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Talk:Atheist (band)

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R.A.V.A.G.E. (which stands for Raging Atheists Voving A Gory End)

"Voving"? Should that be "Vowing" or not? This is hardly my specialised subject, so I'm leaving the actual article well alone, but I thought it worth mentioning. Loganberry 04:32, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

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I recently read (on BNR metal) that Kelly Shaefer & Rand Burkey had talked about remforming Atheist, is there any truth in this that would be worth adding to the article? Avador 00:37, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I've read something similar recently, but I doubt the reunion will take place (although it would be cool). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 213.107.4.172 (talk • contribs) 15:34, 19 December 2005 (UTC).

http://www.myspace.com/gnosticmusic —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.106.161.85 (talk • contribs) 12:49, 27 January 2006 (UTC).

not death metal
ummm I would really not classify them as death metal... more like experimental thrash —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.139.207.240 (talk • contribs) 11:18, 20 March 2006 (UTC).
 * they are clearly in the same vein as cynic (which are regarded as (prog/tech/whatever) death metal) as well as Death themselves. Bay Area Death sounds like this... it has nothing to do with Morbid Angel's kind of death metal just to give an example. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 87.196.71.7 (talk • contribs) 19:15, 7 June 2006 (UTC).

 * Death/thrash is the most appropriate description. Pasajero 19:36 21 August 2006 (UTC)

Another former Bass Player
Another Former Bass Player is Kyle Sokol from Tampa, Florida, USA. The time frame was mid 90's I believe.

He did work with the former Disincarnate singer Bryan Cegon as well as Chuck Schuldiner prior to his death. He works in tampa as a session player for many bands in the south Eastern USA, ands plays bass for a metal act called Must Not Kill (www.myspace.com/mustnotkill) and also a Punk Act Rude Squad (www.myspace.com/rudesquad)

His endorsements include M Basses (www.mbasses.com) and AccuGroove bass cabinets (www.accugroove.com) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.31.19.50 (talk) 16:32, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Atheist Logo.png
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Web page link
"Notice: This domain name expired on 06/09/07 and is pending renewal or deletion" on the official site... Ran4 18:51, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Corrected the link so it now redirects to the current site. DJFishlips 04:45, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

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New album?
Kelly Shaefer seems to think it will happen. BrainRotMenacer (talk) 05:19, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

Current Lineup 2011
Hey guys, this is Travis Morgan, I'm the new bass player of Atheist...

Just wanted to let you guys know that Johnathan Thompson is no longer in the band, he got a job as a surgeon tech and quit the band in February. Jason Holloway is playing guitar for us now, he's a really cool guy and great guitarist. I'm kind of a wikipedia noob, so if someone wants to update the page with all the proper wiki-etiquette, that'd be awesome. Cheers! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.242.205.214 (talk) 06:06, 8 April 2011 (UTC)

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Talk:Red Paint People

trans-Atlantic theory
I saw the mention in 6th millennium BC regarding these people, and was intrigued. Someone else came along real quick & removed the tidbit about the trans-Atlantic theory that seems to accompany these people. However, the person had made the change as I was reading references that asserted that the idea has indeed been debunked. I felt it appropriate to register them as "Pre-Columbian" and invite anyone knowledgeable to deal with Maritime Archaic.

Cwolfsheep 04:32, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Inaccuracy through 2006
Much of the article is currently inaccurate. I'm going to try to fix this. The references about "first discovery" are actually about "first discovery in Newfoundland". The first discovery at all was almost a century earlier, circa 1885, in Maine by a Harvard professor and his assistant Charles Willoughby. The Red Paint People name was given by Warren K. Moorehead. Scientists now refer to this culture as the Moorehead Phase of the Laurentian Tradition. It may take me a while to find a sufficient quantity of reliable sources to do a total rewrite. GRBerry 19:28, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

contrast with "red ochre people?"
are they the same? different? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.87.138.107 (talk) 17:02, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

text of possible use
I have removed the following text that was added to the "see also" section. It is unclear to me how much of it is relevant to the article subject, but I am pasting it here in case there is material that can be integrated into parts of the article.

''This Tsunami occurred about 5000 b. c. It occurred during an earthquake that split off the eastern third of Mt. Tuck and diverted the Penobscot river from the western side of Mt. Tuck to it's present day course. This 400 plus ft. channel extends to Bucksport Maine and continues all the way to Silver lake underground. The townspeople even filled in a section to form an athletic field for the middle school. The absence of villages in the area is associated with this tsunami extending all the way to Stonington Maine. The Orrington Shell Mound is located several ft. above the present day waterline. But, during it's pre earthquake days, the river would have been much higher, thus touching the shell mound easily. The supposedly fictional native city of Norumbega would have been located along the pre earthquake eastern side of Mt. Tuck's Penobscot river course. Coinsedentally there is a e nearly enclosed mini-cove in the exact location described in pre 1509 maps. There are even caves located halfway up the cliff side inside this enclose. Just slightly higher than original river level. If this "is" the correct place, then explorer David Ingram "did" visit this underground dwelling, believed to have been occupied 7000 plus years ago. It appears that natives living in the area pre 16th century didn't differentiate between "old" Penobscot and new. Perhaps proof that this so can only be proven by going there, either by reppeling down from above, or getting through quicksand like swamp (river bed) at base.''

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Talk:Polish involvement in the Iraq War

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What's wrong with the link to You forgot Poland? Why is it being removed? Halibutt 04:33, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

 * Dla mnie to troche za glupie by linkowalo ze strony o czyms tak powaznyn jak inwazja i okupacja Iraku. To tak jak stworzyc strone o kawalach o francuskiej armii podczas 2ws i wstawic link w artykule o armi fr. --Witkacy 05:42, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * In my opinion its not the right place for such silly meme or joke (whatever it is) article link - nor the Iraq War neither the occupation of Iraq is or was funny. Its like to create an article with jokes about the French Army during the WW2 and put a link on the French Army article :)--Witkacy 07:45, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Not a joke. Perhaps there is a way to make that clear, such as US Presidential debate: You forgot Poland. This is not meant to be disrespectful to Poland, and it is definitely an important aspect of the topic.  I feel the article is incomplete without it (comments below). Cleduc 08:48, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I added it, so obviously I think it should be there. I wound up on the page randomly, and the first thing I thought was, hey! "You forgot Poland!" -- probably the most memorable thing, worldwide, about Poland's contribution in the Iraq war. Cleduc 07:19, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

 * "probably the most memorable thing, worldwide..." America is not the whole world.. :)--Witkacy 08:46, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Recognize that the US is not the whole world, as I do not live there. A great deal of press and commentary was generated by Bush's comment, which to many illustrated US diplomatic failure to win broad-based support for the Iraq war. Cleduc 08:53, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Personally, I believe that the more this article is interlinked, the better. Whether a joke, a bushism or a serious topic seems quite irrelevant to me. What counts is that the whole "You forgot Poland" thingie was one of the best-publicised aspects of the Polish contribution to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Just as I can't think of the You forgot Poland article not linking here, I can't think of this article not mentioning the Bush-Kerry debate over Poland.

 * Perhaps as a compromise solution we could simply add a debate part to the current article. There, we could explain both the Polish political context of the war in Iraq and the US debate. How about that? This article is a stub so far anyway and any expansion would only do it good in my oppinion. Halibutt 11:21, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

 * BTW, I contacted the Press Office of the Multinational Division, asking whether they would be so kind as to allow us to use some of their pictures. Halibutt 11:30, May 29, 2005 (UTC)

 * What the hell?? The phrase "you forgot poland" redirects to this page, and now there's no mention of it?? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.43.227.18 (talk) 07:56, 16 January 2009 (UTC)

Four countries participated in the 2003 invasion of Iraq; the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and Poland. Ofhistoricalnote (talk) 09:34, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

Poor expression
This article is exceptionally poorly written. In 2003, controversy erupted between Poland and France when Polish forces found French Roland surface-to-air missiles that they pretended to have been manufactured in 2003. Who pretended what? What the hell? Colonel Mustard 00:21, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I fixed it up a bit. However, this needs to be better explained, so I've removed it to here:
 * (it is known that these were involved in direct fighting with the Iraqi army) (of the Polish commandos) Colonel Mustard 00:31, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Weapons have expiry dates? somebody tell the Taliban! "Hey you can't shoot that 70's-Vintage AK47, it's expired!" —Preceding unsigned comment added by Felneymike (talk • contribs) 20:06, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

$3.8 billion aid
I removed this unreferenced claim; we have two sources for the aid being at least one order of magnitude smaller.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus 17:54, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

 * I also thought the $3.1 billion number was ridiculous, but I checked the US government source, and it seems to hold up. I'd love to know where exactly that money is going!  Perhaps the number includes services provided to the Polish army while stationed in Iraq.  You mentioned you have two sources, but you actually linked to the same article twice in a row.  Did you accidentally paste the wrong link?  I'm very interested in seeing your other source --Jonovision 01:43, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

