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Mental Health Act

Mental Health Act is a stock short title used for legislation relating to mental health law.

Canada

 * The Mental Health Act (Ontario)

India

 * The Mental Health Care Act, 2017

Ireland

 * The Mental Health Act 2001

New Zealand

 * The Mental health (Compulsory Assessment and Treatment) Act 1992

Republic of Ireland

 * The Mental Health Act 2001

Singapore

 * The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) Act (Singapore) passed in 2008

United Kingdom

 * The Mental Health Act 1959 (c. 72)
 * The Mental Health (Amendment) Act 1982 (c. 51)
 * The Mental Health Act 1983, an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
 * The Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984, an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
 * The Mental Health (Detention) (Scotland) Act 1991 (c. 47)
 * The Mental Health (Amendment) Act 1994 (c. 6)
 * The Mental Health (Patients in the Community) Act 1995 (c. 52)
 * The Mental Health (Public Safety and Appeals) (Scotland) Act 1999 (asp 1)
 * The Mental Health (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 1999 (c. 32)
 * The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003, an Act of the Scottish Parliament
 * The Mental Health Act 2007, an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
 * The Mental Health (Wales) Measure 2010 (nawm 7)
 * The Mental Health (Discrimination) Act 2013 (c. 8)
 * The Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018

United States

 * The National Mental Health Act of 1946, which called for the establishment of a National Institute of Mental Health
 * The Community Mental Health Act, created by John F. Kennedy in 1963 as part of his New Frontier
 * The Mental Health Parity Act of 1996

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Archana Airways

Archana Airways was a regional airline based in New Delhi, India. It operated domestic scheduled services with a fleet of turboprop aircraft from 1994 to 2000.

History
Archana Airways Limited was founded on 29 April 1991 and started its full service operation in 1993 with three brand new Czech built L-410 UVP-E9, 17 seater commuter aircraft. In 1994 the company was granted scheduled airlines status by the Government of India through Directorate General of Civil Aviation, New Delhi.

Seeing the quality of service provided by Archana Airways, in 1994, it was approached by MPAVN (now MPSIDC) to connect some sectors in the state of Madhya Pradesh and also subscribe equity of the company as co-promoter.

Archana was among the smallest of the 30 old aviation companies which had come into being by 1994. The airline quickly set up in-house facilities, for overhaul of aircraft and training programs for pilots, cabin attendants, traffic assistants and security staff.

Archana was operating its schedule flight to Kullu, Shimla, Jaipur, Udaipur and Jodhpur sector.

In the beginning of 1995, to connect more sectors, the company planned an expansion to acquire bigger capacity aircraft. The plan was to acquire two new DASH-8 Aircraft on deferred credit basis.

The company was having three L410 (17 Seater) aircraft out of which two aircraft met with an accidents in Kanpur ('96) and Kullu ('96). The company acquired three new Let L-410 aircraft during 96–97. The promoters started feeling credit crunch and were unable to pay the instalments of the aircraft. The company incurred heavy losses due to low load factors and high cost of operation. In 2000, it went out of business.

Destinations
As of October 1994, Archana Airways served the following cities:

 * India

 * Chandigarh
 * Chandigarh Airport
 * Chhattisgarh
 * Raipur – Raipur Airport
 * Delhi
 * Indira Gandhi International Airport Hub
 * Himachal Pradesh
 * Dharamshala – Gaggal Airport
 * Kullu – Kullu Airport
 * Shimla – Shimla Airport
 * Madhya Pradesh
 * Bhopal – Raja Bhoj Airport
 * Jabalpur – Jabalpur Airport
 * Punjab
 * Ludhiana – Ludhiana Airport

Incidents and accidents

 * An Archana Airways Let L 410 crashed after taking off from Shimla while operating on the Delhi-Shimla-Bhunter-Delhi sector on the morning of 11 July 1996, killing all 9 persons aboard (including three flight crew members).

Fleet
Archana Airways operated the Bombardier Dash 8 aircraft. It formerly operated Let L-410 aircraft.

Current status
Archana Airways Limited has been taken over by Ascent Pinnacle Capital Limited

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Ultima

Ultima may refer to:

Places

 * Ultima, Victoria, a town in Australia
 * Pangaea Ultima, a supercontinent to occur in the future
 * Ultima, the larger lobe of the trans-Neptunian object 486958 Arrokoth, nicknamed Ultima Thule

Companies and products

 * Ultima Foods, a division of Quebec-based dairy company Agropur
 * Ultima Sports Ltd, a manufacturer of sports cars based in England
 * Junkers Profly Ultima, a German homebuilt aircraft design
 * Kodak Ultima, a brand of photo paper for inkjet printers sold by Eastman Kodak
 * Kyosho Ultima, a radio-controlled car made by Kyosho
 * Nissan Altima, a model of car by Nissan
 * Ultima GTR a 1990s Sportscar

Games

 * Baroque chess, known in the northeastern region of the United States as "Ultima"
 * Ultima (series), a series of video games
 * Ultima I, which was first released as Ultima
 * Ultima (Final Fantasy), a recurring boss, weapon and spell in the Final Fantasy franchise
 * Ultima (Freedom City), characters in Freedom City

Music

 * Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival
 * Ultima Thulée, the first full-length studio album by black metal band Blut Aus Nord
 * La Ultima / Live in Berlin (2005 album) German rock album by Böhse Onkelz
 * "Última", a song by Shakira from the album Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran, 2024

Other uses

 * Ultima (linguistics), the last syllable of a word
 * Ultima (finance), a variable in quantitative finance
 * Bless Me, Ultima, a 1972 novel by Rudolfo Anaya with a character called Ultima
 * Ultima Tower, a hypothetical supertall skyscraper

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James Lindgren

James Lindgren (born 1952) is a professor of law at Northwestern University. Born in 1952 in Rockford, Illinois, Lindgren graduated from Yale College (1974, cum laude) and the University of Chicago Law School (1977), where he was an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 2009.

After two years of private practice in estate planning and litigation in Chicago, Lindgren became a Project Director at the American Bar Foundation, a think tank specializing in Law & Society. Before coming to the Northwestern faculty in 1996, Lindgren taught at several law schools, including the Universities of Connecticut, Virginia, Texas, and Chicago, and Chicago Kent College of Law. Lindgren has published in most major law reviews, including the Yale Law Journal and the Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, California, Northwestern, Georgetown, UCLA, University of Pennsylvania, and University of Chicago Law Reviews.

Lindgren's work spans a broad range of fields, though the majority of his recent work involves empirical research, public opinion, viewpoint diversity, estates, probate, aging, or retirement. His articles, Counting Guns in Early America and Fall from Grace, both of which involve detailed analyses of the physical culture of early America as revealed in probate records, are among the most downloaded law review articles ever published. His historical and doctrinal work on extortion was adopted by the Supreme Court in United States v. Evans (1992), which held that bribery behavior could be punished as extortion under the federal Hobbs Act. Lindgren is a cofounder of the Section on Scholarship of the Association of American Law Schools and a former chair of its Section on Social Science and the Law.

Lindgren was a leading critic and investigator of charges of scholarly impropriety against pro-gun-control scholar Michael Bellesiles, who eventually resigned and had his Bancroft Prize rescinded. Later he investigated charges about a single-sentence claim in anti-gun-control scholar John Lott's book, More Guns, Less Crime, concluding that Lott's behavior was "troubling".

Lindgren blogs at the weblog The Volokh Conspiracy, where he primarily blogs about politics from a libertarian perspective.

Lindgren has long supported abortion rights and legally recognizing same-sex marriages.

James Lindgren's work on extortion laws was cited by the United States Supreme Court in Evans v. United States, 504 U.S. 255 where the Court said "[a]s we explained above, our construction of the statute is informed by the common law tradition from which the term of art was drawn and understood. We hold today that the Government need only show that a public official has obtained a payment to which he was not entitled, knowing that the payment was made in return for official acts."

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Hmm interesting. I was directed to this entry after clicking on the link "Hugh Alexander" in the entry for Bletchley Park. However the Hugh Alexander mentioned in the Bletchley Park entry is definitely not the same Hugh ("CHOD") Alexander who worked at Bletchley Park and was one of England's strongest chess players. I guess I need to create an entry for CHOD Alexander and there will need to be a disambiguation page of some sort. Hopefully I can work out how to do this sometime, as I am new to Wikipedia.

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Jigme Lingpa

Jigme Lingpa (1730–1798) was a Tibetan tertön of the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. He was the promulgator of the Longchen Nyingthig, the Heart Essence teachings of Longchenpa, from whom, according to tradition, he received a vision in which the teachings were revealed. The Longchen Nyingthik eventually became the most famous and widely practiced cycle of Dzogchen teachings.

Career
Jigme Lingpa's childhood monastery was the Nyingma school's Palri monastery, or Pelri Tekchen Ling, in Chonggye, established by Sherab Ozer. Prefiguring Jamgon Kongtrul's creation of the Five Collections, Jigme Lingpa gathered Nyingma texts that had become rare, starting with Nyingma tantras held in the manuscript collection of the Mindrolling Monastery. This collection of the Nyingma tantras led to the amassing of the Nyingma Gyübum (, "Collection of Nyingma Tantras") for which Getse Mahapandita wrote the catalogue, proofread and arranged for its printing by soliciting the expensive and labour-intensive project of carving the woodblocks for the woodblock printing. The wood block carving was forded through the patronage of the royal family of Derge of Kham, who favoured and honoured Jigme Lingpa. Getse Mahapandita also arranged for the printing of texts by Jigme Lingpa and Longchenpa. Getse Mahapandita proofread the works of Jigme Lingpa, Longchenpa and the Nyingma Gyübum.

Jigme also wrote a nine-volume history of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism and other works. His non-sectarian presentation of the Madhyamaka (Middle Way view) follows Je Tsongkhapa's system.

