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Balestier Khalsa FC

Balestier Khalsa Football Club is a Singaporean professional football club based in Toa Payoh, Singapore, that competes in the Singapore Premier League. Founded in 1898, the club is considered as the oldest football club in the country. The club have won the Singapore Cup, Singapore League Cup and the Singapore FA Cup once.

Balestier Khalsa is the fourth oldest club in the Asia continent and is the oldest club in the Southeast Asia region.

Founding and early years (1898–1997)
Tracing their origins all the way back to 1898, the club was formed as Fathul Karib on 10 October 1898 and based in Farrer Park. One of the highlights over the following half century, before the side was renamed Balestier United Recreation Club in the 1975 as it was the outcome of re-organising the local football clubs structure by the Football Association of Singapore. During the time, Balestier United Recreation Club was providing nine players to the Singapore national team which competed in the 1958 Asian Games in Japan, losing 2–1 to both continental heavyweights South Korea and Israel.

When Balestier United Recreation Club first joined the inaugural National Football League, the team captured the Singapore Cup in 1958 and 1992. The club played in the Singapore Premier League (the forerunner to the S.League) from 1988 to 1995. The club became the first club in Singapore to bring in foreign players when they signed two Yugoslavian players, Josko Spanjic and Boris Lucic, for the 1989 season. Balestier United are currently still active in local football, competing in the National Football League Division 1. Former Balestier Khalsa players such, Ruhaizad Ismail, Daniel Ong and Syafiq Zainal all played for the team as well.

S.League era as Balestier Central (1996–2002)
With the introduction of the S.League in 1996 and entities reintroduced as a professional football teams, Balestier United Recreational Club became a founder member of the S.League and competed under a new flagship name to Balestier Central.

Merger with Clementi Khalsa and renamed as Balestier Khalsa
In 2002, Balestier Central took another turn as they merged with Clementi Khalsa at the end of the 2002 S.League season. Clementi Khalsa was formed as a club to represent Singapore's Sikh community and joined the S.League in 1999. Prior to the merger with Balestier Central, the club was based in the Clementi area of Singapore and played its home games at the Clementi Stadium.On 10 August 2012, Balestier Khalsa won the first Singapore League Cup Plate Final as the team defeated Young Lions at the Jalan Besar Stadium.

Achieving more silverware and AFC Cup debut (2013–2017)
In 2013, head coach Darren Stewart signed Nigerian Obadin Aikhena, South Korean Jung Hee-bong and several players from his former team, Gombak United and formed a strong foundation of the team, including foreign players Kim Min-ho and Park Kang-jin, together with Singapore national team player Qiu Li and proved to be a success. On 14 September 2013, The Tigers went one level higher by scoring a huge 4–0 win over DPMM in the 2013 Singapore League Cup Final and clinched their first ever silverware. Captain, Paul Cunningham and the team lift the trophy as well as clinching 3rd place in the 2013 Singapore Cup. Balestier Khalsa signed former U-21 Croatian international Goran Ljubojević on 11 February 2014 as their first ever marquee signing. As well as Emir Lotinac of Serbia from Novi Pazar. The Tigers won their first ever Singapore Cup on 7 November 2014, beating Home United 3–1 with Goran, Kim and Park scoring the goals. Thus, qualifying for the 2015 AFC Cup in the following year.

AFC Cup debut
The Tigers make their 2015 AFC Cup group stage debut on 24 February 2015, losing 0–3 to Hong Kong Premier League champions, Kitchee at the Mong Kok Stadium. On 10 March 2015, they almost held eventual Malaysia Super League champions, Johor Darul Ta'zim to goalless draw but the visitor scored in the 90+3 stoppage time. Balestier Khalsa finally got their historical first win in the following week, Jonathan Xu scoring his and Tiger's maiden AFC Cup goal and Miroslav Krištić's goal beating East Bengal from India 2–1. Balestier Khalsa went on to finished at the bottom of the table with 3 points.

Balestier Khalsa went on to finish as runner-ups in the 2015 Singapore Charity Shield to Warriors. On 10 July 2015, Balestier Khalsa lost narrowly 2–1 against Albirex Niigata (S) to finish runner up in the 2015 Singapore League Cup.

For the 2016 season, Balestier Khalsa qualified for 2016 AFC Cup as Singapore's 2nd best local team and got their first away goals/points in the AFC Cup, as they held Maldives Dhivehi Premier League champions, New Radiant 2–2 at Malé. They continue to improved their run in the competition winning against Kitchee & New Radiant 1–0 and 3–0 at home however that wasn't enough for them to secured to the knockout stage as they finished in 3rd place with 7 points, 3 points away from 2nd place, Kaya FC. Balestier Khalsa finished 4th in the Singapore Cup after losing to Ceres-La Salle in the third place playoff.

Tight budget
In 2017, due to tight budget, Balestier Khalsa signed 3 Myanmar national football team players, Aung Kyaw Naing, Kyaw Zayar Win, Nanda Lin Kyaw Chit from Nay Pyi Taw, Ayeyawady United and Yadanabon respectively.

Singapore Premier League era (2018–present)
In 2018, Balestier Khalsa went on to sign 4 foreigners with Vedran Mesec, Keegan Linderboom and Dusan Marinkovic joining the Tigers for the upcoming newly revamp league.

On 22 October 2021, Akbar Nawas was announced as the head coach of Balestier Khalsa, succeeding Marko Kraljevic, who left a week prior. Before this, Akbar leads the 2nd division I-League club, Chennai City to become champions of the league in the 2018–19 I-League with current player, Iqbal Hussain. According to a club statement, Akbar has penned a two-year contract “worth more than S$170,000”. However, less than 1 year into the contract, Akbar would tender his resignation to join Thai League 2 side, Udon Thani, less than a week after a record 6–1 win against Hougang United.

On 27 August 2022, The Tigers recruit former Football Association of Malaysia Technical Director, Peter de Roo as an interim coach till the end of the 2022 season but on 30 November 2022, he was appointed to permanent role as head coach of Balestier Khalsa.

Peter de Roo started off the 2023 season making slight changes to his squad signing Alen Kozar from NŠ Mura and Masahiro Sugita from Albirex Niigata Singapore. Under his reign, Balestier Khalsa went on to win 3 consecutive matches against Tanjong Pagar United, Tampines Rovers and Brunei DPMM before losing to Albirex Niigata (S) 6–2. The Tigers also went on to have another fine run of form winning 4 consecutive match till Hougang United end the streak on 21 July 2023.

In the 2024–25 Singapore Premier League season, The Tigers sign an additional new signing of both Japanese player Kodai Tanaka and Riku Fukashiro, while Tunisian Ismail Sassi joined the club from AS Marsa. The club than participated in the 2024 Selangor Asia Challenge pre-season tournament on 26 and 28 April 2024 respectively.

Sponsors
For much of Balestier Khalsa's history, their kit provider has been with Umbro since their formation with Clementi Khalsa and Balestier Central up until 2017 whereby their main sponsor has been with Civic as well. In 2018, Balestier Khalsa signed a deal with Thailand sportswear, Mawin and than followed up with Italy sportswear brand, Lotto the following year in 2019. In 2020, Balestier Khalsa signed a deal with German sportswear Adidas to manufactured their kits alongside Weston Corp as their kit sponsors up till date.

On 29 March 2018, Balestier Khalsa launched their inaugural 2018 Singapore Premier League football campaign with the signing of a landmark sponsorship deal with sport utility vehicle brand, Jeep. The one-year deal that is worth $100,000 is the clubs biggest sponsorship contract in its history. On 28 February 2019, Balestier Khalsa extends their contract with Jeep for another year. Italian giants, Juventus who were also sponsored by Jeep, make a collaboration during their pre-season visit to Singapore.

Stadium
Balestier Khalsa played their home games at the Toa Payoh Stadium. The stadium are closed to the public during official events and S.League matches. The stadium can hold up to 3,800 spectators.

