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FC Marek Dupnitsa

FC Marek (ФК Марек) is a Bulgarian football club based in Dupnitsa, currently playing in the Second League, the second level of the Bulgarian football league system. It was founded in 1947 following the unification of four local clubs. Home matches take place at Bonchuk Stadium, where Marek famously defeated Bayern Munich in 1977. Bonchuk stadium has a capacity of 16,000.

Marek was founded in 1947, following the unification of four local clubs from Dupnitsa. Marek was one of the ten clubs that took part in the inaugural season of the A Group, the newly formed unified league of Bulgaria, in 1948. Since then, Marek has played a total of 29 seasons in the top level of Bulgarian football, most recently in 2015. Marek's most successful period came during the late 1970s, when the club competed in two successive European competitions. Marek managed to defeat Ferencvárosi TC and obtain a home win against FC Bayern Munich in the UEFA Cup, who had been crowned European champions just two seasons before that. Marek then played in the 1978–79 European Cup Winners' Cup, virtue of winning the domestic cup, against Aberdeen, also winning at home.

Domestic

 * First League:
 * Third place (2): 1948, 1977
 * Bulgarian Cup:
 * Winners (1): 1978
 * Second League:
 * Winners (1): 2014

Early history (1919–1947)
The people of Dupnitsa watched football being played for the first time by foreign troops stationed in the city during World War I. Over the next several years, four clubs were founded in the city: Slavia, Levski, ZHSK, and Athletic. In 1923, these clubs participated in the formation of the Southwest Football League and, between 1935 and 1944, they frequently took part in the finals of the national tournaments. By 1944, each of the four had their own stadium.

Marek (1947–1970)
In 1947, Slavia, Levski, ZHSK, and Athletic decided to merge into one club, which was named Marek, after the nickname of Stanke Dimitrov, a local hero of the Bulgarian Communist Party. Marek is a Slavic version of the English name Mark, meaning warlike, associated to Mars.

In 1948, Marek became a part of the newly created first division, the Bulgarian A PFG, finishing eighth out of ten clubs in season 1948–49. The club was relegated to 2nd division, B PFG, in 1950. Marek subsequently won promotions to the Bulgarian A PFG in 1952 and 1956, followed by immediate relegation to B PFG the following seasons, 1953 and 1957, respectively. During these years, Marek's greatest achievement was 5th place in the Bulgarian A PFG during the 1960–61 season. The team's coach at that time was Lyuben Petrov. Up until the mid-1970s, Marek bounced back and forth between the first and second divisions of Bulgarian football.

Success in Bulgaria and Europe (1975–1981)
The most notable successes for Marek came in the late 1970s and early 1980s when the club finished third in the league in 1977 and won the cup in 1978, defeating overwhelming favorites CSKA Sofia 1:0 in front of 75,000 spectators at the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia.

During the 1976–77 season, Marek defeated CSKA twice, home and away, with the scores 2:1 and 3:1. That season, the club led the league for several rounds and at the end the team fought tooth and nail with Slavia Sofia for the third place in the table. Marek won the decisive game against Slavia in Dupnitsa by the score of 1:0, finishing 3rd and earning an entry into the 1977–78 UEFA Cup. This is Marek's best finish to date in the top flight of Bulgarian football.

In this period the team also played in Europe: UEFA Cup, Cup Winners' Cup, and Intertoto Cup. Victories include games against Bayern (a 2–0 victory), against Ferencváros of Hungary (a 3–0 victory), and against Aberdeen of Scotland (a 3–2 victory), then led by coach Alex Ferguson. The return leg in Scotland was tied 0–0 until late in the game, when substitute Gordon Strachan scored a goal and led his team to a 3–0 victory.

The club also competed in the 1980 Intertoto Cup against IFK Göteborg (2–3, 1–4) – a team that won the UEFA Cup just a year later;B 93 Copenhagen (2–0, 2–3), and Austria Salzburg (4–2, 2–2) to finish second in the group. The following season Marek once again competed in the Intertoto Cup-against Stuttgarter Kickers (0–1, 0–2), Viking (1–2, 0–3), and Willem II (0–1, 1–4) and finished last in its group.

Stadium and fans: The team is known for its loyal supporters and the local stadium "Bonchuk Stadium" is infamous for being a difficult place for visiting teams. "Bonchuk Stadium" holds 16,050 people. The town of Dupnitsa was known as the "city on wheels", because thousands of loyal Marek fans would follow the team at away games to remote parts of Bulgaria.

Famous players: Among the most famous players of Marek are Kiril Milanov, Dimitar Isakov, Nikolay "Shultz" Krastev, Sasho Pargov, Ivan and Ventzi Petrov, Stoyan Stoyanov (a goalkeeper), Asen Tomov, and Dimitre Dimitrov-Miki. The coach associated with the successes of Marek is Yanko Dinkov.

Recent history (2001–2010)
In 1983, Marek was relegated to B PFG and then the third division of Bulgarian football. After over a decade of playing in the lower divisions, in 2001 Marek returned triumphantly to the Bulgarian A PFG, for the 2001–02 season.

As a participant in the Intertoto Cup, Marek tied 1–1 the German Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg in 2003, but lost away from home the second leg, 0–2, and was eliminated from the tournament. The team finished 7th at the conclusion of the 2003–04 season, 9th at the end of the 2004–05 season, 11th after the 2005–06 season, and 12th at the end of the 2006–07 football season of the Bulgarian premier division, Bulgarian A PFG (out of 16 teams). In 2006–07, Marek secured its place in the Bulgarian top division for the next season with a 1–0 home win over the powerhouse CSKA Sofia.

During the 2007–08 season, Marek was plagued by injuries of key players, several coaching changes and a not-so-well covered conflict between the senior players of the club: Angelo and Yanek Kyuchukov and the club president, Yordan Andreev. Further, the team sold their best and most talented player, Enyo Krastovchev, to Levski Sofia. As a result, the team finished in last place, 16th, with only 5 wins in 30 games, in the domestic league, and was relegated to B PFG for the 2008–09 season.

Before the start of the 2008–09 season in B PFG, the team held its pre-season training in France in an attempt by the club president Andreev to compile a team made up exclusively of young foreign players. The team even had a Portuguese coach for the first few games of the season. The regular season started disastrously for Marek. After several consecutive losses, the Portuguese coach was fired, and all but one of the foreign players left the club.

Marek barely survived the 2008–09 season in B PFG, finishing 14th out of 16 teams, winning only 7 out of 30 regular season games, scoring 29 and conceding 48 goals.

During the 2009–10 season in B PFG, the team was coached by Velin Kostadinov and player-manager Angelo Kyuchukov. The team found more consistency and finished comfortably in 10th place with 41 points.

A New Beginning (2010–)
The Bulgarian Football Federation denied Marek the license to compete in B Group for the 2010–11 season due to the team's financial debts. Thus, the club had to start over and compete at the lowest level of Bulgarian football, in the regional amateur league, Zona Rila. The team's new coach became Ivaylo Pargov, a former player for the team.

During the 2010–11 season, Marek dominated the local amateur division and after winning all but one of its regular season games, thus earning a playoff game against Belasitsa Petrich for the right to play in the third division, V AFG. The play-off game was tied after 90 minutes, 1–1, and Belasitsa went on to win on penalties.

Despite the lost playoff and the prospect of spending a second season in the regional amateur league, a number of third division teams declined participation prior to the upcoming 2011–12 season due to financial insolvency. Thus, Marek was administratively promoted to the third division, for the 2011–12 season.

During the 2012–13 season, Marek finished first in the Southwest V AFG and earned automatic promotion to the Bulgarian Second Division, B PFG

Marek surprised its numerous fans with a fantastic 2013–14 season in the Second Division, dominating its opponents and securing promotion to A PFG with four games to go, this returning to the top level after a six-year absence.

The return to A PFG proved difficult as Marek finished the 2014–2015 season in 11th place out of 12 teams, and the team was relegated. Marek won only six games the entire season, vs. Haskovo three times, at Cherno More and vs. Slavia Sofia.

After the conclusion of the 2014–2015 season, Marek did not receive a professional license from the Bulgarian Football Federation due to unpaid financial obligations to government institutions, and the team was relegated to the amateur divisions.

Subsequently, Marek was fined by the Bulgarian Football Federation due to "suspicion" of match fixing and the club ownership decided to dissolve the existing club and register a new FC Marek 1915, which started competing from the lowest level of football in Bulgaria, 4th regional division, during the 2015–2016 season.

Following an undefeated season, and navigating through two rounds of playoffs, Marek earned a promotion to the 3rd division for season 2016–17.

After several years in the third division, Marek returned to the Second League for season 2021–2022. Despite a brave effort, Marek did not manage to secure safety in the second level, suffering immediate relegation. The team had a chance to stay in the second tier up until the penultimate round.

