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Ryan Kesler

Ryan James Kesler (born August 31, 1984) is an American former professional ice hockey center. Selected in the first round, 23rd overall, by the Vancouver Canucks in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft, Kesler spent the first 10 years of his National Hockey League (NHL) career with the Canucks after which he was traded to the Anaheim Ducks in 2014 with whom he spent the rest of his career. He is best known for being a two-way forward and his agitating style of play, winning the Selke Trophy in 2011 while also being a finalist for the award in 2009, 2010, 2016 and 2017.

Kesler played junior ice hockey with the USA Hockey National Team Development Program from which he then accepted a scholarship to play college ice hockey with the Ohio State Buckeyes of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA). In one season with the Buckeyes, he was an honorable mention for the CCHA All-Rookie Team and was named CCHA Rookie of the Week three times and CCHA Rookie of the Month once. In addition to the USA Hockey National Team Development Program and the Ohio State Buckeyes, Kesler has also suited up for the Manitoba Moose of the American Hockey League (AHL), where he was named to the 2005 AHL All-Star Game.

Kesler has represented the United States at seven International Ice Hockey Federation-sanctioned events, winning one World U18 Championship gold medal, one World Junior Championship gold medal, one Winter Olympics silver medal, and one World U-17 Hockey Challenge gold medal.

Early life
Kesler was born on August 31, 1984, in Livonia, Michigan, to Linda and Mike Kesler. He is the youngest of three children, after brother Todd and sister Jenny. His father, Mike, played college ice hockey at Colorado College and was a supervisor with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association for 37 years. He introduced his children to the ice at a very young age; Ryan recalls skating at around age four. Mike also coaches a Junior B ice hockey team and runs an ice hockey school in Livonia, which Kesler attended as a child every summer from the age of six to seventeen. In April 2007, Mike was diagnosed with carcinoid cancer and had seven inches of his small intestine removed in order to be rid of it.

Kesler played minor ice hockey in Detroit for teams such as Compuware, Honeybaked and Little Caesars of the Midwest Elite Hockey League (MWEHL). He played in the 1998 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Little Caesars team. Around age 13, Kesler was cut from every AAA team he tried out for. Consequently, he played for his dad's Livonia Hockey Association bantam team, which he coached. Kesler credits his brother, who is nine years older than him, for getting him into hockey. During his minor career, he established a lasting friendship with Chris Conner, who went on to be drafted by the Dallas Stars.

Despite growing up in Michigan near Detroit, he was a Minnesota North Stars fan. As a young hockey player, Kesler looked up to North Stars center and fellow Livonia native Mike Modano as a role model. He has also listed Joe Sakic of the Quebec Nordiques and Colorado Avalanche as a favorite player during his childhood.

Early career
In June 2000, Kesler was drafted in the fifth round, 89th overall, by the Brampton Battalion in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) Priority Selection. Despite being drafted by a Canadian OHL team, Kesler chose to play in the USA Hockey National Team Development Program (USNTDP) because of its close proximity to Livonia. This allowed Kesler to continue his high school education without leaving Winston Churchill High School. He entered the USNTDP for the 2000–01 season. Over his two seasons with the USNTDP, Kesler recorded 99 points in 131 games.

After two seasons with the USNTDP, Kesler accepted a scholarship to play college ice hockey at Ohio State University for the Ohio State Buckeyes of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA). He chose Ohio State over the University of Wisconsin–Madison and its Wisconsin Badgers ice hockey program of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) because Ohio State was closer to Kesler's home in Livonia. As a freshman, Kesler scored 11 goals and 20 assists to finish fourth in team scoring behind junior and Hobey Baker Award finalist R. J. Umberger. Over the course of his freshman year, Kesler helped the Buckeyes to a third-place finish in the CCHA's regular season standings. At the 2003 CCHA Tournament, Kesler scored two goals as the Buckeye's finished in fourth place, losing to Northern Michigan 4–1 in the third-place game. Despite this finish, Ohio State secured an at-large bid to the 2003 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament, the third appearance at the NCAA men's ice hockey championship in Ohio State's history. At the tournament, Ohio State suffered a 1–0 loss to Boston College in the opening round of the East Regional at the Dunkin' Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island, ending both the team's and Kesler's season.

Kesler's play as a freshman earned him an honorable mention for the CCHA All-Rookie Team. He was also named CCHA Rookie of the Week three times, CCHA Rookie of the Month once, and was awarded Ohio State's George Burke Most Valuable Freshman award. Following the season, Kesler entered the 2003 NHL Entry Draft ranked 16th overall among North American skaters. On June 21, 2003, he was drafted 23rd overall by the Vancouver Canucks.

Upon being drafted, Kesler considered returning to Ohio State for his sophomore season or joining the Brampton Battalion, who still held his OHL rights. However, on August 18, 2003, less than two months after being drafted, Kesler signed a three-year, $2.475-million entry-level contract with the Canucks, complemented by an $850,000 signing bonus. After attending Canucks training camp and playing in five preseason games, Kesler was cut by the Canucks and sent to their American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Manitoba Moose.

Vancouver Canucks (2003–2014)
Kesler began his first professional season with the Manitoba Moose, but was recalled by the Canucks in November and made his NHL debut on November 24, 2003, in a 2–1 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs, recording one shot on goal and 12:12 of ice time. He scored his first career NHL goal on November 29 against Calgary Flames goaltender Jamie McLennan in a 4–4 tie. For the remainder of the season, Kesler split time between the Canucks and the Moose, finishing his season with five points in 28 Canucks games and 11 points in 33 Moose games.

The 2004–05 NHL lockout, which cancelled the 2004–05 NHL season, forced Kesler to spend the entire season with the Moose. With Manitoba, Kesler emerged as one of the Canucks' top prospects. Midway through the season, Kesler was named to the PlanetUSA All-Star team for the 2005 AHL All-Star Game where he helped PlanetUSA defeat Team Canada for the first time in five years. Kesler finished third in team scoring with thirty goals and 57 points to be named the Moose's Most Valuable Player. Kesler added an additional nine points in 14 playoff games as the Moose advanced to the Western Conference finals before being swept by the Chicago Wolves.

When the NHL lockout ended and play resumed for the 2005–06 season, Kesler joined the Canucks for his first full season with the team, playing in all 82 games and finishing the season with 23 points (10 goals, 13 assists).

With his entry-level contract expiring in the 2006 off-season, Kesler rejected a $564,000 qualifying offer from the Canucks before becoming a restricted free agent on July 1, 2006. Unable to come to terms on a new deal with the Canucks, Kesler signed a one-year, $1.9-million offer sheet with the Philadelphia Flyers on September 12. The offer sheet from Flyers general manager Bobby Clarke was the first in the NHL since the Tampa Bay Lightning extended one to Brett Hauer in July 1999. The move was highly controversial, with many NHL general managers criticizing how Kesler's inflated salary would affect future free agent signings. The Canucks had one week to either match the offer or receive a second round draft pick from the Flyers in 2007 as compensation. Two days after the signing, the Canucks matched the Flyers' offer. After playing 48 games in the 2006–07 season, Kesler suffered a torn acetabular labrum in a game against the Buffalo Sabres on January 19, 2007, and missed the remainder of the season, finishing the season playing in 48 games with 16 points (6 goals, 10 assists). Kesler returned to the Canucks lineup for the first game of their first round series in the 2007 playoffs on April 13 against the Dallas Stars. While blocking a shot in the fourth overtime of the game, Kesler was re-injured, suffering a broken index finger. Despite finishing the game, Kesler was forced to undergo surgery to repair his finger and missed the remainder of the playoffs. In Kesler's absence, the Canucks defeated sixth-seeded Stars in six games before getting defeated in five games by second-seeded and eventual Stanley Cup champion Anaheim Ducks.

On May 24, 2007, the Canucks re-signed Kesler to a three-year, $5.25 million contract extension. In comparison to his previous contract, facilitated by the Flyers' offer sheet, the deal represented a $150,000 pay cut in terms of average annual salary. On October 10, three games into 2007–08, Kesler was cross-checked in the face by Philadelphia Flyers forward Jesse Boulerice. The cross-check was an immediate response to Kesler hitting Flyers defenseman Randy Jones and resulted in Kesler leaving the game with a sore jaw. Boulerice was subsequently suspended for 25 games, matching the then largest suspension in NHL history. Later in the season, on March 12, 2008, Kesler was involved in another violent on-ice incident when Anaheim Ducks defenseman Chris Pronger used his skate blade to stomp on Kesler's calf. Kesler was not injured on the play. Although the NHL originally announced Pronger would not receive a suspension on the play, he later received an eight-game suspension when new video emerged of the incident. Over the course of the season, Kesler established himself as a solid two-way center, scoring what was then a career-high 21 goals and 16 assists for 37 points in 80 games and playing a regular shutdown role against opposing teams' top players and on the penalty kill with linemate Alexandre Burrows.

