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can some NZer sort this out and the list on the main page? Burgundavia 04:53, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)

New Zealand Aerodromes
Aerodrome Name (AD = Aerodrome, HP = Heliport), ICAO designator, Certification status, GPS co-ordinates
 * Alexandra AD NZLX Non-certificated S 45 12 42.0, E 169 22 24.0
 * Amalgamated Base HP Non-published S 40 57 17.3, E 175 32 43.8
 * Ardmore AD NZAR Non-certificated S 37 01 47.0, E 174 58 24.0
 * ASB Bank Centre HP NZBC Non-certificated S 36 51 00.0, E 174 45 45.0
 * Ashburton AD NZAS Non-certificated S 43 54 12.0, E 171 47 48.0
 * Auckland Hospital HP NZJL Non-certificated S 36 51 33.0, E 174 46 11.0
 * Auckland International AD NZAA Part 139 certificated S 37 00 29.0, E 174 47 30.0
 * Avalon HP NZAL Non-certificated S 41 11 06.0, E 174 56 37.0
 * Balclutha AD NZBA Non-certificated S 46 14 36.0, E 169 45 00.0
 * Bay Of Islands Hospital HP NZJI Non-certificated S 35 23 09.0, E 174 04 13.0
 * Boyd AD Non published S 39 09 13.7, E 176 10 24.7
 * Burwood Hospital HP NZBW Non-certificated S 43 28 47.0, E 172 41 13.0
 * Centre Bush AD NZCB Non-certificated S 46 02 24.0, E 168 18 42.0
 * Chateau AD Non-published S 39 09 26.3, E 175 29 21.0
 * Chatham Islands/Tuuta AD NZCI Part 139 certificated S 43 48 36.0, W 176 27 26.0
 * Christchurch Hospital HP NZJC Non-certificated S 43 32 12.0, E 172 37 20.0
 * Christchurch Intl AD NZCH Part 139 certificated S 43 29 22.0, E 172 32 04.0
 * Coromandel AD NZCX Non-certificated S 36 47 30.0, E 175 30 31.0
 * Cromwell Racecourse AD NZCS Non-certificated S 45 02 55.0, E 169 10 14.0
 * Cronadun AD Non published S 42 02 40.0, E 171 50 55.0
 * Dannevirke AD NZDV Non-certificated S 40 13 42.0, E 176 04 43.0
 * Dargaville AD NZDA Non-certificated S 35 56 23.0, E 173 53 37.0
 * Dargaville Hospital HP NZJE Non-certificated S 35 55 44.0, E 173 52 32.0
 * Drury Glider AD Non-published S 37 05 47.2, E 174 58 31.8
 * Dunedin AD NZDN Part 139 certificated S 45 55 41.0, E 170 11 54.0
 * Dunedin City HP NZDC Non-certificated S 45 53 00.0, E 170 30 30.0
 * Dunedin Hospital HP NZDH Non-certificated S 45 52 07.0, E 170 30 38.0
 * Feilding AD NZFI Non-certificated S 40 15 24.0, E 175 36 13.0
 * Flat Hills AD Non published S 39 53 40, E 175 39 20.0
 * Flat Point AD NZFT Non published S 41 14 35.6, E 175 57 37.0
 * Forest Field AD NZFF Non-certificated S 43 23 09.0, E 172 21 38.0
 * Fox HP NZFH Non-certificated S 43 27 47.0, E 169 59 59.0
 * Foxpine AD NZFP Non-certificated S 40 27 24.0, E 175 16 13.0
 * Franz Josef AD NZFJ Non-certificated S 43 21 47.0, E 170 08 04.0
 * Galatea AD NZGA Non-certificated S 38 24 31.0, E 176 44 31.0
 * Garden City HP NZGI Non-certificated S 43 29 36.0, E 172 32 54.0
 * Gisbome Hospital HP NZJG Non-certificated S 38 38 18.0, E 178 00 13.0
 * Gisborne AD NZGS Part 139 certificated S 38 39 48.0, E 177 58 42.0
 * Glenorchy AD NZGY Non-certificated S 44 52 18.0, E 168 23 51.0
 * Glentanner AD NZGT Non-certificated S 43 54 24.0, E 170 07 42.0
 * Gore AD NZGC Non-certificated S 46 09 24.0, E 168 53 54.0
 * Great Barrier AD NZGB Non-certificated S 36 14 29.0, E 175 28 19.0
 * Greymouth AD NZGM Non-certificated S 42 27 42.0, E 171 11 24.0
 * Haast AD Non published S 43 51 50.3, E 169 02 27.4
 * Hamilton AD NZHN Part 139 certificated S 37 51 59.0, E 175 20 07.0
 * Hanmer Springs AD NZHR Non-certificated S 42 33 03.0, E 172 49 36.0
 * Hastings AD NZHS Non-certificated S 39 38 48.0, E 176 46 01.0
 * Hastings Hospital HP NZJH Non-certificated S 39 37 42.0, E 176 49 37.0
 * Hawera AD NZHA Non-certificated S 39 33 12.0, E 174 16 01.0
 * Hokitika AD NZHK Non-certificated S 42 42 49.0, E 170 59 07.0
 * Invercargill AD NZNV Part 139 certificated S 46 24 54.0, E 168 19 12.0
 * Kaikohe AD NZKO Non-certificated S 35 27 04.0, E 173 49 02.0
 * Kaikoura AD NZKI Non-certificated S 42 25 30.0, E 173 36 19.0
 * Kaipara Flats AD NZKF Non-certificated S 36 24 23.0, E 174 35 14.0
 * Karioi AD Non-published S 39 28 38.0, E 175 33 05.0
 * Kaitaia AD NZKT Non-certificated S 35 04 12.0, E 173 17 07.0
 * Kaitaia AD (fm 17 March) NZKT Non-certificated S 35 04 12.1, E 173 17 06.6
 * Kaitaia Hospital HP NZJK Non-certificated S 35 07 06.3, E 173 15 39.3
 * Karamea AD NZKM Non-certificated S 41 14 12.0, E 172 06 18.0
 * Kauaroa Bay HP NZWE Non-certificated S 36 49 47.0, E 175 03 56.0
 * Kenepuru Hospital HP NZKH Non-certificated S 41 08 42.0, E 174 50 07.0
 * Kerikeri/Bay of Islands AD NZKK Part 139 certificated S 35 15 46.0, E 173 54 43.0
 * Kowhai AD NZKY Non-certificated S 39 50 43.0, E 176 25 17.0
 * Lake Station/Nelson Lakes NZLE Non-certificated S 41 45 33.0, E 172 44 45.0
 * Lake Taupo Water AD NZLT Non-certificated S 38 43 54.0, E 176 02 06.0
 * Limestone Downs AD NZLD Non-certificated S 37 28 48.0, E 174 44 43.0
 * Makarora AD NZMW Non-certificated S 44 13 54.0, E 169 13 49.0
 * Manapouri AD NZMO Part 139 certificated S 45 31 59.0, E 167 39 00.0
 * Mandeville AD NZVL Non-certificated S 45 59 25.0, E 168 48 44.0
 * Mangonui HP NZMG Non-published S 34 59 44.1, E 173 27 52.2
 * Martinborough AD NZMT Non-certificated S 41 12 51.0, E 175 29 10.0
 * Martins Bay AD NZMJ Non-certificated S 44 21 49.0, E 168 01 09.0
 * Masterton AD NZMS Non-certificated S 40 58 24.0, E 175 38 01.0
 * Masterton Hospital HP NZMH Non-certificated S 40 56 52.0, E 175 40 28.0
 * Matamata AD NZMA Non-certificated S 37 44 04.0, E 175 44 31.0
 * Matarangi AD NZAG Non-certificated S 36 43 54.0, E 175 39 01.0
 * Maui A HP NZUA Non-published S 39 33 18.0, E 173 26 58.0
 * Maui B HP NZUB Non-published S 39 38 43.0, E 173 18 57.0
 * Mechanics Bay HP NZMB Non-certificated S 36 50 48.0, E 174 47 19.0
 * Mercer AD NZME Non-certificated S 37 15 33.0, E 175 06 53.0
 * Milford Sound AD NZMF Non-certificated S 44 40 24.0, E 167 55 24.0
 * Motueka AD NZMK Non-certificated S 41 07 24.0, E 172 59 19.0
 * Mount Cook AD NZMC Non-certificated S 43 45 54.0, E 170 08 00.0
 * Mount Hutt Station AD NZMH Non-published S 43 31 40.0, E 171 36 47.4
 * Murchison AD NZMR Non-certificated S 41 47 48.0, E 172 18 54.0
 * Murchison Hospital HP NZUR Non-certificated S 41 48 23.0, E 172 19 43.0
 * Napier AD NZNR Part 139 certificated S 39 27 57.0, E 176 52 12.0
 * Nelson AD NZNS Part 139 certificated S 41 17 54.0, E 173 13 16.0
 * Nelson Hospital HP NZNH Non-certificated S 41 17 12.0, E 173 16 43.0
 * New Plymouth AD NZNP Part 139 certificated S 39 00 31.0, E 174 10 45.0
 * Norfolk Road (glider) AD Non-published S 39 12 16.1, E 174 13 24.0
 * North Shore AD NZNE Non-certificated S 36 39 24.0, E 174 39 19.0
 * North Shore Hospital HP NZJN Non-certificated S 36 46 54.0, E 174 45 31.0
 * Oamaru AD NZOU Non-certificated S 44 58 12.0, E 171 04 54.0
 * Oaonui HP NZMQ Non-certificated S 39 24 00.0, E 173 48 37.0
 * Ohakea AD NZOH Part 139 certificated S 40 12 24.0, E 175 23 13.0
 * Ohakune AD Non-published S 39 25 22.8, E 175 26 08.5
 * Okiwi Station AD NZOX Non-certificated S 36 08 47.0, E 175 25 07.0
 * Omaka AD NZOM Non-certificated S 41 32 24.0, E 173 55 19.0
 * Omarama AD NZOA Non-certificated S 44 29 12.0, E 169 59 10.0
 * Opotiki AD NZOP Non-certificated S 38 01 21.0, E 177 18 26.0
 * Otaki AD Non-published S 40 47 01.0, E 175 09 04.0
 * Paihia HP NZPA Non-published S 35 16 56.3, E 174 05 29.1
 * Palmerston North AD NZPM Part 139 certificated S 40 19 14.0, E 175 37 01.0
 * Palmerston Nth Hospital HP NZJM Non-certificated S 40 20 16.0, E 175 37 10.0
 * Parakai AD NZPI Non-certificated S 36 39 06.0, E 174 26 00.0
 * Paraparaumu AD NZPP Non-certificated S 40 54 17.0, E 174 59 21.0
 * Pauanui Beach AD NZUN Non-certificated S 37 01 18.0, E 175 51 49.0
 * Picton AD NZPN Non-certificated S 41 20 54.0, E 173 57 19.0
 * Pikes Point AD NZPK Non-certificated S 36 55 42.0, E 174 48 43.0
 * Porangahau AD NZPO Non-certificated S 40 16 51.0, E 176 39 09.0
 * Pudding Hill AD NZPH Non-certificated S 43 35 36.0, E 171 31 54.0
 * Pukaki AD NZUK Non-certificated S 44 14 06.0, E 170 07 06.0
 * Queenstown AD NZQN Part 139 certificated S 45 01 16.0, E 168 44 21.0
 * Queens Wharf HP NZQW Non-certificated S 41 17 09.0, E 174 46 48.0
 * Raglan AD NZRA Non-certificated S 37 48 17.0, E 174 51 36.0
 * Raetihi AD Non-published S 39 23 08.0, E 175 17 52.0
 * Rangiora AD NZRT Non-certificated S 43 17 24.0, E 172 32 30.0
 * Rangitaiki AD NZRK Non-certificated S 38 53 12.0, E 176 21 49.0
 * Rangitata Island AD NZRI Non-certificated S 44 05 06.0, E 171 24 07.0
 * Rawene Hospital HP NZJW Non-published S 35 24 26.0, E 173 30 23.0
 * Rotorua AD NZRO Part 139 certificated S 38 06 33.0, E 176 19 02.0
 * Rotorua Hospital HP NZJO Non-certificated S 38 07 48.0, E 176 14 49.0
 * Roxburgh AD NZRX Non-certificated S 45 30 42.0, E 169 19 00.0
 * Ruawai AD NZRW Non-certificated S 36 05 45.0, E 173 58 31.0
 * Ryans Creek AD NZRC Non-certificated S 46 53 59.0, E 168 06 07.0
 * Southland-Kew Hospital HP NZJS Non-certificated S 46 26 12.0, E 168 21 24.0
 * Springhill AD NZSL Non-certificated S 36 19 25.0, E 174 33 20.0
 * Stratford AD NZSD Non-certificated S 39 19 08.0, E 174 18 37.0
 * Taharoa Ironsands HP NZAH Non-certificated S 38 09 54.0, E 174 42 19.0
 * Taieri AD NZTI Non-certificated S 45 51 36.0, E 170 21 30.0
 * Taihape AD NZVR Non-certificated S 39 41 06.0, E 175 47 19.0
 * Takaka AD NZTK Non-certificated S 40 48 48.0, E 172 46 31.0
 * Taranaki Base Hospital HP NZJQ Non-certificated S 39 04 24.0, E 174 03 19.0
 * Taumarunui AD NZTM Non-certificated S 38 50 36.0, E 175 15 19.0
 * Taumarunui Hospital HP NZJT Non-certificated S 38 53 25.0, E 175 15 15.0
 * Taupo AD NZAP Part 139 certificated S 38 44 23.0, E 176 05 04.0
 * Taupo Hospital HP NZJZ Non-certificated S 38 41 55.0, E 176 05 56.0
 * Tauranga AD NZTG Part 139 certificated S 37 40 19.2, E 176 11 45.9
 * Tauranga Hospital HP NZJA Non-certificated S 37 42 21.0, E 176 08 57.0
 * Te Anau AD NZTZ Non-certificated S 45 27 46.0, E 167 42 02.0
 * Te Aroha AD NZTA Non-certificated S 37 28 29.0, E 175 37 05.0
 * Te Kowhai AD NZTE Non-certificated S 37 44 42.0, E 175 09 31.0
 * Te Kuiti AD NZTT Non-certificated S 38 18 12.0, E 175 08 49.0
 * Te Puia Springs Hospital HP NZJP Non-certificated S 38 03 16.0, E 178 18 16.0
 * Tekapo AD NZTL Non-certificated S 44 00 18.0, E 170 26 30.0
 * Thames AD NZTH Non-certificated S 37 09 24.0, E 175 33 01.0
 * Timaru AD NZTU Part 139 certificated S 44 18 10.0, E 171 13 31.0
 * Tokoroa AD NZTO Non-certificated S 38 14 12.0, E 175 53 31.0
 * Turangi AD NZTN Non-certificated S 38 58 06.0, E 175 48 49.0
 * Waiheke AD NZKE Non-certificated S 36 48 30.0, E 175 05 07.0
 * Waihi Beach AD NZWV Non-certificated S 37 25 48.0, E 175 57 07.0
 * Waimate AD NZWM Non-certificated S 44 47 24.0, E 171 05 30.0
 * Waiouru AD NZRU Non-certificated S 39 26 47.0, E 175 39 30.0
 * Waipukurau AD NZYP Non-certificated S 39 59 48.0, E 176 32 13.0
 * Wairau Hospital HP NZJB Non-certificated S 41 32 14.0, E 173 56 19.0
 * Wairoa AD NZWO Non-certificated S 39 00 25.0, E 177 24 24.0
 * Wairoa Hospital HP NZJY Non-certificated S 39 02 33.0, E 177 24 51.0
 * Wanaka AD NZWF Non-certificated S 44 43 20.0, E 169 14 44.0
 * Wanganui AD NZWU Part 139 certificated S 39 57 44.0, E 175 01 31.0
 * Wanganui Hospital HP NZJU Non-certificated S 39 56 36.0, E 175 02 21.0
 * Wellington Hospital HP NZWH Non-certificated S 41 18 36.0, E 174 46 49.0
 * Wellington International AD NZWN Part 139 certificated S 41 19 38.0, E 174 48 19.0
 * Wellsford HP NZWJ Non-published S 36 17 49.4, E 174 31 22.5
 * West Melton AD NZWL Non-certificated S 43 28 36.0, E 172 23 48.0
 * Westport Airport NZWS Part 139 certificated S 41 44 17.0, E 171 34 51.0
 * Whakatane AD NZWK Non-certificated S 37 55 14.0, E 176 54 51.0
 * Whangarei AD NZWR Non-certificated S 35 46 06.0, E 174 21 54.0
 * Whangarei Hospital HP NZJR Non-certificated S 35 44 05.0, E 174 18 11.0
 * Wharepapa South AD NZES Non-certificated S 38 08 54.0, E 175 33 01.0
 * Whenuapai AD NZWP Non-certificated S 36 47 16.0, E 174 37 49.0
 * Whitianga AD NZWT Non-certificated S 36 49 54.0, E 175 40 43.0
 * Wigram AD NZWG Non-certificated S 43 33 04.0, E 172 33 10.0
 * Woodbourne AD NZWB Part 139 certificated S 41 31 06.0, E 173 52 13.0

