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LNE

LNE may refer to:
 * Laboratoire national de métrologie et d'essais, a French reference laboratory
 * La Nouvelle École, international school in Rajasthan, India
 * Lehigh and New England Railroad, a former American railroad
 * La Nueva España, a newspaper published in Oviedo, Spain
 * Lonorore Airport, IATA code LNE, on Pentecost Island, Vanuatu
 * Limited nuclear exchange, a hypothesized, small-scale type of nuclear war

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User talk:ANA318

Please stop removing delete tags from pages without explanation. Your actions appear to be sock-puppetry for an anon user 65.0.250.235, please explain. - Chairboy 06:32, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
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Gisselle

Gisselle Ortiz Cáceres, known mononymously as Gisselle (born March 28, 1969, in New York City, U.S.) is an American Merengue singer of Puerto Rican descent.

Musical career
Gisselle was born in New York City to Puerto Rican parents. She showed interest in the arts from an early age and started dancing at the Ita Medina Academy when she was 15 years old. She participated as a dancer in several shows in venues like the Luis A. Ferré Performing Arts Center. After that she became a regular dancer and performer in variety shows like Super Sábados and El Show de las 12.

It was then that she started to incline towards a career in music. She joined Kaviar, a merengue group composed of females, with whom she performed for almost two years. From 1991 to 1993, she performed with the group Punto G. After that, she decided to pursue a solo career and was signed by the BMG label.

In 1995, Bonny Cepeda produced her first album that produced several hit singles like "Perfume de mujer en tu camisa" and "Pesadilla". It was also awarded gold and platinum albums, and several awards.

In 1996, her second album - A Que Vuelve - was released to much praise. The album reached 200,000 units sold. Her third album, Quiero Estar Contigo, was equally successful reaching the top places on the Billboard charts. The album featured a version of Juan Gabriel's song Perdóname, olvídalo in a duet with Dominican Sergio Vargas which was very successful. After, they released an album together titled Juntos.

In the late 90s, Gisselle released the album Atada which garnered her a Grammy nomination. Her follow-up, Voy a Enamorarte, released in 2000, featured Gisselle singing ballads and bachatas. In 2002, she received another Grammy nomination for her album titled simply 8.

Gisselle's next album, En alma, cuerpo y corazón, featured the singer venturing into pop music. However, in 2004 she returned to merengue with her new album Contra la Marea.

Acting career
Early in her career, Gisselle was featured in several comedy sketches in programs like Esto no es un show, Mira que TVO, El Show de las 12 and No te Duermas.

In 2001, she starred in the play El bombón de Elena.

Recently, she appeared in the play La Verdadera Historia de Pedro Navaja, with Gilberto Santa Rosa and Yolandita Monge.

Radio host
In 2007, Gisselle was invited to host the morning radio show El Bayú de la Mañana at SalSoul. After a couple of months, she changed shifts hosting La Perrera at the same station. Now she has a has radio show called: "El Show de Giselle y Jesse" with Jesse Calderon.

Personal life
Gisselle was married in the early 1990s and has a son, Viadel, from that relationship. Viadel was born in 1994. Gisselle also has a brother named Miguel A Ortiz Caceres and lives in Hartford, CT. After her divorce she has had relationships with model and actor Julian Gil, and baseball player Roberto Alomar.

In 2009 she married minor league baseball player, Miguel “Mickey” Negron. They divorced in 2021. No children were conceived from their union.

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Batou (バトー) is a main male character in Masamune Shirow's Ghost in the Shell series. He is the second-best melee fighter in Section 9, and is the second in command under Major Motoko Kusanagi. He is a battle-hardened cyborg special operative with a long distinguished military career and a no-nonsense attitude. Though he looks imposing, he is known for his warm heart, sense of humor, and love for animals.

Conception and creation
Batou serves as pointman whose combat specialty is "near combat." Batou often acts as the Section 9 team's comic relief.

Background
Batou's limbs are all prosthetic; despite the fact that exercise provides negligible benefit, Batou enjoys jogging and weightlifting as a hobby. Shirow's characterization of Batou in the manga, and indeed the other members of Section 9, is notably more light-hearted than the characterization used in Mamoru Oshii's films of the same name. His eyes, though prosthetic, often bulge comically when he is alarmed. He frequently jokes with Motoko, Togusa, the Tachikomas, and practically everyone else who crosses his path. His serious side becomes much more pronounced in a chapter of the manga where Yano, a trainee of Batou's, is murdered by a cybercriminal named Koil Krasnov. Batou loses his temper and impulsively calls up Section 9 Chief Aramaki, demanding an explanation for Yano's death, then storms off announcing (in the English translation), "That… Koil is dead meat!"

Batou had seemingly hated anyone who tried to make Section 9 fix the mess of another organization, such as the AI hijacking of the Jigabachi choppers in the SAC series. However, in the Ghost in the Shell movie he appears more stoic and silent than his TV and manga counterpart. Particularly in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Batou also appears moderately distant and possibly bitter. In addition, he jokes around with a hint of irony being mentioned.

Design
Stand Alone Complex character designer Hajime Shimomura said that Batou's image was based on the Minotaur.

While his name is officially romanized as "Batou", in some copies of the first film's subtitles and credits, it is spelled "Bateau" (the French word for "boat").

The name "Batou" means "horse" in Japanese and may refer to Japanese Buddhism's Batou Kannon (Horse-Headed Kannon) with his small robotic implant eyes and long face as visual references. It also means "eight-headed" in Mandarin Chinese, which is significant since "Kusanagi" was the name of a sword that was taken from Orochi, an eight-headed and eight-tailed mountain dragon in Japanese mythology.

Relationships
Of all Section 9 characters, Batou is closest with the Major professionally and in civilian life. Even on missions, he is known to disregard her rank or authority to "speak freely" without permission.

