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West Grand Bahama

West Grand Bahama is one of 31 districts of The Bahamas. The district covers the entire western portion of Grand Bahama island, excluding the city of Freeport, which forms its own district. Communities within West Grand Bahama include the settlements of Mack Town, Hunters, Lewis Yard, Pinder's Point, Eight Mile Rock, Hepburn Town, Bartlett Hill, Hanna Hill, Pine Dale, Martin Town, Russell Town, Jones Town, Sea Grape, Holmes Rock, Bootle Bay and the westernmost settlement of West End.

West End's development has been dominated by a hotel and marina located at the western tip of Grand Bahama Island and now known as Old Bahama Bay. The Florida-based Ginn Company sought to develop a new tourism project in the area. In 2009, the now former Ginn Company defaulted on a $650 million Credit Suisse which a major portion of the loan was used to fund Ginn Sur Mer. The project once pegged at $5 billion would have included thousands of home sites, 4 star resort hotel, two golf courses, airport and mega yacht marina has now come to a complete halt. Bogged down with numerous lawsuits filed by disgruntled buyers who alleged that Robert (Bobby) Ginn sold land that appears to have been owned by several Bahamian families who have resided for generations in the historic settlement. The lawsuits filed in the U.S. and Bahamas courts are still ongoing.

As for the name of each settlement, they basically got their name from the families that settled there. For example, Pinder's Point was inhabited by the Pinders. Russell town by the Russells and so on. At one point, there was even a town called Cooper's town but over time, the Pinders became the dominating surname and absorbed Cooper's town, creating one settlement called Pinder's Point.

Subdivisions
West Grand Bahama is divided into four town areas or townships (for administrative purposes). Each township has its own chairperson. They are:
 * Township of West End
 * Township of Eight Mile Rock West
 * Township of Eight Mile Rock East
 * Township of Pinder's Point

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Sibghatullah Mojaddedi

Sibghatullah Mojaddedi (صبغت الله مجددي; ; 27 September 1926 – 11 February 2019) was an Afghan politician, who served as Acting President after the fall of Mohammad Najibullah's government in April 1992. He was the first leader to call for armed resistance against the Soviet-backed regime in 1979 and founded the Afghan National Liberation Front at the time; later becoming a respected figure among the various Afghan mujahideen. He served as the chairman of the 2003 loya jirga that approved Afghanistan's new constitution. In 2005, he was appointed chairman of the Meshrano Jirga, upper house of the National Assembly of Afghanistan, and was reappointed as a member in 2011. He also served on the Afghan High Peace Council. Mojaddedi is considered to have been a moderate Muslim leader.

Early years
Mojaddedi was born on 27 September 1926 in Kabul, Afghanistan. His family, the Mojaddedis, are a well-known Pashtun family of religious scholars from Kabul who trace their ancestry to Mujaddid Ahmad Sirhindi, a prominent 16th-century Islamic scholar and Naqshbandi Sufi.

Mojaddedi studied Islamic Law and Jurisprudence at al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt. In 1952 he returned to Afghanistan to teach in high schools and at Kabul University, where he became known as an advocate of Afghan political independence. In 1959 Mojaddedi was accused of conspiring against then Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev and was imprisoned without trial until 1964. It is believed his leftist brother, Rahmatullah Mojaddedi, passed information to Babrak Karmal and in turn to the Daoud government that Sibghatullah planned to blow up a bridge in Kabul targeting the Soviet delegation's motorcade in a visit. After release, he was forced into exile for his outspoken comments regarding Soviet influence in Afghanistan. His period in exile was spent in several countries such as Denmark and Pakistan before his entry into Afghan politics.

Afghan resistance
Following the Saur Revolution in 1978, the new communist Khalq government killed Mojaddedi's brother and several of his relatives. During exile in Peshawar, Mojaddedi founded the Jebh-e-Nejat-e Melli (National Liberation Front) group. He was the first person to call for a nationwide jihad against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, on March 13, 1979. Throughout the Soviet-Afghan War he made many contributions for the Afghan mujahideen cause. His militia was most prominent in Kunar Province.

Mojaddedi's vision was an Islamic republic, possibly with a restored monarchy. He was opposed to Islamic fundamentalism and harbored friendly feelings towards the West.

In 1988, he was elected head of the Afghan Interim Government, based in Peshawar.

Presidency (1992)
In April 1992, he was elected the chair of the Islamic Jihad Council that was set up to establish a post-Soviet Afghan government. He entered Kabul on 28 April amid a large crowd and assumed the new Islamic republic, and offered a general amnesty to all Afghans except the deposed President, Mohammad Najibullah, whose fate would be decided by "the public". His election was supported by all mujahideen guerilla factions except the Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin, whose forces started firing rockets at the capital; violent clashes took place between them and soldiers of the new coalition near the Interior Ministry building. Mojadeddi pleaded with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar to lay down their arms, and commented "Mr. Hekmatyar was our brother. We were not expecting such an action. It is not allowed to him according to religion, according to Afghan tradition, to do this."

During the period that Mojaddedi was President of Afghanistan, the Ariana plane carrying him to Kabul was hit by an RPG as it was landing at Kabul International Airport. The plane landed safely, with no fatalities.

This position lasted for three months, although some sources say that he stayed in power for only two months. In May 1992, Burhanuddin Rabbani established a new leadership council, which undermined Mojaddedi's leadership, resulting in his resignation and handing over power to a new council.

Later political career
After the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Mojaddedi returned to Afghanistan from Pakistan and became chairman of the 2003 loya jirga, the assembly which approved Afghanistan's new constitution. He caused controversy there by publicly calling Malalai Joya a "communist" and "infidel" after her speech, for which he later apologized. Amnesty International said that Mojaddedi and the jirga's leadership curtrailed freedom of speech at the assembly, including refusing to launch a vote on changing "Islamic Republic of Afghanistan" to "Republic of Afghanistan" despite getting enough signatures, publicly calling the delegates who signed it "unbelievers" and "apostates".

In 2005 he became chairman of the Meshrano Jirga, Afghanistan's upper house of the National Assembly of Afghanistan, and he was reappointed as member in 2011. He also served on the Afghan High Peace Council.

On 26 August 2015, Mojaddedi launched a new political coalition, the Council of Jihad and National Political Parties.

2006 Assassination Attempt
Two suicide bombers carried out an attack in Kabul on 12 March 2006 against Mojaddedi, while he was a member of the upper house and head of a reconciliation committee aimed at engaging former Taliban members. The attackers blew up a vehicle filled with explosives next to his car as he was being driven through the streets. Four pedestrians were killed and Mojaddedi was slightly injured, with burns to his face and hands.

Death
Mojaddedi was falsely reported to have died on 9 February 2016. He was subsequently reported to have been present at a ceremony commemorating the 27th anniversary of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan on 15 February 2016. It was reported on 12 February 2019 that Mojaddedi had died. He was 93.

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S.D. Quito

Sociedad Deportivo Quito is an Ecuadorian club football club based in Quito. For most of its existence, it competed in Serie A, the highest level of the Ecuadorian professional football league. And currently competes in the Second Category of Pichincha.

Deportivo Quito has won five Serie A titles in 1964, 1968, 2008, 2009, and 2011. This places them fifth overall. The club also has four Interandean Tournament titles in 1955, 1956, 1957, and 1963. Additionally, the club was runner up in 1985, 1988, and 1997. Based on its style of play, sports journalists and fans nicknamed the club La Academia de los Ecuatorianos desde 1940 (The Academy of the Ecuadorians since 1940).

Deportivo Quito was officially founded in 1955, although they trace their roots to Sociedad Deportiva Argentina, which was founded on July 9, 1940. Historic rivals include LDU Quito, Aucas, El Nacional, and Universidad Católica. They play their home games at Estadio Ney mancheno.

History
The club was founded on July 9, 1940, under the name Sociedad Deportiva Argentina. On October 1, 1954, the club, together with Sociedad Deportiva Aucas & Sociedad Deportiva España, founded Asociación de Fútbol No Amateur (AFNA) de Pichincha (Spanish for Non-Amateur Football Association of Pichincha). This was followed by provincial professional soccer tournaments. In accordance with AFNA bylaws, which stipulated that no team could be named after a country (except after Spain), the shareholders of Argentina got together and changed the club's name to Sociedad Deportivo Quito.

The 1950s and 1960s were fruitful decades for Deportivo Quito with the club obtaining National Championship titles in 1964 and 1968 as well as Interandean Championships (named so for inclusion of teams from both Quito and Ambato) in 1955, 1956, 1957 and 1963. The 1970s were a dark period for the club, which descended and spent several seasons in the second tier Serie B of the Ecuadorian Football League. The 1980s and 1990s brought a return measure of success for the club which came in as runners up in 1985, 1988, 1997 and qualified to participate in Copa Libertadores. 1989 also saw the transfer of one of the brightest players in Ecuadorian soccer history, Álex Aguinaga to Necaxa of Mexico.

