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Avenger-class escort carrier

The Avenger-class escort carrier was a class of escort carriers comprising three ships in service with the Royal Navy during the Second World War and one ship of the class in the United States Navy called the Charger Type of 1942-class escort carrier. All three were originally American type C3 merchant ships in the process of being built at the Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Company Chester, Pennsylvania. The ships laid down in 1939 and 1940 were launched and delivered to the Royal Navy by 1942 under the Lend-Lease agreement.

The ships had a complement of 555 men and an overall length of 492.25 ft, a beam of 66.25 ft and a height of 23.25 ft. Their displacement was 8200 LT at normal load and 9000 LT at deep load. Propulsion was provided by four diesel engines connected to one shaft giving 8,500 bhp, which could propel the ships at 16.5 kn.

Aircraft facilities were a small combined bridge–flight control on the starboard side and above the 410 ft long wooden flight deck, one aircraft lift 43 x, one aircraft catapult and nine arrestor wires. Aircraft could be housed in the 190 x half hangar below the flight deck. Armament comprised three single mounted 4-inch dual purpose anti-aircraft guns and fifteen 20 mm cannons on single or twin mounts. They had the capacity for fifteen aircraft which would typically be a mixture of Grumman Martlet or Hawker Sea Hurricane fighter aircraft and Fairey Swordfish or Grumman Avenger anti-submarine aircraft. The three ships in the class were HMS Avenger (D14), HMS Biter (D97) and HMS Dasher (D37). A fourth ship, USS Charger (CVE-30) was built at the same time to the same design but was commissioned in the U.S. Navy.

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Isotopologue

In chemistry, isotopologues are molecules that differ only in their isotopic composition. They have the same chemical formula and bonding arrangement of atoms, but at least one atom has a different number of neutrons than the parent.

An example is water, whose hydrogen-related isotopologues are: "light water" (HOH or H2O), "semi-heavy water" with the deuterium isotope in equal proportion to protium (HDO or ^{1}H^{2}HO), "heavy water" with two deuterium isotopes of hydrogen per molecule (D2O or ^{2}H2O), and "super-heavy water" or tritiated water (T2O or ^{3}H2O, as well as HTO [^{1}H^{3}HO] and DTO [^{2}H^{3}HO], where some or all of the hydrogen atoms are replaced with the radioactive tritium isotope). Oxygen-related isotopologues of water include the commonly available form of heavy-oxygen water (H2^{18}O) and the more difficult to separate version with the ^{17}O isotope. Both elements may be replaced by isotopes, for example in the doubly labeled water isotopologue D2^{18}O. All taken together, there are 9 different stable water isotopologues, and 9 radioactive isotopologues involving tritium, for a total of 18. However only certain ratios are possible in mixture, due to prevalent hydrogen swapping.

The atom(s) of the different isotope may be anywhere in a molecule, so the difference is in the net chemical formula. If a compound has several atoms of the same element, any one of them could be the altered one, and it would still be the same isotopologue. When considering the different locations of the same isotopically modified element, the term isotopomer, first proposed by Seeman and Paine in 1992, is used. Isotopomerism is analogous to constitutional isomerism of different elements in a structure. Depending on the formula and the symmetry of the structure, there might be several isotopomers of one isotopologue. For example, ethanol has the molecular formula C2H6O. Mono-deuterated ethanol, C2H5DO, is an isotopologue of it. The structural formulas CH3\sCH2\sO\sD and CH2D\sCH2\sO\sH are two isotopomers of that isotopologue.

Analytical chemistry applications
Singly substituted isotopologues may be used for nuclear magnetic resonance experiments, where deuterated solvents such as deuterated chloroform (CDCl3) do not interfere with the solutes' 1H signals, and in investigations of the kinetic isotope effect.

Geochemical applications
In the field of stable isotope geochemistry, isotopologues of simple molecules containing rare heavy isotopes of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, and sulfur are used to trace equilibrium and kinetic processes in natural environments and in Earth's past.

Doubly substituted isotopologues
Measurement of the abundance of clumped isotopes (doubly substituted isotopologues) of gases has been used in the field of stable isotope geochemistry to trace equilibrium and kinetic processes in the environment inaccessible by analysis of singly substituted isotopologues alone.

Currently measured doubly substituted isotopologues include:
 * Carbon dioxide: 13C18O16O
 * Methane: 13CH3D and 12CH2D2
 * Oxygen: 18O2 and 17O18O
 * Nitrogen: 15N2
 * Nitrous oxide: 14N15N18O and 15N14N18O

Analytical requirements
Because of the relative rarity of the heavy isotopes of C, H, and O, isotope-ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) of doubly substituted species requires larger volumes of sample gas and longer analysis times than traditional stable isotope measurements, thereby requiring extremely stable instrumentation. In addition, the doubly-substituted isotopologues are often subject to isobaric interferences, as in the methane system where 13CH5+ and 12CH3D+ ions interfere with measurement of the 12CH2D2+ and 13CH3D+ species at mass 18. A measurement of such species requires either very high mass resolving power to separate one isobar from another, or modeling of the contributions of the interfering species to the abundance of the species of interest. These analytical challenges are significant: The first publication precisely measuring doubly substituted isotopologues did not appear until 2004, though singly substituted isotopologues had been measured for decades previously.

As an alternative to more conventional gas source IRMS instruments, tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy has also emerged as a method to measure doubly substituted species free from isobaric interferences, and has been applied to the methane isotopologue 13CH3D.

Equilibrium fractionation
When a light isotope is replaced with a heavy isotope (e.g., 13C for 12C), the bond between the two atoms will vibrate more slowly, thereby lowering the zero-point energy of the bond and acting to stabilize the molecule. An isotopologue with a doubly substituted bond is therefore slightly more thermodynamically stable, which will tend to produce a higher abundance of the doubly substituted (or “clumped”) species than predicted by the statistical abundance of each heavy isotope (known as a stochastic distribution of isotopes). This effect increases in magnitude with decreasing temperature, so the abundance of the clumped species is related to the temperature at which the gas was formed or equilibrated. By measuring the abundance of the clumped species in standard gases formed in equilibrium at known temperatures, the thermometer can be calibrated and applied to samples with unknown abundances.

Kinetic fractionation
The abundances of multiply substituted isotopologues can also be affected by kinetic processes. As for singly substituted isotopologues, departures from thermodynamic equilibrium in a doubly-substituted species can implicate the presence of a particular reaction taking place. Photochemistry occurring in the atmosphere has been shown to alter the abundance of 18O2 from equilibrium, as has photosynthesis. Measurements of 13CH3D and 12CH2D2 can identify microbial processing of methane and have been used to demonstrate the significance of quantum tunneling in the formation of methane, as well as mixing and equilibration of multiple methane reservoirs. Variations in the relative abundances of the two N2O isotopologues 14N15N18O and 15N14N18O can distinguish whether N2O has been produced by bacterial denitrification or by bacterial nitrification.

Biochemical applications
Multiple substituted isotopologues may be used for nuclear magnetic resonance or mass spectrometry experiments, where isotopologues are used to elucidate metabolic pathways in a qualitative (detect new pathways) or quantitative (detect quantitative share of a pathway) approach. A popular example in biochemistry is the use of uniform labelled glucose (U-13C glucose), which is metabolized by the organism under investigation (e. g. bacterium, plant, or animal) and whose signatures can later be detected in newly formed amino acid or metabolically cycled products.

Mass spectrometry applications
Resulting from either naturally occurring isotopes or artificial isotopic labeling, isotopologues can be used in various mass spectrometry applications.

Applications of natural isotopologues
The relative mass spectral intensity of natural isotopologues, calculable from the fractional abundances of the constituent elements, is exploited by mass spectrometry practitioners in quantitative analysis and unknown compound identification:

 * 1) To identify the more likely molecular formulas for an unknown compound based on the matching between the observed isotope abundance pattern in an experiment and the expected isotope abundance patterns for given molecular formulas.
 * 2) To expand the linear dynamic response range of the mass spectrometer by following multiple isotopologues, with an isotopologue of lower abundance still generating linear response even while the isotopologues of higher abundance giving saturated signals.

Applications of isotope labeling
A compound tagged by replacing specific atoms with the corresponding isotopes can facilitate the following mass spectrometry methods:

 * 1) Metabolic flux analysis (MFA)
 * 2) Stable isotopically labeled internal standards for quantitative analysis

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pacific lodge

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was speedied. humblefool®Deletion Reform 02:58, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Pacific lodge
advertising, not notable 66.216.68.28 16:27, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy, since it is pretty much a promo and the article is pure spam with the number to call for reservations. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 16:28, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy as per Zscout370. --BradBeattie 16:32, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy as per Zscout Naturenet | Talk 16:35, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, advert and not notable but doesn't meet criteria for speedy deletion. --KFP 16:38, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * If having "Reservations for King Pacific Lodge are made through our Vancouver Sales Office. Above you will find a Reservations Form that can be submitted via fax to 604.987.5472. After your reservation is made, we ask that you complete a Personal Preferences Form so that we can make sure that all arrangements are made to make your visit perfect." is not criteria for speedy deletion, then I have no clue what is. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 16:41, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * According to this,, it was deleted earlier. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 16:43, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I would certainly like to see this article speedily deleted. However, according to Wikipedia deletion policy, advertisements masquerading as articles should be dealt with at VfD (although this article does a poor job at masquerading: it is blatant spam copied directly from and is thus a possible copyvio). --KFP 17:39, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * It has been deleted, so, it looks like it can be closed now. (Which, I notice many articles coming here are speedied after they are listed here. Should we have a Proposed Deletions page? Zscout370 (Sound Off) 02:27, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

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Category:Singaporean artists

This category lists artists from Singapore practicing mainstream fine arts in painting or other art mediums.
 * This includes Singaporean modern, avant-garde, contemporary practising artists in the field of painting, installation, performance art and film.
 * This category does not include practitioners of commercial art such as graphic design.

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User:Msitua

My name is Robert Svensson, born 1979, live in Sweden.

