the time of the German capitulation on 8 May 1945, Milorg had been able to train and supply 40,000 soldiers. They then also played an important part in stabilizing the country.

Two-way radio stations
Twenty of the around 80 radio stations were uncovered, leading to the deaths of at least 20 radio operators in combat or prison. The radio station in the loft of Kvinneklinikken, was raided on 1 April 1944. Knut Haugland shot four of the raiders, and escaped. "Corncrake" (at Flaskebekk) transmitted from 2 April and it was raided on 4 July. Deaths included one German and two Norwegians on site, and one Norwegian at the hospital. The radio stations contributed to Milorg getting a key role in the Nazi home management program (Hjemmefrontens Ledelse), because the majority of HL's communications abroad, went through Milorg's radio network.

Organisation
Milorg was organised as a council and 14 districts.

 * Rådet ("The Council") had between 2–4 members. (In practice, The council ceased to exist from January 1945, when it only consisted of Sven Arntzen and Hauge—both of them being representatives in the leadership of Hjemmefronten (HL), as Milorg's and Krigspolitiet's representatives, respectively. )
 * Den sentrale ledelse (SL)—"the central leadership"—was subordinate to The council.

Military Committee
The Military Committee (Militærkommiteen) was subordinate to The council.

Districts
It counted around 20,000 people by the summer of 1942.
 * District 13 was the Oslo region.
 * D-18 was Sørlandet.

Sub-organizations
There were export organisations (for transporting fugitive members, to another nation). SL had one, codenamed "Edderkoppen" (The Spider).

Members

 * Lorentz Brinch
 * Arne Laudal
 * Knut Møyen
 * Terje Rollem
 * Reidun Røed
 * Hjalmar Steenstrup
 * Andreas Tømmerbakke
 * Herman Watzinger
 * Eva Kløvstad District Chief of D-25, who worked under codename Jakob
 * Elsa Endresen (codenamed Lotte) (In the last year of the war, Hauge told colleagues in SL, on occasion that "This is so dangerous, that only Lotte can do it!")
 * Josef Haraldsen, District Chief of Vestfold, who for years after the war, served as a private in the Home Guard

"The Council"'s leaders

 * Council position "R1": Ole Berg, replaced by Olaf Helset, replaced by Arnold Rørholt (May 1943 – January 1945; no replacement)
 * Council spot "R2": Johan Holst, Johan Gørrisen, Sven Arntzen
 * "R3": Jacob Schive, Carl Semb, Harald Lohne, Jens Christian Hauge
 * "R4: Johan Beichman, Ola Brandstorp (Feb.42 – Dec. 43; no replacement)

Other sources

 * Andenaes, Johs. (1966) Norway and the Second World War (Arthur Vanous Co) ISBN 978-8251817776
 * Riste, Olav, and Berit Nøkleby (1970) Norway 1940-45: the resistance movement (Oslo: Tanum)
 * Skodvin, Magne (1991) Norsk historie 1939–1945: krig og okkupasjon (Oslo: Samlaget) ISBN 82-521-3491-2
 * Stephenson, Jill; John Gilmour (2013) Hitler's Scandinavian Legacy	(A&C Black) ISBN 9781472504975
 * Vigness, Paul Gerhardt. (1970) The German Occupation of Norway (Vantage Press)

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Talk:Canopy Group

Company descriptions
I removed the descriptions of the companies because they seemed largely uninformative and POV. If anyone thinks that those were useful, here\'s the old revision. Please don\'t just revert, since that\'ll remove a lot of formatting changes. [ alerante | “” 21:43, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC) ]

Removal of suicide theories
I removed the section on the Val Kreidel Suicide because iit A) comes from a blog at hark the herald and fails WP:RS B) it goes into \"theories\" about why someone committed suicide and C) it\'s not notable to the Canopy Portfolio since it is clearly D) a private family matter and E) out of respect for the privacy of the family and their feelings about the matter. 207.58.145.101 22:30, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Daily Herald seems to meet WP:RS, as it's a newspaper, not a blog, and it's reporting facts. I've removed most of the theories, and I would like to point out that the suicides are rather relevant to the company. Points D and E make no sense - Surely we should remove the accounts of murderers, for the well-being of the victim's families? HawkerTyphoon 22:37, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

 * The information on the Penrose suicide doesn't really make sense to me. It seems to claim that he killed himself because of actions taken by Kreidel -- when, just a couple sentences earlier, the same section makes plain that Kreidel had killed herself nine months prior. This sounds like a conspiracy theory. The juxtaposition of the two events also seems to defame Kreidel's character somewhat. 64.95.97.17 20:33, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

 * I think you may have confused the dates, it said Penrose killed himself in Dec. 2004, Kreidel in March 2005. So there is no temporal issue there.  I agree that the terminology did imply some cause and effect that has not been fully substantiated, but I do feel that they are relevant given that those events took place during a major shake-up that has left Canopy Group a very different operation than it was before.  If they get put back, they should at least be described chronologically to avoid the confusion. Outtascope 00:19, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:EMC TA

Misleading?
I think the following is seriously misleading:
 * The TAs were unique in that they were the only small, lightweight streamliner motive power to be truly separate locomotives. It shared this trait with the roughly contemporary EA, E1 and E2, all built in 1937, but they were all full-size locomotives intended to pull much heavier trains, while the TAs were pocket-sized, styled to match the short, lightweight trains they hauled. 1937 was very much the year that the passenger diesel locomotive evolved from the integrated streamliner. Future locomotives would follow the direction taken by the EA, E1 and E2, full-size locomotives to pull lightweight but full-size passenger cars, and thus the TA was destined to be a unique offshoot from the evolutionary path taken, but it nonetheless shows that the concept of a separate locomotive had finally and fairly decisively taken hold.

