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Liverpool Speedway

Liverpool Speedway (also known during its life as Liverpool International Speedway and Liverpool City Raceway) was located in Green Valley, Western Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Liverpool was officially opened by Frank Oliveri and the Oliveri Family, alongside Ald. E. Smith, the mayor of Liverpool at the time, and ran until its sudden and unexpected closure in 1989. Frank Oliveri would later share track management with track announcer and promoter, Channel 7 television sports presenter Mike Raymond.

The builder of the race circuit is named Douglas Charles Barrett.

History
Liverpool Speedway was officially opened by the Oliveri Family on 14 May 1967. The 440 m track was D-shaped and was a clay-and-dolomite mix. On the program that first night were Speedcars, TQ's, super modifieds, stock cars and production sedans.

Liverpool was managed and promoted by Channel 7 television sports presenter Mike Raymond and former Liverpool Mayor Frank Oliveri. The speedway was promoted heavily on television and radio. With television personality Raymond in charge, Liverpool was perhaps the best-promoted speedway in Australia during the mid-1970s and through the 1980s.

During the winter of 1974, the management of the speedway announced that the track surface was being changed from clay and dolomite to asphalt. At this time the venue had its first name change when it became known as the "Liverpool International Speedway". Also announced at the time were extensive renovations including a fully enclosed grandstand with a glass-enclosed restaurant, a VIP lounge and a 3-storey control tower, all aimed at increasing the track's spectator capacity to around 35,000. The track was paved in time for the 1974/75 season, but the other proposed works never got off the ground.

Liverpool Speedway's biggest annual event was the Marlboro Grand National 100 Lap race which was first run in 1971 and won by local driver Rick Hunter. The race became the home of specialist pavement racing cars which eventually became known as Grand National's. This event attracted drivers from all around Australia and the United States making it the most prestigious sedan based speedway event ever hosted in Australia at the time other than the annual National Championships and crowds of up to 25,000 people would attend this event.

Grand National Sedans were a new breed of cars developed especially for Liverpool Raceway, though some were easily adapted for the many dirt track speedways around Australia. They were a tube spaceframe chassis with a fuel injected small block V8 engine, similar to a Sprintcar engine and although designed primarily for racing on Liverpool's paved oval the cars competed on dirt or clay around the country including at the Newcastle Motordrome north of Sydney, Parramatta City Raceway in western Sydney, Rowley Park and later Speedway Park in Adelaide, Claremont Speedway in Perth, Premier Speedway in Warrnambool, and Archerfield Speedway in Brisbane.

One of the speedway management's biggest promotions was to annually bring a team of four sedan drivers from America to race at Liverpool in test Matches against the Australian drivers. American drivers such as Gene Welch, "Big Ed" Wilbur and Rodney Combs became regulars in Australia and the action on the track was often described as "World Championship Wrestling on Wheels". The test matches took place both on the dirt track and the pavement with the usually good natured crowd totally against the visiting Americans.

Despite the change in track surface from dirt to asphalt, Speedcars, Sprintcars and other car categories continued to race at the speedway with the track hosting the Australian Speedcar Championship in 1976 and a round of the three race 1977 Australian championship.

In 1975, Mike Raymond and his promotions partner Frank Oliveri attracted then three time Indy 500 champion A. J. Foyt and fellow Indy racer Mel Kenyon to Liverpool to race in VW powered Speedcars in the 21st Australian Speedcar Grand Prix. Foyt passed Kenyon for the lead in mid-race after Kenyon almost spun on oil and tapped the fence. Kenyon still finished 2nd while the USA made it a 1-4 result with Larry Rice and Garry Patterson being the only other drivers to finish on the lead lap. The attendance for the Grand Prix was around 10,000.

Foyt returned to Liverpool for the 22nd Australian Grand Prix in 1976 along with fellow Indy 500 winner Johnny Rutherford and fellow Americans Ron "Sleepy" Tripp and Hank Butcher. All four Americans, along with most of the field, drove the VW powered cars. A.J. Foyt was again the winner this time passing local hero and National Champion George Tatnell in the dying laps. Tatnell was driving his controversial Winfield sponsored "Wedge" Speedcar powered by an off-set Offenhauser engine. Despite Tatnell's over 10 years of racing speedway until that point, his relative inexperience at running on paved ovals compared to Foyt showed when his tyres went off while Foyt was able to keep his tyres fresh enough to push harder in the final laps.

Liverpool, which was renamed in 1980 to become the "Liverpool City Raceway", continued to run the Australian Speedcar Grand Prix on both the asphalt and dirt until 1988 with such winners as 10 time Australian Sprintcar Champion Garry Rush in 1977, Ron "Sleepy" Tripp of the United States in 1983 and 1984, and after the track had reverted to a clay surface, World of Outlaws legend Steve Kinser would swap his Sprintcar for a Speedcar and win in 1986.

Stock Saloons were also a favourite at the track. The cars had to be a pre-1968 production car and they raced the track in a Clockwise direction. In Speedway, either on dirt or bitumen, almost every class of car and the Solo bikes race oval tracks Anti-clockwise. Squealing tyres would become the norm at Liverpool in its 10-year run as a paved speedway.

When it was decided to pave the Speedway in 1974 it was also decided to build a 280 m, dolomite and dirt based motorcycle track on the inside of the pavement track so as to keep both cars and bikes on the same race program. As the new track had no outside safety fence, speedway management had to get special dispensation from the NSW Government to build the track as the NSW Speedway Act stated that no speedway could run without a safety fence. The new track a distinct camber and had two straights due to the back straight being not following the "D" curve of the main track (this also saw the spectators on the back straight about 30 metres back from the track). Previous to this, Solos and sidecars had been run at Liverpool on the main track since the tracks opening after local rider Gordon Guasco convinced Speedway Manager Oliveri to put bikes on the program. Guasco was to lose his life at the track in a crash on 8 November 1970.

The infield motorcycle track hosted many world class solo and sidecar riders during its life, with solo riders like local stars Billy Sanders, John Langfield, Phil Herne, Garry Middleton and Gary Guglielmi mixing it with interstate stars such as Phil Crump, John Boulger and John Titman. Also, World Champions such as Ivan Mauger (New Zealand), Ole Olsen and Hans Nielsen (Denmark) and Americans Bruce Penhall, Bobby Schwartz, Dennis Sigalos and Shawn Moran regularly raced at Liverpool when competing in Australia.

In 1976, Ole Olsen, the reigning World Champion, won the only Australian Solo Championship held at Liverpool, to date the last time a non-Australian won the national title. This was despite protests from other riders who did not believe the Dane should have been eligible to ride in an Australian Championship meeting.

In a major win for the Liverpool City Raceway management and promoters, the track was awarded the 1982 Speedway World Pairs Championship Final. It would prove to be the only time in the 26 years of the World Pairs Championship (1968-1993) that it was ever been held outside of England or Europe. The championship was won by Dennis Sigalos and Bobby Schwartz representing the United States. The pair finished unbeaten over their six heats with Sigalos winning each and Schwartz 2nd each time giving them a 5–1 advantage in each race. They finished on a perfect 30 points (Sigalos 18, Schwartz 12) ahead of Englands Peter Collins and Kenny Carter on 22 (Collins 15, Carter 7) and Denmark's Hans Nielsen and Ole Olsen in third on 21 points (Nielsen 11, Olsen 10). Host nation Australia, represented by local Liverpool riders Billy Sanders (the reigning Australian Champion) and Gary Guglielmi, finished in fourth place on 16 points (Sanders 11, Guglielmi 5). 1982 would prove to be the only time in World Pairs Final history that a pair have won with the maximum possible score.

Following the 1983/84 speedway season the pavement was torn up and the dirt was re-introduced with clay as the main surface, though the bikes continued on their own track as the main tracks clay surface was not suitable for bikes. The Grand Nationals were still popular, but Sprintcars were fast becoming Australia's most popular speedway division. Also popular at Liverpool and through NSW and Queensland was a class known as Compact Speedcars.

