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This is a list of settlements in the Corfu regional unit, Greece.

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 * Agios Markos
 * Agios Matthaios
 * Agios Nikolaos
 * Agios Panteleimonas
 * Agios Prokopios
 * Agrafoi
 * Agros
 * Aleimmatades
 * Alepou
 * Ano Garouna
 * Ano Korakiana
 * Ano Lefkimmi
 * Ano Pavliana
 * Antipernoi
 * Argyrades
 * Arillas
 * Arkadades
 * Armenades
 * Avliotes
 * Benitses
 * Chlomatiana
 * Chlomos
 * Chorepiskopoi
 * Corfu (city)
 * Dafni
 * Doukades
 * Drosato
 * Episkepsi
 * Ereikoussa
 * Evropouloi
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 * Gastouri
 * Giannades
 * Gimari
 * Kalafationes
 * Kamara
 * Kanakades
 * Kanalia
 * Karousades
 * Kassiopi
 * Kastelannoi
 * Kastellanoi
 * Kato Garouna
 * Kato Korakiana
 * Kato Pavliana
 * Kavallouri
 * Kavvadades
 * Klimatia
 * Kokkini
 * Kompitsi
 * Kouramades
 * Kouspades
 * Krini
 * Kynopiastes
 * Lafki
 * Lakka
 * Lakones
 * Lefkimmi
 * Liapades
 * Longos
 * Loutses
 * Magazia
 * Magoulades
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 * Marmaro
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 * Moraitika
 * Neochori
 * Nisaki
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 * Pagoi
 * Pelekas
 * Pentati
 * Peritheia
 * Perivoli
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 * Petaleia
 * Petriti
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 * Sokraki
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 * Stavros
 * Strongyli
 * Valaneio
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 * Vasilatika
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Talk:Isa Boletini

Link to www.trepca.net
http://www.trepca.net/histori/020113-shala-bajgores-ne-veshtrimin-historik.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.67.64.10 (talk) 20:53, 6 February 2005 (UTC)

Serbia & Montenegro
Wow, I find the Balkans amazing. Especially the Albanians. According to this article, this Albanian fought against Serbian & Montenegro, so he travelled to the future, and fought against a country that existed from 2003 – 2006. Simply amazing...

If you don't get it, this article needs some MAJOR clean up! Not only that, but the article seems very nationalistic and pro-Albanian, exclaiming that Albania is Greece, Macedonia, and Serbia, by claiming some of the major cities of the respective nations, and no sources, to back up the many claims. Even grammar and spelling needs to be fixed. Somebody should really look over this article... even though I'm sure many won't bother too.

67.55.4.212 (talk) 20:52, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

 * He fought against the joint Serbian and Montenegrin forces of that time, whatever state or governal entity they belonged to.The article isn't making any claims on neighboring countries,it simply enlists the albanian movement at the time.Amenifus (talk) 07:51, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Bajazit I. Boljetinac
There was a Yugoslav officer, educated in Vienna (1919), Bajazit I. Boljetinac. He is mentioned in military journals throughout the 1920s, as a cavalry sublieutenant (1921), lieutenant (1924), 2nd-class captain (1927), 1929, 1931. Perhaps a relative?--Z oupan 11:47, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
 * --Z oupan 04:06, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

Lulu.com isn't reliable, Zoupan. 23 editor (talk) 18:46, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

  Signature template I was topic banned on 20 July 2014 "in topics involving 'Serbs and Serbia 1900-current' (broadly construed)" because a small group of editors involved in disputes with me reached the consensus to ban me. On 16 August 2016 the ban was lifted (diff) without any conditions. In the topic area I was banned from, I plan to adhere to the following restrictions until 16 August 2018: Since this page belongs to the above-mentioned topic area, I want to clarify these restrictions.
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the 1878-1907 section is filled with ahistorical facts and misinformation
This section absolutely needs to be gone from the biography and never return due to that it blatantly disseminates misinformation of one of the most prominent Albanian leaders of the early 20th century. I am not schooled enough in early Albanian history to be able to provide a concrete replacement for this bio but I am an advid historian of the 1990s break up of Yugoslavia, and the sources used to back up the claim boletini ordered genocide and was a rapist are very weak. The reasons they are weak are because some of them are Serbian newspapers from the early 1900s, which alone should raise some eye browns as Serbia was in a state of expelling ethnic Albanians from southern Serbia following the ottoman loss of the first Balkan war. The press certainly had a mandate from the public as well as the king of Serbia to justify these actions (That was Yugoslavia. Ost-Dienst. 1991.) The other reason why the sources are weak is that besides the newspapers they are composed of historians from the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences. I mean no disrespect to Serbians but the Serbian Academy of Sciences and art has been one of the most ethno-nationalist institutions of art in Serbia. Many of its members are blamed for making a scholastic case for Slobodan Milosevic's rise to power, and giving credibility to the claims that Serbians were mistreated in Yugoslavia. The book Yugoslavia Death of a Nation, written by a team of BBC reporters sent to document the reasons why the war in Bosnia and Croatia started, blame the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts for initially stirring up the Serbian nationalism that led to the fall of Yugoslavia and genocide in Bosnia + Croatia. The two historians cited in boletini's 1878-1907 section Dusan Batakovic and Kosta Mihailović were both part of these organizations in the 1980s, the time where the academy was laying the groundwork for the establishment of a Greater Serbia. The culmination of this work led to a memorandum that was published in September 1986 who these two historians were most certainly apart of the drafting process of this document. "'It was the dream of all nationalists in Yugoslavia to put their vision down on paper and then make it a reality. They knew their plans could not be executed immediately, but they were content to wait. The memorandum of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts remains shrouded in mystery nearly a decade after its existence was revealed. Was the Memorandum an attempt to settle political scores in Serbia? How did Slobodan Milosevic, the ambitious Party chief, avoid taking a public stand? Was the revival of Serbian nationalism the first step towards dismembering Yugoslavia?" (Silber, Laura, and Allan Little. 1997. Yugoslavia: death of a nation. New York: Penguin Books page 31) This memorandum painted Serbs as the victims of Yugoslavia, and said very egregious claims including that Albanians were then currently waging genocide in Kosovo, Slovenia and Croatia were taking advantage of Serbia, Croats were threatening ethnic cleansing, the list can go on and on. The so-called "facts" this memorandum used were of course all nonsense drummed up by Serb nationalists. In irony, the so called "genocide against the Serbs" was used as a justification for serb militias to commit genocide in Croatia, Bosnia, and ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. Some historians and experts in the region point to this memorandum as the turning point that led Yugoslavia into bloodshed. I cannot let the legacy of a prominent Albanian national figure be sabotaged by the writings of so-called "historians" that want to revise history for the satisfaction of Serbs being painted as the perpetual victims in the Balkans. Please leave the 1878-1907 section blank until someone writes an actual historical biography for Isa Boletini.

In addition, the user who wrote this section of the bio was no other than a Serbian user who was banned for abusing multiple accounts. Most likely these accounts were used to change pages describing leaders of Bosnia, Croatia, and Albania to include Serbian Ethno-nationalist revisionism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zoupan Fickleminotaur (talk) 19:34, 31 January 2021 (UTC)

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Talk:Phidias

Phidias as the namesake for Phi, the Golden Mean?
I read in a book, The Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Numbers by Richard A. Dunlap (c. 1997, World Scientific Publishing Co. Ltd.) that the Golden Mean is called "phi" in reference to Phidias.

It's not clear from here or the cross-linked Golden Ratio article here on Wikipedia whether this is considered correct or whether this particular Phidias is the same as the mathematician to which Dunlap refers.

Can anyone here confirm or refute this claim
 * Highly unlikely as Phi is simply a greek letter, much as pi is. The ratio has become known by the name of the symbol. Lisiate 02:14, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Like this article, Thinkquest.com also states that Mark Barr was the first to represent the Golden Ratio using the Greek letter phi. The Wikipedia stub for Mark Barr also links here to Phidias the sculptor. The main article here now justifies the connection by reference to Phidias' Parthenon scupltures. If this is right, the person who commented above was wrong in assuming that there was another Phidias (mathematician).

While I'm here, can't resist posting a mnemonic to Phidias' work:

There once was a sculptor named Phidias Whose manners in art were invidious He carved Aphrodite Without any nightie It startled the ultra fastidious

Go ahead, delete it if it's against the rules! :-) Fayenatic london 23:16, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Rivalry
I was under the impression that the seated statue of Zeus was built as a rivaling response to the statue of Athena. She was the largest at the time and those wanting to build something taller built the seated Zeus. Had he stood up, he would've been taller. Clever! I have always been fond of this story, but can't explain it now that you've said they were built and commissioned by the same people. How can this be? My source is the wonderful professor Susan Kane of Greek and Roman Architecture at Oberlin College.

