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Talk:Trump Entertainment Resorts

Who's the president?
Misterrick writes (in an edit summary): "Donald Trump is not President of TCHR Nor Has He Ever Been. He Has Only Been Chairman & CEO". The company's most recent 10-K, filed with the SEC less than two weeks ago and available online through EDGAR, identifies Scott Butera as President (, in Part III), but in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act certification for the filiing, Trump signs himself as "Chief Executive Officer and President of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts, Inc."

News reports are also conflicting. Last October, the Las Vegas Sun reported that Scott Butera had been named President. Thereafter, however, this article from January 28, 2005 said Butera was still the company's Executive Vice President. A yet more recent news story, however, from March 28, calls him the President. That's more recent but still not so recent as the 10-K.

As a result of one of Misterrick's other edits, the article now links to http://www.trumpcasinos.com/ as the corporate website. According to that site, Trump is President. I think this site was what I relied on when I created the article with the statement that Trump was President. The site appears not to have been updated lately.

Given the ambiguity that the company itself has created, I think we're better off just omitting the point. We all know that there's no doubt who's really in charge, anyway. Most readers won't care who holds the title of President. Scott Butera's name is a red link right now; if at some point we have an article about him, we can work out what exact title he holds.

In looking at the 10-K, I saw that the correct corporate name is "Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts", with an ampersand instead of the word "and", so on authority of that reference I'm restoring the ampersand. JamesMLane 17:50, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Page Move
I moved the page from Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts to Trump Entertainment Resorts per the name change following emerging from Bankruptcy protection. Misterrick, 03:26, 16 May 2005 (UTC).

RE: Who's the president?
There is / was a company wide reorganization. It looks like things are finally falling into place so we should have more (correct) info soon.

Rewrite Needed
The second paragraph of this article (originally written by User:B4) needs to be rewritten in a commonly acceptable form of "English"... Stevenmitchell (talk) 13:17, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Reworked the first part but much needs to be done. Recent history is inaccurate, Icahn lost his bid for the property and it went to the Avenue group. Needs background from the 80s about the creation of the casinos. Also, needs refs on his licensing agreement. Work in progress. Njsamizdat (talk) 18:43, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Ongoing discussion about lead picture at Donald Trump
You are invited to participate in an ongoing talk-page discussion about the lead picture at Donald Trump. --Dervorguilla (talk) 06:48, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Now Defunct??
Is the company now defunct since it no longer owns any casino or hotel properties? If so shouldn't it then be put in the past tense of was instead of is? YborCityJohn (talk) 00:03, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Ok since there were no comments or clarification I am putting the company in the past tense, since as I stated before they no longer have any assets and no longer actually have offices because the building they were headquartered in has since been sold. YborCityJohn (talk) 05:27, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

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Ownership before THCR
Prior to the formation of THCR, the article just says Trump owned the properties. Does this mean that Donald Trump personally had his name on the deed as the owner of the property? Or was it the Trump Organization? What organization operated the business before THCR? ````

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Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester

Richard d'Avranches, 2nd Earl of Chester (1094 – 25 November 1120) was the son of Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester, and his wife, Ermentrude of Clermont.

Early life
He was seven years old when his father, known as Hugh the Fat, died. Due to his age, a stewardship would have ruled until he was old enough. He probably became Earl of Chester in 1107. He married Lucia-Mahaut, daughter of Stephen, Count of Blois and Adela of Normandy, daughter of William the Conqueror.

Military career
At the age of twenty, in 1114, Richard was on a military campaign and was styled the Earl of Chester. Together with King Alexander of Scotland, he led an Anglo-Norman army into Gwynedd as part of a three-pronged campaign organised by Henry I of England against Gwynedd, and Gruffudd ap Cynan. Gruffudd, rather than risk battle, satisfied the King with an oath of homage and a suitable fine. The campaign soon fizzled out, and Richard returned to Chester.

White Ship
The line of the d'Avranches as Earls of Chester failed when Richard, his wife, and his illegitimate half-brother Ottuel, joined the young William Adelin, heir to the English King Henry aboard the doomed White Ship. The captain, unwisely, chose to race out of the harbour. The ship struck a submerged rocky embankment, capsized and sank. Richard, aged twenty-six, his wife Lucia-Mahaut, and half-brother Ottuel all drowned.

The earldom then passed through his father Hugh's sister Maud to Richard's first cousin Ranulph I, in 1121, because Hugh had no other suitable male heirs.

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Haplo3k is me. As I am at work, this is all I shall be putting here for now.

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Talk:Password (video games)

Starting
I kind of just threw something out there as a starting point. I don't know if this is what everyone who voted it as the WP:GCOTW had in mind or not. K1Bond007 17:49, Apr 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Looks good enough to me...by the way, this is the first time I've helped in a collaboration, please let me know if I do something wrong. :) ADeveria 18:24, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm sure you'll do fine, ADeveria. Welcome to the group! :) --pie4all88 21:03, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Good job to start, already made a significant push in the article. There's still a lot to add, but can't pin-point what, precisely. Titus Interactive passwords, list of notable games that did not used any save at all and clean-up my edit a bit are the ones that pop to mind --wS 21:10, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * It wouldnt hurt to mention e-Reader --Zarutian 04:25, 28. april 2005 (UTC)

Password as part of save - Yura87 (talk) 06:33, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
Peter Molyneux's "Populous" (1 and 2) had save files made up of portrait parts statement, name and a password. Though both passwords and full saves existed beforehand, those games sort of merged the two.

Requested move 23 March 2018

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page at this time, per the discussion below. Dekimasu よ! 18:17, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

Password (video gaming) → Password save – Per WP:NATURAL, this name also makes sense and supplants the need for disambiguation. Was page's original title before it was moved 10 odd years ago. ZXCVBNM (TALK) 06:41, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Support per nom and WP:NATURAL. Paintspot Infez (talk) 21:48, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Support per nom Red Slash 23:11, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose, as there is probably a reason why it was renamed years ago. The concept was a predecessor to the contemporary game save feature, but strictly speaking it wasn't actually a "save" as such, as no gamestate was stored. In addition, the proposed title gives no mention to the fact this is very specific to video gaming (passwords can be "saved" in an entirely different way outside VG). I don't see any benefit to rename, but can see ambiguity caused as a result. Bungle (talk • contribs) 19:30, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
 * You will notice that it's called "password save" rather than "saved password", so the grammar of the title makes it clear that the password itself is a save. I believe that it could be classified as a save, as it records the player's progress in the game. There is much more ambiguity with the current title, which may refer to ingame passwords or copy protection passwords rather than the ones that let you save your game.ZXCVBNM (TALK) 23:11, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I just think that to "save" is the act of sending/storing variable data, whereas the article is not about this concept. It's more about "skipping" to a certain point in a game based on a pre-defined, hard-coded state that is static no matter when it is loaded. Thus, nothing is truely being saved, as it's more about retrieval. You may think that's pedantic, but the title has to be relevant afterall. The title Password restore would be more relevant to the article's purpose for instance, but that is also potentially too generic. Bungle (talk • contribs) 15:25, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I think you're mistaken. In many simpler games, what you say is true: each password statically corresponds to one level or savepoint in the game. But there are also games where passwords are dynamically generated and encode lots of game-state information and a checksum, for example in Metroid "The remaining 116 bits are used to store data about the game. This data includes how many missiles Samus is carrying, what equipment Samus has in her inventory (Long Beam, Maru Mari, etc), which missile containers Samus has picked up, which energy tanks Samus has collected, how long the game has been played, which red and yellow doors have been opened [...]". More examples here: https://gamedev.stackexchange.com/a/104566
 * These can legitimately be called "game saves". I think the simpler case where each savepoint has a static password is simply a subset of that -- the information to be encoded is just one variable: the savepoint number.
 * I also agree with Zxcvbnm that when I read the current title "Password (video gaming)", the first thing that pops into my mind is the password for some online gaming account. While "password save" is not a perfect title, I think it's better than the current one. -- intgr [talk] 16:13, 26 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I stand by my view that having "save" in the title, when there are instances when nothing is being saved, makes less sense than the current title. You also concede intgr that the proposed title is "not a perfect title", which supposedly is also true for the current one (based on the presence of this discussion), so I personally see no point with a rename when it'd wouldn't be wholly true to the article's purpose or serve to satisfy all scenerios. Why not Game password or Game passcode or Password in gaming or Gaming passcode etc? All fairly generic, whilst relating to video gaming without being specific to a certain scenerio/type. Bungle (talk • contribs) 16:26, 26 March 2018 (UTC)

 * Oppose original proposal per Bungle. Moreover, no matter how "natural" or commonly used it is, "password save" can look ambiguous. Per WP:COMMONNAMES, ambiguous names are to be avoided, regardless of the title's commonality. No opinion on which other title is suitable for this topic. --George Ho (talk) 09:32, 2 April 2018 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

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Talk:Feature

It is stated that: "In image processing which can e used for recognition."

