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These are the pages I've nominated for deletion with their result. This page is not intended to show a deletionist agenda but rather that my additions to AfD have been made in good faith.

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Philip Deidesheimer

Philip Deidesheimer was a mining engineer in the Western United States.

Deidesheimer was born in 1832, in Darmstadt, Electorate of Hesse before German unification. He attended the prestigious Freiberg University of Mining (Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg) and emigrated to California in 1852. He died on 21 July 1916 in San Francisco, California.

Career
In 1852, at nineteen, the young mining engineer traveled to the California gold fields to work for several years, including in Georgetown. In April 1860 he was hired by W. F. Babcock, a trustee of the Ophir Mine, part of the Comstock Lode silver mining boom in Nevada, and solved one of the Comstock mines' most critical engineering needs.

Square set timbering
Deidesheimer invented a system, now known as square set timbering, using heavy timber "cubes" as supports for underground mining tunnels and shafts, that enabled skilled miners to open three-dimensional cavities of any size. In large openings, the cubes could be filled with waste rock, creating a solid pillar of wood and rock from floor to roof ("back" in miner's terminology).

Deidesheimer created the square set timbering system for the Comstock Lode's Ophir Mine in Virginia City, Nevada, in 1860. The system, which was inspired by the structure of honeycombs, enabled mining of the large silver orebodies of the Comstock Lode, which were in very weak rock—in miner's terms, "heavy ground".

Deidesheimer refused to patent the innovation, which was easily the most important mining innovation of 1860.

 * Ophir Mine

As was common with the Comstock mines, the rock in the Ophir Mine was soft and easily collapsed into the working stopes (cavities where ore is extracted). In addition, the presence of clay that would swell greatly upon exposure to air caused great pressures that the mine timbering of that day could not hold back. The square set timbering method devised by Deideshimer slowed the swelling action long enough for ore extraction, though with time and decay the timbering was crushed by the enormous pressures found in the Comstock mines.

Deidesheimer was made superintendent of the Ophir Mine by mine owner William Sharon in early 1875. He was bankrupted by speculation in mining stocks in 1878.

Other mines
In 1866 Deidesheimer designed and supervised the construction of the Hope Mill and smelter for the St. Louis and Montana Mining Company, to process silver ore from nearby mines in Granite County, Montana. The town that formed around the Hope Mill was named Philipsburg, in honor of Philip Deidesheimer.

After the decline of the Comstock mines in the late 1870s, Deideshimer continued his successful mining engineer career at the Young America Mine in Sierra City, California, where he was one of the five mine owners made rich over the five years of good production at that mine.

In media
The development of his square-set timbering method was fictionalized in "The Philip Deidesheimer Story", a 1959 first-season episode of the American television series Bonanza, in which John Beal portrayed the title character. Philip Deidesheimer was the subject of the NPR radio program The Engines of Our Ingenuity in episode 1901 and was inducted into the (USA) National Mining Hall of Fame.

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List of presidents of the Royal Society of Canada

The list of presidents of the Royal Society of Canada is a list of all the past and present presidents of the Royal Society of Canada.

 * 1882–1883 John William Dawson
 * 1883–1884 Pierre J. O. Chauveau
 * 1884–1885 T. Sterry Hunt
 * 1885–1886 Daniel Wilson
 * 1886–1887 Thomas E. Hamel
 * 1887–1888 George Lawson
 * 1888–1889 Sandford Fleming
 * 1889–1890 Raymond Casgrain
 * 1890–1891 George Monro Grant
 * 1891–1892 Joseph-Clovis-Kemner Laflamme
 * 1892–1893 John George Bourinot
 * 1893–1894 George M. Dawson
 * 1894–1895 James MacPherson Le Moine
 * 1895–1896 Alfred R. C. Selwyn
 * 1896–1897 Cornelius O'Brien
 * 1897–1898 Félix-G. Marchand
 * 1898–1899 Thomas C. Keefer
 * 1899–1900 William Clark
 * 1900–1901 Louis Fréchette
 * 1901–1902 James Loudon
 * 1902–1903 James A. Grant
 * 1903–1904 George T. Denison
 * 1904–1905 Benjamin Sulte
 * 1905–1906 Alexander Johnson
 * 1906–1907 William Saunders
 * 1907–1908 Samuel E. Dawson
 * 1908–1909 Joseph-Edmond Roy
 * 1909–1910 George Bryce
 * 1910–1911 R. Ramsay Wright
 * 1911–1912 William F. King
 * 1912–1913 William Dawson LeSueur
 * 1913–1914 Frank D. Adams
 * 1914–1915 Adolphe B. Routhier
 * 1915–1916 Alfred Baker
 * 1916–1917 Archibald B. Macallum
 * 1917–1918 William D. Lighthall
 * 1918–1919 Rodolphe Lemieux
 * 1919–1920 Robert F. Ruttan
 * 1920–1921 Arthur P. Coleman
 * 1921–1922 Duncan C. Scott
 * 1922–1923 J. Playfair McMurrich
 * 1923–1924 Thomas Chapais
 * 1924–1925 John C. McLennan
 * 1925–1926 William A. Parks
 * 1926–1927 James H. Coyne
 * 1927–1928 A. H. Reginald Buller
 * 1928–1929 Camille Roy
 * 1929–1930 Arthur S. Eve
 * 1930–1931 Charles Camsell
 * 1931–1932 Robert A. Falconer
 * 1932–1933 Francis E. Lloyd
 * 1933–1934 Léon Gérin
 * 1934–1935 W. Lash Miller
 * 1935–1936 Reginald W. Brock & George A. Young
 * 1936–1937 Lawrence J. Burpee
 * 1937–1938 Archibald G. Huntsman
 * 1938–1939 Victor Morin
 * 1939–1940 Henry Marshall Tory
 * 1940–1941 Robert C. Wallace
 * 1941–1942 Frederick W. Howay
 * 1942–1943 James Collip
 * 1943–1944 Olivier Maurault
 * 1944–1945 John K. Robertson
 * 1945–1946 Elwood S. Moore
 * 1946–1947 Harold A. Innis
 * 1947–1948 Walter P. Thompson
 * 1948–1949 Gustave Lanctôt
 * 1949–1950 Joseph A. Pearce
 * 1950–1951 John J. O'Neill
 * 1951–1952 Henry F. Angus
 * 1952–1953 Guilford B. Reed
 * 1953–1954 Jean Bruchési
 * 1954–1955 Edgar William R. Steacie
 * 1955–1956 George S. Hume
 * 1956–1957 William A. Mackintosh
 * 1957–1958 Thomas W. M. Cameron
 * 1958–1959 Pierre Daviault
 * 1959–1960 Henry G. Thode
 * 1960–1961 Merton Y. Williams
 * 1961–1962 Arthur R. M. Lower
 * 1962–1963 William H. Cook
 * 1963–1964 Maurice Lebel
 * 1964–1965 Léo Marion
 * 1965–1966 William Kaye Lamb
 * 1966–1967 Gerhard Herzberg
 * 1967–1968 James M. Harrison
 * 1968–1969 Léon Lortie
 * 1969–1970 Claude E. Dolman
 * 1970–1971 Roy Daniells
 * 1971–1972 Henry E. Duckworth
 * 1972–1973 John Tuzo Wilson
 * 1973–1974 Guy Sylvestre
 * 1974–1975 Claude Fortier
 * 1975–1976 Samuel D. Clark
 * 1976–1977 J. Larkin Kerwin
 * 1977–1978 Robert E. Folinsbee
 * 1978–1981 Robert E. Bell
 * 1981–1984 Marc-Adélard Tremblay
 * 1984–1987 Alexander G. McKay
 * 1987–1990 Digby J. McLaren
 * 1990–1992 Jules Deschênes
 * 1992–1995 John Meisel
 * 1995–1997 Robert Hall Haynes
 * 1997–1999 Jean-Pierre Wallot
 * 1999–2001 William Leiss
 * 2001–2003 Howard Alper
 * 2003–2005 Gilles Paquet
 * 2005–2007 Patricia Demers
 * 2007–2009 Yvan Guindon
 * 2009–2011 Roderick A. Macdonald
 * 2011–2013 Yolande Grisé
 * 2013–2015 Graham Bell
 * 2015–2017 Maryse Lassonde
 * 2017–2019 Chad Gaffield
 * 2019–2022 Jeremy N. McNeil


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Donkupar Roy

 Donkupar Roy (10 November 1954 – 28 July 2019) was an Indian politician, who served as Chief Minister of Meghalaya. He was the head of the United Democratic Party, a political party recognised in Meghalaya.

Political career
After a fractured mandate in Meghalaya's 2008 Assembly Elections, an alliance between his UDP and a handful of other parties stated claim to form the government under the banner of the Meghalaya Progressive Alliance, with Roy as Chief Minister. After D. D. Lapang resigned as Chief Minister because he did not hold a majority in the state legislature, Roy was sworn in as Chief Minister on 19 March 2008.

On 19 March 2009, exactly one year into his term, the government was dismissed and the state was put under President's Rule. In May 2009, the United Democratic Party left the Progressive Alliance, and D.D. Lapang of the Congress Party returned to power as chief minister. Under Conrad Sangma government, he was the speaker of the assembly.

Death
He died due to multiple organ failure at Medanta Hospital in Gurugram at around 2:50 PM. He was 64.

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First Contact (1983 film)

First Contact is a 1983 Australian documentary film by Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson which recounts the incursion of gold-prospecting Australians into the unexplored interior highlands of New Guinea in 1930, then inhabited by a prosperous native population numbering in the region of one million. It is based on the book of the same name by the same authors. Inhabitants of the region and surviving members of the Leahy brothers' gold prospecting party recount their astonishment at this unforeseen meeting. The film includes both moving and still pictures taken by Michael Leahy, leader of the party, and contemporary footage of the island's terrain.

The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It won Best Feature Documentary at the 1983 Australian Film Institute Awards.

The Highlands Trilogy
First Contact is the first documentary in what later became known as The Highlands Trilogy. The other two films are Joe Leahy's Neighbours (1989) and Black Harvest (1992). These three films, between them, have won some thirty major awards, including each film winning both the Grand Prix at the Cinéma du Réel festival in Paris and AFI Award for Best Documentary.