I have been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome and that was the turning point of my life. For 22 years I lived in void of pain, then when I got my diagnosis everything fell in place. I "work" for the local goverment writing about Neuropsychiatric disorders.

My interests are: Philosophy

Statistics

Nature Photography

Charts and Tables

Bryophyta which is livermosses, hornworts, and leafmosses

I love waking in nature looking at small details, I am all about small details, but miss the whole concept often.

my website msitua.net

Msitua is my handle on the net, can you figure out why?

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She's a Woman

"She's a Woman" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written primarily by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. It was released on a non-album single in November 1964 as the B-side to "I Feel Fine", except in North America, where it also appeared on the album Beatles '65, released in December 1964. Though it was the B-side, it charted in the US, reaching number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and number eight on the Cash Box Top 100. The song originated in McCartney's attempt to write a song in the style of Little Richard. The lyrics include the first reference to drugs in a Beatles song, with the line "turn(s) me on" referring to marijuana.

The Beatles recorded "She's a Woman" in October 1964, during the sessions for their album Beatles for Sale. McCartney composed it quickly, writing much of the song at EMI Recording Studios shortly before recording. With a sparse arrangement, John Lennon's rhythm guitar hits on the offbeats, allowing room for the bass to be the centre of the recording. McCartney's prominent bass was to that point the loudest heard on a Beatles recording, anticipating his high-profile bass lines in later songs. His vocal extends near the top of his register, heard especially as he strains near the song's opening. The song has subsequently appeared on compilation albums such as the UK edition of Rarities; Past Masters, Volume One and Mono Masters.

"She's a Woman" has received praise from several music critics and musicologists for McCartney's strong vocal and the band's loud backing, though some have criticised its lyrics as weak. In addition to recording the song twice for BBC radio, the Beatles regularly performed the song during their 1965 and 1966 tours. An August 1965 performance appeared on the 1977 live album The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl while one from June 1966 was included on the 1996 compilation Anthology 2. In his post-Beatles career, McCartney has occasionally performed the song in concert, including an acoustic version that appeared on his 1991 live album Unplugged (The Official Bootleg). Charles River Valley Boys, Jeff Beck and Scritti Politti are among the artists who have covered the track.

Background and composition
Paul McCartney began composing the lyrics and melody to "She's a Woman" on 8 October 1964, the same day that it was recorded, and finished it quickly. Appearing on the radio programme Top Gear on 17 November 1964, he explained that he only had "about one verse" ready on the morning of the session, finishing the rest of the song once in the studio. In his authorised biography, Many Years from Now, he recalls that the initial idea came to him while walking around the streets of St John's Wood, but is unsure whether he finished the song at home, on his way to the studio, or once actually there. Comparing it to his earlier composition "Can't Buy Me Love", he further recalls the song as an attempt to write "a bluesy thing" in the style of one of his favourite singers, Little Richard. In a 1972 interview, John Lennon identifies the song as McCartney's, but suggests that he may have helped with the middle. In a 1980 interview with Playboy, he again identifies the composition as McCartney's, but suggests he likely contributed some lyrics.

"She's a Woman" is mainly in the key of A major, with brief shifts to C-sharp minor, and is in 4/4 time. Besides its two short bridge sections, the song only uses the chords I, IV and V. Music scholar Thomas MacFarlane characterises the song as a "synthesis of rock and blues inflections with elements derived from country and western or folk styles". Variously described as rock and roll, pop rock, R&B, or "perky pop-blues", the song is a long-form blues number with a four-bar bridge. Musicologist Walter Everett characterises the format as structurally similar to "Can't Buy Me Love", joining a minor pentatonic verse with a major mode bridge. Similar to Cliff Richard's song "Move It", the verse is twenty four-bars rather than the more typical twelve-bar format, making the four-bar bridge sound especially short. Everett suggests the short bridge quickly returning to the verse creates a "formal ambiguity".

Comparing its beginning to "I Want to Hold Your Hand", Everett writes that before the song's beat has been established, the "sneaky accenting" of offbeats results in an "off-center introduction". For the first four bars, the rhythm guitar and piano are the only instruments heard, with the "heavily accented backbeat" not heard as such until the bass and drums begin playing, "'proving' the correct metrical accent". Music critic Tim Riley writes the "clipped guitar yelps" of the opening "tease the ear in a simpler way than the fade-in to 'I Want to Tell You' will". Rather than playing a typical rhythm guitar section, Lennon provides a distinct sound to the track by only hitting the off-beats, adding a reggae accent to the song, and which McCartney later explained, "left a lot of space for the rest of the stuff". Musicologist Ian MacDonald calls McCartney's legato bass line the "structural centrepiece" of the song and that "without it, the other elements in this stark arrangement would make no sense". Everett suggests it is instructive to compare "the simple form and involved melodicism" of the song against "the opposite emphases" heard on Ray Charles's "I Got a Woman". Pollack contends that the song pairs well with "I Feel Fine", in particular the "euphoric subtext of the words", its stylised blues and the similar V–IV–I intros. MacDonald characterises it as the second single by the Beatles to be based on blues changes, the first being the March 1964 release "Can't Buy Me Love"/"You Can't Do That".

McCartney sings the song near the top of his vocal register, straining in the opening to hit a high A. The singer explains that though his lover does not give him presents they each still love each other. Several lines rhyme with the second-to-last word, as in "lonely" with "only [fooling]" and "jealous" with "well as [loving]". Its lyric includes the first reference to drugs in the Beatles' catalogue, with the line "turn(s) me on when I feel lonely" referring to marijuana. The Beatles had one of their earliest experiences with the drug six weeks earlier – smoking with Bob Dylan in New York City during their 1964 North American tour – with Lennon reflecting in 1980 that "[w]e were so excited to say 'turn me on' – you know, about marijuana and all that, using it as an expression".

Recording
The Beatles recorded "She a Woman" on 8 October 1964, during the sessions for their fourth album, Beatles for Sale. Recording took place in EMI's Studio Two, with George Martin producing the session, assisted by balance engineer Norman Smith. The basic track features guitars, drums, bass and a lead vocal from McCartney. Everett suggests that Lennon's damped Rickenbacker 325 Capri results in a sound like "a Motown offbeat 'chick' rhythm guitar". The song's first take was in a rockabilly style, not yet using the syncopated chords heard on the completed version. On take five, the band moved into an extended jam with McCartney screaming, the complete take lasting over six minutes. Journalist Mark Hertsgaard calls the take "a spirited, if somewhat ragged, jam", while Everett suggests it comes closer to Lennon's 1969 song "Cold Turkey" than any other pre-1968 recording. After two more attempts, take six was marked "best".

After breaking for dinner, the band completed the track with overdubs onto take six. Ringo Starr added further percussion with a chocalho – a shaker made of metal and filled with either lead shot or peas. Along with double tracking his original vocal, McCartney played Studio Two's Steinway Vertegrand tack piano – dubbed "Mrs Mills" in reference to the music hall pianist Gladys Mills – substituting it on the second verse in place of a lead guitar. George Harrison did not play on the basic track, but instead overdubbed a double tracked guitar solo with his Gretsch Country Gent. Playing the solo nearly identically each time – capturing the same ornamental hammer-ons, pull-offs and portamento slides – the double tracking alters the guitar's tonal qualities. McCartney was pleased with the final recording, calling it "a nice little R&B thing".

On 12 October, Martin and Smith returned to Studio Two to remix the track for mono and stereo. McCartney's prominently featured bass, to that point the loudest bass heard on a Beatles track, necessitated the mix be ducked whenever it left the home triad. The mono mix made on 12 October was meant exclusively for UK release, while a later mono remix made on 21 October was made for the US market, the latter fading out one second earlier. The 21 October mix was made in EMI's Room 65, typically designated as the studio's "experimentation room". After receiving the US master, Capitol executive Dave Dexter Jr. added heavy echo to the tape, drowning out the sound of McCartney's piano. The stereo version heard on US releases is fake stereo, reprocessed from the mono American masters.

Release and reception
Capitol released "She's a Woman" in the US as the B-side to "I Feel Fine" on 23 November 1964. EMI's Parlophone label released the same single in the UK four days later. Journalist Neil Spencer suggests that the song would have been an album track on Beatles for Sale were it not for the dearth of new Lennon–McCartney compositions. In the US – where Capitol reconfigured the Beatles' albums, reducing the number of songs and using single A- and B-sides to create further LP releases – the song appeared on the North American album Beatles '65, released on 15 December 1964. It has since appeared on the 1978 British compilation album Rarities, while the first true stereo mix of the song to be released in the US appeared on the 1988 compilation Past Masters, Volume One. The mono mix was subsequently included on the 2009 Mono Masters compilation.

Among contemporaneous reviews, Derek Johnson in the NME described "She's a Woman" as "arresting and ear-catching", and highlighted the track's "pounding beat" and blues-inflected vocal. Billboard predicted an immediate chart hit for both sides of the single and recognised the record as a "gift to Capitol on the group's first anniversary with the label". The UK single release sold 800,000 units within five days and over a million by 9 December. In the US, where five albums and sixteen singles had been released in the first seven months of 1964, the ensuing lull of new Beatles material led to fans highly anticipating the next single's release. The US release sold more than a million copies in its first week. "She's a Woman" became a hit in its own right, mostly on the strength of point of sale requests, peaking at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 and remaining on the chart for nine weeks.

In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine says the song demonstrates the Beatles' ability to "rock really, really hard". MacDonald describes the track as "the most extreme sound the Beatles had manufactured to date". Writing that it is the first Beatles song to feature a high profile bass line, he opines that it foreshadows McCartney's later "striving to get his instrument 'up' in volume, tone, and octave". He further characterises the recording as outré, and groups it with "What You're Doing" and "Eight Days a Week" as one of McCartney's late-1964 recording experiments. Everett writes that his piano playing on the song "[took] his keyboard work to a new level", while describing Harrison's guitar solo as rockabilly in style, heavily influenced by guitarist Carl Perkins. Rolling Stone critic Rob Sheffield opines that the song's "power-chord thud" anticipates the sound of the heavy metal band Black Sabbath.

