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Elizabeth Rebecca "Betty" Wilson (born 21 November 1921, Melbourne, Australia) is considered as the greatest woman cricket player of all-time. She represented Australia in women's Test cricket between 1947/8 and 1957/8. Wilson batted right handed, and was a good off-spin bowler and a superb fielder.

She grew up in Collingwood and learned the game by playing against a lamp post in her street. At the age of 10, she joined the Collingwood Women's Cricket Club where she played with the adults. She made it to the Victoria second XI at the age of 14, and to the senior side at 16.

The second world war delayed her debut till 1948. On he debut against New Zealand, he scored 90 and took 4/37 and 6/28. In her second, he scored 111 against England becoming first the Australian woman to score a Test century against England, and took nine more wickets.

She toured England in 1951 and scored 81 in the first Test at Scarborough. Against Yorkshire, she scored 100* in 77 minutes, leading Australia to a last ball win. After this series, she stayed in England for two and a half years.

In the St.Kilda Test against England in 1957/8, she turned out the greatest ever allround performance in a Test and became the first cricketer, male or female, to score a 100 and take 10 wickets in a Test. On a wet wicket, she took 7/7 in the first innings which included the first ever hattrick in a women's test. The feat was not repeated until Shaiza Khan did the same in 2004. She top scored with 12 in Australia's low first innings and a 100 in the second. Taking 4/9 in 19 overs in the second, she set another record for the best bowling of 11/19 in a match, which too stood as a record till 2004.

Wilson played only 11 Tests in her career scoring 862 runs at 57.46 and 68 wickets at 11.80.

In 1985, she was the first woman cricketer inducted into the Australian Sporting Hall of Fame. In 1985/6 the Under 21 National Women's Cricket Championship was renamed as the Betty Wilson Shield. In 1996/7, the age group was changed to Under 19.

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Proposed merger to Blizzard Beach
The subject of this article doesn't seem to be independently notable; any verifiable content should be merged into Disney's Blizzard Beach. Powers T 00:34, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

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Jonathan Cheechoo

Jonathan Cheechoo (Cree: ᔔᓇᕦᓐ ᒋᒍ; born July 15, 1980) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL).

During the 2005–06 season, he led the NHL with 56 goals and won the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy. He was the first San Jose Sharks player to win the "Rocket" Richard Trophy, awarded to the NHL player with the most goals in a season.

Playing career
Drafted by the Belleville Bulls of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) in the 1997 OHL priority selection, Cheechoo had a reasonably strong rookie year in 1997–98 with 76 points (31 goals and 45 assists) in 64 games, good for third place on his team. In the 1998 NHL Entry Draft, the San Jose Sharks traded the second overall pick (used to select David Legwand) to the Nashville Predators for the third overall pick (used to select Brad Stuart) and the 29th overall pick, which they used to select Cheechoo. Most had predicted that Cheechoo would be a later-round pick, and San Jose was criticized for picking a lackluster forward who "skated slower forwards than most players skated backwards" instead of the highly touted Legwand.

Cheechoo joined the Bulls for the 1998–99 season and finished with 82 points (35 goals and 47 assists) in 63 games. Taking off in the playoffs, Cheechoo scored 30 points (15 goals and 15 assists) in 21 games. Five of those goals were scored during Game 7 of the OHL Final against the London Knights, a game the Bulls would win 9–2 to secure their first OHL Championship. Although he was now eligible for American Hockey League (AHL) assignment, San Jose chose to leave him unsigned, knowing he still had room to improve in the OHL. In the following season, Cheechoo had his best year, tallying a team-high 91 points (45 goals and 46 assists) in 66 games. Cheechoo added 17 points (5 goals and 12 assists) in 16 games during the playoffs. Notably, Cheechoo never played a full season while in juniors because of minor injuries he gained from his crash-and-bang style of play. For development, Cheechoo joined San Jose's AHL affiliate, the Kentucky Thoroughblades, in the 2000–01 season before deciding to give the NHL another try and retaining hockey agent Thayne Campbell.

San Jose Sharks
Cheechoo had a strong rookie season with Kentucky in the AHL, scoring 66 points in 75 games. After going scoreless in the playoffs (in which he was a healthy scratch for two games), Cheechoo rebounded with 46 points (21 goals and 25 assists) in 53 games (he missed games due to a leg injury).

In 2002–03, after scoring seven points (three goals and four assists) in nine games with the Cleveland Barons (the relocated Kentucky Thoroughblades franchise), Cheechoo was recalled to San Jose to help revitalize the struggling team. Playing mostly on the third and fourth lines, Cheechoo had a modest 16 points (9 goals and 7 assists) in 66 games.

His hard work paid off, as Cheechoo had 47 points in 81 games in 2003–04. Playing alongside Mike Ricci and Scott Thornton, Cheechoo had two mentors who taught Cheechoo how to be defensively responsible. Before the Calgary Flames eliminated San Jose in the 2004 Stanley Cup playoffs, Cheechoo had 10 points in 17 games. During the NHL lock-out, Cheechoo played with HV71 of the Swedish Elitserien and scored 5 goals in 20 games.

In the 2005–06 season, Cheechoo's offensive statistics exploded, with him netting a franchise record 56 goals and 93 points. Much of Cheechoo's success was augmented by the Sharks acquisition of his new linemate, superstar center Joe Thornton in late November. Before the trade, Cheechoo had 15 points (7 goals and 8 assists) in 24 games. In the 57 games after the trade, Cheechoo had 78 points (49 goals and 29 assists). Due to his uptake in goal scoring, Cheechoo became the first Sharks player to win the Maurice "Rocket" Richard Trophy and the second aboriginal player to score more than 50 goals in a season. Thornton would go on to win the Hart trophy (league MVP) that season.

In 2006, Cheechoo signed a five-year contract extension worth US$15 million, paying him US$2.5 million the first two years, US$3 million the third year and US$3.5 million the last two years.

In the 2006–07 season, Cheechoo got off to a slow start as he, Joe Thornton and newly acquired power forward Mark Bell failed to click. However, after a struggling Bell was demoted to the press box in favor of young speedster Milan Michalek, Cheechoo picked it up, finishing the season with 37 goals and 69 points in 76 games. During the 2007 off-season, Cheechoo required double hernia surgery to repair injuries he amassed during the Sharks' playoff run. During the 2007–08 season, Cheechoo's production dropped to 23 goals. Cheechoo's production dropped further the following season, where he scored just 12 goals.

Ottawa Senators
On September 12, 2009, Cheechoo was traded by the Sharks (along with Michalek and a second-round draft pick) to the Ottawa Senators in exchange for Dany Heatley and a fifth-round pick. On February 12, 2010, Cheechoo was placed on waivers by the Senators after they acquired Matt Cullen from the Carolina Hurricanes.

On February 13, 2010, he cleared waivers and was reassigned to the Binghamton Senators, Ottawa's AHL affiliate. He was recalled in the playoffs and played one game against the Pittsburgh Penguins. On June 28, he was again placed on waivers by the Senators. Cheechoo, who was heading into the final year of a five-year contract signed with San Jose in 2006, was reportedly owed $3.5 million for the 2010–11 season. On June 29, the Senators bought out the final year of his contract, making him a free agent.

Later career
Following his buy out, Cheechoo was invited to the Dallas Stars training camp on September 4, 2010. He was released from the tryout 22 days later, on September 26, following his appearance in two pre-season games where he failed to register a point and posted a −2 rating. Despite his efforts, Dallas felt Cheechoo could not out perform their current players and therefore released him so he would have the opportunity to join another team.

On October 5, 2010, Cheechoo returned to the Sharks organization, signing a professional try-out contract with their AHL affiliate, the Worcester Sharks, to re-unite with his first professional head coach Roy Sommer, who previously coached him with the Kentucky Thoroughblades.

On July 12, 2011, Cheechoo was signed by the St. Louis Blues to a one-year, two-way contract. While playing with the Blues' AHL affiliate, the Peoria Rivermen, Cheechoo earned his 500th career professional point on November 27 against the Chicago Wolves.

A free agent upon the 2012–13 NHL lockout, Cheechoo was belatedly signed to a professional try-out contract with the Oklahoma City Barons of the AHL during the midpoint of the 2012–13 season on January 20, 2013.

On July 10, 2013, Cheechoo left North America and signed a one-year contract with Croatian club, Medveščak Zagreb of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

In May 2014, Cheechoo signed a two-year deal with KHL club Dinamo Minsk from Belarus. In 2016, he signed a one-year deal with Slovan Bratislava. Cheechoo was selected for the 2017 KHL All-Star game.

Retirement
On March 6, 2018, Cheechoo officially announced his retirement. He was recognized at the SAP Center in San Jose prior to the Sharks' game against the Calgary Flames on March 24, 2018. After Cheechoo announced his retirement, Sharks general manager Doug Wilson commented about Cheechoo's background; Wilson talked about the fact that he was a player who was able to have great success from a remote area of Canada.

Personal life
Cheechoo is a member of the Cree First Nations tribe from Moose Factory, Ontario. When he was young, Cheechoo did not believe he would play in the NHL; instead, he believed that he would follow in the footsteps of his grandfather and would become a trapper and hunter for the Cree. Over time, Cheechoo developed into a strong hockey player and, at age 14, left his home after being told he would need to in order to develop his hockey skills. Cheechoo moved to Timmins, Ontario, around 300 kilometres away from his home, to play bantam hockey. Living so far from home, Cheechoo was homesick and found it very difficult to have to leave his close family at such a young age. Cheechoo has said he had a very strong support system when he was deciding to pursue hockey. His success was a highlight for Moose Factory, as shown by the 120 individuals who left Moose Factory to support him when he went 29th overall in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft.

Growing up in a small town, Cheechoo enjoyed the tight-knit nature of the town and expressed thanks for the high level of support he had from the people he grew up with. Cheechoo's childhood was very reminiscent of a traditional Cree upbringing and he has said his favorite things to do when he was young were to hunt and fish with his grandfather, George Cheechoo.

In his youth, Cheechoo was involved in the Little Native Hockey League, a tournament which gives aboriginal youth an outlet to play hockey. During the 25th Little Native Hockey Tournament, Cheechoo sat as the captain of the team and won the tournament. Cheechoo has described his involvement with the organization as being a positive aspect of his hockey career. Cheechoo sat as the Honorary Chair during the 46th annual event which took place in March 2017.

