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USS Alamo

USS Alamo (LSD-33) was a Thomaston-class dock landing ship of the United States Navy. She was named for the Alamo, site of the 1836 Battle of the Alamo.

Alamo was laid down on 11 October 1954 at Pascagoula, Mississippi, by the Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp.; launched on 20 January 1956; sponsored by Mrs. Daniel V. Gallery, the wife of Rear Admiral Daniel V. Gallery: and commissioned on 24 August 1956.

1956–1960
After commissioning, the ship briefly visited Galveston, Tex. then headed for NS Norfolk, Va., to complete her outfitting and initial loading. On 13 October, the dock landing ship sailed for the West Coast. After transiting the Panama Canal, she reached NS San Diego, Calif., her home port, and joined the Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet. The ship held amphibious exercises and acceptance trials off San Diego in February 1957. Further training exercises occupied her until 29 May, when she got underway for the Marshall Islands. Alamo paused at Pearl Harbor from 6 to 8 June to load amphibious craft, then continued on to the Marshall Islands. She discharged the craft at Eniwetok on 14 June and for the next 10 days, provided shuttle service between Eniwetok and Bikini Atolls. Alamo put to sea from Bikini on 22 June and steamed by way of Pearl Harbor to San Diego where she loaded landing craft, tugs, and spare parts before sailing for Pearl Harbor on 23 July. There, on 6 August, she embarked Marines and their equipment and put to sea for participation in "Operation Tradewind", conducted in the area of Lahaina Roads, Maui. Alamo returned from this exercise on 15 August; then left Pearl Harbor four days later to return to San Diego.

On 24 September, Alamo began a voyage to the western Pacific (WestPac). She repeated her pattern of loading equipment at Pearl Harbor for transport to Eniwetok. Alamo then shuttled equipment between Eniwetok, Utirik, Kwajalein, and Ujelang Atolls. A voyage to Yokohama, Japan, where she arrived on 17 November, interrupted that duty. Alamo cleared that port on 21 November to resume her shuttling service in the Marshalls before returning to San Diego on 15 December.

The beginning of 1958 brought more training and upkeep. On 8 March, Alamo headed for Pearl Harbor where she joined a fast transport group for a series of amphibious force landing and salvage exercises at Kauai. The ship departed Pearl Harbor on 7 April and reached San Diego on 14 April. Ten days later, she entered the Mare Island Naval Shipyard for an overhaul and returned to her home port on 31 July to begin two and one-half months of refresher training. On 10 October, Alamo sailed for Japan. After loading landing craft at Yokosuka, Alamo headed to Kaohsiung, Taiwan. At that port, the ship conducted amphibious training with units of the Nationalist Chinese Navy until 2 December 1958. She then steamed for independent ship exercises off Okinawa and stopped at Naha to load the men and equipment of Marine Transport Squadron 163 for transportation to Yokosuka. For the next two months, Alamo shuttled various Marine Corps units between Yokosuka and Okinawa, terminating her last voyage of this duty at Naha on 11 February 1959. Three days later she pushed on to Sasebo, Japan, but again got underway for home on 23 February and paid visits to Adak and Kodiak, Alaska, and San Francisco, Calif., before reaching San Diego on 12 March.

Following a round-trip run to Astoria, Oreg., – from 17 to 25 April – to deliver a load of small craft, she took part in exercises with other units of Amphibious Squadron 3 off Coronado, followed by "Operation Twin Peaks", held off the California coast from 18 May to 5 June. Late in September, Alamo sailed for the Far East. The ship visited Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Yokosuka, Iwakuni, Kagoshima, and Shimazu, Japan, Naha, Okinawa, Hong Kong, Subic Bay in the Philippines, and Buckner Bay, Okinawa. After touching at Pearl Harbor, she arrived at San Diego on 3 May 1960. From 25 July to 1 November, the ship was overhauled at the Todd Shipyard, Seattle, Wash.; and, from 14 November to 9 December, she went through refresher training.

1961–1964
The ship began 1961 with amphibious refresher training at San Diego and devoted most of the first half of the year to training and gunnery exercises, Naval Reserve training cruises and "Operation Greenlight Phase III". On 17 June, she got underway for another WestPac deployment. Upon her arrival at Subic Bay, Alamo joined the 7th Fleet's Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and shuttled Marine Corps units to Buckner Bay. She took part in "Operation Warm-Up" off the northwest coast of Okinawa from 13 to 20 October. A visit to Hong Kong followed before the ship returned to Subic Bay and began preparations for her voyage back to the United States. She got underway early in December and arrived at NS San Diego on 16 December.

Alamo remained there until 6 March 1962, when she got underway for San Francisco and the Todd Shipyard for her first interim overhaul. Six weeks later, she returned to San Diego. Local operations occupied her until 16 October when she got underway for the Far East with Amphibious Squadron 3. En route, several ships of the squadron were diverted to the Caribbean in response to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Alamo was held in Hawaii on a standby basis. On 17 November, she sailed for typhoon-stricken Guam with emergency supplies. After a two-day stop in Guam to unload supplies, the vessel proceeded to Subic Bay. Local operations off San Miguel were held before the ship sailed to Hong Kong for the Christmas holidays.

The ship visited Manila during the New Year's holiday in 1963 then returned to Subic Bay. In January, she took part in Operation Jungle Drum II in Thailand and then spent two days in Bangkok. Her next assignment took her to the flood-stricken island of Mindanao in the Philippines. The month of March was taken up by Operation Silver Blade off Taiwan. After three weeks of restricted availability at Subic Bay, Alamo sailed on 20 April for Yokosuka. The ship finally reached San Diego on 11 May. Following a period of upkeep and training, she got underway for four weeks of operations in the Pacific Northwest with units of Amphibious Squadron 7 and Army Reserve units. Visits to Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, preceded her return to San Diego on 6 September. In mid-September, the ship entered the Bethlehem Steel Co. shipyard, Long Beach, California, to begin an overhaul which was completed barely in time for her to get back home for the Christmas holidays.

A period of upkeep and refresher training kept the crew busy through March 1964. In April, Alamo proceeded north to assist the earthquake-stricken region around Kodiak, Alaska. She returned to San Diego in May and took part in Operation Pine Tree. Then, after several weeks of preparations, Alamo departed San Diego on 18 June, bound for the Far East. Upon reaching Pearl Harbor, she was involved in Operation Tool Box and had a period of leave and upkeep before sailing for Okinawa on 9 July. Alamo returned to Subic Bay on the last day of July. On 5 August, she sailed with Marine Corps Battalion Landing Team 3/1 (BLT 3/1) embarked for patrol duties off the coast of South Vietnam and, through most of the autumn, alternated periods of leave and upkeep at Hong Kong and Subic Bay with Vietnamese patrol duty through 2 December. The ship arrived back in San Diego on 18 December 1964.

1965–1969
Participation in Operation Silver Lance off the coast of southern California lasted from 23 February through 10 March 1965. On 11 March, Alamo was called upon to make an unscheduled run to Yokosuka carrying men and equipment for the American military buildup in the Far East as the United States was beginning direct participation in operations in Vietnam. She returned to San Diego on 12 April. The ship made a second unscheduled deployment to WestPac on 25 May. She sailed to Okinawa, onloaded Marines, then landed them at Qui Nhon and Danang, Vietnam. Alamo touched briefly at Yokosuka, then headed back to San Diego. She took part in Operations Cleansweep and Ragweed during September, devoted most of the autumn to training exercises, and ended the year in port at NS San Diego.

In February 1966, the ship began her seventh major deployment to Westpac. Alamo spent six months operating as a part of an amphibious ready group (ARG) and shuttled troops and equipment from Subic Bay and Okinawa to various points in Vietnam. She returned to the United States in August. In September, her home port was switched to Naval Station Long Beach, California, and she was assigned to the newly formed Amphibious Squadron 7.

In early 1967, she entered drydock at the Todd Shipyard in San Pedro, California, for her third major overhaul which, with the ensuing series of refresher training exercises, accounted for most of the year. In November, the ship sailed for the Far East. There, Alamo was engaged in a series of lifts from Guam and the Philippines to Da Nang. She also again became a member of an ARG and operated along the Vietnamese coast for much of her tour. The ship also participated in four amphibious operations before returning to Long Beach in June 1968.

The ship engaged in local operations along the West Coast for the rest of 1968. On 30 January 1969, she began another WestPac deployment in which she lifted troops and equipment to Da Nang and then proceeded to Subic Bay where she joined ARG "Bravo." The ship also took part in three amphibious operations off the coast of South Vietnam. After eight months away from home Alamo returned to Long Beach on 26 September 1969. The ship then engaged in a series of training exercises and operations for the remainder of the year.

1970–1974
Alamo opened 1970 at San Pedro, California, undergoing a restricted availability during which repairs were made to damaged deck plating, cranes, and a boiler. Work was completed on 19 January, and the ship made final preparations for more service in Oriental waters. On 31 January, she sailed with USS Denver (LPD-9) to participate in Operation Keystone Bluejay, which involved the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam. Alamo sailed into Danang harbor on 19 February and began loading Marines and equipment for transportation back to the United States. Alamo debarked the Marines at Camp Pendleton, California, on 14 March and then steamed north to Long Beach. She spent the next four and one-half months in training exercises, refresher training, and availability. On 1 August, Alamo headed out to sea on her 10th WestPac deployment. She stopped at Pearl Harbor and Guam before reaching Subic Bay on 20 August. There, she unloaded her cargo and sailed on 21 August for Danang to bring more Marines back to the United States. Alamo reached Camp Pendleton on 11 September. After 10 days of leave and upkeep she got underway for Danang. Alamo also visited Yokosuka Tokyo, and Subic Bay. She transported landing craft along the Vietnamese coast between such points as Danang, Vung Tau, Song Bo De and An Thoi. In early December, the ship took on board BLT 2/4 for participation in Exercise GRR-1 in Subic Bay. Upon finishing that exercise, she sailed to Hong Kong for Christmas. On 28 December 1970, she returned to the Danang operating area.