Joe Leahy's Neighbours and Black Harvest pick up the Leahy story started in First Contact but in the next generation with Michael Leahy's mixed-race son, Joe Leahy, and his family. These two films document Joe Leahy's life as owner and manager of two coffee plantations on land acquired in controversial circumstances from the Ganiga tribe. Much of the drama in the two films stems from the implications and expectations of these two plantations, that is, from conflicts about ownership both within the Ganiga people and between the Ganiga and Leahy. The films chart a society in transition from a tribal life to a Western capitalist one.

Reception
In Cinema Papers, Barbara Alysen called First Contact "an entertaining film about a series of historic meetings - selective, as most accounts are, that is as much drama as conventional documentary".

Box office
First Contact grossed $120,000 at the box office in Australia.

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Why nobody mention Frankie & Johnnies?
Birthplace of Loverboy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.250.44.17 (talk) 06:40, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Redirect?
Why the hell does the song "The Kid is Hot Tonight" hyperlink link to this band page? I'd fix it, but I don't know how to do anything but add/edit text on here. Can someone please fix or explain this link? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.127.100.147 (talk) 10:38, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

 * Looking at it now, redirects to Loverboy (Loverboy album), so I guess you fixed it? - RoyBoy 16:43, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

FYI new "Loverboy" usage
Hello, eventually this article may have to move to Loverboy (band). "Loverboy" is a term used to describe a new prostitution / human trafficking phenomenon. While notable in the Netherlands, it likely exists in many countries; and its notability may soon be global. See here for details, and Loverboy (2011 film). For now I will create a sub-article and add it to the disambig. - RoyBoy 16:53, 26 September 2011 (UTC)

Loverboy discography
 Split discography - Discography is long compared to the remainder of the article and should be split to Loverboy discography per MOS:music. Thoughts? --Jax 0677 (talk) 18:09, 26 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Support There is sufficient material. Leave a list of studio albums with a link to the discography and add further sources to the discography. —Justin ( koavf ) ❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:23, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

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United Democratic Party (Meghalaya)

The United Democratic Party is a political party recognised in Meghalaya state, India. It is now led by Metbah Lyngdoh. It was started by E. K. Mawlong.

The Flag of the party shall be of three vertical colours with scarlet red colour at the extreme left nearest to the flag post, parrot green colour at the extreme right and white colour at the middle signifying respectively courage, valour and sacrifice (Scarlet Red), sincerity, honesty, integrity (White) and hope, hard work, survival (Green).

History
In 1998, B. B. Lyngdoh was sworn in as Chief Minister of Meghalaya with the support of his erstwhile rival, the Indian National Congress. UDP won 20 MLAs in the 60-member house and with 26 MLAs Indian National Congress was senior partner in the Alliance. There was a power-sharing agreement between the UDP and Indian National Congress to share the Chief position for two and a half years each. D. D. Lapang was named Deputy Chief Minister of Meghalaya.

In 2000, E. K. Mawlong succeeded B. B. Lyngdoh as the Chief Minister of Meghalaya. Mawlong in his 18-month tenure was embroiled in a scandal stemming from the construction of Meghalaya House in Kolkata. Bharatiya Janata Party and Nationalist Congress Party withdrew their support for Mawlong and he was forced to step down from office in December 2001.

Meghalaya Progressive Alliance
In 2008, UDP formed Meghalaya Progressive Alliance along with Nationalist Congress Party, Hill State People's Democratic Party, Khun Hynniewtrep National Awakening Movement, Bharatiya Janata Party and along with two Independents.

Despite being the largest party, the Nationalist Congress Party gave up the Chief Minister post to UDP in order to achieve stability in the Government. There are also some reports of a power-sharing agreement between the UDP and NCP to share the Chief Minister position for two and a half years each.

Dr. Donkupar Roy was named the Chief Minister of Meghalaya with the support of 31 members in the 60 member Assembly.

In May 2009, the United Democratic Party and the Hill State People's Democratic Party had left the Progressive Alliance and government collapsed.

North-East Democratic Alliance
In May 2016, after the Bharatiya Janata Party led National Democratic Alliance formed its first government in Assam, and formed a new alliance called the North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) non-Congress parties from the northeast with Himanta Biswa Sarma as its convener. The Chief Ministers of the north eastern states of Sikkim, Assam and Nagaland too belong to this alliance.

In March 2018, The NPP came second behind Indian National Congress by winning 19 seats in the 2018 Meghalaya legislative assembly election. Conrad Sangma staked claim to form government with a letter of support from the 34 MLAs, that included 19 from NPP, six from United Democratic Party, 4 from People's Democratic Front, two each from Hill State People's Democratic Party and Bharatiya Janata Party, and an independent.

Dr. Donkupar Roy was elected as Speaker of Meghalaya Legislative Assembly along with Metbah Lyngdoh, Kyrmen Shylla and Lahkmen Rymbui sworn in as minister in the Conrad Sangma government.

In February 2019, United Democratic Party left North-East Democratic Alliance (NEDA) over the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill.

In 2019, Metbah Lyngdoh was elected president of the party after the death of Donkupar Roy and he was also named speaker of the Meghalaya Legislative Assembly.

List of chief ministers

 * B. B. Lyngdoh
 * First term: 10 March 1998 to 8 March 2000
 * E. K. Mawlong
 * First term: 8 March 2000 to 8 December 2001
 * Dr. Donkupar Roy
 * First term: 19 March 2008 to 18 March 2009

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Municipal Coucil Election for Chairman 2013 Daltonganj (Medininagar)
Election for the Post of Chairman of Municpal Council in Medininagar is on 7th of April 2013. There are 13 candidates for this post. And the one of the Candidate for this post is Janki Devi, W/o Sri Prashuram Ojha, a social worker. He has worked hard for the water supply in Medininagar. With his great effort many parts of Medininagar is now supplied with water. Because of his effort and work he is also honored with named Pani Pandey. So, I request all my friends to support Janki Devi so she can continue the effort of Sri Prashuram Ojha in Medininagar.

Her Election symbol in EVM is ALMARI on No.- 2 position. Pravin Ojha 14:40, 27 March 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pravinkumarojha (talk • contribs)

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Do Me, Baby

"Do Me, Baby" is a 1981 ballad performed by Prince, from his fourth album, Controversy. Although it was credited as being written by him, it is alleged to have been written by his former bassist and childhood friend André Cymone. It was released as the third and final US single from the album. It was later included on his 1993 compilation The Hits/The B-Sides. In 1986, the song was notably covered by R&B singer Meli'sa Morgan. It was featured in one of the opening scenes of the 2007 film Rush Hour 3, with Chris Tucker's character singing along while listening to it on his headphones and simultaneously directing traffic with the dance sequences of Michael Jackson.

Track listing

 * 1) "Do Me, Baby" (edit) – 3:57
 * 2) "Private Joy" – 4:25

Personnel
Sourced from Benoît Clerc and Guitarcloud.

 * Prince – lead and backing vocals, Yamaha CP-70 electric grand piano, ARP Omni, Oberheim OB-X, bass guitar, drums

Meli'sa Morgan version
American singer Meli'sa Morgan released a cover of "Do Me, Baby" in November 1985. Her version was a number one hit on the US Hot Black Singles chart, where it spent a total of 24 weeks in 1986. It was also her only entry on the US Hot 100, where it charted for a total of 14 weeks and peaked at 46.

Track listing
Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Single

Vinyl, 7", 45 RPM, Single

Credits and personnel

 * Meli'sa Morgan – vocals
 * Production – Paul Laurence
 * Recording, mixing – Steve Goldman

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Desert Rain

Desert Rain is the second album of Indian Ocean and the first live album ever to be released by any Indian band recorded by Vikram Mishra. It was recorded completely by accident from a concert played at the annual SAHMAT show at Mandi House, New Delhi on 1 January 1997. After waiting 7 hours to get on stage, Indian Ocean played an inspired concert that was well received by the crowd. Quite fortuitously, the band noticed a DAT recorder, bought a tape and recorded the concert. No major record label was willing to take the risk of releasing a live album, and so a record company label called 'Independent Music' was formed to release the album. Naresh Bhatia was the person instrumental behind the release of Desert Rain.

The album was released as a limited-edition copy in 1997 for circulation around Delhi. it was re-released in 2002 given the increasingly massive popularity of the band.

Track listing

 * 1) "Desert Rain"
 * 2) "Village Damsel"
 * 3) "Boll Weevil"
 * 4) "Going To ITO"
 * 5) "Euphoria"
 * 6) "From The Ruins"
 * 7) "Melancholic Ecstasy"

Reception
Released on cassettes and CDs, Desert Rain was a landmark album for its time and today. It was recorded and mixed live by sound engineer Vikram Mishra on a DAT tape. The quality was so impressive that almost a decade later, it still continues to sell. In 2006, it was no. 2 on the iTunes UK World Music Charts.

Bhaskar Gupta of Allmusic.com gave the album a favourable review and considers it a vital link to the development of the band's music and their early inspirations.

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Port Richmond, Philadelphia

Port Richmond is a neighborhood in the River Wards section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is notable for its extremely large Polish immigrant and Polish American community, and it has been known as the Little Poland of Philadelphia. The neighborhood is also home to a large Irish American community and sizable German, Lithuanian, Italian, and Puerto Rican communities, along with a historic Jewish community, as represented in the various churches and organizations. In more recent years, a sizable Albanian community has moved in. The Richmond Zip Code is 19134. A small portion of the neighborhood, north of Castor Avenue, falls into the 19137 ZIP code.

The neighborhood is bounded by the Frankford Creek to the northeast, Lehigh Avenue to the southwest, the Delaware River to the east, and Kensington and Allegheny Avenues to the northwest.

While some have referred to Port Richmond as Richmond, there is an area named Richmond, not colloquially used often, that refers to the most northeastern section of the neighborhood (the area north of Allegheny Avenue up to Frankford Creek). Adjacent neighborhoods are Bridesburg to the northeast, Juniata to the north, Harrowgate to the northwest and Kensington to the south.

