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Chris Simms

Christopher David Simms (born August 29, 1980) is an American sports analyst and former football player who was a quarterback who played in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the third round of the 2003 NFL draft after playing college football for the Texas Longhorns.

Simms also played for the Denver Broncos and the Tennessee Titans. He is the son of former New York Giants quarterback and Super Bowl XXI MVP Phil Simms and the older brother of quarterback Matt Simms.

Early life
Simms grew up in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey and attended Ramapo High School, where he was a standout in both football and basketball. In football, he was a two-time All-State honoree, and was named the 1998 USA Today National Offensive Player of the Year. Simms graduated from Ramapo High School in 1999. After committing to the University of Tennessee during his senior year, Simms decommitted and enrolled at the University of Texas instead.

College career
Simms played college football at the University of Texas at Austin from 1999 to 2002.

He spent his freshman year as the backup to Major Applewhite, and saw limited playing time until the end of the season. Going into the Texas A&M game (the so-called Bonfire Game as it followed the tragic death of 12 students during construction of A&M's annual bonfire), Texas was ranked #5, but right before that game, Applewhite got an intestinal virus that kept him up all night and required him to be put on an IV the next day. As a result, Simms got his first career start and had the Longhorns up 16–6 at halftime. After Simms struggled in the 2nd half, and with Texas still ahead, he was replaced by Applewhite in the 4th quarter, but Applewhite was not able to get Texas any points, they fell behind in the last 6 minutes and Applewhite fumbled on their last possession. Simms took over again during the Cotton Bowl, when Applewhite suffered a knee injury in the 4th quarter.

The next season Applewhite was again the starter, but Simms was more of a co-quarterback than a backup. After Applewhite played poorly in a loss to Stanford in the 2nd game, Simms was given his second career start in the following game against Houston. Simms struggled early and Applewhite got the majority of the snaps in what turned out to be a rout resulting in Applewhite regaining the role as starter. Simms would again get a chance to start when Applewhite suffered a season-ending knee injury on the last drive of the Texas Tech game. Simms played well, throwing for 240 yards or more in each game, including a 383-yard game against #21 Texas A&M, the most ever by a Texas QB against the Aggies. Texas went 2–1 with Simms as quarterback, with the only loss against #8 Oregon, a game Texas could have won – despite Simms setting the record for interceptions in a Holiday Bowl game with 4, but for three dropped touchdown passes on the last drive. Mack Brown was impressed enough to name Simms the starter before the start of spring practice, a decision that proved controversial.

The Longhorns were ranked #5 to start the 2001 season and Simms' play through the first four games was good enough to keep them there. But in the Red River Showdown, Texas faced #3 Oklahoma and Simms' four interceptions, including one in the Sooners' end zone and one that was returned for a touchdown, sealed Oklahoma's victory. Nonetheless, Simms recovered to lead Texas to six straight wins with five straight 200-yard passing games, including a dominating win over #14 Colorado and his second straight win over the Aggies, a #3 ranking, and a rematch against #10 Colorado in the Big 12 Championship Game on December 1. Because of an upset loss by Florida to Tennessee earlier in the day, Texas went into the game knowing that a win would likely put them in the 2002 BCS Championship Game. But Simms had a disastrous game. He was responsible for four turnovers (three interceptions and a fumble) in the first half of play. In the 2nd quarter, after being booed by Texas fans, Simms injured his finger and Applewhite entered the game with Texas down, 29–10. Applewhite led Texas back to within 2 points, but eventually Texas would come up short losing 39–37 after an onside kick attempt failed. Applewhite's strong play, combined with Simms' injury, resulted in Simms sitting out the 2001 Holiday Bowl.

Texas came into the 2002 season with high hopes and a #2 ranking. Simms was the starter all season, and he threw for a career-high 3,207 yards, 2nd to only Applewhite at the time. Texas won its first 5 games and then faced their first challenge against #3 Oklahoma. Texas led in that game until the 4th quarter, when a 3rd Simms interception set up Oklahoma's winning touchdown. Simms and Texas recovered to beat #17 Kansas State and #17 Iowa State in back to back weeks followed by wins over Nebraska and Baylor to climb back up to #3 in the rankings. But the following week, Texas Tech quarterback Kliff Kingsbury threw for 473 yards to upset the Longhorns 42–38, despite Simms playing one of his best games, and scuttle their national championship dreams. Simms capped his year with his 3rd straight victory over Texas A&M and his first bowl win over #25 LSU in the Cotton Bowl. In the Cotton Bowl he threw for 269 yards, 2 touchdowns, and 1 interception – with more than half of those yards going to Cotton Bowl MVP Roy Williams. Simms was named the team's MVP for the season.

He finished with a career record of 26–6, second largest number of wins, at the time, to Bobby Layne. He also played in the 2002 Senior Bowl in which he threw an interception that went for a Senior Bowl record 99-yard return.

2004
Simms was selected with the last pick of the third round in 2003 by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with the expectation that he would eventually be the successor to Brad Johnson. He was cast third on the Bucs depth chart behind Johnson and former Buccaneers starter Shaun King. Simms sat his entire rookie year without playing a single snap in the regular season.

In 2004, Simms started the season as the 3rd string quarterback again, this time behind Johnson and former Denver Broncos and Miami Dolphins starter Brian Griese, but quickly advanced to backup quarterback after a poor preseason by Griese. Simms saw his first action on September 19, 2004 against the Seattle Seahawks after a below-average performance by Johnson, coming into the game with 10:32 left in the 2nd quarter. Simms went 21–32 with 175 yards and an interception. Simms received his first start two games later against the New Orleans Saints on October 10, 2004 after the Bucs started 0–4 and Johnson was benched for his poor performance. Simms went 5–8 for 75 yards but injured his shoulder early in the game and missed three weeks, allowing Brian Griese to secure the position with 3 straight wins. Simms saw occasional action as the backup QB to Griese and started a meaningless final game against the Arizona Cardinals where he threw for 224 yards, 1 touchdown and 2 interceptions.

2005
In 2005, Simms was slated on the depth chart as the backup quarterback, behind Griese and ahead of former Cleveland Browns starting quarterback Luke McCown. Simms got his first snap of the season after Miami Dolphins linebacker Zach Thomas was pushed onto Griese's leg with several minutes left in the game on October 16, 2005. Despite the injury, the Buccaneers prevailed 27–13 in the game in which Griese was lost for the season. Simms performed well, completing 6 of 10 passes for 69 yards. Simms got his first start of the season the following week against a weak San Francisco 49ers squad. While Simms had decent numbers (21–34, 264 yards, 1 touchdown, 2 interceptions), his performance was considered poor, as there were many times when he underthrew his receivers, missed open receivers, or incorrectly read the defensive coverage. Simms followed up this performance with about the same performance (25–42, 259 yards, 1 touchdowns, 2 interceptions) against the division rival Carolina Panthers, who were considered a much better team than San Francisco. After these two losses however, Simms performed better than expected and had a knack for late-game heroics. He led fourth-quarter charges against fellow division rival Atlanta twice, as well as the Washington Redskins. The Redskin game was his best performance of the year as Simms threw for 3 scores as the Buccaneers won 36–35 in a remarkable game. Simms had a much more impressive performance in the rematch against Carolina on the road. The two losses in this stretch were against the defending Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots, and the Chicago Bears, who were ranked #1 in the league in total defense, and in both of these games, Simms did not throw any interceptions, but was sacked a combined 11 times. He even led Tampa Bay to another fourth-quarter comeback against the Bears but a 29-yard field goal attempt floated wide right, giving the Bears a 13–10 victory.

Simms led the Buccaneers to their first playoff berth since their Super Bowl victory in the 2002 season. In the rematch vs. the Redskins Simms led Tampa Bay back again from a 17–3 halftime deficit. With the score at 17–10 late in the fourth quarter, Simms hit Edell Shepherd on an apparent 35-yard touchdown strike. However, Shepherd failed to maintain possession as he hit the ground. Tampa Bay lost 17–10 in a game where Washington gained only 120 yards of offense, the lowest total for a playoff winner in NFL history.

Life-threatening injury
Simms suffered a season-ending injury in Game 3 of the 2006 schedule. On Sunday, September 24, he was taken off the field after taking hard hits from the Carolina Panthers defense. Simms returned to the game and even led a successful scoring drive, but remained in physical distress and was taken to a nearby hospital after the game. Tests revealed a ruptured spleen, and Simms immediately underwent emergency surgery. In the aftermath, Simms said he lost five pints of blood before the operation and conceded that another 45 minutes without treatment could have been fatal. Playing on a one-year, $2.1 million contract signed before the season, Simms was eligible for free agency for 2007.

2006–2008
On December 27, 2006, Simms announced that he had signed a two-year extension to remain with the Buccaneers with the expectation that he would start. However, due to complications from his recovery and the performance of Jeff Garcia in mini-camp, Simms was expected to serve as a backup to Garcia. On October 9, Simms was placed on injured reserve for the rest of the season. The Bucs were expected to keep Simms on the roster for mini camp as their fifth quarterback.