The vessel steamed to Mindoro, Philippines, on 5 January 1971 for amphibious operations and moved on to Subic Bay on 10 January to onload equipment to ship to Vietnam. After briefly touching back at Subic Bay, Alamo left Danang to onload Marines and vehicles as part of the general American troop withdrawal. On 1 February, she got underway to return to NS Long Beach and reached home port on 22 February. A leave and upkeep period ensued.

Operations resumed on 5 April as Alamo sailed for southern California waters to hold a midshipman training cruise and amphibious exercises. In early May, Alamo unloaded her ammunition at the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station in preparation for an overhaul at NS Long Beach. The ship entered drydock on 13 May. Yard work was completed on 15 September, and then began a period of refresher training which lasted through 10 December.

The year 1972 began with the ship in upkeep. Then a series of training exercises in preparation for deployment followed. Prior to her departure, the crew adopted an Irish Setter puppy as the ship's mascot---Lady. In April, Alamo left Long Beach for the Far East. In company with the Amphibious Readiness Group arrived at the beginning of the North Vietnamese Easter Offensive. During her seven and one-half-month WestPac tour, she made numerous troop and equipment lifts to and from Vietnam. During this tour, the ship was attached to Amphibious Squadron 7. Alamo participated in the Second Battle of Quảng Trị, involving the sea and air landing of Republic of Vietnam Marine Corps troops near Quang Tri City in June 1972. She was the Primary Control Ship for an amphibious feint with LVTs and Army of the Republic of Vietnam forces to draw off pressure to the south. Alamo also was a primary control ship for the rescue efforts for flooding victims in Dagupan, Lingyan Gulf, Philippines in July 1972. A Marine CH-53 crashed in the town as it flaired for a landing. The pilot had not accounted for the extra weight of its armor. The assigned ACU-1 LCMS-8s brought out the demolished aircraft. The ship was awarded the Philippine Presidential Unit Citation. Following an offload of Marines in Okinawa she maneuvered south to evade Super Typhoon Rita. In a very unusual and unexpected move, Rita looped around Okinawa and caught her and USS Juneau (LPD-10) in high sea and winds. She ballasted down and endured heavy seas with blue water cresting over her bridge. It was also during this deployment that a steering gear failure caused her to collided (port-side to) with an oiler, USS Guadalupe(AO-32),during underway replenishment. Alamo's commanding officer exhibited exemplary seamanship as the ships were entangled in the refueling gear. Following completion of these duties, she got underway and returned to Long Beach on 8 November. Upon arrival the ship's 1MC broadcast the Lone Ranger theme to the delight of the dependents awaiting her return.

The ship remained in upkeep through 27 March 1973. On 28 March, she moved to the Weapons Depot at Seal Beach to unload ammunition. She entered the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard at San Pedro, California on 5 April for a restricted availability. This period ended on 15 May, when Alamo held sea trials along the California coast. She commenced an availability at San Diego on 28 May to convert the fuel system from Navy standard fuel oil to distillate fuel. This work was completed on 14 September, and the ship sailed to Hunters Point Naval Shipyard on 16 September to begin a week of training. She returned to Long Beach on 24 September. Alamo held amphibious refresher training off Coronado, California, through 12 November, and remained at Long Beach through the end of the year.

The first three weeks of 1974 were spent making final preparations for another WestPac deployment which began on 19 January. Eight days later, Alamo took part in a Marine Corps landing exercise off Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. She reached Okinawa on Valentine's Day. After refueling and onloading Battalion Landing Team 2/9 (BLT 2/9) she sailed to Numazu, Japan, unloaded the Marines, and pushed on to Yokosuka for a fortnight's restricted availability. Next came port calls at Beppu, Japan, and at Keelung, Taiwan. Alamo's ensuing assignment was an amphibious training exercise off Okinawa which, in turn, was followed by stops at Subic Bay; Chinhae, South Korea; Hong Kong; and Numazu and Yokosuka, Japan. On 30 May, the ship got underway to participate in Exercise Kangaroo I. The assault force gathered in the Coral Sea off the east coast of Australia. On 19 June, she headed for Sydney for a leave period. On 4 July, the ship weighed anchor and sailed home, via Pago Pago, American Samoa, and arrived back at San Diego on 19 July. However her commanding officer was relieved of command in Pearl Harbor following an investigation of unrest exhibited prior to the Australia visit. Local operations, which began for the ship on 23 September, were soon followed by preparations for an overhaul which began at San Diego on 4 December 1974.

1975–1979
Alamo got underway for Long Beach on 27 May 1975 and spent the month of June at her home port in restricted availability. On 2 July, Alamo sailed to Seal Beach to take on ammunition and, on 14 July, began amphibious refresher training off San Diego. She sailed on 4 October for another WestPac cruise. Following her arrival at Pearl Harbor, she took part in an amphibious exercise held in Kaneohe Bay from 12 to 14 October. The next day, the ship continued her journey, bound via Kwajalein for Subic Bay. After a brief stop there on 1 November, Alamo sailed to Sasebo for upkeep. She next transported BLT 2/9 from Numazu to Okinawa, then made a trip to Pusan, South Korea. Her other subsequent ports of call included Sasebo and Kagoshima, Japan; Keelung, Taiwan; Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Singapore; Sattahip, Thailand; and Inchon, Korea. On 7 May, Alamo finally set course for the United States. She reached her new home port of NS San Diego on 25 May and, following upkeep, devoted herself to local operations along the California coast for the rest of 1976.

The year 1977 began with three months of refresher training for the ship. On 29 March, she once again set off for the Far East. During this trip, Alamo visited the now-familiar ports of Iwakuni and Numazu, Japan, Subic Bay, Buckner Bay, Inchon and Pusan, Korea, Hong Kong, and Keelung, Taiwan. She also participated in joint exercises with Korean and Thai naval forces and made numerous troop and supply shuttles before getting underway for home on 23 October. On 17 November, Alamo arrived at San Diego and entered a post-deployment standdown period.

On 19 January 1978, Alamo began a fortnight's operations off the southern California coast and then turned to preparations for an overhaul. On 13 March, Alamo entered the Todd Shipyard in San Pedro. She held sea trials in December and was in port at Long Beach for the Christmas holidays.

She returned to San Diego on 11 January 1979. The vessel sailed to Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach on 22 January to load ammunition and then began a series of training exercises. In June, the ship was assigned to resupply duty and provided small boat repair service at the naval outpost on Eniwetok. The group was involved in a cleanup operation to make the island habitable once again. After finishing her work on 28 June, she got underway for Pearl Harbor. At the end of a short stay there, she resumed her voyage and sailed into San Diego harbor on 15 July. She spent the month of August in restricted availability. In September, Alamo took part in a fleet exercise involving over 30 American and Canadian warships that included an amphibious landing on Vancouver Island, just off the Canadian coast. On 9 October, Alamo sailed to Seattle, where she underwent repair work for three weeks. She returned to San Diego on 2 November. The ship spent the remainder of the year preparing for a scheduled WestPac deployment in early 1980.

1980–1984
Alamo embarked upon the voyage to the Far East on 4 January 1980. En route, she made stops at Pearl Harbor and Guam before arriving at Subic Bay on 10 February. The dock landing ship stayed in the Philippines through the end of the month, getting underway once between 22 and 26 February to carry out an amphibious landing exercise at Zambales. On 1 March, she departed Subic Bay bound ultimately for duty in the Indian Ocean. Along the way, Alamo stopped at Pattaya, Thailand, and at Singapore. She departed Singapore on 15 March and made her way across the Indian Ocean to the Arabian Sea where she joined the contingency force established in response to the takeover of the American embassy in Tehran, Iran. Alamo operated in that area until the beginning of May. At that time the dock landing ship headed for the Navy facility at Diego Garcia Island. After stopping at Diego Garcia from 5 to 13 May, she returned to sea and shaped a course for Western Australia. Following a five-day visit to Perth, the ship departed Australia on her way back to the Philippines. Alamo paid a five-day visit to Subic Bay as well and then began the voyage back to the United States.

The dock landing ship stopped off at Pearl Harbor between 24 and 26 June to disembark Marines and arrived in San Diego on 3 July. Post-deployment standdown occupied her time from then until 11 August when she began normal operations along the West Coast. She remained so engaged through the end of 1980 and for the bulk of the first six months of 1981. On 24 June Alamo stood out of San Diego for another tour of duty with the 7th Fleet. Once again, however, her western Pacific assignment included an Indian Ocean interlude. After a stop at Pearl Harbor and an exercise out of Buckner Bay, Okinawa, she visited Subic Bay for a fortnight in August. On 21 August, Alamo left the Philippines for the east coast of Africa and arrived in Mombasa, Kenya, on 6 September. There, she participated in a bilateral exercise with Kenyan forces before heading back across the Indian Ocean via Diego Garcia to Australia. After visits to Perth and Sydney and the multilateral exercise Exercise Kangaroo 81, the dock landing ship set course for the Philippines on 1 November. She pulled into Subic Bay on 9 November and remained there for the rest of the month. On 30 November, the ship got underway for the United States.

Alamo reentered San Diego again on 23 December and ended the year with the usual leave and upkeep routine. The relative inactivity following a deployment continued through the end of January 1982. In February, the dock landing ship carried out some operations at sea, but, late in the month, began preparations for regular overhaul. The extended repair period began on 12 April, lasted through the end of 1982, and carried over well into 1983. Overhaul ended on 6 May 1983, and Alamo commenced refresher training in the Southern California Operating Area. Late in June, however, damage to her propulsion plant interrupted her training evolutions and caused her to spend the summer tied up to a pier for repairs. Late in September, Alamo resumed operations at sea.