It's true that the TAs had less horsepower than than the E series -- they had one 16 cylinder Winton 201A versus two 12 cylinder 201As -- 1,000 horsepower versus 1,800. They were also geared much slower and weighed 76% of the EA's 300,000 pounds. But, they were only 15% shorter and were the same height and width. They are, in fact, 10 feet longer than the FT, which shared the same power train. So, far from being an offshoot, they were in the direct line of the FT. Jim - Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs)  14:50, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

 * Yes it is misleading. Separate locomotives had been pulling lightweight streamliners since 1936 (M-10002 and up, Denver Zephyr locos).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.208.11.42 (talk) 13:13, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

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Johannes Heinrich August Ebrard

Johannes Heinrich August Ebrard (18 January 1818 – 23 July 1888) was a German Protestant theologian.

Biography
Born at Erlangen, he was educated in his native town and at Berlin, and after teaching in a private family became Privatdozent at Erlangen (1841) and then professor of theology at Zürich (1844). In 1847 he was appointed professor of theology at Erlangen, a chair which he resigned in 1861; in 1875 he became pastor of the French reformed church in the same city.

As a critic, Ebrard occupied a very moderate standpoint; as a writer his chief works were Christliche Dogmatik (2 volumes, 1851), Vorlesungen über praktische Theologie (1864), and Apologetik (1874–1875, Eng. trans. 1886). His work on John's Gospel, Das Evangelium Johannis und die neueste Hypothese über seine Entstehung was published in 1845.

He also edited and completed Hermann Olshausen's commentary, himself writing the volumes on the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Johannine epistles, and Revelation. In the department of belles-lettres he wrote a good deal under such pseudonyms as Christian Deutsch, Gottfried Flammberg and Sigmund Sturm.

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Bruce Wasserstein

Bruce Jay Wasserstein (December 25, 1947 – October 14, 2009) was an American investment banker, businessman, and writer. He was a graduate of the McBurney School, University of Michigan, Harvard Business School, and Harvard Law School, and spent a year at the University of Cambridge. He was prominent in the mergers and acquisitions industry, credited with working on 1,000 transactions with a total value of approximately $250 billion.

Early life
Wasserstein was born and raised in Midwood, Brooklyn, New York, the son of Lola (née Schleifer) and Morris Wasserstein. His father, a Jewish immigrant from pre-World War II Poland, emigrated to New York City and started a ribbon company. His maternal grandfather was Simon Schleifer, a Jewish teacher in the yeshiva in Wloclawek, Poland who later emigrated to Paterson, New Jersey and became a Hebrew school principal.

Wasserstein had four siblings: businesswoman Sandra Wasserstein Meyer; Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein (whose daughter, Lucy Jane, he was raising at the time of his death); Abner Wasserstein (died 2011); and Georgette Levis (died 2014), who was married to psychiatrist Albert J. Levis.

Wasserstein attended the Yeshiva of Flatbush for high school.

Career
Starting his career as an attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Wasserstein then moved to First Boston Corp. in 1977 and eventually rose to co-head of that company's then-dominant merger and acquisition practice. In 1988, with colleague Joseph Perella, he left First Boston to form investment bank boutique Wasserstein Perella & Co., which he sold in 2000, at the top of the late 1990s bull market, to Germany's Dresdner Bank for around $1.4 billion in stock. In 2002, he left the unit Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein (formed by merging Dresdner's United Kingdom unit Kleinwort Benson with Wasserstein Perella) to become head of the financial services firm Lazard. In 2005, he led the initial public offering of Lazard and became the public firm's first chairman and CEO.

Wasserstein controlled Wasserstein & Co., a private equity firm with investments in a number of industries, particularly media. In 2004, he added New York Magazine to his media empire. In July 2007, he sold American Lawyer Media to Incisive Media for about $630 million in cash. He was credited with the term "Pac-Man defense", which is used by targeted companies during a hostile takeover attempt.

Philanthropy
In 2007, Wasserstein made a $25 million donation to Harvard Law School, for the creation of a large academic wing of the school's Northwest Corner complex, which was named Wasserstein Hall.

Net worth
According to Forbes, as of September 17, 2008, Wasserstein's net worth was estimated to be $2.3 billion.

As of 2008, he owned an apartment at 927 Fifth Avenue in New York City, an estate in Santa Barbara in California, an Atlantic oceanfront estate in East Hampton (Long Island), a house at 38 Belgrave Square in London, and another apartment in Paris.

Personal life
Wasserstein was married four times and has seven biological children:
 * Laura Lynelle Killin (married 1968, divorced 1974).
 * Christine Parrott (divorced 1992). They had three children: Ben, Pam and Scoop. Christine is a psychoanalyst and has since remarried to American journalist and newspaper publisher Dan Rattiner.
 * Claude Becker (married 1996, divorced 2008). They had two sons: Jack and Dash. Prior to her marriage to Wasserstein, Claude was an Emmy Award-winning CBS news producer. After Bruce's death Claude took in Lucy, his sister Wendy's daughter.
 * Angela Chao (married 2009, up until Wasserstein's death). She was the sister of Elaine Chao, who is married to U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell.