Two parts
Why are these airports divided into two parts, regular and "other"? Debresser (talk) 08:49, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Missing
Btw, Fox Glacier airport (FGL) is missing from the list. I think it is here on the talkpage as "Fox". Isn't anybody keeping track of this article? Debresser (talk) 08:49, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ghillie

 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. — Xezbeth 20:00, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)

Ghillie
This is pure dicdef (indeed a direct copy of Mirriam-Webster's). I see no potential for growth. It's already been transwikied. Delete. --Dmcdevit 04:54, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, dictionary definition. Megan1967 07:43, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, could be expanded to explain what a Ghillie's duties were, what they wore, and the technique they used to carry the chief across the stream. Piggyback perhaps. Kappa 08:58, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, Wikipedia is not a dictionary. If someone wants to create an encyclopedia article in it's place, they can do so after the dicdef has been deleted.--Halidecyphon 15:53, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * From "The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary," Oxford University Press, 1993 wouldn't that make it a copyvio too? Lots of good reasons to delete BigFatDave 21:56, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, dicdef, copyvio. Mikkalai 02:20, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, for all the reasons given above. There is already an entry on Wiktionary: . --bainer 06:12, 17 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:SaGa

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Now that there is an English article on SaGa Frontier 2, is the link to the Japanese article needed? I will delete it for now. Y0u 04:54, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)

Cleanup needed
There is clearly some disorganization and bias present in the article, so I tagged it for cleanup. Paragon 20:29, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

SaGa series (japanese name)
About "SaGa (サガシリーズ, SaGa?) is a series of computer role-playing games".

"サガシリーズ" means literally "SaGa series" in Japanese, not just "SaGa". It might be more proper to write just "サガ" (SaGa) inside the brackets.

However, while the Japanese often rewrite foreign words in game titles using katakana characters, the SaGa games don't feature SaGa in their title written as "サガ" but as "Sa•Ga".

I would recommend: "SaGa (Sa•Ga, サガ) is a series of computer role-playing games".

