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Texas Is the Reason

Texas Is the Reason was an American post-hardcore band, founded by former Shelter guitarist Norman Brannon and 108 drummer Chris Daly in 1994. They disbanded in 1997, and held brief reunions in 2006 and 2012–2013.

Formation, Do You Know Who You Are? and break-up (1994–97)
Norman Brannon (a.k.a. Norm Arenas), guitarist for Krishnacore band Shelter, formed Texas Is the Reason with friend and fellow Krishna devotee Chris Daly (formerly of 108) in New York City. Both wished to leave the macho attitude and religious preaching of their former projects. Ex-Fountainhead member Scott Winegard (bass) was the next to join, after which guitarist and vocalist Garrett Klahn (formerly of Buffalo-based bands Copper and Support) was recruited to round out the quartet.

The name "Texas Is the Reason" is lifted from a Misfits song, entitled "Bullet". It also refers to a conspiracy theory about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, which suggests that the president was killed in a plot arranged by Texas Democrats, in order to give Lyndon B. Johnson control of the White House. The 1995 release of their self-titled debut EP made Texas Is the Reason an underground phenomenon, and inspired many bands to adopt a similar style. The same year also saw the release of a split single with Samuel, through British record label Simba. The band continued pushing forward in 1996, with the release of their first (and only) full-length album, Do You Know Who You Are?. This was followed by a split single with The Promise Ring, which was released on the Jade Tree label.

The title Do You Know Who You Are? was reportedly named after the last statement John Lennon heard prior to his death. Produced by Jawbox's J.Robbins and released on Revelation Records, the album drew considerable attention from major labels. This resulted from Texas Is the Reason being pegged as "the next big thing," due to the growing punk explosion on MTV. Song titles from the album, such as "The Magic Bullet Theory" and "Back and to the Left" were further allusions to various Kennedy assassination theories.

On the eve of signing with Capitol Records in 1997, the band flew overseas for a European tour. At this stage, the reality of being on a major label had caused considerable tension within the band. Before their final tour stop in Bielefeld, Germany, Daly and Brannon agreed that if the show was "awesome", it would be their last. As Brannon later recalled, "I walked on stage and we opened with 'Antique' and when Garrett started singing, there were eight hundred Germans singing along with us. I looked at Daly and knew that this was over."

Post-break-up and reunions (1998–present)
The former members headed off to various musical projects, with Klahn forming New Rising Sons (1998) and Solea (2001) with Serge Lobokoff of Samiam. Daly concurrently started indie outfit Jets to Brazil with Blake Schwartzenbach of Jawbreaker. Winegard played in the band Americans, and began releasing various bands' records through an imprint label he co-owns called GrapeOS. The only member to go inactive in the world of indie rock was guitarist Norman Brannon, who moved to Chicago and worked as a DJ for almost three years.

Winegard and Brannon joined Charlie Walker of Chamberlain and Jonah Matranga of Far and Onelinedrawing to form the band New End Original, which lasted from 2000 to 2003. Klahn's New Rising Sons released two EPs through GrapeOS, and later signed to Virgin Records. They disbanded after being dropped by the label, but reformed in 2008. Klahn now plays in the band Atlantic/Pacific with John Herguth of House & Parish. Daly left the now-defunct Jets to Brazil sometime after their 2002 release, Perfecting Loneliness.

After nine years apart, Texas Is the Reason decided to mark the tenth anniversary of Do You Know Who You Are by reuniting for a single show at New York City's Irving Plaza on November 25, 2006. The show sold out quickly, resulting in the addition of a second show on the following night. In interviews leading up to the reunion, the band noted their long-time disappointment at not playing a final show in their home city. They also insisted that the reunion shows were a one-time event, and said there were no plans for additional shows: "While we empathize with everyone who wants to come to the show, but can't come for any reason, this will not become a tour and we are not reforming the band. That is as clear a statement as anyone can make." Winegard, along with members of other emo bands, formed House & Parish in June 2007.

In January 2012, it was announced that Revelation Records would be holding a 25th anniversary celebration at The Glass House in Pomona, California. The event was scheduled for July of the same year. The band members had been approached about the possibility of another reunion, but ultimately refused. Nonetheless, Daly traveled to California for the anniversary show (which featuring a reunited Quicksand), and later expressed excitement about the prospect of another reunion for Texas is the Reason. The band then agreed to headline the opening night of Revelation's east coast event in October 2012, at New York's Irving Plaza. Tickets sold out immediately after going on sale, so a second night was added at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. Daly was quoted as saying, "It's like we have this really cool old car that's in really great shape…it's not built for, like, a cross-country trip, but it's good to take out and drive around the neighborhood."

After a European tour, Texas Is the Reason played their final reunion show at the Electric Ballroom in London on August 4, 2013. Subsequent performances included a 20th anniversary show for Do You Know Who You Are? (on March 15, 2016), and a memorial concert for Jon Bunch.

Albums

 * Do You Know Who You Are? (1996, Revelation)
 * Your Choice Live Series 037 – Split live album with Samiam. (1999, Your Choice)

EPs

 * Texas Is the Reason – Also called If It's Here When We Get Back It's Ours. (1995, Revelation)
 * Split 7" with Samuel (1995, Simba Recordings and Art Monk Construction)
 * Split 7" with The Promise Ring (1996, Jade Tree)

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Ballarat Cricket Association

The Ballarat Cricket Association is a cricket league which operates in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The league has different divisions for under-13s, two grades of under-15s, 1 grade under-17s and three 2-day senior grades as well as a one-day competition with 2 grades. The league also has select teams for different competitions, as well as for the 'Country Week' competition against teams such as Maryborough, Grampians, Castlemaine and Bendigo.

Ballarat has hosted international and interstate matches since 1862 when the first England touring team captained by H. H. Stephenson of Surrey played a XXII from Ballarat. The most notable match played in Ballarat was during the 1932-33 England tour of Australia known as the Bodyline series on 22 January 1933. There was speculation in the Australian press leading up to the match that the Ballarat team may employ Bodyline tactics in response to the controversial tactic being employed by England in the Test matches. H. Brereton, the Secretary of the Victorian Cricket Association (VCA) wrote to the Ballarat Cricket Association stating that any organised body attack employed by the Ballarat team would be viewed with great disfavour by the VCA.

In the luncheon, the acting mayor of Ballarat J. Harrison criticised Bodyline and hoped that it would not continue. In response, the England captain Douglas Jardine defended his team and his leading fast bowler Harold Larwood. The England manager Plum Warner said von Moltke could speak seven languages and be silent in all of them. Warner said that he could speak one language and preferred to remain silent in it. Warner congratulated the Ballarat Cricket Association on the state of the ground and on its teams play that morning.

Ken Mackenzie during the 1940s was: Secretary of Ballarat Cricket Association, a member of Ballarat Basketball Tribunal Association, involved with the Victorian Provincial Baseball League and Ballarat Softball Team; a foundation member and president of Ballarat Sportsmen's Club which now gives and annual Mackenzie trophy for services to sport. He was also a member of Ballarat Historical Park Association. Mr. McKenzie died during 1969.

Ballarat's Eastern Oval hosted a match during the 1992 cricket World Cup between England and Sri Lanka played on 9 March 1992. England won the match by 106 runs, scoring 280 for 6 and bowling the Sri Lankans out for 174. The ground has also played host to visiting international teams for "warm-up" matches in tours to Australia, such as when Victoria played an England XI in Ballarat in both 1985 and 1990.

Teams
The teams in the association at the beginning of 2018:
 * V.R.I Delacombe CC (Victorian Railways Institute) (playing at Doug Dean Reserve)
 * Brown Hill CC (playing at Western Oval/Progress Park)
 * Coronet City CC (playing at Ballarat Grammar School)
 * Darley CC (playing at Darley Park)
 * East Ballarat CC (playing at Russell Square Field)
 * Golden Point CC (playing at Eastern Oval)
 * Mount Clear CC (playing at Mount Clear Oval)
 * Lucas CC (playing at Victoria Park)
 * North Ballarat CC (playing at Eureka Stadium)
 * Wendouree CC (playing at Wendouree Oval 1)
 * Ballan CC (playing at Cowie St)
 * Ballarat Fire Brigade CC (B.F.B)
 * Buninyong CC (playing at Buninyoung Community Reserve)
 * Burrumbeet CC (playing at Remembrance Drive)
 * Creswick Imperials CC (playing at Doug Lindsay Reserve)
 * Dunnstown CC (playing at Old Melbourne Road)
 * Napoleons/Sebastopol CC (playing at Napoleons)
 * Ballarat/Redan CC (playing at City Oval/Alfredton Oval)

External references

 * Garrie Hutchinson, 200 Years of Australian Cricket 1804-2004 Pan MacMillan Australia, Sydney 2004
 * Melbourne Age article on England's match in Ballarat during 1933
 * ICC 1999 World Cup Summary

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This category contains both species commonly called toads, and the true toads from the family Bufonidae.

