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NetJets

NetJets Inc. is an American company that sells fractional ownership shares in private business jets.

Founded as Executive Jet Airways in 1964, it was later renamed Executive Jet Aviation. NetJets became the first private business jet charter and aircraft management company in the world. It launched its fractional ownership business in 1986 and became a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway in 1998.

1960s
The company was founded in 1964 and originally known as Executive Jet Airways. The name was later changed to Executive Jet Aviation (EJA), and again in 2002 to NetJets, after Berkshire Hathaway purchased it in 1998. NetJets was the first private business jet charter and aircraft management company in the world. The idea came from retired Air Force Brigadier General Olbert F. "Dick" Lassiter, who had experience running the Air Mission Squadron, an air taxi service for the Air Force. The idea was to run a similar service for private companies, with a pool of corporate jets providing transportation instead of each company having to purchase and maintain their own plane. The founding members of the board of directors included US Air Force generals Curtis E. LeMay and Paul Tibbets, Washington lawyer and former military pilot Bruce Sundlun, and entertainers and pilots James Stewart and Arthur Godfrey, with Lassiter serving as president and chairman of the board.

Shortly after its founding, EJA began receiving regular investments from the Pennsylvania Railroad, which were managed by accountant David Bevan. In June 1965, the railroad purchased a majority of shares in EJA, despite the fact that rail carriers were barred from owning air carriers by the Federal Aviation Act of 1958. To hide the investments from the PRR board, Bevan made the payments through a subsidiary, the American Contract Company, which he was president of.

EJA initially began operations in 1964 with a fleet of ten Learjet 23 aircraft. The company soon moved to acquire competitors and larger aircraft, including two 707 jets and two 727 jets from Boeing, but these could not be operated without approval from the Civil Aeronautics Board. The Pennsylvania Railroad argued its majority stake in EJA was legal as it consisted of non-voting stock, and anticipating approval from the CAB, EJA licensed its larger jets to foreign airlines. When the CAB instead ruled against EJA, the company now found itself deeply unprofitable, and the Pennsylvania Railroad attempted to sell off its stake. However, potential buyers lost interest after corporate spies for Pan Am acquired and leaked information on EJA's illegal interests. The Pennsylvania Railroad merged into Penn Central in 1968, and the search for a buyer continued. Penn Central and EJA were ultimately fined $70,000 by the CAB in 1969.

In 1970, the trustee for Penn Central's EJA shares voted to oust Lassiter and replace him with Bruce Sundlun. On July 1, the day before he was voted in as president, Sundlun led a midnight raid on EJA's corporate offices with the assistance of Pinkertons. Lassiter attempted to retake the office with armed guards of his own shortly after, but they were stopped by Sundlun's guards. Lassiter was later sued for his role in diverting $21 million of PRR money into EJA, much of which had gone to his personal expenses. Sundlun, Robert L. Scott Jr. and Joseph S. Sinclair bought out the Penn Central interest in EJA in 1972 and stabilized the company's finances. Paul Tibbets became president in 1976.

1980s
In 1984, Executive Jet Aviation was purchased by mathematician and former Goldman Sachs executive Richard Santulli who owned a business that leased helicopters to service providers of offshore oil operations. When Santulli became chairman and CEO of the corporation, he closely examined 22 years of pilot logbooks, and began to envision a new economic model where several individuals could own one aircraft.

In 1987, the NetJets program was officially announced becoming the first fractional aircraft ownership format in history. Around the same time, painted on every NetJets US aircraft is a registration ending with QS, symbolizing the concept of selling quarter shares of an aircraft—a feature that is still representative of the NetJets brand today.

1990s
In 1998, Berkshire Hathaway acquired EJA and NetJets Inc from Richard Santulli for US$725 million, half of which was paid in stock. NetJets soon expanded to Europe and then Russia, and by 2006, it was the largest operator of business jets in Europe.

2000s
The company operated a fleet of nine Boeing 737-700 Boeing Business Jets in the mid-2000s, since then sold off.

In early August 2009, Santulli resigned as CEO and was replaced by David Sokol. Shortly afterward, NetJets moved its corporate headquarters from New Jersey back to its original home in Columbus, Ohio.

2010s
In 2010, NetJets acquired Marquis Jet from founders Jesse Itzler and Kenny Dichter. The prepaid Marquis Jet card allowed customers to purchase 25 hours of guaranteed flight time on the NetJets fleet.

On 11 June 2012, NetJets placed the largest aircraft order in private aviation history totaling US$17.6B. The company placed a firm order for 30 Bombardier Global 5000/6000 jets, 25 Bombardier Challenger 650 jets, 75 Bombardier Challenger 350s, 25 Cessna Citation Latitudes and 50 Embraer Phenom 300s. As a part of this purchase agreement, it also placed conditional orders for an additional 40 Bombardier Global 5000/6000s, 50 Bombardier Challenger 650, 125 Bombardier Challenger 350s, 125 Cessna Citation Latitudes and 75 Embraer Phenom 300s. As a result of these orders NetJets became Cessna's largest business jet fleet owner.

In September 2014, NetJets acquired approval to launch its aircraft charter service in China, having worked with Chinese authorities since 2012 to secure the operating certificate.

In 2015, the company's pilots picketed the Wynn resort in Las Vegas where company owner Warren Buffett was hosting some of his wealthiest customers. The event was symbolic of deteriorating labor relations within the company at this time.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had sought back taxes and penalties of $643 million from NetJets for periods beginning in 2003, including on its maintenance and service fees. NetJets filed a lawsuit challenging the IRS assessments. In January 2015, the United States District Court issued a decision in NetJets' favor, holding that the IRS assessments were unlawful.

In 2019, a former NetJets pilot filed a lawsuit alleging that in March 2017, the company violated US Civil Right and Ohio anti-discrimination law when she was fired for being too short (5 ft) to properly control the rudders of an Embraer Phenom 300. She states that male pilots who were too tall were reassigned to different aircraft, while her employment was terminated without the opportunity to fly a different plane. An Ohio federal judge ruled in favor of NetJets in 2022, citing the plaintiff's failure to prove sex discrimination.

2020s
In the spring of 2020, the company saw a boom in demand, as wealthy individuals sought to avoid the risks of airline flying during the COVID-19 pandemic. Previously, many potential customers had concerns about the optics of opulence and the environmental issues of private jet transport, but NetJets President of Sales, Marketing and Service, Patrick Gallagher noted in May 2020, that the health risks associated with flying on commercial airlines during the pandemic had trumped those concerns. The company introduced regular employee COVID-19 testing to try to contain the risks of an outbreak on its aircraft.

In October 2020, the company made initial moves to reduce its carbon footprint. The company committed to buying "up to 3 million gallons" (11.4 million litres) of sustainable aviation fuel to be used at two of its bases, San Francisco and Columbus, Ohio. The company is also encouraging its customers to buy carbon offsets for their flights. The company will also buy its own offsets for its administration and training flights.

As of November 2020, almost half of the company's fleet was manufactured by Textron, and the rest by Bombardier Inc. and Embraer. After reducing its delivery target for 2021 by more than half, due to decreased demand caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the company expected to take delivery of 40 new aircraft in 2021 in anticipation of industry recovery.

In February 2021, the company purchased a stake in WasteFuel, a business that will convert landfill waste into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). NetJets plans to purchase 100 million gallons of SAF from WasteFuel over the next 10 years as part of the deal.

In March 2021, NetJets announced that it had ordered 20 Aerion AS2s supersonic business jets. The memorandum of understanding between NetJets and Aerion called for the two companies to operate a larger "Aerion Connect" network. Aerion abruptly announced its closure on 21 May 2021, due to the inability to raise the needed capital to continue.

The company announced in March 2022, that it would partner with Lilium GmbH to establish an eVTOL network in Florida. NetJets will buy 150 Lilium Jets and operate them under a FAR Part 135 charter operation.

NetJets announced in September 2023, that it will be purchasing up to 1,500 Cessna Citation jets from Textron Aviation. Deliveries for this 15-year deal are expected to begin in 2025.

Subsidiaries
NetJets Europe, also known by its corporate legal name, NetJets Transportes Aéreos, S.A., was launched in 1996 as a sister company of NetJets and is now a subsidiary. It is based in Oeiras, Portugal, and serves more than 5,000 airports globally.

Also among NetJets subsidiaries is Executive Jet Management (EJM), based in Cincinnati, Ohio, which offers aircraft management and charter services. QS Partners is the whole-aircraft brokerage arm of NetJets, launched in 2016 and officing in Columbus, Ohio; Boulder, Colorado; and London; it also exclusively resells used aircraft from NetJets' fleet. QS Security Services was launched by NetJets in October 2019 with "tiered security packages" based on passenger needs and threat level at destination. Initially only available at Paris Le Bourget and in Mexico, future plans include worldwide coverage by 2023.

Business model
NetJets sells fractions of specific aircraft, chosen from several available types at the time of purchase. Owners then have guaranteed access (50–400 hours annually, depending on share size) to that aircraft with as little as four hours' notice. If the owner's aircraft is unavailable for some reason, another aircraft of the same type, or a larger aircraft, will be provided.

Fractional owners pay monthly maintenance fees for a minimum of 50 annual flight hours and a five-year commitment, as well as operating fees by the hour for use of aircraft. Alternatively, customers may buy flight hours in 25-hour increments by way of jet card programs. Fractional owners also pay an occupied hourly operating fee, but it is charged only when an owner or guest is on board, not for ferry flights.

NetJets is the largest fractional aircraft provider. In 2021 its fleet flew 478,444 hours.

For companies or individuals that require less than the minimum 50 flight hours and the five-year commitment of fractional ownership, they can buy flight hours in 25-hour increments via the NetJets jet card programs.

Fleet
NetJets is the largest private jet operator in the world. The NetJets fleet : As of March 2024, NetJets' global fleet included more than 750 aircraft.

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Masako Natsume

Masako Natsume (夏目 雅子) was a Japanese actress from Tokyo. Widely popular in Japan, she gained worldwide recognition for her portrayal of Tripitaka in the TV series Monkey, which is now considered a cult classic.

