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NB Power

New Brunswick Electric Power Corporation (Société d’énergie du Nouveau-Brunswick), operating as NB Power (Énergie NB), is the primary electric utility in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. NB Power is a vertically-integrated Crown corporation by the government of New Brunswick and is responsible for the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity. NB Power serves all the residential and industrial power consumers in New Brunswick, with the exception of those in Saint John, Edmundston and Perth-Andover who are served by Saint John Energy, Energy Edmundston, and the Perth-Andover Electric Light Commission, respectively.

History
The development of the electricity industry in New Brunswick started the 1880s with the establishment of small private power plants in Saint John, Fredericton and Moncton. Over the next 30 years, other cities successively electrified, so much so that in 1918, more than 20 companies were active in the electricity business, which left the province with wildly differing levels of services and prices. In Saint John for instance, the rates fluctuated between 7.5 and 15 cents per kilowatt-hour, depending on the location and the monthly consumption.

Interwar period
Recognizing the important role that electricity was about to play in economic development, Premier Walter E. Foster proposed the creation of a provincially owned electric company. The Legislative Assembly passed a bill to that effect. The New Brunswick Electric Power Commission (NBEPC) was created on April 24, 1920, under the ministry of Peter Veniot (Public Works). Immediately, the commission, headed by its first president, C. W. Robinson, launched the construction of a C$2 million hydroelectric dam at Musquash, west of Saint John. To supply the cities of Saint John, Moncton and Sussex, a 88 mi long high voltage power line was also built.

The new earth dam was completed on time, in 1922. But it could not withstand the 1923 spring flood and collapsed, an accident which shattered a bit of confidence in the new commission. The building of a larger facility in Grand Falls, on the Upper Saint John River, was undertaken in 1926 by a subsidiary of International Paper Company and completed in 1930. Electricity demand increased during that decade and more generation facilities were required to supply the province. The commission decided to take advantage of coal resources in the Minto area and built a plant near the mines. The Grand Lake Generating Station was commissioned in 1931 and then expanded five years later.

Post-war era
Demand for electricity exploded during World War II and led to rationing in the late 1940s. Meanwhile, the commission embarked on the construction of two major dams on the Saint John River, the Tobique and Beechwood generating stations, which were respectively commissioned in 1953 and 1955. See below regarding First Nations relations.

The New Brunswick Electric Power Commission bought the Grand Falls Generating Station in 1959 and began work on the province's largest hydroelectric facility, the Mactaquac dam, whose first three units were put on stream in 1968.

However, the new hydroelectric developments proved insufficient to bridge the imbalance between supply and demand, which grew by 12% per annum between 1960 and 1975. To cope with this demand growth, the commission began construction of the oil-fired Courtenay Bay Generating Station, near the Saint John shipyard in 1959; it was also adjacent to the Irving Oil Refinery, which entered service in the late 1950s and which the Courtenay Bay Generating Station made use of a pipeline running from the Canaport offshore loading facility at Red Head to the refinery. The first 50 MW turbine was put in service at Courtenay Bay Generating Station the next year, in December 1960, while two more units were added in 1965 and 1966, 50 MW and 100 MW, respectively. To better serve northern New Brunswick, another oil-fired plant, the Dalhousie Generating Station, was constructed in Darlington with an initial capacity of 100 MW. It was commissioned in 1969.

In the early 1970s, the NBEPC signed a series of supply contracts with New England distributors, justifying the construction of its largest power plant in 1972. With three 335 MW units, the oil-fired Coleson Cove Generating Station was completed in January 1977. However, the 1973 oil shock made the operation of thermal plants more expensive, since oil prices rose from US$3 to US$37 per barrel between 1973 and 1982. The company, which was renamed NB Power / Énergie NB during that time, needed to explore other generating options.

Point Lepreau
The construction of a nuclear plant in New Brunswick had been discussed since the late 1950s. For over 15 years, engineers from the NBEPC visited the Chalk River Laboratories to keep abreast of the latest trends in the field. Formal talks between the provincial and federal governments began in 1972 and discussions between representatives of Premier Richard Hatfield and Atomic Energy of Canada accelerated the following year. In the aftermath of the oil crisis, the province wanted to secure a source of electricity whose prices would be less volatile than oil. However, project financing was still an issue.

The federal government then announced a loan program to help provinces such as New Brunswick in January 1974. Ottawa's pledge to cover half of the cost of a first nuclear plant removed the last obstacle to construction of the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station. On February 5, 1974, Hatfield announced his decision to build the plant, 20 mi west of Saint John, and even raised the possibility of constructing a second one in the future. On May 2, 1975, the Canadian Atomic Energy Commission authorized the construction of two 640-MW units within a site that can accommodate a maximum of four reactors.

Labour unrest, design problems and skyrocketing construction costs significantly increased the plant's price tag. The total price of the first operational CANDU-6 in the world was estimated at 466 million dollars in 1974. Inflation between 1978 and 1982 was 46%, this increased the costs for all infrastructure projects in Canada. Projects like Darlington Nuclear Generating Station and Point Lepreau had priced their estimates before the inflation. When it became operational 8 years later, on February 1, 1983, the cost had soared to C$1.4 billion.

Proposed sale to Hydro-Québec
On October 29, 2009, the premiers of New Brunswick and Quebec signed a memorandum of understanding to sell most of NB Power's assets to Hydro-Québec. This agreement was reached after nine months of negotiations undertaken at the request of New Brunswick and would have transferred most generation, transmission and distribution assets of the New Brunswick utility to a subsidiary of the Quebec-based Crown corporation, including the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station and 7 hydroelectric plants, but would have excluded fossil-fuel fired plants in Dalhousie, Belledune, and Coleson Cove.

The memorandum of understanding fostered a spirited public debate in New Brunswick and Atlantic Canada. Despite positive feedback from the province's business leaders, many reactions to the MOU were hostile. Opposition parties, Newfoundland and Labrador premier Danny Williams, the union representing most NB Power employees, and wind energy supporters quickly condemned the agreement as detrimental to the interests of New Brunswick.

Opponents in the general public used social media to show their displeasure and contest the various arguments for the deal. On Facebook, 14,000 people joined a group in opposition to the sale within five days of the announcement. A demonstration organized by the group and trade unions drew approximately 600 people outside the Legislative Assembly building on November 17, 2009. A Leger Marketing opinion poll conducted on behalf of Quebecor Media newspapers in New Brunswick and Quebec in November 2009 showed that 60% of New Brunswickers polled opposed the proposed sale, while 22% supported it.

After months of controversy, New Brunswick and Quebec representatives signed a second agreement in January 2010, reducing the scope of the sale. Under the revised agreement, the sale would have transferred NB Power's hydroelectric and nuclear power plants to Hydro-Quebec for C$3.4 billion. The government of New Brunswick would have retained the transmission and distribution divisions of NB Power, and the Crown corporation would have entered into a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Hydro-Québec. The PPA would have allowed NB Power to deliver the rate freeze for residential and general customers. However, the industrial rates rollback would have been smaller than under the original MOU.

On March 24, 2010, Premier Graham announced the failure of the second agreement due to Hydro-Québec's concern over unanticipated risks and costs associated with matters including dam security and water levels. This interpretation was contested by analysts, who blamed the collapse of the deal on the political situation in New Brunswick.

Corporate structure
The future of NB Power has been a concern of successive New Brunswick governments for the past 15 years. The Liberal government of Raymond Frenette published a consultation document in February 1998 to find solutions to ensure the sustainability of NB Power in the twenty-first century.

Valuation
Shortly after taking office in 1999, the Conservative government of Bernard Lord commissioned TD Securities to conduct an assessment of the company's viability. The study, whose findings were published in 2009, suggested four scenarios: the status quo; a sale to a strategic buyer; privatization through a share offering; or splitting the utility into separate elements. The report valued the company at between $C3.6 and $C4.5 billion. This number however was very strongly contested by those familiar with the value of telecommunications rights of way and smart grid-based services, energy-related and otherwise, who considered the distribution network to have very much more value. These arguments were to be repeated often in the 2009-2010 NB Power controversy.

Between 2001 and 2004, the Lord government spent C$3.2 million to retain the services of CIBC World Markets and Salomon Smith Barney in order to evaluate the resale value of the Point Lepreau and Coleson Cove power plants. The studies, codenamed Cartwheel and Lighthouse, have assessed the value of these assets to roughly C$4.1 billion. A similar valuation was used in the failed 2010 proposal to vend Lepreau to Hydro-Quebec, and was extremely controversial.

