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Amir Derakh

Amir Davidson, professionally known as Amir Derakh, is an American musician and record producer. He is currently the guitarist and the synthesizer player for the band Julien-K, and was the guitarist for the band Dead by Sunrise. He was the g-synth player in the rock band Orgy, and has also played guitar in the bands Rough Cutt and Jailhouse.

Career
After graduating in 1981 from Mission Bay High School in San Diego, California, Derakh played lead guitar for local bands Armed & Ready and Emerald. He moved to Los Angeles to replace Craig Goldy in Rough Cutt. He made a guest appearance on Crazy Town's album, The Gift of Game. Julien-K released a remix of Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington's solo song "Morning After" which appeared exclusively on the soundtrack for the 2006 film, Underworld: Evolution. Derakh describes the sound of Julien-K as Depeche Mode meets Nine Inch Nails.

Derakh performed backing for Bennington when he performed the song "Let Down" during 2005's ReAct Now: Music & Relief televised concert. He also made an appearance in the 2003 version of the film Freaky Friday and has worked with many other popular bands, including Coal Chamber, Spineshank, Danzig, the eels, Red Tape, Mumiy Troll and Estados Alterados.

Derakh owns two highly successful restaurants in Orange County, California. 2145 & Lola Gaspar, plus a recording & mixing studio in Long Beach, California.

Personal life

Derakh is of Iranian, Irish, Austrian, Hungarian, and Czechoslovakian ancestry. He attended UCLA and earned his certificate in producing/engineering.

Derakh is an avid guitar designer. He has worked with Grover Jackson of Jackson Guitars and has personally designed several of the guitars he currently plays (the most famous being The Disruptor). One of his motivations for designing his own guitars is his desire to create something unique yet functional, and having the public wonder "Wow, what is that guy playing?" He also designed a signature model for Yamaha called the AES-AD6 which was made in a very limited factory run and is highly collectable.

Derakh has a son named Michael Melody-Davidson.

According to Metal Sludge, his stage name is meant to imply the phrase "I'm Here to Rock", with the spelling of the last name as a tribute to his Iranian heritage.

Discography

 * "Slaves to Humanity" – Battleground, "Behind My Back", "Riot Addict", "I Love It" – producer/engineer/mixer – 2020
 * "The Intemperate Sons" – Running Man, "Believe", "Wading in the Gray", "Going Crazy", "Remission" – mixer – 2020
 * "Ghostfeeder" – Invited to the Murder – mixer – 2020
 * "Hospital Lies" – Ultraviolet – mixer – 2020
 * Julien-K – Harmonic Disruptor – producer/engineer/mixer – 2019
 * "By An Ion" – Shadow Knife, "Faces" – mixer – 2019
 * "Ghostfeeder" – Star Beast – mixer/addl. production – 2018
 * "Estados Alterados" – Lumisphera – producer/engineer/mixer – 2018
 * Julien-K – Time Capsule – A Future Retrospective – producer/engineer/mixer – 2018
 * "Grey Saints" – Steam Catcher", "Crash – producer / engineer / mixer – 2017
 * "Lovelesslust" – Fashion – producer/engineer/mixer – 2017
 * Julien-K – California Noir, Chapter Two – Nightlife In Neon – producer/engineer/mixer – 2016
 * "Fourwaycross" – Discipline – mixer – 2016
 *  Beta Test – Movie Score/Soundtrack – 2016
 * "Lovelesslust" – The Car Crash That Ended Her Life Came as No Surprise – mixer – 2016
 * Mumiy Troll – Malibu Alibi – co-producer/engineer/mixer – various tracks – 2016
 * Julien-K – California Noir, Chapter One – Analog Beaches & Digital Cities – producer/engineer/mixer – 2015
 * Mumiy Troll – Pirate Copies – co-producer/engineer/mixer – various tracks – 2015 - #1 Russian Album
 * "The Crying Spell" – Never Again – mixer – 2015
 * "Matt's Chance" – Movie Score/Soundtrack – 2014
 * Mumiy Troll – SOS Matrosu – co-producer/engineer/mixer/remixer – various tracks – 2013 - #1 Russian Album
 * Julien-K – We're Here With You – producer/engineer – 2012
 * Sonic Generations Original Soundtrack: Blue Blur – Soundtrack – producer/engineer/mixer for Circuit Freq – Sega – 2011
 * True Colors: The Best of Sonic the Hedgehog Part 2 – Soundtrack – producer/engineer/mixer for Julien-K – Sega – 2009
 * Dead by Sunrise – Out of Ashes – pre-production and engineering – Warner Bros. - 2009
 * Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (video game) – producer/engineer/mixer for Julien-K score – Activision – 2009
 * Julien-K – Death to Analog – producer/engineer/mixer – 2009
 * Transformers – soundtrack – producer/engineer for Julien-K – Warner Bros. - 2007
 * Underworld: Evolution – soundtrack – producer/engineer/mixer for Chester Bennington vs. Julien-K – Sony – 2007
 * Shadow the Hedgehog – soundtrack – producer/engineer/mixer for Julien-K – Sega – 2005
 * Orgy – Punk Statik Paranoia – co-producer/engineer/mixer – D1 – 2004
 * Red Tape – Radioactivist – producer/mixer – roadrunner – 2004
 * Sonic Heroes – Soundtrack – producer/engineer/mixer for Julien-K – Sega – 2004
 * Freaky Friday – Soundtrack – producer/engineer for Halo Friendlies – Hollywood – 2003 – Gold
 * Coal Chamber- Giving the Devil His Due – engineer/mixer – Roadrunner -2003
 * Coal Chamber – Dark Days – pre-production & song arrangements – Roadrunner – 2002
 * Valentine – pre-production & engineering – Warner Bros. - 2001
 * Zoolander – Soundtrack – co-producer/engineer/mixer for Orgy – Hollywood – 2001
 * Spineshank – The Height of Callousness – pre-production & song arrangements – Roadrunner – 2000 – Grammy Award Nominated
 * Scream 3 – Soundtrack – remixer for Orgy – Wind-Up – 2000 – Gold
 * Orgy – Vapor Transmission – co-producer/engineer – Reprise – 2000 – Gold
 * Danzig – Satan's Child – mixer – E-Magine – 1999
 * Coal Chamber – Chamber Music – mixer – Roadrunner – 1999
 * Spineshank – Strictly Diesel – producer/engineer/mixer – Roadrunner – 1998
 * Orgy – Candyass – co-producer/engineer – Reprise – 1998 – Platinum
 * Strangeland – soundtrack – mixer for Coal Chamber – TVT – 1998
 * Bride of Chucky – soundtrack – mixer for Coal Chamber – CMC – 1998
 * Rod Stewart tribute album – Forever Mod – Portrait of a Storyteller – producer/engineer/mixer/arranger – DeRock – 1997
 * Coal Chamber – Coal Chamber – engineer/mixer – Roadrunner – 1997 – Gold
 * Eels – Beautiful Freak – engineer – DreamWorks – 1996 – Gold – Grammy Award Nominated

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Talk:Romanian ethnic minority parties

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Not my native language, but shouldn't Evreiesti be Evreieşti? (I'm not sure, because I know the adjective is evriesc). -- Jmabel | Talk 01:29, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * I see this is now fixed, thanks. -- Jmabel | Talk 16:42, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

 * No mention about the small Franco-descended people, the Walsers of French-Swiss ancestry from Valais, Switzerland moved into Wallachia during the Austro-Hungarian empire era (late 1800's) to cultivate and develop high-quality wines across Hungary and Romania, one of them is the famed Tokay wines prized by both the Hapsburgs and Romanov families in Russia. + 71.102.32.144 (talk) 19:05, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

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Vicki Lewis

Vicki Lewis (born March 17, 1960 ) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Beth in the NBC sitcom NewsRadio. She is also well known for her roles as Deb and Flo in Finding Nemo and Finding Dory, April Smuntz in Mouse Hunt, and Dr. Elsie Chapman in Godzilla. Additionally, she starred as Headmistress Knightslinger in Upside-Down Magic on Disney Channel.

Early life and education
Lewis was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, the daughter of Jim and Marlene Lewis —the former an air traffic supervisor, the latter a nursing administrator. She also has a sister, Denise.

After graduating from Anderson High School in Cincinnati in 1978, she studied musical theater at the University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music. After receiving her diploma she moved to New York City. She proceeded to work in various on and off-Broadway shows.

Career
Lewis's film appearances include roles in Finding Nemo, Finding Dory, Mouse Hunt, Godzilla, Pushing Tin, 2007's California Dreaming with NewsRadio co-star Dave Foley, and 2010's Den Brother. On television, Lewis starred for five seasons on the NBC sitcom NewsRadio, followed by Three Sisters and the WB animated comedy Mission Hill.

She made guest appearances on Seinfeld (in the episodes "The Secretary" and "The Race") and Murphy Brown. In a recurring role on Home Improvement, she played Maureen Binford, producer of the show-within-a-show Tool Time. On How I Met Your Mother, she had the recurring role of Lily Aldrin's doctor, "Dr. Sonya".

