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Thomas Lauderdale

Thomas Mack Lauderdale (born July 14, 1970) is an American musician and pianist, largely known for his work with his Portland-based band Pink Martini.

Early life
Thomas Mack Lauderdale was born in 1970 in Oakland, California, and adopted by Kerby Roy and Linda Sue, née Mikesell. In 1972, the family moved to Indiana, where his father was pastor at Eel River Church of the Brethren. After church services, Lauderdale usually went to the piano, and tried to replicate the hymns he heard. His parents bought for him an upright piano at an auction and so he began his formal musical studies at age six with Patricia Garrison of North Manchester, Indiana and later, Joyanne Jones at Indiana University/Purdue University in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

In 1976, his father resigned from the ministry and the Lauderdale family opened a plant nursery near North Manchester. The family moved to Portland, Oregon in 1982, after his parents divorced and his father came out of the closet. In the 1990s, his parents went on several talk shows – including 20/20, Oprah, Jane Whitney, and Christina - to talk about what happens when a spouse comes out. Kerby returned to the ministry, and is the first openly gay pastor in his denomination. He performed the service when his former wife Linda remarried in 2000.

Education
In Portland, Oregon Lauderdale began his studies with Sylvia Killman in 1982. Killman and Lauderdale remain close friends. Lauderdale won the "Oregon Symphony's annual Corbett Competition" in 1985, marking the beginning of a long association with conductor Norman Leyden. He graduated from Portland's Ulysses S. Grant High School in 1988, where he was student body president and editor of The Grantonian. Lauderdale studied at Harvard University, where he graduated cum laude with a degree in History and Literature.

Pink Martini band
After seeing the Del Rubio Triplets on Pee-Wee Herman's Christmas Special, Lauderdale arranged for them to travel to Portland, Oregon in October 1994 to give a series of concerts at retirement homes, nursing homes, and hospitals. After a week of performances and appearances, the Del Rubio Triplets performed at a fundraising concert at Cinema 21 in Northwest Portland. Stuck for an opening act for the group, Lauderdale threw on a Betsey Johnson cocktail dress, and joined by a bass player, a bongo player, and a singer, took to the stage as Pink Martini.

Pink Martini's first concerts were often politically motivated, with performances at events for progressive causes such as the environment, affordable housing, civil rights, libraries, and public broadcasting. The band remains committed to its progressive and political roots. FundFest is a biennial four-day concert series produced by the band to raise money and visibility for four different organizations. Past recipients include Reach Community Development, Oregon Public Broadcasting, the ALS Association of Oregon and SW Washington, Children's Cancer Association, the Bicycle Transportation Alliance, Friends of Trees, and KBOO Community Radio.

Pink Martini has grown from four musicians to its current twelve. Singer China Forbes – who Lauderdale met at the college, Harvard University – joined the band in 1995. The band has performed its multi-lingual repertoire on concert stages and with symphony orchestras throughout Europe, Asia, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Tunisia, Australia, Canada and the United States. In 1998, the ensemble made its European debut at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as its orchestral debut with the Oregon Symphony under the direction of Norman Leyden. Pink Martini has since performed with over 50 symphony orchestras around the world including the Boston Pops, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the BBC Orchestra, and with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Other appearances include two sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall in 2007 & 2009; the grand opening of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, with return sold-out engagements for New Year's Eve 2003, 2004, 2008, 2011 & 2014; the opening party of the New York Museum of Modern Art; the Governor's Ball at the 80th Annual Academy Awards in 2008; the opening of the 2008 Sydney Festival in Australia; two sold-out concerts at Paris's Olympia theatre in 2011; and Paris's fashion house Lanvin's 10-year anniversary celebration for designer Alber Elbaz in 2012.

The band has collaborated and performed with numerous artists, such as Jimmy Scott, Carol Channing, Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Jane Powell, Henri Salvador, Chavela Vargas, New York performer Joey Arias, puppeteer Basil Twist, Georges Moustaki, Michael Feinstein, filmmaker Gus Van Sant, Courtney Taylor, Taylor of The Dandy Warhols, clarinetist and conductor Norman Leyden, Japanese legend Hiroshi Wada, Italian actress and songwriter Alba Clemente, DJ Johnny Dynell and Chi Chi Valenti, NPR White House Correspondent Ari Shapiro, the original cast of Sesame Street, March Fourth Marching Band, The von Trapps, the Bonita Vista High School Marching Band from Chula Vista, California, and the Pacific Youth Choir of Portland, Oregon.

Albums
Pink Martini has released seven studio albums and one live concert DVD on the band's own record label, Heinz Records and partnered with other labels worldwide, including Naïve Records in France, Wrasse Records in the United Kingdom and South America, Audiogram in Canada, Urtext in Mexico, Random Records in Argentina and Chile, Inertia Recordings in Australia and New Zealand, Ales in Korea, and Top 2 in Southeast Asia. The band's debut album Sympathique was released in 1997, and received nominations for "Song of the Year" and "Best New Artist" in France's Victoires de la Musique awards. Sympathique (1997), Hang on Little Tomato (2004), and Hey Eugene! (2007), Splendor In The Grass (2009) and Joy To The World (2010) have all gone gold in France, Turkey, Greece, and Canada selling over 2.5 million copies worldwide.

In Fall 2011 the band released two albums – A Retrospective, a collection of the band's most beloved songs spanning their 17-year career, which includes eight previously unreleased tracks, and 1969, an album of collaborations with legendary Japanese singer Saori Yuki. 1969 has been certified platinum in Japan, reaching #2 on the Japanese charts with the Japan Times raving "the love and respect Saori Yuki and Pink Martini have for the pop tradition shines through on every track."

Individual appearances
In addition to his work with Pink Martini, Lauderdale has collaborated with cabaret performer and singer Meow Meow, the surf band Satan's Pilgrims and writer Tom Spanbauer. In Spring 2008, he completed his first film score for Chiara Clemente's documentary Our City Dreams, a portrait of five New York City-based women artists of different generations. In 2008, he performed as the featured piano soloist in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy with the Choral Arts Ensemble of Portland under the direction of Roger Doyle, and Gershwin's Concerto in F with the Oregon Symphony under the direction of Christoph Campestrini. In 2011 Lauderdale again appeared as the featured soloist with the Oregon Symphony, this time under the direction of Carlos Kalmar.

He has appeared as soloist with numerous orchestras and ensembles, including the Oregon Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the Portland Youth Philharmonic, Chamber Music Northwest, the Choral Arts Ensemble of Portland and Oregon Ballet Theatre (where he collaborated with choreographer James Canfield and visual artists Storm Tharp and Malia Jensen on a ballet based on the original story of Bambi, written by Felix Salten in 1923).

Political activism
Beginning in high school, Lauderdale became interested in politics. He worked in Portland City Hall, first under Mayor J. E. "Bud" Clark in the office of international relations, and later under City Commissioner Gretchen Kafoury on the city's civil rights ordinance. He was appointed by Oregon governor Neil Goldschmidt to the Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee; by Mayor Clark to the Metropolitan Youth Commission and by City Commissioner Mike Lindberg to the Public Safety in the Parks Task Force. In 1992, he was involved in the No on 9 and No on 13 Campaigns, in response to measures that would amend the Oregon constitution to declare homosexuality illegal.

In June 2009, Lauderdale organized a rally of support for Portland Mayor Sam Adams, the first openly gay mayor of a major American city. Adams had been caught up in an alleged sex scandal with intern Beau Breedlove, the times reports that the "Oregonian, the local police union and JustOut, a local gay periodical" were calling for his resignation. Portlanders at Lauderdale's rally compared Adams to Bill Clinton, saying he only lied about sex and should not resign.

In October 2011, Lauderdale and Pink Martini organized and performed at a rally in support of the Occupy movement. The rally took place in downtown Portland in Pioneer Courthouse Square and included speeches and performances by Storm Large as well as Oregon congressmen Earl Blumenauer and Peter DeFazio.

Personal life
Lauderdale lives in the Harker Building, a 9,600 square foot building in the downtown’s commercial district in Portland, Oregon.

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Please do not copy and paste copyrighted material into Wikipedia. If you continue to do so your abilty to edit Wikipedia will be blocked--nixie 11:52, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Wye railway station

Wye railway station serves Wye in Kent, England, on the Ashford to Ramsgate line. The station and all trains that serve the station are operated by Southeastern.

History
The first plan for a station near Wye was in 1812, when John Rennie the Elder proposed building a canal to connect the River Medway in North Kent with the River Rother in East Sussex. A tramway would connect Wye to the canal. The proposal was abandoned in favour of through railways.

The station was opened by the South Eastern Railway on 6 February 1846, along with the rest of the line from Ashford to Canterbury West. It was a constructed next to a level crossing with the main road, on the grounds that Parliament believed trains would not be frequent. A crane for goods traffic was installed in 1852. The station began serving local gravel goods traffic in 1919. Freight facilities were closed on 10 June 1963.

Racecourse station
On the opposite side of the level crossing a separate station was opened in March 1882 to serve the racecourse. It was closed in May 1974 (with the last horse racing meeting) and subsequently demolished.

Facilities
The platforms were connected by a concrete footbridge in 1960. This was replaced with a 12.5 m steel footbridge in 2015. The staffed level crossing at the south end of the station required manual operation of the gates and was formerly a local traffic bottleneck but was replaced with automated crossing gates in December 2022.