Wasserstein's political position was liberal. He was involved with media since high school and college, when he was an editor on his high school newspaper, The McBurneian Bruce Wasserstein’s Westport Connection - WestportNow.com - Westport, Connecticut, (McBurney School, New York), and later at the University of Michigan Michigan Daily, then served an internship at Forbes magazine. Inspired by Ralph Nader, he was one of "Nader's Raiders" for a brief length of time. Rahm Emanuel and Vernon Jordan were employed by Wasserstein for a few years. Wasserstein also served as trustee for the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism from 2001 until his death.

Death
On October 11, 2009, Wasserstein was admitted to a hospital with an irregular heartbeat. It was originally reported that his condition was serious, but that he was stable and recovering. However, Wasserstein died in Manhattan three days later, on October 14, at the age of 61.

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Talk:EMD TA/to do

 * Fate of the TAs
 * Do any survive?
 * Paint scheme changes over the years
 * Photos in 1950s
 * Trains they hauled
 * External links

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Fyodor Alexeyevich Golovin

Count Fyodor Alexeyevich Golovin (Фёдор Алексеевич Головин; 1650 – 10 Aug 1706) was the last Russian boyar and the first Chancellor of the Russian Empire. He was also a field marshal, and general admiral (1700).

Biography
Golovin descended from a family of Russian treasurers of Byzantine Greek descent.

Military career
During the regency of Sophia Alekseyevna, sister of Peter the Great, Golovin was sent to the Amur to defend the new fortress of Albazin against the Chinese Qing Empire. In 1689, he was the Tsardom of Russia's signatory to the Treaty of Nerchinsk between the Tsardom and the Qing Empire, by which the line of the Amur, as far as its tributary the Gorbitsa, was retroceded to China because of the impossibility of seriously defending it.

In Peter the Great's Grand Embassy to the West in 1697, Golovin occupied the second place immediately after Franz Lefort. It was his chief duty to hire foreign sailors and obtain everything necessary for the construction and complete equipment of a fleet. On Lefort's death in March 1699, he succeeded him as Field Marshal, and during that same year he was granted the title as the first Russian Count and was also the first to be decorated with the newly instituted Russian Order of St. Andrew.

Foreign affairs
The conduct of foreign affairs was at the same time entrusted to him, and from 1699 to his death he was the premier minister of the Tsar. Golovin's first achievement as foreign minister was to supplement the Treaty of Karlowitz, by which peace with the Ottoman Empire had only been secured for three years, by concluding with the Porte a new treaty at Constantinople (June 13, 1700), by which the term of the peace was extended to thirty years and, besides other concessions, the Azov district and a strip of territory extending into Kuban and surrendering to Russia. He also controlled, with consummate ability, the operations of the brand new Russian diplomats at the various foreign courts.

It is of the opinion of historian R. N. Bain that he was superior to his Moscow contemporaries because of his previous knowledge of statesmanship, something his contemporaries lacked. Bain also claims his death was an irreparable loss to the Tsar who wrote the words upon his death: "Peter filled with grief".

 Death

Passed away on 30th of July, 1706 (O.S), on the road from Moscow to Kiev. His remains were delivered to the Simonov monastery.

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USS Tiru

USS Tiru (SS-416), a Balao-class submarine, was a vessel of the United States Navy named for the tiru, a member of the lizardfish family.

Tiru—laid down on 17 April 1944 at Vallejo, California, by the Mare Island Navy Yard—remained uncompleted for three years as a result of the curtailment of the submarine building program at the end of World War II. In the fall of 1947, the Navy decided to complete Tiru as a "GUPPY II" (Greater Underwater Propulsive Power) snorkel boat. Her altered design incorporated improvements resulting from the Navy's recent combat experience and German technical development.

Tiru was launched on 16 September 1947; sponsored by Mrs. John P. Cromwell, the widow of Captain John P. Cromwell, and commissioned on 1 September 1948. Tiru was once under the command of future FBI Director L. Patrick Gray of Watergate notoriety.

1948–1959
Tiru conducted training and trials off the West Coast before heading for Hawaii on 10 February 1949. Homeported at Pearl Harbor and attached to Submarine Squadron 12 (SubRon 12), the "GUPPY" submarine operated in Hawaiian waters for a year and one-half before conducting a 12-day snorkel voyage from Pearl Harbor to the West Coast which ended upon her arrival at San Diego on 27 June 1950.

On 9 June 1951, Tiru sailed for the Far East and her first Western Pacific (WestPac) deployment. While in Asiatic waters, she operated in support of United Nations forces engaged in the Korean War. Then, after departing Yokosuka, Japan, on 26 November, the warship arrived at Pearl Harbor on 6 December. Her operations in the Hawaiian area continued until 24 February 1952, when Tiru got underway for her second WestPac deployment.

Between 1952 and 1959, Tiru conducted four more WestPac deployments, interspersed with local operations—providing services for antisubmarine warfare (ASW) exercises and conducting type-training. Operating with the 7th Fleet, her seventh WestPac tour lasted from 1 January to 17 April 1959.