She appeared on Caroline in the City, The Norm Show, Grace Under Fire, Phenom and The 5 Mrs. Buchanans. More recently, she made guest appearances on Surviving Suburbia, ABC's Grey's Anatomy, Disney Channel's Sonny with a Chance as Ms. Bitterman, the social worker on The Middle, and FX's Dirt. She recurred as Erica on Modern Family, as Mrs. Chadwick in Making History, and Dr. Chapman in Still The King, Miss Moffett in Angie Tribeca, and Marie Mortel in The Blacklist.

Aside from Mission Hill, her voice acting career includes characters in Justice League Heroes, Rugrats Pre-School Daze, King of the Hill, Hercules: The Animated Series, An Extremely Goofy Movie, Finding Nemo, Phineas and Ferb, and Justice League: The New Frontier. Most recently, she voiced Eve in the 2010 film Alpha and Omega and its sequel.

On stage, Lewis has appeared in City of Angels and My One and Only in Los Angeles, and has performed as a soloist with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. Her Broadway credits include I Can Get It For You Wholesale, Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?, Snoopy!!! The Musical, Damn Yankees, Chicago, The Crucible, and she was the final actress to play Countess Lily in Anastasia. She also appeared with Peter Gallagher and Patti LuPone in Pal Joey at the New York City Center. Lewis won the 2007 Ovation Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for the world premiere of Michael John LaChiusa's Hotel C'est L'amour.

She was part of the one-night celebrity-performed staging of Howard Ashman's unproduced musical Dreamstuff. The musical was re-imagined by Ashman's partners Marsha Malamet and Dennis Green and performed one night only at Los Angeles's Hayworth Theatre as part of the Bruno Kirby celebrity reading series.

Her debut solo album East of Midnight was released in May 2010. The eclectic rock album has songs penned by Lewis as well as three cover songs. Lewis considered the writing to be "dauntingly destructive and spiritually bereft. Locked in my office in Malibu, California I wrote what would become a self-fulfilling prophecy – it would also prove to be the making of me."

In 2018, she starred on Broadway as Countess Lily in Anastasia, directed by Darko Tresnik. She played Ms. Winx/Mrs. Brown/Kyrie/Jessamyn Jacobs/Lady in Waiting in Between the Lines Off-Broadway in 2022.

Personal life
Lewis was in a long-term relationship with Nick Nolte. The two met during the filming of I'll Do Anything. She is married to sound designer Philip G. Allen.

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Talk:St. Mark's School of Texas

Missing the important stuff
The article is missing some important things. It's a college-preparatory school, so where did the recent students decide to go to college? How many made it into the Ivy league and Stanford/Caltech/MIT? What Advanced placement courses are offered, and how many students take them? What math courses are offered?

Presumably parents and prospective students look at the page, and they get immediately bogged down with useless information on history and athletic victories from 20 years ago.

108.45.80.41 (talk) 05:55, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

Alumni
Yorke, Baker, van dorn, and bryson all seem to be made up.

I seriously doubt the guy from radiohead in Britain went to this school: Thom Yorke. Can anyone confirm this?

I'm currently a student at St. Mark's, and I can assure you Thom Yorke did not go there. jodan2007

Owen Wilson got deleted from this list along the way, but he did attend until he was expelled. This ranks him as an alumnus, and he is one whose attendance at the school has had a clear impact on his career (his early work was clearly based on his experience at the school).

Does Robert Hoffman rate as "famous?" prior to becoming a successful businessman and civic leader in Dallas (he ran Coca Cola Bottling Southwest for something like 25 years, he co-founded the Harvard Lampoon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Lampoon

Boz Scaggs definitely attended St. Marks. Here's a link (http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:kx5zUz0HS-IJ:musicmoz.org/Bands_and_Artists/S/Scaggs,_Boz/Biographies/+boz+scaggs+biography+%22st.+marks%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8)

As requested, quick google searches turn up sources for alumni: --Laura Scudder | Talk 01:29, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * David Laney
 * Steve Miller
 * Tommy Lee Jones
 * Douglas St. Clair Smith, aka Ivan Stang
 * Luke Wilson
 * Owen Wilson

I went back in the history of this article and found and readded a few more alumni who were deleted along the way. This should solve any problems in this respect. Monsieur Bartolomeo 19:37, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

ello yall. my dad [Eric Miller Reeves] attended St. Marks [wrestler in high school with Doug Mankoff]. while he is not famous, he was a member of the North Carolina General Assembly from 1996 to 2004ish. he also won the Texas State Championship for his weight class while attending St. Marks.Twiggythealchemist 03:01, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Some joker keeps adding the following "Walter 'Tres' Francis Evans III '03. Venture Capitalist, Maxim Magazine's Millionaire under 30 of the Year." Please provide a source (I can't find one). Until then, I am going to keep deleting it. Whr4th (talk) 03:20, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Paul Wylie is listed as an alumnus from 1987; I was in that class from 1979 through 1987 (fifth through twelfth grades) and I can attest that he wasn’t in my class. His separate entry states that he was born in 1964, which would have placed him in the class of 1982 had he graduated. His bio also states that he moved out of state at age eleven, so he would not have attended past sixth grade.

However, the 1987 entries for Charlie Olivier and Owen Wilson are correct—although Owen was expelled in 8th grade for cheating on a math test (geometry I believe? This is not libel as he has been public about this and it is indicated in his own Wiki bio). Charlie joined our class in 7th grade and graduated with us. Alanrobts (talk) 15:51, 9 May 2023 (UTC)

Boosterism and POV
I made an attempt to fix the POV and boosterism that was rampant in this article. Make sure to read Wikipedia's Point of View Policy before writing.

maybe you should read it, there's nothing wrong with noting commonly attended colleges --68.95.227.250 02:50, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

''Indeed, it is a COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL. The MOST IMPORTANT FEATURE is therefore what colleges the kids go to.'' 108.45.80.41 (talk) 06:21, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

However, the previous article stated that the "curriculum was one of the most diverse in the state." Is there a news source for this? If there is, then it's fine to put up. Next, the previous article did not list commonly attended colleges. The paragraph was:

"In recent years, the most frequently attended colleges have been Harvard, Duke, Dartmouth, Emory, Brown, Georgetown, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, University of Chicago, and the University of Texas at Austin."

I followed the link, and these were not listed as the "most frequently attended colleges," just as colleges that alumni attended. Again, if you have a source that says that these are the most frequently attended colleges, it's okay. But unsourced statements arent'.Bwabes

http://www.smtexas.org/campus/counseling/matriculation.asp On that page, another link appears that gives the breakdown for the colleges that alumni have attended for the past five years.

 * So from that, between 2000 and 2002 the top two destinations for grads were UT and U Penn. The next at 11 students were Yale, Vanderbilt, Stanford, NYU, and Harvard.  Between 1992 and 2002 the top 20 in order were:
 * UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN
 * STANFORD UNIVERSITY
 * EMORY UNIVERSITY
 * VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
 * SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY
 * DUKE UNIVERSITY
 * UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
 * HARVARD UNIVERSITY
 * TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY
 * UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-AUSTIN-PLANII
 * PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
 * UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
 * GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
 * RICE UNIVERSITY
 * TULANE UNIVERSITY
 * YALE UNIVERSITY
 * CORNELL UNIVERSITY
 * NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
 * TRINITY UNIVERSITY
 * WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
 * So the sentence in question is a bit misrepresenting, but it seems to me that Bwabes is still being rather over-enthusiastic in interpreting NPOV. — Laura Scudder ☎ 21:12, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

You're right. If someone wants to put back up a list of the first few, that seems okay. Bwabes 23:19, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

well 11 students is about 10% of the senior class....

Infobox
I added Template:Infobox School2 to the page. This is the first page to use that template.

 * Also I found a picture of the crest. madh 22:23, September 10, 2005 (UTC)

Notable Alumni
--Mcdonaldlyle 20:46, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Dr. Alan Stern '75, NASA scientist and head of the New Horizons mission to Pluto

This should be added to the Notable Alumni section as soon as the page is unlocked for editing.

GA Review
Hey, saw this on WP:GAC. I'd like to give the article writers some suggestions on how to improve it, as althoguh it's not GA quality, the article can be improved to it (hopefully) relatively easily. This has potential, but it's not ready there yet.-- Wizardman 00:36, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) The article must be expanded per WP:LEAD.
 * 2) There is no information on the academics or any description of the school buildign itself.
 * 3) The external links are good, but it you can turn them into references per, that would be great.

Neutral Point of View
While I'm sure the school that this article discusses is a fine school, the article should not read like a recruiting brochure. Many of the sections need to be re-written to simply convey the verifiable facts about the school. 219.25.41.201 (talk) 11:14, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

the first paragraph seems to have been rewritten by someone in the school administration. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.251.214.120 (talk) 20:12, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Years later, the same issues persist. Will copyedit soon. 76.248.151.159 (talk) 16:22, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I have replaced  with the more specific tag. William Avery (talk) 09:29, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

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Sports
I feel the huge charts of the sports records makes the overall article too slanted towards varsity sports, which is not an even an academic activity. That's a lot of size devoted to something which isn't that important. Furthermore, more students take PE classes than play varsity (and this is 100% true in the first 8 years), but there is almost no information about the PE program.

