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Jerome Williams (basketball)

Jerome Williams (born May 10, 1973) is an American former professional basketball player active in the NBA between 1996 and 2005. Williams played for the Detroit Pistons, Toronto Raptors, Chicago Bulls, and the New York Knicks.

Career
He was a star player on the Magruder High School basketball team. Drafted out of Georgetown University by the Detroit Pistons with the 26th pick of the 1996 NBA draft (the pick originally belonged to the San Antonio Spurs and went to the Pistons in the Dennis Rodman trade), he played four-plus years with the Pistons, becoming one of their key reserves. He was a fan favorite during his days playing for the Toronto Raptors due to his tenacious efforts on the court.

On February 22, 2001, Williams was traded from the Detroit Pistons, along with Eric Montross, to the Toronto Raptors in exchange for Corliss Williamson, Tyrone Corbin, Dávid Kornél and a future first-round draft pick. He was so enthusiastic about joining his new teammates that he immediately drove from Detroit to Toronto upon hearing the news. In 2002-03 with the Raptors, Williams averaged 9.7 points per game, primarily as a starter, his career-best scoring average. In 2003, Williams also made a cameo appearance in the Disney Channel movie Full-Court Miracle.

In December 2003 Williams was traded again, this time along with Antonio Davis and Chris Jefferies, to the Chicago Bulls for Jalen Rose, Donyell Marshall and Lonny Baxter. Overall in 2003-04, Williams played in 68 games, starting 44 of them, averaging 6.2 points and 7.0 rebounds per game. During the 2004 offseason, he was involved in yet another trade, one that sent him and Jamal Crawford to the New York Knicks for Dikembe Mutombo, Frank Williams, Othella Harrington and Cezary Trybanski. His relocation to New York meant a relegation to the bench, as he played about 17 minutes per game.

On August 15, 2005, the Knicks waived Williams to avoid luxury taxes on his salary, as part of the NBA's new labor agreement. He announced his retirement from his playing career less than 48 hours later. Williams played in 587 games over nine seasons, averaging 6.6 points and 6.4 rebounds per game.

Post-playing career
Williams joined the NBA's "Basketball Without Borders" program, an effort to teach the game and bring resources to underdeveloped nations in Africa, Asia and elsewhere. In Toronto, he was always greeted with a standing ovation when he returned in a Bulls or Knicks uniform. Nicknamed the Junk Yard Dog (or JYD) by Rick Mahorn in his early days as a Detroit Piston for his hard work and hustle (as stated in an interview while he served as a commentator on NBA TV), Williams sometimes referred to himself in the third person.

On January 25, 2006, Williams rejoined the Toronto Raptors as their community representative.

Williams also played a minor role in the Canadian FBI show, Sue Thomas: F.B. Eye. He played Otis Washington, a dealer turned informant.

Williams was hired as Director of Player Development for the national champion Findlay Prep basketball team before becoming assistant coach. In the summer of 2013, Jerome was promoted to the position of Head Coach at Findlay Prep. He stepped down as head coach in the summer of 2014.

Williams continues to be a part of youth development through basketball as he was appointed the President of The Young3 which holds 3-on-3 tournaments for young people ages 9–14.

Williams and other basketball legends have implemented a digital educational program throughout North America, called Shooting For Peace.

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Spring Session M

Spring Session M is the debut studio album by American rock band Missing Persons. It was released on October 8, 1982, by Capitol Records. The title of the album is an anagram of the band's name. Produced by Ken Scott with the songs written by Terry Bozzio, Dale Bozzio and Warren Cuccurullo, Spring Session M is a new wave rock album with elements of synth-pop.

Upon its release, the album received generally positive reviews from music critics and also noted commercial success, peaking at number 17 on the Billboard 200. Spring Session M was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Four singles were released from the album: "Words", "Windows", "Destination Unknown", and "Walking in L.A." All singles charted on the Billboard Hot 100, with "Words" and "Destination Unknown" both reaching #42, and the music videos also received regular airplay on MTV.

Track listing
CD bonus tracks (2021 Rubellan Remasters edition) 1. "I Like Boys" (D. Bozzio, T. Bozzio, W. Cuccurullo)

2. "Mental Hopscotch" (T. Bozzio, Cuccurullo)

3. "Hello, I Love You" [Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger, John Densmore]

4. "Action Reaction"

Personnel
Missing Persons
 * Dale Bozzio – vocals
 * Terry Bozzio – vocals, keyboards, synthesizers, drums, percussion
 * Warren Cuccurullo – guitar, vocals
 * Patrick O'Hearn – electric & synthesized bass, keyboards, synthesizers
 * Chuck Wild – synthesizer, keyboard

Production
 * Ken Scott – producer, engineer
 * Brian Leshon, Phil Jost, Ralph Sutton – assistant engineers
 * Bernie Grundman – mastering
 * Glen Wexler – photography, art direction, design
 * Kurt Triffet – artwork and design

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"SPRING SESSION M " HAS EVERY LETTER OF THE BAND " MISSING PERSONS" THAT IS HOW THEY NAMED THE ALBUM ... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.180.111.254 (talk) 23:56, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

MORSE CODE ERROR: I recall that in one of Missing Persons' vinyl albums (I think this one) they included the title "Missing Persons" in Morse Code, EXCEPT that they made an error, and wrote in Morse, "Missing Wersons". Jamesdbell8 (talk) 02:23, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

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Ruth Hussey

Ruth Carol Hussey (October 30, 1911 – April 19, 2005) was an American actress best known for her Academy Award-nominated role as photographer Elizabeth Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story.

Early life
Hussey was born in Providence, Rhode Island on October 30, 1911. She was later known as Ruth Carol O'Rourke, her stepfather's surname. Her father, George R. Hussey, died of the Spanish flu in 1918 when she was seven years old. Ten years later, her mother, Julia Corbett Hussey, married a family friend, William O'Rourke, who had worked at the family's mail-order silver enterprise. She had an older brother, Robert, and a younger sister, Betty.

After obtaining her early education at Providence's public schools, Hussey studied art at Pembroke College and graduated in 1936. She did not win roles for any of the plays for which she had auditioned at Pembroke. She received a degree in theatre from the University of Michigan and worked as an actress with a summer-stock company in Michigan for two seasons. She also attended Boston Business College.

Career
After working as an actress in summer stock, Hussey returned to Providence and served as a radio fashion commentator on a local station. She wrote the ad copy for a local clothing store and read it on the radio each afternoon. She was encouraged by a friend to audition for acting roles at the Providence Playhouse, but the theater director rejected her, saying that the roles were cast only out of New York City. Later that week, she traveled to New York, and on her first day there, she signed with a talent agent who booked her for a role in a play starting the next day back at the Providence Playhouse.

In New York, she also worked for a time as a model. She then landed a number of stage roles with touring companies. While touring the country in 1937 for Dead End, Hussey was spotted on opening night at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles by MGM talent scout Billy Grady. MGM signed her to a contract and she made her film debut later that year. She quickly became a leading lady in MGM's "B" unit, usually playing sophisticated, worldly roles.

Hussey's breakout role was as Elizabeth Imbrie, the cynical magazine photographer in The Philadelphia Story (1940), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. In 1941, theater exhibitors voted her the third-most-popular new star in Hollywood.

Hussey also worked with Robert Taylor in Flight Command (1940), Robert Young in Northwest Passage (1940) and H. M. Pulham, Esq. (1941), Van Heflin in Tennessee Johnson (1942), Ray Milland in The Uninvited (1944) and Alan Ladd in The Great Gatsby (1949).

In 1946, Hussey starred on Broadway in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play State of the Union. Her 1949 role in Goodbye, My Fancy on Broadway caused a Billboard reviewer to write: "Miss Hussey brings a splendid aliveness and warmth to the lovely congresswoman...."

Hussey played Jean Arthur's role of Miriam Starrett in the 1955 Lux Radio Theater presentation of Shane, playing alongside the film’s original stars Ladd and Heflin.

In 1960, she costarred in The Facts of Life with Bob Hope and Lucille Ball. Hussey was also active in early television drama.

Personal life

On August 9, 1942, Hussey married talent agent and radio producer C. Robert "Bob" Longenecker (1909–2002) at Mission San Antonio de Pala in north San Diego County, California. They raised three children: George Longenecker, John Longenecker and Mary Elizabeth Hendrix.

Following the birth of her children, Hussey focused on family activities and in 1964, she designed a family cabin in the mountain community of Lake Arrowhead, California. In 1967, she was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame.

In 1977, Hussey and her husband moved from their Brentwood family home to Rancho Carlsbad in Carlsbad, California. Her husband died in 2002 shortly after their 60th wedding anniversary.

Her son John Longenecker worked as a cinematographer and film director. He won an Academy Award for producing the live-action short film The Resurrection of Broncho Billy (1970).

Hussey was also active in Catholic charities, was noted for painting in watercolors and was a lifelong Democrat although she voted for Republican Thomas Dewey in 1944 and for Hollywood friend and former costar Ronald Reagan in the 1980 and 1984 presidential elections.

