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Crispa–Toyota rivalry

The Crispa-Toyota rivalry was between the now-defunct PBA teams — the Crispa Redmanizers and the Toyota Tamaraws. The two teams dominated the PBA from 1975 to 1983, winning 21 out of the possible 26 PBA titles of those seasons. Such was their popularity that whenever these two teams met on the basketball court, the streets of Metro Manila and in the Philippine provinces would be virtually deserted, as most people, especially the PBA fans, would be focused on their TV and radio sets, watching or listening to the coverage of the game.

History
The rivalry was preceded by that between Crispa and the Meralco Reddy Kilowatts in the Manila Industrial Commercial Athletic Association (MICAA). After the Meralco team disbanded in 1972, most of its former players went on to form the core of a new team, the Komatsu Komets (later renamed, Toyota Comets) in 1973.

The first championship matchup between the two teams took place during the 1974 MICAA All-Filipino tournament. The Redmanizers scored a 2–0 sweep, winning the title-clinching game on October 15, 1974. The Redmanizers closed the game in the last 42 seconds to win, 103–99, before a crowd of 14,000 at the Araneta Coliseum.

When the PBA was formed in 1975, the two teams dominated the league during its early years.

They faced each other in the finals for six consecutive conferences in the PBA's first two seasons in 1975-1976. Toyota gained the headstart, winning their first two championships in the league's maiden season. After Crispa denied Toyota of a grand slam in 1975, by winning the third conference All-Philippine championship in a pulsating 3–2 series victory, the Redmanizers defeated the Comets in all three conferences the following year in 1976, thus becoming the league's first grand slam winner.

After the 1976 season, the two rivals would face each other again during finals of the 1979 season All-Filipino, with Crispa beating Toyota. The Toyota Tamaraws finally won against the Redmanizers, winning the 1979 Invitational championship.

The final championship face-off between the two teams was during the 1981 Open Conference. The Toyota Super Diesels defeated the Crispa Redmanizers, 103–97, in the fifth and final game of the best-of-five title series on July 25, 1981. The count in the finals meeting was six wins for Crispa and four for Toyota.

Their final official PBA game took place on October 9, 1983, with Crispa winning, 111–96.

In terms of cumulative PBA games played between each other (1975-1983), Crispa won 65 games as against 58 to Toyota.

In February 15, 1984, Toyota's PBA franchise was sold to Shareholdings, Inc. of the Lucio Tan group. The following year, the PBA franchise of the Crispa team was sold to Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corporation.

Memorable moments

 * May 10, 1975 saw the first Crispa-Toyota game in the PBA with 11,000 fans watching at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum. The Redmanizers won, 139–133, but not without untoward incident as Toyota's Oscar Rocha punched Crispa's Bernie Fabiosa with about three seconds left in the contest. PBA commissioner Leo Prieto handed a one-month suspension and a P500 fine to Rocha while Fabiosa was fined P50 for throwing the ball at Cristino Reynoso, who was likewise asked to pay P25 for making dirty hand gestures.
 * On April 17, 1977, Crispa defeated Toyota 122–121 in the opening game of the 1977 PBA season that was marred by a post-game rumble at Araneta Coliseum dugout involving players from both teams. It was reported that players from both sides were detained in Fort Bonifacio, Makati City, Philippine military headquarters, and were released the next morning. Both teams were fined by then-Commissioner Leo Prieto 5,000 pesos each while Toyota coach Dante Silverio was fined for 1,000 pesos for unsportsmanlike conduct.
 * During game three of the 1980 PBA Championship series, Toyota coach Fort Acuña benched team captain Robert Jaworski against Crispa. At this point Crispa were leading by a large margin, and a win would give them the championship, and an unprecedented 20-game sweep of the tournament. During halftime, Acuña was fired by Toyota management for his refusal to put the star player in the game. Inspired by the return of their team leader, Toyota went on to win the game, but lost the series the next game. Almost a year after the incident, Acuña died from an apparent suicide.
 * Toyota defeated Crispa, 3–2, in the 1981 PBA Open Conference with Andy Fields and Victor King as Toyota's imports and James Hardy with Byron "Snake" Jones playing for Crispa. The series marked the last time both teams met in a PBA championship series.

Legacy
The rivalry of both teams is still remembered to this day by older basketball fans, sharing countless stories of the historic rivalry. Since the disbandment of both teams, there were a few short-lived rivalries in the PBA that followed, but not as intense and anticipated as to this rivalry.

Players from both teams garnered instant popularity outside of the playing court. Such was evident with Robert Jaworski's senatorial victory in 1998, Ramon Fernandez's and Philip Cezar's activities within the sport, and the several movie and television show appearances of Atoy Co, Bernie Fabiosa among others.

2003 reunion game
A highly anticipated reunion game between both teams was played on May 30, 2003, at the Araneta Coliseum as part of the PBA All-Star Weekend festivities.

Although the players were past their prime, it did not look like they lost a step at all as each possession was tenaciously fought. The game was a hotly contested match which saw the lead change hands many times, a virtual flashback to both teams' glory days in the late seventies and early eighties.

Toyota won the reunion game 65-61 but not without some late-game magic from Jaworski. After Adornado's three-pointer with under a minute left to cut the deficit at 62–61, Toyota teammate and former rival Fernandez passed the ball to Jaworski on the outside. Jaworski hit the three-pointer to put the game away for good, to the delight of the huge crowd. Many saw the play as a reversal of the memorable game-winner in the 1989 All-Star Game, where Fernandez scored the game winning shot from a Jaworski pass and saw both players publicly end their well-known feud.

Toyota was coached by Dante Silverio, with Jaworski also lending some of his coaching tactics, while Crispa was coached by the legendary Baby Dalupan. Terry Saldaña won the MVP of the game after posting a double-double for the Tamaraws. Although the losing Redmanizers called for a rematch, there has been no serious talk of a potential rematch by both teams.

On 28 May 2005, to celebrate the PBA's 30th Anniversary, the PBA held PBA's Greatest Game, a match featuring many star players from the league's long history. The game featured the Greats team coached by Robert Jaworski, and included a few former Toyota players. On the other side, coach Baby Dalupan had his Legends team, which featured several former Crispa players. The game was won by the Legends, 96–92, but the stars of that match were the greats of the younger generation.

In retrospect, the Crispa–Toyota rivalry was one of the most colorful episodes in Philippine sports, and ensured the popularity of the PBA and of basketball in the country.

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Swaddling

Swaddling is an ancient practice of wrapping infants in blankets or similar cloths so that movement of the limbs is tightly restricted. Swaddling bands were often used to further restrict the infant. Swaddling fell out of favour in the 17th century.

A few authors are said to be of the opinion that swaddling is becoming popular again, although medical and psychological opinion on the effects of swaddling is largely against. Some modern medical studies indicate that swaddling helps babies fall asleep and to remain asleep and helps to keep the baby in a supine position, which lowers the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). However, another study indicated that swaddling increased the risk of SIDS. Additionally, emerging evidence is showing that certain swaddling techniques may increase the risk of developmental dysplasia of the hip.

