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Talk:North East MRT line

Windows OS
Can someone provide more information about the fact that the line "runs on Microsoft's Windows operating system"? I can't find any reference to this on the web. Do the trains run Windows, or the back end system? Without providing a reference or any extra detail, it seems the contributor is just trying to imply that Microsoft is reponsible the line's delayed opening and white elephant reputation. --JackSeoul 04:27, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Well, I removed the line about running on Windows. Feel free to add it back, but if you do please provide a reference to support the claim. --JackSeoul 07:00, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)

trimmed out unsourced edit
This has been removed from the article as no sources were cited: "A station will be built between HarbourFront and Outram Park. Current working name is Keppel." — Kimchi.sg | Talk 16:28, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

 * This is back, now as "Bukit Purmei". Are there any sources at all for this, aside from the obvious gap in the numbering scheme? Jpatokal (talk) 16:59, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

 * None. Needs to be removed.  - oahiyeel talk 14:09, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

 * Done. Jpatokal (talk) 03:09, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

 * I've put Bukit Purmei MRT Station up for AfD. Please see Articles for deletion/Bukit Purmei MRT Station - oahiyeel talk 19:17, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

Stations with the announcement "Please do not lean against the doors"
Only 4 out of 16 stations have the announcement "Please do not lean against the doors".

New announcements on 2019
On 2 August 2019, there was a new announcement and new VPIS programming ride from Serangoon to  Kovan and from  Hougang to  Kovan.

On 14 September 2019, there was a new announcement ride from Farrer Park to  Boon Keng and from  Potong Pasir to  Boon Keng.

Station coding mistake
The station code was supposed to be Woodleigh, not  Woodleigh. Editingcreate123 (talk) 01:36, 23 January 2022 (UTC)

Currency conversions wrong
''associated tunnels were awarded for a total of S$2.8 billion (US$1.9 billion). Sixteen more contracts related to electrical and mechanical work were awarded for a total of S$1 billion (US$3.5 billion).'' The Singapore Dollar is worth about USD 0.75, so neither of these conversions looks correct. Tetsuo (talk) 13:12, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
 * The conversions are done by Template:ToUSD and look correct to me. Remember these were the rates in 1997 and 1995, not today. GA-RT-22 (talk) 15:01, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

5 billion?
Regarding this revert: with edit summary "The citation for the figure is in the body of the article". I can't find any place in the article where it says the line was completed at a cost of 5 billion. Can you point this out? I can't find a completion cost anywhere. The only place 5 billion is mentioned is "It was projected to cost S$5 billion (US$3.5 billion)". GA-RT-22 (talk) 19:26, 29 June 2023 (UTC)

"Line 6 (Singapore MRT)" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fuck Me

 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 redirect. This has been done. Joyous 03:31, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)

Fuck Me
A rather uncommon exlimation (sic). Fuck me, is that really so? Actually this is a rather fascinating expression, in a sense, and somebody could write an intelligent paper on it. (For starters, see the opening paper in Zwicky et al., Studies out in left field.) Not the original poster of the article, however. Or indeed myself. And if there were an intelligent paper on it, this would be of some coitolinguistic interest but it would not be encyclopedic. -- Hoary 04:28, 2005 Feb 15 (UTC)
 * Speedy -- AllyUnion (talk) 06:03, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Dictionary definitions are not speedy candidates, even definitons of vulgar expressions. Kappa 06:15, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nateji77 06:08, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Poorly written dictionary definition. jni 06:44, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Fuck. I had a friend who used to say "fuck me dead" all the time until I kept answering "yes please" in response. Needless to say she stopped saying that expression from then on. Megan1967 07:19, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Fuck. It's really wiktionary material but the word is in wikipedia. Kappa 09:02, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Megan1967 and Kappa, I believe that "fuck you", "fuck off", "fuck (someone) over", "fuck me sideways" (jocular), "fuck-up" (noun) and more are idiomatic. Would you suggest redirects from each to "fuck"? I suggest not, and I further suggest that any person who's not extraordinarily dimwitted and doesn't find an article for one of them (or for "fuck you") can go to "fuck". -- Hoary 09:35, 2005 Feb 15 (UTC). PS aw fuck it, I think I called that one wrong. Read on. -- Hoary 04:29, 2005 Feb 16 (UTC)
 * "fuck you" is already a redirect and "fuck off" probably should be. Redirects for less likely expressions wouldn't be worth creating (or deleting, if created). Remember if someone doesn't find something at "fuck X", they might go to "fuck", or they might waste their time and ours creating a new article. Kappa 15:43, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Hoary I suggested redirecting in order to prevent article recreation. I certainly agree with you that having an article on every "fuck" variate would be pushing the limit for Wikipedia (and it will no doubt be wasting voters time whenever they go up for VfD). Megan1967 01:44, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * You certainly have a point about the prophylactic virtues of redirection. Yes, you've convinced me. -- Hoary 04:29, 2005 Feb 16 (UTC)

 * Delete I don't think the author even got the definition right... whenever I've heard it, it seems to be an expression of surprise, sort of a vulgar substitute for "Hey, look at that!". There's a character named Beaver in Stephen King's novel Dreamcatcher who says it a lot. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  10:17, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Fuck. heh heh heh I said f***. HyperZonk 16:43, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, inept dicdef of a trivial construction (and there are tonnes of 'em), no RD please . Wyss 18:44, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect or we will very well be here once again in the near future. GRider\talk 00:18, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * True enough... RD. Wyss 13:58, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Redirect; the redirect discussion above is quite convincing. Antandrus 04:35, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirects are cheap, and fuck me if we don't get another article at this title in a week otherwise. --TenOfAllTrades | Talk 15:56, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect. ComCat 02:17, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Fuck -- Longhair 18:08, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Barbara Liskov

Barbara Liskov (born November 7, 1939, as Barbara Jane Huberman) is an American computer scientist who has made pioneering contributions to programming languages and distributed computing. Her notable work includes the introduction of abstract data types and the accompanying principle of data abstraction, along with the Liskov substitution principle, which applies these ideas to object-oriented programming, subtyping, and inheritance. Her work was recognized with the 2008 Turing Award, the highest distinction in computer science.

Liskov is one of the earliest women to have been granted a doctorate in computer science in the United States, and the second woman to receive the Turing award. She is currently an Institute Professor and Ford Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Early life and education
Liskov was born November 7, 1939, in Los Angeles, California, the eldest of Jane (née Dickhoff) and Moses Huberman's four children. She earned her bachelor's degree in mathematics with a minor in physics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1961. At Berkeley, she had only one other female classmate in her major. She applied to graduate mathematics programs at Berkeley and Princeton. At the time Princeton was not accepting female students in mathematics. She was accepted at Berkeley but instead moved to Boston and began working at Mitre Corporation, where she became interested in computers and programming. She worked at Mitre for one year before taking a programming job at Harvard working on language translation.

She then decided to go back to school and applied again to Berkeley, but also to Stanford and Harvard. In March 1968 she became one of the first women in the United States to be awarded a Ph.D. from a computer science department when she was awarded her degree from Stanford University. At Stanford, she worked with John McCarthy and was supported to work in artificial intelligence. The topic of her Ph.D. thesis was a computer program to play chess endgames for which she developed the important killer heuristic.

Career
After graduating from Stanford, Liskov returned to Mitre to work as research staff.

Liskov has led many significant projects, including the Venus operating system, a small, low-cost timesharing system; the design and implementation of CLU; Argus, the first high-level language to support implementation of distributed programs and to demonstrate the technique of promise pipelining; and Thor, an object-oriented database system. With Jeannette Wing, she developed a particular definition of subtyping, commonly known as the Liskov substitution principle. She leads the Programming Methodology Group at MIT, with a current research focus in Byzantine fault tolerance and distributed computing. She was on the inaugural Engineering and Computer Science jury for the Infosys Prize in 2009.

Recognition and awards
Liskov is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In 2002, she was recognized as one of the top women faculty members at MIT, and among the top 50 faculty members in the sciences in the U.S. In 2002, Discover magazine recognized Liskov as one of the 50 most important women in science.

In 2004, Barbara Liskov won the John von Neumann Medal for "fundamental contributions to programming languages, programming methodology, and distributed systems". On 19 November 2005, Barbara Liskov and Donald E. Knuth were awarded ETH Honorary Doctorates. Liskov and Knuth were also featured in the ETH Zurich Distinguished Colloquium Series. She was awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa by the University of Lugano in 2011 and by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in 2018.

Liskov received the 2008 Turing Award from the ACM in March 2009, for her work in the design of programming languages and software methodology that led to the development of object-oriented programming. Specifically, Liskov developed two programming languages, CLU in the 1970s and Argus in the 1980s. The ACM cited her contributions to the practical and theoretical foundations of "programming language and system design, especially related to data abstraction, fault tolerance, and distributed computing". In 2012 she was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

In 2023 Liskov was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute for "seminal contributions to computer programming languages and methodology, enabling the implementation of reliable, reusable programs".

Selected works
Liskov is the author of five books as of February 2023 and over one hundred technical papers.

Personal life
In 1970, she married Nathan Liskov. They have one son, Moses, who earned a PhD in computer science from MIT in 2004 and teaches computer science at the College of William and Mary.

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Getter Robo

Getter Robo (ゲッターロボ) is a Japanese mecha media franchise created by Ken Ishikawa and Go Nagai. An anime television series produced by Toei Animation was broadcast on Fuji TV from April 4, 1974, to May 8, 1975, with a total of 51 episodes. The manga was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from April 7, 1974, to August 24, 1975, and was compiled in six volumes by Shogakukan and three volumes by Futabasha.

