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Larry Griswold

Laurens "Larry" V. Griswold (September 17, 1905 – August 24, 1996), known as "The Diving Fool", was an American gymnast and entertainer who was involved in the early development of the trampoline.

Griswold was a college level gymnast and tumbler while studying physical education at the University of Iowa. While coaching at an acrobatic school in New York, he enjoyed performing in vaudeville shows. However, he decided to return to Iowa to become a teacher and in 1931, he became a gymnastics coach at the University of Iowa where he met George Nissen who was also a skilled gymnast & tumbler.

In 1933, Griswold organized many of the skilled athletes at the university into a circus team, putting on shows. He also developed an act in the swimming pool which involved Griswold clowning and performing tricks on the diving board. This would later be developed into an entertaining routine which he performed professionally for years. In one of his most famous routines he would pretend to be a drunken, uncoordinated man who was constantly staggering off of the diving board and its ladder as he ostensibly got ready for a big dive. Audiences would gasp as he repeatedly "fell" from the board only to seemingly catch himself at the last moment.

Griswold & Nissen worked together to develop the first prototype trampoline. Later they set up a company, the Griswold-Nissen Trampoline & Tumbling Company, to manufacture trampolines. However, initially sales were slow and Griswold sold out as his entertainment career was starting to thrive. In 1945, he found that he had to limit his immersion in water for health reasons and so changed his routine to use a trampoline disguised as a swimming pool in his diving act. This allowed him to play a wider variety of venues.

In the 1950s and 1960s, he took his physical clowning & acrobatic act all across the United States becoming one of the top draws in show business. He also performed on television variety shows, including the Frank Sinatra Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, Hollywood Palace and the Jackie Gleason Show. He toured internationally performing lavish shows in the United Kingdom, France and Japan before settling down for several years as a regular performer in the Folies Bergère.

Griswold's interest in trampolining and education did not stop with the development of his entertainment career. In 1941, he wrote Trampoline Tumbling, the first textbook for the sport of trampolining. In 1971, with George Nissen, he founded the United States Tumbling & Trampoline Association (USTA). They honoured him by inducting him into their Hall of Fame and by the naming of the Griswold-Nissen Cup for outstanding trampolinists.

In 1973, Griswold had a fall while performing in Chicago and suffered a career-ending injury. His show continued with replacement performers he had trained in preparation for his retirement.

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Malesia
What is malesia? Is it the name of a country Malaysia? Gross 14:57, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Malesia is a biogeographical region; explained on its page - MPF 23:26, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Fender Squier Standard Telecaster has an agathis body
I suggest the addition of a well known guitar which uses Agathis. The Fender Squier Standard Telecaster has an agathis body. Stealthorpe (talk) 17:40, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Jurassic distribution of which group?
In the first paragraph, where it discusses Jurassic distribution, does "they" refer to Agathis or the Araucariaceae in general? The text isn't very clear. 75.213.102.72 (talk) 23:13, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Commercial link removed
I removed some material and a link relating to ancient kauri, thinking I would place it on the A. australis page which was the species involved. On closer look the link was a commercial so I won't place it or the material anywhere. Kahuroa (talk) 20:50, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

Rot resistant? Really?
Although Kauri is a fantastic wood for many purposes. It is not really rot "resistant". This term should be reserved for wood such as Western Red Cedar and Teak that contain natural toxins that kill fungus.Cedar is regularly used for house cladding without paint etc. Kauri needs protection from the elements -like most timber- ie paint, varnish or epoxy resin as a water barrier. On the other hand it doesnt rot as quickly as say Pinus Radiata or Kahikatea (NZ white pine). Kauri would never be used in a lightweight hull designed for racing as it is simply too heavy.On a cruising boat it is great, though these days it is usually reserved for areas that are finished bright like the cockpit or cabin. Nz Kauri is now very expensive -if you can get it at all(apart from swamp Kauri or recycled Kauri). In fact most Kauri sold on Nz now comes from Fiji. Fijian Kauri has similar appearance and characteristics. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.58.184.199 (talk) 09:25, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

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Claim that a photo of a seed is mislabelled
The following note was added to the article in the edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Agathis&diff=804439052&oldid=787844881. I have moved the note here. I don't know whether the statement is true.

"The provided photo identified as a kauri Agathis australis seed is clearly NOT a seed, but a mismatched image." Nurg (talk) 22:41, 9 February 2018 (UTC)

 * The photo is indeed not a seed, but a segment or scale from the female cone. A seed would have lain on the scale. I have fixed the image caption. Junglenut |Talk 22:56, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

Distribution map
What do the numbered, coloured boxes represent in the distribution map? Density? Species varieties? Something else? Wokepedian (talk) 04:38, 17 July 2022 (UTC)

Authority dates
Please use this talkpage rather than my usertalk. I get that when mentioning botanical authorities the date of publication are often omitted, but this is not universal, and you did not attempt to re-add this information elsewhere in the article. I would be okay with removing the dates provided they are included elsewhere in the article. Hemiauchenia (talk) 19:04, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

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Too Tough to Die

Too Tough to Die is the eighth studio album by the American punk rock band Ramones. It was released on October 1, 1984, and is the first Ramones record to feature Richie Ramone on drums. With ex-member Tommy Ramone producing (credited as T. Erdelyi), the recording process was similar to that of the band's 1976 self-titled debut album. Likewise, the record's style—both lyrically and compositionally—saw the band returning to their roots. The photograph on the album cover, which features silhouettes of the band members, resulted from a "lucky accident" after photographer George DuBose's camera malfunctioned.

The album's overall style leaned toward that of punk rock and heavy metal music, rather than pop music which had been a focus of several of the band's previous albums. Too Tough to Die borrows upon elements such as guitar riffs from 1983's Subterranean Jungle. For the second time, after "Time Bomb" on Subterranean Jungle, bassist Dee Dee Ramone performs lead vocals on the album and receives vocal credits for two tracks. The album also contains the band's only instrumental piece, "Durango 95".

Critics appreciated the band's return to earlier methods of writing, recording, and production, noting they had strayed from the pop music genre. Despite critical acclaim, Too Tough to Die performed poorly in album sales. At this point in their career, the album was the band's lowest peaking record on the Billboard 200.

Recording and production
The recording of Too Tough to Die began in the summer of 1984 at the Media Sound Studios in New York City. The album's recording process used similar techniques which were used to record their 1976 eponymous album, with Rolling Stone's Kurt Loder describing it as "virtually live in the studio". The album marked the debut of new drummer Richie Ramone, who replaced Marky Ramone after he was fired for excessive drinking. The album's songs were written mainly by bassist Dee Dee Ramone and guitarist Johnny Ramone, while lead singer Joey Ramone did not participate in the process as much as usual because he "wasn't feeling well" prior to recording. Joey did, however, write the songs "No Go" and "Daytime Dilemma (Dangers of Love)" after receiving help with the guitar part for the latter song by Daniel Rey. Johnny Ramone recalled:

"As we got ready to make Too Tough To Die, we were focused in the same direction, and it made a difference. We knew we needed to get back to the kind of harder material we'd become known for. The pop stuff hadn't really worked, and we knew we were much better off doing what we did best."

Previous Ramones records featured celebrity record producers in an attempt to gain some sort of popularity. Since this method did not yield the results which they were expecting, Sire Records contacted the producers of 1978's Road to Ruin: Ed Stasium and ex-band member Tommy Ramone. Too Tough to Die has less production value than previous recordings by the Ramones. Because critics often disapproved of the sound quality on End of the Century and Pleasant Dreams, the band leaned towards a harsher sound.

Too Tough to Die was also the first of three studio albums that were licensed from Sire Records to the independent record label Beggars Banquet Records for release in the UK. The deal saw the group's work promoted better and resulted placings on the UK album and singles charts. The group had not charted in the UK since 1980's End of the Century.