Service along the West Coast, interrupted sporadically by repair problems, continued through the end of the year and into 1984. In February, she began concentrating her efforts on readiness exercises, trials, and examinations specifically geared to preparing the amphibious warship for her scheduled deployment to the Far East. On 30 May 1984, Alamo embarked upon the voyage to the western Pacific. On the first leg of the crossing she participated in multinational defense exercises with units of the navies of Australia, Canada and New Zealand as well as with elements of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. For the most part, those exercises were conducted in the Hawaiian Islands.

On 3 July, Alamo concluded her visit to Hawaii and resumed the voyage to the Orient. En route, further troubles surfaced in the boilers of her main propulsion plant so that, upon her arrival in Subic Bay on 20 July, she commenced another round of repairs. The dock landing ship carried out post-repair trials during the last week in August and finally departed Subic Bay on 24 August. Alamo reached Buckner Bay, Okinawa, on 27 August and began embarking Marines for transportation to Japan. Between 28 August and 16 September, the amphibious warship made two round-trip voyages between Okinawa and Japan carrying Marines to and from training exercises. On 18 September, she stood out of Buckner Bay on her way to Inchon, South Korea. During the period 18 September to 13 October, she made three round-trip voyages between Okinawa and South Korean ports. Upon her return to Okinawa from the third of those assignments, a problem with her stern gate was due to a maneuver consisting of a 90-degree turn with the rear gate down in the water at 15 knots. The force ripped one of the hinges and a hydraulic rod thrust out the back side end causing her to be tied up with repairs until 2 November. At that time she headed back to Korea to participate in the bilateral exercise "Operation Valiant Blitz 85-1" in cooperation with elements of the South Korean Navy and Marine Corps. Following stops at Buckner Bay and Sasebo, Japan, Alamo began the voyage back to the United States at the end of the third week in November. The dock landing ship made the usual call at Pearl Harbor and then reentered San Diego on 6 December.

1985–1990
Post-deployment standdown and holiday routine occupied her time for the rest of 1984 and during the first two weeks of January 1985. Alamo resumed local operations out of her home port late in January. The amphibious warship spent the whole of 1985 conducting exercises, trials, examinations, and inspections either in port in San Diego or in waters adjacent to the west coast. The only break in that schedule came in October when she made a round-trip voyage from the west coast to Hawaii and back for refresher training.

At the beginning of 1986, preparations for her upcoming tour of duty with the 7th Fleet occupied the energies of Alamo's crew. She embarked upon the voyage west on 16 January 1986 and made no stops along the way. The danger of violence during elections in the Philippines even prompted the cancellation of planned exercises at Iwo Jima in order that Alamo and other Navy ships be on station near Manila to render assistance to United States citizens in that eventuality. The threat never really materialized, and she entered Subic Bay on 9 February. Ten days later, the dock landing ship set sail for Hong Kong where she spent the five days from 21 to 26 February. Returning to Subic Bay briefly at the end of the month, Alamo then headed for Okinawa on 2 March. At Okinawa, she embarked troops for a major bilateral amphibious exercise conducted on the South Korean coast. Alamo returned to Okinawa on 1 April but stayed only until 4 April when she got underway for Japan. Following a nine-day call at Sasebo, the dock landing ship returned to Subic Bay on 20 April. From there, she voyaged to Singapore by way of the Indonesian island of Bali. Back in the Philippines by mid-May, Alamo carried out exercises there for the remainder of the month. On 10 June, she headed back to Okinawa. Alamo arrived at her destination on 13 June and spent the next 10 days conducting amphibious exercises at Okinawa.

On 23 June, the dock landing ship put to sea for the passage home. After brief pauses at Iwo Jima and Pearl Harbor, the amphibious warship dropped anchor at Del Mar, California, on 15 July. She moved to San Diego on 16 July and commenced postdeployment standdown. The leave and upkeep period ended during the second week in August, and Alamo started another schedule of amphibious warfare training in waters along the west coast. Those evolutions lasted until 14 October at which time she began a restricted availability at pierside in San Diego. She remained there through the end of 1986.

Rio de Janeiro (G-31)
Alamo was decommissioned 2 November 1990 and loaned the same day to the Brazilian Navy as Rio de Janeiro (G31), being commissioned by the 21st of November. During her tenure with the Brazilian Navy, Rio de Janeiro acted in support of MINUSTAH, transporting Brazilian Army and Marine Corps materiel and personnel between Rio de Janeiro and Port-au-Prince, as well as in several naval exercises.

In 2006, she acted as the flagship to Rear Admiral (Contra-Almirante) Francisco Antônio de Magalhães Laranjeira, commanding officer assigned to the task force responsible for the operation Haiti III leaving Fortaleza towards Haiti. In this maiden voyage to Port-au-Prince, she transported no MINUSTAH materiel, acting solely as a command and control vessel and carrying satellite communications equipment, a group of officers that would be deployed to MINUSTAH, Marine Corps policemen and a detachment of GRUMEC operators responsible for protection of the ships during their stay in port. The task force also involved the landing ship Mattoso Maia, the frigates Niterói and Independência and the tanker Almirante Gastão Motta. The ships left Fortaleza in the 17th of May, arriving at Port-au-Prince in the 30th. The task force left the Caribbean by June 7th, passing by Curaçao, Belém and Maceió on their return trip towards Rio, where they would arrive by the 8th of July.

In her second voyage to Haiti, Rio de Janeiro left her namesake in the 11th of May 2009, during the operation Haiti VII. The materiel she carried included over 70 Army and Marine Corps vehicles such as APCs, backhoes, trucks, jeeps and ambulances, as well as 26 restroom and habitable containers and 5 refrigerated containers, totalling over 700 tons of equipment. The ship would make a stop in Fortaleza by the 17th and 18th of May before arriving in Port-au-Prince in the 29th. During her return trip in early June, she was diverted to the area roughly 600 nautical miles northeast of Natal to participate in the search effort for the wreckage of Air France Flight 447. She would arrive back to Rio de Janeiro in the 2nd of July.

After 22 years of service to the Brazilian Navy, she was decommissioned in the 15th of June 2012, eventually being scrapped in 2014 in Alang.

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Company vanity. Just one line and a hyperlink. --Radiant! 10:42, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC) Request withdrawn. Radiant! 08:17, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. $409 million turnover, $1.4 billion market capitalisation company. I've heard of it and I'm neither American nor in the IT sector, although I do read the New York Times business section on the web. I have expanded it slightly and categorised it. Philip 13:03, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. a Fortune 1000 company.  ALKIVAR ™[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 06:21, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and Expand. Significant company. Capitalistroadster 06:33, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. A significant company.  In business terms and technology terms.  A lot of the Internet backbone runs on equipment manufactured by these guys. --BM 15:23, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. -- AllyUnion (talk) 16:56, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay, point taken. Since consensus seems clear (and the article has been expanded already), can I just withdraw the VFD marker I placed for this article? Or does that require a mod's attention? Radiant! 08:49, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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Moolap, Victoria

Moolap is a residential and industrial suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The name Moolap is derived from an Aboriginal word for nearby Point Henry, moo-laa, thought to mean 'men gathering to go fishing'.

Moolap is located in the City of Greater Geelong. At the 2016 census Moolap had a population of 1,373.

History
Among the first settlers in the area, in the early 1850s, was politician Horatio Wills and his family, including son Tom Wills, star cricketer and founder of Australian rules football.

The first Moolap Post Office opened on 1 May 1864 and closed in 1890. A Point Henry Post Office opened on 1 January 1867 which was replaced by Moolap Railway Station in 1887 and by Moolap in 1893. This latter office closed in 1962. A Geelong East office open since 1871 was renamed Moolap West in 1921 and closed in 1951.

In 1888, Richard Cheetham established his saltworks at Moolap - an industry which survived more than 100 years. The Cheetham Saltworks site, located on Portarlington and Point Henry Roads, is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.

Timeline
Some events in the history of Moolap:

Pre-European Settlement the area inhabited by Bengalat balug (Clan) of the Wathaurong Tribe

First European explorers were Lieutenant John Murray (January 1802) and Captain Matthew Flinders (April 1802)

1803 to 1835 -  William Buckley the first European living in the area

1854 -  Whitehorse Hotel operating on the corner of Queenscliff Road and Whitehorse Road

1855 -  Moolap Inn operating on the corner of Moolap Station Road and Bellarine Highway

1855 -  Parsonage built on a site near the present State School

1858 -  United Methodists Free Church chapel built

1871 -  Moolap State School No. 1143 opened

1882 -  16 occupiers using Moolap address

1888 -  Cheetham Saltworks established

Point Henry
Point Henry is an industrial peninsula of Geelong, located approximately 5 km east of the Geelong central business district. Only one sealed road leads to Point Henry, being Point Henry Road which leaves the Portarlington Road at Moolap and travels to the Alcoa Point Henry aluminium smelter and smaller surrounding industries. A small weather station is also located on the peninsula. Point Henry is named after Henry Reed's boat Henry.