The club would wait forty years for its third championship and after a brilliant campaign in 2008, which saw Deportivo Quito in the lead throughout the tournament, the team sealed its third star against Macará of Ambato. 2009 began fraught with problems for the club. Although it was able to hold on to its star player Luis Saritama on loan, economic problems dogged the club throughout the year. As a result, early tournament action saw the club mired in the middle half of the table. The next two phases of the tournament were a different story as the defense, solidified with the incorporation of the Ecuador National team captain Ivan Hurtado, led the club to top of the table finishes. This set up the final play-off against Deportivo Cuenca. Following a 1–1 tie in Cuenca, the two teams played an exciting game in Quito which saw back and forth action ending 3–2 in favor of Deportivo Quito. The team's fourth star was not nearly as elusive as the third. In the 2010 season Deportivo Quito earned a third-place finish after surpassing Barcelona SC in a home and home play-off. 2011 saw a dominating performance from Deportivo Quito, in which they won 26 games, tied 11 and only lost 9. Following 1–0 victories over Emelec in Quito and Guayaquil, Deportivo Quito earned its fifth star. Fans celebrated the long-awaited 2008 as well as the follow-up 2009 and 2011 championships in the popular Plaza del Teatro in Quito.

Stadium
Deportivo Quito play their games at their training facility Ney Mancheno in 2021. Their home games were played in the Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa in the city of Quito until 2020. There have been plans to build a stadium for the year 2013 on their current training grounds Ney Mancheno in Carcelén.

On November 13, 2008, Deportivo Quito's management presented the model of the new stadium. This stadium will have a capacity of 20,000 people. The building project includes the construction of a shopping mall attached to the same stadium that will serve as a source of revenue for the institution. The plans were approved by the club socios on April 29, 2013.

Regional

 * Campeonato Professional Interandino
 * Champions (4): 1955, 1956, 1957, 1963

National

 * Serie A
 * Champions (5): 1964, 1968, 2008, 2009, 2011
 * Serie B
 * Champions (1): 1980 E1

World Cup players
The following players were chosen to represent their country at the FIFA World Cup while contracted to Deportivo Quito.

 * 🇪🇨 Raúl Guerrón (2002)
 * 🇪🇨 Edison Méndez (2002)
 * 🇪🇨 Marlon Ayoví (2002, 2006)
 * 🇪🇨 Edwin Villafuerte (2006)
 * 🇪🇨 Luis Fernando Saritama (2006)

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Sweet Vengeance (album)

Sweet Vengeance is the debut full-length studio album by the Greek/Swedish melodic death metal band Nightrage. It was released by Century Media Records on 30 June 2003. Some song titles are shortened versions of ones used for demo versions of their respective songs.

Critical reception
Writing for AllMusic, John Serba said the album was "consistently excellent in both song and performance" and "any fan of the melodic European death metal scene should foam at the mouth upon hearing Nightrage's debut."

Blabbermouth was more critical of the album, calling it an "above average slab of melodic crunch that can at different points be both skilful and disparate."

Laura Taylor for Exclaim! stated that "the band pulls off the stylistic experimentation admirably well" and that it "isn't the straightforward melodic death metal album that the first few tracks might lead you to expect."

Track listing
Japanese releases feature a bonus track, an extended demo version of "Gloomy Daydreams".

Band members

 * Tomas Lindberg − vocals
 * Marios Iliopoulos − guitars
 * Gus G − guitars
 * Brice Leclercq − bass

Guests

 * Per Möller Jensen − drums (tracks 1-10) & arrangements
 * Fredrik Nordström − keyboards
 * Tom S. Englund − clean vocals (tracks 3, 8-10)

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User talk:Spoche

...and then I found five bucks.
This information is 100% plagerized from http://www.marissalingen.com/082102.html

It is the best description/definition that I have found to date.

And then I found five bucks.

I don't think I've explained "and then I found five bucks" here. It's a useful phrase once you get the hang of it. When you're telling a story that seemed like it had a point when you started it, but you realize halfway through that not only does nobody else care, you don't really care either? You immediately say, "And then I found five bucks." It's a pleasant ending. Makes the rest of it seem like it was leading up to something, but not something so outrageous that your listeners have to doubt you. It's not a hundred bucks. It's five. Okay, then. Cool. That's nice. Let's move on with our lives, freed of the obligation to tell or hear this boring story.

But then if the other people listening to you know the magic of "and then I found five bucks," they can stop you if you were wrong and say, "No, but really, what happened with the BART ticket?" or something like that, if they genuinely want to know.

The other use of "and then I found five bucks" is when you realize you're telling a story whose climax will be inappropriate to the audience. For example, if the punch-line revolves around why exactly your college friend is no longer allowed to drink rum, and you're talking to my grandma, it is time to find five bucks. Immediately.. In fact, once you decide to use this out, the sooner you can find five bucks, the better.

Alternatively:"...and then I found $5." or "...and then I found 10 bucks." or "...and then I found $10." or even "...and then I found 5 euro."

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Quinto Martini (politician)

Quinto Antonio Martini (August 15, 1908 – July 27, 1975) was a Canadian politician and real estate broker, born in Hamilton, Ontario.

Life and career
Martini was born in Hamilton on August 15, 1908, to Benito Martini and Palmina Rossi, both of whom were Italian. He attended St Ann's School in Hamilton, and then Hamilton Technical School. On June 25, 1931, he married Lucy Caiazzo, daughter of a real-estate broker.

Political career
He was elected Member of Parliament for Hamilton East in 1957, and became the first Italian Canadian elected to parliament. He lost his seat in 1962.

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Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 July 22

Category:TV Drama characters

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the category above. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the category's talk page (if any).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was rename --Kbdank71 14:14, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Improperly capitalized and inconsistent use of abbreviation not used in other TV categories. Should be renamed Category:Television drama characters. Postdlf 17:05, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Agree with Postdlf. Pavel Vozenilek 23:19, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Rename as sugested. --Sherool 01:29, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

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Category:21 July 2005 London bombings and Category:7 July 2005 London bombings

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The result of the debate was merge --Kbdank71 14:16, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

I found the former marked up for deletion but saw it wasn't lised here. It's basically an empty category, I suggest we create a Category:July 2005 London bombings and merge them, because there's a great deal of cross-over between the two. -- Joolz 16:57, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

I hope that whatever is in Category:7 July 2005 London Bombings, and the above, end up in related categories, such as "Terrorist incidents on transportation" I notice there are catefories for Terrorist incidents on Civil Aviation and on railway systems, but I not see a category for busses (there have been a lot in Israel) or ships (there was one many years ago where a tour ship was hijacked) ... perhaps a category for Piracy on the high seas, since the UN agency for that reports hundreds of incidents a year. AlMac|(talk) 20:56, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge per above. Makes sense. Sasquatch′↔T↔C 04:23, July 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge as above and hope we don't need further renamings. Grutness...  wha?  05:04, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge same. --AI 18:09, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
 * There don't seem to be any objections so I'll be bold and create the new category and depopulate the old -- Joolz 15:09, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge CanadianCaesar 23:37, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

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Category:User trumpet-4

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The result of the debate was no consensus (keep) --Kbdank71 13:52, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Marked for deletion by User:MicroFeet one minute after creation but not listed here. Someone from Sfd might want to look at this and User trumpet 1, 2, and 3 (all four have templates). Apparently it is like Babel, only with trumpets. --Kbdank71 14:18, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, looks like a joke. Pavel Vozenilek 23:20, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep, its not a joke. It is a serious category for trumpeters who are very good. If this gets deleted than i think that everything in Category:User instruments should be deleted as well. Jobe6 15:24, July 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * I can see having Babel around to find people who speak your language if you need assistance. But why would you need to find other trumpeters?  Why wouldn't you put this in a list of "Trumpeting wikipedians"?  As for deleting everything else in User Instruments, great idea.  --Kbdank71 16:58, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

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Category:Cleanup leftovers

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The result of the debate was delete --Kbdank71 14:11, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Deprecated by the system of Category:Cleanup_by_month. Radiant_ >|< 12:18, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

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Category:ToL cleanup

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The result of the debate was rename (no opposition at ToL) --Kbdank71 13:55, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Rename to Category:Cleanup Tree of Life. Radiant_ >|< 12:18, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * COMMENT WikiProject Tree of Life should discuss this, I don't think we should change the name unless it's discussed at the project. 132.205.44.43 14:40, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