1959–1965
Tiru returned to Pearl Harbor for a major overhaul, entering the shipyard on 4 May 1959 for a fleet rehabilitation and modernization (FRAM) conversion to a "Guppy III". In the course of the work, the ship took on a new and different external appearance. Her hull was lengthened by 12 ft; she acquired a new conning tower, 5 ft longer than its predecessor; and a fiberglass sail was added. Internally, increased sonar and ordnance equipment greatly enhanced the ship's capabilities in those key areas. On the last day of the year 1959, Tiru emerged from the overhaul a virtually "new" ship.

From 1 January to 10 November 1960, Tiru conducted local operations out of Pearl Harbor to prove the worth of the FRAM/Guppy III conversion. After testing and honing her capabilities, the submarine departed Pearl Harbor on 10 November for another 7th Fleet deployment. She later returned to Pearl Harbor on 10 May 1961 upon completion of her eighth WestPac cruise.

Local operations out of her home port occupied the rest of 1961 and the first few months of 1962. She again was deployed to WestPac in March and April before returning to Hawaiian waters on 3 May. The next month, the ship operated with a carrier task force on ASW "hunter-killer" exercises. While the submarine was engaged in a firing exercise, a torpedo malfunction in her after torpedo room seriously damaged the compartment, and 18 men were overcome by toxic gases. Quick reaction averted a more serious tragedy and earned four crew members — one officer (Lieutenant Commander W. Earle Smith Jr.) and three enlisted men — the Navy and Marine Corps Medal.

1966
The ship conducted three more WestPac deployments through 1965 before she returned to a schedule of local operations. Tiru entered another major overhaul on 6 December 1965—one which saw the installation of a masking system to cover the ship's own noise while snorkeling. Further internal alterations improved both her fighting capacity and her habitability. She conducted sea trials until 14 June 1966 when she departed Hawaii for the Naval Torpedo Station at Keyport, Washington, for an alignment and testing of her weapon system. The submarine departed the West Coast on 9 July, bound for Hawaiian waters, and made port at Pearl Harbor nine days later to commence pre-deployment operations.

After a 16-day passage from Hawaii, Tiru arrived at Brisbane, Australia, on 12 October. Three days later, she sailed to commence ASW exercises in the Coral Sea with warships of the Australian, British, New Zealand, and United States Navies. The nine-day exercise provided for submarine patrol, reconnaissance, and attack operations against both carrier and destroyer task forces before the submarine returned to Brisbane on 26 October.

On 2 November, Tiru got underway for Subic Bay, Philippine Islands. One day out, the submarine ran aground on Frederick Reef. For two anxious days and nights, Tiru attempted to extricate herself from the predicament by backing off under her own power, but to no avail. On 6 November, civilian tugboat Carlock and Australian destroyer HMAS Vendetta (D08) came to the rescue, arriving on the scene and commencing salvage operations under the direction of a 7th Fleet salvage officer. Returning to Brisbane, Tiru was drydocked at South Brisbane Dockyard for emergency repairs and damage estimates.

Following temporary repairs to her sonar dome, outer hull, and keel, the submarine gingerly made her way from Australia to the United States Naval Ship Repair Facility, Yokosuka, Japan. En route, Tiru called at Guam to provision alongside USS Proteus (AS-19) and pick up new crew members. Arriving at Yokosuka on 29 November, the submarine entered drydock for restricted availability.

1967–1970
Once repaired, Tiru left Yokosuka on 9 January 1967 for Chin Hae, South Korea, and while in transit provided services for an Iwakuni-based patrol plane squadron. Operating with Republic of Korea (ROK) ASW forces from 15 January to 17 January, Tiru arrived back at Yokosuka on 22 January for upkeep. From 7 February to 20 March, the submarine conducted special operations before returning for further upkeep prior to a "Yankee Station" deployment off Vietnam. She later operated with Nationalist Chinese forces on ASW exercises; conducted additional special operations; and again provided services for patrol plane squadrons based at Iwakuni, before returning to Hawaii on 15 May.

Spending the remainder of the year 1967 on local operations out of Pearl Harbor, Tiru commenced the year 1968 as a unit of Submarine Division 72 (SubDiv 72), SubRon 7, and Submarine Flotilla 5 (SubFlot 5). On 16 May, the submarine was shifted to operational control of Commander, 7th Fleet, with her home port changed to Yokosuka, Japan. Departing the western Pacific on 4 October after a tour which had included a transit through the Vietnam War zone, Tiru returned to the West Coast; and her home port was changed to San Francisco, California, while she became a unit of SubDiv 52, SubRon 5, SubFlot 1.

Overhauls and local operations occupied the ship until 12 November 1969, when Tiru sailed west for another WestPac deployment. Transferred to the command of the Commander, 7th Fleet, on 6 December, the submarine arrived at Yokosuka on 10 December. Five days later, she got underway for special operations which took her into 1970.

Tiru participated in Exercise "Sea Rover," with United States and Australian naval units, before heading home for the United States at the conclusion of her WestPac deployment. While approaching Guam for voyage repairs, she routinely copied the evening weather broadcast which was accompanied by an urgent alert notifying the ship of a search and rescue (SAR) operation underway to look for and rescue survivors of a small craft which had been adrift for two days in a heavy sea. An extensive search by Guam-based SAR forces had thus far turned up nothing, but Tiru located the five people—two of them Japanese nationals—and rescued them, despite darkness and high seas. Soon after Tiru's arrival at Guam on 14 April 1970, the Japanese consul visited the submarine to express his government's appreciation for the ship's rescue mission.