In literature
Batou originally appeared in the manga authored by Masamune Shirow, serialized in Kodansha's "Young Magazine Pirate Edition" from 1989 to 1991. Unlike S.A.C., where in a similar situation Batou spares the life of an ex-C.I.A. operative, Batou makes good on his threat and personally terminates Koil. His appearance and style of dress vary considerably over the series' run.

In Ghost in the Shell 2: Man/Machine Interface, Batou's head is shaved, and he is dressed in a simple black outfit, though his sense of humor remains intact. During a psychic monitoring of the virtual contact between the main character of the manga and another entity on the net, the psychic states, "Something of substance, something fruitful has passed between them," to which Batou remarks, "A persimmon maybe?" This prompts Chief Aramaki to issue an ultimatum: "If you can't be serious you can leave the room." He also asks to link with the psychic when she suffers a similar experience to Motoko's contact with the Puppet Master, but his request is denied.

Animated film
The portrayal of Batou in Mamoru Oshii's films is very different from the depiction in the anime series. Ghost in the Shell and Innocence depict a Batou who is much more subdued, even to the point of brusqueness. His appearance consists of a white crew-cut (similar to the manga) in the first film, while in the second film he has a short ponytail. Batou is voiced by Akio Ōtsuka in Japanese and Richard Epcar in English in all Ghost in the Shell media with the exception of The Laughing Man and Individual Eleven OVAs where he is voiced by David Kaye in English, and Arise, where he is voiced by Kenichirou Matsuda and Christopher Sabat respectively.

Batou is the central character of Innocence, which centers around his personal life after the disappearance of Major Motoko Kusanagi at the end of the first film. Oshii has commented that the investigation is really secondary to the plot. What is most notable about Batou's emotion in Innocence is his lack thereof; for the most part he expresses nothing whatsoever. The commentary on the Innocence DVD touches on the fact that it is Batou's lone companion, a Basset Hound named Gabriel, that express almost all of the emotion in the entire film. When Batou is required to leave in order to continue his investigation, Gabriel is left in the care of Togusa and his family. Ishikawa, Batou's senior, chides him for keeping such a high-maintenance dog since he is a single man in a dangerous line of work. The film strongly suggests that Batou harbors romantic feelings for the Major; however, no definitive statement of his feelings is ever made.

After shooting his own right arm as a result of brain-hacking, Batou is fitted with a new DNA-matched prosthetic arm with a shotgun hidden inside. He is depicted as being tougher than in the other Ghost in the Shell incarnations, when he is seen to shoot two live grenades and survive the blast, and withstand a substantial leap down the shaft of the Locus Solus factory ship. In both films, Batou carries a gun dubbed a "Jericho 942," based on the real Jericho 941 made by IMI but chambered for .50AE. In Innocence, he is also seen with a compact S&W pistol and a small semiautomatic shotgun. The Innocence prequel novel, "After the Long Goodbye," notes that Batou's S&W pistol is chambered for the .40 S&W cartridge.

Live action film
Pilou Asbæk portrays Batou in the 2017 live action film. "The manga is very philosophical, very weird, very spiritual," said Asbæk. "So I knew that my job with Batou was to bring in a little bit of heart and soul into this futuristic sci-fi world." Asbæk had a hard time understanding his character until he looked back at the Ghost in the Shell source material. "I didn’t have any idea what to do with the character and then I looked at the manga again, and I saw two things. I saw he likes beer, and he likes pizza. And if you know me for five minutes, that’s 80 percent of my personality!" he said. The novelization of the film describes Batou as a Scandinavian. Batou starts out with normal eyes, but later suffers blindness from an explosion; he replaces them with inhuman-looking prosthetics. In his free time, Batou feeds stray dogs.

Stand Alone Complex series
In Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Batou's personality closely resembles his manga counterpart. He is depicted as an outgoing jokester, but with a quick temper. Unlike the Major, Batou often expresses his anger at injustice and cruelty quite openly. He is sometimes shown to be impatient with Section 9's rookies, such as Togusa. At times, Batou acts as a voice of reason and displays great concern for the Major, and she in turn admits that she can confide in him. Like Oshii's films, the series suggests romantic tension between the Major and Batou. The film Solid State Society more openly addresses this tension, when Batou admits that he'd been covering up the Major's involvement in any cases prior to the Puppeteer case. The movie closes with Batou putting his arm around the Major, although whether or not this is foretelling of any relationship between the two is left ambiguous.

Batou had served in a military special forces unit and often states that he was a Ranger-trained soldier with the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF) before entering Section 9. Despite the fact that his prosthetic body has little to gain from exercise, Batou often lifts weights and jogs. He is shown to have an affinity for martial arts and is widely regarded as nearly the best hand-to-hand combatant in Section 9, second only to the Major. He once idolized a famous boxer, Zaitsev, with whom he later spars while on an undercover mission.

Batou is the favorite superior of the Tachikomas because he regularly showers them with care and affection; in episode 2.15, it also is apparent that he shares a physical resemblance with their chief programmer. He has even dubbed one unit as his "personal" Tachikoma, refusing to operate any other and treating it with organic oil, both habits which culminate in problems. Later in the series, the Tachikomas' AI starts to develop rapidly, which is attributed to a mutation in a protein chip caused by Batou's oil. Also, since Batou treats them as individuals as opposed to interchangeable units, they begin to view themselves as such, which contributes to the development of their AI.

Batou is often seen driving a yellow Lancia Stratos coupe, a rare Italian car from the 1970s. He is shown to be very protective of the car and is hesitant to allow others to drive it. Togusa refers to Batou's love of the car as a comeback after Batou chides him for using a revolver instead of a more modern weapon. In Solid State Society, Batou drives a yellow Ford GT with black racing stripes. When the Major notices the new vehicle, she comments to Batou that "his tastes had changed."

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Characters
The "Characters" section is just awful. It needs to be totally reworked, this time with some attention paid to formatting.