Simms' relationship with head coach Jon Gruden worsened significantly during this period. Simms attributed his lack of playing time to how Gruden treated him during his recovery from the spleen injury. He has even said that "The relationship between me and coach Gruden, it’s broken," Simms said. "And I don’t see any way it’s going to get better." Simms also said that he will never forgive Gruden, although he still respects the Buccaneers as an organization.

On August 30, 2008, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers released Simms. He worked out with the Baltimore Ravens during the preseason but was not signed.

Tennessee Titans (first stint)
Simms signed with the Tennessee Titans on September 9, 2008 after starter Vince Young was sidelined with a sprained MCL. In Young's absence, Simms served as the backup quarterback behind Kerry Collins until October 3, when Simms was released to make room for punter Josh Miller. Simms was re-signed the following week on October 6.

Denver Broncos
On March 4, 2009, Simms signed a two-year, $6 million contract with the Denver Broncos. The deal included a $1.5 million signing bonus and Simms could have earned an additional $3 million through incentives. He was the backup quarterback to Kyle Orton. However, he took over in the second half of a game against the Washington Redskins after Orton left with a sprained ankle, and eventually gave up the lead to the Redskins while going 3–13 passing for 13 yards with no touchdowns and one interception. He started against the San Diego Chargers on November 22, 2009 but was quickly replaced by Orton in the second quarter after going a disappointing 2 for 4 for only 10 yards. He was released on March 15, 2010 after the Broncos traded for Brady Quinn.

Tennessee Titans (second stint)
On April 12, 2010, Simms was re-signed by the Titans.

On September 4, 2010, Simms was cut from the Titans roster. On November 22, 2010, he was re-signed to be a backup quarterback behind Rusty Smith, after the season-ending injury to Vince Young. He was not brought back for the 2011 season, nor was he picked up by another team.

Coaching career
Simms was hired as a coaching assistant by the New England Patriots on March 26, 2012. He had two main roles. One was in offensive quality control which involved breaking down film for the offense. He also had responsibilities in putting together the scouting report.

Broadcasting career
On July 22, 2013, Chris Simms was included in Fox Sports' commentator lineup for the 2013 college football season. He made his debut as color commentator when West Virginia University played the College of William & Mary on August 31, 2013.

Chris Simms joined Bleacher Report in February 2014 as an NFL analyst.

From 2014 to 2016, Simms was as a color commentator for the NFL on CBS, joining his father as part of the CBS broadcasting team. He left after the 2016 season to join his father's old employer, NBC Sports, where he is a studio analyst for Notre Dame football and a personality on NBC Sports Radio. In March 2019, Simms left Bleacher Report to become a full-time employee of NBC working as an analyst for Football Night In America and Notre Dame football, as well as co-host of ProFootballTalk Live. In 2021, he began to co-host Peacock's Sunday Night Football Final.

Personal life
Simms married Danielle Marie Puleo in August 2004, whom he first met in high school. Together, they have two children: Charlotte, born in 2006, and Phillip, born in 2010.

Simms was arrested in July 2010 and charged with driving while intoxicated, but was acquitted at trial in May 2011.

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Talk:Mec Vannin

Vandalism
Please note that a certain person seems intent to vandalise the pages on Bernard Moffatt, Mec Vannin, Celtic League (political organisation). It seems each time, information that they are uncomfortable with for some reason, is removed. The vandalism has come from two separate IPs, and has removed links and historical facts. ImpartialCelt 17:16, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Additional: I note that vandal has attributed a "stupid statement" (another piece of vandalism) to me. This was not me. ImpartialCelt 5 July 2005 16:37 (UTC)

Name of party
From the article: "It is sometimes referred to as the "Manx Nationalist Party" (usually not by members), but this can lead to confusion with the Manx National Party, which was a name used by two other parties." On the Mec Vannin website, they claim that they are the Manx Nationalist Party. "Yn Pabyr Seyr is published by Mec Vannin, the Manx Nationalist Party." (see this link)

I would suggest changing the statement about this in the article.Jimjamjak (talk) 09:54, 19 September 2008 (UTC)

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Stuck on You (film)

Stuck on You is a 2003 American comedy film written and directed by the Farrelly brothers, and starring Matt Damon and Greg Kinnear as conjoined twin brothers, whose conflicting aspirations provide both conflict and humorous situations, in particular when one of them wishes to move to Hollywood to pursue a career as an actor.

Plot
Conjoined twins Bob and Walt Tenor try to live as normally as possible. Outgoing and sociable Walt aspires to be a Hollywood actor, whereas Bob is shy and introverted.

The twins run Quikee Burger, a diner in Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard, guaranteeing free meals if orders are not completed in three minutes, showing how skilled and in sync Bob and Walt are. Walt is comfortable interacting with women, but Bob is shyer. He has a long-distance relationship with pen pal May Fong from California, whom he has never met and hasn't told he is a conjoined twin.

Walt stars in a one man show, while Bob stays as much as possible in the background, as he has stage fright. As the play's successful, Walt follows his dream to Hollywood, persuading his hesitant brother to go along for the ride.

They rent an apartment in California and become friends with fellow aspiring actress April Mercedes. When she asks about their conjoinment, Walt explains they share a liver that is mostly Bob's. As surgical separation is risky for Walt, Bob would not consent, even though Walt wanted it. It is also why Walt looks older than Bob.

Walt has difficulty finding acting work in Hollywood, and his agent, Morty O'Reilly, isn't helpful, offering at one point to get him a job in a pornographic film. Cher is upset that she is starring in a prime-time TV show called Honey and the Beaze. Wanting out, she hires Walt as her co-star, certain it will get cancelled. The producers realize her scheme and foil it by going forward, compensating for Bob's presence by keeping him out of the camera frame and employing bluescreen effects. The show is a surprise hit and Walt becomes famous.

Walt arranges for May Fong to meet Bob without his consent. They develop a romantic relationship, though the twins' attempt to keep their conjoined nature a secret proves challenging, especially as Walt must accompany them everywhere, sometimes using creative solutions like disguising himself as a giant teddy bear. Eventually, when May discovers them in bed, she concludes they are a gay couple rather than brothers. Although Bob shows her they are indeed conjoined twins, shocked at the lie, she flees.

Morty informs the twins that word has leaked about them being conjoined. Rather than hide this, they embrace it, becoming huge celebrities, making commercials and appearing on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. While Walt enjoys this success, he knows that Bob is unhappy and misses May. Resolving that Bob needs to be independent to be happy, Walt demands they be surgically separated.

Bob refuses, so Walt acts wild and crazy. Drunk, he snatches a woman's purse and spends the night in jail for drunk driving. Although Walt was drinking, Bob has the hangover, as their shared liver is mostly his. Released the following morning, they fight and Bob agrees to the operation.

On the night before the surgery, May shows up, apologizing to Bob for running out. He informs her that they are getting separated; although she does not want them to, he says it is best. At the hospital, May and April wait until Ben Carson, a real-life neurosurgeon in a cameo, informs them that the surgery was successful.

Bob and May, small-town people, move back to Oak Bluffs, but Bob finds the separation from Walt difficult, both practically and emotionally, and has difficulty doing things by himself they used to do together, such as maintain Quikee Burger's three-minute challenge or play hockey. Walt loses his job when Honey and the Beaze is canceled due to low ratings, and doesn't find more work. He is also emotionally devastated by Bob's absence. After a brief talk with Cher about what's best for him, he moves back to Oak Bluffs.

One year later, Walt and Bob are running the restaurant together, Bob and May have married and May is pregnant. The twins simulate their former conjoinment with Velcro clothing that attaches them. Walt finds creative fulfillment continuing in local plays, including a musical in which he and Meryl Streep play Bonnie and Clyde.

Cast

 * Matt Damon as Bob Tenor
 * Greg Kinnear as Walt Tenor
 * Cher as herself
 * Eva Mendes as April Mercedes
 * Wen Yann Shih as May Fong
 * Pat Crawford Brown as Mimmy
 * Ray Valliere as Rocket
 * Tommy Songin as Tommy
 * Terence Bernie Hines as Moe Neary
 * Jackie Flynn as Howard
 * Seymour Cassel as Morty O'Reilly
 * Stephen Saux as drive-by heckler
 * Danny Murphy as Dicky
 * Steve Tyler as Detective Reney
 * Dane Cook as Officer Fraioli
 * Lin Shaye as Makeup Babe
 * Bella Thorne as MV Sideline (uncredited)
 * Tracy Ashton as Casting Agent #2
 * Jessica Cauffiel as Debbie
 * Catherine McCord as Jogger #1
 * Rhona Mitra as Bus Stop Beauty

 * Cameo appearances
 * Griffin Dunne
 * Jay Leno
 * Cam Neely as MV hockey player
 * Ricky Williams as MV football coach
 * Ben Carson (as "head surgeon")
 * Cameron Diaz (uncredited)
 * Mary Hart (uncredited)
 * Fernanda Lima
 * Frankie Muniz (uncredited)
 * Meryl Streep
 * Luke Wilson
 * Jesse Ventura (uncredited)
 * Tom Brady (uncredited)
 * Lawyer Milloy (uncredited)

Music
The song "Human" recorded by Cher, who appears in the film, and produced by David Kahne was included in the soundtrack (Flynn cover). There was no official release, but in Germany the song was released on a promotional CD of the soundtrack called "Unzertrennlich" and that version clocks 3:49. The original 4:25 version was never released. The song can be heard during the end credits of the film and is played during a scene in a club. This is the first Farrelly Brothers film not to have an official soundtrack.