Colonial and coal eras

In colonial times, most of today's Port Richmond was owned by Anthony Palmer, the founder of Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood. Palmer put together various parcels of land starting around 1704. He named the estate he built "Hope Farm," and in 1729 sold this estate to William Ball. Palmer then purchased the old Fairman Mansion estate which bordered on the south of "Hope Farm" and built his town of Kensington. Over time, some manufacturing began at the southern end of "Hope Farm" and this area became known as Balltown. There were glass and textile concerns located there during the later part of the 18th century.

During the 1800s, with the advent of the steam engine aboard ships, Port Richmond was a major terminus for colliers, which received coal from the Reading Railroad facility at the port, and transported it to steamships at other locations. Colliers, as well as other merchant and military ships, continued to visit Port Richmond for coal until after World War I, when coal-burning steam engines on ships were replaced by more modern oil and diesel engines.

Early 20th century

Port Richmond, at the beginning of the century, was a working-class neighborhood, and most workers simply walked to their nearby workplaces with lunch pail in hand. Cars were not common and those who had them stored them in stables. Stables for horses and cars were located in various parts of the area. Streets—unlike now—were generally free of parked vehicles, allowing hucksters and other vendors space to easily proceed down the narrow side streets with their horse and wagon on a daily basis.

European immigrants arrived in large numbers and lost no time in scrimping and working long hours to earn sufficient money to purchase modest row homes, such as those along Chatham Street. Usually, the only heat in such homes was provided by a coal-fired range in a tiny kitchen. Some comfort could be had in the fact that these homes contained tiny rooms, generally two downstairs and two upstairs, and were easy to keep warm from the heat of the kitchen range. Such homes were generally twelve feet wide, and the entire length of the house was about twenty four feet. Cellars consisted of plain dirt floors. The fact that the homes were row homes, which were joined by common walls, helped them retain heat during cold winter spells. Only the fronts and backs of each home presented themselves to the coldness of winter. Why the cellars along Chatham Street, for example, contained dirt floors is not entirely clear, unless it was because the cellars were used simply for wood or coal storage or because cement was not a widely used product at the time.

A ton of coal sold at the time for about four or five dollars and would be sufficient for the entire winter. However, most people bought coal by the bucket from a street peddler who came by daily in his horse-drawn carriage. The outsides of these homes consisted of wooden steps and brick sidewalks. Since this type of housing was of economic construction, the bricks in the sidewalk were laid in a crosshatch pattern in sand. When bricks were used in construction of the walls of the house, the mortar mix was made from lime and sand.

Chatham Street homes were constructed in the late 19th century. Later, row homes in Port Richmond were generally sixteen feet wide and contained a cemented cellar, a coal-fired heater, and an upstairs bath for a total of for a total of five or six rooms. Such newer homes, like those on Almond Street, for example, increased in size as prosperity improved for the residents. These homes were palatial when compared with Chatham Street homes, and contained a coal-fired furnace that provided central heat. They generally consisted of three bedrooms and a bath upstairs, and also a living room, dining room, and a kitchen downstairs. (See the Salmon Street photo for examples of this type of row home.)

Port Richmond residents were frugal and bought produce from the many street vendors who came by daily with their horse-drawn carts, loaded with fresh vegetables from nearby farms, located not very far away. Housewives could buy cabbage, cucumbers, potatoes, apples, and other vegetables by the bushel and store or preserve them for the winter. Gas mains were installed in the neighborhood by the city of Philadelphia, and gas was metered into each home for cooking and illumination. The meter was in the basement, and required someone in the household to occasionally feed it coins to keep the gas flowing. On Port Richmond sidewalks, tall gas lamps illuminated the streets. During each evening a lamplighter would come by to light the street lamps by igniting them with a very long device he held up in his hands.

Wars

Port Richmond played a major maritime role in American wars from the American Revolution and onward through World War II. The William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Company, established in 1830 and located nearby, provided skilled work for local workers, who built the battleships USS Indiana (BB-1) and the USS Massachusetts (BB-2) for the Spanish–American War in the late 19th century. The shipyard, and others in the area, also built surface ships during the American Civil War—such as USS Kensington (1862)—and during World War I, and World War II when Cramps' workforce employed 18,000 skilled workers.

During World War II, Port Richmond contained numerous docks and wharves for the loading and unloading of war cargo. In addition, the riverside area contained numerous ancillary facilities, such as warehouses, workshops, and offices. The Reading Railroad had used the port as a terminus for the transfer of coal, and, during the war, railroad service remained a vital function of the port, for its ability to quickly transfer goods to and from the port. The old Orinoka Mills in Richmond, was used as a training and wartime production facility in association with Mastbaum during the war. Today, the port is smaller than it was in World War II, although some marine services still remain, such as the Tioga Marine Terminal at Tioga and Delaware Avenue.

Railroad derailments
Frankford Junction in Port Richmond is an important point on the Northeast Corridor rail artery, as well as being the site of several major rail accidents. On September 6, 1943, the northbound Congressional Limited, a nonstop Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train, bound from Washington, D.C., to New York City, derailed near Port Richmond, killing 79 people and injuring 117 others. On May 12, 2015, at the same site, an Amtrak train derailed.

Culture
Port Richmond is a vibrant neighborhood with a deep and proud cultural history encompassing several centuries.

Stores, some located down side streets, are small and numerous because of the nature of the existing row home architecture where row homes and homefronts have been converted to use as stores. However, many of these stores and drinking establishments offer food, drink and charm which is unique to the neighborhood.

Many Port Richmond homes have been refurbished and are now occupied increasingly by younger people, who no longer walk to work at the once bustling Port Richmond docks or to the tanneries and looms of their predecessors, but are employed in various parts of the city of Philadelphia, returning home in the evenings to the comfort of their picturesque neighborhood. Unfortunately, as the narrow side streets are a product of the horse-and-buggy era, car parking is a problem.

The Russell H. Conwell School, George L. Horn School, John Paul Jones Junior High School, James Martin School, Thomas Powers School, Richmond School, and Francis E. Willard School are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Polish heritage

There are many Polish delis and restaurants throughout the neighborhood, evidence of the Polish ethnic background of the neighborhood. The neighborhood continues to attract Polish immigrants.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries when immigration was at its peak in Philadelphia, Polish people settled on farms in Port Richmond. Soon, the Polish population increased massively, which produced rowhouses with their notable marble steps, and creation of Saint Adalbert Church, which was built in Polish Cathedral style.

Today, there are a number of restaurants and stores in the area of Richmond Street and Allegheny Avenue that cater to the Polish-American community. The former Krakus Market on Richmond Street offered a large selection of Polish and Eastern European foods, including a variety of Kielbasa, Polish canned goods, Polish newspapers and various types of Polish pastries, such as Babka, Chrusciki and Paczki. Philadelphia's award-winning Polish American String Band which marches in the Mummers Parade down Broad Street on New Year's Day, sometimes marches and struts through the neighborhood, as on Port Richmond's Memorial Day celebration.

A half-dozen blocks west on Allegheny from Richmond Street, there is an ancient park, Campbell's Square, where neighborhood children play and where special community events are sometimes held.

Despite its strong Polish roots, where even now, many still speak the language in ordinary conversation, the area has also served other nationalities, such as the Lithuanians. In addition to the area's Polish ethnicity, Lithuanians—who have historically always been strongly linked with the Polish nation—hold their festivals and dances, as well as catered affairs for the community, at the Lithuanian Dance Hall on Allegheny Avenue, just a few blocks west of Richmond Street. The Lithuanian Music Hall is currently the home of the Theatre Company of Port Richmond, a community theater providing entertainment to the community since 1984.

Demographics
Port Richmond is largely a working-class Polish American community, and has been so for decades. As of the 2010 Census, Port Richmond was 76.7% non Hispanic white, 14.7% Hispanic of any race, 5.8% non Hispanic black, 1.8% Asian, and 1.1% all other. A more recent U.S. Census estimate released in 2014 for the year 2013., indicates that the Port Richmond community is much more diverse. For example, zip code 19134 with 60,000 inhabitants, has 23,000 Puerto Ricans and 5,550 Polish Americans. Zipcode 19125 has 1,400 Polish Americans. In Port Richmond, as in every old ethnic enclave in Philadelphia, demographic change is occurring at a rapid pace.

Principal thoroughfares
The main thoroughfares of Port Richmond are Allegheny Avenue, running east–west, Richmond Street and Aramingo Avenue, both running north–south.

Allegheny Avenue is the location of the largest Catholic church in the area Nativity B.V.M. as well as Our Lady Help of Christians Church. Their children, along with St. Adalbert's attend Our Lady of Port Richmond Regional Catholic School.

Richmond Street, south of Allegheny Avenue, runs parallel to Interstate 95 and contains a large number of Polish shops which serve the local Polish community. Italian and Polish bakeries bake fresh bread and various traditional pastries and meats.

Port Richmond is also historically noted for the trolley tracks that run down Richmond Street (see photo at top of page) along the Delaware River. The trolleys have recently been restored and are running again.

Center City Philadelphia, with its metropolitan stores and historic tourist attractions, is not that far away. There is a southbound entrance to Interstate 95 on Allegheny Avenue, a half block east of Richmond Street, and I-95 will quickly take you to Center City Philadelphia, areas of South Philadelphia or the Philadelphia International Airport. On the other hand, to see the dynamic structures of Old City, Philadelphia, a drive to center city could be made south on Richmond Street and continuing on south on Delaware Avenue, providing a wonderful view of what remains of the ship terminals that once made the Port of Philadelphia a bustling seaport.

The Port Richmond Trail is part of the East Coast Greenway.

Religion
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Catholic Church opened in 1882, and two others later opened: St. Adalbert in Philadelphia and Our Lady Help of Christians (1898). On July 1, 2019, St. Adalbert and Nativity BVM and Saint George Parish, merged into a single congregation. St. Adalbert was chosen as the parish church of the merged Nativity BVM, which was renamed St. John Paul II Parish. Our Lady Help of Christians was closed in 2018.