July 26, 2005- Character section reworked. Still needs to be checked for spelling and subject accuracy.
 * Not only that, but shouldn't Harry, of all the people of importance as characters in this series/game, at least have his own character section? --98.18.50.86 (talk) 17:34, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Two separate articles
one for the game and one for the anime --Dangerous-Boy 07:46, 17 January 2006 (UTC)--
 * I agree. I came here looking for some info of the anime series and i realiza that there's not much info about it and i got to say the same thing of the data about the game, it would be cool if someone could make two separate articles and  maybe to expand them a little bit.
 * Disagree, for now. I'm not very familiar with Gungrave (I'm only starting to watch the anime now.), but if the games and anime are very intertwined, I don't see the reason for two articles.  Until there is a larger body of information up that is unique to the anime, the anime should be sub-section of the game article.  As it stands now, the anime section is rather small, in fact if you take out the episode names, it's just a fragment.  If it was split off it would be a sad sub.  However, if Mitsurya's plan (below) to actually created a fleshed out article about the anime, fine.  I'll support multiple articles if each article has real substance.  Otherwise, keep it all in one.Mr. Cat 21:22, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

i am working on creating two seperate articles for this topic and creating one for gungrave overdose -- mitsurya

I disagree that the anime and games should be seperated, mainly because the second half of the anime is the original ps2 game(with an alternate ending). Originally it was a two ps2 games that got turned into an anime, which is what this article should describe. There should be a section added for characters in the anime who do not appear in the game (i.e. maria, big boss in human form), but other than that, I think they should be binded as one article, since it's one idea with one set of characters.

The anime deserves it's own article.

I agree that it should have a separate article. Hewinsj

Seperate articles?
Maybe the seperation of articles is not necessarily needed. Perhaps just a division in the section is enough.

There's plenty of material to make a gungrave article just about the anime.

There's too much to the anime to give it only half an article.

You're wish is my command! - Gungrave (anime) (in early stages of development).

--CosmicFool Enterprises™ 23:37, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Episode guide
The episode guide is a mess. It should be set in proper format, and given actual episode summeries.

Gungrave Anime Section
By request, I've taken the liberty of creating a seperate article for the anime. All the info of it from this article is in the new article, as well as now much more. I also removed the info from this article and replaced it with a Main Article: link.

To fing my reasons for doinf this, check out the disscusion for the new article - Gungrave (anime)

Hope this hasn't caused too much inconveniance to anyone n_n;

--CosmicFool Enterprises™ 23:36, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Not at all CF. It's a good start, and the info for the page looks cleaner allready. Maybe we can move some of the anime specific characters over to the Anime section once it's had some progress. User:Hewinsj 17:43, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Updates
I've edited the opening paragraphs which should be good, and changed the information box to standard videogame, rather than anime that included VG info. I've created a Gungrave OD article, and I'm going to try and add new sections here like weapons, characters, ect. to draw a distinction. If anybody has anything constructive to add to Gungrave OD, go ahead. Also, does anyone really want that Cinemanga section? Does it serve a purpose? Hewinsj 08:12, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

It does serve a purpose, by informing a certain part of the gungrave saga. Isn't that what wikipedia is about? I say keep it.

 * But it's not part of the saga, just a reprint of still shots from the anime. It has little to nothing to do with the game itself.  If anything the fact that it exists should be made a subsection of Gungrave (Anime) (under Other Media or something like that).  Also, the text shouldn't read as though it was taken from a Diamond Previews catalogue. Hewinsj 15:53, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Overhauling the article and gearing it toward the original game. Going to try and fit the format set by some other games in the computer and video game project. If anyone has ideas on things that can be added post it here. Also, if anyone knows which characters are exsclusive to the anime, cut them from this page and move them over there. This one is only going to reflect enemies and allies from the original Gungrave. Hewinsj 18:09, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

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Gungrave (franchise)
Now, we need a new Wiki article "Gungrave (franchise)" that includes information about "Gungrave", "Gungrave: Overdose", and "Gungrave (anime)". ProResearcher (talk) 16:34, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

 * That might not be necessary, there's already a page that collects the Gungrave related articles in one place: Gungrave (disambiguation). Hewinsj (talk) 14:55, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

 * Kind guidance for you, Hewins. A "disambiguation" page is automatically generated by Wikipedia when you search for a term and more than one Wiki article closely matches your search.

 * We truly need a "Gungrave (franchise)" article. If the article would only discuss Gungrave video games, then the title would probably be "Gungrave (series)".  However, Gungrave includes video games and a television serial, so we need a "Gungrave (franchise)" article.
 * ProResearcher (talk) 18:17, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

 * Sorry if there is any confusion here. Disambiguation pages are not generated automatically.  Users have to create them when they notice that topics overlap.  I created Gungrave (disambiguation) myself in 2006.

 * Now, I'm completely confused. Sometimes, when I search on Wiki, a disambiguation page pops up.   However, when I search for "Gungrave", the first Gungrave game pops up, not your disambiguation page.  Personally, I think that response by Wiki is wrong.

 * The trouble with creating a franchise page is that the articles themselves are rated as start/stubs. Any information added to a franchise page that is new would probably be better used to improve one of the existing articles.  If that information isn't new it would be redundant and unnecessary.

 * I agree with you completely!!! When I work on a list or a series article, I rarely write new information.  Instead, I just borrow text from the existing articles.  (Try convincing other editors about your philosophy, though.  I encountered one list recently that had dozens of references.  Ugh.)

 * Do you have any examples of successful franchise pages with derivative articles for each part of that franchise, or any examples of what information should go into a Gungrave franchise article that shouldn't be placed in an article for the individual game/anime? Hewinsj (talk) 13:00, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

 * I've seen many "franchise" articles. (So many that I can't remember any specifically :-).  Run your cursor down "List of video game franchises", and I'm sure you'll find several.)  In general, they seemed fine to me.  That's why I figured that Gungrave needs a franchise article.