Origin and history
Several authors presume that swaddling was invented in the paleolithic period. The earliest depictions of swaddled babies are votive offerings and grave goods from Crete and Cyprus, 4000 to 4500 years old.

Votive statuettes have been found in the tombs of Ancient Greek and Roman women who died in childbirth, displaying babies in swaddling clothes. In shrines dedicated to Amphiaraus, models representing babies wrapped in swaddling clothes have been excavated. Apparently, these were frequently given as thank-offerings by anxious mothers when their infants had recovered from sickness.

Probably the most famous record of swaddling is found in the New Testament concerning the birth of Jesus in : "And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn."

Swaddling clothes described in the Bible consisted of a cloth tied together by bandage-like strips. After an infant was born, the umbilical cord was cut and tied, and then the baby was washed, rubbed with salt and oil, and wrapped with strips of cloth. These strips kept the newborn child warm, and were thought to ensure that the child's limbs would grow straight. describes Israel as unswaddled, a metaphor for abandonment.

During Tudor times, swaddling involved wrapping the new baby in linen bands from head to foot to ensure the baby would grow up without physical deformity. A stay band would be attached to the forehead and the shoulders to secure the head. Babies would be swaddled like this until about 8 or 9 months.

The Swiss surgeon Felix Würtz (approx. 1500 to approx. 1598) was the first who criticized aspects of swaddling openly.

"I also saw right and straight children created by God and born into this world by humans, who became nevertheless bent and lame men, who never got straight and healthy thighs. (…) In addition, I have for instance let a child lay again down and tied up, so that I see, in which way he was swaddled. There I then really saw, where it was gone wrong (…). By misunderstanding however they wanted to bind him straight, but in fact they bind him bent and tighten the bandages hard, so that the child cannot have peace (….)."

In the seventeenth century, the scientific opinion towards swaddling began to change. There was an association of neglect with swaddling, especially regarding wetnurses who would leave babies in their care swaddled for long periods without washing or comforting them. More than a hundred years after Würtz, physicians and philosophers from England began to openly criticize swaddling and finally demanded its complete abolishment. The British philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) rejected swaddling in his 1693 publication Some Thoughts Concerning Education, becoming a lobbyist for not binding babies at all. This thought was very controversial during the time, but slowly gained ground, first in England and later elsewhere in Western Europe.

William Cadogan (1711–1797) seems to have been the first physician who pleaded for the complete abolition of swaddling. In his "Essay upon Nursing" of 1748, he expressed his view of contemporary child care, swaddling, the topic of too much clothing for infants and overfeeding. He wrote:

"But besides the Mischief arising from the Weight and Heat of these Swaddling-cloaths, they are put on so tight, and the Child is so cramp'd by them, that its Bowels have not room, nor the Limbs any Liberty, to act and exert themselves in the free easy Manner they ought. This is a very hurtful Circumstance, for Limbs that are not used, will never be strong, and such tender Bodies cannot bear much Pressure."

Philosophers and physicians more and more began to reject swaddling in the 18th century. Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote in his book Emile: Or, On Education in 1762:

"The child has hardly left the mother's womb, it has hardly begun to move and stretch its limbs, when it is given new bonds. It is wrapped in swaddling bands, laid down with its head fixed, its legs stretched out, and its arms by its sides; it is wound round with linen and bandages of all sorts so that it cannot move […]. Whence comes this unreasonable custom? From an unnatural practice. Since mothers despise their primary duty and do not wish to nurse their own children, they have had to entrust them to mercenary women. These women thus become mothers to a stranger's children, who by nature mean so little to them that they seek only to spare themselves trouble. A child unswaddled would need constant watching; well swaddled it is cast into a corner and its cries are ignored […]. It is claimed that infants left free would assume faulty positions and make movements which might injure the proper development of their limbs. This is one of the vain rationalizations of our false wisdom which experience has never confirmed. Out of the multitude of children who grow up with the full use of their limbs among nations wiser than ourselves, you never find one who hurts himself or maims himself; their movements are too feeble to be dangerous, and when they assume an injurious position, pain warns them to change it."

Although this form of swaddling has fallen out of favour in the Western world, many Eastern cultures and tribal people still use it.

Modern swaddling
The swaddling clothes of medieval Madonna and Child paintings are now replaced with cotton receiving blankets, cotton muslin wraps, or specialised "winged" baby swaddles. Modern swaddling is becoming increasingly popular today as a means of settling and soothing irritable infants and helping babies sleep longer with fewer awakenings. Since the early 1990s, the medical community has recommended placing babies on their back to sleep to reduce the risk of SIDS. As studies proved swaddled babies sleep better in the back sleeping position, swaddling has become increasingly popular and recommended so parents avoid the dangerous stomach sleeping position. Swaddling also prevents newborns waking themselves with their Moro reflex.

Loose and ineffective swaddling techniques made while using an undersized blanket can generally be kicked off by a wakeful baby. It is important for caregivers to accomplish a secure swaddle to ensure the blanket does not become loose and the baby remains wrapped during the sleep period. The act of swaddling does carry a risk of the baby overheating if the caregiver uses multiple blankets that are too thick or uses thick fluffy fabric that creates excessive thermal insulation.

Modern specialized baby swaddles are designed to make it easier to swaddle a baby than with traditional square blanket. They are typically fabric blankets in a triangle, 'T' or 'Y' shape, with 'wings' that fold around the baby's torso or down over the baby's shoulders and around underneath the infant. Some of these products employ Velcro patches or other fasteners. Some parents prefer a specialized device because of the relative ease of use, and many parents prefer a large square receiving blanket or wrap because they can get a tighter and custom fit and the baby will not outgrow the blanket.

To avoid hip dysplasia risk, the swaddle should be done in such a way that the baby is able to move his or her legs freely at the hip. This is more easily done with a large blanket that can keep the arms in place while allowing the legs flexibility, all while allowing for proper hip development.

By the time the baby is learning to roll over, often around 4–5 months, parents and caregivers should transition the baby from swaddling to a less restrictive covering for sleep. If the baby can roll over, then it is important for the baby to have use of its hands and arms to adjust his or her head position after rolling over. The traditional swaddling uses flat strings for babies to be tied; care is needed not to tie them too hard or blood flow would be restricted.

Regional variations
Swaddling is still practiced worldwide. In some countries, swaddling is the standard treatment of babies. In Turkey, for instance, 93.1% of all babies become swaddled in the traditional way. According to the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), 39% of all documented contemporary non-industrialized cultures show swaddling practices; further 19% use other methods of movement restriction for infants. Some authors assume that the popularity of swaddling is growing in the U.S., Great Britain and the Netherlands. A British sample showed up 19.4% of the babies are swaddled at night. In Germany, swaddling is not used as routine care measure. For example, the standard work on regulatory disturbances by Papusek does not mention swaddling at all.

Medical uses
Swaddling as a medical intervention with a clearly limited indication range is used in the care practices of premature babies. Also swaddling is used for reducing pain in such care actions as collecting blood at the heel. The swaddling of these premature babies (very low birth weight infants) takes place only very loosely. It is meant to hold the weak arms at the body and make certain movements possible. This "swaddling" is something completely different from traditional swaddling in the stretched position.

