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Lobster (magazine)

Lobster is a magazine that is interested primarily in the influence of intelligence and security services on politics and world trade, what it calls "deep politics" or "parapolitics". It combines the examination of conspiracy theories and contemporary history. Lobster is edited and published in the United Kingdom and has appeared twice a year for 40 years, at first in 16-page A5 format, then as an A4 magazine. Operating on a shoestring, its contributors include academics and others. Since 2009 it is distributed as a free downloadable PDF document.

According to the Hull Daily Mail, Lobster 'investigates government conspiracies, state espionage and the secret service.' In 1986 the magazine scooped mainstream media by uncovering the secret Clockwork Orange operation, implicated in trying to destabilise the British government. Colin Wallace, a former British Army Intelligence Corps officer in Northern Ireland, described how he had been instructed to smear leading UK politicians. Questions were asked in the House of Commons and an extended scandal ensued.

The current curator of the CIA Historical Intelligence Collection, Hayden B. Peake, notes that the editors of Lobster see it as "member of the international brotherhood of parapolitics mags," the other members being Geheim (Cologne, Germany), Intelligence Newsletter (Paris, France), and Covert Action Information Bulletin (US), and is "distinctive in its depth of coverage, its detailed documentation, and the absence of the rhetoric".

In 1989, Lobster published names of 1,500 citizens said to be working in intelligence. The magazine was denounced in the House of Commons. The editors replied that all published details could be found in local libraries. The magazine has also carried detailed analysis of fringe and pseudoscientific subjects such as UFOs and remote viewing.

Founding
In 1982, an American newsletter about the Kennedy assassination, Echoes of Conspiracy, put Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril in touch with each other because of their common interest in the JFK assassination story. A few months later, they decided to launch a magazine, and in September 1983, they published 150 copies of The Lobster priced at 50p. Ramsay later described himself and his associate: "Dorril is a Freudo-anarchist, with Situationist tendencies; and Ramsay is a premature anti-Militant member of the soft old left of the Labour Party".

The inaugural issue stated its aims as "a journal/newsletter about intelligence, parapolitics, state structures and so forth [..] there is no copyright on the material in The Lobster [..] we hope to break even at the present price of 50p, but we may not [..] should appear 6 times a year". From Issue 5 onwards, the cover dropped the definite article and became just "Lobster".

Publishing frequency Lobster dropped to four issues in 1984 and three issues in 1986 and 1987, before settling down as a bi-annual from 1988. The Lobster logo (see illustration), first appeared in issue 20 in November 1990 and was designed by Clive Gringras.

Format and costs
The first 8 issues of Lobster are A5 paper size (148 × 210mm) format, growing to A4 (210 × 297mm) from Issue 9 in September 1985. The magazine was originally typewritten, reduced on a photocopier, pasted-up and printed on a Gestetner off-set litho duplicating machine. Around issue 17, the magazine was type-set on an Amstrad PCW using Wordstream and from Lobster 27, on an AppleMac with Claris Works. Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) was the last hard copy issue. Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) was the first available without charge. The magazine is published from Ramsay's home in Hull.

Lobster is published not-for-profit. The Independent on Sunday quoted Ramsay that the magazine ".. always broke even, as I would put the price up if it started losing money. The readers paid whatever I asked", which the newspaper commented "Sounds a fine business model". Robert McCrum in The Guardian quotes Ramsay as boasting that Lobster is "the only left-wing journal to pay for itself".

The Dorril/Ramsay split
In March 1993, The Independent newspaper noted that the founders of Lobster had fallen out, and that "The break between the two men began in December when Ramsay told Dorril he was removing his name from the Lobster masthead and would run the twice-yearly magazine alone." The London Evening Standard reported that Ramsay had told his readers that Dorril also planned to produce a magazine called Lobster. After producing Lobster Issue 25, they each produced their own version of Lobster Issue 26. Dorril recalls a different version of events. Dorril's website indicates that his Lobster Issue 31 (October 1996) was the last published. Alternative media expert and Professor of Media and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University, Chris Atton, notes that Dorril's Lobster concentrates on the activities of the British and US security services, while Robin Ramsay's Lobster casts its net wider to encompass histories of fascism, the JFK assassination, the Lockerbie bombing and the military's medical experiments on service personnel.

Name
The name of the magazine, "Lobster", has attracted multiple interpretations. Dorril recalls that "We wanted the magazine to sound not pompous, and as a teenager, he would invent names for punk rock groups. 'Lobster' was just one of his favourites." Ramsay recalls that "The name "Lobster" was Steve Dorril's choice. I couldn't think of an alternative and I didn't think the name mattered. As far as I know it had no connotations for Dorril; indeed as I remembered it, the absence of connotations was part of its appeal."

Operation Clockwork Orange, Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd

Lobster published the first account of the Colin Wallace affair, also known as Operation Clockwork Orange, about the plot by disaffected members of Britain's Security Service, MI5, to destabilise the Harold Wilson Labour Government, and to smear politicians such as former Tory prime minister Edward Heath. The editors of Lobster described the revelations as Britain's Watergate and the biggest story since World War Two. The revelations were subsequently confirmed by former MI5 officer Peter Wright in his book Spycatcher.

Political fallout
In late 1986, questions were asked in the UK Parliament concerning the matters in Lobster. Then Labour Party Member of Parliament for Hull North, Kevin McNamara, brought up the issue in the House of Commons, asking the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, to refer the matter to the Security Commission, and asking then Attorney-General and Conservative MP Michael Havers, to ask the Director of Public Prosecutions to investigate allegations published in Lobster and prosecute Colin Wallace for revealing details of secret service operations against Her Majesty's Government. Both declined. Two weeks later, Labour MP Tam Dalyell asked the Prime Minister why she would not refer the matter to the Security Commission, but she said that she had nothing more to add.

Who's Who of the British Secret State
In 1989, British journalist Richard Norton-Taylor reported in The Guardian newspaper, that Lobster was planning to publish "a list of the names and brief biographical details of more than 1,500 past and present officials involved, according to the publishers, in covert activities". A year later the article appeared in Lobster Issue 19, and another appeared 18 months later. Although The Guardian noted that the Government was considering making the publication of such names a criminal offence, then Lobster co-editor Stephen Dorril noted that "All the names and details .. have been compiled by research in their local libraries or have already appeared in published books. 'No inside knowledge or breach of official secrets was needed'" 10 years later, Ramsay was quoted in the Hull Daily Mail, that "At the time it was a way of sticking two fingers up at the Government".

House of Commons criticism
Subsequently, Lobster was denounced in the British Parliament. Then Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Wycombe, Ray Whitney, criticised the publication of the names in the House of Commons on 21 December 1988 in a debate on a proposed Official Secrets Bill, when he commented that:
 * "A small obscure magazine published, I think, in Hull and called, would hon. Members believe, Lobster makes a practice of publishing names of gentlemen who are alleged to be members of the security services. That creates danger and I am sure that my right hon. Friend the Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup shares my deep apprehension about that sort of practice being allowed to continue."

In his book, Politics and Paranoia, Ramsay criticised Whitney's role as the head of the Foreign Office's Information Research Department which Ramsay described as the "State's official, anti-left psy-war outfit", and had omitted to tell the Commons before denouncing him.

Contributors
In addition to co-founders Robin Ramsay and Stephen Dorril, contributors have included:
 * Dan Atkinson, a British journalist and author
 * William Blum, American author and historian
 * Mike Carlson, broadcaster and writer for The Guardian and the Independent
 * Colin Challen, the Member of Parliament for Morley and Rothwell from 2001 until 2010
 * Kevin Coogan, American investigative journalist
 * Alex Cox, a film-maker
 * Mark Curtis, investigative journalist and author
 * Anthony Frewin, writer and assistant to Stanley Kubrick
 * Robert Henderson, British writer
 * Jim Hougan, author of Decadence, Spooks, and Secret Agenda
 * John Newsinger, author and professor of history at Bath Spa Univ
 * David Osler, a British author and journalist
 * Greg Palast, author and a freelance journalist
 * Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara
 * Dave Renton, historian and political activist
 * Paul Rogers, Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford
 * Peter Dale Scott, a former English professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a former diplomat
 * Michael John Smith, convicted of espionage
 * Giles Scott-Smith, Professor of Diplomatic History of Atlantic Cooperation at Leiden University.
 * Kenn Thomas, conspiracy theorist, writer, editor & publisher of Steamshovel Press

Themed and special issues
Lobster has published a couple of themed or special issues, including:

Regular sections
A number of regular sections have appeared in Lobster over the years:

Reception
In 1998, the Hull Daily Mail described the magazine as "a tiny but influential fringe political journal". In 2001, the magazine Red Pepper wrote that Lobster ".. succeeds on the quality of its writing... articles are well researched... human, passionate and honest...", the Fortean Times (who also syndicated a regular Lobster column by Ramsay) wrote that it was "... immensely engrossing reading, ...an essential purchase for anyone interested in the machinations of the secret state", Green Anarchist magazine wrote that Lobster is "... an invaluable resource, and deserves to be widely read and much studied", and Direct Action magazine described it as "a good read ... very revealing and worth it, just for the pub talk".