Biography
Masako was born Masako Odate in Shibuya, Tokyo, the only daughter of Sue and Kazu Odate. Raised in Naka-ku, Yokohama, while in junior college in 1976 she auditioned for the lead role in Nihon TV's drama Ai ga miemasu ka ("Can you see love?"). Chosen from 4,000 applicants, she dropped out of school to pursue an acting career, playing the part under her real name Masako Odate. Masako's mother initially objected to her choice of career and requested that she not use the Odate family name if she gained further work. In 1977, she changed her name to Natsume.

In 1977, she was chosen to represent Kanebo Ltd., achieving great popularity after appearing topless as the "Kooky Face" girl in an ad for sunscreen. This popularity led to her recording a song later that year called "Oh! Cookie Face." Many bit parts and a few leads in movies followed, but she continued in television.

In 1978-79, she played the male part of Tripitaka (Sanzō-hōshi, Japanese translation of Sanzang-fashi) in the 1970s Japanese TV program Saiyūki, which proved popular in many English-speaking countries in the 1980s, when dubbed by the BBC and titled Monkey. Masako won the part as she had matched contemporary descriptions of Sanzō-hōshi's appearance more closely than male actors who auditioned.

Specialising as well-bred but shy heroines in her movies, she was regularly criticized by the public and media for her poor acting. However, this changed in 1982 after appearing as an ambitious and immoral woman in the TV drama Shousha and as the daughter of a yakuza leader in the movie Onimasa. One of her lines from this movie, "Don't you look down on me!" (なめたらいかんぜよ), became a very popular catchphrase in Japan.

She won the award for best actress at the 8th Hochi Film Award for The Catch and Time and Tide.

Death
In 1984, she married Japanese author Tadaki Nishiyama, known under the pen name Shizuka Ijūin. But after only a year, she died from acute leukemia at the age of 27 in 1985, and is buried in Hōfu, Yamaguchi under the married name Masako Nishiyama.

Legacy
In 1997, Canon produced a television commercial for a copy machine, featuring her photocopied images, which offered 100 free compilations of the images in a book. Canon received 230,000 applications. Masako Natsume picture books and calendars are still popular in Japan today.

In 2007, TBS broadcast a documentary on Masako's life entitled Himawari – Natsume Masako 27-nen no shōgai to haha no ai ("Sunflower: Masako Natsume, a 27-year life and a mother's love") based on the book Futari no Masako written by her mother, Sue Odate. Yagi Yūki played the part of the young Masako and Nakama Yukie portrayed her as an adult.

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Grand Central, Birmingham

Grand Central (formerly The Pallasades Shopping Centre, previously Birmingham Shopping Centre) is a shopping centre located above New Street railway station in Birmingham, England, that opened in 1971 as Birmingham Shopping Centre. In 1989, it was largely refurbished and reopened on 17 September 1990 as The Pallasades Shopping Centre. The centre underwent a mass redevelopment in 2014, opening on 24 September 2015 as Grand Central. It is currently owned by Hammerson and CPPIB, having been acquired from Birmingham City Council in January 2016 for £335m. When coupled with the Bullring (to which it is connected via a footbridge, branded as "LinkStreet") it forms the United Kingdom's largest city centre-based shopping centre, styled Bullring & Grand Central.

History
The original centre was built in 1971 as part of the reconstruction of New Street Station below. It was known as the Birmingham Shopping Centre before being renamed The Pallasades.

Redevelopment
As part of the New Street Station Gateway Plus redevelopment, Grand Central underwent a major overhaul, which included a six-year long programme of enabling works by a Birmingham demolition contractor, Colemans, formerly Coleman & Co. The mall has been redesigned with a Texlon ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) atrium roof as centrepiece, and it has over 60 stores across 500,000 sqft with John Lewis as the main tenant. Many of the shops, restaurants and cafés are new to the city including Cath Kidston, The White Company, Kiehls, Giraffe and Tapas Revolution. It reopened in September 2015 along with the modernised Birmingham New Street station.

The shopping centre's name is given to the adjacent tram stop that opened in May 2016. John Lewis announced in 2020 that its store would not reopen after being closed during the COVID-19 restrictions.

Grand Central was selected as a filming location for the 2023 film Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.

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Talk:Ratty

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I really don't believe this deserves a place here. Thinking about putting up a VfD. Salvag 16:00, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, your probably right. I doubt any more information than a few sentences can be said about Ratty, and what can be said is at the X-Play article. Thunderbrand 22:37, July 24, 2005 (UTC)

Article look
It follows the same design as the article on Origin.

This page is basically intended for people to find the correct article they are looking for (eg the character in the Wind of the Willows, or the film). Ratty. 20:44, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Hit Man manual

Per "Hit Man" being in the public domain, there was an hour long show on A&E that covered the murder and when discussing the court case it did mention that Paladin gave up their copyright to the book. It has aired numerous times (I've seen it atleast 3 times), but without an exact quote or other source to prove this (will search later) I will resist editing the page.

The A&E show was called "Blueprint for a Murder", if anyone can get a hold of it (or another source) and confirm the public domain dispute it would be appreciated.

I wrote to Paladin Press about the copyrights of this book and here is what they said: "Thank you for your e-mail. The copyrights are held by the author at this time – this book is not in the public domain." --Eric Ashford 23:29, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

what the heck do you have with the florida houswife? you don't have any evidence. if you want to state it, give the name of this"florida housewife" instead of YOUR opinion. did you actually READ the book? I don't think so. by the way, it doesn't take things out of tom clancy. at the time of writing there was only on clancy novel "the hunt for red october" which is not about hitman but about friggin submarines. the author takes some valuable notes out of The Day Of The Jackal and From Russia, With Love, not tom clancy.

Yes, I did read the book. And anyone who knows anything about this would know that it was not written by Rex Feral, but it was written by a Florida housewife. Do some research and I guarantee you will find this to be true. And I said "some say" the information was taken from Tom Clancy, I did not state that as a fact. Please read the article before you criticize. --Eric Ashford 21:55, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

do you perhaps now the name of this "florida housewife"? i doubt it. don't you think it was made up to prevent people from following the instuctions in the book?

Merger

 * Strong Merge - same book - undoubtedly merge - in fact why ask just do it. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page)  11:36, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Merge; might I suggest that the information in this article be merged into Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors as opposed to the other way around? Given that Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors is the correct title, Hit Man Manual sounds to be a more general term for the various other "how to kill" guides floating around the internet. Ud terrorist 08:37, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

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Have It All (Foo Fighters song)

"Have It All" was the fourth and final single to be released off the Foo Fighters' fourth album One by One. Its B-side, a cover of Prince's "Darling Nikki", became successful at US alternative radio, peaking at number 15 there. The single artwork was designed by artist Raymond Pettibon.

Live performances
"Have It All" was played often on the One by One tour. It was played occasionally on the In Your Honor tour, and made one appearance on the Echoes Silence Patience and Grace tour in 2008. It was not played again until the Sonic Highways tour in 2015.

Track listing

 * 1) "Have It All"
 * 2) "Darling Nikki" (Prince cover)
 * 3) "Disenchanted Lullaby" (live, acoustic Radio1 UK, 19 August 2003)
 * 4) "Weenie Beenie" (live)
 * "Weenie Beenie" (live) was a misprint on the inlay on the US version of the CD, meaning all CDs only include "Have It All", "Darling Nikki", and "Disenchanted Lullaby" (live, acoustic Radio1 UK, 19 August 2003).

Personnel

 * Dave Grohl – vocals, rhythm guitar
 * Chris Shiflett – lead guitar
 * Nate Mendel – bass
 * Taylor Hawkins – drums

Chart positions
A-side: "Have It All"

B-side: "Darling Nikki"

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Titanic Express massacre

The Titanic Express massacre took place on 28 December 2000, when 21 people were killed in an attack on a Titanic Express bus close to Bujumbura (then the capital of Burundi).

The passengers, who had traveled from Kigali in Rwanda, were robbed of their valuables and then separated according to their ethnicity. Hutus and most Congolese were released unharmed. The Tutsis on board, and one British woman, Charlotte Wilson, who was traveling with her Burundian fiancé, were forced to lie face down on the ground and then shot. According to news reports, one of the Hutu passengers had been told to "tell the army we're going to kill them all and there's nothing you can do."

The attack took place in the province of Bujumbura Rural, a stronghold of the Hutu-extremist group Palipehutu-FNL (commonly known as FNL). The group is known for its hostility to the Tutsi ethnic group, and is believed to have carried out dozens of similar attacks in the same area. Although the FNL has denied responsibility for the "Titanic Express" attack, the Burundian authorities and a number of human rights groups have publicly blamed them for the massacre.

In May 2001, the International Crisis Group attributed the Titanic Express attack to "troops under the order of... Agathon Rwasa". In January 2004, the Sunday Times announced the discovery of a document which appears to be an FNL report, signed by a senior commander, detailing how the Titanic Express massacre was carried out. In June 2006, detailed eyewitness accounts of the attack were published in the book Titanic Express: Finding Answers in the Aftermath of Terror, by Richard Wilson, the brother of Charlotte Wilson.

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Ti (philosophy)

Ti is the Chinese word for substance or body. The philosopher Zhang Zai described the ti as "that which is never absent, that is, through all transformations."

In Neo-Confucianism, this concept is often associated with yong, which means "use" or "function." Such function or how the yong of a thing is its activity or its response when stimulated underscores the link. Like the concepts of nei-wai (inner-outer) and ben-mo (root-branch), ti-yong is central to Chinese metaphysics. The link was adopted in order to manifest the actual meaning of the two truths and the relationship between them.

