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Naomi (novel)

Naomi (痴人の愛) is a novel by Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886–1965). Writing of the novel began in 1924, and from March to June, Osaka's Morning News (大阪朝日新聞) published the first several chapters of the serial. Four months later, the periodical Female (女性) started to publish the remaining chapters. The novel was first published in book form, by Kaizosha, in 1925.

Narrated in the first person by the protagonist, a salaryman named Jōji, the novel follows his attempt to groom a Eurasian-looking girl, the eponymous Naomi, to be a Westernized woman. Naomi is a significant work in its comic depiction of Japanese culture of the era and its fascination with the West. The clash between older and newer generations over the more progressive depictions of women, such as Naomi, has been viewed as a clash over Japan's transition into the modern period.

Plot summary
Naomi's story is focused around a man's obsession for a modan garu or modern girl. The narrator, Jōji, is a well-educated Japanese man who is an electrical engineer in the city, and comes from a wealthy farming family. Jōji wishes to break away from his traditional Japanese culture, and becomes immersed in the new Westernized culture which was taking root in Japan. The physical representation of everything Western is embodied in a girl named Naomi. Jōji sees Naomi for the first time in a café and instantly falls for her exotic "Eurasian" looks, Western-sounding name, and (to him) sophisticated mannerisms. Like the story of the prepubescent Murasaki no Ue in the classic novel The Tale of Genji, Jōji decides he will raise Naomi, a fifteen-year-old café hostess, to be his perfect woman: in this case, he will forge her into a glamorous Western-style girl like Mary Pickford, the famous Canadian actress of the silent film era, whom he thinks Naomi resembles.

Jōji moves Naomi into his home and begins his efforts to make her a perfect Western wife. She turns out to be a very willing pupil. He pays for her English-language lessons, and though she has little skill with grammar, she possesses beautiful pronunciation. He funds her Westernized activities, including her love of movies, dancing and magazines. During the early part of the novel Jōji makes no sexual advances on Naomi, preferring instead to groom her according to his desires and observe her from a distance. However, his plan to foster Western ideals such as independence in her backfires dramatically as she gets older.

Jōji begins the novel being the dominator. However, as time progresses and his obsession takes hold, Naomi's manipulation puts her in a position of power over him. Slowly Jōji turns power over to Naomi, conceding to everything she desires. He buys a new house for them, and though they are married, Jōji sleeps in a separate bedroom, while Naomi entertains Western men in another room. The book ends with Naomi having complete control of Jōji's life, though he claims he is satisfied as long as his obsession with her is satiated.

Main characters

 * Jōji – The narrator and protagonist: a well-educated 28-year-old man from a wealthy landlord family. He wishes to break from tradition and moves to the city to work as an electrical engineer. He meets Naomi when she is 15, and takes her under his wing to educate her. He becomes obsessed with her and gives her everything she desires. Later he marries Naomi and allows himself to be dominated by her.
 * Naomi – The antagonist: a beautiful girl with Western-like features, including her name. She is uneducated but seems to embody Western culture, albeit in a superficial way. Naomi enjoys Western activities like going to movies and looking at the pictures in Western magazines. She is the perfect example of a modern girl ("moga," short for "modern girl") (garu) with few inhibitions, and she is sexually aggressive. Naomi is extremely manipulative and manages to take control of her relationship with Jōji, beginning as a subordinate and becoming a dominatrix.

Background
Before Jun'ichirō Tanizaki wrote Naomi, he lived in Yokohama, a city near to Tokyo and full of Western influences. He was forced to move after 1923 Great Kantō earthquake devastated much of Tokyo and Yokohama. The earthquake caused extensive damage, and many occupants of Tokyo and other major cities had to relocate. Tanizaki moved to Kyoto, where he spent much of the rest of his life writing works of fiction. In 1949 Tanizaki won the Imperial Cultural Prize, the highest honor awarded to artists in Japan, for his various works of literature. He was nominated for a Nobel Prize for his lifetime achievements before his death in 1965.

Tanizaki wrote Naomi in his late 30s, during the Japanese Industrial Revolution when Western influences took root in Japan, continuing the trajectory of the Meiji period, when Western ideas were first introduced. During this time Japan was transitioning from an unindustrialized nation to an industrialized, economic super-power. The novel reflects the perspective of a man shifting between modern and traditional Japan, and the conflicts associated with the era.

According to Anthony H. Chambers, in his Introduction to his translation of the book, the character Naomi was based upon Tanizaki's sister-in-law, who had learned to dance from a Western friend and who inspired his own interest in dancing.

During the teens and twenties, a woman's role in society was drastically changing. In the early stages of the Meiji Restoration, women were limited to working in textile factories. These factories provided dormitories for the workers, who sent back their wages to their families in the countryside. However, during the teens and twenties, women started to take on other jobs as more population moved into the cities. The shift from country living to modern urban living, along with a growing adoption of Western culture, created a new niche in society for women. The arrival of Western fashion and cosmetics spawned numerous job opportunities. Women became sales associates in department stores, or worked in service related jobs (in Naomi’s case as a café waitress). This transition from country to city allowed many women to become independent of their families and employers. The act of these women beginning to choose their own men created more shock than their career independence. They lived on their own without being a subordinate to any men (including fathers and husbands). Tanizaki's character Naomi, a 15-year-old girl living in the city, is a perfect example of this new class of women. Culture critics picked up Tanizaki's term modan garu, from the English "modern girl", to describe this new class of women. "Modern girls" can be described as being independent, not bound by traditions or conventions, lacking Japanese grace but having tons of vitality, and holding apolitical views (not caring about women's suffrage).

In the first chapter, the name "Naomi" is written with three Chinese characters; since it sounds like a Western name, Jōji chooses to write her name in katakana, the Japanese syllabary used for writing out and sounding out foreign words.

Irony occurs when readers learn that although Joji's knowledge of English grammar is excellent, his accent prevents him from truly mastering English. Conversely, Naomi pronounces English very well, but cannot string together a correct sentence. Naomi also loves superficiality and is passionate about Western theatre and culture. An example of how Naomi loves Western culture but does not truly belong is her purchases of Western magazines, despite being able only to look at the pictures, because of her inability to read English. Tanizaki portrays the traditional Japanese man being seduced by the siren's song of Western culture only to be trapped by it.

Tanizaki's writing is applauded by literary critics for his ability to turn a glum café waitress with Eurasian features into a manipulative succubus. He shows the irony of both sexual and cultural conquest, and sums it up in the opening paragraph of his book: "As Japan grows increasingly cosmopolitan, Japanese and foreigners are eagerly mingling with one another; all sorts of new doctrines and philosophies are being introduced; and both men and women are adopting up-to-date Western fashions."

Controversy
Naomi met with controversy upon its publication. When Osaka Morning News published it in 1924, opposing reactions to the novel arose from two different demographics. The younger generation embraced the modan garu lifestyle embodied by Naomi, who provided a role model for independent young women in Japan's cities. On the other hand, the character's aggressive sexuality and manipulation shocked the older generation of Japanese, who deemed the story too obscene and risqué to be published. The Osaka Morning News pulled the story due to extensive pressure put on them by their readers. Because of the popularity of the story, however, the magazine Josei picked up the story from Tanizaki and published the remaining parts of the novel.

Cultural impact
The release of Naomi aroused young women of the time to engage in a cultural revolution. There was a boom of moga; working-class women who work and choose men for themselves, not for the sake of their families. Traditionally, girls who wished to work lived in factory dormitories and send their wages home to their family. Mogas worked to maintain their fashionable lifestyle, living in the city and being independent. They were a hot topic in 1920s Japan. The media would discuss their characteristics, characterizing them in various ways; one media group suggested that modern girls were independent, non-traditional girls; another suggested that modern girls spoke more like men. All groups agreed modern girls were very Westernized women who refused to recognize gender and class boundaries. The modern girls movement in Japan was strikingly similar to the flapper movement in the United States in the same period.

The other class explicitly shown in Naomi is the middle management, white-collar-class males. In the story, Jōji is known to be a skilled, educated worker from a well-off rural family. He is the embodiment of a new class of Japanese salarymen. After the Meiji Restoration, the educated males moved into the cities to attend universities and become white-collar business workers as opposed to the farmers, artisans, and merchants of the past. Jōji is unusual because he belongs to upper-level management. In the novel, he seldom works hard, only going into the office for a few hours each day. In contrast, the average salaryman works long working hours with little prestige, and with little hope of climbing the corporate hierarchy.

The novel also depicts the contrast between the naive country bumpkin (in this novel, Jōji) and the slick city dweller (Naomi), a common phenomenon in Japanese society and literature of the twentieth century.

The pen name Namio Harukawa was formed from an anagram of "Naomi", a reference to the novel, and the last name of actress Masumi Harukawa.

Film adaptations
Naomi has been adapted for the cinema several times, a notable example being Yasuzo Masumura’s adaptation of Chijin no Ai (A Fool's Love) in 1967.