Cheechoo has been known to go out of his way to talk to children and interact with those who admire him. Cheechoo is seen as a role model for aboriginal youth in hockey, with his involvement in the Little Native Hockey League being a source of inspiration for those currently competing in the tournament and wishing to achieve the same level of success.

Records

 * San Jose Sharks' franchise record for goals in a season (56) – 2005–06
 * San Jose Sharks' franchise record for power-play goals in a season (24) – 2005–06
 * San Jose Sharks' franchise record for hat-tricks in a season (5) – 2005–06
 * San Jose Sharks' franchise record for hat-tricks in a career (9)

Career statistics
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SV-318

The SV-318 is the basic model of the Spectravideo range. It was fitted with a chiclet style keyboard, which was difficult to use, alongside a combination cursor pad/joystick. This is a disc-shaped affair with a hole in the centre; put a red plastic 'stick' in the hole and with a built-in joystick, remove the stick and it is a directional arrow pad for word processing etc. This machine also had only 16 KB of user RAM (plus an additional 16 KB of video RAM), which limited its usefulness. However, this could be expanded via an external peripheral box.

This machine is basically identical to its big brother the SV-328, the only differences being in the keyboard and amount of memory. The two machine's ROM, expandability, mainboard and case were identical.

Reference to the operating system Microsoft Extended BASIC is not to be confused with MSX BASIC, although some marketing at the time claimed that Microsoft Extended is what MSX stood for. The SV-318 is not fully compliant with the MSX standard.

In 1983, Spectravideo announced the SV-603 ColecoVision Video Game Adapter for the SV-318. The company stated that the $70 product allowed users to "enjoy the entire library of exciting ColecoVision video-game cartridges".

Reception
Popular Mechanics in February 1984 stated that the Spectravideo SV-318 "is worth searching out ... a very nice little machine". The magazine liked the integrated joystick and "stunning" graphics, but advised consumers to consider the small software library before purchasing.

More than 130 games were released for the system.

System specs

 * Processor: Zilog Z80A running at 3.58 MHz
 * ROM: 32 KB
 * BIOS (16 KB)
 * BASIC (16 KB)
 * RAM: 16 KB
 * Video Display Processor: TMS9918
 * VRAM: 16 KB
 * Text modes: 40×24 and 32×24
 * Resolution: 256×192 (16 colours)
 * Sprites: 32, 1 colour, max 4 per horizontal line
 * Sound chip: General Instrument AY-3-8910 (PSG)
 * Programmable Peripheral Interface: Intel 8255

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Talk:Book of Zephaniah

Introduction
I don't know much about the bible/tanakh, etc/, and Wikipedia is my main sources for this. This article has no introductory paragraph. What compilations is it included in, etc.? Could someone who knows more about it and/or has read the relevant texts please add one? 96.50.10.234 (talk) 04:48, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

Radio prophecy?
I found a reference in a book of bible facts (Is That in the Bible? by Charles Francis Potter (1942 ed.)) that mentions that Zephaniah 1:10 was once held to be a prophecy about radio. Can anyone confirm/deny this? --Auric The Rad 03:36, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

If it ever was, it certainly wasn't orthodox. As far as Biblical end time prophecies go, few (if any) are so specific. DVDV28 —Preceding undated comment added 00:46, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

Names of God in Judaism
The name of God in the Hebrew Old Testament was holy and has been given expressions in the English language that have included LORD or Yahweh or Jehovah or the Tetragrammaton. These were written as expressions for the Hebraic expression of YHWH. Recent edits removed Yahweh and introduced Hashem. Yahweh is a term for the holy, Hebrew name of God that was commonly used in The Jerusalem Bible and other contexts. See Names of God in Judaism for more information. In the article, it states that Hashem is a more casual or colloquial term for the name of God. For now, I recommend retaining the work of others that includes Yahweh or Tetragrammaton or Hashem or other legitimate names. Wikipedia grows when others share and add new knowledge and information. I recommend this over editing the text of others and switching names that can then be switched again by others. Adonai, Elohim and Yah are other common expressions of the Hebraic YHWH.

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Ethiopians?
Could we have some proof that the name given for the father of Zephaniah means Ethiopian? As for the prophecies against the Ethiopians, is this not a code word for Egyptians, who were considerably closer to Jerusalem? --Hors-la-loi (talk) 18:19, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

The editor above suggests that Cush == Egypt (rather than Ethiopia) because Ethiopia is too far away?? It is quite clear that there was a "Cush"/Kush that is the Southern/upstream part of the Nile (i.e. Egypt) that had various relations/associations with Lower Egypt at various times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kush. As to whether this biblical Cush is synonymous with "Ethiopia"... I think the editor above is confused by today's boundaries of Ethiopia which of course did not exist at the time. The historical boundaries of Ethiopia (the Kingdom of "Abyssinia") certainly includes territory which Zephaniah would plausibly prophesy about. http://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/cush/ Does the editor above also suggest that Sheba must also be Egypt, because Ethiopia is "too far away"?? Nigelhenry (talk) 03:43, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

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Kenneth Kamler

Kenneth Kamler is an American orthopedic microsurgeon trained at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, who practices surgery of the hand in New York and extreme medicine in some of the most remote regions on Earth.

Career
Kamler has treated bear bites in the Arctic and frostbite in the Antarctic. He has set fractures in the Andes and cared for out-of-breath scuba divers in the Galapagos. He has performed surgery in the mud of the Amazon rainforest and in a NASA undersea analogue space capsule. Additionally, he has flown in zero gravity aboard NASA’s DC-9 "Vomit Comet", testing robots for eventual use in emergency surgery on the International Space Station or on Mars.

He has been on six treks to Mount Everest as expedition doctor and climber; four were with the National Geographic Society deploying laser telescopes and global positioning satellite receivers to measure the exact height of Everest as well as the tectonic motion of the Asian continental plate. On two other expeditions to Everest, he served as Chief High Altitude Physician for NASA-sponsored research on human physiological responses to extreme altitude, and monitored remote body sensors worn by climbers to provide real-time medical data as they ascended the mountain. Dr. Kamler himself has climbed to within 900 vertical feet of the summit of Everest and claims to have been the only doctor high on the mountain, during the infamous 1996 storm that claimed 12 lives. His treatment of the survivors was portrayed in the best-selling book, Into Thin Air and in the IMAX film, Everest (1998).

Kamler has made four trips to Bhutan. Working with the Minister of Health, he has trekked through the remote eastern region to assess health care needs, and in 2008, he witnessed the coronation of the new King, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. Additionally, he has acted as expedition doctor during a high altitude research expedition climbing Mount Kilimanjaro with USARIEM, a research division of the United States Army.

Kamler was vice president of research and education for The Explorers Club for 10 years, former chairman of its science advisory board, and a director for 12 years; he was recently re-elected as a director. He received the coveted Explorers Club Lowell Thomas Award in 2009, for outstanding achievement in exploration. He has been an Explorer-in-Residence at the American Museum of Natural History, a consultant for NASA and for National Geographic Adventure, and a commentator for Outdoor Life Network and CNN. He is currently on the editorial board of advisors of Popular Mechanics.

Recognitions
U.S. News & World Report has recognized him as a 2011 Top Doctor. In 2008 and 2010, Newsday named him one of the Best Doctors on Long Island, and in 2002, New York Magazine named him one of the Best Doctors in New York. He is listed in the New York Guide to Top Doctors as well as in Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in Science and Engineering. He is the subject of a chapter in the book Biography Today: Medical Leaders, and has been profiled in The New York Times, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, and Reader's Digest. He is a recipient of the Science Museum of Long Island's Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a member of the Sigma Xi National Scientific Research Society. Kamler was honored at the 2005 National Scout Jamboree as one of Twenty Greatest Living Explorers and had a sub-camp named after him.

Publications
Kamler is the author of two books on the physiological and psychological effects of extreme environments, both based largely on his personal experiences: Doctor on Everest (2000), published by Lyons Press, and Surviving the Extremes: What Happens to the Body and Mind at the Limits of Human Endurance, published by St. Martin’s Press and Penguin Books (2004 and 2006). He has written a monthly column for National Geographic Adventure and is a feature writer and contributing editor for Popular Mechanics. He has written chapters for adventure books: Everest—Mountain Without Mercy (1997), The Worst Journey in the World (2006), They Lived to Tell the Tale (2007), Adventurous Dreams (2007), and Grasping for Heaven (2010); and for academic texts: Risk and Exploration in Space (2008), Expedition and Wilderness Medicine (2009), and The Annals of the New York Academy of Science (2009).

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Betty Wilson

Betty Rebecca Wilson (21 November 1921 – 22 January 2010 ) was considered one of the greatest woman cricketers of all time. She represented Australia in Women's Test cricket between 1947–48 and 1957–58. Wilson batted right-handed, was a good off spin bowler and a superb fielder.

Early life
Born in Melbourne, Wilson grew up in the inner neighbourhood of Collingwood and learned the game by playing against a lamp post in her street. At the age of 10, she joined the Collingwood Women's Cricket Club where she played with the adults. She made it to the Victoria second XI at the age of 14, and to the senior side at 16.

Cricket career
The Second World War delayed her Test appearances till 1948. On her debut against New Zealand, she scored 90 and took 4/37 and 6/28. In her second Test in 1949, she scored 111 against England becoming the first Australian woman to score a Test century against England, and took nine more wickets. This made her the first woman cricketer to score a century and to take a five wicket haul in an innings of a Women's Test match.

She toured England in 1951 and scored 81 in the first Test at Scarborough. Against Yorkshire, she scored 100* in 77 minutes, leading Australia to a last ball win. After this series, she stayed in England for two and a half years.

In the St. Kilda Test against England in 1957–58, she became the first cricketer, male or female, to score a 100 and to take 10 wickets in a Test. On a wet wicket, she took 7/7 in the first innings which included the first ever hat-trick in a women's Test. The feat was not repeated until Shaiza Khan of Pakistan did the same in 2004. She top scored with 12 in Australia's low first innings and a 100 in the second. Taking 4/9 in 19 overs in the second, she set another record for the best bowling of 11/16 in a match, which stood as a record till 2004.

Wilson played 11 Tests in her career scoring 862 runs at 57.46 and taking 68 wickets at 11.80.

Honours
In 1985, Wilson became the first woman cricketer to be inducted into the Australian Sporting Hall of Fame. In 1985–86, the Under-21 National Women's Cricket Championship was renamed the Betty Wilson Shield. In 1996–97, the age group was changed to Under-19.