2003 reorganization
The Lord government shuffled the company's structure in early 2003 by introducing amendments to the Electricity Act. The Act reorganized NB Power into a holding company with four divisions: NB Power Distribution and Customer Service, NB Power Generation, NB Power Nuclear, and NB Power Transmission. The Act maintained the company's distribution, transmission, and nuclear power monopolies, but opened the door to competition in the generation business. The reorganization also created the New Brunswick Electric Finance Corporation, which was responsible for issuing, managing and paying NB Power's debt through payments dividends, fees and taxes paid by the various subsidiaries, and the New Brunswick System Operator, an independent market operator that administered relationships between power generators and users.

2013 Reorganization
The NB Power Group of Companies, the Electric Finance Corporation, and the New Brunswick System Operator merged on October 1, 2013, re-establishing NB Power as a single, vertically integrated Crown corporation.

Personnel
In October 2008, NB Power Holding Corporation was named one of "Canada's Top 100 Employers" by Mediacorp Canada Inc., and was featured in Maclean's newsmagazine. In 2009, NB Power became the first electric utility to be recognized by the National Quality Institute by being awarded a Healthy Workplace Award.

David D. Hay resigned as President in 2010, claiming he had never been consulted on the proposed sale of NB Power, the valuations or the strategies involved. He was replaced by Gaëtan Thomas, the former Vice President of NB Power's Nuclear Division, who remained the President and CEO of NB Power till May, 2020. Keith Cronkhite was appointed NB Power President and Chief Executive Officer CEO on April 1, 2020.

Lori Clark was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer (Acting) on July 4, 2022.

Power generation
NB Power operates 13 generating stations with a total installed capacity of 3,513 MW as of 2013. The generation fleet uses a variety of energy sources: heavy fuel oil (972 MW), water (889 MW), uranium (660 MW), diesel (525 MW), and coal (467 MW). As of 2020, NB Power's grid includes 355 MW of wind energy.

The generation facilities are spread across the province. However, the Saint John, New Brunswick area accounts for nearly half of the total NB Power-owned generation capacity, with the Coleson Cove (972 MW), the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station (660 MW), and Bayside Generating Station (277 MW). Saint John is home to energy-intensive industries such as the Irving Oil Refinery, JD Irving pulp and paper mills, and the Canaport liquefied natural gas terminal.

Thermal Generation
NB Power operates two thermal and three combustion turbine facilities with a combined generating capacity of 1,964 MW.

Nuclear Generation
NB Power operates the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station which is the only active nuclear generating station in Canada outside of Ontario. It has a generation capacity of 660 MW.

Hydroelectric Generation
NB Power operates seven hydroelectric dams in the province with a combined generating capacity of 889 MW. The main hydroelectric facilities are located on the Saint John River.

The province's largest, the Mactaquac generating station (668 MW), stands some 20 mi upstream of the capital city, Fredericton. It was built between 1965 and 1968 at a cost of C$128 million. The plant has been a concern for some time due to a phenomenon called alkali-aggregate reaction, causing the dam to expand and crack. The problem has been known since the 1970s and could reduce the dam's life by half, according to a 2000 report by a panel of international engineering experts commissioned by the Crown corporation.

Electric transmission
NB Power's transmission grid includes over 6849 km of high voltage transmission lines ranging from 69 kV AC to 345 kV AC. The company operates interconnections with Hydro-Québec, Nova Scotia Power, Maritime Electric in Prince Edward Island and the ISO New England network in the United States. The network is operated by the Transmission & System Operator division of NB Power.

The main power grid forms an O-shaped loop with 345 kV lines. This power line runs through substations at Keswick, Saint-André, Eel River, Belledune, Bathurst, Salisbury, Valley Waters, Coleson Cove, Point Lepreau, and back to Keswick. There is also a direct connection of a parallel 345 kV line between Coleson Cove and Keswick.

NB Power supplies electricity to Maritime Electric in Prince Edward Island through a sub-sea interconnection cable on the floor of the Northumberland Strait, and imports/exports from/to Nova Scotia via Canada's first electrical interconnection between two provinces. NB Power also has interconnections to Maine.

Because of the asynchronous nature of Hydro-Québec's electricity transmission system, interconnections between the two neighboring provinces require HVDC converters. The first one, the Eel River Converter Station, was installed in 1972 and has a 350 MW transfer capacity. It is the first operative HVDC system equipped with thyristors The second converter, the Madawaska substation (435 MW), was built on the Quebec side of the border in 1985 and is operated by Hydro-Québec TransÉnergie. The two systems are linked by two 230-kV lines between Matapédia and Eel River, and by two 315-kV lines between the Madawaska and Edmundston substations. Some of NB Power loads in these areas can be islanded and supplied as part of the Quebec grid, which increases New Brunswick's import capability to 1,080 MW, whereas export capability to Quebec is limited to 785 MW.

Coal mining
Beginning in 1986, NB Power operated a coal mine in Minto through its NB Coal subsidiary. The company extracted approximately 150,000 tons of coal per year to fuel the Grand Lake Generating Station, a 57 MW power plant built in 1963. On September 30, 2009, the company announced the planned closure of the mine and the decommissioning of the Grand Lake Generating Station. The company management explained the decision by stressing the high cost of complying with stricter Sulfur dioxide emission regulations. The decommissioning and demolition of the Grand Lake Generating Station were completed in 2012.

Investment concern
In 2019, the utility was criticized for having invested $13 million in Joi Scientific, a Florida-based company that promised to deliver hydrogen-based power from seawater with 200% efficiency. According to critics, their promised efficiency violated the First Law of Thermodynamics. During a call with investors during the summer of 2019, Joi Scientific announced that their technology was perhaps only ~10% as efficient as previously described, meaning that their process consumes energy rather than producing it. The company also announced that they were running low on funding. Joi Scientific's technology has been described by a former employee as being based on the work of discredited inventor Stanley Meyer.

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Markus Keller (triathlete)

Markus Keller (born 21 April 1967) is a retired male athlete from Switzerland, who competed in triathlon. Keller competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took eighteenth place with a total time of 1:50:15.25.

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Carl Blasco

Carl Blasco (born 11 September 1971) is an athlete from France. He is a triathlete. Blasco competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took nineteenth place with a total time of 1:50:18.02.

Four years later, at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Blasco again competed. This time, he placed twelfth with a time of 1:53:20.16.

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Maid in Manhattan

Maid in Manhattan is a 2002 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Wayne Wang and based on a story by John Hughes, who is credited using a pseudonym. It stars Jennifer Lopez, Ralph Fiennes, and Natasha Richardson. In the film, a hotel maid and a high-profile politician fall in love. The film was released on December 13, 2002, by Columbia Pictures and was a box office success, grossing $154 million against its $55 million budget, while receiving mixed reviews.

Plot
Marisa Ventura, a single mother raising her 10-year-old son Ty, works as a maid at the Beresford Hotel in the heart of Manhattan. When not in school, Ty spends time with Marisa's fellow hotel workers, who think she can be promoted to management.

While Marisa and her co-worker Stephanie are cleaning the room of socialite Caroline Lane, Stephanie convinces Marisa to try on a Dolce & Gabbana coat. Lane had previously asked for it to be returned to the store, and Stephanie argues that it "technically" does not belong to anyone at the moment. Elsewhere in the hotel, Ty befriends hotel guest and senatorial candidate Christopher "Chris" Marshall, whom he learns has an interest in Richard Nixon, the subject of his school presentation.

Ty wants to go with Chris to walk his dog and the pair go to Caroline's room to ask Marisa for permission. Chris meets Marisa, who is wearing the designer coat, and is instantly smitten with her. He assumes that she is Caroline. The trio spend some time together at the park. Though Marisa and Chris are attracted to each other, she is terrified that management will find out about the ruse and makes it a point to avoid him afterwards.

Chris asks the hotel's head butler, Lionel Bloch, to invite "Caroline Lane" to lunch, but is confused when the real Caroline shows up instead of Marisa. Marisa was present when she received the invitation and even gives Caroline advice on what to wear for their "lunch à deux". When the real Caroline shows up, Chris asks his assistant Jerry Siegal to find "the other Caroline Lane", promising that he will attend an important dinner and wishes her to go with him. Jerry asks Lionel to find her.

