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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Mattfacts

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The result of the debate was merge with Matt Hardy. Hmm... I don't really know if the contributors to that article will be too pleased with adding this list of trivia, but if they dislike it they can start trimming and editing. Sjakkalle (Check!)  09:00, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

List of Mattfacts
Doesn't warrant separate article. Merge to Matt Hardy. — Fingers-of-Pyrex 13:52, July 13, 2005 (UTC)

 * Merge to Matt Hardy under 'MattFacts' as was previously the case. -Soltak 16:31, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge per Soltak. Dcarrano 17:38, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge or delete. This trivia doesnt warrant a separate article. JamesBurns 08:12, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Would make Matt Hardy's article to long. — M o e   ε  18:18, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Then I might suggest removing them completely. This information, while possibly valuable to a rabid Matt Hardy fan, has little real encyclopedic value. I alter my vote to Merge (as above) or Delete.

 * Proposal. How about merging a trimmed down version of the list to the Matt Hardy article. It doesn't seem necessary to have all of them added. Perhaps take the most interesting or information and leave the rest out. -Soltak 17:50, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 *  Comment. My vote is still to Keep but if your going to keep them, keep them all, not just some

 * Keep Great database that harbors all of Matt Hardy's important facts. -- pvegeta 15:06, 23 July 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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Requested move 11 May 2023

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover)  ❯❯❯  Raydann  (Talk)   05:33, 18 May 2023 (UTC)

SUNY Empire State University → Empire State University – I do not believe the current title is a commonly-used name for this university. There was a recent name change when the university transitioned from college status to university status, but I am pretty confident that, at the very least, Empire State University without the "SUNY" in front is more commonly used, along with appearing to be the form the university itself uses. Other possible titles include the former name of "Empire State College", "SUNY Empire", and "SUNY Empire State College". The lead in both google hits and google news hits appears to go to the title I've proposed the move to, however, in "Empire State University". Skarmory  (talk •   contribs)  01:11, 11 May 2023 (UTC)

 * • Oppose Weak Support (see reasoning in comments below) - if it’s in the SUNY system then I do not see any reason to switch it. 4theloveofallthings (talk) 12:17, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
 * See University at Buffalo and Binghamton University. If the common name does not include SUNY, the article's name shouldn't either.
 * I wouldn't be opposed to moving to "SUNY Empire", however, and that does keep SUNY in the article title – it's a form that appears to be used by the university itself in some cases (it's mentioned multiple on the university's page linked above). I just don't think "SUNY Empire State University" is the right title, even among SUNY names. Skarmory   (talk •   contribs)  18:52, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I would like to switch my Oppose to a Weak Support. You do prove a very good point with the other universities. Personally, I think they should all include “SUNY” — but as this is unlikely to change, for the sake of logic, I definitely am going to go ahead and take back my opposition of the suggested move. 4theloveofallthings (talk) 19:16, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

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 * Comment For clarification, here's the university's official brand guidelines on the name, which state to use "Empire State University" upon first mention and "SUNY Empire" from there on. (I should've checked this sooner, sorry.) Skarmory   (talk •   contribs)  19:10, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Support per WP:COMMONNAME and WP:OFFICIALNAME. Does appear to be the common name. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:22, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

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Ion Keith-Falconer

Ion Grant Neville Keith-Falconer (5 July 1856 – 11 May 1887) was a Scottish missionary and Arabic scholar, the third son of the 8th Earl of Kintore.

Keith-Falconer was born in Edinburgh. After attending Harrow School and studying at the University of Cambridge, he moved into evangelistic work in London. In 1886, he was appointed Arabic professor at Cambridge, but his career was cut short near Aden while in missionary work. He translated the Fables of Bidpaï. He was an athlete, a champion cyclist and is described as a world cycling champion in 1878.

Background
Keith-Falconer was the third son of the Earl of Kintore and shared his childhood between the ancestral home in Scotland and Brighton on the southern English coast. In 1869, when he was 13, he succeeded in obtaining a place, through examination, at Harrow School, then in countryside north-west of London. He took notes of his lessons in shorthand, which he had taught himself.

Keith-Falconer left Harrow in 1873, having acquired a tutor to teach him mathematics, studying with the Rev Lewis Hensley at his vicarage in Hitchin. As well as trigonometry and algebra and other subjects which seem not to have interested him particularly, he continued cycling and learned to sing. "This," said Hensley, was "for the promotion of the Temperance cause, to which he devoted himself by assisting in the entertainments and addresses of a Temperance Brigade of young men." Keith-Falconer went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, in September 1874. He lived at 21 Market Hill until he married. He finished his graduate studies with a First and began to read for honours in theological tripos.

Cycling
A teacher at Harrow School, E. E. Bowen, said:

 * His bicycling feats were one common subject of interest between us. Bicycles were just coming into fashion when he went to the University; he was an enthusiast in the use of them and an admirable performer; and when he appeared in riding costume at Harrow, with his tall figure mounted on the enormous machine that he rode, it was a sight to see. He kept up the amusement for many years: for two or more he was certainly the best bicyclist in England, and his delight in success only shewed in more than common relief the charming modesty with which he carried his honours.

The cycling historian Jim McGurn said:

 * Keith-Falconer came from an aristocratic family in the Scottish Highlands. Having ridden a low velocipede at Harrow School he took to the high bicycle as a student at Cambridge. He was 6ft 3in tall (1m 87), an exceptional height for the period, even for an aristocrat of well-nourished stock. He could master a very high machine, which gave him a competitive advantage. Keith-Falconer also had the money to buy the best bicycles and the leisure to tour extensively. Although he may have been the fastest cyclist in the world, his cycling interests were of secondary importance to him. So amateurish was his attitude that on at least two occasions he forgot about racing engagements and turned up at short notice to win in heroic style.

It was while at Cambridge – where he was elected vice-president of the university bicycle club on 6 June 1874 – that he won his first bicycle races. In a letter to his sister-in-law on 11 November 1874, he wrote:

 * Yesterday was the ten-mile bicycle race. Three started. I was one. I ran the distance in 34 minutes, being the fastest time, amateur or professional, on record. I was not at all exhausted... Today I am going to amuse the public by riding an 86-inch bicycle to Trumpington and back. There is a little scale of steps up it, up which I am helped, and then started off and left to myself. It is great fun riding this leviathan: it creates such an extraordinary sensation among the old dons who happen to be passing.

In 1875, he won a club race over the 42 mi from Hatfield to Cambridge, and on 10 May won a race against Oxford University from St Albans to Oxford, 50 mi. The following April he won a four-mile (6 km) race, described as "the amateur championship", at Lillie Bridge, setting a record time. On 15 May he won the Cambridge club's 50 mi race at Fenner's in 3h 20m 37s.

On 11 May 1878 he won the National Cyclists' Union two-mile (3 km) championship at Stamford Bridge. It was probably this race that gave him the status of world champion. Until the creation of the International Cycling Association, the NCU's championships were considered the unofficial championships of the world.

On 28 May 1881, Keith-Falconer went cycle-touring through Oxford, Pangbourne and Harrow, a warm-up to his Land's End – John o'Groats ride, that started on 4 June. Riding from one end of Britain to the other was, in the 19th century, a journey of poor or unmade roads, riding a high-wheeled bicycle with precarious balance and poor brakes. It demanded good weather. When it did not come, Keith-Falconer left Penzance after four days and returned to London and Cambridge.

In 1882, Keith-Falconer rode from Land's End to John o' Groats, the length of Britain, in 13 days. He rode 215 mi in his last two days. His last race of importance was the amateur championship on 29 July 1882, at Crystal Palace, outside London. He won, seven minutes better than the record, in 2h 43m 58s.

Keith-Falconer's views on cycling were not always those shared by cyclists of lesser opportunity. On 20 August 1881 he wrote to his friend Mr Charrington, with whom he worked in the East End of London (see below):

 * It is an excellent thing to encourage an innocent sport (such as bicycling) which keeps young fellows out of the public-houses, music halls and gambling hells and all the other traps that are ready to catch them. It is a great advantage to enter for a few races in public, and not merely to ride on the road for exercise, because in the former case one has to train oneself and this involves abstinence from beer and wine and tobacco, and early going to bed and early rising, and gets one's body into a really vigorous, healthy state. As to betting, nearly all Clubs forbid it, strictly... A bicycle race-course is as quiet as a public science lecture.

Early evangelism
The area outside Cambridge known as Barnwell was then a rough area inhabited largely by labourers working on the railways, of which four competing lines met in Cambridge. Others worked in the fossil beds. Robert Sinker, Keith-Falconer's biographer, said the labourers were "mostly poor and ignorant, including even yet a large number of persons following vicious courses; and while the Gospel teaching of a band of devoted men was gradually leavening the mass, yet while the workers were slowly gaining on the task which faced them, hundreds were dying."

Keith-Falconer threw himself with others in May 1875 into a missionary project for the area. They hired a theatre and held preaching meetings there for a month. "All this time," Sinker said, "Keith-Falconer was a steady and consistent helper of the mission, by his purse, by his personal cooperation, and we may feel sure by his prayers." At the end of the month, they judged their work a success and repeated the process for three and a half years at the Ragged School, in New Street. There, Sinker said:

 * The gathering of people, of whom there were several hundreds, displayed a remarkable contrast to an ordinary Christian congregation. They represented a whole stratum decidedly below that of the decent working man of the poorer sort. Many were ragged, most were dirty and unkempt, and before the service began, many behaved outrageously. Yet when the service began, I rejoice to say, the conduct was orderly enough; evidently many, while coming in the first instance merely from curiosity, bore in their way a friendly feeling enough for their neighbours. Yet it may be noted, as shewing the stratum from which the bulk was drawn, that on one of the speakers' remarking: 'A great many of you, I know, have been, and some I fear still are, thieves!' he was greeted, in tones which shewed that no offence had been taken, with ready cries of 'Yes, sir!'