Cover art
The cover photo for the album was taken by photographer George DuBose in a tunnel in Central Park, New York City, near the Central Park Zoo. In the photo, the band members are standing side-by-side underneath an underpass arch, with their dark silhouettes illuminated in the background with blue lighting and dry ice fog. Johnny wanted the artwork to conceptually refer to the film A Clockwork Orange, released in 1971. DuBose relates: "Johnny wanted a picture that would evoke memories of the gang in A Clockwork Orange." DuBose also stated that the band did not need their faces on the cover because they had grown significantly in popularity; however, he originally intended to include their faces. The photograph on the album cover was a "lucky accident" after DuBose's flashes failed to fire and he unintentionally shot the band members in silhouette.

Music and compositions
Just as the recording methods resembled that of the band's 1970s era, the musical style which they produced also favored the band's earlier approach to punk rock. Even though "Howling at the Moon (Sha-La-La)" featured a synthpop feel, the overall sound leaned more toward heavy metal music rather than pop music, which had been a major focus of the band's writing process throughout the 1980s. Authors Scott Schinder and Andy Schwartz explained:

"With Tommy Ramone/Erdelyi and Ed Stasium returning as producers, the album was, to some degree, the Ramones' response to America's burgeoning hard-core punk scene, and did much to restore the band's musical credibility ... Too Tough to Die reclaimed the Ramone's original values of energy, catchiness, and brevity without resorting to retro pandering. It also featured the band's strongest set of songs since Rocket to Russia, with Dee Dee (who wrote or co-wrote nine of the album's thirteen songs) demonstrating a thoughtful, introspective edge on 'I'm Not Afraid of Life' and an apocalyptic social conscience on 'Planet Earth 1988.'"

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote that the album uses the "big guitar riffs" featured on Subterranean Jungle and transfigures them to be "shorter and heavier." The songs featured on the album are mostly rather short and have a considerably fast tempo, which was a typical quality of the band's early work. The album features the only instrumental piece which the band released: "Durango 95", which clocks in at under a minute, being the shortest Ramones track on a studio album. (The album also includes one of the longest Ramones studio recordings, "Daytime Dilemma (Dangers of Love)" on side two.) The title of "Durango 95" is a reference to a car driven in A Clockwork Orange. "Durango 95" and "Wart Hog" are two songs which are Septuple meter in certain parts of both songs, a meter which is extremely rare in punk rock.

Too Tough to Die is also the second Ramones release which did not feature lead singer Joey Ramone on each track; both "Wart Hog" and "Endless Vacation" feature bassist Dee Dee Ramone as lead vocalist, while "Durango 95" is a short instrumental. Initially, "Wart Hog"'s appearance on the album was declined by Joey Ramone, but guitarist Johnny Ramone argued for including the song, later stating, "If I hadn't lobbied for them, they wouldn't be on the [album]." The lyrics to the song were not included on the initial printing of the album because Sire considered the drug-inspired lyrics to be too explicit for potential fans. In his autobiography, Commando, Johnny Ramone stated the album title was in reference to a near fatal beating he received in 1983 that required emergency brain surgery.

Reception
Too Tough to Die was generally well received by critics. Music critic Robert Christgau suggested that the album's sound was a retreat to their earlier styles "with the cleansing minimalism of their original conception evoked", saying their initial sound was "augmented rather than recycled." Kurt Loder of Rolling Stone concluded his review by saying that "Too Tough to Die is a return to fighting trim by the kings of stripped-down rock & roll." In a retrospective review, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called it "the last great record [the Ramones] would ever make" and noted that the use of Tommy Ramone as the album's producer was beneficial since it aided in the group returning "to simple, scathing punk rock." He also stated that the album reads "like a reaction to hardcore punk", while still maintaining their more melodic style in songs.

The album was the band's lowest peaking record at that point in their career, debuting at number 171 on the US Billboard 200. It also peaked at number 49 on the Swedish Sverigetopplistan chart, and in a revival of fortunes spent three weeks on the UK Albums Chart where it peaked at number 63. The only single released from the album, "Howling at the Moon (Sha-La-La)" (backed with "Wart Hog" in the US and "Chasing the Night" in the UK) peaked at number 85 on the UK Singles Chart, where it spent two weeks.

Guitar World magazine placed the album on their list of "New Sensations: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1984".

Track listing
Track listing adapted from the Too Tough to Die expanded edition liner notes.

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 * Tracks 14 and 15 released in January 1985 as B-sides to the UK single release of "Howling at the Moon (Sha-La-La)".
 * Tracks 14-16, 18, 21-25 produced by T. Erdelyi and Ed Stasium. Tracks 17, 19 and 20 produced and mixed by T. Erdelyi.
 * Tracks 16–25 previously unissued. Recorded at Daily Planet Studios, New York, 1984.

Personnel
Personnel adapted from the Too Tough to Die expanded edition liner notes, except where noted.

Ramones
 * Joey Ramone – lead vocals (tracks 1-3, 6-11, 13-18, 21-23, 25)
 * Johnny Ramone – guitar
 * Dee Dee Ramone – bass, backing vocals, lead vocals (tracks 5, 12, 17, 19, 20, 23, 24)
 * Richie Ramone – drums, backing vocals

Additional musicians
 * Walter Lure – additional guitar
 * Jerry Harrison – synthesizer (track 7)
 * Benmont Tench – keyboards (track 8)
 * Ed Stasium – additional guitar (uncredited)
 * David A. Stewart – additional guitar (track 8) (uncredited)
 * Daniel Rey – additional guitar (track 9) (uncredited)

Production
 * Tommy Ramone (credited as T. Erdelyi) – producer, associate producer (track 8)
 * Ed Stasium – producer, associate producer (track 8), engineer
 * David A. Stewart – producer (track 8)
 * Mark Cobrin – assistant engineer
 * Steven Rinkoff – assistant engineer
 * Glenn Rosenstein – assistant mixing engineer
 * Jack Skinner – mastering
 * Tony Wright – cover design
 * George DuBose – photography

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Grażyna Szapołowska

Grażyna Szapołowska (born 19 September 1953) is a Polish film and theatre actress.

Life and career
She was born in Bydgoszcz. The father was of Latvian-Polish descent, and mother, Wanda, was Lithuanian-Polish descent. She has a sister, Lidia, who is 11 years older. After passing the baccalauréat she joined at Wroclaw Theatre of Pantomime. In 1977 she graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw. From 1977 until 1984 she was in the theatrical company of the National Theatre, Warsaw.

She starred in Károly Makk's 1982 Hungarian film Another Way which portrays a lesbian relationship, A Short Film About Love (1988) by Polish film director Krzysztof Kieślowski, and in its earlier and shorter form the sixth episode of Dekalog. It was she who suggested to Kieslowski the different ending of the full-length version. For that role she received the Polish Film Award at the 13th Gdynia Film Festival. She had previously starred in another Kieslowski film, Bez końca. She is also widely known for her portrayal of Telimena in Andrzej Wajda's 1999 film Pan Tadeusz, an adaptation of Adam Mickiewicz's epic poem of the same name.

In 2008 she was one of the contestants of the Polish version of Soapstar Superstar reality singing competition.

She also performed on stage as an interpreter of an actor's song. She sings in a soprano.

Filmography

 * 1974 Najważniejszy dzień życia, episode Telefon (Telephone)
 * 1977 Parada oszustów (Chet's Parade)
 * 1978 Zapach ziemi (The Smell of Earth)
 * 1978 Osiemdziesięciu huzarów (80 Hussars)
 * 1981 Wielka majówka (The Big Picnic)
 * 1982 Wielki Szu (Big Shar)
 * 1982 Egymásra nézve (Another Way)
 * 1983 Lata dwudzieste... lata trzydzieste... (The Twenties, the Thirties )
 * 1983 Nadzór (Custody)
 * 1984 Bez końca (No End)
 * 1984 Szirmok, virágok, koszorúk (The Flowers of Reverie)
 * 1984 Przyspieszenie (To accelerate)
 * 1985 Medium
 * 1985 By Touch (Przez dotyk)
 * 1986 Magnat (The Magnate)
 * 1986 Biała wizytówka (White visiting-card)
 * 1987 Tabu (Taboo)
 * 1987 Zagon
 * 1987 Первая встреча, последняя встреча (СССР)
 * 1988 Hanussen
 * 1988 Krótki film o miłości (A Short Film About Love)
 * 1989 A Tale of Adam Mickiewicz's 'Forefathers' Eve'
 * 1991 Żegnaj, cudzoziemko (Goodbye foreigner)
 * 1991 Lebewohl, Fremde
 * 1991 The Conviction
 * 1992 Piękna nieznajoma (A Beautiful Stranger)
 * 1993 Piazza di Spagna (The Spanish Square)
 * 1997 Kroniki domowe
 * 1997 Our God's Brother (film)
 * 1999 Pan Tadeusz (Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania)
 * 2004 Nachbarinnen (Wanted!)
 * 2005 Ewa paliła Camele
 * 2005 Karol: A Man Who Became Pope
 * 2006 Just Love Me
 * 2006 Magda M.
 * 2007 Ryś
 * 2007 Jutro idziemy do kina
 * 2008 Nie kłam kochanie
 * 2011 Easter Goes Polish
 * 2013 Run Boy Run as Ewa Staniak
 * 2017 Nie kłam kochanie

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Ford Model Y

The Ford Model Y is an automobile that was produced by Ford Britain, Ford SAF and Ford Germany from 1932 to 1937. It was the first Ford automobile specifically designed for markets outside the United States, replacing the Model A in Europe.