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Category:Looney Tunes videos and DVDs

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The result of the debate was merge --Kbdank71 14:02, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

Not enough articles to justify a separate subcategory (currently has two articles). tregoweth 15:37, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, delete and move articles into Category:Looney Tunes. --Sherool 01:44, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

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Category:Hawaii political parties

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The result of the debate was merge --Kbdank71 14:09, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

There is already Category:United States regional and state political parties, and that would be the appropriate place for these articles. No reason for Hawaii to have separate category for its parties. Perhaps a Politics of Hawaii category might be better. EdwinHJ | Talk 15:45, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * There are six entries, but there's already a Category:Hawaii politics which is rather underpopulated with those separated out (and the "STATE politics" category is reflected through all the U.S. state category structure; the state-specific political party category is not). Merge there and delete.  Postdlf 17:05, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

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Panjshir Valley

The Panjshir Valley (also spelled Panjsher; Dari: درهٔ پنجشير, Dara-i-Panjsher, literally "Valley of the Five Lions") is a valley in northeastern Afghanistan, 150 km north of Kabul, near the Hindu Kush mountain range. It is divided by the Panjshir River. The valley is home to more than 100,000 people, including Afghanistan's largest concentration of ethnic Tajiks as of 1997. In April 2004, it became the heart of the new Panjshir Province, having previously been part of Parwan Province. Politically, this province has been considered the start point of Afghanistan's Jihad period against the Soviets. This province is also the birthplace of Afghanistan's Ahmad Shah Massoud.

History
Human activity in Panjshir can be dated to the Bronze Age. The relics from underground archaeological sites had been discovered during President Daoud Khan's presidency. The indigenous people of the valley are believed to be the most ancient living inhabitants in the country. In 1975, the valley was the site of an uprising by Panjshir's residents under the leadership of Ahmad Shah Massoud against the government of Daoud Khan.

It was the site of the Panjshir offensives fought by the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviets against the mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War from 1980 to 1985, when local commander Ahmad Shah Massoud successfully defended the valley.

The valley again witnessed renewed fighting during the Afghan Civil War of 1996–2001 between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance under the command of Massoud, where he again defended it from being overrun by the Taliban. The Panjshir Valley was considered one of Afghanistan's safest regions during the era of the ISAF-backed government and in late August 2021, warlords tried to make the valley a bastion of resistance to the Taliban in Afghanistan. The Taliban announced that hundreds of fighters were headed towards the valley on 22 August 2021.

Former Vice President Amrullah Saleh and Ahmad Massoud, son of former anti-Soviet Mujahideen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, have vowed to resist the Taliban from Panjshir, which repelled both Soviet forces and the Taliban in the 1980s and 1990s. The Alliance has claimed to "Retake Districts in Northeast Afghanistan" on 22 August led by former military, special forces, police and more. The Biden administration has not publicly answered the plea made by Ahmad Massoud in a op-ed in The Washington Post for help restocking the anti-Taliban forces with supplies. On 25 August 2021, it was revealed that a delegation of Panjshir resistance forces in the nearby Parwan city of Charikar were holding talks with a Taliban delegation and that the Taliban by this point ceased blocking routes to the Panjshir Valley "after one or a maximum of two days." On 6 September 2021, Taliban claims to have overtaken the insurgents holding out in Panjshir Valley and killed Fahim Dashty, spokesperson of Ahmad Massoud's resistance front However, Resistance fighters were still confirmed to be present in the Panjshir Valley.

On 9 September 2021, Ali Maisam Nazary, the Resistance's foreign relations head, denied reports of full Taliban control of the Panjshir province, stating that 60% was still under National Resistance Front control. Claims of full Taliban control were further refuted when reporters from Iran's Tasnim News Agency were able to visit the Valley on 11 September and interview not only a Taliban fighter but also a local NRF fighter stationed in the area. Despite Taliban claims of calm in the Valley, Tasnim News Agency also reported that some local residents were fleeing in anticipation of future military clashes. In an interview which was published on 21 September 2021, Ahmad Wali Massoud told TRT World journalist Samuel Ramani that the Resistance still controls much of the Valley and stated that the Taliban, which he described as "leaderless," had a weaker hold than it appeared.

Economy and natural resources
The Panjshir Valley has the potential to become a major centre of emerald mining. As early as the 1st century AD, Pliny the Elder commented on gemstones from the region. In the Middle Ages, Panjshir was famed for its silver mining and the Saffarids and Samanids minted their coins there. As of 1985, emeralds upwards of 190 carat had been found in Panjshir, reported to rival in quality the finest crystals of the Muzo mine in Colombia. American reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan sparked a development boom in the valley with the construction of new modern roads and a new radio tower that allows valley residents to pick up radio signals from the Afghan capital, Kabul. The valley has the potential of being an energy hub for Afghanistan, through construction of several hydroelectric dams. Rewat locality could be the site of the first dam. The valley could make the capital region power self-reliant.

The Panjshir has always been an important highway. Nearly 100 km long, it leads to two passes over the Hindu Kush – the Khawak Pass (3,848 m) leading to Afghanistan's northern plains, and the Anjuman Pass (4,430 m) that crosses into Badakhshan – used by the armies of Alexander the Great and Timur.

A 10-turbine wind farm was built in Panjshir Valley in April 2008.

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Maintenance items To add
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Martin Van Buren High School

Martin Van Buren High School (MVBHS) is a public high school in Queens Village, New York. The school is operated by the New York City Department of Education.

Academics
The high school is accredited by the New York State Board of Regents. Of the school's graduates, 90% enroll in college.

Students may take a pre-med sequence of classes, a pre-engineering sequence of classes, or a law and forensics sequence of classes.

The school offers Advanced Placement classes in biology, calculus, English language, English literature, environmental science, Spanish, U.S. history, and world history. Students can take college-level courses on campus in government, economics, and algebra, and they can take classes at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Queensborough Community College, and York College.

The New York State Department of Education had given Priority School status to Van Buren High School because of low graduation rates and low scores on state testing. On December 1, 2017, Van Buren High School was removed from Priority School status because its four-year graduation rates had increased.

Demographics
There are 1,157 students enrolled at Martin Van Buren High School. Of the students, 49% are black, 27% are Asian, 18% are Latino, 9% are white, 9% are American Indian, and 2% are Pacific Islander. Students come from more than twenty countries.

History
In 1952, the New York City Board of Education approved the construction of a new high school at 229th Street and Hillside Avenue. Queens Village's population had greatly increased, and the school was needed to reduce overcrowding at Jamaica High School, Bayside High School, and Andrew Jackson High School. The Board of Education originally approved a budget of $3,000,000 for construction, but a few months later it increased the budget to $5,500,000. The budget was increased again to $6,000,000, making it the costliest school in New York City at the time.

The school was designed by Eliot B. Willauer of the notable architectural firm Eggers & Higgins, architects on the Jefferson Memorial, as part of the Board of Education's half-billion dollar post-World War II expansion program. The school was designed as a three-story building with 40 classrooms and a 1,120-seat auditorium, with a total school capacity of 3,000 students. The school would sit on 12 acres of land, 5.5 acres of which were for outdoor athletics. The official groundbreaking ceremony was held on January 6, 1954. Caristo Construction Corporation built the building.

The working name for the school had been East Queens High School, but before it opened the school was officially named Martin Van Buren High School, after the Martin Van Buren, the eighth president of the United States and the first U.S. president born in New York state. It opened to students on September 12, 1955. The school sports teams are called the "Vee Bees" (or the fighting Vee Bees), a reference to the initials VB, and have a bee as their logo.

Notable alumni
This is a partial list of notable alumni of Martin Van Buren High School.
 * Jon Bauman (Class of 1964) – Sha Na Na
 * Steve Blank (Class of 1971) – entrepreneur and entrepreneurship guru
 * Abby Joseph Cohen (Class of 1969) – economist and financial analyst
 * Donny Deutsch (Class of 1975) – advertising executive and television personality
 * Ilene Graff (Class of 1966) – American actress and singer
 * Madeline Kahn (Class of 1960) – movie actress and singer
 * Arthur Kane – member of the New York Dolls
 * Al Kooper – songwriter, record producer and musician
 * Martin Kove (Class of 1964) - actor
 * Ray Kurzweil (Class of 1965) – inventor and futurist
 * Martin Lang (born 1949) – Olympic fencer
 * Robert Mapplethorpe (Class of 1963) – photographer
 * Rob Parker (Class of 1982) – sports columnist and TV personality
 * Tom Pecora – men's basketball head coach of Fordham University
 * Julian Phillips (Class of 1973) – television personality
 * Alvin Roth – Nobel prize winner in economics 2012
 * Mario Savio (Class of 1960) – American political rights activist
 * Lynne Stewart (Class of 1957) – imprisoned civil rights lawyer
 * Frank Wilczek (Class of 1967) – awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics.
 * Thomas G. Zimmerman (Class of 1975) – Inventor of VR PowerGlove

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Two things. I saw the unsigned comment at my user talk page, so I looked at your edit history a bit. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 03:45, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) It's considered very bad form to erase the content of you user talk page, since it looks like you're trying to hide discussion (I can dig up the guideline that says that if you need it).  Archiving comments after they've accumulated a bit is a good idea, but not simple deletion.
 * 2) I notice you mark most of your edits as "minor edit", even though most of them are not.  Even if you add a perfectly reasonable clarifying clause, if it is not simply a fix to a typo or formatting error, it should not be marked as minor.  Doing so prevents people from seeing your edits if they view changes with "minor edit excluded".

