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SS Île de France

SS Île de France was a French luxury ocean liner that plied the prestigious transatlantic route between Europe and New York from 1927 through to 1958. She was built in Saint-Nazaire for the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (or CGT, also known as the "French Line"), and named after the region around Paris known as "L'Ile de France". Launched in 1926, she commenced her maiden voyage on June 22, 1927, as the first major ocean liner built after World War I, and the first ever to be decorated almost entirely in modern Art Deco style. Though she was neither the largest ship nor the fastest, she was considered the most beautifully decorated built by CGT, becoming the favored ship of the pre-World War II era among the young, wealthy and fashionable elites.

When World War II broke out she briefly served as a troop ship before all her luxurious fittings were removed for conversion into a prison ship. After the war Île de France resumed transatlantic operations. In 1956 she played a key role in rescuing passengers from the SS Andrea Doria after the latter ship's fatal collision with the MS Stockholm (1948) off Nantucket, Massachusetts. Her last public appearance was starring as a doomed ocean liner in the 1959 movie The Last Voyage, filmed while waiting to be scrapped in Japan. She was partially flooded and the actors filmed their scenes as if she were sinking. She was subsequently refloated and scrapped.

Construction and launch
Île de France was part of a four ship agreement between the Compagnie Générale Transatlantique (CGT) and the French government dating to November 1912. It called for the construction of passenger-mail ships, with the first named SS Paris (1916) and the second Île de France. World War I delayed construction until the 1920s, with the Paris being launched in 1916 and not entering service until 1921. After her keel was laid down in 1925, Île de France was launched on 14 March 1926 at the shipyard Ateliers et Chantiers de Saint-Nazaire Penhoët (or Chantiers de Penhoët) in Saint-Nazaire on the west coast of France, and was greeted by thousands of government and company officials, workers, press and French citizens. Fourteen months of fitting-out followed; she left the yard in 1927 to begin sea trials on 29 May, and departed on her maiden voyage on 22 June.

Interior
In 1926, the CGT had released an elaborate booklet with a gold cover devoted entirely to promoting the company's new ship. The illustrations depicted huge and elegant but modern public rooms with female passengers carrying feather fans and smoking cigarettes, and passengers being led around the uncluttered sun deck.

The interiors were designed by architect Pierre Patout, one of the founders of the Art Deco style.

The trend in ship interior design up to this point, including the RMS Mauretania (1906), the RMS Olympic and the SS Imperator, all had interiors that celebrated various styles of the past, and which could be found in the most expensive, upper-class manors or châteaux on land. In contrast, the interiors of Île de France represented something new: for the first time, a ship's passenger spaces had been designed not to reproduce decorative styles of the past, but to celebrate the progressive style of the present, with a degree of modernity unlike any previous ship. The first-class dining room's decor was simple, in contrast to past styles which had vied with each other regarding extent of decoration and detail. The first class dining room was also the largest of any ship existing at the time, rising through three decks high with a grand staircase as its entrance.

In addition to the luxurious dining room, there was also a grand foyer that was open to four decks, a chapel in the neo-gothic style, a shooting gallery, an elaborate gymnasium, and even a merry-go-round for the younger passengers. Every cabin, including the least luxurious, had beds instead of bunks. Even many of the chairs had been given new designs.

As each of the major liner companies subsequently planned their next passenger ships, many of the planners visited this extraordinary and trend-setting French vessel.

Maiden voyage and early career
After her sea trials, Île de France traveled to her home port of Le Havre on June 5, 1927. The novelty of Art Deco aboard a ship was an immediate sensation and the reaction of the visiting press would be evident by favorable reviews the next week.

On June 22, 1927 Île de France traveled from Le Havre for its maiden voyage to New York. Upon its arrival in New York it received great attention from the American media and thousands of people crowded the docks just to see the new ship.

Her official accommodation was for 1,786 passengers, but her normal capacity was closer to 1400. With a listed capacity of 537 in first-class, Île de France, like SS France (1912) and Paris, became fashionable. Captain Joseph Blancart and his chief purser, Henri Villar, became celebrities. With the contribution made by this splendid vessel, the CGT ended the year 1928 with record earnings. For the first time the company's receipts exceeded a billion francs, and half of this derived from the New York service, which had transported more than 90,000 passengers. Its popularity was such that by 1935, the ship had carried more first-class passengers than any other transatlantic liner.

The ship was popular especially among wealthy Americans. It quickly became the chosen ship of the youthful, the stylish, and the famous. But they did not choose it for its speed – it was about as fast as the Aquitania of 1914, and no larger. In 1936 it was immortalised in the song "A Fine Romance" performed by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the film  with the lyric "You're just as hard to land as the Île de France".

Even though Île de France was not the fastest vessel in the world, it briefly pioneered the quickest mail system between Europe and the United States. In July 1928, a seaplane catapult was installed at the ship's stern for trials with two CAMS 37 flying boats that launched when the ship was within 200 miles, which decreased the mail delivery time by one day. This practice proved too costly, however, and in October 1930 the catapult was removed and the service discontinued.

In 1935 Île de France and Paris were joined by a new mate, the new superliner SS Normandie. With these three ships the CGT could boast of having the largest, fastest, and most luxurious ships traveling the north Atlantic.

But this was not to endure, and two events ended the CGT's new prosperity. The first occurred on April 18, 1939, when Paris was destroyed by fire while docked in Le Havre. The second was on September 1, 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland which began World War II and ended civilian (as opposed to military) transatlantic traffic.

World War II
Île de France was the last civilian ship to leave France before the outbreak of war. She departed from Le Havre on the morning of September 3, 1939, just hours before France and the United Kingdom declared war on Germany. (The last ship to leave Europe during the war would be the paquebot Jamaique that left in May 1940 from Bordeaux to South America). Île de France carried 1,777 passengers, 400 more than her usual number. Most of the passengers were Americans, many of whom were tourists clamouring to leave France before the war broke out. During the voyage, the passengers were not only inconvenienced by the overcrowded conditions, but their activities were limited because the ship sailed with her lights extinguished. Other ships were not so lucky. Île de France arrived in New York harbor on September 9 and, while she was crossing the Atlantic Ocean, 16 vessels were sunk by torpedoes, mines, or gunfire.

Once the ship was berthed at its New York pier, her career as a passenger ship was temporarily ended. Since the French were not anxious to return the ship to its homeland, she was towed to Staten Island by ten tugs and was laid up after special dredging that cost $30,000. Her crew of 800 persons was reduced to a security staff of 100 while she was inoperative for the next five months. Then during March 1940, commanded by the British Admiralty, to which it had been lent, the ship was loaded with 12,000 tons of war materials, submarine oil, tanks, shells, and several uncrated bombers that were stowed on the aft open decks. On 1 May 1940 she departed for Europe, veiled in gray and black. From there, she traveled to Singapore where, after the Fall of France, she was officially seized by the British. In 1941 she returned to New York and made several crossings from the northeast as a troop ship such as the one on February 14, 1944, sailing from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Greenock, Scotland, carrying among others the 814th Tank Destroyer Battalion.

In October, 1942, Île de France tied up alongside the Charl Malan Quay in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Furniture, chandeliers, carpets, fittings, and hundreds of square feet of rare and beautiful panelling were torn out as "she was gutted as thoroughly as a herring". A small party of workmen then fitted the liner out as a floating prisoner of war camp, "with festoons of barbed wire sprouting from her decks and disfiguring her graceful lines" as the ship was prepared for the task of bringing POWs back from north Africa.

The extensive alterations were the largest ever undertaken in the harbour, and were completed in 1943.

Post-war career
In autumn 1945, Île de France was returned to the CGT after five years of military service with the British Admiralty. In honour of its wartime performance, the Southern Railway company named one of its locomotives French Line CGT. At first Île de France was used to ferry American and Canadian troops home. Then in April 1947, the ship returned to its builder's yard at Saint Nazaire for a two-year restoration. The outcome included the removal of its third "dummy" funnel and an upturn of the straight black hull to meet its upper forepeak, in keeping with the new style of the CGT's ships beginning with Normandie in 1935. These changes increased Ile de France's gross tonnage to 44,356.

