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User talk:Igorvragovic

Welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions to the coolest online encyclopedia I know of =). I sure hope you stick around; we're always in need of more people to create new articles and improve the ones we already have.  You'll probably find it easiest to start with a tutorial of how the wikipedia works, and you can test stuff for yourself in the sandbox.  When you're contributing, you'll probably find the manual of style to be helpful, and you'll also want to remember a couple important guidelines.  First, write from a neutral point of view, second, be bold in editing pages, and third, use wikiquette.  Those are probably the most important ones, and you can take a look at some others at the policies and guidelines page. You might also be interested in how to write a great article and possibly adding some images to your articles.

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Again, welcome! It's great to have you. Happy editing! --Spangineer (háblame)  15:19, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

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User:Asmadeus

My Wikipedia Contributions

 * Belize Specific Contributions
 * Kiev Specific Contributions

New Articles

 * Iboga Records - Record Label
 * Hefty Records - Record Label
 * Digital Structures - Record Label
 * Dave Cooper - Cartoonist, artist
 * Gary Baseman - Cartoonist, artist

Music

 * Piano Concerto No. 1 (Liszt) - classical composition
 * Trichterregal
 * Gino Sinimberghi
 * André Pirro
 * Emmanuel Top

Adopted Articles
These articles were started before me, but through some major revisions I can pretty much claim them as my own ;)
 * Louis and Bebe Barron - electronic music pioneers
 * Hubert Selby, Jr. - author

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/GFI Software

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP. JeremyA 22:23, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

GFI Software
This is an advert for GFI. If they want to sell their products they should do it on their own space. The article has little scholarly value. Recommend deletion. Snarfevs 15:21, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

A portion off the article seems to be copy-pasted off of their page: http://www.gfi.com/company/

This may be a copyright violation (although I doubt GFI would enforce it). --12.44.50.252 18:09, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep, on probation Thisone needs verification, rewriting and wikification. If they _are_ as big as they are, in the field as they state, why no notice before? Delete logo. -Snorre/Antwelm 14:30, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep with changes I made, unless its new stublike quality indicates that it should never have been an article at all. All of the images have been (well... are being) submitted under imagevio for deletion.  --Dachannien 15:09, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as now edited. DS1953 18:13, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * keep please since its been edited Yuckfoo 20:35, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Well done, Dachannien. Capitalistroadster 00:51, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Nice editing from Dachannien. JamesBurns 02:20, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep In hindsight a cut down was all that was necessary - thanks Dachannien :) Snarfevs 03:06, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep You 20:26, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

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The Why Store

The Why Store is an American rock band formed in the late 1980s in Muncie, Indiana when bassist Greg Gardner and guitarist Michael David Smith, both Ball State University students, met up with Indianapolis drummer (Graig) Omar Adams.

History
After being joined a couple months later by lead singer Chris Shaffer, also a Ball State student, the band played a few gigs as Emerald City. Adams left Emerald City in 1991 and was replaced by drummer Charlie Bushor in 1992. That same year, the band switched to a new name, The Why Store, the name of a former Muncie haberdashery.

In 1993, the band independently recorded Welcome to the Why Store. One year later the band recorded Inside the Why Store. Both albums were huge regional successes, and The Why Store began getting attention from record labels. At this time, touring keyboard player Jeff Pedersen was made an official member of the group, and in 1995 The Why Store signed to MCA's subsidiary Way Cool Music for their first major–label effort, a self–titled LP, which was released in 1996.

The song "Lack of Water", the band's most successful single, received steady airplay on Alternative Radio and reached #1 for two weeks on the Billboard AAA charts. In 1997, The Why Store toured the country opening for John Mellencamp's successful "Mr. Happy Go Lucky" tour, and made an appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien. The band released Two Beasts in June 1998, and in 1999 released the double–disc concert set Live at Midnight.

The Why Store split up in 2000 citing creative differences, though each member has continued onto different projects. Chris Shaffer recorded several solo discs as well as recording with his first post-Why Store band, Shaffer Street. Michael David Smith recorded with his new project with Gregory Gardner and Charlie Bushor, Lost in Lodi, releasing the CD "Elvador" in 2001. Jeff Pedersen continued his education, eventually receiving a PhD in Education Curriculum Design and operates Connecting Learning Assures Successful Students as V.P. of Operations.

The band reunited in April 2005 to play a handful of reunions shows, which were well received by fans and critics alike. The band played their last gig together on December 31, 2005 before separating again.

In 2007 Shaffer resurrected the band name, billing his own group first as "Chris Shaffer's Why Store," then simply as "The Why Store" at various venues around the region.

In 2011 Greg Gardner will release a solo album under the name "Gregory Shock". Michael David Smith eventually moved to Meridian, Mississippi to take the role of Product Development Manager for Peavey Electronics Corporation's Mississippi division.

Omar Adams now owns and operates a recording studio in Indianapolis called "The Purple Room."

In 2016, Live at The Slippery Noodle was released, featuring six previously unreleased songs.

In 2021, Charlie Bushor rejoined Shaffer in The Why Store, and the band is active playing in the Midwest.

Members

 * Chris Shaffer – Lead Vocals/Guitar (1988–present)
 * Troy Seele – Lead Guitar (2005–2008, 2015–present)
 * Michael David Smith – Guitar (1988–2005)
 * Gregory(Gardner) Shock – Bass/Background Vocals (1988–2005)
 * Charlie Bushor – Drums (1992–2005, 2021-present)
 * Jeff Pedersen – Keyboards (1994–2005)
 * (Graigory)Omar Adams- Drummer (1988–1992)
 * John Gray- Drums and background vocals (2014–2016)
 * Dan Hunt – Bass/Background Vocals (2005–present)
 * Benito Dibartoli – Lead Guitar (2007–2010)
 * Harvey Moesteller – Lead Guitar (2010–2013)
 * Mikie Mo – Merchandise (1992–2005)
 * Jerome Rieskamp (2005–2014, 2016–2021)
 * Deric Rush (2008–2009, 2013–2016)

Studio albums

 * Welcome to the Why Store, 1993
 * Inside the Why Store, 1994
 * The Why Store, 1996
 * Two Beasts, 1998
 * Life on Planet Six Ball, 2000
 * VIM, 2011

Live albums

 * Live at Midnight, 1999
 * Live at The Slippery Noodle, 2016

Singles

 * Lack Of Water, 1996 (#27 Mainstream Rock Tracks, #37 Alternative Rock Tracks) (#9 Canada, POP [RPM Chart]
 * Father, 1996 (#32 Mainstream Rock Tracks)

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Publish and be damned

One thing: Why is lulu.com allowed to keep their page on wikipedia? Or for that matter, movable type?


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The Shipman's Tale

"The Shipman's Tale" (also called The Sailor's Tale) is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.

It is in the form of a fabliau and tells the story of a merchant, his wife and her lover, a monk. Although similar stories can be found in Boccaccio's Decameron, a frequent source for Chaucer's tales, the story is a retelling of a common type of folktale called "the lover's gift regained".

Plot
The tale tells of a merchant whose wife enjoys revelry and socializing, on which she spends money. A young monk, who is close friends with the merchant, comes to stay with them. After confessing that she does not love her husband, the wife asks the monk for one hundred franks to pay her debts. The monk, without her knowledge, borrows the money from the merchant to give to the wife, at which point she agrees with the monk:

 * "That for thise hundred frankes he sholde al nyght
 * Have hire in his armes bolt upright;" (lines 315–316)

The monk volunteers the information that he has returned the loan to the wife a few days after he had borrowed it, and then leaves town. When the merchant asks his wife about the money, she says it has been spent on clothing and blames the monk saying that she thought the money was in payment for him being such a long house guest. Instead of giving her husband the money back she says she will repay the debt in bed. As the wife is tallying her debt in bed the story ends on a bawdy pun that all should "tally" the rest of their lives.

Themes
Apart from a criticism of the clergy, a common theme of Chaucer's, the tale also connects money, business and sex. Similar tales often end with both the wife and husband being conned, but the addition of the wife, in turn, conning her husband seems to be Chaucer's own embellishment.