Psychological and physiological effects
Modern medical studies of swaddling use a form that is considerably shorter and less severe than the historical forms. The classical study by Lipton et al. of 1965 dealt with a modern swaddling form. The researchers described the two main effects of tightly wrapping babies: they are motorically calm and sleep much. These effects are detected by means of various psycho-physiological parameters, such as heart rate, sleep duration and duration of crying. The research group around the Dutch biologist van Sleuwen in 2007 confirms this picture in their latest meta-analysis of medical studies on swaddling and its effects.

However, severe restrictions on the scope of these studies should be kept in mind, because most of the positive effects mentioned by van Sleuwen et al. are not related to normally developed newborns, but to impaired babies, namely premature babies and babies with detectable organic brain damage. Swaddling enhances the REM sleep (active sleep) and also the whole sleep duration. The effect of swaddling on the regulatory disturbance excessive crying is not very convincing: By adding the swaddling there is an immediate "calming" effect on children, but after a few days the effect of the introduction of regularity with swaddling is exactly the same as the regularity on its own. In other words: after a few days swaddling is completely unnecessary. It is therefore contraindicated to address the potential risk of swaddling, because the effect is only for a short term available, but after a little while is negligible.

Motor development
Two studies based on indigenous peoples of the Americas did not show a delay in the onset of walking caused by the restraint of the use of the cradleboard. In other areas of the motor development, clear delays of the development show up even when mild restrictions take place. A Japanese study concluded that the application of the basket cradle (ejiko) leads to a delayed onset of walking. An older Austrian study showed that swaddled Albanian babies showed a delayed ability to crawl and reach things with their hands. This shows the need for further substantial scientific clarifying regarding the impairment of motor skills by swaddling.

Sudden infant death syndrome
The effects of swaddling on the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) are unclear. A 2016 review found tentative evidence that swaddling increases risk of SIDS, especially among babies placed on their stomachs or side while sleeping.

Swaddling was supposed to keep babies on their back, in order to prevent SIDS. Swaddling itself is not seen as a protective factor for SIDS. Swaddling may even increase the risk when babies sleep in the prone position; it reduces the risk if they sleep in the supine position. A recent study demonstrated now, that swaddling is apparently a risk factor for SIDS, although the opposite was often previously assumed: Of the babies who died of SIDS, 24% were swaddled; in the control-groups only 6% were swaddled.

Documented negative effects
Several empirical studies show evidence of negative effects of swaddling.
 * Swaddling, especially traditional forms, increases the risk for hip dysplasia.
 * Tight swaddling, particularly where the head is covered, reduces the baby's ability to cool its body temperature which can lead to hyperthermia. In one case, a heavily wrapped child died of hyperthermia.
 * In one study, the risk of developing respiratory infections increased fourfold by swaddling.
 * A pediatrician found in his sample the flattening of the occipital aspect of the head of babies, who were wrapped tightly and lay in their traditional cradles.
 * Tight chest wrapping or swaddling has been associated with an increased risk of pneumonia. Traditional tight swaddling simulates a strait jacket and prevents baby from moving their arms to self-settle.
 * In the most important contemporary study on swaddling practices in maternity wards by Bystrova et al., it is shown that swaddling in the hours after birth is linked with delayed recovery from post-natal weight loss. A positive effect on the recovery is given by direct skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby in the hours after birth. Skin-to-skin contact was shown to reduce the impact of the stress of being born, with babies maintaining their body temperature to a greater degree than those swaddled in a nursery.
 * Another study by Bystrova also indicates that maternal behavior develops less under swaddling conditions, and reciprocity within the mother-child dyad is reduced.

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St. Paul Downtown Airport

St. Paul Downtown Airport, also known as Holman Field, is an airport just across the Mississippi River from downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota. It is one of several reliever airports in the Twin Cities operated by the Metropolitan Airports Commission. The airport has three runways and serves aircraft operated by corporations in the local area, a flight training school and the Minnesota Army National Guard aviation unit, as well as transient general aviation aircraft.

The airport is home to an installation of the Minnesota Army National Guard. Two properties at the airport are listed on the National Register of Historic Places: the 1939 Holman Field Administration Building and the 1942 Riverside Hangar.

History
Holman Field was named for Charles W. "Speed" Holman (1898–1931), who was a stunt pilot, barnstormer, wing walker, parachutist, airmail pilot, aviation record holder and airline pilot. Born in Bloomington, he was the first pilot hired by Northwest Airways in 1926. In 1928, Holman set a world record of 1,433 consecutive loops in an airplane in five hours over the St. Paul Airport. He died in an accident during an air show in Omaha in 1931 at the age of 32.

During World War II, Northwest Airlines employed up to 5,000 people at the site, modifying new B-24 Liberator bombers, some of which received the highly classified H2X radar, which proved to be an invaluable tool in the European theater.

The terminal was used as a backdrop for scenes in the 1972 film Slaughterhouse-Five.

During the 1970s and early 1980s, commuter airline Lake State Airways offered scheduled airline service between the St. Paul Downtown Airport and Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport in Minnesota. It cost $5USD for a one-way ticket between the two airports, and $10 round-trip. Capitol Air flew MDW-STP with a Swearingen Metroliner for roughly a year starting in December 1993.

Facilities and aircraft
St. Paul Downtown Holman Field covers an area of 540 acre which contains three asphalt paved runways: 14/32 measuring 6,491 x 150 ft (1,978 x 46 m), 13/31 measuring 4,004 x 150 ft (1,220 x 46 m) and 9/27 measuring 3,642 x 100 ft (1,110 x 30 m).

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2014, the airport had 66,475 aircraft operations, an average of 182 per day: 74% general aviation, 15% military and 11% air taxi. In January 2017, there were 68 aircraft based at this airport: 20 single-engine, 12 multi-engine, 18 jet, 7 helicopter and 11 military.

Annual aircraft operations
Based on annual reports and data released by the Metropolitan Airports Commission, aircraft operations declined 65.3% in the decade 2011-2020.

Flood wall considerations
Recently local debate has ensued over plans to build a flood wall around the airport. In 1993, 1997, and 2001, the airport was flooded due to its proximity to the Mississippi River. Supporters do not want to deal with the future inconvenience of having to deal with the flood again, while critics say that the proposed wall would ruin views and make the airport "ugly". A dike to protect the airport from the nearby river was considered since the National Guard stated that they may leave if the dike is not constructed in a timely manner.

In 2009, a removable flood wall was installed that is only erected when flooding is imminent, leaving the views of the river intact for the rest of the year. Steel plates are embedded in the concrete on the river side of the runways. The flood wall is composed of steel posts that anchor to the embedded plates and aluminum planks that are stacked between the posts to form a flood barrier. These are then removed and stored when the flood event has passed.

