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Ivan Goff

Ivan Goff (17 April 1910 – 23 September 1999) was an Australian screenwriter, best known for his collaborations with Ben Roberts including White Heat (1949), Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981), and the pilot for Charlie's Angels (1976).

Early years
Goff was born in Perth, the son of two concert musicians. He attended Perth Boys Central School and grew up in Claremont.

At 15, he began writing for a local newspaper, but soon became dissatisfied with the isolation he felt. "Living in Australia made me crazy", he later said in an interview. "It took a month for a book to get to Australia, a year for a play and forever for an idea."

Leaving for England
Goff was the private secretary to novelist Louis Goulding.

Goff was working for The West Australian as a journalist but resigned from his job in April 1930 to travel to the US. Travelling with a friend, E Irwin, he went via Sydney and Auckland, then Fiji – where they were arrested for stowing away on a ship – before arriving in Canada. They eventually arrived in the US and went to Los Angeles. and Mexico, writing for the "Sporting Globe". Eventually, they made their way to London in July 1931. He and Irwin later published a book of their travels called No Longer Innocent in late 1933. This was well received.

He worked in several jobs, including as a bookie, while trying to break into journalism. He eventually found work with the Daily Mirror, which in the mid-1930s sent Goff to Los Angeles as the paper's Hollywood correspondent.

Hollywood
Goff worked as a journalist in Hollywood. In January 1937 he signed a writing contract with Warner Bros. He was linked romantically with fellow Australian expatriate, actor Constance Worth. He adapted the book The Story of San Michele although it was not made. In 1938, he was reported as working on a version of Svengali.

He eventually became a staff writer at Republic Studios. His work included uncredited contributions to several of the westerns in The Three Mesquiteers series, and a Gene Autry vehicle, Sunset in Wyoming (1941). At Republic Goff first met Ben Roberts who says Goff was working on a Three Mesquiteers script for John Wayne while Roberts was collaborating with Sidney Sheldon on a district attorney movie. Roberts called Goff "a fellow with a proper English accent... We couldn't figure out what he was doing, writing a cowboy movie. We assumed his idea of dialogue was writing 'Cut them off at the pass, dear chaps'."

Goff then joined the staff at Warner Bros. He was working on a picture called Stuff of Heroes for Jane Bryan.

Goff wrote a film for Columbia, The Out for Movies. He was one of several writers on an A-picture, My Love Came Back (1940) and did some uncredited work on The Great Mr. Nobody (1941). He was an early writer on The Horn Blows at Midnight. He wrote a never-filmed script about an American soldier in Australia, Private Eddie Lawson.

Ben Roberts and Portrait in Black
During World War Two, Goff joined the Army Signal Corps where he found himself making wartime propaganda shorts at the former Astoria Studios in Long Island, New York. At Astoria, Goff was reunited with Ben Roberts. One day over lunch Roberts told Goff of an idea he had for a short story that lacked an ending. Goff came up with an ending and suggested that they turn it into a play instead of a short story. Working at night over a period of 13 months, they completed the play, which was called Portrait in Black and had runs in London and Broadway. It also sold to the movies for $100,000.

Goff was also credited on a comedy for PRC, The Captain from Köpenick (1945). It would be the last film he wrote without Roberts for the rest of his career. Goff later said in 1976 that he and Roberts "complement each other's talent and personality. While I was stowing away on freighters and trains, bumming around the world, Ben was sneaking on the New York subway. But we respect each other, making creative compromise possible."

At the end of the war, Roberts and Goff decided to remain as a team, and wrote Prejudice (1949), a short film about anti-Semitism produced by the Protestant Film Commission.

They also wrote a screenplay based on a Ben Hecht story, The Shadow, which was never filmed, but attracted the interest of Warner Bros. who hired them to rewrite a murder mystery, Backfire (made in 1948, released in 1950). Their work on that film impressed the studio enough to sign them to a five-year contract.

Warner Bros.
Although Goff and Roberts considered themselves primarily comedy writers, Warners saw them as action men and assigned them to rewrite another script, a gangster story called White Heat (1949). White Heat was based on a story submitted to the studio by Virginia Kellogg, which had been inspired by a real-life robbery. Goff and Roberts turned Kellogg's story inside out, making it a semi 'Greek tragedy' about a gangster with a mother complex. James Cagney agreed to star, Raoul Walsh directed and the resulting film became an instant classic. Kellogg was nominated for an Oscar for Best Original Story, but, under Academy rules of the time, Goff and Roberts were not. In an essay on the making of the film and writing of the script, writer Patrick McGilligan observed: "Goff and Roberts regard themselves as slow, methodical craftsmen. They plot in complete detail before even beginning to write. Then they write their dialogue together, line by line. Roberts seems to be the better constructionist... Goff gets the nod for detail and dialogue. Yet they work together so closely that it is difficult to separate their individual contributions, and what usually emerges is a blending of both their selves. “Our contention, and I think it’s borne out by the scripts we’ve done,” said Roberts, “is that the style of the script is neither my style nor Ivan’s, but a third person’s.”" Warners put the team on to an early draft of Mara Maru for which they were not credited. They worked on Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951), with Gregory Peck in the title role, then were reunited with Cagney on Come Fill the Cup (1951). They wrote a Joan Crawford vehicle, Goodbye, My Fancy (1952), provided the original story for a British film, Gift Horse (1952) and were among several writers on the anthology film O. Henry's Full House (1952), for 20th Century Fox.

Goff and Roberts stayed with Fox for two adventure films, White Witch Doctor (1953) and King of the Khyber Rifles (1954).

From 1954–55, Goff served as president of the screenwriters' council of the Screen Writers Guild.

At MGM they wrote another adventure tale, Green Fire (1954) then returned to Warners to do a musical melodrama with Mario Lanza, Serenade (1956), from a novel by James M. Cain. At Warners they did a Civil War era saga for Raoul Walsh, Band of Angels (1957), then made a third film with Cagney, Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), a biopic of Lon Chaney which earned Goff and Roberts an Oscar nomination..

They wrote a pilot for a TV series that was never made, The Fat Man (1959). Cagney used them again for an IRA thriller, Shake Hands with the Devil (1959) and they wrote an episode of Bourbon Street Beat  (1960).

1960 finally saw the release of a film version of Portrait in Black. It was produced by Ross Hunter who used Goff and Roberts on a similar thriller, Midnight Lace (1960). They wrote a third film for Hunter, a remake of Next Time We Love, for Doris Day and Rock Hudson, but it was not made.

They did the never-made The Sea Wolves about John P. Cromwell in World War II.

Television
During the 1960s Goff and Roberts turned increasingly to television. They wrote a pilot for a show starring Rod Taylor, Dateline: San Francisco (1962) which was not picked up.

They created and wrote The Rogues (1964).

They wrote the pilot for a series, Preview Tonight (1968) which was not picked up, and wrote a thriller in South Africa, The Second Sin (1966).

Three for Danger (1967) was another unsold pilot but they wrote an episode of Ironside and The Danny Thomas Hour, and enjoyed great success as writers and producers for Mannix (1968–75) from its second season onwards, overseeing significant changes on the show. A profile of Goff and Roberts from 1968 said that "the rapport between the producers is quite apparent. One complements the other. One will back off if the other makes a point more succinctly. Goff, perhaps a touch more serious in manner, speaks with an Aussie accent. Roberts is a quick talker and has a laugh slightly reminiscent of Ed Wynn's."

A TV series they created My Friend Tony (1969) was less successful although it ran a season.

They wrote some thrillers, Diagnosis: Murder (1975) and The Killer Who Wouldn't Die (1976) (starring Mike Connors from Mannix) and had enormous success creating and writing the pilot for Charlie's Angels (1976–81). Goff and Roberts subsequently left the series, and Goff had said "[the producers] wanted us to write in a lot of car chases and to put guns in the hands of the girls; we walked." The two were entitled to 12.5% of the show's profits and were part of a lawsuit against Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg to have a correct accounting done.

Goff and Roberts were the main writers of the TV series Logan's Run (1976). They also created the short-lived Time Express (1979) and produced Nero Wolfe (1981). They were one of many writers on The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981).

Roberts died in 1984.

Later years
Goff lived in Malibu towards the end of his life. He died of Alzheimer's disease in 1999 in his sleep at St John's Health Centre in Santa Monica.

Filmography

 * My Love Came Back (1940)
 * Sunset in Wyoming (1941)
 * The Captain from Köpenick (completed in 1941, but only released in 1945)
 * White Heat (1949) (w/Ben Roberts)
 * Prejudice (1949) (with Ben Roberts)
 * Backfire (1950) (with Ben Roberts)
 * Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) (with Ben Roberts)
 * Come Fill the Cup (1951) (with Ben Roberts)
 * Goodbye My Fancy (1951) (with Ben Roberts)
 * O Henry's Full House (1952) (with Ben Roberts)
 * The Gift Horse (1952) – story only (with Ben Roberts)
 * King of the Khyber Rifles (1953) (with Ben Roberts)
 * White Witch Doctor (1953) (with Ben Roberts)
 * Green Fire (1954) (with Ben Roberts)
 * Serenade (1956) (with Ben Roberts)
 * Band of Angels (1957) (with Ben Roberts)
 * Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) (with Ben Roberts)
 * Shake Hands With the Devil (1959) (with Ben Roberts)
 * Portrait in Black (1960) + play (with Ben Roberts)
 * Midnight Lace (1960) (with Ben Roberts)
 * The Second Sin (1966) (with Ben Roberts)
 * The Killer Who Wouldn't Die (1976) (with Ben Roberts)
 * The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981) (with Ben Roberts)

TV series

 * Burke's Law (1963) (with Ben Roberts)
 * The Rogues (1964) (with Ben Roberts)
 * Ironside (1967) (with Ben Roberts)
 * Mannix (1967–75) (with Ben Roberts)
 * Charlie's Angels (1976–81) (with Ben Roberts)
 * Logan's Run (1977–1978) (with Ben Roberts)
 * Time Express (1979) (with Ben Roberts)

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Mahogany Ship

The Mahogany Ship is a putative early Australian shipwreck that is believed by some to lie beneath the sand in the Armstrong Bay area, approximately 3 to 6 km west of Warrnambool in southwest Victoria, Australia. In many modern accounts it is described as a Spanish or Portuguese caravel after the wreck was associated with the theory of Portuguese discovery of Australia by Kenneth McIntyre in his 1977 book The Secret Discovery of Australia. The most recent research has questioned this theory and provided other explanations.