Lionel, who has figured out that Marisa is the woman Chris has been looking for, tells her to go to the dinner and end the affair swiftly if she wants a future in hotel management. Stephanie and the hotel staff assist her in preparing for the evening by styling her hair and loaning her an expensive dress and spectacular necklace.

Marisa is unable to end the affair, and she spends the night in Chris' hotel room. The next morning, Marisa is spotted by the real Caroline and her friend leaving his room. Caroline blurts out the truth to the hotel management and Marisa is fired in front of Chris in Lane's hotel suite. Both Marisa and Chris spend time apart with him still thinking about her. Marisa is also hounded by the media and her disapproving mother Veronica.

Some time later, Marisa secures another job as a maid at another hotel. Chris is giving a news conference at the same hotel. Ty attends it and asks Chris whether people should be forgiven if they make mistakes, referencing former President of the United States Richard Nixon. Ty leads him to the staff room where Marisa is having her break. Chris and Marisa are reunited, and the film ends with images of publications showing that Chris has been elected, he and Marisa are still together after a year, and Marisa and her maid friends have been promoted to management.

Production
The film was originally titled The Chambermaid, and then Uptown Girl. It was described as a Cinderella-type story. John Hughes was initially announced as the film's director, with Hilary Swank set to star as the lead. Variety confirmed in July 2001 that Jennifer Lopez was in negotiations to star in The Chambermaid, with Hughes no longer directing the project. Swank was no longer involved in the film. Ralph Fiennes signed on to star in the film in February 2002. Natasha Richardson joined the cast in April 2002. The film's title was confirmed as Maid in Manhattan in August 2002. Describing the character of Marisa, Lopez said: "She's Puerto Rican. She's from the Bronx. She has this young son and she's just trying to make ends meet. Every day she gets on the train to work. She goes to this big city of dreams and she wants more. She has aspirations in that way." Fiennes' character was originally a wealthy British guest.

Principal photography commenced in New York City in April, just months after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in which the towers of the World Trade Center (visible in some unused pre-production footage) were destroyed, and concluded by June 2002. Filming was carried out at both New York's Roosevelt Hotel and the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Filming also took place in the Morris Heights section of the Bronx on E 175 Street between the Grand Concourse and on Jerome Avenue. John Hughes wrote the story, but was credited as Edmond Dantes. On the film's first day of production in The Bronx, paparazzi and spectators forced filming to stop, and police were called as a result of the pandemonium. Wayne Wang said "No one in the production was prepared for it."

Soundtrack
The film features Paul Simon's "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" in the opening credits, "Lovergirl" sung by Teena Marie, "Train on a Track" sung by Kelly Rowland, "Come Away with Me" and "Don't Know Why" sung by Norah Jones, Michael Jackson's "Fall Again" sung by Glenn Lewis, Paul Simon's "Kathy's Song" sung by Eva Cassidy and "I'm Coming Out" sung by Amerie.

Box office
Maid in Manhattan opened at 2,838 theaters in the United States, reaching number one at the box office in its opening weekend with $18.7 million, narrowly beating out Star Trek: Nemesis, by less than $200,000. It earned a total of $94 million domestically, and $60.9 million in other countries, for a total gross of $154.8 million worldwide.

Critical response
Maid in Manhattan received mixed reviews from film critics. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a rating of 38% based on 151 reviews, with an average rating of 5.10/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "Too blandly generic, Maid in Manhattan also suffers from a lack of chemistry between Lopez and Fiennes." Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 45 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.

Time magazine named it one of the top 10 worst chick flicks. According to Anna Smith of the magazine Empire: "the film constantly falls back on its staple fairy-tale plotline, which is so resolutely traditional it should succeed in charming its target audience". Nell Minow of Common Sense Media wrote positively, stating: "is as careful a combination of ingredients as it is possible to package [sic]. Everything is at the fairy tale level, which means we never dwell on troubling realities". Paul Byrnes of the Sydney Morning Herald said: "The script is so lazy it snores, and Wayne Wang directs like he walked onto the wrong set – true enough, in its way." Rich Cline of the webzine Film Threat reviewed Maid in Manhattan positively. Cline wrote: "When we catch ourselves sighing at the end, we get mad that we've fallen for this same old formula all over again. But mad in a nice way." Roger Ebert wrote that the film is a "skillful, glossy, formula picture, given life by the appeal of its stars".

Charles Passy of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution gave it a negative review, writing: "Instead of a fairy tale, we have a tale told without imagination. It's Cinderella gone stale." Andrew Chase of Killer Movie Reviews, however, was more positive. Chase wrote: "Leave reality at the concession stand along with your $20 for popcorn, candy and a large drink". Derek Adams of Time Out wrote: "Talented individuals labour over the contrivances in this lightweight romance, and if the result's fluff, at least it's painless."

Lopez's casting in the film sparked some debate. Variety commented that "[m]aking the maid a Latina is certainly realistic but never quite avoids the suggestion that upward mobility is best achieved through marriage into Anglo society". Fade to Black and White: Interracial Images in Popular Culture (2009) author Erica Chito Childs noted aspects of the film to expose the objective sides of a biracial relationship using the "symbolic roles of maid and politician". Writer Betty Kaklamanidou praised Lopez's casting in the film which "proved that a Latin actress can move away from stereotypical supporting roles and effectively become the center of a romantic narrative".

Spin-off
ABC announced in August 2008 that it would be adapting the film to a television series, with Lopez producing. Chad Hodge was hired as a script writer. In 2009, Sony Pictures Television indicated the spin-off was a put pilot.

Telenovela version
Telemundo and Sony Pictures Television were co-producing a telenovela based on the movie called Una Maid en Manhattan, starring Litzy and Eugenio Siller. As of November 29, 2011, the telenovela was airing in Telemundo weeknights at 8pm/7pm central.

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James McClure

James McClure may refer to:

 * James H. McClure (1939–2006), British crime author and journalist, born in South Africa
 * James A. McClure (1924–2011), U.S. Senator from Idaho
 * James McClure (Unionist politician) (1926–2014), Northern Ireland politician
 * James Focht McClure Jr. (1931–2010), U.S. federal judge
 * James McClure (table tennis) (1916–2005), American table tennis player
 * James Howe McClure (1851–1909), Scottish rugby football player
 * James Warren McClure (1919–2004), newspaper executive and publisher
 * Jimmy McClure ( 1920s), soccer player in the United States

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Conrad Stoltz

Conrad Willem Stoltz (born 23 October 1973) is a triathlete from South Africa. He is a four time XTERRA Triathlon World Champion and a three time ITU Cross Triathlon World Champion.

Career
Stoltz was born in Lydenburg, South Africa and calls Stellenbosch, South Africa his hometown while he is based in Morgan Hill, California, when competing in the United States.

Stoltz started competing in the multi-sport disciplines of duathlon and triathlon through his involvement in cycling. He is most often competes in cross triathlon, such as the XTERRA series of off-road triathlons. He claimed the XTERRA World Championship in his rookie season in 2001 and successfully defended it 2002. He again won XTERRA World titles in 2007 and 2010 and has won three consecutive ITU Cross Triathlon World titles in 2011,2012 and 2013. In total, he has won 10 USA XTERRA Series titles and 52 XTERRA triathlons around the world.

At the 2000 Summer Olympics, in the triathlon event, he broke away on the bike leg, leading part of the race, before finishing 20th.

At the age of 40, Conrad finished 3rd at the South African Time Trial Championships (40 km road bike) in a time of 51:46.

After breaking his back in 3 places (30% compression fractures) and his wrist in 8 places near the end of the 2006 season, Stoltz bounced back and in the XTERRA USA Championship series by winning four of five races, including the USA Championship, (2007 US XTERRA Series champion) and winning the XTERRA World Championship.