Journalist Robert McCrum in The Guardian describes Lobster as ".. a left-wing journal that offers succour to conspiracy theorists [..] a brave, bright beacon, a Quixotic piece of typically English amateurism that keeps the professionals on their toes". The Independent newspaper has described it as a "delightful and worthwhile publications, more footnote than story, that [..] delivers a comprehensive picture of a clandestine world which the Establishment would prefer remained secret".

Trade Magazine PRWeek describes Lobster as a "Hull-based intelligence magazine and conspiracy theorists' bible", and the Conspiracy Encyclopedia described it as "the most influential publication in the parapolitical underground". Irish historical writer, Tim Pat Coogan, in discussing a TV programme about Captain Fred Holroyd in relation to the Collin Wallace affair, noted that "some of the best writing on the Holroyd case is contained in smaller journals published contemporaneously, notably Lobster, Private Eye, and, in particular [Duncan] Campbell's own series [..] in the Statesman".

Professor of Media and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University, Chris Atton, notes that a reference at the end of an article in Lobster led to the founding of the activist librarians' group Information for Social Change. CIA curator, Hayden B. Peake notes that a British journalist described "much of its content its impenetrable", but that it was also intriguing.

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Welcome to my user page. This isn't the greatest, most well-written page on wikipedia (infact, it's probably one of the worst) but it's mine. Well, it's not mine (as someone has pointed out) but it's the only place you'll be able to find anything out about me, because (unfortunately) I'm not notable enough to have an actual wikipedia article :(

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A1198 road

The A1198 is a road in Cambridgeshire, England, which runs between the A505 at Royston, and the A1307 on the outskirts of Huntingdon.

Settlements along route

 * Royston
 * Kneesworth
 * Waddon Gap
 * Arrington
 * Caxton
 * Cambourne
 * Papworth Everard
 * Godmanchester

Roman Road
The road follows the route of Ermine Street between the A505 at Royston, Hertfordshire and Godmanchester, near Huntingdon.

20th century
This road was designated as a major road during road classification in 1922, and originally carried the number A14. When the M11 motorway was completed in February 1980, and traffic was encouraged to follow the new motorway and the Via Devana (then the A604, now the A1307 and A14 roads) instead. By 1991, most of the former A14 was renumbered as the A1198, with short section of the route from Huntingdon to Alconbury being renumbered as a spur of the A604.

21st century
In August 2010, Cambridgeshire County Council announced the reduction of the road's speed limit from NSL (60 mph) to 50 mph in areas where concern was raised over the safety of traffic. By 2020 some residential and industrial developments had urbanised sections of the road.

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Ass Like That

"Ass Like That" is a song by American rapper Eminem from his fifth studio album Encore (2004). It was released as the sixth and final single from the album on June 7, 2005. The music video features Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, along with other puppets and main characters from Crank Yankers.

Critical reception
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic wrote: "Eminem is plain-spoken and literal, intent on refuting every critic from Benzino at The Source to Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, who gets an entire song ("Ass Like That") devoted to him." HipHopDX editor J-23 was divided: "'Ass Like That' is gonna be a song you either love or hate. Whatever the case, it sure is surreal to hear him rap an entire song as that Triumph puppet from MTV."

Scott Plagenhoef of Pitchfork was positive: "Em also shines when he spins well off his axis, as he does on ... the R. Kelly/Triumph the Insult Comic Dog-baiting 'Ass Like That'," but he noted that the song sounds like mixtape material. NME magazine was unimpressed, calling the song a "silly, groin-levelled [doodle] that [demonstrates] both producer and rhymer aren't just on autopilot, they're having a nice snooze in the cockpit while the plane plummets towards Earth. Or to put it another way, [this track is] undercooked juvenile shite."

USA Today wrote that "On the lighter side, [Em] name-drops the likes of Britney Spears, Janet Jackson, and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen on 'Ass Like That'." RapReviews noted that "In 'Ass Like That' Slim impersonates Triumph the Insult Comic Dog for three perverse verses of ogling over the Olsen twins and booty bashing Hilary Duff." Josh Love of Stylus Magazine was negative: "'Ass Like That', Em's 'response' to Triumph, fares better, and actually makes a pretty salient point about Hollywood's fetishization of barely legal starlets, but then you realize that it's an answer record to an awards show beef with a hand puppet and suddenly you're not even able to make eye contact with the album cover anymore" and he added that it does flash some of Eminem's once-patented lyrical venom.

The Austin Chronicle called the song a "demented Bollywood fever dream [that] manages to out-deprave R. Kelly." SPIN said that the song was "so sophomoric that [it borders] on surreal, all syncopated dis-gibberish and loony celebrity-baiting." The New York Times said that the song was "brilliantly insane: Dr. Dre lays some curlicued sitars atop a lazy bass line, while Eminem pays tribute to Hilary Duff and the Olsen Twins, delivering his rhymes in a thick accent that's supposed to be either Triumph the Insult Comic Dog or Arnold Schwarzenegger (apparently, they talk the same)." Slant Magazine called "Ass Like That" "a whole song devoted to Robert Smigel’s Triumph The Insult Comic Dog".

The A.V. Club called it "a track so muddled that it's hard to tell whether it's a song-length putdown of Triumph The Insult Comic Dog or an elaborate backhanded homage. The song backfires spectacularly, because Eminem and Triumph essentially share the same shtick—deflating celebrity egos with barbed wisecracks—and because at this point, Triumph is a lot funnier and more pointed in his putdowns than his human counterpart."

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Giorgio Federico Ghedini

Giorgio Federico Ghedini (11 July 1892 – 25 March 1965) was an Italian composer. In addition to orchestral works, in 1949 he premiered a one-act opera based on Billy Budd by Herman Melville.

Life
Ghedini was born in Cuneo in 1892. He studied organ, piano and composition in Turin, then graduated in composition from the Bologna Conservatory under Marco Enrico Bossi in 1911. He worked as a conductor for a certain time, then he gave up to devote himself to teaching.

He worked as a teacher of composition at the Turin Conservatory (1918–1937), Parma Conservatory (1937–1941), and finally the Milan Conservatory (1951–1962). Among his pupils, the most eminent were Marcello and Claudio Abbado, Luciano Berio, Guido Cantelli, Niccolò Castiglioni, Carlo Pinelli, and Fiorenzo Carpi.

Guido Cantelli conducted the NBC Symphony Orchestra in a 2 February 1952 broadcast concert of Ghedini's Pezzo concertante for two violins, viola, and orchestra.

He died in Nervi, near Genoa, in 1965.

Style
The composer was a deep lover of ancient music; he transcribed many works by such composers as Girolamo Frescobaldi, Claudio Monteverdi, and Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli. Ghedini's works are often inspired by music from the Renaissance and Baroque eras, but combined with a very personal language which combines ancient and modern styles. Among his masterworks are a Concerto for orchestra (in memory of Guido Cantelli), two violin concertos Il Belprato and Concentus Basiliensis, and a concerto for two cellos L'Olmeneta (The Elm Grove) and Musica Notturna (Night Music).

Ghedini's most celebrated concert piece is Concerto dell'Albatro (Albatross Concerto) for violin, cello, piano, narrator and orchestra, which includes fragments from Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick in its final movement.

He wrote a large number of chamber, vocal and choral works. He also wrote a one-act opera based on Melville's Billy Budd, which was first performed in 1949.

Works
Orchestral
 * Partita (1926)
 * Pezzo Concertante, for two violins, viola and orchestra (1931)
 * Marinaresca e bacchanale for orchestra (1933)
 * Concerto for Orchestra "Architetture" (1939–40)
 * Invenzione, concerto for cello, timpani, cymbals and orchestra (1940)
 * Concertato, for flute, viola and harp (1941)
 * Concerto dell'albatro, for violin, cello, piano, narrator and orchestra (1943)
 * Il belprato, violin concerto (1947)
 * L'olmeneta (The Elm Grove), concerto for two cellos and orchestra (1951)
 * Concerto for viola, viola d'amore, and string orchestra (1953)
 * Musica da Concerto, for Viola and String Orchestra (1953)
 * Studio da concerto, for guitar (1959)
 * Contrappunti, for violin, viola, cello and orchestra (1962)
 * Musica concertante, for cello and orchestra (1962)

Piano
 * Mazurka (1908)
 * 29 Canoni (1910)
 * Tema con variazioni sulla parola "Fede" (1911)
 * La ballerina del circo equestre che salta sulla corda (1912)
 * Minuetto del galletto nano (1912)
 * Gavotta (1912)
 * Sonatina in D major (1913)
 * Nove pezzi (1914)
 * Minuettocaricatura (1916)
 * Puerilia. 4 little pieces on 5 notes (1922)
 * Sonata in A flat major (1922)
 * Fantasia (1927)
 * Divertimento contrappuntistico (1940)
 * Capriccio (1943)
 * Ricercare super “Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum” (1944, rev. 1956)

Operas
 * Gringoire (1915)
 * Maria d'Alessandria (1937)
 * Re Hassan (1939)
 * La pulce d'oro (1940)
 * Le baccanti (1948)
 * Billy Budd (1949), one act
 * Lord Inferno (1952)
 * Girotondo (1959)
 * La via della croce (1961)

Film scores
 * Don Bosco (1935)
 * Pietro Micca (1938)
 * The Widow (1939)

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Talk:Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt

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I was stationed at HEH from '74 to '78... PN2 J. O'Farrell

Delete Hurricane Vance sections
I deleted the Hurrican Vance section. That people evacuated for a hurricane (of course they did) is not the slightest bit notable. There isn't even mention of damage.