Death
Hussey died on April 19, 2005 at the age of 93 from complications from an appendectomy. She is interred at Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park in Westlake Village, California.

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2007 in rail transport

January events

 * 🇹🇼 January 5 – The first public trains of Taiwan High Speed Rail operate between Taipei and Kaohsiung, a 216 mi journey, in 1:36 hours.
 * 🇪🇪 January 9 – Government of Estonia buys back majority share in Eesti Raudtee, the national rail operator, from private investors.
 * 🇺🇸 January 12 – Railway Age Magazine selects Bill Wimmer, Vice President Engineering for Union Pacific Railroad to receive the 2007 award for Railroader of the Year.
 * 🇦🇺 January 30 – The suburban rail network of Melbourne, Australia is thrown into chaos as much of the fleet of new Siemens Nexas Electric Multiple Unit trains is withdrawn from service after a number of incidents of brake failure.

February events

 * February 7 – At a meeting in Tbilisi, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev sign an agreement authorizing construction of the new Kars-Tbilisi-Baku railway linking the three nations.
 * 🇨🇦 February 9 – About 2,800 train crew employees of Canadian National (CN) wage a strike action against the railway; the striking workers are members of UTU Canada, the Canadian affiliate of the United Transportation Union.
 * 🇫🇷 February 13 – During a test run a TGV train reaches 553 km/h (343.75 mph) under test conditions with a shortened train on the LGV Est near Passavant-en-Argonne (Marne), 190 km east of Paris.
 * 🇮🇳 February 18 – 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings: Terrorist explosions on the international Samjhauta Express near the Indian city of Panipat kill 68.
 * 🇬🇧 February 23 – Grayrigg derailment: A Virgin Trains West Coast services travelling from London Euston to Glasgow Central derails in Cumbria in North-West England due to an inadequate points maintenance regime by Network Rail; one elderly woman dies in hospital as a result of her injuries.
 * 🇺🇸 February 26 – The United States Federal Railroad Administration delivers its decision to deny a US$2.3 billion loan request made by Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad (DME).

March events

 * 🇯🇵 March 18 – Opening of the Sendai Airport Line in Sendai.
 * 🇰🇷 March 23 – Opening of the first phase of the Airport Railroad Express (AREX) between Seoul-Incheon and Gimpo airports (37.6 km).
 * 🇯🇵 March 25 – The rebuilt Takahatafudō Station, serving the Keiō Line and the Tama Toshi Monorail Line in Japan opens.

April events

 * 🇫🇷 April 3 – The French TGV sets a new train speed record. The train reached 574.8 km/h (357.2 mph).
 * 🇺🇸 April 7 – Weekday service begins on T Third Street light-rail line in San Francisco, leading to massive delays in the San Francisco Municipal Railway.
 * 🇹🇷 April 23 – Trial runs on 250 km long Eskişehir-Ankara part of 533 km long High-speed train line from Istanbul (Turkey's largest metropolis) to Ankara (capital of Turkey) began.
 * 🇺🇸 April 23 – Construction begins on the Second Avenue Subway in New York City between 63rd and 105th streets, a resumption of a decades-long project with existing segments elsewhere.
 * 🇨🇦 April 28 – The Orange Line of Montreal Metro is extended 5.2 km to Montmorency in Laval.

May events

 * 🇰🇵🇰🇷 May 17 – Official reinauguration of rail services between Dorasan (South Korea) and Kaesong Industrial Region (North Korea).

June events

 * 🇫🇷🇦🇹 June 8 – Last Orient Express through overnight service from Paris to Vienna runs.
 * 🇫🇷 June 10 – The first section of LGV Est, a high-speed rail line, opens in France. This coincides with improvements to the German rail network to cut travel times from Paris to Eastern France and Germany.
 * 🇨🇭 June 15 – Revenue freight traffic starts to use the Lötschberg Base Tunnel in the Swiss Alps.
 * 🇨🇳 June 28 – Guangzhou Metro's Line 4 extension connecting Huangge to Jinzhou opens.
 * 🇦🇺 June – $20m allocated for planning and land acquisition for the proposed Australian Inland Railway.

July events

 * 🇬🇭 July 1 – Kampac Oil of Dubai, as consortium leader, is awarded a construction and operation contract for a new railway line in Ghana connecting Takoradi 800 km to Hamile. The contract, valued at US$1.6 billion, also includes the rehabilitation of a line between Takoradi and Kumasi as part of the Ghanaian government's plans to connect to northern Ghana.
 * 🇯🇵 July 1 – The first timetabled run of N700 Series Shinkansen high-speed train.
 * July 18 – Metronet, holder of the maintenance contract for a majority of the London Underground lines, seeks authority of the Mayor of London to go into administration following a dispute about responsibility for cost overruns on its contract.

August events

 * 🇷🇺 August 30 – Trubnaya station opened on Moscow Metro.

September events

 * 🇺🇸 September – Tunneling for East Side Access in New York begins.

October events

 * 🇬🇹 October 1 – Ferrovías Guatemala (subsidiary of Railroad Development Corporation) suspends all operations.
 * 🇺🇸 October 31 – MBTA Commuter Rail Greenbush Line opens in Massachusetts.
 * 🇬🇧 – Last publication of the monthly OAG Rail Guide, successor to the ABC Rail Guide timetable of 1853.

November events

 * 🇧🇾 November 7 – Minsk Metro Maskoŭskaja line gets extended to Uruchye.
 * 🇬🇧 November 11 – West Midlands train operating company franchise is taken over from Silverlink and Central Trains by London Midland (a Govia company) and the East Midlands franchise from Midland Mainline and Central Trains by East Midlands Trains. National Express is the principal loser in these changes. Arriva CrossCountry takes over a revised CrossCountry franchise from Virgin CrossCountry. London Overground Rail Operations commences operation, effectively returning the lines involved to public control.
 * 🇫🇷 November 13 – Strikes in France begin to disrupt SNCF and Paris Metro service.
 * 🇬🇧 November 14 – High Speed 1 is opened with public passenger services into rebuilt St Pancras International.
 * 🇩🇪 November 14 – Gewerkschaft Deutscher Lokomotivführer (GDL, or German Train Drivers' Union) engages in a national three-day strike against Deutsche Bahn.
 * 🇺🇸 November 26 – LYNX light-rail service begins in Charlotte, North Carolina.

December events

 * 🇭🇰 December 2 – Two railway companies, the MTR Corporation and the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation are merged.
 * 🇬🇧 December 9 – National Express East Coast takes over the British InterCity East Coast train operating franchise from GNER.
 * 🇰🇷 🇰🇵 December 11 – freight service to resume between South Korea and North Korea.
 * 🇨🇭 December 12 – NBS Mattstetten–Rothrist line converted to the first Swiss high-speed line, being a part of strategic plan Rail 2000 with detailed longer-term projects.
 * 🇬🇧 December 18 – Grand Central, a new rail operator in England, inaugurates passenger services from Sunderland to London King's Cross.
 * 🇮🇪 December 19 – The IE 22000 Class Diesel Multiple Unit enters service on Intercity routes in Ireland.
 * 🇦🇺 December 23 – The Mandurah line opens as an extension to Transperth's rail network.
 * 🇪🇸 December 23 – The Madrid–Valladolid high-speed rail line opens to passengers in Spain, including the 28 km Guadarrama Tunnel, the fourth longest railway tunnel in Europe.
 * 🇷🇺 December 24 – Moscow Metro Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line gets extended from Park Pobedy to Strogino.
 * 🇷🇺 December 29 – Sretensky Bulvar station opened on the Lyublinskaya Line of Moscow Metro.
 * 🇨🇭 – Regular passenger-train service begins in the Lötschberg Base Tunnel in the Swiss Alps.

Unknown date events

 * 🇺🇸 – The Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad expects to complete construction on the railroad's expansion into Wyoming's Powder River Basin.
 * 🇮🇳 🇧🇹 – Construction is expected to begin on a new rail link between India and Bhutan.
 * 🇯🇵 – JR Central phases out 113 series.