 * Chijin no Ai (Directed by Yasuzo Masumura, Release date September 29, 1967)
 * Michiyo Ōkusu　: Naomi
 * Shōichi Ozawa : George Kawai
 * Masakazu Tamura : Nobuo Hamada
 * Isao Kuraishi : Seitarō Kumagaya
 * Sachiko Murase : Sumie
 * Asao Uchida : Hanamura
 * Noriko Hodaka : Yasuko Hanamura

Publication history

 * 1924, Japan, Osaka Morning News, March 1924, serialization (first half)
 * 1924, Japan, Female magazine, 1924, serialization (second half)
 * 1925, Japan, Kaizōsha hardcover
 * 1947, Japan, Shinchōsha ISBN 4-10-100501-X, November 1947, paperback
 * 1952, Japan, Kadokawa Shoten ISBN 4-04-100503-5, January 1952, paperback
 * 1985, Japan, Chūōkōron Shinsha ISBN 4-12-201185-X, January 1985, paperback
 * 1985, United States, tr. by Anthony H. Chambers, Knopf ISBN 0-394-53663-0, September 12, 1985, hardcover
 * 2001, England, Vintage Books ISBN 0-375-72474-5, April 10, 2001, paperback

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Talk:Gradually Going Tornado

Paul Neagu
Contrary to what is stated in the present (December 7, 2021) text, I don't think "Gradually Going Tornado" was a performance by Paul Neagu. Rather, it was the title of a painting/an illustration, from 1974 that's right, which is shown on the album front cover. Bill Bruford saw the image by chance, and immediately thought of it as a good metaphor for the music he was working on (he composed almost all pieces in collaboration with Dave Stewart). That's how the album was conceived. --Hansung02 (talk) 17:44, 7 December 2021 (UTC)

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Rhode Island Route 4

Route 4, also known as the Colonel Rodman Highway, is a 10.37 mi numbered state highway located in Washington County and southern Kent County, Rhode Island, United States. The route is a major north–south freeway in the southern Providence metropolitan area, directly linking Providence with eastern Washington County, the beaches of Narragansett and South Kingstown, and the city of Newport. Route 4 begins as a two-lane divided highway at an intersection with U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in the town of North Kingstown, becoming a limited-access freeway after 1.89 mi. The route has four numbered interchanges before terminating in the city of Warwick, where the northbound lanes merge into Interstate 95 (I-95).

The origins of Route 4 date back to 1952, when construction began on a short, unnumbered arterial from US 1 to the modern location of exit 3 at Routes 2 and 102 in Wickford. In 1965, the Rhode Island Department of Public Works began work on a 5.4 mi freeway from modern exit 5 north to the merge with I-95. The freeway, designated as Route 4, was completed in 1972. At that time, the Route 4 designation was also applied to the Wickford arterial. In 1988, the missing link in Route 4 between exits 3 and 5 was completed and opened. The Rhode Island Department of Transportation had long-term plans to upgrade the southernmost portion of Route 4 to freeway status by constructing overpasses at Oak Hill Road and West Allenton Road and a grade separation with US 1. Although the project was originally scheduled to be completed by 2007, the $55 million project has been postponed indefinitely.

Route description
Route 4 begins at a fork in the alignment of U.S. Route 1 in the community of North Kingstown; the two left lanes of US 1 default onto Route 4 north, with the right-hand lane carrying Tower Hill Road and US 1 north into the village of Wickford. Route 4 heads in a northwestern direction as a four-lane divided highway, crossing West Allenton Road at an at-grade intersection with a traffic signal after approximately 0.5 mi. The highway continues on a northwesterly projection, passing to the northeast of Kettle Hole Pond and to the southwest of Secret Lake in a heavily forested region. After Secret Lake, the highway curves to the north, crossing Oak Hill Road at another at-grade intersection.

Shortly after the intersection with Oak Hill Road, Route 4 transitions from a divided arterial highway into a four-lane limited-access freeway. The freeway passes to the west of Belleville Pond and begins to parallel the alignment of Route 102 (Ten Rod Road) near the community of Lafayette. Route 4 passes over Amtrak's Northeast Corridor railroad before entering the business district of Wickford Junction. The freeway interchanges with Routes 2 and 102 at exit 3, a partial cloverleaf interchange. After the interchange, Route 4 bends to the northeast, beginning a parallel alignment with Route 2 that continues to its northern terminus. Route 4 crosses into the town of East Greenwich, passing under South Road before interchanging with Route 2 at exit 5, a partial cloverleaf interchange. After exit 5, Route 4 passes the Rhode Island Army National Guard base to the east and to the Hunt River to the west. Route 4 northbound interchanges with Route 403 at exit 7; Route 403, or the Quonset Freeway, is a four-lane, limited access freeway and spur route of Route 4 that serves the Quonset Business Park and the village of Davisville. Heading southbound, exit 7 is split into exit 7B, which serves the Quonset Freeway, and exit 7A, which serves Route 402 (Frenchtown Road), another spur route connecting the highway to US 1 and Route 2. After exit 7, Route 4 continues northward as a six-lane expressway, passing farmlands to the west and entering a suburban region of East Greenwich. The highway crosses under an overpass at Middle Road before interchanging with Route 401, the freeway's final spur, at another partial cloverleaf interchange. Exit 9 is also used to access Route 2 and I-95 south, which has no direct freeway connection with Route 4 north. Shortly after exit 9, the Route 4 designation ends and the mainline of the highway defaults onto I-95 north.

History
In 1950, the Rhode Island General Assembly passed a $12 million (equivalent to $ in 2024) bond issue to fund the construction of a 3 mi, four-lane divided arterial bypass of U.S. Route 1 in Wickford. Construction on the highway began in 1952 and was completed in 1954, at which time the roadway opened as an unnumbered state highway leading from US 1 to Routes 2 and 102 in Wickford. During the late 1950s, a few years after the completion of the arterial, the Rhode Island Department of Public Works (RIDPW) proposed a relocation of Route 2, which, at the time, was the major thoroughfare in the area. No action was taken until 1964, when the RIDPW introduced a study for the "Relocated Route 2" proposal. During the study, drivers who used the Colonel Rodman Highway arterial and were bound for the state capital of Providence were redirected onto Route 2, an accident-prone, four-lane undivided highway near the modern exit 3. In 1965, the planned Route 2 freeway was given the new number of Route 4, leaving Route 2 on its existing alignment. A public hearing was held by the state of Rhode Island on the proposed freeway, which was to be four lanes and have a divided, grassy median. This proposal was later accepted, and construction began two years later.

Construction of a 5.4 mi long section of Route 4 from what is now exit 5 in East Greenwich to I-95 in Warwick began in 1967 and was completed in 1972. That year, the 3 mi arterial south of the modern exit 3 was also designated as part of Route 4. The divided highway remains largely intact to this date as the stretch of Route 4 from US 1 to Routes 2 and 102 at exit 3; the only piece of the arterial that has been significantly altered is the construction of a bridge over Amtrak's Northeast Corridor line. By the early 1970s, Route 4 was complete north of exit 5 and south of what would become exit 3, but there was a still a missing piece in the highway between the two exits. In the 1970s, the state of Rhode Island faced several budget problems and environmental concerns, both of which delayed the construction of the missing link for nearly eleven years. Environmental studies on the missing link began in 1977, and the state estimated that the 1.5 mi long section of freeway would cost $15–21 million (equivalent to $0–0 million in 2024) to construct.

In 1983, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) began construction of the new segment of Route 4 between exits 3 and 5. The project, which ultimately went over budget at $24 million (equivalent to $0 million in 2024)), was financed from a $63 million federal grant. In 1986, during excavation for the new right-of-way, the Department of Transportation found archeological items from the Narragansett Indians dating from about 2,000 to 4,500 years prior. Although the findings were not centralized in the area, this caused delays for the extension of the freeway. On August 6, 1988, RIODT completed construction and performed a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new highway.

In January 1990, two police cruisers were severely damaged during a chase on Route 4. A driver was speeding in the southbound lanes of Route 4 near exit 7; when the driver exited at Route 402 (Frenchtown Road), two police officers got into serious accidents in their attempts to pursue the vehicle. After the crashes, the American Civil Liberties Union restarted efforts to amend police chase policy and avoid further crash-related injuries for officers in the line of duty.

In 2000, construction began on the Quonset Freeway, a relocated Route 403 that serves the Quonset Business Park from Route 4. The project included the reconstruction and reworking of exit 7 off Route 4, which was a southbound-only exit serving both Route 403 and Route 402 when constructed. The exit was converted into a trumpet interchange with new ramps between Route 4, Route 403 and Route 402 and was completed in December 2008, one year ahead of schedule. The project included the construction of a new northbound exit 7 serving Route 403 east.

Future
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) has laid out long-term plans for improvements to both the southern and northern termini of Route 4. During the 1980s and 1990s, RIDOT announced plans to eliminate the three traffic lights along the southern end of the highway. The department planned to replace the existing signalized US 1 and Route 4 merge, converting it into a grade-separated interchange with an extensive overpass. This would cut-off access to three local roads that intersect US 1 near the signal. The plan also included the replacement of the two other signaled intersections at West Allenton Road and Oak Hill Road with overpasses; the overpass for West Allenton Road is planned to be constructed as a new exit 4. In the 1990s, the state purchased and demolished several houses in the region to allow for an expanded Route 4 right-of-way in the vicinity of West Allenton Road.

The upgrade proposal proved to be very unpopular with North Kingstown residents who lived on the affected local roads. Additionally, RIDOT laid the highway out so that Route 4 would cross through wetlands in the area. This sparked environmental concerns, as one of the large wetlands that would be affected, Froberg's Marsh, was deemed to be of high value by Rhode Island environmentalists. Despite local and environmental concerns, RIDOT still considers the Route 4 upgrade to be the safest way to improve traffic flow in the region. While the Department of Transportation considered upgrading nearby Route 2 to freeway standards as a potential alternative, this plan was ultimately rejected because of its effects on wells in the area. Although the project was originally scheduled to be completed by 2007, the $55 million project has been postponed indefinitely.