 * This number really is ridiculous, and the way the description is phrased is unacceptable. Until solid references are provided, I have removed it. The sequence of numbers in the spreadsheet file strains credulity.  These numbers might reflect paying for some of the cost of keeping and transporting Polish units to Iraq, but this is obviously not equivalent to military aid to Poland.  Thus if Israel or Egypt gets a billion dollars from the US in military aid, this means lots of shiny new guns and planes for Israel and Eqypt to make them stronger militarily.  But if the US airlifts a Polish brigade to Iraq, bills the cost of this at $1 billion and files that cost under "military aid to Poland", this does not increase the military capability of the Polish army at all and thus cannot be considered military aid in the common sense this term is understood. At any rate, we don't have any data more recent than 2003, so using the present tense is dubious. If Poland really did become the second recipient of US military aid after Israel, I am sure there would have been some media reports of it, but I have not seen any. Balcer 16:45, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Another country forgoten by bush and kerry
What about denmark. Its listed in the wikipedia article as part of coalition of the willing —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.32.31.254 (talk) 19:27, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, Denmark became also a US puppet. And what about Micronesia which supported this foray as well? --89.50.28.136 (talk) 06:16, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

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Pennant Hills railway station

Pennant Hills railway station is located on the Main Northern line, serving the Sydney suburb of Pennant Hills. It is served by Sydney Trains T9 Northern Line services.

History
Pennant Hills station opened on 17 September 1886. Immediately north of Pennant Hills, a short four track section of the Main Northern line begins which runs to the next station at Thornleigh.

The present day footbridge was built in May 1991 and Pennant Hills received an easy access upgrade including lifts on each platform, becoming one of the first low-patronage stations in Sydney to receive wheelchair access, along with Waverton. Nearby Thornleigh and Normanhurst did not receive wheelchair access until 2023.

As part of the North Sydney Freight Corridor project, an electrified passing loop was built behind the western platform where it joined the existing loop. As part of these works the western platform was converted to an island. The new platform opened on 14 June 2016.

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Jeff Hubbard

Jeff Hubbard is the 2012 IBA World Tour bodyboarder champion from Kauai, Hawaii. His brother David also won a bodyboarding world title: the 2009 IBA Drop Knee World Tour. Jeff won his first IBA World Title in 2006 and the second in 2009 and third in 2012.

His style is characterized by aerial tricks, and recognized by constantly pushing the boundaries of the sport. His split leg invert and looped 360 airs are a kind of trademark, and he is also regarded as one of the few bodyboarders to ever land an aerial 720. He is a five-time winner of the IBA Pipeline Pro bodyboarding contest in 2002, 2006, 2011, 2012 and 2017. Jeff Now owns his own bodyboard brand with his brother dave called Hubboards. www.hubboards.com Jeff also has his own swim fins called Air Hubb swim fins.

Three-time IBA World Champion (2006, 2009, 2012) Five -time IBA Pipeline Champion (2003, 2007,2011,2012,2017) Eleven-time United States National Title Holder (8 professional and 3 amateur) Sintra Portugal Pro Champion 2009 Peruvian Inka Challenge Champion 2009 Canary Islands El Fronton Wild Wild Wave Champion 2010 Mexico Zigatela Pro Champion 2011, 2012/td> Encanto Pro Champion 2012 Port Macquarie festival of Bodyboarding Champion 2012

Hubbard won the "El Fronton - The Wild Wild Wave Invitational 2010" and the "IBA Pipeline Pro 2011" reaching his third Pipe Title. With the last two high scoring waves (9.75 and 9.5 out of 10) in the last 5 minutes of the final, he dramatically jumped to the top spot after being fourth (and last) for most of the heat.

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Paezan languages

Paezan (also Páesan, Paezano, Interandine) may be any of several hypothetical or obsolete language-family proposals of Colombia and Ecuador named after the Paez language.

Proposals
Currently, Páez (Nasa Yuwe) is best considered either a language isolate or the only surviving member of an otherwise extinct language family (Adelaar & Muysken 2004, Gordon 2005, Matteson 1972, Fabre 2005). It has often been grouped with other languages in a Paezan family, but several of these proposals are based on a historical error. Even before the discovery of the error, Campbell (1997: 173) stated, "There is no consensus upon Paezan, and opinions vary greatly".

Páez, Panzaleo, Andaquí
One of the most often repeated statements (e.g. Loukota 1968; Kaufman 1990, 1994) is the supposed connection between Páez and the extinct Panzaleo (also known as Pansaleo, Latacunga, or Quito), formerly spoken in highlands of Ecuador. However, Panzaleo is poorly documented and the evidence for this relationship is weak and may be from language contact. Thus, Panzaleo may best be considered an unclassified isolate (Adelaar & Muysken 2004: 393-397; Campbell 1997).

The Andaquí isolate (also extinct) is often connected with Páez in a Paezan grouping. Documentation is a 20-page list of words and expressions by an anonymous author published in 1928 and another word list collected in 1854 by a priest (Manuel María Albis). There are a number of similarities in vocabulary between Andaquí and Páez, as noted by Jolkesky (2015) and others. In other aspects, the differences are greater.

Jolkesky (2015) also found lexical similarities with Tinigua.

Páez and Coconucan
The Coconucan languages were first grouped together with Páez by Henri Beuchat & Paul Rivet in 1910 (under a larger Chibchan family, which is considerably more inclusive than the conservative Chibchan recognized today). Curnow (1998) shows this is based on misinterpretation of a Moguex vocabulary of Douay (1888), which is a mix of Páez and Guambiano/Totoró. The error has led to subsequent classifiers (e.g. Kaufman 1990, 1994; Campbell 1997; Greenberg 1956, 1987; Tovar & Larruceau de Tovar 1984) to group Páez with Guambiano, missing the obvious identification of Coconucan as Barbacoan.

Matteson's 1972 comparison of Páez and Guambiano vocabularies show just a 5.2% overlap, less than comparisons between Páez and Arawak, Quechua and Proto-Chibchan (respectively 17%, 12%, and 14%). Following linguists such as Matteson (1972), Curnow (1998), Curnow & Liddicoat (1998), and Adelaar & Muysken (2004), the Coconucan languages are now placed under Barbacoan. The question of connections between Páez, Panzaleo, and Andaquí remains open.

More distant relations
Prior to Curnow's correction, the Paez–Coconucan "family" had been connected to various other families. Greenberg included Paezan in a Macro-Chibchan (or Chibchan–Paezan) stock with Barbacoan, Chibchan, Chocoan, Jirajaran, and the isolates Betoi, Kamsá (Sibundoy), Yaruro, Esmeraldeño, Mochica, Cunza (Atacameño), Itonama, and Yurumanguí. Morris Swadesh's Paezan included Páez, Barbacoan, Coconucan, Andaquí, Cunza, Kapixana, and Mashubí. Kaufman's (1990, 1994) Macro-Páesan "cluster" proposal included "Paesan" (as explained above)–Barbacoan, Cunza–Kapixana, Betoi, Itonama, and Warao.

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User:Paranigma

Paranigma means 'illogical puzzle.' It is derived from two words: paradox and enigma. Combined they take on a meaning of expotential confusion.

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Barry Collier (politician)

Barry Joseph Collier (born 5 December 1949) is an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2011 and from 2013 to 2015, representing the electorate of Miranda. Collier retired at the 2011 election, but contested and won a 2013 by-election when his successor, Liberal Graham Annesley, resigned. Collier then retired a second time at the 2015 election. In September 2016, Collier was elected to Sutherland Shire Council, serving as a Councillor representing B Ward.

He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2017 Australia Day Honours List for services to the Parliament of New South Wales, to the law and to education.

Education
Bachelor of Commerce (Economics) with Merit (UNSW); Graduate Diploma in Education (UNSW); Diploma in Law, BAB (Sydney); Graduate, Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Teaching and legal careers
From 1973 to 1989, Collier was a high school economics teacher with the NSW Education Department. During his teaching career, Collier also served as NSW economics curriculum consultant and chairman of the NSW Higher School Certificate Economics Examination Committee. He wrote three textbooks and accompanying workbooks for high school students in Years 11 and 12 entitled Introducing Economics, published by Jacaranda-Wiley.

From 1989 to 1999, he practiced criminal law as a solicitor with both the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Legal Aid Commission of NSW, and later as a barrister in private practice. As a Legal Aid solicitor, Collier appeared in the 1993 ABC Television reality local court documentary So Help Me God.

Political career
Collier was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in the 1999 NSW state election defeating Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party, Ron Phillips who had held the seat of Miranda for 15 years.'From 2007 until his retirement from Parliament in 2011, he served as Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Attorney General & Minister for Justice, Assisting the Minister for Corrective Services, Assisting the Treasurer and Assisting the Minister for Ports & Waterways.

Collier made over 700 speeches in the NSW Legislative Assembly.

