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Princess Sumaya University for Technology

Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT) was established in 1991 as a non-profit private university in Jordan., It is owned by the Royal Scientific Society. PSUT specializes in Information Technology (IT), Communications, and Electronics.

The University offers some unique, high-quality specializations. The PSUT programs that are thus far unavailable at other Jordanian universities include: BSc in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence; BSc in Computer Graphics and Animation; BSc in e-Marketing and Social Media; BSc in Electrical Power and Energy Engineering;  BSc in Networks and Information Security Engineering; Master’s in International Business Administration, in collaboration with the University of Lancaster, UK; Master’s in Engineering Management, in collaboration with the University of Arizona, USA; Master’s in Entrepreneurship; Master’s in IT Security and Digital Criminology; Master’s in Enterprise Systems Engineering, in collaboration with the German Jordanian University; Master’s in Data Science; Master’s in Business Analysis.

King Hussein School of Computing Sciences
The King Hussein School for Information Technology at Princess Sumaya University for Technology (PSUT) had been established since the academic year of 2005–2006. The faculty consists of four academic departments:
 * 1) Computer Science Department established in 1991.
 * 2) Computer Graphics and Animation established in 2006.
 * 3) Software Engineering established in 2011.
 * 4) Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

The King Hussein School for Information Technology offers a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science, Computer Graphics and Animation, Software Engineering and Master of Science in Computer Science and Security of information systems and digital crimes. Since PSUT was established in 1991, over 1,200 students, graduated with a BS degree in Computer Science. and Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

King Abdullah II School For Electrical Engineering
The King Abdullah II School for Electrical Engineering at Princess Sumaya University for Technology consists currently of Four departments: The School has 850 students currently enrolled in the Four undergraduate degree programs.
 * 1) Electronics Engineering Department that was founded in 1994.
 * 2) Communication Engineering Department that was founded in 2005.
 * 3) Computer Engineering Department that was founded in 2002.
 * 4) Energy and Electrical Power Engineering Department that was founded in 2011.
 * 5) Networks and Information Security Engineering Department that was founded in 2014.

King Talal School of Business Technology
The King Talal Business School at PSUT had been established in 2008, This school consists of four departments: Department established in 2015 King Talal Business School has a plan to launch new B.Sc. majors in finance and other disciplines in the coming few years.
 * 1) Business Information Technology
 * 1) Management Information Systems Department established in 2008.
 * 2) Administration of business Department established in 2008.
 * 3) Accounting Department established in 2011.
 * 4) Digital marketing Department established in 2012.

King Abdullah I School of Graduate Studies & Scientific Research
King Abdullah I School of Graduate Studies & Scientific Research was established in 2007, it consists of 14 programs:

 * 1) Master's Degree in Computer Science
 * 2) Master's Degree in Business Entrepreneurship
 * 3) Master's Degree in Business Analytics
 * 4) Master's Degree in E-Marketing and Social Media
 * 5) Master's Degree in Financial Technology and Accounting Analytics
 * 6) Master's Degree in Supply Chain Management and Logistics Technology
 * 7) Master's Degree in Data Science
 * 8) Master's Degree in Cyber security
 * 9) Master's Degree in Enterprise Systems Engineering
 * 10) Master's Degree in Health Information Technology
 * 11) Doctorate of Philosophy in Computer Science
 * 12) Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering
 * 13) Master's Degree in Engineering Management
 * 14) Executive Masters of Business Administration (EMBA) New

Research and Development
Spreading quality culture within the university is a fundamental process aimed at enhancing engagement and awareness with quality concepts across aspects of academic and administrative work. Promoting quality culture is an essential part of the university's efforts to improve the quality of education and services it provides. Quality Assurance and Accreditation Center conducts plans for Spreading quality culture. Every plan consists of many rich activities to introduce university members to quality concepts and their importance, as well as providing the necessary skills to apply quality principles in their tasks.

Source: https://www.psut.edu.jo/en/quality-assurance/excellence-of-teaching#nav-profile

History
In realization of the Royal Scientific Society’s (RSS) role in the academic field of knowledge transfer, HRH Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan, President of the RSS, oversaw the inception and founding of Princess Sumaya University for Technology.

The work of RSS touches the lives of all Jordanians and substantially contributes to building a better future for Jordan through scientific achievement. Founded by Royal Decree in 1970 through the commitment to equitable development of HM the Late King Hussein and his beloved brother HRH Prince Hassan bin Talal, the RSS aims to be the regional knowledge leader by nurturing first-class scientific and engineering research and practice to power sustainable economic development and equitable social progress. The RSS strategic plan takes its inspiration from their shared vision by spearheading the formation of a national innovation ecosystem encompassing higher education, scientific research, technology, science advice to government, innovation, and entrepreneurship so that science may serve humanity and support peace. HRH Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan, President of the RSS, is internationally recognized for her commitment to promoting scientific endeavors at local and international levels. It is also a leading center at the regional level in the fields of science and technology, through more than 38 internationally and locally accredited laboratories.

PSUT was established in 1991 under the name of Princess Sumaya University College for Technology. At that time, it awarded a single bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. The RSS founded the University to serve as its academic arm. In 1992, the University was officially opened by His Majesty the late King Hussein bin Talal. In 1995, the University celebrated the graduation of its first batch of 72 students

Source: https://www.psut.edu.jo/en/psut-history

University life

 * Providing all the services and facilities needed by students throughout the period of their university studies.
 * Providing care, advice, and social and behavioral guidance to students, and helping them to solve any problems they may face throughout their study period.
 * Developing and honing the character of the student and helping him/her to integrate into the student body by providing the opportunity to participate in various extracurricular activities (cultural, arts, recreational, sports, etc.).
 * Developing the student's spirit of initiative and a willingness to take part in volunteer work through participation in volunteer activities inside and outside the university.
 * Developing the spirit of leadership and social responsibility among students by giving them the opportunity to participate in student clubs and student councils.
 * Sponsoring talented students in various cultural, arts, social, and sports activities, and forming activity-related teams.
 * Monitoring the implementation of student-related regulations.

Campus
From its establishment, the University laid out for itself a path of leadership and excellence and quickly set out on that path.

Organization and Governance

 * Board of Trustees
 * Presidency
 * Dean's Council

Academic profile
A globally recognized university committed to being a student-centered, research-driven and service-oriented.

Student life

 * Providing all the services and facilities needed by students throughout the period of their university studies.
 * Providing care, advice, and social and behavioral guidance to students, and helping them to solve any problems they may face throughout their study period.
 * Developing and honing the character of the student and helping him/her to integrate into the student body by providing the opportunity to participate in various extracurricular activities (cultural, arts, recreational, sports, etc.).
 * Developing the student's spirit of initiative and a willingness to take part in volunteer work through participation in volunteer activities inside and outside the university.
 * Developing the spirit of leadership and social responsibility among students by giving them the opportunity to participate in student clubs and student councils.
 * Sponsoring talented students in various cultural, arts, social, and sports activities, and forming activity-related teams.
 * Monitoring the implementation of student-related regulations.

Visual identity
Psut Logo

The Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship
The establishment of Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship is a part of the expansion plan of PSUT. The idea was to name the center after a prominent Arab dignitary known for his/her distinguished role in developing entrepreneurship. Thus, work towards launching the Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship (QRCE) started in October 2004.


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List of backup software

This is a list of notable backup software that performs data backups. Archivers, transfer protocols, and version control systems are often used for backups but only software focused on backup is listed here. See Comparison of backup software for features.

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User:Andreasu

Andreas "Richo" Wolfgang Ullrich, born on October 25, 1980, is a German and Australian Citizen. Was born in Munich, Germany.

Internet Work
FORIX: 1999 - current 6th Gear: 2003 - current Racing Circuits: 2003 - 2005 Wikipedia: 2005 - current
 * Statistician
 * Photographer
 * Editor at Large
 * Motor Sport Statistician
 * Australian Touring Car Statistician/Historian
 * User name: Andreasu

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User talk:Tahii

You? Doing shihad updating. Really? Heh. Limegreen 01:21, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Kabir Ali

Kabir Ali (born 24 November 1980) is an English former cricketer. A right-arm seam bowler and useful lower-order right-handed batsman, he played one Test match for England in 2003, while also earning 14 ODI caps between 2003 and 2006.

He started his playing career in 1999 at Worcestershire, spending 12 years in the first-team squad, before stints at Hampshire and Lancashire, where he retired in 2015. He is the first cousin of fellow cricketers Kadeer Ali and Moeen Ali, both of whom used to play alongside Kabir for Worcestershire, and is currently employed as the assistant coach of Yorkshire.