With the departures of Markus Näslund, Brendan Morrison and Trevor Linden following the 2008 off-season, the Canucks were left without any captains for the 2008–09 season. On September 30, 2008, Kesler was announced as a Canucks alternate captain with Willie Mitchell and Mattias Öhlund, while Canucks goaltender Roberto Luongo was named captain. While he at first continued to play on the third line in a largely defensive role with Burrows, head coach Alain Vigneault eventually split the duo in the midst of a poor January for the team. As a result, Kesler was placed on the second line with free agent acquisitions Pavol Demitra and Mats Sundin. Playing in a more offensive role, he set then-personal bests for the 2008–09 season, with 26 goals and 33 assists for 59 points in all 82 contests played. As a result of his breakout season, he was awarded the Cyclone Taylor Award as team MVP ahead of higher-profile teammates Luongo and Henrik and Daniel Sedin. Kesler gained additional recognition on a league-wide basis as a Frank J. Selke Trophy finalist along with Pavel Datsyuk of the Detroit Red Wings and Mike Richards of the Philadelphia Flyers. He finished as second runner-up with one first-place vote.

In the midst of another career year, Kesler signed a six-year, $30 million contract extension with the Canucks on March 19, 2010. The deal was structured to pay Kesler $5 million per season and came a month and a half after general manager Mike Gillis announced he had suspended contract negotiations with all the Canucks' pending free agents until after the 2009–10 season. The Canucks were reportedly looking to sign him at $4.5 million per year while Kesler was asking for $5.5 million. Kesler had made remarks the previous season in March 2009, after Burrows had recently signed a four-year, $2 million per season extension, that more players need to sign contracts below market value in order to develop a winning team. His comments later prompted his agent to refute the idea Kesler would not seek full market value in contract negotiations. Kesler was also contacted by National Hockey League Players' Association director of affairs Glenn Healy, who discouraged Kesler from making similar remarks in the future. Kesler completed the 2009–10 campaign with a new personal best in points for the third consecutive season with 75 points (25 goals and 50 assists) in all 82 games. With Mats Sundin's retirement in the 2009 off-season and Pavol Demitra being held out of the lineup for most of the season and playing only 28 games in the season due to injury, Kesler was moved to his natural center position and joined by wingers Mikael Samuelsson and Mason Raymond. His 26 power play points ranked second on the team to Henrik Sedin. Playing on the second power play unit, he earned many of his points controlling the puck along the half-boards. He also averaged a career-high 19:37 minutes of ice time per game, which ranked second among team forwards to Henrik Sedin. In the subsequent 2010 playoffs, Kesler notched a goal and nine assists for 10 points in all 12 games. After helping the Canucks eliminate the Los Angeles Kings in six games in the first round, he played with a sore shoulder in the second round as Vancouver was eliminated by the Chicago Blackhawks in six games for the second consecutive year. An MRI did not reveal any serious injury. He admitted following the defeat to not having played his best during the playoffs. Following the 2009–10 campaign, he was a Selke Trophy finalist for the second consecutive season, opposite Pavel Datsyuk of the Detroit Red Wings and Jordan Staal of the Pittsburgh Penguins. He ranked second in the league to Datsyuk in takeaways with 83, while blocking 73 shots and recording 95 hits. He lost the award as the first runner-up with 655 voting points, behind Datsyuk's 688.

In the 2010 off-season, goaltender Roberto Luongo resigned his team captaincy. As Canucks management waited until the beginning of the 2010–11 season to announce his replacement, Kesler was seen by media and fans as a strong candidate, alongside Henrik Sedin. Henrik was eventually named captain prior to the season-opener and Kesler retained his alternate captaincy. The 2010–11 season marked an expanded focus on Kesler's offensive role. He began the season playing on the power play with the Sedins, as part of an effort by the Canucks coaching staff of head coach Alain Vigneault along with assistant coaches Rick Bowness and Newell Brown to "load up" their first power play unit. Switching from being the primary puck-controller on the second unit, he moved to the front of the net, screening the goalie and tipping pucks in. The off-season acquisition of defensive specialist forward Manny Malhotra in free agency also liberated Kesler from a large portion of his defensive duties, such as playing against opposing team's top forwards in a shutdown role as the second line center. Kesler scored his 100th career NHL goal in a 4–2 win against the Colorado Avalanche against Avalanche' goaltender Peter Budaj on November 24, 2010. He earned his first NHL career hat-trick, scoring all three of the Canucks' goals in a 3–2 overtime win over the Columbus Blue Jackets on December 15. On January 7, 2011, he recorded a second hat-trick against the Edmonton Oilers in a 6–1 win. On January 11, Kesler was named to his first NHL All-Star Game; he was one of three Canucks along with Daniel and Henrik Sedin. Kesler was chosen to be an alternate captain alongside Washington Capitals defenseman Mike Green representing Eric Staal's team. He went without a point as Team Staal was defeated by Team Lidstrom 11–10. Prior to the Canucks' final home game of the regular season on April 7, Kesler was presented with the team's Most Exciting Player Award, as voted by the fans. Playing the Minnesota Wild that night, he went on to record his third hat-trick of the season, reaching the 40-goal plateau for the first time in his career, as the Canucks won 5–0. Kesler finished the season with a career-high 41 goals; he added 32 assists for 73 points over all 82 contests for the third straight season and third among Canucks scorers. His 41 goals tied Daniel Sedin for leading the team in goals. His efforts helped the Canucks to the franchise's first Presidents' Trophy. After opening the 2011 playoffs with a seven-game, first-round victory over the eighth-seeded and defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks, the Canucks faced the Nashville Predators in the second round. Kesler recorded a point in 11 of the Canucks' 14 goals in the series, leading them past the fifth-seeded Predators in six games. He was one point short of Pavel Bure's franchise record of most points in a playoff series (Bure had 12 points in a seven-game series against the St. Louis Blues in 1995). Playing the second-seeded San Jose Sharks in the third round, Kesler appeared to injure either his left hip or groin while pursuing opposing defenseman Dan Boyle in the series' deciding fifth game on May 24, 2011. After leaving the bench for several shifts, he returned to score the game-tying goal, tipping a Henrik Sedin shot with 13.2 seconds remaining in regulation. The Canucks went on to win in double-overtime with Kevin Bieksa scoring the game and series winner, advancing to the Stanley Cup Finals. Having suffered a torn labrum on the play, Kesler required cortisone shots to continue playing for the remainder of the playoffs (his injury was not revealed until the off-season, however). Prior to the Finals, he was believed by many in the media to be a leading candidate for the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoff MVP if the Cancuks were to win the Cup. Consequently, Kesler's performance (and the Canucks as a whole) diminished in the Finals. Playing the Boston Bruins, the Canucks lost the series in seven games, one win short from winning the Stanley Cup. After recording an assist on the game-winning goal by Raffi Torres in Game 1 on June 1, he failed to register a point in the remaining six games, while also recording a –7 rating while the Canucks as a team only scored eight goals within the whole series while the Bruins as a team recorded 23 total goals within the series. With 19 points (seven goals and 12 assists) in all 25 games played, he ranked third among Canucks scorers (behind the Sedins) and tied for sixth among the NHL overall. On June 22, a week after the Canucks' Game 7 loss in the Finals, Kesler was awarded the Selke Trophy after finishing as a runner-up the previous two years. He received 1,179 voting points in comparison to runners-up Jonathan Toews' 476 and Pavel Datsyuk's 348. Kesler was also ranked eighth in Hart Memorial Trophy voting as the league's most valuable player.

In the 2011 off-season, Kesler underwent arthroscopic surgery for the torn labrum in his hip. Unrelated to his labrum tear in January 2007, he had adopted a program to recuperate from the injury naturally until a specialist advised him to have surgery in late July 2011. The Canucks announced on August 2, 2011 that he would not be ready to play until mid-October. On schedule, he returned to the lineup on October 18 against the New York Rangers after missing the first five games of the 2011–12 season. On November 23, Kesler played his 500th NHL game in a 3–0 win over the Colorado Avalanche and recorded a goal in that game on Avalanche' goaltender Semyon Varlamov. Appearing in the final 77 contests, Kesler recorded his lowest scoring total in four years with 22 goals, 27 assists and 49 points while continuing his role as the teams second line center alongside Chris Higgins and newcomer David Booth, which became known as the "American Express" line due to all three players being American born. On a team basis, the Canucks remained a successful regular season team, winning their second consecutive Presidents' Trophy and second in franchise history altogether. However, the team would sputter in the 2012 playoffs due to fatigue from their long playoff run the year prior, losing in the first round to the eighth-seeded and eventual champions Los Angeles Kings in five games. Kesler was goalless and recorded three assists for three points in all five games played in the series.