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Arapaho music

The Arapaho are a tribe of Native Americans from the western Great Plains, in the area of eastern Colorado and Wyoming. Traditional Arapaho music, described by Bruno Nettl (1965, p. 150), includes sacred and secular songs. Traditional music uses terraced descent type melodic motion, with songs consisting of two sections, each with a range of more than an octave and scales of four to six tones.

Sun Dance
The Arapaho Sun Dance, performed in the summer when the Arapaho bands come together for the occasion, is a ceremony performed in order to guide warriors on a vision, receiving a guardian spirit. The vision is inspired by intense self-torture.

There are also Arapaho folk songs taught by guardian spirits, which are only supposed to be sung when the recipient is near death.

Secular music
Secular Arapaho songs include a wide variety of round dances in triple meter, the snake dance, the rabbit dance (a partner dance introduced after European contact) and a turtle dance, along with lullabies, children's, war, historical, and courtship songs.

Ghost Dance
The Ghost Dance was a religion, introduced from tribes further west than the Arapaho in the 1880s. In 1891, the religion was outlawed by the United States, leading to a rebellion among the adherents and culminating in the Wounded Knee Massacre. Music was an integral part of the Ghost Dance, and included folk songs that were retained long after the movement ended (ibid, 151).

Peyote songs
Peyote is a cactus found natively in Mexico. The buttons of the cactus, when chewed, act as a hallucinogen used in the ancient Aztec religion and continued by area tribes to the present. Peyote ceremonies spread north and east, reaching the Apache tribes in the 18th century and then spreading to most every tribe in North America, along with some Apache music and Plains-Pueblo characteristics. Peyote songs accompany the peyote ceremonies, and are mostly the same throughout the area of peyote's entheogenic use. These songs are most similar to traditional songs of the Plains area, but are characterized by a rapid rhythm composed of two note values, transcribed as quarter and eighth notes. Vocables, or non-lexical syllables are used, as are cadential and closing formulas.

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Split exact sequence

In mathematics, a split exact sequence is a short exact sequence in which the middle term is built out of the two outer terms in the simplest possible way.

Equivalent characterizations
A short exact sequence of abelian groups or of modules over a fixed ring, or more generally of objects in an abelian category

 * $$0 \to A \mathrel{\stackrel{a}{\to}} B \mathrel{\stackrel{b}{\to}} C \to 0$$

is called split exact if it is isomorphic to the exact sequence where the middle term is the direct sum of the outer ones:

 * $$0 \to A \mathrel{\stackrel{i}{\to}} A \oplus C \mathrel{\stackrel{p}{\to}} C \to 0$$

The requirement that the sequence is isomorphic means that there is an isomorphism $$f : B \to A \oplus C$$ such that the composite $$f \circ a$$ is the natural inclusion $$i: A \to A \oplus C$$ and such that the composite $$p \circ f$$ equals b. This can be summarized by a commutative diagram as:

The splitting lemma provides further equivalent characterizations of split exact sequences.

Examples
A trivial example of a split short exact sequence is
 * $$0 \to M_1 \mathrel{\stackrel{q}{\to}} M_1\oplus M_2 \mathrel{\stackrel{p}{\to}} M_2 \to 0$$

where $$M_1, M_2$$ are R-modules, $$q$$ is the canonical injection and $$p$$ is the canonical projection. Any short exact sequence of vector spaces is split exact. This is a rephrasing of the fact that any set of linearly independent vectors in a vector space can be extended to a basis.

The exact sequence $$0 \to \mathbf{Z}\mathrel{\stackrel{2}{\to}} \mathbf{Z}\to \mathbf{Z}/ 2\mathbf{Z} \to 0$$ (where the first map is multiplication by 2) is not split exact.

Related notions
Pure exact sequences can be characterized as the filtered colimits of split exact sequences.

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Warren Hull

John Warren Hull (January 17, 1903 – September 14, 1974), known professionally as Warren Hull, was an American actor, singer and television personality active from the 1930s through the 1960s. He was one of the most popular serial actors in the action-adventure field.

Early years
Born in Gasport, New York, Hull was one of three children born to John and Laura (nee Shafer) Hull. Both of his parents were Quakers. Hull attended Lockport High School, graduating in 1922. He then attended New York University with the intention of pursuing a career in business. He later decided to pursue a career in music and enrolled at the Eastman School of Music, where he studied voice. After completing his studies, he moved to New York City, where he became a chorus boy in Shubert operas and operettas. This eventually led to Hull working in two Broadway musicals; starring as Jack Negly in My Maryland (1927) and as Jack Wayne in Rain or Shine (1928).

In 1923, Hull began working as a radio announcer. He was the master of ceremonies for the first Your Hit Parade radio program and also worked as an announcer for The Beatrice Lillie Show.

Films
In the mid-1930s, Hull pursued a screen career. He made his screen debut in 1934 for Educational Pictures, a short-subject studio. He co-starred opposite singer Sylvia Froos in the Young Romance series of musical comedies filmed in New York; Hull often joined Froos in song. In 1935 Hull was signed to a contract by Warner Bros., and spent the next few years playing leading men both in dramas and musicals.

When his Warners contract expired, Hull had no trouble finding work at other studios. He teamed with Patricia Ellis, one of his leading ladies at Warners, for the Republic Pictures musical Rhythm in the Clouds (1937). He also played romantic leads in a string of features for Monogram Pictures. Two of Hull's better-known appearances of this period were opposite Boris Karloff, in The Walking Dead (1936) and Night Key (1937). Some of Hull's early appearances have him billed as "J. Warren Hull."

In 1938, Columbia Pictures terminated its association with the Weiss Brothers, independent producers who had been making adventure serials for Columbia release, and decided to make its own cliffhangers. Warren Hull was signed for Columbia's second (and perhaps best) serial production, The Spider's Web (1938), based on a popular magazine character. Hull played three parts: criminologist Richard Wentworth, his masked-and-caped alter ego The Spider, and, in a second masquerade, lowlife mobster Blinky McQuade. The personable Hull brought a breezy sense of humor to his serial roles; he is probably the only serial hero who ever laughs on screen. Hull kept audiences following the Spider's thrilling exploits, making The Spider's Web the most popular and profitable serial of the year, outstripping such worthy cliffhangers as Buck Rogers and Dick Tracy Returns by a wide margin, according to a tally published in the Motion Picture Herald and The Film Daily.

Pleased with Hull's performance, Columbia cast him as Mandrake the Magician in its 1939 serial. Universal Pictures starred the now-established serial hero in The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1941) and Columbia put him back in the mask and cloak for The Spider Returns (1941).

Radio and television
In the mid-1940s, Hull returned to radio announcing, appearing with frequency on such programs as Your Hit Parade and Vox Pop. During World War II, Hull traveled about the country and in Canada, putting on Vox Pop before servicemen at camps and bases. After the War, he did Vox Pop broadcasts from France, Britain, Alaska, and Puerto Rico. In 1947, he hosted The Warren Hull Show, for CBS radio. During this time, Hull also hosted Cavalcade of Bands for Dumont radio.

In 1948 he replaced Todd Russell as the host of the radio game show Strike It Rich. Hull continued as host when the show was adapted for television in 1951. This is the TV series for which Warren Hull is best known; Hull remained host for the duration of the series, which ended in 1958.

Hull was also the emcee of Spin to Win, only the second game show created by the team of Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. In 1953–54, former Miss America Bess Myerson co-hosted a game show called "The Big Payoff"; Hull occasionally substituted for regular co-host Robert Paige. During the next two decades he hosted TV programs such as Top Dollar, Beat the Odds, and Public Prosecutor. By the early 1960s, Hull was largely retired and was living in Virginia Beach, Virginia. In 1962, he came out of retirement to host the game show Who in the World.

Personal life
Hull was married four times and had four children. His first three marriages ended in divorce. His fourth marriage to Susan Fossum Stevens lasted until his death in 1974.

Death
On September 14, 1974, Hull died of congestive heart failure at Waterbury Hospital in Waterbury, Connecticut, at the age of 71. His funeral was held on September 18 at the Church of the Epiphany in Southbury, Connecticut, after which he was buried at the New North Cemetery in Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut.