The use of the pronouns "us" and "we" when talking from a woman's perspective, along with the wife's success at the end of the tale, has led scholars to suggest that the tale was originally written for the Wife of Bath but as that character developed she was given a more fitting story and the Shipman took on this tale. In the line "he moot us clothe, and he moot us array," (line 12) and others, "us" and "we" are used, in a way that could be interpreted as a married woman speaking for other wives. It is also possible The Shipman may simply be imitating a female voice, but the epilogue of "The Man of Law's Tale" in some manuscripts suggests it should be followed by the Shipman's tale rather than the Wife of Bath, whose tale usually follows. The changes give some insight into Chaucer's development of the tales and the connections between them.

Historical context
It is likely that the career in the late-14th century of Dartmouth-based privateer John Hawley provided Chaucer with the historical basis for his character.

BBC adaptation
In the BBC1 adaptation of "The Shipman's Tale" (renamed "The Sea Captain's Tale"), setting is changed to modern England and the protagonists are an Indian family. The monk's role is played by the merchant's business partner, who has come from India to set up a shop in England. The wife, beset by money problems, sleeps with this man, who learns of her previous affairs through the merchant. The business partner breaks up with the wife, and she, feeling jilted, smashes his shop. The merchant subsequently sends the other man back to India with a warning, and at the end he reaches across the bed to touch his wife's hand, a hint of possible reconciliation.

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User talk:Searchall

Welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions to the coolest online encyclopedia I know of =). I sure hope you stick around; we're always in need of more people to create new articles and improve the ones we already have.  You'll probably find it easiest to start with a tutorial of how the wikipedia works, and you can test stuff for yourself in the sandbox.  When you're contributing, you'll probably find the manual of style to be helpful, and you'll also want to remember a couple important guidelines.  First, write from a neutral point of view, second, be bold in editing pages, and third, use wikiquette.  Those are probably the most important ones, and you can take a look at some others at the policies and guidelines page. You might also be interested in how to write a great article and possibly adding some images to your articles.

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Again, welcome! It's great to have you. Happy editing! --Spangineer (háblame)  15:24, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

removing stuff from Privacy
Hiya, I'm not sure why you removed some paragraphs from Privacy, since you didn't provide summaries for your edits or discuss it on the talk page. I have reverted your edits; if you have reason to reintroduce them please do so, but with reasoning. Talrias (t | e | c) 2 July 2005 00:38 (UTC)

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Péter Molnár (academic)

Péter Molnár is a Hungarian academic and intellectual, working on questions related to communication law and freedom of speech.

Molnár graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest in 1987.

From 1990 to 1998, he was a member of the Hungarian Parliament, where he sat on the committees on culture and press and on the constitution. When (after its disappointing result in the 1994 elections) Fidesz changed its political position from liberal to conservative and added "Hungarian Civic Party" (Magyar Polgári Párt) to its shortened name, Molnar was one of many early Fidesz members who left the party.

In 1999 and 2000 he was a Fulbright fellow at Cardozo School of Law, at Columbia Law School, and in the spring of 2000 a fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University. He has been a senior research fellow at the Center for Media, Data and Society at Central European University.

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A Fine Madness

A Fine Madness is a 1966 American Technicolor comedy-drama film directed by Irvin Kershner, based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Elliott Baker. It tells the story of Samson Shillitoe, a frustrated poet unable to finish a grand tome. It stars Sean Connery (in the midst of his James Bond roles), Joanne Woodward, Jean Seberg, Patrick O'Neal, and Clive Revill. It was directed by Irvin Kershner.

Plot
Samson Shillitoe (Sean Connery), a poet, lives in Greenwich Village area of New York City with his wife Rhoda (Joanne Woodward), a waitress who stands by him through all his troubles.

When Samson cannot find the inspiration to finish his latest poem, he becomes belligerent and depressed. Samson is continually pursued by a debt collector after his late alimony payments to a previous wife; if Samson does not pay, he will be arrested. Samson eventually assaults a police detective who accompanies the debt collector.

Samson has other troubles when he loses his job as an office cleaner when he has sex with a secretary (Sue Ane Langdon) whilst his carpet cleaning machinery fills the office with soap suds. However, Samson does earn a $200 fee for doing a recital of his poetry to a woman's group that ends in disaster.

On Samson's behalf, but unknown to him, Rhoda seeks the help of psychiatrist Dr. West (Patrick O'Neal), who claims to be able to cure writer's block.

Rhoda gives Dr. West the $200 she collected for Samson's lecture to treat Samson for what she fears will become suicidal depression if he cannot finish his poem. Dr. West reluctantly agrees to see him, and when Samson confronts the Doctor about the return of his money, West is fascinated by Shillitoe and persuades him to become a patient. In order for Samson to be away from the chaos of his life in the city that he might finish his poem, Dr. West arranges a stay for him in a sanitarium upstate.

Another doctor at the sanitarium, Dr. Menken (Clive Revill) is also interested in Samson, but for the purpose of experimenting on him with a new surgical technique to quell his violent temper. He persuades Rhoda to agree to the surgery by lying to her. Dr. West and two other colleagues vehemently oppose such a procedure, as it is too close to a lobotomy to be safe.

Dr. West's wife, Lydia (Jean Seberg), is frustrated with their marriage. He is a popular TV guest for his pop psychiatric methods and views, and she sees very little of him. Eventually she runs into Samson at the sanitorium. Samson does not know she is married to Dr. West but recalls her when she walked out of his women's club lecture. In his usual manner Samson immediately seduces her and the two have sex in a therapeutic bath. Dr. West, looking for Samson, secretly sees them in the tub.

When it comes time for the clinic senior staff to vote on allowing the surgical technique to be performed on Samson, Dr. West, having seen Samson with his wife, changes his vote, enabling Dr. Menken to go ahead. Lydia finds out about the surgery and rushes to stop it, but arrives just after it has been completed.

When Samson awakes from the surgery, at first his voice is so low and quiet he cannot be understood. As Dr. Menken leans in to listen, Samson throws a punch that lands the doctor on the floor. The operation has had no effect, and Samson returns to New York.

Rhoda quickly learns of his arrival, and rushes to rejoin him. Samson has finally been served with his subpoena, so he must pay his ex-wife or go to jail. Rhoda prevents him from pummeling the civil servant, until Lydia appears and pays him the amount owed.

Lydia informs Samson she is leaving Dr. West and hints that she would like to be with her new lover, Samson. Rhoda protests, as Samson invites her to come live with them both. Lydia, disgusted by the idea, becomes hysterical and rushes out, presumably never to speak to Samson again. Rhoda pleads with Samson as he goes charging off down the street, before informing him that she is pregnant. He accidentally punches her and the movie ends with him fighting off an angry mob of indignant spectators.

Cast

 * Sean Connery as Samson Shillitoe
 * Joanne Woodward as Rhoda
 * Jean Seberg as Lydia West
 * Patrick O'Neal as Dr. Oliver West
 * Colleen Dewhurst as Dr. Vera Kropotkin
 * Clive Revill as Dr. Menken
 * Werner Peters as Dr. Vorbeck
 * John Fiedler as Daniel K. Papp
 * Kay Medford as Mrs. Fish
 * Jackie Coogan as Mr. Fitzgerald
 * Zohra Lampert as Mrs. Tupperman
 * Sue Ane Langdon as Miss Walnicki
 * Sorrell Booke as Leonard Tupperman
 * Bibi Osterwald as Mrs. Fitzgerald
 * Mabel Albertson as Chairwoman
 * James Millhollin as Rollie Butter
 * Richard S. Castellano as Arnold

Production
Jerome Hellman bought the film rights in May 1964.

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Lok Sin Tong Yu Kan Hing Secondary School

Lok Sin Tong Yu Kan Hing Secondary School or Lok Sin Tong Yu Kan Hing School prior to 2004, is a secondary school of Chinese as a media of instruction (CMI) in Wang Tau Hom, New Kowloon, Hong Kong.