Three Mahogany Ship Symposia have been conducted in nearby Warrnambool: in 1981, 1987 and 2005, attracting significant public and academic interest and the contributions of Manning Clark, Barry Jones, Kenneth McIntyre, Lawrence Fitzgerald, Ian McKiggan, Bill Richardson, Edmund Gill, Jack Loney and many others.

Eyewitness accounts
While there is no conclusive evidence such a wreck exists today, nineteenth-century accounts of the relic persist both in popular folklore and in publications of varying academic rigour. In the 1980s and 1990s, writers Jack Loney and Ian McKiggan documented the accounts of a number of purported nineteenth century eyewitnesses to the wreck. While these were of varying degrees of detail, they indicate a strong local tradition about the wreck in the area. Commenting on the surge of interest in the wreck that appeared at the end of the nineteenth century, Loney observed that research on the wreck was often based around "loosely written words, sometimes presented from hearsay, sometimes from people who could barely read or write, and in most cases from some recalling memories forty or fifty years old." McKiggan took a more liberal view, sharing the opinion of well-known local historian Jack Powling, who wrote "When people knew it, and could see it, they called it 'The Old Wreck;' it was only after it disappeared... that it was given the romantic and slightly misleading name of 'The Mahogany Ship.' Much has been written about it, and much of what has been written has been frankly a good deal of nonsense... Legend by now it may be, but the Old Wreck is no myth..." In 2005, Murray Johns also documented the nineteenth century eyewitnesses to the wreck, but found they fell into three distinct groups – those who placed the wreck in the sea, a second group who said it was on the beach, a third group who identified it as high up in the sand dunes. This has led Johns to conclude the accounts were describing three separate wrecks.

The earliest documented account of a wreck in the area was carried by a Portland newspaper article of 1847 which described "a wreck, about two miles on the Belfast side of Warrnambool…of…a three hundred ton vessel …thrown completely into the [sand] hummocks". The article went on to connect the wreck to the 1841 discovery of a number of articles of French manufacture found strewed along the beach. In 1981, writer Ian McKiggan also found further evidence of an 1841 French shipwreck in the area in the journal of Government Surveyor C.J. Tyers. Tyers wrote that the wreckage (including a keg containing a boat compass by maker Devot of Havre) indicated an unknown French whaler had been lost in the area.

Researcher Jenny Williams Fawcett describes the "1836 Hopkins River Incident" as a foundation myth of the Mahogany Ship story. A popular version of this story was included in The Book of the Bush by George Dunderdale, in 1898, as follows: In January, 1836, Captain Smith, who was in charge of the whaling station at Port Fairy, went with two men, named Wilson and Gibbs, in a whale boat to the islands near Warrnambool, to look for seal. They… found the mouth of the river Hopkins. In trying to land there, their boat capsized in the surf... [They] succeeded in reaching the shore naked, and they travelled back along the coast to Port Fairy... On this journey they found the wreck of a vessel, supposed to be a Spanish one, which has since been covered by the drifting sand. When Captain Mills was afterwards harbour master at Belfast, he took the bearings of it…. Vain search was made for it many years afterwards in the hope that it was a Spanish galleon laden with doubloons. According to Jenny Fawcett, Dunderdale was merely repeating an account provided by David Fermaner, who also had not seen the wreck. As Fawcett notes, Captain Mills never wrote of a buried wreck himself, although he was central to various tellings of the story. Fawcett also dismisses the widely cited accounts of local whaler Hugh Donnelly, who claimed to have been a part of the 1836 incident. Fawcett's research indicates Donnelly did not actually arrive in the area until 1843.

A letter to the editor of The Argus in April, 1890, quotes 'a sight-bearing' of the wreck taken by Captain Mills, and supplied to the writer by 'Mr. J.A. Lynar, of Queen-street, Melbourne'. It reads: Well to the eastward of Gorman's-lane, proceed eastward along the beach till you bring the point of land on which the old iron church stood in line with the highest point of Tower Hill Island. The wreck would be almost in straight line with those objects well in the hummocks."

Another letter, from 1910, quoted a resident who rented a farm in the area in 1853 when the ship was said to be still readily visible and he could 'ride into its interior'. His location was: ...starting from Dennington [near Warrnambool] and going past two conspicuous high sandhills on the west side of the Merri River, the wreck being nearly in line with them... there was another wreck about two miles further west, near Gorman's-lane, but it was a modern ship as far as he could judge and he thinks that that is the wreck which Captain Mills visited and described as lying south-east of Tower Hill."

In the opinion of Johns, Captain John Mason of Port Fairy was the first to describe the ship as being constructed of a dark timber which had the appearance of cedar or mahogany, in a letter to the Melbourne Argus on 1 April 1876. Mason clarified his account in The Australasian on 1 November 1890, expressing uncertainty about the provenance of the ship and stating that he did not think it was made of mahogany, however, by this time the title Mahogany Ship had already become the popular name for the wreck, thanks to the work of journalist John Stanley James (also known as "The Vagabond").

Searches for the wreck
Joseph Archibald, curator of the Warrnambool Museum, made strenuous efforts to document accounts and stimulate local interest in the wreck in the early 1890s. In June 1890, Archibald led the first organised search for the wreck. In July, former whaler Hugh Donnelly led another search, using bearings Captain John Mills was alleged to have given a friend. In November, the Victorian Government sponsored another search. In 1891, Archibald delivered a paper entitled "Ancient Wreck at Warrnambool", to the Royal Geographical Society, and this appears to mark the end of his active involvement. In 1910, having conducted further research, George Gordon McCrae also delivered a paper to the Geographical Society. Further searches have been conducted since the 1980s, coinciding with the publication of Kenneth McIntyre's book and the Mahogany Ship symposia, conducted in nearby Warrnambool. These were conducted with the support of local authorities, businesses and volunteer organisations such as the National Trust. To date, however, nothing has been found to verify the popular Portuguese theory. Analysis of a number of artefacts alleged to be from the wreck were discussed by Rev. John Pinson in 1987. These include a ruler and two penholders, supposedly made from timber of the wreck. In both cases the wood has been identified as native to northern New South Wales or Queensland. A fragment of wood from the collection of Joseph Archibald, held by the National Library, Canberra has been identified as eucalyptus. An unusual amphora found on the beach in 1943 has been identified as of nineteenth century North African origin. In 2000, a two-metre length of European white oak was uncovered in the sand dunes. However, its shape and state indicated it was probably part of a shipment of white oak being carried on the sailing vessel Falls of Halladale, which was wrecked at Peterborough in the early twentieth century.

Theories regarding the Mahogany Ship
In many of the accounts written in the late 19th century, the Mahogany Ship was described as Spanish. According to local writer and antiquarian Jack Loney, several theories supporting the Spanish connection were advanced. One theory was that the ship was the galleon "Santa Ysabel", which had sailed from Peru in 1595. A second theory was that the wreck was the ex-Spanish ship Santa Anna. This is clearly incorrect as Santa Anna wrecked in 1811 in the Straits of Timor.

Today, a popular theory suggests that the vessel is a missing ship of voyage of Portuguese exploration, wrecked in 1522. Kenneth McIntyre advanced this theory in 1977, as part of his theory of Portuguese discovery of Australia. According to McIntyre the Mahogany Ship was part of a secret expedition, under Cristóvão de Mendonça, that set out from the Spice Islands in 1522 to look for the Isles of Gold. McIntyre argued secrecy would have been essential because the mariners were entering waters deemed Spanish under the Treaty of Tordesillas. He suggested that, after discovering the north coast of Australia, they followed and chartered it and continued down the east coast and around Cape Howe, before one of the caravels was wrecked at Warrnambool. The other ships turned back and returned to the Spice Islands and then Portugal. Maps and documents of such a voyage were kept locked away in Portugal so as to avoid antagonising Spain and to keep the discoveries from her or other nations. McIntyre suggested that all of the original documents have since been lost or destroyed, except for references to Jave la Grande, which appear on the French Dieppe school of maps. Lawrence Fitzgerald also supported McIntyre's theory connecting the Mahogany ship to a Portuguese voyage in his 1984 book, Java La Grande. However, Peter Trickett's 2007 book on the theory of Portuguese discovery of Australia, Beyond Capricorn, found fault with McIntyre's interpretation of the Mahogany ship as a caravel, and noted that until the wreck is found, "all theories must remain to some degree speculative." Bob Nixon (2001) and Murray Johns (2005) have both criticised McIntyre's account for adding confusion to the story of the Mahogany ship through his identification of the wreck as a caravel and his selection and transcription of evidence.

In 2002 English writer Gavin Menzies speculated that the ship was a modified Chinese junk. He pointed to the reports that it was made of a 'dark wood' and was 'of an unconventional design'. He also cited claims that local Aborigines had a tradition that "yellow men" had at one time come from the wreck. The claims of Chinese origin have not been well received in academic circles. Many notable historians have dismissed the notion as fanciful at best.

In 2005, The Age newspaper reported Canberra mathematician Frank Coningham's claim that in the 1980s he had seen a document in a collection of British Parliamentary Papers showing British authorities "dismantled the wreck to prevent an Australian land claim by the King of Portugal." However, Sydney archaeologist Denis Gojak has also investigated the claim and searched British Parliamentary papers. He has been unable to find such a document and doubts its existence as reported.