The station is staffed for part of the day. There is a passenger-operated ticket machine located on the Ashford-bound platform, by the footbridge.

The station buildings on the Ashford-bound platform contain the booking office. There is a shelter on the Canterbury-bound platform.

Services
All services at Wye are operated by Southeastern using EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
 * 1 tph to London Charing Cross via Tonbridge
 * 1 tph to Ramsgate

Additional services, including trains to and from London Cannon Street and London St Pancras International call at the station during the peak hours.

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Armoured cars
Is there room on this template for the British armoured cars? GraemeLeggett 11:52, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Compared to the German template, I'd say there's room for anything the Brits could produce. They should be consistent, anyways.  Is there a list?  —Michael Z. 2005-04-18 15:46 Z

 * You can see it developing at List_of_armoured_fighting_vehicles_of_World_War_II I'm lumping all Marks of a vehicle under the same title so "Humber Armoured car" would include all the marks and variants. GraemeLeggett 16:33, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I've created a second template based on some crude editing of this one it's very poorly named Template:WWIIBritishAFVs2 GraemeLeggett 16:49, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Did the British have a distinction between light and heavy armored cars? Oberiko 17:32, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Not as such, from my understanding its a question of what you had before compared with what you got second. GraemeLeggett 19:08, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Do we need to make the distinction ourselves then? Personally I think they could all go in one row. Oberiko 19:52, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree; I think it would still be smaller than the German template. Like this? Is it a suitable order?  —Michael Z. 2005-04-19 20:04 Z

Armoured cars Humber | Daimler Dingo | BSA Scout | Rolls-Royce | AEC | Daimler

 * Have another look at how many there are now that I've updated the list. GraemeLeggett 20:30, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Oh. Perhaps we need a short history stub for each of UK AFVs and armoured cars.  Each template can link to the AFV and car article, so it's easy to navigate between pages carrying the two templates.  —Michael Z. 2005-04-19 23:12 Z

 * (Can't be bother to indent that far) I think I now have the lot of them, perhaps two lines and just go by the manufacturers name. eg

Scout Cars

BSA | Daimler Dingo |Humber | etc etc

Armoured cars Humber | Daimler | Rolls-Royce | AEC | etc etc

On the subject of "Heavy", Recce units had Heavy Troops which used the larger armoured cars. GraemeLeggett 07:57, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Opening up to the rest of the commonwealth
I know its already a bit of a large nav template, but is their room for the Australian and Canadian tanks (Sentinel, Ram tank)? We could have Aus and Can next to the names or even tiny flags :) GraemeLeggett 16:30, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * SP guns and tank destroyers could be placed on a single line, and Oz/Can AFVs on another, the way armoured cars and 1/2-tracks are treated in Template:WWIIGermanAFVs. I think the Commonwealth line could be differentiated by header colour, the way experimental tanks have a reddish header.

 * Also, perhaps the entire header also needs a common line at the bottom that lets you jump between main articles on the AFVs of each nation. I still don't know if I've seen all the WWIIxxxAFVs templates.  —Michael Z. 2005-06-15 16:43 Z

 * Well, i've added the ram and sentinel, and split Cruisers onto three lines. But where do I put Kangaroo?

 * Perhaps a third item with the SP guns? —Michael Z. 2005-07-4 16:54 Z

 * there was room on template:WWIIBritishAFVs2, i put it alongside the Bren gun carrier.GraemeLeggett 4 July 2005 18:39 (UTC)

Does it really make sense to keep putting AC1 in front and inverted commas around the name Sentinel? None of the other tanks recieve this treatment, and most are just reffered to by name eg Comet, Centurion, Ram. It's already under Cruiser tanks, and has (Australia) right next to it making Australian Cruiser tank Mk1 a bit redunadant and the table inconsistant

BSA Scout
I wonder what is that "BSA scout". Is it a scout car prototype built by BSA which became Daimler Dingo ? If so, I don't think we need an "entry" (or an article) for it. Or is it something else ? Bukvoed 13:11, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Removed the "BSA Scout" from the template. I failed to find any information about any such vehicle except the aforementioned prototype. Bukvoed 12:40, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

Aromured cars issue once again
We have almost 30 British and Commonwealth armoured cars now (and there are still some omissions...). Some don't appear in this template yet (see Template:WWIIBritishAFVs2 ), but this long list of armoured cars in the middle of the template already does't look good, IMHO. And the template is already huge. May be it's the time to ask again: Is there room on this template for all these armoured cars ? Bukvoed 15:30, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Stick to the major players and a link to a list of the minor ones? How does the German WW2 AFV template do it - it seems they had more uniform designs. hmmm. GraemeLeggett 16:51, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I see that the "Coventry" (too late) and "Beaverette" (homer defence) did not see service so could be choices for demotion.GraemeLeggett 16:56, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

New version
I've created some new versions for this template with the main purpose of saving space. Any comments?

User:Raoulduke47/Template03

Raoulduke47 18:23, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

AFV navigation templates
There's a discussion about AFV navigation templates at WT:AFV. Topics include style, and the organization of post-WWII templates. Please discuss there. —Michael Z. 2008-08-28 00:08 z

Deletion template
Pppery, I have removed the deletion banner from this template page as it incorrectly staes this template has been nominated for deletion. My reading of the instructions on WP:TFD and Template:Tfm is there is no specific banner to place on a template that others have been nominated to be merged into. Kind regards, Cavalryman V31 (talk) 22:59, 21 June 2018 (UTC).
 * I must have misread your (complicated) tfd nomination. There is a template for the merge target, and it it tfm (the same as all of the others it is merged into) {{3x|p}}ery (talk) 23:10, 21 June 2018 (UTC)

Flags vs. symbols
Concerning the reverted replacement of the wingdings used as explanatory notes with flag icons: Respectfully, WP:TOOMANY does not apply here because the use of the flag icons is not redundant. There is a difference between using the flag icon as a gratuitous element, like in many infoboxes as explained in the guideline, and using it as a explanatory note, as here. Regardless, the symbols currently used cannot be kept. Per WP:EXPLNOTE, they should be replaced with an explanatory note template. So which shall it be? --Bsherr (talk) 22:21, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
 * Bsherr, my apologies if I have misinterpreted the policy. I feel the flags are a little distracting, but if the use of symbols (the ordering of which I drew from here) is inappropriate then it should again be amended.  Kind regards, Cavalryman V31 (talk) 05:48, 6 September 2018 (UTC).

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Uno von Troil

Uno von Troil (24 February 1746 in Stockholm – 1803) was the Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala 1786–1803.

Biography
He was the son of Samuel Troilius, who had also been archbishop. He was known for great wit at a young age. After studies and travels abroad to the Netherlands, Göttingen, and Iceland (accompanied by James Lind, Joseph Banks, Daniel Solander and others), he returned home and was ordained priest in 1773. In 1775 he was appointed court chaplain. He married in 1776. In 1778 he became vicar of Storkyrkan church in Stockholm. In 1780 he was consecrated bishop of Linköping. He was appointed as archbishop in 1786, at the age of 40. As such, he was also the Speaker of the Clergy in the Riksdag of the Estates until his death. He was also a member of several scientific societies, and was a benefactor of such throughout his life. He was president of Pro Fide et Christianismo, a Christian education society.

Other sources

 * Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon, article Uno von Troil In Swedish

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Richmond Valley Council

Richmond Valley Council (RVC) is a local government area on the Northern Rivers region of north-eastern New South Wales, Australia. RVC services an area of 3051 km2 and draws its name from the Richmond River, which flows through most of the council area. The area under management is located adjacent to the Bruxner Highway, Pacific Highway, and the North Coast railway line.

It is a rural area for the most part, with most industries involving cattle and crop growing, such as sugar cane, wheat, and pecan plantation.

The mayor of the Richmond Valley Council is Cr. Robert Mustow, an independent politician.

History
Following a petition of 76 ratepayers, elections were held 22 March 1880 for the Casino Council. Tomki Shire Council merged with in 1976 to become the Richmond River Shire Council, which amalgamated with the Municipality of Casino into the Richmond Valley Council in February 2000.

Heritage listings
The Richmond Valley Council has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
 * High Conservation Value Old Growth forest

Towns and localities
• Casino

• Backmede

• Boorabee Park

• Bora Ridge

• Broadwater

• Bungawalbin

• Busbys Flat

• Camira Creek

• Clearfield

• Clovass

• Codrington

• Coombell

• Coraki

• Dobies Bight

• Dyraaba

• Ellangowan

• Evans Head

• Fairy Hill

• Greenridge

• Hogarth Range

• Irvington

• Leeville

• Myrtle Creek

• Naughtons Gap

• New Italy

• Piora

• Rappville

• Rileys Hill

• Shannon Brook

• Spring Grove

• Stratheden

• Tatham

• Tomki

• Upper Mongogarie

• Whiporie

• Woodburn

• Woodview

• Wyan

• Yorklea

Demographics
At the 2016 census, there were 23,164 people in the Richmond Valley local government area, of these 49.5 per cent were male and 50.5 per cent were female. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 6.6 per cent of the population, which was significantly higher than the national and state averages of 2.5 per cent. The median age of people in the Richmond Valley area was 42 years, which was marginally higher than the national median of 37 years. Children aged 0 – 14 years made up 20.8 per cent of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 19.6 per cent of the population. Of people in the area aged 15 years and over, 47.6 per cent were married and 13.7 per cent were either divorced or separated.

