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Genji Hashimoto

Genji Hashimoto (born 7th October, 1965) is a Japanese businessman and racing driver. He is the CEO of Amprex International.

Business
Hashimoto is the CEO of Amprex International, a multi discipline business with registered offices in Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and Hong Kong. Amprex operate in a number of different areas including motoring, telecommunications and information technology. Amprex was the name used for Hashimoto's motor racing teams.

As of 2022, Hashimoto's business is the exclusive distributor for Rotax Karts in Malaysia. As part of the partnership, they will be used in his Morac Adventure Park facility in Langkawi.

Motor Racing
Hashimoto began racing in 1989, completing 4 races of the Japanese Formula Three season with Zoom Racing. He would not competitively race again until 2002, with his own Amprex Motorsport team. In Super GT, he competed 8 races with a BMW M3 GTR in the GT300 class, securing 2 points and 28th place in the championship. He continued to race the BMW in 2003, but secured 0 points across the 8 races. In 2004, Amprex Motorsports entered the Super GT championship in the GT500 class with a Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT. However, they completed just two races and scored 0 points. In 2005, Hashimoto confirmed the Lamborghini was for sale.

Between 2002 and 2005, Hashimoto competed in the Merdeka Millennium Endurance Race. Initially with a Super GT specification Mazda RX7 which broke down, and later in 2003 using the BMW M3 GTR from the GT300 class. In 2004, his team were leading the race but retired with mechanical issues from their Lamborghini. However, in 2005 whilst racing for team Proton R3 Amprex driving a Lotus Exige 300RR, He won both their class and the race outright.

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Enchodus

Enchodus (from ἔγχος enchos, 'spear' and ὀδούς odoús 'tooth') is an extinct genus of aulopiform ray-finned fish related to lancetfish and lizardfish. Species of Enchodus flourished during the Late Cretaceous, and there is some evidence that they may have survived to the Paleocene or Eocene; however, this may just represent reworked Cretaceous material.

Taxonomy
Species of Enchodus are generally classified into two different clades, the North American and the Mediterranean. It has been proposed that this distinction is the result of several isolated events between the two populations over the Late Cretaceous.

Description
Enchodus species were small to medium in size, large species (E. zinensis) reached 172.2 cm. One of the genus' most notable attributes are the large "fangs" at the front of the upper and lower jaws and on the palatine bones, leading to its misleading nickname among fossil hunters and paleoichthyologists, "the saber-toothed herring". These fangs, along with a long sleek body and large eyes, suggest Enchodus was a predatory species.

E. petrosus, with standard length around 76.7 cm and sometimes over 1 m, remains of which are common from the Niobrara Chalk, the Mooreville Chalk Formation, the Pierre Shale, and other geological formations deposited within the Western Interior Seaway and the Mississippi Embayment. Large individuals of this species had fangs measuring over 6 cm in length, giving its skull an appearance somewhat reminiscent of modern deep-sea fishes, such as anglerfish and viperfish. Other species were considerably smaller, some like E. parvus were only some centimeters (a few inches) long.

Despite being a formidable predator, remains of Enchodus are commonly found among the stomach contents of larger predators, including sharks, other bony fish, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs and seabirds such as Baptornis advenus.

Distribution
Enchodus fossils have been found all over the world. In North America, Enchodus remains have been recovered from most US states with fossiliferous Late Cretaceous rocks, including Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, Wyoming, Texas, California, North Carolina, and New Jersey. Fossils also have been found in the Aguja and El Doctor Formations of Mexico and the Ashville, Vermillion River and Dinosaur Park Formations, and Brown Bed Member of Canada. The taxon is also known from coeval strata in Africa, the Middle East, Europe, southwest Asia and the Tiupampan Santa Lucía Formation and Maastrichtian El Molino Formation of Bolivia and the Paraíba, Pernambuco and Sergipe states of Brazil. Potentially the latest Enchodus remains are known from the earliest Eocene of Barmer, India. However, it has also been suggested that all post-Cretaceous Enchodus records are just reworked material.

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Motonari Higuchi

Motonari Higuchi is a Japanese race car driver who competed in twelve All-Japan Formula Three Championship in 2000 and 2001 for the Nobel France team. He also drove in one Japanese Formula 3000 race in 1995 at Mine Circuit.

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Operational data store

An operational data store (ODS) is used for operational reporting and as a source of data for the enterprise data warehouse (EDW). It is a complementary element to an EDW in a decision support environment, and is used for operational reporting, controls, and decision making, as opposed to the EDW, which is used for tactical and strategic decision support.

An ODS is a database designed to integrate data from multiple sources for additional operations on the data, for reporting, controls and operational decision support. Unlike a production master data store, the data is not passed back to operational systems. It may be passed for further operations and to the data warehouse for reporting.

An ODS should not be confused with an enterprise data hub (EDH). An operational data store will take transactional data from one or more production systems and loosely integrate it, in some respects it is still subject oriented, integrated and time variant, but without the volatility constraints. This integration is mainly achieved through the use of EDW structures and content.

An ODS is not an intrinsic part of an EDH solution, although an EDH may be used to subsume some of the processing performed by an ODS and the EDW. An EDH is a broker of data. An ODS is certainly not.

Because the data originates from multiple sources, the integration often involves cleaning, resolving redundancy and checking against business rules for integrity. An ODS is usually designed to contain low-level or atomic (indivisible) data (such as transactions and prices) with limited history that is captured "real time" or "near real time" as opposed to the much greater volumes of data stored in the data warehouse generally on a less-frequent basis.

General use
The general purpose of an ODS is to integrate data from disparate source systems in a single structure, using data integration technologies like data virtualization, data federation, or extract, transform, and load (ETL). This will allow operational access to the data for operational reporting, master data or reference data management.

An ODS is not a replacement or substitute for a data warehouse or for a data hub but in turn could become a source.

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Talk:Manually coded English

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I originally created this article for Wikipedia, but I decided to also use it in my Everything2 node on the same subject. Please note that "Cues" is intentionally capitalized. -Etoile 18:16, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

To Etoile and NTennis: Excellent work on this article. It really clears up a lot things for me. Ray Foster 17:59, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)

Merge
I think Sign Supported English should be merged into this file as it is covered under the title of this article --NeilEvans 21:10, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Agree. It's been suggested at the Sign Supported English with no objection, so please feel free to merge. ntennis 01:48, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

This section is generally inaccurate because SSE in the UK is: 1. Not offered as a self standing service by interpreters. There is no qualification in the UK which registers an interpreter to work between English and SSE. It is an adaptation, depending on the needs of the client. 2. SSE actually varies from person to person. SSE has a place on a 'diglossic continuum' between English and BSL and may move anywhere between SEE and Pidgin BSL.

recently added sentence National Signed English is a unique communication system that uses a combination of B.S.L., S.S.E. and N.S.E. It creates perfect syntax, present and past tenses and allows the user to communicate in word perfect English.

this entry seems a bit "promotional" - NSE  is a new system launched this year  by a small UK institution tied to a book launch at the same time as this entry was added to Wikipedia. A press release from the publishers carries links to this recent Wikipedia article (created for the release??) words like "unique" and "perfect syntax" read like a press release or promotional literature and shouldn't really be in wikipedia The attempted promotion of this system by the institution that created it (OCSL)among children has caused controversy in the Deaf community and not been welcomed by Sign Language professionals.

I am ammending the entry to be a bit less promotional but stil try to retain an unbiased place in this debate. Topmark 13:54, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

SSE Interpreting added word "limited" to "Interpreting services are available in the UK for SSE." to reflect real situation on the ground Topmark 12:35, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Pidgin Sign English -> Contact sign
Since the prevailing term for this form of sign has justifiably shifted, as was already described in the article --
 * PSE is increasingly referred to as 'Contact Sign', because it doesn't display the features linguists expect of a pidgin.

-- I have changed the name of the section to Contact sign, while keeping the old name in the form of a span id to support links that may exist from wiki or external pages: Manually Coded English. --Thnidu (talk) 20:09, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Makaton and total communication - SE settings/language difficulties and baby signing
I think we should include a section - or start an over-arching 'parent' article - and in general be carefully differentiating MCE and Makaton which uses BSL alongside English speech - at various levels of vocabulary - so that it nearly is a synthesised pidgin and to also again outline the relationship and comparison to various baby-signing approaches; I think it's sensible if not vital in this article. Makaton started with use with the deaf who were also learning disabled but has been useful for non-hearing-related language difficulties and is increasingly well known and frequently used alongside other sign-systems within special education. Baby sign as a kind of hot-housing and relationship boon for infants with no identified additional needs or slight delays or behaviour difficulties have also gained popularity. These are the reference points that general UK readers start with. That is significant. For instance 'cutting corners' and pidgins references in the article sound at once quaint and recognisable -- this topic-area need clarification which this article so far does not provide. I suggest it is particularly significant in relation to special schools where children with additional need who may or may not have hearing impairment use and are taught with a variety of communication strategies according to individual needs. Signing is well beyond use by the only the deaf community and their close supporters and allies now and it needs to be handled carefully with great precision. I think perhaps when outline of the world of sign languages and the situation with signing and special education are tackled it's also worth noting a link to the wider set of 'total communication strategies'. No expert here - a parent of a child with SEN and I also had grown up with disability awareness and with watching see-hear and Asian eye because of good heart and isolation and OCD about wanting to be well-versed and 'see' and 'listen' to everybody properly! Perhaps gestures - and any formalised sets - used in noisy workplaces are also worth looking for and including in the general sweep of reference points for general readership too. Kathybramley (talk) 10:09, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

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Edinburgh Pentlands (Scottish Parliament constituency)

Edinburgh Pentlands (Gaelic: Dùn Èideann Pentlands) is a constituency of the Scottish Parliament (Holyrood) covering part of the council area of Edinburgh. It elects one Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) by the plurality (first past the post) method of election. It is one of nine constituencies in the Lothian electoral region, which elects seven additional members, in addition to the nine constituency MSPs, to produce a form of proportional representation for the region as a whole.

The seat has been held by Gordon MacDonald of the Scottish National Party since the 2011 Scottish Parliament election.

Electoral region
The other eight constituencies of the Lothian region are: Almond Valley, Edinburgh Central, Edinburgh Eastern, Edinburgh Northern and Leith, Edinburgh Southern, Edinburgh Western, Linlithgow and Midlothian North and Musselburgh.