METRO WEST BMX
Liverpool also had a BMX track at the south western end of the venue and hosted many international events. The BMX track was known as "Metro West" BMX track. The track originally had the starting hill in the center of the track. All of the riders would line up just outside the track and win between races, three races full of riders at a time would cross two racing lanes of the track to behind the starting hill. They would then select a golf ball out of a bucket with 1 of 6 numbers written on it, which gave them their starting lane position. Around 1984, the starting hill was moved to the south west corner of the track. The track had fences with advertising signs and was very professionally operated. In the early 1980’s, a tour was organized for group of American riders who toured the country and raced at the venue. Stu Thompson, Greg Hill and Perry Kramer raced at Metro West at various times. One event at Metro West had a $10,000 pro purse which was the highest purse in Australian BMX history at the time.

The end
By 1989 the speedway was under threat by the so-called urban sprawl, and this led to the reluctant closure of the venue to make way for new housing and a shopping complex now known as the Valley Plaza and for Winnall Reserve, Rugby League Fields,the home of Hinchinbrook Hornets. With the Sydney Showground Speedway at Moore Park not hosting weekly meetings after the 1979/80 season, and Liverpool closing in 1989, this left the more Sprintcar focused Parramatta City Raceway at Granville (opened in 1977) as Sydney's only active major speedway. The bikes continued racing at the poorly attended Nepean Speedway in north western outskirts of Sydney, but otherwise many Sydney based riders such as Craig Boyce, Mick Poole and Stephen Davies were forced to use the popular Newcastle Motordrome as their home track. The Motordrome, which itself closed in 2002, was located approximately 175 km (108 mi) north of Sydney in Newcastle. Currently most Sydney and NSW riders use the motorcycle only Loxford Park Speedway in Kurri Kurri as their home track.

Classes of Racing

 * Sprintcars
 * Speedcars
 * Grand National Sedans
 * Stock Saloons / Super Sedans
 * Solos
 * Sidecars
 * BMX
 * Compact Speedcars
 * GP Midgets
 * Figure 8 racing
 * Demolition Derby
 * Stunt Shows

World Pairs Championship

 * 1982 - 🇺🇸 United States (Bobby Schwartz / Dennis Sigalos) - 30pts

Famous Competitors
Deceased
 * Jim Airey (🇦🇺) (solo)
 * Grenville Anderson (🇦🇺) (sedan) †
 * Paul Ash (🇦🇺) (grand national sedan)
 * John Boulger (🇦🇺) (solo)
 * Steve Brazier (🇦🇺) (sprintcar)
 * Dick Britton (🇦🇺) (sprintcar/super modified)
 * Brian Callaghan (🇦🇺) (sedan/speedcar)
 * Kenny Carter (🏴) (solo) †
 * Peter Collins (🏴) (solo)
 * Rodney Combs (🇺🇸) (sedan)
 * Gene Cook (🇦🇺) (grand national sedan)
 * Peter Crick (🇦🇺) (grand national sedan)
 * Phil Crump (🇦🇺) (solo)
 * Max Dumesny (🇦🇺) (sprintcar)
 * Johnny Fenton (🇦🇺) (speedcar)
 * A. J. Foyt (🇺🇸) (speedcar)
 * Ove Fundin (🇸🇪) (Solo)
 * Ray Godsey (🇺🇸) (grand national sedan)
 * Barry Graham (🇦🇺) (sedan/speedcar)
 * Gordon Guasco (🇦🇺) (Solo) †
 * John Harvey (🇦🇺) (speedcar)
 * Jack Hewitt (🇺🇸) (grand national sedan)
 * Mel Kenyon (🇺🇸) (speedcar)
 * Karl Kinser (🇺🇸) (sprintcar)
 * Kelly Kinser (🇺🇸) (sprintcar)
 * Randy Kinser (🇺🇸) (sprintcar)
 * Steve Kinser (🇺🇸) (sprintcar/speedcar)
 * Ivan Mauger (🇳🇿) (solo)
 * Sid Middlemass (🇦🇺) (speedcar)
 * Rick Miller (🇺🇸) (solo *Jeff Muller NSW - Production Sedan/AUS Grand National Sedan (Driver)
 * Larry Moore (🇺🇸) (sedan)
 * Shawn Moran (🇺🇸) (solo)
 * Hans Nielsen (solo)
 * Ole Olsen (solo)
 * Gary Patterson (🇺🇸) (sprintcar/speedcar) †
 * Bruce Penhall (🇺🇸) (solo)
 * Barry Pinchbeck (🇦🇺) (speedcar)
 * Garry Rush (🇦🇺) (sprintcar/speedcar)
 * Johnny Rutherford (🇺🇸) (speedcar)
 * Mitch Shirra (🇳🇿) (solo)
 * Brooke Tatnell (🇦🇺) (sprintcar)
 * George Tatnell (🇦🇺) (sprintcar/speedcar) †
 * Ron "Sleepy" Tripp (🇺🇸) (speedcar)
 * Billy Sanders (🇦🇺) (solo) †
 * Bobby Schwartz (🇺🇸) (solo)
 * Mitch Shirra (solo)
 * Dennis Sigalos (🇺🇸) (solo)
 * "Big" Ed Wilbur (🇺🇸) (sedan)

† - Deceaced

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24 Carat Gold (album)

24 Carat Gold is a best-of album by German techno group Scooter, featuring 24 gold-selling songs from 1994 until its release date on 4 November 2002. Many of the songs on the album are digitally remastered versions, with some of the songs being shortened as to fit all of the tracks on the album. The album's track list is chronologically backwards in the sense that "Nessaja" was the latest single release while "Hyper Hyper" was their first commercially successful single to be released.

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Talk:Adiemus (albums)

hi, OmegaWikipedia... think you may have labelled this article a stub by mistake! I wrote it as a complete article, it's miles longer than anything else in Category:Album stubs, and it's not the kind of album that warrants a full essay in any case. I've removed the stub text. Chi Sigma 14:01, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Not latin?
The article says that the words are made up, including presumably the titles, and that the word "adiemus" is similarly made up phoenetically. As a Latin teacher, I can vouch that almost every one of the song titles are straight Latin--I can read them perfectly fine--and there can't be any statistical merit to saying that's a coincidence. Not only are they straight plain Latin, but they all have meanings correlative to music or the heavens or other correlative topics. --Mrcolj 19:16, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

The name does not really sound like a Latin word meaning "we will draw near" (that would be adibimus); rather, it looks like a form meant to mean that, but formed after the wrong conjugation pattern. 84.58.225.151 00:37, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

I just meant there are ubiquitous articles on google asserting that "Jenkins didn't know it sounded Latin" or "didn't know that it was close to adibimus" or the like, and that's simply not the case. From the article, "The word Adiemus itself resembles a Latin word meaning 'We will draw near', though incorrectly formed; Jenkins claims to have been unaware of this." That's impossible. He may have made a mistake in translating the title, but it's still Latin. Whether from adire or audire, or anything else, if he made it to sound Latin and it's coincidentally a Latin word that means exactly what he pretends he made it up to mean, something's fishy... It'd be like if I made up the word "computro" and said it meant a box that does math really fast--especially after having made up 20 other words in the same place that are all exact computer words. It's possible, but so statistically irrelevant that we have to put a one-word disclaimer in the article. --Mrcolj 16:13, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Post-modern?
I'm not sure it is at all accurate to describe the instrumental use of the voice as "post-modern". The article at present mentions Vangelis: not only was it done over 20 years earlier by Pink Floyd, but also by classical composers such as Giles Swayne and Olivier Messiaen, not to mention the whole tradition of Scat singing in jazz. Myopic Bookworm 12:23, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

Not unusual time signatures
Okay so 5/8 is a bit odd, but 3/2 and 6/8 are extremely common in my experience, and 9/8's not all that unusual either. The time signatures are part of the character of the music, but they shouldn't be mentioned as unusual when they aren't, I think. Mawich 15:17, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

I'd have to agree. I remember having to be able to recognise 6/8 and 3/2 time in aural tests while doing my cello and piano grades as a child in primary school. They're extremely common. - 79.69.121.249 (talk) 13:08, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

