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Elvis Andrus

Elvis Augusto Andrus Torres (born August 26, 1988) is a Venezuelan-American former professional baseball shortstop. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics, and Chicago White Sox. He is a two-time All-Star.

Andrus was born in the city of Maracay in Venezuela. As an international prospect, he signed a contract with the Atlanta Braves at the age of 16 in 2005. Entering 2007, he was rated by Baseball America as the No. 2 prospect in the Atlanta Braves organization. Midway through the 2007 season, Andrus was traded to Texas. Andrus was called up to the major leagues in 2009 and was the Rangers' Opening Day starting shortstop at the age of 20. After his first season, he finished second in American League Rookie of the Year voting.

Andrus earned the first All-Star selection of his career in 2010 and later received his second nomination in 2012. Andrus manned the Rangers' left infield alongside third baseman Adrián Beltré for eight years, forming a friendship that was noted for the former's practical jokes on the latter. After 12 seasons with the Rangers, Andrus was traded to Oakland in February 2021.

Andrus maintained his role as starting shortstop with the Athletics and remained with the team for one-and-a-half seasons before being traded to Chicago in 2022. He played his 1,900th career game in 2022 and is fourth among active players in games played as of 2023. In 2023, he recorded the 2,000th hit of his career.

Early life
Andrus was born in Maracay, Venezuela, the son of Emilio and Elvia Andrus. Emilio Andrus was a university professor; he died when Elvis was seven years old. He has two older brothers, Erold and Erikson. Some Venezuelan families name their children after famous non-Venezuelan people, but Andrus said that he is not sure whether he was named after Elvis Presley. Andrus said, "I asked my mother a lot of times, but she never told me. Maybe my dad liked Elvis Presley. I'm not sure about that."

Minor leagues

At the age of 16, Andrus was signed by the Atlanta Braves and received a signing bonus of more than $500,000. He started the 2005 season with the Orlando Braves of the Gulf Coast League, and was promoted to Danville late in the season. He spent 2006 with Class-A Rome, being named to the South Atlantic League All-Star team.

In 2007, Andrus joined the Class A Myrtle Beach Pelicans of the Carolina League. During the season, he was selected to the All-Star Futures Game and was selected again for the showcase in 2008.

Texas Rangers (2007–2020)
On July 31, 2007, Andrus, Jarrod Saltalamacchia and three minor league pitchers (Matt Harrison, Neftalí Feliz and Beau Jones) were traded from the Braves to the Rangers for Mark Teixeira and Ron Mahay.

Major leagues
With Rangers shortstop Michael Young agreeing to move to third base in 2009, Andrus earned the starting job on Opening Day. He was the second-youngest player in the American League at the time. As Andrus was only 20 years old, Texas signed veteran shortstop Omar Vizquel for insurance. Andrus stole his 20th base on July 28, 2009, in his rookie season. Andrus was the 10th player in major league history to steal 20 bases under the age of 21. The last player to do that was his then-teammate Andruw Jones, who had accomplished the feat in 1997 with the Atlanta Braves. Andrus finished the 2009 season hitting .267 with 6 home runs and 33 stolen bases, finishing second in American League Rookie of the Year voting.

Andrus was named to the 2010 American League All-Star team as a reserve shortstop. In 2010, he batted .265, without any home runs. He led the AL in sacrifice hits (17), was 2nd in caught stealing (15), and 9th in stolen bases (32).

In 2011, Andrus batted .279, with 5 home runs. He was 3rd in the American League in sacrifice hits (16), 4th in caught stealing (12), and 5th in stolen bases (37). On defense, he led all AL shortstops in errors, with 25, and was 2nd among league shortstops in putouts (245) and 3rd in assists (407). In 2012, Andrus earned his second All-Star selection, batting .286 while leading the American League in sacrifice hits with 17.

Before Opening Day of 2013, Andrus signed an eight-year, $120 million extension. On September 14, he stole his 40th stolen base of the season against the Oakland Athletics, stealing second base from Bartolo Colón. Andrus later surpassed Ian Kinsler for the Texas Rangers all-time leader in stolen bases with 175. He finished the year again leading the American League in sacrifice hits (16) while batting .271 and scoring 91 runs.

Andrus began the 2014 season with an 11-game hitting streak that ultimately ended with an early ejection April 13. On June 8, Andrus had a 39-game hitting streak against the Cleveland Indians snapped as he went 0 for 4. That game marked the first time in his career where he did not get a hit against the Indians. Only Vladimir Guerrero had a longer streak against a team (with 44, against Texas). Andrus stole his 180th career stolen base against the Seattle Mariners but led the American League in caught stealing with 15, batting .263 for the season.

Andrus finished 2015 with career lows in batting average (.258), OBP (.309), and sacrifice hits, while posting a career-best seven home runs and stealing 25 bags for the AL West champion Rangers. On defense, he led the major leagues in assists, with 516. He batted .182 in the Division Series against Toronto and made two of the team's three errors in the pivotal seventh inning of Game 5, won by the Blue Jays. In 2016, hit .302 with eight home runs and 69 RBIs.

He continued the following season, in 2017, to post a career offensive season, hitting .297 with 20 home runs and 88 RBIs and 25 steals in 158 games. On defense, he led the major leagues in assists, with 490.

On April 11, 2018, Andrus was hit by a pitch on his right arm and left the game. X-rays and CT scans tested positive that Andrus had suffered a fractured right elbow. As a result, he was placed on the injured list for the first time of his Major League career. No surgery was required, but to keep out of baseball activity for 6-8 weeks. He was activated on June 18 from the injured list. Andrus finished 2018 hitting .256/.308/.367/.675 with 6 home runs and 33 RBI.

Andrus hit .275/.313/.393/.707 with 12 home runs, 72 RBIs, and 31 stolen bases in 2019. He tied for the AL lead with 10 sacrifice flies.

In 2020, Andrus batted .194/.252/.330 with three home runs and seven RBIs in 103 at bats, and his .969 fielding percentage was his lowest in 10 seasons.

Oakland Athletics (2021–2022)
On February 6, 2021, Andrus and Aramis Garcia were traded to the Oakland Athletics for Khris Davis, Jonah Heim, and Dane Acker. In his first year in Oakland, Andrus batted .243/.294/.320 with 3 home runs, 37 RBIs and 12 stolen bases in 146 games. On August 17, 2022, Andrus was released by the Athletics.

Chicago White Sox (2022–2023)
The Chicago White Sox signed Andrus to a major league contract on August 19, 2022.

On February 20, 2023, Andrus signed a one-year contract to return to the White Sox. On April 5, Andrus hit his 2,000 career hit. He became a free agent following the season.

Arizona Diamondbacks
On March 3, 2024, Andrus signed a minor league contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks. On March 22, Andrus was released by Arizona after failing to make the Opening Day roster.

Coaching career
Andrus served as a coach for the American League team in the 2024 All-Star Futures Game.

Personal life
Andrus is a Christian. In 2012, Andrus donated $12,500 to OurCalling, a Christian charity that helps homeless people in Dallas County.

Andrus married girlfriend Cori Febles in a ceremony at his home on June 1, 2017. The couple welcomed their first child, Elvis Emilio, on July 6, 2017. On November 28, 2018, they welcomed their second child, a girl, named Lucia Alessandra. For the 2019 season, Andrus adopted "Baby Shark" as his walk-up song because it reminded him of his children.

Two of Andrus' brothers remain in Venezuela. Andrus voiced concern about his home country during civil unrest in early 2014. "As a human being, you always get angry when you see what's happening with the military back home doing stuff to the civils, and to the students, and that's what really gets me angry. I'm not a political guy, but I just hate when you see somebody just walking and trying to say something get hit by police, or get hit by any military from the country that's supposed to defend the country instead of shoot him or hit him," he said.

Andrus' older brother Erold Andrus played in the independent leagues in 2009 and 2010 as an outfielder. He has played in the organizations of several MLB teams. During spring training of 2011, though Erold was in minor league camp, he got the opportunity to play in a Rangers spring training game, the first time that Erold and Elvis played together in the United States.

On July 26, 2019, Andrus became a naturalized US citizen.

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André Beaufre

André Beaufre (25 January 1902 –13 February 1975) was a French Army officer and military strategist who attained the rank of Général d'Armée (Army General) before his retirement in 1961.

He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine and entered the military academy at École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr in 1921, where he met the future French president Charles de Gaulle, who was an instructor. In 1925 he saw action in Morocco against the Rif, who opposed French rule. Beaufre then studied at the École Supérieure de Guerre and at the École Libre des Sciences Politiques and was subsequently assigned to the French army's general staff.