In 2015, Wilson was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.

In 2017, Wilson was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame. The Betty Wilson Young Player of the Year award was inaugurated at the 2017 Allan Border Medal Ceremony, to recognise a female cricketer who, prior to 5 December 2015, was aged under 25 and had played 10 or fewer matches.

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Battle of Tarakan (1945)

The Battle of Tarakan was the first stage in the Borneo campaign of 1945. It began with an amphibious landing by Allied forces on 1 May, code-named Operation Oboe One; the Allied ground forces were drawn mainly from the Australian 26th Brigade, but included a small element of Netherlands East Indies personnel. The main objective of the landing was the capture of the island's airfield. While the battle ended with success for the Allied forces over the Japanese defenders, this victory is generally regarded as having not justified its costs. The airfield was so heavily damaged that it ultimately could not be repaired in time to make it operational for other phases of the Allied campaign in Borneo.

Geography
Tarakan is a triangle-shaped island 2.5 mi off the coast of Borneo. The island is roughly 15 mi long from its northernmost point to the southern tip and 11 mi wide towards the north of the island. The small island of Sadau is located about 0.5 mi off Tarakan's west coast. Almost all of Tarakan's coastline is swampy, and in 1945 mangroves on the northern half of the island stretched 1 mi to 2 mi inland. The coastal mangroves in the southern portion of the island were narrower. Inland from the swamps, most of central Tarakan comprised a series of steep and densely forested hills just over 100 ft high. Tarakan is located three degrees north of the equator and has a tropical climate. The maximum temperature for most days is about 80 °F, and relative humidity is consistently high at about 90 percent.

In 1945, Tarakan Town was the main settlement of the island. This town was located 2000 yd inland, and was separated from the south-west coast by several small hills covered in low vegetation. Four piers used to dock oil tankers were located on this coastline at the settlement of Lingkas, and were connected to Tarakan Town by three surfaced roads. Tarakan airfield was located about 1 mi north-west of Tarakan Town. Of the island's two oilfields, Sesanip Oilfield was located at the north-east edge of the airfield while the larger Djoeata or Juata Oilfield was 3 mi to the north. The village of Djoeata was located on Tarakan's north-west coast and linked to Djoeata Oilfield by a track.

Japanese occupation
Prior to World War II, Tarakan formed part of the Netherlands East Indies (NEI) and was an important oil production centre. The island's two oilfields produced 80,000 barrels of oil per month in 1941. Securing Tarakan's oilfields formed one of Japan's early objectives during the Pacific War. Japanese forces landed on the island's east coast on 11 January 1942 and defeated the small Dutch garrison in two days of fighting in which half the defenders were killed in battle or executed thereafter. While the oilfields were successfully sabotaged by the Dutch before their surrender, Japanese engineers were able to swiftly restore them to production and 350,000 barrels were extracted each month by early 1944.

Following the Dutch surrender, Tarakan's 5,000 inhabitants suffered under Japan's occupation policies. The large number of troops stationed on the island caused food shortages and many civilians suffered from malnutrition as a result. The Japanese authorities brought 600 labourers to Tarakan from Java. The Japanese also forced an estimated 300 Javanese women to work as "comfort women" on Tarakan after enticing them to travel with false offers of clerical and clothes-making jobs.

Tarakan's value to the Japanese evaporated with the rapid advance of Allied forces into the area during 1944. The last Japanese oil tanker left Tarakan in July 1944, and heavy Allied air raids later in the year destroyed the island's oil production and storage facilities. Hundreds of Indonesian civilians may have also been killed by these raids. The Allies also laid mines near Tarakan, which, combined with patrols by air and naval units, prevented Japanese merchant vessels and transports from docking at the island.

In line with the island's declining importance, the Japanese garrison on Tarakan was reduced in early 1945. One of the two infantry battalions stationed on the island (the 454th Independent Infantry Battalion) was withdrawn to Balikpapan. This battalion was destroyed by the Australian 7th Division in July during the Battle of Balikpapan.

Allied plans
The primary objective for the Allied attack on Tarakan (code-named "Oboe One") was to secure and develop the island's airstrip so that it could be used to provide air cover for subsequent landings in Brunei, Labuan and Balikpapan. The secondary objective for the operation was to secure Tarakan's oilfields and bring them into operation as a source of oil for the Allied forces in the theatre. The 3rd Company, Technical Battalion, KNIL was responsible for this.

The 9th Division and 26th Brigade headquarters were responsible for planning the invasion of Tarakan. This work began in early March when both units had arrived at Morotai, and the final plans were completed on 24 April. The planners' work was hampered by poor working conditions and difficulties in communicating with General MacArthur's General Headquarters at Leyte. As part of the planning process each of Tarakan's hills was assigned a code name (for instance "Margy" and "Sykes"); during the Australian Army's campaigns in New Guinea geographic features had been named on an ad hoc basis, and it was hoped that selecting names prior to the battle would improve the precision of subsequent planning and communications.

The Allied plans anticipated that Tarakan would be secured quickly. It was expected that the operation would involve a short fight for the airfield followed by a 'consolidation' phase during which the island's airfield and port would be developed to support Allied operations. The planners did not foresee significant fighting in Tarakan's interior, and no plans were developed for operations in areas other than the landing beaches, Tarakan Town and airfield. The planners did, however, correctly anticipate that the Japanese would make their main stand in an area other than the invasion beach and would not be capable of mounting a large counterattack.

The Allied plans also expected that Tarakan would be transformed into a major base within days of the landing. Under the pre-invasion planning it was intended that a wing of fighter aircraft would be based at Tarakan six days after the landing and this force would be expanded to include an attack wing nine days later and staging facilities for a further four squadrons of aircraft within 21 days of the landing. It was also expected that the 26th Brigade Group and its supporting beach group would be ready to leave Tarakan by 21 May and the RAAF units could be redeployed in mid-June after providing support for the landing at Balikpapan.

The Allied planners possessed detailed intelligence on Tarakan and its defenders. This intelligence had been gathered from a variety of sources which included signals intelligence, photographic reconnaissance flights and Dutch colonial officials. Tarakan was the Australian Services Reconnaissance Department's (SRD) first priority from November 1944. Prior to the invasion, I Corps requested that the SRD provide intelligence on Japanese positions in northern and central Tarakan. A five-man strong party landed on the island on the night of 25/26 April and successfully reconnoitered the defences on Tarakan's north coast, though the operative who was assigned to the centre of the island became lost and did not reach this area. The SRD operatives withdrew from Tarakan on the night of 29/30 April and landed on the mainland of Borneo. They were unable to transmit the intelligence they had collected, however, as their radio set malfunctioned. Members of the party eventually landed within the Allied beachhead on Tarakan on 3 May to report to the 26th Brigade, but Whitehead was disappointed with the results of this operation and made no further use of the SRD during the battle.

Allies
The Allied force responsible for capturing Tarakan was centred around the very experienced Australian 26th Brigade Group of nearly 12,000 soldiers. The 26th Brigade had been formed in 1940 and had seen action in North Africa and New Guinea. The brigade's infantry component was the 2/23rd, 2/24th and 2/48th Battalions, also with much war experience. These battalions were joined by the 2/4th Commando Squadron and the 2/3rd Pioneer Battalion, which fought as infantry in this battle. The brigade group also included the 2/7th Field Regiment equipped with 24 25-pounder guns, a squadron from the 2/9th Armoured Regiment operating 18 Matilda tanks, a company of the 2/2nd Machine Gun Battalion, the 53rd Composite Anti-Aircraft Regiment and two engineer field squadrons. These combat units were supported by a large number of logistics and medical units, including the 2nd Beach Group whose role was to land supplies from the invasion fleet. While the 26th Brigade Group greatly outnumbered the known strength of Tarakan's Japanese defenders, the Allies committed this large force as their previous experience indicated that it would be difficult to defeat the Japanese force if it retreated into Tarakan's rugged interior.

The 26th Brigade Group was supported by Allied air and naval units. The air units were drawn from the Australian First Tactical Air Force (1 TAF) and United States Thirteenth Air Force and included fighter and bomber squadrons. The naval force was drawn from the United States Seventh Fleet and included several Royal Australian Navy warships and transports. Since the main objective of attacking Tarakan was to use the island's airstrip, the invasion force also included a large number of Royal Australian Air Force ground units, including No. 61 Airfield Construction Wing comprising No. 1 and No. 8 Airfield Construction Squadrons.

The force which landed on Tarakan included nearly a thousand United States and Dutch troops. The U.S. troops included the U.S. Army engineers who manned the invasion force's LCMs and LCVPs and the U.S. Army's 727th Amphibian Tractor Battalion, Co. A, who manned the LVTs and United States Navy Seabee detachments aboard the Landing Ship Tanks. The Dutch forces were organised into a company of Ambonese infantry commanded by Dutch officers and a civil affairs unit.

Japan
At the time of the Allied landing, the Japanese force on Tarakan numbered 2,200 men drawn from the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy. The largest unit was the 740-man strong 455th Independent Infantry Battalion which was commanded by Major Tadao Tokoi (常井忠雄). 150 Army support troops were also on Tarakan. The Navy's contribution to Tarakan's garrison comprised 980 seamen commanded by Commander Kaoru Kaharu. The main naval unit was the 600-strong 2nd Naval Garrison Force. This naval unit was trained to fight as infantry and operated several coastal defence guns. The 350 Japanese civilian oil workers on Tarakan were also expected to fight in the event of an Allied attack. The Japanese force included about 50 Indonesians serving in a home guard unit. Major Tokoi directed the overall defence of Tarakan, though relations between the Army and Navy were poor.

The Japanese forces were concentrated around Lingkas, Tarakan's main port and the site of the only beaches suitable for landing troops. These defenders had spent the months before the invasion constructing defensive positions and laying mines. These fixed defences were used extensively during the battle, with Japanese tactics being focused on tenaciously defending pre-prepared positions. The Japanese did not conduct any large counter-attacks, and most offensive actions were limited to small parties of raiders which attempted to infiltrate the Australian lines.

Preparatory operations
The Japanese force on Tarakan was warned of the impending invasion in April, before the Allies began their pre-invasion bombardment of the island. The island's commander received a radio signal warning him of imminent attack, and the commander of Tarakan's oil depot was ordered to destroy the oil wells on 15 April. It is possible that this warning may have been issued as a result of a security leak from either the Chinese Republican Army's representative to Australia or MacArthur's headquarters. This did not have any effect on the subsequent battle, however, as the Japanese had been preparing defences to resist invasion for several months and the Japanese were aware of the large Allied force which was being assembled at Morotai to attack Borneo.