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Peter Stjärnvind

Peter Stjärnvind (born 11 August 1973) is a Swedish drummer. His current position is the drummer of Krux and Swedish black metal band Pest, and guitarist and founder of Black Trip. Before that he also played in Loud Pipes, Merciless, Unanimated, Regurgitate, Entombed, Nifelheim, and Face Down. He also appeared in several side-projects, including Born of Fire and Murder Squad.

with Entombed

 * Same Difference
 * Uprising
 * Morning Star
 * Inferno
 * Unreal Estate (Live)

with Face Down

 * The Twisted Rule The Wicked

with Krux

 * Krux
 * II

with Loud Pipes

 * Drunk Forever
 * The Downhill Blues

with Merciless

 * Unbound
 * Merciless

with Murder Squad

 * Unsane, Insane and Mentally Deranged
 * Ravenous, Murderous

with Nifelheim

 * Envoy of Lucifer

with Pest

 * The Crowning Horror

with Regurgitate

 * Effortless Regurgitation of Bright Red Blood

with Unanimated

 * In the Forest of the Dreaming Dead
 * Ancient God of Evil
 * In the Light of Darkness

with Watain

 * Sworn to the Dark – guest vocals on Stellarvore

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Acoustic interferometer

An acoustic interferometer is an instrument that uses interferometry to measure the physical characteristics of sound waves in a gas or liquid. It may be used to measure velocity, wavelength, absorption, or impedance of the sound waves. The principle of operation is that a vibrating crystal creates ultrasonic waves that are radiated into the medium being analyzed. The waves strike a reflector placed parallel to the crystal. The waves are then reflected back to the source and measured.

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Yong

Yong may refer to:

 * Yong, Chinese character for "permanence", unique in that the character contains eight strokes common to Chinese characters; see Eight Principles of Yong
 * Yong, Chinese character for "use" or "function"; in Neo-Confucianism, often associated with Ti ("substance" or "body"); see Essence-Function
 * Yong or Yongcheng, capital of Qin (state), located in modern Fengxiang County, founded in 677 BC and moved to Yueyang (櫟陽) in 383 BC
 * Yong, a variant of Yang (surname) (楊/杨)
 * Korean dragon (yong)
 * Yong River, Zhejiang Province, China
 * Yong River (Guangxi), Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
 * Yong, Ghana, a community in Tamale Metropolitan District in the Northern Region of Ghana
 * Yong Yong, another name for the Chinese bootleg game company Makon Soft

People

 * Yong (Chinese name)
 * Yong (Korean name)
 * Yong (musician) (born 2000), Norwegian producer, singer, songwriter & YouTuber.
 * Yong Poovorawan (born 1950), Thai virologist.
 * Taeyong (born 1995), South Korean rapper, singer, and songwriter.

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Talk:Arup Group

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Undisclosed paid edits
I have added an undisclosed paid tag to this article because of extensive editing by a UPE sockfarm, please see Sockpuppet investigations/Jaktheladz for evidence.{{#if:Curious All Tunes| Users relevant to this page include: {{#invoke:String|sub|{{For nowiki|| {{#if:{{{1|}}}|{{Np2|{{{1}}}}}, ||}} |Curious All Tunes|Hippie Klingon||||||||}}}|1|-8}}|}} The article will need a thorough review ensuring due weight, neutral language, and use of reliable sources before the tag is removed. MarioGom (talk) 14:22, 24 October 2021 (UTC)

 * Hi, my name is Dan and I work for Arup. You can see below I have been suggesting factual changes where I can see information is out of date or incorrect. I’m keen to understand what we can do to prove that we’re engaging with the community in accordance with Wikipedia’s policies and guidelines, and ultimately show that the undisclosed paid edits tag is no longer warranted. I hope the track record of the edits I've outlined shows that this is not a practice we engage in now. I’d appreciate your guidance on this. Arup Dan (talk) 15:52, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Factual edits for the page
Hi everyone,

My name is Dan and I work for Arup. I’ve set up this profile to connect and build relations with the Wikipedia Community after seeing some out of date information on Arup’s Wikipedia page. I've been through the page, and the page of one of our board members, and suggested factual changes where I can see information is out of date or incorrect. I am aware of conflict of interest guidelines, so have been careful to only suggest edits that are strictly factual.

I would appreciate any feedback from the community on this and/or any advice on how these could be improved if necessary. I've detailed the edits below.

Many thanks,

Dan

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Arup Dan (talk) 14:54, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

 * Hi everyone, I'd like to propose a couple more changes to the page. Arup has recently changed its Chair - the post is now held by Jerome Frost. https://www.arup.com/news-and-events/jerome-frost-appointed-as-next-chair-of-arup-group
 * The fellows list is also a few years old, so I'd like to bring it up to date. https://www.arup.com/our-firm/arup-fellows
 * Please do let me know if anyone has any concerns about these proposed changes - any feedback or advice from the community would be very welcome.
 * Many thanks,
 * Dan Arup Dan (talk) 13:52, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

'Undisclosed paid edits' tag
Hi everyone,

This is Dan from Arup again. We noticed that an “Undisclosed paid edits” tag has been listed on this page since just over two years ago. This is certainly not a practice we engage in now and I hope the track record of the edits I've outlined shows this. Are there any outstanding inaccuracies or edits that would need to be removed for this tag to be removed?

We're keen to work with the community to make this happen.

Thank you,

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Ronnie Burns (actor)

Ronald Jon Burns (July 9, 1935 – November 14, 2007) was an American television actor. He is primarily remembered as the son of comedians George Burns and Gracie Allen and a regular cast member of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950–58) on CBS.

Biography
Born in Evanston, Illinois, Ronnie Burns was eleven weeks old when he was adopted in Chicago on September 27, 1935, by George Burns and Gracie Allen. His older sister, Sandra Jean, had been adopted the year before by Burns and Allen, and was then 13 months old. According to George Burns, Ronnie had been the most sickly baby up for adoption from the agency, and Gracie chose him because she particularly felt he needed their help.

Burns and his sister Sandra had roles as themselves in the March 15, 1951, episode "The Vanderlips' Dinner Party" CBS television series The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show. On October 10, 1955, Burns joined as a regular cast member playing himself but cast as a novice actor and college student studying drama who tended to look askance at his parents' comedy style. He first appeared on the show on October 18, 1954, as the bridegroom on the episode "Gracie Gives a Wedding in Payment of a Favor" (Season 5, Episode 3). Upon joining the show full-time, numerous episodes revolved around the fictional Ronnie Burns's dating and social life. His good looks and popularity helped the show gain the attention of younger viewers in its final years. Later he appeared on The George Burns Show (1958–59), a short-lived series produced after his mother retired from show business.

Burns starred in the 1960–61 NBC comedy series Happy, in which he and Yvonne Lime Fedderson played Chris and Sally Day, the parents of a talking baby. He played the manager of the Palm Desert Hotel in Palm Springs. Lloyd Corrigan, Doris Packer, and Burt Metcalfe had supporting roles.

He made an uncredited appearance as Wallace on the "Young at Heart" episode of The Honeymooners, which featured Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason) trying to roller skate with disastrous results. Burns made a cameo appearance on Bachelor Father starring John Forsythe.

Never comfortable with celebrity, Burns left acting. He produced a situation comedy, Wendy and Me (1964–65), in which his father starred. He then went into real estate investment and raised horses at a ranch he owned in Santa Ynez, California.

Ronnie Burns died November 14, 2007, of cancer at age 72, in his Pacific Palisades home. He was survived by his wife, Janice, three sons from his first marriage: Brent, Brad, and Bryan Burns, six grandchildren and his adopted sister, Sandra.

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Dräger (company)

Dräger is a German company based in Lübeck which makes breathing and protection equipment, gas detection and analysis systems, and noninvasive patient monitoring technologies. Customers include hospitals, fire departments and diving companies.

History
The company was founded in Lübeck in 1889 as Dräger & Gerling by and Carl Adolf Gerling. The first patent was taken out for a reduction device for using carbon dioxide to dispense beer. In 1902 Heinrich Dräger's son Bernhard entered the management; from then on, the company was named ''Drägerwerk Heinr. und Bernh. Dräger''. Since 1970, Drägerwerk has been a public limited company, or Aktiengesellschaft (AG) in German.

In 2003, the aerospace division was sold to Cobham plc. In July 2006, it was announced that Draeger Aerospace GmbH had been acquired by B/E Aerospace, Inc.

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, demand for the Draeger's ventilators significantly increased. In February 2020, the production capacity was doubled and was to be doubled again (as of March 2020). The German federal government commissioned the company with 10,000 devices, which were to be delivered in the course of 2020. Ultimately, only 1,557 devices were delivered, and the rest cancelled. A larger part of the production is sold abroad. In addition, the production of respiratory masks was doubled. According to an article in New York Times, Xavier Becerra (who was selected by then-President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. as his nominee for the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the US), made the statement that they plan to order approximately 1 million medical ventilators for managing the Covid19 epidemic when he took office. In this statement, he named Dräger under the potential suppliers.

Dräger Medical GmbH

Dräger Medical is a manufacturer of medical equipment. The company offers products and services including Emergency Care, Perioperative Care, Critical Care, Perinatal Care and Home Care. With headquarters in Lübeck, Germany, Dräger Medical employs nearly 14,000 people worldwide, around half of whom work in customer sales & services. R&D and production are located in Lübeck, Germany; Best, Netherlands; Richmond Hill, ON, Canada; Telford, PA, USA; Andover, MA, USA; and Shanghai, China. The company has sales and service subsidiaries in almost 50 countries and is represented in more than 190 countries.

Dräger Safety GmbH
Dräger Safety GmbH is a manufacturer of personal protection and gas detection technology, and a supplier of safety systems for industry, fire prevention, mining and other hazardous areas. The products and services from Dräger Safety warn and protect people from airborne pollutants and enable people to breathe reliably even in extreme situations.

Dräger claims to have longstanding experience, especially in the fields of gas management, gas flow control, gas monitoring and gas measurement. The current product range encompasses respiratory protective equipment for firefighters, miners and other industrial personnel as well as complete air filter and air supply systems, portable and fixed gas detection and warning systems, devices for on-site or laboratory contaminant analysis, and instruments to determine a person's breath-alcohol concentration.

Dräger combines the practical use of equipment with, for example, consultancy services, training, maintenance, service and commissioning. Represented in over 100 countries, the company has 40 subsidiaries and, with its 3,600 employees, achieved global sales of €557.8 million in 2005 (EBIT: €40.7 million). Dräger Safety operates production plants in Germany, Great Britain, USA, Sweden, South Africa and China.