Plot
The plot involves three strong-willed teenagers: Ryoma Nagare, Hayato Jin and Musashi Tomoe, who pilot three specially designed combat jets (Eagle, Jaguar, and Bear) which can be combined into three different giant robots, Getter-1 (balanced and for flight combat), Getter-2 (fast and for ground combat), and Getter-3 (strong and for marine combat). They were assembled by Prof. Saotome, who conceived the Getter Robo project as a means of deep-space exploration. The Getter machine is powered by an energy source known as Getter Rays, which are the invisible manifestation of the pilot's willpower. It became instead Earth's first line of defense against the Dinosaur Empire, a civilization of reptile-like humanoids who evolved from the now-extinct dinosaurs that roamed the earth millions of years ago. They have lived many years underground after being forced to do so by getter ray radiation from space that did not affect the apes who evolved into humans; they now want to reclaim the Earth as theirs and destroy humanity.

Development
While already collaborating with Toei Animation producer Ken Ariga, Dynamic Pro president Takashi Nagai approached his brother and the founder of Dynamic Pro, Go Nagai, along with Ariga, to initiate the creation of another mecha series. Takashi proposed the concept of three main characters, and during discussions with Ken Ariga, the idea of three different piloted robots combining into one robot with three distinct forms emerged. Although Go Nagai was initially confused by the concept, he agreed to participate in the project. Later, it was decided that the anime production could not proceed until a manga version was also released. With Go Nagai already illustrating and writing multiple manga creations such as Mazinger Z, Violence Jack, and Cutie Honey, he expressed his inability to take on more work to his brother and recommended his assistant and friend, Ken Ishikawa, for the job.

Go Nagai assisted with the creation of characters Getter-2 and Getter-3 when Ishikawa faced difficulties after designing Getter-1. Nagai also contributed foundational ideas for Getter Robo, such as the concept of Getter Rays, but left the detailed development of the settings and plot to Ishikawa.

Volume list
Shogakukan has compiled the series' chapters into six volumes. The first four volumes compile the chapters of the Dinosaur Empire arc (equivalent to the Getter Robo anime story) while the last two volumes compiles the chapters of the Hundred Demons Empire arc (equivalent to the Getter Robo G anime story). The manga was re-released in three volumes by Futabasha in 2002.

 * Futabasha edition

Getter Robo G
The last episode of the Getter Robo series showed the defeat of the Dinosaur Empire, but with a high price: the death of one of the Getter Robo pilots, Musashi Tomoe. It also introduced a new enemy, the Clan of the 100 Demons, who at that very moment were preparing an invasion of Earth from space. This would be the basis of a sequel with a new, improved version of the original robot, piloted by Ryoma, Hayato, and newcomer pilot Benkei Kuruma. The series, called Getter Robo G, would not be as long and successful as the first one, lasting 39 episodes. The new robot and its pilots were also featured in the Go Nagai short features Great Mazinger vs. Getter Robo G and Grendizer, Getter Robo G & Great Mazinger: Decisive Showdown! Great Sea Beast, despite the fact Getter Robo was conceived as existing in a different universe from the Mazinger/Grendizer continuity.

G also became famous in the U.S. as it was included in edited form as part of the Force Five robot series produced for the American market, where its name was changed to Starvengers. These episodes would later be the basis for the direct to video series; Robo Formers. Additionally, toys based on the Getter Robo mecha were licensed by the U.S. toy company Mattel and sold under the company's Shogun Warriors toy line.

There was a limited video release of Starvengers in the UK, renamed Formators.

Getter Robo Go
After some years, the franchise was revived in 1991 with the new series Getter Robo Go, directed by Hiroki Shibata, and featuring a new robot and an all-new team. While originally planned as a remake of Mazinger Z, sponsor Yutaka Nakamura turned instead to rebooting Getter Robo, with the anime focusing on a new Getter Team, Go Ichimonji, Sho Tachibana and Gai Daido, fighting the forces of Prof. Rando and his Metal Beasts. At the same time, Nagai and Ishikawa penned a 7 volume Getter Robo Go manga from 1990 to 1993, with a dramatically different plot, albeit sharing several characters. The Go manga continued the story of the original 1970's installments, and later featured the debut of the Shin Getter Robo in its final 3 volumes. Many products were released, such as CDs, toys, video cassettes, and later a DVD set. In addition to that, this was the first time Go Nagai and Toei Animation began working together since the Gaiking incident.

In the advent of Getter Robo Go's success, the influence and popularity of the original show continued in Japan, and it found a way to stay with fans through video games (like the Super Robot Wars game series, in which the Getter Robo is one of its lineup mainstays) and other merchandise. The series was even spoofed successfully in the mecha anime series Martian Successor Nadesico, where the anime-within-anime Gekiganger III was a direct pun (and homage) to the Getter Robo legacy, among many other super robot series. Gekiganger III was the favorite show of the character Gai in Martian Successor Nadesico. His voice actor, Tomokazu Seki, has also said that Getter Robo is his favorite anime. Tomokazu Seki would also voice Go (the protagonist of Getter Robo Go) in Getter Robo Armageddon.

Shin Getter Robo
After the ending of Getter Robo Go, Ishikawa, motivated by his editor Kazuki Nakashima, decided to extend and explain some topics, like what really happened to Benkei and the Saotome Institute, the reason Ryoma was scared of Getter Rays, what Getter is and such. The series features the return of the original Getter Robo, alongside Getter Robo G, the latter of whom had mysteriously vanished alongside Benkei as of the events of Getter Go. The manga would also feature the first full look at Shin Getter 2, who had made a brief appearance in Getter Go, and the first ever appearance of Shin Getter 3. Additionally, it featured new insect-like enemies from the far future, later used in Getter Arc, which would also revisit the fate of Getter G. All of this was told in the Getter Robo Go manga prequel, Shin Getter Robo, started in 1996 and lasted two volumes. The title was later reprinted into a single volume of 500 pages.

Getter Robo Arc
Getter Robo Arc is a three-volume manga taking place in a science fiction post-apocalyptic futuristic setting. Ryoma's son Takuma joins the human-dinosaur hybrid Kamui and Messiah Tayel's younger brother Baku Yamagishi aboard the Getter Robo Arc, fighting, alongside the Dinosaur Empire, the insect-like enemies of the Andromeda Flow Country (アンドロメダ流国) from the far future. Unfortunately, Super Robot Comics, the magazine in which Arc was published, was canceled and the story ended prematurely. On November 2, 2020, an anime adaptation of Arc was announced. It was released in 2021, and was produced by Bee Media and directed by Jun Kawagoe.

Getter Robo Armageddon
The concept was re-invented in 1998 with the retro-styled OVA Change Getter Robo!!: The Last Day of the World (released outside Japan as Getter Robo: Armageddon). Giant Robo director Yasuhiro Imagawa was to direct the OVA, but had a falling out with the studio after Episode 3. This would lead to Jun Kawagoe taking over as the director from episode 4 onwards, a position he would keep throughout the following 2 OVAs. The OVA ran 13 episodes and was presented as the sequel to a story - which was never actually animated - about the Getter Team fighting a race of amorphous aliens called "Invaders." This production made use of an animation style reminiscent of the old Getter Robo and other 1970s anime shows with thick, sketchy lines, albeit with character and robot designs more reminiscent of Ken Ishikawa's original manga.

Shin Getter Robo vs Neo Getter Robo
Two years later, the same staff returned for the four-part OVA Shin Getter Robo vs Neo Getter Robo. The plot of the OVA is loosely based on the original Getter Robo, with the Dinosaur Empire as the antagonists. The OVA introduces a new Getter Robo, the titular Neo Getter Robo, which is similar in design to the Getter Robo from Getter Robo Go and also shares elements of Getter Robo G's design. In addition, it features characters from Getter Robo Go that are closer in personality to those found in the original manga than the anime adaptation. The OVA also included a three part miniseries that lasted five minutes called Dynamic Super Robot's Grand Battle which shows several Go Nagai created robots battling with the Mycene empire from the anime Great Mazinger. The short included appearances by Getter Robo G and Shin Getter Robo.

New Getter Robo
In 2004, director Jun Kawagoe produced a new OVA called New Getter Robo, this time being a re-telling of the Getter Robo story. In this new story, humanity is under attack by demonic creatures called Oni. As in the original stories, Dr. Saotome creates a series of Getter-Ray-powered robots to fight the monsters, culminating the creation of Getter Robo. Both the robot and the Getter Team were redesigned for the new series. Getter Robo is more detailed and mechanical-looking than its earlier forms, and all three pilots - Ryoma, Hayato, and a combination of Musashi and Benkei's archetypes named "Benkei Musashibo" - are as violent and antiheroic as they were in the 70s manga. Ryoma is now an irresponsible street fighter, Hayato a bloodthirsty, sadistic terrorist, and Benkei a hedonistic and gluttonous apprentice monk.

Getter Robo Hien
In 2007, a new manga entitled Getter Robo Hien: The Earth Suicide was released in Japan. It has since concluded at 3 volumes, and was serialized in a monthly webcomic. This series continues the Ken Ishikawa continuity of Getter manga, temporally taking place after Getter Robo Go and before Getter Arc. The series features an older Hayato leading a new team of Getter Pilots (and a new Getter) as they defend the earth from large plant-like monsters.

