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Duncan Stuart McLeod

Duncan Stuart McLeod (December 17, 1854–July 31, 1933) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1922 to 1927.

McLeod was born in Tamworth, Canada West. He worked as a farmer in Goodlands, Manitoba, and also served as a reeve and magistrate. His grandfather and father were soldiers in the British army, and two of McLeod's sons served with the C.E.F.

He was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1922 provincial election as a candidate of the United Farmers of Manitoba, defeating Conservative William Chalmers and Liberal incumbent Robert Thornton.

The UFM unexpectedly formed government after this election, and McLeod served as a backbench supporter of John Bracken's administration for the next five years. He did not seek re-election in 1927.

McLeod died on July 31, 1933, in Brenda, Manitoba.

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San Manuel Stadium

San Manuel Stadium is an open-air ballpark in downtown San Bernardino, California, United States. It opened in 1996, replacing Fiscalini Field as the home park of Minor League Baseball's Inland Empire 66ers of San Bernardino. Before then, the 66ers shared Fiscalini Field with CSUSB Coyotes and SBVC Wolverines. San Manuel Stadium is named after the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, which is based in San Bernardino and paid for the naming rights. The stadium seats 8,000 people, with additional capacity provided by lawn seating.

It is located directly next to the San Bernardino Transit Center, with connections to Los Angeles Union Station.

History
San Manuel Stadium was also the home field for the California State University, San Bernardino Coyotes baseball team. The Coyotes play in the California Collegiate Athletic Association in Division II of the National Collegiate Athletic Association NCAA. In 2004, it also served as the home of the Los Angeles Unity, the city's Pro Cricket team. In 2010, San Manuel Stadium was equipped with a new scoreboard, which was the largest in the California League. In 2010, CSUSB moved its home games to Fiscalini Field, San Bernardino's former minor league stadium. The San Manuel facilities are used by the San Bernardino Valley College's baseball team as well.

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Talk:Eugene Podkletnov

Further Podkletnow's expliots
The article clearly demonstrates this guy is a liar. There is no reason to propagate his further lies, especially they don't have independent comments. Lembit Staan (talk) 15:50, 27 August 2021 (UTC)

 * Pussio 86.30.236.97 (talk) 13:04, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:CIÉ

Ownership
''Córas Iompair Éireann ... is owned by the Irish Government''

Even though CIÉ's own website says "the Irish Government is currently the sole owner of CIÉ", surely it is not the Irish Government but the Irish State which owns the corporation. (?) -- Picapica 23:35, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I have read the law on this and their is no capital of the company and thus it is hard to determine how their can be an owner as such? Usually state companies explicitly state in the relevant law who owns what but not here, checked 1950 and 1986 acts. It has a wide range of powers to purchase, borrow and dispose - and of course is subject to the law and the Oireachtas. Djegan 18:25, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

My question really concerned the distinction between the Government and the State. The Government is an arm of the State but it is not all of the State, and in any case CIÉ is a body which was established by the State's legislative arm, the Oireachtas, not by its executive arm, the Government.

But as you rightly point out, "who owns CIÉ?" is not really a meaningful question in any case, since CIÉ ("the Board") is not something which can be owned. It is an entity established by law precisely to do the owning of certain assets which do not themselves constitute CIÉ (though CIÉ exists to own and make use of them).

In short, the statement "Córas Iompair Éireann ... is owned by the Irish Government" and associated remarks in the introduction need re-writing! I hope to post a suggested alternative on this page before too long. -- Picapica 20:14, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

This is a problem with the state-sponsored bodies of the Republic of Ireland that are statutory corporations such as CIÉ - they don't have any share capital (and therefore, are not companies), no shareholders, no dividends, etc. They are constituted under their primary legislation (Transport Act 1950 in this case). The Members of Coras Iompair Éireann are the Board. The Board is appointed by the Government so I guess they are the nearest thing to it having an owner. --Rdd 22:35, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Clarification

 * Current government policy is that Córas Iompair Éireann should be wound up

By "wound up", does the article mean, "abolished"? -- Beland 00:13, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Is this still government policy? It is now late 2013 and there is an entirely different government and CIÉ is still around and still 'owned' by the government/state. Does anyone know what current plans are? Aerach (talk) 11:57, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

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Shadowplay (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

"Shadowplay" is the 36th episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It is the 16th episode of the second season.

Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures on Deep Space Nine, a space station located adjacent to a stable wormhole between the Alpha and Gamma quadrants of the Milky Way Galaxy, near the planet Bajor. In this episode, Deep Space Nine's shapeshifting security chief Odo and science officer Dax investigate mysterious disappearances of the population of a village in the Gamma Quadrant; meanwhile, Major Kira becomes romantically involved with the Bajoran priest Vedek Bareil.

The episode was directed by Robert Scheerer and written by Robert Hewitt Wolfe.

Plot
Dax and Odo investigate an unusual particle field emanating from a planet in the Gamma Quadrant; they discover the field is coming from a small village's power generator. The village magistrate, Colyus, tells them 22 people have disappeared without a trace in the past few days. Odo and Dax offer to help investigate the disappearances; but the oldest villager, Rurigan, seems unconvinced that the villagers will ever be found.

The next day, Odo interviews Rurigan's granddaughter, Taya, whose mother has disappeared. The two find common ground in that they are both orphans; during the course of their conversation, Taya reveals that the villagers never leave their valley. Rurigan assures Odo that searching beyond the valley would be pointless. Apparently no one has thought about searching beyond the valley or ever considered leaving it.

Taya brings Odo and Dax to the edge of the valley. When Dax leaves the valley, a device from the village vanishes from her hand. Taya reaches past the edge of the valley, and her arm begins to disappear. The three return to the village to share their findings: the entire village, including its citizens, is a hologram created by the reactor's particle field. The reactor has fallen into disrepair and is breaking down, causing the villagers to disappear one by one.

They convince the villagers to let Dax shut down the reactor and repair it before it stops functioning completely. When she does so, the village and all the villagers vanish – except Rurigan. He explains that when an alien empire known as the Dominion arrived on his home planet, he fled to an abandoned planet and recreated the world he had lost; but now he admits that none of it was real. However, Odo argues that Taya and the others are real and deserve a chance to live. Dax and Rurigan repair the reactor, restoring the village, including the missing people. Before he and Dax leave, Odo realizes how close he has grown to Taya, and demonstrates his abilities by morphing into a toy that Taya played with earlier.

Meanwhile, back on Deep Space Nine, Major Kira begins a romance with Vedek Bareil; the bartender Quark had Bareil invited to the station to distract Kira from a criminal operation he was planning, but she sees through the scheme and apprehends Quark's accomplice. Jake Sisko begins taking engineering lessons from Miles O'Brien, but eventually admits to his father that he doesn't want to join Starfleet.

Reception
In IGN's review of season 2, they said this and "The Alternate" were "good Odo episodes".

In 2013, Tor.com said this was a "magnificently constructed episode" that explored the idea of subverted expectations, and rated the episode 8 out of 10.

Releases
This and "Paradise" were released on VHS in the United Kingdom paired on one cassette (VHR 2871).

On April 1, 2003 Season 2 of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was released on DVD video discs, with 26 episodes on seven discs.

This episode was released in 2017 on DVD with the complete series box set, which had 176 episodes on 48 discs.

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John Beecroft

John Beecroft (1790 – 10 June 1854) was an explorer, governor of Fernando Po and British Consul of the Bight of Benin and Biafra.

Early life
Beecroft was born in England near the port of Whitby, Yorkshire. His early life is obscure but while serving on a coasting vessel he is known to have been captured by a French privateer during the Napoleonic Wars in 1805, and held prisoner until 1814. He later joined the merchant navy and as master of a transport vessel traveled to Greenland as part of William Parry's expedition.

Colonial career
In 1829 he was appointed master of works in Fernando Po, an island in the Gulf of Guinea nominally belonging to Spain but which the British were using to establish a base against the slave trade. Demonstrating a talent for negotiating successfully with local people, in 1830 Beecroft was appointed acting governor by Spain (with rank of lieutenant in the Spanish Navy) when Edward Nicolls (then governor) returned to England unwell. Realising Spain was not willing to cede control of the island the British left in 1833 but Beecroft effectively continued in the role of acting governor, even holding a court of justice, although at this point he was also agent of a trading company. In 1843 Spain formally made him governor of Fernando Po and two other Spanish possessions. In 1849 he was appointed Consul of the Bights of Benin and Biafra by the British, a position he held (along with his governorship of Fernando Po) until his death in 1854.

According to K.O. Dike: "In time Africans came to look on the British Consul as the de facto Governor of the Bights of Benin and Biafra. This position of power which Beecroft won for himself passed on to his successors and enabled Britain to enjoy the authority of a protecting power before the Berlin West Africa Conference had legalised the status in international diplomacy."

During his time as governor Beecroft explored the interior of Africa using steamships to navigate far up the Niger River, the Cross River and the Benin River, an area official British expeditions failed to penetrate. The secret of his success was not only his use of modern European naval technology but employing local Africans as crew, since they had greater resistance to the malaria which claimed numerous European lives before the effectiveness of quinine as a protection was understood. After he became consul he assisted in the British bombardment of Lagos in 1851, negotiated (and was a signatory to) the Treaty Between Great Britain and Lagos, 1 January 1852, and was instrumental in the deposition of Pepple, King of Bonny, in 1854.

Death
Beecroft was preparing for another expedition to the Niger River when he died on 10 June 1854 and was buried on Fernando Po. His place on the expedition was taken by William Balfour Baikie. His widow, Mrs. Ellen Beecroft, later received a pension in the Civil List in recognition of her husband's contribution to the suppression of the slave trade and advancement of British interests on the coast of Africa. Beecroft was also survived by three daughters and a son.

