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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/KaptainMyke

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KaptainMyke
Vanity. User already has a user page so can't be userfied. --W(t) 17:37, 2005 Jun 12 (UTC)
 * Delete for extreme lack of notability. David | Talk 17:50, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * If you can't userfy it, delete it for reasons already listed. If he recreates it, redirect it to his user page.  Nothing in the article suggests notability. --Idont Havaname 17:52, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Looks identical to the userpage anyway. Delete... Shimgray 18:06, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as self-promotion. Don't redirect across namespaces. Protect against recreation if needed. Mgm|(talk) 22:01, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. JamesBurns 04:33, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Dugway

Dugway may refer to:
 * Dugway Proving Ground, a United States military weapons testing range in Utah
 * Dugway, Utah, a census-designated place near the Dugway Proving Grounds
 * Dugway Brook Watershed, a drainage basin in Cleveland, Ohio

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Category talk:Lists of fictional characters

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I reverted categorization this category in Category:Fictional characters, as every article categorized here, is not character article but a list. --Pjacobi 17:39, 2005 Jun 12 (UTC)


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Category talk:Rivers of Europe

Comments
Wouldn't it be nice/better if all subcategories follow same naming convention? Looking more around seems that the prefered way of naming is "Rivers of Xxx" (vs. "Xxx's rivers") --TarmoK 17:39, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Nonius

Nonius can refer to:

People

 * Romans belonging to the Nonia gens
 * Pedro Nunes (Latin: Petrus Nonius) (1502–1578), Portuguese astronomer and mathematician

Other

 * Nonius (horse), a breed of horse
 * Nonius (device), a precursor to the Vernier scale
 * Nonius (crater), a lunar crater

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Zhores Medvedev

Zhores Aleksandrovich Medvedev (Жоре́с Алекса́ндрович Медве́дев; 14 November 1925 – 15 November 2018) was a Russian agronomist, biologist, historian and dissident. His twin brother is the historian Roy Medvedev.

Early life and education
Zhores Medvedev and his twin brother Roy were born on 14 November 1925 in Tbilisi, Transcaucasian SFSR, USSR. Their mother Yulia (nee Reiman), was a cellist, and their father, Alexander Medvedev, was a philosopher in a military academy in Leningrad. Zhores, named after French socialist leader Jean Jaurès (his twin was named after Indian revolutionary M. N. Roy), was drafted into the Red Army in 1943, but was soon discharged after being seriously wounded in a battle on the Taman Peninsula. He then began his studies in biology at the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy in Moscow. In December 1950, Zhores was awarded a PhD degree for his research into sexual processes in plants.

Biology research in the USSR
He became a junior research scientist in the Agrochemistry and Biochemistry Department at Timiryazev Academy and he was promoted to senior research scientist in 1954 and remained at the academy until 1963. Beginning in 1952, Medvedev had focused his attention on the problems of aging, concentrating on the turnover of proteins and nucleic acids. In 1961, he published the first paper suggesting that aging is the result of an accumulation of errors in the synthesis of proteins and nucleic acids. In 1962, Medvedev wrote his book on the history of Soviet genetics, which passed an editorial review but was withheld by state censors. It was later published in the United States in 1969 as The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko.

In 1963, Medvedev moved to Obninsk to the Institute of Medical Radiology, where he was appointed head of the molecular radiobiology laboratory. He published two books, Protein Biosynthesis and Problems of Heredity Development and Ageing and Molecular Mechanisms of Development.

Dissident writings
Medvedev was dismissed from his position in 1969. Between 1968 and 1970, Medvedev wrote two more books: International Cooperation of Scientists and National Frontiers and Secrecy of Correspondence is Guaranteed by Law (about postal censorship in the USSR). These works were widely circulated in the USSR among scientists, along with a copy of his 1962 history of Soviet genetics (which had been published in Grani, a Russian journal published outside the USSR), and this activity resulted in Medvedev's arrest and forced detention in the Kaluga psychiatric hospital in May 1970. This action, however, produced many protests from scientists (academics Andrei Sakharov, Pyotr Kapitsa, Igor Tamm, Vladimir Engelgardt, Boris Astaurov, Nikolai Semyonov, and others) and writers (including Solzhenitsyn, Tvardovsky, Vladimir Tendryakov, Vladimir Dudintsev), which resulted in Medvedev's release (this experience was reflected in Zhores and Roy Medvedev's book A Question of Madness).

In 1971, Medvedev was given the job of senior scientist of the Institute of Physiology and Biochemistry of Farm Animals in Borovsk, in the Kaluga region.

London
In 1972, Medvedev was invited for one year's research by the National Institute for Medical Research in London at its new Genetic Division. In August 1973, however, his Soviet passport was confiscated and he was stripped of his Soviet citizenship. He remained in London and worked as senior research scientist at the National Institute for Medical Research until his retirement in 1991.

Publication of information about the Kyshtym disaster
In 1977, Medvedev published Hazards of Nuclear Power, which mentioned the Kyshtym nuclear disaster in passing. At the time, the disaster was essentially unknown, and his work was dismissed as baseless propaganda even by his Western colleagues. Medvedev responded by publishing Soviet Science in 1978, which assembled evidence from Soviet publications that taken together comprised conclusive evidence of the disaster's occurrence. He followed this with the book The Nuclear Disaster in the Urals in 1979, and a further critique The Legacy of Chernobyl (1990), which connected the two disasters as being a product of the same attitudes toward science and engineering in the USSR.

Further work
In London, Medvedev acted as his brother Roy's representative, managing his publishing contracts and financial affairs. In 1975 he created a small publishing house, "T.C.D. publications", for the purpose of publishing the Russian-language version of Roy Medvedev's samizdat journal XX Century. The two brothers also coauthored Khrushchev: The Years in Power (1978) and several other books, the last one The Unknown Stalin (2007).

Medvedev died in London on 15 November 2018, one day after his 93rd birthday, with his family by his side. In 2019, his memoirs posthumously appeared in Russian under the title A Dangerous Profession.

Legacy
Medvedev published about 170 research papers and reviews, about sixty of them during his time in London. In 1973 he was one of the signatories of the Humanist Manifesto. He received the Aging Research Award from the United States Association of Biogerontology in 1984 and the Rene Schubert Prize in Gerontology in 1985.

According to Michael Gordin, a professor of history at Princeton University, Medvedev provided critiques of the Soviet Union that were "powerful, persuasive and principled", with Medvedev being "sympathetic to the dreams of the [Russian] Revolution" but opposed to the "cronyism and Stalinism [that] had contaminated the early promise."

Works

 * Protein Biosynthesis and Problems of Heredity, Development and Ageing. New York: Plenum Press, 1966. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd Ltd, 1966
 * Unknown Stalin: His Life, Death, and Legacy (with Roy Medvedev, Ellen Dahrendorf - Translator) (Overlook Press, 2005), ISBN 1-58567-644-6
 * Legacy of Chernobyl (W. W. Norton & Co Inc, 1992), ISBN 0-393-30814-6
 * Soviet Agriculture (W. W. Norton & Co Inc, 1988), ISBN 0-393-02472-5
 * Gorbachev (W. W. Norton & Co Inc, 1987), ISBN 0-393-30408-6
 * Andropov (W. W. Norton & Co Inc, 1983), ISBN 0-393-01791-5
 * Nuclear Disaster in the Urals (1980), ISBN 0-394-74445-4
 * Gorbachev (1986), ISBN 0-631-14782-9
 * Molecular-Genetic Mechanisms of Development (1970), ISBN 0-306-30403-1
 * Medvedev Papers: Fruitful Meetings between Scientists of the World (1971), ISBN 0-333-12520-7
 * Ten Years after Ivan Denisovich (1974), ISBN 0-394-71112-2
 * Hazards of Nuclear Power (with Alan Roberts) (1977), ISBN 0-85124-211-1
 * Secrecy of Correspondence Is Guaranteed by Law (1975), ISBN 0-85124-128-X
 * Soviet Science (1978), ISBN 0-393-06435-2
 * Stalin and the Jewish Question: New Analysis (2003, in Russian), ISBN 5-7712-0251-7
 * Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov: Two Prophets (with Roy Medvedev) (2004, in Russian) ISBN 5-94117-065-3
 * The Rise and Fall of T. D. Lysenko (translated by I. Michael. Lerner) Columbia University Press (1969), ISBN 0-231-03183-1
 * Medvedev Papers: The Plight Of Soviet Science, ISBN 3-331-25207-7
 * A Question Of Madness (with Roy Medvedev), ISBN 0-14-003783-7
 * Nuclear Disaster In The Urals (trans. George Saunders), ISBN 0-207-95896-3
 * Khrushchev: The Years In Power (with Roy Medvedev), ISBN 0-8357-0154-9
 * National Frontiers / International Scientific Cooperation (Medvedev Papers), Spokesman Books, 1975, ISBN 0-85124-127-1
 * Nutrition and Longevity (2011, in Russian), publ. "Vremya" Moscow, ISBN 978-5-9691-0513-3
 * Nutrition and Longevity (in Russian), 2007, ISBN 978-5-7712-0380-5
 * Polonium in London (in Russian), 2008, Molodaya Gvardia, Moscow:ISBN 978-5-235-03160-9

Articles

 * Articles on poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko.
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Krøniken

Krøniken (English: Better Times) is a Danish television drama which aired on Sunday evenings between January 2004 and January 2007. The 22-episode series relates the lives of two fictional families during the historical development of the Danmarks Radio television network from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Created by Stig Thorsbøe for the DR broadcast-television network, the series debuted on 4 January 2004. The program's first season set popularity records. Five of the episodes were listed among the ten most watched television programs since records began in Denmark in 1992. The first-season finale topped the list with 2,717,000 viewers. In 2004, the program was nominated for the International Emmy Award for Best Drama but lost to Waking the Dead.