 * Again, I'm completely confused now. Maybe it's just a matter of semantics.  The word disambiguation strikes me negatively.  When I click on the "Series" link in an Infobox, I feel much better if a "series" or "franchise" article pops up.  On the other hand, your "disambiguation page" approach certainly entails less work.  Hmmmm.  I'll think on it.
 * ProResearcher (talk) 13:40, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

By the way, why doesn't "Gungrave" in "List of video game franchises" point to your disambiguation page? :-) ProResearcher (talk) 13:44, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

 * I don't claim ownership of the disambiguation page, I just happened to be the one to start it. I guess Gungrave wasn't listed in the list of franchises because no one thought to add it until now. Hewinsj (talk) 16:41, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

I just read the article "Disambiguation". The result--in the case of Gungrave, I think a "franchise" page is correct.

Here's a good example for you. ..

On a "franchise" page, I would include:
 * "Godfather" books by Mario Puzo
 * Godfather movies based on the books
 * Godfather games based on the books / movies

On a "disambiguation" page, I would include:
 * all items from the above "franchise" page plus
 * a general article about the concept of a mafia Godfather
 * a general article about the concept of a familial godfather

Do you see the difference?

Thus, I truly believe that your Gungrave disambiguation page should be renamed to a franchise page. Sorry. ProResearcher (talk) 15:05, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

 * I don't see a difference in your example. The term The Godfather links to the 1972 film and has a disambiguation link at the top of the page to help people find the novel and a category box at the bottom of the page that collects every article connected to the franchise for easy browsing. The term Godfather links to a disambiguation page.  All of the information related to the word use in terms of the Godfather series of books and movies are collected under the heading "In Media". It doesn't look like there is a separate article listing each item in the franchise, and it doesn't look like one is necessary since each part of the franchise has their own articles.

 * If what you are proposing is list of the items in the series, I don't believe this type of article is necessary. Disambiguation pages already exist to help people find the articles for each article related to a franchise. I don't think I've ever heard of a franchise article before and like I said I wouldn't mind seeing some examples of what you are proposing. Hewinsj (talk) 17:06, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

 * I just noticed your responses above and I'll take a look at that list you provided. Hewinsj (talk) 17:08, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

RE: Never reloads his pistols
Sorry to add a section to a Talk Page to address this, but I'm not confident enough in my Wiki-editing abilities to add a section to the actual public Wiki entry for Gun Grave.

The article mentions that Beyond the Grave never reloads his pistols; in fact, if you fire a certain number of rounds (Is it 100,000 or 1,000,000? I can't remember!), Grave will hold both pistols back near his coffin and some kind of automated mechanism will reload the pistols for him.

Is this the type of thing we'd need to grab a screenshot from game of him actually reloading the pistols? I wasn't able to find any pictures on the internet of him reloading. 63.115.34.34 (talk) 13:50, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

Edit: I actually managed to find a copy of this game last night! I stood still and held fire for about twelve minutes and he didn't reload. I'm almost sure I remember holding it long enough when I first played the game. 63.115.34.34 (talk) 12:15, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

Source
Interview with the producer. --ProtoDrake (talk) 20:55, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

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"Beat L.A."
"Beat L.A." did not have to do with the Dodgers. It originated in Boston, when the Sixers were obviously going to win, the Garden audience chanted "Beat L.A.", as the Lakers are the basketball equivalent to the Yankees in this city.GreatGatsby 07:37, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Fine by me. I live in Phoenix, so copyeditting this was a little hard, and I didn't do any factchecking. Think you could expand it at all...? --Dmcdevit·t 07:24, July 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'll expand on it when I get a good chunk of free timeGreatGatsby 07:37, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Inherently Subjective Qualities of This Article
This very topic is inherently subjective, and if the whole of Wikipedia feels that it does not deserve deletion, then it should at least be merged into the Red Sox Nation article. Checking this article right now, I suddenly noticed a completely subjective note written by a Mets fan, attracted by the ridiculous title of this article: "Yankees Suck." This is not an important enough phrase or chant that it requires it's own page, and it is watering down the quality of Wikipedia's sports-related articles. Djdickmutt 19:45, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Usefulness of Page
Is this subject worthy of its own article? While "Yankees Suck" is a common phrase, it's not as if they are the only group to use the expression that their rival team "sucks" as a battle cry. In theory, based on this article, Wikipedia should contain an article for any sort of cheer or jeer that has entered popular mythos, but that simply isn't feasible... I'd rather not see scores of articles named "___ Sucks." To me, it seems that its content could easily be merged with Yankees-Red Sox Rivalry. (For what it's worth, I hate the Yankees too, so my thoughts are not based out of bias against the subject matter!) --Kinu 20:34, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
 * ...except Red Sox-Yankees is the biggest rivalry in American sports. I'd see your point if it was "some random college teams sucks".GreatGatsby 03:50, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