In 2023, Marek returned to the Second League after just one season in the third level, comfortably finishing in first place in the Southwest Third League promotion group. In their first season back in the Second League, Marek turned out to be a surprising contender for promotion to the First League, being almost the entire season within the top three places. Eventually Marek finished third, qualifying for the promotion playoff, against Botev Vratsa. Botev Vratsa was the host of the playoff, by virtue of being the team from the First League. Botev managed to score in the 50th minute, when Martin Smolenski opened the scoreline. Marek, however, managed to equalize in the 83th minute, when a defensive error enabled Aleksandar Bliznakov to chip the goalie and put the ball in the net. With no winner after regular time, the game went to overtime. With still no winner, a penalty shootout had to be played. Marek lost the shootout, 4-2, and thus failed to promote to the top level.

Intertoto Cup

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! Year ! Stage ! Match ! Results
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 * 1980
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 * align=left|Marek Dupnitsa – 🇸🇪 IFK Göteborg
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 * 1980
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 * align=left|Marek Dupnitsa – 🇦🇹 Austria Salzburg
 * align=right|4–2, 2–2
 * 1980
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 * align=left|Marek Dupnitsa – 🇩🇰 B 93 Copenhagen
 * align=right|2–0, 2–3
 * 1981
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 * align=left|Marek Dupnitsa – 🇩🇪 Stuttgarter Kickers
 * align=right|0–1, 0–2
 * 1981
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 * align=left|Marek Dupnitsa – 🇳🇴 Viking
 * align=right|1–2, 0–3
 * 1981
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 * align=left|Marek Dupnitsa – 🇳🇱 Willem II
 * align=right|0–1, 1–4
 * 2002
 * align=right|1/32
 * align=left|Marek Dupnitsa – 🏴 Caersws FC
 * align=right|2–0, 1–1
 * 2002
 * align=right|1/16
 * align=left|🇮🇱 FC Ashdod – Marek Dupnitsa
 * align=right|1–1, 0–1
 * 2002
 * align=right|1/8
 * align=left|Marek Dupnitsa – 🇭🇷 Slaven Belupo
 * align=right|0–3, 1–3
 * 2003
 * align=right|1/32
 * align=left|🇭🇺 Videoton – Marek Dupnitsa
 * align=right|2–2, 1–1
 * 2003
 * align=right|1/16
 * align=left|Marek Dupnitsa – 🇩🇪 VfL Wolfsburg
 * align=right|1–1, 0–2
 * 2004
 * align=right| 1/32
 * align=left|Marek Dupnitsa – FC Dila Gori
 * align=right|0–0, 2–0
 * 2004
 * align=right|1/16
 * align=left|🇧🇪 Genk – Marek Dupnitsa
 * align=right|2–1, 0–0
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 * align=left|Marek Dupnitsa – 🇩🇪 VfL Wolfsburg
 * align=right|1–1, 0–2
 * 2004
 * align=right| 1/32
 * align=left|Marek Dupnitsa – FC Dila Gori
 * align=right|0–0, 2–0
 * 2004
 * align=right|1/16
 * align=left|🇧🇪 Genk – Marek Dupnitsa
 * align=right|2–1, 0–0
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 * align=right|2–1, 0–0
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Current squad
As of 15 February 2024

For recent transfers, see Transfers winter 2023–24 and Transfers summer 2024.

Notable players
Had international caps for their respective countries, held any club record, or had more than 100 league appearances. Players whose name is listed in bold represented their countries.
 * For all players with a Wikipedia article see Category:FC Marek Dupnitsa players.

 * Bulgaria
 * 🇧🇬 Krum Bibishkov
 * 🇧🇬 Velizar Dimitrov
 * 🇧🇬 Georgi Enisheynov
 * 🇧🇬 Anton Evtimov
 * 🇧🇬 Svetoslav Georgiev
 * 🇧🇬 Dimitar Isakov
 * 🇧🇬 Biser Ivanov
 * 🇧🇬 Milen Ivanov
 * 🇧🇬 Dimitar Koemdzhiev
 * 🇧🇬 Enyo Krastovchev
 * 🇧🇬 Emil Kremenliev
 * 🇧🇬 Anzhelo Kyuchukov
 * 🇧🇬 Yanek Kyuchukov
 * 🇧🇬 Kiril Milanov
 * 🇧🇬 Dobromir Mitov
 * 🇧🇬 Daniel Mladenov
 * 🇧🇬 Ivaylo Pargov
 * 🇧🇬 Sasho Pargov
 * 🇧🇬 Georgi Sapinev
 * 🇧🇬 Lyuben Sevdin
 * 🇧🇬 Veselin Shulev
 * 🇧🇬 Ivo Slavchev
 * 🇧🇬 Yanko Valkanov
 * 🇧🇬 Veselin Velikov
 * 🇧🇬 Emil Viyachki
 * 🇧🇬 Vladimir Yonkov

 * Europe
 * 🇦🇲 Armen Ambartsumyan
 * Amiran Mujiri
 * Sašo Lazarevski

 * Africa
 * 🇨🇻 Paulo Soares
 * Serge Yoffou

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Wiley Miller

David Wiley Miller (born April 15, 1951, Burbank, California) is an American cartoonist whose work is characterized by wry wit and trenchant social satire, is best known for his comic strip Non Sequitur, which he signs Wiley. Non Sequitur is the only cartoon to win National Cartoonists Society Divisional Awards in both the comic strip and comic panel categories, and Miller is the only cartoonist to win an NCS Divisional Award in his first year of syndication.

Editorial cartoons
A California native, Wiley studied art at Virginia Commonwealth University and worked for several Hollywood educational film studios before relocating to North Carolina in 1976 to work as an editorial cartoonist and staff artist for the Greensboro News & Record. In 1978, Wiley was hired by the Santa Rosa, California "Press Democrat" as staff artist and editorial cartoonist. Fenton (1982) was his first syndicated strip. In 1985, he was hired as an editorial cartoonist at the San Francisco Examiner.

Non Sequitur
In 1991, Wiley launched his popular Non Sequitur strip, eventually syndicated to 700 newspapers as well as published on Go Comics and distributed via email. The strip has a history of politically leaning, but more recently it has been a much more traditional strip with recurring characters. In 1994, Miller pioneered the use of process color in comic strips, and developed a format in 1995 that allows one cartoon to be used in two different ways for both panel dimensions and strip dimensions.

In February 2019 many newspapers dropped Non Sequitur after the Sunday comic dated February 10, 2019 included a hidden profane message aimed at President Donald Trump. As of February 14, at least 40 newspapers said they were dropping Non Sequitur, including The Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times. Miller said the Trump comment was an oversight, something he had forgotten about and had intended to remove. However, The Hill noted that he had teased the strip in a now-deleted tweet pointing out an "Easter egg" in the image.

Andrews McMeel Syndication, the company that publishes Non Sequitur, confirmed to The Washington Post that numerous papers had dropped the strip and apologized for not catching the insult in the first place. "We are sorry we missed the language in our editing process," the company's statement said. "If we had discovered it, we would not have distributed the cartoon without it being removed. We apologize to 'Non Sequitur's' clients and readers for our oversight."

Books
Books by Miller include Dead Lawyers and Other Pleasant Thoughts (1993), The Non Sequitur Survival Guide for the Nineties (1995), Non Sequitur’s Beastly Things (1999, foreword by Jules Feiffer), The Legal Lampoon (2002), Why We’ll Never Understand Each Other (2003), Lucy and Danae: Something Silly This Way Comes (2005), Homer, the Reluctant Soul (2005) and Extraordinary Adventures Of Ordinary Basil (2006).

In 2004, Wiley Miller, his wife Victoria Coviello, and their four Jack Russell terriers moved from Santa Barbara, California, to Kennebunkport, Maine. He explained the relocation to Stephanie Bouchard of the Maine Sunday Telegram:

"Part of the attraction for both of us is in a creative sense. Santa Barbara is beautiful. As far as year-round climate, it's perfect, but there's no real change. These dramatic changes really spark the creative nature because it's change. It gives you a fresh look at the world. It's invigorating. Santa Barbara is too nice; hard to get work done. We spent eight years in Iowa. Iowa is always overcast; it's awful. Here, in winter, we don't go out much so we get more work done."

When Bouchard asked him about the Maine setting in some of his strips, he responded:

"I created a series of characters that came from our visits to Maine. Offshore Flo is patterned after the Maine Diner in Wells. I wanted to capture the essence of Maine people's genuineness - down-to-earth, good-natured people - and work in the accent. I heard from displaced New Englanders. I got E-mails from people who said how dead-on the accent was and how dead wrong. It's tricky working phonetically because you still have to be legible, finding the balance of how far to take it. It's set in Whatchacallit, Maine. I realized there had never been this setting in comics. I hate following. More fun blazing a new trail. Nobody's ever been to Maine in the comics."

As of 2016, Wiley Miller and his family had moved yet again, and were no longer residing in Maine, but were living in Palmetto, Georgia.

Awards
Wiley was named Best Editorial Cartoonist by the California Newspaper Publishers Association in 1988 and won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for editorial cartooning in 1991. The National Cartoonists Society honored Non Sequitur with four awards in the first six years of publication, including their Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for 1995, 1996 and 1998, and it was nominated for the same award in 1999 and 2002 and won their Newspaper Comic Strip Award for 1992.

Non Sequitur is the only comic strip to win its division during the first year of publication, and it is the only comic feature to win in two divisions, Best Comic Strip for 1992 and Best Newspaper Panel Cartoon for 1995, 1996 and 1998.

