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User talk:Bob Wiyadabebe-Iytsaboi

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Hautefaye

Hautefaye (Autafaia) is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in south-western France. It gained particular notoriety for a mob attack and murder of an innocent man, Alain de Moneys, at the time of the Franco-Prussian War, in mid-August 1870.

Killing of Alain de Monéys
On 16 August 1870, France was losing the war against Prussia. Within three weeks, Emperor Napoleon III would be captured by the enemy and his regime overthrown by a self-proclaimed Government for National Defence.

Rural France, which had largely been faithful to Napoleon I and welcomed his nephew, was tense. Many rural residents were illiterate and depended upon news of the war from educated, often noble residents, which they resented.

During a fair at Hautefaye, matters turned ugly when an aristocratic cousin of a young nobleman named Alain de Monéys reported the war was not going well. Many villagers had been drinking and received the news poorly. They attacked the cousin, the Vicomte Camille Maillard Lafaye, son of the mayor of the nearby town of Beaussac. Frightened, the viscount and his party fled. In an alcohol-fueled patriotic fervor, villagers wielding pitchforks and cudgels turned their attention on young Alain.

They accused him of being a Prussian plant, a spy, and of financing Prussia in the war against France. They claimed he betrayed the emperor and nation. Both claims were in fact false, as Monéys was not a Republican and his patriotism was spotless, but a crowd gathered around him. The parish priest tried to calm the mob by offering drinks to divert their attention but, however well-meaning the effort may have been, it probably made the crowd even more intoxicated than they already were and more dangerous. The mayor, unable to show leadership in the face of drunken excitement, reportedly said "Eat him if you want".

For two hours, the mob tortured and battered Alain de Monéys. They nailed horseshoes to his feet and burst one of his eyeballs. The crowd finally burnt him in the village square (or a nearby lake bed), likely while still alive. It is alleged that those who took part in the killing collected fat dripping from his burning body onto bread, eating the resulting tartines. (The last statement has not been proved historical).

Judgment
Some 600 festival attendees were implicated in the affair. On 19 August 1870, gendarmes arrested fifty people ranging in age from age 14 through 60.

On 18 September 1870, twenty-one defendants were informed of charges against them.

During 13–21 December 1870, perpetrators were brought to trial in the town of Périgueux. Nineteen were convicted, four sentenced to death. Judge Brochon, from the Bourdeaux Court of Appeals, presided over the Dordogne Criminal Court in this instance. Altogether, four individuals were judged to have primary culpability and sentenced to death, while another received a sentence of life imprisonment. Others received sentences ranging from six to eight years imprisonment with hard labour for their role in the atrocity. Another group was sentenced to a single year of imprisonment. One teenager, then aged fourteen years of age, was sentenced to six years in a reformatory, while a small child was acquitted.

On 6 February 1871, the four participants judged most complicit for the murder of Monéys were guillotined in the Hautefaye village square.

Aftermath
In 1953, Lavaud Noemie, the last direct witness of the Hautefaye Affair, died at 92 years of age.

On 16 August 1970, a century after the tragedy and at the initiative of one of the villagers, the Hautefaye church held a "Mass of forgiveness" in the presence of descendants of the family of Alain of Monéys and those of his killers.

Jean Teule has since written an historical novel on the subject, Eat Him if You Like (2009: English Translation: 2011).

L.M. Twist wrote a historical novel on the event, Louis Mie and the Trial of Hautefaye (2024).

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Khvolʹson (crater)

Khvolson is a crater on the far side of the Moon. It lies just to the east-southeast of the large walled plain Pasteur. Less than a crater diameter to the north-northeast of Khvolson is the crater Meitner, and just to the east-southeast lies Kondratyuk.

This crater has a roughly circular outer rim that is not overlaid by any impacts of significance. The inner walls appear as simple slopes down to the interior floor. Within the crater is a small crater in the northeastern quadrant of the floor. The interior is otherwise marked only by a few tiny craterlets and some irregularities.

Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Khvolson.

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Talk:Evisu

Obviously,
some hater of urban style had to call the fashion brand gay. Now reverted

Change from Evis to Evisu
I once heard that name change from evis to evisu was the result of a legal threat from Levis, as Evisu had started in an closed Levis factory, and their early logo was basically the Levi's logo without the L. Anyone know if there's any truth to that? Melander 02:10, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Sounds real unlikely. "Evisu" is a coy re-spelling of "Ebisu" who is a lucky god in Japan.  But maybe you knew that.  Then again, they are based in Osaka, Yakuza capital of Japan, and a hub of Japanese brand rip-offs.  So maybe!  You like how I contradicted myself in a single comment?  brain 18:38, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

1. There was no threat from Levi's.  The logo was an homage to Levi's.  During WW2 Levi's was not allowed to use thread to sew their logo on the pockets of their jeans for conservation purposes, so they painted the logos on the pockets. As such, Evisu is honoring that tradition. They have gone through many legal discussions with Levi's and it has all been settled properly. 2. The name DID come from the lucky god in Japan, but he happens to be the god of money, and Hidehiko Yamane wanted to make money so he named the brand Evisu / Ebisu. Codenamejack (talk) 18:21, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Popularity
I think there should be something about the growing popularity of this brand. Rap artists constantly mention the brand, they're hugely popular in the urban community, and are becoming much more mainstream

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On the Media

On the Media (OTM) is a public radio show and podcast that primarily covers the media. Since relaunching in 2001 with Brooke Gladstone as host, the show has received at least ten awards, including two Peabody Awards.

Format
OTM explores how the news and other media influence the public's worldview. Many stories center on events of the previous week and critique how they were covered in the news. These segments often consist of interviews with reporters about the challenges they face in covering controversial issues, as well as media scholars and analysts.

OTM has covered topics such as the use of video news releases, net neutrality, digital broadcast flags, media consolidation, censorship, freedom of the press, disinformation, the influence of 24-hour cable news television coverage, media bias, and how technology is changing the media.

The show addresses questions about how the media is influenced or spun by politicians, corporations and interest groups with the intent to shape public opinion. This includes an OTM feature that covers the media's use of terminology that may engender biased points of view, such as the use of hot-button issues and code words like "Michael Moore," "torture," "evangelical" and "islamofascist".

In the wake of the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency, OTM shifted its editorial focus somewhat to give more time to reporting undercovered stories. Since then, OTM has produced a 2016 series on poverty and a 2019 series on eviction, as well as 2018 investigative series, in partnership with The Guardian, on what the media gets wrong in coverage of white supremacists.

OTM's ongoing "Breaking News Consumer's Handbook" series advises the public on how to tell good reporting from bad during the early hours and days of coverage of "a big, tragic story," such as coverage of hurricanes.

History
On the Media first aired February 7, 1993 on WNYC as a local call-in show, initially hosted by Brian Lehrer, then Warren Levinson, and later by Alex S. Jones. During its early episodes it was called "Inside Media," but the title was changed to avoid confusion with a same-named trade publication. In 1997, the show went national in a magazine-style format, hosted by Brian Lehrer. During this period, On the Media was under-resourced, Lehrer had commitments stemming from his own daily show, and On the Media did not have an editor.

In late 2000, Gladstone was brought in by WNYC's director of programming to rethink and relaunch the show. The newly formatted OTM debuted in January 2001, co-hosted by Gladstone and Bob Garfield. In May 2021, WNYC dismissed Garfield over alleged repeated violations of WNYC's anti-bullying policy. Gladstone continued as the show's sole host.

Since 2005, the program has also been available as a podcast.

The show was distributed by NPR until 2015, when WNYC began self-distributing the show.

OTM also publishes a weekly newsletter featuring news on current and past projects as well as relevant links from around the web.

As of late 2022, the show reaches about 1.2 weekly million listeners across the United States.

As of March 2024, the show's website cited more than 300 public radio stations broadcasting the show.

Peabody Awards
A 2023 Peabody award was given to On the Media for its series "The Divided Dial," which charted the growth of and influence of the broadcasting company Salem Media Group and its impact on far-right politics.

A 2004 Peabody Award for excellence went to On the Media with the judges writing that "On the Media reminds us that the messenger is always part of the message and must be examined as such".

Gracie Award
In 2017, producer Meara Sharma was awarded a Gracie Award for her production of the episode "Kidnapped," a special hour on how people around the world get news from Syria.

Edward R. Murrow award
In 2003, the show won the Edward R. Murrow award for investigative reporting.

Mirror awards
In 2014 and again in 2015, On the Media won Best Single Story—Radio, Television, Cable or Online Broadcast Media at the Mirror Awards.

Other awards
In 2016, On the Media was awarded the Silver Gavel Award by the American Bar Association for its episode "Bench Press".

In 2012 and again in 2013, On the Media won The Bart Richards Award for Media Criticism.