Spencer calls the song McCartney's "stoned out-take on his Little Richard legacy", and musicologist Alan W. Pollack describes the song as McCartney's "most outrageous vocal performance" since "Long Tall Sally", anticipating that of the 1969 songs "Get Back" and "Oh! Darling". He further writes that as the song progresses, the vocal gets "steadily freer, louder, and more extroverted". Calling the song a "throaty McCartney rocker", Hertsgaard describes the line, "My love don't give me presents / I know that she's no peasant" as "one of the most awkward rhymes in the Beatles' catalogue. MacDonald also dismisses the lyrics, calling them "[k]nowingly functional" and only notable for the marijuana reference. Riley writes that, were it not for Starr's cymbal smashing in the four-bar break, the song would be "almost too tightly strung".

The Beatles
British law in the 1960s compelled BBC Radio to play material recorded especially for the medium. In keeping with this practice, the Beatles played "She's a Woman" twice for radio, recording for the BBC Light Programmes Top Gear and The Beatles (Invite You to Take a Ticket to Ride) on 17 November 1964 and 26 May 1965, respectively. The latter, broadcast on 7 June 1965, was among the last set the Beatles contributed to BBC Radio. EMI included the November 1964 performance on the 1994 album Live at the BBC.

The Beatles regularly performed the song during their 1965 and 1966 tours, sequencing it second in the set list after "Twist and Shout", "I Feel Fine" or "Rock and Roll Music". Though the band performed the song on 15 August 1965 at Shea Stadium in New York City, it was omitted from the documentary film The Beatles at Shea Stadium because the film cameras were being reloaded during the song. The 1977 live album The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl includes a performance of "She's a Woman" from the 30 August 1965 show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Author Jonathan Gould describes this performance as the "definitive version" of the song, while pop historian Robert Rodriguez writes that the combination of "Twist and Shout" and "She's a Woman" "[kicks] things off with a bang". In 1996, Apple Records included the Beatles' 30 June 1966 performance from the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on the compilation Anthology 2. Author John Winn describes the concert as a particularly poor performance, and Beatles road manager Neil Aspinall later suggested that the lack of screaming from the respectful Japanese audience caused the group to realise they were playing out of tune.

McCartney has occasionally performed the song in his live shows, including it on his 2004 Summer Tour's set list. He performed the song in a 25 January 1991 set, played on acoustic and filmed by MTV for their series Unplugged. Given the vocal strain needed to perform the original version, he found it necessary to transpose the song down a fourth from its original key of A to E. The MTV performance was included on McCartney's 1991 album Unplugged (The Official Bootleg).

Cover versions

The American bluegrass band Charles River Valley Boys included "She's a Woman" on their 1966 album of bluegrass arranged Beatles covers, Beatle Country. Critic Richie Unterberger counts the cover as among several on the LP that few listeners would have thought possible to arrange into a bluegrass context. In a retrospective assessment coinciding with the album's 1995 CD re-release, Adrea Moed of CMJ New Music Monthly magazine remarked that the playing on the cover displays a "technical virtuosity [that] almost makes you forget [the song’s] origins".

British guitarist Jeff Beck covered "She's a Woman" on his 1975 album Blow by Blow, produced by George Martin. Months earlier, he played the song with the band Upp for the BBC documentary Five Faces of Guitar. Keyboard player Max Middleton suggested the song for the album, having come up with a calypso-like arrangement on his own. Middleton later recalled that "George hated it, but Jeff loved it, so we did it". Beck further altered the arrangement into a reggae instrumental, following the original vocal melody with his guitar, and incorporated a talk box. Mark Kirschenmann of AllMusic describes the arrangement as clever, and author Martin Power describes the track in similarly favourable terms, with its "flashes of syncopation, falling blues scales and the occasional use of the voice bag".

British pop band Scritti Politti covered "She's a Woman" with Jamaican dancehall musician Shabba Ranks. Reaching number twenty on the UK Singles Chart in April 1991, the recording immediately preceded a lengthy hiatus from Scritti Politti frontman Green Gartside, who did not return to recording until 1999. Later included on the band's 2011 compilation album Absolute, Terry Staunton of Record Collector magazine describes the track as a "trenchtown jolly-up" cover.

Personnel
According to Ian MacDonald, except where noted:

 * Paul McCartney – double tracked vocal, bass, piano
 * John Lennon – rhythm guitar
 * George Harrison – double tracked lead guitar
 * Ringo Starr – drums, chocalho

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Sioux Falls Stadium

Sioux Falls Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It originally opened in 1941 and was renovated in 2000.

It is primarily used for baseball and is the home field of the unaffiliated Sioux Falls Canaries baseball team of the American Association. It was their home stadium when they won the American Association championship in 2008. It has also been the home of the Sioux Falls Cougars baseball team since 2017. The stadium is nicknamed "The Birdcage". The stadium has a capacity of up to 4,462 people.

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User:Leeroyjenkins

I was born in the little town of Aniston, AL. I spent the yesteryears of my life wandering fields and lonely roads. Eventually I found my home in an undiclosed location. My long journeys around the world have given me a vast understanding of it and all of its complexities. I have decided to share the expansive knowledge that I have gathered, to those who wish to partake of my infinite wisdom. I have quit school, work, and other trivial matters, to devote my life to expanding my thoughts and the thoughts of others. To acomplish this I have abandoned my materialistic lifestyle in search of greater meaning. My only weakness is the helmet light mount.

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Sioux City Explorers

The Sioux City Explorers are a professional minor league baseball team based in Sioux City, Iowa, in the United States. The Explorers are inaugural members of the American Association of Professional Baseball, an official Partner League of Major League Baseball. Since their inception in 1993, the Explorers have played their home games at Lewis and Clark Park.

The Explorers, frequently called the X's, have played in the American Association since 2006. Previously, they were members of the Northern League.

Playoffs

 * 1994 season: Lost to Winnipeg 3–1 in championship
 * 1999 season: Lost to Winnipeg 3–0 in semifinals
 * 2002 season: Defeated Joliet 3–2 in quarterfinals; lost to Winnipeg 3–1 in semifinals
 * 2008 season: Lost to Sioux Falls 3–0 in semifinals
 * 2015 season: Defeated St. Paul 3–1 in semifinals; lost to Laredo 3–1 in championship
 * 2016 season: Lost to Wichita 3–1 in semifinals
 * 2018 season: Lost to Kansas City 3–2 in semifinals
 * 2019 season: Defeated Kansas City 3–1 in semifinals; lost to St. Paul 3–0 in championship
 * 2021 season: Defeated Cleburne in Wildcard game; lost to Kansas City 3-0 in Division Series

Notable alumni

 * Ty Griffin (1993)
 * Joe Kraemer (1993-1994)
 * Oil Can Boyd (1994-1995)
 * Carl Nichols (1995)
 * Mark Merchant (1995)
 * Gerald Young (1995-1996)
 * Dana Williams (1996)
 * Julius Matos (1997)
 * Danny Perez (1997)
 * Mike Porzio (1997)
 * Matt Turner (1997)
 * Michael Marchesano (1999–2000)
 * Nate Bland (2000)
 * Mike Busby (2000)
 * Nate Field (2000)
 * Brent Bowers (2001)
 * Jeff Juden (2001)
 * John LeRoy (2001)
 * Cris Colón (2002)
 * Trey Beamon (2003)
 * Mike Figga (2003)
 * José Malavé (2003)
 * John Cotton (2003)
 * Desi Wilson (2003-2004)
 * J. D. Scholten (2003–2004, 2006–2007, 2024–present)
 * Allan Simpson (2007)
 * Charlton Jimerson (2008)
 * Walter Young (2008-2009)
 * Steve Andrade (2009)
 * Jacob Cruz (2010)
 * T. J. Bohn (2010-2011)
 * Emiliano Fruto (2011)
 * Nick Schumacher (2011–2012)
 * Richard Salazar (2011–2012)
 * John Holdzkom (2013)
 * Cody Satterwhite (2013)
 * Alex Burnett (2014)
 * Jesse English (2014)
 * Brock Kjeldgaard (2014-2015)
 * Rene Tosoni (2014-2015)
 * Ryan Court (2015)
 * John Ely (2015)
 * David Herndon (2015)
 * Jeff Marquez (2015)
 * Tommy Mendonca (2014-2016)
 * Derrick Robinson (2016)
 * Tayler Scott (2016)
 * Connor Overton (2016)
 * Cody Forsythe (2016-2017)
 * Tony Campana (2017)
 * John Nogowski (2017, 2023–present)
 * Bubby Rossman (2017)
 * Josh Vitters (2017)
 * Alex White (2017)
 * Luis Durango (2018)
 * Parker Markel (2018)
 * Patrick Schuster (2018)
 * Dean Green (2018-2019)
 * Anthony Bender (2019)
 * Jason Garcia (2019)
 * Jeremy Hazelbaker (2019)
 * Taylor Jordan (2019)
 * Spencer Jones (2021)
 * Nick Franklin (2021–2022)
 * Blaine Hardy (2022)
 * Nivaldo Rodríguez (2022)
 * Eury Pérez (2023)
 * Luís Madero (2023)
 * Nick Shumpert (2024–present)
 * Santiago Florez (2024–present)
 * Joey Murray (2024–present)
 * Ozzie Martínez (2024–present)

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Shankar Nag

Shankar Nagarakatte (9 November 1954 – 30 September 1990) was an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, and producer known for his work in Kannada-language films and television. A popular cultural icon of Karnataka, Nag is often referred to as Karate King. He directed the teleserial Malgudi Days, based on novelist R. K. Narayan's short stories and acted in some episodes as well. He won two National Film Awards, four Karnataka State Film Awards and two Filmfare Award South.

Nag received the inaugural IFFI Best Actor Award (Male): Silver Peacock Award" at the 7th International Film Festival of India for his work in the film Ondanondu Kaladalli. He co-wrote 22 June 1987, a National award-winning Marathi film. He is the younger brother of actor Anant Nag. Vincent Canby, the chief film critic of The New York Times had opined that Shankar's performance in Ondanondu Kaladalli had the force and humor of the younger Toshiro Mifune.

