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Hanover Parish

Hanover (Anuova) is a parish located on the northwestern tip of the island of Jamaica. It is a part of the county of Cornwall, bordered by St. James in the east and Westmoreland in the south. With the exception of Kingston, it is the smallest parish on the island. Hanover is the birth parish of Alexander Bustamante, labour leader, first head of government of Jamaica under universal suffrage, and one of seven Jamaican National Heroes. Its capital is Lucea.

History
The region was initially under Spanish control as a colony until 1655, when Spain relinquished control to the English. Over time, parishes were formed to govern the island. The parish would go unnamed for many decades even though many of the towns existed.

Hanover was established on 12 November 1723. It is the second smallest parish in Jamaica and was established from parts of Westmoreland and St James parishes. It was named in honor of the British monarch, George I, who was a member of the German House of Hanover. There had been a governmental proposal to name parish St. Sophia, after the King’s mother; however, the assembly did not approve the proposal. The parish's capital town, on the other hand, has name variations: St Lusia, St. Lucia, St. Lucea and, today, Lucea. In the early colonial days, Lucea, the main town and port, was even busier than Montego Bay. By the mid-18th century, Lucea was the hub of an important sugar-growing region, and the town was prosperous as a sugar port and market centre. European Jews settled in the parish as merchants, store keepers, haberdashery, shoe makers and goldsmiths. It became a free port.

After the abolition of slavery in 1834, the free people prospered, developing a variety of crops, and supplying produce to much of the rest of Jamaica. The harbor was used to export bananas until after the 1960s. A deep-water pier was built, but this has been restricted to the shipping of molasses, an important sugar product. The port was closed in 1983. The historic Fort Charlotte stands at one side of the entrance to the harbour, but was never garrisoned.

Geography and demography
Hanover covers an area of 450 km2. The capital town, Lucea, is located at latitude 18°25'N, longitude 78°08'W. The highest point in the parish is the Dolphin's Head, which serves as a landmark for ships at sea. The parish has a mountainous terrain; it features three small waterfalls, several coves along its coastline, such as the Davis Cove—named after a prominent Hanover family—along its coast, and large caves. A clock tower was installed in the centre of Lucea in 1817; it still stands, and is still fully functional.

The parish had an estimated 67,176 inhabitants in 1999, 5,739 of which lived in Lucea. The large majority of the population is black (92.1%), with 0.8% whites, 3.7% Asians, 2.3% Latinos, and 2.1% identifying as other.

The Great River is the officially recorded river in Hanover. Its valley has been an important agricultural region.

Other notable towns include Sandy Bay, Dias, Green Island, Hopewell and Cascade.

Politics
Hanover Parish has two MPs and two constituencies; Hanover Eastern and Hanover Western.

Agriculture
Hanover is known for the production of yams, sugar cane, ginger, rice, pimento, turmeric, breadfruit and arrowroot. It is also celebrated for its fine breeds of cattle, and pigs and goats are raised.

Sights
Although Hanover is not one of Jamaica's major tourist areas, a tourist resort is situated in the village of Hopewell about 24 km east of Lucea. This area has several large hotels, including Round Hill and Tryall (noted for its golf course). There is also the Grand Palladium resort and spa in western Hanover and on the northern part of the Negril strip (which falls within Hanover not Westmoreland) are the Grand Lido, Couples, Riu, Sandals, Negril cabins and beaches.

Lucea Parish Church - The main structure of the Lucea Parish Church building dates back to the 18th century. It was built prior to 1725, but records at least establish it in 1725 with oldest baptism recorded. It is the oldest building in the parish of Hanover. It is said that a tunnel leads from underneath the church to nearby Fort Charlotte, which is approximately 400 m away.

Fort Charlotte - Commanding the entrance to Lucea Harbor is the well-kept 18th-century Fort Charlotte, constructed in 1745 and renamed in 1778 to honor George III’s Queen Charlotte. (Prior to that year, it was listed as Lucea Fort.) It was erected in defense of the harbor, and stands on a peninsula overlooking the sea channel. The War Office in Britain transferred the barracks and Fort Charlotte in 1862, as a gift to the Executive Committee of Jamaica.

Plantations

 * Axe and Azde
 * Bachelor's Hall
 * Betsy Mount
 * Caldwell
 * Comfort Hall
 * Cousins Cove
 * Cottage
 * Haughton Court
 * Haughton Grove
 * Haughton Hall
 * Haughton Tower
 * Hopewell (Bucknor's)
 * Prospect
 * Retirement
 * Rhodes Hall Estate
 * Salt Spring
 * Saxham
 * Tryall

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Cayman Islands national cricket team

The Cayman Islands national cricket team is the team that represents the British overseas territory of the Cayman Islands in international cricket. The team is organised by the Cayman Islands Cricket Association, which has been an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 2002, having previously been an affiliate member since 1997.