A major precursor of the Rimé movement, Jigme Lingpa had many distinguished disciples in all four lineages. The first Dodrupchen Rinpoche, Dodrupchen Jigme Trinle Ozer, became his main lineage-holder. Among those held by tradition to be Jigme Lingpa's reincarnations are Ye shes rdo rje, the Mdo mkhyen brtse ye shes rdo rje (1800–66, his mind-emanation), Patrul Rinpoche (speech-emanation) and Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo (body-emanation). In Bhutan his tradition is held by successive incarnation of the Padtselling tulku and Jikmé Kündröl Namgyel. Both Druptop Namgyel Lhündrup, 1st Padtselling Tulku (1718-1786) and Jigmé Tenpé Gyeltshen, 2nd Padtselling Tulku (1788-1850) were students of Jigme Lingpa.

Jigme Lingpa, translated by Sam van Schaik, states how his learnings commenced:

"I began with the study of grammar, and whatever vajra topics I came across, such as the Conqueror’s scriptures and the treatises which clarify their intention, texts on conventional definitions and instructions on the true nature. Although I seized on them with veneration, apart from a few good imprints which inspired me to study in the brightness of day and under lamplight, I had no opportunity to increase my knowledge in a relationship with a teacher, even for a single day. Then in dPal-gyi bSam-yas mChims-phu, I met three times with the wisdom-body of Klong-chen-pa, and through being blessed with various auspicious symbols, my karmic connections were awakened from out of The Great Perfection."

Janet Gyatso states that:

"Jigme Lingpa's Nyingma affiliations led sometimes to his participation in the sort of tantric activities that have long been criticized by more conservative Buddhists. He was himself ambivalent about some of these activities:...he regretted the black magic he performed during the Gurkha war. Jigme Lingpa even admits that the ancient ordinance of Lha Lama Shiwa O and Changchub O, which famously censured the indulgences of Nyingma practitioners, might have been merited. And yet he reports with a certain pleasure taking part in a drunken communal feast (gaṇacakra) or being given beer at the house of the Nyingma master Kumārarāja (1266-1343) and doing "a dance of bliss-emptiness integrated.""

Terma
When explaining the transmission and reception of the 'treasures' (Tibetan: terma) of 'The Words of the Omniscient One' and 'The White Lotus'  Jigme Lingpa makes reference to an admixture of 'mindstream', 'Absolute [Truth]'  and 'adhishthana'  and van Schaik (2004: p. 45) has rendered the Tibetan in English as follows : "the blessing of the truth-continuum" , "the blessing of the continuum" , and "the transmission-blessing of symbols and words".

Longchen Nyingthig
Jigme Lingpa is held by tradition to be the reincarnation of two important masters, Vimalamitra and King Trisong Deutsen. As the embodiment of these two figures, Tibet's two primary Dzogchen lineages were combined in him—the Vima Nyingtik and Khandro Nyingtik, both of which are contained in the Nyingtik Yapshi. Hence, the Longchen Nyingthig terma cycle is considered a condensation of these profound teachings.

The texts that were revealed by Jigme Lingpa, in their present-day form, comprise three volumes known as the Nyingtik Tsapö. The numerous treatises, sadhanas and prayers it contains deal primarily with tantric practice, in particular the generation stage and Dzogchen.

Jigme Lingpa discovered the Longchen Nyingtik teachings as mind terma at the age of twenty-eight. Tulku Thondup writes:

"In the evening of the twenty-fifth day of the tenth month of the Fire Ox year of the thirteenth Rabjung cycle (1757), Jikmé Lingpa went to bed with an unbearable devotion to Guru Rinpoche in his heart; a stream of tears of sadness continuously wet his face because he was not in Guru Rinpoche’s presence, and unceasing words of prayers kept singing in his breath. He remained in the depths of that meditation experience of clear luminosity for a long time. While being absorbed in that luminous clarity, he experienced flying a long distance through the sky while riding a white lion. He finally reached a circular path, which he thought to be the circumambulation path of Jarung Khashor, now known as Boudhanath Stupa, an important Buddhist monument of giant structure in Nepal."

In this vision, the wisdom dakinis gave Jikmé Lingpa a casket containing five yellow scrolls and seven crystal beads. One of the scrolls contained the prophetic guide of Longchen Nyingtik, called Nechang Thukkyi Drombu. At the instruction of a dakini, he ate the yellow scrolls and crystal beads, and all the words and meaning of the Longchen Nyingtik terma were awakened in his mind.

Jigme Lingpa kept this terma secret for years, and he did not even transcribe the terma until he entered another retreat in which he had a series of visions of Longchen Rabjam. Tulku Thondup explains:

 * In the earth-hare year (1759) he started another three-year retreat at Chimpu. During that retreat, because he was inspired by three successive pure visions of Longchen Rabjam, and he was urged by repeated requests of dakinis, he transcribed his terma as the cycle of Longchen Nyingtik. On the tenth day of the sixth month (monkey month) of the monkey year (1764) he made his terma public for the first time by conferring the transmission of empowerment and the instructions upon fifteen disciples.

Chöd
The Loud Laugh of the Dakini is a Chöd sādhanā from the Longchen Nyingtik.

Animal welfare
Jigme Lingpa was concerned about animal welfare and criticized meat as a sinful food incompatible with a compassionate mindset but did not personally adopt a vegetarian diet due to practical difficulties, nor did he mandate a vegetarian diet among his students. Instead, Jigme Lingpa prescribed prayers to purify the consumer who had eaten meat as he believed that prayers could create a positive karma connection between the animal and the consumer, helping the animal achieve a better re-birth. Historian Geoffrey Barstow has described Jigme Lingpa as offering his "students a chance to continue cultivating compassion without having to completely abandon meat".

Autobiography
Jigme Lingpa is also known for his autobiographical works, primarily his outer autobiographies found in his nine-volume "Collected Works" alongside his "Heart Sphere" cycle and other historical works. Most notably, his autobiographical works showed the dynamics of relationships between Tibetan Buddhist visionaries and lay political figures.

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Dig It (Beatles song)

"Dig It" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1970 album Let It Be. The song is credited to Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey, and is one of the few songs to be credited to all of the Beatles. This song and the 39-second "Maggie Mae" appear on the Let It Be album, but are excluded from the Let It Be... Naked album, instead being replaced with "Don't Let Me Down". Glyn Johns' May 1969 version of the album, then titled Get Back, had a four-minute excerpt of "Dig It", which was later reduced to the much shorter version in the final album.

Recording
Several versions were recorded during the Get Back/Let It Be sessions, on 24, 26, 27, 28, and 29 January 1969, at Apple Studio. The 51-second version on the album is an extract taken from the 26 January version, which was a 15-minute jam that evolved from a loose "Like a Rolling Stone" jam. A segment of the jam session, 4 minutes and 30 seconds in length, appears in the documentary film Let It Be. The participants in that session are John Lennon on vocals and 6-string bass, George Harrison on guitar, Paul McCartney on piano, Ringo Starr on drums, George Martin on maracas and Billy Preston at the organ; also participating in the jam, but not heard on the released version, was Linda Eastman's six-year-old daughter Heather. Eastman later became McCartney's wife.

In the early part of the jam, Lennon sings the main lyric with interjections from Harrison. Heather adds wordless vocals, which in the 2021 miniseries The Beatles: Get Back, appear to be imitating Yoko Ono. As the performance winds down, Lennon exhorts the others to continue. McCartney adds a baritone backup vocal of "dig it up, dig it up, dig it up" and variations, and Lennon begins to repeat "Like a rolling stone", then, in free association manner, mentions "the FBI", "the CIA", "the BBC", "B.B. King", "Doris Day" and "Matt Busby".

The excerpt on the Let It Be album fades in on Lennon's second "Like a rolling stone" and concludes with Lennon speaking in a falsetto: "That was 'Can You Dig It?' by Georgie Wood, and now we'd like to do 'Hark, the Angels Come'". The second sentence of that line is cut off in Let It Be ' s film recording of the jam session. ("Wee Georgie Wood" was a 4'9" music-hall performer and child star.) The interjection actually comes from a different improvised jam recorded on the 24th. The earlier jam was much different, described by Beatles bootleg scholars Doug Sulpy and Ray Schweighardt as "sounding like a cross between the traditional 'Sailor's Hornpipe' and a slowed down rendition of Neal Hefti's 'Batman', as played on slide guitar". An excerpt from this jam (entitled "Can You Dig It?") can be heard on the "Fly on the Wall" bonus disc to Let It Be... Naked.

Personnel

 * John Lennon – lead vocals, six-string bass (Fender Bass VI)
 * Paul McCartney – vocals in full version, piano
 * George Harrison – vocals in full version, lead guitar (Fender Telecaster)
 * Ringo Starr – drums
 * Billy Preston – Hammond organ
 * George Martin – maracas
 * Heather McCartney – vocals in full version
 * Personnel per Ian MacDonald

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Talk:Rosin

Slash Pines?
Why are slash pines not mentioned in the list of trees rosin is made out of. I used to work for a company called Diamond G forestry products in Patterson GA, and they only got sap out of Slash pine, to make Rosin. They tried Loblollies, but they run little to no sap for making Rosin. I don't know who is making Rosin with loblollies or why, but if someone is actually doing that... I am amazed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DraygenKai (talk • contribs) 14:14, 29 June 2017 (UTC)

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Pine resin, heated, ranges to black. That reminds me a lot about tarmaking (spruce, burned in a certain way, tar caught). The connection is not made here, thnough.

sealing wax
Rosin is an ingredient in printing inks, varnishes, glues, medicines, chewing gum, soap, paper sizing, and, in past times, sealing wax.