Apocrypha Getter Robo
Published in 2008, the manga Apocrypha Getter Robot Dash was released in Japanese magazine Magazine Z, authored by Hideaki Nishikawa for another alternate re-telling of the original Getter Robo story. After Magazine Z discontinued in 2009, it was renamed Apocrypha Getter Robo DARKNESS.
 * Dash

Apocrypha Getter Robo Darkness continued serialization with its new title under seinen magazine Young Animal Arashi five months later. Chapter 0 of Getter Robo DARKNESS, published in the July 2009 issue of the magazine, is a reprint of the sixth chapter of Getter Robo DASH, the last one published in Magazine Z before its cancellation.
 * Darkness

List of Getter Robo series

 * Manga

 * Anime

Video games
The various Getter Robos are mainstay characters in the Super Robot Wars series by Banpresto, usually found in the super deformed style which the series is popular for; Getter appeared in almost every non-original exclusive installment with Gundam and Mazinger (except for Judgement, K, L, UX, BX, and X, in which Getter does not take part). The Getter Robos also received their own turn based strategy game similar to the Super Robot Wars series for the Sony PlayStation titled Getter Robo Daikessen!. This game featured the various versions of Getter Robo from the manga and anime and OVAs produced until that point, as well as an original pink mecha piloted by a trio of ninja women. Shin Getter and Black Getter are included in Another Century's Episode 3, which features the storyline of Getter Robo Armageddon.

Legacy
In an interview with Kazuki Nakashima, the writer of Gurren Lagann and chief editor on the Getter Robo Saga compilation, Getter Robo was cited as one of Gurren Lagann's main inspirations. Video game company SNK also commented they were influenced by the series when designing the three main characters of The King of Fighters '94.

Live-action film
A live-action film adaptation was announced, produced by Big One and directed by Junya Okabe with a planned release for the franchise's 50th anniversary in 2025.

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Alyx

Alyx may refer to:

 * The Adventures of Alyx, a 1976 collection of feminist science fiction stories by American writer Joanna Russ
 * Alyx Vance, a non-player character in Valve's 2004 first-person shooter video game Half-Life 2
 * Half-Life: Alyx, a 2020 virtual reality first-person shooter developed and published by Valve
 * 1017 Alyx 9SM, originally Alyx, a fashion brand co-founded by Matthew Williams

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Myriad (typeface)

Myriad is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly for Adobe Systems. Myriad was intended as a neutral, general-purpose typeface that could fulfill a range of uses and have a form easily expandable by computer-aided design to a large range of weights and widths.

Myriad is known for its usage by Apple Inc., replacing Apple Garamond as Apple's corporate font from April 29, 2002, to January 24, 2017. Myriad is easily distinguished from other sans-serif fonts due to its "y" descender (tail) and slanting "e" cut.

Design
Myriad is a humanist sans-serif, a relatively informal design taking influences from handwriting. Its letterforms are open rather than "folded-up" on the nineteenth-century grotesque sans-serif model, and its sloped form is a "true italic" based on handwriting. The 'g' is single-storey and the 'M' has sloped sides on the model of Roman square capitals. As a family intended for body text and influenced by traditional book printing, text figures are included as well as lining figures at cap height. Twombly described the design process as one of swapping ideas to create a "homogeneous" design but said that in retrospect she found the experience "too hard" to want to repeat.

Myriad is similar to Adrian Frutiger's famous Frutiger typeface, although the italic is a true italic unlike Frutiger's oblique; Frutiger described it as "not badly done" but felt that the similarities had gone "a little too far". The later Segoe UI and Corbel are also similar.

Adobe’s first release of Myriad in 1992 was in the multiple master format, an ambitious format intended to allow the user to fine-tune weight, width and other characteristics of the design to their preferred form. The Multiple Master format was not well supported by third-party applications, and so most releases of Myriad have been in the form of separate font files. The concept behind Multiple Master fonts has since been redeveloped as part of the OpenType variable fonts technology.

Myriad (Type 1)
This PostScript Type 1 font family was released after the original Myriad MM. It initially included four fonts in two weights, with complementary italics. All these Type 1 versions supported the ISO-Adobe character set; all were discontinued in the early 2000s.

 * Myriad Condensed: It was a condensed version, released around 1998. The condensed fonts comprise three weights, with complementary italics.
 * Myriad Headline: A "Headline" version was also released, which has the weight of Myriad Bold, but slightly narrower.

Myriad Web
Myriad Web is a version of Myriad in TrueType font format, optimized for onscreen use. It supports Adobe CE and Adobe Western 2 character sets. Myriad Web comprises only five fonts: Myriad Web Pro Bold, Myriad Web Pro Regular, Myriad Web Pro Condensed Italic, Myriad Web Pro Condensed, Myriad Web Pro Italic. Myriad Web Pro is slightly wider than Myriad Pro, while the width of Myriad Web Pro Condensed is between Myriad Pro Condensed and Myriad Pro SemiCondensed.

The family is bundled as part of the Adobe Web Type Pro font pack.

Myriad Pro
Myriad Pro is the OpenType version of the original Myriad font family. It first shipped in 2000, as Adobe moved towards the OpenType standard. Additional designers were Christopher Slye and Fred Brady. Compared to Myriad MM, it added support for Latin Extended, Greek, and Cyrillic characters, as well as oldstyle figures.

Myriad Pro originally included thirty fonts in three widths and five weights each, with complementary italics. A "semi-condensed" width was added in early 2002, expanding the family to forty fonts in four widths and five weights each, with complementary italics.

Myriad Pro Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic are bundled with Adobe Reader 7 and 8. In Adobe Reader 9 and onwards, the fonts are included, but not installed in the system fonts directory.

Myriad Wild
Myriad Wild is an Adobe font package comprising the Myriad Sketch and Myriad Tilt fonts in Type 1 format. Myriad Sketch is a slightly irregular outline version of Myriad, while Myriad Tilt incorporates irregular stroke weight and paths. The family supports ISO-Adobe character set.

Myriad Wild Std
Myriad Wild Std is the OpenType version of Myriad Wild. It supports Adobe Western 2 character set.

MyriadCAD
MyriadCAD is included in Adobe Reader 9 and is thought to be an implementation of the ANSI CAD lettering. It is also available in the current Adobe Acrobat.

Myriad Currency
Myriad Currency is included in Adobe Reader 9 and is thought to be the company's embedded font for their currency typefaces. It can be found in the Fonts subfolder of the Resources folder under Adobe Reader 9 from the Program Files folder in the Local Hard Disk Drive.

Myriad Arabic
Myriad Arabic was designed by Robert Slimbach, with the help of Adobe's technical team as well as outside Arabic experts. The principal outside consultant was Dr. Mamoun Sakkal. Five weights of Myriad Arabic (which include Latin-alphabet characters) were licensed by Apple for inclusion with macOS, but must be manually enabled by the user.

Myriad Hebrew
Myriad Hebrew is an extension of Adobe's popular humanist sans-serif typeface Myriad, bringing the sensibility of Myriad into another language and another writing system. Myriad Hebrew is one of the most extensive families of Hebrew typefaces available today, comprising twenty different digital fonts: four weights, each with two italic complements; plus an informal cursive version, also in four weights, with both upright and slanted variants. Myriad Hebrew was designed by Robert Slimbach, with the help of Adobe's technical team as well as outside Hebrew experts. The principal outside consultant was Scott-Martin Kosofsky.

Myriad Set Pro
The Myriad Set Pro font family was first embedded into Apple's corporate website. Myriad Set Pro is available in Bold, Medium, Thin, Text, Semibold and Ultralight weights with corresponding italics, and could be found in most of Apple's websites until 2017, when it was replaced with Apple's custom typeface San Francisco.

Kozuka Gothic
Kozuka Gothic is a Japanese typeface, designed as a sans-serif companion to Kozuka Mincho family. The Japanese letters were designed by Masahiko Kozuka and Adobe's Japanese type design team. The Latin letters in Kozuka Gothic were adapted from Myriad.

Kozuka Gothic Std
It is an OpenType version of the Kozuka Gothic font family

Kozuka Gothic Pro (2001)
It is a version of Kozuka Gothic with Adobe-Japan1-4 character set support.

Kozuka Gothic Pr6N (2008)
It is a version of Kozuka Gothic updated to support Adobe-Japan1-6 and JIS X 0213:2004 character sets.

Kozuka Gothic Pr6N was shipped with Adobe Creative Suite 4. Retail versions began available as of 2011.

Adobe Heiti
Adobe Heiti is a simplified Chinese typeface that borrows its Latin glyphs from Myriad. It is included with Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe Reader 8 Simplified Chinese font pack, Adobe Creative Suite 4.0.

Adobe Fan Heiti
Changes from Adobe Heiti includes uniform stroke widths for Chinese characters.

Usage

 * From the launch of the eMac in 2002, Myriad replaced Apple Garamond as Apple Inc.'s corporate font. It was once used in all of Apple's marketing and on its products (See Apple typography), but it has now been replaced by San Francisco. More recent iterations of the iPod (from the iPod photo onward) used Podium Sans, which has similarities with Myriad (as opposed to Chicago), for its user interface. However, the iPod Touch and iPhone 3G replaced Podium Sans with Helvetica, which became the system font for OS X starting with OS X Yosemite. Myriad was included with the third generation of iPod.
 * Myriad Black is one of two official standard fonts of the University of Virginia and Loyola University Chicago.
 * Myriad is also one of the two official standard fonts of Cambridge University.
 * Myriad is the official sans-serif font of University of Delaware.
 * Myriad Pro is the wordmark logo font for The University of Iowa and the primary typeface for University of Nevada, Reno and the University of Ottawa and Foxtranslate.
 * Myriad Roman, Myriad Italic, and Myriad Headline are primary sans-serif fonts at The George Washington University.
 * Two variants of Myriad MM are used as the primary typefaces for the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (Germany).
 * All Nippon Airways, a Japanese airline, also uses the Myriad font for their new international cabin class logos as well as promotional materials of its new "Inspiration of JAPAN" in-flight service concept.
 * The Order of St John adopted the new St John logo in 2005, choosing Myriad Regular (Roman) and Myriad Bold as the approved organization's typeface for all external artwork, communications and publications. They have been using the new logo since 2005, and the organization's typeface since 2008 in their external publications. Establishments are following the order to change their organization's logo to the new St John logo and using the new typeface, like St John New Zealand, St John Ambulance in Wales, Hong Kong St. John Ambulance and The Order of St John USA.
 * Myriad has been used since 2006 on vehicle registration plates in Norway.
 * Korail, the national railroad company of the Republic of Korea (South Korea), uses Myriad extensively in its station name plates.
 * The European Parliament uses Myriad typeface in all printed publications, as part of its visual identity.
 * Myriad Pro is used by the Hong Kong MTR as part of its corporate identity. Station names and wayfinding signs use the font.
 * The Myriad font is used for Walmart's current logo, which was used since 2008. From 2008 to 2018, the Myriad font was also used for Walmart’s marketing and aisle signs.
 * The Myriad typeface is used on the English version of Spike Chunsoft's logo.