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Pitt Bank

Pitt Bank is a wholly submerged atoll structure in the Southwest of the Chagos Archipelago. It is almost 56 km long Northwest to Southeast, with a width between 20 and 30 km. It stretches from 06°48'S to 07°16'S and 071°06'E to 071°36'E. The total size is 1317 km, making it the second largest ocean bank in the Chagos Archipelago, after the Great Chagos Bank, and before Speakers Bank. The closest land is Île Lubine of Egmont Atoll, located 22 km northeast off the northern end of Pitt Bank. The least depth is 7 metres at the Southeastern Rim, and the deepest areas of the former lagoon reach 44 metres.

The much smaller Wight Bank is located 6 km to the SE off the southeastern tip of Pitt Bank.

This submerged atoll was named after William Pitt the Younger, who was a British prime minister in 1783–1801 and 1804–1806.

A buoy, marked by a radar reflector, is moored on the NW side of the bank.

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A Woman Rebels

A Woman Rebels is a 1936 American historical drama film adapted from the 1930 novel Portrait of a Rebel by Netta Syrett and starring Katharine Hepburn as Pamela Thistlewaite, who rebels against the social mores of Victorian England. The film was directed by Mark Sandrich; it was the film debut of Van Heflin, and the second last film of David Manners.

Hepburn's performance as the defiant young woman is considered by many critics the epitome of her feminist characterizations of the 1930s.

Plot
In Victorian London, Pamela defies her autocratic father (Donald Crisp), and has a baby out of wedlock with her lover, Gerald Waring Gaythorne (Van Heflin, in his screen debut). Pamela's pregnant sister Flora (Elizabeth Allan) hears of the death of her young husband, faints, hurting herself, and dies. Pamela raises her illegitimate daughter as her niece and becomes a crusading journalist for women's rights. Eventually she agrees to marry diplomat Thomas Lane (Herbert Marshall) after being unfairly named as co-respondent in Gaythorne's divorce.

Cast

 * Katharine Hepburn as Pamela Thistlewaite
 * Herbert Marshall as Thomas Lane
 * Elizabeth Allan as Flora Anne Thistlewaite
 * Donald Crisp as Judge Byron Thistlewaite
 * Doris Dudley as Young Flora
 * David Manners as Lieutenant Alan Craig Freeland
 * Lucile Watson as Betty Bumble
 * Van Heflin as Lord Gerald Waring Gaythorne
 * Marilyn Knowlden as Flora (age 9)
 * Connie Emerald as Lady Gaythorne
 * Barnett Parker as Lady Gaythorne's Lawyer
 * Leonard Carey as Lord Gaythorne's Butler
 * Elspeth Dudgeon as Lord Gaythorne's Maid
 * Eily Malyon as Miss Piper
 * Doris Lloyd as Mrs. Seaton
 * Molly Lamont as Young Mother
 * Lillian Kemble-Cooper as Lady Rinlake

Reception
With a box office loss estimated at a hefty $222,000 for RKO, this was Hepburn's third flop in a row which contributed to Hepburn being one of the actors labeled "box office poison" in the infamous 1938 advertisement created by Harry Brandt, president of the Independent Theatre Owners of America.

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Gordon Solie

Gordon Solie (born Francis Jonard Labiak, later Jonard Pierre Sjoblom, January 26, 1929 – July 27, 2000) was an American Florida-based professional wrestling play-by-play announcer working for Georgia Championship Wrestling, Championship Wrestling from Florida, USA Championship Wrestling, Continental Championship Wrestling, and World Championship Wrestling. He is regarded by many as one of the greatest and most influential wrestling announcers.

Early life
Solie was born on January 29, 1929, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His parents divorced at a young age. His mother then remarried and her new husband adopted Gordon at the age of four. He attended Southwest High School in Minneapolis, where he chose radio as a major and went by the nickname "Josie". He ran the school PA system and participated in several high school productions and drama workshops at local radio stations. He moved to Tampa, Florida, in the 1950s after completing military service in the United States Air Force.

Stock car driving
Early in his career, Solie worked as a stringer. He learned about stock car racing by competing as an amateur chauffeur on Florida's Suncoast and announcing outdoors at tracks around the United States. He conducted radio interviews with other stock car drivers and boxers, and in his spare time, visited libraries to learn about the human anatomy.

Professional wrestling
Solie began his pro wrestling career as a ring announcer, making $5 a night emceeing weekly shows in the Tampa Bay area, learning about the sport from John Heath, Eddie Graham, and Don Curtis. He soon began working for Championship Wrestling from Florida, and in 1960, he moved into the broadcast booth to become the lead announcer for CWF's Saturday morning television shows, a spot he would occupy for the next quarter-century. During that time, he commentated on matches featuring some of pro wrestling's biggest legends, including WWE Hall of Famer Dusty Rhodes, The Brisco Brothers and Dory Funk Jr., among numerous others. Solie rose to national prominence when Superstation WTBS began broadcasting pro wrestling, and the exposure helped him branch out, leading to Solie working for promotions in Georgia, Alabama and Puerto Rico. A technique that Solie used was when he wasn't speaking words into a microphone, he actually recorded them on paper for remembering.

Much of his fame stems from the gravelly sound of his voice calling the in-ring action and his unique lingo, and is often called "The Walter Cronkite of Wrestling" or the “Howard Cosell of Wrestling." He sometimes is credited for popularizing the term "Pier-Six Brawl" to describe a wild brawl, and was also notorious for noting when a bloodied superstar was "wearing a crimson mask." His oft-imitated signature call of a suplex as a "su-play." His signature sign-off was: "So long from the Sunshine State (or if working in Georgia, "So long from the Peach State of Georgia,") followed by a wink.

In 1987, a board game, Gordon Solie's Championship Wrestling Trivia Game, was released by Sports Entertainment International, Inc. Solie eventually entered wrestling myth, and often stayed out of angles, but lots of them became historic once he was involved; one such angle was in Georgia when the Magnificent Muraco confronted Solie, threatening to hurt him. Solie's broadcast partner Roddy Piper saved Solie, turning babyface in the process.

According to wrestling lore, Solie had wrestlers that he was interviewing place him in holds so he could understand them better and call them more realistically, because he wanted to learn how it felt to be on the defensive end of a hold. He also made a point to never learn a wrestler or manager's real name because he wanted to avoid making the mistake of calling someone by any name other than the persona in which they were working. Following the folding of CWF in 1987, Solie returned to Georgia and became one of the lead announcers for the NWA (National Wrestling Alliance) later WCW television programs. Solie was once asked to join the World Wrestling Federation but declined the offer as the company wanted him to wear a tuxedo. Solie also worked for the Continental Wrestling Federation and USA Championship Wrestling based out of Knoxville.

That was a natural transition for "The Dean," who had also been Georgia Championship Wrestling's lead announcer before it became a subsidiary of NWA/WCW. He remained there until his eventual retirement in 1995; the last event he appeared in was the 1995 Slamboree. Solie had also worked for New Japan Wrestling as a commentator for overseas tapes and videos. Following his retirement from the sport, he started to dislike the product, saying it was a “damn shame” that wrestlers had turned into ‘roid freaks and lamented the lack of respect for the history of the business.