I agree with the Kinu... this doesn't seem like an appropriate topic for Wikipedia and I'd like to see it deleted. Djdickmutt 04:01, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Merge
I agree with Kinu and feel that this subject is not worthy of its own article and would be better placed in Red Sox Nation. Standing on its own it seems more like a jab at the NY Yankees than an article about a marketing fad. Any thoughts?
 * I disagree on this, since the chant is used everywhere, often completely out of context of a Sox/Yanks game. The fact that the chant has been heard at Patriots games and college football games gives it additional relevance as its own phenomenon.  Most importantly, the Yankees are universally hated, and the use of this cheer, while patented by the Nation, is welcomed for use by others and is being heard with increasing frequency among non RSN members.  In doing so, those two words practically embody the struggle against evil and world domination.  Plus, many people (disclaimer: Myself included) find its repeated use to have pysical and psychological healing properties, putting it up there with the great mantras of all time.  And its just plain fun to say.
 * I disaggree. Like I've said before, Yankees Suck as a merchandising phenomenon is a legitamate reason to keep the page as is. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - 04:25, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I disagree as well. I'm not sure you're from Boston or not, but the whole "Yankees Suck" thing took on quite a regional significance.  Bumper stickers, t-shirts, entire blocks of talk radio discussion, plus the fact that it was rare to spend a day at Fenway without hearing it at least once.  It transcends "Red Sox Nation" due to that. --badlydrawnjeff 13:21, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I live in Connecticut and have friends in the Boston area. I know it had legs there, but I don't see it as regional event. PJM 14:34, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
 * It's definitely not just a Red Sox fans' phenomenon. ;-) There are quite a few people who take part in it that don't like the Yankees or the Red Sox.  While the Red Sox are the Yankees' primary rival, the Yankees certainly have their haters in the Baltimore/Washington area, and (I'd assume) other MLB cities as well. --Idont Havaname 14:11, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Sure, other cities (fans) hate the Yankees and of course they'd cop that chant. I don't see how that makes it a phenomenon. PJM 14:34, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merchandising phenomenon. There is a ton of "Yankees Suck" stuff sold, as noted in the article, from bumper stickers (own one myself), to t-shirts and more.  -
 * As I already said in the other post mentioning a merge, the rivalry is the biggest (in terms of media attention) in American sports. It's probably the most significant chant in baseball, and arguably in American professional sports.

 * "Yankees Suck" is not just a phrase or battle cry, its a way of life. It deserves its own page. Also, "Yankees Suck" is not only used by the Red Sox Fans, many fans of other teams use it too!

 * Sorry guys. It doen;t deserve it's own page.  Significant in view of the Yanks-Sox rivalry, but it is just a chant.  How many chants have their own pages?  There are literally hundreds in several sports, but they only have significance in a certian light.  Anyway, this article is very poor, with no mention of first known use or anything historical.  Delete or incorporate into a Red Sox-related article.

 * I think you suck

 * It's not a chant it's a mantra; learn the difference before commenting on something you know nothing about. And don't claim to be the last word with your sorry ass "sorry guys" patronizing tone.

Reference Problems
The 2, 3, & 4 references for this page are unreadable unless you have an account, and I don't even recognize the source. Any comments? Djdickmutt 16:52, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * They're from the Boston Globe. Just type in some fake Massachusetts library card number- 14 numbers or thereabouts- and you should be able to read them. Stilgar135 17:18, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * edit: alright, I see your problem. The main page is http://mblc.state.ma.us/books/magazine/newspapers.php. Put in a number, select "databases by subject", choose "Boston Globe" from near the bottom of the list, and search for "Yankees Suck" and "Nick Cafardo" for the first reference, "Yankees Suck" and "Mets" for the second. I just remembered the second is actually from the Herald. Type in "ejection" or "arrest" or something. I know this is a bit of work, but these are absolutely real references from two very respected media sources. Stilgar135 17:23, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Merge to Yankees-Red Sox rivalry
I've completed the merge of Yankees Suck to Yankees-Red Sox rivalry. Please review and fix any problems as you notice them. Thanks! Djdickmutt 19:07, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Since the merged material has since been removed, I have now redirected to New York Yankees. It is currently the only Wikipedia article that uses the phrase. — Satori Son 15:59, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

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People Who Fell from the Sky

People Who Fell from the Sky is the third and final studio album by American rock band Mind Funk.

Track listing

 * 1) "Rift Valley Fever – 4:22"
 * 2) "Superchief – 4:55"
 * 3) "Seasick – 4:55"
 * 4) "Deep End – 4:28"
 * 5) "People Who Fell from the Sky – 3:17"
 * 6) "Weird Water – 3:01"
 * 7) "Aluna – 6:18"
 * 8) "1000 Times – 3:47"
 * 9) "Kill the Messenger – 5:40"
 * 10) "Acrobats Falling – 5:41"

Personnel

 * Patrick Dubar – lead vocals
 * Louis Svitek – guitars, backing vocals
 * Frank Ciampi – bass
 * Shawn Johnson – drums
 * Van Christie – producer

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Daniël Mensch

Daniël Theodoor Mensch (born 4 October 1978 in Sliedrecht) is a Dutch athlete who won the silver medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics for rowing as a member of the 8-man Dutch rowing team. Additionally, he was a member of the Maastricht rowing fraternity MSRV Saurus.

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-07-25/Market share report

Note: This is a condensed version of a report that will be included in the upcoming edition of the Wikimedia Quarto.

Wikipedia is now the most popular reference website on the internet in terms of market share, according to data disclosed last week. Confirmation of this milestone came thanks to a report donated to the Wikimedia Foundation by Hitwise, a company that tracks internet and search engine usage.

Detailed results
According to data provided by Hitwise, the Wikipedia.org domain surpassed Dictionary.com as the most popular reference site for US internet surfers in late May. In the two months following this achievement, Wikipedia has strengthened its lead by nearly two percentage points. Wikipedia's market share in the "Education - Reference" category now stands at 5.86%, while Dictionary.com has dropped to 4.01%.

Also of significance is that Answers.com, which includes content from Wikipedia as well as other sites, has gone from not registering at the beginning of 2005 to a market share of 2.33%. Among other encyclopedias, Encarta comes in at 1.32%, while Britannica does not appear in the results, presumably because its content requires payment to access.

Alexa traffic rankings also track individual categories, including one for "Reference". There Wikipedia ranks second, but the logic of the category is difficult to understand, since the first spot is held by My Yahoo!, which is really a customizable portal page.

Wikipedia and search engines
The Hitwise report indicates that of all traffic coming in to Wikipedia from outside the site, 66% originates with search engines. Breaking this down by source shows that out of the search engine traffic, 50% comes from Google and 43% from Yahoo. MSN Search only brings in 3%, an unexpectedly low figure given recent reports on the market share of the search engines themselves. Yahoo performs better than its market share would suggest, which is not surprising given that Wikipedia was included in Yahoo's content partnership program over a year ago. MSN, which is closely tied to Encarta, obviously has no such relationship, although Wikipedia articles do seem to show up reasonably normally in its search results.