Census population

 * 1921 - 319
 * 1947 - 651
 * 1991 - 565
 * 1996 - 568
 * 2001 - 554

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Simple list of groups througout the country. Maybe change to category? --Radiant! 10:42, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - I see that this page needs a cleanup and an expansion, but I think it is a valid article, and is better as a list because not enough of the individual groups will probably have enough information online to deserve their own articles, and make up a category. But the information I checked was correct... -Erolos 00:27, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, cleanup and expand. Megan1967 01:35, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: If kept, this should be List of Gay Lesbian Bisexual youth groups in Ireland of course. Uncle G 03:28, 2005 Feb 13 (UTC)
 * Keep Spinboy 23:14, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Galeczki

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Galeczki
Vanity. Not really notable physicist. --Radiant! 10:42, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Now listed as copyvio -- Jmabel | Talk 06:53, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, if and when copyvio is cleaned up and article properly named. Megan1967 08:35, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Patiala Aviation Club Workers Union

Patiala Aviation Club Workers Union is a trade union organising workers at the Patiala Aviation Club in Patiala, Punjab, India. PACWU is affiliated to the All India Trade Union Congress. The president of PACWU is Balinder Kumar Sharma. In the period of 1999-2001 PAC workers were not paid salaries for over two years, something that was highlighted by the PACWU.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gay Lesbian Resource centres in Ireland

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Gay_Lesbian_Resource_centres_in_Ireland
Simple list of groups througout the country. Maybe change to category? --Radiant! 10:42, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Since it's a list, I thought it would be better to rename it as a list. I have done so and put it in the Ireland category. Philip 13:07, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - I see that this page needs a cleanup and an expansion, but I think it is a valid article, and is better as a list because not enough of the individual groups will probably have enough information online to deserve their own articles, and make up a category. But the information I checked was correct... -Erolos 00:27, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Spinboy 23:14, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, cleanup and expand. Megan1967 05:28, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Rename to list. GRider\talk 00:56, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Breakwater, Victoria

Breakwater is a residential and industrial suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia, located on the Barwon River, 4 km south-south-east of the Geelong central business district. At the 2016 census Breakwater had a population of 1,014. Breakwater is home to the Geelong Racing Club, Geelong Racecourse and the Geelong Showgrounds.

History
The name Breakwater originated from a rock ford constructed across the Barwon River by Geelong's first Police magistrate, Captain Foster Fyans, in 1837. The ford stopped the inflow of salt water to the fresh water river, supplying the town with fresh river water.

A Post Office opened on 1 January 1867 and closed in 1982.

Land between the industrial area and the river is prone to flooding.

Heritage sites
Breakwater contains a number of heritage listed sites, including:

 * 42 Leather Street, Barwon Sewer Aqueduct
 * Tucker Street, Sunnyside Wool Scour

Census populations
The Census result of given below years

 * 1861 - 136
 * 1871 - 312
 * 1981 - 1,521

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-02-14/Misinformation on Wikipedia

Although the coverage of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake has generally brought a lot of favorable publicity for Wikipedia, an incident last week illustrated instead its potential for spreading misinformation and highlighted the need to cite sources when writing articles.

The furor began with a story in the 31 December 2004 issue of the Washington Post. In that day's issue, reporter Jose Antonio Vargas wrote a piece entitled "Seeking the Hand Of God in the Waters". Near its conclusion, the article contained the following statement: "Following the devastation in Lisbon in 1755, priests roamed the streets, hanging those they believed had incurred God's wrath."

Vargas' article was part of the media coverage following the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, and drawing analogies to a very similar event that hit Lisbon in 1755 fit in quite naturally. It apparently struck a chord, and this particular statement was picked up and repeated in some form by many different sources in the following days.

Concerned Catholic investigates
However, the statement raised the ire of Theresa Carpinelli, host of a Catholic radio show in Canton, Ohio. Questioning this allegation directed against Catholic priests, she tried to track down a source for it and wrote about her efforts in a two-part article (Part One, Part Two) for the portal site Catholic Exchange. Carpinelli concluded that the allegation was unfounded and probably originated with Wikipedia.

The story was picked up last Thursday by John Hinderaker of the Power Line blog. In a post called "Not Even Voltaire Believed This One ", Hinderaker commented on the disputed sentence, "It appears that it may have originated in an unsourced, wholly imaginary Wikipedia entry."

In trying to find the source of Vargas' statement, Carpinelli reported that she conducted a Google search for "1755 Lisbon priests roamed city hanging people". She found a number of sites that had relied on Vargas, along with Wikipedia (in all likelihood, she probably found a mirror, which is still the first hit besides Carpinelli's own article, rather than Wikipedia itself).

On to the Wikipedia article
Carpinelli then went to Wikipedia to investigate it further as a possible source (she did not identify the actual article, but reconstructing her actions makes it clear that it was the 1755 Lisbon earthquake article). She speculated that Vargas came across the article by a Google search himself; as of now, the Wikipedia article is the second hit for "Lisbon earthquake".

In the version that Vargas might have looked at, the article contained a sentence reading, "In the following days, priests roamed the city hanging people suspected of heresy on sight, blaming them for the disaster." The language that "priests roamed", Carpinelli determined, had been in the article since its creation by Viajero in October 2003. Carpinelli said she "requested of Wikipedia that a source be cited for this allegation." This request was initially made 6 January, but placed directly into the article, rather than on the talk page, immediately following the disputed statement.

Upon returning 17 January to discover that no source had been provided, Carpinelli this time found her way to the talk page and raised her objection there. Muriel Gottrop responded, "Dear anon user, if you disagree with the article in some way, you are invited to change it."

However, instead of eliminating the statement from the article, Carpinelli acted on this invitation by expanding considerably on the objections she had earlier placed in the article. She said, "I am simply going to leave it for all to read, that the writer cited no source, because no source exists except within the writer's mind." Ultimately, the allegation was edited out by Sandover on 20 January, who also went back to the article last week and began adding outside references that could support its remaining content.

Both Hinderaker and Carpinelli commented on the failure of the Washington Post to run a correction regarding the statement in its article. This shows, one might say, one of the benefits of the wiki system by comparison; Wikipedia has at least managed to correct its information, albeit more slowly than it might have if Carpinelli had just removed the material from the article herself.

Incidentally, the 1755 Lisbon earthquake article was nominated as a featured article candidate on Sunday, although the nomination has already picked up objections from several people.


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Dida

Dida may refer to:

Football

 * Dida (footballer, born 1934) (1934–2002), born Edvaldo Alves de Santa Rosa, Brazilian forward
 * Dida (footballer, born 1973), born Nélson de Jesus Silva, Brazilian goalkeeper
 * Dida (footballer, born 1979), born Eduardo Gabriel dos Santos Filho, Brazilian rightback
 * Dida (footballer, born 1991), born Ana Lúcia Nascimento dos Santos, Brazilian female goalkeeper

Other sports

 * Dida Diafat (born 1970), French kickboxer
 * Andre Dida (born 1983), born Andre Shervniski Amado, Brazilian mixed martial artist
 * Gemechu Dida (born 1999), Ethiopian long-distance runner

Politics

 * Dida of Eynsham, a 7th-century Mercian King
 * Didda, a queen of Kashmir

Entertainment

 * DiDa Ritz, American drag queen

Other uses

 * Dida language, a Kru language, or two languages, spoken in Côte d'Ivoire
 * DiDA, the Diploma in Digital Applications, a former ICT qualification in the United Kingdom
 * Drug Industry Document Archive, the Drug Industry Document Archive at the University of California, San Francisco, Library
 * "Dida", a song by Joan Baez from her 1974 album Gracias a la Vida
 * Dida (moth), a genus of moths of the family Erebidae

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Giri Bala

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Giri_Bala
Not a notable person. In fact, only one line, that he's mentioned in a book somewhere. --Radiant! 10:42, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable enough. Megan1967 01:36, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Now listed as copyvio -- Jmabel | Talk 06:53, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

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Bunkar Mahasabha

Bunkar Mahasabha is a trade union of weavers in Varanasi, India. Bunkar Mahasabha was formed in 2001. The union is affiliated to the All India Central Council of Trade Unions.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Global literacy project, Inc.

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Global_literacy_project%2C_Inc.
Verbatim copy of a company's mission statement. Not encyclopedic. --Radiant! 10:42, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Copyvio. I've listed it.  Uncle G 03:33, 2005 Feb 13 (UTC)

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X-13ARIMA-SEATS

X-13ARIMA-SEATS, successor to X-12-ARIMA and X-11, is a set of statistical methods for seasonal adjustment and other descriptive analysis of time series data that are implemented in the U.S. Census Bureau's software package. These methods are or have been used by Statistics Canada, Australian Bureau of Statistics, and the statistical offices of many other countries.

X-12-ARIMA can be used together with many statistical packages, such as SAS in its econometric and time series (ETS) package, R in its (seasonal) package, Gretl or EViews which provides a graphical user interface for X-12-ARIMA, and NumXL which avails X-12-ARIMA functionality in Microsoft Excel. There is also a version for MATLAB.

Notable statistical agencies presently using X-12-ARIMA for seasonal adjustment include Statistics Canada, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census and Statistics Department (Hong Kong). The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics uses X-13-ARIMA.

X-12-ARIMA was the successor to X-11-ARIMA; the current version is X-13ARIMA-SEATS.

X-13-ARIMA-SEATS's source code can be found on the Census Bureau's website.

Methods
The default method for seasonal adjustment is based on the X-11 algorithm. It is assumed that the observations in a time series, $$Y_{t}$$, can be decomposed additively,

\begin{align} \textit{Y}_{t} &= {T}_{t} + {S}_{t} + {I}_{t} \end{align} $$

or multiplicatively,

\begin{align} \textit{Y}_{t} &= {T}_{t} \times {S}_{t} \times {I}_{t}. \end{align} $$

In this decomposition, $$T_{t}$$ is the trend (or the "trend cycle" because it also includes cyclical movements such as business cycles) component, $$S_{t}$$ is the seasonal component, and $$I_{t}$$ is the irregular (or random) component. The goal is to estimate each of the three components and then remove the seasonal component from the time series, producing a seasonally adjusted time series.

