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 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was REDIRECT. dbenbenn | talk 23:08, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Yochlol
No potential to become encylopedic. The scant information here is already available at Lolth. -- Dominus 18:59, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Lolth, no more than a stub is possible and furthermore this is fancraft. Ashibaka tlk 21:09, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge anything useable to Lolth, and add redirect. Megan1967 02:00, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, cruft. Wyss 22:39, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I've redirected it. --Dominus 12:36, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Bill Simmons

William John Simmons III (born September 25, 1969) is an American podcaster, sportswriter, and cultural critic who is the founder and CEO of the sports and pop culture website The Ringer. Simmons first gained attention with his website as "The Boston Sports Guy" and was recruited by ESPN in 2001, where he eventually operated the website Grantland and worked until 2015. At ESPN, he wrote for ESPN.com, hosted his own podcast on ESPN.com titled The B.S. Report and was an analyst for two years on NBA Countdown.

Simmons founded The Ringer, a sports and pop culture website and podcast network, in 2016 and serves as its CEO. He hosted Any Given Wednesday with Bill Simmons on HBO for one season in 2016. At The Ringer, he hosts The Bill Simmons Podcast. Simmons is known for a style of writing characterized by mixing sports knowledge and analysis, pop culture references, his non-sports-related personal life and for being written from the viewpoint of a passionate sports fan.

Early life and education
Simmons was born on September 25, 1969, to William Simmons and Jan Corbo. His father was a school administrator, and his stepmother, Molly Clark, is a doctor. Simmons was an only child and grew up in Marlborough and Brookline, Massachusetts, before moving to Stamford, Connecticut, to live with his mother after his parents divorced when he was 9. He attended the Greenwich Country Day School and then Brunswick School in Greenwich, Connecticut, for high school. In 1988, he completed a postgraduate year at Choate Rosemary Hall, a prep school located in Wallingford, Connecticut. As a child Simmons read David Halberstam's book The Breaks of the Game, which he credited as the single most formative development in his sportswriting career.

While attending the College of the Holy Cross, Simmons wrote a column for the school paper, The Crusader, called "Ramblings" and later served as the paper's sports editor. He also restarted the school's parody newspaper and started a 12-14-page, underground, handwritten magazine about the people in his freshman hall called "The Velvet Edge." He graduated in 1992 with a B.A. in political science (his primary focus was the Middle East, which he often cites in his columns by way of saying his sportswriting career has nothing to do with his degree) and a GPA of 3.04. Subsequently, while living in Brookline, Massachusetts, he studied at Boston University, where he received his master's degree in print journalism two years later.

Origins
For eight years following grad school, Simmons lived in Charlestown working various jobs before eventually landing a job at ESPN. The September after grad school, Simmons started working at the Boston Herald as a high school sports reporter and editorial assistant, mainly "answering phones... organizing food runs, [and] working on the Sunday football scores section." Three years later he got a job as a freelancer for Boston Phoenix but was broke within three months and started bartending. In 1997, unable to get a newspaper job, Simmons "badgered" Digital City Boston of AOL into giving him a column, and he started the web site BostonSportsGuy.com while working as a bartender and waiter at night. He decided to call his column "Sports Guy" since the site had a "Movie Guy."

Originally the column was only available on AOL, and Simmons forwarded the column to his friends. He began receiving e-mails from people asking if they could be put on his mailing list. For the first 18 months, Simmons would send it to about 100 people, until it became available on the web in November 1998. The website quickly built up a reputation as many of Simmons' friends from high school and college were e-mailing it to each other. In 2001, his website averaged 10,000 readers and 45,000 hits per day.

ESPN
Simmons gained fame as "The Boston Sports Guy" which earned him a job offer from ESPN in 2001 to write three guest columns. His second column was "Is Clemens the Antichrist?" which became one of the most e-mailed articles on the site that year. Becoming one of the most popular columnists on the site, Simmons was given his own section of ESPN.com's Page 2, which helped both himself and Page 2 gain widespread popularity. In the first sixteen months which Simmons wrote for Page 2 the viewership doubled. In late 2004 ESPN launched an online cartoon based on his columns which Simmons later called a "debacle" and decided to stop. Simmons wrote a column per month for his page titled "Sports Guy's World."

As a lead columnist, Simmons was one of the country's most widely read sports writers and is considered a pioneer of sportswriting on the Internet. His readership grew steadily over the following years. In 2005, according to ESPN, Simmons' column averaged 500,000 unique visitors a month. According to comScore, Simmons' column had averaged 1.4 million pageviews and 460,000 unique visitors a month between June and November 2009.

In 2007, Simmons and Connor Schell conceived the idea for 30 for 30, a series of 30 documentaries commemorating the 30th year of the "ESPN era." Simmons and Schell took special interest to "stories that resonated at the time but were eventually forgotten for whatever reason." The series premiered on October 6, 2009, with "King's Ransom" directed by Peter Berg. Simmons served as executive producer on the project until he left ESPN in 2015.

On May 8, 2007, Simmons began a podcast for ESPN.com called Eye of the Sportsguy. On June 14, 2007, the podcast was changed to The B.S. Report with a new theme song written by Ronald Jenkees. Simmons created one or two hourlong podcasts a week, generally carrying one theme throughout, talking to everyone from sports and media notables to his friends. The B.S. Report was regularly the most downloaded podcast on ESPN.com averaging 2 million downloads a month. In 2009, The B.S. Report was downloaded more than 25.4 million times.

Simmons began writing a bi-weekly 800-word column for ESPN The Magazine in 2002 but convinced ESPN after three years to give him 1,200 words. On July 27, 2009, Simmons announced his retirement from the magazine but continued to write for the Page 2 website.

In October 2007, it was announced that Simmons joined the television series E:60 as a special contributor. In May 2010, it was reported that Simmons and ESPN came to an agreement on a new contract, although no official announcement was made on the terms.

Since 2009, Simmons has also been a moderator and panelist at the annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference Starting in the 2012-2013 NBA season, Simmons joined the NBA Countdown pregame show as a panelist/contributor during ESPN/ABC's coverage of the NBA. He left the show prior to the 2014–2015 season. ESPN announced on May 8, 2015, that Simmons' contract, which was due to expire in September 2015, would not be renewed.

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
In the summer of 2002, Jimmy Kimmel had been trying to get Simmons to write for his new late-night talk show, Jimmy Kimmel Live! which was to premiere after the Super Bowl. Simmons refused for most of the summer because he did not want to cut back on his columns and move to the West Coast away from his family and Boston teams. Kimmel kept on "badgering" him and by mid-September Kimmel had him "on the ropes." It was crucial for Simmons that he could write for the show and on ESPN.com and in ESPN The Magazine, which was possible because of the Disney connection with ESPN and ABC. He has also stated that he joined the show because he was burned out from his column, felt he needed a change, and always wanted to write for a talk show.

Simmons left Boston and moved to California on November 16, 2002 and began working in April 2003 as a comedy writer for the show. Simmons called it "the best move I ever made" and said it was one of the best experiences of his life. He left the show in the spring of 2004 after a year and a half of writing for the show. He wanted to focus full-time on his column, since his writing was starting to slip and he did not have enough time to work on columns or even think about them. Simmons remained in California.

Grantland
Simmons served as the editor-in-chief of Grantland, a website owned by ESPN covering sports and pop culture that launched on June 8, 2011. The website's name was a reference to deceased sportswriter Grantland Rice, though it was reportedly not Simmons' choice for the name. Sports blog Deadspin had previously reported in 2010 that Simmons was working on a "top secret editorial project." Some key contributors to the website included Jalen Rose, Zach Lowe, Kirk Goldsberry and Wesley Morris. In August 2014, ESPN announced that Simmons would be leaving NBA Countdown in order to produce an 18 episode primetime show for ESPN through his site called The Grantland Basketball Show-later changed to The Grantland Basketball Hour-which would debut on October 21, 2014. In these episodes, Simmons discussed NBA-related current events as well as some of his more popular sports columns with his co-host Jalen Rose. Special guests included fellow journalists, pop culture celebrities, as well as current and former coaches and athletes. Months after it decided not to renew its contract with Simmons, ESPN shut down the Grantland website on October 30, 2015.

HBO
On July 22, 2015, Simmons announced he had signed a new multi-platform deal with HBO starting in October 2015. As part of this deal, he would host a weekly talk show, Any Given Wednesday. The show premiered on June 22, 2016. It was cancelled in November 2016. Simmons's multimedia deal with the network continued, and he announced there were plans for future projects at HBO. A documentary on André the Giant was co-produced by HBO Sports, the WWE and the Bill Simmons Media Group, with Jason Hehir directing. The documentary aired on HBO on April 10, 2018.

In late July 2018 it was revealed that HBO decided to renew Simmons's contract to remain with the network moving forward.

The Ringer
Simmons announced the launch of his new website, The Ringer, on February 17, 2016. The site was to be run as part of his venture, the Bill Simmons Media Group, that was launched in the fall of 2015. The media group includes several podcasts focusing on different aspects of sports, pop culture, and technology today, and features writers on The Ringer website as hosts of these podcasts. The website also hired a number of staffers who formerly worked with Simmons at Grantland. The Ringer went live on June 1, 2016.

On May 30, 2017, Vox Media announced that it had entered into a deal to provide advertising sales and access to its publishing platform as part of a revenue sharing agreement. Simmons retained editorial control of the website. On February 5, 2020, Simmons announced that Spotify was buying The Ringer for approximately $200 million, with Daniel Ek describing The Ringer as "the new ESPN." Simmons stated that The Ringer will maintain content and editorial independence.

