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Hocus Pocus (novel)

Hocus Pocus, or What's the Hurry, Son? is a 1990 novel by Kurt Vonnegut.

Plot summary
In an editor's note at the beginning of the book, Vonnegut claims to have found hundreds of scraps of paper of varying sizes, from wrapping paper to business cards, sequentially numbered by their author to form a narrative. The breaks between pieces of paper often signal a sort of ironic "punchline".

The main character is Eugene Debs Hartke, a Vietnam War veteran and carillonneur who realizes that he has killed exactly as many people as the number of women he has had sex with. The character's name is an homage to American labor and political leader Eugene V. Debs and anti-war senator Vance Hartke, both from Vonnegut's home state, Indiana. Upon his discharge from the military, Hartke becomes a professor at Tarkington College in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, but is later fired for sexual misconduct.

Hartke then becomes a teacher at a private prison in the nearby town of Athena, New York. The prison is run by a Japanese corporation and overseen by Hartke's occasional acquaintance, Hiroshi Matsumoto. The prison is populated entirely by black inmates, America having been resegregated by both race and class. Hartke sets about teaching the inmates how to read.

After a massive prison break, the escaped inmates occupy Tarkington College and take the staff hostage. With the old prison destroyed in the breakout, Tarkington becomes a prison with Hartke as its warden. When it becomes known that the breakout was led by one of his former students, Hartke is accused of collaboration and becomes an inmate himself.

Upon completion of the riddle on the final page Eugene's number of sexual partners and confirmed kills is found to be 82.

Film adaptation
In March 2021, Uri Singer acquired the rights to adapt the novel into a film.

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Talk:Cure4Kids

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Came across this page when "random-surfing". Seems to me as if this is a vanity page, or at the very least EXTREMELY non-POV. A Google test turns up ~290 results, many of which are from the organization's own site. --Librarian Brent 04:49, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: Have you checked it for copyvio? Seems like a worthy organization, but this is an ad/page rank boost.  It's POV, but I suspect that's because it's a copy & paste.  Not sufficiently outstanding from other community medical services. Geogre 15:36, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep 1000 registered users among medical professionals worldwide is somewhat notable. I've removed the PoV. Wyss 00:31, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep - With the POV change, this is an acceptable article. Shadowe
 * Keep. --MPerel 17:00, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. --[[User:GRider|GRider\talk]] 19:05, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. The Recycling Troll 20:17, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Wesley Walker

Wesley Darcel Walker (born May 26, 1955) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL) from 1977 to 1989.

Early life
Walker graduated from Carson High School in Carson, California, where he set many receiving and return records, and was an All-American for the California Golden Bears, catching 86 passes for 2,206 yards and 22 touchdowns over the course of four seasons, an average of 25.7 yards per catch.

Professional career
Connie Carberg, the first female scout in NFL history was credited with helping the Jets in their selection of Walker in the second round of the 1977 NFL Draft. Walker had a limited start in his first weeks as a starter, catching six total passes in his first three games, although the October 2 game against the New England Patriots saw him catch his first touchdown pass from Richard Todd. He had his biggest game against the Oakland Raiders on October 23 with a game of 178 yards on four catches with a touchdown. In total of 14 games, he caught 35 passes for 740 yards with three touchdowns. The following season saw him break out. On opening day against Miami, he caught two touchdown passes while finishing with 108 yards on four receptions in a 33–20 victory. Six weeks later, he caught five passes for 154 yards with a touchdown in his best game in yardage for the year, which saw two more 100-yard games in a full slate of sixteen games. He caught 48 passes for 1,169 yards (averaging 24.3 yards per reception) with eight touchdowns. For his efforts, he was named to the Pro Bowl. He was the first Jet to lead the league in receiving yards since Don Maynard did so in the American Football League era and is currently the last Jet to lead the category as of 2023. Walker played in just nine games in 1979, catching 23 passes for 569 yards with five touchdowns. In the ninth week against Houston, he caught four passes for 111 yards, but he suffered a knee injury on a tackle by safety Mike Reinfeldt that knocked him out for the game and ultimately the rest of the year. Walker sprained his neck in the preseason before managing to get back in time for opening day in 1980. He then missed six games with a deep thigh bruise in the middle of the season. In total, he caught 18 passes for 376 yards with one touchdown.