Wikipedia's visibility on Google has increased significantly in recent months, as the Google web crawler went from having 3 million Wikipedia pages indexed in March to more than 25 million in July. Pages from the Wikipedia.org domain currently occupy 0.32% of all pages in Google’s index, a number that matches up closely with the proportion of search engine traffic that Wikipedia attracts, which is two-tenths of one percent. Wikipedia is now the 22nd most recommended site among search engines.

Among the thousands of keywords for which Wikipedia ranks high in search engine results, several in particular consistently draw considerable traffic. These include Bobby Fischer, Jacques Chirac, Vladimir Putin and, most notably, Pope John Paul II. With Wikipedia having been established as a popular source of information about the papacy, the election of Pope Benedict XVI caused a large influx of traffic, peaking at 2,100 requests per second. The number was spectacular at the time, but as hardware capacity has expanded, only two months later it is common for the servers to receive over 2,500 requests per second.


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Mark Wills

Mark Wills (born Daryl Mark Williams; August 8, 1973) is an American country music artist. Signed to Mercury Records between 1996 and 2003, he released five studio albums for the label – Mark Wills, Wish You Were Here, Permanently, Loving Every Minute, and And the Crowd Goes Wild – as well as a greatest hits package. In that same timespan, he charted sixteen singles on the Billboard country charts, all of which made the top 40. After leaving Mercury in 2003, he signed to Equity Music Group and charted three more singles. Two of these were later included on his sixth studio album, Familiar Stranger, which was released on the Tenacity label in 2008.

Of his albums, Wish You Were Here is the best-selling, with a platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. This album's title track and the late 2002-early 2003 release "19 Somethin'" both reached No. 1; on the Hot Country Songs charts. Besides these, six more of his singles have reached top 10 on the chart: his debut single "Jacob's Ladder", "Places I've Never Been", "I Do (Cherish You)", "Don't Laugh at Me", "She's in Love", and a cover version of Brian McKnight's "Back at One". Two songs originally recorded by Wills, "Somebody" and "What Hurts the Most", were later hit singles for Reba McEntire, Jo O'Meara, Rascal Flatts, and Cascada respectively.

On December 21, 2018, Wills was invited to become the 218th member of the Grand Ole Opry. He was inducted on January 11, 2019.

Early life
Wills was born in Blue Ridge, Georgia.

Career
In his teenaged years, Wills played in garage bands, taking inspiration from rock groups such as Bon Jovi. During his young adulthood, however, he began to take an interest in country music. He entered a local talent contest in Marietta, Georgia, at age 17, and after winning the contest, he began to perform locally. From there, he went to work as a demo singer in Atlanta, Georgia, before doing the same in Nashville, Tennessee. While in Nashville, he was discovered by record producers Carson Chamberlain and Keith Stegall, who helped him sign to a recording contract with Mercury Records Nashville.

Wills's self-titled debut album was released in 1996 under the production of Chamberlain and Stegall. Its lead-off single, "Jacob's Ladder", went to number six on the country charts. "High Low and in Between", the B-side to "Jacob's Ladder", was the next single, reaching number 33. Finishing off the single releases was the number-five "Places I've Never Been". Despite the success of its first and third singles, the album did not sell well, and it peaked at number 38 on the country albums charts.

Wish You Were Here, Wills's second album, was his most commercially successful, earning a platinum certification from the Recording Industry Association of America. The lead-off single "I Do (Cherish You)" and its follow-up, "Don't Laugh at Me", both reached number two on the country charts, with the former bringing him to the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time. Following the pair of number two-peaking songs was the album's title track. Co-written by Bill Anderson, Skip Ewing, and Debbie Moore, it became Wills's first number-one country hit in 1999. Later that year, the boy band 98 Degrees covered "I Do (Cherish You)" on their album 98 Degrees and Rising. Following "Wish You Were Here" was "She's in Love", the final single from Wish You Were Here, which peaked at number seven. In 1998, Wills received an Academy of Country Music award for Top New Male Vocalist.

2000–2003
In 2000, he voiced the character of Huckleberry Finn in MGM's animated remake of Tom Sawyer, Wills's only film role to date. Also for the film, Wills and Lee Ann Womack, who plays the singing voice of Becky in the film, sing the end title song "Never Ever and Forever" as a duet.

Wills's eighth chart entry was a cover of R&B singer Brian McKnight's 1998 hit single "Back at One". This cover was a top-five country hit for Wills in early 2000 and the first single from his third album, Permanently. This album was Wills's highest entry on the country albums charts, peaking at number three. Following "Back at One" was another R&B cover, this time of Brandy's 1999 single "Almost Doesn't Count". This cover reached the top 20, and was followed by "I Want to Know (Everything There Is to Know About You)", which reached number 33. Permanently was certified gold by the RIAA. Unlike his previous albums, this album was produced entirely by Carson Chamberlain, as Stegall had left Mercury in 2000.

Loving Every Minute was the title of Wills's fourth studio album and its lead-off single. This song, co-written by Michael White, only peaked at number 18, however, and the album's other single – the Jamie O'Neal duet "I'm Not Gonna Do Anything Without You", which was also on O'Neal's debut album Shiver – reached number 31. Also included on this album was the song "Somebody", which later became a number-one hit in 2004 when Reba McEntire recorded it for her 2003 album Room to Breathe.

Wills's biggest chart hit, "19 Somethin'", was released in late 2002. It topped the country charts in early 2003, and stayed at number one for six weeks. The song was also his highest Hot 100 entry, peaking at number 23. This song was the first of two newly recorded songs on his 2003 greatest hits album, which reprised all of his chart singles to that point except "High Low and in Between" and "I Want to Know (Everything There Is to Know About You)". The other new song on this album, "When You Think of Me", was a number-28 country hit in early 2003. Wills produced these two new tracks with Chris Lindsey.