The cup
I was told by an archeology student that it has recently been discovered that the inscription, "I belong to Pheidias", was in fact scratched into the cup by a student who wanted to play a joke on his/her professor. Don't have a proper source I'm afraid. (unsigned)

Sections?
There aren't any, and I guess this article kind of needs them, as there's more information than would be normally in a single section. `T. S. Rice 23:36, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

The deleted sections aren't very good, and they aren't well sourced, but surely we want to build on them. --Wetman 22:29, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

the Elian boy
Why does the 'love of the sculptor for an Elian boy' link to the Pederasty page? That such an 'Elian boy' exists is far from factual and its inclusion seems gratuitous. I have removed it as a point of principle. 213.217.216.126 —The preceding  signed but undated.
 * Your edit is inappropriate as the love we are discussing falls within the purview of Greek pederasty, and your opinion on its veracity is of no encyclopedic concern. Haiduc 00:46, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Thirty Tyrants of Athens?
Was Phidias' father Charmides one of the Thirty Tyrants of Athens or was it another person who just happened to have the same name and living around the same time period?--Apilok (talk) 20:23, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Disambig link to Archimedes?
I've reverted a good faith edit by an anon linking Archimedes whose father was also called Phidias in an unorthodos format. Do we want to incldue a proper dab link for thsi Phidias?--Peter cohen (talk) 20:50, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

B. Russell's History... as evidence
My statements here on the book were made as a result of these two links.

Thanks, AndrewOne (talk) 07:53, 12 March 2023 (UTC)

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John C. Lawn

John C. "Jack" Lawn (born June 2, 1935) served as the 4th Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) from 1985 to 1990. On 1 March 1985, Lawn, who had served as Deputy Administrator since 1982, was designated Acting Administrator following the retirement of Francis M. Mullen. On 4 April 1985, he was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to be the next Administrator of the DEA. Mr. Lawn was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on 16 July 1985, and sworn in on 26 July 1985.

Before coming to the DEA, Mr. Lawn had served for 15 years as a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1967 to 1982. As Special Agent in Charge of the San Antonio field office from 1980 to 1982, he had directed the successful investigation into the assassination of U.S. District Judge John H. Wood Jr. Before this historic case, Lawn had supervised all FBI civil rights cases, including allegations of police brutality and color of law complaints. In addition, he was responsible for background investigations of White House officials, federal judges, and US attorney nominees. He also served in the Criminal Division of FBI headquarters where he supervised the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations review of the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy and the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

From 1990-1994, Mr. Lawn served as vice-president and chief of operations of the New York Yankees. In 1998, he was serving as the chairman and CEO of The Century Council, a national organization dedicated to fighting alcohol abuse. On Thursday, September 30, 2010, in Washington, D.C., the DEA Educational Foundation honored Mr. Lawn, presenting him with the 2010 DEA Educational Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award. This award was presented in recognition of his decades of leadership and commitment to drug law enforcement, drug abuse prevention, and drug treatment.

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Bernard Durkan

Bernard J. Durkan (born 26 March 1945) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kildare North constituency since 1997, and previously from 1982 to 1997 and 1981 to 1982 for the Kildare constituency. He previously served as Minister of State for Social Welfare from 1994 to 1997. He was a Senator for the Agricultural Panel from May 1982 to November 1982.

Biography
He was born in Killasser, Swinford, County Mayo, in 1945. Durkan was educated at St. John's, Carramore, County Mayo.

Durkan took part in a farmer's road blockade protest in 1967 and was imprisoned in Mountjoy Prison and Portlaoise Prison for eight weeks after refusing to pay a £7 10s. fine.

He was elected to Kildare County Council in 1976 and was a member until 1994, serving as chairman from 1986 to 1987. He was elected to Dáil Éireann for the Kildare constituency at the 1981 general election, but lost his seat at the February 1982 general election following the defeat of the Fine Gael–Labour Party coalition. He was then subsequently elected as a member of the 16th Seanad as a Senator for the Agricultural Panel.

Durkan regained his Dáil seat at the November 1982 general election, and was re-elected at the 1987, 1989, and 1992 general elections. When the Kildare constituency was divided, he was elected at the 1997 general election for the new constituency of Kildare North, and retained his seat at the 2002 and 2007 general elections. He also topped the poll in the 2011 general election. He was re-elected at the 2016 general election and 2020 general election, retaining his seat on both occasions on the final count.

During his career as a member of Dáil Éireann, he has held several Front Bench portfolios in Fine Gael, including Health, Food, Trade and Industry, Insurance, Overseas Development Aid and Human Rights, and Communications and Natural Resources. He served as Minister of State for Social Welfare from 1994 to 1997.

He currently serves as vice-chairman of the Joint Oireachtas on Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade and as a member of the Joint Committee on European Affairs. He has also previously acted as the chairman on the Oireachtas Committee of European Affairs and a member of the Eastern Health Board. He has also served as Fine Gael Chief Whip. In 2010, Durkan refused to defer the drawing of his ministerial pension while still being paid as a TD. He instead decided to donate this pension to charity.

In 2023, Durkan called for an inquiry into the usage of parental alienation in family law cases, which he described as a "pseudo-condition".

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John H. Wood Jr.

John Howland Wood Jr. (March 31, 1916 – May 29, 1979) was an American lawyer and judge from Texas. He served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas before being assassinated by contract killer Charles Harrelson outside Wood's home in San Antonio, in 1979. Wood's killing was the first assassination of a federal judge in the 20th century.

Early life and education
John Howland Wood Jr. was born on March 31, 1916, to a prominent pioneer Texas family in Rockport, Texas. His great-great-grandfather, John Howland Wood, settled in Texas in 1836 and founded the towns of Rockport and Woodsboro, and took part in the Texas Revolution and American Civil War. His grandfather was a popular Democratic sheriff of Bexar County. Wood's father, John H. Wood Sr., was also a lawyer. Wood attended Thomas Jefferson High School in San Antonio, Texas. He received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from St. Mary's University, Texas in 1935 and his Bachelor of Laws from the University of Texas School of Law in 1938.

Career
Wood was in private practice in San Antonio from 1938 to 1970 with the law firm Beckmann, Stanard & Olson, except from 1944 to 1945, when he served as an ensign in the United States Navy during World War II. Wood was in the United States Naval Reserve from 1945 to 1954, as a lieutenant.

Federal judicial service
Wood was nominated by President Richard Nixon on October 7, 1970, to the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, to a new seat created by 84 Stat. 294. Confirmed by the United States Senate on November 25, 1970, he received his commission on December 1, 1970. He served until his assassination in San Antonio on May 29, 1979.

Death
On May 29, 1979, Judge Wood was killed in San Antonio, by a shot from a high-powered rifle as he stood at the door of his automobile. He was struck in the small of the back (the middle of the lower back) and the bullet lodged near the upper part of his chest. Wood, known as "Maximum John" for his harsh sentencing of drug traffickers, was assassinated by Charles Harrelson in a contract killing placed by Texas drug lord Jamiel Chagra, who was awaiting trial before the judge. Wood's killing was the first assassination of a federal judge in the 20th century. (Two other federal judges were assassinated in the 1980s, Richard J. Daronco in 1988 and Robert Smith Vance in 1989.) President Jimmy Carter described his assassination as "an assault on our very system of justice."

Honors
John H. Wood Middle School, in San Antonio is named in his honor. The federal courthouse in San Antonio is also named for Wood.

Media
In Cormac McCarthy's 2005 novel No Country for Old Men (its story set in 1980), the sheriff says "Here a while back in San Antonio they shot and killed a federal judge", referencing the murder of Judge Wood by Charles Harrelson. The killer's son Woody Harrelson starred in the 2007 film adaptation of the novel, which premiered two months after Charles Harrelson's death.

The reality TV shows City Confidential and FBI: The Untold Stories did episodes on Wood's murder.

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User:Prater~enwiki

Welcome to Wikipedia! I have wikified and rearranged your Ahmed Ali article to conform to Wikipedia's style. He certainly seems an interesting person, and I'm pleased to see the article there.

As for the other Ahmed Ali, I have changed the link to Ahmed Ali (politician). David Cannon 21:12, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Paul Kehoe

Paul Kehoe (born 11 January 1973) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wexford constituency since 2002. He was appointed Chair of the Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science in September 2020. He served as Minister of State at the Department of Defence from 2011 to 2020 and Government Chief Whip from 2011 to 2016.

Early and private life
Kehoe was born in Bree, County Wexford, in 1973. The son of Myles and Bernadette Kehoe, his father was a farmer and political activist. He was educated at St. Mary's CBS, Enniscorthy, and Kildalton Agricultural College, County Kilkenny. Kehoe is also a farmer. He is married to Brigid O'Connor, of Taghmon, and the couple have three children.