XTERRA

 * 4 x World Champion: 2001, 2002, 2007 and 2010.
 * 10 x XTERRA USA Series champion
 * Winner of the inaugural XTERRA South Africa (24 April 2005) Grabouw, South Africa.
 * 52 XTERRA career wins to date. (August, 2013)

 * 2013 results:
 * 1st Total Sports Challenge 1st Mixed team with Liezel- Terra Firma, South Africa
 * 1st XTERRA Buffelspoort, South Africa
 * 2nd XTERRA Las Vegas, USA. (crashed & cut hand)
 * 1st XTERRA Brazil, Ilhabela.
 * 1st ITU Cross Triathlon World Champs, Den Haag, Holland.
 * 1st XTERRA Italy, Abruzzo.
 * 1st TriLanai, Lanai Hawaii
 * 1st Val De Vie MTB Challenge, Paarl, South Africa
 * 1st Origin of Trails MTB, Stellenbosch South Africa
 * 2012 results:
 * 1st Total Sports Challenge 1st Mixed Team Terra Firma
 * 1st XTERRA Buffelspoort SA.
 * 1st West Coast Warm Water Weekend.
 * 1st XTERRA Grabouw SA.
 * 1st Vine a Vine MTB race.
 * 1st XTERRA Las Vegas
 * 10th Whiskey off-road MTB Prescott AZ
 * 1st ITU Cross Triathlon World Champs
 * 1st XTERRA Richmond
 * 5th 5150 New Orleans
 * 4th 5150 Boulder Peak
 * 1st XTERRA CO
 * 2nd Rev3 Maine
 * 3rd XTERRA USA Champs, Ogden Utah.
 * Winner of XTERRA USA Series
 * 3rd XTERRA World Champs. Maui Hawaii.
 * 1st TriLanai- Lanai- Hawaii.
 * Double Century- Coronation Mixed team of 12 riders- 7hr22. Swellendam, South Africa
 * 2011 results:
 * 1st XTERRA Buffelspoort
 * 4th SA TT Champs
 * 1st Vine a Vinge MTB race
 * 2nd XTERRA Las Vegas (after taking wrong turn)
 * 1st XTERRA Waco, USA
 * 1st ITU Cross Triathlon World Champs, Spain
 * 1st XTERRA Santa Cruz
 * 1st XTERRA Alabama
 * 1st XTERRA Richmond
 * 1st XTERRA Knysna
 * 1st WP MTB Champs
 * 1st XTERRA Japan
 * 5th XTERRA USA Champs
 * XTERRA USA Series Champion

2010 results:
 * 1st XTERRA Buffelspoort
 * 1st Argus MTB race Boschendal
 * 1st XTERRA Las Vegas
 * 1st XTERRA Richmond
 * 1st XTERRA Alabama
 * 1st XTERRA USA Championships
 * XTERRA USA Series Champion
 * 1st XTERRA World Championships

2009 results:
 * 1st XTERRA West Cup – Las Vegas Lake (2 May 2009)
 * 1st XTERRA Midwest Cup – Michigan (17 May 2009)
 * 1st XTERRA Southeast Cup – Alabama (24 May 2009)
 * 5th XTERRA Northwest Cup – Idaho (6 June 2009) (puncture).
 * 1st XTERRA Atlantic Cup – Virginia (14 June 2009) cut foot and had surgery for infection
 * 3rd XTERRA Northeast Cup – Sugar bush (12 July 2009) 13 stitches still in foot
 * 2nd XTERRA USA Championship – Utah (27 September 2009)
 * Winner XTERRA USA Championship series
 * 5th XTERRA World Champs Maui, Hawaii (October 2009)
 * 2008 results:
 * XTERRA West Championship, Temecula, California (17 May 2008) – 1st in a time of 2:23:02.
 * XTERRA Southeast Championship – Oak Mountain (8 June 2008) – 1st in a time of 2:05:58.
 * XTERRA UK Championship – South Wales (21 June 2008) – 2nd in a time of 2:48:37.
 * XTERRA Czech – (26 June 2008) – 6th in a time of 2:18:31.
 * XTERRA USA Championship – Nevada (5 October 2008) – 8th in a time of 2:40:17.
 * 2005 results in US Points Series:
 * XTERRA West Championship, Temecula, California (15 May 2005) – 1st in a time of 2:07:59.
 * XTERRA East Championship, Richmond, Virginia (3 July 2005) – 1st in a time of 1:59:42.
 * XTERRA Midwest Championship, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (24 July 2005) – 1st in a time of 2:26:57.
 * XTERRA Mountain Championship, Keystone, Colorado (14 August 2005) – 2nd in a time of 2:09:42 behind Mike Vine.
 * XTERRA USA Championship, Incline Village, Nevada (2 October 2005) – 2nd in a time of 2:37:15 behind Eneko Llanos (Spain).

Olympic Games

 * 2000 Summer Olympics, 20th place with a total time of 1:50:24.39.
 * 2004 Summer Olympics, did not finish the race due to a mechanical failure.

Junior athlete

 * duathlon,
 * South African Junior Duathlon Champion in 1990 and 1991.
 * Participated in World Duathlon Championship in 1991 and 1992.
 * triathlon,
 * South African Junior Triathlon Champion in 1991 and 1992.
 * Participated in World Triathlon Championship in 1993.

Senior athlete

 * triathlon,
 * South African Triathlon Champion in 1994, 1995, 1997 and 1999.
 * African Triathlon Champion in 1993, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2003.
 * Participated in World Triathlon Championship in 1996–2000 and 2002.
 * Participated in Olympics in;
 * 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia and
 * 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Cycling

 * Sea Otter Classic 2009 Cross Country- 8th overall PRO Men

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Conrad has collaborated with Avia on Avi Stoltz off-road running shoe and on various products by Specialized.

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Takumi Obara

Takumi Obara (小原 工) is an athlete from Japan. He competes in the triathlon.

Obara competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took twenty-first place with a total time of 1:50:29.95.

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Juraci Moreira

Juraci Moreira (born May 2, 1979 in Curitiba) is a triathlete from Brazil.

Moreira competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took 22nd place with a total time of 1:50:44.79. Four years later, at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Moreira competed again. He fell to 41st in the ranking with a time of 2:02:35.99. He returned to triathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics where he finished 26th with a time of 1:51:35.57.

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Eneko Llanos

Eneko Llanos Burguera (born 30 November 1976 in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Alava) is a Spanish triathlete.

Llanos competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took twenty-third place with a total time of 1:50:48.35. Four years later, at the 2004 Summer Olympics, Llanos competed again, moving up in the ranking to twentieth place. His time on the more difficult Athens course was 1:54:52.37.

He has also been a top-10 finisher at Hawaii Ironman on three occasions. In 2008 Eneko became a recognized competitor for the Ironman Hawaii crown. After a fierce duel with Chris Mccormack in Wildflower, where he finished 19 seconds behind Mccormack, and when the scenario repeated itself in Frankfurt, it was clear that Eneko was a serious contender. He was then mentioned on many occasions as one of the pre-favourites, with Mccormack, Craig Alexander and Normann Stadler.

Again it was a 2nd place, and again it was to a time difference of 3 minutes and 5 seconds.

He is vegetarian.

He was champion of the first Abu Dhabi International Triathlon.

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Talk:Howard Wesley Johnson

Disambiguation needed
Howard W. Johnson, Howard D. Johnson, and Howard Johnson (lyricist) need a single disambiguation page. Right now there is not enough room on the margin of my day to put in the effort. Snezzy (talk) 13:21, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

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Talk:Strapping Young Lad

Parody Heavy Metal
Strapping is frequently referred to as a parody heavy metal band but I see no mention of it on this page. Why not? Is Strapping a parody band or not? I would tend to say that they probably started that way but are not so now. What do others think? Gurp13|Talk 23:28, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * They aren't a parody band at all. They're generally called a 'parody' or 'comedy' band because of tracks like 'Far Beyond Metal' and 'Satan's Ice Cream Truck', but generally speaking, their music is pretty serious most of the time. MrHate 08:27, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * But, doesn't Devin Townsend actually refer to them as a parody band? I'm only asking because I'm of the opinion that their music is pretty serious too.  I thought that some people officially called them a parody band because I've heard it from multiple sources.  Is it something we should cover in the article?Gurp13|Talk 02:35, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * It could be mentioned that SYL have a somewhat cynical outlook on metal and life, but you couldn't call them a parody band. Basically they inject more humour into their image whereas most bands try to make themselves look more serious.  I don't think it's a neccesary part of the article but you could mention it and it wouldn't be out of place. MrHate 08:25, Apr 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * I definately would not call them a parody band. Devin Townsend has been involved with those typs of   projects (Punky Bruster, produced Zimmer's Hole) but SYL is by and large fairly serious. Not that they take themselves seriously, but the music is dealing with serious issues.aboverepine