Why "in past times"? Sealing wax still exists, and Wikipedia says shellac and resin have replaced wax and turpentine. Flapdragon 17:03, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

"some is semi-fluid at the temperature of boiling water, while others melt at 100 to 120 degrees celcius." Isn't the temperature of boiling water 100 degrees celcius?

Rosin is a non-crystalline, glassy material and strictly speaking, doesn't "melt". Instead, it gets increasingly softer with more of a tendency to flow with increasing temperature. Rosin typically has a softening point of around 75-80C.

I qualified "melting point" to read "practical melting point" in the Properties section for this reason. Also, I changed the double bass rosin section to say that such rosin will show "evidence of flow" if left for several months. As far as I understand, rosin will not just "melt" (i.e. lose its viscosity) if just left there. Vigormaster (talk) 20:53, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

Double bass rosin will "melt" if left in the sun. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.255.49.96 (talk) 02:05, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

price of rosin
Dear editors: I'm a concert classical violinist (proof available upon request). There are NO rosins that cost $100s. Most expensive rosin for violin is Gold 1 by Liebenzeller Metal-Kolophonium. It costs about $25. String Rosins are available in Dark (soft, sticky compound for more friction, used on cellos and string bass) and lighter varieties (dry, less sticky, for violin etc.) However many Rosins are in between, and string players have different preferences as well.

 * What the poster above writes is true; I teach viola & violin for a living and I raise my eyes at a cake of rosin costing $20.00. Usually $10.00 is more than enough to buy new rosin for bowed string instruments. Unless there's a steep spike in US inflation, I can't imagine that any of the other uses listed in the article require rosin costing hundreds of dollars either..... J Lorraine 08:44, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Someone just added a 'citation needed' to the end of the comments about rosin prices. Is it even possible to find a publication to cite for prices of rosin (that isn't a primary source)? Perhaps price should not be in an encyclopedia. Is Wikipedia the right place for a how-to guide on not getting screwed when you buy rosin? J Lorraine 08:10, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I was being generous in not just removing it; it's unsourced and contentious, so if you feel it's unwarranted then please go ahead and remove it. Chris Cunningham 15:11, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Increase Grip?
"Gymnasts, weight lifters, and baseball pitchers use a bag of powdered rosin to keep their hands dry and to increase their grip." Isn't chalk usually used for this? Isn't the primary problem sweat on the hands and not skin–metal friction? I'm very dubious of this claim. Can anyone provide a citation? —BenFrantzDale 04:58, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I'd be dubious too. Powdered rosin is very sticky stuff and would tend to glue the hands to the metal, making it difficult to slide along a bar or shift one's grip on a set of weights. I believe climbers use magnesium carbonate powder rather than ordinary chalk incidentally, perhaps it's the same with the gymnasts, weight lifters, and baseball pitchers. Flapdragon 23:46, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Sure enough the Wikipedia entry for magnesium carbonate says it's used used in gymnastics, weightlifting and climbing. Deleted the relevant sentence on the balance of probabilities. Flapdragon 23:54, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

 * The sentence deletion is inappropriate, so I'm reverting the edit, and adding some easily found web references. Powdered resin is used for adding grip in many sports, see Mueller's 2006/7 catalogue, which shows that 4 out of 10 of their "grip enhancing" products for sport consist of rosin or resin (is the difference any more than pure semantics?). There are a number of suppliers of resin/rosin bags for sportsmen, and a walk through a well-supplied sports shop would show this. MgCO3 is used to decrease friction, caused by wet hands, a rather different thing from what the resin powder does. Resin powder is permissible under the rules of baseball to dry the hands, but not for putting on the ball. In bowling rosin/resin powder is often used to help with ball control. The makers of a well-known form of resin dispenser say: "Squash, tennis, table tennis badminton, baseball, golf, hockey and lacrosse are perhaps the sports most identified ... but it is also used with equal effectiveness by pole vaulters, discus throwers, basketball players, rugby players, netball players, weight-lifters and gymnasts." --Seejyb 19:20, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't know if any athletes currently (2006) actually use rosin, but I do know for sure that it was sold for such uses. I have an old 6 ounce can of Cramer's Powdered Rosin Mixture, mfg. by The Cramer Chemical Co., Gardner, Kansas. The can says:

 * FOR SLIPPERY PLAYING FLOORS
 * ABSORBS OIL, GREASE, SWEAT
 * Standard for all athletic and gym uses.
 * Harmless to rubber and leather.
 * To Reduce Slip on Shoes, Mats, Hands.
 * Keep a can of Powdered Rosin Mix, in each game kit -- for all sports.
 * Sprinkle on floor by players' bench.
 * Use liberally on soles of shoes.
 * Available in Rosin Bags, too! A Standard in Big-League Baseball / Suitable For All Sports

69.87.200.3 12:25, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Excellent article
Great article! Very informative and gave all the information I wanted. Well done. NaySay 18:12, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

corrosive?
I have noticed (by examining the strings on my instrument and the case) that resin is slightly corrosive, and a friend of mine (who is a luthier), has confirmed this fact. I have not found any sources on the internet though, but I haven't been searching for more than a few minutes. Maybe someone else knows about this? 79.136.94.68 (talk) 23:05, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

 * In my sonar-building days, all solder joints had to be cleaned of flux, which was not necessarily done for commercial electronics back then (surface-mount boards were already on the scene.) The customer, the Navy, considered rosin flux residue to be a contaminant. I believe rosin is hygroscopic, attracts water vapor, that is, which can't be that great for keeping metal free from corrosion. Sorry, no particulars to offer beyond that, although I do use a dry cloth or cork to keep my strings from getting crusted with rosin. Unevenly distributed mass such as rosin buildup can pull the overtones out of tune, giving results similar to a "false" string. Corrosion won't help that situation either. __Just plain Bill (talk) 03:10, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Strings speak
Regarding this diff, see How to Make a String Speak.

Strings are said to "speak" when they start vibrating in a way I can best describe as "full-bodied." Bowing a string with an unrosined bow, or lightly brushing the string with a rosined bow, may make a sound, but it will not get the string to speak. Organ pipes are similarly said to speak, in the sense of launching their sound, starting with the attack phase of the ADSR envelope. __Just plain Bill (talk) 03:06, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I see somebody just "fixed" it again. An un-rosined bow will make a string vibrate, if faintly. To get the string to speak takes rosined hair. __ Just plain Bill (talk)

Unsourced yet known
Properties of rosin includes slow evaporation of lighter fractions if not airtight, rendering luthiers' products suboptimal. Pines are tapped for rosin. Pines produce rosin as natural wound defense. I don't have sources for this now. Mydogtrouble (talk) 18:26, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Yes from what I understand Sap to trees is the same as blood for us. When the tree is wounded, sap flows out and seals the wound to keep out bugs, and other things. Rosin is made from pine sap so after the sap has dried up, it is not uncommon to find rosin on trees. DraygenKai (talk)

Relation to Pine Tar?
How does this distillation product relate to pine tar?71.203.125.108 (talk) 13:53, 24 October 2010 (UTC)

Yes! Rosin is the by product of distilling Turpintine. DraygenKai (talk)

Rosin Baked Potatos
I stumbled across an entry in the Joy of Cooking that calls for melted rosin to bake potatos. After a little search on the internet, this seems to have a small but devoted following as the method cooks the potato to perfection. It seems like an unsusal and interesting use for rosin. Perhaps it should be added to the "uses" section of the article?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nylotic (talk • contribs) 13:49, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

The "Cracker Barrel" chain used to use this method, so it was quite widely known as they have stores all over. This article claims they were made to stop by health departments since the skin of such potatoes cannot be eaten. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.101.8.144 (talk) 05:30, 3 December 2015 (UTC)

Use of Rosin in solder for electronics.
The statement regarding the use of Rosin in wire solder is somewhat out of date. Tin/Lead solder is becoming less and less common due to the ever tightening regulations around the world, such as RoHS, giving way to a seemingly endless selection of lead-free solder alloys. In addition, the use of Rosin as a flux for electronic soldering has been declining for years with the introduction of "No-Clean" fluxes, which, unlike Rosin based fluxes, become chemically inert after soldering and do not need to be cleaned off. Rosin is still used in high reliability electronics however, as it is exceptionally good at producing nice shiny high quality joints and has excellent wetting capabilities.

The section about rosin being frequently seen around new soldering as a burnt or clear residue is also incorrect, I'll hazard a guess that this confusion stems from people referring to the flux core inside solder wire as "Rosin" regardless of what the core is actually made of (like how people refer to modern, digital storage oscilloscopes as "CROs"). Actual Rosin leaves a reddish brown residue that you should not be seeing on any products from a reputable manufacturer, for the reasons stated above.

I'm not going to make the edits myself because it's an obvious violation of WP:OR (everything I have stated is from my own knowledge gained inside the electronics manufacturing industry) and I'm pretty lazy when it comes to finding sources. But I felt the need to point the error out so that someone less lazy than me can fix it properly. 112.141.194.183 (talk) 12:47, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

 * In the time it took you to write this talk page, you could have made at least a majority of the corrwctions you mentioned. Which contributes more than a talk page that has gone ignored for the last 5 years. 2607:FEA8:99E0:61D0:40C3:A3C4:A009:1D3A (talk) 17:24, 4 November 2023 (UTC)

Rosin is often applied to the bow before playing the instrument??
Surely only when the operator is hopelessly drunk? (The bow hair is the more usual choice of target, right?) I’ve amended to what I think was the intended meaning. Somebody MIGHT LIKE TO CHECK?

- SquisherDa (talk) 15:30, 4 September 2019 (UTC)

Can anyone add info about the kind of rosin used in the rosin bag in baseball? It doesn't look like the other photos of rosin on this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.20.181.49 (talk) 19:26, 2 June 2021 (UTC)

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Robert Groves Sandeman

Sir Robert Groves Sandeman, KCSI (1835–1892) was a British Indian Army officer and colonial administrator. He was known for his activities in Balochistan, where he introduced a system of "tribal pacification" that endured until the partition of India in 1947.