2003 winner of the National Press Club's Arthur Rowse Award for Press Criticism.

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Talk:CDC Cyber

Too technical?
(Tag disabled on purpose)

Regarding the above: "You should put an explanation on the talk page with comments on why you believe it is too technical, or suggestions for improvement. Templates added without explanation are likely to be either ignored or removed." Funkymonkey (talk) 15:44, 3 November 2010 (UTC)

 * Although the March 2008 version may have been too hard to understand, since then it has been completely rewritten. The current version is fine, so I am removing the technical tag with NOWIKI. Guy Macon  18:19, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Untitled
Wasn't there a Cyber 70 series as well? I seem to remember a friend showing me listings with that name.

--Bubba73 02:44, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes. IIRC, the 170 was line the 70 series except that it had something extra - some extended memory or dual processor - something like that.  (I can't quite remember.)

The 70 series was a slightly upgraded 6000 series, still no parity checks anywhere in the mainframe. The 170 series introduced parity; the 170/700 series introduced SECDED (singled error detection, double error correction) plus the SCR (status control register) for hardware monitoring.206.10.110.217 04:56, 26 November 2005 (UTC)Mike Vollmer

As noted above, the Cyber 70 series was basically the same as the earlier machines. The 6400 became a Cyber-73, the 6600 became a Cyber-74, and the 7600 became a Cyber-76. The 6400 got a few new instructions for character processing, called a CMU (Compare/Move Unit.)

The Cyber-170 series was a major technological change: Chips were used instead of individual transistors. And solid-state memory was used instead of core memory. The Cyber-170/700 series was a technology refresh of the 170-series.

The Cyber-180/800 series was also a major change. Most of the 800-series machines could run in a "dual-state" 60-bit and 64-bit mode. The 180 machines, when run in 64-bit mode, used a new operating system called NOS/VE.

The Cyber-200 series machines were 64-bit machines based on the STAR-100. They were 64-bit vector processing machines which had little in common with the "traditional" machines.

Wws 6/4/2006

Cyber 2000
There was also a CYBER 2000. I believe it was a 64-bit-only machine that ran NOS/VE and not NOS. As of 2006, FIDES Information Services (which I believe is in Switzerland) was still running one. I will see whether I can get CDC experts Fredy Ferrari or Markus Mueller to weigh in on this. Riordanmr 21:58, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Operating system
"The systems typically ran CDC's NOS (Network Operating System), 1.4 or 2.0. Several other operating systems were available for the machine, but the only one to see any real use on the 170's was NOS/BE" I seem to remember KRONOS being used, but that may have been on the earlier 8000 line. Anyone know? --Bubba73 02:42, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I changed the reference to NOS 1.4 or 2.0 since there were other releases of both OSes. As to the question about Kronos — Kronos was a predecessor to NOS, but darned if I can remember the name of predecessor to NOS/BE. -- JonRoma 06:38, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

 * NOS/BE's predecessor was Scope. Updating accordingly -- JonRoma 08:07, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * SCOPE 2804:14D:5C9B:4B38:14B6:EA04:669A:3C42 (talk) 01:12, 29 April 2024 (UTC)

SCOPE was the original OS on CDC's 6000-series mainframes.

KRONOS started as a benchmarking system written by CDC's software guru Greg Manfield and later marketed; in time it was renamed NOS. I used to use a KRONOS Analysis manual when I worked with a NOS (1.3?) system in the late 70's; it was sufficiently current.

NOS/BE was SCOPE with its user interfaces revamped to look more like NOS.

In the end, SCOPE was retained only for the 7600, which did not support the PPS required for NOS & NOS/BE.

From my NOS Analysis instructor in the summer of 1982: SCOPE = Sunnyvale's Collection of Programming Errors, NOS = No Operating System, NOS/BE = No Operating System/Bad Example. 206.10.110.217 05:08, 26 November 2005 (UTC)Mike Vollmer

Originally, the CDC 6000 series was intended to run an operating system called SIPROS (SImultaneous PROceSsing). SIPROS was late, so systems were actually delivered with a version of the Chippewa Operating System, COS, which Mr. Cray and his team used for system checkout and diagnostics. SCOPE evolved from COS and was widely used. Some time later, Mansfield and team once again took COS as a base and created MACE - which was both faster and more configurable than SCOPE. MACE evolved into KRONOS - which supported time-sharing. At this point, CDC had two operating systems - one largely tied to batch processing, the other for time-sharing - which were somewhat, but not entirely, compatible. When the Cyber-170 systems were released, circa 1975, KRONOS was renamed NOS and SCOPE was renamed NOS/BE. CDC then placed most of their 60-bit development emphasis into NOS.

Note that the 7600 and Cyber-76 ran 7600-specific versions of SCOPE.

Wws 06/04/2006

170 address registers
''Seven of the A registers were tied to their corresponding X register. Storing an address into register A1, for example, caused the contents of the central memory word referenced by that address to be fetched into register X1. Likewise, storing an address into register A7 caused the contents of register X7 to be stored to the central memory location referenced by A7.''

Storing into A1 fetches into X1, but storing into A7 stores from X7? Some of the seven fetch and some store? If someone would fix or clarify… -- RandallJones 06:22, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes. The CDC Compass Version 3 Reference Manual publication no. 60492600 revision G, dated  July 7, 1980 states:

 * '''8.3.2 A Registers

 * Eight 18-bit X registers in the computation section of the CPU, designated as A0, A1, ..., A7, are essentially SCM (CM) operand registers. With the exception of A0 and X0, A registers are associated one-for-one with the X registers.  Placing a quantity into an address register A1 - A5 causes an immediate SCM (CM) read reference to that relative address and sends the SCM (CM) word to the corresponding operand register X1 - X5. Similarly placing a value into address register A6 or A7 causes the word in the corresponding X6 or X7 operand register to be written into that relative address of SCM (CM).

 * The A0 and X0 registers operate independently of each other and have no connection with SCM (CM). A0 is used as the relative SCM (CM) starting address in a block copy operation and for scratch pad or intermediate results.

 * and also

 * 8.4.45 Set A Register Instructions

 * These instructions are intended for fetching operands from storage for computation and for delivering results back into storage. The instructions have two destination registers: the Ai register, which receives the address formed from the operands, and either the Xi register or a CM (SCM) storage location.

 * The type of storage reference is a function of the i deignator value, as follows:

 * i = 0; no storage reference
 * i = 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5; contents of CM (SCM) relative address (Ai) to register Xi
 * i = 6 or 7; contents of register Xi stored at CM (SCM) relative address (Ai)

 * Editor's note: Note that "SCM" refers to "semiconductor central memory" (the type of storage in this generation of Cyber systems) while "CM" is the generic term "central memory" used for the entire architecture from the CDC 6000 forward.

No, SCM refers to Small Central Memory in 7600/7700s and Cyber 76s. Compare LCM, Large Central Memory. These correspond roughly to CM and ECS (External/Extended Core Storage) in that LCM was not external, but the instructions for accessing it were the same as ECS instructions on other machines, plus a few more (also present in 180s, where it's CM and UEM. ECS/ESM for 180s was designed as a special option). The Cyber 176, being a high-speed collision between a 170 and a 76, has CM and LCME, PPs and PPUs... See manual 60420000H for details. Jlwwp (talk) 20:53, 12 February 2022 (UTC)

 * I omitted this specifics in the article, since it duplicated information available elsewhere and since there were numerous other hardware details that I could have added (and probably will add at a later date) — along with some pictures.

 * I can clarify.