At The Ringer, Simmons serves as CEO, writing less than during his previous endeavors. He hosts The Bill Simmons Podcast which regularly rotates through conversations and interviews with Hollywood personalities, professional athletes, other media pundits, old friends, and family. Regulars include his college roommate Joe House, Sal Iacono, Ryen Russillo, Chuck Klosterman, David Chang, and Simmons' father.

In June 2020, Simmons received criticism for the lack of racial diversity in The Ringer following email comments he made to The New York Times, particularly that: "It's a business. This isn't Open Mic Night." Critics noted that Simmons employed his nephew as a producer and had created a podcast for his teenage daughter.

Writing
On October 1, 2005, Simmons released his first New York Times best-selling book, Now I Can Die in Peace. The book is a collection of his columns, with minor changes and lengthy footnotes, leading up to the 2004 World Series victory by the Boston Red Sox. The book spent five weeks on The New York Times extended best-seller list.

In July 2008, Simmons announced that he would be taking 10 weeks off from writing columns for ESPN.com's Page 2 to concentrate on finishing his second book, The Book of Basketball: The NBA According to the Sports Guy, which was released on October 27, 2009. The book tries to find out who really are the best players and teams of all time and the answers to some of the greatest "What ifs?" in NBA history. It debuted at the top of The New York Times Best Seller list for non-fiction books.

Style
When Simmons first started his website, he wrote what he thought friends would enjoy reading because he never understood how people could be sportswriters while claiming they did not care which team won, in the name of journalistic objectivity. Since Simmons was writing on the web he figured that "in order to get people to read it, it had to be different from what people got in newspapers and magazines." He claims that he believed his job was not to get into the heads of the players, but into the heads of his readers, and to do so by updating frequently and being provocative, and get a discussion going with his readers. Simmons has stated that he "...will never write a traditional sports column."

With his column, Simmons aims to speak for, reconnect sportswriting with, and reproduce the experience for the average fan. Simmons' writing in his columns is characterized by mixing sports knowledge, references to pop culture   including movies and television shows, his non-sports-related personal life, his many fantasy sports teams, video games, and references to adult video. His columns often mention trips to Las Vegas or other gambling venues with his friends, including blackjack and sports gambling.

In 2007, he was named the 12th-most influential person in online sports by the Sports Business Journal, the highest position on the list for a non-executive.

Controversy
A frequent column target for Simmons in the past has been former New York Knicks coach and general manager Isiah Thomas. This led to Thomas threatening Simmons on Stephen A. Smith's radio show in early 2006, saying that there would be "trouble" if they ever met in the street. Upon a meeting in Las Vegas, they both decided they were entertainers at heart. Simmons and Red Sox announcer Jerry Remy feuded over the presidency of Red Sox Nation. The Red Sox asked Simmons to run for the ceremonial position and he accepted. In a candidate's memo, Simmons remarked that he was a better choice than Remy because he is not a smoker. Remy criticized Simmons for about five minutes during the July 16, 2007 NESN broadcast of a Red Sox–Royals game. Simmons later removed himself from consideration and Remy was named president.

Simmons faced widespread critique in 2013 when he linked local fans' ambivalence about Memphis Grizzlies's chances to lingering trauma surrounding the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. In September 2017, Simmons voiced his support for Jemele Hill, who became involved in controversy after tweeting her personal views on Donald Trump.

On September 1, 2021, The New York Times published an investigation into The Ringer′s workplace culture. It included accusations that Simmons had tried to marginalize The Ringer′s newly formed union, through tactics such as bringing in contract workers and unfollowing writers on Twitter who had expressed support for the union.

On April 26, 2022, Simmons drew criticism from current and former NBA players over his comment stating "...fuck Jalen Green" when discussing his choices for All-Rookie first team. Simmons later clarified that the expletive was a joke and not a personal attack, and that he was simply indicating his preference for Herb Jones as a candidate for the All-Rookie team. On May 24, 2022, Simmons hosted Jalen Green as a guest on his podcast, where the two discussed the controversy and cleared the air.

In June 2023, when referring to the mutual decision of Spotify and Prince Harry and Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex's Archewell productions to end a $20 million agreement and part ways after only 12 episodes of a single podcast (Meghan's Archetypes podcast) and one holiday special, Simmons labelled the Prince and Duchess "fucking grifters". Simmons (who is an executive at Spotify overseeing podcast innovation and monetization) further stated: The Fucking Grifters'. That's the podcast we should have launched with them. I have got to get drunk one night and tell the story of the Zoom I had with Harry to try and help him with a podcast idea. It's one of my best stories [...] Fuck them. The grifters."

Conflicts with ESPN
Simmons at times had tense and public battles with ESPN about creative freedom and censorship. In May 2008, Simmons was embroiled in a dispute with management at ESPN.com. When asked by the editors of Deadspin why he had not written a new column in over two weeks, he said that he was writing less because he loved writing his column and believed that he and ESPN had come to an agreement "on creative lines, media criticism rules, the promotion of the column and everything else on ESPN.com" but within a few months all of those things changed.

A month before the feud erupted, Simmons was scheduled to interview then-senator Barack Obama for a podcast. Obama was still running against then-senator Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination at the time. ESPN nixed the interview, saying that they would allow their reporters and columnists to interview a presidential candidate only after the nomination had been finalized.

In November 2008, according to Deadspin, Simmons quit the B.S. Report due to corporate interference with his writing. The controversy revolved around the admission of pornstar Christian into an ESPN fantasy basketball league. Simmons was upset that his explanation of ESPN's refusal to allow him into the league was edited out of a podcast. On November 25, 2008, Simmons returned to recording his B.S. Report podcast with a disclaimer, which said "The BS Report is a free flowing conversation that occasionally touches on mature subjects."

In late 2009, Simmons was punished by ESPN for writing tweets critical of Boston sports radio station WEEI's The Big Show. He was suspended for two weeks from Twitter, though he was still allowed to post tweets about his ongoing book tour. ESPN again suspended him from Twitter in March 2013 after he posted tweets critical of ESPN's First Take.

On September 24, 2014, ESPN suspended Simmons for three weeks for criticizing NFL commissioner Roger Goodell's handling of the Ray Rice domestic violence case. During his podcast, Simmons stated that Goodell was lying when he claimed that he did not know what was on the tape that showed Rice punching his fiancé in the face and knocking her out in a hotel elevator.

On May 8, 2015, ESPN president John Skipper announced that the sports media conglomerate would not be renewing Simmons's contract, which was set to expire in September 2015. On May 15, it was announced that Simmons' would no longer be working at ESPN, effective immediately.

Personal life
Simmons is married to Kari Simmons (née Crichton), mentioned only as "The Sports Gal" in his columns. They have two children together. His father, William Simmons Jr. (born 1947), also referred to as "The Sports Dad", was the superintendent of schools in Easton, Massachusetts, for more than 15 years.

Simmons is a devoted fan of Boston's teams  including the Boston Red Sox, New England Patriots, and Boston Celtics. He was a longtime fan of the Boston Bruins and the NHL, but claims that their poor management led to his completely losing interest in them until the 2008 playoffs. He also says he is a fan of English Premier League football team Tottenham Hotspur, and he has had playful debates on football with previous ESPN colleague David Hirshey, a football columnist and a die-hard fan of Tottenham's fierce rival Arsenal.

Simmons and his family established the Simmons Family Foundation. They made a scholarship gift to Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism to support HBCU graduates.

In May 2023, Simmons reaction of sadness became a meme following the Celtics' Game 7 loss to the Heat.

Influence
Simmons also has created numerous internet memes, most notably the Ewing Theory (though the idea was originally proposed by a reader ), The Tyson Zone and the Manning Face.

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Phantom Girl

Phantom Girl (Tinya Wazzo) is a superhero appearing in books published by DC Comics, and is a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the 30th and 31st centuries. In post-Zero Hour continuity, she is known as Apparition. She has the power to turn intangible, as do all other natives of her home planet, Bgztl. Her mother is Winema Wazzo, who is the president of the United Planets in post-Zero Hour continuity. Tinya’s ancestor Linnya Wazzo appears in DC's New Age of Heroes, in the Terrifics.

Tinya Wazzo, reimagined as a metahuman, appears in the eighth season of The CW Arrowverse television series The Flash, portrayed by Mika Abdalla.

Publication history
Phantom Girl first appeared in Action Comics #276, and was created by Jerry Siegel and Jim Mooney.

Pre-Crisis
In the original pre-Crisis continuity, Phantom Girl is the fifth member to join the Legion and is a native of Bgztl, a planet that exists in the 4th Dimension. Like other Bgztlians, Phantom Girl can phase out of reality and become intangible. Initially appearing along with Triplicate Girl and Saturn Girl in Action Comics #276 in the story "Supergirl's Three Super Girl-Friends", her first costume consisted of white tights and a white cape with a stylized P on the chest. Phantom Girl's powers serve her well as a member of the Legion's Espionage Squad, and she is involved romantically with fellow Legionnaire Ultra Boy for many years. In this continuity, she has a brother, Gmya Wazzo. Her parents are Byzjn and Winema.

Five-Year Gap
Following the Magic Wars, Earth falls under the covert control of the Dominators and withdraws from the United Planets. Sometime thereafter, Phantom Girl is thought to have been killed in a shuttle accident. In reality, the time sorceress Glorith sends her to the 20th century, where she forgets her true identity, assumes the name Phase, and joins the interstellar law enforcement agency, L.E.G.I.O.N.