Education
The School District of Philadelphia operates public schools.

Our Lady of Port Richmond Regional School was established in September 2008 by the merger of Nativity B.V.M, Our Lady Help of Christians, and St. Adalbert. Each of the predecessor schools had enrollments of about 200. The 2008 economic downturn prompted the schools to merge. There were 545 students in the merged school in 2008, but the continued economic malaise resulted in declining enrollments. By 2016 enrollment was at about 400 and recovering.

The Free Library of Philadelphia operates the Richmond Branch.

Notable people

 * Author and screenwriter Joe Augustyn attended St. Adalbert's, then Philadelphia's Central High and The American Film Institute in Los Angeles. He wrote and produced the cult horror film Night of the Demons, and now writes novels.
 * Frank Hoerst, famous baseball player. He attended North Catholic High School and played for the Philadelphia Phillies.
 * Jack McTamney, singer, songwriter and performer.
 * Zachary Rehl, Philadelphia chapter president of the neo-fascist group Proud Boys and convicted seditionist.

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A VfD filed against WikiProject Wikipedians for Decency received over 200 votes, a deluge of comments, personal attacks, accusations of sockpuppetry, and threats of requests for comment. As of press time, the vote was approximately 60% in favor of deletion, with 40% voting keep.

Nominated for vfd
The WikiProject was created by Agriculture on 16 August. 24 hours later, it was nominated for deletion by Zscout370. Zscout370 reasoned that the case was similar to a deleted WikiProject that dealt with Jewish bias, and the project would likely cause problems. Right away, a series of discussions erupted, including questions over whether certain images such as Image:Autofellatio 2.jpg violated Florida law, and whether the VfD nomination was in good faith and in concordance with Wikipedia policies on WikiProjects.

Record turnout
With over 200 votes, as well as a barrage of comments on many of the votes, votes were split up into 4-hour sections based on time of vote for the first day of voting, an unprecedented move in an attempt to get better control on voting and any possible sockpuppeting. Including all votes and comments, the VfD was approximately 218kb in size as of press time, and had been edited over 850 times. FCYTravis remarked, "I never thought it would blow up into what is probably the largest and most contentious VfD debate in Wikipedia history... even more so than GNAA."

Bad-faith membership?
Immediately after the VfD started, many users opposed to the ideas of the WikiProject nevertheless signed their name on the membership roster. Most of these new members joined either to make a point about what they believed as the group's double standards regarding censorship, or in some cases to attempt to tone down the group's point of view by swinging consensus to a more moderate perspective. MONGO complained that the users were acting in bad-faith, were hurting their reputation, and violating WP:POINT by joining. FCYTravis, who was one of those who joined, and attempted to change the group's point of view, noted in his defense, "I initially saw the VfD as almost a formality... but as it disintegrated into threats, attacks and vitriol... I ended up wishing it had never happened ... I think that if we (as Wikipedians) had simply joined the project in sufficient numbers to ensure it never would be capable of accomplishing its alleged goals of censorship, its proponents would realize they were fighting a war they couldn't possibly hope to win."

Jimbo Wales speaks out
On 18 August, Jimbo Wales voted "Weak Keep and Rename" on the issue, noting that the idea itself is not bad, but the group's name is decidedly pointed, and was a point of controversy during debate. Later that day, Ryan Delaney posted a message that Jimbo had made on the mailing list, that outlined Wales' belief that most of Wikipedia's nude images pose no legal problems under Florida law.

Not anti-nudity...anti-pornography
Many on both sides of the issue agreed that some sort of a consensus must be formed. Most members of the WikiProject clarified that they are not anti-nudity, simply anti-pornography, in the sense that unneeded, and often overtly sexual pictures should never be kept on Wikipedia, while tasteful nudity often has its place. User:JIP, who voted to delete the project, says that a distinction must be made between pictures like those on Pandora Peaks and the autofellatio image, which "is nothing but pornography for its own sake. It has no place in Wikipedia and must be deleted."

Civility by most, anarchy by few
Despite personal attacks, accusations of sockpuppets on both sides of the issue, and the creator of the WikiProject writing an angry message on his user page before supposedly leaving Wikipedia, some involved believe that most users conducted themselves in a fair and civil manner. MONGO, while lamenting the tactics of a few users, said that "the vast majority of the voters were civil and discussion ensued by many relating to potential legal issues and to where this project's true direction should be. Perhaps something can be salvaged from this exercise."


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Simranjit Singh Mann

Simranjit Singh Mann (born 20 May 1945) is a former Indian Police Service officer and a former Member of the Parliament in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India, representing the constituency of Sangrur since 2022. He lost elections in 2024 and Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer became new member of parliament. He is the president of the political party Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar). Mann has served three-times as an MP; once from Taran Tarn between 1989 and 1991, and twice from Sangrur between 1999-2004 and since 2022. He is a known Andhabhabasya (Khalistani supporter) and his party is known for their pro-Khalistan stances.

Early life
Simranjit Singh Mann was born in Shimla on 20 May 1945. His father Joginder Singh Mann, was a speaker of the Punjab Vidhan Sabha in 1967.

Mann was educated at the Bishop Cotton School, Shimla and Government College Chandigarh. He was a gold medalist in the subjects of history, Punjabi language, religion and political science.

Indian Police Service
Mann joined the Indian Police Service in 1967, and served in the Punjab Cadre of the Service.

He served as Aide-de-camp (ADC) to the Governor of Punjab. He was also posted as a police officer in several districts. He served in several positions, including ASP Ludhiana City, Addl. SP Ferozepur, SP Hoshiarpur, SSP Faridkot, AIG GRP Punjab-Patiala division, Deputy Director of Vigilance Bureau Chandigarh, Deputy Inspector General of Punjab Armed Police, and DIG (Group Commandant) of CISF, Bombay.

He resigned from Indian Police Service on 18 June 1984 in protest of Operation Blue Star. In July 1984 he was dismissed from IPS.

Political career
He was charged with the conspiracy to assassinate Indira Gandhi. He was arrested on 29 November 1984 and spent five years in Bhagalpur prison.

He was elected as the president of the new party United Shiromani Akali Dal.

Due to his 1984 Political involvements he won 1989 Lok sabha elections from Tarn Taran (Lok Sabha constituency) in absentia with their 6 other candidates on Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) ticket and 3 other candidates also won backed by them. Afterwards he won 1999 Lok Sabha elections from Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency. He also won 1996, 2004 SGPC elections from Bassi Pathana.

1989–1991
He was elected in absentia to the Lok Sabha representing the constituency of Tarn Taran by an overwhelming majority, and unconditionally released "in the interests of the State" in November 1989, with all charges dropped. By this time he had spent five years in prison.

In 1990, Mann insisted on bearing his Kirpan (small sword) into the Parliament session, a religious rite in the Sikh Faith. The security regulations of the Parliament did not allow arms into the house. Accordingly, was denied entry into the Sansad Bhavan (Parliament house) with the weapon. Mann decided to not attend the Parliament. He subsequently resigned his seat in protest.

1999-2004
On 3 November 1999, after Mann was elected to the Lok Sabha by winning in the Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency, the Punjab and Haryana High Court ordered the Government of India and the Passport Office in Chandigarh to issue a passport to him.

On 23 March 2004, Prakash Singh Badal accused Mann of running derogatory ads against him and indulging in character assassination.

He contested for re-election in the 2004 Indian general election from Sangrur constituency but lost the election and came on third position.

He remained the president of the SAD (Amritsar) party for eighteen years. In the 2007 Punjab Legislative Assembly election SAD (Amritsar) contested on 60 seats. Radical organization Dal Khalsa (International) had supported candidates of SAD (Amritsar). Mann had contested from Dhanaula Assembly constituency and his son Emaan Singh Mann contested from Sirhind. All the 60 candidates including Mann lost the election with big margins. Most candidates of SAD (Amritsar) had lost their security deposit in the election. Mann offered to resign after his party's poor performance.

2022-present
In the 2022 Punjab Legislative Assembly election, he lost to Jaswant Singh Gajjanmajra of the Aam Aadmi Party in the Amargarh Assembly Constituency.

In June 2022, he won the by-poll for the Sangrur Lok Sabha constituency vacated by then MP, Bhagwant Mann, who went to become Chief Minister of Punjab, Mann won the election by a margin of 5,822 votes. During the election he campaigned for the release of Sikh prisoners. His grandson was in-charge of his election campaign.

In August 2022, he objected to President Droupadi Murmu being referred to as the name "Rashtrapati". He said, "I strongly believe Rashtrapati word is an insult to a woman President." His comments were expunged from the records of the parliament. He asked for elections in the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), the apex religious body of Sikhs.

Khalistan
Mann is a proponent of Sikh nation state Khalistan. Under his leadership, his party SAD (A) continued its position of creating Khalistan as a buffer state between India and Pakistan. Under him, SAD (A) continued spreading the ideology of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.

Every year his supporters gather in the sacred Golden Temple and raise pro-Khalistan slogans. He dedicated his 2022 Lok Sabha election victory to the Khalistan separatist leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale.

On 20 March 2023, Mann's Twitter account was blocked in India. Mann had tweeted condemning the Punjab Police's operation against separatist leader Amritpal Singh and the arrest of his supporters.

Bhagat Singh
In 2007, Mann had called freedom fighter Bhagat Singh, a "petty terrorist". A lawsuit was filed against him, but the prosecution failed to prove its case and he was acquitted by the civil court in 2013. After his release, Mann said, "My acquittal has vindicated my words that Bhagat Singh was a terrorist and not a martyr."

In 2015, he objected to naming the Chandigarh airport after Bhagat Singh and called him a terrorist. He had said, "Bhagat Singh is neither a martyr nor a national hero. He is a terrorist. We are against the naming of Chandigarh International airport as Shaheed-E-Azam Sardar Bhagat Singh Airport."

In 2022, he called Bhagat Singh "a terrorist" involved in "terror activities in pre-Independent India". AAP leaders condemned the statement and asked him to apologize. Residents of Khatkar Kalan, Bhagat Singh's native village protested near the Bhagat Singh Museum, shouted slogans of "Death to Simranjit Singh Mann", hit his effigy with shoes and burnt it.