Dräger Safety is in competition with other manufacturers of safety equipment such as RAE Systems, WatchGas, Sensidyne, LP., Mine Safety Appliances, and Industrial Scientific Corporation.

Dräger supports the German Firefighting Sports Federation in the German firefighting fitness badge.

Colorimetric gas detector tubes
Dräger was one of a few companies who were early pioneers of colorimetric gas detector tubes (also known as "detector tubes") used to measure the concentration of gases present. In a typical colorimetric gas detector tube a known volume of air is pumped through a tube using a pump. The tube typically has a layer which indicates the analyte by changing colour, depending on the amount of the gas which has passed through the tube the length of the zone which has changed colour will be different. Today colorimetric gas detector tubes are used throughout industry as a low-cost and easy-to-use tool for detecting the presence of gases and are available from a wide range of manufacturers.

An early limitation of detector tubes is that they were designed to detect a single known gas or vapor. Advancements in the design and capability of detector tubes came with the introduction of such tools as the HazMat kit. The specialty kits are designed for use by hazardous material response teams in determining what gases or vapors are present through using a "stack" of colorimetric material that change color based upon the presence of an organic or inorganic gas.

Alcohol screening kits
Dräger developed their first alcohol screening kit in 1953 when some employees came into work hungover following a party the night before. It was originally developed using silicon crystals, where a breath sample was passed through these silicon crystals, if there was alcohol in this breath sample, a chemical reaction would occur resulting in the crystals changing colour. This particular method is still used today to create "single use breathalyzers."

Dräger's first digital display Alcohol Screening Kit was developed in 1980. Later they developed a breathalyzer that uses a fuel sensor. Many of Drägers breathalyzers have United Kingdom Home Office approval, which means they can be used by the police in a variety of countries, including the UK.

Standard diving helmets and other equipment
Drägerwerk manufactured heavy diving equipment in the early 20th century, including helmets and diver's air pumps.

Standard diving dress rebreathers
In 1912 Drägerwerk developed standard diving dress which did not need surface supplied breathing gas via a diver's umbilical, as it used a self contained gas supply came from a rebreather. The system used a copper diving helmet and standard heavy diving suit with a back-mounted set of cylinders and scrubber. Two versions were available, The DM20 for oxygen to 20 metres, and the DM40 for nitrox to 40 metres, using an oxygen cylinder and an air cylinder, and mixing the gas as it was used. The semi-closed breathing circuit used the injected gas to circulate the gas in the helmet through a scrubber, providing a very low work of breathing in comparison with most other rebreathers which used the lungs of the diver to circulate gas in the loop. The Modell 1915 bubikopf helmet was designed for use with this system. The rebreather loop hoses connected to the back of the helmet below the overhanging part, and led from there to the back-mounted scrubber.

SCBA and SCUBA rebreathers
Since 1941 Hans Hass used bag-on-back rebreathers for scuba diving, originally built by Dräger for self-rescue of submarine crews (Tauchretter; like the Davis Escape Set). The first Dräger-Tauchretter  had been built in 1907. In 1926 the Bade-Tauchretter was brought into service for rescuing drowning swimmers.

Dräger manufactured the Atlantis, Ray and Dolphin lines of recreational diving semi-closed-circuit nitrox rebreathers. It also makes the LAR-5 and LAR-6 military oxygen rebreathers, and the LAV-7 military rebreather which is switchable between closed-circuit and semi-closed-circuit.

Atlantis/Dolphin
The Dräger Dolphin, originally Atlantis is a semi-closed circuit nitrox rebreather for recreational diving using a constant mass flow injection system.

Ray
The Dräger Ray is a semi-closed circuit recreational diving rebreather designed to use standard nitrox breathing gas mixtures.

Harness and assembly
The soft harness has integrated over-the-shoulder counterlungs and buoyancy compensator bladder. The harness also carries a moderate sized scrubber canister on the upper back, and a single transversely mounted cylinder on the lower back. The Ray delivers a constant mass flow of gas to the breathing circuit through a Dräger Shark regulator and a metering orifice which is chosen from a small range, and which must be matched to the chosen gas mixture.

The whole unit excepting cylinders is supplied in a carrying case.

Breathing loop
The standard unit provides a simple (DSV) with mouthpiece, but an optional DSV connects to the Dräger Panorama full-face mask using the standard Dräger P-port connection system which is also used for the connections between the breathing hoses and counterlungs, and between the counterlungs and scrubber canister. The back mounted scrubber has axial flow, and has an auxiliary P-port on the base, which can be used to connect an optional oxygen monitor cell.

The automatic diluent valve is combined with the metering orifice as a single unit which plugs into a counterlung using a standard P-port connection.

Gas supply
The standard cylinder supplied with the unit is a 4-litre 200 bar steel cylinder, but it can also carry an 8-litre steel cylinder, which is about the same length but larger diameter. Standard open circuit bailout uses a Shark demand valve on the same first stage used for the metering and ADV. There is also a low pressure hose to supply the buoyancy compensator.

Specifications
Recreational semi-closed circuit rebreather with constant mass flow dosage and demand gas supply, open circuit bailout on independent second stage.
 * Year of design: 2000
 * Scrubber capacity: approximately 1,25 kg
 * Width: 450 mm
 * Height: 600 mm
 * Weight: approximately 15 kg
 * Gas supply cylinder: 4 litre 200 bar (standard)
 * Diving depth:
 * 6 msw (100% oxygen)
 * 22 msw (EAN 50)
 * 30 msw (EAN 40)
 * 40 msw (EAN 32)
 * Dive duration: approximately 70 minutes (EAN 50)
 * Gas mixes: EAN 32, EAN 40, EAN 50, 100% Oxygen (require dedicated components - fixed orifice in ADV valve block)
 * Flow rate (approximate):
 * EAN 40: 12 litre/minute
 * EAN 50: 8.25 litre/minute

High altitude breathing equipment
Dräger made the high-altitude oxygen sets used by the 1952 Swiss Mount Everest expedition (the second (autumn) expedition), and John Hunt was able to have adaptors made so that the 1953 British expedition could use oxygen from tanks the Swiss had left behind, particularly for their bottled oxygen "sleeping sets".

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Sanz

Sanz (or Tsanz, צאנז) is a Hasidic dynasty originating in the city of Sanz (Nowy Sącz) in Galicia. The dynasty was founded by the rebbe Rabbi Chaim Halberstam (1793–1876) who was the rabbi of Nowy Sącz and the author of the work Divrei Chaim by which name he is known as well.

Rabbi Chaim was a disciple of Rabbi Naftali Zvi of Ropshitz. He opened his court after the death of Rabbi Asher Yeshaya of Ropshitz, son-in-law of Rabbi Naftali Tzvi.

After his demise (25 Nisan 5636, 19 April 1876), his six sons and his seven sons-in-law built courtyards with new names in the cities where they served as rabbis, and their chassidim separated, but most of them went to his eldest son, Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam of Shinova. His fourth son, Rabbi Aharon, remained to serve as rabbi and rebbe in Sanz, but he was known as the 'Rav of Kreiz', that is, the rabbi of the province, a title he already had in his father's life. In the generations that followed, there were divisions within the courtyards of the dynasty and dozens of different courts were established from the dynasty, and existed until the Holocaust.

Sanz dynasty
The Divrei Chaim had fourteen children; his seven sons were:

 * 1) Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam (1814–1898) of Shinive;
 * 2) Rabbi Duvid Halberstam (1821–1894) of Kshaniv;
 * 3) Rabbi Myer Nosson Halberstam (1827–1855), father of Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam, the first Bobover Rebbe;
 * 4) Rabbi Boruch Halberstam (1829–1906) of Gorlice (גארליץ Gorlitz);
 * 5) Rabbi Aharon Halberstam, his successor in Nowy Sącz;
 * 6) Rabbi Shulem Lazer Halberstam of Ratzfert (1862–1944), who was murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust;
 * 7) Rabbi Yitzchok Yeshaye Halberstam of Czchów (טשחויווTshkhoiv) (1864–1944), who was also murdered by the Nazis;

and seven daughters:

 * 1) Reitza who married Rabbi Mordechai Dov Twerski, the Admor of Hornsteipl.
 * 2) Miryam who married Rabbi Moshe Unger, son of Rabbi Mordechai David of Dombrov.
 * 3) Yuta who married Rabbi Eliezer Yerucham Baron, son of Rabbi Yisrael Yitzchak Baron of Radoshitz
 * 4) Nechama who married Rabbi Yitzchak Tuvia Rubin, rabbi of "New Sanz" and son of Rabbi Meir Rubin of Glogov-Dombrova
 * 5) Tila who married Rabbi Aharon Horowitz, Admor of Beitsh (Biecz), son of Rabbi Meir Horowitz of Dzikov
 * 6) Freidel who married Rabbi Elazar HaLevi Rosenfeld, Av Beit Din of Oswiecim, son of Rabbi Yehoshua HaLevi Rosenfeld of Kaminke [HE]

Bobov

 * Rabbi Chaim Halberstam (1793–1876) of Sanz
 * Rabbi Mayer Noson Halberstam (1827–1855), son of Rabbi Chaim of Sanz
 * Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam (1847–1905), first Bobover Rebbe, author of Ateres Shlomo, son of Rabbi Mayer Noson
 * Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam (1874–1941), second Bobover Rebbe, author of Kedushas Tzion, son of Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam
 * Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam (1907–2000), third Bobover Rebbe, son of Rabbi Ben Zion
 * Rabbi Naftali Tzvi Halberstam (1931–2005) fourth Bobover Rebbe, son of Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam
 * Rabbi Ben Zion Aryeh Leibish Halberstam (born 1955), present Bobover Rebbe, son of Rabbi Shlomo (II)
 * Rabbi Mordechai Dovid Unger (born 1954) present Bobov-45 Rebbe, son-in-law of Rabbi Naftali Tzvi