Shortly after the Canucks were eliminated from the 2012 playoffs, it was revealed Kesler had been playing with a torn labrum in his shoulder since February 2012 and he underwent surgery for the injury on May 8, 2012. Initially expected to have recovered by mid-November, his rehabilitation was extended for several months due to an additional wrist injury which he received surgery for in late-June. As a result, he made his 2012–13 season debut on February 15, 2013, in a 4–3 loss to the Dallas Stars. Due to the lockout, which cancelled the first three months of the season, Kesler only missed 12 games. However, within seven games, Kesler was back on the injured reserve with a broken foot. He initially sustained the injury in his first game against the Stars, but subsequent X-rays came back negative. After playing through the pain for several games, an additional CT scan revealed the fracture. Despite Kesler's injury-troubles, the Canucks as a team remained a consistent playoff contender after having finished the lockout-shortened season as the third seed in the Western Conference. After playing just 17 games in the 48 game-shortened season with four goals and nine assists for 13 points, Kesler also played all four playoff games in the 2013 playoffs recording two goals (both of which came in game two) and no assists for two points as the Canucks were swept in the first round against the sixth-seeded San Jose Sharks.

The 2013–14 season would see a major overhaul within the Canucks organization with coaching and management and the Canucks would miss the playoffs for the first time since 2008, coming eight points out of a playoff spot and the new coaching staff getting sacked after just one season. On November 22, 2013, Kesler recorded his 200th career assist on a goal by Henrik Sedin in a 6–2 win over the Columbus Blue Jackets. Kesler eventually finished the season with 25 goals and 18 assists for 43 points in 77 games played with his 25 goals leading the team.

Anaheim Ducks (2014–2020)
On June 27, 2014, Kesler was traded to the Anaheim Ducks, along with a third round pick in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft, in exchange for Nick Bonino, Luca Sbisa and a first- and third-round pick in the 2014 NHL Entry Draft. On March 18, 2015, Kesler scored his 200th career goal in a 3–2 win over the Los Angeles Kings on Kings' goaltender Jonathan Quick. After finishing the 2014–15 season with 47 points (20 goals, 27 assists) in 81 games played and the Ducks as the top seed of the Western Conference, Kesler would help lead the Ducks in the 2015 playoffs to their first appearance in the Western Conference Finals since 2007, where the Ducks would be upset by the eventual Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks in seven games, one win short from the Stanley Cup Finals.

On July 15, 2015, Kesler signed a six-year contract extension worth $41.25 million. On October 8, Kesler was named an alternate captain of the Ducks. Kesler placed third in Selke Trophy voting and earned a fifth place vote in the Hart Memorial Trophy race in the 2015–16 season after completing the season with 53 points recorded (21 goals, 32 assists) in 79 games. Kesler also recorded four goals and points with no assists in all seven playoff games as the Ducks would get defeated in the opening round of the 2016 playoffs in seven games by the Nashville Predators.

On March 24, 2017, Kesler recorded his 300th career assist on a goal by Andrew Cogliano in 3–1 win over the Winnipeg Jets. After putting up 22 goals and 36 assists for 58 points in all 82 games in 2016–17, Kesler would help lead the Ducks to another lengthy playoff run in the 2017 playoffs, where the Ducks would lose in six games to the Nashville Predators in the Western Conference Finals, while finishing second in the Selke Trophy race and earning his second All-Star appearance. He ended the 2017 playoffs with one goal and seven assists for eight points in all 17 games.

After missing the first 37 games of the 2017–18 season due to hip surgery in the 2017 off-season, Kesler made his season debut on December 27, 2017, in a 4–1 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights. Kesler finished the season playing in 44 games with eight goals and six assists for 14 points followed by a goalless performance with two assists and points in all four playoff games in the 2018 playoffs, where the Ducks would get swept in the first round by the San Jose Sharks.

On March 5, 2019, Kesler played his 1,000th NHL game, against the Arizona Coyotes, becoming the 333rd player in NHL history to do so. Kesler ended the 2018–19 season playing in 60 games with career lows in goals (five), assists (three) and points (eight) as the Ducks missed the playoffs for the first time since 2012 and the first time in Kesler's tenure with the Ducks.

In May 2019, Kesler underwent hip resurfacing surgery and missed the entire 2019–20 season. In the fall of 2019, shortly into the season, Kesler was also diagnosed with Crohn's disease.

He also sat out both the 2020–21 and 2021–22 seasons. At the advent of the 2021–22 season, Kesler declared he would not play in the NHL again. On March 21, 2022, the remainder of Kesler's NHL contract was traded to the Vegas Golden Knights along with John Moore as part of a deal that saw Evgenii Dadonov and a conditional second-round pick in the 2023 or 2024 draft go to Anaheim. However, the trade went into dispute due to Dadonov's no-trade clause. On March 23, the NHL officially cancelled the trade.

International play
Throughout his career, Kesler has represented the United States at various international ice hockey tournaments. He first competed internationally at the 2001 World U-17 Hockey Challenge in New Glasgow and Truro, Nova Scotia, where he helped the American team to a gold medal victory over Team Canada Pacific, finishing the tournament with one goal and five assists in six games.

Kesler participated in his first International Ice Hockey Federation-sanctioned event at the 2002 IIHF World U18 Championships in Piešťany and Trnava, Slovakia. He finished the tournament with seven points in eight games, including two goals in a 10–3 defeat over Canada in the final round. The Americans won their first U18 title, with Kesler being awarded the Best Player Award for the tournament. Later that year, Kesler was named to the United States national junior team for the 2003 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Halifax and Sydney, Nova Scotia. He finished the tournament second in team scoring behind Zach Parise with seven points in seven games as the United States lost 3–2 to Finland in the bronze medal game. During the tournament, Kesler was twice named the United States' player of the game: in their quarter-final game versus the Czech Republic and in the bronze medal game versus Finland.

In December 2003, Kesler was released by the Vancouver Canucks to play in the 2004 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, Kesler's second World Junior tournament. Kesler scored two goals as the Americans went a perfect 4–0 to win Pool A and advance to the semi-finals. There they defeated Finland 2–1, the team that had defeated them in the previous year's bronze medal game, to advance to the gold medal game versus Canada. In the gold medal game, Kesler scored the game-tying goal 6:58 into the third period to even the score at 3–3. After Canadian goaltender Marc-André Fleury cleared the puck off of teammate Braydon Coburn and into his own net, the Americans took the lead 4–3 and went on to win their first IIHF World U20 Championship in the tournament's history. Kesler's play in the tournament was praised as he often took critical faceoffs and played on the Americans' most offensive line despite suffering a facial injury early in the tournament.

Kesler was named to the orientation camp for the American team at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin held on September 5–8, 2005, in Colorado Springs, Colorado at World Arena. Kesler, one of the youngest players at the camp, did not make the final roster for the Games. Rather, Kesler made his national men's team debut three months after the Olympics at the 2006 IIHF World Championship in Riga, Latvia. Kesler finished the tournament with one point in seven games, assisting on a Yan Stastny goal in the United States' 3–0 victory versus Denmark. He was named the United States' player of the game in their 6–0 quarter-final loss against Sweden.

Having developed into a top defensive forward in recent seasons, Kesler was an early candidate to be selected to the American team for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, at the time the city in which he played his NHL hockey. The United States played hosts Canada in the final game of the preliminary round to determine top spot in the pool. With United States up by a goal in the final minute, Kesler dove past opposing forward Corey Perry to score an empty-netter and secure the 5–3 win. In a rematch between the two teams during the gold medal game, Canada initially had held a 2–0 lead, but Kesler scored in the second period on a deflection from Patrick Kane to cut the deficit to 2–1, followed by Zach Parise's game-tying goal with 24 seconds left in the third period to send the game into overtime. The United States ultimately lost by a score of 3–2 in overtime on Sidney Crosby's game-winning goal, so Kesler and his teammates settled for the silver medal.

Kesler was also a part of the U.S. men's national team for the 2014 Winter Olympics, where they finished fourth.

Playing style
Kesler is known as a two-way forward, capable of contributing both offensively and defensively. In his first few years in the NHL, he established his role as a shutdown forward, playing on the penalty kill and against opposing teams' top players. He also earned a reputation as an agitator, trash-talking and engaging opponents physically in between play. During the 2008–09 season, Kesler began adding a more offensive component to his game and was moved up to the Canucks' second line from third. With an increased points total, he earned league recognition with his first Selke Trophy nomination as the NHL's best defensive forward. He has since continued to improve his offensive skills while remaining defensively responsible.

Among his most prevalent skills are his speed and wrist shot, the latter of which has improved alongside his recent years of increased offensive production. He is also proficient at taking faceoffs. On the penalty kill, he is an efficient shot blocker, using his body to get in the way of pucks. While competing on the powerplay, he often uses his size and strength to maintain position in front of the opposing net to either screen the goaltender or deflect shots.

Kesler's success as a player has been attributed to his competitiveness and desire to outwork opposing players. Kesler has recognized, however, that his competitive drive has often caused him to lose his composure. In the 2010 off-season, Canucks management encouraged him to play with more focus, maintaining his emotions and decreasing physical and verbal confrontation with opposing players. During the subsequent 2010–11 campaign, he gained media attention for changing his play accordingly while enjoying the best season of his career. Kesler has also credited the change with his role as a father, wanting to set a mature example for his children when they watch him play.