Concerning Unlimited Saga
The article states that Unlimited Saga is the final game, but there is no source. Is it really the final game, or is it just the last game made (not including remakes)? Rogutaan 01:09, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose that Tomomi Kobayashi be merged into SaGa (series). She is a part of the series, but I do not think there is enough notability on her to warrant her own article. Please discuss below as to whether you support or oppose the merger. MuZemike 17:31, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
 * I have gone ahead and done the merge as no one has commented within the past two weeks. MuZemike 18:01, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

SaGa Chronicle
Apparently some sort of SaGa series bible has been released recently:. Jonathan Hardin' (talk) 16:19, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

ref(s)

 * Saga 20th anniversary 4gamer

External links modified
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SaGa Scarlet sources
Here's some sources for an article concerning SaGa: Scarlet Grace should anyone - myself included - decide to create one. All in Japanese, but hey it's better than nothing.
 * SaGa: Scarlet Grace blog (include useful links)
 * Famitsu music interview - Hidenori Iwasaki (music producer), Kenji Ito (composer), Masashi Ichikawa (producer), Akitoshi Kawazu (game design and scenario)
 * Famitsu interview - Kawazu and Ichikawa
 * Famitsu interview - Kawazu, Yoshimitsu Inagaki (lead designer), Yasuhiro Ikuta (battle planner)
 * Dengeki interview - Kawazu, Ito
 * Famitsu page - includes review score and review text extracts
 * English interview with Kawazu and Ichikawa, includes little bit on Scarlet Grace
 * Siliconera news archive
 * Gematsu news archive

 * SaGa 25 Anniversary interview - Kawazu
 * SaGa 25 Anniversary interview - Ito
 * SaGa 25 Anniversary interview - Tomomi Kobayashi (series illustrator/character designer)

--ProtoDrake (talk) 13:55, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

General sources
Okay, here's some general sources. The anniversary interviews and VG247 interview above also count.

Gpara interview (archived)
 * Interview with 1UP.com with Kawazu
 * RPGFan interview with Kawazu
 * PS Blog interview on English Romancing Saga 2
 * 4Gamer.net interview with series sprite artist

--ProtoDrake (talk) 15:17, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

More, specific to Imperial Saga
 * Famitsu interview with director Tomotaka Shiroichi, producer Kei Hirono, and Executive Producer Kawazu
 * Dengeki interview with co-producer Hirohiro Hiroko
 * Famitsu interview with composer Ito, co-producer Hiroko, and sound producer Hidenori Iwasaki
 * Co-developer Think And Feel page

--ProtoDrake (talk) 11:21, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

Requested move 15 March 2018

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The result of the move request was: moved as requested with a hatnote added to this article. Dekimasu よ! 19:27, 21 March 2018 (UTC)

SaGa (series) → SaGa – WP:TWODABS situation. Obvious primary topic. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 01:37, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Support the first game in the series is far better known as The Final Fantasy Legend in the Western World and I doubt that there are many people misspelling Saga in such a manor.--67.68.210.105 (talk) 03:04, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

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New series entry
There's another mobile entry, that to my knowledge will be localized to English in 2020. Romancing SaGa Re;univerSe. Considering how well-kept and complete the series has been documented (even mobile titles like Emperor & Imperial SaGa), are there plans to add a page for this one?

Tonelico (talk) 03:20, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

Romancing SaGa Re:Universe sources
--ProtoDrake (talk) 11:36, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
 * App Famitsu interview
 * Famitsu pre-release interview
 * Famitsu post-release interview
 * Siliconera interview titbits
 * Siliconera interview
 * RPGFan interview
 * Square Enix pre-registration press release
 * Game Watch Impress interview
 * GameBiz interview (February 2019)
 * GameBiz interview (May 2019)
 * Nova Crystallis interview
 * Famitsu interview (2021)

A few more. --ProtoDrake (talk) 22:03, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
 * RPGamer interview
 * Siilconera tag
 * Famitsu reivew
 * AppGet review
 * GameBiz review
 * RPGamer impressions
 * RPG Site impressions

--ProtoDrake (talk) 15:49, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
 * RPGFan review
 * 4Gamer preview

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Talk:Zapatistas (Mexican Revolution)

I just thought it was a creative start to an article, (and a shame to be deleted) so just keeping the original text of article here:

''The great window pierced through his wound. Emiliano Zapata cried into the dark sky, "Justice and Liberty!" He scarred his enemy and carried the rebels through the great war of Mexico. Fighting killed many. The war ended. Won. Emiliano Zapata executed. The great indigenous people rised against their oppressive government. Fight, war. Still continues. Human Government bad. Failure, like United States.''

Interesting enough, (from what I know) the call of Zapata was "Tierra y Liberdad"  or "Land and Liberty." Emiliano Zapata wasn't really executed but assissinated by a trick under the guise of a meeting. The rest might be something about the Zapatista movement.

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Cell junction

Cell junctions or junctional complexes are a class of cellular structures consisting of multiprotein complexes that provide contact or adhesion between neighboring cells or between a cell and the extracellular matrix in animals. They also maintain the paracellular barrier of epithelia and control paracellular transport. Cell junctions are especially abundant in epithelial tissues. Combined with cell adhesion molecules and extracellular matrix, cell junctions help hold animal cells together.

Cell junctions are also especially important in enabling communication between neighboring cells via specialized protein complexes called communicating (gap) junctions. Cell junctions are also important in reducing stress placed upon cells.

In plants, similar communication channels are known as plasmodesmata, and in fungi they are called septal pores.

Types

In vertebrates, there are three major types of cell junction:

 * Adherens junctions, desmosomes and hemidesmosomes (anchoring junctions)
 * Gap junctions (communicating junction)
 * Tight junctions (occluding junctions)

Invertebrates have several other types of specific junctions, for example septate junctions or the C. elegans apical junction. In multicellular plants, the structural functions of cell junctions are instead provided for by cell walls. The analogues of communicative cell junctions in plants are called plasmodesmata.

Anchoring junctions
Cells within tissues and organs must be anchored to one another and attached to components of the extracellular matrix. Cells have developed several types of junctional complexes to serve these functions, and in each case, anchoring proteins extend through the plasma membrane to link cytoskeletal proteins in one cell to cytoskeletal proteins in neighboring cells as well as to proteins in the extracellular matrix.

Three types of anchoring junctions are observed, and differ from one another in the cytoskeletal protein anchor as well as the transmembrane linker protein that extends through the membrane:

Anchoring-type junctions not only hold cells together but provide tissues with structural cohesion. These junctions are most abundant in tissues that are subject to constant mechanical stress such as skin and heart.

Desmosomes
Desmosomes, also termed as maculae adherentes, can be visualized as rivets through the plasma membrane of adjacent cells. Intermediate filaments composed of keratin or desmin are attached to membrane-associated attachment proteins that form a dense plaque on the cytoplasmic face of the membrane. Cadherin molecules form the actual anchor by attaching to the cytoplasmic plaque, extending through the membrane and binding strongly to cadherins coming through the membrane of the adjacent cell.

Hemidesmosomes
Hemidesmosomes form rivet-like links between cytoskeleton and extracellular matrix components such as the basal laminae that underlie epithelia. Like desmosomes, they tie to intermediate filaments in the cytoplasm, but in contrast to desmosomes, their transmembrane anchors are integrins rather than cadherins.

Adherens junctions
Adherens junctions share the characteristic of anchoring cells through their cytoplasmic actin filaments. Similarly to desmosomes and hemidesmosomes, their transmembrane anchors are composed of cadherins in those that anchor to other cells and integrins (focal adhesion) in those that anchor to extracellular matrix. There is considerable morphologic diversity among adherens junctions. Those that tie cells to one another are seen as isolated streaks or spots, or as bands that completely encircle the cell. The band-type of adherens junctions is associated with bundles of actin filaments that also encircle the cell just below the plasma membrane. Spot-like adherens junctions called focal adhesions help cells adhere to extracellular matrix. The cytoskeletal actin filaments that tie into adherens junctions are contractile proteins and in addition to providing an anchoring function, adherens junctions are thought to participate in folding and bending of epithelial cell sheets. Thinking of the bands of actin filaments as being similar to 'drawstrings' allows one to envision how contraction of the bands within a group of cells would distort the sheet into interesting patterns.

Gap junctions
Gap junctions or communicating junctions, allow for direct chemical communication between adjacent cellular cytoplasm through diffusion without contact with the extracellular fluid. This is possible due to six connexin proteins interacting to form a cylinder with a pore in the centre called a connexon. The connexon complexes stretches across the cell membrane and when two adjacent cell connexons interact, they form a complete gap junction channel. Connexon pores vary in size, polarity and therefore can be specific depending on the connexin proteins that constitute each individual connexon. Whilst variation in gap junction channels do occur, their structure remains relatively standard, and this interaction ensures efficient communication without the escape of molecules or ions to the extracellular fluid.

Gap junctions play vital roles in the human body, including their role in the uniform contractile of the heart muscle. They are also relevant in signal transfers in the brain, and their absence shows a decreased cell density in the brain. Retinal and skin cells are also dependent on gap junctions in cell differentiation and proliferation.

Tight junctions
Found in vertebrate epithelia, tight junctions act as barriers that regulate the movement of water and solutes between epithelial layers. Tight junctions are classified as a paracellular barrier which is defined as not having directional discrimination; however, movement of the solute is largely dependent upon size and charge. There is evidence to suggest that the structures in which solutes pass through are somewhat like pores.

Physiological pH plays a part in the selectivity of solutes passing through tight junctions with most tight junctions being slightly selective for cations. Tight junctions present in different types of epithelia are selective for solutes of differing size, charge, and polarity.

Proteins
There have been approximately 40 proteins identified to be involved in tight junctions. These proteins can be classified into four major categories;signalling proteins.

Roles
It is believed that claudin is the protein molecule responsible for the selective permeability between epithelial layers.
 * Scaffolding proteins – organise the transmembrane proteins, couple transmembrane proteins to other cytoplasmic proteins as well as to actin filaments.
 * Signaling proteins – involved in junctions assembly, barrier regulation, and gene transcription.
 * Regulation proteins – regulate membrane vesicle targeting.
 * Transmembrane proteins – including junctional adhesion molecule, occludin, and claudin.