And the Crowd Goes Wild, his fifth studio album, came later in 2003. This was his first full studio album, which he co-produced, again doing so with Chris Lindsey. Although the album itself peaked at number five on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, its two singles only made the middle and lower top-40 regions on the Hot Country Songs chart. Its Jeffrey Steele-penned country rock and country rap-generated title track was the lead-off single, reaching number 29 on the country charts. Following it was "That's a Woman", which stopped at number 40. Like his previous studio release, this album included a song that later became a number-one hit for another artist: "What Hurts the Most", which was a number-one country and adult contemporary hit for the group Rascal Flatts when they covered it on their 2006 album Me and My Gang. This song was also a single for Jo O'Meara in 2005 and Cascada in 2007. Wills's own rendition was a minor hit on the Hot Digital Songs charts in 2006. Also included on And the Crowd Goes Wild was a cover of Ronnie Milsap's hit "Prisoner of the Highway", recorded as a duet with Milsap.

2006–present
Due to the poor performance of And the Crowd Goes Wild, Wills left Mercury in 2004. In 2004, Wills also recorded a cover of Elvin Bishop's "Fooled Around and Fell in Love" for the southern rock tribute album Southern Rock Country Style. He did not record again until country singer Clint Black signed him to his Equity Music Group label in 2006. Wills's first release for the label was "Hank", which peaked at number 49 and was never included on an album. His first album for the label, titled Familiar Stranger, was originally slated for release in September 2007, and was repeatedly pushed back due to the poor chart performance of "Take It All Out on Me" and "Days of Thunder." Tenacity Records then acquired the album and released it in 2008, issuing "The Things We Forget" as its third single. After this song came "Entertaining Angels", co-written by Willie Mack. In late 2009, he released then a fifth single, "Crazy White Boy", written by Brett James and Blair Daly. Wills released the compilation album 2nd Time Around in July 2009, which comprises re-recordings of several Mercury singles.

Wills released a new single in January 2011 called "Looking for America", written by Bernie Nelson, Philip Douglas, and Jeremy Bussey. It served as the title track to his 2011 album of the same name, released June 21, 2011, from Big Red Records and Tenacity Records.

He was invited by Vince Gill to become the 218th member of the Grand Ole Opry on December 21, 2018, and was inducted on January 11, 2019

Personal life
In 1996, Wills married his wife, Kelly, whom he met at Atlanta's music club, Buckboard. They have two daughters.

In November 2010, Wills was hospitalized for surgery after his large intestine ruptured. He was told that had he waited any longer to seek medical help, he would have died.

Discography

 * 1996: Mark Wills
 * 1998: Wish You Were Here
 * 2000: Permanently
 * 2001: Loving Every Minute
 * 2003: And the Crowd Goes Wild
 * 2008: Familiar Stranger
 * 2011: Looking for America

Academy of Country Music Awards

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 * Mark Wills
 * Top New Male Vocalist
 * Won
 * "Don't Laugh at Me"
 * Song of the Year
 * Nominated
 * 2003
 * "19 Somethin'"
 * Single Record of the Year
 * Nominated
 * }
 * Single Record of the Year
 * Nominated
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Country Music Association Awards

 * rowspan=2| 1999
 * rowspan=2| "Don't Laugh at Me"
 * Single of the Year
 * Nominated
 * Video of the Year
 * Nominated
 * }
 * Nominated
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Talk:Tunguska

Same content...two locations
We have duplicated content here. The Tunguska article does more than describe the geographic location, it also tells the story of the Tunguska event. This is problematic because there is an entire article on this at Tunguska event. That article is much more detailed and that's where people should be going for info on that event.

There is a problem with having info in two places:(a) updates need to be made in two places and (b) differences emerge. It is better to have this article be a geographical article and let the detail of the event be handled by the Tunguska event article.

Toward that end, I am going to be a bit bold and remove most of the coverage of the blast event from this article while ensuring that those wanting info on the blast have a clear link to get there. I am also going to add a geo-stub notice to this article in the hope that somebody with knowledge of the regiion will turn it in to a bona-fide geography article.

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Higa Peechin

Higa Peechin (比嘉 親雲上) (1790–1870), often called Machuu Hijaa (マチュー ヒジャー), is a semi-legendary martial artist in Ryūkyūan history who was a direct influence on the development of karate and kobudo, especially with respect to bōjutsu. Pechin (親雲上) is social class of the Ryūkyū Kingdom. A resident of the island of Hama Higa, he was perhaps a student of the Chinese emissaries Zhang Xue Li and later Wanshu, who would have taught him techniques of quan fa.

Ryūkyūan history relied mainly on oral tradition prior to the 20th century, so it is difficult to separate fact and fiction (or embellishment). It is said that Higa had forearms like tree trunks and that he could crush a coconut in his bare hands, though he stood only 5 ft tall and weighed about 140 lb. Legends state that Higa with his bō stood up to the head-hunters of Formosa and to Japanese pirates from the north and never lost a battle. What has turned out to be a big misunderstanding, however, is that Higa was the teacher of Takahara Peechin, who in turn taught Sakugawa Kanga. Takahara Peechin (1683-1760) died 30 years before Higa(1790-1870) was born. Higa was one of the first to codify a system of kata and techniques. His contributions live on in several weapon katas, especially for tonfa, sai, and bō.

In a book of Taira Shinken: Ryukyu Kobudo Taikan, (published in Tokyo 1964) it is written about a man, Pechin from the island Hama Higa. He lived from 1663 to 1738 and demonstrated Tode and Saijutsu to the 5th Tokugawa shogun.

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Talk:Bruttians

Language?
Is anything known about the language they spoke?

If so, someone needs to add it to this article.

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Michele Ferrari

Michele Ferrari (born 26 March 1953) is an Italian physician, cycling coach and author, who is mostly known for his role in supplying bicycle racers with performance-enhancing drugs, notably EPO. His most famous client was Lance Armstrong.

Biography
Ferrari was born in Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, where he still lives.