General Reginald Dyer
In 1919, after General Reginald Dyer's Jallianwala Bagh massacre, Mann's maternal grandfather Arur Singh, then sarbarah (in-charge) of the Golden Temple had honoured General Dyer with a "siropa" at Akal Takht. Singh was a British government appointee. Arur Singh's act hurt Sikh psyche and is considered a "Black chapter" in Sikh history. In July 2022, Mann defended the act of his grandfather saying he did it to pacify Dyer's anger.

Family
Mann is married to Geetinder Kaur, who is a sister of Preneet Kaur, the wife of former Punjab CM Amarinder Singh. The couple have a son and two daughters.

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Carlos Oliveira

Carlos Oliveira or Carlos de Oliveira may refer to:

 * Carlos Oliveira (rower) (1943–2023), Portuguese Olympic rower
 * Carlos Oliveira (footballer), Cuban footballer
 * Carlos Alberto Caó de Oliveira (1941–2018), Brazilian activist, lawyer, and politician
 * Carlos Alberto de Oliveira Júnior (born 1978), Brazilian footballer
 * Capone (footballer) (Carlos Alberto de Oliveira, born 1972), Brazilian footballer
 * Carlos de Oliveira (1921–1981), Portuguese poet and novelist
 * Carlos De Oliveira, an aide to Donald Trump notable as a co-defendant of Trump in federal prosecution in Florida
 * Carlitos Oliveira (born 1993), Portuguese footballer

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Martle Mukhim

Martle N. Mukhim is the chief of the Meghalaya Democratic Party, a political party in the Indian state of Meghalaya. He has formerly represented Dienglieng constituency and is a four-time member of Meghalaya Assembly from 1988-2008.

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Meghalaya Democratic Party

The Meghalaya Democratic Party (MDP) is a political party in the north-east Indian state of Meghalaya formed in 2002. The party formed as a split from the United Democratic Party.

Following the 2003 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly election, the party secured four seats and joined the governing Meghalaya Democratic Alliance coalition under Chief Minister D. D. Lapang. The party secured three ministerial seats in the first cabinet, however, following implementation of 91st Constitutional amendment in 2004, the cabinet was reduced from 39 to 12, with the MDP losing all seats in the cabinet.

The party lost its four seats in the 2008 elections, was unable to win any seats in the 2013 election and did not field any candidates in the 2018 election.

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Talk:Al-Mughira ibn Abd Allah

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Mughira ibn x ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mpatel (talk • contribs)

I didnt know his Surname. Couldent just call him "mughira", so settled with "X". feel free to rename it to his real name if you know it. Or maybe Mughira abu Walid. --Striver 11:20, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

I found the patronimyc being posted here. It claims that possibly was the name of Umars mother's father. Is that really accurate? Is Khalids father also the father of Umar's mother? Im doubtfull.... --Striver 13:28, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

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Dodecastigma

Dodecastigma is a genus of plants under the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1932. It is native to northern South America.

 * Species
 * 1) Dodecastigma amazonicum Ducke - Amazonas State in Brazil
 * 2) Dodecastigma integrifolium (Lanj.) Lanj. & Sandwith - French Guiana, Guyana, N Brazil
 * 3) Dodecastigma uleanum (Pax & K.Hoffm.) G.L.Webster - Amazonas, Amapá

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Kangaroo Hoppet

The Kangaroo Hoppet is a long distance cross-country skiing race in Australia. It is held in Falls Creek, Victoria. It debuted in 1979, and is part of Worldloppet since 1991. It is held annually on the fourth Saturday of August.

The Kangaroo Hoppet event consists of three races:
 * The Kangaroo Hoppet is a 42 km race, and for the purposes of the Worldloppet counts as a main race.
 * The Australian Birkebeiner is a 21 km race, and for the purposes of Worldloppet counts as a short race.
 * The Joey Hoppet is a 7 km race, and does not count as either a main race or a short race.

History
The Kangaroo Hoppet has its origins in the Birkebeiner Nordic Ski Club's 21 km Australian Birkebeiner, first held in 1979 in Falls Creek. The race was based on the original Norwegian Birkebeiner. In 1989, the organisation extended the race to a 42 km race, and added the 21 km race and 7 km race (which would originally be known as the Birkebeiner Lite). They then petitioned the Worldloppet in 1990 to allow a race in the southern hemisphere, and as part of its petition the race format was changed to a freestyle event. The first race as part of the Worldloppet circuit was held in 1991.

Men
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Bidwill

Bidwill may refer to:

Places

 * Bidwill, New South Wales, a suburb of Blacktown
 * Bidwill, Queensland, a locality in Queensland, Australia

People

 * Bidwill (surname)

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Tal Burstein

Tal Burstein (טל בורשטיין; born 19 February 1980) is an Israeli professional basketball coach and a former professional basketball player.

He played at the point guard position, and also as a swingman. He is 198 cm (6 ft 6 in) in height. He has also been named as one of the best Israeli basketball players ever.

Early life
Burstein is Jewish, and was born in Petah Tikva, Israel.

Professional career
Tal Burstein began his basketball career with the Bnei-Herzliya junior team. In the 1997–98 season, he made his professional debut and he was named the Israeli League Rookie of the Year. He became a team captain during the 1999–2000 season. In the 2001–02 season, he led the Israeli League in three-point field goal percentage, shooting 49.4%.

Beginning in the 2000–01 season, he played with Maccabi Tel Aviv. He became a starter in his first season in Tel Aviv. With the club, Burstein won 8 Israeli National Championships and 6 Israeli State Cups. He also won 3 European championships with Maccabi, the 2001 FIBA SuproLeague championship, and the EuroLeague championships in the years 2004 and 2005. After the 2008–09 season, Burstein left Maccabi Tel Aviv and signed with the Spanish team Fuenlabrada. A year later, Burstein returned to Maccabi, on a three-year contract.

In August 2012, he announced his retirement from playing professional basketball, after learning that he would have to undergo surgery on his injured hip, which would cause him to miss the entire upcoming season.

National team career
Burstein has played for all of the Israeli junior national teams and also for the senior men's Israeli national basketball team. In August 2000, he was the captain of the Israeli under-20 national team, which won a silver medal at the FIBA Europe Under-20 Championship in Ohrid, Macedonia. In August 2001, Burstein was a member of the Israeli Under-22 national team at the FIBA Under-21 World Championship in Saitama, Japan, where his team finished in 7th place.

He also played with the senior men's team, the Israeli national basketball team at the EuroBasket 2003, in Sweden, where his team finished in 7th place, and at the EuroBasket 2005. Burstein eventually also became the team captain on Israel's senior national team. During his time as a member of Israel's senior national team, he played as the national team's first shooting guard, and he could also play on the team as a point guard, if needed.

Coaching career
On 29 June 2017, Burstein returned to Maccabi Tel Aviv, as an assistant basketball coach.

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Bidwill, New South Wales

 Bidwill is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Bidwill is located 48 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Blacktown and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.

History
Bidwill takes its name from John Carne Bidwill (1815-1853) appointed as botanist in charge at the Botanic Gardens in 1847. Prior to settlement and colonisation of Australia, Bidwill and the surrounding area was inhabited by the Darug tribe.

Bidwill was dominated by the development of public housing in the 1960s and 1970s. In recent times, Bidwill has been associated with social and economic problems. These have resulted in an increase of crime and such trouble as riots.

Over the years Bidwill has become a community where more than 90 per cent are living on Centrelink payments. For many of its residents, what started as a short stay in public housing has turned into years and generations of unemployment and welfare reliance. It is renowned for drug use, violence, mental illness and poverty.

Commercial areas
Bidwill is primarily a residential suburb with extremely limited commercial activity. It is quite close to the suburbs of Mount Druitt and St Marys, which have larger shopping centres, banking facilities and railway stations.

Limited commercial facilities such as supermarkets and Filling stations are available at Emerton and Plumpton rather than in Bidwill itself. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, there used to be a service station on Carlisle avenue. It was located in front of where a small supermarket complex existed at Bidwill in the 1980s and 1990s, but failed due to competition from larger facilities nearby. There have been ongoing attempts to reopen the shopping complex.

Transport
On the day of the 2016 Census, the methods of travel to work for employed people were car (either as driver or as passenger) 74.5% and public transport 12.4%. Public transport through this area is provided by Busways.

By road Bidwill is adjacent to the Westlink M7 motorway which can provide very easy access to the Great Western Highway and the M4 Motorway, providing road access to the western sections of the city and eastward to the Sydney CBD. This suburb is linked by several private bus companies to the train stations located at Mount Druitt and St Marys.

Cycleways running through Bidwill run from Poppondetta Park to Mt Druitt and the M7 cycleway, which in turn connects to the cycleways on the M4 and M2 motorways.

Education
Bidwill Primary School and the Bidwill campus of Chifley College share a campus with a pre-school. Combined, these separate organisations provide care and education from pre-school (3 years) to Year 12 (17–18 years).

Upon completing year 10 at the Bidwill campus, students continuing public education can either move on to Chifley College Senior Campus located in Mount Druitt, or continue their final years at Bidwill Campus.

In 2016 in Bidwill 38.4% of people were attending an educational institution. Of these, 27.7% were in primary school, 20.6% in secondary school and 9.4% in a tertiary or technical institution.

Population
According to the 2016 census of population, there were 4,280 people in Bidwill.
 * Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 13.1% of the population.
 * 65.3% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were New Zealand 3.6% and Samoa 2.8%.
 * 72.3% of people only spoke English at home. Houses with two or more languages are spoken amount to 25%. Other languages are:
 * Samoan 6.2%
 * Arabic 2.4%
 * Tongan 1.4%
 * Cook Islands Māori 1.3%
 * Spanish 1.3%
 * The most common responses for religion were No Religion 24.6%, Catholic 21.9% and Anglican 15.6%.