A three-dimensional image is still yet to be achieved and as such specific information about the function of tight junctions is yet to be determined.

Tricellular junctions
Tricellular junctions seal epithelia at the corners of three cells. Due to the geometry of three-cell vertices, the sealing of the cells at these sites requires a specific junctional organization, different from those in bicellular junctions. In vertebrates, components tricellular junctions are tricellulin and lipolysis-stimulated lipoprotein receptors. In invertebrates, the components are gliotactin and anakonda.

Tricellular junctions are also implicated in the regulation of cytoskeletal organization and cell divisions. In particular they ensure that cells divide according to the Hertwig rule. In some Drosophila epithelia, during cell divisions tricellular junctions establish physical contact with spindle apparatus through astral microtubules. Tricellular junctions exert a pulling force on the spindle apparatus and serve as a geometrical clue to determine orientation of cell divisions.

Cell junction molecules
The molecules responsible for creating cell junctions include various cell adhesion molecules. There are four main types: selectins, cadherins, integrins, and the immunoglobulin superfamily.

Selectins are cell adhesion molecules that play an important role in the initiation of inflammatory processes. The functional capacity of selectin is limited to leukocyte collaborations with vascular endothelium. There are three types of selectins found in humans; L-selectin, P-selectin and E-selectin. L-selectin deals with lymphocytes, monocytes and neutrophils, P-selectin deals with platelets and endothelium and E-selectin deals only with endothelium. They have extracellular regions made up of an amino-terminal lectin domain, attached to a carbohydrate ligand, growth factor-like domain, and short repeat units (numbered circles) that match the complementary binding protein domains.

Cadherins are calcium-dependent adhesion molecules. Cadherins are extremely important in the process of morphogenesis – fetal development. Together with an alpha-beta catenin complex, the cadherin can bind to the microfilaments of the cytoskeleton of the cell. This allows for homophilic cell–cell adhesion. The β-catenin–α-catenin linked complex at the adherens junctions allows for the formation of a dynamic link to the actin cytoskeleton.

Integrins act as adhesion receptors, transporting signals across the plasma membrane in multiple directions. These molecules are an invaluable part of cellular communication, as a single ligand can be used for many integrins. Unfortunately, these molecules still have a long way to go in the ways of research.

Immunoglobulin superfamily are a group of calcium independent proteins capable of homophilic and heterophilic adhesion. Homophilic adhesion involves the immunoglobulin-like domains on the cell surface binding to the immunoglobulin-like domains on an opposing cell's surface while heterophilic adhesion refers to the binding of the immunoglobulin-like domains to integrins and carbohydrates instead.

Cell adhesion is a vital component of the body. Loss of this adhesion effects cell structure, cellular functioning and communication with other cells and the extracellular matrix and can lead to severe health issues and diseases.

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UHF CB

UHF CB is a class-licensed citizen's band radio service authorised by the governments of Australia, New Zealand, Vanuatu, and Malaysia in the UHF 477 MHz band. UHF CB provides 77 channels, including 32 channels (16 output, 16 input) allocated to repeater stations. It is similar in concept to the General Mobile Radio Service in the United States.

Equipment
User equipment designs are similar to commercial land mobile two-way radio, except the maximum legal output power is 5 Watts. External antennas are permitted and commercially manufactured antennas have gains as high as 12 dB. Handheld transceivers (handy talkies) are permitted and have transmit power from 500 mW to 5 W (full legal power) and are relatively cheap compared to full-sized transceivers. Operation in the band is restricted to modes F3E and G3E (FM or PM of analogue voice telephony) except for channels 22 and 23, which are data modes only.

Licensing
Class licensing means that users do not have to apply for a licence or pay a licence fee; however, they must comply with the regulations of the class licence.

It is illegal to use non-standard radios purchased from overseas because they may interfere with licensed land-mobile services. This includes overseas personal radio service devices because they do not share the same band plan, power output and channels as UHF CB. Care must be taken when importing radios from overseas to ensure they comply with local regulations. Approved radios are identified by the Regulatory Compliance Mark (RCM) label, usually found on the rear panel of the equipment.

Scan
Many UHF CB radios allow the user to scan channels to find a conversation. Several different scan modes may be provided:

Open Scan scans all 80 channels to find an active conversation. Some radios allow skipping selected channels when scanning.

Group Scan scans a small number of selected channels. For example, a caravanner travelling around the country may choose to group scan Channel 40 (Road Channel), 18 (Caravan Channel) and 5 (Emergency Channel) so they will hear any conversations relating to their travels.

Priority Scan allows selection of a "priority" channel whilst scanning a handful of selected channels. This could be useful, for example, in a convoy of vehicles: convoy members can set their chosen convoy channel as a "priority" whilst scanning the designated road channel for traffic updates etc. If a convoy member speaks, the radio will switch back to the priority channel even if someone is speaking on another channel.

Selcall
Selective calling (Selcall) allows a radio to call another radio using a sequence of tones, usually presented to the user as a series of 5 numbers. UHF CB radios can be set to be completely silent until they receive a series of tones matching a pre-programmed sequence. Radios which have this feature usually indicate that a call has been received by emitting a number of beeps and by opening the squelch. The popularity of selcall has dropped since the introduction of CTCSS.

CTCSS
Continuous tone coded squelch system (CTCSS) allows a group of radios set with the same tone to converse on a channel without hearing other radios using that channel. CTCSS can be used to silence a radio until another radio with the same tone transmits. This allows monitoring of a channel for transmissions from radios set with the same tone without hearing other conversations that use different or even no tone.

The use of CTCSS is not permitted on UHF CB repeaters or the designated emergency channels.

Repeaters
Repeaters extend the range of transmission by receiving and automatically rebroadcasting a transmission using an antenna located in a high location, normally the top of a mountain, tall building or radio tower. Sometimes a transmission range of over 100 kilometres (60 miles) can be achieved through the use of a repeater. Repeaters are on channels 1–8 and 41–48 and the duplex button should be pressed to access the repeater.

Signage
It is common practice to install signs at worksites, roadworks, regional highways, national parks, heavy vehicle checking stations, and on the rear of camper vans and caravans to advertise a UHF channel for communications. For example, during the widening of the M1 Pacific Motorway between Sydney and Newcastle, contractors installed "UHF 29" signs at the entry point of each worksite.

Legally restricted channels
The following channels are legislated as a part of the ACMA UHF CB Class Licence.

 * Channel 5 and 35 are the designated emergency channels in Australia, Vanuatu and Malaysia, and are not to be used except in an emergency. Making an emergency call involves switching the radio to Channel 5 with duplex on, and trying again with duplex off if there's no response. In New Zealand channels 5 and 35 are not emergency channels but are available for general use in duplex (repeater) mode. In New Zealand, if you use UHF PRS for emergencies, you rely on someone listening on the same channel, and should scan all channels for activity before requesting assistance.
 * Channel 9 is the designated emergency channel in Malaysia.
 * Channel 11 is the 'call channel' and is only to be used for initiating calls with another person, who should quickly organise another vacant channel to continue their discussion, unlike New Zealand which uses channel 11 as its main trucking channel.
 * Channel 22 and 23 are only to be used for telemetry and telecommand. Packet data and voice transmission are not allowed.
 * Channel 61, 62 and 63 are reserved for future allocation and transmission on these channels is not allowed.

Channels used by consensus
The following channels are not legislated as a part of the class licence however are used for the following purposes by consensus.

 * Channel 10 is typically used by 4WD clubs when in a convoy and in national parks. This channel is used to avoid interfering with road safety communications on channel 29 or 40. If you are not in a convoy it is recommended that only 29 or 40 are used, depending on the road in question.
 * Channel 18 is the campers and caravan convoy channel typically used by travellers.
 * Channel 29 is the road safety channel on the M1 Pacific Motorway and Highway between Tweed Heads and Newcastle in NSW. It is used due to one transport company who travelled this road who always used this channel. Other drivers switched from 40 to 29 to talk to them and it became a custom. This custom prevails even though the original transport company no longer exists.
 * Channel 40 is the primary road safety channel Australia-wide, most commonly used by trucks including pilot/escort vehicles for oversized loads.

Users should be aware that UHF CB channels 31 to 38 and 71 to 78 are the 'input' channels for repeaters. Users should avoid using these channels to avoid interfering with repeaters. If a repeater is to be used, switch to 1–8 or 41–48 and press the duplex button.

Expansion to 80 channels
On 27 May 2011 the channel spacing on UHF CB was changed, allowing the band to expand from 40 channels to 80 channels. Due to data channels 22 and 23 occupying 25 kHz bandwidth, the expansion effectively allows the use of 77 channels, as channels 61, 62 and 63 are reserved.

ACMA originally intended to make older 40 channel UHF radios on the 25 kHz spacing illegal to use from June 2017. However, in February 2017, it reversed this decision after determining that the two systems were working well alongside each other.

Current UHF CB band plan (80 Channels)
General chat channels are used in simplex mode, repeater channels must be used in duplex mode. If you are not using a repeater it is recommended to choose a "general chat" channel.

New Zealand
New Zealand offers a similar PRS service. New Zealand's Personal Radio Service (PRS) and 26 MHz Citizens Band radio are very similar to Australia's UHF Citizens Band and 27 MHz Citizens Band services. The New Zealand Government's Ministry of Commerce introduced the UHF PRS in 1996 to allow for freely available short-range wireless communications outside the 26 MHz CB band. The UHF (but not VHF) band was selected due to its ability to withstand atmospheric and groundwave interference unlike the existing 26 MHz allocation.

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Wgfinley's advice to ignore my question
I got following response in the project page which has been preserved as the proof for arbitration. Thus, I put my response in this talk page.