Walker played in 13 games for the 1981 season, catching 47 passes for 770 yards with nine touchdowns. In his first playoff game as a receiver, facing the Buffalo Bills, he caught three passes for 24 yards in the 31–27 loss. The strike-shortened 1982 season saw Walker lose no steps in nine games. He caught 39 passes for 620 yards with six touchdowns while receiving a Pro Bowl selection. He had his first three-touchdown game on December 6 in a 28–13 win over Detroit. In the Wild Card round against the Cincinnati Bengals, he caught eight passes for 145 yards for a touchdown in the 44–17 victory. He continued his ways in the Divisional Round versus Los Angeles, catching seven passes for 169 yards and a touchdown to opening the scoring in a 17–14 victory. It would not extend to the AFC Championship against Miami, where he caught one pass for zero yards in a 14–0 loss. His best receiving season came in 1983, when he had 61 receptions to go with 868 yards and eight touchdowns in a full season of play. He played in twelve games in 1984 and caught 41 passes for 623 yards with seven touchdowns. He played the same amount of games the following year and caught 34 passes for 725 yards with five touchdowns while the Jets made the playoffs. He caught four passes for 54 yards in a 26–14 loss to New England. In 1986, he appeared in each game and caught 49 passes for 1,016 yards with a career-high twelve touchdowns. Four of them (a career best in a game for Walker) came in the September 21 game against Miami, which included both the game-tying and game-winning touchdown from Ken O'Brien in a wild 51–45 victory. The Jets made the playoffs for the fourth and final time with Walker on the roster. In the Wild Card game versus Kansas City, he caught two passes for 45 yards in the 35–15 victory. In the Divisional Round game against Cleveland, he caught the first score of the game from Pat Ryan while catching one other pass in a game that the Jets lost 23–20 in double overtime. Walker played in just five games in 1987, which was marred by a strike that saw Walker and other players not cross the picket lines while replacement players were used for three weeks. He separated his shoulder early against the Seattle Seahawks and ended up missing the rest of the season, having caught nine whole passes for 190 yards and one touchdown. He played in just six games of the 1988 season due to ankle issues, catching eight passes for 89 yards, with his last catch being against Atlanta on November 26. On April 12, 1990, the Jets cut Walker, and he retired not long after that.

He was noted for his great speed, averaging over 20 yards per reception over many seasons (his career average was 19 yards per reception). Legally blind in his left eye, Walker eventually retired as an all-time leader for the Jets. He had caught 438 passes for 8,306 yards and 71 touchdowns, which was second all-time to Don Maynard in each category in Jets history (he has stayed 2nd in receptions and touchdowns as of 2024). On October 8, 2012, he was inducted into the Jets Ring of Honor alongside teammate Mark Gastineau.

Personal life
Walker is now a retired physical education teacher at Park View Elementary School in Kings Park, New York, and an occasional sports radio show commentator. He has two sons and a daughter. His older son, John, was a 3x All-American lacrosse player at The United States Military Academy at West Point. His younger son, Austin, played lacrosse at Johns Hopkins University. He is also the godfather of Alexandra Florant, the daughter of the track and field star Carl Florant.

Like many former NFL players, Walker has a variety of ailments as a direct result from his playing days, which he detailed in a revealing 2016 interview with Long Island Pulse Magazine. He graduated from Mercy College.

Walker was inducted into the Suffolk Sports Hall of Fame on Long Island in the Football Category with the Class of 2000.

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Madang Province

Madang is a province of Papua New Guinea. The province is on the northern coast of mainland Papua New Guinea and has many of the country's highest peaks, active volcanoes and its biggest mix of languages. The capital is the town of Madang.

Districts and LLGs and clans
Each province in Papua New Guinea has one or more districts, and each district has one or more Local Level Government (LLG) areas. For census purposes, the LLG areas are subdivided into wards and those into census units.

Education
Tertiary educational institutions in Madang Province include:

 * Madang Technical College
 * Madang Marine Time College
 * Madang Teachers College
 * Divine Word University (DWU) is a national university and a leading tertiary institution in Papua New Guinea. Formerly Divine Word Institute, it was established by an Act of Parliament in 1980 and was established as a University in 1996. DWU It is ecumenical, coeducational and privately governed with government support.

Provincial leaders
The province was governed by a decentralised provincial administration, headed by a Premier, from 1978 to 1995. Following reforms taking effect that year, the national government reassumed some powers, and the role of Premier was replaced by a position of Governor, to be held by the winner of the province-wide seat in the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea.

Members of the National Parliament
The province and each district is represented by a Member of the National Parliament. There is one provincial electorate and each district is an open electorate.

Notable people

 * Yolarnie Amepou - herpetologist and conservationist.
 * Julia Mage’au Gray - choreographer and tattoo artist.