 * 1988: California Newspaper Publishers Association
 * 1991: Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, for editorial cartooning
 * 1992: National Cartoonists Society, Newspaper Comic Strip Award
 * 1995: National Cartoonists Society, Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award
 * 1996: National Cartoonists Society, Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award
 * 1998: National Cartoonists Society, Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award
 * 2013: Reuben Award for "Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year"

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Nikolai Koltsov

Nikolai Konstantinovich Koltsov (Николай Константинович Кольцов; July 14, 1872 – December 2, 1940) was a Russian biologist and a pioneer of modern genetics. Among his students were Nikolay Timofeeff-Ressovsky, Vladimir Pavlovich Efroimson, A.S. Serebrovsky, and Nikolay Dubinin. Along with his students, he demonstrated the fine structure of genes, and examined the structure of the cell and pioneered the idea of a cytoskeleton. His career was cut short in Stalinist Russia after being falsely accused of supporting scientific racism. He died unexpectedly following government persecution and there are allegations that he was executed.

Biography
Koltsov was born in a well-to do family, his father was an accountant in a fur company, and graduated from Moscow University in 1894 and was a professor there (1895–1911). He established and directed the Institute of Experimental Biology in the middle of 1917, just before the October Revolution. He was a member of the Agricultural Academy (VASKhNIL). He was against the Tsarist regime but after the revolution, he opposed several policies of the new rule. In 1911 he left Moscow University and moved to the Shanyavsky Moscow City People's University. In 1920, Koltsov was arrested as a member of the non-existent "anti-Soviet Tactical Center" invented by the VCheKa. Prosecutor Nikolai Krylenko demanded the death sentence for Koltsov (67 of around 1000 arrested people were executed). However, after a personal appeal to Vladimir Lenin by Maxim Gorky Koltsov was released and was restored to his position as the head of the Koltsov Institute of Experimental Biology. The politics of the Soviet Union made the idea of genes, particles that decided outcomes in life, as antithetical to the concept of individual freedom. Marxist ideologues also clubbed geneticists with eugenicists, racists, and fascists while also preferring ideas from Lamarckism as promoted by Trofim Lysenko.

In 1937 and 1939, the supporters of Lysenko published a series of propaganda articles against Nikolai Koltsov and Nikolai Vavilov. They wrote: "The Institute of Genetics of the Academy of Sciences not only did not criticize Professor Koltsov's fascistic nonsense, but even did not dissociate itself from his "theories" which support the racial theories of fascists". His death in 1940 was claimed to have been due to a stroke. However, "the biochemist Ilya Zbarsky revealed that the unexpected death of Koltsov was a result of his poisoning by the NKVD", the secret police of the Soviet Union. On the same day his wife, the scientist Maria Sadovnikova Koltsova, committed suicide.

Research
Nikolai Koltsov worked on cytology and vertebrate anatomy. In 1903 Koltsov proposed that the shape of cells was determined by a network of tubules forming a skeleton which was later termed as the cytoskeleton. He saw the role of gel-sol transitions in the cytoplasm as key mechanisms for the cell structure. In 1927 Koltsov proposed that inherited traits would be inherited via a "giant hereditary molecule" which would be made up of "two mirror strands that would replicate in a semi-conservative fashion using each strand as a template". Koltsov used the expression omnis molecula ex molecula (every molecule comes from another molecule) based on Virchow's idea that all cells came from other cells. These ideas were confirmed to have been accurate in 1953 when James D. Watson and Francis Crick described the structure of DNA. Watson and Crick had apparently not heard of Koltsov. US geneticist Richard Goldschmidt wrote about him: "There was the brilliant Nikolai Koltsov, probably the best Russian zoologist of the last generation, an enviable, unbelievably cultured, clear-thinking scholar, admired by everybody who knew him". He also suggested that electrical forces were involved in intracellular movement. He termed it as cataphoresis.

Legacy
Koltsovo, a small municipality in Novosibirsk Oblast, in 2003 obtained the status of the Science town of the Russian Federation and was named after Nikolai Koltsov.

A new species of marine organisms Cadlina koltzovi was named after Nikolai Koltsov

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Chatham Main Line

The Chatham Main Line is a railway line in England that links London Victoria and Dover Priory / Ramsgate, travelling via Medway (of which the town of Chatham is part, hence the name).

Services to Cannon Street follow the route as far as St Mary Cray Junction where they diverge onto the South Eastern Main Line near Chislehurst.

Thameslink services to Luton run in parallel from Rainham to Rochester, diverging once across the River Medway at Rochester Bridge Junction onto the North Kent Line via Gravesend and Dartford.

A shuttle service operates on the Sheerness Line which starts at Sittingbourne.

Services
Most services on the Line are run by SE Trains and Southern. Govia Thameslink Railway run some Thameslink services, the first starting from London Blackfriars and travelling via Denmark Hill on the Catford Loop, joining at Shortlands Junction, travelling to Swanley before heading to Sevenoaks. The second service starts from Kentish Town and also travels via the Catford Loop to Shortlands Junction, travelling to Bickley before heading off to Orpington. The final service starts at Luton and goes via London Bridge, Greenwich, Dartford and Gravesend to Rochester before terminating at Rainham in the bay platform 0.

While travelling between Bromley South and London Victoria, the trains can either travel on the main line, through Beckenham Junction, Herne Hill and Brixton, or via the Catford Loop Line, coming away from the main line at Shortlands Junction, travelling through Catford and Peckham Rye, and then just past Brixton it either picks up the Southeastern line all the way, or can follow the Southern (Atlantic) Line through Clapham High Street before crossing back over to the Southeastern Line to London Victoria. The hourly stopping service is now scheduled to run via Catford, additionally stopping at Denmark Hill.

The off-peak timetable consists of two trains per hour from Victoria, calling at Bromley South, Longfield, Meopham, Rochester, Chatham, Gillingham and Rainham. One service will call at Newington, Sittingbourne, Teynham and Faversham, then all stations to Dover Priory via Canterbury East. The other service will just call at Sittingbourne and Faversham, then all stations to Margate and Ramsgate. These trains no longer split up at Faversham. There is an hourly service from Victoria calling at Denmark Hill via the Catford Loop, Bromley South, St Mary Cray then all stations to Gillingham. It then becomes a semi-fast service, calling at Rainham, Sittingbourne, Faversham, Canterbury East, and Dover Priory. A High Speed Service sees two trains per hour from St Pancras International to Faversham via Gravesend and Chatham. One service terminates at Faversham before travelling back to St Pancras International via Chatham and Gravesend. The other service continues coastbound as a semi-fast service calling at Whitstable, Herne Bay, Birchington, Margate, Broadstairs and Ramsgate. It then carries on, stopping at Sandwich, Deal, Walmer, Martin Mill, Dover Priory, Folkestone Central, Folkestone West and Ashford International, before picking up the High Speed Line to Ebbsfleet International, Stratford International and arriving back at St Pancras International. A service operates in the opposite direction. There is one other High Speed Service that runs on a small part of the line, starting from Margate and calling at Broadstairs and Ramsgate before heading to Canterbury West, and Ashford International, then picking up the High Speed Line and calling at the remaining stations to St Pancras International. A Thameslink service now starts from Rainham and calls at nearly all stations via Strood, Gravesend, Dartford, Abbey Wood (for Elizabeth line services), Woolwich Arsenal and Greenwich (both for the Docklands Light Railway), London Bridge, Blackfriars and beyond. Passengers for Waterloo East, Charing Cross or Cannon Street now have to change at London Bridge.

Rolling stock
The following trains are operated on the line : Class 465 "Networker" since 1992, Class 466 "Networker" since 1993, Class 375 "Electrostar" since 2001, Class 395 "Javelin" since 2009, and 8-car Class 700 "Desiro City" since 2018.

History
The line was built by the London, Chatham and Dover Railway, who were in competition with the South Eastern Railway (hence the duplication of stations in Kent). They subsequently built lines to Sevenoaks and Ashford (via Maidstone) from the Chatham Main Line.

The line was electrified (750 V DC third rail) in a series of stages. Initially the new Southern Railway electrified the urban (within London) workings of the SECR in the 1920s. In July 1925 "South Eastern Electrification (Stage 1)" saw the line from Victoria to junction with the South Eastern Main Line at Bickley, including the Catford Loop Line electrified. This was extended to outer suburban workings to Sevenoaks via Swanley (Bickley junction to Swanley) in two stages, reaching St Mary Cray in May 1934 and Swanley in January 1935. Full outer suburban electrification was achieved with the "Maidstone & Gillingham Electrification" scheme in July 1939, extending electrification from Swanley to Gillingham. Post war, under the BR's 1955 Modernisation plan, electrification was completed (Gillingham to Ramsgate and Dover) under "Kent Coast Electrification" stage 1 in 1959. At the same time the four track section between Shortlands and St Mary Cray junction was extended to Swanley Junction with a complete rebuilding of the St Mary Cray Junction. Two passing loops were added (to create a four-track section) between Rainham and Newington.

A short branch was built during World War One to service the construction of RAF Manston with a junction off the up line at Birchington on Sea.