Murray Johns' theory is that the Mahogany Ship was an incomplete vessel probably built by escaped Tasmanian convicts. He argues they may have arrived on the schooner Unity in 1813, which was wrecked or beached nearby. In his view, this theory explains the repeated nineteenth century references to several unidentified wrecks in different locations in the area. It also accounts for the finds of wood from northern New South Wales (where the Unity had been built), and the nineteenth century descriptions of the Mahogany Ship as crude construction.

In fiction
In the novel Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Henry Kingsley, published in 1859, there is a fictional account of a wreck that resembled the Mahogany Ship. In the book the ship is described as being Dutch or Spanish. In some editions a footnote at the bottom of the page reads: "Such a ship may be seen in the eastern end of Portland Bay, near the modern town of Port Fairy." To what extent the reference in this novel helped to promote the popular image of the wreck is uncertain. Murray Johns believes the footnote is a reference to the well documented wreck of the cedar built Schooner Sally Ann in Portland Bay. He also argues Thomas Clark's 1860 "Mahogany Ship" painting shows the Sally Ann, the painting's title being adopted later.

Wrack, (1997), the first novel by Australian writer James Bradley, uses a wreck inspired by the Mahogany Ship as background to a murder mystery.

Recent events
In 1992 the State Government of Victoria offered a reward of A$250,000 to anyone who could locate the wreck but the offer was withdrawn in 1993 without money having been paid.

In July 1999, shipwreck searcher Des Williams discovered wood fragments buried under the sand dunes in the area the ship was supposed to have been seen. These were found to be White Oak, which was a 'common shipbuilding timber' in the United States and Europe and, while from the Northern Hemisphere, could have been from the wreck of a different vessel.

Extensive searches of the area were again conducted in late 1999 and in 2004, using heavy drills that penetrated to a depth of 10 metres.

In 2011, Rob Simpson used old accounts, especially of the 19th century search expedition by Alexander Rollo, to try to locate the vessel. He applied aerial archaeology techniques using Google Earth to identify what 'certainly seems to be a clear correlation between the coordinates and the outline vaguely visible' of a ship.

Today, visitors frequently take to the Mahogany Ship Walking Track, which follows the coast between Warrnambool and Port Fairy and passes possible sites where the Mahogany Ship may rest. The area of greatest interest to contemporary researchers is Armstrong Bay east of Gorman's Road (formerly Lane) and west of Levy's Point near Dennington.

A replica caravel inspired by the Mahogany Ship, named the Notorious, was launched at Port Fairy in 2011.

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Yamaha YZF-R7

The Yamaha YZF-R7 or OW-02 (often referred to simply as the R7) is a race homologation motorcycle made by Yamaha in limited production run of only 500 units worldwide. It was designed to compete in the Superbike World Championship and Suzuka 8 Hours endurance races.

It has a 749 cc, DOHC 20-valve (5 valves per cylinder) inline-four engine producing 106 hp. Yamaha also produced two race kits for the R7, topping 135 hp when the other, unused bank of fuel injectors is activated. A pipe and ECU update were also made.

The R7 was built for racing 'out of the box', implied by the chassis, which was derived from information and geometry from the YZR500 machines of the period. It has Öhlins suspension components and titanium valves, titanium conrods, a shortened Deltabox II frame and dry weight of 416 lb.

Super Streetbikes magazine ranked the R7 eighth in its list, "The 10 Most Exotic Bikes Ever", due to its extraordinary price, "top-spec Öhlins race suspension and running gear", and that the bike, "looked utterly amazing: genuine two-wheeled sex", but said it was ironic that in spite of being the "most exotic R-series bike ever", it "actually turned out to be a bit of a lemon". The problem was that the bike as sold was hobbled, at only 100 hp, and that small teams could not afford the "thousands of dollars" of racing upgrades necessary to make the R7 competitive, and when they did, "the crankshafts failed". For the sake of simplicity and cost savings, Yamaha had chosen to detune the engines for bikes imported into all countries to meet the German market's maximum horsepower regulation, partially because whatever level it was detuned to was irrelevant, given that virtually every buyer intended to modify the bike from street-legal form in order to race. One such modification, popular with club racers, was to adapt the frame mounts of the R7 to accept an engine from the Yamaha YZF-R1, which was unofficially named the R71. UK based Harris Performance Products made a bespoke R71 frame that only sold in small numbers.

When the R7 was announced in 1999, only 50 were slated to be imported to the US, ten of which were earmarked for Yamaha's factory team. The waiting list for the remaining bikes far exceeded supply. The difficulty in obtaining one prompted Cycle World's Don Canet to caution eager buyers, "Hey, whoah 'er down there, Mr. Trump. Having the cash is not always enough."

In 2001, motorcycling journalist Roland Brown had a high-side crash riding the YZF-R7 of World Superbike racer Noriyuki Haga during testing at Circuito de Jerez, Spain. Cycle World, in a 2016 retrospective, had retired racer Freddie Spencer ride the R7 alongside five other famous racing bikes from the years 1986 through 2013. After riding earlier years' bikes and then moving to the R7, Spencer said, "We've just moved into the modern age. This is the first bike that needs a steering damper." Compared to the other racing motorcycles, the R7 looked "a bit pedestrian", with its stripes and markings being only stickers instead of painted on, and having "a subtlety to it that makes it blend into the crowd."

The OW-02 is now considered to be an "iconic" and highly collectible modern-classic motorcycle, due to its rarity as a limited homologation 'special', WorldSBK focused handling (due to its race developed frame strength and geometry) and race styling with a single seat unit, that is distinctive when compared to its road-based siblings, the Yamaha YZF-R6 and Yamaha YZF-R1. After 20+ years since its production, the OW-02 in its OEM form is a rare sight on the road, with many now owned by collectors and kept in storage. With an unknown number of machines either crashed or modified for racing, a low or zero mileage unmolested R7 is now worth more than twice its original selling price, with one selling at a Bonhams auction for £37,375 in October 2023 at the Classic Motorcycle Mechanics Show, Staffordshire County Showground in Stafford UK.

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Barbri

Barbri (styled BARBRI or barbri) is a company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, whose primary product offering is a bar review course. Because of the general difficulty of state bar exams, a majority of law school graduates choose to take some form of preparation course. Barbri offers law school graduates a six to seven week review course which features lectures by law professors on the seven major areas covered on the Multistate Bar Examination (MBE) – torts, contracts, real property, evidence, criminal law, civil procedure and constitutional law – along with additional lectures on the specific law of the state in which the participant plans to take the bar.

History
The company's predecessors were founded in the 1950s by William A. Rutter in California and in 1967 by three Chicago attorneys – Richard Conviser, Lewis Collens and Beardsley Ruml. The Southeast was developed by Steven H. Levine, and the Northeast was developed by Stan Chess. In 1974, New York City-based publisher Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich bought San Francisco-based Bay Area Review (BAR) and Chicago-based Bar Review Inc. (BRI) and promptly merged them together. The new subsidiary was officially known as "Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Legal and Professional Publications," but was marketed under the brand name BAR/BRI. William A. Rutter became Chairman and CEO.

In 2001, Reed Elsevier (owner of LexisNexis), as part of its acquisition of Harcourt, sold off certain Harcourt assets like BAR/BRI to its archrival Thomson Corporation (owner of Westlaw). In April 2011, Barbri was sold to Leeds Equity Partners. In March 2021, Barbri was sold to Francisco Partners.

In July 2022, Barbri acquired Strafford, an online education company for attorneys, accountants, and other professionals.

Courses and faculty
Barbri offers preparation courses in every state and the District of Columbia for both the summer and winter administration of the bar exam. In many larger states live presentations are available in one or more locations during the summer course. The course is also offered remotely in additional locations, often on or near law school campuses. Barbri also provides a "home study" version of the course, in which students can access or make-up lectures through the Barbri website, or by using a mobile device. The course consists of lectures on substantive law, multiple choice question review, a practice administration of the multistate bar exam, and practice essay questions. Most lectures last three to four hours. Barbri also provides course books which include summaries of the substantive law, note-taking outlines, and practice questions. Most Barbri lecturers are full-time tenured law professors, and some have lectured for the company for many years. Among long-time Barbri lecturers include Erwin Chemerinsky (UC Berkeley); John Diamond (UC Hastings); Stanley Johanson (Texas); Faust Rossi (Cornell); Richard Freer (Emory University School of Law); Michael D. Sabbath (Mercer); Roger Schechter (George Washington); John "Kip" Cornwell (Seton Hall Law School); Paula Franzese (Seton Hall Law School); Michael Spak (Chicago-Kent College of Law), Lewis Collins (Chicago-Kent College of Law), David G. Epstein (University of Richmond School of Law), and Irving Younger (University of Minnesota Law School).

Barbri also launched in the UK in 2021, preparing candidates for the new Solicitors Qualifying Examination.