Housing
Housing is very heavily dominated by public housing built throughout the 1960s and 1970s, with large numbers of freestanding fibro houses and extensive terrace-style complexes. The houses are gradually transferring to private ownership and as this continues these government-built premises are being replaced with privately built, modern homes, similar to those being built in other areas of Sydney.

Most local housing is owned by either the Department of Housing or Aboriginal Housing Office.

Of occupied private dwellings in Bidwill, 64.6% were separate houses and 33.6% were semi-detached.

Politics
For federal elections, Bidwill is in the safe Labor electoral division of Chifley. This seat is currently held by Ed Husic, of the Australian Labor Party. The seat has been held continuously by the Labor Party since it was proclaimed in 1984.

For NSW state elections, Bidwill is in the Electoral district of Mount Druitt. This seat is currently held by Edmond Atalla, of the Labor Party. It has been held by a Labor candidate since it was proclaimed in 1971.

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 * Ecomony section is not available. Current industry section can be merged once economy section is up.
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Mixed spice

Mixed spice, also called pudding spice, is a British blend of sweet spices, similar to the pumpkin pie spice used in the United States. Cinnamon is the dominant flavour, with nutmeg and allspice. It is often used in baking, or to complement fruits or other sweet foods.

The term "mixed spice" has been used for this blend of spices in cookbooks at least as far back as 1828 and probably much earlier.

Mixed spice is very similar to a Dutch spice mix called koekkruiden or speculaaskruiden, which are used for example to spice food associated with the Dutch Sinterklaas celebration at December 5. It is generally used for sweet pastries eaten during the cold season, such as speculaas (a kind of shortbread) and appeltaart (apple pastry). Koekkruiden can contain cardamom, in addition to cinnamon, cloves and allspice, and sometimes also nutmeg. The tradition of pastries and dishes containing mixed spices together with the frequent use of chocolate during traditional festivities has its roots in the Dutch colonial past.

Ingredients
Mixed spice typically contains:

 * Cinnamon (or cassia)
 * Nutmeg
 * Allspice

It may also contain, or commonly have added to it:

 * Cloves
 * Ginger
 * Coriander (seed)
 * Caraway
 * Cayenne pepper (historically)

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A863 road

The A863 road is one of the principal roads of the Isle of Skye in the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of mainland Scotland.

It connects the town of Dunvegan and the north west of the island with the A87 that then crosses the Skye Bridge for access to the mainland road system. The A863 is some 23 mi in length.

Settlements on or near the A863
North to South
 * Dunvegan – junction with the A850 road
 * Lonmore
 * Roskhill
 * Ose
 * Struan
 * Bracadale
 * Coillore
 * Drynoch
 * Sligachan– junction with the A87

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Uley

Uley is a village and civil parish in the county of Gloucestershire, England. The parish includes the hamlets of Elcombe and Shadwell and Bencombe, all to the south of the village of Uley, and the hamlet of Crawley to the north. The village is situated in a wooded valley in the Cotswold escarpment, on the B4066 road between Dursley and Stroud.

In 2011 the population of the civil parish was 1,151, but was much greater during the early years of the industrial revolution, when the village was renowned for producing blue cloth. The placename (recorded as Euuelege in the Domesday Book) probably signifies 'clearing in a yew wood'.

History
The Romans built a temple at West Hill, near Uley, on the site of an earlier prehistoric shrine. Following the laying of a water main pipe there in 1976, many discoveries were made including numerous Roman writing tablets or lead curse tablets from the temple area. These writing tablets appear often to relate to theft, and here the mention of animals and farm implements is a regular theme. There is an ongoing, online project to catalogue all those found at West Hill. Other remains from this temple, including a fine stone head of Mercury, can now be seen in the British Museum. There were significant Roman villas nearby at Frocester, Kingscote, and Woodchester, and there is a little-known Roman villa beneath Cam Peak on the road into Dursley.

St Giles's Church near the village green was designed by the 19th-century architect Samuel Sanders Teulon. His building replaced an earlier church dating back to Norman times, which had in its turn replaced a Saxon church. The nearby church of the Holy Cross at Owlpen also has Saxon origins: the church there was rebuilt in 1828 by Samuel Manning and enlarged and decorated in 1876 by James Piers St Aubyn. There were also non-conformist chapels at South St and Whitecourt until the early 1970s.

The village was once famous for its large number of pubs (around 14), lately reduced to a single hostelry (The Old Crown). Until the 1970s there was also a butcher's shop and a petrol station, these were subsequently replaced by antique shops and occasional restaurants, and now only a small village shop remains. The area surrounding Whitecourt appears to have some considerable historical significance, with long associations to the Osborne family and a possible Roman road transecting from Kingscote to the East via Bencombe, crossing the Ewelme brook close to the previous mill buildings opposite Stouts hill and then transiting what is now Lampern View before exiting west towards Cam/Coaley; elements clearly visible just uphill of Bencombe (as the road veers 90 degrees to the north) and to the West opposite the entrance to Angeston Grainge/Nursery (where it enters the wood as a paved and walled causeway.

The increased mechanisation of agriculture in the area (arable on top of the escarpment, sheep on it and cattle in the valleys) led to a gradual decline during the inter-war periods and this led to the construction of three local authority housing estates - South Street, Lampern View and Raglan Way. However, increased mobility following the construction of the M4 and the Severn Bridge in the mid-1960s, together with an influx of skilled/managerial/professional workers following the establishment of such facilities as the Berkeley power station, led to a steady gentrification of the village, witnessed by the construction of substantial detached homes, for example at Court Gardens, South Street and Green Close.

During the 1920s, Miss Edna Cunningham, brought a baby gorilla to Uley who she named John Daniel. He had been bought by her brother from a London department store. The gorilla was raised as a normal child by Miss Cunningham and he played with the village children. However, when John Daniel grew too large, Cunningham sold him to an American who told her he was to be homed in a special reserve in Florida. Instead he was sold to the Barnum & Bailey Circus to be exhibited at Madison Square Gardens in New York. John Daniel became extremely depressed. When Miss Cunningham heard he was gravely ill, she travelled to America but he died of pneumonia before she arrived. His body was stuffed, which remains on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

Economy
Uley Brewery was established in the 1980s, in a Grade II listed building that had been part of the 1833 Price Brewery which closed at the end of the 19th century. Its range of ales includes Old Spot Prize Ale, a 5% abv old ale, and Uley Bitter, a 4% abv cask bitter.

Amenities and surrounding locality
The following amenities and attractions are available in and around the village:

 * North of the village is a Neolithic burial mound known as Hetty Pegler's Tump or Uley Long Barrow.
 * The Prema Arts Centre, founded in the 1970s, is located in a former Baptist Chapel in the village and offers educational courses in the arts and crafts, musical evenings, workshops, cultural events and evening classes in many subjects.
 * Uley CofE VC primary school has around 100 pupils. Uley Primary School can be found in Woodstock Terrace. The school was rated 'good' by Ofsted and 'outstanding' by SIAS, both in 2012.
 * A Reading Room (Library) burned down in the mid-1960s and has not been replaced.
 * An ancient Iron Age hill fort called Uley Bury lies just above the village. The Cotswold Way, a popular trail path, runs close by.
 * Downham Hill lies just to the west. It is also known as 'Smallpox Hill' because of the smallpox isolation facility that stood on the top of the hill many years ago. It is believed to be among the oldest isolation hospitals in England. Masonry from the buildings remains visible at the site. Near the hilltop are remnants of a tower-like dwelling constructed in 1346 during the reign of Edward III. Area to the north of the hill was used for rabbit breeding during the middle ages.
 * To the east is Owlpen Manor, a Tudor manor house connected with the arts and crafts movement, mainly built from the mid-fifteenth to early seventeenth centuries, but dating back to Saxon times. It was repaired by Norman Jewson in 1925–6, after one hundred years of neglect. Today it is a home of the Mander family.
 * Stouts Hill, a neo-Gothic country house just outside the village, was the birthplace of the Gloucestershire historian Samuel Rudder and of the distinguished Persian scholar Edward Granville Browne. Built for the Gyde family, from the 1770s it was a seat of the Lloyd-Baker family, who in the 20th century let the house as a preparatory school. It included amongst its alumni Mark Phillips, Stephen Fry and Rik Mayall, but closed down in 1979.

People

 * Brigadier Mike Dauncey lived in the village until his death in August 2017.
 * Richard Clyburn invented an early adjustable spanner.

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Methadone clinic

A methadone clinic is a medical facility where medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) are dispensed-—historically and most commonly methadone, although buprenorphine is also increasingly prescribed. Medically assisted drug therapy treatment is indicated in patients who are opioid-dependent or have a history of opioid dependence. Methadone is a schedule II (USA) opioid analgesic, that is also prescribed for pain management. It is a long-acting opioid that can delay the opioid withdrawal symptoms that patients experience from taking short-acting opioids, like heroin, and allow time for withdrawal management. In the United States, by law, patients must receive methadone under the supervision of a physician, and dispensed through the Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) certified by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and registered with the Drug Enforcement Administration.

Regulation and policy
In the United States, there are approximately 1,500 methadone clinics that are federally certified opioid treatment programs. There are generally two types of methadone clinics, public and private. The public clinics are generally cheaper to attend. However, there is usually a waiting list due to limited funding. The private clinics are more expensive to attend but usually have either a short or no waiting list. In many parts of the United States, methadone clinics are few and far between, which presents problems for addicts seeking methadone treatment who live far from a clinic. All methadone clinics must register as an accredited opioid treatment program with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration and renew yearly or every three years based on the accreditation time frame awarded. Additionally, methadone clinics must register with the Drug Enforcement Administration before methadone can be dispensed. While not restricted to adults, this treatment method is generally not considered for people under the age of 18.

