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Hagersville, Ontario

Hagersville is a community in Haldimand County, Ontario in Canada.

History
Upon the construction of Highway 6, known formerly as the Plank Road, a small village popped up around 1855 when Charles and David Hager bought most of the land in the centre of the area. David Almas owned the land on the east side of the road, while John Porter owned the land in the west end.

The building of the Canada Southern Railroad in 1870, and of the Hamilton and Lake Erie Railway three years later helped to make Hagersville a prosperous village in 1879.

Close by the rail crossing was The Junction Hotel, later becoming The Lawson Hotel after a change in ownership. Perhaps it was best known as Murph's Place when retired NHL player Ron Murphy took ownership. It was also known as the Hagersville Inn, but today it is known as The Old Lawson House. In 1852, Charles Hager built a frame hotel at the corner of the Plank Road and Indian Line. Hagersville's first post office was in this hotel and Joseph Seymour suggested the community be called Hagersville to honour the Hager brothers. As of 2020, the Lawson property offered rooms as affordable housing for many residents.

During World War II No. 16 Service Flying Training School RCAF was established by the Royal Canadian Air Force as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan at 274 Concession 11 Walpole 3.5 km southwest of Hagersville. No. 16 SFTS opened on 8 August 1941 and closed on 30 March 1945. After the RCAF finished with the site it was used by the Canadian Army for various purposes and was known as Camp Hagersville. The camp was closed in 1964. Between the 1960s and 1990s, the camp was used as a residence for youth and then a flea market. As of 2013 the site was an industrial park. Some of the military homes are still there, and the housing area is known as "White Oaks Village". A good view of the site and the old hangars is had from Concession 10 Walpole. The base was located at 42.92833°N, -80.12583°W.

In 1990, a large uncontrolled tire fire emitted fumes of toxic smoke into the atmosphere for seventeen days. The fire itself occurred on Concession 13 Walpole, about 8km from Hagersville, but media credited it to Hagersville since it was the largest town in close proximity. The so-called "Hagersville Tire Fire" has reportedly been linked to long-term health issues, including some "rare, aggressive cancers," among firefighters who experienced the event first-hand.

Location and airports

 * Hagersville is approximately 45 km southwest of Hamilton, Ontario, 15 km southwest of Caledonia, Ontario, and 24 km northeast of Port Dover, Ontario.
 * Hagersville's nearest airports are Hamilton/John C. Munro International Airport (CYHM) (27 km) (formerly Mount Hope Airport), Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ) (105 km), and Buffalo Niagara International Airport (BUF) (128 km).

Demographics and area
Hagersville is a population centre with a land area of 3.17 km2.

Hagersville's 2021 population was 3,059, a 4.1% growth from the 2016 population.

Hagersville's 2016 population was 2,815, a 14% growth from the 2011 population of 2,579. Of the total population, 87.5% are European, 9% are First Nation and 3.5% are visible minorities (mostly Filipino, South Asian and Latin American).

Hagersville is adjacent to Mississaugas of the Credit and Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation reserves.

Ethnicity
Only those populations which compose more than 1% of the population have been included.

Language
As of the 2021 census, there were 2,920 citizens that spoke English only, 70 that spoke both official languages and 5 that spoke neither.

Religion
As of the 2021 census, there were 1,655 citizens identifying as Christian and 1,295 as non-religious and secular perspectives.

Education
Public education in Hagersville is administered by the Grand Erie District School Board and the Catholic schools by the Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic District School Board. Schools located in Hagersville include:

 * Hagersville Secondary School
 * Hagersville Elementary School
 * St. Mary's School

Activities

 * Hagersville Memorial Arena

Parks

 * Haldimand Memorial Arboretum
 * Hagersville Lions Pool
 * Grant Kett Park

Annual

 * Hagersville Rocks
 * Hagersville Summers End Festival

Notable people

 * Hagersville was the birthplace of Neil Peart (1952–2020), drummer of the Canadian rock group Rush.
 * Hagersville is the birthplace of Becky Kellar-Duke (1975-), who is a 4 time Olympian with 3 gold medals and 1 silver in Women's Hockey.
 * Hagersville is the birthplace of Carl Reid (1950-), Roman Catholic priest, who is Ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross in Australia.
 * Hagersville was the birthplace of Jay Silverheels (1912–1980), who played Tonto in the 1950s television series The Lone Ranger.
 * Hagersville is home to the Hagersville Hawks, a junior hockey team that plays in the Niagara & District Junior C Hockey League.

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Talk:Kristi Yamaguchi

Biography assessment rating comment
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The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 18:29, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Discussion
I fixed the paragraph that claimed Yamaguchi and Teresa Weld Blanchard were the only women to have won both US singles and pairs titles, and that Galindo and Ken Shelley were the only men to do so. It turns out there are many other skaters (both male and female) who have accomplished this -- just none recently. The other women include Beatrix Loughran, Maribel Vinson, Joan Tozzer, and Yvonne Sherman; and the other men are Norman Scott, Nathaniel Niles, Sherwin Badger, and Eugene Turner. Dr.frog 22:28, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Kristi's new daughter, born 11/16 http://www.newsobserver.com/122/story/368428.html (last paragraph)

Kristi's Last Name
Is Kristi's last name still Yamaguchi or is it Hedican?--BigMac1212 18:11, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Competitive Highlights
I started this table like the ones I saw on other figure skaters pages. I looked around the net, but I can only find references to these gold medals she won. I imagine she must have placed other than first in her career. If you could fill it out and place it, that would be great. Or, if you don't know how to make the table work, just put the info here and someone else will do it. If you want to see what a full Highlights table looks like check out, Nancy Kerrigan or Tonya Harding. Noit 02:45, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Picture
Does someone have a working free pic of her to add to article?--Xiahou 21:18, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Birthdates
This article had a lot of birthdates, which is considered pretty private information by most. Since these are living people, I have followed the WP:BIO suggestion and removed the exact dates. It's not going to stop a determined stalker, of course (there's the edit history) but at least doesn't look as invasive of privacy. Jpp42 03:29, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Race or A Kinda Ugly Win?
While I am not ready to dismiss racism entirely as a possible reason why Kristi didn't get many major endorsements after her Olympic win, I do remember her win, and especially her long program as being less than perfect. The description in the article touches on that fact. Kristi excelled in the compulsories, and back then that carried more weight than it does today. Her long program wasn't the perfect tour de force that the public would expect from an Olympic Champion, her closest competitors were just worse. That Olympic Finals seemed to be a bunch of Women trying to land hard jumps, and failing, and Kristi was the only artist, it seemed. Not a great final, by any means. And you can't make the comparison to Kerrigan without pointing out what a household name Kerrigan had become after being attacked. Mikevegas40 11:38, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

To the contrary, Kristi had a flawless short program. In her long program, she landed five clean triples. Two were in combination (triple-triple), and one was with a split jump entry. She doubled her triple salchau and touched down on her triple loop. She also had two double axels. Basing it on triple jumps, Kristi and Midori Ito each had five triples. Kristi had a triple-triple and Midori had the triple axel. Midori Ito had a fall whereas Kristi only touched down.

Two years later, Oksana Baiul won the gold with four triples, a doubled triple toe loop, a two footed landing on her triple flip, and one double axel. She had no triples in combination. The programs of Midori Ito and Kristi Yamaghuchi two years earlier were technically superior.

Also, compulsories were ended in 1990 so they were not part of the 1992 Olympics. Kristi did NOT excel in compulsories.

The argument that endorsements are based on the level of performance that won a gold medal has no quantitative support.

Nancy Kerrigan being attacked has no relevance here. Kerrigan received a Campbells endorsement after the 1992 Olympics which Kristi won. The attack was two years in the future.