History
The school was the first secondary school to be run by Lok Sin Tong and was donated by Mr. Yu Kan Hing, and officially opened by Sir David Clive Crosbie Trench, the Governor of Hong Kong, and John Canning, Secretary of Education at 15December 1970. The first principal of the school was Dr. LI Sze-Bay, Albert, MBE, BBS, JP (1936-2010), who served the school from 1969-2000.

the current and fourth principal is Lau Chun Hung.

School's motto
The school's motto is the same as that of other Lok Sin Tong schools: Benevolence, Affection, Diligence and Faithfulness.


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Gate of Europe

The Gate of Europe towers (Puerta de Europa, - Door of Europe-), also known as KIO Towers (Torres KIO), are twin office buildings near the Plaza de Castilla in Madrid, Spain. The towers have a height of 114 m and have 26 floors. They were constructed from 1989 to 1996. The Puerta de Europa is the second tallest twin towers in Spain after the Torres de Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

The Gate of Europe towers were designed by the American architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee, built by Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas and commissioned by the Kuwait Investment Office (hence their initial name "Torres KIO" or "KIO Towers"). Leslie E. Robertson Associates, RLLP New York (LERA) provided structural engineering services. Each building is 115 m tall with an inclination of 15°, making them the first inclined skyscrapers in the world. They are located near the Chamartín railway station, on the sides of the Plaza de Castilla bus station, north from the Paseo de la Castellana and near the Cuatro Torres Business Area (CTBA).

After the receivership of Grupo Torras, KIO had to sell the buildings, which are now owned by CaixaBank and Realia.

The west tower has a rooftop helicopter pad outlined in blue; the east tower has a red one.

In popular culture
The towers played a key role in the 1995 movie The Day of the Beast, the climax of which took place on one of the then nearly-completed towers. The towers were also shot in the song sequence "oru koodai sunlight" in the popular Tamil film Sivaji.

They are also seen in an episode of Mickey and the Roadster Racers. The racers must collect a flag from the top of the towers in 'Running of the Roadsters' (episode 5b). They also appear in the racing game Mario Kart Tour in the background of the course 'Madrid Drive'.

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Talk:Advanced Extension Award

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Should an 'N.B.' be added to explain that even though the award is aimed at the top 10% of students, not all the top 10% of students take the exam as many see it as an increased workload (Students and Teachers)that might affected their A Levels (as the AEA is very rarely if ever included in an offer for a university place) and in some colleges and sixth forms only those applying to Oxbridge are allowed to sit the exam.

 * Sounds good to me. Be bold in updating pages! --rbrwr± 16:05, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm going to delete the "if ever" from "the AEA is very rarely if ever included in an offer for a university place" on the basis that I've just received an offer from Durham that asked for a merit in AEA Physics. Simxp 22:53, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Citation
Though I can see you'be cited the sources at the bottom of the article, could you place a citation next to the relavent fact, also note that some of your links are "dead links". DannyM 19:47, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

UCAS points
Is there evidence that an AEA carries 40 points for Distinction and 20 for Merit? Or is something that someone agreed on with their university? Basically, has UCAS officially said this? I'm particularly interested because if it is true, then I am eligible for an excellence bursary.

Those are the official points values,, and it should also be noted that unlike other qualifications, a fail at AEA does not have to be declared on UCAS, and that most of the universities that AEA candidates apply for are unlikely to make point-based offers anyway, and instead just offer on specific grades —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.0.242.70 (talk) 11:16, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Headings
I think the headings of the sections of this page make it look like more of an advert for AEA, as if it has just been copied from a website attempting to sell them to you. User:algebra_man

Obsolete
Almost all of this is years out of date. A near-obsolete article in this form which needs a complete overhaul. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.241.85.216 (talk) 18:46, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mammy kate

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep (no consensus). Mindspillage (spill yours?) 18:25, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Mammy kate
personal essay
 * delete Melaen 15:28, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete--seems to be a school essay? Meelar (talk) 15:33, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: If the subject of the essay is a historical figure, perhaps edit and wikify? jglc | t | c 17:39, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - it's just so meaningless out of context. Deb 17:45, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, edit and wikify. Kappa 17:58, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - verifiable and notable, though it does need significant re-write and cleanup. Blackcats 20:30, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, verifiable, there's a nice bio at http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/mammy.html. RickK 21:38, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Appears to be a copy of an essay. original submission. If copyright can be released, keep. Double Blue  (Talk) 00:55, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per DoubleBlue's research. JamesBurns 06:01, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep notable. Probably submitted by the author so no copyright concerns here.  Grue   19:02, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Probably but not verified so copyright concerns here. Double Blue  (Talk) 19:56, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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User talk:M0rph

Welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions to the coolest online encyclopedia I know of =). I sure hope you stick around; we're always in need of more people to create new articles and improve the ones we already have.  You'll probably find it easiest to start with a tutorial of how the wikipedia works, and you can test stuff for yourself in the sandbox.  When you're contributing, you'll probably find the manual of style to be helpful, and you'll also want to remember a couple important guidelines.  First, write from a neutral point of view, second, be bold in editing pages, and third, use wikiquette.  Those are probably the most important ones, and you can take a look at some others at the policies and guidelines page. You might also be interested in how to write a great article and possibly adding some images to your articles.

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Again, welcome! It's great to have you. Happy editing! --Spangineer (háblame)  15:28, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Caramelman~enwiki

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Portal:Trains/Anniversaries/June 2/More

19th century

 * 1859 – The organization that is to become the Chicago and North Western Railway railroad purchases the assets of the bankrupt Chicago, St. Paul and Fond du Lac Railroad.
 * 1860 – The Staten Island Railway is extended to Tottenville.
 * 1873 – Construction begins on Clay Street in San Francisco, California, for the first cable railway in the world, the Clay Street Hill Railroad (later to become part of the San Francisco cable car system).

20th century

 * 1912 – Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend Railroad (predecessor of the Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad) begins "one-car" passenger service directly to the Chicago Loop.
 * 1916 – Lake Superior and Ishpeming (LS&I) 2-8-0 "Consolidation" type No. 29(Or No. 14 at the time) was pulling an iron ore train down a 1.6% grade outside of Negaunee, when it and several of it's hoppers rolled down on their sides on a steep embankment. The reason for this significance is because No. 29 is now the only LS&I steam locomotive to ever experience a catastrophic accident and still live to pull another train.
 * 1917 – New York City Subway's IRT Jerome Avenue Line opens.
 * 1982 – The Soo Line purchases the Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railroad in Minnesota.

21st century

 * 2005 – Railroad workers across France go on strike to demand better wages and jobs. The strike, which began at 18:00 GMT on Wednesday, is expected to last through 6:00 GMT Friday.  Nearly 40% of all TGV schedules are dropped for the duration of the strike.
 * 2005 – Chris Green, CEO of Virgin Trains since 1992, announces that he will join the Board of Directors for Network Rail; his resignation from Virgin is scheduled for September 2005. Green began his railroad career with British Rail in 1965.
 * 2008 – An unexploded bomb from World War II is found near where the District and Hammersmith & City lines cross the Prescott Channel, not far from Bromley-by-Bow tube station, causing disruption to trains.

Deaths

 * 1943 – John Frank Stevens, chief engineer and general manager of Great Northern Railway, vice president Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (b. 1853).

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User talk:Anatomy

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Lonely (Akon song)

"Lonely" is a song by Senegalese-American singer-songwriter Akon; it appears on his debut album, Trouble. Featuring a prominent, high-pitched sample of the 1964 song "Mr. Lonely" by Bobby Vinton, the single was released on February 22, 2005. "Lonely" reached number one in several countries, including in the United Kingdom, Australia, and Germany, where it stayed for eight weeks. It also entered the top five in France, where it reached number two, and in the United States, where it peaked at number four.