Here is the deleted section:

Cyclone Vance
In April 1999, civilian dependents were evacuated just hours after the strongest winds recorded in Australia, and generated by Cyclone Vance, caused millions of dollars damage to buildings throughout northern Western Australia. While winds of 330 km/h were reported, there were confirmed wind gusts of 267 km/h, the strongest wind ever recorded in Australia.

69.7.41.230 (talk) 19:42, 15 July 2009 (UTC)

Tower heights
The towers are arranged at the centres and apices of two concentric hexagons offset by 30°. The diameter of the outer hexagon is ~ 2440m (8000') and that of the inner is ~ 1445 m (4750').

The first para under VLF transmitter masts states that the inner towers are 304 m high and the outer towers are 364 m high. However, the extract from the tender document (ref 2) states that "the towers of the inner ring are 364 m high while those of the outer ring are 304 m high"; i.e. the first para has swapped the heights. I'm assuming (not unreasonably) that the tender doc is correct. The Trideco diagram (under History) shows the outer towers to be lower than the inner.

121.45.167.114 (talk) 12:17, 22 January 2014 (UTC) Hawkeye

 * Fixed the tower heights the other day. --Micraboy (talk) 12:20, 1 June 2017 (UTC)

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R691 road (Ireland)

The R691 road is a regional road in Ireland which runs west-east from the centre of Cashel in County Tipperary to the N76 near Callan in County Kilkenny. The route is 46 km long.

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Porto Amboim

Porto Amboim is a port town in Cuanza Sul Province, Angola with a population of 65,000; it comprises an area of 4,638 km$2$. In the past Porto Amboim was connected by an isolated 123 km narrow gauge railway to Gabela, albeit closed in 1987 due to the civil war and to the abandonment of most coffee plantations, the biggest source of revenue from Gabela. Originally Porto Amboim was known as Kissonde, a small village later colonized in 1587 by the Portuguese naming it Benguela and later Benguela Velha (Old Benguela) due to the creation of another village today known as Benguela located 350 km south of Benguela Velha. In 1923, the name was changed to Porto Amboim. Today (2014) Porto Amboim is one of the growing areas for the offshore industry. The pre-salt in front of the coast of Angola, with Porto Amboim in the centre is a planned development area. With companies as Paenal, a joint venture between Sonangol, SBM and DSME and Heerema Porto Amboim, the two major offshore fabrication yards, Porto Amboim is developing.

Labor market
Due to these developments, demand for skilled labor is growing. As a result of the civil war, nowadays the educational system is still on a low development level although the present government puts in a lot of effort to raise the knowledge level of the population. Schools are built even in remote areas.

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Talk:Frederick Forsyth

Numpty? What the hell is a numpty?
From the end of the article: "During the interview he referred to Gordon Brown as a numpty." -- That's supposed to mean something? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.236.111.58 (talk) 23:08, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

 * "Numpty" is a Scottish dialect word for an idiot, which is rapidly gaining currency throughout the UK. Mr Larrington (talk) 14:39, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

 * It has a Wiktionary entry too - so I've added a wikilink. a_man_alone (talk) 15:23, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

André Malraux
Well, I think you could put an information about the publication of "The Day of the Jackal" in french. Because of André Malraux, Minister of Culture of France from 1960 to 1969, the book could be published in the country. The censure in France didn´t let the book be published because of the things about Charles de Gaulle and the argellians. But Malraux said that didn´t see reasons to censure the book once it has some cultural signification, which was agreed for various literary critics. Ken Bruce April 29, 2006  São Paulo, Brazil
 * Eh, I've always wondered if the book was ever published in France. Had de Gaulle's historical presence in the country subsided enough to let some real history come out about him? 74.137.218.247 19:27, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

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The assertion that André Malraux allowed the book to be published in France doesn't make any sense
André Malraux served in the French government as first Minister of Cultural Affairs from 1958 until 1969.

The Day of the Jackal was written in January 1970 and published in 1971.

André Malraux couldn't have had anything to do with allowing the book's publication in France.

96.18.38.36 (talk) 21:18, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Indian Fanbase
It's interesting to see that many of the comments here come from Indian fans. Do Forsyth's novels sell particularly well there? Lisiate 01:44, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

Spoilers
There are some really annoying spoilers in this article, mixed in with other content and with no warning. Examples:

 * 1) "The German Army Officer was the reporter's father. "

 * 1) "Also a subtle twist at the end of the novel can reveal that a lot more was going on than the reader initially suspected: Cat Shannon, the central figure of The Dogs of War, turns out to have had his own agenda all the time; Adam Munro of The Devil's Alternative finds out that he was not a player but a pawn to people in high places; in The Odessa File, the reporter's true motivation is revealed at the end, and a number of events in Icon turn out to have been committed by people other than those who the reader had been led to suppose. In Avenger, one of the events that allows the Avenger to escape is unexplained until the last few paragraphs."

 * 1) "He is a strong supporter of the British monarchy. In his book Icon, he recommended a constitutional monarchy as a solution to Russia's political problems following the collapse of the Soviet Union."

Could these spoilers please be marked as such or removed from the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Semi-anonymous Andrew (talk • contribs) 18:43, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
 * No. Reasoning is here.-- Terrillja talk  19:08, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

 * From Spoiler : "except for the content disclaimer and section headings (such as "Plot" or "Ending") which imply the presence of spoilers." There are no such disclaimers or headings here.

 * The article is not specifically about the books in question and reading about the life and works of Forsyth seems like a reasonable thing to do, without expecting the twist of a specific story revealed.
 * Is it necessary to include these plot twists in the sections where they occur, without warning or disclaimer, in order for the contents of that section to be complete? -- Semi-anonymous Andrew (talk) 08:06, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

40th anniversary of The Day of the Jackal
A good interview with FF in 'The Daily Telegraph' to celebrate the above:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/8524091/Frederick-Forsyth-I-had-expected-women-to-hate-him.-But-no....html

Interestingly enough, I think Patrick O'Brian was also the son, or maybe grandson, of a furrier.

Overall, FF, John Le Carre and Robert Harris are also masters of their craft and how poor the literary world would be without them! I am now going to embark on reading 'The Odessa File' and then 'The Dogs of War' e-versions on my amazon kindle.

Having read this article, I am unfortunately in opposition to FF ref. his stance on the EU - which has done a huge amount in terms of rebuilding Eastern Europe's infrastructure, the monarchy - Britain should be a Republic, and climate change - anyone who ignores the reality of what is going on is living in cloud cuckoo land. Ivankinsman (talk) 08:54, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

Cites?
Very little of this man's extraordinary exploits seem to be supported by verifiable sources. Just what evidence is there for this version of events?
 * He has an autobiography coming out in September, that may help for verifying the information. Vg31-irl (talk) 19:07, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Then again, even if it is a little dodgy, does not a little 'colour' and daring-do help to sell books? For why would anyone need the boring truth, if they can be sold a little bullshit? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.166.163 (talk) 16:11, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

Fallen Soldier
Today, Forsyth released a lament titled 'Fallen Soldier', sung by the soprano, Melissa Adler of the Royal Opera House. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bzbEkwY7aE http://www.eveningecho.ie/viral/hear-former-fighter-pilot-frederick-forsyths-moving-tribute-song-for-fallen-soldiers/1843036/  Irish Melkite (talk) 10:05, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

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Frederick Forsyth
This biography reads as if it were written by the man himself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.5.172.228 (talk) 14:43, 7 January 2019 (UTC)

Connection between the 1972 book The Odessa File and real life spy Eli Cohen
In Frederick Forsythe's 1972 book "The Odessa File" there is a passage that sounds a lot like part of the life of Israeli spy Eli Cohen. On page 21 of the book it discusses an Israeli agent who was the top agent in Egypt. He was captured in 1965 after a raid discovered a radio transmitter in his house. If anyone has contact with Forsythe, they might be able to verify this connection. Dwnoone1 (talk) 15:01, 13 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Cohen was arrested and executed in 1965 in Damascus. His case received much publicity at the time, so it is not surprisingly that Forsyth would have heard of it. Alternatively, Forsyth might had heard of the case of Wolfgang Lotz who was arrested in Egypt for espionage for Israel in 1965 after his Egyptian intelligence traced his radio transmissions back to his house. Unlike Cohen, the Egyptians sentenced Lotz to life imprisonment. Both cases received much publicity, so it would not surprise me in the slightest that Forsyth incorporated elements of both into his book, but we need a RS saying so. --A.S. Brown (talk) 05:39, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Short story link
This is a pdf link to a short story by Frederick Forsyth:

Do you think it's useful for the article anyway?

Shubhrajit Sadhukhan (talk) 16:48, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

 * Please do not add links to texts still in copyright per WP:COPYLINK. --AFBorchert (talk) 23:15, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

 * @AFBorchert All materials of the NCERT textbook are free to be downloaded and probably in the public domain. See this.