Just to note, there is a tentative title for their new album posted on Gene's myspace page. "The New Black". Someone may want to include this.
 * Done just yesterday actually. I've referred to it as "tentatively" titled, in case Gene's yankin' our chains...;)ComaDivine 04:55, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

City Re-Release
so earlier this year City was re-released with a bunch of bonus tracks (like HAARHT), and i noticed that nowhere on the SYL article or the album's article does it mention anything about it. that's pretty sad. and before someone tells me to add the info myself, i wouldn't know where to begin, and don't want to just throw some info into the article making it look like shit.68.255.230.218 16:03, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
 * added the new tracks onto city's article, added a line to the opening about the re-release.68.255.230.218 23:47, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Can we please just leave it at Heavy Metal?
I mean really, listing 2,000,000 genres is just stupid. It's mostly listed under Heavy Metal on the net, in music stores, etc why do we need to list everything they could possibly be considered as?. Currently it says 'Their sound is generally described as Death / Thrash Metal/Death / Grind with strong Progressive rock-influences, Symphonic synth-melodies and influences from industrial music, although this differs from album to album.' It doesn't read well at all, and doesn't really mean much anyway. Each album is quite different, so instead of trying to list everything wouldn't it be less confusing to generalise it? Funny little guy 16:14, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Heavy Metal alone would refer to the style played by bands like Dio, Iron Maiden, Accept, Judas Priest, etc. which SYL do not sound like. If a genre can't be agreed upon, I say leave it at extreme metal. It is industrial metal, though. Certainly not progressive metal, though there is some influence here and there. However, simply having influence doesn't mean they play the style. 12.72.238.181 03:08, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Extreme metal covers it pretty well I think- the whole intention of the SYL project has always been just to be as loud and pissed off and abusive as possible. There's a bit of an industrial influence, there's some prog parts here and there, but ultimately SYL is a band about extremity and I think we should just leave it at that.Thee darcy 20:08, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

I agree. I've always viewed SYL as Extreme Metal, because they are a mix between different kinds of metal (Thrash, Industrial & Prog). His solo work is much more purely Progressive Metal, not SYL. Lewis512 (talk) 23:58, 19 November 2008 (UTC)

Melodic Death metal
I've never heard SYL classified as melodic death metal, by fans, reviewers, or themselves. Has anyone else heard this? Melodic death would be bands like [In Flames], [Dissection], [At the Gates, [Dark Tranquillity], etc...Thoughts? Aboverepine.
 * I think Melodic death is a good way to describe the SYL album, but Alien is a different matter all together. I would say Alien is close to thrash or post-thrash.  MrHate 23:21, July 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * The SYL album, maybe...I thought that album was pretty thrashy. City and Heavy as a really heavy thing are a whole nother matter all together, definately nothing to do with melodic death metal. Above Repine.

Strapping Young Lad is, short of an melodic death metal band. Devin himself, said this in iterview.

Progressive Metal
I believe that the band also falls under the Progressive Metal genre as well.

No Prog metal and all similarity/relation are due to the influences by the progressive. I though, that doom metal (or even Funeral doom metal) is worthly though for describe their style of playing as well as symphonic black metal, by the vocals and keyboards (string-sections, horns, operatic chores all SECTIONS generally).

 * I would say "no" to progressive metal and "God no" to doom and symphonic black. Honestly, does thrash seem so wrong to everyone else?  I think it fits them fine. The KZA (formerly MrHate) 11:20, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

style
i just cut ''However, many people don't realize that industrial metal usually requires drum machines and other computer-like equipment that a band like Strapping Young Lad does not usually contain. The verdict is up in the air as some foolish still proclaim them industrial; others have accepted that they are bringing real metal to the masses.'' from the Style section, for being POV and generally lame. i hate trying to sub-sub-sub-classify musical genres, but if someone wants to rewrite this or find sources to do the debating for them, then i leave it to you. the power is yours!

DVD commodore show was free?
I was there, I'm pretty sure it wasn't free.

metalcore
I think SYL is a metalcore because I heard some powermetal-based cleanvocals in their music

You can argue what powermetal is and how the clean vocals used in SYL are related to each, but the word metalcore has nothing to do with anything above.

Future
I think that the the "future" section needs to be re-done as it seems to indicate the future of the band is up in the air, and Devin himself has made statements that he was just tired of all of the interviews (which i know is in there) and that there will definitly be more SYL in the future, but he's taking a break right now. The last part doesn't seem to have been taken into consideration the last time the article was edited.

I cleaned up the Future section on the Wiki. It was generally just confusing for someone who isn't frequent in the SYL fanbase. First it cited info from the journalists blog who said that Dev was quitting SYL and DTB forever, than it quotes Dev's official announcement from HDRBoard about him "stepping away for awhile" and not quitting both bands. In other words, its frustrating. The bottom line is that SYL are on hiatus, they have not officially broken up. 74.119.12.154 15:27, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Being picky about "The Devin Townsend Band"
In the page there's this sentence : "After recording several very successful solo albums, the Devin Townsend band was formed, who, when touring, played SYL songs as well as songs from Devin's solo projects.

This changed on the release of their 3rd album, the self titled Strapping Young Lad. SYL now play separately from The Devin Townsend Band (or DTB) as this band has been populated with new members to create two separate bands."

That's not wrong, but don't you think the denomination "The Devin Townsend band" should only be used when talking about the 'new' -solo material only- line-up? Of course the first one is written the Devin Townsend band while the second one is The Devin Townsend band (and has a link to the dedicated page), but I think it should be written something like "at that time, live tours often consisted of a Devin Townsend + SYL combo, with the SYL line-up playing Townsend's solo material".

Well I doscovered Townsend and SYL shortly after the release of Accelerated Evolution so I can't be sure of anything, but I think it depends on how Townsend labeled his own (non-SYL) material, and how it was advertised on tour, etc...

Also I find the chronology of the history part a bit weird. It talks about the various release up to The New Black, then goes back to 2003 to talk about tour and the live DVD (well overall this paragraph needs to be rewritten now as Ozzfest is over). No disrespect for those who wrote the content 'right, I'm just pointing a few things 82.248.136.82 17:41, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

I've done a bit of an overhaul, to keep the chronology updated and orderly and also to keep the formatting standard. Italics are best used for album or song titles, for instance. I've kept the DTB reference to a minimum to avoid confusion. People can go and look at that page if they need more detail. All we need now is a decent, allowable picture...and we'll be set. For now. ComaDivine 07:17, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

OK, I contacted seventhframe photography and obtained permission to use a new pic, which is now in the article. :) ComaDivine 03:09, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Industrial Thrash?
That isn't even a real genre :/ SYL's early albums are Grindcore, Industrial, and then the format switched a bit to Death Metal, Deathrash, and currently they're doing Thrash, Melodic Thrash, and Progressive Metal. It's hard to confine them to one genre, so we should list all of them. Thoughts?

Creation Destruction 23:34, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm more in favor of having as few as possible up there, maybe we should try and find what the band list themselves as on a reliable source rather than this constant edit war.Funny little guy 06:50, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

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Sympho with SYL
I really do not understand, why is anyone (but myself) find that some quite very symphonic from the SYL's music in generally!!! Symphonic link really should be in the article cause Strapping Young Lad really sounds like it by the keybords. At finally anyone objected sympho??? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.112.20.146 (talk • contribs)
 * From what I can understand of what you've written: I don't think "symphonic" should be added. Bands have to have some sort of symphony element... like actual orchestra instruments... not a synthesizer. But, could you find a source that describes them as such? = ∫tc 5th Eye 15:16, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

No sources. But if you think "sympho" should'nt be added, the go and listen to some newer stuff of SYL. For example. "Shitstorm", has massive "Symphonic" sound, playing by the keyboard's string sections in the middle part. And contrary to what you've stated, above, "Symphonic metal" bands, often use an synthesizer too. Good example is finnish, Eternal Tears of Sorrow (never heard of?), and many more "Symphonic death metal" bands, as well as "Symphonic black metal" outfits.
 * Agreed that there's plenty of symphonic metal bands that use synths, but generally with SYL they're there to add a sonic element rather than a musical or melodic element. Oodles of bands use keyboard string & choir sounds, most of them don't use them for a melodic, symphonic effect. Thee darcy (talk) 20:50, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