Media controversies
Fans who were watching the Singapore Premier League clash on YouTube over their mobile phones couldn't see what its going on as the poor broadcast angle from the main broadcast camera was so bad that fans could not even fathom what was happening on the pitch, let alone identify the players. Apart from the quality of the broadcast, viewers were also amused that the reserves were sitting on what appeared like “coffee-shop chairs.”

For the 2023 Singapore Premier League season, Balestier Khalsa will once again share Bishan Stadium with Lion City Sailors, as Toa Payoh Stadium is undergoing upgrading works. Balestier Khalsa will return to Toa Payoh Stadium upon the completion of the upgrading works.

On 8 October 2023, Toa Payoh Stadium, including will be demolished on 31 October 2023 in order to make way for a new Regional Sport Centre which will likely be opened in 2030.

Players
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Honours
Bold is for those competition that are currently active.

Domestic record
As Balestier Central/ Balestier Khalsa

As Clementi Khalsa

 * The 1996 season of the S.League was split into two series.
 * 2003 saw the introduction of penalty shoot-outs if a match ended in a draw in regular time. Winners of penalty shoot-outs gained two points instead of one.

Records and statistics
As of 14 July 2024.

Top 10 all-time scorers

 * Biggest Wins: 7–1 vs Sengkang Punggol (1 July 2006)
 * Heaviest Defeats: 8–1 vs Tampines Rovers (11 November 2022)
 * Youngest Goal scorers: Sameer Alassane ~ 18 years 5 months 2 days old (On 26 May 2016 vs Home United)
 * Oldest Goal scorers: Fabian Kwok ~ 34 years 2 months 15 days (On 1 June 2023 vs Lion City Sailors)
 * Youngest ever debutant: Aqil Yazid ~ 17 years 2 months 5 days (On 14 March 2021 vs Young Lions)

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Budd Root

Budd Root (born 1958) is an American cartoonist, and creator of the independent comic book Cavewoman, published by Root's company Basement Comics / Amryl Entertainment. Root is one of the premiere contemporary "good girl" artists, with an art style similar to Art Adams.'

Biography
Root was born in Heidelberg, Germany, on a United States Army military base. Thanks to his grandfather, comics were a major influence during his youth. Joining the United States Marines, Root worked in supply, achieving the rank of corporal. During his time in the service, the Marine Corps' graphic arts department utilized his art skills for drawing tanks and airplanes for internal presentations.

In 1993, after leaving the Marines, Root attempted to get into the comics industry. After repeatedly being rejected by Marvel Comics and the mainstream companies, Root happened to meet author James Robert Smith at Smith's comic book store. Smith gave Root his first paid work, illustrating "James Gang" and "Johnny Thirteen" stories in James Gang #1, published by London Night Studios. The one issue of James Gang sold poorly; so poorly, in fact, that Root was paid in King Kong collectible cards from Smith's comic book store.

Nonetheless, that first taste of getting published proved irresistible to Root and he was hooked on comics. Pooling money with his wife Leslie, he formed Basement Comics and self-published the first issue of Cavewoman in 1993. The book has proven to be extremely successful, spanning many issues, specials, and one-shots; and has since gone on to be published by Caliber Press and Avatar Press, in addition to Basement Comics.

Awards
Root's one-shot Cavewoman: Jungle Tales, was nominated for a 1999 Ignatz Award for Outstanding Story.

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David Holmes (actor)

David Holmes (born 1 December 1983) is a British podcast host and former actor and stunt performer.

Career
Holmes was the stunt double for Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter in the first six films of the Harry Potter film series. He played a Slytherin beater in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, but an error in the film's credits lists him as playing the character Adrian Pucey instead; that role was actually played by Scot Fearn.

In January 2009 Holmes was seriously injured and left partially paralysed after an accident during the filming of a stunt test for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. He is credited in the finished film as a stunt performer.

After becoming disabled, he took up automobile racing, driving a car with hand controls which he could operate. With two friends – also paralysed – Holmes started Ripple Productions, which in 2020 launched a podcast with Daniel Radcliffe, called Cunning Stunts, interviewing other stunt actors to raise awareness about the risks they face.

David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived, a documentary about Holmes's life, premiered at Doc NYC on 13 November 2023 before being released on HBO on 15 November 2023. Daniel Radcliffe served as the film's executive producer.

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San Carlos de Río Negro

San Carlos de Río Negro is a town in Venezuela's Amazonas State.

San Carlos de Río Negro is a small city of about 1200 inhabitants in the Venezuelan state of Amazonas. It serves as the administrative capital of the municipal district of Río Negro, inhabited primarily by Amerindian people, in particular the Yanomami and Baniwa (Kurripako) peoples. It sits on the opposite side of the Rio Negro from the Colombian city of San Felipe.

History
The city of San Carlos de Río Negro was founded in 1759 as a camp set up by the expedition captained by José Solano y Bote. The expedition moved into the area to explore the extent of the limits of exploration as defined by the Treaty of Madrid between the Crowns of Portugal and Spain. José Solano y Bote set up his exploration base there on the banks of the Rio Negro with the few men that had survived the trek up the Orinoco River. Most of the men that accompanied the expedition, including the famous Swedish botanist Pehr Löfling, succumbed to tropical diseases, especially yellow fever.

In May 1800, the explorers Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland visited the town, constituting the southernmost point of their expedition of the Amazon Basin.

Geography
The city is located a few kilometers from the mouth of the Casiquiare canal, an important fluvial artery that connects the Amazon Basin with the Orinoco River, thus uniting Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil, and is 65 m above sea level. Within the city is a rocky formation called Piedra del Cocuy, an excellent climbing place in one of the most bio-diverse areas on Earth.

Travel
Because of its remote location, there are few ways to get into and out of the city. There is only one small road that connect the city to the small fluvial port in the nearby town of Solano, located on the banks of the Casiquiare. The city can also be reached by air taxis and private plane.

Climate
The climate is tropical rainforest (Köppen  Af), with an annual median temperature of 26.3 °C and a median precipitation of 3,430 mm/year.

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Ann Medina

Ann Medina is an American Canadian television journalist and documentary producer.

Biography
Born and raised in New York City, Medina studied philosophy at Wellesley College, Harvard University and the University of Edinburgh before getting her M.A. in philosophy from the University of Chicago. She began her television career in Chicago, later becoming a network producer for NBC News, and then a network correspondent and producer for ABC News. While at ABC, she produced documentaries for its network Close-Up series.

In 1975, Medina moved to Canada to marry CTV producer and host Jack McGaw. They divorced amicably after eight years.

She worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Newsmagazine and later became its executive producer.

She joined CBC's The Journal when it began in 1982, becoming its senior foreign correspondent, focusing on stories in the Mideast, but also reporting from China, Nicaragua, Northern Ireland, Africa, Bhopal and elsewhere. In 1983-84 she was the Beirut bureau chief for CBC's The National and The Journal. Her documentaries aired regularly on BBC's Newsnight and PBS' MacNeil-Lehrer Report.

Her reports and documentaries have won numerous awards in Canada and in the United States, including an Emmy Award.

Medina was one of the first residents at Norman Jewison's Canadian Film Centre. She continues to contribute in the field of journalism. She moderated the 1993, 1997, and 2000 Canadian federal election debates, and the 1995 and 1999 Ontario provincial election debates in addition to hosting CBC Newsworld's documentary series Rough Cuts. As of 2016, she was host of History Television's programs History on Film and Fact and Film.

Medina has also moved into the broader area of communications and technology. She has addressed the United Nations' World Television Conference, the CBC's Board of Directors, the North American Broadcasters Association and the World Conference on the Arts, in addition to many major corporate clients including Perigee, Viacom, Honda, and Heenan Blaikie. She also served on the Ontario Advisory Committee on Technology and Education and on the Advisory Board to Foreign Minister Lloyd Axworthy.