Early life and career
Kabir is the first cousin of cricketers Kadeer Ali and Moeen Ali, both of whom used to play alongside Kabir for Worcestershire. After serving his apprenticeship in Worcestershire's Second XI and for the county's Board XI in the 38-County Cup for a couple of years, Kabir Ali made his first-class debut in a drawn game against Middlesex in September 1999. He bowled respectably enough, taking 2–36 and 1–22, but the match's lateness in the season robbed him of the chance to push for a regular place in the first team. Despite several appearances in the Benson & Hedges Cup in April 2000, including an impressive 4–29 on List A debut, Kabir spent most of the first part of that season still in the second team, although by the summer he had pushed his way into the full XI. Also in 2000, Kabir was awarded the NBC Denis Compton Award for the most promising young Worcestershire player.

Domestic success and international selection
Over the following few years, Kabir gradually established himself as a hard-working bowler who was dedicated to his craft. His best period to date has been 2002–3; he took 138 first-class wickets in those two English seasons, including eight five-wicket innings hauls. International recognition first came during the 2002-3 winter, when he was invited to tour Australia with the ECB National Academy. It was thus unsurprising that he was selected to play for England in 2003, making his One Day International debut against Zimbabwe that July – although the game was a washout and Kabir had no chance to make an impression.

He was also selected for the Fourth Test against South Africa at Headingley in August 2003, taking a wicket in his first over (Neil McKenzie, caught behind by Alec Stewart off Kabir's fifth ball). He took five wickets in the match: 3–80 in the first innings and 2–56 in the second, including the key wicket of Gary Kirsten (for 130 and 60) in both innings. Nonetheless, England were soundly beaten and the selectors rang the changes, bringing in Steve Harmison and Ashley Giles for Kabir and James Kirtley. The Headingley match was Kabir's solitary Test appearance, although he made a number of further appearances at ODI level. His greatest success came against South Africa in 2004/05, when he took more wickets (13) than any other England bowler, and at Bloemfontein somehow conjured a tie from nowhere.

Domestic career
Kabir first came to national prominence when he took a second-innings 5–48 (and eight wickets in the match) against the touring Zimbabwe side in May 2003; in a precursor to his final-over heroics at Bloemfontein, Kabir claimed the final two wickets with the scores level to tie the match. Kabir's life was touched by tragedy in July 2003, when his two-week-old nephew died. However, his father wished him to play for Worcestershire against Derbyshire a few days later, and he put in a magnificent display. After a quiet first innings with the ball, he scored a quickfire 68, putting on 104 with Steve Rhodes for the eighth wicket to help rescue his team from deep trouble at 190/7, and then ripped through the Derbyshire batting line-up to take 8–53, at the time the best innings analysis of his career. Thanks to Kabir's heroics, Worcestershire won the game by an innings. Kabir further demonstrated his batting credentials in September 2003, hitting 92 from 93 balls in a 45-over National Cricket League match against Essex, his maiden limited-overs fifty.

The 2004 season began frustratingly for Kabir, as injury prevented him from playing until the end of May. However, some good performances in midsummer brought him a place in the squad for the Champions Trophy tournament in September, and he retained his place for the winter tour of South Africa (see above). Kabir's performances in early 2005 were unspectacular, but nevertheless he was named in the 14-man squad for that summer's triangular one-day series with Australia and Bangladesh. He played in none of the games, however, and was replaced by Matt Prior for the three-game ODI series against Australia which immediately followed.

Kabir was not in England contention during the 2006 season, and for the winter of 2006–07 he turned out for Rajasthan in the Ranji Trophy along with teammate Vikram Solanki. Worcestershire's 2007 season began poorly, but Kabir claimed a career-best 8–50 in a rain-affected match against Lancashire in May. These were the best figures at Old Trafford for 13 years. On 15 August 2009 Hampshire confirmed they had signed Ali on a 3-year deal, subject to resolving Worcestershires demands for compensation of £60,000. Hampshire were not willing to meet Worcestershire's demands for compensation, making it seem as if Ali would have to honour the remaining year on his Worcestershire contract. In January 2010 Ali's dispute with Worcestershire was intensified, with Ali failing to report for pre-season training.

Ali was released from his contract at Worcestershire on 21 January 2010. It is widely expected that Ali will take up the three-year contract he had agreed with Hampshire in 2009. The following day Ali confirmed he had joined Hampshire, signing a three-year contract at the Rose Bowl.

Kabir Ali joined Barisal Burners of the Bangladesh Premier League, a Bangladeshi Twenty20 league, in February 2012.

On 2 November 2012, Kabir Ali joined Lancashire, who had recently been relegated to the second division of the County Championship, on a two-year contract. Kabir became an integral part of Lancashire's immediate return to the Championship top flight. He was often the death bowler in t20 games for the side, usually bowling the 18th and 20th overs, limiting batsmen and picking up useful wickets. In May 2015, he announced his retirement from cricket due to ongoing injuries.

Coaching career
In January 2022, Kabir worked as a bowling consultant at Warwickshire while the Bears conducted a search for a replacement for departed bowling coach Graeme Welch. In February 2022, Kabir joined Yorkshire as assistant coach.

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Catla

Catla (Labeo catla), (কাতলা) also known as the major South Asian carp, is an economically important South Asian freshwater fish in the carp family Cyprinidae. It is native to rivers and lakes in northern India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan, but has also been introduced elsewhere in South Asia and is commonly farmed.

In Nepal and neighbouring regions of India, up to Odisha, it is called Bhakura.

Catla is a fish with large and broad head, a large protruding lower jaw, and upturned mouth. It has large, greyish scales on its dorsal side with a whitish belly. It reaches up to 182 cm in length and 38.6 kg in weight.

Catla is a surface and midwater feeder. Adults feed on zooplankton using large gill rakers, while young ones feed on both zooplankton and phytoplankton. Catla attains sexual maturity at an average age of two years and an average weight of 2 kg.

Taxonomy
The catla was formerly listed as the only species in the genus Catla, but this was a synonym of the genus Gibelion. More recently, Catalog of Fishes has moved this species to Labeo. This species has often been confused with the giant barb (Catlocarpio siamensis) of south-east Asia as the two taxa bear an extraordinary resemblance to each other, especially in their very large heads.

Aquaculture
The catla is one of the most important aquacultured freshwater species in South Asia. It is grown in polyculture ponds with other carp-like fish, particularly with the roho labeo (Labeo rohita) and mrigal carp. The reported production numbers have increased sharply during the 2000s, and were in 2012 about 2.8 million tonnes per year.

Catla is sold and consumed fresh, locally and regionally. It is transported on ice. Fish of 1–2 kg weight are preferred by consumers.

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Allen Jones (whistleblower)

Allen Jones, gained widespread attention as a 'whistleblower' after discovering that state employees were receiving kickbacks from the pharmaceutical industry in Texas while working as an investigator in the Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General (OIG). According to several sources he discovered similar issues in Pennsylvania as well, but when investigating the Department of Welfare he was told to back down, and that the pharmaceutical industry "write checks to both sides of the aisle." "

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Frikken Chicken

 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. Mackensen (talk) 16:51, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Frikken Chicken
I can't verify that this band exists. Its first album supposedly was Greatest Hits. Gazpacho 01:23, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 5 steps to a band vanity article, for maximum unverifiability:
 * Band members known only by given names or pseudonyms – check.
 * Vague band formation date – check.
 * "Production problems" with albums, which are self-released, though it's never stated that they are – check.
 * Band plans to do some touring or some recording or something, sometime in the near, or possibly distant, future – check.
 * General air of mysteriousness – check.
 * Delete. Fails WP:MUSIC. A и D я 01D  TALK  EMAIL  01:39, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete band vanity. Funny, they have had three albums but for some reason could not be released. Seriously, though, good luck kids. Double Blue  (Talk) 01:56, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, band vanity. Funny vanity though: "what is considered their second album was also never released effectively, due to some minor police infractions." --bainer (talk) 01:59, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete (love psychedelico's first album mightve been greatest hits, but love psychedelico these guys ain't) Nateji77 12:43, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  13:03, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as unverifiable. Either non-notable vanity or fiction. -- Infrogmation 14:08, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Android. Vanity. Unverifiable. Mgm|(talk) 15:51, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I'm from the band. I'm Jay-Funk, aka Jared Norman. I'd like to say that we do exist and that we did not make this entry... or at least the three members I'm with didn't, our drummer might have, but we don't think so because the article is too inaccurate. It's innacurate to the point that it couldn't have been us. We'll try and fix it up to be more accurate when we have time.