Sanz

 * Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz
 * Rabbi Aaron Halberstam (1826–1903), Sanzer Rav; son of Rabbi Chaim
 * Rabbi Arye Leibish Halberstam (1852–1935), Sanzer Rav; son of Rabbi Aaron
 * Rabbi Mordechai Zev Halberstam (1882–1942), Sanzer Rav; son of Rabbi Aryeh Leibish
 * Rabbi Boruch Halberstam (1903–1942), Gribover Rav; son of Rabbi Mordechai Zev
 * Rabbi Naftali Halberstam, Sanz-Gribover Rebbe in Boro Park, son of Rabbi Boruch
 * Rabbi Ahron halberstam, Sanzer Rebbe in Staten island, son of Rabbi Naftali
 * Rabbi kalmon halberstam, Sanzer Rebbe in Monroe, son of Rabbi Naftali

 * The following dynasties stem from Rabbi Boruch Halberstam, the Gorlitser Rov:

Gorlitz

 * Grand Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz
 * Grand Rabbi Boruch Halberstam of Gorlitz, son of Rabbi Chaim of Sanz
 * Grand Rabbi Elisha Halberstam (1860–1941) – died in Siberia
 * Grand Rabbi Boruch Halberstam (died 1982) of Gorlitz-Bnei Brak, son-in-law of Rabbi Yisochor Shlomo Teichtal of Pishtian, author of Eim Habonim S'meicho

Klausenburg

 * Grand Rabbi Chaim Halberstam (1793–1876) of Sanz.
 * Grand Rabbi Baruch Halberstam (1829–1906) of Gorlitz, son of Rabbi Chaim of Sanz
 * Grand Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh Halberstam (1851–1918), of Ridnik, son of Rabbi Baruch
 * Grand Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam (1904–1994), the First Klausenberger Rebbe, son of Rabbi Tzvi
 * Grand Rabbi Zvi Elimelech Halberstam, present Kiryat Sanzer Rebbe in Kiryat Sanz, Netanya, Israel, son of Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah
 * Grand Rabbi Shmuel Dovid Halberstam, present Klausenberger Rebbe in Brooklyn, New York, USA, son of Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah

Zhmigrod

 * Grand Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Sanz
 * Grand Rabbi Baruch Halberstam of Gorlitz, son of Rabbi Chaim of Sanz
 * Grand Rabbi Sinai Halberstam (1870–1941), the first Zhmigroder Rebbe, a son of Rabbi Boruch of Gorlitz; died in the Omsk forest, Siberia.
 * Grand Rabbi Aryeh Leibish Halberstam (1909–7 January 2007 ), the second Zhmigroder Rebbe, son-in-law of the Stretiner Rebbe, Grand Rabbi Yehuda Tsvi Brandwein. Author of Arye Sho'ag, died in Netanya. In his youth he studied under the Tshebiner Rov and Rabbi Meir Shapiro. During World War II had to leave Zhmigrid for Kraków, then Lviv and eventually Siberia. He served as a rebbe in Petah Tikva, where he found the Divrei Chaim Synagogue, Yafo and Bnei Brak. For a short period in 1950 he lived in Antwerp.
 * Grand Rabbi Sinai Halberstam, third and the current Zhmigroder Rebbe, son of Rabbi Aryeh Leibish
 * Grand Rabbi Yehosua Halberstam, Zhmigroder Rebbe of Antwerp, son of Rabbi Aryeh Leibish
 * Grand Rabbi Chaim Halberstam, Zhmigroder Rebbe of Bnei Brak, son of Rabbi Aryeh Leibish
 * Grand Rabbi Yisrael Halberstam, Zhmigroder Rebbe of America
 * Grand Rabbi Sinai Halberstam, Zhmigroder Rebbe of Borough Park (43rd Street), son of Rabbi Yisrael

Tshokave

 * Grand Rabbi Yaakov Halberstam (1902–1967), the Tshakover Rebbe, son-in-law of the Shotzer Rebbe
 * Grand Rabbi Meir Halberstam, Tshakover Rebbe of Bnei Brak (?-2011)
 * Grand Rabbi Naftali Halberstam, Tshakover Rebbe of Jerusalem
 * Rabbi Moshe Halberstam, (1932 – 2006) Rosh Yeshiva of Tshakove in Jerusalem, halachic authority and member of the Edah HaChareidis.
 * Rabbi Chacham Tzvi Halberstam (1937–1972), author of Toldot ha-Maggid mi-Kozhnits.
 * Rabbi Sinai Halberstam, rabbi of the Shikkun Gimel district of Bnei Brak
 * Grand Rabbi Naftali Elimelech Halberstam, Leipniker Rebbe of Bnei Brak

Books of the Sanz movement
The main Hasidic works revered by the Sanz Dynasty are Divrei Chaim, by Rabbi Chaim Halberstam of Tsanz and Divrei Yechezkel by his son, Rabbi Yechezkel Shraga Halberstam.

Names
The place name Sanz in Poland should not be confused with the city Sens in France, for which another name is Shanz, as in Tos'fos Shanz, the title of famous commentators of the Talmud. Shanz is also sometimes spelled Shantz.

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Jason Tahincioğlu

Jason Tahincioğlu (born 29 October 1983 in Bristol, United Kingdom), also known as Jason Tahinci, is a Turkish-British auto racing driver born into a car racing family.

Career
Tahincioğlu started driving mini karts at the age of six. In 1990, he debuted in kart racing. From 1991 on, he became champion in mini-kart racing for four successive years. Tahincioğlu moved up then in 1995 to the Promo kart series and became second after his elder sister Raina Tahincioğlu. The next year, he went to the Netherlands to participate in the championships there and became 5th among 24 drivers. Returning to Turkey, Tahincioğlu became champion in the Promo series in 1997 and 1998. During this time, he also participated in the European Junior Championships. He moved to the Super kart category and became champion in 1999 and 2000. Tahincioğlu ended his kart racing career with 8 Turkish championship titles.

Tahincioğlu experienced the taste of driving a Formula Three racing car for the first time on his birthday in 1998, a gift from his father Mümtaz Tahincioğlu, long-time president of Turkish Motorsports Federation (TOSFED) and FIA Council Member. In 2000, he debuted in the Turkish Formula Three Championship and finished in second place. In 2001, he did not race in order to finish high school. From 2002, he competed in the British Formula Renault championship finishing 20th in 2005. In August 2005, Tahincioğlu became the first ever Turkish racer to drive a Formula One car when he completed test runs for Jordan Grand Prix on a Toyota TF105 at the Silverstone Circuit.

In 2006, Tahincioğlu became the teammate of Luca Filippi in the GP2 team FMS International, with the Turkish gasoline company Petrol Ofisi named as their new sponsor at the same time. He signed a two-year deal with the team, matching the sponsorship deal made as a part of Petrol Ofisi's backing extension. Despite scoring no points, he was retained for the second year of his contract in 2007. In 2006 he also raced in the Turkish leg of the World Series by Renault. He competed in both races in the 3.5 class.

For the 2008 season, he competed for the BCN Competicion team in the GP2 Asia Series. In the same year, he was also a test driver for the Galatasaray team in the inaugural Superleague Formula season, having revealed he was a lifelong fan of Galatasaray.

Tahincioğlu was educated in automotive engineering at the University of Bath in England.

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USS Raven (AM-55)

USS Raven (AM-55), the lead ship of her class of minesweeper, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the raven. Her keel was laid down on 28 June 1939 by the Norfolk Navy Yard in Portsmouth, Virginia. She was launched on 24 August 1940 sponsored by Miss Elizabeth Scott Baker, and commissioned on 11 November 1940.

1940-1945 World War II
Following shakedown, Raven was assigned to Mine Division 21 and operated out of Norfolk, Virginia, engaged in training, patrol, and escort of ships to and from port until 14 March 1941. She then escorted a convoy to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and several convoys between Norfolk and Newport, Rhode Island. She resumed local operations out of Norfolk from 23 July 1941 to April 1942. In April 1942, serving as antisubmarine screen, she made runs to Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Portland, Maine.

She then extended her range to the Panama Canal Zone, and on her return resumed coastal escort runs to Boston, Massachusetts, Portland, Maine, and Sydney, Nova Scotia. Returning to Norfolk 8 July, she made three escort runs to Bermuda, then, in September, operated off the coast of New England and the Maritime Provinces.

Back at Norfolk at the end of September, Raven departed Chesapeake Bay on 23 October in company with other U.S. warships and a convoy and proceeded to North Africa. Arriving on 8 November 1942, she participated in sweeping, antisubmarine, antiaircraft, and landing operations in support of the invasion of Morocco, continuing those duties until 21 February 1943. Raven then departed African waters in the escorting screen of a Norfolk-bound convoy.

Arriving 14 March she conducted local patrol, coastwise and Caribbean Sea escort operations until April 1944. Raven then departed Norfolk, and proceeded with other U.S. warships and a convoy to England to prepare for the invasion of France.

On 5 June Raven proceeded to her assigned area off Normandy and participated in the sweep of the fire control area for Utah Beach. From this time until August she was active in clearing approach channels to the Normandy beachheads.

In August 1944 she sailed to Oran, thence to Naples, Italy. From then until June 1945 she performed sweeping and patrol duty in the Straits of Bonifacio, clearing the way for ships en route to the invasion of southern France, and sweeping off the French Riviera and Italian Riviera and off Corsica. During the entire European operation, including D-Day, Raven swept 21 German and Italian naval mines.

1945-1969 Decommissioning, reclassification and disposal
In June 1945, Raven returned to Norfolk, and after overhaul, departed Norfolk 1 October 1945 and proceeded to San Pedro, California, where she remained through November. She arrived at Portland, Oregon, on 1 December, but returned to San Diego, California, by the end of the month. On 31 May 1946 Raven was decommissioned and placed in reserve at San Diego. Reclassified MSF-55, 7 February 1955, she remained berthed at San Diego until struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 May 1967. On 30 July 1969 she was sunk as a target in deep water off the coast of southern California by the battleship New Jersey.

Honours
Raven earned three battle stars for World War II service.

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The Buckinghams

The Buckinghams are an American pop band from Chicago. They formed in 1966 and went on to become one of the top-selling acts of 1967, charting their only five top 40 hits in the U.S. that year. The band dissolved in 1970, but re-formed in 1980 and they continue to tour throughout the United States.