The Cayman Islands debuted internationally at the 2000 Americas Cricket Cup in Canada, and later that year were invited to appear in the 2000–01 Red Stripe Bowl (the West Indian domestic limited-overs competition), where matches had list-A status. During the early 2000s, the Caymans often competed with Bermuda as the third-best team in the ICC Americas region, behind Canada and the United States. When the U.S. was suspended from the 2005 Intercontinental Cup, they were replaced by the Cayman Islands, with the team being afforded the opportunity to make its first-class debut.

In 2006 and 2008, the Cayman Islands played in the Stanford 20/20 tournament (where matches had full Twenty20 status). In the World Cricket League (WCL), Cayman Islands debuted in Division Three in 2007 but subsequently fell as low as Division Six before the WCL was abolished. The Caymans currently play in ICC Americas regional qualification tournaments.

In April 2018, the ICC decided to grant full Twenty20 International (T20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between the Cayman Islands and any other ICC member after 1 January 2019 are eligible for T20I status.

History
The Cayman Islands became an affiliate member of the ICC in 1997 and played their first tournament three years later when they played in the ICC Americas Championship in Canada. They finished fourth in the tournament, their only win coming against Argentina. Later in the year, they played their first List A matches as part of the 2000–01 Red Stripe Bowl in the West Indies. They played against Bermuda, Guyana, the Leeward Islands and the Windward Islands in the first round, losing all their games.

The Cayman Islands gained associate membership of the ICC in 2002, a year in which they finished third in the Americas Championship in Buenos Aires, Argentina after recording wins against Argentina, the Bahamas and Bermuda. The 2004 Americas Championship served as a qualifying competition for the 2005 ICC Trophy, and a repeat of their third-place finish from 2002 would have qualified them for that tournament. Wins against Argentina and the Bahamas meant they could only finish fourth however. This did qualify them for a place in a repêchage tournament in early 2005 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They finished fifth in that tournament after beating Kuwait in a play-off match.

Later in 2005, the Cayman Islands took part in the ICC Intercontinental Cup, a tournament for ICC associate members with first-class status. They lost both their first round matches to Bermuda and Canada, thus not qualifying for the semi-finals. In 2006, they first played in the inaugural Stanford 20/20 tournament. They beat the Bahamas in the preliminary round, but lost to Trinidad & Tobago in the first round proper.

In August 2006, they finished third in Division One of the ICC Americas Championship after wins against Argentina and Canada. This qualified them for 2007 Division Three of the World Cricket League, which was played in May/June 2007 in Darwin, Australia. After beating Hong Kong and Tanzania in the first round, they lost to Argentina in the semi-finals, and to Papua New Guinea in the third place play-off, thus finishing fourth in the tournament. In 2009 they again placed in 2009 Division Three in which they came 5th thus relegating to Division Four. Like Argentina their bad run continued and again finished fifth only winning over Argentina. In 2012, they managed to stop the fall, finishing fourth in 2012 Division Five.

2018-Present
In April 2018, the ICC decided to grant full Twenty20 International (T20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Cayman Islands and other ICC members from 1 January 2019 have been full T20I matches.

The Cayman Islands played their first T20I match against Canada on 18 August 2019, after finishing second in the Southern sub region qualification group and advancing to the Regional Final of the 2018–19 ICC World Twenty20 Americas Qualifier tournament.

ICC Intercontinental Cup

 * 2004: Did not participate
 * 2005: First round
 * 2006: Did not participate
 * 2007–08: Did not participate
 * 2009–10: Did not participate

World Cricket League

 * 2007: 4th in Division Three
 * 2009: 5th in Division Three
 * 2010: 5th in Division Four
 * 2012: 4th in Division Five
 * 2014: 6th in Division Five
 * 2015: 6th in Division Six
 * 2017: 8th in Division Five

ICC Americas Championship

 * 2000: 4th place
 * 2002: 3rd place
 * 2004: 4th place
 * 2006: 3rd place (Division One)
 * 2008: 4th place (Division One)
 * 2010: 5th place (Division One)

Records
International Match Summary — Cayman Islands Last updated 4 October 2023

Twenty20 International

 * Highest team total: 180/6 v Bahamas on 17 April 2022 at Smith Road Oval, George Town
 * Highest individual score: 73*, Ramon Sealy v Bahamas on 16 April 2022 at Smith Road Oval, George Town
 * Best individual bowling figures: 4/6, Alessandro Morris v Bahamas on 14 April 2022 at Jimmy Powell Oval, George Town

Most T20I runs for Cayman Islands

Most T20I wickets for Cayman Islands

T20I record versus other nations

''Records complete to T20I #2288. Last updated 4 October 2023.''