Eurostar
Heading away from Victoria, between Farningham Road and Longfield Stations, the line which was originally used by Eurostar trains travelling from Waterloo International towards Fawkham Junction to access High Speed 1 still exists, but is currently not in use.

At one time this line was reserved for emergency use only by Class 395 Javelins travelling to/from Ashford International but, as the route knowledge has not been updated, no trains run on this line any more.

The Eurostar trains can no longer use this line as the Class 373 "Eurostar e300" trains had their 750V DC third rail shoes removed in 2007, whilst the new Class 374 "Eurostar e320" trains are not fitted with third rail equipment.

East Kent re-signalling project
The idea of this project is for control of East Kent from Longfield to Ramsgate and just short of Dover Priory to be under the control of the East Kent Signalling Centre (EKSC) based at Gillingham.

Phase 1 of the project was carried out over the Christmas and New Year period of 2011, which involved the complete re-signalling from just east of Sittingbourne to Faversham, then on to Minster Junction and Buckland Junction, just short of Dover Priory. The old signal boxes were then abolished at Faversham, Margate, Ramsgate, Canterbury East and Shepherdswell. Phase 2 involved the re-signalling of the line between Sittingbourne to Longfield and Strood, including the Sheerness Branch Line and the Medway Valley Line to operate from the East Kent Signalling Centre at Gillingham, which is now operational. This means that the Signal Boxes at Rainham and Rochester have now closed, although Sittingbourne remains open as a relay signal box for the Sheerness Branch Line, controlled from Gillingham.

On 13 December 2015, a new £26M Rochester station on Corporation Street opened 500 m west of the original station which it replaced. This station has three platforms and can accommodate 12-car trains instead of the 10-cars maximum length at the original station. Some 12-car peak-time trains are additionally stopping here. At the time, only platforms 1 and 2 were operational. From Easter 2016, Platform 3 was only a Bay Platform with a maximum length of eight cars, but since 10 October 2016, Platform 3 became a through platform with services either able to head towards the Kent Coast or terminating here before head back up towards London. At the East End of the platform, a third line now runs all the way up to the old Rochester Station passing through what was Platform 4 before rejoining the Down Main towards Chatham. This can also enable long freight trains to be held here, allowing passenger services to pass, therefore removing a potential bottleneck.

Rainham has a new bay platform off the up-line, which can accommodate a 12-car train, labelled Platform 0. It was being used temporarily as a Terminus for a couple of evening rush hour trains, but since the introduction of the new Thameslink Metro timetable in 2018, this is now the terminus for services to Luton via Gravesend, Dartford, Woolwich Arsenal and Greenwich, stopping at all but a few stations to London Bridge.

Strood has also been lengthened to accommodate 12-car trains.

Accidents and incidents

 * On 10 September 1963, a freight train became divided and was derailed between Farningham Road and Longfield due to defects in a wagon. The line was closed until 13 September.

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I think this article (particularly the Grand Avenue section should be edited. One problem is that there's not proper punctuation after the PizzaRizzo mention. I also think that the source relating to this should be placed here as well. The other citations in that sentence should be moved next to the appropriately named place.

Thanks for your consideration, JeffreyLoeber (talk) 19:43, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion
The file on Wikimedia Commons has been nominated for deletion. View and participate in the deletion discussion at the. Community Tech bot (talk) 17:51, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Hello, I wanted to propose to add a picture of the new Toy Story Land - If you need one I have one... But there is probably better ones out there. Thanks HeathV (talk) 00:51, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Year Update
I would like to edit the years from 29 to 30 as today (May 1st 2019) Is the 30th anniversary Planeman77 (talk) 03:22, 2 May 2019 (UTC)

Commissary Lane is still a 'Land' and its missing from the article
Check the latest park maps and details on the official website. Commissary Lane is still very much a Land. It looks like this article just completely omits it from existance despite it being home to 2 restaurants — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7F:9C82:7600:6487:F054:EC2B:88F7 (talk) 15:36, 2 February 2020 (UTC)

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File:NottingHillRobertsGrant.jpg

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Notting Hill poster.

Source

 * http://www.impawards.com/1999/notting_hill.html
 * http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f54/xxxskybabyxxx/NottingHill.jpg

Rationale of fair use for Notting Hill (film)

 * 1) No free equivalent exists that would effectively identify the article's subject.
 * 2) The image does not in any way limit the ability of the copyright owners to market or sell their product.
 * 3) The image is only used once and is rendered in low resolution to avoid piracy.
 * 4) The image has been published outside Wikipedia; see source above.
 * 5) The image meets general Wikipedia content requirements and is encyclopedic.
 * 6) The image meets Wikipedia's media-specific policy.
 * 7) The image is used in the article wiki-linked in the section title.
 * 8) The image is significant in identifying the subject of the article, which is the film itself.
 * 9) The image is used in the article namespace.
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Koraput:Gupteswar Caves

 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 nomination withdrawn. Sjakkalle 12:34, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Koraput:Gupteswar Caves
More of a short story than an encyclopedic article. Sjakkalle 11:20, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Article is clearly nonsense, should be speedied--nixie 11:21, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC) Probably needs to be moved to a more conventional name, keep with the improvements--nixie 12:10, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Article has now been repaired, and is probably valid, we may want to keep it now. Sorry for being a little hasty with the vfd, should have given it more than ten minutes. Sjakkalle 11:35, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Note that I have copyvio concerns about the image, see . I don't know how to handle that... Sjakkalle 11:46, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Follow the instructions on Copyright problems--nixie 12:10, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I am shutting down the vfd now, this is clearly not the same article as the one I nominated.
 * 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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User talk:Fred2005

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Thanks for the contributions to AIDS, I find your edits superior. Keep it up. 207.224.198.170 02:50, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Trying to get AIDS as a Featured Article
Hi there! In an effort to make the article here on AIDS the best possible before trying to submit it as a "Featured Article", I've looked up some active submitters in the last month or so and found you. Please, take a little time to go by the AIDS article and it's Talk page to see how you can help. One rather large source of confusion and complication, the References/External Links section, has just been cleaned and polished, thus your experience should be much more tolerable in general ;).

AIDS is a very serious world wide issue; never before have we needed to spread AIDS education as much as we do now. We need as many people as possible working together to make this article on AIDS the best it can be. Hope to see your contributions soon! JoeSmack (talk) 17:53, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

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Genelle Williams

Genelle Williams (born February 18, 1984) is a Canadian actress who is best known for her roles as Kim Carlisle in Radio Free Roscoe, as DJ in The Latest Buzz, and as the innkeeper Leena in Warehouse 13.

Career
Acting in high school led to the beginning of Williams's professional career when a teacher saw her perform in a musical and recommended an agent to Williams.

Williams's first notable role was on the Family's Radio Free Roscoe, which aired between 2002 and 2004. In 2003, she played Kim Carlisle, a DJ for "Cougar Radio", and love interest of Robert McGrath. Over three years, she also played multiple roles on the popular CTV series Degrassi: The Next Generation.

After taking a break in her career, she appeared in the Family’s new show, The Latest Buzz, as Diane Jeffreys (abbreviated "DJ"), the editor and supervisor of the young writers of Teen Buzz. She then portrayed Leena on the Syfy series Warehouse 13 from the series's start in July 2009 until the midpoint of season four in October 2012. In 2014, Williams appeared in Lifetime's The Lottery. Williams has recurring roles on Remedy and Bitten.

Williams' film work includes It's a Boy Girl Thing, The Incredible Hulk, and Orphan.

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Talk:Satires (Juvenal)

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Linking to Junius from his name is not appropriate, as there is no correlation between the two at all. Chris Weimer 16:35, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Quite correct, I agree and have removed this link.--Nefasdicere 18:21, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Also, Horace, who died in 8 BC, is no contemporary.Rothorpe 23:58, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Also taken care of in the new version.--Nefasdicere 18:21, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

RE: Consideration requested for external link: http://members.garbersoft.net/spartacus/Juvenal's%20Satires.html Juvenal's "Satires" in English.
 * I do not see a problem with such a link, although the (apparently personal) page linked may not be as stable as a site under the control of an academic or other entity. If there is any more support for this, I will add it.--Nefasdicere 18:21, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Sauromatas
This article has this word translated as "Russians". Isn't it "Sarmatian"? Wouldn't that be a more correct translation? Russian would be anachronism - Russians (as they define themselves) and their country didn't exist when Juvenal was alive. Sarmatians aren't the same people, AFAIK. Peter1968 09:09, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Yep, I just popped in on this page to see if anybody else felt annoyed by it. Let's DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!! ;-) Trigaranus 22:29, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Plagiarism
This article has some possible plagiarism in the first sentence of the significance section, and...actually a lot of this. It's bugging the hell out of me...and I can't think of what book it's from, but, also, this isn't very encyclopedic at all, and it's not NPOV at all (debate exists about the merits of relativism when studying Juvenal, etc.) Ooh, I think it's mostly from Susanna Braund's books on the satires, especially since the structural breakdowns are wholly lifted from there (other commentary doesn't follow the pattern given for satire 8). If I weren't supposed to be writing a paper on this right now, I'd fix it. 64.9.54.53 (talk) 01:06, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Titles
The article gives witty titles to the individual satires "There's no room in Rome for a Roman", "Patronizing patronage", etc. These aren't ancient - both of the titles just quoted are English puns. Where do they come from and why is this article perpetuating them? Furius (talk) 22:56, 8 December 2021 (UTC)

Quotes from each Books, not really necessary
I don't really see why this is necessary and it kind makes the article a little clunky, I think it might be better to just summarize the books Drgerke (talk) 19:22, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

 * You're right. I still think that the witty titles for the individual satires should go - they're WP:OR. The various references to Early Modern reception (Rousseau etc) should be in a reception/legacy section, not incorporated in the synopsis Furius (talk) 22:40, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

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Brill tagger

The Brill tagger is an inductive method for part-of-speech tagging. It was described and invented by Eric Brill in his 1993 PhD thesis. It can be summarized as an "error-driven transformation-based tagger". It is: In the transformation process, if the word is known, it first assigns the most frequent tag, or if the word is unknown, it naively assigns the tag "noun" to it. High accuracy is eventually achieved by applying these rules iteratively and changing the incorrect tags. This approach ensures that valuable information such as the morphosyntactic construction of words is employed in an automatic tagging process.
 * a form of supervised learning, which aims to minimize error; and,
 * a transformation-based process, in the sense that a tag is assigned to each word and changed using a set of predefined rules.