The decomposition is accomplished through the iterative application of centered moving averages. For an additive decomposition of a monthly time series, for example, the algorithm follows the following pattern:
 * 1) An initial estimate of the trend is obtained by calculating centered moving averages for 13 observations (from $$t-6$$ to $$t+6$$).
 * 2) Subtract the initial estimate of the trend series from the original series, leaving the seasonal and irregular components (SI).
 * 3) Calculate an initial estimate of the seasonal component using a centered moving average of the SI series at seasonal frequencies, such as $$t-24, t-12, t, t+12, t+24$$
 * 4) Calculate an initial seasonally adjusted series by subtracting the initial seasonal component from the original series.
 * 5) Calculate another estimate of the trend using a different set of weights (known as "Henderson weights").
 * 6) Remove the trend again and calculate another estimate of the seasonal factor.
 * 7) Seasonally adjust the series again with the new seasonal factors.
 * 8) Calculate the final trend and irregular components from the seasonally adjusted series.

The method also includes a number of tests, diagnostics and other statistics for evaluating the quality of the seasonal adjustments.

Copyright and conditions
The software is US government work, and those are in the public domain (in the US); for this software copyright has also been granted for other countries; the "User agrees to make a good faith effort to use the Software in a way that does not cause damage, harm, or embarrassment to the United States/Commerce."

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/God's Son

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God%27s_Son
Very short review of a band album. Should instead redirect to that band. Individual album isn't notable, not sure if the band itself is. --Radiant! 10:42, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete POV, article as it stands is un-encyclopaedic. Megan1967 01:39, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep 1) Nas is a single rapper not a "group" 2) the fact that you are unaware of this fact means you shouldnt be VfDing this without at least googling it. 3) album went gold 4) album sub-stub, give it time to become a full album page.   ALKIVAR ™[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 06:17, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Cleanup. Xezbeth  12:43, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Alkivar Kappa 14:37, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, notable album by extremely notable rapper Tuf-Kat 03:46, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and Expand I cleaned up the stub and made the proper corrections. This is a very important, successful, and critically acclaimed album from one of the most important hip hop music performers of the modern era. (I'm sensing a trend/agenda here; I hope I'm wrong). --b. Touch 18:19, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Legitimate subject. deeceevoice 20:10, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and allow for organic growth. GRider\talk 00:57, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Mirah

Mirah (born Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn) is an American musician and songwriter based in Brooklyn, New York. After getting her start in the music scene of Olympia, Washington, in the late 1990s, she released a number of well-received solo albums on K Records, including You Think It's Like This but Really It's Like This (2000) and Advisory Committee (2002). Her 2009 album (a)spera peaked on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart at #46, while her 2011 collaborative album Thao + Mirah peaked at #7.

She has released eleven full-length solo and collaborative recordings, numerous EP's and 7" vinyl records, and has contributed tracks to a wide variety of compilations. Mirah has collaborated with artists such as Phil Elvrum of The Microphones, Tune-Yards, Susie Ibarra, Jherek Bischoff and Thao Nguyen.

Her style encompasses indie pop, acoustic, and experimental pop. According to The Rumpus in 2011, "Mirah's early records...are DIY mini-masterpieces that express a punk sensibility through broken drum machines, reverb-drenched guitars and ukulele. Her more recent albums...are mature, complex and immaculately-produced."

On July 31, 2020, Mirah released a 20 Year Anniversary Reissue of her germinal album, You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This via Double Double Whammy. The double LP reissue includes a remastered version of the record as well as a tribute to the album that features covers by Mount Eerie, Half Waif, Palehound, Shamir, Sad13 (Sadie Dupuis), Allison Crutchfield (of Swearin') and more. The Fader premiered the reissue record and wrote, "the LP established Mirah as one of the smartest and most exciting young artists in America. It also went on to inspire a new generation of indie musicians, drawn in by Mirah’s deft and introspective songwriting..."

Early life, education
Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn was born on September 17, 1974, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the youngest of three children. Her mother is a painter and massage therapist and together with her father ran a small natural foods bakery throughout Mirah's childhood and adolescence. Her father worked delivering Rolling Stone magazine for several years in the late 1970s. Her parents raised the family on macrobiotic foods. Her father was an avid music lover with a large record collection and Mirah developed an early interest in music. As a child, she listened heavily to Motown, 1960s R&B, soul music, and folk music.

Mirah's family moved a number of times between 1974 and 1979, including a stint on a hippie commune near Spencer, West Virginia and several years in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse adjacent to the farm owned by her extended family. The family moved to Bala Cynwyd, a suburb of Philadelphia, in 1979. Her mother's family identifies as Protestant and her father is Jewish. Mirah was raised observing Shabbat and identifies as Jewish.

Mirah took part in a number of anti-nuclear walks during her middle school and high school years, including a 6-week stretch of the 9-month cross country Great Peace March for Global Nuclear Disarmament in 1986 when she was 12. In middle school she developed a love of 1980s pop music and female artists such as Sinéad O'Connor and Cyndi Lauper. By the time she got to college, her music collection had expanded to include a diverse range of artists (Huggy Bear, Cat Stevens, The Pretenders, Nina Simone, etc.).

Start in Olympia (1990s)
After graduating high school early at 16, Mirah spent a year traveling before moving to Olympia, Washington, in 1992 to attend the Evergreen State College. She taught herself guitar and wrote her first song as an assignment for class. While in college she worked at a collectively run vegetarian campus café with Kimya Dawson, who later became her label-mate at K Records.

She was a member of the short-lived all-female Olympia band The Drivers with Molly Burgdorf and Sarah Reed. For a short stint she sang with a swing band and occasionally contributed vocals to an early incarnation of Old Time Relijun. She was briefly the drummer for The Chosen, a Jewish heavy metal duo. In 1996 she began developing her own musical style, composing lo-fi indie pop with vocals and acoustic guitar. Her early style drew comparisons to Liz Phair, and she soon began performing around Olympia under the one-name moniker Mirah.

Mirah was involved with a number of "secret cafes" in Olympia, including The Red Horse Cafe which she and her roommate Ariana Jacob ran out of their one bedroom apartment. The Red Horse Cafe served a different menu every Sunday for a year and a half in 1998/1999. The Red Horse Cafe appears in the documentary short 9 Weeks. She was also involved with several large scale theatrical productions including The Transfused, a 2000 rock opera written by Nomy Lamm and The Need.

Though surrounded by the local riot grrrl movement of the 1990s, Mirah didn't explicitly associate herself with the genre.

After graduating from the Evergreen State College in 1996, she began experimenting on her 4-track recorder with sounds that would be used on her debut album. Her first EP Storageland was released on Yoyo Recordings in 1997 and received a positive review in Allmusic. The 6 song one sided 12" featured an etching on the B side by artist Nikki McClure. According to Laura Leebove in Venus Zine, listeners were "drawn to the unpolished sound...with its sometimes muffled vocals, raw guitars, and background-noise cracklings." In 1999 she self-released a second EP titled Parts of Human Desire. The bulk of her first records were recorded at the Dub Narcotic studio space in Olympia Washington.

Olympia musician Phil Elvrum soon invited her to contribute guitar and vocals to his psychedelic pop group The Microphones, and she performs on many Microphones recordings including Don't Wake Me Up (1999) and Window (2000). She later toured extensively with The Microphones across the US and Canada. According to  The Rumpus, Mirah "was part of the K Records renaissance [of the late '90s] along with bands like The Microphones, The Blow and Old Time Relijun – all highly distinct, idiosyncratic groups with Calvin Johnson's influence perhaps manifesting in the form of a primitivist or intentionally naïve approach."

Early albums (2000–2005)
Mirah joined the Olympia-based label K Records in 1999. Her full-length debut and first album on the label, You Think It's Like This but Really It's Like This, was released on June 6, 2000. Produced by Mirah and Phil Elvrum, it scored 4/5 stars from AllMusic, who called it "a masterpiece of lo-fi beauty" and praised "Mirah's wistful voice and intimately personal lyrics."
 * You Think It's Like This but Really It's Like This (2000)

Small Sale EP is a 2001 album by Mirah released on Modern Radio Records. Songs were recorded from 1999 to 2001 at Mirah's house and the recording studio Dub Narcotic, all while Mirah was still touring for her previous album. It was positively received by Allmusic, who compared Mirah's vocals to Lucinda Williams and called her voice "intoxicatingly endearing, as are the electronic beats and textures she uses as deftly as she does a ukulele or acoustic guitar."
 * Small Sale EP (2001)

Mirah's second full-length album was recorded over a one-year period, starting on September 17, 2000, and ending on July 4, 2001, and was produced by both Mirah and Phil Elvrum. Advisory Committee was released on K Records on March 19, 2002, and was well-received, earning an Allmusic score of 4.5/5 and a Pitchfork Media score of 8.3/10, who praised the maturity of her voice and lyrics.
 * Advisory Committee (2002)

Mirah's Cold Cold Water EP was released on March 19, 2002, on K Records. It received a positive review in Pitchfork, who praised the title track, stating "the song is deadly serious, dark, and full of the kind of not-so vague sexual innuendos we've come to expect from Mirah. Then, Phil Elvrum's panoramic, Morricone-esque production technique explodes onto the soundstage." Pitchfork called the other three tracks "admirable bedroom folk."
 * Cold Cold Water EP (2002)

Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project is a collaboration between Mirah and Ginger Brooks Takahashi. It was written by Mirah and Takahashi in a secluded house in the Blue Ridge Mountains in 2002, and recorded using a Tascam four-track and a mini-disc recorder. According to Allmusic, "the chirping birds, lonesome train whistles, and buzzing insects that pop up throughout [the album] make it feel like a collection of audio postcards from Takahashi and Mirah's vacation." K Records released the album on August 19, 2003.
 * Songs from the Black Mountain Music Project (2003)

After living in Washington state for about ten years, Mirah moved to Portland, Oregon around early 2004.