I think this definition is to narrow, as it is clearly true that features could also be derived, eg. textural classification. For instance any feature you may derive from a GLCM, is by this definition not a feature.

However I am not sure how this should be properly stated.

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The defintion provided for software feautre is incorect. it is implied that features are artifical elements used only be 'marketeers'. Features are useful way of describing individual functionality. There is an entire field of feature-based software enginerring with its own academic confererences so the use of the term 'marketeer' is not only perjorative but inaccurate

General sense
Does the word "feature" not have any "general" sense? Is every single meaning attached to a certain context? DanielDemaret 15:04, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I have been looking for this also and added the wiktionary article but it doesn't explain other uses of the word feature like: "The compositions feature new rhythm structures..." Death2 18:06, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Gardening
In the UK film The Full Monty and in other UK media, I have seen references to a "feature" in landscaping/garden decor; the impression given by these usages is that it's a sufficiently familiar term that even those who aren't into gardening know it. It would be good if we could find a discussion of that to summarize in either an article or a subsection of a larger article. Lawikitejana 05:36, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Social science
About features methods — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.114.213.129 (talk) 18:10, 15 August 2022 (UTC)

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Avelo Airlines

Avelo Airlines is an American low-cost airline headquartered in Houston, Texas. It previously operated charter flights as Casino Express Airlines and Xtra Airways before transitioning to scheduled operations and rebranding as Avelo Airlines on April 8, 2021. The airline's first scheduled flight under the Avelo name was on April 28, 2021 from Hollywood Burbank Airport to Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport.

Casino Express Airlines
Established on July 20, 1987, as Casino Express Airlines, the air carrier began operations in 1989 using Boeing 737-200 jetliners flying exclusively for the Red Lion Hotel and Casino in Elko, Nevada. Casino Express operated 737 jet service from Elko Regional Airport nonstop to many cities in the US. In 1994, Casino Express was operating scheduled weekend only flights nonstop between Elko (EKO) and Portland, Oregon, (PDX) and Seattle (SEA) with McDonnell Douglas MD-80 jetliners. For a short time in 1999 Casino Express Airlines operated one Boeing 737-200 jetliner for the start-up airline Tahoe Air, which provided scheduled passenger air service with nonstop flights from the South Lake Tahoe Airport to Los Angeles International Airport in southern California and also nonstop service to San Jose International Airport in northern California.

Xtra Airways
Casino Express quickly expanded its customer base to include sports teams, government agencies, foreign dignitaries, press corps, other gaming properties, and other types of public and private charters. It changed its name to Xtra Airways on December 8, 2005, to reflect its broader focus.

From 2007 through 2012 Xtra Airways dedicated two Boeing 737-400 aircraft to fly for Direct Air, an airline business based in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Xtra Airways changed its aircraft livery in 2015 to an executive jet style, displaying flag blue and red stripes.

In September 2016, it began operating a Boeing 737-800 (registration: N881XA), repainted in a sky-blue and white livery with "Stronger Together" titles, for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign. Soon afterward a second aircraft, Boeing 737-400 (N314XA), was also chartered by the campaign, painted with a sky-blue stripe and "Clinton/Kaine" titles.

Avelo Airlines
Andrew Levy, a former chief financial officer for United Continental Holdings and later chief operations officer of Allegiant Air, acquired Xtra in August 2018, with the intent of transforming the charter airline into an ultra-low cost carrier. By that time, Xtra had sold most of its fleet to Swift Air, but kept one Boeing 737-400 to retain its FAA Part 121 Regularly Scheduled Air Carrier certification. By April 2019, the airline was considering operating Boeing 737-800s.

In February 2020, Levy announced the new holding company for Xtra, named Houston Air Holdings, Inc., reflecting the company's Houston headquarters. The same month, the company raised US$125 million in funding and received its first airplane from GE Capital Aviation Services ahead of its original plans to launch scheduled operations later in 2020.

On April 8, 2021, the new airline was announced under the name Avelo Airlines, and began selling tickets for flights based at Hollywood Burbank Airport in California. Its initial route network consisted of eleven unserved destinations from Burbank, launching between April 28 and May 20, 2021, with an initial fleet of three Boeing 737-800s, expanding to six by the end of 2021. Avelo's announcement of its entry into scheduled flight operations was met with competitive response initially from American and Alaska Airlines, with American upgauging the aircraft on its existing route between Phoenix Sky Harbor and Burbank, while Alaska announced a new service between Burbank and Santa Rosa to start on June 1, 2021. Avelo's inaugural flight occurred on April 28, 2021, which traveled from its Burbank base to Santa Rosa's Sonoma County Airport. The airline on July 7, 2021, announced that it would terminate its flights to Bozeman and Grand Junction by the end of September, while by July 29, 2021, the airline announced an additional five destinations including Fort Collins, Las Vegas, Monterey, Provo, and St. George, although the planned flights to Monterey, Provo, and St. George were later cancelled.

Following the airline's California launch in late April, Avelo announced on May 6, 2021, that it would open a new base at Tweed New Haven Airport in Connecticut during the third quarter of 2021. The airline additionally announced that it planned to invest US$1.2 million toward the New Haven airport's facilities, and that it would use Boeing 737-700 aircraft for its operations at the new base. On August 19, 2021, details of the airline's operations at its New Haven base were revealed, initially with four routes between New Haven and destinations in Florida announced to launch during November 2021. By 2024, Avelo had expanded its service from New Haven to 21 destinations across the East Coast, making the airport its largest base.

On January 6, 2022, Avelo announced that it had raised an additional US$42 million. This second-round offering increased Avelo's invested capital base to over US$160 million. On April 14, 2022, the Association of Flight Attendants was certified as the exclusive representative of all of Avelo's 14 flight attendants after a vote under the Railway Labor Act was conducted by the National Mediation Board.

Over the remainder of 2022, Avelo had established three more bases, consisting of Orlando International Airport in April 2022, Wilmington, Delaware's New Castle Airport in October 2022, and Raleigh–Durham International Airport in November 2022. In September 2023, the airline established its sixth base at Las Vegas's Harry Reid International Airport, however the base was relocated to Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa in May 2024.

In February 2024, Avelo announced plans to add five additional aircraft to its fleet, all sourced from bankrupt Brazilian airline GOL.

Corporate affairs
The headquarters are in 12 Greenway Plaza in Houston, Texas.

Destinations
Avelo operates domestic routes on the east and west coasts of the United States. Prior to rebranding as Avelo, the airline operated ad-hoc and on-demand charter services as both Casino Express Airlines and Xtra Airways within the Americas.

Current fleet
, the Avelo Airlines fleet includes the following aircraft:

Former fleet
Casino Express Airlines and Xtra Airways, Avelo's predecessors, previously operated the following aircraft:

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Talk:Fort Moore

Requested move
Fort Benning, Georgia → Fort Benning — It's not a municipality, its a military base, therefore it is not apropos to have the state attached. It used to be that way, but somehow it got moved to Fort Benning, Texas (which needs to be deleted entirely because there is no such place). –radiojon 05:52, 2005 Apr 11 (UTC)
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Can someone explain the argument a bit more, because at the moment it seems to be split between the two methods of naming See List of United States military bases and Category:Bases of the U.S. Army. For example are those places listed with state because they are disambiguation page like the two Fort Braggs --Philip Baird Shearer 17:52, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Seeing no opposition, I've performed this move. - UtherSRG 11:53, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)

Located in *3* counties
Somebody changed my edit that mentioned Ft. Benning taking up three counties, one in Alabama and two in Georgia.

They are Muscogee, Chattahoochee, and Russell County.

Phenix City incident
The story erroneously mentioned in the article states that the story about Phenix City started in the 1980s. The first time I heard that story was in the 1960s. The most commonly heard version is that it occured in 1941 and George Patton was the general involved. I personally talked to a military historian at Fort Benning in the 1980s, and he said that the incident was partially true. The general involved was the one who took Patton's place after Patton left. However, the "march" never took place and over the years Patton became the general who made the threats in the local folklore.

With all this said, I hesitated to change the article as I don't have a specific book or website to cite.

Change
Since my discussion engendered no thoughts, I have changed the article in reference to Phenix City.

Good job on the Phenix City incedent
I haven't been here in a while.Your input is good,as it is factual,and puts in info that I didn't know about.Thanks for your input.Saltforkgunman 18:14, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

I have reverted the article to include the Phenix City incident.The story was first told to me during inprocessing on Main Post in 1986.See above comment about talking to a military historian at Benning.