Algorithm
The algorithm starts with initialization, which is the assignment of tags based on their probability for each word (for example, "dog" is more often a noun than a verb). Then "patches" are determined via rules that correct (probable) tagging errors made in the initialization phase:
 * Initialization:
 * Known words (in vocabulary): assigning the most frequent tag associated to a form of the word
 * Unknown word

Rules and processing
The input text is first tokenized, or broken into words. Typically in natural language processing, contractions such as "'s", "n't", and the like are considered separate word tokens, as are punctuation marks.

A dictionary and some morphological rules then provide an initial tag for each word token. For example, a simple lookup would reveal that "dog" may be a noun or a verb (the most frequent tag is simply chosen), while an unknown word will be assigned some tag(s) based on capitalization, various prefix or suffix strings, etc. (such morphological analyses, which Brill calls Lexical Rules, may vary between implementations).

After all word tokens have (provisional) tags, contextual rules apply iteratively, to correct the tags by examining small amounts of context. This is where the Brill method differs from other part of speech tagging methods such as those using Hidden Markov Models. Rules are reapplied repeatedly, until a threshold is reached, or no more rules can apply.

Brill rules are of the general form:

tag1 → tag2 IF Condition

where the Condition tests the preceding and/or following word tokens, or their tags (the notation for such rules differs between implementations). For example, in Brill's notation:

IN NN WDPREVTAG DT while

would change the tag of a word from IN (preposition) to NN (common noun), if the preceding word's tag is DT (determiner) and the word itself is "while". This covers cases like "all the while" or "in a while", where "while" should be tagged as a noun rather than its more common use as a preposition (many rules are more general).

Rules should only operate if the tag being changed is also known to be permissible, for the word in question or in principle (for example, most adjectives in English can also be used as nouns).

Rules of this kind can be implemented by simple Finite-state machines. See Part of speech tagging for more general information including descriptions of the Penn Treebank and other sets of tags.

Typical Brill taggers use a few hundred rules, which may be developed by linguistic intuition or by machine learning on a pre-tagged corpus.

Code
Brill's code pages at Johns Hopkins University are no longer on the web. An archived version of a mirror of the Brill tagger at its latest version as it was available at Plymouth Tech can be found on Archive.org. The software uses the MIT License.

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Samuel Weiss (neurobiologist)

Samuel Weiss (born 1955) is a Canadian neurobiologist.

Biography
Weiss was an undergraduate at McGill University, where he received a B.Sc. in Biochemistry in 1978. He then went on to take his Ph.D. in Neurobiology at the University of Calgary. From 1983 to 1988 he held two postdoctoral fellowships funded by the AHFMR and the Medical Research Council of Canada (now the Canadian Institutes of Health Research), the first at the Centre de Pharmacologie-Endocologie, Montpellier, France, and the second at the University of Vermont College of Medicine. He was appointed Assistant Professor and MRC Scholar at The University of Calgary in 1988.

In 1985 Dr. Weiss and Fritz Sladeczek discovered the metabotropic glutamate receptor, currently an extremely important area of research for neurological disorders. Dr. Weiss was appointed Assistant Professor and MRC Scholar at The University of Calgary in 1988. In 1992, while working at the University of Calgary, Dr. Weiss and graduate student Brent Reynolds found cells in the brains of fetal and adult mice that divided to produce new cells. They claimed that they successfully isolated stem cells and got them to divide and multiply in a lab dish. The success of this experiment suggested that stem cells could be coaxed into producing new cells to replace damaged or destroyed brain cells.

His discovery of the metabotropic glutamate receptors opened a major new research area and currently the G-protein coupled metabotropic glutamate receptors (GRMs/mGluRs) have been implicated in the aetiology of schizophrenia, in amyloid beta-peptide toxicity, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and Fragile X syndrome. His discovery of adult mammalian central nervous system stem cells has generated two new and important perspectives. First, neural development continues throughout the lifetime of adult mammals. Second, insights into ongoing adult cell production will allow for the use of stem cells to repair neural tissue and allow for functional recovery from brain and spinal cord injury or disease. Dr. Weiss has shown how prolactin increases the production of new brain cells and that new stem cell-generated brain cells can be redirected to part of the rodent brain that are damaged after stroke which results in partial improvement of the animals ability to move its limbs. He is now trying to link the two to aid stroke recovery.

Currently Dr. Weiss is a Professor in the Department of Cell Biology & Anatomy/Pharmacology & Therapeutics and a member of the Genes and Development Research Group Faculty of Medicine University of Calgary. He is also the director of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, sits on numerous national and international peer review committees, has authored many publications, holds key patents in the neural stem cell field and has founded two biotechnology companies. The second company, Stem Cell Therapeutics, is currently developing his discoveries for the treatment of various CNS disorders, including stroke.

Honours and awards

 * 2002: Fondation IPSEN (France) prize in Neuronal Plasticity
 * 2004: Canadian Federation of Biological Societies Presidents’ Award in Life Sciences Research
 * 2008: Gairdner Foundation International Award "for his seminal discovery of adult neural stem cells in the mammalian brain and its importance in nerve cell regeneration"
 * 2009: Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
 * 2010: CCNP Innovations in Neuropsychopharmacology Award.
 * 2023: Order of Canada

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Badminton at the 2006 Commonwealth Games

The badminton competition at the 2006 Commonwealth Games took place at the purpose-built temporary venue within the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in Melbourne, Australia from 15 March until 26 March 2006.

Final
Mixed team preliminary matches were held on 16 March, 17 March, and 18 March. Finals were held on 19 March.


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Wasserstein Perella & Co.

Wasserstein Perella & Co. was a boutique investment bank established by Bruce Wasserstein, Joseph R. Perella, Bill Lambert, and Charles Ward in 1988, former bankers at First Boston Corp., until its eventual sale to Dresdner Bank in 2000 for some $1.4 billion in stock. The private equity business of the investment firm was not included in the sale and was to be sold off to existing Wasserstein shareholders.

History
In a 2007 New York Times article, Perella was described as "one of the financial industry’s sharpest recruiters" who "discovered and helped train" Wasserstein Perella. Then, in the 1980s at First Boston, and at Wasserstein Perella after 1988, together they helped create "a dynasty of bankers and executives that has spread throughout Wall Street and corporate America". They included Robert S. Wiesenthal who became chairman of Sony; Jeffrey A. Rosen, vice chairman at Lazard; Raymond J. McGuire of Citigroup; Douglas L. Braunstein of JPMorgan Chase; Ronald Kramer, former President of Wynn Resorts and current CEO of Griffon Corporation; Michael B. Kraines of Sandler O'Neill; John H. Simpson, formerly Canyon Partners, now Broadhaven LLC; Robert Pruzan, founder of Centerview Partners; Deborah C. Wright of Carver Federal Savings Bank; Gail Zauder of Credit Suisse; current ABC News contributor, former mayor of Chicago and former chief of staff for President Obama Rahm Emanuel; Howard Kerzner, hotel tycoon and son of Sol Kerzner; Jon B. Kutler, founder of Quarterdeck Investment Partners, Inc., now with Admiralty Partners, Inc.; Michael J. Biondi, investment banking chair at Lazard, nicknamed Mr. Judgement; Gary Parr at Lazard; Hugh "Skip" McGee III, former head of Lehman's investment banking, now at Barclays; Mark G. Shafir, former global co-head of M&A at Lehman Brothers, now with Citigroup; Walid Chammah, former CEO of Barclays International; Veritas Capital's Robert B. McKeon; and others. One First Boston analyst, Paul Mecurio, left corporate life to become a comedian.

Perella left the firm for Morgan Stanley in 1993. Wasserstein stayed through the 2001 takeover by Dresdner Bank, but left the firm in 2002, following the 2001 merger of Dresdner and Allianz, to head investment bank Lazard, until his unexpected death in 2009. The investment banking business of Dresdner Bank changed its name to Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein as a result of the deal. In 2006, four years after Wasserstein's departure, it dropped Wasserstein's name.