Political career
Kehoe was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a Fine Gael TD for the Wexford constituency at the 2002 general election. In June 2002, Enda Kenny became Leader of Fine Gael and Kehoe was appointed Fine Gael Spokesperson for Communications, Marine and Environment. He has also served as Fine Gael Assistant Chief Whip. He was re-elected at the 2007, 2011, 2016 and 2020 general elections.

On 9 March 2011, he was appointed as to be Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach, with special responsibility as Government Chief Whip, and Minister of State at the Department of Defence, by the coalition government of Fine Gael and the Labour Party led by Enda Kenny.

On 6 May 2016, he was appointed as Minister of State to the same departments by the new minority government of Fine Gael and Independents led by Enda Kenny. He did not continue as Government Chief Whip, but continued to attend government meetings, with increased duties as Minister of State where Kenny assigned himself as Minister for Defence. On 14 June 2017, he was appointed as Minister of State to the same departments by the new minority government of Fine Gael and Independents led by Leo Varadkar, where Varadkar similarly assigned himself as Minister for Defence.

During his term as Minister of State for Defence, Kehoe was the subject of controversy for comments he made about Naval Service vessels being docked, with two former Irish Naval Service officers calling on him to resign and stating he "smacks of a person who doesn't know how the military operates". Kehoe's home was targeted by protesters in April 2019.

During the 2020 general election, Kehoe's office was targeted by protestors from the Air Corps who encouraged voters to not give him any preference votes. He won 8.4% of the first preference votes, and was re-elected on the 11th count without reaching the quota.

Kehoe was not appointed to ministerial office in the coalition government formed on 27 June 2020 by Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party.

In 2021, Kehoe opposed a government proposal to give a €500 bonus to frontline workers, calling it "mad" and "crazy".

On 12 February 2024, Kehoe announced that he would not contest the next general election.

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Eastwood Field

Eastwood Field is a minor league baseball stadium located in Niles, Ohio, United States. It is currently the home of the Mahoning Valley Scrappers, a collegiate summer baseball team of the MLB Draft League. Since 2000 it has also served as the home field for the Youngstown State Penguins.

History
Eastwood Field opened for the 1999 season, when the Erie SeaWolves franchise was relocated to Niles upon the granting of an expansion Eastern League franchise to Erie. With an official seating capacity is 6,000, the park was originally known as Cafaro Field, named for William M. Cafaro, founder of the real estate developer the Cafaro Company. The name was changed to Eastwood Field in 2003 to match the Eastwood Mall, a Cafaro property on U.S. Route 422, behind which the ballpark was built. On August 14, 2012, the stadium hosted the 2012 New York-Penn All Star Game. In 2015, the Fall Experimental Football League announced the Boston Brawlers franchise would relocate and play its home games at Eastwood Field as the Mahoning Valley Brawlers, however, the team would cease operations prior to its first game.

The stadium's highest attendance was recorded on July 18th, 2024, when 7,869 fans were in attendance for 717 Credit Union Financial Wellness Night, where the Mahoning Valley Scrappers beat the State College Spikes 16-8. The event was sold out, with free tickets to attend the game provided by the credit union on a first-come first-served basis.

Tenants and events
Eastwood Field also plays home to the Youngstown State Penguins baseball team and the Inter-Tri County League Senior baseball game. In addition to baseball, the stadium hosts a number of concerts and other entertainment events each year. These acts include Bad Company, Nelly, Kool and the Gang, The Beach Boys, Kenny Rogers and Foreigner.

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Super Castlevania IV

Super Castlevania IV is a 1991 platform game developed and published by Konami for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. It has been re-released multiple times, including for the Super NES Classic Edition.

Super Castlevania IV features expanded play control, 16-bit graphics featuring Super NES's Mode 7, and a soundtrack featuring new pieces and arrangements based on previous Castlevania music. Following the same setting as Castlevania on the NES, the game takes place in 1691 Transylvania, where the vampire hunter Simon Belmont must defeat the vampire Dracula. The game received critical acclaim and is considered one of the greatest video games of all time.

Gameplay

Super Castlevania IV is a side-scrolling platform game where the player takes control of Simon through eleven levels. Players begin the game with five lives, and it ends in a game over once they have lost them all. The player will lose a life if all of Simon's health gauge is depleted, fall into a hole or if they do not finish the level within the time limit. The health gauge can be restored through food items that can be dropped from candles and breakable blocks, or with the Magic Crystal, which is received after defeating the boss at the end of each level. A password can be entered to continue the game.

With Simon's whip, players can attack enemies in eight directions with the use of the control pad. By holding down the attack button, the whip will go limp and can be waved around with the control pad, which can be used to block projectiles. The length and power of the whip can be increased up to two levels by collecting an item called the Morning Star. The whip is used for fighting and for latching onto rings to swing over areas that are too wide or dangerous for the player to jump across. In addition to jumping, the player can control Simon to move while crouching.

Like its predecessors, players can use secondary weapons that consume Simon's hearts, which are dropped from candles and enemies. The secondary weapons include an axe which can be thrown in an arc, a watch which stops all enemy motion and a dagger that can be thrown across the screen. Collecting the items known as the Double and Triple Shots allows the player to throw secondary weapons up to three times in a row.

Development and release
Super Castlevania IV was directed by Masahiro Ueno (credited in the game as Jun Furano since Konami did not allow the use of real names at the time), who was also the main programmer. His first 16-bit game, Ueno's team possibly started development on it during 1989. Ueno liked the original Castlevania for the Nintendo Entertainment System the most and wanted to make a pure action game that was similar to it. Ueno only considers Super Castlevania IV a remake of the original Castlevania to some extent. Early design documents depict the player-character in modern attire, since the setting was not decided at the time. Many features in Super Castlevania IV were introduced to make it a less frustrating game for players, such as giving them more control over Simon when he walked up stairs.

Due to the team being small, everyone was involved with the design and some ideas came from the creative artists and others by the programmers' experiments. The team drew maps on paper and a lot was changed as the game was worked on. Branching stages, previously seen in Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, were once considered but not included in Super Castlevania IV. Mitsuru Yaida (credited as Yaipon) programmed Simon and also implemented the game's whip system, which was to introduce some new gameplay that was not possible on the NES. This idea was once planned for the original Castlevania game. As the enemy and boss programmer, Ueno conceived some rough ideas and additional programmers would implement more detailed boss patterns. Earlier bosses were designed to be easier so that players could discover weak points and effective weapons without retrying. Ueno worked on both the Japanese and English versions of the game, with the latter featuring some instances of censorship. He was asked to alter the color palette in the English version in order to remove some depictions of blood in stage eight.

The packaging artwork for the North American version was created by Tom Dubois, who designed the packaging for many other Konami titles outside Japan.

The game was released in Japan on October 31, 1991 for the Super Famicom. It was released in North America in late December 1991. Factor 5 created a short demo of the game running on the Mega Drive and presented it to Konami. Konami was impressed but ultimately chose to keep all Mega Drive development in-house, and did not pursue porting the game to the system.

The game has been re-released on several platforms over the years. It was re-released on the Virtual Console in 2006 for the Wii, in 2013 for the Wii U, and in 2016 for the New Nintendo 3DS. In September 2017, it was included on Nintendo's Super NES Classic Edition, a miniature replica of the Super NES featuring many built-in games. The game is included in Castlevania Anniversary Collection, a compilation of past Castlevania installments released on May 17, 2019 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One.

Audio
The music for Super Castlevania IV was composed by Masanori Adachi and Taro Kudo (credited as Masanori Oodachi and Taro respectively). Ueno wanted to make the environment of Super Castlevania IV more interactive and was proud of how the game's sound effects and music contributed to the atmosphere. It was released on Akumajō Dracula Best 2 in a compilation with Castlevania: The Adventure and Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge's music. On June 21, 2017, the game's music was released on vinyl by Mondo.

Reception
The game sold 800,000 cartridges worldwide.

Upon Super Castlevania IV's North American release, the game was acclaimed by critics. Nintendo Power gave the game four overall scores of 4.0, 4.0, 4.5 and 4.5 out of 5. Among several items, the magazine cited the game's graphics, music, and action sequences as positives. In 1994 the game was reviewed by Sandy Petersen in Dragon #209's "Eye of the Monitor" column. In 1992, Entertainment Weekly wrote, "Vampire noir: dark, earthy colors; ominous, almost subliminal sound effects — and when your hero swings from chandeliers or dispatches monsters with his iron flail, a spine-tingling sense of impending doom."