Early life
Sandeman was born on 25 February 1835, the son of General Robert Turnbull Sandeman. He was educated at Perth and University of St Andrews, and joined the 33rd Bengal Infantry in 1856. When that regiment was disarmed at Phillour by General John Nicholson during the Indian Rebellion of 1857, he took part in the final capture of Lucknow as adjutant of the 11th Bengal Lancers. After the suppression of the Mutiny he was appointed to the Punjab Commission by Sir John Lawrence.

Career
In 1866 he was appointed district officer of Dera Ghazi Khan, and there first showed his capacity in dealing with the Baluch tribes. He was the first to break through the close-border system of Lord Lawrence by extending British influence to the independent tribes beyond the border. In his hands this policy worked admirably, owing to his tact in managing the tribesmen and his genius for control.

In February 1871, he was given political control over the warring Marri, Bugti and Mazari tribes of the Sulaiman Hills at the Mithankot conference between the then governments of Punjab and Sindh provinces.

Sandemanization
In 1876, with the help of Nawab Sir Imam Baksh Khan Mazari of Rojhan, he negotiated the Treaty of Kalat with the Khan of Kalat, which subsequently governed relations between Kalat and the government. He became agent to the governor-general of Balochistan in 1877, an office which he held until his death.

Sandeman introduced an innovative system of tribal pacification in Balochistan, informally termed 'Sandemanization', that was in effect from 1877 to 1947. He gave financial allowances to tribal chiefs who enforced control, and used British military force only when necessary. However, the Government of India generally opposed his Forward Policy methods and refused to allow it to operate in India's North West Frontier. Historians have long debated its scope and effectiveness in his mostly peaceful spread of Imperial influence.

Second Afghan War and aftermath
During the Second Anglo-Afghan War in 1878 his influence over the tribesmen was of the utmost importance, since it enabled him to keep intact the line of communications with Kandahar, and to control the tribes after the British disaster at Maiwand. For these services he was made K.C.S.I. in 1879. He received the substantive rank of lieutenant-colonel on 8 February 1882. In 1889 he occupied the Zhob valley, a strategic advantage which opened the Gomal Pass through the Waziri country to caravan traffic. Sandeman's system was not so well suited to the Pashtun as to his Baluch neighbours. But in Balochistan he was a pioneer, a pacificator and a successful administrator, who converted the region from a state of complete anarchy into a province as orderly as any in British India.

Legacy and evaluation
Sandeman died at Bela, the capital of Las Bela state, on 29 January 1892. His nephew by his sister Julia was Walter Massy-Greene, who became a cabinet minister in Australia.

Recent scholarship in postcolonial studies and on colonial Balochistan has disputed this overtly laudatory account of Sandeman's life and career as explicated in books such as Tucker's "Sir Robert G. Sandeman: Peaceful Conqueror of Balochistan" and Bruce's "The Forward Policy and its Results". At a conceptual level, the idea of colonial rulers bringing order to the colonized territory has been questioned by authors such as Edward Said and Nicholas Dirks who argue that this myth resulted from a misunderstanding of (mostly unwritten) local social and cultural norms. It was the product of an effort to make alien peoples and territories governable through the invention of categories of savage and civilized. In respect of colonial Balochistan, Simanti Dutta points out that Sandeman skillfully exploited an existing rift between the Baloch ruler, the Khan of Kalat, and his subordinate tribal chiefs to leverage his influence and project British power into a region which was strategically significant in the context of Anglo-Russian rivalry in Afghanistan. A careful examination of historical records suggests that there were a number of armed uprisings against British rule in Balochistan during and after Sandeman's tenure which had to be put down through the use of lethal force and imposition of crippling financial penalties on the defaulting tribes.

His hate to pashtun

 * Tripodi, Christian. "'Good for one but not the other': The 'Sandeman System' of Pacification as Applied to Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier, 1877–1947." Journal of Military History 73#3 (2009): 767–802. online
 * Tucker AP (1921) Sir Robert G. Sandeman, K.C.S.I., peaceful conqueror of Baluchistan.
 * Thornton, Thomas Henry (1895) Colonel Sir Robert Sandeman: His Life and Work on Our Indian Frontier
 * Bruce, Richard Isaac (1900) The Forward Policy and its Results
 * Said, Edward (1978) Orientalism.
 * Said, Edward (1993) Culture and Imperialism.
 * Dirks, Nicholas (1992) Colonialism and Culture.
 * Dutta, Simanti (2002) Imperial Mappings in Savage Spaces: Baluchistan and British India. ISBN 9788176462365

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Category:Pacific Northwest artists

Artists who were born in, have lived in, have worked in or been involved with the Pacific Northwest.

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Maggie Mae

Maggie Mae, stage name of Andrea Cosima Carle (13 May 1960 – 30 August 2021) was a German singer.

Biography
Maggie Mae released her first single, Ich hab’ Spaß am Leben, in 1974. She later released a German-language cover of "My Boy Lollipop" by Millie Small. Due to her young age and funky appearance, she was nicknamed "Das verrückte Huhn" ("the mad hen"). In 1975, she participated in the West Germany selection competition for the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Die total verrückte Zeit and reached the 7th place. She returned the following year, singing Applaus für ein total verrücktes Haus and finishing third. In the 1980s, she retired from her singing career following her marriage to Robert Trammel and her move to the United States.

Maggie Mae died of COVID-19 in Melbourne, Florida, on 30 August 2021, at the age of 61.

Singles

 * Ich hab' Spaß am Leben (1974)
 * My Boy Lollypop (1975)
 * Die total verrückte Zeit (1975)
 * Sweet beat honey sunny boy/Itsy bitsy teenie weenie Honolulu Strandbikini (1975)
 * I'm on fire (1975)
 * Sing my song (1976)
 * Applaus für ein total verrücktes Haus (1976)
 * Und sein Name war No (1977)
 * Und dann noch eins - Ich liebe dich (1977)
 * Dieses ist mein Land (1978)
 * Komm, klopf' heut Nacht an die Tür (I'm gonna knock on your door) (1979)
 * Das allererste Mal (um alles zu erfahren) (1979)
 * James Dean - Superstar (1980)
 * Rock 'n' Roll Cowboy (Making your mind up) (1981)
 * Lutsch mit! (1981)
 * Und der Weihnachtsmann behauptet, er ist Elvis (1982)

Album

 * I'm on fire (1975)

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South Normanton

South Normanton is a village and civil parish in the Bolsover District of Derbyshire, England. The population at the 2011 Census was 9,445. An ex-mining village, it is two miles east of Alfreton. The historic industries of the village were agriculture, stocking, spinning and mining. Normanton means 'the farm of the north men' or 'Northwegans'.

South Normanton Colliery closed in 1952, B Winning in 1964 and A Winning in 1969. Carnfield Hall was for several centuries the seat of the Revel family.

History
Before 1888 South Normanton was a small hamlet concerned with farming activities. There were very few buildings in the area and only a small track road leading to the settlement.

Around 1888 the only houses that were there were a few cottages around the church of St Michael, on the hilltop in South Normanton Centre and the Windmill. The church was also there of course. All the settlement and buildings at this point were clustered around the main road along the roadsides of what is now Church Street and Market Street (a linear settlement). There were farming fields around the arched shaped village.

Around 1921 the village began its main industry of mining. Many people moved in from the surrounding countryside to work in the mines. The wages they earned were better than the crops that they grew in the fields as security so they came to the village in their hundreds. Many terraced houses were built to accommodate them. These were small and cheap housing for the poor people that came, the streets around Peel Street, South Street and Albert Street. More houses were built on Berristow Lane and Carter Lane East. At this time there was one infant school called Hamlet Lane School. The population of the village grew dramatically. Notice on the 1921 map that the 'hamlet' remains.

Around 1957 the government and councils of Britain were concerned about the lot of poor people in the country and began a house building programme to improve the housing. In South Normanton New Street and Hilcote Street were built (new street shows up on the 1880 to 1888 map of south normanton and hilcote st shows up on the 1900 map along with half of downing street) along with King Street and other such areas. Schools were built to educate the children of the villagers and shops sprang up to serve the community. At the same time some houses were beginning to spring up along the main roads of Market Street and Mansfield Road. The schools included; Glebe Junior School, New Street Secondary School, Green Infant School and Brigg Infant School. In the period after the Second World War the council built an estate to give some of the residents of South Normanton the chance to rent very high quality housing. This was known as council housing. The streets in South Normanton that were built were along Lansbury Drive. The secondary school (Frederick Gent School) was built in 1959 also helped cater for the growing population.

After the 1980s there had been a huge infilling around South Normanton. The areas of Broadmeadows, Rippon Homes and newer housing areas were built. These were higher cost housing for the private market. Major roads had also been built including the M1 motorway creating easier access to the village and surrounding area for car owners. The East Midlands Designer Outlet (owned by McArthurGlen Group) is located near the edge of the settlement close to the M1.

Sport
South Normanton has some sporting facilities. The village is home to South Normanton Athletic F.C. and it also has many Sunday and Saturday teams such as Carnfield F.C., a Grassroots Football Charter Standard Club (South Normanton Albion Football Club, catering for Under 7s to under 17s), and a Mini Colts soccer skills group.

A few footballers from the village went on to play professionally, such as Lee Holmes (formerly of Derby County), Jordan Smith (Nottingham Forest) and Chris Martin (formerly of Nottingham Forest and Port Vale).

South Normanton is also home to the South Normanton School of Boxing catering for all ages from 10 upwards; the South Normanton Cricket Club was formed in 1990; and the South Normanton Cycling Club most commonly known as 'SNCC'.