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Georgia national rugby league team

The Georgia national rugby league team represented Georgia in rugby league football. It played its first international game in 2005. The Georgian team play in a red jersey with a white cross on the front. Before a match, they performed their own "haka", called the Perkhuli (meaning "footwork").

History
The history of rugby league in Georgia began in 1991 when a Georgian player was recruited by a Russian rugby league club. In 1993 a rural Georgian rugby union club team defected to the Russian Rugby League; the club and all of its players were banned from playing rugby union for life.

In 2004 Paata Tsintsadze established rugby league in Georgia, with the backing of the Rugby League European Federation. In June 2004 the Georgia Rugby League (GRL) was incorporated, and recognised by the State Sports Ministry. Nodar Andghuladze was the first Chief Executive Officer and David Kilassonia the coaching manager. Soon after rugby union clubs Locomotivi (Railways RC) and Hooligana RC joined the GRL, alongside a third club, the newly founded Raindebi (Knights).

Georgia played its first international match on April 29, 2005 against Netherlands in Rotterdam. Most of the Georgian team were primarily rugby union players, several playing their first organised match of rugby league. The first international match on Georgian soil took place on July 24, 2005 at Dynamo Stadium, Tbilisi. In that match Georgia defeated Serbia 44–12 in front of 8000 spectators.

After winning a position to compete in the 2005 European Nations Cup, Georgia performed admirably against Russia, going down 48 to 14. After the defeat, Georgia took on six-time European Champions France, going down 60 to nil, in a rain soaked Vake Stadium in Georgia.

2008 World Cup Qualifying
In 2006, Georgia defeated the Netherlands and Serbia in the first round of World Cup Qualifying and thereby qualified to participate in the second round with Scotland and Wales. The winner of that pool would qualify for the 2008 World Cup, with the runner up entering the Repecharge round.

However, their final first round fixture against Russia was abandoned after the Georgian team had their visa applications rejected. A subsequent investigation discovered that Georgia had actually forfeited the match because their players were representing the rugby union team. Georgia were found guilty of bringing the game into disrepute, ejected from the competition and banned from RLIF events for two years; Russia were awarded the fixture 24–0.

Rugby league has not been played in Georgia since, and no plans are in place to resume competition.

Results
For matches played by the Soviet Union and the Commonwealth of Independent States, see Russia national rugby league team

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Lake Elsinore Diamond

Lake Elsinore Diamond, also referred to as Storm Stadium, is a baseball park in Lake Elsinore, California. It is primarily used for baseball and is the home field of the Lake Elsinore Storm minor league baseball team in the California League. The field at Diamond Stadium is named Pete Lehr Field.

History
It was built in 1994 and has a capacity of over 8,000 people with 6,066 permanent seats. That capacity was later reduced to 4,835 during renovations undertaken after the 2017 season which exchanged seating for an expansion of the left field deck area. The original $8 million construction estimate in 1992, however, ballooned to more than $22 million by the time of its completion.

Other uses
The company that currently manages the site is Storm Entertainment, a newly developed entity of Storm Baseball. When baseball is not in season, the field is used for a number of other purposes including concerts, boxing matches, and local high school graduations, all of which can utilize temporary seating to increase the capacity to 14,000.

This stadium also has a yearly event for Halloween, the "Field of Screams".

In December 2017, the park hosted the Stadium Super Trucks racing series' World Championship Finals. To create the course, approximately 150,000 square feet of dirt was brought in. The series returned to the Diamond for its 2018 season opener, while the 2020 edition was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Diamond Tap Room
The Diamond Tap Room is the name of the enclosed restaurant and patio in the left field corner. The restaurant has a full menu and is open to the public during all home games. The venue can host various events including birthdays, weddings, etc. It can hold up to 300 guests has several full menus for one's choosing.

Dimensions
Right field is 310 feet away from home plate, with center field at a distance of 400 feet and left field at a distance of 330 feet. The deepest part of the park is the left center power alley at 425 feet. The grass used is Tiffsport, a hybrid Bermuda grass, which is overseeded with ryegrass for the winter.

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Category:Karst caves

Karst caves caves that have formed by dissolution of rock.
 * They can be further sub−categorized into 4 specific types of karst they were formed within, Gypsum, Limestone, Quartzite, or Marble.

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Gypsum caves are caves found in evaporite deposits of gypsum.

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The Hangar (Lancaster, California)

The Hangar, also known as Lancaster Municipal Stadium and formerly known as Clear Channel Stadium, is a stadium in Lancaster, California, United States. From its opening in 1996 to 2020, the stadium was the home field of the Lancaster JetHawks, a now-defunct minor league baseball team of the Advanced A California League. In 2005, Clear Channel Communications entered into a 10-year, $770,000 naming rights deal with the JetHawks and the City of Lancaster, who divided the revenue between them. The deal was planned to run through the 2014 season, but Clear Channel Stadium signage was removed in 2012. The stadium was then renamed The Hangar, its nickname since the stadium opened in 1996, as well as Lancaster Municipal Stadium. The Hangar is located near State Route 14 west of downtown Lancaster. The Lancaster Sound Breakers of the Pecos League played their 2023 season at the Hangar. The Hangar is planned to be reconfigured into a soccer-specific stadium for USL League One's AV Alta FC from 2025 onward.

Features
Because of the area's aerospace legacy, the stadium has a NASA F/A-18 Hornet mounted on display at the front entrance. The $14.5 million facility offers luxury skyboxes, a video message board, and an old-fashioned manual scoreboard. The stadium's seating capacity is listed at 6,860, but can accommodate over 7,000 fans and features slightly over 4,500 permanent full chair stadium seats. Two grass berm general admission areas are available when all seats are sold out.

The stadium is also used to accommodate special events such as local high school graduations, charity softball games, concerts, and the Field of Drafts (an annual brew festival by the City of Lancaster since 2013). Before the Lancaster JetHawks started each new season in April, they played an exhibition game against the local Antelope Valley College Marauders baseball team. However, for the last three JetHawks seasons, they played their exhibition games against the local University of Antelope Valley Pioneers baseball team.

Pilots Pavilion
On April 2, 2014, the Lancaster JetHawks introduced the largest addition to The Hangar since 2005: the Pilots Pavilion. The new tent structure on the third baseline just beyond the stands replaced the stadium's old barbecue tent. At 3,000 square feet and 25 feet tall, the Pilots Pavilion was nearly twice the size and nearly double the height of its predecessor. It was the largest structure of its kind in the California League before the 2019 season. After the JetHawks left the California League in 2020, the Pilots Pavilion was deconstructed and taken down.

The roof canvas material weighed over 1,500 pounds and was supported by six trusses made up of over 6,000 pounds of steel. Just' In Construction, Inc. led the construction efforts.

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Ashley Williams (actress)

Ashley Churchill Williams (born November 12, 1978) is an American actress. She is known for starring in the television series The Jim Gaffigan Show on TV Land and in the NBC series Good Morning Miami. Williams played Victoria on the CBS series How I Met Your Mother opposite Josh Radnor. She has starred in more than a dozen different television pilots over the years and done over 150 episodes of television in addition to television movies for The Hallmark Channel, Lifetime Television, and ABC Family. She has worked in studio and independent films, regional theater, Off-Broadway, and on Broadway.

Early life and education
Williams was born in Westchester County, New York, the daughter of Linda Barbara, and Gurney Williams III, a freelance health and science writer. She is the younger sister of actress Kimberly Williams-Paisley and is sister-in-law to country music star Brad Paisley.

Williams attended Rye High School in Rye, New York. In May 2001 she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Theatre.

Career
Williams made her acting debut in a non-speaking role in the 1993 drama Indian Summer, which also featured her sister Kimberly. She then spent from 1994 to 1996 playing teenage Danielle Andropoulos on the soap opera As the World Turns.

Williams starred in the television series Good Morning, Miami (2002–2004). Since then she has also appeared in episodes of Psych, How I Met Your Mother, multiple episodes of E-Ring, multiple episodes of Huff, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, multiple episodes of Side Order of Life, The Mentalist, Monk, C.S.I., Royal Pains, multiple episodes of Saving Grace, Love Bites, The Protector, Retired at 35, and multiple episodes of Warehouse 13. Williams also had a guest-starring role on American Dreams, playing singer Sandie Shaw and performing Shaw's 1964 hit "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me" on American Bandstand.

In 2007, she starred in the Off Broadway play Burleigh Grime$ and appeared as Victoria, a cupcake baker, on six episodes of the television series How I Met Your Mother; a role she reprised in the concluding seasons of the show.

In 2010, she starred in the made-for-TV Lifetime movies, Patricia Cornwell's The Front and At Risk, which premiered on the channel on April 17, 2010. She also won an on-line straw poll conducted by the How I Met Your Mother production staff as to which ex-girlfriend of Ted Mosby, the show's main character, is the fans' favorite. Her character, Victoria, won 128 to 117 over Robin Scherbatsky.

In 2011 and 2012, she played the role of Claire in a film adaptation of Something Borrowed opposite Kate Hudson, John Krasinski, and her college roommate Ginnifer Goodwin, and she also reprised her role as Victoria on How I Met Your Mother.

She made her Broadway debut in John Grisham's A Time To Kill playing law student Ellen Roarke, on September 28, 2013, with the opening night on October 20, 2013. She had previously worked at the Williamstown Theater Festival, and also worked as the understudy for both Rachel Weisz and Gretchen Mol opposite Paul Rudd in the world premiere Off-Broadway production of Neil LaBute's play The Shape of Things. She performed both lead female roles multiple times during the run.

In 2015 and 2016, Williams starred as a fictionalized version of comedian Jim Gaffigan's real life wife in The Jim Gaffigan Show on Comedy Central, a sitcom about a couple raising their five young children in a two-bedroom New York City apartment which also starred Michael Ian Black and Adam Goldberg.