Mergers
In 2000, Wasserstein Perella ranked fifth in the U.S. as an adviser on mergers and acquisitions.

Wasserstein Perella advised Axa Financial in the $11.5 billion sale of Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette to Credit Suisse First Boston in 2000, Philip Morris in its $14.9 billion acquisition of Nabisco Holdings Corp. and Time Warner in its $128 billion merger with America Online. Other deals include the $25 billion merger of Swiss Bank Corp and UBS and the $10 billion merger of Morgan Stanley & Co. and Dean Witter Discover & Co.

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Lanesfield

Lanesfield is a district now within the boundaries of Wolverhampton, specifically in the city council's Spring Vale ward. Lanesfield lies within the Ancient Manor of Sedgley and was a rural village for many years until the growth of the Black Country's industries. Lanesfield's name originates from the Lane family who lived where the area now stands. Originally, Lanesfield was known as Lane's Field.

History
During the 19th century, many houses were built in Lanesfield, particularly in Wood Street, following the industrialisation of the eastern side of the Sedgley district. Many coal mines began to appear around Lanesfield. Two miners' cottages still exist in nearby Parkfields, and are now located on the A4123 Birmingham New Road, built in 1927.

In the 1890s, because it was situated in the eastern area of Sedgley, Lanesfield was separated when the Urban District of Coseley was formed, dividing the old Manor of Sedgley in two. The Birmingham New Road was cut through the area and many new houses (private and council) were built around it soon afterwards.

Following World War II, Coseley Urban District Council built hundreds of new homes in Lanesfield.

Today
Today, the district is mainly a residential area.

Lanesfield, together with the surrounding areas of Parkfield and Ettingshall Park, was incorporated into the Borough of Wolverhampton in 1966 when the Urban District of Coseley was abolished and the former Manor of Sedgley split between authorities.

The first school to be built in Lanesfield was Wood Street School, an infant and junior school which was opened in 1879. The old school was demolished nearly 100 years later after the construction of the new Lanesfield Primary School, a larger building in nearby Newman Avenue, which opened on 30 April 1962. The old school was still being used until December 1968 to further accommodate children on the eastern side of the Birmingham New Road from numerous new houses built at the time. In the early 1950s, another school was built in the western part of Lanesfield - Hill Avenue Primary School. This was for the children on the western side of the Birmingham New Road.

Lanesfield featured in local news on 25 May 2013, when around 60 members of the English Defence League including leader, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, blocked the Birmingham New Road at its junction with Spring Road and Rookery Road following the murder of Lee Rigby in Woolwich on 22 May 2013.

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Avoid Freud

Avoid Freud is the second album by Canadian new wave band Rough Trade, released in 1980 (True North TN-43 in Canada, Stiff America USE 14 in the U.S., CBS 84952 in The Netherlands). It placed at least as high as #19 on the Canadian RPM Top Albums Chart on March 14, 1981. (Inferred from archive listing for following week.) The album was certified gold in Canada (50,000 units) by the CRIA on March 1, 1981, then advanced to platinum certification (100,000 units) by June of the same year.

The first single released from the album was the controversial "What's The Furor About The Führer?" b/w "Fashion Victim" (True North TN4-157), the latter track becoming the larger hit, reaching #25 in Canada on the National Top 50 Singles Chart on February 7, 1981 and #3 on the RPM CANCON Chart the following week. The album's most famous single, however, is "High School Confidential" (b/w "Grade B Movie", True North TN4-159), which was intensely controversial for its explicitly sexual lyrics, which include references to lesbianism. The influential Toronto radio station CHUM-FM paid for the band to record a cleaned-up version that avoided the line, "She makes me cream my jeans when she comes my way." It reached #1 on the RPM CANCON Chart and #12 on the National Top 50 Chart on June 20 of the same year.

Personnel

 * Carole Pope - Songwriter, lead vocals
 * Kevan Staples - Vocals, guitar, piano, synthesiser
 * David McMorrow - Vocals, piano, Rhodes, synthesisers
 * Terry Wilkins - Vocals, Fender fretless bass
 * Bucky Berger - Vocals, drums
 * Gene Martynec - Producer
 * Gary Gray - Engineer
 * David Taylor - Assistant engineer
 * George Marino - Mastering
 * Peter J. Moore - Remastering, restoration
 * Vicki Wickham - Direction

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Comparison of United Kingdom and United States military ranks

UK and US officer ranks compared
Not listed are U.S. warrant officers. A warrant officer is an officer who can and does command, carry out military justice actions and sits on both selection and promotion boards. A US warrant officer is a single-track specialty officer, initially appointed by their respective service secretary; he/she receives a commission upon promotion to chief warrant officer two (CW2).

In the UK the separation between "other" ranks and "officer" ranks can, on occasion, become permeable. Within the British armed services, both Sir Fitzroy Maclean and Enoch Powell are examples of, rare, rapid career progression with the British army, both rising from the rank of private to brigadier during World War II. In the US military such advancement is not uncommon, all five services maintaining programs that select promising enlisted men and women for the commissioned ranks.

Notes to tables above

 * The Royal Marines rank alongside their army equivalents. However, when on the books of any HM Ship or Naval Establishment, Royal Marines are subject to the Naval Discipline Act 1957. In those circumstances, many officer ranks in the Royal Marines formerly enjoyed greater status. Second lieutenants were equivalent to sub lieutenants and ranks from lieutenant to major were considered equivalent to one rank higher (OF-2 to OF-4). Lieutenant colonels were considered equivalent to RN captains with less than six years in the rank, and colonels were equivalent to captains with more than six years seniority. Higher ranks followed the equivalence on the table above. This state of affairs ended on 1 July 1999, when Royal Marine officer ranks were fully aligned with those of the army.
 * RAF-style ranks are also used by the Royal Australian Air Force, Royal New Zealand Air Force, Nigerian Air Force, Indian Air Force, Pakistan Air Force, Bangladesh Air Force, Hellenic Air Force, Egyptian Air Force, Trinidad and Tobago Air Guard, Royal Air Force of Oman and Sri Lanka Air Force. The Ghana Air Force and Air Force of Zimbabwe (previously Royal Rhodesian Air Force) also use the same basic system, but replace pilot officer and flying officer with air sub lieutenant and air lieutenant. The Royal Thai Air Force uses the RAF ranks also. The Royal Canadian Air Force and Royal Malaysian Air Force also previously used the system.
 * The U.S. military usually uses O-1 to O-10 to denote officers, and not the NATO codes of OF-1 to OF-10 in which all subaltern officers are classed as OF-1 (O-1 and O-2 in US). O-11 is sometimes used for the U.S. OF-10 ranks, but this is not official.
 * OF-10 ranks in the United States can only be attained during wartime; the last five-star officer died in 1981. This is also now generally the case in the UK, although provision is made to award them under special circumstances in peacetime (No promotion to these ranks has been made since they were generally suspended in 1997, with the exception of the honorary promotion of Lord Boyce to Admiral of the Fleet in the Queen's 2014 birthday honours.) Captain-General Royal Marines is a ceremonial rank, usually held by a member of the royal family (such as Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex until 2021 ). There is no field marshal rank in the Royal Marines, although Royal Marine officers may reach full general rank.
 * Due to their modern-day size, the ranks of general and lieutenant-general are not generally used within 3 Commando Brigade or the main Royal Marines, however, the position of commandant general is held by a general. Royal Marines officers may hold the rank of lieutenant-general, serving in Ministry of Defence or joint forces positions. Royal Marine officers may reach the full rank of general, for example General Gordon Messenger.
 * At various times (1775-1981) the O-7 rank in the USN has been called Commodore and briefly once, Commodore Admiral. Then changed to Rear Admiral lower half due to Captains and Commanders that commanded more than 1 ship or squadrons given the title, but not rank, of Commodore.
 * The rank of Ensign is not used in the Royal Marines. Royal Marines officers join as second lieutenants; after two years of service, provided that Phase 2 training has been successfully completed, they are promoted to the rank of lieutenant (if under 21 at the time of joining) or captain (if 21 or older at the time of joining).
 * The rank of Ensign is no longer used in the Royal Navy. All officers now join BRNC Dartmouth as midshipmen once more, unless they have previously served in the ranks ((senior) upper yardsmen) but use the non-substantive rank of officer cadet (OCdt) during the pre-initial sea phase.
 * The name for Officers in training for the US Navy vary depending on the particular officer commissioning program. Naval Academy, Merchant Marine Academy and NROTC are midshipmen (MIDN); United States Coast Guard Academy are cadets; U.S. Navy seaman-to-admiral 21 (STA-21) and Officer Candidate School are officer candidates (OC).