RIDOT also has long-range plans to construct direct freeway connections linking Route 4 north with I-95 south and I-95 north with Route 4 south. By November 2010, environmental studies were being prepared for a reconfiguration of the interchange. In January 2024, the state of Rhode Island was rewarded an $81 million federal grant to construct the missing movements between I-95 and Route 4. A new I-95 South entrance ramp from Route 2 at the adjacent interchange will also be constructed.

Exit list
Exits were renumbered in fall 2018 as part of a statewide conversion to mileage-based exit numbers.

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2nd Army (Wehrmacht)

The 2nd Army (2. Armee) was a field army of the German Army during World War II.

1939–1941
The 2nd Army headquarters was briefly established in Berlin from Group Command 1 on 26 August 1939 and at the beginning of the Invasion of Poland it was renamed Army Group North on 2 September.

The 2nd Army was reestablished on 20 October 1939, with Generaloberst Maximilian von Weichs in command, by renaming the 8th Army, which had been moved from Poland to the west. After the beginning of the Battle of France the army was assigned to Army Group A in June 1940, when it fought across the Aisne and around Reims. In April 1941, the army was involved in the invasion of the Balkans, capturing Belgrade in a rapid offensive.

1941–1945
From 1941 until the end of the war the army was deployed in the Eastern Front, starting with the Operation Barbarossa as part of Army Group Centre. It advanced from Białystok to Mogilev, Gomel, Chernigov, Bryansk successively and defended against Soviet counterattack near Kursk. In 1942 the 2nd Army covered the northern wing of Case Blue operating in the surroundings of Voronezh under Army Group B. With Hans von Salmuth as the commander, it suffered a major defeat during the Voronezh-Kastornensk operation, the Soviet winter offensive that followed the battle of Stalingrad. On 4 February 1943 Walter Weiß replaced von Salmuth as commander.

General der Panzertruppe Dietrich von Saucken became commander of the army on 10 March 1945. The army was renamed Army East Prussia (AOK Ostpreußen) on 7 April and was pivotal in the defence of East and West Prussia before end of World War II in Europe on 9 May 1945.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pajamahadeen

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS; thus the article is kept. —Korath (Talk) 14:21, Mar 4, 2005 (UTC)

Pajamahadeen
Neologism. Gamaliel 05:16, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, neologism. Megan1967 06:27, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: 16,500 Google hits . Carrp | Talk 20:29, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, no relevance outside a small conservative blogging community concerned with the 2004 US election, (its importance will be overstated by google since its related to blogs) --nixie 23:59, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. It was widely used during the events that unrolled and while it was a joke in response to criticism from CBS--it has some merit as a reference in that it defines how the conservative bloggers viewed themselves and how they were viewed by CBS and its defenders. unsigned vote from 63.225.174.87
 * Delete, neologism. Jonathunder 22:10, 2005 Feb 27 (UTC)
 * Probably should be merged with something. Tim Rhymeless (Er...let's shimmy)  03:06, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, neologism. --LexCorp 03:35, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Sure it's a neologism, but that doesn't mean it should be automatically deleted. The word has appeared in print and online media around the world so it's something that people could reasonably expect to look up in Wikipedia and the article gives much more than a dicdef. --Lee Hunter 12:12, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Even if this neologism disappears, somebody might want to know what it meant during its brief heyday.  NathanV 14:24, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Because Wikipedia is not paper, it can afford to have things like this that people may have a hard time finding information about elsewhere. Aidje 18:27, 2005 Mar 3 (UTC)

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Talk:The Massacre

Quality
The article is really lacking in quality. 50 cent did not sell 16 million albums he did 8 million and he did not get certified two times plantinum since india has no CERTIFICATION PLICY DUHH.. The reviews on there seem bias because we all know that this album was not favoured by critics

Reviews from the hip-hop/rap press
I wanted to add reviews of this album from hip-hop/rap press (e.g. THE SOURCE, VIBE, RapPages, etc.), can anyone help me?

-- Jalabi99 11:05, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

"It was released on March 3, 2005 - five days ahead of the original release date of March 13"

Hmm Something Not Right

-- CanucksRule
 * the reviews are biased, as in, someone removed all the negative reviews to make this page and/or 50 Cent look better. 74.12.217.59 17:22, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Other use
Just to specify the reason for the otheruse template I added at the top, which may not be immediately obvious... The Doctor Who serial entitled "The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve" is often referred to simply as "The Massacre," as shown here. That article is also where The Massacre (Doctor Who) redirects. Rob T Firefly 16:08, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
In a website, it says that the album cover of the massacre, 50 Cent with bold lines on his chest, is to represent a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, which it says that he likes the cartoon, along with his son- SCB '92 15:28, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

50 cent —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.209.145.97 (talk) 15:51, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

Dr. Who Disclaimer
Is it really necessary to have a Dr. Who disclaimer at the top of the article? -- MISTER ALCOHOL  TC 04:06, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't think so, it should be removed. Blsupr (talk) 03:21, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

I third that, and it has been removed. C43S4R (talk) 01:04, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Add more
I think more content should be added to this article, such as...

An image of the special editon version of the album under the singles.

Something about the song "Piggy Bank."

Something about all the music videos not being on the edited version of the special edition album. Blsupr (talk) 03:24, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Los Angeles Times review
Transcription using Google News Advanced News Archive Search. Los Angeles Times (Dreisinger, Baz. E.2. March 2, 2005) review of The Massacre (2005):

""The Massacre" (Shady/ Aftermath/ Interscope). * * *. 50 Cent's sophomore album, the most anticipated rap release of 2005 so far, is guided by a simple mantra: If it ain't broke, why fix it? "It" would be the musical formula that helped the rapper's debut, "Get Rich or Die Tryin'," move nearly 1 million units in one week. A brazen capitalist -- "being broke is against my religion," he rhymes on a new track -- 50 doubtless approached his follow-up effort pragmatically: Artistic growth is good, but more of the same is even better.

So we get "The Massacre" (in stores Thursday), a joyride of an album that's as fun as it is familiar. The cover photo speaks a thousand words. It features the shirtless rapper whose gleaming pectorals we know well -- from the near-identical cover of "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" -- but here, the muscles have been stenciled over, giving 50 the look of a comic book character: Behold "Supergangsta!"

And before you know it, the amoral Supergangsta -- "Don't know if I'm God's child or I'm Satan's angel," he raps -- has you cheerfully humming along to lyrics about how to "lock and load" and pop AKs. Such is the allure of 50's formula, which is so puckishly congenial, you can't blame him for repeating it.

His beats -- a handful from hit-makers Dr. Dre, Eminem and Scott Storch, most others by smaller-name producers -- are insistent, mechanical and stadium-appropriate. His terse hooks, usually sung boldly off-key by 50 himself, resemble warped nursery rhymes: Who else can craft a catchy chorus from a line like "I'm Supposed to Die Tonight," or transform the "Batman and Robin" theme into a spunky duet with Eminem, about gangsters named "Gatman and Robbin'?" Even the current single "Piggy Bank," full of pointed barbs at other rappers, sounds less like a "diss" track than a playful, grade- school taunt.

"The Massacre" feels about six songs too long, but ultimately, excess is its greatest asset: By being so relentlessly over-the-top in his gangsterism, 50 Cent succeeds in defusing its vulgarity. He may be caught up in real-life drama (he was near the scene of a shooting at a radio station), but on record, 50's gangsta music sounds less like reality rap and more like jolly good fun."

- Baz Dreisinger

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Barreleye

Barreleyes, also known as spook fish (a name also applied to several species of chimaera), are small deep-sea argentiniform fish comprising the family Opisthoproctidae found in tropical-to-temperate waters of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.

These fish are named because of their barrel-shaped, tubular eyes, which are generally directed upwards to detect the silhouettes of available prey; however, the fish are capable of directing their eyes forward, as well. The family name Opisthoproctidae is derived from the Greek words opisthe 'behind' and proktos 'anus'.

Description
The morphology of the Opisthoproctidae varies between three main forms: the stout, deep-bodied barreleyes of the genera Opisthoproctus and Macropinna, the extremely slender and elongated spookfishes of the genera Dolichopteryx and Bathylychnops, and the intermediate fusiform spookfishes of the genera Rhynchohyalus and Winteria.

All species have large, telescoping eyes, which dominate and protrude from the head, but are enclosed within a large transparent dome of soft tissue. These eyes generally gaze upwards, but can also be directed forwards. The opisthoproctid eye has a large lens and a retina with an exceptionally high complement of rod cells and a high density of rhodopsin (the "visual purple" pigment); no cone cells are present. To better serve their vision, barreleyes have large, dome-shaped, transparent heads; this presumably allows the eyes to collect even more incident light and likely protects the sensitive eyes from the nematocysts (stinging cells) of the siphonophores, from which the barreleye is believed to steal food. It may also serve as an accessory lens (modulated by intrinsic or peripheral muscles), or refract light with an index very close to seawater. Dolichopteryx longipes is the only vertebrate known to use a mirror (as well as a lens) in its eyes for focusing images.

The toothless mouth is small and terminal, ending in a pointed snout. As in related families (e.g. Argentinidae), an epibranchial or crumenal organ is present behind the fourth gill arch. This organ—analogous to the gizzard—consists of a small diverticulum wherein the gill rakers insert and interdigitate for the purpose of grinding up ingested material. The living body of most species is a dark brown, covered in large, silvery imbricate scales, but these are absent in Dolichopteryx, leaving the body itself a transparent white. In all species, a variable number of dark melanophores colour the muzzle, ventral surface, and midline.