 * If the band can fix it up so it is accurate, it might be worth saving, otherwise - delete.--Kristjan Wager 16:52, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete even if it's accurate, the band is still nowhere close to notable (WP:MUSIC). Seenyer 20:22, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Wow. "formed in the late part of 2004", yet they already have three albums?  Delete, vanity.  RickK 22:43, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete not notable. I like the name though. --Etacar11 23:28, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Jay-Funk here again. It's up to you whether you see deletion as necessary, I don't really mind either way, but this wasn't made by us, I spoke to the drummer and everyone close to the band. Anyways, we have a bit of a cult following around here. I'll make the article acccurate and add some stuff within the next 24 hours, then you guys go ahead and do as you see fit.

 * "Albums are hard to find"; "ask the right people in Victoria" for an album...delete. humblefool® 03:32, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Dr. Kaine here, Jay-Funk is a dumbcrap, he wrote the orriginal, just check the IPs (though he's still lying about it ATM). Go ahead and delete us as we probably don't belong on wikipedia.

 * Ok, Jay-Funk here, I've established it was my brother, and he was adding stuff too. He's stupid, anyway.  Go ahead and delete.  It was fun while I thought someone cared about us here.
 * Im Tristan im not in the band but im here to say that they really are a band!!! There are many people petitioning to keep this entry, so please do not delete

 * I'm sure they are a band, and hey, how can you not like a band with a name like Frikken Chicken, but maybe when they've put out a greatest hits album-oh, right...okay, at the very least they could have a song that's been heard outside of Victoria. Anyway, I'm sure they rock, but for now, delete. -- StopTheFiling 10:09, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete --[[Image:Ottawa flag.png|20px]] Spinboy 00:36, 14 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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Johnny Wyrostek

John Barney Wyrostek (July 12, 1919 – December 12, 1986) was an American professional baseball player. He played all or part of eleven seasons in the Major League Baseball between 1942 and 1954 primarily as an outfielder, most often in right or center field. He batted left-handed, threw right-handed, and was listed as 6 ft tall and 180 lb.

Wyrostek was signed by the St. Louis Cardinals out of his East St. Louis high school. His contract was purchased by the Pittsburgh Pirates late in the 1941 season, and he played parts of the next two seasons with the Pirates as a reserve outfielder. On September 30, 1943, Wyrostek was traded back to the Cardinals. After a stint in the Army, his contract was sold to the Philadelphia Phillies in 1946, at which point he became an everyday player.

Wyrostek averaged eight homers a year in his career, and had only one season in which he hit over ten. In 1948, he had a total of 17 home runs with another career high, 76 RBIs, which he would tie later. His seven stolen bases on the year also tied a career-high.

In 1950, Wyrostek hit .285 with 8 homers and 76 RBIs with the Reds. On September 4 of that year, Wyrostek drove in eight of the Reds' 13 runs in a doubleheader sweep of the visiting Cardinals.

By 1951, Wyrostek was a good-hitting outfielder who averaged about a .266 batting average. But that year, his batting average skyrocketed to .311. While his power numbers went down (2 HR, 61 RBIs), his batting average was good for sixth in the league and his 167 hits was 10th. He made his second and final All-Star team.

In an 11-season career played with the Pirates, Phillies and Reds, Wyrostek batted .271 with 58 home runs and 481 RBIs in 1221 games. He had 525 runs scored with 33 stolen bases and a solid .349 on-base percentage. He had 1,149 hits with 209 doubles and 45 triples in his 4,240 at bats.

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Wills Memorial Building

The Wills Memorial Building (also known as the Wills Memorial Tower or simply the Wills Tower) is a neo-Gothic building in Bristol, England, designed by Sir George Oatley and built as a memorial to Henry Overton Wills III  by his sons George and Henry Wills. Begun in 1915 and not opened until 1925, it is considered one of the last great Gothic buildings to be built in England.

Standing near the top of Park Street on Queens Road, it is a landmark building of the University of Bristol that currently houses the School of Law and the Department of Earth Sciences, as well as the Law and Earth Sciences libraries. It is the fourth highest structure in Bristol, standing at 215 ft.

Many regard the building as synonymous with the University of Bristol. It is the centrepiece building of the university precinct and is used by the university for degree ceremonies and examinations, which take place in the Great Hall.

Architecture commentator Nikolaus Pevsner described it as:

"'a tour de force in Gothic Revival, so convinced, so vast, and so competent that one cannot help feeling respect for it.'"

It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building and serves as a regional European Documentation Centre.

History

The Wills Memorial Building was commissioned in 1912 by George Alfred Wills and Henry Herbert Wills, the magnates of the Bristol tobacco company W. D. & H. O. Wills, in honour of their father, Henry Overton Wills III, benefactor and first Chancellor of the university who donated £100,000 to the university. Sir George Oatley, who also worked on a number of other buildings for the university, was chosen as architect and told to "build to last". He produced a design in the Perpendicular Gothic style, to evoke the famous university buildings of Oxford and Cambridge. The building was funded through the fortunes which the Wills family made through tobacco. Oatley later claimed that his inspiration for the building came from a dream where he saw a tower on a hill, with shields around it.

Construction started in 1915 but was halted in 1916 due to the continuation of the First World War. Work resumed in 1919, and the Wills Memorial Building was finally opened on 9 June 1925 by King George V and Queen Mary, having cost a total of £501,566 19s 10d. The building was opened with a Royal Salute of 21 chimes from 'Great George', the nine-and-a-half ton bell within the octagonal belfry of the tower, which is tolled on the death of a monarch or chancellor. Oatley received a knighthood that year in recognition of his work on the building.

In 1940, during the Bristol Blitz of the Second World War, the Great Hall with its hammerbeam roof was badly damaged by a German bomb-blast. It was restored in the 1960s to Oatley's original design; at the same time the adjoining wing was enlarged by Ralph Brentnall.

21st-century controversy
The alleged connection of the Wills family to historical slavery via the U.S. tobacco industry attracted controversy in the 2010s, with some students petitioning the University of Bristol to rename the building in March 2017. In 2018, the university published a response and consultation on how to address the issue, including (amongst others) the suggestion of renaming university buildings and changing the coat of arms.

On 28 February 2022 the Great Hall of the Wills Memorial Building was occupied by a group of students. The student occupiers barricaded themselves in the Great Hall in solidarity with ongoing industrial action by the University and Colleges Union which represents many teaching and professional services staff at the University.

Description
The building's dominant feature is the Wills Tower, built in reinforced concrete faced with Bath and Clipsham stone, with carving designed in collaboration with Jean Hahn of King's Heath Guild, Birmingham. At 215 ft high it is over twice the height of the nearby Cabot Tower. It is 16 metres square and ornamented with heraldic shields. It is topped by an octagonal lantern which houses Great George (England's ninth-largest bell, weighing over 9.5 tonnes) which strikes on the hour.

In addition to the Great Hall there is a General Library, Reception Room and Council Chamber, and a further 50 rooms including some teaching space such as seminar rooms and lecture theatres. In the Entrance Hall are two ceremonial staircases. The building is also used as a conference venue.

Restoration
In 2006, cleaning work began on the Wills Memorial Building costing £750,000. Cleaning on the building revealed the engraving "IO TRIVMPHE" intended as a tribute to the architect of the building Sir George Oatley. The engraving had remained hidden for over 80 years and recognises the role of Sir Isambard Owen (then Vice-Chancellor) in the realisation of Oatley's plans. Harry Patch, a veteran of the First World War who also worked on the building, re-unveiled the now clean building.

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Xavier de Villepin

Joseph Marie Benoît François Xavier Galouzeau de Villepin (born 14 March 1926 in Brussels, Belgium – 30 October 2014), simply known as Xavier de Villepin, was a former high-ranking civil servant of France, and a former French senator from the center-right UMP party (and before that from the more centrist UDF party). He was the father of the former Prime Minister of France, Dominique de Villepin.

Biography
Xavier de Villepin graduated from the renowned French business school HEC Paris in 1949 and later from the Harvard Business School. He took part in the French Resistance in 1944. As a French civil servant, he spent many years overseas. From 1950 until 1979, he served in chronological order in French Algeria, in Australia, in the French protectorate of Morocco, in Venezuela, and finally in the United States. He became a member of the Association of French Citizens Abroad (Union des Français de l'Étranger) in 1960, and its 2nd vice-president in 1979.