Production locations
It was in production in England, where it is sometimes remembered as the "Ford Eight", reflecting its fiscal horsepower rating, from 1932 until September 1937,

The car was also produced in France (where it was known as the Ford 6 CV, despite actually falling within the 5CV French car tax band) from 1932 to 1934, and in Germany as the Ford Köln from 1933 to 1936.

Smaller numbers were assembled in Australia (where a coupé version was also produced), Ireland (branded as the Baby Ford), Japan, Latvia (branded as the Ford Junior) and in Spain nicknamed as the Ford Forito. Plans to build it in the U.S. were scrubbed when a cost accounting showed that it would only be slightly cheaper to build than the Ford Model B.

The car
The car was powered by a 933 cc 8 (RAC)hp Ford sidevalve engine. The little Ford was available in two- and four-door versions, sold as the 'Tudor' (a pun on 'two-door') and the 'Fordor' (Ford/four-door) respectively. Originally each body was also available in standard or better-equipped 'DeLuxe' trim levels, but with the introduction of the 10hp Model C in late 1934, also available in DeLuxe form, these better-equipped versions of the Model Y were dropped from sale. The Model Y was now built to a single specification that was essentially the same as the previous standard guise but with a small number of features carried over from the old DeLuxe and the model was named the Popular for marketing purposes. This standardisation allowed production of the Model Y to be increased while the production cost per car was decreased. Over the next 12 months improvements in the production process at Dagenham, further alterations to the specification and some minor components and the increasing sales of the Model C (which brought economies of scale for the parts shared with the Model Y/Popular) allowed the sale price of the car to be dropped further. In June 1935 Ford was able to announce that the Popular Tudor model would be sold for just £100, a price it would hold until July 1937. This was the first time a four-seater closed-bodied saloon car had sold in Britain for that price (the first British car to sell for £100, the 1931 Morris Minor SV, was a two-seater with a collapsible fabric roof and a wood-framed body).

The suspension was traditional Ford transverse leaf springs front and rear and the engine drove the rear wheels through a three-speed gearbox which, right from the start, featured synchromesh between the top two ratios. The maximum speed was just under 60 mph (95 km/h) and fuel consumption was 32 mpgimp.

Even by the standards of the time, the UK-built Ford 8, like its major competitor the Austin 7, was found noteworthy for its "almost unbelievable lack of brakes."

The Model Y also inspired copying by Morris Motors, with the Eight, and by Singer Motors, with the Bantam.

Evolution
For the first 14 months the original model with a short radiator grille was produced, this is known as the "short rad". After this in October 1933 the "long rad" model, with its longer radiator grille and front bumper with the characteristic dip was produced. By gradually improving production efficiency and by simplifying the body design the cost of a "Popular" Model Y was reduced to £100, making it the cheapest true 4-seater saloon ever, although most customers were persuaded to pay extra for a less austere version. Both 4-door (Fordor) and 2-door (Tudor) saloons were produced and these could be had either with a fixed roof, or the slightly more expensive sliding "sun" roof.

Additional body version
Also offered was an attractive 5 cwt van, which proved very popular with small businesses.

Ford did not produce an open-top car because it was thought that the chassis was too flexible, but several specialist coach builders produced a range of Model Y tourers.

Market reaction in Britain
Although of American design, the Model Y took the British market by storm, and when it was first introduced it made a major dent in the sales figures of Austin, Morris, Singer, and Hillman. It went on to take more than 50 per cent of the 8(RAC)HP sales.

Volumes
Some 175,000 Model Ys were produced worldwide (including 153,117 in Great Britain and 11,121 in Germany) and the 'Y' and 'C' Register contains approximately 1,250 survivors.

Ford Model C
In Britain the larger and faster 10(RAC)hp Model C never sold in such great numbers as the Model Y although there was a very attractive factory-produced tourer. In 1935 the styling was enhanced with some small modifications and the model was designated the CX.

In Germany the position was reversed. The locally produced Ford Model C was branded as the Ford Eifel, and remained in production for four years after the manufacturer had given up on the locally produced Type Y, the Ford Köln. The Köln was outcompeted by the Opel 1.0/1.2 litre, and only 11,121 Kölns were produced, while a more respectable 62,495 Eifels were manufactured between 1935 and 1940. There was never an 8hp Vauxhall equivalent to the Opel offering.

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Lord Chaitanya knows everything that happens in all three phases (past, present, and future, of time. He knows that in the future some demoni people will serve Lord Advaita.

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They will refer to Lord Advaita by the name "Shri Krishna". In this way they will reject the words of the true Vaishnavas.

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These sinners will thus disobey the devotees who affirm that Advaita is "the greatest Vaishnava".

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Many persons will consider themselves the followers of Lord Advaita, but they will not have the power to see how in the future they will be punished.

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Lord Chaitanya, the crest jewel of they who know everything, knew all this. Therefore He did something to try to stop this from happening.

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By punishing His mother, Lord Chaitanya showed the result that comes from offending Lord Advaita or any other Vaishnava.

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No one can protect a person who has offended a Vaishnava.

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Therefore one should avoid persons who offend Vaishnava.

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One should avoid an offender, even if the offender is otherwise very qualified. A little association with an offender will make one fall down.

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Who has the power to understand why the Lord gives punishment? By punishing His mother, He taught everyone.

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Anyone who blasphemes they who use the word `Vaishnava" to address Lord Advaita will be punished. He will perish.

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Lord Chaitanya is theSupreme Personality of Godhead, the master of all. To be called His follower is very great praise.

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Without any intention to deceive, Lord Chaitanya openly said that Lord Nityananda is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself.

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By Lord Nityananda's mercy I know Lord Chaitanya. By Lord Nityananda's mercy I know the Vaishnavas.

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By Lord Nityananda's mercy offenses are destroyed. By Lord Nityananda's mercy one attains devotion to Lord Vishnu.

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Blasphemy directed to Lord Nityananda's servants never enters my mouth. Day and night I happily sing Lord Chaitanya's glories

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I carefully serve Lord Nityananda's devotees. Lord Chaitanya is the life and wealth of Lord Nityananda's servants.

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A person who has only a little good fortune will not become Lord Nityananda's servant, for Lord Nityananda's servant is able to see Lord Chaitanya.

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Anyone who hears this story of Lord Visvarupa becomes a servant of the limitless Supreme Personality of Godhead. He feels that Lord Nityananda is his very life.

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Lord Nityananda and Lord Visvarupa do not have different bodies. This Mother Saci knew. Some other great souls also knew.

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Glory to Lord Nityananda, who takes shelter of Lord Chaitanya! Glory, glory to Lord Nityananda, who is thousand-faced Ananta Sesha!

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O Lord Nityananda, O king of Gauda-desa, glory to You! Who can attain Lord Chaitanya without first attaining Your mercy?

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Anyone who loses Lord Nityananda will not be happy in this life.

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Will I some day see Lord Chaitanya, Lord Nityananda, and their associates all thogether in one place?

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Lord Chaitanya is my master. With great faith and hope I meditate on Him within my heart.