Collier is notable for switching from the right faction to the left faction in 2005 and causing the Government to back down on a proposal to resurrect the long-standing plan to build the Southern Freeway (or F6) through his electorate. He returned to the right faction of the Labor Party in September 2008.

On 21 September 2010 Collier announced that he would not contest the 2011 state election. He gave his valedictory speech in the Legislative Assembly on 26 November 2010. In 2013, Collier nominated to contest Miranda once again in the by-election triggered by the resignation of his successor, Graham Annesley and won a surprise victory, returning to Parliament on the back of a 27 per cent swing- the largest swing ever recorded at a New South Wales by-election

In 2013, Collier withdrew his opposition to the F6 extension, saying he would support it if it was built as a tunnel under the Sutherland Shire.

In Opposition, Collier served as Shadow Minister for Water and as Shadow Minister for Sport and Recreation He did not recontest Miranda at the 2015 election, instead marking his second retirement from the New South Wales Parliament.

Collier decided to run for Sutherland Shire Council in September 2016 and became a councillor for B Ward with Labor gaining a 20 percent swing on the primary vote He did not seek re-election in 2021.

Political hiatus and personal life
After temporarily leaving politics, Collier returned to legal practice as a barrister.

In September 2012, Collier was appointed by the NSW Government as a trustee of the newly created Rookwood General Cemetery Reserve Trust Board. He resigned from the Board in September 2013 to contest the Miranda by-election.

Collier is married with two children and has lived in Sutherland Shire since 1972.

Literature
Collier has written and published several poems including "Millennium Drought" for which he won the National Henry Lawson Literary Society Award for Free Verse in 2017 and "Anzac Day 2018: Let Us Also Remember."

In November 2018, Barry Collier published his political memoir, Collier For Miranda: The 1999 Labor Campaign. The book details his successful grassroots campaign as an unknown, first-time Labor candidate to win the southern Sydney seat which had been held by the Liberal Party for 15 years.

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User talk:Domini

Welcome!

Hello,, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. If you need help, check out Where to ask a question, ask me on my talk page, or place  on your talk page and someone will show up shortly to answer your questions. Again, welcome! And thank you so much for adding to those Dragonriders of Pern articles. --*Kat* 04:36, May 29, 2005 (UTC)
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Hello Kat,

Thanks for the welcome. I am rather new but I've been lurking for a while, and I'm already a self-appointed gatherer-of-knowledge for some topics online (ie, I run a Jacqueline Carey fansite) so I decided the Wikipedia would be a good use for some of my extra knowledge. :) Thank you for the style links--I sort of jumped in and just followed the way the article was formatted before I touched it, so those are useful.

Hope to see you around! :)

Domini 21:25, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Dudette!

Just saw you on here.... How the hell are you and whay haevn't you called!

Mystar 05:10, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

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Arnold Picker

Arnold M. Picker (September 29, 1913 – October 11, 1989) was a United States film industry executive, mayor of Golden Beach, Florida and the number one enemy on Nixon's Enemies List.

Early life and education
Picker was born in New York City. He had two brothers, Eugene Picker (father of David Picker) and Sidney Picker. He was of Jewish descent. Picker attended the City College of New York and the London School of Economics.

Career
Picker began his career by following in his father's footsteps. In 1935, he started with Columbia Pictures, where his father had been an executive, and later became head of international distribution. He then joined United Artists where his nephew, future UA president David worked, and in 1961 he was made an executive vice president in charge of all production. His brother Eugene joined UA the same year. His motion picture career ended and political career began when President Lyndon B. Johnson named him to the International Commission on Education and Cultural Affairs.

In 1972, Picker served as the finance chairman of Senator Edmund Muskie's presidential campaign and in 1976 he worked as a top fundraiser for Henry M. Jackson's campaign. Picker was singled out by President Richard M. Nixon's reelection strategists as the top target of a list of 20 people on Nixon's Enemies List. This list came to light during the Watergate scandal. Picker was elected mayor of Golden Beach, Florida, in 1979.

Although his career in the motion picture industry ended in the 1960s, Picker continued to be an active force in the field. He helped establish the Washington-based American Film Institute. He later served as chairman of the board of the National Center for Jewish Film. The center at Brandeis University is dedicated to restoring Yiddish film classics. He also helped found the Holocaust Documentation and Education Center based at Florida International University.

Death
In 1957, he married Ruth Cohen; they had two daughters, Carol Picker Frank and Phyllis Picker Dessner. Picker died of pneumonia at New England Deaconess Hospital in Boston.

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Our Bodies, Ourselves

Our Bodies, Ourselves is a book about women's health and sexuality produced by the nonprofit organization Our Bodies Ourselves (originally called the Boston Women's Health Book Collective). First published in 1970, it contains information related to many aspects of women's health and sexuality, including: sexual health, sexual orientation, gender identity, birth control, abortion, pregnancy and childbirth, violence and abuse, and menopause. The most recent edition of the book was published in 2011. The book was revolutionary in that it encouraged women to celebrate their sexuality, including chapters on reproductive rights, lesbian sexuality, and sexual independence. Its emphasis on women's active engagement with their actual sexual desires stood in contrast to the societal notion of the role of "women as docile and passive," and "men as active and aggressive" in a sexual relationship.

The book has been translated and adapted by women's groups around the world and is available in 33 languages. Sales for all the books exceed four million copies. The New York Times has called the seminal book "America's best-selling book on all aspects of women's health" and a "feminist classic".

History
The health seminar that inspired the booklet was organized in 1969 by Nancy Miriam Hawley at Boston's Emmanuel College. "We weren't encouraged to ask questions, but to depend on the so-called experts," Hawley told Women's eNews. "Not having a say in our own health care frustrated and angered us. We didn't have the information we needed, so we decided to find it on our own." As a result of this goal, the book contained information intended to guide women on "how to maneuver the American health care system, with subsections called 'The Power and Role of Male Doctors,' 'The Profit Motive in Health Care,' 'Women as Health Care Workers,' and 'Hospitals.

Created during a moment of radical activism in Boston's history, Our Bodies, Our Selves, came out of the Bread and Roses collective, a radical women's liberation collective started in the 1960s and 1970s. While a short-lived collective it had a lasting impact of the projects that were created from it.

The original writers of the book stated four main reasons for creating it. First, that personal experiences provide a valuable way to understand one's own body beyond the mere facts that experts can provide, creating an empowering learning experience. Second, this kind of learning meant that they were "better prepared to evaluate the institutions that are supposed to meet our health needs...". Third, the historical lack of self-knowledge about the female body "had had one major consequence – pregnancy" and through greater information, women will have more ability to make proactive choices about when to get pregnant. Fourth, information about one's body is perhaps the most essential kind of education, because "bodies are the physical bases from which we move out into the world". Without this basic information, women are alienated from their own body and necessarily on unequal footing with men.

The women researched and wrote up the information themselves. Wendy Sanford wrote about abortion, Jane Pincus and Ruth Bell about pregnancy, and Paula Doress and Esther Rome about postpartum depression. The 12 feminists then published their research as a 35-cent, 136-page booklet called Women and Their Bodies, published in 1970 by the New England Free Press. The booklet sold 250,000 copies in New England without any formal advertising.

As a result of their success, the women formed the non-profit Boston Women's Health Book Collective (which now goes by the name Our Bodies, Ourselves) and published the first 276-page Our Bodies, Ourselves in 1973. The collective published it with the major publisher Simon & Schuster only on the condition that they would have complete editorial control and that nonprofit health centers could purchase copies at a significant discount. It featured first-person stories from women, and tackled many topics then regarded as taboo. Since then, over four million copies have been sold. It has been considered one of the founding events of the women's health movement in the United States.

In 2018, the group announced that due to financial pressures, it would no longer publish new print editions nor have the resources to update its web site with new health information. In 2022, the Our Bodies, Ourselves began a collaboration with the Center for Women's Health and Human Rights at Suffolk University and launched Our Bodies, Ourselves Today, a new website that selects and features the high quality health and sexuality information on women, girls, and gender-expansive people.

Boston Women's Health Book Collective
The Boston Women's Health Book Collective, also known as the Our Bodies, Ourselves Collective, is a feminist group that created Our Bodies, Ourselves. The collective formed at the peak of the women's movement in Boston.

Twelve women all between the ages of 23 and 39 first attended a workshop entitled "Women and Their Bodies" which allowed the women to discuss together the issues they had surrounding their health. The discussion created a consciousness-raising environment, providing each woman with information that they all deal with when handling issues about their bodies. The strong discussion supplied the women with the necessary tools and ideas that lead to the creation of their book that addressed issues surrounding sexuality and abortion. They put their knowledge into an accessible format that served as a model for women who wanted to learn about themselves, communicate with doctors, and challenge the medical establishment to change and improve the health of women everywhere.

Reproductive justice was at the forefront during the women's liberation, causing much debate over the biological rights of women. The Equal Rights Amendment had a section specifically targeting the important issues about Reproductive justice that combines multiple reproductive rights and issues surrounding family. The strategy of the reproductive justice plank was to establish the necessary rights and access for women to gain control over their bodies. Through the passing of this legislation woman would be granted the ability to have abortions, obtain access to birth control and gain full control over their bodies.