Shubhrajit Sadhukhan (talk) 09:02, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

 * This is not correct. Please be refered to the NCERT terms of use for its textbooks. Quote: While copies of these textbooks may be downloaded and used as textbooks or for reference, republication is strictly prohibited. No agency or individual may make electronic or print copies of these books and redistribute them in any form whatsoever. Use of these online books as a part of digital content packages or software is also strictly prohibited. No website or online service is permitted to host these online textbooks. A restriction in regard to links is included as well: Links may however be provided with written permission from the NCERT. --AFBorchert (talk) 11:21, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Biafran war
Missing from the article is the significant point about Forsyth's writing about the Biafran war, that he was a strong critic of the role of the British government and of the reporting by UK news organisations.

See for instance:

The Guardian - Frederick Forsyth - Buried for 50 years: Britain’s shameful role in the Biafran war, 21 January 2020.

   ←   ZScarpia  08:49, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

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Multi-master replication

Multi-master replication is a method of database replication which allows data to be stored by a group of computers, and updated by any member of the group. All members are responsive to client data queries. The multi-master replication system is responsible for propagating the data modifications made by each member to the rest of the group and resolving any conflicts that might arise between concurrent changes made by different members.

Multi-master replication can be contrasted with primary-replica replication, in which a single member of the group is designated as the "master" for a given piece of data and is the only node allowed to modify that data item. Other members wishing to modify the data item must first contact the master node. Allowing only a single master makes it easier to achieve consistency among the members of the group, but is less flexible than multi-master replication.

Multi-master replication can also be contrasted with failover clustering where passive replica servers are replicating the master data in order to prepare for takeover in the event that the master stops functioning. The master is the only server active for client interaction.

Often, communication and replication in Multi-master systems are handled via a type of Consensus algorithm, but can also be implemented via custom or proprietary algorithms specific to the software.

The primary purposes of multi-master replication are increased availability and faster server response time.

Advantages

 * Availability: If one master fails, other masters continue to update the database.
 * Distributed access: Masters can be located in several physical sites, i.e. distributed across the network.

Disadvantages

 * Consistency: Most multi-master replication systems are only loosely consistent, i.e. lazy and asynchronous, violating ACID properties.
 * Performance: Eager replication systems are complex and increase communication latency.
 * Integrity: Issues such as conflict resolution can become intractable as the number of nodes involved rises and latency increases.

Directory services
Many directory servers are based on Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and implement multi-master replication.

Active Directory
One of the more prevalent multi-master replication implementations in directory servers is Microsoft's Active Directory. Within Active Directory, objects that are updated on one Domain Controller are then replicated to other domain controllers through multi-master replication. It is not required for all domain controllers to replicate with each other as this would cause excessive network traffic in large Active Directory deployments. Instead, domain controllers have a complex update pattern that ensures that all servers are updated in a timely fashion without excessive replication traffic. Some Active Directory needs are however better served by Flexible single master operation.

CA Directory
CA Directory supports multi-master replication.

OpenDS/OpenDJ
OpenDS (and its successor product OpenDJ) implemented multi-master since version 1.0. The OpenDS/OpenDJ multi-master replication is asynchronous, it uses a log with a publish-subscribe mechanism that allows scaling to a large number of nodes. OpenDS/OpenDJ replication does conflict resolution at the entry and attribute level. OpenDS/OpenDJ replication can be used over a wide area network.

OpenLDAP
OpenLDAP, the widely used open-source LDAP server, implements multi-master replication since version 2.4 (October 2007).

Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora is composed of writer nodes, which replicate redo records, and 6 storage nodes. The writer node sends change to each storage node, each of which checks for conflicts then reports confirmation or rejection of the change.

Apache CouchDB
Apache CouchDB uses a simple, HTTP-based multi-master replication system built from its use of an append-only data-store and use of Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC).

Each document contains a revision ID, so every record stores the evolutionary timeline of all previous revision IDs leading up to itself—which provides the foundation of CouchDB's MVCC system. Additionally, it keeps a by-sequence index for the entire database. "The replication process only copies the last revision of a document, so all previous revisions that were only on the source database are not copied to the destination database."

The CouchDB replicator acts as a simple HTTP client acting on both a source and target database. It compares current sequence IDs for the database, calculates revision differences, and makes the necessary changes to the target based on what it found in the history of the source database. Bi-directional replication is the result of merely doing another replication with the source and target values swapped.

ArangoDB
ArangoDB is a native multi-model database system using multi-master replication. Clusters in ArangoDB use the CP master/master model with no single point of failure. When a cluster encounters a network partition, ArangoDB prefers to maintain its internal consistency over availability. Clients experience the same view of the database regardless of which node they connect to. And, the cluster continues to serve requests even when one machine fails.

Cloudant
Cloudant, a distributed database system, uses largely the same HTTP API as Apache CouchDB, and exposes the same ability to replicate using Multiversion Concurrency Control (MVCC). Cloudant databases can replicate between each other, but internally, nodes within Cloudant clusters use multi-master replication to stay in sync with each other and provide high availability to API consumers.

eXtremeDB Cluster
eXtremeDB Cluster is the clustering sub-system for McObject's eXtremeDB embedded database product family. It maintains database consistency across multiple hardware nodes by replicating transactions in a synchronous manner (two-phase commit). An important characteristic of eXtremeDB Cluster is transaction replication, in contrast to log file-based, SQL statement-based, or other replication schemes that may or may not guarantee the success or failure of entire transactions. Accordingly, eXtremeDB Cluster is an ACID compliant system (not BASE or eventual consistency); a query executed on any cluster node will return the same result as if executed on any other cluster node.

Oracle
Database clusters implement multi-master replication using one of two methods. Asynchronous multi-master replication commits data changes to a deferred transaction queue which is periodically processed on all databases in the cluster. Synchronous multi-master replication uses Oracle's two-phase commit functionality to ensure that all databases with the cluster have a consistent dataset.

Microsoft SQL
Microsoft SQL provides multi-master replication through peer-to-peer replication. It provides a scale-out and high-availability solution by maintaining copies of data across multiple nodes. Built on the foundation of transactional replication, peer-to-peer replication propagates transactionally consistent changes in near real-time.

MySQL / MariaDB
At a basic level, it is possible to achieve a multi-master replication scheme beginning with MySQL version 3.23 with circular replication. Departing from that, MariaDB and MySQL ship with some replication support, each of them with different nuances.

In terms of direct support we have:

MariaDB: natively supports multi-master replication since version 10.0, but conflict resolution is not supported, so each master must contain different databases. On MySQL, this is named multi-source available since version 5.7.6.

MySQL: MySQL Group Replication, a plugin for virtual synchronous multi-master with conflict handling and distributed recovery was released with 5.7.17.

Cluster Projects:

MySQL Cluster supports conflict detection and resolution between multiple masters since version 6.3 for true multi-master capability for the MySQL Server.

There is also an external project, Galera Cluster created by codership, that provides true multi-master capability, based on a fork of the InnoDB storage engine and custom replication plug-ins. Replication is synchronous, so no conflict is possible.

Percona XtraDB Cluster also is a combination of Galera replication library and MySQL supporting multi-master.

PostgreSQL
Various options for synchronous multi-master replication exist. Postgres-XL which is available under the Mozilla Public License, and PostgresXC (now known as Postgres-X2) which is available under the same license as PostgreSQL itself are examples. Note that the PgCluster project was abandoned in 2007.

The replication documentation for PostgreSQL categorises the different types of replication available. Various options exist for distributed multi-master, including Bucardo, rubyrep and BDR Bi-Directional Replication.

PostgreSQL BDR
BDR is aimed at eventual inclusion in PostgreSQL core and has been benchmarked as demonstrating significantly enhanced performance over earlier options. BDR includes replication of data writes (DML), as well as changes to data definition (DDL) and global sequences. BDR nodes may be upgraded online from version 0.9 onwards. 2ndQuadrant has developed BDR continuously since 2012, with the system used in production since 2014. The latest version BDR 3.6 provides column-level conflict detection, CRDTs, eager replication, multi-node query consistency, and many other features.

Ingres
Within Ingres Replicator, objects that are updated on one Ingres server can then be replicated to other servers whether local or remote through multi-master replication. If one server fails, client connections can be re-directed to another server. It is not required for all Ingres servers in an environment to replicate with each other as this could cause excessive network traffic in large implementations. Instead, Ingres Replicator allows the appropriate data to be replicated to the appropriate servers without excessive replication traffic. This means that some servers in the environment can serve as failover candidates while other servers can meet other requirements such as managing a subset of columns or tables for a departmental solution, a subset of rows for a geographical region or one-way replication for a reporting server. In the event of a source, target, or network failure, data integrity is enforced through this two-phase commit protocol by ensuring that either the whole transaction is replicated, or none of it is. In addition, Ingres Replicator can operate over RDBMS’s from multiple vendors to connect them.

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Pacific Cup

The Pacific Cup was a rugby league football competition for national teams from the Pacific region.

The tournament ceased in 2009 and was replaced by the Oceania Cup, later renamed the Pacific Rugby League Championship.

History
The Pacific Cup was started in 1975 by Keith Gittoes of the New South Wales Rugby League. It was held twice in the 1970s before being abandoned due to cost.

The competition was revived in 1986 by Peter Donnelly. This was a true Pacific Cup with Polynesian players playing for their true country of origin rather than for the NZ Maoris as had previously been the case. The competition was held biennially until the 1996 competition was postponed. Instead a 1996 Pacific Challenge was held. The Super League ran an Oceania Cup in 1997.