By the end of World War II, he had attained the rank of colonel and was well known in the English-speaking world as a military strategist and as an exponent of an independent French nuclear force. He commanded the French forces in the 1956 Suez War campaign against Egypt in 1956. Beaufre later became chief of the general staff of the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers in Europe in 1958. He was serving as chief French representative to the permanent group of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Washington in 1960 when he was promoted to général d'armée. Beaufre retired from the Army in 1961 for health reasons. He died in 1975 while engaged in a series of lectures in Yugoslavia.

World War II
While serving as permanent secretary of national defence in Algeria in 1940–41 during World War II, he was arrested by the French Vichy regime, and after his release in 1942 he served in the Free French Army on several fronts until the end of the war in 1945.

In his book 1940: The Fall of France, Beaufre writes: "The collapse of the French Army is the most important event of the 20th century". He states that had the French Army held, the Hitler regime would have almost certainly fallen. There would have been no Nazi conquest of Western Europe, no Nazi assault on the Soviet Union, no Holocaust, most likely no Communist takeover of Eastern Europe. He later gave his views on France's fall during interviews for the now famous production by Thames Television, The World at War, Episode 3

Indochina
French Indochina, 1952, General Beaufre was the leader of the group for NATO tactical studies. He was considering a structure of small buried defensive positions for protection against nuclear strike – they were called the shield (‘bouclier’). In order to intervene in the vast vacant spaces he was suggesting using very light and mobile troops equipped with nuclear cannons. His thesis was taking place in a very uncertain world where both parties were potentially thinking about using nuclear weapons.

Algeria
Beaufre was a general in the Algerian War. He was leading the Iron Division (la division de fer). Freshly coming from Indochina and poorly informed about the popular and national character of this new conflict, the troops had been struck hard by Krim Belkacem’s partisans. He argued in his book Introduction to Strategy for the dissolution of the boundaries between military and civil society; a military approach that acknowledged the existence of an extended battlefield. In Beaufre's theory, the battlefield must be extended to encompass all aspects of a civil society, particularly social and ideological spheres, such as the radio and the classroom. According to Beaufre, the proper concern of the military should be extended to co-ordinating all aspects of a civil society.

South Africa
General André Beaufre is the originator of the term "Total Strategy". A multi-component strategy developed by the security establishment, drawing upon the experience of other countries in counter-revolutionary warfare and low-intensity conflict, and refining and adding to such techniques within the South African context. As a theorist, he features prominently in the more intellectual of the SADF training courses. According to Philip Frankel (an internationally renowned expert in civil-military studies), who has conducted the most comprehensive study of the development of the SADF's "Total Strategy", virtually every course at the Joint Defence College is based on one or other of Beaufre strategic works. This concept also found its way into the management of water resources flowing in rivers that cross international political borders, specifically in South Africa.

Nuclear deterrence
During the early 1960s Beaufre came to prominence as a theoretical military strategist and as an advocate of the independent French nuclear force, which was a major priority of President Charles de Gaulle. Beaufre remained on good terms with the U.S. authorities who opposed Nuclear proliferation but argued that French nuclear independence would give the West greater unpredictability vis-à-vis the Soviet Union and thus strengthen the deterrent capacity of the NATO alliance.

At the same time Beaufre published "An Introduction to Strategy" and later "Deterrence and Strategy". His insight greatly influenced deterrence-theory analysis within international-relations circles. Military historians characterized "An Introduction to Strategy" as the most complete strategy treatise published in that generation. The Vatican analyzed the papers extensively at the fourth session of Vatican Council II in 1966 and later commented on them in the "Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World."

Beaufre defined nuclear deterrence as the only kind of deterrence that produces the effect seeks to avoid or to end war.

Beaufre developed "Deterrence and Strategy" in the context of the bipolar world of the Cold War where the threat of nuclear war was effective. The existence of this threat caused a psychological result and prevented adversaries from taking up arms. Adversaries had to measure the risk they were running if they unleashed a crisis, because the response would have produced political, economic, social, and moral damage from which recovery wouldn't have been easy; material damage and psychological factors played a decisive role in deterrence.

Beaufre believed that military action should be avoided in a nuclear scenario and that victory should be won by paralyzing the adversary through indirect action. It is not simply a matter of terrifying the enemy; it is also a matter of hiding one's own fear by executing those actions that show the opposite. This equilibrium-through-terror axiom ruled during the Cold War and prevented a nuclear confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union.

For Beaufre, deterrence was above all the threat of nuclear war. The atomic threat guaranteed peace better than conventional arms did. Of course Beaufre saw the problem principally from the French strategic viewpoint. He was not convinced by conventional deterrence: "The classical arms race creates instability, just as the nuclear race creates stability."

Beaufre's thesis, that the threat of using atomic weapons is the only means for worldwide stabilization, is pessimistic. His pessimism lies in the contradictions between nuclear and conventional deterrence. When one party develops greater offensive capability than another, instability results.

Victory in a conventional war is unilateral; in a nuclear war, destruction is bilateral. The simple expectation of success by one party can unleash aggression in his adversary. Beaufre develops this idea in more detail in a theory called "the dialectic of the expectations of victory."

Classical deterrence
Beaufre's thought is not restricted to a defence of nuclear deterrence. Elsewhere in his treatise he reflects on the possibility of combining nuclear deterrence with conventional deterrence. He summarizes his concept in this manner: "The nuclear and classical levels tied to each other, essentially with classic atomic weapons, brings to the latter the stability it lacks and returns to the former the elemental risk of instability that it needs in order to continue its role as the great stabilizer."

Beaufre is saying that nuclear and conventional deterrence are "Siamese twins" because the instability the conventional mode provokes makes nuclear deterrence necessary, precisely in order to obtain stability. In sum, true deterrence is obtained only through nuclear deterrence.

Quotes

 * "We suffered from an illness which is not peculiar to the French - the illness of having been victorious."
 * "The collapse of the French Army is the most important event of the 20th century."
 * "Throughout the entire course of history, warfare is always changing."
 * "No explanation for the current strategic situation is satisfactory without a definition of the nuclear situation; no definition of the nuclear situation is possible without knowledge of the laws that rule deterrence."
 * "The game of strategy can, like music, be played in two keys. The major key is direct strategy, in which force is the essential factor. The minor key is indirect strategy, in which force recedes into the background and its place is taken by psychology and planning."
 * "A South African policy which does not disarm (the opposition to apartheid from the Third World)... by some well conceived reforms and by a big information effort, risks allowing a hostile atmosphere to build up and to harden."
 * "Victory is a very dangerous opportunity."

Works

 * Introduction to Strategy (New York: Praeger, 1965 [Introduction à la stratégie, Paris, 1963])
 * Deterrence and Strategy (London: Faber, 1965 [Dissuasion et stratégie Paris, Armand Colin, 1964])
 * NATO and Europe (1966 [L'O.T.A.N. et l'Europe ])
 * 1940: The Fall of France (London: Cassell, 1967 [Le Drame de 1940] )
 * Mémoires 1920–1940–1945 (1969);
 * The Suez Expedition 1956 (English Translation, Faber & Faber 1969)
 * La guerre révolutionnaire... (Paris : Fayard, 1972)
 * La Nature de l'histoire (1974).
 * La stratégie de l'action (Paris : ED. DE L'AUBE, 1997)

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2005 Burundian elections

2005 Burundian elections may refer to:
 * 28 February 2005 — 2005 Burundian constitutional referendum
 * 3 June and 7 June 2005 — 2005 Burundian communal elections
 * 4 July 2005 — 2005 Burundian legislative election
 * 29 July 2005 — 2005 Burundian Senate election
 * 19 August 2005 — 2005 Burundian presidential election

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Perum Cheral Irumporai

Perum Cheral Irumporai, known as the Victor of Tagadur, was a member of the Irumporai line of the Chera dynasty in early historic south India (c. 1st - 4th century CE). Perum Cheral is sometimes identified with Perum Kadungo, the Irumporai Chera royal mentioned in the Pugalur inscriptions.

He is famous for the victory of Tagadur of Adigaman chieftain Ezhni. He is the hero of the eighth chapter of the Pathittupattu composed by poet Arichil Kizhar.

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Best-effort delivery

Best-effort delivery describes a network service in which a network does not provide any guarantee that data is effectively delivered or that delivery meets any quality of service. In a best-effort network, all users obtain best-effort service. Under best-effort, network performance characteristics such as transmission speed, network delay and packet loss depend on the current network traffic load, and the network hardware capacity. When network load increases, this can lead to packet loss, retransmission, packet delay variation, further network delay, or even timeout and session disconnect.

Best-effort can be contrasted with reliable delivery, which can be built on top of best-effort delivery (possibly without latency and throughput guarantees), or with virtual circuit schemes which can maintain a predefined quality of service.