 * Thank you. I appreciate the tips. I have now read the minor edit documentation. --hitssquad 07:49, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

 * No problem. I think there might be a setting in your preferences that controls whether "minor edit" is the default.  I choose "no"... since it seems better to occasionally mark a minor edit as non-minor than to do the reverse.  Welcome to WP. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 08:30, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

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Yeah, it looks like there's some lack of agreement between style guides, though consistently using caps seems like the safest way to go. (thanks for fixing the article's usage) --Nectar 23:50, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

Solar Power
Hits -- We should probably get the discussion of Solar Power off of the Nuclear Power page. I hope this is the right way to communicate with you...

"I assume 45,833kwh/Wp is supposed to be 45,833kwh/kWp." Uh, yes, thanks.

Regarding electricity production rates... SolarWarriors system looks like a good comparable to my 2.4KWp system. Both were constructed by EcoEnergies, and Corrolitos is reasonably close to where I live in Redwood City. I did not find any reference to an estimate of 50kwh/day year round average production. The SolarWarriors sample graph for September showed well over 80kwh being produced on that day from about 11am to 3pm. If I crudely integrate over the graph, I come up with 140kwh for that day. Since the end of September is roughly the autumn solstice, it should roughly estimate an average day. And 140kwh per day is in the same ballpark as the value I gave (especially if they had tilted their array due south or slightly west to avoid morning fog).

You would proably be interested in [|a PG&E study]. The paper measured actual electric production for about 20 residential installations and meaasured an average of 1100kwh/year per KWp. (That's 3kwh/day/KWp versus EcoWarriors 50/36.7 == 1.36kwh/day/KWp versus my 4.19kwh/day/KWp.) The value that I suggested did assume relatively optimal fixed positioning of the modules. The best sites that PG&E observed were in the range that I gave, but included tracking systems. Note that my estimates are based on data obtained 5 years after the PG&E study. It is somewhat possible that in the intervening 5 years, modules have become better at generating electricity from relatively indirect lighting in the early afternoon and evening hours -- this would not change the Wp rating of the modules, but would change the kwh/KWp production ratings. But, of course, if I were you, I wouldn't buy that line of argument. :-)

You can review [|PG&E Rates] or, slightly better [|PG&E Rates. Look at Residential E-7 Time-Of-Use rates.

Regarding the cost of turnkey -- Since I installed modules for $7.50 per Wp (not including rebates), it must be possible to install them for that price. I didn't use integrated roofing nor tract housing, so I didn't get to amortize the one-off design and construction costs. If you run your model at 3kwh/day/KWp and use a really high price of $7.50/Wp to install the panels, you would end up with a more realistic (but pessimistic) cost of $1/kwh.

On the other hand, you will want to include maintenance costs. I'm assuming (but not calculating into my profit/loss statements) that I will have to replace a $2,000 inverter in 10 years. I'm assuming that learning curves will keep the cost of that inverter at around $2,000 and will also increase the lifespan of the replacement inverter to last for the remaining 20 years. Additionally, I climb up on my easily accessible low-sloped roof a couple of times a year to squeejee my modules. There has to be some risk factor that I'll fall off the roof and break my neck, and my time spent squeejeeing is presumably worth something. (Of course, when I stand on top of my house, I tend to shout out to anyone walking by: "Hey, look at my bright shiny PV panels."  :-)

[The system will be worthless after 30 years. For my system, I'm going to have to replace the roof in 30 years, and the cost of taking off and putting back on the panels will be too high to justify -- especially since the new roofing material in 30 years will incorporate photovoltaics. Besides which, the performance of the system will slowly degrade over time. I'm also being somewhat optimistic that the system will really last for 30 years -- the warranty is only 20 years.]

I'm not sure I particularly believe your cash flow model. I don't understand what is happening on the payment side. You will pay about $430 for your stated amount of electricity the first year. You won't collect 5% interest compounded annually on that money over the next 29 years. You will pay $430 * 1.02 the second year, and not collect interest on that money.

When I run the model with a $18,000 capital investment and 3*30*2.4 kwh/month and a 5% after tax return on investment, the model still breaks even at $0.36/kwh current price of avoided electricity. Without solar, in the first year you would earn $900 in interest and pay out $933.12 for electricity. Chuck Simmons 21:12, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure I particularly believe your cash flow model. The money that we would have had to spend on electricity bills if we did not have the solar PV system would have an opportunity cost. I assumed a discount rate (borrower's cost) of 5%. Because of the cost of capital, money spent or saved or accumuated in early years is far more important than money spent/saved/accumuated in later years. (Deferring costs tends to save money.) This is principally why homepower is so expensive.

 * If I crudely integrate over the graph, I come up with 140kwh for that day. I crudely integrated also but made a mistake. Reintegrating just now, I get 140kwh (I did that independently by separately integrating the slopes and then adding together the results -- I did not work backwards from your 140kwh result). This page says Solarwarrior's system "generates an average of about 5kW." I am not sure what that author means by that, but 5kW continuous would be 120kwh a day, which seems to jibe with our 140kwh for that near-soltice day in September, plus some rainy/foggy days thrown in for a realistic year-round average. That works out to 43,800kwh/year or 1193.46kwh/year/kWp or 2864.3kwh/year for our 2.4kWp system or 85,929.15kwh for our system over 30 years. That is 12/5 of my previous estimate, so my input figures would need to be adjusted by 12/5 -- and that should affect the results of the calulations by even more that 12/5. Normally, I use a rule of thumb of $1/kwh for the cost of solar homepower, not including insurance, maintenance, repairs, and decommissioning. Making a 12/5 adjustment in the system output should bring the results of my previous calculations more inline with my $1/kwh rule of thumb.

 * The output of the 2.4kWp system would continuously degrade over 30 years, so the output will not actually total 85,929.15kwh -- if output drops 1% per year, after 30 years the output will have dropped to 74% of its original value. The first year might produce 2,864kwh, but the final year might only produce 75% of that, or 2,148kwh. In sunnier climates, the output will drop more, so the more electricity you produce, the more potential you lose. The majority of the reduction in output comes in later years, though, so it would not cost as much as a continuous average reduction (say output drops to 80% at the point where the panels have been in use for 30 years -- that would not cost as much as would an immediate 10% drop, with no further degradation, when the panels are first installed) in output would (per my above point that early capital is far more important than late capital).

 * Perhaps the 30-year production total can be broken up into 5-year chunks so the capital cost of grid electricity (from the non-PV comparison scenario) can be more-accurately calculated. Or maybe I should do this on a spreadsheet. Roughly figuring for an 80,000kwh production total, a $.36/kwh grid-energy cost, and a 5% annually-compounding discount rate, the total grid-energy cost (the cost avoided by the 2.4kWp PV system) over 30 years would be $71,119.42, or $0.89/kwh. An $18,000 up-front-cost solar-PV system would cost $77,794.96 ($0.97/kwh, or -- if we assume a more realistic 70,000kwh total production to account for degradation -- $1.11/kwh) at the same 5% annually-compounding discount rate. The $2,000 repair cost at the 10- and 20- year marks would cost, with the 5% discount rate, an additional $5,306.60 + $3,257.79 = $8,564.39. $500/year of additional homeowner's insurance would cost $37,041.37 over 30 years at a 5% discount rate. Many insurance companies simply refuse to cover any damage that might be the fault of accessories attached to roofs.