Keith-Falconer lectured this audience on Zelophehad's daughters.

The theatre in Barnwell became available in autumn 1878 and the evangelists acquired it, although outbid at the auction. Keith-Falconer was also involved in acquisition of the Great Assembly Hall in Mile End Road, in the East End of London. Here, the Tower Hamlets Mission was established. The state of the area is summarised by this account:

 * At the close of one of the meetings, a little boy was found sobbing. With some difficulty he was induced to tell his tale. It was simple. His widowed mother, his sisters, and he, all lived in one room. Everything had been sold to buy bread, except two white mice, the boy's pets. Through all their poverty, they had kept these white mice; but at last they too must go! With the proceeds he bought street songs, which he retailed on the 'waste' and so obtained the means of getting more bread for his mother and his sisters. Now they were completely destitute. The boy was accompanied home. Home! It was a wretched attic, in one of the most dilapidated houses. It was a wretchedly cold and dismal day. In the broken-down grate the dead embers of yesterday's firing remained. On the table, in a piece of newspaper, were a few crumbs. 'My good woman,' said Mr Charrington [one of the mission's members], 'why don't you open the window?' 'Oh,' she replied, 'you would not say that if you had nothing to eat and had no fire to warm you.' The family was relieved.

Arab interests
Keith-Falconer taught himself Hebrew at Harrow and then moved on to other Semitic languages. At Cambridge he studied for a Semitic languages tripos, studying Hebrew, Arabic and Syriac. He required a deep knowledge of the Hebrew Bible. He passed.

Keith-Falconer continued his study of Arabic in Germany, as much to perfect speaking German as deepen his knowledge of Arabia. He stayed at Leipzig for five months of 1881. That year he met General Gordon, who on 25 April 1881 wrote to him from Southampton:

 * My dear Mr Keith-Falconer

 * I only wish I could put you into something that would give you the work you need, viz. secular and religious work, running side by side. This is the proper work for man and I think you could find it. Would you like to go to Stamboul (Istanbul) as extra unpaid attaché to Lord Dufferin; if so, why not try it, or else as private secretary to Saint Petersburg? If not, will you then come to me in Syria to the Hermitage? Believe me with kind regards, yours faithfully C. G. Gordon.

In October, Keith-Falconer left for Assiout, 350 km from Cairo, on the Nile. It was the most distant point of the Egyptian railway. His first impressions were poor. On 20 November he wrote:

 * The dust – I shall never forget it. I tried to read Dozy's Islamisme but in a short time the book and I got so filthy with the dust, that I became irritable and uncomfortable and could not read... There are a number of Greeks in Egypt and they dislike anything like manual labour, preferring to keep shops, and especially restaurants and hotels. Dr Hogg (his host] is a first-rate Arabist. He preaches in Arabic perfectly fluently. He teaches his students in Arabic, including the Sol-Fa class. (The Arabs have wretched ears, and Dr Hogg tells me that it was only by means of the Sol-Fa that he could get anything like music out of them.)

On 30 November he wrote:

 * I am disappointed with Egypt, both as to scenery and climate. It is a vile place for catching cold. Buildings seem constructed with a view to as many draughts as possible... The [sic] are no bells. This is the greatest drawback of all. You have to go outside your door and clap your hands, and when you have repeated this performance five or six times, the Arab may begin to have a suspicion that somebody wants him; and when you at last get him, it will be very wonderful if he does what you want.

He went back to Europe.

Land's End to John o' Groats
It was on returning to England that he made a second attempt on the long-distance record. He kept a diary which appeared in a newspaper in Aberdeen and in The London Bicycle Club Gazette. On his first day he rode into sweeping rain near Bodmin.

 * Heavy rain was now falling and necessitated an hour's halt. I had not got six miles out of Bodmin when a second and more violent storm of rain and mist gave me a bath all for nothing. So I pulled up again at a lonely village called Jamaica... Here I sat for five and a half weary hours at a little temperance inn, for there is no public-house in Jamaica. A copy of Butler's Dissertation on Virtue, which I found here, served, I hope, to reconcile me to the weather...

 * Third day. During the ride through Somerton (171) to Glastonbury (183), I became the victim first of stupidity, then of malice. A waggoner seeing me about to overtake him pulled very suddenly to the wrong side, and sent me sprawling over a heap of flints. No harm done. Shortly after that a wilful misdirection given to me by a playful Somersetian sent me 2½ miles in the wrong direction, so that I traversed 12 instead of seven miles between Somerton and Glastonbury. Wells Cathedral (188) was one of the few sights I lingered to see. It is gorgeous.

 * Fifth day: Sunshine and rain alternated rapidly until the afternoon... The last 10 miles were done in the dark, rendered more intense by the rain-clouds. To ride along a stone road on a dark, rainy night is a most severe trial of nerve and temper. One cannot see the stones to avoid them, and each time the wheel goes over one, the machine is jerked up or thrust to one side, and the rider gets a shake that makes his heart jump into his mouth.

 * Sixth day: On emerging from the hotel I found to my horror that a furious north-west wind was blowing. I struggled on as far as Doncaster (412), when I became sick of fighting against that strong man, and threw up the sponge. After a good dinner at the Reindeer, I went to bed for a couple of hours, expecting that the wind would lull in the evening – it did so, but of course the road got bad then. A wet, greasy oölite road rendered more delightful by the recent gyrations of a feathery traction-engine, is a treat not soon forgotten by the bicyclist.

 * Eleventh day: To-day was a failure. After passing Blair Atholl (756), the glen becomes rapidly higher and narrower. The wind came sweeping down as though through a funnel... Another walking tour. After three miles my foot began to complain. At Dulnacardoch I was in such pain that I was obliged to invade a farm-house and ask for rest and food.

 * Thirteenth and last day: I rose to find my foot horribly stiff and painful. But the day was fine, no wind, and only 110 miles more to run... After refreshing and nursing myself at the Station Hotel [Wick, at midnight], I started again, to the blank astonishment of landlord, boots and waiters. The utter solitude, stillness and dreariness of the remaining 19 miles made a most remarkable impression on me. No one tree, bush or hedge did I see the whole way. At twenty minutes past three I stood stiff, sore and hungry before John O'Groats Hotel. I had ridden 994 miles in 13 days less 45 minutes. I had no difficulty rousing the landlord, and was soon asleep.

Aden
Keith-Falconer chose Aden for his missionary work after reading an article by General Haig, whom he went to see in London. Haig had urged the Church Missionary Society to establish a mission there. There were reports that children attending the Roman Catholic mission returned to Islam on leaving.

Keith-Falconer visited Aden in November 1885 for a six-month trial. On 18 November he wrote to his mother:

 * I doubt whether anyone could leave here long without a weakening of all his faculties. I read Arabic for several hours a day, and a native fikih, or schoolmaster, comes daily to instruct me. Aden is not without its disadvantages as a mission station. The climate is very enervating and at the same time there is no hill-station anywhere near for the missionaries to go and recruit; but possibly after time such a hill-station will be opened. The relations between the English and the neighbouring tribes become more satisfactory as time goes on.

He and his wife first lived near Crater Pass, overlooking Crater City. He distributed scriptures in the town and read publicly from an Arabic Bible. He then moved to Sheikh Othman, which had wells, a better climate and access to the interior by camel trails.

In November 1886 Keith-Falconer and his wife returned to Aden definitively. He had the support of the Free Church to establish an orphanage and the help of a Glasgow physician, Stewart Corwen. They lived in a house with a walled garden. Alongside it was a hut in which Corwen saw his patients. On 22 February 1887 Keith-Falconer wrote about catching malaria, which he called Aden fever:

 * I never felt so utterly miserable in all my life... One of our Somali servants has had it as well, but coupled with a great deal of shivering... Quinine is quite useless in this fever, one must simply grin and bear it.

He had repeated occurrences of malaria, speaking of "the long spell of fever which both my wife and I have been through", then that "our illness has thrown us back in every way", later that "I have been suffering from remitting fever; for twelve weary weeks, on my back a useless invalid."

Finally, his biographer wrote:

 * It was almost exactly six months after the young missionary, full of keen hopes and joyous anticipations, had left England for the East, that the telegram told the unlooked-for news of his death and his burial amid the scene of his labours... That warm, loving heart, that keen, active brain, were, for this world, at rest.

Personal life and death
Keith-Falconer married Gwendolen Bevan, daughter of the banker Robert Cooper Lee Bevan, in Cannes on 4 March 1884. They had their honeymoon in southern France and in Italy, where they inspected the remains of Pompeii before moving to 5 Salisbury Villas, Station Road, Cambridge.

He died in Aden after repeated bouts of malaria for which there was no cure. He was 30. A memorial church to him there opened 10 years later. He is buried in Holkat Bay cemetery. The Scottish Mission school and hospital at Sheikh Othman continued until the independence of South Yemen in 1967.

The foreword by the Rev Robert Sinker, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge, to his biography, Memorials of the Hon Ion Keith-Falconer MA says:

 * A career of exceptional promise was early closed in the death of Ion Keith-Falconer. The beauty of his character, his ardent missionary zeal, his great learning, form a combination rarely equalled... How noble a life his was, how unselfish, how worthy to be loved, those who knew him know well; how hard it is to adequately set forth, on the one hand, its harmonious beauty, on the other, the rich variety of its aspects, I am very fully conscious.