Notable residents

 * Jedediah Strutt (1726–1797) was born here.
 * Percy Toplis (1896 – 1920) was born here. Known as the inspiration for The Monocled Mutineer
 * Prof Thomas Malcolm Charlton (1923–1997) was born here.
 * Footballer Lee Holmes grew up in South Normanton.

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Stéphane Freiss

Stéphane Freiss (born 22 November 1960) is a French film, television, and stage actor. He won a César Award for his performance in the 1988 film Chouans!.

Selected filmography

 * Premiers désirs (1984)
 * Vagabond (1985)
 * Chouans! (1988)
 * 1001 Nights (1990)
 * The King's Whore (1990)
 * Does This Mean We're Married? (1991)
 * Kings for a Day (1997)
 * The Misadventures of Margaret (1998)
 * Alias Betty (2001)
 * Monsieur N. (2003)
 * Crime Spree (2003)
 * 5x2 (2004)
 * Munich (2005)
 * Call Me Elisabeth (2006)
 * Welcome to the Sticks (2008)
 * Hereafter (2010)
 * Another Life (2013)
 * My Old Lady (2014)
 * The Confessions (2016)

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Summary
The Hockey Sweater book cover

Source: Amazon.com

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copied?
Where is this copied from? Should that be cited somewhere? --Alynna 16:14, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * It appears to be copied from here. Is that copyrighted?
 * --Alynna 18:57, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I contacted the owner of the above website via email, and he did not object to this content appearing here. It should be noted that he believes the writer of this content got hir information from the same sources rather than directly copying his work from his website.
 * --Alynna 20:57, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Shimoxx~enwiki

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IEC 60364

IEC 60364 Electrical Installations for Buildings is the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)'s international standard on electrical installations of buildings. This standard is an attempt to harmonize national wiring standards in an IEC standard and is published in the European Union by CENELEC as "HD 60364". The latest versions of many European wiring regulations (e.g., BS 7671 in the UK) follow the section structure of IEC 60364 very closely, but contain additional language to cater for historic national practice and to simplify field use and determination of compliance by electricians and inspectors. National codes and site guides are meant to attain the common objectives of IEC 60364, and provide rules in a form that allows for guidance of persons installing and inspecting electrical systems.

The standard has several parts:
 * Part 1: Fundamental principles, assessment of general characteristics, definitions
 * Part 4: Protection for safety
 * Section 41: Protection against electric shock
 * Section 42: Protection against thermal effects
 * Section 43: Protection against overcurrent
 * Section 44: Protection against voltage disturbances and electromagnetic disturbances
 * Part 5: Selection and erection of electrical equipment
 * Section 51: Common rules
 * Section 52: Wiring systems
 * Section 53: Isolation, switching and control
 * Section 54: Earthing arrangements, protective conductors and protective bonding conductors
 * Section 55: Other equipment (Note: Some national standards provide an individual document for each chapter of this section, i.e. 551 Low-voltage generating sets, 557 Auxiliary circuits, 559 Luminaires and lighting installations)
 * Section 56: Safety services
 * Part 6: Verification
 * Part 7: Requirements for special installations or locations
 * Section 701: Electrical installations in bathrooms
 * Section 702: Swimming pools and other basins
 * Section 703: Rooms and cabins containing sauna heaters
 * Section 704: Construction and demolition site installations
 * Section 705: Electrical installations of agricultural and horticultural premises
 * Section 706: Restrictive conductive locations
 * Section 708: Electrical installations in caravan parks and caravans
 * Section 709: Marinas and pleasure craft
 * Section 710: Medical locations
 * Section 711: Exhibitions, shows and stands
 * Section 712: Solar photovoltaic (PV) power supply systems
 * Section 713: Furniture
 * Section 714: External lighting
 * Section 715: Extra-low-voltage lighting installations
 * Section 717: Mobile or transportable units
 * Section 718: Communal facilities and workplaces
 * Section 721: Electrical installations in caravans and motor caravans
 * Section 722: Supplies for Electric Vehicles
 * Section 729: Operating or maintenance gangways
 * Section 740: Temporary electrical installations for structures, amusement devices and booths at fairgrounds, amusement parks and circuses
 * Section 753: Heating cables and embedded heating systems
 * Part 8: Functional Aspects
 * Section 1: Energy Efficiency
 * Section 2: Prosumer’s low-voltage electrical installations
 * Section 3: Operation of prosumer’s electrical installations

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Oasis Hong Kong Airlines

Oasis Hong Kong Airlines Limited was a long-haul, low-cost Asian airline. It operated scheduled services to London Gatwick Airport and Vancouver International Airport from its hub, Hong Kong International Airport. The airline offered low fares as its selling technique, which was similar to the operation principle of a low-cost airline.

Oasis was one of a growing number of long-haul passenger airlines, such as Zoom Airlines, to adopt a budget airline model pioneered by the now defunct Laker Airways Skytrain service in the 1970s. Oasis offered non-stop service from Hong Kong to London, and began a service to Vancouver on 28 June 2007. The airline was voted "World's Leading New Airline" at the Annual World Travel Awards 2007.

Much of the original success of Oasis Hong Kong was due to the airline's widely advertised minimum fares beginning at just GBP£75 one way. However, fares later became much less competitive.

On 9 April 2008, Oasis's CEO Stephen Miller announced at a press conference that the company would cease operations after suffering an accumulated loss of HK$1 billion (US$128 million) since its launch in October 2006. Accounting firm KPMG was appointed provisional liquidator by the airline.

History
Oasis Hong Kong Airlines was founded by Rev. Raymond C. Lee, and his wife, Priscilla H. Lee in February 2005. The chief executive, Steve Miller, was founder and first chief executive of another Hong Kong-based airline, Dragonair. Its inaugural route to London commenced service on 26 October 2006, The first flight, flight O8 700, took off from Hong Kong International Airport after a 24-hour delay. The airline had been scheduled to begin operations on 25 October, but Russia revoked the London-bound flight's fly-over rights at 12:09 pm, one hour before the flight's scheduled departure.

Oasis originally operated as a low-fare airline, and claimed that it had already broken-even after the first six months of operations. The airline said that this was achieved through flying long-haul so as to decrease maintenance and fuel costs. It also has a lower cost per passenger-kilometer compared to other airlines in Hong Kong. Business passengers, and those who used to have to transfer en route to get to London, would be Oasis' main sources of revenue. Like many other airlines, Oasis planned to hedge a proportion of its fuel purchases to guard against future fuel price increases.

Oasis's subsequent liquidation proved the airline's unviability in practice. In an attempt to be competitive, the airline offered lower than sustainable fares leading to rapidly accumulating losses. Oasis also faced stiff competition by a number of well established carriers operating on its Hong Kong-London route including Cathay Pacific, British Airways, Qantas, Air New Zealand and Virgin Atlantic, and by the fact that its competitors flew into the more convenient and centrally located Heathrow while Oasis was consigned to Gatwick.

Oasis Hong Kong Airlines was liquidated on 9 April 2008. The last flight, flight O8 901, departed from Vancouver at 10:15 am and arrived at Hong Kong at 3:09 pm. The liquidator KPMG China announced the liquidation at 2:00 pm on that day and over the following few days it would conduct a search for potential buyers for the airline.

On 8 July 2008, it was announced that unsecured creditors of collapsed Oasis Hong Kong Airlines, including ticket holders, will eventually receive no more than 10 percent of what they are owed, according to the airline's provisional liquidator, KPMG.

On 16 September 2008, this estimate was reduced to 'less than 5%'. No timetable was given for distribution of these funds.

Services
Tickets were sold through the company website and travel agents. One-way fares between Hong Kong and London were launched from £75 or HK$1,000 (excluding taxes and charges), but there were actually four fare classes. As time went on fares became uncompetitive with airlines such as Air New Zealand and British Airways offering full-service for a similar price and flying from the more convenient Heathrow and supply varied from time to time.

Seat pitch of economyOasis was 32" (the same as Cathay Pacific and Air Canada; one inch more than British Airways and Virgin Atlantic), and a businessOasis section offered at least 50" seat pitch. The 747-400 cabins were configured for 81 business and 278 economy passengers or 71 business and 268 economy passengers, in which a section of what were First Class seats were sold as Business Class.

Two hot meals and soft drinks were served free on both long haul routes in all classes. Snacks and alcoholic drinks were also free for business class passengers and available to be ordered in economy. Free headphones, blankets and pillows were also distributed in all classes, while passengers could purchase noise-canceling headphones and amenity kits on board. Each passenger had personal seat-back TV which had at least 16 channels available, in addition to up to 12 channels of audio, although these were not on demand.

On 28 February 2007, Oasis Hong Kong moved all its passenger check-in operation into the newly commissioned Terminal 2 of the Hong Kong International Airport, being the first airline in Hong Kong to do so.

Destinations
The airline originally operated on two routes, from Hong Kong to London Gatwick Airport and Vancouver International Airport. It expected to introduce a six-weekly service to Vancouver, the focus city of another low-cost carrier WestJet, from 28 June 2007. The airline's press release which stated that "it's a market where there is substantially less reliance on feeder traffic" suggested nothing about the WestJet connectivity. It was also believed that the long-awaited Oakland service (near San Francisco) would soon come on line once the Vancouver service was established. Other routes were also planned. Oasis is believed to have wanted to commence service to Chicago and New York before reaching Washington DC.

On 17 August 2007, Oasis Hong Kong Airlines expressed its interest to provide service to many destinations in Europe and Asia on the HKSAR Government website, and on 7 September 2007 expressed its interest in providing services to six destinations in North America.

Fleet
The Oasis Hong Kong Airlines fleet consisted of the following aircraft:

 * 4 Boeing 747-400

Awards
In 2007, Oasis Hong Kong was voted "World's Leading New Airline" and "Asia's Leading Budget/No Frills Airline" at the Annual World Travel Awards 2007. It was also named "New Airline of the Year" by the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation of Australia, and was voted "Best New Service" and "Best Business Class Carrier" at the 2007 World Low Cost Airline Congress Awards held in London.