US "Enlisted" and UK "Other ranks" compared
Notes on comparison: Addendum: In the US Army (but not the USMC) the term "trooper/(troop)" may be used informally for lower enlisted in cavalry, scout, airborne, air assault, Ranger, and Special Forces units, along with the occasional use for any soldier, particularly dismounted infantry. The specific definition of "troop" is a company-sized unit of cavalry, organizationally equivalent to "battery" in artillery units.
 * In the US Army OR-1 to OR-4 (specialist) are junior enlisted, OR-4 (corporal) to OR-6 are junior non-commissioned officers (NCOs), and OR-7 to OR-9 are senior non-commissioned officers (SNCOs).
 * In the USAF OR-1 to OR-4 are junior enlisted, OR-5 to OR-6 are NCOs, and OR-7 to OR-9 are SNCOs.
 * In the USMC, OR-1 to OR-3 are junior enlisted, OR-4 to OR-5 are NCOs, and OR-6 to OR-9 are staff non-commissioned officers.
 * In the US Navy and Coast Guard, OR-1 to OR-3 or "nonrated (wo)men" are junior enlisted, OR-4 to OR-6 or petty officers are NCOs, and OR-7 to OR-9 or chief petty officers are SNCOs.
 * In the British Army, RAF and Royal Navy, OR-1 to OR-2 are junior enlisted, OR-3 to OR-4 are Junior NCO's, and OR-5 to OR-9 are Senior NCO's
 * Generally speaking, the RN assumes a rank up despite the NATO code remaining the same. For example, a LH is more practically comparable to a PO2 or PO1 in the USN.
 * While in the British Army a lance corporal is the next rank up from a private, unlike in the US Army they are considered junior NCOs, and hold a similar command appointment to a US Army sergeant. Because of this it is not unheard of for lance corporals to be given US Army sergeant rank insignia when serving with US forces.
 * While there are different pay-grades for privates (and other enlisted ranks) in the British Army, these are tied to job-role (MOS) rather than time in service. As such there is no promotion from a class 4 private to a class 3 private, nor are there differing badges of rank.

Notes to tables above

 * A warrant officer in UK service is a senior non-commissioned rank not comparable to the various grades of warrant officer in the US, although holding the King's Warrant and with certain privileges similar to those of officers. In the Army and Royal Marines, they are referred to by their appointment, of which there are many (for example, regimental sergeant major is a WO1 appointment). The US rank is held by single-track career specialists (ranking between enlisted ranks and 2nd lieutenant) and has no NATO equivalent. An RN warrant officer class 1 incorporated the former rank of fleet chief petty officer. There are now executive warrant officers, denoting the senior WO1s on ships and shore establishments. The Command Warrant Officers have been removed under the Royal Navy Command Transformation Programme. The most senior Royal Navy WO1 is the Warrant Officer of the Naval Service (WONS) The rating of WO2 in the Royal Navy was removed in 2014 but reinstated in 2021.  The recent senior Warrant Officer of the British Army is the "Army Sergeant Major". In November 2018, the highest Warrant Officer/OR position was created, namely the Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chiefs of Staff Committee.
 * RAF Flight Sergeants: Although technically equivalent to British Army Staff Sergeant this does not equate to time served or experience since the RAF does not have the rank of WO2.
 * The RN created the rate of Warrant Officer Class 2 on 1 April 2004. Previously, there was a rate of Charge Chief Petty Officer, who usually ranked as OR-7, although above other CPOs. A Charge Chief Artificer (a highly qualified technical CCPO) could be given a NATO OR-8 status, but still ranked below WO2 in the Army and Royal Marines. On the creation of WO2, all CCPOs were upgraded to this rate.
 * In the US "OR #" system, NCOs are from OR4 onwards hence the equivalents in rank name do not tie in exactly. In the US Army a Corporal is considered an NCO, but a Specialist is not.
 * British Sergeants/Petty Officers are seen as equal to E5 and E6 although Corporals as well as Sergeants may be appointed to an official OR-5 (i.e. E-5) military role as is suited to the particular situation.
 * From April 1, 1999, the Able Rating and Ordinary Rating of the Royal Navy merged and called Able Rating, the grades of Marine 1st Class and Marine 2nd Class of the Royal Marines merged, and Junior Rating and Junior Marine were abolished.
 * Technical trades and musicians only. Promotion to the rank of Junior Technician ceased in 2005, only to be replaced by Senior Aircraftman (Technician) a short time later.
 * The most senior WO1s are, in descending order, the Army Sergeant Major, the Conductors (Cdr) of the Royal Logistic Corps, the Royal Artillery Sergeant Major, Royal Artillery, the Academy Sergeant Major (AcSM), and the Garrison Sergeant Major (GSM) of the London District.
 * British army WO1 includes Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM), Garrison Sergeant Major (GSM), and Household Cavalry Regimental Corporal Major (RCM). These appointments are similar in function to the equivalent US rank indicated, but are equal in rank to other WO1 appointments.
 * British army WO2 includes Company Sergeant Major (CSM), Squadron Sergeant Major (SSM), Royal Artillery Battery Sergeant Major (BSM), Household Cavalry Squadron Corporal Major (SCM), and Band Sergeant Major. These appointments are similar in function to the equivalent US rank indicated, but are equal in rank to other WO2 appointments.
 * British army Staff Sergeants can also hold other appointments, such as Company Quartermaster Sergeant.
 * There are no Sergeant ranks or appointments (Sergeant, Colour Sergeant, and Sergeants Major) in the Household Cavalry, having different grades of Corporal instead, such as Corporal of Horse or Staff Corporal.
 * There are no Corporals or Lance Corporals in the Royal Artillery, but equivalent ranks exist in the form of Bombardier and Lance Bombardier.
 * On 1 April 2010, the RAF Regiment introduced the rank of Lance Corporal for current SACs who undertake the role of section second-in-command/fire team commander. This gives them more authority on the ground, as well as a better pay band. The move to introduce the rank of lance corporal was taken as, due to the RAF Regiments role as specialist infantry, many highly qualified and experienced airmen were tasked with acting as section second-in-command on joint operations with army, Royal Marine and foreign units. The introduction of L/Cpl rank put this on a more formal footing, and eased the minds of many enlisted soldiers from other units who were unhappy being commanded by individuals they perceived as no higher ranked than themselves.
 * In the Brigade of Guards, on promotion to corporal, soldiers are appointed and referred to as Lance Sergeants.
 * In The Rifles, every Sergeant rank or appointment (Sergeant, Colour Sergeant, and Sergeants Major) is spelled using the archaic spelling, "Serjeant".
 * The alternatives to the rank of Private in the British Army and Royal Marines are as follows:
 * Marine (Mne) in the Royal Marines;
 * Air Trooper (ATpr) in the Army Air Corps;
 * Gunner (Gnr) in the Royal Artillery and Royal Horse Artillery;
 * Highlander (Hdr) in The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons);
 * Ranger (Rgr) in the Royal Irish Regiment;
 * Sapper (Spr) in the Royal Engineers;
 * Trooper (Tpr) in the Household Cavalry, Royal Armoured Corps regiments, Honourable Artillery Company and Special Air Service;
 * Craftsman (Cfn) in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers;
 * Guardsman (Gdn) in Foot Guards regiments;
 * Kingsman (Kgn) in the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment;
 * Rifleman (Rfn) in The Rifles;
 * Signaller (Sig) in the Royal Corps of Signals;
 * Fusilier (Fus) in the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers and Royal Highland Fusiliers;
 * Musician (Mus) in the Royal Corps of Army Music;
 * Where appropriate: Drummer (Dmr), Trumpeter (Tptr), Bugler, or Piper (Ppr).
 * In the US Army, first sergeant is considered senior to and promoted laterally from master sergeant when assigned to a first sergeant billet, typically the senior NCO in a company (troop, battery)-sized unit. Upon reassignment a 1SG reverts to his previous rank of MSG. In the USMC the OR-8 ranks are equivalent but on separate career tracks as are the OR-9 ranks, i.e. a gunnery sergeant (OR-7) is promoted to either first sergeant or master sergeant depending on his indicated preference for a command/senior enlisted advisor billet or a technical specialty. A first sergeant is promoted to sergeant major and a master sergeant to master gunnery sergeant.
 * The alternatives to the rank of seaman in the US Navy are as follows:
 * Fireman (FN) in engineering;
 * Airman (AN) in aviation;
 * Hospitalman (HN) for medical corpsmen;
 * Constructionman (CN) in Construction Battalions (Seabees).
 * The former rate of Dentalman (DN) was merged into Hospitalman in 2005.
 * Also Fireman Apprentice (FA), Airman Apprentice (AA), Hospitalman Apprentice (HA), Constructionman Apprentice (CA).
 * Also Fireman Recruit (FR), Airman Recruit (AR), Hospitalman Recruit (HR), Constructionman Recruit (CR).
 * The senior most NCO in each Service has a unique title, and in the US Services a unique set of rank/rating insignia.


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World Sailing Speed Record Council

The World Sailing Speed Record Council (WSSRC) was founded in 1972, initially to ratify records at the inaugural Weymouth Speed Week held every year since in Portland Harbor.The WSSRC is the body authorized by the World Sailing (formerly International Sailing Federation, International Yacht Racing Union) to confirm speed records of sailing craft (boats, windsurfers and kitesurfers) on water (not on ice or land). In the early years the council only dealt with claims of speed records on a one-way leg of 500 metres. Since 1988 the WSSRC is also responsible for offshore sailing records, because there were several controversial claims about the times of long voyages. The first records recorded in 1972 were the Outright record of Sir Timothy Colman, Crossbow, 26.30 knots (D class); Icarus 21.6 knots (B class); Mayfly 16.40 knots and Lief Wagner Smitt, windsurfer 13.6 knots. One or more meetings were held every year and since 2001 the council has had a permanent secretariat. Members of the expert council from Australia, France, Great Britain and the U.S. assess record claims. Record holders and their times are listed. WSSRC also issues Performance Certificates to sailors who wish to be officially timed over accepted courses without breaking records.