The Boston Collective focused on these ideas to allow women the ability to understand their bodies and themselves as women. During the National Women's Conference, women from all over the country deliberated to determine the exact laws that should be put into place for women's reproductive justice. The Boston Collective work together to teach courses and create books that provide knowledge from women not only in Boston, but women across the nation. These women use their skills and knowledge to provide many women with knowledge about their lives through rhetoric that avoids describing the female reproductive system as passive, unproductive, helpless, or powerless.

The organization has also created two single-topic books. Our Bodies, Ourselves: Menopause was published in 2006, and Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth in 2008. The Boston Women's Health Book Collective earlier produced Changing Bodies, Changing Lives: A Book For Teens on Sex and Relationships and The New Ourselves, Growing Older: Women Aging with Knowledge and Power.

Style

The first book was a product of the feminist movement and could still be said to reflect its values. The personal experiences of women are taken into account and are quoted throughout, while the social and political context of women's health informs the content of the book. The book emphasizes empowerment through information and learning, specifically, information gained through women sharing their personal narratives with each other because "by sharing our responses we can develop a base on which to be critical of what the experts tell us."

Topics such as male-to-female and female-to-male transsexualism/transgenderism are discussed in the most recent edition and considered in a nonjudgmental manner. The writing style of the book tends toward a familiar, inclusive tone, with the authors referring to women and themselves as a collective group.

Documentary
The collective of women who initiated Our Bodies, Ourselves are part of the documentary She's Beautiful When She's Angry, about the founders of the modern women's movement from 1966 to 1971.

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Ginger group

A ginger group is a formal or informal group within an organisation seeking to influence its direction and activity. The term comes from the phrase ginger up, meaning to enliven or stimulate. Ginger groups work to alter the organisation's policies, practices, or office-holders, while still supporting its general goals. Ginger groups sometimes form within the political parties of Commonwealth countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and Pakistan.

The Monday Night Cabal
The Monday Night Cabal was a 'ginger group' of influential people set up in London by Leo Amery at the start of 1916 to discuss war policy. The nucleus of the group consisted of Lord Milner, George Carson, Geoffrey Dawson, Waldorf Astor and F. S. Oliver. The group got together for Monday night dinners and to discuss politics. Throughout 1916, their numbers and influence grew to include Minister of Munitions David Lloyd George, General Henry Wilson, Philip Kerr, and Mark Jameson. It was through the Ginger Group that Times editor Geoffrey Dawson published a December 4, 1916 news story titled "Reconstruction" that set in motion events that caused Prime Minister H. H. Asquith to resign, signalling the rise of the Lloyd George Ministry.

Other examples

 * Ginger Group, a radical group of left-wing Canadian MPs in the 1920s and early 1930s
 * Ginger Group (Queensland)
 * Kitchen Cabinet, a term used by political opponents of President of the United States Andrew Jackson to describe his ginger group
 * League of Empire Loyalists, a 1950s UK ginger group
 * Momentum, which has been described as a ginger group within the British Labour Party

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Landon Johnson

Landon Tremone Johnson (born March 13, 1981) is a former American football linebacker. He was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the third round of the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at Purdue.

Johnson also played for the Carolina Panthers and Detroit Lions.

Early life
Johnson attended Coronado High School in Lubbock, Texas and was a three-time All-District pick, a three time All-City pick, a two time All-League pick, and as a senior, he was the District Defensive M.V.P. Furthermore, he holds the school career record for tackles (401 ), and he was also an excellent student who graduated with a 4.0 grade point average.

College career
Johnson played collegiately at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. He played in 47 games during his career, starting 45 including 10 as a Defensive End. He recorded 345 tackles (222 individual) and 8½ sacks. He was named Honorable Mention All-Big Ten Conference in both 2002 and 2003, and was named Academic All-Big Ten team for all four years. He graduated in May 2003 with a degree in General Health Science.

Cincinnati Bengals
After being drafted in the third round of the 2004 NFL Draft, Johnson contributed immediately with 11 starts at linebacker while playing in all 16 games. He ended the season as the team's leader with 133 tackles, 92 of which came in the last seven games (over 13 per game). He became the third Bengals rookie to earn the tackling title, joining Takeo Spikes and James Francis. He also had six pass deflections, two sacks, a forced fumble and fumble recovery, and nine special teams tackles. His pass break-ups total was tied for the team-high for linebackers. On November 21, against the Pittsburgh Steelers, Johnson totaled 20 tackles, which was the most in the season for a player and the most for a player in the Marvin Lewis-era of coaching in Cincinnati.

In his sophomore season in the league, 2005, Johnson totaled 87 total tackles on the season while playing all games on the year. Against the Baltimore Ravens, Johnson recorded five tackles and forced a fumble on tight end Todd Heap, which led to a Bengals' touchdown to put the team up 14-3 in the second quarter. In a December victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers, Johnson totaled 11 tackles and forced another fumble. In a December 24 contest with the Buffalo Bills, Johnson set a team-high for the season with 14 tackles.

In 2006, Johnson totaled 113 tackles on the year and also recorded his first career interception. He began the season with 8 tackles in the season opener against the Kansas City Chiefs. The next game, he totaled five tackles and a fourth quarter interception against the Cleveland Browns, which was his first career interception ever. The following game, Johnson totaled a team-high 12 tackles against the Pittsburgh Steelers. He then had eight tackles in consecutive games: New England and Tampa Bay. He then led the team with 11 tackles against the Baltimore Ravens, followed by a team-high 8 tackles and a forced fumble on Lorenzo Neal against the San Diego Chargers. He then finished up against the New Orleans Saints with 14 tackles, a career-high. In the following shutout against the Browns, Johnson recorded five tackles and a sack that also resulted in a fumble. In the next game against the Ravens, Johnson recorded a team-high 13 tackles. In the December contest against the Indianapolis Colts, Johnson recorded 10 tackles, which was his fifth double-digit tackle game of the season. On the December 31 game against the Steelers, Johnson recorded six tackles and a pass deflection, and also forced a Willie Parker fumble on the one yard-line to stop the Steelers' score in the fourth quarter.

The following season, 2007, Johnson won his third-team tackling title with his career-high 143 tackles. His tackle total was 32 tackles ahead of the closest player, linebacker Dhani Jones. He finished the season leading the team in tackles in five games, while finishing second in another five games and was tied for the team lead with two fumble recoveries. He also had five pass deflections, fourth on the team. Johnson began the first eight games of the season at outside linebacker, but finished the second half of the season at middle linebacker due to other injuries on the team. Johnson began the season with 8 tackles against the Browns and then 7 against the Seahawks. Then against the Kansas City Chiefs, Johnson led the team with 10 tackles and also had a sack of Damon Huard. He was then second with 10 tackles against the Buffalo Bills, then led the team with 11 tackles against the Ravens. After missing most of the Tennessee game due to an injury, Johnson bounced back with consecutive 9-tackle games against the Steelers then the St. Louis Rams. He also had a third down stop for no gain on Rams' running back Steven Jackson. In the December victory over Cleveland, Johnson had a tackle on running back Jamal Lewis for no gain on a fourth down situation to add to his total of seven tackles. In the season finale against the Miami Dolphins, Johnson led the team with 11 tackles.

Johnson became an unrestricted free agent in the 2008 offseason.

Carolina Panthers
On March 7, 2008, Johnson signed a three-year contract with the Carolina Panthers.

He got injured in the 2008–2009 divisional game against Arizona after taking a big hit to the helmet from teammate Jon Beason, after Beason missed a tackle on Cardinals running back J. J. Arrington.

Detroit Lions
Johnson signed with the Detroit Lions on March 19, 2010.

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Supervisor

A supervisor, or lead, (also known as foreman, boss, overseer, facilitator, monitor, area coordinator, line-manager or sometimes gaffer) is the job title of a lower-level management position that is primarily based on authority over workers or a workplace. A supervisor can also be one of the most senior on the staff at the place of work, such as a professor who oversees a Ph.D. dissertation. Supervision, on the other hand, can be performed by people without this formal title, for example by parents. The term supervisor itself can be used to refer to any personnel who have this task as part of their job description.

An employee is a supervisor if they have the power and authority to do the following actions (according to the Ontario Ministry of Labour):
 * 1) Give instructions and/or orders to subordinates.
 * 2) Be held responsible for the work and actions of other employees.

If an employee cannot do the above, legally, they are probably not a supervisor, but in some other category, such as a work group leader or lead hand.

A supervisor is first and foremost an overseer whose main responsibility is to ensure that a group of subordinates get out the assigned amount of production, when they are supposed to do it and within acceptable levels of quality, costs, and safety.