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Volunteer, North Carolina

Volunteer is an unincorporated community in Stokes County, North Carolina, United States, approximately 3 mi east-southeast of the town of Pilot Mountain.

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Paul Samwell-Smith

Paul Granville Samwell-Smith (born Paul G. Smith, 8 May 1943, in Brentford, West London, England) is an English musician and record producer. He was a founding member and the bassist of the 1960s English rock band the Yardbirds, which launched leading guitarists Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page to fame.

Early years
Born Paul Smith, Samwell was added to his surname when his parents, who were both already married, decided they wanted to merge both of their surnames together, so that his mother wouldn’t be known as Mrs. Smith. As a youth, Samwell-Smith attended Hampton School with Yardbirds drummer Jim McCarty. Samwell-Smith took up the bass guitar after hearing Ricky Fenson (who was also an early member of The Rolling Stones) playing the instrument.

The Yardbirds
In late May 1963, he formed the Yardbirds with Keith Relf, Anthony Topham, Chris Dreja, and Jim McCarty. During this period his primary instrument was a short-scale Epiphone Rivoli bass. He played on the UK albums, Five Live Yardbirds and Yardbirds (also known as Roger the Engineer) and on the US albums For Your Love, Having a Rave Up, and Over Under Sideways Down (which was Roger the Engineer retitled for the US market), all released on Epic Records. He provided background vocals on many songs like "Good Morning Little School Girl", "For Your Love", "Heart Full of Soul", "Evil Hearted You", and more. He composed the Gregorian chant arrangements and lyrics of the songs "Still I'm Sad" and "Turn Into Earth". While in the Yardbirds he started working on the technical side in the studio. In 1966, becoming tired of touring and wanting to focus on production, he left the Yardbirds and was replaced by Jimmy Page. The last Yardbirds album he played on was Roger the Engineer.

Regarding Samwell-Smith's years with the Yardbirds, a 2020 article in Guitar World opined: "As a bassist, Paul Samwell-Smith was solid and occasionally prominently inventive. No doubt, had he stuck to that he’d have been feted as an influence by many."

While in the Yardbirds, he co-produced and engineered much of their music, working with record producers such as Mickie Most, Simon Napier-Bell and Giorgio Gomelsky. Samwell-Smith was a major contributor to the original tracks written by the Yardbirds during his tenure with the band. He left the group in June 1966 to pursue a career as a record producer.

In the early 1980s, Samwell-Smith played in the Yardbirds reunion band Box of Frogs with original Yardbird members Chris Dreja and Jim McCarty. The Box of Frogs did not tour because Chris Dreja was busy with his photography and Samwell-Smith was busy in the recording studio.

He was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds in 1992.

Producer
He went on to become a successful producer with credits including Cat Stevens' albums Tea for the Tillerman (1970), Teaser and the Firecat (1971) and Catch Bull at Four (1972). An article in The Washington Post praised Samwell-Smith's "deft, understated touch" on these recordings as a primary reason for their commercial success, and commented: "The chamber ensemble palette Samwell-Smith employed, consisting mainly of acoustic guitars, piano, upright bass and hand percussion, and the refined arrangements he crafted, perfectly complement the interior landscapes that Stevens was exploring. Stevens had the pure, raw talent, certainly, but it was Samwell-Smith who seemed to understand how best to transmute and position that talent for maximum artistic impact." Samwell-Smith also produced recordings for Jethro Tull, Carly Simon, Renaissance, Murray Head, Chris de Burgh, Beverley Craven, Toto Coelo, Illusion and Claire Hamill. Other production credits include two of Amazing Blondel's albums for Island Records; the first and second albums by All About Eve for Mercury; and "American Tune" (1973 single) with Paul Simon.

Film
Paul Samwell-Smith was the musical producer for the film Harold and Maude in 1971, with music written by Cat Stevens, which became a cult classic. In addition, two decades later, he produced Postcards from the Edge in 1990, as a music sound recording and recording supervisor.

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Miguel Lifschitz

Roberto Miguel Lifschitz (13 September 1955 – 9 May 2021) was an Argentine politician and civil engineer of the Socialist Party who was Governor of Santa Fe Province from 2015 to 2019. Prior to that, he was intendente (mayor) of Rosario, the largest city in the province and the third largest in Argentina.

Career
Lifschitz earned his degree at the Engineering Faculty of the National University of Rosario in 1979, and worked in the private sector until 1989, when he became Director-General of the Public Housing Service (Director General del Servicio Público de la Vivienda) of the city of Rosario, under the socialist administration of Héctor Cavallero.

He continued working in various public offices, as Municipal Secretary-General (Secretario General de la Municipalidad), Public Services' Secretary (Secretario de Servicios Públicos) and General Cabinet Coordinator for the Municipality of Rosario (Coordinador General de Gabinete de la Municipalidad de Rosario), between June and December 2003, under the administration of Hermes Binner.

Lifschitz ran for Mayor of Rosario and was elected in the provincial elections of 7 September 2003 for the period 2003–2007. In 2006 he began acknowledging he could run for re-election. In March 2007, a survey showed that Lifschitz would win by a wide margin over any of the other major prospective candidates (52.9% of the total votes).

Lifschitz competed in the primaries of the Progressive, Civic and Social Front, on 1 July 2007, against Carlos Comi (of ARI); he obtained around 90% of the vote. In the main election of 2 September 2007, he won his re-election for the period 2007–2011 by a landslide (57–31%) over his closest competitor, former Socialist mayor Héctor Cavallero (who ran for the Peronist-led Front for Victory).

In the elections of 14 June 2015, he was elected as the new governor of the Province of Santa Fe, a position he assumed on 10 December.

Death
In late April 2021, Lifschitz was admitted to hospital after testing positive for COVID-19. His condition worsened by 25 April and he was transferred to intensive care unit and placed on a respirator and was in a coma. He died on 9 May.

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Delta Dental Stadium

Delta Dental Stadium is a stadium in Manchester, New Hampshire that holds 6,500 people. It is used primarily for baseball, and is the home field of the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, an Eastern League baseball team. The first game played at the ballpark was on April 7, 2005, between the New Britain Rock Cats and the Fisher Cats. The first concert was performed by Bob Dylan on August 27, 2006. In 2011 insurance company Northeast Delta Dental signed a 10-year contract for the ballpark's naming rights with a five-year option. The stadium has since updated the name to simply Delta Dental Stadium although Northeast Delta Dental is still the stadium naming rights holder.

Features
The park was built on the former Singer Park in the Manchester Millyard, a soccer (and occasionally rugby) stadium that was also used for circuses, carnivals and a summer concert series. In 2017, 1,000 seats were added when renovations were done on the left field section of the park. At least a portion of the ballpark is located on the site where bricks recovered from the demolition of the Arms Textile Mill were buried. The Arms Textile Mill was the site of the deadliest outbreak of anthrax in United States history.

The ballpark is located in the downtown area along the Merrimack River, facing northwest towards the heart of downtown. The park is within walking distance of many local landmarks, including Manchester's mill district, the SNHU Arena, the WMUR television station, the University of New Hampshire at Manchester college campus, and countless restaurants, bars, and hotels. It has an open concourse, allowing fans to view the action on the field at all times, and includes 32 luxury suites that line the upper level and provide fans with a panoramic view of the field.

One of the dominant features is the Hilton Garden Inn hotel located beyond the fence in left-center field. The hotel is 7 stories high (6 excluding clock tower) and has more than 125 rooms; each room on the south side of the hotel has windows that overlook center field and have shatterproof glass due to the proximity to the park. The Hilton hotel also has a restaurant which offers outdoor patio seating directly overlooking left-center field. Delta Dental Stadium is one of the only professional baseball fields in the United States with a hotel located inside/ alongside the stadium.

In April 2008 the park opened the Sam Adams Bar and Grill, offering a buffet, full menu, and bar directly overlooking the left field of the park. The Bar and Grill is now known as the Sam Adams Brewhouse.

Prior to the start of the 2017 season, the Fisher Cats announced the most ambitious renovation project in the stadium's history. Team owner Art Solomon invested a million dollars into the facility to transform the left field plaza and pavilion, adding a new tiered seating section beyond the left field wall, a state-of-the-art live music stage, a tiki bar and a rock waterfall at the top of the main entrance stairs. The project was completed in time for Opening Day 2017.

In 2019, the Fisher Cats began transitioning the field to organic turf management with support from sponsor Stonyfield Farm's #playfree campaign. It is the first professional baseball field to transition to all organic management.

Notable events
On October 21, 2006, the stadium hosted the funeral service for fallen city police officer Michael Briggs, who was shot while responding to a domestic dispute call.

On July 16, 2008, the stadium hosted a record 8,762 fans for the 2008 Northeast Delta Dental Eastern League All-Star Game. This record was surpassed on May 26, 2009, with 8,903 fans in attendance. Red Sox pitcher John Smoltz started the game for the opposing Portland Sea Dogs in a rehab start.

Major League Baseball's future stars returned for the Eastern League All-Star Game on July 13, 2011, and again in 2017 for the Eastern League All-Star Classic July 11–12. The facility is the only stadium in the league to host the game three times in a decade.

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Rosebud, North Carolina

Rosebud is an unincorporated community in Stokes County, North Carolina, United States, approximately two miles west-northwest of Walnut Cove.

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Poplar Springs, Stokes County, North Carolina

Poplar Springs is an unincorporated community in Stokes County, North Carolina, United States, approximately two miles east of King, on North Carolina State Highway 66.