People who care about high school sports are going to read about big public high schools, anyway. It is more interesting to see what colleges the students get into for academic reasons than what sports teams kids will play in for a few years before it's all forgotten in the real world.

108.45.80.41 (talk) 04:34, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

Sections should be reordered by importance
Someone should go through and reorder the sections of the article. The extensive section on history (or trivia?) really should go at the end. Most users of the article are probably not trying to determine what SM was back in 1906, and most graduates of the school in the last 40 years probably don't want to remember the details. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.45.80.41 (talk) 05:21, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

Similarly, the section on traditions appears to early in the article. The section on "the school today" is perhaps too loaded with figures of who gave how many millions and when. I'm not saying that information should be removed, but maybe stuff into a section on benefactors, endowment, and construction (or the like).

108.45.80.41 (talk) 05:25, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

Academics should be up front or as the second section.

108.45.80.41 (talk) 05:27, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

 * It is worth looking at school articles which are Featured-standard articles. There are very few, which is partly because they have been through a rigorous process of review and assessment. WP:WikiProject Schools is where they are. Most of these start with a detailed History section as their first section.

 * The History section of this article could still be further improved to make it read better and provide more relevance for the reader, however.

 * As an encyclopedia, Wikipedia should cover not just what is important about the school right now, but everything important about the school and its antecedents (if not covered elsewhere in Wikipedia) as a whole. Of course, this is not what current or prospective parents or students, or even alumni, would find most interesting, but their specific needs are better served by the school's own website or prospectus, or school comparison websites or official data (which Wikipedia can also mention or link to).

 * I agree that having "the school today" dominated by recent donors and constructions is not good. Some of this material -- where donations or constructions significantly changed the school -- could perhaps be moved up into the History section. Some might be better staying in The School Today, some might be removed.

 * Some of the Traditions section is about the school as it is today, and these sections might be merged, at least partly.

 * Academics is indeed important because it is the most significant activity of a school of this nature, however History should still come first. But by writing a proper WP:LEDE for this article, replacing the single sentence it has at the moment, would mention academics for the first time in the lede, thus giving it more appropriate prominence. MPS1992 (talk) 23:37, 30 April 2017 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 14 November 2018
change the motto from "courage and honor" to "boys will be boys" 2600:1700:2C0:F5F0:95DC:30EB:2714:3AEE (talk) 01:36, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. DannyS712 (talk) 01:56, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

National spotlight
I have my doubts about the WP:PROPORTION suitability of this entire section, but first I'd like to discuss the justification for including the following material in the "National spotlight" section:

This material was added by user:Dallasdudette in 2018 and has not been changed (aside from the removal of the leading mention of the Me Too movement by user:Botanicalgardens500 in 2021 ) since. I removed it as having a "pretty tenuous connection" and it was restored as having "received significant attention" by user:Gtag10.

The incident may have received attention, but how much of this supposed "National spotlight" was on St. Marks? They hired someone with excellent references, who worked for them without incident for 28 years until his retirement. They were not informed of any accusations until after his retirement. A Dallas reporter is unhappy with St. Marks' response to his requests for more information.

Furthermore, our wording appears to be a BLP violation. The person in question has not "admitted to making sexual advances towards an underage student." The sources we use say he acknowledged "an isolated incident" but "denied the abuse allegations". Meters (talk) 05:37, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

 * It doesn't matter if St. Mark's is at fault, this still received significant media attention. The spotlight was on St. Mark's, as well as PEA and Trinity for hiring the man.
 * I do agree on the BLP part. Gtag10 (talk) 07:26, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

 * Seems to me the spotlight was diffused among all three schools, and that the link to St. Mark's itself is tenuous.  signed, Willondon (talk)  15:28, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I've removed Kurt Eichenwald, Ned Price, and Emmanuel Acho since their entries have absolutely nothing to do with the school. We don't list events in a school's article simply because alumni were involved. For some reason Price had been removed form the list of alumni so I restored him. The sole remaining entry in the spotlight section is now Richard B. Spencer, which I have left because at least it discusses alumni reaction to him. I won't argue with anyone who thinks that one should go too. Meters (talk) 19:50, 8 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I think Spencer’s inclusion is highly specious, as his actions also had nothing to do with St. Mark’s. He is already listed in the “notable people” section, and the paragraph about “national spotlight” for the school is arguably only known by those familiar with the school itself, for prurient interests. I’m deleting it. Alanrobts (talk) 15:56, 9 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I attempted to delete it consistent with similar edits regarding Henry Ploegstra’s similarly deleted section, but an “occasional editor” who apparently doesn’t bother with group consciousness discussions on talk pages unceremoniously put it back, with the argument that Spencer’s attendance was “widely reported in the press”. Someone needs to find me a hundred people in New York City or Paducah, Kentucky who have ever heard of St. Mark’s, and then I’ll buy that this info is of sufficient interest to the general population. I suspect that the editor involved has personal motivations to revert my edit within an hour of my touching the page. Alanrobts (talk) 01:05, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Contrary to your talk page statement, zero people agreed with you about Richard Spencer. His actions did receive national attention, from newspapers such as the Washington Post and the Atlantic, with even more specific articles about the administration in local newspapers. It is clear Spencer's ties to St. Mark's have received national attention. This is different than the previous discussion. You then proceeded to make ad hominin attacks, calling me an "occasional editor". I did not initially see the talk page entry you made, but it does not create consensus or anything of the sort. The reason I quickly edited the article was because it was on my watchlist. I am glad you stated your COI on my talk page, but please do not misrepresent events. I will wait for input from other editors before another revert. Gtag10 (talk) 01:48, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I've restored the material in question pending any talk page consensus to remove it. It has been in the article for years, and should remain as the status quo. As Gtag10 points out, there is no consensus as yet for its removal. Meters (talk) 06:07, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

 * It has been on the page for years only through someone’s sole decision, at the moment that prurient interest in this topic peaked, that it was germane to the school—and that doesn’t mean it’s appropriate to keep it. I’m sure it’s provided a number of folks with delicious schadenfreude, but the story is long past relevant at this point, and the sources that reported on this spurious connection between Spencer and St. Mark’s are specious themselves.

 * Several before me on this talk page have debated the inclusion of similar tabloid interest entries, such as Henry Ploegstra’s section, and the final (appropriate) decision was that it should be excised, as St. Mark’s had nothing to do with Ploegstra’s actions—just as it had nothing to do with Spencer’s. And as I said, Spencer is already mentioned in the notable alumni section—which should be sufficient enough to reference his exposure as a St. Mark’s graduate in the media.

 * Although I attended St. Mark’s from 1979 until 1987, I have no bias towards preserving the integrity of the school—I’m not going to get into my personal feelings about my experience, but let’s just say that I haven’t been a contributor to solicitations for alumni donations. However I can speak from experience that nothing I was exposed to there had any fascist influences, and I know of no one affiliated with the school who isn’t horrified by Spencer’s actions.

 * If it was appropriate to invoke secondary education institutions in scandalous behaviors such as Spencer’s, then every criminal and reprobate in the country would have lengthy paragraphs on their own high school’s wiki pages tarnishing them with similar tabloid drama. Has Wikipedia become a news aggregator for TMZ and the New York Post now?

 * This article is supposed to educate people from an unbiased perspective about the school—there have likely been many reprehensible folks who have attended St. Mark’s, along with every other high school in the country, and no one is arguing that we should litter their wiki pages with their stories to properly characterize those school’s histories, right? Exactly why is St. Mark’s a special case in this instance? Think in encyclopedic terms—how is creating an entire section to emphasize this glancing and salacious connection NOT biased?

 * My purposes, which were preceded by another prominent editor’s argument for the speciousness of Spencer’s entry, were rigorously aligned with Wikipedia’s BLE guidelines— which @Gtag10 has already been called out for violating on this page previously. His edits were removed then, and there were no recriminations or edit wars over that issue. You can also scroll up to see his prior argument for keeping this section awhile ago, and his position was overruled by three subsequent editors, including myself.

 * Given that s(he) has also raised a similar righteously indignant (and ignored) hissy fit on the Lamplighter School Wikipedia talk page (a grade school attended by many St. Mark’s graduates), I’m left with the persuasive conclusion that there is some tragic preoccupation going on here with drawing mustaches on the pages of Dallas area private educational institutions en masse, which frankly I find extraordinarily puerile and tedious.