 * These machines were most interesting to work on as a youngster of age 19 back in the "good old days". -- JonRoma 08:02, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

A reference for COMPASS?
Somewhere in this article there should be a reference for COMPASS. -- FedKad 06:20, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

UTexas
Don't know if it belongs in the article, but well into the 1990s (maybe into the second half of the 1990s), the University of Texas at Austin ran computer account billing and accounting functions on a "CDC Dual Cyber 170/750" running the custom "UT-2D" operating system. Churchh 17:51, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

I doubt it belongs in the article, but likewise I will never forget my access to the CDC Cyber when I went to college at Georgia Tech in the late 1980's, my first taste of using a "real computer". I learned Unix on it. Daniel Freeman (talk) 12:26, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Byte?
I don't recall encountering the word "byte" until after Cybers and CDC 3300s (the first were PDP-11s and Motorola 6800s). Does someone actually recall CDC lingo using "byte"? I do remember that every single CDC manual had a Display Code appendix—which were well worn. EncMstr 02:34, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

I've seen CDC docs where they use "byte" to refer to 12-bit quantities (each containing two 6-bit characters.) This makes sense when one considers that the PPs and I/O architecture of the machine had a 12-bit orientation. Wws 6/4/2006

Yes, at Michigan State Univ (a CDC shop), we used the word "byte" to refer to the 12-bit PP words. I hated the use of the word that way, but that was how it was used by our systems programmers, and apparently by CDC programmers at other shops. I was exposed to the use of "byte" as 12 bits probably during the local Systems Programmer class in 1980, but it had apparently been in use for many years prior to that. Riordanmr 21:47, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

The definition of byte and word was computer dependent until the 80's. I went to Georgia Tech back in the 70's and 80's.  As a freshman, I programmed in Fortran on the Cyber and as I got older, I moved into the lab where I programmed  microprocessors. Each machine had different sized bytes and words. In my memory, the definition of byte didn't stabilize at 8 bits until two things happened, the Z80 and 8080 based personal computers became popular. Then, when IBM came out with one, it was essentially carved in stone. The other thing was ASCII. At first, at least for me, computers were for math and control. But, increasingly, word processing on general purpose machines became popular. ASCII characters fit very conveniently into 8 bit bytes. If the registers were bigger than 8 bits, it was easy to make their size multiples of 8. So, word was useful for describing register size and address space as well as word processing. It meant almost the same thing, a meaningful collection of 8 bit bytes/characters. Siriuskase (talk) 16:00, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

CYBER vs Cyber
Yesterday I discovered that user "Yworo" changed all instances of "CYBER" to "Cyber". Control Data Corporation consistently referred to the mainframe as "CYBER". I have attempted to fix this, but Wikipedia "administrators" repeatedly undid my fixes.

The "Desktop CYBER" page was also edited by "Yworo" and later the link to the Subversion repository of the emulator was also removed by "Orangemike".

Does anybody else care about the correct spelling of "CYBER" and the integrity of links?

If yes, please check out the history page of "CDC CYBER" and "Desktop CYBER" and let us know what you think.

Cdccyber (talk) 11:38, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

 * You are incorrect. CYBER with all caps is a styled trademark. According to WP:ALLCAPS, trademarks styled in all caps should be reduced to normal capitalization. So should article titles, which is why this article is titled "CDC Cyber" and not "CDC CYBER". This is a style issue and we do not keep all caps unless they are an acronym. Sorry, please familiarize yourself more with our manual of style. Yworo (talk) 14:50, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

 * User Cdccyber claimed that Control Data Corporation consistently used the name "CYBER" in all caps and he is correct despite any Wikipedia stylistic conventions to the contrary. Please familiarize yourself with the subject before pronouncing the claim incorrect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.196.171.227 (talk) 15:29, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Edit to Cyberplus dimensions list
To explain myself, as the full reasoning wouldn't fit into the space available.

First up, even on seeing the dimensions as they were, I was somewhat skeptical. About 3.5 to 4.5 metres wide, by 1.6 deep, by 4.9 high? That's a huge box; for those of you who can't think in metric, that's about 11'5" ~ 15'3" W, 5'3" D, and 16'1" H. Or in other words, three subcompact cars stacked on top of each other (and probably microvan styled ones, at that, as they wouldn't be resting on their wheels...).

Computer cabinets, even supercomputer mainframes, just don't come in that kind of size as far as I'm aware. It'd require a specialised building to site them in (plenty enough places barely have 8-foot ceilings as it is, before you start adding raised floors for wiring and cooling systems, so you'd have to knock three storeys together, not just two - as well as making the doorways between the delivery dock and the actual operating area rather outsized), or at least something more akin to a warehouse than a regular computer room or research centre, and would make delivery, commissioning and service/maintenance very difficult as the things would be way beyond normal "human scale"... you'd need ladders to get at some parts, and there's a risk that techs may get lost in the workings depending how it was laid out. The delivery might also be a touch conspicuous as a result, unless you're going to lay them flat in a container or maybe take them two at a time (still laid sideways) in a boxvan. Not what you want for black ops.

Sure, it'd be a hell of an impressive monolith to scare new recruits with when giving them the tour, but other than that, such behemoths belong to the world of sci-fi. Long or wide? Sure. Really tall? Less likely. Really tall in combination with being kinda wide, yet only moderately (maybe two filing cabinets) deep? Not buying it, sorry.

It's inherently a modular system, and developed partly as a result of the company's drive towards miniaturisation and VLSI, so why would it end up larger than any single piece of pretty much any computer system that came before it, including those from the relay-and-valve days?

Given that most systems followed the IBM model of being very human in their module size - with the largest individual parts still just about fitting through a standard doorway, and being able to turn a corner in a regular corridor - surely this excessive size would also be considered noteworthy amongst anyone commenting upon the system elsewhere? But no, no mention of how large it was in basically every other source amongst the limited selection that can be found online (it really was quite the blackops thing, there's not much info out there... but there is SOME). In fact, the only one which made any reference to it at all was that Usenet post I cited, from way back around Christmas 1991 - at a time when the system itself would still have been in use and very relevant, possibly even still being installed, because the power and storage it offered, at least in cluster format, would still have been quite impressive by the standards of the day.

Interestingly enough, the contributor to that thread who makes mention of the system, and states it as being the same size as a Cyber 180 (enough pictures of which exist to show that it's a perfectly normal sized rig, at least in mainframe terms; no taller than the average man, no deeper than you can comfortably reach with your arm, and only the more low-slung components being wider than your fingertip-to-fingertip arm span, and even those didn't look more than 3 metres long)... has the same first name as the Wiki contributor who added the questionable information some 8 years ago, in early 2006. Now, it could be just a coincidence, seeing as "Gunther" isn't that rare a name, at least in Germany, but it does pique the interest when seen in combination with such a niche piece of computing equipment.

As slanderous as it might be to suggest it, might it be that Gunther's memory faded somewhat in the fourteen years and one month (almost to the day!) between the relatively fresh hands-on report they made in the early 90s, and their contribution of a bunch of uncited figures (measured how? they're not even mentioned in the limited CDC documentation I scared up) to this page...? :-)

I'm trying to figure out, even, if there might be some units confusion, e.g. perhaps they're actually 3'5" x 1'6" x 4'9"? And that somehow morphed to 3.5m/etc and then to "350cm"? The actual figures given are too precise, though... they're not actually rounded off to the nearest 10cm or whatever. Confusing. Where did the numbers come from? I also suspected that Height and Depth may have been transposed, but despite it being a more sensible height (equal to the shoulder height of an average man), that's still a quite large monolithic block to have to reach into or crawl around inside of; again, like three small cars parked tightly together - what happens if you need to replace the handbrake handle release button in the one in the middle of the sandwich? And just how, pray tell, do you deliver the blasted thing? Unless it's on castors, delivered to a no-step loading dock, and has a clear, wide run all the way to the actual data centre (going through, one presumes, multiple security posts along the way).

The only last option is that it refers to the overall size of the cross-shaped configuration that they supposedly formed up into, and non-FPU models only formed a "T" instead. But those still wouldn't have been transported as-built for obvious reasons (instead, the 3 or 4 individual boxes surely would have been disconnected and packed together)... and it ends up counting all the empty space between the arms, and within the inner square (if there was one?) as part of the machine, and doesn't give us any clues as to how thick the arms themselves were.

The other thing to consider is the weight of the thing. Something that measures about 27 to 35 cubic metres but weighs ONLY one tonne is surprisingly low density for computer equipment. If you sealed it up watertight, it would make a very effective floatation aid. I'd be surprised, in fact, if the frame itself weighed under 1000kg before you put any electronics inside it, and much more so if it was under 250, leaving the other 75% of the total load free for actual computer parts. Parts that, going by how CDC built the other models mentioned in the article, were themselves rather higher density than most, using heavyweight 1980s components, heavy solid metal heatsinks built right into the card modules, lots of cabling (thanks to the crossbar setup) and with heavyweight period power and cooling equipment. A regular modern server rack or an old mainframe cabinet weighing a quarter tonne each, believable. This being a great many times larger and only weighing a thousand? Naw, man.

Consider a typical laptop, the lighter types of which may weigh one kilogramme, and measure about 30 x 20 x 4cm, or roughly 0.0025 (1/400th) of a cubic metre. That's 2.5x HEAVIER* than water, nevermind being thirty times LIGHTER*... it just doesn't wash. Or for a maybe more closely applicable example, a miditower computer case... maybe 20cm wide, 40cm deep, 60cm high, weighing 5kg with only a minimal amount of kit inside, or 10kg when fully equipped. That's still 3 to 6 tonnes when scaled up to the stated dimensions... and I'm erring on the low density side for it, too (probably actually heavier and smaller). I've a colleague who's shipping a load of old desktops to Africa as part of a charity mission, and he's having to put them all on a pallet and contract the job to a specialist haulage company because although they'd all fit into a normal box van just fine, the thing would easily end up exceeding the weight he's licensed for... even if driving the van to mid-Africa was that practical an idea.