1970–1975
Subsequently arriving at San Diego on 8 May after a brief period at Pearl Harbor, Tiru conducted local operations, transited to San Francisco to undergo an overhaul at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard and returned to San Diego prior to being transferred to the Atlantic Fleet on 1 August 1970. Underway on 6 August for Charleston, South Carolina, her new home port, Tiru called at Acapulco, Mexico; Rodman, Canal Zone; transited the Panama Canal; and visited Kingston, Jamaica, before reaching Charleston harbor on 2 September. For the remainder of the year, the ship conducted local operations, provided services, and underwent type training—activities which continued into 1972. Later transferred to SubFlot 6, SubRon 4, SubDiv 41, during 1972, Tiru operated in the Caribbean Sea and off the lower East Coast of the United States, with two deployments to European waters, into 1975.

On 1 July 1975, Tiru was decommissioned and struck from the Navy list to be sold to the Turkish government. An American arms embargo imposed on Turkey as a result of the Cyprus tensions between Greece and Turkey delayed the sale, however, even though negotiations and arrangements had been well into the planning stages. The sale was never completed, and on 19 July 1979 Tiru was sunk as a target by the submarine USS Silversides (SSN-679) at 36°N, -73°W, about 200 nmi off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

Tiru was the last submarine of the Balao class to be commissioned, and was also the last to be decommissioned. Tiru was also the last submarine of a World War II vintage design to be decommissioned by the U.S. Navy.

Trivia
At the time of her decommissioning, Tiru was the oldest submarine in service with the US Navy. She held this distinction for only four days following the decommissioning of USS Tigrone (SS-419) on 27 June 1975. She was also the last unit of the Balao class to be decommissioned.

Awards

 * China Service Medal
 * National Defense Service Medal with star
 * Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal with two stars
 * Vietnam Service Medal with three campaign stars

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Talk:Hell on Wheels

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The article's content simply wasn't supported by the source I added to the references (see edit history too please). I've updated the text to reflect that Bowles related, rather than coined, the phrase, but I don't see enough there to establish that this was indeed the first usage of the term. iMeowbot~Mw 23:00, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Hi, IMeowbot.

The source you added does not contradict what I wrote. In sources I provide, Bowles is described as noting the phenomenon in North Platte, and one source has him actually coining the term. Bowles was a newspaper man. His Our New West need not be the first and only thing he wrote addressing the matter. Furthermore, the language of your source inplies that Hell on Wheels had already existed further east when it arriven in Benton, Wyoming:

"As the Railroad marched thus rapidly across the broad Continent of plain and mountain, there was improvised a rough and temporary town at its every public stopping-place... the vilest of men and of women made up this "Hell on Wheels," as it was most aptly termed.

When we were on the line, this congregation of scum and wickedness was within the Desert section, and was called Benton."

The North Platte claim is documented in two places that I know of:

[1] Stephen Ambrose's book: "Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869"

and, online, here (found in 20 seconds via Google):

[2] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr/peopleevents/e_hell.html

"Massachusetts newspaper editor Samuel Bowles observed the peculiar representatives of American culture taking root in North Platte and christened what he saw 'Hell on Wheels'. The name would stick."

I'm willing to leave the claim that Bowles *coined* the term unstated, in fact, having weakened the claim that Bowles coined the term to the point where it is only stated that an early doumentation of the term is due to Bowles, perhaps the Bowels reference can be dispensed with entirely.

However, having read Ambrose's book, which douments the H.O.W. phenomenon well before the railroad reached Wyoming, I really think the Nebraska reference should stay in some form.

Besides the North Platte claim and Bowles coining the term, do you dispute anything else? I'm interested in getting the scarlet "A" off the article. -- M. E. Smith

 * THANK YOU! This is exactly the kind of clarification the article needed. I'll remove the scarlet template as soon as I finish this comment.  My apologies if that notation seemed unduly harsh, but an anon user had nominated this article for featured status.  Without references, it looked too much like folklore, similar to how "There's a sucker born every minute" is popularly (and erroneously) attributed to Barnum. iMeowbot~Mw 19:15, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Thanks, IMeowbot, and no offense taken. The little article, such as it is, is improved now, I think.

Somewhere along the line I got into the bad habit of forgetting to log in. (Hmm.. I think I'm doing it again. I'll log in after I post this.) I started this article, and I self-nom-ed it. However, the nomination was a bit of an experiment on Wikipedia, as this article hardly represents a great deal of work. I was just curious about the process. In hindsight, the "Did you know" section would be more appropriate for this article. I'm going to self-nom it there and see what happens. -- M. E. Smith

Oh, you can't nominate something for "Did you know?", and this article is no longer "recent". Oh, well, no matter, that's all this is worth. (But somebody should consider basing a "Gangs of New York" type movie on "Hell on Wheels".) -- M. E. Smith

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Talk:Mitsubishi Galant

Current "To Do" List:
 * 1) Split the articles by generation, not year, because the staggered production dates (e.g. G7 was 1992-96 (Japan), 1994-99 (USA)) make a bit of a mess of a regular timeline.
 * 2) Get infoboxes for each generation
 * 3) Get photos for each infobox (done this, but can't access the PC where images are stored)
 * 4) Improve content (in progress)