For his contributions to the radio and television industry, Warren Hull has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His star for radio is located at 6270 Hollywood Boulevard, and the star for television is located at 6135 Hollywood Boulevard.

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Stan and Jan Berenstain

Stanley Melvin Berenstain (September 29, 1923 – November 26, 2005) and Janice Marian Berenstain (née Grant; July 26, 1923 – February 24, 2012) were American writers and illustrators best known for creating the children's book series The Berenstain Bears.

Both Stan and Jan were born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Jan attended Radnor High School in Radnor, Pennsylvania. Stan was Jewish and Jan was an Episcopalian. They were married for 59 years until Stan's death in 2005.

Early careers
They met on their first day of art school at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art in 1941. During WWII, Stan served in the Army as a medical illustrator while Jan was a draft artist for the Army Corps of Engineers in addition to working in an aircraft factory. Jan fashioned a pair of wedding rings from spare aluminum collected at the latter job, and the two married on April 17, 1946.

Books
In an interview about the books, the Berenstains said that a big reason behind their inspiration was some of the difficulties parents faced, as well as some childhood tribulations when they were kids themselves. The Berenstains also noted there were some issues which seemed to appear in every generation, such as kids throwing tantrums in public places, which made important subject matter for their stories. However, they deliberately wanted to steer clear of overly heavy issues, such as violence. In their later years, critics sometimes dismissed the books for having social attitudes stuck in the 1950s along with the bears' clothing styles and penchant for activities such as playing jacks and hopscotch, even though they did change with the times somewhat by introducing things like video games and cell phones.

In 1951, the couple published Berenstains' Baby Book, which dealt with the issues of pregnancy and child-rearing. Although containing practical advice, the book used humor and reminded parents not to take every situation too seriously. They would go on to publish another two books on parenting, How to Teach Your Children About Sex Without Making a Complete Fool of Yourself and Have a Baby, My Wife Just Had a Cigar!.

Cartoons and children's books
The Berenstains were successful cartoonists with several adult humor books and magazine credits to their names before their first Berenstain Bears book.

They produced together the magazine cartoon feature It's All in the Family from 1956 to 1989 in McCall's and Good Housekeeping. It's All in the Family (unrelated to the similarly named TV series) depicted the antics of a suburban family with mother, father, eldest and youngest sons, and middle daughter. It's All in the Family was not a conventional comic strip in the sense of a sequential progression of panels. Each issue featured a single situation, often seasonally appropriate, such as the daughter preparing, cooking, and serving a family meal for the first time or the costume preparations, rehearsal, and performance of the youngest child's Christmas pageant. Within a given issue, each It's All in the Family drawing was a stand-alone panel with a caption gag, rather than one panel of a sequential strip, but individual panels in order depicted the complete arc (preparation, completion, aftermath) of that issue's family experience.

In the early 1960s, inspired by their children's enthusiasm for Dr. Seuss books, the Berenstains decided to attempt a series with animal protagonists themselves, settling on bears — not because of their surname as was commonly believed, but because "bears are furry and appealing." They published their first book featuring the Berenstain Bears, The Big Honey Hunt, in 1962. At the time, their inspiration, Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss), was working as an editor in the children's division of Random House Publishing and eagerly approved the concept. He edited several books in the Berenstain Bears series and created a lasting franchise including many more books, television series, toys, and stage productions. Over 300 books were published in 23 languages.

Jan was inducted into Radnor High School's Hall of Fame on October 20, 2006.

Personal lives
The Berenstains were married for 59 years until Stan's death from cancer in his home on November 26, 2005. They had two sons, Leo (born 1948) and Mike (born 1951). Mike Berenstain is a writer/illustrator who has been a published author since 1976. He worked with his parents on several Berenstain Bears books, and has continued to create new books in the franchise on his own.

Jan Berenstain died of a stroke on February 24, 2012.

Selected works

 * The Berenstains' Baby Book (1951, MacMillan)
 * Sister (1952, Schuman cartoons)
 * Tax-Wise (1952, Schuman)
 * Marital Blitz (1954, Dutton)
 * Baby Makes Four (1956, MacMillan)
 * It’s All in the Family (1958, Dutton)
 * Lover Boy (1958, MacMillan)
 * And Beat Him When He Sneezes (1960, McGraw Hill)
 * Have a Baby, My Wife Just Had a Cigar (1960, Dell, retitled reprint)
 * Bedside Lover Boy (1960, Dell)
 * Call Me Mrs. (1961, MacMillan)
 * It's Still in the Family (1961, Dutton)
 * Office Lover Boy (1962, Dell)
 * The Facts of Life for Grown-ups (1963, Dell)
 * Flipsville-Squareville (1965, Delacorte)
 * Mr. Dirty vs. Mrs. Clean (1967, Dell)
 * You Could Diet Laughing (1969, Dell)
 * Be Good or I'll Belt Ya! (1970, Dell)
 * Education Impossible (1970, Dell)
 * How to Teach Your Children about Sex without Making a Complete Fool of Yourself (1970, Dutton)
 * Never Trust Anyone Over 13 (1970, Bantam)
 * How to Teach Your Children about God without Actually Scaring Them out of Their Wits (1971, Dutton)
 * The Berenstains' B Book (1971, Random House)
 * Are Parents for Real? (1972, Bantam)
 * The Day of the Dinosaur (1987, Random House, First Time Readers); illustrated by Michael Berenstain (Mike)
 * After the Dinosaurs (1988, Random House, First Time Readers)
 * What Your Parents Never Told You about Being a Mom or Dad (1995) parenting advice
 * Down A Sunny Dirt Road (2002) autobiography
 * The Berenstain Bears and The Bear Essentials (2005) parenting advice
 * Nothing Ever Happens at the South Pole (2012, HarperCollins, published posthumously) children's book

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Homeomorphism group

In mathematics, particularly topology, the homeomorphism group of a topological space is the group consisting of all homeomorphisms from the space to itself with function composition as the group operation. They are important to the theory of topological spaces, generally exemplary of automorphism groups and topologically invariant in the group isomorphism sense.

Properties and examples
There is a natural group action of the homeomorphism group of a space on that space. Let $$X$$ be a topological space and denote the homeomorphism group of $$X$$ by $$G$$. The action is defined as follows:

$$\begin{align} G\times X &\longrightarrow X\\ (\varphi, x) &\longmapsto \varphi(x) \end{align}$$

This is a group action since for all $$\varphi,\psi\in G$$,

$$\varphi\cdot(\psi\cdot x)=\varphi(\psi(x))=(\varphi\circ\psi)(x)$$

where $$\cdot$$ denotes the group action, and the identity element of $$G$$ (which is the identity function on $$X$$) sends points to themselves. If this action is transitive, then the space is said to be homogeneous.

Topology
As with other sets of maps between topological spaces, the homeomorphism group can be given a topology, such as the compact-open topology. In the case of regular, locally compact spaces the group multiplication is then continuous.

If the space is compact and Hausdorff, the inversion is continuous as well and $$\operatorname{Homeo}(X)$$ becomes a topological group. If $$X$$ is Hausdorff, locally compact and locally connected this holds as well. There are locally compact separable metric spaces for which the inversion map is not continuous and $$\operatorname{Homeo}(X)$$ therefore not a topological group.

Mapping class group
In geometric topology especially, one considers the quotient group obtained by quotienting out by isotopy, called the mapping class group:
 * $${\rm MCG}(X) = {\rm Homeo}(X) / {\rm Homeo}_0(X)$$

The MCG can also be interpreted as the 0th homotopy group, $${\rm MCG}(X) = \pi_0({\rm Homeo}(X))$$. This yields the short exact sequence:
 * $$1 \rightarrow {\rm Homeo}_0(X) \rightarrow {\rm Homeo}(X) \rightarrow {\rm MCG}(X) \rightarrow 1.$$

In some applications, particularly surfaces, the homeomorphism group is studied via this short exact sequence, and by first studying the mapping class group and group of isotopically trivial homeomorphisms, and then (at times) the extension.

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Talk:Malinois dog

Negative description of the dogs characteristics
I currently have 8 Belgian Malinois, and they have absolutely wonderful temperaments. They are extremely intelligent, active, and high-energy, and highly interactive with people and within the pack. They also are very loving and affectionate and calm when not playing. The key to the calmness is that they get ample opportunity to run, play, and interact. This breed needs to be in the hands of a owner who is dedicated to providing an environment for these dogs to utilize their physical and mental skills.--Tjpaws (talk) 14:30, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

The description that is given on the Belgian Shepherd Dog is a bit negative. There are plenty of dogs that are agressive as well and therefore not suitable for the not-so experienced dogowner. These dogs are not only chosen for their agressiveness but also because they are fast learners. Compared to other dogs they are extremely intelligent, that is: they can learn new tricks fast. The whole paragraph needs to be rewritten in my opinion. Let me hear your view on this.