Death and legacy
Solie's last announcing job was to be the Heroes of Wrestling pay-per-view in 1999, but he could not attend due to failing health. He was diagnosed with cancer soon after his retirement, and in the late-1990s, his vocal chords were removed due to throat cancer. He died of the disease on July 27, 2000, at the age of 71. His wife Eileen (known to friends as "Smokey") had died three years before, also from cancer. In 2005, Florida Media, Inc. published a collection of Solie's short stories and poetry in Gordon Solie ... Something Left Behind. Solie was survived by his five children Pam, Jonard, Denise, Greg, and Eric.

In 2005, Solie's posthumously released memoir Gordon Solie ... Something Left Behind became a best-seller. On March 29, 2008, Jim Ross posthumously inducted Solie into the WWE Hall of Fame in the Class of 2008; appearing on Solie's behalf were his five children, Pam, Danise, Jonard, Eric and Greg. Later the same year WWE's WWE Classics on Demand video service began offering The Film Room with Gordon Solie, hosted by Ross, focusing on Solie's announcing and interviewing of a specific wrestler or group of wrestlers involved in a feud. On August 11, 2009, Solie's biography, The Solie Chronicles was released by Crowbar Press.

In 2013, Ryan Dilbert from the Bleacher Report stated, "Debating the greatest pro wrestling commentator comes down to two men, Jim Ross and Gordon Solie."

Awards and accomplishments

 * Cauliflower Alley Club
 * Other honoree (1996)
 * George Tragos/Lou Thesz Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame
 * Gordon Solie Award (2021)
 * National Wrestling Alliance
 * NWA Hall of Fame (Class of 2005)
 * Pro Wrestling Illustrated
 * PWI Announcer of the Year (1977)
 * PWI Editor's Award (1989)
 * Pro Wrestling This Week
 * Wrestler of the Week (August 9–15, 1987)
 * Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum
 * (Class of 2004)
 * World Championship Wrestling
 * WCW Hall of Fame (Class of 1995)
 * World Wrestling Entertainment
 * WWE Hall of Fame (Class of 2008)
 * Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
 * Best Television Announcer (1981–1983)
 * Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame (Class of 1996)

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 * Speedy deleted, and rightly so, by both Jpgordon and Duncharris. The whole content was "Videogamegeek91 is a GameFAQs user." What a waste of bits. -- Cyrius|✎ 22:04, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

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Paul Brennan (Northern Ireland musician)

Paul Brennan is a traditional musician from County Down, Northern Ireland who has lived in London for a number of years. As well as this he also taught in a primary school based in West London called Willow Tree Primary School.

Brennan co-founded the Belfast School of Piping. Since moving to London he has formed three working bands:
 * Carrig (Irish traditional)
 * Orchestrad (17th/18th-century Irish harp-tune ensemble)
 * Paul Brennan Band (Irish covers in a rock style)

As well as advertising and television work he has worked on film music for such composers and directors as Merchant Ivory, Neil Jordan, George Fenton, James Horner, Trevor Jones, Howard Shore and Disney. He has been a soloist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (Royal Albert Hall Proms, 1999). He has worked and recorded with The Fat Lady Sings, Kiki Dee, Jose Feliciano, Elton John, Pentangle, and Dreadzone. He was a member of Incantation for two years, and he co-arranged and toured worldwide with the Rambert Dance Company's ballet, Sergeant Early's Dream.

He was part of a team of musicians who contributed to the development of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical The Beautiful Game, and has performed for members of the British Royal Family. His album Fire In The Soul was voted album of the year by the British Music Association in 1993. Played the role of a medieval musician in Ridley Scott's film -Robin Hood (cinema version). Introduced, played and co-arranged the music in Harry Potter-Deathly Hallows Part One  (the wedding scene)


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The Rise of the West

The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community is a book by University of Chicago historian William H. McNeill, first published in 1963 and enlarged with a retrospective preface in 1991. It explores world history in terms of the effect different old world civilizations had on one another, and especially the deep influence of Western civilization on the rest of the world in the past 500 years. He argues that societal contact with foreign civilizations is the primary force in driving historical change. In 1964 it won the National Book Award in History and Biography.

Description
Part I of The Rise of the West discusses evolutionary prehistory, the breakthrough to civilization in Mesopotamia, the era of Middle Eastern dominance, and the formation of peripheral civilizations in India, Greece, and China to 500 BC.

Part II discusses the Eurasian cultural balance to 1500 AD, including the expansion of Hellenism, the closure of the Eurasian ecumene, the development of major religions, the barbarian onslaught, resurgence of the Middle East, and steppe conquerors. McNeill proposes that the basic engine of world history during this period is the temporary primacy of different regions of the ecumene, with a rough parity reestablished as innovations spread to other centers of civilization. The sequence is Hellenistic / Indian / Islamic / Chinese and Mongol. Generally the eras are structured in terms of the internal history of the dominant region, followed by the history of the rest of the world with a focus on how they reacted to the diffusing techniques and ideas of the dominant region.

Part III examines the era of Western dominance. From 1500 to 1750 this is represented by the challenge of Western Europe to the world in a period of exploitation and colonization and the changing balance of the ecumene in the Islamic world, the Far East, and Africa. Before 1750, Western superiority is similar in scope to the primacy previously enjoyed by other regions. The book describes the "tottering balance" of older orders within Europe, European expansion and acculturation in outliers, including the Americas. The rise of the West on a cosmopolitan scale from 1750 to 1950 is described as to continued territorial expansion, industrialism, the democratic revolution, and intellectual aspects. This period marks a discontinuity: the global influence of the West expands beyond all historical parallels.

Reception
Hugh Trevor-Roper wrote a glowing review in The New York Times Book Review. McNeill's Rise of the West won the U.S. National Book Award in History and Biography in 1964. and was named one of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the 20th century by the Modern Library. One critical response has been that the West did not rise, the East fell or withdrew.

The Rise had two major effects on historical analysis. First, it challenged the view of civilizations as independent entities subject to rise and fall as postulated by Arnold J. Toynbee and Oswald Spengler, who viewed civilizations as discrete and independent. McNeill had actually conceived of the book as a student in 1936 to counter the theses of Spengler's Decline of the West (the title The Rise of the West chosen as a deliberate contrast) and Toynbee's A Study of History, which "postulated that civilizations marched to their own drummers, largely unaffected by foreign influences". McNeill, on the other hand, stresses the diffusion of techniques and ideas, making connections between civilizations crucially important. Second, it provided a framework for theories like world-systems theory and dependency theory, which "cemented the centrality of the 'West' in world history".

It's important to note, however, that in a 1990 article in the Journal of World History, McNeill reflected that The Rise of the West must be viewed as "an expression of the postwar imperial mood in the United States" and admitted that it could somewhat be seen as a "form of intellectual imperialism". Later, in a 1991 essay, McNeill emphasized that the unifying theme of his book was the importance of interrelation and cultural diffusion rather than a flat description of western history's effect on other civilizations.