She travelled to New York on her first postwar luxury crossing in July 1949. Île de France proved to be just as popular as before the war. In 1950 the ship received a new running mate, Liberté, the former German Blue Riband-holder SS Europa (1928).

In 1949 Île de France was the setting for part of the first act of the Jules Styne Broadway musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes starring Carol Channing.

On September 21, 1953, the ship rescued 25 of the 26 man crew off the Liberian freighter Greenville which was damaged and later sank in an Atlantic tropical storm.

On July 26, 1956, Île de France had a major role in the rescue operation after the collision of the passenger liners SS Andrea Doria and MS Stockholm (1948) off Nantucket. Of 1,706 passengers and crew of the Andrea Doria, about 753 were transferred to the Île de France during the approximately 6-hour rescue operation.

Scrapping
With the development of jet transport, and the decline of ocean travel, the CGT wished to dispose of the ship quietly. In November 1958 she departed New York for the last time and, in 1959 was sold to a Japanese breaker and departed Le Havre on February 26. She was renamed Furansu Maru and the French flag was replaced with the Japanese flag

Just before being scrapped, the ship was used as a floating prop for the 1960 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer disaster film The Last Voyage with the fictional name SS Claridon. The CGT sued MGM to have the ship's funnels repainted and prohibit the name Île de France from appearing on the ship in the movie.

The movie was filmed almost entirely in the Inland Sea off the coast of Osaka. During filming, the ship was partially sunk, explosive devices were detonated in the interior, and the forward funnel was sent crashing into the deck-house. After the film was finished, the Japanese scrappers refloated the vessel and towed her to the scrap yard. She was fully scrapped by 1961.

Legacy
In 1931 the ninth floor restaurant in Eaton's Department Store, Montreal, Canada, was styled after the first class restaurant aboard the ship. Lady Eaton, the store owner's wife, had just travelled on the liner and requested the style of the Île de France.

Île de France is also the logo and namesake of French-Imported premium cheese brand, Ile de France.

In popular culture
In the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers movie Swing Time, Rogers, Dorothy Fields's lyrics to "A Fine Romance", sung by a frustrated Rogers to a disinterested Astaire, include the line, "You're just as hard to land as the Île de France."

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Drumsurn

Drumsurn is a small village and townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It is 8 km southeast of Limavady and 10 km northeast of Dungiven. It lies in the Roe Valley, at the foot of Donald's Hill and at the edge of the Sperrins. Drumsurn had a population of 357 people in the 2001 Census. It is situated within Causeway Coast and Glens district.

The Troubles in Drumsurn
During the Troubles, loyalist paramilitaries exploded a car bomb outside O’Connor's Supply House in the centre of the village on 26 July 1973. There was considerable damage but no casualties.

Sport

 * Drumsurn GAC is the local Gaelic Athletic Association club.

Transport

 * Drumsurn railway station opened on 4 July 1883, closed for passenger traffic on 1 January 1933 and finally closed altogether on 3 July 1950.

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Poast Town, Ohio

Poast Town is an unincorporated community located in northeastern Madison Township, Butler County, Ohio, United States, on State Route 4, about one mile north of Middletown in Section 12 of T2R4 of the Congress Lands. It was laid out in 1818 by Peter Post as the town of West Liberty. A post office with the name Poast Town was established in 1848 but closed in 1934. Mail is provided through the Middletown post office, it is located in the Middletown telephone exchange. It is in the Madison Local School District.

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IEC 60446

The international standard IEC 60446 Basic and safety principles for man-machine interface, marking and identification - Identification of equipment terminals, conductor terminations and conductors was a standard published by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) that defined basic safety principles for identifying electrical conductors by colours or numerals, for example in electricity distribution wiring. The standard has been withdrawn; the fourth edition (IEC 60446:2007) was merged in 2010 into the fifth edition of IEC 60445 along with the fourth edition, IEC 60445:2006.

Permitted colours
The standard permits the following colours for identifying conductors:

 * black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, grey, white, pink, and turquoise.

(The colours green and yellow on their own are only permitted where confusion with the colouring of the green/yellow protective conductor is unlikely. Combinations of the above colours are permitted, but green and yellow should not be used in any of these combinations other than as green/yellow for the protective conductor.)

Neutral or mid-point conductor
If a circuit includes a neutral or midpoint conductor, then it should be identified by a blue colour (preferably light blue). Light blue is the color used to identify intrinsically safe conductors, and must not be used for any other type of conductor.

AC phase conductors
The preferred colours for AC phase conductors are: For a single AC phase: brown
 * L1: [[Image:Color wire brown.svg|50px]] brown
 * L2: [[Image:Color wire black.svg|50px]] black
 * L3: [[Image:Color wire grey.svg|50px]] grey

Protective conductor
The colour combination  green / yellow  is always and exclusively used to identify the protective conductor. On any 15 mm length of the conductor, one of these two colours should cover between 30% and 70% of the area and the other the remaining area.

Protective earth and neutral (PEN) conductor
Insulated PEN conductors (combined protective earth + neutral in TN–C systems) should be marked: The cable must have a cross section of 16 mm$2$ (5 AWG) or greater.
 * either [[Image:Color wire green yellow.svg|50px]]  green / yellow  along their entire length with light blue markings at their ends,
 * or [[Image:Color wire light blue.svg|50px]] light blue along their entire length with  green / yellow  markings at the ends.

United States, Canada and Japan
The three countries United States, Canada and Japan are mentioned in a note in the standard for using different colours:
 * [[Image:Color wire white.svg|50px]] white or [[Image:Color wire gray.svg|50px]]  natural gray  for mid-wire or neutral conductor (instead of [[Image:Color wire light blue.svg|50px]] light blue )
 * [[Image:Color wire green.svg|50px]]  green  for the protective conductor (instead of [[Image:Color wire green yellow.svg|50px]]  green / yellow )

United Kingdom
British Standard BS 7671:2001 Amendment No 2:2004 adopted the IEC 60446 colours for fixed wiring in the United Kingdom, with the extension that grey can also be used for line conductors, such that three colours are available for three-phase installations. This extension is expected to be adopted across Europe and may even find its way into a future revision of IEC 60446.

Marking
Where conductors are in addition identified by letters and numbers, then: Green-and-yellow conductors must not be marked.
 * letters to be used come from Latin character set,
 * numbers must be written in Arabic numerals, digits 6 and 9 must be underlined (6 and 9),
 * and a few symbols like + and − can be used.

Examples: L1, L2, L3, N, L+, L−, M, 35, 16

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Kōshien Station

Kōshien Station (甲子園駅) is a passenger railway station  located in the city of   Amagasaki Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the private transportation company Hanshin Electric Railway. It is the nearest station to Hanshin Koshien Stadium.

Lines
Kōshien Station is served by the Hanshin Main Line, and is located 14.1 km from the terminus of the line at Umeda.

Station layout
This station has two elevated island platforms and a side platform serving four tracks, and an additional side track is located in the west of the platforms. There was also a side platform to the north of Track 1 until autumn 2014. Ticket gates are located at the east and the west, and there is stadium exit from the side platform serving Track 4 to the west.

Every year from 2011 until 2014, the two side platforms were closed for removal work from November till mid-March and boarded from late March until October for the events. One to the north of Track 1 was removed in November 2014 to locate new Track 1 and widen the eastbound platform, completed on February 21, 2015. The other was also removed to locate new Track 4 and the new side platform and widen the westbound platform, completed on March 14.

Two elevators were situated on October 26, 2013, one for each platform connecting to the west gate.