The song "Moonlight Feels Right" by Starbuck, written and produced by lead singer/keyboardist Bruce Blackman also appears in the film.

Pete Yorn recorded a cover of the Albert Hammond classic "It Never Rains in Southern California" for the film, and like the aforementioned Cher song, remains unreleased. The Kings of Leon songs "California Waiting", "Molly's Chambers" and "Holy Roller Novocaine" all are featured in the film, as well, from the band's first EP, Holy Roller Novacaine.

Greg Kinnear's version of "Summertime" is an almost note-for-note cover of the Billy Stewart version, and was also sampled in Rihanna's song "Cockiness (Love It)". Eight minutes out in the movie, while at a bar, Morten Abel's song "Welcome Home" is played.

The country song played over the closing credits The Fear of Being Alone is sung by George Schappell (credited as Reba), one of a set of conjoined twins who is mentioned in the film.

Critical response
Review website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 61% based on 158 reviews, and an average rating of 6/10, with the consensus: "An unusually sweet and charming comedy by the Farrelly brothers. Fans may miss the distinct lack of bodily fluids though." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 62 out of 100, based on 37 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.

Box office
The film broke even on its $55 million production budget with $65,784,503 worldwide, its box office draw considerably underperformed the Farrelly Brothers' previous hits. It only managed third place in its opening weekend box office (US) despite having the largest theater count of any release that weekend (December 12–14, 2003).

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/John Schmitz

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. — Xezbeth 10:23, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

John Schmitz
Utterly non-notable secondary school teacher. Entire article is "He was a Hayfield Secondary School U.S. History teacher. He had a 92.1 % passing rate for Virginia SOL and Ph.D in History from American University." For potential personal attack, vanity, and certain non-notability, Delete. jglc | t | c 17:18, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete - Looking at who created it, it seems apparant vanity. --Irishpunktom\talk 17:22, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, clearly not warranted as an article. Average Earthman 17:54, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Despite being "unequivocally regarded as one of, if not the greatest, historian of all time", he has only one fan. Not sure if it is him, his wife or a student who badly needs to pass history this spring. --Habap 19:18, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. JamesBurns 23:37, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. Sounds like someone is kissing up. --Etacar11 23:57, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Fuk you, uu'll pay for deleting Raymond Millones!!!--64.229.92.23 01:32, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Within 14 minutes, this anon managed to contribute eight times to various VfD votes, each time voting to keep an obvious joke entry. jglc | t | c 01:35, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. "He is unequivocally regarded as one of, if not the greatest, historian of all time." would have made John Schmitz notable, but it's unverifiable. (To make a long story short: Vanity, not notable) Sjakkalle (Check!)  06:57, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, no references for being the greatest historian of all time. Alphax τεχ 09:25, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages.  Please do not edit this page .


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Richard Meredith

Richard Meredith may refer to:

 * Richard Meredith (bishop) (died 1597), Church of Ireland bishop
 * Sir Richard Meredith, 2nd Baronet (died 1679), MP for Kent
 * Richard C. Meredith (1937–1979), American science fiction author
 * Richard Meredith (author) (born 1948), British travel writer
 * Richard Meredith (ice hockey) (born 1932), American ice hockey player
 * Richard Meredith (New Zealand politician) (1843–1918), New Zealand politician
 * Richard Meredith-Hardy (born 1957), British pilot
 * Richard Edmund Meredith (1855–1916), Irish jurist
 * Richard Martin Meredith (died 1934), Canadian jurist
 * Richard Meredith (priest), Dean of Wells 1607–1621

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Sauquoit

Sauqoit may refer to:

 * Sauquoit, New York, a hamlet
 * Sauquoit Creek, a river in Oneida County, New York
 * Sauquoit Valley, a valley in Oneida County, New York

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Talk:Dar al-Harb

I have questions regarding this article; anyone choose to participate? Thank you. Nobs01 17:23, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

merge
The concept of dar al harb can only be understood in context with dar al islam. Without it, it doesnt make any sence. Both these should be merged. F.a.y. تبادله خيال /c 09:12, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
 * While I feel that both should their own respective articles, the way they stand now, they are almost carbon copies of one another. Unless someone has something to add to either of these articles that would differentiate it from the other, a merger may be desired. Pepsidrinka 00:20, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Well thats the main point .Why have two carbon copies of the same article, provided with the fact that one cant be understood without the context of the other . F.a.y. تبادله خيال /c 19:42, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I support the merger, for the reason stated above: that neither term can be understood without mention of the other. Same logic as for merging enclave and exclave. //Big Adamsky 11:07, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
 * What I meant was, I think a merger should be temporary because surely more information could be added to each topic to distinguish them and merit seperate articles. Pepsidrinka 17:52, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I merged. Cuñado  [[image:Bahaitemplatestar.png|20px]] -  Talk  17:45, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

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Ragee

Ikechukwu Clinton Nnaemeka (born 28 February 1997), professionally known as Ragee also known for the tag Initiating, Rage Process, is a Nigerian record producer and songwriter. He made his mainstream debut when he produced Davido’s hit song ”Unavailable” featuring Musa Keys off his fourth studio album Timeless (2023) which peaked at number 1 on the UK Afrobeats Singles Chart for five weeks and reached number 8 on the Billboard U.S. Afrobeats Songs chart.

Early life
Ragee was born in Lagos, Nigeria and originally from Anambra State, He attended Lagos State Polytechnic Ikorodu, where he studied Computer Science. Ragee began his musical career in the choir and as a church drummer, He started as a rapper and songwriter before going into music production.

Career
He first rose to prominence with his works on Bad Boy Timz’s ‘Have Fun’ in 2020, before producing Davido’s 2023 viral hit "Unavailable", featuring Musa keys. At the start of 2023, he formed a successful artist-producer combo with the Nigerian singer-songwriter Davido, as he went on producing two songs off his fourth studio album Timeless, Ragee has produced Nigerian music for the likes of Bad Boy Timz and rated among the 2022 top 10 Producers of 2022 according to Pulse Nigeria.

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Jason Chimera

Jason Chimera (born May 2, 1979) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger who played for five teams in the National Hockey League (NHL).

Playing career
Chimera played his junior career in the WHL, for Medicine Hat and Brandon. He was selected 121st overall in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft by his hometown team, the Edmonton Oilers, mostly because of his outstanding skating. Chimera played three seasons on the Hamilton Bulldogs, which at that point was the Oilers' farm team in the American Hockey League. In his final season, he was named to the AHL First All-Star team.

Chimera played two seasons for Edmonton before being traded to the Phoenix Coyotes for draft choices. Because of the NHL lockout, he did not play the following season and went to play in Italy for Mastini Varese. Chimera was subsequently dealt to the Columbus Blue Jackets, without playing a game in Phoenix, as part of a trade for Geoff Sanderson.

With the Blue Jackets, Chimera predominantly played left wing on the team's third line. He was usually centered by Manny Malhotra and spent significant time playing alongside right wingers such as Dan Fritsche and Trevor Letowski. However, Chimera began the 2008–09 season as the veteran presence on a line with rookies Derick Brassard and Jakub Voracek.

He was a member of the 2007 Canadian IIHF World Championship team that won gold in a 4–2 win against Finland in Moscow.

Chimera was traded to the Washington Capitals on December 28, 2009 for Chris Clark and Milan Jurčina. Chimera was re-signed a two-year contract extension with the Capitals on September 29, 2011.

Chimera was re-signed a two-year contract extension with the Capitals on November 8, 2013.

On July 1, 2016, Chimera signed a two-year deal as a free agent with the New York Islanders. During the subsequent season, Chimera played in his 1,000th game.

In the 2017–18 season, his final season under contract with the Islanders, Chimera was dealt at the trade deadline to the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for Chris Wagner on February 26, 2018.

While with the Capitals, Chimera was nicknamed “the Ice Cheetah” for his speed on the ice.

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Ancient Law

Ancient Law is a book by Henry James Sumner Maine. It was first published in octavo in 1861. The book went through twelve editions during the lifetime of the author. The twelfth edition was published in 1888. A new edition, with notes by Frederick Pollock, was published in octavo in 1906.

Lectures delivered by Maine for the Inns of Court were the groundwork for Ancient Law. Its object, as stated in the preface, was "to indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind, as they are reflected in ancient law, and to point out the relation of those ideas to modern thought.

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User talk:Peterlean

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UK COTW: Winter of Discontent
Just to let you know, an article you've voted for, has became this week's UKCOTW - Winter of Discontent. Cheers -- Joolz 19:10, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Lincoln/Vote
Please look at the restructured choices on Talk:Lincoln/Vote and clarify your vote. Thanks! —Lowellian (talk) 08:38, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

Uhh, you just voted for the Lincoln should redirect to Abraham Lincoln option, despite disagreeing with it in what you wrote; sorry, I realize the poll is kind of confusing with the "agree/disagree" statements, so I'm just going to turn them into choices 1-4, now. —Lowellian (talk) 08:51, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

Fixed now, I think. —Lowellian (talk) 08:59, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

You've still got an agree vote in the first option. Now that it has been made clearer, can you pick only one of them. Sorry for the bother. - Taxman Talk 13:33, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

Good to meet you
I just looked at your userpage. I'm so happy that someone else is working on this neglected category, better still that it is a professional. If you're ever on #wikipedia, I'm dburrito.