Accidents

 * 🇺🇸 January 7 – A Washington Metro train derails near downtown Washington, D.C., sending 16 people to the hospital and prompting the rescue of 60 people from a tunnel.
 * 🇮🇳 February 18 – 2007 Samjhauta Express bombings, a terrorist attack on the Samjhauta Express near the Indian city of Panipat, 80 km north of New Delhi; sixty-eight people are killed.
 * 🇬🇧 February 23 – Grayrigg derailment: A Virgin Trains West Coast services travelling from London Euston to Glasgow Central derails on faulty points in Cumbria in North-West England. One elderly woman dies in hospital as a result of her injuries.
 * 🇺🇸 May 23 – during the early morning hours, a BNSF Railway switching crew jumped off the locomotive after hearing reports of 34 runaway tank cars loaded with beer charging into Denver's 33rd Street Yard at 40 mph, later slamming into the locomotives and causing substantial damage. The crew were uninjured. The cause was negligence from the crew of another yard leaving the handbrake or airbrakes released.
 * 🇦🇺 June 5 – Kerang train crash: Eleven people die in a level crossing collision near Kerang, Victoria, Australia.
 * 🇬🇧 June 12 – A train on the Atlantic Coast Line in Cornwall collides with a car at Chapel level crossing, on the outskirts of Newquay.
 * 🇨🇳 July 15 – In Shanghai, platform-edge doors cause a fatal accident. when a man tries to force his way onto a crowded train at the station for the Shanghai Indoor Stadium, but failes. When the doors close, he is trapped between the platform doors and the train, leading to his death.
 * August 1 – The Benaleka train crash in the Democratic Republic of Congo kills over 100.
 * 🇵🇰 December 19 – Mehrabpur train derailment occurs near Mehrabpur in Pakistan killing 40.

February deaths

 * February 23 – Robert W. Richardson, American railroad historian, dies (b. 1910).

August deaths

 * August 9 – Walter Rich, Chairman of Delaware Otsego Corporation, New York, Susquehanna & Western Railroad and Central New York Railroad (b. 1946).

December deaths

 * December 24 – George Warrington, president of Amtrak 1998–2002, executive director of New Jersey Transit 2002–2007 (b. 1952).

Japan

 * Awards presented by Japan Railfan Club
 * 2007 Blue Ribbon Award: Toyama Light Rail 0600 series "Portram"
 * 2007 Laurel Prize: JR East E233 series EMU and Nishi-Nippon Railroad 3000 series EMU

North America

 * 2007 E. H. Harriman Awards

 * Awards presented by Railway Age magazine
 * 2007 Railroader of the Year: Bill Wimmer (UP)
 * 2007 Regional Railroad of the Year: South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad (SKOL)
 * 2007 Short Line Railroad of the Year: RJ Corman West Virginia Lines

United Kingdom

 * Train Operator of the Year:
 * 2007: Eurostar

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IL-2 Sturmovik (video game)

IL-2 Sturmovik (Ил-2 Штурмовик) is a 2001 World War II combat flight simulator video game and is the first installment in the IL-2 Sturmovik series. The release focused on the air battles of the Eastern Front. It was named after the Soviet Ilyushin Il-2 ground-attack fighter, which played a prominent role in this theatre and is the single most produced military aircraft design to date. Along with its sequels, IL-2 Sturmovik is considered one of the leading World War II flight simulators.

Gameplay
The game features 31 flyable planes and additional 40 non-flyable planes (available as opponents). One can play as Australia, France, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the USSR.

The game includes a multi-player feature which supports up to 100 players online over the internet. Free internet services such as Xfire, Hyperlobby, and The All-Seeing Eye, are used for setting up online game sessions.

History
The game was developed by 1C:Maddox Games and published by 1C in Russia and Ubi Soft in the rest of the world, for Windows on November 18, 2001.

Sequels and subsequent development
The game saw the release of a number of add-ons and sequels since its initial release, with some of the sequels including the entirety of the original release's content.

The game is currently distributed as the IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 pack. The latest edition that includes all sequels and patches is version 4.14.1, which brings the number of available flyable aircraft up to 85* and the number of maps to 41*. IL-2 Sturmovik is the flight simulator video game longest supported by its developer with the demo released in 2001 and the latest patch including new planes, maps and other features released in December 2022. Recently patches 4.13, 4.13.1, 4.13.2, 4.13.3, 4.13.4, 4.14, 4.14.1, 4.15, and 4.15.1 were released.

All the patches or versions, like Forgotten Battles (2003) or standalone games, like Pacific Fighters (2004), used and shared the same game engine from 2001 until the 1946 pack (2006) and even until the console adaptation (IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey, 2009). The first games in the series not using the original 2001 game engine were IL-2 Sturmovik: Cliffs of Dover (2011, which runs its own game engine) and IL-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad (2013, which runs on a game engine derived from another game, the 2009 simulator Rise of Flight).

Reception
IL-2 Sturmovik received a "Silver" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), indicating sales of at least 100,000 copies in the United Kingdom. As of 2014, the game's overall sales had surpassed 2 million copies.

The review aggregator Metacritic gave IL-2 Sturmovik a score of 91 out of 100, while GameRankings, another review aggregator, gave it 90.65%.

Awards
IL-2 Sturmovik was named the best computer simulation of 2001 by Computer Games Magazine, Computer Gaming World, The Electric Playground, GameSpy and GameSpot, and was a runner-up for IGN's award in this category, losing to Independence War 2. Similarly, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences nominated IL-2 Sturmovik for its "PC Simulation" award, but ultimately gave the prize to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002. It also "narrowly" lost PC Gamer US's "Best Simulation" award to Flight Simulator 2002, according to that magazine's editors.

While awarding the game, the editors of Computer Games called IL-2 Sturmovik "the best World War II flight sim—the best flight sim of any kind, for that matter—to come along in years." Similarly, those of Computer Gaming World wrote, "IL-2 Sturmovik's election to Sim of the Year was one of the biggest shoo-in votes in the history of this magazine. [...] Know this: Sturmovik is not only the best simulation of 2001, it's the best WWII-themed sim ever, and one of the best flight sims of all time."

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George Harris, 4th Baron Harris

Colonel George Robert Canning Harris, 4th Baron Harris, (3February 1851 – 24March 1932), generally known as Lord Harris, was a British colonial administrator and Governor of Bombay, best known for developing cricket administration via Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC).

An English amateur cricketer, from 1870 to 1889, Lord Harris played for Kent and England, captaining both teams. He was President of the Kent County Football Association between 1881 and 1908, as well as serving as a government minister from 1885 to 1900.

Early life
The Honourable George Harris was born at St Ann's, Trinidad, on 3 February 1851, the only son of George Harris, 3rd Baron Harris, and his wife Sarah Cummins, daughter of George Cummins. At the time of his birth, his father was serving as Governor of Trinidad (1846–1854). Harris barely knew his mother who died when he was two years old. In 1854, shortly after her death, the family moved to Madras where his father was posted as Governor. Harris senior retired in March 1859 and returned to England, becoming involved with Kent County Cricket Club as a Committee Member, before, in 1870, being elected Club President.

In 1864, at the age of 13, Harris was sent to Eton College to further his education. His first important cricket match was the 1868 Eton versus Harrow fixture at Lord's, when he was seventeen; he scored 23 and 6. In the same fixture the following year, when Cuthbert Ottaway scored 108 to seal victory for Eton by an innings and nineteen runs, Harris was out for 0. In 1870, his last year at Eton, he scored 12 and 7 against Harrow. In 1871, Harris went up to Christ Church, Oxford.

His father died in November 1872, whereupon Harris junior succeeded to the barony as 4th Baron Harris. He was already a first-class cricketer by then and was henceforward universally known in the sport as Lord Harris.

Summary of playing career
Harris made his first-class debut for Kent in 1870 after he left Eton. Owing to his position in society, he was immediately elected to the club committee and was associated with Kent cricket for the rest of his life. He went up to Christ Church, Oxford in September 1870 and played for Oxford University from 1871 to 1874. He was available to play for Kent in the latter half of each of these seasons and became county captain in succession to South Norton in 1871, although his appointment was not made official until after he left Oxford. Harris held the Kent captaincy until 1889.

He led the English cricket team in Australia and New Zealand in 1878–79 and was a central figure in the events of 8 February 1879 when a crowd riot erupted at a match in Sydney. The team had previously played a match against an All-Australia XI at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and this was later designated Test status as the third-ever Test match. Harris was therefore the second England Test captain after James Lillywhite. Australia, led by Dave Gregory, won the match by 10 wickets.

Harris captained England against Australia on three further occasions. In 1880 at The Oval, in what was later recognised as the inaugural Test match in England, England won by 5 wickets. Harris captained England in two of the Tests played in 1884, his team winning by an innings and 5 runs at Lord's and drawing the final match in the series at The Oval.

The full span of Harris' first-class cricket career was from 1870 to 1911, at 42 seasons one of the longest on record, though he made only seven appearances after 1889 when he relinquished the Kent captaincy so his essential playing career was from 1870 to 1889. He appeared in 224 first-class matches, including four Test matches, as a righthanded batsman who bowled right arm fast with a roundarm action. He scored 9,990 runs in first-class cricket with a highest score of 176 among eleven centuries and held 190 catches. He took 75 wickets with a best analysis of five for 57. Even in old age he was a capable cricketer, scoring a fifty for I Zingari v West Kent in his 71st year and 25 against Philadelphia Pilgrims at Lord's, 53 years after he had made his first appearance at the home of cricket.