A few years later, the members of the Dominators' highly classified "Batch SW6" escaped captivity. They are initially believed to be clones of the Legionnaires, but are later revealed to be temporal duplicates. The Batch SW6 version of Tinya Wazzo eventually assumes the codename Apparition.

Due to various time travelers' attempts to rewrite reality, continuity shifts again and Phase is now revealed to instead be Enya Wazzo, Phantom Girl's previously unknown cousin. The Time Trapper then returns the original Phantom Girl to be reunited with Ultra Boy moments before Zero Hour ends the first Legion continuity.

Post-Zero Hour
In the second reboot continuity Tinya Wazzo is also the fifth to join, under the codename Apparition. As in pre-Zero Hour reality, she becomes romantically involved with Ultra Boy. Apparition is eventually revealed to be half-Carggite, with Phase as another of her bodies. She never uses the codename "Phantom Girl".

Tinya is the daughter of Winema Wazzo, the Bgztlian Ambassador to the United Planets, and regularly chafes under her mother's overbearing nature. While helping her at a conference, which included the official unveiling of the Legion of Super-Heroes, Tinya and Saturn Girl uncover a plot by R. J. Brande's former assistant Roderick Doyle to attack the establishment. After helping to stop him, Tinya and Triad are inducted into the team.

When she and Ultra Boy meet, the two are instantly smitten with each other. Their romance is rocky, initially complicated by Winema's interference. Tinya is then apparently killed by Daxamite White Triangle terrorists who incinerate her with their heat vision. However, shortly afterward, she is revealed to have survived, albeit in a permanently intangible and invisible state, only being visible to Ultra Boy and Winema. Afterwards, she helps free Shrinking Violet and the Legion from the Emerald Eye's control until Violet panics and causes the Eye to send many of the Legionnaires, including Saturn Girl, Ultra Boy, and Apparition, back in time to the late 20th Century.

While stranded in the past, Apparition meets a psychic using a Bgztllian touchstone - a red stone that assists in Bgztllians' phasing. This encounter ends with her becoming visible to all and gaining the power to disrupt machinery and electronics by phasing through them. Although Apparition fears that Ultra Boy will grow dissatisfied with never being able to make physical contact with her, he proves his devotion by marrying her. Shortly thereafter, Phase of the L.E.G.I.O.N. arrives to retrieve her touchstone. She and Apparition are sucked into the realm within the touchstone and discover that they both identify as Tinya Wazzo. When the two make physical contact, they involuntarily merge and Apparition becomes the dominant personality in the resulting body. A side effect is that she regains a physical form once more. Through hypnotic regression, Apparition learns that Winema Wazzo had become romantically involved with a roguish wanderer that left her pregnant. Unbeknown to her, he was a Carggite and his child inherited his ability to triplicate. Winema was only aware that she had given birth to a single child and Tinya's father stole her other two bodies as newborns and sold them to the Luck Lords to pay off his gambling debts. The fate of Tinya's third self remains unknown.

Blight
Ultra Boy and Apparition remain extremely close in the following months, rarely being seen without the other by their side. Eventually, Apparition decides to make a point of going on a Legion mission without Ultra Boy, to prove to herself and him that they could survive apart. While on the mission with Brainiac 5, Cosmic Boy and Monstress, the Blight takes over the Stargate network used by the United Planets for intergalactic travel and take over the planet. The group remains stranded far from Earth and must take a slower return trip home.

Arriving several months later, they crash to Earth as the Legion Outpost explodes behind them. The group joins up with Chameleon, the sole Legionnaire not captured or compromised by the Blight, and XS and Saturn Girl, Legionnaires who manage to escape. They defeat the Blight and Apparition helps Ultra Boy overcome his Blight infection.

Legion Lost
Shortly afterward, the Blight's damage to the Stargate network sends many of the Legionnaires through rift in space to a "Second Galaxy"; once again, Ultra Boy and Apparition are separated. As Ultra Boy begins to lose his sanity realizing he may never see Apparition again, she rises through the floor to alleviate his fears. This turns out to be one of Saturn Girl's telepathic illusions, imitating Apparition in an attempt to keep Ultra Boy sane. When her deception was discovered, Ultra Boy initially ignores Saturn Girl, but they do end up passionately kissing. Confused, they break off and are awkward around each other until returning home.

Baby
Meanwhile, the real Apparition was present at the official disbanding of the Legion of Super-Heroes in the wake of the Rift disaster by Ra's al Ghul, who was then posing as the United Planets' President Leland McCauley. Invisible Kid is the first to notice her pregnancy. Apparition begs him not to tell her mother and he reluctantly respects her wishes.

Apparition lives with her mother until she can no longer conceal the pregnancy. Winema's stifling involvement in her daughter's life only increases at this point, causing Apparition to flee to Rimbor, Ultra Boy's homeworld. There, she meets Timber Wolf, who, with the aid of his gang, helps and protects her. When Apparition hears the news of the Lost Legionnaires' return, the stress causes her to go into labor. Three mercenaries are hired by her mother to recover her and the baby, but they attempt to kill her for ease of transport. Timber Wolf successfully defends Apparition and she gives birth to a boy. Apparition and Timber Wolf steal and use the mercenaries' return tickets to Earth.

On the ship, it becomes obvious that Apparition's son, Cub, has the powers of both his parents and is aging abnormally fast. Their return to Earth is delayed when they are knocked out of warp space by the Robotican battle fleet. They discover that the "engine" was an artificial Vyrgan/Carggite/Winathian hybrid in significant pain.

Estrangement
Eventually reunited with the Legion and Ultra Boy, Apparition's marriage comes under many strains after the extended separation. Although Ultra Boy and Saturn Girl eventually realize that their kiss was borne out of confusion, Apparition discovers a letter between the two mentioning their kiss. Ultra Boy also grew jealous of the deep friendship his wife had developed with Timber Wolf, her protector during his absence. Finally, Cub continues to develop rapidly, reaching an apparent age of six years after an experiment designed to retard his aging backfired. The tensions between the two are not resolved when the series reboots.

2005 reboot
In the new Legion of Super-Heroes continuity started in 2005, Tinya Wazzo is again called Phantom Girl. In this setting, Bgztl exists in the same location as Earth, but is out of phase with it: the whole planet is in the "Buffer Zone" that the pre-Zero Hour Phantom Girl would phase into. Phantom Girl is the only Bgzltian who can shift between her home reality and Earth. When she phases, she is visible in both universes and often engages in conversations or activities in the two realities at the same time, causing much confusion to those around her.

She develops a strong bond with Princess Projectra, helping her cope with the recent death of her parents by reading to her from ancient comic books (in fact Silver Age DC Comics, presented as fictional accounts of real historical facts), and kindly tolerating her brattish and abrasive behavior towards her. Despite her kindness, Phantom Girl is savagely beaten by Princess Projectra when she and Saturn Girl begin to suspect her hidden treachery against the Legion; Phantom Girl, comatose and disfigured, is saved only by the hidden intervention of Timber Wolf, who activates Tinya's alarm beacon. Phantom Girl is hooked to a reconstructive machinery, and shows signs of healing, but before she can tell the truth about her beating, Princess Projectra alters her memories, leaving Timber Wolf the only one to know the truth.

Due to the cancellation of the Legion book with issue #50, this plotline is left unresolved.

Post-Infinite Crisis
The events of the Infinite Crisis miniseries have apparently restored a close analogue of the Pre-Crisis Legion to continuity, as seen in "The Lightning Saga" story arc in Justice League of America and Justice Society of America, and in the "Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes" story arc in Action Comics. Phantom Girl is included in their number, voted as Legion leader just as the Fatal Five reassembles own team to fight against them.

The New Age of Heroes
Following "DC Rebirth", DC Comics released a new line of comics starring new characters called The New Age of DC Heroes. One of them is the Terrifics, a group consisting of Mr. Terrific, Metamorpho, Plastic Man and Phantom Girl. Mr. Terrific discovers Simon Stagg is using Metamorpho to open a portal to the Dark Multiverse. Mr. Terrific uses Plastic Man to close the portal, but not before getting pulled in, along with Metamorpho and Plastic Man. Mr. Terrific then picks up a distress signal and follows it to discover Linnya Wazzo, the ancestor of the 31st-century Phantom Girl, who has been living on the planet for some time and is trapped in an intangible state. They reach the source of the distress signal, and discover a message from Tom Strong. In the next issue, more of this new Phantom Girl's backstory is revealed, showing that she is not the original Phantom Girl, although she appears to have some relation to her.

In Brian Michael Bendis' Legion of Super-Heroes reboot, Phantom Girl is reimagined to have a more alien appearance with purple skin and blue hair, as well as additional teleportation abilities.

Powers and abilities
Like all natives of the planet Bgztl, Phantom Girl has the ability to turn intangible (phase). Bgztl, depending on the incarnation, either exists in or is connected to the extra-dimensional realm known as the Phantom Zone. While intangible, she is immune to physical harm, can maneuver through solid objects and fly under her own power. She has demonstrated the ability to phase with split second timing and can also phase certain parts of her body selectively (a feat most Bgztlians cannot duplicate). Additionally, she has demonstrated the ability to disrupt the workings of electronic devices by moving through them while phased, as well as enter or exit the Phantom Zone at will.

The 2005 "Threeboot" version of Phantom Girl can selectively phase her perceptions back to Bgztl while using her power; in this way, she will appear to individuals on our plane of existence but actually be interacting with individuals and the environment on Bgztl.