6/8 is common but 3/2 is not so frequent, I've played music for 8 years or so and I met 2/3 but not too often.188.36.17.11 (talk) 05:22, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

POV
There are many opinionated statements in this article, with few references to support anything of note. Please refer to Verifiability and Reliable sources before editing further. Also, on first reading, it is not easy to ascertain whether this is an article on a group, a composer's work, or a series of albums. I think that needs to be made clearer, and the categorisation of the article amended to reflect this. Thanks,

Derek R Bullamore (talk) 15:19, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

 * Agreed, I am removing some of the worst of it. Guy (Help!) 13:08, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

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Is there a better way to handle the subsection titles that keeps them all unique (per MOS:HEAD) while avoiding annoying redundancy? "Track listing for Adiemus [1/2/3/4/5]" doesn't strike me as ideal. —151.132.206.26 (talk) 14:21, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Daniel Garry

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The result of the debate was delete. Sjakkalle (Check!)  14:26, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Daniel Garry
Hoax, glorious hoax. Examining the claims made about Mister Garry, once we get past his birthdate, they are: bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, bullshit, and more bullshit. DS 14:01, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Damn right they are. My friend wrote this article about me, and sent me a link. It's all lies, including my birthdate. Delete. Deskana 20:33, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I made this page, and feel that it should be preserved for posterity. The guy who posted above is just exceptionally modest and feels uncomfortable having such a lovely article about him. 23:46, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Attack page. David | Talk 22:53, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, hoax. Dcarrano 23:04, July 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete hoax. He must have worn lots of skirts on SG-1... ;P --Etacar11 03:27, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete hoax. JamesBurns 03:06, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 'Delete hoax/attack. --Ragib 17:53, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * And the article gets yet more "interesting". Delete -- Deskana 21:03, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
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Slavonic-Serbian

Slavonic-Serbian (славяносербскій, slavjanoserbskij), Slavo-Serbian, or Slaveno-Serbian (славено-сербскiй, slaveno-serbskij; славеносрпски/slavenosrpski) was a literary language used by the Serbs in the Habsburg Empire, mostly in what is now Vojvodina, from the mid-18th century to the first decades of the 19th century, falling into obscurity by the 1870's. It was a linguistic blend of Church Slavonic of the Russian recension, vernacular Serbian (Shtokavian dialect), and Church Slavonic of the Serbian recension, with varying sources and differing attempts at standardisation.

History
At the beginning of the 18th century, the literary language of the Serbs was the Serbian recension of Church Slavonic (also called Serbo-Slavonic), with centuries-old tradition. After the Great Serb Migration of 1690, many Serbs left Ottoman-held territories and settled in southern areas of the Kingdom of Hungary in the Habsburg Empire, mostly in what is now Vojvodina. The Serbian Orthodox Church in these areas was in need of liturgical books, and the Serbian schools were in need of textbooks. The Habsburg court, however, did not allow the Serbs to establish their printing presses. The Serbian Orthodox Church and schools received ample help in books and teachers from the Russian Empire. By the mid-18th century, Serbo-Slavonic had been mostly replaced with Russo-Slavonic (Russian recension of Church Slavonic) as the principal literary language of the Serbs.

Around that time, laymen became more numerous and notable than Orthodox monks and priests among active Serbian writers. The secular writers wanted their works to be closer to the general Serbian readership, but at the same time, most of them regarded Church Slavonic as more prestigious and elevated than the popular Serbian language. Church Slavonic was also identified with the Proto-Slavic language, and its use in literature was seen as the continuation of an ancient tradition. The writers began blending Russo-Slavonic, vernacular Serbian, and Russian, and the resulting mixed language is called Slavonic-Serbian. The first printed work in Slavonic-Serbian appeared in 1768, written by Zaharije Orfelin. Before that, a German–Slavonic-Serbian dictionary was composed in the 1730s. The blended language became dominant in secular Serbian literature and publications during the 1780s and 1790s. At the beginning of the 19th century, it was severely attacked by Vuk Karadžić and his followers, whose reformatory efforts formed modern literary Serbian based on the popular language. The last notable work in Slavonic-Serbian was published in 1825.

Slavonic-Serbian was used in literary works, including prose and poetry, school textbooks, philological and theological works, popular scientific and practical books, and other kinds of publications. Various laws, decisions, and proclamations by the Habsburg authorities were printed in Slavonic-Serbian, in which also the first Serbian newspapers, Serbskija novini, appeared in 1791. Other periodicals include Slaveno-serbskij Magazin (1768) and Slaveno-serbskija vědomosti (1792–94), as well as the later Novine serbske iz carstvujuščega grada Vienne (1814–1817). A bidirectional German–Serbian dictionary (1791), with around 20,000 headwords in each direction, was composed by adapting a German–Russian dictionary into Slavonic-Serbian.

Characteristics
Slavonic-Serbian texts exhibit lexical, phonological, morphological, and syntactical blending of Russo-Slavonic, vernacular Serbian, and, to a lesser degree, Russian; hybrid words are common. There are no definite rules determining how to combine elements from these languages. It mostly depends on the writer's linguistic attitude and the subject he writes about. So, in an Italian grammar written by Vikentije Ljuština, objects of everyday use are usually referred to by their Serbian names, while Russo-Slavonic names are used for religious holidays. During the short existence of Slavonic-Serbian, some forms became more or less standard, and the share of vernacular Serbian elements grew in it. Some authors argue that the application of Russo-Slavonic, Serbian, and Russian elements in a given work was regulated by stylistic conventions. In an individual sentence, the word stems or affixes could be either predominantly Serbian, or predominantly Russo-Slavonic, or combined in any other ratio. A sentence in the newspapers Slaveno-serbskija vědomosti, written by Stefan Novaković, is an example of elements from both languages being equally used, regarding both stems and affixes:

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User:HeliosDiem

 * HeliosDiem : The internet personality HeliosDiem is enjoys being involved in online communities and user created spaces, such as Blogs, Internet Relay Chat, Internet Forums. HeliosDiem discovered Wikipedia by using a chat client's auto lookup feature.

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User talk:Palaniswamy

Please stop adding nonsense to Wikipedia. It is considered vandalism. If you were just trying to experiment, then use the sandbox instead. Thank you. --Calton | Talk 14:05, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

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Miller Publishing Company

The Miller Publishing Company was founded by siblings Donald Miller and Donna (Miller) Reddington in 2002 to purchase four small weekly newspapers in southwestern Ohio from Cox Communications. Two of the papers are in Warren County, the Franklin Chronicle in Franklin and the Star-Press in Springboro. The other two papers are in Montgomery County, the Miamisburg-West Carrollton News in Miamisburg and the Germantown Press in Germantown. The company's headquarters are in Miamisburg.

The four papers had been owned by the Canadian newspaper giant Thomson. Thomson had acquired the Chronicle in 1976 and the Star Press and News in 1998 from the Brown Publishing Company, the company founded by Clarence J. Brown. When Thomson decided to exit the newspaper business in 2000, the papers were sold to Cox Communications, along with ten other papers, including the daily Middletown Journal and Ohio's oldest weekly, The Western Star, effective September 2, 2000. In August 2002, Cox announced it would sell the Germantown and Miamisburg papers and shutter the Franklin and Springboro papers, which were established in 1872 and 1976, respectively. However, Cox sold all four papers to the newly formed Miller Publishing Company on November 1, 2002. Donald Miller was a former executive of Brown Publishing.

The company struggled with the purchase and filed for bankruptcy protection January 16, 2004.

Miller Publishing currently does not have a web presence for any of its papers.