Also present in Dolichopteryx, Opisthoproctus, and Winteria species are a number of luminous organs; Dolichopteryx has several along the length of its belly, and  Opisthoproctus has a single organ in the form of a rectal pouch. These organs glow with a weak light due to the presence of symbiotic bioluminescent bacteria, specifically, Photobacterium phosphoreum (family Vibrionaceae). The ventral surfaces of Opisthoproctus species are characterised by a flattened and projecting 'sole'; in the mirrorbelly (Opisthoproctus grimaldii) and Opisthoproctus soleatus, this sole may act as a reflector, by directing the emitted light downwards. The strains of P. phosphoreum present in the two Opisthoproctus species have been isolated and cultured in the lab. Through restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis, the two strains have been shown to differ only slightly.

In all species, the fins are spineless and fairly small; in Dolichopteryx however, the pectoral fins are greatly elongated and wing-like, extending about half the body's length, and are apparently used for stationkeeping in the water column. The pectoral fins are inserted low on the body, and in some species, the pelvic fins are inserted ventrolaterally rather than strictly ventrally. Several species also possess either a ventral or dorsal adipose fin, and the caudal fin is forked to emarginated. The anal fin is either present or greatly reduced, and may not be externally visible; it is strongly retrorse in Opisthoproctus. A single dorsal fin originates slightly before or directly over the anal fin. A perceptible hump in the back begins just behind the head. The gas bladder is absent in most species, and the lateral line is uninterrupted. The branchiostegal rays (bony rays supporting the gill membranes behind the lower jaw) number two to four. The javelin spookfish (Bathylychnops exilis) is by far the largest species at 50 cm standard length; most other species are under 20 cm.

Life cycle

Barreleyes inhabit moderate depths, from the mesopelagic to bathypelagic zone, circa 400–2,500 m deep. They are presumably solitary and do not undergo diel vertical migrations; instead, barreleyes remain just below the limit of light penetration and use their sensitive, upward-pointing tubular eyes—adapted for enhanced binocular vision at the expense of lateral vision—to survey the waters above. The high number of rods in their eyes' retinae allows barreleyes to resolve the silhouettes of objects overhead in the faintest of ambient light (and to accurately distinguish bioluminescent light from ambient light), and their binocular vision allows the fish to accurately track and home in on small zooplankton such as hydroids, copepods, and other pelagic crustaceans. The distribution of some species coincides with the isohaline and isotherm layers of the ocean; for example, in Opisthoproctus soleatus, upper distribution limits coincide with the 400-m isotherm for 8 °C.

What little is known of barreleye reproduction indicates they are pelagic spawners; that is, eggs and sperm are released en masse directly into the water. The fertilized eggs are buoyant and planktonic; the larvae and juveniles drift with the currents—likely at much shallower depths than the adults—and upon metamorphosis into adult form, they descend to deeper waters. Dolichopteryx species are noted for their paedomorphic features, the result of neoteny (the retention of larval characteristics).

The bioluminescent organs of Dolichopteryx and Opisthoproctus, together with the reflective soles of the latter, may serve as camouflage in the form of counterillumination. This predator avoidance strategy involves the use of ventral light to break up the fishes' silhouettes, so that (when viewed from below) they blend in with the ambient light from above. Counterillumination is also seen in several other unrelated deep-sea families, which include the marine hatchetfish (Sternoptychidae). Also found in marine hatchetfish and other unrelated families are tubular eyes, such as telescopefish and tube-eye.

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 * Addressing the large scale implied by "protection" against agents across an entire population, either of troops or civilians
 * Historical viewpoint on biodefense ... pre-microbiology in particular.
 * etc.etc.etc.

The two references I've added are big chunks of information, but some is historical, some planning only, and some implemented differently than detailed. Additional sources are needed ... and not articles from popular news magazines.

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This article also requires an expanded definition, not specific to the military as biodefense now incorporates Office of Health Affairs (OHA) within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, civilian, military, emergency responders, private industry and universities. A generic biodefense definition would be: Procedures involved in taking defensive measures against attacks using biological agents.

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The following run-on sentence appeared in the last version, so I split it into two sentences. "When ballot access restrictions are challenged in court it is often argued that such regulations are necessary in order to prevent "frivolous" candidates from cluttering the ballot and confusing voters, however, Winger has assembled evidence that unfair ballot access laws place an undue burden on citizens who wish to participate in the political process outside the two dominant political parties."

Do we know that Winger has assembled evidence? Are there sources for this? Should we say "Winger asserts that unfair ballot access..."? Rwlane 05:22, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

First Year of the Newsletter
On October 8, 2022, Richard Winger revealed to his comments section at https://ballot-access.org/2022/10/07/forward-party-joins-the-board-of-the-coalition-for-free-open-elections-cofoe/#comments that Ballot Access News wasn't always called that: 'The whole reason I started Ballot Access News in 1985 was to publicize the Conyers bill, introduced for the first time in 1985. For the first year, the name of Ballot Access News was “HR 2320 News”. Then it expanded to cover news about ballot access generally, in 1986.' 2600:1000:B167:21A8:571:7E82:20D5:B83F (talk) 23:55, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

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Wirt

Wirt may refer to:

Wirt as surname

 * Elizabeth Wirt (1784-1857), American author
 * John S. Wirt (1851–1904), American politician and lawyer
 * Václav Wirt (1893–1962), Czech gymnast
 * Wigand Wirt (1460–1519), German theologian
 * William Wirt (attorney general) (1772–1834), American author and statesman
 * William Wirt (educator) (1874–1938), American educator

Wirt as given name

 * Wirt Sikes (1836–1883), American journalist and writer
 * William Wirt Winchester (1837–1881), American businessman
 * Wirt Williams (1921–1986), American journalist, writer, and educator
 * Wirt, a character from the Diablo video game
 * Wirt, the main character from Over the Garden Wall

Places

 * Wirt, Indiana
 * Wirt, New York
 * Wirt, Minnesota
 * Wirt Township, Itasca County, Minnesota
 * Wirt County, West Virginia

Other

 * 2044 Wirt, an asteroid
 * WIRT-DT, a U.S. television station

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3rd Army (Wehrmacht)

The 3rd Army (3. Armee) was a German field army that fought during World War II.

Combat Chronicle
The 3rd Army was activated on September 1, 1939, the day German forces invaded Poland. It was put under the command of General der Artillerie Georg von Küchler. Küchler later became commander of Army Group North in 1942 and also later became Generalfeldmarschall. At the start of the Polish Campaign the 3rd Army was part of Generaloberst Feodor von Bock's Army Group North, together with Generaloberst Günther von Kluge's 4th Army. The 4th Army was to capture the Polish Corridor and enter East Prussia, thus re-linking the two areas. The Third Army was to split into two and attack from East Prussia. One part of the 3rd Army was to advance southwards into Modlin, cross near the confluence of the Vistula and Bug rivers and take part in the attack on Warsaw. The other part of the 3rd Army was to attack near Narew, attack along the Bug River, and make a drive into Brest-Litovsk.

When the attack on Poland was launched, a part of the 3rd Army moved toward the Polish Corridor and met with Kluge's 4th Army. Both the 3rd and 4th Armies implemented their plans well, and the Polish Campaign ended in victorious triumph for the German Army. The Red Army had attacked Poland from the east with a million men and advanced westwards to meet with the German troops, despite casualties that numbered more than expected. In Brest-Litovsk, a joint German and Soviet victory parade was held.

On November 5, 1939, only about five weeks following the end of the Polish Campaign, the Third Army was disbanded. The Third Army became one of the first German armies of World War II to be disbanded. The staff was moved to Bad Bertrich as 16th Army for use in the west. Immediately after the Third Army was disbanded Küchler became commander of the newly formed 18th Army and led it during the Western Campaign of 1940. He stayed in that position until 1942, when he became commander of Army Group North to lead the Siege on Leningrad. That year he became generalfeldmarschall but was replaced in 1944 following the Soviet breakthrough against Army Group North.

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Georgetown GO Station

Georgetown GO Station is a railway station in Georgetown, Ontario, Canada. It is served by GO Transit's Kitchener line and Via Rail's Toronto-Sarnia trains. It is located west of Mountainview Road North at 55 Queen Street.

History
The station was constructed between 1855 and 1856 by the Grand Trunk Railway, designed by the GTR chief engineer Francis Thompson and built by Casimir Gzowski. It was enlarged in 1892 and its interior and exterior were remodeled in 1904. Among the 1892 and 1904 modifications were the corner tower and operator's bay window.

The station was acquired by Canadian National Railway when the GTR assets were transferred in 1923 and later became a VIA Rail station. GO Transit service began in 1978.

The station once had a water tower for steam trains and had platforms on both sides of the station building, with the south side now paved over for a large commuter parking lot.

The station was the terminus of the then-named Georgetown line for most of its GO Transit history, from 1978 to 1990 and 1993 to 2011. Between 1990 and 1993 and since 2011, some GO Trains have served stations further west; as of 2015 the majority of trains on the line continue to originate and terminate here.

The International Limited was operated jointly by Via Rail and Amtrak between Chicago and Toronto. The service operated from 1982–2004.

Station facilities
The two mainline tracks are used jointly by Canadian National, Via Rail, Goderich-Exeter and GO Transit. On the north side of the station a yard provides four layover tracks and an island platform used for GO Train service. Via trains operate from a side platform on the south side of the station, adjacent to the station building.

The station has two parking lots. The main parking lot and station building are located on the south side of the tracks adjacent to a bus loading/unloading zone.

Ticket sales are available during peak hours with an attendant, as well as during evenings for the last few days of every month.

The station building is open during the posted GO train hours and for a half-hour before each Via train arrival.