The series concluded with the 22nd episode airing on 1 January 2007 and watched by 2.4 million viewers.

Plot
In 1949, the young Ida Nørregaard travels from Jutland to Copenhagen to enroll in a home-economics school and an evening-school programme. When she is told that she can not do both, she chooses the evening school.

Her parents are unhappy with her choice, but Ida is determined on making it on her own in the big city. She finds a job as a secretary at a radio factory. Erik Nielsen, the director's son, soon starts developing feelings towards Ida, which causes her to lose her job.

While Erik is trying to convince his father of the future of television, he also succeeds in attracting Ida's attention. Meanwhile, Søs Nielsen, Erik's lively sister, is engaged to a man she does not love. When he tries to rape her one night, she is helped by Palle From who is a working-class university student and lives next door to Ida. When Søs approaches him to thank him for his deed, an attraction starts to grow between them.

Cast

 * Anne Louise Hassing as Ida Nørregaard
 * Ken Vedsegaard as Erik Nielsen (2004–2005)
 * Anders W. Berthelsen as Palle From
 * Maibritt Saerens as Søs From (Søs From Nielsen since 2005)
 * Waage Sandø as Kaj Holger Nielsen
 * Stina Ekblad as Karin Nielsen
 * Dick Kaysø as Børge From
 * Pernille Højmark as Karen Jensen
 * Klaus Bondam as Lærer Arne Dupont

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Crater chain

A crater chain is a line of craters along the surface of an astronomical body. The descriptor term for crater chains is catena, plural catenae (Latin for "chain"), as specified by the International Astronomical Union's rules on planetary nomenclature.

Many examples of such chains are thought to have been formed by the impact of a body that was broken up by tidal forces into a string of smaller objects following roughly the same orbit. An example of such a tidally disrupted body that was observed prior to its impact on Jupiter is Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. During the Voyager observations of the Jupiter system, planetary scientists identified 13 crater chains on Callisto and three on Ganymede (except those formed by secondary craters). Later some of these chains turned out to be secondary or tectonic features, but some other chains were discovered. As of 1996, 8 primary chains on Callisto and 3 on Ganymede were confirmed.

However, other crater chains, such as many of those on Mars, represent chains of collapse pits associated with grabens (see, for example, the Tithoniae Catenae near Tithonium Chasma). Crater chains may also be formed by a sequence of explosive cryovolcanic eruptions, such as Set Catena on Neptune's moon Triton.

Crater chains seen on the Moon often radiate from larger craters, and in such cases are thought to be either caused by secondary impacts of the larger crater's ejecta or by volcanic venting activity along a rift.

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Matthew 4:6

Matthew 4:6 is the sixth verse of the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. Jesus has just rebuffed "the tempter's" first temptation; in this verse, the devil presents Jesus with a second temptation while they are standing on the pinnacle of the temple in the "holy city" (Jerusalem).

Text
In the King James Version of the Bible, the text reads:
 * And saith unto him, If thou be the
 * Son of God, cast thyself down: for it
 * is written, He shall give his angels
 * charge concerning thee: and in their
 * hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any
 * time thou dash thy foot against a stone.

The World English Bible translates the passage as:
 * and said to him, "If you are the
 * Son of God, throw yourself down, for
 * it is written, ‘He will put his angels
 * in charge of you.’ and,‘On their hands
 * they will bear you up, so that you
 * don’t dash your foot against a stone.’

The 1881 Westcott-Hort Greek text is:
 * και λεγει αυτω ει υιος ει του θεου βαλε σεαυτον κατω
 * γεγραπται γαρ οτι
 * τοις αγγελοις αυτου εντελειται περι σου
 * και επι χειρων αρουσιν σε μηποτε προσκοψης προς λιθον τον ποδα σου

For a collection of other versions see BibleHub Matthew 4:6

Commentary
As with Matthew 4:3, Satan is not doubting that Jesus is the Son of God but rather is stating that he should do these things because he is the Son of God. Satan here is trying to convince Jesus to throw himself from the pinnacle of the temple because God has promised that he will not be hurt. To advance this temptation the devil quotes scripture, something Swiss theologian Eduard Schweizer sees as an escalation over the first temptation.

The verse quoted is taken from the eleventh and twelfth verses of Psalm 91. In the KJV, those verses read:

 * For he will command his angels concerning you
 * to guard you in all your ways;
 * they will lift you up in their hands,
 * so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

The quotation omits the line "to guard you in all your ways". Robert Gundry notes that the original wording makes it clear that God is promising only to protect from accidents, not from deliberate acts such as the one Satan is proposing.

The exact evil Satan is trying to induce in this verse is open to debate. The traditional view was that the temptation narrative was one of rejecting sin and this test was simply Satan luring Jesus with the sin of hubris. Most modern scholars reject this view of the temptation. A view that was popular for a time was that the three temptation sequences each represent Jesus rejecting one vision of what the Messiah should be. In this verse Satan tries to convince him that he should be a magician and miracle worker who wins converts by his spectacular acts. Gundry notes that the choice of the Temple as a setting is evidence for this theory. There are many precipices in the wilderness, that Satan brings him to the top of the temple implies that the miraculous rescue would be a very public act. A view that is in vogue today is that Satan is placing before Jesus the same pitfalls that the Jewish people fell into during the period after Exodus. In the desert the Israelites attempted to test God and Satan is proposing that Jesus do the same. This interpretation fits most closely with Jesus' response to this temptation in the next verse.

Commentary from the Church Fathers
Jerome: "In the several temptations the single aim of the Devil is to find if He be the Son of God, but he is so answered as at last to depart in doubt; He says, Cast thyself, because the voice of the Devil, which is always calling men downwards, has power to persuade them, but may not compel them to fall."

Pseudo-Chrysostom: "How does he expect to discover by this proposition whether He be the Son of God or not? For to fly through the air is not proper to the Divine nature, for it is not useful to any. If then any were to attempt to fly when challenged to it, he would be acting from ostentation, and would so belong rather to the Devil than to God. If it is enough to a wise man to be what he is, and he has no wish to seem what he is not, how much more should the Son of God hold it not necessary to show what He is; He of whom none can know so much as He is in Himself?"

Ambrose: "But as Satan transfigures himself into an Angel of light, and spreads a snare for the faithful, even from the divine Scriptures, so now he uses its texts, not to instruct but to receive."

Jerome: "This verse we read in the ninetieth Psalm (Ps. 91:11.), but that is a prophecy not of Christ, but of some holy man, so the Devil interprets Scripture amiss."

Pseudo-Chrysostom: "For the Son of God in truth is not borne of Angels, but Himself bears them, or if He be borne in their arms, it is not from weakness, lest He dash His foot against a stone, but for the honour. O thou Devil, thou hast read that the Son of God is borne in Angels’ arms, hast thou not also read that He shall tread upon the asp and basilisk? But the one text he brings forward as proud, the other he omits as crafty."

Chrysostom: "Observe that Scripture is brought forward by the Lord only with an apt meaning, but by the Devil irreverently; for that where it is written, He shall give his Angels charge over thee, is not an exhortation to cast Himself headlong."

Glossa Ordinaria: "We must explain thus; Scripture says of any good man, that He has given it in charge to His Angels, that is to His ministering spirits, to bear him in their hands, i. e. by their aid to guard him that he dash not his foot against a stone, i. e. keep his heart that it stumble not at the old law written in tables of stone. Or by the stone may be understood every occasion of sin and error."

Rabanus Maurus: "though our Saviour suffered Himself to be placed by the Devil on a pinnacle of the temple, yet refused to come down also at his command, giving us an example, that whosoever bids us ascend the strait way of truth we should obey. But if he would again cast us down from the height of truth and virtue to the depth of error we should not hearken to him."

Jerome: "The false Scripture darts of the Devil He brands with the true shield of Scripture."

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Nikolai Kasatkin

Nikolai Kasatkin may refer to:

 * Saint Nicholas of Japan, Nikolai Kasatkin (born Ivan Dimitrovich Kasatkin 1836 ; died 1912)
 * Russian painter Nikolai Alekseyevich Kasatkin (1859 – 1930)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Darkbyte

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Darkbyte
No evidence of notability. --W(t) 17:49, 2005 Jun 12 (UTC)

 * Delete Vanity by the looks of things. Leithp 21:34, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete notability not established. JamesBurns 04:34, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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C.S. Emelec

Club Sport Emelec is an Ecuadorian sports club based in Guayaquil that is best known for their professional football team. The football team plays in the Ecuadorian Serie A, the highest level of professional football in the country.

Emelec has won fourteen Serie A titles and one of the division B, holding the record of doing so in all decades in which the Serie A has been played. They also have won seven regional titles (record in their region), a record-tying 5 of them in the professional era.

Emelec was founded on 28 April 1929 by George Capwell, the American head of the Electric Company of Ecuador (Empresa Eléctrica del Ecuador), from which the club is named after. The name of their home stadium pays homage to the club's founder. The club's most intense rivalry is with crosstown-team Barcelona. Matches between the clubs are known as El Clásico del Astillero.