Awards
Myriad Pro won bukva:raz! 2001 under the Greek and Cyrillic categories.

Myriad Pro Greek won TDC2 2000 (Type Directors Club Type Design Competition 2000) in the Text/display type systems category.

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MSMS

MSMS may refer to:
 * Master of Science in Medical Sciences
 * Tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS)
 * Michigan State Medical Society
 * Miami Springs Middle School
 * Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science
 * Master of Science in Management Studies
 * Making Science Make Sense, an outreach program from Bayer Corporation
 * MSMs, or men who have sex with men

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Ethni

In the Hebrew Bible Ethni was an ancestor of Asaph, of the Gershonite branch of the Levites. David assigned him to the music ministry of the Lord's house. In, the same person is referred to as "Jeatherai" (KJV spells it "Jeaterai").

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Bad River (Wisconsin)

The Bad River is a river flowing to Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin in the United States. It flows for 119.6 km in Ashland County, draining an area of 1061 sqmi in portions of Ashland, Bayfield and Iron counties. The Bad River sloughs were designated a Ramsar Wetland of International Importance on February 2, 2012.

Course
The Bad River issues from the southwestern end of Caroline Lake, a 129 acre shallow lake on the boundary of Ashland and Iron counties which drains an area of acidic peatlands to its east. The Bad River initially flows southwestwardly before turning generally to the north for most of its course, along which it passes through the city of Mellen, Copper Falls State Park, and the community of Odanah in the Bad River Indian Reservation. In the vicinity of Mellen, the riverbed is commonly bedrock and boulder-strewn with numerous whitewater rapids; the river passes over waterfalls and through a granite gorge in Copper Falls State Park. In its lower course in the Bad River Reservation the river's delta along Lake Superior contributes to a 16,000 acre complex of wetlands known as sloughs.

The Bad River's largest tributary is the White River, which it collects near its mouth. Other principal tributaries include the Potato and Marengo rivers in its lower course; the Tyler Forks at Copper Falls State Park; and the Iron River upstream of Mellen.

Wetlands
The Kakagon and Bad River Sloughs are one of the sites listed in the list of wetlands of international importance under the Ramsar Convention, which was signed in 1971 and entered into force in the US in 1987. It is one of 35 such sites in the US, which cover a total of 1,827,196 ha. The Sloughs were designated on February 2, 2012, and cover 4355 ha. It is a "largely undeveloped wetland complex composed of sloughs, bogs and coastal lagoons that harbor the largest natural wild rice bed on the Great Lakes". Two rare mammal species, the grey wolf and the Canada lynx, are found in the wetlands, as are numerous populations of migratory and local bird species, including the endangered piping plover. The rice beds are necessary for maintaining genetic diversity in wild rice strains that grow around Lake Superior, and they are harvested using historic techniques by local tribes. The wetlands are threatened by invasive species, potential upriver mining and wastewater from human activities.

Variant names
The United States Board on Geographic Names issued a decision clarifying the Bad River's name and course in 1965. According to the Geographic Names Information System, the stream has also been known historically as:
 * Mashki-Sibi
 * Maskesipi
 * Maskigo
 * Mushkeesebe
 * Swamp River

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John Patterson (director)

John Tiffin Patterson (April 4, 1940 – February 7, 2005) was a television director known for his work on drama series, who also made television films. He directed thirteen episodes of The Sopranos, including the first five season finales. Patterson was born in Buffalo, New York.

Biography
Aged 19, Patterson joined the United States Air Force where he navigated B-52 bombers for the Strategic Air Command. He resumed his college studies while a reservist and graduated from the University at Buffalo. He earned a master's degree at Stanford University in 1970, where he was a classmate of The Sopranos creator David Chase.

He was nominated for the Emmy award in 2002 and 2003 for his work on The Sopranos but he lost, and won The Directors Guild of America award for the show in 2002. As a director, Patterson worked for several television studios, including HBO and CBS. He directed episodes of The Sopranos, Providence, The Practice, Carnivàle, Family Law, Six Feet Under, CSI, CHiPs, Magnum P.I., Hill Street Blues, The Guardian, and the pilot episode of Law & Order. He also directed more than 12 television movies, usually thrillers and crime stories, including A Deadly Silence (1989) and Seduced By Madness (1996).

He was married to Casey Kelley, but they later divorced; they had two children named Mary and Charlie Patterson. Patterson died in Los Angeles, California of prostate cancer at the age of 64.

Season 6 episode 12 of The Sopranos, titled "Kaisha", was dedicated to him.

Selected filmography

 * The Sopranos, 13 episodes directed by John Tiffin Patterson
 * Episode 1.04 "Meadowlands"
 * Episode 1.13 "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano"
 * Episode 2.06 "The Happy Wanderer"
 * Episode 2.10 "Bust Out"
 * Episode 2.13 "Funhouse"
 * Episode 3.04 "Employee of the Month"
 * Episode 3.13 "Army of One"
 * Episode 4.02 "No Show"
 * Episode 4.07 "Watching Too Much Television"
 * Episode 4.13 "Whitecaps"
 * Episode 5.03 "Where's Johnny?"
 * Episode 5.08 "Marco Polo"
 * Episode 5.13 "All Due Respect"
 * Six Feet Under:
 * Episode 1.03 "The Foot"
 * Providence episodes:
 * "The Birthday Party"
 * "The Honeymoon's Over"
 * "Runaway Sydney"
 * "Saint Syd"
 * Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive (1992)
 * Sins of the Mother (1991 TV movie) starring Elizabeth Montgomery, Dale Midkiff and Heather Fairfield
 * She Said No (1990 TV Movie) concerning acquaintance rape and starring Veronica Hamel, Lee Grant, Ray Baker, and Judd Hirsch
 * Law & Order "Everybody's Favorite Bagman" (series pilot) Episode 01.06 - written by Dick Wolf (produced 1988, aired 1990)
 * Hill Street Blues "A Wasted Weekend" Episode 7.12 - written by David Mamet (1987)

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Interdecadal Pacific oscillation

The Interdecadal Pacific oscillation (IPO) is an oceanographic/meteorological phenomenon similar to the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO), but occurring in a wider area of the Pacific. While the PDO occurs in mid-latitudes of the Pacific Ocean in the northern hemisphere, the IPO stretches from the southern hemisphere into the northern hemisphere.

The period of oscillation is roughly 15–30 years. Positive phases of the IPO are characterized by a warmer than average tropical Pacific and cooler than average northern Pacific. Negative phases are characterized by an inversion of this pattern, with cool tropics and warm northern regions.

The IPO had positive phases (southeastern tropical Pacific warm) from 1922 to 1946 and 1978 to 1998, and a negative phase between 1947 and 1976.

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Talk:Licton Springs, Seattle

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Article was rewritten to contain the same information as http://www.lictonsprings.org/ web page, but in a different form, solving possible copr problem. Thx to User:Lukobe! Lupinelawyer 15:53, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Summary: +, cit, so cl, rephrased; see Talk. Explication: See Talk:Seattle, Citing sources. Existing writing maintained as much as could.

North College Park moved from Northgate

Citation needed noted where needed to distinguish from citation following. Bug with multiple uses of the same footnote corrected using & command set syntax. (Ed. --GoDot 07:44, 26 June 2006 (UTC))

Haller Lake–Green Lake and South Fork Thornton Creek watersheds are curiously adjacent in such modest topography. Sources are not exactly clear about what (Pillings Pond, Licton Springs) flows where. Metro also made diversions, restoration might have made others. Could the Licton Springs feed one of these watersheds again?

--GoDot 05:34, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Summary: + cite web, + native, + links Shenk, order of heads at end; see Talk. Explication: Add cite web template, add native ethnicity, add links in source Shenk et al, order of headings at end per WP:MoS at 7 Standard appendices. --GoDot 07:13, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

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Row (weight-lifting)

In strength training, rowing (or a row, usually preceded by a qualifying adjective — for instance a cable seated row, barbell upright row, dumbbell bent-over row, T-bar rows, et cetera) is an exercise where the purpose is to strengthen the muscles that draw the rower's arms toward the body (latissimus dorsi) as well as those that retract the scapulae (trapezius and rhomboids) and those that support the spine (erector spinae). When done on a rowing machine, rowing also exercises muscles that extend and support the legs (quadriceps and thigh muscles ). In all cases, the abdominal and lower back muscles must be used in order to support the body and prevent back injury.

Many other weight-assisted gym exercises mimic the movement of rowing, such as the deadlift, high pull and the bent-over row. An effective off-season training programme combines both erg pieces and weight-assisted movements similar to rowing, with an emphasis on improving endurance under high tension rather than maximum strength.