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Rotary Connection

Rotary Connection was an American psychedelic soul band, formed in Chicago in 1966.

In addition to their own recordings, including their 1967 debut album Rotary Connection, the band backed Muddy Waters on his 1968 psychedelic blues album Electric Mud. The band's members included Minnie Riperton, who would later emerge as a solo artist.

Foundation and debut album
The highly experimental band was the idea of Marshall Chess, son of Chess Records founder Leonard Chess. Marshall was the director behind a start-up label, Cadet Concept Records, and wanted to focus on music outside of the blues and rock genres, which had made the Chess label popular. This led Marshall to turn his attention to the burgeoning psychedelic movement. He recruited Charles Stepney, a vibraphonist and classically trained arranger and producer. Marshall then recruited members of a little-known white rock band, the Proper Strangers: Bobby Simms, Mitch Aliotta, and Ken Venegas. Sidney Barnes, a songwriter within the Chess organization, also joined, as did Judy Hauff and a Chess receptionist named Minnie Riperton, who would later be successful in her own solo career. Marshall also called up prominent session musicians associated with the Chess label, including guitarist Phil Upchurch and drummer Morris Jennings. Chess described the band's members as "the hottest, most avant garde rock guys in Chicago".

The band released their self-titled debut album in late 1967. It had various styles, borrowing heavily from pop, rock, and soul, but was not radio friendly. The album also boasted an Eastern influence through its use of the sitar on the tracks "Turn Me On" and "Memory Band". Stepney's arrangements, brought to life by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, imbued the album with a certain dreamlike quality; this would become a trademark of both the arranger and the mouthpiece.

Electric Mud and The Howlin' Wolf Album
As a result of the success of The Rotary Connection, Chess felt that he could revive the career of bluesmen Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, by recording two albums of experimental, psychedelic blues with members of Rotary Connection as the backing band for the singers, producing the albums Electric Mud (1968) and The Howlin' Wolf Album (1969). Chess hoped the new albums would sell well among fans of psychedelic rock bands influenced by Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. In place of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf's regular musicians were Gene Barge, Pete Cosey, Roland Faulkner, Morris Jennings, Louis Satterfield, Charles Stepney and Phil Upchurch. Cosey, Upchurch and Jennings joked about calling the group "The Electric Niggers". Marshall Chess liked the suggestion, but Leonard Chess refused to allow the name. Ultimately, blues purists criticized the psychedelic sound of Electric Mud and The Howlin' Wolf Album.

Further albums, Texas International Pop Festival and disbandment
In 1968, Rotary Connection released their second and third albums, Aladdin and Peace. Aladdin found Riperton assuming a more prominent vocal role than the "background instrument" status she had on the debut. The latter was a Christmas release, with strong messages of love and understanding for a nation in the grips of Vietnam. The album's cover art featured a hippie Santa Claus. Peace was notable for being involved in controversy: an anti-war cartoon, in a December 1968 edition of Billboard magazine, featured a graphic image of a bruised and bloodied Santa on a Vietnam battlefield. Mistaking this cartoon for the album's cover art, a drunken executive at Montgomery Ward cancelled all shipments of the album.

On August 30, 1969, the band played at the Texas International Pop Festival followed by the Palm Beach Pop Festival on November 29. Rotary Connection released three more albums: Songs, in 1969, a collection of drastic reworkings of other artists' songs, including Otis Redding's "Respect" and The Band's "The Weight"; Dinner Music in 1970, in which they added elements of folk and country into the mix along with some electronic experimentation; and Hey, Love in 1971, a more jazz-oriented LP on which the band was billed as the New Rotary Connection. From this album came "I Am the Black Gold of the Sun".

The outfit disbanded in 1974.

Revival
As part of the documentary film series The Blues (2003), produced by Martin Scorsese, members of the Rotary Connection recorded with rapper Chuck D and members of The Roots, to reflect the legacy of Electric Mud (1968).

Discography
Main albums
 * 1967: Rotary Connection (U.S. No. 37)
 * 1968: Aladdin (U.S. No. 176)
 * 1968: Peace (U.S. No. 24)
 * 1969: Songs
 * 1970: Dinner Music (written by Jon Stocklin)
 * 1971: Hey, Love (as The New Rotary Connection)

As backing band
 * 1968: Muddy Waters: Electric Mud
 * 1969: Howlin' Wolf: The Howlin' Wolf Album

Compilations
 * 2006: Black Gold: The Very Best of Rotary Connection

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Deadeye Dick

Deadeye Dick is a novel by Kurt Vonnegut originally published in 1982.