Grindcore
WTF? Why in hell is this tag added? I mean who the fucking stupid kids keeps adding it? Not since thei'r debut-HAARHT, neither with Steve Vai or City Devin never had playing nothing close to grindcore!! Really how it's any song even from early demos has anything to do with grind at all?? All stuff i've heard of it has nothing but prog/death thrash-metal, idustrial hardcore crust whatsoever, but still, blastbeats per se will NOT make the band grind!! Im therefore looking forward editing grindcore link away from the page, untill good sources will be provided. And hell, just, simply why SYL is considered grindcore? Who actual musician considered Strapping Young Lad Grindcore? Devin himself? Listen to SYL if you still consider SYL as grindcore! Any sources? vitalist

No synthesis allowed
In the last FAC, commenters stressed the importance of finding a strong reliable source to back up the assertion that Devy is bipolar. I think you've successfully done that here. The magazine Zero Tolerance, which Townsend reprints on his own website, is as reliable a source as can be found for a musician of this relatively obscure caliber. The interview plainly states that the singer is bipolar. However, you appear to be stretching the source to prop up the claim that Townsend's not taking his meds somehow led to more extreme lyrics for the Alien record. That's not really what the interview says. Is says that Devy is manic depressive. It says that he stopped taking his meds. It also contains a quote from Devy that, "Lyrically, it’s the most extreme I’ve ever been." But nowhere does it suggest a causal relationship between the latter two facts. Please read WP:Synthesis to understand why we shouldn't do that.

In short, I think the interview is great (or at least adequate) source for the fact that he's bipolar. It's not a valid source for your argument about the Alien lyrics (which, IMO, are some of his strongest; his frightening rants remind me of a girl I was dating the year I bought that record....but I'll save that story for another day).--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back (talk) 02:16, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

 * I moved the source to a more suitable location and requested a better one for the statement about his lyrics. Let me know what you think.--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back (talk) 02:26, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I agree with you, I knew it was a bit far-fetched:) Maybe we should leave this out entirely from the Lyrical themes section, as I couldn't find a source stating that the lyrics are directly influenced by that. I've found now more than one (3 or maybe 4) really reliable ones (like Metal Hammer, etc.) where he states he is bipolar, and he talks about how this affects SYL (he says SYL and The Townsend Band are the two opposites of his mind, this obviously shows how he is bipolar - maybe this part can be extended in the article), and how not taking medication affected the whole Alien album. But I can only back up the fact that it did affect the Alien album as a whole, so where should we put this information? In the Influences section, or in the main body of the article, or maybe Musical style? I really don't know:) Gocsa (talk) 12:55, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * If you recall, I already added a sentence describing how going off his meds inspired the freaky noise track "Info Dump." That should suffice, but if you want to add a more general statement about his mindset on the album, please go ahead.--The Fat Man Who Never Came Back (talk) 15:10, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Oh, yeah, I forgot. I'll contine trying to find a source stating anything about the lyrics, but I'm close to givint it up:) If I'm not successful, then we can delete that sentence. Gocsa (talk) 21:09, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

Little Girl
SYL has often used a little girl's voice (and usually some kind of a story she tells) in their songs, such as the beginning of SYL itself. Who is this, exactly? 71.235.127.232 (talk) 21:49, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

 * That's Devin as a kid. —Gendralman (Talk) 21:58, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

No. That's you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.181.140.88 (talk) 11:45, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

computer games
isn't it about time that we had a computer game as today's FA on wikipedia instead of this sort of pseudo culture? or how about an episode from Family Guy like The Man with Two Brians? it's hilarious Mr Poechalkdust (talk) 05:23, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Isn't it about time you stopped trolling FAs? Ironholds (talk) 13:44, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Pseudo culture? What a load of rubbish you talk. Metal doesn't get much coverage on the main page, so this is a welcome change. LuciferMorgan (talk) 20:04, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

TFA hit count

 * 33,000 hits while on the main page. – Juliancolton  | Talk 17:01, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Wow! I hope it also helped raising the band's popularity. Maybe some people gave their music a listen :) Gocsa (talk) 13:00, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

The SYL logo should be in the page somewhere
and then maybe the full name logo that followed later. 2001:44B8:41A7:4500:E6CE:8FFF:FE52:BA7 (talk) 23:09, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

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Jed and Mike's time in SYL
Just found this old video which displays that Mike Sudar and Jed Simon were both in the band at the same time, and that Devin didn't play guitar live during the HAARHT touring cycle. So the members' timeline needs to reflect this, as Jed didn't replace Mike. VampireKilla (talk) 08:02, 7 January 2018 (UTC)

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Jean-Christophe Guinchard

Jean-Christophe Guinchard (born 1 November 1967) is an athlete from Switzerland. He competes in triathlon.

Guinchard competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took 24th place with a total time of 1:50:50.76.

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Fábio Assunção

Fábio Assunção Pinto (born 10 August 1971) is a Brazilian actor.

In 2011, he was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Actor for his role in the miniseries Dalva e Herivelto: uma Canção de Amor.

Early life
Born in São Paulo, Brazil. He took piano lessons for two and a half years, after classical guitar, folk, singing and choir in his childhood. When he was only 15 years old, knowing how to play guitar and piano, he even started a band called Delta T, but the dream ended up lacking money and time to practice.

Fábio started university and went to study advertising, until one day he saw an announcement of a theater course at the Fundação das Artes in São Caetano do Sul, which he decided to do. That was the beginning of a brilliant career. A week after taking his resume to Rede Globo and being chosen for a test, he was already recording Meu Bem, Meu Mal, his first soap opera. Subsequently, several other works followed, becoming one of Gilberto Braga's favorite actors.

Personal life
Assunção is a Spiritist. In 2017 after new drug problems, he received support from Rede Globo for treatment of addiction in Argentina. In the same year, he joined the Workers' Party.

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66 block

A 66 block is a type of punch-down block used to connect sets of wires in a telephone system. They have been manufactured in four common configurations, A, B, E and M. A and B styles have the clip rows on 0.25" centers while E and M have the clip rows on 0.20" centers. The A blocks have 25 slotted holes on the left side for position the incoming building cable with a 50 slot fanning strip on the right side for distribution cables. They have been obsolete for many years. The B & M styles have 50 slot fanning strip on both sides. The B style is used mainly in distribution panels where several destinations (often 1A2 key telephones) need to connect to the same source. The M blocks are often used to connect a single instrument to such a distribution block. The E style has 5 columns of 10 2 clips rows and are used for transitioning from the 25 pair distribution cable to a 25 pair RJ21 style female ribbon connector.

66 blocks are designed to terminate 20 through 26 AWG insulated solid copper wire or 18 & 19 gauge skinned solid copper wire. The 66 series connecting block, introduced in the Bell System in 1962, was the first terminating device with insulation displacement connector technology. The term 66 block reflects its Western Electric model number.

The 25-pair standard non-split 66 block contains 50 rows; each row has two (E) or four (M) or six (A) & (B) columns of clips that are electrically bonded. The 25-pair split 50 66 block is the industry standard for easy termination of voice cabling, and is a standard network termination by telephone companies—generally on commercial properties. Each row contains four (M) or six (B) clips, but the left-side clips are electrically isolated from the right-side clips. Smaller versions also exist with fewer rows for smaller-scale use, such as residential.

66 E blocks are available pre-assembled with an RJ-21 female connector that accepts a quick connection to a 25-pair cable with a male end. These connections are typically made between the block and the customer premises equipment (CPE).

Use
Circuit pairs are connected to the block with a punch-down tool by terminating the tip wire on the leftmost slot of one row and  ring wire on the leftmost slot of the row beneath the mating tip wire. Typically, a 25-pair cable coming from the phone company is punched down on the left side of a split-type block in pairs. The right hand side of the block is wired to the customer premises equipment with jumper wires. Bridging clips are used to connect the two center terminals, connecting the left-hand side of a split block with its right-hand side, thus completing the circuit. The clips form the point of interface between the subscriber and the provider. The bridging clips can be easily removed by either the subscriber or phone company personnel for trouble isolation, allowing the ability to split a circuit and determine in which direction trouble may exist. An orange insulating cover attached to a 66 block denotes its designation as a demarcation point by the local exchange carrier.