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Wikiproject
Myself and Moe Epsilon are considering creating a Yu-Gi-Oh! Wikiproject, and I was wondering whether you would be interested in joining. -- Setokaiba 19:56, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

If you are interseted in joining click here and add your name to the list of members. Hope you join! — M o e   ε  22:55, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

Super Mario Bros. 2
Regarding your addition of the citation needed template, I have added some references. Andre (talk) 06:35, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

CVSNT
Regarding your claims of GPL violation on the CVSNT article, I have added some references, but you need to cite a reliable source that this does constitute a violation of the GPL otherwise it's just your opinion vs someone elses. I've added more extensive notes on the CVSNT discussion/talk page. I do work for the vendor so I'm trying to remain at a distance from any claims you are making. If you have not already spoken to someone at the vendor about this and would like (eg: because you require the source code to a particular build you are using) then please do, I think that would be altogether more helpful than publishing claims without citation on wikipedia. Arthur (talk) 22:15, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

 * It is neither my opinion that your commercial website offers "trial" versions of the software (ie. binary distributions) based on a previously open-sourced GPL codebase nor that the only link that I could find to the source code demands a payment of more than USD $1000, and it is additionally not my opinion that the GPL forbids this kind of arrangement, as it requires "equivalent access" to binary and source code, and the language used to allow charging of a distribution fee is quite unambiguously clear that the fee may *not* exceed preparation costs - that means at most the cost of the physical media, labour cost for placing it on that media, and possibly shipping and handling assuming the distribution is not electronic. The claim that it costs $1000 to distribute source code electronically I find extremely disingenuous as I serve the source code for multiple free software projects at effectively no cost. These are facts, not opinions, and are therefore not subject to prosecution under libel laws of the United States, as you have threatened, however indirectly, on the talk page for the article.

 * In fact, the source code would be of use to me because I need to eventually migrate a large commercial product *out* of CVSNT, since our organization cannot indefinitely maintain it on the aging version we use, and the licensing fees of the new versions are not competitive from our management's POV in a market full of Free Software alternatives for software revision control. It was upon attempting to find the code for this older version, or any version, that I discovered the recent changes in your product's distribution and hosting arrangements. And while you are correct that there is no requirement for 24/7 availability, there is a requirement for *actual* availability. That is, if your online repository IS in fact online at some given time, I would like to know when that time is, rather than connecting at random over a period of days, weeks, or months and attempting to guess whether it will be available or not. I suppose it is my "opinion" that such an arrangement is completely unreasonable, but I believe you'd be very hard pressed indeed to find someone that does not agree with me. --QuasarTE (talk) 01:36, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your response. It sounds very interesting, but not the subject of a section in a wikipedia article...  If a "server is up or down" on the vendors "web/cvs site" is not typically the sort of thing that a wikipedia article has sections on.  Are you sure that wikipedia is the right place to address this, or is this simply some kind of technical support issue you should be discussing with the vendor?  Arthur (talk) 05:24, 22 March 2011 (UTC)

Permission to use figure in a book.
Dear QuasarTE,

I am working with Prof. Steven LaValle to help obtain permissions for borrowing figures or pictures in his upcoming book Virtual Reality, to be published by Cambridge University Press. The book is online here:

http://vr.cs.uiuc.edu/

We are hoping to include the picture of yours (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/de/Doom_ingame_1.png) in this book (Chapter 1, Figure 1.27c). Could we please have your permission for this? Thank you.

Please contact me at awarkoczewski@yahoo.com

Sincerely,

Adam Warkoczewski — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.11.35.79 (talk) 12:41, 29 January 2017 (UTC)

 * I'm not actually the original author of that screenshot, as it appears the old revisions have been deleted, but besides that, its content is entirely the property of id Software as it's a fair use image so I'd have neither any right to object to you using it, nor any ability to grant you permissions beyond fair use, as it is currently used on this site. --QuasarEE (talk) 16:13, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

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Talk:OpenWindows

Release dates
It will be interesesting to include first and last release dates and Solaris versions. (unsigned comment by 62.85.195.133, 2005-06-15 11:51:22)

History section
Ok now, I've dumped a History section in, based on Solaris FAQ for which I also provided link. I'm no Solaris expert, so it would be nice if one takes a look at that and corrects if necessary, or at least makes it more readable ;) Also I couldn't find the first release date and pertaining SunOS version (I practically started the history from the introduction of Solaris), so someone should fill that in. --Arny 09:14, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

OpenWindows
I still use OpenWindows on Solaris so I uploaded a screenshot of the default look. If anyone wants to see/know more let me know. A305w 02:21, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the contribution! Do you remember which version of OpenWindows that was? Ringbang (talk) 21:35, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

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Samuel Belkin

Samuel Belkin (December 12, 1911 – April 19, 1976) was the second President of Yeshiva University. An American Rabbi and distinguished Torah scholar, he is credited with leading Yeshiva University through a period of substantial expansion.

Biography
Belkin was born in 1911 in Svislach, Russian Empire (now Belarus) and studied in the yeshivas of Slonim and Mir. Recognized at a young age as an illui, a genius, he was ordained as a Rabbi at the age of seventeen by the famed Yisrael Meir Kagan, the Chofetz Chaim. He also studied for a time in the Mir.

As a child, he sought to leave Poland after he witnessed his father being shot by a policeman in 1919. He emigrated to the United States in 1929, studied with Harry Austryn Wolfson at Harvard and received his doctorate (concerned with the writings of Philo) at Brown University in 1935, one of the first awarded for Judaic studies in American academia. In 1940, an elaboration of his Ph.D. thesis was published with the title "Philo and the Oral Law — The Philonic Interpretation of Biblical Law in Relation to the Palestinian Halakah."

He then joined the faculty of Yeshiva College, New York, where he taught Greek. He became a full professor in 1940 and was appointed dean of its Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS) the same year. In 1943, Belkin was named president of the college, Under his guidance, the institution expanded to become Yeshiva University in 1945. Belkin was a visionary who transformed Yeshiva from a small college and rabbinical seminary into a significant institution of considerable stature in Judaic Studies, natural and social sciences, and the humanities. Under his presidency, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine was opened as Yeshiva University's medical school.

As a scholar, he published many works on Jewish law and Hellenistic literature. His most significant published works are "Philo and the Oral Law" and "In His Image: The Jewish Philosophy of Man as Expressed in Rabbinic Tradition".

In his work, "In His Image," Dr. Belkin described Judaism as a Democratic Theocracy — a theocracy because the first principle of Jewish thought describes the Kingship of God, and a democracy because the Written and the Oral Law emphasize the infinite worth of each human being.

Belkin stepped down as university president in 1975. He died in 1976 in New York City after an illness. He was 64.

Legacy
The Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law gives an award to one graduating law student each year in Dr. Belkin's honor. The award recognizes the student who exemplifies the combination of excellence in leadership, scholarship and exceptional contribution to the growth and development of the law school. Past recipients of the Dr. Samuel Belkin Award include:

 * Marlene Besterman (1986)
 * Frank M. Esposito (1994)
 * Matthew J. Kluger (1994)
 * Magda M. Jimenez (1995)
 * Thomas Harding (1996)
 * Vsevolod "Steve" Maskin (2000)
 * Alan Gotthelf (2001)
 * Brandyne S. Warren (2005)
 * Kimberly N. Grant (2007)
 * Meghan DuPuis Maurus (2008)
 * Jil Simon (2013),
 * Francesca Rebecca Acocella (2016), and
 * Sarah Helen Ganley (2017)

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Gove (disambiguation)

Michael Gove (born 1967) is a British politician.

Gove may also refer to:

People

 * Gove (name)

Places

 * Gove, Bhiwandi, Gove is a village in the Thane district of Maharashtra, India. It is located in the Bhiwandi taluka.
 * Gove (Baião), a civil parish in the municipality of Baião, Portugal-see List of parishes of Portugal: B

Australia

 * Gove Peninsula, Northern Territory, Australia
 * Gove Airport in Gove Peninsula

United States

 * Gove County, Kansas
 * Gove City, Kansas
 * Gove Township, Gove County, Kansas

Other uses

 * Gove Australian Football League

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Mariano Melgar

Mariano Lorenzo Melgar Valdivieso (10 August 1790–12 March 1815) was a Peruvian revolutionary, poet, artist, translator and patriot soldier during the Peruvian War of Independence from Spain. As a poet, Melgar became one of the most prominent romantic poets of Peru in the 19th century history, best known for his poetic love songs known as yaravíes. He is often considered to be the equivalent of the Ecuadorian José Joaquín Olmedo and the Cuban José Martí as patriots of their respective countries.

Biography
Mariano Melgar was born in Arequipa on 10 August 1790, to Don Juan de Dios Melgar y Sanabria and Doña Andrea de Valdivieso, members of distinguished families of the time. He was baptized two days after birth at Arequipa's San Francisco cathedral. Growing up in Arequipa, he received his early education at the San Francisco convent and the Seminario de San Jerónimo. At a young age he demonstrated a gift for writing poetry and in his later years he was said to have fallen in love with María Santos Corrales, whom he romantically mentioned as Silvia in his poetry writings. The girl - born in 1797 - was seven years his junior and her parents opposed their relationship.

At the age of twenty his parents sent him to Lima to study law. The desire for independence in Lima was very strong and the country had promulgated a liberal constitution in 1812. Melgar became very well educated in the fields of history, geography, philosophy and mathematics. After briefly teaching what he had learned in Lima, he decided to return to Arequipa, only to find out that Silvia had been persuaded by her parents to be against a relationship with him. Melgar, in desperate sadness, left for Majes (west of Arequipa). Eventually, he established contacts with other independence revolutionaries of the time. In 1814, the revolution of Mateo Pumacahua took place in Cusco, which upset the apparent tranquillity of the Spanish viceroyalty of Peru and prompted Melgar to join the independence cause and march to combat. After winning the combat of Apacheta in Arequipa, the army marched towards Puno and fought on 11 March 1815 at the Battle of Umachiri, in which Melgar fought bravely directing the revolutionary army's artillery. The patriots were defeated and made prisoners, including the young Melgar. The Spanish General Ramirez, after holding Melgar captive, ordered his officers to place him before a firing squad. Melgar died in the morning of 12 March 1815, at the age of 24.

In a brief letter before his death, Melgar famously wrote to Spanish officials: "Cover your eyes, since you're the ones who must be disabused because America will be free in less than ten years!" Nine years later, on 9 December 1824, the Battle of Ayacucho, or "La Quinua", took place at Pampa de La Quinua, a few miles away from Ayacucho, near the town of Quinua. This battle – between the royalist (Spanish) and nationalist (republican) troops – sealed the independence of Peru and South America from Spain. On 2 July 1964, in recognition of his bravery in the first battles before independence, Peru officially recognized Mariano Melgar as one of the country's first patriots and soldiers for the revolution for independence. A memorial to Mariano Melgar can be found at the Apacheta cemetery in Arequipa, Peru.