A supervisor is responsible for the productivity and actions of a small group of employees. The supervisor has several manager-like roles, responsibilities, and powers. Two of the key differences between a supervisor and a manager are (1) the supervisor does not typically have "hire and fire" authority, and (2) the supervisor does not have budget authority. Supervisors are not considered part of the organization's proper management and instead are seen as senior members of the workforce. Unlike middle managers, supervisors presence is essential for the execution of the work.

Lacking "hire and fire" authority means that a supervisor may not recruit the employees working in the supervisor's group nor does the supervisor have the authority to terminate an employee. The supervisor may participate in the hiring process as part of interviewing and assessing candidates, but the actual hiring authority rests in the hands of a Human Resource Manager. The supervisor may recommend to management that a particular employee be terminated and the supervisor may be the one who documents the behaviors leading to the recommendation but the actual firing authority rests in the hands of a manager.

Lacking budget authority means that a supervisor is provided a budget developed by management within which constraints the supervisor is expected to provide a productive environment for the employees of the supervisor's work group. A supervisor will usually have the authority to make purchases within specified limits. A supervisor is also given the power to approve work hours and other payroll issues. Normally, budget affecting requests such as travel will require not only the supervisor's approval but the approval of one or more layers of management.

As a member of management, a supervisor's main job is more concerned with orchestrating and controlling work rather than performing it directly.

Role and responsibilities
Supervisors are uniquely positioned through direct daily employee contact to respond to employee needs, problems, and satisfaction. Supervisors are the direct link between management and the work force and can be most effective in developing job training, safety attitudes, safe working methods and identifying unsafe acts.

Tasks

 * Carry out policies passed down a hierarchy from the level above.
 * Plan short-range action-steps to carry out goals set by the level above.
 * Organize the work group.
 * Assign jobs to subordinates.
 * Delegate projects to subordinates.
 * Direct tasks, jobs and projects.
 * Train subordinates.
 * Enforce rules.
 * Lead and motivate subordinates.
 * Develop group cohesiveness.
 * Solve routine daily problems.
 * Control or evaluate the performance of subordinates and the department - performance appraisals.
 * Discipline subordinates.

"Doing" can take up to 70% of the time - (this varies according to the type of supervisory job - the doing involves the actual work of the department as well as the planning, controlling, scheduling, organizing, leading, etc.).

Training
Supervisors often do not require any formal education on how they are to perform their duties but are most often given on-the-job training or attend company sponsored courses. Many employers have supervisor handbooks that need to be followed. Supervisors must be aware of their legal responsibilities to ensure that their employees work safely and that the workplace that they are responsible for meets government standards.

Academia
In academia, a supervisor is a senior scientist or scholar who, along with their own responsibilities, aids and guides a postdoctoral researcher, postgraduate research student or undergraduate student in their research project; offering both moral support and scientific insight and guidance. The term is used in several countries for the doctoral advisor of a graduate student.

Gaffer
In colloquial British English, "gaffer" means a foreman, and is used as a synonym for "boss". In the UK, the term also commonly refers to sports coaches (football, rugby, etc.).

The term is also sometimes used colloquially to refer to an old man, an elderly rustic. The word is probably a shortening of "godfather", with "ga" from association with "grandfather". The female equivalent, "gammer", came to refer colloquially to an old lady or to a gossip. The use of gaffer in this way can be seen, for example, in J.R.R. Tolkien's character Gaffer Gamgee.

In 16th century English a "gaffer" was a man who was the head of any organized group of labourers. In 16th and 17th century rural England, it was used as a title slightly inferior to "Master", similar to "Goodman", and was not confined to elderly men. The chorus of a famous Australian shearer's song, The Backblocks' Shearer (also known as Widgegoeera Joe), written by W. Tully at Nimidgee, NSW (c.1900), refers to a gaffer:

 * Hurrah, me boys, my shears are set,
 * I feel both fit and well;
 * Tomorrow you’ll find me at my pen
 * When the gaffer rings the bell.
 * With Hayden's patent thumb guards fixed
 * And both my blades pulled back;
 * Tomorrow I go with my sardine blow
 * For a century or the sack!

 * In glassblowing, a gaffer is the central figure in the creation of a piece of art. For example, at the Corning Glass Works in Corning, New York, a gaffer is a skilled artisan who blows through a long tube to shape molten glass into a variety of useful and/or artistic objects. The Gaffer District in Corning is named in honor of these artisans.

History
As industrial and commercial enterprises grew in size - especially after introduction of techniques of the industrial revolution - the perceived need for supervisors and foremen grew in tandem. One example is the development of the hierarchical model and practices of the plantation economies in the  antebellum American South, where the overseer provided the interface between the  planter and the indentured servants, and later slaves.

By 1894 speakers of U.S. English had begun to refer to a subordinate or assistant foreman - sometimes contemptuously - as a straw boss, by analogy with the concept of a "straw man".

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Princeton University Band

The Princeton University Band serves as the marching band and pep band of Princeton University. Like most other Ivy League bands, it is a scramble band. To members and fans, it is often known as the PUB (pronounced Pea You Bee) or simply The Band. Many alumni refer to it as the Tiger Band.

Foundation and early history
The modern Princeton University Band was established in October 1919 when a group of undergraduate musicians decided that a regular musical presence was needed at Palmer Stadium, home of Princeton's multi-time national champion football team; however, these events were in many ways merely a reorganization of the preexisting R.O.T.C. Band that had served a much smaller role on campus several years earlier, making Princeton's Band one of the oldest of its kind in the country. Some of the band traveled to perform at the Yale Bowl for the season's only away game, beginning a long tradition of the PUB attending all football games, home and away.

For over a decade, the PUB performed on a tight budget, clad only in black sweaters with bow-ties and white pants; however, thanks to the contributions of many alumni supporters in 1936, the band was able to afford new instruments, music, and, most notably, new uniforms — black blazers with orange collars and a Princeton Band insignia on the breast pocket.

In 1937, the PUB expanded its role at Princeton by performing not only during football games, but also at basketball and ice hockey. By the 1940s, they were performing at nearly all home basketball and hockey contests, as well as at several lacrosse matches and more formal spring concerts.

A change in style and increased national profile
The 1950s witnessed an era of great transition for the band. Gradually, the band changed from a corps-style band to today's scramble band. Some alumni recall seeing the band scramble without spoken accompaniment as early as 1938, and records of scrambling exist as early as 1941. In 1955, the band began experimenting with comedic scripts to go along with the halftime scrambles. The first script on record was in a home opener against Rutgers University in 1955, by which time scrambling was a well-established feature of field performances. However, the band didn't entirely stop marching until the 1970s. In 1952, the band switched from black to orange-and-black plaid blazers and continued to wear the straw hats that had been introduced a year or two earlier. With this change, the band started the tradition of wearing colorful formal wear on the field — something that has since been emulated by every Ivy League band at one point or another, as well as those of Stanford, Virginia, Rutgers, and Rice. The trendsetting new uniform was even featured on the cover of the October 1955 issue of Sports Illustrated.

From 1949 to 1981, the PUB did not miss a single football game. At 32 years and 293 games, this is one of the longest streaks in the history of college marching bands, passed only by the current holder of consecutive games attended, USC's Spirit of Troy. The PUB has never missed a home game in its near-century of existence.

The PUB's halftime format has caused problems over the years. Not only have a number of institutions banned it from performing, like the United States Military Academy at West Point and, until recently, Lafayette College, but there was serious talk in the 1970s and '80s of disbanding the group at Princeton.

Today
To placate the concerns of administrators and alumni at Princeton, the PUB hired Jack Hontz, a marching band director from Strath Haven High School in Pennsylvania, as a musical advisor. The brother of a former band member, Hontz helped the band make the most out of its musical performances and steered the band away from behavior that may have attracted the ire of the university. While very helpful, Hontz filled only a consultory role for the PUB until his death in the summer of 2017, offering advice only when it was needed and leaving all leadership and decision-making responsibilities to the students.

As Princeton football became less nationally competitive in the latter half of the 20th century, the PUB began to focus on basketball, ice hockey, and lacrosse, following many teams to NIT, ECAC-HL, and NCAA tournaments, including several national championships, since as early as 1965. From 1990 to 2000 the PUB played at over twenty NCAA tournaments alone, including the 1998 field hockey national championship.

Organization
The PUB is a recognized student organization of Princeton University and is almost entirely run by a thirteen-member officer corps consisting of the President, Drum Major, Head Manager ("Mom"), Student Conductor (the "SC"), Treasurer ("Dad"), four Drillmasters ("DMs"), Alumni Coordinator, Diversity Equity and Inclusion Coordinator ("DEIC"), and two Librarians ("Libes"). A professional music advisor, paid out of the band's operating fund, is the only non-student involved in directing the band.

During the fall football season, the band performs at all Princeton home games and all away games to which it is allowed by the host institution. At each game, besides playing in the stands during pauses in the game, the band performs a pregame show and a halftime show, each of which consists of one to three songs with accompanying formations, accompanied by a humorous script. The PUB also has a repertoire of cheers which are invoked throughout the game - often mildly offensive, but amusing nonetheless.