Train

 * GO Transit Kitchener line - Kitchener - Toronto: 10 trains in each direction between Georgetown and Toronto, of which 8 eastbound and 7 westbound trains operate the full route from Kitchener to Toronto, and the remainder operate only between Toronto and Georgetown or Guelph.
 * Via Rail Corridor Service - Sarnia - London - Kitchener - Toronto: 2 daily trains in each direction, of which one operates the full route between Sarnia and Toronto, and the other operates only between London and Toronto.

Bus

 * GO Bus Route 31 - Guelph - Georgetown - Brampton - Toronto
 * GO Bus Route 33 - Guelph - Georgetown - Brampton - Yorkdale - York Mills
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Mount Pleasant GO Station

Mount Pleasant GO Station is a GO Transit railway station Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Situated on the Kitchener line, it serves the Mount Pleasant district of Brampton. It is located at Bovaird Drive and Ashby Field Drive. As of April 2023, it is the western terminus for weekend and most off-peak Kitchener line train services.

History
The station was completed on March 15, 2006, but it opened for service on February 7, 2005 while still under construction because GO Transit needed to alleviate parking shortages at Brampton GO Station, and also needed to serve the nearby community.

Mount Pleasant is wheelchair-accessible with a mini-platform. The parking lot has 1486 spaces and sufficient land to permit future expansion to about 2000 spaces. The station has a nine-bay bus loop serving both GO buses and Brampton Transit on the south side. On the north side, the station had 4 additional bays to service Brampton Transit busses for the new developments in the area.

Bus bay assignments - North Side

 * 1 - Brampton Transit Routes: 26 Mount Pleasant
 * 2 - Brampton Transit Route: 6 James Potter
 * 3 - Brampton Transit Route: 23 Sandalwood
 * 4 - Brampton Transit Route: 27 Robert Parkinson & 28 Wanless

Bus bay assignments - South Side

 * 5 - Brampton Transit Routes: 55 Elbern Markell & 60 Mississauga Road
 * 6 - Brampton Transit Route: 9 Vodden
 * 7 - Brampton Transit Route: 29/29A Williams
 * 8 - Brampton Transit Route: 4/4A Chinguacousy & 104 Chinguacousy Express
 * 9 - GO Transit Routes: 31-A,B,E,F, 33-D,E Eastbound
 * 10 - GO Transit Routes: 31-A,E,F, 33-D,E,F Westbound
 * 11 - Brampton Transit Routes: 5/5A Bovaird, 505 Züm Bovaird
 * 12 - Brampton Transit Routes: 1 Queen, 561 Züm Queen West

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Jean-Claude Rivest

Jean-Claude Rivest (born January 27, 1943) is a Canadian lawyer, former politician and Senator.

Born in L'Assomption, Quebec, the son of Victor Rivest and Yvette Lafortune, he studied law at the Université de Montréal. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1966. He practiced law from 1966 to 1967, until he started working for Jean Lesage. From 1970 to 1976, he worked for Robert Bourassa, Premier of Quebec. From 1976 to 1979, he worked for Gérard D. Levesque, leader of the Official Opposition in the National Assembly of Quebec. In 1979, he was elected to the National Assembly as a Liberal Party candidate in a by-election in the riding of Jean-Talon. He was re-elected in the 1981 general election.

He was appointed to the Senate on the recommendation of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney in 1993. He initially sat as a Progressive Conservative Senator. Upon that party's merger with the Canadian Alliance, he sat in the newly formed Conservative Party caucus. In September 2004, he changed his designation to "Independent". He was a member of the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs committee.

Rivest retired from the Senate at the end of January 2015, three years prior to reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.

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Wigand Wirt

Wigand Wirt (1460—June 30, 1519) born at Frankfurt, was a German theologian best known for his polemic writings attacking the Catholic doctrine of the immaculate Conception. In 1506, the Archbishop of Mainz forbade the reading of certain of Wirt's works, and in 1512, the Vatican officially decided against him. He was elected as prior of a convent in Stuttgart in 1506, and was a prior in Steyer at the time of his death.

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4th Army (Wehrmacht)

The 4th Army (4. Armee) was a field army of the Wehrmacht during World War II.

Invasions of Poland and France
The 4th Army was activated on 1 August 1939 with General Günther von Kluge in command. It took part in the Invasion of Poland of September 1939 as part of Army Group North, which was under Field Marshal Fedor von Bock. The 4th Army contained the II Corps and III Corps, each with two infantry divisions, the XIX Corps with two motorized and one panzer divisions, and three other divisions, including two in reserve. Its objective was to capture the Polish Corridor, thus linking mainland Germany with East Prussia.

During the attack on the Low Countries and France, the 4th Army, as part of Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt's Army Group A, invaded Belgium from the Rhineland. Along with other German armies, the 4th Army penetrated the Dyle Line and completed the trapping of the Allied forces in France.

During the Western Campaign, the 4th Army was at the center of an organizational dispute between Army Group A, Army Group B, the Army High Command (OKH) and Adolf Hitler. The commander-in-chief of the army, Walther von Brauchitsch, was dissatisfied with the size and leadership style of Army Group A, especially its commander Rundstedt; on May 23, 1940, the OKH ordered that the 4th Army should be subordinated to Army Group B from 20:00 on the following day. As a result of this order, Rundstedt would have lost all the armored units (Panzer Group Kleist, Panzer Group Guderian) of his army group. According to the OKH's concept, Army Group B was subsequently to be utilized for the reduction of the Dunkirk sector of the front and Army Group A merely for flank security. When Hitler arrived at the headquarters of Army Group A near Charleville on the morning of May 24 and learned of the OKH's order, he immediately suspended it. The 4th Army remained with Army Group A, followed at 12:45 by the famous halting order, according to which the attack on the encircled Allied troops at Dunkirk was to be delayed until the infantry units (II Corps, VIII Corps) had caught up.

The then Major-General Erwin Rommel, who was under Kluge, contributed immensely to the victory of 4th Army. Kluge, who had been General of the Artillery, was promoted to Field Marshal along with many others on 19 July 1940.

Operation Barbarossa
The 4th Army took part in Operation Barbarossa in 1941 as part of Fedor von Bock's Army Group Center and took part in the Battle of Minsk and the Battle of Smolensk. In the aftermath of the German failure in the Battle of Moscow, Fedor von Bock was relieved of his command of Army Group Center on 18 December. Kluge was promoted to replace him. General Ludwig Kübler assumed command of the 4th Army.

After the launching of Operation Blue, the 4th Army and the entire Army Group Center did not see much action, as troops were concentrated to the south. From 1943 on, the 4th Army was in retreat along with other formations of Army Group Center. The Red Army's campaign of autumn 1943, Operation Suvorov (also known as the "battle of the highways"), saw the 4th Army pushed back towards Orsha. Between October and the first week of December, Western Front had tried four times to take Orsha and had been beaten off in furious battles by Fourth Army.

In 1944, the 4th Army was holding defensive positions east of Orsha and Mogilev in the Belorussian SSR, occupying a bulging, 25- by 80-mile bridgehead east of the Dnepr. The Soviet summer offensive of that year, Operation Bagration, commencing on 22 June, proved disastrous for the Wehrmacht, including the 4th Army. It was encircled east of Minsk and lost 130,000 men in 12 days since the start of Bagration. Few units were able to escape westwards; after the battles in the rest of the summer, the army required complete rebuilding. During late 1944–45 the 4th Army, now under the command of Friedrich Hoßbach, was tasked with holding the borders of East Prussia. On the first week in November in Gumbinnen Operation, the 4th Army pushed back the Soviet forces in the Gumbinnen sector off all but a fifteen-mile by fifty-mile strip of East Prussian territory.

East Prussian Offensive
The Soviet East Prussian Offensive, commencing on 13 January, saw the 2nd Army driven steadily backwards towards the Baltic coast over a period of two weeks and 4th Army threatened with encirclement. Hoßbach, with the Army Group Centre's commander Georg-Hans Reinhardt's concurrence, attempted to break out of East Prussia by attacking towards Elbing; but the attack was driven back and the 4th Army was again encircled in what became known as the Heiligenbeil pocket. For defying their orders, both Hoßbach and Reinhardt were relieved of command.

By 13 February, 3rd Belorussian Front had pushed 4th Army out of the Heilsberg triangle. After 13 March 3rd Belorussian Front had pushed 4th Army into a ten by two mile beachhead west of Heiligenbeil before Hitler finally allowed the army to retreat across the Frisches Haff to the Frische Nehrung on 29 March. After Königsberg fell, Hitler sent Headquarters, 4th Army, out of East Prussia and merged its units with 2nd Army to form the East Prussian Army Group, commanded by Dietrich von Saucken, which surrendered to the Red Army at the end of the war in May. Meanwhile, the Headquarters, 4th Army became Headquarters, 21st Army.

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K240

K240 is a real-time strategy video game published by Gremlin Graphics and released for the Amiga home computer in 1994. It is a sequel to the 1991 game Utopia: The Creation of a Nation.

Plot
Based in a sector of deep space called K240 in the year 2380, the game involves building space colonies on a cluster of asteroids and mining them for valuable ore, while fighting against several different races of hostile aliens with similar motives.

Reception
The game achieved a review score of 91% in CU Amiga.

Legacy
K240 was succeeded by Fragile Allegiance, which is a PC remake of the game with improved graphics and user interface. Many of the buildings, ships, missiles, and game concepts are the same. However, the Human Empire is dissolved in a coup, and united with several alien races in a multiracial Federation. There are also gameplay differences resulting from ships being given limited range as well as espionage.