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User talk:Capills

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hymn to Hermes

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The result of the debate was TRANSWIKI to Wikisource. 3t, 2d. Below my usual threshold, but the later votes were based on Uncle G's observation which is important, and the first delete allows for interpretation once known to be useful as literature. Added to Transwiki log. -Splash 00:06, 23 July 2005 (UTC)

Hymn to Hermes
Forgive me, o mighty Hermes, but if this isn't copyvio, it should be transwiki'd to Wikisource. Non-encyclopedic, I don't see any way to salvage it. DS 14:07, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete copyvio. May be notable as a work of literature though. --Stevefarrell 00:33, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * It's a translation into English of one of the Homeric Hymns. Depending from the date of the translation, it may be Wikisourceable. Uncle G 02:57, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Trans-wiki     13:29, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Transwiki. JamesBurns 03:07, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
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User talk:Stefan Wolff~enwiki

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User talk:Garrybor

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Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, Infocomm Development Authority Of Singapore, and IDA Singapore
In the future, please use the "Move" tab instead of cut&paste to move content between names--it's the only way to keep the page history (and Talk page, if any) and content together, a GFDL licensing requirement. Also, due to Wikipedia's case-sensitivity, redirects from titles the Go button can find, such as "Infocomm Development Authority Of Singapore" (as opposed to those it can't, such as "Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore") are desirable, not deletion candidates. Alternate names are also desirable as redirects. Happy editing. Niteowlneils 15:40, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Find the rest of the Singapore community!
Yeap, you can find us in these pages:

 * Singapore portal
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Do leave your name at the notice board, and thanks again for making wikipedia your online abode! ;)--Huaiwei 17:37, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:MarcSherman

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Dedé (footballer, born 1978)

Leonardo de Deus Santos (born 18 April 1978), known as Dedé, is a retired Brazilian professional footballer who played as either a left back or left midfielder.

He played 13 years of his career with Borussia Dortmund, appearing in more than 400 official games and winning two Bundesliga championships.

Atlético Mineiro
Born in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais as the second of six brothers, Dedé was introduced to football at an early age, playing three-a-side matches with his brothers in his parents' apartment. "Our living room was the biggest room and also our playing field, with the doors to the kitchen and the bedroom as our goals. Well, you can imagine, we always broke things in the living room." On club level he first played for local Clube Atlético Mineiro, appearing in 30 Série A games in the 1997 season as the team finished in fourth position (two goals).

Also in that year, Dedé was awarded with the Bola de Prata award by magazine Placar, being chosen the best player in his position in the national league.

Borussia Dortmund
Dedé signed for Germany's Borussia Dortmund for the 1998–99 campaign, aged only 20. He made his Bundesliga debut on 14 August 1998, being stretchered off in the early minutes of an eventual 1–2 away loss against VfB Stuttgart, but finished his first year with 29 appearances as the Black Yellow finished fourth.

In the following season, Dedé was joined at Borussia by compatriot Evanílson, and the two proceeded to form an efficient wingback partnership in the following four years, being essential as the club won the 2002 league and reached that year's UEFA Cup final (with the player appearing in a total of 45 official games during the campaign, scoring once); he never appeared in less than 30 games from 2004 to 2008.

Afterwards, as his countryman before him, Dedé also begun suffering with injury problems, also facing stiff left-back competition from younger Marcel Schmelzer. He only appeared in 33 league matches in his last three seasons combined, including just four in 2010–11 for his second national championship.

Later years
On 27 July 2011, 33-year-old Dedé signed for Turkish club Eskişehirspor. He retired after three seasons in the Süper Lig, being subsequently appointed assistant coach under former Borussia boss Michael Skibbe.

International career
Dedé earned his first and only cap for Brazil in April 2004, in a 4–1 friendly win over Hungary. Earlier that year, he had expressed a desire to represent the German national team. The Qatar Football Association also offered Dedé to represent their national team in 2004 despite having no ties to the country, FIFA blocked his switch of nationality and tightened eligibility requirements as a result.

Personal life
Dedé's brothers, Cacá and Leandro, were also footballers. They too had (short) spells in Germany, with the latter coinciding with him at Borussia Dortmund.

Honours
Atlético Mineiro
 * Copa CONMEBOL: 1997

Borussia Dortmund
 * Bundesliga: 2001–02, 2010–11
 * UEFA Cup: Runner-up 2001–02
 * DFB-Pokal: Runner-up 2007–08
 * DFB-Ligapokal: Runner-up 2003

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User talk:ProcGenKawa

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 * Thanks for all the help! Saw you fixed my link, too. Thanks! Kawa

Hello!
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Hi Kawa. You can mark an image as fair use by typing  into the summary field when uploading an image. That includes the fair use template in the image's description page. (For much more information see the full list of copyright tags.)

IANAL, but as for whether or not the images are fair use, I think they would be. However, be careful about using too many images, especially from the same source. Also see the fair use guidelines.

Let me know if you need more help. — Bcat (talk | email) 19:01, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Hi!
Welcome to the Final Fantasy WikiProject! Deckiller 23:34, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Psst
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Florida Tech Userbox
will give you: Feel free to improve upon it. Enjoy! - Jameson L. Tai  talk ♦ contribs 17:29, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

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Talk:Mike Teavee

 * in one of the versions, is Mike stretched by a taffy-stretching machine instead of a gum-stretching machine?SpikeJones 14:09, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

That's right, in both movies.- B-101 11:55, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

2001
What is the meaning of the "2001: A Space Odyssey"-Reference? Is it just a gag or is there a deeper meaning/connection to the character Mike? --87.149.77.56 (talk) 22:17, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

internal link
Do we really need an internal link to "Stupid" from the word "dull"? Seems like a mindless edit to me...

I'm not saying that it's a bad thing to link things to and from wikipedia, but do we need to link every other word in the sentence? It makes it look like those other encyclopedia-wannabe pages out on the internet... Kareeser 02:19, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Book Illustration
Does anyone know where an illustration of this character can be found from Quention Blake's drawing of the novel? It should be added... JackOfHearts 00:42, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Mumbling Mike
Mike as a mumbler came from the book. Added that reference in the film version. Ronyu02 07:07, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Incorrect video game
"Mike is shown playing Unreal Tournament on his Playstation 2, and screaming, "Die! Die! Die!" The video game depicts blowing up zombies."

The game certainly does not look like Unreal Tournament and there are no Zombies neither in Unreal Tournament. The game looks much more like Gears of War. Need someone else to verify this, I'm new and do not wish to make an incorrect change. If I don't get an answer on this talk page I will make the change. --Sachaztan 01:08, 24 July 2007 (UTC) *edit* Just read that you should be bold and you can not mess anything up so I'm making the change

Denver Colorado
I'm wondering if we should mention the possibility that the location for Mike in 2005 was Denver and that it may be a slight allusion to nearby Littleton...and thus by extension Columbine, as a reference to Mike's violent tendencies. Any thoughts on this?--ip.address.conflict 20:28, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

Something odd
Mike's vice is that he watches too much TV, but isn't that kind of anachronistic to when the story was originally written? In the late 50s there was next to nothing ON TV. you MIGHT be able to watch Howdy Doody every weekday if you got there on time (and indeed the original book version has him dressed as a cowboy). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.122.63.142 (talk) 20:46, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Mike's song is a contradiction to his character; if TV makes a child stupid, Mike should be very dull (but he is in fact exceptionally gifted) --87.149.77.56 (talk) 22:30, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

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User talk:Jdcrulz

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User talk:Pvrowse

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 * The message above already says to check other images, but I just wanted to inject that this also apply to Image:Sidewave.jpg. --Sherool (talk) 18:25, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

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User:Scs/work on

 * C programming language, ANSI C
 * FAQ (and probably rename to FAQ list)
 * C string
 * Malloc
 * stat (Unix)
 * Unix philosophy
 * Regular expression
 * Escape character
 * Backward compatibility
 * Year 2038 problem
 * Crash (computing), Segmentation fault
 * UTF-8
 * DBCS
 * Dennis Ritchie (see http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/bigbio1st.html)
 * Unix manual (maybe redirect from Unix Programmer's Manual)
 * List of pseudorandom number generators
 * Han unification
 * Usenet
 * zsync
 * File (Unix) (also maybe rename to File (command))
 * Escapement
 * Endorheic
 * Carousel
 * Wallace and Gromit
 * karma (slashdot style)
 * Scientific method
 * E=mc²
 * Electricity distribution
 * Brass
 * Solder
 * Tool (category, etc.)
 * Fire fighting
 * Flamethrower
 * Backflow prevention device
 * Compression fitting, Street elbow, other plumbing-related (maybe also new pipe fittings)
 * Lego Technic
 * Sieve theory
 * Conway's Game of Life
 * Marineland of the Pacific
 * Palos Verdes
 * Wikipedian philosophy
 * Track circuit/Track circuits
 * Third rail (also needs better pics)
 * Internet sock puppet
 * Martin Gardner
 * Young Zaphod Plays it Safe
 * Baby Gramps
 * aerogel
 * Latch (hardware)
 * Socket wrench
 * Concrete (maybe add slump)
 * Fuel oil
 * Power law -- need colloquially-worded definition ("extremely lopsided distribution") and examples ("a few people have most of the money")
 * Dental caries
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 * Catnip
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 * Cartoon physics
 * Arthur Conan Doyle
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User talk:Kristijan~enwiki

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User:NaF-Retooc-S

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User:Julie713

I am newbie. Before creating Julie713 I made a page called Jerry Lawson. Now it says I need to post that I have copy right permission. I do! But have no idea how to. pLease help so it doesn't get deleted..