Thanks for the work.--demonburrito 03:47, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

Glad to see that there are others now doing work to improve the Meteorology pages. My main work has been on the Weather forecasting page, but due to lack of time I haven't made many edits recently. I think your new edits of the "chaos" paragraph are good and avoid the potential arguments likely by implying that the butterfly effect can be taken literally. Keep up the good work! --PeterLean 18:17, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Ensemble forecasting
I have created a stub for Ensemble forecasting. I would enjoy it if you would elaborate on this concept. If a more relevant article exists, please feel free to fix this. Thanks.--demonburrito 10:13, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

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Comparative contextual analysis

Comparative contextual analysis is a methodology for comparative research where contextual interrogation precedes any analysis of similarity and difference. It is a thematic process directed and designed to explore relationships of agency rather than institutional or structural frameworks. See structure and agency and theory of structuration.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Phora

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete · Katefan0(scribble) 20:14, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

The Phora
Oh where to start! Unencyclopedic, overly POV, site link says it is gone, plus other links within article appear more like attempts at advertising. … G u y M … (soapbox) 17:26, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Where to start - you can detail exactly what makes this article so unencyclopedic, where you see POV, how links within the article are "advertising" (I only see two direct links, which are topical and used for comparative purposes; other non-hyper-links are within a verbatim quotation which is also topical) and any other arguments you may have please. Also the link to The Phora's website is working; the site was down for a few days but is online now.--Yipperson 07:04, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

*Keep This article is useful, but it needs to be improved and cleaned up good. --Gramaic 6 July 2005 04:51 (UTC)
 * Delete The Phora home page is still down, and just as Willmcw said, it's barely notable. Anyway, I like to thank Will for the support he gave me.--Gramaic | Talk 8 July 2005 07:27 (UTC)
 * Keep and edit heavily. What Guy M and Yipperson say about this article is true: it's horrible. Under ordinary circumstances I'd vote to delete. However I believe that Gramaic is capable (with our help) of bringing this article up to WP standards. My bigger concern is that it is small and barely notable, but again I trust Gramaic's judgement on account of his work on articles like "White supremacy". -Willmcw July 6, 2005 06:12 (UTC)
 * Delete. Let's waste our time on better topics than marginal white nationalist web forums. If it someday becomes truly notable we can write a new article with less work than it would take to edit the current article into a presentable form. -Willmcw July 8, 2005 07:51 (UTC)
 * Can we have some discussion as to what exactly would need to be changed to bring the article into "presentable form"? The content is not very heavy, I doubt it would take much effort.

--Yipperson 22:43, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The Phora is pretty well-known among racialist websites... At least a lot of people seem to have hated it! --Edward Wakelin 04:50, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Phrases like "I created it ..." let me know there's a vanity piece here. Phrases like "This was the last incarnation of The Phora that was hacked by those Arab fucks last June" are unencyclopediac.  Lcuff 22:50, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * ^Those are clearly quotations --Yipperson 18:55, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment - despite the debate this was not previosly listed on afd/vfd - now fixed (no vote)--Doc (?) 21:52, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete first person verbiage per nom. -Splash 23:17, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, non-notable forum, unless (secondary) sources can be provided to demonstrate its notability. A stunning alex rank of three million . Sdedeo 23:18, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Splash. Nandesuka 00:06, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Red and Rover

Red and Rover (often styled Red & Rover) is a daily syndicated comic strip by Brian Basset that debuted in 2000. Autobiographical in nature, Red & Rover is a retro-feel comic strip about the unconditional love between a dog and his boy that captures the spirit and flavor of the early-1960s to mid-1970s.

Red and Rover has been nominated four times for Best Newspaper Comic Strip. In 2013, Red and Rover received the Reuben Award for Best Newspaper Comic Strip by the National Cartoonists Society. On Sunday, May 7, 2000, Red and Rover appeared in newspapers for the first time.

Publication history
Basset had been producing the comic strip Adam (now known as Adam@home) since 1984. In 1998, he began thinking about producing a second comic strip that had a more childlike quality to it.

In 2009, after nearly 25 years of drawing Adam@home, Basset decided to focus squarely on Red and Rover and he handed over the illustration duties of the older strip to Big Top artist Rob Harrell.

Originally syndicated for the first ten years by The Washington Post Writers Group, Red and Rover is currently syndicated to over 200 papers by Andrews McMeel Syndication.

Characters and story
Red and Rover is usually set around the end of the 1960s or the beginning of the 1970s, although a strip from November 20, 2009, depicted a car which bears a striking resemblance to a mid-1970s Ford Country Squire station wagon, and in a Sunday strip from August 28, 2011 Red plays a parody of Jaws, a film from 1975.

Red (real name Russell McLean ) is a ten-year-old boy with dreams of going into space one day. He enjoys model rocketry, baseball, reading comic books, and other pastimes associated with boys his age. He loves Rover, his dog. Red can understand what Rover is thinking. This trope is used famously, of course, in Charles M. Schulz 's Peanuts, where the bird Woodstock and sometimes, even Charlie Brown can similarly read Snoopy's thoughts. Red is often easygoing and even-tempered, being content with his life and having a simple outlook towards the world around him. He is rather lazy, as he can often be found sleeping or taking naps. Red mostly wears T-shirts with blue jeans and sneakers, but tends to go barefoot during the summer.

Rover is a dog with mostly Lab in him. Rover is usually cool, calm and collected, and is very loyal to Red. Red and Rover met when Rover rescued Red from being hit by a truck. Red took him home where he's stayed ever since. Rover, in turn, can understand what Red is thinking. In many strips Rover is shown chasing squirrels. On March 16, 2010, Rover revealed that his grandfather, "Merganser McIntire", was a Chesapeake Bay Retriever and his grandmother, "Codfish Kate", was part Portuguese Water Dog.

Martin McLean is Red's 17-year-old brother, taken as a member of the "in-crowd." Martin's bedroom is in his basement, and he likes the Rolling Stones. He has bangs that cover his eyes most of the time. He has a girlfriend – Red can be seen either listening in on phone conversations or spying on Martin when she comes over. Martin seems to think of Red as a lower form of life, and frequently torments him.

Caroline "Carrie" McLean is Red's mother. She is a part-time community college administrator. Carrie is known for her good fudge.

Conrad McLean is Red's father. He is an aerospace engineer. He enjoys bowling and barbecuing. He had a brother named Jimmy who was killed in action during the Vietnam War. Red and Rover place a flag on his uncle Jimmy's grave on Memorial Day.

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Legion of Super-Pets

The Legion of Super-Pets is a fictional team of superhero pets in the DC Universe. The original membership included Krypto the Superdog, Streaky the Supercat, Beppo the Super-Monkey, and Comet the Super-Horse, with the shape-shifting alien Proty II later joining. The team first appeared in Adventure Comics #293 (February 1962), although all of the members except for Comet had appeared individually in earlier issues. The group was removed from mainstream DC Comics continuity in 1986 but a new version appeared in mainstream comics in 2017.

The crossover series DC One Million in 1998 indicated that in the 853rd century a version of the team operates called the Justice Legion of Super-Zoomorphs. A follow-up story revealed that the universe of the 853rd century is protected by many teams representing the Legion of Super-Familiars, all of which are overseen by the Legion of Executive Familiars. It is unclear if the Justice Legion of Super Zoomorphs is one of these teams and simply adopted a unique name or is its own organization, similar to how the Legion of Super-Heroes and Legion of Substitute Heroes are similar teams, one inspired by the other, but operate separately unless a team-up is required.

Publication history
The first super-pet crossover story was published in Action Comics #277 (June 1961), "Battle of the Super-Pets", in which Krypto and Streaky competed with each other. The story ended with the surprise appearance of Beppo, who had appeared a couple of years earlier in Superboy.

Adventure Comics #293 (1962) featured the villainous Brain-Globe aliens threatening Superboy and the Legion of Super-Heroes. Krypto, Streaky, and Beppo are recruited, along with Comet who made his debut in the same issue. After the Brain-Globes are defeated, the team members go their separate ways but the comic book narration promised the Legion of Super-Pets would soon join forces again.

Significant appearances during the Legion's Adventure Comics run include issue #322 (July 1964) in which Proty II is initiated onto the team; issue #343 (April 1966) in which the Super-Pets help the Legion battle the Luck Lords; and issue #364 (January 1968), "The Revolt of the Super-Pets!"

The team only rarely appeared after the Silver Age and was removed from continuity by the reality-altering crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths, which was published from 1985-1986. Krypto as a super-powered dog became a recurring character in the Superman titles again following the 2000 storyline "Return to Krypton". Some of the other Super-Pets appeared in Post-Crisis comics in different forms. Traditional versions of Beppo and Comet appeared in issue #6 of Krypto the Superdog, an outside continuity comic series aimed at younger readers. A new official version of the Legion of Super-Pets made an appearance in the mainstream DC Comics universe in Super Sons Annual #1 in 2017.