I do recall an interview with Yamaguchi about lack of sponsors. She was disappointed and it got back to her that she didn't "represent the All-American girl". I have no source on this it was quite a long time ago. This entire issue would need more research. She was, however, featured on a Wheaties box in 1998 as part of a series of Olympic Legends.--Wlmg (talk) 19:07, 23 May 2020 (UTC)

POV and Irrelevant
Her grandparents are described as "victims of the United States' anti-Japanese policies during World War II". This seems both unnecessarily harsh and irrelevant. The use of the term "victim" implies that U.S. actions were wrong. Would you say that Elvis Presley and Willie Mays were "victims" of U.S. military conscription (the articles on Elvis and Willie do not call them "victims")? In any case, the article is about Kristi Yamaguchi, not about her grandparents. Did the fact that her grandparents sat out the war in a prison camp have a direct and important impact on Kristi Yamaguchi's life, or on her skating (the reason the article is here)? Readin (talk) 20:49, 12 February 2008 (UTC) conscription

The above poster seems ignorant of Japanese American history and the effect that the internment had on the interpersonal relationships of Japanese American. Shikata ga nai and the reticence of discussing anything about the internment is prominent with Japanese American internees, and the shame is handed generationally.

The above poster also seems ignorant of the fact that in 1988, President Reagan formally apologized for the internment of Japanese Americans. The Civil Liberties Act of 1988, "Restitution for World War II internment of Japanese-Americans and Aleuts" states that the purpose of the act is to "acknowledge the fundamental injustice of the evacuation, relocation, and internment of United States citizens and permanent resident aliens of Japanese ancestry during World War II."

The above poster also seems ignorant of what happened to Japanese Americann citizens. American citizens were encamped, personal property was taken or destroyed, and accusations of "anti-American activity" was common. The comparison to the draft is offensive. The internment was based on ethnicity. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kenmikec (talk • contribs) 01:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Like how it is worded now. "Victim" is accurate though technically pov - it is best to describe it (or link to where Wikipedia describes the practice) than label it with a word (unless one is quoting someone). But "anti-Japanese" - objectively they were because of the fear that Japanese Americans would be more loyal to Japan that the United States (note that German Americans were not put into camps). This was a practice where families were stripped of their businesses and property and belongings and sent to live in prison camps - men, women and children (although, in the Canadian experience, the men were usually separated from their wives and families and sent to work camps). Children being prisoners of war just because of their ancestry (and whose parents had committed no crimes) - it says the same thing without using the labels - and "victim" is putting it mildly. An official apology is also acknowledgment that a wrong was done (as well as an attempt to garner votes).

Actually I came here because Kristy Yamaguchi and Bret Hedican are going to be guest judges on Battle of the Blades on Sunday November 1 2009 and Monday November 2 2009. They said so at the very end of Monday's episode - Week 4 Results. She is the first American judge (guest or otherwise) - you can look up the others who were all Canadian born. ```` 24.77.75.185 (talk) 03:26, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

@Readin. Yes. Her grandparents were indeed victims because the US Government officially apologized for the racist and illegal internment camps. It violated their civil rights. Hence, they were VICTIMS. Got it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ducati748 (talk • contribs) 02:42, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Curb your enthusiasm
The following text was recently added by user:Dec5 But Kristi did prove the nay sayers wrong..and she did eventually surpass Kerrigan in long term contracts with high fashion firms like Celanese Acetate..and made multi millions headlining Stars on Ice for a decade. Kristi also became the perfect wholesome American Image in mega profile "Got Milk "Ads and got her face on a Wheaties box!

She still has her own Christmas Skating show for the Holidays. Kristi has been reported to have earned 2million dollars a year for more than 10 years..which probably puts Kristi in the 20million dollar range... Kristi has become one of the endorsement icons still sought after today....when most have faded away.

Kristi continues to be in the limelight in competing in Dancing with the Stars in 2008. Dec5, while I assume the facts are right and I even personally agree with the tone, the tone isn't really appropriate for an encyclopedic article. Please rewrite to make the tone a little more objective.Readin (talk) 14:39, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

Fixed dancing with the Stars formatting
I combined the two references to Dancing with the Stars into a single reference. It didn't make sense for them to be in two different sections. My intent was not to change the meaning in any way. --Tlbernstein (talk) 06:43, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

clubfoot
According to this, Kristi Yamaguchi was born with a club foot (a birth defect in which the foot is twisted downward and inverted). Would this and other information be important to include in this article? Such as, how she managed to live with her club foot and/or fix it. What do you guys think? --RACiEP (talk) 00:27, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

 * If it is true it would certainly be worth including in the article given her vocation. How reliable is your source?  I wonder because again, given her vocation, it seems it would be something worth mentioning frequently and thus already well-known.Readin (talk) 01:56, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

 * Kristi said this herself on dancing with the stars and showed pictures of her as a baby in casts. Vjydanz (talk) 19:06, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

User Raceiep cannot see the encyclopedic worth of noting that Kristi Yamaguchi was born with a club foot? It was well known before Dancing with the Stars on which she discusses it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kenmikec (talk • contribs) 02:02, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Neutrality of the "Judges' Critique" section
This section takes the word "critique" quite the wrong way and delivers only criticism, not positive remarks. It is absolutely ridiculous there are no good things from the judges listed here, as those were the majority of their comments. I also question the necessity of listing it by week, and that there are so few citations, but that's beyond this point. --Fbv65 e del — t — c // 03:31, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

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Gus Bell

David Russell "Gus" Bell Jr. (November 15, 1928 – May 7, 1995) was an American professional baseball player and scout. He played in Major League Baseball as a center fielder from 1950 to 1964, most prominently as a member of the Cincinnati Reds, where he was a four-time All-Star and a member of Cincinnati's 1961 National League pennant-winning team. Bell had 100 or more runs batted in four times during his Reds career and batted .292 or better six times.

Bell also played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Mets and Milwaukee Braves. He was inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in 1964.

Family
A native of Louisville, Kentucky, and graduate of Bishop Benedict Joseph Flaget High School, Bell was the oldest member of a rare three-generation major league family. He was nicknamed "Gus" as a youngster because he was a fan of longtime MLB player Gus Mancuso. His son Buddy has been a third baseman, coach, manager and front-office executive in the majors since 1972, and his grandsons, former MLB infielders David and Mike, became coaches, managers or player development officials after their playing careers.

Gus Bell wore uniform #25 during his nine years with the Cincinnati Reds (known as the "Redlegs" from 1953 to 1958). Buddy Bell wore 25 in tribute to his father during much of his playing and managing career, including his 1985–88 tenure with the Reds. David Bell, named manager of the Reds in, carried on the tradition when he took Cincinnati uniform #25 as well.

Pittsburgh Pirates
Bell was 18 years old when he made his pro debut in the Pirates' farm system in 1947. In both 1948 and 1949, he batted over .300, and led the Eastern League in hits during the latter season. A torrid start to his 1950 season at Triple-A Indianapolis — he hit .400 with 66 hits in 38 games — earned him a call-up to Pittsburgh. He debuted on May 30 playing both ends of a Memorial Day doubleheader against the St. Louis Cardinals at Forbes Field, and went four for ten; then, the following day, against the Boston Braves, he maintained the same pace, with two hits in five at bats. He ended his rookie season with a .282 batting mark in 111 games as the Bucs' starting rightfielder.

Bell played for the Pirates through, leading the National League in triples with 12 in , and driving in 89 runs. On June 4, 1951, he hit for the cycle against the Philadelphia Phillies. In 2004, his grandson David hit for the cycle; Gus Bell and David Bell are the only grandfather-grandson duo in major league history to hit for the cycle.

But a terrible 1952 campaign, during which the Pirates compiled a franchise-worst 42–112 record and Bell slumped to a .250 batting mark in 131 games, led to his October 14, 1952, trade to the Cincinnati Reds for three players.

Cincinnati Redlegs/Reds
During his nine years with Cincinnati from through, Bell achieved success and popularity. A four-time NL All-Star selection (1953–54, 1956–57), he enjoyed his best seasons in 1953, when he hit .300 with 30 home runs and 105 RBI, and in, batting .308 with 27 home runs and 104 RBI. Four times, he recorded more than 100 RBI in a season and hit 103 home runs from 1953 to.