She wrote, directed, and starred in a short film, Meats, about a pregnant vegan who wrestles with her newfound craving for meat. It was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2020.

Personal life
Williams married independent film producer Neal Dodson on May 29, 2011. They have two sons. In the summer of 2016, Williams was two months pregnant and suffered a miscarriage. She partnered with the Human Development Project to speak publicly about the experience, in hopes of reducing the stigma of miscarriage and encouraging more women to talk openly about it. Williams is a certified birth doula.

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User talk:Moreau36/Archive 1

''NOTE: This page is officially archived. To post a comment, post it at the main talk page, please. Thanks.''

Population of Lake Buena Vista
Where did you get the figures in ? Lake Buena Vista is a city under the control of the Walt Disney Company, and there is no way it would have 1776 people. This may have been for an associated census-designated place, but cannot be true of the city itself; thus I have reverted it. --SPUI (talk) 23:40, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Is there any way to get a map of the area they called LBV back in 1990? I don't see how it could have that many people, unless they counted tourists, which would differ from both 1980 and 2000. There's no way Disney would allow that many people to live inside the city. Was there some sort of change in the way things were computed - maybe timeshares were included in 1990 but not in 2000? --SPUI (talk) 05:52, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

I have emailed the census bureau with some questions about this. After the initial shock I find it very intriguing; thanks for bringing it to my attention. I also note that Bay Lake, Florida had a population of 0 in 1990; I guess the development north of the lake wasn't built yet. --SPUI (talk) 09:08, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

I've figured it out - Talk:Lake Buena Vista, Florida --SPUI (talk) 19:27, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

"Another place that changed dramatically was the unincorporated community of East Blythe, California. According to the census, the community's population fell from 1,511 in 1990 to only 3 in 2000 due to the annexing by Blythe city. This was a big shocker for me. (Although Census Designated Places are hard to figure out and perdict)."
 * I guess the really strange thing in this case is that LBV is an incorporated place that deannexed the area, specifically to avoid having a high population. --SPUI (talk) 22:21, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

List of populations
I've removed the list of populations on Tampa, Florida. I think it's interesting stuff, but I'd rather see it in a paragraph form and not a list, as it's not aesthetically pleasing. Mike H (Talking is hot) 02:00, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

Jacksonville, Florida
Thanks for finding map for the page. I've been trying to find that for awhile. If you like, I'm trying to improve the page; and I'm open to volunteers. If you don't want to help, it's fine; if you do, I could always use it. Thanks either way! HereToHelp 18:12, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * No problem. I'm working on city/town pages that are lacking maps and inserting them as many as possible. This may look different from the previous version, in which I don't know why it was deleted from the page in the first place, anyhoo, Unlike that last map, this one shows the exact boundaries of the city and it's suburban communities. I'll try my best to improve this article as much as I can!! --Moreau36; 1431, 23 Octiber 2005 (UTC)

Apple Valley incorporation
My error...thanks! Mikeetc

Michigan Template
You wrote: ''The only reason why places such as Clinton, Waterford (which contain the separate community of Drayton Plains), Shelby, and Canton are easily comparable to a Saginaw, Lansing, or Kalamozoo is due to it's heavy population density around the area. They aren't exactly communities. Communities are usually within a township. In fact in a few states, incorporated towns or villages are within a township.''

 * I'm afraid this is an incorrect understanding of the situation with these "communities". They are for all practical purposes indistinguishable from nearby cities. And they very much have a community identity (or at least as much as any large urban area has). While it is true that in less urbanized areas, there may be several smaller unincorporated communities within a general law township. But that is not the case with these.

 * Places such as Drayton Plains, Michigan or Sheldon's Corners may have had a historical identity, but little remains at present to make those places easily distinguishable from the surrounding area. The existence of neighborhoods within an urban area is no different from that of many cities. User:Bkonrad 18:31, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I well know how confusing CDPs and unincorporated communities can be. I've done a fair amount of research into them (at least as regards Michigan). Being labeled as a place on a map or gazetteer is a good start, but still means little since many, perhaps most, commercial mapmakers do relatively little to verify how accurate or up to date things like municipal boundaries or the status of tiny places are. I know some maps draw extensively for their list of place names from the USGS (which also does relatively little to stay up to date with tiny places. You'll see many of these classified with a FIPS category of unverified. The "post office" in Drayton Plains is in fact only a P.O. box. There is no "office" to speak and you won't see it listed as an office at the USPS site (although you will get to the Waterford Post Office, which is nearby but of relatively recent construction). Lessons Learned -- don't rely on mapmakers unless they explicitly make a claim about having researched and verified the status of everything on their maps. Otherwise, chance are they have simply based the map an older map and have corrected only the most easily verifiable infomation.   Cheers. older≠wiser 11:26, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

census
Moreau - I've been doing some cleanup of the bad links in wikipedia, and I noticed that you've been adding a lot of good population data to some cities and towns in Florida. (mainly links o census sites). It's good data and a good reference so I wanted to thank you for doing your part. I just wanted to let you know that you don't need double bracets on external links, and you don't need to put in a number. For an example of what I mean, see this change I made to one of your links. Take care! --Bachrach44 19:05, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Greetings from the United Federation of Planets
You may find the folowing template of interest :) -- Cool CatTalk 02:44, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

New Orleans
See Talk:New Orleans, Louisiana for my response to your comment on my talk page. Dystopos 21:10, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Largo, Fl
I've been adding to the Largo, Florida page and I'm concerned with all the external links I've added. Is it possible to have too many? I also wonder if the timeline should have a page of his own. Could you take a loo at it?

Thanks,

Mikereichold 02:02, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Largo, Thanks
Mikereichold 03:31, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Louisville, Kentucky
Thanks for the kind comment. I am frustrated as well by all the reverts and the unreasonable attitude displayed by the other users (user?) Some people just cannot understand that the issue of city populations is nuanced and the only way any real comparisons can be made is if rules are adhered to, and the Census makes those rules and applies them consistently across the country (well, that's the hope - there is no real alternative, anyway). The clamoring for "Sweet Sixteen" in Louisville is like skyscraper owners mounting ever taller antennae atop their buildings in pursuit of the title of being the tallest. I still am not clear on whether any municipalities besides Louisville continue to exist in Jefferson County, but if they do, there is no way that Louisville can include them in its population. In that case, the article should not even mention a claim to be the 16th largest or to have 700,000 residents within the city limits. Denvoran 20:47, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject Florida
I noticed from Category:Wikipedians in Florida that you are a floridian and I have created a state wikiproject, WikiProject Florida. So far is it very small but it could be expanded later. Join it if you want and help set tasks etc. Thanks --Jaranda wat's sup 06:12, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

AOL vandalism
Those doggone shifting proxies that AOL uses make it darn near impossible to block any of them for any length of time unless a lot of really chronic vandalism is coming from one...and even then we have to be careful because of the collateral damage. Not much we can do except shoo the vandals off and keep shooing until they get the message. Thanks for letting me know. I really appreciate the faith! - Lucky 6.9 07:24, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Deleted Community Template
I apologize, but I'm not sure that I know what you mean. All the Infobox Community templetes previously in use were replaced by Infobox City before the deletion occured, and no images (to my knowledge) were lost. For instance, Bellevue, Washington and Redmond, Washington still have their location maps inside their templetes.

You may have meant that you wanted all the orphaned images in Category:Census Bureau images placed into their respective pages. If that is the case, I would be happy to help; but I need some clarification on your request first. — Seven Days  »  talk  17:52, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Re:On Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Thanks for your support. I'll admit i am no expert when it comes to the subject, but i have done, what i belive, is more then my fair share of research to back up my claims, and support the information that i am trying to present. As for the actions of this other user, all i can say is that is dispointing. I interpert this site to be a colberation, yet his actions have shown, from the start, that he seems to be unwilling to colabrate and is completely indifrent to the opinions of other editors, who have add substationaly to the rgument and to the articles in question. I find the user to be no less then 2 faced, he states one thing, and does another, like his stating to want to come to a comprimise, yet he continues to remove the category listings from articles, his action are no less then distruptive. Considering this is a user who syayes that he from Philadelphia, and graduated from Kennedy School of Goverment, makes this even more disapointing. The other thing i have just as dispointing is the lack of action by other users in the prevention of this useres actions, even to the point where some have errionusly supported his actions. It should also be stated that this user is also attempting, with several others, to have me baned. Anyway, thanks again. --Boothy443 | trácht ar 22:41, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Proposed Compromise

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Baker, CA
Sorry for accidentally removing Baker, California from Category:Unincorporated communities in California -- and thanks for catching this! --ScottMainwaring 15:47, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Population figures
Hi Moreau36, I apologize for saying you were in error. It appears there are actually different ways of consolidating cities, so actually we were both right. I have edited my earlier statement to remove the part where I said you were wrong. No hard feelings I hope. Kaldari 00:29, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

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Suitland, Maryland
Thanks for your work on the Suitland page. I think that there is lots of evidence that even though revitalization programs are ongoing, Suitland remains a very dangerous place. A quick walk through the neighborhood would easily convince someone that crime is still a serious problem, but lots of people have written about it too. Check out and. Keeping my comment about Suitland being 'very dangerous' is reinforced by crime statistics, news reports and even the Prince Georges County Planning Department. I look forward to your comments. 68.33.74.123 02:15, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Arlington County, Virginia
Hey Moreau, I wanted to let you know that I have nominated Arlington County, Virginia as a candidate for US Collaboration of the Week. The article is in need of much help and with a little group effort, it could be brought to Featured Article status! I brought this to your attention as I have seen you have contributed to the article in the recent past. Please cast your vote with your signature at the US Collaboration of the Week page under Arlington County, Virginia. --Caponer 02:11, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Lake Magdalene, FL
While this neighborhood is not located in the city limits of Tampa (as the neighborhood is north of Fowler Avenue, and west of Armenia Avenue) it should be noted somewhere on this article, and similar articles (like Carrollwood, etc) that these areas retain Tampa mailing addresses. You cannot mail something to Carrollwood, FL-- you would mail it to Tampa, FL 33618. The same goes for Lake Magdalene, you would mail to either Tampa, FL 33612, or 33613. I feel it should be noted somewhere so that people do not think these areas are separate towns. Rellman 15:56, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

East Lake Square Mall
Just to let you know that i've put speedy delete tags on East Lake Square Mall as i don't believe that the article asserts the significance of the mall. If there's something special about this mall, then please write about it and remove the tag. Thanks! Inner Earth 21:44, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I've removed the tag. My gut feeling is that it's going to get another challenge through AFD, so watchlist the article and brace yourself.  And meanwhile, if you can expand the article, please do.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 01:59, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

RE: Westchase Houston
Don't worry about it—not offended at all. —RJN 00:51, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

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Old East

Old East is a residence hall located at the north part of campus in University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Built in 1793 by slave labor, it became the first state university building in the United States. The Wren Building at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, was built in 1695, but William and Mary did not become a public university until 1906.