The region includes all of the City of Edinburgh council area, parts of the East Lothian council area, parts of the Midlothian council area and all of the West Lothian council area.

Constituency boundaries and council area
Edinburgh is represented in the Scottish Parliament by six constituencies: Edinburgh Central, Edinburgh Eastern, Edinburgh Northern and Leith, Edinburgh Pentlands, Edinburgh Southern and Edinburgh Western.

The Edinburgh Pentlands constituency was created at the same time as the Scottish Parliament, in 1999, with the name and boundaries of an existing Westminster constituency. In 2005, however, Scottish Westminster (House of Commons) constituencies were mostly replaced with new constituencies.

The newly formed Edinburgh Pentlands uses the following electoral wards:

 * In full: Pentland Hills, Colinton/Fairmilehead
 * In part: Sighthill/Gorgie shared with (Edinburgh Central)


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Raging Hormones

 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 delete. - Mailer Diablo 10:19, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The Raging Hormones
Delete. Vanity. --Briangotts 18:17, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: This was apparently either never listed on vfd or removed out of process, so I'm bringing it to today's page for resolution. —Korath (Talk) 00:23, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete NN. --Fuzzball! (talk) 01:53, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, obvious band vanity. Megan1967 03:07, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * 'Delete, as Megan1976. Pavel Vozenilek 02:06, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, as Megan1976 stated. Linuxbeak 14:44, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, POV, non-notable. Agree w/ Megan1967 --maru 00:04, 22 Apr 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.


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Talk:Freddie Prinze Jr.

The first paragraph
Needs to be rewritten. I left it as it is because it's hilarious. A quick reading of that paragraph leads the reader to conclude that She's All That is the sequel to I Know What You Did Last Summer -- 12.104.244.6 (talk)

Television Credits?
Where is his list of credits for television? I know he's done several TV shows, as well as TV movies, like the one that I saw in my LMS class, "Too Soon For Jeff", which he was in opposite Jessica Alba. Someone add this list?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.33.94.233 (talk) 19:08, 15 May 2008 (UTC) He is so hot ! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.164.30.176 (talk) 19:52, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Weird Edit Summary
What on earth is this edit summary talking about  The "No Heroics" role needs to be integrated into the article and then sourced (not an EL) since it is integrated into the article and sourced and what is the mention to the source not being an EL since that has nothing to do with the references already there Garda40 (talk) 20:21, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry, when I noticed the change to the article there was a link to an article about the No Heroics role in the "External Links" section. I didn't notice that it was also mentioned elsewhere.  My only point was that the link shouldn't be an external link but that the information should be integrated into the article but since it was already in the article the link just needed to be deleted (or added as another source). And then I didn't even delete it!  Fixed now. SQGibbon (talk) 21:27, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Early Life
In his fathers bio written by his wife his wife specifys he was Hungarian. He has no german ancestory whatsoever. Get rid of this fake quote. Wherever garbage you pullked it from.

It says on this page that FP Jr's paternal grandfather was German but on his father's page it says he was Hungarian.

It says FP Jr learned Spanish and about Puerto Rican culture from his paternal grandfather but it was his paternal grandmother who was Puerto Rican, so is this correct? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ashlar (talk • contribs) 05:33, 1 May 2012 (UTC) I

Germanic Language vs. ScrapIronIV
I can understand someone not knowing about umlauts and German spelling. But to revert without checking at least. That's outrages me!! How the hell can anyone cite grammatical rules! I've tried to find a document for his ancestor to satisfy ScrapIronIV but Binksternet thinks that Ancestry.com is not good enough. The link of Ancestry.com has the original marriage image document which his great-grandfather spelled as Prützel. Moreover, that's why "Pruetzel"'s are is mainly found only in America or English speaking countries. It's obviously matter of his grandfather trying to spell it in anglicized "ue" instead of "ü" (Pruetzel/Prützel), when he immigrated from Germany in 1934. The documents proves that was living in Berlin and born in Hamburg. But don not misunderstand me, I'm not implying that he has German origin because many Hungarian minorities in Germany owed to German-ise their surname by 16-18th century. I can't go so further back to find the original Hungarian name. BUT THE NAME IS DEFINITELY Prützel IN GERMAN!! Make a search an find out that all Germans write their surname this way! Or you want to stick with line like "His family original surname was Pruetzel but his father change it to "Prinze" . What's your thoughts??

Chem-is-try7 (talk) 17:18, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Thoughts - keep that out altogether. It's trivia at best, with sexist overtones (we're not listing the birth names of all his great-grandmothers). Prinze was born Prinze, that's the name that matters. --Nat Gertler (talk) 16:20, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

 * Wikipedia exists to summarize for the reader all the important things about a topic that have been published. Can you show me any biographies of Prinze that give his grandfather's name? Otherwise this kind of thing smacks of original research, which is not allowed. Binksternet (talk) 02:04, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Definitely OR in calling it "original family name"; that one generation was Prützel doesn't mean that the previous generation didn't also change names, much as we saw the changes to Pruetzel and then to Prinz. --Nat Gertler (talk) 15:26, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

WWE work
The second paragraph under "Work with WWE..." needs attention. It says "On August 17, Prinze.." but which August 17? no year is available? I would look to the reference on that sentence to fix this but the reference has nothing to due with anything it is a reference for. The reference is about him leaving Smackdown but it is on a statement that he was attacked by Orton while hosting RAW in the leadup to a Orton - Cena match at Summerslam (which?). There is no mention in the reference of August 17. Raw, guest hosting, Orton, Cena or SummmerSlam. The ref seems entirely off subject. Pure Evil (talk) 20:05, 23 March 2023 (UTC)

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Alba (rabbit)

Alba was a genetically modified "glowing" rabbit created as an artistic work by contemporary artist Eduardo Kac, produced in collaboration with French geneticist Louis-Marie Houdebine.

Houdebine used the GFP gene found in the jellyfish, Aequorea victoria, that fluoresces green when exposed to blue light. This is a protein used in many standard biological experiments involving fluorescence. When Alba was exposed to such light, she would literally glow green — though photos by Kac showing the entire organism, including its hair, glowing a uniform green have had their veracity challenged.

Kac described Alba as an animal that did not exist in nature. In an article published in The Boston Globe, Houdebine admitted creating Alba for Kac and stated that Alba has a 'particularly mellow and sweet disposition.' This article generated a global media scandal, which caused Houdebine to distance himself from Kac's work. All subsequent media articles present variations on Houdebine's disengagement effort.

Alba's lifespan is an open question. In 2002, a US reporter called INRA (France), where Houdebine works, and was told that Alba had died. The reporter published an article stating that Alba was dead but the only evidence she provided was to quote Houdebine as saying: "I was informed one day that bunny was dead without any reason. So, rabbits die often. It was about 4 years old, which is a normal lifespan in our facilities."

In the 2007 European Molecular Biology Organization Members Meeting in Barcelona, Louis-Marie Houdebine presented in detail his version of the reality of 'the GFP rabbit story', placing emphasis on sensationalism by journalists and the TV media.

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Jon Kabat-Zinn

Jon Kabat-Zinn (born Jon Kabat, June 5, 1944) is an American professor emeritus of medicine and the creator of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Kabat-Zinn was a student of Zen Buddhist teachers such as Philip Kapleau, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Seung Sahn, and a founding member of Cambridge Zen Center. His practice of hatha yoga, Vipassanā and appreciation of the teachings of Soto Zen and Advaita Vedanta led him to integrate their teachings with scientific findings. He teaches mindfulness, which he says can help people cope with stress, anxiety, pain, and illness. The stress reduction program created by Kabat-Zinn, mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), is offered by medical centers, hospitals, and health maintenance organizations, and is described in his book Full Catastrophe Living.

Life and work
Kabat-Zinn was born in New York City in 1944 as the oldest of three children to Elvin Kabat, a biomedical scientist, and Sally Kabat, a painter. He graduated from Haverford College in 1964 and went on to earn a Ph.D. in molecular biology in 1971 from MIT, where he studied under Salvador Luria, Nobel Laureate in medicine.

While at MIT, Kabat-Zinn was a leading campaigner against military research at the university and against the Vietnam War. To reduce student protests, MIT appointed him, alongside Noam Chomsky and George Katsiaficas, to an advisory panel on the future of the university's military labs. During this time, he pondered his life's purpose, which he called his "karmic assignment."

Career
Kabat-Zinn was first introduced to meditation by Philip Kapleau, a Zen teacher who came to speak at MIT where Kabat-Zinn was a student. Kabat-Zinn went on to study meditation with other Buddhist teachers such as Seungsahn. He also studied at the Insight Meditation Society with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein, and eventually taught there. In 1979 he founded the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he adapted the Soto Zen, Vipassana, Hatha Yoga and Advaita Vedanta teachings and developed the Stress Reduction and Relaxation Program. He subsequently renamed the structured eight-week course Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). He removed the soteriological goals of the religious and spiritual systems that influenced the MBSR and any connection between mindfulness and Buddhism, instead putting MBSR in a scientific context. He subsequently also founded the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. His secular technique of Mindful Yoga, which combines meditation and yoga as exercise, has since spread worldwide. The course aims to help patients cope with stress, pain, and illness by using what is called "moment-to-moment awareness."

Kabat-Zinn's MBSR began to get increasing notice with the publication of his first book, Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness (1991), which gave detailed instructions for the practice. Then, in 1993, his work in the Stress Reduction Clinic was featured in Bill Moyers's PBS special Healing and the Mind, spurring wide interest in MBSR and helping to make Kabat-Zinn nationally famous. In 1994 Kabat-Zinn's second book, titled Wherever You Go, There You Are, became a national bestseller. In the latter part of the 1990s, many MBSR clinics were opened, either as standalone centers or as part of a hospital's holistic medicine program.

Research by Kabat-Zinn includes the effect of MBSR on psoriasis, pain, anxiety, brain function, and immune function.

He is a board member of the Mind and Life Institute, a group that organizes dialogues between the Dalai Lama and Western scientists.

MBSR has been adapted for use by the US military to improve combatants' "operational effectiveness," apparently with Kabat-Zinn's approval, which has provoked some controversy among mindfulness practitioners.