Background
When Akon was signed by Universal imprint SRC Records it was "Lonely" that had immediately caught the attention of SRC A&R Jerome Foster and convinced him of Akon's talents. On hearing the demo track he had said, "This kid is official - this is a huge record." Despite offering the album's best option in terms of commercial breakthrough, SRC Records chose "Locked Up" over "Lonely" as the first single because SRC wanted to break Akon in the streets first and work towards a cross-over. According to Foster in an interview with HitQuarters, ""Locked Up" is a street record. I thought that was the place for us to start to get a fan-base knowing that we had a record like "Lonely", which was more commercial, to follow it."

The song was written by Akon, Bobby Vinton, and Gene Allan. The lyrics are sung mainly by Akon as well as Bobby Vinton doing parts of the choruses, with Vinton's voice sped up reminiscent of Alvin and the Chipmunks. The song's tempo is 90 beats per minute in common time. "Lonely" is written in the key of C major.

Music video
A music video was produced to promote the single. The video was mostly filmed inside and in front of the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. The video was directed by Gil Green. Actress Katerina Graham starred in the video as Akon's love partner. A competition winner from Blackpool, Daniel Ellwood, also starred in the video.

Track listings
UK CD1
 * 1) "Lonely" (clean version) – 3:58
 * 2) "Trouble Nobody" (explicit) – 3:21

UK CD2
 * 1) "Lonely" (UK radio edit) – 3:33
 * 2) "Trouble Nobody" (clean) – 3:21
 * 3) "Kill the Dance (Got Something for Ya)" (featuring Kardinal Offishall) – 2:54
 * 4) "Lonely" (video) – 3:58

US CD single
 * 1) "Lonely" (clean version) – 3:58
 * 2) "Lonely" (instrumental version) – 3:58
 * 3) "Belly Dancer (Bananza)" (snippet) – 1:31

Charts
The song was a number-one hit in several countries, including Australia, Austria, Denmark, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Belgium, and Switzerland. The song reached number two in France, Norway, and Sweden. The song also reached number 19 in Finland.

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Flint Truck Assembly

Flint Assembly is an automobile factory operated by General Motors in Flint, Michigan. It is the city's only vehicle assembly plant after the closure of Buick City. Flint Truck Assembly is also GM's oldest, still operating assembly plant in North America. As of 2022, the Flint factory currently produces full-size pickup trucks. Engine block and cylinder heads were cast at Saginaw Metal Casting Operations, internal engine components were created at Bay City Powertrain and Grand Rapids Operations, and the engines were then assembled at Tonawanda Engine and Romulus Engine. For most of the 20th century Flint Assembly was the home factory for all Chevrolet vehicles.

History
The first factory location was in Flint, Michigan at the corner of Wilcox (now Chevrolet Avenue) and Kearsley Street, now known as "Chevy Commons", along the Flint River, across the street from Kettering University. It was commonly known as Chevy in the Hole.

The current plant, at G 3100 Van Slyke Road, was built in 1947.

In 1953 the first 300 Chevrolet Corvettes were hand built here before production was moved to St. Louis in 1954.

This factory also produced Chevrolet Bel Airs for the North American market. Encouraged to collaborate with the nearby Fake Pottery Company, GM shared some of the colors used for the car, such as sky blue, and as of 2020, the pottery manufacturer still makes ceramics using those colors, albeit in limited quantities.

Production was split between Fisher Body and Chevrolet where the body was manufactured by Fisher and the chassis, suspension and engine assembly was performed by Chevrolet. The Fisher operations were halted on June 24, 1970, with the entire factory turned over to Chevrolet.

Flint Assembly ended production of Chevrolet full-size cars in 1969. It last built passenger cars in 1970 with the mid-size Chevrolet Chevelle and Monte Carlo. The last car built at Flint Assembly was a Monte Carlo on June 24, 1970. Since 1971, Flint Truck Assembly has only built full-size pickups, full-size SUVs, full-size vans, and medium-duty commercial trucks.

During the 1970s, Flint was home to the full-size Chevrolet K5 Blazer and Chevrolet Suburban SUVs and the Chevrolet C/K pickup and their GMC counterparts with pickup truck production moved to Pontiac East Assembly in Pontiac, Michigan in May 1987 when Line #1, which made pickups, ceased production. However, the crew cab and chassis cab versions of the old generation R/V-series pickup went into production in Flint in 1989, bringing pickup production back to the plant alongside the related full-size SUVs.

In July 1991, the crew cab and chassis cab versions of the old generation R/V-series pickup ended production. On August 31, 1991, production of the full-size SUVs was moved to Janesville Assembly in Wisconsin when the old generation dating to 1973 finally ended production. All laid-off workers returned to the plant on August 10, 1992 as full-size van production began. After the discontinuation of Lordstown Van Assembly in 1992, Flint began to produce the former Lordstown Vans, the Chevrolet Van/Sportvan and GMC Vandura/Rally Van. Full-size van production was moved to Wentzville Assembly in Missouri in July 1996 when they were redesigned, but a new product, the GMT480, began at Flint the previous year. Additional versions of the GMT400 trucks were added to Flint from 1996-1998. The large commercial Chevrolet/GMC C3500HD chassis cab trucks began production in October 1997 for the 1998 model year.

GM began production of GMT800 based Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra HD pickup trucks and chassis cabs at the plant in August 2000 for the 2001 model year.

The factory's next-generation product, the GMT900-based trucks, began in February 2007. The factory also produced the GMT560 Chevrolet Kodiak/GMC TopKick medium-duty trucks, which were phased out in 2009 after GM discontinued that division. Starting in 2010, GM produced some light-duty crew cab pickups here, supplementing production in Silao, Mexico.

On September 30, 2010, Flint Truck Assembly built its 13 millionth vehicle, a 2011 GMC Sierra Denali HD. The 13 million vehicles consist of 4 million cars and 9 million trucks.

In January 2014, production began on the new K2XX generation of heavy-duty pickups for the 2015 model year. Some light-duty crew cab trucks were also built at the Flint plant.

A new $600 million paint shop (Flint Assembly Paint Operations) was announced in December 2013 and opened in 2016, replacing the previous paint shop located inside the assembly plant. The new paint shop is further down Van Slyke Road (at 3848 Van Slyke Road) from the assembly plant, on the site of the former V8 engine plant that closed in 1999 and was subsequently demolished. The old V8 engine plant mainly built the Chevrolet small-block V8 engine as well as some 4 and 6-cylinder engines.

In May 2016, General Motors began construction on a $900 million new body shop at the Flint Truck Assembly complex. The project was first announced in 2015 and replaces the old body shop. The new body shop is a separate building that is connected to both the Flint Metal Center stamping plant to the south and the main assembly plant to the northeast. The new body shop was scheduled to open in 2018. GM has spent $2.8 billion on the complex since 2009.

On October 12, 2017, GM announced it would invest $79 million to bring a new trim shop to the complex.

In June 2019, production began on the new T1XX generation of heavy-duty pickups for the 2020 model year. The refreshed 2024 model year T1XX heavy-duty pickups began production in March 2023.

As of 2020, Flint Truck Assembly currently produces the Chevrolet Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD Regular, Double, and Crew Cab models. The plant is the sole production facility for GMC Sierra HD and Chevrolet Silverado HD dual-rear-wheel (dually) models. It splits the production of single-rear-wheel Silverado HDs with Oshawa, Ontario.

As of 2023, Flint Truck Assembly has produced over 15 million vehicles.