Throwing issue
In the early 1880s, there were a number of bowlers who were widely considered to have unfair actions, with the Lancashire pair of Jack Crossland and George Nash coming in for particular criticism. After playing for Kent against Lancashire in 1885, when he faced the "bowling" of Crossland and Nash, Harris decided to take action. He persuaded the Kent committee to cancel the return fixture. Later that season, Crossland was found to have broken his residential qualification for Lancashire by living in Nottinghamshire, and Nash dropped out of the side. The two counties resumed playing each other the following season. Harris's Wisden obituarist wrote: "...there can be no doubt the action of Lord Harris, even if it did not entirely remove the throwing evil, had a very healthy effect on the game."

Administration
Harris had a long association with Lord's and MCC as both player and administrator. In 1862, aged eleven, he was practising at Lord's. It was not till 1929, at the age of 78, that he played there for the last time, representing MCC vs Indian Gymkhana. He was President of MCC in 1895, a Trustee from 1906 to 1916 and Treasurer from 1916 to 1932. Additionally, he was at various times Chairman of both the MCC finance and cricket sub-committees. Through these offices, Harris wielded considerable power in the world of cricket and it was written of him: "No man has exercised so strong an influence on the cricket world so long..."

In July 1909, Harris chaired a meeting of representatives of England, Australia and South Africa which launched the Imperial Cricket Conference and agreed rules to control Test cricket between the three nations. In 1926, he presided at a meeting at The Oval, when it was agreed that "governing bodies of cricket in countries within the Empire to which cricket teams are sent, or which send teams to England" should be eligible for ICC membership. The meeting had the effect of creating three new Test-playing nations: West Indies, New Zealand and India.

Harris was a controversial figure in the world of cricket, revered by cricket's MCC-based establishment albeit heavily criticised elsewhere. Not all thought that he used his power well. Alan Gibson once wrote that he was "an antediluvian old tyrant", though he later retracted this, saying that Harris was a more complex figure than that. But, complex or not, Harris was never accused by contemporaries of being an intellectual. He might have robbed England of the services of one of its greatest batsmen, Wally Hammond, who had been born in Kent but chose to play for Gloucestershire, where he had gone to school. Hammond had not fulfilled the required period of residence to qualify for Gloucestershire and, once Harris became aware of this, Hammond was barred from playing for them until the necessary time had elapsed. The affair resulted in Harris complaining about what he called "bolshevism" influencing cricket.

Political and military career
Harris was politically active as a member of the Conservative Party, sitting in the House of Lords as Under-Secretary of State for India from 25 June 1885, then as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for War from 4 August 1886 to 1890. During the same period, he also worked as Under-Secretary of State for War, 1886–90; then as Vice-Lieutenant for Kent.

Appointed Governor of the Presidency of Bombay in British India from 1890 to 1895, Harris also served in the British Army, being commissioned in the Royal East Kent Regiment, promoted Colonel of the Regiment, before joining the Imperial Yeomanry, 1900–01. Lord Harris was charged with the Sovereign's Sceptre and dove at the Coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra.

Bombay
Lord Harris' governorship of Bombay was not without extensive criticism, with one anonymous writer penning a poem expressing the hope that Bombay would not suffer too greatly from Harris' political inexperience. He was mainly notable for his enthusiastic pursuit of cricket amongst his fellow Europeans in the colony, at the expense of connecting with the native population. When the interracial Bombay riots of 1893 broke out, Harris was out of the city at Poona enjoying cricket matches. He returned to Bombay only on the ninth day of rioting, and then primarily to attend a cricket match there.

Some writers credit Harris with almost single-handedly introducing and developing the sport in India. Although cricket was well established among the natives before his arrival, he did much to promote it. However, in 1890, he rejected a petition signed by over 1,000 locals to relocate European polo players to another ground so that the locals could use the area for cricket matches. It was only in 1892 that he granted a parcel of land to the newly formed Muslim Gymkhana for a cricket field, adjacent to land already used by the Parsee Gymkhana. His reluctance to do so is evident in his written comment:

"I don't see how we can refuse these applicants; but I will steadfastly refuse any more grants once a Gymkhana has been established under respectable auspices by each nationality, and tell applicants that ground having been set apart for their nationality they are free to take advantage of it by joining that particular club."

When Harris left India, having virtually ignored famine, riots and sectarian unrest, a publisher circulated a collection of newspaper extracts from his time as governor. The introduction stated:

"Never during the last hundred years has a Governor of Bombay been so sternly criticised and never has he met with such widespread unpopularity on account of his administration as Lord Harris."

Harris was appointed Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India in May 1895.

Later career
On his return to England, Harris again served in the Conservative Government as a Lord-in-Waiting to Queen Victoria from 16 July 1895 to 4 December 1900.

He was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel in command of the Royal East Kent Yeomanry on 6 October 1897. During the Second Boer War, he held a commission as Assistant Adjutant-General for the Imperial Yeomanry from 28 February 1900, until he resigned in April 1901.

Death and family
In 1874, he married the Honourable Lucy Ada Jervis (died 1930), daughter of Carnegie Robert John Jervis, 3rd Viscount St Vincent.

Lord Harris died in 1932, aged 82, being succeeded in the barony by his only child, George, as 5th Baron Harris.

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2012 in rail transport

January

 * 🇨🇳 9 January – Shenyang Metro Line 2 opened.
 * 🇸🇬 14 January – The Marina Bay Extension of the Circle MRT line in Singapore opens for service.

February

 * 🇬🇧 4 February – National Express East Anglia's passenger service franchise expires; from the following day services are taken over by Abellio Greater Anglia.
 * 🇦🇷 22 February – Buenos Aires rail disaster: A buffer stop collision at Once railway station kills 51.

March

 * 🇵🇱 3 March – Szczekociny rail crash: A head-on collision in Poland kills 16.
 * 🇺🇸 25 March – The North Shore Connector extension of the Pittsburgh Light Rail system opens.

April

 * 1 April
 * 🇯🇵 The Towada Kankō Electric Railway Line is abolished, ending 89 years of service between Misawa and Towadashi Stations in Aomori Prefecture.
 * 🇯🇵 The Yashiro Line on the Nagano Electric Railway is abolished in Nagano Prefecture after 89 years of operation.
 * 🇺🇸 13 April – The Metropolitan Transportation Commission (San Francisco Bay Area) grants the Downtown San Francisco Extension top priority for federal funding. This would extend the Caltrain line 1.3 mi from the current terminus at 4th & King (close to AT&T Park) to Downtown San Francisco's Transbay Transit Center and be used by California High-Speed Rail as its terminal. the extension does not have a planned completion.
 * 🇺🇸 23 April – Boston's MBTA Commuter Rail Providence/Stoughton Line extension to Wickford Junction (MBTA station) opens.
 * 28 April
 * 🇮🇹 – Open-access operator Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori begins operation of its .italo high-speed trains.
 * 🇺🇸 – The first phase of Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority Expo Line opens for service. The line runs from downtown LA to Culver City. The next phase of the project will extend the line to Santa Monica.
 * 🇨🇳 – Suzhou Metro opens.
 * 🇺🇸 30 April – Oakton-Skokie station on the Chicago Transit Authority's Yellow Line opens.

May

 * 🇪🇪🇷🇺 27 May – GoRail starts operating on Tallinn–Saint Petersburg line after a four-year hiatus.

June

 * 🇬🇧 13 June – The Manchester Metrolink light rail system opens the first phase of its Oldham & Rochdale Line over the former Oldham Loop Line to a temporary terminus at Oldham Mumps.
 * 🇺🇸 15 June – The Sacramento Regional Transit Light Rail Green Line phase 1 to River District opens. A future extension is planned to extend this line to the Sacramento International Airport but is not expected to be completed until sometime during the 2020s.
 * 🇨🇳 28 June – Kunming Metro opens.

July

 * 🇨🇳 1 July – Tianjin Metro Line 2 opens.
 * 🇺🇸 28 July – Construction was completed and service commencing on the AirportLink line of the Miami Metrorail, extending service to Miami International Airport via the Miami Intermodal Center

August

 * 🇨🇦 27 August – Construction is completed on the north east extension of Calgary Alberta's light rail transit system, the C-Train. The extension has added 2 new stations in northeast Calgary at Martindale and Saddletowne, adding several kilometers of track to the system.
 * 🇧🇬 31 August – Sofia Metro Line 2 begins service.

September

 * 🇨🇳 16 September – Chengdu Metro Line 2 opens.
 * 🇺🇸 22 September – The 2001-opened Portland Streetcar system, in Portland, Oregon, inaugurates service on a second line, the "Central Loop" (or CL Line), serving the central east side.
 * 🇨🇳 28 September – Phase 1 of Chongqing Rail Transit's Line 6, connecting Wulidian to Kangzhuang, opens.

October

 * 1 October
 * 🇨🇳 Tianjin Metro Line 3 opens.
 * 🇲🇪 The Nikšić–Podgorica railway reopens to passengers after reconstruction and electrification.
 * 🇬🇧 3 October – The UK Department for Transport announces cancellation and rerunning of the InterCity West Coast passenger service franchise bidding process after discovering significant technical flaws in its assessment, reversing an August decision to award it to FirstGroup and following challenges by incumbent operator Virgin Trains.
 * 🇺🇸 8 October – Seattle's Sounder commuter rail south line extension to South Tacoma and Lakewood opens.
 * 🇰🇷27 October – In Seoul, Line 7 of the Seoul Metropolitan Subway is extended from Onsu to Bupyeong-gu Office (10.3 km).
 * 🇹🇿 29 October – Dar es Salaam commuter rail service commences.