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Culebra Cut

The Culebra Cut, formerly called Gaillard Cut, is an artificial valley that cuts through the Continental Divide in Panama. The cut forms part of the Panama Canal, linking Gatun Lake, and thereby the Atlantic Ocean, to the Gulf of Panama and hence the Pacific Ocean. It is 7.8 mi from the Pedro Miguel lock on the Pacific side to the Chagres River arm of Lake Gatun, with a water level 85 ft above sea level.

Construction of the cut was one of the great engineering feats of its time; the immense effort required to complete it was justified by the great significance of the canal to shipping, and in particular the strategic interests of the United States of America.

Culebra is the name for the mountain ridge it cuts through, and was also originally applied to the cut itself. From 1915 to 2000 the cut was named Gaillard Cut after US Major David du Bose Gaillard, who had led the excavation. After the canal handover to Panama in 2000, the name was changed back to Culebra. In Spanish the cut is known as the Corte Culebra and is also called the Snake Cut.

French work
The excavation of the cut was begun by a French venture, led by Ferdinand de Lesseps, which was attempting to build a sea-level canal between the oceans, with a bottom width of 22 m. Digging at Culebra began on January 22, 1881. A combination of disease, underestimation of the problem, and financial difficulties led to the collapse of the French effort, which was bought out by the United States in 1904. The French had excavated some 14256000 m3 of material from the cut, and had lowered the summit from 64 m above sea level to 59 m, over a relatively narrow width.

American work
The United States took over on May 4, 1904. Under the leadership of John F. Stevens, and later George Washington Goethals, the American effort started work on a cut that was wider but not as deep, as part of a new plan for an elevated lock-based canal, with a bottom width of 91 m; this would require creation of a valley up to 540 m wide at the top. A vast amount of new earthmoving equipment was imported, and a comprehensive system of railways was constructed for the removal of the immense amounts of earthen and rocky spoil.

Major David du Bose Gaillard, of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, joined the project at the same time as Goethals, and he was put in charge of the central district of the canal, which was responsible for all of the work between Gatun Lake and the Pedro Miguel locks—most notably, the Culebra Cut. Gaillard brought dedication and quiet, clear-sighted leadership to his difficult, complex task.

The scale of the work was massive. Elaborate (multiple) air compressor facilities using some 30 miles of pipe powered hundreds of compressed air drills to bore holes for 400,000 pounds of dynamite per month to blast and fragment the rock of the cut so that it could be excavated by steam shovels, most made by Bucyrus Foundry and Manufacturing Company of Milwaukee. Dozens of spoils trains took the spoil from the shovels to the landfill dumps, about 12 mi away. In a typical day, 160 trainloads of material were hauled away from a cut 9 mi. This workload on the railroads required some skillful co-ordination. At the busiest times, there was a train going inbound or outbound almost every minute.

Six thousand men worked in the cut, drilling holes, placing explosives, controlling steam shovels, and running the dirt trains. They also moved and extended the railroad tracks as the work moved forward. Twice a day work stopped for blasting, and then the steam shovels were moved in to take the loose spoil (dirt and rock) away. More than 600 holes filled with dynamite were fired daily. In all, 60 e6lb of dynamite were used. In some locations, about 52000 lb of dynamite were planted and detonated for a single blast.

Landslides
The excavation of the cut was one of the greatest areas of uncertainty in the creation of the canal, due to the unpredicted large landslides. The International Board of Consulting Engineers had mistakenly decided that the rock would be stable at a height of 73.5 m with a slope of 1 in 1.5; in practice, the rock began to collapse from that slope at a height of only 19.5 m. The misjudgment was in part due to unforeseen oxidation of the underlying iron strata due to water infiltration, which caused weakening and eventually a collapse of the strata. Strain softening of the underlying shale layers of sedimentary units caused continuation of sliding as the strength of the slide post-failure was reduced.

The first and largest major slide occurred in 1907 at Cucaracha. The initial crack was first noted on October 4, 1907, followed by the mass wasting of about 500,000 yd3 of clay. This slide caused many people to suggest the construction of the Panama Canal would be impossible; Gaillard described the slides as tropical glaciers, made of mud instead of ice. The clay was too soft to be excavated by the steam shovels, and it was therefore largely removed by sluicing it with water from a high level.

After this, the sediment in the upper levels of the cut were removed, resulting in less weight over the weak strata. Landslides continued to be a problem after the canal's opening, causing intermittent closures.

Completion
Steam shovels broke through the Culebra Cut on May 20, 1913. The Americans had lowered the summit of the cut from 194 to 39 ft above sea level, at the same time widening it considerably, and they had excavated over 76 e6m3 of material. Some 23 e6m3 of this material was additional to the planned excavation, having been brought into the cut by the landslides.

Gaillard was promoted to colonel in 1913. One month later, on December 5, he died of a brain tumor in Baltimore, Maryland, and hence he did not live to see the opening of the canal in 1914. The Culebra Cut, as it was originally known, was renamed to the Gaillard Cut on April 27, 1915, in his honor. After the handing over of the canal to Panama in 2000, the old name Culebra Cut was reinstated.

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The Bat (1926 film)

The Bat is a 1926 American silent comedy mystery film directed by Roland West and starring Jack Pickford and Louise Fazenda. The film is based on the 1920 Broadway hit play The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood.

Plot
Gideon Bell, owner of the Favre Emeralds, receives a letter stating that the emeralds will be stolen at midnight by "the Bat", and that police will not be able to stop the robbery. The Bat, a figure dressed as a bat, murders Gideon and steals the emeralds. The Bat leaves a bat-shaped note for the chief of police to inform him that he will be traveling to the country. The Bat travels by car to a mansion built by Courtleigh Fleming, the president of the Oakdale Bank, who has recently been found dead in Colorado. The mansion is being rented for the summer by writer Cornelia Van Gorder, whose maid, Lizzie Allen, sets up a bear trap to catch the Bat. Richard Fleming, Courtleigh's spendthrift nephew, wishes to lease the mansion, and plans with Dr. H. E. Wells to frighten Van Gorder away.

The newspaper reports that Brooks Bailey, a cashier at Oakdale Bank, has robbed the bank of $200,000 and has disappeared. Van Gorder's niece, Miss Dale Ogden, arrives with a supposed new gardener. Van Gorder asks the gardener about his knowledge on alopecia, urticaria, and rubeola, and he answers as if the terms referred to plants rather than medical conditions. On the staircase, Richard is shot, and Miss Dale manages to snatch part of a blueprint of the house from his pocket. Detective Moletti accuses her of trying to find a supposed hidden room in the mansion that should be shown on the blueprint. Detective Anderson arrives, and the group gets a call from the house phone in the garage, which sounds like groans of distress. A circular light shines on the wall, with the shadow of a bat in its center, but after investigating, the group finds that the shape was caused by a miller moth on a car headlight.

Dr. Wells has Miss Dale recreate Richard's murder, and she notes that she tucked the blueprint in a Parker House roll on a tray, but the blueprint is now gone. The new gardener is revealed to be Brooks Bailey, and Anderson attempts to arrest him for robbery, murder, and impersonation, but Miss Dale stops him, revealing that she and Brooks are engaged. Dr. Wells searches for the hidden room by knocking on walls, which causes the others to investigate the sound, leading them to a ballroom which is supposedly haunted. The candles in the ballroom go out when lit, and a shape appears to float towards Anderson and Lizzie, but it turns out to be the Japanese butler Billy carrying a lamp. After being confronted by Moletti, Dr. Wells knocks Moletti unconscious by striking his head, and he hides Moletti's body in another room. A beaten man enters the house, and Anderson finds that he has no identification on his person.

Billy sees a mysterious figure wearing a hat, and as he leaves to tell the others, the Bat's shadow passes by the door. The Bat sets up a system of wires that attach to a light switch. Outside, Brooks sees the figure in the hat crossing the roof, and realizes that it is the supposedly dead Courtleigh Fleming. Miss Dale finds the hidden room, located behind a fireplace. The Bat confronts her, demanding the combination to the safe in the hidden room, but she escapes. Dr. Wells is accused of helping the Bat, and the Bat is soon captured and held at gunpoint. However, the Bat activates the wire system, turning off the lights and allowing himself to escape. The Bat flees outside but his leg is caught in the bear trap placed earlier by Lizzie. The others find him and remove his mask, revealing him to be Moletti. The beaten, unknown man announces that he is the true Detective Moletti, and that the man underneath the Bat's mask had stolen his papers, locked him in the garage, set it on fire and impersonated him.

Production
The Bat film is adapted from the play The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood. Previously filmed in 1915 from the Selig Polyscope Company.

The film was directed and adapted to screen by Roland West. Among the cast was Jewel Carmen, who West had met in 1918.

West had his cast work at night, stating that "Given the quiet of the studio at midnight, when no other companies are working, and plenty of spooky music from an orchestra, the players really are in a mood to simulate dark deeds." According to William Bakewell, who worked with West on The Bat Whispers, West worked at night to avoid dealing with studio executives.

Release
The Bat premiered in New York on March 14, 1926. According to The Motion Picture World magazine, the film was a "box office knock-out".

The film was considered lost for decades, until a print was discovered in the 1980s.

Reception
George T. Pardy stated in The Motion Picture World, praised the films balance of sudden humor with "eerie, creepy, blood-curdling atmosphere." A anonymous reviewer in The New York Times found the film proved to be entertaing despite "mechanical twists" "Sisk." of Variety stated the film was an "excellent picture [...] interesting every minute of the way" and praised Carminati's performance as "one of the best things done by a newcomer on the screen."

Legacy
West would create a sound version of The Bat titled The Bat Whispers.

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Pinnacle, North Carolina

Pinnacle is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in southwestern Stokes County, North Carolina, United States, approximately 5 mi SSE of the town of Pilot Mountain, between Pilot Mountain State Park and Hanging Rock State Park.

History
The town was originally known as Culler, named for Emanuel W. Culler who owned the land on which a railroad station was built and served as the town's first mayor. The present name was adopted in 1894. Pinnacle was incorporated in 1901 but the charter was repealed in 1903.