Super Castlevania IV has been praised in retrospective reviews as well. In a 1997 Castlevania retrospective, GamePro said it "is still one of the all-time best games". It was named by Nintendo Power in a 2006 issue as the 66th best game made on a Nintendo system. It was ranked 27 in the last issue. Official Nintendo Magazine placed the game at 70 on their list of the 100 best Nintendo games ever. Game Informer review opined that it "perfect[ed] the classic formula" due to its whip and less stiff gameplay. It also praised its use of Mode 7. In a review for the release on the Wii U's eShop, Nintendo Life wrote "Unlike many of the other 16-bit platformers of the era, the game has a mature and distinguished feel to it", and concluded it was the best of the original Castlevania installments. In 2018, Complex listed the game 13th on their "The Best Super Nintendo Games of All Time", writing: "Next to Symphony of the Night, this is the best Castlevania game of all time. The control is perfect, the progression is perfect, and even the ramping up of the difficulty is flawless, as it gets difficult in all the right spots. Also, it has the best soundtrack ever." In 1996, GamesMaster ranked the game 55th in its "Top 100 Games of All Time". Several publications have lauded it as one of the greatest video games of all time.

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Kaikō ROV

Kaikō (かいこう) was a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) built by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) for exploration of the deep sea. Kaikō was the second of only five vessels ever to reach the bottom of the Challenger Deep, as of 2019. Between 1995 and 2003, this 10.6 ton unmanned submersible conducted more than 250 dives, collecting 350 biological species (including 180 different bacteria), some of which could prove to be useful in medical and industrial applications. On 29 May 2003, Kaikō was lost at sea off the coast of Shikoku Island during Typhoon Chan-Hom, when a secondary cable connecting it to its launcher at the ocean surface broke.

Another ROV, Kaikō7000II, served as the replacement for Kaikō until 2007. At that time, JAMSTEC researchers began sea trials for the permanent replacement ROV, ABISMO (Automatic Bottom Inspection and Sampling Mobile).

Challenger Deep
Bathymetric data obtained during the course of the expedition (December 1872 – May 1876) of the British Royal Navy survey ship HMS Challenger (1858) enabled scientists to draw maps, which provided a rough outline of certain major submarine terrain features, such as the edge of the continental shelves and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. This discontinuous set of data points was obtained by the simple technique of taking soundings by lowering long lines from the ship to the seabed.

Among the many discoveries of the Challenger expedition was the identification of the Challenger Deep. This depression, located at the southern end of the Mariana Trench near the Mariana Islands group, is the deepest surveyed point of the World Ocean. The Challenger scientists made the first recordings of its depth on 23 March 1875 at station 225. The reported depth was 4,475 fathoms (8184 meters) based on two separate soundings.

On 23 January 1960, Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard were the first men to descend to the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Trieste bathyscaphe. Though the initial report claimed the bathyscaphe had attained a depth of 37,800 feet, the maximum recorded depth was later calculated to be 10911 m. At this depth, the water column above exerts a barometric pressure of 108.6 MPa, over one thousand times the standard atmospheric pressure at sea level. Since then, only one manned vessel has ever returned to the Challenger Deep, the Deepsea Challenger, which was piloted by director James Cameron on March 26, 2012, to the bottom of the trench.

In March 1995, Kaikō became the second vessel ever to reach the bottom of the Challenger Deep, and the first craft to visit this location since the Trieste mission. The maximum depth measured on that dive was 10,911.4 meters,  marking the deepest dive for an unmanned submersible to date. On 31 May 2009, Nereus became the third vessel to visit the bottom of the Challenger Deep, reaching a maximum recorded depth of 10,902 meters.

RV Kairei
RV Kairei (かいれい) is a deep sea research vessel that served as the support ship for Kaikō, and for its replacement ROV, Kaikō7000II. It now serves as the support ship for ABISMO. Kairei uses ABISMO to conduct surveys and observations of oceanic plateaus, abyssal plains, oceanic basins, submarine volcanoes, hydrothermal vents, oceanic trenches and other underwater terrain features to a maximum depth of 11,000 meters. Kairei also conducts surveys of the structure of deep sub-bottoms with complicated geographical shapes in subduction zones using its on-board multi-channel reflection survey system.

Timeline and fate of Kaikō
In February 1996, Kaikō returned to Challenger Deep, this time collecting sediment and microorganisms from the seabed at a depth of 10,898 meters. Among the novel organisms identified and collected was Moritella yayanosii and Shewanella benthica. These two species of bacteria appear to be obligately barophilic. The optimal pressure conditions for growth of S. benthica is 70 Megapascals (MPa), while M. yayanosii grows best at 80 MPa; no growth at all was detected at pressures of less than 50 MPa with either strain. Both species appear to contain high levels of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), omega-3 fatty acids which could prove to be useful in the treatment of hypertension and even cancer.

In December 1997, Kaikō located the wreck of Tsushima Maru on the sea floor off the coast of Okinawa. Tsushima Maru was an unmarked Japanese passenger/cargo ship that was sunk during World War II by USS Bowfin (SS-287), a United States Navy submarine.

In May 1998, Kaikō returned again to Challenger Deep, this time collecting specimens of Hirondellea gigas. Hirondellea gigas (Birstein and Vinagradov, 1955) is a crustacean of the Uristidae family of marine amphipods.

In October 1999, Kaikō performed a robotic mechanical operation at a depth of 2,150 meters off the coast of Okinawa near the Ryukyu Trench, connecting measuring equipment with underwater cables on the sea floor. On this mission, another bacterial species, Shewanella violacea, was discovered at a depth of 5,110 meters. This organism is notable for its brilliant violet-colored pigment. Certain compounds found in S. violacea may have applications in the cosmetics industry (development of products for lightening of skin tone) and also in the semiconductor industry (development of chemicals to be used in production of semiconductors).

In late November 1999, Kaikō located the wreckage of H-2 No. 8, a NASDA rocket (satellite launch system), on the sea floor at a depth of 2,900 meters off the Ogasawara Islands. H-2 flight F8 was conducted on 15 November 1999. The rocket, which was carrying a Multi-Functional Transport Satellite (MTSAT) payload, self-destructed after experiencing an engine malfunction shortly after it was launched.

In August 2000, Kaikō discovered hydrothermal vents and their associated deep sea communities at a depth of 2,450 meters near the Central Indian Ridge. The Central Indian Ridge is a divergent tectonic plate boundary between the African Plate and the Indo-Australian Plate located in the western Indian Ocean.

On 29 May 2003, Kaikō was lost at sea during Typhoon Chan-Hom, when a steel secondary cable connecting it to its launcher at the surface broke off the coast of Shikoku Island.

In May 2004, JAMSTEC resumed its research operations, using a converted ROV as its vehicle. The ROV, formerly known as UROV 7K, was rechristened Kaikō7000II. The 7000 designation indicates that this vessel is rated for diving to a maximum depth of 7,000 meters.

Development of ABISMO
While the temporary replacement ROV (Kaikō7000II) has a remarkable performance record, it is only rated to 7,000 meters and cannot reach the deepest oceanic trenches. For this reason, JAMSTEC engineers began work on a new 11,000-meter class of ROV in April 2005. The project is called ABISMO (Automatic Bottom Inspection and Sampling Mobile), which translates to abyss in Spanish. Initial sea trials of ABISMO were conducted in 2007. The craft successfully reached a planned depth of 9,760-meters, the deepest part of Izu–Ogasawara Trench, where it collected core samples of sediment from the seabed.

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Robert Bonner

Robert Bonner may refer to:

 * Robert C. Bonner (born 1942), American lawyer and government official
 * Robert E. Bonner (1824–1899), American newspaper editor
 * Robert Bonner (baseball) (1894–?), American baseball player
 * Robert Bonner (politician) (1920–2005), Canadian politician and corporate executive
 * Bobby Bonner (Robert Averill Bonner, born 1956), baseball player

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Synapsin

The synapsins are a family of proteins that have long been implicated in the regulation of neurotransmitter release at synapses. Specifically, they are thought to be involved in regulating the number of synaptic vesicles available for release via exocytosis at any one time. Synapsins are present in invertebrates and vertebrates and are strongly conserved across all species. They are expressed in highest concentration in the nervous system, although they also express in other body systems such as the reproductive organs, including both eggs and spermatozoa. Synapsin function also increases as the organism matures, reaching its peak at sexual maturity.

Current studies suggest the following hypothesis for the role of synapsin: synapsins bind synaptic vesicles to components of the cytoskeleton which prevents them from migrating to the presynaptic membrane and releasing neurotransmitter. During an action potential, synapsins are phosphorylated by PKA (cAMP dependent protein kinase), releasing the synaptic vesicles and allowing them to move to the membrane and release their neurotransmitter.