Early career
Shankar Nagarkatte was born on 9 November 1954 in Honnavar, then a part of North Canara (now Uttara Kannada), in Bombay State (now in Karnataka). His parents were Anandi and Sadanand Nagarkatte. Born into a Konkani-speaking Brahmin family, his family settled in Shirali, a village near Bhatkal in Uttara Kannada of Karnataka State. He had an elder sister, Shyamala, and an elder brother, actor Anant Nag. After completing formal education, Nag moved to Bombay. There, he was attracted to Marathi theatre and immersed himself in theatrical activities. Incidentally, he met his future wife, Arundhathi during a drama rehearsal. Nag then shifted base to Bangalore where his elder brother Anant Nag had already established himself as a popular actor.

In 1978 Nag made his debut with Girish Karnad's epic film Ondanondu Kaladalli, where he played a mercenary who earns a position in a rival army to get even with his brother, whom he considers his enemy.

Acting and directing
Following the modest success of Ondanondu Kaladalli and the critical accolades he garnered, Nag started appearing in mainstream films. Seetharamu, Auto Raja and Preethi Madu Thamashe Nodu were amongst his early movies. He eventually became known for his action films, and while he had never undergone any martial arts training, he earned the nickname "Karate King". Some of his popular commercial movies as an actor include Nyaya Ellide, Nyaya Gedditu, Gedda Maga, Sangliyana, S. P. Sangliyana Part 2 and C.B.I. Shankar. He formed a popular pair with top actress Bhavya who acted with him in 11 films.

Nag made his directorial debut with Minchina Ota, one of the earliest heist movies of Kannada cinema. This won him seven state awards, including that for best film. Janma Janmada Anubandha and Geetha followed. There was no looking back after that. His directorial ventures include Lalach (Hindi remake of Minchina Ota), Hosa Theerpu (remake of Dushman), Nodi Swamy Navirodu Hige, Ondu Muttina Kathe (loosely based on John Steinbeck's novel The Pearl)  and the critically acclaimed Accident which won many state and national awards.

Television and theatre
In 1987, Nag directed the Doordarshan series Malgudi Days, which was based on a collection of short stories by R.K. Narayan. The series featured Vishnuvardhan and Anant Nag, with music by was composed by L. Vaidyanathan. The series was shot in Agumbe, Shimoga district, Karnataka. Nag went to direct another teleserial, Swami, in the same year. Malgudi Days has been rated as one of the finest serials ever to be made in the history of Indian television.

He anchored the Parichaya program on DD1-Kannada, in its starting days. Nag retained an interest in theatre. His brother Anant Nag and he founded Sanket, an amateur theatre group, which still produces plays. His first directorial effort in Kannada theatre was Anju Mallige by Girish Karnad. He continued with productions like Barrister, Sandhya Chhaya. He was later joined by T. N. Narasimhan, who wrote and co-directed Nodi Swamy Navirodu Hige which had, apart from himself, his wife Arundhati Nag and Ramesh Bhat in the cast.

Social work
Shankar Nag, was multi-faceted person, involved in various aspects of Karnataka's Infrastructure. He is credited with pioneering efforts in initiating
 * Rope Way/Cable Car to heighten the tourist experience at Nandi Hills
 * Metro Train for Bengaluru
 * Low Cost Houses that could be built in 8 days
 * Club for Amusement
 * Theater for performing Arts, including Drama

Death
Nag died in a car collision at Anagodu village on the outskirts of Davanagere town on 30 September 1990 during the pre-production work for his film Jokumaraswamy. The last film he did as an actor, Sundarakanda, was released a few days after his death for which Nag's voice was dubbed by Murali. Anant Nag completed the dubbing for Nigooda Rahasya. Nag's last release was Bhargava's Prana Snehitha, which had been completed fully but was delayed.

Legacy
Many of the films on which he worked went on to win National Film Awards and various state awards. His films highlighted the lifestyle and issues of working-class society. Even after 33 years of his demise, his photographs are still found in the auto rickshaws of Karnataka.

National Film Awards

 * National Film Award for Best Children's Film (1986-87) for Swamy
 * National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues (1984–85) for Accident

Karnataka State Film Awards

 * Best Second Film (1979–80) along with Anant Nag for Minchina Ota
 * Best Screenplay (1979–80) along with Mariyam Jetpurwala for Minchina Ota
 * Best First Film (1984–85) for Accident
 * Best Director (1984–85) for Accident

Filmfare Awards South

 * Best Director (1980) for Minchina Ota
 * Best Film (1984) for Accident

IFFI Award for Best Actor

 * Silver Peacock Award for Best Actor (1979) for Ondanondu Kaladalli

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Lewis and Clark Park

Lewis and Clark Park, officially known as MercyOne Field at Lewis and Clark Park, is a stadium in Sioux City, Iowa. It is primarily used for baseball and is the home field of the Sioux City Explorers minor league baseball team and the Morningside University baseball team. The ballpark opened in 1993 and has a capacity of 3,800 people.

The park is named for Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, leaders of the Lewis and Clark Expedition of the American West who journeyed across the western frontier of early America from 1804 to 1806. The expedition's only casualty, Charles Floyd, was lost near present-day Sioux City.

Some of the amenities at the park include a concession stand, handicap accessible elevators, a team shop stocked with Explorers merchandise, a press box, and 4 VIP air conditioned suites.

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Golden Mile, Durban

The Golden Mile (or, colloquially, "The Mile") is the popular stretch of beachfront in the city of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, including the promenade that runs along with it. It runs roughly from uShaka Beach (where the uShaka Marine World is located) in Point Waterfront to Suncoast Casino and Entertainment World in the north and now includes a route directly to Moses Mabhida Stadium. It abuts the central business district of the city to its west.

It is one of the main tourist attractions in the Durban area. The wide stretch of golden sands, artificially separated by various piers, provides opportunities for sun-worshippers and swimmers to enjoy the sub-tropical sunshine and warm waters of the Indian Ocean. Common activities include swimming, surfing, drowning and fishing. Most of the Mile's beaches are protected year-round by lifeguards and shark nets. The Mile is also a well-known surfer's haven. The South Beach end, in particular, is well known as a safe beach for neophyte surfers. The beachfront properties are a mix of residential apartments and tourist hotels, development of which boomed in the 1970s, although remnants of Durban's art-deco architecture are still evident. Interspersed among the beachfront properties are several popular restaurants and nightclubs.

The Golden Mile has long been a popular domestic holiday destination and during the holiday seasons (June–July and December–January) South Africans from across the country, but in particular the Gauteng region, flock to enjoy its attractions and those of the longer beachfront area, which include:

 * Blue Lagoon, a popular hangout, picnic and fishing spot
 * Mini Town with a miniature replica of Durban, complete with a working miniature railway and airport.
 * Moses Mabhida Stadium
 * Traditional market vendors and other hawkers with a selection of Zulu art and crafts.
 * An oceanway pavement along the beaches to encourage more people to enjoy walking and cycling.
 * Suncoast Casino and Entertainment World, a casino complex with a semi-private beach, restaurants, shops and public entertainment facilities.
 * uShaka Marine World aquarium, water park, dolphinarium, containing a restaurant with the largest shark tank in the world.
 * North Beach, Dairy Beach, the Bay of Plenty, Snake Park, Pirates and Country Club beaches are popular surfing beaches separated by the piers.
 * The Skate Park in front of the Bay of Plenty caters for skateboarders, roller bladers and BMX'ers.
 * The Surfing Museum, a historical site cataloguing some of Durban's surfing history.

The street that runs alongside the Golden Mile is divided between Snell Parade in the north, O.R. Tambo Parade (formerly named, and still widely referred to, as Marine Parade) and Erskine Terrace in the south.

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Cycling club

A cycling club or cycling organisation is a society for cyclists. Clubs tend to be mostly local, and can be general or specialised. They can focus on cycle racing and/or cycling as a means of transport (utility cycling). In the United Kingdom, for example, the Cyclists' Touring Club, (CTC) is a national cycling association; the Tricycle Association, Tandem Club and the Veterans Time Trial Association, for those over 40, are specialist clubs. Members of specialist or national groups often also belong to local clubs.

Other groups support leisure cyclists or campaign for improved facilities for cyclists. The London Cycling Campaign, Friends of the Earth, and Greenwich Cyclists are examples of campaign groups.

History
Cycling clubs flourished in 19th century in a time when there were no commercial cars on the market and the principal way of transportation was horse-drawn vehicles, such as the horse and buggy or horsecar. Among the oldest is the Bicycle Touring Club, later the Cyclists' Touring Club and today Cycling UK, formed in 1878. The earliest women's cycling club in Australasia, the Atalanta Cycling Club, was established on 18 August 1892.

Activities
A cycling club's activities vary from one aspect of cycle sport to a range of cycling and social activities. Racing clubs organise competitions for members and others, including track cycling, cyclo-cross, road bicycle racing and time trials. Most competitive cyclists belong to a club affiliated to one of the national racing associations, such as British Cycling and Cycling Time Trials in the UK, and may also organise training through BC or ABCC-qualified coaches. Riders often race in their club's colours.

Cycling clubs may offer touring, weekly club rides (traditionally on Sunday mornings), regular meetings and social events.

Sponsorship
Some clubs are sponsored by commercial organisations; riders often wear clothing bearing advertising in return for the sponsor's support.

Names
Many clubs are named after their home town or district. A few clubs are named after the topography of their region, such as the Alpine Bicycle Club of Golden, Colorado. Some have no connection, such as the Acme Wheelers in south Wales, Zenith CC in Leicester, Gemini BC in north-west Kent.

Some call themselves Road Clubs (examples in Britain include Warrington Road Club, Leicestershire Road Club and Archer RC). Others use a title such as Coureurs or Velo (for example, Clayton Velo, Yorkshire Velo, Rugby Velo, Thames Velo, VC Elan, VC Londres or Velo Sport Jersey), using non-English names that reflect the origins of cycle-racing in France. Another common title is Wheelers - for example, Huddersfield Star Wheelers. Some club names are formed from multiple words - for example, Echelon Velodynamics Bicycle Club.