History
Colonel John Hogan entered into a contract December 1792, to make 150,000 bricks at the site of where Old East would be built. He also donated 200 acres towards the university grounds. The cornerstone of Old East was laid ceremoniously on October 12, 1793, by William Richardson Davie, who served as the governor of North Carolina from 1798 to 1799. The building was originally two stories tall and contained sixteen rooms. The design reflects the university trustees' vision of a quadrangle that ran north toward the town of Chapel Hill. Although the cost of construction is unknown, there are records from 1799 indicating that the university spent a total of $12,180 for work on Steward's Hall, Old East, Person Hall, and the President's House. After its construction, Old East functioned as both a classroom building and a Residence Hall; today it is exclusively a Residence Hall.

The contractor in charge of the construction of Old East was James Patterson of Chatham County. By 1804, the building needed significant repairs and was renovated with new doors, window sashes, ladders, and the roof was repainted. The third story was added to the building in 1823. Alexander Jackson Davis was hired by the university in 1844 to lengthen the building by a third and to create a new north entrance. The new rooms were used by the Philanthropic Society and also served as a library. Davis' other additions included large north-facing windows encased by brick panels and two brick porches on the east side of the building. Thomas Day, a skilled and respected African-American cabinetmaker, designed and built the interior woodwork in the society rooms. Old East remained the home of the Philanthropic Society until New East was completed in 1860.

Culture
In 1877, Zebulon Baird Vance, the Governor of North Carolina and chair of the Board of Trustees, declared the anniversary of Old East's construction, October 12, was University Day and should "be observed with appropriate ceremonies under the direction of the faculty." Subsequent celebrations of University Day have included speeches by President John F. Kennedy in 1961 and President Bill Clinton in 1993. Students are released from classes the morning of University Day and many migrate to the Old East Birthday Bash, which has in the past included things like cake, athletic signings, puppies, appearances by the chancellor, dance routines, and a capella performances. The building was designated a National Historic Landmark by the National Park Service December 21, 1965.

The Old Well and Old East, as the earliest buildings at UNC, have long been the symbols of the university. There are some collections of art about Old East and the Old Well in Blowing Rock Art and History Museum, North Carolina, as well as in UNC-Chapel Hill's Wilson Library. It is located in the Chapel Hill Historic District.

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LoanMart Field

LoanMart Field (previously known as the City of Rancho Cucamonga Epicenter Entertainment & Sports Complex, or The Rancho Cucamonga Epicenter for short) is a stadium in Rancho Cucamonga, California. It is primarily used for baseball and is the home field of the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes minor league baseball team. It was opened on April 3, 1993, with the nickname The Epicenter, and has a seating capacity of 6,588 people. While playing home games at the stadium since 1993, the Quakes have broken a number of stadium attendance records.

Construction
In 1992, the San Bernardino Spirit were playing at Fiscalini Field, when it was announced that a new ballpark would be built in Rancho Cucamonga for over $20 million. At the time, this was a large amount of money to spend on a new minor league ballpark. The Spirit (soon renamed the Quakes) jumped at the chance to play in this new ballpark and moved in 1993, switching their affiliation from the Seattle Mariners to the San Diego Padres.

Construction started on November 14, 1991, with much of the staff for the Quakes moving into trailers on the outskirts of the construction site. The process used 400 trucks of concrete, and over 95,000 cubic yards of dirt were moved. Officially named "The Quakes," the stadium was then nicknamed the "Epicenter." The team moved into the stadium on April 1, 1993.

Early seasons
The Rancho Cucamonga Quakes played their first game at the stadium on April 8 against the High Desert Mavericks, winning 7-3. Early demand for tickets was high, and on May 22, over 440 temporary bleacher seats were added to the stadium. By July, the team broke the California League attendance record of 218,444, ending the season with a record of 331,005, fourth of any Class-A team in the country, and better than any Class AA team that year. After that season, more seats were installed in the outfield area, bringing capacity over 6,000. After a championship win in 1994, attendance went up in 1995, with the team playing to a 97% filled capacity that year. In 1996, the Quakes again topped the attendance rate in the league for the fourth season in a row.

Recent years
After the completion of the 2009 season, the Quakes baseball team was sold to Brett Sports & Entertainment. In 2011 the team Quakes began a partnership with the Los Angeles Dodgers. As of 2014, the stadium's property encompasses a 52-acre sports complex. Its close proximity to the film studios of Los Angeles means a number of movies have been filmed there, and the stadium has also hosted concerts, non-baseball sporting events, vehicle shows and exhibitions, community events and festivals.

LoanMart
On April 3, 2013, it was announced that the chain LoanMart had signed a ten-year sponsorship and naming rights deal with the franchise, renaming the ballpark LoanMart Field. Founded in 2002, 1-800LoanMart is a direct financer and lending company based in Encino. The company operates as a "non-traditional" lending service to car-owners; instead of looking at credit scores to establish eligibility for loans, the company uses the actual value of the client's vehicle and the client's ability to repay the loan as collateral, while allowing use of the car. As of March 2014 the company has over 330 employees and does business in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Illinois, and Missouri. LoanMart also sponsors other sports-related franchises including NASCAR Sprint Cup.

Other sponsors of the stadium and team beyond LoanMart include Allstar KIA, Budweiser, the California National Guard, Pepsi, and many other diverse companies.

Improvements
Between the 2008 and 2009 seasons, the existing seats were replaced, with the old seats recycled, sealing all the cracks and holes in the concrete around the entire stadium, and installing the new and improved seats into place. There are no changes in the capacity for the stadium. However, the numbers on the first base side (sections 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15) are numbered differently from before. The sections now have the number one on the right when facing the field and the largest number of the row on the left when facing the field. The new seats are navy blue and are equipped with a cup holder for each seat. The lower levels, Super Box and Field Box, are now padded.
 * 2008–2009

Prior to the 2012 season, the stadium's home and away clubhouses underwent major renovations to meet Minor League Baseball standards. The home clubhouse was renamed the Tommy Lasorda Clubhouse on March 28, 2013, before the start of a special exhibition game between the Quakes and their MLB affiliate, the Los Angeles Dodgers.
 * 2011–present

During the offseason leading up to the 2013 season, the stadium's left field bleachers were removed in favor of the Batting Cage Terrace, where fans can watch players take batting practice in an open batting cage adjacent to the home bullpen. During the games, fans have the opportunity to take abbreviated batting practice rotations.

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USS Wadsworth (DD-516)

USS Wadsworth (DD-516), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Commodore Alexander S. Wadsworth (1790–1851). The ship was commissioned in 1943 during World War II. After seeing extensive action during the war, the ship was placed in reserve following it. In 1959 the destroyer was loaned to the West German Navy and renamed Zerstörer 3. She remained a part of the West German Navy until 1980 when the destroyer was transferred to the Hellenic Navy and renamed Nearchos. Nearchos was active until 1991 when she was sold for scrap.

Construction and career
Wadsworth was laid down on 18 August 1942 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works. The destroyer was launched on 10 January 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Rebecca Wadsworth Peacher, the great-great-granddaughter of Commodore Alexander S. Wadsworth; and commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard, on 16 March 1943.

Wadsworth departed Boston on 5 April and conducted exercises in Casco Bay, Maine, until 15 April, when she sailed for Cuban waters. After shakedown training out of Guantanamo Bay, the new destroyer steamed north for post-shakedown availability and voyage repairs in the Boston Navy Yard.

Putting to sea on 23 May, Wadsworth screened the aircraft carriers USS Princeton (CVL-23) and USS Yorktown (CV-10) out of Port of Spain, Trinidad, as they conducted training evolutions. Following that cruise, Wadsworth touched at Norfolk, Virginia, on 17 June and returned to Boston the following day.

After escorting the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) to Hampton Roads, Virginia, Wadsworth screened USS Cowpens (CVL-25) and planeguarded for that carrier as her air group trained off the Virginia Capes. Following a return to Boston, the destroyer got underway again on July 20 to rendezvous with a task group formed around the carriers USS Lexington (CV-16), Princeton, and USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24). She met the carriers off the Delaware breakwater, and the warships then set a southerly course, bound for the Panama Canal.

Reaching Pearl Harbor on 9 August, Wadsworth spent 10 days in the Hawaiian operating area before heading for Canton Island in the screen for the carrier USS Prince William (CVE-31). Subsequently, touching Espiritu Santo, in the New Hebrides Islands, Wadsworth reported to Rear Admiral Aubrey W. Fitch, Commander, Aircraft, South Pacific (ComAirSoPac), for duty.