Discussing the integration of narratives into mindfulness practice, Kabat-Zinn has said, "the map... can occlude... the territory.' That is, thinking about a storyline can get in the way, like creating a mental representation 'map' rather than directly experiencing the 'territory' of the present moment.

Kabat-Zinn is Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Personal life
Kabat-Zinn is married to Myla Zinn, the daughter of the historian and playwright Howard Zinn and his wife Roslyn. They have three grown children.

Kabat-Zinn grew up in a non-practicing Jewish family. He has stated that his beliefs growing up were a fusion of science and art. Although he has been "trained in Buddhism and espouses its principles", he rejects the label of "Buddhist", preferring to "apply mindfulness within a scientific rather than a religious frame".

Awards

 * 2024: Doctor of Science honoris causa from Haverford College
 * 2008: Mind and Brain Prize from the Center for Cognitive Science, University of Torino, Italy
 * 2007: Inaugural Pioneer in Integrative Medicine Award from the Bravewell Philanthropic Collaborative for Integrative Medicine
 * 2005: Distinguished Friend Award from the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies

Works

 * Mindfulness Meditation for Everyday Life. Piatkus, 1994. ISBN 0-7499-1422-X.
 * Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life. Hyperion Books, 1994. ISBN 1-4013-0778-7.
 * The Power of Meditation and Prayer, with Sogyal Rinpoche, Larry Dossey, Michael Toms. Hay House, 1997. ISBN 1-56170-423-7.
 * Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting, with Myla Kabat-Zinn. Hyperion, 1997. ISBN 978-0-7868-8314-1.
 * Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness. Hyperion, 2006. ISBN 0-7868-8654-4.
 * The mindful way through depression: freeing yourself from chronic unhappiness, by J. Mark G. Williams, John D. Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal, Jon Kabat-Zinn. Guilford Press, 2007. ISBN 1593851286.
 * Arriving at Your Own Door. Piatkus Books, 2008. ISBN 0-7499-2861-1. The book contains 180 verses that discuss the connection between mindfulness and our physical and spiritual wellbeing and can lead to healing and transformation.
 * Letting Everything Become Your Teacher: 100 Lessons in Mindfulness. Dell Publishing Company, 2009. ISBN 0-385-34323-X.
 * The Mind's Own Physician: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama on the Healing Power of Meditation, co-authored with Richard Davidson (New Harbinger, 2012) (based on the 13th Mind and Life Institute Dialogue in 2005).
 * Mindfulness for Beginners: reclaiming the present moment - and your life. Sounds True, Inc., 2012. ISBN 978-1-60407-753-7.
 * Mindfulness for Beginners: reclaiming the present moment - and your life. Sounds True, Inc., 2012. ISBN 978-1-60407-753-7.

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Doctor Who season 16

The sixteenth season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who, known collectively as The Key to Time, began on 2 September 1978 with The Ribos Operation, and ended with The Armageddon Factor. The arc was originally conceived by producer Graham Williams, who had proposed it as part of his application for the producer's job in 1976. The name refers to the powerful artefact, the segments of which are what the Fourth Doctor and his companions, Romana and K9, search for during the season. Anthony Read continued in his role as script editor, from the previous season. Douglas Adams also became script editor alongside Read.

Synopsis
A figure calling himself the White Guardian commissions the Doctor and K9, assisted by a new companion, the Time Lady Romana, to find the six segments of the Key to Time, a cosmic artefact resembling a perfect cube that maintains the equilibrium of the universe. Since it is too powerful for any single being to possess, it has been split into six different segments and scattered across space and time, disguised by the raw elemental power within them into any shape or size. However, since the forces balancing the universe are so upset, the White Guardian needs to recover the segments of the Key to stop the universe so that he can restore the balance. The White Guardian also warns the Doctor of the Black Guardian, who also wishes to obtain the Key to Time for his own purposes. In the final episode, the Black Guardian, disguised as the White Guardian, attempts to take the Key from the Doctor. However, the Doctor sees through the figure's charade and orders the segments of the Key to Time to once again become scattered across all of time and space, bar the sixth, which he reinstates as Princess Astra. Afterward, the Doctor decides to install a device called a randomiser into the TARDIS' navigation system for a period of time to make his following voyages unpredictable to evade the Black Guardian.

The six segments
In some stories, the segment in its disguised form is an integral part of the story, whereas in others, the segment is merely an incidental object.
 * 1) The first segment is disguised as a lump of Jethrik, a valuable rock mineral on the planet Ribos.
 * 2) The second is the planet Calufrax, shrunk to miniature size by the space-hopping pirate planet of Zanak.
 * 3) The third is the Great Seal of Diplos, a jewelled pendant which had been stolen by a criminal of that planet and brought to Earth.
 * 4) The fourth is part of a statue on the planet Tara.
 * 5) The fifth was an unspecified religious artifact that had been consumed by a squid on the swamp world of Delta Magna's third moon, causing it to turn into a gigantic monster named Kroll that the natives worship as a god.
 * 6) The final segment is a woman, the Princess Astra of the planet Atrios.

Main cast

 * Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor
 * Mary Tamm as Romana
 * John Leeson as Voice of K9

Tom Baker continued his role as The Fourth Doctor, and saw the introduction of Romana played by Mary Tamm. This season was the only one to feature Tamm as the first incarnation of Romana, as Tamm left the programme after only one season because she felt that the character had reverted to the traditional assistant role and could not be developed further. The second incarnation, played by Lalla Ward (who also appeared in this season as Princess Astra), began her run in the first serial of the next season (Destiny of the Daleks).

Serials
Douglas Adams took over as script editor from Anthony Read for The Armageddon Factor. Season 16 consists of one long story arc encompassing six separate, linked stories.

Broadcast
The Key to Time was broadcast from 2 September 1978 to 24 February 1979.

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The One Doctor

The One Doctor is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Plot
The Sixth Doctor and Mel come up against an impostor Doctor and his companion Sally-Anne.

During the serial, the Doctor and his companions undertake a quest to find the three greatest treasures of the Generios system.

The story was essentially Big Finish's Christmas panto, and features an extra Christmas scene as a hidden track at the end of the story. The episodes are heavily laden with comedy such as the impostor Doctor's name, Banto Zame, seeming to be an intentional rhyme with Panto Dame.

The Shelves of Infinity
Banto Zame and Mel Bush arrive on Generios Eight to try to locate one of the treasures, The Shelves of Infinity (Unit ZX419). The Shelves of Infinity were designed and created by the Assembler race on Generios Eight, considered the pinnacle of their race. The pieces that make up the shelves are constantly phasing in and out of this dimension, so they can never be completely assembled. The Shelves of Infinity were stored in Warehouse ZX under the code ZX419.

Banto and Mel encounter the Assemblers and manage to convince them to let them take unit ZX419, but only if they could assemble it. Banto scoffs, saying it will be easy. Once the two start building the shelves, they notice parts are going missing. The instructions make sense, but they never get any closer to actually building it. Eventually, they come up with a way to fool the Assemblers: since the building process can never be finished, the Assemblers do not know what the finished product would look like.

The Assemblers are fooled long enough for the Doctor to arrive in the TARDIS, and Banto and Mel escape with the Shelves of Infinity.

Mentos
Another of the treasures, Mentos (also known as the Mentos Device), is an advanced computer and information retrieval system. It is one of the three treasures of the Generios system in the far future, described by the Doctor as the "vulgar end of time".

Mentos appears in our universe as a small metal box that projects the holographic image of an old man which acts as its real world interface. The box is actually a portal to a shadow universe which is populated by countless information collectors—research devices that travel through time and space, constantly seeking out the answer to any given question. As a result, Mentos literally knows everything there is to know.

Mentos was made to participate in Superbrain, a game show (a parody of The Weakest Link). However, as Mentos was able to answer every question put to it, the game continued endlessly. Eventually, the two factions which were vying for control of the Mentos device fought and wiped each other out, along with the codes that would shut down the Questioner and end the game. Mentos, programmed to continue answering questions until it got a wrong answer, outlasted the civilisation that created it by over 330 centuries.

The Doctor arrived on Generios Fourteen to collect Mentos. An alien cylinder was holding Generios One, the capital planet of the system, hostage, threatening to destroy it unless the people of Generios handed over their three greatest treasures. Unable to disconnect the computer without ending the game, the Doctor tried to stump Mentos without success until he and Sally Anne Stubbins asked it what it did not know. With Mentos being unable to answer that question, the game ended, with its score a "pitiful" 679,330,567,010 credits. The Doctor was then able to disconnect the device and take it with him.

During the Doctor's initial attempts to outwit Mentos, the computer tiredly asked him if he was going to ask it "one of those tricky fox-the-computer logic conundrums", like the liar paradox. In the Third Doctor serial The Green Death, the Doctor asked the rogue artificial intelligence BOSS the same question. Mentos, however, stated that it would not have made a difference—it is able to answer those kinds of questions as well.

The Lonely Jelloid!
The final episode of the play mainly focuses on the Doctor and co. attempting to retrieve a giant crystal from a planet guarded by a large, lonely jelloid organism (voiced by Matt Lucas — Lucas also voiced the cylinder). At the play's conclusion it is revealed that the cylinder was actually after the Doctor all along and the request for the three treasures was a trap — as only the Doctor could have retrieved them. Banto Zame is wrongly identified as the Doctor and is taken away to face punishment for the Doctor's future actions. The Doctor later comments that he shall rescue Zame from this fate.

Also, there are two hidden tracks that appear at the end of the CD. The first is a short scene in which The Doctor and Mel attempt to view the Queen's Speech on the Time and Space Visualiser. The Second is of Mentos and the Quiz Host. This latter scene is extensive and is composed of a question-and-answer format heard during the third episode. Both hidden scenes have the characters wish everyone listening a happy Christmas.