 * When I run the model with a $18,000 capital investment and 3*30*2.4 kwh/month and a 5% after tax return on investment, the model still breaks even at $0.36/kwh current price of avoided electricity. Without solar, in the first year you would earn $900 in interest and pay out $933.12 for electricity. $18,000 would be $7.5/Wp. Homepower.com estimates $9/Wp for 2.1kw systems. A $9/Wp cost would make a 2.4kw system cost $21,600. But even figuring an $18,000 turnkey-installed cost, the system will have a depreciation cost. 5% annual depreciation would be $900 for an $18,000 for the first year. One's property tax might also go up as a result of improving his property via the installation of a homepower system. Though, if the home is worth more, the homeowner might benefit via improved credit lines and improved resale value.

 * How did you derive those electricity rates? Looking around on the net, these seem pretty typical :

 * Pacific Gas and Electric
 * Tier 1 - 12.6 cents/kWh
 * Tier 2 - 14.3 cents/kWh
 * Tier 3 - 19.4 cents/kWh
 * Tier 4 - 23.8 cents/kWh
 * Tier 5 - 25.8 cents/kWh

 * Southern California Edison
 * Tier 1 - 13.0 cents/kWh
 * Tier 2 - 15.2 cents/kWh
 * Tier 3 - 19.7 cents/kWh
 * Tier 4 - 23.6 cents/kWh
 * Tier 5 - 26.0 cents/kWh

 * San Diego Gas and Electric
 * Tier 1 - 13.4 cents/kWh
 * Tier 2 - 16.0 cents/kWh
 * Tier 3 - 16.9 cents/kWh
 * Tier 4 - 17.8 cents/kWh
 * Tier 5 - 19.4 cents/kWh --hitssquad 11:43, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Also, please see [] which gives 2004 prices for cells and modules. The modules are quoted at $3/Wp which is compatible with a turnkey installed system cost of $6/Wp. Chuck Simmons 22:06, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I usually refer to Solarbuzz for module prices. Average prices there are usually listed as being between $5/Wp and $6/Wp. The lows since Jan 2002 came in April and June 2004 at $4.96/Wp. The mean price for Jan. 2006 is $5.32/Wp, and the 10th percentile of the distribution is $4.50/Wp. The price trend right now is sloped upward. The $5.32/Wp January 2006 price is 5.56% higher than the $5.04 January 2005 price. At that rate of increase, $6/Wp would be reached by March 2008.

 * Many manufacturers exaggerate the output ratings. Some modules may degrade more-slowly than others. Some modules may operate cooler at higher radiation flux levels, and thus would be more efficient on hot summer days. It may pay to not go with the "lowest" price. These prices do not include the costs of shipping, handling, contractor's insurance and storage. If a contractor is building solar tract houses, he is going to have to pay for extra insurance and storage of the mass-purchased modules. Currently, the most-likely construction materials to break on a construction site are windows. Solar panels can be added as high breakage-risk items if contractors are going to start building solar-PV tract houses. --hitssquad 11:43, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

 * You can review [Rates] or, slightly better [Rates. Look at Residential E-7 Time-Of-Use rates. If you were talking about time-of-use metering, I believe one should be able to time-shift one's grid draw with a lead-acid battery bank for a fraction of the cost of a solar PV system. The most expensive lead-acid batteries only cost a few hundred dollars per kwh of capacity. There are refurbished whole-house backup systems on eBay. --hitssquad 21:24, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

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Aleem Dar

Aleem Dar PP (Punjabi, ; born 6 June 1968) is a Pakistani cricket umpire and former first-class cricketer. He has been a member of the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires. Dar won the David Shepherd Trophy three years in a row from 2009 to 2011, after being nominated twice in 2005 and 2006. Aleem Dar, Marais Erasmus, Richard Kettleborough, Kumar Dharmasena and Simon Taufel were the only umpires to have received the award from its inception until 2017. Before becoming an umpire, Dar played first-class cricket as a right-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler for Allied Bank, Gujranwala, Lahore and Pakistan Railways teams.

In December 2019, in the first match of the series between Australia and New Zealand, Aleem stood in his 129th Test match, breaking the record previously set by Steve Bucknor. On 1 November 2020, in the second ODI between Pakistan and Zimbabwe, Aleem stood in his 210th ODI match as an on-field umpire, surpassing South African Rudi Koertzen's record of officiating in the most ODI matches.

Personal life
Aleem Dar was born on June 6, 1968, in Jhang, Pakistan. He is married to Noshaba. They have three children, sons Hassan and Ali, and a daughter, Jaweria, who died due to epilepsy.

Umpiring
Aleem is best known as an international cricket umpire. He made his international umpiring debut in an ODI between Pakistan and Sri Lanka at Gujranwala on 16 February 2000. In 2002 he became a member of ICC's International Panel of umpires. He was chosen to umpire at the ICC Cricket World Cup.

In April 2004, he became the first Pakistani to be part of the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires. He was nominated for the ICC Umpire of the year Award in 2005 and 2006, beaten on both occasions by the Australian Simon Taufel. On 17 October 2007 Aleem umpired in his 100th ODI, between India and Australia at Mumbai, making him the tenth umpire in the history of cricket to reach that landmark. He reached the landmark in a record time, taking just seven years, and became the first Pakistani to officiate in a century of One Day Internationals.

Aleem has stood in a solitary India-Pakistan ODI match at Karachi 2006 and five Ashes Test matches. He was also one of the on-field umpires for the final of the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy, standing alongside Rudi Koertzen. He stood in the final of the 2007 Cricket World Cup between Australia and Sri Lanka, along with Steve Bucknor. Dar was also selected to stand in the final of the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 between Australia and England.

In January 2005, Aleem and his colleague Steve Bucknor, received death threats during a Test match between England and South Africa at Centurion. He was also involved in a controversy during the 2007 Cricket World Cup final where he, along with fellow officials Bucknor, Koertzen, Bowden and Crowe incorrectly made Australia bowl three unnecessary overs in near darkness. Consequently, the ICC decided to suspend him, along with the other four officials, from duty for the next ICC event, which was the 2007 World Twenty20 Championship.

Aleem proved his accuracy at the 2011 Cricket World Cup when all the 15 Umpire Decision Review System appeals against him were struck down.

He was selected as one of the twenty umpires to stand in matches during the 2015 Cricket World Cup. In April 2019, he was named as one of the sixteen umpires to stand in matches during the 2019 Cricket World Cup. The following month, in the second match of the 2019 Ireland Tri-Nation Series, he became the third umpire, and first from Pakistan, to officiate in 200 ODIs.

On 16 March 2023, Dar stepped down from the elite panel of umpires after a 19-year career. He will still umpire games if the PCB selects him to stand in games played in Pakistan.

From 5–7 April 2023, He stood in his last test match as an Elite panel umpire, during the one-off test between Bangladesh and Ireland. At the end of the match, he also received a Guard of Honor from both teams and a memento was presented to him by Bangladesh Cricket Board.

Aleem Dar Cricket Academy
Aleem Dar Cricket Academy, ADCA is a training and coaching academy for hearing-impaired boys and girls. It is located in Lahore, Pakistan. It is equipped with a ground, gymnasium, jogging track and basketball court. Aleem Dar established the academy in 2013.

Dar's Delighto
In 2018, he started a restaurant named Dar's Delighto in PIA Cooperative Housing Society, Lahore.

Accolades
After being nominated twice in 2005 and 2006, Aleem finally won the Umpire of the Year award in October 2009, at the annual ICC awards ceremony in Johannesburg, South Africa. By claiming the award, Aleem ended Simon Taufel's run of five successive awards. It was the first time that any umpire other than Taufel had picked up the accolade in the six years that the ceremony had taken place. In October 2010, he won the award for a second straight year. In September 2011, he was named best umpire for the third consecutive year. On 14 August 2010, the Government of Pakistan honoured him with the President's Award for Pride of Performance.

He was honoured by ICC for officiating in 150 ODIs.

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Hot Damn! (Every Time I Die album)

Hot Damn! is the second studio album by American metalcore band Every Time I Die.

Background
In mid-December 2002, it was announced that the band had booked time to record their next album in February 2003, with the aim of releasing it in June. Recording took place at Trax East studios in South River, New Jersey with producer Eric Rachel. On February 13, it was announced that drums had been tracked and that progress on guitars was underway.

"Romeo a Go-Go" is the lead track of this album. It mentions literary figures such as Milton, Shakespeare, Donne, and Chaucer. According to frontman Keith Buckley: "At the time that we wrote the record, I was like finishing up at U.B., and I had to take like, a ton, a ton of literary courses because I was an English major and I had to take a ton of literary courses to get my degree in the amount of time I had. So, I was taking like, six literature courses. So I was taking like Milton and Shakespeare, and John Donne and Chaucer, like all at the same time. So that was pretty much pervasive in my life. Like, all that old literature. So, I mean, if there is somebody out there that would actually put the time into reading hardcore lyrics, which I doubt there is, then, you know, there is a lot of Shakespeare images in there, just because that was what I was reading at the time."