Xavier de Villepin was elected to the French Senate in 1986 by the constituency of the French citizens living abroad, and remained a French senator until September 2004, when he chose not to run for a third term. In 1993 he was elected chairman of the French Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Armed Forces (Commission des affaires étrangères, de la défense et des forces armées). He resigned from the committee in 2002 following the appointment of his son Dominique de Villepin as Minister of Foreign Affairs.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sage Molnar

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page, if it exists; or after the end of this archived section. The result of the debate was delete. — Xezbeth 17:16, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

Sage Molnar
Doomed to be non-notable forever. Denni ☯ 01:25, 2005 Jun 1 (UTC)
 * (This wasn't added to the day page; no vote, just completing the nomination.) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 06:03, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete, vanity. DopefishJustin (･∀･) 16:05, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. JamesBurns 07:08, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. The guy is a jerk.
 * Delete vanity, and he has repeatedly removed the VfD tag. -Splash 12:48, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep ar u nuts??? dis guy be a fine pimp somma daye.--65.92.123.75 17:36, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong delete, Nichole Arsenault is more notable than him and she got canned. That was a speedy candidate.   Antares33712 21:35, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete but I do think that he could become wikipedia material in some time, no one is doomed to non-notability.--Poli 03:45, 2005 Jun 23 (UTC)

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WWIII Live 2003

WWIII Live 2003 is a live album by industrial rock band KMFDM from their WWIII tour, recorded at the House of Blues, Chicago on October 27, 2003. It was released on July 27, 2004, on Sanctuary Records. It includes many of the songs from the WWIII album, along with some songs from other albums. The DVD release includes live footage from different venues throughout the tour. The band once again consists of 3 members of  (as well as Watts himself), and these 3 members would ultimately be drafted into KMFDM fulltime as Watts and the band  would enter a lengthy hiatus.

Reception
WWIII Live 2003 received mixed reviews. Ilker Yücel of ReGen Magazine gave a positive review, while Richard T. Williams of PopMatters panned the release, saying, "The sound of today's KMFDM isn't only devoid of the danceability that once defined it, it is helplessly, aimlessly generic."

DVD release
Music videos: Additional after-show, backstage, interview and studio footage and more
 * 1) "WWIII"
 * 2) "From Here on Out"
 * 3) "Blackball"
 * 4) "Brute"
 * 5) "Stars & Stripes"
 * 6) "Pity for the Pious"
 * 7) "Moron"
 * 8) "Revenge"
 * 9) "Bullets, Bombs & Bigotry"
 * 10) "Light"
 * 11) "Juke Joint Jezebel"
 * 12) "Intro"
 * 13) "A Drug Against War"
 * 1) "Skurk" (from Attak)
 * 2) "Ultra" (from Nihil)
 * 3) "Stars & Stripes" (from WWIII)

Personnel

 * Raymond Watts – vocals, guitars
 * Sascha Konietzko – vocals, percussion, keyboards
 * Lucia Cifarelli – vocals, keyboards
 * Steve White - guitars
 * Jules Hodgson – guitars
 * Andy Selway – drums

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Talk:Antique white

White or brown
Is antique white really a shade of white or a shade of brown? Looks brown to me. Jimp 1Jun05

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Fighting Force

Fighting Force is a 1997 3D brawler developed by Core Design and published by Eidos. It was released for PlayStation, Microsoft Windows, and Nintendo 64 on 15 October 1997. Announced shortly after Core became a star developer through the critical and commercial success of Tomb Raider, Fighting Force was highly anticipated but met with mixed reviews.

Gameplay
Players control one of four characters as they move through urban and science fiction environments, battling waves of oncoming enemies with weapons including soda cans, knives, cars, and guns. The player can make some choices as to which territory to travel through.

Story
The four characters have various reasons for taking on Dr. Dex Zeng, a criminal mastermind with an army at his command who predicted that the world would end in the year 2000. After New Year's Eve 1999, Dr. Zeng believed that there was an error preventing the apocalypse, so decides to correct it by destroying the world himself. The action starts with a police cordon around Zeng's office skyscraper, moving to such locales as a shopping mall, subway and Coast Guard base before finally ending at the top of Zeng's island headquarters.

Characters
Players choose from a selection of four characters: Hawk Manson, Mace Daniels, Alana McKendricks and Ben "Smasher" Jackson. Hawk Manson and Mace Daniels are two all-around characters. Hawk is somewhat stronger than Mace who is in turn faster than Hawk. Ben "Smasher" Jackson is a large and slow bruiser capable of lifting and throwing the engines of cars at enemies. Alana McKendricks is a fast but soft-hitting teenager with an effective jump-kick. All four characters have a special move that can be performed with the loss of a portion of health.

Development and release
Core Design originally pitched the game to Sega as a potential fourth entry in Sega's Streets of Rage series. Sega declined; according to Core, Sega explained that it had its own plans for continuing the series. Core opted to go ahead with the game as a standalone, multi-platform title, and started work on it. Core Design collaborated with ten coders from EA Japan in making the game.

The story line and character designs were done by Marc Silvestri. The character of Dr. Zeng was inspired by Heaven's Gate.

A "Battle Arena" mode was added to the game during development, but it was cut from the final version.

In addition to the PlayStation, Windows, and Nintendo 64 versions, a Sega Saturn version was developed and eventually completed. After Eidos decided against publishing this version, Sega Europe secured the publishing rights and announced a European release date of November 1997, but it was ultimately cancelled. An early prototype, with older character designs, was leaked in November 2008. In February 2024, the released Core running demo disc (which provided a real-time demo of multiple Core Design Saturn titles), which post-dates the leaked beta, was successfully hacked to be playable.

Eidos demonstrated a playable Nintendo 64 version at the 1998 E3. Eidos later cancelled this version of the game, but in February 1999 publisher Crave Entertainment purchased the rights from Eidos and put the game into its release schedule. The Nintendo 64 version was released in North America and Europe in 1999, under the title Fighting Force 64. Differences include partially improved graphics and changes in the available number of player lives.

In June 2024, Limited Run Games announced that they are working with Square Enix to release the Fighting Force Collection for the Playstation 4/5, Nintendo Switch and Steam with an estimated release for 2025.

Reception
The original PlayStation release received mostly mixed reviews. Critics overwhelmingly commented that the game has a satisfyingly large amount of interactive scenery to destroy or collect weapons from,   but agreed that despite the transition to 3D, the gameplay was not meaningfully different from the 2D beat 'em ups of earlier console generations. GameSpot summed it up as "basically a 3D version of Capcom's classic, Final Fight, except the characters and enemies lack the personality that made Final Fight exciting." Some, however, looked on the game's lack of innovation as a virtue rather than a liability; Shawn Smith commented in Electronic Gaming Monthly, "What's cool about Fighting Force is that it plays like the old side-scrolling games of the same nature. Then you might ask, why not just make a 2-D one. Well, when the 3-D works, why not go with it?" Next Generation took more of a middle ground, stating that "despite its derivative nature, Fighting Force is a very fun game. Yet, it's just not the same huge leap forward for the Final Fight genre that we might have expected from the creators of Tomb Raider."

Besides lack of originality, some critics criticized it for repetitiveness and took issue with how the control configuration assigns multiple actions to the same button while leaving other buttons on the controller unused, saying this often results in the character performing a different action than intended and leaving them open to enemy attacks. GamePro nonetheless opined, "Despite its few flaws, Fighting Force delivers the fierce fun and beat-fools-silly action that PlayStation gamers are looking for." IGN, while contradicting GamePro by actually praising the game's controls, offered a somewhat more pessimistic overall take: "With solid graphics, impeccable control, yet almost zero innovation or variety, Fighting Force is a mixed bag. If in doubt, rent before you buy." AllGame gave the game three stars out of five, saying, "All in all, Fighting Force isn't a bad game. Just some problems that lie in the gameplay department and some graphical glitches that keep this title from achieving the status of the games it was modeled after." In Japan, where the game was ported and published by Electronic Arts Victor under the name Metal Fist (メタルフィスト) on 15 January 1998, Famitsu gave it a score of 25 out of 40.

PC Zone gave the PC version 88%, calling it "a computer game in which a lot of people get hurt in a variety of entertaining ways, with excellent 3D visuals and a surprising amount of detail." However, PC Gamer UK gave it 62%, calling it "A middle class game without fire in its belly that refuses to strive for better things."

GamePro and Nintendo Power gave the Nintendo 64 average reviews while the game was still in development under Eidos, months before the company handed its development rights over to Crave.