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I bow down before Lord Advaita's feet. I pray that he will always be dear to me and that He will always stay in my thoughts.

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The two moons Shri Krishna Chaitanya and Shri Nityananda are my life and soul. I, Vrindavana dasa, sing the glories of Their feet. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.132.82.156 (talk) 13:44, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Nontheism
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Glee Club (UK politics)

The Glee Club is a traditional event at the twice-per-year Liberal Democrat Conference and the Liberal Assembly, consisting of attendees singing around a piano. It is a popular event in British politics and was a formative event in the lives of many British political leaders, including the former leader of the Labour Party, Michael Foot, amongst them. Foot described its opening song, "The Land", as the best political song he had come across, imbued with the democratic spirit, and designed to put fear in the hearts of the landlords.

Although the Glee Club has informally existed for many years, in 1967 the first songbook (entitled After the Count was Over) was published by the National League of Young Liberals. Songbooks have been produced since the 1975 by Liberator, and in 2009 the 20th edition of the Liberator Songbook was published – the 27th songbook in its publishing history.

It is often combined with the Liberal Revue, a series of sketches consisting mostly of in-jokes and irreverent takes on political matters.

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User:Pbevin

I have been running various online breast cancer resources since 1996 when my first wife Menya was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer.

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Office of Government Commerce

The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) was a UK Government Office established as part of HM Treasury in 2000. It was moved into the Efficiency and Reform Group of the Cabinet Office in 2010, before being closed in 2011.

Overview
A Review of Civil Procurement in Central Government was undertaken by Peter Gershon, then a company director, which had been requested in November 1998 by the Paymaster General and the Parliamentary Secretary to the Cabinet Office and was published in April 1999. This review recommended the establishment of a central procurement organisation within central government, which Gershon called the Office of Government Commerce. He noted in his report that the review had been initiated because of the then-Prime Minister Tony Blair's interest in a Ministerial Cabinet Committee report on Public Expenditure published the previous April.

The OGC operated through the Government Procurement Service, an executive agency now known as the Crown Commercial Service.

The purpose of the OGC was to support the procurement and acquisition process of public sector organisations in the UK through policy and process guidance and the negotiation of overarching service and provision frameworks. This was intended to improve value for money to the taxpayer, optimising the level of taxpayers equity directed towards the delivery of services. Similar organisations can be found in most western European countries, for instance Hansel Ltd. in Finland and Consip in Italy.

The OGC supported initiatives to encourage better supplier relations, sustainable procurement, the benefits of utilising smaller suppliers and the potential of eProcurement. Representing the UK at the European Union (EU), the organisation assisted with the public sector application of EU procurement rules within the United Kingdom.

Kelly Programme
In December 2003 Sir Christopher Kelly wrote for the OGC a Report to the Chancellor of the Exchequer: Increasing Competition and Improving Long-Term Capacity Planning in the Government Market Place, with an accompanying Action Plan, which included several findings related to the government’s ability to approach the market as a unified, knowledgeable client. An aim of the report was "to consider what further steps can be taken to increase competition and encourage better long-term capacity planning in markets where the Government possesses significant purchasing power". In response the OGC mandated its Government Marketplace Division to focus on implementing the report's recommendations by undertaking research on projected demand and supply to produce proposals for more strategic management of public sector procurement in specific markets; making improvements to two-way communication in the marketplace; and issuing guidance on market creation to stimulate competition. This programme of work has been referred to as the "Kelly Programme".

Best practice models
The organisation used to act as sponsor for best practices in project, programme, risk and service management:

 * Managing Successful Programmes (MSP)
 * Projects in Controlled Environments (PRINCE2)
 * Management of Risk (M_o_R)
 * Portfolio Management (MoP)
 * Value Management (MoV)
 * Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
 * Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices (P3O)

These areas of best practice are now owned jointly by the UK government and Capita, being managed by Axelos.

International role
The OGC was a member of Procurement G6, an informal group leading the use of framework agreements and e-procurement instruments in public procurement.

Logo
On 24 April 2008 it was reported in the Daily Telegraph that a new logo for OGC had been introduced at the cost of £14,000. The logo caused embarrassment to the organisation due to its unintended sexual suggestiveness (appearing to show a man masturbating) when rotated 90° clockwise. A spokesman for OGC said, "It is not inappropriate to an organisation that's looking to have a firm grip on Government spend."

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Michael Parks

Michael Parks (born Harry Samuel Parks; April 24, 1940 – May 9, 2017) was an American singer and actor who made numerous film and television appearances, notably starring in the 1969–1970 series Then Came Bronson. He was widely known for his work in his later years with filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, and Kevin Smith.

Career
In 1961, Parks portrayed the nephew of the character George MacMichael on the ABC sitcom The Real McCoys. In a Wagon Train episode airing April 10, 1963, Parks played Hamish Browne, in an episode titled "The Heather and Hamish Story". He appeared as Cal Leonard in the 1963 Perry Mason episode "The Case of Constant Doyle", in which Bette Davis played Constant Doyle. He gained recognition in the role of Adam in John Huston's The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966).

Parks was the star of the series Then Came Bronson from 1969 to 1970, in which he rode an iconic red Harley-Davidson Sportster, as he drifted from town to town. He sang "Wayfarin’ Stranger", a duet with pilot episode co-star Bonnie Bedelia, and later the theme song for the show, "Long Lonesome Highway", which became a No. 20 Billboard Hot 100 and No. 41 Hot Country Songs hit. "Long Lonesome Highway" also peaked at number 84 in Australia.

Parks recorded five albums under MGM Records (the label of the studio which produced the series) that charted including Closing The Gap (1969), Long Lonesome Highway (1970), and Blue.

After disputes with the producers of Bronson, Parks said he was informally blacklisted in Hollywood. Parks admitted he could be "difficult on the set" and also said he objected to producers wanting to make the series more violent. After the cancellation of Bronson, Parks didn't work in a major Hollywood production for several years, but he had regular small roles in independent or Canadian features throughout the 1970s, such as Between Friends (1973), although director Donald Shebib had trouble dealing with Parks, describing him as a "terrific actor in a lot of ways, but weird". Later in the same interview, Shebib accuses Parks of having been openly and aggressively anti-semitic.

He played in twelve episodes of ABC's The Colbys, a spin-off from Dynasty, first as Hoyt Parker, and then Phillip Colby during the second season (1986–1987). He appeared as Irish mob boss Tommy O'Shea in Death Wish V: The Face of Death (1994), French-Canadian drug runner Jean Renault in the ABC television series Twin Peaks, Dr. Banyard in Deceiver (1997), Texas Ranger Earl McGraw in From Dusk till Dawn (1996), and Ambrose Bierce in From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter (2000).

Parks played two roles in the Kill Bill film series, reprising the role of Earl McGraw in the first film (2003) and playing pimp Esteban Vihaio in the second film (2004). He again reprised the role of Earl McGraw in both segments of the film Grindhouse (2007), making his fourth appearance as the Texas Ranger. His son, James Parks, played the son of Earl McGraw in Kill Bill, From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money, Death Proof, and Planet Terror. Parks played a villain in Kevin Smith's horror films Red State (2011) and Tusk (2014).

Smith later announced on his podcast that Parks had recorded an album during Red State production, after Smith and producer Jon Gordon noticed his singing talent during filming. The album, titled The Red State Sessions, was released on August 15, 2011, as a download from the film's website.

Personal life
Parks was born in Corona, California to Harry Arthur Parks and Beatrice Adora Dunwoody. He drifted from job to job during his teenage years, including picking fruit, digging ditches, driving trucks, and fighting forest fires.

Parks married five times. His first marriage in 1956 at age 16 to Louise Johnson lasted until 1958 and produced a daughter. His second marriage in 1964 to actress Jan Moriarty lasted only a few months, ending with her apparent suicide from an overdose. His third marriage in 1968 to Carolyn Kay Carson produced a son, James. His fourth marriage to Alston Fenci, whom he married in 1987, ended in divorce in 1996. In 1997, he married Oriana. The union lasted until his death.

Death and reaction
Parks died on May 9, 2017, in his Los Angeles home at the age of 77 from undisclosed causes. He requested a full body burial at sea, which his wife attended alone following a public funeral held at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery.