History
The club was found after an assembly of employees at the Empresa Eléctrica del Ecuador, an electric company in Guayaquil, decided to start an amateur sports league. The initiative was spearheaded by George Capwell, the executive officer of the company who came from the United States. The first sports played in the club were baseball, basketball, boxing, swimming, handball, and football. Capwell did not enjoy football, so the sport was supported only by his employees in non-official but recognized championships. This changed in the 1940s, when Capwell finally lent his support, resulting in the club winning several official local championships, building their own stadium, and hosting the 1947 South American Championship entirely in it.

In 1957, the club became the first national champions in football with a "dream team" that included Derek Haack, Cipriano Yu Lee, José Vicente Balseca, Cruz Ávila, Mariano Larraz, Carlos Alberto Raffo, Jaime Ubilla, Daniel Pinto, Rómulo Gómez and Suárez-Rizzo; they were coached by Eduardo "Tano" Spandre. Since then, they have accumulated thirteen more national titles, placing them 2nd in the national title count behind Barcelona with 15 titles and followed by El Nacional with 13. They have also won seven local titles (two in the amateur area and five in the professional era).

In the 1990s, the football team saw success internationally. In 1995, they reached the semi-finals of the Copa Libertadores; they lost to eventual champions Grêmio. In 2001, the team was close to becoming the first Ecuadorian club to win an international title when they were a finalist in the 2001 Copa Merconorte. In the finals, they lost to Millionarios 3–1 on penalty kicks after tying on aggregate 2–2.

Facilities
Several years after the creation of the Empresa Eléctrica del Ecuador sports club, its founder, George Lewis Capwell, decided that it was time for the club to have its own Baseball stadium, so in 1942 Guayaquil's Municipal authorities donated 4 city blocks for the construction of the first private sports stadium in Ecuador. A year after that, in 1943, Emelec's staff officially named and initiated the construction of the George Capwell Stadium.

George Capwell Stadium opened its doors for the first time on 21 October 1945, the inaugural game was a Baseball match between Emelec and Oriente, and George Capwell played as a catcher for the "Azules" (Emelec). Although Emelec's president did not like football and their stadium was not initially intended to be a football field, soon after the inauguration the first football match was held. Emelec won 5–4 against an all stars team from the cities of Manta and Bahia.

The 1947 Copa America competition was held exclusively at George Capwell Stadium, and an undefeated Argentina became South America's champion with an all star team that included names like Alfredo Di Stéfano, Félix Loustau, and Norberto Doroteo Méndez. Ecuador finished in 6th place. (Brazil did not participate on this competition).

After the Estadio Modelo was opened in 1959, the George Capwell Stadium became obsolete and was closed for many years. On several occasions it was almost destroyed for various projects that, luckily for the club, were never actually completed.

It wasn't until 1991 that with the leadership of Nassib Nehme that the George Capwell Stadium was reopened, to become once again the house of Emelec. Since its reopening the stadium has been enlarged twice and a new and final change was scheduled for 2014, to reach a final capacity of 45,000 spectators by March 2016.

At the moment the official capacity of the stadium according to the FEF (Federación Ecuatoriana de Fútbol) is 18,000 spectators. However, that number has not been changed even after the two enlargements were finished. The club completed a thorough overhaul and expansion of the stadium in 2017. It has a capacity of 40,000 spectators.

Training ground
Emelec's training ground is located in the north of Guayaquil in a neighborhood called Los Samanes and the training ground itself is called Complejo Deportivo de Los Samanes, translated to Los Samanes Sports Complex. The construction of the Samanes training ground started in 1984 and was finished in 1986 and was built by Filanbanco a large financial institution in Ecuador at the time.

Filanbanco had its own professional football which used Los Samanes until 1989 when despite being one of the top teams at the time, Filanbanco's football club was disbanded due to lack of supporters and high maintenance costs.

During the 1993 Copa America held in Ecuador, the Samanes complex was used by the Argentinean delegation, they stayed and trained there and were very appreciative of its secluded nature and excellent facilities, that among other things included 4 professional football fields, an indoor football field, basketball courts, tennis courts, an Olympic size pool, social area and sleeping area.

After Filanbanco's football club was disbanded, the complex remained in the hands of Filanbanco for their employees to use its facilities, until 1999 when the Ecuadorian financial crisis ended with Filanbanco going bankrupt and ending up in the hands of the AGD a governmental agency created to control, protect and administer the assets of Filanbanco and other financial institutions that went bust during the crisis.

This meant that Los Samanes ended up in the hands of the Issfa (Instituto de Servicio Social de las Fuerzas Armadas) the Ecuadorian army's social security agency. Because Issfa had no real use for it, the then Football director of Emelec Mr. Omar Quintana Baquerizo managed to loan the training ground for the club and Emelec has been using it ever since.

Initially the agreement was a loan for 5 years, but when the 5 years passed the government and the club arranged a 100-year loan for the facilities, however the high monthly cost agreed has made the payments very difficult for the club and the new administrators led by the club's president Mr. Elias Wated are in talks with the government to settle on a definitive purchase of the training ground.

Honours
Domestic

 * Ecuadorian Serie A
 * Champions (14): 1957, 1961, 1965, 1972, 1979, 1988, 1993, 1994, 2001, 2002, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017
 * Ecuadorian Serie B
 * Champions (1): 1981 E1

Amateur
 * Campeonato Unión Deportiva Comercial de Guayaquil
 * Champions (2): 1925, 1933
 * Campeonato Amateur del Fútbol del Guayas
 * Champions (2): 1946, 1948
 * Campeonato Profesional de Guayaquil
 * Champions (5): 1956, 1957, 1962, 1964, 1966

Top goalscorers
Emelec has had nine players become the season top-scorer in the Serie A, three players become the top-scorer of the Costa champion (two players repeated), and one player become the top-scorer of the Copa Libertadores.

 * Seria A
 * 🇪🇨 Carlos Alberto Raffo (1963; 4 goals)
 * 🇦🇷 Carlos Miori (1979; 26 goals)
 * 🇪🇨 Ariel Graziani (1996; 19 goals)
 * 🇪🇨 Ariel Graziani (1997; 24 goals)
 * 🇪🇨 Iván Kaviedes (1998; 43 goals)
 * 🇦🇷 Alejandro Kenig (2000; 25 goals)
 * 🇪🇨 Carlos Juárez (2001; 17 goals)
 * 🇦🇷 Luis Miguel Escalada (2006; 29 goals)
 * 🇪🇨 Jaime Ayoví (2010; 23 goals)
 * 🇪🇨 Miler Bolaños (2015; 25 goals)

 * Costa
 * 🇪🇨 Carlos Alberto Raffo (1956; 13 goals)
 * 🇪🇨 Carlos Alberto Raffo (1957; 14 goals)
 * 🇪🇨 Carlos Alberto Raffo (1959; 21 goals)
 * 🇪🇨 Carlos Alberto Raffo (1960; 11 goals)
 * 🇪🇨 Carlos Alberto Raffo (1961; 14 goals)
 * 🇺🇾 Ruben Baldi (1964; 11 goals)
 * 🇪🇨 Bolívar Merizalde (1964; 11 goals)
 * 🇪🇨 Bolívar Merizalde (1965; 7 goals)

 * Copa Libertadores
 * 🇪🇨 Enrique Rayondi (1962; 6 goals)

World Cup players
The following players were chosen to represent their country at the FIFA World Cup while contracted to Emelec.

 * 🇪🇨 Walter Ayoví (2002)
 * 🇪🇨 Augusto Jesús Poroso (2002)
 * 🇪🇨 Wellington Sánchez (2002)
 * 🇪🇨 Daniel Viteri (2002)
 * 🇪🇨 Gabriel Achilier (2014)
 * 🇪🇨 Óscar Bagüí (2014)
 * 🇪🇨 Jorge Guagua (2014)

Current coaching staff

 * Manager: Ismael Rescalvo
 * Assistant manager: Juan Rescalvo
 * Physical trainer: Jose Barrientos
 * Keeper Trainer: Agustín Segura

Notable managers
The following managers won at least one trophy when in charge of Emelec:
 * 🇦🇷 Eduardo Spandre (won the 1957 Serie A)
 * 🇦🇷 Mariano Larraz (won the 1961 Serie A)
 * 🇦🇷 Fernando Paternoster (won the 1965 Serie A)
 * 🇪🇨 Jorge Lazo (won the 1972 Serie A)
 * 🇪🇨 Eduardo García (won the 1979 Serie A)
 * 🇺🇾 Juan Silva (won the 1988 Serie A)
 * 🇦🇷 Salvador Capitano (won the 1993 Serie A)
 * 🇪🇨 Carlos Torres Garcés (won the 1994 Serie A)
 * 🇪🇨 Carlos Sevilla (won the 2001 Serie A)
 * 🇦🇷 Rodolfo Motta (won the 2002 Serie A)
 * 🇧🇴 Gustavo Quinteros (won the 2013 and 2014 Serie A)
 * 🇦🇷 Omar De Felipe (won the 2015 Serie A)
 * 🇺🇾 Alfredo Arias (won the 2017 Serie A)

Other sports
Emelec is not only one of the most important football clubs in Ecuador, but it is rated as one of the most important sports club of the country. In their trophy room Emelec has hundreds of cups and medals that have been gained over the years in many different sports. The list includes:

 * 33 Consecutive National Boxing Championships
 * 13 Baseball National Championships
 * 11 Male Basketball National Championships
 * 18 Female Basketball National Championships
 * 7 Cycling National Championships
 * 5 Tae Kwon Do National Championships
 * 5 Judo National Championships
 * 1 Weight Lifting World Championship

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Talk:James Blunt

Well sourced content removed (discussion of scurvy news reports)
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Can you explain why this content was removed? "In August, 2020 it was reported that Blunt had developed scurvy from eating a meat only carnivore diet for two months."