History
In 1965, guitarists Carl Giammarese and Nick Fortuna, along with bassist Curtis Bachman, were invited to join a band called the Centuries. Giammarese and Bachman, plus keyboardist Dennis Miccolis, later became members of another band, the Pulsations, whose members included drummer John Poulos and vocalists George LeGros and Dennis Tufano. After winning a local battle of the bands competition in late 1965, the Pulsations secured a job as the house band on WGN-TV's variety show called All-Time Hits. The show's producers suggested they adopt a name reflective of the British invasion, which was popular at the time, and the band adopted the name The Buckinghams, which was suggested by a security guard named John Opager at the station. The band liked the name because of its similarity to a hometown landmark, Buckingham Fountain.

In early 1966, LeGros was forced to leave after he was drafted. Right around the same time, bassist Bachman also left and Fortuna (now playing bass and soon briefly going under the surname of Fortune, after it was misspelled on the record jacket) returned after a stint with Jimmy V. & the Entertainers. The band then signed their first record contract with local label USA Records and recorded 12 songs that year. Several were released as singles, including "I'll Go Crazy", a song originally recorded by James Brown & the Famous Flames, and the Beatles' "I Call Your Name". However, it was their number one single "Kind of a Drag" that provided them with national exposure. "Kind of a Drag" was written by Chicago-based songwriter Jim Holvay, who had been performing with a group called The Mob, and spent two weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in February 1967. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. The co-producers of "Kind of a Drag" were the band's first personal manager Carl Bonafede and big band leader Dan Belloc, owner of the Holiday Ballroom in Chicago. The horns on the song were arranged by Frank Tesinsky and the engineer at the first recording sessions held at Chess Records in Chicago was Ron Malo. Following this, the band's debut album, also entitled Kind of a Drag, was released on USA Records and featured the band's early recordings.

In late 1966, keyboardist Miccolis was replaced by Larry Nestor, who stayed in the band a short time and was in turn replaced by Marty Grebb at the close of 1966. Around this time the band members were introduced to James William Guercio, formerly the bassist and road manager for Chad & Jeremy, who then signed them to a management contract with Ebbins-Guercio Associates. The Buckinghams were courted by several record labels before deciding on promotion specialist Jim Scully, who quickly got them a new contract with Columbia (CBS) Records. Guercio, who became the group's producer, continued the group's "brass-rock" approach, and the band produced four more Top-20 hits in 1967: "Don't You Care" (#6), "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" (#5), "Hey Baby (They're Playing Our Song)" (#12), and "Susan" (#11), (three of which were written by Jim Holvay and Gary Beisbier). The same year, the Buckinghams were named by Billboard magazine as "The Most Listened to Band in America". Severe differences occurred between the Buckinghams and Guercio, particularly the producer's decision to add a psychedelic section to the song "Susan". The song included a short portion of Charles Ives' "Central Park in the Dark" and sounded very similar to the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life", with an orchestral crescendo. Many radio stations omitted this section, since it changed the song's tempo and veered radically from the melody. But the producer had the last word, and the released version kept the psychedelic section intact. The group currently does not include the psychedelic portion in their performances.

By mid-1968, the Buckinghams had parted company with Guercio and Columbia Records assigned staff producer Jimmy Wisner to work with the group on their fourth album, In One Ear and Gone Tomorrow. The album featured material written by Grebb, Giammarese, and Tufano. Despite the release of a new single, "Back in Love Again", they were unable to duplicate their 1967 success without Guercio, who went on to take the "brass rock" concept further with Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago. Also, a "Buckinghams Day" in Chicago was cancelled when it was learned that some of the band members were arrested for possession of illegal drugs. It was later determined that marijuana had been found belonging to the band's roadies, and later all charges were later dropped when the police failed to prove their case. The story of the charges made headlines, but the retraction and resolution of the case as being innocent did not. Ultimately, restitution came in the form of recognition as The Buckinghams were inducted into the Iowa Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in September, 2019.

By late 1968, Grebb and Fortuna had left and were replaced by keyboardist John Turner and original bassist Bachman, who had gone on to join the band Saturday's Child after leaving the Buckinghams. There were no more hits, though, and the band dissolved in early 1970. Columbia released a double compilation record of their old material in 1975 called Made in Chicago.

After the break-up, Tufano and Giammarese formed the duo Tufano & Giammarese and recorded three albums for Lou Adler's record label, Ode Records, forming a touring band in time for their second album. Drummer John Poulos, who had secured the Ode Records recording contract for the duo, became a manager of several rock bands, including the Boyzz from Illinoizz. Poulos died of drug-related heart failure on March 26, 1980.

Reformation
Later in 1980, Chicago's WLS radio programming executive John Gehron called Giammarese with an invitation to reunite the Buckinghams for Mayor Jane Byrne's ChicagoFest event in August. Giammarese, Fortuna, and Tufano appeared with drummer Tom Osfar and keyboardist John Cammelot on the Navy Pier rooftop stage. Marty Grebb declined the opportunity to join them as he was touring with the group Chicago at the time. For the next two years the trio of original members performed at selected concerts in Chicago. When Tufano decided to return to California to resume a career in film voice work in early 1983, Giammarese and Fortuna committed to tour full-time as The Buckinghams.

The 1983 Buckinghams featured an expanded group that included Giammarese, Fortuna, John Duich (guitar), Tom Taylor (keyboards), Tom Scheckel (drums, percussion), and two female singers: Laurie Beebe Lewis (vocals, keyboards), who later joined the Mamas & the Papas, and Barbara Unger (keyboards, backing vocals).

In 1984 Duich, Taylor, and Unger were dropped and Giammarese, now handling lead vocal duties, went back to playing guitar as well and Cammelot rejoined on keyboards with Lewis on vocals and supporting keyboards. The following year the Buckinghams were part of the Happy Together 85 Tour, along with the Turtles, the Grass Roots, and Gary Lewis and the Playboys. That same year they released their comeback album A Matter of Time on Red Label Records which included one single promo release "Veronica". By early 1986, both Lewis and Cammelot left the group and were replaced by Bob Abrams (guitar, vocals) and Bruce Soboroff (keyboards, vocals). In 1990, Bob Abrams was replaced by guitarist Dave Zane and Bruce "Rocky" Penn replaced drummer Tom Scheckel, who took a leave of absence to join Paul Revere and the Raiders on tour for several years. Scheckel returned to The Buckinghams in 2023.

In 1991, Sony Music Entertainment (the present-day owner of Columbia Records) released a new greatest hits compilation, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy: A Collection. Sony Music has continued to make the Buckinghams' Columbia recordings available, as well as their recordings previously issued by USA Records.

In 1996, the Buckinghams celebrated the band's 30th anniversary with a concert at The Vic Theatre in Chicago. The show was filmed and released as a video entitled "Off Their Rocker" and included DJs Dick Biondi (d. 6.26.23) and John Records Landecker, still on WGN Radio, as hosts.

New studio and live recordings (2000–present)
In 2001, the Buckinghams were part of the Solid Gold 60s Tour along with Tommy James, the Turtles, Gary Puckett, and the Grass Roots. PBS featured the Buckinghams on The Sixties Pop Rock Reunion in 2004.

In January 2005, the Buckinghams performed at the Twilight on the Prairie Ball for one of President George W. Bush's Inaugural Balls in Washington, DC. In 2007, the Buckinghams signed with national label Fuel Records to release their studio CD Reaching Back, which included eight new original songs written by Giammarese and new recordings of five of their top hits. A second CD, Standing Room Only (previously released as Live and Well), was also released on the Fuel Label. XM Radio recorded the Buckinghams in concert for their XM Performance Series on the "60s on 6" channel. The Buckinghams' music from yesterday and today remains in regular rotation on classic rock stations in U.S. formats as well as satellite radio and streaming Internet radio stations.

The Buckinghams released their first Christmas album on the BML label, The Joy of Christmas, in November 2008. In December 2008, they debuted the single "Have a Little Faith" on WGN-TV in Chicago.

In 2009, the Buckinghams performed at the Bipartisan Illinois Agricultural Ball for the inauguration of President Barack Obama. The same year, Sony reissued the Buckinghams' first three albums for sale as digital downloads as part of their Legacy Music Series.

On February 9, 2010, the Buckinghams released a DVD/CD box set, Up Close, showing them in concert at the Star Plaza Theatre in Merrillville, Indiana.

In May 2010, Abrams and Scheckel left the Buckinghams lineup to be replaced by Dave Zane (guitars, vocals) and Bruce (Rocky) Penn (drums, percussion, backing vocals), who had played with several Chicago-based groups, including the Cryan' Shames for a number of years. Scheckel went on to join Paul Revere and the Raiders and stayed until Paul Revere's death, continuing for a time with the renamed band, Paul Revere's Raiders. Scheckel returned to his drum seat in The Buckinghams in April 2023.

On May 20, 2010 Giammarese and Fortuna were featured in the 25th Anniversary Happy Together Tour, joining the Turtles, the Grass Roots, Micky Dolenz, and Mark Lindsay in a 20+-city tour from California to New York, celebrating the silver anniversary of the original Happy Together Tour in 1985. In July 2011, concerts began for the second Happy Together Reunion Tour that included the Buckinghams, the Turtles, the Grass Roots, Mark Lindsay, and the Association. Later in 2011, it was announced that Carl Giammarese and Nick Fortuna would join the 2012 Happy Together Tour alongside the Turtles, Micky Dolenz, the Grass Roots, and Gary Puckett. The popularity of the tour found them rejoining the Happy Together Tour in 2015, 2019, 2021, and 2022 with other artists including The Cowsills, Ron Dante, the Classics IV, and the Vogues.

In 2011, Giammarese completed his solo CD Journey, the companion to his future biography, Reinventing The Buckinghams: My Journey.