Cast

 * The Doctor — Colin Baker
 * Mel — Bonnie Langford
 * Citizen Sokkery — Nicholas Pegg
 * Councillor Potikol — Stephen Fewell
 * Banto Zame — Christopher Biggins
 * Sally-Anne Stubbins — Clare Buckfield
 * Guard — Mark Wright
 * Cylinder Voice — Matt Lucas
 * The Questioner — Jane Goddard
 * Mentos — Nicholas Pegg
 * Assembler 1 — Adam Buxton
 * Assembler 2 — Stephen Fewell
 * The Jelloid — Matt Lucas

Continuity

 * The Ninth Doctor also encounters a version of the Weakest Link in the new series TV story "Bad Wolf", this time actually voiced by its real host Anne Robinson.
 * The CD features a bonus track which involves The Doctor and Mel attempting to watch The Queen's Christmas Message on the Time-Space Visualiser, a machine seen in the First Doctor story The Chase. It is used again by the Sixth Doctor in the 2012 audio, The Fourth Wall.
 * Clare Buckfield's sister, Julie, has also appeared in a Big Finish Doctor Who Audio.
 * Episode three's opening and closing theme is the abandoned Delaware version from 1973.
 * The Tenth Doctor also encounters a character who is mistaken for the actual doctor in "The Next Doctor".
 * Matt Lucas would later appear in the TV show as the Twelfth Doctor's companion, Nardole.

Outside references

 * The Doctor and Mel at the beginning are playing Monopoly.

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Talk:ORP Orzeł (1986)

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The photograph is not the Orzel. It's the Iranian Yunes. I'm not very familiar with the Wikipedia language so I don't know how to change it. I have a photograph of the Orzel in a book of mine and the hull markings are significantly different. I figure that no image is better than an incorrect image.

 * Are you sure that this cutie is not ORP Orzel? The markings change from time to time... Halibutt 15:18, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)

 * Also, perhaps this pic could be better. Halibutt [[Image:ORP-Orzel.jpg|thumb|right|300px|]]

The top picture is certainly not the Orzeł. I'm convinced it's the Yunes. The Orzeł has the number 291 and a white eagle on both sides of its sail while the Yunes has no distinguishing features on its sail. The bottom picture is the Orzeł.

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Jim Ka To

Jim Ka To (born 28 November 1984 in Hong Kong) is a race car driver who competed in the 2001 Formula Renault 2000 Eurocup and currently competes in the China Touring Car Championship.

The son of Hong Kong street car racer Jim Chong Shing, he started racing at an early age at the Zhuhai International Circuit. He showed great potential in the China Formula Campus series and was sent by Formula Racing Developments to La Filière in France to be trained to become a racing driver.

Upon his return, he took pole position in the Asian Formula 2000 race in Macau at the age of 16. But his single-seater career has stagnated since then. In 2011, he decided to move to touring cars.

2004
In 2004, Jim finished second in the Asian Formula Renault Championship. He then scored a sensational pole position in the Macau Formula Renault race, beating drivers like Kamui Kobayashi, Scott Speed and Bruno Senna. But he crashed in the race and was taken to hospital for a check up. He was uninjured.

He was signed by Red Bull to join their young drivers' programme for 2005 and was to join the Motorpark Oschersleben team that took Scott Speed to the 2004 Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup title. But due to health problems, he returned to Hong Kong before entering any race in the 2005 series.

2007
In 2007, he competed in the Asian Formula Renault Challenge and won two races in Zhuhai in January and finished best Asian driver that season. He competed with Formula Racing Developments racing team, under the management of Kenneth Ma.

In November 2007, Jim was announced as one of the drivers for Team PTRS for the 2007/08 Asian Formula Three Championship. He partnered Briton Matt Howson.

2008 season
In 2008, Jim competed in the Asian Formula Renault Championship again for Formula Racing Developments, sponsored by Frestech Electrical Appliances. He also competed in the Formula BMW Pacific Series' finale at the Macau Grand Prix.

From 13 to 16 November 2008, Jim took part in the Formula BMW Pacific race in Macau. He qualified 12th and crashed in the race. His crash caused the race to be stopped and he was classified 7th in the final results.

On 13 and 14 December 2008, Jim competed in the final two rounds of the Asian Formula Renault Championship. He won both races and became the 2008 Asian Formula Renault Champion, beating Geoffrey Kwong.

2008 Assault case
On 4 November 2008, Jim was arrested by the Hong Kong police on suspicion of assault at the Hong Kong–Macau Ferry Terminal. He was charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, inflicting grievous bodily harm and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. On 26 May 2009, he was found guilty by the Kwun Tong Magistracy. He remained in custody after conviction and was sentenced to 15 months in prison on 16 June 2009. After three months in jail, he was released on appeal on 16 September 2009.

2009 Formula BMW Pacific
After being released from jail, he entered the 2009 Formula BMW Pacific race at the 2009 Macau Grand Prix. He finished fourth in the race. It was the eighth time he raced in Macau.

2010 Formula BMW Pacific
Jim competed again in the Macau round of the 2010 Formula BMW Pacific season. He qualified 13th and finished 7th.

2010 accident and conviction
At 2am on 23 June 2010, Jim crashed his friend's car into the back of a taxi on Cherry Street in Hong Kong. He was convicted of careless driving and driving an uninsured car on 10 January 2010 at the Kowloon City Magistrate. He was fined HK$2,900 with his driving license suspended for a year.

2011 and 2012 China Touring Car Championship
In 2011 and 2012, Jim joined 778 Autosport and drove one of their Kias in the China Touring Car Championship.

2013 World Endurance Championship
On 8 March 2013, KCMG announced that Jim will partner Alexandre Imperatori and Matt Howson to drive its no.47 Morgan-Nissan LMP2 entry at the 6 Hours of Silverstone, part of the 2013 FIA World Endurance Championship season. The trio finished the race 6th in class and 12th overall, 5 laps behind the class winner. Chinese driver Ho Pin Tung will take his place in the team for the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans.

2019 World Touring Car Cup
On 9 October 2019, KCMG announced that Jim Ka To will join KCMG regular WTCR competitors Tiago Monteiro and Attila Tassi for the Suzuka Round of the 2019 World Touring Car Cup in a wild card entry. On 24 October, Jim Ka To is also confirmed to race for KCMG in the FIA WTCR races in Macau.

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"We aim to provide..."

This article does is improper in that it is not written in the Wikipedia "one mind" style.

Toby Douglass 18:22, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

HM & YOI Prison?
Not sure what to make of this abbreviation, used in the opening paragraph and picture caption.

Shouldn't it be either "HM Prison & YOI", "HMP & HMYOI", or "Her Majesty's Prison & Young Offenders' Institute"? 78.149.34.204 (talk) 21:20, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I agree, all the other HM Prison articles are written differently. Bleaney (talk) 21:24, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Cat A Prison? - nah
The page claims that the prison is a Cat A prison - it's not, there's no such thing as a Cat A Women's prison in the UK - see the HMP pages of the UK Gov website. Assuming no objections I'll correct over the weekend ... bit pushed for time at the moment. Chris (talk) 15:51, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

Women in prison SHLD be treated respectfully and humanely they are still human they are serving a sentence for their crimes so they don’t need to be treated badly prisoners SHLD also be allowed to have their own iPads to contact their families only. 79.78.241.189 (talk) 05:24, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

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Coolmax

Coolmax is the brand name for a series of polyester fabrics developed and marketed by The Lycra Company (formerly Dupont Textiles and Interiors then Invista).

Coolmax is marketed as "moisture-wicking" and "breathable". As a polyester, it is moderately hydrophobic, so it absorbs little fluid and dries relatively quickly (compared to absorbent fibers such as cotton). The cross-section is non-round, increasing surface area by an estimated 20% (over round fibers) in order to produce a wicking effect via capillary action.

The Lycra Company makes extensive use of co-branding in their marketing of Coolmax and other clothing materials, partnering with their customers to increase awareness of their product among end consumers.

Like other polyester fabrics, Coolmax is flammable and has a relatively low melting point (~255 °C), giving clothes made from it a tendency to melt and fuse to the wearer's skin when exposed to high heat. This has led to Coolmax and other polyesters (along with acrylic and rayon) being restricted or banned in certain high-fire-risk applications, such as firefighting and front-line combat.

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Canso Canal

The Canso Canal is a short canal located in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Canal location
The Canso Canal is in the Strait of Canso, on the eastern side of the Canso Causeway, a rock-fill causeway which opened in 1955 to carry a 2-lane highway and a single rail track from Cape Breton Island to mainland Nova Scotia. The canal was built through Balache Point in Inverness County.

The causeway completely blocks the Strait of Canso, which links the waters of St. George's Bay in the Northumberland Strait, a sub-basin of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, with Chedabucto Bay on the Atlantic Ocean.

Canal dimensions
The canal, constructed between 1953 and 1955, is 24 m wide and 570 m long, with a minimum depth of 9.8 m. It has a single Seawaymax lock to account for tidal differences; any vessel capable of transiting the St. Lawrence Seaway will fit through the Canso Canal.

The Canso Canal Bridge is a 94 m swing bridge which carries the Trans-Canada Highway and a railway line across the canal immediately south of the southern end of the lock.

Canal operation
Vessels entering St. George's Bay to the west of the canal, or Chedabucto Bay to the east, must comply with a Vessel Traffic System operated by the Canadian Coast Guard.

An average of 2,069 ships, with an average gross tonnage of 1.88 million tons pass through the Canso Canal each year. About 85 per cent of vessel traffic is owned or operated by shipping companies, fishermen and government, the remainder being pleasure craft users.

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Islamic Center of Washington

The Islamic Center of Washington is a mosque and Islamic cultural center in Washington, D.C. It is located on Embassy Row on Massachusetts Avenue just east of the bridge over Rock Creek. When it opened in 1957, it was the largest mosque in the Western Hemisphere.

20th century
In 1948, Egypt appointed Kamil Abdel Rahim as Egyptian Ambassador to the United States, succeeding Ambassador Mahmoud Hassan. The project of building a Mosque lay dormant during the war years and was not revived until Ambassador Rahim took his duties as ambassador in Washington, D.C., in 1948.

The Egyptian ambassador, Kamil Abdul Rahim was appointed president of the mosque foundation and its executive committee. He was instrumental in assembling all of the heads of the accredited emissaries of Muslim countries in the U.S. He made several trips to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Muslim countries to solicit funds for the building the mosque.

Howar (Mohammed Issa Abu Al Hawa, 1879–1982) and other Muslim diplomats helped found and provide early funding to a committee to build a mosque in the U.S. capital. In 1948, Howar, placing a silver dollar on the ground for luck, began work at the site. The mosque was completed in 1954 and dedicated by President Dwight Eisenhower on June 28, 1957.