Like every other Ivy League scramble band, the PUB has a section of unusual instruments, which the PUB calls "trash percussion."

Every Halloween, the band is invited to participate in the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, to which it is particularly well suited thanks to its orange and black uniforms and colorful performance techniques. The band has also made appearances in a number of other parades including the South Amboy St. Patrick's Day Parade, the Gross National Parade, and Philadelphia's Independence Day Parade.

After the conclusion of the football season, the Band transforms into a pep band and plays in the stands at as many Princeton men's and women's hockey, basketball, and lacrosse games as possible, including some away games. The band makes an annual trip to Penn's Palestra for the Princeton-Penn game, as well as occasional trips to nearby schools such as Columbia, Yale, Brown, and even Cornell for basketball and hockey contests. As Princeton's basketball and hockey teams are often among the best in their respective conferences, the band regularly travels with the teams to post season tournaments. Other than the absence of scrambling and formations, the Band's presence at these events is much the same as at football games.

At the end of the academic year, the band remains on campus for Reunions, a three-day celebration of Princetonians past and present. Since 1936 the band has led the annual P-Rade, a parade of alumni that begins with the University President, the oldest alumnus, the band, and the 25th reunion class.

"Full uniform"
The standard full uniform of the PUB, used for football season, parades, Princeton Reunions, and other formal events, consists of black pants, white shoes, a white dress shirt with solid black tie, Italian "boater" hat, and the distinctive orange-and-black plaid jacket. The drum major and student director wear white pants, long-tailed dinner jackets and bow ties. The plaid wool used in the uniforms was custom manufactured and donated by a Princeton alumnus in 1952 at Bennington Mills in Vermont. As such, the band owns the exclusive rights to the particular plaid design found on the jackets.

Off-season uniform
In 2001, the band had custom orange-and-black striped rugby shirts made for use at home basketball and hockey games. Prior to this, the band wore its signature hats and jackets with blue jeans and T-shirts for winter sports, something that is still done for away and major home basketball and hockey games, lacrosse games and other spring performances today.

Also, graduating seniors find a way to adorn their beer jackets with the plaid in some fashion, making alums of the band easy to spot.

Incidents, banishments, and arrests
2008
 * On September 20, 2008, The Princeton University Band traveled to Charleston, SC for Princeton Football's opening game against The Citadel. The morning of the game, the entire corps of cadets confronted the band during their traditional campus march around, which was pre-approved by The Citadel administration. In an attempt to defuse the tense situation, the band "scrambled," which led to a number of physical altercations between Princeton Band members and Citadel cadets. The problems started as the band marched to the game. The Princeton musicians accidentally "scrambled" onto revered Citadel land (the "Avenue of Remembrance," a campus street that honors the college's war dead) and, coupled with "humor" of questionable taste and quality, managed to seriously provoke the Charleston cadets. The situation escalated rapidly. During the brief scuffle that ensued, some hats were stolen and a clarinet was broken.  After only a few moments, Citadel administrators intervened and invited the Princeton Band to continue their campus march around.

 * Later that day during the game, the Princeton Band performed one of their characteristic halftime shows that had been approved and censored by both Princeton University and Citadel administrators. Despite these precautions, the large student section booed loudly during the entirety of the field performance, and many students, alumni, and other fans were offended by the band's unique brand of humor.

 * During the second half, approximately fifty cadets left the Citadel student section to surround and heckle the Princeton Band. After stern admonitions from Citadel administrative officers, the students returned to the student section.  The band inadvertently performed Princeton music while Citadel cadets were ceremonially folding the American flag after the game. This only inflamed the anger of the cadets.

 * The Cadets' behavior prompted apologies from numerous persons affiliated with The Citadel including President Gen Rosa, (who didn't apologize and actually noted he "can certainly appreciate the enthusiasm," by the cadets), Lt Col Graham, the student body president, and many alumni and Charleston residents. The Band suffered no negative consequences.

2006
 * After performing in the lobby of the Statler Hotel, the Band President was taken to Cornell's Public Safety Department and interrogated. The Band has been only begrudgingly welcomed back to Cornell in years since.

2005
 * Having arrived in New York City early for the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, the Band decided to perform in the library at New York University (NYU). Security guards detained the Conductor for several minutes and dialed the NYPD.  He was promptly released with no consequences.

2004
 * After performing in the library at the University of San Diego before the Princeton vs USD football game, the band's leaders were confronted by Public Safety officers wearing shorts. The Band suffered no repercussions.

2003
 * During a performance in Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, a band member "lobstered" on the museum curator's desk, which was supporting a piece of artwork undergoing restoration. Later that day, Harvard Public Safety officers came to Harvard Stadium to detain the President and the guilty band member for questioning.  Harvard and Princeton University Presidents Larry Summers and Shirley Tilghman traded heated letters.  The Band suffered no negative consequences.

2001
 * A band member is arrested for stealing a green blazer from the Dartmouth Band. Ironically, the Dartmouth Band bailed him out of jail.  No charges were filed.

1993
 * The band plays "The national anthem... of France" during their pre-game show and pokes fun at Lafayette with a flurry of France jokes. Lafayette is not amused and does not allow the PUB to Lafayette for the next 14 years.

1981
 * After a football victory, the Band marched down the middle of the street in parade formation. The Drum Major, Steve Teager '82, was arrested for parading without a license, and then-Governor of New Jersey Brendan Byrne '49 officially pardoned him.
 * The Band is prohibited from attending the football game at West Point Military Academy on October 17, because it was not considered appropriate entertainment. This broke the band's 32-year streak of unmissed Princeton football games.  The band had not missed a game, home or away, since 1949 — approximately 293 games, which may be the longest continuous streak in the history of collegiate athletics.  During the game, the Band listened on the radio from its practice field and performed their halftime show for a crowd of Princeton students and spectators. The following year, when West Point played at Princeton, the Band ended its halftime show with a tongue-in-cheek version of "Duty, Honor, Country," a musical adaptation of an address by General of the Army Douglas MacArthur to the cadets of West Point and marched off the field with corncob pipes.

1967
 * After begging the network to air their halftime show, ABC hesitantly televises the beginning of the Princeton Band's show against Harvard. The first formation was "ABC," which promptly switched to "NBC."  The network was extremely unhappy and did everything it could to prevent the Band from ever being televised again.  The Band for years was known as "the band that no one dares televise."

1959
 * During its Penn halftime show, a tribute to Liz Taylor, the PUB called the star "Elizabeth Trailer" and characterized her as a home-wrecker by forming a triangle after referencing her "present husband and his wife," which prompted the threat of legal action from her lawyers. Upon the advice of Princeton's legal counsel, the band sent Taylor a dozen roses, and all charges were dropped.

Double-Double Rotating P
Traditionally, the PUB ends its football pregame shows with a formation known as the "Double-Double Rotating P." The formation is a large outline letter "P" comprising an outer loop in a "P" shape and a smaller inner loop forming the interior of the letter. In this formation, the PUB plays the march "Going Back to Nassau Hall." When the band reaches the trio, the P itself remains stationary, but the members of the band start to move around the perimeter of the P, with the outer loop moving clockwise and the inner loop moving counterclockwise. The band plays the trio twice, and upon beginning the second time through the trio, the two loops reverse their respective directions.

At home games, this performance immediately leads into performance of The Star-Spangled Banner.

Fountain Gigs
After football victories at Princeton Stadium, the Band goes to the fountain at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and plays a concert from inside. Before 2012, this would occur regardless of the game's outcome if the Brown University Band were present at Princeton.

The White Castle Meat Product Tolerance Marathon
At the conclusion of each school year, the band takes a trip to White Castle and holds an eating contest. No time limits are enforced. Whoever can eat the most Sliders in one sitting (before throwing up) is named King or Queen of the Castle for that year. Style points are awarded for some eating methods, including but not limited to: The current all time record of 37 sliders goes to Jacob Jackson ‘26.
 * Stacking two burgers and eating them simultaneously (Two-at-a-Time, Three-at-a-Time, etc.)
 * Stuffing the entire burger in your mouth and swallowing it (the White Castle Chug)
 * Having a burger fed to you while doing a handstand

Awards
The Band is famous for its irreverent antics and illicit behavior. As an incentive to motivate members to maintain this tradition, the band has for many years presented several awards to its members commemorating a variety of outrageous acts:

 * Current Awards
 * Arther H. Osborn, Class of 1907, Senior Award for Dedication & Service to the Band - a large trophy-cup given to the senior or seniors who have not been band officers, but have demonstrated exceptional service and dedication to the band during their undergraduate years.
 * Turkey of the Year - awarded to the member that has exercised the worst judgment in an official, band-related capacity that year. From the late '70s until 2009, a turkey-shaped certificate was passed down.  Now the award has taken the form of the clarinet broken at The Citadel mounted on a commemorative plaque.
 * Grossest Member - an award, in the form of a rancid drink, given to the member who has done the "grossest" thing at an official band event that year. It is now customary to drink or chug as much of the award itself as possible upon receipt.
 * Freshman Lush - "The Little Whizzer" statue is passed down each year to the freshman who best exemplifies the spirit of the band while intoxicated most frequently.
 * Freshman Lushless - an award given to the freshman that best exemplifies the spirit of the band without indulging in alcohol.
 * Retired Awards
 * Mickey Mouse - a position offered to the most enthusiastic freshman during football season. It was the Mickey Mouse's job to entertain the band as they entered the stadium.
 * T&A - an honor bestowed upon the most attractive freshman female member.
 * Charms - intended for use on a pocket-watch chain, charms of gold, silver, and bronze were given to members in recognition of their service to the band during the first half of the twentieth century.

