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Fortress Division Swinemünde

Fortress Division Swinemünde was an ad hoc formation under the command of Baron Hermmann Von Pfel, and organized by Seekommandant Pommern (Naval Command Pomerania) in the port of Swinemünde. The division was created in 1945 primarily from Kriegsmarine personnel, although some Luftwaffe personnel were used as well. The Army component of the Swinemünde fortress division was destroyed by the Soviet 5th Guards Army in Lower Silesia near Breslau.

The city of Swinemünde was encircled by the Soviet 2nd Belorussian Front, with the 2nd Shock Army attacking from the west and the 19th Army attacking from the east. After the Kriegsmarine (navy) reported on 28 April 1945 that the port was no longer of any use, the Germans prepared to evacuate their forces. The evacuation, Operation Knobelbecher, took place from 1–4 May 1945, and shipped the German troops to Denmark, where they were taken captive by the British Army. Soviet forces occupied the city of Swinemünde during 4–5 May 1945.

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User:Rick Block/wp1000

This is a pair of scripts to generate the main namespace and all namespaces lists at WP:1000 given a csv file with the raw data (edit counts per user). Depending on your OS, you might need to replace awk with nawk.

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1993 in archaeology

Excavations

 * Start of salvage excavations at Nevali Cori, to be flooded by dam.

Finds

 * March – British warship HMS Agamemnon (1781) (wrecked 1809) found at the mouth of the Río de la Plata.
 * July – Fragment A of the Tel Dan Stele (9th–8th century BCE) is excavated in Israel.
 * October 1 – Steamer Brother Jonathan (wrecked 1865) found off the coast of California.
 * Portuguese nau Nossa Senhora dos Mártires (1605–06) found at the mouth of the Tagus.
 * Rhinoceros horn spear end from 30,000 years BP found in Yana River delta, at the Yana Rhinoceros Horn Site.
 * The Guodian Chu Slips, including the oldest known version of Laozi's Tao Te Ching and the previously lost Xing Zi Ming Chu, written on bamboo, are found in a tomb near Guodian, Jingmen (Hubei province of China) and dated before 300 BCE (later Warring States period).
 * In Patara the Stadiasmus Patarensis is unearthed. The monumental milestone provides information on the Roman road network in the province of Lycia et Pamphylia, giving place names and distances.
 * Remains of Homo heidelbergensis found at Eartham Pit, Boxgrove, England.

Publications

 * Barry Cunliffe – Wessex to AD 1000 (Longman).
 * Sarah Milledge Nelson – The Archaeology of Korea (Cambridge University Press).
 * Х. Тодорова, Иван Вайсов (H. Todorova, Ivan Vaisov) – "Новокаменната епоха в България" ("The Neolithic period in Bulgaria") (Издателство Наука и Изкуство (Science and Art Publishing House), Sofia).

Events

 * Conservators use a sonar probe mounted with two miniature video cameras to remove any remaining clay from inside the Riace bronzes.

Deaths

 * November 14 – Kim Won-yong, "father of Korean Archaeology", professor at Seoul National University (b. 1922).

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Talk:VLC media player

VLC Android
I can provide a screenshot of VLC on Android for the Android section, but should I? --DSA510   Pls No RE 16:04, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
 * That would be great; why not? Just make sure that it is not intrusive and does not display any user information or adjustments. (A good screenshot would be VLC freshly installed on a standard Android OS.) 72.80.79.224 (talk) 03:04, 12 January 2015 (UTC) Brian
 * Someone should update the Google Play link, it's not beta anymore (still this versions exists). I'm missing info about the playlist format also, and VLC should be added to the Comparison of audio player software. The dogma of "don't list as audio if it can play video to" should be broken.--Mideal (talk) 13:21, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

VLC media player version history
I propose moving the sections § History or § Release history (or parts of it) to the new article VLC media player version history. Similar articles can be found in the Category:Software version histories. --Soluvo (talk) 11:08, 13 November 2019 (UTC)

New Version of VLC for iOS and iPadOS
Version 3.3.2 was released yesterday, yet this article still says the latest version is 3.2.13

Can someone please fix this? GabrielBloom28 (talk) 22:00, 1 April 2022 (UTC)

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Salitpa, Alabama

Salitpa is an unincorporated community in Clarke County, Alabama. It has also been known as River Hill.

History
A post office called Salitpa has been in operation since 1855. The community took its name from nearby Satilpa Creek. An error in writing the name (crossing the L instead of the T) when applying for a post office resulted in the name being changed.

Notable person
Salitpa was the home of Ray Prim, a minor league baseball star in the Pacific Coast League with the Los Angeles Angels from 1936 to 1942, again in 1944 and in 1947.

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Midlist

Midlist is a term in the publishing industry which refers to books which are not bestsellers but are strong enough to economically justify their publication (and likely, further purchases of future books from the same author). The vast majority of total titles published are midlist titles, though they represent a much smaller fraction of total book sales, which are dominated by bestsellers and other very popular titles.

Authors who consistently publish profitable but not bestselling books are referred to as Midlist authors.

United States
In the US, midlist and backlist publications were negatively affected by the US Supreme Court decision in the 1979 case Thor Power Tool Company v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue. This decision reinterpreted rules for inventory depreciation, changing how book publishers had to account for unsold inventory each year, and their ability to depreciate it. Because stocks of unsold books could no longer be written down without proof of value, it became more efficient tax-wise for companies to simply destroy inventory.

The Thor decision caused publishers and booksellers to be much quicker to destroy stocks of poorly-selling books in order to realize a taxable loss. These books would previously have been kept in stock but written down to reflect the fact that not all of them were expected to sell. This has been somewhat mitigated by the development of online bookselling, which makes less popular titles more accessible to average readers. (For more on this phenomenon, see The Long Tail.)

Because this book is out of print, the publisher has an opening on its list, more cash to invest, and a serious need to replace the steady (if small) income stream that book would have generated. So the publisher must release not only the new title it would have published anyway, but a second new one, to make up for its lack of a backlist...

This results in title proliferation, which itself promotes both lower advance orders on the part of major buyers, and a higher return rate. That means writers must write more, and sell more often, in order to survive.

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Talk:Dunbar's number

150
RE: "...he proposed that humans can comfortably maintain 150 stable relationships". Fascinating. For years I've cited a memorable Economist magazine article about Facebook, where the journalist cited the Dunbar Number theory BUT ALSO stated that, according to the Dunabr Number theory, the number of people that you actually, really know (i.e. have a meaningful and complex relationship with) is in the teens figures (with Females having a slightly higher quota than Males). Seeing the figure of "150" here blows me away. Is this actually correct? (No link for Economist article: it's now Pay-walled) -- 14:21, 20 March 2020 1.152.106.33

old talk
"Dunbar has theorized that 150 would be the mean group size only for communities with a very high incentive to remain together. For a group of this size to remain cohesive, Dunbar speculated that as much as 42% of the group's time would have to be devoted to social grooming."

The quote from the article which I've copied above is wrong if my interpretation of Dunbar's article "Neocortex Size, Group Size, and the Evolution of Language" is right. I believe it would be more accurate to say:

"Dunbar has theorized that 150 would be the mean group size only for communities with a very high incentive to remain together. For a group of this size to remain cohesive, Dunbar speculated that without developed verbal communication as much as 42% of the group's time would have to be devoted to social grooming."

It seems to me as though Dunbar uses the percent predicted grooming time as an argument for the reasons language evolved and when it evolved. If anyone else could check the article and confirm/deny this, please do. --Finog

I think this page needs to be deleted or renamed. It is clear that the word "monkeysphere" is not a technical term at all, and was in fact coined by David Wong for an internet humor article. Read this for details: http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/wikiwoo.htm#Monkeysphere I'd do it myself but I'm tired.-gunbladezero

 * I disagree. The monkeysphere, while primarily humorous, explains not only Dunbar's number but also some of the potential consequences of it (that is, why some people can be jerks, or why people can wholeheartedly "stick it to the man" or corporation or whatever.  At the very least, it deserves a paragraph or two inside the article, if not its own article.  I wouldn't want to spend the time re-reading and summarizing Monkeysphere only to have it deleted, however.--Mylon (talk) 17:44, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Should the term monkeysphere appear on the article itself as an unofficial term for Dunbar's Number? There's already a redirect from monkeysphere. I'm basing this on at least one additional humor article (this one on Cracked's website) discussing the "monkeysphere" rather then Dunbar's Number. (StarkeRealm (talk) 20:31, 11 February 2008 (UTC))