Release
Following recording, the band went on tour with Unearth and Evergreen Terrace in March 2003. Before embarking on another tour, the band filmed a music video with director Darren Doane for "Ebolarama". In April, the band performed a few shows with the Dillinger Escape Plan. In April and May, the band went on tour with Hopesfall, the Beautiful Mistake, and Celebrity. In May and June, the band went on tour with Give Up the Ghost. Throughout parts of tour, the Hope Conspiracy, Suicide File, My Chemical Romance and Black Cross performed on select dates. On June 2, Hot Damn! was announced for release in the following month. Later in June, the band went on a UK tour with Nora. Hot Damn! was released on July 1 through Ferret Records. Following this, the band made an appearance at Hellfest. In late July and early August, the band went on tour with Throwdown, Terror, and Day of Contempt. Following this, the band went on tour with Comeback Kid for the remainder of August. In September and October, the band went on a US tour alongside From Autumn to Ashes, Cave In and Funeral for a Friend.

In early and mid-November, the band went on tour with Senses Fail. Following this, the band went on tour with Poison the Well in November and December. This Day Forward, ArmsBendBack, the Bronx, Nora and Codeseven appeared on select dates of the tour. The band performed a few US shows in late January 2004, before embarking on a European tour in February with Chimaira and Stampin' Ground. Prior to the tour, the group's manager put in a bid for them to play Ozzfest. Vocalist Keith Buckley said "No one had their hopes up or anything, so we just focused on the tour." While on the tour, the band received a call "saying it was looking real good, and by the time we got home it had already gone through. We were pretty blown away." On March 8, Hot Damn! was released in Europe by Roadrunner Records. It included two live recordings from Hellfest and a cover of the Guns N' Roses song "I Used to Love Her".

The band supported As I Lay Dying and the Black Dahlia Murder on their co-headlining tour of the US in March and April. The band performed a few shows in late April with Throwdown, Walls of Jericho and 36 Crazyfists, prior to headlining the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival. In May, the band went on tour of the US with Evergreen Terrace and the Kinison. On May 17, a music video for "I Been Gone a Long Time", directed by Greg Kaplan and Rafaela Monfradini, was posted online by Ferret Music. Between early July and early September, the band participated in the 2004 edition of Ozzfest, performing on the second stage. In between dates on the tour, the band performed a few shows with Lamb of God, Atreyu and Unearth. In addition, the band performed at the PigStock 10 festival in mid-August. From late September and early November, the band supported the Dillinger Escape Plan on their headlining US tour. In February 2005, the band supported Shadows Fall on their Extreme Dojo Vol. 12 tour in Japan, followed by a tour of Australia.

The album was reissued on vinyl as part of a box set along with Last Night in Town (2001) and Gutter Phenomenon (2005). The box set was released on December 12, 2006 through Suburban Home Records. Both Hot Damn! and Gutter Phenomenon were repressed in September 2008.

Reception
Hot Damn! sold close to 4,000 copies two weeks after its release. Ferret Music founder Carl Severson spent two years promoting Last Night in Town. Within five weeks, Hot Damn! had outsold Last Night in Town. The music video for "Ebolorama" was nominated for Best Metal Video of the New Millennium by MTV.

Personnel

 * Keith Buckley – vocals
 * Jordan Buckley – guitar
 * Andrew Williams – guitar
 * Michael "Ratboy" Novak Jr. – drums
 * Stephen Micciche – bass

Chart positions
Album - Billboard (North America)

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Thomas Hambly Ross

Thomas Hambly Ross (February 25, 1886 – November 20, 1956) was a Canadian politician.

Born in Woodstock, Ontario, Ross was first elected in the 1940 election as the Liberal Member of Parliament for Hamilton East, receiving 47.4% of the vote and defeating Conservative incumbent Albert Brown. He was re-elected in the 1945 election, with a significantly reduced plurality of 37.5%.

With his third election in 1949, Ross received 39.9%. His final election in 1953 saw Ross returned to Ottawa with 45.2% of the vote.

Sam Lawrence Park can be found on the western-end of Concession Street. Prior to 1944, this property was the Webb Quarry. In February 1944, The City of Hamilton was given 3 acre of land for park use by Thomas Hambly Ross, MP (Hamilton East), and his wife Olive. The park was originally named Ross Park, then renamed Patton Park in 1946, in honour of captain John MacMillan Stevenson Patton, a Hamiltonian who risked his life during World War II by detonating an unexploded bomb. For this exploit he received the first George Cross for Valour. In 1960, the park was renamed to honour Sam Lawrence. During 1990 to 1994, Sam Lawrence Park underwent a major upgrading that included repairing the stone walls, installing new walkways, site lighting, site furniture, and the redevelopment of the major rock gardens.

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Nasir Siddiki

Nasir K. Siddiki (born January 1, 1953) is a Canadian evangelist, author, and business consultant. Since September 2006, Siddiki has hosted a half-hour program on the Trinity Broadcasting Network called "Winning with Wisdom." Siddiki, originally from Canada, was a marketing consultant executive at a financial services company before a bout with shingles in the 1980s, which he says sparked his conversion from Islam to Christianity. Siddiki is still a consultant, but has also started a ministry named Wisdom Ministries in Tulsa, Oklahoma where he resides with his second wife Anita, their two children Matthew and Josiah, and his oldest son Aaron from his first marriage.

Siddiki primarily serves as a motivational speaker at conferences for Christian businessmen, but has also published a book titled Kingdom Principles of Financial Increase and subsequent pamphlets and videotapes. Siddiki has appeared with and been endorsed by Christian Ministers such as Benny Hinn, Rod Parsley (on his Breakthrough television program), and Kenneth Copeland.

Siddiki graduated from the Rhema Bible Training College, the Bible training center in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, founded by the son of Kenneth E. Hagin, and has an honorary doctorate from the American Bible College and Seminary in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

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Voyager: The Jugglers of Jusa

Voyager: The Jugglers of Jusa is the first remix album by darkwave band Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows, and was released in 1997. It was released as a companion to The inexperienced Spiral Traveller (aus dem Schoß der Hölle ward geboren die Totensonne), also released that year, and primarily features alternate versions of songs from that album. Only 3,000 copies of the album were pressed.

Overview
Like the earlier EP Ehjeh Ascher Ehjeh, Voyager consists of remixed versions of songs accompanied by some newer songs. Most of the remixed songs have had either their backing tracks removed, or had extra percussion and drum machines added. "Never trust the Obvious" receives two remixes: "The Innocence of Devils: Alone", which contains a recitation of author Edgar Allan Poe's Alone; and "Alone II", an extended version. The signature piece "Birth - Fiendish Figuration" is also featured as an instrumental; a remix of "Saturn-Impressionen" from Todeswunsch - Sous le soleil de Saturne also appears on this album.

The newer songs include "Modela est", a cover version of Kraftwerk's "Das Model" ("The Model"), sung in Latin; and "Feralia Genitalia", another ode to transsexualism as Anna-Varney Cantodea describes her "genitals rotting off" and her transformation into a woman.

Voyager: The Jugglers of Jusa was re-released alongside Ehjeh Ascher Ehjeh and the demo tape Es reiten die Toten so schnell... as part of the rarities box set Like a Corpse Standing in Desperation, due to costly prices for cheap copies of the album being sold on eBay. In the liner notes of the box set, Anna-Varney announces her outright hatred for Voyager by opening its section of liner notes with:

"... oh dear. What good thing could I possibly say about this most horrible piece of crap?!"

Similar comments were made about The Inexperienced Spiral Traveller. Cantodea, in the same essay, expresses her wishes to re-record the album at a future point. So far, only "May I kiss your Wound ?" has been re-recorded (for Songs from the Inverted Womb),while elements of "Feralia Genitalia" were re-used for "Va(r)nitas, vanitas... (...omnia vanitas)" on Dead Lovers' Sarabande (Face Two).

She rerecorded "Alone" on Poetica (All Beauty Sleeps), and she recorded some samples from Feralia Genitalia on her 2018 album The Spiral Sacrifice.