Favorite songs

 * Princeton Songs
 * The Princeton Cannon Song
 * Going Back to Nassau Hall
 * Princeton Forward March
 * Tiger Rag
 * "The Tigers" (March) Words by Lee B. Woodcock; Arranged by W. C. O'Hare; Original Copyright 1904 by M. Witmark, Sons;
 * The Princeton University Band March
 * Here Comes That Tiger
 * Princeton's Sons (Class of 1907 Song)
 * The Orange & The Black
 * Old Nassau
 * Chuck Mangione's Grammy-winning theme to "The Children of Sanchez"
 * "Rock Lobster" - traditionally, at a certain point in this song, band members lie down on the ground and wave their legs like lobsters, a perennial crowd-pleaser.
 * Tequila, by The Champs
 * "Kiss 'Em Goodbye" follows "Old Nassau" after every victory.
 * "Welcome to the Jungle," by Guns N' Roses, is played before every home basketball game as a reference to the "Jadwin Jungle" student section.
 * The theme from Underdog is played during every NCAA tournament game when Princeton is lower seeded and winning.
 * "We Are the Champions," by Queen, is played after every Ivy or ECAC-HL championship victory.

The Band's repertoire includes dozens of other songs, principally featuring classic rock and, more recently, '90s hits.

The Princeton University Band March
The lyrics to the band's theme song:

Discography
Memories of Princeton Vol 1 - undated

Princeton University Band - 1927

Princeton Symposium of Music - undated (1940s)

Rally Songs by the Princeton University Band - 1947

Songs of Princeton: In Praise of Old Nassau - 1951

Band - Tiger Tones, Boomerangs, etc. - 1955

Going Back: The Songs of the Ivy League - 1960

Traditional Songs of Princeton - 1962

Princeton University Band (shield album) - 1978

''Going Back... Marching Forward'' - 1985

The Orange and the Black - 1989

 Goin' Back: Songs of Old Nassau - 1994

Songs to Beat Yale By - 2000

The Princeton University Band (The Plaid Album) - 2007

Songs in the Key of LOUD - 2011

The Good, the Plaid, and the Ugly - 2015

Plaid to the Bone - 2019

So Plaid It’s Good - 2023

In the media

 * The PUB has an ongoing presence in, of all media outlets, Sports Illustrated. Among the highlights:
 * The PUB appeared on the cover of the October 17, 1955 issue.
 * After Princeton's stunning knockout of the UCLA men's basketball team in the 1996 NCAA tournament, SI wrote "If there really is a hoop heaven, the house band would be Princeton's, troubadours in straw hats who played the theme from "Underdog" late in the Tigers' victory."
 * More recently the PUB was cited in the on-line version of SI. Paul Zimmerman, in his column of February 26, 2004, claimed "for years, the fastest rendition [of the Star-Spangled Banner] I regularly clocked was that of the Princeton band. Always around 53 seconds."
 * The Band won ESPN's Battle of the Marching Bands in 1996, beating the Stanford Band, another scramble band, in the final round. The other competitors in this online poll were: Rice, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Grambling, Michigan, Stanford, and Texas A&M.  It is suspected, though unconfirmed, that the Band won partly due to very strong voting in their favor by bands previously eliminated who did not want any of their rival bands to win.  None of Princeton's rival bands were in the competition, therefore the PUB was something of a neutral choice.
 * The Band has been on national television playing for the Princeton University basketball teams at the NCAA tournament. In 2010, they followed the women's team to Tallahassee as they took on St. Joseph's in the first round.
 * The Band has also made television appearances at the NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament. They played at Princeton's first-round loss to the Bulldogs of University of Minnesota Duluth at Minneapolis in 2009 and the year before when they lost to University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux in Madison, as well as at Princeton's first-round loss to Ohio State in Allentown, PA in 2018.

Alumni and friends
Friends of Tiger Band (FOTB) is the official organization for alumni and other supporters of the PUB. Proving that the PUB is forever, band members automatically become members of FOTB upon graduation. FOTB has three key functions: (1) hosting Band Reunions following the Home Big Three game and the P-Rade, (2) publishing the FOTB newsletter, and most importantly (3) providing support, both financially and in dealings with the University administration.

Notable alumni

 * Kit Bond A.B. 1960 - (band member) The former United States Senator from Missouri
 * Dr. Adam Ruben A.B. 2001 - (drum major, mellophone) Biologist and comedian on Food Network's Food Detectives
 * Brittany Haas A.B. 2009 - (quad toms, fiddle) Fiddler and member of the band Crooked Still.
 * Robert Sour A.B. 1925, who went on to co-write lyrics to jazz ballad Body & Soul and become president at BMI, did not play in the band as a Princeton student (he was a pianist); however, he was very involved as an alumnus, offering support and writing songs for the band.
 * Elizabeth Landau A.B. 2006 - (band member) Is a Senior Communications Specialist at NASA Headquarters and was previously a Senior Storyteller at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Hong Rengan

Hong Rengan (20 February 1822 – 23 November 1864) was an important leader of the Taiping Rebellion. He was a distant cousin of the movement's founder and spiritual leader Hong Xiuquan. His position as the Gan Wang (干王, lit. "the Shield King") resembled the role of a prime minister. He is a noted figure in history because of the sweeping reforms attempted under his rule, and because of his popularity in the West.

Early life
Hong was born on 18 February 1822 and worked as a village teacher in Guanlubu Village, Hua County, Guangdong. Although educated, he was unable to pass the imperial examinations. He was among the first of Hong Xiuquan's converts. In 1847, he accompanied Hong Xiuquan on his trip to Guangzhou and briefly studied the Bible there with Hong Xiuquan and Issachar Jacox Roberts.

In Hong Kong
During the early years of the rebellion, Hong was separated from the rebellion and had to flee to Hong Kong, where he met the Swedish missionary Theodore Hamberg and converted to Christianity. He helped with church work for the Basel Mission in Sheung Wan and learned much about Christianity. Hong provided Hamberg with important information on the Taiping rebellion, which Hamberg later used to write a book about the movement, The visions of Hung-Siu-tshuen, and origin of the Kwang-si insurrection, published in Hong Kong in 1854.

Hong also served as an assistant to James Legge, working on translations of Chinese classics into English, and on the Chinese Serial, the first Chinese language newspaper in Hong Kong. During this time he learned much about Western politics, economics, history, geography, astronomy and other sciences.

With the Taiping
When Hong Xiuquan called for his cousin Hong Rengan to come to Nanjing to help him rule, the Taiping administration was entrenched in a bitter power dispute. The powerbase of the movement had largely become split between the devout Taiping religious followers in Nanjing and the generals commanding the armies outside the city.

James Legge did not want Hong Rengan to have anything to do with the rebels because he distrusted and condemned their beliefs. When James Legge left Hong Kong for England he gave strict injunctions to Hong Rengan to remain in Hong Kong and to not join the rebel forces.

However Hong Rengan ignored his injunction and left Hong Kong in the spring of 1858, other missionaries gave him money and promised him a stipend for his family. He disguised himself as a peddler on his way to Nanjing.

Before his arrival, a previous power struggle, sometimes known as the Tianjing incident, erupted into a battle that killed over 20,000 Nanjing residents and the East King Yang Xiuqing, who was up to that point more powerful than Hong Xiuquan himself. Hong Rengan finally arrived at Taiping's capital, Tianjing on 22 April 1859, it was in this environment that Hong Rengan was given the second most important position in the Taiping movement; only Hong Xiuquan himself was more powerful.

Hong Rengan was given this position because of his education, especially his knowledge of many aspects of Western politics, art and technology, acquired during his time in Hong Kong. He also came to Nanjing with a thoroughly Protestant mindset. This was in contrast to the largely Old Testament-dominated beliefs of the Taiping founders. Hong reformed the worship and prayer services into Protestant-style ceremonies. He also discouraged the use of the word "barbarian" to describe Westerners. These were a few of his early reforms.

However, most of Hong's energy was dedicated to centralizing the authority of Taiping administration and revitalizing its military successes. He advocated building railroads, gaining the support of Western powers, and building banks in the areas under Taiping rule. Because of his beliefs, Hong is sometimes noted as the first modern Chinese nationalist, and he was mentioned in early writings by both the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party. These ideas, along with his clearly Protestant belief system, garnered the Taiping rebellion interest in Western circles. This interest would wane as Taiping troops moved closer to Shanghai and actively enforced their ban on opium within their realm.