(* yeah ok... "denser" and "sparser").

(I have considered that something with all that heavyweight, for-the-time high tech circuitry and associated power/cooling systems, in something the same size as a larger Cyber 180 cabinet may well weigh a full tonne... hence I've left that part in...)

All the same, I'd love for someone to come and conclusively prove one of us wrong, even if it turns out to be me on the losing side. Who knows, maybe it WAS that big (and low density)? Blackops guys do some weird stuff. Just look at the F117A, which technically speaking shouldn't be able to fly at all, and falls from the sky if its avionics fail. If anyone has an actual commissioning guide for the AFP that includes its measurements, or has now / has had access to one and a measuring tape and found out how big it REALLY is, and can contribute in some kind of even halfway verifiable way, that'd be awesome. 193.63.174.211 (talk) 16:05, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Cyber 70/ models
As mentioned above, several years ago, there was a Cyber 70/73 (based on the CDC 6400), Cyber 70/74 (based on the 6600), Cyber 70/76 (based on the 7600). That needs to be included in the article with a reference. I think there was also a Cyber 70/75, which I suspect was based on the 6500, but I don't know. (It might have been a dual 70/74.)Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 01:35, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Etymology?
With what connotations did CDC use the name "Cyber"? Normally I wouldn't have thought of "cyber" being commonly associated with computers until at least the 80s or even 90s. Dolda2000 (talk) 03:33, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

It is not mentioned that they had 3-address CPUs and a suggestion on how to improve the article
There are 0-address or stack CPUs, 1-address with one accumulator, 2-Address with two and 3-address, with three accumulators. That mean that two operands can be placed in two accumulators or registers, and the result is placed on the 3rd.

Nothing is said about their representation for integers and floating point numbers. I vaguely remember that they had +0 and -0. But I never used any Cyber. I had that reference from some programming text, or maybe commented by friends that programmed in some Cyber mainframe, reserved for the tough guys needing intensive computation.

Nothing of that is mentioned, if it is I didn't see. The article should be rewritten with a better structure which describe the general architecture, before going to many details, because one loses the point.

Take into account, that the vast majority of readers, had never used one of such expensive mainframes. The actual reference is maybe one Intel or ARM PC. Under such context, what does channel means? Got it? the article goes to many details, before giving the whole picture. In that way, it is confusing how the CYBERs evolved and why the company disappeared. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2806:107E:C:F09:218:DEFF:FE2B:1215 (talk) 07:15, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

 * The CDC machines in question are ones' complement. It does seem that should be in the article. Gah4 (talk) 11:40, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

Splitting proposal
CDC Cyber should be split into a separate article called CDC Cyber 200. The present situation confusingly and incorrectly treats a myriad of different computers as a single topic based on CDC's convention of naming all its computers "Cyber". The Cyber 200 series are technically and commercially distinct from all other computers with the Cyber name. The Cyber 200 is distinct from the three other groups of computers described in this article: the mainframe/scalar scientific computers that descended from the earlier scalar supercomputers starting with the CDC 6600, the attached processors (accelerators), and minicomputers. The Cyber 200 are vector supercomputers, not "mainframe-class supercomputers" whatever this supposed to mean. They were marketed to scientific users, not businesses for commercial applications. There is more than enough in-depth coverage of the Cyber 200, whose models are most commonly referred to as the Cyber 203 and Cyber 205, to justify a dedicated article: I have three at hand:

 * Hwang and Briggs' Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing (1984), pp. 280–293.
 * Hockney and Jesshope's Parallel Computers (2nd ed., 1988), pp. 155–185.
 * Ibbett and Topham's Architecture of High Performance Computers, Vol. I (1989), pp. 160–177.

This is a total of 60 pages of material, and is by no means all that has been written on the Cyber 200. HTW217 (talk) 14:42, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

 * I agree. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 16:40, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

170 character sets???
"Due to the strong dependency of developed applications on the particular installation's character set, many installations chose to run the older operating systems rather than convert their applications. Other installations would patch newer versions of the operating system to use the older character set to maintain application compatibility"

I am at a loss here. I am not an expert, but have experience, and am doing a documentation project for dtcyber, and what character sets are being referred to here that required some form of "porting"?

The last version of NOS, 2.8.7 871/871, supports 63/64 character 6-bit display code sets, ASCII 128 char set, ASCII 63/64 char sets, ASCII 95 char set, and could convert 6 and 8 bit versions of EBCDIC. All of that in 6-bit, 6/12-bit, and 7/12-bit. (Appendix A, CDC 60459680R NOS Version 2 Reference Set, Volume 3, System Commands; Dec. 1997)

Whereas, the first KRONOS manual shows display code, Hollerith, and external/internal bcd. All of these codes are supported all the way through NOS2. (Appendix F, CDC 59150600A KRONOS Batch User's Reference Manual; Feb 27, 1970).

The 1968 SCOPE 3.1 Manual shows the same as the KRONOS manual, omitting internal BCD. (Appendix A, 60189400B)

The UMich SCOPE/HUSTLER manual from 1981 also gives 026 and 029, both supported all the way to NOS2...

Unless someone can show widespread porting of depreciated charsets from CDC to CDC, I suggest that the sentence be modified to reflect importation of never-supported charsets instead of reviving the depreciated within CDC. Hell, NOS2 still supported reading Univac 1103 tapes, fer reel (pun totally intended)! I could go on doing this with the CDC manuals, but why? CDC continued support of its charsets as far as 60-bit went. 2603:300B:133D:D000:45CF:A192:D820:C93A (talk) 16:23, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

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Coventry railway station

Coventry railway station is the main railway station serving the city of Coventry, West Midlands, England. The station is on the Birmingham loop of the West Coast Main Line (WCML); it is also located at the centre of a junction where the lines to Nuneaton and to Leamington converge. It is situated on the southern edge of the city-centre, just outside the Coventry ring road, about 250 yards to the south of junction 6.

Coventry station has regular services between Euston and Birmingham New Street on the WCML. Other services are extended to/from Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, Preston, Blackpool North, Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley. There are also long distance CrossCountry services to Manchester Piccadilly to the north and Reading and Bournemouth to the south. Local services also operate between Coventry-Nuneaton, Northampton and Leamington Spa.

The station has the PlusBus scheme where train and bus tickets can be bought together at a saving.

History
The original station was built in 1838 as part of the London and Birmingham Railway and could be entered from Warwick Road, where two flights of stairs took the passengers down to the platform. Within two years it had been replaced, with a new larger station, a few hundred feet nearer to Rugby, this time, accessed via Eaton Road. In the late 19th century the Coventry tram network extended to the station at Eaton Road. The original station building remained in service as the station masters offices, until the station was redeveloped in the early 1960s by the London Midland Region of British Railways.

The 1840 station was subject to a significant number of modifications and extensions over the years. There was an engine shed, water column and turntable, in its later days an inclined walkway from the platform directly to Warwick Road for summer excursion passengers, and a parcel depot formed from old carriages. However, the station was constrained by bridges at either end, Stoney Road bridge to the south, and Warwick Road bridge to the north. The bridges effectively restricted the station to two lines, and prevented the platforms from being extended.

In 1881 the London and North Western company planned extensive alterations and improvements at an estimated cost of £12,000 to £13,000 to remedy the situation. The up and down platforms were extended beyond the bridge and a new siding installed near Quinton Road. A new line of 2¾ miles was laid from Coventry to Wainbody Wood to ease congestion and delays on this branch line. The cutting opposite the signal box on the Leamington Line was widened and the stone bridge in Stoney Lane replaced with an iron girder one. An accident occurred during the installation of the iron girder bridge when as the iron girder was being lifted into position. The hook of the pulley holding the girder broke in two and the girder fell, smashing the wagons beneath. There were no injuries, although many workmen had a lucky escape.

In 1902 the LNWR carried out further improvements at the station at a cost of £25,000. The contractor was Mr. Parnell of Rugby and the work was supervised by Mr. Brunsdon. The plan involved converting a garden rented by the station-master to utilise as a siding. The left-hand side of the Warwick Road bridge was widened by around 12 ft. The up platform was raised by 9 inches and extended 95 yards beyond the Stoney Road bridge. The interior of the station was extended to where the current entrance was, and the refreshment rooms, telegraph and other offices were built on the space formerly roof-in as a cab stand. The cab stand was planned to move further in the direction of Eaton Road. A foot bridge with lifts was provided between the up and down platforms The new booking office opened in February 1903. It was 25ft 9in by 27ft and in the centre of a new block of waiting rooms and offices.