Current (at Van Slyke Road plant)
As of April, 2023:
 * Chevrolet Silverado (2001-present)
 * GMC Sierra (2001-present)

Past (at Van Slyke Road plant)

 * 1947-1955 Chevrolet Advance Design
 * 1947-1952 Chevrolet Deluxe
 * 1950-1969 Chevrolet Bel Air
 * 1953-1957 Chevrolet 150
 * 1953-1957 Chevrolet 210
 * 1953-1957 Chevrolet Fleetline
 * 1953-1957 Chevrolet Townsman
 * 1953     Chevrolet Corvette
 * 1954-1958 Chevrolet Delray
 * 1955-1957 Chevrolet Nomad
 * 1955-1959 Chevrolet Task Force
 * 1958-1969 Chevrolet Biscayne
 * 1958-1969 Chevrolet Impala
 * 1959-1960 Chevrolet El Camino
 * 1960-1966 Chevrolet C/K
 * 1960-1991 Chevrolet Suburban
 * 1961-1965 Chevrolet Corvair Forward Control
 * 1966-1969 Chevrolet Caprice
 * 1966, 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle
 * 1967-1972 Chevrolet C/K (Action Line)
 * 1967-1972 GMC C/K (Action Line)
 * 1967-1991 GMC Suburban
 * 1969-1991 Chevrolet K5 Blazer
 * 1970     Chevrolet Monte Carlo
 * 1970-1991 GMC K15 Jimmy
 * 1973-1986 Chevrolet C/K (Rounded Line)
 * 1973-1986 GMC C/K (Rounded Line)
 * 1987, 1989–1991 Chevrolet R/V
 * 1987, 1989–1991 GMC R/V
 * 1993-1995 Chevrolet Van/Sportvan
 * 1993-1995 GMC Vandura/Rally Van
 * 1995-2000 Chevrolet C/K
 * 1995-1998 GMC Sierra
 * 1999-2000 GMC Sierra Classic
 * 1996     Chevrolet Van/Sportvan G-Classic
 * 1996     GMC Vandura/Rally Van G-Classic
 * 2003-2009 Chevrolet Kodiak
 * 2003-2009 GMC TopKick
 * 2004-2009 Chevrolet T-Series
 * 2004-2009 GMC T-Series
 * 2004-2009 Isuzu F-Series
 * 2005-2007 Isuzu H-Series

Past (at old "Chevy in the Hole" plant)

 * 1915-1922 Chevrolet Series 490
 * 1923-1926 Chevrolet Superior
 * 1927 Chevrolet Series AA Capitol
 * 1928 Chevrolet Series AB National
 * 1929 Chevrolet Series AC International
 * 1930 Chevrolet Series AD Universal
 * 1931 Chevrolet Series AE Independence
 * 1932 Chevrolet Series BA Confederate
 * 1933 Chevrolet Eagle
 * 1933-1942 Chevrolet Master
 * 1935-1946 Chevrolet Suburban
 * 1941-1947 Chevrolet Deluxe

 * Notes

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NWA World Tag Team Championship (Chicago version)

The Chicago version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestling championship promoted by the Chicago-based Fred Kohler Enterprises, a member of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). The championship was for two-man tag teams only. While the NWA Board of Directors mandated that there would only be one NWA World Heavyweight Championship, they did not regulate the use of championships labeled "NWA World Tag Team Championship", allowing any member that so desired to create their own local version. As a result, as many as 13 different, regional versions were active in 1957, the highest number of active NWA World Tag Team Championships in existence at the same time.$[Championships]$

The championship was introduced in 1953 when the promoters awarded the championship to Lord James Blears and Lord Athol Layton. The championship was promoted from 1953 until 1960 when Fred Kohler left the NWA to help form the American Wrestling Association (AWA) and thus the AWA World Tag Team Championship became the top tag team championship in the Chicago area. The Chicago promotion would later be bought by Dick Afflis, who merged it with his Indianapolis-based territory. The last NWA World Tag Team Championship was won by the Shires brothers, Roy and Ray, on April 9, 1960. The Volkoffs, Boris and Nicoli, held the championship four times, the record for the Chicago version of the NWA World Tag Team Championship. Art Neilson and Reggie Lisowski held the championship for 371 days, the longest individual reign in the championship's seven-year history. Being a professional wrestling championship, it is not won or lost competitively, but instead determined by the decision of the bookers of a wrestling promotion. The title is awarded after the chosen team "wins" a match to maintain the illusion that professional wrestling is a competitive sport.

Title history

 * Key

Team reigns by combined length
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Individual reigns by combined length
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Concurrent championships

 * Sources for 13 simultaneous NWA World Tag Team Championships
 * NWA World Tag Team Championship (Los Angeles version)
 * NWA World Tag Team Championship (San Francisco version)
 * NWA World Tag Team Championship (Central States version)
 * NWA World Tag Team Championship (Chicago version)
 * NWA World Tag Team Championship (Buffalo Athletic Club version)
 * NWA World Tag Team Championship (Georgia version)
 * NWA World Tag Team Championship (Iowa/Nebraska version)
 * NWA World Tag Team Championship (Indianapolis version)
 * NWA World Tag Team Championship (Salt Lake Wrestling Club version)
 * NWA World Tag Team Championship (Amarillo version)
 * NWA World Tag Team Championship (Minneapolis version)
 * NWA World Tag Team Championship (Texas version)
 * NWA World Tag Team Championship (Mid-America version)


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Ognjeslav Stepanović Kostović

Ognjeslav Stepanović Kostović (Serbian Cyrillic: Огњеслав Степановић Костовић) (1851 – 16 December 1916) was a Serbian inventor. He is credited with creating "arbonite" (i.e. plywood), the first "plastic" materials (e.g. gutta percha) pre-date 1906 plastic in the world.

Biography
He was born in Wieselburg, Austrian Empire to a Serbian noble family residing in Pest, Austrian Empire but spent most of his life in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

He is credited with creating "arbonite" (i.e. plywood), the first "plastic" materials (e.g. gutta percha) pre-date 1906 plastic in the world. Kostović patented the technology of the production of arbonite in the USA on 4 September 1906. In the early 1880s he designed and attempted to construct a dirigible (airship), about 20 years before Ferdinand von Zeppelin. His flight vehicle was destroyed in a fire and it was never tested in the air. He also developed and constructed a large gasoline engine for his dirigible. In 1879 he demonstrated his flying models of a helicopter, aircraft and ornithopter, while in 1881 approached the building of an aircraft. In the catalog of aeronautical exhibition 1911 and in the article of G.V. Piotrovski it is said, that Kostović actually constructed a flight vehicle. The same was also said in A. Ewald's report in the Russian technical society on 12 March 1883.

Ognjeslav lived with his family in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He celebrated the slava of Saint Nicholas every year and one of his regular guests was Dmitri Mendeleev.

One of his daughters married a Serbian officer and, during the First World War, she became, together with Nadežda Petrović, a voluntary nurse. Two of his daughters lived in Belgrade.

When he died in December 1916 in Saint Petersburg, the press reported that "a brilliant inventor and scientist has disappeared, a man who has, for many reasons, deserved that future generations remember his unusual destiny and scientific achievements".

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Kit Lau
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Habiba Sarābi

Dr. Habiba Sarābi (born 1956) is a hematologist, politician, and reformer of the reconstruction of Afghanistan after the Taliban first took power. In 2005, she was appointed as Governor of Bamyan Province - the first Afghan woman to become a provincial governor. She had served as Afghanistan's Minister of Women's Affairs and as Minister of Culture and Education. Sarabi was instrumental in promoting women's rights and representation and environmental issues. She belongs to the ethnic Hazara people of Afghanistan. Her last name is sometimes spelled Sarobi.

Biography
Sarābi was born in Sarāb, Ghazni Province and spent her youth traveling around the country with her father. She was the only daughter of five children so she learned to stand up for her rights. She later moved to Kabul to attend high school and study medicine at university. After graduating in 1987, she was awarded a fellowship by the World Health Organization and moved to India to complete her studies in hematology.

During the first Taliban rule in Afghanistan, Dr. Sarabi and her children fled to Peshawar, Pakistan, but returned frequently in secret. Her husband stayed behind in Kabul to care for his family. She also worked underground as a teacher for girls, both secretly in Afghanistan and refugee camps in Pakistan for Afghan refugees. In 1998, she joined the Afghan Institute of Learning and eventually became the General Manager. She was also the Vice President of Humanitarian Assistance for the Women and Children of Afghanistan.

She served as Afghanistan's Minister of Women's Affairs as well as Minister of Culture and Education. In 2005, she was appointed as Governor of Bamyan Province by President Hamid Karzai, which made her the first Afghan woman to become a governor of any province in the country.