Beat me to this by three days. Good work. Heh. --Kizor 07:22, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * thanx! I thought I was feeling something breathing down my neck .... :)
 * --Rck 13:49, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

does anyone know who first coined the term? I could not find anything on Google. --Rck 20:36, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I've been linked to this before, but that's the best I can do. The Monkeysphere is an intriguing construct from the available data, and I talk like this in real life too, though it raises a number of objections both due to unraised questions and my outdated religious beliefs. --Kizor 15:33, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that's the one I cited as the "Humorous Introduction"; it's rather funny. Ok, so we dont know yet who came up with this, alright. I can live with that for the moment.
 * --Rck 03:32, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The first Googled USENET use of the term is in July 2004, and it links to the humorous article. --Kizor 03:59, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Use in linguistics research
Hi there, I am currently studying Linguistics, and the number 150 turns up in research in this field also. It has been suggested as the maximum number of useful interviewees in a given study; more than this and work is increased with quickly diminishing returns. And so, since (socio)linguistics research is fundamentally sociological in nature, I'm wondering if this might be relevant to the concepts brought up in this article. Genedecanter 23:02, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

Academics?
"200 as the upper bound on the number of academics in a discipline's sub-specialization"

Is this something that Dunbar actually pointed out or is it something someone's added to supplement the list? The reason I'm asking is it's out of character when compared to the rest of the examples and it doesn't quite make sense. Not only is the number significantly larger than 150, but I don't think that academics in a particular sub-specialization are required to not only know everyone else in the sub-specialization personally but maintain a close relationship with them. A sub-specialization does not equal a village. If Dunbar made this point, that's fine, but it would be nice if this was sourced. Jordansc 14:15, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Well: a) I don't know and b) it would seem to refer to history. So maybe the specializations were knit closer in ye oldetimes. 81.197.34.227 (talk) 22:42, 8 May 2008 (UTC)

Roman Armies?
"150 as the basic unit size of professional armies in Roman antiquity"

Where does this come from? I can't find confirmation for this. The centuria was the basic unit in roman armies an was composed of 60-80 men. While the first centuria had double, it was an exception, as seen on the centuria wikipedia page. I feel compelled to change but am going to leave this note to see if anyone corrects me. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Omegaile (talk • contribs) 16:20, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

Critique?
The page is quite credulous.

Presumably this is an easy theory to test, so where's the data? For some large sample of groups plot their size and see if there is a kink in the data near the number. We have this data and for source forge groups, for mailing lists, for firm size there is no kink.

Contrary to the article Gladwell's Tipping point principle arguement is that social networks, and their phase transitions, are scale free. He mentions Dunbar only six times.

Finally, aren't cranium size arguments a bit embarrassing these days; they certainly haven't held up in any other domain. Bhyde (talk) 13:58, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

2018
This paper might offer some numerical evidence towards Dunbar's number and against social networks being scale free, taken from Twitter (did not have time to carefully evaluate): https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0022656 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Goldragon979 (talk • contribs) 08:04, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

"stable social relationship"
What is a stable social relationship? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.206.207.51 (talk) 06:33, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

 * A relationship between two people who encounter each other somewhat frequently, and whose relative roles remain somewhat fixed, I would assume... AnonMoos (talk) 12:53, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

Merge
Oppose: Merge is not necessary here! --Tito Dutta Message 03:54, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Merge with what? --2.245.119.0 (talk) 10:28, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

Cognitive limit?
I think this term is misleading. As I understand it, it's not that brains are physically incapable of remembering details of more than that (if so, it would vary widely from person to person); it's based on the way our society is structured such that we only have so much time and only see people so often. Tezero (talk) 17:37, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Recent addition
Somebody added the following to the Popularization section:

"Oct 8, 2013 referenced in 'This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It' David Wong's sequel to 'John Dies at the End' Used as an explanation as to why people start grouping people that are outside of their Dunbar Number into groups such as black and white, Christian & Muslim etc. in the case of this book it's infected vs clean. It is according to the book the reason you care more about your girlfriend cutting her finger than about hundreds killed in an earthquake halfway around the world."

I concluded that this was more along the lines of an incidental mention, aside from being poorly formatted and awkwardly written. You might say that it reflects the popularization of the term more than being a driver of popularization. Since there are innumerable examples of the former, I feel this one probably doesn't merit specific mention in the article. --Michael Snow (talk) 03:14, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

Criticism confusion
"Brains much smaller than human or even mammalian brains are also known to be able to support social relationships, including ... computer-simulated virtual autonomous agents with simple reaction programming emulating what is referred to in primatology as "ape politics".[20]" I'm really confused. What does a computer simulation have to do with critiquing Dunbar's number? The paper wasp I understand, although it's oblique, and Dunbar specifically was looking at primates. But computer simulations could be set up to emulate anything.W0lfie (talk) 14:06, 26 June 2017 (UTC)

 * What a computer simulation can emulate is constrained by the parameters of the specific computer simulation. The fact that the computer simulation in question was set up to use only simple reactions and no complex cognition means that it could only do things that are possible for simple reactions without complex cognition. What other computer simulations can be set up to do is not relevant. It was also not the computer simulation itself that assessed its own similarity to ape social interaction, it was the standards used by primatologists to assess "social cognition" that were applied to the observation of the simulated "apes" and found the mainstream criteria met to the same evidence standards as for real chimpanzees. It is therefore relevant as an example of mainstream primatological criteria making false detections of complex thoughts behind social interaction, in this case in a system known with absolute certitude to lack complex cognition. This makes it relevant to debunk the idea of brain capacity having anything to do with social relationships which is what Dunbar's number is theoretically hinged on. The paper wasp example shows that it is possible to achieve the behavior supposed to require large brains with small brains, and convergent evolution is known to select for similar solutions in species that are not closely related. There is no reason to think that primates would magically need higher brain system requirements for the same behaviors than other animals, instead sociality would select for optimized nutrient cost reduction (a selection unparallelled in solitary or very small group social animals for which evolution can permit non-optimal costs of nutrients) due to needs for nutrients being disfavorable to social interaction by means of food scarcity, especially in the case of requirements for a wide range of essential nutrients which would cause specific types of needed food to be very scarce for large social groups. This is also relevant as evidence against the claim that brain capacity has anything to do with social relationships and as such against the idea of Dunbar's number.2.71.118.43 (talk) 21:18, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Lieberman's Criticsm
"Lieberman does not seem to discuss group size at all in The Unpredictable Species. What is the real source for this statement?" — Preceding unsigned comment added by AttilaWiki (talk • contribs) 06:20, 6 December 2017 (UTC)

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Dunbar was on BBC radio this morning, he clearly stated that 150 was an average figure, definitely not an upper limit. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0006zt6 (sorry, my login doesn't seem to work). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.97.176.185 (talk) 22:31, 23 July 2019 (UTC)

Suggested addition after the first paragraph, since Dunbar's number has been debunked (however, self-cite)
A replication of Dunbar's analysis with a larger data set and updated comparative statistical methods has challenged Dunbar's number by revealing that the 95% confidence interval around the estimate of maximum human group size is much too large (4–520 and 2–336, respectively) to specify any cognitive limit. Robin Dunbar responded to these results by stating that "the study used flawed statistical methods and fails to account for the body of evidence we now have to support Dunbar’s number." The authors of the replication study have disputed this claim, but also pointed out that a replication taking Dunbar's suggestion into account also result in too large 95% confidence intervals (226–372) for any meaningful conclusion. From this, they point out that a cognitive limit on human group size cannot be derived via a correlation between primate brain size and average social group size. PzychoPat (talk) 15:49, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

Village size inclusive of children?
The article currently states that Dunbar had surveyed village sizes and found: "…150 as the estimated size of a Neolithic farming village; 150 as the splitting point of Hutterite settlements…."

Is this 150 reflective of the entire village population, or only the adults?

It seems like a relevant distinction to make in the article, as the other examples are clearly about adult-only populations: "…200 as the upper bound on the number of academics in a discipline's sub-specialisation; 150 as the basic unit size of professional armies…." — Epastore (talk) 21:27, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

Conflicting source [15]
"Participants of the European career-oriented online social network XING who have about 157 contacts reported the highest level of job offer success, which also supports Dunbar's number of about 150.[15]" While [15] does in fact say "A level of about 150 contacts is most effective in terms of getting job offers, which confirms Dunbar’s number." this still conflicts with Dunbars number as explained in the rest of this article. See e.g.: "Dunbar's number is a suggested cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships—relationships in which an individual knows who each person is and how each person relates to every other person.[1][2]". => 150 people would need to include ALL real life contacts, ALL contacts on XING, ergo ALL contacts on Linkedin, ALL contacts on Facebook, ALL phone contacts. While there will be some overlap the total will exceed 150 by a significant number. Ergo exactly this would NOT confirm Dunbars number BUT suggest a higher number or some other modification mechanism or some other reason. Without good reasoning and explanation this is not secured knowledge. 80.146.191.212 (talk) 14:50, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

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Dispute with Israeli ambassador to France
Not sure how salient the entirety of Khoury's quote is, but this holocaust denial+ambassador row seems to be one of the things 'most quoted' about Khoury on other websites, so on balance I included it.Palmiro 20:38, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Mixing up Elias Khoury with Elias_Khoury_(lawyer)
This article mixes up some info corresponding to other person also called Elias Khoury. It also includes this link, which points to the Palestinian lawyer, not the Lebanese writer. I'm removing it.--Filius Rosadis (talk) 12:37, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Published works
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Dragan Stojković

Dragan Stojković (Драган Стојковић, ; born 3 March 1965), also known by the nickname Piksi (Пикси), is a Serbian football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He's currently a selector head coach of the Serbia national team. Stojković was a long time captain of the Yugoslavia national team and Red Star Belgrade, and is considered one of the greatest footballers of all-time in Yugoslav and Serbian football.