The Independent and Self (magazine) are reliable sources. The story was also covered in many other UK newspapers. The definition of trivia is "details, considerations, or pieces of information of little importance or value". How is James Blunt having scurvy of little importance? How many other celebrities or musicians have been diagnosed with scurvy in the 21st century? I believe the content should be restored. The content itself is a single line and was positioned in the "Personal life" section. I don't see how this content is off-mission. Psychologist Guy (talk) 18:57, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

 * "James Blunt did something stupid in uni", or even "James Blunt had a bad diet while in uni" does not constitute an encyclopedic or in any way significant fact about Blunt. There are all kinds of "well-sourced" silly stories about Blunt out there; I can think of at least 30, although that's probably because I've paid attention over the years. Just because something is appropriately sourced doesn't mean it should be in this article. Why do you think it's important to mention in this article that Blunt did something silly when he was in his late teens, when he wasn't a notable person, there's no indication that it had anything to do with his future notability, and it's the kind of thing that probably more than half of all university/college students do at some point?  It's not only off-mission, it's no more important than that he dyed his hair purple at one point.  (And no, don't bother searching for references for that, I made it up; but there are lots of similarly irrelevant stories out there about Blunt.)  Risker (talk) 19:56, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

 * I am looking at this and I have made a mistake. I didn't read one of the sources correctly. I didn't realise this was about his university days, I thought he got scurvy in August 2020. The media have been quite deceptive about this, its not mentioned in most of the sources. The way it has been presented especially in the headlines I thought he had scurvy this year from trying the carnivore diet which is the latest fad diet in the west. It turns out it was a long time ago whilst at uni. So yes the story is sensationalist, so I agree it is trivia. I agree leave it off the article. Sorry about that! Psychologist Guy (talk) 20:06, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
 * No worries, - an easy mistake to make. The media is sometimes so desperate to fill column inches and airtime that they treat genuinely insignificant matters as equivalent to state secrets, for some reason. The irony is that there's a pretty good chance the story isn't even true, and that it's just something Blunt made up; he's been known to do that.  Risker (talk) 00:56, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

Amanda Ghost helping to promote Blunt
I don't see anything in the biography about Amanda Ghost collaborating with Blunt on the song "You're Beautiful", and then dragging him around to various labels trying to get him signed to a new contract. Sources exist for this stuff:
 * Interview with Joni Mitchell in which Ghost says, "With James Blunt, I took his music around to every label I could think of to try and get them interested and they all passed..."
 * BMI reprint of MusicWorld piece, "Ghost began channeling her creative energies into songwriting and, through mutual friends, started writing with a rising singer/songwriter named James Blunt. Together with Sacha Skarbek, they composed two songs for Blunt’s debut album, including international hit 'You’re Beautiful.' "
 * The Guardian in 2011, "While living in Los Angeles... a mutual friend introduced Ghost to a soldier with designs on becoming a singer. She invited James Blunt over to LA, and they wrote together. 'When I came back to London with him, I put [him] on some gigs and took him to a few record labels,' she recalls. 'I wasn't making any money out of it, it was just because I wanted to help him out.' "

Ghost told The Guardian with a bit of hyperbole that she co-wrote "You're Beautiful" five years before it became a huge hit. That would be the year 2000, when Blunt was still in military service. Clearly she collaborated with him in 2003 when they were both in Los Angeles, and the song waited only two years to become a hit. She said the song was written in one afternoon. Binksternet (talk) 18:38, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
 * All of these reports are sourced to Ghost saying that she did these things. There are no contemporaneous or third-party reports of anything other than getting co-writing credit for a couple of songs, and singing some backup vocals; they're covered under the articles for the songs/album. (She also has a co-write credit for the song Billy and backup-vocal credit for Wisemen, all from the same Back to Bedlam album.) The timing in the Guardian article doesn't make any sense; the song wasn't copyrighted in 2000 (it's copyright 2003) so there's no way it was finished then.  As for Los Angeles in 2003, that's when Blunt (already signed to a label, and having a music publishing contract as well) was fine-tuning and recording Back to Bedlam. Blunt says that the (core of the) song was written in just a few minutes after the event that inspired it, so cleaning it up in an afternoon would be reasonable, if not expected. There's an early demo floating around from 2002 that used to be posted on Blunt's website 15 or so years ago, and it's obvious the song had some polishing done to it (that's what Skarbek and Ghost did), but that the core was already there. I can't link to any legit copies of it, unfortunately.  Incidentally, the interview you've attributed to Joni Mitchell is actually an interview with PRS for Music which Mitchell has posted on her site because it mentions that Ghost interviewed Mitchell; we at Wikipedia would probably debate whether or not the inclusion of that entire article is actually "fair use". As best I can tell, the only person who says Ghost knew Blunt before being asked to help out on Back to Bedlam is...Ghost.  Given Blunt already had a manager in 2002 (the same one as Elton John), it's unlikely that Ghost would have been getting him gigs or introducing him to recording companies. Now, I'm the first to admit that record companies are notorious for re-writing the histories of their performers - when Back to Bedlam was released, they were saying Blunt was only 23, which would have had him joining the military after university at the ripe old age of 17 - but even still, Ghost has the third writing credit (they are listed in order of contribution to the song) for YB, which indicates that she had something to do with it, but not a lot.  She says she made millions on the song, but that would be true even if she was only receiving 5% of the royalties, given its ubiquity.  Risker (talk) 03:00, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Returning the song snippet to the article
I want to return the snippet of You're Beautiful to the article. I don't actually understand why it has been removed; it was considered important enough in the article back when it was made a Good Article back in 2008, and nothing has changed. I put it to you,, to demonstrate why it should not be included. It is the song for which Blunt is best known, it made his fortune and his name (and arguably his entire career), and it gives the reader that snapshot of what Blunt is known for. Risker (talk) 03:00, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
 * As per usual, the GA review of this article was by one person who was the sole decider about listing. I wouldn't put so much stock into the state of the article at the time of GA listing. One person doesn't catch all the problems.
 * The first problem with the .ogg file is that it was 30 seconds, about 14% of the song, though our guideline at Manual of Style/Music samples says 10% maximum. It should be 20 seconds long. Amazingly enough, there is a file that has been edited down to 20 seconds: File:James Blunt - You're Beautiful (Edit).ogg.
 * The requirement of WP:NFCCP #8 is that every non-free music listening sample should have "Contextual significance. Non-free content is used only if its presence would significantly increase readers' understanding of the article topic, and its omission would be detrimental to that understanding." The usual solution for this requirement is to describe what the music is doing – maybe about style or instrumentation or performance – making a connection between what is heard on the sample and what is written in the literature. Otherwise, the caption underneath the listening example could stand by itself as bare text. The caption of the disputed file said, " 'You're Beautiful,' Blunt's break-out hit was the third UK single and first US single from Back to Bedlam." Nobody would ever have to hear a listening sample to understand that sentence. So the listening sample is not needed if that's the message below it.
 * When I'm doing a listening sample, I first have a musical concept that I want to illustrate for the reader's sense of hearing. Like I might want to say that a song was known for its distorted guitars, as noticed by music critics. So then I would create a listening sample highlighting the distorted guitars, and I would cite the observations of the music critics.
 * I recently included a listening sample at the album page, Back in the High Life. The sample has musical information to convey.
 * Hope that helps. Binksternet (talk) 03:40, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Serious question...
... should his (joke) threats to release more new music w/r/t the Joe Rogan/Spotify controversy be included in the article? It seems trivial but does show that he is wading into the debate. —AFreshStart (talk) 17:48, 31 January 2022 (UTC)

Age should be checked
James Blunt claims he changed his age on his Wikipedia page -- Valjean (talk) ( PING me ) 15:29, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Well yeah, way back in the early part of his career, his promotional materials proclaimed him to be between 2 and 4 years younger than his actual age. And given the number of IP edits back in those days, I'd think it's reasonably likely that he or someone close to him edited the page. As far as I can see, the most recent change was someone coming along and making him 10 years younger because they couldn't do math. Risker (talk) 11:25, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

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Robin Coombs

Robert Royston Amos Coombs (9 January 1921 – 25 January 2006) was a British immunologist, co-discoverer of the Coombs test (1945) used for detecting antibodies in various clinical scenarios, such as Rh disease and blood transfusion.

Biography
He was born in London but attended Diocesan College in Cape Town. Subsequently he returned to Britain and studied veterinary medicine at the University of Edinburgh. In 1943 he entered King's College, Cambridge, where he commenced work on a doctorate, which he gained in 1947. Before finishing his doctorate, he developed and published methods to detect antibodies with Arthur Mourant and Robert Russell Race in 1945. This is the test now referred to as the Coombs test, which, according to the legend, was first devised while Coombs was travelling on the train.

Coombs became a professor and researcher at the Department of Pathology of University of Cambridge, becoming a Fellow of Corpus Christi College, and a founder of its Division of Immunology. He was appointed the fourth Quick Professor of Biology in 1966 and continued to work at Cambridge University until 1988. He is reported to have said that "[r]ed blood cells were primarily designed by God as tools for the immunologist and only secondarily as carriers of haemoglobin".

In November 1956, Coombs founded the British Society for Immunology alongside John H. Humphrey, Bob White, and Avrion Mitchison. He was an honorary member of the British Society for Immunology.