Upon hearing the news, director Kevin Smith posted on his Instagram account "Michael was, and will likely forever remain, the best actor I've ever known. I wrote both Red State and Tusk for Parks, I loved his acting so much." He also included, "He was, hands-down, the most incredible thespian I ever had the pleasure to watch perform. And Parks brought out the absolute best in me every time he got near my set." In a Twitter post, director Robert Rodriguez referred to Michael Parks as "a true legend".

Documentary
Kevin Smith produced a documentary on the life and times of Michael Parks, directed by Michael's former assistant, Josh Roush. Titled Long Lonesome Highway, it covers his beginnings as an itinerant teenager hopping boxcars through being blacklisted in Hollywood, to his career resurgence at the hands of filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino. It stars James Parks, Kurt Russell, Haley Joel Osment, Robert Rodriguez, Leonard Maltin, Mickey Rourke, Justin Long, Wyatt Russell, Mark Frost, and others.

Discography
ALBUMS:
 * 1969 – Closing The Gap (MGM)
 * 1970 – Long Lonesome Highway (MGM)
 * 1970 – Blue (MGM)
 * 1970 – Lost & Found  (Verve)
 * 1971 – Best Of Michael Parks (MGM)
 * 1981 – You Don't Know Me  (First American)
 * 1998 – Coolin' Soup (Listen)
 * 2011 – The Red State Sessions (SModcast)

SINGLES:
 * 1969 - Tie Me To Your Apron Strings Again / Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon (MGM K14092) #117 Billboard's Bubbling Under chart
 * 1970 - Long Lonesome Highway / Mountain High (MGM K14104) #20 Billboard's Hot 100 chart
 * 1970 - Sally (Was A Gentle Woman) / Spend A Little, Save A Little (Give A Little Away) (MGM K14154)
 * 1970 - Big "T" Water / Won't You Ride in My Little Red Wagon (MGM K14363)
 * 1970 - I Was Born In Kentucky / Turn Around Little Mama (Verve VK10653)

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Frank McAveety

Frank McAveety (born 27 July 1962) is a Scottish Labour Party politician who served as Leader of Glasgow City Council from 2015 to 2017. He has been a councillor for the Shettleston ward of Glasgow. He was previously the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Glasgow Shettleston constituency from 1999 to 2011.

Early life
McAveety was born 27 July 1962 in Glasgow and brought up in the city's Barmulloch district. He was educated in Glasgow at All Saints Secondary School, followed by the University of Strathclyde, from which he graduated in 1983, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and History.

After receiving a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from St Andrew's College of Education (now part of the University of Glasgow) in 1984, McAveety began a career as a secondary school teacher. He taught English at schools across the South side and the East End of Glasgow.

Glasgow councillor
He was a member of Glasgow District Council from 1988 until 1996 and served as Convenor of the Arts and Culture Committee, which developed the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art and initiated plans for the large-scale redevelopment of Kelvingrove Gallery in Glasgow.

McAveety served as Leader of the Glasgow City Council from 1997 until 1999, during which time he initiated the largest-ever investment package for Glasgow Secondary Schools and oversaw the removal of housing debt for City Housing Tenants. He also established the first ever Local Authority Standards Committee, which was the influence for the establishment of the Standards Commission for Scotland by the Scottish Parliament, a few years later.

Scottish Parliament
When elected to the Scottish Parliament in 1999, he was appointed Deputy Minister for Local Government in the Scottish Executive and served in that position until 2000. He returned to office as Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care in May 2002. As Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport following the 2003 Scottish Parliament election, he established the National Theatre of Scotland, which has resulted in the award-winning play, Black Watch and other productions. In his capacity as Sports Minister, McAveety advocated using sports investment as an opportunity for community regeneration and he oversaw Scotland's largest ever investment in national sports infrastructure, being developed in the East End of Glasgow. He also conducted a successful campaign to bring the headquarters of Sportscotland, the national sports agency, to the East End of Glasgow.

In 2004, he was mocked by a Sheriff Court judge after charges against two anti-war protesters were dropped after an altercation with the two protesters and a Labour council candidate. McAveety had claimed they had put him through the "worst intimidation in his life" during an altercation in the southside of Glasgow. In dismissing the case however, Sheriff Graeme Warner said that McAveety "must have lived a very sheltered life" and had "completely blown his credibility".

A week later, he was forced to apologise for misleading parliament when he turned up late for a ministerial question time claiming to have been unavoidably detained on ministerial business. It was later discovered that he was actually eating pie, beans and roast potatoes in the parliament canteen. The incident was dubbed by some as "porky pie-gate" and is said to have led First Minister Jack McConnell to sack him from his cabinet later that year.

McAveety was re-elected to the Scottish Parliament on 3 May 2007 after winning more than 50% of the vote in Glasgow Shettleston and until June 2010 he served as Convener of the Public Petitions Committee and was the Scottish Labour Party's Shadow Minister for Sport.

On 16 June 2010 he resigned as Convenor of the Scottish Parliament's Public Petitions Committee after being overheard making comments about the physical appearance of a female member of the audience during a break in committee proceedings. The comments were broadcast because he had not switched off his microphone. McAveety said: "There's a very attractive girl in the second row, dark... and dusky. We'll maybe put a wee word out for her."

McAveety led a campaign in 2009 to establish access for children free of charge to professional football matches in Scotland. He is a keen supporter of Celtic F.C. and the Scotland national team and, while an MSP, was a regular player for the Scottish Parliamentary Football Team, which has taken part in a number of high-profile charity events.

McAveety is known for his knowledge of various genres of modern popular music. He has written in praise of David Bowie in the Scotsman newspaper and he wrote a regular feature for Holyrood Magazine, which celebrated and recommended his favourite albums. In April 2005, the Scotsman newspaper dubbed him the "Daddy of Parliamentary Pop". This was in reference to his speech in the Parliamentary Chamber in support of a motion recognising Franz Ferdinand for that band's contribution to Scottish popular music and culture.

McAveety has served as a board member for the Arches Theatre Company in Glasgow, Enterprise Scotland and the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre. From January 2009 he served on the boards of the Scottish Youth Theatre and Fields in Trust Scotland (formerly National Playing Fields Association).

In the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, he lost his seat to the SNP's John Mason but he made an early return to politics in May 2012, when he was elected as a Councillor for the Shettleston ward of Glasgow City Council.

On 10 September 2015, McAveety was elected leader of Glasgow City Council after Gordon Matheson stood down, thus returning to a post he had held sixteen years earlier. He was succeeded by Susan Aitken on 4 May 2017.

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"as Horace said, Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit" That's nice. What does it mean in English? (I couldn't find any babelfish translation webpages for latin) WhiteC 15:06, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Something like "Conquered Greece conquered the wild victor," that is, Rome became civilized after conquering Greece. I wonder if there is a standard English translation of Horace that we should use. Adam Bishop 16:39, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Duplication
This article overlaps the content of Roman Greece. I suggest either (1) merging that article into this one; or (2) deleting the overlapping section from this one and renaming it "Greece in the Byzantine period" or something to that effect. Comments? --Russ Blau (talk) 14:19, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree that the duplication is unnecessary. How about we keep Roman Greece, and split the content of this article between Roman Greece and Byzantine Empire? Tom Harrison Talk 15:54, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree with Tom Harrison's proposal (ie keep Roman Greece and split this article between Roman Greece and Byzantine Empire). I don't think it's a good idea to merge everything in an article called "Roman and Byzantine Greece", if for no good reason, because in most medieval Latin sources the term "Greece" refers to the entire Byzantine state. Miskin 16:01, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

This article, however, deals specifically with developments in the geographic area now known as "Greece", while the Byzantine Empire article covers a much wider area. --Russ Blau (talk) 20:05, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Actually, the Byzantine Empire and "Greece" in the middle ages are synonymus terms so the original division of this article is entirely justified. In a strictly geographic sense, the theme or province of Greece within Byzantium only encompassed a fraction of the area today, leaving out most of modern Greece (areas like Greece Macedonia, Epirus and the Aegean) a fact that further renders this article improper. Greece arose from a province within the Roman Empire into the Empire itself, so articles dealing with different time periods need to adjust to the changing political and historical landscapes. Colossus 23:02, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

The original intention of this article was as part of a series on the history of the territory of modern Greece. Perhaps that was a misguided division, but "Byzantine Empire" and "Greece" are not really synonymous, and Roman Greece alone wouldn't cover medieval Greece. As RussBlau said, the Byzantine Empire covers a much wider area. Adam Bishop 04:14, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Even as part of a series of the territory of modern Greece the article was still out of place, since as I noted above, modern Greece encompasses a much greater area that the medieval province or theme of Graecia did. If the territory populated by ethnic Greeks is any means of defining "Greece" at any time, or in our case the Middle Ages, Asia Minor should be part of all such historical articles, being the most densely populated Greek territory, multiple times that of Greece proper. There is no reason as to why a historical article should be limited to a particular geographic area. If the borders of Greece changed through the ages, shouldnt any historical article reflect those changes as well? Colossus 19:41, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

 * It's irrelevant speaking with Bishop about these things, he's so utterly consumed with his desire to re-latinize The Greek Empire of the Middle Ages that he refuses to see things differently.