However, it proved inadequate for the growing business at the station. Work on expansion was due to start in 1914, but was delayed by labour shortages and the outbreak of the First World War. Work started in August 1915 on enlarging the booking hall. The new booking hall had a 60ft open frontage to the street with six booking windows, and extra entrances and exits to the up platform. The booking office was also much larger. The contractor was Mr. Heap of Northampton.

By 1935 the station needed additional facilities and a plan was prepared to provide a new island platform of 920 ft in length on the down Birmingham side at a cost of £70,000 to £80,000. Although the railway company had wanted a larger scheme of improvement, the full plan could not be delivered at this time, so the island platform was the first stage. Work did not start until early 1938 when the costs had risen to £100,000. The bookstall on the up platform was moved, rebuilt and equipped with electric light. A new electric lift was provided for the movement of luggage. The existing general and women’s waiting rooms, and the enquiry office were converted into new refreshment rooms. The construction of the island platform did not start until 1939, but was put on hold by the outbreak of the Second World War and never completed to the original LMS plans.

In the early 1960s, during electrification of the line, both bridges were widened, and the old station finally demolished and re-built, this time with room for four platforms instead of two. At the time it was demolished in 1960, some parts of the old station were 120 years old. The new station comprises a two-storey height booking hall with reinforced concrete frame, linked across an adjoining platform by a bridge to an island platform and a single sided platform. It was built to the designs of W R Headley, Regional Architect of the London Midland Region of British Railways and Derrick Shorten, the project architect. It was formally reopened on 1 May 1962. In 1995 it became a Grade II listed building.

The new station featured a new parcel depot, used to manage the large number of mail order catalogue packages coming into Coventry at the time. The depot was serviced by its own platforms from the Rugby end. The depot has now been replaced by a multi-storey car park, although some of the platforms and an electrification gantry remain.

A £91 million redevelopment of the station commenced in 2019 and was completed in 2022. The redevelopment consists of a new concourse, footbridge and a new multi-story car park. From the mid-2020s Coventry station is also planned to be served by the Coventry Very Light Rail system.

There was a power signal box on the Rugby side of the station, but was closed by Network Rail in 2002-2004 as a new signalling centre was made.

Motive power depot
The London and Birmingham Railway opened a small motive power depot at the west end of the station in 1838. This was replaced by a larger depot in the fork between the Leamington and Rugby lines, in 1866. This was enlarged in 1897 and rebuilt in 1957 but closed 17 November 1958 and was demolished. Locomotives were then serviced at the former Great Western Railway depot at Leamington Spa.

Services
The station is served by Avanti West Coast, CrossCountry and West Midlands Trains. In the past, it was also served by Silverlink, but these routes were transferred to Central Trains in 2004. Central Trains and Virgin CrossCountry services were respectively transferred to London Midland and CrossCountry in 2007.

There is a small yard at the Birmingham end of the station, in front of the shopping centre that was once part of Coventry's yard, that is used by London Midland for the stabling of electric traction units, no heavy work is carried out at Coventry as that is done at either Soho TMD (for s) or Northampton Siemens depot (s). All diesel units are stabled at Tyseley TMD where they are cleaned, maintained and refuelled. These units are only used on the local service to Nuneaton.

Until 2004, Coventry had a direct service to Nottingham via Leicester, but this was discontinued because Network Rail took away the ability for trains coming from Coventry to cross to the Leicester line at Nuneaton.

The basic Monday to Saturday off-peak service in trains per hour (tph) is as follows:

Avanti West Coast:

 * 2tph soutbound to Euston. 1 calls at Rugby, Milton Keynes Central and Watford Junction, the other is non-stop to Euston.
 * 2tph to Birmingham New Street
 * 1tph of which extends northbound to Blackpool North, Edinburgh Waverley or Glasgow Central (alternating each hour) via Preston (and Carlisle for Edinburgh and Glasgow services).
 * 1tpd to northbound to Shrewsbury via Wolverhampton and Telford Central

London Northwestern Railway:
 * 2tph to London Euston calling at Rugby, Long Buckby, Northampton, Milton Keynes Central, Wolverton and Bletchley and once per hour additionally at Watford Junction.
 * 2tph to Birmingham New Street

Some London Northwestern Railway (LNWR) stopping services will additionally call at Leighton Buzzard, Berkhamsted and Hemel Hempstead on their way to London Euston.

CrossCountry:
 * 1tph to Bournemouth via Southampton Central, Reading, Oxford and Leamington Spa
 * 1tph to Manchester Piccadilly via Birmingham New Street and Stoke-on-Trent.

West Midlands Railway:
 * 1 train per hour to Nuneaton via Bedworth
 * 1 train per hour to Leamington Spa via Kenilworth.

Station facilities

In addition to the usual ticket office, the station has a travel centre for information, tickets for advance travel, ferry services, for rail passes, and other services. Buses to Coventry city centre can be caught from the station car park.

Proposed light rail interchange
It is proposed that the station will be served by the Coventry Very Light Rail (CVLR) system from 2025, with the first new line connecting it to the city-centre, and then out to University Hospital Coventry. Another proposed route would link it to the University of Warwick.

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William Hemphill

William Arnold Hemphill (May 5, 1842 – August 17, 1902) was an American businessman and politician who served as Mayor of Atlanta from 1891 to 1893.

Early years and education
Hemphill was born on May 5, 1842, in Athens, Georgia. He attended the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, where he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society and earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1861 in engineering.

Business ventures
At the beginning of the Civil War Hemphill joined the Confederate Army, rising to the rank of colonel. He suffered a serious head wound at the Battle of Gettysburg. After the war, he moved to Atlanta in 1867, to teach. Within one year, Hemphill accepted an offer from Carey Wentworth Styles, to become the business manager and co-owner in a new joint venture with Styles and James Anderson. They had just purchased a small newspaper, the Atlanta Daily Opinion which they renamed. The Constitution was first published under that name on June 16, 1868. Styles quickly fell into financial difficulty, when he was unable to sell his interests in a struggling Albany, Georgia newspaper, The Albany News. With his inability to raise capital, Styles could not pay for his purchase of The Constitution. His ownership in the newspaper was assumed by Anderson and Hemphill. Hemphill, who became Anderson's son-in-law in the subsequent six months (having married Emma B. Luckie in 1871 ) was placed in full charge of the Atlanta publication. Hemphill continued in his position as business manager of the paper until 1901. Hemphill's business acumen helped get the fledgling newspaper on sound financial footing. In active competition with other Atlanta newspapers, Hemphill hired special trains (one engine and car) to deliver newspapers to the Macon marketplace. In 1870 Anderson sold his one half interest in the paper to Col. E. Y. Clarke. In 1876 Clarke sold his half interest in the paper to Evan Howell. Howell's family would come to own The Atlanta Constitution from 1902 to 1950.

In 1883, Hemphill was one of a group of investors who incorporated the Fulton County Street Railroad (horse cars), which was later electrified, and became famous for its Nine-Mile Circle route to what is now Virginia-Highland.

Political service
Hemphill was first elected to the position of (Atlanta) city councilman-at-large in 1887, the same year he began an unsuccessful banking career. The next few years he served as president of the board of education and in 1889 added alderman duties.

While still in control of the Constitution in 1890 he defeated a Black mayoral candidate known now only as "McKinley", by 1,773 votes, and took office the next year.

During his tenure the first building of what became Grady Memorial Hospital was built and a fresh-water pumping station was established on the Chattahoochee River replacing the need for various wells and cisterns (for fires). Part of the 55 acre purchased for the associated reservoir included a newly built street named in his honor – Hemphill Ave.

After leaving office, Hemphill read about the Cotton Palace in Waco, Texas, and suggested that Atlanta could stimulate growth by hosting what would become the Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895. He later served as vice president and director of the Exposition.

Death and legacy
Hemphill died in Atlanta on August 17, 1902, from injuries sustained in a fall. He is buried at Oakland Cemetery there.

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Old Bay Seasoning

Old Bay Seasoning is a blend of herbs and spices that is marketed in the United States by McCormick & Company and originally created in Baltimore, Maryland.

The seasoning is a mix of celery salt (salt, celery seed), spices (including red pepper and black pepper) and paprika. Some of the other spices that may be used are laurel leaves, mustard, cardamom, cloves and ginger as listed in the original product in the Baltimore Museum of Industry. It is regionally popular, specifically in Maryland, as well as in the Mid-Atlantic States, the Southern States, parts of New England and the Gulf Coast.

History
Old Bay Seasoning is named after the Old Bay Line, a passenger ship line that plied the waters of the Chesapeake Bay from Baltimore to Norfolk, Virginia, in the early 1900s. In 1939, a German-Jewish immigrant named Gustav Brunn started the Baltimore Spice Company.