Personal life
Kesler and his wife Andrea have four children. The family resides in Huntington Beach, California during the season. In the off-season, they live in Bloomfield, Michigan. His family's previous offseason residence was nearby, in his hometown of Livonia, Michigan. As of 2009, he kept a Ford Mustang at his parents' home in Livonia, which he enjoyed racing.

Endorsements
In March 2010, Kesler was announced as the cover athlete for the 2K Sports video game NHL 2K11, released a few months later in August 2010. He had previously worked with 2K Sports, doing motion capture for NHL 2K10.

In November 2010, Kesler released his own line of sportswear and casual clothing. In partnership with Vancouver-based Firstar Sports, the line was branded "RK17". A promotional photograph of Kesler modeling athletic underwear received considerable media attention in Vancouver and resulted in him being featured in ESPN's Body Issue magazine and named in a feature entitled "Most Beautiful People of B.C." by a local publication.

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Received signal strength indicator

In telecommunications, received signal strength indicator or received signal strength indication (RSSI) is a measurement of the power present in a received radio signal.

RSSI is usually invisible to a user of a receiving device. However, because signal strength can vary greatly and affect functionality in wireless networking, IEEE 802.11 devices often make the measurement available to users.

RSSI is often derived in the intermediate frequency (IF) stage before the IF amplifier. In zero-IF systems, it is derived in the baseband signal chain, before the baseband amplifier. RSSI output is often a DC analog level. It can also be sampled by an internal analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and the resulting values made available directly or via peripheral or internal processor bus.

In 802.11 implementations
In an IEEE 802.11 system, RSSI is the relative received signal strength in a wireless environment, in arbitrary units. RSSI is an indication of the power level being received by the receiving radio after the antenna and possible cable loss. Therefore, the greater the RSSI value, the stronger the signal. Thus, when an RSSI value is represented in a negative form (e.g. −100), the closer the value is to 0, the stronger the received signal has been.

RSSI can be used internally in a wireless networking card to determine when the amount of radio energy in the channel is below a certain threshold at which point the network card is clear to send (CTS). Once the card is clear to send, a packet of information can be sent. The end-user will likely observe an RSSI value when measuring the signal strength of a wireless network through the use of a wireless network monitoring tool like Wireshark, Kismet or Inssider. As an example, Cisco Systems cards have an RSSI maximum value of 100 and will report 101 different power levels, where the RSSI value is 0 to 100. Another popular Wi-Fi chipset is made by Atheros. An Atheros-based card will return an RSSI value of 0 to 127 (0x7f) with 128 (0x80) indicating an invalid value.

There is no standardized relationship of any particular physical parameter to the RSSI reading. The 802.11 standard does not define any relationship between RSSI value and power level in milliwatts or decibels referenced to one milliwatt (dBm). Vendors and chipset makers provide their own accuracy, granularity, and range for the actual power (measured as milliwatts, which can be expressed in terms of decibels relative to one milliwatt) and their range of RSSI values (from 0 to RSSI maximum, in arbitrary signal units "asu"). One subtlety of the 802.11 RSSI metric comes from how it is sampled—RSSI is acquired during only the preamble stage of receiving an 802.11 frame, not over the full frame.

As early as 2000, researchers were able to use RSSI for coarse-grained location estimates. More recent work was able to reproduce these results using more advanced techniques. Nevertheless, RSSI does not always provide measurements that are sufficiently accurate to properly determine the location. However, RSSI still represents the most feasible indicator for localization purposes as it is available in almost all wireless nodes and it does not have any additional hardware requirements.

Received channel power indicator
For the most part, 802.11 RSSI has been replaced with received channel power indicator (RCPI). RCPI is an 802.11 measure of the received radio frequency power in a selected channel over the preamble and the entire received frame, and has defined absolute levels of accuracy and resolution. RCPI is exclusively associated with 802.11 and as such has some accuracy and resolution enforced on it through IEEE 802.11k-2008. Received signal power level assessment is a necessary step in establishing a link for communication between wireless nodes. However, a power level metric like RCPI generally cannot comment on the quality of the link like other metrics such as travel time measurement (time of arrival).

RSSI-based distance estimation
RSSI is commonly used in wireless communication protocols, such as Bluetooth and ZigBee, to estimate the distance between nodes. This estimation is essential for indoor localization and is often preferred due to its simplicity and the lack of need for synchronization or timestamping, as required in other methods like Time of Arrival (TOA).

Localization algorithms
Various localization algorithms, such as anchor-based algorithms, employ RSSI. Anchor-based algorithms use nodes with known positions (anchors) to determine the location of an unknown node. The accuracy of these algorithms is enhanced by using a higher number of known nodes, as they rely on the Time of Arrival (TOA) and Angle of Arrival (AOA) of the signal for estimating the distance between the known nodes and the unknown node. However, the accuracy of these algorithms can be affected by environmental factors, such as signal interference, obstacles, and the density of nodes in the area.

Effect of environmental factors and antenna type
Factors like diffraction, reflection, scattering, and antenna type can significantly influence RSSI values. These variables need consideration for accurate indoor localization using RSSI.

RSSI-with-Angle-based Localization Estimation (RALE)
The RALE approach offers several advantages for indoor localization:

 * Does not require complex infrastructure or prior scene surveys.
 * Low cost and simple execution, making it accessible for various applications.
 * Only requires RSSI values and angular measurements, eliminating the need for more sophisticated measurements.

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Cabin (ship)

A cabin or berthing is an enclosed space generally on a ship or an aircraft. A cabin which protrudes above the level of a ship's deck may be referred to as a deckhouse.

Sailing ships

In sailing ships, the officers and paying passengers would have an individual or shared cabin. The captain or commanding officer would occupy the "great cabin" that normally spanned the width of the stern and had large windows.

On a warship, it was a privileged area, separate from the rest of the ship, for the exclusive use of the captain. In large warships, the cabin was subdivided into day and night cabins (bedrooms) by movable panels, called bulk-heads, that could be removed in time of battle to leave the cabin clear for the gunners to use the stern chasers several of which were usually stationed in the cabin.

On large three decker warships in the age of sail the captain's cabin was sometimes appropriated by the Admiral. The captain would be consigned to the cabin below on the middle gun-deck.

Modern warships
In most modern warships, the commanding officer has a main cabin—the in-port cabin, often adjacent to the ship's central control room (operations room)—and a sea cabin adjacent to the bridge. Thus, when likely to be called from sleep or attending to administration, the commanding officer can go to the sea cabin and thereby be able to appear at the bridge or operations room immediately. The sea cabin is sparsely equipped, containing just a bunk, a desk, and basic toilet facilities. The in-port cabin is more lavishly furnished, with separate bedroom and combination sitting room/office, and more elaborate toiletry facilities.

For ships intended to act as flagships, like the former United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-16)—now a museum ship—the admiral also has a sea cabin (adjacent to the captain's sea cabin) and an in-port cabin, in addition to the captain's cabins.

Officers normally have their own cabins—sometimes referred to as staterooms—which double as their offices. Some senior petty officers may have cabins for similar reasons.

Sailors sleep in berthing spaces.

Passenger ships
In ships carrying passengers, they are normally accommodated in cabins, taking the terminology familiar to seafarers. First-class cabins were traditionally referred to as staterooms, and today many cruise lines now prefer to refer to passenger cabins as staterooms or suites.

Cabin crawl
In cruise ship terms, a cabin crawl is an event where passengers tour the cabins of fellow passengers. A cruise ship may also offer a cabin crawl of cabins or suites which did not sell for a particular sailing. The purpose of a cabin crawl is to give passengers an idea of the space and layout of various cabin options for their next cruise. Cabin crawls are normally organized prior to a cruise, through cruise-fan websites.

Spacecraft
In spacecraft, cabins are required to fully supply food and oxygen for their crew. On missions lasting a year or longer, the cabins have to be self-sustaining, i.e. replenish their own water and oxygen. The space cabin for any long-range crewed mission is expected to be reasonably spacious, with approximately 28 cubic metres allotted to each occupant. In addition, cabins have life support systems that should have the capability to meet a variety of off-nominal conditions, including cabin fires, depressurization, and component shutdown or failure. Frequently, these conditions occur so quickly that recovery can be provided only by automatic control systems. In the late 1960s, several experimental ground facilities were developed to evaluate regenerative life support systems for crewed space flight.