Some 20 mi east of Pinnacle on State Route 1186 is the Rock House, the remains of a massive four-story stone structure with three-foot-thick walls built in 1770 by Capt. John 'Jack' Martin, one of the first two settlers of Stokes County, on a 8000 acre grant from the Crown. Martin served in the North Carolina House of Representatives and as presiding judge of Stoke County court for over 30 years. The house was built by slaves using local flint stones, with a fireplace large enough to roast an ox and stuccoed white plaster on the exterior, and was used as a blockhouse by early settlers. Colonel Martin, who was born in Essex County, Virginia, and became a fierce fighter for the Continental cause during the Revolutionary War. Targeted by Tories during and following the War, when he was badly wounded while spying for American forces on the eve of the Battle of Kings Mountain, Martin was the brother of militia General Joseph Martin, namesake of Martinsville, Virginia. Col. Jack Martin saw action at the battles of Chestnut Ridge, Surrey County, Colsons, Old Fields, Alamance and Guilford Courthouse. The Rock House served as the mustering ground for colonial forces during the Revolutionary War as well as the War of 1812. One of the oldest structures in Stokes County and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, the house burned in 1890, and only the great rock walls remain. Rock House was acquired in 1975 by the Stokes County Historical Society, which has struggled recently to protect the ruins from vandals.

In addition to the Rock House, the Hauser Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Deloitte Consulting

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The result of the debate was speedy redirect to Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. -- BD2412 talk 18:51, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

Deloitte Consulting
vanity 66.216.68.28 16:22, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy, since it is just one line of nonsense. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 16:22, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy redirect to Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. --KFP 16:29, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok, I redirected it. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 16:32, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
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Oak Ridge, Stokes County, North Carolina

Sandy Ridge is an unincorporated community in Stokes County, North Carolina, United States, approximately four miles NNE of county seat Danbury, on North Carolina State Highway 704.


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User talk:Ggpig

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Abiola

Abiola is a Nigerian name of Yoruba origin. The meaning of Abiola is "born in honour, wealth". Notable people with the name include:

Surname

 * Hafsat Abiola (born 1974), Nigerian civil-rights activist
 * Moshood Abiola (1937–1988), Nigerian businessman, publisher, philanthropist and politician
 * Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola (born 1983), Nigerian businesswoman

Given name

 * Abiola Abrams (born 1976), American television personality
 * Abiola Babatope, Nigerian politician
 * Abiola Dauda (born 1988), Nigerian-Swedish footballer
 * Abiola Ajimobi (1949–2020), Nigerian politician
 * Abiola Irele (1936–2017), Nigerian academic

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 * Art of Peru.

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Neatman, North Carolina

Neatman is an unincorporated community in Stokes County, North Carolina, United States, approximately 3 miles north-northwest of Germanton.

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Raghuram Bhat

Adwai Raghuram Bhat (born 16 April 1958) is a former Indian cricketer who played in two Test matches in 1983.

Domestic career
Raghuram Bhat dominated school and junior level games. After some fine performances, he made his Ranji trophy debut in the 1979–80 season against Tamil Nadu at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. He had a slow start to his career taking just one wicket on his debut game. He soon found success at the Ranji level. In just his 6th first class game he picked up 9 wickets against Kerala at Davangere. In the quarterfinal against Punjab he took 9 wickets to help Karnataka reach the semifinals.

1981-82 Semifinal
Raghuram Bhat is chiefly remembered for the role he played in Karnataka's victory in the semifinal against Bombay. The 1981-82 Ranji semifinal was played between a strong Bombay team and Karnataka at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. Bombay had at their disposal some of the then current stars of the Indian cricket team, including Sunil Gavaskar, Dilip Vengsarkar, Ashok Mankad, Sandeep Patil, Ravi Shastri and Balwinder Sandhu.

Sunil Gavaskar captaining Bombay won the toss and decided to bat. Gavaskar opened the batting with Ghulam Parkar and put on a 62 run opening stand. Raghuram Bhat soon got into the act and dismissed Gavaskar for 41. He then had Vengsarkar bowled for 8. A 101 run partnership was established between Ghulam Parkar and Sandeep Patil. Raghuram Bhat got Ghulam Parkar Leg before the wicket. That bought Ashok Mankad to the crease. Raghuram Bhat had Mankad edge the ball to Gundappa Viswanath at slip to leave Bombay at 184 for 5. Raghuram Bhat completed his hat-trick by dismissing Suru Nayak. Raguram Bhat went on to claim 3 more wickets as he ended up with his then best figures of 8 for 123. Bombay was dismissed for 271.

Karnataka batted well in their first innings. A fine century from Sudhakar Rao and a knock of 78 from Brijesh Patel ensured Karnataka overhauled Bombay's first innings total. Some fine late order batting from Syed Kirmani and Raghuram Bhat ensured Karnataka reached 470.

The pitch by then had deteriorated and was expected to help spin. Ghulam Parkar and Vengsarkar opened the batting for Bombay in the 2nd innings and put on 72. Bhat dismissed Vengsarkar and soon had Suru Nayak giving him a return catch to leave Bombay at 107 for 2. Bhat and fellow spinner B. Vijayakrishna went through the middle order to leave Bombay at 160 for 6. Sunil Gavaskar unusually walked to bat at number 8 and soon faced trouble from the spin of Raghuram Bhat. Gavaskar had earlier decided to bat left handed against Bhat, but was talked out of it by Bombay team manager Sharad Diwadkar. Sensing that he had no chance against Bhat, Sunil Gavaskar decided to bat as a left-hander against him. Sunil Gavaskar survived against Bhat batting as a left-hander and against Vijaykrishna batting as a right-hander. Gavaskar batted over 60 minutes as a left-hander and ensured Bombay did not lose outright. Bombay ended up at 200 for 9. Karnataka went through to the final based on the big first innings lead. Raghuram Bhat ended up with 13 wickets.

After the Semifinal
Karnataka lost the final to Delhi despite scoring 705 in the first innings. The next Ranji season proved to be fruitful for Bhat as helped Karnataka win the Ranji trophy for the 3rd time, beating Bombay on first innings lead. He took 4 wickets in the final and capped off a wonderful Ranji trophy campaign. He played in the Irani Trophy that year and picked up 7 wickets in the game. His performances in the season bought him into the national limelight and he was selected for the upcoming series against Pakistan.

International career
Raghuram Bhat played his first test against Pakistan at Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground, Nagpur. His first test wicket was Javed Miandad. He later picked up Mudassar Nazar's wicket as well. India drew the game and the series was shared between the 2 arch rivals. Raghuram Bhat's next test was against the West Indies at the Green Park Stadium in Kanpur. Bhat picked up the wickets of Clive Lloyd and Gus Logie. India lost the test by an innings and 83 runs. This test also marked the end of Bhat's international career as he was dropped from the Indian team.

Later domestic career
Raghuram Bhat was one of the stalwarts for Karnataka. He along with B. Vijayakrishna bore the bulk of the bowling workload of Karnataka. He ended up with 343 wickets in the Ranji Trophy. He retired after the 1992-93 pre-quarter final against Madhya Pradesh

After cricket
Since he retired from first-class cricket Bhatt has served in many capacities - as umpire, administrator and coach. In July 2011, he was appointed as the coach of the Goa cricket team.

In popular culture
A reference is made to the incident where Sunil Gavaskar batted left handed against Raghuram Bhat in the Kannada movie Ganeshana Maduve.

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Reformatio in peius

A reformatio in peius (Latin: "change for the worse") occurs in law when as the result of an appeal, the appellant is put in a worse position than if there had been no appeal. For example, an appellant in a criminal case might receive a more severe sentence on appeal than in their original trial.

Whether or not reformationes in peius are allowed depends on the jurisdiction and the applicable procedural law. In civil law jurisdictions, reformationes in peius are generally not allowed in appeals in administrative law cases and in criminal and civil appeals if the “other” party, i.e. the state in a criminal case, appeals the decision. Thus, a defendant needs never fear appeal an unjust conviction, such as a guilty verdict; a negative shift, such as a more severe penalty, can only result from the prosecution appealing it (as well).

Prohibition at European Patent Office
Under the case law of the Boards of Appeal of the European Patent Office (EPO), a board cannot put a sole appellant in a worse position than if there had been no appeal of the first instance decision. In relation to appeals, the term "prohibition of reformatio in peius" thus essentially means that a person should not be placed in a worse position as a result of filing an appeal. Thus, in general, EPO Boards of Appeal are prevented in opposition appeal proceedings from going beyond the request of a sole appellant to put it in a worse position than before the appeal. The central case detailing the principle is G 4/93, consolidated with G 9/92.

The principle, however, has exceptions, as laid out for example in decision G 1/99. In that case, an error of judgement had been made by an Opposition Division in allowing the addition of a limiting feature going beyond the content of the application as filed (contrary to ). The board allowed the patent proprietor to file requests to overcome the deficiency since

Still under the case law of the Boards of Appeal of the EPO, the doctrine of reformatio in peius does not, however, apply separately to each point or issue decided or to the reasoning leading to the impugned decision.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cool Dela Peña

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The result of the debate was delete, and the images too. humblefool®Deletion Reform 02:54, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

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Appears to be non-notable vanity. I left the userfy tag on there for several days. This guy only gets 7 non-wikipedia hits on Google. Pictures and weblog entries...I say delete --Etacar11 16:25, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete as per User:Etacar11. --BradBeattie 16:34, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - vanity JoJan 18:51, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity, nn, images may be copyvio ("permission for syndication") is not a valid WP license, and that's stated in the article, not the image description page. -Harmil 19:17, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Pavel Vozenilek 23:29, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Jayjg (talk) 00:04, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable vanity. JamesBurns 07:56, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

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