The game was a commercial success, selling 1 million units worldwide and satisfying a demand for a Streets of Rage like 3D beat 'em up experience in the industry at the time. In the United States, the game sold 596,404 units.

Sequels
A sequel, Fighting Force 2, was released on December 13, 1999 for the PlayStation and Dreamcast. Unlike the first title, Fighting Force 2 focuses on the character of Hawk Manson exclusively, and rewards a more stealthy approach.

A second sequel, Fighting Force 3 was also in development for the Xbox and PlayStation 2, but was cancelled during development.

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Republic of Loose

Republic of Loose were an Irish funk rock band from Dublin. Formed in 2001, the band formerly consisted of lead vocalist Mick Pyro, bass guitarist and vocalist Benjamin Loose, keyboardist Deco, guitarists and vocalists Dave Pyro and Brez and drummer and percussionist Coz Noelen.

With a self-described musical style of "the stuff your dad likes", the band signed to Big Cat Records in 2003, recording their debut album This is the Tomb of the Juice which was released in 2004. They were named "Hope for 2004" at the 2004 Meteor Awards. In 2005, the singles "Comeback Girl" and "You Know It" received significant airplay on Irish radio. Republic of Loose's second album Aaagh!, released in April 2006, reached number two in the Irish Albums Chart, achieving platinum sales and a Choice Music Prize nomination in the process. It spawned several more successful singles, including "Break" which achieved notoriety in South Africa where a radio station banned it following complaints regarding its allegedly explicit lyrics. Vol IV: Johnny Pyro and the Dance of Evil, Republic of Loose's third album, was released in 2008. That album produced their highest chart performer to date, "The Steady Song", which peaked at number twelve and stayed in the Irish Singles Chart for thirteen weeks. Bounce at the Devil, the band's fourth album, was released in 2010.

Having earned the admiration of several musicians, including members of Snow Patrol and U2, as well as Sinéad O'Connor—with whom they recorded, released and performed a duet at the 2008 Meteor Awards—the band have had their music played on radio stations in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. The Irish Times placed them at number thirty-seven in a list of "The 50 Best Irish Acts Right Now" published in April 2009, referring to them as "one of Ireland's most original bands" led by "the gruff singer with the extraordinary soul voice [...] simultaneously channelling the spirits of James Brown and James Joyce in one fell swoop." Aside from U2 and Bell X1, they are the Irish band with the most airplay in their native country. In August 2014, vocalist Mick Pyro confirmed that the band had split.

Formation
Mick Pyro performed with self-described "rubbish rock bands" for several years before the formation of The Republic of Loose. During this time, he was, according to himself, "depressed out of my brains" and listened to artists such as Manic Street Preachers. Experiencing what he termed "a huge metaphysical overturning of my value system", Pyro had developed a fascination with musicians such as James Brown and The Rolling Stones, or "the stuff your Dad likes". This change of musical interest prompted him to create Johnny Pyro, an alter-ego, who, according to Pyro, "disassociated himself from the normal lifestyle of an Irish bourgeois kid". This alter-ego would later develop into Johnny Pyro And The Rock Coma (Mick Pyro, Dave Pyro, Coz Noleon, Mark Dennehy and Emmet Cole). The band recorded an EP, which featured four of the songs that later appeared on the Republic of Loose's first album, 'This Is The Tomb Of The Juice.' Following the departure of guitarist Emmet Cole (who wrote the song "Black Bread") and bassist Mark Dennehey "To Texas and Ringsend," respectively, Johnny Pyro and Rock Coma split.

About a year later the Republic of Loose was formed. Benjamin Loose studied theology in Trinity College Dublin before performing in a country band with Mick Pyro. Dave Pyro used to play guitar with Brez and Deco joined them to play keys. The name Republic of Loose was settled upon in 2001 when Dave and Mick, combined with Brez, Deco, Coz Noleon, who had been Mick's schoolfriend, and Benjamin Loose.

This is the Tomb of the Juice
The band's break, according to Mick Pyro, came as a result of ten days recording time they won in "some competition or something, some fucking battle of the bands". In 2003, Republic of Loose signed to Big Cat Records. The single "Girl I'm Gonna Fuck You Up", released in late 2003, was largely ignored by daytime radio in Ireland, with Mick Pyro commenting in an early Hot Press interview: "We were never going to be the type of band that Larry Gogan or Ian Dempsey would play anyway, regardless of the lyric". The band's debut album, This is the Tomb of the Juice, was partially recorded in the ten days studio time they had won in the aforementioned competition. This is the Tomb of the Juice was recorded in 2003 then released in 2004. 2004 was also the year in which Republic of Loose débuted at Oxegen (on the New Band Stage), a festival at which they have since regularly performed. Singles "Comeback Girl" and "You Know It" were released in July and October 2005 respectively, both achieving significant airplay on Irish radio and entering the top thirty of the Irish Singles Chart. By 2006 the band had toured Ireland, the United Kingdom, where they performed at festivals such as Glastonbury and T in the Park, and France, where they performed at Furia Sound Festival, Nice Jazz Festival and Les Transmusicales. They also performed alongside veteran rock band Lir at Vicar Street in January 2006.

Aaagh!
At a cost of €70,000 to make, the band's second album, Aaagh! was released in 2006. Sunday Tribune journalist Una Mullally called it "one of the most original and progressive Irish albums ever made". Aaagh! reached number two in the Irish Albums Chart, going platinum in the process, received regular airplay on Irish radio and produced five singles, including "The Idiots", a song about Mick Pyro's former girlfriend which also features her on vocals. "Break", a top ten single in Ireland and top forty single in South Africa, was temporarily banned by South African radio station 5fm when a female DJ declared on air that it promoted anal sex without contraception, a comment which led to several complaints from listeners. The band's 2006 summer tour included a performance where fans danced outside despite "the lashing rain" at Oxegen 2006, with the Irish Independent's Larissa Nolan saying "their scheduling on the main stage was a testament to just how big their army of fans is",  and Castlepalooza. In 2007, Republic of Loose performed at several festivals in Ireland and the United Kingdom, including Reading and Leeds Festivals, Cois Fharraige and a headline slot at Indie-pendence. Aaagh! was released in the United Kingdom on 15 October 2007. In January 2008, Republic of Loose were one of the acts who recorded "The Ballad of Ronnie Drew" at Dublin's Windmill Lane Studios; the sessions led to a meeting with Sinéad O'Connor, with whom the band recorded and released a duet which was then performed live at the 2008 Meteor Awards the following month.

Vol IV: Johnny Pyro and the Dance of Evil
On 27 March 2008, Republic of Loose announced the track list and title for their third album. Vol IV: Johnny Pyro and the Dance of Evil was released in May 2008, featuring contributions from Sinéad O'Connor, rapper Styles P and hip hoppers Millionaire Boyz. In the run-up to the release, the band uploaded free downloadable songs to their MySpace profile, including b-sides, live tracks and songs from Aaagh!. Vol IV: Johnny Pyro and the Dance of Evil spent more than three months in the top thirty of the Irish Albums Chart, spawning the successful singles, "I Like Music" and "The Steady Song", the latter their highest chart performer to date, having peaked at number twelve and stayed in the charts for thirteen weeks. Mick Pyro has described Vol IV: Johnny Pyro and the Dance of Evil as the first album the band feel proud of.

In support of the album's release, the band embarked on a small national tour and received an invitation to perform a sell-out month-long residency at The Dublin Academy for four consecutive Fridays,  thus ending their habit of playing Dublin only once per year. This involved two-hour sets featuring new material and duets with Sinéad O'Connor—on her song "Nothing Compares 2 U"—and Damien Dempsey—on the Thin Lizzy song "Dancing in the Moonlight". The Academy residency led to a Meteor Award nomination for Best Irish Live Performance the following year and they would return for another performance at the same venue that September. A couple were engaged as part of a BBC television series prior to the Sunday evening appearance of Republic of Loose on the O2 Stage at Oxegen 2008— a performance which also featured collaborator Styles P— whilst the band also performed for several journalists backstage. They performed a DJ set at Castlepalooza before headlining Solas Festival on 17 August 2008. Republic of Loose featured on Today FM's The Ray D'Arcy Show's charity album Even Better Than the Disco Thing released in December 2008, finishing off the year with three shows in Cork.