She is past chair of both the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television and the Cultural Industries Council of Ontario. And she has served on the boards of TVOntario, the Calmeadow Foundation, Toronto Women in Film and Television, ACTRA, I.C.E. Communications, and Humber College. She also co-chaired the 2003 Conference of the International Women's Forum.

She has received honorary degrees from the University of Toronto, the University of King's College, the University of New Brunswick, Brock University, and Mount Saint Vincent University.

Medina has also played a television reporter in the films Zero Patience, Unfinished Business, and Dangerous Offender: The Marlene Moore Story.

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Lathom

Lathom is a village and civil parish in Lancashire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) northeast of Ormskirk. It is in the district of West Lancashire, and with the parish of Newburgh forms part of Newburgh ward. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 914. The Leeds and Liverpool Canal passes through Lathom.

Toponymy
Lathom was recorded as Latune in the Domesday Book in 1086, Lathum in 1200, and Lathom in 1223 after which it was the usual spelling.

Manor
In 1066 the manor of Lathom was the most important of 17 manors held by Uctred, an Anglo-Danish landowner. These manors were set up by Æthelstan in the 10th century. By 1189 Robert Fitzhenry de Lathom possessed lands throughout south Lancashire, extending to Flixton in the barony of Manchester. Siward son of Dunning held the township in thanage in the reign of Henry II. Robert de Lathom, in the reign of Edward I was granted the right to hold a market and an annual fair. Robert Lathom founded Burscough Priory in or before 1189.

The manor was conveyed by the marriage of Isabella de Lathom, Sir Thomas Lathom's daughter, to Sir John Stanley in 1385, the reign of Henry IV. Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby entertained Henry VII in his castle at Lathom. The present West Wing of Lathom House gives a hint of the importance of Lathom and the Stanley family who became the earls of Derby. The village grew around the castle at Lathom.

Lathom House
Lathom is the location of Lathom House built in the Middle Ages, seat of the de Lathom and Stanley families, twice besieged during the English Civil War and subsequently bought by Sir Thomas Bootle who restored the ancient mansion. It passed through his niece to Richard Wilbraham and their son, Lord Skelmersdale. The main block was demolished in 1925.

Pilkington European Technical Centre
Pilkington, the European Division of Nippon Sheet Glass Group, has its European Technical Centre in Lathom. The site was formerly the main R&D facility for Pilkington plc.

Governance
Lathom was a township in the parish of Ormskirk in the West Derby hundred in south Lancashire. In 1837 Lathom became part of the Ormskirk Poor Law Union which took responsibility for administering the Poor Law in the area. The Lathom Sanitary District was formed in 1875 and Lathom became part of the Lathom and Burscough Urban District in 1894. In 1931 Lathom was incorporated into the Ormskirk Urban Uistrict which lasted until 1974.

Geography
Lathom, which measured about six miles from north to south, covered an area of 8,694½ acres in west Lancashire. The River Tawd and Eller Brook flow through the township to join the River Douglas, which forms part of its northern boundary. Lathom House and park are between the brooks at the centre of the township. At the north of the township is Hoscar Moss which is less than 25 feet above sea level, to the south is New Park. To the west of the Eller Brook is Wirples Moss and in the south is the hamlet of Westhead, near Cross Hall. The main roads in the north pass west to east from Burscough to Newburgh, and in the south from Ormskirk to Dalton. There are roads leading north from Bickerstaffe and Skelmersdale.

To the west of the township the land is flat but to the east it rises to 215 feet above sea-level. To the south the land is flat and in the mid 19th century there were collieries. The geology of the western part of the township consists of the bunter series of the new red sandstone, with overlying beds of lower keuper sandstone, the eastern part lies on the Middle and Lower Coal Measures of the Lancashire Coalfield.

Religion
Lathom Chapel is a plain rectangular building constructed in about 1500 and a chantry was founded there by the second earl. The chapel, dedicated to St John the Divine, was consecrated by the Bishop of Sodor and Man. The chapel was restored in 1810, at a cost of £1,200. A free school was built at the hamlet of Newburgh in 1714. The chapel holds regular Anglican services. Various plaques in the chapel commemorate the residents of Lathom Hall including the Bootle-Wilbraham.

Transport
Lathom is also served by the railway station at Hoscar. The service run by Northern with good connections to Southport and Manchester, each having approximately one train every two hours.

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Witchcraft
Hi, if you are the same poster as the anonymous one who posted the idea that video could be the root word of witch, as I mentioned there, do you have a reference that claims that witch could have derived from that term, or is this something you thought up yourself? DreamGuy 01:32, July 24, 2005 (UTC)

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La Esmeralda, Venezuela

La Esmeralda (Ye'kuana: Medadanña or Kadawanadunña ) is a small settlement in and the capital of Alto Orinoco Municipality in Venezuela’s  Amazonas State. The name means “the emerald”. It is located on the shore of the Orinoco river, only 9 miles from the Casiquiare canal bifurcation that links it to the Amazon River.

The settlement contains about a hundred homes, a school, an airfield and a military outpost.

Geography
It is located on the shore of the Orinoco river, only 9 miles from the Casiquiare canal bifurcation that links it to the Amazon River.

Climate
La Esmeralda has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round.

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Jatiúca

Jatiuca is a beach and a neighborhood situated in Maceió, capital city of Alagoas state, Brazil. Jatiuca Beach is surrounded by palm trees and blue water, and enjoys warm weather all around the year. Its beauty attracts many Brazilian and foreign tourists.

Geographic
Jatiúca is located in South Zone.

Climate
Jatiúca has a typical tropical climate, with warm to hot temperatures and high relative humidity all throughout the year. However, these conditions are relieved by a near absence of extreme temperatures and pleasant trade winds blowing from the ocean. January is the warmest month, with mean maxima of 31 °C and minima of 22 °C; July experiences the coolest temperatures, with means of 26 °C and 15 °C. The absolute maximum and minimum are respectively 33 °C and 11,3 °C.

Vegetation
Jatiúca has a Tropical forest. Rainforests are characterized by high rainfall, with definitions setting minimum normal annual rainfall between 2,000 mm (about 78 inches or 2 meters) and 1700 mm (about 67 inches). The soil can be poor because high rainfall tends to leach out soluble nutrients.

Demographics
According to the census 2006, the racial makeup of this district was majority White; minority Black or African American. People of Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, French, American and English descent form the largest ethnic groups.

Economy
Jatiúca has many Hotels and Pousadas (little hotels). Tourism is the most important segment in the district, because Jatiúca district has beautiful beaches on the coral coast.

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Filemon Lagman

Filemon Castelar Lagman (March 17, 1953 – February 6, 2001), popularly known as Ka Popoy, was a revolutionary socialist and workers' leader in the Philippines who supported Marxism-Leninism. He split with the Communist Party of the Philippines in 1991 due to ideological disagreements to form Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP). He was assassinated in 2001.

Personal life
Filemon Castelar Lagman was born to Pedro Eduardo Lagman, Jr. (February 14, 1919-March 9, 2006) and Cecilia Castellar-Lagman (February 1, 1920-August 13, 2012). He grew up in Caloocan. He was a track and field athlete of Caloocan High School.

Filemon's first wife was Dodi Garduce, while his second wife was Bobbie Jopson (sister of martial law dissident Edgar Jopson). His brother is current Albay congressman Edcel Lagman.

Activism
Lagman's political views started to manifest during his early high school days when he frequently argued with teachers who did not share his ideas. During the First Quarter Storm, he was a member of Samahang Demokratiko ng Kabataan (Democratic Association of the Youth) in the 1970s. After only a year at the University of the Philippines, he decided to go underground and do full-time organizing work in the factories and urban poor communities in the northern sector of Metro Manila. When martial law was declared on 21 September 1972, Lagman established the first network of the underground revolutionary movement in Navotas. He organized, along with his comrades, the labor unions in factories and other work sites, launched mass mobilizations, developed a political mass base among workers and recruited more party members for the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).