Plot summary
The novel's main character, Rudy Waltz, or "Deadeye Dick", commits accidental manslaughter as a child when he shoots a gun out of a window and fatally strikes a pregnant woman. Rudy was so traumatized and guilt-ridden by the incident that he lives life as an asexual "neuter," neither homosexual nor heterosexual. He tells the story of his life as a middle-aged expatriate hotel manager in Haiti, which symbolizes New York City, until the end, when the stream of time of the story catches up with him. At this point, he confronts an event that has been suggested and referred to throughout the novel. The generic Midwestern town of Midland City, Ohio, in which Rudy was raised, is virtually destroyed by a neutron bomb, all the people in the town dying. At the ending of the book, it appears that Rudy, while he may not have fully come to terms with his actions, has at least come to live with them.

Another key theme throughout the book is the relationship between Waltz and his parents and brother, Felix. His father, as a young man, lived in Austria and was one of the few people who was actually friends with Adolf Hitler before his rise to power. His father is also a failed artist, who does his best to protect Rudy, to the point when he insists on going to jail just to effectively make a point. Rudy's brother was the president of NBC, who is fired after his fourth marriage breaks up.

Place in the Vonnegut universe
Deadeye Dick is set mostly within fictional Midland City, Ohio, which is also the setting for one of Vonnegut's other seminal works, Breakfast of Champions. Several characters, locations, or concepts from that novel are mentioned in passing or have an active role in the story (e.g. Rabo Karabekian, Dwayne and Celia Hoover, the Mildred Barry Memorial Center for the Arts, and Barrytron Ltd., amongst others).

Reception
Dave Langford reviewed Deadeye Dick for White Dwarf #56, and stated that "The Vonnegut idiom of brief, flip, casual paragraphs lets him sneak through some shrewd blows under the lighthearted camouflage, but though often moving the technique sometimes rings hollow [...] Read the book, but warily."

Reviews

 * Review by Loree Rackstraw (1990) in Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Marginated Tortoise Hatchling

Marginated Tortoise Hatchling
I think this is a great picture of a new-hatched tortoise, showing how much they grow and mature; it's also extremely cute. My sole reservation is that it's not a natural setting, but I think the plain blue background avoids distracting from the subject matter. Photo by Richard Mayer, who obviously has some pets.
 * Nominate and support. --Andrew 04:52, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment. Just wanted to note that the related Image:Tortoise-Hatchling.JPG is already a featured picture. -- [[User:Solitude|Solitude\talk]] 09:35, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose. --Fir0002 23:05, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Would support if natural setting, but as cute as he is, this little guy's setting detracts in a major way. Does remind me of a naughty riddle about turtles on their backs, though. Denni ☯ 23:43, 2004 Dec 4 (UTC)
 * Support. Too cute to refuse. ZayZayEM 09:50, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose Agree with previos oppositions.--ScottyBoy900Q ∞ 00:04, 06 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Janderk 14:17, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Support.   – Quadell (talk) (help)   14:01, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * Support. This picture makes a great illustration for both Marginated Tortoise and  an article about baby animals.  Probably wouldn't make a good illustration for animals in their natural habitat Lorax 00:51, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)
 * Oppose because IMO it doesn't add significantly to the article. - [[User:Bevo|Bevo]] 00:08, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Not promoted: +4/-5 -- Solipsist 20:07, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shasta (soft drink)

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was - kept

Shasta (soft drink)
POV and misinformation about Shasta, of all things. I'm drinking some lemon-lime Shasta right now, it's not an "80s drink." You can buy it in 3 litre bottles at K-Mart, and as far as sodas go, it's mostly just another brand. - RedWordSmith 04:54, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

Changing my recommendation to a weak keep, as it's been completely rewritten. I'm not greatly enamored of the current article, but at least its content is accurate now. - RedWordSmith 18:49, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

 * I don't think it should be deleted, just edited. Shasta is a major soda in parts of the US. Phil179 04:53, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

 * Go ahead and edit it. The author, user:24.184.44.228, is a troll -- see his/her other contributions. Hoary 05:01, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete if it doesn't get cleaned up. DCEdwards1966 05:54, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC) Changed to Keep after the rewrite. DCEdwards1966 22:00, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