Renovation
On June 8, 2011, Hanshin Electric Railway announced plans to renovate Koshien Station from autumn 2011, with work completed by spring 2017. Of four platforms at the station, a side platform for unloading eastbound trains was removed and the remaining three platforms were widened to accommodate an elevator connecting the west gate on each platform and another elevator connecting the east gate on each of the two platforms used for boarding trains. The west gate was widened to ease access to Hanshin Koshien Stadium, covering a camphor tree in the south of the station. The east entrance is situated near the east gate making it easier for passengers to access the eastern area of the station. A large roof covers the center of the platforms and the tracks.

History

 * 1 August 1924 - Koshien Station opened as an extra station.
 * 1 July 1926 - The Koshien Line opened from this station to Hama-Koshien.
 * 16 July 1926 - The station on the Main Line became an all-season station.
 * 25 June 1928 - The Koshien Line was extended from this station to Kami-Koshien.
 * 24 April 1949 - Baseball specters fell over like a file of dominoes, killing one and injuring eleven.
 * 6 May 1975 - The Koshien Line was abandoned.
 * 17 January 1995 - The Great Hanshin earthquake hit the Main Line and operations were temporarily halted.
 * The train operation resumed on the Main Line from Umeda to Koshien on January 18, from Koshien to Ogi on January 26, and on the whole line on June 26.
 * 21 December 2013 - Introduction of station numbering: Koshien designated as station number HS-14.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2019, the station was used by an average of 44,690 passengers daily.

East

 * LaLaPort Koshien
 * KidZania Koshien
 * Ito Yokado
 * Koshien Police Station
 * Nishinomiya Municipal Naruo Library
 * Hanshin Bus southbound stops
 * for Koshien Hachibancho
 * for Amagasaki via Koshien Hachibancho / for Nishinomiya via Hamakoshien
 * for Hamakoshien
 * for Mukogawa-danchi
 * for Takasu-higashi
 * for Naruohama
 * airport limousine for Osaka International Airport (operated by Hanshin Bus and Osaka Airport Transport)

West

 * Hanshin Koshien Stadium
 * Daiei Koshien
 * Hanshin Bus northbound stops
 * for Koshienguchi
 * for Hanshin Nishinomiya via Nishinomiya
 * for Nishinomiya-Kitaguchi (operated by Hanshin Bus and Hankyu Bus)
 * for Takarazuka via Koyanosato and Takarazuka City Hospital
 * for Amagasaki-Hamada Depot and Kuise-eki-kita via Nishi-Oshima
 * to JR Namba (running after night games) (suspended in 2011 and 2012, resumed in 2013)
 * Novotel Koshien

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John Isaac Thornycroft

Sir John Isaac Thornycroft  (1 February 1843 – 28 June 1928) was an English shipbuilder, the founder of the Thornycroft shipbuilding company and member of the Thornycroft family.

Early life
He was born in 1843 to Mary Francis and Thomas Thornycroft. He attended the Regent Street Polytechnic and then the Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering at South Kensington and at the same time, he began building the steam launch Nautilus in his father's study. Nautilus was a fast boat with a reliable engine (also built by Thornycroft), and in 1862 it proved to be the first steam launch with enough speed to follow the contenders in the University race. The ensuing publicity prompted his father to purchase a strip of land along the Thames, adjacent to Chesterman's yard at Chiswick in 1864, and that became the start of John Thornycroft's shipbuilding career.

In 1866 Thornycroft took over Chesterman's yard completely, and John I. Thornycroft & Company was formally established, but at the beginning, John Thornycroft did not work there full-time. Instead he worked for a while at Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company in Jarrow-on-Tyne before studying for a diploma in engineering at the University of Glasgow. At Glasgow he studied under Lord Kelvin and Professor Macquorn Rankine.

In 1870, Thornycroft married Blanche Ada Coules (1846–1936) and they had two sons and five daughters. Three of their children, John Edward Thornycroft, Blanche Thornycroft and Isaac Thomas (known as Tom) Thornycroft would go on to be involved in the family business. Edith Alice; Mary Beatrix; Ada Francis; and Eldred Elizabeth do not seem to have been involved.

On his return from Scotland Thornycroft built the fast steam yacht Miranda in 1871, and thereby proved that small vessels could obtain speeds that were not thought possible at the time.

Engineering career
The exploits of Miranda gave rise to further orders of similar vessels, including Gitana, built in 1876 and capable of 20.8 kn, which was an astonishing speed at the time. Besides the yacht sales, Thornycroft found an even more lucrative business building torpedo boats. It started with HNOMS Rap (1873) for Norway in 1873, a light vessel built of thin steel plates. The early torpedo boats were designed for spar torpedoes, but when a new generation of self-propelled torpedoes arrived from Whitehead in 1876, the torpedo boat really found its form. Thornycroft designed HMS Lightning for the Royal Navy, on the lines of Gitana, and orders started mounting. John Thornycroft was not the only supplier of torpedo boats, but his influence was so big that the Encyclopedia of Ships and Shipping characterised him as the founder of the torpedo-boat industry.

The weight of the boiler system (of the locomotive type) precluded speeds over 22 - 23 knot, and Thornycroft set out to work on an improved system. Water-tube boilers already existed, and Thornycroft built the river-steamer Peace in 1882 with that type of boilers, of the Herreshoff design. In 1885 his improved system was ready, and it became one of the most important of the 50–60 patents he obtained between 1873 and 1924. Built with the new boilers, the Spanish Ariete reached 26.2 knot on trials in 1887, and in 1894 the yard delivered the torpedo gunboat HMS Speedy to the Royal Navy, which was the first ship with water-tube boilers in that Navy.

Like other engineers before and after him, Thornycroft tried to solve the problem of how to reduce rolling in ships. He bought the yacht Cecile of 300 tons and installed a device consisting of a 6-ton moveable watertank, controlled by hydraulic cylinders. John Thornycoft presented his results to the Institution of Naval Architects in 1892, but although his invention was able to dampen rolling, it was not proceeded with.

In 1894, Thornycroft and his employee Sydney W. Barnaby were some of the first to record the effects of cavitation during the tests of the destroyer Daring. The tests revealed that the narrow blade screws of the day ceased to be effective at high speeds, and as a result the screws were replaced by a new wider blade model. The old screws would do 24 knot at 3,700 ihp, while the new ones delivered 28.4 knot with the same power.

John Thornycroft entered a new field of business in 1896, when he built a steam-powered lorry for his local Chiswick Urban District, and formed the Thornycroft Steam Carriage and Wagon Company. More followed, and in 1901 he made a breakthrough by winning the War Office's competition for heavy lorries for military use. In 1898 the company opened a new factory for lorries in Basingstoke, and Thornycroft's quickly grew to become the town's largest employer. Later, the company also began building combustion-engine vehicles, and production continued at Basingstoke until 1969.

In his quest for still faster vessels, John Thornycroft made several tests with different hull-shapes, eventually settling on a stepped hull for fast motor boats. This hull shape would almost lift the boat out of the water, facilitating high speeds. In 1910, John I. Thornycroft & Company designed and built a 25 ft boat called Miranda IV. She was a single-step hydroplane powered by a 120 hp Thornycroft petrol engine and could reach 35 kn. In 1915, John Thornycroft suggested that the Royal Navy might use a fast motor boat – armed with torpedoes – for coastal service, and in January 1916 the company received an order for twelve 40 ft boats, which formed the beginning of a long line of Coastal Motor Boats delivered to the Royal Navy and later to other navies also. The Hovercraft Museum holds a number of hull models that John Thornycroft used for his experiments, using air-flow as a mean of lifting boats out of the water. The oldest dates back to 1877.

He was knighted in the 1902 Coronation Honours, receiving the accolade from King Edward VII at Buckingham Palace on 24 October that year.

Legacy
John Thornycroft died in 1928 and was widely commemorated for his inventions and engineering skills. His son John Edward Thornycroft (1872–1960) and grandson John Ward Thornycroft (1899–1989) both served as chairmen of John I. Thornycroft & Company. His daughter Blanche Thornycroft (1873–1950) was heavily involved in the family business and her father's experiments, and continued to test model hulls for the company for at least ten years after her father’s death in 1928.