Translation
He translated Ovid's and Virgil's poetry into Spanish.

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Tex Sample

Tex Sample (born December 28, 1934) is a specialist in church and society, a storyteller, author, and the Robert B. and Kathleen Rogers Professor Emeritus of Church and Society at the St. Paul School of Theology, a United Methodist seminary in Kansas City, Missouri, where he taught from 1967–1999. He has published four books about the working class.

Background
Born in Brookhaven, Mississippi, Sample received a BA from Millsaps College, an M.Div. and Ph.D. from Boston University, and a DD from Coe College. A former cab driver, laborer, and oil field roustabout, he is a freelance speaker and consultant based in greater Kansas City, MO. A much sought-after lecturer, storyteller, workshop leader and consultant, Tex is a contributor to the DVD programs in the Living the Questions series. His most recent books are Earthy Mysticism (2008), The Future of John Wesley's Theology (2012), and Human Nature, Interest, and Power: a Critique of Reinhold Niebuhr's Social Thought (2013).

His father named him after Texanna Gillham, an African-American woman who was born in slavery and helped raise his father near Center, Texas.

Books

 * Blue Collar Ministry: Facing Economic and Social Realities of Working People, Judson Press, 1984, ISBN 0-8170-1029-7
 * U.S. Lifestyles and Mainline Churches: A Key to Reaching People in the 90's, Westminster John Knox Press, 1990, ISBN 0-664-25099-8
 * Hard Living People & Mainstream Christians, Abingdon Press, 1993, ISBN 0-687-17931-9
 * Ministry in an Oral Culture-Living With Will Rogers, Uncle Remus, and Minnie Pearl, Westminster John Knox Press, 1994, ISBN 0-664-25506-X
 * White Soul: Country Music, the Church, and Working Americans, Abingdon Press, 1996, ISBN 0-687-03293-8
 * The Spectacle of Worship in a Wired World: Electronic Culture and the Gathered People of God, Abingdon Press, 1998, ISBN 0-687-08373-7
 * The Loyal Opposition: Struggling With the Church on Homosexuality, Tex Sample and Amy E. Delong, editors, Abingdon Press, 2000, ISBN 0-687-08425-3
 * Powerful Persuasion: Multimedia Witness in Christian Worship, Abingdon Press, 2005 ISBN 0-687-33901-4
 * Blue Collar Resistance and the Politics of Jesus, Abingdon Press, 2006  ISBN 0-687-33502-7
 * Earthy Mysticism: Spirituality for Unspiritual People, Abingdon Press, 2008 ISBN 0-687-64989-7
 * The Future of John Wesley's Theology: Back to the Future with the Apostle Paul, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2012 ISBN 978-1-61097-629-9
 * Human Nature, Interest, and Power: a Critique of Reinhold Niebuhr's Social Thought, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2013 ISBN 978-1-62032-626-8

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John Beazley

Sir John Davidson Beazley, (13 September 1885 – 6 May 1970) was a British classical archaeologist and art historian, known for his classification of Attic vases by artistic style. He was professor of classical archaeology and art at the University of Oxford from 1925 to 1956.

Early life
Beazley was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 13 September 1885, to Mark John Murray Beazley (died 1940) and Mary Catherine Beazley née Davidson (died 1918). He was educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton and Christ's Hospital, Sussex. He then attended Balliol College, Oxford where he read Literae Humaniores: he received firsts in both Mods and Greats. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1907. While at Oxford he became a close friend of the poet James Elroy Flecker.

Academic career
After graduating, Beazley spent time at the British School at Athens. He then returned to the University of Oxford as a student (equivalent to fellow) and tutor in Classics at Christ Church.

During World War I, Beazley served in military intelligence. For most of the war he worked in Room 40 (Cryptanalysis) of the Admiralty's Naval Intelligence Division, where his colleagues included his fellow-archaeologist Winifred Lamb. He held the temporary rank of second lieutenant from March to October 1916 when he was on secondment to the British Army.

In 1925, he became Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art at the University of Oxford, a position he held until 1956. He specialised in Greek decorated pottery (particularly black-figure and red-figure), and became a world authority on the subject. He adapted the art-historical method initiated by Giovanni Morelli to attribute the specific "hands" (style) of specific workshops and artists, even where no signed piece offered a name, e.g. the Berlin Painter, whose production he first distinguished. He looked at the sweep of classical pottery—major and minor pieces—to construct a history of workshops and artists in ancient Athens. The first English edition of his book, Attic Red-figure Vase-painters, appeared in 1942 (in German as Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils, 1925).

Later life
Beazley retired in 1956, but continued to work until his death in Oxford, on 6 May 1970. His personal archive was purchased by the University of Oxford in 1964. It was originally accommodated in the Ashmolean Museum, but in 2007 it moved into the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies as part of the new Classical Art Research Centre.

Honours
Beazley was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) in 1927. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1943. In 1954, he was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Beazley was appointed a Knight Bachelor in 1949, and therefore granted the title sir. He was appointed to the Order of the Companions of Honour in the 1959 New Year Honours "for services to scholarship".

Personal life
In 1919, Beazley married a widow, Marie Ezra (née Bloomfield), whose first husband had been killed in World War I. She died in 1967.

His stepdaughter, from Marie's previous marriage, Giovanna Marie Therese Babette "Mary" Ezra married Irish poet Louis MacNeice.

There is a notebook in Beazley's hand in Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts, the Bodleian Library, Oxford (MS. Eng. misc. e. 1390), containing his notes on Greek literature and sculpture and on Roman history, but also his illustrations of classical statuary and his sketched caricatures of some contemporaries.

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User:Twister3328/StupidInfo

OK, so it's true; most of the info you will get from the links below, you probably already know, don't really need to know, or you can get from much better sources. So if that is true, well too bad for you. Have fun!

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Talk:Jabberjaw

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A few years ago, there was a song and music video they kept running on CN about this show, anyone have information on it?

At the bottom where it says Jabberjaw and the Neptunes are portrayed as a ska band with the music set to Pain, would this be correct? Pain does not consider themself to be a ska band.

--Satherev 03:15, 1 July 2006 (UTC) Yes, yes there was, and I thought it was quite good. Shame they did not follow up with a new series. I am not sure what a Ska Band is, but the soundtrack was by Pain. The art was also improved on. While Clamhead and Shelly only got a wardrobe makeover, Biff went from looking like an Elvis impersonator to a more up to date haircut and Bubbles lost the frizzy "finger stuck in a light socket" hairstyle to a retro straight, but still decent looking, hairstyle. The article described her voice and mannerisms as Gracie Allen like. If they managed to do an updated version, hopefully this would change. For an 18 to twenty-something girl to have the voice and mannerisms of a forty-something year old woman is kind of squeaky. The article also compared the appearances of Clamhead to Shaggy, Tinker, and Alexander. While the first three could pass as triplets, Alexander looked nothing like the other three, with resemblance closer to a teenage version of Casey Kasem, who was the voice for him and Shaggy (until recently) but not Tinker or Clamhead.--unsigned comment added by 68.227.57.112 (talk)

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Club seating

Club-level seating is a special section of seating in modern sports stadiums and arenas.

Background
The club level is usually located towards the middle of the stage of seating sections, above the lower deck but below the upper deck. They are usually situated near the luxury boxes, whether right above, right below, or sandwiched between two levels of luxury boxes. Club-level seating is typically considered a more exclusive class of seating than elsewhere in the venue, other than the luxury boxes.

Unlike some luxury box levels, most club levels do not wrap entirely around the venue. Some club levels stop at a certain point, giving way to an expansion of the mezzanine, while others give way to lower-class luxury boxes (such as "party suites"). A notable exception to this is Emirates Stadium in London, which has a complete tier of club seating.

Club levels normally provide fans several additional amenities than standard seating. Club-level seating is open to the elements, as opposed to the entirely enclosed luxury boxes, which gives more of an outdoor impression at roofless and open-roof stadiums and arenas. Club-level seating is normally bought on a contract basis to allow for maximum profit on the part of the venue.

The club level provides fans with special access to an indoor part of the venue exclusive to fans with special tickets. These areas are climate-controlled year-round and allow access to special restaurants, bars, merchandise stands, and lounge areas of the venue. Concession stands and vendors on the club level also often offer different menus than in other stands to give more of a special feel to the club. These areas are closed off to the rest of the venue, and they usually can only be accessed through the exclusive, private club entrances.

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Coleen Nolan

Coleen Patricia Nolan (born 12 March 1965) is an English singer, television personality, and author. She was a member of the pop group The Nolans, in which she sang with her sisters. With over 30 million records sold worldwide, The Nolans are one of the world's biggest selling girl groups.

Since 2000, Nolan has been a regular panellist on the ITV talk show Loose Women. From 2001 to 2002, she co-presented the ITV daytime show This Morning, and later returned to the show from 2010 to 2012 as a presenter of the interactive hub segments. In 2009, she competed on the fourth series of the ITV show Dancing on Ice, in which she finished in fourth place. In 2012, Nolan appeared on the tenth series of the Channel 5 reality series Celebrity Big Brother, finishing as runner-up. She returned to Celebrity Big Brother in 2017, winning the nineteenth series.

Early life
Coleen Patricia Nolan was born 12 March 1965 in Blackpool, England, to Irish parents. She is the youngest of eight children and the only one born in England.