Gene knockout studies in mice (where the mouse is unable to produce synapsin) have had some surprising results. Consistently, knockout studies have shown that mice lacking one or more synapsins have defects in synaptic transmission induced by high‐frequency stimulation, suggesting that the synapsins may be one of the factors boosting release probability in synapses at high firing rates, such as by aiding the recruitment of vesicles from the reserve pool. Furthermore, mice lacking all three synapsins are prone to seizures, and experience learning defects. These results suggest that while synapsins are not essential for synaptic function, they do serve an important modulatory role. Lastly, observed effects seemed to vary between inhibitory and excitatory synapses, suggesting synapsins may play a slightly different role in each type.

Family members
Humans and most other vertebrates possess three genes encoding three different synapsin proteins. Each gene in turn is alternatively spliced to produce at least two different protein isoforms for a total of six isoforms:

Different neuron terminals will express varying amounts of each of these synapsin proteins and collectively these synapsins will comprise 1% of the total expressed protein at any one time. Synapsin Ia has been implicated in bipolar disorder and schizophrenia.

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Talk:Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell

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Do we really need a table for Commander of ABDACOM when only one person ever held the position? It would be like having a "list" of Confederate Presidents. MK2 21:19, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Viscount or Earl
Header says Earl, but text says Viscount. Viceroy of India says also Viscount. Was he later promoted again? Greetings, Longbow4u 13:02, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Style issue discussion
There is a discussion going on here whether or not the first sentence of a biographical article should contain the full name of the individual and include any post nominal initials (eg. VC, KCB, OBE) or whether these should be relegated to later in the article. I have tried to point out that this is standard style and part of their full titles but there are “readability” concerns. This arose because of the Richard O’Connor featured article and one possible solution, a biobox, is now in place on that page. Please make your opinions known.Dabbler 12:17, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

There's a new biography of Wavell.
There's quite a good summary of Wavell: Soldier and Statesman by Victoria Schofield · John Murray, published in the London Review of Books: Vol. 28 No. 19 dated 5 October 2006.

The Wavell School
Wavell had a school named after him, the Wavell School in Farnborough, Hampshire, i think someone should write about that.

(Bizigi - 20 April 07)

"Best" Viceroy
Lord Wavell was the best Viceroy of India according to who? --Hnsampat (talk) 14:57, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

 * Yes. the article is tagged as unreferenced. The 'best Viceroy' claim was added here:- http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Archibald_Wavell%2C_1st_Earl_Wavell&diff=prev&oldid=12125118 William Avery (talk) 16:19, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

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Convert to sfn, sfnm; take to FA

 * User:Kirrages, User:Dormskirk, User:Gaius Cornelius, User:Aumnamahashiva, and all others: I propose converting the references to sfn and sfnm, because the current system does not link between "Citations" and "General sources". This approach is as seen in Logic and Black Monday (1987) (Currently a featured article candidate). I'll do that, if no one disagrees.
 * Currently, the following are in "general sources" but not in body text: Houterman, Koppes; Connell ( 1964);  Connell (1969); Close (1997). Just deleting those or moving them to a "Further reading" section does not address the fundamental problem here, which is given in the first sentence of this post. Verifiability is compromised by unlinked references. That is especially true because additional sources will almost certainly be needed and used.
 * I intend to take this article to WP:FAC, though that may be months from now... Wavell is the real hero of Bengal famine of 1943 and (to a lesser degree) the story told in Hermione, Countess of Ranfurly... I will wait a few days for responses. Tks. § Lingzhi (talk|check refs) 15:08, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

 * OK with me. Thanks. Dormskirk (talk) 15:17, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes. sfn and sfnm will make for a neater, more accessible and more verifiable article. Gaius Cornelius (talk) 16:45, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
 * @Lingzhi.Renascence No problem with me. Keep up the good work! Stephen Kirragetalk - contribs 21:14, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Many thanks for your work here Buckshot06 (talk) 13:19, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

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Talk:Periphery

>''In computer hardware, a peripheral is added to a host computer in order to expand its abilities. This is not to be confused with a peripheral device.''

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Could somebody please clarify the "This is not to be confused with a peripheral device" bit?

Edit summaries
It would be helpful if people could remember to add them, please. Musiconeologist (talk) 02:39, 26 March 2024 (UTC)

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Johnny Wilson (boxer)

Johnny Wilson was born Giovanni Francesco Panica on March 23, 1893 in Harlem, New York City. He was a professional boxer who fought from 1911 until 1926. The highlight of Wilson's career came when he captured the world middleweight championship by defeating Mike O'Dowd by decision over 12 rounds on May 6, 1920. Wilson held the crown until he was outpointed over 15 rounds by the all-time great Harry Greb.

After retiring from the ring, Wilson was involved in the ownership/management of several successful nightclubs in New York and Boston. Wilson died on December 8, 1985.

Cameo
In 1970 Wilson had a short appearing in Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point movie (at 00:42' in Italian edition), when he was 77.

Professional boxing record
All information in this section is derived from BoxRec, unless otherwise stated.

Official record
All newspaper decisions are officially regarded as “no decision” bouts and are not counted in the win/loss/draw column.

Unofficial record
Record with the inclusion of newspaper decisions in the win/loss/draw column.

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Robert C. Bonner

Robert Cleve Bonner (January 29, 1942) is an American lawyer and arbitration neutral, a former prosecutor, former United States District Judge, former Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration and former Commissioner of United States Customs and Border Protection. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology, a retired partner at the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and former Chair of the California Commission on Judicial Performance.

Education and early career
Bonner was born in Wichita, Kansas. He grew up in Wichita where his father practiced law and his mother was a school teacher. He credits his mother for infusing him with a strong commitment to public service. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1963 and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center in 1966. He was a law clerk for Albert Lee Stephens Jr. of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California from 1966 to 1967. He was on in the United States Navy Reserve Judge Advocate General Corps from 1967 to 1971, rising to the rank of Lieutenant, USNR. During that time, he served for nearly two years on an aircraft carrier, the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42). He was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California from 1971 to 1975, and then went into private practice in Los Angeles for nine years. Afterwards he became the United States Attorney for the same district in 1984. As a United States Attorney, he worked closely with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on two record-breaking money laundering cases, Operations Pisces and Polar Cap, led the prosecution team against the killers of a DEA special agent, and personally prosecuted the first FBI agent charged with espionage.

Federal judicial service
On February 28, 1989, Bonner was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to be a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, to a seat vacated by Judge Pamela Ann Rymer. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 18, 1989, and received commission on May 24, 1989. Bonner resigned on August 12, 1990, to become the Administrator of the DEA.

DEA service
On May 11, 1990, President Bush nominated him to be Administrator of the DEA. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 27, 1990, and sworn in as the DEA's fifth Administrator on August 13, 1990. Bonner served as Administrator from August 13, 1990, to October 31, 1993. As DEA Administrator, Bonner is credited with implementing the Kingpin Strategy, which allows law enforcement to target and attack key vulnerabilities of major transnational drug trafficking organizations. He oversaw DEA's efforts with the Colombian government to destroy the Medellin Cartel, the final blow of which was the killing of Pablo Escobar by the Colombian National Police in late 1993. While at DEA, he also established the first Division of Intelligence within DEA and pioneered the use of highly effective intelligence gathering and analytical tools.

In 1992, Administrator Bonner issued a ruling that incorporated the FDA's "safe and effective" standard to evaluate marijuana. After reviewing the record, he found that there were no valid scientific studies that indicated that smoking marijuana was safe and effective for any medical purpose. On that basis, he denied an application for the removal of cannabis from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act, stating that, "Those who insist that marijuana has medical uses would serve society better by promoting or sponsoring more legitimate scientific research, rather than throwing their time, money and rhetoric into lobbying, public relations campaigns and perennial litigation.

Private practice
In November 1993, just after leaving his post as head of the DEA, Bonner appeared on 60 Minutes and criticized the CIA for permitting a drug shipment of one ton of pure cocaine to be smuggled into the U.S. without first notifying and securing the approval of the DEA. From 1993 to 2001, Judge Bonner was a partner in the Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, an international law firm. His practice focused on business and white-collar crime matters, complex civil cases, internal corporate investigations, and corporate compliance programs. Among his clients were Occidental Petroleum Chairman Ray Irani, French entrepreneur Francois Pinault, former President of Serbia Milan Panic, ConAgra, Walmart, Waste Management, Inc., the California Institute of Technology, and the cities of Long Beach and Thousand Oaks. He also defended Heidi Fleiss in her federal tax evasion prosecution.

United States Customs Service
On June 24, 2001, President George W. Bush nominated Bonner as Commissioner of the United States Customs Service, later known as U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and he was confirmed on September 19, 2001, a little more than a week after the September 11 attacks. During his time as Commissioner, Bonner implemented far-reaching security changes, including the establishment of the National Targeting Center, the Container Security Initiative (CSI), and the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT).