The Washington diplomatic community played a leading role in the effort to construct a mosque. Egypt donated a bronze chandelier and sent specialists who wrote Qur'anic verses to adorn the mosque’s walls and ceiling. Tiles came from Turkey along with the experts to install them. Persian rugs came from Iran. Support for the project also came from the American-Muslim community. The site was purchased in 1946 and the cornerstone was laid on January 11, 1949. The building was designed by Italian architect Mario Rossi.

The mosque was one of three buildings taken over in the 1977 Hanafi Siege. Muslim gunmen holding hostages made several demands, including the demand that the movie Mohammad, Messenger of God be destroyed because they considered it sacrilegious."

21st century
The mosque has been visited by dignitaries, including several presidents. President George W. Bush visited on September 17, 2001, only days after the September 11 attacks. On national television, Bush quoted from the Qur'an and worked to assure Americans that the vast majority of Muslims are peaceful.

In 2015, a group of Muslim activists, politicians, and writers issued a Declaration of Reform which announced the founding of the Muslim Reform Movement organization to work against the beliefs of Middle Eastern terror groups. That year Asra Nomani and others placed the Declaration on the door of the mosque.

Facilities
In addition to the mosque, the center contains a library and classrooms where courses on Islam and the Arabic language are taught. The center's board of governors is made up of various ambassadors. Around the building are arrayed the flags of the Islamic nations of the world.

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Joseph Connolly (Irish politician)

Joseph Connolly (19 January 1885 – 18 January 1961) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician.

Early life
He was born 41 Alexander Street, west Belfast in 1885, parallel to the Falls Road and was the son of a baker, John Connolly, and Margaret McNeill. He was educated at Milford Street School and at St Malachy's College. Joseph Connolly was an ardent nationalist and became a member of the Conradh na Gaeilge and the Gaelic Athletic Association. As a result of a personality clash with his father he decided not to join the family business and became apprenticed as an engineer with Coombe, Barbour & Coombe Ltd. After a number of months he gave in his notice and secured a new post in the furniture trade of Maguire & Edwards Ltd. He would subsequently establish a furniture business of his own in the city.

Political life
Connolly was a co-founder of the first Freedom Club to propagate Sinn Féin's message in 1911. He was a leader of the Irish Volunteers in Belfast between 1914 and 1916. On 31 January 1916 he married his fiancé, Róisín McGavock, who had completed an Arts Degree at Queen's University Belfast, and they set up home together at Divis Drive near Falls Park. They had eight children together. He was in Dublin for 1916 Easter Rising and Eoin MacNeill sent him to deliver his countermanding order to Drogheda, Belfast and other planned areas of Volunteer mobilisation. After the Easter Rising went ahead anyway in Dublin, Connolly was arrested in Belfast and was interned in Knutsford Prison and Reading Gaol.

After his release he helped re-organise Sinn Féin in Belfast. He was selected as a candidate for the party in the 1918 general election for Mid Antrim. Though unsuccessful he polled 2,791 first preferences and saved his deposit. He served on the Commission of Inquiry into the Resources and Industries of Ireland which had been set up by the First Dáil in 1919. From October 1921 to November 1922 he served as Consul General of the Irish Republic to the United States in New York City. He disposed of his business in Belfast at this time. One of his chief roles was to combat propaganda from Britain unfavourable to Sinn Féin and the IRA. When the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed he was very cautious in forming an immediate public opinion on it though was nervous about splits in the wider organisation. After the 1922 general election, and the arrival of Professor Timothy Smiddy as an accredited Ambassador in Washington, he was informed that he no longer held any recognition in the eyes of the US Government and so he returned home to Ireland. His family had at this time moved to Dublin and they set up home at Harold's Cross, never returning to Belfast. The Irish Civil War had then commenced and he formally tendered his resignation to the Free State Government.

In February 1923, he joined the National Land Bank for some months and was persuaded to assist Sinn Féin with the 1923 general election. For economic reasons he retreated from politics and established a business in New York and spent some months there each year which he operated from 1923 to 1929. He was aware of political developments in Ireland, however, and would join Fianna Fáil in 1926. In 1928 Connolly was elected a member of the Free State Seanad for nine years and would serve until the Seanad's abolition in 1936. He was the leader of the Fianna Fáil delegation and the Leader of the Opposition. After the 1932 general election Éamon de Valera appointed him as Minister for Posts and Telegraphs in his government and he became the first person to be a Minister while not a member of Dáil Éireann.

As a minister, he accompanied de Valera to Geneva and the League of Nations where he attended many sessions. It was at this time that de Valera had voiced his concerns for the future of the League. After the 1933 general election he was appointed as Minister for Lands and Fisheries and was sent on a special mission by de Valera to the United States to repay the Republican bonds which had been bought in the US during the Irish War of Independence. He represented the Government and spoke at the World Economic Conference in London that year but the Conference was not a success partly because the Economic War was in progress between Ireland and the United Kingdom. His chief responsibility was overseeing the work of the Irish Land Commission whose purpose was to re-distribute land to tenants. In 1934, his position was retitled Minister for Lands as responsibility for fisheries was transferred to the Department of Agriculture, in exchange responsibility for forestry, and he oversaw increased planting throughout the state. He ceased being a minister with the abolition of the Seanad.

From 1936 until 1950 he served as Chairman of the Office of Public Works (OPW), initially focusing on arterial drainage. In September 1939 he was appointed Controller of Censorship by de Valera. He acted in this role for two years until September 1941 serving under his former cabinet colleague, Frank Aiken. He was based at Upper Yard, Dublin Castle and would in time be the subject of criticism from Opposition politicians and the press as lacking the necessary objectivity, discretion, tact and judgment for such a position. Similar criticism would also be levelled at Aiken. Connolly argued for a strict censorship to prevent any comment that favoured either the British or German forces. This power extended to the press and to the reporting of Dáil speeches. Connolly was highly zealous at his work and his chief opposition came from The Irish Times newspaper and its editor, R. M. Smyllie, and the Fine Gael TD, James Dillon who both viewed Connolly as an Anglophobe.

He resumed his work in the OPW in 1941 and retired from the Civil Service on 19 January 1950 when he was sixty-five. He wrote a number of plays including The Mine Land and Master of the House. Connolly also served as a director of The Irish Press newspaper for a time. He died in 1961, one day before his seventy-sixth birthday.

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Ballyhoo (video game)

Ballyhoo is an interactive fiction game designed by Jeff O'Neill and published by Infocom in 1985. The circus-themed game was released for ten systems, including MS-DOS, Atari ST, and Commodore 64. Ballyhoo was labeled as "Standard" difficulty. It is Infocom's nineteenth game.

Plot
The player's character is bedazzled by the spectacle of the circus and the mystery of the performer's life. After attending a show of Tomas Munrab's "The Travelling Circus That Time Forgot", the player loiters near the tents instead of rushing through the exit. Maybe some clowns will practice a new act, or perhaps at least one of the trapeze artists will trip...

Instead, the player overhears a strange conversation. The circus' owner has hired a drunken, inept detective to find his daughter Chelsea, who has been kidnapped. Munrab is convinced that it was an outside job; surely his loyal employees would never betray him like this!

As the player begins to investigate the abduction, it soon becomes clear that the circus workers don't appreciate the intrusion. Their reactions range from indifference to hostility to attempted murder. In order to unravel the mystery, the player engages in a series of actions straight out of a circus fan's dream: dressing up as a clown, walking the high wire, and taming lions.

Release

Ballyhoo included the following physical items in the package:
 * 1) An "Official Souvenir Program" from The Traveling Circus That Time Forgot describing each of the featured acts and listing common circus slang
 * 2) A ticket to the circus
 * 3) A toy balloon imprinted with the circus' name and logo (blue was the most common color, although a few orange or black ones were also shipped)
 * 4) A trade card for "Dr. Nostrum's Extract", a fictitious patent medicine hailed as a "wondrous curative" containing 19% alcohol

Reception
Compute!'s Gazette in 1986 called Ballyhoo "richly evocative, often exasperating, and very clever". The magazine approved of the splendid feelies and "surprisingly flexible" parser.

Legacy
The Lost Treasures of Infocom bundled 20 Infocom releases, including Ballyhoo. This package as shipped lacked some information necessary to complete the game; the final page of the souvenir program was omitted. This page was an ad for a classical music radio station; at one point in the game, the player must tune a radio to the frequency listed in the ad (AM 1170) in order to proceed.

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Carrowmore

Carrowmore (An Cheathrú Mhór, 'the great quarter') is a large group of megalithic monuments on the Coolera Peninsula to the west of Sligo, Ireland. They were built in the 4th millennium BC, during the Neolithic (New Stone Age). There are thirty surviving tombs, making Carrowmore one of the largest clusters of megalithic tombs in Ireland, and one of the 'big four' along with Carrowkeel, Loughcrew and Brú na Bóinne. Carrowmore is the heart of an ancient ritual landscape which is dominated by the mountain of Knocknarea to the west. It is a protected National Monument.

Location

Placed on a small plateau at an altitude of between 36.5 and 59 metres above sea level Carrowmore is the focal point of a prehistoric ritual landscape which is dominated by the mountain of Knocknarea to the west with the great cairn of Miosgán Médhbh on top. To the east, in Carns townland, two large cairns overlook Lough Gill, and along the eastern boundary of the peninsula the Ballygawley Mountains have four passage tombs at their peaks.

Description
Thirty monuments survive in Carrowmore today. There may have been more monuments in the complex originally, but some fell victim to quarrying and field clearance during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. The complex is about one kilometre north-south and 600 metres east-west. Most of the sites are "satellite tombs" which surround the largest monument, placed on the high point of the plateau, the cairn (now restored) called Listoghil.

Because of the clustering of the monuments, certain morphological features presented by the tombs, and the assemblage of material found within some of the monuments, Carrowmore – like Newgrange, Loughcrew and Carrowkeel – is classified by archaeologists as being part of the Irish Passage Tomb Tradition. However, in some respects the Carrowmore sites are atypical passage tombs. For example, none of the tombs have lintel-covered, tunnel-like, passages that are a feature of most Irish passage tombs, and only one site (Tomb 51, Listoghil) possesses a cairn.