Bell hit home runs in three consecutive at-bats on May 29, 1956. During the 1956 season, Bell, Ted Kluszewski and Bob Thurman became the second trio of teammates each to have three-home run games in the same season. The feat had been accomplished by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1950 (Duke Snider, Roy Campanella and Tommy Brown) and subsequently was equally by the Cleveland Indians in 1987 (Cory Snyder, Joe Carter and Brook Jacoby).

In, Bell and six of his teammates – Ed Bailey, Johnny Temple, Roy McMillan, Don Hoak, Wally Post and Frank Robinson — were voted to the National League All-Star starting lineup, the result of a ballot stuffing campaign by Cincinnati fans. Bell remained on the team as a reserve, but Post was taken off altogether due to injury. Bell and Post were replaced as starters by Hank Aaron and Willie Mays. Bell entered the game as a pinch hitter for Robinson in the seventh and drove in both Mays and Bailey with a double against Early Wynn.

Bell's last season as a regular outfielder was, when he started 122 of the Reds' 154 games. In 1961, his final year with Cincinnati, he was a part-time player (starting 54 games) on the Reds' first pennant-winning team in 21 years. In the 1961 World Series, Bell was called on to pinch hit in Games 3, 4 and 5 and went hitless in three at bats. One day after the conclusion of the Fall Classic, won by the New York Yankees four games to one, Bell was the eighth overall selection in the primary phase of the National League expansion draft by the New York Mets.

New York Mets
Bell started the season with the Mets, and on April 11, 1962, he was the starting right fielder in the Mets' inaugural game. He became the first base runner in Met history after hitting a single in the second inning of an 11–4 loss to the Cardinals. But he collected only 15 hits in 101 at bats (.149) in 30 games with the expansion club.

Milwaukee Braves
On May 21, 1962, Bell was sent to Milwaukee to complete a November 1961 transaction in which the Mets acquired veteran slugger Frank Thomas. He batted .285 in 79 games (with 53 games started as an outfielder) to raise his 1962 season average to .241. But he had only six more MLB at bats as a Brave in 1963–64 until he was released on May 12, 1964, during the roster cutdown then in effect in the major leagues.

Post-playing career
Bell was inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in 1964. After his playing career, he worked for an auto dealership, ran a temporary employment agency, and was a scout for the Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers. Bell died in May 1995, at Bethesda North Hospital near Cincinnati; he had recently had a heart attack. He was survived by seven children and 36 grandchildren.

On what would have been Bell's 83rd birthday – November 15, 2011 – he was inducted into the Louisville Catholic Sports Hall of Fame, with a speech by his grandson David.

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Killer Instinct 2

Killer Instinct 2 is a 2.5D fighting game developed by Rare, published by Nintendo and manufactured by Midway for arcades in 1996 as a sequel to Killer Instinct (1994). A modified version of Killer Instinct 2 was published for the Nintendo 64 as Killer Instinct Gold the same year. A Super Nintendo Entertainment System version of Killer Instinct 2 was developed and completed, but never released. A digital port of the game for the Xbox One is bundled with the second season of Killer Instinct (2013), under the title Killer Instinct 2 Classic.

Gameplay
As with most fighting games and indeed its predecessor, two characters square off with the goal of depleting the opponent's life bar. As with the original Killer Instinct, when a character's original life bar is fully depleted, he or she will fall to the ground, and immediately begin on his or her second lifebar.

As with the first game, Killer Instinct 2 relies on an automatic combo subsystem in its matches. The matches, as with Killer Instinct, revolve around a three strength system (Quick, Medium and Fierce). However, normal moves have lost a lot of their priority and range, as well as gaining extra recovery time. Throws have been added into the game to deal with blocking characters (as opposed to the top attack in Killer Instinct). Additionally, characters can be knocked down much easier with normal moves than in the first game, ending the possibility of opening with a 'glitch' combo and also weakening the effectiveness of normal moves. Normal special moves no longer are judged on priority, but instead follow a three tiered 'rock, paper, scissors' system, in which a certain special move will always break another certain special move (similar to the three tiered system in Soulcalibur).

Additionally, a Super bar has been added to the game (similar to Street Fighter Alpha or The King of Fighters series). This super bar fills as a fighter takes damage or executes an attack that is blocked by the opponent. After the bar reaches a certain point, the player can use a multi-hit Super Move which is usually an extended version of a normal special move.

The combo system has its roots in the original Killer Instinct. By pressing a certain strength button after an opener move, a player will launch an auto-double and initiate the combo system of the game. Unlike the first game, players can now open up combos with new and much less risky moves than before (most notable a close Fierce punch or close Fierce kick). Additionally, Super Moves can be placed into combos, greatly increasing their damage and potency as well as being unbreakable. Additionally combos can be extended using throws, super linkers, manual-doubles, and super end specials. As a result of the weakened normal moves and other changes to the system, combos have now become more devastating in Killer Instinct 2. In an apparent effort to help ease this dominance, combo breakers are now easier to perform. Unlike combo breakers in the first game, which also required a three tiered 'rock, paper, scissors' system based on strength to break, combos are now broken depending on the type of attack. Punches break kick doubles, and kicks will break punch doubles.

Parry, an advanced new addition, allow an open counter-attack after a successful parry block. A player can assume a standing defensive position and cause the attacker to temporarily freeze if the parry is successful, and from there either perform a special stunning technique or a three-hit variant of a Special Move.

The finishing moves have also been reworked. Now each character can only execute these attacks when the opponent's second life bar flashes red (unlike the first Killer Instinct the opponent falls when he or she loses all of his or her energy bars). Each character has two Ultimate combo moves (one of them can be executed without executing a combo), the Humiliation sequences were dropped, and the Ultra combo feature is still intact. Unlike the Mortal Kombat Fatalities, the Killer Instinct 2's finishing moves do not feature brutality or blood.

Plot
Killer Instinct 2 follows on where the first installment left off. Eyedol's death at the hands of Black Orchid accidentally sets off a time warp, transporting some of the combatants back in time and allowing the Demon Lord Gargos (Eyedol's opponent) to escape from Limbo.

Now, trapped 2000 years in the past, the warriors that survived Killer Instinct, along with several new faces, fight for the right to face Gargos in combat. Each character that survived the journey from the first game have corresponding backstories, while new characters in this installment are native inhabitants of this past time period. Some fighters, like returning fighter T.J. Combo, just want to get home. Others, like new character Tusk, want to bring an end to Gargos and his reign of evil. This time there is no tournament or prize money, just a fight to the finish with the fate of the future hanging in the balance.

Characters
The game features a total roster of 11 characters. Black Orchid, Jago, Sabrewulf, Spinal and T.J. Combo return from the previous title. A new Fulgore Mark II prototype replaces the Fulgore Mark I from the first game while Glacius is replaced by another member of the same species, who assumes the former's name. Eyedol, Chief Thunder, Cinder, and Riptor were omitted from the roster; Gargos, Kim Wu, Maya, and Tusk were introduced in their place.

Each character in the game has four or eight different endings. Which ending the player gets depends whether or not the player kills (by using a finishing move instead of simply depleting their health) one or more certain character(s) during the course of the game, as well as destroy certain objects on stages. For example, Jago's endings both involve Fulgore and B. Orchid (if Fulgore does not kill Jago and B. Orchid, they team up and destroy him), as well as Ultratech's destruction (on Fulgore's museum stage). Thus, killing or not killing them, as well as destroying or not destroying Ultratech, over the course of the game alters the outcomes of his endings:
 * If he kills Fulgore, destroys Ultratech, and spares Orchid, his enjoyment of his enemy's demises is only sweetened by the discovery that Orchid is his older sister, and the two siblings return to the present without Ultratech.
 * If he kills Fulgore, and spares Ultratech and Orchid, the two siblings return to the present to battle the rebuilt Ultratech.
 * If he spares both their lives, but destroys Ultratech, Orchid saves him from Fulgore's attack and they return to the present without Ultratech.
 * If he spares both their lives, as well as Ultratech's, he and Orchid return to the present to battle the rebuilt Ultratech right after destroying Fulgore.
 * If he kills both of them, as well as destroys Ultratech, he relishes his victory over Fulgore, but feels an inexplicable emptiness in his heart which he must live with for the rest of his days.
 * If he kills both of them, but spares Ultratech, he is forced to fight Ultratech alone.
 * If he kills Orchid and destroys Ultratech, but doesn't destroy Fulgore, the cyborg will eventually kill him, but without Ultratech, Fulgore searches for a ancestor of Jago's (as well as Orchid's) to erase his nemesis from existence.
 * If he kills Orchid, but doesn't destroy Fulgore nor Ultratech, the cyborg will eventually kill him, and fulfills Ultratech's original purposes by seizing control of the world.