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Rudy Pompilli

Rudolph Clement Pompilii (April 16, 1924 – February 5, 1976) was an American musician best known for playing tenor saxophone with Bill Haley and His Comets. He was usually credited under the alternate spelling Rudy Pompilli and occasionally as Rudy Pell.

Biography
Pompilli was born in Chester, Pennsylvania. Occasional sources spell his first name as "Rudi", although Pompilli himself never used this form. Pompilli was skilled at playing both saxophone and clarinet, and spent the beginning of his career playing in jazz bands. In 1953, he was with the Ralph Marterie Orchestra. That orchestra coincidentally scored a hit with a cover version of Haley's "Crazy Man, Crazy", though research by Haley historian Chris Gardner found no evidence that Pompilli performed on that recording.

Pompilli was invited to join the Comets in September 1955, after Haley's previous sax player, Joey Ambrose, quit along with two other Comets to form The Jodimars. According to Haley, the young horn player had a dislike for rock and roll musicians, but he nonetheless accepted the offer. Ambrose gave Pompilli a crash course in the Haley style of saxophone playing, and he also learned the stage antics pioneered by Ambrose and bass player Marshall Lytle, including playing the sax while lying flat on his back and jumping all over the bass player. (Lytle also left for the Jodimars and was replaced by Al Rex.)

At Haley's request, the new band member changed the spelling of his last name from "Pompilii" to "Pompilli", as Haley was concerned that the former looked like a typographical error. Pompilli also frequently used the alias "Rudy Pell" and many of his autographs from the 1950s have this name rather than Pompilli.

Within a few months of joining The Comets, Pompilli had become the band's most visible member (aside from Haley himself), becoming the focus of "Rudy's Rock", a show-stopping instrumental co-written by Pompilli and Haley that debuted in the 1956 film Rock Around the Clock. When released as a single, "Rudy's Rock" reached #34 on the Billboard singles chart and #38 on the Cashbox Top Singles list, spending 4 weeks on that chart, and making it the first instrumental record of the rock and roll era to chart. Other acclaimed, but less commercially successful instrumentals followed, most notably "Calling All Comets" which was performed in the band's next film, 1957's Don't Knock the Rock.

In 1958, Rudy's cousin, Al Pompilli, joined the Comets for a year, playing bass after the departure of Al Rex.

Rudy Pompilli co-wrote the hit "Week End" with Franny Beecher and Billy Williamson, which reached No. 35 on the Billboard pop chart when released as a single in 1958 as by The Kingsmen on East West Records, East West 115. He also co-wrote the B-side, "Better Believe It", with Johnny Grande and Ralph Jones. A follow-up single was released on East West, "Conga Rock", written by drummer Ralph Jones, backed with "The Catwalk", written by Franny Beecher and Billy Williamson, as East West 120. Pompelli composed the hit "Florida Twist" with Anthony Caruso, which reached No. 3 as an Orfeon 45 on the Mexican pop singles chart in 1962 based on the Billboard Hits of the World chart. "Florida Twist" has since become a party standard in Latin America and has been covered by many artists in rock and roll, Tex-Mex and other genres.

Bill Haley's band would undergo many changes of personnel over the next two decades, but the one constant was Rudy Pompilli, who would become the band's road manager, taking care of paying the bills and arranging for the hiring of new musicians when required. (Pompilli did briefly quit the Comets during 1960-61 and was replaced by Al Dean, but soon returned to the band.) Pompilli also did solo work, performing regularly in Philadelphia area nightclubs, either by himself or with members of the Comets.

Illness, final years and death
Soon after a 1974 tour of Europe, Pompilli was diagnosed with lung cancer. He was not a smoker himself, and is believed to have contracted the disease through passive smoking. The ailing musician continued to tour with Haley throughout 1975 (including a tour of Brazil in October 1975), and that year also recorded his first and only solo album, Rudy's Rock: The Sax That Changed the World, which was recorded with session musicians and members of The Comets. He also continued to perform at the Nite Cap, a club in Chester, Pennsylvania; at one of his very last performances he performed with his former Comets bandmate Franny Beecher as well as then-current Comets guitarist Bill Turner.

Pompilli died from lung cancer on February 5, 1976, in Philadelphia. His death affected Haley deeply. After fulfilling touring commitments for the year with a replacement sax player, at the end of 1976 Haley announced his retirement from performing and moved full-time to Harlingen, Texas. Haley would return to touring and recording in 1979 and would dedicate a part of every show to Pompilli's memory with a performance of "Rudy's Rock".

Birth date
During research for an article on the 30th anniversary of Pompilli's death, researcher Chris Gardner uncovered documents that showed Pompilli was actually born in 1924, not 1926 as had commonly been believed (like Haley, Pompilli also shaved two years off his age).

Awards and honors
He was named Sax Player of the Year by Down Beat magazine in 1957.

In 2012, Pompilli was inducted as a member of the Comets into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by a special committee, aimed at correcting the previous mistake of not inducting the band with Bill Haley in 1987.

Compositions
He co-wrote "Week End" with Franny Beecher and Billy Williamson and the B side, "Better Believe It", with Johnny Grande and Ralph Jones. He co-wrote "Rudy's Rock" with Bill Haley and "Calling All Comets" with Bill Haley and Milt Gabler. He co-wrote "Hey Then, There Now" with Ralph Jones. He wrote "Florida Twist" with Anthony Caruso. He also co-wrote "Lean Jean". His other compositions were "China Twist", "Happy Twist", "Tacos de Twist", and "Twist del Dia" in 1962.

Other sources

 * Chris Gardner, "The Sax That Rocked the World", Now Dig This magazine, Issue 275, February 2006.

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 * I Got Mine (The Black Keys song), a song by blues-rock band The Black Keys
 * I Got Mine, a song by John Queen and Charlie Cartwell, first recorded and released by Arthur Collins (singer) and Joe Natus in 1902, with later versions (with rewritten lyrics) recorded by Frank Stokes in 1928, Pink Anderson, Ry Cooder, and others

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

The result of the debate was DELETE. -Splash 21:58, 12 September 2005 (UTC)

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This page is just a lame stab at John Howard's eyebrows, and there's really no need for an article like this. [maestro] 14:17, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

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Lutheran Churches of the Reformation

The Lutheran Churches of the Reformation (LCR) is an association of Lutheran congregations. The LCR has its roots among groups of Lutherans that broke with the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) in the middle of the 20th century, and was formally incorporated in 1964. Church services are generally traditional and reverent in the style of the mid-1900s conservative Christians.

History
In 1951, the Orthodox Lutheran Conference (OLC) was formed by pastors and congregations of the LCMS who were critical of the theological changes occurring in that body. The OLC itself split in 1956 when Paul E. Kretzmann, a professor in the OLC's seminary, suspended church fellowship with some congregations after they charged him with teaching error in class. Those congregations formed the Concordia Lutheran Conference, while most of the others, along with Kretzmann, later joined with other conservatives leaving the LCMS to organize as the LCR.