In DC One Million #4 (1998), there is a group of super-powered animals living in the 853rd century (including a white horse wearing a version of the Superman S-shield) who were referred to as veterans of the Justice Legion of Super-Zoomorphs and were "led by Proty One Million and Master Mind" (the latter a possible descendant of the worm villain Mister Mind). DC 1 Million 80-Page Giant #1 (1999) introduced a group of super-powered animals in the 853rd century called the Legion of Super-Familiars. The story specifically says the team carries on the legacy of the Legion of Super-Pets and that there are many such legions on different worlds, all overseen by the Legion of Executive Familiars, led by Krypto-9.

Silver Age
The last survivors of the planet Rambat, a group of alien Brain-Globes decide to move Earth to their own solar system and use it as a new home. They try to defeat Superboy, knowing the teenage hero of Smallville will oppose their plan. When they fail, they summon his friends Cosmic Boy, Lightning Lad, and Saturn Girl, the founders of the 30th century team of teenage champions called the Legion of Super-Heroes. Rambat mentally commands the trio to capture him. After the time-traveling teenagers succeed in capturing Superboy, the Brain-Globes release them from mental control.

The Legionnaires fear acting directly against the Brain-Globes, who might subvert their will again. Noticing the Brain-Globes cannot control the minds of animals or Superboy's Kryptonian dog Krypto, they decide to recruit other super-powered animals from across time for help. Knowing Superman's future, they recruit Streaky the Supercat, Beppo the Super-Monkey, and Comet the Super-Horse (who they knew would be a companion to Supergirl after she arrived on Earth years later). The pets defeat the aliens and Saturn Girl declares the group of animals will now be honored as the Legion of Super-Pets, a special branch of the Legion of Super-Heroes. They then return the animals to their proper time periods, not telling Superboy how the Brain-Globes were defeated since he shouldn't know too much about his own future, including people and animals he has yet to meet.

During one adventure in the 30th century, the Legion of Super-Heroes meet a Protean, a "protoplasmic" creature native to a planet in the Antares system. Proteans are simple but have intelligence, along with shape-shifting powers and limited telepathy. The Legionnaire called Chameleon Boy adopts him as a pet, naming him Proty. After Proty sacrifices his life to save Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad, Chameleon boy adopts another Protean as a new pet, naming him Proty II (though many just call him "Proty" as well). When the Legion of Super-Heroes later decides to challenge the villain Time Trapper, they recruit Superboy and the Legion of Substitute Heroes to join the effort. Nervous to leave their base unguarded, they have Superboy bring forth the Legion of Super-Pets to protect Legion HQ. Saturn Girl uses her telepathic powers to grants the animals their own limited telepathy so they can effectively communicate with each other and people. Proty II, left behind by Chameleon Boy, asks to join the team. After passing four challenges to show he can perform impressive feats even though his main power is shape-shifting, Proty II is officially welcomed into the LSP. Thanks to time travel technology, he is able to join the team on more adventures afterward.

The Legion of Super-Pets and their history were later removed from the canon of the mainstream DC Comics following the reality-altering crossover Crisis on Infinite Earths (1985–1985). The different animal members occasionally made other appearances in different stories.

DC Rebirth
A new Legion of Super-Pets team appeared in the Post-DC Rebirth universe in Super Sons Annual #1 (2017). This roster includes Krypto, Titus (Damian Wayne's pet dog), Streaky, and the Bat-Cow (a cow with a bat-shaped patch over its eyes, previously introduced in Batman Inc.), along with two new animals making their first appearance in the story: Flexi the Plastic Bird (a parrot with Plastic Man's powers) and Clay Critter (a creature resembling Proty, possibly related to Clayface). Other members include Ch'p and B'dg (H'lvenites from the Green Lantern Corps), the Terrific Whatzit (a turtle with the Flash's powers) Jumpa the Kanga (an Amazonian breed of kangaroo which was probably bred and originated in Themyscira, owned by Wonder Woman), Ace the Bat-Hound (Batman's dog originally owned by an engraver named John Wilker), Fuzzy the Krypto Mouse (a mouse that was given super-powers – similar to Superman – by an unusual form of kryptonite), PB (a potbellied pig who can change size in scale, and another of Wonder Woman's pets), Mark, and Keith (a pair of guinea pigs; Mark is the brown one who possesses pyrokinesis, and is Cyborg's pet, while Keith is the white one who possesses cryokinesis (later hydrokinesis after Lulu (a hairless guinea pig who possesses flight and telekinesis, and is Mercy Graves' pet) smashes him against Mark), and is Aquaman's pet (actually all four characters from the CGI-animated film DC League of Super-Pets)).

The group is revealed to have secretly operated on several missions over the years (indicating that parts of their Silver Age history may be canon once more), but disbanded after a battle with Dex-Starr and Harley Quinn's hyenas Bud and Lou resulted in Clay Critter's apparent demise. Streaky evidently blamed Krypto for the loss of their teammate. In the Super Sons Annual #1 story, Krypto and Titus meet with Detective Chimp after realizing many dogs have gone missing. The two dogs reunite with Streaky, Bat-Cow and Flexi, and the group rescues the kidnapped dogs from an alien thief.

DC One Million
The crossover DC One Million introduced readers to a possible future in the 853rd century, where many solar systems were defended by heroes who either carried the legacy of modern-day DC heroes or were literal descendants, such as the Justice Legion-A. In DC One Million #4 (1998), super-powered animals appeared and were said to be "veterans" of the Justice Legion of Super-Zoomorphs who were being led into battle by "Proty One Million and Master Mind" (the latter a possible descendant of the worm villain Mister Mind).

The later one-shot issue DC 1 Million 80-Page Giant #1 introduced a coalition of different super-powered animal teams collectively known as the Legion of Super-Familiars, carrying on the legacy of the Legion of Super-Pets. Each planet of Earth's solar system in the 853rd century has its own local Legion of Super-Familiars team, all of which are organized and governed by the Legion of Executive Familiars, which includes Krypto-9 (descendant of Superman's dog Krypto), Octus the cephalopod from the Eighth Dimension, the worm teleporter Wormhole, and the twin sun-dogs Phaethon and Savitar. It is not made clear if the previously seen Justice Legion of Super-Zoomorphs is just one of the many Super-Familiars teams using a different name, an earlier version of the team, or a special team connected to the larger Legion of Super-Familiars, similar to how the Justice League occasionally co-exists with splinter groups such as the Justice League Task Force or how the Legion of Substitute Heroes is inspired by the Legion of Super-Heroes but operates independently unless a team-up is required.

Krypto-9, descendant of Superman's dog Krypto, explains the team's history in DC 1 Million 80-Page Giant #1: "Once they were masters and we were pets. Now we were recognized as full partners and designated familiars, an ancient referral to the bestial accomplice of the witch... Then came the great rebirth of mighty Solaris, and his patronage. He bequeathed universal telepathy on all animals and helped organize the super-familiars into legions".

Television

 * The Legion of Super-Pets appear in the Robot Chicken episode "Tubba-Bubba's Now Hubba-Hubba", consisting of Comet, Streaky, Krypto, Beppo, and "Hissy the Super-Snake". Superman returns to the Fortress of Solitude from a month in space to find the pets have all frozen to death because their babysitter mistakenly thought she was watching them the month after.
 * The Legion of Super-Pets appear in the DC Nation short "Superman 75th Anniversary", consisting of Beppo, Streaky, and Krypto.

Film
The Legion of Super-Pets, renamed the League of Super-Pets, appear in DC League of Super-Pets,     consisting of Krypto, Ace the Bat-Hound, a pot-bellied pig named PB with size-shifting powers, the Terrific Whatzit, and Chip.

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National Union of Teachers

The National Union of Teachers (NUT; ) was a trade union for school teachers in England, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. It was a member of the Trades Union Congress. In March 2017, NUT members endorsed a proposed merger with the Association of Teachers and Lecturers to form a new union known as the National Education Union, which came into existence on 1 September 2017. The union recruited only qualified teachers and those training to be qualified teachers into membership and on dissolution had almost 400,000 members, making it the largest teachers' union in the United Kingdom.

Campaigns
The NUT campaigned on educational issues and working conditions for its members. Among the NUT's policies in 2017 were:
 * Fair pay for teachers
 * Work-life balance for teachers
 * Against academies
 * Abolition of National Curriculum Tests (SATs)
 * One union for all teachers

The NUT offered legal protection to its members. The NUT established two financial services companies for teachers, Teachers Assurance in 1877 and the Teachers Building Society in 1966.

History

The NUT was established at a meeting at King's College London on 25 June 1870 as the National Union of Elementary Teachers (NUET) to represent all school teachers in England and Wales combining a number of local teacher associations which had formed across the country following the Elementary Education Act 1870 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 75). After toying with the idea of changing the name to the National Union of English Teachers, the name National Union of Teachers (NUT) was finally adopted at Annual Conference in April 1889.