Development and release
Development began shortly after the release of its predecessor. This was done by a small team led by Lee Schneuman and Ken Lobb. One of its programmers Martin Hollis left partway as development started to work on Goldeneye 007 (1997). According to Lobb, eliminating excessive defense play "was the absolute highest priority. I felt that this was not a problem for experts, but it hurt beginners. We now reward the aggressor big time". The team used the same hardware from its predecessor. They believed the characters needed redesigns. Kevin Bayliss, who served as designer, redesigned each characters to suit the sequel after its events. The game’s music was primarily composed by Robin Beanland, who had worked with Graeme Norgate on its predecessor and with the other team. Norgate contributed to some tracks, but left partway in development to compose music for Blast Corps (1997) and Goldeneye 007.

Killer Instinct Gold
Killer Instinct Gold is an upgraded version of Killer Instinct 2 that was released for the Nintendo 64 shortly after the launch of the console. The game suffered some graphical downgrades and the endings for each character do not change (as they would in the Arcade version) due to the memory limitations of the Nintendo 64 cartridge. Other than that, Killer Instinct Gold remains faithful to the original Killer Instinct 2.

The new features include:
 * Team Battles, in which one can fight with up to 11 characters.
 * Team Elimination Battles, in which one has to finish his or her opponents off with Finishing Moves (finishing moves similar to Mortal Kombat's Fatalities, which can be executed immediately) instead of simply depleting their life bar with normal moves, or they will simply return later on in the match (however as the computer player will sometimes use Gargos as the last opponent, victims can be removed from play anyway as he lacks a finishing move).
 * Training and Advanced Training, in which the player can learn the moves of the character they have chosen as well as the correct execution of combos, doubles, auto-doubles link moves, etc.
 * Options menu, which allows the player to modify certain data, such as the speed of the game, the color of the blood, button configuration, sound and manage Controller Pak data.
 * Unlockable content, such as alternate colors for characters and scenarios, and faster degrees of speed for the game.
 * The game's final boss Gargos is playable with a code.

Killer Instinct Gold is compatible with the Nintendo 64's Controller Pak to save options and high scores, though the cartridge also includes internal save. Due to cartridge size limitations, several frames of character animation and the FMVs were removed, the later being replaced with 2d animations. Each character's multiple endings were also reduced to one ending a character; these new endings sometimes combining elements from more than one of a character's arcade endings.

The stages were recreated in full 3D, as opposed to the scaling and distorting FMVs used for the stage backgrounds in the arcade version, allowing more dynamic camera takes at the beginning of the battle, while using less memory consumption.

Killer Instinct Gold was later included as part of the Rare Replay compilation.

Killer Instinct 2 Classic
A digital port of the game's arcade version, titled Killer Instinct 2 Classic, was released as part of the "Season 2 Ultra Edition" of Killer Instinct for the Xbox One. The digital version of the game was developed by Code Mystics and published by Microsoft Studios and supports online multiplayer via Xbox Live.

Soundtrack
Killer Instinct Gold also released its original soundtrack, as the first Killer Instinct under Rare Label, titled Killer Instinct Gold Cuts. It is a 16-track-audio-CD, which includes original tracks from the Arcade versions plus two remixes and the Training Mode track. The soundtrack, along with several unreleased KI2 demo tracks, was included as part of the Killer Instinct Season 2 double-album set released on August 4, 2015.

Reception
Though not as critically acclaimed as its predecessor, Killer Instinct 2 still garnered positive reviews and was a commercial success. Critics praised its improvements, combo system, graphics, and sound, but others were critical of its inconsistent frame rate, slow pace, and lack of advancement from its predecessor. A reviewer for Next Generation commented that while the game includes new fighting elements such as a super bar, the essence of the original game is essentially recycled. He also criticized that while the characters are larger and more detailed, this is at the cost of slower game speed and a choppier frame rate. Summarizing that "if you like the style of fighting that relies more on memorizing combos than hand-eye coordination and, in a way, skill, Killer Instinct II is full of that same fighting style", he scored it 3 out of 5 stars.

Brazilian magazine SuperGamePower gave the arcade version 5 out of 5 on all five categories.

In 2013, Rich Knight and Gus Turner of Complex included it on their list of 25 best 2D fighting games of all time, stating that "not quite as good as the first, Killer Instinct 2's greatest strength and weakness were one and the same: it played too much like Killer Instinct. ... A solid game, but not enough so to overshadow its predecessor".

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Reu (disambiguation)

Reu or REU may refer to:

Places

 * Reu, the local name of Retalhuleu, a city in Guatemala
 * REU, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code for Réunion
 * REU, The IATA code for Reus Airport in Catalonia, Spain
 * Mount Reu, in Antarctica

People

 * Reu, a Biblical figure
 * Papa Reu, a performer
 * Bishweshwar Nath Reu, a historian
 * Johann Michael Reu, a theologian

Other uses

 * RAM Expansion Unit, the Commodore 1700/1750/1764 series of memory expansion cartridges for Commodore 64/128 home computers
 * Plekhanov Russian Economic University, a university in Moscow, Russia
 * Research Experiences for Undergraduates, a U.S. National Science Foundation program for students to take part in active research
 * Restricted Enforcement Unit, a UK government committee which controls exports of illegal military material from the United Kingdom

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Friday's Child

Friday's Child may refer to:

Music

 * Friday's Child (album), a 2003 album by Will Young
 * "Friday's Child" (Will Young song), a 2004 single from the album
 * "Friday's Child" (Wendy Matthews song), 1992
 * "Friday's Child", a 1965 song written by Van Morrison and recorded by Them
 * "Friday's Child" (1965 song), written by Lee Hazlewood and performed by Nancy Sinatra on the 1967 TV special Movin' With Nancy
 * "Friday's Child", a song by Bradley Joseph from the 1994 album Hear the Masses

Other

 * Friday's Child (novel), a 1944 novel by Georgette Heyer
 * "Friday's Child" (poem), a 1958 poem by W. H. Auden about Dietrich Bonhoeffer
 * "Friday's Child" (Star Trek: The Original Series), a 1967 second season episode of Star Trek
 * Age Out, a 2018 American crime drama film formerly named Friday's Child

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Armstrong High School

Armstrong High School may refer to:

In the United States

 * Armstrong High School (Illinois) Armstrong, Illinois
 * Armstrong High School (Washington, D.C.)
 * Armstrong Manual Training School Washington, D.C.
 * Robbinsdale Armstrong High School, Plymouth, Minnesota
 * Armstrong High School (Virginia), Richmond, Virginia
 * Armstrong High School (Wisconsin), the former name of Neenah High School in Neenah, Wisconsin

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Žižkov Television Tower

The Žižkov Television Tower (Žižkovský vysílač) is a transmitter tower built in Prague between 1985 and 1992. Designed by the architect Václav Aulický and the structural engineer Jiří Kozák, it stands high above the city's traditional skyline from its position on top of a hill in the district of Žižkov, from which it takes its name. The tower is an example of high-tech architecture.

Characteristics
The structure of the tower is unconventional, based on a triangle whose corners go up in steel columns, consisting of three tubes with a double steel wall, filled with concrete. They support nine 'pods' and three decks for transmitting equipment. One of the three pillars extends considerably higher than the others, providing both the necessary height for radio antennas and the structure's rocket and gantry appearance. In its time it was a unique technology, which authors have patented.