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Jones-Hill House

The Jones-Hill House is an indoor collegiate sports training complex located on 14.5 acre of land on the campus of the University of Maryland in College Park, a suburb north of Washington, D.C. Jones-Hill House is situated in the center of the campus, adjacent to Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium, near Stamp Student Union and McKeldin Library. The building was constructed between 1952 and 1955 at a cost of $3.3 million ($ in 2024 ) and served for nearly 50 years as the home court of the Maryland Terrapins men's and women's basketball teams. A multi-phase, $196 million renovation commenced in 2015 to transform the capacity 14,956-seat basketball arena into a 356000 sqft sports and academic complex that includes an indoor practice facility and operations center for the university's football program, a sports science and sports medical research center, and an incubator for entrepreneurs. The facility was formerly named the William P. Cole Jr. Student Activities Building, commonly known as Cole Field House. In April 2021, the facility was renamed in honor of Billy Jones and Darryl Hill, the first Black men to integrate basketball and football at Maryland, respectively.

The Jones-Hill House, the indoor practice facility and operations center for the Maryland Terrapins football team (Big Ten Conference), opened in 2017. Though the facility is primarily used for football, it was also used for training by the school's men's and women's lacrosse teams The second phase of renovation, which began in late-2017, includes the construction of a 196000 sqft addition to the complex. This new structure will also include a space for the school’s Academy for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the Center for Sports Medicine, Health and Human Performance, a sports medicine education, investigation and clinical care center operated in partnership with the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

Jones-Hill House
Jones-Hill House, the 160000 sqft indoor practice facility, opened in August 2017 and features a full-length, 100-yard-long FieldTurf football field with a goal post at each end surrounded by an elevated concourse. With a nearly 90 ft height clearance from the field to the center of the roof, the facility ranks among the highest headrooms in any NCAA practice facility. When completed, the facility will include two full-length outdoor football practice fields, locker rooms, a 26000 sqft strength and conditioning center, hydrotherapy and other training facilities, a 180-seat theater-style team meeting room, position meeting rooms, a 230-seat cafeteria, recruiting lounge, and staff offices for the university's football program. A tunnel will connect the Cole Field House Performance Center to Capital One Field at SECU Stadium.

Center for Sports Medicine Health and Human Performance
The Center for Sports Medicine Health and Human Performance is an academic research center operated in partnership with the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore as part of the MPowering the State initiative. The Center studies the treatment of sports-related conditions, including neuroscience with a specific focus on concussions and traumatic brain injury. The facility will also be a treatment center for an array of sports injuries. The Center will initially occupy a 40000 sqft space within the Cole Field House complex, with plans to expand to a total of 60,000 square feet (5,600 m2) of space.

History
Cole Field House in 1955 opened as the Student Activities Building, a 12,000-seat basketball arena. The $3.3 million facility was constructed to be the home court of the university's men's basketball team. When it opened, the facility was second-largest basketball arena on the East Coast. Only Madison Square Garden in NYC had a larger seating capacity. The first basketball event hosted in building was played on December 2, 1955, when the Maryland Terrapins beat the Virginia Cavaliers by the score of 67–55 in an Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season matchup. The structure was renamed the William P. Cole Jr. Student Activities Building in 1956 in honor of Judge William P. Cole Jr., chairman of the university's Board of Regents from 1944 to 1956. The first head men's basketball coach to call the facility home was Bud Millikan. In the late 1960s, then-head coach Lefty Driesell added nearly 3,000 seats around the court raising the hometown decibel level.

Cole Field House was the host site of the NCAA basketball tournament East Region finals in 1962, when New York University defeated St. John's in the regional final, 94–85. The NCAA Tournament Final Four was first hosted at the facility in 1966 and featured the Duke Blue Devils, Kentucky Wildcats, Texas Western (now UTEP Miners), and Utah Utes. Texas Western (which started all black players) upset Kentucky's all-white team 72–65 before 14,253 spectators. Future Hall of Fame head men's basketball coach Gary Williams, then a student, attended the game. Cole Field House also hosted the 1970 NCAA Final Four. In 1991, Cole was the site of the first-ever upset of an NCAA Tournament No. 2-seed at the hands of a No. 15-seed, as Richmond defeated heavily favored Syracuse, 73–69.

Cole Field House is the site of the most upsets of No. 1-ranked men's basketball teams. The Terrapins accounted for six of the upsets at Cole, while the other one occurred in the 1966 Final Four where No. 3 Texas Western defeated No. 1 Kentucky. The seventh such occurrence was on February 27, 2002, when Maryland defeated No. 1 Duke. The venues which hosted the second- and third-most No. 1 upsets are Notre Dame's Joyce Athletics & Convention Center (six) and Oklahoma's Lloyd Noble Center (five), respectively.

Replacement
In the 1990s, the administration at Maryland followed a trend occurring at other schools in the ACC to seek a new facility that provided more seating and amenities than were present at Cole Field House. However, this decision brought some debate. Coach Gary Williams privately wished the team remain at Cole due to the home court advantage he received. The small, cramped arena made Cole Field House a loud and difficult place for opponents to play in.

The last Maryland men's basketball game played at Cole Field House was on March 3, 2002, when Maryland defeated Virginia 112–92. The team now plays at the Xfinity Center. Overall, 13 men's All-Americans and four women's All-Americans have played at Cole. Maryland men's basketball remained undefeated at Cole during its last season and went on to win the National Championship.

Former uses
After its basketball teams vacated Cole Field House, the facility was used by the university for intramural athletics and administrative offices. A soccer field constructed atop the basketball court was used as a practice facility by some athletes. The concourse also served as a makeshift track for students, faculty, and other members of the University community. When not used for athletics, the building was used for Homecoming events, classes, and held offices.

The structure had been the subject of speculation for renewal and multiple non-University-related reuses. One such plan was to build a station for the future Purple Line, a light rail line in development by the Maryland Transit Administration. The Maryland Maniacs indoor football team used Cole Field House as its home venue in 2010.

On September 24, 2013, the Maryland Athletic Department announced that the Terrapin men's and women's basketball teams would hold their Maryland Madness event on October 18 at Cole Field House. It marked the first official athletic event hosted in the facility since the Terps' new arena opened in 2002.

Other notable events

 * 1965: DeMatha Catholic High School defeated a Power Memorial Academy team led by Lew Alcindor 46–43, ending its 71-game winning streak in front of over 14,000.
 * 1966: Texas Western, now the University of Texas at El Paso, defeated a Kentucky Wildcats team led by Adolph Rupp 72–65 to win the national championship. In this game, the victorious Miners were the first basketball team in the NCAA's top level to start five African Americans. Texas Western's victory is considered one of the most important games in the history of college sports.
 * 1972: A ping-pong match between the United States and the People's Republic of China is played at Cole, the first sporting event between the two countries.
 * 1973: An exhibition of the Soviet gymnastics team, including gold medalist Olga Korbut, sells out the arena and is televised locally in the Washington, D.C. area.
 * 1973: The NBA's Capital Bullets (now the Washington Wizards) played November home games at Cole while the team transitioned from Baltimore to Landover. Their new home, Capital Centre, opened on December 2. They had played several home games at Cole during their last seasons in Baltimore.
 * September 27 and 28, 1974: Elvis Presley in concert. His first concert appearance in the immediate Washington, D.C. area. The venue proved too small.  The Capital Centre in Largo, Maryland was booked in 1976 and 1977.
 * January 26, 1975: The first televised women's basketball game is played at Cole. Maryland loses to the defending national champions Immaculata. Some sources report that Immaculata won 80–48,  while others report 85–63.
 * 1977: Queen plays at Cole.
 * 1981: The Grateful Dead played at Cole.
 * 1998: Bob Dylan performed at Cole.
 * March 2015: The Maryland Wrestling High school State Championships was the last championship event to be contested before its conversion to the headquarters of the Terrapins football team.
 * November 5, 2015: Comedian Hannibal Buress performed in what was the last show at Cole before its conversion to the headquarters of the Terrapins football team.

On April 28, 1973, Chuck Berry played at Cole Field House. The show was particularly notable because Berry (who did not employ a full time band) was backed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.

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Talk:Ethni

I have added the tag to this article because it is presenting religious belief as fact. I don't know too much about Christian figures, so I don't feel I'm the best qualified to tweak this article into something factual and encyclopedic, but the information here looks like something someone more knowledgable than I about the subject could tweak into an acceptable stub. — Ливай | ☺ 04:41, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Slobberbone

Slobberbone is an American alt-country band from Denton, Texas, led by singer-songwriter Brent Best, Cody Garcia, Tony Harper, and Brian Lane. Best continues to tour as a solo act, performing both songs by Slobberbone and The Drams, and songs from his solo record, but also reunites with both bands for shows with full band line-ups.

History
Slobberbone formed in early 1992 in Denton, Texas, where the band played for beer and had their first gig at the Park 'n' Go, a beer store in Denton. The best-known line-up consisted of singer-songwriter Brent Best on guitar and lead vocals, Jess Barr on lead guitar, Brian Lane on bass guitar, and drummer Tony Harper. The band members met after attending University of North Texas, where they lived in a house together and played local shows in Denton. Bassist Brian Lane joined the band in 1996 and guitarist Jess Barr in 1997. They eventually signed with the Austin-based record label, Doolittle Records (which eventually merged with New West Records). Their name is a reference to a dog's chew bone.

From 1995 onwards, Slobberbone as a band solidified its lineup and began playing shows outside of Texas, becoming known for its extensive touring schedule across the United States.

Jeff Cole from Doolittle Records produced the first two Slobberbone records. Jim Dickinson, who among other work is known for The Replacements, produced Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today, working with the band to record at Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee.

Don Smith of Tommy Stinson's Bash & Pop and Cracker, produced Slippage in Los Angeles, California.

In early 2005, the band announced that it was calling it quits because Lane was moving to Florida. Slobberbone played a series of shows for their final farewell tour.

In 2009, the band (with the 2005 lineup) reunited for a series of shows. At the end of 2009, the reformed band, with Lane returned to Texas from Florida, announced that they plan on recording a new album in 2010 before going out on another tour. In May 2011, the band's drummer posted a blog entry stating that the planned mini-tour and merchandise sales would help provide the necessary funding for the band's long-anticipated album.