 * But honestly, since I actually have managed to move on emotionally from my high school experience, I don’t feel strongly enough to devote any more effort to this bizarre argument—if you prefer to enable efforts to utilize Wikipedia as a form of psychological projection for someone seeking some sort of pathological vendetta, instead of adhering to its thoughtfully established guidelines and referring this troll to a therapist, then by all means proceed. It’s just high school folks, might be time to get over it. Alanrobts (talk) 23:44, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I'll probably respond to the pertinent information about Richard Spencer soon, but
 * If you think the article is accusing St. Mark's of being fascist, you should edit the article in a way that conforms to Wikipedia's standards, not simply delete all information.
 * It's not appropriate to blame secondary school's for their students actions, but in this case, Spencer's high school received lots of media attention, much of which is not from tabloids as you claim. The Washington Post is not a tabloid. The connection between St. Mark's and Spencer is widely noted.
 * One thing I've noticed, especially among private schools, is likely COI editing. Specifically for my Lamplighter edits, I noticed that an IP address added massive amounts of info in an advertising tone. This is pretty common among schools and especially private schools that have to compete for students. I left a note on the talk page, noting the advertising tone, but not the COI allegations. I think the St. Mark's article is probably similar.
 * I'm not a troll, I am attempting to make constructive edits. And although I do have ties to SM, I have never attended St. Mark's nor Lamplighter, and am currently a high school student in a different state entirely. You are continuously making ad hominin attacks that aren't true. Gtag10 (talk) 04:08, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

Fencing state champions?
Fencing is not a UIL sport in Texas. There are no high school state championships. St Marks does offer fencing, but it's in pursuit of USFA fencing goals like JOs and age group USFA events. I knew the fencing coach in the 90s. His name was Waldek Czaja. He was an excellent coach, but there was no such thing as a state championship then, I have no idea what the St Marks web site is on about. Two St Marks kids made the final eight of JMS in the mid-90s, that was what the team and coach were focused on.

I'm not going to edit it because it's linked to a cite on the St Marks page, but it's not correct. I don't know what the wikipedia protocol is here, but for those of you who know more about this than I do, if anyone cares, it's not true. 2600:1700:51C0:B370:3CB2:890D:BBF:DC65 (talk) 04:32, 8 December 2023 (UTC)

Boosterism
I removed the boosterism tag. I reviewed the article and didn't find unsubstantiated assertions--if there are pieces that are problematic, can someone point them out? Most of the details that I have added over the years are positive, but I've also added bits about a neoNazi and a sex abuser, which wouldn't generally be on a school fan site.

I've looked for articles more critical of the school but haven't found anything--for example, I have heard that the school has become crazily difficult over the years, but no one is writing about that, and nobody outside the school cares. I've also tried to delete things that don't have some national relevance (no high school is all that relevant nationally, but this school does win a lot of national competitions, which makes it somewhat unusual). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dallasdudette (talk • contribs) 22 May 2024 (UTC)

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Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center

The Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center (EAMC) is a 93-bed medical treatment facility located on Fort Eisenhower, GA, located near Augusta, Georgia that previously served as the headquarters of the Army's Southeast Regional Medical Command (SERMC). SERMC oversaw the Army's hospitals and clinics within the southeastern United States and Puerto Rico. SERMC was renamed Southern Regional Medical Command (SRMC) and was relocated to San Antonio in 2009.

History
The hospital started as Camp Gordon Station Hospital in 1941, caring for World War II casualties and dependents. It was closed in 1946, but reopened as Camp Gordon became the more permanent Fort Gordon during the Cold War. The hospital's current building, opened for patients in 1976, replaced sprawling wooden buildings from the World War II era. During the building's dedication a year prior its opening, it was dedicated in honor of former General of the U.S. Army and President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who made his farewell address to the Army at Fort Gordon in 1961. During one visit in 1965 he suffered a heart attack and was treated in a large private suite in the old hospital for two weeks before being sent to Walter Reed in Washington by train. Later in 1975, former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower, was treated at Ft. Gordon for internal bleeding.

Current-day activities
Active-duty personnel and their TRICARE beneficiaries use the medical center and clinics for their primary health care. Numerous military retirees in the Augusta area use the medical center's pharmacy and facilities. EAMC is involved in the growing field of disaster medicine and hosts disaster-drill training events on Fort Eisenhower involving the civilian medical community and the local region of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The hospital is a training hospital for military doctors, and partners with the Medical College of Georgia and Augusta Veterans Affairs Medical Center in training programs and patient care. For example, TRICARE dependents in need of obstetrics services are sent to UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF AUGUSTA, while the Augusta VA runs a spinal-cord rehabilitation unit and an active duty rehabilitation unit, which has hosted many veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In return, civilian, non-TRICARE dependent patients are often sent to Eisenhower for use of its hyperbaric chamber.

DoD/VA Sharing Agreements
EAMC is pioneering DoD/VA sharing agreements with the Veterans Affairs Medical Centers in Augusta, Ga., Dublin, Ga., and Columbia, S.C., and network agreements with other hospitals and medical centers in the Augusta area. The relationships have infused millions of dollars into the Augusta community, as well as provided veterans, beneficiaries and family members with better access to the care and procedures they need. There are Two Hyberbaric Chambers at Doctors Hospital in Augusta Georgia

Cardiothoracic Surgery Center
EAMC's Cardiothoracic Surgery Clinic does more heart surgeries than any medical facility in the DoD. A wide range of cardiac, thoracic, vascular services, and minimally invasive techniques are used to address cardiothoracic issues.

Residential Treatment Facility
The 30-bed Residential Treatment Facility is an American Society of Addiction Medicine Level III facility and the second RTF facility in the DoD and the only facility in the Southern Region Medical Command. ASAM Level III Programs are the highest level of multidisciplinary treatment programs and provide care to the full spectrum of patients with alcohol and substance dependence disorders combined with conditions such as PTSD, Depression, and mild Traumatic Brain Injury.


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Corridor D

In the United States, Corridor D is part of the Appalachian Development Highway System. In Ohio, it follows State Route 32 from the eastern Cincinnati suburbs until a point west of Albany, where it becomes concurrent with U.S. Route 50. After crossing into West Virginia, it follows U.S. Route 50 until the Interstate 79 interchange in Clarksburg.

The West Virginia portion was constructed during 1967–1977, and the Ohio portion during 2000–2008. ADHS Funding is separate from other Federal Highway funds.

Ohio
Corridor D begins at the western edge of the Appalachian Regional Commission area at the Hamilton County–Clermont County border east of Cincinnati. It intersects Interstate 275, Cincinnati's beltway, and then U.S. Route 68 and U.S. Route 62 as it crosses the Ohio glacial till plain.

Corridor D enters the Allegheny Plateau east of Peebles, crossing the Portage Escarpment near the summit of Tener Mountain before descending into the Scioto River valley and intersecting U.S. Route 23 (Corridor C). After about 25 mi it passes through Jackson, where it is intersected by U.S. Route 35. After another 20 mi it converges with U.S. Route 50; the two routes are concurrent for the remainder of the segment through Ohio.

It reaches Athens after traveling northeastward for about 12 mi. It then travels southeast for about 15 mi roughly paralleling the Hocking River, and then 15 mi northeast as it approaches the Ohio River. The highway crosses the Ohio River on the Blennerhassett Island Bridge just west of Belpre.

West Virginia
Corridor D crosses the Little Kanawha River and interchanges with Interstate 77 near Parkersburg shortly after entering West Virginia. It continues to ascend the Allegheny Plateau through rugged terrain. In Clarksburg, it crosses the West Fork River and ends at the Interstate 79 interchange, with U.S. Route 50 continuing eastward as a two-lane mountain road.

History
One of the original 23 corridors, Corridor D (U.S. Highway 50) was to provide access to major urban centers along the east coast from the midwest, while creating economic development for northwest and North-Central West Virginia and southeast Ohio.

The Blennerhassett Island Bridge, a tied-arch bridge, opened to traffic on June 13, 2008, over the Ohio River thus completing Corridor D in its entirety.

West Virginia
The earliest segment of Corridor D, or US 50, to open in West Virginia was a six-mile (10 km) segment in 1967 from an isolated point near Sherwood in Doddridge County (MP 15) to WV 23 in Salem in Harrison County (MP 1.52). Two years later, a segment from Salem east to CR 11 at Wolf Summit (MP 7) opened to traffic.

In 1970, major portions of Corridor D opened to traffic:
 * 1) A brief segment in Wood County from MP 8 to MP 11 near Murphytown.
 * 2) A lengthy segment in Wood County from WV 31 near Deerwalk (MP 15.41) to MP 4 at Nutter Farm in Ritchie County near North Bend State Park, a distance of 7 mi.
 * 3) A segment of US 50 in Ritchie County at WV 74 at Pennsboro (MP 17) east to Doddridge County at West Union (MP 5.5).

Most of Corridor D opened a year later.
 * 1) A segment four-lane upgrade of US 50 opened in Wood County from Interstate 77 east of Parkersburg (MP 4) to MP 8 near Murphytown.
 * 2) A segment within Wood County from MP 11 near Murphytown to Sandhill (MP 15.41). This connected the disjointed segments between #1 and #2 listed above.
 * 3) The majority of Ritchie County's US 50 segment opened from MP 4 near North Bend State Park to WV 74 at Pennsboro (MP 17). This connected the disjointed segments between #2 and #3 listed above.
 * 4) A segment in Doddridge County from MP 5.52 near West Union east to WV 23 near Salem (MP 15).

In 1974, a segment of Corridor D in Harrison County opened to traffic from CR 11 at Wolf Summit (MP 7) to the CR 11 at Wilsonburg (MP 11). In 1977, this was extended eastward to WV 20 at Montpelier east of Clarksburg (MP 15.5), and a year later, to Interstate 79 west of Bridgeport (MP 18.25).

Completion into Ohio
Construction began in 2000 with the start of the Godbey Fields complex in Parkersburg, West Virginia. The $6.5 million 40 acre athletic complex was finished in 2001. Several contracts were let soon after, which included grading and drainage for part of Corridor D, a new Corning Glass Bridge for WV 47, and another span that would carry US 50 over WV 47 and 7th Street in Parkersburg.