There are aspects of network neutrality and fair use.

Physical services
The postal service (snail mail) physically delivers letters using a best-effort delivery approach. The delivery of a certain letter is not scheduled in advance – no resources are preallocated in the post offices. The service will make their "best effort" to try to deliver a message, but the delivery may be delayed if too many letters suddenly arrive at a postal office or triage center. The sender is generally not informed when a letter has been delivered successfully, unless one pays for this premium service. When the addressee is unknown the message might be returned to sender. Or the letter might be definitively lost or destroyed without notification.

Conventional telephone networks are not based on best-effort communication, but on circuit switching. During the connection phase of a new call, resources are proactively reserved in the telephone exchanges along the path, or a busy signal informs the user that the call failed due to a lack of capacity. An ongoing phone call can never be interrupted due to overloading of the network, and is guaranteed constant bandwidth (both of which are not guaranteed in a mobile telephone network).

Internet
The Internet Protocol offers a best-effort service for delivering datagrams between hosts. IPv4 and IPv6 is an internet protocol that depends on the best-effort delivery approach. Datagrams may be lost, arbitrarily delayed, corrupted, or duplicated. The User datagram protocol (UDP) provides a simple layer which only error-checks the datagrams. Transmission control protocol (TCP) provides a guaranteed delivery of an octet stream between two processes on a pair of hosts to the above layer, internally splitting the stream into packets and individually resending these when lost or corrupted. The applications built on top of those protocols implement the additional services they require on an end-to-end basis. Both transport-layers are the base protocols and provide multiplexing between processes on the same host running over different port numbers.

Ethernet
Ethernet is an industry standard of best-effort for local networks, while synchronous ethernet allows for guaranteed delivery for high speed connections.

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Talk:Hebbar Iyengar

Havyak Hebbars
There are Havyak, kannada speaking, hebbars in coastal Karnataka. - Manjunatha 26-Jul-2005 14:26 (IST)

There are Havyak kannada speaking hebbars residing near kumbla and kasaragod(north kerala). they are yajurvedis like other havyaks and their gurupeeta is the same as other havyakas ie.ramachandrapura mata.they do panchayatana pooja as other shankaracharya followers. shankar p.s.,psshnkr@yahoo.co.in 8-1-2006

Categorise
Categorise the list of Hebbar Iyengars named in the article under a) Famous Hebbar Iyengars (whose wiki page has been created)and b) Notable Hebbar Iyengars to resolve the debate as to who names should be included under what category.The photo of BKS Iyengar should be there but adjunct to his name under famous people and not at the head of the article. Some other aspect relating to their origin or their trade mark say 'vadagali tiruman' should be put at the begining. I have put one, if all of them belong to Parakala mutt.If not acceptable, delete it.--Nvvchar (talk) 02:57, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Categorise
Categorise the list of Hebbar Iyengars named in the article under a) Famous Hebbar Iyengars (whose wiki page has been created)and b) Notable Hebbar Iyengars to resolve the debate as to who names should be included under what category.The photo of BKS Iyengar should be there but adjunct to his name under famous people and not at the head of the article. Some other aspect relating to their origin or their trade mark say 'vadagali tiruman' should be put at the begining. I have put one, if all of them belong to Ahobila mutt.If not acceptable, delete it.--Nvvchar (talk) 02:59, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Tuluva Hebbars
This entire section regarding "Tuluva Hebbars" is unsourced (the source"Bologi.com" is not reliable, because, anybody can add article to that website) and the contents are unreliable. eg. Two families from gangamula joined so and so math; there are Hebbar Iyengars still now etc. This entire section is to be rewritten with reliable sources, otherwise the facts mentioned there can be considered as purely guess work of the editor.

Restoration
Someone has just attempted to restore an old version of this article. I realise that the current version is poor but if you look through the editing history, you will see comments that explain the past removals and, I think, they are compliant with our policies and guidelines. - Sitush (talk) 13:16, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

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Talk:The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle

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Because most NES game cartridges lacked the ability to save, passwords can be used to start at a certain level. This is especially helpful as this game would take longer to complete in than is really possible for one sitting, let alone if the NES would stay on for that long. Start at any of the 80 levels, by entering the following passwords:

(Level Password)

2 SZWS 3 ZS2S 4 ZZPS 5 SW3S 6 SXES 7 ZW4S 8 ZX9S 9 WSRS 10 WZFS

11 XSJS 12 XZKS 13 WWMS 14 WXCS 15 XWAS 16 XXOS 17 S2SZ 18 STWZ 19 Z22Z 20 ZTPZ

21 SP3Z 22 SYEZ 23 ZP4Z 24 ZY9Z 25 W2RZ 26 WTFZ 27 X2JZ 28 XTKZ 29 WPMZ 30 WYCZ

31 XPAZ 32 XY0Z 33 2SSW 34 2ZWW 35 TS2W 36 TZPW 37 2W3W 38 ZXEW 39 TW4W 40 TX9W

41 PSRW 42 PZFW 43 YSJW 44 YZKW 45 PWMW 46 PXCW 47 YWAW 48 YXOW 49 22SX 50 2TWX

51 T22X 52 TTPX 53 2P3X 54 2YEX 55 TP4X 56 TY9X 57 P2RX 58 PTFX 59 Y2JX 60 YTKX

61 PPMX 62 PYCX 63 YPAX 64 YYOX 65 S3S2 66 S1W2 67 2322 68 Z1P2 69 SE32 70 SHE2

71 ZE42 72 ZH92 73 W3R2 74 W1F2 75 X3J2 76 X1K2 77 WEM2 78 WHC2 79 XEA2 80 XHO2

Passwords
I removed the passwords from the main section. I just don't think including a list of official passwords is encyclopedic.

Anyway the passwords there are also for the gameboy version too also the nes game only officially has 60 levels ( though a few extra stages will play) but the passwords for levels after 60 take you to glitch screens

Bugs Bunny Crazy Castles 3 and 4 and Woody Woodpecker Crazy Castle 5
The game actually had 3 more sequels, the last one Crazy Castle 5 had Woody Woodpecker as the protagonist (Kemco lost the WB license I guess) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.157.18.148 (talk) 20:26, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

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Talk:Pride & Glory (album)

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The guy who wrote this page doesn't seem to know english. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.137.11.145 (talk • contribs) 08:57, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

This is in some need of major cleaning up. I might get to it if I have the time. At least it doesn't direct you to Zakk Wylde anymore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Klander Brigade (talk • contribs) 02:31, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

Is Zakk wylde racist naming the band Lynyrd Skynhead — Preceding unsigned comment added by Downnola (talk • contribs) 02:45, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

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Ivory and Sime

Ivory and Sime was an investment management company established in the late 19th century.

History
The company was founded by two accountants, James Ivory and Thomas Watson Sime, in 1895. It took over the management of British Assets Trust when it was established in 1898. Other major investment trusts established by the company included Personal Assets Trust which was formed in 1983.

The company struggled to maintain its clients in the 1990s's and, in particular, lost the contract to manage the Merchant Navy Pension Fund in 1994 and the contract to manage the BAA Pension Fund in 1997. After senior staff started leaving, it was announced, in November 1997, that the business would be merged with the asset management arm of Friends Provident, the mutual life assurer, in a deal worth £132 million, thereby creating Friends Ivory & Sime. Following the transaction, Friends Provident owned 67% of the combined entity.

In 2002, Friends Ivory & Sime merged with Royal & Sun Alliance Investments and was rebranded as Isis Asset Management and, in 2004, the expanded business merged with F&C Asset Management and adopted the F&C brand.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Akasaka Prince Hotel

 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 Keep. NSR (talk) 12:53, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

Akasaka Prince Hotel
Tagged for speedy deletion but not a candidate. Appears to be a large luxury hotel. Plenty of google hits. I don't think that hotels are inherently notable, but due to its size and usage as accomodation for politicians, it might be argued that this hotel is. No vote from me. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:58, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Clearly needs work but sufficiently notable, just. Agentsoo 10:22, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Verifiable and kinda notable.  Yi Gu recently died there.  -- Visviva 12:48, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, seems like Yi Gu was born there too, or at least on the site. Kappa 13:07, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, despite the fact that I can't afford to stay there. --Calton | Talk 13:24, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, notable enough for me.-Poli (talk • contribs) 14:33, 2005 July 26 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Notable hotel. Capitalistroadster 18:46, 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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Assuming the takeover went through. Rich Farmbrough 08:59, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

See Also and External Links
The format is not meant to be place holders, only for actual content and sources.--LedgerTom (talk) 19:44, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

Acquired and Rebranded
I found the following articles; and, that says they were acquired and rebranded and are now apart of Friends Provident. Do we merge?--LedgerTom (talk) 19:42, 10 September 2015 (UTC)

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Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan

 Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan (born Abdülhak Hâmid; January 2, 1852 – April 12, 1937) was an early 20th-century Ottoman playwright and poet. He was one of the leading lights of the Turkish Romantic period. He is known in Turkish literature as "Şair-i Azam" (The Grand Poet) and "Dahi-i Azam" (The Grand Genius).