The origins of the company can be traced back to Wertheim, Germany, where Brunn started a wholesale spice and seasoning business selling to food industries, seeing an opportunity as spices were in especially short supply amidst hyperinflation in the aftermath of World War I. Due to rising antisemitism as the Nazi Party rose to power, the company moved to Frankfurt, Germany; however, on the night of November 9, 1938, a massive pogrom against Jews, known as Kristallnacht, led to Brunn being arrested by Nazi soldiers and sent to Buchenwald concentration camp.

According to Brunn's son, Gustav's wife paid a large sum of money to a lawyer for him to be released; as they had already applied for and received American visas, they were able to escape with their two children to New York City and later Baltimore, Maryland, where Brunn had family. There, having brought with him only a small spice grinder, Brunn founded the Baltimore Spice Company and produced the "Delicious Brand Shrimp and Crab Seasoning", which was later renamed Old Bay.

The rights to the seasoning brand were purchased by McCormick & Co in 1990. McCormick continued to offer Old Bay in the classic yellow can.

McCormick has a number of other products under the Old Bay banner, including seasoning packets for crab cakes, salmon patties and tuna, tartar sauce, cocktail sauce and seafood batter mix. They also make other seasoning blends that mix Old Bay seasoning with garlic, lemon, brown sugar, herbs, and blackened seasonings. McCormick has offered a lower-sodium version of Old Bay Seasoning.

In 2017, McCormick changed the packaging from metal cans to plastic containers in an effort to reduce the packaging costs.

Usage
The seasoning is chiefly used to season crab and shrimp. It is used in various clam chowder and oyster stew recipes. The seasoning is also used as a topping on popcorn, salads, eggs, fried chicken, chicken wings, french fries, tater tots, corn on the cob, boiled peanuts, dips, chipped beef, baked potatoes, potato salad, potato chips and guacamole. Several movie theaters in the Chesapeake region offer it in the condiment section.

Potato chip manufacturer Utz created the original "Crab Chip" based on a similar mix of spices. The popular potato chip variety was later copied and marketed by Herr's Snacks (however, Herr's uses Old Bay seasoning and it is sold as "Herr's Old Bay Chips"). Lay's introduced its own Old Bay-seasoned "Chesapeake Bay Crab Spice" flavored chips in 2018.

Early in its history, the Subway sandwich shop used Old Bay when mixing their seafood and crab salad. Many local Subway shops still have Old Bay for use on sandwiches. Convenience store chain Sheetz also offers Old Bay as an option in its delis due to their large presence in the Mid-Atlantic region, including areas beyond Old Bay's traditional territory.

Old Bay is also occasionally used around the Chesapeake Bay region as an ingredient in Bloody Marys, and even in places as far south as The Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Florida. Some bars in the Baltimore region also often sell what is known as a 'Crabby Bo', which is National Bohemian beer where the lip of the glass or mug being used is moistened and dipped into a container of Old Bay seasoning. In 2014, the Maryland-based brewery Flying Dog created an Old Bay-inspired summer ale named Dead Rise to celebrate the seasoning's 75th anniversary.

In 2020, McCormick created Old Bay Hot Sauce in advance of the Super Bowl, which initially sold out within 30 minutes of its launch and caused the Old Bay website to crash temporarily. Some customers resold the 10 USoz bottles, retailing for $3.49, online for between $50 and $200. In 2022, the company collaborated with Pepperidge Farm to produce Old Bay-flavored Goldfish crackers. The crackers sold out online within nine hours.

In June 2021, Old Bay worked with the True Temper Sports company and released a lacrosse stick with an Old Bay decal, both in the standard short and defensive long lengths.

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Dr. 90210

Dr. 90210 is an American reality television series focusing on plastic surgery in the wealthy suburb of Beverly Hills, California. The series ran for six seasons from 2004 to 2008 on E!. Dr. 90210 gets its name from the ZIP Code of the core of Beverly Hills. A seventh season started in 2020 with an all-female surgeon cast.

The show is produced by E!, but is broadcast on several other basic cable networks, such as the Style Network. Each episode is approximately one hour long.

Dr. 90210 (2004–2008)
Dr. 90210 features interviews with the patients, semi-graphic footage of the surgeries, and before and after footage of the patients. For American broadcasts, images of genitalia, bare buttocks, or female nipples were blurred out, while European broadcasts were left uncensored. The show also examines the lives of the doctors in its lineup.

Dr. 90210 was inspired by the FX series Nip/Tuck. The show began by focusing on the practice of Robert Rey, a Brazilian-American plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, and his family life. Dr. Rey has practiced with various surgical groups throughout Southern California, including the Plastic Surgery Institute of California. The show's lineup has expanded to include practices of other doctors such as that of Gary Alter, Jason Diamond, Linda Li, David Matlock, Dean Manus, Gary Motykie, and Big Brother 2 winner and specialist on laser tattoo removal, Will Kirby.

Dr. 90210 (2020–)
E! revived the series with an all-female surgeon cast that premiered on September 28, 2020. E! says that they are "a new squad of women redefining age-old beauty standards." The show is produced by Entertainment One and is broadcast on basic cable networks E! and streaming platforms Hulu Live, Sling and E! on Demand.

Each episode is approximately one hour long. Each episode features three of the four surgeons as they tackle challenging plastic surgery problems such as massive breast reduction, facial plastic surgery, breast reconstruction, cyst removals, mommy makeover and vaginal reconstruction.

The show's lineup in the 2020 revival of the series are doctors Kelly Killeen, Michelle Lee, Cat Begovic, and Suzanne Quardt.

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All the Best (Stiff Little Fingers album)

All the Best is a compilation album by the band Stiff Little Fingers, released in 1983.

The album consists of the A- and B-sides of all the band's singles and EPs recorded and released between 1978 and 1983. It was originally released to coincide both with the release of the band's final single "Price of Admission" and with their two "farewell shows" which took place in February 1983. The band reformed in 1987 and released further singles and the tracks on this album would later form a substantial part of the compilation album Anthology, released in 2002.

All the Best peaked at No. 19 on the UK Album Chart.

Track listing
CD1
 * 1) "Suspect Device" (Fingers, Gordon Ogilvie) – 2:29
 * 2) "Wasted Life" (Fingers) – 3:03
 * 3) "Alternative Ulster" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 2:41
 * 4) "78 RPM" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 2:36
 * 5) "Gotta Gettaway" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 3:40
 * 6) "Bloody Sunday" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 3:29
 * 7) "Straw Dogs" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 3:20
 * 8) "You Can't Say Crap on the Radio" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 2:50
 * 9) "At the Edge" (Fingers) – 2:57
 * 10) "Running Bear" (live) (J.P. Richardson, Johnny Preston) – 3:15
 * 11) "White Christmas" (live) (Irving Berlin) – 2:24
 * 12) "Nobody's Hero" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 4:12
 * 13) "Tin Soldiers" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 4:49
 * 14) "Back to Front" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 2:58
 * 15) "Mr. Fire Coal Man" (Wailing Souls) – 4:54

CD2
 * 1) "Just Fade Away" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 3:03
 * 2) "Go for It" (Fingers) – 3:04
 * 3) "Doesn't Make It Alright" (live) (Dave Goldberg, Jerry Dammers) – 3:26
 * 4) "Silver Lining" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 3:01
 * 5) "Safe as Houses" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 5:29
 * 6) "Sad Eyed People" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 3:53
 * 7) "Two Guitars Clash" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 4:28
 * 8) "Listen" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 4:11
 * 9) "That's When Your Blood Bumps" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 3:41
 * 10) "Good for Nothing" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 2:44
 * 11) "Talkback" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 2:47
 * 12) "Stands to Reason" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 3:01
 * 13) "Bits of Kids" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 3:35
 * 14) "Touch and Go" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 3:20
 * 15) "Price of Admission" (Fingers, Ogilvie) – 3:20

Personnel

 * Stiff Little Fingers
 * Jake Burns – Vocals, guitar
 * Henry Cluney – Guitar, vocals (lead vocals CD1 tracks 10 & 11, CD2 track 7)
 * Ali McMordie – Bass
 * Brian Faloon – Drums (CD1 tracks 1–4)
 * Jim Reilly – Drums (CD1 tracks 5–15 and CD2 tracks 1–5)
 * Dolphin Taylor – Drums, vocals (CD2 tracks 6–15)


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If WIKIPEDIA is an Encyclopedia, why cannot accept biography's contents? ...But you can find a lot of it at WIKIPEDIA!!!!!

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Angela Lynch-Lupton

Angela Lynch-Lupton (died 29 March 2007) served as Mayor of Galway for two terms in 1989 and 1998. She was the eighty-fourth bearer of the name to serve in that office since Peirce Lynch, elected as the first Mayor, in August 1485.