The Thornycroft company name disappeared from the motoring business in the 1960s and from shipbuilding on 1 November 2001, when Vosper Thornycroft became VT Group plc.

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D'eux

D'eux (French for "of them, "about them", or "from them"; homophonic with deux, meaning "two") is the thirteenth studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, and her tenth French-language album. It was released by Sony Music on 30 March 1995 in Canada and on 3 April 1995 in France. It was issued in other countries in the following months. In the United States, it was released under the title The French Album. D'eux was preceded by the lead hit single, "Pour que tu m'aimes encore". The album was mainly written and produced by French singer-songwriter, Jean-Jacques Goldman. It garnered favorable reviews from music critics and became the best-selling French-language album of all time, with sales of over twelve million copies worldwide.

Background, release and content
D'eux was recorded in the Mega Studio in Paris, France, in November and December 1994. Jean-Jacques Goldman, a popular French singer and songwriter, wrote and produced eleven songs on the album. One track, "Cherche encore", was written by Erick Benzi. The album includes a duet with Goldman on "J'irai où tu iras", two successful singles "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" and "Je sais pas", and a song dedicated to Dion's niece who had died of cystic fibrosis, "Vole". The latter three tracks were recorded later in English as "If That's What It Takes", "I Don't Know" and "Fly" respectively, and were included on Dion's next album, Falling into You. D'eux was released on 30 March 1995 in Canada and on 3 April 1995 in France. It was also issued in other European countries between April and November 1995, and in the United States in May 1995. D'eux was also released in January 1996 in New Zealand, and in October 1996 in Japan. Dion's 2007 album title, D'elles, refers to D'eux, being the specifically feminine version.

Singles
The lead single, "Pour que tu m'aimes encore", was released in Quebec and in France in March 1995. It was also issued in other selected countries in the next months. "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" was very successful in Francophone countries. It topped the chart in France for twelve weeks and in the Wallonia region of Belgium for fifteen consecutive weeks. The song also reached number one in Quebec and stayed there for four weeks. It became the best-selling single of the year 1995 in both France and Wallonia. In France alone, "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" has sold nearly one million copies. The song was also successful in other countries, reaching the top ten in Belgium Flanders, the Netherlands and Sweden. Most notably, it also peaked inside the top ten in the United Kingdom and Ireland, which was an exceptional achievement for a French-language song. On the European Hot 100 Singles, "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" reached number four.

The second single, "Je sais pas", was released in Quebec in July 1995, in Belgium in August 1995 and in France in October 1995. It topped the charts in France (for seven weeks), Wallonia (for two weeks) and Quebec (for four weeks). On the European Hot 100 Singles, the song peaked at number seven. "Je sais pas" became one of the best-selling singles in France and Wallonia in 1995, reaching respectively numbers six and nine on the year-end charts.

"Le ballet" was issued in France in January 1996 as a promotional single. It reached number five on the Airplay Chart and was included as B-side on the next commercial single released in France, "Falling into You". Due to the success of D'eux, radio stations in Quebec started playing "Destin" in January 1996. The song spent over eight months on the Airplay Chart, peaking at number three. In May 1996, radio stations in Quebec also started playing "J'irai où tu iras", a duet with Jean-Jacques Goldman. This song reached number fourteen on the Quebec Airplay Chart. All singles from D'eux appeared on Dion's 2005 greatest hits album, On ne change pas.

Promotion
Dion promoted D'eux on television in Quebec and in France in late March and early April 1995. In mid-June 1995, she performed "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" in the United States on Good Morning America and The Tonight Show. These were her first performances of a French-language song on American television. She also taped the performance of "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" in New York for the British music chart television programme, Top of the Pops. In September 1995, Dion embarked on the D'eux Tour, starting with concerts in Quebec. Later, between October 1995 and February 1996, she performed over forty concerts in Europe. The shows at the Zénith de Paris were recorded and released as the Live à Paris CD and Live à Paris home video in 1996.

Accolades
At the Juno Awards of 1996, D'eux was nominated in three categories: Album of the Year, Best Selling Album (Foreign or Domestic) and Best Selling Francophone Album. Dion won in the latter category and was also nominated for Female Vocalist of the Year. In 1995, Dion was nominated for seven Félix Awards and won three of them in categories: Artist of the Year Achieving the Most Success Outside Quebec, Pop/Rock Album of the Year (D'eux) and Most Popular Song of the Year ("Pour que tu m'aimes encore"). The remaining nominations included among others: Female Vocalist of the Year, Best Selling Album of the Year (D'eux) and Video of the Year ("Pour que tu m'aimes encore"). In 1996, Dion was nominated for eight Félix Awards and won six of them in categories like: Artist of the Year Achieving the Most Success Outside Quebec, Female Vocalist of the Year, Best Selling Album of the Year (D'eux) and Show of the Year (D'eux Tour). "Je sais pas" was also nominated in categories: Most Popular Song of the Year and Video of the Year. Additionally, Dion's two television specials: Céline Dion - D'eux and Céline Dion - spécial d'enfer were nominated for Prix Gémeaux in 1995 and 1996.

In France in 1996, Dion was nominated for three Victoires de la Musique: Francophone Artist of the Year, Song of the Year ("Pour que tu m'aimes encore") and Music Video of the Year ("Pour que tu m'aimes encore"), and won in the first two categories. "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" also won Radio France Internationale Award in 1996 (Conseil Francophone de la chanson). In 1996, Dion received Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for the Best Selling French-Language Artist in History. The same year, she won a World Music Award for World's Best Selling Canadian Artist of the Year.

Critical reception
D'eux received positive reviews from music critics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine from AllMusic gave it three stars out of five. He noted that Jean-Jacques Goldman's songcraft, who wrote nearly all of the songs on the album, is remarkably similar to the adult contemporary pop that broadened Dion's international success. Erlewine wrote that the album is a well-constructed and entertaining adult pop record and on the whole, it sounds good.

Emmanuel LeGrand from Billboard noted the unprecedented success of D'eux and how it broke boundaries all around the world saying: "The magnitude of Dion's success has overshadowed the rest of the crop".