 * Keep and clean it up. —[[en:RaD Man|RaD Man (talk)]] 06:39, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Weak Delete if not cleaned or if reverted by troll, but it's better now. There is a bit to say about Shasta, as it was the first "generic" cola/knock-off brand to make any dent in the US.  While now many supermarkets sell their own brands of knock-off drinks, many are actually still Shasta, and Shasta was the first.  If 2L of Coke cost $1.09, Shasta would cost $0.90.  (All of that would need verification, a link to their website, a link to fan appreciation pages, etc.)  Geogre 15:40, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * I'll have to concur with Radman. The article is definitely worth keeping, but needs some cleaning up and fleshing out. --BDD

 * Keep but cleanup is definitely needed. Why is this even being nominated? Because it has POV? Honestly, people. Mike H 16:58, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)
 * Did you see the version I nominated? "Shasta, an 80's drink that, according to Dr. Alien!, the greatest movie of all time, will give you enhanced sexual and combat prowess...." And that was the meat of it! - RedWordSmith 18:49, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

 * Keep. It's a valid topic for an article, and the current article isn't so much a bad article as in dire need of more content. [[User:Livajo|力伟|☺]] 16:59, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Keep. The stuff's been a part of American popular culture for at least forty years. May need cleanup. Wyss 00:22, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Well-known brands, companies, etc. are valid. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality/talk]] 00:23, Dec 6, 2004 (UTC)

 * Keep. Yet another soda brand.  --[[User:GRider|GRider\talk]] 19:05, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Keep. Valid topic.  Could use more content, though.  --Edeans 01:46, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. As valid as Coca Cola and Pepsi. --MPerel 19:49, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Sollog

Sollog is one of the most discussed topics on the Net, he has close to 100,000 posts about him in usenet.

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=sollog&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search

There should be a neutral place in wikpedia for sollog, since many are searching on the net for him

Skeptics say he does not know the future

Sollog says he does

Sollog posted warnings via usenet that were archived by google, the dates are time-stamped by google, the proof he knows the future is self evident, look at these posts that gave clear warnings about 911 and the Madrid Massacre

On 9/11/1998 Sollog warned of a major emergency in DC on 911

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=6tb7rp%24gvr%241%40winter.news.erols.com

Two years before the March 11th Madrid Massacre occured, Sollog warned of major terrorism on March 11th the exact date of the Madrid Massacre

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=9dca61bc.0203072305.28bb8518%40posting.google.com

Sollog was referred to in the Lycos Top 50 after 911 due to all the people looking for info on his 911 Prophecy

http://50.lycos.com/091701a.html

Alexa reports his site was in the top 2K after 911

http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?&range=5y&size=medium&compare_sites=&y=t&url=sollog.com#top

Therefore, due to the sheer amount of posts and web pages about Sollog as the links above prove, the fact he was a major search term as lycos reported, the fact his web site has huge traffic as Alexa verifies, there should be a neutral reference to him and his work on Wiki, IMHO.

Page protected
Since this page is occasionally subject to vandalism, and it should never change (being an archive of the deletion discussion), it has been protected. -- Khym Chanur 09:10, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Dropped it to semi, which I gather was not around in 2005. Bots, AWB runs, etc. sometimes still need to edit old AfDs. Jenks24 (talk) 17:33, 6 August 2015 (UTC)


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All Night Nippon

All Night Nippon (オールナイトニッポン) is a Japanese radio program broadcast by Nippon Broadcasting System and other radio stations from 1–5 am (JST). It preempts broadcasts from TBS Radio's programming heard on stations under both JRN and NRN (TBC Radio, CBC Radio, etc.).