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Amaranth (disambiguation)

Amaranth is a common name for the plants in the genus Amaranthus.

Amaranth, Amaranthe, or Amaranthus may also refer to:

Music

 * Amaranth (song), a 2007 song by Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish
 * Amaranth (album), a 2008 album by Davichi
 * Amaranthe, a Swedish power metal/melodic death metal band
 * Amaranthe (album), a 2011 album by the band Amaranthe
 * Amaranthus (album), a 2016 album by Momoiro Clover Z

Other media

 * Amaranth Games, now Aveyond Studios, developer of the Aveyond series of video games
 * Amaranth, a series of role-playing games for the PC-98
 * Amaranth, a class of immortals featured in the Jack Vance novel To Live Forever

Colors

 * Amaranth (color), a bright reddish rose color
 * Amaranth (dye), a dye used for coloring food (E123, FD&C Red No. 2), now banned by the US Food and Drug Administration

Organizations

 * Amaranth Advisors, a defunct American hedge fund firm
 * Order of the Amaranth, a Masonic-affiliated organization

Places

 * Amaranth, Manitoba, a town in Canada
 * Amaranth, Ontario, a township in Ontario, Canada
 * Amaranth, Pennsylvania, a place in Pennsylvania, US
 * Amarante, Portugal, a town in Northern Portugal

Plants

 * Amaranth grain, the edible grains of the amaranth genus
 * Gomphrena or globe amaranth, a genus of plants in the family Amaranthaceae
 * Peltogyne, a genus of tropical trees that produce lumber called "amaranth wood"

Ships

 * Amaranth (barquentine), 1901 4-masted ship in the China trade
 * HMS Amaranthe, a list of ships that share the name
 * USLHT Amaranth, schooner-rigged, twin-screw, wooden-hulled lighthouse tender that served in both World Wars
 * USS Amaranthus (1864), screw steamer used by US Navy as a tugboat in the blockade of Confederate waterways

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Cover of Deep Purple's "Abandon" album

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Fraser Valley Mariners

Fraser Valley Mariners is a Canadian soccer team based in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. Founded in 2003, the team plays in the USL Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Northwest Division of the Western Conference.

The team plays its home games at Bateman Park, where they have played since 2004. The team's colors are black, white, and red.

Until 2007 the team was known as the Abbotsford Rangers, but changed their name prior to the 2008 season to reflect the name of their parent organization.

History
The Abbotsford area has long had a history of competitive developmental teams, including Abbotsford 86ers Select in 2000, Abbotsford 86ers in 1999 and Abbotsford Athletes in Action in 1998; Abbotsford Rangers joined the PDL as a 'provisional team' in 2003, playing at Rotary Stadium, but struggled on the field, losing their first eight games, and not picking up a win until mid-June when they topped Cascade Surge 3-2 off goals by Jason Jorgensen, Brad Peetoom and Spencer Schmidt. The victory sparked an unexpected 4-game winning streak which included a season's best 3-1 victory over Calgary Storm Select, but the resurgence was too little too late for the team, and the season ended with them in fourth place, and Jason Jorgensen as the top scorer.

2004 saw the Rangers move into a new home at Bateman Park, and hire a new player-manager in the shape of former Hamilton Academical and Canada defender Colin Miller, who had been in the Canadian squad for the 1986 FIFA World Cup. Despite Miller's presence, Abbotsford's results did not improve greatly; they did not pick up their first win until the fourth game (2-1 over Yakima Reds), and only managed three more victories all season. Things hit an all-time low on the final day of the season with their 5-0 demolition at the hands of Cascade Surge, and they again finished way off the pace, 19 points behind champions Cascade.

2005 saw Abbotsford slip even further behind their competition, finishing their season a full 29 points behind defending champions Cascade Surge in the Northwest division, with just 3 wins and 21 goals all year. Abbotsford suffered greatly on the road, losing 5-1 and 4-1 to Cascade, and didn't pick up a single point until their 2-1 victory away to Yakima Reds in mid-June. All of Abbotsford's wins were against Yakima, triumphing two more times, including a 1-0 final day victory on a goal by the consistent Jason Jorgensen. Nevertheless, Abbotsford's poor form was worrying for all involved.

Then, quite inexplicably, everything changed in 2006. Miller's men were hot from the get-go, with an opening day tie with newcomers Tacoma F.C., and then back-to-back victories over Yakima Reds and the other Northwest newcomers, Ogden Outlaws. June saw the team embark on an unprecedented 6-game unbeaten streak, the highlight of which was a 4-0 road thumping of Cascade Surge. As the season wound down, Abbotsford was one of three teams vying for the playoffs, knowing that two victories in their final two games would take them into uncharted territory. A 4-0 triumph over Cascade - which included a hat trick from Sean Crocker - was followed by a comprehensive 3-0 win over Tacoma, and the Rangers had their first Northwest title and were off to the playoffs. However, their postseason was a short one, as they lost 3-2 to Orange County Blue Star first time out, despite being 2-0 up at halftime.

Colin Miller left Abbotsford in the 2006 close season to become Billy Davies' assistant at Derby County in the Premier League, and he was replaced by former Canadian international Shaun Lowther for the 2007 campaign. Initially, the managerial change seemed to affect Abbotsford's excellent form, the team picking up just one win and four ties in their first ten game. However, following their come-from-behind 3-2 win against Yakima Reds at the end of June, something clicked into place for Abbotsford: from that point on they began to utterly demolish their opponents, thrashing Cascade Surge 4-0, topping Yakima Reds 3-0, beating Tacoma Tide 4-1, and finishing the year with an absolutely astonishing 11-0 win over Spokane Spiders which included a double hat-trick SIX goals from striker James Severn. However, this late rally was not enough for them to make the playoffs, and they eventually finished a close third in the table behind BYU Cougars and Tacoma Tide.

Abbotsford began the 2008 season as the first-ever opponents of the new Vancouver Whitecaps Residency franchise; they lost the opening matchup 3-1, but won their next fixture against BYU Cougars, setting in motion the story of most of the rest of the season. 2008 was the year of 'boom or bust' for Abbotsford, where almost every game was either a resounding victory or a humiliating defeat: they beat Cascade Surge 5-0 in a game that featured a hat trick from Adrian Kekec, beat Spokane Spiders 4-0 at home, and put another four past Cascade at the beginning of July. At the other end of the scale, they were hammered 4-1 by Vancouver Whitecaps Residency in the second of their three matchups, were on the receiving end of a 5-1 thrashing from eventual divisional champs Tacoma Tide, and lost 4-1 to Yakima Reds in the middle of the five-game winless streak that concluded their season. While Abbotsford's games were never anything less than entertaining, their erratic form proved costly, as they finished the season in 6th place. Spencer Schmidt was the top scorer for the season, with 7 goals, while Justin Cordick scored five goals and contributed 4 assists.

2009 was a return to the disappointing form of previous years for the Mariners, despite starting the season optimism following the hiring of local soccer personality Alan Errington as head coach. After a loss and a draw, they opened 2 game series at home against the new Victoria Highlanders franchise, and drew their home opener 2-2. Following their 2-1 return win over Victoria and 4-0 thrashing of the Spokane Spiders (in which Cameron Wilson scored twice) in late May, were in contention at the early stage of the season. However, June was a disaster for Abbotsford, as the team suffered several tough losses, being outplayed 3-1 by the Kitsap Pumas, and being slaughtered 6-1 on the road at the Yakima Reds. The Mariners ultimately won just four games all season, their final two victories coming via an unexpectedly comprehensive 6-0 revenge victory over Yakima that featured a pair of braces from Gibson Bardsley and substitute Brendan Podolsky, and an astonishing topsy-turvy 5-3 win over Tacoma Tide which saw the team weather a strong fightback after being 4-1 ahead at one stage. The 5-0 final day loss to Portland Timbers U23's summed up the season, and left them in 8th place in the Northwest, 15 points behind divisional champs Kitsap. Cameron Wilson was the Mariners' top scorer, with 8 goals, while Spencer Schmidt contributed 4 assists.

Current roster
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Notable former players
This list of notable former players comprises players who went on to play professional soccer after playing for the team in the Premier Development League, or those who previously played professionally before joining the team.

 * 🇨🇦 Tyler Baldock
 * 🇨🇦 Adam Lang
 * 🇨🇦 Diaz Kambere
 * 🇨🇦 Stefan Leslie
 * 🇨🇦 Nigel Marples
 * 🇨🇦 Colin Miller

Honors

 * USL PDL Northwest Division Champions: 2006

Head coaches

 * 🇨🇦 Colin Miller (2004–2006)
 * 🇨🇦 Shaun Lowther (2007–2008)
 * 🏴 Alan Errington (2009)

Stadia

 * Rotary Stadium; Abbotsford, British Columbia (2003)
 * Bateman Park; Abbotsford, British Columbia (2004–present)
 * Townsend Park Stadium; Chilliwack, British Columbia (2009) 5 games

Average attendance
Attendance stats are calculated by averaging each team's self-reported home attendances from the historical match archive at https://web.archive.org/web/20100105175057/http://www.uslsoccer.com/history/index_E.html.