 * Instanthood doesn't owe you anything and he's been nothing but forthcoming, honest, and polite with everyone including those who have disagreed with him (which is a lot more than I can say for some people involved in this). I'm going to recommend he not reply to your constant questioning because right now this isn't productive.  I'd suggest a Wiki-break and reflection to gain some perspective.  --Wgfinley 04:41, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

First of all, it is utterly not true that I have been constantly questioning toward Instantnood. That is a distortion of the truth. I only question Instantnood when he makes questionable statements, such as when he claims that there is consensus endorsing his proposal on Taiwan-related articles. I am not an prosecuter, but actually an prosecuted. Instantnood has constantly pressing and questioning, debating on Taiwan-related articles. Please check the record yourself.

Instantnood does not owe me anything. However, he owes every who participated his vote a clean and unbiased voting regulation. Looking into his response, he seems evading his responsibility to correct the voting rule, and you also endorsed this practice by advising him to ignore other people's concern over the fairness of the vote he conducted.

And the rest of my response here.

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Maple Airport

Maple Airport was a small airfield in the Township of Vaughan (now a city) in York Region, Ontario, Canada that was open from 1955 until 1987. The airport, established by Marion Alice Orr, one of Canada's first women pilots, consisted of two runways in an X pattern; 3700 ft and 2500 ft. The early runway were grass strip and paved over in 1980.

At one point, the Maple Airport was the third-busiest private commercial and civilian airport in Canada not to have a control tower.

The urbanization of Vaughan and the Maple area led to the closure of the airport in 1987.

Nothing remains of the airport today, which is now the site of a housing development and Le Petite Prince Catholic Elementary School. A small park in the neighbourhood, on Avro Road, was named Maple Airport Park in honour of the former airport.

Buildings
The early buildings of the airport were the farmhouse and barn from the original owners. Tie-down hangars were added, but no permanent airport structures were built.

Tenants

 * Maple Flying Club
 * Gillies Flying Service
 * Maple Air Services Ltd.
 * Neiltown Air Limited
 * Auberge Maple Inn - restaurant

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Hovercar

A hover car is a personal vehicle that flies at a constant altitude of up to a few meters (yards) above the ground and used for personal transportation in the same way a modern automobile is employed. The concept usually appears in science fiction.

In science fiction, it is capable of elevating itself some distance from the ground through some repulsion technology, presumably exploiting some short range anti-gravity principle so as to eliminate most friction forces which act against conventional vehicles. Other works feature vehicles that hover by having magnetic plates lined along roads, operating in a similar principle to Maglev. The capability of hovering above the ground eliminates the need for tires, and unlike an air-cushion vehicle, it does not produce a dust cloud.

The closest devices are the hovercraft, which elevates itself above a water or level hard surface using a cushion of air retained by a flexible skirt, and the hovertrain, which is a type of high-speed train that replaces conventional steel wheels with hovercraft lift pads, and the conventional railway bed with a paved road-like surface, known as the "track" or "guideway".

Efforts to build air-cushion hover cars

Air-cushion hover cars are hovercraft.

In April 1958, Ford engineers demonstrated the Glide-air, a 3 ft model of a wheelless vehicle that speeds on a thin film of air only 76.2 μm ($3/1000$ of an inch) above its table top roadbed. An article in Modern Mechanix quoted Andrew A. Kucher, Ford's vice president in charge of Engineering and Research noting "We look upon Glide-air as a new form of high-speed land transportation, probably in the field of rail surface travel, for fast trips of distances of up to about 1000 mi".

In 1959, Ford displayed a hovercraft concept car, the Ford Levacar Mach I.

In August 1961, Popular Science reported on the Aeromobile 35B, an air-cushion vehicle (ACV) that was invented by William Bertelsen and was envisioned to revolutionise the transportation system, with personal hovering self-driving cars that could speed up to 1500 mph.

Efforts to build MagLev hover cars
Ford also displayed a concept car, LEVICAR. It was a one-person, small in a modern sense, car propelled by maglev. The car was designed to be levitated by magnets, and was intended to be developed for high-speed transportation systems. The Levicar was very light and when raised off its guide rail by the magnetic it only required a blower in the back to propel it. A working model was actually built. While technically a success, the whole project was dropped due to financial constraints.

In science fiction films and television

 * Supercar (TV series)
 * The Jetsons
 * Futurama
 * Rise and Fall of the Trigan Empire
 * Blade Runner saga (as Spinner)
 * A.I.
 * Minority Report
 * I, Robot
 * Star Trek saga (skimmers and desert fliers; the latter being a Vulcan hovercar)
 * Star Wars saga (as grav-cars, airflow cars, hover cars, trundle cars, hauler cars and landspeeders)
 * Total Recall
 * Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
 * Back to the Future Part II
 * Lilo & Stitch
 * The Fifth Element
 * The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
 * Altered Carbon
 * Stand by Me Doraemon
 * Space Precinct (as hoppers)
 * Tomorrowland
 * Immortal (2004 film) (unique type of hovercar, which is powered by overhead wires)
 * Robot Jox

In video games

 * TimeSplitters
 * 'F-Zero'
 * Rock n' Roll Racing
 * Quarantine and its sequel Quarantine II: Road Warrior
 * Wipeout
 * Space Quest I
 * Tunnel B1
 * Beam Breakers
 * Fallout
 * Redout
 * Jak 2
 *  Saints Row 4
 * Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri
 * Overwatch
 * Does not Commute
 * Grand Theft Auto Online
 * BHunter
 * Aircar
 * Hover!
 * Hover Ace
 * ReVOLUTION
 * Nikopol: Secrets of the Immortals
 * Cloudpunk (as HOVA)
 * Blade Runner (as Spinner)
 * NYR: New York Race (contains hovercars from The Fifth Element)

Similar concepts

 * Aero-X
 * Flying car
 * Flying Platform
 * Ground-effect vehicle
 * Personal air vehicle
 * Power trowel
 * Maglev

Hover vehicles

 * Hoverbike
 * Hoverboard
 * Hovercraft
 * Hovertrain

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Cover of the album Second Helping (1974) by Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. — Xezbeth 19:58, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)

Mongometer
Delete: Neologism. --Durin 05:15, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete? Vegaswikian 06:01, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, neologism. Megan1967 07:44, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, borderline speedy. The only Google hits are on one message board.   [  +t,  +c  ] 07:48, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Neologism, stupidity. jni 15:53, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Del neologism BigFatDave 21:56, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Watsonville Municipal Airport

Watsonville Municipal Airport is three miles (5 km) northwest of Watsonville, in Santa Cruz County, California, United States. The airport covers 330 acre and has two runways. The largest aircraft to ever land at Watsonville were 05-5141 and 05-5143, C-17 Globemaster IIIs from March ARB, California.

Facilities
The airport's longest runway is 02-20, 4501' x 149'. The crosswind runway, 09-27, 3998' x 98', is used when winds favor it and when fog is moving across the field from Monterey Bay.

The airport is uncontrolled, and the CTAF is 122.8 MHz, and the ASOS can be received on 132.275 MHz or by calling 831-724-8794.

History
The Navy took over in July, 1943, purchased an additional 35 acres, built support buildings and the concrete ramp. On October 23, 1943, the airport was commissioned as Naval Air Auxiliary Station Watsonville (NAAS Watsonville) and served as a satellite to Naval Air Station (NAS) Alameda. NAAS Watsonville provided training and maintenance for the 12th Naval District, Alameda, California under the Bureau of Yards and Docks, under the command of Lieutenant John C. Chapman. Antisubmarine Blimps in the defense of California from Moffett Field were stationed at NAAS Watsonville. Other aircraft stationed at the base were Grumman F6F Hellcat with the VF-8 and VBF-8. Up to 75 combat aircraft were stationed at the base. Also based at the airfield were Grumman TBF Avenger, Vought F4U Corsair and Douglas SBD Dauntless. These were used for the 90- to 120-day training classes, in torpedo, dive bomber and fighter operations. As the World War II ended, so did operations at NAAS Watsonville, on November 1, 1945, it was closed and placed on caretaker status. The NAAS Watsonville was returned to the city in 1947.

Instrument approaches
The airport has three documented instrument approach procedures, making it a popular instrument training area.

 * Localizer Runway 02 (requires overwater flight)
 * RNAV (GPS) Runway 02 (requires overwater flight, LPV/WAAS minimums)
 * VOR/DME-A (from Salinas VOR)

Instrument pilots have been advised that Watsonville is occasionally surrounded by non-IFR traffic that climbs or descends to low stratus layers in violation of regulations. Air traffic control (ATC) usually calls them out, but they cannot always see them. There are frequent radio calls to the common traffic advisory frequency (CTAF), even when instrument meteorological conditions (IMC) prevail.

Accidents and incidents
On August 18, 2022, at 2:56 PM, two planes, a twin engine Cessna 340 and a single engine Cessna 152 collided with each other while attempting to land. Three fatalities have been reported.

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Naval Support Facility Kamiseya

Naval Support Facility Kamiseya (上瀬谷通信施設) (UIC 0557A) is a detachment of U.S. Naval Air Facility, NAF Atsugi, Japan. The facility is located on the Kantō Plain, approximately 3 mi northeast of NAF Atsugi, and 7.55 mi WNW of Yokohama. The base consists of 587 acre with 110 acre within the fence line. It has 184 buildings (including three bachelor quarters and 68 housing units) and a plant property value of $100 million. Base population consists of 300 sailors, their families and personnel who work on the facility.

The western gate is open during the day to the public. It follows into a field of about 400 meters long, with a helipad in the Northern section. This area is an excellent kite flying location, though remote controlled devices are prohibited.