Ka Popoy was elected Secretary of the Manila-Rizal Regional Party Committee of the CPP in the mid-1970s and spearheaded the broad formation which challenged the Marcos dictatorship in the 1978 Batasang Pambansa elections. The Central Committee of the CPP admonished Ka Popoy and the whole regional committee for advocating participation in the elections because it ran counter to the party's call to head to the countryside to wage armed struggle against the dictatorship. Ka Popoy was only able to return at the helm of the Manila-Rizal Regional Party Committee after the People Power Revolution in 1986. Despite his differences with the central leadership, Ka Popoy continued to strengthen revolutionary work in the capital.

At the height of the CPP split, Lagman wrote the biggest critique on CPP founding chair Jose Maria Sison's book Philippine Society and Revolution—the Counter-theses composed of Counter-Thesis 1 (PSR: A Semi-feudal Alibi for Protracted War, PPDR: Class Line vs. Mass Line and PPW: A New-Type Revolution of the Wrong Type) and Counter-Thesis 2 (On the Reorientation of the Party Work and the Reorganization of the Party Machinery). Lagman argued in his critique that Philippine society was capitalist in a backward and underdeveloped way, rather than being semi-feudal and semi-colonial. Lagman thus posited that a workers-led revolution must be waged to dismantle capitalism, instead of a protracted people's war from the countryside.

In 1991, he split with the CPP to form Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino (BMP) and the multi-sectoral group Sanlakas. He also led the formation of the Partido ng Manggagawang Pilipino (Filipino Workers' Party), an underground revolutionary socialist party, which, after his death, merged with the Sosyalistang Partido ng Paggawa (Socialist Party of Labor) and the Partido para sa Proletaryong Demokrasya (Party for Proletarian Democracy). He was assassinated in 2001.

Death
Lagman was ambushed and shot to death by two unknown assassins on the afternoon of 6 February 2001, at the east-side steps of the University of the Philippines-Diliman's Bahay ng Alumni in Diliman, Quezon City. At the time of his death, Ka Popoy was working on the launch of the Partido ng Manggagawa, the workers' political party that would participate in the 2001 mid-term elections.

His assassination is speculated to have been carried out by a pro-Estrada faction of the military, aiming to destabilize the newly formed Arroyo government. Further investigation by the police revealed that the assassins and the culprits may have come from the Revolutionary Proletarian Army-Alex Boncayao Brigade, another "rejectionist" faction of the CPP. The perpetrators were never caught. In July 2007, the Quezon City Prosecutor's Office decided to drop the case on eight suspected communist assassins since the witnesses were unable to attend the preliminary investigations.

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Scott Edelman

Scott Edelman (born 1955) is an American science fiction, fantasy, and horror writer and editor.

Career
In the 1970s, he worked in American comic books, in particular writing horror comics for both Marvel Comics and DC Comics. For Marvel he created the Scarecrow, and wrote some stories involving Captain America, Captain Marvel, and Omega the Unknown. He edited four issues of Marvel's self-produced fan magazine, FOOM, in the mid-1970s.

Edelman has also written a number of short stories, the Lambda Award-nominated novel The Gift, and written for television, including work for Hanna-Barbera and several episodes of Tales from the Darkside.

He was the founding and only editor of the science fiction magazine Science Fiction Age, which was published by Sovereign Media Co. from 1992 until 2000. He published and edited the semi-professional magazine Last Wave from 1982 to 1985, which was billed as "The Last Best Hope of Speculative Fiction" and published short fiction by Thomas M. Disch, Avram Davidson, and Ian Watson among other established authors. He was the founding editor of Rampage, a magazine covering professional wrestling, and has written unauthorized biographies of wrestlers Chyna and Stone Cold Steve Austin. Other magazines edited by Edelman include Sci-Fi Universe, Sci-Fi Flix, and Satellite Orbit.

In December 1996, while still the editor of Science Fiction Age, Edelman also became editor of Sovereign Media's Sci-Fi Entertainment, the official print magazine of the Sci-Fi Channel. He left Sovereign Media, and his role at Sci-Fi Entertainment (by then renamed SCI FI magazine), in June 2000, but returned to be editor of Sci-Fi Channel's online magazine, Science Fiction Weekly, before transferring back to be editor of SCI FI in February 2002.

Edelman wrote stories that were included in Eden Studios's zombie anthologies edited by James Lowder.

Novellas

 * The Gift (1990)
 * These Words Are Haunted (2001)
 * What We Still Talk About (2008)
 * The Hunger of Empty Vessels (2009)
 * What Will Come After (2010)
 * "Almost the Last Story by Almost the Last Man" in The Living Dead, edited by John Joseph Adams (2008)
 * Things That Never Happened (2010)
 * Liars, Fakers, and the Dead Who Eat Them, illustrated by Daniele Serra (2017)
 * Tell Me Like You Done Before: And Other Stories Written on the Shoulders of Giants (2018)

Comics

 * Captain Marvel #49 (1977)
 * Captain Marvel #50 (1977)
 * Captain Marvel #51 (1977)
 * Captain Marvel #52 (1977)
 * Captain Marvel #53 (1977)
 * Captain Marvel #54 (1978)
 * Captain Marvel #55 (1978)
 * Doorway to Nightmare #5 (1978)
 * Marvel Masterworks: Captain Marvel, Vol. 5 (2014)

Biographies

 * Texas Rattlesnake (2000)
 * Warrior Queen: The Totally Unauthorized Story of Joanie Laurer (2000)

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Carlos Espínola (footballer, born 1975)

Carlos Arberto Espínola Oviedo (born 25 December 1975) is a retired Paraguayan football defender.

Espínola began his professional career at Paraguayan club Cerro Porteño for three years, winning a national title with them in 1996. He had a brief spell at Mexican powerhouse América in 1999, but returned to Cerro Porteño the next year where he won another national title. Over the next two years, Espínola played for Paraguayan Primera División clubs Libertad and Sport Colombia.

In 2003, Espínola went to Ecuador to play for LDU Quito, where he had considerable success winning a national championship in 2003 and in 2005. In the last game of the 2006 season, Espínola was involved in a melee during a match against Barcelona. During the melee, Espínola kicked Leonardo Soledispa in the face. He received a one-year suspension for his actions.

He returned in 2008 after completing his suspension to play for Deportivo Cali in Colombia and Emelec in Ecuador. In 2009, he returned to LDU Quito where he was an integral member of the squad that won the 2009 Recopa Sudamericana and 2009 Copa Sudamericana.

He played for the Paraguay national team between 2000 and 2004.

Honors
Cerro Porteño
 * Primera División: 1996, 2001

LDU Quito
 * Serie A: 2003, 2005 Apertura, 2010
 * Copa Sudamericana: 2009
 * Recopa Sudamericana: 2009, 2010

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San Juan de Manapiare

San Juan de Manapiare is a town in the southern Venezuelan state of Amazonas. This town is the shire town of the Manapiare Municipality and, according to the 2001 Venezuelan census, the municipality has a population of 991.

History
San Juan de Manapiare was founded by the explorer Don Melicio Pérez in the year 1940.

Demographics
The Manapiare Municipality, according to the 2001 Venezuelan census, has a population of 991 (down from 4,036 in 1990). This amounts to 1.4% of Amazonas's population. The municipality's population density is 0.1 people per square mile (0.0299/km2).

Government
San Juan de Manapiare is the shire town of the Manapiare Municipality in Amazonas. The mayor of the Manapiare Municipality is Pastor Nelson Rodrìguez, elected in 2004 with 60% of the vote. He replaced Benjamin Perez shortly after the last municipal elections in October 2004.

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Woodlands Wellington FC

Woodlands Wellington Football Club was a professional football club based in Woodlands, Singapore which played in the S.League, the top division of football in Singapore. The club took part in S.League from 1996 to 2014. They are at the 4,300 seater Woodlands Stadium, where they have played since their establishment.