In 1978, he obtained his degree in Medicine and Surgery at the University of Ferrara. His doctoral thesis concerned the measurement of anaerobic threshold in the sport of running.

Ferrari was a consultant to the Italian Track and Field Federation (FIDAL) from 1977 to 1980. He became a specialist in sports medicine at the Sapienza University of Rome in 1981. He was co-author of more than 20 papers in journals of sports physiology. He studied parameters of athletes in a variety of sports, such as track and field, cycling, swimming, skiing, and speed-skating. Subsequently, until 1983, he was the sports physician of the National Italian Biathlon team (FISI).

Eventually he settled on his lifelong interest: the development of training programmes for professional cyclists. One of Ferrari's earliest successes was coaching Francesco Moser to achieve the hour record in 1984, crushing Eddy Merckx's mark by more than a mile.

Initially Ferrari worked with Professor Francesco Conconi at the University of Ferrara, who developed testing techniques for human performance, using methods such as monitoring the heart rate during exercise and recovery. Another controversial Italian doctor, Luigi Cecchini, is their common disciple. They have shared the care for some cyclists throughout their careers.

From 1984 onwards, Ferrari achieved extraordinary improvements in the fitness of many cyclists. Ferrari popularised the use of VAM, a parameter now used in cycling as a measure of fitness and speed.

Cycling team doctor and increasing prominence
In 1994, Ferrari was the team doctor for Gewiss. The team had an excellent season, winning many races. In the Flèche Wallonne, the team realized a historic triple victory. Concerned by the domination of the Italian team, some observers pointed a finger of suspicion at the team doctor. Far from calming this controversy, Ferrari compared erythropoietin to orange juice. "EPO is not dangerous, it's the abuse that is. It's also dangerous to drink 10 liters of orange juice". This statement cost him his job as team physician. But his reputation was made, and his name thereafter was associated with use of EPO in particular. In 1995, Ferrari started his own private medical practice.

Clientele
Professional bicycle racers who were clients, in some capacity, of Ferrari include: Lance Armstrong, Michael Rogers, Alexander Vinokourov, Michele Scarponi, Denis Menchov, Giovanni Visconti, Yaroslav Popovych, Alessandro Bertolini, Gianluca Bortolami, Gianni Bugno, Mario Cipollini, Claudio Chiappucci, Roman Kreuziger, Armand de Las Cuevas, Fernando Escartín, Gianni Faresin, Giorgio Furlan, Ivan Gotti, Andreas Kappes, Kevin Livingston, Eddy Mazzoleni, Axel Merckx, Thomas Dekker, Abraham Olano, Daniele Pontoni, Tony Rominger, Paolo Savoldelli, Filippo Simeoni, Pavel Tonkov, Enrico Zaina and Beat Zberg.

Perhaps the most famous athlete to have been coached or advised by Ferrari is Lance Armstrong. Ferrari claims they were introduced to each other by Eddy Merckx in 1995. Earlier that year, Armstrong had begun doping. Ferrari was involved with the US Postal Service Cycling Team until October 2004, helping Armstrong train during several of his seven consecutive Tour de France victories. Tyler Hamilton, Armstrong's teammate who later confessed to doping, worked with Ferrari for one year, according to his own account in a television interview.

Sporting fraud trial
In October 2004, Ferrari was sentenced to one-year prison (suspended) and a fine of 900 euros, for sporting fraud and abusive exercise of the profession of pharmacist. Ferrari's conviction in Italian court was based partly on testimony from Italian bicycle racer Filippo Simeoni. Admitting he had been doped since 1993, Simeoni told how he became affiliated with Ferrari in 1996. Simeoni testified that, in addition to a prescription of EPO hormone, "we spoke about Andriol (testosterone), which I was to use after hard training sessions, with the aim of increasing my muscular power. Dr. Ferrari recommended I use Emagel the morning before controls, and another product to decrease my hematocrit." Ferrari argued, in his defense: "Andriol is easily detectable for several days in a normal urine test, so, it is impossible that I suggested he take one Andriol 20 hours before another race."

Lance Armstrong responded to Ferrari's guilty verdict for malpractice in the Italian Court case:

 * "I was disappointed to learn of the Italian court's judgment against Dr. Michele Ferrari. Dr. Ferrari has been a longtime friend and trusted adviser to me and the USPS team, during which time he never suggested, prescribed or provided me with any performance-enhancing drugs... However, I have always said that I have zero tolerance for anyone convicted of using or facilitating the use of performance-enhancing drugs. As a result of today's developments, the USPS team and I have suspended our professional affiliation with Dr. Ferrari as we await the release of the full verdict..."

Ferrari then announced his intention to appeal his sentence. Ferrari was acquitted of all charges against him on May 27, 2006, because, according to the court, "the facts do not exist" to support the charges.

2012 USADA indictment and lifetime ban
On 13 June 2012, Ferrari was officially charged by USADA with administration and trafficking of prohibited substances. As Ferrari did not formally contest this indictment, he was issued a lifetime ban from professional sport in July 2012. In December 2012, Ferrari still protested his innocence in an interview with Al Jazeera. He notably stated about Lance Armstrong in that interview: “So, either he was clean – and in my opinion, he was clean and he says he was clean – or the tests are not powerful,” Ferrari added, before laughing: “Or the UCI was corrupt.” In January 2013, after Lance Armstrong had confessed to using PEDs, Ferrari claimed on his blog that the cyclist could have achieved similar blood values and performance with altitude training.

2013 revelation
In November 2013, Armstrong settled a lawsuit with Acceptance Insurance Company (AIC). AIC had sought to recover $3 million it had paid Armstrong as bonuses for winning the Tour de France from 1999–2001. The suit was settled for an undisclosed sum one day before Armstrong was scheduled to give a deposition under oath. In written testimony for the suit, Armstrong admitted under oath that Ferrari had been one of four individuals who had supplied him with PEDs during his cycling career.

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