Outside of the United States, the band is popular in the Netherlands, where Slobberbone has toured intensively in the main clubs and on festivals since 1998.

The Drams
In 2005, most of the band's members reformed as The Drams when Best was scheduled to play a full band show as a solo act. Two members from Denton, Texas' Budapest One, Keith Killoren and Chad Schlockslager, are members of The Drams. The Drams play rock with the inclusion of background vocals and keyboards. Their record, Jubilee Dive, was produced by Centro-Matic's Matt Pence and came out on mini-major New West Records.

Brent Best
Best was born on September 1, 1970, in Austin, Texas, although his family moved to a nearby small town in Texas shortly after. When he was young he played in a band with his friend, singer-songwriter Kevin Kerby, from his teenage years onwards. They had a two-man band which they described as "Black Grass" that was called Sad Monkey Railroad. Best was able to co-write with Kerby, and produced the first self-released Slobberbone record with him.

In 2015, Best released a solo record called Your Dog, Champ on Last Chance Records. The record which began its start in April 2010, took 5 years to make and was crowd-funded. The record was well received. Grady Don Sandlin played drums and Ralph White (Bad Livers), Petra Kelly, Scott Danbom (Centro-Matic, Sarah Jaffe) and Claude Bernard (The Gourds) also contributed to the record.

Best contributed the song "Robert Cole" to the Bloodshot Records compilation, Just One More, A Musical Tribute to Larry Brown.

Recognition
Stephen King mentioned the band's song "Gimme Back My Dog" in his novel Black House. He also listed the song as one of the top three greatest rock and roll songs ever in his column in Entertainment Weekly. Although never publicly confirmed, the album Slippage could very well be Slobberbone's nod to King. The word 'slippage' is an important term in Black House. King also mentions Slobberbone as a favorite of protagonist Richard Sifkitz in the novella Stationary Bike.

Drive-By Truckers front man Patterson Hood sang on the Slobberbone song "Lazy Guy" on Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today. Slobberbone often toured with the Drive-By Truckers early in both bands' careers.

Slobberbone

 * 1994: Crow Pot Pie (self-released)
 * 1996: Crow Pot Pie (Doolittle); contains different songs than original
 * 1997: Limited Edition EP (Doolittle)
 * 1997: Barrel Chested (Doolittle / New West Records)
 * 1998: Your Excuse Live-EP (Doolittle / New West Records)
 * 2000: Everything You Thought Was Right Was Wrong Today (New West Records)
 * 2002: Slippage (New West Records)
 * 2016: Bees and Seas: The Best of Slobberbone (New West Records)

Compilations

 * 1997: "Dark as a Dungeon" by Merle Travis on Straight Outta Boone County Cowboy Songs, Home Songs, Western Songs, Mountain Songs (Bloodshot Records)
 * 1999: "Scuffed" on Band-Kits: A Compilation of Denton, Texas Music (Quality Park)
 * 1999: "Piece of Crap" by Neil Young on This Note's for You Too! A Tribute to Neil Young (Interstate Records)
 * 2005: "Some New Town" by Bruce Springsteen on Thunder Road Tracks Inspired by the Boss (Uncut)
 * 2010: "Placemat Blues" on Suburban Home Records Mixtape 5: Someone's Gonna Die (Suburban Home)

The Drams

 * 2006: Jubilee Dive (New West Records)

Brent Best

 * 2015: Your Dog, Champ (Transient Camp Recordings for Last Chance Records)

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Angel Densetsu

Angel Densetsu (エンジェル伝説) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Norihiro Yagi. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Jump from 1993 to 2000, with its chapters collected in tankōbon 15 volumes. A two-episode original video animation (OVA) adaptation, animated by Toei Animation, was released in 1996.

Plot
The series follows Seiichirō Kitano, a kind and naive boy with the heart of an angel, but the sinister looks of a devil. This paired with his horrible luck and awkward social skills causes many misunderstandings, leading people to assume that he is a delinquent and heroin addict, and (unbeknownst to himself) results in a career as the head thug, or "school guardian" at his new school.

Hekikuu High School

 * Seiichirō Kitano (北野 誠一郎)
 * Seikichi Kuroda (黒田 清吉)
 * Yūji Takehisa (竹久 優二)
 * Ryoko Koiso (小磯 良子)
 * Ikuko Hirayama (平山 郁子)
 * Suda
 * Koide
 * Takashi Ogisu (荻須 高志)
 * Ikuno Shirataki (白滝 幾奶)
 * Principal
 * Shiraishi
 * Murakami, the teacher in charge of Ryoko's class and the advisor for the karate club.
 * Kishida, a guidance counselor at Hekikuu High.
 * Iwata, a guidance counselor at Hekikuu High.

Hakuun High School

 * Takeshi Kojima
 * Hayami, Hakuun High's number 2.
 * Tanabe, the guidance counselor of Hakuun High.

Hirin High School

 * Nakanishi, the boss of Hirin High.
 * Katayama
 * Shioda, Takehisa's senpai in middle school.

Delinquent re-educators
They are known as special guidance counselors, but they are actually working for the Education Committee. They are known as the "Shadowy Seven" (and "Shadowy Six" after Shirataki's retirement).
 * Irie, the first of the seven guidance counselors, seen in chapter 7.
 * Kumagai, the most warrior-like of the seven.
 * Shirataki, the third special guidance counselor dispatched from the Education Committee to deal with Kitano.
 * Haruka Hishida, first seen in chapter 43.
 * The other three members of the seven/six were never introduced during the series.

Kitano's Parents

 * Ryuichiro Kitano (北野 隆一郎), his father, an ordinary office worker, first seen in chapter 21.
 * Midori Kitano (北野 みどり), his mother, first seen in chapter 21.

Ryoko's Parents

 * Heizo Koiso, Ryoko's father.
 * Mrs. Koiso, Ryoko's deceased mother.

The Halford Family

 * Papa Halford, an American with a Japanese wife and two children, who moved to Japan 20 years ago.
 * Mama Halford, introduced in chapter 66.
 * Leo Halford (レオ·ハルフォード), the half-Japanese first son of the Halford family.
 * Sana Halford (サナ·ハルフォード), Leo's little sister.

Others

 * Kiyomi Kaburagi, president of the Photography Club at a high school near Hekikuu High.
 * Kikuchi, a member of the Photography Club.
 * Yamazaki, a member of the Photography Club
 * Noguchi, a member of the Photography Club
 * Chuji Asai, Midori's cousin, only seen 18 years ago in chapters 76 to 78.

Manga
Written and illustrated by Norihiro Yagi, Angel Densetsu was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Monthly Shōnen Jump from 1993 to 2000. Its chapters were collected in 15 tankōbon volumes, released from August 4, 1993, to April 4, 2000.

Original video animation
A two-episode original video animation (OVA), animated by Toei Animation, was released on September 13 and December 13, 1996.

Reception
On Anime News Network, Justin Sevakis calls the OVA "easily one of my top 10 anime comedies of all time."

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A Defence of Masochism

A Defence of Masochism is a 1998 non-fiction book by Anita Phillips covering the topic of BDSM, which offers philosophical and sociological arguments for the virtues of masochism.

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User talk:Midnight Maniac~enwiki

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Bacca

Bacca (Latin for berry) may refer to:

 * A simple, indehiscent, fleshy fruit
 * Purpura bacca, fruit of the açaí palm
 * Bacca, a tag game, see British Bulldog (game)
 * Bacca, character in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic
 * Bacca (English), Short form of tobacco.
 * Bacca (surname)
 * Bacca (Tanzanian footballer) (born 1997), Ibrahim Hamad, Tanzanian footballer

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Steve Hofstetter

Steven Ira Hofstetter (born September 11, 1979) is an American stand-up comedian and podcast host. , his YouTube channel has accumulated over 709,000 subscribers and 195,000,000 views. Hofstetter starred in the FS1 special Finding Babe Ruth, has been a panelist on MLB Now on MLB Network, and was the host and executive producer of Laughs on Fox television stations.

Hofstetter has made a number of television appearances, including ESPN's Quite Frankly, Showtime's White Boyz in the Hood, VH1's Countdown, ABC's Barbara Walters Special and CBS's The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

Early life and education
Hofstetter grew up in a Jewish family in the New York City borough of Queens, living at various times in Briarwood, Forest Hills and Rego Park.

He graduated from Hunter College High School in 1997 and received his B.A. from Columbia University's School of General Studies in 2002. There, Hofstetter wrote for the Columbia Spectator and served as President of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.

Career
Hofstetter gained a reputation by posting videos of interactions with audience members on YouTube, which garnered so many views that Fox Television offered him a series called Laughs, a half-hour showcase for standup comedians, which debuted in August 2014. Shortly after its premiere, SAG/AFTRA issued a "Do Not Work" notice to its members due to Fox's choice to make the show a non-union production. This touched off a controversy about whether or not all television shows should be union productions.

Hofstetter was the Senior Comedy Correspondent for FOX Sports' Just a Bit Outside.

Hofstetter vs. The Cable Guy
In March 2006, Hofstetter and Razor & Tie announced the April 4 release of Cure for the Cable Guy, a 45-minute CD/DVD that featured a cover with a Larry the Cable Guy Doll hanging by a coax cable. The disc earned Stuff Magazine ' s "Album cover of the month". Later that week, Larry the Cable Guy's new film debuted and was universally panned. Several movie reviewers discussed Hofstetter's album, including the Orlando Sentinel's Roger Moore. Moore's review was picked up by dozens of papers across the country, including the Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, and Columbus Dispatch. Hofstetter did radio interviews about the album, including one with Philadelphia's Kidd Chris show, where Hofstetter spoke with Larry the Cable Guy's alter ego, Dan Whitney. Whitney ended the interview with his catch phrase, "Git-R-Done."