Wereldburger758

They certainly are very intelligent and quick learning, and this should definately be mentioned in the article. But I think we should keep the part about aggression and unsuitability for the average owner. It might be "negative", but it's also true. Rachel24

 * I agree.. The majority of working Malinois lines are not meant as pets or simple companion animals. They should be raised in working homes (police, security, protection, protection sport, SAR, etc.).  Their energy level should not be understated.  No serious Mal owner would have any issue with these dogs being described as "too much for most people"...they don't want people getting these dogs as pets.

 * I own a Malinois (10 years now). Maybe I'm not a serious dog owner, but I certainly wouldn't classify it as "too much for most people". It has been very easy to train, and is perhaps the most non-confrontational dog of it's size I've ever met.  But thats not the point.  The point is that your or my opinion of the dog does not belong in wikipedia.  If you want to state a fact like "Malinois require a stronger commitment on the part of the owner" which is non-obvious and with which somebody (me) seriously disagrees, you need to cite a reference.  Until then, I am removing the offending section.  I would welcome back the section (perhaps with a more encyclopedic tone of language) if you can find a source.Njerseyguy 06:00, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Then surely we should remove the part about the breed being intelligent and quick learning as well, unless someone can turn up an objective source for that information? Rachel24  —Preceding unsigned comment added by

My family had malinois for herding in Europe, I now have a one year old female, sired by a working police dog. She is not "agressive" but very confident and afraid of NOTHING. She is protective of her home. The only time i have heard her growl is at strange noises in or around the house and when I try to move her when she is dead asleep. If she did not play so rough I would trust her with kids. This of course is a training issue not a temperment issue. Great dogs, very smart, need lots of exercise, mental and physical.76.29.111.226 (talk) 14:27, 15 April 2009 (UTC)Amelia de Rudder 130.123.128.114 (talk) 01:34, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

 * I'm a new and inexperienced dog owner, with an 8 month old Malinois pup. Other than needing quite a bit of exercise, this dog is easy. Her eagerness to please makes training a snap. I agree the section does not belong, as it is subjective and overly broad. Like any other breed, each dog's temperament is different. I know it's anecdotal, but none of the Malinois I encountered when searching for a puppy were aggressive. I searched a dangerous dog registry, and not one Malinois. This is not a breed like Caucasian Ovcharka where aggression is innate. They are herding dogs, that can be trained for protection work. Quite a difference. VirginiaGirl20100 (talk) 13:49, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Aggressiveness, Speed and Training sections
I deleted the sections Aggressiveness, Speed and Training because none of them were sourced, and the first two were contentious. Reliable sources regarding the breed covering any of these points, or disagreements about these points, would be welcome. Simply stating, "It's a mean breed!" or "I own Malinois and they're the sweetest dogs in the world!" does not work. Thundersnow 07:26, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

New notable addition candidate
The Drudge Report this morning Sep 1 2016 has a linked story about a 10-month-old Belgian Malinois: "Overboard in lake, dog swims 6 miles, walks 12 more to find family..." which goes to an Associated Press story dated Aug 31 2016. Because it's on Drudge, it will receive wide international coverage by news organizations, so I want to note it here in case the story, possibly with follow-up coverage, qualifies the dog as being notable for this Wikipedia article. This is my first and only visit here, so I will leave this to regular editors to monitor this and make a decision. 5Q5 (talk) 11:39, 1 September 2016 (UTC)

Possible merger to Belgian Shepherd
Please see discussion at Talk:Belgian Shepherd. Cavalryman (talk) 04:44, 30 September 2020 (UTC).

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Climax (rhetoric)

In rhetoric, a climax (κλῖμαξ, klîmax, lit. "staircase" or "ladder") is a figure of speech in which words, phrases, or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance. In its use with clauses, it is also sometimes known as auxesis ( lit. "growth").

Usage
Climax is frequently used in persuasion (particularly advertising) to create false dilemmas and to focus attention on the positive aspects of the subject at hand. The initial inferior options make the final term seem still better by comparison than it would appear in isolation: "X is good, Y is better, Z is best" is a standard format. It can also be used in reverse to make the initial term seem better by comparison: "A isn't perfect but B is worse and C is worst."

Examples

 * From the First Letter to the Corinthians: "There are three things that will endure: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love."
 * George Wald from A Generation in Search of a Future: "I think we've reached a point of great decision, not just for our nation, not only for all humanity, but for life upon the earth."
 * William Shakespeare from The Passionate Pilgrim: "...Lost, vaded, broken, dead within an hour."
 * William Shakespeare from Richard II: "...O'erthrows thy joys, friends, fortune and thy state"

Anticlimax
An anticlimax or anti-climax is an abrupt descent (either deliberate or unintended) on the part of a speaker or writer from the dignity of idea which he appeared to be aiming at, as in:

 * "The English poet Herrick expressed the same sentiment when he suggested that we should gather rosebuds while we may. Your elbow is in the butter, sir."

As a relative term, anticlimax requires a greater or lesser climax to precede it in order to have proper effect. An anticlimax can be intentionally employed only for a jocular or satiric purpose. It frequently partakes of the nature of antithesis, as in:

 * "Die and endow a college or a cat."

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Accent kernel

Accent is an operating system kernel, most notable for being the predecessor to the Mach kernel. Originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Accent was influenced by the Aleph kernel developed at the University of Rochester. Accent improves upon Aleph, fixing several problems and re-targeting hardware support for networks of workstation machines (specifically, the Three Rivers PERQ) instead of minicomputers. Accent was part of the SPICE Project at CMU which ran from 1981 to 1985. Development of Accent led directly to the introduction of Mach, used in NeXTSTEP, GNU Hurd, and modern Apple operating systems including Mac OS and iOS.

The original Aleph project used data copying to allow programs to communicate. Applications could open ports, which would allow them to receive data sent to them by other programs. The idea was to write a number of servers that would control resources on the machine, passing data along until it reached an end user. In this respect it was similar in concept to Unix, although the implementation was much different, using messages instead of memory. This turned out to have a number of problems, notably that copying memory on their Data General Eclipse was very expensive.

In 1979 one of the Aleph engineers, Richard Rashid, left for CMU and started work on a new version of Aleph that avoided its problems. In particular, Accent targeted workstation machines featuring a MMU, using the MMU to "copy" large blocks of memory via mapping, making the memory appear to be in two different places. Only data that was changed by one program or another would have to be physically copied, using the copy-on-write algorithm.

To understand the difference, consider two interacting programs, one feeding a file to another. Under Aleph the data from the provider would have to be copied 2kB at a time (due to features of the Eclipse) into the user process. Under Accent the data simply "appeared" in the user process for the cost of a few instructions sent to the MMU. Only if the user process changed the data would anything need to be copied, and even then, only the portions of the data that actually changed.

Another problem in Aleph was that its ports were identified by unique ID's that were assigned sequentially. It was simple for a program to "guess" them, thereby gaining access to resources on the computer that it had not been granted. This made the Aleph system rather insecure.

To address this, Accent made the port ID's internal to the kernel only. Instances of a program opening ports were handed back different IDs, stored in a mapping in the kernel. Whenever a message was sent to the kernel for delivery, it would first check that the program had access to the port in question by comparing with the mapping table for that program. Guessing port numbers no longer worked, the program's port IDs gave no clue of the "real" IDs in the kernel, and any attempt to talk on one not explicitly handed out by the kernel was an error. Thus Accent's ports represented capabilities, granting rights to use resources as the result of being handed a valid port ID. This kind of capability system, using subject-specific identifiers for capabilities, is called a C-list system.

After a few years the Accent project started looking less and less interesting. In the early 1980s many felt that future gains in performance would be made by adding more CPUs to machines, something the Accent kernel was not really equipped to handle. Adding to the problem was that a new generation of more powerful workstations were appearing, meaning that Accent would likely have to be ported to them anyway. Likewise Unix had grown into the operating system of choice for experimental work, both on operating system design, as well as a development platform for user applications.

In order to address these changes, it was decided to end work on Accent and start again. The new system would use Accent's ports system within a Unix kernel, creating the famed Mach kernel.

Some features of Accent:
 * Port capabilities
 * Copy-on-write virtual memory management
 * Distributed file management
 * Distributed process management
 * Protected message-based inter-process communication
 * Ability to run processes with different microcoded instruction sets.