He was a star player for Yugoslavia at the 1990 (where he was selected for the World Cup All-Star Team) and 1998 FIFA World Cups, serving as captain at the latter.

He is one of only five players to be awarded the "Star of the Red Star" and is widely considered to have never shown his true potential in Europe, as injury prevented him from establishing himself at Marseille over the long term. Despite this, there is consensus among critics that he displayed an extraordinary ability throughout his career in spite of his chronic injuries, his renown being greatest in Japan.

In 2021, he was appointed as coach of the Serbia national team, leading them to qualification for both 2022 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2024.

Early life
Born to father Dobrivoje and mother Desanka in Niš, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia, Stojković took to football very early while growing up in the Pasi Poljana community near Niš. He was nicknamed Piksi after Pixie, one of the characters from the cartoon Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinks. In addition to his native Serbian, Stojković also speaks English, French, Italian, and some Japanese.

Youth football
Playing in the FK Radnički Niš youth system, in summer 1979, fourteen-year-old Stojković's talent was already evident as he was attached to the Vladica Kovačević-coached FK Partizan under-16 team as a temporary addition to the squad for the duration of a tournament in Quimper, France. Flown to Belgrade and then to France for the occasion, the trip marked a series of firsts for the youngster: his first time in the Yugoslav capital Belgrade, first time travelling abroad, and his first time on an airplane.

Upon returning to Radnički, Stojković was again attached to the FK Partizan youth squad the following summer, 1980, for youth tournaments in the Italian Adriatic coastal towns of Senigallia and Falconara Marittima.

Radnički Niš
A midfielder and occasional forward, Stojković began his professional playing career with Yugoslav First League and hometown side Radnički Niš. His full squad debut took place at age seventeen under head coach Dušan Nenković during the 1981-82 season in the form of a substitute league appearance on 4 April 1982 away at FK Vardar. It was the young player's only full squad appearance of the season and it took place just a few days before Radnički's famous UEFA Cup semifinal tie versus Hamburger SV, the Niš club's greatest success.

Over the following four seasons, Stojković appeared in 70 matches for Radnički, scoring eight goals.

Red Star Belgrade
In the summer of 1986, twenty-one-year-old Stojković moved to Red Star Belgrade where he would spend the next four seasons, scoring 54 times in 120 appearances.

By the 1989-90 season, Stojković became a transfer target for some of the biggest and richest European clubs of the day. Juventus representatives were the first to approach the player as well as Red Star. However, any possibility of a deal soon fell through due to Stojković's reported skepticism about his playing opportunities in Turin due to the UEFA-enforced three-foreigners matchday squad rule and the bianconeri already having three foreigners in their Dino Zoff-coached team—Soviets Sergei Aleinikov and Oleksandr Zavarov as well as Portuguese Rui Barros. Then, in late November 1989, Olympique de Marseille owner Bernard Tapie flew to Belgrade, reaching a preliminary agreement—with the Red Star management about a transfer fee amount as well as with the player about his wages—that was to be officially signed at the end of the season during the summer 1990 transfer window. Right after agreeing a pre-contract with Marseille, Stojković was contacted by AC Milan's Adriano Galliani, who was ultimately unsuccessful in persuading Tapie to give up on Stojković.

One of his most famous goals was scored in the derby against Partizan Belgrade from a corner kick.

Marseille
In the summer of 1990, twenty-five-year-old Stojković made the much publicized move to Olympique de Marseille for a transfer fee of £5.5 million, joining the star-laden squad bankrolled by French businessman/politician Bernard Tapie. The expectations were sky-high with a team featuring world-class players such as Jean-Pierre Papin, Éric Cantona, Chris Waddle, Carlos Mozer, Manuel Amoros, Didier Deschamps, Jean Tigana, Abédi Pelé, as well as newly arrived defender Basile Boli and new head coach Franz Beckenbauer fresh off winning the 1990 FIFA World Cup with West Germany. Stojković had his own shining moments at the same World Cup, all of which contributed further to Marseille's interest.

Early into his debut season, Stojković sustained a knee injury for which he had to have surgery in Germany, forcing him to the sidelines for months. In fact, the entire 1990–91 league season was injury riddled for the Serb and he ended up making only eleven league appearances. Beckenbauer stepped down from the coaching post during the winter break, although he remained with the club in an adviser capacity. The new head coach to replace the famous German was Raymond Goethals. In the final of the UEFA European Champions' Cup, Marseille played against Stojković's former team Red Star. Stojković, a penalty kick specialist, entered the game late during the extra-time as a substitute, but as the match eventually went to a penalty shootout, he informed head coach Goethals that he did not want to take a penalty shot against his former team. Red Star won the European Cup in the shootout.

He subsequently transferred to Hellas Verona in Italy in the summer of 1991, for ten billion lira. The team had won the scudetto just six years before, but after some financial problems had just been promoted back to serie A after one year in the Italian second league. Stojkovic had an unlucky season, plagued by injuries and disciplinary troubles, and was sold back to Marseille where he remained for two more seasons, which meant he finally won a Champions league winner medal in 1992–93,. However, he was unlucky to miss the final because of injury.

Nagoya Grampus Eight
In the spring of 1994, Stojković signed with Japanese J-League team Nagoya Grampus Eight, joining a squad managed by Gordon Milne and featuring Gary Lineker.

He spent seven seasons with Grampus Eight, retiring as a player in 2001. Stojković played 183 matches for the club, scoring 57 times. He was named J-League MVP for the 1995 season. Since then, he has gained huge popularity among Japanese supporters, most notably among Nagoya Grampus fans, due to his skillful display, which followed him even after his retirement. Fans commemorated him by chanting "Ale Piksi" whenever he scored a goal.

Youth level
Stojković made his under-21 debut on 11 October 1983 versus Norway in Pančevo as part of qualifying for the 1984 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship. Playing under head coach Ivan Toplak, the youngster from Radnički Niš scored on his debut as Yugoslavia won 6–2.

Senior team
Stojković made 84 career international appearances, scoring 15 times, those split between the SFR Yugoslavia national team and the FR Yugoslavia national team. He played for the former in UEFA Euro 1984, 1984 Summer Olympics, 1988 Summer Olympics and the 1990 FIFA World Cup and for the latter in the 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000. He made his international debut on 12 November 1983 in a scoreless draw against France.

At the 1990 World Cup, Stojković scored both goals in Yugoslavia's 2–1 round-of-16 defeat of Spain in Verona. In the quarter-final, he was one of three Yugoslavs to miss in the 3–2 penalty shootout defeat to finalists Argentina.

He was later called to UEFA Euro 1992, but the nation would be suspended due to the Yugoslav Wars. After being part of team in 1998 FIFA World Cup and UEFA Euro 2000, his final international match was against the country he spent much of his playing career in, Japan, on 4 July 2001.

Style of play
A highly skilful midfield playmaker, Stojković is considered to be one of the greatest players ever to come out of former Yugoslavia; he was also capable of playing as an attacking midfielder, as a central midfielder, or as a forward, and was even used as a target–man on occasion. A quick, opportunistic, and unpredictable player, he was known in particular for his vision, creativity, and passing ability, as well as his excellent technique and dribbling skills, which enabled him to beat several opponents, and earned him the nickname "the Maradona of the Balkans." Despite his talent, however, his career was affected by several injuries, which hindered his potential.

FA president
Upon retiring in 2001, 36-year-old Stojković immediately became the Serbian Football Association president, succeeding Miljan Miljanić.

During that period he was elected as a member of the UEFA technical committee and member of FIFA football committee for an 8-year term.

Red Star Belgrade president
In July 2005, Stojković became the president of Red Star Belgrade. Similar to his FA appointment four years earlier, Stojković again became a successor to another tenured, larger than life figure in Serbian football, Dragan Džajić, who had occupied various leading posts within the club's management over the preceding 26 years. The transfer of power was full of controversy with plenty of lobbying behind the scenes and at times open feuding in the press.