Prior to the arrival of the invasion force the Japanese garrison on Tarakan and Borneo was subjected to intensive air and naval attacks from 12 April to 29 April. The RAAF and USAAF also mounted air attacks against Japanese bases in China, French Indochina and the NEI to suppress Japanese air units throughout the region. These attacks destroyed all Japanese aircraft in the Tarakan area. The aerial bombing of Tarakan increased in intensity five days before the landing. These attacks were focused on the areas adjoining the planned landing beaches at Lingkas and sought to neutralise the Japanese defences in these areas. The oil storage tanks at Lingkas were a key objective as it was feared that the oil in these tanks could be ignited and used against Allied troops. These bombardments forced much of Tarakan's civilian population to flee inland. At least 100 civilians were killed or wounded.

The Tarakan attack force was assembled at Morotai during March and April 1945. The 26th Brigade Group was transported from Australia to Morotai by United States Army transports and arrived in mid-April and began to prepare their equipment for an amphibious landing. Due to a shortage of shipping all units were ordered to leave non-essential vehicles at Morotai when they began to embark onto assault transports on 20 April. The commander of the 1st Tactical Air Force attempted to resist this order, but was over-ridden by his superior officer Air Vice Marshal William Bostock. Most units were embarked by 22 April and the assault troops practiced landing operations for several days. A small convoy of ships carrying a force ordered to capture Sadau Island off the coast of Tarakan left Morotai on 26 April, and the main invasion convoy of 150 ships sailed the next day.

Due to the need to clear both the large number of naval mines which had been laid around Tarakan and the extensive beach obstacles at Lingkas, the Allies did not attempt a surprise landing. A group of United States Navy minesweepers and destroyers arrived off Tarakan on 27 April and began clearing mines, most of which had been originally laid by Allied aircraft. This operation was completed by 1 May at a cost of two small minesweepers damaged. USN PT boats also arrived off Tarakan on 28 April and illuminated and strafed the invasion beaches at night to prevent the Japanese from repairing their beach defences. The PT boats also attacked seven small Japanese freighters and luggers which were found anchored at Lingkas, sinking or damaging all but one of them.

On 30 April, the 2/4th Commando Squadron and the 57th Battery of the 2/7th Field Regiment were landed on the nearby Sadau Island in order to support the engineers tasked with clearing the obstacles off the invasion beaches. This force rapidly secured the undefended island. The landing on Sadau Island was the first time Australian soldiers had landed on non-Australian territory in the Pacific since late 1941 (Australian participation in the New Guinea Campaign from 1942 onwards was limited to the Australian portion of New Guinea). The only Allied losses in this operation were aboard USS Jenkins (DD-447), which was damaged when she struck a mine while supporting the landing.

The task of clearing the beach obstacles at Lingkas was assigned to the 2/13th Field Company. These defences comprised rows of barbed wire, wooden posts and steel rails which extended 125 yards from the beach. At 11:00 on 30 April, eight parties of engineers went forward in LVTs and landing craft to clear the obstacles. The engineers were supported by the guns on Sadau Island and Allied warships and aircraft. Operating under Japanese fire the engineers cleared all the obstacles obstructing the landing beaches. While heavy casualties had been expected, the 2/13th completed their task without loss.

Landing

The main invasion force arrived by sea off Tarakan in the early hours of 1 May. Supported by a heavy air and naval bombardment, the 2/23rd Battalion and the 2/48th Battalion made an amphibious landing at about 08:00. The 2/23rd Battalion disembarked from American LVTs into deep mud at "Green Beach" on the southern flank of the beachhead, and overcame several small Japanese positions in the hills around Lingkas. At nightfall it dug in along the main road to Tarakan Town (which had been designated the "Glenelg Highway" by the Australian planners). The 2/48th Battalion had a much easier landing at "Red Beach" on the northern end of the beachhead with most troops disembarking from their LVTs near dry land. The battalion pushed north along the "Anzac Highway" and nearby hills, and rapidly secured a number of pillboxes behind the beach as well as the oil storage tanks. By the end of the day the 2/48th held positions in the hills to the west of Tarakan Town. The 2/24th Battalion also began landing on Red Beach from 9.20 am, and spent most of the day in reserve. The unit received orders to advance north along the Anzac Highway late in the afternoon, but did not encounter any opposition. By nightfall the Australian beachhead extended for 2800 yd along the shore and up to 2000 yd inland. However, Japanese snipers were active within this perimeter during the night of 1/2 May, and the 2/2nd Pioneer Battalion (which formed the main unit of the 2nd Beach Group) fought several small battles with isolated Japanese forces. Allied casualties were lighter than expected, with 11 men killed and 35 wounded. The light Japanese resistance was attributed to the heavy pre-landing bombardment forcing Tarakan's defenders to abandon the formidable defences at Lingkas.

While the infantry were successful in securing a beachhead, the landing was hampered by the poor beach conditions. Many Australian vehicles became bogged in Lingkas Beach's soft mud, and seven LSTs were stranded after their commanders misjudged the ships' beachings. The small amount of solid ground within the beachhead lead to severe congestion and resulted in none of 2/7th Field Regiment's guns being brought into action until the afternoon of the landing. The congestion was made worse by much of the RAAF ground force being landed on 1 May with large numbers of vehicles. The seven LSTs were not refloated until 13 May.

After securing the beachhead, the 26th Brigade Group advanced east into Tarakan Town and north towards the airstrip. The Australians encountered increasingly determined Japanese resistance as they moved inland. The task of capturing Tarakan's airstrip was assigned to the 2/24th Battalion. The Battalion's initial attack on the airstrip on the night of 2 May was delayed when the Japanese set off large explosive charges, and the airstrip was not secured until 5 May. While the capture of the airfield achieved the 26th Brigade Group's main task, the Japanese still held Tarakan's rugged interior.

During the first week of the invasion, 7,000 Indonesian refugees passed into the advancing Australian lines. This was a larger number than had been expected, and the refugees, many of whom were in poor health, overwhelmed the Dutch civil affairs unit. Despite the devastation caused by the Allied bombardment and invasion, most of the civilians welcomed the Australians as liberators. Hundreds of Indonesian civilians later worked as labourers and porters for the Allied force.

General Thomas Blamey, the commander of the Australian Military Forces, made an inspection tour of Tarakan on 8 May. During a meeting with Whitehead, Blamey directed that the 26th Brigade Group should "proceed in a deliberate manner" in clearing the rest of the island now that the main objectives of the invasion had been completed.

Securing the interior

In order to secure the island and protect the airstrip from attack, the 26th Brigade Group was forced to clear the Japanese from Tarakan's heavily forested hills. Approximately 1,700 Japanese troops were dug into positions in the north and centre of the island. These positions were protected by booby traps and mines. While attacking these positions necessarily entailed costly infantry fighting, the Australian troops made heavy use of their available artillery and air support to minimise casualties. The Australian tanks could only provide limited support to the infantry as Tarakan's thick jungle, swamps and steep hills often confined their movement to tracks and roads. As a result, tanks generally could not be used to spearhead attacks, and their role was limited to providing supporting fire for infantry assaults, with artillery being the preferred source of direct support. The 2/3rd Pioneer Battalion and the NEI company were assigned responsibility for securing the south-eastern portion of Tarakan. The pioneers began advancing east of Tarakan Town on 7 May but encountered unexpectedly strong Japanese resistance. From 10 May, the battalion was halted at the 'Helen' feature, which was defended by about 200 Japanese troops. On 12 May Corporal John Mackey was killed after capturing three Japanese machine gun posts. Mackey was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for this act. During the fighting at 'Helen' B-24 Liberator heavy bombers were used for close air support for the first time, with P-38 Lightning fighters dropping napalm immediately after the bombing. This combination proved particularly effective, and became the standard form of air support requested by the Australians. The Japanese force withdrew from 'Helen' on 14 May after suffering approximately 100 casualties, and the 2/3rd Pioneer Battalion reached Tarakan's eastern shore on 16 May. The battalion suffered 20 killed and 46 wounded in this operation. During this period the NEI company secured the remainder of southern Tarakan, and encountered little resistance during its advance.

The United States and Australian navies continued to support the invasion once the landing was complete. USN PT boats sank at least a dozen small craft off Tarakan and in rivers on the coast of Borneo between 1 and 10 May. The PT boats carried Netherlands Indies Civil Administration interpreters on most patrols who interrogated natives to gather information on Japanese movements. The Japanese battery at Cape Djoeata on Tarakan's north coast was also knocked out by USS Douglas A. Munro on 23 May.

The Japanese garrison was gradually destroyed, with the survivors abandoning their remaining positions in the hills and withdrawing to the north of the island on 14 June. On this day 112 Chinese and Indonesian labourers left the Japanese-held area with a note from a senior Japanese officer asking that they be well treated. While Radio Tokyo announced that Tarakan had fallen on 15 June, the last organised Japanese resistance was encountered on 19 June and Whitehead did not declare the island secure until 21 June.

Construction problems
While the infantry of the 26th Brigade Group fought the Japanese in the hills, the RAAF engineers of No. 61 Airfield Construction Wing were engaged in a desperate effort to bring Tarakan's airstrip into operation. As the airstrip had been heavily damaged by pre-invasion bombing and lay in marshy terrain it proved much more difficult to repair than had been expected, and it took eight weeks and not the expected single week to restore the strip to a usable state. Extensive use was made of Marston Mat, interlocking steel plates laid down like matting. Remnants of the plates still exist in the car park at Tarakan airport.

While the airstrip was finally opened on 28 June, this was too late for it to play any role in supporting the landings in Brunei or Labuan (10 June), or the landings at Balikpapan. However No. 78 Wing RAAF was based on Tarakan from 28 June and flew in support of the Balikpapan operation until the end of the war.

Efforts to restart production at Tarakan's oilfields were delayed by serious damage to the facilities and Japanese holdouts, and they did not become operational until after the war.

Mopping up
Following the end of organised resistance the surviving Japanese on Tarakan split into small parties which headed to the north and east of the island. The 26th Brigade Group's main combat units were allocated sections of Tarakan which they swept for Japanese. Many Japanese attempted to cross the strait separating Tarakan from the mainland but were intercepted by Allied naval patrols. Allied troops also searched for Japanese on Bunyu Island, fifteen miles north-east of Tarakan.