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Edith Konecky

Edith Konecky (August 1, 1922 – March 28, 2019) was a Jewish American feminist novelist.

Early life and education
Konecky was born Edith Rubin on August 1, 1922, in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Harry and Elizabeth Smith Rubin. Konecky has an older brother, Martin. Harry's father had escaped the pogroms in Eastern Europe, immigrating to the United States, where he became a prosperous dress manufacturer. Elizabeth's mother, Ida Berlin, ran away from her family in Kiev at a very young age because she was promised to be married to someone she did not like, ending up in New York. She was, perhaps, the most important influence on Edith as she was growing up. Elizabeth's father, Max Shmitoff, later changed to Smith at Ellis Island, was said to have pulled a Cossack off his horse during a pogrom at their Jewish village near Minsk, in Belarus, killing him with his own sword.

She returned to school at age 37, in 1961, graduating from Columbia University.

Career
Even as she entered into her life as a suburban mother in the 1950s, Konecky did not stop writing, using her daily experiences as fodder for her short stories.

One year after graduating from Columbia University, Konecky received a Yaddo fellowship. She continued to win fellowships to Yaddo throughout the late 1960s and late 1970s.

During the 1960s and into the 1970s, Konecky published several short stories and then in 1976, her widely acclaimed first novel, Allegra Maud Goldman. Konecky began writing Allegra while at the MacDowell colony in 1962.

The image of her father — a distant, driven character — featured prominently in both Allegra and Konecky's later novel, A Place at the Table. Allegra is a coming-of-age work that chronicles the growth of a young female artist. In brilliantly comic, deceptively simple vignettes, Konecky depicts the world of a nouveau riche Jewish American family in the early part of the 20th century. In her later novel, A Place at the Table (1989 & 2000), Konecky explores similar territory through the eyes of an older, more experienced heroine, Rachel. This novel also deals with Konecky's sexuality. A Place at the Table was a finalist for the 1990 Stonewall Book Award.

Konecky's more recent works are a collection of short stories, Past Sorrows and Coming Attractions (2002) and a novel, View to the North (2004).

Personal life
In 1944, Edith Rubin married Murray L. Konecky and together they had two children, Michael and Joshua. Konecky and her husband divorced in 1963 and by the time Allegra appeared, Konecky came out as a lesbian.

Awards and honors
Source:

 * New York Foundation of the Arts fellowship, 1992
 * Wurlitzer Foundation fellowship, 1974

Works
Source:

 * Fiction and the Facts of Life (2011) Maplewood, N.J.: Hamilton Stone Editions. ISBN 9780980178678
 * Love and Money (2006) Maplewood, N.J.: Hamilton Stone Editions. ISBN 9780971487369
 * View to the North (2004) Maplewood, N.J.: Hamilton Stone Editions. ISBN 9780971487338
 * Past Sorrows and Coming Attractions (2000) Maplewood, N.J.: Hamilton Stone Editions. ISBN 9780965404341
 * A Place at the Table (1989) New York: Random House. ISBN 9780394575223
 * Allegra Maud Goldman (1976) New York: Harper & Row. ISBN 9780060124526

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Culpepper Island

Culpepper Island is a small islet in the Atlantic Ocean located 30 meters off the coast of Barbados. The island is uninhabited.

Geography
It is quite possible to wade out to Culpepper Island from the mainland during low tide as it is only about 30 meters away, but discretion must be used, as Culpepper is on the turbulent Atlantic Ocean side of Barbados. Further, the rocky footing can also be dangerous to walk on. Visitors are well advised to bear in mind that the East Point Lighthouse at Ragged Point was built to save ships from the dangers of this same turbulent coastline and Cobblers Reef.

Flora and fauna
Culpepper Island is sparsely overgrown and uninhabited. It was claimed that peasants from Barbados once carried sheep to graze on the island, but this claim seems uncredible because neither the small size nor the very sparse vegetation makes the island attractive for this purpose.

An adult pair of Barbados leaf-toed geckos, once presumed extinct, were discovered on the island in 2011.

History
The name of the island goes back to a settler's family name who resided here from about 1650 to 1830. Historically island was attributed to Barbados Saint Philip Parish.

On 12 March 2006 members of the region's indigenous Lokono-Arawak and Karifuna-Carib tribes claimed ownership over the island in protest of what they believed to be a violation of international indigenous rights laws by several Caribbean governments. They claimed to be descendants of Princess Marian, daughter of the last Hereditary Lokono-Arawak Chief Amorotahe Haubariria (Flying Harpy Eagle) of the Eagle Clan Lokono-Arawaks who is buried in the Westbury Cemetery in Barbados.

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Talk:Sutton

UK
Here is a not fully de-duplicated list of all the Sutton's that streetmap.co.uk knows about. I believe it is derived from the Ordnance Survey's list.

 * Sutton, Bedfordshire
 * Sutton, Buckinghamshire
 * Sutton, Cambridgeshire
 * Sutton, City of Peterborough
 * Sutton, Cornwall
 * Sutton, Devon
 * Sutton, Doncaster
 * Sutton, East Sussex
 * Sutton, Greater London [London Borough]
 * Sutton, Kent
 * Sutton, Lincolnshire
 * Sutton, Norfolk
 * Sutton, North Yorkshire
 * Sutton, Nottinghamshire
 * Sutton, Oxfordshire
 * Sutton, Pembrokeshire / Sir Benfro
 * Sutton, Pembrokeshire
 * Sutton, Peterborough
 * Sutton, Powys
 * Sutton, Shropshire
 * Sutton, Shropshire
 * Sutton, Shropshire
 * Sutton, Shropshire
 * Sutton, Shropshire
 * Sutton, Shropshire
 * Sutton, Shropshire
 * Sutton, Somerset
 * Sutton, South Yorkshire
 * Sutton, St Helens
 * Sutton, Staffordshire
 * Sutton, Staffordshire
 * Sutton, Suffolk
 * Sutton, Suffolk
 * Sutton, Surrey
 * Sutton, Sutton
 * Sutton, The Vale of Glamorgan / Bro Morgannwg
 * Sutton, West Sussex