In 1919, in response to an NUT referendum approving the principle of equal pay, a ginger group, the National Association of Men Teachers (NAMT), was formed within the NUT to further the interests of male teachers. The NAMT changed its name in 1920 to the National Association of Schoolmasters (NAS) and seceded finally from the NUT in 1922. The secession came about indirectly following a decision at the NAS Conference that year to prohibit NAS members from continuing to also be members of the NUT after the 31 December 1922. The NAS is now amalgamated into the NASUWT, the second-largest teaching union in the UK.

The NUT first established its offices at 7 Adam Street, Adelphi, London WC on the appointment of the first full-time Secretary in 1873. In 1889 it moved its headquarters to Bolton House, 67/71 Russell Square, London WC. In 1915, it moved its headquarters to Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London WC1H 9BD, where it has remained ever since, except during the Second World War, when the NUT rented Toddington Manor, Gloucestershire in order to avoid air raids.

General Secretaries
The General Secretary was the leader of the NUT. From 1989, the General Secretary was elected by the union's membership, with each term lasting five years.

 * William Lawson, 1870–1873
 * Thomas Heller, 1873–1891
 * James Yoxall, 1892–1924
 * Frank Goldstone, 1924–1931
 * Frederick Mander, 1931–1947
 * Ronald Gould, 1947–1970
 * Edward Britton, 1970–1975
 * Fred Jarvis, 1975–1989
 * Doug McAvoy, 1989–2004
 * Steve Sinnott, 2004–2008 (died in office)
 * Christine Blower, 2008–2016 (acting until May 2009)
 * Kevin Courtney, 2016–2017

Deputy General Secretaries

 * 1960s: Ernest Naisbitt
 * 1970: Fred Jarvis
 * 1974: Doug McAvoy
 * c.1989: Mary Hufford
 * 1994: Steve Sinnott
 * 2005: Christine Blower
 * 2010: Kevin Courtney
 * 2016: Post vacant

Presidents
• :1870: John James Graves

• :1871: J. Langton

• :1872: W. Osborn

• :1873: T. Smith

• :1874: H. J. Moore

• :1875: J. H. Devonshire

• :1876: G. Seldon

• :1877: W. Gardner

• :1878: T. N. Day

• :1879: J. W. Grove

• :1880: G. J. Rankilor

• :1881: J. R. Langler

• :1882: R. Sykes

• :1883: C. J. Dawson

• :1884: R. Greenwood

• :1885: R. Wild

• :1886: A. Trail

• :1887: G. Girling

• :1888: W. J. Pope

• :1889: R. Wild

• :1890: H. J. Walker

• :1891: G. Collins

• :1892: James Yoxall

• :1893: Charles Bowden

• :1894: Ernest Gray

• :1895: T. B. Ellery

• :1896: Thomas Macnamara

• :1897: C. J. Addiscott

• :1898: Richard Waddington

• :1899: Thomas Clancy

• :1900: Marshall Jackman

• :1901: James Blacker

• :1902: Allen Croft

• :1903: H. Coward

• :1904: George Sharples

• :1905: Tom John

• :1906: T. P. Sykes

• :1907: A. R. Pickles

• :1908: W. A. Nicholls

• :1909: C. W. Hole

• :1910: Marshall Jackman

• :1911: Isabel Cleghorn

• :1912: Walter David Bentliff

• :1913: A. W. Dakers

• :1914: William Bridgland Steer

• :1915: William Bridgland Steer

• :1916: Charles Williamson Crook

• :1917: Thomas Underdown

• :1918: Essie Conway

• :1919: W. P. Folland

• :1920: J. F. Wood

• :1921: G. H. Powell

• :1922: William Cove

• :1923: E. J. Sainsbury

• :1924: M. Conway

• :1925: C. T. Wing

• :1926: Fred Barraclough

• :1927: Frederick Mander

• :1928: William Willis Hill

• :1929: C. W. Cowen

• :1930: Leah Manning

• :1931: Angus Roberts

• :1932: A. E. Henshall

• :1933: H. N. Penlington

• :1934: H. Humphrey

• :1935: J. W. H. Brown

• :1936: D. Edwards

• :1937: R. J. Patten

• :1938: Elsie Vera Parker

• :1939: George Chipperfield

• :1940: George Chipperfield

• :1941: George Chipperfield

• :1942: W. Griffith

• :1943: Ronald Gould

• :1944: GCT Giles

• :1945: Isabel Haswell

• :1946: Ralph Morley

• :1947: J. W. Lawton

• :1948: William J. Rodda

• :1949: Gwynne Rees

• :1950: Sophie Christie Bertie

• :1951: A. Granville Prior

• :1952: C. A. Roberts

• :1953: O. Barnett

• :1954: F. J. Evans

• :1955: Herbert J. Nursery

• :1956: Edward Britton

• :1957: John Archbold

• :1958: E. S. Owen

• :1959: A. F. Cooke

• :1960: S. W. Exworthy

• :1961: G. A. Chappell

• :1962: John England

• :1963: Harry Dawson

• :1964: Muriel Stewart

• :1965: Edward Homer

• :1966: Oliver Whitfield

• :1967: D. G. Gilbert

• :1968: W. E. Davies

• :1969: C. B. Johnson

• :1970: C. W. Elliot

• :1971: J. T. Jones

• :1972: H. Allison

• :1973: Max Morris

• :1974: J. Caulfield

• :1975: E. Clayton

• :1976: A. Wilshire

• :1977: J. Gray

• :1978: D. G. Bonner

• :1979: J. Murphy

• :1980: P. Kennedy

• :1981: J. Chambers

• :1982: A. Budd

• :1983: D. Winters

• :1984: Peter Griffin

• :1985: W. Green

• :1986: R. Richardson

• :1987: D. Morgan

• :1988: M. Horne

• :1989: June Fisher

• :1990: Barbara Lloyd

• :1991: Anne Moran

• :1992: Pat Hawkes

• :1993: Marian Darke

• :1994: Steve Sinnott

• :1995: J. Bills

• :1996: Carole Regan

• :1997: Christine Blower

• :1998: Maureen Skevington

• :1999: Judith Elderkin

• :2000: Tony Brockman

• :2001: John Illingworth

• :2002: Kathryn Stallard

• :2003: Lesley Auger

• :2004: Mary Compton

• :2005: Hilary Bills

• :2006: Judy Moorhouse

• :2007: Baljeet Ghale

• :2008: Bill Greenshields

• :2009: Martin Reed

• :2010: Gill Goodswen

• :2011: Nina Franklin

• :2012: Marilyn Harrop

• :2013: Beth Davies

• :2014: Max Hyde

• :2015: Philipa Harvey

• :2016: Anne Swift

Annual Conference
The NUT annual conference took place every spring. The timing always coincided with Easter weekend: starting on Good Friday and ending on Easter Tuesday and took place in various locations. The last NUT Conference was held in Cardiff in 2017. Following the NUT amalgamation with the Association of Teachers and Lecturers on 1 September 2017 there will be a National Education Union - NUT Section held in Brighton in 2018.

Fred and Anne Jarvis Award
Named after former General Secretary Fred Jarvis and his late wife, the Fred and Anne Jarvis Award was established in 2007 and was presented annually by the NUT to individuals other than NUT members who campaigned tirelessly for all children and young people. For a list of winners of the Fred and Anne Jarvis Award see List of Fred and Anne Jarvis Award winners.

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Katz Castle

Katz Castle (Burg Katz) is a castle above the German town of Sankt Goarshausen in Rhineland-Palatinate. The castle stands on a ledge looking downstream from the riverside at Sankt Goar. It was first built around 1371 by Count William II of Katzenelnbogen. The castle was bombarded in 1806 by Napoleon and rebuilt in the late 19th century, in 1896–98. It is now privately owned, and not open for visitors.

Etymology
After the original castle "Burg Katzenelnbogen" (lit. Castle [of] Cat's Elbow) this medieval fortress castle is officially known as Burg Neukatzenelnbogen (Castle [of] New Cat's Elbow). It used to be and still is, however, comfortably and commonly contracted to "die [Burg] Katz" ("the [Castle] Cat").

As such, it is popularly linked with Burg Maus ("the [Castle] Mouse"), which was indeed erected in closest possible vicinity as its military counterpart.

Architecture
The castle is of compact layout, consisting mainly of a great hall and a massive bergfried, originally 40 metres tall, on the uphill side.

In 1435, the Counts of Katzenelnbogen were the first to plant Riesling grapes in their vineyard.

Katz Castle and its surroundings are the place of action for the Belgian comic book L'Orgue du Diable in the Yoko Tsuno series by Roger Leloup.

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Proportional control

Proportional control, in engineering and process control, is a type of linear feedback control system in which a correction is applied to the controlled variable, and the size of the correction is proportional to the difference between the desired value (setpoint, SP) and the measured value (process variable, PV). Two classic mechanical examples are the toilet bowl float proportioning valve and the fly-ball governor.

The proportional control concept is more complex than an on–off control system such as a bi-metallic domestic thermostat, but simpler than a proportional–integral–derivative (PID) control system used in something like an automobile cruise control. On–off control will work where the overall system has a relatively long response time, but can result in instability if the system being controlled has a rapid response time. Proportional control overcomes this by modulating the output to the controlling device, such as a control valve at a level which avoids instability, but applies correction as fast as practicable by applying the optimum quantity of proportional gain.