2005–06 season
One of Stojković's first orders of business ahead of the 2005–06 season was firing the head coach he inherited, Ratko Dostanić, and bringing Walter Zenga who thus became the first foreigner ever to coach Red Star. Calling on his Japan connections, Stojković also got Toyota Motor Corporation to invest in the club through a shirt sponsorship deal. Additionally, he also opened the club's doors to various prominent Serbian companies like Delta Holding and Telekom Srbija thus creating a pool of sponsors.

On the player personnel front, Stojković initially more-or-less continued the existing "buy low sell high" policy that meant players were mostly recruited from Red Star's own youth system or smaller clubs throughout Serbia and Montenegro, and then sold abroad as soon as they gained some exposure on the European scene. Stojković's most prominent initial move was loaning out striker Marko Pantelić to Hertha Berlin for €250,000 on the last day of the summer 2005 transfer window (Pantelić would eventually be sold to Hertha for additional €1.5 million in April 2006). On the other hand, 20-year-old striker Milan Purović and 22-year-old keeper Vladimir Stojković were brought to the club from Budućnost Podgorica and FK Zemun, respectively. Additionally, by bringing in Ghanaian midfielder Haminu Dramani, president Stojković indicated he was also interested in affordable foreign imports, which would soon become a staple of his transfer policy. All three new arrivals gelled well with the existing squad (featuring the likes of Nikola Žigić, Boško Janković, Milan Biševac, Dušan Basta, Nenad Kovačević, Aleksandar Luković, and Milan Dudić), as Red Star jumped out to a lead in the league, including a 2–0 home win against the cross-town rivals FK Partizan in mid-October 2005.

Simultaneously, the club also played some inspired football in the UEFA Cup—including a notable 3–1 home win versus A.S. Roma—before being prevented from progressing to the eight-finals stage during the group's last matchday away at RC Strasbourg via a goal by Kevin Gameiro deep into injury time.

The squad was further strengthened during the 2005-06 winter transfer window, especially the spots upfront, with the arrivals of attacking midfielder Igor Burzanović from Budućnost Podgorica, Japanese forward Takayuki Suzuki, midfielder Nenad Milijaš from FK Zemun, and striker Dušan Đokić from FK Voždovac. Red Star comfortably won the league-cup double, losing only two league matches during the season.

2006–07 season
Winning the double combined with some fine European outings during the previous season raised the fans' expectations considerably as they now wanted the existing Red Star squad kept intact (especially Nikola Žigić who had reportedly already become a transfer target for some high-profile English Premiership clubs) in order to make a serious run at qualifying for the UEFA Champions League group stage. However, the first move came as a complete shock—president Stojković sold goalkeeper Vladimir Stojković to FC Nantes, reportedly for €3 million. Trying to deal with the angry fan reaction, he attempted to explain the move as being necessitated by the club's accumulated debts that had reportedly grown to alarming levels following "years of mismanagement and unpaid commitments of some of the key sponsor pool members". With head coach Zenga departing, Stojković hired celebrated coach Dušan Bajević who thus returned to Serbian/ex-Yugoslav football after almost two decades of coaching in Greece with great success. The transfers out of the club continued with Milan Dudić sold to Red Bull Salzburg, Haminu Dramani to Gençlerbirliği, and Aleksandar Luković to Udinese, however, their departures caused comparatively less angry fan reaction. Preparing for Champions League qualifying, players brought in by president Stojković were twenty-four-year-old Bulgarian international attacking midfielder Blagoy Georgiev, Brazilian forward Ely Thadeu, and Senegalese defender Ibrahima Gueye.

Red Star easily eliminated Irish champions Cork City at the start of Champions League qualifying, however, getting drawn against Carlo Ancelotti's powerhouse AC Milan featuring Kaká, Andrea Pirlo, Clarence Seedorf, Cafu, Gennaro Gattuso, Pippo Inzaghi, Alessandro Costacurta, etc. in the next qualifying round proved too difficult to overcome, as the Belgrade club lost 1–3 on aggregate. Failure to reach the Champions League group stage prompted another round of transfers out of the club with captain Nenad Kovačević sold to RC Lens, Boško Janković to RCD Mallorca, and finally the club's most prized asset Nikola Žigić to Racing Santander while Milan Biševac's future transfer to Lens effective 2006-07 winter transfer window was already agreed upon in advance.

On the other hand, Ecuadorian defensive midfielder Segundo Castillo joined the club towards the end of the transfer window. Finally, on the last day of the summer 2006 transfer window Stojković brought in the club's most prominent foreign acquisition to date and since, thirty-three-year-old Aílton who had been the Bundesliga top scorer only two years prior.

On 12 October 2007 Stojković announced that he was stepping down as the president of Red Star Belgrade.

Continued fallout
In April 2009, at a press conference announcing the club's current debt to be €22.3 million, Red Star Belgrade general secretary Saša Kozić (subordinate to club president Dan Tana) accused the former club president Stojković of "running the club irresponsibly, to say the least". Kozić—who had much like the current president Tana been part of the club's managing board during Stojković's 2005-2007 club presidency—added that Red Star's operating expenses had increased significantly under Stojković to €1.5–2 million per month, including the salaries of club officials doubling during 2007 as well as promotional expenses (normally at €100,000) ballooning to €1.1 million over the two-year period. He added that in total the club had spent almost €50 million during Stojković's two-year presidency; funds obtained either through bank loans or from player sales.

Responding to Kozić's accusations, Nagoya head coach Stojković "rejected them categorically", claiming his physical absence from Serbia is being used as "cover-up for Red Star's bad business results".

Despite his status as the club's playing legend as well as its official fifth star, ever since his 2007 resignation from the post of Red Star president, Stojković has had a contentious relationship with a section of the club's ultras, Delije, who blame him for "jumping ship and leaving a financial mess behind".

The situation has flared up on several occasions over the years since.

In January 2012, while having coffee at a Red Star Belgrade licensed and operated cafe within the club's Marakana stadium, Nagoya head coach Stojković—in town for the funeral of Miljan Miljanić—was forced to leave his old club's premises by a group of three Delije following an uncomfortable verbal exchange during which the club's former president was reportedly told he's "not welcome". The incident led to club's current president Vladan Lukić expressing "shock and dismay" and announcing personal intention of inviting Stojković for a cup of coffee in his office, stating "the club's doors are always open to him" while adding that "it's superfluous to explain what Dragan Stojković means to this club".

Stojković, for his part, mostly shrugged off the incident as "three young men, one of whom I recognized as the ultra fan group leader back from my [club presidential] tenure, walking up to me and telling me they're not permitting me to be there" while further dismissing their action as being motivated by "dislike of me because I had had a clear code of conduct that excluded them [club's ultra fans] from influencing club policy and prevented them from enjoying certain [financial] benefits". Within days, Delije put out a press release asking Stojković for detailed explanation of club's finances during his presidential tenure, specifically posing a question to him "how's it possible to take over a club with debts of €5 million and then depart two years later, leaving the same club with €20 million in debts while simultaneously over the same period receiving €40 million worth of transfer fees for sold players".

In November 2012—amidst Red Star's 2008-2009 club president Dan Tana's announcement of writing-off the €600,000 that the entrepreneur had reportedly given the cash-strapped club out of his own pocket during his club presidency —Stojković too announced he's willing to forget the €32,000 the club had reportedly owed him due to Stojković reportedly paying the amount out of his own pocket for the players' hotel stay during the club's away trip to Milan. Stojković reportedly decided to forgive the club's debt to him after previously refusing to do so when asked to during Vladan Lukić's club presidency.

The antagonism between Delije and Stojković reignited again in late May 2022, more than 10 years after the initial 2012 cafe incident, when Stojković—now Serbia national team head coach—came to the Marakana to watch the Serbian Cup final. Knowing he'll be at the match in person, some of the Delije unfurled a sizable banner calling Stojković out again over his 2005-2007 time as club president, claiming it set up a "decade-long calamity for the club".

Nagoya Grampus
Stojković returned to Japan to take over as manager of his former club, Nagoya Grampus, on 22 January 2008. On 15 March 2008 the former J.League MVP won his first game as manager as Nagoya Grampus stunned AFC Champions League 2007 Champions Urawa Reds 2–0 at Urawa's home, the Saitama Stadium. Despite his glorious playing career at Nagoya, some Nagoya fans were initially worried about his lack of experience as a coach; however, his team finished in 3rd place and he led the club to AFC Champions League for the first time in his debut season.

In a 2009 J.League match between Yokohama F. Marinos and Nagoya Grampus, Stojković amazed everyone by scoring a goal from his technical area. One of the players had just been injured, so the goalkeeper Tetsuya Enomoto kicked the ball out of play to stop the game. Stojković got out of his seat in the dugout and volleyed the ball, which went high into the air before dipping into goal. For this action he was sent off by the referee.