On October 16, 2015, the Buckinghams took part in the filming of Cornerstones of Rock: American Garage which aired multiple times on WTTW Chicago. Cornerstones of Rock was created to be a nostalgic celebration of the Chicago-area "garage bands" that rose to national prominence in the 1960s and 1970s. Jim Peterik and The Ides of March served as the house band for the evening, as many original members of these popular bands returned to the concert stage to play their greatest hits. In addition to the Buckinghams, the Cornerstones line-up included the Ides of March, the Cryan' Shames, the New Colony Six, the Shadows of Knight, the McCoys, and the American Breed. The

Original lead singer Tufano continues to tour as a solo act, and also appears in a Bobby Darin show he created, As Long as I'm Singing. Former keyboards/vocals/songwriter Grebb played with the Fabulous Rhinestones, Lovecraft (formerly H P Lovecraft), Chicago, Bonnie Raitt, the Weight Band, and Dave Mason, and has also produced CDs for independent musicians, including Peach. Grebb died on January 1, 2020.

Giammarese and Fortuna have continued touring with band members Soboroff, Zane, Scheckel, and a horn section consisting of Carlo Isabelli (trumpet), Charles Morgan (trombone), and Dan Moffett (tenor saxophone). They perform regularly to festival audiences and have played sold-out shows, such as the Westbury Music Fair, the Belfry Theatre, the Egyptian Theatre, the Genesee Theatre, the Arcada Theatre, the Keswick Theatre, and others. They remain acts for casino venues and international rock and roll cruises throughout the country and perform the national anthem at home games of baseball teams such as the Chicago Cubs and White Sox.

Albums

 * Kind of a Drag (1967, USA Records) US # 109
 * Time and Charges (1967, Columbia) US # 58
 * Portraits (1967, Columbia) US # 53
 * In One Ear and Gone Tomorrow (1968, Columbia #CS 9703) US # 161
 * A Matter of Time (1985, Red Label Records)
 * Terra Firma (1998, Nation Records)
 * Live and Well (2006, BML Records)
 * Reaching Back (2007, Fuel Records)
 * Standing Room Only (2008, Fuel Records)
 * The Joy of Christmas (2008, BML Records)
 * Up Close: CD and digital downloads (2010, itsaboutmusic.com Records)

Compilation albums

 * Greatest Hits (1969, Columbia) US # 73
 * Made in Chicago (1975, Columbia)
 * Mercy, Mercy, Mercy: A Collection (1991, Columbia/Legacy)
 * Up Close: The Buckinghams in Concert DVD/CD box set (2010, itsaboutmusic.com Records)

Personnel
Note: Bold Text indicates original members.

Current Former
 * Carl Giammarese – guitar, vocals
 * Nick Fortuna – bass, vocals
 * Bruce Soboroff – keyboards
 * Dave Zane – guitar
 * Tom Scheckel – drums
 * Dennis Tufano – vocals
 * George LeGros – vocals
 * John Duich – guitar
 * Bob Abrams – guitar, vocals
 * John Poulos – drums, percussion
 * Rocky Penn – drums, percussion
 * Tom Osfar – drums
 * Curtis Bachman – bass
 * Marty Grebb – keyboards, vocals
 * Dennis Miccolis – keyboards
 * Larry Nestor – keyboards
 * John Turner – keyboards
 * John Cammelot – keyboards
 * Laurie Beebe Lewis – vocals, keyboards
 * Barbara Unger – keyboards, vocals

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Talk:Column chromatography

How unspecific are we supposed to make the article?
- Flaskman
 * There are at least two different methods used to perform the column chromatography described here. One involves adding the separable material as a solid pre-prepared on silica gel and then topping this layer with sand, the other involves drawing the separable material as a liquid into a sand layer. The article is easier to understand the way it was before I edited it, however it was misinforming.  If nothing is said then I will come back and rewrite it to include both techniques, but this will likely make it more difficult to understand...      Also the photo is a cool historic image, but the columns don't have resevoirs on them, the solid phase is right to the top, this is something a little different than described in the article.

 * The article is indeed in need of retooling. As mentioned, only one method is described (no mention of different packing and loading methods).  Also the introductory section gets into rather specific information that might be better suited for a "techniques" section. Bottledmark 02:40, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

this should not be disambiguation, move poorly executed
V8rik
 * no link between Column chromatography and HPLC try google on Column chromatography
 * if your really have to disambiguate start column chromatography (disambiguation) page
 * a move action destroys the history of the article
 * when editors move an article they should take care of broken links
 * the new Preparative chromatography article header does not reflect content (not about prep. TLC or many other prep. techniques)
 * external link (reference or sources) was provided but not replicated in second move.
 * article name should be in bold
 * prep article should link back to diambiguation page

V8rik has reinstated the old version of Column chromatography, I have made the new Preparative chromatography article a redirect to Chromatography. Several chromatographic techniques (e.g. HPLC, TLC) can be used on a preparative scale. (Prevously I had accidentally reinstated the poor version of Column chromatography because I was editing the old version while V8rik made his changes.) Cacycle 19:33, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Irrelevant Information
The sample experiment in the "Systems" section is, at the least, unencyclopædic. Bottledmark (talk) 03:36, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Sarah's Comments
Hey Overall good job on your article! Nice images! The only thing I noticed that really needs to be fixed is that you have an image insert that isn't showing up since its still a .png format. Other than that it looks good! Srah27 (talk) 16:54, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

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List of chief scouts of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association

Naczelnik ZHP (Chief Scout) is beside the President of the ZHP, the highest function in the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association (ZHP).

Chief scouts of Boy Scouts 1919-1939

 * Stanisław Sedlaczek - 1919-1921,
 * Henryk Glass - 1921-1924,
 * Adolf Heidrich - 1924-1925,
 * Stanisław Sedlaczek - 1925-1931,
 * Antoni Olbromski - 1931-1936,
 * Tomasz Piskorski - p.o. 1936,
 * Zbigniew Trylski - 1937-1939,
 * Lechosław Domański - 1939.

Chief scouts of Girl Guides 1919-1939

 * Maria Wocalewska - 1919-1923,
 * Zofia Wocalewska - 1923,
 * Helena Sakowiczówna - 1923-1924,[[Image:Florian Marciniak.jpg|right|thumb|100px|[[Florian Marciniak]]]]
 * Maria Uklejska - 1924-1925,
 * Zofia Wilczyńska - 1925-1926,
 * Jadwiga Falkowska - 1926-1927,
 * Maria Uklejska - 1927-1928,
 * Anna Dydyńska-Paszkowska - 1928-1931,
 * Jadwiga Wierzbiańska - 1931-1937,
 * Maria Krynicka - 1937-1945.

Chief scouts of the Szare Szeregi 1939-1945

 * hm. Florian Marciniak - September 27, 1939 - May 6, 1943,
 * hm. Stanisław Broniewski - May 12, 1943 - October 3, 1944,
 * hm. Leon Marszałek - October 3, 1944 - January 18, 1945.

Chief scouts of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association (outside of Poland) - since 1945
among others:

Naczelnik of the Boy Scouts
 * hm. Eugeniusz Konopacki 1946 - 1947
 * hm. Ryszard Białous 1947 - 1948
 * hm. Kazimierz Burmajster 1948 - 1951
 * hm. Zbigniew Fallenbüchl 1951 - 1952
 * hm. Wojciech Dłużewski 1952 - 1955
 * hm. Ryszard Kaczorowski 1955 - 1967
 * hm. Jerzy Witting 1967 - 1974
 * hm. Jacek Bernasinski 1974 - 1988
 * hm. Bogdan Szwagrzak 1988 - 1994
 * hm. Edward Jaśnikowski 1994 - 2000
 * hm. Edmund Kasprzyk 2000 - 2006
 * hm. Andrzej Borowy from 2006 - 2012
 * hm. Marek Szablewski 2012 - 2019
 * hm. Franek Pepliński 2019–Present

Naczelnik (Naczelniczka) of the Girl Guides
 * hm. Teresa Ciecierska - to 2006
 * hm. Ania Gebska 2006 -

Chief scouts of Boy Scouts 1945-1948

 * hm. Michał Sajkowski - December 1944 - May 1945,
 * hm. Roman Kierzkowski - May 1945 - 1948.

Chief scouts of Girl Guides 1945-1948

 * hm. Kazimiera Świętochowska - December 1944 - May 1945,
 * hm. Wiktoria Dewitz - May 1945 - 1948.

Chief scouts 1956-1964

 * hm. Zofia Zakrzewska 1956-1964.

Chief scouts of the Polish Scouting and Guiding Association - since 1964

 * hm. PL Wiktor Kinecki - 1964-1969,
 * hm. PL Stanisław Bohdanowicz - 1969-1974,
 * hm. PL Jerzy Wojciechowski - 1974-1980,
 * hm. PL Andrzej Ornat - 1980-1982,
 * hm. PL Ryszard Wosiński - 1982-1989,
 * hm. Krzysztof Grzebyk - 1989-1990,
 * hm. Ryszard Pacławski - 1990-2000,
 * hm. Wiesław Maślanka - 2000-2005,
 * hm. Teresa Hernik - 2005-2007,
 * hm. Małgorzata Sinica - 2007-2017,
 * hm. Anna Nowosad - 2017-2021
 * hm. Grzegorz Woźniak - 2021-2022
 * hm. Martyna Kowacka - since 2022


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User:Philoponus

A focus of mine is identification of aporias implicit in the INNER HISTORY of key episodes/ chapters in the Western intellectual tradition __in other words genealogical critique! Or close reading on the narratological level to identify immanent tensions THAT CALL OUT TO BE RENDERED EXPLICIT (to prevent asphyxiation!) and, if need be, exploded!!

In particular I am interested in DECONFLATING the tight inter-imbrication or identification between Western rationalism and Christian theology (as seen for example in the scholastics) that was (unwittingly or otherwise!) perpetrated in different guises over several centuries. There is nothing particularly original about approaching the History of Philosophy in the light of such a gestalt __what other DEMON than this was tearing at Kierkegaard and driving him on; or at Nietzsche (in his 'forced' __or exaggerated__ anti-Christianity in Jungian sense of having been driven by a 'logic of compensation')?!