Population growth in the Richmond Valley area between the and the  was 4.9 per cent; and in the subsequent five years to the 2011 census, the population growth was 3.4 per cent. When compared with total population growth of Australia for the same periods, being 5.78 per cent and 8.32 per cent respectively, population growth in the Richmond Valley local government area was significantly lower than the national average. The median weekly income for residents within the Richmond Valley area was marginally lower than the national average.

At the 2011 census, the proportion of residents in the Richmond Valley local government area who stated their ancestry as Australian or Anglo-Celtic exceeded 86 per cent of all residents (national average was 65.2 per cent). In excess of 16 per cent of all residents in the Richmond Valley at the 2011 census nominated no religious affiliation, compared to the national average of 22.3 per cent. Meanwhile, affiliation with Christianity exceeded 66 per cent, which was significantly higher than the national average of 50.2 per cent. As at the census date, compared to the national average, households in the Richmond Valley local government area had a significantly lower than average proportion (3.3 per cent) where two or more languages are spoken (national average was 20.4 per cent); and a significantly higher proportion (93.8 per cent) where English only was spoken at home (national average was 76.8 per cent).

Current composition and election method
Richmond Valley Council is composed of seven councillors, including the mayor, for a fixed four-year term of office. The mayor is directly elected while the six other councillors are elected proportionally as one entire ward. The most recent election was held on 4 December 2021, and the makeup of the council, including the mayor, is as follows:

The current Council, elected in 2021, is:

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Kupa

The Kupa or Kolpa ( or ; from Colapis in Roman times; Kulpa) river, a right tributary of the Sava, forms a natural border between north-west Croatia and southeast Slovenia. It is 297 km long, with its border part having a length of 118 km and the rest located in Croatia.

Name
The name Colapis, recorded in antiquity, is presumed to come from the Proto-Indo-European roots *quel- 'turn, meander' and *ap- 'water', meaning 'meandering water'. An alternative interpretation is *(s)kel-/*skul- 'shiny, bright', meaning 'clear river'.

Course
The Kupa originates in Croatia in the mountainous region of Gorski Kotar, northeast of Rijeka, in the area of Risnjak National Park. It flows a few kilometers eastwards, receives the small Čabranka River from the left, before reaching the Slovenian border.

It then continues eastwards between the White Carniola region in the north and Central Croatia in the south. The Kupa receives influx from the river Lahinja from the left in Primostek, passes Vrbovsko, and eventually detaches from the Slovenian border having passed Metlika.

It then reaches the city of Karlovac, where it receives influx from two other rivers from the right, Dobra and Korana (which in turn is joined by Mrežnica). The Kupa continues flowing to the east, where it merges with Glina from the right, it then passes through two small towns called Šišinec and Brkiševina, and then proceeds to the town of Sisak where it merges with Odra from the left and, after passing through Sisak town centre, flows into the Sava River.

Pollution
Fairly unpolluted downstream to Karlovac, the upper Kupa is a popular place for bathing in summer. The section from Stari Trg down to Fučkovci since 2006 is part of the Slovenian Krajinski park Kolpa nature reserve.

The hydrological parameters of the Kupa are regularly monitored at Radenci, Kamanje, Karlovac, Jamnička Kiselica and Farkašić.

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HMS Ladybird (1916)

HMS Ladybird was an Insect-class gunboat of the Royal Navy, launched in 1916. This class are also referred to as "large China gunboats". Originally built to patrol the River Danube during the First World War, she sailed for China from Malta in February 1927 to serve on the Yangtze River.

History
On 12 December 1937, Ladybird, along with HMS Bee (1915) became involved in the Panay incident and came under fire from a Japanese artillery unit near Wuhu on the Yangtze River. Ladybird was hit by six shells and Bee dodged one as she came upon the scene. Ladybird was not badly damaged and with Bee picked up survivors from the sunk USS Panay (PR-5).

In 1939 the original pair of 6 in Mk VII 45-calibre guns were replaced by more modern and 30 in longer 6-inch Mk XIII 50-calibre guns from the decommissioned battleship HMS Agincourt (1913).

Ladybird was allocated to Singapore in 1940 and then, along with five others of the class, stripped down and towed to the Mediterranean Sea. During the journey she sustained damage which meant she was limited to a speed of 7 kn due to a misaligned hull. She was initially used to guard Port Said.

In late December 1940 and early January 1941 Ladybird was engaged at close range, bombarding the Italian port of Bardia in Libya, in support of the Allied Capture of Bardia on 5 January 1941 as part of Operation Compass.

On 25 February 1941 she landed a Royal Marines unit during Operation Abstention, an ill-fated attempt to seize the Italian island of Kastelorizo, where she was hit by an aerial bomb. Later, acting in support of the Tobruk garrison, she shelled the Gazala airfield and ferried in supplies. During this duty, on 12 May 1941, she was severely damaged by dive bombers and set on fire, settling on an even keel in 10 ft of water. Still above water, her 3 in gun was used as an anti-aircraft gun; HMS Gnat (T60) replaced Ladybird in supporting Tobruk.

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User:Haikupoet

A vandal mistook a user page for talk page and bangs for discourse

The error arose from words at VfD obscure to one in life's spring

Me
No, I don't particularly want to tell you who I am. If you know me from one of the other fora I contribute to, you'll recognize my nick, but if you google it you'll go down a lot of blind alleys. I like having a forum where I can be relatively anonymous.

What I will share:

 * I'm a trivia junkie going way back, with an ADDer's tendency to get immersed in a subject for a short period of time. I have more useless information going around in my head than any one person needs, and Wikipedia is the perfect forum for showing it off without gloryseeking.
 * I live in Massachusetts, self-identify as a bleeding-heart liberal, and am a reluctant Democrat. I didn't really want to register for a party affiliation (I was an independent when I first voted), but I do lean liberal and have leaned further and further to the left over the years, and I don't think the American Green party is a viable choice right now. So I vote Democrat, and curse the clueless party leadership who are going to screw liberals over and over again by refusing to take a definite stand on far-right idiocies and corruption. (That said, I despise extremism of all sorts and hope to see Pat Robertson burning in hell next to Ayn Rand and Josef Stalin, but then I don't believe in Hell.)
 * I post off and on on Articles For Deletion, though I don't identify as either inclusionist or exclusionist. My biggest pet peeve is people who think they're entitled to a Wikipedia article (see below). I do think high schools are not inherently notable (except for magnet and charter schools, and some prep schools), but the consensus on Wikipedia is to the contrary, so I respect that.
 * I take a strictly neutral position on issues such as BC/AD vs BCE/CE and spelling and vocabulary variants, and feel that as long as it's reasonably clear to all concerned it may as well stay as it is (consistency is nice but not worth an edit war). I think people who make minor changes to an article solely to comply with their idea of "correct" English need to get a life. And I'll be happy to spell it 'aluminium' for Wikipedia's sake as long as I don't have to pronounce the second 'i'.
 * I consider myself a deist humanist, an agnostic, and a skeptic. I have a deepseated loathing for bad science and "alternative" medicine -- if you can't prove it logically or empirically, you shouldn't be asserting it. I am therefore in the minority that believes that "scientific POV == NPOV". It is perfectly okay to say you don't know the answer.
 * I'm not good with straight yeses or noes. My y-or-n answers tend to be infuriatingly qualified (I'd like to think "nuanced").
 * I can write haiku. I usually do not, though. Name is long story.

A message for those scorned by Articles for Deletion
Here's the deal, folks. Your article got brought up on AfD for a reason. The reason it's there, well, that's for AfD and the consensus-building mechanism to judge. But most likely I'm writing this to people who have their articles on the chopping block for one of three reasons: either it's vanity (or appears to be that way), it's original research, or it's just flat out nonnotable, i.e. there aren't enough people who have heard of it that would look it up in Wikipedia. Well, the main message is that it's not personal.

What it comes down to is that what you're trying to accomplish goes against one of the most important points about Wikipedia -- Wikipedia is not a promotional venue. You may have the grand unified theory of quantum gravity and be right in every respect, but we don't want to see it until it's been peer-reviewed by the scientific community. You may think your podcast/website/blog is the greatest thing since the invention of sliced Arpanet, but you have to realize that you exist within a greater context wherein much of what you are noted for is out of your hands. It's like nicknames -- a nickname is given to you, you don't choose it. Similarly, like Vince McMahon learned with the XFL, the issue is not how much you promote it, but how seriously it's taken. In this context, Slashdot, Fark, Yahoo, Google are taken very seriously indeed. My little corner of Geocities (no, I'm not going to post it here, I like being semi-anonymous on WP), not so much. (I got slashdotted once. I don't pretend that's an accomplishment worthy of wikification.)

Cruise through AfD sometime and see what I mean. There's guaranteed every day to be at least a dozen garage band articles on the block because people think that being famous the next street over means you're notable. And every once in a while you'll get someone who harangues most voters on a debate because their pet article is up for deletion; all they succeed in doing is annoying people and maybe getting censured by the admins for harassment and abuse of process. And there are entire categories of articles that people have extended debates about the value of; you will find people with passionate feelings on both sides of many an issue, but ultimately consensus is built or the admins err on the side of keeping what's under dispute.