Other results
For a list of selected international matches played by Cayman Islands, see Cricket Archive.3

Players
Performance by Cayman Island cricketers in World Cricket League matches

Highest scores

Steve Gordon – 104* vs Tanzania at Tracy Village Oval, Darwin on 27 May 2007

Ainsley Hall – 100* vs Tanzania at Tracy Village Oval, Darwin on 27 May 2007

Pearson Best – 85 vs Italy at Centro Sportivo Ca'Nova, Medicina on 19 August 2010

Conroy Wright – 79* vs Jersey at Bayuemas Oval, Kuala Lumpur on 10 March 2014

Pearson Best – 79 vs Guernsey at The Padang, Singapore on 25 February 2012

Best Bowling figures

Ryan Bovell – 5/9 vs Argentina at Indian Assoc. Ground, Singapore on 22 February 2012

Kervin Ebanks – 5/19 vs Guernsey at Royal Selangor Club, Kuala Lumpur on 6 March 2014

Franklyn Hinds – 4/22 vs Hong Kong at Tracy Village Oval, Darwin on 28 May 2007

Michael Wight – 4/30 vs Uganda at Marrara Oval, Darwin on 30 May 2007

Ryan Bovell – 4/35 vs Papua New Guinea at Belgrano ACG, Buenos Aires on 24 January 2009

Other players
In addition to those listed above, the following Cayman Islands cricketers have played first-class, List A or official Twenty20 cricket:

 * Marc Chin
 * Steadman Gray
 * Charles Greaves
 * Abali Hoilett
 * Carley James
 * Oscar Owen
 * Christopher Wight
 * David Wight
 * Philip Wight
 * Conroy Wright

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Talk:Slovak National Uprising

Repetition
In several cases, the article goes over the same facts two, or even three, times. I did a quick copy edit, but someone may want to give this a more thorough going over. -- Jmabel | Talk 04:17, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

Weak citation
One section seems to me to be particularly in need of some citation. In the section The Uprising begins, we have:
 * Since the end of the war, great controversy has persisted over the role the Soviets played in the uprising.

So far so good, if borne out.
 * Supporters of the Soviet Union claimed the Soviet Army liberated Slovakia and strongly supported the uprising. Most history written since the war was written either by the communists who took control of Czechoslovakia in 1948 or by fascist supporters of Jozef Tiso who managed to escape Slovakia after the fall of the puppet state in 1945.

Likely enough, though some citations would be nice.
 * Evidence is emerging from previously-closed secret state archives…

Here's where we start to get in trouble. "Evidence" doesn't "emerge" on its own. Whose research is being cited here? What documents from what archives?
 * …that the Soviets under Stalin's orders deliberately withheld promised support for the Slovak Army during the uprising in order to bleed any democratic forces and open the way for "Bolshevization" of Czechoslovakia after the war.

Note that there are three claims here: a claim that support was withheld, a claim that this was deliberate, and a claim of a particular motivation. Even the first should get a citation; each successive claim more so, as it goes deeper into the realm of motivation.

And so forth: "…Further evidence is emerging…[unnamed] Supporters of this latter version of history… They ([unnamed]) further cite [unspecified] recently-released [as of when] communiques between Churchill and Roosevelt regarding Stalin's refusal…

Jmabel | Talk 04:17, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

Just a remark: I am not an expert on this uprising, but the statement that new information has been found recently from previously-closed archives is totally new to me. It would be very helpful, indeed, if the contributor could cite some sources or be more precise...I am afraid, however, that he was one of those IPs that we will never see again. Juro 19:35, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

 * If there are no citations forthcoming, I am going to feel free to edit this "mercilessly". -- Jmabel | Talk 21:23, August 28, 2005 (UTC)

OK, I'm largely cutting it. FWIW, here's the passage I cut; if someone can back this with citations, great, and something like this would then belong in the article:

 * Since the end of the war, great controversy has persisted over the role the Soviets played in the uprising. Supporters of the Soviet Union claimed the Soviet Army liberated Slovakia and strongly supported the uprising.  Most history written since the war was written either by the communists who took control of Czechoslovakia in 1948 or by fascist supporters of Jozef Tiso who managed to escape Slovakia after the fall of the puppet state in 1945. Evidence is emerging from previously-closed secret state archives that the Soviets under Stalin's orders deliberately withheld promised support for the Slovak Army during the uprising in order to bleed any democratic forces and open the way for "Bolshevization" of Czechoslovakia after the war.  This is supported in part by the fact that the vast majority of transports to Slovakia from the Soviets carrying arms and combatants were intended only for the Soviet-controlled partisans, whose aim and mission often conflicted with the insurrectional Slovak Army and its political leadership under Dr. Eduard Beneš in London. Further evidence is emerging that the Soviets sent dozens of transports filled with political commissars to attach to fighting partisan units during the uprising thereby setting the stage for reorganization of the political landscape in Czechoslovakia, which was promised to Stalin by Churchill and Roosevelt to remain in the Soviet "sphere of influence" during and after the war. Supporters of this latter version of history cite Soviet actions in the Warsaw Uprising that occurred nearly the same time as the Slovak uprising. They further cite recently-released communiques between Churchill and Roosevelt regarding Stalin's refusal to allow allied assistance to the resistance fighters in Warsaw and how Roosevelt refused to act against Stalin or without his approval.