Woodlands Wellington FC's honours include winning the inaugural Singapore League Cup in 2007, defeating Sengkang Punggol FC 4–0 in the final. They also finished runners-up in the Singapore FA Cup in 1997, and also in the Singapore Cup in 2005 and 2008 and won the President's Centennial Cup in 1998, a cup competition organized by the Philippine Football Federation to celebrate the centennial of Philippine Independence by defeating Hong Kong Rangers 2–1 in the final in Bacolod.

Their best finish in the S-League came in the 1996 Tiger Beer Series where they were runners-up. They have also achieved 3rd place in 1997 and 2005.

Wellington Football Club (1988–1996)
Woodlands Wellington was founded as Wellington Football Club in 1988 as a splinter group of Delhi Juniors (a team of Singaporean football enthusiasts, dating back to the 1940s, that were among the pioneers of football in Singapore). The name stems from the Deptford Ground located on Wellington Road in Sembawang where the team started playing football in 1988.

In 1991, they participated in the Sembawang Group League and National Island-Wide League, winning as champions in both competitions and setting a national record by beating Seletar Football Club by a 27-goal margin. This was one of the biggest wins the club had ever achieved, as they beat their opponents 28 – 1 at the Woodlands Stadium on 17 November 1991. Amalar Louis scored a record 12 goals in that match.

The following year, Wellington FC joined the Singapore National Football League in Division 2, from which they were promoted as champions in 1994. The following season they finished first in Division 1 (going unbeaten for 24 matches) and were runners-up in the FA Cup.

Woodlands Wellington Football Club (1996–2014)
Wellington Football Club were selected as one of eight clubs to compete in the newly formed S.League in its inaugural season in 1996, prompting the club to adopt Woodlands Stadium as their home ground and to change their name to Woodlands Wellington Football Club.

Following their admission to the S.League, Wellington's founder, R. Vengadasalam, was appointed as the Team Manager of Woodlands Wellington and Bandai were announced as a sponsor in their maiden season in the S.League. Following this, they signed Jan Janostak, Joe Caleta and Ervin Boban, from the Malaysia Super League, as well as Singapore national players Borhan Abu Samah, Tamil Marren, Zakaria Awang, from England Notts County legend Darren Davis and Croatian goalkeeper Sandro Radun, who played for the Singapore FA in 1992. Woodlands Wellington played to capacity crowds, including their pre-season friendlies.

Woodlands won the President's Centennial Cup in 1998, a cup competition organized by the Philippine Football Federation to celebrate the centennial of Philippine Independence, beating Sembawang Rangers 4–2 in the semi-final and Hong Kong Rangers 2–1 at the Negros Occidental Sports Complex in the final in Bacolod with both goals from Razali Ahmad.

While they enjoyed a relatively successful period throughout the late nineties, Woodlands finished last in the 2001 S.League season, prompting them to sign Singapore internationals Zulkarnaen Zainal, Goh Tat Chuan and A. Siva Kumar. The transfers of Goh and Siva Kumar were particularly controversial as Woodlands and Jurong were well-known rivals in the league.

Woodlands Wellington made the headlines in the 2007 S.League season for a walkout by the entire Woodlands squad in a match against Tampines Rovers as a protest to the decisions made against them by referee P. Pandian. Woodlands were fined $30,000 for the incident and had six points docked. Tampines coach Vorawan Chitavanich was reported as saying "I spoke to their coach just a little while ago and he said that they acted on the instructions of their club chairman."

Reported withdrawal from the S. League
A report by The New Paper on 22 November 2012 suggested that Woodlands may be in financial trouble and could be the second club to sit out the 2013 S.League after Gombak United has announced earlier that it would not be taking part in the league in 2013. This sparked off a supporter-driven "Save Woodlands" awareness campaign on the same day. The club held an open meeting with the supporters and press at Woodlands Stadium later that evening and quashed the report. Team manager, Matthew Tay, also said that the club was already preparing a pre-season tour of Malaysia, and that the club would be signing players and would also be aiming for a minimum 8th spot in the table this season.

Merger with Hougang United
In November 2014, it was announced that Woodlands Wellington and Hougang United will merge for the 2015 season. However, the move did not materialised.

In 2016, Woodlands formed teams to play in the Island Wide League (IWL) and Women's Premier League (WPL). After two years, they restarted their football operations, at least at the youth and grassroots level, as they begin to work their way back into the S.League.

In 2017, Woodlands Wellington reportedly pulled out of IWL after one season.

Supporters' Club
The supporters' club of Woodlands Wellington Football Club are known as The Black Sheep. They can be seen at both home and away games dressed in the club's official colours of yellow and blue and are usually seated behind the Rams' dugout. Since its inception, The Black Sheep have been using the warcry "Never Surrender!" to rally their players on.

Stadium
Woodlands Stadium is currently the home ground of Woodlands Wellington, and used mostly for football matches. Apart from being used for competitive matches, the pitch is also utilised by the club for their training sessions as well. The stadium capacity was upgraded to 4,300. This includes the 2,000 seater grandstand, the 1,000 seater semi-permanent stand opposite the grandstand and the 1,300 seater portable stands on each end of the pitch.

Woodlands Stadium is the only stadium in Singapore which has a MRT track overlooking the pitch.

Sponsors
Woodlands Wellington was sponsored by Bandai from 1996 to 1998, after which it was sponsored by Sembcorp from 2001 to 2010. The club went without a sponsor from 2011 to 2012 before Singaporean equity company, ESW, took up the sponsorship of the Rams from March 2013.

The team is presently outfitted by Singaporean kit makers, Waga, for the 2013 season. Their previous kit sponsors include Lotto, Kappa, Diadora, Umbro, Mitre and Thai apparel makers, Acono.

Colours
As Wellington Football Club, the team played in a white kit with purple and green trimmings. As soon as they were rebranded into the Woodlands Wellington Football Club in 1996, the Rams changed their home kit to all white with a narrow stripe of yellow and green down the middle.

In the ensuing years, yellow was employed as the main colour of choice for the home kit and this has become the traditional colour for the club.

Kit evolution

 * Home

 * Away

*The third kit for 2007 was used as the home kit of the 2008 season.
 * Third / Special

Youth academy
The youth academy of Woodlands is the Centre of Excellence, which develops promising young players and grooms them for the future.

Manager history

 * 🏴 Steve Wicks (1996)
 * 🏴 Dean Wheatley (1997–98)
 * 🇸🇬 V. Sivalingam (1999)
 * 🇭🇷 Ivan Raznevich (2000–01)
 * 🇲🇾 M. Karathu (2002–03)
 * 🏴 Simon Clark (2003–04) – Player / Coach
 * 🏴 Maff Brown (2005)
 * 🇲🇦 Karim Bencherifa (1 Jan 2005 – 30 June 2006)
 * 🇩🇪 Jörg Steinebrunner (2006–08)
 * 🇭🇷 Nenad Bacina (1 Jan 2009 – 31 Dec 2009)
 * 🇸🇬 A. Shasi Kumar (1 Jan 2010 – 31 Dec 2010)
 * 🇸🇬 R. Balasubramaniam (1 Jan 2011 – 12 Jan 2012)
 * 🇸🇬 Salim Moin (13 Jan 2012 – 28 Nov 2013)
 * 🇦🇺 Darren Stewart (14 Jan 2014 – 15 June 2014)
 * 🇸🇬 Salim Moin (15 June 2014 – 31 December 2014)

Performance in domestic competitions

 * The 1996 season of the S.League was split into two series. Tiger Beer Series winners Geylang United defeated Pioneer Series winners Singapore Armed Forces in the Championship playoff to clinch the S.League title.
 * 2003 saw the introduction of penalty shoot-outs if a match ended in a draw in regular time. Winners of penalty shoot-outs gained two points instead of one.
 * Woodlands Wellington deducted 6 points for abandoning a match on 5 September 2007.