In DC Rebirth, Phantom Girl still retains the same powers as her Post-Crisis self. She also displays new powers in Rebirth, created by an explosion she is caught in from a machine in the Dark Multiverse. In addition to her phasing powers, and ability to fly when intangible, she can now—while in solid form—cause things to explode (i.e., combustible manipulation). She can make things explode by the touch of her hand ("dark matter touch") or by shooting combustion blasts at things to make them explode, but it seems that she cannot control these new powers and can only stop them by going into her "phantom form".

Equipment
As a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes, Phantom Girl is provided a Legion Flight Ring, which allows her to fly and protects her from the vacuum of space and other dangerous environments.

Television

 * Phantom Girl makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in the Superman: The Animated Series episode "New Kids In Town".
 * Phantom Girl appears in the Justice League Unlimited episode "Far From Home", voiced by an uncredited Joanne Whalley.
 * Phantom Girl appears in Legion of Super-Heroes (2006), voiced by Heather Hogan. This version can extend her intangibility to others, though extensive use of this ability is potentially dangerous and could leave her unable to become tangible again.
 * Phantom Girl appears in the fourth season of Young Justice, voiced by Kari Wahlgren. This version sports blue skin and red eyes. She joins Saturn Girl and Chameleon Boy in traveling back in time to protect Superboy from Lor-Zod, who seeks to kill him to prevent the Legion's formation and release his father Dru-Zod from the Phantom Zone. While rescuing Superboy from Ma'alefa'ak's gene-bomb and transporting him to the zone, Phantom Girl ends up in a coma until Saturn Girl eventually revives her. Discovering that Superboy has fallen under Zod's influence, she seeks the help of Prince J'emm J'axx and other heroes to rescue him before returning to the future with her teammates.
 * Phantom Girl appears in the eighth season of The Flash, portrayed by Mika Abdalla. This version is a contemporary metahuman who has been operating in Coast City as the "Coast City Phantom" while searching for her missing birth mother, Renee.

Film
Phantom Girl appears in Legion of Super-Heroes (2023), voiced by Gideon Adlon. This version is a student at the Legion Academy.

Miscellaneous

 * Phantom Girl appears in Adventures in the DC Universe #10.
 * Phantom Girl appears in the one-shot comic Batman '66 Meets the Legion of Super-Heroes.

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Tado

Tado (formerly Ezame) is a village in south east Togo, near the border with Benin.

Tradition states that Tado was the birthplace of the Aja people and other Gbe speaking people such as Ewe,Fon,Phla/Phera,Gun/Ogun at some point in the 12th or 13th century. Today the Aja populate the south part of Togo and Benin. It is also the reputed birthplace of Gangnihessou, the first king of Dahomey, in the 16th century. The Awomefia stool of Anlo in Ghana is reputed to be the original royal stool of Tado that was taken away during a succession dispute.

Today Tado is a centre of pilgrimage for Aja and other Gbe people from across the region, who visit the village each August to pray for their ancestral spirits.

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SOM, do you *have* to mutilate my legionnaire articles when you create ones for the post zero hour versions? You've done it with Ferro Lad, Shrinking Violet, Shadow Lass and a couple of others. And now you have done it to my Phantom Girl article, the one I was most proud of! These articles were all designed to cover all versions of the characters and I was very pleased with them, then you come along and remove all the references to the post zero hour versions and leave my articles as rather poor stubs!

Collaboration is one thing, but you remove *all* of my words and replace them with your own. At least show me the courtesy of using some of my words in your new articles. It bothers me a lot every time you do this. You won't rest until you have mutilated *all* of my lsh articles, clearly.

I'm just upset because I was particularly proud of my PG article and now you have removed all the Apparition stuff from it, it's now a shadow of its former self. I'm not happy about it at all

Luornuviolet

 * I used the Apparition stuff from the other article as a starting point, but since I expanded it out to more than twice the length (which necessarily included replacing sections of the original text), it's not surprising that it's not instantly obvious. That's the point of Wikipedia though - someone starts something, others expand it. Compare your mention of Umbra in the SL article (quote) "In the post-Zero Hour universe, she goes by the codename Umbra and has a much more aggressive and businesslike attitude. This version of the character has not become romantically involved with the post-ZH counterpart of Mon-El." (unquote) to the Umbra (comics) article - no wonder I didn't use any of "your words" there! [And I didn't even start the Ferro (comics) page] I've not been gratuitously moving - where I've split it, I've made sure that the split-off article can stand on it's own. (The only immediately obvious one left to do, BTW, is Dream Girl/Dreamer, as far as I can see, where the characters and how they developed are rather different).

 * If you don't want "rather poor stubs," write more about the pre-ZH versions, which (after all) were around for around three-and-a-half times as long as the postboot versions. Hell, look at Brainiac 5 (where I haven't moved the post-ZH bit to it's own article because there's no obvious title for it, unless you count the short-lived and unpopular .1 suffix). The pre- and postboot sections are about the same length.

 * And, for the record, look at the warning, in bold type, at the bottom of every edit page: If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, do not submit it. Maybe I "edited mercilessly," but that's par for the course. - SoM 20:10, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Avoid using meta-templates

Template messages allow certain standard text to be included on many pages, usually with the idea that in the future, any changes to that text block can be changed in one place. The term "meta-templates", as used in this article, refers to nested templates which are created and used to add functions or formatting to other templates.

While they can be extremely useful and convenient, it is proposed that they be avoided due to concerns that may not be immediately obvious: Meta-template schemes can be fragile and hard for new editors to understand. They may also provide an avenue for mass-vandalism and impact maintenance efforts. The reasons listed on this page argue against using meta-templates.

Complexity
Nested template schemes are complex and prohibitively difficult for the average editor to grasp. This is particularly true in non-technical areas where the subject expert, who knows best what information should be presented in a template, is not able to edit the template due to the use of esoteric coding. As a result, routine maintenance and changes are neglected, improper usage can proliferate, and innovation suffers. The solution, meant to become an easy replacement, becomes more difficult than the function it was meant to improve. Clear article source and clear template source are most preferred, though it is understandable if complex code is moved to the template. If this is the case, steps should be taken to reduce complexity to a minimum.

Template links
When a page is edited, a list of all templates in use on that page is stored in the database. This list can be seen when in edit mode as a list of links at the bottom. Not only are the templates that are directly called listed there, but any higher-level meta-templates as well. This feature was created as a helpful aid for editors, in order that they can easily tell what templates are being used on a page in case they want to edit one of them. Meta-templates clutter this list, making it unclear to editors exactly which link is correct.

Template links created by meta-templates also frequently cause problems for template namespace maintenance. If a Template:A is in use on several pages, but then is changed to either add or remove Template:B, any article-level template links to "B" are not updated until each article is edited or "touched". Since the links can't be fully trusted, template maintenance work which relies on that information is made difficult or impossible. Automated bots rely on those links as well, such as when performing Template substitution or migrating from one template to another.

Vandalism
Any template which is used on a very high percentage of pages is an excellent denial-of-service attack vector, since changing it or any component used in it would flush a substantial percentage of the site caches, which are critical to site performance and normally serve some 75–80% of all hits. Making even one subtle change, like the addition of a space, causes the effect.

Thus, caution is warranted for those nested templates which are widely used indirectly. A sub-sub-sub-template could be vandalised with offensive content. These could be difficult to notice immediately, because the sub-template is not edited often and appears on only one or a few Watchlists, and difficult to track down in a timely manner.

It should remembered, however, that it is possible and useful to write a meta-template which will only be used on a few or even a few hundred pages. Conversely, there are templates, such as cross-reference templates, which are very widely used without being meta-templates.

Protection
Because of vandalism and the potential server load problems described above, several high-use meta-templates have had to be protected, so that they can only be edited by administrators. If the meta-template is rarely changed, then any daughter templates probably don't change either, so it may make sense to move the formatting into the daughter templates. This was done with stub templates, which now no longer use a meta-template scheme. Remember also: Protected pages considered harmful.

Conditionals
Schemes using layers of nested templates to mimic conditional expressions — to selectively hide or show text or images based on the parameters which have been set - are sometimes created by users who are unfamiliar with the better alternatives. Conditionals should generally be avoided, unless there is a significant advantage in their use. If they must be used, then the following methods for conditional logic are available and highly preferred over using nested templates:

 * Parameter default -- This method is very common and designed to display default alternative text only if a particular parameter is -not- set. Very simple, but not very powerful for complex needs.
 * ParserFunctions -- Provides a framework for conditional statements within templates. Since it is built into the MediaWiki code, it is relatively efficient on the back-end, but can be very complex for non-technical editors.

Alternatives

 * 1) Design, document, and then implement — To give an example in the case of Sister projects, a proposal was made to use a meta-template.  In this area, it is much better to decide on a common look and format, document that standard for easy reference in case new related templates are needed, and then implement it across the few templates being used.  When changes are needed, this gives one central place for discussion and revision.  After there is consensus for the change, interested editors can quickly apply them. Creating a page which displays each template also helps to locate templates which don't follow the agreed upon format.
 * 2) Make use of CSS — Some meta-templates serve only to produce a specific visual format — such as size, position, color. If these were identified, CSS classes could be added to the site's global stylesheets. The meta-templates could then be replaced with the CSS classes in relevant pages. This would accomplish the same purpose — maintaining uniform style across the site — without placing a burden on the server. This also allows the visual style to be personally customized.
 * 3) Use lists, not templates or categories — Some templates and categories are used with the goal of helping editors find articles under a specific topic area of interest.  For this use, it is often more valuable to create a list, which can be annotated and prioritized.  Many WikiProjects already maintain an area for reporting articles that need work.  (Note that categories also heavily load the servers, for similar reasons.)  See Categories, lists, and series boxes
 * 4) Use   — Template substitution copies the template's text to any daughter templates( subst itution) rather than causing a transclusion, thus eliminating the second template call. Of course, this means that when the meta-template is changed, the daughter templates won't update, and won't be tracked by the What links here feature. This is a good solution for any template that doesn't change often or where the exact text need not be kept up-to-date on every page.