Satellite tombs
The monuments (in their original state) consisted of a central dolmen-like megalith with 5 upright orthostats bearing a roughly conical capstone on top, enclosing a small pentagonal burial chamber. These were each enclosed by a boulder circle of 12 to 15 metres in diameter. The boulder circles contain 30 to 40 boulders, usually of gneiss, the material of choice for the tombs. Sometimes a second, inner boulder circle is also present. Entrance stones (or passage stones, crude double rows of standing stones) extend from the central feature, showing the intended orientation of the dolmens. They are not oriented to points of the compass but generally face towards the area of the central cairn. In four examples, monuments are situated in pairs.

Each monument was built on a small level platform of earth and stone. This is one of the secrets of the dolmens' longevity; a well-executed stone packing surrounded the base of the upright stones, locking them in place. One of the satellite tombs, Tomb 27, has a cruciform passage tomb plan, a feature seen in the chambers of later passage tombs like Newgrange or Carrowkeel. The roof – now gone – may have been of stone slabs or corbelled.

Listoghil or Tomb 51
Listoghil, which was erected c. 3500 BC, is 34 metres in diameter and has a distinctive box-like chamber. The leading edge of the covering stone over the entrance bears marks which may represent the only megalithic art so far found at Carrowmore. Three large boulders were found beside the central chamber and under the cairn; these could be the remains of a destroyed passage or of a megalithic construction predating the cairn. As many of the satellite tombs face the central area, the location of Tomb 51 appears to have been the focal point around which the cemetery developed. This monument was found to contain unburned bones as well as cremations.

Research history
Gabriel Beranger visited the site in 1779 and illustrated some of the monuments. These drawings are a valuable record of the state of Carrowmore at the time, showing some monuments now destroyed or damaged. Many artistic impressions of the monuments through the ages are preserved. Early photographers, such as W.A. Green and R.J. Welch of the Belfast Photographer's club made records just after the turn of the twentieth century.

Early unrecorded antiquarian digs disturbed the Carrowmore tombs, such as conducted by local landlord Rodger Walker in the 19th century. Walker kept poor records of his activities, and his excavations were essentially treasure hunts to augment his antiquities collection. Some of the material recovered is now at Alnwick castle in Northumberland, England The sites were surveyed and numbered by George Petrie in 1837, while William Gregory Wood-Martin made the first recorded excavations in the 1880s.

Recent excavations
Excavations led by the Swedish archaeologist Göran Burenhult were conducted over two seasonal campaigns, 1977–1982 and 1994–1998. Ten tombs were fully or partially excavated. Listoghil was excavated in 1996-8. Excavations conducted by the National Roads Authority for the Inner Relief Road route in Maugheraboy near Sligo – three kilometres from Carrowmore – have shown that a causewayed enclosure existed at the same time as Carrowmore. Causewayed enclosures are diagnostic of Neolithic activity in Europe.

Excavation results
The Carrowmore burial assemblage is typical of that of the Irish passage tomb tradition. It includes antler and bone pins with mushroom shaped heads and stone or clay balls. Quartz fragments accompanied most of the burials; this material clearly had ritual significance in the passage tomb tradition. The discovery of antler pins and shellfish in the chambers might suggest that the earliest monuments were built by people who followed hunter-gatherer lifeways; but the presence of small amounts of Carrowkeel ware Neolithic pottery at these sites is also suggestive of farming influence.

The chambers contained the remains of multiple individuals. Most of the Neolithic burials at Carrowmore appear to have been cremations. The chambers were re-used intermittently for burial and deposition of artefacts by the people of the Bronze Age and Iron Ages.

The small Carrowmore dolmens seem not to have been covered by stone cairns: although such ideas were once popular among antiquarians, the discovery of "settings" of stone and finds close to the chambers and of Roman and Bronze Age artefacts make it unlikely – according to Burenhult – that such cairns ever existed.

Radiocarbon dates
Radiocarbon dates from the survey and excavation project in the 1970s, 80s and 90s by Professor Göran Bürenhult generated some controversy at the time, as Burenhult interpreted the dates to indicate that the monuments were erected and used by a hunter gatherer community. For example, a sample taken from the chamber of Carrowmore 3 was claimed to indicate a date of 5400 BC. Burenhult's theory of Mesolithic tomb builders, first presented in 1982, received critical revision in the quarter century that followed. A source critical review and 25 new radiocarbon dates demonstrated that the Carrowmore monuments are shown to have spanned the era circa 3750 BC to circa 3000 BC. This data set is supported by palaeo-environmental studies in adjacent lakes conducted by Stolze, O'Connell, Ghilardi and others, showing farming activity coincident with or preceding monument use.

Ancient DNA
The analysis of ancient DNA derived from human bone shows a web of connections between occupants of monuments of the Irish Passage Tomb Tradition. A male buried in Listoghil, Carrowmore, showed a detectable kin relationship to three others, buried in Newgrange, Millin Bay and Carrowkeel. This (combined with stable isotope results indicating a more protein rich diet than that of the general Neolithic population) was suggested to indicate a dynastic elite lineage buried in these prestigious locations in the Neolithic era.

Discussion
Research at Carrowmore has helped clarify the chronology of the development of the passage tomb tradition in Ireland. Although some important Irish passage tomb sites are not dated, and early dates have been obtained elsewhere it is possible that Carrowmore represents some of the earliest passage tombs constructed in Ireland.

Ancient genetics now indicate a large scale dispersal of farming communities whose origin was in Anatolia. The role of megaliths as monuments and foci of ceremony and celebration, as well as markers on the landscape is emphasised by archaeologists such as Richard Bradley; but they were also memorials to particular lineages and possibly individuals from elite groups.

Carrowmore represents a foundation point and a centre point in a Neolithic landscape. The building of large cairns such as Listoghil or Miosgán Médhbh on Knocknarea may represent a later phase of megalith-building of greater scale and ambition than the earliest passage tombs. The area of the Cúil Irra peninsula and its hinterlands is dotted with such tombs, often on hilltops, which inspired Stefan Bergh to style it the "Landscape of the Monuments".

Dump Crisis
Carrowmore was the subject of an extended legal battle during the 1980s when in 1983 Sligo County Council sought to place a municipal landfill dump on a quarry site about 100 yards from part of the complex. The council's decision was contested by five local residents in the High Court, in Dublin in late 1983, and the High Court ruled that the County Council could proceed with its plans, on certain conditions. The case was appealed to the Supreme Court which ruled against the Council in 1989.

A notable feature of the judgment was that it marked the first explicit legal recognition of the idea of an architectural landscape, extending the legal protection of a national monument to include the surrounding area.

Visitor centre
In 1989–90 the State purchased approximately 25 acres, on which stood a number of monuments and a small cottage. The cottage was developed for use as a basic visitor interpretative facility run by the Office of Public Works, this development marked the first stage in developing the Carrowmore archaeological complex for public access. Later land purchases means that most of the site is now under public ownership.

The small farmhouse is close to the R292 road, approximately 2 km east of Ransboro crossroads. It houses an exhibition and, from March to the end of October, provides both guided tours and multi-lingual self-guide options for the Carrowmore megaliths. Most of the tombs can be accessed from there.

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Into the Open

Into the Open, subtitled "New Paintings, Prints and Sculptures by Contemporary Black Artists", was an exhibition of art by black artists displayed at various venues in the United Kingdom in 1984.

This exhibition was the first major survey by a municipal gallery of contemporary work by black artists in Britain, and is considered one of the landmark exhibitions of the 1980s. It was curated, at the invitation of Sheffield City Arts Department, by two people closely involved with black artists in Britain: Pogus Caesar and Lubaina Himid. Their stated aim was to give an indication of the range and richness of art made by contemporary Afro Caribbean artists.

The Into the Open exhibition toured in the United Kingdom in 1984, appearing at three venues: the Mappin Art Gallery in Sheffield (4 August–9 September 1984), the Castle Museum in Nottingham (16 September–21 October 1984), and the Newcastle Media Workshops in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (2–24 November 1984). It was organized by the Sheffield Arts Department and was subsidised by the Arts Council of Great Britain.

Artists in the exhibition

 * Clement Bedeau
 * Sylbert Bolton
 * Sonia Boyce
 * Pogus Caesar
 * Eddie A. Chambers
 * Shakka Dedi
 * Uzo Egonu
 * Lubaina Himid
 * Gavin Jantjes
 * Claudette Johnson
 * Tom Joseph
 * Juginder Lamba
 * Bill Ming
 * Ossie Murray
 * Houria Niati
 * Benjamin Nhlanhla Nsusha
 * Pitika P. Ntuli
 * Keith Piper
 * Richie Riley
 * Veronica Ryan
 * Jorge Santos

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Penobscot Bay

Penobscot Bay (Baie de Penobscot) is an inlet of the Gulf of Maine and Atlantic Ocean in south central Maine, a stretch known as Midcoast Maine, in a broader Atlantic region known as Down East. The bay originates from the mouth of Maine's Penobscot River, downriver from Belfast. Penobscot Bay has many working waterfronts including Rockland, Rockport, and Stonington, and Belfast. Penobscot Bay is between Muscongus Bay and Blue Hill Bay, just west of Acadia National Park.

At the beginning of the Holocene epoch 11,000 years ago, the Gulf of Maine's sea level fell as low as 180 feet (55 m) below its present height. Penobscot Bay was then a continuation of Penobscot River that meandered through a broad lowland extending past present day Matinicus Island.

Penobscot Bay and its chief tributary, the Penobscot River, are named for the Penobscot Indian Nation, which has continuously inhabited the area for more than ten thousand years, fishing, hunting and shellfish gathering in and around the bay and river. A part of the Wabanaki Confederacy, the Penobscot Indian Nation's present reservation includes Indian Island, north of Orono, Maine, and all the islands of Penobscot River above it. Ancient remains of their campsites dating back millennia have been found on the bay's shores and islands.