Career
On 5 February 1974, Nolan made her first television appearance with her sisters when she was almost nine years old, as The Nolans appeared on the It's Cliff Richard! television series. With the line-up featuring all six sisters and billed as The Nolan Sisters, they performed "Stuck on You". That same year they released their debut single, "But I Do", with Coleen singing lead vocals. Owing to her age, Coleen would not become a full-time member of the group until 1980, when she was fifteen, although she does appear in the music video to their 1979 hit "I'm In the Mood for Dancing", which reached number three in the UK singles chart. The group had further UK top twenty hits with "Don't Make Waves" (1980), "Gotta Pull Myself Together" (1980), "Who's Gonna Rock You" (1981), "Attention to Me" (1981), "Chemistry" (1981) and "Don't Love Me Too Hard" (1982). In 1981, they won the Tokyo Music Festival with the song "Sexy Music".

On 14 January 1987, Coleen appeared alongside her sisters Anne, Bernie and Maureen in the BBC sitcom Filthy Rich & Catflap. In 1991, the group won a 33rd Japan Record Awards Kikaku-shō (Prize for Planning) for Cover version of Japanese pops. Coleen left the group in 1994 to concentrate on raising a family, although she did return briefly in 1995 to promote a re-recorded version of "I'm in the Mood for Dancing".

In 2000, Coleen Nolan became a regular panellist on ITV's Loose Women. She left Loose Women on 28 July 2011 only to return again on 7 October 2013 as a regular panellist. Since July 2014, Nolan has also been a relief anchor of the show.

Nolan presented the programme, The Truth About... Eternal Youth about plastic surgery on ITV in 2009, and presented The Secret Guide To Women's Health in 2010 on Sky Real Lives.

In 2000, Nolan played the part of Janelle Cooper in the short comedy film, Rattler.

Beginning on 11 January 2009, Nolan took part in the fourth series of Dancing on Ice on ITV. Of her appearance on the show Nolan said, "I've never really skated. When I was 14 I used to go to Disco Beat in Blackpool with my friend. We'd skate round once, hanging on to each other, and spend the rest of the night posing, like 14-year-old girls do. I could only go forwards, I couldn't stop!" She was eliminated in week 10, finishing in fourth place. She went on to co-host the spin-off show Dancing on Ice Friday with Ben Shephard in 2010. and on 27 February 2011, she hosted Dancing on Ice, in place of Holly Willoughby who fell ill.

On 15 August 2012, Nolan was announced as the eleventh celebrity to enter the Celebrity Big Brother house on Channel 5.

In 2013, Nolan was a resident agony aunt on the ITV chat show The Alan Titchmarsh Show, appearing on the show every Friday. In 2015, she took part in ITV's Give a Pet a Home series which worked alongside the RSPCA in Birmingham. The show began airing in April 2015, with Amanda Holden as host.

In 2017, Nolan participated in Celebrity Big Brother again, where she was voted ‘least trustworthy’ in the first week. In the house she struck up a friendship with Game of Thrones actor James Cosmo. On day 18, she was put up for eviction by Jamie O'Hara during a nominations twist in the superheroes shopping task. On day 19, it was revealed that Nolan received the most votes out of her, Chloe Ferry, Kim Woodburn and Jedward in a live flash vote. Also on day 19, Nolan voted for Cosmo to gain eternal immunity which he eventually won after the most housemates voted for him. On Day 32 (3 February), she was announced as the winner of Celebrity Big Brother 19.

On 3 September 2018, Nolan announced that she would embark on her first solo concert tour, the Never Too Late Tour, in 2019. Originally scheduled to begin on 11 January, the tour was postponed indefinitely on 6 September 2018 after Nolan received criticism for bullying fellow Celebrity Big Brother housemate Kim Woodburn on air on an episode of Loose Women.

Guest appearances
On 4 March 2002, Nolan was a panellist on BBC panel game show Never Mind the Buzzcocks. On 25 May, she appeared on An Audience with Brian Conley. Later in 2002, she took part in the first series of the reality television programme Celebrity Fit Club, which followed overweight celebrities as they tried to lose weight for charity.

On 7 January 2003, Nolan appeared in the documentary We Are Family that chronicled the success stories of various musical acts that were made up of family members. In 2002 and 2003, she was a panellist on the chat show The Wright Stuff on Five and guest hosted the show herself in 2013.

On 3 June 2005, Nolan took part in the first series of the ITV daytime programme, Have I Been Here Before? presented by Phillip Schofield, which offered celebrity guests the chance to see if they have lived before, through past life regression. Nolan was said to have been a "nervous 16-year-old debutante".

In September 2006, Nolan returned to Celebrity Fit Club as part of the judging panel in the fourth series. On 6 October she was a guest on The Sharon Osbourne Show and, ten days later, was a guest on the Irish chat show, broadcast and produced by RTÉ, The Podge and Rodge Show.

On 19 September 2008, Nolan appeared on Al Murray's Happy Hour and on 27 September she appeared with her family on the third series of All Star Family Fortunes competing against Barry McGuigan and his family. She has also made guest appearances on Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong (31 October) and The Paul O'Grady Show (18 December), both on Channel 4.

On 13 September 2012, she was a guest panellist on an episode of Celebrity Juice on ITV2.

On 15 February 2013, Nolan stood in for Matthew Wright as host of The Wright Stuff on Channel 5.

Other work
Nolan has a weekly column in Best magazine.

In 2007, Nolan featured in television advertisements for the supermarket chain Iceland, along with her sister Bernie and former Loose Women colleague Kerry Katona. She appeared in further commercials for Iceland during the next couple of years. She was also the new face of Park Christmas Savings and appeared in their television advertisements in December 2010.

In early 2008, she released a DVD, A Brand New You, produced with Rosemary Conley.

Nolan made her pantomime debut in 2013, playing the fairy godmother at the Manchester Opera House, and reprised the role in 2017 at the Bradford Alhambra.

Personal life
Nolan married Shane Richie in 1990. They had two sons before splitting up in 1997 and divorcing in 1999.

She gave birth to a daughter in 2001 and became engaged to her longtime boyfriend Ray Fensome, a musician from Leeds, when he proposed on her 40th birthday in 2005. They married in November 2007, and divorced in 2018. Nolan said that she and Fensome have been able to remain friends. Coleen lives in Cheshire.

Her mother, Maureen, had Alzheimer's. In 2006, Coleen Nolan opened the first Alzheimer's Society information centre on the Fylde coast. Maureen Nolan died on 30 December 2007.

Health
In July 2023, Nolan announced that she had been diagnosed with basal-cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer.

Controversies
Nolan, at various times, has made controversial statements and shared opinions which some have deemed offensive.

In 2005, on Loose Women, she said that if her 16-year-old son passed his exams, she would pay for him to go on a sex trip to Amsterdam and that she had given her fiancé Ray Fensome permission to have a one-night stand during the proposed trip. She gained criticism from Shane Richie, who said he was "disgusted and appalled" by her comments about their son, and that he hoped and assumed "it was said in total jest." Nolan defended her comments, saying that she had told her son that she would pay for a long weekend for him anywhere in the world and that he had mentioned how he and his friends had always wanted to go to Amsterdam to see the red light district. If he planned to go on a trip to Ibiza everybody would have thought that was fine, even though he would probably have unprotected sex with numerous girls.

In the News of the World newspaper, Nolan said, "In an ideal world I'd never condone my son sleeping with hookers, but it's a fact of life that boys of his age have casual sex. So if I'm pushed, I'd rather he does it somewhere well-policed and where the girls have health checks than behind the wall of a club in Ibiza with absolutely no safeguards." In relation to her giving Fensome permission to have a one-night stand, she said: "In all honesty, I couldn't care less [if he does]. What bothers me more is the thought of Ray going into a bar, chatting up a really stunning girl, having sex with her, spending the night and waking up with her the next morning. I couldn't cope with that."

In January 2007, during a debate on Loose Women about gay adoption, Nolan said that gay people should not be allowed to adopt children, followed by her opinion that "there's only so much I want to accept".

In May 2015, she compared gay rights with supporting ISIS, and said that bakery owners should be permitted to discriminate against same-sex couples who wish to buy a wedding cake. Her comments were made on Loose Women after a Belfast bakery company was sued for refusing to bake a cake in support of same-sex marriage. Following the show, some viewers took to Twitter and called for ITV to dismiss Nolan for making the comments.

In August 2018, Nolan, her sister Linda and fellow Loose Women panellists Janet Street-Porter and Linda Robson caused controversy due to their actions in an on-air argument with guest Kim Woodburn, which led to Woodburn walking off set crying after the topic of Woodburn's childhood abuse arose. Woodburn and Coleen Nolan had an onscreen history of a sour relationship due to comments and claims made from both parties in the Celebrity Big Brother house in 2017. Woodburn had been invited to come on the show to reconcile with Nolan, but later claimed her attendance was due to the money offered. The row led to over 8,000 complaints to Ofcom, with the majority accusing Nolan and her fellow panellists of 'bullying Woodburn'. Some of Woodburn's supporters even set up a campaign to have Nolan removed from the Loose Women panel completely. Nolan apologised on This Morning in September 2018. She confirmed that she had taken a break from Loose Women, and that she had also postponed her Never Too Late solo concert tour. Nolan returned to Loose Women in December 2018.