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The following is invalid Dilane 01:07, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Fort Benning editing Fort Benning
According to Wired's article about Wikiscanner, somebody from the Fort Benning made this small change to this article. Quite old, but nobody found it legitimate to revert it. I will. Tazmaniacs 20:59, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Quite consistent amounts of vandalism from a Benning IP account. Hal06 (talk) 15:28, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Removed dialog from movie
I removed the funny dialog from a movie because it was too rich for an encyclopedia. The movie locations were enjoyable to reminisce. Timhowardriley 02:54, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Victory pond
I was in the ribbon bridge company that provided safety boats for the Bradley amphibious training at Victoria Pond in 1986-1987 and I am telling you that the name of the pond is not 'victory'.The military, tactical map of Ft Benning reads 'Victoria Pond'.The reason we all erroneously called it victory pond is  most likely due to the name of the main thoroughfare coming out of Benning into Columbus,Victory Drive.Just a small point, but the article needs to be accurate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Saltforkgunman (talk • contribs) 04:59, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

I'm at Ft. Benning now. The name on my range control map as well as in numerous articles, and signs on base is VICTORY pond.

For example.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_School  and https://www.infantry.army.mil/Hunting/Reg%20200-3.pdf

Additionally, the US Army does not do amphibious operations with its Bradleys. I just graduated Mech Leaders Course and as we were told "Bradleys do not float." Your info is a little outdated, so is the article. Hal06 (talk) 19:53, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Location
It may be a minor point, but anyone who looks at a map can see that Main Post is directly south of downtown Columbus, and the whole of Fort Benning lies mainly to the southeast of greater Columbus. No part seems to lie to the southwest, as the article states. Johnskeller (talk) 09:34, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008
Article reassessed and graded as start class. Referencing and appropriate inline citation guidelines not met. --dashiellx (talk) 18:46, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Removal of picture of Luis Posada Carriles

 * I removed an image of Luis Posada Carriles on the grounds that he was not sufficiently important to the history of Fort Benning to merit a photograph of him on this page. He has his own page, where that photograph exists, and users interested in him can follow the link to that page from the single mention of him in this article. This picture was placed by Desyman44 on December 17, 2008. Desyman44 objected to that removal ("image is relevant,since the person is quoted [sic] and well known.Btw,better img than text only") and undid my edit. So let's have a little thought experiment: if images are better than text only, and being cited is sufficient for including a picture, then why shouldn't we have pictures of Manuel Noriega and Hugo Banzer on the Fort Benning page? After all, they too were pupils at the base, and they're probably much better-known than Posada. I'm notifying Desyman44 of this discussion, and await his argument in favour of retaining this image. TheFeds 05:39, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

 * Ok, sorry if my english is not perfect, but I'm not mothertongue. Concerning the pic, I think it is worth keeping it, since it is relevant, because the text talks about him. It is pertinent and does not ruin the layout of the page. If there is an image, and it's enriching and complementing the text, why should it not be shown? I must reject your argument about Manuel Noriega and Hugo Banzer, whose picture would not be as pertinent as this one. In fact, there is a big diference that makes this picture pertinent to the article while the others don't: the picture we have of Posada Carriles is taken IN the fort, DURING his training. There is another picture of him, but it is after the arrest and it is of course not that pertinent. If this latter were the picture added in the article, then I would agree with you, it would be non that much pertinent and could be removed, as well as the pictures of Noriega and Banzer depicting these people in a NON "Fort Benning-related" context. But this Posada's one IS "Fort Benning-related": that's why I think it would be counter-productive to delete it.
 * Anyway, thanks for opening the discussion before reverting.--Desyman44 (talk) 15:17, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

 * I wasn't specifically talking about the pictures of Banzer and Noriega that are found on their Wikipedia pages—sure, those were taken in other contexts. I'm talking about the rationale of including a picture of a person (as that person appeared during their time at the Fort) who did not make a major contribution to Fort Benning, despite their notoriety in another context. While I agree that the layout of the page is not especially harmed, I don't think it adds anything to the article to include a yearbook picture of one of hundreds of thousands of soldiers who were stationed at Fort Benning. Also, apart from the caption text on the image's information page (which gives the date and place the photograph was taken), there's nothing in the image in question that adds information about Fort Benning. If it had been, for example, a picture of Carriles on a training range at the Fort, then it would serve the dual purpose of showing Carriles and demonstrating something about the Fort. Right now, it adds no useful information about Fort Benning that isn't already in the article (i.e. that Carriles was trained there). This image is perfect for Carriles' own page, but on the Fort Benning page, I don't think it serves a useful purpose. TheFeds 22:30, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I see your point. But since, as I said, even if not giving such a relevant "additional value", it is still suitable to the circumstance, because in fact there have been hundred of thousands "students" in the school, but there has been only one Posada and this is the only picture of "notorious graduates" we have taken in a Fort Benning context. So I think if it does not harm, it's just something additional, and I personally think it's preferable more picture documentation than less. Maybe we can wait for some other users to give their opinion on the topic.--Desyman44 (talk) 23:04, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

 * It does seem odd that this man's picture is here. I went to a college that had several individuals involved in the WTC attacks. Their pics don't appear on that college's homepage, and I think there would be a minor wiki-riot if they did. Why the double standards here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.176.151.11 (talk) 04:57, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Mail adress
Fort Benning is located at 31905 Georgia http://georgia.hometownlocator.com/zip-codes/data,zipcode,31905.cfm Phone book of Fort Benning divisions: https://www.infantry.army.mil/fbhome/sites/about/Fort%20Benning%20Phone%20Book.pdf —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.176.212.207 (talk) 10:58, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

armor school
evedently there done moving furnature so this should up dated. Brian in denver (talk) 21:37, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

555th
Why is there so much coverage of the 555th, a unit that never deployed or fought, yet no mention of the Airborne units that actually went to war?

PC-ism at work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.213.233.232 (talk) 12:34, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

Removed WWII subsection under History
The subsection had only two paragraphs about WWII then launches forward into the 50s. If other dates do not have sub-sections then why does WWII have one? It needs to be better organized, I guess, but until then the WWII subsection was misleading since it contained information well past WWII into the Vietnam era. MagnoliaSouth (talk) 19:28, 28 August 2016 (UTC)

"Controversy"
As part of a general cleanup I removed the "Controversy" section. It contained three unrelated items. The one about the School of the Americas I moved to the "History" section, with some reliable sources added. The other two items were about some persons getting training at Fort Benning who later turned out to commit crimes and/or terrorist attacks (in a way the US government disapproves of). Timothy McVeigh's crimes are totally unrelated to Fort Benning, and I don't see the relevance to this article. Regarding Luis Posada Carriles, the relevant factoid about Fort Benning is that the CIA also conducted training there, but I don't think this example of inter-agency cooperation is particularly controversial. There is no indication that Carriles wouldn't have committed terrorist acts if he had received his CIA training at some other location instead of at Fort Benning, and nobody has criticized Fort Benning for hosting CIA training of that kind (at least not according to the cited sources). Huon (talk) 09:28, 29 October 2018 (UTC)

Power projection platform?
This phrase, in the second or third line of the article, reads like a bit of administrative jargon that doesn't have any meaning for the average reader. I think it belongs later in the article, and should be defined for the reader. Thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jodicompton (talk • contribs) 19:45, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I think we can remove "As a power projection platform, "-- Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk 21:48, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

Name of fort in history section
When referring to the history of the post, is it appropriate to refer to the name that has only been in place since 2023? The caption of one of the photos is now "The crew of a 37mm. anti-tank gun, in training at Fort Moore, Georgia, April 1942". It is absolutely appropriate to refer to the post by Fort Moore when referring to current topics, but in 1942, it was called Fort Benning. As an aside, I am not a person who opposed the work of The Naming Commission, in fact, I personally felt it was entirely appropriate to rid US bases of of names of people who fought in a rebellion against the US. But to be historically accurate, perhaps that caption, for instance, should be: "The crew of a 37mm. anti-tank gun, in training at the former Fort Benning, Georgia, April 1942" or, "The crew of a 37mm. anti-tank gun, in training at Fort Benning (now Fort Moore), Georgia, April 1942". Or maybe just leave it Fort Benning in the history section when referring to pre-2023 topics. rogerd (talk) 18:15, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

 * Using the base's name at the time in the History section is appriopate, especially with pre-2023 dates clearly stated (and name change clearly stated later). Using the currernt base name for events when it was named Fort Benning is revisionist history and inapprioate. -Fnlayson (talk) 18:29, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Agreed, we should match names and eras.-- Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk 21:43, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

 * Names and eras should match.Intothatdarkness 22:09, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I have changed the name in the history section back to Benning, thanks for the feedback --rogerd (talk) 15:12, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