On September 8, 2003, the first segment of Corridor D opened. The 1.9 mi four-lane controlled-access highway stretched from Interstate 77 to WV 47 in Parkersburg.

On September 20, 2004, the second portion of Corridor D opened from WV 47 to WV 14, which included the construction of a Little Kanawha River crossing. With this segment open to traffic, 1/3 of the Parkersburg Corridor D segment was complete.

On March 9, 2005, a tied arch Ohio River crossing design was chosen from four designs as it was the "most economical and least intrusive on the environment of Blennerhassett Island. The $120 million eight-span bridge will include an 880 ft tied arch over the main channel of the Ohio River and will stretch for 4009 ft from both abutments with a 69 ft vertical clearance. It is being constructed from weathering steel and will connect WV 892 to OH 618. At the time of its contract letting in April 2005, it was the largest single highway contract in West Virginia's history. The bridge is expected to be complete in 2007.

On July 12, 2005, it was announced that the final Corridor D contract in West Virginia was to be awarded. This would complete paving and signing operations of 1.32 mi from the WV 892, WV 95, and WV 68 interchange to River Hill Road. In Ohio, a single contract was announced that would connect the Ohio River span to U.S. Route 50 which would be completed in 2007.

In August 2005, Corridor D was opened to traffic from WV 14 to WV 68.

In mid-September 2005, Corridor D was completed from Fifth Street in Parkersburg to WV 892, WV 95, and WV 68. This segment was constructed under five contracts and required the completion of ten bridges.

As of April 23, 2006, construction on the Corridor D mainlines from Interstate 77 to WV 892 is all but complete. The last segment, from WV 892 to the WV 892, WV 95, and WV 68 interchange, was slated to open in August.

On August 31, 2006, it was announced that from WV 892/WV 68 to the WV 892 interchange, Corridor D was open to traffic. This 1.32 mi four-lane divided freeway is the final roadway section of the corridor from Clarksburg and Cincinnati without the Ohio River crossing.

The last Corridor D project, the Blennerhasset Bridge crossing the Ohio River, was opened on June 13, 2008.

There are long-range plans to expand the diamond interchange at Interstate 77 into a fully directional interchange at a cost of $60 million. It is ranked 75th.

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please excuse my presumption but this to me reads only as a rant against one company (VM Labs), and so would be out of place ,as writen, in Wikipedia. If not reworded may be considered as a BIASED ARTICLE.Please see "Category:Articles which may be biased".Thanks (Forgot to sign it before ,so  --Ludek9 15:29, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC))

I have to agree with Ludek9. I've taken the liberty of re-wording the article and expanding it to give some context. I'm a former VM Labs employee, so I may be biased too much the other way, but I've tried to maintain a neutral tone. --Ersmith 27 July 2005

DVD chipset market became commoditized through the entry of competitors like Mediatek
This sentence isn't especially good:

What does commoditized mean in this context? What is the impact? Why is a specific competitor mentioned? 78.82.28.8 (talk) 22:13, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

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Ray Emery

Raymond Robert Emery (né Nichols; September 28, 1982 – July 15, 2018) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for eleven seasons, between 2003 and 2015. Emery was chosen 99th overall by the Ottawa Senators in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft. During the 2006–07 season, he gained the starting job and backstopped his team to the Stanley Cup Finals, the first appearance in the finals for the modern Senators' franchise. However in the subsequent season, he lost his place as the team's starting goaltender due to an injury. He won a Stanley Cup championship with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2013.

In 2013, Emery won the William M. Jennings Trophy along with teammate Corey Crawford, awarded to the goaltender or goaltenders who give up the fewest goals in the season. Emery was a two-time Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy finalist for his dedication and perseverance. His teammates and fans often referred to him as "Razor" or "Sugar Ray" for his aggressive playing style.

Early life
Emery was born Raymond Robert Nichols on September 28, 1982, in Hamilton, Ontario. His mother, Sharlene worked as an overhead crane operator at a Dofasco steel mill when she became pregnant at 20. His biological father had no interest in raising a child, and abandoned them. In 1984, Sharlene met Paul Emery whom she married in 1986. He was adopted by Paul and took his surname shortly afterward. Emery had two younger brothers, Andrew and Nicholas. The family lived in a century-old farmhouse near the town of Cayuga.

Emery excelled in school, and was offered a scholarship. He played many sports other than ice hockey, including golf, baseball, and soccer. In hockey, he originally played as a defenceman, but switched to goaltender at nine years old due to a shortage of goaltenders in his league.

Pre-NHL
Emery committed to hockey on the advice of his mother, after a potential scholarship during his pursuit for higher education pushed him to take advantage of his athletic ability. At 16 years old, Emery landed with the Ontario Junior Hockey League Junior C Dunnville Terriers after unsuccessfully trying out for eight different junior teams. Emery was named the league's Rookie of the Year.

The Ontario Hockey League (OHL)'s Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds drafted Emery in the fifth round of the 1999 OHL Draft. Emery split the 1999–2000 season between the Welland Cougars of the OHA and the Greyhounds in the OHL. In 2000–01, he played with the Greyhounds. During his last season in junior hockey, 2001–02, Emery gained notoriety for his fighting ability. He was named the OHL's Goaltender of the Year, setting a record of 33 wins and a GAA of 2.73.

Emery was selected in the fourth round, 99th overall by the Ottawa Senators in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft. In 2002–03, Emery joined the Binghamton Senators of the American Hockey League (AHL) and immediately assumed the position of starting goaltender for his first professional season with the team. He was named to the AHL All-Star team, made the league's all-rookie team and became Binghamton's MVP.

Emery was suspended twice for on-ice incidents in the same season, once for bumping a referee which resulted in a three-game suspension; the second time for an altercation with Denis Hamel of the Rochester Americans who admitted uttering a racial slur. Emery retaliated and was suspended for three games. Emery and Hamel later became teammates in Binghamton, and Hamel apologized "for not thinking about what was saying, in the heat of a game".

Ottawa Senators (2005–2008)
Emery began his NHL career with the Ottawa Senators in 2005–06. He set a record for wins to start an NHL goaltending career, winning his first nine games, moving ahead of Bob Froese who had won his first eight games in the 1982–83 season. In March of the same season, Emery won twelve games, tying Bernie Parent's 1974 record for the most wins in a month.

At the beginning of the 2005–06 season, Emery had won nine straight games during the regular season as the back-up to Dominik Hašek. When Hašek injured his groin during the 2006 Winter Olympics, Emery became Ottawa's de facto starter, with Mike Morrison, claimed off of waivers from the Edmonton Oilers, as Emery's backup. Emery was the starting goaltender for the rest of the season, leading the Senators to the second round of the 2006 Stanley Cup playoffs.

After the 2005–06 season, the Senators opted not to bring back Hašek, instead acquiring Martin Gerber to compete with Emery for the starter position. Gerber was the starter at the beginning of the season, but due to his poor play, Emery replaced him in mid-November. On February 10, 2007, Emery was suspended for three games from the NHL for striking Montreal Canadiens forward Maxim Lapierre in the face with his stick after Lapierre crashed into Emery's net.

Twelve days later, after his suspension had ended, Emery was involved in a fight between the Senators and the Buffalo Sabres. He and Sabres goaltender Martin Biron left their creases to fight each other. After this was finished, Sabres enforcer Andrew Peters grabbed Emery and connected with ten hard punches to the head; Emery did not directly punch Peters. Both goaltenders received game misconducts, and Emery had the rare feat (for a goaltender) of receiving two five-minute majors for fighting in the same incident. In total, Emery received 22 penalty minutes (two five-minute majors for fighting, a two-minute minor for leaving the crease and the 10-minute game misconduct) for this altercation. After the altercation, fans and media dubbed him "Sugar Ray" in reference to retired boxer Sugar Ray Robinson and Emery's reputation as a fighter. Then-teammate Brian McGrattan opined that if Emery were a position player and not a goalie, he would likely rank among the top five fighters in the NHL.

Prior to the 2007 playoffs, Emery and the Senators won 5–2 against Montreal on March 30, 2007, which was his 100th NHL game. Emery's strong play in the season continued in the playoffs, as the Senators defeated the Pittsburgh Penguins, New Jersey Devils and Buffalo Sabres each in five-game series in the fist three rounds en route to their first Stanley Cup Finals appearance since the team was founded in 1992, where the Senators ultimately lost to the Anaheim Ducks in five games. He became a restricted free agent after the end of the season and filed for salary arbitration, later agreeing to a three-year deal with the Senators worth CA$9.5 million before the hearings were held.

By the pre-season of the 2007–08 campaign, Emery had suffered a wrist injury that limited him to just 40 minutes of the pre-season and forced him to miss several games early in the Senators' season. On April 18, 2008, Murray announced to the media in an end-of-season press conference that Emery would not return to the Senators for the 2008–09 season. On June 20, 2008, Emery was waived by the Senators; he cleared waivers three days later and became a free agent as a result.