The Pacific Cup was revived by the New Zealand Rugby League once again in 2004, this time as a secondary competition to the Pacific Rim Championship. It was again held in February and March 2006 under NZRL administration, this time as a main competition.

In the post-2008 Rugby League World Cup shake up of the international calendar by the RLIF, it was confirmed that a Pacific Cup was to be held in 2009 with the winner of the tournament entering the 2010 Four Nations tournament.

The 2009 tournament was hosted by Papua New Guinea. The competing teams were Cook Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa and Tonga.

Appearances
Eighteen teams from ten nations have taken part in the 12 Pacific Cup tournaments held to date:
 * – 11 appearances
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 * – 6 appearances
 * – 5 appearances (1986, 1988, 1990, 1992, 2006)
 * – 5 appearances (1986, 1990, 1992, 1994, 2004)
 * – 3 appearances (1988, 1992, 1994)
 * [[Image:Australian Aboriginal Flag.svg|22px]] Australian Aborigines – 3 appearances (1990, 1992, 1994)
 * 🇳🇿 New Zealand XIII – 2 appearances (1996, 1997)
 * Western Australia – 2 appearances (1975, 1977)
 * Victoria – 2 appearances (1975, 1977)
 * – 1 appearance (1994)
 * 🇫🇯 Rotuma – 1 appearance (1994)
 * – 1 appearance (1992)
 * – 1 appearance (1990)
 * Northern Territory – 1 appearance (1977)

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Vince Aletti

Vince Aletti (born 1945) is a curator, writer, and photography critic.

Music industry
Aletti was a contributing writer for Rolling Stone from 1970 to 1989. He was the first person to write about disco in an article published by the magazine in 1973. He gave a negative review to Funkadelic's Maggot Brain in 1971, describing it as "a shattered, desolate landscape with few pleasures," competently performed but "limited." He was particularly critical of the record's second side, panning it as "dead-end stuff," and asked "who needs this shit?"

He also wrote a weekly column about disco for the music trade magazine Record World (1974–1979), and reported about early clubs like David Mancuso's The Loft for The Village Voice in the late 1970s and 1980s. Aletti was a senior editor at The Village Voice for nearly 20 years until leaving in early 2005.

Aletti worked with New York deejay Ritchie Rivera to curate a double-album disco compilation for Polydor Records, which released it in 1978 as Steppin' Out: Disco's Greatest Hits. Music critic Robert Christgau found it superior to Casablanca Records' Get Down and Boogie and Marlin's Disco Party, writing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981): "Although local talent (Joe Simon, the Fatback Band) is represented, I find the spacey, lush-but-cool Euro-disco that predominates even more enticing, no doubt because the filler in which such music is usually swamped has been eliminated. New discoveries include the Chakachas' legendary 'Jungle Fever' and 'Running Away' by Roy Ayers, ordinarily the emptiest of 'jazz' pianists. This is disco the way it should be heard—as pure dance music, complete with risky changes."

In 1979 and 1980, Aletti also worked as the A&R Rep for Ray Caviano’s RFC Records.

Photography
Aletti is best known for his contributions to fine art photography. He reviewed photography exhibitions for ''The New Yorker until 2016.

Aletti has also curated numerous photography exhibitions, and has contributed writing for dozens of photography books. In 1998, Aletti was the curator of a highly praised exhibition of art and photography called Male, which was followed up in 1999 by Female, both at Wessel + O'Connor Gallery in New York. In conjunction with those shows, he was the co-editor the book "Male/Female: 105 photographs" published by Aperture in 1999, featuring his interview with Madonna, which was later anthologized in Da Capo's Best Music Writing (2000).

In 2000, he was the co-curator of an exhibition called Settings & Players: Theatrical Ambiguity in American Photography at London's White Cube. The following year Aletti organized Steven Klein American Beauty a retrospective exhibition of Steven Klein's fashion work for the Musée de l'Élysée in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Aletti was one of the two featured writers of The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century (2001).

In 2005, Aletti was the recipient of the Infinity Award for writing by The International Center for Photography.

Exhibitions curated by Aletti

 * 1998: Male. Wessel + O'Connor Gallery, New York.
 * 1999: Male/Female. Wessel + O'Connor Gallery, New York.
 * 2000: Settings & Players: Theatrical Ambiguity in American Photography. White Cube, London.
 * 2001: Steven Klein American Beauty. Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland.
 * 2008: Male: work from the collection of Vince Aletti. White Columns, New York.
 * 2010: Dress Codes The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video. International Centre of Photography, New York. Curated with Kristen Lubben, Christopher Phillips, and Carol Squiers.

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Dave Nilsson

David Wayne Nilsson (born 14 December 1969) is an Australian former professional baseball catcher and current manager of the Australia national baseball team and the Brisbane Bandits. He played for Major League Baseball's Milwaukee Brewers from to  and was an All-Star in 1999, becoming the first Australian player to appear in an All-Star game. He ended his Major League career on 3 October 1999 with 837 games played, 789 hits, 105 home runs and a .284 career batting average.

Nilsson became a free agent in the offseason following 1999, but opted not to sign with any MLB teams because of his desire to play for Australia in the 2000 Olympics. He was widely applauded for this move as he was turning down big money to represent his country, something very rarely seen in baseball. Before leaving the US, he had been Australia's second highest earning sportsman behind Greg Norman, according to the Business Review Weekly.

Nilsson previously played for the Brisbane Bandits and Melbourne Reds in the previous incarnation of the Australian Baseball League where he holds the record for all time batting average (.351) and all time slugging average (.661). His brothers Gary, Bob and Ron also played in the competition. He also played in the Japanese NPB and Italian Serie A. He went on to also represent Australia in the 2004 Olympics where they won a historic silver medal, and also represented his country in the inaugural World Baseball Classic in 2006. He spent one season as manager with the Brisbane Bandits during the 2010–11 Australian Baseball League season, before returning to become the incumbent manager since 2014–15. In 2018 he succeeded Jon Deeble as the Australian national baseball team manager.

Nilsson represented Australia at the Olympics in 2000 and 2004, and has been involved in the strategic direction of the sport in Australia.

In 2018, he was named as one of the Queensland Greats by Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk in a ceremony at the Queensland Art Gallery on 8 June 2018.

Nilsson was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours in recognition of his "service to baseball as a player, coach and mentor".

Early life
Nilsson was born in Brisbane, Queensland to Australian parents and attended Kedron State High School.

Minor Leagues
Nilsson was signed by the Milwaukee Brewers in January 1987 at the age of 17 as an amateur free agent. He made his professional debut that year with the Helena Brewers, batting .394. Nilsson ranked third in the Pioneer League in batting average but was left off the league All-Star Team at catcher in favor of Frank Colston, who hit .397. Baseball America rated Nilsson the #2 prospect in the league.

In 1988 he made his debut for the Queensland Rams in the Claxton Shield where he won MVP of the tournament. He then went on to play full season A ball for the Beloit Brewers and in the off-season played for the Gold Coast Clippers in the newly formed Australian Baseball League. In 1989 he moved to the affiliate, the Stockton Ports but struggled with the bat and failed to make an impact.

In the 1990 California League season, Nilsson had a significant improvement and helped the Stockton Ports win the title and Baseball America rated him the 8th best prospect in the league. Back in the ABL, Nilsson batted at .400 with the Daikyo Dolphins, only averaging behind fellow Brewers player John Jaha. Along with brother Bob, he helped Daikyo finish 31–9, best in the league. Nilsson was named to the league All-Star team at catcher and won the MVP Award.

He returned to the US at the age of 22 with the El Paso Diablos in AA batting with an average of .413 and was promoted to the AAA Denver Zephyrs before the end of the season. Nilsson was named as one of the two Texas League All-Star catchers that season alongside Iván Rodríguez. Baseball America named Nilsson the league's #4 prospect after Rodriguez, Royce Clayton and Raúl Mondesí. In the winter he helped Daikyo win the 1991–92 ABL season.

Major League
After continuing to bat well for Denver in 1992, Nilsson was called up to the Brewers and batted in the 9 hole while playing catcher. Despite striking out in his first at bat, he redeemed himself later that game with a three-run double. Nilsson was one of the 10 youngest players in the 1992 American League in his first season.

After performing below par in the 1992–93 ABL season, Nilsson was the most frequently used catcher for the 1993 Brewers, but due to injury problems, had rehab stints in the minors. On 11 April 1994, Nilsson hit the first home run at Rangers Ballpark in the fifth inning of the first game played there. He also grounded into the first double-play recorded at the ballpark, scored 1-6-3. On 14 April 1994, Nilsson and Graeme Lloyd formed the first all-Australian battery in an MLB game.

In the 1994 off-season, Nilsson moved to the Brisbane Bandits and played very well in the regular season averaging .362 and slugging .695. Nilsson homered off his first swing of the season that year. He was named to the league All-Star team at catcher. Milwaukee had originally requested that Nilsson be returned to the team in time for spring training but they later decided to let him stay for the playoffs. He helped Brisbane to an upset win over the Sydney Blues for the championship; he formed a battery with his brother Gary for the final inning of the last round.