Barring citation, I have reduced this merely to
 * Controversy persists over whether the Soviets gave wholehearted support to the uprising, or limited their support in order to "bleed" democratic forces and open the way for "Bolshevization" of Czechoslovakia after the war. Czechoslovakia was promised to Stalin by Churchill and Roosevelt to remain in the Soviet "sphere of influence" during and after the war.

Jmabel | Talk 06:56, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

 * Essentially the same edit was restored yesterday, still without citation. I have reverted it again. If these claims have a basis, provide citation. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:43, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Maybe you should talk to the IP directly on "its" talk page...Juro 03:11, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Feel free to do so. -- Jmabel | Talk 07:33, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

The whole paragraph about the controversy over the Soviet support to the uprising is unnecessary because it is not supported by any cited or well-known evidence. Stalin had not been concerned by the regimes in Eastern Europe (except Poland) until 1945 and Western leaders started their discussions about the political control of the liberated territories (Poland again) only in February 1945. Even the infamous Churchill’s plan to delineate spheres of influence (October 1944) did not include Czechoslovakia, whose government was perfectly acceptable to both sides. That is why Soviets retreated so quickly after the war. Consequently, I propose the removal of the “Controversy persists…” paragraph. If there will be no objections raised in one month, I will do it.Tankred 22:49, 25 December 2005 (UTC)

Since there was no citation added, I removed the "Controversy persist..." paragraph. The reasons are explained above.Tankred 20:12, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Edits by 87.197.176.72
I reverted the last edits by 87.197.176.72 because I see them as pure vandalism. For example, 87.197.176.72 changed the word "uprising", which is a good description of what happened in 1944, into "riots", the "anti-Nazi resistance movement" into "pro-czech underground and communist movement", and the "Czechoslovakian government in exile" into the "puppet personal dicatorship". In addition to POV pushing, those edits were written in poor English (e.g. "tarror", "autoritarian", "to restore of sth."). 87.197.176.72 also added a link to a website of a political party, which has been recently declared by a Slovak court to attempt destruction of the democratic regime in Slovakia. I think this link, included in the main text by the way, shows whose POV the IP tried to push. Tankred 12:23, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Second paragraph
I took the freedom to change the second paragraph. I think that now it better depicts the "controversy".

 * Good job. Tankred 19:59, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Agency
From the article: "…an armed insurrection organized by the Slovaks…" What does it even mean to say that an ethnicity organized an insurrection? - Jmabel | Talk 00:38, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your comment. I have fixed that. Tankred 21:02, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

Some misunderstanding of Slovak National Uprising in en.wiki
1) most of Slovak histography regards that Casus belli of uprising was more complicated, then "Nazi influence in Slovakia" as it is in said in article. Uprising (as struggle of 1st Czechoslovak Army in Slovakia, that was the official name of the insurrence army) started after the German troops crossed Slovak borders on West and Northwest. Nazi troops were ordered to occupate Slovak republic after growing activity of partisain movement in Slovakia, that started to harm German supply and logistic roots of Army Group Nord Ukrajine fighting in Eastern Carpathians, Southern Poland and Eastern Hungary. In addition: Slovak partisan groups were mostly (but not in overall) organized or led by Soviet officers, that had little or no evidence about preparation of uprising. Mainly because cooperation between anti-nazi officers of Slovak army and Soviets (including soviet partisans) was unadequate. Only on 2 August 1944 Slovak He 111 with cpt. Mikuláš Ferjenčík (representative of anti-nazi resistence in Slovak army) and Karol Šmidke (representative of Slovak communist party) secretly flew to meet with Soviet side in Vinnitsa (Ukrajine). But plane was damaged by AAA fire and forced to land in field few kilometers behind Soviet lines. When finaly Slovak negotiatiors meet the Soviet officials, the negotiations were slow.

2) Insurrence 1st Czechoslovak Army in Slovakia can't be defined as Slovak Republic (1939-1945) as it is in Infobox. Even though the leaders of insurrence army were Slovaks, they opposed the regime of Slovak republic, which became German puppet. They knew that existence of independent Slovak state is impossible after defeat of Nazi Germany and relied on reconstruction of Czechoslovak republic. --91.127.14.155 09:19, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

A mistake
The infobox in the article lists "Hermann Höfle" as the commander of the SS units tasked to counter-strike the SNU, with a wikilink to SS-Sturmbannführer Hermann Höfle (*1911 - †1962), notorious for his role in the "Operation Reinhard" (and the telegraph he sent to the RSHA revealing the numbers of victims of the "Operation" during july - december 1942); in fact, the commander of the SS units sent to suppress the Uprising was not SS-StBF H. Höfle (a rank comparable to a major) but SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS Hermann Höffle (obviously an SS-general and a general of the W-SS at that time; *1898 - †1947 (executed in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia)); though their names are easy to confuse, they were nevertheless two different persons. Because of this, I'll abolish the wikilink to the StBF H. Höfle article.--84.163.87.242 (talk) 00:55, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