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Bielefeld University

Bielefeld University (Universität Bielefeld) is a public university in Bielefeld, Germany. Founded in 1969, it is one of the country's newer universities, and considers itself a "reform" university, following a different style of organization and teaching than the established universities. In particular, the university aims to "re-establish the unity between research and teaching", and so all its faculty teach courses in their area of research. The university also stresses a focus on interdisciplinary research, helped by the architecture, which encloses all faculties in one great structure. It is among the first of the German universities to switch some faculties (e.g. biology) to Bachelor/Master-degrees as part of the Bologna process.

Bielefeld University has started an extensive multi-phase modernisation project, which is to be completed by 2025. A total investment of more than 1 billion euros has been planned for this undertaking.

Campus
The university is located in the west of Bielefeld next to the Teutoburg Forest. The main building, which houses all the faculties and institutes, as well as the large library, is a functional concrete structure, typical of the 1960s. The main building with 154,000 m2 alone is one of the largest structures in Europe.

Intercity trains running between Cologne/Bonn and Berlin stop regularly at Bielefeld, and the university can be accessed via city tram (Line 4) in about 10 minutes from the city center—or in about 15 minutes by car. The nearest airport, Paderborn/Lippstadt, is about 50 kilometres southeast of Bielefeld.

Library
Bielefeld University Library occupies most of the first floor of the main university building and contains over 2.2 million volumes. It is open every day of the year, from 08:00 until 01:00 Monday to Friday, and from 09:00 to 22:00 during weekends and public holidays.

The library's projects include the development of tools to improve access to electronic resources. It works with commercial system suppliers to meet the needs of academic libraries—collaborations that have resulted in developments such as BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine), by which metadata is collected from scientific repository servers and indexed, along with data from selected web sites and data collections, using the Solr framework.

Central academic institutes

 * Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF)
 * Institute for interdisciplinary research on conflict and violence (IKG)
 * Center for Interamerican Studies (CIAS)
 * CeBiTec – Center for Biotechnology
 * CITEC – Cognitive Interaction Technology (Center of Excellence)
 * Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics (CoR-Lab)
 * Interdisciplinary Centre of Women's and Gender Studies
 * Institute for the Simulation of Complex Systems (ISKOS)
 * Institute of Mathematical Economics (IMW)
 * Research Centre for Mathematical Modelling (FSPM)
 * Teacher Training Centre (ZfL – in German)

Oberstufen-Kolleg and Laborschule at the University of Bielefeld
Since their founding by Hartmut von Hentig in 1974, the laboratory schools Laborschule and Oberstufen-Kolleg have focused on integrating educational research into everyday teaching: school teachers collaborate with university researchers in research projects. A research institute at the University corresponds to each school ("Research Institute Laborschule" and "Research Institute Oberstufen-Kolleg" ). The Oberstufen-Kolleg is a UNESCO Project School and as such it aims for international understanding and cooperation. Since 1998, the Kolleg has worked together with the German School of Guayaquil in a charitable project to help in the development of the town of Daular, Ecuador, which project won a United Nations Award in 2006/2007 for its international concept.

Rankings
In the QS World University Rankings for 2024, the university is placed within the 951–1000 range, ranking as the 45th institution at the national level. In contrast, the university achieves a higher position in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, where it lands within the 201–250 bracket in 2023, and ranks between 23rd and 26th in the country. According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities for 2023, the university's global rank falls within the 701–800 range, placing it between 41st and 42nd nationally.

In 2017, Bielefeld University was ranked 22nd in the world by the Times Higher Education (THE) Young University Rankings, and among the top 300 universities by the traditional Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

In the THE ranking of 2011 Bielefeld is placed among the top 50 universities in engineering and technology.

In terms of mathematics, the Academic Ranking of World Universities of 2018 places Bielefeld among the four best universities of Germany and 101–150 best universities in the world. The German Center for Higher Education Development Excellence Ranking, which measures academic performance of European graduate programs in biology, chemistry, mathematics, and physics, placed Bielefeld in the excellence group for mathematics.

Protests against tuition fees
Bielefeld University was one of the centers of student protests in the fight against the introduction of tuition fees. In the course of the protests, the central hall and the university president's office were occupied by protesting students for over a month. In a vote organised by the AStA and the students parliament, about 94 percent of the participants voted against the introduction of tuition fees, although only 22 percent of the students cast their vote. This is comparable to similar results at other German universities.

In its session of 12 July 2006, the university senate decided to introduce tuition fees of €500 per semester, beginning in 2007.

In August 2006, a universal key for the university went missing during a senate session. After that, multiple cases of arson and defacement of university property were reported. University president Dieter Timmermann was a particular target of these attacks. The cost of the damage, mainly due to the replacement of thousands of locks, was estimated at over a million euros.

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Goose Island (San Juan Islands)

Goose Island is one of the San Juan Islands in San Juan County, Washington, United States.

Characteristics
The uninhabited island is only 3.789 acres (1.533 ha), and is located at latitude 48° 27' 29" N, longitude 122° 57' 19" W, off the southeastern tip of San Juan Island, in the channel between that island and Lopez Island.

Nature Conservancy preserve
Since 1975 it has been managed as a nature preserve by The Nature Conservancy, following the Management Plan and Baseline Study for Goose and Deadman Island Preserves, along with Deadman Island. Visiting the island is prohibited, except for researchers from the University of Washington's Friday Harbor Laboratories.

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Piccadilly Circus/archive1

Piccadilly Circus
I am not sure if the balance is right since I am not extremely familiar with London's history and only worked on this because I liked the area. Please take a look. JuntungWu 05:40, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * It looks pretty good. I corrected a few grammar errors, I would look over it again, but from what I read it was well-written and no grammar/spelling errors. I specifically like the amount of photos. There are a lot compared to the article length, but that is a good thing. --Lan56 02:34, Feb 27, 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Folding@home

Is this article "written like an advertisement?"
I'm somewhat surprised to see this cleanup tag here, since this is a featured article. Does any part of this article need to be revised or rewritten? Jarble (talk) 16:46, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

 * I would say it should be cleaned up and rewritten. For one thing the article claims that F@H pioneered volunteer distributed computing, when Seti@Home was out long before F@H. Nabeel_co (talk) 19:48, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
 * I just removed the clean up tag. I think it is very well-written. Fangfufu (talk) 11:51, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

Folding@Home is a pioneer? Seti@home started way before Folding@home.
"The project has pioneered" It didn't pioneer those things... It was notable, but projects like Seti@home, Electric Sheep, Distributed.net, and GIMPS all pre-dated Folding@home. It's true that the F@H client has probably taken advantage of more varied processor architectures than most projects, but they were far from the first for CPU or GPU distributed volunteer computing. This is so blatantly inaccurate, I'm surprised that it's on the second paragraph of a fairly popular Wikipedia article. Definitely needs correcting. Nabeel_co (talk) 20:03, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ I also think the sentence after it is questionable since it uses "paradigm shift" in a broader context than the source. Tonystewart14 (talk) 03:30, 20 May 2020 (UTC)

Playstation3 has been deprecated as a supported client
Please edit the main page, dropping the PLAYSTATION 3 from the list of supported devices. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.109.194.172 (talk) 03:16, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Promotional article
This reads like a highly promotional article, written to advertise Folding@home. Readers should be alerted that the prediction of protein structure, the hard-nose test for Folding@home has already been solved by a Google group. The problem has been solved using artificial intelligence by DeepMind, a company owned by Google. DeepMind developed the predictive tool AlphaFold that incorporates Rosetta input among many others to make their most accurate predictions of protein structure. AlphaFold has successfully predicted the structures of more than 200 million proteins from approximately 1 million species, covering virtually the entire protein universe. TruchaForelle (talk) 22:44, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

 * AlphaFold and Folding@Home solve different kind of question. While AlphaFold returns the picture of a folded protein in its most energetically stable conformation, Folding@home returns a video of the protein undergoing folding, traversing its energy landscape.
 * An example article explaining the difference is here:
 * https://foldingathome.org/2020/12/08/protein-folding-and-related-problems-remain-unsolved-despite-alphafolds-advance/?lng=en Fangfufu (talk) 11:53, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

By March 25 it reached 768 petaFLOPS, or 1.5 x86 exaFLOPS
This sentence is wrong. 768 petaFLOPS are 0.768 exaFLOPS. Could we fix it? Pier4r (talk) 11:52, 30 December 2022 (UTC)

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List of chronicles about Denmark

This is a list of chronicles, annals and historical works about Denmark from antiquity to medieval times. These books / writings (and others), which were mostly written in Latin, form the bases of knowledge for the early history of Denmark.