Strike through each of these once completed. I've been planning this re-edit forever, and I never seem to make any progress. Anyone wanna help? -- DeLarge 11:21, 24 June 2006 (UTC), updated --DeLarge 23:14, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I've moved my offline rewrite to User:DeLarge/Mitsubishi Galant. Obviously, since it's a work-in-progress, there may be plenty of dodgy stuff still in it. --DeLarge 07:51, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

2004 edits
Possible editing for this page: divide it into generations and incorporate the US information, rather than having it separate. Unlike some models, the Galants in all countries, apart from the "overlap year" of 2004, are identical. Stombs 21:49, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

 * All done. Stombs 08:55, Dec 21, 2004 (UTC)

1996
Shouldn't Wikipedia articles be unbiased, and free of opinions? How did the comment "Cool car!!" make it into the 1996 section? Davez621 10:49, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

AMG model
24.83.51.179, is it appropriate to include a link to your website within the main body of the text? You're not citing a source to verify information provided, so I'll edit this out or move it to the external links supplement unless it's needed.

United States production
Why the Nissan Altima reference? Aside from its factual inaccuracy - the Altima IS exported to the Middle East - I don't see why it should be mentioned, but not other US-built Japanese competitors (e.g. Accord, Camry, etc). Closet Altima fan being over-enthusiastic? DeLarge 11:52, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Galant SuperSaloon
The Mitsubishi Galant SuperSaloon (Super Saloon) is not mentioned in this article. I think it should be included, but I don't know enough about it to make a proper entry. In photos it looks similar to the regular Galant, but maybe a bit longer or bigger?. Some quick Google searches show that it was available in 1989 and 1993, and probably other years as well, in the Asia and Asia-Pacific regions, including New Zealand. --Kaze0010 22:30, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Corolla or Camry
From Automobile Magazine: Galant: 190.4 x 72.4 x 57.9 inches, 108.3 inch wheelbase, $20,300-27,000 Corolla: 178.3 x 66.9 x 58.5 inches, 102.4 inch wheelbase, $14,900-17,900 Camry: 189.2 x 70.7 x 58.7 inches, 107.1 inch wheelbase, $18,445-25,800

So clearly, the Corolla's way to small and cheap to be a competitor. Same holds true in European market, but you can look that up for yourself. Regards, DeLarge 17:06, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

"Similar" field in infobox
Please, stop entering similar cars in the "master" infobox at the top of the page. Cars like the Pontiac G6 do NOT compete with every generation of the Galant since 1969, so to put them there, instead of the appropriate generation infobox, is simply wrong. You might think about that for EVERY article which has a "master" box as well as generational ones... --DeLarge 22:53, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Class
The "compact" and "mid size" classes are American. And the only version of the Galant which was classified as mid size was the eighth generation (introduced in 1996 in Japan). All seven previous generations (available in the US until the introduction of the Illinois-built 8G in 1998) were compact cars. Disagree? See the primary source on the matter. --DeLarge 19:33, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Fifth generation, engine
i wuz unable to find in the list an engine option of Galant i actually have: 1987 Galant GLS, engine 4G64B 2,4 Gasoline (sorry, i'm not to accurate to edit) GruBBy_kz

Source Missing for 9th Generation being labeled Second Rate
The material on the 9th generation does not include a good reference. A source like Consumer Reports or a reputable auto magazine would solve the problem. The alternatives are the Toyota Camry and the Honda Accord -- both are very conceptually similar. The piece needs a bit of improvement.--Jackkalpakian 19:02, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

The Galant and the Chrysler Sebring & Dodge Stratus/Avenger are similar if not the same platform, and the latter have been noted the title as "worst car in the world." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.246.253.52 (talk) 03:38, 21 October 2009 (UTC)

Galant Lambda
I've removed the extra infobox and duplicated info again. The Mitsubishi Galant Lambda has its own article, and we provide a link to it from here. If you're going to fill this article with information already on that page, we might as well just make it a redirect to this page. It's either a version of this car and covered here, or it's a different car in it's own right and covered in its own article. Not both, as that's pointless duplication. There's no necessity to say the same thing twice. That's why all the info at Mitsubishi Galant FTO isn't also duplicated here. Equally, the Galant Sigma is here because it isn't anywhere else; if it had its own page the information here could be split out. However, the only Mitsubishi Sigma page is a pseudo-disambiguation page to redirect readers to the correct article. The Galant Lambda doesn't get special treatment.

Further, we don't use two infoboxes. Even if the car was covered in this page, we would simply add "2-door coupe" to the body style section of the existing infobox. That's why there aren't already two infoboxes (one for the sedan and one for the wagon).

Please note, you were bold, and you were reverted. The next course of action is to discuss, not to edit war. --DeLarge (talk) 12:53, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Please note, this page does not belong to you any more than it belongs to anyone else including me. Therefore, your opinion is not the final word on the matter unless I have committed a violation. So I will also direct you to  read:edit war and maybe WikiSquatting.

 * "we might as well just make it a redirect to this page. It's either a version of this car and covered here"
 * I think that is a good idea, and I am going to try to do that soon. But having some duplication does not hurt anything, especially if it provides more clarity.