Air forces
Someone should add that this uprising was supported by 21 fighter aicrafts La-5FN, those were operating from airfield Zolna (near Banska Bystrica). It was a part of : http://www.czechpatriots.com/csmu/corp-1airregiment.php They were a part of cs. forces in Soviet Union, they send too an airborne brigade: http://www.czechpatriots.com/csmu/corp-2brigade.php — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.28.82.39 (talk) 12:52, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Added.--Pelex (talk) 14:40, 28 July 2012 (UTC)

Fate Leaders Insurgency
The infobox lists Golian and Viest as having been killed in action. Both however seem to have been captured and executed at a much later date. I propose we have the infobox correctly display this. D(r)ead End (talk) 12:28, 11 February 2013 (UTC)

English
Don't like the english in "In the post-war period, many political entities attempted to "hijack" the uprising to their credit mainly the Communists." One could change it to "... to their credit, and among these, in particular the Communists." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Masonmilan (talk • contribs) 07:25, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Inconsistencies with article on Dukla Pass
This article seems to blame the Soviets for the failure of the uprising: "instead of adhering to the agreed plan, on 30 August Colonel Talský and the entire eastern Slovak Air Force flew to a prearranged landing zone in Poland to join the Soviet Army, and abandoned the two divisions at Prešov. The two divisions, left in chaos and without leadership, were quickly disarmed on the afternoon of 30 August without a single shot. Consequently, the uprising commenced prematurely and lost a crucial component of their plan, as well as the two most heavily armed divisions," and "The main military objectives were not achieved due to the bad timing of the uprising and lack of cooperation by Soviet partisans." In the Battle of the Dukla Pass article, however, it says: "The Slovak National Uprising was mostly crushed by the time Soviet units secured Slovak territories; one of the main reasons for it was that the German resistance in the Dukla Pass was much heavier than expected. Another factor was that the Slovak insurgent forces failed to secure the other side of the pass, as planned by the Slovak and Soviet commanders during early preparations." So, which was it? Did the Soviets purposefully betray the Slovaks, sabotaging the plan to seize the other side of the pass by withdrawing leadership and support? Or did the Slovak insurgent forces fail to secure the pass, preventing a rapid Soviet advance that might have saved the uprising? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.146.172.106 (talk) 18:00, 27 October 2016 (UTC)

Translation of the excellent German article
Hi folks, in view of the upcoming SNP anniversary on 29 August, I would like to translate the excellent article from the German Wikipedia into English here. The German article already takes into account all the major sources available in English, alongside authoritative German and Slovak research. Does anyone have an objection to this? Best regards, --3mnaPashkan (talk) 10:55, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
 * 3mnaPashkan Would be a great improvement. The enwiki article is currently in poor shape as you can tell—I never had the time to fix it up unfortunately. (t · c)  buidhe  20:55, 28 July 2021 (UTC)

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Ray Hanania

Ray Hanania (born April 17, 1953) is an American journalist, editor, public relations expert, reporter, and stand-up comedian of Palestinian descent. After the September 11 attacks, he created the Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour and Comedy for Peace, which brought together Israeli and Palestinian comedians. He founded his own public relations firm, called Urban Strategies Group.

Early life
Hanania was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Palestinian Christian (Catholic and Eastern Orthodox) parents. Hanania was raised Lutheran and later became an Orthodox Christian. His mother is from Bethlehem. His father, George, from a prominent Christian family in Jerusalem, served with the U.S. Army during World War II and with the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the predecessor of the CIA.

Hanania himself served with the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War and in the Illinois Air National Guard.

From 1977 to 1985 Hanania reported for the Daily Southtown, and from 1985 to 1992 for the Chicago Sun-Times. Hanania was forced to resign from the Sun-Times in the wake of complaints that he was acting as a behind-the-scenes adviser to Treasurer Miriam Santos, the city's top Hispanic officeholder.

Hanania ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic candidate for the Illinois House of Representatives, 38th District, in 1992.

Journalism
From 1993 to 1996 he was publisher of the suburban Villager Newspapers group, was spokesperson for the Town of Cicero and published the Arab American View, an English-language American Arab newspaper. In 1992 Hanania founded his own public relations firm, Urban Strategies Group, doing media consulting for political, government and private clients including the Town of Cicero. His career in broadcast radio began in 1980 at WLS (AM) until 1992, WJJG AM 1530 (2004–2008) and he hosted The Ray Hanania Show every Sunday morning on WSBC AM 1240 in Chicago and WCFJ AM 1470 in Chicago Heights and the Chicago Southlands. He is also the host of Radio Baladi which broadcasts monthlyevery 2nd Friday morning in Detroit. Hanania later became host of the "The Ray Hanania Show" on WNZK AM 690 Radio in Detroit and simulcast on WDMV AM 700 Radio in Washington, D.C., on the US Arab Radio Network.