Some UK club names have roots in political or social movements. The National Clarion Cycling Club spread socialist ideas by bicycle in the late 1890s and early 1900s. The name remains - Bury Clarion, Crewe Clarion, Fenland Clarion, London Clarion, North Cheshire Clarion, Nottingham Clarion, etc - but the politics has mostly disappeared. Other names reflect historical religious allegiance, such as Manchester St Christopher's Catholic Cycling Club) or jobs: RAF CC, Northumbria Police CC, GB Fire Service Road Team, Army Cycling Union. Others evoke the wandering nature of cycling - '34 Nomads, Altrincham Ravens, Lewes Wanderers, Colchester Rovers - or an aspiration: Norwood Paragon, Sheffield Phoenix, Dulwich Paragon.

The early 21st century has also seen the development of internet-based clubs (e.g.: i-Team.cc, and Team Internet).

National and transnational associations
Cycling organizations or cycling associations are organizations for cyclists, bicycle sports and bicycle mobility, bicycle touring, advocating bicycle-friendliness and the bicycle and cycling in general. As such, they generally support sustainable transport. Larger national organizations, may have arisen from older, local cycling clubs.

Activities
Most associations have the commonality that they aim to promote cycling as an everyday activity, e.g. commuting. When the focus is on a specific aspect of cycling, we can distinguish between:
 * Racing organizations.
 * Tours and travel associations.
 * Advocacy associations.
 * Educational associations: with an emphasis on e.g. bicycle safety

Mobility vs. sports
Most organizations lean towards either cycling as a mobility or bicycle / BMX racing. The political goals can be quite different, because cycling as a mobility is an everyday issue and pervades questions about environmentalism, transport and sustainability. Sports associations emphasize the event character of cycling and do not usually try to advocate the aspects of bicycle as regular traffic vehicles.

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Admiralty House, London

Admiralty House in London is a Grade I listed building facing Whitehall, currently used for government functions and as ministerial flats.

Description
Admiralty House is a four-storey building of yellow brick. The front has a symmetrical facade of three broad bays and one additional small bay at the southern end. The rear facade is of five bays and faces Horse Guards Parade, with a basement-level exit under the corner of the Old Admiralty Building. The front of the house faces Whitehall. It is accessed from the older Ripley Building, to which it is connected.

History
Admiralty House was constructed on the site of two seventeenth century houses; Walsingham House, the London residence of Lady Walsingham, and Pickering House, residence of Sir Gilbert Pickering.

Admiralty House was designed by Samuel Pepys Cockerell, a protégé of Sir Robert Taylor, and opened in 1788. Built at the request of Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Howe, First Lord of the Admiralty, in 1782–1783 for "a few small rooms of my own", it was the official residence of First Lord of the Admiralty until 1964, and has also been home to several British prime ministers at times when 10 Downing Street was being renovated.

Winston Churchill lived in the house while serving as First Lord of the Admiralty for two terms, 1911–1915 and 1939–1940. It now contains government function rooms and three ministerial flats.

It is usually open to the public during Open House London.

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Maxi single

A maxi single, or maxi-single, (sometimes abbreviated to MCD or CDM) is a music single release with more than the usual two tracks of an A-side song and a B-side song.

First maxi singles
Mungo Jerry's first single, "In the Summertime", was the first maxi single in the world. The term came into wide use in the 1970s, where it usually referred to 7-inch vinyl singles featuring one track on the A-side and two on the B-side. The 1975 reissue of David Bowie's "Space Oddity", where the featured song is coupled with "Changes" and "Velvet Goldmine", is a typical example. By the mid-1970s, it was used to refer to 12" vinyl singles with three or four tracks (or an extended or remixed version of the lead single/song) on the A-side, with an additional two or three tracks on the B-side; the B-side was initially used by DJs. Later, in the 1980s, a typical practice was to release a two-song single on 7" vinyl and cassette, and a maxi-single on 12" vinyl.

These first 12" maxi-singles were promotional and mostly sent to discotheques and radio stations. Examples of such promos—released at almost the same time in 1975—are Gary Toms Empire –  "Drive My Car", Don Downing –  "Dream World", Barrabas –  "Mellow Blow", The Trammps –  "Hooked for Life", Ace Spectrum –  "Keep Holdin' On", South Shore Commission –  "Train Called Freedom", The Chequers –  "Undecided Love", Ernie Bush –  "Breakaway", Ralph Carter –  "When You're Young and in Love", Michael Zager & The Moon Band Feat. Peabo Bryson –  "Do It with Feeling", Monday After –  "Merry-Go-Round", The Ritchie Family –  "I Want to Dance" and Frankie Valli –  "Swearin' to God".

Salsoul Records made 12" maxi-singles commercially available for the first time in May 1976 with the release of "Ten Percent" by Double Exposure (SALSOUL 12D-2008). An earlier 12" catalog number from this label is "More" by Carol Williams (SALSOUL 12D-2006), but it was released later.

Cassette maxi singles
Occasionally, a cassette single was released in two cassette formats simultaneously: a traditional Cassette single with two tracks and a cassette maxi-single with four or more tracks, generally remixes. This practice was experimented with in the 1980s.

Example: Debbie Gibson – Out of the Blue (cassette maxi-single) released by Atlantic in 1987 in the US. Includes four mixes: 1. Club Mix, 2. Bonus Beats, 3. Drumapella, 4. Dub version. This was packaged in a 12" × 3" cassette maxi single longbox (with a regular cardboard slipcase/cassette inside), although most later maxi singles were just issued in regular style cassette cases.

CD maxi singles
When CDs began to appear as a popular single format in the early 1990s (see CD single), songs were occasionally released in two CD formats simultaneously, 3" and 5", predominantly as a marketing ploy but potentially as a logical extension of the 7" and 12" vinyl record formats to CD, with the 5" CD sometimes marketed as a "maxi-single", most commonly in the US, and European countries (outside of the UK). While the 5" CD version occasionally had additional or longer track mixes, the track listing was often identical.

By the mid 1990s CDs had clearly become the music format of choice. As the 1990s progressed, nearly every single release was available on CD, and vinyl and cassette single releases gradually became less common.

The UK became a thriving market for CD singles, but in 1998 the UK Chart Supervisory Committee reduced the maximal playing time of chart-eligible CD singles from 40 minutes to 20 minutes, though 12" vinyl singles could still play for up to 40 minutes. While Maxi-CDs had been much loved among the dance community, as most if not all of the remixes that had been commissioned by the label could be released commercially, lobbying by artists in other genres who felt obliged to record extra and cover tracks to provide enough material for their single releases was responsible for the rule change. As a result, the U.K.'s singles from around mid-1998 often appeared as three separately-sold CDs with three tracks each, or more commonly, two CDs and an extra format (such as 7", 12" or DVD single). Very often, at least one track was common to all formats. Single releases in the US and elsewhere still included many tracks (primarily remixes) and called themselves maxi-singles to differentiate from the three-track UK versions.

Example: Saint Etienne – "Who Do You Think You Are?" (US CD single) Released by Warner Music in 1993 in the US. Includes eight different tracks, six of which are versions of the title song. Digipak packaging. Labeled "compact disc maxi-single" on the front cover.

Another extensive example is the collection of singles released for the award-winning Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by The Smashing Pumpkins. Each of the five singles ("Bullet with Butterfly Wings", "1979", "Zero", "Tonight, Tonight", "Thirty-Three") had two or more additional songs; most of them had six or seven. All of the maxi singles were released together, with additional tracks on some, as The Aeroplane Flies High box set, for a total of thirty-three tracks across the five singles. Adding that to the total number of other unique tracks on the main CD and vinyl releases of the album itself brings the grand total track count of Mellon Collie to fifty-eight.

As a result of the 1998 UK Chart Supervisory Committee ruling on chart-eligible singles containing no more than 20 minutes of material, many of the U.K.'s dance music singles contained edited / faded mixes. This increased demand for imported European & American CD maxi singles in the UK, especially amongst DJs who required full-length tracks.

Digital maxi singles
A digital maxi single is a series of digital downloads mostly containing remixes. Unlike a normal maxi single, tracks can be bought and sold based on preference. Even if a single had a maxi single and a digital maxi single released with exactly the same content, they were still counted differently on charts. For instance, the maxi single was counted as two points, while the digital maxi single (if all songs were downloaded and if the single were to contain the standard five tracks) was counted as ten points.

Today
Maxi singles are the common format of singles by the Japanese idol girl group AKB48, the best-selling music artist by number of singles sold in Japan and the artist with the best-selling single of the year in the country for 9 years, in what is the world's largest physical music market.

With music stores in the US devoting significantly less shelf space to singles, the format's future in the US remains in doubt. In the UK, having watched sales of CDs drop since the previous rule change, and amid allegations that the consumer no longer felt that UK-issued singles were good value for money, the Chart Supervisory Committee once again changed the rules governing the formats of singles released in the UK. From early 2003, a format described as a "Maxi-CD" was reintroduced, alongside a new two-track CD single with a lower retail price. The current rules in the U.K. allow for up to 40 minutes of audio tracks on a Maxi-CD, as long as all tracks are remixes of the title track. In practice, however, many of the U.K.'s Maxi-CDs still contain only three mixes and come nowhere near the maximal allowable playing time. However, releases on dance labels (such as EMI's Positiva) are nearly always Maxi-CDs in the true sense, with more than three mixes. Madonna and Lady Gaga are the rare examples of popular American artists who still released maxi-singles on physical formats into the 2010s.

Another example is Erasure's single "Breathe", released by Mute in 2005 in the US. It includes eight different tracks, six of which are versions of the title song, plus a CD-ROM section with the video of the title song, in a standard jewel case packaging.

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Third Army (Turkey)

The Turkish Third Army is a field army of the Turkish Army and is the country's largest army.