 * I agree with the comments of previous users; this article should simply point to "Byzantine Empire" or be abolished. The articles on the themes of Hellas, Thessalonica, Nikopolis, and the Despotate of Morea, are more appropriate to cover regional events. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.122.119.173 (talk) 10:49, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Catalan propaganda
Please, do not write about catalan bullshit propaganda. There is simply no historical proof nor trusted reference from neither Greek, European or American authorities. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.219.85.250 (talk) 00:28, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

I agree completely. It was the Franks / treacherous crusaders that got into Greece. There were never any so called Catalans... 85.58.233.13 (talk) 17:11, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

Nikeforos
In one part of this article is that Nikeforos settled Peloponnese after defeat of the Slavs by Sicilian and Italian Greeks, but in other part is that there come Anatolian Greeks, so what is the truth? I think that there came both groups of Greeks, but it needs to write it there. Thanks --213.151.217.141 (talk) 13:06, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

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Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1

Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1 (SNMCMG1) is a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) standing mine countermeasures immediate reaction force. Its role is to provide NATO with an immediate operational response capability.

History
From its activation at Ostend on 11 May 1973, the unit was initially called Standing Naval Force Channel (STANAVFORCHAN).

STANAVFORCHAN and her sister force Mine Counter Measures Force Mediterranean (MCMFORMED) were tasked in June 1999 to operate in the Adriatic Sea to clear ordnance jettisoned during Operation Allied Force. The combined force comprised 11 minehunters and minesweepers and a support ship. The operation, named Allied Harvest, began on 9 June 1999. Search activities began three days later and lasted 73 days. In total, 93 pieces of ordnance were located and cleared in the nine areas which encompassed 1,041 nmi2.

From 3 September 2001 it was known as the Mine Countermeasures Force North Western Europe (MCMFORNORTH) and from 1 January 2005 it became Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1.

Current ships
As of 1 June 2024, SNMCMG1 consists of:

 * 🇩🇪 (Flagship) Elbe-class replenishment ship, Donau
 * 🇪🇪 Sandown-class minehunter, Ugandi

 * 🇳🇴 Oksøy-class mine hunter, 	Måløy


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Operation Stack

Operation Stack was a procedure used by Kent Police and the Port of Dover in England to park (or "stack") lorries on the M20 motorway in Kent when services across the English Channel, such as those through the Channel Tunnel or from the Port of Dover, are disrupted, for example by bad weather, industrial action, fire or derailments in the tunnel.

Operation Stack is managed by Kent Police using powers under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004 and coordinated by a multi-agency group known as Operation Fennel.

According to Damian Green MP, by 2007 the system had been implemented 74 times in the 20 years since it was first introduced.

Causes
Operation Stack is implemented whenever there is an urgent need to inhibit the flow of traffic to the Channel Tunnel and the Port of Dover, which handle 90% of freight traffic between the United Kingdom and mainland Europe. There are officially only 550 parking spaces for HGVs in Kent, so if access to cross-channel services is restricted, congestion would quickly spread across the county.

The most common causes of Operation Stack are severe weather that either cancels or restricts ferry services, industrial action at the French ports of Calais, Dunkirk and Boulogne, and electrical failures in the Channel Tunnel.

Procedure
The M20 is the main road from the London Orbital Motorway (the M25), the world's largest and busiest ring road, to the Port of Dover, the busiest ferry terminal in Europe, and the Channel Tunnel. It runs south-east from the M25 near Swanley through Kent via the county town Maidstone, Ashford and Folkestone to Dover. Most of the road is three lanes in each direction as far Folkestone, then two lanes to Dover.

Lorries are parked on the carriageways as below, with all other traffic diverted onto the parallel A20 road:
 * Phase 1: Coast-bound from Junction 11 (Hythe) to 12 (Cheriton), 3.6 mi
 * Phase 2: Coast-bound from Junction 8 (Maidstone) to 9 (Ashford), 13.5 mi
 * Phase 3: London-bound from Junction 9 (Ashford) to 8 (Maidstone), 13.5 mi
 * Phase 4: Coast-bound from Junction 8 (Maidstone) to 12 (Cheriton), 26.5 mi

If congestion reaches from Junction 8 to Junction 11 (22.9 mi), traffic for the Port of Dover is diverted to Manston Airfield while traffic for the Channel Tunnel remains on the M20.

By stacking lorries along the motorway, up to 3,000 additional parking spaces for freight can be created. The decision to implement each phase of the programme is taken in conjunction with Kent Police, the Port of Dover and National Highways. Local traffic often uses the parallel A20 (the old turnpike road from Maidstone to Folkestone) or the A2 (the historic Roman Road from London to Dover via Canterbury) though neither offers the same capacity as the M20.

The road can be closed for days at a time, and as a result Operation Stack has been controversial.

1988
Operation Stack was first introduced in February 1988, because of a strike called by the National Union of Seamen in Folkestone Docks, which was then an important ferry terminal, that began on 31 January. Though the strike stopped after three days, there was still a tailback and local protests and struggle between Folkestone and Dover. The whole of the M20 between Ashford and Folkestone was closed; at the time, the motorway was incomplete between junctions 8 at Leeds Castle and 9 at Ashford.

1999–2000
In 1999, Parliamentary Under Secretary for Transport Keith Hill commissioned a study by the Channel Road transport Group to look at alternatives. The following year, Michael Howard asked Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions John Prescott about alternative methods to Operation Stack. Prescott replied that he would investigate matters but defended the status quo, saying "Management schemes can make traffic flows much better, and they are almost inevitable in difficult circumstances."

2005
In early 2005, Kent Police implemented Operation Stack several times within a few weeks due to bad weather (snow), a strike and a damaged berth in Calais, which limited the number of ferries which could cross the channel. By the end of June 2005, Operation Stack was implemented a total of 18 times in the first half of the year and cost Kent Police £123,000 in overtime.

2007
At the end of January 2007, local Members of Parliament Damian Green of Ashford and Stephen Ladyman of Thanet were involved in a debate covering Operation Stack in the House of Commons. Everyone agreed that stacking was a problem, but there were no firm decisions as to any alternatives.

2008
On 5 March 2008 industrial action that had begun in late February by French workers operating SeaFrance cross-channel ferries resulted in Kent Police initiating phase 2 of Operation Stack. The industrial action lasted for a number of days, with the backlog on the M20 causing significant disruption. The MEP for South East England, Richard Ashworth, and the leader of Kent County Council, Paul Carter, urged French president Nicolas Sarkozy to step in and resolve the dispute because of the resulting difficulties. This was the first time in the 20-year history of Operation Stack that the M20 was closed for more than three days; businesses in nearby towns reported trade down by up to 50%.

According to Kent Police logs, one, two or three phases of Operation Stack were implemented for at least part of each day between 28 February and 15 March 2008. The Freight Transport Association estimated the cost of disruption to be between £4m-£5m at 9 March 2008. Kent County Council later announced progress with plans to construct a lorry park for temporary use to mitigate the effects of Operation Stack. This has met with opposition from the borough councilor for Saxon Shore ward where it would be sited; he accused the county council of "not thinking strategically", not considering the environmental impact properly, and of siting it too close to a National Grid facility, where he expects the fuel in vehicles to be a danger to a "facility of strategic national importance."