On 20 November 2010, Stojković led Grampus to the J. League title, the club's first. Stojković has stated that he had learnt a lot about football from former manager Arsène Wenger, who had led the club to their previous best showing in 1995 when they finished runners-up and Emperor's Cup champions, and had kept regular contact with him, with Wenger giving him advice and congratulating him on the club's success. Stojković has been named by Wenger as the person he would like to take over Arsenal when he has gone stating "Our ideas are the same and we both strive for perfect football." After the successful 2010 season, Stojković was awarded the J. League Manager of the Year.

Guangzhou R&F

Stojković was announced as manager of Chinese Super League side Guangzhou R&F on 24 August 2015 on a contract that would expire in 2017. On 8 September 2016, Guangzhou R&F confirmed that Stojković had signed a renewed contract with Guangzhou R&F until the end of the 2020. Stojković saved the team from the threat of relegation in 2015. The rest of his time in charge was characterised by attacking football, with striker Eran Zahavi twice winning the CSL golden boot award. Guangzhou R&F also made the semi-finals of the CFA Cup in 2016 and 2018, and just missed out on qualifying for the Asian Champions League in 2017. The team finished 12th in the 2019 Super League and had the league's worst defensive record, conceding 72 goals in 30 games. After spending over four seasons at the club - making him Guangzhou R&F's longest ever serving manager - Stojkovic left the club in January 2020.

Serbia

On 3 March 2021, on his birthday, Stojković was appointed new manager of the Serbia national football team. Under his leadership Serbia qualified for the 2022 FIFA World Cup after 2-1 win over Portugal in the last match with Aleksandar Mitrović scoring in the 90th minute.

In the 2022 World Cup, Serbia were drawn in Group G with Brazil, Cameroon, and Switzerland. On 24 November, in the opening game of group play, Serbia lost to Brazil 2-0 with Richarilson scoring two second goals. On November 28, Serbia faced Cameroon in the second game of group play. Cameroon opened the scoring with an early goal but Serbia fought back to score two goals in extra time before end of the first half. Serbia opened the second half with another goal in the 53rd minute by Aleksander Mitrovic. However, Cameroon were able to fight back and equalize the game with two quick goals in the 63rd and 66th minute marks. The game ended in a thrilling draw with both countries sharing a point in group play. In the final game of group play against Switzerland, Serbia needed a win and help to advance. On 2 December Serbia played Switzerland and Switzerland opened the scoring with a goal in the 20th minute but Serbia battled back and scored goals in the 26th mark by Aleksander Mitrovic and in the 35th minute by Dusan Vlahovic to take the lead. Switzerland was able to score before the end of the first half and equalize the game 2-2. Switzerland scored the decisive goal in the 48th minute and secured the victory in hotly contested match. Serbia finished 4th in Group G and were eliminated.

International statistics

 * Scores and results list Yugoslavia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Stojković goal.

Player
Red Star Belgrade
 * Yugoslav First League: 1987–88, 1989–90
 * Yugoslav Cup: 1989–90

Marseille
 * Division 1: 1990–91
 * UEFA Champions League: 1992–93

Nagoya Grampus Eight
 * Emperor's Cup: 1995, 1999

Yugoslavia
 * Summer Olympic bronze medalist: 1984

Individual
 * J. League MVP: 1995
 * J. League Best Eleven: 1995, 1996, 1999
 * Japanese Footballer of the Year: 1995
 * Best Athlete of SD Crvena Zvezda: 1987, 1988, 1989
 * Zvezdina Zvezda: 1990
 * Yugoslav League MVP: 1988, 1989
 * FIFA World Cup All-Star Team: 1990
 * Yugoslav Footballer of the Year: 1988, 1989
 * The Dream Team 110 years of OM: 2010
 * FIFA XI: 1991, 1998
 * J.League 20th Anniversary Team

Manager
Nagoya Grampus Eight
 * J.League Division 1: 2010
 * Japanese Super Cup: 2011

Individual
 * J.League Manager of the Year: 2010
 * Sportsperson of the Year of Niš (2010)
 * Serbian Coach of the year: 2016, 2021

Orders

 * JPN Kyokujitsu-sho 4Class BAR.svg Order of the Rising Sun, 4th Class, Gold Rays with Rosette (Japan): 2015
 * Karadjodjeva zvezda 2 RS.gif Order of Karađorđe's Star, 2nd Class (Serbia): 2022

TV advertisements

 * Toyota Corolla Touring Wagon (1995)
 * Transportation Bureau City of Nagoya Stored-value card ja:ユリカ (1998)
 * Circle K Soba (2001)

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Vox

Vox (frequently referring to Latin 'voice') may refer to:

Fictional characters

 * Vox (DC Universe character) (Mal Duncan), a DC Comics superhero
 * Vox, a character in the adult animated series Hazbin Hotel
 * Vox, several characters in the anime series Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne
 * Gleeman Vox, from the Ratchet & Clank video game series

Literature

 * Vox (Nicholson Baker novel), 1992
 * Vox (Stewart and Riddell novel), 2003

Music

 * "Vox" (song), by Sarah McLachlan, 1988
 * Vox Records (Germany), a German record label
 * Vox Records, an American record label

Television and radio

 * VOX (Norwegian TV channel)
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 * MAtv, formerly Vox, a Canadian TV channel
 * Vox (XM), a former XM satellite radio channel
 * Radio Vox T, a Romanian radio station
 * WVOX, a radio station licensed to New Rochelle, New York, U.S.
 * "Võx", an episode of the third season of Star Trek: Picard

Media

 * Vox Media, an American digital media company
 * Vox (website), an American news and opinion website
 * Vox (magazine), a defunct British music tabloid
 * Vox Magazine, produced by the Columbia Missourian

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

 * Vox (video game), 2012
 * Electro-Vox Recording Studios, or Vox, a recording studio in Hollywood, California

Businesses and organisations

 * Vox (company), a British musical equipment manufacturer
 * Vox (political party), in Spain
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People

 * Victoria Vox (Victoria Davitt, born 1978), American singer and ukulele player
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1992 in archaeology

The year 1992 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Events

 * Pointe-à-Callière Museum founded in Old Montreal, Quebec.

Excavations

 * Tel Dan.
 * Excavations begin at Kuşaklı (Sarissa).
 * "Jules Verne" shipwrecks at Marseille.

Finds

 * June
 * Villa Mendo Roman Villa at Rio Alto, Portugal.
 * Longyou Caves in China.
 * 28 September: Dover Bronze Age Boat, a substantially intact seagoing craft of 1575–1520 BCE, discovered by road construction workers on the south coast of England.
 * 16 November: Hoxne Hoard discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Suffolk, England.
 * El Fuerte de Samaipata near Samaipata, Bolivia excavated by Dr. Albert Meyers of the University of Bonn.
 * Stone tools 2.6 million years old are first found at Gona in the Afar Depression of Ethiopia.
 * First fragments of Ardipithecus ramidus found.

Publications

 * Donald B. Redford – Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times.
 * Nils Ringstedt – Household Economy and Archaeology: some aspects of theory and applications.
 * Lawrence Guy Straus – Iberia Before the Iberians: the Stone Age prehistory of Cantabrian Spain.
 * Barrie Trinder (ed.) – The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Industrial Archaeology.

Deaths

 * 24 January: Ignacio Bernal, Mexican archaeologist (b. 1910)
 * 22 February: Oscar Broneer, Swedish-American archaeologist of Ancient Greece (b. 1894)
 * 30 March: Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist (b. 1919)
 * 21 April: Nigel Williams, English conservator (b. 1944)

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Tungsten(III) oxide

Tungsten(III) oxide (W2O3) is a compound of tungsten and oxygen. It has been reported (2006) as being  grown as a thin film by atomic layer deposition  at temperatures between 140 and 240 °C using W2(N(CH3)2)6 as a precursor. It is not referred to in major textbooks. Some older literature refers to the compound W2O3 but as the atomic weight of tungsten was believed at the time to be 92 (i.e., approximately half the modern accepted value of 183.84) the compound actually being referred to was WO3.

Reports about the compound date back to at least the 1970s, but only in as thin films or surfaces – no bulk synthesis of the material is known.

Usage
Tungsten(III) oxide is used in various types of infrared absorbing coatings and foils.

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Aboyne dress

'Aboyne dress' is the name given to the prescribed attire for female dancers in the Scottish national dances, such as the Flora MacDonald's fancy, the Scottish lilt, and others. Male dancers wear the kilt for these dances, the kilt being a predominantly male garment. There are two versions of Aboyne Dress in use. Some consider the Aboyne as quite suited to the graceful movements of the national dances.