Still want to use them?
If you are considering using a meta-template, ask these questions:

 * 1) Is the end product useful to Wikipedia, or is it a primarily decorative feature? Even useful templates should be weighed against the problems above.
 * 2) Is the template likely to be high-profile? High-profile templates cause more server load, and so are less appropriate for meta-templates.
 * 3) Is the desired effect only achievable through a meta-template, or can a template of basically the same appearance be made without them? If the same effect can be achieved differently, without significantly more trouble, a meta-template should be avoided.
 * 4) Will later editors understand how this works? On the other hand, will later editors understand the alternative method?

You should not use meta-templates without good reason. If you do create one, be open to other methods which achieve the same end, and be prepared to trade functionality in favor of avoiding the problems with meta-templates.

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Lanzarote Airport

César Manrique-Lanzarote Airport (Aeropuerto de César Manrique-Lanzarote), commonly known as Lanzarote Airport and also known as Arrecife Airport, is the airport serving the island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. The airport is located in San Bartolomé, Las Palmas, 5 km southwest of the island's capital, Arrecife. It handles flights to many European airports, with hundreds of thousands of tourists each year, as well as domestic flights to other Spanish airports. It handled 7,327,019 passengers in 2018.

Early years
In the 1930s, a need for an aerodrome on the island became evident when connections were required with the other islands and the mainland, as well as a refuelling point for aircraft. Subsequently, an airfield was built at Llanos de Guacimeta. The first aircraft to land at the airport was a Junkers Ju 52 EC-DAM on 24 July 1941. The Spanish Air Force then saw a need for a permanent aerodrome for defence purposes, and this was constructed in Arrecife. In 1946, the airport provisionally accepted civil traffic. Improvements were carried out to the existing facilities, with a runway extension and additional ramp space provided.

A new passenger terminal was constructed along with a control centre, and on 3 March 1970 international and domestic flights began using the airport. A centrepiece of the Guacimeta terminal was the mural created by César Manrique entitled Lanzarote.

Development since the 1990s
The growing use of the airport called for the need of improved facilities. DME, ILS and VOR facilities were installed for Runway 03/21 along with additional holding points. New runway lighting and a fire station were also commissioned. In 1999, a new passenger terminal opened (Terminal 1), with a capacity of 6 million passengers per annum. Since then, the original passenger terminal has been revamped and is now used for inter-island flights (Terminal 2).

In 2002, in response to interest from both tourists and local people about the island's aviation heritage, Aena decided to use the Guacimeta passenger terminal as an aviation museum. The museum provides a comprehensive and detailed insight into the history of aviation on the island. There are a number of audio-visual presentations.

As a tribute to the legacy left behind by local artist César Manrique, the airport's official name was changed in 2019, coinciding with the centenary of the artist's birth.

Airlines and destinations
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Lanzarote Airport:

Ground transportation
There are four bus lines connecting Lanzarote Airport with the rest of the island. The airport is connected via bus lines 22 and 23 to the city of Arrecife, and via lines 161 and 261 to Playa Blanca and Puerto del Carmen.

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W. Grant McMurray

W. Grant McMurray (born July 12, 1947) was Prophet-President of Community of Christ from 1996 until 2004. He was the first non-descendant of Joseph Smith to head the church, and under his administration, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (RLDS Church) changed its name to Community of Christ.

Biography
William Grant McMurray was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to parents who were members of the RLDS Church. He lived in Toronto until his teenage years, when his family moved to Independence, Missouri, where his mother accepted employment at the church headquarters of the RLDS Church. He attended Graceland College and St. Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, Missouri, where he earned a master's degree in theology, making McMurray the first president of the RLDS Church who was trained at a seminary.

In 1973, McMurray began employment with the historical department of the RLDS Church. In 1982, he became the church's World Church Secretary, and in 1992, he became a member of the First Presidency as a counselor to church president Wallace B. Smith. In 1995, Smith announced his retirement and named McMurray as his successor. It was the first time that a non-descendant of church-founder Joseph Smith had been named to head the church.

McMurray's presidency and legacy
McMurray became the president of the church in 1996.

In 1997, McMurray called upon the RLDS Church to transform itself by articulating a Christ-centered theology of peace. In 2001, the church changed its name to Community of Christ, evoking the original name of the church "Church of Christ," affirming the centrality of Christ to the church, and commemorating the Latter Day Saint movement's long-held tradition of building up "Zionic communities".

McMurray presided over the first ordination of a woman to the office of apostle in the Council of Twelve. He also led the Community of Christ to a closer fraternal (but not doctrinal) relationship with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, building both friendly relations and collaborative historical efforts.

McMurray's resignation
On November 29, 2004, McMurray resigned as president of the church. McMurray resignation letter stated, "However, along the way I have made some inappropriate choices, and the circumstances of my life are now such that I cannot continue to effectively lead the church. I deeply regret the difficulties that this causes for the church I love." The letter also stated that he had recently been diagnosed with early onset Parkinson's disease but his health was not a motivating factor to his resignation.

When later interviewed regarding his resignation letter, McMurray stated "Beyond that, it's an entirely personal and family matter and the letter says what I felt I needed to say."

A joint council of church leaders led by the Council of Twelve Apostles announced in March 2005 the name of Stephen M. Veazey as Prophet-President designate. Veazey had been serving as president of the Council of Twelve. Delegates elected to a special World Conference of the church approved Veazey and he was ordained to the presidency on June 3, 2005.

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Edward F. Albee Foundation

The Edward F. Albee Foundation is an arts foundation created with the intent of aiding young visual artists and writers. Located in Montauk on Long Island, New York, it was started by its namesake, playwright Edward Albee, in 1967, after revenue from his play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? proved abundant.

The Edward F. Albee Foundation maintains the William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center, also called The Barn, as a residence for writers, painters and sculptors. The Barn is located approximately two miles from the center of Montauk and the Atlantic Ocean. The residency program is in a secluded knoll offering privacy and a peaceful atmosphere.

Edward Albee created the foundation to provide an alternative to residencies that often served more established or successful applicants. "We thought that maybe we should do two things here - get people at the cusp, young people, before they necessarily had made it, or occasionally people who were older who had been forgotten and whose careers hadn't gone so well, but were still doing interesting work, because they could teach the younger people."

Some notable writers and artists who have attended in past years include: Christopher Durang, Spalding Gray, Cindy Hinant, A.M. Homes, Tom Holmes, Will Eno, Keith Milow, Sean Scully and Mia Westerlund-Roosen.

Renovations
The Barn was renovated and completed in 2024. The 3,300-square-foot structure houses the residents' rooms and studio space for writers and artists to live and work. It was a former horse stable in Montauk dating back to the 1920s and used for the residencies 50 years prior to the renovations. The rehabilitated barn has new dormers, windows, doors and an outdoor terrace. The new interior has accessible 21st century workspaces, an accessible elevator, a kitchen and a shared library that houses many of Albee’s own books and records. The updated and modernized facilities expanded the residency from a seasonal operation to year-round. The work minimized impact on existing wetlands, which were protected and restored with native plantings. A 1,400-square-foot cottage was also renovated as a residence for the property's caretaker. TenBerke was the architectural firm and John Hummel and Associates the general contractor.

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David Legwand

David A. Legwand (born August 17, 1980) is an American former professional ice hockey forward who played 16 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was the first player ever drafted by the Nashville Predators, with whom he spent 12 full seasons and set several franchise records. He finished the final three seasons of his career split between the Predators, Detroit Red Wings, Ottawa Senators and Buffalo Sabres.

Amateur
Legwand attended Grosse Pointe North High School. As a youth, he played in the 1993 and 1994 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with the Detroit Little Caesars minor ice hockey team.

He played his junior career with the Plymouth Whalers of the OHL. In the season before he was drafted, he scored 54 goals along with 51 assists, totaling 105 points. He also won the Red Tilson Award as the most outstanding player in the league.

Nashville Predators

Prior to the 1998 NHL Entry Draft, Nashville Predators general manager David Poile dealt their first- and second-round picks to the San Jose Sharks for the second and 85th pick. As a result, he was able to draft Legwand second overall behind Vincent Lecavalier. Poile had previously been in discussions with the Anaheim Ducks, Calgary Flames, and the New York Rangers before San Jose accepted their deal at the last minute. After suffering from mononucleosis during training camp, Legwand returned to the Plymouth Whalers for the 1998–99 OHL season. He missed further time during the season after the death of a family member and the World Juniors. He finished third on the team with 31 goals and 49 assists for 80 points through 55 games. Once the Whalers were eliminated from the OHL playoffs, he signed a three-year contract with the Predators worth $8.925 million and made his NHL debut against the New Jersey Devils.

Prior to the start of the 1999–00 season, Legwand was encouraged to put on more weight after he experienced a small growth spurt. As such, he worked with the team's strength and conditioning coach and added between 5 and 10 pounds. Despite improving physically, he failed to impress head coach Barry Trotz with his skills at the start of training camp. He still made the Predators opening night roster and tallied his first career NHL goal in a 4–2 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs. Through the month of December, Legwand accumulated three goals and five assists for eight points through 10 games. By the end of March, he had tallied 28 points and led all rookies with 13 goals through 67 games.