History
It traces its origins to 1923, but further back, the Ninth Army Troops Inspectorate was redesignated the Third Army Troops Inspectorate on 15 June 1919. General Ragıp Gümüşpala commanded the army between 1958 and 1960. In the days of the Soviet Union the Third Army was stationed on the Caucasus border to counter any Soviet attack by the Transcaucasus Military District. In 1973 the Army, with headquarters at Erzincan, had the 8th Corps at Elazığ (including the 12th Infantry Division (Turkey), today 12th Mechanised Infantry Brigade at Ağrı ), the 9th Corps at Erzurum (including 9th Infantry Division at Sarıkamış (which was active to at least 1996), and the 11th Corps at Trabzon.

After 1974–75 and the Turkish invasion of Cyprus 11th Corps headquarters was moved to North Cyprus.

Following the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact and the Soviet Union, the General Staff decided to send 120,000 men of the Third Army to the border with Iraq. This was done in order to increase readiness against any possible crisis in the area (such as during the Persian Gulf War and Iraq War). Most of the armored, mechanized, and commando brigades are located in the central region in order to act rapidly into any scenario around Turkey's borders. Today, the army garrisons the Turkish borders with Armenia and Georgia.

Some 300 men from the Third Army were sent to serve alongside the United Nations troops in Somalia (UNITAF/UNOSOM II). In addition, Lieutenant General Cevik Bir, who had previously commanded the army's 4th Armoured Brigade, became Force Commander of UNOSOM II (1992-95).

9th Infantry Division was seemingly disbanded in 2005. A Russian source in 2007 gave the following details on the army: "the 3rd Field Army, consist[s] of 8th and 9th Army Corps, 48th Separate Infantry Brigade, 4th Separate Armoured Brigade."

9th Army Corps, which has in its composition: the 3rd infantry division, 7th, 14th, 25th separate mechanized brigade, separate mechanized infantry battalion, a separate tank battalion, deployed in the area Argadan, Kagysman, Erzurum, along the Turkish-Georgian and Armenian–Turkish border. 8th Army Corps has in its composition: 10th separate infantry brigade, 1st, 12th (Ağrı), 34th, 42nd Mechanized Brigades, 9th Separate Armored Brigade and 151st Artillery Regiment IRGC (Iranian Revolutionary Guard), located along the Turkish–Iranian border."

Order of Battle, 1941

In June 1941, the Third Army was organized as follows:

 * Eastern Area
 * IX Corps (Sarıkamış)
 * Erzurum Fortified Area Command
 * VIII Corps (Merzifon)
 * VII Corps (Diyarbakır)
 * XVIII Corps (Kars)
 * Kars Fortified Area Command

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Disinformation (company)

The Disinformation Company (abbreviated as Disinfo) was a privately held, limited American publishing company until 2012 when it was sold to Red Wheel/Weiser/Conari. It also owned Disinformation Books, which focused on current affairs titles and books exposing alleged conspiracy theories, occultism, politics, news oddities, and purported disinformation. It is headquartered in New York City, New York. Arguably, its most visible publications to date are 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know and the Everything You Know About [subject] Is Wrong series, both by the company's editor-at-large Russ Kick.

History
In 1996, Tele-Communications Inc. (now Comcast) funded a Hollywood-based Internet initiative responsible for online projects like the Getty Museum and an Internet-based political humor soap opera entitled Candidate 96. The initiative launched its own interactive website, featuring the tag line; "everything you know is wrong". Soon after the site's launch, TCI cancelled funding and support for the site.

The founding team kept it going, being nominated for an award for politics in the first Webby Awards ceremony. The Disinformation Company, as it was now known, was then acquired by Razorfish. Eventually, the Disinformation Company became privately held.

In addition to publishing books, the company also had a home video division as well as multimedia and Internet projects.

In 2000, Disinfo organized DisinfoCon, a 12-hour event featuring Richard Metzger, rock musician Marilyn Manson, underground filmmaker Kenneth Anger, painter Joe Coleman, Douglas Rushkoff, Mark Pesce, Grant Morrison, Robert Anton Wilson, Todd Brendan Fahey and others.

In 2002, the company produced a four-episode documentary series called Disinformation (also alternatively titled as Disinfo Nation).

In 2008, the Disinformation Company itself was accused of spreading propaganda (such as 9/11 "Truth" material) by Louis Proyect.

As of June 17, 2020, the Disinfo.com website was inactive. While the Disinformation Company Ltd. was still listed as the owner, all content was deleted and the domain was for sale.

Documentary films

 * Disinformation: The Complete Series (2004)
 * Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (2004)
 * Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War (2004)
 * Bush Family Fortunes: The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (2004)
 * Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005)
 * This Divided State (2005)
 * Gay Republicans (2005)
 * American Jobs (2005)
 * Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (2006)
 * The Big Buy: Tom DeLay's Stolen Congress (2006)
 * 9/11: Press for Truth (2006)
 * American Blackout (2006)
 * Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement (2007)
 * Let's All Hate Toronto: A Comic Adventure into Canada's Love/Hate Relationship with Itself (2007)
 * War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2008)
 * The Mindscape of Alan Moore (2008)
 * Slacker Uprising (2008)
 * New World Order (2009)
 * RiP!: A Remix Manifesto (2009)
 * Cargo 200 (2009)
 * Rethink Afghanistan (2009)

Books

 * Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius by Gary Lachman (2003)
 * The Passover Plot: Special 40th Anniversary Edition by Hugh J. Schonfield (2005)

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User talk:Llawnrodded

I just started using Wikipedia in 2005. I am mostly starting this talk page for feedback on the small number of articles I have made contributions to:

Gabriel Prosser

Eastern Farm Workers Association

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Mansa Qu

Qu (also transliterated Gao) was Mansa of the Mali Empire between 1300 and 1305.

Qu was one of two sons of Kolonkan, a sister of the legendary founder Sundiata Keita. Qu assumed the throne following the murder of the usurper Sakura on his return from the hajj. He ruled until 1305, when he was succeeded by his son Mohammad ibn Qu.

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Legends Field

Legends Field is a baseball park in Kansas City, Kansas, located in the Kansas City neighborhood of Piper. It is the home of the Kansas City Monarchs of the American Association of Professional Baseball. It was formerly home of the Kansas City Wizards (now Sporting Kansas City) in the MLS and briefly home to the Kansas City Current of the NWSL in their inaugural year. It is located in the Village West area at 1800 Village West Parkway. Many local area High School teams, including Bonner Springs High School, in their annual Butch Foster Memorial Baseball Classic play at the ballpark. It has been used for concerts and some community events.

Description
The ballpark was originally named after CommunityAmerica Credit Union, a Kansas City area financial institution, which held naming rights to the park from 2002 to 2017. The reported dimensions of CommunityAmerica are 300 ft down the left field line (with an 18 ft wall, affectionately known as "the Little Green Monster"), 411 ft to left center, 396 ft to dead center, 409 ft to right center, and 328 ft down the right field line. Walls are about five feet high, with the exception of the Little Green Monster and the bullpen area in left center. The walls are about 10 ft high at the bullpens, which are in center field and add a few extra angles and contours to the outfield. The playing and seating areas are completely surrounded by a 25 ft wide concourse. With the addition of bleacher seats in 2008, the park has 6,537 fixed seats, though its capacity (including the concourse, picnic area, right field grass berm, and center field party area) is usually considered over 7,500.

History
Ground was broken on September 4, 2002, and was completed in just over nine months by Titan Construction, opening June 6, 2003. Baseball had a record paid attendance of 10,345 on June 23, 2007. Major League Soccer attendance, with the updated seating configuration, regularly exceeded 8,000, and its record paid attendance was 10,385 on March 29, 2008. The 2006 Northern League All-Star game was held at CommunityAmerica Ballpark on July 18, with related festivities the day before. Sporting Kansas City played its home games at the stadium while the team's new stadium was being constructed. Because of the soccer presence, the Baseball configuration had taken an unusual step. In most natural grass fields the base lines where baserunners run between bases is dirt. However, CommunityAmerica Ballpark had dirt sliding pits just around the three bases, homeplate, and the pitchers mound, much like most typical artificial turf baseball fields. This was so that grounds crews would not need to install excessive amounts of grass for each Wizards home game. On March 29, 2008, the Wizards played their first game at the ballpark and defeated D.C. United 2–0 in front of a sell-out crowd.

Before the start of the 2008 season, the left field berm area was replaced with permanent bleacher seats. Additional metal bleachers were added on the concourse running from behind the former left field berm to the bullpens in center field. This added 2,172 to the ballpark's fixed seating capacity, raising it from its originally 4,365 fixed seats.

On June 3, 2007 the ballpark was the site of a world record-setting performance of the Deep Purple hit "Smoke on the Water" by 1683 guitarists, in a publicity stunt for KYYS radio (now KZPT).

On November 20, 2017, the T-Bones announced that the naming rights agreement between the team and CommunityAmerica would not be renewed, with the facility being named T-Bones Stadium on an interim basis. In July 2019, the T-Bones reached a naming-rights deal with Kansas City-based Pro Athlete, Inc. to use their JustBats brand in renaming the playing surface JustBats Field at T-Bones Stadium.

The Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas evicted the T-Bones from the stadium on October 14, 2019 for failure to keep up rent and utility payments. Days later, the Unified Government approved a stadium lease with an organization trying to purchase the T-Bones. The purchase was completed. The new five-year lease has three five-year options.

The Kansas City Star reported in December 2020 that the Kansas City NWSL team would play home matches in the stadium.

In January 2021, the stadium was renamed "Field of Legends" to reflect the T-Bones rebranding as the Monarchs. It is now called "Legends Field".

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Aube (musician)

Akifumi Nakajima (中嶋昭文) (January 13, 1959 – September 25, 2013), better known by his stage name Aube, was a Japanese noise musician. He released many CDs, LPs and cassettes, and was regarded as one of the most important noise musicians of his time. He did not like to term his work "music," preferring the term "design": "I don't think of myself as a musician or an artist. I'm a designer. I therefore consider my sound works to be designs as well".

Biography
Akifumi Nakajima was born in January 1959 in Kyoto. He worked as an Industrial designer and became thoroughly interested in sound work in the 1980s. In 1993, he was asked to create music for an art installation. After that, he created an enormous body of work.