As part of the homeland security re-organization of 2003, Bonner was appointed the first Commissioner of CBP, a merger of the Border Patrol and other front line immigration and agriculture protection functions with most of the United States Customs Service to create the first unified border agency in U.S. history. It remains the largest merger of people and functions within the Department of Homeland Security, affecting nearly 60,000 employees. Bonner announced his resignation as Commissioner on September 28, 2005, and retired on November 25, 2005, after four years of service. He is featured in the documentary "The New Colossus," by Professor Alan Marcus, where he discusses post-9/11 border security measures.

Later career
After returning to Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Bonner was hired by Representative Jerry Lewis in 2006 after Lewis was linked to an investigation being conducted by the U.S. Department of Justice (see Jerry Lewis - Lowery lobbying firm controversy). Lewis did not ultimately face charges. On August 12, 2007, Bonner was named by the Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee as a member of the campaign's "Immigration Advisory Board". Bonner has continued his involvement with border security and immigration, and was appointed to several task forces of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC), including the Southwest Border Task Force in 2009, and the HSAC Integrity Advisory Panel in 2015. In addition, he has served on the Council on Foreign Relations task forces on U.S. Immigration Policy and North America, is the co-chair of the Pacific Council task force on U.S.‑Mexico border issues, is the chair of the Civilian Oversight Commission for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, and is the co-chair of the International Summit on Borders. He retired as a partner of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher to become a Senior Principal of The Sentinel Company, a Washington, D.C.-based homeland security consulting firm, and also heads Bonner Arbitration Disputes and Settlement Services and serves as an American Arbitration Association neutral arbitrator for high stakes disputes.

Other interests
Bonner is married to Kimiko Tanaka Bonner, and they have a daughter, Justine. He runs three miles a day, and enjoys playing tennis and chess, a game he mastered while serving in the United States Navy on board an aircraft carrier.

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Lissa Explains it All

LissaExplains.com is a Web site created by Alyssa "Lissa" Daniels (born 1986), a girl from Orlando, Florida, to teach people, especially children, how to make their own Web sites. She was 11 years old when she set up the first site in 1997, and is currently a university junior in Florida. Her site has taught many people how to create a Web site by writing their own HTML without the use of Web page creators. The web site includes tutorials and an internet forum.

History
Daniels had trouble remembering all of the HTML codes that she needed to create her site, so she created a page which listed HTML codes. Eventually, more people noticed this page, and as she got more requests for the URL, she decided she would make the site public, first publishing it at GeoCities. When she was 12 years old in 1998, she decided to purchase a domain name for her site, and renamed the site "Lissa Explains it All".

Daniels was approached in August 1999 by Ronald L. Wagner, columnist for The Dallas Morning News. He had seen her site online and wanted to feature her and her site in his weekly column, "Family PC Fun". The article was published on September 26, 1999. At the time, her site was using large amounts of bandwidth and the monthly hosting cost for her site was beginning to be too expensive for her to keep it online. She discussed this with Wagner, who suggested that she contact a few Internet advertising agencies to see if they would like to advertise on her site. She was accepted by one agency, and soon started earning enough money through advertising to keep Lissa Explains it All online.

By summer 2000, her site was receiving over 500,000 hits a month. In June 2000, CNN Headline News aired a story about her and the website. The CNN show Science and Technology also aired a story about her and her site in July 2000.

Daniels later added a forum to her site because of the large volume of email she received. The forum allowed her visitors to get answers to the many questions they had. Lissa's HTML help forum had over 75,000 members, but due to a hard drive failure with site backups that occurred in August 2007, was offline for almost two years. The forums were reinstalled on 3 July 2009, but later went down again and are currently not available. While the forums are not available, the tutorial sections of the site are still online.

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Black Hill (Peak District)

Black Hill, in the Peak District, is the highest hill in West Yorkshire, England. Its summit rises to an elevation of 582 m above sea level. It is surpassed in height by only two other major summits in the Peak District (Kinder Scout and Bleaklow).

Black Hill is a typical Pennine moorland mountain, with a very flat and extensive plateau (but steeper sides). The top is peaty, poorly drained, and thus very boggy after rain. The area surrounding the summit itself had virtually no vegetation and was very dark, giving the hill an appropriate name. However, recent restoration work has eliminated much of the exposed peat. Black Hill is crossed by the Pennine Way whose now-paved surface allows walkers to reach the top dry-shod even in the wettest of weather.

Black Hill was the highest point (county top) of the historic county of Cheshire, lying at the tip of what was once known as the Cheshire Panhandle, a long projection of the county which lay to the north of the reservoir filled valley of Longdendale. Under the local government reforms which were enacted in 1974, Black Hill was placed for administrative purposes on the border between the boroughs of Kirklees in West Yorkshire and High Peak in Derbyshire.

Routes
The Hill can be visited by a number of routes, including along the Pennine Way from Crowden via the Laddow Rocks cliffs; bogs permitting, a return can be made over Westend Moss (the pre-1966 route of the Pennine Way) to create a circular walk. Another popular approach is from the junction of the A635 and the Wessenden Head Road (to Meltham), known locally as the 'Isle of Skye' (after a former hotel). This provides access to a paved section of the Pennine Way southwards to Black Hill. Black Hill can also be reached easily from Holme Moss via access land, but this route requires the use of map and compass, as although the ground is level, it becomes trackless and confusing in places.

South of Crowden, the Pennine Way next visits Bleaklow and Kinder Scout (both of which are slightly higher, just over 2,000 ft, and so are Hewitts).

The triangulation column ("trig point") and highest point on Black Hill (and the highest point in West Yorkshire) is on a small elevated mound, called Soldiers' Lump. According to Wainwright the support timbers for the Ramsden theodolite, used by the Royal Engineers in the original Ordnance Survey which began in 1784, were still to be found here many years later.

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Brian Hayes (politician)

Brian Hayes (born 23 August 1969) is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as a Minister of State from 2011 to 2014, Leader of the Opposition in the Seanad and Leader of Fine Gael in the Seanad from 2002 to 2007. He served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 2014 to 2019. He was as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-West constituency from 1997 to 2002 and 2007 to 2014. He was also a Senator from 1995 to 1997, after being nominated by the Taoiseach and from 2002 to 2007 for the Cultural and Educational Panel.

Early life
Hayes was born in Dublin. He was educated at Garbally College, Ballinasloe, County Galway; St Patrick's College, Maynooth, from which he received a degree in history and sociology in 1991, and Trinity College Dublin. Formerly a secondary school teacher, he was a member of South Dublin County Council between 1995 and 2003.

Political career
Before joining Fine Gael Hayes had been a member of Democratic Left, a party which he joined because of the hardline anti-Provisional IRA and anti-Irish Republican policies of its leader Proinsias de Rossa. He subsequently joined Fine Gael for similar reasons, this time inspired by the anti-Sinn Féin stance of that party's then leader, John Bruton. In December 1995, he was nominated by the Taoiseach, John Bruton, to the 20th Seanad, where he was appointed government spokesperson on the Environment. Hayes was first elected to Dáil Éireann at the 1997 general election for the Dublin South-West constituency. He was appointed Fine Gael spokesperson on Housing, House Prices and Urban Renewal.

In a reshuffle of the Fine Gael front bench in June 2000, Hayes was promoted as spokesperson on Northern Ireland. Between 2001 and 2002 he served as Fine Gael's spokesperson on Social and Community Affairs. Hayes lost his seat at the 2002 general election but was elected to Seanad Éireann, where he served as Fine Gael Seanad leader and spokesperson on Defence and Northern Ireland.

At the 2007 general election he was re-elected to the Dáil on the first count in the Dublin South-West constituency. He was party spokesperson for Education and Science from 2007 to 2010.

On 19 August 2008, Hayes used a report in the Irish Independent to say that immigrant children should be "segregated" until their English language skills match those of native children. His comments generated considerable debate in the days that followed. The Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO) described the idea put forward by Hayes as "discriminatory, inequitable and deeply flawed". He later apologized and spoke of his regret but insisted this "should not take away from the substance of what I said".

In June 2010, he supported Richard Bruton's leadership challenge to Enda Kenny. Following Kenny's victory in a motion of confidence, Hayes was not re-appointed to the front bench. In October 2010, he was appointed as party Deputy spokesperson on Finance with special responsibility for Public Expenditure.

Ministerial career (2011–2014)
On 10 March 2011, Hayes was appointed by the Fine Gael–Labour government on the nomination of Taoiseach Enda Kenny as Minister of State at the Department of Finance and at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform with responsibility for Public Service Reform and the Office of Public Works.

After sudden floods killed two people in October 2011, he claimed the response of local authorities was "not adequate". In a newspaper article for the Sunday Independent in March 2012, one year after the Irish people voted to remove them from office, Hayes claimed Ireland still needed Fianna Fáil and questioned if their absence would be "in the interests of Irish democracy".