A drawback of proportional control is that it cannot eliminate the residual SP − PV error in processes with compensation e.g. temperature control, as it requires an error to generate a proportional output. To overcome this the PI controller was devised, which uses a proportional term (P) to remove the gross error, and an integral term (I) to eliminate the residual offset error by integrating the error over time to produce an "I" component for the controller output.

Theory
In the proportional control algorithm, the controller output is proportional to the error signal, which is the difference between the setpoint and the process variable. In other words, the output of a proportional controller is the multiplication product of the error signal and the proportional gain.

This can be mathematically expressed as

 * $$P_{\mathrm{out}} = K_p\,{e(t)+p0}$$

where Constraints: In a real plant, actuators have physical limitations that can be expressed as constraints on $$P_{\mathrm{out}}$$. For example, $$P_{\mathrm{out}}$$ may be bounded between −1 and +1 if those are the maximum output limits.
 * $$p0$$: Controller output with zero error.
 * $$P_{\mathrm{out}}$$: Output of the proportional controller
 * $$K_p$$: Proportional gain
 * $$e(t)$$: Instantaneous process error at time t. $$e(t)=SP - PV$$
 * $$SP$$: Set point
 * $$PV$$: Process variable

Qualifications: It is preferable to express $$K_p$$ as a unitless number. To do this, we can express $$e(t)$$ as a ratio with the span of the instrument. This span is in the same units as error (e.g. C degrees) so the ratio has no units.

Development of control block diagrams
Proportional control dictates $${\mathit{g_c = k_c}}$$. From the block diagram shown, assume that r, the setpoint, is the flowrate into a tank and e is error, which is the difference between setpoint and measured process output. $${\mathit{g_p}},$$ is process transfer function; the input into the block is flow rate and output is tank level.

The output as a function of the setpoint, r, is known as the closed-loop transfer function. $${\mathit{g_{cl}}} = \frac{\mathit{g_{p}g_{c}}}{1 + g_{p}g_{c}},$$ If the poles of $${\mathit{g_{cl}}},$$ are stable, then the closed-loop system is stable.

First-order process
For a first-order process, a general transfer function is $$g_p = \frac{k_p}{\tau_p s+1}$$. Combining this with the closed-loop transfer function above returns $$g_{CL} = \frac{\frac{k_p k_c}{\tau_p s+1}}{1+\frac{k_p k_c}{\tau_p s+1}}$$. Simplifying this equation results in $$g_{CL} = \frac{k_{CL}}{\tau_{CL} s+1}$$ where $$k_{CL} = \frac{k_p k_c}{1+k_p k_c}$$ and $$\tau_{CL} = \frac{\tau_p}{1+k_p k_c}$$. For stability in this system, $$\tau_{CL} > 0$$; therefore, $$\tau_p$$ must be a positive number, and $$k_p k_c > -1$$ (standard practice is to make sure that $$k_p k_c > 0$$).

Introducing a step change to the system gives the output response of $$y(s) = g_{CL} \times \frac{\Delta R}{s}$$.

Using the final-value theorem,

$$\lim_{t \to \infty} y(t) = \lim_{s \,\searrow\, 0} \left( s \times \frac{k_{CL}}{\tau_{CL} s + 1} \times \frac{\Delta R}{s} \right) = k_{CL} \times \Delta R = y(t)|_{t=\infty}$$

which shows that there will always be an offset in the system.

Integrating process
For an integrating process, a general transfer function is $$g_p = \frac{1}{s(s+1)}$$, which, when combined with the closed-loop transfer function, becomes $$g_{CL} = \frac{k_c}{s(s+1) + k_c}$$.

Introducing a step change to the system gives the output response of $$y(s) = g_{CL} \times \frac{\Delta R}{s}$$.

Using the final-value theorem,

$$\lim_{t \to \infty} y(t) = \lim_{s \,\searrow\, 0} \left(s \times \frac{k_c}{s(s+1) + k_c} \times \frac{\Delta R}{s}\right) = \Delta R = y(t)|_{t=\infty}$$

meaning there is no offset in this system. This is the only process that will not have any offset when using a proportional controller.

Offset error

Offset error is the difference between the desired value and the actual value, $SP − PV$ error. Over a range of operating conditions, proportional control alone is unable to eliminate offset error, as it requires an error to generate an output adjustment. While a proportional controller may be tuned (via $p0$ adjustment, if possible) to eliminate offset error for expected conditions, when a disturbance (deviation from existing state or setpoint adjustment) occurs in the process, corrective control action, based purely on proportional control, will result in an offset error.

Consider an object suspended by a spring as a simple proportional control. The spring will attempt to maintain the object in a certain location despite disturbances that may temporarily displace it. Hooke's law tells us that the spring applies a corrective force that is proportional to the object's displacement. While this will tend to hold the object in a particular location, the absolute resting location of the object will vary if its mass is changed. This difference in resting location is the offset error.

Proportional band
The proportional band is the band of controller output over which the final control element (a control valve, for instance) will move from one extreme to another. Mathematically, it can be expressed as:

$$ PB = \frac{100}{K_p}\ $$

So if $$K_p$$, the proportional gain, is very high, the proportional band is very small, which means that the band of controller output over which the final control element will go from minimum to maximum (or vice versa) is very small. This is the case with on–off controllers, where $$K_p$$ is very high and hence, for even a small error, the controller output is driven from one extreme to another.

Advantages
The clear advantage of proportional over on–off control can be demonstrated by car speed control. An analogy to on–off control is driving a car by applying either full power or no power and varying the duty cycle, to control speed. The power would be on until the target speed is reached, and then the power would be removed, so the car reduces speed. When the speed falls below the target, with a certain hysteresis, full power would again be applied. It can be seen that this would obviously result in poor control and large variations in speed. The more powerful the engine, the greater the instability; the heavier the car, the greater the stability. Stability may be expressed as correlating to the power-to-weight ratio of the vehicle.

In proportional control, the power output is always proportional to the (actual versus target speed) error. If the car is at target speed and the speed increases slightly due to a falling gradient, the power is reduced slightly, or in proportion to the change in error, so that the car reduces speed gradually and reaches the new target point with very little, if any, "overshoot", which is much smoother control than on–off control. In practice, PID controllers are used for this and the large number of other control processes that require more responsive control than using proportional alone.

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Talk:List of Star Wars characters

Using the credits as a source...
TNstingray and Fountains of Bryn Mawr - are these the same credits that list Red Two (Wedge) as being portrayed by Dennis Lawson? :-) Chaheel Riens (talk) 17:22, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

 * That correction is reflected at Star Wars (film). Clearly the credits of this great film have some inaccuracies. It would be a disservice to the reader to not mention them, whether that be the name of the actor or the character. TNstingray (talk) 18:10, 11 April 2024 (UTC)

 * Wikipedia doesn't chose sides on these things, it describes the difference. So if a character has X name in X work and Y name in Y work and an actor is misidentified in B or C work - then we say "a character has X name in X work and Y name in Y work and an actor is misidentified in B / C work". Its not just a service to the reader to mention this, its Wikipedia policy. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 18:36, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Then why aren't you advocating that viewpoint in this instance, instead of insisting that your interpretation is correct? That's the point I was trying to get across.  Chaheel Riens (talk) 19:15, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
 * You actually have to cite another viewpoint, again required by Wikipedia policy. So, done here. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 20:29, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
 * That's better. Just seemed weird that it wasn't done in the first place.  Chaheel Riens (talk) 06:48, 12 April 2024 (UTC)

Links leading nowhere
Hi, I'm not sure where to classify this but on several related pages (most prominently actors who have been in Star Wars), the page has a link to the actor's Star Wars character (who is not predominant enough to have their own page) on this page, but the character does not appear in this list.

Off the top of my head I have two examples, one is Sofia Coppola as Saché--

"(for example, she appeared as Saché, one of Queen Padmé Amidala's five handmaidens, in George Lucas' 1999 film Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace)."1

-- which has the link Saché lead to "List of Star Wars characters", however Sache is not listed as a character on this page. This also occurs with actor Keisha Castle-Hughes, who is credited as Queen Apailana in RotS--

"In 2005, Castle-Hughes had a small part as Queen Apailana in Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith."2

-- which has the link Queen Apailana lead to "List of Star Wars characters", however (again) Queen Apailana is not listed as a character on this page.

I understand that not every character in Star Wars needs to be listed on this page (or indeed should, as there are far too many characters for that to work), however I do think that if you're going to go to the trouble of linking the actor's character (on the actor's page) to this page, the link should at least lead to the character, or else why bother linking it?

Thanks :) -Lis (talk) -Lis (talk) 23:13, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

 * This page has gone through major splits and deletions (sample of where Saché, etc went). Looks like the incoming redirects need to be brought up to date or deleted. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 13:21, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

List order - by last name or first?
Seeing a few errors in the alphabetical order of this list, as I think there's some confusion here (and I apologize if this has been asked before, or if I am missing if this is addressed).