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Summary
Rough Trade – Avoid Freud album cover. Copyright 1980 True North Records.

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Canada vs. Quebec
Both the British Parliament and the American Continental Congress discussed Canada as an entity. Yes, it wawsn't a separate colony, there was Quebec, Noba Scotia, Upper Canada. But it was a concept, and Carleton was joint or senior governor and military CIC. If you have concerns with any particular article, let's take it to the talk page. Thanks, Lou I 12:00, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Your right, other battles and campaigns are discussed state by state. But, these were part of the revolution. Canada was looked on as an entity by almost all U.S participants. When they referred to Quebec they meant the city. The British North America tends to be really confusing, since there was Canada, Florida, and the 13 colonies. The general use of the BNA term for Canada arose in Britain after the war, when Florida was ceeded to Spain, and U.S. independence was recognized. Lou I 14:08, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Liberals for forests requested move
Hi! There has been some events since the initial WP:RM request...

could you please give your opinion at Talk:Liberals_for_Forests?

Thanks!

WhiteNight T 01:45, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

WP:AFL
G'day Matt, would you be interested in joining the latest footy project we have up and running, WikiProject AFL. Let us know your feedback on the project, Cheers Rogerthat 05:52, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

Earth
Was it really necessary to add that comment to the earth article? Avriette 16:59, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Echuca
It looks like a possible oversight to me. I find it strange that it's not in the university's campus list or in the DEST Job Guide list, both of which contain every other one on the older list you cited on the university talk page (and that I can't find any evidence of an event or something that would definitively show the campus still exists, in the absence of the above). Rebecca 08:48, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

Pop Trash
No, the backing vocalist on Duran Duran's "Mars Meets Venus" was Sally Boyden. Hope that helps! — Catherine\talk 07:48, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Charles Sturt University
Hi Matturn. It's my understanding that, although Rivcoll is a separate entity from CSUSA, Rivcoll is an affiliate to CSUSA in the same way as the other campus-based unions. According to CSUSA's website (http://www.csusa.org.au/about_csusa):

 * CSUSA is the overarching students’ association of CSU and is comprised of the following affiliates:

 * Charles Sturt University Students’ Association Albury Wodonga (CSUSAA) – formerly Murray Campus Students’ Association;
 * Charles Sturt University Students’ Association Bathurst (CSUSAB) – formerly MASC (Mitchell Association of Student Councils);
 * Charles Sturt University Students’ Association Dubbo (CSUSAD);
 * Charles Sturt University Students’ Association Wagga Wagga (CSUSAW) – known as Rivcoll Union Inc;
 * Charles Sturt University Students’ Association Canberra – known as St Mark’s Canberra.

Although I've been studying at CSU for some years I'm still not as clear about the distinction as I could be, but I don't think it's correct to say that students at the Wagga campus are represented by Rivcoll instead of CSUSA. - Gimboid13 02:39, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

 * No worries Eggman. I've changed the article in line with the above. - Gimboid13 00:33, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Economies of scale
I am to assume then that you are an economist who can explain to me how a government is more "efficient" and serves customers/producers better when they buy in bulk rather than the free market, as you've simply denied rather than refuted my point on the talk page. In future, discuss matters on the talk page before making a change. We can start here, though. --Knucmo2 19:10, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

Rhema FM
Hi Matturn,

I'm about to revert your change to Rhema FM. As the article states: UCB no longer recognising affliations with other radio stations because it has ceased to act as an umberalla group and is now a broadcaster in its own right. And I'll fix the gramatical problem shown in that quote as well. Blarneytherinosaur talk 07:15, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

 * ''Fair enough. I did go to the UCB site, and found that they still had references to their licenced Rhema affiliates - this must be outdated content. Also, at the head of the list of Rhema's with other names, there's also a line that will need changing.

 * ''In addition, the dropping of the affiliates can't be a simple matter of them now being an Australian broadcaster in their own right. They've had Vision for a number of years now. That statement was one of the factors that made me think the Rhemas were still affiliated.

 * ''If the Rhemas are no longer with UCB, then how, if at all, are they joined together? This information needs to be added to the page. matturn 07:55, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Blarneytherinosaur"

The UBC site is out of date. I will send them an email to ask them to update it.

UCB has been operating Vision for years, but they hung on to the "peak body" moniker until this year, when they sent letters to the affiliates telling them so. This information may not have been published. Hopefully UCB will explain it when they update their website.

I've fixed the line about former Rhema stations with different names. The Rhema stations don't really have any formal links now, although they may have become members of the other peak body, the Association of Christian Broadcasters, which operated as an alternative to UCB for several years. Blarneytherinosaur talk 03:38, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Accelerated Christian Education
Hi Matturn,

I notice that you have edited Accelerated Christian Education or Talk:Accelerated Christian Education. You may be aware that this article was tagged for clean up in September. I have started a rewrite of this article at Accelerated Christian Education/draft. Please take this opportunity to make improvements to this artlce.

Also note that material about the administration of the ACE curriculum in schools should be included in a new article at School of Tomorrow, not in the Accelerated Christian Education article.

Blarneytherinosaur talk 02:43, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Melbourne meetup in planning
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Melbourne meetup
Greetings, person who is listed as being interested in future meetups in Melbourne. The fourth meetup will be held on 18 December, at Lower House in Fed Square (in the Alfred Deaking building, Flinders Street end near the Atrium: map), starting from 7pm. We don't currently have a separate location for discussion beforehand, but there'll be plenty of time to talk wiki over dinner. --bainer (talk) 15:03, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Australian television
Hey Rusty surfer, WikiProject Australian television is a newly active project which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australian telvision by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles, and to serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to Australian telvision in Wikipedia. If you would like to join please add your name to the list and add to your user page. Thanks. Stickeylabel 08:48, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Plagiarism
I have reverted your edits to the Australian Democrats article based on the fact that they were clearly plagiarised from the party's official website. You cannot copy and paste material from a website and claim it as your own work. You've been around here a long time - I cannot believe that you either do not know this or do not care. Rebecca 08:44, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I wasn't claiming it as my own work, though I should've made that more clear. matturn 13:05, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * You were in a sense - when you make an edit there is a disclaimer on the edit page that says material you are adding is your own work. You cannot copy and paste material from websites without permission, even if you give a source. The material really needed to go in full - while it needs a history section, making one even by paraphrasing the website would still be plagiarism. Rebecca 00:23, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Fifth Melbourne meetup
The fifth meetup of Melbourne Wikipedians is being planned as a breakfast meeting in the city with Jimbo Wales (at a venue to be arranged) on Friday, 27 April 2007.

Jimbo has proposed breakfast as the one real window of opportunity during his tightly scheduled stay in Melbourne. Tbe precise time has to be sorted out with Jimbo, but the arrangements for the equivalent Adelaide meetup a few days before may give a good idea.

Feel free to edit the relevant page in any way that might be helpful. I feel like a bit of an interloper, not having attended previous meetups. If there's anything you can do to help, I'll be grateful. Please think about whether you'll be able to make it, assuming the arrangements are similar to those Adelaide is adopting (i.e. a block of time with people being fairly free to arrive when it suits them). Some indication on the page of your possible participation would be really helpful. Metamagician3000 06:28, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Melbourne meetup 6
Hi. This is a reminder to people on the Melbourne meetup participation list that the next meetup has been arranged for 19 June. Could you indicate on the meetup page your likely attendence, or otherwise. Regards. - Cuddy Wifter 23:32, 7 June 2007 (UTC)

talk page
Hi Matturn, I added sections to the talk page at Monash radio. I hope this is ok. Thanks for improving the page. Fred ☻ 13:45, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Melbourne Meetup #7: Wednesday 3rd October
See Meetup/Melbourne 7 for more details. Please come!

Agenda: Wikimedia Australia

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Melbourne Meetup
Hello! The Melburnians are having another meet-up! Please consult this page if you are interested to participate in the discussion! Thanks! Phgao 03:28, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Matilda Alliance
I've prodded Matilda Alliance because the stub doesn't explain what the alliance is or means or does or who proposed it or whether it has any chance of becoming reality and it doesn't establish notability, probably because it's not notable, because I'm sure if it were notable someone else might have written something about it in the last four years. Propaniac (talk) 14:28, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Melbourne meetup this Saturday
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Melbourne meetup
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Boho

Boho may refer to:

Geography

 * Boho, County Fermanagh, a village and parish in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
 * Boho Caves, a cave system in Boho
 * Boho, North Sumatra, a village on the island of Samosir, Indonesia

Other uses

 * Boho, short for "Bohemian", see Bohemianism
 * BoHo Theatre, the Bohemian Theatre Ensemble based in Chicago, Illinois
 * Jade Boho (born 1986), Spanish-born Equatorial Guinean footballer

title: Boho