 * Sutton Abinger, Surrey
 * Sutton at Hone, Kent
 * Sutton at Hone, Kent
 * Sutton Bank, North Yorkshire
 * Sutton Baron, Kent
 * Sutton Barton, Devon
 * Sutton Barton, Devon
 * Sutton Bassett, Northamptonshire
 * Sutton Bassett, Northamptonshire
 * Sutton Beck, North Yorkshire [Water Feature]
 * Sutton Beech Wood, Hampshire [Forest/Wood]
 * Sutton Benger, Wiltshire
 * Sutton Benger, Wiltshire
 * Sutton Bingham Reservoir, Somerset [Water Feature]
 * Sutton Bingham Resr, Somerset [Lake/Loch]
 * Sutton Bingham, Somerset
 * Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire
 * Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire
 * Sutton Bottom, Gloucestershire
 * Sutton Bottom, Wiltshire
 * Sutton Bridge Fm, Essex [Farm]
 * Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire
 * Sutton Bridge, Lincolnshire
 * Sutton Broad, Norfolk [Water Feature]
 * Sutton Brook, Derbyshire [Water Feature]
 * Sutton Cheney, Leicestershire
 * Sutton Cheney, Leicestershire
 * Sutton Coldfield Station, West Midlands [Station]
 * Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham
 * Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands
 * Sutton Common, Cheshire [Hill/Mountain]
 * Sutton Common, Hampshire
 * Sutton Common, Suffolk
 * Sutton Corner, Lincolnshire
 * Sutton Court Fm, Wokingham [Farm]
 * Sutton Court, Bath and North East Somerset
 * Sutton Court, Worcestershire
 * Sutton Courtenay, Oxfordshire
 * Sutton Cross Roads, Nottinghamshire
 * Sutton Crosses, Lincolnshire
 * Sutton Down Fm, Hampshire [Farm]
 * Sutton Down, Wiltshire
 * Sutton Downs, Kent
 * Sutton End, Cheshire
 * Sutton End, West Sussex
 * Sutton Farm, Worcestershire [Farm]
 * Sutton Fen, Cambridgeshire
 * Sutton Fields Fm, Cheshire [Farm]
 * Sutton Fields Ho, Nottinghamshire
 * Sutton Fm, Cornwall [Farm]
 * Sutton Fm, Devon [Farm]
 * Sutton Fm, East Riding of Yorkshire [Farm]
 * Sutton Fm, Isle of Wight [Farm]
 * Sutton Fm, Kent [Farm]
 * Sutton Fm, North Somerset [Farm]
 * Sutton Fm, Somerset [Farm]
 * Sutton Fm, Somerset [Farm]
 * Sutton Fm, The Vale of Glamorgan / Bro Morgannwg [Farm]
 * Sutton Forest Side, Nottinghamshire
 * Sutton Gault, Cambridgeshire
 * Sutton Grange, North Yorkshire
 * Sutton Grange, North Yorkshire
 * Sutton Grange, North Yorkshire
 * Sutton Grange, North Yorkshire
 * Sutton Grange, Nottinghamshire
 * Sutton Green, Cheshire
 * Sutton Green, Surrey
 * Sutton Green, Surrey
 * Sutton Green, Wrexham / Wrecsam
 * Sutton Hall Fm, Cheshire [Farm]
 * Sutton Hall Fm, Thurrock [Farm]
 * Sutton Hall, Cheshire
 * Sutton Hall, East Sussex
 * Sutton Hall, Essex
 * Sutton Hall, Norfolk
 * Sutton Hall, Shropshire
 * Sutton Hall, Suffolk
 * Sutton Hall, Suffolk
 * Sutton Hams, Somerset
 * Sutton Heath, City of Peterborough
 * Sutton Heath, St Helens
 * Sutton Hill Br, Leicestershire
 * Sutton Hill Fm, Dorset [Farm]
 * Sutton Hill Fm, Leicestershire [Farm]
 * Sutton Hill, Bath and North East Somerset
 * Sutton Hill, Dorset
 * Sutton Hill, Herefordshire
 * Sutton Hill, Kent
 * Sutton Hill, Shropshire
 * Sutton Hill, Telford and Wrekin
 * Sutton Ho, Shropshire
 * Sutton Ho, Worcestershire
 * Sutton Holms, Dorset
 * Sutton Holms, Dorset
 * Sutton Holwoods, Cambridgeshire
 * Sutton Hoo Tumuli, Suffolk [Land Feature]
 * Sutton Hoo, Suffolk
 * Sutton Howgrave, North Yorkshire
 * Sutton Howgrave, North Yorkshire
 * Sutton In Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
 * Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire
 * Sutton in the Elms, Leicestershire
 * Sutton in the Elms, Leicestershire
 * Sutton Ings, City of Kingston upon Hull
 * Sutton Ings, Lincolnshire
 * Sutton Lakes, Herefordshire
 * Sutton Lane Ends, Cheshire
 * Sutton Lane Ends, Cheshire
 * Sutton Lane Fm, Wiltshire [Farm]
 * Sutton le Marsh, Lincolnshire
 * Sutton Leach, Merseyside
 * Sutton Leach, St Helens
 * Sutton Lodge Fm, East Riding of Yorkshire [Farm]
 * Sutton Lodge Fm, Northamptonshire [Farm]
 * Sutton Lodge, Leicestershire
 * Sutton Lodge, Pembrokeshire / Sir Benfro
 * Sutton Maddock, Shropshire
 * Sutton Maddock, Shropshire
 * Sutton Mallet, Somerset
 * Sutton Mallet, Somerset
 * Sutton Mandeville, Wiltshire
 * Sutton Mandeville, Wiltshire
 * Sutton Manor, Hampshire
 * Sutton Manor, St Helens
 * Sutton Marsh, Herefordshire
 * Sutton Meadlands, Cambridgeshire
 * Sutton Mill, North Yorkshire
 * Sutton Mill, Warwickshire
 * Sutton Montis, Somerset
 * Sutton Montis, Somerset
 * Sutton Moor, Bradford
 * Sutton Moor, North Yorkshire
 * Sutton Mountain, Pembrokeshire / Sir Benfro
 * Sutton New Hall, Cheshire
 * Sutton on Sea, Lincolnshire
 * Sutton on Sea, Lincolnshire
 * Sutton on the Hill, Derbyshire
 * Sutton on the Hill, Derbyshire
 * Sutton on Trent, Nottinghamshire
 * Sutton on Trent, Nottinghamshire
 * Sutton Park, Birmingham
 * Sutton Park, North Yorkshire
 * Sutton Park, North Yorkshire [Place of Interest]
 * Sutton Park, West Midlands [Land Feature]
 * Sutton Park, Worcestershire
 * Sutton Parkway Station, Nottinghamshire [Station]
 * Sutton Penn, North Yorkshire
 * Sutton Place, Kent
 * Sutton Place, Surrey [Antiquity (non Roman)]
 * Sutton Pools, Oxfordshire [Water Feature]
 * Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
 * Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
 * Sutton Resr, Cheshire [Water Feature]
 * Sutton Row, Wiltshire
 * Sutton Rush, East Riding of Yorkshire
 * Sutton Scarsdale, Derbyshire
 * Sutton Scotney, Hampshire
 * Sutton Spring Wood, Derbyshire [Forest/Wood]
 * Sutton St Edmund's Common, Cambridgeshire
 * Sutton St Edmund, Lincolnshire
 * Sutton St James, Lincolnshire
 * Sutton St Michael, Herefordshire
 * Sutton St Nicholas, Herefordshire
 * Sutton Street, Suffolk
 * Sutton Thorn, Devon
 * Sutton Town, Cornwall
 * Sutton upon Derwent, East Riding of Yorkshire
 * Sutton Vale Ho, Kent
 * Sutton Valence, Kent
 * Sutton Valence, Kent
 * Sutton Veny Ho, Wiltshire
 * Sutton Veny, Wiltshire
 * Sutton Veny, Wiltshire
 * Sutton Waldron, Dorset
 * Sutton Waldron, Dorset
 * Sutton Walks, Suffolk
 * Sutton Walls, Herefordshire [Antiquity (non Roman)]
 * Sutton Weaver, Cheshire
 * Sutton Weaver, Cheshire
 * Sutton West Fen, Cambridgeshire
 * Sutton Wharf Br, Leicestershire
 * Sutton Wick, Bath and North East Somerset
 * Sutton Wick, Oxfordshire
 * Sutton Wick, Oxfordshire
 * Sutton Wood Fm, Shropshire [Farm]
 * Sutton Wood, City of Peterborough [Forest/Wood]
 * Sutton Wood, East Riding of Yorkshire [Forest/Wood]
 * Sutton's Fm, Essex [Farm]
 * Sutton's Fm, Hertfordshire [Farm]
 * Sutton's Fm, Norfolk [Farm]
 * Sutton-in-Craven, North Yorkshire
 * Sutton-on-Hull, Kingston upon Hull
 * Sutton-on-the-Forest, North Yorkshire
 * Sutton-on-the-Forest, North Yorkshire
 * Sutton-under-Brailes, Warwickshire
 * Sutton-under-Brailes, Warwickshire
 * Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe, North Yorkshire
 * Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe, North Yorkshire
 * Suttondown Plantation, Cornwall [Forest/Wood]
 * Suttonheath, Shropshire
 * Suttonhill Ho, Shropshire
 * Suttons, Essex

— Preceding unsigned comment added by RHaworth (talk • contribs) 04:22, 21 February 2005 (UTC)

Query
Is "Sutton, Rushcliffe" the same as "Sutton-cum-Granby" (which I've just added). Certainly Sutton-cum-Granby is in Rushcliffe. DancingGerbil (talk) 22:01, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Could be Sutton Bonington. Keith D (talk) 00:37, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes it is Sutton-cum-Granby, I just changed the lead to "Sutton" per the OS but indeed there is also Sutton Bonington in Rushcliffe, "Sutton-cum-Granby" appears to be natural disambiguation and "Sutton, Rushcliffe" should probably redirect there with a hatnote to Sutton Bonington. Also note that Sutton cum Lound's parish is just "Sutton".  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 23:00, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

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Felicia Gallant

Felicia Gallant is a fictional character on the NBC soap opera Another World, played by Linda Dano. The character debuted on the episode broadcast January 6, 1983, and stayed until the show's final episode on June 25, 1999. Dano won a Daytime Emmy award for her portrayal of Felicia in 1993.

Casting
Actress Anna Stuart auditioned for this part but lost the role to Linda Dano. Producers were so impressed by her audition that they created for her the role of Donna Love. Dano made her first appearance as Felicia on January 6, 1983.

Character development
The character of Felicia is a professional romance novelist who lives in Bay City. The character was modeled after real-life romance novelist Jacqueline Susann. Head-writer Robert Soderbergh had been friends with Susann before her death in the 1970s and regularly spoke at length with Linda Dano about Susann's passion for living.