The bay was the site of a humiliating American defeat during the Revolutionary War. In 1779 a Continental Navy flotilla consisting of 19 warships and 25 support vessels was dispatched on July 24 to recapture the mid-coast of Maine from the British who had captured part of the territory and constructed fortifications near the bay, naming the newly captured territory New Ireland. The American besiegers became stalled in their assaults due to dissension between Solomon Lovell and Dudley Saltonstall, two of the expedition's commanders, and after a British flotilla led by George Collier arrived on August 13, the American fleet fled, beaching and burning their ships in the face of a superior British force. All 44 ships were either destroyed or captured, in what proved to be America's worst naval defeat until Pearl Harbor, 162 years later.

There are many islands in this bay and on them are some of the country's most well-known summer colonies.

Conservation issues
Historic Water Pollution Management. Penobscot Bay has been the receiving waters for sewage waste and industrial waste discharges from bay and river towns since the 19th century. Discharge treatment was primarily dilution until the mid 20th century when the federal government began requiring communities and businesses of all states to meet water pollution control standards.

Beginning with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948, where states were requested to evolve and enforce their own standards, federal water pollution regulation evolved in 1970 to require that any project requiring a federal permit must be certified to meet state standards, then expanded in 1972 to require projects to meet a host of federal standards. The law is now known as the Clean Water Act of 1972.

On June 28, 1966, the State of Maine's Commissioner of Sea and Shore Fisheries, Ronald W. Green, ordered closure of the shellfish beds in the waters of Searsport and Stockton Springs, in upper Penobscot Bay, "due to the polluted condition of the water."

The US Department of the Interior's Water Pollution Control Administration and the US Public Health Service then conducted a joint investigation of the lower Penobscot River and upper Penobscot Bay "to determine the sources of this pollution, the direction of travel of this pollution and the degree of economic injury involved."

In February 1967, the Water Pollution Control Administration (WPCA) published its findings as "Report on Pollution - Navigable Waters of the Penobscot River and Upper Penobscot Bay". The investigation found that the sewage from eleven towns and effluents of thirteen businesses and one university facility were the chief sources of the pollution.

According to the report,"substantial economic injury results from the inability to market shellfish or shellfish products in interstate commerce because of pollution caused by sewage and industrial wastes discharged to the Penobscot River and upper Penobscot Bay area and action of state authorities." The WPCA noted that "accordingly the pollution of these navigable waters is subject to abatement under procedures described in Section 10 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended"

The WPCA report recommended specific water quality requirements for these pollution dischargers, and concluded if the identified pollution sources improved their waste treatment practices, the waters of the upper Penobscot Bay communities of Northport, Searsport, Stockton Springs, Penobscot, Castine, Islesboro and Belfast would again be available for commercial and recreational fishing, swimming, pleasure boating, industrial processing and cooling water, wildlife and navigation.

Fisheries
Early Commercial Lobstering: 1840s to 1870s. Penobscot Bay was one of the first Maine lobster grounds exploited on a significant commercial scale. A United States Fish Commission report "The Lobster Fishery of Maine" in the 1899 Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission, Vol. 19, Pages 241-265 details some of these early ventures, as these excerpts reveal:

"In 1847 Captain Oakes purchased the smack Josephine, with which he began running to Johnson & Young's establishment, at Boston, in 1848, buying a portion of his lobsters in the Penobscot Bay region, where this fishery had just been started. The quantity of lobsters carried by him that year was 40,000.... Lobsters were so abundant at the Muscle Ridges, at this period, that four men could fully supply Captain Oakes with lobsters every trip. In the course of ten days each man would obtain between 1,200 and 1,500 marketable lobsters. In Captain Oakes' opinion, the Muscle Ridges have furnished the most extensive lobster fishery of the Maine coast. He ran to this locality until 1874."

"Capt. S. S. Davis, of South Saint George, states that about 1864, when he first began buying lobsters at the Muscle Ridges, three men, tending 40 to 50 pots each, caught all the count lobsters he could carry to market in his smack. He could load 5,000 lobsters at a time, and averaged a trip in 7 to 9 days. This traffic continued for six or seven years. In 1879, Captain Davis bought from 15 men In the same locality, and at times was obliged to buy also of others in order to make up a load."

"The fishery at North Haven began in 1848, but did not increase so rapidly at first as in sections farther west, as the smacks would only take the medium-sized lobsters, fearing that the largest would not be able to stand the trip. At Matinicus Island the fishing began in 1868. In 1852 the people on Deer Island began the fishery, and as the smackmen made frequent visits the business rapidly increased. The establishment of a cannery at Oceanville, about 1860, also caused a considerable development of the fishery. The fishery was started at Isle Au Haute about 1855, and at Swan Island in the early fifties."

Islands in Penobscot Bay

 * Isle au Haut
 * Islesboro
 * North Haven
 * Vinalhaven
 * Matinicus Isle
 * Criehaven
 * Sears Island
 * Great Spruce Head
 * Nautilus Island
 * Little Deer Isle
 * Deer Isle (Deer Isle, Stonington, Mountainville, Sunrise, Sunset)
 * Various minor islands in Knox, Waldo, and Hancock Counties; see List of islands of Maine

Towns on the western side

 * Saint George
 * South Thomaston
 * Owls Head
 * Rockland
 * Rockport
 * Camden
 * Lincolnville
 * Northport
 * Belfast
 * Searsport (Penobscot Marine Museum)
 * Stockton Springs
 * Prospect
 * Verona Island

Towns on the eastern side

 * Bucksport
 * Orland
 * Penobscot
 * Castine
 * Brooksville
 * Deer Isle
 * Stonington

Conservation and environmental groups
Groups with chief focus on Penobscot Bay or parts thereof.
 * Coastal Mountains Land Trust
 * Friends of Harriet L. Hartley Conservation Area
 * Penobscot Bay Watch
 * Friends of Sears Island
 * Islesboro Islands Trust
 * Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries
 * Upstream Watch

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Christopher Biggins

Christopher Biggins (born 16 December 1948) is an English actor and television presenter.

Early life
Biggins was born in Oldham, Lancashire, the son of William and Pamela Biggins. He was brought up in Salisbury, Wiltshire, attended St Probus school where he took elocution lessons and participated in local drama groups. His first lead stage role was at the age of 17 in a Stage '65 production of Molière's Le Médecin malgré lui, leading to work with a local repertory theatre company.

Television
One of Biggins' earliest roles was on Upstairs, Downstairs in Series 2, as the character Mr. Donaldson in the episode "An Object of Value" (1972). He appeared as the regular character Lukewarm in the situation comedy Porridge (1974–1977) starring Ronnie Barker. Other comedy shows he appeared in include Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (1973) and Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (1973, 1978).

He played Nero in the BBC's version of I, Claudius (1976), dramatised from the novels by Robert Graves, having been selected for the role partly on the strength of a television commercial for Heineken in which he had played the Roman emperor Nero presiding over the games. He also appeared in the BBC's Poldark (1977) as the Reverend Osborne Whitworth, in Minder in the episode "The Bounty Hunter" (1979) and the TV miniseries Masada (1981).

On children's television, he had a regular role as department store owner Adam Painting in the children's television programme Rentaghost (1978–1983) and also played Reverend Whiting in Southern Television's Brendon Chase, produced in 1980. He had a leading role in The Phoenix and the Carpet (1997) and a supporting role as villainous antique dealer, Mr. Benger, in the Look and Read serial "Dark Towers" (1981).

Biggins' co-hosting of Surprise Surprise and hosting children's game show On Safari (1982–1984) for TVS, led to his being typecast as a "bubbly personality". He was asked in 2005 if he resented this situation replying:"No, not a bit of it. I'm perfectly happy being me, thank you, and I happen to know that I am afforded enormous respect from everybody I know. And anyway, I'm having something of a second wind now. I've reached the age [57] where all kinds of roles are opening up to me."

He was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1999, when he was surprised by Michael Aspel at the Theatre Royal, Brighton.

He appeared in The One Doctor, one of Big Finish Productions' audio dramas based on the television series Doctor Who.

In 2003, Christopher appeared in Shed Productions programme Bad Girls as himself. He featured heavily in Episode seven where he was 'held hostage' by a group of prisoners protesting over the change of management in the prison. During the episode, he strikes up a relationship with many inmates, but one in particular, Buki Lester, whom he invites to live with him in episode fourteen of the same series. 2003 appeared in Jonathan Meades -‘Fast Food’

He took part in the seventh series of I'm a Celebrity...Me Out of Here! in 2007. He was eventually voted the winner of the show on 30 November 2007.

He took part in an episode of Celebrity Come Dine With Me, first shown on Channel 4 on 15 February 2009. He won £1,000 for his chosen charity.

In 2009, he played himself as a pantomime director in the BBC Two sitcom Psychoville.

In 2010, he was a celebrity guest team captain on an episode of What Do Kids Know? along with Rufus Hound, Joe Swash and Sara Cox on Watch. Also in 2010, he played God in the BBC adult puppet comedy show Mongrels.

In May 2011, he starred in the second series of Channel 4's Celebrity Five Go to... in which the celebrities visited South Africa.

In 2013, he appeared on The Celebrity Chase, where he was the first person in the history of the show to answer all 6 questions correctly while going for a higher offer.

In 2014, he took part in the celebrity cookery programme Celebrity MasterChef on BBC One, and returned again in 2020, for a Christmas Special. In 2014, he took part in a celebrity edition of Catchphrase. He voices It's Not Me, It's You on Channel 5.

On 28 July 2016, Biggins entered the Celebrity Big Brother house to participate in its eighteenth series. He was chosen by the public to take part in the first secret mission. He was removed from the house on Day 9. The show's producers stated that Biggins had made "a number of comments capable of causing great offence to housemates and the viewing public" with regard to antisemitic comments to his fellow housemates, as well as his view of bisexuals, whom he described as the "worst type" and blamed for the spread of HIV/AIDS. Forty-four people complained to Ofcom about comments Biggins made, but Ofcom ruled that he was not in breach of broadcasting rules.

Theatre
His theatre roles have included Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar and 18 months at the London Palladium in the stage adaptation of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (where he was teamed in a double act with Louise Gold).

In 2010, Biggins appeared as a guest star narrator in The Rocky Horror Show at various theatre venues in the United Kingdom.