From the first week of July the surviving Japanese became short of food and attempted to return to their old positions in the centre of the island and raid Australian positions in search of food. As their hunger increased more Japanese surrendered. The Australian units continued to patrol in search of Japanese until the end of the war, with several Japanese being killed or surrendering each day. These operations cost the 26th Brigade Group a further 36 casualties between June 21 and August 15. Approximately 300 Japanese soldiers evaded the Allied patrols, and surrendered at the end of the war in mid-August.

Aftermath

The 26th Brigade Group remained on Tarakan as an occupation force until 27 December 1945, though most of its units were disbanded in October. The Brigade's headquarters returned to Australia in early 1946 and was formally disbanded at Brisbane in January 1946.

Tarakan's oilfields were swiftly repaired and brought back into production. Engineers and technicians arrived shortly after the Allied landing and the first oil pump was restored on 27 June. By October the island's oilfields were producing 8,000 barrels per day and providing employment for many Tarakanese civilians.

The Allied units committed to the battle carried out their tasks with "skill and professionalism". In summing up the operation Samuel Eliot Morison wrote that "altogether this was a very well conducted amphibious operation which attained its objectives with minimum loss". The Battle of Tarakan emphasised the importance of combined arms warfare, and especially the need for infantry to cooperate with and be supported by tanks, artillery and engineers during jungle warfare.

Despite Morison's judgement, the 26th Brigade Group's casualties were high in comparison to the other landings in the Borneo campaign. The Brigade suffered more than twice the casualties the 9th Division's other two Brigades suffered during their operations in North Borneo and 23 more fatalities than the 7th Division incurred at Balikpapan. The 26th Brigade Group's higher losses may be attributable to Tarakan's garrison not being able to withdraw as the garrisons in North Borneo and Balikpapan did.

The landing force's achievements were nullified by the fact that the island's airfield could not be brought into action. The faulty intelligence assessment which led the RAAF planners to believe that the airfield could be repaired represented a major failing. Moreover, the RAAF's performance at Tarakan was often poor. This performance may have resulted from the low morale prevalent in many units and the 'Morotai Mutiny' disrupting 1 TAF's leadership.

As with the rest of the Borneo campaign, the Australian operations on Tarakan remain controversial. Debate continues over whether the campaign was a meaningless "sideshow", or whether it was justified in the context of the planned operations to both invade Japan and liberate the rest of the Netherlands East Indies, which were both scheduled to begin in 1946. The Australian official historian Gavin Long's judgement that "the results achieved did not justify the cost of the Tarakan operation" is in accordance with the generally held view on the battle.

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William Barrett (philosopher)

William Christopher Barrett (1913– September 8, 1992) was a professor of philosophy at New York University from 1950 to 1979, and later at Pace University.

Biography
Precociously, Barrett began post-secondary studies at the City College of New York when 15 years old. He received his PhD at Columbia University. He was an editor of Partisan Review and later the literary critic of The Atlantic Monthly magazine. Barrett wrote philosophical works for nonexperts, including Irrational Man and The Illusion of Technique, which remain in print.

Like many intellectuals of his generation, Barrett flirted with Marxism before turning his energies to providing readable introductions to European philosophical schools, notably existentialism.

Barrett was a good friend of the poet Delmore Schwartz for many years. He knew many other literary figures of the day, including Edmund Wilson, Philip Rahv, and Albert Camus. He was deeply influenced by the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche, Søren Kierkegaard, and Martin Heidegger and was the editor of D. T. Suzuki's 1956 classic Zen Buddhism. In fiction his taste ran to the great Russians, particularly Fyodor Dostoyevsky.

Barrett died in 1992, aged 78, of cancer of the esophagus. He is survived by his daughter, Nell Barrett, and her children, Clinton and Georgia.

Barrett's Law is named for him: "not everyone who might read the productions of scholarly writers is an expert in the fields discussed" (p. 99).

Books

 * What Is Existentialism? (1947), Partisan Review, 1964 Random House edition: ISBN 0-394-17388-0
 * Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1958), Doubleday, Anchor Books paperback (1962): ISBN 978-0-385-03138-7
 * Philosophy in the Twentieth Century (1962), four volumes, William Barrett and Henry D. Aiken, editors, Random House
 * Time of Need: Forms of Imagination in the Twentieth Century (1972), Harper Bros. ISBN 0-06-131754-3
 * The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization (1979), Doubleday, ISBN 978-0-385-11202-4
 * The Truants: Adventures Among the Intellectuals (1982), a memoir, Doubleday, ISBN 978-0-385-17328-5
 * Death of the Soul: From Descartes to the Computer (1986), Doubleday, ISBN 978-0-385-17327-8

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Nate Colbert

Nathan Colbert Jr. (April 9, 1946 – January 5, 2023) was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a first baseman from 1966 to 1976, most prominently as a member of the newly formed San Diego Padres, who joined the league as an expansion team in 1969. He was among the inaugural inductees into the Padres Hall of Fame.

Colbert played six seasons with San Diego from 1969 to 1974, earning all three of his All-Star selections and becoming the first star player for the young franchise. Through the 2022 season, he still held the Padres' career record for home runs (163) and ranked among the Padres' top 10 in numerous offensive categories. He also played for the Houston Astros, Detroit Tigers, Montreal Expos, and the Oakland Athletics. A back injury prematurely ended Colbert's career after just 10 seasons.

After his playing career, Colbert became a coach and manager in the minor leagues.

Early life
Colbert was born on April 9, 1946, in St. Louis, Missouri. His father, Nate Sr., played semi-professional baseball as a catcher and occasional pitcher in the Negro leagues; he caught for Satchel Paige. When he was eight, Colbert attended a doubleheader at Busch Stadium (formerly Sportsman's Park) on May 2, 1954, in which Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals set MLB single-day records with five home runs, starting with three homers in Game 1, and 21 total bases. Colbert graduated from Sumner High School, which was about a five-minute drive from Busch Stadium.

Professional career
Colbert was signed by his hometown Cardinals as an amateur free agent in 1964. There was no MLB draft until 1965, allowing him to sign with the team of his choosing. He declined 16 major league bonus offers and 30 college scholarships to sign with St. Louis. He had always wanted to play for the same team as his boyhood hero, Musial. The Houston Astros selected Colbert in the Rule 5 draft in 1965, and he made his MLB debut with the Astros in 1966. He also played for the Astros in 1968 before being selected by the San Diego Padres in the 1968 expansion draft.

Throughout his career with the Padres from 1969 to 1974, he was a standout player and their biggest star as they finished in last place in the six-team National League (NL) West in each of their first six seasons, averaging 101 losses per season and concluding each year from $28 1/2$ to 42 games behind the division leader. In 1969, the Padres' inaugural season and Colbert's first full season in the big leagues, San Diego began the season with Bill Davis at first base, and Colbert started only four of the first 15 games. However, Davis was traded midseason, and Colbert ended the season with a team-leading 24 home runs with 66 runs batted in (RBIs) and a .255 batting average. His home runs led all MLB rookies that season. He hit 38 home runs in 1970, tying him for fifth with Hank Aaron in the NL. The next year, Colbert was named to his first All-Star Game. He led the Padres in home runs (27) and RBIs (84), and improved his batting average for the third straight season, hitting .264 after batting .259 in 1970.

Colbert's best day in the majors was August 1, 1972, when he hit five home runs—matching Musial's record from 1954—and drove in 13 runs in a doubleheader, breaking the record of 11 RBIs, set previously by Earl Averill (1930), Jim Tabor (1939), and Boog Powell (1966). Colbert's 22 total bases also broke another doubleheader record by Musial. This helped the Padres sweep the Atlanta Braves, 9–0 and 11–7. Colbert hit 38 homers in 1972, matching his total from 1970, and batted .250 with a .508 slugging percentage and 111 RBIs, helping him finish eighth in voting for the NL Most Valuable Player Award. He finished second only to the Cincinnati Reds' Johnny Bench (40) in home runs that year. Colbert's RBIs also set a major-league record for driving in the highest percentage of his team's runs (22.75%). None of his teammates had as many as 50 that year, as the team scored a league-worst 3.19 runs per game. He was selected to the 1972 MLB All-Star Game, and scored the winning run in the tenth inning. In 1973, he had career-highs in batting average (.270) and on-base percentage (.343), while dropping to 22 home runs and 80 RBIs. It was his final productive season. In the five seasons from 1969 to 1973, he averaged 30 home runs and 85 RBIs.

After three All-Star seasons at first base from 1971 to 1973, San Diego moved Colbert to left field after acquiring Willie McCovey in 1974. Colbert had agreed to the acquistition, and was also willing to move in the batting order from the cleanup position to fifth to accommodate McCovey. Colbert struggled that season, shuffling between left field and first base while dealing with nagging injuries. He began having problems with his back, suffering from a congenital condition caused by degeneration of his vertebrae. After his batting average fell to .207, the Padres traded Colbert to the Detroit Tigers for Ed Brinkman, Bob Strampe, and Dick Sharon in a three-team deal on November 18, 1974, that involved Brinkman also being sent to the St. Louis Cardinals for Sonny Siebert, Alan Foster, and Rich Folkers. Danny Breeden went from the Padres to the Cardinals to subsequently complete the transactions. After batting .147 with four home runs and 18 RBIs in 45 games, the Tigers sold Colbert's contract to the Montreal Expos on June 15, 1975. He spent much of 1976 in the minor leagues before resurfacing very briefly with the Oakland Athletics at the end of the season. He attended spring training with the expansion Toronto Blue Jays in 1977, but back problems forced his retirement at 30.

Colbert was the first star for the Padres and remains the franchise's career home run leader with 163. He also ranks among the top-10 in club history in RBIs (481), slugging percentage (.469), games played (866), runs scored (442) and base on balls (350). He was inducted as part of the inaugural class of the San Diego Padres Hall of Fame in 1999.

In 10 seasons covering 1,004 games, Colbert compiled a .243 average, 173 home runs, and 520 RBIs. He played on nine consecutive last-place teams from 1968 to 1976.

Later life
After his playing career, Colbert spent several years as a hitting instructor for the Padres during spring training. He later coached for them in the minor leagues, serving as a hitting coach with the Wichita Pilots (AA) and a first base coach for the Riverside Red Wave (A) from 1987 to 1990. He also became an ordained minister after graduating from St. Louis Baptist College (now Missouri Baptist University), and worked with disadvantaged youths. In 1991, Colbert pled guilty to committing fraud on bank loan documents, and he served a six-month sentence at a medium-security penitentiary in Lompoc, California.