November

 * 🇨🇳 24 November – Hangzhou Metro Line 3 opens.

December

 * 🇨🇳 1 December – The Harbin–Dalian High-Speed Railway opens for service.
 * 🇺🇸 3 December – Dallas Area Rapid Transit opens extensions on two lines: the Orange Line carrying passengers to Belt Line, and the Blue Line extension to the Downtown Rowlett Station.
 * 10 December
 * 🇨🇦 – Opening of West Line of the Calgary C-Train, the system's first new line in 25 years.
 * 🇺🇸 – Utah Transit Authority's FrontRunner extends service south from Salt Lake City to Provo.
 * 🇫🇷 15 December – Automation of Paris Métro Line 1 reaches 100%. This is the second automated line after Line 14.
 * 🇬🇧 16 December – The Manchester Metrolink light rail system extends its Oldham & Rochdale Line to Shaw & Crompton.
 * 🇫🇷 18 December – Paris Métro Line 12 is extended from Porte de la Chapelle to Front Populaire.
 * 🇳🇬 21 December – Inauguration of the reopened Nigerian Railway Corporation's Lagos–Kano railway line in Nigeria, rebuilt by China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation and Costain West Africa.
 * 🇨🇳 26 December – The Beijing-Zhengzhou section of the Beijing–Guangzhou–Shenzhen–Hong Kong High-Speed Railway is scheduled to open, completing the HSR connection from Beijing to Guangzhou and Shenzhen.

Deaths

 * 18 March – Alan Pegler, British railway preservationist, dies (b. 1920).
 * 22 July – Ding Guangen, Minister of Railways for China 1985–1988, dies (b. 1929).
 * 5 August – Benjamin W. Heineman, president of Chicago and North Western Railway 1956–1972, dies (b. 1914).
 * 4 October – Bernard Holden, president of Bluebell Railway, dies (b. 1908).

Japan

 * Awards presented by the Japan Railfan Club
 * 2012 Blue Ribbon Award: JR East E5 Series Shinkansen EMU
 * 2012 Laurel Prize: JR Freight Class HD300-900 hybrid locomotive

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Harlan Lane

Harlan Lawson Lane (August 19, 1936 – July 13, 2019) was an American psychologist. Lane was the Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States, and founder of the Center for Research in Hearing, Speech, and Language. His research was focused on speech, Deaf culture, and sign language.

Lane was born in Brooklyn, New York. Remaining in New York City for college, he obtained both a B.S. and an M.S. in psychology from Columbia University in 1958. He subsequently received a PhD in psychology from Harvard (1960) and a ''Doc. des Lettres'' from the Sorbonne (1973). In 1991, Lane received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

Lane, a hearing man, became an often controversial spokesman for the Deaf community and critic of cochlear implants. He wrote extensively on the social construction of disability and stated that "Unless Deaf people challenge the culturally determined meanings of deaf and disability with at least as much vigor as the technologies of normalization seek to institutionalize those meanings, the day will continue to recede in which Deaf children and adults live the fullest lives and make the fullest contribution to our diverse society." In recognition of his research and advocacy regarding these issues, Lane received the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association of the Deaf (United States), the International Social Merit Award from the World Federation of the Deaf, and numerous other awards.

He was Commandeur de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, the highest level of the academic honor given out by the French government.

Lane died in France from Parkinson's disease on July 13, 2019, at the age of 82.

Publications

 * Lane, Harlan. 1976. The Wild Boy of Aveyron. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674953002. (Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize 1975 )
 * Lane, Harlan, and Richard C. Pillard. 1978. The Wild Boy of Burundi: A Study of an Outcast Child. New York: Random House. ISBN 0394412524.
 * Lane, Harlan (ed.). 1984. The Deaf Experience: Classics in Language and Education. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674194608.
 * Lane, Harlan. 1984. When the Mind Hears. Random House. ISBN 0679720235. (Download brief excerpt of Chapter 1, "My New Family".)
 * Lane, Harlan and François Grosjean (eds.). 1989. Recent Perspectives on American Sign Language. Psychology Press. ISBN 0805805605.
 * Lane, Harlan, Ben Bahan, and Robert J. Hoffmeister. 1996. A Journey into the Deaf World. San Diego, C.A.: DawnSignPress. ISBN 0915035634.
 * Lane, Harlan. 1999. The Mask Of Benevolence: Disabling the Deaf Community. San Diego, C.A.: DawnSignPress. ISBN 1581210094.
 * Emmorey, Karen, and Harlan Lane. 2000. The Signs of Language Revisited: An Anthology in Honor of Ursula Bellugi and Edward Klima. Psychology Press. ISBN 0805832467.
 * Lane, Harlan. 2004. A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster Jr. Beacon Press. ISBN 0807066168.
 * Lane, Harlan, Richard C. Pillard, and Ulf Hedberg. 2011. The People of the Eye: Deaf Ethnicity and Ancestry. New York: Oxford University Press US. ISBN 0199759294.

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Talk:Tablespoon

SI tablespoon
I've never heard of an "SI Tablespoon" before. I really doubt that this is an accepted SI unit. And it makes no sense that an "SI Tablespoon" would be 15 mL in Canada but 20 mL in Australia.--Ryan Stone 04:35, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Bubbiola

Welcome to Wikipedia.

When you get a chance, drop us a note at New user log to introduce yourself.

I'm afraid your first contribution at Anti bush is already listed for discussion and possible deletion. See what Wikipedia is not for some reasons, and please don't take it personally, it happens to many of us, it did to me.

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Please feel free to drop me a question on my talk page if there's anything you think I can help with. Andrewa 19:41, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Carolyn
Carolyn 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.

To me this article is nosense.   -   Melaen 19:42, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete and send to BJAODN. Susvolans (pigs can fly) 15:15, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Has been speedied for being patent nonsense. -- Graham ☺ | Talk 15:36, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I created a new redirect to Caroline. Dunc|☺ 16:20, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Counter-Strike console commands

Counter-Strike console commands
A game guide more appropriate for Wikibooks: Game Guides and Strategy. Transwiki to Wikibooks then delete. --Mrwojo 19:43, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Agreed, transwiki and delete. Fredrik | talk 19:52, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, but maybe there should be a general article about FPS consoles. After all it was quite an innovation by Quake designers to bring some typing action in a dumb kill-them-all game. Grue 20:29, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Transwiki and delete. I agree with Fredrik.  P Ingerson 20:31, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Transwiki if they want it, delete. --fvw *  23:37, 2004 Dec 17 (UTC)
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2005 in rail transport

January events

 * 🇰🇷 January 1 – The Korean National Railroad in South Korea is split into the Korea Railroad Corporation, branded as Korail, which will operate trains, and Korea Rail Network Authority (KR), which maintains the tracks.
 * 🇨🇭 January 5 – The metre-gauge Brünig railway line of the Swiss Federal Railways and the Luzern–Stans–Engelberg railway line merge to form the Zentralbahn.
 * 🇺🇸 January 12 – General Motors announces that it has agreed to sell Electro-Motive Diesel to a consortium led by Greenbriar Equity Group and Berkshire Partners.
 * 🇸🇬 January 29 – Singapore's third LRT Line, Punggol LRT Line, is opened.

February events

 * 🇨🇦 February 25 – Bombardier is awarded a contract to build 361 passenger cars for a new Chinese rail line to Lhasa, Tibet; due to the destination's altitude the cars will include special UV-filtering glass and a unique oxygen enriching system.
 * 🇪🇸 February 26 – AVE Class 102 trains enter regular operation on the Madrid-Zaragoza-Lleida line.

March events

 * 🇺🇸 March 2 – Citing disputes in paid leave policies, around 200 BNSF dispatchers walk off the job for nearly three hours, causing traffic delays over the entire system from Chicago to the Pacific coast.
 * 🇨🇦 March 14 – Canadian Pacific purchases 35 new Green Goat hybrid locomotives, becoming the first railroad to order this type of locomotive.

April events

 * April 1
 * 🇨🇦 – All former BC Rail systems and operations are fully integrated into those of the purchasing railroad, Canadian National.
 * 🇲🇽 – Kansas City Southern Railway completes its controlling interest purchase of TFM; Vicente Corta is named interim CEO of TFM.
 * 🇬🇧 April 7 – Railways Act 2005 (UK) provides for abolition of Strategic Rail Authority.
 * 🇧🇬 April 13 – The transport ministry of Bulgaria issues the first freight transport license to a private company, Bulgarian Railroad Company, to operate on the nation's rail network.
 * 🇨🇭 April 28 – Swiss engineers blast through the last section of rock on the first bore of the Lötschberg Base Tunnel project under the Alps. See also Swiss finish drilling world's longest overland tunnel

May events

 * 🇮🇷 May 3 – The Iranian president Mohammad Khatami leads the ceremony inaugurating passenger rail service between Mashhad and Bafq, Iran.
 * 🇺🇸 May 26 – Genesee & Wyoming (G&W) announce that they have agreed to purchase the railroad operations of Rail Management Corporation (RMC). G&W will pay US$243 million in cash and assume $1.7 million in company debt to gain control of 14 short line railroads from RMC across the southeastern United States, as of June 1, 2005. G&W already controls 24 other railroads in North America, South America and Australia.