Chronicles and historical works

 * Brevis Historia Regum Dacie (Sven Aggesen Danmarkshistorie)
 * Chronica Jutensis (Jydske Krønike)
 * Chronicon Lethrense (Lejrekrøniken)
 * Chronicon Roskildense (Roskildekrøniken)
 * Chronica Sialandie 1028-1307 (Yngre Sjællandske Krønike)
 * Chronica Sialandie 1308-1366 (Ældre Sjællandske Krønike)
 * Compendium Saxonis (Saxo kompendia i Jyske Krønike)
 * Gesta Danorum (Saxos Danmarkshistorie)
 * Skibby Chronicle (Skibby-krøniken)

Annales

 * Annales ad annum 1290 perducti (Annalistiske Noter, der ender 1290)
 * Annales Albiani
 * Annales Colbazenses (Colbaz arbogen)
 * Annales Dano-Suecani 916-1263 (Dansk-Svensk årbog 916-1263)
 * Annales Essenbecenses (Essenbæk årbogen)
 * Annales Lundenses (Lunde årbogen)
 * Annales Nestvedienses 821-1300 (Den Yngre Næstved årbog)
 * Annales Nestvedienses 1130-1228 (Den Ældre Næstved årbog)
 * Annales Ripenses (Ribe årbogen)
 * Annales Ryenses (Ryd årbogen) (sometimes also known as Chronicon Erici Regis)
 * Annales Scanici (Skaanske årbog)
 * Annales Slesuicenses (Slesvig årbog 1270)
 * Annales Sorani 1130-1300 (Den Yngre Sorø årbog)
 * Annales Sorani 1202-1347 (Den Ældre Sorø årbog)
 * Annales Waldemariani (Valdemar årbogen)
 * Annales 67 –1287
 * Annales 980-1286
 * Annales 841-1006
 * Annales 1095-1194
 * Annales 1098-1325
 * Annales 1101-1313 (Annaludtog 1101-1313)
 * Annales 1246-1265
 * Annales 1259-1286
 * Annales 1275-1347 (Årbogfragment 1275-1347)
 * Annalibus Dano-Suecani 826-1415 (Dansk-Svensk årbog 826-1415)
 * Collectanea Petri Olai (Franciskanermunken Peder Olsens Collectanea)

Laws

 * Codex Holmiensis (Jyske Lov)
 * Valdemar's Zealandic Law (Valdemars Sjællandske Lov)
 * Erik's Zealandic Law (Eriks Sjællandske Lov)
 * Codex Runicus (Skaanske Lov)

Lists

 * Series Regum Danie ex Necrologio Lundensi
 * Catalogus Regum Danie
 * Series ac breuior historia regum Danie
 * Reges Danorum
 * Nomina Regum Danorum
 * Wilhelmi Abbatis Genealogia Regum Danorum
 * Incerti Auctoris Genealogia Regum Daniæ

Others

 * Planctus de captiuitate regum Danorum
 * Planctus de statu regni Danie

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Talk:Goose Island

Goose Island: Narraganset,RI
By: Nicholas Barratt

Coordinates: (41.3913258, -71.4997499)

Address: Goose Island, Narragansett, Rhode Island, 02882

Founder: Unknown Current Owner: Unknown/City

Visit Date: August 6th, 2020

Size: 10-75ft, (Varies with tides, partially submerged at low tide, Shallow waters around island)

History: There is nothing available besides the coordinates and location of the island itself. A possible reason for this could be due to its insignificant size and lack of permanent land.

Description: I kayaked about 0.1 mile(s) out to Goose Island. As you begin to approach the island, mossy rocks hide under the water making docking harder. I stepped off the boat and walked onto the shore. The island is no more than 75 feet across at its lowest tide. Upon high tide, the island is almost completely submerged. The island had ten plants with thick green foliage and small purple flowers scattered around. There was also a grey mud like substance around the edge of the shore and many broken shells as well. This led me to believe the mud and shells were caused by birds visiting there often. I assume that is why they call it, “Goose Island”. Plantman1002 (talk) 04:27, 7 August 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Plantman1002 (talk • contribs) 04:22, 7 August 2020 (UTC)

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There's actually about 77 'Goose Islands' (including alternate names) in the US alone:
 * Goose Island 	AK 	Aleutians East 	island 	544109N 	1621324W 	False Pass C-1
 * Goose Island 	AK 	Fairbanks North Star 	island 	644726N 	1474348W 	Fairbanks D-2 SE
 * Goose Island 	AK 	Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon (CA) 	island 	581249N 	1360246W 	Mount Fairweather A-1
 * Goose Island 	AK 	Valdez-Cordova (CA) 	island 	604313N 	1464333W 	Cordova C-8
 * Goose Island 	AK 	Wade Hampton (CA) 	island 	615700N 	1631000W 	Marshall D-4
 * Goose Island 	AR 	Yell 	island 	351800N 	0931541W 	Delaware
 * Goose Island 	CT 	Fairfield 	island 	410100N 	0733559W 	Stamford
 * Goose Island 	CT 	Fairfield 	island 	410418N 	0732219W 	Sherwood Point
 * Goose Island 	CT 	Fairfield 	island 	411139N 	0730703W 	Milford
 * Goose Island 	CT 	New Haven 	island 	411228N 	0724021W 	Guilford OE S
 * Goose Island 	CT 	New London 	island 	412010N 	0722058W 	Old Lyme
 * Powder Island 	CT 	New London 	island 	412024N 	0720534W 	New London
 * Goose Island 	DC 	District of Columbia 	island 	384830N 	0770149W 	Alexandria
 * Goose Island 	FL 	Bay 	island 	301316N 	0854133W 	Panama City
 * Goose Island 	FL 	Franklin 	island 	294155N 	0844745W 	Goose Island
 * McClamory Key 	FL 	Levy 	island 	291114N 	0830421W 	Cedar Key
 * Goose Island 	IA 	Muscatine 	island 	412553N 	0905509W 	Illinois City
 * Tule Island 	ID 	Power 	island 	423734N 	1130847W 	Gifford Spring
 * Goose Island 	IL 	Alexander 	island 	370732N 	0892411W 	Thebes
 * Goose Island 	IL 	Cook 	island 	415413N 	0873912W 	Chicago Loop
 * Goose Island 	IL 	Cook 	island 	415414N 	0873914W 	Chicago Loop
 * Goose Island 	IN 	Tippecanoe 	island 	402406N 	0870406W 	Otterbein
 * Goose Island 	LA 	Caddo 	island 	321529N 	0933644W 	Elm Grove
 * Goose Island 	LA 	Cameron 	island 	300126N 	0924922W 	Thornwell
 * Goose Island 	LA 	Plaquemines 	island 	291332N 	0891109W 	Pass a Loutre West
 * Pelegs Island 	MA 	Bristol 	island 	413235N 	0705952W 	New Bedford South
 * Goose Island 	MD 	Anne Arundel 	island 	385739N 	0763528W 	South River
 * Goose Island 	ME 	Hancock 	island 	441520N 	0683022W 	Brooklin
 * Goose Island 	ME 	Knox 	island 	441106N 	0685708W 	North Haven West
 * Goose Island 	ME 	Washington 	island 	443333N 	0674522W 	Harrington
 * Goose Island 	ME 	Washington 	island 	445449N 	0670230W 	Eastport
 * Goose Islands 	ME 	Washington 	island 	443146N 	0673959W 	Addison
 * Goose Island 	MI 	Mackinac 	island 	455520N 	0842549W 	Goose Island
 * Goose Island 	MN 	Cass 	island 	471101N 	0943003W 	Steamboat Bay
 * Goose Island 	MN 	Hennepin 	island 	445515N 	0933750W 	Mound
 * Goose Island 	MO 	Marion 	island 	UNKNOWN 	UNKNOWN 	Unknown
 * Goose Island (historical) 	MO 	St. Charles 	island 	UNKNOWN 	UNKNOWN 	Unknown
 * Goose Island 	MO 	Warren 	island 	383635N 	0910941W 	New Haven
 * Goose Island 	MT 	Lake 	island 	475655N 	1141037W 	Rollins
 * Goose Island 	NC 	Carteret 	island 	344519N 	0762607W 	Davis
 * Goose Island 	NC 	Dare 	island 	354324N 	0753029W 	Pea Island
 * Goose Island 	NC 	Dare 	island 	361332N 	0754634W 	Jarvisburg
 * Goose Island 	NE 	Cass 	island 	405323N 	0954919W 	Rock Bluff
 * Goose Island 	NE 	Lincoln 	island 	410210N 	1004649W 	Lake Maloney
 * Goose Island 	NH 	Rockingham 	island 	430335N 	0704414W 	Kittery
 * Goose Island 	NY 	Bronx 	island 	405155N 	0734910W 	Flushing
 * Goose Island 	NY 	Dutchess 	island 	415945N 	0735603W 	Kingston East
 * Goose Island 	NY 	Franklin 	island 	441950N 	0741845W 	Upper Saranac Lake
 * Goose Island 	NY 	Nassau 	island 	403835N 	0732859W 	Amityville
 * Goose Island 	NY 	Oneida 	island 	430939N 	0754758W 	Jewell
 * Goose Island 	NY 	Suffolk 	island 	411551N 	0720032W 	New London
 * Goose Island 	NY 	Westchester 	island 	405303N 	0734641W 	Mount Vernon
 * Goose Island 	OH 	Hamilton 	island 	UNKNOWN 	UNKNOWN 	Unknown
 * Goose Island 	OH 	Mahoning 	island 	UNKNOWN 	UNKNOWN 	Unknown
 * Goose Island 	OH 	Portage 	island 	410818N 	0810742W 	Ravenna
 * Goat Island 	OR 	Clackamas 	island 	452221N 	1223640W 	Oregon City
 * Goose Island 	OR 	Clatsop 	island 	461442N 	1233149W 	Knappa
 * Cedar Island 	RI 	Washington 	island 	412413N 	0713012W 	Kingston
 * Goose Island 	RI 	Washington 	island 	412203N 	0713644W 	Kingston OE S
 * Goose Island 	RI 	Washington 	island 	412332N 	0712953W 	Narragansett Pier
 * Goose Island 	SD 	Roberts 	island 	452158N 	0963059W 	Big Stone Lake SE
 * Goose Island 	TX 	Aransas 	island 	280741N 	0965930W 	Saint Charles Bay
 * Goose Island 	TX 	Cameron 	island 	255939N 	0972050W 	Palmito Hill
 * Goose Island 	TX 	Harrison 	island 	324115N 	0940613W 	Potters Point
 * Goose Island 	UT 	Box Elder 	island 	412908N 	1120935W 	Whistler Canal
 * Goose Island 	UT 	Davis 	island 	405333N 	1120546W 	Saltair NE
 * Goose Island 	VA 	Chesterfield 	island 	371736N 	0774052W 	Winterpock
 * Goose Island 	VA 	King William 	island 	375200N 	0760017W 	Goose Island
 * Goose Island 	VA 	Newport News (city) 	island 	370946N 	0763644W 	Yorktown
 * Goose Island 	WA 	Grant 	island 	463941N 	1195500W 	Priest Rapids
 * Goose Island 	WA 	Grant 	island 	473855N 	1191723W 	Mold
 * Goose Island 	WA 	Grays Harbor 	island 	465839N 	1240408W 	Westport
 * Goose Island 	WA 	San Juan 	island 	482729N 	1225719W 	Richardson
 * Goose Island 	WA 	Walla Walla 	island 	461436N 	1185426W 	Humorist
 * Goose Island 	WI 	Dodge 	island 	433037N 	0885250W 	Fox Lake
 * Goose Island 	WI 	Dodge 	island 	433230N 	0883945W 	Waupun South
 * Goose Island 	WI 	Vernon 	island 	434346N 	0911331W 	Stoddard