On the last day of August 1943, Wadsworth cleared Espiritu Santo to hunt for the Japanese submarine—later identified as JAPANESE SUBMARINE I-20—that had torpedoed and damaged the tanker W. S. Rheem about 10 mi north of Bougainville Strait. Wadsworth made no contact with any submarines in the first area searched but then teamed with amphibious patrol planes to scour the seas to the south of Espiritu Santo and west of Malakula Island.

Her diligence was soon rewarded. On 1 September, Wadsworth picked up an underwater sound contact and dropped seven patterns of depth charges and claimed unconfirmed damage to the submersible. I-20 may have survived that onslaught but never returned home. Records list her as "missing" as of 10 October 1943.

Putting into Havannah Harbor, Efate Island, on 6 September, Wadsworth then exercised with a task force formed around the carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3). The destroyer subsequently cleared that port on 17 September in company with the mine-laying destroyer USS Tracy (DM-19) and, over the ensuing days, escorted a convoy of supply ships to Kukum beach, Guadalcanal.

Returning to Efate with empty cargo ships on 30 September, Wadsworth took a screening station near the battleship USS South Dakota (BB-57) to escort her to the west for a rendezvous with a cruiser-battleship striking force under the command of Rear Admiral Willis A. Lee. Wadsworth then patrolled off Meli Bay, Efate, to cover the entrance of convoys into Havannah Harbor.

Wadsworth subsequently joined other units of Destroyer Division 45 (DesDiv 45) as part of the protective screen for a dozen troop transports, Task Group 31.5 (TG 31.5), bound for the Solomons and the initial landings of men in Empress Augusta Bay, Cape Torokina, Bougainville. The expeditionary force arrived off the beach at Cape Torokina in the early morning darkness on 1 November. Then Wadsworth led in the initial force, a group of minesweepers, into Empress Augusta Bay.

At 05:47, Wadsworth's 5 in guns began to bark, and her shells destroyed enemy barges along the shoreline. For nearly two hours, the warship blasted targets behind the beaches, before she and sister ship USS Sigourney (DD-643) took a patrol station to protect the transports which were landing troops. Suddenly, six enemy planes plunged out of the sun at the two destroyers, and the first of six bombs exploded only 25 yd to starboard of Wadsworth. Two other bombs burst within 500 yd of her beam, one to starboard and one to port. Then, a near-miss 20 ft from her port side sprayed the after section of the ship with fragments that killed two Wadsworth sailors and wounded nine others. On the other hand, the two destroyers each destroyed two of the attackers.

Standing out of the unloading area on the night of 1 November, Wadsworth patrolled off Koli Point, Guadalcanal. Early in the morning a week later, the destroyer returned to Bougainville, escorting the second echelon of troop transports to Empress Augusta Bay. On this occasion, Wadsworth took a fighter-director station off the transport area and assisted in repelling a noon enemy air attack, her guns claiming one dive bomber and one torpedo plane.

Clearing Cape Torokina shortly before midnight, Wadsworth patrolled off Guadalcanal until 10 November, when she moved to Purvis Bay, Florida Island. However, she soon returned to Bougainville's coastal waters, escorting a troop convoy. The destroyer arrived off Cape Torokina near midnight on 12 November and, before dawn, had repelled two torpedo attacks with her radar-controlled 5-inch gunnery.

Wadsworth operated in support of the Bougainville occupation through the end of 1944, escorting troop-and supply-laden convoys from Kukum beach, Guadalcanal, to Empress Augusta Bay. From time to time, she also carried out shore bombardment missions. Three days after Christmas 1943, she blasted Japanese trenches and gun emplacements on both the south and north sides of the mouth of the Reini River, aided by air spot.

1944
After returning to Purvis Bay from her last screening and escort missions in support of the Bougainville operation, Wadsworth departed the Solomons on 8 January 1944, bound for Pago Pago, American Samoa, escorting a merchantman. She returned to Espiritu Santo shepherding the replenishment ship USS Shasta (AE-6), before she steamed to Guadalcanal as part of the escort for the transport USS West Point (AP-23). She then put into Blanche Harbor, Treasury Islands, on 1 February.

That day, Wadsworth conducted an anti-shipping sweep off the Buka Passage, trading shells with an enemy shore battery on Buka Island, before she entered Bougainville Strait in company with the destroyers USS Waller (DD-466) and USS Halford (DD-480). The three destroyers then proceeded to bombard the newly constructed Japanese airfield at Choiseul Island.

Subsequently, taking on ammunition at Hawthorne Sound, New Georgia, Wadsworth left on the night of 1 February to exercise with motor torpedo boats off Rendova. The following day off Blanche Harbor, she joined the screen for a convoy of landing craft and cargo ships that had arrived off Cape Torokina on 4 February.

Near midnight, she helped to repel enemy air attacks on the Torokina beaches, before she left the area the next morning, screening the tanker USS Patapsco (AOG-1) to Purvis Bay.

Clearing Purvis Bay on 11 February, Wadsworth rendezvoused with destroyers and troop-laden LSTs off Munda, New Georgia, bound for the Green Islands. Before dawn on 15 February, Wadsworth, acting as fighter-director ship, vectored night fighters toward an enemy raid of five planes that dropped flares off the formation. As a result of the destroyer's instructions, the prowling night fighters knocked down one enemy floatplane. At dawn, Wadsworth vectored fighters against another raid, during which they splashed three intruders and repelled the enemy without damage to any ship of the formation. Wadsworth then screened the transports as they disembarked their troops.

After putting into Purvis Bay on the night of 17 February, Wadsworth steamed to Kukum beach and joined a troop convoy earmarked for the Green Island occupation. After her charges had safely delivered their troops to the objective on 20 February, Wadsworth returned to Purvis Bay the next afternoon.

Getting underway on 23 February, Wadsworth steamed via St. George's Channel to Kavieng, New Ireland, and to Rabaul, New Britain, for an anti-shipping sweep. A few minutes after midnight on 24 February, the destroyer opened fire and shelled a supply dump, stowage houses, and enemy troop concentrations in that area. One salvo of 5-inch shells started a fierce fire that lit up the entire target area. The flames from that blaze were still glowing as Wadsworth and the rest of the bombardment force stood down St. George's Channel three hours later.

With Purvis Bay as her base of operations, Wadsworth escorted supply convoys to Green Island and from Guadalcanal to Cape Torokina until 17 March. That day, the destroyer joined the screen for high-speed transports (APDs) setting course from Guadalcanal for the landings on Emirau Island.

On the morning of 19 March, Wadsworth took a patrol station near Emirau and remained in the vicinity, supporting the operation, until sunset on 20 March. She subsequently conducted two more Guadalcanal-to-Emirau runs—escorting troopships—that kept her busy through mid-April.

After a period of rest and recreation at Sydney, Australia, Wadsworth returned to Havannah Harbor on 10 May. Assigned to duty with Battleship Division 3 (BatDiv 3)—comprising USS Idaho (BB-42), USS New Mexico (BB-40), and USS Pennsylvania (BB-38)—Wadsworth engaged in battle maneuvers and training off the New Hebrides in preparation for the conquest of the Marianas. While his ship lay moored in Havannah Harbor on 31 May, Wadsworth's commanding officer, Comdr. John F. Walsh, was given the additional duty of Commander, Destroyer Division 90 (DesDiv 90), and broke his pennant in his ship.

On 2 June, Wadsworth and the other destroyers in her squadron and with BatDiv 3 formed Task Group 53.14 (TG 53.14) and cleared Havannah Harbor, bound for the Marianas. At 04:30 on 14 June, the destroyer joined the screen of Pennsylvania, Idaho, and the cruiser USS Honolulu (CL-48) for the bombardment of shore installations on eastern Tinian. She completed the initial phase of her operations in the Marianas on the 16th by screening bombardment-force cruisers and battleships off Guam.

After refuelling off Saipan, Wadsworth joined Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's Task Force 58 (TF 58) on the afternoon of 17 June, becoming a part of TG 58.3, formed around the veteran aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) in TF 58's bid to repel the First Japanese Mobile Fleet then on its way to the Marianas. On the morning of 19 June, TG 58.3 came under attack from Japanese carrier- and land-based aircraft during the beginning of what history would record as the Battle of the Philippine Sea.

Sometimes known as the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot", that battle sounded the death knell for the Imperial Japanese Navy. During the action, the enemy lost 395 carrier planes and 31 floatplanes—about 92% and 72% of its total strength in those categories. At the end of its ill-fated effort to defend the Marianas, the Japanese Navy retained the operational use of only 35 carrier planes and 12 float planes. Besides the losses afloat, the Japanese lost some 50 land-based bombers as well.

During the two-day battle, Vice Admiral Mitscher's fliers had done well, turning back the enemy raids before they reached the American fleet. As TF 58 steamed westward to destroy the fleeing enemy on 20 June, Mitscher ordered further air strikes—attacks that sank the Japanese carrier JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIER Hiyō.

Mitscher had taken a calculated risk, however, launching the last strikes so late in the day. As the planes droned home in the gathering darkness, the admiral faced an agonizing decision. Many planes would be lost if they could not see their carriers. On the other hand, if the ships were illuminated, enemy submarines might also see the vital carriers. Mitscher ordered the lights turned on. Meanwhile, Wadsworth and other destroyers received orders to pick up any fliers who were forced to "ditch."

When TF 58 had reached a point some 300 mi off Okinawa, it abandoned further pursuit of the Japanese. Wadsworth then returned to the Marianas and patrolled off Saipan. On 5 July, her commanding officer was relieved of his collateral duties as ComDesDiv 90.