 * 2005: 218
 * 2006: 196
 * 2007: 180
 * 2008: 160
 * 2009: 133
 * 2010: 144
 * 2011: 116
 * 2012: 76

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Nature Reviews Genetics

Nature Reviews Genetics is a monthly review journal published by Nature Portfolio. It was established in 2000 and covers the full breadth of modern genetics. The editor-in-chief is Linda Koch. The journal publishes review and perspective articles written by experts in the field subject to peer review and copy editing to provide authoritative coverage of topics. Each issue also contains Research Highlight articles – short summaries written by the editors that describe recent research papers.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2021 impact factor of 59.943, ranking it 1st out of 175 journals in the category "Genetics & Heredity".

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Seabound

Seabound is an electronic music duo from Germany. Their lyrics are in English and for the most part explore the human psyche and the way that everyday events can affect a person psychologically, hence the band's slogan: "Seabound: Journey into Your Mind."

History
Seabound began in 1995 when Frank Spinath and Martin Vorbrodt were introduced by a mutual friend. They were so different musically that they weren't certain as to whether or not a musical collaboration between them would work. Despite the uncertainty they decided to try an informal jam-oriented home project. They soon realized that with a more focused approach, they might be able to produce something quite special. They made the band official and decided to call themselves Seabound. They decided on the name because of Spinath's love of the ocean and the fact that Vorbrodt was born near the shore. The name also implies a ship leaving from a safe harbor into the unknown and sometimes treacherous seas, a metaphor for the band itself. For live concerts they are supported by Daniel Wehmeier on drums.

The band recorded demos, which erroneously have come to now be known by fans as White Nights, a hastily proposed and shortly afterwards discarded working title for their Beyond Flatline album, and eventually caught the attention of dependent.

Their debut album No Sleep Demon was released by Dependent in 2001. Drawing influence from the beat-oriented sounds of Front 242 and Covenant, as well as new wave acts such as Visage and Depeche Mode, the album proved to be relatively successful in the European EBM and Darkwave scenes. Tracks such as Travelling and Hooked were well-suited for club play; that exposure made the band known for their warm vocals, icy synth parts, and entrancing, sinuous melodies.

2003 saw the release of the single "Contact", which peaked at number 6 on the German Alternative Charts (DAC) and ranked #100 on the DAC Top Singles for 2003.

They took their time recording the follow-up album Beyond Flatline. It was released in 2004 incorporating more of a trance influence into their sound. The duo embarked on a successful European tour with fellow Futurepop group Pride & Fall; this tour dawned the released a split EP entitled Beyond Flatline Tour 2004. The release featured a remix of the duo's single at that time "Watching Over You". Later that year the duo's debut album No Sleep Demon was re-released as No Sleep Demon V2.0 presenting new mixes of the songs "Hooked" and "Avalost".

In 2006 their third album, Double-Crosser, was released, reaching No. 1 on the DAC and German Electronic Web Charts (GEWC). The album also reached No. 3 Hellenic Alternative Charts (HAC) and No. 6 Nordic Alternative Charts (NAC).

In 2009, Seabound released When Black Beats Blue, an album containing rare and unreleased tracks. Seabound are the only band Die Form has remixed, and this album contains a version of Domination remixed by them.

After 2009, Seabound took a break since Vorbrodt married and moved to California. The band released their latest album Speak in Storms in February 2014 and scored an entry in the German Media Control Charts (MCC), the German equivalent to the Billboard charts. The album was released in three different editions, from which two edition are 2-disc versions and were limited. The Tempest Edition of Speak in Storms was released in Book form and sold out within 2 months after release.

Live performances
Seabound has played various tours, mainly in Europe and North America. A complete archive of their live shows is available on their website.

Albums

 * 1) ''Die Blaue (Unreleased) (1996)
 * 2) No Sleep Demon (2001)
 * 3) Beyond Flatline (2004)
 * 4) No Sleep Demon v2.0 (2004)
 * 5) Double-Crosser (2006)
 * 6) Come Forward: Live in Berlin (2008)
 * 7) When Black Beats Blue (Rarities) (2009)
 * 8) Speak in Storms (2014)

Singles and EPs

 * 1) Travelling (2001)
 * 2) Hooked Promo MCD (2001)
 * 3) Contact (2003)
 * 4) Dependent Club Invasion  (2003)
 * 5) Poisonous Friend EP  (2004)
 * 6) Beyond Flatline Tour 2004 (2004)

Full artist discography:

Side projects

 * Frank Spinath is the solo project Lionhearts, half of the futurepop band Edge of Dawn (as vocalist) and has lent his voice to such bands as Haujobb, Stromkern and The Azoic. He's also member of Ghost and Writer with Jean-Marc Lederman from The Weathermen
 * Martin has done remixes for the likes of Haujobb and Stromkern.

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Bulgarian Catholic Church

The term Bulgarian Catholic Church can refer to:

 * Catholic Church in Bulgaria, communities and institutions of the Catholic Church in Bulgaria (including the Latin Church)
 * Bulgarian Byzantine Catholic Church, a "sui juris" Eastern Catholic Church of the Byzantine Rite in Bulgaria
 * Bulgarian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Sofia, an Apostolic Exarchate for Eastern Catholics of the Byzantine Rite in Bulgaria

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jakkass

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The result of the debate was DELETE. Postdlf 07:01, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Jakkass
Another gamer vanity.... Delete -- Gunmetal 14:00, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, vanity, advertising and neologism wrapped up in one tasty package. Dcarrano 17:43, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete. Patent nonsense. --Blu Aardvark | (talk) 17:45, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Vanity and ad support regular VfD procedures, borderline nonsense. ~ WCFrancis 01:04, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete gamer vanity. JamesBurns 08:12, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
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Kim Yale

Kim Yale (November 22, 1953 – March 7, 1997) was an American writer and editor of comic books for several publishers including DC Comics, Eclipse Comics, First Comics, Marvel Comics, and WaRP Graphics.

Biography
Yale was born in Evanston, Illinois, to the Reverend Richard A. Yale, son of Charles Oliver Yale, and Theresa Yale. Her grandfather Charles was a construction business owner, building churches, post offices, and bridges, a Freemason of Philadelphia, and a member of the Episcopal Church of St. Luke. Her father was a Navy chaplain and Lieutenant Commander, which meant that for many years she and her family moved to various locations in the United States and elsewhere before resettling in Evanston during her teen years. She earned a B.A. in English from Knox College.

Yale's first published comics work appeared in 1987 in the New America limited series, a spin-off of Timothy Truman's Scout series published by Eclipse Comics. She married fellow comics creator, and frequent collaborator, John Ostrander the same year. Yale and Ostrander developed the character of Barbara Gordon into Oracle, and wrote her origin in the short story "Oracle: Year One" published in The Batman Chronicles #5 (Summer 1996). Her husband, John Ostrander, also worked on various comics such as Star Wars, Batman, Suicide Squad, Wonder Woman, Punisher, and X-Men.

The two co-wrote Manhunter, a series which DC launched in the wake of the Millennium crossover. Their collaboration on Suicide Squad included the "Janus Directive" storyline in issues #27–30 and the creation of the character Dybbuk in issue #45 (Sept. 1990). Yale served as an editor for DC from 1991–1993 and oversaw licensed titles such as Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, Star Trek, and Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Friends of Lulu
Yale was heavily involved with the Friends of Lulu, an organization promoting women in comics that operated from 1994 to 2011. Yale served as a member of the board and Vice President of the New York chapter. The Kimberly Yale Award for Best New Talent, an award given by the Friends of Lulu organization, was named in her honor.

Cancer
Yale wrote an ongoing column in the Comics Buyer's Guide, in which she detailed her battle against breast cancer. Following her diagnosis, the cancer spread to her abdomen and pelvis, a process she described in detail to the readers of the column. The cancer made it very difficult for her to write, and the origin story for Oracle included in The Batman Chronicles #5 (1996) was her last project. Yale died of breast cancer in 1997 at the age of 43.

DC Comics

 * The Batman Chronicles #5 (1996)
 * Comet #11 (1992)
 * Deadshot #1–4 (1988–1989)
 * Manhunter #1–24 (1988–1990)
 * Suicide Squad #23–24, 27–32, 34, 36–37, 39–43, 45–66 (1989–1992)

Eclipse Comics

 * New America #1–4 (1987–1988)
 * Real War Stories #2 (1991)

First Comics

 * The Gift: A First Publishing Holiday Special #1 (1990)
 * Grimjack #44–45, 48, 53, 58–59, 61, 64, 66, 70–81 ("Munden's Bar" backup stories) (1988–1991)
 * Munden's Bar Annual #2 (1991)

Marvel Comics

 * Double Edge: Omega #1 (1995)
 * Excalibur Annual #2 (1994)

WaRP Graphics

 * ElfQuest: Kahvi #1–6 (1995–1996)
 * ElfQuest: New Blood #9 (1993)

DC Comics

 * Advanced Dungeons & Dragons #26–36 (1991)
 * Avatar #2–3 (1991)
 * Dragonlance #26–28, 33–34 (1991)
 * Forgotten Realms #17–25 (1991)
 * The Outlaws #1–8 (1991)
 * Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt #6 (1992)
 * Sgt. Rock vol. 2 #14–21 (1991–1992)
 * Sgt. Rock Special #12–13 (1991)
 * Star Trek #32–39, 41, 45 (1992–1993)
 * Star Trek: The Next Generation #32–39, Annual #3 (1992)
 * Zatanna #1–4 (1993)

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Fayzulla Xoʻjayev

Fayzulla Ubaydullayevich Xoʻjayev (, ; Файзулла Убайдуллаевич Ходжаев) was a Bukharan politician that served as the first head of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic, which would later form part of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.