His internationally syndicated column was distributed by Creators Syndicate from 2002 to 2005, and 2010 until 2016. Currently, Hanania is the US Special Correspondent for The Arab News Newspaper and writes news, features an Op-Ed column every week for the Arab News in Saudi Arabia. Hanania describes his writing as "defining the moderate Palestinian and Arab Voice." He continues to write a Chicago political column carried locally with the Southwest News Newspaper Group (including the Southwest News-Herald, Des Plaines Valley News, The Regional News and The Reporter newspapers), and formerly wrote a weekly column with the Arlington Heights Daily Herald (2002–2009). He has written a humor/serious column for the online website of Yedioth Ahronoth and also for the Jerusalem Post, and currently publishes his columns on his personal website at TheDailyHookah.com.

Earlier in his career, Hanania wrote a weekly syndicated column for the Jerusalem Post and his columns advocated the "moderate Palestinian and Arab voice" and rejected extremism, embraces peace between Palestinians and Israelis, and opposed the use of violence. However, in a November 2012 column for the Saudi Gazette, he wrote "the real obstacle preventing peace is the fundamental refusal of most Israelis and most American Jews to accept the right of Palestinians to exist as a people with a state." Hanania also said that "until Israelis and Jews accept the right of Palestinians to exist, Palestinians have no option but to struggle and resist and defend themselves against violence, land confiscation and theft, and ethnic cleansing from historical Palestine. However, Hanania has committed himself to non-violence, embraces peaceful negotiations and maintains consistently on his web site:"'The best way to fight extremism in the Middle East and bring peace to Israelis and Palestinians is through truth and facts. In my columns, you will read my opinions which provide a balanced view of the conflict, to let you understand the facts and the issues. I don't just criticize Israel. I also criticize the Arabs. I don't just point a finger at Israel and blame them for everything, I also point out the faults of the Arabs, too.'"

Comedy
Hanania launched a stand-up comedy career in 2001 to advance his belief that humor can calm the animosity between Jews and Arabs, promoting peace through moderation. He was featured in a front-page story in The Wall Street Journal and other newspapers. In May 2002, the owner of Zanies Comedy Club in Chicago invited Hanania to perform comedy and enrolled him in comedy classes to hone his stage skills. He performed 35 shows for Zanies. In June, Zanies booked Hanania for a nine-show performance over Labor Day weekend. A few weeks before the show, Zanies owner informed Hanania they were going to add Jewish American comedian Jackie Mason to the bill so he could get stage time before his planned appearances on Broadway.

But hours before the first show, Mason refused to have Hanania open for him. Hanania was called at home as he was leaving for the theater and told not to show up, even though the show had been pre-sold (sold out) a month before. Mason's manager and wife, Jyll Rosenfeld, who was in New York at the time, said that Hanania could not perform because he was "Palestinian" and not Jordanian as Mason had thought. After the controversy broke making international headlines (that lasted seven days), Zanies' management claimed the cancellation was because of Hanania's alleged "inexperience" as a professional comedian, even though Hanania had performed 35 shows for Zanies. But Jyll Rosenfeld told a reporter for the Associated Press that Mason was "uncomfortable" being on the same stage with Hanania because Hanania is a "Palestinian." Hanania later developed a unique Palestinian-Jewish stand-up comedy routine that features his experiences growing up Arab in America and satirizing his marriage to his wife, Alison, who is Jewish. With Israeli comedians Charley Warady and Yisrael Campbell, and African American comedian-journalist Aaron Freeman, he co-founded "The Israeli-Palestinian Comedy Tour", which broke the Arab and Palestinian comedian taboo of refusing to appear with Israelis.

Other work
Hanania was the national coordinator of the former National American Arab Journalists Association, which coordinates and networks American Arab and Muslim Journalists in the United States, and is a partner affiliate of the Union of Arab American Journalists in Detroit.

As of 2020, Hanania was a senior writer at The Arab Daily News online newspaper, which is self-described as "The Newspaper of Record for the American Arab community".

Personal life
Hanania was married to his ex-wife Melissa until 1990. His current wife, Alison, is Jewish. He has two children: one daughter from his prior marriage who is Catholic, and one son from his current marriage who is Jewish. He lives in Orland Park, Illinois.

Professional awards

 * Sigma Delta Chi National Award for Column Writing from the Society of Professional Journalists (2009) for his columns on the alleged discrimination against an Arab grocer in a suburb of Chicago.
 * MT. Mehdi "Courage in Journalism Award" 2009 by the Mehdi Family.
 * Winner of the First National Ethnic Media Award for Commentary/Editorial Writing (English) in 2006 by the New America Media Association for his three-part series: "Shedding Moonlight on Conflict", "A New Language of Peace" and "Things Palestinians and Israelis Share".
 * Society of Professional Journalists Chicago Headline Club, Peter Lisagor Award for Column Writing, 1985, 2002, 2005, 2009.
 * Chicago Newspaper Guild Column Writing Award (2 awards 1982, 1984).
 * Three awards from the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, two Chicago ADC (1981, 1988) and National ADC, 1985.
 * Nominated by the Chicago Sun-Times editors in 1990/91 for a Pulitzer Prize for his four-part series on the Palestinian Intifada.