Later that year Nilsson had his first full major league season, producing a .275 batting average and .451 slugging average and won Brewers Player of the Year. He then returned to Australia after signing a five-year deal with the Waverly Reds where he played 54 games in the 1994–95 ABL season, leading in batting average (.388), on base average (.471) and slugging average (.775). Nilsson was again named as the All-Star catcher and led Waverly to their second title and Nilsson's third. Nilsson contracted Ross River Fever while playing winter ball and missed the first two months of the 1995 Major League Baseball season, but after hitting over .400 in three rehab stints, he returned to the Brewers later in the season but was used primarily as a corner outfielder rather than catcher.

Despite being a part owner of the team, Nilsson came to regret his five-year deal with Waverly as he missed his hometown of Brisbane and tried to negotiate a way out of the contract. The dispute lasted six months with the Reds finally coming to the agreement he would play out the rest of the 1995–96 ABL season before returning to Brisbane. In limited appearances, Nilsson contributed a meager .250 with the bat.

He returned to the MLB late again that season due to a broken foot, but had a productive year by setting his MLB career highs in average (.331) and OBP (.407) while still slugging at .525. He hit 33 doubles and 17 home runs, scored 81 runs and drove in 84 in 123 games. He was 6th in the 1996 AL in batting average. On 17 May 1996, Nilsson became the first Milwaukee Brewer to hit two home runs in the same inning (the 6th, vs. Minnesota Twins, in a 12–1 victory).

Nilsson became a player-manager for the Brisbane Bandits for the 1996–97 ABL season. Although knee surgery cut his season short, he guided the team to the finals with a batting average of .420 which, had he played enough games, would have led the ABL that year. He returned to the US where he batted .278 for the season with 20 home runs playing first base, left field and DH. That off season he did not return to the ABL for the first time due to injuries. In the 1998 season he batted at a discouraging .269 mark for the Brewers.

Nilsson was only 29 years old when he played his last major league season, hitting a 309/.400/.554 clip with 21 home runs for the 1999 season. He was also fit enough to play catcher regularly for the club for the first time in five years. In the 1999 All-Star Game, he replaced Mike Lieberthal as the National League catcher, becoming the first (and until being joined by Grant Balfour in 2013, the only) Australian to play in a Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

Nilsson signed a new contract in Japan for the 2000 season so that he would be eligible to play for Australia in the 2000 Summer Olympics. In doing so, the Associated Press estimated that he had given up millions of dollars in earnings.

Stardom in international competitions
In 1999, Nilsson played in the Intercontinental Cup where he hit a .379/.457/.517 clip to win tournament MVP and help Australia win its first gold medal at an international baseball event. Nilsson was third in average behind Akinori Iwamura and Claudio Liverziani and made the tournament All-Star team at catcher.

Later in 1999 he bought the Australian Baseball League and renamed it the International Baseball League of Australia. In the 2000 Sydney Olympics had his best-ever international tournament averaging .565 and slugging .957 as a DH/1B. He led the Olympics in average that year, 151 points ahead of runner-up Doug Mientkiewicz as well as also leading in both slugging and OBP. Despite his excellent performance, Australia finished just 2–5, ahead of only South Africa.

Later years
Ahead of the 2003 Major League Baseball season, Nilsson signed a minor league contract with the Boston Red Sox. He ended up retiring before ever playing for them, as according to a Red Sox representative "he lost his desire to play."

Nilsson managed the Queensland Rams in the 2003 Claxton Shield, assisting them to a surprise title. He returned to playing baseball that year for Telemarket Rimini in Serie A1 in Italy, where, although only hitting .280, he ended up slugging at a league-high of .920 and had an OBP of .561.

Nilsson played in the Australian season for the first time in five years when he appeared in the 2004 Claxton Shield. He went 5 for 11 with 4 home runs and 12 RBI and even pitched well in one stint on the mound. He led the 2004 Shield in home runs and RBI and was named to the All-Star team at DH. Nilsson then again attempted a comeback in the major leagues. He signed with the Atlanta Braves and hit .236 in 16 games for the Richmond Braves, five years after he had last played in the Major Leagues.

Nilsson was back with the Australian national baseball team for the 2004 Athens Olympics, and as captain he led the team to the Silver Medal, Australia's first Olympic medal in baseball. He again had a decent tournament performance batting .296/.441/.444 in 8 games. He had a perfect fielding percentage at catcher and threw out 5-of-8 attempted base-stealers.

Nilsson's career ended when he went 0-for-5 with a strikeout for Australia in the 2006 World Baseball Classic. In 2008 Nilsson was named to the Sport Australia Hall of Fame. He entered the Hall of Fame with swimmer Ian Thorpe, Winter Olympics gold medalist Alisa Camplin, rugby league champion Allan Langer, tennis player Mark Woodforde, Australian football and media identity Lou Richards, and swimming coach John Carew.

Coaching career
Nilsson was invited by Brisbane Bandits CEO Mark Ready to manage the team for the 2014 Australian Baseball League season. Nilsson made numerous team and coaching staff changes which saw the team improve in their previous season standings. Nilsson continued to work on improving the culture and teamwork within the Brisbane Bandits throughout the 2015–2016 season, which saw Nilsson take the team to the 2016 post season and swept the Adelaide Bite to take home the Claxton Shield for the first time in the revamped Australian Baseball League.

In 2017 Nilsson coached the Brisbane Bandits to a 3rd-place finish during the regular season. Brisbane went on the beat the Adelaide Bite in the preliminary final and advanced to take on the Minor Premiers the Melbourne Aces in the Championship Series. Nilsson guided the Brisbane Bandits to a series sweep and back to back Australian Baseball League Championships.

Nilsson was the recipient of the Coca-Cola Amatil 2017 Queensland Sport Coach of the Year at the annual Q Sport awards.

In 2018, following three consecutive ABL championships with the Brisbane Bandits, Nilsson was announced as manager of the Australian national baseball team.

In 2021, Nilsson was named as the bench and hitting coach for the Lake Country DockHounds of the American Association of Professional Baseball.

Personal
Nilsson currently lives in Brisbane and was manager of the Brisbane Bandits of the Australian Baseball League for the 2010–11 season.

Nilsson is currently manager of the Brisbane Bandits (2014–present) and the Australian national baseball team (2018–present).

Dave Nilsson is the uncle of Brisbane Bandits standout Mitch Nilsson.

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Sing for the Moment

"Sing for the Moment" is a song by American rapper Eminem from his fourth album The Eminem Show (2002). It was released on February 25, 2003, as the fourth single from The Eminem Show and the final single in the United States. The song samples "Dream On" by American rock band Aerosmith.

"Sing for the Moment" received positive reviews from music critics, with many critics praising Eminem's rapping ability, the lyrics, and the "Dream On" sample. "Sing for the Moment" proved to be successful, peaking inside the Top 10 in twenty countries. In the United States, "Sing for the Moment" reached number fourteen on the Billboard Hot 100. It was also a number-one hit in Portugal. The song, along with the original "Dream On", was used in a trailer for the 2016 animated film Sing.

Background
"Sing for the Moment" was the first song Eminem wrote for the album. It contains samples of the song "Dream On" by the rock band Aerosmith. Joe Perry plays the guitar solo at the end of the song, and a sample of Steven Tyler singing is used as the chorus for this song. Eminem chants "sing" when Tyler starts to sing the chorus, and Eminem also chants "sing with me" and "come on". Eminem says the words in his live performances as well. The beginning of the song samples the intro of "Dream On" too. "Sing for the Moment" was later released on Eminem's greatest hits compilation album Curtain Call: The Hits (2005).

"Sing for the Moment" mentions John Guerra, a bouncer whom Eminem had an altercation with on June 4, 2000, after the rapper claimed he saw him kissing his ex-wife Kim. Eminem deliberately mispronounces his last name as "Guerrera:"

"You're full of shit too, Guerrera, that was a fist that hit you! (Bitch!)"

The song reached #14 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart, #6 on the UK Singles Chart, and #5 on the Australian ARIAnet Singles Chart.

Eminem performed the song with Tyler during Eminem's 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony performance, with Tyler singing the entire first verse of "Dream On" before Eminem began the first verse of Sing for the Moment.

Critical reception
David Browne wrote: "In 'Sing for the Moment,' which includes a tirade against the media and politically motivated prosecutors, the intensity of his delivery overcomes the hoariest of ideas – incorporating a portion of an overly familiar classic-rock oldie, Aerosmith's 'Dream On.' The song becomes a clarion call of suburban kids everywhere, not just an easy route to a hit."

DX magazine concluded that in this song Eminem is dealing with his life and called it "guitar-fueled track." RapReviews was positive: "'Sing For the Moment' may throw his fans a curveball though: a song which appears to sample Aerosmith's 'Dream On' yet simultaneously features the REAL Joe Perry playing guitar. Obviously not a stretch for the hard rock icons though, who are still remembered for recording 'Walk This Way' with Run-D.M.C. back in the 1980s, so it's an enjoyable diversion from non-stop hardcore hip-hop."

Track listing

 * German CD single

 * German Maxi CD single

 * German Limited Edition Maxi CD single (Encased in a limited edition digipak with three limited edition postcards)

 * UK CD single

 * UK Cassette

 * Notes
 * $undefined$ signifies a co-producer.
 * $undefined$ signifies an additional producer.