Personnel

 * Una Fallada: Violin
 * Matthias Eder: Cello
 * Gerrit Fischer: Guitar
 * Constanze Spengler: Lute
 * Anna-Varney Cantodea: Vocals, all other instruments and programming

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/CD copying software

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The result of the debate was redirect (unanimous). Scimitar parley 17:31, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

CD copying software
The first part is just a rephrase/dicdef, the rest can be covered in CD copy protection. Gazpacho 03:11, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect seems like the best option in this case. Aerion//talk 04:04, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to CD copy protection. --Ragib 06:58, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect. - Mgm|(talk) 09:49, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Gomco

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The result of the debate was delete. Joyous (talk) 16:38, July 30, 2005 (UTC)

Gomco
Band vanity. See also A Thousand Years, Greg Pearson, G. Pearson coming soon. Brighterorange 03:11, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. The user name for these contributions (Pearsong) would seem to give it away as vanity. Aerion//talk 04:17, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, fails WP:MUSIC. Dcarrano 15:25, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. The JPS 15:31, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn band vanity. -- Etacar11   23:22, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn band vanity. JamesBurns 03:58, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

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Brass Monkey (cocktail)

Brass Monkey is a brand name of pre-mixed cocktails made by the Heublein Company. As with many lesser-known cocktails that are named after colloquial expressions, widely differing recipes share the same name.

In the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, the Heublein Company produced the premixed cocktail labeled Brass Monkey. Heublein pre-mixed bottled cocktails were fairly inexpensive and provided a portable alternative to regular mixed drinks. Heublein was based in Stamford, Connecticut, and had production facilities in the Hartford, Connecticut, area. The Brass Monkey cocktail was available in bottles from half pint up to 750 ml. During the time Heublein produced Brass Monkey, liquor stores carried mostly beer, wine, and hard alcohol; very few premixed alternatives were available.

Steve Doniger, an advertising executive, named the brand after an alleged World War II spy named H. E. Rasske. Allan Kaufman, who crafted a series of stories about the spy, created the ad campaign using an old photo of his father as Rasske’s image.

In 1982, the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company acquired Heublein Inc. for $1.4 billion. RJR Nabisco sold the division to Grand Metropolitan in 1987. Grand Metropolitan merged with Guinness to form Diageo in 1997.

Sales and popularity of Heublein's Brass Monkey spirit cocktails increased in the 1980s after the release of the Beastie Boys' song of the same name. It was widely and incorrectly believed that the Beastie Boys were referring to a different drink made from a 40-ounce container of malt liquor mixed with orange juice ("forty" is mentioned in the lyrics); however, Mike D has publicly confirmed that the premixed Heublein cocktail was their inspiration.

After several years of absence from the market, the Brass Monkey premixed cocktail reemerged in the late 2000s as The Club Brass Monkey as part of the Club Cocktails line of bottled mixed drinks produced by The Club Distilling Company (owned at the time by Diageo) but has since been discontinued.

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USS Walker (DD-517)

USS Walker (DD-517), a Fletcher-class destroyer, was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Admiral John Grimes Walker (1835–1907).

Walker was laid down on 31 August 1942 by the Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine; launched on 31 January 1943, sponsored by Miss Sarah C. Walker; and commissioned on 3 April 1943.

The first seven months of Walker's service took place in the Atlantic where she was engaged in Caribbean escort duty and training exercises in preparation for Pacific combat duty. The highlights of this period included the capture on 7 August of 43 survivors of the GS U-615 which had been damaged by Navy air units off Cuba, and the responsibility of escorting the Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, from San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Casablanca to participate in the Moscow Conference of October 1943.

1944
Walker transited the Panama Canal on 1 November 1943 and proceeded to join the forces engaged in the conquest of Tarawa. After a month of operations in that area, the destroyer took part in the Marshall Islands campaign from 29 January through 8 February 1944. She joined forces at Funafuti for the invasion of Kwajalein; and, as part of a heavy cruiser bombardment unit, she participated in numerous neutralization bombardments at Wotje and Taroa. The only Japanese resistance encountered came from shore batteries which failed to hit their mark.

From March through June 1944, Walker operated in the South Pacific escorting troops and transports from Guadalcanal to Bougainville and from various points in New Guinea. Other ports visited during this period were Purvis Bay, Tulagi; Empress Augusta Bay, Bougainville; Milne Bay and Buna, New Guinea.

The Marianas operation involved the invasion of Saipan, Tinian, and Guam by forces under Admiral Raymond A. Spruance. Walker began service assigned to an escort carrier unit providing air support for the amphibious forces headed for Guam. The group departed from Kwajalein in June; but, due to the bitterness of the campaign for Saipan, the Guam landings were postponed, and the ships returned to Eniwetok. After the need for further naval support had passed, Walker proceeded to Pearl Harbor for rehearsals of scheduled landings on Yap Island.

Leaving Pearl Harbor in September, Walker was transferred to the 7th Fleet as a fire support ship for the invasion of the Philippines. This group of transports and destroyers sailed from Manus and arrived at Leyte Gulf on 20 October. During this operation, Walker experienced her first air action and downed one enemy fighter plane as well as provided gunfire support in the Dulag area. The transports were rapidly unloaded and departed with Walker and other escorts prior to the arrival of the Japanese naval forces and the ensuing Battle of Leyte Gulf from 24 to 25 October 1944.

The group proceeded to Morotai to reload support troops for Leyte. At Morotai, nightly Japanese air attacks harassed the ships but caused little damage. The group then returned to Leyte and unloaded its troops. Suicide air attacks and torpedo bombers were encountered during this trip, but no damage was suffered. After a brief stop at Palau, Walker received orders to return home, and she reached the Mare Island Navy Yard, San Francisco, California, on Christmas Eve 1944.

1945
The most memorable part of Walker's combat service began in mid-March 1945 when, fresh from navy yard overhaul, she joined Admiral Marc Mitscher's famed Task Force 58 (TF 58) at Ulithi, Caroline Islands. This force proceeded to Kyūshū and Honshū, Japan, for air strikes designed to neutralize and weaken Japanese air power.

Following these strikes, TF 58 proceeded to Okinawa to support the amphibious assault launched there on 1 April 1945. While alone on picket duty 12 miles from the main group, Walker was subjected to persistent Japanese kamikaze attacks. One plane dropped a torpedo just after dark which passed close astern. During that night, Walker's agile maneuvers and accurate guns beat off three more such attacks. On 7 April 1945, Paul Klahr, Gun Captain of 40 mm Gun 43 (starboard midship position), vividly recalls that a Zeke fighter circled the stern and began diving for the bridge from the starboard side of the Walker. The Zeke passed forward of Klahr's gun position by about 20 feet allowing him and his crew to see the face of the pilot. He remembers the pilot's look of fear, facing his impending death. One member of his gun crew actually threw his helmet at the plane as it passed. The plane flew over the ship between the positions of the five inch guns Gun 1 and Gun 2 at an altitude low enough to part the lifelines on the port side before wheeling into the ocean and exploding, sending a solid sheet of water over the Walker mixed with debris from the plane and the shredded remains of its pilot.

After 80 days at sea, the task group returned to port. During this period, Walker towed USS Haggard (DD-555) to Kerama Retto near Okinawa after she had been damaged by kamikaze hits.

The destroyer continued operations through July and August with the 3d Fleet and encountered no Japanese air opposition. Walker was among the ships which bombarded Kamaishi, Honshū, Japan, on 18 July and made a similar attack at Hammahatsu and a return trip to Kamaishi. The coming of peace resulted in Walker entering Tokyo after a period of air-rescue duty during the airborne phase of the occupation.

On 1 November 1945, Walker arrived from the forward area at San Pedro, California; and, on 31 May 1946, she was placed out of commission, in reserve, at San Diego.

1950 – 1963
The ship remained in "mothballs" until 15 September 1950 when she was recommissioned and converted to an escort destroyer. From the time of her recommissioning until 27 February 1951, Walker remained in yard overhaul.

Following a shakedown cruise, the escort destroyer departed San Diego and participated in the atomic Exercise Greenhouse at Eniwetok until June 1951. The next month, the ship joined the newly formed Escort Destroyer Squadron 1 based at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. She remained in Hawaii until November 1951 when she sailed for the western Pacific and joined the United Nations Blockading Force assisting UN ground troops in the Korean War. She escorted the fast carrier task forces which were supporting ground units with strategic air strikes. Thus ended Walker's Korean War service.

Walker returned to Pearl Harbor during March 1952 and conducted type training and routine exercises for the next several months. On 2 June, the escort destroyer sailed for her second western Pacific deployment. From that time until 29 December 1963, Walker completed nine such deployments. These very active years were spent, for the most part, conducting antisubmarine warfare exercises and various operations with her task group and elements of the Republic of Korea Navy and the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. Walker's many "People to People" visits during this period helped to spread American good will abroad. Highlights of these years included assistance to the town of Koniya, Amami Ōshima, which had suffered major damage from a raging fire in September 1958 and as a recovery ship for a Project Mercury space flight on 28 September 1962.