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Links to Opinion Pieces on George W. Bush
Nominated for speedy because Wikipedia is not a link repository. However this is not among the speedy criteria. -- Curps 05:01, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * *looks down* Oops, sorry; that was my bad. I guess I should stick to inclusionism, but delete. Samaritan 05:09, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy deleted under CSd criterion #9. RickK 05:47, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)


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Cabin

Cabin may refer to:

Buildings

 * Beach cabin, a small wooden hut on a beach
 * Log cabin, a house built from logs
 * Cottage, a small house
 * Chalet, a wooden mountain house with a sloping roof
 * Cabin, small free-standing structures that serve as individual lodging spaces of a motel

Films

 * The Cabin, 2018 Swedish-American horror film
 * The Cabin Movie, 2005 Canadian comedy-drama film

Places

 * Cabin, Shropshire, England
 * Cabins, West Virginia, US
 * Cabin Bluff, Georgia, in the List of places in Georgia (U.S. state) (A–D), US

Transportation

 * Cabin (aircraft)
 * Cabin (ship)
 * Cabin (truck), an enclosed space where the driver is seated
 * Cabin car or caboose, a crewed rail transport vehicle at the end of a freight train
 * Cabin cruiser, a boat with enclosed accommodation
 * Cabin motorcycle, a fully or semi-enclosed motorcycle

Other uses

 * Cabin (Ferris wheel), a passenger compartment
 * Cabin rights, an American frontier claim to land
 * Cabin (band), an American indie rock band
 * "The Cabin", a song by Haley Blais from Wisecrack

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Solidwater.org

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Solidwater.org
Non-notable website. -- Curps 05:04, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC) This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * delete for advertising. Thryduulf 12:48, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Wikipedia is not a web directory. jni 16:19, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete the blog ad. Wyss 22:00, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable enough, website advertisement. Megan1967 02:33, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. -- AllyUnion (talk) 05:29, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Deportivo Oceanía metro station

Deportivo Oceanía is an at-grade metro station in Gustavo A. Madero borough, in México City Mexico. Its represented by a koala clinging to a soccer ball. This metro station is named after nearby Deportivo Oceanía sports center, located north of the city; it offers many sports activities, like Tae Kwon Do, Volleyball, Soccer, with low fares, from $26.00 México Peso to $40. Deportivo Oceanía has facilities for the handicapped, and it is located near Avenida 608 avenue.

The station was opened on 15 December 1999.

From 23 April to 28 June 2020, the station was temporarily closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.

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Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/BZFlag/archive1

BZFlag
I am nominating this article because it informs every aspect of the game, has a good amount of photos, tells a lot of references, and is well-written grammar and spelling wise. It does not leave readers still wondering about the game, and tells more than enough just to inform them about the current state of the game, or simply the game itself. It was on Peer Review for a week and turned up only one comment. This is a self-nomination as I wrote the majority of what is there. --Lan56 05:06, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)

 * Support I support on the condition the spelling mistakes are fixed (e.g. Theif, Rogue) Did you even read my message on peer review?. Excellent article. I used to play the game myself, but I quit because it was too addicting... Squash 11:16, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, I just now read it, and have corrected a lot of the grammar, and the word "Thief" as well as many other spelling mistakes, however, the game uses the name "Rogue" exactly like that. I respect your comments, despite how I am a bit late towards seeing them. Thank you for pointing it out. --Lan56 00:39, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Good job! Squash 02:07, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Great article.  --L33tminion | (talk) 22:09, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support →mathx314(talk)(email) 22:16, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support I love articles like this! I thought I'd never heard of it before, but then when I saw the pictures it looked kinda familar. Support, anyway. Everyking 08:46, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Support Ta bu shi da yu 08:39, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Object. Good article, but not quite there yet. The "what it is" section could really do with a rename, and being placed above the history section. I'd also like to see a bit better coverage of the gameplay - it's hard to really wrap my head around what exactly this is. The translations section takes up more space than it needs to because of the bullet-style, rather than prose, list. It has a few overly small sections at the end, which could perhaps be merged somewhere else. Finally, larger pictures would be nice, and putting at least one of the gameplay-related ones at the top, rather than having the two title-images side by side - I had to dig to see what the game actually looks like. Ambi 09:13, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your comments, Ambi. I added several more photos, added and changed things in the former "What it is" section (which I renamed), and combined the small, bottom sections. I did not know what to do in regards to the Translations section, as if I were to put all the languages into a paragraph, it may look messy and unorganized, and it doesn't have enough for a table, therefore I just left it the way it is. I also rearranged the title pictures and replaced their spot with a screenshot. As for larger pictures, I took those screenshots as big as my monitor. I didn't scale them down, therfore I cannot make them any bigger. Or do you mean the thumbnail? As for the actual full-size image, they are as big as my monitor can take pictures of. Thank you very much for the tips, please tell me any improvements to make, should there be any in the future. --Lan56 10:10, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for making the effort. I haven't re-checked the article, because I just don't have the time to go through it properly, but I've crossed it out - I don't have the time for FAC matters at all at the moment. Ambi 13:15, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Abstain article is fine and full of good information but I don't think the writing and writing structure is great or remarkable, no offense though. The article focuses a lot on gameplay and the coverage of the project and development is too limited. I don't think it needs much more volume of material, but something about the development structure, pace, number of active developers, is there a lead developer, etc need to be covered. - Taxman 22:16, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)
 * I added a lot about development, per your suggestion, but the development strategy and attributes (from the way things are run to, especially, the amount of developers) is constantly changing, therefore I did not go heavily on things I know will change too often to keep a static article. --Lan56 05:23, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * That sounds quite reasonable to me. Now the list of flags, versions, and map objects seem out of place and trivia. They may be fine for a separate article to link to, but I think they need to be removed from this main article at least. - Taxman 22:59, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * I understand what you are saying, but I disagree on moving the flags, map objects, and versions table. I feel they are what makes up a significant portion of the article and make it seem complete, and are on topic entirely. It would seem difficult to create a new article and place all the above-stated tables there, and make a complete article out of it without just listing the tables, like storage space. This is simply my opinion, and I will respect any further objections/comments/etc... that you may have. --Lan56 03:31, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * I'll still say the list of map objects is too detailed to be necessary. It is not bad information of course, but distracts enough from the flow of the overal article that its inclusion in the article costs more than its value. If you move it to list of BZFlag map objects, and link to it, there is no loss of information in the article, but the readability is improved. You don't have to feel like that subarticle needs to be fleshed out into a full article. It is just there to support the main article, which is perfectly acceptable. Though it doesn't seem important enough to continue objecting. - Taxman 20:15, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Object, though much of the structure and detail is good. Needs a lot of editing/proofreading.  The text isn't close to being great writing yet, and is distinctly confusing in places and ungrammatical in others, full of repetition and odd word choice.
 * Ex: This release took a new turn compared to older versions as a cheater inspired Schoneman and his friend (co-developer) to add "super-flags" -- a cheater? who is this friend?  (Schoneman is the only person listed as a developer in the article) plus a mixed metaphor.

 * The list of translations, and of team colors, should be inline in a single sentence. The table of versions by date along the side is definitely TMI, and the date-linking there isn't terribly useful (deep links to that month of that year might be better).
 * It would also be nice to see more comparisons of the game to similar games, and similar Open Source projects. +sj +  07:24, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I clarified many things, including your example from the History section. I will look over parts several times, and correct any future things I see. I also have grammar checked it using Microsoft Works (Windows XP), but I know I can't rely on this entirely, but it did correct a great deal. I also inlined the translations and team colors. I did link to the months in the versions table rather than the specific dates, but I extremely disagree in regards to removing it (as you mention it is too much information). I feel it is both a brilliant reference, and too much information is better than too little. I agree about comparing it to similar games, this would be a great thing, unfortunately, I do not know of any such games that I am familiar with enough (or even know a single thing about) to give a useful, educated section about it. I hate to say this, but I must hope that someone can cover this part. I sincerly apologize. --Lan56 05:26, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Great article.  Bart133 (t) 22:54, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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User talk:ElfineM

Hi, ElfineM, welcome to Wikipedia. I hope you like the place and choose to stay... Check out Template:Welcome for some good links to help you get started, if you need to.

Just a quick point, if you want to comment on an article, usually the most recent talk goes at the bottom of the page. I've done this for you at Talk:Feminism.

If you've any more questions you have, don't hesiste to ask me at my talk page, or on the Village pump.

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Oceanía metro station

Oceanía metro station is a transfer station of the Mexico City Metro in Venustiano Carranza, Mexico City. It is a combined elevated and at-grade station, along Lines 5 (the Yellow Line) and B (the Green-and-Gray Line). Oceanía is located between Aragón and Terminal Aérea metro stations on Line 5, and between Deportivo Oceanía and Romero Rubio metro stations on Line B. It serves the colonias of Pensador Mexicano and Aquiles Serdán. The station is named after Oceanía Avenue and its pictogram depicts a kangaroo, a representative animal from Oceania.

Oceanía metro station opened on 19 December 1981 with service northward toward Consulado and southeastward toward Pantitlán on Line 5. West service on Line B toward Buenavista station and northeast toward Villa de Aragón station started on 15 December 1999. The station facilities are partially accessible to people with disabilities as there are tactile pavings and braille signage plates. Since it was opened, Oceanía metro station has had some incidents, including two fake bomb threats and a train crash, where one person indirectly died and twelve others resulted injured. In 2019, the station had an overall average daily ridership of 18,953 passengers.