Biography

 * Upfront and Personal: The Autobiography (Pan, 2009) ISBN 9780330506694
 * Mum to Mum: Happy Memories and Honest Advice, From a Real Mum (Sidgwick & Jackson, 2010) ISBN 9780283071225
 * No Regrets (Penguin, 2014) ISBN 9781405917322
 * Live, Laugh, Love. Lessons I’ve Learnt.  (Constable Books, 2021) ISBN 9781408715994

Novels

 * Envy (Pan, 2010) ISBN 9780330516983
 * Denial (Pan, 2011) ISBN 9780330516976

General non-fiction

 * Coleen Nolan's Beauty Secrets: From Drab to Fab in 15 Minutes' (Sidgwick & Jackson, 2010) ISBN 9780283071126

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T2 tanker

The T2 tanker, or T2, was a class of oil tanker constructed and produced in large numbers in the United States during World War II. Only the T3 tankers were larger "navy oilers" of the period. Some 533 T2s were built between 1940 and the end of 1945. They were used to transport fuel oil, diesel fuel, gasoline and sometimes black oil-crude oil. Post war many T2s remained in use; like other hastily built World War II ships pressed into peacetime service, there were safety concerns. As was found during the war, the United States Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation in 1952 stated that in cold weather the ships were prone to metal fatigue cracking, so were "belted" with steel straps. This occurred after two T2s, SS Pendleton and SS Fort Mercer, split in two off Cape Cod within hours of each other. Pendleton's sinking is memorialized in the 2016 film The Finest Hours. Engineering inquiries into the problem suggested the cause was poor welding techniques. It was found the steel (that had been successfully used in riveted ship design) was not well suited for the new wartime welding construction. The high sulfur content made the steel brittle and prone to metal fatigue at lower temperatures.

T2 design
The T2 design was formalized by the United States Maritime Commission as its medium-sized "National Defense tanker", a ship built for merchant service which could be militarized as a fleet auxiliary in time of war. MarCom subsidized the excess cost of naval features beyond normal commercial standards. The T2 was based on two ships built in 1938–1939 by Bethlehem Steel for Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, Mobilfuel and Mobilube, differing from the Mobil ships principally in the installation of more powerful engines for higher speed. Standard T2s were 501 ft in total length, with a beam of 68 ft. Rated at 9,900 tons gross (GRT), with, standard T2s displaced about 21,100 tons. Steam turbines driving a single propeller at 12000 hp delivered a top speed of 16 kn. Six were built for commerce by Bethlehem-Sparrows Point Shipyard in Maryland, only to be taken over by the United States Navy following the Attack on Pearl Harbor as the Kennebec-class oiler.

T2-A design
Keystone Tankships company ordered five tankers in 1940 from Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock of Chester, Pennsylvania, based on the T2 but longer and with increased capacity; Marcom would designate this design T2-A. Bigger but faster, they were 526 ft in total length, displaced about 22,445 tons, and were rated at 10,600 tons gross with — yet they attained a top speed approaching 16+1/2 kn. All five were requisitioned by the Navy during the war and converted to fleet oilers as the Mattaponi class.

T2-SE-A1
By far the most common variety of the T2-type tanker was the T2-SE-A1, another commercial design already being built in 1940 by the Sun Shipbuilding Company for Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. They were 523 ft long, 68 ft abeam, with and. Their (steam) turbo-electric transmission system delivered 6,000 shp, with maximum thrust of 7240 hp, which produced a top-rated speed of about 15 kn with a cruising range of up to 12600 mi. After Pearl Harbor, the United States Maritime Commission ordered this model built en masse to supply U.S. warships already in accelerated production, and provide for the fuel needs of US forces in Europe and the Pacific, as well as to replace the tanker tonnage being lost at an alarming rate to German U-boats. 481 were built in extremely short production times by the Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company of Mobile, Alabama, the Kaiser Company at their Swan Island Yard at Portland, Oregon, the Marinship Corp. of Sausalito, California, and the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Chester, Pennsylvania. During that period, average production time from laying of the keel to "fitting out" was 70 days. The record, however, was held by Marinship, which had SS Huntington Hills ready for sea trials in just 33 days.

T2-SE-A2 and -A3
The T2-SE-A2 variation, built only by Marinship of Sausalito, was nearly identical to the T2-SE-A1 version, except with 10000 hp rather than 7,240. The A3 variation was essentially an A2 built as a naval oiler from the start, rather than converted later as many A2s were. Two of the A2 ships would be converted to the Pasig-class of distilling ships.

T3-S-A1
Despite the confusing T3 designation, the T3-S-A1s built by Bethlehem Sparrows Point for Standard Oil of New Jersey were identical to the original T2s except for having less powerful engines of 7700 hp. Twenty-five of this design were ordered by the Maritime Commission, of which five became Navy oilers as the Chiwawa-class oiler.

T2-A-MC-K
T2-A-MC-K had a M.C. deadweight tonnage of 16,300 and a full load tonnage of 22,445. The dimensions were: Length: 526 ft, Beam: 68 ft and max. draft: 30 ft. Powered by turbine engines rated at 12,000 hp with a top speed of 17.5 kn. The first Navy commissioning was in 1942. could hold 117,400 Bbls of oil and 595,000 gal of gasoline. Crew of 23 officers and 329 enlisted men. Armament: one single 5'/38 cal dual-purpose gun mount, four single 3"/50 cal dual-purpose gun mounts, four twin 40 mm AA gun mounts and twelve single 20 mm AA gun mounts. Example was USS Patuxent (AO-44), a Kennebec-class oiler.

Notable deployments
In 1966, the US Army reactivated 11 T2 tankers and converted them into floating electrical power generation plants and deployed them to Vietnam. The ships' propulsion systems' electrical turbines were used to generate electricity for on-shore use, drawing on fuel from the ships' 150,000-barrel holds. This allowed the ships to produce electricity for two years without refueling for the Vietnam War. USNS French Creek (T-AO-159) was the first to arrive in June 1966, then next was USS Kennebago (AO-81), both installed in Cam Ranh Bay.

Navy service

 * SS Schenectady broke in two in 1943. At 11 pm on 16 January 1943, a few days after completing her sea trials, the 501-foot-long T2 tanker Schenectady broke in two amidships while lying at the outfitting dock in the constructors yard in Portland, Oregon. The temperature of the harbor water was about 39 F and water conditions were still. The air temperature was approximately 26 F and winds were light. The hull failure was sudden and accompanied by a report that was heard a mile away. Schenectady, built by a Kaiser Shipyard, was the first catastrophic T2 hull failure, made all the more impressive by the still conditions under which it occurred. The failure of Schenectady initiated on the deck between two bulkheads and ran down to the keel (see photo). A defective weld was present in a region of stress concentration arising at a design detail point. Poor welding procedures were cited by the committee investigating the failure as contributory; however, at that time the metallurgical problems were not fully understood.
 * SS Caddo (1942) sank on 23 November 1942 after being hit by a torpedo from the U-boat GS U-518 in the North Atlantic while en route to Iceland. She had 8 survivors of the 59 men aboard. Also known as SS Dorchester Heights.
 * SS Esso Gettysburg sank on 10 June 1943 after being hit by a torpedo from GS U-66 (1940) while 90 mi off the Georgia coast. She was bound for Philadelphia with crude oil. She lost 57 of her 72 crew.
 * SS Bloody Marsh sank on 2 July 1943 after being hit by a torpedo from U-66. Bloody Marsh was on her maiden voyage and sank 75 mi east of Savannah, Georgia. She lost three of her 77 crew.
 * US Touchet sank on 3 December 1943 after being hit by a torpedo from GS U-193. She sank in the Gulf of Mexico while en route to New York from Houston, Texas.
 * SS McDowell sank on 16 December 1943 after being hit by a torpedo from GS U-516 off Cuba.
 * SS Fort Lee sank on 2 November 1944 after being hit by a torpedo from GS U-181 in the Indian Ocean.
 * SS Jacksonville sank on 30 August 1944 after being hit by a torpedo off Ireland by GS U-482. She was in convoy CU 36, en route to Loch Ewe, Scotland.
 * USS Ponaganset (AO-86) broke in two, sank at pier in Boston, and was raised and scrapped in 1947.
 * SS Nickajack Trail sank on 30 March 1946 in Eniwetok Harbor at Enewetak Atoll on trip from Port Arthur to Yokohama.
 * SS Glenn's Ferry sank on 6 October 1945 at Batag Island, Philippines on a trip from Los Angeles to Manila after an explosion.

Commercial service

 * SS Bemis Heights sank on 5 November 1948 off Quoin Point, South Africa on trip from Santos to Abadan.
 * SS Pendleton, broke in two on 18 February 1952
 * SS Fort Mercer, broke in two on 18 February 1952
 * SS Salem Maritime exploded on 17 January 1956 while taking on a load of fuel in Lake Charles, Louisiana. 18 crew members on board were killed, including the oncoming and the retiring Master; as well as 3 personnel ashore when the No. 8 port fuel tank exploded in flames. The Salem Maritime and three tank barges in close proximity and shore installations were severely damaged.
 * SS Midway Hills sank 2 October 1961 after she broke in two from an engine room explosion. She sank 110 miles east from Jacksonville, Florida, on a trip from Houston to Perth Amboy, New Jersey.

 * SS Marine Sulphur Queen and its crew of 39 disappeared near the southern coast of Florida after 4 February 1963.
 * SS Bunker Hill sank 6 March 1964 after an explosion, she broke in two near Anacortes, Washington on a trip from Tacoma, Washington to Anacortes.
 * SS White Bird Canyon sank on 17 December 1964 with loss of all the crew in bad weather off Ulak Island, Aleutians on trip from Vancouver to Yokohama.
 * SS Rainier (T2-SE-A1) built by Swan Island. After World War II was sold to private company in 1948. Was converted to bulk cargo ship on 1962, was wrecked and sank on 22 December 1965 off Faja Grande Lighthouse, Flores, Azores as SS Papadiamandis.
 * SS Fort Schuyler (T2-SE-A1) fire started in engine room, then was damaged by explosions and sank on 24 October 1966 off the coast of Morgan City, Louisiana.
 * SS Ninety-Six sank on 3 March 1971 after starting to leak in storm in the Indian Ocean, on trip from Bunbury, Western Australia, to Savannah.
 * SS V. A. Fogg, a T2 tanker, lost 1 February 1972 mistakenly believed to have been lost in the Bermuda Triangle
 * SS Belridge Hills Sank 24 December 1972 in gale storm 800 miles south of Kodiak on trip from Vancouver to Yokohama.
 * SS Marine Floridian, a T2 Tanker that in 1977 collided with a drawbridge in Virginia in a spectacular and costly accident.
 * SS Marine Electric, a T2 tanker that sank in a 1983 storm, the investigation of which led to major reforms in ship inspections and safety standards.
 * Delta Conveyor sank in the Mississippi River adjacent to Delta Bulk Terminal in Convent, Louisiana. Raised in two sections: the bow in early 2003 and the aft section in late 2003.