Wikipedia is a meritocracy, but one with a very low barrier to entry; all you have to do is be a good contributor and a civil debater. That means assuming good faith and not taking things personally when your contributions are changed or deleted. Those who try to bend the system ride a fine line; many of them are good contributors despite being problematic. Those who try to break the system -- vandals, POV pushers, people on a vanity crusade -- are shown a great deal more mercy than they deserve most of the time (as it should be), but eventually get shown the door. Haikupoet 04:18, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

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Essex is a shire county divided into twelve districts. Thurrock and Southend-on-Sea are unitary districts and included for ceremonial purposes.

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Samuel Waugh

Samuel Bell Waugh ( 1814 in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania – 28 September, 1885, in Janesville, Wisconsin) was a 19th-century American portrait, landscape, and moving panorama painter. His portrait subjects included Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.

Biography
He was born in about 1814 in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, then part of the Mercer County, Pennsylvania. According to some reports, his father, James Waugh, was a pioneer-settler in New Wilmington where he ran the first general store. Little is known about Samuel's early life and education. It was suggested that he worked in a paint shop in Pittsburgh and also took painting lessons from J. R. Smith, who advertised himself as the "Scenic Artist of the Pittsburgh Theater". He joined his brother John in Toronto in 1833. In 1834, he displayed his paintings at the exhibition of the Society of Artists and Amateurs of Toronto where they were judged "among the very best portraits." In Toronto, he became a friend of already established American painter also hailing from Mercer County, James Bowman. They both started to plan a trip to Rome, Italy, but Bowman changed his mind and instead decided to settle in Detroit, and Waugh remained in Canada relocating to Montreal. He went to Italy in late 1836 or early 1837 staying in Rome and Naples until 1841 or 1842. His portrait of the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1838) buttressed his reputation as an accomplished artist and eased his transition to Philadelphia where he established himself as a leading portrait and landscape painter. Sculptor Thomas Crawford and painter James Edward Freeman might have aided him in this process.

In 1849, Waugh debuted in Philadelphia his first Italian moving panorama, Mirror of Italy, or Grand Tour through Italy, which was based on his Italian sketches; it became a success and toured different American cities for six years. His second panorama, Italia, depicting a voyage from Boston to Italy, opened in 1854.

On 28 September 1885, Waugh died while visiting his sister in Janesville, Wisconsin. In a eulogy, the National Academy characterized Waugh as one of its "earlier and highly respected members."

Family
His daughter from first marriage to Sarah Lendenhall, Ida Waugh (1846-1919), was an award-winning figure painter, and her portrait of Dr. Paul J. Sartain received the 1896 Norman W. Dodge prize at the National Academy; she also illustrated children's books written by her step-brother's tutor Amy Ella Blanchard. His second wife, Mary Eliza Young Waugh, was a miniature painter. Their son Frederick Judd Waugh (1861–1940), born in Bordentown, New Jersey, is best remembered as a marine painter. His grandson, Frederick Coulton Waugh, was also an artist, known for his work on the comic strip Dickie Dare. His nephew, Henry W. Waugh (1835-1865), was an actor and scene and landscape painter. The Waughs owned a house in Bordentown, New Jersey overlooking the Delaware River where they spent many summers.

Recognition
Waugh was one of the leading portrait painters in Philadelphia during his lifetime and was known nationally for his Italian moving panoramas. Waugh exhibited frequently at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Artists' Fund Society of Philadelphia, the National Academy of Design in New York, and the Boston Aethenaeum. His traveling panoramas, Mirror of Italy, or Grand Tour through Italy and Italia, were well received by American public. In 1847, he became an honorary member of the National Academy of Design and Toronto Society of Arts.

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Daimler Armoured Car

The Daimler Armoured Car was a successful British armoured car design of the Second World War that continued in service into the 1950s. It was designed for armed reconnaissance and liaison purposes. During the postwar era, it doubled as an internal security vehicle in a number of countries.

Former British Daimler armoured cars were exported to various Commonwealth of Nations member states throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In 2012, some were still being operated by the Qatari Army.

Design and development
The Daimler Armoured Car was a parallel development to the Daimler Dingo "Scout car", a small armoured vehicle for scouting and liaison roles. It was another Birmingham Small Arms design. A larger version designed on the same layout as the Dingo fitted with the turret similar to that of the Mark VII Light Tank and a more powerful engine. Like the scout car, it incorporated some of the most advanced design concepts of the time and is considered one of the best British AFVs of the Second World War. The 95 hp engine was at the rear linked through a fluid flywheel to a Wilson preselector gearbox and then a H-drive arrangement with propshafts to each wheel. Four wheel steering similar to early models of the Scout car was considered but not implemented following experience with the Dingo.

The prototypes had been produced in 1939, but problems with the transmission caused by the weight of the vehicle delayed service entry until mid-1941. Daimler Company built 2,694 armoured cars.

The Daimler had full independent suspension and four wheel drive. Epicyclic gearing in the wheel hubs enabled a very low ratio in bottom gear – it was credited with managing 1:2 inclines. The rugged nature combined with reliability made it ideal for reconnaissance and escort work.

The variant of the turret and the 2pdr gun were also used on the Light Tank Mk VII Tetrarch.

Combat history
The Daimler saw action in North Africa with the 11th Hussars and the Derbyshire Yeomanry. It was also used in Europe and a few vehicles reached the South-East Asia theatre. A typical late war recce troop in north-west Europe would have two Daimler Armoured Cars and two Daimler Dingo scout cars.

A British Indian Army armoured car regiment, the 16th Light Cavalry, which formed part of Fourteenth Army troops was partly equipped with Daimlers and served in the reconquest of Burma.

To improve the gun performance, some Daimlers in the European Theatre had their 2-pounders fitted with the Littlejohn adaptor, which worked on the squeeze bore principle. This increased the gun's theoretical armour penetration and would allow it to penetrate the side or rear armour of some German tanks.

Daimlers were used by the territorial units of the British Army until the 1960s, outlasting their planned replacement, the Coventry Armoured Car. It was still being used, along with Daimler Dingoes, by B Squadron, 11th Hussars in Northern Ireland as late as January 1960.

An Indian Army regiment, 63 Cavalry, was raised with Humber Armoured Cars in one of its squadrons. This squadron was later hived off as an independent reconnaissance squadron and the integral squadron re-raised with Daimlers. In the early sixties, Humbers and Daimlers of the Indian Army formed the mounts of the President's Bodyguard and were deployed in the defense of Chushul during the 1962 Sino-Indian War.

The Ceylon Army received twelve Daimlers in 1959 with the establishment of its 1st Reconnaissance Regiment. The Daimlers served with the Sri Lanka Armoured Corps till the late 1990s having served with the 1st Reconnaissance Regiment in the 1971 JVP insurrection and early part of the Sri Lankan Civil War most notably during the First Battle of Elephant Pass in which at least one Daimler was knocked out.

Conflicts

 * Second World War
 * Korean War
 * Vietnam War
 * 1948 Arab–Israeli War
 * Indo-Pakistani War
 * Ceylonese insurrection of 1971
 * Sri Lankan civil war

Variants

 * Mark I
 * Mark I CS – close support version with 76 mm gun.
 * Mark II – improved turret, modified gun mount, improved radiator, driver escape hatch incorporated into roof, WP grenade container fitted in turret and smoke generator container modified.
 * A turretless regimental command version, known as SOD ("Sawn-Off Daimler").

Current

 * 🇶🇦 Qatar

Former

 * 🇦🇺 Australia
 * 🇧🇪 Belgium
 * 🇨🇦 Canada
 * 🇮🇳 India
 * 🇮🇱 Israel
 * 🇲🇾 Malaysia
 * 🇲🇲 Myanmar
 * 🇳🇿 New Zealand
 * 🇵🇱 Poland
 * 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
 * 🇰🇼 Kuwait

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Bart Cummings

James Bartholomew Cummings (14 November 1927 – 30 August 2015), also known by his initials J. B. Cummings, was one of the most successful Australian racehorse trainers. He was known as the Cups King, referring to the Melbourne Cup, as he won 'the race that stops a nation' a record twelve times. During his lifetime, Cummings was considered an Australian cultural icon and an Australian National Living Treasure. His status as a racing icon in the 20th century was generally considered equivalent to that of Etienne L. de Mestre in the 19th century.

Early life
Cummings was born in 1927, in Adelaide, South Australia, the son of the accomplished trainer Jim Cummings, who trained the great stayer Comic Court to a win in the 1950 Melbourne Cup. Bart started his career working for his father as a strapper—despite being allergic to horses and hay. Cummings had an older brother, Pat, and said of his father: "I had the best of teachers. My dad had a lot of experience behind him and I picked up from him by watching, listening, and keeping my mouth shut".

Training career
Cummings received his trainer licence in 1953, and set up stables at Glenelg in South Australia. His first significant win came in 1958, when he won the South Australian Derby, his first Group 1 win.

Cummings had a record total of 89 runners in the Melbourne Cup starting in 1958 with Asian Court who finished twelfth. His next entrant was Trellios who fronted up in 1959 and finished fifth. In 1960, Sometime finished in sixth place. It wasn't until 1965 that, with three runners in the Melbourne Cup, Cummings finished first with Light Fingers and second with Ziema, with his other runner, The Dip, finished eighteenth.