 * 🇺🇸 May 27 – The 9 of the New York City Subway makes its last rides.

June events

 * 🇺🇸 June 1 – Joseph H. Boardman, former Commissioner of New York State Department of Transportation, begins his duties as Administrator for the United States Federal Railroad Administration (a division of the United States Department of Transportation).
 * 🇫🇷 June 2 – Railroad workers across France go on strike to demand better wages and jobs. The strike, which began at 18:00 GMT on Wednesday, is expected to last through 6:00 GMT Friday. Nearly 40% of all TGV schedules are dropped for the duration of the strike.
 * 🇮🇳 June 4 – Lalu Prasad, India's Railway Minister, presents his Rs.532 billion (US$12 billion) budget for Indian Railways for 2005–06. The network of more than 9,000 passenger trains will not increase passenger fares, will add 46 new trains, increase frequencies on 10 others and plans to inaugurate new high speed train service between New Delhi and Kolkata and another between New Delhi and Chennai.
 * 🇨🇭 June 22 – The entire network of the Swiss Federal Railways shuts down due to a power failure in its overhead wire system. The power failure is also affecting international transit through Switzerland as such intercity trains use the same system. Initial reports indicate that the power failure started with a voltage drop in Ticino (in the St. Gotthard region) that then spread to the entire system.

July events

 * 🇮🇳 July 1 – Indian Railways is expected to inaugurate two new Shatabdi Express passenger trains, one between Chennai and Bangalore and a new Jan-Shatabdi Express between Madgaon and Mangalore.
 * 🇮🇪 July 29 – Iarnród Éireann, the Irish state railway operator, ceases all container freight traffic on the network. Freight yards at Limerick and Dublin will be closed.

August events

 * 🇦🇷 August 4 – Argentinian railroad workers across the country (except for the subway operators in Buenos Aires) go on strike for 24 hours demanding higher wages. The strike comes after 100 days of failed negotiations between the railroads and the engine driver unions; if an agreement cannot be reached within a week, the unions have threatened a subsequent 36-hour strike. The railroad employees strike coincides with a 72-hour health care workers strike that is still occurring.
 * 🇦🇺 August 7 – The Thornlie line opens as a spur off Transperth's Armadale line to Thornlie station.
 * 🇧🇷 August 15 – All America Latina Logistica (ALL) of Brazil announces that it has formed a partnership with Besco Engineering and Services Private Limited of India to build new railroad cars in Brazil. The new enterprise, to be named Santa Fe Vagoes SA, will be located in Brazil and 40% owned by ALL.
 * 🇨🇳 August 24 – Chinese railroad workers in Tibet laid rails on the Tanggula Mountain Pass in Tibet at 5,072 m (16,640 ft) above sea level, surpassing the altitude of the highest Peruvian railway by 255 m (837 ft). This section of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway is now the highest railway in the world. The railway also includes the highest railway station in the world at Lhasa, 5,068 m (16,627 ft) above sea level. The railway is expected to open later in 2005.
 * 🇳🇴 August 27 – The first section of the Asker Line, from Asker to Sandvika, is opened.

September events

 * 🇺🇸 September 2 – In a letter to the governors of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, BNSF (headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas) pledges a contribution of US$1 million, and offers rail transportation to aid in relief efforts for the areas affected by Hurricane Katrina. The monetary contribution would come from the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Foundation as a donation to the American Red Cross relief efforts, while the transportation assistance is currently being organized by the Association of American Railroads, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Federal Railroad Administration and the other railroads that serve the area. The letter also states that repairs to the Bayou Boeuf bridge are now complete and BNSF's mainline was reopened as originally planned at 6:00 PM Central Time on September 1.
 * 🇺🇸 September 4 – The Girard Avenue Trolley in Philadelphia recommences service after thirteen years of bus substitution.
 * 🇮🇩 September 6 – Indonesian transport officials at a meeting in Bandar Lampung announce plans to build a trans-Sumatran railway to connect Banda Aceh to Bakauheni, a distance of 2,151 km. A Feasibility Study performed after the 2004 tsunami by SNCF, the national rail carrier of France, showed that such a line could be built. Construction is expected to commence in seven stages; the first stage would connect Banda Aceh to Besitang (484 km / 301 miles). (Indonesia Relief)
 * 🇳🇬 September 13 – The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), the national rail carrier of Nigeria, announces that it has laid off 5,980 of its nearly 12,000 employees, answering a call from the Nigerian government to downsize. The government first asked NRC for a 50% reduction in the last quarter of 2003; NRC waited until there was sufficient funds from the government for severance packages for the affected employees. In all, the government released nearly N2.1 billion (US$16 million) to NRC for severance pay. Some of NRC's layoff criteria included fraud, excessive absenteeism, employees who had worked for more than 33 years, or who were aged 50–60, and employees with a history of disciplinary actions. (AllAfrica)
 * 🇯🇵 September 20 – Japanese officials announce the government's intentions to pay former World War II prisoners of war involved in the construction of the Death Railway between Thailand and Burma. Compensation amounts have not been announced; some estimates place the number of construction survivors at 1,800, most now aged in their 80s and 90s. The compensation for laborers who have died either during construction or afterward would be sent to their next of kin.
 * 🇳🇱 September 29 – Sixty years after World War II, Nederlandse Spoorwegen issues a statement formally apologizing for transporting Jewish people to Nazi concentration camps in Germany and Poland during the war., the railway's chief executive stated "On behalf of the company and from the bottom of my heart, I sincerely apologise for what happened during the war." The railway made the decision to issue the formal apology after the largest Dutch Jewish organization, Centraal Joods Overleg, proposed an awareness campaign to take place at the railway's stations nationwide. Reaction among the survivors is mixed.

October events

 * 🇺🇸 October 6 – Amtrak announces that the City of New Orleans and Crescent passenger trains will again serve New Orleans Union Station beginning on Sunday October 9. Before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, Amtrak suspended City of New Orleans service south of Memphis, Tennessee, and suspended Crescent service south of Atlanta, Georgia, in anticipation of damage to the tracks and signal systems surrounding New Orleans. The first departure from New Orleans will be the northbound Crescent at 7:20 AM, followed by the northbound City of New Orleans at 1:45 PM ; the first corresponding southbound trains are scheduled to arrive in New Orleans later that afternoon. Amtrak's announcement did not mention service restoration on the transcontinental Sunset Limited.
 * 🇰🇪 🇺🇬 October 14 – The concession for operation of the Kenya-Uganda Railways is awarded to Rift Valley Railways Consortium (RVRC), headquartered in South Africa. In announcing the bid, officials state that Rift Valley was selected over RITES Ltd. of India, the only other bidder, by a factor of two to one. The new operator is expected to begin management of the combined railway on March 30, 2006. RVRC will not be expected to take up the railways KSh.20.9 billion/= (US$282 million) debt, but will repay the Kenyan government KSh.3 billion/= ($40.5 million) that was spent to subsidize the railway for the last three years.
 * 🇨🇳 October 15 – Chinese officials announce the completion of the Qingzang railway connecting Xining, Qinghai Province, to Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region. The line's construction, which has been criticized by some who say the new railway will dilute Tibetan culture, had to overcome technical challenges that included building a railway on top of permafrost and boring tunnels through solid ice while construction workers breathed bottled oxygen.
 * 🇬🇧 October 17 – British railway ministers announce that Scottish Ministers will soon take control of railway administration within Scotland. The powers will include decisions over operations and infrastructure (such as tracks and stations) as well as oversight of the First ScotRail franchise. The British government will also supply a multi-million pound grant to fund the Scottish rail operations, money that is needed in order to move the Edinburgh station improvement project forward, for example. British ministers will retain train driver licensing as well as other safety obligations.
 * 🇸🇪 October 24 – World's first biogas train makes maiden voyage.
 * 🇺🇸 October 31 – Rapid transit workers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, go on strike. SEPTA, the fifth largest transit agency in the United States, is forced to temporarily close several lines due to a lack of trained employees. Union negotiators walked out of contract negotiations minutes before the midnight deadline when they failed to come to a conclusion; disputes were centered around employee pay and benefits agreements. All operators on the City, Victory, and Frontier Divisions walked off the job. SEPTA services on the regional rail division continue according to contingency plans, and all bus, trolley, and subway lines are suspended until the conclusion of the work stoppage.