Early years
Xoʻjayev was born into a family of wealthy traders in the City of Bukhara, Emirate of Bukhara in 1896. He was sent to Moscow by his father in 1907. There he realized the tremendous gap between contemporary European society and technology, and the ancient, tradition-bound ways of his homeland. His father died in 1912.

He joined the Pan-Turkist Jadid movement of like-minded reformers in 1916, and, with his father's fortune, established the Young Bukharan Party. In March 1918, after the Bolsheviks had successfully established Soviet rule in Kokand, Xoʻjayev led an attempt to form a Young Bukharan government, with the Emir of Bukhara as a figurehead. For a few days, it appeared that they had succeeded, and had the Emir as a virtual prisoner, but in his account, written later, Xoʻjayev admitted that he and his fellow revolutionaries had been "gullible" and had underestimated the influence of the clergy and the strength of forces loyal to the old regime. In the resulting reaction, thousands of supporters of the Young Bukharans were killed. Xoʻjayev escaped to Tashkent and was sentenced to death in his absence. He was able to return only after the Emir of Bukhara fled in September 1920 after the Red Army had overthrown his administration on 2 September 1920, bombed the city of Bukhara and occupied it.

The government years
After joining the Russian Communist Party about July–August 1920, at the age of 24, Fayzulla Xoʻjayev was appointed Chairman of the Council of People's Nazirs (i.e. head of government) of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic in September 1920. During his term, he barely escaped assassination by Basmachi Revolt leader Enver Pasha. The Bukharan Republic was temporarily recognised as an independent state by the Soviet government in Moscow, who sent an ambassador and 'advisers' to support Xoʻjayev's government. One of the Russian diplomats, Alexander Barmine, recalled:

"The new government carried on its work in exactly the same way that governments of Bukhara had for hundreds of years. I would see a Nazir, or minister, squatting on a carpet and dictating decrees to a scribe, who would write them in old Persian characters on a board balanced on his knees. Fayzulla Xoʻjayev, called the 'Lenin of the Uzbeks' was small, wiry, and full of consuming energy, in spite of the malaria which often gave his face a greenish tinge, He enjoyed life, and could laugh gaily beneath a crushing load of work. He knew his people, was a great orator, and was much loved."

With the reorganization of Soviet Central Asia into the new Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic and after the purge of suspected Uzbek nationalists in 1923–1924, on 5 December 1924, Xoʻjayev became Chair of the Revolutionary Committee of the Uzbek SSR – at which time he was recognized as the head of government – and then on 17 February 1925, he became Chair of the Council of People's Commissars of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Then on 21 May 1925, he became one of the chairmen of the USSR Central Executive Committee once the Uzbek SSR was officially accepted into the USSR.

However, Xoʻjayev opposed Joseph Stalin's heavy-handed control, particularly in the matter of cotton monoculture. Although he retained his post as head of government, from 1929 his influence and access to Moscow was eclipsed by Akmal Ikramov, the First Secretary of the Uzbek communist party. Unlike Ikramov, Xoʻjayev was never elected to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The final years
In June 1937, Xoʻjayev, though still nominally head of the Uzbek government, was conspicuously absent when the Uzbek Communist Party held its Seventh Congress. He was not even elected a delegate. On 27 June, ten days after the congress ended, he was removed from office. He was arrested by 9 July 1937. In September, a member of the Politburo, Andrey Andreyev arrived in Tashkent to bring the Great Purge to Uzbekistan, and on 8 September and seven others were denounced as "enemies of the people".

Andrew D. W. Forbes writes that Xoʻjayev was also "accused of having buried his dead brother according to Islamic rites".

In March 1938, Xoʻjayev and Ikramov were both arraigned at the Trial of the Twenty-One in Moscow. Though accused of acting together, their hostility was apparent in the courtroom, with each accusing the other of lying. Xoʻjayev "confessed" that in the early 1920s he had been a member of a secret pan-Turkic society, Milli Ittikhad (National Unification) that wanted to preserve the Bukharan Republic as an independent buffer state, between Russia and the British Empire, that he had opposed the breakdown of Turkestan into four separate Soviet republics, of which Uzbekistan was one, and opposed the decision made in Moscow as part of the First five-year plan  to create a cotton monoculture in Uzbekistan's Ferghana Valley, and to being linked to the Right Opposition. He was sentenced to death, and executed on 13 March 1938. He was buried at Kommunarka Cemetery in Moskva.

Legacy
Officially rehabilitated in 1966, he remains a controversial figure in modern Uzbekistan.

There are few monuments to him in modern Uzbekistan, and although his father's house in Bukhara is preserved as a monument (Fayzulla Xoʻjayev house museum), it is styled as "House of a Wealthy Local Merchant", with very little emphasis on Xoʻjayev himself.

Awards

 * Order of the Red Banner (1920 and 1922)
 * Order of Red Star of the Bukhara People's Soviet Republic
 * Order of Lenin

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Cycloleucine

Cycloleucine is a non-proteinogenic amino acid. It could be classified as a cyclopentane derivative of norleucine, having two hydrogen atoms less. The α-carbon atom is not a stereocenter. Cycloleucine is a non-metabolisable amino acid that specifically and reversibly inhibits nucleic acid methylation. It is widely used in biochemical experiments.

In 2007, a research study had shown that cycloleucine can lower S-adenosyl methionine (SAM) levels in primary rat hepatocytes by inhibiting the conversion of 5′-methylthioadenosine to SAM through the methionine salvage pathway. Cycloleucine treatment in conjunction with higher levels of cytochrome P450 2E1 (CYP2E1) and lower SAM levels in pyrazole hepatocytes had shown an increased amount of cell apoptosis when compared to control hepatocytes.

In a 2015 study on the role of N6-methyladenosine (m6A) demethylation on adipogenesis, researchers treated porcine adipocytes with increasing concentrations of cycloleucine. The researchers measured mRNA concentration of m6A using the dot blot method, and the results showed that cycloleucine increased adipocyte growth by blocking methylation by inhibiting m6A levels relative to the control adipocytes.

A 2022 study showed that cycloleucine inhibits porcine oocyte and embryo development. Researchers cultured porcine oocytes and isolated cumulus cells from their cumulus cell complexes, after which the cells were cultured in vitro with cycloleucine in increasing concentrations. The samples were monitored under fluorescence microscopy, with the results showing positive relationship between cycloleucine concentration and decreased viability and survival rate for oocytes.

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User:ErkDemon

I've been working and volunteering at Brighton Toy and Model Museum, and was Project Officer on the Frank Hornby 150 project.

Currently, most of my time is being spent producing content for the museum's (closed-editing-access) MediaWiki installation, The Brighton Toy and Model Index ( ISSN 2399-1798, http://www.brightontoymuseum.co.uk/index/ ), so ... long hours spent scanning and cleaning up old 1920s/1930s material, embedding metadata and cross-linking.

GLAM
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There's another rule, WP:CURATOR, that allows GLAM people to add links to their organisation's resources on topic pages, sparingly, when the resources are sufficiently significant and relevant to justify it. I have/will be adding the very occasional link under this rule ... for instance, once the Museum's Märklin-related online content reaches reach around 1200 images, I'll probably add a link to the material to Wikipedia's Märklin page (assuming that nobody beats me to it!).

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Amerijet International

Amerijet International Airlines, Inc. is an American cargo airline headquartered in Miami, United States. The airline delivers air freight with its fleet of Boeing 757s and Boeing 767s from its main hub at the Miami International Airport to 48 destinations throughout the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America. Their network spans 476 destinations throughout the world, including Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa, and the Middle East.

History

The airline was established and started operations in 1974. It was founded by David Bassett (Chairman and Chief Executive) and a partner with a leased Cessna 401, operating passenger and cargo services between the US and the Bahamas. In 1976, Amerijet became a freight only carrier. In late 1978, courier contracts were taken from Purolator, FedEx, UPS, DHL and Airborne Express in the early 1980s. In 1982, Bassett bought out his partner and created Amerijet International.

The main services that Amerijet offers are general cargo shipping, pharmaceutical shipping, perishable shipping, oversized load shipping, live animal transport, and charter services. Among their airfreight operation, Amerijet also provides trucking services, including expedited delivery. Throughout the Caribbean, Central and South America, Amerijet offers last mile delivery for commercial customers.

Amerijet has been a target internationally of animal rights activists for their transportation of animals for experimentation purposes in later years, particularly in conjunction with the Miami-based company Primate Products. Amerijet has been coming under increasing pressure in South Florida, with monthly demonstrations in front of its Fort Lauderdale office, and some of Amerijet's upper management have even been protested at their homes. To date, two activists have been arrested in front of Amerijet's office. On Valentine's Day 2011, Amerijet ended their involvement in the primate trade with these words, "Amerijet has ceased transporting primates for any and all purposes."

Amerijet operated under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from August 22 until December 31, 2001, from which it emerged after financial restructuring. Amerijet International was majority-owned by H.I.G. from 2001 to 2016. On July 26, 2016, H.I.G. Capital completed the sale of Amerijet, the Miami-based all-cargo carrier to private equity firm ZS Fund L.P. Amerijet's new CEO, Vicken L. Karjian joined the company in July 2016. Amerijet and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters reached an agreement on September 14, 2009 on a new four-year labor contract covering flight crew employees.

In July 2022, Maersk announced that they had reached a CMI agreement with Amerijet to operate three of their new Boeing 767-300 Freighters. Maersk will take delivery of three 767-300Fs from Boeing and outsource their operation to Amerijet. The aircraft were originally ordered by Longhao Airlines, but were never delivered to them. Maersk has said the aircraft would be used for trans-pacific flights.