The Aboyne Highland Games, established in 1867, have stipulated this style of attire for female dancers since 1952 for both National and Highland dances.

Description
A typical Aboyne dress consists of a dark bodice or elaborate waistcoat, decorative blouse, full tartan skirt and sometimes a petticoat and apron. Some have a tartan sash (usually draped over the shoulder and coming down towards the hem of the skirt in the back) rather than an apron. While appearing to be simple and plain, a properly made, modern Aboyne dress might and can be quite expensive.

In one version, a tartan pattern skirt is worn with an over-the-shoulder plaid, a white blouse and petticoat, and a velvet bodice. The alternative is a white dress over a petticoat, together with a tartan pattern sash.

History
The name derives from the Aboyne Highland Games in Scotland where, in the early 1950s the dance committee under games patron Lieutenant Colonel John Wilmot Nicol DSO of Ballogie, dissatisfied with the state of affairs of female Highland dance attire, prescribed new rules governing acceptable and better-looking attire for the female dancers. The problem, as they saw it, was that many felt that the female and male dancers should not be wearing the same outfits and that a separate style for women should be developed.

About 1949, the committee banned female dancers from wearing the kilt, sporran or medals. By 1952, they introduced an alternative attire of white blouse, tartan skirt and long black stockings, then for the September 1954 games, a new attire was introduced for all female dancers (previously it did not apply to girls between six and eleven). Approved by the Lord Lyon King of Arms, it was a skirt of light-weight tartan worn over a white petticoat, with a plaid of the same tartan material and a tight fitting sleeveless velvet corsage (the upper part of a woman's dress) over a white blouse. It was designed from the traditional Scottish woman's dress that was banned after the introduction of the Act of Proscription 1746 (England).

The men would continue to dance in traditionally male kilt and jacket, wearing bonnets and sporrans.

The original decision of the Aboyne committee applied to both the Highland dances and the national dances. The Royal Scottish Official Board of Highland Dancing a few years later modified the dress code so the Aboyne dress would be used by women for just the national dances, and a kilt-based outfit (without bonnet or sporran) for the Highland dances. To this day, however, at the Aboyne Highland Games, the wearing of the Aboyne dress by women is strongly "preferred", except for the sailor's hornpipe and Irish jig.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jim Currier

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

The result of the debate was Delete --Allen3 talk 19:33, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

Jim Currier
nn journalist (although I'm happy to be proved wrong) --Doc (?) 20:41, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. He is, in fact a journalist for the Bryan County News. A brief google search for the newsletter turned that up.--Blu Aardvark | (talk) 20:46, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Fair do - but my question was notability not verifiability - whether being a hack on a local US newspaper is notable, I'll leave for those on that side of the Atlantic. --Doc (?) 20:59, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see. I really should wear my glasses when on the computer. I read it as "no journalist". (sheepish look). --Blu Aardvark | (talk) 21:01, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. unless notability is established. --Blu Aardvark | (talk) 21:01, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete probably vanity, given that he's been a journalist on an article-less a local rag for only 3 years. Dunc|☺ 20:52, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, likely vanity as above and nn in any case. -Splash 23:29, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn vanity. JamesBurns 05:16, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Dice control

Dice control in casino craps is a controversial theory where proponents claim that individuals can learn to carefully toss the dice so as to influence the outcome. A small but dedicated community of dice shooters claim proof of dice influencing in casino conditions. The concept of such precision shooting claims to elevate craps from a random game of chance to a sport, like bowling, darts, or pool. Many within the advantage gambling community still doubt if dice control can overcome the house advantage on craps.

Controlled shooting
The concept of "controlled shooting" goes beyond simply "setting the dice" prior to shooting. It purports to involve limiting the rotational characteristics of the dice. The theory is that if the dice are properly gripped and tossed at the correct angle they will land just before the back wall of the craps table, then gently touch the wall, greatly increasing the probability of their remaining on the same axis. If executed properly and consistently this technique would be able to change the game's long-term odds from the house's favor to the player's favor.

Notable proponents of dice control
Chris Pawlicki (author of Get The Edge At Craps: How to Control the Dice) explains the math and science behind dice control. Stanford Wong, well-known advantage player and gaming author, also discusses dice control in his book Wong on Dice. Pawlicki and Jerry L. Patterson co-developed PARR (Patterson Rhythm Roll) in 1997, which claims to be the first course on how to set and control dice.

Debate over dice control
Jim Klimesh, director of casino operations for Indiana's Empress Casino Hammond believes it is sometimes possible to control the dice with certain throws that do not hit the back wall of the craps table. One example is the "army blanket roll", named after the playing surface of the dice games of American servicemen during World War II. In the army blanket roll, a player sets the dice on an axis and gently rolls or slides them down the table. If the shooter is successful, the dice will not leave the axis they are rolled on and will come to rest before hitting the back wall. A successful shooter would affect the odds significantly.

But most casinos require that the dice touch the wall in order for a throw to be valid. The chances of altering the odds when the dice bounce off a surface of rubber pyramids are much slimmer, no matter what axis the dice were on before they hit. Dice control proponents advocate a throw that gently bounces off of the back wall and comes to rest after barely touching it. Early experiments conducted on the subject of dice control had inconclusive results. In a more sophisticated study published in 2020, a purpose-built dice-throwing machine failed to achieve any significant advantages under several scenarios, casting serious doubt on the potential for dice control to be successfully practiced by humans.

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Silent Lake Provincial Park

Silent Lake Provincial Park is a provincial park located on Silent Lake in eastern Ontario, Canada, near Bancroft. The park occupies an area of 1,450 ha.

Silent Lake is located in the Canadian Shield. Recreational activities include swimming, hiking, cycling, kayaking, and canoeing; in winter, there is cross-country skiing. Canoe and kayak rentals and yurt camping are also available within the park. No motor boats or electric motors are permitted on Silent Lake.

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User talk:Mike E Fresh

Wikiproject: Nova Scotia
Hello, I was just noticing that you added yourself to the wikiproject participants list. I just wanted to know where you asked to join? I have no problems with you joining in fact, let me be the first to say welcome to the wikiproject, before you get started it would be good to leave a message on the Project Talk Page or on WayeMason's talk page as he started this project in the first place. Anyways, I'm glad you've joined the group! Theyab 21:05, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

Help with RFC
Hello fellow WikiProject_Nova_Scotia member. I have recently lodged a Request for Comments on the Talk:Halifax, Nova Scotia page. I and several other editors have had a running dispute with user Lonewolf BC. The RFC is This is a dispute about whether it is accurate to continue to refer to the area of or approximately coinciding with the boundaries of the City of Halifax, which became a part of the rural/urban Halifax Regional Municipality in 1996,  as a city.

Basically, as I say on the RFC, we all agree that this is no longer a City, but to use former City's boundaries when describing the current urban area as a "city" (note the lower case) is at best arbitrary and at worst a fabrication. The city is now a continuous area that wraps the harbour, from Portuguese Cove (outside of the city of Halifax to the west and south) to Cole Harbour (outside of the former City of Dartmouth to the east). People now refer to the entire urban area of Halifax Regional Municipality as 'the city' and 'Halifax'.

Anyway, the bottom line is at least five people have tried to change the wording of the intro since January, and every time this one user changes it back. I have tried to come up with compromise wording, and he won't dialog. Right now wikipedia says HRM and Halifax are the capital of Nova Scotia. This article is now factually incorrect, in my opinion, and I need your help, please chime in. WayeMason 23:06, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

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The Sign of the Cross (book)

The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe is a non-fiction book published in 1994 by Irish writer Colm Tóibín.

In the book, Tóibín describes successive Holy Weeks spent in Poland, Seville, Bavaria, Rome, and the Balkans and reflects on the condition of Catholicism in every place making it an intellectual survey of the state of the faith in the new Europe of the 1990s. He also visits post-Communist Catholic Lithuania and Estonia and considers the faith in Ireland and Scotland.

Tóibín, a Catholic by baptism, reckons with the religious demons of his past, the rituals, the pilgrimages, and the shrines. A special chapter is devoted to Toibin's strange and painful session in group therapy, wherein, to his surprise, he experiences the urge to make the sign of the cross in memory of his father, who died when he was a boy. His father's death is also present in some of his novels.

The book was shortlisted for the Waterstone's / Volvo / Esquire Prize for the Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year, 1994.

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New York City landmark bomb plot

The New York City landmark bomb plot was a plan to follow up the February 1993 World Trade Center bombing and was designed to inflict mass casualties on American soil by attacking well-known landmark targets throughout New York City, United States. If the attack had been successful, thousands likely would have died.

Before and after the World Trade Center bombing, the Federal Bureau of Investigation had a confidential informant, Emad Salem, infiltrate the group of plotters. FBI officers arrested the main suspects in June 1993 before the plot could be carried out. In 1995, ten defendants were convicted of 48 charges related to the plot.