Location
Oceanía is a metro transfer station in the Venustiano Carranza borough, in northeastern Mexico City. The station lies on Río Consulado Avenue and Oceanía Avenue, and serves colonias (Mexican Spanish for "neighborhoods") of Pensador Mexicano and Aquiles Serdán. Within the system, it lies between Aragón and Terminal Aérea stations on Line 5; on Line B, between Deportivo Oceanía and Romero Rubio stations. The area is serviced by Line 4 (formerly Line G) of the trolleybus system, by Routes 43 and 200 of the Red de Transporte de Pasajeros network, and by Routes 10-D and 20-B of the city's public bus system.

Exits
There are four exits:
 * North: Norte 174 Street and Río Blanco Street, Pensador Mexicano (Line 5).
 * Southeast: Río Consulado Avenue, Pensador Mexicano (Line 5).
 * North: Río Consulado Avenue and Norte 170 Street, Pensador Mexicano (Line B).
 * South: Oceanía Avenue and Dinares Street, Aquiles Serdán (Line B).

History and construction
Line 5 of the Mexico City Metro was built by Cometro, a subsidiary of Empresas ICA; Oceanía Line 5 opened on 19 December 1981, on the first day of the service between Consulado and Pantitlán metro stations. The station was built at-grade level; the Oceanía–Terminal Aérea interstation is 1174 m long and goes from the street level to the below-the-ground one, and the track had a 4.9% slope when it was opened. The Oceanía–Aragón interstation is 1229 m long and presents subsidence in the tracks.

Line B of the Mexico City Metro was built by Empresas ICA; Oceanía Line B opened on 15 December 1999, on the first day of the then Buenavista–Villa de Aragón service. The station was built above the ground. The Oceanía–Deportivo Oceanía interstation goes from overground to the street level, and it is 863 m long, while the Oceanía–Romero Rubio elevated section measures 890 m.

The passenger transfer tunnel that connects Line 5 with Line B has a short length and, according to Roberto Remes, director of Ciudad Humana MX—a sustainable mobility non-governmental organization—, it is too narrow and potentially dangerous for riders during rush hours. The station's pictogram depicts a kangaroo, a representative animal from Oceania and its name references the avenue in which it lies. The facilities are partially accessible to people with disabilities as there are tactile pavings and braille signage plates.

In 2008, Metro authorities had maintenance work done on Line 5 station's roof.

2015 train crash
On 4 May 2015, at around 18:00 hours local time (00:00 UTC) during heavy rain with hail, two trains crashed while both were going toward Politécnico station. The first train, No. 4, was parked at the end of Oceanía station's platform after the driver reported that a plywood board was obstructing the tracks. The second train, No. 5, left Terminal Aérea station with the autopilot turned on despite the driver being asked to turn it off and to operate the train manually, as the protocol requests it when it rains because trains have to drive with reduced speed. Train No. 5 crashed into Train No. 4 at 31.8 km/h – double the average on arrival at the platforms – and left twelve people injured.

According to the driver, the train slid due to the rain and hail, as he noticed it, he attempted to brake and later tried to deactivate the autopilot system. As both actions failed, he contacted the Central Control Center to request them to cut the energy. The Center did not reply and, as he realized the train would impact the parked one, he decided to jump out of the cab before the crash. According to the train event recorder, the train had reached 54.66 km/h at the Oceanía–Terminal Aérea slope (whose subsidence increased to at least 7% since its opening) and the driver did brake, reducing the speed to 49.7 km/h, but was ineffective as the tracks were wet and the slope increased the speed to 53.6 km/h. The Metro system director, Joel Ortega, concluded that the accident was mainly a consequence of a "double human error"; the first one caused by the driver, who did not deactivate the autopilot when he was requested to do so, and the second by the Central Control Center regulator, who did not request Train No. 5 to stop at any point, even when the Train No. 4's driver had warned he would stop the train due to the obstruction.

Train No. 5 was a 40-year-old model that had been restored recently. It was removed from circulation in 2011 after it presented multiple braking problems. By 2014, it returned and operated for four hours on Line 7 before being returned to the workshops. As Line 5 is one of the least used lines in the system, the train was placed there instead.

After the crash, the station was temporarily closed for repairs; a worker was killed when he fell to the tracks after a railcar in which he was standing uncoupled. To reduce the slope subsidence caused by rainfall, a 1 km tunnel was planned, but due to a lack of budget that project was canceled. Instead, an 800 m roof that cost 65 million pesos was built to prevent the tracks from getting wet and to avoid trains from sliding.

Other
Two unrelated fake bomb threat incidents have occurred at Oceanía station. The first was in 1994 and was attributed to the Zapatista Army of National Liberation; the second was unattributed and happened on 7 May 2015. After the collapse of the elevated railway near Olivos station on Line 12 in May 2021, users reported the structural damage to other elevated stations, including Oceanía station. Mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, said that the reports would be examined accordingly.

On 6 June 2023, the station master died on the Line B tracks while performing track-switching work. While he was walking from one track to another, he stepped on a platform that broke. When he fell, he hit his head on a track, possibly the third rail. It was not disclosed whether he died from electrocution or from the impact. System personnel reported the poor condition of the platform since 2022.

Ridership
According to the data provided by the authorities since the 2000s, and before the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public transport, commuters averaged per year between 8,300 and 8,700 daily entrances on Line 5 and between 9,800 and 11,000 daily entrances on Line B between 2013 and 2019.

Overall, the station had a ridership of 11,246,650 passengers in 2019, which was an increase of 42,414 passengers compared to 2018. For Line 5, the ridership was 3,129,656 passengers (8,574 per day), which was an increase of 54,327 passengers compared to 2018. For Line B, the station had a ridership of 3,788,470 passengers (10,379 per day), which was an increase of 176,461 passengers compared to 2018.

In 2019, the Line 5 station was the 161st busiest of the system's 195 stations, and the line's 6th busiest. The Line B station was the 153rd busiest in the system and the line's 15th busiest.

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Fabio Ochoa Restrepo

Fabio Ochoa Restrepo (1924 – February 18, 2002), also known as Don Fabio, was the patriarch of a major Colombian drug trafficking family. A renowned horse breeder and Paso Fino enthusiast, he died of kidney failure in 2002.

Career
Ochoa kept many ranches near Medellin, raised more than a thousand Paso Fino Horses and was a successful businessman. Because most of his wealth did not come from criminal activities, it is generally assumed that Ochoa himself was not linked to drug trafficking, although his sons are well known for their involvement in the trade. In A True Story: Trafficking by Berkley Rice, he writes that Fabio, "smuggled television sets and Scotch before getting started in cocaine. He collected Picasso paintings and artifacts of Spanish culture. Jorge Luis Ochoa, was at one time considered the number two leader in the Medellin cartel: In 1996 he was arrested and given a five-year prison sentence in Colombia. Fabio Ochoa Vázquez "Fabito" (b. 1957) was extradited to the United States in September 2001.

"In his autobiography, My life in the world of Horses, published by a vanity press Mr Ochoa writes that 'Don Fabio is to Colombia's Horse world what Garcia Marquez is to Colombia's world of letters or what Fernando Botero is to Colombia's world of painting." A 1989 picture of Fabio Ochoa Restrepo shows him signing his book which he planned to send to the Pope.

Death and legacy
Ochoa died in 2002 in Colombia. He was the subject of a brief segment in Full Circle with Michael Palin. He was portrayed in the 2006 documentary film Cocaine cowboys, where the former Medellín Cartel associate Jon Roberts said of him: "As many people want to believe that Pablo Escobar was the king of cocaine, they can believe that, but the man that was really the king was Ochoa & not Fabito the poor man it was the old man that never did a day in jail that really controlled Escobar.”

Popular culture

 * In TV series Pablo Escobar, The Drug Lord is portrayed by Carlos Benjumea as the character of Julio Motoa Sr.
 * In TV Series Alias El Mexicano is portrayed by the Colombian actor Gerardo Calero.

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Berengar

Berengar is a masculine name derived from Germanic roots meaning "bear" and "spear". The name appears frequently among certain noble families during the Middle Ages, especially the Unruochings and those related. Bérenger is the French form, while Berengario is the Italian form, Berenguer is the Catalan form, and Berenguier or Berengier is the Occitan form. The Latin form is Berengarius and the female equivalent is Berengaria. Other forms of the name include Berenger, Bérenger, Bérangier, or Beringer.