Early years
Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan was born Abdülhak Hâmid on January 2, 1852, in Bebek, Constantinople. He is the grandson of Abdulhak Molla, a poet and physician at the court of Sultan Abdul Hamid II. His father was Hayrullah Efendi, a historian and ambassador. His mother, Münteha Hanım, was Circassian. Abdulhak Hâmid took private lessons from Yanyalı Tahsin Hoca and Edremitli Bahaddin Hoca while attending secondary school. In August 1863 he went to Paris, France with his brother Nasuhi, the workplace of his father. He continued his education there for one and a half years. After he returned to Istanbul, he enrolled in a French education school and worked in a translation office to advance his French. One year later, he followed his father, who was appointed to the Ottoman Embassy in Tehran, Iran. He studied the Persian language for more than one year as well as Arabic and Persian poetry. Following his father's death in 1867, he returned to Istanbul and entered civil service.

Professional life
After he came in contact with prominent literary personalities, Abdulhak Hâmid wrote his first prose Macera-yı Aşk (Love Affair) depicting his memoirs in Tehran. In 1871, he married Fatma.

Entered the service of foreign affairs, he was appointed in 1876 to the Ottoman Embassy in Paris, where he had the opportunity to learn the French literature.

In 1878, his first brush with controversy occurred on the publishing of his play Nesteren in Paris. It depicted a rebellion against a tyrannical ruler, and the actual ruler of Turkey at that time, Sultan Abdul Hamid II was so upset by it that he had the playwright fired from his government job.

He was appointed in 1881 to Poti, Georgia, in 1882 to Volos, Greece and in 1883 to Bombay, India. Due to illness of his wife, the family left India in 1885. On their way to Istanbul, his wife Fatma died in Beirut, then in the Ottoman Empire. She was buried there that inspired him to write his poem Makber (The Grave), which later became very popular.

Because of his work "Zeynep", he was suspended of service at the Embassy in London and forced to return home. Only after his promise not to write anymore, he was allowed to return his post in London. He made his second marriage with a British woman Nelly. After two service years in The Hague in the Netherlands, he was appointed back to London. Abdulhak Hâmid returned to Turkey in 1900 due to illness of his wife. In 1906, he was sent to the Embassy in Brussels, Belgium.

In 1908, he became a member of the Turkish Senate. He lost his wife Nelly in 1911, and made later his third marriage with the Belgian Lucienne.

Abdulhak Hâmid had to return to Turkey after his deposing by the cabinet during the Balkan Wars. He spent a short time in Vienna, Austria after World War I and returned home with the proclamation of the Turkish Republic in 1923. He continued on in politics and was elected into the Grand National Assembly as deputy of Istanbul in 1928, a post he kept until his death.

Abdulhak Hâmid Tarhan died on April 12, 1937, and was laid to rest in the Zincirlikuyu Cemetery in Istanbul, with a national funeral.

Works
He was influenced by Tanzimat and also Namık Kemal, and in general, French writing. The loss of his wife was a key point in his life as he wrote and dedicated many pieces involving her, such as Makber. He leaves behind a legacy of western influences on the evolving Turkish literature scene and was considered one of the greatest Turkish romantics.

Poetry

 * Sahra (The Desert, 1879)
 * Makber (The Grave, 1885)
 * Ölü (The Corpse, 1885)
 * Hacle (1886)
 * Bunlar Odur (These are Her, 1885)
 * Divaneliklerim Yahut Belde (My Madness or the Town, 1885)
 * Bir Sefirenin Hasbihali (Chat With an Ambassadress, 1886)
 * Bala'dan Bir Ses (A Voice from Bala, 1912)
 * Validem (My Mother, 1913)
 * İlham-ı Vatan (Inspiration of the Motherland, 1916)
 * Tayflar Geçidi (The Parade of Spectrums, 1917)
 * Ruhlar (The Spirits, 1922)
 * Garam (My Passion, 1923).

Plays

 * Macera-yı Aşk (Love Affair, prose, 1873; in verse, 1910)
 * Sabr-u Sebat (Perseverance in Patience, 1875, staged at İstanbul City Theatres in 1961)
 * İçli Kız (The Oversensitive Girl, 1875)
 * Duhter-i Hindu (The Girl of India, 1876)
 * Nazife (Nazife, 1876, together with Abdüllahü's-Sağir, 1917)
 * Nesteren (Dog Rose, 1878)
 * Tarık Yahut Endülüs'ün Fethi (Tarık Or The Conquest Of Spain, 1879, simplified by Sadi Irmak and Behçet Kemal Çağlar, staged at İstanbul City Theatres, 1962)
 * Tezer Yahut Abdurrahman-ı Salis (Tezer or Abdurrahman III., 1880)
 * Eşber (Eşber, 1880)
 * Zeynep (Zeynep, 1908)
 * İlhan (İlhan, 1913)
 * Liberte (Freedom, 1913)
 * Finten (Finten, 1887)
 * İbn-i Musa Yahut Zadülcemal (İbn-i Musa or Zadülcemal, 1917)
 * Sardanapal (Sardanapal, 1917)
 * Abdüllahi's Sağir (Little Abdullah, 1917)
 * Yadigar-ı Harb (The Souvenir of The War, 1917)
 * Hakan (1935)
 * Cünun-ı Aşk (Insanity Of Love, serial, not published, 1917)
 * Kanuni'nin Vicdan Azabı (Remorse of Suleyman The Magnificent, 1937, not published).

İnci Enginün translated his plays into modern Turkish, published in seven volumes (1998–2002).

Other works

 * Mektuplar (Letters, collected by Süleyman Nazif, two volumes, 1916)
 * Hatırat (Memories, serials in the newspapers İkdam and Vakit, 1924–25)
 * Yusuf Mardin wrote about the years Abdulhak Hamit spent in London in a novel and published it under the name of Abdulhak Hamit'in Londrası (Abdulhak Hamit's London)

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Ball badminton

Ball badminton is a sport native to India. It is a racket sport game, played with a yellow ball made of wool, on a court of fixed dimensions (12 by 24 metres) divided by a net. The game was played as early as 1856 by the royal family in Tanjore, the capital of Thanjavur district in Tamil Nadu, India. It enjoys the greatest popularity in India. Ball badminton is a fast-paced game; it demands skill, quick reflexes, good judgment, agility, and the ability to control the ball with one's wrist.

Games are usually played outdoors during the day. As a result, weather conditions wield a considerable influence, and ball badminton's rules allow the effects of weather conditions to be distributed more-or-less evenly between both teams. More recently, indoor versions of the game have been played under artificial lighting. All-India tournaments are conducted regularly using floodlights in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka. Ball Badminton sport is managed by "Ball Badminton Federation of India". Ball badminton is now an officially recognised game in India. Total 34 units are affiliated to "Ball badminton federation of India " in which 26 are States units including Bihar, jharkhand, Nagaland etc. 5 Public sector units and 3 provisional affiliated units.

History
Ball badminton originated in Tanjore, in Tamil Nadu. It became popular, commanding the interest of the Maharaja of Tanjore. The game has attracted many players from southern India.

Previously, ball badminton was an attractive game for rural boys since it required a minimum of equipment. The game drew a large number of students from South India, resulting in the formation of the Ball Badminton Federation of India in 1954. The BBF was among the first three sports federations—along with the Indian Athletic Federation and the Indian Hockey Federation—to form the Indian Olympic Association in 1961. Ball badminton eventually spread to Andhra Pradesh, and the first national championship was conducted at Hyderabad in 1956. It was later introduced at the junior and sub-junior levels.