Modern 110 blocks (Originally designated as 88 blocks) have largely supplanted 66 blocks for new commercial installations at the end of the 20th century, as the capability for a circuit to carry digital data overlaid its ability to carry analog voice conversations. 110 block termination is almost always compliant with Category 5 (or higher) and therefore capable of supporting 100 MHz (or faster) signaling. Compared to 110 and higher-density wire terminating blocks, 66 blocks are physically large; and because of their maximum 16 MHz Category 3 signaling compatibility, they are ill-suited for high speed (faster than 10BASE-T) data circuits. However, special Category 5e Certified 66 blocks are available from manufacturers such as Siemon which meet all standards for Cat5e termination.

Split 50 66 blocks are still used as network interface blocks in distribution frames to interconnect circuits with bridging clips, but are primarily limited to narrowband circuits such as POTS/DSL, DS0, or DS1 circuits.

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Ryan Bolton

Ryan Bolton (born March 26, 1973, in Rapid City, South Dakota) is an American athlete who competed in triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Bolton competed in cross country, swimming and track for Campbell County High School in Gillette, Wyoming. He ran cross country and track for the University of Wyoming.

Bolton competed in the first Olympic triathlon, at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He finished in 25th place with a total time of 1:50:52.95. Bolton won the 2002 Ironman Triathlon at Lake Placid, New York. Bolton was coached by Joe Friel. , Bolton was still competing in triathlon.

Bolton now coaches a group of elite runners in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with the Harambee Track Club.

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Craig Walton

Craig Walton (born 10 October 1975 in Ulverstone, Tasmania) is an Australian triathlete.

Walton competed in the triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took twenty-seventh place with a total time of 1:50:57.66.

Walton was a powerful swimmer and strong cyclist. He typically established a large lead coming into the run leg but was frequently caught by faster runners before the finish. He enjoyed significantly more success in non-drafting events such as Noosa triathlon, which he won 7 times and for which he holds the course record. Walton was coach to Emma Moffatt and to his longtime partner, Emma Snowsill.

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Oscar Galíndez

Oscar Saul Galíndez (born June 5, 1971, in Río Tercero, Córdoba, Argentina) is an Argentinian triathlete. He competed in the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics, obtaining the twenty-eighth place with a total time of 1:50:59.48.

Galíndez began in triathlon at the age of 16. He soon was able to win the Hexa-championship "Trofeu Brasil de Triatlo" and Duathlon World Championship. In 1995, Galíndez moved to Brazil, as Brazilian training and racing conditions were better than those in Argentina.

Following his participation in the 2000 Olympics, Galíndez began preparation for longer-distance races, such as the Ironman.

Oscar is the creator and founder of the sportswear brand OG Design.

In the Pan American games, he won the bronze medal in triathlon in both 1995 and 2003. In addition, he won the gold medal in the 1995 Duathlon World Championship and the silver medal in the 2007 Ironman World Championship.

Galíndez was awarded Best Athlete for the Argentinian province of Córdoba in 1994, and was declared one of the top 100 Argentinian athletes of all time by the Konex Foundation in 2010.

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-04-18/Encarta elaborates

Encarta blog writers denigrate fully-editable philosophy
Last week, Microsoft's Encarta encyclopaedia announced that it was to allow users to make suggestions for article improvements (see archived story). It made the announcement with a nod to Wikipedia with the comment on the 'editing help' pages that Encarta is not like "open-content encyclopedias found elsewhere on the Web".

The news was not universally well-received, and many people were critical of the fact that Microsoft was only proposing to allow suggestions about existing articles, excluding ideas for new articles. On the Encarta blog, Encarta editor David Hirning elaborated on this point. "We don’t want our users to spend time crafting an article for Encarta that we ultimately decide doesn’t meet our standard for reference material", he said. "Encarta is not just a pell-mell conglomeration of information and random bits of trivia".

Making subtle digs at Wikipedia, he said "you won’t find articles on each of Ashlee Simpson's teeth in Encarta". Wikipedia's articles on the US pop singer have been causing controversy for some time, with Everyking creating a flurry of articles about the singer, her album, songs and tours, many of which have subsequently been listed on votes for deletion. Everyking is currently subject to an arbitration committee ruling preventing him from editing articles related to Simpson.

German Wikipedian posts challenging questions
Mathias Schindler from the German Wikipedia responded to Hirning's blog post with some pointed questions. "So, basically, your point is 'We don't offer anything special for wishes for new articles. Just do it the usual way and we may listen to you - or not.', right? There will be no way to provide a list of high-ranked wishes for new articles (which may or may not fall into your or your employer's definition of 'encyclopedia'), right?  There will be no way to see if a wish for a new article on a certain subject has already been rejected, right?", he asked. At the time of writing there has been no response.

Schindler has been posting to his own blog on MSN space. Among other things, he has been criticising the restrictive license applied by Encarta to contributions, which means that contributors from the public would not have the right to reproduce their contributions anywhere else, if they were incorporated into the encyclopaedia.

Microsoft invite Jimmy Wales to speak to them
Interestingly, Jimbo Wales reported to the Wikipedia mailing list that Microsoft had invited him to give a talk at Redmond, Washington. Wales said that he would try to also give a talk at the University of Washington Information School, from which Encarta has employed graduate students to work as fact-checkers, to find out what their experience of the new system was. No date has yet been set for the talks.

Also this week: Editor's note — Dworkin scoop — Tax exemption — Search — Spoken articles — Encarta digs — Design contest — T.R.O.L.L. — Features and admins — Press coverage


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Constitutio Antoniniana

The Constitutio Antoniniana (Latin for "Constitution [or Edict] of Antoninus"), also called the Edict of Caracalla or the Antonine Constitution, was an edict issued in AD 212 by the Roman emperor Caracalla. It declared that all free men in the Roman Empire were to be given full Roman citizenship (and by extension all free women in the Empire were to be given the same rights as Roman women, such as the jus trium liberorum).

In the century before Caracalla, Roman citizenship had already lost much of its exclusiveness and become more available between the inhabitants throughout the different provinces of the Roman Empire and between nobles such as kings of client countries. Before the Edict, however; a significant number of provincials still were non-Roman citizens and held instead the Latin rights. Therefore, being a Roman citizen remained a well sought-after status till 212. Veterans of the Auxilia were also granted Roman citizenship on discharge.

As a result, vast numbers of new citizens assumed the nomen Aurelius, in honour of their patron (whose full name was Marcus Aurelius Antoninus), including several emperors: seven of the eleven emperors between Gallienus and Diocletian (Claudius Gothicus, Quintillus, Probus, Carus, Carinus, Numerian and Maximian) bore the name Marcus Aurelius.

Dediticii
The one exclusion to the universal grant occurs in a vexed passage referring to dediticii, a class of technically free people who lacked either full Roman citizenship or Latin rights. In the Imperial era, there were two categories of dediticii: the peregrini dediticii ("foreigners under treaty") who had surrendered and former slaves who were designated libertini qui dediticiorum numero sunt, freedmen who were counted among the dediticii because of a penal status that denied them the citizenship usually bestowed with manumission. The exclusion is most often taken to refer to the former slaves who had been treated as criminals by their master but for whatever reason were freed from ownership.

Analysis
The Roman jurist Ulpian (c. 170 – 223) states in the Digest: "All persons throughout the Roman world were made Roman citizens by an edict of the Emperor Antoninus Caracalla" (D. 1.5.17).

The context of the decree is still subject to discussion. According to historian and politician Cassius Dio (c. AD 155 – c.  AD 235), the main reason Caracalla passed the law was to increase the number of people available to tax. In the words of Cassius Dio: "This was the reason why he made all the people in his empire Roman citizens; nominally he was honoring them, but his real purpose was to increase his revenues by this means, in as much as aliens did not have to pay most of these taxes." However, few of those that gained citizenship were wealthy, and while it is true that Rome was in a difficult financial situation, it is thought that this could not have been the sole purpose of the edict. Cassius Dio generally saw Caracalla as a bad, contemptible emperor.

Another goal may have been to increase the number of men able to serve in the legions, as only full citizens could serve as legionaries in the Roman army. In scholarly interpretations that agree with a model of moral degeneration as the reason for the fall of the Roman Empire, most famously the model followed by British historian Edward Gibbon, the edict came at a cost to the auxiliaries, which primarily consisted of non-citizen men.