After World War II, this former Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo manufacturing facility was used by the United States Navy as a Signals intelligence - radio communications intercept station until it ceased such operations in the late 1990s. On September 24, 1965, a fire broke out in one of the operational buildings, killing twelve United States military personnel. Most of the deaths occurred because the men were unable to escape through a locked exit, and were overcome by the smoke. Although the official investigation listed faulty electrical circuitry as the cause of the fire, some eyewitness accounts attributed it to failure in a recently installed incinerator, used for destruction of classified information / classified material, which had been improperly vented through the wall and subsequently caused the wall to ignite. Many still believe this was an "official" coverup. The incinerator was a fairly recent installation, and was installed after two Navy enlisted men (Ames and Gerfen) discovered that classified materials were being placed in dumpsters which were subsequently emptied by a commercial waste management company, and could have been then been made available to security elements of other countries. The main operations building, in which the fire took place, was originally built underground. The walls and ceiling were made of reinforced concrete six to eight feet thick. It was theoretically bomb-proof, by WW2 standards. Therefore, with no windows and few doors, a fire was especially dangerous. Many of the men who died had put on respirators, which were stored in a cabinet near the exit. Unfortunately, these were all ABC respirators, and they soon became clogged by the large particulates in the smoke. This facility has been turned over to the Japanese government in 2015.

The base served as a command and control centre for U.S. Navy anti-submarine warfare aircraft, notably Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing 1, before the wing headquarters moved to NAF Misawa circa 2003.

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Gravity-based structure

A gravity-based structure (GBS) is a support structure held in place by gravity, most notably offshore oil platforms. These structures are often constructed in fjords due to their protected area and sufficient depth.

Offshore oil platforms
Prior to deployment, a study of the seabed must be done to ensure it can withstand the vertical load from the structure. It is then constructed with steel reinforced concrete into tanks or cells, some of which are used to control the buoyancy. When construction is complete, the structure is towed to its intended location.

Notable GBSes include the 1997 Hibernia Gravity Base Structure off Newfoundland. Around 2020 GBSes became the fashion for Novatek's exploitation of the petroleum resources in the Gulf of Ob.

Wind turbines
Early deployments of offshore wind power turbines used these structures. As of 2010, 14 of the world's offshore wind farms had some of their turbines supported by gravity-based structures. The deepest registered offshore wind farm with gravity-based structures is the Blyth Offshore Wind Farm, UK, with a depth of approx. 40 m.

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Battle of Myeongnyang

In the Battle of Myeongnyang, on October 26, 1597, the Korean Joseon Kingdom's navy, led by Admiral Yi Sun-sin, fought the Japanese navy in the Myeongnyang Strait, near Jindo Island, off the southwest corner of the Korean Peninsula.

With only 13 ships remaining from Admiral Won Gyun's disastrous defeat at the Battle of Chilchonryang, Admiral Yi held the strait as a "last stand" battle against the Japanese navy, who were sailing to support their land army's advance towards the Joseon capital of Hanyang (modern-day Seoul).

The actual numeric strength of the Japanese fleet that Admiral Yi fought is unclear; Korean sources indicate 120 to 133 ships participated in combat, with an unknown number sitting out, up to 330 in total. Regardless of the size of the Japanese fleet, all sources indicate that the Japanese ships heavily outnumbered the Korean ships, by at least a ten-to-one ratio.

In total 31 Japanese warships were sunk or crippled during the battle. Tōdō Takatora, one of the commanders of the Japanese navy, was wounded during the battle and many others were killed. The result overall was a humiliating naval defeat for the Japanese. Even after the Joseon victory, however, the Joseon navy was still outnumbered by remaining Japanese forces, so Admiral Yi withdrew to the Yellow Sea to resupply his fleet and have more space for a mobile defense. After the Korean navy withdrew, the Japanese navy made an incursion into the western coast of Korea, near some islands in Yeonggwang County.

Given the disparity in numbers of ships, the naval battle is regarded as one of the most tactically brilliant victories in the history of warfare.

Background
Due to Japanese intrigue taking advantage of the fractious politics of the Joseon Dynasty court, Admiral Yi Sun-sin had previously been impeached and almost put to death. He was instead tortured and demoted to the rank of a common soldier. Yi's rival, Admiral Won Gyun, took command of the Joseon fleet, which under Yi's careful management had grown from 63 heavy warships to 166.

Won Gyun was an incompetent naval commander who immediately began squandering the Joseon navy's strength through ill-conceived maneuvers against the Japanese naval base at Busan. In the Battle of Chilchonryang, the Japanese navy, with Tōdō Takatora in overall command, outmaneuvered the Joseon navy and virtually wiped it out. Soon afterwards, the Japanese reinforced their garrisons in Busan and various forts on the southern coast of Korea, and began the second invasion.

With the Joseon navy taken out of the scene, the Japanese believed that they now had free access to the Yellow Sea and could resupply their troops through this sea route as they advanced northward. Five years earlier, in the 1592 campaigns, Admiral Yi prevented the Japanese from resupplying their troops in this manner and kept their ships holed up at their main bases in Busan harbor.

The Japanese had started the second war and renewed their offensive, laying siege and capturing the city of Namwon in September 26 and fighting the Ming Chinese army to a standstill in Jiksan on September 7. The Japanese army then awaited supplies and reinforcements from their navy, who would need to enter the Yellow Sea to reach the western coast of Korea. The army, thus supported by their navy, planned to make a major push to recapture Hanyang (modern Seoul).

Prelude
Admiral Yi Sun-sin was hastily reinstated as Supreme Commander of the Regional Navies after Won Gyun was killed at the Battle of Chilchonryang. Yi initially only had 10 panokseon ships at his disposal, which had been saved by Gyeongsang Right Naval Commander Bae Seol, who retreated early in the Battle of Chilchonryang. Bae Seol had originally saved 12 ships, but lost two while on his retreat towards Hoeryongpo. Two ships were brought by newly appointed Jolla Right Naval Commander Kim Eok-chu, and by the time of the battle, Yi had acquired another warship, likely one of the two that Bae Seol had previously lost. Thus, in total, Yi had 13 warships. Although Yi only found 120 men initially, some of the survivors of Chilchonryang rallied to him, and he had at least 1,500 sailors and marines by the end of September.

At that time, King Seonjo, who judged that the Joseon navy had lost its power and would never be restored again, sent a letter to disband the navy and have its men join the ground forces under General Kwon Yul. Admiral Yi responded with his own letter, stating: "Your majesty, this vassal still has twelve battleships (今臣戰船 尙有十二, 지금 신에게는 아직도 열두 척의 전선이 있습니다). ... Even though our navy is small, as long as I live the enemy will not dare to look down on us (戰船雖寡 微臣不死 則不敢侮我矣, 비록 전선의 수가 적으나 미천한 신이 아직 죽지 아니하였으니 왜적들이 감히 우리를 업신여기지 못할 것입니다)."

Before the main body of the Japanese navy advanced into the Yellow Sea, they sent out a few probing missions with armed scouting parties. At this time, Admiral Yi's fleet was south of the Myeongnyang Strait near Oranpo. On October 8, an advanced scouting party of eight Japanese vessels staged a surprise attack, which the Joseon fleet drove off. Yi retreated further north to Byeokpajin, on the northern end of Jindo island. On October 12, Bae Seol fled (he would be found later by Joseon authorities and executed for desertion). On October 17, a Japanese scouting fleet of 13 ships launched a night attack which, after heavy fighting, was also repulsed.

By this time, through the reports of their scouting forces, the Japanese were aware of the presence of Joseon naval remnants that intended to resist their advance. Well armed scouting forces alone were not going to defeat or scatter the Joseon remnants, so the Japanese began amassing a much larger fleet. Admiral Yi's diary mentions reports of around 55 Japanese ships massing near Oranpo on October 17. With Japanese naval activity increasing, Admiral Yi did not want to fight a major battle with his back to the Myeongnyang Strait, so on October 25 he decided to withdraw further north and hide his ships in the shadow of the hills on the opposite (northern) side of the Myeongnyang Strait, near Usuyeong (우수영).

Preparation
Admiral Yi studied numerous sites for his last stand with the Japanese navy and decided on luring them into the Myeongnyang Strait. The Japanese would clearly enter the strait when the tide was favorable and so he did not want to fight south of the strait, with the current at the attacker's advantage. Instead he wanted to fight in the waters just north of the strait, where the currents were calmer. The strait had very strong currents that flowed at approximately 10 knots, first in one direction, then in the opposite direction, in three-hour intervals. Yi realized that he could use the unique condition as a force multiplier. The narrowness of the strait would prevent the Joseon fleet from being flanked by the numerically superior enemy fleet, and the roughness of the currents prevented the Japanese from effectively maneuvering, forcing them to attack in smaller groups and making it difficult to close in with the Korean ships. Furthermore, once the tide changed, the flow of the current would in effect push the Japanese away from Yi's fleet and the momentum could be harnessed to increase the effectiveness of a counterattack.

Yi's account
Early in the morning of October 26, the huge Japanese fleet was spotted by Yi's scouts as they deployed around the small bay on the southern end of Myeongnyang strait. Admiral Yi's fleet then redeployed out of their base in Usuyeong to block the northern end of the strait. Yi described scouts reporting countless enemy ships in the morning prior to battle, with 133 attacking. In Japanese records, the ships at the front of their formations were the middle class warships called Sekibune, as the larger Atakebune could not fit into the shallow straits.

Yi's warships deployed on the northern end of the strait and dropped anchor. Yi in his flagship advanced upon the vanguard of the Japanese fleet, which was commanded by Kurushima Michifusa. For a time only the flagship fought in the battle. The crews of the Joseon fleet were made up of survivors from Chilchonryang and they were still badly shaken and intimidated by the overwhelming size of the Japanese fleet. Yi said in his diary: "My flagship was alone facing the enemy formation. Only my ship fired cannons and arrows. None of the other ships advanced, so I could not assure our outcome. All other officers were seeking to run, as they knew this battle was against a massive force. Ship commanded by Kim Eok-chu, the Officer of Jeolla Right province, was 1~2 majang (1 majang: approximately 390 metres) away." For a time it looked like Yi's flagship was "... standing like a castle in the middle of the sea."