Her character was brought on to bring an element of glamour to the ailing show. She was widely embraced by the fans immediately and became a beloved character on the soap until its end in 1999.

Storylines
Felicia was introduced as a glamorous romance novelist, who wrote for Cory Publishing (Dano wrote romance novels that were published under her character's name). Felicia had affairs with Cass Winthrop, who later became her best friend, and Carl Hutchins. She married Louis St. George, Zane Lindquist, Mitch Blake, Lucas Castigliano, and Sergei Radzinsky. Lucas was, out of all the men she married, the true love of her life. When Lucas came to town, he came looking for the daughter he knew was alive, but she thought was stillborn (Felicia and Lucas had been lovers when they were teenagers). By extension, he revealed that she was born Fanny Grady and from a tempestuous family background. Since Felicia had taken a long time to build up this wealthy and glamorous reputation, it embarrassed her horribly to have other people know her business.

Over time, her marriage to Mitch hit a rough patch, and each cheated on the other. They both accepted their marriage was over and they had a mutual, amicable divorce. With Lucas back in her life, she fell for him all over again, and they were married. However, Lucas was shot by a jealous ex-lover and died in hospital weeks later, leaving Felicia heartbroken.

However, by this time, Felicia had found her daughter, the nasty vixen Lorna Devon (Alicia Coppola). Felicia and Lorna were adversaries for a very long time, but eventually warmed to a mother-daughter relationship. Lorna also made enemies with Felicia's adopted daughter, Jenna; one memorable stunt involved Lorna replacing Jenna's boyfriend's music video with a never-before-seen porn tape with Jenna as the centerpiece, mere seconds before it was to air live on Felicia's talk show.

A later romantic interest for Felicia was John Hudson, as he was having troubles with his marriage to wife Sharlene. Her final marriage was to Sergei Radzinsky, whom she married to keep him in the country; he was receiving treatments for aplastic anemia as a result of exposure to Chernobyl.

Novels by Felicia Gallant
Felicia has published at least 53 books, all gothic romance, except as noted.

 * Beyond Paradise
 * The Bride of Bombay
 * The Bride of Waverly
 * The Cannons of Newcastle
 * Castle of Desire
 * Damned by Desire
 * The Daring Heart
 * Doctor's Desire
 * Driven to Passion
 * Ebony Heartbeat
 * Embers in the Snow (1985)
 * Endless Journey
 * Every Heart Knows
 * Fallen Females
 * Flames in the Night
 * Forbidden Flower (1994, rejected)
 * Forbidden Passion
 * For the Love of Poppy
 * Gardenias for Gwendolyn
 * Gone with the Dawn (1983, first for Cory Publishing)
 * Handmaiden's Heart
 * The Heart That Heals (1996, contemporary)
 * The Heart's Own Music
 * Into the Fire (1994, semi-autobiographical)
 * The Lady and the Laborer (1989)
 * Liza

 * Lock Out the Night
 * Lonely and Unloved
 * Love Beneath the Stars
 * Love on the Moors
 * Lust in the Kremlin (1980s)
 * The Manly Heart
 * The Mistress of Orleans
 * Moonlight Desires (1983)
 * My Finest Hour
 * Paradise Delayed (1998)
 * Passion's Progress (1983)
 * The Pauper's Ransom
 * The Rebel Princess
 * Rive Gauche Serenade
 * Rocky Mountain Miracle
 * Sands of the Desert
 * Sands of the Heart
 * Savage Love (1983)
 * Shimmering Love
 * Sweet Captive
 * Torrid Tundra Nights
 * Untold Secrets
 * Walking in the Light: The Story of Frankie Frame Winthrop (1997, biographical)
 * White Snow in Hell
 * Windblown Rose

Reception
For the role as Felicia, Dano won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1993. She was also nominated for Leading Actress Emmys in 1994 and 1996, and for Supporting Actress in 1992.

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Kentucky Bend

The Kentucky Bend, variously called the New Madrid Bend, Madrid Bend, Bessie Bend, or Bubbleland,  is an exclave of Fulton County, Kentucky, encircled by the states of Tennessee and Missouri. It is a portion of a peninsula defined by an oxbow loop meander of the Mississippi River, and its inclusion in the state of Kentucky stems from uncertainties of the course of the Mississippi River when the boundary between Tennessee and Kentucky was established.

As of the 2020 census, the population was 9 persons in this area, tabulated as the Kentucky Bend Census County Division. The mailing address of the area is Tiptonville, Tennessee. New Madrid, Missouri, is directly across the river to the north, but it is not connected to the bend by road or ferry. The closest crossings of the Mississippi River are the Dorena–Hickman Ferry and the Caruthersville Bridge located in nearby Dyer County.

Geography
Kentucky Bend is the extreme southwestern corner of Kentucky. The peninsula is traversed by the southern line of latitude of the state of Kentucky, at the banks of the Mississippi River. The only highway into the area is Tennessee State Route 22, whose continuation into Kentucky Bend at one time was signed as Kentucky State Route 313.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Kentucky Bend covers a land area of 69.6 sqkm, of which 45.2 sqkm are land and 24.4 sqkm, or 35.08%, are covered by water. The water area is primarily within the Mississippi River. Surveyors marking the boundary between Kentucky and Tennessee had only estimated where their line would meet the Mississippi; later, more detailed surveys revealed the location of this line to pass through north–south bends in the river, creating a division of the peninsula. The western border of Kentucky is designated as the Mississippi River, as is the eastern border of Missouri—thus the creation of a "notch" for Kentucky, but not for Tennessee.

History

The border predates the separation of Kentucky from Virginia and Tennessee from North Carolina. Its location stems from the Royal Colonial Boundary of 1665, which was meant to delimit overlapping inland claims of the Colony of Virginia and the Province of Carolina, respectively.

In 1812, this area of the river was highly disrupted and was reported to even flow backward because of the 1811–1812 New Madrid series of earthquakes, some of the most powerful ever felt in the United States.

The state of Tennessee contested the inclusion of the Kentucky Bend in the state of Kentucky, claiming it as part of Obion County until at least 1848, but Tennessee eventually dropped its claim.

This area of the Mississippi River, from just east at "Island Number Ten" around to the town of New Madrid, Missouri, was the site of a Civil War battle from February 28 to April 8, 1862, the Battle of Island Number Ten.

Due to its highly productive soil in the river's floodplain, Kentucky Bend was developed as a major cotton-producing area. The 1870 census recorded more than 300 residents. In The West Tennessee Farm edited by Marvin Downing (University of Tennessee at Martin Press, 1979), Norman L. Parks reports a population in 1880 of 303, of whom 18 were African American. By 1900, "large numbers of Negroes in the Bend" were working as laborers to plant and harvest the cotton.

In Mark Twain's book Life on the Mississippi, he described the six-decade-long feud between the Darnell and Watson families and other elements of life in the bend.

Climate
The Kentucky Bend, like the nearby Missouri Bootheel and Western Tennessee, has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) with characteristics of a humid continental climate, and experiences hot, humid summers and chilly, though not severe, winters. Winter weather can vary from very mild and wet when air masses from the Gulf of Mexico predominate, to very cold, dry, and windy with northerly or northwesterly airflows as in the famous cold month of January 1977. On average, 82 nights fall to or below 32 F, while one night falls to or below 0 F, and the coldest temperature ever was −17 F on February 2, 1951. The hottest was 107 F on July 1, 1952, while an average of 2.9 days exceed 100 F.

Rainfall is fairly heavy throughout the year due to moist air from the Gulf of Mexico being advected on the western side of the Bermuda High, plus occasional remnant depressions from hurricanes passing up the Mississippi Valley. Between 1963 and 2012, the wettest calendar year was 1990 with 71.24 in and the driest 2005 with 32.36 in. The wettest day was September 23, 2006, with 11.38 in in one day, and September 2006 was also the wettest month with 15.27 in, while no precipitation fell during October 1964.