Cummings won his first Trainer's Premiership in the 1965–1966 season. Not only did he achieve his first Melbourne Cup victory that year, but he also won the Adelaide, Caulfield, Sandown, Sydney, Brisbane and Queen's cups.

In 1968, Cummings opened stables, now called Saintly Lodge, at Flemington in Melbourne, home of the Flemington Racecourse. Later that year, he won the Trainer's Premiership the first of five.

In 1969, the favourite for the Melbourne Cup was Cummings' horse Big Philou, which had already won the Caulfield Cup. However, the horse was drugged illicitly with a large dose of laxative the morning of the race and was unable to compete.

In 1974, he became the first trainer in the British Commonwealth to train horses who won $1 million in prize money.

In 1975, Cummings moved his operations to a new facility near Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, called 'Leilani Lodge'.

In the late 1980s, Cummings spent millions of dollars purchasing racehorses, much of the money spent on behalf of a tax minimisation syndicate. Unfortunately, like many other trainers Cummings was hit hard by the recession of the early 1990s. With help from Reg Inglis' organisation, however, he avoided bankruptcy and continued training.

Cummings had training facilities at Randwick (NSW) and Flemington(Vic) but in 2014 the Flemington stables closed and all horses and training moved to Randwick. Cummings had gone into virtual retirement at Princes his property at the foot of the Blue Mountains. Bart's grandson and partner, James made the decision for financial reasons.

Cummings' final Melbourne Cup winner was Viewed in the 2008 race, when the horse beat Bauer in a photo finish. This was his 12th Melbourne Cup victory, on the 50th anniversary of the day when he entered his first Cup runner.

Cummings achieved 246 Group 1 victories and more than 776 stakes victories. In addition to his 12 Melbourne Cups, he won the Caulfield Cup seven times, the Golden Slipper Stakes four times, the Cox Plate five times, the VRC Oaks nine times and the Newmarket Handicap eight times. He also won the Australian Cup thirteen times.

Honours

 * 1974 ABC Sportsman of the Year
 * 1982 Made a Member of the Order of Australia for his services to the racing industry.
 * 1991 11 December 1991, Cummings was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.
 * 1997 Named in National Trusts 100 Australian Living Legends (chosen by a national vote)
 * 2000 Awarded a Centennial Medal and carried the Olympic Torch
 * 2001 An inaugural inductee into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame.
 * 2004 First licensed person to be made Lifetime member of Victoria Racing Club
 * 2007 Australia Post placed his image on a postage stamp as part of its Australian Legends series.
 * 2008 Racing NSW announced a new horse racing award to be known as The Bart Cummings Medal which will be awarded for 'consistent, outstanding performances amongst jockeys and trainers at New South Wales metropolitan race meetings through the racing season.

Melbourne Cup winners
In 1965, 1966, 1974, 1975, and 1991, Cummings trained both the first- and second-placed horses in the Melbourne Cup. In all, Cummings won twelve Melbourne Cups with eleven horses:
 * Light Fingers (1965)
 * Galilee (1966)
 * Red Handed (1967)
 * Think Big (1974 & 1975)
 * Gold and Black (1977)
 * Hyperno (1979)
 * Kingston Rule (1990)
 * Let's Elope (1991)
 * Saintly (1996)
 * Rogan Josh (1999)
 * Viewed (2008)

In February 2016, the Victoria Racing Club unveiled a precinct in honour of Cummings at Flemington Racecourse to be named Saintly Place. The chairman said, "We’re extremely pleased that Bart endorsed this initiative, which importantly is in general admission and accessible to all,...Bart has generously bequeathed a collection of his trophies for public display at Flemington, and in time Saintly Place will become a permanent trackside museum dedicated to the Cups King. The large collection includes Saintly’s Melbourne Cup and Bart’s 12 Melbourne Cup trainer’s trophies, as well as Caulfield Cups and Cox Plates."

Personal life and death
Born in the Adelaide suburb of Glenelg, he attended the Marist Brothers' Sacred Heart College in Adelaide in the beachside suburb of Somerton Park. He left school at 14. Cummings met Valmae "Val" (died 12 January 2017) at a church social in Adelaide, and they married in 1954. Like his parents, Cummings was a practising Catholic, and their faith played an important role in their lives. He had five children: daughters Sharon (now Robinson), Anne-Marie (now Casey), and Margaret and sons John (deceased 2011) and Anthony. His son Anthony and grandson James (who Bart made a partner in 2011 ) are also trainers, while second grandson Edward was a stable foreman with Anthony but has now been approved to train in partnership with Anthony.

Cummings authored a book, Bart: My Life, which was published in 2009.

Cummings died on 30 August 2015 in Prince's Farm in Castlereagh, NSW, two days after he and wife Valmae celebrated their 61st wedding anniversary. He was 87. His family accepted an offer by the Premier of New South Wales, Mike Baird, of a state funeral, which took place on 7 September at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, on College Street, and was televised on Sky Thoroughbred Central, 7Two, ABC and Nine Network Australia from 10AM AEST.

Will dispute
On 28 October 2016, a dispute over Cummings' will was heard in the New South Wales Supreme Court. The dispute was between Anthony and his sister Margaret, who wanted the $30 million estate to be settled as per Cummings' will. They also took the executor of the estate, accountant Aaron Ross Randell, to court, contesting their father's final will. In a separate action, sisters Sharon and Anne-Marie were contesting the division of the estate. The judge Supreme Court Justice Francois Kunc ordered that the parties find someone who could act as an intermediary in mediation between the parties. He expected mediation to occur in December/January, and the matter was to return to court in February 2017.

Mediation was under the control of eminent former appeal court judge Keith Mason, QC, with the first meeting was scheduled for 30 November. The mediation over two days failed to resolve the dispute, and Judge Philip Hallen ordered that the parties submit any further evidence by 30 January. A hearing was scheduled for 24 February when a date for a hearing was to be set. With the death of Bart's wife in early January 2017, the family "...will put aside all ill-will as the mourn the loss of their mother". No further stories regarding the estate have appeared in the media, and the matter may have been settled privately.

Secret family controversy
In November 2016, two sisters in Adelaide, Kimberley and Julia Mander, went public with a claim that Cummings was the father of their father, Peter Mander, from a relationship with their grandmother, Patricia Kilmartin. They allege that the couple were in a relationship for over a year and Patricia fell pregnant in mid-1951. The relationship ended, and Lloyd Mander married Patricia and raised Peter as his son. They have engaged a lawyer and have asked for DNA tests for to confirm their story. They have stated that they are not interested in a financial claim on Cummings' estate.

Cummings' daughter Sharon Robinson has said that she is happy to give a DNA sample and to meet the girls who would be her nieces if Bart Cummings is proved to be their grandfather.

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For Those Who Think Young (album)

For Those Who Think Young, appearing on the album cover as (for those who think young) and originally to be entitled for those who think jung, is the third album by Canadian new wave band Rough Trade; it was released in 1981 (True North TN-48 in Canada; Boardwalk NB-33261-1, US; Big Time, UK; CBS 85385, The Netherlands). It climbed to #9 in Canada on the RPM Top 50 Albums Chart on November 7, 1981 (putting it at #1 on the CANCON Chart listing), and held the position for three weeks,  dropping out of the Top 50 after sixteen weeks on February 6 of the following year. It was certified gold in Canada by the CRIA on November 1, 1981. The single "All Touch" gave the band its biggest commercial success, reaching #12 in Canada on the RPM Top 50 Singles Chart (#2 on the CANCON Chart) and #58 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

Singles released from the album included "All Touch" (b/w "Baptism of Fire") [True North TN4-165], "Blood Lust" (b/w "Bodies In Collision") [True North TN4-170], "For Those Who Think Young" (b/w "Attitude") [True North TN4-171], all 1981 Canadian releases in picture sleeves, and the 1982 U.S. release of "All Touch" (b/w "The Sacred And The Profane") [Boardwalk NB-11-167-7].

Personnel

 * Carole Pope – Songwriter, lead vocals
 * Kevan Staples – Vocals, guitar, piano, synthesiser, producer
 * David McMorrow – Vocals, piano, Rhodes, synthesisers
 * Terry Wilkins – Vocals, Fender fretless bass
 * Bucky Berger – Vocals, drums
 * Gene Martynec – Producer
 * Gary Gray – Engineer
 * Rick Starks – Assistant engineer
 * Jack Skinner – Mastering
 * Peter J. Moore – Remastering, restoration
 * Dusty Springfield – Backing vocals
 * Shawne Jackson – Backing vocals
 * Colina Phillips – Backing vocals
 * Derek Taylor – Make-up

Charts

 * Singles

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Peter Latham (tennis)

Peter Walker Latham (1865–1953) was a British racquets and real tennis player.

Biography
Peter Latham was born in Manchester on 10 May 1865. He married Annie Sarah Carpenter in 1888, and they had five children.

Latham was the world champion of rackets from 1887-1902, and was also the world champion of real tennis from 1895-1905 and from 1907-1908. He is the only person to hold both titles simultaneously (which he did in 1895-1902) as of 2024.

He died at his home in Chiswick on 22 November 1953.