In the analyses of more recent scholars, the Constitutio Antoniniana marks a major milestone in the provincialisation of Roman law, meaning that the gap between private law in the provinces and private law in Italia narrowed. This is because, in granting citizenship to all men in the provinces, much private law had to be re-written to conform with the law that applied to Roman citizens in Rome. To these scholars, it therefore also marks the beginning of a process by which imperial constitutions became the primary source of Roman law.

Mary Beard distinguishes the history of ancient Rome up until 212 to be different to the era that follows, "effectively a new state masquerading under an old name". Anthony Kaldellis says Rome went from an empire to a world and this decision would later underpin the enforcement of uniform religious belief.

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Johannes Enzenhofer

Johannes Enzenhofer (born 4 October 1965) is an athlete from Austria. He competes in triathlon.

Enzenhofer competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took 29th place with a total time of 1:51:02.48.

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Csaba Kuttor

Csaba Kuttor (born August 19, 1975 in Miskolc, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén) is an athlete from Hungary. He competes in triathlon. Kuttor competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took thirtieth place with a total time of 1:51:05.74.

Four years later, he qualified himself for the 2004 Summer Olympics. This time he could not compete in the race because of an illness.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics he took 47th place with a total time of 1:55:53.38.

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Stéphan Bignet

Stéphan Bignet (born 29 June 1971) is an athlete from France. He competes in triathlon.

Bignet competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took thirty-first place with a total time of 1:51:12.15.

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110 block

A 110 block is a type of punch-down block used to terminate runs of on-premises wiring in a structured cabling system. The designation 110 is also used to describe a type of insulation displacement contact (IDC) connector used to terminate twisted pair cables, which uses a punch-down tool similar to the type used for the older 66 block.

Telephone distribution
Early residential telephone systems used simple screw terminals to join cables to sockets in a tree topology. These screw-terminal blocks have been slowly replaced by 110 blocks and connectors. Modern homes usually have phone service entering the house to a single 110 block, whence it is distributed by on-premises wiring to outlet boxes throughout the home in star topology. At the outlet box, cables are attached to ports with insulation-displacement contacts (IDCs), and those ports fit into special faceplates.

In commercial settings, this style of home run or star topology wiring was already in use on 66 blocks in telecom closets and switchrooms. The 110 block has been slowly replacing the 66 block, especially for data communications usage.

Computer networks
The 110 style insulation-displacement connection is often used at both ends of networking cables such as Category 5, Category 5e, Category 6, and Category 6A cables which run through buildings, as shown in the image. In switch rooms, 110 blocks are often built into the backs of patch panels to terminate cable runs. At the other end, 110 connections may be used with keystone modules that are attached to wall plates. 110 blocks are preferred over 66 blocks in high-speed networks because they introduce less crosstalk and many are certified for use in Category 5, Category 6 and Category 6A wiring systems.

Individual Category 5e and better-rated 8P8C jacks (keystone and patch panel) with IDC connectors commonly use the same punchdown 'teeth' dimensions and tools as a full size 110 block.

Advantages
110 style blocks allow a much higher density of terminations in a given space than older style termination blocks (66 style or wire wrap) because of their stacking capability. Some 110 blocks meet specifications for higher bandwidth data protocols such as Category 5 and higher.

Problems
During regular usage, very small pieces of insulation can become stuck inside the 110 block contacts; this renders that given pair unreliable or unusable, until the pieces are removed. A tool known as a spudger can be used to remove excess insulation pieces. The wire hook which comes with many punch down tools can also be used to remove wire pieces.

A new wire inserted over an existing insulation remnant may be unreliable, as the 110 IDC was designed to hold only a single wire per contact.

For testing it is more difficult to reliably connect to a working circuit on a 110 block than on older style blocks. The circuit must be broken, or insulation displacing contacts may be used on jumper wires. Repeated use of insulation displacing contacts may lead to a difficult-to-locate broken or intermittently-failing jumper wire.

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Alessandro Bottoni

Alessandro Bottoni (born October 13, 1972) is a triathlete from Italy.

Bottoni competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took thirty-second place with a total time of 1:51:18.13.

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Vassilis Krommidas

Vassilis Krommidas (Βασίλης Κρομμύδας, born July 4, 1970, in Thessaloniki) is a triathlete and coach from Greece best known for competing at the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games.

Krommidas is a graduate of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki with a degree in Physical Education and Sports Sciences. He started his competitive career as a swimmer at the age of ten and later became a member of the Greek national swimming team. He took up triathlon in 1989. Throughout his career he posted numerous top finishes in various distance races. He was a member of the Greek national triathlon team for several years and has won the Greek Triathlon Championship a record eleven times.

In the early years of his career Krommidas competed mostly in long distances. He took 17th place at the 1994 Ironman World Championship in Hawaii and holds the course record for the Age Group M18-24 (8:55:02) ever since.

Other notable results include 10th place at the 1992 Ironman Europe in Roth (8:27:38), 4th place at the 1993 Ironman Podersdorf Austria (8:35:22) and 8th place at the 1994 Ironman Lanzarote (9:01:20). At the 1997 ITU Long Distance Triathlon World Championships in Nice (4 km / 120 km / 30 km) he took 8th place in 5:49:56.

He gradually shifted his focus to shorter distances. He competed at the first Olympic Triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and took 33rd place in 1:51:28. Four years later, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, he competed again. He completed the swim in 18:20 but was forced to withdraw from the race during the cycling stage due to technical problems with his bike.

Krommidas’ coaching career includes five years as the head coach of the Greek Triathlon Federation from 2005 to 2009. He has coached triathlete Deniz Dimaki, nine-time Greek national champion who participated in the women's triathlon in 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing and has won a bronze medal at the ETU European Duathlon Championships in the same year. Krommidas also coached national triathletes Kostas Dovanas (four-time Greek male champion) and Zarina Kopina (2011 and 2012 Greek female champion) and he has been the Cyprus Triathlon National Team's coach since January 2011.

Nowadays he coaches various levels of athletes from amateur to professional level. He regularly contributes articles on training and racing for endurance sports magazines.

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Talk:Subcoloring

Know graph theory, never saw cliques mentioned. Que?
 * I wouldn't dare to say that I know graph theory, but I knew that a clique is a complete subgraph. In case you didn't know, you can click on the link to see it explained. -- Jitse Niesen 22:24, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Peter Robertson (triathlete)

Peter John Robertson (born 17 February 1976 in Melbourne) is an Olympic athlete from Australia, who competes in triathlon.

Robertson, who is also known as "Robbo", entered in his first triathlon at age 16 with his mates and became hooked on the sport. Robertson competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took thirty-fourth place with a total time of 1:51:39.04. He competed again four years later, at the 2004 Summer Olympics. This time, he placed twenty-fourth with a time of 1:55:44.36.

In 2005, racing in Gamagōri, Japan, Robertson won his 3rd ITU World Championship, and has also placed 2nd at the World Championships twice. The ITU World Championships is the second most competitive Olympic Distance Triathlon in the world, the first being the Olympics. He won the Australian Institute of Sport Athlete of the Year with Robin Bell in 2005.

In the 2006 Commonwealth Games Robertson took the bronze medal. Later in 2006 Robertson took sixth place in the ITU World Triathlon Championships, beating American Hunter Kemper by one second. Tim Don, who won the race, deprived Robertson of a record equaling fourth World Championships win.

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Oneida, Kentucky

Oneida (pronounced, oʊ ni: da:) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Clay County, Kentucky, United States. Its population was 238 at the 2020 census. It is the home of Oneida Baptist Institute. Goose Creek, the Red Bird River, and Bullskin Creek confluence to form the South Fork of the Kentucky River a few hundred yards from the center of the town.

The major road that leads from the center of town to the Leslie County line is called "Bullskin".

Notable people

 * James Anderson Burns, founder and first president of Oneida Baptist Institute
 * Bert Combs, lawyer, officer in the Army, judge, politician, 50th Governor of Kentucky
 * Jensen Huang, cofounder and CEO of Nvidia
 * Anne Shelby, children's book writer

Climate
The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Oneida has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.

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Joachim Willén

Joachim Willén (born 23 August 1972) is a triathlete from Sweden.

Willen competed at the first Olympic triathlon at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He took thirty-fifth place with a total time of 1:51:40.80.

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