Performed by Mirah and the Black Cat Orchestra, To All We Stretch the Open Arm is a collection of political songs by a variety of songwriters. Songs include covers of artists such as Fausto Amodei, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Kurt Weill, Bertholt Brecht, Horacio Guarany, and Stephen Foster, and several original songs by Mirah as well. Recorded in Seattle in early 2003, it was released on Yoyo Records in 2004 to a positive review in Allmusic and a mixed review from Pitchfork. According to Allmusic, "While the album certainly addresses war and oppression with an appropriately somber tone, To All We Stretch the Open Arm doesn't lose sight of how important passion and wit are to any good protest."
 * To All We Stretch the Open Arm (2004)

C'mon Miracle is Mirah's third full-length solo album. Several of the songs on C'mon Miracle reflect her experience visiting South America, specifically Buenos Aires, Argentina. The two songs recorded in Buenos Aires were co-produced with Mirah's long-time collaborator Bryce Kasson, also known as Bryce Panic. The rest of the tracks were co-produced with Phil Elvrum. The album was released on K Records on May 4, 2004, to a positive reception, earning "Best New Music" and a 8.5/10 rating from Pitchfork.
 * C'mon Miracle (2004)

She released a music video for the C'mon Miracle single "Don't Die in Me," which was created by Tara Jane O'Neil and Kristina Davies and features animated drawings and paintings by O'Neil.

Collaborations (2006–2008)
Joyride: Remixes is a double CD containing remixes of Mirah's material by K Records artists, such as Guy Sigsworth, Anna Oxygen, Tender Forever, Yacht, Mount Eerie, Khaela Maricich, Lucky Dragons and Electrosexual. Released by K Records on November 21, 2006, the album was positively received, scoring 3.5/5 from Allmusic and 3/5 from Tiny Mix Tapes.
 * Joyride: Remixes, 2006

Mirah's music is featured in the 2006 documentary, Young, Jewish, and Left. Around 2006 she began working with Portland-based musician Tara Jane O'Neil, with O'Neil joining Mirah's live band and co-headlining a tour to Europe. Mirah played at the Sasquatch Festival in the summer of 2007.

Released on K Records on August 7, 2007, Share This Place: Stories and Observations is a collaborative album between Mirah and Spectratone International (Lori Goldston and Kyle Hanson, formerly of the Black Cat Orchestra). The subject matter revolves around the lives of insects, and the album was inspired by the writing of 19th century entomologist and poet J. Henri Fabre, as well as The Insect Play by Karel Čapek. Stop motion films by Britta Johnson were also a part of the project. According to Allmusic, "[the songs] are intricate and beautifully made, giving a larger scale to the big events in these tiny lives – birth, death, mating, eating, sacrifice, survival – while keeping the details that make them fascinating." As of September 2008 she was touring and performing with Spectratone International, playing a string of gigs on the west coast.
 * Share This Place: Stories and Observations

In 2008, she had an essay published in the book Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls.

The Old Days Feeling is a collection of out-of-print, reissued, and unreleased songs by Mirah, featuring collaborative work by Phil Elvrum and Calvin Johnson of K Records. In the genre of indie rock and recorded in a lo-fi style, it was released on Modern Radio Records on July 15, 2008, to a positive reception. Pitchfork Media gave it a score of 7.5/10, while Tiny Mix Tapes gave it 3.5/5.
 *  The Old Days Feeling, singles

In July 2008 her song "The Garden" was featured in the TV show So You Think You Can Dance. The song, which had been previously released on her 2002 album Advisory Committee, also charted at #45 on the US Top Heatseekers song chart, reaching #31 on the same chart in Canada.

Live performances, touring
Between 1998 and 2009 she toured extensively, mostly in the US and Canada with smaller stints in Europe and Japan, all within a network of underground and DIY spaces and promoters. These shows would happen at house parties, all-ages spaces and small clubs. She performed at Ladyfest in Seattle, Philadelphia, London, and Amsterdam, as well as at several Yoyo A Go Go festivals. In 2009 she started working with the Billions booking agency.

Recent releases (2009–present)
(a)spera, the title of Mirah's fourth full-length studio album, released on March 10, 2009, is a play on the Latin words for hope and difficulty. It was her first solo album after a four-year hiatus spent working on collaborations and remixes of previous albums. As with many of her previous releases it was co-produced by Phil Elverum and released on K Records. She also worked with Grammy-nominated producer Tucker Martine on 4 of the tracks.
 * (a)spera, touring (2009)

The album peaked on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart at #46, and received largely positive reviews. PopMatters praised Elverum's production, stating, "The musical marriage of Mirah and Elverum is one of those rare perfect meeting of the minds—Jay-Z and Kanye, Butch Vig and Kurt Cobain...through the intelligent production of Elvrum...she is able to set her thoughts upon soaring mountains of musical genius."

As of May 2009 she had toured both the US and Europe in support of the album, and she moved to San Francisco in November of that year. Her 2010 music video for "The Forest" (from (a)spera) was directed by Lauryn Siegel and has choreography by Faye Driscoll and photographed by Ava Berkofsky.

In early 2010, after performing with singer-songwriter Thao Nguyen at the Noise Pop Festival in San Francisco, the two announced a 2010 North American tour, billed under the name Thao and Mirah with the Most of All. They performed a collaborative set and shared vocal duties on each artist's respective songs. They subsequently recorded a full-length album of original material called Thao + Mirah. Produced by musician Merrill Garbus of the band Tune-Yards, the album was released by Kill Rock Stars on April 26, 2011. It was well received by music critics;  according to Pitchfork, "everything on Thao & Mirah feels of a cohesive collaborative piece, separate from either artist's solo work, a combination that synthesizes their individual strengths to outstanding effect."
 * Thao + Mirah (2010)

The two toured in support of the album while working with Air Traffic Control, an organization that provides artists a platform for social activism.

She released a solo EP Don't/The Tears That Fall EP in 2010 as a vinyl single on Mississippi Records. Also in 2010 her track "Engine Heart" off You Think It's Like This but Really It's Like This was used in the soundtrack for the romantic comedy Love & Other Drugs. In October 2011 her song "Special Death" was featured in the TV show American Horror Story.
 * 2010–present

Her 2011 release of the digital single "Low Self Control" was produced by Christopher Doulgeris and the accompanying video was by Doulgeris and Aubree Bernier-Clarke.

She began living part-time in Brooklyn in October 2012, moving there full-time in the fall of 2013.

Mirah co-wrote a song called "The Nest" which appeared on Jherek Bischoff's 2012 album Composed, and she has performed that song and others with various ensembles in Seattle and New York City, including The Wordless Music Orchestra and Contemporaneous. Mirah and Bischoff first performed "The Nest" (and several of Mirah's songs which Bischoff arranged for orchestra) live at the 2012 Ecstatic Music Festival in NYC with notable vocalists including David Byrne, and again at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn in 2014.

As part of the "Portland's Indies" series, she had a 2013 performance with the Oregon Symphony. She also wrote a piece collaboratively with percussionist and composer Susie Ibarra, which they debuted at the 2014 Ecstatic Music Festival (NYC). The opera piece is titled "We Float," and according to the Kaufman Music Center, is about "exploring the substance and ethereality of spacewalks, sound and the human experience."

Changing Light, was released on May 13, 2014. Changing Light features guest appearances by Mary Timony, Deerhoof's Greg Saunier, Jherek Bischoff, Emily Wells and Heather McEntire. Bischoff wrote the string arrangements for many of the tracks. Changing Light was released on Mirah's imprint, Absolute Magnitude Recordings, in collaboration with K Records.
 * Changing Light (2014)

Glide Magazine gave it 9/10 stars, stating the album "covers a lot of earthly ground, from animals to nature and seasons...Light deals with being in transition on deep levels, confronting mortality in fascinating ways." The review described her vocals as "gauzy, but never thin, and this time around she sounds a bit world-wearier. But it works for her, adding a smoky sultriness, and subtle imperfections that make each song rawer because of it."

Sundial EP (2017)

Mirah's project, Sundial EP, was released on October 6, 2017, on her imprint label Absolute Magnitude Recordings. In another beautiful collaboration with Jherek Bischoff, the Sundial EP reworks six songs from Mirah's back catalogue with the addition of the EP's title track ''Sundial. "Both airy and thoughtful, "Sundial" stretches heavenward with rising strings and Mirah's voice at its most ethereal as it describes a cluster of ancient beings watching from everywhere in the universe at once—stars, urging the people on their orbiting planets to make their own happiness"''

Understanding (2018)

On September 7, 2018, Mirah released her 2nd full-length album on her imprint label Absolute Magnitude Recordings, "Understanding". The 10-track record stems from demos recorded during Mirah's time in residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Northern California. Mirah returned to New York and fleshed out the rest of the album with frequent collaborators Greg Saunier (of Deerhoof) and Eli Crews (Tune Yards, Julie Ruin). Mirah released four singles to accompany the album - "Hot Hot", "Information", "Lighthouse", and "Ordinary Day". She also released a music video for "Lake/Ocean", which follows Mirah on her journey through the Alaskan Inside Passage, confronting her fear of water and darkness. The album's first track, Counting, is featured on the TV show Veronica Mars.

All Music calls it "a commanding and confident collection of songs that blends the confessional with the celebratory. Much more shimmering and robust than earlier lo-fi albums...Understanding doesn't shy away from layered vocals, synthesizer flourishes, and big crescendos." NPR included Understanding on its list of 'Eight Albums You Should Hear Now" on its release day.

You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This: 20 Year Anniversary Reissue (2020)

On July 31, 2020, Mirah released a deluxe reissue version of her seminal LP, You Think It's Like This But Really It's Like This, via Double Double Whammy. The original record was remastered by Josh Bonati and the double LP includes a full tribute album featuring more than twenty contributing artists. Many of the artists have been longtime collaborators of Mirah's, such as Mount Eerie and The Blow, and many newer artists inspired by Mirah's catalog, including Half Waif, Shamir, Palehound, Mal Blum and more.