Commercial performance
D'eux was a huge commercial success. It became the best-selling French-language album in history, with sales of more than twelve million copies worldwide. D'eux worldwide sales:
 * In France, D'eux debuted at number one and stayed at the top of the chart for a record-breaking forty-four weeks. When Dion's next album, Falling into You, was released in March 1996, it debuted at number two, the top position still being occupied by D'eux. According to Billboard, D'eux has sold 2.3 million copies in France between April and December 1995. The album topped the 1995 Year-end Chart in France and on the 1996 Year-end Chart it was number four. In August 1995, D'eux was certified Diamond in France. Eventually, it has sold 4.5 million copies there and became the best-selling album of all time in France.
 * In France, D'eux debuted at number one and stayed at the top of the chart for a record-breaking forty-four weeks. When Dion's next album, Falling into You, was released in March 1996, it debuted at number two, the top position still being occupied by D'eux. According to Billboard, D'eux has sold 2.3 million copies in France between April and December 1995. The album topped the 1995 Year-end Chart in France and on the 1996 Year-end Chart it was number four. In August 1995, D'eux was certified Diamond in France. Eventually, it has sold 4.5 million copies there and became the best-selling album of all time in France.
 * In France, D'eux debuted at number one and stayed at the top of the chart for a record-breaking forty-four weeks. When Dion's next album, Falling into You, was released in March 1996, it debuted at number two, the top position still being occupied by D'eux. According to Billboard, D'eux has sold 2.3 million copies in France between April and December 1995. The album topped the 1995 Year-end Chart in France and on the 1996 Year-end Chart it was number four. In August 1995, D'eux was certified Diamond in France. Eventually, it has sold 4.5 million copies there and became the best-selling album of all time in France.
 * In France, D'eux debuted at number one and stayed at the top of the chart for a record-breaking forty-four weeks. When Dion's next album, Falling into You, was released in March 1996, it debuted at number two, the top position still being occupied by D'eux. According to Billboard, D'eux has sold 2.3 million copies in France between April and December 1995. The album topped the 1995 Year-end Chart in France and on the 1996 Year-end Chart it was number four. In August 1995, D'eux was certified Diamond in France. Eventually, it has sold 4.5 million copies there and became the best-selling album of all time in France.
 * In France, D'eux debuted at number one and stayed at the top of the chart for a record-breaking forty-four weeks. When Dion's next album, Falling into You, was released in March 1996, it debuted at number two, the top position still being occupied by D'eux. According to Billboard, D'eux has sold 2.3 million copies in France between April and December 1995. The album topped the 1995 Year-end Chart in France and on the 1996 Year-end Chart it was number four. In August 1995, D'eux was certified Diamond in France. Eventually, it has sold 4.5 million copies there and became the best-selling album of all time in France.
 * In France, D'eux debuted at number one and stayed at the top of the chart for a record-breaking forty-four weeks. When Dion's next album, Falling into You, was released in March 1996, it debuted at number two, the top position still being occupied by D'eux. According to Billboard, D'eux has sold 2.3 million copies in France between April and December 1995. The album topped the 1995 Year-end Chart in France and on the 1996 Year-end Chart it was number four. In August 1995, D'eux was certified Diamond in France. Eventually, it has sold 4.5 million copies there and became the best-selling album of all time in France.
 * In France, D'eux debuted at number one and stayed at the top of the chart for a record-breaking forty-four weeks. When Dion's next album, Falling into You, was released in March 1996, it debuted at number two, the top position still being occupied by D'eux. According to Billboard, D'eux has sold 2.3 million copies in France between April and December 1995. The album topped the 1995 Year-end Chart in France and on the 1996 Year-end Chart it was number four. In August 1995, D'eux was certified Diamond in France. Eventually, it has sold 4.5 million copies there and became the best-selling album of all time in France.

In Wallonia, D'eux spent thirty-seven weeks at the top of the chart, a record that still stands, and became the best-selling album of 1995. It also topped the chart in Belgium Flanders for four weeks. In 1997, D'eux was certified six-times platinum in Belgium and is one of the best-selling albums of all time in this country. In Switzerland, D'eux topped the chart for five weeks and became the second best-selling album of the year 1995 and the best-selling album in 1996. In 1998, D'eux was certified four-times platinum in Switzerland and is one of the best-selling albums of all-time there. It also topped the chart in the Netherlands for two weeks and was certified platinum. In Quebec, the album topped the chart for thirty-four weeks. On the Canadian Albums Chart, D'eux peaked at number twenty-nine and was certified seven-times platinum in 1997 for sales of 700,000 copies.

Although a French-language album, D'eux charted and was certified in many non-French speaking countries. In the United Kingdom, it peaked at number seven, setting a record for a French release. It was certified gold there and has sold 250,000 copies. Dion became the first and only artist who achieved UK gold certification with a French-language recording. Later, she repeated this success with S'il suffisait d'aimer. Even in the United States, where it was released as The French Album, the album has sold 300,000 copies. D'eux also reached the top ten in Portugal, Denmark and Sweden. It was also certified platinum in Poland and gold in New Zealand. On the European Top 100 Albums, D'eux reached number three and eventually it was certified eight-times platinum by the IFPI for sales of eight million copies in Europe.

15th anniversary edition
To celebrate the 15th anniversary of D'eux, Legacy Recordings released in November 2009 in Europe and in December 2009 in Canada D'eux – 15th Anniversary Edition. on 27 November 2009 in France,   It includes the CD with original album tracks plus three demos from the personal archives of Jean-Jacques Goldman ("Pour que tu m'aimes encore", "Le ballet", "J'irai où tu iras") and two instrumental versions of "Vole" and "Pour que tu m'aimes encore". It also contains an opendisc access to unpublished photographs of the cover sessions and listen to an alternate version of "J'attendais" with different lyrics by Goldman. The bonus DVD includes the Sonia Benezra's television special Spécial Dimanche from April 1995, distributed exclusively in Quebec, where Dion interpreted "Je sais pas", "J'irai où tu iras" in duet with Goldman, "Les derniers seront les premiers", "Pour que tu m'aimes encore" and "Vole". Between the songs, there were interviews with Dion and Goldman. It also includes four music videos: "Pour que tu m'aimes encore", "Les derniers seront les premiers", "J'attendais" and "Je sais pas". D'eux – 15th Anniversary Edition also includes a booklet of forty pages in a double digipack. It includes two previously unpublished texts by Goldman, one from 1995 to launch the album, and the other specially done for D'eux – 15th Anniversary Edition. There are also previously unpublished photographs of the sessions for the cover and reproduction of the text manuscript of Goldman's "Pour que tu m'aimes encore".

Track listing
All tracks produced by Jean-Jacques Goldman and Erick Benzi.

Personnel
Adapted from AllMusic.

 * Beckie Bell – choir, chorus
 * Erick Benzi – arranger, programming
 * Sylvain Beuf – saxophone
 * Chistopher Deschamps – drums
 * Arnaud Dunoyer de Segonzac – piano
 * Celine Dion – vocals
 * Carole Fredericks – choir, chorus
 * Claude Gassian – photography
 * Humberto Gatica – mixing
 * Jean-Jacques Goldman – arranger
 * Emmanuel Goulet – assistant engineer
 * Yannick Hardouin – bass
 * Neil Jason – bass
 * Yvone Jones – choir, chorus
 * Denis Leloup – trombone
 * Basil Leroux – guitar
 * Vito Luprano – executive producer
 * Christian Martínez – trumpet
 * Christophe Negre – saxophone
 * Frédéric Perrinet – assistant engineer
 * Roland Romanelli – piano
 * Antoine Russo – trumpet
 * Patrice Tison – guitar
 * Brian Vibberts – assistant engineer

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Yubiwa

"Yubiwa" (指輪) is the seventh single by the Japanese singer Maaya Sakamoto, released June 21, 2000. It was also the ending theme for the Japanese anime film Escaflowne. The lyrics were written by Yuho Iwasato, while the music was composed by Yoko Kanno. The cover image was drawn by Nobuteru Yūki.

"Yubiwa" is also included on the soundtrack for the Escaflowne movie.

Track list

 * 1) Yubiwa (指輪): single ver.
 * 2) Vector (ベクトル)
 * 3) Yubiwa: single ver. (without Maaya)
 * 4) Vector (without Maaya)

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Talk:Baldur's Gate (city)

Friendly Arm Inn
I searched on Friendly Arm Inn and got re-directed here. Should not Friendly Arm Inn be an article on it's own?
 * It depends what you where looking for and the amount of information you have about this inn. Reply to David Latapie 22:59, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I changed the re-direct to Sword Coast where there's a few lines on the Friendly Arm Inn. Poulsen 02:38, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
 * The Friendly Arm Inn isn't even in a city! Unless you could call the Inn a city in itself... (I personaly think it's big enough, you know)James.Denholm 09:27, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Rewrite
Almost all of this article was copies word-for-word from Volo's Guide to the Sword Coast. I aligned it to the format used for the Waterdeep entry, and rewrote what was necessary. I'm not convinced the Places of Interest section needs to look like it does, or even exist. I still plan to tweak what's here. Is this acceptable for the cleanup?--RYard 05:35, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Isn't this Volo's Guide available for download? I don't remember the exacts terms of WotC's policy, but I think text can be copied (as long as source is mentionned, I guess). Reply to David Latapie 23:26, 15 September 2005 (UTC)

Alignment
First, thanks for removing the clean-up tag. Glad I was able to help there. Second, we need to come up with a consistent standard with labeling FR articles. There are too many cooks. It doesn't look like a template is popular, and that's fine. I propose the following sentence to start each FR article:
 * "X" is a (location. event, personality) in the fictional Forgotten Realms setting of Dungeons and Dragons.