While in the position of Minister of State at the Department of Finance he sought to improve the domestic economy by focusing more intensively on domestic sectors likely to lead to job creation. This included initiatives such as the expansion of Aspen Pharma to Citywest, the opening of Charles River Managed Services in Citywest, and the launch of Paycheck Plus’ UK branch.

Hayes publicly acknowledged that Ireland had suffered reputational damage following the death of Savita Halappanavar, the pregnant Indian woman who died after being denied an abortion at University Hospital Galway.

European Parliament
He was elected as the Fine Gael candidate for the Dublin constituency at the 2014 European Parliament election, terminating his appointment as Minister of State. Hayes was the lead negotiator for the European People's Party (EPP) on the plan for a Pan-European Pension Product (PEPP). On 6 November 2018, Hayes announced that he was leaving politics and would not contest the European Parliament election in 2019. He is currently Chief Executive of Banking & Payment Federation Ireland.

Oireachtas Golf Society scandal
In August 2020, Hayes became one of the figures of the Oireachtas Golf Society scandal, a scandal created when members of the Oireachtas Golf Society were discovered to have breached the rules set down by the Irish government about gathering during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Serendipity (film)

Serendipity is a 2001 American romantic comedy film directed by Peter Chelsom, written by Marc Klein, and starring John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale. The film grossed $77.5 million on a $28 million budget.

Plot
While Christmas shopping at Bloomingdale's in New York City, Jonathan Trager meets Sara Thomas, a British woman when both try to buy the same pair of gloves. Despite both being in relationships, a mutual attraction leads them to have dessert at a restaurant called Serendipity 3 where Sara explains that she lets fate's "little signals" determine many of her life decisions.

After separating, they meet again when each returns to the restaurant to retrieve something they forgot. Jonathan convinces Sara to give him her number, but when the wind blows it out of his grasp, Sara thinks it is fate telling them to back off. Jonathan disagrees, and Sara decides to let fate reunite them: she has Jonathan write his number on a five dollar bill which she uses to buy breath mints, and promises to sell her copy of Love in the Time of Cholera in which she will write her name and number.

As one last experiment, Sara tosses Jonathan one of the gloves. They board separate elevators in the Waldorf Astoria and agree that if they arrive on the same floor, they are meant to be together. They each pick the same floor, but Jonathan is delayed when a child on his elevator presses random buttons. Sara believes that the experiment failed.

Years later, Jonathan is an ESPN producer engaged to Halley, and Sara is a therapist living in San Francisco, engaged to a musician, Lars. Jonathan accidentally finds his glove and goes out with his friend Dean to find Sara. Meanwhile, Sara, stressed by the wedding planning and Lars’ focus on an upcoming world tour, travels to New York with her best friend Eve to find Jonathan.

After nearly crossing paths with Jonathan throughout the day, Eve and Sara have dessert at Serendipity where Eve convinces Sara to give up—but Eve's change contains the five dollar bill with Jonathan's number. They catch the same cab Jonathan and Dean rode in earlier. After finding that a roommate finder service next to Serendipity that Sara once used is now a bridal shop, Jonathan sees it as a sign that he should marry Halley.

At the Waldorf Astoria, Eve and Sara encounter Halley headed to the wedding rehearsal. Halley invites Eve to join her since they were friends in college, but Sara declines. Outside their room, she finds an apologetic Lars.

At the rehearsal, Jonathan's distracted demeanor frustrates Halley who pleads with him to focus on the wedding. Halley then gives him Sara's old copy of Love in the Time of Cholera as a wedding gift. Jonathan and Dean use Sara's phone number to get her address and fly to San Francisco. Once there, they see Sara's sister and her boyfriend having sex and assume it is Sara in a happy relationship. Dean helps Jonathan realize that he shouldn't marry Halley while Sara decides to end her engagement to Lars.

The next day, Sara finds the five dollar bill with Jonathan's number on it, having gotten hers and Eve's wallets mixed up. After getting his address and being told by the building superintendent of his wedding at the Waldorf, Sara hurries there and is relieved to find the ceremony has been cancelled.

Dean reassures Jonathan that he did the right thing and vows to be more spontaneous in his own marriage, which has been on the rocks. Jonathan wanders to the same ice-skating rink where he spent part of his evening with Sara ten years earlier and finds a leather jacket on a bench. As it begins to snow, he lies on his back in the middle of the rink with the jacket as a pillow next to one of the pair of gloves. When the matching glove lands on his chest, he sits up and finds Sara watching him, having come to claim her jacket. They introduce themselves and finally share a kiss. Later, they both celebrate their anniversary at Bloomingdale's in front of the display of gloves where they met.

Cast

 * John Cusack as Jonathan Trager
 * Kate Beckinsale as Sara Thomas
 * Molly Shannon as Eve
 * Bridget Moynahan as Halley Buchanan
 * Jeremy Piven as Dean Kansky
 * John Corbett as Lars Hammond
 * Eugene Levy as Bloomingdale's salesman (Macall Polay)
 * Marcia Bennett as Mrs. Trager
 * Eve Crawford as Mrs. Buchanan
 * Evan Neuman as Kenny
 * Buck Henry (uncredited) as himself
 * Lucy Gordon as Caroline Mitchell (Sara's sister)
 * Kevin Rice as Kip Mitchell
 * Gary Gerbrandt as Josh

Production
Serendipity was shot in New Jersey, New York City, Ontario, and San Francisco, California in the summer of 2000. Following the 9/11 attacks, images of the World Trade Center towers were digitally removed from all skyline shots of New York City. Jennifer Aniston was offered the role of Sara Thomas but turned it down to avoid being typecast in romantic comedies. Carla Gugino and Claire Forlani auditioned for the role of Sara Thomas.

Release
Serendipity premiered at the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival. The film opened at #2 at the U.S. box office earning $13,309,241 in its opening weekend, behind Training Day. With an estimated budget of $28 million, this was the first of Chelsom's films to turn a profit. After some of the biggest commercial failures of all time (Town & Country), Serendipity marked the first of several box-office successes for Chelsom, peaking in 2009 with Hannah Montana: The Movie. The film grossed $50,294,317 in the domestic box office and $27,221,987 internationally for a worldwide total of $77,516,304.

Reception
Based on reviews, the film holds  approval rating on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, with an average score of. The site's consensus states: "Light and charming, Serendipity could benefit from less contrivances." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 52 out of 100 from 33 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale. Roger Ebert gave the film 1½ out of 4 stars. The New York Times gave it a mixed review and compared it to cinematic candyfloss.

Music
The soundtrack contains popular music by various artists, with one track from the musical score, composed and conducted by Alan Silvestri.

Not included within the release of the soundtrack
 * "Never a Day" - Wood
 * "Moonlight Kiss" - Bap Kennedy
 * "January Rain" - David Gray
 * "Waiting in Vain" - Annie Lennox
 * "The Distance" - Evan & Jaron
 * "Like Lovers Do" - Heather Nova
 * "When You Know" - Shawn Colvin
 * "Black Eyed Dog" - Nick Drake
 * "Northern Sky" - Nick Drake
 * "Cool Yule" - Louis Armstrong
 * "This Year" - Chantal Kreviazuk
 * "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" - Brian Whitman
 * "'83" - John Mayer
 * "Fast Forward" - Alan Silvestri
 * "From Rusholme With Love" - Mint Royale
 * "Someone Like You" - Van Morrison
 * "I'm Still in Love" - CoCo Lee (Asian movie theme song)
 * "Rose Rouge" - St. Germain

Television adaptation
A television series was reported to be in development for NBC. As of 2023, there have been no further developments.

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Thomas A. Constantine

Thomas A. Constantine (December 23, 1938 – May 3, 2015) served as the 6th Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) from March 1994 to July 1999.

Constantine was born in Buffalo, New York, on December 23, 1938. He was educated in parochial schools there and was graduated from St. Joseph's Collegiate Academy.

Early career
Following a brief stint at the United States Merchant Marine Academy at King's Point, Long Island, Constantine began his career in law enforcement as a deputy sheriff with the Erie County Sheriff's Department in 1960.

In 1962, Constantine joined the New York State Police (NYSP) as a uniform trooper. Over the course of his 34-year NYSP career, rose through all uniform and investigative ranks, including service as a regional troop commander, headquarters staff inspector, and full colonel in the post of Field Commander in charge of day-to-day operations of both the uniform and investigative branches of the NYSP.

Constantine was nominated by Governor Mario Cuomo in December 1986 to be Superintendent of the NYSP. It was the first time in 30 years that a member of that agency had risen through the ranks from Trooper to Superintendent. During his tenure as Superintendent, the 4,800-member agency earned numerous awards, including the Governor's Excelsior Award as the best quality agency in state government. In 1994, Constantine himself was selected as the Governor's Law Enforcement Executive of the Year. The labor union that represented the State Troopers at the time often complained about his heavy-handed management style.