Two days later, Wadsworth joined a cruiser-destroyer force under Rear Admiral C. Turner Joy for the bombardment of Tinian. The destroyer and her mates soon shifted their attention to Guam and destroyed many shore installations and gasoline dumps at Apra Harbor and Agana Harbor, besides blasting enemy airstrips well in advance of the landings scheduled for that island. Terminating her bombardment duties off Guam on the afternoon of 12 July, Wadsworth joined the screen for the retiring carriers, USS Coral Sea (CVE-57) and USS Corregidor (CVE-58), and reached Eniwetok, in the Marshall Islands, on 15 July.

However, the respite provided by that in-port period was brief, for Wadsworth proceeded to sea on 17 July, as part of the escort for troop-laden transports slated to put their combat-garbed marines and soldiers ashore on Guam. Wadsworth patrolled off that isle as those men splashed ashore and, while engaged in that duty 26 mi offshore, picked up eight natives of Guam, who had escaped from the Japanese, on the morning of 22 July. The destroyer quickly transferred them to USS George Clymer (APA-37), because they possessed valuable intelligence information on Japanese dispositions ashore.

Wadsworth's guns again spoke in the invasion of Guam on the night of 24 and 25 July, before she took a radar picket station between Guam and Rota Islands. Relieved by the destroyer USS Hudson (DD-475) on 2 August, Wadsworth then spent four days acting as primary fighter-director ship off Agana beach for two divisions of fighters based on the carriers Belleau Wood, USS Langley (CVL-27), and USS Essex (CV-9). Relieved of that duty on 6 August, Wadsworth departed Guam on 10 August, screening fleet oilers as they withdrew to Eniwetok.

Pressing on from the Marshalls for Hawaiian waters on 13 August as escort for a merchantman, Wadsworth reached Pearl Harbor on the 20th. She then operated off Oahu on radar picket patrols. She departed Hawaiian waters on 15 September as part of the escort for the carriers USS Natoma Bay (CVE-62) and USS Manila Bay (CVE-61), heading for the Marshalls. Arriving there on 25 September, the destroyer reported for duty with the 3d Fleet.

That tour of duty proved brief, however; for, soon thereafter, Wadsworth sailed for the West Coast of the United States. Proceeding via Eniwetok, Ulithi, and Pearl Harbor, the destroyer arrived at the Mare Island Navy Yard on 25 October for a major overhaul and completed that period of repairs and alterations on 5 December.

Wadsworth—shifted from DesRon 45 to DesRon 24—then conducted refresher training evolutions at San Diego before departing San Francisco five days before Christmas and heading for the Hawaiian Islands as an escort for a convoy. The destroyer safely conducted her charges into Oahu's waters on 29 December 1944.

1945
After local maneuvers out of Pearl Harbor—during which she rescued three aviators from the water on 2 January 1945—Wadsworth set course via Ulithi for the Kossol Passage, Palau Islands.

Reaching the Palaus on 16 January, Wadsworth relieved the destroyer USS Lansdowne (DD-486) as tender for four minesweepers and two subchasers (SCs) engaged in patrols between Peleliu and Angaur Islands. In the early morning darkness two days later, she illuminated a target heading for the transport area and received information that there were no friendly small craft in the vicinity. Wadsworth's searchlight continued to illuminate the small boat—a barge—as it beached, where Army searchlights ashore soon fixed their beams upon it. Men began to debark from the craft, just as small arms fire began to crackle. Some 50 Japanese troops had attempted a daring raid to damage American aircraft on the ground and destroy ammunition, only to be foiled by Wadsworth and the Army troops ashore. The Japanese landing party was exterminated.

During the night of 19 January, Wadsworth provided illuminating gunfire support for troops on "Amber" beach, Peleliu, before she sailed on 25 January for Ulithi. There, she joined the screen of TG 51.1, a transport group slated to take part in the invasion of Iwo Jima.

Touching at Apra Harbor, Guam, between 8 and 16 February, Wadsworth arrived off Iwo Jima on the morning of 19 February. The destroyer then conducted antisubmarine patrols off the southern tip of the island until nightfall, when she joined a bombardment group. The next morning, Wadsworth took station in the fire support sector off Iwo Jima and blasted enemy tanks and mortar and rocket positions. She continued that action in support of the ground troops ashore until the afternoon of the 21st, when she resumed screening duty for transports carrying the occupation force which ultimately landed on 2 March.

Clearing Iwo Jima on 5 March, Wadsworth headed for the Philippines, arriving at Dulag anchorage, in Leyte Gulf, on the 9th. For most of the rest of March, Wadsworth operated locally in Philippine waters, conducting bombardment and fire support exercises in San Pedro Bay, off Leyte, until 27 March. On that day, the destroyer got underway, screening the sortie of a transport group bound for the Ryūkyūs.

Wadsworth arrived off Okinawa on the morning of 1 April 1945—Easter Sunday, April Fools' Day, and D day for that operation. At 04:15, the destroyer completed an advance sweep ahead of the transports off the invasion beaches and then took a fire support station off the southern end of the island. For the next 15 days, Wadsworth's guns blasted Japanese troop concentrations and gun emplacements, as well as caves where the fanatical defenders had holed-up.

On 17 April, Wadsworth took on board a fighter-director team at Kerama Retto; and technicians from the command ship USS Estes (AGC-12) assisted the destroyer's ship's force in installing fighter-director equipment. She sailed later that day on her first radar picket assignment, part of the early warning network to provide the alarm of incoming Japanese aircraft. From 17 April to 24 June, Wadsworth carried out nine assignments on station, repelling 22 attacks by enemy aircraft, shooting down six, and assisting in the destruction of seven others. In addition, the combat air patrol fighters that she directed splashed 28 enemy aircraft.

During one day of that duty, on 28 April 1945, Wadsworth repelled six determined attacks by 12 enemy aircraft. The raids—which came from all points of the compass—commenced at sunset and continued for over three hours. One enemy torpedo plane closed fast on her port beam as Wadsworth skillfully maneuvered to keep the enemy on the beam to allow a heavy concentration of antiaircraft fire. Frustrated in his first attempt, the enemy pilot then brought the plane around a second time, circling to the right to commence an attack from directly astern, strafing as he came.

Wadsworth maneuvered to port as the plane went into a power dive that took him within 30 ft of the waves before he passed the destroyer to starboard at a distance of about 100 yd. The Japanese then zoomed sharply and turned to cross in front of Wadsworth. He then opened the range before boring in low and fast on the third attack.

Wadsworth's determined adversary then dropped a torpedo at 1200 yd. The destroyer turned "left full" and the "fish" passed harmlessly by her starboard side. Meanwhile, under constant fire from every gun in Wadsworth that could be brought to bear, the enemy plane came on, attempting to crash into the ship.

The Japanese bore in through the flak-peppered skies. His wing struck the forward port 40-millimeter gun, and the main body of the plane spun into the gig rigged outboard, carried away a life raft, and then smashed a 26 ft motor whaleboat before falling into the sea. Providentially, the enemy did not explode; the ship did, however, receive a shower of debris and gasoline. That had been the ship's second narrow escape. Only six days previously, on 22 April, Wadsworth's gunners had shot down a kamikaze that exploded in the sea only 20 ft from the ship, showering the ship with fragments. Fortunately, only minor hull damage resulted, and only one sailor was wounded.

At Hagushi anchorage on the morning of 24 June, Wadsworth, relieved of radar picket duty, put her fighter-director team ashore. Since her first arrival off Okinawa, she had sounded general quarters 203 times, detected and reported the approach of hundreds of enemy aircraft, and successfully fought off all that attacked her. Her exploits during that time earned her the Presidential Unit Citation.

Departing Okinawa on 24 June, Wadsworth anchored in San Pedro Bay, Leyte, on 27 June. She spent a fortnight in Philippine waters before getting underway with a group of heavy cruisers. The force touched at Okinawa on 16 July and then headed for the East China Sea for anti-shipping sweeps off the coast of China between the ports of Fuzhou and Wenzhou. Returning to Okinawa on 29 July, that force made a similar sweep during the first week of August.

After "V-J Day" in mid-August, Wadsworth remained in the Far Eastern area, clearing Okinawa on 12 September, bound for Nagasaki, Japan, as escort for two LSTs. Reaching that atomic bomb-devastated port two days later, Wadsworth assisted in the evacuation of Allied prisoners of war from that port. On 18 September, she received on board a total of 125 liberated men, American, British, Dutch, and Australian, and transported them to Okinawa, reaching Buckner Bay on 20 September.

Clearing Buckner Bay on 25 September, Wadsworth arrived at Sasebo, Japan, the next day. Soon thereafter, she commenced transport and occupation duties, carrying troops and escorting their vital supply ships between Sasebo, Wakayama, and Yokosuka—duties in which she remained engaged through mid-November.

Departing Sasebo on 17 November 1945, Wadsworth headed for the United States, her occupation service completed. Sailing via the Hawaiian Islands, the destroyer reached San Diego between 6 and 10 December and disembarked returning veterans at that port before she headed on for Panama. Transiting the Panama Canal soon thereafter, Wadsworth arrived at the Charleston Naval Shipyard in South Carolina two days before Christmas 1945 and reported for inactivation.

Decommissioned on 18 April 1946, Wadsworth was assigned to the Charleston Group of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet. The destroyer remained inactive until selected for transfer to the Federal Republic of Germany in 1959 under the Military Assistance Program.

Zerstörer 3 (D172)
In the summer of 1959, the German transfer crew assembled at Charleston, South Carolina, for indoctrination, while the ship herself was being prepared for turnover. On 6 October 1959, Wadsworth was turned over to the West German Bundesmarine and simultaneously commissioned in their service as Zerstörer 3 (D172). Her first commander was the former Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross recipients of the Kriegsmarine Fregattenkapitän Wilhelm Meentzen.

After her initial six-year loan period was extended, Zerstörer 3 remained with the West German navy into the 1970s. Struck from the United States Navy List on 1 October 1974, the ship was sold to the Federal Republic of Germany on that date. She remained active with the West German navy until 30 October 1980, when she was transferred to Greece.