How are we listing these characters? By first or last name alphabetically? A majority of them are by last name though there are people going by first. For example, Cid Scaleback is under C. Same with Caleb Dume/Kanan Jarris. Some do follow the format of sorting alphabetically by last name but there are just a few out of order.

Hoping to fix this and make these changes but want to see if there is a set rule for how this list is organized. Squiddyonwiki (talk) 09:47, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

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Hamid Ghodse

Abdol Hamid Ghodse CBE (; 30 April 1938 – 27 December 2012) was an academic in the field of substance abuse and addiction.

Positions held at time of death

 * Professor of Psychiatry and of International Drug Policy, University of London (from 1987)
 * President of European Collaborating Centres for Addiction Studies (from 1992)
 * Member of the International Narcotics Control Board (from 1992)
 * Member of the Executive Committee of the Federation of Clinical Professors (from 1994)
 * Director of the Board of International Affairs and Member of the Council, Royal College of Psychiatrists (from 2000)
 * Member of the Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health (from 2000)
 * Non-executive director of the National Patient Safety Agency (from 2001)
 * Director of the International Centre for Drug Policy, St George's, University of London (since 2003)
 * Chairman of Higher Degrees in Psychiatry, University of London (since 2003)
 * Member of the Medical Studies Committee, University of London (since 2003)

Former positions

 * President of the International Narcotics Control Board (1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2011)
 * Medical Director of the National Clinical Excellence Awards (2006)

Degrees and qualifications
Doctor of Medicine (MD), Iran (1965); Diploma Psychological Medicine (DPM), United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1974); Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of London (1976); Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (FRCPsych), United Kingdom (1985); Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), London (1992); Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (FRCPE), Edinburgh (1997); Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine (FFPHM), United Kingdom (1997); Doctor of Science (DSc), University of London (2002); Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), United Kingdom (2005).

Research and policy development
Professor Ghodse conducted research over 40 years in the areas of substance misuse and addictions. His early research, which formed the basis of his PhD thesis, was biological and focussed on the endocrinological effects of opioids on cortisol, growth hormone and insulin. He also systematically investigated the effect of naloxone on the pupil and developed this research into an accurate, non-invasive test for opioid dependence, which uniquely permits the rapid differentiation of opiate dependence from non-dependent use in an outpatient setting; international patents have been taken out for both the Ghodse Opioid Addiction Test (GOAT) and the pupilometer components of the test, which was selected as one of the 1000 UK Millennium Products.

Another important area of research was the development of epidemiological methods of studying the extent and nature of drug-related problems and the evaluation of the reliability and validity of various indicators. These included major surveys of accident and emergency departments and long term studies of coroners' courts and of the Home Office Index of Addict Deaths. Continuation of this 30-year-long research on mortality led to the development of a unique national database including the establishment of the National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths (NPSAD). An understanding of the "natural history" of addiction is fundamental to understanding the condition and to evaluating the effect of different treatments. Professor Ghodse's follow-up studies of cohorts of addicts therefore made a significant contribution to knowledge in this area. He also carried out systematic evaluation of different pharmacological treatments as well as the settings in which treatment takes place.

The epidemiological methods that he pioneered were selected by WHO for international studies and his studies have contributed significantly to international policy formation. His investigations on the role of different healthcare professionals in the rational use of psychoactive drugs were important in the development of WHO guidelines on this subject. He also developed an index for the assessment of rational prescribing which was accepted by WHO as an advancement of drug use research. His multicentre European studies on drugs and mental health and "Treat 2000" are contributing to the understanding of drug-related psychosis and treatment outcome of opioid addictions. He was the lead investigator in a multicentre study on the treatment of tobacco addiction in general and psychiatric hospitals and developed a toolkit for use in these settings.

He established the International Centre for Drug Policy at St George's University of London and over the years attracted substantial funding for research programmes and projects in psychiatry, mental health, addictions and medical education. He was President of the European Collaborating Centres on Addiction Studies (ECCAS).

Education and training
Professor Ghodse was appointed to the first established Chair in Addictive Behaviour in the UK in 1987. He established undergraduate, postgraduate and multi-professional training programmes in addiction, the benefit of which is reflected in the numbers of senior academics, consultant psychiatrists, public health practitioners, specialist nurses, social workers and psychologists leading the delivery of services in communities throughout the United Kingdom and many other parts of the world. A long list of teaching and training programmes which Professor Ghodse helped to establish includes addiction prevention in primary care, and educational courses for general practitioners and for prison service medical and nursing staff. He directed a national programme for the development and implementation of a Corporate Substance Misuse Curriculum in Medical Schools in the UK.

For many years he was Chairman of the subject panel of Psychiatry and Co-ordinator of Higher Degree Examinations of the University of London. He was Chairman of the Association of Professors of Psychiatry in the British Isles.

International activities
Hamid Ghodse was one of the 13 elected members of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), an independent treaty body associated with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, from 1992 to his death. He was the first scientist to be the President of the INCB, and was elected to this position for a record ten times. During this time he helped to modernise and lead the Board, gaining the confidence of the public and governments of all nations, as a truly respected and highly regarded organisation and helping to stem the scourge of narcotic abuse and trafficking. Over the years he vigorously tried to bring to the attention of governments the need to ensure adequate access to narcotic analgesics and other internationally controlled drugs for legitimate medical and scientific purposes. He addressed the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs, ECOSOC, and the World Health Assembly as well as national parliaments and international conferences and was an advocate for debate on controversial drug-related issues. He played an important role in a number of national and international civil societies, organisations and NGOs and was always supportive of their eminent contribution to all aspects of health.

Other posts and activities
Professor Ghodse was Medical Director of the National Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards (ACCEA) for England and Wales, Chairman of the International Health Advisory Board (IHAB) and the Senior Professional advisor to the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman. He was awarded the highest honour of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, by being elected an Honorary Fellow in 2006, and was made an Honorary Fellow of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) in 2008 and International Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). He published over 350 papers, chapters and a number of books, of which those on legal and clinical aspects have become standard works. Some of his other books, "Addiction at Work" (Gower Publishing), "International Drug Control in 21st Century" (Ashgate Publishing), "Ghodse's Drugs and Addictive Behaviour"(4th Edition, Cambridge University Press) and "Substance Abuse Disorders" (Wiley-Blackwell Publication) are other ground-breaking works. He was an Advisor on analgesic and on psychotropic medication (Section 4) to the British National Formulary from 1982. One of his research papers won the SIGP 2004 Prize for best psychopharmacological paper in the British Journal of Psychiatry. In 1999 Ghodse was appointed as an honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his dedication to research and clinical practice.

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Kim Young

Young Kim (born 2 February 1980) is a South Korean professional golfer.

Kim was born in Chunchon, South Korea. She played on the LPGA of Korea Tour winning five times between 1999 and 2003. She won once on the Futures Tour in 2001. She played on the LPGA Tour from 2003 to 2009, winning the 2007 LPGA Corning Classic.

Kim's best ever finish in a major championship was a T3 at the 2005 Women's British Open.

Kim was second to Lorena Ochoa for Rookie of the Year in 2003. She is perhaps best known for her different hat wear. Kim, when asked to describe the headgear she was wearing, called it a 'bucket hat'.

Futures Tour wins (1)

 * 2001 Barona Creek Women's Golf Classic

LPGA of Korea Tour wins (5)

 * 1999 Korea Women's Open
 * 2002 Paradise Ladies Open, SBS Super Tournament
 * 2003 KLPGA Championship, SBS Super Tournament

LPGA of Japan Tour wins (1)

 * 2013 Nichi-Iko Women's Open Golf Tournament

Results in LPGA majors
{{legend|yellow|Top 10}} {{legend|#eeeeee|Did not play}} WD = withdrew CUT = missed the halfway cut "T" = tied

Summary

 * Starts – 26
 * Wins – 0
 * 2nd-place finishes – 0
 * 3rd-place finishes – 1
 * Top 3 finishes – 1
 * Top 5 finishes – 1
 * Top 10 finishes – 6
 * Top 25 finishes – 11
 * Missed cuts – 4
 * Most consecutive cuts made – 7
 * Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (twice)

Team appearances
Professional
 * Lexus Cup (representing Asia team): 2006 (winners)
 * World Cup (representing South Korea): 2007

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Henry Jones Thaddeus

Henry Jones Thaddeus (1859–1929) was a realist and portrait painter born and trained in County Cork, Ireland.

Life and career
Born Henry Thaddeus Jones in 1859, he entered the Cork School of Art when he was ten years old. There he studied under the genre painter James Brenan. Thaddeus won the Taylor Prize in 1878 enabling him to go to London, and then again in 1879 enabling him to continue his studies in Paris at the Académie Julian. His first major painting, Le Retour du Braconnier (illustration, right), was hung "on the line" (at eye-level) at the Paris Salon of 1881.

He received commissions to paint portraits, among them two papal portrait commissions (for Pope Pius X), and became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He received several other portrait commissions.

In the 1880s, Thaddeus travelled to Algeria where he explored Orientalist painting.

His autobiography, titled Recollections of a Court Painter, was written during his retirement in California and published in 1912.

In his latter years he settled in the Isle of Wight, and died there at Ryde, on 1 May 1929.

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