Types of incumbent The ball is yellow wool, from 27 to 30 grams in weight and from 5 to 5.5 cm in diameter. A standard ball-badminton racket usually weighs from 165 to 185 grams and is 63 to 70 cm in length. The strung oval area of the racket should be 20 to 22 across and 24 to 27 cm in length. The net is made of fine cord to make a 2 cm square mesh along its length and is edged with red tape at the top. The entire net is red, white and blue, 100 cm wide and 13.5 metres in length. It is tied to a centre pole of 183 cm and two poles of 185 cm at the sides of the court to maintain the 183 cm height of the net at the centre. Two posts, each 180 cm high, are fixed one metre outside the court on either side at the end of the line to which the net is tied, strong enough to keep the net well stretched. A hook is fixed at 1.5 metres height to each pole to easily tighten the net whenever necessary. The size of the court for "fives" teams is 12 metres wide and 24 metres long. It is divided across the middle by a net line over which the net is hung, the ends of which are attached to the tops of the two posts. The serving crease lines are drawn one metre away from each side of the net line and parallel to it. The centre line is drawn halfway between the serving crease lines and parallel to the sidelines; this divides the space on each side of the crease line into two-halves, known as the right and left courts. The boundary lines are marked with white tape, 10 mm thick. The centre and crease lines are to be marked so as to be visible, about 10 mm wide

Rules
Ball badminton is a team sport. The ball is served (hit from the right or left court of one side to the diagonally opposite court of the other side). The server begins on the right court and moves to the left court each time a point is scored. The ball may be returned by any opposing player. After the first 9th, 18th, and 27th point the teams change positions, with the server continuing to alternate between the right and left courts. The ball is served underhand below the waist, then it must go over the net and beyond the serving crease line on the other side. An overhand service—if the ball is above the server's waist when it is struck—is a fault. The ball must be returned before it touches the ground, and no player may strike the ball twice in succession. The server must not serve until the other side is ready; ordinarily, the players of the receiving side are expected to be ready. During the game the player must not leave the court except in the act of playing, if he has an accident, or with the referee's permission for activities such as changing a racket, tying a shoelace, or tightening a belt. The referee normally grants a player's request for such activities, unless the ball is in play; however, he has the final right to refuse if he deems such activities delaying tactics. In "fives" tournaments, a team consists of ten formally designated players, any five of whom play while the other five remain on the sidelines with the team manager, ready to play. Doubles tournaments use teams of three players. During a match of two or three games, three player substitutions are allowed. Substitutions may be made at any time during the game. The ball may not be changed during a three-game match set, unless it is damaged.

Faults
If a fault is made by the serving team, the serving player shall be replaced by a teammate. If all five players on a team commit a serving fault, the serve goes to the receiving team. If a fault is made by the receiving team, the serving team is awarded a point and continues to serve. It is a fault if:
 * The server is not stationary (both feet on the ground) while serving
 * The server misses his stroke
 * The ball is served overhand (hits the racket above the server's waist)
 * Service is delivered from the wrong court (right instead of left, or vice versa)
 * The ball touches the ground before it is returned
 * The ball served drops into the wrong court or on a line (center, serving crease, side or boundary)
 * A player serves out of turn (before the previous server is out)
 * Any part of the server's body or racket crosses any of the lines when serving (even a foot on line is out of court)
 * A "double touch" is made (a player, while making a stroke, hits the ball more than once)
 * A "tip" is made (the ball is touched by two rackets of the same team in succession)
 * A "clash" is made (the rackets of two or more players clash in playing the ball before, during, or after striking the ball)
 * A player—or his racket—crosses the net line during the course of play (i.e. during a rally)
 * The ball is sent out of bounds (a player is free to hit a ball going out of bounds back in, but if he misses it he commits a fault)
 * The ball touches a player or his uniform, whether inside or outside the court
 * A player's racket, in the act of striking, crosses or touches the net
 * The ball fails to clear the net either in service or return
 * The ball touches the top of the net
 * The served ball falls on any line (a ball in rally, however, is faulted only if it fails on the boundary line; it can fall on the center or crease lines)
 * The ball is bounced on the ground after the server is warned by the umpire to play
 * Delay in serving is caused by passing the ball from one player to another after the umpire has requested play to begin

Match play
A match consists of three games. The team that wins two out of three games is the match winner. The team first scoring the 34th point wins a game. Teams start each game from the side opposite the one they played the previous game. There is a break of two minutes between the end of the first game and the start of the second game, and five minutes between the second and the third games. Choice of side and the right of first service is decided by a coin toss at the beginning of a match. If the team winning the toss chooses to serve, the other team has the choice of side and vice versa. At the beginning of a match the referee allows two trials, one from each side. After the trials are over, the umpire shall call "play" and regular play begins. A ball is in play from the time a player attempts to serve until it touches the ground or until a "fault" or "let" (a re-serve) is called by the umpire.

The officiating team consists of one umpire, two or more line referees and a scorer. When the umpire calls "play", if a team refuses to play it forfeits the match. The umpire is the sole judge on the fairness of a play, weather and lighting conditions. His decisions are final. It is the umpire's responsibility to call "fault" or "let", with (or without) an appeal from the players. If an umpire erroneously calls "fault" and immediately corrects himself and calls "play" but the striker fails to return the ball, a "let" is allowed. Umpires serve for an entire match, unless a change is authorized by the tournament committee. Each of the two (or more) line referees is responsible for one boundary line and one half of the side line opposite the umpire, in addition to any other duties assigned by the umpire. Referees signal the umpire in a code prescribed by the BBF. The scorer records the points scored and the number of hands on the score sheet. A ball may be replaced by an umpire if it is lost or damaged. The umpire can overrule a line referee's decision, if he feels that an error has been committed.

The umpire is also responsible for the net. He announces the score (for the benefit of the scorer) when a point is scored or a server is out. In announcing the score he calls the number of the serving hand, followed by the score of the serving team and the score of the other team. If a match is suspended by the umpire for any reason (e.g. weather and light), it is resumed from the point at which it was stopped. In case of a tie between two or more teams in any tournament, a match is not replayed. If the tie is unbroken, teams are ranked based on game and point scores. In a league tournament, if two (or more) teams have identical won/lost records their game scores are used to break the tie.

Game Scoring

The number of games won and lost by each team in each league match is recorded. Keeping in mind that each match is played as a best of three games, a team winning a match after three games has won two games and lost one. If a team wins a match in two straight games, its official won/lost record is 3–0. The losing team in each case has a record of 1–2 and 0–3, respectively. The difference between the number of games won and lost is a team's game score. The team with the highest game score is the winner in the event of a tie; if two or more teams have the same game score, their point scores will also break the tie.

Point Score

Points scored in each game by each team in all league matches are recorded. A team winning a match in two straight games, after recording the points scored for and against in the two games played also receives 35 points in favour and zero points against for the third (unplayed) game. Correspondingly, zero points in favour and 35 points against are recorded for the losing team. The difference between total points in favour and against in all the matches is a team's point score. The team scoring the most net points (for minus against) is the winner.

Discipline
The umpire can warn a player if the player behaves on-court in a manner bringing discredit to the referee, other players or the officials, or otherwise lowering the image of the game. A second warning triggers a yellow card. A third warning triggers a red card and ejection from the game; following a red card, the player's team continues with four players. A team manager substitute for a player shown a yellow card, if a sufficient number of substitutions remain.

Umpire duties

 * Since the umpire is the most important official, he should be well-versed in the rules of ball badminton
 * Before the play begins, he makes necessary entries on the score sheet and hands it to the scorer for use and obtaining signatures of each team captain when the match ends
 * Check net height and other ground arrangements
 * Instructs line referees and scorer
 * Instructs both the terms on discipline, major rules and recent rule changes
 * Carefully consider his decisions, since his judgments are final; a player may only appeal based on a rule
 * A line referee's decision is final in all judgment calls on his own line; the umpire does not ordinarily overrule him. If a line referee's vision is blocked, the umpire may make the call if he can; otherwise a 'let' should be given
 * If a decision is impossible, the umpire gives a 'let'. He should not consult the players or spectators
 * The umpire is responsible for all lines not covered by line referees
 * When the umpire is uncertain whether there has been an infringement of a rule, 'fault' should not be called. A 'let' should be given
 * The umpire should remember the game is for players, and keeps play in progress without unnecessary interruption
 * In summation, the umpire should control the game firmly

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Conquering of the World

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The result of the debate was delete. – ABCD✉ 23:33, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Conquering of the World
Tagged for speedy deletion, but not a candidate. Some sort of book. Unsure of notability. No vote. Sjakkalle (Check!)  09:02, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I didn't check to see if the book was real. Delete. Sjakkalle (Check!)  07:42, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as pure fantasy unless a publisher and ISBN number are included. Hamster Sandwich 09:11, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; the author is 12 years of age, vanity? Lectonar 13:47, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete no entries for the author in amazon.com, even though some webhits exist.-Poli (talk • contribs) 14:31, 2005 July 26 (UTC)
 * Delete nn book, vanity. Robert A West 19:54, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete at the very least, not yet notable. Mmmbeer 21:06, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete no google hits on the title + authors last name. NN kiddie vanity. --  Etacar11   00:19, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn self promotion. JamesBurns 09:11, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vanity and hoax. -- Pc13 19:01, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

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Blackbird Leys

Blackbird Leys is a civil parish and ward in Oxford, England. According to the 2011 census, the population of the ward (whose boundaries may change occasionally so as to ensure minimal malapportionment) stood at 6,077. Unlike most parts of the City of Oxford, the area has a civil parish, which was created in 1990. In 2011 the population was recorded as 13,100.