After the 1959 convention of the LCMS, conservative members of the synod began holding State of the Synod Conferences to discuss the problems they saw. Kretzmann, Wallace McLaughlin, and Harold Romoser, who all had been involved in the formation of the OLC, were also involved in these conferences. At the first conference, a 200-page book of documentation prepared by pastor Herman Otten of Trinity Lutheran Church in New Haven, Missouri, was presented. It listed every controversy within the LCMS since 1950, with sections on Martin Scharlemann, Jaroslav Pelikan, Martin Marty, the Common Confession, and Biblical authority and inspiration. The conference on May 15–16, 1961, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was attended by over 400 laymen and pastors who hoped to make progress on their concerns at the synod's upcoming convention in 1962. However, the State of the Synod Conference was not permitted to have a booth at the convention and the issues of concern were not addressed. As a result, St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in Detroit, Michigan, whose pastor, Cameron A. MacKenzie Sr., was a leader in the conferences, left the synod.

In early 1964, a group of pastors and laymen meeting at Trinity Lutheran Church in New Haven, Missouri, agreed that the time had come to form a new church body. The LCR was officially formed on April 28–29, 1964, at Emmaus Lutheran Church in Chicago. Notably, neither Otten nor Trinity Lutheran joined the new body. MacKenzie was elected as the first administrator and Romoser as the first coadjutor. By 1965, the LCR had seven member congregations, with applications from three more and ten other congregations in fellowship.

The LCR discussed church fellowship with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) in the 1960s, but finally decided, in July 1970, that the differences regarding the doctrine of church and ministry were divisive of church fellowship.

In 1972, St. Matthew's in Detroit left the LCR because of what it saw as improper involvement of the LCR in the congregation's affairs. Four other congregations were removed from membership in 1973 because they sided with St. Matthew's. Three more congregations, including Rosomer's, left for the same reason in 1976.

The Fellowship of Lutheran Congregations (FLC), is a group of congregations that left the LCR in 1979 after a dispute concerning the proper procedure of excommunication, namely, whether the person being excommunicated had to be present when the voters' assembly considered the question. The congregations of the FLC joined the Concordia Lutheran Conference in about 2004.

For a time in the 1990s, the LCR was in official church fellowship with the Illinois Lutheran Conference (ILC). The ILC was organized in 1979 after three congregations left the WELS in protest after a pastor was suspended due to claims he made regarding the King James Version of the Bible. There was controversy between the ILC and the LCR regarding the "appearance of evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22) and the doctrine of church and ministry. The LCR severed the fellowship because of differences discovered during the controversy over the "appearance of evil".

In February 2006, five congregations and four pastors suspended church fellowship with the rest of the LCR when, in the wake of a disagreement regarding the doctrine of the ministry, an LCR congregation was dissolved through legal action by certain members, most of whom were female, who disagreed with their pastor. This led to accusations of female suffrage by one side and legalism by the other. The LCR was never asked by either side of the congregation to adjudicate the division. The congregations that suspended fellowship in February 2006 withdrew their membership from the LCR in April 2006 after a special convention called to address the controversy refused to discuss the matter of female suffrage and the aforementioned dissolution. A position paper titled The Ministry and Auxiliary Office with Respect to Legalism that was presented at that conference in an attempt to resolve the controversy has since been adopted unanimously by the remaining congregations of the LCR. Another LCR position paper titled Liberty or Death, written to draw attention to different kinds of legalism, was subsequently adopted in July 2007. Those congregations that withdrew membership with the LCR have declared church fellowship with each other and have since organized the Orthodox Lutheran Confessional Conference (OLCC). A sixth congregation, in Hudson, Michigan, later withdrew from the LCR over the same issues, and remains independent.

Beliefs
The Lutheran Churches of the Reformation teach that the Bible is the only authoritative and error-free source for doctrine. It subscribes to the Lutheran Confessions (the Book of Concord) not in-so-far-as but because it is an accurate presentation of what Scripture teaches. It teaches that Jesus is the center of Scripture and the only way to eternal salvation, and that the Holy Spirit uses the gospel alone in Word and Sacraments (Baptism and Holy Communion) to bring people to faith in Jesus as Savior and keep them in that faith, strengthening them in their daily life of sanctification.

The doctrine of the Lutheran Churches of the Reformation is summarized in Franz August Otto Pieper's Brief Statement of the Doctrinal Position of the Missouri Synod and Wallace H. McLaughlin's We All Believe in One True God: A Summary of Biblical Doctrine.

Operations
The Lutheran Churches of the Reformation publishes One Accord, a monthly devotional and news magazine, and The Faithful Word, a quarterly theological journal.

The Martin Luther Institute of Sacred Studies in Decatur, Indiana, is the seminary and teacher's college of the LCR.

The LCR is governed through annual conventions where delegates of the congregations vote. Doctrinal resolutions must be unanimous, or those in the minority will be suspended from the LCR. The day-to-day business of the LCR is run by the Council, whose members are elected to three year terms, commissions, and committees.

For missions, the LCR has a missionary-at-large to serve those who have moved away from their congregations and other like-minded Lutherans. Abroad, the LCR supports congregations in Nigeria and Kenya and has trained pastors for the Lutheran Churches of the Reformation in Nigeria. The LCR has also held seminars to train pastors in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

As of March 2009, about 1,300 people are baptized members of LCR congregations.

Distinctive characteristics
The LCR believes that the local congregation is the only divinely ordained church organization, and does not refer to synods or denominations as churches. This separates the group from some other conservative Lutherans such as the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.

The congregations of the LCR use the King James Version of the Bible for all public uses, the 1943 "Blue" edition of Luther's Small Catechism in confirmation instruction, and The Lutheran Hymnal of 1941. The LCR does not, however, hold to the King James Only position, since it recognizes the traditional Hebrew and Greek, for the Old and New Testaments respectively, to be authoritative over any translation.

In 1990, the LCR passed a resolution titled "Procreation" stating that birth control, in all forms, is sin, although the denomination "allow(s) for… exceptional cases (casuistry)", for example, when the woman's life or health is at risk.

Congregations of the LCR follow in practicing male-only suffrage in congregational voter's assemblies. This represents alignment with the most conservative Lutheran bodies in the U.S., and departs significantly from its parent body, the LCMS, which permits its congregations local discretion on the matter.

The Lutheran Churches of the Reformation hold to Brief Statement of 1932, which confirms the long-held traditional beliefs of the Lutheran Church as documented in the Book of Concord, including: inerrancy of Scripture, divine creation in six days, a young earth, the divine institution of the local congregation and of the local office of the ministry, closed fellowship, and of the antichrist.

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Rimini Fellini Airport

Rimini and San Marino "Federico Fellini" International Airport (Aeroporto Internazionale di Rimini e San Marino 'Federico Fellini'; ), formerly Rimini Miramare Airport (Italian: Aeroporto di Rimini Miramare), and more simply known as Rimini Airport or Fellini Airport, is an international airport located in Rimini, in the region of Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy.

Fellini Airport is located in the southern frazione of Miramare, 5.2 km southeast of Rimini's city centre and near Riccione. As well as serving the Province of Rimini, it is the main aerial gateway to the Republic of San Marino. The airport is a crucial nexus in the local economy, particularly for tourists visiting the riviera romagnola. Since the airport's reopening in 2014, following the bankruptcy of the previous management company, Fellini Airport has been managed by AIRiminum 2014 SpA. It is named after Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini, who was born in Rimini, and recorded 215,767 passengers in 2022, rendering it the second-busiest airport in Emilia-Romagna after Bologna Airport. The airport is mainly served by low-cost carriers and charter traffic.

The airport was built in 1929 as an aerodrome, on the site of the former of the army's Aeronautical Service. It ranked among Italy's busiest airports during the 1960s, supported by international tourists visiting Rimini's beaches. Its passenger use declined with the opening of the A14 tolled highway in 1966. Since the end of the Cold War, Fellini Airport has been especially popular among tourists from the countries of the former Soviet Union. Russian and Ukrainian passengers together represented 61% of Fellini Airport's passengers before the 2022 invasion, which was projected to lose the airport 300,000 passengers annually. Alongside its civilian history, the airport has a notable military history: it was the home of the of the Italian Air Force between 1956 and 2010, and during the Cold War, it was identified by the Warsaw Pact as a strategic target in the event of an all-out war,  housing several thousand Italian and NATO soldiers and thirty B61 nuclear bombs. Helicopters belonging to the 7th Army Aviation Regiment "Vega" remain at the airport.