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Nemone

Nemone Metaxas (born 3 November 1972 in Chester, Cheshire), often billed simply as Nemone, is an English DJ, radio presenter and television presenter/producer. She is also a trained psychotherapist practising in West and Central London. She is an active sportswoman, participating in triathlons and open water swimming and is a former track and field athlete.

Early life and family
Nemone's Greek father's maternal ancestral village is in Sykia (Συκέα) and the family name is Anastasakis.

Broadcasting career
After finishing her degree in psychology at the Victoria University of Manchester in 1995, Nemone worked as a research assistant in a psychiatric ward. She went on to become a receptionist at Kiss 102 in Manchester where she learned production and broadcasting skills in her spare time. In 1997, she became the presenter and producer of The Word radio programme as Kiss 105 went on the air. She subsequently presented Galaxy 102 FM's Morning Show, Network Chill Out Show and The Galaxy Chart for Manchester. Having started on reception, she left as anchor of the Morning Show for a job at BBC Radio 1. Nemone joined BBC Radio 1 in October 2000 initially hosting the Saturday breakfast show. She filled in for Jo Whiley's weekday morning show in 2001 while Whiley was on maternity leave. She then took the weekend afternoon slot which she hosted from Autumn 2001 through to the end of 2003. After a revamp of the Radio 1 daytime schedule from early 2004, Nemone replaced Scott Mills on the overnight show (4am – 7am) broadcasting to audiences in excess of 3 million. She left Radio 1 in September 2005; JK and Joel (Monday-Thursday) and Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates (Friday) took over her early morning slot.

Nemone joined BBC Radio 6 Music on 3 October 2005, she began presenting the Dream Ticket show as well as filling in on 6 Music's drive time show when Steve Lamacq was away. Nemone took over Vic McGlynn's weekday lunchtime show, weekdays in the 3 – 4pm slot on 4 September 2006. She could also be heard covering various shows on BBC Radio 2. Cerys Matthews filled in for her after she began six months maternity leave on 6 July 2009. After Matthews herself went on maternity leave on 24 November, the show was presented by either Chris Hawkins or Andrew Collins. In July 2009, Nemone gave birth to a baby girl and returned to the station on 1 February 2010.

When pregnant with her second child in 2011, Nemone moved from weekdays taking over the weekend breakfast show. After a short maternity leave she returned, steering it to record RAJAR figures. The requirement to take the show to Media City in Salford meant Nemone passing on the opportunity of returning to Manchester; electing to stay in London where she had established her young family.

In April 2013 Nemone fulfilled a lifelong ambition to curate a specialist dance and electronic music show on BBC Radio 6 Music – Nemone's Electric Ladyland, later The 6 Mix with Nemone. Designing her own show, she has been able to draw on her passion for electronic music, especially championing female DJs, producers and artists like Róisín Murphy, Anna Meredith, Blessed Madonna, Jayda G, Deena Abdelwahed, Maya Jane Coles, Ellen Allien, Sister Bliss, Francesca Lombardo, B Traits, Peggy Gou, Park Hye Jin, Mary Epworth, Laura.

"The 6 Mix with Nemone" ended in March 2021 and she presented her final show on 27 March 2021.

Nemone's signature musical taste is for quirky vocal samples and wonky beats, alongside funky edged deeper house and techno. She DJs at more leftfield, boutique festivals, recently headlining Soul Circus Yoga Festival in the Cotswolds, alongside DJ Yoda and Fatboy Slim. At Beatherder in Clitheroe she played alongside school friends and former band mates Groove Armada and her pals Utah Saints. She took Dusky and Luke Solomon to Bestival with her to play for her Electric Ladyland Love Show and Simian Mobile Disco joined her at Green Man Festival.

Nemone has also curated 6 Music Festival Lates gigs over the last decade sharing the decks with Daniel Avery, Rob Da Bank, Richy Ahmed, Hercules and Love Affair’s Andy Butler, Julio Bashmore, Nightwave, Rebecca Vasmant, Soulwax, Erol Alkan, Max Cooper, Breakwave, Norman Jay, DJ Yoda, Kelly Lee Owens. The last 6 Mix with Nemone was broadcast on 27 March 2021.

Nemone has broadcast on BBC Radio 4, appearing on A Good Read and co-hosting Saturday Live with the Reverend Richard Coles.

Nemone participated with her daughter in the Bumps & Babies Mile in Battersea Park for Sport Relief 2010 along with Denise Van Outen, Carly Cole, Gail Emms, Natasha Kaplinsky and Kim Medcalf.

Psychotherapy career
Always having the intention to build on the psychology degree she gained as an undergraduate in Manchester, Nemone went back to university, studying part-time while broadcasting weekly. Six years later she gained her MA in Psychotherapy and Counselling, earning a distinction in her research project on sibling relationships and sibling death.

Alongside broadcasting and DJing, Nemone is a qualified integrative psychotherapist. She sees clients privately in both Central and West London and increasingly has international clients, whom she sees via videoconferencing. She has been a huge advocate for breathing and grounding exercises; during the COVID pandemic producing her own 15-minute mid-afternoon meditations to help people cope in isolation. She is also a massive proponent of the wellbeing effects of wild swimming having swum herself outdoors in Capri, Menorca, Skopelos, the Oman fjords, West Wittering, and close to home in London.

Television career
Nemone co-hosted the BBC One television programme 101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow alongside Steve Jones. She was seen describing the method of eviction from the game show and then interviewing the losing contestants.

Nemone was one of the contestants on Celebrity Mastermind aired on 20 August 2017 on BBC One. Her specialist subject was the children's books of Roald Dahl, and she came 2nd in the show.

Also, on screen, Nemone has hosted the X Games in Barcelona and Ski Sunday in Livigno for the television show Grandstand.

Musical career
Nemone is an accomplished musician. She was singer and saxophonist in a funk band – other members being Tom Findlay (who went on to form Groove Armada), Andy Spence (from New Young Pony Club), and Perrier Award-winning comedian Dan Antopolski.

Athletic career
Aside from radio and TV broadcasting and psychotherapy work, Nemone is also a keen athlete. Nemone is a former champion 400 metres runner. In 1999 she won the Greater Manchester Championships. In 2000 she qualified for the British Championships and competed in the 400m British Olympic trials.

Nemone decided to bid to run for the Greek Olympic team for the 2004 Summer Olympics. Her training was filmed for the BBC Three television programme My Big Fat Greek Olympic Dream. She has competed in triathlons, most notably finishing in the top 20 amateur women in the 2006 London Triathlon.

She is a keen open water swimmer, having participated in swim treks in Capri, Menorca, the Greek Islands, the Oman fjords as well as the South East of the UK. She has a passion for additional outdoor-based sports, snowboarding and surfing.

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 * Could someone specify whether it belongs to the Inner or the Outer West MP languages? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.77.16.153 (talk) 18:21, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

Gayo is old malay?
refer to this publication -> Gayo Language is Old Malay (A Dialectology Study: The Language Change) any thought? Ckfasdf (talk) 01:53, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
 * I strongly recommend not to include this piece in the article. It makes an unfounded equation of Gayo with "Old Malay" and ends with a quantitive analysis which only includes Gayo and "New Malay" (= Standard Malay = Indonesian). Little can be learned from it, unless more lects were included. The conclusion that "it is very possible that Gayo’s ancestors are also the ancestors for Achinese, Batak, Minangkabau, New Malay ad other tribes among Sumatra island" is trivial, since all are Austronesian-speaking peoples. The statement could be permutated ad lib (e.g. "Achinese’s ancestors are also the ancestors for ..."). I think will agree. –Austronesier (talk) 17:21, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

This is r/badlinguistics stuff LOL. The authors might have misunderstood the term "Old Malay"; I guess they think of it as a synonym for "a pre-Malay non-Malay language of Sumatra which ancestor probably had been spoken there before Malay" (?). Eades' Gayo grammar cited in "Further reading" is open access and good enough if you want to use it to develop the article.  Masjawad99  💬 22:19, 14 January 2020 (UTC)

 * LOL... noted Ckfasdf (talk) 04:36, 15 January 2020 (UTC)

Writing system?
The image on the language's infobox shows the language's native script (?) I'm struggling to find any information about it, and everything I have been able to find only shows the language being written in latin, like this this one from omniglot Can anybody find information about it? Svenard (talk) 18:05, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
 * As a first measure, I will remove the image, since it is unsourced and not exactly a gem. As for the script, you won't find anything about it before 2017. In 2017, a Gayo "researcher" came forward claiming to have discovered a manuscript in a hitherto unknown script that – according to him – has been in his family's possession for generations and which contains text written in a native script he calls rasi Gayo. You can search for "aksara Gayo" in Google and will find a few sources about it (mostly press reports). While it is not entirely impossible that a hidden literary tradition might have escaped the attention of Indonesian and foreign researchers in the past, I consider it highly implausible. Also, the sources (reporting about local seminars and press conferences) make some outlandish claims like rasi Gayo being the oldest script in Sumatra and possibly being related to ancient Greek stenography. Time will tell whether it is a hoax or really reflects an obscure but genuine literary tradition. For the time being, especially since peer-reviewed academic sources are entirely lacking, any mention of it in this article is totally undue. –Austronesier (talk) 18:53, 26 May 2023 (UTC)

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