Early history
There was a Bronze Age or Iron Age settlement on the site. Evidence has been found suggesting pits and roundhouses, with remains of pottery and a cylindrical loom weight of a kind previously known only from East Anglia. The area was originally called Blackford Leys; blackford after the dark-coloured ford which crossed the southern branch of Northfield Brook at the entrance to Blackbird Leys farm. The ford would be located where Windale Avenue crosses Northfield Brook. The farm was also called Blackford Leys farm. The Middle English leys meaning pasture or meadow.

Modern history
The Blackbird Leys Estate was built mainly in the 1950s and 1960s to meet the then pressing need for housing. It was part of a plan to re-house people from the dilapidated inner city. This included large-scale clearance of a site near to where the Oxford Ice Rink was built (The Oxpens). Many of the families that moved onto the estate originally came from this area. It was also a convenient site for factory workers at the Morris Motors Limited plant in nearby Cowley.

Politics
The area has traditionally been staunchly Labour. The Independent Working Class Association performed strongly in the mid-2000s, holding three of the four council seats on Oxford City Council between 2006 and 2008. Andrew Smith, the local MP from 1987 to 2017, lives on the estate. His late wife, Valerie Smith, was also a city councillor and county councillor for the area and former Lord Mayor of Oxford.

In stark contrast to Oxford as a whole, which had a Remain result of 71% in the 2016 UK referendum on EU membership, Blackbird Leys and neighbouring estates voted narrowly to leave the European Union.

1991 street disturbances
Around 1991, Blackbird Leys suffered from joy riding. Young men from the estate would steal cars and 'display' them (with a variety of high-speed stunts) to an audience gathered outside the estate shops (known locally as the 'Top Shops'). Following a crackdown by police on joyriding in September 1991, some 150 youths stoned police officers. Two women suffered stab wounds and two men suffered other injuries during the riots. Local MP, Andrew Smith, stated in 1991 that the extensive national media coverage of confrontations with the police in August and September left the wider public with a distorted picture of the problem. Some say journalists visiting helped encourage some of the action for filming.

Crime levels have decreased consistently since 2004, though both recorded crime and rates found in the British Crime Survey have fallen across England and Wales.

Sports and leisure
The Kassam Stadium is the home of Oxford United Football Club and is just within the greater boundary of Blackbird Leys in an area known as Minchery Farm. Initial construction begun in 1996 and the first football match took place on 4 August 2001.

Musical groups
In 2006, residents from the estate took part in The Singing Estate, a Channel Five reality TV show following their progress from amateur singers to classical choir. The Blackbird Leys Choir emerged from the original choir and continues today.

Education
Schools on the estate include Pegasus First School, Windale Community Primary School and Northfield School. City of Oxford College has a campus situated on Cuddesdon Way which provides further education, higher education, modern apprenticeships and community evening classes.

Transport
Blackbird Leys has no mainline railway station but is served by Oxford Bus Company and Stagecoach in Oxfordshire which provides bus services between Blackbird Leys, central Oxford and Oxford railway station. The freight-only railway between Kennington Junction and the BMW Mini factory via Iffley and Littlemore forms the northwestern boundary of Blackbird Leys. It is part of the former Wycombe Railway that British Railways closed to passenger traffic in 1963.

Religious sites
Blackbird Leys has two places of worship, The Church of the Holy Family which was dedicated on 10 April 1965 and Sacred Heart Catholic Church.

Notable residents

 * Hugh Laurie, actor, writer, musician and comedian who was born and grew up in Blackbird Leys.

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Uthark theory

The Uthark theory about the runes holds that the rune row is a cipher, and that one can understand its meaning by placing the first rune, "F", last, resulting in an ”Uthark” instead of the traditional "Futhark" order. It originated in the 1930s with the work of philologist Sigurd Agrell (1881–1937), a professor at Lund University, Sweden. His suggestion has no support in historical sources and was never accepted in mainstream runic studies. But it has found proponents in occult, esoteric circles and in popular culture.

Agrell articulated the bulk of his theory in his 1932 book Die spätantike Alphabet-Mystik und die Runenreihe [The Alphabet-mysticism of late antiquity and the sequence of the runes]. Occultist Kenneth Meadows promoted it in his 1995 book Rune Power. Thomas Karlsson, founder of the magical order Dragon Rouge, then published the first monograph dedicated to the subject after Agrell's work of 1932: Uthark: Nightside of the Runes in 2002.

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Elin Kristiansen

Elin Kristiansen (born 9 July 1968) is a former biathlete from Norway. She won two individual World Championships medals, one in 1988 when she won silver at the 10 km event and a bronze in 1990 from the sprint event. Her best Winter Olympic Games placing came in the 1994 Winter Olympics, when she finished fourth in the relay event, and her best individual placing was ninth, from the individual at the Olympic games 1992 in Albertville.

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Tarki

Tarki (Таргъу, Tarğu; Тарки́) formerly also spelled Tarkou and also known as Tarku, is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) under the administrative jurisdiction of Sovetsky City District of the City of Makhachkala in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia, located on the Tarki-tau (Tarğu-taw) mountain. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 15,356.

History
Tarki had been the capital of Kumyk historical states before they were abolished by Russia.

According to some scholars, Tarki sits on the site of Samandar, the capital of Khazaria until the early 8th century. In 1396, Timur passed through Tarki during the Tokhtamysh–Timur war. In the Middle Ages the Shamkhalate state is formed, lately becoming Shamkhalate of Tarki. Tarki had been the capital of the Kumyk state at least from the 16th century. This state was not abolished until 1867. Tarki is mentioned by Armenian chronicles of the 7-8th century, by Giovanni Carpini in the Catalan Atlas of 1375, and by Timurid historians.

The shamkhals submitted to Russian authority more than once, first in the early 17th century. In 1668, the town was sacked by Cossacks under Stepan Razin.

The shamkhals were again obliged to submit to Russian suzerainty during Peter the Great's 1722 Persian Expedition and during Catherine the Great's 1796 Persian Expedition.

Tarki finally came under Russian control under the terms of the Treaty of Gulistan in 1813. Eight years later, the Russians built Burnaya Fortress there, which was succeeded by Fort-Petrovsk (on the grounds of original Kumyk town called Andzhi-kala (or Anji), now known as Makhachkala.

Deportation
On 12 April 1944, the Kumyks of Tarki and adjacent villages of Kyakhulay and Alborukent were rounded up and deported from their homes on the orders of the Dagestan communist authorities. They were forcibly relocated to land belonging to neighboring Chechen, Karachay, Balkar and Crimean Tatar populations, who had themselves also been forcibly deported to Central Asia two months prior, on Stalin's orders. The rationale given for the deportation of the Kumyks was that the authorities hoped to use the area to support the agricultural needs of the highland peoples who had resettled in Tarki. As a result of this exodus, the local Kumyk population lost for years their traditional capital of Tarki, which led to the destruction of some of their cultural inheritance.

The deportation of the Kumyks is still not acknowledged by the Russian government, and has become a subject of greater contention in recent years. In an attempt to settle an unrelated land dispute between local Chechen and Lak communities, the Dagestan government announced in 2017 that it had built 3,000 houses for the Laks, on land which formerly belonged to Kumyks in Tarki. This led to a protest camp being established by the Kumyk community, in an attempt to finally secure restitution for their deportation in 1944, and prevent this land from being given to a different community without their consent.

Administrative and municipal status
Urban-type settlement status was granted to Tarki in 1958.

Within the framework of administrative divisions, the urban-type settlement of Tarki is in jurisdiction of Sovetsky City District of the City of Makhachkala. Within the framework of municipal divisions, Tarki is a part of Makhachkala Urban Okrug.

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Bank of Hawaii

The Bank of Hawaii Corporation (Panakō o Hawaii; abbreviated BOH) is an American regional commercial bank headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii. It is Hawaii's second oldest bank and its largest locally owned bank in that the majority of the voting stockholders reside within the state. Bank of Hawaii has the most accounts, customers, branches, and ATMs of any financial institution in the state (although First Hawaiian Bank holds a greater number of dollars in deposits). The bank consists of four business segments: retail banking, commercial banking, investment services, and treasury. The bank is currently headed by chairman, president and chief executive officer, Peter S. Ho.