The album's cover was compared to the Sex Pistols' "Pink Floyd Sucks" T-shirts. Allmusic's Bret Love wrote, "Hofstetter effectively rebels against the mainstream by positioning himself as the antithesis of the world's most popular comedian. What could be more punk rock than that?"

In July, an article in the New Yorker quoted Whitney as saying Hofstetter had been hurtful, and Whitney's manager criticizing Hofstetter for "trying to make a buck". In response, Hofstetter posted a video on YouTube explaining his stance on the Cable Guy and his comedy.

Pay-What-You-Want
In December 2007, Hofstetter announced his new album, Dark Side of the Room. Customers can download it directly from his website with "Pay-What-You-Want" à la Radiohead's 2007 album In Rainbows.

He has also tried a new model of comedic touring: The Your Tour, where tickets are sold prior to a show that has yet to be announced. Once the city and the date are announced, if at least 50 people in the city have purchased tickets, Hofstetter will perform. If not enough people buy tickets, all purchases are refunded.

Books

 * Student Body Shots: A Sarcastic Look at the Best 4–6 Years of Your Life
 * Student Body Shots – Another Round: More Sarcasm On The Best Four To Six Years Of Your Life
 * National Lampoon's Balls! An In Your Face Look at Sports (2007, National Lampoon)
 * Ginger Kid: Mostly True Tales from a Former Nerd
 * Follow Your Dream (Unless Your Dream Is Stupid) (2022)

Album and special releases

 * Tastes Like Bliss (2004, unofficial release)
 * Cure for the Cable Guy (2006, Razor & Tie)
 * The Dark Side of the Room (2008, Next Round)
 * Steve Hofstetter's Day Off (2009, Next Round)
 * Pick Your Battles (2011, Next Round)
 * Ginger Kid (2015, Next Round)
 * Secret Optimist (2017)
 * The Recipe (2023)
 * Me, Myself, and ID (2024)

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General Motors/Fiat Premium platform

The Premium platform was General Motors's and Fiat Group's high-end automobile platform for front wheel drive and four wheel drive automobiles developed in early 2000s mainly in Sweden by Saab engineers.

The architecture debuted in production form with the Alfa Romeo Brera, although it was used earlier for the Opel Insignia concept in 2003 and Alfa Romeo Visconti (concept car) in 2004. After the dissolution of the GM/Fiat partnership, both companies retained the rights to continue developing Premium-derived models, though no GM versions were produced as the platform was considered too expensive for Opel cars and a great cost for a small premium manufacturer as Saab.

Saab stopped the development of the platform and therefore of its Premium automobile in late 2002; the Saab models (the 9X sports car and the replacement for the 9-5 sedan) would have used an entirely different suspension than the Alfa Romeo vehicles, which would have proved too expensive. Although the platform debuted in 2003 with the Opel Insignia concept car, this vehicle was not produced. A planned Buick model was also dropped. In the end, only the Alfa Romeo models moved forward to production and Saab's development and introduction of new 9-5 was seriously delayed. Some of the GM models originally set to use the Premium platform eventually were produced using the GM Epsilon II platform.

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Asaph

Asaph (Hebrew: אָסַף) is an ancient name that means "God has gathered" and may refer to:

 * Asaph (biblical figure), the name of several Biblical figures
 * Psalms of Asaph
 * Asaph the Jew, 6th-century Jewish physician, author of:
 * Book of Asaph
 * Saint Asaph, first bishop of the diocese of Saint Asaph in Wales
 * Diocese of St Asaph
 * St Asaph, a city in North Wales
 * Asaph (album)
 * Asaph Hall, 19th century astronomer
 * Asaph Hall Jr., son of the above
 * Asaph Fipke, Canadian animator

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HMS Neptune (1797)

HMS Neptune was a 98-gun second-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She served on a number of stations during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and was present at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

Neptune was built during the early years of the war with Revolutionary France and was launched in 1797. She almost immediately became caught up in the events of the mutiny at the Nore, and was one of a few loyal ships tasked with attacking mutinous vessels if they could not be brought to order. The mutiny died out before this became necessary and Neptune joined the Channel Fleet. She moved to the Mediterranean in 1799, spending the rest of the French Revolutionary Wars in operations with Vice-Admiral Lord Keith's fleet. After refitting, and spending time on blockades, she formed part of Lord Nelson's fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar, and was heavily involved in the fighting, sustaining casualties of 10 killed and 34 wounded.

She was not fully repaired and returned to service until 1807, when she went out to the Caribbean. In 1809 she participated in the successful invasion of Martinique, and the subsequent battle with Troude's squadron. Returning to Britain towards the end of the wars, she was laid up in ordinary, and in 1813 became a temporary prison ship. She was finally broken up in 1818.

Construction and commissioning
Neptune was ordered from Deptford Dockyard on 15 February 1790, to a design developed by Surveyor of the Navy Sir John Henslow. She was one of three ships of the Neptune-class ship of the line, alongside her sisters HMS Temeraire (1798) and HMS Dreadnought (1801). Neptune was laid down at Deptford in April 1791, receiving her name on 24 July 1790. The initial stages of her construction were overseen by Master Shipwright Martin Ware, though he was succeeded by Thomas Pollard in June 1795, and Pollard oversaw her completion. Neptune was launched on 28 January 1797 and sailed to Woolwich to be fitted for sea. Arriving at Woolwich on 12 February, she was immediately docked to have her copper sheathing fitted, a process that was completed by 1 March. Launched again, she finished fitting out, and received her masts and yards. Her final costs came to £77,053, and included £61,172 spent on the hull, masts and yards, and a further £15,881 on rigging and stores.

She was commissioned on 25 March 1797 under Captain Henry Edwyn Stanhope, becoming the third ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name Neptune. Her predecessors had been two 90-gun ships, the first launched in 1683, renamed HMS Torbay in 1750 and sold in 1784. The second had been launched in 1757, was used as a sheer hulk from 1784, and was broken up in 1816. Stanhope sailed from Woolwich on 11 June 1797, flying the broad pendant of Commodore Sir Erasmus Gower, and made for the Nore.

Mutiny at the Nore
Shortly after her arrival at the Nore, Neptune became caught up in the mutiny that had broken out there. While lying at Gravesend, Neptune and the 64-gun ships HMS Agincourt (1796) and HMS Lancaster (1797), together with a fleet of gunboats, were ordered to intercept and attack the mutinous ships at the Nore. Before they could proceed word came that the mutineers had entered negotiations with the Earl of Northesk, captain of the 64-gun HMS Monmouth (1796), and by 9 June the mutiny was on the verge of collapse. The attack was called off, and on 21 September Stanhope was superseded by Gower as captain of Neptune. The crisis over, Neptune joined the Channel Fleet. A further small-scale mutiny would take place in 1798, with some of her crew court-martialed.

Mediterranean
Gower remained in command of Neptune until his promotion to rear-admiral of the white, at which point Herbert Sawyer became her acting-captain. Sawyer was in command until 22 January 1799, and Gower left her on 28 February 1799. Command of the ship formally passed to Captain James Vashon on 5 March 1799. The first half of 1799 was spent with the Channel Fleet, and in June Neptune was one of 15 ships of the line assigned to join Vice-Admiral Lord Keith's fleet in the Mediterranean. The squadron, commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Cotton, rendezvoused with Keith's force at Menorca on 7 July, bringing the British fleet in the Mediterranean up to 31 ships. Keith intended to intercept a large Franco-Spanish force of 42 ships under Admirals Étienne Eustache Bruix and Jose Mazarredo, and set out to sea on 10 July. Bruix' expedition evaded Keith, and reached the safety of Brest on 9 August. Neptune went on to spend the rest of the French Revolutionary Wars in the Mediterranean.

Vashon was superseded on 26 March 1801, and the following day Captain Edward Brace arrived to take command. Neptune became the flagship of Vice-Admiral James Gambier during this period. Brace's period of command was brief, he was superseded by Captain Francis Austen on 12 September. With the draw down in hostilities prior to the signing of the Treaty of Amiens in March 1802, Neptune was one of the many ships of the Mediterranean fleet to be ordered home, arriving at Portsmouth on 24 February. Austen paid her off on 29 April, but recommissioned her the next day. Neptune then underwent a brief refit, during which £5,728 was expended, £2,895 of which was spent on her hull, masts and yards. Austen was superseded on 30 September 1802 and the following day Captain William O'Bryen Drury took command. With Neptune fully refitted and stored, she sailed from the dockyard and joined the Channel Fleet at Spithead on 29 October.

Blockade, and approach to Trafalgar
Drury commanded Neptune for the next two years, until his promotion to rear-admiral in 1804. He departed the ship on 13 May 1804, and the following day Captain Sir Thomas Williams took over. Neptune spent the rest of 1804 deployed with the Channel Fleet, blockading the French Atlantic ports. During this time Captain Williams' health progressively worsened, and he was invalided back to Britain on 7 May 1805. He was replaced by Captain Thomas Fremantle on 8 May, and was sent to join Robert Calder's force blockading Ferrol, after the Franco-Spanish fleet had arrived there after the Battle of Cape Finisterre. Calder decided that his eight ships were not sufficient to resist Villeneuve's fleet were it to come out of harbour, and instead went north to join Admiral William Cornwallis's fleet off Brest. Shortly afterwards Nelson's fleet returned from the West Indies, bringing 12 more ships, and Calder was given 18 ships, including Neptune, and sent back to Ferrol to search for Villeneuve. By now Villeneuve had put into Cadiz and Calder's force was ordered to join the hastily assembled British fleet under Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, that was blockading the Franco-Spanish fleet at Cadiz. As the British fleet settled in for a long blockade Fremantle commented on Neptune's sailing qualities. She had the reputation of being slow, and Fremantle complained that he did not like being in 'a large ship that don't sail and must continually be late in action.' During the battle however, Midshipman William Baddock commented that 'The old Neptune, which never was a good sailer, took it into her head that morning to sail better than I ever remember to have seen her do before.' Neptune  went into the battle 18 men short of her complement.