Last updated on 15 May 2014

Top 10 all-time scorers

 * Biggest Wins: 6–0 vs Gombak United (25 April 2002)
 * Heaviest Defeats: 8–1 vs DPMM (26 August 2014)
 * Youngest Goal scorers: Neil Van u ~ 21 years 7 months 20 days old (On 31 March 2011 vs Étoile FC)
 * Oldest Goal scorers: Mohd Noor Ali ~ 35 years 3 months 21 days old (On 6 September 2010 vs Geylang United)

Domestic
Cup
 * Singapore League Cup
 * Champions (1): 2007
 * Singapore Cup
 * Runners-up (2): 2005, 2008

International
Cup
 * President's Centennial Cup: 1
 * 1998

Reserves
Cup
 * Singapore FA Cup
 * Runners-up (1): 1997

Women's Football
League
 * Women's Premier League
 * Runners-up (2): 2017, 2018

Cup
 * Women's Challenge Cup
 * Runners-up (1): 2016
 * Third-place (2): 2017, 2018

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Roger Sherman Greene II

Roger Sherman Greene (1881–1947) was a diplomat, foundation official, medical administrator in China and a national leader in affairs relating to East Asia. He was the fourth son and sixth of eight children of Rev. Daniel Crosby Greene, a Congregational minister, and Mary Jane (Forbes) Greene. His parents, descendants of colonial Massachusetts families, had been among the earliest American missionaries in Japan, arriving in 1869 and serving until their deaths (the mother's in 1910, the father's in 1913); they were deeply involved in bringing modern Western education to the Japanese during the Meiji era. Two of their other children achieved prominence, Evarts Boutell as an American historian at Columbia and Jerome Davis Greene as a foundation administrator, banker, and secretary of the Corporation of Harvard University.

Roger Greene was born in Westborough, Mass., while his parents were on furlough in the United States. After earlier schooling in Japan, he entered Harvard, from which he received a B.A. degree in 1901 and an M.A. the following year. He then obtained a position with the consular service and over the next twelve years held posts in Brazil, Japan, Siberia, and China; at Hankou (1911–1914) he performed with distinction as consul general during the Chinese revolution. Perhaps as a result of his missionary heritage, Greene became uncomfortable in his role as agent of the interests of the United States, feeling an obligation to mankind more broadly conceived. He therefore surrendered a highly promising diplomatic career to accept in 1914, an opportunity to join in the philanthropic activities of the Rockefeller Foundation, of which his brother Jerome was then secretary.

Greene began as a member of the foundation's commission which surveyed the medical and public health needs of China. The commission's recommendations led to the establishment, later in 1914, of the China Medical Board, to foster medical education in China through the improvement of hospitals and medical schools and the granting of fellowships to missionary and Chinese physicians. Wallace Buttrick of the General Education Board accepted the directorship of the board, and Greene was made resident director in China. He remained in China until 1935, becoming director of the China Medical Board in 1921 and serving from 1927 to 1929 as vice-president of the Rockefeller Foundation in the Far East. He also took a particular interest in one of the board's projects, the Peking Union Medical College, and became acting director in 1927.

During his years with the China Medical Board, Greene developed close ties with China's westernized intellectuals, most notably the philosopher-diplomat Hu Shih. He was deeply involved in projects directed toward the modernization of China, especially in the field of public health. He also kept up a steady correspondence with members of the Department of State responsible for American policy toward China. With China torn by civil strife in the 1920s, Greene urged a policy of noninterference, arguing that the Chinese were entitled to the freedom that Americans had enjoyed in the 1860s: the freedom to fight their civil war until one side won a decisive victory and could unify and determine the future of the country. In 1927-1928 he led a group of Americans in BEIJING, mostly missionaries, who successfully opposed a plan by the American minister for intervention in cooperation with the other great powers. Greene's opinion carried special weight at this time because Nelson T. Johnson, his former protégé in the consular service, had taken over responsibility for East Asian affairs within the State Department.

Tension developed, however, between Greene and the Rockefeller Foundation. This was partly the result of Greene's character and style. To many he seemed the archetypical New Englander, austere, righteous, and rigid; and he was, indeed, highly principled and uncompromising. He regarded with contempt the increasing involvement of John D. Rockefeller III in China Medical Board affairs and would do nothing to appease that young man's sensibilities. A host of financial issues, born of the board's depression-ridden desire to cut expenses, served as irritants, but the major issue became the future of the department of religion at Peking Union Medical College. In founding the college in 1916, John D. Rockefeller Jr., had acquired the facilities of a British missionary medical school and had declared his intention to continue the school's religious atmosphere. Greene, however, had come to believe that the effort to instill Christianity in medical and nursing students was an anachronism in modern China. As Chinese nationalism grew more intense in the 1920s and 1930s, both students and faculty objected to the department of religion. Regarding the department as expendable during the budget crisis, Greene fought hard for his beliefs, but lost out in a confrontation with the Rockefellers. He resigned from the China Medical Board in 1934, and later the same year, by direction of the board, submitted his resignation from the Peking Union Medical College as of July 1935.

Greene emerged from semi-retirement in the late 1930s as a leader in organizations formed to work for the support of China and Great Britain against Japan and Germany. From 1938 to 1941 he served as chairman of the American Committee for Non-Participation in Japanese Aggression and from 1940 to 1941 as associate director of William Allen White's Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. For both organizations he lobbied with federal officials for American assistance to China. More than any other private citizen, Greene had the attention of Stanley K. Hornbeck, the State Department's powerful senior advisor for Far Eastern Affairs. Almost alone, he kept the Committee to Defend America from focusing its entire campaign on the war in Europe.

Ill health curtailed Greene's activities shortly before Pearl Harbor, but he was able during the war to serve part-time as a consultant to the State Department's Division of Cultural Relations. He maintained a deep interest in Chinese affairs, and while he gradually, with misgivings, came to regard the Kuomintang as China's best hope, he was outraged by the attacks on John S. Service and other Americans who had reported favorably on Chinese Communist activities. He also lent active encouragement to the development of East Asian studies in the United States. Greene's home in his later years was Worcester, Massachusetts. He died in West Palm Beach, Florida, of cardiac failure and chronic nephritis and was buried in Westborough, Mass. He was survived by his wife, Kate Brown, whom he had married on May 8, 1920, and their two children, Edward Forbes and Katharine Curtis.

He was also the great-great grandson of American founding father Roger Sherman.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy (SpongeBob Episode)

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The result of the debate was KEEP. But note that redirect deletion requests belong on WP:RFD. No point relisting it there now, given the voting. -Splash 01:09, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy (SpongeBob Episode)
Delete Who needs this? Hugh Jass 02:21, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy. Redirects are cheap. —PrologFan {Talk} 23:49, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Without a consise listing of all SBSP episodes, civilization as we know it may grind to a halt. (But maybe that's a good thing %) Keep redirect, I guess. — RJH 17:28, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Whiteroad, North Carolina

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The result of the debate was Speedy deleted. GarrettTalk 13:52, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Whiteroad, North Carolina
This appears to be a hoax set up by one IP ( User:63.19.222.95 ). There is no Weston county in North Carolina, according to The Cencus Bureau--Weston's in Wyoming. I can find no reference to a Whiteroad, North Carolina, either, and have not checked on his other 3 entries. Strong Delete All. DNicholls 01:41, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

 * His other pages: Johnny River, the great white road, Brockenbridge, Freshton (apparently located in Fresh County).--DNicholls 02:23, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete. Vandalism. — Fingers-of-Pyrex 02:47, July 24, 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Incidence Response Team

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The result of the debate was Delete. Hedley 01:11, 31 July 2005 (UTC)