Nevertheless, there is a lot of work left to be done. Indeed I correlate this agenda with the STRUGGLE AGAINST the 'last man syndrome' in Kojeve's sense (the socio-political dimension of globalisation as the supposedly 'untranscendable horizon of our time' to quote St Tony (Blair)). If, as was perceptively diagnosed with regard to Bismarck's Germany as early as the 1870's, the currently hegemonic trends among the 'intellectual elite' have succeeded in WIPING AWAY THE HORIZON __then the obvious imperative is to DELEGITIMATE SAID ALL-PERVASIVE HORIZON and clear the ground for SOME GREAT NEW BEAST THAT IS WAITING TO BE BORN  ...to cite Yeats!

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Sockpuppets are cool. Huh huh, huh huh.

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The One (Foo Fighters song)

"The One" is a song by Foo Fighters, released as a single in 2002. It appeared on the soundtrack album for the film Orange County. The retail single itself was only released in Australia and New Zealand, but it was made available by import in the US and UK; further, promotional singles for radio airplay were sent out to a number of countries, including Canada, the UK, and the US. It is available through the Foo Files digital album collection.

The song was also released as a B-side to the CD2 version of the single "All My Life" and on the Limited Edition Bonus DVD of certain copies of the One by One album. In the UK, one copy each of seven different versions of the single were released—3" CD, CD, MiniDisc, cassette, 12" vinyl, 10" vinyl, and 7" vinyl—and were given away as prizes. As such, they have become the most highly sought-after Foo Fighters collectibles.

The cover art resembles the cover art of Fame. The video for the song (directed by Jesse Peretz) is loosely based on the movie, seeing the band members attending several art courses; Dave Grohl studies acting, Nate Mendel studies to be a mime, Taylor Hawkins studies violin, and Chris Shiflett attempts ballet. In the video, Dave tries unsuccessfully to get the attention of a classmate.

When it aired on MTV, the chorus was slightly altered. The unedited version goes, "You're not the one, but you're the only one who can make me feel like this / You're not the one, but you're the only one who can make me feel like shit!" The edited version simply repeats the first line twice so as to avoid the climactic expletive.

This song was featured in the 8th season of MTV series Making the Video.

Track listing

 * 1) "The One"
 * 2) "Win or Lose" (a reworked version of the song "Make a Bet" from "Learn to Fly" disc 2)
 * 3) Enhanced section that includes "The One" music video.

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USS Ariel (AF-22)

USS Ariel (AF-22) was the United Fruit Company cargo and passenger liner Peten, renamed Jamaica in 1937, that served as a United States Navy Mizar-class stores ship in World War II.

As Segovia it was launched on 15 August 1931 the same day as SS Talamanca, both ships christened by First Lady Lou Henry Hoover using water gathered from Central American rivers. Segovia burned at the fitting out pier and was almost completely destroyed. It was rebuilt under a different hull number and renamed Peten by Mrs. Hoover on the anniversary of the first, 15 August 1932. Peten was delivered to the company's United Mail Steamship Company subsidiary in February 1933. The ship served on the company's Atlantic routes between New York and Panama. In 1937 the ship was transferred to the direct ownership of the parent company and renamed Jamaica.

In March 1942 Jamaica was delivered to the War Shipping Administration (WSA) under bareboat charter and delivered to the Navy under sub bareboat charter to be commissioned Ariel named after the "airy and playful spirit" Ariel in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest. 21 June 1946 Ariel was de-commissioned and returned to WSA for re-conversion as Jamaica to commercial service. The ship was returned to United Fruit in December 1947 and operated for that company until sold to a German company in 1957 to be renamed Blumenthal. The ship was scrapped in 1969.

Construction
The Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company of Newport News, Virginia built the ship as Peten for United Fruit Company's United Mail Steamship Company subsidiary. Peten was one of six UFC sister ships with General Electric turbo-electric transmission ordered in August 1930 to be built under the Merchant Marine Act of 1928. The other ships were Talamanca, first of the six to be launched, and SS Chiriqui from Newport News Shipbuilding and SS Antigua, SS Quirigua and SS Veragua from Bethlehem Shipbuilding at Quincy, Massachusetts. The company designated the ships as its "Mail class" due to their design to meet requirements for mail carriage subsidies.

The basic design, implemented in Talamanca and the Newport News ships and with small modifications in the Bethlehem ships, was a ship of 446 ft overall length, 430 ft length on 24 ft waterline, 415 ft length between perpendiculars, 60 ft molded beam, 36 ft depth molded to upper deck, 24 ft molded maximum draft, 11,345 tons displacement at maximum draft,, , 196000 cuft cargo capacity, 1,450 tons of fuel oil and 626 tons fresh water capacity.

The prospective name for the ship had been Segovia, keel laid 9 March 1931 as hull #345, with launch on 15 August 1931. The launch was on the same day as Talamanca (hull #344) in a ceremony in which First Lady Lou Henry Hoover christened the ships with water gathered from Central American rivers. Segovia was almost completely destroyed by fire at the outfitting pier as it neared completion in December 1931. In the early morning of 20 December fire in one of the holds spread into the passenger areas. Water fighting the fires caused the ship to roll onto her starboard side. The ship was rebuilt as hull #354 and christened 15 August 1932 as Peten, again by First Lady Hoover. Peten was delivered on 24 February 1933. The company's ships were named for mountain ranges, cities and provinces in Central and South America with Petén being a political region in Guatemala.

The ship was registered with U.S. Official Number 232139, signal KDCY at, , registry length of 415.4 ft, 60.2 ft beam, 24 ft depth, 10,500 horsepower, 113 crew with home port of New York and owner as United Mail Steamship Company.

Commercial service
On 2 March 1933 Peten made her maiden voyage from New York to Caribbean ports. Peten, Quirigua and Veragua operating on a New York, Havana, Kingston, Cristobal, Limón and return to New York omitting Kingston as a port of call. The other three, Antigua, Talamanca and Chiriqui meanwhile operated on a San Francisco to Balboa route with return to San Francisco via Puerto Armuelles and Los Angeles. An intercoastal service for passengers and cargo was formed by the ships connecting in Panama. That schedule remained through 1936. In January 1939 all the ships operated on the New York to Panama route.

In 1937 she was transferred to United Fruit's direct ownership and renamed Jamaica.

US Navy service
Jamaica was delivered to the War Shipping Administration (WSA) on 24 March 1942 at New Orleans under bareboat charter. Todd Pacific Shipyards of Galveston, Texas converted her for Navy use. She was renamed USS Ariel and commissioned at Galveston on 14 May 1942 with Captain E.P. Hylant as her commander.

On 25 May Ariel sailed for Norfolk, Virginia where she joined Service Squadron 7, Service Force, Atlantic Fleet. Over the next 18 months Ariel operated along the east coast and made numerous voyages to ports in the Caribbean including Bermuda, Trinidad, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Havana and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

In 1943 Ariel sailed to Iceland; leaving New York City on 15 August and reaching Reykjavík on 24 August. She returned to the east coast, arrived back at New York City on 7 September, and resumed her supply service to the Caribbean.

On 4 January 1944 the store ship left Norfolk, in convoy to the Mediterranean Sea. She called at Algiers, French Algeria on 24 January and soon sailed for Naples, Italy, where she unloaded supplies. She then sailed east and called at Oran, Algeria, in early February before sailing back across the Atlantic reaching New York City on 13 February.

Ariel sailed for the Caribbean on 20 February and called at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, to unload. She then returned to New York. In late March, she commenced another voyage to Iceland and arrived back at New York on 10 April. After a few weeks of upkeep, Ariel sailed for the United Kingdom. On arrival she provided food and supplies to ships preparing for the cross-channel Invasion of Normandy. She operated from the ports of Clyde, Scotland; Belfast, Northern Ireland; and Plymouth and Portland Harbour, England. She left England on D-Day, 6 June, and returned to the United States.

Ariel reached New York on 16 June. After a fortnight of leave and upkeep she sailed to Norfolk. On 1 July she set out across the Atlantic to resupply Mediterranean ports. She unloaded stores and equipment at Oran and Naples before returning to the United States via a stop in the Azores, reaching New York on 3 August.

After a week in New York, Ariel made a round trip to supply Guantanamo Bay and Trinidad. In September she made a round trip from New York to Bermuda. On 20 September she sailed from Norfolk, VA to Oran and Naples. Her return voyage was to New York, where she arrived on 23 October. From there she took supplies to San Juan and Guantanamo Bay. In early November she returned to Norfolk for servicing. She returned to duty on 10 December, sailing laden for Oran and Naples. She returned to Norfolk on 6 February 1945. Later that month she made another round trip to Oran.

In March Ariel left New York for San Juan, Puerto Rico. She returned to the east coast and put into Boston, Massachusetts, on 12 April. From there she took a cargo to Argentia and arrived back at Boston in late April. She then took a cargo to Bermuda.

She continued her supply runs to Caribbean ports from New York, Norfolk, and Boston until 1946. On 12 May 1946 Ariel left New York for a final voyage to Reykjavík, where she docked on 29 May. She left for New York on 1 June, arrived a week later, and entered New York Naval Shipyard for decommissioning.

On 21 June 1946 Ariel was decommissioned at New York and transferred to the War Shipping Administration. Her name was struck from the Navy list on 3 July 1946 and returned to the United Fruit Company, under charter under her pre-war name Jamaica.

Post-war service
Jamaica returned to liner work for United Fruit but later was sold to new owners. In April 1957 the ship was converted to a refrigerator type. Jamaica was sold in December 1957 to Union-Partenreederei T/S of Bremen, Germany, which also acquired her United Fruit sister ship Chiriqui. Union-Partenreederei changed Jamaica's name to D/S Blumenthal. She was scrapped in 1969 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

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HMS Howe (1860)

HMS Howe was built as a 121-gun screw first-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. She and her sister HMS Victoria were the first and only British three-decker ships of the line to be designed from the start for screw propulsion, but the Howe was never completed for sea service (and never served under her original name). During the 1860s, the first ironclad battleships gradually made unarmoured two- and three-deckers obsolete.

The highest number of guns she ever actually carried was 12, when she finally entered service as the training ship Bulwark in 1885.

Howe was named after Admiral Richard Howe. She was renamed a second time to Impregnable on 27 September 1886, but reverted to Bulwark in 1919 shortly before being sold for breaking up in 1921. The timbers were used to refurbish in the Tudor revivalist style the interior and fascia of the Liberty Store in London.

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