Beginnings
In 1893, Charles Montague Cooke (1849–1909) with his brother-in-law Joseph Ballard Atherton and business partner Peter Cushman Jones founded Bank of Hawaii. In 1897, it was chartered in the Republic of Hawaii by Interior Minister James A. King. A decade after its founding, in 1903, the bank opened its first branch in Kauai. In 1922, the bank acquired First Bank of Hilo, which had four branches. In 1930, it amalgamated Bank of Maui.

Bank of Maui
Charles Dexter Lufkin organized First National Bank of Wailuku in 1901. Five years later, he had organized Lahaina National Bank. Then he organized the First National Bank of Paia in 1913. Lastly, in 1917, First National Bank of Paia merged with Lahaina National Bank and First National Bank of Wailuku to form Bank of Maui.

Activities in Hawaii since 1971
In 1971, BOH formed a bank holding company called Hawaii Bancorporation.

In 1979, Hawaii Bancorporation changed its name to Bancorp Hawaii. In 1985, BOH as Bancorp Hawaii acquired the Hawaiian Trust Company for $19 million.

In 1990, BOH as Bancorp Hawaii acquired FirstFed America Inc. with its First Federal Savings and Loan Association in Hawaii and First Savings of Guam subsidiaries for $141 million in cash. First Federal Savings was maintained as a separate entity until 1998 when it was merged into the Bank of Hawaii.

Bancorp Hawaii changed its name to Pacific Century Financial Corporation (PCFC) in 1997.

Large drop in the firm's stock in early 2000 caused by bad loans and quick expansion outside of the firm's core business of Hawaii, Guam, and American Samoa led to a change in management.

BOH as Pacific Century Financial Corporation sold off its credit card division to American Express for an undisclosed amount in 2001.

In 2002, Pacific Century Financial Corporation was renamed Bank of Hawaii Corporation.

Activities on the U.S. Mainland
In its first expansion onto the continental United States, BOH as Bancorp Hawaii acquired the Phoenix, Arizona-based First National Bancorp of Arizona with its five-office First National Bank of Arizona subsidiary for an undisclosed amount in 1987. Ten years later, through its First National Bank of Arizona subsidiary, BOH acquired all four Arizona branch offices from Home Savings of America for an undisclosed amount in 1997 and merged those offices into First National while at nearly the same time changed the name of First National to Pacific Century Bank NA.

The following year, BOH as Pacific Century Financial Corporation acquired the Encino, California-based CU Bancorp with its California United Bank subsidiary for $183 million in stock and cash. Just shortly after the acquisition was finalized in 1998, California United and its 22 offices in Southern California was merged into Phoenix-based Pacific Century Bank and the headquarters for the newly combined Pacific Century Bank was moved to Encino.

After 14 years on the Mainland, BOH decided to abandon their activities on the Mainland in 2001 by selling all 9 Arizona branch offices of the Pacific Century Bank to Zions Bancorporation for an undisclosed amount and all 20 California branch offices of the Pacific Century Bank to U.S. Bancorp for an undisclosed amount. Zion merged their purchase into their National Bank of Arizona subsidiary.

International activities
It was not until 1959 that BOH made another novel move when it opened its first Pacific Islands branch on Kwajalein. Two years later, it opened a branch in both Palau and Guam. Ten years later, BOH continued its international expansion by absorbing Bank of American Samoa, which the Navy had established in 1914. That same year, it created Banque de Tahiti as a joint venture between itself and Crédit Lyonnais. The next year, BOH established a branch in Yap. Branches in Ponape and Kosrae followed in the subsequent years.

It also continued its expansion outside Hawaii with the establishment of a branch in Saipan. Three years later, BOH and Crédit Lyonnais established another joint-venture, Banque de Nouvelle Calédonie in Nouméa.

In 1980, BOH opened a branch in Tokyo.

BOH acquired Wells Fargo Bank's Seoul, Korea, and Singapore operations in 1991. Two years later, it acquired Banque Indosuez's operations in Vanuatu, which became Banque d’Hawaii (Vanuatu). That same year, BOH also opened its first branch in Suva, Fiji in 1993. Branches in Nadi and Lautoka followed. In 1994, BOH acquired Commonwealth Bank of Australia's 51% ownership in the National Bank of Solomon Islands. BOH also acquired Crédit Lyonnais' holdings in Banque de Nouvelle Calédonie, giving BOH 91 percent ownership.

Banque de Nouvelle Calédonie changed its name to Bank of Hawaii—Nouvelle Calédonie. BOH also purchased Banque Indosuez Nuigini in Papua New Guinea from Banque Indosuez for $5.6 million and renamed it Bank of Hawaii (PNG) Ltd. In addition to its main office in Port Moresby, Bank of Hawaii (PNG) also had an office in Lae, PNG's second port city on the Northeast Coast. Indosuez Nuigini was established in 1983 with 49 percent Indosuez participation, 41.5 percent Bank of Papua New Guinea, and the remainder public.

International acquisitions
In 1998, BOH bought 5.4mn convertible notes of Bank of Queensland for $22 million as part of a strategic alliance giving rise to a true reflecting of the convertible note value into 49% ownership at that time. It also acquired 100 percent of Banque Paribas Pacifique (est. 1972; 3 branches) and 70 percent of Banque Paribas Polynésie (est. 1984; 1 branch). BOH integrated the operations with Bank of Hawaii-Nouvelle Calédonie and Banque de Tahiti, respectively. In 1999, BOH bought 5.8mn shares (approx. 10 percent) in Bank of Queensland.

Withdraw from international financial services markets
In 2001, BOH sold its 6.2mn shares and 5.4mn convertible notes in Bank of Queensland for $20 million and $16 million respectively. The decision reflected PCFC's new strategic plan, which mandated a focus on the bank's core markets in Hawaii, American Samoa, and Guam. BOH sold its shareholding in the Bank of Tonga and Pacific Commercial Bank of Samoa to Westpac. BOH and Westpac both had 30 percent interests in Bank of Tonga and 42 percent interests in Pacific Commercial Bank. BOH sold its operations in Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, and Fiji to ANZ for AU$100 million. BOH sold its approximately 95 percent share interest in its French Polynesia and New Caledonia operations to France-based Caisse Nationale des Caisses d'Epargne (CNCE). Its operations in French Polynesia included 17 branches of its subsidiary, Banque de Tahiti, and about 265 employees. Its operations in New Caledonia included eight branches of subsidiary Bank of Hawaii-Nouvelle Caledonie and about 190 employees. Lastly, BOH closed its offices in Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei.

In 2002, BOH was unable to find a buyer for its bank properties in the Central Pacific when it was trying to withdraw from those markets. As a result, BOH closed its Majuro branch in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) and its three branches in Pohnpei, Yap, and Kosrae in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). BOH turned over its 51 percent interest in National Bank of Solomon Islands to the government of the Solomon Islands.

Governance
Poor performance by the bank in early 2000, contributed to chairman and CEO Lawrence M. Johnson's resignation in 2000 and bank president Richard Dahl being passed over as Johnson's replacement. Dahl left the company in 2002.

In November 2000, Michael E. O'Neill was hired from outside the company to serve as chairman and CEO to correct mistakes made by the previous management. O'Neill did not take a salary or any bonuses during his three years at the helm, but in 2004 he controlled about 2.73 million — about 5 percent — of the bank's total shares directly or under option. O'Neill reversed the company's decline by selling off properties outside the company's core business area of Hawaii, Guam, and American Samoa. O'Neill stepped down as chairman and CEO in 2004.

In December 2003, Allan R. Landon was promoted from chief financial officer to president and later to chairman and CEO upon O'Neill leaving in September 2004. Under Landon's leadership, the Bank of Hawaii "survived the financial crisis without federal assistance and prospered in its aftermath".

In 2008, Landon handed his position of president to Peter S. Ho while Landon retained his chairman and CEO posts. Two years later Ho was given the additional titles of chairman and chief executive officer in addition to president upon the retirement of Allan R. Landon in 2010.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shay Sweet

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Shay Sweet
Necromancing began this VfD on 26 July 2005. Unfortunately, the procedure wasn't followed precisely, thus I am rectifying this. -- 65.10.74.125 02:11, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete, as non-notable --Necromancing 02:10, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, as notable with 263 (known) titles to her credit; again, Allie Sin only has under 20 to her present credit. As for the lack of a biography, there's just not much information is available for one -- doesn't mean that it should be deleted.  For notability, Google has 400,000 results under "Shay Sweet" (note the quotes, which make for more precise searching); "Allie Sin" has just under 20,000 -- which are mainly dupes, AFAICT. -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. 10:55, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: I've just noticed this page is not on the VfD's for 26 June 2005. I'll correct it when back from work, in the hopes that this nomination can receive the proper exposure.  Or, unless someone actually wants to follow the how to list pages for deletion guidelines, I wouldn't mind. :-) -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. 10:55, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep --Easyas12c 11:27, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep @ Necromanticing.Is your vfd-collection a special kind of humour ? MutterErde 01:31, 27 July 2005 (UTC)Special:Contributions/Necromancing
 * PS: And now I see you are replacing good old pics ( like in Kate Bush history, Kristin Kreuk history or Petra Haden history. LOL) with so called "promo pics" without source. But I guess , not all will laugh.MutterErde 08:49, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Strong Keep. Definitely notable enough. Ashmodai 08:44, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Notable pr0n actress. JamesBurns 10:19, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - --Haham hanuka 14:10, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

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Neil Arnott

Dr Neil Arnott FRS LLD (15 May 1788 – March 1874) was a Scottish physician and inventor. He was the inventor of one of the first forms of the waterbed, the Arnott waterbed, and was awarded the Rumford Medal in 1852 for the construction of the smokeless fire grate, as well as other improvements to ventilation and heating.