In January 2024, Amerijet said it is returning six Boeing 757-200PCF freighters to lessors, laying off nonpilot personnel and securing $55 million in capital from existing lenders as part of a restructuring aimed at stabilizing faltering finances and operations. The company will also defer agreements to add additional Boeing 767 cargo jets to improve cash flow.

Current fleet

The Amerijet International fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of May 2023):

Former fleet
The airline operated the following aircraft:

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Talk:Unison (trade union)

Campaigning Section
Notice the addition of the 'Campaigning' section discussing ID cards - not sure if this is the appropriate place for this - this is an article about UNISON as an organisation, not about decisions that it has made (which are likely to date very quickly). This was one of many, many decisions made at conferences each year - why should it be given such a priority? I would suggest removal of this section. Anyone any thoughts on this? --Seajay 14:04, 13 July 2005 (UTC) Unison agreed to accept the farce called Agenda for Change despite widespread ground floor opposition from most staff. The legality of the vote on this should have been challenged. As a result of their recommendations so many frontline clinical staff seriously lost out in terms of their pay, benefits, and career. Many hope Unison pays for its cock up mistakes. Unison will be remembered for sleeping with New Labour and the NHS management on this one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bengtisa (talk • contribs) 12:35, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

TOC
Whoops, didn't see the history there when I re-added the TOC. I actually don't care that much; feel free to revert! Melchoir 11:49, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Second largest
Header says it's 'second largest trade union in the United Kingdom'. Well, what is the largest? I read whole article and didn't find it. Normally it would be 'second ... after (INSERT NAME HERE)' 85.217.14.88 (talk) 10:58, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
 * As the source for that statement confirms, the largest trade union in the UK is Unite the Union. Robofish (talk) 21:09, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

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Requested move 11 January 2019

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Moved as proposed. Consensus is clear. bd2412 T 00:21, 20 January 2019 (UTC)

UNISON → Unison (trade union) – WP:CAPS. Stylism not used by BBC "The leader of the trade union Unison, Dave Prentis, also called for the government to "compensate those who have lost out substantially", and other 3rd party WP:RS news sources. In ictu oculi (talk) 18:22, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Against: UNISON is the official name used by the union and its regulator, and I see no overwhelming use of Unison in google searches. If you put "Unison" into google all the first page results use "UNISON". A google news search of "unison site:uk" shows a mixture of Unison and UNISON with Unison more popular but not dominant. I don't think "UNISON" is obscure, and I don't think "Unison" is a sufficiently dominant common name to warrant renaming the article. Rwendland (talk) 10:02, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Support per MOS:TMRULES. This does not appear to be an acronym or initialism, so we prefer not to use the stylization. Dekimasu よ! 13:56, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Support this move 2601:541:4500:1760:7D06:B746:D072:7A92 (talk) 14:13, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Not an acronym. Merely a stylisation. -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:56, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
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Upcoming leadership election and forming new article

 * There's going to be a general secretary election in January. In terms of adding it to Wikipedia- either we can copy the Unite the Union page and have a section for general secretary elections, or we can create an article like List of internal elections for Unison (trade union) (for example) and add significant national internal elections to it. What to people think would be better? Sources for the election:, , , ,
 * Jonjonjohny (talk) 12:32, 14 September 2020 (UTC)

Removal of excessive information about 2020 General Secretary election
The impressively comprehensive 2020 General Secretary election information is exceptionally excessive compared to other sections in the article (only one other election is mentioned, with a brief one-line summary) and to other articles about major UK unions' internal elections (for example Unite and GMB). About half the article is devoted to this election - placing undo prominence on one internal election, without the content containing the significance to warrant this prominence.

Much as it disheartens me to delete accurate information, I have reduced it to a sensible size commensurate with similar Wikipedia articles. Many, many apologies to Jonjonjohny for all their excellent effort building this impressive content. Future expansion could focus on tracking down historical election results to build a broad general picture rather than a lopsided spotlight on one short period.

DarylKayes (talk) 12:06, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

 * I would challenge what you said about it being "exceptionally excessive". It was detailed information and far more detailed than the rest of the article, I give you that, but wouldn't look out of place if the whole article was in a better place. I am the primary writer of the content so I am bias to my work, however as it is accurate, well sourced and relevant I fail to see why it needs to be cropped down. I don't know if there is a precedent for it, but we could create a separate article just for elections, but that entails a lot of work. Alternatively, more work should be put into the Unison article to justify the presence of the depth of content. Jonjonjohny (talk) 00:02, 8 April 2021 (UTC)

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Mojtaba

Mojtaba or Mujtaba is an Iranian male given name. It originates from the Arabic language, meaning the chosen. The name has an Islamic background and is considerably popular among the Shiites and Sufis as it is one of the honorary epithets of Hasan ibn Ali, the 2nd Imam of Shia Islam.

People named Mojtaba

 * Mojtaba Abedini (born 1984), Iranian Olympic fencer
 * Mojtaba Haghdoust (born 1996), Iranian football player for Foolad F.C.
 * Mojtaba Heidarpanah (born 1990), Iranian cartoonist and illustrator
 * Mojtaba Jabbari (born 1983), retired Iranian football player for Esteghlal F.C.
 * Mojtaba Khamenei (born 1969), Iranian hard-line cleric and a son of Ali Khamenei
 * Mojtaba Minovi (1903–1977), Iranian historian, literary scholar and professor of Tehran University
 * Mojtaba Mirtahmasb (born 1971), Iranian filmmaker and producer
 * Mojtaba Mirzadeh (1946–2005), Iranian composer of Persian classical music
 * Mojtaba Moharrami (born 1965), former Iranian football player
 * Mojtaba Ramezani (born 1989), Iranian football midfielder
 * Mojtaba Saminejad (born 1980), Iranian blogger and political activist
 * Mojtaba Zonnour (born 1963), Iranian Shia cleric
 * Mujtaba al-Shirazi, Iranian Shia Cleric
 * Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini, Iranian Shia Cleric
 * Mujtaba Musavi Lari, Iranian Shia Cleric
 * Mojtaba Tehrani, Iranian Shia Cleric

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Smokey pokerson

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Smokey pokerson
Neologism claimed to be a pleasant greeting or statement of affirmation. No googles. Meelar (talk) 14:05, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, neologism, though I may start using it myself. Dcarrano 17:44, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Don't encourage them! ;) Meelar (talk) 20:39, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Smokey pokerson! Dcarrano 20:47, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete neolog. Are you sure the nonsense level doesn't qualify it for Speedy deletion? ~ WCFrancis 01:06, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete neologism. JamesBurns 08:13, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
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Thomas Sternhold

Thomas Sternhold (1500–1549) was an English courtier and the principal author of the first English metrical version of the Psalms, originally attached to the Prayer-Book as augmented by John Hopkins.

Life
Anthony Wood says that Sternhold entered Christ Church, Oxford, but did not take a degree. The first definite date in his life is 1538, when the name of Thomas Sternhold appears in Thomas Cromwell's accounts. He became one of the grooms of the robes to Henry VIII, and was a favourite, to whom a legacy of a hundred marks was bequeathed him by the king's will. He may have been the Thomas Sternell or Sternoll who was elected for Plymouth to the parliament that met on 30 January 1545, and was dissolved by Henry VIII's death in January 1547.

Sternhold was born in Blakeney, Gloucestershire, and died on 23 August 1549. His will, dated August 1549, was proved on 12 September following. Among the witnesses to his will was Edward Whitchurch, probably his publisher. His property consisted of land in Hampshire and at Bodmin in Cornwall. Part of the Hampshire property might have been inherited. Slackstead, however, had been purchased recently, as it had been granted, as part of the possessions of Hyde Abbey, to Sir Ralph Sadler in 1547. The Bodmin property also he had purchased from the crown in 1543, as part of the possessions of the dissolved priory of St. Petrock there.

Psalm translations
His earliest metrical versions of the Psalms may have been composed in Henry's reign; Miles Coverdale had published his "Goostly Psalmes", a translation of Luther's psalm versions, as early as 1535. In 1540 the earliest Psalms by Marot, valet de chambre to Francis I, were known at the French court, and soon afterwards passed into Protestant worship at Geneva. Sternhold, Marot, and Coverdale all wished to substitute the Psalms of David for the ballads of the court and people.

Sternhold (with the exception of Psalm cxx) used only one metre, and this the simplest of all ballad measures, the metre of Chevy Chace. This choice of metre became the predominant metre (common metre) not only of the old and new versions of England and Scotland, but of other metrical psalters and English hymns in general. Sternhold is said to have sung his psalms to his organ for his own solace. (Strype). The only edition which Sternhold lived to publish he dedicated to the young king Edward VI. In this dedication he expresses a hope of "travayling further", and "performing the residue" of the Psalter; but his total contribution to the old version consists of only forty psalms.