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USS Swasey

USS Swasey may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy:

 * USS Swasey (DD-273), a Clemson-class destroyer commissioned in 1919; transferred to the Royal Navy as HMS Rockingham, 1940
 * USS Swasey (DD-299), the original name of USS John Francis Burnes (DD-299); Swasey was instead assigned to DD-273
 * USS Swasey (DE-248), an Edsall-class destroyer escort commissioned in 1943 and decommissioned in 1946

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Araucaria cunninghamii

Araucaria cunninghamii is a species of Araucaria known as hoop pine. Other less commonly used names include colonial pine, Queensland pine, Dorrigo pine, Moreton Bay pine and Richmond River pine. The scientific name honours the botanist and explorer Allan Cunningham, who collected the first specimens in the 1820s.

Description
The leaves on young trees are awl-shaped, 1–2 cm long, about 2 mm thick at the base, and scale-like, incurved, 1–2 cm long and 4 mm broad on mature trees. The cones are ovoid, 8–10 cm long and 6–8 cm diameter, and take about 18 months to mature. They disintegrate at maturity to release the nut-like edible seeds.

Subspecies
There are two varieties:
 * Araucaria cunninghamii var. cunninghamii – Australia, from northeast New South Wales to east-central Queensland, at 0–1,000 m elevation.
 * Araucaria cunninghamii var. papuana – New Guinea, on the mountains of Papua New Guinea, and in Irian Jaya, Indonesia, at 100–2,700 m elevation.

Habitat
The species is found in the dry rainforests of New South Wales and Queensland and in New Guinea. The trees can live up to 450 years and grow to a height of 60 metres. The bark is rough, splits naturally, and peels easily.

Examples of the species can be found on ridges and mountaintops in Queensland's North Burnett region (sometimes in quantity where dry rainforests remain – such as on the summit of Mount Perry and on ridges north of Mount Walsh National Park), inland from Gympie in the Wide Bay, and also at lower elevations around homesteads, where the trees may possibly have been retained for aesthetic value. An example can be seen off the road to the lookout above the town of Mount Perry and a number of trees line the approach to the town from Gin Gin.

Cultivation and other uses
The wood is a high-quality timber that is particularly important to the plywood industry and also used for furniture, veneer, joinery, panelling, particle board, flooring and boats. Most natural stands in Australia and Papua New Guinea have been depleted by logging. It is now mainly found on timber plantations; however, the species continues to thrive in protected areas, including Lamington National Park where at least one walking track is named after it.

Aboriginal Australians used the resin as cement.

Pests
The plantations in Queensland have been subject to damage by a native rat species, Rattus tunneyi, which digs to the roots of a semi-mature tree and kills it. The animal was declared a pest for this reason. The vulnerability of A. cunninghamii plantations to pest losses has caused some of them to be replaced by A. hunsteinii, which suffers less in plantation. Unspecified Microlepidoptera are significant pests of the pinecones of both.

Biological control
Cryptolaemus montrouzieri is a coccinellid predator of mealybug and soft scale insect parasites of A. cunninghamii, and has several characteristics that make it a good biocontrol for use in plantations. Although they are less interested in other trees – by many multiples – C. montrouzieri does hunt the same pests in custard apple and citrus plantations.

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Ballintober

Ballintober could refer to two Irish towns:

 * Ballintober, County Roscommon
 * An alternate spelling for Ballintubber, County Mayo

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Ganges Bank

Ganges Bank is a wholly submerged atoll structure in the Southwest of the Chagos Archipelago. It is about 7 by 5 km in size, yielding an area of about 30 km$2$. The closest land is the Egmont Atoll located 87 km to the NNE.

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Bobby Phills

Bobby Ray Phills Jr. (December 20, 1969 – January 12, 2000) was an American professional basketball player. He played shooting guard and small forward for the National Basketball Association's Cleveland Cavaliers and Charlotte Hornets.

A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Phills attended Baton Rouge's Southern University. He was a member of Alpha Phi Alpha. He was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 1991 NBA draft (45th overall).

After being cut in December 1991 without playing a game for the Bucks, Phills had a stint with the Sioux Falls Skyforce of the Continental Basketball Association before being signed by the Cavaliers and rejoining the NBA late in the 1991–92 season. Over his nine-year career, he averaged 11.0 points, 3.1 rebounds, and 2.7 assists per game. He was known as a defensive stopper, averaging 1.9 steals per game for his career, and an excellent perimeter shooter, with a 39.0% career three-point shooting percentage. In 2000, he was killed in an automobile accident.

College
Phills attended Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and was a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. He led the NCAA in three-point field goals per game (4.39) his senior year.

Player profile
Though he made a name for himself as a shooter during his college career, Phills became known as a tenacious wing defender in the NBA. At 6' 5" and 220 pounds, he was said to more resemble an NFL linebacker than a basketball player. In 1996, Michael Jordan remarked that Phills was the toughest defender he had ever faced.

Death
On January 12, 2000, while a member of the Charlotte Hornets, Phills was killed in a car accident in Charlotte, North Carolina. Phills was traveling behind teammate David Wesley at over 100 mi/h when his Porsche spun and crossed into oncoming traffic. It hit another car, which in turn was struck in the rear by a minivan. The drivers of the other two vehicles recovered, while Phills was pronounced dead at the scene. A police report said Phills and Wesley were driving "in an erratic, reckless, careless, negligent or aggressive manner." Wesley was later convicted of reckless driving after being cleared of a racing charge.

Personal life
Phills was survived by his parents, his wife Kendall, and three children; a daughter Brittany Dickson, a son Bobby Ray Phills III, known as Trey and a daughter Kerstie. Trey gained statewide recognition in North Carolina while playing for Charlotte Christian School. He played college basketball for the Yale Bulldogs and now plays for the Greensboro Swarm of the NBA G League. After starting her college career at Wagner, Kerstie transferred and is currently a redshirt sophomore for Florida Gulf Coast University.

Legacy
The Hornets retired Phills' #13 jersey on February 9, 2000, during halftime of a game vs. Phills' former team, the Cavaliers. It was the first number that the Hornets franchise had ever retired. Phills' Hornets teammates also wore a patch bearing his #13 on their jerseys for the remainder of the 1999–2000 season. His jersey hung from the rafters of the Charlotte Coliseum until the franchise relocated to New Orleans in 2002; it was then displayed in the New Orleans Arena until 2013. In 2004, the NBA added an expansion team, the Charlotte Bobcats. After the New Orleans team re-branded themselves as the New Orleans Pelicans - thereby relinquishing the Hornets name and their previous history in Charlotte - the Bobcats became the Hornets and merged the team's past tenures into a new history for the franchise. On November 1, 2014, the newly renamed team re-honored his jersey; it currently hangs from the rafters of the Spectrum Center.

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James Banning

James Herman Banning (November 5, 1900 – February 5, 1933) was an American aviation pioneer. In 1932, accompanied by Thomas C. Allen, he became America's first black aviator to fly coast-to-coast across the contiguous United States.

Background
Banning was born in Canton, Oklahoma, in 1900 and attended high school in Guthrie, Oklahoma. Dreaming from boyhood of being a pilot, he eventually learned to fly from an Army aviator after being repeatedly turned away from flight schools due to racial discrimination. Banning later became a demonstration pilot on the west coast, flying a biplane named "Miss Ames"—he had attended Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa.