 * Like I said, the Galant Lambda IS a Galant, not a separate model. If anything, the two pages should be merged.  Otherwise, it would make equal sense to remove most of the information about the Sigma and give it a separate page as well. But it already has it's own page too. GalantFan (talk) 19:45, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

If you're going to try and merge, make sure you at least use the mergeto and mergefrom templates, as this would obviously be a controversial move. An undiscussed move would be reverted. Also note that your statement about the Lambda not being a separate model conflicts with Mitsubishi Motors own documents. In their timeline of vehicle production they list the Galant/Sigma as a single car, but list the Lambda separately (see p.26 of "2005 Facts and Figures" on MMC's website). --DeLarge (talk) 11:48, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

"If it's the same car, it only needs an entry in the "body style" field of the existing infobox" and in the height box, the weight box, the aka box, and the image box.GalantFan (talk) 16:01, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

2 door coupes are missing
Why aren't any of the 2 coupe Galant's mentioned anywhere in this description? For being informative this article is missing a whole other car designed by Mitsubishi. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.95.255.181 (talk) 20:33, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

 * It's written right above you. Mitsubishi treats it as a separate car, and so do we. Mitsubishi Galant Lambda and Mitsbishi Galant FTO and Mitsubishi Galant GTO are all mentioned in the article, but have their own pages. --DeLarge (talk) 10:38, 4 July 2009 (UTC)

Have deleted this from the entry:

"==Tenth generation== In 2014, Mitsubishi will ask that it would release the 10th generation model. Mitsubishi got the Galant to Australia (currently producing Australian models). The North American version is the same as generation 9.

With a longer grille, a sleek, bolder headlight cluster, the Galant is more softer within a different grille for a new "Hybrid" version. The fender bodysides are split-side big headers fenced on the back bumper. The front end will be bigger with a much 900-volt grille."

Should be obvious why: it's unsourced, barely literate, and contradicts previous information. Looks like a poor machine translation of a Japanese article, but without sources there's no way to tell. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.54.54.34 (talk) 04:25, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Club VR-4
Hi,

Looking to add clubvr4.com as an external link, possible?

Thanks B — Preceding unsigned comment added by BraindG (talk • contribs) 09:41, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Hardtop Myths
The first-generation Galant and Galant GTO two-door hardtops were Mitsubishi's first pillarless cars but they were not the first in Japan. The honor of offering "the unique stylistic feature of being the first Japanese production passenger car with full side windows and no side pillars" goes to the Toyota Corona 2-door hardtop first shown at the 1965 Tokyo Motor Show and placed on sale in Japan and the United States in calendar year 1966. So I have revised the text here and in the equally erroneous Mitsubishi Galant GTO page.

Bwob (talk) 19:28, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Initial 1969 Model
I owned a 1969 model, one before the AII shown in the 1969 photo. The grill badge was a galloping horse with Colt printed underneath. Purchased new in Feb 1970 Papua New Guinea, imported directly from Japan. This model was only available in Japan. Later on, models for other markets had slightly different blinker and stop lights, in colors required by local laws.220.244.88.51 (talk) 11:04, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

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Hell on Wheels

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Matsushita

Matsushita (written: 松下 lit. "below the pine tree") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 * Daisuke Matsushita (born 1981), a former Japanese football player
 * Hiro Matsushita (born 1961), former Japanese Champ Car racing driver, businessman and grandson of Konosuke Matsushita. Chairman of Swift Engineering & Swift Xi
 * Hitomi Matsushita (松下 仁美), Japanese handball player
 * Ko Matsushita, a Japanese conductor  and composer
 * Kohei Matsushita (born 1985), a Japanese football (soccer) player currently playing for Ehime F.C.
 * Konosuke Matsushita (1894–1989), a Japanese industrialist and founder of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., now known as Panasonic Corporation
 * Masaharu Matsushita (1912–2012), a Japanese businessman, the second president of Matsushita Electric, and son-in-law of Konosuke Matsushita
 * Miyuki Matsushita (born 1969), a Japanese voice actress
 * Moeko Matsushita (born 1982), a Japanese singer and actress
 * Nao Matsushita (born 1985), a Japanese actress and pianist
 * Nobuharu Matsushita (born 1993), a Japanese racing driver
 * Sayami Matsushita (born 1982), a Japanese archer
 * Shinpei Matsushita (born 1966), a Japanese politician of the Democratic Party of Japan
 * Susumu Matsushita (born 1950), a Japanese manga artist
 * Tadahiro Matsushita (born 1949), member of the House of Representatives of Japan
 * Toshihiro Matsushita (born 1983), a Japanese football (soccer) player currently playing for Albirex Niigata
 * Yuki Matsushita (actress) (松下 由樹), Japanese actress
 * Yuki Matsushita (footballer) (松下 裕樹), Japanese footballer
 * Yukihiro Matsushita (松下 幸広), Japanese swimmer
 * Yuya Matsushita (born 1990), a Japanese R&B and Hip Hop singer and performer

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Mike Kruczek

Michael Francis Kruczek (born March 15, 1953) is an American football coach and former quarterback. He is currently the offensive coordinator, under his son Garrett Kruczek, the head football coach for The Master’s Academy of Florida.

Playing career
Kruczek earned All-America in 1975 as a quarterback at Boston College where he set several B.C. passing and total offense records.