Early years
The site of the airport was used between July 1916 and November 1918 for the of the army's Aeronautical Service. The first airfield was constructed in 1929, with a single 500 m dirt runway perpendicular to the coastline. An aviation club was established in the airfield soon after its opening. On 15 June 1929, the Office of Civil Aviation approved a thrice-weekly summer passenger service to Milan, operated by Avio Linee Italiane; the maiden flight landed in Rimini on 17 August. In 1931, the airfield was designated as a stopover on flights between Rome and London, and services began to Venice, Vienna, Munich, and Brindisi.

A military and aerostatic facility was developed at the airfield in the early 1930s, and became operational by 19 November 1937. On 28 March 1938, the airport was dedicated as a military airport and named after Giannetto Vassura, a Cotignolese pilot and Sergeant Major in the Italian Army who died on his first aerial deployment during the Battle of Vittorio Veneto in the First World War. The surrounding streets were named after Italian pilots, while a dancing bar opened for aviators outside the airport. Civil aviation continued, and from 20 July 1939, an overnight service allowed business travellers to return to Milan after a day on Rimini's beach.

The airport sustained heavy aerial bombardment in the Second World War, when it was used as a prisoner-of-war camp for captured Allied soldiers. During the Battle of Rimini, German forces defended the airport with Panther turrets, barring Allied forces from advancing further up the Gothic Line along the end of the Via Flaminia. The 3rd Greek Mountain Brigade and the 18th New Zealand Armoured Regiment engaged the airport, whose defence and capture was central to the Battle of Rimini. After its capture, it returned to its use as a prisoner-of-war camp, housing up to 80,000 Axis forces. The camp was lightly surveilled and both prostitution and escape were rife. Erich Priebke, a perpetrator of the Ardeatine massacre, was a notable escapee.

Military history
In July 1956, the airport became the home of the of the Italian Air Force. It soon became an important military base for the Cold War, employing up to 2,000 air force soldiers and several hundred NATO soldiers, who were housed in a special "blue village" accommodation inside the airport complex that was built in the 1960s. From 1964, as many as 18 Lockheed F-104G fighter-bombers were stationed at the airport. Until 1991, four underground bunkers at the base housed around thirty B61 nuclear bombs, later returned to the United States. The opening of state archives in Budapest revealed that the airport was identified by the Warsaw Pact as a sensitive target in the event of an all-out war. The airport was also the site of several pacifist protests.

Smaller military units began withdrawing from the airport in September 1993, at the conclusion of the Cold War. The military command bunker was dismantled in the 1990s. In September 2010, the 5th Aerobrigade completed its transfer to Cervia. Some military personnel remained to operate the control tower, radar service, and weather station; these were transferred to civilian control in November 2016. The control tower and weather station were transferred to ENAV, while the radar service came under the control of Bologna Avvicinamento. Helicopters belonging to the 7th Army Aviation Regiment "Vega" remained in Rimini.

In November 2022, it was reported that the remaining military sector of the airport would move upstream, where new hangars would be built to house the new 'Fenice' helicopter that would replace the current 'Mongusta' helicopter. In its place, the military sector would inaugurate an educational hub including a kindergarten and nursery school at the site of the former barracks. Staff accommodation would remain at their current site.

Aeradria
In 1958, after a campaign by senator, the airport reopened to civilian traffic for fortnightly flights to London. The authorisation was granted on 23 February 1958 at a meeting in Rome between military and civil authorities and a delegation of Aero Club Rimini, led by aviator. In 1962, the management company Aeradria was founded. That year, Fellini Airport recorded 67,205 passengers on 1,120 flights. In 1966, Fellini Airport was Italy's fourth busiest airport by passenger numbers, with 392,594 passengers and 7,450 flights. Summer passenger movements exceeded annual movements in Turin Airport, explained in part by Italians' aversion to flying.

Prior to the opening of the A14 tolled highway in 1966, Fellini Airport was the main gateway to the riviera romagnola for foreign tourists, who constituted 60% of the tourism market. Fellini Airport would handle a hundred planes daily during the summer. The opening of the A14 reduced road journey times between Bologna and Rimini from eight hours to one, shifting the local tourist economy towards domestic tourism and reducing international demand from countries such as West Germany. The number of passengers peaked in 1972 with 558,000 passengers. By 1977, the airport recorded only 1,800 passenger flights; by 1993, there were only 42,311 passengers. From 1933, passenger numbers grew with tourists from the countries of the former Soviet Union. In May and June 2004, Fellini saw increased passenger movements as a result of redirected flights from Bologna Airport, which was closed for works.

In 2011, Fellini Airport recorded its highest number of annual passengers, with 916,239 passengers. 44% of passengers were from Russia, and there were 4,800 passengers on private flights. Fellini Airport was connected with seventy destinations in thirty-two countries. The feat was helped by WindJet moving its operations from Forlì Airport. The record led the Civil Aviation Authority briefly to restrict Fellini Airport's passenger movements, following concerns about the anti-dust strips and a required renovation of the airport apron.

On 26 November 2013, Aeradria was declared bankrupt after accumulating a debt of 58 million euros. The tendering process for new management was advertised on 7 May 2014. The airport closed on 1 November 2014, with commercial flights diverted to Ancona Falconara Airport. Following Aeradria's failure, on 4 November 2014, temporary management of the airport passed to Aero Club Rimini, a sports association that kept the airport open for general aviation.

Ariminum 2014
In November 2014, the airport's management was definitively awarded to Ariminum 2014 SpA. Fellini Airport reopened to commercial traffic on 1 April 2015. Russian airlines dominated among the first companies to fly to the reopened airport, including Transaero, VIM, Yamal, and Ural. Ryanair returned to Fellini Airport in 2018, and winter flights began from 2023. Wizz Air arrived in 2022, with a contract until 2027.

The reopening of Forlì Airport presented a competitor to Fellini Airport that fuelled a significant regional "war of the skies". In June 2022, Ariminum sued Albawings for advertising flights to Rimini that were landing at Forlì with an onwards bus connection. Albawings had flown from Fellini Airport with 30,000 annual passengers from 2016 until October 2021, when it unexpectedly resumed post-pandemic operations at Forlì, for which Ariminum requested compensation.

In February 2022, security captured a roe deer that had been roaming in the airport grounds for several months after her fawn had become trapped inside. The deer had become the subject of protests by animal welfare groups, which feared that it would be killed.

Prior to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the airport served several dozen weekly flights to Russia and Ukraine. Russian and Ukrainian traffic represented 61% of Fellini Airport's traffic. Ariminum projected that the suspension of air connections lost the airport a projected 300,000 passengers in 2022.

Facilities and operations
The airport is at an elevation of 12 m above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 13/31 with an asphalt surface measuring 2996 x, making it the longest runway in Emilia-Romagna. On 22 April 2021, the airport was equipped with Required Navigation Performance satellite approaches, permitting more aircraft movements during adverse weather conditions.

The airport's L-shaped two-floor passenger terminal measures 15500 m2. The ground floor contains both the arrival and departure lounges, while boarding gates are located on the ground floor for the Schengen Area and the first floor for elsewhere. Commercial shops and offices are also on the first floor. In October 2011, the airport opened a 150 m2 VIP lounge, including two check-in desks and 45 seats.

The airport has nine stands. In 2022, to allow the parking of Boeing 747 models, the runway was reinforced and a large apron created on the airport's Riccione side to allow airplanes more easily to manoeuvre to the terminal. Additionally, the arrivals area of the terminal was renovated with new floors and ceilings, and an easier exit to the car parks.