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Talk:Smallpox 2002

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Isn't this just the American showing of the BBC's Smallpox 2002?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/smallpox2002/

Yes, it is - the article needs to be moved and edited

Plot summary
I've removed the extremely long "plot summary", actually an unsuitable blow-by-blow account that has been in the article since a very early revision (late 2005). Perhaps somebody could add a concise summary to the article. --Tony Sidaway 16:31, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

 * Seems someone's put it back again. It seems to have been written by several people? Parts of it are present tense; parts past tense. Whole sentences don't make sense; there's also an abundance of slang. Needs work methinks. 86.156.89.142 (talk) 22:47, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

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User talk:Pastel-ink

Please change your username to user:RadioActive (see Changing_username) --Yuri@The Dark Lovers 05:51, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Changing username; Since version 1.5 of MediaWiki any bureacrat on your home wiki can change your username. Contact any local bureacrat and ask for instructions.

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Odex

'''Odex Pte. Ltd.''' is a Singapore-based company that licenses and releases anime for local and regional Southeast Asian consumption. Odex was established in 1987 and set up its Anime Distribution department in 2000, selling anime in Singapore. It works with Japanese licensors such as Sunrise Inc., TV Tokyo, Yomiuri TV, D-Rights, TMS, Showgate Inc and Aniplex Inc. Odex also sells programs to television stations in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, such as TV3, NTV7, Astro, MediaCorp TV and StarHub TV. Other than licensing, Odex also does English dubbing, translation and subtitling for other companies. Odex also deals in anime merchandise sales.

Odex is most well known for taking legal action in 2007–2008 against home users who were allegedly downloading copyrighted anime videos from the Internet. The actions received extensive press and blog coverage, especially as they roughly coincided with similar attempts in the United States by the music industry RIAA to enforce against file sharing by home users. Issues of intellectual property, copyright protections, privacy and freedom of speech underlie these events.

History
Odez was founded in 1987 and entered the anime distribution sector in 2000.

In 2003, with the support of Japanese licensors, Odex founded the Anti-Video Piracy Association of Singapore (AVPAS). At one point, AVPAS's committee-in-charge was led by Toh See Kiat and Odex directors Peter Go and Stephen Sing.

The following year, Odex and AVPAS, with the help of the Singapore Police Force raided a major video retail chain selling pirated anime VCDs. In order to continue in its fight against video piracy, AVPAS created its official website. After a month, they started to take actions against illegal downloaders.

In 2005, Odex opened their own English dubbing studios and DVD authoring facility. Odex attracted American clients, including Bandai Entertainment, Geneon USA and the History Channel.

In 2006, the Odex-licensed title D.Gray-man was broadcast on Singaporean television within five days of its Japanese broadcast. Other shows, including Casshern Sins and Gundam 00, would follow.

In 2008, Odex would work with Mediacorp to facilitate telecasts of shows the same week they aired in Japan.

Working with Animax in 2009, Odex had titles released at the same day and time as in Japan in 42 Asian territories.

In 2010, Odex started its business in MobTV. The company brought its website back up, but only to provide a link to the MobTV website so that visitors can learn more about the Animetrix service that Odex is providing on MobTV. Odex brought the Gundam 00 movie - Awakening of the Trailblazer into Singapore theatre, released on the same day as Japan. There were two screening venues, which are at Alliance Francaise and at Sinema after the first day premiere in Singapore.

Odex made a grand presence in Anime Festival Asia (AFA), being one of the two largest booths in the event hall. They brought in a wide range of anime cushions and anime apparel under their license. They also worked with AFA organisers to put up the screening of the Gundam 00 movie - Awakening of the Trailblazer and The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya during AFA.

In 2011, Odex continued its participation in AFA, focusing on merchandise sales and movie screenings such as Sora no Otoshimono the Movie: The Angeloid of Clockwork, Detective Conan: Quarter of Silence, Naruto the Movie: Blood Prison, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos and Ryūjin Mabuyer The Movie Nanatsu no Mabui.

Business model
Odex licenses and releases anime for local and regional Southeast Asian consumption. It was registered in 1998 to license, import and release overseas drama and animation into Singapore. It began distribution in 2000.

Odex VCDs packaging has two silver strips at the top and bottom, with the words Original Japanese Animation along the side with its logo. The VCDs are packaged as square boxed sets, with a CD folder containing six discs with 13 episodes each. The DVD boxed set is not packaged like the R1 and R2 sets, which come in one disc with two episodes, but as three discs with 12 episodes, using dual-layer DVDs.

Odex's VCDs contain Japanese-language audio. Some releases also include Chinese dubbing and English dubbing. Subtitles are written in both English, Chinese and Malay. They are generally priced below those of United States or Japanese counterparts. During promotional period, a 13-episode VCD boxed set was sold for SGD$10 while a DVD boxed set went for SGD$20.

Other than licensing and distributing, Odex also does English dubbing, translation and/or subtitling for other companies. The shows are sold to television stations in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, such as TV3, NTV7, Astro, MediaCorp TV, and Starhub TV. Odex also sells anime merchandises and supplies anime for pay-TV anime channels across Southeast Asia like Philippines' Hero TV and Pan-regional anime channel Animax Asia.

Legal action towards downloaders
In reaction to falling sales and evidence of home users' downloading anime videos without payment, in 2007 Odex initiated actions to track users and demand settlement or litigation. It succeeded in gaining court orders for subpoenas for two ISPs to provide them with subscriber data for certain IP accounts. Odex settled out of court with many downloaders, who paid fees in lieu of litigation, ranging from about SGD$3000 to SGD$5000.

Subtitles
Odex's subtitling has been criticized by the Singapore anime community for having font with lower quality and sometimes inaccurate translations, as compared to fansubs or imports (an example would be its release of "Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale" which suffers from some glaring mistakes such as misnaming the character Eiji by his voice actor's name). Allegations were made by the online community that Odex had passed off fansubs as its own work. Sing admitted that this was partially true as Odex had hired anime fans to do subtitling in 2004 who had taken "the easy way out and copied word for word the subtitles on fansubs they downloaded". Sing explained that when Odex released its anime, the company did not realise what the anime fans had done, and it has been "paying for this mistake ever since". It was reported at the same time that all of Odex's translation and subtitling was now done "in house". However, Odex's release of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya in September 2007 was found to contain translations strongly resembling an earlier unauthorised fansub release.

Odex stated that because of the censorship laws in Singapore, they had to tweak subtitles to conform to the Board of Film Censors' (BFC) requirements. However, a BFC spokesperson denied this, saying the board preferred that subtitles be accurate.

Website
Following criticism of its anti-piracy actions, Odex set up a forum on its website, which aimed to foster and improve relationships between the company and the anime community.

Odex's website was subsequently defaced by an unknown hacker with no hacker group claiming credit for the action. The website was replaced with a note asking a boycott of Odex's products and how to download anime anonymously. The website was then taken down by Odex and a spokesman for Odex said Odex will make a police report over the hacking.

Shared premises
Emails were sent to the media saying that Sing and Go were directors and shareholders of a defunct company, Games Mart, that shared the same corporate address as Odex and had been raided in 1999 by the police for selling game consoles with unauthorized modifications. This information was confirmed by the press, and Go wrote a letter to the media explaining that Games Mart was not affiliated with Odex in any way.

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Peg Norman

Peg Norman (born 1964 in Gambo, Newfoundland) is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, best known for her role in the film My Left Breast, which documented her partner Gerry Rogers' battle with breast cancer.

Background
Previously a social worker, Norman helped found and for ten years managed Henry Morgentaler's clinic in St. John's. She ran for political office in Newfoundland and Labrador. In 2004 and 2006, she ran for the House of Commons of Canada, as a candidate of the New Democratic Party in St. John's South—Mount Pearl, but lost to Loyola Hearn of the Conservative Party of Canada. In 2004 and 2006, Norman placed third to Hearn. Norman is currently a small business owner in St. John's.

Openly lesbian, Norman is the partner of social worker, filmmaker, and politician Gerry Rogers.

Filmmaker
Norman's film My Left Breast, documents her partner Gerry Rogers' battle with breast cancer. The film received multiple awards and won Norman campaign funding from Rosie O'Donnell. The film also gained Norman's partner Rogers a spot on The Rosie O'Donnell Show in 2001.

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The company spells its own name either in all caps or with an initial capital letter on its web site, e.g. (as of February 26, 2005). Given the choice, I'll select initial cap.
 * Most of their products are labeled with all capital letters. I think we should stick to all caps Thor erik ( talk 12:07, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

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