Music
The essential element of Nakajima recordings is that each record was composed with only a single material source, which was manipulated and processed using various types of electronic equipment. Examples of sources he manipulated include air, water, fluorescent lamps, voltage-controlled oscillators, voices, pulmonary sounds, the Holy Bible's pages, and steel wire. In November 1996, he performed at the Takamatsu City Museum Of Art using only telephones as source material. His 1993 album Luminous was written for an art installation by Takashi Sasaoka and Sasaoka Takashi, which used flickering fluorescent lights; the sound source for the album is fluorescent & glow lamps. He also used the sounds of the human body--the lungs, heart and blood vessels, saying "The sounds in the body, like brainwaves, the lungs, heartbeat, blood vessels, these are usually not heard very well. But I have a mysterious image of the body, and what kinds of sound are within. My albums using these body sound sources are my way of expressing my image of the body".

Many of his earliest recordings use water as a source, in either a still form or a gush, as from a faucet or a stream. Among the most well-known are Hydrophobia (1991, Vanilla, Japan), Métal De Métal (1996, Manifold, USA), Cardiac Strain (1997, Alien8 Recordings, Canada), and Set On (2001, Manifold, USA). His early work was noisier; his later work leaned toward ambient. Some of his albums are thirty minutes long; some consist of one 60-minute piece.

Nakajima had his own record label, G.R.O.S.S. Records, through which he released his music, and that of several other musicians. G.R.O.S.S. then partnered with many different labels to release Aube's music in Asia, North America and Europe.

He often provided work to order--a label would ask for an album based on a specific sound and he'd create it. One example of this is from 1998, when the American label Elsie and Jack Recordings asked him to create Pages From The Book'', and the requested source was the sound of the pages of the Bible being rubbed together (the first copies of the release included fragments of the pages used in the recording). "If it is an interesting sound source, I will accept it," said Nakajima. "I'm always interested in both the sound itself and the image from the source. I was worried about the use of the Bible, and I'm not anti-Christian. The label told me there would be no problems, so I did it. My sounds are a peaceful and delicate representation of it."

Nakajima released his music on cassette, with exquisitely designed, often hand-made J-cards. Many of the cassette designs were elaborate, e.g. each case of his 1994 album E-Power contained a fragment of an x-ray. His 1995 album Squash was packaged in a squashed can held together by nuts and bolts; 1997's Aqua Syndrome was packaged with a bag of blue water. All tapes were numbered with unique stickers and were produced in very limited numbers, with the quantities often being as significant as the meaning of the music. The G.R.O.S.S. Envelope series, packaged in a sealed black envelope, was limited to 120 numbered copies. In the case of the G.R.O.S.S. series, the first 50 copies of each were on metal tape, the remainder on chrome tape. Many of Aube's recordings have been recently re-released.

Death
Nakajima died on 25 September 2013, of a pneumothorax, at age 54.

Collaborations
Several compilation CDs are of note in Aube's history. Most notable, perhaps, is the Come Again compilation, released in 1991 on Vanilla Records, which contains one of the first tracks recorded under the Aube moniker. Later notable compilations include Come Again II (1993), The Japanese/American Noise Treaty (1995), and Ant-Hology (1998).

Nakajima also collaborated with many Japanoise artists. They are: Club Skull with Hiroshi Hasegawa of C.C.C.C. & Fumio Kosakai of Incapacitants, SIAN with Shohei Iwasaki of Monde Bruits, Kinkakuji with Maso Yamazaki (Masonna), Ginkakuji with Hiroshi Hasegawa, Gokurakuji' with Maso Yamazaki and Hiroshi Hasegawa, Loop Circuit with Dub Murashita of Dubwise, Hyper Ventilation with Dub Murashita, Meiji Jingu with Kohei Gomi of Pain Jerk, Ise Jingu with Masahiko Ohno of Solmania, Heian Jingu with Toshiji Mikawa of Incapacitants, and Atsuta Jingu with Kohei Gomi, Masahiko Ohno and & Toshiji Mikawa. In 2005 he cooperated with the Italian experimental artist Maurizio Bianchi for two projects titled "Junkyo" (Noctovision) and "Mectpyo Saisei" (Para Disc). In his memory, his friend Eric Lanzillotta shared a live recording of a collaboration between him and Akifumi on Soundcloud, which was recorded in 2004.