List of commenders
I'm trying to figure out why the list of commanders is hidden. Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk 15:25, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

 * I think it is valid, it is a long list and under most conditions easy to show, but under some browsers depending on the settings, the photo of the "37mm. anti-tank gun" will keep the "show" link from appearing. rogerd (talk) 00:30, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

 * Thanks, for whatever reason (I was and still am still in Microsoft Edge), the show "button" is now visible. 'Tis a mystery. :) -- Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk 17:24, 6 June 2023 (UTC)

Name disarray
The name change is a done deal. It is not "Fort Moore Formerly Known As Fort Benning" - it's Fort Moore. About 90% of the "Benning" mentions in the article are not here for any good reason (of course they're here for a reason, just not a good one...) and need to be cut. The article does need to say it was formerly Fort Benning - but it needs to say it once, in one single place, and that's it. TooManyFingers (talk) 05:51, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Absolutely not, and you're significantly mischaracterizing the article's status. Literally every single usage of "Benning" in the article is in the historical context, when that was the actual name of the installation. There are four usages in the lede -- one in the initial name, and three referring to the change from Camp Benning to Ft. Benning to ft. Moore. Literally every single other usage in this article is either in the History section, or in the section about the redesignation and name change. So no, exactly 0% of the mentions are "not here for any good reason and need to be cut." It is factually incorrect to say that the name was "Fort Moore" at a time when it was not actually Fort Moore. Additionally this topic has already been discussed to death, most recently just two sections above this.   ⇒   SWAT Jester   Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat! 05:57, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

UNDUE WEIGHT
This topic is way UNDUE WEIGHT:

"On 23 March 1941, Private Albert King, a Black serviceman, was killed by Sergeant Robert Lummus, who was White, following an altercation on a bus. After a night of drinking, King, Pfc. Lawrence Hoover, and their girlfriends, were riding on a bus around 3:30 am, back to their barracks. King was shouting and "cussing", according to the driver and other Black passengers. The driver stopped the bus near the Fort's gates and Sergeant Lummus, a Military Police motorcycle officer, boarded the bus. When Lummus tried to take King and Hoover off the bus, King ran out the front door, and Lummus hit Hoover with a blackjack.

After taking Hoover into custody, Lummus later found a Black soldier walking back toward the main post. Lummus approached King and threatened to arrest him. When King claimed that Lummus could not do so, Lummus shot King five times, killing him. During the trial, later that day, it was claimed that King had drawn a pocket knife when approached by Lummus, though Hoover denied that King had a pocket knife with him. Lummus was found not guilty of murder and transferred the next day to Fort Knox."

In the great scheme of things it's a somewhat minor incident that has two whole paragraphs in the history section.70.161.8.90 (talk) 18:39, 7 May 2024 (UTC)

then there's SIX paragraphs of this: "During World War II Fort Benning had 197,159 acres (79,787 ha) with billeting space for 3,970 officers and 94,873 enlisted persons. Among many other units, Fort Benning was the home of the 555th Parachute Infantry Company, whose training began in December 1943. The unit's formation was an important milestone for black Americans, as was explored in the first narrative history of the installation, Home of the Infantry.[16][17] The battalion, later expanded to become the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion and nicknamed the Triple Nickels, was trained at Fort Benning but did not deploy overseas and never saw combat during World War II.[18][19][20][21]

During this period, the specialized duties of the Triple Nickels were primarily in a firefighting role, with over one thousand parachute jumps as smoke jumpers. The 555th was deployed to the Pacific Northwest of the United States in response to the concern that forest fires were being set by the Japanese military using long-range incendiary balloons. The 82nd Armored Reconnaissance Battalion was activated 15 July 1940, and trained at the Fort.[18][19][20][21] The 17th Armored Engineer Battalion became active and started training 15 July 1940.[22]

On 28 March 1941, the body of Private Felix "Poss" Hall was found hanged in a shallow ravine near what is now Logan Avenue.[23] Born 1 January 1922, in Millbrook, Alabama, he enlisted in the Army in August 1940. He was assigned to serve in the 24th Infantry Regiment at Fort Benning, an all-Black segregated unit formed after the Civil War. Two cousins and his best friend from Millbrook were also stationed at Fort Benning and bunked near him. Hall was known for being friendly and popular, and worked at the base sawmill. On 12 February he told his friends that he was headed to the post exchange for Black servicemen after his work shift. He was last seen alive around 4:00 p.m. in Block W, an all-white neighborhood between the mill and post exchange. He did not appear at bugle call the next morning, and was declared a deserter nearly a month after his disappearance.[24]

His body was found by soldiers on 28 March 1941, hanging against the edge of a ravine in a wooded area. His death was officially declared a homicide, although military officials speculated he had committed suicide.[25] A Fort Benning physician examined his body on 8 April and ruled it a homicide.[23] A 0.25-inch (6.4 mm) noose tied to a sapling was wrapped around his neck, his feet had been bound by baling wire and attached with a rope to other saplings, and his hands were tied behind him. The position of his feet indicated that he had attempted to pile dirt beneath his feet to help alleviate the pressure on his neck.[24]

His murder became widely reported in Black newspapers throughout the country, and the only known publicly available photograph of Felix was published in The Pittsburgh Courier.[25] The FBI conducted a 17-month long investigation, but ultimately no one was charged for the murder of Hall.[23] On 3 August 2021, the Army unveiled a marker in memory of Felix Hall at the site where he was last seen alive.[26] A memorial event was also held during the unveiling of his marker.[27] His name is inscribed at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.[28]

On 23 March 1941, Private Albert King, a Black serviceman, was killed by Sergeant Robert Lummus, who was White, following an altercation on a bus. After a night of drinking, King, Pfc. Lawrence Hoover, and their girlfriends, were riding on a bus around 3:30 am, back to their barracks. King was shouting and "cussing", according to the driver and other Black passengers. The driver stopped the bus near the Fort's gates and Sergeant Lummus, a Military Police motorcycle officer, boarded the bus. When Lummus tried to take King and Hoover off the bus, King ran out the front door, and Lummus hit Hoover with a blackjack.[29]"

Anyone notice a common thread here? 1/3 of the paragraphs in the history section of an article on a huge historic base are devoted to this one topic.70.161.8.90 (talk) 18:45, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Agreed, the detail is appropriate to pages about the victims and their deaths need only be mentioned in this article.-- Georgia Army Vet Contribs Talk 02:39, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

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Geoffrey Beevers

Geoffrey Beevers (born 15 January 1941) is a British actor who has appeared in many stage and screen roles.

Theatre
Beevers has worked extensively at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond upon Thames, both as an actor (including the title role in Jules Romain's Doctor Knock, 1994); and as an adaptor/director of George Eliot's novel Adam Bede (February 1990), for which he won a Time Out Award, and Honoré de Balzac's Père Goriot (February 1994).

In 2012, Beevers appeared as Fray Antonio in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Helen Edmundson's The Heresy of Love. In March 2013 he played opposite Helen Mirren in Peter Morgan's play The Audience at the Gielgud Theatre, and reprised the role in February 2015 at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre in New York City.

From October 2016 to March 2017, he played Baron Gottfried Van Swieten in a production of Amadeus by Peter Shaffer at the Royal National Theatre's Olivier Stage.

Television
Beevers played the vicar in the film Goodnight Mister Tom, and appeared in the 1978 television film The Nativity. In 1986 he played Major Hetman Jack Parham in a BBC TV adaptation of Parham's 1936 book, "Flying For Fun". In 1988 he appeared in the TV movie sequel The Great Escape II: The Untold Story, and played Wainwright (Member of Parliament) in A Very British Coup for Channel 4 Television (UK). He played several roles in the TV drama Agatha Christie's Poirot, and a small role in the 2010 remake of Clash of the Titans as a noble of Basilica. In February 2010 Beevers played Douglas Hogg in the television film On Expenses.

Doctor Who
Beevers has made two appearances in the BBC science fiction series Doctor Who, including playing the Master in the serial The Keeper of Traken, a role he has since reprised in some of Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who audio dramas (Dust Breeding, Master, Trail of the White Worm, The Oseidon Adventure, Mastermind, And You Will Obey Me, The Two Masters, The Light at the End, The Evil One, Requiem for the Rocket Men, Death Match and Masterful). Beevers narrated the unabridged audio edition of Doctor Who: Harvest of Time, by Alastair Reynolds, released in June 2013. He also read the AudioGO (and later Audible) audiobooks of Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons, Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon, Doctor Who and the Sea Devils, Doctor Who and the Space War, Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin, Doctor Who and the State of Decay, and The Ambassadors of Death.

Personal life
Beevers was married to actress Caroline John, who appeared in Doctor Who as Liz Shaw, from June 1970 until her death on 5 June 2012. They had three children: daughter Daisy and sons Ben and Tom.