As governor, Sarabi has announced one of her focuses will be on tourism as a source of income. The province has historically been a source of Buddhist culture and was the location of the Buddhas of Bamiyan, the two ancient statues destroyed by the Taliban before the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. However, Bamiyan remains one of the poorest and most under-developed provinces of Afghanistan, with a litany of problems including high rates of illiteracy and poverty.

In 2008 Time magazine included her in its list of Heroes of the Environment, partly for her work in establishing the Band-e Amir National Park of Afghanistan in Bamiyan. In 2013, she won the Ramon Magsaysay Award, and she was succeeded by governor by Ghulam Ali Wahdat.

She also received the N-Peace Award in 2016 for her tireless work to bring peace to Afghanistan and its focus on gender equality and women's empowerment. In 2020, Habiba Sarabi was a member of the Peace Negotiation Team of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.

On 8 March 2018, International Women's Day, she delivered a statement to the UN Security Council during the Open Debate on the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan.

In 2022 she was at a conference called "Lessons from the Afghanistan Peace Process" at the United States Institute of Peace. The conference asked why there had been no internal talks in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2021.

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The Elms (Newport, Rhode Island)

The Elms is a large mansion (sometimes facetiously called a "summer cottage") located at 367 Bellevue Avenue, Newport, Rhode Island, completed in 1901. The architect Horace Trumbauer (1868–1938) designed it for the coal baron Edward Julius Berwind (1848–1936), taking inspiration from the 18th century Château d'Asnières in Asnières-sur-Seine, France. C. H. Miller and E. W. Bowditch, working closely with Trumbauer, designed the gardens and landscape. The Preservation Society of Newport County purchased The Elms in 1962, and opened the house to the public. The Elms was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1996.

The house
The Elms was constructed from 1899 to 1901 and cost approximately 1.5 million dollars to build. Like most Newport houses of the Gilded Age, the house was built with non-combustible materials: the house was built around a structural steel frame; the interior partitions, plaster over terra cotta blocks, sit on reinforced concrete floor slabs; the exterior walls are made of brick masonry and clad with limestone.

On the main floor, the principal axis leads from the eastern entrance porch, into an entrance hall with a grand staircase and a marble floor, then into the ballroom, and then out to the garden beyond. The wing to the south contains a dining room, breakfast room, and serving pantry (the kitchens were in the basement), while the wing to the north contains a drawing room, library, and conservatory.

The second floor contains bedrooms for the family and guests as well as a private sitting room. The third floor contains bedrooms for the indoor servants.

The grounds
In keeping with the French architecture of the house, the grounds of The Elms, among the best in Newport, were designed in French eighteenth-century taste and include a sunken garden. The original American elms having succumbed to Dutch elm disease, the striking shade trees are now weeping beeches.

Ancillary buildings
Trumbauer built a large carriage house and stables on the edge of the property, with apartments above for the gardners and stable hands. in 1910, after the Berwind family began using automobiles, the carriage house and stables were replaced by a new garage, clad in limestone, 125 ft long by 70 ft deep, one of the largest private garages in America, with a central indoor track, and two gasoline tanks.

When automobiles replaced horse-drawn carriages, the Berwind's head coachman became the chauffeur, but because he could not learn to back out of the garage, an automobile turntable had to be installed.

Inspiration

The Elms is considered to be a reinterpretation of the Château d'Asnières, an 18th century house in the town of Asnières-sur-Seine in Hauts-de-Seine, France. Nevertheless, it is not a replication; there are significant differences: the flanking sections of château d'Asnières are five bays wide, whereas and those at Trumbauer's house are four bays wide. The balustrade at The Elms is taller, but simpler in detail. Furthermore, the pediment on Trumbauer's garden facade is likely a variation of the pediment at Hôtel Porgès, 18 avenue Montaigne in Paris, built in 1892 by the architect Ernest Sanson. There is no pediment at Château d'Asnières.

History
The Berwind family began spending summers in Newport in the 1890s. By 1898, it was clear that their original property (a small traditional beach cottage) was too small for the grand parties the Berwinds were having, and so they had the place torn down. Berwind hired Horace Trumbauer to build a much larger house, better fitting his status. Like many of the grandest summer residents of Newport, Edward Berwind was "new money" (his parents were middle-class German immigrants); by 1900 his friends included Theodore Roosevelt and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany as well as many high-ranking government leaders from Europe and America. At this time Berwind was hailed as "one of the 58 men who rule America", making him one of Newport's most important summer residents.

Berwind was interested in technology, and The Elms was one of the first houses in America to be wired for electricity with no form of backup system. The house also included one of the first electrical ice makers. It was one of the most sophisticated houses of the time. When The Elms opened in 1901 the Berwinds held a huge party.

During the next 20 years, Berwind's wife, Sarah, would spend the summers there, the season being from the 4th of July to the end of August; Berwind would come out only on weekends, for his coal-mining interests kept him in New York during the week. Though the Berwinds had no children, their nephews and nieces would come out to visit on a regular basis.

On January 5, 1922, Mrs. Berwind died, and Edward asked his youngest sister Julia A. Berwind to move in and become the hostess of The Elms. In 1936, when he died, he willed the house to Julia, who, not being interested in technology, continued to run the house in the same way for the next twenty five years: washers and dryers were never installed at the Elms. Julia was well known in Newport. She would invite children from the nearby Fifth Ward (a working-class immigrant neighborhood) to the estate for milk and cookies. She had a love for cars and would drive around Newport every day in one of her luxury cars. This was somewhat shocking to the rest of Newport society, where it was considered unladylike for women to drive themselves. It was rumored that her social secretary would perform the "white glove test" to make sure there was no dust on the steering wheel before Julia got into the driver's seat.

Preservation
In 1961 when Julia Berwind died, The Elms was one of the last Newport cottages to be run in the fashion of the Gilded Age: forty servants were on staff, and Miss Berwind's social season remained at six weeks. Childless, Julia Berwind willed the estate to a nephew, who did not want it and fruitlessly tried to pass The Elms to someone else in the family. Finally the family auctioned off the contents of the estate and sold the property to a developer who wanted to tear it down. In 1962, just weeks before its date with the wrecking ball, The Elms was purchased by the Preservation Society of Newport County for $116,000. The price included the property along with adjacent guest houses. Since then, the house has been open to the public for tours. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1996.

In addition to a self-guided audio tour, The Elms offers a Servant Life Tour, which brings guests to the basement to view the coal-fired furnaces and the tunnel from which the coal is brought into the basement from a nearby street. The tour shows the lengths to which Mr. Berwind went to keep the servants out of view from guests on all floors of the mansion. Visitors on the Servant Life Tour view the laundry room, steamer trunk storage area, the giant circuit breaker box, ice-makers, galley, and wine cellar below the main floor, and climb the service staircase to the servants' quarters on the third floor. The tour then proceeds out on the level tiled roof and a small aluminum platform, with a view of the rear lawn, shade trees and gardens, and the vista of Newport harbor in the distance.

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Third Man Records

Third Man Records is an eclectic, vinyl-focused independent record label founded and owned by Jack White, Ben Blackwell, and Ben Swank. The company operates out of three locations—Nashville, Detroit, and Soho in London—with multiple entities expanding upon the offerings of a traditional record label, including multiple live music venues, vinyl pressing plant, film studio and dark room, guitar pedal and gear company, mastering studio, vinyl subscription service, and a publishing arm.

History
In 2001, while Jack White was gaining regional notice in the White Stripes in Detroit, he registered the label Third Man Records, proceeding to trademark the name in 2004. It wasn’t until 2008 when the White Stripes stopped touring and recording, and after White had reclaimed the rights to the band's earlier music, that White turned his focus to the label.

White recruited his nephew, White Stripes archivist and Dirtbombs drummer Ben Blackwell and his lifelong friend, Ben Swank, then the drummer for the Soledad Brothers and a promoter in London, to create a working business on March 11, 2009. White conceived the expansion idea in October 2008, phoning Swank and Blackwell to say the venture should first concentrate on releasing White Stripes' back catalog on vinyl. Blackwell moved from Detroit and Swank from London to establish the business. The Nashville location is a record store, label and has publishing offices; The Blue Room live venue and bar; photo studio/darkroom, master recordings vault, and a fulfillment center. To commemorate the opening of Third Man Records in Nashville, White debuted his new project, the Dead Weather, performing a short set for the 150 invited guests and coining the label's motto, "Your Turntable's Not Dead."