Republic of Loose were one of several acts to perform cover versions at a show in The Academy titled "Inspirations", held in honour of the actor Paul Newman's Irish charity in February 2009. In June 2009, the band were part of a collaboration of musicians calling themselves The Troublemakers who recorded a cover version of the Horslips song "Trouble with a Capital T" for charity. The recording session was part of The Raw Sessions and the song was performed by The Troublemakers on The Late Late Show. The band performed on the Heineken Green Spheres Stage at Oxegen 2009 before supporting U2 during one of their U2 360° Tour concert dates at Croke Park in July 2009. Republic of Loose participated in the international celebration of the 250th birthday of Guinness—known as Arthur's Day— which took place on 24 September 2009.

Bounce at the Devil
In 2009 Brez and Deco left the band and were replaced by Da'Rock and Da'ragh. July 2010, Republic of Loose returned to Oxegen. Their fourth album, Bounce at the Devil, was released later that year and led to an appearance on The Late Late Show. The album, recorded in Baltimore, "blends a myriad of influences -- from plastic soul to the sort of 'big hair' rock of the 80s", according to Irish Independent reviewer John Meagher. Entertainment.ie's Jenny Mulligan describes it as good craic but occasionally bordering on obnoxious.

Influences, praise and style
Republic of Loose's genre has been defined by various sources as blues, funk, metal, R'n'B, pop, rock and soul. They are influenced by acts such as Bobby Brown, James Brown, Al Green, Howlin' Wolf, Michael Jackson, Prince and The Rolling Stones. They perform as a six-piece band complete with backing singers. The chant, "Loose! Loose Loose!", is commonly heard from the crowd during their performances.

Republic of Loose have earned the admiration of several musicians. Damien Dempsey called them the "best band in Ireland" after performing alongside them. Sinéad O'Connor, in an e-mail to the Irish Independent, asked to become a member of what she described as "simply the best Irish band ever". Bono has described them as "sophisticated soul bootboys", "trailblazers" and proclaimed that "the Celtic Twilight turned into Celtic soul with Van Morrison, then Republic of Loose grabbed the Celtic Tiger by the tail, swung it around their heads and threw it out the window into the cosmos". Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody, who called them "the best band in the country this year [2007] and for many years to come". Snow Patrol have also remixed "Comeback Girl". Praise has come from other musicians too, including Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters. Marcus Russell, manager of Oasis, is reported as having called Republic of Loose the "most exciting new band" since Oasis. Novelist Irvine Welsh has referred to "Comeback Girl" as "one of the greatest songs ever recorded". Actress Mischa Barton is also a fan.

Paul Lester, writing in British newspaper The Guardian in July 2007, described Republic of Loose as an "Irish OutKast" to be filed next to Danny Wilson, Hall & Oates and N.E.R.D and least likely to be compared to The Pogues. John Meagher, writing in the Irish Independent in April 2008, said the band were "out of step entirely with prevailing trends [...] almost like they stopped listening to music after hearing the young Prince and early Dexys Midnight Runners". Vocalist Mick Pyro has commented that there are very few musicians performing "authentic modern soul" and that the band's aim is to "combine the energy of the New York Dolls with the funk and soul qualities of The Roots". When writing a piece on The Script in August 2008, Brian Boyd of The Irish Times claimed that they were "as un-Irish sounding as The Republic of Loose [sic]". Internationally, they have established fan bases in London and New York City and have achieved regular airplay on Los Angeles radio in the United States, as well as France, Indonesia and the Philippines. Bunim/Murray Productions has licensed their music for use on American television. They have, however, refused several indie contracts in the United States.

Singles
From "This Is The Tomb of the Juice"
 * Girl I'm Gonna Fuck You Up
 * Hold Up
 * Tell More Lies

From "Aaagh!"
 * Comeback Girl (IRE #19)
 * You Know It (IRE #22)
 * Shame (IRE #20)
 * Break / The Translation (IRE #29)
 * The Idiots

From "Vol IV: Johnny Pyro and the Dance of Evil"
 * I Like Music (IRE #41)
 * The Steady Song (IRE #12)
 * The Ritual
 * Awful Cold

From "Bounce At the Devil"
 * The Man
 * 99 (feat. Bo Starks)
 * The Blah Bounce

Non-album singles
 * They Pay For Love (2012)
 * Thinking of You (2013) IRE #16
 * The Punishment (2013)

Choice Music Prize
Republic of Loose's second album Aaagh! was nominated for the Choice Music Prize, an award won by The Divine Comedy for the album Victory for the Comic Muse. The band performed at the award ceremony in Vicar Street on 28 February 2007. Surprise was expressed within the industry when they were not nominated again for the 2009 award.

 * 2007 || Aaagh! || Irish Album of the Year 2006 || Nominated
 * 2007 || Aaagh! || Irish Album of the Year 2006 || Nominated

Meteor Music Awards
Republic of Loose won the Hope for 2004 award at the 2004 Meteor Awards. They were nominated in the Best Irish Band category at 2007 Meteor Awards.

Republic of Loose were nominated in the Best Irish Band and Best Irish Live Performance categories at the 2009 Meteor Awards. They lost to The Script and The Blizzards in those respective categories.

In addition to this, they have performed at both the 2006 and 2008 awards ceremonies, the latter of which involved a duet with Sinéad O'Connor on the Curtis Mayfield song "We People Who Are Darker Than Blue".

 * 2004 || Republic of Loose || Hope for 2004 || Won
 * 2007 || Republic of Loose || Best Irish Band || Nominated
 * 2009 || Republic of Loose || Best Irish Band || Nominated
 * 2009 || The Academy || Best Irish Live Performance || Nominated
 * 2009 || Republic of Loose || Best Irish Band || Nominated
 * 2009 || The Academy || Best Irish Live Performance || Nominated
 * 2009 || The Academy || Best Irish Live Performance || Nominated
 * 2009 || The Academy || Best Irish Live Performance || Nominated

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Talk:ICC Champions Trophy

POV

 * Since the World Cup more or less convincingly establishes supermacy in cricket the need of Champions Trophy is now probably only of monetary interest for ICC and the hosting board

As it happens, I agree, but it's pretty POV. I've left it alone, though, as I can't think of a better way to put it. Loganberry 01:32, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

why full details of only 2 tournaments
either provide full details of all the tournaments, or remove the ones which are there and show them as a separate link. waitin for ane criticism nids 20:21, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Another "Champions Trophy"
There was a "Champions Trophy" ODI series which ran under various sponsored titles (eg (Singer-Akai Champions Trophy) in Sharjah most years from 1986-87 to 2000-01. Just mentioning it here to avoid any confusion with the ICC CT competition. Loganberry (Talk)

ICC Champions Trophy 2008
ICC Champions Trophy 2008 in Pakistan, Mini World Cup 2008, 6th Cricket Champions Trophy Schedule www.rajneshonline.com/series/3/

Group A - India, Pakistan, Australia and West Indies Group B - South Africa, New Zealand, Srilanka and England —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rajneshavon (talk • contribs) 05:33, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Wickets Discrepancy
Has Murali taken 23 or 24 wickets so far there a discrepancy between the box and the article. DrSultan85
 * 24 is correct, discrepancy has now been fixed. --Jpeeling (talk • contribs) 17:16, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

Article needs to make some attempt at explaining why this tournament exists
This article needs to make some attempt at explaining why this tournament exists (given that there's already an ODI World Cup), preferably backed by citations from reliable sources. After seeing the tournament reported in the news, I came here looking for an answer to this question, and was disappointed not to find one (other than the suggestion in the Talk page that it was just an ICC cash cow - which could only appear in the article if it were backed by reliable citations, and probably also 'balanced' by official justifications for the tournament for NPOV reasons). I suppose I could go looking for such citations myself, but I think that's really a job for some editor who's a great deal more interested in cricket than me, especially as the article relates to a soon-to-be-defunct tournament, and one which has not involved lesser cricketing nations (such as my own Ireland). Tlhslobus (talk) 03:45, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Future of the tournament

 * 2019 and 2021

For possible future inclusion.  Lugnuts  Dick Laurent is dead 09:32, 23 June 2016 (UTC)

Most successful tram
One question should India be listed with Australia because India won the trophy in 2002 along with Sri Lanka and that gives it like 1 1/2 titles? I'm not adding 1.5 titles but I think only Australia should be listed there. Bingobro (talk) 09:59, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

I apologize I never saw that ^1 where India were declared joint champion's is written. Bingobro (talk) 10:01, 31 May 2017 (UTC)

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Proposed merge with 2021 ICC Champions Trophy
As it is not going to happen so need for separate article. Merge-and-redirect it to parent page. Störm  (talk)  11:45, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

 * Done. I think all the salient points were covered in the 2021 section.  Lugnuts  Fire Walk with Me 08:08, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

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User:Vaux

Vaux is a musicologist and composer located on the U.S. east coast.