Books

 * PoweR PR: Ethnic Activists Guide to Strategic Communications (2014) Urban Strategies Group. ISBN 978-1-32945011-0
 * Arabs of Chicagoland (2005) Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 0-7385-3417-X
 * I'm Glad I Look Like a Terrorist: Growing Up Arab in America (1986, updated 2002) ISBN 0-9654761-0-3
 * Strike Back: Lentil Soup for the Arab American Soul (1999) USG Publishing. ISBN 0-9654761-1-1
 * Midnight Flight: The Story of White Flight in Chicago—1968 (Online novel available at Suburbanchicagoland.com.)
 * Troubled Times: Palestinian American Thought before and after Sept. 11th which features 98 of his award-winning columns, paperback;
 * The Grape Leaves of Wrath (2012), a parody of the novel The Grapes of Wrath applied to the story of the Palestinian refugees.

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The Final Countdown (song)

"The Final Countdown" is a song by Swedish rock band Europe, released in 1986. Written by lead singer Joey Tempest, it was based on a keyboard riff he made in the early 1980s, with lyrics inspired by David Bowie's "Space Oddity". Originally made to just be a concert opener, it is the first single and title track from the band's third studio album. The music video by Nick Morris, made to promote the single, has received 1 billion views on YouTube. The video features footage from the band's two concerts at Solnahallen in Solna, as well as extra footage of the sound checks and footage from Stockholm. The song "Pictures", from the 2017 album Walk the Earth, is a sequel to "The Final Countdown".

Origin and recording
The song was based on a keyboard riff which Joey Tempest had written, as early as 1981 or 1982, with a Korg Polysix keyboard which he had borrowed from keyboardist Mic Michaeli. In 1985, bassist John Levén suggested that Tempest should write a song based on that riff. Tempest recorded a demo version of the song and played it for the other band members. At first, the members expressed mixed reactions to it, including guitarist John Norum who was put off by the synth intro but later said that he was glad that they didn't listen to him. Tempest described their uncertainty: "Some of the guys in the band thought it was too different for a rock band. But in the end, I fought hard to make sure it got used."

The song's lyrics were inspired by David Bowie's song "Space Oddity". The sound of the keyboard riff used in the recording was achieved by using a Yamaha TX-816 rack unit and a Roland JX-8P synthesizer, as described by Michaeli: "I made a brassy sound from the JX-8P and used a factory sound from the Yamaha, and just layered them together."

When it was time to choose the first single from the album The Final Countdown, Tempest suggested the song "The Final Countdown". The band had not originally planned to release the song as a single, and some members wanted "Rock the Night" to be the first single. "The Final Countdown" was written to be an opening song for concerts, and they never thought it would be a hit. When their record company Epic Records suggested, however, that it should be the first single, the band decided to release it.

As Tempest stated in 2005:

It's always a nice feeling. Sometimes, you hear it on the streets or someone has it on their mobile phone or something… it's a nice feeling! Actually, I did an interview about a year ago with a newspaper from America and they talked about how much it's been used in sports in America… which I didn't know so much about. Apparently, it has been used a lot and it was nice to hear. The ironic thing, though, is that the song was actually written for the fans. It was over six minutes long and was never meant to be a hit or anything like that. It was meant to be an opening for the 'live' show. We were putting out our third album and we wanted a really 'grand' opening for the show. So, I had that 'riff' tucked away in a drawer since my college years and I took it out, found a tempo for it, wrote lyrics, and it turned out to be a great opening for that album and for the show, as well. Nowadays, we don't rehearse it, but when we play it live, it is still just so amazing! It does communicate so well with the audience and we really love playing it.

In 2009, Tempest told the BBC's Liam Allen, "I can trace bands like UFO in it, sort of a galloping theme like Iron Maiden had on The Number of the Beast album on quite a few songs. I wanted to make a combination of guitars and keyboards. That was a statement on that and it sort of worked out nicely." It is set in the key of F♯ minor.

Release and reception
"The Final Countdown" became an instant success on the charts worldwide upon its release, reaching number one in 25 countries (including the UK, where it spent two weeks at the top and is Europe's only Top 10 hit to date), and is widely regarded as the band's most popular and recognizable song. The single reached number 8 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, and is the most successful song from the album on the Album Rock Tracks chart, peaking at number 18 (and charting for 20 weeks).

The song is also the band's highest-charting single in Australia and Canada, peaking at number 2 and at number 5.