The flagship's ability to hold out against the Japanese vanguard eventually gave heart to the rest of Yi's fleet and small groups of his ships came to his aid. First came a ship commanded by local magistrate An Wi and then several ships commanded by central squadron leader Kim Ung-ham. Seeing the success of the flagship and the handful of other boats, the rest of Yi's fleet joined in the fight.

The tide soon shifted and the Japanese ships began to drift backwards and collide with each other. In the confusion, Admiral Yi ordered his ships to advance and press the attack, ramming 31 Japanese ships. The dense formation of Japanese ships crowded in the narrow strait made a perfect target for Joseon cannon fire. The strong tides prevented those in the water from swimming to shore, and many Japanese sailors who abandoned sinking or damaged ships drowned in the currents. Some Korean documents record the number of damaged Japanese warships, which also includes those not sunk but sustaining some amount of damage; however, the condition of the damaged ships is unclear. Having dealt a heavy blow to the Japanese, according to Yi's diary at this point the Japanese dared not approach his fleet, but though he wished to continue the battle the tides were too strong, the wind blew against him, and he was still greatly outnumbered, so decided to withdraw to Dangsa island at nightfall.

Tōdō Clan's account
The memoirs of the Tōdō Clan described the desperate fighting before the Korean ships withdrew. Tōdō Takatora who was the Japanese commander himself described in detail how he barely survived from the disastrous defeat. "御歸陣被成少前にこもがいへ御成御越候處すいゑんと申所に番舟の大将分十三艘居申候大川の瀬より早きしほの指引御座候所の内に少塩のやはらき候所に十三さうの舟居申候それを見付是非共取可申由舟手の衆と御相談に而則御取懸被成候大船にてそのせとをこぎくたし候儀は成ましきとていつれも関舟を御揃被成御かかり候先手の舟共は敵船にあひ手負数多出来申候中にも来島出雲守殿討死にて御座候其外舟手の被召連候家老之者共も過半手負討死仕候處に毛利民部大輔殿関舟にて番舟へ御かゝり被成候番舟船へ十文字のかまを御かけ候處に番舟より弓てつほうはけしく打候に付て舟をはなれ海へ御はいり被成あやうく候處に藤堂孫八郎藤堂勘解由両人舟をよせてきせむをおいのけたすけ申候朝の五時分より酉の刻迄御合戰にて御座へとも舟之様子番船能存候に付風を能見すまし其せと口をぬけほを引かけはしらせ申に付無是非追懸申儀も不罷成候和泉樣も手を二ヶ所おはせられ候"

"Just before the lord [Tōdō Takatora] returned [to Japan], he went to Komogai, when at a place called Suien [Woosooyoung] there were thirteen warships of the commander's class. The tide pulled in and out quickly at the rapids of the channel. Where the tide was a little weaker there were the thirteen ships. Having found them the lord discussed with the sailors if we could take them, but being told the large ship he was riding on could not row in the straits, so all the ships the lord gathered were sekibune and he attacked. The forward ships suffered many wounds. Among them Kurushima, Lord of Izumo was killed, and among the men of the elders brought over as sailors over half were also wounded or killed but then Lord Mōri the Senior Assistant Minister of Popular Affairs on a sekibune attacked the warships. As he grappled with the warships with cross-shaped hooks, the Korean ships shot bows and guns fiercely, and the ships parted and was about to enter the oceans when at the moment of danger Tōdō Magohachirō and Tōdō the Regional Inspector, the two of them went in their boats and chased away the enemy ships and saved him. The fighting lasted from the hour of the dragon to the hour of the rooster, but as the warships knew well the condition of the ships, on clearly seeing wind hoisted sail and set for the mouth of the straight there, and there was nothing we could do to catch them. Lord Izumi suffered two wounds on his hand."

Aftermath
Even after the victory, the Joseon navy was still outnumbered by the remaining Japanese navy, so Admiral Yi withdrew to resupply his fleet and have more space for mobile defense. After hearing the news of the heroic victory, many surviving ships and sailors who had been in hiding after the defeat at Chilcheollyang joined Admiral Yi's fleet. In Yi's report to the court as recorded in the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty, he was fortunate to gain a small victory after the disaster at Chilcheollyang, with which the Japanese momentum was blunted and they were prevented from entering the Yellow Sea. The victory also enabled the Chinese navy to join Admiral Yi in early 1598. After the destruction of most of the Joseon fleet at Chilcheollyang, the Ming kept their navy stationed at important port cities to guard against possible Japanese naval attacks. The victory at Myeongnyang convinced the Ming government that they could ease security at their major ports and deploy a fleet to the Joseon navy's aid.

The Japanese navy was heavily damaged (while at least 30 of the Japanese fighting ships were destroyed, the total number of damaged ships, to include those supporting ships that may have sustained damage, was not clearly reported  ). Kurushima was killed, Tōdō Takatora was wounded and the Japanese suffered extremely heavy casualties, with a captured prisoner reporting half were killed or wounded. The Japanese navy continued with a minor incursion into the western coast of Korea, but soon withdrew to consolidate their holdings along the southern coast. In order to avenge themselves, the Japanese conducted a punitive expedition against Yi's residence of Asan on November 23, 1597 (14th day of the 10th month by the Chinese calendar), burning the village and murdering Yi Myon, Admiral Yi's youngest son.

One Japanese claimed that the battle was a strategical victory for the Japanese navy merely because the Joseon navy abandoned the Myeongnyang Strait as well as the surrounding waters, and retreated after the battle.

However, dozens of the books which were published by the Japanese Governor-General of Korea, Japanese historians the during Empire of Japan era also summarized the battle as a Korean decisive victory.

The books which were published by the Imperial Japanese Navy also summarized the battle as a Korean decisive victory.

Furthermore, almost every modern Japanese historian also said the battle was a Korean decisive victory.

"“In the end, Yi’s thirteen-strong fleet defeated ten times that number of Japanese ships. The defeat not only frustrated Japan’s advance to the West Sea but also gave Chosŏn a respite to rebuild the navy. Yi’s victory at Myŏngnyang can be credited to his combat tactics, the construction of a small and yet powerful fleet, and the participation of refugee civilians and refugee ships in the battle.”" "'By the time the Japanese reached open water and the exhausted Koreans gave up their pursuit, thirty-one ships of Hideyoshi’s navy had been destroyed, while Yi’s fleet remained intact. With that the Japanese navy began to fall back toward the border of Kyongsang Province, then farther still toward Angolpo and Pusan. It would give up all thought of gaining access to the Yellow Sea, and would not venture west again.'"

Chain or iron rope across the strait
There are claims that Yi had iron ropes tightened across the channel between Japanese fleet groups, which severely dampened the Japanese numerical advantage. However, in Yi's war diary no mention is made of such a tactic.

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Al-Lawatia

Al-Lawatia (English: The Lawatis; اللواتية; لا واٽي, sing. Lawati) also occasionally known as Hyderabadis are a prominent merchant tribe originally from the Sindh region and now mainly based in the province of Muscat, Oman. They are known globally as Khojas but in the Gulf are more commonly referred to as Lawatis due to them being speakers of Lawati, a Sindhi based language. There are around 30,000 Luwatis (or 1% of Omanis) in Oman.

Many Lawati families of successful merchants of the past are now involved in large multi-faceted corporations participating in the development of the region.

Origins
The Lawatia (or Lawatiyya) community in Muttrah in Muscat has its origins in the Sindh province of Pakistan. They immigrated to Oman between 1780 and 1850. Luwatis converted to Twelver Shia Islam in the 19th century from Ismaili Shia Islam.

However, Laurence Louër, in his book Transnational Shia Politics: Religious and Political Networks in the Gulf, mentions a different theory of the religious origins of Al-Lawati. According to this theory, the Lawatis were Ismailis who migrated to Oman from Sindh in the 19th century, before converting to Twelver Shi'ism following a dispute with the leadership of the community.

Demographics and role in the Persian Gulf
The majority of Lawatis reside in Muscat, the capital of Oman, but some live on the coast of Al-Batina. Some Lawati families reside elsewhere in the Persian Gulf region such as the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait.

Traditionally, Al-Lawatia have been known as prominent merchants on the coasts of Muttrah which lies 2 kilometers west of Muscat. They have worked in the incense (بخور), jewelry and clothes business as well as in general trade. The community occupies a gated quarter of Muttrah known as Sur al-Lawatia. In the predominantly Ibadi arena of Oman, they make up the majority of the local Shia population. The quarter still boasts attractive houses with a unique Islamic architectural view and a large mosque known as Al-Rasul Al-Aadam Mosque or The Greatest Prophets Mosque in reference to Muhammad. The Sur has seen a major exodus in recent decades as Lawatis have moved to more modern neighborhoods as a result of increasing development, the availability of facilities and growing wealth and business of the community. Another great historic monument built by the tribe is Al-Zahra Mosque in the UAE, which was built nearly 300 years ago.

History and notable families
The first historical mention of the Lawatis is said to have been by the Omani historian Ibn Ruzayq, who said that notables of the community greeted the first ruler of the currently ruling Al Said dynasty on his arrival to Muscat in the 1740. At least one Lawati family can be documented through British records as existing in Oman at least since the 1700s; they were the first group come to serve the British crown.

One of the most notable political families from the Al-Lawati tribe is the Al-Abdulateef family. Al Hajj Baqer, one of the pioneer merchants in Muttrah and well-respected public figure, lead the tribe as the Lawati sheikh. He enjoyed a strong relationship with the ruling Al Said house, particularly Sultan Said bin Taimur. It is widely known that he privately aided the Omani government's efforts in expelling the Saudi contingents from Al Buraimi in 1952.