Selected contributions:

revised Philippe de Vitry; wrote Gebrauchsmusik article; began and wrote much of the mensural notation article; wrote Petrus de Cruce article; wrote Placido Falconio article; contributed significant material to Medieval music and Renaissance music; significantly expanded Galant stub; significantly expanded Mordecai Seter stub.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sean Verret

 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. Mackensen (talk) 16:52, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Sean Verret
I wish my life was as interesting, but still vanity. Denni ☯ 01:32, 2005 Jun 1 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. Double Blue  (Talk) 01:53, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. -- Hoary 06:23, 2005 Jun 1 (UTC)
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About Bengali cuisine
Hi,

I noticed that you claimed "Bangladeshi cuisine" is quite different from "Bengali cuisine". This is quite intersting, considering that almost 60-75% of Bengalis are Bangladeshis. Anyway, the article Bengali cuisine is supposed to be about the common cuisine of the entire Bengal. If you are interested to write about the cuisine of West Bengal, you can start one titled Cuisine of West Bengal, though not much will be different from that of Bengali cuisine.

Also, the claim that West Bengali and East Bengali cuisines are quite different is quite wrong. Given the popularity of Ilish in West Bengal, what part is different? If you talk about Hindu Widow's dietary restrictions, these are the same for Bangladeshi Hindu widows. Other than that, what difference do you see?

So, if you are interested to write about West Bengal, please start one for West Bengali cuisine. Otherwise, the "Bengali *" articles are for the entire region of Bengal ... not any part (though Bangladeshi Bengalis can claim to be a majority :) (that's a joke, not serious!!)).

Dhonnobad. --Ragib (talk) 09:22, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

 * One possible way can be to make a section about regional variations where we can talk about specific West Bengali or Bangladeshi dishes. Otherwise, Bengalis eat rice, fish, dal, shak etc ... there is no major distinction as you claim. I've eaten in Kolkata hotels too, and didn't find anything that I won't find in a Dhaka hotel. --Ragib (talk) 09:26, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

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Ilish and rui are eaten in Gujarat also, that does not make it the same cuisine.

As someone who has spent plenty of time eating both kinds of food (I have Bangladeshi relatives), I can certify that the food is actually very different in many cases. Of course there are strong similarities, but there are also dramatic differences. I put to you that 60 years of seperation has introduced enough differences that the two should be treated seperately.

Its true that many of the cultural influences are common - widows, mughals and to a smaller extent the British. But many other influences are very dfferent - the sweets of Kolkata, for instance, are primarily of Marwari origin (a reflection of Kolkata's huge Marwari community) and do not exist in Dhaka. The jewish bakeries, the chinese eateries, all these are far more West Bengal than Bangladesh.

Its a difficult thing - maybe we should call it "Bengali" and "Bangla" food to denote the two cuisines. Yes, they have lots in common, but there are enough differences that it would be very difficult to say they are the same.

I'm happy to open another article if that's what you want. However, this article was already designated with Cuisines of India. Maybe we should copy the relevant parts into a seperate article for Cuisines of Bangladesh. Regional variations is another way to go. --Shanky (talk) 09:39, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

 * Well, you are talking about regional variations. The Sylheti dishes are different from those eaten in Dhaka, and Chittagonian Shutki isn't available/liked/eaten by people in Northern Bangladesh. So, you can't mark regional variations to be "entirely different cuisine" ... I bet even within West Bengal, you'll find some difference from district to district.

 * At least 60-80% of the food habits of all Bengalis are common ... as I said, rice, dal, fish, vegetables. I still don't see how "60 years of separation" has introduced any difference ... if you are talking about the Mughlai dishes, those are specific to Old Dhaka, quite naturally because of the nawab influence, but the same goes for Kolkata. As for onions/no-onions difference, that's a religious difference not a regional one ... I think Hindus in Bangladesh also tend to use less onions than Muslims.

 * The sweets and bakeries are some extremely minute regional specialities ... there are some sweets that are specific to particular regions, just as some dishes are specific to particular areas.

 * I suggest the following -- if you are interested to write about specific cuisine / dishes unique to West Bengal, Cuisine of West Bengal is perhaps the best place to do so. This article needs to focus on the common characteristics of Bengali food, and can have a section "Regional variation" focusing on food from particular regions. If you go outside Kolkata, I don't think you'll find a difference between East and West Dinajpur, Rajshahi etc of Northern Bengal .... particular dishes can always be unique to an area. But the major things are the same ... rice, fish, dal. This article needs to focus on that. And we need some good references for some parts -- e.g. influence of the widows ...

 * Thanks. --Ragib (talk) 09:49, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

The problem, I think, is that neither of us has enough authority to talk about the other side. I haven't spent any time in Sylhet or Rajshahi, and you certainly know little about the food in Asansol or Kharagpur (where Marwari sweets, Jewish Bakers and Anglo-Indian Christmas cakes play a big role in what we define as "our" food). The Kolkata-Asansol belt is some 50% of the population of the state. West Bengal is culturally also dominated by Kolkata - regional variances in food are quite small (and I have wandered West Bengal). I suspect that is not true of Bangladesh.

Incidentally, the mughlai restaurants of Kolkata all trace their roots from Lucknow (courtesy Wajid Ali Shah's exile to Kolkata) and not to Dhaka. Both have Turk, Afghan and Persian origins, but there are substantial differences in technique.

--Shanky (talk) 10:03, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

 * True, but the Dhaka Moghlai restaurants are not things people eat every day, just as people don't eat at Chinese restaurants everyday. What people eat everyday is almost the same. You can always find this or that dish that people from some specific area eat, which may not be correct for other areas. BTW, the comment about "Atop chal" vs "Shiddho chal" is not entirely correct ... even within Bangladesh, there are regions where one is preferred over the other, and there is no "Bangladeshi choice of rice". So, can't generalize any particular rice to be "Bangladeshi cuisine" in particular. --Ragib (talk) 10:08, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

I think you're defining Bengali food too narrowly. The cuisine of a region is the cuisine of its restaurants and bakeries and sweetshops as much as of its home kitchens. Incidentally, I did grow up eating at Nizam's and others very regularly, at least a couple of times a week.

Not sure where the atop-siddho chal statement is - that is certainly incorrect. Many in West Bengal eat siddho chal regularly.

I must also say that sweets are very central to the cuisine of West Bengal. Its probably an offshoot of Kolkata's oversized influence but the sweets are clearly the sweets of professional sweet makers, not anything made at home. Pithe, naru, etc are rarely ever found in a shop, while Ive never seen people make chamcham or bonde or motichoor laddu at home.

Kolkata is only 300 years old, and therefore has a much younger food tradition than Dhaka. Much of West Bengal was forest till not so long ago - little cna be found that dates before 300 years, even in other places. Murshidabad is only 100 yrs older than Kolkata. Other places were older but had small populations. I suspect that has much to do with what West Bengal adopted as its daily food.

And, of course, marwaris eat marwari food every day. so do the four lakh chinese in West Bengal.

--Shanky (talk) 10:18, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

 * But Pitha, naru, Moa, Chomchom etc. are just as widespread in Bangladesh too. In fact, Moa seems to be the same everywhere. Pitha is something every part of Bangladesh has aplenty ... though the style of Pitha varies from region to region. Bonde / Mihidana is something available in street vendors as well as restaurants. So, I don't really get your sweets related comment ... the same thing can equally be applied to Bangladesh, and I do't see the difference at all. Anyway, my main point is, put the specific regional variations in the West Bengali cuisine article, with a summary of that here. As I mentioned several times here, the principal parts of cuisine are common throughout Bengal, regardless of region, and the specifics can go to area-specific articles. Thanks. I'm signing off for the night. --Ragib (talk) 10:25, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Pitha, moa and naru are actually very uncommon in West Bengal. Bonde and mihidana less so, but still not very common. I challenge you to find pithe available easily anywhere in West Bengal. Today's Bengali sweets are primarily modern creations centered around milk. On the other hand, every tea shop and railway station in West Bengal sells cookies, puff pastry and pound cake - the abiding influence of the Baghdadi Jewish bakers you so lightly dismissed. The only other place for them is Mumbai - where the same tiny community of jewish bakers made maska khari (butter puff pastry) the symbol of Mumbai's tea stalls.

As for Chinese - the most popular chowmein stalls are near colleges and offices. Many in West Bengal do eat Chinese (or at least, its Bengali variant) every day. We're nostalgic enough about that Chinese that even New York has "Indian Chinese" restaurants. The same for Nizam's rolls and biriyanis.