Atlant Moscow (2008–2009)
Emery signed a one-year, $2 million contract with Atlant Moscow Oblast of the newly formed Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) on July 9, 2008. After giving up five goals during a game, he chased a trainer who attempted to put a sponsored cap on Emery's head. As a foreign goaltender, Emery was allowed to play in only 65% of his team's 56 regular season games due to rules that encourage the development of Russian goaltenders. He split duties for the season with former Colorado Avalanche goaltender Vitaly Kolesnik and completed the season as a top goaltender in the KHL with a .926 save percentage and a 1.86 GAA.

Philadelphia Flyers (2009–2010)
On June 10, 2009, the Philadelphia Flyers announced that they had agreed to terms with Emery on a one-year contract worth $1.5 million. On December 8, Emery was placed on injured reserve to have surgery on a torn muscle in his abdomen. Originally expected to miss about six weeks, the prognosis changed when it was discovered that he had avascular necrosis of the hip. In March 2010, Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren announced that Emery would be out for the remainder of the season due to the diagnosis and that a bone graft would be carried out.

Doctors were able to catch the disease before it spread, unlike the case of baseball and American football player Bo Jackson. As a result, in April, doctors announced a successful surgery. Jackson spoke out about Emery, speculating that they were the only two athletes to come back after the disease. Jackson added, "I take my hat off [to him]. I want him to know I am in his corner. It's a lot of hard work. To come back and play, it takes a very, very special and driven person. He's got a different makeup to want to do all the little things he needs to compete on a professional level." Unlike Jackson, who required numerous hip replacements, Emery had the benefit of advancements in modern medicine, undergoing a very specialized and complex procedure that involved removing 13 centimetres from his right fibula, and then grafting it to the femur to re-introduce a proper blood supply to the area. Holmgren said that while the surgery went better than expected, he did not know exactly how long Emery's recovery would take.

On July 1, Emery became an unrestricted free agent as his injury deemed him unable to play until he recuperated. In August, he was given the go-ahead to begin the grueling and tedious workout and rehabilitation process. In November 2010, TSN visited Emery during an on-ice workout and were surprised to see him get down into the butterfly position and play for the first time since surgery. Emery stated that he did not "care if [he could] walk in seven years", and he "just [wanted] to play". To the surprise of his doctors and trainers, Emery recovered faster than expected. In January 2011, Emery began skating with an OHL team, taking shots and training with Eric Lindros, and working with personal trainer Matt Nichol and goalie coach Eli Wilson. According to Wilson, Emery was "as sharp and ready now as he was the summer before Ottawa's Stanley Cup Final run".

In March 2011, Emery's injury and undefeated return to the NHL with the Anaheim Ducks garnered much media attention and fascination, with a special segment featured on CBC's Hockey Night in Canada. Emery had 13 centimetres of bone missing from his leg. This later garnered him a nomination for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy.

Anaheim Ducks (2011)
On February 7, 2011, four NHL teams showed interest in signing Emery before he signed a one-year two-way contract with the Anaheim Ducks. He was then assigned to the Syracuse Crunch to begin the standard two-week conditioning AHL stint where he went on to play a total of five games for the Crunch in their 2010–11 season, posting a 4–1–0 record, with a 1.98 GAA and a .943 save percentage. On February 23, 2011, upon completion of his conditioning stint, Emery was called up to the Ducks. Emery made his Ducks debut on March 11, 2011, to a standing ovation against the Phoenix Coyotes when he replaced goaltender Dan Ellis. Emery won six straight starts to open his Anaheim career, falling one shy of matching the Ducks' record for consecutive wins by a goaltender, held by Guy Hebert. In the week of March 14, Emery was honoured with the NHL's Second Star of the Week after going 2–0–0 with a 0.99 GAA and a .968 save percentage.

Emery led the Ducks into the playoffs, finishing tied for fourth in the league and posting a 7–2–0 record with 2.28 GAA and .926 save percentage in ten regular-season NHL appearances. In April, Emery's comeback was recognized when the Anaheim chapter of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association (PHWA) nominated Emery for the 2011 Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy. The NHL also nominated Emery for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy, making him one of three finalists.

Chicago Blackhawks (2011–2013)
On October 3, 2011, Emery signed a one-year contract for the 2011–12 season with the Chicago Blackhawks after a successful try-out. By the end of the season, Emery compiled a 15–9–4 record and a 2.81 GAA in 34 appearances, posting a 10–0–3 record and a 2.15 GAA in 16 appearances at Chicago's United Center. Emery was again nominated, this time by the Blackhawks, for the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy, honouring dedication and perseverance although he didn't make the final three by the NHL. In April 2012, the Blackhawks signed Emery to a one-year extension worth $1.15 million to keep him with the team into the 2012–13 season.

Emery made NHL history in March 2013 by becoming the first goaltender to start a season with ten straight wins, going 10–0–0. He improved his NHL record to eleven straight wins against the Colorado Avalanche on March 18. Emery went to 12–0–0 in a shutout win against the Calgary Flames, in his 200th NHL start. On April 10, he made franchise history by recording his third shutout in five games, helping him to third in the NHL with a 1.90 GAA and seventh in save percentage at .924 with a 15–1–0 record. Emery proved his previous injuries were no longer a concern, posting career highs.

By the end of the lockout-shortened 2012–13 season, Emery and teammate Corey Crawford won the award for the NHL's best combined GAA, the 2013 William M. Jennings Trophy, awarded to the goaltender who gives up the fewest goals in the season and the Blackhawks were awarded the Presidents' Trophy as the regular season champions. Emery finished the season with a 1.94 GAA, a .922 save percentage, and 17 wins with only one loss. He won his first Stanley Cup when the Blackhawks defeated the Boston Bruins in the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals in six games.

Return to Philadelphia (2013–2015)
On July 5, 2013, Emery signed a one-year deal with the Philadelphia Flyers worth $1.65 million. With the Flyers, Emery served as the backup to regular goaltender Steve Mason. On November 1, Emery participated in a brawl against the Capitals, fighting opposing goaltender Braden Holtby, who was uninterested in fighting. For the season, he was 9–12–2 with a 2.96 GAA in 28 appearances. On July 1, 2014, he re-signed for another year in the same role for $1 million. In 31 appearances with the Flyers in the 2014–15 season, Emery had a 10–11–7 record and a 3.06 GAA, and his save percentage was under .900.

2015–2016
On September 8, 2015, the Tampa Bay Lightning announced that Emery would be attending training camp on a PTO (professional tryout). During the preseason he was released from this PTO on September 27. In October and November 2015, Emery trained with the Ontario Reign of the AHL, affiliate to the Los Angeles Kings. It was announced on December 18, 2015, that Emery had signed a professional tryout agreement with the Toronto Marlies of the American Hockey League (AHL), who are affiliated with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Emery was praised for his leadership and mentoring abilities; on January 24, 2016, upon Crawford recording his league-leading seventh shutout of the season with the Blackhawks after a win against the Blues, he credited Emery for turning around his work habits. Crawford stated that Emery's work habits led him to increase his focus and preparation before a game and during practice. "As a goalie, I've never seen a guy be so focused and ready for a game", Crawford said. "I was kind of doing the opposite – being nonchalant and doing other stuff and not having a routine. You get in that physical routine that just makes you ready mentally. You trick yourself into knowing that it's game time and time to play." Kyle Dubas, assistant GM of the Marlies, cited Emery for his mentorship towards the team.

On February 5, 2016, Emery signed with Adler Mannheim of the German elite league Deutsche Eishockey Liga for the remainder of the season,  thus ending his professional tryout with the Marlies. On March 29, he signed a tryout contract with the Flyers, and on April 1, the team announced that it had signed Emery for the remainder of the season. At the end of the season, Emery retired from the NHL.

Personal life
Emery was a fan favorite and a celebrated fighter in the NHL because it was rare for a goaltender to fight. Emery was a boxing fan and had images of Joe Frazier, Bernard Hopkins, Sugar Ray Leonard, and Mike Tyson and the fictional Rocky Balboa on his helmets.

Emery's erratic behavior was the subject of much speculation by the press during his tenure with the Ottawa Senators. Reports concerning Emery included a road rage incident involving a senior citizen, a car accident that led to a missed flight to a road game, a fight on the street in public, lateness to practice, a stick-smashing incident during practice, fights with teammates during practice, and rumored alcohol abuse. In 2008, the media speculated that Emery was involved with a bad crowd and recreational drugs. When asked about this speculation, Emery responded, "I'm not a saint and I'm not in jail, either." At one point, Emery was asked by the team's general manager whether he had a drug problem; Emery responded in the negative. Paddock later expressed regret on how Emery was handled in Ottawa; he was partially responsible for signing Emery to the Flyers, where they worked together from 2013 to 2016.

In January 2009, a video surfaced of Emery trying to chase and punch a team trainer while the trainer was attempting to place a hat on his head in January 2009. In 2011, Emery stated that he had learned from his past mistakes and that he had undergone anger management classes as well as eight weeks of behavioural counselling.

In June 2010, Emery began dating Canadian singer Keshia Chanté, and starred as the love interest in Chanté's music video for "Test Drive". On June 16, 2016, Emery proposed to Chanté on her birthday in Nassau, Bahamas. Emery and Chanté were set to wed in June 2017; however, simultaneously with the release of her cover on Today's Bride, Chanté announced via her Instagram account that she had called off the wedding. On September 18, 2017, Chanté advised TMZ that she went to police seeking a restraining order against Emery. TMZ advises Emery was arrested for allegedly uttering threats and assaulting her with a weapon.