The tower stands 216 metres (709 feet) high, with the observatory at 93 metres, the hotel room at 70 metres, restaurants (with a capacity of 180 people) at 66 metres. Three elevators transport passengers at a speed of 4 m/s.

Three of the pods, positioned directly beneath the decks at the top, are used for equipment and are inaccessible to the public. The remaining six pods are open to visitors, providing a panoramic view of Prague and the surrounding area. The lower three, approximately half-way up the length of the pillars at 63 metres (207 feet), house a restaurant and café bar.

Construction of the tower cost $19 million. It weighs 11,800 tonnes and is also used as a meteorological observatory. It is a member of the World Federation of Great Towers.

Since 2006, to mark the 125th anniversary of the elevation of Žižkov into a city and the 15th anniversary of the commissioning of the transmitter, the transmitter is illuminated in different colors every evening, usually in the colors of the state tricolor.

After switching to digital TV broadcasting and removing the old analogue broadcast equipment by 2012, the owner decided to use the free space for a new colocation datacenter.

On 13 February 2013 a luxury one room hotel was added to the tower. The room sits upstairs from the reopened restaurant and a spiral staircase provides private access. Inside the room is a large bed and a free standing bathtub from where the guest can view the city.

David Černý sculptures
In 2000, ten fiberglass sculptures by Czech artist David Černý called "Miminka" (Babies), crawling up and down were temporarily attached to the tower's pillars. The sculptures were admired by many and were returned in 2001 as a permanent installation. Another three Babies, made from bronze, can be found in Prague's Kampa Park. For cleaning and structural checks, these Babies were removed from the tower in 2017. After examination of the condition of the sculptures was made a decision to replace them with identical duplicates, which were installed on their original positions in 2019. The original Babies were returned to David Černý.

Reception
Although official criticism during the time of its construction was impossible, the tower was lambasted unofficially for its 'megalomania', its 'jarring' effect on the Prague skyline and for destroying part of a centuries-old Jewish cemetery situated at the tower's foundations. The tower's foundation was simply dug up through the layer of the cemetery, tombstones were crushed by heavy equipment and the bones were carried away to landfill. The tower received a spate of nicknames, mostly alluding to its rocket-like shape, like "Baikonur", after the Soviet cosmodrome or "Jakeš's finger" ("Jakešův prst"), after the then-Secretary General of the Czechoslovak Communist Party.

In recent years, the tower's reputation among Czechs has improved and the crawling Babies (together with the statue Piss by the same author) were published by The Guardian in 2007 as the greatest attraction of Prague.

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William Kissam Vanderbilt II

William Kissam Vanderbilt II (October 26, 1878 – January 8, 1944) was an American motor racing enthusiast and yachtsman, and a member of the prominent Vanderbilt family.

Early life
He was born on October 26, 1878, in New York City, the second child and first son of William Kissam Vanderbilt and Alva Erskine Smith. His maternal grandfather was Murray Forbes Smith. Known as Willie K., he was a brother to Harold Stirling Vanderbilt and Consuelo Vanderbilt. Born to a life of luxury, he was raised in Vanderbilt mansions, traveled to Europe frequently, and sailed the globe on yachts owned by his father.

Willie was educated by tutors and at St. Mark's School. He attended Harvard University but dropped out after two years.

Career
While a great part of his life was filled with travel and leisure activities, Willie's father put him to work at the family's New York Central Railroad offices at Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan. As such, in 1905 he joined other Vanderbilts on Fifth Avenue, building the William K. Vanderbilt House at 660 Fifth Avenue.

Already extremely wealthy from a trust fund and from his income as president of the New York Central Railroad Company, on his father's death in 1920 Willie inherited a multimillion-dollar fortune.

Military service
On May 9, 1917, Vanderbilt went into active service in the Navy as a lieutenant (junior grade) in command of USS Tarantula (SP-124) at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The Tarantula was a yacht owned by Vanderbilt which he leased to the Navy for the duration of the war. He was assigned to patrol duty in the waters of the 3rd Naval District and performed convoy escorts in the waters off New York and New Jersey. On October 1, 1917, he was released from active duty and given a temporary leave of absence to resume his duties of vice-president of the New York Central Railroad. A few months later, he was elected president of the New York Central Railroad and acted in this capacity for the remainder of the war.

After the war, Vanderbilt was promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander in the Naval Reserve on May 17, 1921. He remained in the Naval Reserve until he was transferred to the Honorary Retired List on January 1, 1941, for physical disability.

Life as an heir
Although he developed an interest in horse racing and yachting, he was particularly fascinated with automobiles. At age 10, during a stay in the south of France he had ridden in a steam-powered tricycle from Beaulieu-sur-Mer the 7 kilometers to Monte Carlo. As a twenty-year-old, in 1898 he ordered a French De Dion-Bouton motor tricycle and had it shipped to New York. Soon, he acquired other motorized vehicles and before long began to infuriate citizens and officials alike as he sped through the towns and villages of Long Island, New York, en route to Idle Hour, his parents' summer estate at Oakdale.

A skilled sailor, he participated in yacht racing, winning the Sir Thomas Lipton Cup in 1900 with his new 70 ft yacht he had named Virginia in honor of his new bride. In 1902, Vanderbilt began construction on his own country place at Lake Success on Long Island that he named "Deepdale." However, sailing would take second place to his enthusiasm for fast cars. In 1904, Willie set a new land speed record of 92.30 mi/h in a Mercedes at the Daytona Beach Road Course at Ormond Beach, Florida. That same year, he launched the Vanderbilt Cup, the first major trophy in American auto racing. An international event, designed to spur American manufacturers into racing, the race's large cash prize drew the top drivers and their vehicles from across the Atlantic Ocean who had competed in Europe's Gordon Bennett Cup. Held at a course set out in Nassau County on Long Island, New York, the race drew large crowds hoping to see an American car defeat the mighty European vehicles. However, a French Panhard vehicle won the race and fans would have to wait until 1908 when 23-year-old George Robertson of Garden City, New York, became the first American to win the Vanderbilt Cup.

The Vanderbilt Cup auto races repeatedly had crowd control problems and at the 1906 race a spectator was killed. Seeing the potential to solve the safety issue as well as improve attendance to his race, and with encouragement from AAA official A. R. Pardington, Vanderbilt formed a corporation to build the Long Island Motor Parkway, one of the country's first modern paved parkways that could not only be used for the race but would open up Long Island for easy access and economic development. Construction began in 1907 of the multimillion-dollar toll highway that was to run from the Kissena Corridor in Queens County over numerous bridges and overpasses to Lake Ronkonkoma, a distance of 48 mi. However, the toll road was never able to generate sustainable profits and in 1938 it was formally ceded to the county governments in lieu of the $80,000 due in back taxes.

His new high-speed road complemented a train service that allowed a rapid exit from Manhattan. Becoming the first suburban automobile commuter, in 1910 Willie began work on the much more elaborate and costly "Eagle's Nest" estate at Centerport, Long Island. An avid collector of natural history and marine specimens as well as other anthropological objects, he traveled extensively aboard his yacht as well as overland to numerous destinations around the globe. He acquired a vast array of artifacts for his collection during his well-documented travels and after service with the United States Navy during World War I, he published a book titled "A Trip Through Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria, and Southern France." A few years later, he engaged William Belanske, an artist from the American Museum of Natural History to participate with him in a scientific voyage to the Galapagos Islands. By 1922, Vanderbilt had commissioned the construction of a single-story building on his Long Island estate to serve as a public museum, and less than a decade later a second story was added on to accommodate the growing collection. William Belanske, who had accompanied Vanderbilt on his Galapagos voyage, was employed as the full-time curator of this museum.

Residences
In 1925, he traded the luxury yacht Eagle for ownership of Fisher Island, Florida, a place he used as a winter residence. He built a mansion complete with docking facilities for his yacht, a seaplane hangar, tennis courts, swimming pool, and an eleven-hole golf course. This home was called Alva Base and the architect was Maurice Fatio. In addition to this property, and his Long Island estate, Eagle's Nest, which was designed by Warren & Wetmore, Vanderbilt also owned a farm in Tennessee and Kedgwick Lodge, a hunting lodge designed for his father by architect Stanford White, on the Restigouche River in New Brunswick, Canada.