Anyway, I'm not making large changes to the structure of the article. We'll continue talking. maybe we should move this to the discussion page for the article.

--Shanky (talk) 10:43, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

In the ten years since this discussion was written, especially the Nizam-style "Kati Roll" has become a flag-bearer of Bengali (West Bengal) food. Its quite the global phenomenon nowadays.

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Sal Cuevas

Salvador "Sal" Cuevas (June 16, 1955 – April 9, 2017) was an American salsa bassist known for his association with the Fania All-Stars from 1978 to 1985. Although he also played the upright bass, he was one of the most popular electric bassists in the New York salsa scene, often playing in a funk style. "He was the first to bring the slaps and funk style that he learned from R&B, Funk, and Jazz music, into Salsa music."

Early life
Cuevas was born in Manhattan in 1955 and raised in The Bronx by Puerto Rican parents. Aged five his father began teaching him to play chords on the guitar. The demographics of the city during the time provided Cuevas with an array of musical influences which he absorbed and later incorporated into his bass playing technique and style. At age 12 he played with his trio on Myrta Silva's show Una Hora Contigo (An Hour with You).

He explained in an interview, “Being from New York you are exposed to not only the Latin part of music, you are also exposed to Rhythm and Blues, Punk, and also Jazz, so I started playing all of that stuff when I went to Junior High school. I spoke to my teacher and he said ‘why don’t you play the bass?' He doesn't know how right he was."

For his high school years he attended the High School of Music & Art. At age 17, he began performing with Tony Pabon y La Protesta. After graduating high school he entered Mannes School of Music and left in his first semester when he was hired by Mongo Santamaria to join his world tour.

Career
Cuevas was a member of various notable salsa ensembles, including Los Kimbos, the Fania All-Stars and those of Johnny Pacheco, Héctor Lavoe and Willie Colón. During this time, he was also one of five bass players in New York City who recorded many of the "Jingles" for TV and radio; the others were Marcus Miller, Will Lee, Francisco Centeno and Neil Jason. Cuevas performed and recorded with many salsa artists in New York for decades, before moving to Miami in his later years. While performing and recording, Cuevas worked as a New York City Corrections Officer, New York City Police Officer, Florida State Corrections Officer and ultimately retired as a Florida Police Seargent after he relocated to southern Florida. Cuevas enjoyed the title of musical director to Willie Colón's orchestra both during Willie's collaborations with famed Panamanian singer/songwriter/actor Rubén Blades and Colón's solo singing ventures. He played bass on Billy Idol's hit "Eyes Without a Face" from the 1983 studio album Rebel Yell.

Style
His bass slapping and string snapping technique has become common for bassists within Latin "salsa" music. On the electric upright bass, Cuevas incorporated techniques which also (until then) were rarely heard of in Latin music such as slides (glissandi), and utilizing the very upper ranges of the instrument, as heard on "La ceiba y la siguaraya", recorded with Celia Cruz and La Sonora Ponceña.

Cuevas has performed and recorded with Ray Barretto, Joe Bataan, Willie Colon, Larry Harlow, Monguito, Johnny Pacheco, Louie Ramirez, Ralph Robles, Mongo Santamaria, Tony Pabon, Bobby Valentin, Héctor Lavoe, Adalberto Santiago, Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez, Ismael Miranda, Ray Maldonado, Ralph Marzan, Orestes Vilató, Roberto Rodriguez, Jose Rodriguez, and Barry Rogers, Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, Ricardo Ray, Jimmy Sabater, Celia Cruz, Machito, Ismael Miranda, Ismael Quintana, Cheo Feliciano, Tito Nieves, La India, Mongo Sanatamaria, Gloria Estefan, The Manhattans, Angela Bofil, Mandy More, Soledad Bravo, Jose Feliciano, Jon Lucien, Los Gaitanes, Billy Idol, Lenny Kravitz, Black Eyed Peas, Usher, Il Volo, Jon Secada, Frank De Vita, Cissy Houston, Kristy MacColl, Harry Belafonte, Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez, David Bisbal, Thalia, Los Llegales, Christian Castro, Oscar Deleon, Eddie Palmieri, Charlie Palmieri, Hector El Father, Obie Bermudez, Ricardo Montaner, Don Omar, Tego Calderon, Marc Anthony, Fernando Villalona, Papo Luca, Dave Valentin, Noel Pointer, Isaac Delgado, Airto & Flora Purim.

Death
Cuevas died on April 9, 2017, at Miami's Pembroke Pines Memorial Hospital. He had complications from diabetes and in previous days suffered a massive stroke and was left in a semicoma.

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Harry Howell (ice hockey)

Henry Vernon Howell (December 28, 1932 – March 9, 2019) was a Canadian professional hockey player and longtime star for the New York Rangers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He played in the NHL and then the World Hockey Association (WHA) between 1952 and 1976. After his playing career Howell briefly worked as a coach in both leagues, as well as the general manager of the Cleveland Barons in the NHL during the 1977–78 season. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1979.

Life
He was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and died on March 9, 2019, at the age of 86. He attended GCVI (Guelph Collegiate Vocational Institute), in Guelph, Ontario. Harry was a Westdale Secondary School Alumni. (see Westdale Secondary School). He also played hockey in Guelph.

Career
Howell joined the New York Rangers in 1952. In 1955 he was named captain, but gave up that position after two seasons, as he felt he played poorly those years.

A stalwart, stay-at-home defenceman, in 1967 Howell was the last player in the pre-expansion era to win the Norris Trophy, and famously said that he was glad he won the trophy then because Bobby Orr (who finished third that year) would "own" the Norris for some time to come; Orr would win the trophy for the next eight seasons. Howell's playing weight was 195 and he stood 6 foot 1 inches tall. He played seventeen years wearing number 3 for the Rangers.

In 1969 Howell was offered a front-office position with the Rangers if he retired, but he was interested in still playing, so was sold to the Oakland Seals. He played another eight years in professional hockey; two with Oakland/California Seals, three with the Los Angeles Kings, and one each with three World Hockey Association (WHA) teams: New York Golden Blades/Jersey Knights (1973–74 WHA season), San Diego Mariners (1974–75), and ending his playing career with the Calgary Cowboys (1975–76).

Howell first moved into team management while still a player. After seven games with the New York Golden Blades, on November 21, 1973, Howell was elevated to player-coach when the team was moved and became the Jersey Knights for the remainder of the season. At the end of that season, the Knights moved and became the San Diego Mariners, with Howell still performing double duty as player-coach. Howell was strictly a player during his season with the Calgary Cowboys.

Howell played 1,411 NHL games and 170 WHA games, scoring 101 goals and 360 assists for 461 points.

He was named a First Team All-Star in 1967, and played in All-Star Games in 1954, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968 and 1970.

When he left the NHL, Howell had played more games as a defenseman than anyone else, and remains sixth in all-time games played as a defenseman. He also holds the record for most games played for the New York Rangers: 1,160.

After retiring as a player, Howell became general manager of the Cleveland Barons for the 1977–78 NHL season. The Barons were in dire financial circumstances, and merged with the equally challenged Minnesota North Stars at the end of that season. Howell became head coach of the merged Minnesota North Stars for the 1977–78 season but resigned after only 11 games.

Howell was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1979.

In 1990, he won the Stanley Cup as a member of the Edmonton Oilers where he served as a scout. In 2000 he re-joined the Rangers as a scout and worked in that role until retiring in 2004.

Howell's #3, along with Andy Bathgate's #9, was retired by the New York Rangers on February 22, 2009.

In the 2009 book 100 Ranger Greats, the authors ranked Howell at No. 10 all-time of the 901 New York Rangers who had played during the team's first 82 seasons.

Awards and achievements

 * 1952 - Memorial Cup - (Guelph)
 * 1967 - James Norris Memorial Trophy
 * 1989–90 - NHL - Stanley Cup (Edmonton) (as scout)
 * Most games played for the New York Rangers (1160)

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Shoagi
Two Google hits, none related to the text here. Proably hoax. Denni ☯ 01:37, 2005 Jun 1 (UTC)
 * Delete. Possibly about some sort of game character but article does not say what it is. Also reads like a copyvio. Double Blue  (Talk) 01:50, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Seems like a figment of someone's imagination. Xcali 15:01, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, nonsense. -- Eagleamn 15:58, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or fiction -- the last line even says so: "Thus far, this is the only documentation of Shoagi existence." Fabartus 22:54, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unverifiable. JamesBurns 10:25, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete NeoJustin 03:11 June 3, 2004 (UTC)
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