Transcontinental flight
Banning and his mechanic, Thomas C. Allen, made the historic flight using a plane supplemented with surplus parts. The "Flying Hoboes," as they were affectionately known, made the 3300 mile trip from Los Angeles to Long Island, New York, in 41 hours and 27 minutes aloft. However, the trip actually required 21 days to complete because the pilots had to raise money for the next leg of the trip each time they stopped.

Death
Only four months after his historic flight, Banning was killed in a plane crash during an air show at Camp Kearny military base in San Diego on February 5, 1933. He was a passenger in a two-seater Travel Air biplane flown by Navy machinist's mate second class Albert Burghardt, who was at the controls because Banning had been refused use of the airplane by an instructor at the Airtech Flying School. After taking off and climbing 400 ft, the plane stalled and entered an unrecoverable tailspin in front of hundreds of horrified spectators. Banning was recovered from the wreckage and died one hour later at a local hospital.

Legacy
A large photograph of Banning is displayed at the Disney California Adventure section of Disneyland in Anaheim, California, at the ride Soarin' Around the World, a flight motion simulator attraction. Provided underneath his photo is a plaque with a brief summary of his achievements and accomplishments as a tribute to the Wings of Fame, a hallway where guests wait during the line queue to the actual ride where many photographs and models of early plane concepts are displayed, including homages to significant individuals in aviation history, including Banning on the right side.

In November 2022, the city of Ames, Iowa, announced it would formally rename the Ames Municipal Airport as the James Herman Banning Ames Municipal Airport. The airport was officially renamed in a ceremony on June 17, 2023.

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Bakkar

Bakkar (بكار) is an Egyptian cartoon series that was produced by the Egyptian Radio and Television Union to be aired on Channel One and was traditionally broadcast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan from 1998 to 2004, and from 2011 to 2015, running for a total of 11 seasons.

The series revolves around the adventures of a young Nubian-Egyptian boy named Bakkar, his pet goat Rashida, and his friends. It was written by Amr Samir Serif, and directed by Mona Abul-Nasr. The opening and closing songs are by famed Nubian-Egyptian singer Mohammed Mounir, and written by longtime collaborator Kawthar Mostafa. Sherif Nour is one of the composers.

Legacy
A number of seasons can now be watched on the ERTU Maspero Atfal YouTube Channel. as well as via the Google Play app store.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Room parties

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Several voters argued that it might be kept if expanded. The article was extended during the discussion but subsequent voters appear to have discounted the additions and none of the previous voters returned to change their votes. Rossami (talk) 23:16, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Room parties
Room parties are parties in (private) rooms. According to the article it's a phenomena at SF conventions but it really happens with any kind of convention or event. Seems a bit obvious.--Lee Hunter 18:25, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn. Possible dicdef.  Xcali 01:08, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, I don't see this becoming encyclopædic. --W(t) 01:15, 2005 May 29 (UTC)
 * Keep under the condition that the topic be expanded. If not expanded within a reasonable period, I will support its deletion. — Phil Welch 02:03, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, concur with Phil - give it time to expand. Megan1967 04:33, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Xcali. Quale 07:37, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, dicdef. Radiant_* 10:46, May 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Room parties are...parties that happen in hotel rooms. --TenOfAllTrades (talk/contrib) 17:11, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete self-referential, obvious.  CDC   (talk)  01:31, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep if expanded. JamesBurns 06:43, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * If anybody can see a way to expand this article, they should go ahead and do so. In the meantime, I vote DELETE. Isaac R 21:46, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Dalton Conley

Dalton Clark Conley (born 1969) is an American sociologist. Conley is a professor at Princeton University and has written eight books, including a memoir and a sociology textbook.

Education
Conley attended Stuyvesant High School. He subsequently graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in humanities and from Columbia University with an M.P.A. in public policy and a Ph.D. in sociology. He also holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in biology (genomics) from NYU.

Career
Conley is best known for his contributions to understanding how health and socioeconomic status are transmitted across generations. His first book, Being Black, Living in the Red (1999), focuses on the role of family wealth in perpetuating class advantages and racial inequalities in the post-Civil Rights era.

He has also studied the role of health in the status attainment process. An article, "Is Biology Destiny: Birth Weight and Life Chances" (with Neil G. Bennett, American Sociological Review 1999) and his second book, The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances (with Kate Strully and Neil G. Bennett, 2003) addressed the importance of birth weight and prenatal health to later socioeconomic outcomes. Conley's next book, The Pecking Order, which followed in 2004, argued for the importance of within-family, ascriptive factors in determining sibling differences in socioeconomic success. Conley's subsequent book, Elsewhere, U.S.A., published in 2009, describes changes in American work-life attitudes and social ethics in the information economy. In 2014, he published the satirical book, Parentology: Everything You Wanted to Know About the Science of Raising Children but Were Too Exhausted to Ask, using his own parenting decisions as examples.

In 2017, Conley published The Genome Factor, co-authored with Jason Fletcher. This book discusses the nature versus nurture debate and the influence of genes on social life. Conley has also written an introductory sociology textbook, entitled You May Ask Yourself, currently in its 7th edition. He has also penned a memoir, Honky (2000) that examines Conley's own childhood growing up white in an inner-city neighborhood of housing projects of New York City.

Conley is the Henry Putnam University Professor of Sociology at Princeton University.

Selected Awards and Honors

 * Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (2019).
 * Elected Member, National Academy of Sciences (2018).
 * Otis Dudley Duncan Award, American Sociological Association (2018).
 * Elected Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2017).
 * Guggenheim Fellow (2011).
 * Elected to the Council on Foreign Relations (2007).
 * Alan T. Waterman Award, National Science Foundation (2005).
 * CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2001).
 * Investigator Award, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (1999).
 * Dissertation Award, American Sociological Association (1997).

Personal life
Conley is married to the Bosnian-American astrophysicist Tea Temim with whom he has a child. He also has two children from a previous marriage: a daughter named E and a son named Yo Xing Heyno Augustus Eisner Alexander Weiser Knuckles Jeremijenko-Conley.

Works

 * , with Jason Fletcher
 * , with Jason Fletcher
 * , with Jason Fletcher
 * , with Jason Fletcher
 * , with Jason Fletcher
 * , with Jason Fletcher

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In Other Words

In Other Words may refer to:

Books

 * In Other Words, a book by Mona Baker
 * In Other Words, a book by Roberta Fernández
 * In Other Words, a book by John Crowley
 * In Other Words, a book by Jhumpa Lahiri
 * In Other Words, a poetry collection by May Swenson

Music

 * In Other Words, a 2008 album by Ian Pooley
 * In Other Words, a 2017 album by Paper Tiger
 * "In Other Words", a song better known as "Fly Me to the Moon"

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Wight Bank

Wight Bank is a small, wholly submerged atoll structure in the Southwest of the Chagos Archipelago, Indian Ocean. It is located 6 km to the SE off the southeastern tip of Pitt Bank at -7.41667°N, 71.53333°W. It is less than 2 km in diameter, and its total area is about 3 km2. The closest piece of land is Île Sudest of Egmont Atoll, at 80 km NNW. Diego Garcia is 94 km to the east. The least charted depth is 8.5 km.