Personal life
Colbert met his wife, Kasey, while playing with Oakland. They had nine children together. He died on January 5, 2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the age of 76.

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Gymnastics at the Summer Olympics

Gymnastics events have been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. For 32 years, only men were allowed to compete. Beginning at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, women were allowed to compete in artistic gymnastics events as well. Rhythmic gymnastics events were introduced at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and trampoline events were added at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

Medal table
(1896–2020)

Nations
Nations competing in artistic gymnastics, and the number of gymnasts (male and female) each nation brought to each Olympics, are shown below.

Medal table
(1984–2020)

Nations
Nations competing in rhythmic gymnastics and the number of gymnasts each nation brought to each Olympics, are shown below.

Medal table
(2000–2020)

Nations
Nations competing in trampoline gymnastics and the number of gymnasts each nation brought to each Olympics, are shown below.

Overall medal table

 * Last updated after the 2020 Summer Olympic Games

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Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud

Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud (عبد الله بن مسعود; c. 594) was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad whom Islamic tradition regards the greatest interpreter of the Quran of his time and the second ever. He was also known by the kuniya Abu Abd al-Rahman.

Early years
Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud was born in Mecca in about 594 a son of Masud ibn Ghafil and Umm Abd bint Abdwadd, both of whom were from the Hudhayl tribe,  believed to be slaves,  or otherwise of low social status. However, Umm Abd's mother, Hind bint Al-Harith, was from the Zuhra clan of the Quraysh, and Masud made an alliance with her brother.

Abd Allah had a brother, Utba, and at least two wives in Muhammad's lifetime. One was Rayta bint Abd Allah, a craftswoman who supported Abd Allah and their child through her hand-crafts. The other was Zaynab bint Abd Allah from the Thaqif tribe with whom he had several daughters. He specified in his will that none of his daughters should be married off without their own knowledge. He also had a son named Abd al-Rahman.

He is described as a thin, short man with very dark skin, and smooth hair reaching to his shoulders. Abd Allah wore white clothes, and could be recognized in the dark by his distinctive, high-quality perfume. He was reported to be sociable and willing to speak out to put people at ease. In his character and goals, he was said to be the person "most like Muhammad".

Conversion to Islam
Ibn Masʿūd was an early follower of Islam, having converted before 616. He appears nineteenth on Ibn Ishaq's list of people who were converted by Abu Bakr.

As a youth, he worked as a shepherd for Uqba ibn Abu Mu'ayt. He first met Muhammad and Abu Bakr while watching his flocks when they were "fleeing from the idolators". They asked him for milk, but Abd Allah said he could not steal from his employer. According to Masʿūd, Muhammad then asked for an unmated ewe and stroked its udder, whereupon milk poured out. Abd Allah immediately asked to be taught "some of these words", and Muhammad began to teach him the Qur'an. Abd Allah later said that he learned 70 surahs from Muhammad.

Later his mother and brother  also converted to Islam.

Around 614 the Quraysh began a campaign to suppress Islam through the oppression of Muslims of lower social status. Abd Allah, as a foreigner whose allies had withdrawn their protection, was vulnerable to this persecution. Abu Jahl—one of the high-status leaders among the Quraysh—once "clawed at him and punched him".

The Muslims remarked one day that the Quraysh had never heard the Qur'an being recited clearly, and that someone needed to make them listen to it. Abd Allah volunteered. His friends reminded him that he had no protector and therefore the crowds might attack him, but Abd Allah replied, "Allah will protect me." He stood in front of the Kaaba and began to recite Surah Ar-Rahman from the Qur'an. When the Quraysh realised that he was reciting Muhammad's teaching, they began to hit his face, but he continued to recite. He returned to the Muslims with the bruises on his face, saying, "I have never despised Allah's enemies more than I do now, and if you like I will go and do the same thing tomorrow." The Muslims told him that he had already done enough, "for you have made them listen to what they don't want to hear".

Abd Allah and his brother Utba were among those who emigrated to Abyssinia in 616. Abd Allah returned to Mecca in 619 with Abd al-Rahman ibn Awf.

Emigration to Medina
When the Muslims emigrated to Medina in 622, Abd Allah lodged with Muadh ibn Jabal or Saad ibn Khaythama. One tradition states that Muhammad made a pact of brotherhood between Abd Allah and Muadh ibn Jabal; but according to another, Abd Allah's brother in Islam was al-Zubayar ibn Al-Awwam. When land in Medina was allocated to the immigrants, the Zuhra clan was given an area behind the mosque, which included plots for Abd Allah and his brother Utba.

Relationship with Muhammad
Outsiders perceived Abd Allah and his mother as members of Muhammad's household. He worked as a personal servant, taking care of Muhammad's bedding, toothbrush, sandals and travelling hygiene. "He used to screen him when he bathed and wake him when he slept and walk with him in a wild land." He was said to be the "keeper of secrets". Muhammad once told him to climb a tree and bring him a twig. The companions laughed at how thin Abd Allah's legs were. Muhammad said: "Why are you laughing? Abd Allah's foot will be heavier than Mount Uhud in the scales on the Day of Resurrection."

Muhammad recognized Abd Allah as one of the four foremost experts on the Qur'an. He once asked him to recite; when Abd Allah protested, "Should I recite it to you when you are the one to whom it was sent down and revealed?" Muhammad replied, "I love to hear it from someone else." Abd Allah then recited it until Muhammad wept.

Military career
Abd Allah fought at the Battle of Badr. After the battle, Muhammad ordered the warriors to search among the corpses for his enemy Abu Jahl, who could be recognised by a distinctive scar on his knee.

Abd Allah found Abu Jahl Amr "at his last gasp" with his leg cut off. He seized his beard and asked, "Are you Abu Jahl?" Abu Jahl replied, "Can there be a man superior to the one you have killed or one whom his own folk has killed?" Abd Allah then placed his foot on Abu Jahl Amr's neck, and asked, "Allah's enemy, has Allah put you to shame?" Abu Jahl Amr replied, "How has he shamed me? Am I anything more than a man whom you have killed? Tell me how the battle went." Abd Allah told him that the Muslims had won. Abu Jahl Amr responded, "You have climbed high, you little shepherd!" Then Abd Allah struck off his head. He brought it to Muhammad, proclaiming, "This is the head of Allah's enemy Abu Jahl!".

Abd Allah also fought at the Battle of Uhud, the Battle of the Trench and "all the battles," including Tabuk. Twenty years later, he said he wished he had died at Tabuk.

Caliphates of Abu Bakr and Umar
After the death of Muhammad, Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud became the eighth-most prominent transmitter of hadith with a total of 848 narrations. Umar called him "a box full of knowledge". The following traditions are among those attributed to him.

"I asked Allah's Messenger which deed was the best. He replied: 'Prayer at its appointed hour.' I said: 'Then what?' He replied: 'Kindness to the parents.' I said: 'Then what?' He replied: 'Jihad in the cause of Allah.' And I would not have ceased asking more questions but out of regard."

"A man said: 'Allah's Messenger, which offence is the most grievous in Allah's eye?' He replied: 'That you associate a partner with Allah, who created you.' He said: 'What next?' He replied: 'That you kill your child out of fear that he would join you in food.' He said: 'What next?' He replied: 'That you commit adultery with your neighbour's wife.' And the Almighty and Exalted Lord testified it: All those who call not unto another god along with Allah, and slay not any soul which Allah has forbidden, except in the cause of justice, nor commit fornication, and he who does this shall meet a requital of sin. [ Qur'an 25:68]"

"We were along with Allah's Messenger at Mina, that moon was split up into two. One of its parts was behind the mountain and the other one was on this side of the mountain. Allah's Messenger said to us: 'Bear witness to this.'"

Umar allotted Abd Allah a pension of 6,000 dirhams, and he was said to be very generous with his money. His mother was also granted a pension of 1,000 dirhams.

Around 642 Umar appointed him as a preacher, treasurer and magistrate (qāḍī) in Kufa, saying: "I have preferred you with him over myself, so take him."

Conflict with the Government
Abd Allah, in his capacity as treasurer, lent a sum of money to Saad ibn Abi Waqqas, the Governor of Kufa, and when he was unable to repay it, they quarrelled. Their quarrel spread to their individual supporters until they became two "wrangling factions" in the city. Uthman became angry with both of them; in 646 he recalled Saad, extracted the money from him, and replaced him with al-Walid ibn Uqba. He thought of replacing Abd Allah too, but in the end he decided against it.

By 650, Abd Allah had quarrelled with al-Walid. A petition was brought to Abd Allah to investigate rumours that al-Walid was drinking alcohol; Abd Allah responded that it was not his business to spy on another man's privacy. Al-Walid felt that this statement was tantamount to a suspicion of his guilt. He accused Abd Allah of not defending his reputation, and they insulted one another verbally. Al-Walid also tried to misappropriate state finances, but Abd Allah refused to comply with his demands. When Uthman instructed Abd Allah to obey al-Walid in everything, Abd Allah resigned his post. However, he remained in Kufa and continued to criticise the Governor.

Another long-serving Muslim, Abu Dharr al-Ghifari, was also living in Kufa. He lived in the desert of Al-Rabadha. Sometime later, Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud went on a pilgrimage to Mecca. As he passed through al-Rabadha, his camels almost trod upon a funeral bier. A slave told him that it was the funeral of his master Abu Dharr al-Ghifari, who had died alone. Abd Allah burst into tears, exclaiming: "The apostle was right! You walked alone, you died alone and you will be raised alone!" Then he alighted from his camels and helped to bury his old friend.

Uthman's Compilation of Qur'an
Uthman produced a standardised version of the Qur'an in 652. He sent a copy to each province, and ordered that all other Quranic materials "whether written in fragmentary manuscripts or whole copies," must be burned.

It is said that Ibn Mas’ud was displeased by the finished product; in particular:
 * That he accused Uthman's scribes of adding three extra suras (1, 113 and 114) that had never been part of the original, and of making many other small changes to the text.
 * That he preached a sermon in Kufa in which he called Uthman's standardised Quran a "deceit". "And whoever deceives like this will bring his deceit on the Day of Resurrection … I like it better to read according to the recitation of him whom I love than that of Zayd ibn Thabit … If I knew anyone to be more conversant with Allah's Book than I am, I would surely go to him if camels could carry me there."