Incidence Response Team
After trying to find out if this was all true it seems to be a bunch of hearsay. this link (if fails search google print with "Incidence Response Team CIA") seemed to show an "incidence response team" associated with the US Department of Homeland Security but not that it was the official title. I'd love it someone proved me wrong since new trustworthy articles are always good. gren 01:41, 24 July 2005 (UTC) "Mr. Charette attended the US Naval War College in Newport, RI, where he received a Master’s Degree in National Security and Strategic Studies. In 1985, he was appointed Chief, CIA Counter Terrorist Center, Foreign Liaison Training and Terrorist Incident Response Team (IRT)."
 * Comment Incident Response Team would make more sense grammatically, and seems to garner a few google hits. Most are related to UFO theories? There might be an encyclopedic topic hiding in there somewhere. Pburka 03:33, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - without evidence, this smells like (teen) original research (spirit). Nandesuka 04:55, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak delete. A quick perusal of a Google search for "Incident Response Team" CIA seems to indicate that that is the proper term, but a look at what comes up in that search indicates that IRTs are ad hoc groupings and not a standard organization.  Perhaps an article on the creation of an Incident Response Team and a list of some of them and what they did would be a decent article.  John Barleycorn 06:35, July 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. A quick search turned up this biography stating (of course it could be made up too)
 * It may also have other meanings, as in business and computer security. Mmmbeer 16:56, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment As Mmmbeer alluded, "incident response team" is a common phrase. For instance, a number of state DOTs have incident response teams that specialize in such clandestine and risky missions as clearing overturned tractor trailers.  This current content reads like an amateur conspiracy theory, so I'm guessing it should go.  Thing is, I can't figure out if "Incident response team" can actually be expanded far enough beyond "An incident response team is a team that responds to incidents" that it wouldn't be just a lengthy dicdef.  The Literate Engineer 06:08, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
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Roberto Palacios

Roberto Carlos Palacios Mestas (born 28 December 1972) is a Peruvian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Palacios is Peru's record cap holder and played most of his career for Sporting Cristal, which was the team he started his career and later retired with at the end of the 2011 season.

Early life
Roberto Palacios grew up in the Chorrillos District in Lima. Palacios was introduced to soccer at an early age by his soccer-loving dad, and he played on regional teams in his early years.

Club career
Palacios became a player of Sporting Cristal, where he played in his youth. Palacios made his debut with Sporting Cristal in 1991, when his team faced Deportivo Municipal in late October 1991. Palacios then scored his first goal in the following week against Universitario de Deportes. Palacios was a successful player, and scored many goals for both his clubs and the National Team.

He is nicknamed "El Chorrillano" or "Chorri". He was regarded, at his peak, by some as one of the best Peruvian players of the 90's. In Peru, Palacios has only played for one club, Sporting Cristal. Outside of Peru he has played for several clubs such as Puebla F.C. (Mexico), Cruzeiro Esporte Clube (Brazil), Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara (Mexico), Monarcas Morelia (Mexico), Deportivo Cali (Colombia) and Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito from Ecuador. While playing for LDU Quito, "Chorri" was involved in a fight and got suspended. This was caused because he scored a chalaca goal.

International career
"Chorri" was well known for his amazing 'chorrigolazos' (for his ability to surprise top goalkeepers by scoring from far away despite his small size) which nearly took Peru to the last 3 FIFA World Cups. Palacios had a long run with the Peru national football team that resulted in a record 128 caps and 19 goals for his country. He retired from the Peruvian National squad on May 25, 2012.

Outside football
Roberto Palacios and his father were part of the Million Man March.

Palacios is also a children's activist. He frequently works with UNICEF to help feed the poor children of Africa, and sometimes even by flying over and donating football gear and accessories. He recently donated a fair share of money to the UNEP to help the people of Haiti in the wake of the tragic 2010 earthquake.

Honours
Sporting Cristal
 * Primera División Peruana: 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996

LDU Quito
 * Serie A de Ecuador: 2005

Peru
 * Kirin Cup: 1999

Individual
 * Peruvian Player on the Year: 1994, 1995, 1996

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Confederate Memorial Hall Museum

Confederate Memorial Hall Museum is a museum located in New Orleans which contains historical artifacts related to the Confederate States of America (C.S.A.) and the American Civil War. It is historically also known as "Memorial Hall". It houses the second-largest collection of Confederate Civil War items in the world, behind the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, Virginia. The museum has been advertised as Louisiana's Civil War Museum and as Louisiana's Oldest Museum.

This "Adjunct of the Howard Memorial Library Association", according to Frank T. Howard's letter of 8 Jan. 1891, was placed in the "possession" the Board of Governors of the Louisiana Historical Association "to be set apart forever for the use of" that organization. Sully & Toledano designed the hall, which was completed in 1888, following the Richardsonian Romanesque style of the Howard Library designed by H.H. Richardson.

Collections
The Confederate Memorial Hall contains over 5,000 historical artifacts including several rare Civil War items. It holds the personal effects and uniforms of Confederate generals Braxton Bragg and P.G.T. Beauregard, as well as over 140 regimental and other C.S.A. flags. Jefferson Davis' wife Varina Davis donated several of her late husband's belongings to the museum including items of clothing, his Bible and saddle, plus a crown of thorns from Pope Pius IX.

19th-century history
Confederate Memorial Hall was established in 1891 by New Orleans philanthropist Frank T. Howard, to house the historical collections of the Louisiana Historical Association. The museum quickly accumulated a vast collection of Civil War items, mostly in the form of personal donations by veterans.

On 29 May 1893, the exhumed body of Confederate President Jefferson Davis was mourned by over 60,000 people as it lay in state in the hall, before being moved to his final resting place in Hollywood Cemetery (Richmond, Virginia).

Ownership dispute
For much of its existence the Confederate Memorial Hall's building has been the subject of an ownership dispute that has involved numerous court battles and the involvement of several Louisiana political figures including Governors Huey Long and Mike Foster. The dispute has revolved around Howard's original donation of the building to the Louisiana Historical Association, which read "It is with deep satisfaction that I perform the act of formally putting into your possession the Building, which, while it is an Adjunct of the Howard Memorial Library Association, is to be set apart forever for the use of your organization." In 1930 the adjoining Howard Library sought the museum's building space to store portions of their collection. Governor Long negotiated a compromise in which the museum permitted the library to store some of its books in their basement.

In the 1940s the Howard Library outgrew its facilities and relocated to Tulane University. Its building was sold shortly afterwards and, after transferring to several owners, was donated to the University of New Orleans in the early 1990s. The old Howard Library building and a nearby property neighboring the Confederate Memorial Hall were then converted into the Ogden Museum of Southern Art by UNO. The location of Memorial Hall in between the two Ogden buildings gave rise to the latest dispute over the property, as visitors to the Ogden museums would have to exit each building and travel outdoors around the Memorial Hall to reach the remainder of the collection. A solution was proposed in which a tunnel between the two buildings through the Memorial Hall basement would be constructed and a proposal was drafted by Confederate Memorial Hall, but UNO withdrew from the negotiations in 1998.

21st century
In 2000, Tulane University, having absorbed the Howard Library, sold its title to the Memorial Hall building to UNO, which it claimed to possess as the former owner of the Howard Library properties. In 2001 the UNO foundation announced its claims to the Confederate Memorial Hall building and initiated efforts to remove the museum from the premises. A series of court battles ensued in which title ownership to the property was granted to UNO, however efforts to evict the museum were stayed by the courts on bonds.

As the case proceeded through the appellate processes, Governor Mike Foster intervened in the dispute and assisted in the drafting of a compromise between UNO and the museum that would allow Confederate Memorial Hall to remain in its historic building. In August 2003, at Foster's direction, both parties agreed to drop pending lawsuits to the building in exchange for fulfillment of a compromise agreement. Per the agreement, UNO is required to cede its title claims to the Confederate Memorial Hall museum's land and building in exchange for the construction of a connecting tunnel through the basement as was proposed in the 1997 plan. The compromise is to be implemented in full within 10 years time, or upon the completion of the tunnel, depending upon which comes first.

In 2011, a Confederate Battle Flag from the 14th Louisiana Infantry Regiment, stolen from the museum in the 1980s by a volunteer, was recovered from a collector who reportedly purchased the flag in 2004 without knowing it had been stolen.