He received honorary doctoral degrees by the University of GuelphCanada, and the University of Edinburgh and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom (1965), a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians.

Coombs was married to Anne Blomfield, his first graduate student. They had a son and a daughter.

Works
The Coombs test, which he developed and published together with Arthur Mourant and Robert Russell Race in 1945, has formed the base of a large number of laboratory investigations in the fields of hematology and immunology.

Together with Professor Philip George Howthern Gell, he developed a classification of immune mechanisms of tissue injury, now known as the "Gell–Coombs classification", comprising four types of reactions.

Together with W.E. Parish and A.F. Wells he put forward an explanation of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) as an anaphylactic reaction to dairy proteins.

Awards
Coombs was awarded the James Spence Gold Medal, Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health in 1967 for developing the Coombs test.

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Taramon Bibi

Taramon Bibi Bir Protik  (c. 1956 – 1 December 2018) was one of the two female freedom fighters in Bangladesh obtaining the Bir Protik award. She engaged in direct combat during the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971 as a member of the Mukti Bahini (Liberation Army) which was a guerrilla force that fought against the Pakistan military.

Biography
Bibi was born in Shankar Madhabpur village, Kurigram District to Abdus Sobhan and Kulsum Bewa. She was hired by the Mukti Bahini as a help cook and clean the camp when she was 16. She was interested in the war effort and asked Havildar Muhit in infantry regiment of Sector 11 to train. He trained her on the usage of .303 British rifle and submachine guns. She was in Sector 11 under the leadership of sector commander Abu Taher.

Taramon Bibi died at her residence at Char Rajibpur Upazila, Kurigram, at 1:30am on 1 December 2018.

Award
After the war, she was awarded Bir Protik (Symbol of Valour) by Bangladesh government in 1973. But her whereabouts were unknown and the award was never handed over to her. She herself remained unaware of this until 1995 when a researcher from Mymensingh discovered her. She was finally given her award by then Prime Minister of Bangladesh Khaleda Zia on 19 December 1995.

Personal life
Bibi was married to Abdul Majid. Together they had a son, Abu Taher, and a daughter.

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Callan (TV series)

Callan is a British action-drama spy television series created by James Mitchell, first airing between 1967 and 1972. It starred Edward Woodward as David Callan, an agent of a state secret service dealing with internal security threats to the United Kingdom. Though portrayed as having responsibilities similar to those of the real-life MI5, Callan's fictional "Section" has carte blanche to use the most ruthless of methods. In the storylines interrogation is by means of torture, while extrajudicial killings are so routine they have a colour-coded filing system. Despite being an assassin who stays in the socially isolating job because it is the only thing he is good at, Callan is a sympathetic character by comparison to his sadistic upper-class colleagues and implacable superiors. The downbeat cover for the Section's headquarters was the scrap metal business of "Charlie Hunter". Produced by ABC Weekend TV and Thames Television, the programme proved extremely popular; as well as four series between 1967 and 1972 there was a feature-length film in 1974 and a TV film in 1981.

Characters

 * David Callan (Series 1–4): his name is a pseudonym as when meeting with an old acquaintance he remarks (in the episode "Where Else Could I Go?") that he knew him by a different name during their military service together. He often uses the alias David Tucker who is officially in the scrap metal business but is also a qualified bookkeeper which he uses both to support himself when not working for The Section and occasionally in undercover work. From a working class background, he was born in London, an only child whose parents were both killed towards the end of World War II in a V2 rocket attack. He served as a National Serviceman in the British Army during the Malayan Emergency with the Green Howards, attained the rank of Corporal and saved his company commander's life, winning a medal but twice being demoted from Corporal for fighting with a Sergeant and arguing with a Colonel. The said Colonel, Colonel Pringle, who was later promoted to Brigadier, sacked Callan from the army when they were back in peacetime conditions, and Pringle later remarked that Callan was too much of an individualist for the army, that Callan always questioned orders and had twice been demoted from Corporal. Pringle also remarked that Callan was unequalled as a killer. Afterwards, Callan became a bank robber but was caught on one job, served two years in Wormwood Scrubs prison and was subsequently recruited by The Section. He served in Hong Kong and in Beirut where he became romantically involved with a woman who was shot and killed in his arms by an enemy agent. He is a crack shot, normally preferring a snub-nosed Nagouchi .357 Magnum revolver and a karate expert, demonstrating the ability to kill an opponent with his bare hands using only three blows. He is a skilled burglar and safe-cracker, although not as good at this as Lonely, whose expert help he regularly requires. Callan speaks fluent Russian. He drinks whisky with Hunter and keeps gin and light ale at his flat. He is appalled by his work for The Section and regularly worries and wonders about the people that he has killed, although he seems to accept it as a necessary evil of the Cold War, feeling that not only has he no choice but that it is what he is genuinely good at. His social life largely consists of military history and collecting militaria like model soldiers, spending his free time with other collectors and enthusiasts, with his speciality being the Napoleonic period. When distraught, he gets drunk with Lonely and confesses to witnessing another soldier ruthlessly shooting down the enemy in an ambush during the Malayan Emergency, vowing to become just like him in order to survive.
 * Lonely (Series 1–4): his real name is never revealed. (In Series 2, Episode 13, one character addresses Lonely as "Mr Bellamy". When visiting him in jail, Callan calls Lonely "Arthur". However, given his nature, they may not be his real names.) He is a small-time thief, former forger and burglar and has been since childhood. He has an aunt who is his "fence" and runs a snack bar in a market along with her statuesque son called Wellington and an unnamed friend who is a blind beggar. Lonely earns his nickname due to bouts of extreme body odour which is psychosomatic and occurs when he is frightened, which is often when in Callan's presence. He is an expert at surveillance and burglary and is Callan's link to criminal resources such as an underworld doctor ("The Groper") and black-market weapons (although he personally dislikes guns intensely). He takes various straight jobs throughout the series, such as a bathroom attendant at a strip club, but The Section eventually arranges a career for him as a black cab driver, both in their service and to support himself (and keep out of trouble) between assignments. He and Callan met in Wormwood Scrubs prison where Callan defended the vulnerable Lonely from other more violent criminals. Although they seem to genuinely care for one another, Lonely always refers to him as "Mr Callan" and is perpetually afraid of him. Callan never actually tells Lonely the nature of his work although it is hinted at that Lonely suspects him to be more than just an everyday gangster, notably when he aids Callan in helping a KGB agent escape from prison. He likes his tea "interfered with" (meaning laced with whisky) and enjoys gambling.
 * Hunter (Series 1–4): head of the Section. Five different men, including Callan himself, have served in the position over the course of the series. Although their personalities differ, they share several traits, such as callousness and a tendency for secretiveness and manipulation. Despite their ruthlessness, they tend to tread carefully around Callan, knowing that if they push him too far, he will retaliate with not-inconsiderable force.
 * Liz (Series 1–4): secretary of the various Hunters. It is revealed that she was a survivor of a Nazi massacre in Poland as a child and was adopted by a British intelligence officer, which eventually led her into being recruited by The Section. She and Callan seem fond of one another but their relationship appears to be wholly professional.
 * Toby Meres (Series 1–2, 4): an upper class agent who attended Eton school followed by Oxford University and then the Brigade of Guards, recruited by The Section after being forced to leave the army because he caused the death of one of his men. He wears distinctive blue glasses, uses a .38 Special and spent a year attached to the CIA as The Section's Washington representative. Meres is highly ambitious and enjoys his work with the Section, a quality that Hunter finds very useful but which irritates the sentimental Callan no end. Meres has an adversarial relationship with Callan, but he respects Callan's abilities and works very effectively in a team with him.
 * Dr Snell (Series 2–4): a sinister and seemingly emotionless doctor who works for The Section. As well as standard medical care, he is involved in the psychological evaluation of Section personnel, the mental torture of Section prisoners and even brainwashing a criminal so that he forgets witnessing Callan kill one of his henchmen.
 * James Cross (Series 3–4): a replacement agent for Toby Meres (who had been posted to the US) and Callan's rival within The Section. He is ambitious and extremely ruthless, bordering on the sadistic, although more reckless than Meres. Cross drives a white Jaguar, drinks whisky, smokes cigarettes and uses a snub-nosed .38 calibre revolver. He has a casual affair with Hunter's secretary, Liz, and later kills the Nazi war criminal who tried to murder her by throwing him out of a window, although Callan opines this was purely to save his own career (possibly as a ruse to prompt Liz into ending their destructive relationship). Whilst Callan is on friendly terms with the other members of The Section, he and Cross share a mutual antipathy that borders on hatred, Cross even disagreeing with Hunter's decision to trade the captured KGB agent Richmond in return for rescuing an imprisoned Callan from behind the Iron Curtain.
 * Bishop (Series 3–4): a civil servant, and Hunter's superior.

Series overview
The series pilot episode aired in February 1967, in an Armchair Theatre play entitled A Magnum for Schneider by James Mitchell. Mitchell was later responsible for creating When the Boat Comes In (1976–81) for the BBC. The haunted character of Callan caught the public's imagination to such an extent that a six-episode series was commissioned and broadcast, later in the same year. A further series of 16 followed, though with both ABC and Associated Rediffusion (broadcasters in the London region) going through the process of merging, by the time the second series was broadcast in 1969 it was attributed to Thames Television (the result of the merger).