When Uthman's agents came to Kufa to burn all the variants, Abd Allah hid his copy from them. He justified his own version of the recitation by reminding people: "I recited before Allah's Messenger more than seventy suras of the Qur'an. His Companions know that I have a better understanding of Allah's Book than they do; and if I were to know that someone had a better understanding than I have, I would have gone to him." It was said that nobody could find fault with Abd Allah's version.

When Uthman was called to account for his mismanagement as Caliph, one of the grievances against him was that he had destroyed variant readings of the Qur'an. Much later, Abd Allah ibn Masud's variant readings were discussed on equal terms with the Uthmanic text by al-Farra (d. 207/822).

However, the vast majority of Muslim scholars never accepted these reports due to their weakness, as well as many strong reports indicating the exact opposite to be true.

The Qur'an says in 15:87 "We have given thee seven of the oft-repeated (verses) and the great Qur'an." The seven often-repeated verses refer to al-Fatihah, the first sura of the Qur'an, which Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud is alleged to have denied. However, quoting Ibn Jarir al-Tabari, Ibn adh-Dhurays, Ibn al-Munzar and Ibn Mardwiyah, as-Suyuti narrated the following: "It is narrated from Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud, regarding the word of Allah, 'We have given you the seven oft-repeated verses;' he said, '[It is] Fatihatu al-Kitab.'"

In another narration, Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud was asked why he did not write al-Fatihah in his mushaf. He replied, "If I were to write it, I would write it before every sura." Abu Bakr al-Anbari explains this saying every raka’a (in prayers) starts with al-Fatiha and then another sura is recited. It is as if Ibn Masud said, "I have dropped it for the sake of brevity and I have trusted its preservation by Muslims (collectively)."

There are also narrations from Abd Allah where he explicitly refers to suras 113 and 114 as surahs, for example: "Excessively recite two surahs. Allah will make you reach higher ranks in the Hereafter because of them. They are al-Mu'awwidhatayn (i.e. al-Falaq and an-Nas/nos. 113 & 114)…"

Four qira'at of the Qur'an (Qira'at of Hamzah, 'Aasim, Khalaf, Al-Kisa'i) have chains of transmission (isnad) going through Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud, and they all include the above three suras. These are mutawatir chains and thus Islamic scholars give precedence to them, disregarding much weaker chains that go against it as inauthentic.

For these reasons, Islamic scholars rejected the notion of Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud rejecting suras. Al-Nawawi says: "The Muslims have all agreed that al-Mu'awwidhatayn and al-Fatihah are part of the Qur'an and whoever denies this becomes a disbeliever and whatever is quoted from Ibn Masud in this regard is not true." Ibn Hazm also rejected the notion of Ibn Masud denying these suras, along with the vast majority of Islamic scholars.

Conflict with Uthman
Uthman recalled Abd Allah to Medina. He walked into the mosque, where Uthman was speaking, but the Caliph broke off his speech to insult Abd Allah. Aisha then interrupted with protests against this manner of speech "to a companion of Allah's Messenger". Uthman forbade Abd Allah ever to leave Medina again and ordered him out of the mosque. His servants removed Abd Allah so violently that they broke two of his ribs and, amid loud protests from Aisha, he had to be carried home.

Uthman did not pay Abd Allah's pension for the rest of his life.

Reading of the Qur'an in Kufa
Ibn Masʿūd read one of the most well documented "companion" readings of the Qur'an, which he taught in Kufa. The non-canonical Kufan reciter Sulaiman al-Aʽmash (d. 147 / 765), who continued the Ibn Masʿūd tradition in parts of his own reading, narrated that "I came to Kufa and the qirāʾa of Zayd was not amongst them, except as the reading ofʿAbd Allāh is amongst you today: no one recited it save one or two men". Ramon Harvey asserts that Ibn Masʿūd's reading continued in use and was even taught as the dominant reading in Kufa for at least a century after his death and has shown that some of his distinctive readings continued to play a role in Hanafi fiqh.

Ibn Masʿūd's reading played a greater or lesser role in each of the canonical Kufan readings. Professor Shady Nasser notes that the isnad of ʿĀṣim back to the Prophet passes through two main branches. One of these goes through Ibn Masʿūd via Zirr b. Hubaysh.

The influence of Ibn Masʿūd is greater in the canonical readings of Hamza and his student Al-Kisa'i. Hamza learned his reading primarily from his fellow Kufans Ibn Abī Laylā, and Al-A'mash, insofar as the latter's was compatible with the Uthmanic rasm. Al-A'mash derived much of his reading from that of Ibn Masʿūd.

From numerous sources Arthur Jeffery compiled the hundreds of differences in the reading of Ibn Mas'ud (as well as other companions) compared to the textus receptus, namely the Cairo edition, which is based on the reading of Hafs from 'Asim. Many of these differences were reported by Al-A'mash and appear in Ibn Abi Dawud's Kitab al Masahif. Data is also available showing the extent to which Ibn Masʿūd's reading occurs in the Kufan canonical readings in terms of distinctive dotting of consonants.

Codex Mashhad is an early Qur'an manuscript which has been identified as originally using the surah order reported by early sources from the codex of Ibn Masʿūd, though with a standard Uthmanic rasm text. Its surahs were subsequently re-ordered to the standard sequence, but enough evidence remained for the original to be reconstructed.

Death
Abd Allah ibn Mas'ud died in Medina in 653 and was buried by the night at Al-Baqi'. It is disputed whether it was Ammar ibn Yasir or Caliph Uthman who led his funeral prayers. He left a fortune of 90,000 dirhams. Al-Zubayr ibn al-Awam petitioned the Caliph to give Abd Allah's pension to his heirs "because they need it more than the treasury does." Uthman granted this request, although the exact value of the pension is disputed.

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Madhu (disambiguation)

Madhu is a term in Hindi-Urdu, Sanskrit, and other Indian languages for honey.

Madhu may also refer to:

 * Madhu, in Hindu mythology, one of the asura brothers Madhu-Kaitabh, killed by Lord Vishnu
 * Madhu (Haihaya ruler), son and successor of Kartavirya Arjuna in Hindu mythology
 * Madhu Forest, or Madhuvana, a dense forest in ancient northern India, present-day Mathura
 * Madhu (actor) (born 1933), Indian actor in Malayalam cinema
 * K. Madhu, Indian film director who works in Malayalam cinema
 * Madhu (Sri Lanka), a town in Sri Lanka where the Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu is located
 * Shrine of Our Lady of Madhu, a prominent Roman Catholic shrine in Sri Lanka
 * Madhu (1959 film), an Indian Hindi-language film by Gyan Mukherjee
 * Madhu (2006 film), an Indian Tamil-language film by Thennarasu
 * Madhu (2014 film), 2014 Indian short film by Rathna Kumar

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Yellow Ranger

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The result of the debate was redirect to Power Rangers --Tony Sidaway Talk 07:51, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Yellow Ranger
Can you GET any more crufty? After all, the individual yellow rangers do seem to all have their own pages. Dicdef with zero useful information and no possibility for useful expansion. (btw, my vote is redirect as per Omniwolf)--InShaneee 03:47, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Indeed. Perhaps redirect to Power Rangers, otherwise just delete. Sirmob 04:40, 18 July 2005 (UTC) I'll clarify in response to later comments - per Yuckfoo, redirect until someone cares to expand it. Sirmob 03:27, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Power Rangers. Dcarrano 04:54, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, if there is more than one yellow ranger it should list them. Kappa 14:01, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Power Rangers. --malathion talk 14:51, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, can be expanded like Red Ranger, Blue Ranger, etc. Andros 1337 15:52, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Note that those pages duplicate content from the pages they link to. --InShaneee 02:31, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, although it doesn't interest me, this definitely interests others. Deleting stuff based on "crufty" as an argument doesn't exactly work for me. Themindset 17:02, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Power Rangers. so should Red Ranger and Blue Ranger --Omniwolf 17:09, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * redirect this please until it is expanded then we can keep it Yuckfoo 18:41, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Power Rangers, concur with Omniwolf on all the other coloured Rangers. JamesBurns 07:27, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect (WP:FICT). Radiant_ >|< 10:55, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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42ft and 35.3 t

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Doop (band)

Doop is a dance music production duo from the Netherlands formed by Ferry Ridderhof and Peter Garnefski, who have also recorded under the name Hocus Pocus and various other project names. They were producers and band members of Peplab.

In 2011, Doop released an EP called The Doop Eepee, produced by Ferry Ridderhof, containing the single "My Chihuahua".

Doop was best known for its eponymous single, "Doop", which reached No. 1 in the UK. The song was influenced by the 1920s Charleston dance and was most remembered for its lyrics, which consisted entirely of the word "doop" scatted over a fast-paced big band sample. In the US, a remix of the track by American house artist David Morales was released.

Under the name Hocus Pocus, the duo were best known for their single "Here's Johnny!", which reached No. 1 in Australia.

Doop

 * Albums
 * Doop Mania - L'Album des remixes (1994)
 * Circus Doop (1995) – NL #74

 * EPs
 * The Doop Eepee (2011)

 * Singles

Hocus Pocus

 * Albums
 * God Devil Hell Heaven (1997)

 * Singles

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Supermax (Malaysia)

Supermax Corporation Berhad (myx: 7106) started as a trader and exporter of latex gloves in 1987 before venturing into manufacturing in 1989. It is Malaysia's largest Own Brand Manufacturer and the world's second largest producer of rubber gloves.

The Supermax Group was founded by Dato' Seri Stanley Thai and his wife Datin Seri Cheryl Tan in 1987 as a trading business distributing latex gloves.

Supermax has succeeded in establishing its own brands with a strong presence in Canada, the U.S., the United Kingdom and Brazil. Almost 100% of its production is exported to medical and dental buyers.

Its main competitors are Kimberly-Clark, Ansell, Allegiance and Microflex.

In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, strong demand for rubber gloves sent Supermax's share prices on a five-fold jump. Founder Thai Kim Sim recorded an estimated net worth of $1 billion at the stock high in early June 2020.

In November 2020, the company donated a total of RM75 million to the Government’s COVID-19 fund set up to battle the pandemic.

In October 2021, United States banned imports from Supermax citing forced labour. A month after, Canada terminated its contracts.

On 15 June 2022, the Government Pension Fund of Norway placed Supermax under observation due to "unacceptable risk that the company contributes to serious violations of human rights".