Vehicular incidents
In March 2007, Emery was charged after a minor crash while heading to the airport; the accident forced him to miss a team-chartered flight to a road game. In September 2007, he had a much-publicized road rage incident with a 65-year-old man; Emery was accused of cutting off the man's vehicle on the highway and threatening to kill him. No charges were laid.

In February 2008, Ottawa police pulled Emery over. He had allegedly cut off a police cruiser with his Hummer. Police said that he was aggressive with officers. In March 2009, he was charged with stunt driving for allegedly having driven 50 kph or more over the posted speed limit. Police impounded his Hummer. He appeared on TSN's Off the Record with Michael Landsberg, saying that, at the time, his Hummer had been pulled over at least 30 times.

Death
On July 15, 2018, Emery went swimming with friends at the Royal Hamilton Yacht Club in Hamilton, Ontario. He jumped off a boat and friends called emergency services at approximately 6:00 am when he did not resurface. His body was found at about 2:50 pm that same day, about 20 yd from where he went into the water, according to Hamilton Police, who referred to the incident as a "case of misadventure". The search for Emery took longer than anticipated due to unspecified safety concerns for the dive team before they could enter the water. An autopsy indicated that Emery had drowned, and police concluded their investigation as "non-criminal".

On July 16, Keshia Chanté penned an emotional tribute to Emery, stating that she was "heartbroken" and that he was "a superhero" who was "loving, affectionate, intelligent, hilarious, giving". She also stated that they "may have had differences" but they "forgave each other and continued to love each other right to the very end."

On October 15, 2018, prior to a game against the Dallas Stars, the Senators presented a tribute for Emery. Among those present were his close friend Jason Spezza, who was a teammate in Ottawa and was playing for the Stars at the time, and Chanté, who sang the national anthems.

Regular season and playoffs
Statistics via Eliteprospects

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Telde

Telde is a municipality in the eastern part of the island of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, overseas (Atlantic) insular Spain. It borders Las Palmas to the north and is part of its urban area.

It is the second most populous municipality on the island, with a population of 102,170 (2013). Its area is 102.43 km². The city is the oldest and the first capital of the island of Gran Canaria, founded before 1351, a former medieval bishopric and present Catholic titular see. The GC-1 motorway passes east of the city. Gran Canaria International Airport is located in the subdivision of Gando, south of Telde.

History
Before the Spanish invasion Telde was the eastern centre of the aborigines of the island, and the renowned aborigine Doramas is believed to have lived here. Early records point to about 14,000 aboriginal dwellings in Telde at the time of conquest; Telde is the spot where the famous Idolo de Tara figure—currently housed in the Museo Canario in Las Palmas—was discovered.

It was created by papal decree in 1351. Today Telde is Gran Canaria's second city with a population over 100,000. The historic old town area of Telde is particularly popular with visitors.

Ecclesiastical History
The Diocese of Islas de la Fortuna (español) / Isola de Fortunate (Italiano) / Insulas Fortunatis (Latin) (meaning 'Fortunate islands', the nickname of the Canaries) was established on 7 November 1351. The territory split off from the Balearic Diocese of Mallorca, as suffragan of the (Andalusian) Metropolitan Archdiocese of Seville.

Renamed in 1369 after its see as Diocese of Telde (Spanish) / Telden(sis) (Latin adjective).

On 7 July 1404 it lost territory to establish the Diocese of Rubicon.

In 1441 it was suppressed, without direct successor.

Residential Ordinaries

 * Suffragan Bishops of Islas de la Fortuna
 * Bernardo Font, Carmelite Order (O. Carm.) (1351.11.07 – 1354), next Bishop of Santa Giusta (1354–?)
 * Bartolomé, Dominican Order (O.P.) (1361.03.02 – 1362)

 * Suffragan Bishops of Telde
 * Bonanat Tarí, Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (1369.07.02 – 1392)
 * Jaime Olzina, O.P. (1392.01.31 – 1441)

Titular see
In 1969 the diocese was nominally restored as Latin Titular bishopric of Telde (Spanish) / Telden(sis) (Latin adjective).

It has had the following incumbents, none yet of the fitting Episcopal (lowest) rank:
 *  Titular Archbishop: William Aquin Carew (1969.11.27 – 2012.05.08) as papal diplomat : Apostolic Nuncio (ambassador) to Burundi (1969.11.27 – 1974.05.10), Apostolic Nuncio to Rwanda (1969.11.27 – 1974.05.10), Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Cyprus (1974.05.10 – 1983.08.30), Apostolic Delegate to Jerusalem and Palestine (1974.05.10 – 1983.08.30), Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Japan (1983.08.30 – retired 1997.11.11); died 2012
 * Titular Archbishop Giampiero Gloder (2013.09.21 – ...), President of Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, Vice-Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church of Apostolic Camera; previously Head of Office for special affairs of Secretariat of State (2005 – 2013.09.21).

Economy
In the past, Telde was an agricultural community, the main crops being sugar canes, vineyards, bananas and tomatoes. Today the surrounding area of Telde is quite heavily industrialised, becoming the industrial centre on the island.

Two airlines are headquartered at Gran Canaria Airport: Binter Canarias and Canaryfly.

Main sights
The church San Juan Bautista (John the Baptist) de Telde is the true spiritual centre of Telde. Located in the square of the same name and founded in 1483, the old church was erected by the Garcia del Castillo family at the time of the town's foundation. It still has the original gateway, an example of Sevillian-Portuguese Gothic architecture. The towers, however, are an example of early 20th neo-Gothic construction. The real marvels are inside the building: the statue of Christ on the main altar, made from corn dough by the Purépecha Mexican Indians, brought here before 1550, the Flemish Gothic main altar, which dates back to before 1516, and the triptych of the Virgin Mary, brought from Flanders, also in the 16th century, depicting five religious scenes.

Telde has 101 archaeological sites and 709 listed sites of ethnographic interest. The number of sites increases each year, as do new aspects of old fields, but most are in disrepair and many are disappearing. Some of the most prominent are the coastal town of Tufia, in good condition and extensively excavated by archaeologists; Four Doors (Cuatro Puertas), a large cave with four doors located on top of a mountain overlooking the plain adjoined to a village of cave houses with collective barn at the back; the caves of Tara and Cendro, remains of the ancient centre of population; the town of Draguillo on the border with Ingenio; las cuevas Chalasia which consist of a labyrinthine series of artificial caves linked by tunnels; and the impressive necropolis of Jinámar which includes more than 500 tombs of various types.

Climate
Telde has a moderate desert climate.

Education
Lycée Français René-Verneau, the French international school of Gran Canaria, is located in Telde.

Sister cities

 * 🇪🇸 San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
 * Gáldar, Gran Canaria, Spain
 * 🇪🇸 Moguer, Spain, birthplace of Telde's founder, Cristóbal García del Castillo
 * 🇨🇳 Chongqing, China, birth city of Sanmao, writer who lived in the island

Notable locals

 * Roque Mesa (born 1989), footballer

Sources and external links

 * GCatholic with Google satellite photo

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The Book of the New Sun

The Book of the New Sun (1980–1983, 1987) is a four-volume science fantasy novel written by the American author Gene Wolfe. The work is in four parts with a fifth novel acting as a coda to the main story. It inaugurated the "Solar Cycle" that Wolfe continued by setting other works in the same universe (The Book of the Long Sun series, and The Book of the Short Sun series).

It chronicles the journey of Severian, a journeyman torturer from the Order of the Seekers for Truth and Penitence, who after helping a client kill themselves is exiled in disgrace to journey to the distant city of Thrax where he is to live out his days as their executioner. Severian lives in the ancient city of Nessus in a nation called the Commonwealth, ruled by the Autarch, in the Southern Hemisphere. It is at war with Ascia, its totalitarian northern neighbour. It is a first-person narrative, ostensibly translated by Wolfe into contemporary English, set in a distant future when the Sun has dimmed and Earth is cooler (a "Dying Earth" story).

The four volumes and additional fifth coda are:

 * 1980 The Shadow of the Torturer
 * 1981 The Claw of the Conciliator
 * 1982 The Sword of the Lictor
 * 1983 The Citadel of the Autarch
 * 1987 The Urth of the New Sun

In a 1998 poll of its subscribers, Locus magazine ranked the tetralogy number three among 36 all-time best fantasy novels before 1990.

Severian as a Christ figure
Severian, the main character and narrator of the series, can be interpreted as a Christ figure. His life has many parallels to the life of Jesus, and Gene Wolfe, a Catholic, has explained that he deliberately mirrored Jesus in Severian. He compares Severian's profession as a torturer to Jesus's profession as a carpenter in The Castle of the Otter: "It has been remarked thousands of times that Christ died under torture. Many of us have read so often that he was a "humble carpenter" that we feel a little surge of nausea on seeing the words yet again. But no one ever seems to notice that the instruments of torture were wood, nails, and a hammer; that the man who built the cross was undoubtedly a carpenter too; that the man who hammered in the nails was as much a carpenter as a soldier, as much a carpenter as a torturer. Very few even have seemed to have noticed that although Christ was a "humble carpenter," the only object we are specifically told he made was not a table or a chair, but a whip."