Personal name

 * Berengar of Toulouse, Frankish nobleman (fl. ninth century)
 * Berengar I of Neustria, Frankish nobleman (fl. ninth century)
 * Berengar II of Neustria, Frankish nobleman (d. 896)
 * Berengar I of Italy, King of Italy (c. 845–924)
 * Berengar II of Italy, King of Italy (c. 900–966)
 * Judicael Berengar, Breton nobleman (fl. tenth century)
 * Berengar of Tours, theologian (c. 999–1088)
 * Berengar (bishop of Venosa) (fl. eleventh century)
 * Berengar of Poitiers (fl. twelfth century), controversialist
 * Henry Berengar, junior co-King of Germany, sometimes numbered as Henry VI (1136/7–1150)
 * Berenguier de Palazol, Catalan troubadour (fl. 1160–1209)
 * Berengier Trobel, Occitan troubadour (fl. thirteenth century)
 * Berenguer de Palou II, bishop of Barcelona (d. 1241)
 * Berenguer d'Anoia, Catalan troubadour (fl. fourteenth century)
 * Berenger Fredoli, French bishop (c. 1250–1323)
 * Bérenger Saunière, French priest (1852–1917)

 * As a compound personal name

 * Ramon Berenguer (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Berenguer Ramon (disambiguation), multiple people

Family name

 * Álex Berenguer (born 1995), Spanish footballer
 * Alphonse-Marie-Marcellin-Thomas Bérenger (1785–1866), French lawyer
 * Florin Berenguer (born 1989), French footballer
 * Henry Bérenger, (1867–1952) French senator, 1912–45; ambassador to the United States, 1926–28.
 * Dámaso Berenguer (1873–1953), Spanish soldier and politician; 64th Prime Minister of Spain.
 * Josep Renau Berenguer (1907–1982), Spanish artist
 * Casimiro Berenguer (1909–2000), Puerto Rican Nationalist
 * Joanna Bérenger (born 1989), Mauritian entertainer
 * Pascal Berenguer (born 1981), French footballer
 * Paul Bérenger (born 1945), Mauritian politician
 * Tom Berenger (born 1949), American actor

Fictional characters

 * Bérenger, a character in the play Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco
 * Bearenger, a character in Tails Sky Patrol
 * Berengar of Arundel, a character in The Name of the Rose
 * Berengar, a character in The Witcher (video game)
 * Hugh Berengar, a character in The Cadfael Chronicles

Other uses

 * Beringer Vineyards

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Pottymouth

Pottymouth is the debut studio album by American punk rock band Bratmobile, released on June 8, 1993, by Kill Rock Stars.

Recording and release
Most of the album was recorded by Tim Green of Nation of Ulysses in July 1992, at the Embassy in Washington, DC. Green was paid with a slice of cheese pizza and a bottle of black hair dye. "Kiss & Ride", "No You Don't", and "Queenie" were recorded in August 1991 at Egg Studios in Seattle, Washington by Conrad Uno, and at YoYo Studios in Olympia, Washington by Pat Maley. Molly Neuman sings on "Richard", which was recorded in December 1992 at the Red House in Olympia, Washington by Tim Green. The album was released on June 8, 1993, by the independent record label Kill Rock Stars.

Critical reception
AllMusic reviewer Stewart Mason felt that Pottymouth "is about the early-'90s indie scene, about the D.I.Y. life in the post-Nirvana age where it seemed like anything could happen." Ira Robbins wrote approvingly in Trouser Press: "Mustering 17 songs (including a relatively protracted bash at the Runaways' seminal "Cherry Bomb") in under a half-hour, the album is like a slap in the face: it's over before you realize what you're feeling but its sting lasts a good long while." Prominent music critic Robert Christgau of The Village Voice praised the songs "Throwaway" and "No You Don't". In January 1994, Spin placed Pottymouth in its list of 10 Best Albums of the Year You Didn't Hear.

Retrospective reviews have described Pottymouth as a classic riot grrrl album. NME said that the album "helped to refine what riot grrrl was all about—namely, shunning academia and adopting a do-it-yourself attitude." In 2012, it was ranked at number 90 on Fact list of "The 100 Best Albums of the 1990s", and at number 149 on Pitchfork list of "The 150 Best Albums of the 1990s" in 2022.

Track listing

 * 1) "Love Thing" – 1:40
 * 2) "Stab" – 1:50
 * 3) "Cherry Bomb" (The Runaways cover) – 1:51
 * 4) "Throwaway" – 2:13
 * 5) "P.R.D.C.T." – 1:53
 * 6) "Some Special" – 1:40
 * 7) "Fuck Yr Fans" – 1:19
 * 8) "Polaroid Baby" 0:54
 * 9) "Panik" – 1:43
 * 10) "Bitch Theme" – 1:31
 * 11) "Richard" – 1:58
 * 12) "Cool Schmool" – 2:03
 * 13) "Juswanna" – 1:34
 * 14) "I Love You, You Little Crocodile" (hidden track) – 0:59
 * 15) "Kiss & Ride" – 1:27
 * 16) "No You Don't" – 1:45
 * 17) "Queenie" – 1:19

Personnel

 * Bratmobile
 * Allison Wolfe – Singer/Songwriter
 * Erin Smith – Guitar, Back-up Vocals, Photography
 * Molly Neuman – Drums, Photography
 * Technical personnel
 * Patrick Maley – Engineer
 * Tim Green – Engineer
 * Conrad Uno – Engineer
 * Ellen Smith – Photography
 * Tracy Sawyer – Photography
 * Panacea Theriac – Photography

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Meili Faille

Meili Faille (born June 18, 1972) is a Canadian politician. She was a Bloc Québécois member of the House of Commons of Canada, being first elected in the 2004 election in the district of Vaudreuil-Soulanges. Prior to being elected, Faille was a consultant and project coordinator. From 2004 to 2008 she was the Bloc shadow critic of Citizenship and Immigration.

During the 38th Parliament, Meili Faille was Vice-Chair of Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration (CIMM) from October 14, 2004 through October 7, 2005.

Faille, a Canadian of Taiwanese descent, was born in Montreal, Quebec. Prior to being elected, Faille was Project Leader and Primary Consultant for Groupe LGS (1996–2004). Faille has worked as intern for the Secretary General of the Canadian Human Rights Commission (1993), was Ministerial editor for special projects and briefing notes for the Minister of Employment and Immigration (1992–1993, was an intern in the Cabinet for the Minister of Physical Education and Amateur Sports (1991–1992), was an intern in the Cabinet for the Solicitor General of Canada (1990–1991) and was an intern in the cabinet of the Minister of Northern Canadian and Indian Affairs (1989).

Faille holds a Bachelor's in Business Administration from the Université du Québec en Outaouais in Hull, Quebec, and studied Applied Sciences and Chemical Engineering at the University of Ottawa.

Faille studied classical (7 years) and contemporary (2 years) piano and followed an apprenticeship for two years under renowned artist Marcel Bourbonnais.

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Independent High Electoral Commission

The Independent High Electoral Commission (المفوضية العليا المستقلة للانتخابات; IHEC) is Iraq's electoral commission. The electoral commission is headed by a nine-member board. Seven of those members are voting and must be Iraqi citizens. The IHEC is currently headed by Judge Jalil Adnan Khalaf.

History
It was set up in May 2004 by the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) as the Independent Election Commission of Iraq (IECI) by CPA Order 92 as the exclusive electoral authority in Iraq to begin work towards holding an election in the country. In 2007 the IECI was renamed the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) in accordance with Law 11 (2007) of the Council of Representatives of Iraq (COR).

In the 2005 election, the expert was Colombian Carlos Valenzuela. The current Chief Electoral Officer is Adil Lami. The commission set up and ran the January 2005 Iraqi legislative election as well as the simultaneous elections for provincial governments and the Kurdistan Regional Government.

Procedure
Little is known about the commission, its procedures, organization, composition, or acts. The commission receives lists of candidates to ban from the Council of Representatives Accountability and Justice Commission.

It also set up the voting places in fourteen nations outside of Iraq. The Commission is also tasked with dealing with complaints about the election.

International Support
The IECI gained support from several US, UN, and NGO programs including:
 * USAID
 * UN Election Assistance Mission in Iraq
 * CEPPS
 * International Foundation for Electoral Systems

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Tarusa

Tarusa (Тару́са), also known as Tarussa (Тару́сса), is a town and the administrative center of Tarussky District in Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Oka River, 76 km northeast of Kaluga, the administrative center of the oblast. Population:

Etymology
The name is from that of the Tarusa River, a tributary of the Oka; Tar- is a hydronym base characteristic of regions of ancient Baltic settlement. According to a popular belief, the name derives from Tarusa's geohistorical position as a border town to the adjoining realm of Lithuania situated on the bank of the Oka. Questions about travelers' whereabouts from the other bank were answered with the answer To—Rus!, meaning "that is Russia," eventually becoming the name of the town.

History
Tarusa is known to have existed since 1246, when it was the capital of one of the Upper Oka Principalities—the Principality of Tarusa. The first ruler of this principality was Grand Duke Yury Mikhailovich, the son of Grand Duke Mikhail Vsevolodovich of Chernigov. Later, the local rulers moved their seats to Meshchovsk and Boryatino, and Tarusa was subjugated by the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the late 14th century. In the mid-15th century, Tarusa passed to Lithuania, and later on it fell back to the Grand Duchy of Moscow. In the 16th century, it was fortified with ramparts and trenches in defense against the Crimean Tatars and Nogai Horde. In 1876, there were 40 craftsmen and 7 small factories in Tarusa.