Lynch served two terms as a Fine Gael councillor for the city's west ward. She also ran for the European Parliament in 1989 but won only 3.25% of the vote. She retired in 2004 for health reasons, and died in 2007.

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User talk:Ghoshsanjoy

Starting my talk page.

Welcome!

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India related content
Hi! welcome aboard! Here are some India-related topics that I thought you might be interested in:

=Nichalp  «Talk»=  09:37, July 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the info Nichalp. Thanks to you, I've now added myself to the Indian wikipedians category. Let's remain in touch. Ghoshsanjoy 12:49, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

Hello
hi, working on 2005 Maharashtra floods, I saw some of your other edits too: really nice. We should continue to remain in touch. I assure you wiki-experience is great! --Bhadani 11:23, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks Bhadani. We should definitely remain in touch. I'm new myself to wiki, so will turn to you for help when required. Cheers! Ghoshsanjoy 12:49, July 31, 2005 (UTC)

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I think you'll probably be interested to add yourself to Wikipedians by educational institution--May the Force be with you! Shreshth91 ($ |-| r 3 $ |-| t |-|)  14:47, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Economy of India
Hi, Thanks for your edits. I noticed your great edits on topics related to the Economy of India and it would be great if you can help us improve the article or related articles. Thanks again!! pamri 08:56, August 6, 2005 (UTC)

Translate
Ghoshsanjoy, Please translate this page अय्यावलि to Hindi. Hopes, Thank You - Paul Raj

Greetings
Greetings on India’s 57th Republic Day. --Bhadani 08:14, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Greetings
Holi greetings. Where are you? --Bhadani 11:36, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Adnan Sami
I have tagged the article you created, Adnan Sami as a Start class article, but it is need of an infobox and picture and cleanup as well. References are needed as well. If you could give this article some attention it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. --Ozgod 05:39, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

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bengali wiki
Care to take a look at the Bangla wikipediatoo? We have very few editors from WB there, and definitely need more people to contribute. If you are Bengali peaople and speak,read and write in Bengali, please contribute bengali wikipedia also.Jayantanth (talk) 10:52, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

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Kleymenov (crater)

Kleymenov is a crater on the far side of the Moon. It is located near the east-northeastern outer wall of the huge walled plain Apollo, and to the west-northwest of the large crater Chebyshev. To the north is Mariotte.

This is an older, worn feature, particularly along the western edge where ejecta material covers the rim and part of the inner walls and floor. The rim has been eroded to the point where it is not sharply defined, and both the edge and inner wall are rounded and relatively featureless. There is a small crater along the eastern rim. The interior floor is relatively featureless, except for the ejecta on the western edge. The west rim of the crater rises to a peak whose summit is over 6 km above the crater floor.

The crater is named for Ivan Kleymyonov, a Soviet scientist and rocket pioneer.

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User:Melvis~enwiki

Melvis was an Elvis like character on the EEK! The Cat show which aired on Fox. He is missed greatly.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lucy zhang

 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 - deleted - SimonP 14:08, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Lucy zhang
Non notable. Probably a vanity article. Angela. 17:02, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Verifiable assistant professor at Tulane (many of the 700 Google hits are about her), but no indication of further notability. Article was written by anon 129.81.145.107, user's only edit.  Weak delete unless evidence of greater notability is shown.  I've got a friend doing research in fluid microdynamics and developing theories and methods, and he might be an assistant professor, but I won't write his bio until he gets major attention for accomplishments.  Barno 19:13, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Delete keep when she gets tenure. Klonimus 20:19, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Miss Zhang has provided countless advances in her field of study. It's sad to see how ignorant people are to delete articles without looking at her accomplishments. SoSoDef 20:23, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * If those "countless advances" were mentioned in the article, there wouldn't be a reason to delete. However, as it stands, the article says nothing about why this person in encyclopedic. Angela. 07:50, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete this smells like vanity, agree with Angela. Thue | talk 17:26, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. JamesBurns 09:49, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * weak delete her biography shows what appear to be peer reviewed publications, but not many, and a relatively short research career (starting approx 2000). No publications in major general journals such as Nature and no specific major achievements are listed.  Whilst this doesn't prove that she isn't worthy of an article, a much clearer explanation of her achievements in computational physics would be needed to persuade me.  An article on IFEM and it's practical uses in the field would be a good start.  A new but not commonly accepted algorithm would not be encyclopedic since its value would be unverifiable. Mozzerati 19:23, 2005 Jun 4 (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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Dennis L. McKiernan

Dennis Lester McKiernan (born April 4, 1932) is an American writer best known for his high fantasy The Iron Tower. His genres include high fantasy (set in various fictitious worlds), science fiction, horror fiction, and crime fiction. His primary setting, Mithgar, was originally meant to host Middle-Earth stories that were sequels to Tolkien's work. It has since grown to reflect a much broader variety of influences, including "fairy tales and Oz books and folk tales and other such stories".

Biography
McKiernan was born in Moberly, Missouri, where he lived until he served the U.S. Air Force for four years, stationed within US territory during the Korean War. After military service, he attended the University of Missouri and received a BS in electrical engineering in 1958 and an MS in the same field from Duke University in 1964. He worked as an engineer at AT&T, initially at Western Electric but soon at Bell Laboratories, from 1958 until 1989. In 1989, after early retirement from engineering, McKiernan began writing on a full-time basis.

In 1977, while riding his motorcycle, McKiernan was hit by a car that had crossed the center-line, and he was confined to a bed, first in traction and then in a hip spica cast, for many months. During his recuperation, he began writing a sequel to J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. The publisher Doubleday showed an interest in his work and tried to obtain authorization from Tolkien's estate but was denied. Doubleday then asked McKiernan to rewrite his story, placing the characters in a different fictitious world, and also to write a prequel supporting it. The prequel, of necessity, resembles The Lord of the Rings; the decision of Doubleday to issue the work as a trilogy increased that resemblance; and some critics have seen McKiernan as simply imitating Tolkien's epic work. McKiernan has subsequently developed stories in the series that followed along a story line different from those that plausibly could have been taken by Tolkien.

McKiernan's Faery Series expands tales drawn from Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, additionally tying the selected tales together with a larger plot.

McKiernan currently lives in Tucson, Arizona.

Mithgar series

 * The Iron Tower (Omnibus edition 2000)
 * The Dark Tide (1984)
 * Shadows of Doom (1984)
 * The Darkest Day (1984)
 * The Silver Call (Omnibus edition 2001)
 * Trek to Kraggen-Cor (1986)
 * The Brega Path (1986)
 * Dragondoom (1990)
 * Tales from the One-Eyed Crow: The Vulgmaster (short story adapted as a graphic novel by David Keller and Alex Niño) (1991)
 * The Eye of the Hunter (1992)
 * Voyage of the Fox Rider (1993)
 * Tales of Mithgar (1994)
 * The Dragonstone (1996)
 * Hèl's Crucible Duology
 * Into the Forge (1997)
 * Into the Fire (1998)
 * Silver Wolf, Black Falcon (2000)
 * Red Slippers: More Tales of Mithgar (2004)
 * City of Jade (2008)
 * Stolen Crown (2014)

Faery Series

 * Once Upon a Winter's Night (2001)
 * Once Upon a Summer Day (2005)
 * Once Upon an Autumn Eve (2006)
 * Once Upon a Spring Morn (October 2006)
 * Once Upon a Dreadful Time (October 2007)

The Black Foxes Series

 * Caverns of Socrates (1995) (re-published as Shadowtrap in ebook format, 2014)
 * Shadowprey (2014)

Standalone Novels

 * At the Edge of the Forest (2012)

Anthologized short stories

 * “The Ornament” in The Magic of Christmas (1990) edited by John Silbersack and Christopher Schelling
 * “Straw into Gold: Part II” with Mark A. Kreighbaum in Dragon Fantastic (1992) edited by Rosalind M. Greenberg, Martin H. Greenberg and Tad Williams
 * "The Halfling House" in After the King (1992) edited by Martin H. Greenberg
 * "The Source of It All" in Alien Pregnant by Elvis (1994) edited by Esther M. Friesner
 * "Alas, Me Bleedin..." in Weird Tales from Shakespeare (1994) edited by Katharine Kerr and Martin H. Greenberg
 * "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" in The Shimmering Door (1996) edited by Katharine Kerr
 * "I Sing the Dark Riders" in Elf Fantastic (1997) edited by Martin H. Greenberg
 * "The Lesser of..." in Highwaymen: Robbers & Rogues (1997) edited by Jennifer Roberson
 * "In the Service of Mages" in Wizard Fantastic (1997) edited by Martin H. Greenberg
 * "Of Tides and Time" in Wizard Fantastic (1997) edited by Martin H. Greenberg
 * "The Divine Comedy" in Olympus (1998) edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Bruce D. Arthurs
 * "Final Conquest" in Legends: Tales from the Eternal Archives #1 (1999) edited by Margaret Weis
 * "Darkness" in 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense (1999) edited by Al Sarrantonio
 * "For the Life of Sheila Morgan" in Spell Fantastic (2000) edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff
 * "Perfidy" in Treachery and Treason (2000) edited by Laura Anne Gilman and Jennifer Heddle
 * "A Tower with No Doors" in Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy (2004) edited by Al Sarrantonio