Sternhold is remembered as the originator of the first metrical version of the Psalms which obtained general currency alike in England and Scotland. The Versification of Certain Chapters of the Proverbs of Solomon has been attributed to him in error. Sternhold and Hopkins's version has had a larger circulation than any work in the language, except the authorised version of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. Sternhold's work forms its base. His first edition undated, but, as being dedicated to Edward VI, not earlier than 1547, contains nineteen psalms (i–v, xx, xxv, xxviii, xxix, xxxii, xxxiv, xli, xlix, lxxiii, lxxviii, ciii, cxx, cxxiii, cxxviii). It was printed by Edward Whitchurch, and is entitled Certayne Psalmes chosē out of the Psalter of Dauid and drawē into Englishē Metre by Thomas Sternhold, grome of ye Kynges Maiesties Roobes (Brit. Museum). The second edition, which was printed after his death (apparently by John Hopkins, who adds seven psalms of his own in order to fill in a blank space) added to those of the former edition eighteen new psalms (vi–xvii, xix, xxi, xliii, xliv, lxiii, lxviii). It is entitled Al such Psalmes of Dauid as Thomas Sternhold, late grome of the Kinges maiesties robes, did in his lyfetime drawe into English Metre, and was printed by Edward Whitchurche in 1549 (Cambridge University Library). Three more psalms (xviii, xxii, xxiii) are added to these in a rare edition of the growing Psalter printed by John Daye in 1561, and the complete number (40) appears in the full editions of 1562, 1563, and all subsequent ones. The only one of his psalms which remains current is the simple rendering of Psalm xxiii (My Shepherd is the Living Lord). The text of his psalms, as found in all editions after 1556, follows the Genevan revision of that year.

The Sternhold-Hopkins psalter continued in general use till Nahum Tate and Nicholas Brady's New Version of the Psalms of David of 1696 was substituted in 1717.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pork and egg

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The result of the debate was already SPEEDY DELETED. Postdlf 07:04, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Pork and egg
Delete.Not Notable and badly written. A curate's egg 14:06, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete another neologism. Meelar (talk) 14:08, July 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, joke article from 213.249.155.237 who has also given us Minguin, Spango and Goompar today. I boldly speedied them.  --RobertG ♬ talk 15:03, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
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Join Java

Join Java is a programming language based on the join-pattern that extends the standard Java programming language with the join semantics of the join-calculus. It was written at the University of South Australia within the Reconfigurable Computing Lab by Dr. Von Itzstein.

Language characteristics
The Join Java extension introduces three new language constructs:
 * Join methods
 * Asynchronous methods
 * Order class modifiers for determining the order that patterns are matched

Concurrency in most popular programming languages is implemented using constructs such as semaphores and monitors. Libraries are emerging (such as the Java concurrency library JSR-166) that provide higher-level concurrency semantics. communicating sequential processes (CSP), Calculus of Communicating Systems (CCS) and Pi have higher-level synchronization behaviours defined implicitly through the composition of events at the interfaces of concurrent processes. Join calculus, in contrast, has explicit synchronization based on a localized conjunction of events defined as reduction rules. Join semantics try to provide explicit expressions of synchronization without breaching the object-oriented idea of modularization, including dynamic creation and destruction of processes and channels.

The Join Java language can express virtually all published concurrency patterns without explicit recourse to low-level monitor calls. In general, Join Java programs are more concise than their Java equivalents. The overhead introduced in Join Java by the higher-level expressions derived from the Join calculus is manageable. The synchronization expressions associated with monitors (wait and notify) which are normally located in the body of methods can be replaced by Join Java expressions (the Join methods) which form part of the method signature.

Join methods
A Join method is defined by two or more Join fragments. A Join method will execute once all the fragments of the Join pattern have been called. If the return type is a standard Java type then the leading fragment will block the caller until the Join pattern is complete and the method has executed. If the return type is of type signal then the leading fragment will return immediately. All trailing fragments are asynchronous so will not block the caller.

Example:

Ordering modifiers
Join fragments can be repeated in multiple Join patterns so there can be a case when multiple Join patterns are completed when a fragment is called. Such a case could occur in the example below if B, C and D then A are called. The final A fragment completes three of the patterns so there are three possible methods that may be called. The ordered class modifier is used here to determine which Join method will be called. The default and when using the unordered class modifier is to pick one of the methods at random. With the ordered modifier the methods are prioritised according to the order they are declared.

Example:

Asynchronous methods
Asynchronous methods are defined by using the signal return type. This has the same characteristics as the void type except that the method will return immediately. When an asynchronous method is called a new thread is created to execute the body of the method.

Example:

Related languages
Polyphonic C sharp is the closest related language. Cω the successor of Polyphonic C sharp.

Hardware Join Java language further extended Join Java to implement Hardware semantics. This language extended the semantics of Join Java to FPGA applications.

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Gad Guard

is a 26-episode anime television series created by animation director and screenwriter Hiroshi Nishikiori, manga artist and mechanical designer Yoshitsune Izuna, and Gonzo. Produced by Media Factory, GDH, IMAGICA Imageworks, Hakuhodo, Amber Film Works, and Fuji Television, the series was broadcast across Japan by the anime satellite television network Animax, and the terrestrial Fuji TV network. It has been licensed for North American distribution by Geneon Entertainment, and also aired on Anime Unleashed on G4 in 2005. With FUNimation's "New Show A Go-Go", they have acquired the distribution rights of the anime, and it was available in early 2009.

Story
Several hundred years in the future, the natural resources of the Earth are exhausted, and the progression of the human race has stagnated. Hajiki Sanada, a delivery boy, lives with mother and sister in Unit Blue, in the impoverished part of the Unit known as 'Night Town'. While delivering a package, he unwittingly stumbles upon a 'Gad', a mysterious device that reacts to the strong feelings of a nearby person. The Gad transforms, taking on the form of a humanoid robot referred to as a 'Techode'. Hajiki soon discovers he isn't the only one who has had contact with a Gad, and that contact with one doesn't always end well. The series follows his struggles to cope with his new friends, his techode, and his life in Night Town.

Unit Blue
The central Unit in which Gad Guard takes place is Unit Blue, which is separated into three levels: Gold Town, Day Town and Night Town.

Gold Town is the upper-class area, where the wealthy and well-off live in comfort and luxury, and plays host to Global Electronics, the foremost provider of electricity in Unit Blue, a commodity not everyone can afford to have all the time. The characters Takumi Kisaragi and Aiko Mary Harmony live in Gold Town.

Day Town is a middle-class area, equipped with running water and electricity and is busy and metropolitan in most places. The character Arashi Shinozuka is originally from this area where her father owns a karate dojo. While not as perfect as Gold Town, Day Town is seen by people on the other side of the tracks as the place where they'd rather be.

Night Town is the ghetto of Unit Blue, and is called "Night Town" because all the electrical power shuts off at midnight and does not come back until dawn. In Night Town gangs and punks run the streets, and all the local kids go to school at a church, taught by a nun and a young teacher, in hopes of giving them what they need to escape their meagre living. Leaving something outside at night is guaranteed to have it stolen, and even walking around in broad daylight can be dangerous. Night Town is the dank and grimy setting for most of Gad Guard, where Hajiki and his family live along with Katana, the Jacque Bruno Gang and a host of other characters.

Gads
Known in the Gad Guard world only as "powerful stones", everyone who knows of them desires Gads and believes that they can fulfill people's dreams. Though the real importance of a Gad is unknown, they are used as very high sums of currency and are usually only owned by the rich or powerful. A Gad has many peculiar abilities and can take shape into a number of things depending on the personality and thoughts of the owner. These creations are separated into three groups: Techodes, A-Techodes and Gadrians. It is unknown what initially triggers a Gad's transformation, while strong feelings are involved, other times there is no reaction at all. Upon a Gad's transformation into something, all metal and most other material around it are violently absorbed and used as a base for the final product.

Techodes
A Techode is one of the three things that sprout from a Gad, and is also called a "Gadrian" occasionally by characters who aren't aware of the difference between the two. It usually takes the form of a large, humanoid robot roughly 20 ft tall fueled by the emotional bond between the robot and the owner. These robots are "born" after contact with the Gad's owner while they're having a strong or serious emotion in an area occupied by a lot of metal. Once it has transformed into a Techode, a Gad is considered 'lost' and 'useless'. Only a Techode's 'owner' is capable of controlling it, so it is nearly impossible to sell or trade Techodes. It is implied that those with pure or good intent end up with Techodes, while those with darker, more twisted feelings getting a hold of a Gad leads to the creation of A-Techodes or Gadrians.

The five main Techodes of the series; Lightning, Zero, Thunderbolt, Messerschmitt and Hayate are all named after World War II-era fighter planes.

A-Techodes
An A-Techode is a manifestation of one's darker feelings. Most Gads take the form of A-Techodes, Techodes being very rare. They generally take the shapes of chaotic-looking monsters and are formed in the same way Techodes are, by absorbing the materials around them. Unlike Techodes, A-Techodes are independent creations. An A-Techode's creation can also be the result of a Gad falling into the hands of someone without any kind of strong, impacting emotions or intentions, such as a young child; the result is a sentient manifestation of whatever the child was thinking about at the time.

Gadrians
A Gadrian is what is formed when feelings of hate or greed completely consume the owner of a Gad, and likewise, the Gad itself. The Gad then absorbs these thoughts of greed and anger, usually killing the owner of the Gad and creating a monster, organic in nature with technological modification. Unlike Techodes, Gadrians are made of both inorganic and organic matter. Gadrians can be considered a sub-class of A-Techodes.

Music
Opening theme: Ending theme:
 * "Boomerang Boogie ~Nanpudou no Ojisan~" by PE'Z
 * "Song for My Buffalo" by PE'Z

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Jet Boy, Jet Girl

"Jet Boy, Jet Girl" is a song by Elton Motello about a 15-year-old boy's sexual relationship with an older man, who then rejects him for a girl.