Discography
Albums
 * Hydrophobia (water) (1991), Vanilla Records, Japan
 * Spindrift (water) (1992), G.R.O.S.S. (Re-issued 2016 and 2020)
 * Flash-Point (glow lamps) (1993), G.R.O.S.S. (Re-issued 2017)
 * Flood-Gate (water) (1993), G.R.O.S.S. 500 copies, Vanilla Records, Japan (Re-issued 2019)
 * Submerged Tension Remix (water) (1993), G.R.O.S.S. (Re-issued 2017)
 * Luminous (fluorescent & glow lamps) (1993), G.R.O.S.S. (Re-issued 2017)
 * E-Power (voltage-controlled oscillator) (1994), G.R.O.S.S. (Re-issued 2017)
 * Purification to Numbness (voltage-controlled oscillator) (1994) G.R.O.S.S. 100 copies, Pure Records USA 900 copies.
 * Frequency for Collapse (sounds of Daiku Building, Okayama) (1994), G.R.O.S.S. (Re-issued 2017)
 * Emotional Oscillation (voltage-controlled oscillator) (1994), Old Europa Cafe, Italy
 * G-Radiation (glow lamps) (1994), G.R.O.S.S. 500 copies, Fever Pitch Records UK
 * Wired Trap (steel wire) (1995), G.R.O.S.S. 100 copies, Self Abuse Records USA 900 copies.
 * Entangle Spirant (steel wire) (1995), Drahtfunk-Products
 * Metalustration (voltage-controlled oscillator) (1995), G.R.O.S.S. 50 copies, Bloodlust! Records USA
 * Squash (tin can) (1995), G.R.O.S.S. 100 copies, Chocolate Monk UK
 * Pulse Resonator (voltage-controlled oscillator) (1995), G.R.O.S.S. 275 copies, Praxis Dr. Bearmann, Germany
 * Can-Zone (tin can) (1995), G.R.O.S.S. 50 copies, Soja-Sauce Bolognese, Switzerland
 * Magnetostriction (magnetic resonance spectroscopy) (1995), G.R.O.S.S. 777 copies, God Factory, Netherlands
 * Métal De Métal (metal pieces) (1996), G.R.O.S.S. 1000 copies, Manifold Records USA (Re-issued 2008)
 * Grind Carve (voltage-controlled oscillator) (1996), Slaughter Productions, Italy (Re-issued 2021)
 * Spiral Tricle Distillation (water) (1996), Rund Um Den Watzmann, Netherlands, 500 copies
 * Floating Memory (voltage-controlled oscillator) (1996), G.R.O.S.S. 100 copies, Napalmed Records, Czech Republic
 * Bugs In The Circuits (digital signals) (1996), G.R.O.S.S. 500 copies, Heel Stone Records, Germany
 * Maschinenwerk (original sound by Cock E.S.P.) (1996), G.R.O.S.S. 1000 copies, Charnel Music, USA
 * Infinitely Orbit (Roland SH-2 Synthesizer) (1996), G.R.O.S.S. 500 copies, Alchemy Records, Japan
 * Somnambulism (Roland SH-2 Synthesizer) (1996), G.R.O.S.S. 111 copies, Kadef, Germany
 * Feed the Fishes (water) (1996), G.R.O.S.S. 150 copies, Betley Welcomes Careful Drivers, UK
 * Moment in Fragrance (Roland SH-2 Synthesizer) (1996), G.R.O.S.S. 150 copies, Cling-Film Records, Belgium
 * Stared Gleam (glow lamp) (1997), G.R.O.S.S. 1000 copies, Iris Light Records, UK (Re-issued 2014)
 * Aqua Syndrome (water) (1997), G.R.O.S.S. 1000 copies, Manifold Records, USA (Re-issued 2008)
 * Cardiac Strain (human heartbeat) (1997), G.R.O.S.S. 666 copies, Alien8 Recordings, Canada (Re-issued 2008)
 * Dazzle Reflexion (fluorescent and glow lamps) (1997), G.R.O.S.S. 500 copies, Releasing Eskimo, Sweden
 * Split (telephones) (1997, split with Knurl), G.R.O.S.S. 500 copies, Alien8 Recordings, Canada
 * New Forms of Free Entertainment (sounds by Lasse Marhaug) (1997), G.R.O.S.S. 500 copies, Jazzassin Records, Norway
 * Video Field Recordings with Sshe Retina Stimulants (environmental sounds Milan) (1997), G.R.O.S.S. 300 copies, Duebel, Germany
 * Sigh in Depressive Blue (human lungs) (1997), G.R.O.S.S. 300 copies, Praxis Dr. Bearmann, Germany
 * Throb in Manic Red (human heartbeat) (1997), G.R.O.S.S. 200 copies, Praxis Dr. Bearmann, Germany
 * Vas In Euthymic Violet (human blood vessels) (1997), G.R.O.S.S. 500 copies, Praxis Dr. Bearmann, Germany
 * Deglaze (glass) (1998), G.R.O.S.S. 470 copies, Old Europa Cafe, Italy (Re-issued 2002)
 * Cerebral Disturbance (brain waves/Electroencephalography) (1998), G.R.O.S.S. 625 copies, Anomalous Records, USA
 * Pages From The Book (Bible pages) (1998), G.R.O.S.S. 100 copies, Elsie and Jack Recordings, USA, 1000 copies
 * Embers (fire) (1998), G.R.O.S.S. 580 copies, Anti-Zen Records, Germany
 * 3 Cadavres Exquis (1998, split with M.S.B.R. and Koji Marutani), E(r)ostrate, France
 * Evocation (brain waves/Electroencephalography) (1998), G.R.O.S.S. 621 copies, Auf Abwegen, Germany
 * Splinter Clear Cut (glass) / Joyous Smash (1998, split with The Haters), G.R.O.S.S. 500 copies, Freak Animal Records, Finland
 * Mort Aux Vaches: Still Contemplation (metal pieces) (1998), G.R.O.S.S. 500 copies, Staalplaat, Netherlands
 * Shade-Away (glass) (1999), G.R.O.S.S. 500 copies, re-issued 340 copies 2004, Art-ic Culture, Sweden
 * Mutation with Zbigniew Karkowski (squeaking floor of Chion-in temple) (1999), G.R.O.S.S. 500 copies, ERS Records, Netherlands
 * R-S+C (1999, split with Telepherique), G.R.O.S.S. 300 copies, Duebel, Germany
 * 108 (bell) (1999), G.R.O.S.S. 801 copies, Old Europa Cafe, Italy
 * Ricochetentrance (water) (1999), G.R.O.S.S. 1000 copies, Lunar Records, UK
 * Suppression Disorder (voltage-controlled oscillator) (1996), G.R.O.S.S. 500 copies, Alchemy Records, Japan
 * Sensorial Inducement (Roland SH-2 Synthesizer) (2000), G.R.O.S.S. 509 copies, Alien8 Recordings, Canada
 * Sonority Area (glass) (2000, Orbital Confluence split with Nagisa ni te and Naoki Zushi), Neurec Records, Japan
 * Solid Pressure (metal pieces) (2000), G.R.O.S.S. 500 copies, Blackbean & Placenta Tape Club, USA
 * Set On (stone) (2000), G.R.O.S.S. 1000 copies, Manifold Records, USA
 * Triad Thread (metal pieces) (2000), G.R.O.S.S. 600 copies, Armonika, Italy
 * Millennium - Iunius (fire) (2000), Armonika, Italy, 500 copies
 * Millennium - Martius (water) (2000), Armonika, Italy, 500 copies
 * Millennium - Februarius (water) (2000), Armonika, Italy, 500 copies
 * Millennium - Aprilis (fire) (2000), Armonika, Italy, 500 copies
 * Millennium - Maius (fire) (2000), Armonika, Italy, 500 copies
 * Millennium - Ianuarius (water) (2000), Armonika, Italy, 500 copies
 * Blood-Brain Barrier (brain waves/Electroencephalography) (2000), G.R.O.S.S. 500 copies, Ytterbium, France
 * MDML98 (metal pieces) (2001), G.R.O.S.S. 150 copies
 * Timemind (Firstman SQ-01 Synthesizer) (2001), G.R.O.S.S. 500 copies, Alchemy Records, Japan
 * Millennium - Iulius (earth) (2001), Armonika, Italy, 500 copies
 * Millennium - Augustus (earth) (2001), Armonika, Italy, 500 copies
 * Millennium - September (earth) (2001), Armonika, Italy, 500 copies
 * Live In Montreal 2000 (2001), G.R.O.S.S. 100 copies
 * Benefit 2002 - 199501170546 (clock) (2002), G.R.O.S.S. 150 copies (Re-released 2018)
 * Millennium-R2 (water, fire, earth, air) (2002), G.R.O.S.S. 120 copies (Re-released 2002)
 * Bar 2.1-A 2000-2001 (Firstman SQ-01 Synthesizer) (2002), G.R.O.S.S. 100 copies
 * Millennium (water, fire, earth, air) (2002), Armonika, Italy, 120 copies
 * RM4 (rusty metal) (2002), 	Ultra-Mail Prod., Hong Kong, 1000 copies
 * Howling Obsession (small speaker) (2002), G.R.O.S.S. 150 copies, Manifold Records, USA
 * Data-X (5.25" floppy disk) (2002), G.R.O.S.S. 150 copies
 * Millennium – October (air) (2002), Armonika, Italy 500 copies
 * Timemind Live 2002 (Firstman SQ-01 synthesizer) (2002), G.R.O.S.S. 150 copies
 * Redintegration (Amdek PCK-100 percussion synthesizer) (2002), G.R.O.S.S. 202 copies
 * Millennium – November (air) (2002), Armonika, Italy 500 copies
 * Millennium – December (air) (2002), Armonika, Italy 500 copies
 * Ukiyo & Wired Trap Live 1994 + 1995 (sounds of Kyoto, steel wire) (2002), G.R.O.S.S. 150 copies
 * Live In Montreal 2001 (2002), G.R.O.S.S. 150 copies
 * SDL97 (Suppression Disorder live Rostock & Kyoto), (2002) G.R.O.S.S. 111 copies
 * SDL97 (Suppression Disorder live Berlin & Kyoto), (2002) G.R.O.S.S. 111 copies
 * SDL98 (Suppression Disorder live) (2002), G.R.O.S.S. 111 copies
 * Live In Michigan 2001 (2002), G.R.O.S.S. 150 copies
 * Spatio-Temporal Cluster (Roland SH-2 Synthesizer) (2002), G.R.O.S.S. 101
 * Live Feedbacks 2003 (2003), G.R.O.S.S. 101 copies (Re-released 2018)
 * Wired Trap Live 1994 + 1995 (2003), G.R.O.S.S. 150 copies
 * Live Red 2002 (2003), G.R.O.S.S. 101 copies
 * Duplex-Sphere (voltage-controlled oscillator) (2004), G.R.O.S.s., 445 copies, Ultra-Mail Prod., Hong Kong
 * Junkyo with Maurizio Bianchi (piano) (2005), Noctovision, Japan 1000 copies
 * Mectpyo Saisei with Maurizio Bianchi (piano) (2005), PARA Disc, Japan 500 copies
 * Chain [Re] Action (chain) (2005), Blossoming Noise, USA 1000 copies
 * Reworks Maurizio Bianchi Vol. 1 (piano) (2005), Silentes Minimal Editions, Italy
 * Reworks Stefano Gentile (original sounds) (2005), Silentes Minimal Editions, Italy
 * Metalive 1997 + 1997 (2005), Neurec, Japan 1000 copies
 * Paris 00 / Tokyo 99 (2006), G.R.O.S.S. 130 copies, Stroomstoot, Netherlands
 * Reworks Maurizio Bianchi Vol. 2 (piano) (2006), Silentes Minimal Editions, Italy
 * Comet (ice and space) (2006), Troniks, USA, Cipher Productions, Australia 500 copies
 * Signal To Noise Vol. 5 with Jason Kahn, Norbert Möslang & Günter Müller (2007), For 4 Ears Records, Switzerland
 * Ambera Planeta Wawar (2007), Autarkeia, Lithuania
 * Reworks Nimh Vol. 1 (2007), Silentes Minimal Editions, Italy
 * Imagery Resonance (Amdek PCK-100 percussion synthesizer) (2007), G.R.O.S.S. 1000 copies Aquarellist, Russia
 * Variable Ambit (feedback) (2011), Housepig, USA 300 copies
 * Fling (2016), Iris Light Records, UK
 * Live 1988 (2016), Iris Light Records, UK
 * Hydrophobia 1993 (water) (2021), Cheeses International, UK 300 copies

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Foothills Stadium

Foothills Stadium, formerly Burns Stadium, is a stadium in Calgary, Alberta. It is primarily used for baseball, and was formerly home to the Calgary Cannons AAA baseball club until September 2002, when the team relocated to Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. It was later the home field of the Calgary Vipers baseball team of the North American League. It originally opened in 1966. The most notable early team to play in the stadium was the Calgary Expos of the Pioneer League. The stadium has undergone several renovations, notably in 1985 prior to the arrival of the Calgary Cannons. Most recently the stadium was refurbished in 2004 including the installation of ViperVision Video Screen in right field. It holds 6,000 people.

History
The status of the stadium was a consistent story throughout the Cannons history. The ballpark's owner, the City of Calgary, risked scuttling the move of the Gulls to Calgary by choosing to reassess the feasibility of AAA baseball in Calgary in 1984. Council ultimately voted to support Parker, agreeing to a seven-year lease and $1.5 million to renovate Foothills, one of the PCL's conditions on approving the relocation. In the Cannons early years, Foothills was regarded as a park with good atmosphere. Mel Kowalchuck of the Edmonton Trappers described the park in 1988: "They provide a good atmosphere at the park. Seating's good, and so is the field.  The lighting, concessions, parking ... everything's good."

Renovations to Foothills again became a major issue in 1993, when the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues demanded that the Cannons upgrade Foothills to AAA standards. The Cannons and the city fought a protracted battle to see who would pay the majority of the $2 million renovation costs. The debate also included the Alberta government. Parker argued that if council did not choose to pay the majority of the renovation costs that he would sell or relocate the team. Groups representing Portland, Oregon, Fresno and Sacramento, California all expressed interest in the team. Unable to reach an agreement with the city, the Cannons then turned to the federal government in March 1994, making a pitch for a federal infrastructure grant to help pay for renovations. Renovations to Foothills Stadium finally began following the 1994 season.

As other teams built new ballparks throughout the 1990s, Foothills' lack of luxury boxes, small clubhouses and open concourse became a growing concern for Parker. By 1998, he was arguing the need for a new stadium, or a major renovation of Foothills at a cost of $20 million. Despite numerous efforts to convince city council to help renovate Foothills, Parker was unable to secure support for the project. When the Cannons were sold and relocated in 2002, Foothills Stadium was regarded as one of the major reasons why the team moved south to Albuquerque.

With the Calgary Vipers folding, the stadium is currently being used by the University of Calgary Dinos baseball team, as well the Calgary Junior Dinos, Calgary PBF Redbirds and Babe Ruth Calgary.

Future
The City of Calgary plans to demolish Foothills Stadium and build a multi-sport fieldhouse on the site. This project is, as of 2023, in the design and planning stages.

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Mansa Muhammad

Muhammad ibn Qu (محمد بن قو; fl. 14th century) was the eighth mansa of the Mali Empire. He succeeded his father, Mansa Qu, and was the predecessor of Mali's most famous ruler, Mansa Musa.

The exact dates of Muhammad ibn Qu's reign are not known with certainty, though his reign was certainly brief. His father's predecessor, Sakura, was killed at some point between 1298 and 1308 and his own successor Musa took the throne in 1307 or 1312. Musa said that his predecessor (whom he did not specifically name) disappeared leading an expedition into the Atlantic Ocean.

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