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Category talk:Austronesian languages

earlier comments
I've been writing pages for language groups that are part of the Oceanic languages, and wasn't quite sure how I should categorise them. Someone added Admiralty Islands languages to this category. Is this appropriate, or should we have a category for Austronesian language families? I'm a little undecided about this, which is why I haven't been categorising as I've gone. Conrad Leviston 17:03, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I think they should only be used for stable nodes such as Oceanic. Otherwise we'd have to recategorize with each vagary of taxonomy. kwami (talk) 19:52, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Redundant categorization
There is no reason for a language to appear in both a sub-group category and in the main language family. I am gradually removing most individual languages from Category:Austronesian languages. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 09:07, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you. kwami (talk) 19:50, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * You're welcome! I'll appreciate your assistance at Talk:Borneo-Philippines languages. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 20:05, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I feel that the procedure of removing individual languages from main language family categories is scientifically unwarranted, especially in cases where subgrouping techniques are contested as is the case for Austronesian where foundations for classification are unstable and moving, especially since techniques, in the absence of phylogenetical certainties, took a definitely typological bent. The procedure also conflicts with other editorial decisions that were made when allowing cross-referencings such as List of Austronesian languages and List of Austronesian regions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eklir (talk • contribs) 21:54, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

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Porter King

Porter King (November 24, 1857 – October 24, 1901) was an American attorney and politician who is known primarily for having been Mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1895–1897.

Born in Marion, Alabama, he attended Howard College (now Samford University) and graduated in 1878. He studied law at University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

King moved in 1882 to Atlanta, the capital of Georgia, where he set up a law practice. He also entered politics, joining the Democratic Party. In 1889 he was elected to represent the Sixth Ward in the city council. In 1894 King was elected as the 34th Mayor of the city, serving one term from 1895 to 1897. Although reluctant to run for any other office, he was persuaded to run for the Georgia General Assembly in 1900, and won. King served one week but resigned and returned to private life. After leaving office, he died later that year from a "stroke of apoplexy" suffered at home.

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WYPX-TV

WYPX-TV (channel 55) is a television station licensed to Amsterdam, New York, United States, serving the Capital District as an affiliate of Ion Television. Owned by Inyo Broadcast Holdings, the station has offices on Charles Boulevard in Guilderland, and its transmitter is located in the Helderberg Escarpment in New Scotland.

History
The station signed on the air in 1987 as an independent station under the call letters WOCD. It was owned by Amsterdam Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Coit Services of San Francisco, and was leased to Christian Community Television (CCT) of Schenectady, New York. CCT faced financial troubles from the outset and they soon fell behind on their payments, so Amsterdam Broadcasting reassumed control of the station. The station went dormant in 1989, but in 1991, Coit struck a deal to sell the station to Tennessee TV executive Wade Griffith for $1.8 million. Griffith would have relaunched the station as WNSI, but the deal fell through, and WOCD was sold to Pittsburgh-based religious broadcaster Cornerstone Television for $375,000 in 1992. The second incarnation of WOCD had problems getting cable carriage in much of the market which combined with the looming conversion to digital television led the station to be sold again.

In 1997, Paxson Communications bought WOCD from Cornerstone, moved the station's offices from Scotia, New York, to Guilderland, and made the station an outlet for the Infomall Television Network (inTV). The call sign was changed to WYPX on January 13, 1998; however, the new calls confused some people as there was a radio station with a similar call sign in the Albany market. WYPX became a charter station for the Pax TV network when it launched on August 31, 1998. WYPX also added a secondary affiliation with UPN on October 5, 1998, airing the network's programming in late night hours following Pax's primetime programming. WVBG-LP (channel 25), a low-power station in Albany, also joined UPN as a primary affiliate the same day; the affiliation deal with WYPX was made before the network agreed to affiliate with WVBG (as Albany had no UPN affiliate at the time, though area cable systems imported WSBK-TV from Boston). WYPX retained its secondary UPN affiliation despite WVBG's affiliation; however, UPN programming disappeared from channel 55 in 1999.

In 2001, WYPX entered into a joint sales agreement with Hubbard Broadcasting, owner of NBC affiliate WNYT (channel 13); under this arrangement, WNYT sold advertising time on WYPX, while WYPX aired replays of WNYT's news and public affairs programming. Paxson terminated all joint sales agreements involving its stations in June 2005 as part of its relaunch of Pax TV as i: Independent Television.

Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion
WYPX-DT signed on the air on UHF channel 50 and broadcasts at 450 kW from the same transmitter site in early 2005. WYPX-TV requested permission from the FCC to shut down their analog signal on channel 55 so that the bandwidth could be used for Qualcomm's MediaFLO service. Qualcomm had made deals with other stations on channel 55, including WLNY-TV in Riverhead, New York, to shut down analog so that they could launch their new multimedia offering on April 12, 2007. It was granted permission by the FCC to shut down its analog broadcast, surrender its analog license, and operate as a digital-only station on channel 50 on September 6, 2007. The station shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 55, on September 28, 2007. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 50, using virtual channel 55.

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How to Get Ahead in Advertising

How to Get Ahead in Advertising is a 1989 British black comedy fantasy film written and directed by Bruce Robinson, and starring Richard E. Grant and Rachel Ward. The title is a pun and can be literally taken as "How to Get a Head in Advertising."

In the film, an advertising executive has a nervous breakdown and finds himself concerned with the ethics of his profession. As a result, a talking boil grows on his shoulder, a manifestation of the cynical and unscrupulous side of his personality.

Plot
The film is a farce about a mentally unstable advertising executive, Denis Dimbleby Bagley (played by Grant), who suffers a nervous breakdown while making an advert for pimple cream. Rachel Ward plays his long-suffering but sympathetic wife, Julia Bagley. Richard Wilson plays John Bristol, Bagley's boss.

Bagley has a crisis of conscience about the ethics of advertising, which leads to mania. He then develops a boil on his right shoulder that comes to life with a face and voice. The voice of the boil, although uncredited, is that of Bruce Robinson. The boil takes a cynical and unscrupulous view of the advertising profession in contrast to Bagley's new-found ethical concerns. Eventually, Bagley decides to have the boil removed in hospital, but moments before he is taken into the operating room, the boil quickly grows into a replica of Bagley's head (only with a moustache) and covers Bagley's original head, asking doctors to lance it, which is done since nobody has noticed the switch from left to right nor the new moustache.

Bagley, now with the boil head, moustache, and personality (the movie's third personification from Grant after the stressed executive and the raving lunatic) returns home to celebrate his wedding anniversary, with the original head merely resembling a boil on his left shoulder. The "boil" eventually withers but doesn't die, yet Bagley resumes his advertising career rejuvenated and ruthless, although without his wife, who decides to leave his new cruel persona.

Cast

 * Richard E. Grant as Denis Dimbleby Bagley
 * Rachel Ward as Julia Bagley
 * Richard Wilson as John Bristol
 * Jacqueline Tong as Penny Wheelstock
 * John Shrapnel as Psychiatrist
 * Susan Wooldridge as Monica
 * Hugh Armstrong as Harry Wax
 * Mick Ford as Richard
 * Jacqueline Pearce as Maud
 * Christopher Simon as Waiter
 * Gino Melvazzi as Waiter
 * Victor Lucas as Tweedy Man
 * Dawn Keeler as Tweedy Woman
 * Kerryann White as Girl in Elevator
 * Vivienne McKone as Sullivan Bristol Receptionist
 * Donald Hoath as Businessman on Train
 * John Levitt as Businessman on Train
 * Gordon Gostelow as Priest
 * Pip Torrens as Jonathan
 * Tony Slattery as Basil
 * Rachel Fielding as Jennifer
 * Pauline Melville as Mrs. Wallace
 * Roddy Maude-Roxby as Dr. Gatty
 * Francesca Longrigg as Nurse
 * Joanna Mays as Phillis Blokey
 * Sean Bean as Larry Frisk
 * Tanveer Ghani as Hospital Doctor
 * Bruce Robinson as The Boil (voice) (uncredited)

Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 60% based on reviews from 15 critics.

In an interview with Jimmy Kimmel in 2019, Richard E. Grant said that Jim Carrey called him a genius for his work in the film.

The film made £201,972 in the UK.

title: How to Get Ahead in Advertising