Trafalgar
Neptune formed part of the weather column in the Battle of Trafalgar on 21 October, and was the third ship from the lead, situated between her sister HMS Temeraire, and the 74-gun HMS Leviathan (1790). Fremantle had been promised a position second to Nelson aboard HMS Victory, and by 10 o'clock was sailing fast enough to threaten to overtake her. Fremantle hoped to pass her, and lead the line into battle, but Nelson ordered 'Neptune, take in your studding-sails and drop astern. I shall break the line myself.' Neptune went into action with her band playing, and everyone except the officers and the band lying down on the deck to protect them from enemy fire. Ahead of her Fremantle saw Eliab Harvey's Temeraire turn to pass astern of the French FRENCH SHIP Redoutable, but resolved to follow Nelson and HMS Victory to pass astern of the French flagship FRENCH SHIP Bucentaure. As she passed under Bucentaure's stern, Neptune discharged a double-shotted broadside from her larboard (port) guns, with devastating consequences on Villeneuve's already disabled flagship. Fremantle then had the helm swung hard to starboard, bringing his ship abeam of the Bucentaure. He fired two more triple-shotted broadsides from nearly 50 guns at a range of less than 100 yards into the beleaguered French ship. Fremantle then spotted the towering mass of the Spanish four-decker Santísima Trinidad sailing away from him, and steered towards her starboard quarter in the hope of raking her stern. Opening fire with his larboard battery, he positioned Neptune off the Spanish vessel's starboard beam and the two exchanged heavy fire for the next hour as more British ships poured through the gap astern of Neptune. Neptune took fire from other ships of the combined fleet as they sailed past. Santísima Trinidad, heavily battered by Neptune's guns, as well as those from the 74-gun ships HMS Leviathan (1790) and HMS Conqueror (1801), became completely dismasted and covered in debris. She fought on until 5.30 pm, when she struck her colours, having sustained casualties of 205 dead and 103 wounded. Neptune left the 98-gun HMS Prince (1788) to take possession and headed north to cut off the remains of the enemy fleet, briefly becoming engaged with the French 74-gun FRENCH SHIP Intrépide. During the battle Neptune suffered considerable damage to her masts, although they did not fall. Most of her rigging was cut to pieces and she sustained nine shot holes in her hull. She sustained casualties of ten killed and 34 wounded. A remarkably small proportion of her officers became casualties, with only the captain's clerk, Richard Hurrell, being wounded. After the battle Collingwood transferred his flag from the damaged HMS Royal Sovereign (1786) to the frigate HMS Euryalus (1803), and on 22 October Neptune took the Royal Sovereign in tow. On 23 October, as the Franco-Spanish forces that had escaped into Cadiz sortied under Commodore Julien Cosmao, Neptune cast off the tow, surrendering the duty to HMS Mars (1794), and took on board Villeneuve and several captured flag captains, who had originally been aboard Mars. As the weather continued to deteriorate Neptune sent her boats to assist in the evacuation of the Santísima Trinidad before she foundered. After riding out the storm she took the battered Victory, carrying Lord Nelson's body, in tow on 26 October and brought her into Gibraltar on 28 October.

West Indies
After undergoing some repairs at Gibraltar Neptune sailed to Britain, arriving at Portsmouth on 6 December 1805, where she was paid off. She was moved to Spithead in 1806, but was back in Portsmouth on 23 November, and was moved into a dock on 24 March 1807 to undergo a refit. The refit lasted until November 1807 and involved having her copper sheathing removed and her hull refitted. She was then recoppered, having had a sum of £29,053 expended on her. She was recommissioned on 18 August 1807 under her old commander, Captain Sir Thomas Williams, and was relaunched three days later on 21 August to complete her refit. She was initially assigned to serve in the English Channel, but was moved to the West Indies in 1808. On 9 November Williams was superseded by Captain Thomas Pinto, who only spent six weeks in command before being succeeded by Captain Charles Dilkes on 20 December.

In January 1809 an attack on the French colony of Martinique, governed by Admiral Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse, was planned. Neptune became the flagship of the expedition's commander, Rear-Admiral Alexander Cochrane, and the invasion force, consisting of 44 vessels and transports for 10,000 troops under Lieutenant-General George Beckwith, sailed on 28 January. The force arrived at Martinique on 30 January, and 3,000 troops were landed under Major-General Frederick Maitland without resistance. 600 troops were put ashore at Cape Solomon under Major Henderson, both landings supervised by Captain William Charles Fahie aboard the 74-gun HMS Belleisle (1795). An additional force of 6,500 men were landed in the north of the island under Major-General Sir George Prévost, and the French were driven into several fortified positions, the last of which surrendered on 24 February 1809.

Battle with Troude
Cochrane's squadron remained in the area blockading the island, and in March a French squadron consisting of three 74-gun ships, FRENCH SHIP D'Hautpoul, FRENCH SHIP Courageux and FRENCH SHIP Polonais, and two frigates, FRENCH FRIGATE Félicité and HMS Furieuse (1809), under the overall command of Commodore Amable Troude, arrived in the Caribbean. Finding Martinique in British hands, Troude anchored near Îles des Saintes.

There they were blockaded until 14 April, when Cochrane removed this threat. A British force under Major-General Frederick Maitland and Captain Philip Beaver in HMS Acasta (1797), landed troops on the islands capturing them. The British then installed heavy guns on vantage points.

Threatened, Troude put to sea, chased by Cochrane's squadron. After a running battle over several days the D'Hautpoul was brought to action and captured. Neptune's captain, Charles Dilkes, was given command of her, while Captain James Athol Wood succeeded him in command of Neptune on 2 August.

Neptune was among the naval vessels that shared in the proceeds of the capture of the islands.

Final years
Dilkes resumed command of Neptune on 2 March 1810, while Wood was exchanged into HMS Pompee (1793). Dilkes had apparently been suffering poor health, and Captain N Ballard took command in an acting capacity on 22 July. Neptune returned to Plymouth on 26 October and entered the dock on 9 November to be fitted for the ordinary. The process cost £713, and after undocking on 8 December she was laid up in the Hamoaze until late autumn 1813. Her hull appears to have quickly deteriorated, and after a survey she was deemed unfit for further service at sea. The Navy Board proposed that she be converted into a prison ship, a recommendation the Admiralty accepted, and she was taken in hand for fitting out on 22 November. On the completion of the work in December she was commissioned under Lieutenant George Lawrence. Neptune spent three years in this role, and was finally taken to pieces in October 1818.

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Special Vehicle Team

Special Vehicle Team, also known as SVT, was an arm of Ford Motor Company responsible for the development of the company's highest-performance vehicles. Established in 1991, SVT was the successor to the SVO division. The last SVT Director was Hermann Salenbauch. SVT was previously led by Hau Thai-Tang (2004–2007) and John Coletti (1993-2004). In 2015, Ford Racing, alongside Ford Team RS and Special Vehicle Team, merged into a global entity named Ford Performance.

Information
The group mainly produces specially tuned versions of Ford production vehicles such as the 2010 F-150 SVT Raptor which is based on the Ford F150. However, they do occasionally develop models independently of the rest of the company, namely the GT supercar (developed in conjunction with Saleen). SVT was founded in 1983 by John Plant of Ford Marketing, Janine Bay of Ford Mustang Program Management, and Robert Burnham of Ford Truck Program Management. Originally known as Special Vehicle Operations, SVO developed the 1984–1986 2.3-liter turbo-charged 4-cylinder Mustang SVO, as well as marketed performance parts through dealer networks (now known as Ford Performance Parts, or FPP).

Ford SVT debuted the 2010 F-150 SVT Raptor high-performance off-road truck. Using a completely re-designed suspension, with internal-bypass Fox Racing Shocks and specially developed BF Goodrich all-terrain 35" tires, the Raptor is considered an OEM-style "pre-runner." Pre-runners are reconnaissance vehicles used for high-speed testing of off-road race courses before a race.

F-150 SVT Raptor also debuted the all-new 6.2-liter V8 engine as an option for the 2010 model year (likely to be standard in subsequent model years). Ford reports horsepower and torque as 411 hp (306 kW) @ 5500 rpm, 434 lb·ft (588 N·m) @ 4500 rpm in the Raptor. All Raptor models will have a 6-speed automatic transmission, selectable 4WD, and rear E-Locker that stays engaged at high-speeds.

In 2015 as a result of Ford's plan to globalize their vehicles, SVT and the European RS division merged, forming Ford Performance and thus aligning all American and European performance vehicle activity together.

SVT vehicles
SVT is credited in the following vehicles:
 * 1993 SVT Cobra
 * 1993 SVT Cobra R
 * 1993-1995 Ford SVT Lightning
 * 1994-1995 SVT Cobra
 * 1995 SVT Cobra R
 * 1995 Ford Thunderbird SVT (Concept car)
 * 1995 Ford GT90
 * 1996-1998 SVT Cobra
 * 1998-2000 SVT Contour
 * 1999-2001 SVT Cobra
 * 2000 SVT Cobra R
 * 1999-2004 Ford SVT Lightning
 * 2000 Ford SVT Thunder (unreleased car based on the 2000 Ford Expedition)
 * 2003-2004 SVT Cobra
 * 2002-2004 SVT Focus
 * 2005–2006 Ford GT
 * 2007-2009 SVT/Shelby GT500
 * 2010–2014 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor, (the 2017-present Raptor loses the SVT prefix)
 * 2010-2014 SVT/Shelby GT500

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