Greek service
In the Hellenic Navy, the ship was renamed Nearchos (D65). She was stricken and scrapped in 1991.

Honors
Wadsworth (DD-516) earned seven battle stars for her World War II service, and a Presidential Unit Citation (US):

 * "For outstanding heroism in action as a fighter direction ship on radar picket station during the Okinawa Campaign, from 17 April to 24 June 1945. A natural and frequent target for heavy Japanese aerial attack while occupying advanced and isolated stations, the U.S.S. WADSWORTH defended all efforts of enemy Kamikaze and dive-bombing planes to destroy her. Constantly vigilant and ready for battle, she sent out early air warnings, provided fighter direction and, with her own gunfire, downed six enemy planes, shared in the destruction of seven others, routed many more, rendered valiant service in preventing the Japanese from striking in force against our Naval Forces off the Okinawa Beachhead. A gallant, fighting ship, the WADSWORTH, her officers and her men withstood the stress and perils of vital Radar Picket duty, achieving a distinctive combat record which attests the teamwork, courage and skill of her entire company and enhances the finest traditions of the United States Naval Service."

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Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler (born 1964) is an Israeli-American author and the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. He is also a faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. In academia he is best known for coining the term commons-based peer production and his widely cited 2006 book The Wealth of Networks.

Biography
From 1984 to 1987, Benkler was a member and treasurer of the Kibbutz Shizafon. He received his LL.B. from Tel-Aviv University in 1991 and J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1994. He worked at the law firm Ropes & Gray from 1994 to 1995. He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer from 1995 to 1996.

He was a professor at New York University School of Law from 1996 to 2003, and visited at Yale Law School and Harvard Law School (during 2002–2003), before joining the Yale Law School faculty in 2003. In 2007, Benkler joined Harvard Law School, where he teaches and is a faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Benkler is on the advisory board of the Sunlight Foundation. In 2011, his research led him to receive the $100,000 Ford Foundation Social Change Visionaries Award. He is also one of the 25 leading figures on the Information and Democracy Commission launched by Reporters Without Borders.

Works
Benkler's research focuses on commons-based approaches to managing resources in networked environments. He coined the term commons-based peer production to describe collaborative efforts based on sharing information, such as free and open source software and Wikipedia. He also uses the term 'networked information economy' to describe a "system of production, distribution, and consumption of information goods characterized by decentralized individual action carried out through widely distributed, nonmarket means that do not depend on market strategies."

The Wealth of Networks
Benkler's 2006 book The Wealth of Networks examines the ways in which information technology permits extensive forms of collaboration that have potentially transformative consequences for economy and society. Wikipedia, Creative Commons, Open Source Software and the blogosphere are among the examples that Benkler draws upon. (The Wealth of Networks is itself published under a Creative Commons license.) For example, Benkler argues that blogs and other modes of participatory communication can lead to "a more critical and self-reflective culture", where citizens are empowered by the ability to publicize their own opinions on a range of issues, which enables them to move from passive recipients of "received wisdom" to active participants. Much of The Wealth of Networks is presented in economic terms, and Benkler raises the possibility that a culture in which information is shared freely could prove more economically efficient than one in which innovation is encumbered by patent or copyright law, since the marginal cost of re-producing most information is effectively nothing.

Network Propaganda
Along with Robert Faris, Research Director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and Hal Roberts, a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, Benkler co-authored the October 2018 Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation and Radicalization in American Politics.

In 2011, Benkler published The Penguin and the Leviathan: How Cooperation Triumphs over Self-Interest.

Awards

 * 2006 – Donald McGannon Award for Social and Ethical Relevance in Communications Policy Research
 * 2006 – Public Knowledge IP3 Award
 * 2007 – EFF Pioneer Award
 * 2008 – The American Sociological Association Section on Communication and Information Technologies (CITASA) Book Award
 * 2009 – Don K. Price Award
 * 2011 – Ford Foundation Visionaries Award

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Founding date of Abbey of Kells?
So was the Abbey founded in the 9th century CE as stated in the first paragraph of the page, or in 554 CE as stated in the second paragraph?

128.143.1.34 (talk) 03:26, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Article Style
It seems this article is almost entirely about the book of Kells. I would like to know more about the Abbey itself, when it was abandoned, what purpose it served in the region, etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.81.159.3 (talk) 08:31, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Steelbreath

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The result of the debate was DELETE. jni 10:11, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Steelbreath
Delete nn, admits to having no albums or any other claims to notability. Fails WP:MUSIC.-Splash 23:41, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn yet. -- Etacar11   00:47, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non-notable, fails google test. — Ambush Commander (Talk) 02:18, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable band. Fails WP:MUSIC guidelines. JamesBurns 08:52, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
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Elm Grove

Elm Grove may refer to:

United States

 * Elm Grove (town), Kansas
 * Elm Grove, Kentucky, a community
 * Elm Grove, Louisiana, a community
 * Elm Grove, Missouri, an early starting point of the Oregon Trail
 * Elm Grove, Oklahoma, a census-designated place
 * Elm Grove, Texas (disambiguation), the name of several populated places in this state
 * Elm Grove (Courtland, Virginia), a historic plantation
 * Elm Grove, West Virginia, a neighborhood of Wheeling
 * Elm Grove (Southside, West Virginia), a historic site
 * Elm Grove, Wisconsin, a village

Elsewhere

 * Elm Grove, Brighton, an area of the city of Brighton and Hove, England

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William Brown (Manitoba politician)

William Brown was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1922 to 1927.

Brown lived in Roland, Manitoba. He was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1922 provincial election as a candidate of the United Farmers of Manitoba (UFM), defeating independent candidate Herbert Robinson by 141 votes in the constituency of Dufferin.

The UFM unexpectedly formed government after this election, and Brown served as a backbench supporter of John Bracken's administration for the next five years. He did not seek re-election in 1927.

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Conduit

Conduit may refer to:

Engineering systems

 * Conduit (fluid conveyance), a pipe suitable for carrying either open-channel or pressurized liquids
 * Electrical conduit, a protective cover, tube or piping system for electric cables
 * Conduit current collection, a system of ground-level power supply
 * Duct (flow), for heating, ventilating and air-conditioning

Business

 * Conduit (finance) or asset-backed commercial paper program, a type of non-bank financial institution
 * Conduit and Sink OFCs, a classification of offshore financial centres/tax havens

Computers and Internet

 * Conduit (company), an international software company
 * Conduit toolbar a defunct web publishing platform by Conduit
 * Conduit (software), an open-source synchronization program for GNOME

Arts and entertainment

 * Conduit (Coby Sey album), by Coby Sey, 2022
 * Conduit (Funeral for a Friend album), by Funeral for a Friend, 2013
 * The Conduit (album), by Jarboe, 2005
 * Conduit (comics), a DC Comics supervillain
 * Conduit (convention), an annual science fiction convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, US
 * Conduit (mural), a public artwork by Emily Ginsburg in Portland, Oregon, US
 * "Conduit" (The X-Files), a television episode
 * The Conduit, a 2009 video game for the Wii console
 * The Conduit, a fictional artifact in the video game Mass Effect
 * Conduits, superhuman beings in the video game series Infamous

Other uses

 * Conduit (channeling), a means of contact with the spiritual realm
 * Conduit (horse) (2005–2020), a Thoroughbred racehorse
 * Conduit Road, a road in Hong Kong

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Category:Edmonton Elks players

These are players who have played with the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Elks.

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Nadodikkattu

Nadodikkattu is a 1987 Indian Malayalam-language satirical comedy film directed by Sathyan Anthikad and written by Sreenivasan based on a story by the Siddique–Lal duo. It stars Mohanlal and Sreenivasan in the lead roles, along with an ensemble supporting cast featuring Shobhana, Thilakan, Innocent, Mamukkoya and Captain Raju. The story revolves around two impecunious young men, Ramdas and Vijayan who not being able to find any job in Kerala, plan to immigrate to Dubai to make their fortunes but get deceived and end up in Chennai. The film drew upon relevant social factors affecting Kerala of the 1980s such as widespread unemployment and poverty.

Critics consider the film represents popular Malayalam cinema at its satirical best and established the Mohanlal-Sreenivasan onscreen combination as one of its most memorable and bankable cinematic pairs. The story, screenplay and characters have achieved classic status. The film was produced by Casino Productions, a production company owned by Century Kochumon, Mohanlal, I. V. Sasi, and Mammootty.

Plot
Ramdas A.K.A Dasan and Vijayan work as underpaid peons at a company. Dasan, a 'B-Com First Class' graduate who is proud of it, constantly expresses his dissatisfaction at having to serve less qualified superiors and settling for less than what he believes he deserves in life. His only friend and less-educated roommate is Vijayan. Dasan takes a superior attitude because of his education and good looks, which severely irritates Vijayan. Their friendship is full of comic tension. Later in the movie, several humorous scenarios make use of this characteristic of the protagonists. Dasan frequently orders Vijayan to perform all of the housework.

When the new managing director starts working for their organization, Dasan and Vijayan eagerly await his appointment of leadership in the hopes of obtaining a better position. On the other hand, one day as they are leaving for work, they get into an unnecessary fight with an unidentified person. Dasan verbally criticizes the person and pushes him into a puddle of rainwater in an attempt to attract the attention of a lady. Vijayan punctures his car tires. When they get at work, they discover that the guy with whom they had chosen to fight is now their new managing director. Both disappear from their workplaces and then resurface the next day, Dasan donning a pair of dark sunglasses and Vijayan sporting a full beard. They both make an effort to persuade their boss that they were extremely ill the day before, but they are both forced to report to the new managing director. They succeed in duping him at first and begin to work, but the managing director quickly learns the truth from old office photos, and they are both fired.