Personal life
In 1899, Vanderbilt married Virginia Graham Fair (1875–1935), a wealthy heiress whose father, James Graham Fair, had made a fortune in mining the famous Comstock Lode. They spent their honeymoon at the Idle Hour estate but disaster struck when fire broke out and the mansion burned to the ground. Before their separation and divorce, Vanderbilt and his wife had a son and two daughters, the younger of whom was named for his sister:

 * Muriel Vanderbilt (1900–1972), who married three times, the first in 1925 to Frederic Cameron Church, Jr. She later married Henry Delafield Phelps and John Payson Adams.
 * Consuelo Vanderbilt (1903–2011), who married Noble Clarkson Earl (1900–1969)
 * William Kissam Vanderbilt III (1907–1933), who inherited his father's love of fast cars and exotic travel, was killed in an automobile accident in South Carolina while driving home to New York City from his father's Florida estate.

The Vanderbilts separated after ten years of marriage but did not formally divorce until 1927 when he wanted to remarry. Divorce proceedings were handled by his New York lawyers while he and Rosamund Lancaster Warburton (1897–1947), a former wife of Barclay Harding Warburton II, an heir to the John Wanamaker department store fortune, waited discreetly away from the media at a home in the Parisian suburb of Passy, France. When the divorce was final, the couple were married at the Hotel de Ville (city hall) in Paris on September 5, 1927. Vanderbilt became a legal stepfather to Barclay Harding Warburton III once they wed.

Vanderbilt died on January 8, 1944, of a heart ailment. He was interred in the Vanderbilt Family Cemetery and Mausoleum on Staten Island, New York.

Legacy
In 1931, Vanderbilt had the Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel, Germany, build for him the 264-foot diesel yacht Alva. The Alva was donated by Vanderbilt to the U.S. Navy on November 4, 1941. The Alva was converted to a gunboat and commissioned as the USS Plymouth (PG-57) on December 29, 1941. The Plymouth was primarily employed as a convoy escort on the East Coast and in the Caribbean and was sunk by a torpedo from a German U-boat on August 5, 1943, at 21.39 with the loss of 95.

By the 1940s, Vanderbilt had organized his will so that, upon his death, the Eagle's Nest property along with a $2 million upkeep fund would be given to Suffolk County, New York, to serve as a public museum. Since 1950, the site has operated as the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum.

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Oualata

Oualata or Walata (ولاتة) (also Biru in 17th century chronicles) is a small oasis town in southeast Mauritania, located at the eastern end of the Aoukar basin. Oualata was important as a caravan city in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries as the southern terminus of a trans-Saharan trade route and now it is a World Heritage Site.

History
The Oualata area is believed to have been first settled by an agro-pastoral people akin to the Mandé Soninke people who lived along the rocky promontories of the Tichitt-Oualata and Tagant cliffs of Mauritania facing the Aoukar basin. There, they built what are among the oldest stone settlements on the African continent.

The town formed part of the Ghana Empire and grew wealthy through trade. At the beginning of the thirteenth century Oualata replaced Aoudaghost as the principal southern terminus of the trans-Saharan trade and developed into an important commercial and religious centre. By the fourteenth century the city had become part of the Mali Empire.

An important trans-Saharan route began at Sijilmasa and passed through Taghaza with its salt mines and ended at Oualata. The French historian Raymond Mauny estimated that in the Middle Ages the town would have accommodated between 2000 and 3000 inhabitants.

Moroccan explorer Ibn Battuta found the inhabitants of Oualata were Muslim and mainly Massufa, a section of the Sanhaja. He was surprised by the great respect and independence that women enjoyed. He only gives a brief description of the town itself: "My stay at Iwalatan (Oualata) lasted about fifty days; and I was shown honour and entertained by its inhabitants. It is an excessively hot place, and boasts a few small date-palms, in the shade of which they sow watermelons. Its water comes from underground waterbeds at that point, and there is plenty of mutton to be had." The town's original Mande name Biru had already shifted to the Berber Iwalatan, a reflection of the changing identity of the residents. This would change again with the town's Arabization, and the development of the current name, Walata.

From the second half of the fourteenth century Timbuktu gradually replaced Oualata as the southern terminus of the trans-Sahara route and it declined in importance, becoming an increasingly poor backwater in comparison to the previous wealth of the town. The Berber diplomat, traveller and author Leo Africanus visited the region in 1509–1510, and gives a description in his book Descrittione dell’Africa: "Walata Kingdom: This is a small kingdom, and of mediocre condition compared to the other kingdoms of the blacks. In fact, the only inhabited places are three large villages and some huts spread about among the palm groves." By that time, the composition of the kingdom seems to have changed to reflect a large Songhai-speaking population residing within the town. "The language of this region is called Songhai, and the inhabitants are black people, and the most friendly unto strangers." Oualata was a tributary of the Songhai Empire; also reflected within Africanus' book Descrittione dell’Africa explaining "In my time this region was conquered by the king of Timbuktu and the prince of Oualata fled into the deserts, whereof the king granted him peace conditionally that he pay great yearly tribute and so the prince has remained tributary to the king of Timbuktu until this present."

Description
The old town covers an area of about 600 m by 300 m, some of it now in ruins. The sandstone buildings are coated with banco and some are decorated with geometric designs. The mosque now lies on the eastern edge of the town but in earlier times may have been surrounded by other buildings. Oualata is home to a manuscript museum, and is known for its highly decorative vernacular architecture. It was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996 together with Ouadane, Chinguetti and Tichitt.

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Adverts
Promotional advertisements for Disney films are not valid encyclopedia articles. This should be removed.
 * Feel free to point out the 'advertising' in this article. Please sign your comments with ~ also. Xezbeth 18:09, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

As this is an artical about an upcomming film, I think that it qualifies as promoting the film. The artical should not be removed, but don't think it should go on the front page either. Perhaps if there is a wikifilm then it can appear on the front page.
 * I wasn't aware that this made it to the front page. I don't mind either way, the 40 dives thing isn't particularly remarkable. Xezbeth 18:35, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Russian cast
Most of the cast have Russian names and the article fails to account for that. This is no good. Did they use a Russian research vessel? -- Ghirla -трёп-  16:33, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Critical Reaction?
Does anyone have any cited critical reactions to this that could be added to the article? I was curious to learn what others thought as I recently saw this film and personally found it terrible, more about Cameron's ego than learning anything about deep sea creatures. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.26.1.48 (talk) 04:15, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Look it up at IMDB. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417415/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.96.173.37 (talk) 13:59, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Extended Version
How long is the Extended Version found on the DVD versus the theatrical edition and what are the differences? -- Needscurry 20:45, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

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C-One

The C-One is a single-board computer (SBC) created in 2002 as an enhanced version of the Commodore 64, a home computer popular in the 1980s. Designed by Jeri Ellsworth and Jens Schönfeld from Individual Computers, who manufactured the boards themselves, the C-One has been re-engineered to allow cloning of other 8-bit computers.

Design
The machine uses a combination of configurable Altera field-programmable gate array (FPGA) chips and modular CPU expansion cards to create compatibility modes that duplicate the function of many older home computers. The default CPU is the W65C816S (by Western Design Center) which is used in Commodore 64 compatibility mode as well as the C-One's native operating mode. The C-One is not merely a software emulator, it loads various core files from a card to configure the FPGA hardware to recreate the operation of the core logic chipsets found in vintage computers. This provides for a very accurate and customizable hardware emulation platform. The C-One is not limited to recreating historical computers: its programmable core logic can be used to create entirely new custom computer designs.

In 2004, the platform was expanded to include an Amstrad CPC core made by Tobias Gubener.

In 2006, Peter Wendrich ported his FPGA-64 project (originally intended for a Xilinx FPGA) and enhanced it for the C-One. This core supported both PAL and NTSC machine emulation, and aimed to be cycle-exact and emulate many of the bugs and quirks of the original hardware.