I agree to whoever recently edited the Baldur's Gate article that location is better than city. However, I strongly prefer leaving out the Toril reference. It's just not common enough usage to use. Please leave any suggestions here to start with, as I am planning on changing the several entries I recently wrote to reflect this.
 * OK for replacing Toril with Forgotten Realms.
 * Not OK for deleting the template, but I don't disagree enough to fight on this topic.
 * if you want to modify a template, copy its name (you'll find it on the code) and type http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:template's name . Here, it would be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:FR-location
 * Reply to David Latapie, in a hurry

Possible movie
If a film director is to make Baldur's gate a movie, which location do you think is most sutable?

Pece Kocovski 03:31, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

New Orleans, more correctly, the French Quarter, would be the best place to shoot the movie. For one, thanks to modern computer technology, many elements of the city can be removed, or replaced with more fantastical elements. Also, the French Quarter itself (as well as sections north of it) follow the Mississippi River around a large bend, which is very similar to the shape of Baldur's Gate. (It was stated that Baldur's Gate resembles a crescent moon due to the shape of it's coast-line. For the same reason with the Mississippi RIver, New Orleans is known as the Crescent City.) ethernaut 10:42, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

Forgotten Realms Wiki
Please consider redirecting users to w:c:forgottenrealms:Baldur's Gate (city) at the Forgotten Realms Wiki where we have a more detailed article on the subject, which is not subject to deletion on notability grounds. I cannot do this thanks to the conflict of interest thing. Fw190a8 (talk) 06:21, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Notability
Since nobody has objected I'm removing the "notability" tag. I agree the article is not well written, but given the subject matter and references its notability is unquestionable. Let me know if there is any problem. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.119.91.132 (talk • contribs) 02:34, 21 April 2008
 * I have restored the template as their is no evidence of this fictional city being notable in the real-world.--Gavin Collins (talk) 08:48, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

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User talk:Marvingardns

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User talk:El Pollo Diablo

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, please be sure to sign your name on Talk and vote pages using four tildes (~~~~) to produce your name and the current date, or three tildes (~~~) for just your name. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! RJFJR 13:26, July 15, 2005 (UTC)
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 * Thanks dude! Just the stuff I needed... :-) --El Pollo Diablo | Talk 09:12, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Petri Nets
Hi, El Pollo Diablo, Welcome to Wikipedia. I just responded to your questions in the talk page for this article on Petri nets. The article itself is a camel -- a horse designed by committee. I have routinely witnessed miracles in Wikipedia, and I'm hoping this article will eventually become one ... (visualize praying hands). As it stands now, it is a mess, but not as much of a mess as it was before I had gotten ahold of it (or so I would like to imagine).

Are you familiar with the LNCS volume 3098 on Advances in Petri Nets? In it there is a paper on Petri nets and dependability that you might be interested in seeing. In my response to your questions I mentioned extensions, and this volume is full 'o them. Rüdiger Valk's paper on Object Petri Nets takes extensions to Petri Nets to novel extremes. Come to find out, his stuff could be useful in modelling the dynamics of blood borne infection/resistance on the cellular level, so the application domain for Petri nets is really broad. The whole moral of this story is that there ain't no such thing as a "standard Petri net". Vonkje 02:04, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Football links
Hi,

I noticed you were new and had been editing football articles, so I thought I'd give you a few links that it took me a while to find. Hope they're useful.

 * User:Sjorford/Football - comprehensive list of football articles on Wikipedia
 * WikiProject Football - place to discuss football articles
 * Wikiportal/Association football - good page for editors who are interested in football

CTOAGN 16:19, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Alex Ferguson
I reverted your deletion as I felt that leaving the article with nothing on his achievements at United was a bit extreme. I've put a few ideas on the article's discussion page.

CTOAGN 23:25, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Article improvement drive
Hi El Pollo Diablo,

The Football AID is restarting. The next project article is to be selected on January 1, 2006. Please look at the nominations and take part actively. Thanks. -Aabha (talk) 10:36, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Football AID 15-21 January
Thank you for participating in the Football AID vote this week. UEFA Champions League has been selected as this week's collaboration. Please do help in working to improve it.

Gay Cowboys

 * "At the 2006 Golden Globes, a film about gay cowboys, Brokeback Mountain, won Best Film" -- I removed that, from Chef's Chocolate Salty Balls it has nothing to do with the article, please dont add things that do not have to do with the article. Mike (Reply to my comments/questions on my User Talk Page) 12:15, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Football AID 23 - 30 January
Thank you for participating in the Football AID vote this week. Bobby Charlton has been selected as this week's collaboration. Please do help in working to improve it.

Raymond E. Feist articles
Hello,

While searching around the "What links here" list attached to the Raymond E. Feist article looking for other Wikipedias who may be fans, I found you. Currently I am working on expanding the related articles of the Riftwar books, but there is a lot of ground to cover with 20 books to look through. I am hoping to gather other editors who may be willing to spend a little time to help out. There are articles which need expanding and clean-up, and I don't think I can do it alone.

The current articles are (red links to be started): The series articles: Other articles:
 * Riftwar
 * Krondor's Sons
 * Empire Trilogy
 * Serpentwar Saga
 * Riftwar Legacy
 * Legends of the Riftwar
 * Conclave of Shadows
 * Darkwar Saga
 * Midkemia
 * Triagia
 * The Kingdom of the Isles
 * The Empire of Great Kesh
 * The Kingdom of Roldem
 * The Kingdom of Queg
 * The Eastern Kingdoms
 * The Free Cities of Natal
 * The Keshian Confederacy
 * Elvandar
 * The Grey Towers
 * Stone Mountain (Midkemia)
 * Dorgin
 * Novindus
 * Kelewan
 * Worlds of Raymond E. Feist (title pending) - this article would cover those other worlds visited through rifts and the Hall of Worlds, and even the City Forever and the Garden.
 * Races of the Riftwar sagas (title pending)
 * Gods of the Riftwar sagas (title pending) - not only are there gods of Midkemia and Kelewan, but one other full pantheon mentioned in Krondor: The Betrayal.

And there is probably more that I haven't even thought of yet, which I am hoping you might.

This message has been sent to AbsoluteZero, Alkanen, Deathphoenix, El Pollo Diablo, Epideme, Painbearer, and SM247. —Lady Aleena talk / contribs 22:45, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
 * How do you feel about editting an area that will more than likely contain spoilers of future events that take place in the various series? - LA @ 22:41, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Blocked IP
The IP of what I can only assume must be all of Loughborough University campus has been blocked. While I appreciate that there has been a vandal from this IP, blocking the entire thing is counterproductive as there is at least one (me) genuine editor here. Surely there is another way? --El Pollo Diablo (Talk) 14:32, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

 * It's really a tough problem, actually. The autoblock is simply a 'secondary' block that happens to the IP of a named user when his account is blocked.  The admin can't see the IP, so there's no way he can know what he's autoblocking.  The autoblock stops persistent vandals or spammers from simple making another account and going right back to what they were doing five seconds later.  The balance, of course, is that other good editors can get blocked for a few minutes, and if it happens often enough they stop contributing.  I'm really sorry if this keeps happening - please hang in there and know that we try to fix autoblock damage as fast as possible.  Kuru  talk  01:01, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

James Milner Career section Not really asking for full feedback on this article (although I wouldn’t mind it). I’d just like to know what you feel the best way the divide up the Career section is, by Club, by season, not at all or some other way. Please leave your reply under the section in my talk page named “Milner Career section”. Buc 16:26, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

I didn't ask you specifically I asked a lot of users. But this was sorted a while ago. Incidentally this article is now a FAC. Buc 18:59, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Counties
I've responded on my talk page! Owain (talk) 20:09, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