Methadone clinics in the United States operate under strict regulations by state and federal laws. Before entering treatment, a patient must be given adequate information to provide informed consent about starting treatment. This information includes reasons for treatment and recommendations, the side effects and risks of treatment, and rules that must be followed to receive methadone treatment. After a physician ensures that the patient voluntarily chooses to receive treatment through a consent form, treatment planning can begin. The patient must show current addiction to an opioid, using accepted medical criteria such as those listed in the DSM-5 and have evidence that he or she became addicted at least 1 year before admission for treatment. Before administration of treatment, a clinical evaluation is required asking about drug use history, co-occurring disorders, and impact of substance use on life, along with providing information about the treatment goals and guidelines. A medical evaluation is also given in the form of a urinalysis test, a review of past and current health history, and a test for certain conditions which are known to be prevalent in addict populations, such as HIV, hepatitis, and tuberculosis. The medication is monitored by nursing staff and is prescribed by a physician. As of 2013, due to the strict changes in receiving prescription pain medication as well as decreases in non-medical prescription use, the requirements to be accepted into methadone clinics have changed in areas such as New York State.

Use of methadone clinics internationally
Methadone clinics can provide methadone for on-site administration. Additionally, some methadone clinics provide the following: oversight of treatment, observed dosing, consultation services, urine drug test, naloxone distribution, mental health services, primary care services, and HIV and HCV services.

United States
Before the 1960s, abstinence-based detox was the only option for opioid addicts in the United States and produced high relapse rates. However, in 1965 clinicians at Rockefeller University published a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association of the successful treatment of 22 men addicted to heroin with the use of orally administered methadone. In September 1969 the first methadone maintenance treatment program was created in Washington, D.C by Robert DuPont, M.D, that oversaw 25 parolees. Currently methadone must be provided through opioid treatment programs (OTP) in the United States and can not be prescribed in office settings.

Although not required by regulation at this time in the United States, people are usually encouraged to attempt other types of treatment methods before entering methadone treatment programs. Since its use began in the 1960s, methadone is still the preferred choice of treatment at the clinics, and is often part of other protocols. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) provides the protocol of how to treat addiction with recommended options including medication assisted treatment, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and medical withdrawal management. Other than methadone, newer medications with fewer side effects including buprenorphine and naltrexone have been introduced, relieve drug cravings, block opioid effects, and avoid physical dependence. CBT is an individualized treatment plan that allow therapists to explore patterns of maladaptive substance use to help generate alternative behavior skills. Medical withdrawal management ensures safety and comfort by providing long-term monitoring until the symptoms of withdrawals are over.

An important part of treatment for addiction is counseling. Methadone clinics are only for recovering addicts from opioids. Clinics require attendance at counseling groups as well as individual counseling contacts. It is generally accepted that the more intensive the counseling contacts the individual is willing to submit to, the higher the success rate of the program. Also, an integral part of counseling is on preventing the exposure and transmission of HIV. Clinics should be able to provide or refer patients to various services: community resources, vocational rehabilitation, education, employment, and prenatal-care. There is no set guideline for duration of methadone treatment, however, longer treatments are associated with better outcomes. Patients receiving methadone treatment in a closed setting should be assisted when transferring to a community-based setting. Patients who voluntarily decide to stop methadone treatment should speak to their provider to discuss why they want to stop and other treatment options.

Canada
In Canada, methadone can be prescribed in office settings and then picked up by patients at their local pharmacies. Regulations for methadone are made at the provincial level in Canada in comparison to the United States where much of the regulations comes from a federal level. While these offices offer counseling services, they are not required in order to receive methadone treatment. This practice coupled with methadone being accessible at community pharmacies makes the treatment more accessible to communities. In 1972, Canada's Narcotics Control Act prohibited the prescription of methadone to patients which stood in effect until 1996 when regulation of methadone became decentralized. Prescribers were still required to receive a federal exemption to prescribe methadone until 2018, during a spike in opioid overdose deaths, when the federal government removed this previously needed authorization. Nurse practitioners are also allowed to prescribe methadone in Canada. There is encouraged communication between the prescriber and pharmacist overseeing the treatment. Methadone will be denied to patients that show up to pharmacies visibly intoxicated or sedated state. In addition to pharmacies, methadone can be dispensed in assisted living facilities, long-term care facilities, and jails/prisons.

Ukraine
The epidemic of HIV/AIDS in Ukraine is quickly growing and was the reason for research into opioid agonist therapies (OAT) in the country as a means to curb the spread of HIV. Ukraine has the highest rate of HIV in Europe at 1.2% and most of the spread of HIV in Ukraine is primarily through people who inject drugs and secondarily through these drug users sexual partners. In 2016, opioid agonist therapies were only being given to 2.7% of the 346,000 people who inject drugs in the Ukraine. OAT utilized Buprenorphine starting in 2004 and Methadone in 2008. However, due to the cost of OAT, government regulation prohibits the number of patients that can receive such therapies at a time, meaning a new patient can enter only after another has left. From 2010 to 2013 this number patients remained at a ceiling of roughly 9,000 patients throughout the country. As of 2016 OAT for these 9,000 patients is being administered only by narcologists at 174 licensed treatment centers.

Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan has a similar HIV/AIDS problem as Ukraine and to try and combat this, started a trial methadone program within prisons. The first program started in a solo prison is 2002 and expanded to multiple in 2008. It is estimated that half of incarcerated individuals in Kyrgyzstan inject drugs and the use of unsterilized needles and transfer of HIV is higher in the prison setting. While the offering of methadone in prisons would help curb the spread of HIV/AIDS, the internal prison governance of inmates and their reliance on the drug trade is a hard barrier. Heroin being used as currency as well as methadone users being assigned to separate living quarters than non-users creates a social separation between users and non-users. These outcasting factors can make methadone treatment not worth it for some inmates. The number of eligible prisoners using methadone through a methadone program is estimated at only 7%.

Effectiveness
While methadone clinics are generally considered to be effective treatment options for patients addicted to opioids, especially when other interventions have failed, there is controversy surrounding the placement of methadone clinics. There is a perception that the presence of the clinics attracts crime to surrounding areas. However, one study by the University of Maryland School of Medicine found that is not the case, crime rates do not increase when a methadone clinic is opened. Another study by University of Pennsylvania found within a 200 m radius, the presence of a methadone clinic causes a significant decrease in property and total crime but a significant increase in drug and violent crime. A 2004 GAO study notes that placement of clinics can impede recovery and exacerbate relapse:

“Although these clinics are intended to help those in need of rehabilitation, patients who seek treatment must navigate their way to and from the clinics in an environment in which illegal sales of narcotics are daily occurrences. The efforts of patients who are seeking rehabilitation, and clinic professionals who serve them, are significantly undermined by this criminal activity that surrounds them."

Between 70 and 90% of patients who discontinue methadone maintenance will relapse. The high relapse rate may be partially due to the severity of cases seen at methadone clinics, as well as the long-term effects of opioid use. Some patients stay on methadone for the rest of their lives, which generates criticism regarding the effectiveness of the clinics. Supporters argue that the clinics aim not just to eliminate narcotic addictions, but also to help people function in their lives.

Methadone clinics may decrease the use of emergency rooms by patients addicted to opioids According to a 2009 Cochrane review, methadone maintenance treatments decreased the likelihood that heroin dependent patients would use heroin, but did not change crime or mortality rates. However, the bulk of the current research supports the hypothesis that methadone clinics do in fact reduce overdose and substance-related crime.

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ADM-160 MALD

The ADM-160 MALD (Miniature Air-Launched Decoy) is an air-launched, expendable decoy missile developed by the United States. Later variants (MALD-J) are additionally equipped with electronic countermeasures to actively jam early warning and target acquisition radars.

DARPA MALD program
The Miniature Air-Launched Decoy (MALD) program was begun in 1995 by DARPA in an effort to develop a small, low-cost decoy missile for use in the Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses. Teledyne Ryan (acquired by Northrop Grumman in 1999) was granted a development contract for the ADM-160A in 1996, and the first test flight took place in 1999. The evaluation program was finished by 2001.

The US Air Force planned to acquire several thousand of ADM-160As, but in 2001 this was reduced to at most 150 for a System Development and Demonstration (SDD) program. In January 2002, the USAF cancelled the program because the drone didn't have enough range and endurance to meet the service's requirements or to perform other missions.

The ADM-160A carries a Signature Augmentation Subsystem (SAS) which is composed of various active radar enhancers which cover a range of frequencies. The SAS can therefore simulate any aircraft, from the B-52 Stratofortress to the F-117 Nighthawk.

The missile has folded wings to allow more compact carriage. On launch the wings unfold and a TJ-50 turbojet propels the missile on a predetermined course which is composed of up to 100 different waypoints. An inertial navigation system with GPS support keeps the MALD on course. Although preprogrammed before the aircraft leaves the ground, the course can be modified by the pilot at any point up to launch.

New USAF competition
In 2002, the USAF renewed its interest in an air-launched decoy and started a new industry-wide competition for a variant with greater endurance. The contract for a new MALD was awarded to Raytheon in Spring 2003.

The Raytheon ADM-160B is similar in configuration to the ADM-160A, but has a trapezoidal fuselage cross section and is larger and heavier. It is powered by a Hamilton Sundstrand TJ-150, a more powerful variant of the TJ-50.

The first ADM-160B was delivered in Spring 2009. In 2010 an "operationally significant quantity" of the drones were delivered to the Air Force. The USAF currently plans to procure about 1,500.

In 2008 a contract for a jamming variant MALD-J was awarded to Raytheon. It made its first freefall test in 2009 and passed its critical design review in early 2010. The first MALD-J was delivered to the Air Force on September 6, 2012. On September 24, Raytheon started operational testing, achieving four successful flights out of four launches. In April 2015, the MALD-J completed operational testing, satisfying all requirements in 42 flight tests over the last two years.

In November 2012, Raytheon completed ground verification tests for the MALD and MALD-J for integration onto the MQ-9 Reaper UAV. Integration onto the aircraft was expected sometime in 2013, with the goal for an unmanned suppression of enemy air defenses capability. The company has also explored integration onto the smaller MQ-1 Predator and U.S. Army MQ-1C Gray Eagle.

In June 2013, Raytheon completed a four-year development program of the MALD, under budget. The MALD and MALD-J successfully completed all 30 engineering and operational flight tests, with each version completing 15. The Air Force has cleared the B-model MALD for export.