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Talk:Artistic License

Free Software vs. Open Source
The Artistic License is not considered a Free Software license by FSF, although the derived Python license is free software. It's a recognized Open Source license. --suruena 17:53, 2005 Apr 11 (UTC)

Will perl6 be artistic-2.0?
As far as I can tell, Perl 6 will be released under the GPL and the Artistic 2.0, but can someone confirm? Here's the artistic 2.0 with Rfc commentary: http://dev.perl.org/perl6/rfc/346.html Thanks. Gronky 14:38, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Is giving me that impression. ―Linux|erist 16:06, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Um... yeah but what are the implications of software relased under AL?
This article tells me that there exists an AL and that most perl software is dual licensed under AL and GPL, and that there is some controversey about whether or not AL is OpenSource, but it doesn't tell me much about the license, what are its limitations or advantages, and what was Larry's intent in writing it? --203.6.205.131 01:59, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I too would appreciate the article mentioning what the license actually is.--DustWolf (talk) 23:33, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I third this --JosephSzymborski (talk) 00:07, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Writing on 22 October 2015, although I have no proficiency whatsoever to explain the license contents, I think I can contribute to this talk by providing an external link to the 2.0 license: http://opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license-2.0 - a point that I find particularly difficult to understand is the section named "Distribution of Compiled Forms of the Standard Version or Modified Versions without the Source". Maybe future Talk contributors could help clarify these contents. (end note: As I am an inexperienced user of this platform, if I inadvertently wrote something unacceptable among the above-lying lines I humbly beg your pardon and obviously allow anybody to make the necessary corrections)

Source for info on problems
This email may contain some referenceable information about the problems with v1 of the AL: http://www.dclug.org.uk/archive/2007/08/msg00599.html

--Gronky (talk) 09:02, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Poorly phrased?
"The Artistic License refers most commonly to the original Artistic License (version 1.0)..."

This seems to be saying "Artistic License" most commonly refers to the license referenced in this article rather than referring to the artistic concept "artistic license". That seems unlikely, and there's no citation, so it should probably be rephrased. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.5.171.225 (talk) 20:22, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

 * What I meant there was that we now have the Artistic License 1.0 and the Artistic License 2.0 (2006) (as well as the Clarified Artistic License), but when people speak of "the Artistic License" they generally mean version 1.0. I don't have a cite for this, however, though it seems obvious to me. Rfontana (talk) 01:07, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions/08-1001.pdf —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.66.236.108 (talk) 13:59, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

What is the Artistic License?
Nowhere in this article does it say what an artistic license actually is. What makes it different from other licenses of this type? Lucifer-oxy (talk) 02:25, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Still there is no insight as to what this license entails. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.228.176.202 (talk) 02:34, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

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Turner & Hooch

Turner & Hooch is a 1989 American buddy cop comedy film starring Tom Hanks and Beasley the Dog as the eponymous characters respectively. The film also co-stars Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson and Reginald VelJohnson. It was directed by Roger Spottiswoode and co-written by Daniel Petrie Jr., who also served as an executive producer. Touchstone Pictures acquired the screenplay for Turner & Hooch for $1 million, which was the highest amount ever paid by Touchstone for any script at the time.

Despite earning mixed reviews, the film was a box office success and opened in the number 1 position. Following the film's success, it spawned a franchise, including a television movie sequel and a legacy sequel television series.

Plot
Scott Turner is a fastidious police investigator in quiet Cypress Beach, California, preparing to transfer to a more exciting position in Sacramento. Showing his replacement David Sutton around town, Scott says goodbye to his longtime friend Amos Reed, before the two investigators are called to the discovery of $8,000 in cash at the beach.

That evening, local seafood magnate Walter Boyett has an employee killed for stealing a matching bundle of cash; hearing the commotion, Amos is fatally stabbed by one of Boyett's men. Amos' body is found, and Scott is forced to take custody of Hooch, Amos' pet Dogue de Bordeaux and the only witness to his murder. He tries to leave Hooch with the new town veterinarian Emily Carson, who insists that caring for Hooch will be good for Scott.

Hooch's noisy, destructive nature immediately clashes with Scott's meticulous lifestyle. Returning from buying dog food to find Hooch has completely ransacked his home, a furious Scott kicks Hooch out, only for the dog to return with Emily's collie, Camille. Scott brings Camille back to the veterinary clinic, where Emily invites him inside, and they paint her house together as their mutual attraction begins to flourish.

Scott takes Hooch to the police precinct, where a wedding is being held across the street. Hooch recognizes the wedding photographer as Amos' killer and gives chase. Although the man escapes, Scott identifies him as Zack Gregory, a Boyett Seafood employee and former Marine with several prior arrests; Amos' stab wound indicated that his killer had special forces training, and his regular complaints about suspicious activity at Boyett's factory lead Scott to suspect that the company is smuggling drugs.

Realizing that Hooch misses Amos and his old life, Scott begins to bond with the dog. He convinces Police Chief Howard Hyde to authorize a raid of the Boyett Seafood factory, but their search turns up empty. Frustrated by this dead end, Scott meets with Emily, leading them to spend the night together. In a eureka moment, Scott realizes that Boyett Seafood is not importing illegal goods, but somehow exporting illicit money.

Scott takes Hooch to stake-out the factory, and David joins them with the $8,000 recovered from the beach. Hooch follows the scent of the plastic bag of money, leading them to find another identical bag. Tracking Zack Gregory to the Lazy Acres Motel, Scott questions the clerk but is captured by Gregory. He orders Scott into his Cadillac Coupe de Ville, but Scott crashes the car, propelling Gregory through the windshield, and interrogates him with assistance from Hooch.

Returning to the factory with Hooch, Scott is unexpectedly joined by Chief Hyde. Scott deduces that Hyde is involved with Boyett's money laundering operation, hiding the bags of cash inside the blocks of ice that refrigerate the seafood shipments. Boyett ambushes Scott and a gunfight ensues, and Hooch subdues Boyett but is shot. Hyde kills Boyett and coerces Scott to help him pin everything on Boyett, but is bitten by Hooch; in the struggle for the gun, Hyde is shot dead. Scott races Hooch to Emily's clinic, where the mortally wounded dog dies in his arms.

Some time later, Scott has been made police chief, with David as his lead investigator. Scott is married to a pregnant Emily, now caring for Camille and her litter of puppies, one of whom looks and acts exactly like Hooch.

Production
Hooch's real name was Beasley, and he was a Dogue de Bordeaux (French mastiff). He had a stunt double named Igor, and Animal Makers created an exact replica of Hooch for the death scene. Beasley was born in a dog kennel in Merrimac, Wisconsin, owned by Peter Curley. Beasley was later purchased along with three other dogs for production of the film. The dogs were trained by Clint Rowe, who makes a brief appearance in the film as an ASPCA officer. Beasley died in 1992, aged 14.

It was rumored for years — and confirmed by their friend, actor and director Ron Howard in 2020 — that Henry Winkler, the original director, and Hanks had a falling-out on the set which led to Winkler's replacement by Spottiswoode. According to Winkler, he was fired thirteen days into the production by studio executive Jeffrey Katzenberg. Winkler said of his firing: "Let's just say I got along better with Hooch than I did with Turner."

Though primarily filmed in San Pedro, on locations scenes were also filmed in Monterey, Pacific Grove, and Moss Landing, California. "Cypress Beach" is fictional, using mostly Pacific Grove for shots such as the police department, the wedding foot chase, and the car chase down Ocean View Ave.

Hanks later said that Turner & Hooch was one of the more demanding experiences he had making a film because he had to act around the dog's reactions. In a 2001 interview with Larry King, Hanks recalled: "There's one scene in there, it's a stakeout scene. I'm staking out a scene of a crime with my dog Hooch. And we shot that scene for 16 hours with three different [cameras], they were always rotating. We had a car on the set that was surrounded by bungee-cams, literally cameras that were hanging from bungee-cords. And the whole thing was about, whatever this dog does, I react to. We will not ask the dog to do anything specifically, this dog will just do things".

Box office
The film was a box office success, opening in first place at $12,211,042. It grossed a domestic total of $71,079,915 on a budget of $13 million.

Critical response
Turner & Hooch gained a mixed response from critics, with a 50% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 28 reviews. The critical consensus reads: "Tom Hanks makes Turner and Hooch more entertaining than it might look on paper, but ultimately, this is still a deeply silly comedy about a cop and a canine".

Critics praised Hanks' performance, The Odd Couple-like plot, and the chemistry between the actor and the dog, with Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times writing, "They work together with the seeming near-telepathic sensitivity of longtime vaudeville partners." He added, "One reason 'Big' worked well was the unself-conscious way that Hanks projects boyish qualities of enthusiasm, curiosity, petulance, candor, spontaneity. He really looks and acts like a kid at heart, and, in this movie, he looks like a fussbudget of a kid who needs a good, big, sloppy dog to warm him out."