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Flash fire

A flash fire is a sudden, intense fire caused by ignition of a mixture of air and a dispersed flammable substance such as a solid (including dust), flammable or combustible liquid (such as an aerosol or fine mist), or a flammable gas. It is characterized by high temperature, short duration, and a rapidly moving flame front.

Definition
A flash fire is defined by NFPA 2112 (Standard on Flame-Resistant Clothing for Protection of Industrial Personnel Against Short-Duration Thermal Exposures from Fire) as:
 * "A type of short-duration fire that spreads by means of a flame front rapidly through a diffuse fuel, such as dust, gas, or the vapors of an ignitable liquid, without the production of damaging pressure."

Characterization
Flash fires may occur in environments where fuel, typically flammable gas or dust, is mixed with air in concentrations suitable for combustion.

In a flash fire, the flame spreads at subsonic velocity, so the overpressure damage is usually negligible and the bulk of the damage comes from the thermal radiation and secondary fires. When inhaled, the heated air resulting from a flash fire can cause serious damage to the tissue of the lungs, possibly leading to death by asphyxiation. Flash fires can lead to smoke burns.

Flash fire is a particular danger in enclosed spaces, as even a relatively small fire can consume enough oxygen and produce enough smoke to cause death of the persons present, whether by asphyxiation or by smoke inhalation.

Protective clothing made of fire-retardant materials (e.g. Nomex) reduces or prevents thermal injury in the body areas that are covered by the fire-retardant material. Even normal clothing can provide partial protection.

Surgical
Small flash fires can occur in the operating room during surgery where the presence of ignition sources such as electrical instruments or lasers, an oxygen-rich environment, and flammable vapors (e.g. alcohol-based disinfectants) may set the stage for such an accident. While apparently smaller fires go unreported, surgical flash fires have led to burn injuries and fatalities.

Incidents of surgical fires are "significantly under-reported", according to The Joint Commission. More than half of surgical fires happen inside a patient's airway or on the patient's upper body; around 10 percent of surgical fires actually happen within the body cavity, and a quarter of surgical fires happen on other parts of the body. About 70 percent are ignited by electrosurgical tools commonly known as Bovies, devices that use a high-frequency electric current to cut tissue or stop bleeding. 20 percent of fires are sparked by hot wires, light sources, burrs or defibrillators. Another 10 percent are touched off by lasers.

As far as the patients are concerned, some recover with scars and emotional damage. Some die from burns and smoke inhalation.

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Jill Scott
The article is now there I redo the edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nadelkopf (talk • contribs) 23:18, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
 * Right. But what are those strange numbers you put in under "charity work"? I removed them. If it's anything important, please explain. Albrecht Conz (talk) 23:48, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

James Weldon Johnson
I replaced with  - no need for him to be in both. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 05:42, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Right. I guess that makes sense ... somewhat. However the article states "Johnson's first success as a writer was the poem "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing" (1899)" - and 1899 isn't the 20th century, is it? Albrecht Conz (talk) 06:33, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
 * In which case as well. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 07:26, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks - great! Albrecht Conz (talk) 03:51, 22 October 2014 (UTC)

Article talk page etiquette
Please be aware that it's considered bad form to tag a new comment onto an old discussion ended 5 years ago. If you want to begin a new discussion about nationality, please open a new discussion at the end of the talk page. But please read all the previous discussions first. Austro-Hungary consisted of two semi-independent kingdoms. Lorre was (1) born within the boundaries of the Kingdom of Hungary, (2) was given a Hungarian name at birth, (3) spoke only Hungarian until after his first film, (4) had a passport issued by the Hungarian Embassy in London, and (5) identified himself as "Hungarian" in nearly every interview he ever gave. It sounds to me like you are completely ignorant of the subject and have done no in depth reading of sources. When you've done that, you'll probably realize how stupid your edits seem to others. Cheers! Skyerise (talk) 15:31, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for calling me stupid - and again not giving any proof at all, except claims (I did give a reference). Quite remarkable from somebody who then points me to etiquette... Albrecht Conz (talk) 16:27, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * I didn't call you stupid. I called your edit stupid. There's a difference. You clearly have never even read a biography of the subject. Skyerise (talk) 16:33, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, you did say that I'm completely ignorant on the subject, didn't you? And you are being very rude for no particular reason at all claiming something you cannot know, namely that I "never even read a biography" of Lorre - nevermind that you refuse to respond to valid questions - or supply any references for your claims. - I have read more than one biography of Lorre's, and, after all, I did add a reference from a biography (yes, I not only quoted it, I added it some time ago) - something you seem to be unwilling to do, which I find rather puzzling, as you present yourself as a Lorre expert. Also, going by your above comments, I am sorry to say I'm not terribly convinced about your expertise, as you claim that he "spoke only Hungarian until after his first film". What does this mean? The English is rather garbled here. Do you mean to say that after his first film (which one?), he spoke only Hungarian - and where? In films? In private? - Lorre acted in about ten German-language films before 1933 - and in the only film he directed (and acted in), "Der Verlorene", in 1951. In addition, your claim that it is "bad form to tag a new comment onto an old discussion ended 5 years ago" is untrue. If this is the section were a certain point was discussed this is were you add it. Albrecht Conz

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I'll take a look, thanks. Most likely, they were categorized as German-something at some point, and that's how they got mixed in there. I'll remove them shortly. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 01:15, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Taken care of - please let me know if you find any others that need fixing. -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 01:20, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
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 * Hi, thanks for your message! - I tried moving the article first via the "move" tab. That doesn't work. Then I looked aroud a bit and posted a "request move" request plus put the code I found for this on the discussion page - both to no effect at all. After this, the only possibility I could find was the cut + paste (although I do not like this). I've been active here for 10+ years ... and I'm afraid the rules for moving are rather arcane and impracticable (at least, if a straight forward move is not possible (in this case because the target page exists as a redirect page to the page in question - meaning the pages need to be swapped). Anyway, the move should be obvious - just see the German page for the person in question: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Wei%C3%9F_%28Schriftsteller%29 The fact, that his name is spelled "ERNST WEISS" on the photo does not contradict this, as the German letter "ß" has a lower case form only and, in caps, is replaced by "SS". Hopefully, you can advise me on how to effect this move. All the best Albrecht Conz (talk) 03:42, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

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Big Mama Thornton
Servus Albrecht, I'd like to agree with you on the right wording for inclusion of the text you are defending. In my view it is not encyclopedic to state such clearly subjective, individual opinions without attributing their holder inline e.g. 'xxx wrote that', 'yyy proposed that'. Citations are fine, but when they are a single writer's view it should be made absolutely clear that it is such. mfG Guffydrawers (talk) 08:14, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
 * That would be easy to do, wouldn't it? - and not require much more time than deleting the passages in question. - I wasn't quite sure whether you'd looked at the sources, because you deleted the statements, yet left the refs for them in the text, which isn't very encyclopedic, is it? Albrecht Conz (talk) 15:29, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

 * Fair point. Ref position now adjusted. Best wishes Guffydrawers (talk) 16:29, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
 * OK. Thanks. Albrecht Conz (talk) 00:51, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

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Fasnia

Fasnia is a town and a municipality in the eastern part of the Spanish island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The municipality extends for 45.1 km2 from the mountainous interior to the beaches on the Atlantic. Its population is 2,873 (2013). The TF-1 motorway passes through the municipality.

Etymology
The name of the municipality comes from that of its administrative capital, being a term of Guanche origin that also appears in the historical documentation with the Fasnea variant.

As for its possible meaning, the historian Dominik Josef Wölfel relates it to the Berber word tafessena / tifesseniwin, 'step, rung of a ladder', an opinion that is also accepted by the philologist and historian Ignacio Reyes. opinión que también acepta el filólogo e historiador Ignacio Reyes.

Sites of interest

 * Barranco de Fasnia y Güimar, a river gorge, and a natural monument.

title: Fasnia