Style, equipment
As a vocalist, songwriter, and experimental pop recording artist, Mirah typically works independently while songwriting, though frequently collaborates as a recording artist. In 2007, she began writing collaboratively for the first time with Spectratone International.

According to The Rumpus in 2011, "Mirah's early records...are DIY mini-masterpieces that express a punk sensibility through broken drum machines, reverb-drenched guitars and ukulele, singing with frank sexuality in an occasionally child-like voice. Her more recent albums...are mature, complex and immaculately-produced."

She primarily plays guitar and also has guest musicians accompany her live and on records. According to Mirah in 2008, "I play the same guitar as I did when I first started out. I only own two guitars, my Gibson and a little acoustic...So for me, the simpler the better onstage. Just me and my guitar, and sometimes just me and my voice, my favorite instrument."

Mirah's ever-evolving live band has included friends and artists such as Bryce Kasson, Tara Jane O'Neil, Rachel Blumberg, Melanie Valera, Alex Guy, Andrew Maguire, Lisa Schonberg, Lori Goldston, Emily Kingan (Lovers), Christopher Doulgeris, Maia MacDonald and many others.

Personal life
As of 2014 Mirah is based in Brooklyn, New York. Her older sister is Emily Ana Zeitlyn of The Weeds and Divers. Her partner is film-maker Todd Chandler. On September 5, 2018, she announced that she and her partner were pregnant with their first child. Mirah has been out as queer throughout her professional career.

Mirah identifies as Jewish. Her "most Jewish" song is "Jerusalem", originally written for a Hanukkah compilation album. The song criticizes Israel's treatment of Palestinians. In addition to the song "Jerusalem", she has criticized Israel in interviews and social media. She has stated: "the violence that’s perpetrated against Palestinians—the whole situation is just like, how could we do that?"

Publishing history

 * 2008: Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls – essay included

Filmography

 * 2005: Burn to Shine DVD

Scores, orchestral pieces

 * 2014: We Float (opera co-written with Susie Ibarra)

Compilations, soundtracks

 * Compilations
 * 1994: TESC Student Compilation – track "Carve in It" by The Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn Band
 * 1996/7: TESC Student Compilation – track "Lucky Little Shark" by Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn
 * 1997: Overboard (comp by Yoyo Records) – track "Letter" by The Drivers
 * 1997: Go Olympia by Nikki McClure (cass comp.) – track "Tumwater Falls"
 * 1997: Chez Vous (K Records, produced by Jen Smith) – track "Lucky Little Shark"
 * 1997: Shmompilation (cass comp.) – tracks "I'm My Own Best Friend" and "Aftermath"
 * 1999: Projector (studio compilation) – track "Precious Little Rocket"
 * 1999: Hootenholler (LoveTapeLove in Santa Cruz, cass comp.) – track "Get It?" as well as "Who Among the Mighty Can Compare to You?" by The Chosen
 * 1999: Olympia Talent Show (CD comp.) – cover of Yoko Ono's "Yes I'm Your Angel"
 * 1999: YoYo a GoGo 1999 (CD comp, Yoyo Records) – track "Engine Heart"
 * 1999: Lullaby Lullaby (Eighty North Records) – track "Special Death"
 * 2000: Secret Home Party 7" (Little Pad Records, Japan) – track "Location Temporary"
 * 2001: Breakout (Dead Turtle Recordings, cass comp.) – track "I'm Alive"
 * 2002: One year later...It Still Hurts/Queers Against the G8 (Speed Demon Queer Zine) – track "Monument"
 * 2004: Hidden Songs, a Green UFOs 10th Anniversary Compilation – track "Dogs of BA"
 * 2005: "The Vibration Split" with Emilyn Brodsky (Third Story Records, 7") – track "Out Riding"
 * 2005: Pressing Sounds compilation – track "The Life You Love"
 * 2005: PDX Pop Now compilation – track "While We Have the Su"n (4-track home version)
 * 2009: This Is a Care Package (benefit comp for H.I.P.S., or Helping Individual Prostitutes Survive) – track "While We Have the Sun"
 * 2010: Subterranean Homesick Blues: A Tribute to Bob Dylan's 'Bringing It All Back Home – version of "Love Minus Zero"
 * 2016: 30 Days, 30 Songs - track "No Guns No Guns"

 * Soundtracks
 * 2010: Group soundtrack (film w/Carrie Brownstein and Nomy Lamm, Yoyo Recordings) – track "Sweepstakes Prize"

Performance credits

 * 1999: Don't Wake Me Up by The Microphones – vocals, guitar
 * 2000: Window by The Microphones – vocals, guitar
 * Sick of Recorder by Tokyo – Japanese vocals on track "Cold Cold Winter"

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Jackson National Life

Jackson National Life Insurance Company (often referred to as simply Jackson) is a U.S. company that provides annuities for retail investors and fixed income products for institutional investors. Jackson subsidiaries and affiliates provide specialized asset management and retail brokerage services. Prior to being spun off in 2021, Jackson was a subsidiary of the British insurer, Prudential plc, which acquired the company for $608 million in 1986. The company is unrelated to the American insurance conglomerate, Prudential Financial.

Founded in 1961, Jackson is headquartered in Alaiedon Township, Lansing, Michigan.

History
Jackson was named after Andrew Jackson, the seventh President of the United States. Jackson was founded in 1961 in Jackson, Michigan, and moved to its headquarters in Lansing, Michigan in 1976. In the early years, the company focused on offering term insurance to individuals as an alternative to whole life products. Jackson was an early adopter of the independent distribution model, eliminating its captive agency sales force in 1970 to sell products through independent agents. By 1984, Jackson had grown to $1 billion in assets. The company's growth attracted the attention of Prudential plc, which acquired Jackson in 1986.

In 1995, the company launched its first variable annuity and began selling guaranteed investment contracts and funding agreements through its Institutional Products Department. In 1996, Jackson introduced its first fixed index annuity (FIA).

In March 2003, Jackson entered the registered investment adviser channel with the launch of Curian Capital LLC. Jackson's acquisitions of Life Insurance Company of Georgia in 2005 and SRLC America Holding Corp. (SRLC) in 2012 each added 1.5 million in-force life insurance and annuity policies to Jackson's books.

Prudential announced on 28 January 2021 its intention to demerge Jackson, resulting in two separately listed companies. Prudential shareholders as of 2 September 2021, were entitled to receive one share of Jackson’s Class A common stock for every 40 Prudential ordinary shares held on that date. Since the spinoff the Jackson shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “JXN”.

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Bengal Chatkal Mazdoor Federation

Bengal Chatkal Mazdoor Federation is a trade union of jute mill workers in West Bengal, India. The union is affiliated to the All India Central Council of Trade Unions.

title: Bengal Chatkal Mazdoor Federation


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Greatest Love Songs vol. 666

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Greatest_Love_Songs_vol._666
Tracklist of an album. Not encyclopedic. --Radiant! 10:42, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * keep. This is one of thousands of album articles, including five by this act, which has apparently topped the German charts. It's hard to see why it should be singled out for deletion. Philip 12:45, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Wasn't singled out as such, I just happened to come across it from the Dead End Pages. If not deleted, it should be marked as stub. --Radiant! 13:13, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, article as it stands is un-encyclopaedic. Megan1967 01:46, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * You are either saying that album articles are unencyclopaedic, in which case you have thousands of vfd nominations to get through, or you are voting for it to be deleted because it is a stub, which is not a valid reason. Philip 04:29, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm sure user BM can help me get through a few thousand of them. Megan1967 09:02, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, or could be merged. Kappa 05:08, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep although I HATE HATE HATE this group its a valid album stub and should be kept.  ALKIVAR ™[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 06:15, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete this and almost every other album article. Wyss 12:23, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I am wondering why only a few album articles out of thousands were put on VfD. Xezbeth  12:45, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Because they were listed on Dead End Pages, and had only a track list rather than more information on the album. Radiant! 08:17, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep notable album by notable band. Tuf-Kat 03:48, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Grandes Éxitos (Shakira)

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Grandes_%C9xitos_%28Shakira%29
Tracklist of an album. Not encyclopedic. --Radiant! 10:42, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, cleanup and expand. Megan1967 01:41, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Article cleaned up and expanded. Megan1967 05:17, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Well done to the person who cleaned up this article. Keep. Capitalistroadster 05:49, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep a concise album page without going fancrufty, should be kept.  ALKIVAR ™[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 06:18, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, album. Xezbeth  12:42, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Tuf-Kat 03:48, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)

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Clifton Springs, Victoria

Clifton Springs is a coastal town located on the Bellarine Peninsula, near Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

History
In December 1870 a report was published regarding the discovery of mineral springs on "Clifton", the property of Thomas Bates (Jnr). The medicinal value of the waters was submitted to rigid chemical examination, and summarised as containing magnesia, seltzer, sulphur, soda and iron.

In about 1871, Bates leased the land adjacent to the Springs to Mr. Levien, a large landholder at nearby Murradoc, who created a pleasure ground, and Clifton Springs boomed. A pier was built, along with salt water and sulphur baths. Steamers ran excursions from Geelong and other places, and regular coach services were provided by Cobb & Co. from nearby Portarlington and Drysdale. Other buildings, including a boiler house, mineral water bottling plant, kiosk, and manager's cottage were built in the vicinity of what became known as "Fairy Dell".

A well-appointed hotel was constructed above the Springs. It was destroyed by fire in 1921, and a second one was built in 1926, which was remodelled as the Clifton Springs Country Club in about 1957, as part of a real estate development, and became the Clifton Springs Community Centre in 1977 when the building was purchased by the then Shire of Bellarine.

A Clifton Springs Post Office was open from 1902 until 1921, and from 1927 until 1932. Fairy Dell Post Office opened on 1 July 1916 and closed in 1971.