PL Map
Well, there's hard to find a good colour, you could remove the lines of the subdivisions, and just have the country outline — chandler — 06:31, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Removal of Premier League fixtures
I removed the fixtures because of the on-going copyright discussions for safety reasons. Sorry if you put a lot of work in that, I know what you've been through. But better to be safe than running into a legal suit with some "strange-thinking person"... Hockey-holic (talk) 19:05, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Football/Manchester United task force
Hi there. I noticed from the list of participants at WP:FOOTY that you are a Manchester United fan. A task force has been set up to help improve articles related to Manchester United, and we are looking for participants to help with the effort. If you would be interested, please add your name to the list at the task force's page. Thanks. – PeeJay 10:13, 21 July 2008 (UTC)

Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 Notice
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English Cup competitions
I noticed you had started creating more articles for FA Cup seasons,a project I started about 9 months ago when only the 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09 seasons had articles. Would you be able to do the same for the Football League Cup as there are only articles stretching back to 2002. Cheers. 03md (talk) 09:16, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Cheers for your response. The Carling Cup website doesn't have results but this link to Soccerbase does. I will have a go at the results for recent years and see how I go. Well done on your FA Cup progress - just a few months ago the amount of coverage was pathetic! I started a while ago but made little progress. Thanks. 03md (talk) 10:17, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Hi again, I was wondering whether you still planned to have a go at a League Cup article as you haven't responded. Thanks. 03md (talk) 19:04, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

Cheers. I will also have a go at some articles soon. You could start with the articles for 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05 or 2005-06 as there are already stub articles for these. 03md (talk) 09:33, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Have you had a chance to start the articles yet? 03md (talk) 22:04, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Well done - I checked back at about 5.30pm and the article looks good. 03md (talk) 16:29, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

I noticed that you had created the page for the 2004-05 Carling Cup on your userpage so I have copied the information to the article. Well done with your work. 03md (talk) 10:10, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

FA Cup project
I just wanted to let you know that the FA Cup articles from FA Cup 1994-95 to FA Cup 1998-99 are incomplete and, as you are doing articles for the old competitions, would you be able to complete these for consistency. Thanks. 03md (talk) 08:33, 3 October 2008 (UTC)

Cheers. I have been trying to expand some of the cup final articles. I will try and complete the stub league cup articles in the next few days and let you know when they're done. Did you use Excel to put the results into the article and, if so, how.03md (talk) 09:05, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Good work on FA Cup articles
Noticed you've been doing good work on FA Cup articles, have a barn star for your work.Mick Knapton (talk) 08:51, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

English cups
Cheers. I have been trying to expand some of the cup final articles. I will try and complete the stub league cup articles in the next few days and let you know when they're done. Did you use Excel to put the results into the article and, if so, how.03md (talk) 09:05, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Could you email me the spreadsheet either on matchamnetgear@aol.com or d_matcham@hotmail.co.uk and I will make a start on the League Cup articles. 03md (talk) 12:23, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the email but I'm not quite sure what program to paste the data from soccerbase into? Could you help me. 03md (talk) 23:20, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

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FA Cup move
I've corrected the template; I thought I already had done so, but it appears not. Without having a script, however, it would be time-consuming to move all the respective articles. I moved that and a couple of others, due to GA or FA nominations, which would be best with the correct endashes in the wikilinks or text. I guess you would be better asking someone with the correct tools or scripts to move the rest of the pages with the press of one button. Perhaps ask at WT:FOOTY. Peanut4 (talk) 20:01, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

1915 FA Cup Final
Thanks for your recent additions to this page, adding a little colour and some details 86.142.235.136 (talk) 22:42, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Taunton Town
Hi, I've undone your change to FA Cup 1930–31 which changed the redlinked Taunton Town (1) F.C. to link to the current Taunton Town. AFAIK, the current club was only founded in the 1940s, and isn't the same club as the first Taunton Town. Both the FA (in their FA Cup Archive) and FCHD here refer to them as Taunton Town (1), to distinguish from the current club, which FCHD has here. No doubt if an article ever gets written for it, a better title could be chosen, perhaps along the lines of Accrington Stanley F.C. (1891). By the way, I'm amazed by the amount of work you've put in on the FA Cup seasons and finals, they're a tremendous addition to the project. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 09:24, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Unused football kit
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Gas Holders
I noticed you said you work on gas holders. I also do as an Instrument Techinician in the Yorkshire area. I was hoping to enhance the page with information on the workings of gas holders, however being as what was the Transco region (or NEGAS in my region) has long since broken up, I was wondering how the system differed from region to region as writing on their workings in one region only would be somewhat immaterial to Wikipedia. I was wondering if it would be possible to share information on the mechanical/ instrumentation/ electrical variations across the counrtry. Mtaylor848 (talk) 00:37, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Would you be interested in joining a WikiProject devoted to Lancashire?
Hi, I have noticed that you are from Lancashire and I was wondering if you have heard of the new WikiProject group of WikiProject Lancashire and Cumbria. If you are interested in joining please feel free to become a paricipant and help us achive our goals. If you do join I am looking forward to your contributions. 93gregsonl2 (talk) 21:01, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

FA Cup
In all of your entries I have looked at you suggest that 'Some matches, however, might be rescheduled for the Sunday... '. This is incorrect, as no FA Cup or Football League matches were played on Sundays until 1973-4. I think that this was due to Sunday trading laws, and it was only allowed in 73-4 to get round the industrial problems which resulted in the Three-Day Week(Mundellan (talk) 00:43, 29 November 2009 (UTC))

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Women in Red World Contest
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Carrier Command

Carrier Command is a 1988 video game published by Rainbird for the Amiga, Atari ST, IBM PC compatibles, ZX Spectrum, Macintosh, Commodore 64, and Amstrad CPC. Carrier Command is a cross between a vehicle simulation game and a real-time strategy game where players control a robotic aircraft carrier.

Plot

The game is set in the near future, where a team of scientists have developed two robotic aircraft carriers to colonise an archipelago of sixty four islands. Unfortunately, the more advanced carrier falls into the hands of a terrorist organization, and they plan to conquer the archipelago for their own evil ends. It is the player's job to use the less advanced carrier to colonise the islands and destroy the enemy carrier.

Reception
The Games Machine awarded the Atari ST and Amiga versions 98% and 97% respectively and ranked Carrier Command the #1 game of 1988. ACE (Advanced Computer Entertainment) scored the PC version 965/1000, while Zzap!64 magazine awarded the Amiga release 92%. The game was ranked the 15th best game of all time by Amiga Power.

Computer Gaming World in 1988 praised the game's blend of strategic and tactical play, recommending it as an improvement over Starglider. A 1992 survey in the magazine of wargames with modern settings gave the game two and a half stars out of five, describing it as a "futuristic arcade game", and two 1994 surveys gave it two stars. The ZX Spectrum version was awarded a "Crash Smash" with 97%, and was awarded 94% by Your Sinclair, and was placed at number 12 in the Your Sinclair official top 100.

In 1991, PC Format named Carrier Command one of the 50 best computer games ever. The editors called it "a splendid mixture of strategic planning and arcade action". Carrier Command was named the 56th best computer game ever by PC Gamer UK in 1997. The editors wrote that it "packs more flight-sim, sea-sim and tank-sim action and strategy than a dozen of your so-called CD-ROM games could manage in a million or more megabytes."

Legacy
Carrier Command was followed by Battle Command, where the player controls a tank.

Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising (2001) was inspired by Carrier Command and has many similarities.

Carrier Command: Gaea Mission (2012) is a modern remake by Bohemia Interactive's Prague studio. It's a real-time action/strategy game, where the overarching objective is to conquer and control islands. It features a vast 33-island archipelago on the planet-moon Taurus.

Carrier Command 2 was announced in December 2020. It was published by the reconstituted Microprose and was released August 10, 2021 on Steam. Included in the purchase is a virtual reality version of the game. There is a multiplayer component using invitation systems through Steam or by invitation code. Players cooperatively play utilizing different stations aboard the carrier deck. The sequel received mixed reviews, with The Games Machine rating it 6.7/10 points and calling its gameplay "brilliant" but "brought down by obtuse and ancient systems".