Severian's life parallels Jesus' occasionally, with his descent into the cave of the man-apes being a Harrowing of Hell scene, his resurrection of Dorcas being a Lazarus of Bethany scene, and his friendship with Jonas reflecting Ahasuerus. Jonas has traveled the world looking to reconnect with the Hierodules, "tinkers with clumsy mechanisms", and is redeemed from wandering exile after befriending Severian. In this respect, he represents the wandering Jew. Severian also suffers from occasional seemingly random bleeding from his forehead, as if from a crown of thorns. Also mirroring the crown of thorns, the Claw of the Conciliator, a thorn that causes Severian to shed blood, becomes a religious relic due to its relation to Severian. Terminus Est represents his crucifix, with Severian describing his sword in Urth of the New Sun as a "dark cross upon my shoulder." In the following volume, The Urth of the New Sun, Severian is resurrected as well, escaping to a Heaven-like plane of existence where an angel resides and then emerging from a stone tomb, as Jesus rose from his stone tomb.

However, Wolfe said in an interview, "I don't think of Severian as being a Christ figure; I think of Severian as being a Christian figure. He is a man who has been born into a very perverse background, who is gradually trying to become better."

Related works
During the years when The Book of the New Sun was published, Wolfe published two stories from it separately: "Foila's Story: The Armiger's Daughter" (one of the entries in the story-telling contest in the Pelerines' hospital) and "The Tale of the Student and his Son" (one of the two stories that Severian reproduces from a book he obtained for Thecla when she was imprisoned).

Shortly after The Citadel of the Autarch, Wolfe published The Castle of the Otter, a book of essays about The Book of the New Sun containing a few fictional elements, such as jokes told by some of the characters.

After the original four-volume novel, Wolfe wrote a novel often called a coda, The Urth of the New Sun (1987). He also wrote three short stories, "The Map", "The Cat", and "Empires of Foliage and Flower", that are closely related to The Book of the New Sun.

Later he wrote two book series that are set in Severian's universe. The Internet Speculative Fiction Database catalogs it all as the "Solar Cycle", comprising the short works and three sub-series. The two later subseries are The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996, four volumes) and The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001, three volumes). Two of the Long Sun books were nominated for Nebula Awards.

Place within the genre
The Book of the New Sun belongs to the Dying Earth subgenre of speculative fiction. Peter Wright calls the series an "apotheosis" of traditional Dying Earth elements and themes, and Douglas Barbour suggests that the book is a foundational mosaic of that literary heritage: "Wolfe has not only written a truly marvellous science-fantasy set millions of years in our future on a dying 'Urth', but he has also written the book on such works ... where every formal development in this sub-genre is laid out for our interpretation and then done right." Traces of this literary tradition can be found throughout the book. In The Sword of the Lictor, Cyriaca (the woman whom Severian spares in Thrax) tells Severian a legend about an automated city, with rebirth as a central theme. This mirrors John W. Campbell's Twilight, where sentient machines remove the need for human labor. Wolfe himself said that when he was a teenager Twilight had a great effect on his writing, and this homage to that story is not just a passing reference, but an allusion to a literary predecessor. Earlier in the story, Wolfe alludes to The Time Machine, with the scene where Severian meets the glowing man-apes mirroring the Time Traveler's confrontation with the Morlocks. In both stories, the protagonist holds up a light to awe the cave peoples, but in the Book of the New Sun Severian relates to the humanity of the man-apes with the glowing Claw of the Conciliator, while in The Time Machine the Time Traveler intimidates the Morlocks with his fire.

Publication history
Gene Wolfe had originally intended the story to be a 40,000-word novella called "The Feast of Saint Catherine", meant to be published in one of the Orbit anthologies, but during the writing, it continued to grow. Despite being published with a year between each book, all four books were written and completed during his free time without anyone's knowledge when he was still an editor of Plant Engineering, allowing him to write at his own pace and take his time.

The tetralogy was first published in English in the United Kingdom by Sidgwick & Jackson from 1980 to 1983, and the coda published in 1987, with second publications for each book occurring approximately a year after the first. Don Maitz illustrated the cover of the first publication, and Bruce Pennington illustrated the second cover. The series was also published in two volumes, named Shadow and Claw and Sword and Citadel, both published in 1994 by Orb Publications.

It was published as a single volume titled The Book of the New Sun in 1998 by Science Fiction Book Club and again in 2007 under the title Severian of the Guild, published by Orion Publishing Group.

Each book has been separately translated into Spanish, French, German, Dutch, and Japanese.

The Japanese printings of the tetralogy and coda were illustrated by Yoshitaka Amano.

Awards and nominations
Each of the four original volumes won at least one major fantasy or science fiction award as the year's "Best Novel" as shown by the table below. The tetralogy was not considered as a whole for any of the annual literary awards compiled by the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB).

Vocabulary
Gene Wolfe uses a variety of archaic and obscure terms throughout the series and in the appendix of The Shadow of the Torturer he explains his fictitious method:

Wolfe admitted, however, that some mistakes may have been made in spelling or exact meaning. His unusual words often come from an English–Latin dictionary or an English–Greek dictionary, where he finds roots of words to use.

Wolfe stated that he uses strange and arcane words because he "thought they were the best for the story [he] was trying to tell." Language is Wolfe's medium as a writer, and he wishes to "press against the limits of prose." Wolfe's deliberate use of exotic words is meant to manipulate the reader and force upon them a certain visualization of the story, but he does not mean to confuse the reader. He compares the narrator, Severian, and the reader to an English-speaking person and a German-speaking person building a boat: "[The English-speaker] would say, "Bring me a flat board," and [the German-speaker] would bring him a board of proper size. They were actually doing something, you see, and the German understood what it was they were doing. Because they were working together (exactly as a writer and reader must) the unintelligible request was heard as "I need something," and the German had little difficulty guessing what was needed.

Why bother, in that case, to learn English? Or learn German? In the narrowest sense, you don't ... But knowing is better and broader and deeper than even the best guessing, and knowing is more fun."

Two examples of the arcane words Wolfe uses are "Ascian" and "Hydrargyrum". Ascian, despite its similarity to "Asian", is derived from a Latin word meaning "without shadow", as the Ascians are tropic dwellers who have no shadow at noon. Hydrargyrum, the fluid contained in Severian's sword Terminus Est, is derived from the Ancient Greek "ὕδωρ", meaning water, and "ἄργυρος", meaning silver, as hydrargyrum is liquid mercury.

Ascian language
The Ascian language further expounds on the idea that word choice alters the thinking of people, as the Ascian language is simply a set of quotations from government propaganda called "Correct Thought". In order to communicate, Ascians must memorize many quotations and learn to interpret others' use of them. This government regulation of language is intended to directly regulate the thought of Ascians. However, it is illustrated in the novels that the human capacity to adapt language to its own immediate needs and deploy it in unintended or unforeseen ways allows the Ascians to convey meanings outside of or even contradictory to those intended by the creators of "Correct Thought."

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Singapore Institute of Management

The Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) is a private tertiary education institution in Singapore. Founded on 28 November 1964 by the Economic Development Board (EDB), SIM is registered under the Committee for Private Education (CPE). SIM offers diploma, transnational undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, and executive education courses.

The SIM Group provides its core services through two educational brands: SIM Global Education and SIM Academy. From 2005 to 2017, SIM Group established and managed SIM University (UniSIM).

SIM Global Education
SIM Global Education (SIM GE) is a private education institute. It offers diploma, bachelor's degree and master’s degree with universities from Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. The institution has 16,000 students with about 30% being full-time international students from over 40 countries. The institute offers both full-time and part-time programmes.

In 2018, SIM opened its first overseas representative office in Indonesia, Jakarta to cultivate awareness of its offered programmes under the SIM GE brand in Indonesia.

Industry partnership
In 2018, SIM GE and SGTech signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The MOU offers internship and job opportunities from among SGTech's member companies in the technology sector. SGTech will also engage industry professionals to mentor SIM GE students.

Graduate employment
SIM reported that 82.4 per cent of its 2019 and 2020 graduates found jobs within six months after graduation. Among the total, 57.1 per cent were in full-time jobs, 15.6 per cent were in part-time jobs, and 9.8 per cent were freelancers. The median starting gross monthly salary of those in full-time employment was $2,815.

SIM International Academy
SIM previously operated SIM International Academy for Secondary 1 to 4 classes, leading to an International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE). The Academy stopped accepting applications the following year and is no longer listed as a SIM constituent.

SIM University (2005–2017)
SIM University (UniSIM) was a publicly funded, private university in Singapore approved by the Ministry of Education. Its enrolment was close to 10,000 students.

In 2017, UniSIM was restructured into the Singapore University of Social Sciences (SUSS) and became Singapore's sixth autonomous university under the ambit of the Ministry of Education (MOE). It is no longer a member of the Singapore Institute of Management Group (SIM).

Campus
The Singapore Institute of Management has two campuses across the west side of Singapore. The two campuses cover a total land area of 120,000 sqm.

title: Singapore Institute of Management