Overall, the series was successful in the television ratings, running between 1967 and 1972. The closing episode of the 1969 series saw a severely under-pressure Callan get shot, with a clever publicity campaign following to ensure that viewers cared whether the character lived (he did) or died. The last two series were in colour and proved as popular as ever. A cinema film simply entitled Callan followed in 1974, directed by Don Sharp. Callan was last seen in the 1981 feature-length television story made by ATV, entitled Wet Job. Though less satisfactory than the preceding series, it was a chance for viewers to see the main characters of Callan and Lonely one more time.

Colour-coded files
The Section used a series of colour-coded files to indicate targets of different priorities (with much relevance for the title of the novel Red File for Callan);

Episodes
The original TV play was screened in 1967 as part of ITV's Armchair Theatre series. This was followed by a first series of six episodes, a second series of fifteen episodes, a third series of nine episodes and a fourth series of thirteen episodes (in all, 22 black-and-white and 22 colour episodes). These were supplemented by a 1974 colour film re-working of the pilot, A Magnum for Schneider, .and a 1981 feature-length TV movie, Wet Job.

Pilot – A Magnum for Schneider (1967)
Callan has been retired from an anonymous government agency known as "The Section", run by Colonel Hunter (the name "Hunter" is used as a code name for the current Section Chief, similar to the C of SIS). The Section removes those who pose a danger to the public, by means of either persuasion, blackmail, extortion or death. David Callan had been the Section's top operative, but had become too curious about his targets and the rationale for their removal. The Section considered him vulnerable, volatile and dangerous, so had laid him off to a dead-end book-keeping job with an ungrateful employer.

The pilot was novelised by its scriptwriter, James Mitchell, who went on to write most of the TV series episodes. The book was published under the title Red File For Callan in the US, and as A Magnum for Schneider in the UK, the storyline being based around Callan's love for model soldier war games, an interest shared by his target, Schneider, a Hampstead-based arms dealer.

The pilot, filmed in black-and-white, was later remade in colour in 1974 as the feature film, Callan, two years after the television series ended.

Series 1: 6 episodes (1967)
ABC commissioned a first series of six episodes in 1967. In the first episode Callan rejoins the section in an unofficial capacity. The series was characterised by Callan's stand-offish, barely-respectful relationship with his boss, Hunter, who schemed to retain Callan on his side, and would play him off in little divide-and-rule scenarios with or against his fellow agents. This was in an effort to maintain his control, although it wasn't always apparent that these ploys worked. Callan's underworld contact, Lonely (Russell Hunter), developed into an unofficial sidekick, whose shadowing qualities outshone his sense of personal hygiene, something Meres in particular took joy in pointing out. Lonely remained ignorant of Callan's real work and believed him to be something of a gangland villain.

Series 2: 15 episodes (1969)
By 1969, ABC Weekend Television had, due to an enforced merger with Rediffusion, become Thames Television. A second series of fifteen episodes, which had already been completed by ABC, was therefore transmitted under the name of the new company. This run ended with "Death of a Hunter", in which the Section chief meets his demise, and Callan is shot – perhaps fatally. It had not been decided whether the show would return for a third series, so this device was used to leave open either the possibility of more stories in the future, or a way of winding-up the show. Two endings were taped, in which Callan either lived or died. In the end, Thames decided to bring the programme back in 1970, this time in colour, for a series consisting of a further nine episodes.

Series 3: 9 episodes (1970)
The third series, the first in colour, saw Callan still recovering from having been shot and struggling to come to terms with his situation. Interviews with Snell (the Section's doctor) and poor shooting range results portrayed Callan as a barely-functioning human being, whose future with the Section looks to be in serious doubt. If Callan is to be of any use to Hunter, something has to spark him into life. In league with Meres' younger, brasher, edgier and unpredictable replacement, James Cross (played by Patrick Mower), the new Hunter concocts a scenario whereby Callan's energies are incited into real emotions that can be turned against the enemy. The remaining eight episodes see the revitalised yet ever-more world-weary assassin cover more ground, including one episode where love comes unexpectedly into his life, and which has the (expected) unexpected ending.

Series 4: 13 episodes (1972)
The final set of thirteen episodes was broadcast in 1972. This saw Callan develop further than before. An unsuccessful mission results in Callan being interrogated in a Russian prison but he is exchanged by the Soviets for one of their agents. Now he is known to them, he has become a liability. What to do with The Section's top agent is solved by promoting him to the position of Hunter – a post he dislikes as much or even more than actually serving under a Hunter. However, this move by his masters has motives, and he is eventually relieved of his duties after an incident in which he re-enters the fray as an agent, which was against the rules. He is replaced as Hunter by his predecessor. The final three episodes form a trilogy based around the defecting Soviet agent Richmond (played by T. P. McKenna), which was sub-titled The Richmond Files.

Reunion TV movie: Wet Job (1981)
The 1981 feature-length television story Wet Job, written by Mitchell and produced by ATV (without the original theme music or logo), rounded off the saga with a positive ending to the story of Callan and Lonely. Callan has become the proprietor of a military memorabilia shop when he is recruited by the new Hunter for one more job. Alas, he has to do this alone: Lonely has become a dapper gent, engaged to be married, and with enough self-confidence to defy Callan's request for help. In the end, Callan completes the task, survives, and even ends up with a girlfriend.

Documentary: This Man Alone (2015)
A Callan documentary entitled This Man Alone was released on DVD in November 2015. Narrated by Edward Woodward's son Peter Woodward, it includes contributions from Peter Mitchell, Reginald Collin, Mike Vardy, and James Goddard. Additionally the DVD includes a new transfer of A Magnum for Schneider and The Good Ones Are All Dead, a music-themed TV special The Edward Woodward Hour, and a documentary on James Mitchell, A World of My Own.

Film – Callan (1974)
The cinema film was an expanded re-working of James Mitchell's original 1967 TV pilot episode, A Magnum for Schneider. Taking much of its new material from Mitchell's own novelisation of that teleplay, it was based more on the novel than on the original television script. For legal reasons, no mention is made of the pilot teleplay or the TV series. The film's credits mention only the novel as its source, identifying it by the title under which it had been published by Simon & Schuster in the United States in 1969, Red File for Callan, so as to avoid any reference to the title of the ABC television pilot.

In 1974, Dell reissued the novel in paperback, as Red File for Callan. Despite coinciding with the film's release this edition gave no hint of being a tie-in.

In the film, Callan's boss Hunter is played by Eric Porter, and Meres too is re-cast, this time played by Peter Egan (known at the time as a trendy gangster, from the controversial TV series Big Breadwinner Hog, but now better known for sitcoms such as the BBC's Ever Decreasing Circles). The only recurring actors from the TV series were Edward Woodward as Callan, Russell Hunter as Lonely, and Clifford Rose as Dr Snell (who appears in five of the television episodes from series two, three and four, although, in the film, reflecting the screenplay's 1967 origin, it's stated that Callan has never met Snell before).

Novels

 * A Magnum for Schneider by James Mitchell – also published as Red File for Callan and Callan – (1969), ISBN 0-750-53959-3
 * Russian Roulette (1973) by James Mitchell, ISBN 1-909-61904-3
 * Death and Bright Water (1974) by James Mitchell, ISBN 1-909-61911-6
 * Smear Job (1975) by James Mitchell, ISBN 0-241-89306-2
 * Bonfire Night (2002) by James Mitchell, ISBN 0-727-85878-5

Short story collections
There are two short story collections
 * Callan Uncovered (2014) all by James Mitchell. Features 25 short stories (24 were written for the Sunday Express, and 1 for the TV Times), as well as a story treatment and the full script of an unfilmed episode, "Goodbye Mary Lee".
 * Callan Uncovered 2 (2015) all by James Mitchell. Features 15 short stories (all were written for the Sunday Express), as well as the full script of a 'lost' episode, "Goodness Burns Too Bright".

Big Finish audio series
On 7 December 2017, Big Finish Productions announced plans to release two box sets of Callan audio adventures based on the Sunday Express Short Stories written by James Mitchell. The tales have been adapted by Peter Mitchell, the series creator's son, and star Ben Miles in the title role, with Frank Skinner as Lonely, Nicholas Briggs as Hunter and Jane Slavin as Liz. Volume One released July 2018. On 29 July 2020, Big Finish announced that the second volume would release in September 2020.

Awards and nominations
The following is a table listing the awards and nominations received by Callan

Music
The series' theme tune, "Girl in the Dark" (also known as "This Man Alone"), was a library piece credited to Dutch composer Jan Stoeckart (under the penname "Jack Trombey", one of several aliases he used), issued by De Wolfe Music.

However, an edition of Billboard newspaper dated 15 November 1975 reported on the conclusion of a seven-year copyright case brought in 1968 by Mood Music (a subsidiary of the Sparta-Florida Music Group), who claimed that "Girl in the Dark" was "sufficiently similar" to an Italian song, "Sogno Nostalgico", as to be an infringement of copyright. That song was claimed to have been composed in 1963, with records of it released in Italy in 1964 which were made available from Mood Music's library in 1965. But Mood proved oddly reluctant to push the case to a trial.

The accuracy of their claim may be judged from the fact that Mood also claimed, incorrectly, that "Sogno Nostalgico" was used as the theme for the British television series The Rat Catchers, a piece of music which has always been credited to UK composer Johnny Pearson.

De Wolfe maintained that "Girl in the Dark", the work of Dutch composer Jan Stoeckart in 1960, had been submitted to other people before the copyright was assigned to them in 1966 (i.e., including a period before "Sogno Nostalgico" had been composed). A settlement was reached in 1975 once it became clear – from the 1974 feature film – that Callan was no longer using the piece, so that royalties had dried up. Copyright in it was vested by agreement in Mood Music in 1975, together with future royalties (but Callan never used it again), with De Wolfe retaining the majority of the royalties earned up to that point.