Background
Alan Ward had toured Belgium with Bastard. Through his connections there, he had his new moniker, Elton Motello, debut on the Belgian label Pinball with the single "Jet Boy, Jet Girl" in 1977. The song was backed by session musicians Mike Butcher (guitar), John Valcke (bass), and Bob Dartsch (drums), instead of Elton Motello's regular musicians. That exact same backing track was simultaneously used by Belgian artist Plastic Bertrand on his internationally successful hit single "Ça plane pour moi". Since then, "Jet Boy, Jet Girl" has sometimes been wrongly thought to be a cover of "Ça plane pour moi", with new lyrics over the same backing track, but the truth is that the two songs were simultaneous adaptations of the same backing track.

While Bertrand's single was an international hit, Motello's single in English made little impact, except in Australia, where it was released on the RCA label and hit #33 on the National Top Forty (and regionally in Melbourne at #11 and in Sydney, at #10). Also in Australia, "Jet Boy, Jet Girl" has appeared in a television commercial featuring the chorus and not the sexual lyrics.

Composition
"Jet Boy, Jet Girl" has the same backing track as Plastic Bertrand/Lou Deprijck's "Ça plane pour moi". A few months before the vocals for "Ça plane pour moi" were recorded, the record firm used the same backing track with the same musicians to release "Jet Boy, Jet Girl". Alan Ward recorded his song in English.

United States censorship
In 1989, the American Federal Communications Commission (FCC), acting on a complaint from activist Jack Thompson fined radio station WIOD $10,000 for allowing talk host Neil Rogers to play the song. Thompson considered the song obscene, and the FCC agreed with him.

Personnel

 * Elton Motello
 * Alan Ward/Alan Timms – vocals
 * Jet Staxx/Mike Butcher – guitar
 * John Valke – bass
 * Bob Dartch – drums

Cover versions
The song has been covered by numerous bands and artists, including The Damned, FIDLAR, Captain Sensible & the Softies, Chron Gen, the Bamboo Kids, the pUKEs, Manic Hispanic, Spencer P. Jones and Crocodiles. The New York City punk rock band The Breaking Sounds cover the song as well with the lyrics being sung in both Finnish and English. The original version received renewed attention when it was included on John Waters' 2007 compilation CD A Date with John Waters. Canadian recording artist and drag queen Mina Mercury also recorded the song in 2019. In 2024, the song was included in the sound track for the Cary Grant documentary “Archie” (backgrounding the 14 year old Grant’s arrival in New York City with a vaudeville troupe).

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Georg Friedrich von Martens

Georg Friedrich von Martens (22 February 1756 in Hamburg, Germany – 21 February 1821 in Frankfurt, Germany) was a German jurist and diplomat. Educated at the universities of Göttingen, Regensburg and Vienna, he became professor of jurisprudence at Göttingen in 1783 and was ennobled in 1789. He was made a counsellor of state by the King of Westphalia in 1808, and in 1810 was president of the financial section of the council of state of the kingdom of Westphalia. In 1814 he was appointed privy cabinet-councillor (Geheimer Kabinettsrat) by the king of Hanover, and in 1816 went as representative of the king to the diet of the new German Confederation at Frankfort.

Works
Of his works the most important is the great collection of treaties Recueil des traites, from 1761 onwards. Of this the first seven volumes were published at Göttingen (1791–1801), followed by four supplementary volumes partly edited by his nephew Karl von Martens (see below).

These were followed by:
 * Nouveau recueil, of treaties subsequent to 1808, in 16 vols. (Göttingen, 1817–1842), of which G. F. von Martens edited the first four, the fifth being the work of K. von Martens, the others (6–9) by F. Saalfeld and (10–16) F. Murhard. A Nouveau supplement, in 3 vols., filling gaps in the previous collection, was also published by Murhard (Göttingen, 1839–1842).
 * Nouveau recueil ... continuation du grand recueil de Martens, in 20 vols. (Göttingen, 1843–1875), edited in turn by F. Murhard, C. Murhard, J. Pinhas, C. Samwer and J. Hopf, with a general index of treaties from 1494 to 1874 (1876).
 * Nouveau recueil, ser. 2 (Göttingen, 1876–1896; vols. xxii-xxxv, Leipzig, 1897–1908). From vol. xi on this series was edited by Felix Stork, professor of public law at Greifswald. In 1909 appeared vol. i of a further Continuation (troisieme serie) under the editorship of Professor Heinrich Triepel (1868–1946) of Kiel University.

Of Martens' other works the most important are:
 * Precis du droit des gens modernes de l'Europe (1789; 3rd ed., Göttingen, 1821; new ed., G.S. Pinheiro-Ferreira, 2 vols., 1858, 1864);
 * Erzählungen merkwürdiger Falk des neueren europäischen Volkerrechts, 2 vols. (Göttingen, 1800–1802);
 * Cours diplomatique ou tableau des relations des puissances de l'Europe, 3 vols. (Berlin, 1801);
 * Grundriss einer diplomatischen Gesch. der europ. Staatshandel u. Friedensschlusse seit dem Ende des 15. Jahrhunderts (ibid. 1807).

His nephew Karl von Martens (1790–1863), (who at his death was minister resident of the grand-duke of Weimar at Dresden), published:
 * the Manuel diplomatique (Leipzig, 1823), a valuable textbook of the rules and customs of the diplomatic service – reissued as Guide diplomatique in two vols. in 1832 (5th ed. by Geffcken, 1866);
 * Causes célèbres du droit des gens (2 vols., ibid., 1827) and Nouvelles causes célèbres (2 vols., ibid., 1843), both republished, in 5 vols. (1858–1861); and Recueil manuel et pratique de traités (7 vols., ibid., 1846–1857); continued by Geffcken (in 3 vols., 1885–1888).

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Carlos Reyes

Carlos Reyes may refer to:
 * Carlos Reyes (baseball) (born 1969), United States Major League Baseball player
 * Carlos Reyes (boxer), Puerto Rican boxer at the 1984 Summer Olympics
 * Carlos Reyes (Chilean footballer) (born 1973), former Chilean footballer
 * Carlos Reyes (Uruguayan footballer) (1957–2009), Uruguayan footballer and manager
 * Carlos Humberto Reyes, Honduran trade union leader and political candidate
 * Carlos Reyes-Manzo (born 1944), documentary photographer, photojournalist and poet from Chile
 * Carlos Tomas Reyes, a main character from 9-1-1: Lone Star TV series
 * Cotton Hill, a character from the King of the Hill animated series, translated as "Carlos Reyes" for Hispanic America

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Simon Achidi Achu

Simon Achidi Achu (5 November 1934 – 4 May 2021) was a Cameroonian politician who served as the prime minister of Cameroon from 1992 to 1996. Previously he was Minister of Justice from 1972 to 1975. A leading member of the Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM), Achidi Achu was appointed Chairman of the National Investment Corporation in 2003, and he was elected to the Senate of Cameroon in 2013.

Early life and career
Achidi Achu was born in Bamenda and grew up in Santa, located in the Northwest Province of Cameroon. He completed primary education in Santa and then continued to Cameroon Protestant College, where he had his GCE Ordinary Level. Pa Achu later continued to the University of Yaoundé, where he participated in the creation of the Student Association, which still exists. He also served as the association's first president. He continued his studies in Marseille, France.

Political career
Achidi Achu was a state magistrate from October 1965 to October 1966. Later, he was appointed Minister Delegate at the State Federal Inspectorate in late October 1971. He was subsequently appointed Minister of Justice by Cameroonian President Ahmadou Ahidjo on 3 July 1972, remaining in that position until 1975. Pa Simon then returned to Santa and started the Rock Farm Ranch as a farmer.

He stayed out of politics for several years, then he was elected as a member of the National Assembly. President Paul Biya later appointed him Prime Minister on 9 April 1992, following the March 1992 parliamentary election. He was the first Anglophone Prime Minister of Cameroon.

On 10 October 1992, the day before the 1992 presidential election, Achidi Achu appeared on Cameroon Radio and Television and addressed the people in French, his second language. In this address, he accused the opposition, led by Social Democratic Front (SDF) candidate John Fru Ndi, of having a "diabolical plan" (plan diabolique) to prosecute and execute the leading figures of the state, government, and military if it won the election, and he urged the people to reject the opposition in order to avert potential violence and instability.

Following Biya's victory in the 1992 election, Achidi Achu remained Prime Minister until 19 September 1996, when he was replaced by Peter Mafany Musonge. Achidi Achu was later appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Investment Corporation (Société nationale des Investissements) on 3 March 2003.

Later life
Achidi Achu was a member of the Central Committee of the ruling CPDM. He was also a member of the National Commission for the coordination of Biya's election campaign in the 2004 presidential election and was the president of the campaign's support and follow up committee in the Northwest Province. He has also headed the discipline commission of the CPDM. During the campaign for the July 2007 parliamentary and municipal elections, Achidi Achu was a member of the CPDM's Central Campaign Committee; he was also President of the CPDM Provincial Campaign Committee in the Northwest Province.

In 2009, Achidi Achu became one of three members of the CPDM North West Section's newly established Council of the Wise, which was intended to formulate strategy and tactics to enable the CPDM to attain dominance in the North West Province, where the opposition Social Democratic Front (SDF) has been traditionally dominant.

In the April 2013 Senate election, Achidi Achu was elected to the Senate as the top candidate on the CPDM's list for Northwest Province. When the Bureau of the Senate was elected on 12 June 2013, Achidi Achu received the post of Vice-President of the Senate.

He died on 4 May 2021, at the age of 86, after recovering from an illness in the United States.

title: Simon Achidi Achu