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Philippe Volter

Philippe Volter (23 March 1959 – 13 April 2005) was a Belgian actor and director. Born Philippe Wolter to theatre director Claude Volter and his wife, actress Jacqueline Bir, Volter began his career in Brussels in 1985.

He made many stage and film appearances, the latter of which peaked with such arthouse films as The Music Teacher (1988), The Double Life of Véronique (1991) and Blue (1993). Other appearances include Macbeth (1987) and The Five Senses (1999). Upon his father's death in 2002, he returned to Belgium and became artistic director for the Comedy Claude Volter.

Volter committed suicide in 2005, aged 46.

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Evans Head, New South Wales

Evans Head is a town in Richmond Valley Council of the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales, Australia. At the 2016 census, Evans Head had a population of 2,843 people. It is 726 kilometres north of Sydney, and 11 kilometres east off the Pacific Highway from Woodburn.

History
Evans Head is situated on the traditional lands of the Bandjalang clan of the Bundjalung people.

Evans Head is named after a marine surveyor, Lt Evans, RN who carried out the first marine survey of the coastline in the area.

The Evans Head Air Weapons Range is located near the town. It has been used by the Royal Australian Air Force since 13 July 1949.

Heritage listings
Evans Head has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
 * Memorial Airport Drive: Evans Head Memorial Aerodrome

Native title
In late April 2021, the Federal Court of Australia convened at Evans Head, where a native title determination was made over 7.2 km2 of land, consisting of 52 separate areas of land. The application had been launched in 1996, and the first determination made in 2013. Included in the land is a bora ring of great cultural significance near Coraki.

Population
According to the 2016 census of Population, there were 2,843 people in Evans Head.
 * Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 4.5% of the population.
 * 85.0% of people were born in Australia and 90.7% of people spoke only English at home.
 * The most common responses for religion were No Religion 29.0%, Anglican 21.9% and Catholic 20.9%.

Attractions
It is a coastal town and a holiday resort, playing host to one of the largest holiday parks in NSW. It is sandwiched between Bundjalung National Park and Broadwater National Park. There is a wide curved beach that is popular for fishing, surfing and swimming.

Evans Head is home to the Illawong Hotel, an RSL club and one of the largest holiday parks in NSW, parts of which are pet-friendly. The Evans Head Holiday Park (formerly known as 'Silver Sands Caravan Park' ) has almost 600 sites and is located within walking distance of all the town amenities. The town has two supermarkets, two butchers, a number of clothing stores, cafes and other eateries that cater for the tourist population. Whilst the population is less than 3,000 people that number swells in school holidays.

The 1874 wreck of a timber schooner, Pilot, is visible on the beach north of the town in times of high erosion. The aerodrome hosts one of the few retired F-111 aircraft in Australia and a museum with a number of authentic aircraft on display.

Transport
The town's airport, the Evans Head Memorial Aerodrome, formerly a RAAF base is heritage listed.

Northern Rivers Buslines operates two routes from Lismore, the 690 and 695, where the 695 also continues to Grafton from Evans Head. Ballina Buslines operates one route to Ballina via Woodburn, the 660.

NSW TrainLink operates a daily coach between Grafton and Byron Bay via Evans Head.

Sport
The town has a bowling club and surf club. Evans Head Bombers rugby league club was established in 1999 and draws players from Broadwater, Woodburn and Coraki. The club fields junior and senior teams in the Northern Rivers Regional Rugby League competition. Golf is played at the Woodburn-Evans Head course with 11 holes and 18 tees.

Industry
The main industry today is tourism with sugar cane growing just inland from the town. The town has a small industrial estate near the airport.

The town was traditionally a fishing village, with snapper fishing and prawning forming the basis of the town's local economy.

The voyage of the Friendship R
From the 1950s Evans Head has been distinguished as the first dedicated base of the oftentimes perilous prawn trawling industry in Australia. There was a prawn fishing fleet permanently moored in the estuary. Messenger recalls that many fisherman lost their lives. One instance in the 1960s was the trawler Wyowna was lost at sea with all hands on board.

At ca. March 1963 the Fisherman’s Cooperative of Evans Head was the base starting point of the journey of the Friendship R, the first fishing trawler to circumnavigate Australia. It was built in nearby Ballina by K.F. Barlow for Rex Montford, an experienced seaman and fisherman. With crewman Ken Messenger, a grandson of Dally Messenger, the rugby league superstar of the early 20th century, Montford set out on his epic journey.

The Friendship R was originally contracted by the CSIRO to teach the fishermen at Shark Bay near Carnarvon WA, the art of trawling for prawns.

Leaving Evans Head the trawler journeyed south, stopping at Coffs Harbour, Broken Bay, Sydney, Eden and on to Port Fairy in Victoria. They then headed West to Port Lincoln and then across the Great Australian Bight to Western Australia aided only with a compass and a book of charts. They negotiated extremely hazardous reefs on their way into Fremantle.

As it turned out the fishermen at Shark Bay had already had been mentored by Jack Drinan, a skilled Queensland prawner who was in charge of six trawlers all named Nor but numbered one to six. This was the same Jack Drinan who was shipwrecked on 26 April 1963 and declared lost, but was sensationally found seventeen days later, in the open sea, clinging to the trawler’s refrigerator door. Montford and Messenger were part of the search party. In the company of Drinan and his surviving boats the Friendship R saw out the rest of the fishing and prawning season, while domiciled at the Shark Bay whaling station.

In October 1963 Montford and Messenger decided to leave Carnarvon and return to Evans Head by the top end of the Australian continent. In the company of two other boats, the Toowoon Bay and the Rambler, they proceeded along the coastline north to Exmouth Gulf and then east to Darwin. On this leg of the trip, a crisis occurred when, in a calm sea, their engine failed. The sails, gifted by Sydney yachtsman Englebert “Boy” Messenger, were not helpful as there was no wind. Fortunately, Reg Massey, skipper of the Rambler sensed something was wrong, doubled back, found the Friendship R and towed it into the port of Darwin.

When all was repaired and overhauled in Darwin the Friendship R set out across the unpredictable Gulf of Carpentaria. They stopped at Elcho Island where they received enthusiastic hospitality from the locals.

They were similarly welcomed at Thursday Island. They then proceeded back to Evans Head via Cairns and Tin Can Bay. The Friendship R was the first fishing trawler or similar vessel to circumnavigate Australia. It is considered a pioneer voyage in Australia's history. Messenger left for other pursuits and Rex Montford lived out his life in Evans Head, honoured and respected by the local population. He is buried in the local cemetery.

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Talk:Sjálvstýri

I don't know if translations of the names of faroese political parties are standardized, but some information can be found in english on the website of the faroese parliament: http://www.logting.fo/Løgting%20UK%202004.pdf

I think that native English speaker can take a look at this and maybe move some pages or something, if that seems apropriate.

--JJ-Hammer 12:09, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Article name
It is a pity that the article is not simply entitled Sjálvstýrisflokkurin, since – in the absence of the party's having an official English-language title (and there is no reason why it should!) – that is the only unambiguous designation for the organization. "Self-Government Party", "Home Rule Party", and the rest are really no more than descriptive glosses. -- Picapica 21:42, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I have now moved it to its current name New Self-Government, which should be unambiguous.--Batmacumba (talk) 12:34, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

Ideology
The labels used to describe the partys ideology are rather inaccurate. They are sourced, but by reference to rather old texts, which are not specifically about the Faroes, and I am unsure if its okay to remove them without providing a replacement source (which might be hard to find). Would removing anything older than the last decade be okay?

Their current view on separatism is that the Faroes should pursue a gradualist path to independence by "taking home" area after are until there is nothing left and then cut the last formal ties to Denmark. I am not sure "regionalism" covers this gradualist approach to separatism. Since gradualism is a strategy and not an ideology I think separatism, as we use on Danish and Norwegian wiki, is more accurate.

It is also not Liberal in any meaningful way (unless Social Liberalism just equals economic policies slightly to the right of center). Their current leader Jógvan Skorheim and the former, current MP Kári P. Højgaard, are both Social Conservatives (in the US sense) and despite an official neutrality on ethical matters (like the other two centrist parties in the Faroes, the Social Democrats and Union Party), it is de facto the third most socially conservative party after the hardcore SoCons/fundis in the Centre Party and the Conservatives in the Peoples party. It has always been fairly heterogeneous because after PP split in 1939/40 and the left wing nationalists founded Republic in 1946 it was basically a party for everybody on the separatist side, who weren't willing to experiment with Socialism or supporting hard right economic policies + people who were less "here and now" focused regarding separatism than the two big parties. It has long been split between progressive Torshavn academics and fishermen/craftsmen in the settlements with a splattering of separatist Liberals. In 2014 Progress was founded as a both socially and economically Liberal/Libertarian separatist party and several people from their youth wing + former parliamentary leader Sámal Petur í Grund (1998–2001) left for Progress. At about the same time former chairman Helena Dam á Neystabø (1994–2001) and former parliamentary leader Kristianna Winther Poulsen (2011–2013) joined the Social Democrats, which cost them quite a few members in Torshavn. So with the principled Liberals gone for Progress and the progressive Torshavn academics leaving for the Social Democrats what is left in the party are people in the settlements, who are socially conservative separatists, like PP, but just more centrist on economics. Their voter base is now essentially identical to PP and their best results are in Eysturoy and Nordoyar (the most small c- conservative parts of the Faroes). They tried running activist writer Zakarias Wang (who left Republic, because he thought they were going soft on separatism by accepting Danish party aid!) and former Union Party member and prominent lawyer Bjørn av Heygum as Torshavn candidates this time, but both got paltry results, which was interpreted as Torshavn voters not being prepared to view New Self-Government as anything remotely "progressive" or "liberal" given that their votes would likely get SoCons elected.