The springs area, located around Fairy Dell, was closed due to possible landslides, but was re-opened in 2007 after extensive work to repair the area.

The former Mineral Springs site on Spring Street is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.

Town overview
Clifton Springs, often grouped with its neighbouring town, Drysdale, overlooks Corio Bay, the You Yangs and Geelong. This combined urban area had an estimated population of 13,494 at June 2016. The area has undergone significant changes over the past decade, with new housing developments on the north side of the town.

In the early 1960s, as part of a large real estate development in Clifton Springs, which they dubbed "Clifton Springs and Country Club Estate", real estate agents Willmore and Randell erected a striking entrance structure in Bayshore Avenue. The structure included a fountain, which eventually passed to the control of the Greater Geelong Council. The fountain has degraded over time, and in late 2006 it was emptied until further notice, due to water restrictions.

In 2013 a Clifton Springs fountain working group reported that locals wanted something done about the fountain's gradual deterioration. They felt it has been neglected for too long and were concerned that it was becoming an eyesore. A public meeting on 12 March expressed general support for renovating the structure, using an enclosed, non-evaporative system which would use much less water. The renovation should include symbols of the area’s past and possible futures, linking the fountain with some of the public art at The Dell, and evoking the time when mineral water was exported from Clifton Springs.

Local councillor Lindsay Ellis told the working group that a report on the fountain's condition, with an estimate of the cost of refurbishing it, was due from council officers on 23 April, and that Geelong Council would consider the fountain's future as part of the process of formulating the council's 2013/14 budget.

The Clifton Springs Golf Club is entered from Clearwater Drive.

Clifton Springs Primary School was established in 1989 and is situated in Jetty Road. It has an enrolment of approximately 400 students.

The town has a modest cult profile amongst fans of the UK comedy, The Inbetweeners. In episode 1 of series 1, Jay Cartwright attempts to buy drinks in a pub whilst underage using a fake ID. He uses the Victorian Driver Licence of Bret Clement, whose address is shown as Whitcombes Road, Clifton Springs, and an incredibly poor, but probably internationally recognisable Australian accent. He fails.

Census populations

 * 1911 – 50
 * 1966 – 146
 * 1976 – 1,049
 * 1986 – 3,657
 * 1991 – 5,847
 * 2006 – 7,063
 * 2011 – 7,153
 * 2016 – 7,519

In the 2016 Census, there were 7,519 people in Clifton Springs. 79.4% of people were born in Australia. The next most common country of birth was England at 5.8%. 91.1% of people spoke only English at home. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 35.4%, Catholic 22.8% and Anglican 13.5%.

The population is expected to grow to more than 9,000 residents by the year 2020.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Global Hyper-Color

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Global_Hyper-Color
Stub describing a kind of t-shirt. Notable or vanity? --Radiant! 10:42, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep, expand and perhaps rename. Google receives more hits using "Global Hypercolour" (no hyphen), so I'm assuming the correct name is the latter? Megan1967 01:51, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - I remember this fad. Had one of the shirts until my mom ran it through the dryer on a too-high setting and destroyed the color change ability. -- Cyrius|✎ 02:39, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I remember it, too. Someone once gave me some socks like this.  Keep, Move as per Megan1967, and add a Redirect from Global_Hyper-Colour for good measure. Uncle G 03:57, 2005 Feb 13 (UTC)
 * Keep notable, highly collectable as well if you can find one that still will change color. Problem is most of them stopped working after a few washes. Notable also for making you look like your arpits were soaked through the entire time you wore them. (For the record I still own a functional one that I wear to 1980s themed parties)  ALKIVAR ™[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 06:13, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable. Damn, now if only I could remember the name of the Seattle company that made these. They had a short dramatic run & went broke. When I worked at Active Voice in the early 1990s, we were partly in their former offices. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:57, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Generra? Ebay has them as a manufacturer listed on a few auctions like this one (Its not my auction, Its not SPAM)  ALKIVAR ™[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 08:13, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Seems to sound right. -- Cyrius|✎ 13:50, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Absolutely. And Generra either deserves an article or a redirect to this one. -- Jmabel | Talk 06:52, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep WLD 09:04, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Whittington, Victoria

Whittington is a residential suburb of Geelong, Victoria, Australia, located 4 km south-east of the city centre. It is bordered by Boundary, Townsend and Coppards roads and by the former Geelong to Queenscliff railway line now known as the Bellarine Rail Trail. At the 2021 census, Whittington had a population of 3,990.

A large part of Whittington is laid out in cul-de-sacs and courts to inhibit traffic and to help create numerous neighbourhood reserves. Whittington contains a shopping centre, a community centre, recreation reserves and the Whittington Primary School.

History
The area of Whittington was originally part of Breakwater, and was named after an early land owner, James Whittington, during the 1920s. A Post Office of that name had been open since 1914.

Notable people
Damien Birkinhead – Olympic shot putter

Lee Troop – Olympic marathon runner

George Blagojevic – NBL Basketball player

Education
Whittington Primary School is a small Primary School located in Whittington, Victoria.

title: Whittington, Victoria


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Glocal Forum

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Glocal_Forum
Describes a forum, not exactly clear if it has a purpose. Vanity? --Radiant! 10:42, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, article does not establish notability, website advertisement. Megan1967 01:52, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - web forum ad. -- Cyrius|✎ 02:37, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, publicity blurb. Wyss 12:21, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, one-paragraph superficial description that does not establish notability. vlad_mv 17:54, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Federation of Chatkal Mazdoor Unions

Federation of Chatkal Mazdoor Unions, a trade union of jute mill workers in West Bengal, India. The union is affiliated to the All India Trade Union Congress. The general secretary of FCMU is Debasish Dutta.

title: Federation of Chatkal Mazdoor Unions


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pantoto

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Pantoto
Another copy of a company mission statement. Not sure if the company is notable, but if so there should be some content instead. --Radiant! 10:42, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete POV, advertisement. Megan1967 02:00, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * When you see a corporate mission statement or other advertisement masquerading as an article, especially one with a hyperlink at the bottom, always check for Copyvio first. I've listed it. Uncle G 04:03, 2005 Feb 13 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Patrick Nally

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Patrick_Nally
Not a notable person. --Radiant! 10:42, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. if he really was the first guy to use sports for advertising that's historically notable. Nateji77 14:17, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep "The co-founder of the pioneering sports marketing agency, West Nally" Kappa 17:15, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable - Google shows up over 900 hiits but filtered results for marketing company only show less than 90 hits. Advertisment. Megan1967 01:57, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 *  Strong Keep and Expand. This man is very notable for his role in soccer world cups, athletics world cups, rugby world cup and Davis Cup. He brought the Three Tenors together for the 1990 soccer world cup. He has also promoted big names in music including Leonard Bernstein, the Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd and Madonna amongst others. See this CV prepared by a Financial Times CV for an indication of notability.1. I might expand this myself if I have time.  Capitalistroadster 06:02, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, but the article content isn't accurate, which may be a reason why it ended up here. Wyss 12:20, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Hard to find info on West Nally on the web since I think it folded quite a while back, but it was a very important UK sports promo company that pioneered many new ways of mounting, and obtaing sponsorship for, major sporting events.  And Patrick_Nally was a founder, and important in his own right.  Even without this, it is arguable that he would warrant an entry based on his more recent business activities.  HowardB 08:21, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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My Secret Life

My Secret Life may refer to:
 * My Secret Life (memoir), by "Walter", the memoir of a Victorian gentleman's sexual development and experiences
 * My Secret Life (Sonia Dada album), 1998
 * My Secret Life (Eric Burdon album), 2004
 * My Secret Life (Billy Ruffian album), 2007
 * My Secret Life (Julee Cruise album), 2011

title: My Secret Life


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pimp C

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Pimp_C
Fails to establish notability. That is possibly because the article doesn't explain what band this guy is in. --Radiant! 10:42, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC) Capitalistroadster 06:20, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into UGK. Nateji77 12:47, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, article does not establish notability, possible artist vanity. Megan1967 02:03, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. You people are so full of it. UGK has sold over 2 million records. That means millions of people know who this guy is. You can't delete a page because you personally are not familiar with it. CPS 04:37, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into UGK this is a stub, so is UGK. A merge leaves us with 1 article thats improved.  ALKIVAR ™[[Image:Radioactive.svg|18px|]] 06:09, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and Cleanup. UGK has had six albums including a greatest hits album. All of these have charted on the Billboard HipHop Album Charts and most have made the top 100 of the Billboard album charts. They therefore qualify under the Wikimusic project guidelines. A search for "Pimp C" on Google shows 17,500 hits as well as 634 Google Groups hits and 2 Google News articles. It seems that he has a solo album coming out which suggests that he might qualify for an article in his own right..
 * Merge agree with Alkivar.--ZayZayEM 14:00, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge Kappa 14:58, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep for meeting WikiProject:Music's guidelines for inclusion. Tuf-Kat 03:50, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect to UGK. The group is notable, but this individual is not notable outside of the group's context. Cleanup needed.   — Gwalla | Talk 23:51, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * KEEP! Pimp C and Bun B both appear on Jay-Z's "Big Pimpin'", a monster hit single in 2000. UGK is one of the most popular acts in the Southern U.S., and are signed to Jive Records. Pimp C is notable on his own because he was imprisoned in January 2003. I cleaned up the Pimp C and UGK articles; the Bun B article is next on my agenda. I know a lot (most?) of people here aren't American, but...what's with nominating articles by well-known rappers for deletion (see Lil' Scrappy VfD nomination below)? --b. Touch 18:11, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Legitimate subject for Wiki. deeceevoice 20:11, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge. —RaD Man (talk) 02:12, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep & clean up — Dewet 14:11, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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