Because they are unemployed, their landlord persuades them to take out a bank loan to purchase two cows. Positive about their new business venture, Dasan and Vijayan begin to see a prosperous future. They quickly learn, though, that the cows produce very little milk, and the enterprise fails. Due to their failure to make loan payments, the bank contacts them. To get away, Vijayan sells the cows and makes plans for them to travel to Dubai with the proceeds. They meet Gafoorka, who offers to take them on his native boat, a "Uru (boat)," to the Persian Gulf. Gafoorka informs them that although his boat is actually headed for California, it will detour past the coast of Dubai just for them. Along with teaching them a few Arabic words, Gafoorka gives them instructions on how to trick the authorities by dressing in traditional Arabic clothing, or thawb. Dasan and Vijayan begin to fantasize about the bright and rich life that awaits them.

On reaching the sea shore that Gafoorka identifies as Arabia, both swim to the shore and change into Arabian attire. Two strangers follow Dasan and Vijayan and forcefully exchange their suitcases. Confused, Dasan and Vijayan start exploring the city. They are surprised to see no Arabs in the city and soon find signboards in Tamil. They realize that they have been cheated by Gafoorka who has off loaded them in Chennai. Dasan and Vijayan check the suitcase and find drugs inside. They contact local police and hand over the suitcase. Meanwhile, the strangers who are actually gang members of Ananthan Nambiar a smuggler and underworld don, find out that they were mistaken. Ananthan Nambiar believes that those men in Arabic dress were Crime Investigation Department officers in disguise.

Dasan and Vijayan with the help of Dasan's taxi driver friend Balan, get jobs at Ananthan Nambiar's office. They rent a small house in the suburbs. Dasan meets his colleague Radha who turns out to be their neighbour as well. But soon Dasan and Vijayan get fired by Ananthan Nambiar who believes that they are undercover officers. On the road again, Vijayan tries to get a chance to act in films. He visits noted film director I. V. Sasi's home and meets Sasi's wife and actress Seema.

Dasan starts a small push-cart vegetable business with Radha's help. A minor romance develops between Dasan and Radha. In the colony, Kovai Venkatesan, a well-connected businessman/politician who is originally a Malayali, tries to forcibly evict the locals to make room for a new private hospital. Dasan and Vijayan stand up against this eviction, earning them the respect of the locals. Meanwhile, Ananthan Nambiar hires contract killer Pavanayi to murder Dasan and Vijayan. Pavanayi arrives at Chennai airport with a briefcase containing his ‘tools of trade’. He opens the box and displays various options for killing the targets: a bomb, a gun, a set of arrows and even a traditional Malappuram dagger. Very soon Pavanayi becomes an object of ridicule because of his boasting nature. However, Pavanayi dies while trying to kill Dasan and Vijayan. This irks Ananthan Nambiar even more and makes him all the more paranoid about these two "officers".

As the story proceeds to the climax, Dasan and Vijayan are called to a rundown factory by Kovai Venkatesan on the pretext of offering them a job, where he plans to kill them for ruining his plans to evict the poor people of the area. Dasan and Vijayan find themselves surrounded by Ananthan Nambiar's gang as well, the latter also having selected the location to finalize a drug deal. However, both gangs mistake each other as enemies and a mixed fight breaks out. Dasan and Vijayan manage to lock all the others inside the building as the police arrive and arrest everyone.

The movie concludes as Dasan and Vijayan get selected into the Tamil Nadu police as Crime Investigation Department officers and they along with Radha drive away in a jeep.

Cast
Principal cast

Production
The film was produced by Casino Productions, a film production house co-owned by Century Kochumon, Mohanlal, I.V. Sasi, Seema and Mammootty, on a shoe-string budget of Rs 17 lakh. Mammootty was initially considered for the role of Pavanai in the film.

The characters of Dasan and Vijayan were replicated from a story formulated by famous director duo Siddique and Lal who were working as assistant directors then. Sathyan Anthikkad discussed these characters to Sreenivasan who later developed them into a screen play. It was later revealed that Sathyan Anthikkad asked Sreenivasan to give a different treatment to the climax, thus they were able to come up with an agreeable climax for the script than that to the first version. Later they had creative differences during the same climax shooting and even stopped talking to each other. However, being best of friends, they re-united during dubbing of the film.

Reception
When first released, Nadodikkattu received negative critical reviews, but favorable word-of-mouth publicity helped it to become a box office success. The film was a box office success, completing a 175-day run in theatres. The film was also well received in the Persian Gulf, where it had a 50-day theatrical run. The film grossed a total of ₹39,72,763 in 21 days from 501 shows.

Legacy
Dialogues such as "Eda Vijaya? Enthada Daasa?","Namukku entha ee buddhi neretthe thonathathu?","Ellathinum Athindhedaaya Samayamundu Daasa", "Angane Pavanayi Shavamayi", "Eda Daasa, etha ee alavalathi?", "Hello Mr. Perera!", "Enthokke bahalam aayirunnu? Malappuram katthi, machine gun, bomb, olaykkadu moodu", and so on. These dialogues are still remembered fondly by Malayalis today and find their way into the daily conversation of Malayalees. This movie has been considered the best example of the Mohanlal-Sreenivasan on-screen combination, spawning two sequels with the same duo, Pattanapravesham and Akkare Akkare Akkare, as well as a spin-off film called Mr. Pavanayi 99.99.

The film was a breakthrough for Mamukkoya. The characters of Mamukkoya, Gafoorka and Captain Raju, Pavanayi enjoys a cult following in Kerala. The movie is considered one of the most popular Malayalam movies of all time. Even after more than 35 years, the movie draws huge audience whenever it is telecast on television channels. "The secret of the duo still being alive in the Malayali's consciousness may be because it's a story of two unemployed youngsters told using a humorous narrative. Unemployment was one of the biggest issues and migration to greener pastures was typical of Malayali experience. This has continued to the current decade. So, the audience has no problem relating to Dasan and Vijayan," says Sathyan Anthikkad, who directed the movie. According to Anthikkad, it was the convergence of a script-writer, director and actors at the subtlest level that resulted in its success.

"Comedies were not much in demand here before films such as Nadodikattu happened. Lal and I were instrumental in popularising comedies to a great extent." says Siddique.

The story and screenplay is considered one of the classics of mainstream Malayalam films, portraying a cross-section of Kerala's social issues at the time, primarily the struggle of unemployed Malayali youths and the means they pursue to find employment, such as seeking job opportunities in the Persian Gulf region, the scramble for formal educational qualifications (reflected through the character Ramdas' boasting about his graduate degree in commerce with First Class), etc., through amusing comic dialogues.

The movie dialogue was mentioned in the climax of 2024 malayalam movie Varshangalkk Shesham directed by Vineeth Sreenivasan starring Pranav Mohanlal and Dhyan Sreenivasan

Sequel
The movie has two sequels:
 * Pattanapravesham (1988)
 * Akkare Akkare Akkare (1990).

Spin-off
A spin off of the film titled Mr. Pavanayi 99.99 was released on 2019 with Captain Raju reprising his role of Pavanayi.

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Talrias v. Joolz, 20 July 2005
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brando

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The result of the debate was disambigged. humblefool®Deletion Reform 20:23, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Brando
non-notable vanity band article Babajobu 23:44, 19 July 2005 (UTC)}}

 * Redirect to Marlon Brando. Ben-w 23:52, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. I am confused. 1) Indeed the first few lines looks like pure adv. But 2) the article, if true, establishes notoriety. Now 3) a google test on Brando "Irish Band" -Marlon brings us a =~60 hits. Don't quite know what to think. Maybe a non adv, non vanity rewording for a start ? Some external verifiable references for more ?Gtabary 23:59, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Marlon Brando. It seems they've split up now and their website was hijacked, I guess non-notable, they didn't leave a lasting mark. — Ambush Commander (Talk) 02:17, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. I am the one who wrote the original artical. I know it is poor and needs much improving but the band were VERY popular on radio stations in Ireland for some years, especially PhantomFM www.phantomfm.comKasintahan 13:52, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. OK - I've done a bit of work on it. It should look and feel a bit better. Kasintahan 15:10, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Disambig (from Marlon Brando) and keep, touring history satisfies WP:MUSIC. Dcarrano 16:40, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

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Penthu

Penthu (pnṯw) was an Egyptian noble who bore the titles of sealbearer of the King of Lower Egypt, the sole companion, the attendant of the Lord of the Two Lands, the favorite of the good god, king's scribe, the king's subordinate, First servant of the Aten in the mansion of the Aten in Akhetaten, Chief of physicians, and chamberlain. These titles alone show how powerful he would have been in Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt.

He was originally Chief Physician to Akhenaten, but may have survived the upheavals of the end of the Amarna Period, and served under Ay, after being Vizier under Tutankhamun. The identification of Penthu the Physician with Pentu the Vizier is not certain, however. He had a tomb constructed at Amarna, Amarna Tomb 5, although his remains have never been identified, and he was probably never buried there.

An inscription discovered in 2004 in the Dayr Abū Ḥinnis limestone quarry records that quarrying was being undertaken for building work on the Small Aten Temple under the authority of the king's scribe Penthu. The inscription is explicitly dated to Year 16, 3rd month of Akhet, day 15 of the reign of Akhenaten. The Penthu mentioned in the inscription is presumably the same Penthu who was the owner of Amarna Tomb 5. Due his position as a chief priest within the Aten priesthood, it is unlikely to be a coincidence that he would have been placed in charge of quarrying stone for this temple. The inscription was first published in 2012 by Athena van der Perre and established that Nefertiti was still alive in the second last year of Akhenaten's reign--his Year 16--and makes it probable she ruled Egypt as the female king Neferneferuaten--just prior to Tutankhamun's reign.

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