I think Moderate Conservative and Separatist would be the most accurate to cover their current position. But it is always hard to find sources for Faroese politics. So not sure I will pursue this further, just thought I would mention it. The recent name change to New Self-Government was also chosen to distance itself from its history and give it a clearer profile - and it actually appears to be a rather ideologically coherent party now - for the first time in its 109 year old history.--Batmacumba (talk) 12:34, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

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Basil Dignam

Basil Dignam (24 October 1905 – 31 January 1979) was an English character actor.

Basil Dignam was born in Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire. Before the acting, he tried many jobs, from a company clerk to a journalist. He acted on film and television between 1948 and 1978. He often appeared as an authority figure, such as Mr Justice Poynter in Crown Court, as a police officer, army general or peer. Television appearances include The Prisoner: Checkmate (1967) and The Champions (1968), as Sir Frederick in episode 2 "The Invisible Man".

Personal life
He was married to actress Mona Washbourne from 1940 until his death in 1979. His brother Mark Dignam was also a professional actor. Basil Dignam died, aged 73, in Westminster, London.

Selected filmography

 * Maytime in Mayfair (1949) – Commissionaire (uncredited)
 * Smart Alec (1951) – Defending Counsel
 * Two on the Tiles (1951) – Ship's Captain
 * The Lady with a Lamp (1951)
 * Appointment with Venus (1951) – R.A.M.C. Captain
 * His Excellency (1952) – Security Officer
 * Hammer the Toff (1952) – Superintendent
 * There Was a Young Lady (1953)
 * Carrington V.C. (1954)
 * The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) – Sir Lionel Dean (uncredited)
 * They Can't Hang Me (1955) – Wing Commander Riddle
 * Touch and Go (1955) – Stevens
 * The Narrowing Circle (1956) – George Pacey
 * Private's Progress (1956) – Col. Martin (uncredited)
 * Port of Escape (1956) – Det. Insp. Crawford
 * The Intimate Stranger (1956) – Dr. Gray
 * Reach for the Sky (1956) – Air Ministry Doctor (uncredited)
 * The Weapon (1956) – (uncredited)
 * The Counterfeit Plan (1957) – Police Commissioner
 * You Pay Your Money (1957) – Currie
 * Brothers in Law (1957) – Mr. Justice Emery
 * Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst (1957) – Sir Lionel Henry Lamb, British Ambassador at Nanking
 * Man in the Shadow (1957) – Bit Part (uncredited)
 * Three Sundays to Live (1957) – Davitt
 * The Depraved (1957) – Tom Wilton
 * Son of a Stranger (1957) – Dr. Delaney
 * The Safecracker (1958) – Air Vice Marshal
 * Them Nice Americans – Inspector Adams
 * Innocent Sinners (1958) – Mr. Dyson – Olivia's Solicitor (uncredited)
 * Up the Creek (1958) – Coombes
 * The Spaniard's Curse (1958) – Guy Stevenson (uncredited)
 * A Cry from the Streets (1958) – Police Inspector (uncredited)
 * Carry On Sergeant (1958) – Third Specialist
 * Further Up the Creek (1958) – Flagship Commander
 * I Only Arsked! (1958) – (uncredited)
 * Corridors of Blood (1958) – Chairman
 * Room at the Top (1959) – Priest (uncredited)
 * Carlton-Browne of the F.O. (1959) – Security Officer
 * Sapphire (1959) – Doctor Burgess (uncredited)
 * I'm All Right Jack (1959) – Minister of Labour
 * A Touch of Larceny (1959) – Lt. Cmdr. Evans at P.R.O. (uncredited)
 * The Spider's Web (1960) – Hugo
 * Suspect (1960) – Dr Childs
 * The Pure Hell of St Trinian's (1960) – Army Officer
 * Sentenced for Life (1960) – Ralph Thompson
 * Gorgo (1961) – Admiral Brooks
 * The Secret Partner (1961) – Lyle
 * The Fourth Square (1961) - Inspector Forbes
 * The Court Martial of Major Keller (1961) – Morrell
 * Fate Takes a Hand (1961) – Wheeler
 * Life for Ruth (1962) – Lawyer Mapleton
 * Lawrence of Arabia (1962) – Cavalry General at Field Briefing (uncredited)
 * Seven Seas to Calais (1962) – Sir Francis Walsingham
 * Master Spy (1963) – Richard Horton
 * Heavens Above! (1963) – Prison Governor
 * 80,000 Suspects (1963) – Medical Officer Boswell
 * Ring of Spies (1964) – 2nd Member at Lord's (uncredited)
 * Joey Boy (1965) – General
 * The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) – Lawyer
 * Rotten to the Core (1965) – The General
 * Where the Spies Are (1965) – Major Harding
 * Naked Evil (1966) – Jim Benson
 * The Jokers (1967) – Bank Manager
 * Cuckoo Patrol (1967) – Snodgrass
 * I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967)
 * Assignment K (1968) – Howlett
 * Twisted Nerve (1968) – Doctor
 * Laughter in the Dark (1969) – Dealer
 * Battle of Britain (1969) – Tactical Records Officer (uncredited)
 * The Great White Hope (1970) – English Official (uncredited)
 * 10 Rillington Place (1971) – Medical Board
 * Persuasion (1971) - Sir Walter Elliot
 * A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971) – The Commissioner (uncredited)
 * Young Winston (1972) – Joseph Chamberlain
 * Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1974) – Brigadier
 * Edward the Seventh (1975) - Prime Minister Asquith

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Talk:Southwest Australia

earlier comment
I dispute the recommended merge. I have no opinion on merging South-west Corner of Western Australia (which appears to be about a catchment) into Southwest Australia, which is obvious defined in terms of biodiversity criteria. However the South West region of Western Australia is about a region defined by the government under the Regional Development Act. Neither its geographical boundaries nor its purpose coincide with Southwest Australia, and the articles must not be merged. One might just as well suggest merging Swan Shire into Swan River. Hesperian 12:14, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

interzone + nomenclature
Needs referencing from Hopper on historical 'interzone' - not at hand to expand Yalgoo and Mallee references

+ I really do not like the WWF nomenclature - I have not seen any Savanna anywhere in the Southwest Australia savanna region, there are barely any native grasses at all! And how is that Swan Coastal Plain = Kwongan heathlands when it is mostly Banksia woodlands, and 'Kwongan shrubland' occurs in at least 3 or 4 other IBRA / ecoregions. And it is odd that 'Jarrah' refers to different regions in the IBRA v WWF systems Bpinab (talk) 02:43, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Jarrah Forest = Southwest Australia woodlands
 * Warren = Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands

AusEng style = South West [not "Southwest"]
This is one of the cases where Australian English style (as per the Macquarie and Oxford Australian Dictionaries) usually differs from both US and UK style.

That is, the joining together of cardinal directions (e.g. southwest/southwestern) is very much a North American thing, whereas formal UK style is more often hyphenated (south-west, south-western).

Australian English is distinguished by an aversion to hyphenation (except in proper nouns) and rendering non-cardinal directions as separate words (e.g. "South West").

While I take the point that some of the sources cited use "Southwest", "South-western" in titles etc., that lack of uniformity is an even bigger pointer that the name should default to the conventional.

Thoughts?

Grant |  Talk  13:29, 28 November 2021 (UTC)

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Talk:South West (Western Australia)

earlier conversation
I dispute the recommended merge. I have no opinion on merging South-west Corner of Western Australia (which appears to be about a catchment) into Southwest Australia, which is obvious defined in terms of biodiversity criteria. However the South West region of Western Australia is about a region defined by the government under the Regional Development Act. Neither its geographical boundaries nor its purpose coincide with Southwest Australia, and the articles must not be merged. One might just as well suggest merging Swan Shire into Swan River. Hesperian 12:14, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Feel free to remove the merge notice if you disagree. However, consider adding some sort of disambiguation notice at the top of each article (e.g. This article refers to the government region. For other uses, see ...). The differences between those articles may not be obvious to those who don't live down-under. Rl 12:58, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * All three of these units describe different regions; South West region of Western Australia is about a governmental region (23,970 km²), Southwest Australia is an ecoregion (356,717 km²), but I'm not sure what sort of region the South-west Corner of Western Australia (140,000 km²) happens to be. I agree that they should not be merged, but it won't hurt to cross-reference the articles, for example to explain which ecoregion or ecoregions a political unit is part of, and vice versa. Tom Radulovich 16:01, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I think South-west Corner of Western Australia refers to a drainage divisiont, because the "See Also" section links to a number of articles on various drainage divisions, all with the same organisation as South-west Corner of Western Australia, and all contributed by User:Tannin. I will add cross-references for the articles.  Hesperian 23:37, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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SD10

SD10 may refer to:
 * SD-10 (missile), an air-to-air missile
 * PowerShot SD10, an ultracompact digital camera produced by Canon
 * Sigma SD10, a digital SLR camera
 * South Dakota Highway 10, a state highway in South Dakota

 * SD-10 (siren) a siren made by Federal Signal.
 * EMD SD10, an American diesel locomotive produced by Electro-Motive Diesel.