It is also notable that the first woman ambassador from Oman was Khadijah bint Hassan al-Lawati, a Lawati woman appointed to the Netherlands in 1999.

On the business front in the UAE, the tribe is represented by families such as the Sajwanis who have become part and parcel of the Emirati institution and rarely known by their Omani and Lawati origins.

Religion
Verbal history indicates that at one point they were Muslim Shia in various branches. They now follow the Twelver Shia Islam. Consequently, the new adopted doctrine of Twelver/Ja'fari grew within the Lawati tribe and the different branches were not accepted. Hence, some retracted while others detached from the community. However, most present-day Lawatis are known to be Twelver Shia Muslims and form the sect's stronghold within Oman. Through the uncommon occurrence of inter-tribal mingling, there are a small minority of Lawatis who have been brought up in mixed marriages either through mixed Shia/Sunni or Shia/Ibadhi traditions.

Compared to the neighbouring UAE, Oman is known for the lack of marginalisation of the various sects and does not have the same anti-Shia problem systemic to the rest of the Gulf states. Ironically, Oman provides for them a more comfortable environment than even Shia-majority Bahrain due to the latter's monarchy-led discrimination and oppression schemes.

Language
The native mother language of Al-Lawaties is Lawati language which is called in their own tongue as (Khojki). This idiom is genetically and morphologically related to the Sindhi language; a branch of the Indo-European tree. As it also shares common similarities with other spoken languages of the other ethnic groups in Oman e.g. Jadgali, Maimani and Al Saigh. Elderlies were fluent in both the written and the spoken Khojki.

Arabic as a first language of Oman and all Arabia, is also held tightly by Al-Lawaties in parallel with their mother tongue language Khojki. However, the trend now within this community is to abandon their own native language and more people of the young generation are found not to know how to write nor speak it, most Lawatis today are not as fluent in Kojki as their ancestors as they consider Arabic their mothertongue with Kojki and English relegated to secondary languages.

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Dhaba

A dhaba is a roadside restaurant in the Indian subcontinent. They are on highways, generally serve local cuisine, and also serve as truck stops. They are most commonly found next to petrol stations, and most are open 24 hours a day.

Dhabas are a common feature on national and state highways. Earlier frequented only by truck drivers, today eating at a dhaba, whether urban or roadside, is a trend. Dhabas have additionally been established by South Asian diaspora communities in countries including the United States.

Etymology and description
The word has been alleged in folk etymology to stem from dabba, m., box, lunch box, tiffin.

Dhabas sprung up first on GT Road which ran from Peshawar, Rawalpindi and Lahore through Amritsar, Ludhiana and further to Delhi and Calcutta.

Dhabas were characterized by mud structures and cots to sit upon (charpai) while eating. A wooden plank would be placed across the width of the cot on which to place the dishes. With time, the cots were replaced by tables. The food is typically inexpensive and has a 'homemade' feel to it.

Dhabas in North America
There is now a large network of Indian and Pakistani immigrant communities worldwide, and many have opened dhabas abroad, such as at service stations on the Trans-Canada Highway network.

As of 2023, it is estimated that there are approximately 40 dhabas in the United States, which has been credited to the growing demographic of Punjabi American truckers.

Cuisine
Indian served in dhabas is wholesome and full of rustic flavour. Food is served on big brass or steel thali (plates) and drinks – water, lassi, milk (of several varieties), or tea, as well as shorbas (soups) – are served.

Two types of food are served in the dhabas – non-vegetarian cuisine (which is the most popular) and vegetarian fare termed vaishno dhabas (where food is cooked in pure ghee or clarified white butter). Dal makhni is a popular dish in the vegetarian dhaba.

Tandoor
The tandoor (also called ‘tandooria’ or dhatti) is a barrel-shaped clay or earthenware oven, which makes the cuisine special. It is a versatile kitchen appliance for making rotis and naans and a social institution. In rural North India, the community tandoor, dug in the ground and either coal-fired or (more recently) electrically heated, is a meeting place for women, who bring the kneaded atta (dough) and sometimes marinated meats to have them cooked while socialising. Until a few years ago, this phenomenon existed in urban neighbourhoods, too. Even today, a few neighbourhoods in Delhi and Lahore have a community tandoor.

Ingredients
Most menus are made according to the season. The universal favourite is chole bhature which is a year-round item and is available at every wayside dhaba; it originated in Northern India but is now found anywhere in the Indian subcontinent or other countries where the South Asian diaspora have migrated in large numbers. But, the pride of the Punjabi winter cuisine is sarson ka saag (curry made out of mustard leaves) served with blobs of white butter accompanied by makki ki roti and lassi.

Some ingredients are:

 * Wheat and maize (the staple food grains), all lentils, especially black gram and yellow gram, rajma (kidney beans), and chana.
 * Popular spices in Indian cuisine are coriander, cumin, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, black pepper, red chili powder, turmeric, and mustard. One of the main crops is mustard or sarson: Its leaves are used to make sarson da-saag curry while its seeds are used for tempering and for making mustard oil, which is widely used as a cooking medium.
 * Milk and dairy products such as dahi, paneer cream, butter and ghee are used. Butter is an important cooking medium apart from being consumed raw along with the food.
 * Non-vegetarian food, especially chicken, is a favourite. Mutton and fish are also cooked.
 * All types of vegetables

Vegetarian specialties
The simple vegetarian meal served could be a paratha of many kinds depending on the type of vegetable stuffing one wishes to have – among these the aloo paratha is the most popular. Parathas stuffed with cooked, mashed and spiced vegetables such as cauliflower are popular for breakfast with curds or tea.

A vegetarian meal – for lunch or dinner – consists of chana masala, pindi chana, vegetables and lentils, sarson ka saag, palak paneer, bharwan karela, subz korma, rajma or kadhi.

Paneer dishes are a must in a vegetarian menu. It is cooked with every kind of vegetable, the popular dishes of such variety are palak paneer or saag paneer, mutter paneer, paneer makhani etc.

Naan and paratha, rotis made of maize flour (makki di roti), chappatis made out of maize flour, and rumali roti are typical Indian breads.

The basic gravy used for vegetables and meat dishes is onion-tomato-garlic-ginger.

Rice
A predominantly wheat-eating people, the Punjabis cook rice only on special occasions. Rice is rarely cooked plain or steamed and is always made with a flavouring of cumin or fried onions. Sada chawal – plain rice – is served with other wheat-based dishes. Vegetable biryani (fried veg rice) is also a favourite dish.

In winter, rice cooked with jaggery is gurwala chawal, or rao ki kheer, a delicacy when cooked on slow fire for hours with sugarcane juice, and sometimes rice is also cooked with green peas.

Non-vegetarian options
Authentic items include kadhai murg, tandoori chicken, tali machali amritsar, rara gosht, chicken tikka masala, peppery tandoori chicken, anda paneer (egg curry), seek kebabs, butter chicken, vegetarian and non-vegetarian kathi rolls, etc.

Non-vegetarian popular starters include kebabs – gosht pudhina sheek, tangri, macchi hariyali tikka, and chicken tikka.

Murg yakhni shorba and chicken shorba are popular soups.

Most meat delicacies are eaten with plain rice, phulka, or tandoori roti without ghee or butter.

Sweets or desserts
Sweets include firni or phirni (a sweet dish made of milk, rice flour, and sugar and chilled in earthenware bowls), gulab jamun and burfi. The desserts include fresh hot jalebi with vanilla ice cream, rasmalai and kesari kheer.

The saffron-mixed buttermilk (lassi) of Amritsar; milk boiled with almonds, pistachio, and dry dates in winter; and the same mix boiled into a thick liquid and then solidified in a banana-shaped mould in the form of a kulfi are desserts. Panjiri, a whole wheat flour fried in sugar and ghee, heavily laced with dry fruits and herbal gums, is eaten in the winters to ward off cold.

Regional variations
Haryana has dhabas all over, and dhabas in Murthal, Sonipat on Grand Trunk Road are famous for delicacies including murthal paratha, haryanvi daal, cheese bread pakora, and more. Garam dharam (hot dharam), a vegetarian dhaba based on a sholay theme in Murthal, Sonipat, with fruit parathas as one of its specialities, is owned by the Bollywood action hero Dharmendra.

Overseas
The word has come to represent the cuisine of the Indian subcontinent so much that many Indian restaurants in Asia (Bangkok), Europe and the Americas (Trinidad and Tobago and the United States ) have adopted it as a part of the name.

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Redirect to Radioactivity? That's my recommendation. — oo64eva (AJ) (U @ 05:30, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)

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Cover of the 1964 English edition of Jean-Paul Sartre's Nausea (book) printing; New Directions Publishing.

Fair use for Nausea
This image, Sartre Nausea 1964.jpg, is being linked here; though the picture is subject to copyright I (User:thismightbezach) feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because the use of a single cover "to illustrate an article discussing the book in question" is allowed. Absent of an official "series cover," it logically follows that this single cover used in conjunction with its fellows to illustrate an article on the series to which they all belong is allowable. I feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:
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Reasons for move/rename
Raster was the term used 10 years before bitmap came into use. Bitmap redirects to Raster graphics. Raster is used more often than bitmap on Wikipedia. Bitmap could be confused with the Windows bitmap file format. [Raster and vector] go together better than [Bitmap and vector] and the two prior Google searches support that statement. If my reasoning for moving this page is incorrect I'm sorry to cause you so much trouble and please leave me a message on my talk page telling me why I was wrong so that I won't mess up again in the future. Jecowa 07:57, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY WERE COMBINED
I split the original Comparison article into a List and Comparison. It just doesn't make sense to add a list in the Comparison article. I WILL REVERT. - PGSONIC 23:34, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

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User:Jeanpol~enwiki

This account has also been used by me, User:Jeanpol. I do not understand how I came to have two accounts. In June 2018 I stopped using this account, and will link to this account from my other page.

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