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West Middletown, Ohio

West Middletown is an unincorporated community in eastern Madison Township, Butler County, Ohio, United States. It is located on the west shore of the Great Miami River about one mile from Middletown. It had about 200 people in 1905 and was formerly a station on the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad. Founded as Madison City, it received the name Heno when it was awarded a post office in 1882. Since there was already another Madison City in Ohio, the postmaster general demanded a name change. According to legend, as old-timers were discussing the new name around the cracker barrel in the general store, a can of Heno tea caught their attention. So the town was named for the tea. But in 1907, the postmaster general decreed the village was within the shadow of Middletown, and only a few postal workers had ever heard of Heno, making it difficult to sort and forward mail to the place. The government ordered the village to accept the name of West Middletown. In 1963 the postmaster general in another decree closed the West Middletown post office, transferring its business to Middletown.

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2005 Copa Libertadores

The 2005 Copa Libertadores was the 46th edition of the Copa Libertadores. The champion also qualified for the 2005 FIFA Club World Championship.

It was the first time ever that two teams from the same country reached the final. This year's tournament was also the first Copa Libertadores to employ the away goals rule in knockout ties. São Paulo won the tournament, becoming the first Brazilian team to win the cup on three occasions.

Preliminary round
12 teams from 11 football associations dispute 6 places in the Group Stage.

Team #1 was home in the first leg.

Group stage
The six winners from the preliminary round join the other twenty-six teams in the group stage. The top 2 teams in each group advanced to the knockout stage.

Tiebreakers, if necessary, are applied in the following order:
 * 1) Cumulative goal difference.
 * 2) Total goals scored.
 * 3) Away goals scored.
 * 4) Sorting

Qualified teams
The teams seeded 1 to 8 (first placed teams of each group) and 9 to 16 (second placed teams of each group) and the ties were 1 vs 16, 2 vs 15, etc.

Round of 16
First leg matches were played between May 17, 2005, and May 19, 2005. Second leg matches were played between May 24, 2005, and May 26, 2005.

Quarterfinals
First leg matches were played on June 1, 2005, and June 2, 2005. Second leg matches were played between June 14, 2005, and June 16, 2005.

Semifinals
First leg matches were played on June 22, 2005, and June 23, 2005. Second leg matches were played on June 29, 2005, and June 30, 2005.

Finals
First leg match was played on July 6, 2005. Second leg match was played on July 14, 2005.

Top goalscorers
9 goals 6 goals 5 goals
 * Santiago Salcedo
 * Robinho
 * Ricardinho
 * Lima
 * Omar Bravo
 * Martín Palermo
 * Daniel Bilos
 * Martín Arzuaga
 * Ernesto Farías
 * Rogério Ceni
 * Luizão
 * Deivid
 * Rodrigão
 * Francisco Palencia
 * Andrés Guglielminpietro

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Nature Reviews Nephrology

Nature Reviews Nephrology is a monthly peer-reviewed review journal published by Nature Portfolio. It was established as Nature Clinical Practice Nephrology in 2005, but change name in 2009. The editor-in-chief is Susan Allison.

Coverage includes prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disorders of the kidney in the adult and child, including hypertension, infection/inflammation, dialysis/chronic uremia, renal failure, transplantation, applied physiology, epidemiology, pathology, immunology, cancer, and genetics.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

 * PubMed/MEDLINE
 * Science Citation Index Expanded
 * Scopus

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 42.439, ranking it 1st out of 90 journals in the category "Urology & Nephrology".

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Stewartby

Stewartby is a model village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, originally built for the workers of the London Brick Company. The village was designed and built to the plans of the company's architect Mr F W Walker, laid out on 'Garden City' principle, a later and more modern development than such better-known Victorian model villages as Saltaire. Started in 1926, Stewartby is also a later model than Woodlands which was first planned in 1905. The later retirement bungalow development of the 1950s and 1960s with the pavilion community centre in their midst was designed by the neo-Georgian architect Professor Sir Albert Richardson. Today, Stewartby parish also includes Kempston Hardwick.

Brickworks
Originally two Wootton farming settlements, Wootton Pillinge and neighbouring Wootton Broadmead, the Wootton Pillinge LBC village was in 1936 renamed Stewartby, taking its new name from the Stewart family, directors of London Brick Company since 1900. The family's son Sir Malcolm Stewart had amalgamated LBC with the Forders Company in the village in the 1920s.

Stewartby was the largest brickworks in terms of output in the world. The site closed in 2008 as the owners, Hanson, could not meet UK limits for sulphur dioxide emissions. The four remaining chimneys were due to be demolished upon closure but these were initially listed for preservation of Bedfordshire's brick-related history and were due to remain, however this since changed and the chimneys were demolished on 26 September 2021.

The brickworks was home to the world's biggest kiln and produced 500 million bricks at the height of production.

BJ Forder & Son opened its first brickworks in Elstow in 1897 before relocating to Wootton Pillinge in 1920.

Wootton Pillinge was renamed Stewartby in 1937 in recognition of the Stewart family who had been instrumental in developing the brickworks.

The firm became London Brick Company and Forders Limited in 1926, and shortened to London Brick Company in 1936.

At the height of the industry's production there were 167 brick chimneys in the Marston Vale. There were four chimneys in Stewartby, but these were demolished in 2021.

In the 1970s, Bedfordshire produced 20% of England's bricks.

At its peak London Brick Company had its own ambulance and fire crews, a horticultural department and a photographic department, as well as its own swimming pool inside the factory, and ran a number of sports clubs.

More than £1 million was spent on Stewartby Brickworks in 2005–7 in an attempt to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions.

The factory used Lower Oxford Clay, which contains circa 5% marine organics, formed 150 million years ago when it was on the sea bed. This reduced the coal requirement, as the organic material burned.

Stewartby Brickworks closed in May 2008.

In 2021, it was announced that the four remaining chimneys were to be demolished, as the landowners deemed them unsafe; they were later demolished on 26 September 2021 at 11:15am.

In December 2023, Universal Destinations & Experiences announced that it had purchased 480 acres of land on the site of the brickworks, with the company exploring the possibility of building a theme park and resort in the area, citing nearby Bedford's proximity to London and Luton Airport.

Infrastructure
The village is served by Stewartby railway station on the Marston Vale Line.

The village was to have been the planned location for the proposed National Institute for Research into Aquatic Habitats (NIRAH). This project was scrapped in June 2015 due to lack of investment funding.

The new housing development is called Hanson's Reach. Phase one involves 750 new houses being built.

It is planned to construct a very large waste incinerator in an abandoned clay pit next to the village.

Education
Kimberley College is a sixth form centre which opened in Stewartby in September 2013.

There is a lower school in Stewartby called Broadmead Lower School, which was opened in 1965. The middle school is Marston Vale, which takes in children from the surrounding area.

Sport and leisure
Stewartby has been home to Stewartby Village Football Club since 1999. In the 2009/10 season it was in the Bedfordshire County League Division 4.

Stewartby is also home to Stewartby Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society which has been putting on performances of concerts and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas since 1951.

There is a large park in Stewartby which has a new slide and zip wire. There are plans to extend the park. A BMX track has been built behind the club house.

The railway in Stewartby was opened in 1905 and used to form part of the Varsity Line, from Oxford to Cambridge. There are plans to reopen the closed parts of the line under the East West Rail scheme. The line now sees an hourly service Monday to Saturday between Bedford and Bletchley, operated by London Northwestern Railway using Class 230 trains.

The lake is home to Stewartby Water Sports Club, a not for profit organisation which promotes Angling, Power Boat Racing, Sailing, Wakeboarding and Waterskiing. There are also opportunities for open-water swimming, paddleboarding, canoeing and wind-surfing which are organised from within the club.

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