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The Art of Star Wars

The Art of Star Wars is a series of books by various editors featuring concept art from the Star Wars motion picture saga. The books mainly feature artwork accompanied by a short explanation of the scene and the artist's ideas, but also script notes, posters and other information. The first books were published by Ballantine Books, a subsidiary of Random House, with later editions appearing under the DelRey and LucasBooks imprints. Later titles were published by Harry N. Abrams.

The Art of Star Wars was also the title of an exhibition of Star Wars artwork, props, and costumes mounted by Lucasfilm at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco in 1995. The exhibition was subsequently expanded to various international venues from 2000–2001, including the Barbican Art Gallery in London and the Helsinki City Art Museum.

Content
Carol Titelman's first volume, originally entitled The Art of Star Wars, was published in 1979 amid a popular trend for behind-the-scenes, "making-of" media products (such as The Making of Star Wars documentary). The book presents a range of pre-production concept art, storyboards, and publicity shots alongside Lucas's screenplay. It has been noted as a rich record of the previsualization behind the 1977 movie that gives the reader an insight into the "possibilities that might have been" in the final production design, and that challenges the "authorial singularity and originality" that normally surrounds the works of a Hollywood auteur. The first volume has been called the definitive work on the development of the cinematographic art of Star Wars, a body of creative works that heavily influenced later films.

The first book presents some of the earliest concept sketches of a number of now-familiar characters of the Star Wars universe, including early impressions of the helmet of Darth Vader, the droids C-3PO and R2-D2, Imperial stormtroopers, and the alien clientele of the Mos Eisley Cantina on the planet Tatooine. The concept sketches and matte paintings of Ralph McQuarrie feature heavily, alongside sketches by Joe Johnston, set design drawings by John Barry, costume design sketches by John Mollo, storyboards by Alex Tavoularis and photographs by Bob Seidemann and John Jay. McQuarrie's work was considered highly influential in the production of the first three Star Wars movies; Journalist Jonathan Jones wrote of McQuarrie: "Looking at his [McQuarrie's] paintings, you can recognise that the appeal of this art is similar to that of 19th century Orientalist paintings of harems and sandy vistas." Section one of the book, accompanied by illustrations, features "the script" and is introduced by the title page text: "Star Wars↵ Episode↵ IV↵ A New Hope↵ from the↵ Journal of the Whills↵ by↵ George Lucas↵ Revised Fourth Draft↵ January 15, 1976↵ Lucasfilm Ltd." Later book sections, from pages 138 to 175, feature the artwork of film posters by Tom Jung, Dan Goozee, Drew Struzan, John Berkey, Tom Chantrell, the Hildebrandt Brothers, Howard Chaykin, Wojtek Siudmak and Ralph McQuarrie; and the art of spin-off products such as the Marvel Comics series, Star Wars-themed cartoons such as Berry's World and Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies; and fan art.

Two volumes were subsequently published to accompany the sequel films; The Art of the Empire Strikes Back, edited by Deborah Call, was published in 1980; and The Art of Return of the Jedi was published in 1983.

In 2000, the Star Wars prequel trilogy began with the release of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, and corresponding books in The Art of Star Wars series were published. As in previous volumes, these books contain paintings, sketches, mock-ups, models and photos of scenes, buildings, costumes, characters, spacecraft and creatures, along with digitally mastered pictures. The books chart the progress of production from original gouache drawings to the three-dimensional models of spaceships. McQuarrie had retired by this stage, and the production artwork of Doug Chiang features heavily in these books. Extracts from the Episode I book were published in a 48-page booklet accompanying a US "collectors' edition" videotape of The Phantom Menace in 2000.

The Art of Star Wars, Episode III - Revenge of the Sith, published in 2005, features a foreword by director George Lucas, and presents the early concept art for significant scenes in Episode III, in particular the final lightsaber duel of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker on the hellish lava planet of Mustafar, and the medical chamber where Darth Vader is dressed in his trademark armour.

Following the acquisition of Lucasfilm by The Walt Disney Company in 2012, a sequel trilogy went into production. The Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, published in 2015, features the work of concept artists Iain McCaig and Craig Alzmann, production designer Rick Carter and Doug Chiang. The book contains early concept art tracing the early development of the character of Kylo Ren, and also reveals preliminary sketches that illustrate a proposed appearance of Anakin Skywalker as a malevolent "Force ghost".

Reprints
Following the theatrical release of The Empire Strikes Back in 1980, and the re-release of the original Star Wars film in 1981, the film series adopted an episodic naming convention in the opening crawl. From 1994, reprinted editions of the first three books also adopted episode titles — The Art of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, and so on. Revised editions of the first three books were published in 1997, with changes and new material added to reflect the additional special effects used in the Special Edition theatrical releases.

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Rough Trade – For Those Who Think Young album cover. Copyright 1981 Boardwalk Records.

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User:Quinncom

Quinn Comendant is a partner at Strangecode, LLC, an internet consultancy. He is a founding member of Wheeled Migration in CA, the Kilometer Zero Project in Paris, and Atlantis Books in Santorini. Quinn is working to find balance between his ventures, a love of long-distance cycling, and adopting an earnest meditation practice.

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It Happened at the World's Fair

It Happened at the World's Fair is a 1963 American musical comedy film starring Elvis Presley as a crop-dusting pilot. It was filmed in Seattle, Washington, site of the Century 21 Exposition. The governor of Washington at the time, Albert Rosellini, suggested the setting to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executives. The film made $2.25 million at the box office. Kurt Russell had a small uncredited role in his film debut.

Plot
Pilot Mike Edwards finds himself in a dilemma. His partner and friend, Danny, has overspent the money that Mike had set aside to pay their debts. Without it, their aircraft called Bessie, a Boeing-Stearman Model 75 crop duster, is taken by the local sheriff. If Mike and Danny do not get the money in a week, Bessie will be auctioned off to the highest bidder.

Mike and Danny become reluctant hitchhikers, looking for a lift to anywhere. They are picked up by apple farmer Walter Ling and his niece Sue-Lin. They end up in Seattle, Washington, location of the 1962 World's Fair. When the uncle is called away on business, Danny persuades Mike to take Sue-Lin to tour the fair. During a visit to a doctor at the fair, Mike falls for Diane Warren, an attractive but stubborn nurse who resists his advances. He gives a quarter to a boy who kicks him in the shin so that he can be treated by her. Diane's supervisor then convinces her to give Mike a ride back to his apartment, convinced that his leg is injured. Mike and Diane dine at the top of the fair's Space Needle. However, he also courts Dorothy Johnson.

Complications then arise when Walter inexplicably fails to return the next day to get Sue-Lin, leaving her with Mike. Sue-Lin feigns illness so that Diane will come to their apartment and examine her and see Mike again. When Diane discovers that Mike is not related to Sue-Lin, she wants to inform the welfare board so that Sue-Lin can be removed from Mike and Danny's apartment. A mysterious nightfall plane delivery is conducted for Mike and Danny's friend Vince, who smuggles valuable furs. The film ends with Mike and Diane in love.

Cast
Kurt Russell, Sandra Giles, Diane O'Donnell, and Memphis Mafia members Red West and Joe Esposito, had uncredited cameo appearances.

Production
The Seattle Center, including the Seattle Center Monorail and the Space Needle, serve as backdrops for several scenes. Security officers pursue Presley and the girl through the fountains at what is now the Pacific Science Center. The hitchhiking scene with Elvis and Gary Lockwood was filmed near Camarillo, California, as were some of the flying scenes. The entire hitchhiking scene, up to the point when Mike and Danny are picked up, was filmed on 5th Street near Pleasant Valley Road on the south side of Camarillo.

While The Elvis Encyclopedia believes that the Wilburton Trestle was shown in the film, further evidence points to a different location. It is actually a trestle over the White River between Enumclaw and Buckley, now demolished. The view in the film was taken at the intersection of Mud Mountain Road and Highway 410, looking southeast. Mount Rainier is visible in the background, but it cannot be seen at that angle from the Wilburton Trestle, which is larger than the White River Trestle, at six sections high. The trestle pictured in the film is only four sections high at the road crossing.

Reception
Film reviewer Eugene Archer of the New York Times wrote, "Elvis Presley's budding dramatic talents have been neatly nipped in the Seattle story, which emerges as a dismal parody of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musicals of old. Burdened with a dozen tuneless songs and a plot requiring him to play guardian to a mercilessly cute Chinese waif, the crooner merely swivels ingenuously through a morass of clichés." Variety wrote that "this is apt to be tedious going for all but the most confirmed of Presley's young admirers. The 10-count-'em-10 tunes he sings may be cause for rejoicing among his more ardent followers but, stacked up proportionately against the skinny story in between, it seems at least three too many ... so many warbling interruptions upset the tempo of the yarn and prevent plot and picture from gathering momentum." John L. Scott of the Los Angeles Times wrote that "it must be said that unless you're a Presley fan, the 10 songs he offers while plinking a guitar or ukulele can grow tedious, while the frivolous backgrounding story is turned on and off between tunes."

Home media
The film was released in widescreen format on Region 1 DVD by Warner Home Video on August 7, 2007.

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