Official presence of San Marino
The government of San Marino first expressed an interest in entering the management of Fellini Airport in the early 1980s. Since then, the governments of San Marino and Italy have signed several bilateral agreements concerning San Marino's access to the airport. As a result of these accords, all air carriers recognised by San Marino have been able to fly to Fellini Airport, the Sammarinese government has been able to decide commercial routes, Sammarinese companies have been able to operate in Italian airports without restrictions, and the Sammarinese government has been able to carry out customs operations at Fellini Airport in agreement with the Italian authorities.

In 2002, the Sammarinese government acquired a 3% stake in Fellini Airport's management company, Aeradria. The airport was officially named Rimini-San Marino Airport. In June 2018, the subsequent management company, Airiminum, repainted the terminal sign to read Aeroporto Internazionale di Rimini e San Marino (Rimini and San Marino International Airport), replacing the previous Aeroporto Internazionale Federico Fellini (Federico Fellini International Airport).

The most significant agreement, ratified on 16 September 2013, provided San Marino a forty-year concession over some areas of Fellini Airport. The areas were expected to host a private terminal, with a customs border allowing goods destined for San Marino not to pass through Italian customs. As of August 2023, Sammarinese authorities still have no presence at the airport.

Airlines and destinations
The following airlines operate regular scheduled and charter flights at Fellini Airport:

Overview
In 2022, 17% of Fellini Airport's traffic was domestic, an additional 23% was international within the European Union, and the remaining 60% was traffic outside the European Union.

Road
Fellini Airport is located on the Via Flaminia state road, which runs along the Adriatic coast from Padua to Otranto. North of the airport, just outside Rimini's city centre, the SS16 meets the start of the SS72 state road, which leads to the Sammarinese border at Dogana, from which it continues as the San Marino Highway until Borgo Maggiore, from which the Funivia di San Marino runs to the City of San Marino. The Rimini Sud junction of the tolled A14 motorway, which follows the ancient Via Aemilia northwest to Bologna and runs south along the Adriatic coast to Taranto, is located 800 m along the SS72 state road. However, the airport is closer to the Riccione junction, which is the next junction southbound.

The airport contains parking spaces for 300 cars. The city council plans to construct an additional 200-space car park to serve the airport by the Metromare stop.

Bus
As of 2023, the only bus stopping directly in front of the airport is Start Romagna SpA's route 9, which connects the airport to Rimini's city centre, Rimini Fiera and either Santarcangelo di Romagna or San Vito. The route runs through Rimini's southern residential suburbs and the Colonella district, with stops including the city hospital, the Arch of Augustus, the Monumental Cemetery of Rimini, and Rimini's railway station.

Route 124 stops near the airport on Viale Losanna, on the other side of the SS16 state road. The route connects the airport to Rimini's city centre, Riccione, and Morciano di Romagna.

Metromare
The airport is indirectly connected to the Metromare trolleybus rapid transit line that runs between the railway stations of Rimini and Riccione. The route's Miramare Airport stop is located 825 m by road away from the airport entrance. To reach the airport, passengers descending from the Metromare need to go south along the Via Cavalieri di Vittorio Veneto, past the roundabout with Viale Losanna/Viale Felice Carlo Pullè, then northwest along the busy Via Flaminia state road. At the time of Metromare's launch, the SS16 could not be crossed by foot near the airport. Instead, the route 9M bus connects the stop to the airport.

The lack of a direct connection to the airport from Metromare has been criticised by local politicians. In April 2023, Roberta Frisoni, Rimini's councillor for public transportation, argued that the variability of demand for a direct airport connection – dependent on the times of flights – meant that a shuttle connection between the Metromare stop and airport is more appropriate. In September 2021, the municipal council approved a project that would allow pedestrians to reach the Metromare stop by lit segregated walkways and cross the SS16 by traffic lights. In September 2023, a feasbility study concluded that a covered overground walkway between the airport and stop would cost 13.7 million euros, with annual operating costs of 288,000 euros.

Railway
The nearest railway stations to the airport are:

 * Rimini railway station, which sits at the interchange of the Bologna–Ancona railway with the, and is served by regional, intercity, and high-speed Frecciarossa and Frecciabianca trains. The route 9 bus connects the airport with the station.
 * Riccione railway station, which is served by regional, intercity, and high-speed trains on the Bologna–Ancona railway. The route 124 bus stops near the airport and station.
 * Rimini Miramare railway station, a minor station which is geographically closest to the airport, but is only served by some regional trains on the Bologna–Ancona railway. The route 9M bus connects the airport with the station.

All three railway stations are served by Metromare.

Incidents and accidents
Fellini Airport's only fatal accident occurred on 31 July 1960. A Convair CV-240, which had made its maiden flight in 1948, operated by Deutsche Flugdienst was landing on runway 13 at the airport as scheduled from Düsseldorf Airport, with an intermediary stop in Frankfurt Airport. At an altitude of around 5000 ft, its left engine stuttered and stalled, followed by the right engine at 1500 ft. The plane was forced to make an emergency landing in a farm 1 km northwest of the airport. A right wing hit a tree on landing, and one of its branches struck a window, killing a 24-year-old German tourist on board. Three others were injured: the co-pilot, a stewardess, and a passenger. The aircraft was damaged beyond repair.

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Basel I

Basel I is the first Basel Accord. It arose from deliberations by central bankers from major countries during the late 1970s and 1980s. In 1988, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) in Basel, Switzerland, published a set of minimum capital requirements for banks. It is also known as the 1988 Basel Accord, and was enforced by law in the Group of Ten (G-10) countries in 1992.

Background
The Committee was formed in response to the messy liquidation of Cologne-based Herstatt Bank in 1974. On 26 June 1974 a number of banks had released Deutschmarks (the German currency) to the Herstatt Bank in exchange for dollar payments deliverable in New York City. Due to differences in the time zones, there was a lag in the dollar payment to the counterparty banks; during this lag period, before the dollar payments could be effected in New York, the Herstatt Bank was liquidated by German regulators.

This incident prompted the G-10 nations to form the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in late 1974, under the auspices of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) located in Basel, Switzerland.

Main framework
Basel I, that is, the 1988 Basel Accord, is primarily focused on credit risk and appropriate risk-weighting of assets. Assets of banks were classified and grouped in five categories according to credit risk, carrying risk weights of 0% (for example cash, bullion, home country debt like Treasuries), 20% (securitisations such as mortgage-backed securities (MBS) with the highest AAA rating), 50% (municipal revenue bonds, residential mortgages), 100% (for example, most corporate debt), and some assets given no rating. Banks with an international presence are required to hold capital equal to 8% of their risk-weighted assets (RWA).

The tier 1 capital ratio = tier 1 capital / all RWA

The total capital ratio = (tier 1 + tier 2 capital) / all RWA

Leverage ratio = total capital/average total assets

Banks are also required to report off-balance-sheet items such as letters of credit, unused commitments, and derivatives. These all factor into the risk weighted assets, which are reported to regulators. In the United States, the report is typically submitted to the Federal Reserve Bank as HC-R for the bank-holding company and submitted to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) as RC-R for just the bank.

From 1988 this framework was progressively introduced in member countries of G-10, comprising 13 countries : Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States.

Over 100 other countries also adopted, at least in name, the principles prescribed under Basel I. The efficacy with which the principles are enforced varies, even within nations of the Group.

Criticism
Basel I incentivized global banks to lend to members of the OECD and the IMF's General Arrangements to Borrow (GAB) while disincentivizing loans to non-members of these institutions.

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Talk:Jim Jarmusch

Zombie movie
Is he making a zombie movie in 2019? 173.88.241.33 (talk) 22:47, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

 * Yes. Added. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 17:28, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

Please fix
The current version of this article says Jarmusch continues to smoke cigarettes (based on an article from 2009), but, in this 2019 interview, Jarmusch says he quit smoking "a few years ago." Please update this article. Source: https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/jim-jarmusch-the-dead-dont-die-interview-847447/ 173.88.246.138 (talk) 17:30, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

Wasn't he in Sling Blade?
Didn't Jim Jarmusch play the Frostee Cream employee in Billy Bob Thornton's movie, Sling Blade? There is no mention of it anywhere here. Is it a different Jim Jarmusch? Traumatic (talk) 18:35, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

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