Legwand returned to the Predators for his sophomore season but failed to make an immediate impact on the team. After causing several turnovers leading to goals during a late October game against the Vancouver Canucks, Legwand sat as a healthy scratch for the first time in his NHL career. On December 23, 2000, during a game against the New York Rangers, Legwand became the first NHL player to score on a penalty shot in overtime. As the Predators failed to qualify for the 2001 Stanley Cup playoffs, Legwand competed for Team USA at the 2001 IIHF World Championship.

During the NHL 2004–05 lockout season, Legwand played for the Swiss team EHC Basel.

After several first round playoff exits, Legwand and the Predators advanced to the second round for the first time in franchise history and his career in 2011. The Predators were defeated by the eventual Western Conference Champions Vancouver Canucks in six games.

In early November 2005, Legwand suffered a knee injury. Prior to rejoining the Predators once his knee recovered, Legwand played two games in the American Hockey League (AHL) with the Milwaukee Admirals. He made his AHL debut on February 23, 2006, while playing on a line with Scottie Upshall and Jordin Tootoo.

On March 5, 2014, in the final year of his contract with the Predators and out of playoff contention, Legwand was traded to the Detroit Red Wings for Patrick Eaves, Calle Järnkrok, and a conditional 2014 draft pick, ending his 15-year career in Nashville. He left Nashville as the franchise's all-time leader in all offensive categories and games played, with 956 appearances.

Later years
On July 4, 2014, Legwand signed a two-year, $6 million free agent contract with the Ottawa Senators. The move came after the Senators traded star center Jason Spezza to the Dallas Stars. In his only season in Ottawa in 2014-15 season, Legwand added a veteran presence in helping return the Senators to the playoffs, however suffered a decline in production with 9 goals and 27 points in 80 games.

On June 26, 2015, Legwand was traded to the Buffalo Sabres along with Senators teammate Robin Lehner in exchange for the New York Islanders' 1st-round pick in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft.

Legwand announced his retirement from professional hockey on December 22, 2016.

Personal life
Legwand and his wife, Lindsey, have two children, with the firstborn being a son born on November 21, 2009.

In January 2015, Legwand, along with former NHL player Derian Hatcher, entered an agreement to purchase the Sarnia Sting of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). The transfer of ownership was approved by the OHL Board of Governors and completed on March 4, 2015.

Records and milestones

 * Nashville Predators record for most games played (956)

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Wikipedia talk:Avoid using meta-templates

Conditionals
Netoholic and Thebainer want to have the sentence "One of the most common reasons meta-templates are created is to add functions that mimic conditional expressions". I disagree with having this sentence in his guideline and I don't see why we need a section for conditionals at all. This might have been true before we had Parserfunctions. But nobody needs metatemplates for conditional logic anymore, so WP:AUM doesn't have to do anything anymore with conditional logic. How are metatemplates needed to implement conditionals? Could you show me where metatemplates are needed or used for conditional logic, let alone as "most common reasons"? --Ligulem 15:04, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

 * I've rewritten the section describing the use of metatemplates for conditionals as historic. But I don't think this section is needed anymore, as conditionals now don't have anything to do with metatemplates anymore. --Ligulem 15:24, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

 * That version's better, it emphasises the historical use. Although they aren't used for that purpose now, it makes perfect sense for this page to explain why that is so, and what is to be used instead. --bainer (talk) 00:26, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Netoholic reinserted "Meta-template schemes are sometimes created using many layers of nested templates to mimic conditional expressions". Again, this is not correct. Meta-templates are no longer used to mimic conditional logic. I have thus reverted to the version which Thebainer agreed on. --Ligulem 07:58, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

 * You are missing the point. While YOU may not create meta-template schemes... it is still a very common practice by template neophytes who don't know a thing about Parserfunctions, and so "One of the most common reasons meta-templates are created is to add functions that mimic conditional expressions". That statement, and the mention of the practice here is not an endorsement... the page title says to avoid such things. The point is to describe the practice so that people can recognize what's being discussed and be shown alternatives. In other words "Here's a common practice, and it should be avoided in favor of x, y, & z". -- Netoholic @ 07:59, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Can you show me such practice? --Ligulem 08:02, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Template:Flag. Please to enjoy. -- Netoholic @ 08:11, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Well known. Anything else? But Template:Flag does not serve as an example of "common practice". --Ligulem 08:27, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Those teeny-tiny flags are on hundreds pages, and there are several variations of the basic flag template. Category:Flag templates and WikiProject Flag Template cover all the related ones (Olympic, ISO, etc.). An extremely common practice (relatively on an encyclopedia of almost 1.5 million articles), and still is a convoluted meta-template scheme. You can see some of the hundreds of related templates here. Because of how these are set up, Whatlinkshere is highly unreliable. The flag templates were my main inspiration for WP:AUM. I'd help fix them, but... -- Netoholic @ 17:56, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

In general, I agree with this wording. Although I do think "Conditionals should generally be avoided, unless there is a significant advantage in their use" is a bit dense. But as long as "Generally avoided" is not misrepresented as "do not use at all cost", I can live with that wording. Common practice is that even the "few template gurus" don't insert #if's if they are not needed. --Ligulem 08:27, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Overall, I don't think there is enough of a 'problem' here to require a policy/guideline. If individual templates (e.g. the flags) could be better structured then we should address that directly on a case by case basis rather than setting up an 'official policy'. The latter can only serve as a 'club' to force people to change something which has consensus... and, as I said, I don't see any problems here which I think would necessitate that. The fact is that people generally aren't creating "convoluted meta-template schemes" since the introduction of parser-functions. The flags are a relic from pre 'conditional template' days that have never been updated to more recent methods. Maybe there are reasons for that... or maybe it is just that nobody ever put in the effort, but that is one of a handful of cases and not any sort of widespread or significant problem. --CBD 12:56, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

 * You'd probably be surprised with just how many conditionally-based nested template schemes there are out there. This page can be a guideline which explains the issues, so that the same arguements aren't repeated. -- Netoholic @ 20:57, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

 * So point them out and I'll be happy to talk with the people there about simplifying them. Heck, you could talk to them yourself, work out a consensus, develop an alternative in your user space, and get someone to implement it. Which would probably go a long way towards getting your ArbCom probation on the matter rescinded. I just think it is a bad idea  to go down the road of 'this type of template is a bad design... see there is a page which says so... so you have to change/abandon/delete it' again. There is not enough of a 'problem' here to justify ANY sort of cudgel... whether it be labeled 'guideline' or not. If there is really a way to simplify things people will usually jump at the chance. --CBD 13:11, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

This page and its fundamental concept have been rejected over and over. Neto is the only one trying to revive this. The content you want to add is fine, but not policy material. It belongs on an informative page like Template namespace; not here. — Omegatron 00:10, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

 * So feel free to add a summary on that page, but let this be the expanded -guideline- (not "policy"). I cannot tell from the above whether YOU YOURSELF reject this page, or are only acting out of some sense of obligation becuase you believe that it oresently is rejected. IF you say the wording is fine, and Ligulem does, and me, and CBDunk doesn't have major objections... then what is the problem?  It is a proposed guideline, nothing more. LEt it evolve, let more people read it without the stigma of that giant red "X" on the top. -- Netoholic @ 07:21, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

WP:AUM had been rejected... Is it time to revert some of the "forward looking" edits?
I believe there are a few pages that were edited in anticipation of WP:AUM. Some (probably not all) of these pages may warrant reverting. Are there any guidelines, or priorities or concensous was to what to revert first? I am of the mind to simply do the ones I know about.

Sumburgh 08:49, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Of course other pages should reflect the fact that this is rejected, but can you give some more concrete examples of what you're talking about? — Omegatron 09:29, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

 * People who rejected this page 9 months ago did so because they felt that it threatened a poorly implemented hack involving Template:If and such. Now that scheme is deprecated in favor of ParserFunctions, and all RECENT indications about are that the main people who lead the rejection of this page are now of the mind that, with some updates to reflect the present situation, that the content of it is good.  To repeatedly say this page is rejected while ignoring recent consensus is not accurate.  I do not care about the past, I care that this page makes some excellent observations and suggestions.  People "get" what this page is about, as I see the subject come up often and I see people working under the principles given here.  Nested "meta-template" schemes are being wiped out. This page is current, and reflects wide consensus. I remain open to discussing specific parts, but Omegatron is not the decider of what is rejected or not. To do so he needs to show this page does not currently hold consensus. -- Netoholic @ 09:51, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
 * It seems this is a very touchy subject, so I suggest further discussion before making any changes on the actual project page. -- Ned Scott 10:46, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

 * And discussion is happening. It is only "touchy" because people assume it must be "touchy". In reality, the page's function is simple and generally agreeable. -- Netoholic @ 09:50, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

 * It would help if you gave some examples of this "general agreement" you keep talking about. Who has said they want this page revived besides you? — Omegatron 17:19, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

 * What you're not getting is that you and other people are "saying" that this page has no agreement, but not speaking for yourself. Do you yourself believe that meta-template schemes should be avoided?  I really want everyone on this talk page to answer this question, rather than assume they are acting on behalf of some shadowy faction that oppses this page. -- Netoholic @ 17:52, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

 * So you can't? — Omegatron 02:37, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

 * instructions creep, because it's not a big issue in the first place? -- Ned Scott 03:31, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Why not make a workshop page, or a new proposal along similar lines? - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) 03:13, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Because we've been down that road before, and this is the right title and place to discuss this very minor consideration in the template space. Besides, the content of the page is largely uncontroversial, except when people assume it is controversial. -- Netoholic @ 09:50, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Not again
Ugh. Do you ever feel like you're the needle running over a broken record? Edit warring, disputed page protections, blocks, et cetera. We've all been here before and we all know how it turns out... badly for Wikipedia. Can we please not fight this war again?