The screenplay, which is attributed to five different writers, was criticized for its dissonant jumble of genres, including a buddy cop film, a man-and-his-dog film, a crime film, and a romance. Wilmington commented, "It’s good that 'Turner and Hooch' has this chemistry at its center, due to the actors and to Beasley's ingenious trainer, Clint Rowe, because it's another movie that seems stranded without a script, somewhere south of the last deal and east of the fifth rewrite."

Caryn James of The New York Times gave a mixed review but concluded: "Mr. Hanks is a brilliant understated comedian, who rises to the level of his best material, as he did in Big and who has the intelligence and charm to rise above his weaker roles. He is the best part of this film, first screaming at Hooch and threatening death, then getting so friendly he shares a bite of the dog's biscuit. He even tries a funny human version of Hooch's jowl-shaking. It isn't his fault that the five writers don't come up with five funny lines or one exciting scene." The film was also compared to K-9, another dog and cop buddy film that was released earlier that year.

In The Washington Post, Desson Thomson wrote, "We all know Tom's gonna warm up to that pooch Hooch, because in Hollywood a dog is always man's best friend. And Hanks, who can even grace a film such as 'The 'Burbs,' is always a movie's best friend." Variety wrote, "Until its grossly miscalculated bummer of an ending, Turner & Hooch is a routine but amiable cop-and-dog comedy enlivened by the charm of Tom Hanks and his homely-as-sin canine partner."

In popular culture
Turner & Hooch has been referred to in various films and television shows, including the NBC/ABC medical sitcom Scrubs, in which main characters J.D. and Turk modify shift schedules so that Doctors Turner and Hooch are teamed up as a surgical team in the episode "My Faith in Humanity". In the episode, Doctor Turner was played by Jim Hanks, Tom Hanks' brother. Another episode had Turk offended at JD's assumption that Turner and Hooch was an interracial buddy movie, an assumption made based on the aforementioned Hooch.

In the second season of Castle, Beckett and Castle compare themselves to Turner and Hooch. This comparison returned in the Castle season 7 episode "Kill Switch".

During an appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, O'Brien gave Tom Hanks a preserved dog skeleton, claiming it was his old friend Hooch. As one of O'Brien's first guests on The Tonight Show, Hanks improvised a song from an alleged Turner & Hooch stage musical. During the 2006 Academy Awards, Tom Hanks played in a segment about acceptance speeches that ran on too long. In his comedic lengthy speech, he thanked Hooch.

The 2014 Tamil film Naaigal Jaakirathai is based on this film.

Lawsuit
In April 2015, actor Richard Dreyfuss and Christine Turner Wagner, widow of Turner & Hooch producer Raymond Wagner, sued The Walt Disney Company over profits from Turner & Hooch and What About Bob? (1991), a Touchstone release Dreyfuss had starred in. They accused Disney of refusing to allow a firm specializing in profit participation to audit the returns from the movies. Dreyfuss withdrew his claim a day later. Disney eventually allowed the audit to proceed. The auditors determined that Disney had made a profit of $32 million and that Wagner had been denied her share. Disney settled with Wagner in June 2018; the terms of the settlement were not disclosed.

Television series
NBC made a television pilot based on the film in 1990. Though the show was not ordered to series, the pilot was released as a television film. It aired in the summer with another dog pilot, "Poochinski" under the banner, "Two Dog Night".

In February 2020, a new television series remake was announced to be greenlit for the streaming service Disney+. Matt Nix developed the series along with an order of 12 episodes. Josh Peck portrays the ambitious and buttoned-up U.S. Marshal Scott Turner who inherits a big unruly dog coming to realise that the pet he did not want may be the partner he needs. In the same month Lyndsy Fonseca and Carra Patterson joined the cast as Laura, Scott's sister, and Jessica, Scott's partner, respectively. On March 6, Vanessa Lengies joined the cast as Erica, the chief trainer of the K-9 facility. The Disney+ series premiered on July 21, 2021.

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President's Park

President's Park, located in Downtown Washington, D.C., encompasses the White House and includes the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, the Treasury Building, and grounds; the White House Visitor Center; Lafayette Square; and The Ellipse. President's Park was the original name of Lafayette Square.

President's Park is administered by the National Park Service.

The park is officially referred to as President's Park or The White House and President's Park.

White House and adjacent buildings
In 1790, under the Residence Act, Philadelphia was designated as the nation's temporary capital while the permanent capital was constructed in Washington, D.C. Contests were held to solicit designs for both the United States Capitol and what was then called the President's House. James Hoban's design was selected, and he supervised the construction.

The new national capital in Washington, D.C., was finalized and opened in 1800.

The White House was later expanded with the addition of the West Wing and East Wing, which now houses the office of the president and presidential staff. The White House grounds include the South Lawn, Rose Garden, Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, and North Lawn.

To the west of the White House, across from the West Wing is the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, formerly the Department of State, War, and Navy, and to the east is the Treasury Building.

Lafayette Square
Lafayette Square is a 6.97 acre (28,191 m2) public park located directly north of the White House on H Street, bounded by Jackson Place on the west, Madison Place on the east, and Pennsylvania Avenue to the south. The square and the surrounding historic townhouse structures were designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1970. Planned as part of the pleasure grounds surrounding the Executive Mansion, this square was originally called "President's Park", which is now the name of the larger National Park Service unit. The park was separated from the White House grounds in 1804, when third President Thomas Jefferson had Pennsylvania Avenue cut through east–west. In 1824, the park was officially renamed in honor of the Marquis de Lafayette, the Frenchman and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783).

Lafayette Square has been used as a racetrack, a graveyard, a zoo, a slave market, an encampment for soldiers during the War of 1812, and many political protests and celebrations. Andrew Jackson Downing landscaped Lafayette Square in 1851 in the picturesque style.

The Ellipse
President's Park South, commonly called The Ellipse, is a 52 acre park located just south of the White House fence. The entire park is open to the public, and features various monuments within walking distance, including the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, and others.

The park was conceived in 1791, the first plan for the park was drawn up by Pierre (Peter) Charles L'Enfant. During the Civil War between 1861 and 1865, the grounds of the Ellipse and the not yet complete Washington Monument were used as corrals for horses, mules, and cattle, and as campsites for Union Army troops. The Army Corps of Engineers began landscaping work on the Ellipse in 1867 and worked on it through the late 1880s.

White House Visitor Center
The White House Visitor Center is located in the north end of the Herbert C. Hoover Building, which also houses the Department of Commerce, located off The Ellipse between 14th and 15th Streets on Pennsylvania Avenue NW,

Since the September 11 attacks, the visitor center no longer serves as a starting point for those going on a reserved tour of the White House. The various exhibits provide an alternative visitor experience for those not able to go on a tour. The themes of the six permanent exhibits are first families, symbols and images, White House architecture, White House interiors, the working White House, and ceremonies and celebrations. Other exhibits change throughout the year.

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Pico de São Tomé

Pico de São Tomé is the highest mountain in São Tomé and Príncipe at 2024 m elevation. It lies just west of the centre of São Tomé Island, in the Parque Natural Obô de São Tomé and in the Lembá District. The second highest point, Pico de Ana Chaves (5348 ft), lies about 3 km to its south east. The town Santa Catarina is 8 km to the west.

Description
The entire island of São Tomé is a massive shield volcano which rises from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, over 3000 m below sea level. It formed along the Cameroon line, a linear rift zone extending from Cameroon southwest into the Atlantic Ocean. Most of the lava erupted on São Tomé over the last million years has been basalt. The most recent activity was about 36,000 years ago.

On old maps of São Tomé and Príncipe, the mountain is named "Pico Gago Coutinho", after Portuguese naval officer Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho (1869–1959) who, together with Sacadura Cabral (1881–1924), was the first to cross the South Atlantic Ocean by air.

The mountain is clad in forest. On the lower slopes are plantations of coffee and cocoa, and higher up are large trees swathed in orchids, lichens and other epiphytes. The upper parts of the mountain, from 1400 m to its peak, are Afromontane cloud forest, often swathed in mist. On the highest areas, tree cover lessens and vegetation is shorter, while ferns make up a significant portion of plant diversity. Endemic species in this altitude are: Afrocarpus mannii, Balthasaria mannii, Psychotria guerkeana and P. nubicola.