The label's name incorporates several elements of personal significance to White. His fondness for the number three is well documented. It refers to Carol Reed's The Third Man starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles. White's pre-White Stripes upholstering company, which he continues to maintain as a hobby and artistic outlet in the present day, is named Third Man Upholstery and is similarly identified by the colors yellow and black and the motto “Your Upholstery’s Not Dead.”

Third Man has since reissued all six White Stripes studio releases on vinyl. The label’s catalog has grown to over 800 releases including albums by White’s other acts, contributions from Billie Eilish, Neil Young, Sleep, Metallica, Margo Price, Coldplay, and Jay-Z, as well as many developing artists.

Nashville location
The label's headquarters is located in a less prosperous neighborhood which is home to the Nashville Rescue Mission, the largest homeless shelter in the city; a transitional housing and recuperation center, and an affordable healthcare clinic. White's presence has raised the area's prominence, motivating the city and business owners to rezone the area with more commercial ventures, including multiple mixed-use developments, a Ritz Carlton Hotel, and a members' club. White opposes the idea, calling the environment "a solid neighborhood [where] everyone looks out for each other." The location is organized around five dedicated sections: the record store, a "novelties lounge", the label's offices and distribution center, a live venue and bar (The Blue Room), and a darkroom/photo studio.

The Novelties Lounge, located within the record store, debuted on November 23, 2012. The space contains a collection of vintage novelty machines. "Among the attractions in the new wing is a Scopitone machine—a video jukebox using 16mm film that had its greatest prominence in the 1960s. Third Man has loaded their Scopitone with 36 videos from the label catalog, and bill it as 'the world's ONLY Scopitone machine fully loaded with modern music.' Other highlights include a "Wax-O-Matic machine", which makes bright red wax molds of White's Airline guitar, and a full-color photo booth." On April 20, 2013, in celebration of Jack White's role as Record Store Day Ambassador, The Third Man Recording Booth, "a refurbished 1947 Voice-o-Graph machine that can record up to two minutes audio and press it onto 6-inch phonograph discs" was introduced as an addition to the Novelties Lounge. This voice-o-graph was used in the creating of Apple's 2014 holiday ad as shown in the behind the scene video. In August 2017, Third Man celebrated the total solar eclipse happening event "Occulting the Sunn", in Nashville.

Detroit location
In 2015, White partnered with Shinola—a lifestyle brand most known as a watch manufacturer—to open a retail location in Detroit. Third Man opened its first branch location at the former Willy's Overland Motorland Company in Detroit's Cass Corridor by Record Store Day's Black Friday event on November 27, 2015.

Third Man Pressing
In February 2017, the Third Man Pressing plant opened in Third Man Records' Detroit location, the first pressing plant to open in the city since 1965. The plant began with eight Newbilt presses imported from Germany. In 2019 it expanded adding Third Man Mastering, which provides audio mastering services as well as vinyl lacquer cutting.

London location
In September 2021, Third Man Records opened a third retail location, live venue, and label office in London's Soho neighborhood. During the grand opening, White performed in the basement venue as well as from the balcony belonging to visual artist Damien Hirst, whose building sits at the end of the street.

Rolling Record Store
On March 9, 2011, Third Man Records announced its newest creation, the Third Man Rolling Record Store. It is a yellow step-van outfitted with a sound system and Third Man Records inventory. It was built by C. Cook Enterprises in Erlanger, Kentucky. It made its first appearance in Austin, Texas at SXSW 2011. Third Man has since brought the mobile store to concerts, festivals, and other events with anywhere from weeks to only a few hours’ notice.

Third Man Records Vault
The Third Man Records Vault is a "rarity-excavating" quarterly subscription service that began in September 2009 as a way to release special and otherwise unreleased content. Platinum members of the Vault receive a package containing limited-edition vinyl records and merchandise every three months. Generally each cycle's offerings have included a 12-inch record, a 7-inch record and a "bonus item" (this many include, a poster, book, pins, etc...), although the format has been deviated from multiple times.

Discography
Third Man releases some music on compact disc and via electronic release on iTunes, but its primary format is vinyl records.

In addition to pressing titles on regular black vinyl, most releases have an exclusive and/or limited sister pressing on colored or multicolored vinyl. Beginning with TMR-003, a limited edition handmade batch of 100 tri-colored 7-inch vinyl, in equal parts black, yellow, and white, were produced for exclusive distribution at Third Man's Nashville location. Beginning with TMR-009, an additional 50 tri-colored vinyl have been pressed for random distribution in Third Man mail orders. Certain single releases have been sold on tri-colored vinyl available at record stores in the artist's hometown instead of at the Nashville store. An additional 50 are still randomly distributed in mail orders.

Recordings from live shows in the Blue Room (recorded either directly to analog reel-to-reel tape or direct-to-acetate) are made available in black and blue vinyl in varying quantities. The split-color records are available only to show attendees, and each LP is sealed with a concert-specific label on which the purchaser's name is written.

Third Man is known for pushing the boundaries with vinyl record production, and with the help of United Record Pressing (their main partner in manufacturing records prior to the opening of Third Man Pressing), their innovations include the following unique record pressings: Glow In The Dark Record, Triple-Decker Record (a 7-inch within a 12-inch), Texas-Sized Record (8" and 13" records), Metallized Record, Liquid-Filled Record, Scented Record, Rose Petal-Filled Record, Playable Etching Record, 3 RPM Record, Lightning Bolt Record, Bolt-A-Trope Record, and the Flex-Ray Record (a flexi disc made from an x-ray).

Two albums released by Third Man Records have received sales certification awards from the Recording Industry Association of America: White Blood Cells by the White Stripes was certified Platinum with sales of at least 1 million units and Blunderbuss by Jack White was certified Gold with sales of at least 500,000 units. Additionally the DVD release of the White Stripes documentary film Under Great White Northern Lights was certified Gold for longform video sales of at least 50,000 units.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roydon Tang

Roydon Tang
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Religion and Philosophy Society

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. Golbez 08:20, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Religion and Philosophy Society, Joanne Ho, Roydon Tang, Kit Lau, Fanny Yeh
student society and its president and former presidents non notable and vanity--Melaen 15:36, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * maybe i can consider keeping only Religion and Philosophy Society and deleting the others''

 * Delete. Delete them all.  Non-notable.  The society, at best, should be merged into a subsection of the university. Wikibofh 16:18, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete all of them. NeoJustin 17:54, June 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete them all, or give me an equivalent article. Your choice. :-D -- BD2412  talk 18:20, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)
 * Delete All Absolutely no attempt at encyclopedic notability. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 20:31, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * I guess that's a "no" for an article about me, eh? ;-) -- BD2412 talk 01:50, 2005 Jun 10 (UTC)
 * Delete all. I was an officer in an undergrad student group too.  That and a dollar won't even get you a cup of coffee these days.  Postdlf 01:52, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete all. Non notable. JamesBurns 06:02, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages.  Please do not edit this page .