Attackers
The plot was espoused by a blind sheikh, Omar Abdel-Rahman, who was a radical Muslim cleric in New York City, to be carried out by some of his followers. Rahman was the spiritual leader of the al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, a radical Egyptian Islamic group that had links to al-Qaeda. One of Rahman's followers, El Sayyid Nosair, had assassinated Meir Kahane in 1990 and was linked to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Targets
The six targets to be attacked were the UN headquarters, the Lincoln Tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, the George Washington Bridge, the St. Regis and the UN Plaza Hotels, and the FBI's main New York office at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building. There was also some talk of bombing Jewish targets in the city. They also wanted to assassinate US Senator Al D'Amato and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.

Nosair also wanted to assassinate New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a Jewish politician, and Alvin Schlesinger, a judge who had tried him in a previous case.

The attack on the hotels would be detrimental because they are known to host prestigious guests such as the US ambassador to the United Nations and the US secretary of state, who stayed at the Waldorf during UN sessions. The hotels are also known to host several prominent business leaders. Attacking the locations would thus create chaos in the financial and diplomatic aspects of New York.

The planned attacks on the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels and the George Washington Bridge would create chaos in transportation between New Jersey and Manhattan, as these were the only three direct vehicular crossings between the two locations. If the attacks were successful, police, civilians, and other respondents would have major issues entering and leaving the city. Co-conspirators indicated that they intended to drive bomb-laden cars into the tunnels, stall the cars in the middle, and detonate them three minutes after leaving the cars.

The attackers also discussed attacks on the Diamond District in Manhattan, an area populated by a large population of Jewish businessmen. It was stated that attacking the neighborhood would be similar to "hitting Israel itself." Simultaneous attacks in the same city were carried out as well during the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

The New York group had supposedly wanted to plant a total of 12 bombs around the city targeting Jews and then detonate them at the same time.

Plan
The terrorists suspected President Mubarak to be present in the hotels and intended to infiltrate the hotels by using disguises as employees to get close to him. The other attacks in the city were used as distractions and to inflict chaos throughout the city. Bombs would be used on the bridges while the other terrorists would raid the hotels with guns. Even if it was not there, the attacks throughout the city would have caused a large number of deaths.

FBI surveillance
The FBI had been closely monitoring the plan throughout 1992 and 1993 but intensified its investigation after the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993, which killed six people.

Emad Salem was used as an intelligence asset during the entire investigation (codenamed TERRSTOP) into the plot and for one year earlier. He had experienced a man being tortured when he was young and so Salem wanted revenge on radical Islam. FBI agents first used him to find the illegal selling of weapons and green cards from Russians and then Salem agreed to help the FBI during the plot. He was recruited to get information of the terrorists the details of the plan. Salem agreed to spy for the FBI if his identity was never revealed. The FBI insisted that he should wear a recording device so that he could testify in later trials, but he did not agree to that. The FBI then used him only as an "intelligence asset." Around May 7, 1993, Salem started meeting regularly with the defendants.

The FBI had also been monitoring the terrorists through video surveillance hidden in the terrorists' safe house, where bombs were being developed. Combined, the video surveillance and the use of an inside man greatly contributed into foiling the plot. In the final weeks of the investigation, the FBI monitored the plot almost constantly. At one point, when Senator D'Amato and Assemblyman Hikind received bodyguards, agents mistakenly feared that their investigation had been exposed.

Salem infiltrated the group and gathered information that led to the arrest of the plotters. The FBI took two years to investigate the plot, which showed that a slow approach to terrorist investigations was beneficial. James Kallstrom, an ex-FBI officer, said, "You obviously want to play things out so you can fully identify the breadth and scope of the conspiracy. Obviously, the most efficient and effective way to do that is to bring it down to the last stage." That was the precedent for many later terrorist cases. The general public later criticized that strategy, but the FBI still leans toward slow approaches to foil terrorist plots.

Prosecution and aftermath
Eight conspirators were arrested in a raid on June 24, 1993, after Salem had observed the group for five months. The conspirators were mixing chemicals for the bombs when they were arrested. It was revealed that the conspirators had also conducted test bombings before the World Trade Center bombing. They had also made preparations to escape quickly, which led the FBI to conclude that the suspects needed to be arrested quickly. A ninth suspect was arrested on June 30. The government announced the indictment of a tenth suspect on July 8. After the arrests were made, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey increased security on its six river crossings between New York and New Jersey. The three crossings in the bombing plot had been under the Port Authority's purview.

William Kunstler agreed to represent three of the suspects, including Rahman and Nosair. However, Federal Judge Michael Mukasey later ruled that Rahman and the two other suspects would have to be represented separately and that Kunstler and Ronald L. Kuby would have to choose which defendants to represent. Rahman later offered to represent himself after the two lawyers could not agree on who would represent him. A bail hearing for one of the suspects, Clement Rodney Hampton-El, was held at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on July 8. The court found that Salem's tapes supported only some of the charges against Hampton-El. The federal government wanted to try the suspects in New York because of the severity of the charges. Complicating matters, some of the suspects were also being arraigned on drug charges. A week and a half later, the US government announced that evidence was found that Sudan had been giving help to Rahman and the other plotters. Sudanese diplomats had assisted the planned attack on the United Nations headquarters. Consequently, the US government placed Sudan on a watch list of terrorist countries.

On August 25, 1993, Attorney General Janet Reno announced that she would prosecute the bombing case because of more evidence. That was a reversal from her position two months earlier, when she had said that there was insufficient evidence for prosecution. The same day, Rahman was formally indicted in connection with three crimes: the landmark bombing plot, the World Trade Center bombing, and the 1990 assassination of Meir Kahane. The case against the defendants was prosecuted by lead prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy. One of the defendants, Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali, allowed prosecutors to view his notes.

Salem ultimately testified against Rahman and other terrorists despite earlier refusing to do so. Salem had recorded tapes in which the defendants sought to prevent Rahman from being directly involved in the terror plot so that he would not be implicated. The defense lawyers unsuccessfully attempted to have all 13 defendants tried separately. New defense counsel were hired, and in September 1994, Judge Mukasey postponed the trial's opening date to December so that defense counsel could come up with new arguments. In November 1994, Mukasey rescheduled the date to January 1995 because Rahman had contracted pneumonia.

In February 1995, Siddig Ali pled guilty to the terror plot and also named some of the co-defendants as complicit in the plot.

Once the trial started, Salem testified about the details of the bomb plot. Defense lawyers cross-examining Salem argued that he was not credible because he had lied several times in the past, including when he was gaining his US citizenship. However, Salem testified that the defendants had confided the details of the plot to him. In May 1995, one of the defendants, Abdo Mohammed Haggag, agreed to testify against the other 11 defendants in exchange for all his charges being dropped.

Convictions
On October 1, 1995, Rahman and nine others were convicted by a New York jury on 48 of 50 charges, including seditious conspiracy, solicitation to murder Mubarak, conspiracy to murder Mubarak, solicitation to attack a US military installation, and conspiracy to conduct bombings. In January 1996, Mukasey sentenced Rahman and nine other defendants to terms that ranged from 25 years to life in prison. After the trial, Salem received a large sum of money and was put onto a witness protection program.

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The Daily Orange

The Daily Orange, commonly referred to as The D.O., is an independent student newspaper published in Syracuse, New York. It is free and published once a week during the Syracuse University academic year.

It was one of the first college papers to become fully independent from its parent college. Its alumni work at nearly every major newspaper in the nation — The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Boston Globe, Star Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution — in a variety of reporting, editing, design and photography roles.

Publisher reported circulation for 2018 was 6,000 copies, with an online circulation of about 3,000,000 during publishing months. The paper's content is published online daily and the print edition is published every Thursday during the academic year.

Early years

The first copy of the newspaper was published on September 15, 1903. Irving R. Templeton, co-founder of the Orange Publishing Company, served as the founding editor of the newspaper. Prior to the D.O., there were only 18 colleges and universities represented by a daily college paper.

The newspaper set up operations in a red barn located at 806 Croton Ave, and accepted advertising. From 1903 until at least 1922, a copy cost two cents and the annual subscription cost $2.50 annually,  and all students received mandatory subscription.

Syracuse was the third university after Brown and Columbia to have a printing shop owned and operated by students and the first university to own it completely. The printing plant was owned by a corporation known as the Orange Publishing Company, the directors and stockholders of which were all students. The newspaper even manufactured its own paper with the help of SU students from the College of Forestry.

The D.O. operated as the official university paper but often had fractious relationship with the administration.