1964 – 1965
On 4 January 1964, Walker commenced a two-week tender availability at Pearl Harbor with USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36). On 31 January, the ship officially entered the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard for overhaul. The completion of yard overhaul on 30 April marked the commencement of local exercises in preparation for refresher training. On 19 May, Walker took part in the filming of the movie None But The Brave at the island of Kauai. After a month of refresher training and an administrative inspection, the escort destroyer underwent upkeep which took her through June.

The summer months found Walker engaged in local operations. On 17 August 1964, the ship continued her movie career with a supporting role in Otto Preminger's production of In Harm's Way. During October and November, the escort destroyer underwent a pre-employment inspection and an operational readiness inspection which was concluded on 20 November, three days prior to departure for a western Pacific deployment.

On 3 December 1964, Walker arrived at Yokosuka, Japan, where she joined in Exercise Tall Back with the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CVS-10), followed by duties on the Junk patrol which combatted the infiltration of arms into South Vietnam from North Vietnam and the People's Republic of China. During this period, the escort destroyer performed a month of uneventful duty on the Taiwan patrol.

Walker participated in an artistic photo of Task Force 77 in 1965. Walker departed Vietnam waters on 27 April 1965 and, after a brief stop at Yokosuka, Japan, arrived at Pearl Harbor on 13 May. The remainder of May and June was spent in leave and upkeep. The escort destroyer spent the rest of the year in local operations. On 8 December, Walker was drydocked and spent the holiday season in leave and upkeep.

1966
January 1966 saw the ship taking part in local operations and making preparations for an upcoming deployment. On 7 February, she commenced a six-month cruise, arriving at Yokosuka via Midway Atoll 10 days later. Duty in the South China Sea began on 28 February with assignments as a planeguard and as a naval gunfire support ship. Walker's first offensive actions of the Vietnam War occurred on 5 March in support of United States and Allied forces. This assignment was interrupted by patrol duty in the Taiwan Strait and rest and rehabilitation at Keelung, Taiwan; and Hong Kong.

Walker returned to Qui Nhơn, South Vietnam, on 22 April and began support missions, shooting direct fire at the Vietcong coastal supply areas and troop concentrations. The second ship on station, Walker received sporadic machine gunfire from the enemy ashore while a gig was returning with spotters and advisors to the ship for a briefing. This was the first time since World War II that Walker had been subjected to hostile fire.

On 26 April 1966, the escort destroyer supplied direct, indirect, harassment, and interdiction support for Operation Osage, a combined amphibious assault at Chu Lai. These duties were interrupted to escort a Marine Corps motor convoy from Da Nang to Phu Bai on 28 April. On 1 May, the ship detached and proceeded independently for repairs at Sasebo, Japan, via Buckner Bay, Okinawa.

Walker set course on 17 May for Manila Bay, Philippines, where she joined in SEATO antisubmarine warfare Exercise Sea Imp which lasted until 6 June. The ship next joined USS Taylor (DDE-468) for a month of patrol duty in the Taiwan Strait during which time she rescued a Nationalist Chinese fishing boat adrift for 48 hours. The escort destroyer returned to Yokosuka, Japan, on 8 July.

Instead of departing for home, Walker received orders to replace USS Walke (DD-723) in antisubmarine exercises in the Sea of Japan. These exercises included the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and naval units of the Republic of Korea. On 24 July, a Soviet Kotlin-class destroyer was sighted as it commenced shadowing the Allied group. Walker was designated to shoulder the Russian destroyer, and she was successful in preventing the attempted penetration of the screen by the Russian ship and her replacement. Walker also assumed duty on 29 July as a shadow against the Soviet electronics intelligence (Elint) trawler Izmeritel.

On 1 August 1966, Walker detached and proceeded to Yokosuka from whence she began the transit to Hawaii. She arrived at Pearl Harbor on 10 August and made preparations for a yard overhaul. Walker entered the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard on 19 September and remained in overhaul status for the rest of calendar year 1966.

1967
Regular overhaul was completed on 3 February 1967, and type training exercises, refresher training, and an operational readiness evaluation followed. On 18 April, Walker departed Pearl Harbor en route to Japan. From 4 to 17 May, the task group embarked on a transit of the Sea of Japan to demonstrate antisubmarine and antiair capabilities with the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force.

On 10 May 1967, Walker relieved USS Taylor (DDE-468) of screening duty for USS Hornet (CV-12) from the Soviet destroyer Besslednyy (022) which was attempting to close Hornet and harass the task group. A collision occurred between the two ships with minor damage sustained by both ships. The next day, Walker was again involved in screening duties with a Soviet ship. Late in the afternoon, a Soviet Krupnyy-class destroyer ("025") began to maneuver in an attempt to close Hornet; Walker effectively maneuvered the ship away. The Soviet destroyer than signaled a left turn. Walker signaled "do not cross ahead of me." The Soviet ship came left and collided with Walker causing minor damage to both ships. Following exercises with the Republic of Korea Navy, Walker returned to Sasebo, Japan, and held a news conference and interviews on board concerning the Sea of Japan incidents.

The escort destroyer arrived at the Gulf of Tonkin on 25 May 1967. Walker served in several capacities: providing call fire, harassment, and interdiction fire for airborne spotters; acting as a rescue destroyer for Hornet, USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) and USS Constellation (CV-64); and firing around-the-clock missions for numerous Army and Marine units.

On the evening of 15 July, while providing gunfire support south of Cape Batangan, Walker received notification that a North Vietnamese naval trawler (459) carrying arms was expected to attempt a landing in the vicinity. Walker provided gunfire support for the attack on the trawler and suppressed enemy fire from the beach. The trawler was beached by the crew and abandoned with large quantities of arms, ammunition, and demolition equipment recovered by American forces.

Walker joined Operation Beacon Guide as a naval gunfire support ship on 20 July and provided preparation fire for the amphibious and helicopter assault south of Huế. After a brief tender availability at Taiwan, Walker returned to the Tonkin Gulf on 9 August and operated with USS Intrepid (CV-11) (CVS-11) for a week prior to departure for Hong Kong.

The escort destroyer rejoined Hornet, and the task group arrived at Hong Kong on 16 August, then transited to Sasebo, Japan, for repairs. Walker returned to the Gulf of Tonkin on 7 September and was detached three days later to proceed to the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea and conduct surveillance and gather intelligence data about the Chinese communist-held islands.

Upon her return to the waters off Vietnam, Walker reported to USS Coral Sea (CV-43) for duty as her escort and spent the majority of September in various antisubmarine warfare exercises. On 27 September, Walker rejoined Hornet and rescued four survivors of an aircraft which had plunged into the water after losing an engine during launch.

On 1 October 1967, the escort destroyer returned to antisubmarine warfare (ASW) exercises, then headed for upkeep at Yokosuka prior to preceding to the eastern Pacific. Walker arrived at Pearl Harbor on 23 October and spent a month in post-deployment leave, type training, and a reserve cruise. Holiday leave commenced on 15 December.

1968
Walker spent the first seven months of 1968 in her home port conducting type training and preparing for a final western Pacific deployment. On 5 August, the escort destroyer got underway on the fourth western Pacific deployment since the beginning of the Vietnam War. She arrived at Subic Bay, Philippines, via Midway Atoll and Guam on 18 August, then proceeded to Vietnam.

Planeguard duty with USS America (CVA-66) was Walker's first assignment. During her first night on station, she rescued a man overboard from America. On 13 November, Walker was relieved and proceeded to Subic Bay for upkeep. On 1 December, the escort destroyer arrived at the area north of Vũng Tàu for gunline duty which ended on 15 December.

After a fuel stop at Subic Bay, Walker continued to Cebu, Philippines, arriving on 18 December as part of Operation Handclasp. The ship returned to Subic Bay on 22 December for a five-day tender availability alongside USS Samuel Gompers (AD-37). On 29 December, Walker returned to Vietnam for a week of planeguard duty with Constellation (CVA-64).

1969
On 5 January 1969, the escort destroyer departed for visits to Hong Kong and Subic Bay. The ship joined three other destroyers and sailed for Australia and New Zealand. Walker and Taylor visited Wollongong and Melbourne, Australia; and Auckland, New Zealand, before arriving back at Pearl Harbor on 28 February. March was spent in leave; and, at the end of the month, Walker received word that she would be decommissioned.

May was spent in port at Pearl Harbor; but, on 2 June, Walker got underway for San Diego, the designated decommissioning site. On 2 July 1969, Walker was decommissioned and stricken from the Navy List.

Fante (D 561)
The ship was sold to Italy, where she was renamed Fante (D 561). Fante was retired from Italian Navy service in 1977, and broken up for scrap.

Honors
Walker earned six battle stars for World War II engagements, two for Korean War, and three for Vietnam War service.

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