Most of Hong Rengan's reforms were never implemented. Though he had shown strategic talent in the few campaigns he commanded, his ideas clashed with the pre-eminent military prince of the Taipings, Li Xiucheng. In a large mission to retake the upper Yangtze River, Li refused the orders of Hong and returned to Nanjing. The failure of this mission allowed Qing troops to mount a massive blockade of the Taiping area of control and eventually led to the collapse of the rebellion. Hong Rengan's rule was soon reduced to decrees endorsed by Hong Xiuquan, but they were never followed or enforced outside the city.

In 1864 Hong Xiuquan was found dead and the city of Nanjing soon fell to Qing forces. Hong Rengan and the other Taiping leaders fled the city and attempted to maintain their rule through the decrees of Hong Tianguifu, son of Hong Xiuquan. They were caught and sentenced to death. As seen in his confession before execution, Hong Rengan was the only prince of the Taiping rebellion to maintain his loyalty to the movement and never recant. He was executed in Nanchang (南昌), in Jiangxi, on 23 November 1864, shortly after the execution of the young Hong Tianguifu and Li Xiucheng.

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Gabe Pressman

Gabriel Stanley "Gabe" Pressman (February 14, 1924 – June 23, 2017) was an American journalist who was a reporter for WNBC-TV in New York City for more than 60 years. His career spanned more than seven decades; the events he covered included the sinking of the Andrea Doria in 1956, the assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King Jr., the Beatles' first trip to the United States, and the attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11. He was one of the pioneers of United States television news and has been credited as the first reporter to have left the studio for on-the-scene "street reporting" at major events. Pressman was dubbed the "Dean of New York Journalism"; his numerous awards include a Peabody and 11 Emmys, and he was considered a New York icon.

Early life and education
Pressman was born and raised in the Bronx, the son of Jewish immigrants, Benjamin Pressman (1893–1970), who was born in Austria, and Lena Rifkin Pressman, born in Russia. His father, a dentist, became a professional magician later in life; he got his start in magic by performing tricks to entertain children when he would go to schools to teach them about proper dental care. Gabe had a younger brother, Paul (1929–2003), who was a psychiatrist.

Pressman graduated from Morris High School. He got his start in journalism early; as a young boy of 8 or 9, he made a newspaper for his family, with cheeky headlines such as "Grandma's Spongecake Made With Real Sponges". Later he worked as a cub reporter for the Peekskill Evening Star in Peekskill during the summers.

He attended New York University, majoring in History and Government, but his education was interrupted during World War II. At 19, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served from 1943 to 1946. He took part in the Philippines Campaign while serving as a communications officer aboard the submarine chaser USS PC-470 in the South Pacific.

After the war, Pressman resumed his education, graduating from NYU with a bachelor's degree in 1946, and from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism the following year.

Career

After earning his master's degree from Columbia in 1947, Pressman worked for a short period as a journalist for the Newark Evening News. Columbia then awarded him a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship, and he spent the next 15 months in Europe as a freelance journalist, contributing feature stories for various outlets, including the Overseas News Agency (a subsidiary of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency). In 1948, he was briefly arrested in Berlin while in the Soviet sector of the city, in what was reported to be a sign of increasing hostilities from the Soviet government toward the west. He was headed to the Polish Consulate Berlin when he was detained, but was released two hours later.

Among the events he covered in Europe was the 1949 show trial of Cardinal József Mindszenty, who opposed the communist regime of the new Hungarian People's Republic, which Pressman covered for The New York Times and for Edward R. Murrow's radio program.

Pressman worked for various New York City newspapers after his return from Europe before becoming a reporter in 1954 for what then was NBC's radio station WNBC, and moved over to television in 1956. Pressman spent the bulk of his broadcast career with NBC. The exception was a seven-year period from 1972 through 1979 when he reported for what was then the Metromedia station, WNEW-TV, Channel 5 (now WNYW). Since 1945, Pressman covered the lives of 10 New York City mayors, 10 New York State governors, 15 Senators from New York, and 13 United States Presidents.

Pressman, who described himself as "just a little Jewish guy from the Bronx", became a fixture of New York City. Journalist Robert D. McFadden wrote of Pressman, "A profound, matinee-idol anchorman he was not. But to generations of mayors, governors and ordinary New Yorkers, he was Gabe: the short, rumpled, pushy guy from Channel 4 who seemed always on the scene, elbowing his way to the front and jabbing his microphone in the face of a witness or a big shot."

Pressman pioneered street reporting as the first television journalist to do live and on-scene coverage of events. After President Kennedy was shot on November 22, 1963, Pressman went out on the street to interview New Yorkers for their reactions; he was live among a crowd of people listening to NBC Radio when the news came that Kennedy had died. Later that evening he reported from darkened Times Square and interviewed a New York City patrolman about the somber mood in the area.

Pressman was co-anchor (with Bill Ryan) of New York's first early-evening half-hour newscast, the Pressman-Ryan Report, born out of a devastating 1963 New York City-area newspaper strike. He covered the New York region for NBC News, WNBC-TV and WNBC-AM radio. He was sent by the network to report on many historic events, including the 1956 sinking of the Andrea Doria, Elvis Presley's Army stint which went through Brooklyn, one-on-one interviews with Marilyn Monroe, Harry S. Truman and Fidel Castro, the 1964 arrival of the Beatles at Kennedy Airport, the assassination of Malcolm X, chasing after newly inaugurated New York mayor John Lindsay in the streets during the 1966 transit strike, the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where he reported on the clashes between demonstrators and police, and the aftermath of the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. Pressman was a reporter for NBC News at the Woodstock festival in upstate New York in 1969.

Pressman has been credited with helping create the New York City institution known as the "perp walk," which was born in the 1970s when he clashed with famed District Attorney Robert Morgenthau over access to filming notable suspects after they had been arrested. Morgenthau recalled, "Gabe said, 'We need pictures to report your cases,' and I said, 'You're breaking my heart.'"

His reputation as an intrepid reporter is the subject of a gentle lampoon on a recording of Bob and Ray ("The Two and Only," Columbia Records, c. 1970). A reporter billed as "Gabe Pressman" was played by actor J.D. Cullum in Billy Crystal's HBO film 61*, reporting unfavorably on the baseball exploits of Roger Maris (played by Barry Pepper).

He was a past president of the New York Press Club, from 1997 to 2000, and as head of that organization fought for the rights of New York's journalists, both print and electronic.

Up until the time of his death in June 2017, Pressman still worked part-time at WNBC, mostly as a blog writer about New York City news on the station's website, and he was active on Twitter. In 2014, he stated that it was an arthritic knee that kept him from chasing stories like he used to. A few months before his death, he covered the 255th annual Saint Patrick's Day Parade in New York, which reportedly was the last time Pressman was on-air.

Personal life
Pressman was married to Emma Mae Kracht from 1953 until their divorce in 1967. They had a son and two daughters. In 1972, he married Vera Elisabeth Olsen, a psychotherapist, with whom he had another son.

Pressman died at Mount Sinai Hospital Manhattan on June 23, 2017, aged 93.

Awards
Pressman amassed many awards for his work, including multiple Emmys and a Peabody Award. He won many of those awards for his coverage of the plight of New York City's homeless population.

 * 11 Emmy Awards
 * 1958: George Polk Award for Television Reporting
 * 1981: Lincoln University's Unity award for "Blacks and the Mayor: How Far Apart?"
 * 1982: New York Press Club's Feature Award for "The Homeless"
 * 1982: New York State Associated Press Broadcasters Association Award for Excellence in Individual Reporting
 * 1982: UPI New York State Broadcasters' Award for Best Feature News Story for "The Homeless"
 * 1983: New York Chapter of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi's Deadline Club Award for "The Hungry"
 * 1983: Peabody Award for Asylum In The Streets
 * 1983: Deadline Club Award
 * 1985: Olive Award for Excellence in Broadcasting
 * 1986: New York chapter of NATAS Governors' Award
 * 1989: Edward R. Murrow Award
 * 2015: Fair Media Council's Folio Lifetime Achievement Award
 * 2017: City Limits Urban Journalism Award (posthumous)

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Padstow railway station, Sydney

Padstow railway station is located on the East Hills line, serving the Sydney suburb of Padstow. It is served by Sydney Trains T8 Airport & South line services.

History
Padstow station opened on 21 December 1931 when the line was extended from Kingsgrove to East Hills.

On 5 May 1986, the line was duplicated from Riverwood with a new track laid to the north of the existing one. The line from Padstow to Revesby was duplicated around the same time.

In 2002, the station was upgraded and given a new concourse and lift.

In 2013, as part of the quadruplication of the line from Kingsgrove to Revesby, through lines were added on either side of the existing pair.

title: Padstow railway station, Sydney