The mountain can be climbed from two sides. One way starts above the Ponta Figo plantation and necessitates a camp at Pico Mesa at 1875 m. The summit can then be reached in about an hour before descending via Carvalho to the Bombaim Plantation house. The other route ascends from the botanic garden at Bom Sucesso to Carvalho where there is a rest area and camping facilities. On the next day, the summit can be reached with a descent being made to Ponta Figo. The ascent can be made in a single eighteen hour hike from Ponta Figo, but this does not allow much time for viewing the flora and fauna. The trek is not difficult but the often rainy weather tends to make the path very slippery.

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Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway

Cork, Bandon and South Coast Railway (CB&SCR), was an Irish gauge railway in Ireland. It opened in 1849 as the Cork and Bandon Railway (C&BR), changed its name to Cork Bandon and South Coast Railway in 1888 and became part of the Great Southern Railway (GSR) in 1924.

The CB&SCR served the south coast of County Cork between Cork and Bantry. It had a route length of 94 mi, all of it single track. Many road car routes connected with the line, including the route from Bantry to Killarney.

Following absorption into the GSR and the network could be referred to as the West Cork Railways or variations thereof, this also encompassing the former previously independent Cork and Macroom Direct Railway and the Timoleague and Courtmacsherry Railway.

History
The Cork and Bandon Railway was formed in 1845 and began operations on the 6+3/4 mi from Bandon to Ballinhassig from 1 August 1849, 25 seat horse omnibuses being used for transfers to and from Cork City. The 13+1/2 mi section from Ballinhassig to Cork opened to public services on 1 December 1851. The C&BR was financially challenged after by building the Bandon to Cork section which had some costly overruns and future extensions to the network were undertaken by independent companies some of which operated their own services for a number years.

Extensions to the railway
The Cork and Kinsale Junction Railway (C&KJR) company built the first extension to the railway to the port of Kinsale which opened in 1863 and was operated by the C&BR from the outset. The 11 mi branch left the main line some 13 mi from Cork at a station simply called Junction and was notable for some long 1 in 76 and 1 in 80 gradients. The C&BR completed purchase of the line from the C&KJR on 1 January 1880.

The West Cork Railway (WCR) was formed with the intention of extending the line to Skibbereen, the C&BR being in favour of such an extension but without the ability to raise the capital itself. The WCR opened the 17+3/4 mi section from Bandon to Dunmanway in June 1866 and operated the section itself hiring in rolling stock and locomotives from elsewhere. There were ongoing tensions between the WCR and C&BR especially at Bandon with independent stations and goods transfer disputes. The WCR itself was unable to resource the building of the 16 mi Dunmanway to Skibbereen section which was completed by the Ilen Valley Railway (IVR) opening in 1877. Following arbitration, the section was worked by the WCR. The operating situation agreed to was resolved on 1 January 1880 by running the network under a single operational management, the C&BR leasing the IVR until absorbing it in 1909 whilst concluding terms to absorb the WCR in October 1882.

12 May 1866 saw the opening of the independently operated Cork and Macroom Direct Railway (C&MDR) which initially used the Cork Albert Quay terminus before almost immediately branching off on a 24 mi line to Macroom. Toll charges and sharing difficulties led to C&MDR to use its own newly built terminus at Cork Capwell from 27 September 1879 with the connection C&BR severed soon thereafter.

The IVR completed an 11 mi branch from Drimoleague to Bantry which it leased to the C&BR to operate from 1 July 1881.

In 1886 Skibbereen became an interchange with the narrow gauge Schull and Skibbereen Railway.

The (from Clonakilty Junction), 9 mi, authorised by  (44 & 45 Vict. c. ccxvi), opened on 24 August 1886 and was operated by the C&BR. A 0.5 mi long siding for a flour mill owned by the Bennett family at Shannonvale about 2 mi north of Clonakilty was notable for being horse-operated. The siding was created in 1887 and extended to the mill shortly thereafter and remained horse operated until closure in 1961. Horse traction was used uphill, and trains were worked by gravity downhill.

On 21 September 1887 a draft bill was submitted to the company's board. The draft would give the C&BR powers to construct a 1 mi line to avoid Gogginshill Tunnel, at an estimated cost of £10,702. Other powers to be granted included a connecting line to the Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway, extensions to Cork's quays, and closure of the Gas Works level crossing. Cork Corporation objected to the quay line and level crossing closure, and the connection to the Cork, Blackrock and Passage was defeated. The  (51 & 52 Vict. c. lxxxvii) passed on 5 July, changing the name of the C&BR to the Cork Bandon and South Coast Railway (CB&SCR). Powers to build the line avoiding Gogginshill Tunnel were granted in this act of Parliament, but the line was never built.

The Timoleague and Courtmacsherry Railway opened and operated as a 9 mi independent branch from Ballinascarthy on the Clonakilty branch with stations at Skeaf, Timoleague and terminated at the seaside village at Courtmacsherry.

22 October 1892 saw the opening of an extension of the Bantry branch by 1+1/4 mi by another company, the Bantry Extension Railway, through to the pier at Bantry Bay, the CB&SCR again leasing the line. Direct passenger services onto the pier were introduced in 1908 to connect with Bantry Bay steamers. These services ceased in 1936 and the pier was dismantled in 1949.

An 8 mi extension from Skibbereen to Baltimore by the was operated by the CB&SCR from May 1893. Baltimore was a port on the southernmost extent of Ireland and increased the length of the CB&SCR to 61+1/4 mi.

1 January 1912 saw Cork City Railways creating a connection between the CB&SCR and the rest of the Irish rail network by running a road tramway across the road bridges over the River Lee from immediately before Cork Albert Quay across to the Great Southern and Western Railway at Glanmire Road.

The CB&SCR was subject to various damaging incidents during the 1922—1923 Irish Civil War, the most damaging to the railway being the partial destruction of the Chetwynd Viaduct on 9 August 1922. Passenger services were restored between Cork and Bandon on 20 February 1923, with full service across the network being restored on 23 May.

GSR and CIÉ years
The CB&SCR, Great Southern and Western Railway, and Midland Great Western Railway were amalgamated into the Great Southern Railway in 1924. It then amalgamated with the Dublin and South Eastern Railway to form the Great Southern Railways in 1925, absorbing the smaller railways within the Irish Free State. An early action of the new combined management was to re-instate the connection between the former CB&SCR and C&MDR railways so the line from Macroom could use the terminus at Cork Albert Quay to achieve some operating economies.

Due to mounting losses the Kinsale branch was closed on 31 August 1931. A parliamentary question asked in February 1934 sought to prevent the line from being lifted, but the relevant minister lacked the power to do so. The line was fully lifted that summer. The junction station remained open, being renamed Crossbarry in October 1936.

The GSR was consolidated into Córas Iompair Éireann in 1945.

CIÉ introduced AEC railcars to the railway in 1954.

Closure
Due to economic problems, competition from road traffic and falling passenger numbers, the line closed on 1 April 1961. The planned closure of the railway network met with strong local opposition, including the establishment of the West Cork Railways Association. At a meeting of Cork County Council's Southern Committee on 3 October 1960, councillors were very critical of CIÉ's running of the line.

A report published by a local pressure group in 2022 suggested that the railway in West Cork could feasibly return. This suggestion was rejected by Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan.

Route
The system was completely built as single track with passing facilities provided at most stations. As a condition of loans from the Board of Works some infrastructure on the main line was built to accommodate later conversion to double track, this had implications for costs particularly at Gogginshill Tunnel.

Rocksavage works
The Rocksavage works and yard serviced the CB&SCR rolling stock and was situated at the south end of the site encompassing the Cork Albert Quay terminus complex. The works built a single locomotive, the CB&SCR No. 7/GSR No. 478 in 1901 that was composed mostly of parts salvaged from other locomotives. On amalgamation to the GSR in 1925 major repair work was transferred to Inchicore with Rocksavage being used for light repairs.

Chetwynd Viaduct
The Chetwynd Viaduct carried the line over a valley and the main Bandon road (now the N71) between the townlands of Chetwynd and Rochfordstown about 2 mi southwest of Cork city. It was designed by Charles Nixon (a former pupil of I.K. Brunel), and built between 1849 and 1851 by Fox, Henderson and Co, which also built the Crystal Palace in London.

The 100 ft cast iron ribs were cast on site. When in situ they had transverse diagonal bracing and lattice spandrels that supported a deck of iron plates. These in turn supported the permanent way. The viaduct is 91 ft high, has four 110 ft spans, each span composed of four cast iron arched ribs, carried on masonry piers 20 ft thick and 30 ft wide. The overall span between end abutments is 500 ft.

The structure was seriously damaged in the Irish Civil War in 1922, but was subsequently repaired. It was in regular use until the line was closed in 1961, though "recovery" trains continued to use it during the dismantling of the line until at least 1965. The bulk of the decking was in place as late as 1970, other than at the ends, but this was all subsequently removed for safety reasons.