November events

 * 🇨🇳 November 1 – Government officials in China announce plans to privatise the nation's rail network into separate corporations that could be listed on international stock markets. The strategy is to raise money for improvements and expansions to the network, which would increase the amount of track by about 27,000 km. The plan could lead to partial or complete foreign ownership of some railway lines, but some investors have already raised concerns over the network's regulatory system, especially in regard to the newly independent railways' abilities to raise prices to cover costs. (BBC News)
 * 🇺🇸 November 4 – The United States Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) announces a requirement for increased and more detailed inspections of around 90,000 mi of track that use continuous welded rail. The inspections are to detect and repair potential problems that involve loose or missing bolts, detectable problems in the rail and other potential hazards. In making the announcement, the FRA and National Transportation Safety Board cite inadequate track inspections as the cause of three major derailments since 2002, including a Canadian Pacific (CP) derailment in January 2002 near Minot, North Dakota, that released a cloud of anhydrous ammonia, and an Amtrak derailment in 2004 near Flora, Mississippi, in which a passenger died. CP disputes inadequate inspections as the cause of the 2002 accident. (AP/Newsday) (FRA)
 * 🇫🇷 November 23 – Railroad workers across France return to work from a strike action. The labour unions involved in the strike report that they are pleased with concessions agreed to during negotiations on Tuesday and French President Jacques Chirac offered his personal guarantee that SNCF would not be privatised. The strike, the sixth by French rail workers in 2005, suspended one third of all TGV trains across the country. (IHT)

December events

 * 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 December 2 – Schnabel car CEBX 800, the largest such car on North American rails, departs Duluth, Minnesota, in a special Canadian Pacific train bound for Long Lake in northern Alberta. The car is carrying what has been called the largest single-car freight load ever carried in North America, an enormous "hydro cracker" reactor built in pieces in Dubai and Japan. The 1.5 million pound load was offloaded from the ship Stellaprima in Duluth on November 23.
 * December 6
 * 🇦🇪 – General Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, announces that studies will begin on connecting all of the emirates in the United Arab Emirates by rail for both passenger and intermodal freight transport. The 700 km proposed route would connect Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ras Al Khaimah and Fujairah with Ruwais and Ghowaifat. Officials hope to create a public-private partnership in order to build and operate the proposed railway. The project is part of a wider plan and a requirement of the Gulf Cooperation Council's plan to connect all Arab states by rail.
 * 🇬🇧 – Opening of London's Docklands Light Railway extension to King George V, via London City Airport, England.
 * 🇨🇳 December 7 – QJ 7081 pulls the world's last regularly scheduled passenger train behind a steam locomotive on a mainline railroad when it pulls a train between Daban and Chabuga, China.
 * 🇨🇭 December 11 – In Switzerland, all trains become officially non-smoking
 * 🇬🇧 December 12 – The Larkhall branch of the Argyle Line is re-opened. Opening Chatelherault railway station and re-opening Merryton railway station and Larkhall railway station.
 * 🇺🇸 December 20 – New York City Subway workers walk off their jobs in a strike called by the Transport Workers Union at 3:00 AM local time. It is a move that may be in violation of a previous court ruling that makes subway worker strikes illegal, and MTA lawyers have asked the courts to review the strike action as one that may be in contempt of court with that ruling. Fines for such a ruling of contempt could include two days pay for each striking employee per day that the strike continues. The union claims that MTA should be able to afford the health care benefit and pension levels sought by the union due to a budget surplus of nearly US$1 billion. While the strike is in progress, the city of New York has implemented emergency statutes that include restricting private vehicles carrying less than four occupants from entering the city between 5:00 AM and 11:00 AM local time.
 * 🇨🇳 December 26 – The first section of Guangzhou Metro Line 4 opens connecting Wanshengwei to Xinzao.

Accidents and attacks

 * 🇺🇸 January 6 – Graniteville train disaster – A Norfolk Southern Railway train carrying a few carloads of hazardous materials (including chlorine gas) collides with a parked train in Graniteville, South Carolina, causing the deaths of 9 people and the injury of over 250 more.
 * 🇹🇭 January 17 – Two MRT trains collide, injuring nearly 200 people.
 * 🇺🇸 January 26 – Glendale train crash: In what police call a suicide attempt, a Metrolink train in Glendale, California (a suburb of Los Angeles), hits a car parked on a level crossing and then derails into another Metrolink train and a parked Union Pacific Railroad locomotive resulting in 11 fatalities and 200 injuries.
 * 🇮🇳 February 3 – Nagpur level crossing disaster kills 55 people.
 * 🇯🇵 April 25 – Amagasaki rail crash – A JR West commuter train derails and strikes an apartment building in Amagasaki, Hyogo, Japan, killing 106 and injuring more than 460 others.Japanese commuter train derails, apartment building smashed.
 * 🇷🇺 June 12 – At 7:10 AM local time, a bomb explodes between Uzunovo and Bogatishchevo, Russia (about 95 miles / 153 km from Moscow), derailing the locomotive and first four passenger cars of the Grozny-Moscow train. Investigators found wires leading from the explosion site to a control panel and hideout about 164 ft (50 m) from the site.
 * 🇮🇱 June 21 – A southbound passenger train collides with a coal delivery truck near Revadim, about 25 miles south of Tel Aviv; the train was bound for Beersheba when the accident occurred. At least seven people die in the accident and more than 200 are injured.
 * 🇬🇧 July 7 – Three bombs explode in the London Underground killing at least 35 people. Explosions occur between the Aldgate East and Liverpool Street stations, between King's Cross St Pancras and Russell Square, and at Edgware Road. A further bomb on a bus in Tavistock Square kills 13 people. A statement claiming responsibility is posted to a website known to be operated by associates of Al Qaeda.
 * 🇵🇰 July 13 – Ghotki rail crash: A passenger train stopped at the railway station at Sarhad, Sindh, near Ghotki in Pakistan, is hit from behind by a train that has missed a signal. The derailed cars are subsequently hit by a third train, resulting in a total of seventeen wrecked train cars, which were carrying over 3,000 passengers. Between 109 and 133 people are killed and many injured. Pakistani railroad officials have called this the worst railroad accident there in 15 years.
 * 🇮🇳 October 29 – Veligonda rail disaster near the town of Veligonda, south of Hyderabad in the Indian State of Andhra Pradesh. A flash flood sweeps away a small rail bridge and a "Delta Express" train travelling on it derails at the broken section of the line, killing at least 114 people and injuring over 200.
 * November 29 – In the Kindu rail accident at least 60 people are killed when they are swept off the roof of a train into the river below as the train crosses a bridge in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

January deaths

 * 🇺🇸 January 23 – John H. Kuehl, editor of Private Varnish magazine, passenger car historian and photographer (b. 1938).

February deaths

 * 🇺🇸 February 12 – Vernon L. Smith, mechanical engineer for Lima Locomotive Works in the 1930s, superintendent of motive power for the Belt Railway of Chicago in the 1970s, and noted railroad author (b. 1912).

March deaths

 * 🇺🇸 March 28 – Paul H. Stringham, central Illinois railroad photographer and historian (b. 1913).

April deaths

 * 🇺🇸 April 22 – Margaret Landry Moore, "Miss Southern Belle" spokesmodel for Kansas City Southern's Southern Belle passenger trains (b. 1923).
 * 🇺🇸 April 28 – Frank Turpin, CEO of Alaska Railroad, 1985–1993 (b. 1923).

May deaths

 * 🇺🇸 May 28 – Benjamin F. Biaggini, chairman and CEO of the Southern Pacific Company (parent company of Southern Pacific Railroad) 1964–1983 (b. 1916).

August deaths

 * 🇺🇸 August 12 – E. Spencer Miller, president of Maine Central Railroad 1952–1978.

November deaths

 * 🇺🇸 November 22 – Orville R. Harrold, president of Providence and Worcester Railroad 1980–2005 (b. 1932). (Railway Age)
 * 🇺🇸 November 24 – Robert J. Kmieciak, chairman of the United Transportation Union Board of Appeals (b. 1923).

Japan

 * Awards presented by Japan Railfan Club
 * 2005 Blue Ribbon Award: JR Freight M250 series Super Rail Cargo EMU
 * 2005 Laurel Prizes:
 * JR Kyushu　800 Series Shinkansen
 * Nagasaki Electric Tramway 3000 series tramcar

North America

 * 2005 E. H. Harriman Awards:

 * Awards presented by Railway Age magazine:
 * 2005 Railroader of the Year: David R. Goode (Norfolk Southern)
 * 2005 Regional Railroad of the Year: Red River Valley & Western Railroad
 * 2005 Short Line Railroad of the Year: Cedar Rapids & Iowa City Railway

United Kingdom

 * Train Operator of the Year:
 * 2005: London Underground

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Rhyme & Reason (Missing Persons album)

Rhyme & Reason is the second studio album by American band Missing Persons, released in 1984. It was a commercial disappointment. A video was created for "Surrender Your Heart" featuring animations from Peter Max. "Give" and "Right Now" were also released as singles, and videos made for both received airplay on MTV. Missing Persons embarked on a successful tour, but the album quickly fell off the sales charts.