Netoholic, you are not wrong that some templates are set up less efficiently than they could be. We should indeed encourage people to use different methods where appropriate. However, this page is not needed to do that. There is nothing preventing direct contact with people involved in various templates that could be re-designed. No, you can't then point at a page and say, 'all the reasons why this must be done are there'... but that's a good thing. It forces us to examine the individual needs of the template and the people using it and work with them to come up with a replacement they are comfortable with. So that we are the 'good guys' not just in terms of improving templates for Wikipedia as a whole, but also to the individual users impacted.

Why not work on improving the templates collaboratively... rather than fighting to enshrine a framework which can serve no purpose but to over-ride collaboration with 'established practice'? --CBD 13:38, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

 * I don't think that approach will help in more than a few cases. I prepared the first version of this page only after dozens of individual meta-template arguments and deletion votes.  This page centralises many of the points, so why would we want to expend effort re-explaining this each and every time?  No, this is not the biggest problem on Wikipedia - I never said it was. Far more often then not, people have been directed to this page, read it, and come away with a greater understanding and a desire to make their templates less cumbersome.  Why take that away? -- Netoholic @ 09:45, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

 * I just stumbled here looking for template content. I come from a strong background in C++ template meta-programming and I've witnessed this same debate play out over a decade with larger armies, better trained, and better equiped.  I would say the debate was more complex than the meta-programming techniques themselves.  The   saga raged forever.  In my view, this page is not the right forum to achieve its purpose: advocating a judicious use of complexity for the betterment of the community as a whole.  Far more useful would be a page or collection of pages concerning Recommendations on avoiding unnecessary complexity in general, with portions applied to templates, and meta-templates, in particular; and from there, as others have suggested, work with people to adopt this material to their specific situation so far as it makes sense.

 * I lost what sympathy I had when I saw the prominent link to protected pages are bad(tm). That's the kind of innocuous-on-the-surface wolf-in-sheeps-clothing that makes this page dangerous and far from uncontroversial.  The same facility that these semi-protected deep-infrastructure meta-templates provide could just have easily have been incorporated into the MediaWiki code base as custom PHP.  Does that end up making the facility less-protected?  The C++ community went through endless heartache to push complexity away from the core compiler by making the template infrastructure sufficiently powerful that the same complexity could be handled as a deep systems library provided by the compiler vendor or by means of a battle-hardened primitives library (e.g. Boost).  At the end of the day, it benefits the entire ecosystem not to code more policy into the compiler itself than absolutely necessary.  For C++, the equivalent of the parse-functions extension is coded in a Boost library and you wouldn't want to be mucking with this down in the sub-basement unless you feel up to the challenge of performing a successful self-amputation.  Most likely it was of great value that the community could explore the use of this facility before it was formally codified as Mediawiki extension.  Experience has shown that new C++ coders often learn faster and make fewer mistakes programming on top of the Boost library, rather than cooking from scratch in a notoriously unsafe kitchen.  The issue is about packaging the complexity appropriately, not whether it exists somewhere in a basement that eats children.

 * The point here is that there is certainly no consensus in any policy page that the use of protected pages to promote the general safety of Wikipedia while wrangling with how to best dispatch complexity taints such an endeavour intrinsically, which is the wolf-in-sheeps clothing that invoking the trappings of a consensus formed about the abuse of a mechanism in a broad political context rather than this hillybilly-esoteric technical backwater. In so far as the reader comes away informed, it could be achieved better by other means.

 * A good book to consider is Getting to Yes which talks at length about the need to argue from interests rather than positions. The interest here is that Wikipedia complexity be managed in the best possible way across the broad swath of the Wikipedia ecosystem, from casual contributors to hard-core MediaWiki hackers.  IMO the existence of this page subtley biases the debate away from the interest of managing complexity and toward the position that template meta-programming can be tarred with one brush.  That makes this page plenty controversial in my estimation.  MaxEnt 18:18, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Wow, that was.. really well put :) -- Ned Scott 03:35, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Cache size is getting too small again
The text alone from United States is 500 KB of meta-templated goodness, not counting javascript, stylesheets and of course images. I clocked five various diffs (with "time wget" from the shell) at between 43 and 48(!) seconds just now. The second try of each was about 5 seconds. When a particular version of an article with enough meta-templates in it gets bumped from the caches, you wait. And wait. I disbelieve the developers when they say nested transclusion isn't a performance penalty. That depends on having an effectively much larger cache than we do now. 1of3 03:40, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
 * from Rob Church on the mailing list:
 * The "technical team" is not responsible for checking that content is correct, nor is it responsible for checking page load times for each article and pruning them in the dumps. If a page contains obvious abuses of markup which cause significant problems for large numbers of users, then we'll kill it off, but of course, we haven't had a large number of reports of that in recent months, although as other threads on the list imply, the problem is resurfacing, and will likely be looked into.
 * We can't really help it if our users are silly enough to insist upon abusing a markup language as if it were pure code, nor if they insist upon continuing to use fragile-looking template constructs which will end in tears.
 * — xaosflux  Talk  11:27, 26 October 2007 (UTC)


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Park, Lewis

Park (A' Phàirc), also known as South Lochs, is a huge area of land connected to the rest of Lewis only by a narrow neck between Loch Seaforth and Loch Erisort. This had a wall called Gàrradh an Tighearna ("The Laird's Dyke") built across it by the Earl of Seaforth in the early 17th century, the outline of which can still be seen.

Only the north of Park is now inhabited: settlements in the south were cleared by Sir James Matheson in the nineteenth century. A famous deer raid took place here in 1887 as a demonstration by starving people, commemorated by a broch resembling a cairn at the Eishken junction. Much of this area is still used for deer stalking.

Community buyout
The Pairc Estate extends to 10845 ha and includes 11 crofting townships with a combined population of nearly 400. In 2011 the Pairc Community Trust received approval from Roseanna Cunningham, the Environment Minister, for a bid to buy the estate under the crofting "Right to Buy" provisions of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003. Pairc Trust chairman Angus McDowall, said: "This is an historic step forward for our community, and sends an unambiguous message to the landlord that the economic and social development of Pairc in the interests of the whole community should be ranked above private financial gain. It is a complete vindication of the persistence which we and the whole community have shown over so many years in trying to exercise our rights under the Act in order to plan a better future for local crofters and residents." In May 2014 the community voted to proceed with the buyout. In December 2015, residents formally took over the land.

Crofting townships in Park

 * Orinsay
 * Lemreway
 * Gravir
 * Garyvard
 * Kershader
 * Habost
 * Caversta
 * Marvig
 * Calbost
 * Eishken
 * Shiltenish
 * Torastay
 * Cromore

Natural environment
Loch Cromore, which has a slight salt water content, is good for wildfowl, including wintering whooper swans and common seals frequent the inlets. The deserted village of Stiomrabhagh is a short walk from Orinsay. Fine views of the Shiant Islands may be obtained from Lemreway and Orinsay.

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Tado (disambiguation)

Tado may refer to:

 * Tado, a village in Togo, Africa
 * Tado°, German high-tech company which engages in intelligent climate control
 * Tadó, town and municipality in Chocó Department, Colombia
 * Tado, a former West African kingdom
 * Tado, a village in the Manggrai district of Flores, Indonesia
 * Tado, Mie, a town located in Kuwana District, Mie, Japan
 * The Lower Tado period of the Japanese Jōmon period
 * The Upper Tado period of the Japanese Jōmon period
 * Tado, a minion of Garlic Jr. from the Dragon Ball Z series
 * Tado (comedian), male comedian from the Philippines

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Neonatology

Neonatology is a subspecialty of pediatrics that consists of the medical care of newborn infants, especially the ill or premature newborn. It is a hospital-based specialty and is usually practised in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). The principal patients of neonatologists are newborn infants who are ill or require special medical care due to prematurity, low birth weight, intrauterine growth restriction, congenital malformations (birth defects), sepsis, pulmonary hypoplasia, or birth asphyxia.

Historical developments
Though high infant mortality rates were recognized by the medical community at least as early as the 1860s, advances in modern neonatal intensive care have led to a significant decline in infant mortality in the modern era. This has been achieved through a combination of technological advances, enhanced understanding of newborn physiology, improved sanitation practices, and development of specialized units for neonatal intensive care. Around the mid-19th century, the care of newborns was in its infancy and was led mainly by obstetricians; however, the early 1900s, pediatricians began to assume a more direct role in caring for neonates. The term neonatology was coined by Dr. Alexander Schaffer in 1960. The American Board of Pediatrics established an official sub-board certification for neonatology in 1975.

In 1835, the Russian physician Georg von Ruehl developed a rudimentary incubator made from two nestled metal tubs enclosing a layer of warm water. By the mid-1850s, these "warming tubs" were in regular use at the Moscow Foundling Hospital for the support of premature infants. 1857, Jean-Louis-Paul Denuce was the first to publish a description of his own similar incubator design, and was the first physician to describe its utility in the support of premature infants in medical literature. By 1931, Dr. A Robert Bauer added more sophisticated upgrades to the incubator which allowed for humidity control and oxygen delivery in addition to heating capabilities, further contributing to improved survival in newborns.

The 1950s brought a rapid escalation in neonatal services with the advent of mechanical ventilation of the newborn, allowing for survival at an increasingly smaller birth weight.