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Battle of Soissons (486)

The Battle of Soissons was fought in 486 between Frankish forces under Clovis I and the Gallo-Roman domain of Soissons under Syagrius. The battle was a victory for the Franks, and led to the conquest of the Roman rump state of Soissons, a milestone for the Franks in their attempt to establish themselves as a major regional power.

In the final collapse of the Western Roman Empire between 476 and 480, Syagrius was the only remaining representative of Roman rule in the area between the Loire and the Somme. Syagrius was the son of Aegidius, Roman magister militum per Gallias from 457 to 461; he preserved his father's rump state, the Domain of Soissons, between the Somme and the Loire, calling himself dux.

The central location of Soissons in northern Gaul and its largely intact infrastructure allowed a level of stability in the years of the Migration Period, but also made the area tempting for their Frankish neighbours to the north-east. The realm of Syagrius was of almost the same size as the Frankish area, though the Franks were divided into small kingdoms, and, on the right bank of the Rhine, little touched by Roman culture.

Nevertheless, Clovis I managed to assemble enough Franks to confront Syagrius's forces. Clovis issued a challenge to Syagrius naming the time and place of the battle. Gregory of Tours mentions that one Chararic had brought his forces to the battlefield but then stood aloof, hoping to ally with the winner.

The ensuing battle was a decisive victory for Clovis and his Franks. Syagrius fled to the Visigoths (under Alaric II), but Clovis threatened war and the Visigoths handed Syagrius over for execution.

Consequently, the realm of the Franks almost doubled in size; its border was now on the Loire adjacent to the realm of the Visigoths, who were finally routed at the Battle of Vouillé in 507 and forced to retreat south of the Pyrenées.

In due course Clovis marched against Chararic, captured him and his sons, and forced them to accept ordination and tonsures as deacons. On report of their hope to regain power, he had them executed.

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Ian Bairnson

John "Ian" Bairnson (3 August 1953 – 7 April 2023) was a Scottish musician, best known as a member of Pilot and the Alan Parsons Project. He was a multi-instrumentalist, who played saxophone and keyboards, although he was best known as a guitarist. He was also known for preferring the sound of a sixpence to a plectrum. In addition to his work with Parsons, Bairnson played guitar on four Kate Bush albums, including the guitar solo on her 1978 debut single, "Wuthering Heights".

Early life
Bairnson was born in Lerwick, Shetland, on 3 August 1953. He grew up in Levenwick, also in Shetland, before his family moved to Edinburgh, Midlothian, when he was nine years old, following the death of his father. Bairnson learned how to play the guitar when he was six.

Pilot and the Alan Parsons Project
He was a session guitarist before joining up in 1973 with former Bay City Rollers musicians David Paton and Billy Lyall in the band Pilot, contributing the harmony guitar parts to their hit single "Magic". During this time with Pilot, he first collaborated with Alan Parsons, the record producer on their debut self-titled album. It was this relationship that helped incorporate most of the band's members (bassist/lead singer Paton and drummer Stuart Tosh) into the Alan Parsons Project. He played the distinctive guitar solo on the track "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" from Parsons' I Robot (1977) album.

As a guitarist, he was featured on every Alan Parsons Project album, including the 1984 side project Keats.

In 2019, Bairnson added guitar solos to two songs from Alan Parsons' new album, The Secret, specifically the tracks "Years of Glory" and "I Can't Get There from Here".

Additional work
Bairnson played on Kate Bush's first four albums The Kick Inside (1978) (notably playing the guitar solo on "Wuthering Heights") Lionheart (1978), Never for Ever (1980) and The Dreaming (1982).

Bairnson also played with the band Bucks Fizz for whom he co-wrote two of their Top 20 hits, "If You Can't Stand the Heat" (1982) and "Run for Your Life" (1983).

In 2009 he appeared on the album of the German bass player Chris Postl, Parzivals Eye. Chris Postl played in RPWL, a German band. He toured with a number of different bands, the latest being Junk (Bairnson, Pau Chaffer, Sarah Rope and Ángel Celada). During his session career he played on more than a hundred albums in different styles, for artists such as Yvonne Keeley, Joe Cocker, Jon Anderson, Chris DeBurgh, Mick Fleetwood, and Neil Diamond. He played live with Sting, Eric Clapton, Beverley Craven and many more.

After moving back to the UK in 2013, Bairnson got together with David Paton and produced an album called A Pilot Project where they paid homage to Eric Woolfson’s legacy. In November 2016 Paton and Bairnson got together again, touring Japan with a Pilot revival and some Alan Parsons Project songs as well.

Personal life and death
Bairnson lived in Spain from 2003 to 2013, where he had a recording studio and continued working as a session guitarist.

His wife, Leila, announced on her Facebook page in 2018 that Bairnson had been diagnosed with a progressive neurological condition that affected his communication skills, so he would no longer play in public. On her Facebook page, she subsequently announced that Bairnson had died on 7 April 2023, following a long time with dementia. He was 69.

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Giuseppe Melfi

Giuseppe Melfi (June 11, 1967) is an Italo-Swiss mathematician who works on practical numbers and modular forms.

Career
He gained his PhD in mathematics in 1997 at the University of Pisa. After some time spent at the University of Lausanne during 1997-2000, Melfi was appointed at the University of Neuchâtel, as well as at the University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland and at the local University of Teacher Education.

Work
His major contributions are in the field of practical numbers. This prime-like sequence of numbers is known for having an asymptotic behavior and other distribution properties similar to the sequence of primes. Melfi proved two conjectures both raised in 1984 one of which is the corresponding of the Goldbach conjecture for practical numbers: every even number is a sum of two practical numbers. He also proved that there exist infinitely many triples of practical numbers of the form $$m-2,m,m+2$$.

Another notable contribution has been in an application of the theory of modular forms, where he found new Ramanujan-type identities for the sum-of-divisor functions. His seven new identities extended the ten other identities found by Ramanujan in 1913. In particular he found the remarkable identity
 * $$ \sum_{\stackrel{0< k< n}{k\equiv1\bmod3}} \sigma(k)\sigma(n-k)=\frac19\sigma_3(n) \qquad \mbox{ for }n\equiv2\bmod3$$

where $$\sigma(n)$$ is the sum of the divisors of $$n$$ and $$\sigma_3(n)$$ is the sum of the third powers of the divisors of $$n$$.

Among other problems in elementary number theory, he is the author of a theorem that allowed him to get a 5328-digit number that has been for a while the largest known primitive weird number.

In applied mathematics his research interests include probability and simulation.

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R518 road (Ireland)

The R518 road is a regional road in Ireland which runs from Kilmallock via Rathkeale, to Askeaton, all in County Limerick.

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Wurstelprater

The Wurstelprater (Wurstel or Wurschtel being the Viennese name for Hanswurst) is an amusement park and section of the Wiener Prater (a park) in Leopoldstadt, Vienna, Austria.

This institution dates back to the time of the Austrian Empire, when Emperor Joseph II made the Prater (which had been serving as Imperial hunting ground until then) open to the public in 1766, which makes it the second-oldest amusement park in the world after Dyrehavsbakken in Copenhagen, Denmark. Soon the first snack bars, stalls and bowling alleys opened up on the grounds and the Wurstelprater was born.

The best-known attraction is the Wiener Riesenrad, a Ferris wheel. The park also features various rides, bumper cars, carousels, roller coasters, shooting galleries, ghost trains, a Madame Tussauds wax works cabinet and much more. Apart from the rides, the park features various famous traditional Viennese restaurants (such as the Schweizerhaus and the Walfisch) and souvenir shops.

The mascot for the park is Calafati, a 9 m-tall sculpture of a Chinese man, which stands near the Wiener Riesenrad.

The park is open from 10:00 am to 1:00 am daily in its season, which runs from 15 March to 31 October. Some attractions, as well as the food stands and restaurants, are open throughout the year. There is no entrance fee to get into the park; instead, each attraction charges its own fee, the attractions being individual businesses mostly owned by local families.

During the advent season, a small Christmas Market can be found on Riesenradplatz, right beside the Wiener Riesenrad Ferris Wheel at the Wurstelprater entrance. This Wintermarkt is open from mid-November till beginning of January and features traditional Christmas gifts as well as seasonal food and beverages.

The Wurstelprater is located in the Wiener Prater and can be conveniently reached by public transport (U1/U2 Praterstern) as well as by car (parking facilities available).

Notable Attractions

 * Wiener Riesenrad; A 64.75 m tall ferris wheel that was first constructed in 1897 and is one of Vienna's most popular tourist attractions.
 * Wiener Looping; A new Mack Rides looping roller coaster currently under construction and set to open in September 2024. Upon its debut, it will become the largest fixed-location coaster in Austria and the park's first to straddle multiple parcels of land.
 * Olympia Looping; The world's largest portable roller coaster, designed by Anton Schwarzkopf and Werner Stengel and operated by Rudolf Barth. It resides at Prater seasonally before attending Oktoberfest in Munich and Hyde Park Winter Wonderland in London.
 * Praterturm; A 117 m Star Flyer designed and operated by Austria-based Funtime.
 * Geisterbahn; A ghost train attraction first opened in 1933.