Due to the ongoing legal action, the 1974 feature film conspicuously did not use the composition " Girl in the Dark", and the terms of the settlement of the case in 1975 led to its also not being used in ATV's 1981 reunion TV movie.

Incidental music was not a feature of the Callan television series, except in "A Magnum for Schneider" where "Girl in the Dark" was repeatedly played in scenes in which Callan set to work.

Callan in the archives
The Armchair Theatre play from 1967 exists as a 16mm film recording of the original 405-line black-and-white television broadcast.

The 21 episodes of series 1 and 2 were recorded on black-and-white videotape, with filmed inserts; but several of these episodes have been lost or wiped. The surviving episodes from Series 1 still exist as 405-line tapes, and those episodes featured on the 2015 DVD Callan: This Man Alone had proper electronic conversions to 625-line video, but the episodes have previously had poor quality optical conversions by merely pointing a 625-line electronic camera at a monitor displaying the original 405-line recording. The surviving Series 2 episodes also exist on 405-line videotapes, but for DVD these were electronically (as opposed to optically) converted. In the case of "The Worst Soldier I Ever Saw", Network's DVD cover blurb states that the episode only survives as an unedited studio block, which had to be edited into its proper sequence for the DVD release.

All of the colour episodes exist, and the 1970 series was released on DVD in the UK in 2001. The episodes were edited to remove captions which would have led into the commercial breaks in the original transmission. This resulted in some awkward visual and audio jump cuts. The subsequent British DVD releases all retain the commercial break captions. The 1974 feature film was released on DVD separately.

Both the 1970 and 1972 series have had Region 4 DVD releases by Umbrella Entertainment. The 1972 series DVD also includes the feature film.

The separate DVD release of the 1974 feature film includes an interview, recorded in 2000, with Edward Woodward.

Region 1
Acorn Media released Callan - Set 1 on 7 July 2009 which includes all 9 episodes from series 3. On 26 January 2010, Callan - Set 2 was released featuring all 13 episodes from series 4. It has not been decided whether further series will be released to DVD in Region 1.

Region 2
Clear Vision Video released three DVDs subtitled "Series 1 Parts 1 – 3 of 3", also available in a box titled Callan – The Complete Series One, in 2001. In fact these DVDs comprise the nine episodes of Series 3 aired in 1970, the first colour series, although the back covers incorrectly claim that "This edition comes from the first series that was ever shown on Thames Television". (ABC had aired the complete first series before changing its name in the 1968 ITV franchise round; then, renamed Thames, it had shown the second series in 1969.)

Prism Leisure released the cinema film as Callan – The Movie on Region 0 PAL in 2001. The DVD also includes an interview with Edward Woodward.

Network released Callan – The Monochrome Years in a DVD edition on 22 February 2010. This four DVD set includes the Armchair Theatre pilot play, 'A Magnum For Schnieder', plus the surviving 2 episodes of the first series (out of the original 6), and the surviving 9 episodes of the second series (out of the original 15). Network also released Callan – The Colour Years in 2010. Callan – Wet Job was then released by Network in 2011. Network were due to release the complete series, containing all the surviving episodes, The Definitive Collection, the following year, but this did not happen and eventually, in 2015, the special features announced for the set began to be released individually. This suggests that the collection has been abandoned.

Region 4
Umbrella Entertainment released the third and fourth series on DVD in Australia in 2007. Fremantle Media then followed up with releases of Callan: The Monochrome Years (1967-1969) and The Colour Years (1970-1972) on DVD in Australia in 2010.

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Tommy Smith (saxophonist)

Thomas William Ellis Smith (born 27 April 1967) is a Scottish jazz saxophonist, composer, and educator.

Early life
Smith was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Scottish parents Brenda Ann Urquhart, and father, William John Ellis, whom he never met. Smith was brought up in the Wester Hailes area of the city, where he was encouraged by his stepfather, George Smith, an avid jazz fan and drummer in the Gene Krupa style, to take up the tenor saxophone at the age of twelve. When he was thirteen he attended a weekly jazz workshop under the direction of Gordon Cruikshank. He met pathologist and pianist Vincenzo Crucioli, who became a mentor. With drummer John Rae, his first group won Edinburgh International Jazz Festival Best Group award in 1981. At fourteen Smith won 'Best Soloist'. He attributes much of his early success to the tuition of Vincenzo Crucioli. Under additional clarinettist Jim O'Malley and pianist Jean Allison at Wester Hailes Education Centre, Smith was soon performing around Edinburgh and Scotland with his quartet with John Rae (musician). In 1983, at sixteen, he recorded his first album  Giant Strides, with a trio featuring Rae and Alan Taylor. During the same year, he recorded his second album, Taking Off, and won a scholarship, assisted by a fund-raising program organized by his music teacher, Jean Allison, to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. At Berklee he formed the band Forward Motion with Norwegian bassist Terje Gewelt, Canadian drummer Ian Froman, and Hungarian pianist Laszlo Gardony. The band recorded two albums, Progressions and The Berklee Tapes (1985).

Later career
With a recommendation from Chick Corea, Smith joined Berklee vice-president Gary Burton's group with bassist Steve Swallow, pianist Makoto Ozone, and drummer Adam Nussbaum, touring the world and recording the album Whiz Kids for ECM.

In 1989, when he was twenty-two, Smith signed with Blue Note, which released his album Step by Step. Burton produced the album with a band consisting of John Scofield (guitar), Eddie Gómez (bass), and Jack DeJohnette (drums). Three more albums followed for Blue Note: Peeping Tom (1990), Standards (1991), and Paris (1992). During this period Smith hosted a series of BBC-TV specials called Jazz Types in which he performed with guests such as Tommy Flanagan, Gary Burton, Chick Corea, Bobby Watson, Arild Andersen, Hue and Cry, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Smith recorded and toured with Hue and Cry, a duo of brothers Pat and Greg Kane with American vibist Joe Locke, percussionist Trilok Gurtu, and Arild Andersen. Smith also examined classical composition, leading to his first saxophone concerto, Unirsi in Matrimonio, and a suite for saxophone and strings, Un Ecossais a Paris.

In 1993, Smith joined the Scottish record label, Linn Records. His albums, Reminiscence (1993), Misty Morning and No Time (1994), Azure (1995, with Jon Christensen, Lars Danielsson and Kenny Wheeler), and Beasts of Scotland (1996) were released. Writing in Playboy magazine, Neil Tesser noted of Beasts of Scotland that "Smith's artful writing makes the ensemble sound like a petite Philharmonic." The Sound of Love followed. Recorded in New York City in September 1997 with Kenny Barron (piano), Peter Washington (bass), and Billy Drummond (drums), it focused on the Duke Ellington-Billy Strayhorn songbook. Gymnopedie: The Classical Side of Tommy Smith (1998) was recorded with his regular duo partner, classical pianist Murray McLachlan. The disc included music by Satie, Bartok, Grieg, and Chick Corea, and Smith's Sonatas No. 1 "Hall of Mirrors" and No. 2 "Dreaming With Open Eyes" based on Michael Tucker's book of the same title. Returning to jazz and to New York the following year, Smith then recorded his final album for Linn, Blue Smith, with John Scofield and his regular rhythm section of bassist James Genus and drummer Clarence Penn.

Scottish National Jazz Orchestra
In 1995 Smith founded the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra, which has presented programs of repertory classics and more contemporary works, often specially commissioned.

The repertory programs have included Duke Ellington's extended suites, celebrations of Count Basie and Benny Goodman (with special guest Ken Peplowski) and the collaborations between Miles Davis and Gil Evans – Porgy & Bess, Sketches of Spain (both with Gerard Presencer as trumpet soloist) and Miles Ahead (with Ingrid Jensen). SNJO has presented the music of Charles Mingus, Oliver Nelson, Benny Carter, Stan Kenton, Thelonious Monk, Steely Dan, Astor Piazzolla, and Pat Metheny (with guitarists Jim Mullen, Phil Robson, Mike Walker and Kevin MacKenzie) and premiered special commissions by Keith Tippett, Florian Ross, and Geoffrey Keezer, as well as specially commissioned arrangements of John Coltrane, Chick Corea (with drummer Gary Novak), Wayne Shorter featuring Gary Burton, Electric Miles featuring John Scofield, Weather Report featuring Peter Erskine, and Kurt Elling.

In addition, SNJO has performed music by contemporary jazz musicians. These include Kenny Wheeler's Sweet Sister Suite; Joe Lovano's Celebrating Sinatra with arrangements by Manny Albam; the music of Maria Schneider conducted by the composer; and Smith's Planet Wave, a large-scale composition made possible by the Arts Foundation/Barclays Bank jazz composition fellowship prize which marries Smith's music to text by poet Edwin Morgan. The concerts with Lovano also featured the premiere of Smith's Torah, a work based on the first five books of the Bible in which a titanic struggle occurs between good and evil. Written over seventy days, the fifty-minute composition was created for Lovano and SNJO. During the same evening that Torah was being premiered in Scotland, Cleo Laine and John Dankworth premiered The Morning of the Imminent by Smith and Morgan at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. On Friday May 3 2024, the SNJO played with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra back in his native Edinburgh including a performance of his arrangement of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue featuring Makoto Ozone on the piano.