In 1952, the anesthesiologist Dr. Virginia Apgar developed the Apgar score, used for standardized assessment of infants immediately upon delivery, to guide further steps in resuscitation if necessary.

The first dedicated neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) was established at Yale-Newhaven Hospital in Connecticut in 1965. Prior to the development of the NICU, premature and critically ill infants were attended to in nurseries without specialized resuscitation equipment.

In 1968, Dr. Jerold Lucey demonstrated that hyperbilirubinemia of prematurity (a form of neonatal jaundice) could be successfully treated through exposure to artificial blue light. This led to widespread use of phototherapy, which has now become a mainstay of treatment of neonatal jaundice.

In the 1980s, the development of pulmonary surfactant replacement therapy further improved survival of extremely premature infants and decreased chronic lung disease, one of the complications of mechanical ventilation, among less severely premature infants.

Academic training
In the United States, a neonatologist is a physician (MD or DO) practicing neonatology. To become a neonatologist, the physician initially receives training as a pediatrician, then completes an additional training called a fellowship (for 3 years in the US) in neonatology. In the United States of America most, but not all neonatologists, are board certified in the specialty of Pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics or the American Osteopathic Board of Pediatrics and in the sub-specialty of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine also by the American Board of Pediatrics or American Osteopathic Board of Pediatrics. Most countries now run similar programs for post-graduate training in Neonatology, as a subspecialisation of pediatrics.

In the United Kingdom, after graduation from medical school and completing the two-year foundation programme, a physician wishing to become a neonatologist would enroll in an eight-year paediatric specialty training programme. The last two to three years of this would be devoted to training in neonatology as a subspecialty.

Neonatal nursing is subspecialty of nursing that specialize in neonatal care.

Spectrum of care
Rather than focusing on a particular organ system, neonatologists focus on the care of newborns who require hospitalization in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). They may also act as general pediatricians, providing well newborn evaluation and care in the hospital where they are based. Some neonatologists, particularly those in academic settings who perform clinical and basic science research, may follow infants for months or even years after hospital discharge to better assess the long-term outcomes.

The infant is undergoing many adaptations to extrauterine life, and its physiological systems, such as the immune system, are far from fully developed. Diseases of concern during the neonatal period include:
 * Anemia of prematurity
 * Apnea of prematurity
 * Atrial septal defect
 * Atrioventricular septal defect
 * Benign neonatal hemangiomatosis
 * Brachial plexus injury
 * Bronchopulmonary dysplasia
 * Cerebral palsy
 * CHARGE syndrome
 * Cleft palate
 * Coarctation of the aorta
 * Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
 * Congenital diaphragmatic hernia
 * Congenital heart disease
 * Diffuse neonatal hemangiomatosis
 * DiGeorge syndrome
 * Encephalocele
 * Gastroschisis
 * Hemolytic disease of the newborn
 * Hirschsprung disease
 * Hypoplastic left heart syndrome
 * Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy
 * Inborn errors of metabolism
 * Intraventricular hemorrhage
 * Lissencephaly
 * Meconium aspiration syndrome
 * Necrotizing enterocolitis
 * Neonatal abstinence syndrome
 * Neonatal cancer
 * Neonatal jaundice
 * Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome
 * Neonatal lupus erythematosus
 * Neonatal conjunctivitis
 * Neonatal pneumonia
 * Neonatal tetanus
 * Neonatal sepsis
 * Neonatal bowel obstruction
 * Neonatal stroke
 * Neonatal diabetes mellitus
 * Neonatal alloimmune thrombocytopenia
 * Neonatal herpes simplex
 * Neonatal hemochromatosis
 * Neonatal meningitis
 * Neonatal hepatitis
 * Neonatal hypoglycemia
 * Neonatal cholestasis
 * Neonatal seizure
 * Omphalocele
 * Patent ductus arteriosus
 * Perinatal asphyxia
 * Periventricular leukomalacia
 * Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn
 * Persistent truncus arteriosus
 * Pulmonary hypoplasia
 * Retinopathy of prematurity
 * Spina bifida
 * Spinal muscular atrophy
 * Supraventricular tachycardia
 * Tetralogy of Fallot
 * Total (or partial) anomalous pulmonary venous connection
 * Tracheoesophageal fistula
 * Transient tachypnea of the newborn
 * Transposition of the great vessels
 * Tricuspid atresia
 * Trisomy 13/18/21
 * VACTERL/VATER association
 * Ventricular septal defect
 * Vertically transmitted infections

Compensation
Neonatologists earn significantly more than general pediatricians. In 2018, a typical pediatrician salary in the United States ranged from $221,000 to $264,000, whereas the average salary for a neonatologist was about $299,000 to $355,000.

Hospital costs
Premature birth is one of the most common reasons for hospitalization. The average hospital costs from 2003 to 2011 for the maternal and neonatal surgical services were the lowest hospital costs in the U.S. In 2012, maternal or neonatal hospital stays constituted the largest proportion of hospitalizations among infants, adults aged 18–44, and those covered by Medicaid.

Between 2000 and 2012, the number of neonatal stays (births) in the United States fluctuated around 4.0 million stays, reaching a high of 4.3 million in 2006. Maternal and neonatal stays constituted 27 percent of hospital stays in the United States in 2012. However, the mean hospital costs remained the lowest of the three types of hospital stay (medical, surgical, or maternal and neonatal). The mean hospital cost for a maternal/neonatal stay was $4,300 in 2012 (as opposed to $8,500 for medical stays and $21,200 for surgical stays in 2012).

Encouragingly, an increasing number of programs focused on collaboration of newborn care are now being established all over the world. The International Neonatal Consortium Newborn Care International, Newborn Care International, and the Global Newborn Society are some notable examples. The goal is to organize and standardize newborn care, and coordinate research efforts.

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Talk:Agenda 2010

Bias
This article is biased/wrong. Although it was seen as cuts, some policies actually let to the expansion of the social welfare system for the poorest and also cost in some cases. If you consider for example the deeply unpopular "Hartz 4" reform: The mid class unemployed lost significantly while the poorest gained. The focus of the reform was not cutting, but creating incentives (punishments and rewards) for a more active job search by the unemployed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.21.154.141 (talk) 21:47, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

This article also empathizes poverty ratios while neglecting, that in absolute terms poor people's standard of living continued to improve. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.21.154.141 (talk) 22:01, 6 February 2012 (UTC)

"reforms" etc
I'm not trying to change the article but just make it sound more reasonable, please be patient with my changes! Saintswithin 19:11, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I've changed "reform" to change - I'm afraid writing "reform" in speech marks will make the piece sound too sarcastic and rant-like. The same for "conservative" and "supposed independence" - it sounds hostile, it's not going to make anyone want to read it.
 * "justifiedly" is not NPOV, I changed it to "justifiably" - is that NPOV anyone?!
 * "but their course is inconsistent." - what does this mean? Which course? in what way inconsistent? In whose view?

Saintswithin, I've written most of that article, and can only thank you. I looks and sounds much better than before. Thank you also for correcting my grammatical and orthographical mistakes; English is not my native language. You're also right in your assessment that my original was ranting too much. Reading the article again, I must say it's been much improved by your changes. (No speech marks and no pun intended here.) 22:34, 4 Feb 2005 (CET)

Mass media bought by Industry?
From the article:

''The German mass media (TV and radio stations, newspapers and magazines alike) in the majority welcomed the changes as "overdue"; there were very few critical comments. Since the media and journalists themselves suffer a lot from unemployment and low wages, and since many newspapers only just avoided bankruptcy after the new economy and media crash following the stock crash in 2000, it is possible that their independence has been undercut by threats from their industrial advertising partners. There has generally been a consistent trend toward more neoliberal positions in German media in the past few years, starting in the 1990s.'' I wonder where this information is from - I never read about this anywhere, not even on left-wing media or websites. Additionally, I found that the Agenda 2010 received rather critical comments in most of the middle-left papers, whereas middle-right papers advocated it, of course. Any sources for this? Otherwise, I'd like to remove this claim from the article. -- Philipp Krebs 02:36, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Seconded - this is a load of weasel worded bias. Mavzor 11:27, 15 August 2006

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The Cross of Changes

The Cross of Changes is the second studio album by the German musical project Enigma, headed by Romanian-German musician and producer Michael Cretu, released on 6 December 1993 by Virgin Records internationally and by Charisma Records in the United States.

Following the worldwide commercial success of the first Enigma album, MCMXC a.D. (1990), Cretu began to write and record music for a new album at A.R.T. Studios, his home studio in Ibiza, Spain. Cretu sampled songs from several artists, including Vangelis, U2, Genesis and Black Sabbath.

The Cross of Changes was a commercial success. Upon its release, it debuted at No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart, becoming Enigma's second consecutive number-one album in the United Kingdom, and peaked at number nine on the Billboard 200 in the United States, where it sold over two million copies. In 1994, four singles were released from the album: "Return to Innocence", "The Eyes of Truth", "Age of Loneliness (Carly's Song)" (originally written for the film Sliver), and "Out from the Deep". A special limited edition of the album was released on 21 November 1994 on a 24-carat gold-plated disc, containing three additional remixes.

Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Cross of Changes.

 * Andreas Harde (credited as Angel) – additional voice
 * Sandra Cretu – additional voice
 * Michael Cretu (credited as Curly M.C.) – additional voice, instruments, programming, production, engineering
 * Louisa Stanley – additional voice
 * Jens Gad – guitars
 * Peter Cornelius – guitars

title: The Cross of Changes


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