Soviet authority in Tarusa was established on December 27, 1917. In the following years, the town's churches were closed and a monument to Stalin was erected on the central square. During World War II, German troops approached Tarusa and took it on their way to Moscow. The town was occupied by the Germans between October 24 and December 19, 1941. After that, the town was retaken by the Red Army which crossed the Oka River in winter under the frantic German fire and successfully attacked the German strongholds on the higher bank of Oka. Remnants of the town's fortifications and the town wall can still be seen today in the community park near the Peter and Paul Cathedral. During the Soviet period, Tarusa became the place where many dissidents and people repressed by the Soviet authorities used to settle. Tarusa became the home place for such famous dissident figures as Anatoly Marchenko, Larisa Bogoraz, Gleb Yakunin, Pavel Litvinov, Alexander Ginzburg, Andrey Amalrik, Sergei Kovalev, Zoya Krakhmalnikova, Lev Kopelev, and Frida Vigdorova. The book Tarusa - the 101st kilometer by Tatyana Melnikova is devoted to the lives and fates of the dissidents who lived in Tarusa.

In 1961, Konstantin Paustovsky fought to publish his famous Tarusa Pages, which became the only book in the Soviet Union which escaped Moscow-based central party censorship and offered its pages for various free-thinking and dissident writers. After the book was published, it was declared ideologically harmful and removed from all bookstores and libraries. The director of the Kaluga publishing house was reprimanded, the editor-in-chief was fired, and other repressions were to follow. It was only Paustovsky's personal appeal to Nikita Khrushchev that stopped the wave of planned repressions. Nevertheless, the Tarusa Pages became a significant and meaningful event in the Soviet literature. The book introduced to the public such authors as Bulat Okudzhava, Vladimir Maksimov, Frida Vigdorova, Nadezhda Mandelstam, and Naum Korzhavin, who enjoyed immense popularity in the later years.

Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Tarusa serves as the administrative center of Tarussky District, to which it is directly subordinated. As a municipal division, the town of Tarusa is incorporated within Tarussky Municipal District as Tarusa Urban Settlement.

Culture

The town has a number of popular museums—the Tarusa Regional Museum of Local Lore and the Tsvetayevs Family Museum. It is also home to the Tarusa Town Picture Gallery, which is a branch of Kaluga Regional Museum of Art, boasting a rich collection of such Russian artists as Boris Kustodiev, Nikolay Krymov, Ivan Aivazovsky, Lev Lagorio, and Vasily Polenov.

The Open Russian Festival of Animated Film was held in Tarusa until 2002, after which it was moved to Suzdal.

Economy
Tarusa has an Art Ceramics factory, a design studio of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, manufacturing, and a milk factory.

Cemeteries
Tarusa has two cemeteries: the Old Cemetery and the New Cemetery. Writer Konstantin Paustovsky, sculptor Vasily Vatagin, Marina Tsvetaeva's daughter Ariadna Èfron, builder Sergey Krutilin, and writer Nadezhda Krandievskaya are buried in the Old Cemetery.

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Brendan Gleeson

Brendan Gleeson (born 29 March 1955) is an Irish actor and director. He has received various accolades, including a Primetime Emmy Award, two British Independent Film Awards and three IFTA Awards, along with nominations for an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. In 2020, he was listed at number 18 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. He is the father of actors Domhnall Gleeson and Brian Gleeson.

He is known for his supporting roles in films such as Braveheart (1995), Michael Collins (1996), 28 Days Later (2002), Gangs of New York (2002), Cold Mountain (2003), Troy (2004), the Harry Potter film series (2005–2010), Suffragette (2015), Paddington 2 (2017), The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), and The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). He is also known for his leading roles in films such as The General (1998), In Bruges (2008), The Guard (2011), Calvary (2014), Frankie (2019), and The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

He won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2009 for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in the television film Into the Storm. He also received a Golden Globe Award nomination for his performance as Donald Trump in the Showtime series The Comey Rule (2020). From 2017 to 2019 he starred in the crime series Mr. Mercedes. He received an Emmy Award nomination for Stephen Frears' Sundance TV series State of the Union (2022).

Early life
Gleeson was born in Dublin, the son of Pat (1925–2007) and Frank Gleeson (1918–2010). Gleeson has described himself as having been an avid reader as a child. He received his second-level education at St Joseph's CBS in Fairview, Dublin where he was a member of the school drama group. He received his Bachelor of Arts at University College Dublin, majoring in English and Irish. After training as an actor, he worked for several years as a secondary school teacher of Irish and English at the now defunct Catholic Belcamp College in North County Dublin, which closed in 2004. He was working simultaneously as an actor while teaching, doing semi-professional and professional productions in Dublin and surrounding areas. He left the teaching profession to commit full-time to acting in 1991. In an NPR interview to promote Calvary in 2014, Gleeson stated he was molested as a child by a Christian Brother in primary school but was in "no way traumatised by the incident."

Career
As a member of the Dublin-based Passion Machine Theatre company, Gleeson appeared in several of the theatre company's early and highly successful plays such as Brownbread (1987), written by Roddy Doyle and directed by Paul Mercier, Wasters (1985) and Home (1988), written and directed by Paul Mercier. He has also written three plays for Passion Machine: The Birdtable (1987) and Breaking Up (1988), both of which he directed, and Babies and Bathwater (1994) in which he acted. Among his other Dublin theatre work are Patrick Süskind's one-man play The Double Bass and John B. Keane's The Year of the Hiker.

Gleeson started his film career at the age of 34. He first came to prominence in Ireland for his role as Michael Collins in The Treaty, a television film broadcast on RTÉ One, and for which he won a Jacob's Award in 1992. He has acted in such films as Braveheart, I Went Down, Michael Collins, Gangs of New York, Cold Mountain, 28 Days Later, Troy, Kingdom of Heaven, Lake Placid, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Mission: Impossible 2, and The Village. He won critical acclaim for his performance as Irish gangster Martin Cahill in John Boorman's 1998 film The General.

In 2003, Gleeson was the voice of Hugh the Miller in an episode of the Channel 4 animated series Wilde Stories. While Gleeson portrayed Irish statesman Michael Collins in The Treaty, he later portrayed Collins' close collaborator Liam Tobin in the film Michael Collins with Liam Neeson taking the role of Collins. Gleeson later went on to portray Winston Churchill in Into the Storm. Gleeson won an Emmy Award for his performance.

Gleeson played Barty Crouch Jr impersonating Hogwarts professor Mad-Eye Moody in the fourth, and Alastor Moody himself in fifth and seventh Harry Potter films. His son Domhnall played Bill Weasley in the seventh and eighth films.

Gleeson provided the voice of Abbot Cellach in The Secret of Kells, an animated film co-directed by Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey of Cartoon Saloon which premiered in February 2009 at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival. Gleeson starred in the short film Six Shooter in 2006, which won an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. This film was written and directed by Martin McDonagh. In 2008, Gleeson starred in the comedy crime film In Bruges, also written and directed by McDonagh. The film, and Gleeson's performance, enjoyed huge critical acclaim, earning Gleeson several award nominations, including his first Golden Globe nomination. In the movie, Gleeson plays a mentor-like figure for Colin Farrell's hitman. In his review of In Bruges, Roger Ebert described the elder Gleeson as having a "noble shambles of a face and the heft of a boxer gone to seed."

In July 2012, he started filming The Grand Seduction, with Taylor Kitsch, a remake of Jean-François Pouliot's French-Canadian La Grande Séduction (2003) directed by Don McKellar; the film was released in 2013. In 2016, he appeared in the video game adaptation Assassin's Creed and Ben Affleck's crime drama Live by Night. In 2017 he finished Psychic, a short he directed and starred in. In 2022, he reunited with Martin McDonagh in the tragic comedy The Banshees of Inisherin starring opposite Colin Farrell. For his performance as Colm Doherty, he has received numerous awards nominations, including the Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Critics' Choice for Best Supporting Actor.

Musical talent
Gleeson is a fiddle and mandolin player, with an interest in Irish folklore. He played the fiddle during his roles in Cold Mountain, Michael Collins, The Grand Seduction, and The Banshees of Inisherin, and also features on Altan's 2009 live album. In the Coen brothers' The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018), Gleeson sings "The Unfortunate Rake". He has also made a contribution in 2019 to the album by Irish folk group Dervish with a version of Rocky Road To Dublin.

Personal life
He has been married to Mary Weldon since 1982. They have four sons: Domhnall, Fergus, Brían, and Rory. Domhnall and Brían are also actors. He has one grandson.

Gleeson speaks fluent Irish and is an advocate of the promotion of the Irish language. Gleeson is a fan of English football club Aston Villa, as is his son Domhnall.

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