Life
He was born in Arbroath, the son of Alexander Arnott and his wife, Ann MacLean of Borreray. He came from a line of master bakers.

Neil Arnott was a distinguished graduate of Marischal College, University of Aberdeen (AM, 1805; MD 1814) and subsequently studied in London under Sir Everard Home (1756–1832), through whom he obtained, when only eighteen, the appointment of full surgeon to an East Indiaman. After making two voyages to China acting as a surgeon in the service of the British East India Company (1807-9 and 1810–11), he settled in London where he practised from 1811–1854, and quickly acquired a high reputation. He gave lectures at the Philomathic Institution published as Elements of physics (1827). He was one of the founders of the University of London, 1836. Within a few years he was made physician to the French and Spanish embassies, and in 1837 he became physician extraordinary to the Queen. He was elected to the Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1838.

He was a strong advocate of scientific, as opposed to purely classical, education; and he manifested interest in natural philosophy by the gift of 2,000 pounds to each of the four universities of Scotland and to the University of London, to promote its study in the experimental and practical form. He died in London in 1874 but is buried with his mother in Dean Cemetery in Edinburgh. The simple obelisk lies in the north-west section of the original cemetery, west of the large Beattie obelisk.

Publications
He was the author of several works on physical science or its applications, the most important being his Elements of Physics (1827), which went through six editions in his lifetime. In 1838 he published a treatise on warming and ventilating, and in 1855, one on the smokeless fireplace.

 * Elements of Physics (1827)
 * Elements of Physics (Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea, 1856) (US edition, with additions by Isaac Hays)
 * On the Smokeless Fire-place, Chimney-valves, and Other Means, Old and New of obtaining Healthful warmth and ventilation (London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1855)
 * A Survey of Human Progress (London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1861)
 * On the Smokeless Fire-place, Chimney-valves, and Other Means, Old and New of obtaining Healthful warmth and ventilation (London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1855)
 * A Survey of Human Progress (London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1861)

View on health and causes of disease
Arnott was a strong advocate for a natural view of health and on the causes of various diseases. In his paper "On the Fevers Which Have Prevailed Edinburgh and Glasgow," Arnott noted "It gives remarkable simplicity to all inquiries respecting health, to know that among the things and influences around man on earth, in regard to which he can exercise control, there are only four which he needs to obtain, and two which he needs to avoid, that he may have uninterrupted health for as long as the human constitution is formed to last; in other words, that only by some want or misuse of the requisites, or by the direct agency of the noxious agencies can his health be impaired or his life be shortened. " Arnott believed that the four items that needed to be obtained in order to be healthy were fit air, temperature, aliment, and exercise of the mind and of the body, and that if an individual had access to all four of these items, while avoiding violence and poisons (items that Arnott believed caused disease and therefore were to be avoided), that the individual would have no issues when it came to health throughout their life and would be able to live for as long as the body permits one to live, and that by surrounding oneself with the four essential items, the human bodily makeup would slowly become modified by "kindred circumstances not deemed diseases but called temperaments and varieties, compatible with health and long life." Arnott also referenced the findings of the report made to the Poor Law Commissioners in his paper Sanitary Inquiry-Scotland, and regarded the contents of this report as facts, making note of the claim that malaria was caused by the exhalation released during putrefaction or decomposition of animal and vegetable substances.

Inventions
From his earliest youth, Arnott had an intense love of natural philosophy, and to this added an inventiveness which served him in good stead in his profession. This inventiveness helped him to design the Arnott waterbed in the 19th century that was devised to prevent bedsores in invalids. The bed was composed of a bath of water with a covering of rubber-impregnated canvas, on which lighter bedding was placed. However, Arnott didn't patent his design, and without a patent, anyone was able to construct a bed in this design. The design was later developed into a water-filled chair intended to prevent seasickness. Other inventions include the Arnott ventilator and the Arnott stove.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Stacy Burke

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Stacy Burke
I am the author of this article. I am writing this nomination on behalf of User:Necromancing, who placed a VfD notice on the article. Keep, very notable bondage model. — J I P | Talk 09:09, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, as non-notable --Necromancing 02:10, July 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete not notable. reads like a resume. Hamster Sandwich 09:14, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree it reads like a resume. My original, very short article was probably expanded by a devoted fanboy. Clean up. Still notable in the BDSM community, even if not notable in mainstream.   — J I P | Talk 09:25, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, article fails to establish notability, but google shows approx. 69.700 hit for "Stacy Burke", most of which mention this model. I advise the editor to expand to express her notability.-Poli (talk • contribs) 14:26, 2005 July 26 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable, and the article is truly awful. As is often noted, google hits are not a good estimator when it comes to porn. Quale 22:29, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I've trimmed the article a bit to make it read less like a resume or a fan page. Now the article is not truly awful, only awful. =)   — J I P | Talk 04:48, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, non-notable porn stars get about 500 google hits. Kappa 23:12, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, for non-notability. Nandesuka 01:02, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and Clean up. Ashmodai 08:43, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Bondage model with some notability. JamesBurns 09:12, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notability and interest is established by number of Google hits.  Hall Monitor 17:24, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep --Haham hanuka 13:58, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

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Frans Hals Museum - Hal

Frans Hals Museum - Hal (until March 29, 2018: De Hallen Haarlem) is one of the two locations of the Frans Hals Museum, located on the Grote Markt, Haarlem, Netherlands, where modern and contemporary art is on display in alternating presentations. The emphasis is on contemporary photograph and video presentations, with the focus on Man and society.

The museum consists of three different buildings, the Vleeshal (Flesher's hall) on the east side and the Verweyhal (named for Kees Verwey) on the west side are two large "halls" sandwiching the small entrance building. All three buildings are National Heritage sites today.

De Vleeshal building
The Vleeshal was built in the years 1602 to 1605 and was originally a ‘meat hall’ where butchers sold their goods. The heads of bulls and rams on the façades are reminders of the original function of the building. It is an example of Dutch Renaissance architecture, with Renaissance ornaments being applied on a basic Gothic structure (floor plan and outer walls). The Renaissance forms include pilasters, rustication, Tuscan (interior) pillars, scrollwork (above the cellar entrances) and obelisks. Sample prints by Hans Vredeman de Vries from Antwerp provided a source of inspiration for this. De Vleeshal was built by Lieven de Key, the town architect, commissioned by the city government, which judging by the finished building had a substantial treasury at the time. It remained a meat hall all the way into the 19th century.

The building later fulfilled a totally different function; from 1840 to 1885 it served as a storehouse for a garrison quartered in Haarlem. Later the building served as a Public Records Office, and after that as a depot for the municipal library. During the Second World War the building was occupied by the Distribution Service.

After World War II, the Mayor and Aldermen decided that the building should be repurposed as an exhibition hall, with the first exhibitions held in 1950. De Hallen Haarlem organizes alternating exhibitions of contemporary art on two floors, showcasing both contemporary and modern art throughout the summer. The Archeological Museum is located in the cellar of the building.

Entrance building
The little ‘fish house’ in between the two main halls was once the home of the servant of the fish market across the square and serves as the entrance for Frans Hals Museum - Hal today.

Verweyhal
The Verweyhal is a former society meeting hall next to the main entrance on the corner of the Grote Markt and the Grote Houtstraat, where the former main entrance to it is located. The Verweyhal was built in the 19th century as a home for the Haarlem gentlemen's society Trou moet Blycken.

The building is in the Eclectic style and also contains some art deco features in the interior though it has been renovated beyond recognition since 1880. It became a modern art exhibition hall in 1992 when the Kees Verwey Foundation renovated it and gave the artist's oeuvre to the Frans Hals Museum.

title: Frans Hals Museum - Hal