Gogginshill Tunnel
The Gogginshill Tunnel near Ballinhassig in County Cork, was constructed between February 1850 and December 1851 by 300 men working day and night. There are three ventilation shafts and the tunnel is lined with brick, which was added between 1889 and 1890 after some minor collapses of the rock face.

It is the longest abandoned railway tunnel within the Republic of Ireland, measuring 906 yards (828 metres) end to end.

Halfway Viaduct
The Viaduct is located at Halfway, between Innishannon and Ballinhassig, c.30m above the valley floor. It is a three arch viaduct of masonry construction.

Kilpatrick Tunnel
The Kilpatrick (Innishannon) tunnel is 122 meters in length and located less than 1 km west of Inishannon, just before the River Bandon crossing.

Services
Passenger services on the C&BR and CB&SCR were of low frequency with most routes seeing up to a handful of trains each way a most, with connections being of poor quality at times.

Regular diesel railcar operations began on the Cork to Bantry service from 28 May 1954 and permitted a reduction in journey time of 38 minutes. Railcars and the 550 hp C-Class diesel locomotives had replaced steam on all but a freight service to Courtmacsherry by July 1957. The large A class locomotives were used on 2 trial runs, one going to Skibbereen and another going to Clonakilty.

1948 Timetable
On the right is the Cork to Bantry passenger timetable that was operational from 1948 until the closure in 1961. A few points may be noted from it:
 * Travel time was about 2 hours. In 2008, a car journey (without the nine intermittent stops) is less than 30 minutes faster, according to the AA website.
 * It was not possible to make a same-day return journey from Bandon to Dublin as the Cork express train left at 9:00 am (arriving at 12:00 pm) and departed at 2:25 pm from Heuston (which would have allowed the 6:00 pm connection to Bandon to be made though).

Rolling stock
Following the 1924 grouping the Great Southern Railway inherited 20 locomotives CB&SCR. At some point the CB&SCR was recorded as having 68 coaching vehicles and 455 goods vehicles.

Locomotives
Over 40 steam locomotives were used by the C&BR/CB&SCR, mostly of the tank variety though some early examples had tenders. The most notable are generally considered to be the 4-6-0T Bandon Tanks build by Beyer, Peacock & Company between 1908 and 1920. Also of note are two Baldwin locomotives, the 0-6-2ST design of 1900 being the only instance of steam locomotives supplied from America to Ireland.

Livery
The locomotives and carriages were various shades of olive green often with yellow lining.

Sources and further reading

 * Hume, Robert,"The mystery crash of the West Cork train that never reached Dunmanway", Southern Star 13 May 2017, p.9
 * O'Donovan, Daniel, On removal of Bantry line Durrus, Bantry, (oral history)
 * Hume, Robert,"The mystery crash of the West Cork train that never reached Dunmanway", Southern Star 13 May 2017, p.9
 * O'Donovan, Daniel, On removal of Bantry line Durrus, Bantry, (oral history)
 * Hume, Robert,"The mystery crash of the West Cork train that never reached Dunmanway", Southern Star 13 May 2017, p.9
 * O'Donovan, Daniel, On removal of Bantry line Durrus, Bantry, (oral history)
 * Hume, Robert,"The mystery crash of the West Cork train that never reached Dunmanway", Southern Star 13 May 2017, p.9
 * O'Donovan, Daniel, On removal of Bantry line Durrus, Bantry, (oral history)
 * Hume, Robert,"The mystery crash of the West Cork train that never reached Dunmanway", Southern Star 13 May 2017, p.9
 * O'Donovan, Daniel, On removal of Bantry line Durrus, Bantry, (oral history)
 * O'Donovan, Daniel, On removal of Bantry line Durrus, Bantry, (oral history)
 * O'Donovan, Daniel, On removal of Bantry line Durrus, Bantry, (oral history)
 * O'Donovan, Daniel, On removal of Bantry line Durrus, Bantry, (oral history)

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Shaffer v. Heitner

Shaffer v. Heitner, 433 U.S. 186 (1977), is a United States corporate law case in which the Supreme Court of the United States established that a defendant's ownership of stock in a corporation incorporated within a state, without more, is insufficient to allow that state's courts to exercise jurisdiction over the defendant. The case set forth a framework for evaluating when a defendant will be deemed to have minimum contacts with the forum state sufficient for the exercise of jurisdiction to be consistent with due process under the Fourteenth Amendment.

Facts
Arnold Heitner, who as trustee owned one share of stock in Greyhound Corporation, a Delaware corporation, instituted a shareholder’s derivative suit in the Delaware Court of Chancery against 28 of the company's directors and officers. Most of these individuals resided outside Delaware. To secure jurisdiction over these defendants, at the outset of the litigation Heitner filed a motion for an order to "sequester" the shares of Greyhound stock owned by the defendants, meaning that they would be unable to sell the stock. The defendants were notified by certified mail and by publication of a legal notice in a newspaper.

By sequestering defendants' property, Delaware sought to exercise quasi in rem jurisdiction over the defendants. The defendants at issue were not subject to personal jurisdiction because they did not reside in Delaware and had not taken any actions in Delaware that were the subject matter of the lawsuit. However, because Delaware law deemed all stock in Delaware corporations to have a situs within the state, Delaware exercised jurisdiction over the stock itself. The defendants then had the choice of either filing an appearance in the lawsuit, thereby subjecting themselves to jurisdiction, or failing to appear to defend themselves, thus risking losing their stock.

The defendants responded by entering a special appearance in the Delaware court for the purpose of moving to quash service of process and to vacate the sequestration order, thus contesting Delaware's exercise of jurisdiction over them. They contended that none of them had ever set foot in Delaware or conducted any activities in that state. They contended that the ex parte sequestration procedure did not accord them due process of law as required by the Fourteenth Amendment, as construed by Supreme Court cases defining the requirements of personal jurisdiction, and that exercising quasi in rem jurisdiction over property in the forum state that was unrelated to the subject-matter of the litigation was constitutionally impermissible.

As the Supreme Court explained: The Delaware state court found that it had quasi in rem jurisdiction, based on a Delaware statute that declared stock owned in a Delaware corporation to be legally located 'in' Delaware. The primary purpose of 'sequestration' is not to secure possession of property pending a trial between resident debtors and creditors on the issue of who has the right to retain it. On the contrary, as here employed, 'sequestration' is a process used to compel the personal appearance of a nonresident defendant to answer and defend a suit brought against him in a court of equity. It is accomplished by the appointment of a sequestrator by this Court to seize and hold property of the nonresident located in this State subject to further Court order. If the defendant enters a general appearance, the sequestered property is routinely released, unless the plaintiff makes special application to continue its seizure, in which event the plaintiff has the burden of proof and persuasion. [Citations removed]

The defendants sought review by the United States Supreme Court, which granted certiorari.

Result
In an opinion written by Justice Thurgood Marshall, the Court determined that the minimum contacts rule of International Shoe Co. v. Washington applies to actions brought in rem as well as to ordinary "in personam" actions. Justice Marshall theorized that in rem actions would remain mostly unaffected by the ruling but "Type 2" quasi in rem actions (actions seizing property for the purpose of settling a dispute unrelated to that property) would be greatly affected because the mere ownership of property in a state is not a sufficient contact to subject the property owner to a lawsuit in that state, unless that property is the issue of the lawsuit. The state in which property is located will still generally have personal jurisdiction over disputes concerning the ownership of property within that state, because the owner will be receiving the benefits and protections of that state, while the state will have a strong interest in the peaceful resolution of disputes, and records and witnesses will probably be located therein.

Heitner argued that Delaware's interest in controlling the behavior of its corporations justified its assertion of personal jurisdiction over the defendants. The Court responded that this could be a reason to apply Delaware law in resolving the dispute, but that this did not need to take place in a Delaware forum.

Concurring opinions
Justices Lewis F. Powell, Jr. and John P. Stevens each authored concurring opinions. Both agreed with the outcome in this case, but differed on the question of whether the analysis would be the same if the property in question was real estate instead of stock. Powell would reserve judgment on whether ownership of real property would constitute minimum contacts. Stevens saw no in rem jurisdiction for stocks because of the lack of notice to purchasers of securities that the purchase may subject them to such jurisdiction, but would not say the same for real estate.

Dissenting opinion
Justice William J. Brennan, Jr. wrote a dissenting opinion, largely concurring in the Court's method of analyzing the jurisdictional issue, but disagreeing with the ultimate result. Brennan agreed that International Shoe required a determination whether the defendants had at least minimum contacts sufficient to subject them to jurisdiction in Delaware. However, he would have held that defendants did have such contacts because the directors voluntarily associated themselves with Delaware by becoming directors of a Delaware corporation. Justice William H. Rehnquist did not participate in the decision of the case.

title: Shaffer v. Heitner