2015
On 24 June 2015 Operation Stack was implemented due to industrial action taken by French employees of the MyFerryLink company, as a result of disagreements regarding the imminent takeover of the company by DFDS. This has been the first ever incident which has seen the implementation of Phase 4 of Operation Stack, which involves closing the M20 from Junctions 9 to 11 coast-bound, meaning that continent-bound HGV traffic was stacked all the way from Junction 8 at Hollingbourne, southeast of Maidstone, to Junction 12 at Cheriton, near Folkestone. Operation Stack began to be removed from 3 July onwards, with more than 30 miles of parked HGVs needing to be cleared. The cost to the United Kingdom economy was estimated at around £250 million.

Over 4,600 HGVs were eventually cleared from the M20 by 4 July, however soon afterwards Phase 2 was implemented again for Eurotunnel freight traffic, due to over 150 migrants storming the Calais tunnel portal. This was as a result of the ongoing migrant crisis in Calais. The incident demonstrated that insufficient organisation and security at Eurotunnel, and port facilities throughout Calais was present to keep the desperate migrants under foot. Operation Stack resumed later during the month. Damian Collins, MP for Folkestone and Hythe complained the problem was too large for Kent County Council to deal with and met with the Home Secretary, Theresa May for discussion.

2020
In December 2020, France closed its borders with the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic due to concerns about the spread of a new variant of coronavirus. This caused major disruptions in ferry and Eurotunnel train traffic.

Operation Brock
On 28 October 2019 the Operation Brock traffic management plan became live. Operation Brock, in effect supersedes Operation Stack as a contingency allowing the M20 to be kept "open in both directions for all other traffic, minimising any impacts on local residents, businesses and public services.". Work began in May 2018 on this scheme managed by National Highways (then Highways England), originally designed as a temporary solution to manage lorry queueing and traffic flow at the Port of Dover after Brexit.

In September 2018, National Highways (then Highways England) revealed in a freedom of information request that "Operation Brock, the code name for the management of freight in a no-deal scenario, would not be automatic and would require steel barriers to make a planned contraflow system on the M20 safe for ordinary vehicles" and that "£30m has been allocated to cover the design, build and initial operation of the scheme for up to six months."

As of March 2022 Operation Brock remains the traffic management plan for the Port of Dover and the Eurotunnel. National Highways describes "The Operation Brock contraflow system is designed to keep traffic on the M20 and other roads in Kent moving when there is disruption to travel across the English Channel"

Alternatives
Several other options have been considered:
 * Parking the lorries on the Kent County Showground at Detling has been discussed by Highways England, but locals are opposed because the area is very congested.
 * In 2005, the Dover Harbour Board unveiled a plan to create a lorry park for 1,500 vehicles with construction beginning in 2006.
 * In February 2007, it was revealed that Kent County Council had been talking to landowners about buying land for a lorry park.
 * There has been a suggestion from Folkestone and Hythe District Council for a lorry park to the north-east of the roundabout at Junction 11, which would be supported by development in the Stanford and Lympne areas.
 * A coned contraflow system has been trialled on the 10.5 mi section between Ashford and Maidstone, to relieve the pressure on the A20, but it was costly and slow to arrange, taking two days to set up and two days to remove. Highways England have announced a plan to use quick movable barriers to set up a contraflow so that two lanes can be maintained.
 * Use of part of the car park at Ebbsfleet International railway station to temporarily park/queue up to 1,000 lorries
 * In July 2016 the Department for Transport announced that a new lorry park for 3,600 vehicles was to be built to the north of junction 11 of the M20, with new access from the eastbound motorway between junctions 10 and 11 at Stanford West, with completion expected by Summer 2017. However, in November 2017 the Department announced that "environmental obligations" had delayed this option and, instead, a linear lorry park along the centre of the M20, separated by traffic barriers, was under consideration.
 * Manston Airport is under consideration as an overflow lorry park, with a convoy of lorries testing the feasibility of the 20 mile route to Dover along the A256 on 7 January 2019.

Felixstowe
When the port of Felixstowe is closed, lorries are parked on the old A45 at Levington. They used to be parked on the A14 but this was deemed to be too dangerous for other road users. This is implemented when winds exceed 45 mph as the cranes cannot be operated due to Health and Safety regulations.

Stranraer
When the ports of Cairnryan and Stranraer are closed, lorries are parked on the closed A751.

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Talk:Goggles

Nuclear flash goggles?
I seem to recall that goggles have been made with lenses that become opaque in a small fraction of a second if a nuclear weapon goes off near enuf to the wearer. You can't blink fast enuf (nor for that matter are your eyelids opaque enuf) to protect you, but some nearly transparent photosensitive compound embedded in the lenses decomposes into something opaque when the first flash flash first arrives, fast enuf that your retinal cells don't have time to absorb enuf energy to be seriously damaged and the remainder of the flash is blocked. Presumably you count to some number before removing them. --Jerzy•t 07:52 & 08:21, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

mein urdu zuban may likhon ga — Preceding unsigned comment added by 39.53.172.255 (talk) 08:55, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 September 2014
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 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. Cannolis (talk) 03:54, 19 September 2014 (UTC)

Derivation of word?
From whence comes the word 'goggle'? It was a verb meaning 'stare' (wide-eyed) for some time. Is this its source? 121.44.139.56 (talk) 21:23, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Motocross goggles?
I'd like to add more to the motorcycle goggles section so that it includes motocross goggles, which have slightly different functions to regular goggles - tinted lenses for light conditions, high quality foam rims, accessories such tear-off goggles for quick cleaning while racing etc.

NR4566 (talk) 02:43, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Red question icon with gradient background.svg Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. --allthefoxes (Talk) 04:20, 1 March 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 January 2018
The link to beer goggles in the See also section seems inappropriate as that article does not deal with goggles but with altered perception when drunk. BitSwim (talk) 17:20, 17 January 2018 (UTC) BitSwim (talk) 17:20, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: Beer goggles are not, it is true, protective eyewear but it fits with the Manual of Style for these links: The links in the "See also" section might be only indirectly related to the topic of the article because one purpose of "See also" links is to enable readers to explore tangentially related topics. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 19:39, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 22 June 2024
Not to be confused with Google — Preceding unsigned comment added by 180.252.202.22 (talk • contribs) 14:28, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
 * ❌, these don't seem easily confused. --Belbury (talk) 14:37, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

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Goggles, or safety glasses, are forms of protective eyewear that usually enclose or protect the area surrounding the eye in order to prevent particulates, water or chemicals from striking the eyes. They are used in chemistry laboratories and in woodworking. They are often used in snow sports as well, and in swimming. Goggles are often worn when using power tools such as drills or chainsaws to prevent flying particles from damaging the eyes. Many types of goggles are available as prescription goggles for those with vision problems.

History
The Inuit and Yupik carved snow goggles from the antlers of caribou, wood, and shell to help prevent snow blindness. The goggles were curved to fit the user's face and had a large groove cut in the back to allow for the nose. A long thin slit was cut through the goggles to allow in a small amount of light, diminishing subsequent ultraviolet rays. The goggles were held to the head by a cord made of caribou sinew.

In the early 20th century, goggles were worn by drivers of uncovered cars to prevent irritation of the eyes by dust or wind. Likewise in the first ten years after the invention of the airplane in 1903 goggles became a necessity as wind blow became more severe as aircraft speeds increased and as protection against bugstrikes at high altitudes. The first pilot to wear goggles was probably Charles Manly in his failed attempt to fly Samuel Langley's aerodrome in 1903.