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Edward James
This whole article can't be verifeid in the primary sources Gregory of Tours and it totally contradicts the interpretation of Edward James "The Franks". If I find the time I will do an attempt to improve it. johanthon (talk) 20:45, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Louis deMartelly
Gibbon and Milman's notes in my 1905 edition (The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) suggests that Syagrius had only a token army of young volunteers who (presumably) ran at the sight of Clovis'e Franks. Though not stated by Gibbon is is possible that a battle never took place and that the effect of Clovis's challenge alone (added in my edit) effected Syagrius's flight. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.135.145.177 (talk) 18:53, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

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The Echo (Dublin newspaper)

The Echo (previously The Tallaght Echo) is a regional newspaper covering parts of Dublin in Ireland. It was founded by owner David Kennedy in 1980, who launched the newspaper out of the front room of his house, and originally called it The Tallaght Echo. The paper has since grown to cover the adjacent suburbs of Clondalkin, Ballyfermot and Lucan.

The Echo was sold in June 2005 to the Leinster Leader, in a deal reported to be about €5 million. On the same day the Leinster Leader announced that they were buying The Echo, they also announced that they were up for sale. In September 2005, Leinster Leader was sold to Johnston Press, which is owned by a holding company by the name of Tallaght Publishing Ltd.

The paper was reacquired by David Kennedy for an estimated €1 million in 2009 and Johnston Press transferred ownership back on 5 January 2010.

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K-MeleonCCF

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First Date (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

"First Date" is the fourteenth episode of seventh and final season of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The episode aired on February 11, 2003 on UPN.

Buffy accepts a dinner invitation from high school Principal Robin Wood, making Spike wistfully jealous; Anya expresses more aggressive jealousy when Xander has a date; and both first dates provide revelations about the First Evil.

Plot
Giles leads Buffy and the Potential Slayers in a night-time cemetery tour, during which he tells how he survived the Bringer attack several weeks before by overpowering and decapitating the Bringer. He is suddenly attacked by Spike, who is surprised to learn that Giles is corporeal and not the First Evil. When Giles is confused at how Spike can no longer feel pain, Buffy admits that she persuaded the Initiative to remove the chip from Spike's head, much to Giles' consternation.

At work, Buffy tries to hunt for clues in Principal Wood's office as to whether he is good or evil. When she is about to open a cabinet, Wood finds her and asks her out to dinner. After Buffy leaves, Wood opens the case, displaying a large collection of blade weapons, into which he places a bloody dagger. Back at the house, Buffy expresses mixed feelings about the date, and is unsure whether she is interested in him. Willow suggests that it would be good for Buffy to move on (from Spike, presumably). Xander enters and reveals that he too has a date that evening, with a young woman, Lissa, he met at a hardware store. Upstairs, Buffy is getting dressed for dinner when Spike appears in the hallway, and tells Buffy that he is fine with her having a date with another man, although Buffy can tell he is jealous.

On Buffy's date with Wood, they are jumped by a group of vampires. Buffy slays most of them, and thinks that Wood has set her up until she sees him take out two of them. At the restaurant, Wood reveals that he is a "freelance" demon hunter, and tells her about his mother — a Slayer who was killed when he was four years old, after which he was raised by her Watcher. Meanwhile, Xander's date appears to be going well until he learns that she is a demon working for the First. She ties him up above the mystical Seal of Danzalthar in the high school basement, and cuts him so that he will bleed onto it and cause it to open.

In the house, the First appears to Andrew in the guise of his murdered friend Jonathan, and orders him to kill the Potentials by trapping them in the basement, using the gun that Willow brought to the house while she was possessed by Warren. Though Andrew says he is committed to helping Buffy and her friends, he reluctantly retrieves the gun for the First and asks why not convince Spike to kill the Potentials; to which the First replies it is not yet time to use Spike. When Andrew asks the First questions about its intents and potential weaknesses, the First realises that Andrew is wearing a wire that Willow has set up and that she, Dawn, Amanda and Kennedy are listening to their conversation through Willow's headphones. Angered, the First appears to the girls in the guise of a horribly maimed Jonathan, threatening them before disappearing.

Soon afterwards, Willow receives a text message with a help code from Xander. Spike goes to fetch Buffy, finds her with Wood at the restaurant in a slightly romantic moment, and they all rush out to rescue Xander, driving in Wood's car. When they get to the seal beneath the school, they fight and kill Lissa and find Xander not too badly hurt. They prevent the seal from opening again, but during the course of the fight, Wood finds out that Spike is a vampire whom Buffy cares about deeply, making him uneasy.

Back at the house, Spike tells Buffy that as the First has plans for him that could endanger others, he will leave town to prevent this. Buffy tells Spike not to leave, "'Cause I'm not ready for you to not be here." In Wood's apartment, the First appears to Wood in the guise of his dead mother (Nikki Wood) and leads him to conclude that it was Spike who killed her in 1977.

Casting
Actress and stunt double April Weeden-Washington, who played the original "Subway Slayer" Nikki Wood, told an interviewer, "I received a call from the casting director at Buffy saying that they were bringing the character back. I was told to come in and audition on September 13 [2002]. I thought I was a shoo-in because I had already established the character. There weren't many lines. Then I got a phone call from casting stating that there was 'a certain maturity' about me now, and that I didn't get the part. It was a blow for me not to get called back. I do kind of understand, seeing that the Slayers are teenagers, but the character in "Fool for Love" was older than that." The actress K.D. Aubert replaced her in the role.

Reception
Vox, ranking it at #123 of all 144 episodes on their "Worst to Best" list, writes, "Traditionally on Buffy, there’s a major twist right around this point in the season: Angel loses his soul, or Faith kills a guy, or Buffy and Spike have sex. Season seven eschews that structure, which is partly why it feels so monotonous, but this quiet episode has its charms. It brings back a little of the Scooby camaraderie that made the early seasons so fun: There’s Willow and Xander sweetly teasing Buffy about how Principal Wood is way too young to be her type, and Anya struggling fruitlessly for someone to talk to about how jealous she is of Xander’s date with Special Guest Star Ashanti — who, as stunt-casted celebrities goes, does not embarrass herself."

In 2023, Rolling Stone, ranked this episode as #99 out of the 144 episodes in honor of the 20th anniversary of the show's ending.

Reviewer Billie Doux comments, "This week's moral lessons are: redemption's a bitch, and never date during an Apocalypse... Buffy thought her date was evil, while Xander didn't have a clue — and it turned out to be just the reverse, with Xander once again proving that he is a demon magnet."

Mark Oshiro wrote a mixed review, finding some of the jokes cheap, particularly the "continuation of the joke that only demons are interested in Xander" and the character of Chao-Ahn, "an awful, gross stereotype taken to extremely racist/xenophobic ends." While he liked the appearance of Ashanti as Lissa, he asks whether "this episode sort of criticizes itself?"

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Wiesław Chrzanowski

Wiesław Marian Chrzanowski (, 20 December 1923 – 29 April 2012) was a Polish politician and lawyer; from 1991 to 1993 he was Marshal of the Sejm. He was a recipient of the Order of the White Eagle.

Chrzanowski was born and died in Warsaw, Poland. During World War II he was a member of the Polish anti-Nazi resistance organization, the Home Army. He finished a law degree at a secret underground university in 1945. During the second half of the 1970s he became associated with the opposition to the communist government in Poland. He helped to draft the statutes establishing the Solidarity trade union and later was the lawyer which guided the legal registration process of the organization. In 1989 he founded the Christian National Union (ZChN), party he chaired to 1994.

During the 2011 Polish parliamentary election, he endorsed Polska jest Najważniejsza.

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I deleted the expanded overview as blow-by-blow accounts of the plot violate copyright. I kept the trivia section in this one as, though I am unfamilar with the facts in said section, they seem muy noteable (for once) and if confirmed and sourced up, should be in the article. Lots42 (talk) 10:52, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Removed
"When Buffy, Spike and Principal Wood are driving to the school to rescue Xander, and Spike is in the back seat, Principal Wood looks in the car mirror to Spike and sees him[citation needed] as he doesn't remark on the lack of reflection. He only discovers Spike is a vampire in the next scene. Vampires do not have reflections."

This is just wrong. The original author of this comment misunderstood the episode. There is no POV shot of the mirror. We do not see what Wood sees, thus it's probable that he is realizing there's no reflection of Spike in the mirror -- hence his obvious suspicion in the car. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.143.131.114 (talk) 13:06, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

Wikinaziism
Removed the Wikinazi order "trivia sections are discouraged" box. 1. It's just typically wikipedia fascist behavior, and 2. Trivia sections make sense, and are appropriate, in the context of this and other such episode guides. It is a valid and useful way of organizing such data in this context. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.143.131.114 (talk) 13:12, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Please assume good faith regarding the edits made by other people. Lots42 (talk) 05:45, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

I moved most of the "Trivia" to "Continuity". Deleted a couple that really were trivial. Barsoomian (talk) 08:44, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

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Cantonese
Why can't someone from Shanghai only speak Cantonese? Lots42 (talk) 11:49, 1 September 2010 (UTC)

 * In Shanghai most people speak Shanghainese and Mandarin. Everyone who goes to school in China now learns Mandarin  So Giles should have been able to speak to her if he did actually speak Mandarin. Her Cantonese is strangely accented though, certainly not like Hong Kong Cantonese. Barsoomian (talk) 08:48, 8 September 2010 (UTC)