As Superintendent, Constantine instituted vigorous enforcement programs targeting drunk drivers who were responsible for a majority of the fatal accidents in the state. These high-visibility enforcement programs were credited with a major share of the subsequent reduction of highway fatalities.

Concerned about the impact of violent crime, Constantine instituted the NYSP Forensic Unit, the first of its kind by a domestic law enforcement agency. This program, based in state police headquarters, provided immediate resource support to local law enforcement authorities confronted with suspicious or unsolved murders and violent assaults. Specially trained state police homicide investigators successfully solved a series of serial killer incidents in Rochester, Long Island, Utica, and the Catskill area in the 1990s. The five serial killers arrested were responsible for the murder of 52 innocent victims.

In 1987, the NYSP created and instituted the Colonel Henry F. Williams Homicide Seminar, internationally recognized as the finest homicide training event of its kind. This seminar, conducted annually in Albany, brings together homicide investigators from throughout the world to hear from leading medical, forensic, legal, and investigative experts.

The largest scandal in New York State Police history occurred during his tenure. A number of investigators were found to have falsified latent fingerprint evidence under pressure from their supervisors to garner convictions. At least two investigators were criminally convicted and the scandal had a chilling effect throughout the nationwide law enforcement community. After Special Prosecutor Nelson Roth issued his report Constantine had already left the State Police.

As Superintendent, Constantine recognized the need for increased law enforcement resources to combat the growing drug problem. During his tenure, the NYSP Narcotics Unit was increased from 75 to 400 full-time narcotics investigators. Working closely with the DEA, particularly through the New York Drug Enforcement Task Force, these expanded drug units targeted the major drug organizations from Cali, Colombia, that were responsible for the flood of cocaine into New York. Four regional teams of undercover troopers were established in upstate New York to assist local agencies confront drug dealers. These Community Narcotics Enforcement Teams brought an unprecedented level of law enforcement resources to bear on beleaguered inner city communities beset by the crack cocaine epidemic.

Largely as the result of Constantine's emphasis on drug enforcement and maximized use of tough new federal laws that allowed seizure of criminal assets, his administration of the NYSP brought in seized assets that ultimately financed the construction of a state-of-the-art forensic investigative center at the NYSP headquarters in Albany.

DEA
Constantine's performance caught the attention of Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh. On their recommendation, he was appointed Administrator of the US Drug Enforcement Administration by President Bill Clinton on March 11, 1994.

As Administrator of the DEA, Constantine oversaw a work force of over 8,400 special agents and support staff assigned to the agency's 200 domestic offices and 78 foreign offices in over 55 countries. In this capacity, he focused enforcement efforts against the powerful international organized crime groups that control most of the drug trafficking in the United States and throughout the world. In addition, Constantine created DEA Mobile Enforcement Teams to assist state and local law enforcement with investigative and enforcement operations that target the violent drug gangs that have terrorized so many communities in the United States.

Constantine emphasized the need for increased integrity and ethics standards for all DEA employees. Since 1994, all new DEA special agents have been required to meet the most rigorous entrance standards in U.S. law enforcement. In order to provide more assets to the field operational units, the headquarters decision-making and staffing levels were reduced with an emphasis on decentralized authority. In recognition of these successful efforts, Constantine was awarded the 1997 Penrith Award by the National Executive Institute for outstanding law enforcement leadership.

In 1995, the Rodriguez brothers, godfathers of Colombia's notorious Cali Cartel, were brought to face American justice. Beginning in 1985, when Constantine was Field Commander of the New York State Police, he oversaw an effort to expose and dismantle what has been acknowledged to have been the largest and most powerful criminal conspiracy in history. That year, the New York State Police uncovered a cocaine processing lab in the rural New York hamlet of Minden. Constantine consolidated this and several other NYSP drug investigations under a single task force. In 1991, a series of raids across New York resulted in arrests and seizures that effectively exposed the entire Cali Cartel operation in New York. It wasn't long thereafter that Constantine, now head of the DEA, headed up the international law enforcement effort that brought about the defeat and dismantling of the cartel.

On January 5, 1996, Constantine established the DEA Purple Heart Award to honor individuals who had lost their lives or been seriously injured enforcing the drug laws of the United States.

Constantine retired from DEA in July 1999.

Oversight Commissioner NI
In May 2000, Constantine was appointed by the British Government to serve as Oversight Commissioner for a major reform of provincial policing in Northern Ireland. Pursuant to the Good Friday agreement of 1998, a commission chaired by former Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten had issued a plan for the reconstitution and reorganization of the Royal Ulster Constabulary into a new Police Service of Northern Ireland. Constantine's task was to oversee and certify progress on the implementation of the Patten Commission plan. He served in this capacity for three and one half years. In the years since, the Police Service of Northern Ireland has emerged as a respected and trusted law enforcement agency.

Further information
Constantine was active in a number of police organizations including the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). He was elected to and served on the Board of Officers for the IACP from October 1992 to April 1994, and he served as a member of the IACP Executive Committee and as Chairman of the IACP Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Committee.

Constantine held an associate degree from the Erie Community College, a bachelor's degree from State University College at Buffalo, and a master's degree from the State University of New York at Albany, where he completed the academic portion of his doctoral program. He was selected as the outstanding alumnus of both of the latter. Constantine was later awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Niagara University (New York) in 1995, an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Stonehill College (Massachusetts) in 1997 and an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the State University of New York in 2012. In 1999, he joined the faculty of Rockefeller College School of Public Affairs and Policy as a Public Service Professor. In that capacity, he initiated the creation of a college-level executive development training program for municipal police executives that opened its first session in September 2005.

Constantine was married to the former Ruth Ann Cryan of Buffalo. Constantine died on May 3, 2015, in Pinehurst, North Carolina.

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José Lujano
This is a non-notable vanity article. CDC  (talk)  21:31, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Vanity. at0 22:35, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, alas it is. Samaritan 00:28, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, artist vanity. Megan1967 01:45, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable now, and perhaps never will be. JoaoRicardo 03:24, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. -- AllyUnion (talk) 05:44, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Welcome to Wikipedia!

I saw your change on Boris Smeds and have to ask about it. I found this entry on him in the Swedish national library catalogue "Libris":
 * Smeds, Boris: Ink jet colour plotter for computer graphics (Report / Department of Electrical Measurements, Lund Institute of Technology, ISSN 0346-6221 ; 1976:1). Diss. Lund : Univ.

Isn't this his doctoral dissertation? / up land 21:31, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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D'Onofrio (brand)

D'Onofrio is a Peruvian brand and business dedicated primarily to the sale of confectionery products. It was founded in 1897 by Pietro D'Onofrio. The company and its brand currently belongs to Nestlé Perú (acquired in 1997) (a subsidiary of the larger Nestlé company) and sells its products in the same country. D'Onofrio's products are aimed at a wide market, and are consumed by people of all ages.

D'Onofrio also has a share of the chocolate market. Its foremost product is Sublime, a small-sized chocolate with peanuts. D'Onofrio is also famous for its panettone which is on sale for Christmas and on Peru's independence holiday on July 28. There had been many products that are seldom for sale, like juices or cookies.

History
Italian immigrant Pietro ("Pedro") D'Onofrio (1859–1937) arrived in Argentina at 21 years old. In that country, he learnt how to make ice cream from a friend of his family, Raffaele Cimarelli. After a brief return to his born-country, D'Onofrio came back to Argentina. Cimarelli suggested him to move to Peru, to take advance of the Lima's favorable weather, considering it a good opportunity to set their business.

Following the advice, D'Onofrio and his wife moved to Lima, where they started the business, at first with only a yellow ice cream cart. In 1908 D'Onofrio acquired a plant to manufacture artificial ice.

D'Onofrio soon expanded his business to chocolate, manufactured with technology from Europe. Other products included cookies and candies. D'Onofrio died in 1937, being succeeded by his son Antonio, which took over the company and introduced new products to afford the increasing demand. In 1997, the company was acquired by the Peruvian subsidiary of Nestlé.

Ice-cream brands
D'Onofrio holds a large variety of ice creams with different flavors. Approximately 20 types of ice creams are sold throughout D'Onofrio stores and ice cream carts. Among the products are:

 * Alaska
 * Copa
 * Bombones
 * Buen Humor
 * Copa K-bana
 * Eskimo
 * Frio Rico
 * Huracán
 * Jet
 * Morochas
 * Princesa
 * Dono Sándwich
 * Sandwich-ito
 * Sin Parar
 * Sublime
 * Bebe
 * Pezi Duri

Beach Delivery
Donofrio provides a delivery service, employing people along the coasts. They walk with coolers slung on their shoulders, with ice cream you can buy directly from them on the beach.

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