In 2008, after development of an "Extender" card which added a third FPGA, Tobias Gubener added Amiga 500 compatibility by porting Dennis van Weeren's Minimig code to the board. This core replaced the physical 68000 CPU and the PIC chip from the original with his own TG68 CPU core on the FPGA. developments to this core include features not possible with the original Minimig board.

In 2009, Peter Wendrich released a "preview" of a next-generation C64 core called "Chameleon 64", with a greatly expanded specification compared to his earlier core. A new version of the CPC core was also released in mid-2009, featuring an embedded SymbOS core for control of device emulation, and a clock unlocked mode for CPU speeds of up to 80 MHz.

So far, C-One circuit boards have been produced by German company Individual Computers, and they sell for €333 with the FPGA extender card.

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Douglas Ousterhout

Douglas K. Ousterhout is a retired craniofacial surgeon who practiced in San Francisco, CA, United States. His specialty was facial feminization surgery for trans women, and he was widely considered the foremost facial feminization surgeon in the United States. Ousterhout also pioneered facial masculinization surgery for people undergoing female-to-male gender reassignment. Ousterhout received MD and DDS degrees from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. He is a voluntary clinical professor of surgery in the School of Medicine and an adjunct professor of dentistry in the Dental School at University of California, San Francisco.

Facial feminization surgery (FFS) began in 1982 when Darrell Pratt, a plastic surgeon who performed sex reassignment surgeries, approached Ousterhout with a request from a trans woman, a patient of Pratt's who wanted plastic surgery to make her face appear more feminine, since people still reacted to her as though she were a man. Ousterhout's prior practice had involved reconstructing faces and skulls of people who had suffered birth defects, accidents or other trauma. Ousterhout was interested in helping but knew that he didn't know what a "female face" was, so he investigated by first reading the physical anthropology from the early 20th century to identify what features were "female", then by deriving measurements defining those features from a series of cephalograms taken in the 1970s, and then by working with a set of several hundred skulls to see if he could reliably differentiate which were females and which were males using those measurements. Ousterhout then began working out what surgical techniques and materials he already used that he could apply in order to transform a male face into a female face; he pioneered most of the procedures involved in FFS and was involved in their subsequent improvements as well.

FFS generally involves advancing the hairline, making the forehead smaller and rounder, reducing the brow ridge, shortening and narrowing the nose, shortening the upper lip, shortening the chin, narrowing the jaw, and reducing the laryngeal prominence. As of 2006 there were only about twelve surgeons in the world performing FFS.

Notable Ousterhout patients who have written about their surgery include Lynn Conway, Andrea James, and Nicole Hamilton.

Wine
Ousterhout and wife Nancy also own and manage Ousterhout Wine and Vineyards. Wine & Spirits website featured their 2012 Zinfandel as part of National Zinfandel Day in 2015 and their 2011 Zinfandel as part of the 2014 California Wine Month celebration.

Personal life
Ousterhout lived in the Mrs. Doubtfire home, which he bought in 1997. The title character in the movie, played by Robin Williams, is a divorced man who pretends to be an older female nanny so he can be around his children. Ousterhout briefly knew Williams and liked the connection, explaining, "I turn boys' faces into girls' faces. It seemed only natural." In 2015, a disgruntled former patient tried to set the front door on fire.

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Chapter II (Ashanti album)

Chapter II is the second studio album by American singer and songwriter Ashanti. It was released by Murder Inc. and Island Def Jam on July 1, 2003 in the United States. Ashanti reteamed with Murder Inc. head Irv Gotti and producer Chink Santana to work on the album. Chapter II features a guest appearance by rapper Ja Rule, Chink Santana, and Gunnz. Critical reception towards the album was generally mixed, with critics commending the album's autobiographical lyrics, and its fun yet light nature, while other critics felt Chapter II lacked creativity and personality and relied too heavily on the formula of her debut album (2002).

Upon its release, the album debut at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart with first-week sales of 326,000 units. It also reached the top ten in Canada, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Chapter II was eventually certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in August 2003 and gained gold status in Japan and the United Kingdom. At the 46th Annual Grammy Awards, it earned Ashanti three nominations for Best Contemporary R&B Album, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, and Best R&B Song. Chapter II spawned three singles, including the Billboard Hot 100 number two song "Rock wit U (Awww Baby)", the R&B ballad "Rain on Me" and "Breakup 2 Makeup (Remix)".

Promotion
Murder Inc. selected "Rock wit U (Awww Baby)," which they considered a continuation from her debut single "Foolish" (2002), to be released as the album's first single from Chapter 2. Issued on May 19, 2003, the song became a commercial success stateside and Ashanti's third solo top ten hit. It peaked at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100, while reaching number four on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Internationally, it was a moderate success, reaching the top five in Canada and Japan, the top ten in the United Kingdom, top twenty in Australia, and the top forty in Ireland, New Zealand, and Switzerland.

The album's second single "Rain on Me", was released on August 11, 2003. It peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. Elsewhere, it reached the top twenty in Belgium and the United Kingdom. In 2004, "Rain on Me" earned Ashanti a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. In 2004, a remix version of "Breakup 2 Makeup" featuring labelmate Black Child was released as a single. It served as the lead single from Ashanti's remix compilation album Collectables by Ashanti, released in 2005, reaching number 76 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs.

Critical reception
Chapter II received mixed reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 51, based on 11 reviews, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. The New York Times writer Kelefa Sanneh remarked that Chapter II "isn't perfect, but once you edit out the skits (which are, without exception, excruciating), you're left with an album that's graceful, beguiling and above all, light, in the best sense of the word." People magazine noted that "the singer's sophomore CD, though, proves wrong those who thought she would be a one-hit-album wonder. Chapter II, which continues the same hip-hop soul theme as her self-titled debut, is the equivalent of a good beach read: It's easy, breezy listening that doesn't require much brainpower."

Billboard wrote that Chapter II "doesn't stray too far from its predecessor" and complimented the autobiographical songs on the album. Ernest Hardy from Rolling Stone found that the "album is filled with the same beat-driven, slickly produced midtempo tracks and ballads that made up her debut [and] the disc's best moments have a decidedly old-school feel to them [...] Still, dullard schoolgirl insights into love and heartache dominate the album; add some boring between-song skits about 'haters,' and Chapter II wears thin long before its halfway mark." While he complimented Ashanti for her writing credits on the album, Entertainment Weekly journalist Tom Sinclair felt that "Chapter II is too mired in tired R&B conventions to achieve true magnificence."

Allmusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine found that "the songs have about as much personality as Ashanti's voice, but that actually is a point in its favor, since it keeps everything on an even keel and makes Gotti and Santana's stylish production the star. They are the secret ingredients that make Chapter II good romantic mood music for the summer." Alexa Camp from Slant Magazine wrote that "the album's got some great tunes, but they'd be better suited for someone like Mary J. Blige, whom Shany & Co. bite off." Robert Christgau gave Chapter II a "C" rating in his review for The Village Voice, calling it a "pathologically modest follow-up." PopMatters from Maurice Bottomley assured that "Chapter 2 is not going to feature as any scribe's R&B album of the year."

Commercial performance
In the United States, Chapter II debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 326,000 units sold. While it became Ashanti's second chart topper, it was a considerable decline from her previous effort Ashanti, which had opened to sales of 502,500 units in April 2002. In total, it remained on the Billboard 200 chart for 30 consecutive weeks. In addition, it reached the top position on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart, where it stayed at the top spot for two consecutive weeks. On August 14, 2003, The album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Towards the end of 2003, Billboard ranked the album at number 54 and 27 respectively on its Billboard 200 and Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums year end chart lists. By January 2005, Chapter II had sold 1.5 million copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Elsewhere, Chapter II reached the top five on the Canadian and UK Singles Chart. It was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), indicating sales in excess of 100,000 copies, and also went gold in Japan. In Switzerland, it reached the top ten, debuting and peaking at number nine on the Swiss Albums Chart, making it Ashanti's highest-charting album to date. Chapter II also entered the top 20 in Australia and Germany. To date, the album has sold 3 million copies worldwide.