Wight Bank was first reported in 1886.

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Talk:Križ, Zagreb County

Where is this city? -- Grev -- Talk 18:28, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

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Martin Esslin

Martin Julius Esslin OBE (6 June 1918 – 24 February 2002) was a Hungarian-born British producer, dramatist, journalist, adaptor and translator, critic, academic scholar and professor of drama, known for coining the term "theatre of the absurd" in his 1961 book The Theatre of the Absurd. This work has been called "the most influential theatrical text of the 1960s".

Life and work
Born Pereszlényi Gyula Márton in Budapest, Esslin moved to Vienna with his family at a young age. He studied Philosophy and English at the University of Vienna and later studied directing under Max Reinhardt at the Reinhardt Seminar of Dramatic Arts in 1928; actor Milo Sperber was a classmate. Of Jewish descent (but not of Jewish practice), he fled Austria in the wake of the Anschluss of 1938, moving to Brussels for a year and then moving on to England.

In his book, Theatre of the Absurd, written in 1961, he defined the "Theatre of the Absurd" as follows:

"The Theatre of the Absurd strives to express its sense of the senselessness of the human condition and the inadequacy of the rational approach by the open abandonment of rational devices and discursive thought."

This attribute of "absurdity" was not accepted by many of the playwrights associated with this trend. Playwright Eugène Ionesco stated that he did not like labels. Ahmad Kamyabi Mask criticized Esslin for a purported "colonialist" quality of this title for the Avant-garde theater. However, his work inspired other playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, Arthur Adamov, Jean Genet, and Harold Pinter (as well as Ionesco).

He began working for the BBC in 1940, serving as a producer, script writer and broadcaster. He headed BBC Radio Drama from 1963–77, having previously worked for the external European Service. He was later given the position of Head of Radio Drama, in which he tried to bring to life his dream of "national theatre of the air". He and his BBC team also translated many foreign works into English during this time. After leaving the BBC he held senior academic posts at Florida State University from 1969 to 1976 and Stanford University from 1977 to 1988. In 1977, Esslin joined the Magic Theatre as the first resident dramaturg in American theatre, a position now integral to American new playhouses.

Some of the works he adapted and translated from the original German between 1967 and 1990 included many plays of Wolfgang Bauer. Original works included Theatre of the Absurd (1962), Absurd Drama (1965), Brecht: A Choice of Evils (1959), The Anatomy of Drama (1976), The Peopled Wound: The Work of Harold Pinter (1970), Artaud (1976) and The Age of Television (1981), The Field of Drama (1987), and several other essays, articles, and reviews.

In 1947, he married Renate Gerstenberg, and they worked together on many translations (some she did herself but they were published under his name in order to sell better). They had a child named Monica.

Death and legacy
Esslin died in London on 24 February 2002 at the age of 83 after having suffered from Parkinson's disease. Keble College, Oxford maintains a special collection of over 3000 of his personal items, including his own works and books by other prominent dramatists, and the student drama society is named after him.

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Talk:Tesoro High School

Contradiction
It actually doesn't! The school was PROJECTED to hold just under 3,000 students but it in fact serves OVER 3,000 students as of the 2005-2006 school year.

This line contradicts itself: "Currently, Tesoro serves over 3,000 students in grades 9-12 and is projected to serve just under 3,000 at its peak." --Disavian 23:49, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Censorship
Please do not remove sections of this article without explanation. Various edits were made to the Media section that caused it to disappear over time. - 24.152.161.223 08:40, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

In the Media
The section mentions the deaths of a couple students due to car accidents. What does this information have to do with the high school, which is the topic of the page? The article makes it clear that these deaths did not occur on campus. In fact, the reference to one of the accidents does not even mention that the victim attended this high school. I have removed the text since it has little to do with the high school itself being in the media. Dwr12 (talk) 23:12, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Hacker incident
I assume someone is going to add Khan's hacking incidents to the "in the media" section? -- Scott Swanson (talk) 22:10, 19 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Yeah I've added this in. Interesting story. Orangedog28 (talk) 06:33, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Wow for once someone assumes, and dosen't make an @$$ out you or me. Yes I have added a short paragraph sourced by The Orange County Register, as well as Fox News Channel. On a different note, I am wondering if there is any truth to the rumor, that Tesoro will be stripped of its 2007 South Coast League Football Championship, due an ongoing Steroids investigation?--Subman758 (talk) 03:56, 20 June 2008 (UTC)

Photo / Notable Alums
Notable Alums Section added. Feel free to add people who are *actually* notable.

Also, can we add a main photo to this? I dont have the time to figure it out so hopefully someone else knows. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shayyy88 (talk • contribs) 01:02, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

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Talk:Delaware Memorial Bridge

Height
Both the article and the DRBA website both describe the span as "440-foot-high." Assuming "span" means the roadway level, this seems extremely high (I didn't think suspension bridge spans are higher than 200 feet or so). I imagine that the height refers instead to the support towers. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 18:29, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, it's 174 feet below the bridge (I just added the relevant NBI data and infobox). --SPUI (talk) 22:09, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Longest Twin or Not?
This is a debate that comes up every so often, and I'm sure it's been settled — though, this being the Wiki, I doubt it — but a.) does a since-deleted blurb on the DRBA's website hold weight over the info today regarding whether or not it's "world's longest", and b.) if it's not, where is the citation as to what is the world's longest? The Tacoma Narrows is usually erroneously thought of as #1, but considering those bridges are clearly not twins other than both being differently shaped and sized suspensions next to each other, what would actually be number one? If number one is something that can't be proven (doing a Google search of "world longest twin suspension bridge" shows sites claiming the Del. Mem. Br. as the answer outnumbering the Tacoma Narrows 10:1), should this claim even be made? If there is a clear #1 that is neither of these bridges, why isn't it referenced in this article? While a Google search clearly isn't anything definitive, if #1 can't be substantiated in any regard, what's the point of any superlatives? Eagles PhilliesFanInTampa 02:25, 7 February 2014 (UTC)

https://www.nj.com/salem/index.ssf/2018/09/building_the_worlds_2nd_longest_twin_suspension_br.html

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Naming Issues
Shouldn't this page be listed as "Beskids" or "Beskid Mountains?" That is the name I usually see in English-sources. Olessi 18:30, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Agree, I think it should be "Beskids". Let's wait a few days for comments from others, and then move it there. Markussep 2 July 2005 10:51 (UTC)

Scope issue

In Ukraine Beskids (Бескиди) applies only to the Western, the lowest, part of Ukrainian Carpathians. They are followed (from West to East) by Horhany and Chornogora-Svydovets. Thus to use "Beskids" to cover all Ukrainian Carpathians is not exactly correct. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.144.28.2 (talk) 12:18, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

question
How is "Podbeskid" translated into English? It's not the same as Low Beskids, is it?radek (talk) 19:42, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

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