Snowfall is common during the winter, with around 9.7 in annually. The most snow in one month was in January 1977 with 13.1 in, while the snowiest season was from July 1966 to June 1967 with 19.3 in.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was Transwiki or merge with something. no consensus to delete. --Rhobite 21:55, Mar 5, 2005 (UTC)

Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool
Dicdef of a sysadmin slang term from the Jargon File. Unlikely to grow any larger. jdb ❋ (talk) 04:26, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep. "Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool" is a famous hacker expression, and without articles like these its meaning is not immediately obvious. 193.167.132.66 07:28, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * You're right in that the meaning is non-obvious, but Wikipedia is not a guide to jargon usage. jdb ❋ (talk) 08:37, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Dicdef'ish... transwiki, or merge into hacker slang. Radiant! 08:52, Feb 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Concur Kappa 08:57, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Transwiki, redirect this entry to hacker slang - David Gerard 15:04, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * DeleteIt is a dicdef, so it should be deleted, BUT, it should be moved to Wiktionary, which welcomes dicdefs :).  I've placed a basic entry at Luser Attitude Readjustment Tool.Superm401 02:28, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete Is it meant to be Loser... ? Jeff Knaggs|Talk 12:24, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * It is a contraction of loser and user, see luser. Thue | talk 12:36, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect dicdef to BOFH and/or luser. Thue | talk 12:36, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete context-free dicdef. CDC   (talk)  04:25, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete but move to Wiktionary, unless someone adds some historical information about it, like what's in the luser article. Or maybe THAT should be moved to Wiktionary too. Shadowlord | talk 17:45, 27 Feb 2005

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Booth Savage

Booth Savage (born May 21, 1948) is a Canadian film, stage, and television veteran actor. He is perhaps best known for his role as Team Canada head coach Harry Sinden in the 2006 CBC miniseries, Canada Russia '72.

Career
Savage graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from York University in 1992.

Savage is also a playwright and avid stage actor. His self-written plays Savage Heat, DADS, Reversing Falls, Pillow Talk, Pajama Games and This Bloody Business have been performed on stages across Canada. Moreover, he is an original actor member of Toronto's Theatre Passe Muraille and Toronto Free Theatre. He has performed in over 100 plays in every province and territory in Canada, with the exception of Yukon.

Savage is currently part of the Canadore College Theatre program faculty.

Awards
In 1987, he won a Gemini Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for his role as Felix Batterinski in Allan King's The Last Season.

Personal life
Savage is married to actress Janet-Laine Green, and has two children. Their son Tyrone Savage is also an actor.

Movies

 * Stone Cold Dead (1979)
 * Silence of the North (1981) Howard
 * Curtains (1983) Amanda's Boyfriend
 * Samuel Lount (1985) Edward Kennedy
 * Striker's Mountain (1985) Dave Cameron
 * The Last Season (1986) Felix Batterinski
 * The Photographer's Wife (1991) Gordon
 * Harvard Man (2001) Steve Jensen
 * Narc (2002) Cecil Mitchum
 * Isabelle (2018) Clifford Kane

Television

 * For The Record
 * Search and Rescue
 * Every Person is Guilty
 * Maria
 * Collaborators
 * Say You Are Real
 * On The Evidence
 * Top Cops (3 episodes)
 * Sweating Bullets
 * You've Come a Long Way, Katie (TV miniseries) (1980) (3 Episodes)
 * Home Fires (1980) Bruce McLeod (Main role)
 * The Littlest Hobo(1980) Truck Driver - Joe (1 Episode)
 * Silence of the North (1981) Flier
 * Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982) (2 Episodes)
 * Seeing Things (1986) Nick (2 Episodes)
 * Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (1986) George Carter (1 Episode)
 * Night Heat (1986) Cliff Colclough (1 Episode)
 * Hot Shots (1986) Jason 'Jake' West (Main Role, 13 Episodes)
 * Chasing Rainbows (1988) 'Chicago' Benny Rose (14 Episodes)
 * T. and T. (1988) Harry (1 Episode)
 * The Beachcombers (1989) Ted Blake (2 Episodes)
 * Sanity Clause (TV movie) (1990) Mike
 * Labor of Love (TV movie) (1990)
 * The Photographer's Wife (short) (1991) Gordon
 * Street Legal (1990–1991) Sid Novak Jr. (3 Episodes)
 * Secret Service (1993) Wade (1 Episode)
 * Survive the Night (TV movie) (1993) Andrew
 * Counterstrike (1993) Malecki (1 Episode)
 * E.N.G. (1991, 1993) Tex Yeager, Terance Graves (respectively) (2 Episodes)
 * Thicker Than Blood: The Larry McLinden Story (TV movie) (1994) David Meadows
 * Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (1995) Greg Vinson (1 Episode)
 * Wind at My Back (1996) Jack Bailey (1 Episode)
 * Goosebumps (1998) Tom Morgan (1 Episode)
 * Thanks of a Grateful Nation (TV movie) (1998) Gary Wall
 * Ricky Nelson: Original Teen Idol (TV movie) (1999) Lew Chudd
 * Sanctuary (2001) Sheriff Bill Duer
 * Blue Murder (2003) Constable Phil Bishop (1 Episode)
 * Bury the Lead (2004) Simon Redner (1 Episode)
 * This Is Wonderland (2005) (1 Episode)
 * ''Sue Thomas: F.B. Eye (2005) (1 Episode)
 * Swarmed (2005) Agent Doug Heydon
 * Missing (2006) Mark Stryker (2 Episodes)
 * Canada Russia '72 (2006) Harry Sinden
 * The Jane Show - (2007) Brady O'Flynn (4 Episodes)
 * Monster Warriors - recurring
 * The Call (TV movie) (2008) Brakka
 * M.V.P. - (2008) (2 Episodes)
 * Rabbit Fall (2007–2008) Stanton Martinsky (Main Role, 8 Episodes)
 * The Listener (2009) Wade Lassiter (1 Episode)
 * Being Erica (2009) Larry Horowitz (1 Episode)
 * King (2011) Defense Attorney (1 Episode)
 * Mr. D (2011–2015) Principal Callaghan (46 Episodes)
 * Slasher (2016) Ronald Edwards (3 Episodes)

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Withdrawal (military)

A tactical withdrawal or retreating defensive action is a type of military operation, generally meaning that retreating forces draw back while maintaining contact with the enemy. A withdrawal may be undertaken as part of a general retreat, to consolidate forces, to occupy ground that is more easily defended, force the enemy to overextend to secure a decisive victory, or to lead the enemy into an ambush. It is considered a relatively risky operation, requiring discipline to keep from turning into a disorganized rout or at the very least doing severe damage to the military's morale.

Tactical withdrawal
A withdrawal may be anticipated, as when a defending force is outmatched or on disadvantageous ground, but it must cause as much damage to an enemy as possible. In such a case, the retreating force may use a number of tactics and strategies to further impede the enemy's progress. That could include setting mines or booby traps during or before the withdrawal, leading the enemy into prepared artillery barrages, or using of scorched-earth tactics.

Rout
In warfare, the long-term objective is the defeat of the enemy. An effective tactical method is the demoralisation of the enemy by defeating its army and routing it from the battlefield. Once a force has become disorganized and has lost its ability to fight, the victors can chase down the enemy's remnants and attempt to cause as many casualties or to take as many prisoners as possible.

However, a commander must weigh the advantages of pursuit of a disorganised enemy against the possibility that the enemy may rally and leave the pursuing force vulnerable, with longer lines of communications that are vulnerable to a counterattack. That causes the value of a feigned retreat.

Feigned retreat
The act of feigning a withdrawal or rout to lure an enemy away from a defended position or into a prepared ambush is an ancient tactic, which has been used throughout the history of warfare.

Three famous examples are:
 * William the Conqueror used a feigned retreat at the Battle of Hastings to lure much of Harold's infantry from their advantageous defenses on higher ground, leading to its annihilation by a charge of William's Norman cavalry.
 * Medieval Mongols were famed for, among other things, their extensive use of feigned retreats during their conquests, as their fast light cavalry made successful pursuit by an enemy almost impossible. In the heat and muddle of a battle, the Mongol Army would pretend to be defeated, exhausted and confused, and would suddenly retreat from the battlefield. The opposing force, thinking that it had routed the Mongols, would give chase. The Mongol cavalry would, while retreating, fire upon its pursuers and dishearten them (see Parthian shot). When the pursuing forces stopped chasing the (significantly faster) Mongol cavalry, the Mongols would then turn and charge the pursuers and generally succeed. That was used partly as a defeat in detail tactic to allow the Mongols to defeat larger armies by breaking them into smaller groups.
 * Early on during the Battle of Kasserine Pass in 1943, tanks of the US 1st Armored Division followed what appeared to be a headlong retreat by elements of the 21st Panzer Division. The advancing US forces then met a screen of German anti-tank guns, who opened fire and destroyed nearly all the American tanks. A US forward artillery observer, whose radio and landlines had been cut by shellfire, recalled:

"'It was murder. They rolled right into the muzzles of the concealed eighty-eights and all I could do was stand by and watch tank after tank blown to bits or burst into flames or just stop, wrecked. Those in the rear tried to turn back but the eighty-eights seemed to be everywhere.'"

title: Withdrawal (military)