Types
The requirements for goggles varies depending on the use. Some examples:
 * Cold weather: Most modern cold-weather goggles have two layers of lens to prevent the interior from becoming "foggy". With only a single lens, the interior water vapor condenses onto the lens because the lens is colder than the vapor, although anti-fog agents can be used. The reasoning behind the dual layer lens is that the inner lens will be warm while the outer lens will be cold. As long as the temperature of the inner lens is close to that of the interior water vapor, the vapor should not condense. However, if water vapor gets between the layers of the lens, condensation can occur between the lenses and is almost impossible to get rid of; thus, properly constructed and maintained dual layer lenses should be airtight to prevent water vapor from entering between the lenses.
 * Swimming: Must be watertight to prevent water, such as salt water when swimming in the ocean, or chlorinated water when swimming in a pool, from irritating the eyes or blurring vision. Allow swimmers to see clearly underwater. They will not be usable more than a few feet underwater, because the water pressure will press them tightly against the face. (Below this limit, a diving mask must be used, which allows the user to equalize pressure by exhaling air through the nose.) Examples of these include Swedish goggles.
 * Power tools: Must be made of an unbreakable material that prevents chunks of metal, wood, plastic, concrete, and so on from hitting or piercing the eye, usually polycarbonate. Usually has some sort of ventilation to prevent sweat from building up inside the goggles and fogging the surface.
 * Blowtorch goggles: These protect the eyes from glare and flying sparks and hot metal splashes while using or near a blowtorch. They are not the correct filters for arc welding.
 * Welding goggles: Includes all goggles for eye protection during welding or cutting. They provide protection against debris, the heat from welding, and, with the proper filters, the optical radiation resulting from the welding, which can otherwise cause arc eye.
 * Motorcycle riding and other open-air activities: Prevents insects, dust, and so on from hitting the eyes.
 * Laboratory and research: Combines impact resistance with side shields to prevent chemical splashes reaching the eyes. May also include laser protection which would be covered by EN 207 (Europe) and ANSI Z 136 (United States). Examples of these include red adaptation goggles.
 * Racquetball: Protect the eyes from racquets swinging in an enclosed area and from impact from hard rubber ball.
 * Winter sports: Protect the eyes from glare and from icy particles flying up from the ground. Double lens anti-fog ski goggles were invented and patented by Robert Earl "Bob" Smith.  Visible Light Transmission (VLT) or S value describes the percentage of light allowed through the lens.
 * Astronomy and meteorology: dark adaptor goggles are used before going outside at night, in order to help the eyes adapt to the dark.
 * Basketball: Several NBA players have worn goggles during play, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy, Horace Grant, Kurt Rambis and Amar'e Stoudemire; they prevent a fellow player from scratching or hitting the eyes when trying to grab the basketball. In most circumstances, a player starts wearing protective goggles to prevent further injury to the eyes.
 * Gaelic handball and squash: goggles are worn to protect the eye from injury by the ball. The ball used in these sports is smaller than the eye socket, meaning that it can strike the eyeball directly.
 * Aviation: In open cockpit aircraft, such as old biplanes, aviators, such as Amelia Earhart and Charles Kingsford Smith, would wear goggles to help protect from the wind and are still in use today. Examples of these include the AN-6530 goggles.
 * Virtual reality: A virtual reality headset, sometimes called "goggles", is a wrap-around visual interface to display computer output. Commonly the computer display information is presented as a three-dimensional representation of real-world environments.
 * Drunkenness: Goggles designed to simulate the vision altering effects of psychoactive drugs, in particular alcohol. Examples include Fatal Vision goggles. There are no studies that have found beneficial effects of use of fatal vision goggles on the likelihood that individuals will later engage in impaired driving.

Fashion
Goggles are often worn as a fashion statement in certain subcultures, most often as part of the cybergoth subculture. They are usually worn over the eyes or up on the forehead to secure 'falls': a type of long, often brightly coloured, synthetic hairpiece. Fans of the steampunk genre or subculture also frequently wear steampunk-styled goggles, particularly when performing in a live action role-playing game.

Goggles are also frequently used by anime and manga characters as a fashion statement. For example, it is an idiosyncrasy of team leader characters in the Digimon anime to wear goggles. Other notable characters who wear goggles are the young Naruto Uzumaki and Konohamaru from Naruto, Matt from Death Note and Usopp from One Piece.

Non-human
Goggles are available for horses used in speed sports such as horse racing. In some traditions of horse mounted bullfighting, the horse may wear a protective cloth over its eyes.

Goggles have been used on military working dogs, for protection in harsh conditions, such as sandstorms and rotorwash from helicopters.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Taco HTML Edit

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. - Mailer Diablo 03:23, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Taco HTML Edit
This piece of software does not appear to be unique or encyclopedic, I would say merge to a list of Taco Software products, but the developer doesn't appear to be notable either (Taco Software , alexa 866 843).--nixie 15:08, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Like if I found this software on my computer, Delete. --Asriel86 17:32, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable software or developer.  --Randy 21:30, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable stub about a non-notable thing. José San Martin 00:26, Apr 11, 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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Sergei Navashin

Sergei Gavrilovich Navashin (Серге́й Гаврилович Навашин; 14 December 1857 – 10 December 1930) was a Russian Empire and Soviet biologist. He discovered double fertilization in plants in 1898.

Biography
1874 — enters the Medical Surgical Academy in St. Petersburg, works on chemistry in the laboratory of A. Borodin

1878 — moves to the Moscow University, obtains Candidate degree in 1881 in Biology. Under the influence of K. Timiryazev and V. Zinger starts to study Botany. Receives a position of a laboratory assistant at the chair of Plant Physiology and later (1885) in the Petrovskaya Agricultural Academy.

1894 — is invited to work at the chair of Systematics and Morphology of the Kiev University.

During 1894-1914 works as a director of the Botanical Garden of Kiev University

1896 — defends his doctoral thesis at Odessa University

1918-1923—professor of Tbilisi University (Georgia)

1923—founds the Timiryazev Biological Institute in Moscow. Heads it till 1929.

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Talk:Chris Raab

Hotdog Casserole
I removed the link as it only re-directs to this page.

Why does a movie tile redirect to a person? In Living Color doesn't redirect to Keenen Ivory Wayans. c2s (talk) 22:01, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Matt Damon
On Matt Damon's page, it says he is Raab Himself's cousin. On this page it says Raab Himself "is (not) Matt Damon's nephew", whatever that's supposed to mean. Neither IMDb page mentions the other. Can anyone confirm or deny that they're related, and if so, how? --Angr/undefined 20:49, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * They're not related, as had been confirmed by Bam and said many times on CKY message boards, etc. --Liface 21:41, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Removed line
I removed a line about it being a rumor that Raab was leaving viva la bam...since the show is no longer on the air the line isn't needed - ChopAtwa

Content
I have removed most of the content in the article per WP:BLP. Any new editions must be sourced or they will be reverted without comment. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 09:46, 3 March 2007 (UTC)

Music Video
That's Raab: http://fuse.tv/contests/blocparty2007/index.php —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.126.110.51 (talk) 13:38, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Raab's Russian Wife
I just read somewhere (source: forum) that they said that the deal with Raab's wife was a whole set-up.. I just need a confirmation.

Nocarsgo 01:22, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

 * It wouldn't surprise me. But any information one way or the other would need a solid source, and web forums just don't count.  --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 01:45, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

 * The whole wedding they had was a set-up. The mail order bride isnt actually from russia. From what i understand is that she is a friend of the dudesons. Possibly even one of thei sisters.

The wedding was fake

People need to realize that Viva La Bam is not a documentary or some off the wall reality show, it's a well planned, organized, scripted show.

Chris Raab's religion
Chris Raab's Religion is Catholic, he's the source http://www.tv.com/chris-raab/person/100490/summary.html

 * He is not the source. The source is tv.com, which appears to run off of user-submitted data.  An authoritative source is needed.  --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 03:57, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

changes
I got some info from places such as imdb, and also added some things from memory. I'm a big CKY fan and know a lot about them, I don't post false material. If you want proof just watch their stuff and follow it as closely as I have. I thought it would be nice to expand some info on Christopher Raab, and maybe add a little trivia to give new fans a little flare of who he is —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.38.80.106 (talk) 15:02, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
 * You're welcome to add new material and expand articles! However, per our policy on verifiability, you need to cite reliable sources, backing up the claims you make. To say that you insert material that you know to be true, because you watch the show amounts to original research and, as such, is not allowed here. I'm sorry. Salvio  Let's talk 'bout it! 15:06, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

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