Track listing
Samples
 * "Intro (Medley)" contains samples of Ashanti tracks "Foolish", "Happy", "Down 4 U" (with Ja Rule, Charli Baltimore & Vita), "Baby" and "Mesmerize" (with Ja Rule).
 * "Breakup 2 Makeup" contains a sample of "I'm Gonna Love You Just a Little More Baby" by Barry White.
 * "Rain on Me" contains a sample of "Look of Love" by Isaac Hayes.
 * "Then Ya Gone" contains samples of "Ain't I Been Good to You" by The Isley Brothers, and "One Day" by UGK.
 * "Feel So Good" contains a sample of "Playing Your Game, Baby" by Barry White.
 * "The Story of 2" contains a sample of "Dream Maker" by Rick James.
 * "Sweet Baby" contains a sample of "I'm Glad You're Mine" by Al Green.
 * "U Say I Say" contains a sample of "Never Enough" by Groove Theory.
 * "I Found Lovin'" is a cover of the same-titled song by Fatback Band.

Personnel

 * Ashanti Douglas – lead and background vocals (1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11–12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19), executive producer
 * Robert Bacon – guitar (3, lead on 5, 7, 14, 19), bass guitar (5, 7, 14), additional keyboards (15)
 * Black Child – rap vocals (10)
 * Irv Gotti – producer (all tracks), audio mixing (1–3, 5–12, 14–15, 18–20), additional vocals (3–4, 19), executive producer
 * Gunnz – background vocals (18)
 * Ja Rule – rap vocals (1, 17)
 * Demetrius McGhee – piano solo (13), additional keyboards (2–3, 6, 9, 14)
 * Marquies "Keez" Parker – bass guitar (8)
 * Chink Santana – producer (all tracks), vocals (13, lead on 2, 8, 20), additional vocals
 * Shia - vocals (16)

 * Milwaukee Buck – recording engineer (1–3, 5–12, 14–15, 17–18, 20), audio mixing (1, 20)
 * Duro – audio mixing (2–3, 5–12, 14–15, 17–19)
 * Daniela Federici – photography
 * Brian "Big Bass" Gardner – mastering
 * Terri "Murda Mac" Hubert – assistant engineer (1–3, 5–12, 14–15, 18, 20)
 * JJ – make-up
 * Rosie Michel – stylist
 * Rick Patrick – creative director
 * Shereese Slate – hair stylist
 * Laura Tamburino – art producer
 * Tony Vanias – recording director
 * Andy West – art direction

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Anthem of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic

The State Anthem of the Uzbek SSR was the national anthem of Uzbekistan when it was a republic of the Soviet Union and known as the Uzbek SSR.

Background
The anthem was used 1947 to 1991. The music was composed by Mutal Burkhanov, and the words were written by Timur Fattah and Turab Tula. The anthem (like those of the Tajik SSR and Turkmen SSR) opens with a salute to the Russian people, while the Uzbeks themselves are not actually mentioned until the fourth line.

The melody is used in the current national anthem of Uzbekistan, with different lyrics. It is one of the four remaining post-Soviet countries, along with Russia, Belarus, and Tajikistan, to continuously use their Soviet-era anthems with different lyrics. The Soviet-era lyrics were removed after the Uzbek SSR changed its name to the Republic of Uzbekistan and declared independence on 31 August 1991, when Abdulla Oripov wrote new lyrics adopted in 1992.


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Soviet Navy
Self-nomination. It does need a little vetting, but I think it's pretty much there. -Joseph (Talk) 17:43, 2004 Dec 13 (UTC)

 * Object - No references. And I'm not sure if the article is in-depth enough... I'm not particularly knowledagable on the topic, but the article doesn't look long enough and detailed enough to comprehensively cover the topic. Could you perhaps talk about the major commanders-in-chief - what they accomplished, what they focused on, their strengths and weaknesses? Spangineer 18:26, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)
 * Object. (1) There should be more about operations, especially in World War II (e.g. operations in support of Murmansk and Archangel convoys), and in the Cold War (especially the submarine warfare in the Arctic). (2) There should be something about bases. Gdr 20:43, 2004 Dec 13 (UTC)
 * Object. Needs references, seems to need some expansion. This would be aided by references. Also the captions need to be turned into interesting sentences. - Ta bu shi da yu 05:24, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Expanded captions. -Joseph (Talk) 20:21, 2004 Dec 14 (UTC)
 * Object. Agree with above objections, the history section is way too short. 25% of article lenght are the lists, a bit too much I think. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 17:33, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I am shoving a lot of content in now. I am still going to add a section on Operation Jennifer and need to lengthen the WWII section. Probably some other things. -Joseph (Talk) 21:36, 2004 Dec 14 (UTC)
 * Object, for now at least, for the above stated reasons. Also, I am dubious that the Potemkin mutiny had anything to do with the Bolshevik party.  Edeans 03:54, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)


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This page needs some work. :-) --Furchild 18:00, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)

 * Here is a bunch of links one can use in WikiPedia, I guess.

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Villanúa

Villanúa (in Aragonese: Bellanuga ) is a Pyrenean municipality in Spain in the north of Huesca province, in la Jacetania, set where the Aragon valley gets wider. Its name refers to the "new village" repopulated in the late 10th century. Villanúa's altitude is 953 m and it covers 58.2 km2. The village is at the bottom of mount Collarada (2886 m) and in 2018 had 447 inhabitants.

It is a tourist locality located between Jaca and the ski stations of Candanchú and Astún and near the French border (12 km. by the Tunnel of Somport).

Visiting
The old centre, the church of San Esteban (with a wooden 11th-century Romanesque image of the Virgin, "Our Lady of the Angels"), the cave of Las Güixas, the railway viaduct, dolmens, the Chapel of San Juan and the abandoned villages of Cenarbe and Aruej, with its little Romanesque church of San Vicente (12th century), all in a beautiful environment crossed by the Aragon river. It lies on the old Aragonese pilgrim's road to Santiago de Compostela, the Way of St James.

The main festivities are September 8 (Virgin's Nativity) and December 26 (San Esteban).

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Talk:Annual Islamophobia Awards

And when did they start? Charles Matthews 17:45, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Is this page worth having? — Pallfy 04:14, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

If the Award 'exists'; then why not? This is an encyclopaedia. The-pessimist 02:32, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Since they only appear to have been held once in 2003 they are not really 'Annual' are they? They seem to have been more like a one-off publicity stunt MiddleEarth 10:59, 12 September 2006
 * The Islamic Human Rights Commission is currently selling tickets for its "Fourth Annual Islamophobia Awards", to take place Saturday 9 December 2006 at the Islamic Centre of England, 140 Maida Vale, London W9 - Mcasey666 17:31, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Merge
Is this entry really notable enough for it's own entry? I suspect it could do just as well if it was a section in Islamic Human Rights Commission. If it ever got too big for that page, it could be split again.

Comments welcome! --h2g2bob 12:28, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
 * If the organization is notable, then their annual award is also notable. --Striver 12:33, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Anti Islam sentiment
The reason that I have removed the category from this article is that I believe it indicate that those nominated or given the award position on Islam is based more on feelings rather than on reason. -- Karl Meier 12:41, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

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Puijo tower

The Puijo tower is an observation tower at the top of Puijo hill in Kuopio, Eastern Finland. Opened in 1963, the tower is 75 m tall and has a revolving restaurant with 100 seats. It was the first tower with a revolving restaurant in the Nordic countries. The restaurant was an inspiration to Erkki Lindfors, the mayor of Tampere, who got the idea to build a similar one in his home town, resulting in the Näsinneula tower, which opened in 1971. The current Puijo tower has been visited by over 5.5 million tourists.

The current tower is the third overall. When it was completed on 27 July 1963, the second one, built in 1906, was dismantled. The first tower was built in 1856. On the western side of the tower there are three ski jumping hills.

title: Puijo tower