DJs
The day of the week below are for the evening preceding in Japan, i.e. day in UTC.
 * Mondays – Thursdays, 13:00 UTC – 15:00 UTC with "All Night Nippon Music 10 (オールナイトニッポンMUSIC10)" (aired on 11 radio stations in Japan)
 * Mondays: Ryoko Moriyama
 * Tuesdays: Anju Suzuki
 * Wednesdays: Yuko Natori (first and third Wednesday), Chisato Moritaka (second Wednesday), Kaori Kishitani (fourth Wednesday)
 * Thursdays: Marina Watanabe
 * Mondays – Saturdays, 16:00 UTC – 18:00 UTC with "All Night Nippon (オールナイトニッポン)" (aired on 36 radio stations in Japan)
 * Mondays: Yuki Yamada
 * Tuesdays: Gen Hoshino
 * Wednesdays: Nogizaka46
 * Thursdays: Ninety-nine
 * Fridays: Shimofuri Myojo
 * Saturdays: Audrey
 * Mondays – Thursdays, 18:00 UTC – 19:30 UTC with "All Night Nippon 0(ZERO) (オールナイトニッポン0(ZERO))" (aired on 34 radio stations in Japan)
 * Mondays: Fuwa-Chan
 * Tuesdays: Ano
 * Wednesdays: Nobuyuki Sakuma
 * Thursdays: Magical Lovely
 * Fridays, 18:00 UTC – 20:00 UTC with "All Night Nippon 0(ZERO) (オールナイトニッポン0(ZERO))" (aired on 34 radio stations in Japan)
 * Fridays: Sanshiro
 * Saturdays, 14:30 UTC – 16:00 UTC with "SixTONES No All Night Nippon Saturday Special (SixTONESのオールナイトニッポンサタデースペシャル )" (aired on 34 radio stations in Japan)
 * SixTONES
 * Saturdays, 18:00 UTC – 20:00 UTC with "All Night Nippon 0(ZERO) (オールナイトニッポン0(ZERO))" (aired on 34 radio stations in Japan from 18:00 UTC until 19:00 UTC, on 31 radio stations from 19:00 UTC until 20:00 UTC )
 * Except final Saturday: weekly
 * Final Saturday: Yarens

Jingle
Before commercial breaks, a jingle is sung. The current one is performed by Gen Hoshino. Other artists who sang the ANN Jingle are these:

 * 1) kz (livetune) x HachiojiP (Vocal:Hatsune Miku)
 * 2) Man with a Mission
 * 3) Yu Sakai
 * 4) Girl Next Door
 * 5) Remark Spirits
 * 6) !wagero!
 * 7) Hanako Oku
 * 8) Tommy February6
 * 9) Sum 41
 * 10) Changing My Life (.com)
 * 11) savage genius (SUPER)
 * 12) smorgas
 * 13) Unknown
 * 14) Ram Jam World
 * 15) Charmysmile & Greenhead
 * 16) Ken Hirai
 * 17) L⇔R
 * 18) Selfish
 * 19) Keizo Nakanishi
 * 20) To Be Continued
 * 21) Crayon-sha
 * 22) Hiroko Taniyama
 * 23) Miyuki Nakajima
 * 24) Junko Ohashi
 * 25) Taeko Onuki
 * 26) Toshiki Kadomatsu
 * 27) Mariya Takeuchi
 * 28) Tatsuro Yamashita
 * 29) EPO
 * 30) The Three Graces

Popular culture
In 1986, Nintendo developed All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros., a special Family Computer Disk System version of Super Mario Bros., as a contest prize for listeners. The game mostly consisted of levels from the original Super Mario Bros., though it also included some levels, graphics, and other gameplay changes from the Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2. Some enemies, characters, and level elements had their graphics changed to reflect people or symbols associated with All Night Nippon or the Nippon Broadcasting System.

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Cowan rail accident

The Cowan rail accident occurred at 7:20pm on 6 May 1990 when the 3801 Limited special steam passenger train returning from the Morpeth Jazz Festival was struck in the rear by the following CityRail inter-urban passenger service. The steam train had stalled while attempting to climb the steep gradient from the Hawkesbury River to Cowan, New South Wales, and it was found that sand applied to the rails to regain traction had interfered with the signals and given the following train a false clear indication.

Overview
The crash occurred approximately 5 km south of Brooklyn, New South Wales, near the Boronia No. 3 tunnel. The railway line at this point, known as the Cowan Bank, is 2.5% (1 in 40) grade and, as the special hauled by steam locomotive 3801 passed southwards through the No. 3 tunnel, the wheels of the locomotive started to slip. The driver of 3801 applied sand to the rails to improve traction, but the train came to a complete stop approximately 50 metres clear of the tunnel. Passengers on the steam train reported seeing a signal fluctuating aspects between green and yellow. The following CityRail V set inter-urban train, which had been halted at the northern entrance to Boronia No. 4 tunnel for 10 minutes by a red stop signal, received a green indication and proceeded, colliding with the steam train shortly after.

The impact killed the driver of the inter-urban train, Gordon Hill, and a passenger who was riding in its cab, as well as four passengers in the rear carriage of 3801's train. The passengers killed were the recently retired Vice Chancellor of the University of Sydney, John Manning Ward, his wife and daughter, and the wife of the University's Registrar. 99 passengers were injured, 11 of those seriously. The force of the crash completely destroyed the last carriage of the steam train, and was enough to break the locomotive coupling and push the engine 12 metres forward.