Pantomime
Biggins has performed in pantomime. He has played Widow Twankey in Aladdin (in Plymouth in 2009, Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton in 2010), Buttons in Cinderella (at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton in 2008) and the title role in Winnie the Pooh. In 2011, Biggins played the part of Mrs Crusoe in the Robinson Crusoe pantomime at the New Theatre, Cardiff and returned to the Theatre Royal, Plymouth in Dick Whittington in December 2012. In 2023 he played Man in the Mirror in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Mayflower Theatre in Southampton

In December 2013, he was cast in the role of Dame Trot alongside Bob Carolgees in a production of Jack and the Beanstalk at New Theatre, Hull.

In 2014, he was in a production of Peter Pan as Mrs Smee in Southend, Essex.

In 2017, he received the Lifetime Achievement award at The Great British Pantomime Awards.

Film
His film roles include The Sex Thief (1973), Eskimo Nell (1975), It Could Happen to You (1975), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Adventures of a Plumber's Mate (1978), Derek Jarman's The Tempest (1979), and "The Baker" in the 1999 film Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

In 2012, he was cast in the film version of Ray Cooney's farce Run for Your Wife.

Radio
In 2008, he briefly co-presented a Sunday morning radio show on BBC London with Lesley Joseph. In 2014 and 2015, Biggins covered for Liza Tarbuck on BBC Radio 2 while she was away.

In May 2017, he returned to BBC Radio 2 to cover for Paul O'Grady on his Sunday early evening programme.

Other work
Biggins hosts an annual show West End Live in London's Leicester Square.

In 2017 he recorded two songs for the album Wit & Whimsy – Songs by Alexander S. Bermange (one solo and one featuring all of the album's 23 artists).

Personal life
Biggins was married to Australian actress Beatrice Norbury from 1971 to 1974. He is now openly gay and formed a civil partnership with his partner, Neil Sinclair, on 30 December 2006 at Hackney Register Office.

Politically, Biggins has expressed his admiration for former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He admits in his autobiography that he cried on the day she resigned, saying: "I'm not the most political of people. But I believe in self-reliance and getting on with the job in hand. Margaret had seemed to personify all that. And she had star quality, which of course I loved." In 2014, he said: "I loved John Major, he was charismatic and charming. I’ve always been a Conservative, though I would have voted for John Smith. I hope we have a new Conservative leader making his way to the top now. We need a new man."

During a 2012 interview on ITV's Loose Women, Biggins said that he felt same-sex marriage should not be legalised, stating that marriage "is for heterosexual couples". When same-sex marriage was introduced in England and Wales in 2014, Biggins attended the "I Do To Equal Marriage" event celebrating it.

Filmography

 * 1975: The Rocky Horror Picture Show as A Transylvanian
 * 1978: Adventures of a Plumber's Mate as Robin
 * 1979: The Tempest as Stephano, a drunken mariner
 * 1994: Decadence as The Entourage #1
 * 2000: Circus as Arnie
 * 2001: Blow Dry as President of the British Hair Federation (uncredited)
 * 2001: Cold Fish as Roland 'The Agent'
 * 2007: I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here! as Winner
 * 2012: Run for Your Wife as Bobby Franklin

Voice in Animated Films

 * 1994: Asterix Conquers America as Lucullus (UK/US Dub)

Voice in TV Specials

 * 2007: How To Marry a Prince as Narrator

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Vetenskapsmagasinets
Swedish television presented science magazine program on related subject. Hunger at a certain age by grandparents effected the occurance of diabetes in grandchildren.

 * "En grupp svenska och engelska forskare har tillsammans studerat en liten befolkningsgrupp i Överkalix i Norrbotten och funnit ärftlig påverkan som följt med i generationer. Det handlar om yttre händelser som satt sina spår långt djupare än man hittills trott vara möjligt."
 * svt.se

People interviewed:
 * Lars-Olov Bygren Karolinska Institutet
 * Marcus Pembry (University of Cardiff, Wales)

-- Petri Krohn 12:21, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

fetal origins of adult disease
redirected fetal origins of adult disease here, plan to write seperate article on FOAD later... Pete.Hurd 16:23, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Any other supporting data?
Besides human epidemiology studies, I know there have been some mouse models of this phenomenon. Anyone know the studies?

Why are people obsessing about Barker Hypothesis this much? It is a hypothesis after all. We need a cohort study or well planned transgenerational studies to test this hypothesis and this will not come easy. Such studies are very expensive and rarely conducted. Anyway emerging publications are rendering this hypothesis suspect. I plan to cite these articles mainly from JAMA. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ayalu Reda (talk • contribs) 11:28, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

Birth weight and DMII
http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/300/24/2886 JFW | T@lk  21:32, 23 December 2008 (UTC)

Merger proposal
Barker's hypothesis contains largely the same information. I think it can be merged into this article. --Gak (talk) 03:25, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree. Smartse (talk) 20:39, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

The DOHaD hypothesis
The Developmental Origins of Health and Adult Disease (DOHaD) hypothesis which stems from the Barker hypothesis and Fetal origins of disease hypothesis, is a valid area of research and hence should have a page about it. The Barker hypothesis has in fact been around in some form since the late 1980's, originally it was developed through epidemiological studies which showed a significant association between adult disease (e.g. heart disease, diabetes) and low birth weight and low weight at 1 year. These results have since been replicated in many different populations, and the hypothesis expanded to include 'critical' programming periods and several further diseases. Animal studies on: sheep, mice, rats, and possible other species have been able to show a cause and effect relationship between 'insults' (e.g. low oxygen, poor nutrition, bilateral uterine vessel ligation) and adult disease. This further supports this hypothesis.

So, I think a DOHaD page should be written, containing within it FOAD. Barker's hypothesis may also be contained within this page, or left separate and expanded. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mazzle young (talk • contribs) 13:07, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Advanced Ecology and Evolution
Editing "Benefits for Offspring" section to include more detail in what is known, deleting or adding sources to claims without sources in the section.

— Assignment last updated by Shafat010 (talk) 17:46, 27 October 2022 (UTC)

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 * Hi Ian, good article and thanks for creating it. Which part of it was submitted by the copyright holder exactly? SlimVirgin (talk) 00:57, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)

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Deer botfly

The name deer botfly (also deer nose botfly) refers to any species in the genus Cephenemyia (sometimes misspelled as Cephenomyia or Cephenemya), within the family Oestridae. They are large, gray-brown flies, often very accurate mimics of bumblebees. They attack chiefly the nostrils and pharyngeal cavity of members of the deer family. The larva of Cephenemyia auribarbis, infesting the stag, is called a stagworm. The genus name comes from the Greek, meaning 'drone bee', and , meaning 'fly'.

Description
The larval stages of Cephenemyia are obligate parasites of cervids. Eggs hatch in the uterus of the female. She then flies close to the head of her host species and while hovering ejects her larvae into its nostrils. Larvae migrate to the base of the animal's tongue, where they mature in clusters to a size of 25 to 36 mm. After being ejected by the host, they pupate in soil (2 to 3 weeks) before emerging as a sexually-mature but non-feeding adult, which must quickly find a mate, since their lifespan is short.

Aristotle (384 BC–322 BC) described deer botfly larvae as follows:

"However, without any exception, stags are found to have maggots living inside the head, and the habitat of these creatures is in the hollow underneath the root of the tongue and in the neighbourhood of the vertebra to which the head is attached. These creatures are as large as the largest grubs; they grow all together in a cluster, and they are usually about twenty in number."

Distribution
Species found in the United States include C. apicata, C. jellisoni, C. phobifer, C. pratti, and C. trompe.

In Scandinavia, the only species present are C. trompe, C. ulrichii, and C. stimulator. Other European species include C. auribarbis and C. pratti.

Flying speed
It was reported for many years that Cephenemyia was the fastest of all flying insects, cited by The New York Times and Guinness Book of World Records as traveling at speeds of over 800 mph. (For comparison, the speed of sound in air is 768 mph.) The source of this extraordinary claim was an article by entomologist Charles Henry Tyler Townsend in the 1927 Journal of the New York Entomological Society, wherein Townsend claimed to have estimated a speed of 400 yards per second while observing Cephenemyia pratti at 12,000 ft in New Mexico.

In 1938 Irving Langmuir, recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, examined the claim in detail and refuted the estimate. Among his specific criticisms were:

 * To maintain a velocity of 800 miles per hour, the 0.3 g fly would have had to consume more than 150% of its body weight in food every second;
 * The fly would have produced an audible sonic boom;
 * The supersonic fly would have been invisible to the naked eye; and
 * The impact trauma of such a fly colliding with a human body would resemble that of a gunshot wound.

Using the original report as a basis, Langmuir estimated the deer botfly's true speed at a more plausible 25 mph. Time magazine published an article in 1938 debunking Townsend's calculations.

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Darrell Pace

Darrell Owen Pace (born October 23, 1956) is a former archer from the United States, who won two individual Olympic and World Championships titles each during his career. In 2011, as part of the World Archery Federation's 80th anniversary celebration, he was declared as by the WAF as "Archer of the Century"

Career
Three years after taking up the sport, Pace, at the age of 16, became the youngest member of the U. S. team at the archery world championships, where he finished twenty-third.

Pace went on to win four consecutive national archery championships, from 1973 through 1976. He also won the title in 1978 and 1980. He won the world title in 1975 and 1979 and finished second to long-time rival Richard McKinney in 1983.

After winning an Olympic gold medal in 1976, Pace was selected for the 1980 Olympic team but did not compete due to the U.S. Olympic Committee's boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. He was one of 461 athletes to receive a Congressional Gold Medal instead. In 1984, he took a 13-point lead after the first day of the four-day competition and won an easy victory.

Pace also competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing ninth in the individual competition and winning a silver medal in the team event along with McKinney and Jay Barrs.

Darrell O. Pace Park, located in Hamilton, Ohio, is a 7 acre park named in his honor.

In 1974, at the US Nationals in Oxford, Ohio, Pace set his first FITA record of 1291 beating John Williams' record of 1268 shot at the 1972 Olympics. He broke that in 1975 at the Nationals with the first 1300 in history; he got 1316. In 1978, Ferrari from Italy broke that with a 1318. Darrell then shattered that the next year in 1979 with a 1341 in Japan; that record stood for 10 years. All in all Pace held the Total FITA world record for 14 years, raising the record a total of 71 points in 5 years.

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User:Kevinsnow

I'm Kevin from Jacksonville, Florida. I've been a contributor of Wikipedia since November 2004.

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