Controversies
In November 2021, Canada ends contract with Malaysia's Supermax over labor allegations. Based on the seriousness of the allegations and expected timelines for the final audit results, the government of Canada has decided, and Supermax Healthcare Canada has agreed, to terminate by mutual consent the two existing contracts for the supply of nitrile gloves.

In June 2022, Norway's sovereign wealth fund, Norges Bank Investment Management, put Supermax under observation for two years, citing allegations of unacceptable risk that the company contributes to serious violations of human rights.

Subsidiaries

 * Supermax Glove Manufacturing Sdn Bhd
 * Maxter Glove Manufacturing Sdn Bhd
 * Maxwell Glove Manufacturing Bhd
 * Supermax Latex Products Sdn Bhd
 * Supermax International Sdn Bhd
 * Supermax Energy Sdn Bhd
 * Supermax Healthcare Canada
 * Supermax Global Ltd (Bermuda)
 * White Oak Global Property Ltd (USA)

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Talk:Telescope mount

What's the role of this article?
I've edited this article myself, so I'm not exactly exempt from my own criticism, but I was wondering what the role of each of these telescope mount articles is supposed to be. Most of the information in the Telescope mount article is duplicated on the respective mount articles, and it seems redundant to have it in several places. Is Telescope mount supposed to be a disambiguation page? Would there be any negative consequences if we merged most of its content into the more specific articles, and made this a simple disambiguation page? Alternatively, should the various telescope mount articles be merged into a more complete article about telescope mounts? (This could be done quite effectively if done well, I think, and it's what I'm in favour of.) Any thoughts? Izogi 03:51, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I've got no objection leaving them how they are as they are both encyclopedic and describing semi-different objects. I can't say that I would object to them being merged though either.  Either way I think they would be okay.  You would just have to make sure that they redirected to the central article from the individual ones if you decide to merge them as I am sure some people would still attempt to look up the individual mount types. --ScottyBoy900Q ∞  20:45, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Ok--- after wandering around editing diffent telescope related articles I am noticing what Izogi is noticing---> There are a few overlaping articles and a few more that need to be written about "Telescope Mounts". I think they all should be grouped into one article.. maybe this one. The only problem I can see is it may make a long article (not sure what the optimum legth is).

Here are the related articles that could be brought here:

 * Altazimuth mount

 * Equatorial mount With all it's sub headings:

German mount

Open fork

English fork

Springfield mount

Poncet table

 * Transit mount

 * Zenith mount

 * Turret telescope

Halfblue 21:56, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

(kicking this down) The "Dobsonian" article you are refering to was incorrect in that it describes the Dobsonian as just a mount style. The Dobsonian is a full telescope design encompassing the telescope and the mount. Should there be a Dobsonian mount listed in a Telescope mount article? It raises the question "is there such a thing as a dobsonian mount?". There seems to be a misnomer that all Altazimuth_mount telescopes are "Dobsonians". This is far from the case. The Altazimuth_mount has been in wide use far before the advent of the Dobsonian. And there are many Altazimuth_mount telescopes that look superficialy like Dobsonians but have none of the design features of the Dobsonian. You may want to list the Altazimuth_mount in such an article and note in that it is used in "Dobsonian style" telescopes.(Halfblue 18:43, 12 March 2006 (UTC))

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OYL Industries

OYL Industries Berhad (OYL Industries Limited) was a member of the Hong Leong Group Malaysia, until its 2006 acquisition by Japan's Daikin Industries. OYL was one of the largest air conditioner manufacturers, and post merger, made Daikin the number two manufacturer of air conditioning systems in the world.

History
In the 1980s, OYL expanded regionally into China and Indonesia. Having set a firm foundation regionally, OYL took a significant step towards the globalisation of its activities when it acquired US-based SnyderGeneral in May 1994. This acquisition of a major US company by a Malaysian public listed organisation is the first in Malaysian corporate history.

The Group's principal activities are the manufacture, sale and distribution of heating, ventilating, air-conditioning and refrigeration equipment and the manufacture and sale of air filtration products and systems. Other activities include investment and property holding. Operations are carried out in North America, Asia and Europe.

OYL was incorporated in Malaysia as a private limited company under the name of O.YL. Industries Sdn Bhd and commenced operations (in Shah Alam) during the year 1974 with the assembly of gas cookers and GLEM gas ovens.

OYL was a public listed company and its shares were traded on the Main Board of Bursa Malaysia. It was delisted as OYL became a member of Hong Leong Group Malaysia.

In 2006, Daikin acquired OYL from Hong Leong.

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Corey Johnson (actor)

Corey Johnson (born John William Johnson; May 17, 1961) is an American character actor largely active in the UK, known for his supporting roles in Hellboy, Kingsman: The Secret Service, Captain Philips, The Bourne Ultimatum, Kick-Ass, Ex Machina, the Spooks episode "The Special", the Doctor Who episode "Dalek" and The Last Days of Lehman Brothers as Richard S. Fuld, Jr., the final chairman & CEO of Lehman Brothers.

Personal life
Johnson was born John William Johnson in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was one of five children, having two brothers and two sisters. One of his brothers is a sports talk radio personality in New Orleans. While attending Tulane University he joined Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity. He trained professionally at London's Central School of Speech and Drama where he met actress Lucy Cohu. The two were married from 1994 to 2005.

Career
His films include Out for a Kill, The Contract, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Bourne Legacy, Saving Private Ryan, Guillermo del Toro's adaptation of Hellboy, the 2005 Ray Bradbury film A Sound of Thunder, and Harrison's Flowers. He also appeared in the award-winning mini series by HBO; Band of Brothers. Johnson had a breakout year in 1999, first playing the wiseguy American tomb-raider Daniels in The Mummy, then the bungling, dim-witted assassin Bruno Decker in Do Not Disturb opposite William Hurt and Michael Chiklis.

Johnson appeared as smug business tycoon Henry van Statten in "Dalek", an episode of the 2005 revival of Doctor Who. Other TV guest spots include Spooks, Foyle's War, Celeb and Nash Bridges. He played the role of Louis Nacke II, a passenger, in United 93. In April 2007, Johnson made his Broadway debut as Nixon's Chief of Staff Jack Brennan in Frost/Nixon.

While appearing on Broadway, Johnson also filmed The Caller starring Elliott Gould and Frank Langella.

In 2004, Johnson was nominated for a Best Actor award at the British TMAs for his portrayal of Eddie Carbone in Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge. He has also provided voice acting for several video games including the video game tie-in with the films Reign of Fire and Constantine.

Johnson then played The Judge/Saint Peter in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at the Almeida Theatre in London.

Until 19 September 2014, Johnson played Mitch in Benedict Andrews' revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire at the Young Vic theatre in London, alongside Gillian Anderson and Ben Foster. Johnson's performance was described as "lovely" and "measured" by The Evening Standard's theatre critic and the overall production also received considerable critical acclaim. In 2015, he played a helicopter pilot in the science fiction film Ex Machina, starring Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson and Oscar Isaac.

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Scientex Berhad

Scientex Berhad (myx: 4731) is a Malaysian manufacturing and property company.

Background
Scientex was established in 1968 as Scientific Textile Industries Sendirian Berhad and pioneered the manufacturing of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) leather cloth and sheeting. Scientex is one of the producers of stretch film and producer of the flexible plastic packaging industry, as well as a developer of homes in Malaysia. Scientex has diversified its activities into other industries such as manufacturing and distribution of automotive components, and industrial packaging products. Scientex has also entered into property development in various states in Malaysia such as Johor, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan, Selangor, Perak, Penang, and Kedah.

Manufacturing

 * Scientex Packaging Film Sdn Bhd
 * Scientex Tsukasa Strapping Sdn Bhd
 * Scientex Great Wall Sdn Bhd
 * Scientex Great Wall (Klang) Sdn Bhd (formerly known as Klang Hock Plastic Industries Sdn Bhd)
 * Scientex Great Wall (Ipoh) Sdn Bhd (formerly known as Mondi Ipoh Sdn Bhd)
 * Scientex Industries Group Sdn Bhd
 * Scientex Tsukasa (Vietnam) Co., Ltd.
 * PT. Scientex Indonesia
 * Scientex Phoenix, LLC
 * Scientex International (S) Pte Ltd
 * MCTI Scientex Solar Sdn Bhd
 * Mitsui Chemicals Scientex (M) Sdn Bhd
 * Scientex Packaging (Ayer Keroh) Berhad (formerly known as Daibochi Berhad)
 * Scientex Packaging (Teluk Emas) Sdn Bhd (formerly known as Mega Printing and Packaging Sdn Bhd)
 * Daibochi Packaging (Myanmar) Co. Ltd.

Property

 * Scientex Quatari Sdn Bhd
 * Scientex Park (M) Sdn Bhd
 * Scientex (Skudai) Sdn Bhd
 * Scientex Heights Sdn Bhd
 * Scientex (Senai) Sdn Bhd
 * Texland Sdn Bhd
 * KC Contract Sdn Bhd
 * Scientex Rawang Sdn Bhd

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Dragon Murder Case

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Keep. humblefool®Deletion Reform 00:45, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

The Dragon Murder Case
This seems to be a three-line book review by someone who fails to mention the author, date of publishing or any details whatsoever. Unless someone actually wants to expland the article (too often people vote keep and don't care to edit the subject), this should be deleted. Harro5 03:55, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as it stands, unsalvageable POV CanadianCaesar 04:23, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment - woah, this guy has done a bunch of POV-work on a number of S. S. Van Dine works, see The Benson Murder Case, The Canary Murder Case, and The Greene Murder Case - perhaps an administrator needs to work this our, or could this blanket pov-ing be considered vandalism? Sirmob
 * I'm not admin, but IMO it's not vandalism unless the user means it to be. Of those works, The Benson Murder Case looks fine; others do seem to belong more to amazon.com.  CanadianCaesar 04:52, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Cleanup this and all of the other Philo Vance reviews-masquerading-as-articles. Dcarrano 04:59, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Cleanup per Dcarrano. royblumy 03:08, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete not encyclopedic. JamesBurns 10:10, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I've searched Amazon and found author and date of publication. As it is now it's a book-stub, though original editor's POV need's attention. Mark 22:43, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Cleanup per Dcarrino. Sirmob 03:28, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and cleanup; let it grow Lectonar 09:46, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep now that the review is gone CanadianCaesar 21:40, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

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