Classical music
In 1989 Smith performed An Rathad ùr, a concerto for saxophone by William Sweeney, with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for the television series Jazz Types, which Smith also presented. Prompted by Roger Pollen of the Scottish Ensemble, he spent six months studying orchestration for strings with a commission for saxophone and strings very much in mind. As a Blue Note musician at the time, Smith had access to the parent company EMI's classical catalogue. He researched orchestration texts by Samuel Adler, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Cecil Forsyth, and spent two productive years in Paris where he studied classical music. He wrote his first classical composition, Unirsi in Matrimonio, for saxophone and strings in 1990. This was followed by another work for strings and saxophone, Un Ecossais A Paris in 1991, and he collaborated with classical pianist (Murray McLachlan) for Sonata No.1 - Hall of Mirrors and Sonata No.2 Dreaming with Open Eyes, both for saxophone and piano.

The next seven years were spent preparing for a much bigger orchestral work, the saxophone concerto Hiroshima (1998). This was premiered with the Orchestra of St. John Smith's Square at Chelmsford Cathedral and included strings, brass, woodwinds, percussion, piano, and saxophone. Smith appeared as solo saxophonist for Sally Beamish's The Knotgrass Elegy, commissioned for the 2001 BBC Proms, and performed with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall in London. In 2002, Smith performed his earlier and much lengthier re-invention of Children's Songs for saxophone and orchestra with the Scottish Ensemble at St John's Kirk, Perth. Other classical music endeavours have included a massive undertaking for the Edinburgh Youth Orchestra's 40th anniversary in 2003. A suite, entitled Edinburgh, was written for the occasion with saxophone, bass, drums, and a one hundred person symphony orchestra. The work toured Scotland, Estonia, Russia, and Finland

As leader

 * 1983 Giant Strides (GFM)
 * 1983 Taking Off (Head)
 * 1984 The Berklee Tapes Forward Motion (Hep)
 * 1985 Progressions Forward Motion (Hep)
 * 1988 Step by Step with (John Scofield), (Jack DeJohnette), (Eddie Gomez) (Mitchel Forman) (Blue Note)
 * 1990 Peeping Tom (Blue Note)
 * 1991 Standards (Blue Note)
 * 1992 Paris (Blue Note)
 * 1993 Reminiscence with Forward Motion (Linn)
 * 1994 Misty Morning and No Time (Linn)
 * 1995 Azure with (Kenny Wheeler), (Lars Danielsson), (Jon Christensen)(Linn)
 * 1996 Beasts of Scotland (Linn)
 * 1997 The Sound of Love with (Kenny Barron) (Linn)
 * 1999 Blue Smith with (John Scofield)(Linn)
 * 1999 Gymnopedié with (Murray McLachlan) (Linn)
 * 2000 Spartacus with (Kenny Barron) (Spartacus)
 * 2001 Into Silence (Spartacus)
 * 2001 The Christmas Concert (Spartacus)
 * 2002 Alone At Last (Spartacus)
 * 2002 Bezique with Brian Kellock (Spartacus)
 * 2003 Evolution with (John Scofield), (Joe Lovano), (John Taylor), (John Patitucci), (Bill Stewart) (Spartacus)
 * 2004 Symbiosis with Brian Kellock (Spartacus)
 * 2005 Forbidden Fruit (Spartacus)
 * 2011 Karma (Spartacus)
 * 2014 Whispering of the Stars with Brian Kellock (Spartacus)
 * 2016 Modern Jacobite with BBCSSO (Spartacus)
 * 2017 Embodying the Light (Spartacus)

With the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra
 * 2002 Miles Ahead (Spartacus)
 * 2009 Rhapsody in Blue Live (Spartacus)
 * 2010 Torah (Spartacus)
 * 2012 Celebration with (Arild Andersen)(ECM)
 * 2013 In the Spirit of Duke (Spartacus)
 * 2014 American Adventure with (Mike Stern)(Spartacus)
 * 2015 Jeunehomme with Makoto Ozone (Spartacus)
 * 2018 Sweet Sister Suite with Laura Jurd (Spartacus)
 * 2018 Peter & the Wolf (Spartacus)

With the Tommy Smith Youth Jazz Orchestra
 * 2008 Exploration (Spartacus)
 * 2011 Emergence (Spartacus)
 * 2017 Effervescence (Spartacus)

With Arild Andersen and Paolo Vinaccia
 * 2008 Live at Belleville (ECM)
 * 2014 Mira (ECM)
 * 2018 In-House Science (ECM)

As guest

 * 1981 European Community Jazz Orchestra, Eurojazz
 * 1986 Gary Burton, Whiz Kids (ECM)
 * 1996 Hue and Cry, Jazz Not Jazz (Linn)
 * 1997 Karen Matheson, The Dreaming Sea (Survival)
 * 1999 Hue and Cry, Next Move (Linn)
 * 2001 Clark Tracey, Stability (Linn)
 * 2004 Joe Locke, Dear Life (Sirocco)
 * 2005 Reynolds Jazz Orchestra, Cube (Shanti)
 * 2006 Pino Iodice, High Tension
 * 2007 Loic Dequidt, Nomade (Kopasetic)
 * 2010 Michael McGoldrick, Aurora (Secret Music)
 * 2013 Capercaillie, At the Heart of It (Secret Music)
 * 2015 Kurt Elling, Passion World
 * 2017 Giuliana Soscia & Pino Jodice Quartet Meets Tommy Smith, North Wind (Alman Music)

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Tournament 1, Game 8
Chess championship/Tournament 1/Game 8, in which Jasmine defeated ugen64, features this sequence of moves. If you examine the Algebraic notation, line 9 features Jasmine (white) moving a bishop to c6, capturing a black piece. This is the black knight which was moved there in line 3. Ugen64's immediate response to that bishop's move is dxc6, capturing the bishop with a neighboring pawn. ESkog 17:55, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Semi-finals of the European Champions Cup in 82/83 season

 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. Golbez 06:30, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

Semi-finals of the European Champions Cup in 82/83 season
Unreasonably narrow scope (judging by title), no real content Alai 17:57, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete, no context, possibly patent nonsense. Martg76 21:26, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy the heck out of it. Patent nonsense. Sasquatch′↔Talk↔Contributions 23:03, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy. And it was the European Cup back then anyhow. Hiding 23:06, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete It's not patent nonsense, by the way, it's a poor reference to the semi finals of the European Cup, in which Widzew Lódz lost to Juventus 4-2 on aggregate. Hiding 23:15, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete not encyclopedic. JamesBurns 04:35, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Kounterfeit

Kounterfeit is a 1996 American direct-to-video crime/thriller film starring Bruce Payne and Hilary Swank. Kounterfeit was directed by John Mallory Asher and written by David Chase, Katherine Fugate and Jay Irwin.

Plot summary
A counterfeiter of money is attacked by two masked men and threatened to reveal where a certain amount of counterfeit money is. The counterfeiter pleads ignorance and is subsequently killed. Tommy 'Hopscotch' Hopkins, who has the money, learns of the death of the counterfeiter and begins to fear for his own safety. Consequently, he asks his friend, the street smart and "seasoned former criminal" Frankie (who owns a strip club), to assist him in an exchange of the fake money for real money which he has organised with some acquaintances. Frankie reluctantly agrees to assist his friend. During the exchange, an undercover police officer, Danny, is killed in a shootout. The shootout is witnessed by Danny's sister Colleen, who was hiding in the house. Distraught, she mistakenly believes that Frankie killed her brother. Colleen becomes frustrated with her ex-boyfriend, Vic, whose investigation into Danny's murder proceeds slowly, and decides to undertake her own investigation.

Main cast

 * Hilary Swank as Colleen
 * Bruce Payne as Frankie
 * Corbin Bernsen as Marty Hopkins
 * Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Paco/Danny
 * Gil Bernardy as Counterfeiter
 * Andrew Hawkes as Tommy 'Hopscotch' Hopkins
 * Michael Gross as Captain Evans
 * Rob Stewart as Vic
 * Elizabeth Gracen as Bridgette
 * Ben Foster as Travis
 * Doug McKeon as Patron
 * Jay Irwin as Contact 1
 * Brad James as Contact 2

Bruce Payne and Elizabeth Gracen both played Immortals in the popular Highlander franchise.

Reception
The TV Guide website has given the film a rating of 2.5 out of 4. A reviewer for the TV Guide stated that 'Frankie's slablike features and seedy-cool demeanor initially makes him just one outsized thug among many, but Payne gradually warms up the protagonist and balances nicely against Hawkes's scenery-chewing Joe Pesci act'. Matt Spector stated that the film 'is enjoyable with enough action scenes and twists and turns to keep the audience interested'. A different reviewer stated that 'the ungainly script is low on both ideas and excitement'. Mick Martin and Marsha Porter described the film as a 'mildly diverting tale of two low life hoods'. Dragan Antulov stated that 'the plot recycles many obligatory elements of low budget crime movies (vengeance as the prime motive for one of the protagonist, good guys who don't turn out so good at the end) and combines them with Tarantinoesque portrayal of small time criminals as protagonists'. VPRO Cinema awarded the film 3 out of 5 stars. A reviewer for Film Review stated that 'Payne oozes charisma in a film which delivers plenty of cheap thrills but few surprises'. Edmond Grant stated that the film's 'involved skullduggery holds few surprises in the end'. Joe Corey stated that the film 'seems like a cheap Miami Vice knock-off minus the golden talents of Philip Michael Thomas'. Nonetheless, Corey praised the acting of Hilary Swank, stating that she 'is the reason this film deserves to be seen' as 'she does her best to give life to a character that barely reads on the page' and 'seems very calm dealing with a script that over twists itself with the subterfuge'.

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