In 1910, The D.O. published an issue that was managed by an all-female team, which later became an annual tradition. In 1939, Elizabeth C. Donnelly, of Syracuse, became the first female to be elected the editor-in-chief.

In 1927, The D.O. started carrying news of the world affairs through the United News Press service making it one the few college papers to do so. In 1933, it was ranked amongst the best college newspapers.

Towards independence
In the mid-1960s, student newspapers all over the U.S. began pressing for separation from the control of the university administration. The D.O. was considered part of SU; the administration had installed a paid business manager and sold advertising to assure enough money to print every day. The administration could possibly influence the content of the paper based on financial holds, which created friction between the administration and the paper. This relationship was further strained by The Daily Orange criticism over how the school handled highly charged situations such as the racism on the football team and the Vietnam protests. In the summer of 1970, The D.O. briefly stopped printing due to lack of financial support.

A major turning point in D.O. history occurred in 1971. In April 1971, the university refused to back The D.O. in a $938,000 libel suit, and also decided to install a new editor without the input of the D.O. staff. In May 1971, the editorial staff decided to sever the ties that existed with the administration.

On October 26, 1971, the 'new' D.O. was formed by a merger of The Daily Orange daily (revolutionary socialist) and two weeklies Dialog (moderate) and Promethean (Liberal Democratic). The new paper became a student organization that received funding for production costs from the Student Government Association (now known as the Student Association). A referendum vote determined whether the student body would continue to contribute a portion of its fee.

Full independence
In December 1991, editor-in-chief Jodi Lamagna and her staff decided to refuse any further funding from SGA. In the process, The D.O. became one of the few completely independent student newspapers in the country. Since then, The D.O. has operated with complete financial independence from the university, raising funds necessary for publishing a daily paper through advertising revenue and fundraising. Though it still maintains a business relationship with the university, in regards to its status as a student group and its housing agreement, its relationship with administrators has no bearing on its editorial content.

In 1999, the D.O. editors and then SU Chancellor Kenneth Shaw signed an agreement giving The D.O. rights to deliver papers on campus, the ability to lease 744 Ostrom Ave from the university as an office building, and access to all university buildings and administrators necessary for reporting purposes.

In 2005, The D.O. underwent a layout redesign to give paper renewed sense of ‘identity’. This revamp included new logo partially designed by Jim Parkinson.

In 2008, the D.O. dropped to the Friday print edition due to declining advertising sales. The Tuesday print edition was dropped starting in fall 2018 to focus on digital content. The Wednesday print edition was dropped in Fall 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As of 2023, the D.O. prints only on Thursday mornings.

In 2020, the D.O. launched a membership program for readers.

The Special Collections Research Center of the Syracuse University libraries has an archived collection of the published papers.

CIA lawsuit
In the early 1980s, The Daily Orange was a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the CIA. The D.O. had sued the CIA to obtain documents relating to alleged CIA activity on campus during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Syracuse lost the case when district judge Howard G. Munson ruled that the issues were exempt from disclosure.

Facilities
The newspaper set up operations in a red barn located at 806 Croton Ave on corner of Irving Ave, and moved to a building (922 Irving Avenue) owned by the Orange Publishing company in 1907.

Beginning in 1934 the paper took up residence at Yates Castle when the journalism department was moved there. It was housed there until 1948, when some of the staff moved to pre-fab containers behind Yates Castle. This arrangement came to an end when the castle was demolished in 1953.

The D.O. moved to the George Clinton House on 1101 E. Adams street in 1967.

In 1999, the D.O. signed an agreement with then SU Chancellor Kenneth Shaw to lease 744 Ostrom Ave from the university as an office building, which it had been occupying since 1983.

In 2019, the paper moved its office from 774 Ostrom Ave to 230 Euclid Ave due to construction plans as well as long term updates in Syracuse University's master plan.

Comics
The D.O. was the first student newspaper to have comics. The paper has produced many famous cartoonists, such as Vaughn Bodē, Robb Armstrong (creator of Jump Start), Brad Anderson (creator of Marmaduke), Steve Ellis and Nicholas Gurewitch (creator of The Perry Bible Fellowship). Pulitzer Prize winner Jim Morin served as editorial cartoonist during his senior year at SU.

Awards and rankings
The paper has in the past decade won numerous awards, including more than a dozen "story of the year" awards in several categories from the Associated Collegiate Press and top-story honors from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation.

The Princeton Review has ranked the D.O. the best college newspaper every year since 2016.

The D.O. was named the best all-around student newspaper in the country by the Society of Professional Journalists in 2017. It is also the best-designed student newspaper in the country, as voted at the University of Missouri Student Society for News Design awards in 2005.

In 2021, College Choice ranked the D.O. #2 in the nation.

During the 2021-22 academic year, the D.O. was ranked first in the total number of articles published by students newspapers in the U.S., with 4,969 articles published.

Notable alumni

 * Robb Armstrong, author of Jump Start comic strip
 * Jessica Cutler, photo editor, The Washingtonienne
 * Meredith Goldstein, Living|Arts writer, The Boston Globe
 * Nicholas Gurewitch, author of The Perry Bible Fellowship comic strip, The Guardian
 * Mike Kelly, columnist, The Record
 * Larry S. Kramer, former president and publisher, USA Today
 * Michael Kranish, political reporter, The Washington Post
 * Steve Kroft, journalist & long-time correspondent for 60 Minutes
 * Jerre Mangione, writer and scholar of the Sicilian-American experience
 * Jim Morin, Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist, Miami Herald
 * Jeff Passan, national baseball writer, ESPN
 * Jayson Stark, national baseball writer, The Athletic and MLB Network contributor
 * Eli Saslow, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter at The Washington Post

In popular culture

 * In the September 20, 2018 episode of the TV game show Jeopardy!, a clue in the category "Orange You Glad" was, "First published in 1903, the Daily Orange is this New York university's student newspaper".

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Talk:Mercury Marine

Untitled
I added quite a few important historical facts to this piece regarding the post-war and fifties eras, as of today, July 29, 2015. Eric J. Hanson.

Vote for Deletion
This article survived a Vote for Deletion. The discussion can be found here. -Splash 20:48, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Need for rewrite of "Today" section
This section is taken as is from a press release from mercury. It could be considered a copyvio considering only a single word was changed in certain paragraphs. Needs to be rewritten. Dread Specter 23:22, 27 April 2007 (UTC)

 * I think it was written by Mercury staff to advertise.--Pasbeat 19:52, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Copy edit applied to move section away from advertising tone. Also away from text from brochures. May need more work. Please, review and edit as appropriate. Removed repeated references to Mercury Marine, removed semi-colons and replaced with commas. Removed JD Powers plug. Simplified Zeus and Verado sections. Simplified list of divisions of Mercury Marine. Please remove NPOV warning on consensus. William (Bill) Bean 17:30, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

The same enignes?
Is Mercury and Mariner the same type of outboard engines but different wrapping? If that is the case, then it should be added to the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.108.224.134 (talk) 15:06, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Yes and no, the very first mariner engines were actually yamaha powerheads in disguise. There was a backroom deal between mercury and yamaha to stall yamaha entering the north american market. Mercury dealers would sell yamaha outbaords (in mariner dress) for a few years while mariner was set up with its own dealer network. near the end of the mariner brand (late 90's) they were just grey merc's. Deadly windex (talk) 19:35, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Labor Dispute
The world headquarters for Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin employs 850 unionized workers plus another 800 or so salaried employees. On 23 August 2009 the unionized employees (not laid off) voted down a contract amendment. This will probably impact the company's future and existence in Wisconsin. The president of the company, Mark Schwabero, said that the headquarters may move down to the smaller Stillwater, Oklahoma plant if contracts are not changed. Some believe the company wants to scale down operations, and, perhaps, move the manufacturing plants to Mexico or China. (TVKrazi) 07:17, 25 August 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.88.137.184 (talk)

I'm a local in regards to the above story, so my local news is obviously consistantly proclaiming it. My question is, is this trade dispute enough to mention in the main article? I'm just afraid that, in the long term, this may not be much beyond an abnormal employment shift. --174.103.224.13 (talk) 02:59, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

Incorporated?
Does anybody know whether Mercury Marine is incorporated by the state of Wisconsin, if incorporated at all. If not Wisconsin, which state? This is relavent to the understanding of what Mecury Marine is, because a corporation is not the same thing as a regular business. Just the facts. 99.19.245.166 (talk) 22:32, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

Shear Pin
If I remember correctly, one of the big selling points of Mercury outboards in the 1960's was that the propeller shaft had a shear pin that would break if the propeller struck a submerged object. This kept the shaft from being bent. Instead of replacing the shaft one had only to replace the pin. Is this correct? 2602:306:BDC0:CF90:BDC2:E3BA:457F:F5B0 (talk) 19:06, 22 September 2013 (UTC)

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