Critical reception
The Christian Science Monitor wrote that "the most accurate description of the album's tone is that it's consistently bland... The pace, beat, and modulation of the music sounds the same; the only change is in the lyrics." The Omaha World-Herald concluded that "Missing Persons continues to show why it is one of the worst of the trendy Los Angeles new wave bands."

Track listing

 * 1) "The Closer That You Get" (Dale Bozzio, Terry Bozzio, Warren Cuccurullo) – 4:54
 * 2) "Give" (D. Bozzio, T. Bozzio, Cuccurullo, Patrick O'Hearn) – 4:54
 * 3) "Now Is the Time (For Love)" (T. Bozzio) – 3:40
 * 4) "Surrender Your Heart" (D. Bozzio, T. Bozzio, Cuccurullo, O'Hearn) – 4:22
 * 5) "Clandestine People" (T. Bozzio, Cuccurullo) – 3:00
 * 6) "Right Now" (D. Bozzio, T. Bozzio) – 3:29
 * 7) "All Fall Down" (D. Bozzio, T. Bozzio) – 3:23
 * 8) "Racing Against Time" (T. Bozzio, Cuccurullo) – 3:24
 * 9) "Waiting for a Million Years" (D. Bozzio, T. Bozzio, Cuccurullo) – 5:23
 * 10) "If Only for the Moment" (D. Bozzio, O'Hearn) – 3:47

CD bonus tracks 1. "Fight for Life" [Instrumental/*] (D. Bozzio, T. Bozzio, Cuccurullo) – 5:21

2. "Action Reaction" [*] (D. Bozzio, T. Bozzio, Cuccurullo) – 2:53

3. "Windows" [Live 1981] (D. Bozzio, T. Bozzio) – 4:59

4. "I Like Boys" [Live 1981] (D. Bozzio, T. Bozzio, Cuccurullo) – 2:53

5. "Here and Now" [Live 1981] (D. Bozzio, T. Bozzio, Cuccurullo) – 3:14

6. "Walking in L.A." [Live 1981] (T. Bozzio) – 4:05

* previously unreleased

CD bonus tracks (2021 Rubellan Remasters edition) 1. "Fight for Life" [Instrumental] (D. Bozzio, T. Bozzio, Cuccurullo)

2. "Give (Dance Mix)" [*] (D. Bozzio, T. Bozzio, Cuccurullo, Patrick O'Hearn)

3. "If Only For The Moment (Full Version) (D. Bozzio, O'Hearn)

Personnel

 * Dale Bozzio – vocals
 * Terry Bozzio – synthesizer, percussion, drums, vocals
 * Warren Cuccurullo – guitar, electric guitar, vocals
 * Patrick O'Hearn – synthesizer, bass, electric bass
 * Chuck Wild – synthesizer, keyboard

Production

 * Producers: Terry Bozzio, Bruce Swedien
 * Mastering: Kit Watkins
 * Art direction: Larry Vigon
 * Design: Larry Vigon
 * Photography: Bob Leafe, Helmut Newton
 * Liner notes: Ken Sharp

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Godiego

Godiego (ゴダイゴ) is a Japanese rock band founded in 1975, originally consisting of Yukihide Takekawa (lead vocals), Mickie Yoshino (keyboards), Takami Asano (guitar), Steve Fox (bass guitar), and Yujin Harada (drums). The band released its first self-titled album in 1976, with Takami's brother, Ryōji Asano, replacing Harada as drummer. By 1977, Ryōji left and was replaced by American drummer Tommy Snyder.

They are perhaps best known for performing the song "Monkey Magic" for the 1978 television series Saiyūki which was brought over to the United Kingdom as Monkey. This led to several releases through BBC Records, including "Monkey Magic", "Gandhara", and the LP Monkey and several of their records charted in the UK. Their theme from The Water Margin was their sole UK Top 40 hit. Godiego are also known for performing the theme song "THE GALAXY EXPRESS 999" for the Galaxy Express 999 film and the soundtrack for the 1977 film House. They were the first rock band to play in the People's Republic of China and Nepal, and inspired the name for the band Monkey Majik (the group's original drummer was British and watched the show as a child). Lead guitarist Takami Asano worked on the soundtrack of the Nintendo DS game Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor, while vocalist Yukihide Takekawa composed the soundtrack for the Super NES video game Soul Blazer. As of 2024, Godiego has released 27 singles and 55 albums in Japan, with lyrics written variably in English by longtime collaborator lyricist Yoko Narahashi.

Members
Current members
 * Steve Fox – bass, backing vocals (1975–1980, 1999–present)
 * Yukihide Takekawa – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, mellotron (1975–present)
 * Mickie Yoshino – keyboards, saxophone, backing vocals (1975–present)
 * Tommy Snyder – drums, flute, backing and lead vocals (1977–present)
 * Yōji Yoshizawa – bass, guitar, backing vocals (1980–1985, 2014–present)

Former members
 * Takami Asano – guitar, guitar synthesizer, backing vocals (1975–2020; his death)
 * Yūjin Harada – drums (1975)
 * Ryōji Asano – drums (1976–1977; touring guest 2015)

Singles

 * "Salad Girl" (僕のサラダガール)
 * "Buddy" (いろはの"い")
 * "Symphonica" (シンフォニカ)
 * "House–Love Theme" (ハウスのふたり〜ハウス・愛のテーマ〜)
 * "Cherries Were Made for Eating" (君は恋のチェリー)
 * "The Water Margin" (1977)
 * "Mirage" (ミラージュのテーマ)
 * "Gandhara" (ガンダーラ)
 * "Monkey Magic" (モンキー・マジック)
 * "Every Child Has a Beautiful Name" (ビューティフル・ネーム)
 * "Where'll We Go from Now" (はるかな旅へ)
 * "The Galaxy Express 999" (銀河鉄道999)
 * "Holy and Bright" (ホーリー＆ブライト)
 * "Return to Africa" (リターン・トゥ・アフリカ)
 * "Portopia" (ポートピア)
 * "Coming Together In Kathmandu" (（カミング・トゥゲザー・イン）カトマンズ)
 * "After the Rain" (アフター・ザ・レイン)
 * "Namaste" (ナマステ)
 * "Three Years of Love" (愛の3イヤーズ)
 * "The Sunrise" (ザ・サンライズ)
 * "Let It Burn" (魔法のあかり)
 * "Carry Love" (キャリー・ラヴ)
 * "Java wa Java in the book of Godiego" (1999)
 * "Monkey Magic 2006" (2006)
 * "One for Everyone" (2006)
 * "Big Mama" (2007)
 * "Walking On" (2011)

Albums

 * Godiego (新創世紀)
 * Buddy Soundtrack (いろはの〝い〟)
 * House Soundtrack (ハウス)
 * Dead End (デッド・エンド)
 * Ganbaron Soundtrack (小さなスーパーマン ガンバロン)
 * CM Song Graffiti (CMソング・グラフィティ)
 * Kaleidoscope (1978)
 * The Glacier Fox Soundtrack (キタキツネ物語)
 * The Roads Men Travel Soundtrack (男たちの旅路)
 * Magic Monkey (西遊記)
 * Our Decade (OUR DECADE -70年代僕たちの時代-)
 * Magic Capsule (1979)
 * London Celebration (1980)
 * Kathmandu (1980)
 * The Distant Trail Soundtrack (遥かなる走路)
 * Godiego Hit Special (1980)
 * Live in China (中国 后醍醐)
 * M.O.R. (1981)
 * CM Song Graffiti Vol. 2 (1982)
 * Hit Collection (1982)
 * Favourite Collection (1982)
 * Carry Love Song Collection (1983)
 * Flower (フラワー)
 * Original Hits Disc (1984)
 * Suite: Peace/Godiego Live (平和組曲・ゴダイゴ・ライヴ)
 * One Dimension Man (1984)
 * Side-A Collection (1984)
 * What a Beautiful Name (1999)
 * Intermission/Godiego Final Live+2 (1985)
 * Best Collection (1986)
 * W Deluxe (1987)
 * New Music Beat Choice 8 (1988)
 * Twin Deluxe (1990)
 * 15th Anniversary Godiego Box (1991)
 * Best Album (1992)
 * Godiego Great Best Vol. 1: Japanese Version (1994)
 * Godiego Great Best Vol. 2: English Version (1994)
 * Return of Godiego/Mickie Yoshino's Best Selection (1994)
 * Godiego Single Collection (1994)
 * Godiego Single Collection Vol. 2: B Side Collection (1995)
 * Godiego... What A Beautiful Name (1999)
 * Gold Godiego: Now And Then (1999)
 * Godiego Box (2008)
 * Golden Best (ゴールデン☆ベスト)
 * The Glacier Fox: Alternate Soundtracks + Yukihide Takekawa Home Recording Demo in 1978 (2009)

title: Godiego