A subsequent coronial inquiry, headed by NSW State Coroner Derrick Hand, found in December 1990 that the sand that had been applied to the track by 3801 to aid traction had insulated the train from the rails, meaning that the track circuits failed to detect the presence of the first train, allowing the following inter-urban train to be given a false green (clear) aspect (known as a wrong-side failure). Mr Hand also considered it likely that a passenger on 3801 had applied a handbrake on the third carriage, and that this, combined with the heavy load, the steep grade and the curvature of the line, had prevented the steam train from restarting. No fault was found with the signalling system, although the coroner recommended that it be upgraded as soon as possible.

Contributing factors
Contributing factors include:
 * AC track circuits, which are less sensitive at detecting rail vehicles.
 * Sand on the rails insulated the train's wheels and prevented the track circuit from detecting it - the train effectively became invisible to the signalling system.
 * The signalling system was two-aspect colour light - a three aspect colour light may have provided the driver of the following train with more warning.
 * No sand removal system fitted to 3801.
 * No mechanism (at the time) for train-to-train or train-to-signalman communication (communication with signal boxes was only possible by track-side phones).
 * It is believed that the handbrakes on one of the carriages may have been applied as a stunt.

Consequences

 * An interim ban was placed on the use of steam locomotives on the NSW railway system. The ban was lifted 9 months later.
 * Operators were required to use one State Rail employee on each train
 * Operators were required to carry insurance cover of $10 million. The government agreed to underwrite any claims exceeding that amount.

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Lickorish–Wallace theorem

In mathematics, the Lickorish–Wallace theorem in the theory of 3-manifolds states that any closed, orientable, connected 3-manifold may be obtained by performing Dehn surgery on a framed link in the 3-sphere with ±1 surgery coefficients. Furthermore, each component of the link can be assumed to be unknotted.

The theorem was proved in the early 1960s by W. B. R. Lickorish and Andrew H. Wallace, independently and by different methods. Lickorish's proof rested on the Lickorish twist theorem, which states that any orientable automorphism of a closed orientable surface is generated by Dehn twists along 3g − 1 specific simple closed curves in the surface, where g denotes the genus of the surface. Wallace's proof was more general and involved adding handles to the boundary of a higher-dimensional ball.

A corollary of the theorem is that every closed, orientable 3-manifold bounds a simply-connected compact 4-manifold.

By using his work on automorphisms of non-orientable surfaces, Lickorish also showed that every closed, non-orientable, connected 3-manifold is obtained by Dehn surgery on a link in the non-orientable 2-sphere bundle over the circle. Similar to the orientable case, the surgery can be done in a special way which allows the conclusion that every closed, non-orientable 3-manifold bounds a compact 4-manifold.

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Always Never the Same (Kansas album)

Always Never the Same is the thirteenth studio album by American rock band Kansas, released in 1998. This album consists of mostly covers of the band’s previous work, re-recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra. New songs include "In Your Eyes", "The Sky Is Falling", "Need to Know" and the instrumental "Preamble". "Prelude & Introduction" is a medley of the Kansas songs "Carry On Wayward Son", "Point of Know Return", "Opus Insert", and "Lamplight Symphony". The album also includes a cover of The Beatles’ "Eleanor Rigby". "Carry On Wayward Son" was also recorded during this time, in case strong sales would bring forth a second symphonic album, but was never released. This is the final Kansas album to include new songs from lead singer/keyboardist Steve Walsh.

Personnel

 * Kansas
 * Steve Walsh – keyboards, lead vocals
 * Robby Steinhardt – violin, lead and backing vocals
 * Rich Williams – guitars, producer
 * Billy Greer – bass, vocals
 * Phil Ehart – drums, producer

 * Additional musicians
 * The London Symphony Orchestra, arranged and conducted by Larry Baird

 * Production
 * Trammell Starks - producer, digital editing
 * Russ Fowler, James Majors, Jim "Z" Zumpano - engineers
 * Peter Cobbin - orchestra recordings engineer
 * Jeff Glixman - mixing at Tree Sound Studios, Atlanta, Georgia
 * Greg Calbi - mastering at Masterdisk, New York
 * Brian Jobson, James Majors - digital editing
 * Michael Allen - copyist
 * Pennie Moore, Conni Treantafeles - art direction and design
 * Marti Griffin - photography

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Bilibil people

Prior to 1904, the Bilibil people lived on an island offshore from Madang, Papua New Guinea, trading clay pots along the coast from Karkar Island to western Morobe Province. The island was too small to produce enough food for the inhabitants, and the trade therefore was an essential element of their life. They moved to the mainland to their existing village site to improve their subsistence levels. They speak the Bilibil language, an Austronesian language.