 * 1974: 104/151 for 1,275 yards with 6 TD vs 7 INT
 * 1975: 107/164 for 1,132 yards with 6 TD vs 7 INT

He was selected in the second round of the 1976 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers and played in 29 games for them from 1976 to 1979 and was a member of Super Bowl championship squads in 1978 and 1979.

Kruczek distinguished himself in the NFL by winning six consecutive starts as a rookie in 1976 when he stepped into the Steelers starting lineup for an injured Terry Bradshaw; buoyed by the historic rushing duo of Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier (who became only the second pair of teammates to each run for 1,000 yards in the same season), and a fierce defense which recorded three shutouts and allowed only 25 points (4.2 ppg) during his six starts, Kruczek helped lead the Steelers to the AFC title game. During the victory streak Kruczek did not throw a touchdown pass, however for the season he completed passes at an impressive 60% rate along with an excellent average of 8.9 yards/attempt, and a solid 74.5 passer rating (compared to the league average rating of 67.0). He unexpectedly ended up as Bradshaw's primary backup as a rookie following the team waiving both of their backup quarterbacks from the previous four years (Terry Hanratty and Joe Gilliam), and the Steelers opting not to sign a third quarterback; Kruczek would have likely been the third-stringer behind Gilliam if not for his drug addiction.

Kruczek's record for consecutive wins as a rookie stood until 1985 when it was broken by Los Angeles Rams quarterback Dieter Brock who, at age 34, won seven consecutive starts to begin his first NFL season. Brock was an unusual rookie, having spent his prior 11 years (1974-1984) playing professionally in the Canadian Football League before joining the Rams.

Taking the more conventional route (college to the NFL), in 2004 a Pittsburgh quarterback again claimed the consecutive rookie wins record when 22-year-old Steelers rookie Ben Roethlisberger won 13 games to begin his career.

Kruczek concluded his NFL career in 1980 with the Washington Redskins. During his career Kruczek never threw a touchdown pass in a regular season game and currently holds the league record for career pass attempts, 154, without a touchdown.

Coaching career
Kruczek began his coaching career as the quarterbacks coach for Bobby Bowden at Florida State from 1982 to 1983. He served one season in the same capacity for the Jacksonville Bulls of the USFL before he became the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Central Florida. He was named UCF's head coach in 1998 when 13-year coach Gene McDowell was forced to resign due to a cellular phone fraud scandal. Kruczek's run as coach benefited from the fact that he inherited future NFL Pro Bowl quarterback Daunte Culpepper as a recruit from the McDowell era.

Kruczek led the fledgling Division I-A program to some of its biggest successes. In his first season, he led the Knights to a 9–2 record and had a verbal commitment to playing in the first Oahu Bowl. However, those plans were dashed when Miami upset undefeated UCLA, and the resulting domino effect left the Knights out of what would have been their first bowl game ever. Another highlight was an upset win over the 3–8 University of Alabama Crimson Tide in 2000, which gave UCF its first victory over a program from a Bowl Championship Series automatic qualifying conference.

Kruczek's UCF Knights squad joined the Mid-American Conference as a football-only member starting in the 2002 season, with many pundits expecting the team to win the MAC's Eastern Division championship. After a successful debut season in 2002 in which Kruczek's team finished 7–5 and earned second place in the MAC East, UCF struggled mightily in 2003, going 3–9. Starting quarterback Ryan Schneider was dismissed from the team for academic violations and UCF had a 3–7 record before Kruczek was dismissed with two games remaining in the season. After a loss to MAC bottom dweller Eastern Michigan, Kruczek was fired despite having signed a three-year contract extension at the start of the season. Kruczek was replaced by George O'Leary for the 2004 season.

Personal life
Kruczek and his wife, Leigh, have two children: a daughter, Kelly, and a son, Garrett.

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Hermann Olshausen

Hermann Olshausen (21 August 1796 – 4 September 1839) was a German theologian.

Biography
Olshausen was born at Oldeslohe in Holstein. He was educated at the universities of Kiel (1814) and Berlin (1816), where he was influenced by Schleiermacher and Neander. In 1817 he was awarded the prize at the Festival of the Reformation for an essay, Melanchthons Charakteristik aus seinen Briefen dargestellt (1818). This essay brought him to the notice of the Prussian Minister of Public Worship, and in 1820 he became Privatdozent at Berlin. In 1821, he became professor extraordinarius at the University of Königsberg, and in 1827 professor. In 1834, he became professor at the University of Erlangen.

Olshausen's expertise lay in New Testament exegesis; his Kommentar über sämmtliche Schriften des Neuen Testaments (Commentary on the complete text of the New Testament; completed and revised by Ebrard and Wiesinger) began to appear at Königsberg in 1830, and was translated into English in 4 volumes (Edinburgh, 1847–1849). He had prepared for it by his other works, Die Echtheit der vier kanonischen Evangelien, aus der Geschichte der zwei ersten Jahrhunderte erwiesen (The veracity of the four canonical Gospels demonstrated from the history of the first two centuries, 1823), Ein Wort über tieferen Schriftsinn (1824) and Die biblische Schriftauslegung (1825). In the latter two works, he presents his method of exegesis, and rejects the doctrine of verbal inspiration.

Family
He was a brother of politician Theodor Olshausen and orientalist Justus Olshausen.

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