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Joanne Ho

Joanne Ho
student society and its president and former presidents non notable--Melaen 15:37, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fanny Yeh

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student society and its president and former presidents non notable--Melaen 15:37, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)


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HMS Adventure

Twelve ships of the Royal Navy have been named Adventure. A thirteenth was planned but never completed:

 * ENGLISH SHIP Adventure was a 26-gun galley launched in 1594 and broken up 1645.
 * HMS Adventure (1646) was a 32-gun ship launched in 1646, rebuilt in 1691 and captured by the French in 1709.
 * HMS Adventure (1709) was a 40-gun fifth rate launched in 1709 and broken up in 1741.
 * HMS Adventure (1741) was a fourth-rate ship of the line launched in 1741, rebuilt as a 32-gun fifth rate in 1758, and sold in 1770.
 * HMS Adventure (1763) was a 12-gun cutter purchased in 1763 and sold in 1768.
 * HMS Adventure (1771) was a survey ship, originally a collier named Marquis of Rockingham. She was purchased in 1771 and renamed Rayleigh, then renamed Adventure later that year. She accompanied HMS Resolution (1771) on James Cook's second voyage to the Pacific (1772–1775). She returned to mercantile service after Cook's expedition; she was sunk in the Saint Lawrence River in 1811.
 * HMS Adventure (1784) was a 44-gun fifth rate launched in 1784 and broken up in 1816.
 * HMS Adventure was a 10-gun transport launched in 1809 as HMS Aid (1809). She was converted to a survey ship in 1817 and renamed HMS Adventure in 1821. She was sold in 1853.
 * HMS Adventure was an iron screw storeship, launched in 1855 as HMS Resolute (1855). She was renamed HMS Adventure in 1857 and was broken up in 1877.
 * HMS Adventure was to have been a torpedo ram. She was ordered in 1885 but was cancelled before her launch.
 * HMS Adventure (1891) was a river gunboat launched in 1891, transferred to British Central Africa in 1896 and sold in 1921.
 * HMS Adventure (1904) was an Adventure-class cruiser scout cruiser launched in 1904 and sold in 1920.
 * HMS Adventure (M23) was a minelayer launched in 1924. She was used as a repair ship from 1944 and was sold in 1947.

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Security and Freedom Ensured Act

The Security and Freedom Enhancement (SAFE) Act is legislation proposed by Senators Larry Craig (R-ID), John E. Sununu (R-NH) and Richard Durbin (D-IL) which would add checks and balances to the USA PATRIOT Act. This legislation, which was introduced in the House on April 6, 2005, would curtail some powers of the USA PATRIOT Act by requiring court reviews and reporting requirements.

The SAFE Act would also revise the definition of "terrorist" to exclude certain groups of people such as anti-war protesters and abortion demonstrators.

This legislation was introduced to provide an alternative to the USA PATRIOT Act that some felt was too overreaching in its effort to fight terrorism.

Reception
Some groups, such as The Heritage Foundation, condemned the SAFE Act for threatening the safety of Americans. Others, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, praised the legislation for protecting civil liberties.

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Robert Black (colonial administrator)

Sir Robert Brown Black (3 June 1906 – 19 October 1999) was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Singapore from 1955 to 1957, and Governor of Hong Kong from 1958 to 1964.

Born in Edinburgh and educated at George Watson's College and the University of Edinburgh, he would spend three decades overseas and return to Britain in the 1960s.

Colonial administration career
Sir Robert Brown Black served in the administration of Britain's colonies for more than 30 years. Entering the colonial service, Black was assigned to Trinidad, but the remainder of his postings were in Asia.

During his posting in North Borneo Black was commissioned into the Intelligence Corps and involved in guerilla resistance against the Japanese. He was captured in 1942 and spent the remainder of World War II in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp.

After the war ended, he returned to the colonial service and served in North Borneo and Hong Kong before moving on to Singapore as Governor (1955–57). Subsequently, he became Governor of Hong Kong from 1958 to 1964.

Governor of Hong Kong
During his governorship, Hong Kong became increasingly prosperous. At the same time, many tens of thousands of refugees were illegally crossing the border from China every year, driven in part by widespread famine in China during the years 1958–1961. Some were stopped and sent back, but almost all of the hundreds of thousands who reached Kowloon were allowed to stay. This influx placed an enormous burden on the colonial authorities, but the needs of the refugees were met by a programme of public housing construction and public health measures.

Robert Black had been dealing with the patriotic Hong Kong Chinese in a heavy-handed way. On 18 April 1958, a raid was conducted on the library of the Pui Kiu Middle School (PKMS). The officer-in-charge of the Hong Kong Island Section of the Inspectorate of Education visited the school with five assistants. Nineteen books were confiscated and four were used as evidence of the 'mismanagement of the school' in a warning letter addressed to the school supervisor on 13 May. On the basis of these and other accusations, such as hiring of unregistered teachers and discussion of political issues in school meetings, To Pak-fui (杜伯奎), the principal of PKMS, was deported on 6 August, to Lo Wu.

Hong Kong experienced a prolonged drought of unanticipated severity during the last two years of his tenure, which led to a serious water shortage. Water rationing was imposed in May 1962 and continued through August 1964. From June 1963 until late May 1964 (when the arrival of Typhoon Viola ended the drought) the water supply was restricted to a single four-hour period every four days.

Black helped establish the Chinese University of Hong Kong by uniting several smaller institutions. He served as Chancellor of both the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Hong Kong during his tenure as Governor of Hong Kong.

He was knighted (KCMG) in 1955 and promoted to GCMG in 1962.

Post-governorship
Black returned to Britain in 1964. He was active with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the Royal Commonwealth Society, and served as chairman of the Clerical Medical and General Life Assurance Society in the 1970s. He died on 19 October 1999, having been predeceased some years earlier (in 1986) by his wife Anne. He was survived by their two daughters, Barbara and Kathryn.

Tributes

 * Robert Black College, a graduate college of the University of Hong Kong
 * Robert Black Health Centre in San Po Kong, Hong Kong
 * Sir Robert Black College of Education, now merged into the Hong Kong Institute of Education
 * (for his wife) The Anne Black YWCA, Kowloon
 * (for his wife) Anne Black Health Centre, North Point

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Aelia Flaccilla

Aelia Flavia Flaccilla (died 386) was a Roman empress and first wife of the Roman Emperor Theodosius I. She was of Hispanian Roman descent. During her marriage to Theodosius, she gave birth to two sons – future Emperors Arcadius and Honorius – and a daughter, Aelia Pulcheria.

Family
According to Laus Serenae ("In Praise of Serena"), a poem by Claudian, both Serena and Flaccilla were from Hispania.

A passage of Themistius (Oratio XVI, De Saturnino) has been interpreted to identify Flaccilla's father as Claudius Antonius, Praetorian prefect of Gaul from 376 to 377 and Roman consul in 382. However the relation is considered doubtful. In 1967, John Robert Martindale, later one of several article writers in the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, suggested that the passage actually identifies Antonius as the brother-in-law of Theodosius. However the passage is vague enough to allow Afranius Syagrius, co-consul of Antonius in 382, to be the brother-in-law in question. The only kin clearly identified in primary sources was her nephew Nebridius, son of an unnamed sister.

Marriage
In 376, Flaccilla married Theodosius I, the son of Count Theodosius, a high ranking general under Valentinian I. At the time Theodosius had withdrawn to civilian life in Cauca, Gallaecia after the mysterious execution of his father.

Their first son Arcadius, as well as their daughter Pulcheria, were born prior to the elevation of Theodosius as emperor. Their second son Honorius was born on 9 September 384.

Empress
The Eastern Roman emperor Valens was killed at the Battle of Adrianople on 9 August 378. His nephew and co-emperor Gratian appointed Theodosius, magister militum per Illyricum, to succeed Valens on 19 January 379. At this point Flaccilla became Roman empress and was given the title Augusta.

She was a fervent supporter of the Nicene Creed. In one instance, she prevented a conference between Theodosius and Eunomius of Cyzicus who served as figurehead of Anomoeanism, the most radical sect of Arians, in an attempt to prevent him from betraying the Nicene faith. Ambrose and Gregory of Nyssa praise her Christian virtue and comment on her role as "a leader of justice" and "pillar of the Church".

Theodoret reports on her works of charity, personally tending to the disabled. He quotes her saying that "To distribute money belongs to the imperial dignity, but I offer up for the imperial dignity itself personal service to the Giver." According to the Chronicon Paschale, the Palatium Flaccillianum of Constantinople was named in her honor.

She died in the year 386, shortly after her daughter. Gregory of Nyssa went on to deliver a funeral oration for her.

Sainthood
She is commemorated as a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church, her feast day being 14 September.

title: Aelia Flaccilla