Pot making
Bilibil women make pots, which are still produced in the traditional way. Clay for the pots is collected locally, and mixed with sand and water. The pots are hollowed out with stones and smoothed on the outside by beating with a flat board. Before they are fired, red clay is painted on the pots. This turns them a glossy red and black when they are pulled out of the fire.

The pots are put to many uses; most importantly, they are used for bride price ceremonies. Sometimes pots are still bartered for food. Inland people meet the Bilibils at a pre-arranged place, and pots are exchanged for taro and yams from the mountains. No money is used in these exchanges.

Relationship to the ocean
Traditionally the Bilibils have been great seamen. They built large two-masted canoes which they would use to travel hundreds of kilometres along the coast to trade with other villages. Tools for boat building were made from wood, pig's bone, sharpened bamboo and stone. In 1978, it had been 40 years since a traditional canoe had been built by the Bilibil people, and the skills for building these boats had been almost lost. Four elderly men taught the others how to build a canoe using local trees for the hull, the outrigger and the supports. The sail was woven out of pandanus leaves, a shelter was built from bamboo with palm leaves for a roof, and a wooden cockatoo, a clan totem, was attached to the mast.

Bilibil traditions
Traditional houses had roofs that came to the ground, and each clan had a men's house which the women were not allowed to enter. Nowadays each family lives in their own house. They are made from bush materials and have large airy verandahs. The houses are about two metres off the ground; the women sit underneath and make their pots.

Most of the cooking and eating is done outside. Yams and taro are the staple diet and these are grown in large gardens behind the village. The men do the initial preparation of a new garden, but the women do most of the gardening. The yams are ready for harvest in June, and the harvest is celebrated with yam feasts. June is also the traditional new year as marked by the appearance of the Pleiades.

Young men are initiated into manhood by the older Bilibil men who take them over to Bilibil Island for about 12 days and instruct them in the way to behave as adults. When they return to the village, they are paraded through the houses and a celebration is held with feasting and dancing.

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Nippon Broadcasting System

Nippon Broadcasting System, Inc. (株式会社ニッポン放送), or JOLF, is a Japanese radio station in Yurakucho, Chiyoda ward, Tokyo, next to the Tokyo Imperial Palace. Founded in 1954, it is together with Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, the flagship station of the National Radio Network. Nippon Broadcasting System is a subsidiary of Fuji Media Holdings and both companies are affiliated with the Fujisankei Communications Group. It is also the main company of the Nippon Broadcasting Group. Nippon Broadcasting System was instrumental in the creation of several companies including Fuji Television in 1957, Pony Canyon in 1966 and the Fujisankei Communications Group in 1967. Nippon Broadcasting System is also the home of the long-running radio program All Night Nippon.

From July 15, 1954, to September 30, 1967, the station used the abbreviation "NBS" derived from Nippon Broadcasting System. Since October 1, 1967, it has used the call sign JOLF and identified itself with the last two letters "LF".

In 1990, Nippon Broadcasting System sued its rival Radio Nippon to prevent it from using both the "R · F · Radio Japan" and "Radio Japan" trademarks. Nippon Broadcasting System lost the lawsuit.

In 1992, JOLF started broadcasting in C-QuAM stereo, continuing until March 31, 2024.

A labor union was formed at Nippon Broadcasting System for the first time in September 12, 2005.

Nippon Broadcasting System was historically the parent company of Fuji Television despite the latter being a much larger company than the former. Both companies were founded in the 1950s and were part of the Fujisankei Communications Group. In 2005, the relation between the two companies was reversed and Nippon Broadcasting System became the subsidiary of Fuji Television.

In April 2006, the radio broadcaster and its station license was spun off into a new separate company called "Nippon Broadcasting System" owned by Fuji Television. Fuji Television absorbed the rest of the old Nippon Broadcasting System company that was founded in 1954 and took over its assets. As a result, former subsidiaries of Nippon Broadcasting System such as Pony Canyon were transferred to Fuji Television who was later renamed Fuji Media Holdings in 2008.

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User talk:Improv/political viewpoints

How about charting the responses of everyone who has bothered to fill this out?

Would you be agreeable to placing a standard element on the page (perhaps a small graphic) that would allow the "What links here" page to provide a list of everyone who responds to this survey?

It might also be interesting to chart this survey for various legislators. This could help to identify which legislators most identify with the political stands of the average editor.

— DV 05:01, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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