In May 2014, Raytheon delivered the 1,000th MALD-J to the Air Force as part of the Lot 5 production contract. The MALD program has achieved a perfect 33-for-33 flight test success record over the past two years.

In December 2014, a MALD-J was test-flown with a radio datalink to expand situational awareness and allow for in-flight targeting adjustments. While carrying out a jamming mission, the MALD-J was able to send situation awareness data to the EW Battle Manager, which used the information to adjust its mission while in-flight.

In July 2015, Raytheon revealed it had developed a new composite missile body for the MALD-J in partnership with Fokker Aerostructures and Italian race car manufacturer Dallara that is 25% cheaper to produce. Fokker adapted robotics to wind the carbon fiber fuselage instead of the conventional manual process and Dallara applied its lightweight structural technologies to airframe accessories such as air inlets and covers. The new cheaper airframe design was first incorporated into Lot 7 production models in 2015, from the contract awarded in June 2014.

US Navy
The Naval Surface Warfare Center will place an order for the MALD-J.

Systems integration has been announced as of July 6, 2012, by the Raytheon Corp. for the U.S. Navy's F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. The process included a series of risk reduction activities and technology demonstrations.

On 9 September 2015, Raytheon and the Naval Research Lab announced they had demonstrated a new rapid-replacement, modular architecture for the MALD-J for electronic warfare payloads. Four payloads, each customized for a specific mission and threat, were demonstrated in twelve captive carry flights; the payloads could be swapped out of a captive carry vehicle in less than one minute.

In July 2016, Raytheon received a contract to develop an evolution of the MALD-J called the MALD-X, incorporating an improved electronic warfare payload, the ability to fly at low-altitude, and an enhanced net-enabled data-link. The company hopes to transition the MALD-X into the MALD-N for the U.S. Navy.

British interest
The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) expressed interest on the MALD-V platform at the Paris Airshow in 2009. However, since the early 2010s MBDA UK has been developing the SPEAR 3 miniature cruise missile for the Royal Air Force as well as SPEAR-EW, an electronic warfare variant which can conduct the same stand-in jamming and decoy role as the MALD whilst retaining commonality with the kinetic variant. With the UK MoD now fast-tracking the developed of this variant, it is unlikely that the UK will buy into MALD.

Ukraine
In May 2023, remains of an ADM-160 MALD were found in Luhansk following a Ukrainian strike against a Russian target in the occupied city. A label on the side of the wreckage appears to indicate that it was a ADM-160B model.

In December 2023, the wreckage of an ADM-160 MALD was photographed in a field, reportedly in the Kherson region, after being launched in support of Storm Shadow cruise missiles.

Variants

 * ADM-160A
 * Original decoy version developed by Teledyne Ryan (acquired by Northrop Grumman) and funded by DARPA. It uses GPS-aided navigation system, and can fly missions with up to 256 predefined waypoints. The mission profile is preprogrammed, but can be redefined by the pilot of the launching aircraft until immediately before launch.

 * ADM-160B
 * Decoy version developed by Raytheon with longer endurance. In use by the USAF.

 * ADM-160C "MALD-Jammer"
 * Radar jammer variant of ADM-160B by Raytheon, otherwise known as MALD-J. This variant of the MALD decoy can operate in both decoy and jammer modes. It has a datalink for situational awareness and in-flight targeting adjustments. The decoy and jammer configurations are key enablers supporting the Air Force Global Strike, Global Response, Space and C4ISR, and the Air and Space Expeditionary Force Concepts of Operations. MALD-J will provide stand-in jamming capability for the Airborne Electronic Attack Systems of Systems. It will be launched against a preplanned target and jam specific radars in a stand-in role to degrade or deny the integrated air defence system (IADS) detection of friendly aircraft or munitions. Delivery to the US Armed Forces is to begin in 2012. That year, the Air Force ended procurement of the ADM-160B and will only procure MALD-J versions.

Experimental variants

 * MALI
 * The Miniature Air-Launched Interceptor (MALI) is an armed version of the ADM-160A which could be used against cruise missiles. It has a more powerful engine and a more aerodynamic shape for supersonic flight, and can be updated in mid flight via a command link to aircraft such as the E-3 Sentry AWACS. It completed its development program in 2002.

 * MALD-V
 * Modular payload version that provides space for mission specific payloads of surveillance gear, radio/radar/infrared jammers or other equipment. This may provide the go-forward architecture, and give the option of turning MALD into a UAV, or even a combination killer-UAV/decoy. If equipped with sensor payloads, the MALD may be modified to be recovered so as not to lose valuable payloads after each flight. One payload option could be a thermobaric warhead, essentially turning the MALD into a cruise missile.
 * Raytheon has proposed using MALD-V as a target drone too.

 * MALD-TL
 * Ground-based tube-launch variant, none known to be in use. Mentioned in 2008 and 2010. Other "one-off" variants in the 2010 slides include a "MALD-W" and a "MALD-A".

 * MALD-X
 * The MALD-X has enhanced electronic warfare capabilities compared to MALD-J. It is able to attack autonomously or semi-autonomously. Datalink upgraded. Successful test in 2018.

 * MALD-N
 * Navy variant based on the MALD-J.

Launch platforms

 * Current:
 * General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon
 * Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
 * Fairchild Republic A-10C Thunderbolt II
 * Probable:
 * Mikoyan MiG-29
 * Future and potential:
 * Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet
 * Lockheed C-130 Hercules
 * Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
 * Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey
 * McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II
 * Eurofighter Typhoon
 * General Atomics MQ-1 Predator
 * General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle
 * General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper
 * Saab JAS 39 Gripen E

Specifications (Northrop Grumman ADM-160A)

 * Length : 2.38 m (7 ft 10 in)
 * Wingspan : 0.65 m (2 ft 2 in)
 * Diameter : 15 cm (6 in)
 * Weight : 45 kg (100 lb)
 * Speed : Mach 0.8
 * Ceiling : Over 9,000 m (30,000 ft)
 * Range : Over 460 km (285 mi)
 * Endurance : Over 20 min
 * Propulsion : Hamilton Sundstrand TJ-50 turbojet; 220 N (50 lbf) thrust
 * Unit cost : US$30,000

Specifications (Raytheon ADM-160B)

 * Length : 2.84 m (9 ft 7 in)
 * Wingspan : 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) fully extended
 * Weight : 115 kg (250 lb)
 * Speed : Mach 0.91
 * Ceiling : Over 12,200 m (40,000 ft)
 * Range : Approximately 920 km (575 mi) with ability to loiter over target
 * Endurance : Over 45 min at altitude
 * Propulsion : Hamilton Sundstrand TJ-150 turbojet
 * Unit cost : US$120,000 (initial), US$322,000 (as of 2015)

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Hillington

Hillington may refer to:

 * Hillington, Norfolk, England
 * Hillington, Scotland

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Talk:Elf Bowling

(TM)?
Is this really needed? I don't see other trademarked articles on wikipedia slapped with this everywhere. --SeizureDog 06:06, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Personally, I think they're completely unneccisary. --DMAJohnson 22:38, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
 * They are unnecessary --particularly in an encyclopedia article-- and I've removed them. --Bobak 00:31, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Spyware
Does this game have any spyware? It says it didnt have a virus, but I remember hearing that it had spyware? Does anyone know? --Richy 09:48, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

It definetly doesn't. While its true there was a legitimate controversy about it having spyware, it was never more than rumor. Its a bit harsh that the article calls it a "spyware computer game" and having the "(may contain spyware)" at the end. Fcrick 07:55, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Spyware:any software that covertly gathers information about a user while he/she navigates the Internet and transmits the information to an individual or company that uses it for marketing or other purposes.

Elf Bowling does not gather ANY information. When the game is played it makes a browser request to a blank web page. The web page is used to count how many times the game has been played. It is a simple counter of aggregate play. It does not gather or transmit any data. You can see this happen if you enable a firewall. When the game is played it will request the web page. Elf Bowling has never been nor can it ever seriously be considered spyware. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.160.210.234 (talk • contribs).

Yes, elf bowling does have spyware. An Internet Explorer plugin called "NavExcel". This is dangerous spyware. This game should not be installed by anyone onto any computer. Ever.

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Sorry about deleting your comment on "Elf Bowling" i guess you have a right to free speach. But the NEW version of Elf Bowling contains Spyware called NavExcel as you can see from my last post! Thanks

CoolChris

How does this improve the article? DudeWithAFeud (talk) 04:24, 27 December 2014 (UTC)

Cell Phone?
Under Categories, it says there's a cell phone version of this game. I've never seen it, has anyone else?

-Some guy too lazy to log in.

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Controversy Section Needs Revision
I've never played elf bowling myself but the brief "Controversy" section is either incomplete or a nasty joke. I'm commenting the section out for the time being.

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Discourse (disambiguation)

Discourse is a use of written or spoken communication.

Discourse or discourses may also refer to:
 * Domain of discourse, the collection of objects being discussed in a specific discourse
 * Discourse (linguistics), approaches to study written, vocal, or sign language use
 * Conversation, interactive, spontaneous communication between two or more people

Literature

 * Discourses (Meher Baba), a book by Indian religious teacher Meher Baba
 * Discourses, a series of books by Greek historian of the Roman Empire Dio Chrysostom (c.40 – c.120)
 * Fihi Ma Fihi or Discourses of Rumi, a book by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
 * Discourses (1609–1683), a 1701 book by Benjamin Whichcote, leader of the Cambridge Platonists
 * Discourse on the Arts and Sciences or First Discourse, an essay by philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau written in 1750
 * Discourse on Inequality or Second Discourse, a work by philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau written in 1754
 * Discourse on Metaphysics, a short treatise written by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1686
 * Discourse on the Method a philosophical and autobiographical treatise published by René Descartes in 1637
 * Discourses of Epictetus, a series of books by the Greek Stoic philosopher Epictetus (c.55 - c.135)
 * Four discourses, four fundamental types of discourse identified by Jacques Lacan
 * Discourses on Livy, a 1531 book by Niccolò Machiavelli

Other uses

 * Discourse (software), an open-source discussion platform software system
 * The Public Discourse, a magazine

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