Blender listed "The Final Countdown" as the 27th worst song ever, and both VH1 and Blender included it at 16 on the list of the "Most Awesomely Bad Songs...Ever". VH1 ranked it at number 66 on their list of the best hard rock songs of all time.

Music video
The music video, directed by Nick Morris, contains footage from two concerts the band did at Solnahallen in Solna, Sweden on 26 and 27 May 1986, as well as some extra footage filmed at the sound checks for those concerts.

Live performances
The song has been a regular in Europe concerts ever since its live debut on the premiere of their Final Countdown Tour in April 1986. One of the most memorable performances of the song took place in Stockholm, Sweden on 31 December 1999, as part of the Millennium celebrations, as it was the first, and to date only, Europe performance with both of the band's lead guitarists, the original guitarist John Norum and his replacement, Kee Marcello.

Personnel

 * Joey Tempest – lead vocals
 * John Norum – guitar, backing vocals
 * John Levén – bass
 * Mic Michaeli – keyboards, backing vocals
 * Ian Haugland – drums, backing vocals

Charts
The song reached number one in 25 countries, including the United Kingdom, and was certified gold in that country in 1986. In the United States, the song peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 18 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart.

The Final Countdown 2000
In 1999, the dance remix "The Final Countdown 2000" was released. It was produced by Brian Rawling, who had previously had success with "Believe" by Cher. The band's reaction to the remix was less than enthusiastic. "That remix was a disaster", drummer Ian Haugland said, "I wouldn't pass water on it if it was on fire!" In a 2013 interview with The National, Joey Tempest commented on the remix, saying, "The band were not happy with it. We were trying to get some other people to do the remix and it just didn't pan out, so it ended up becoming a last-minute thing."

Industry Awards
YouTube Billion Views Award

Legacy
The song is a favourite at sporting events, often being played to rally crowds. It has also become a staple of high school and college pep bands for the same purpose.

On 26 December 1987, the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ΕΡΤ), used the song as the theme for the documentary "The Road to Glory" about EuroBasket 1987, which was won by the Greece national team. Since then, the song is considered by fans as the unofficial anthem of the team.

On 2 October 1990, just a few hours before the German reunification, the English segment of international radio broadcaster of former East Germany RBI, played the intro of the song while the female radio announcer says: "Our broadcast came to you from Radio Berlin International, the voice of the disappearing German Democratic Republic".

The song and band Europe appeared in a 2015 USA television commercial for GEICO insurance, playing in a lunchroom as a microwave oven's timer is counting down toward zero seconds, saying if you're Europe, "you love a final countdown: it's what you do."

The song was used as entrance music for professional wrestler Bryan Danielson on the independent circuit and in Ring of Honor until September 2010.

Cover versions
"The Final Countdown" is a particular favourite of guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, who incorporated elements of it into "Gone with the Wind", his 1999 reimagining of Lev Knipper's "Polyushko-polye".

American husband-and-wife banjo-players Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn performed an interpretation of the song in May 2015 for The A.V. Club A.V. Undercover series. Time magazine called out the cover as "really, really lovely."

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Honky Tonk Women

"Honky Tonk Women" is a song by the English rock band the Rolling Stones. It was released as a non-album single on 4 July 1969 in the United Kingdom, and a week later in the United States (a country version called "Country Honk" was later included on the album Let It Bleed). It topped the charts in both nations. The song was on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Inspiration and recording
The song was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards while on holiday in Brazil from late December 1968 to early January 1969, inspired by Brazilian "caipiras" (inhabitants of rural, remote areas of parts of Brazil) at the ranch where Jagger and Richards were staying in Matão, São Paulo. Two versions of the song were recorded by the band: the familiar hit which appeared on the 45 single and their collection of late 1960s singles, Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2), and a honky-tonk version entitled "Country Honk" with slightly different lyrics, which appeared on Let It Bleed (1969).

Thematically, a "honky tonk woman" refers to a dancing girl in a western bar; the setting for the narrative in the first verse of the rock-and-roll version is Memphis, Tennessee: "I met a gin soaked bar-room queen in Memphis", while "Country Honk" sets the first verse in Jackson, Mississippi: "I'm sittin' in a bar, tipplin' a jar in Jackson".

The band initially recorded the track called "Country Honk" in London in early March 1969. Brian Jones was present during these sessions and may have played on the first handful of takes and demos. It was his last recording session with the band. The song was transformed into the familiar electric, riff-based hit single "Honky Tonk Women" sometime in the spring of 1969, prior to Mick Taylor joining the group. In an interview in the magazine Crawdaddy!, Richards credits Taylor for influencing the track: "... the song was originally written as a real Hank Williams/Jimmie Rodgers/1930s country song. And it got turned around to this other thing by Mick Taylor, who got into a completely different feel, throwing it off the wall another way." However, in 1979 Taylor recalled it this way: "I definitely added something to Honky Tonk Women, but it was more or less complete by the time I arrived and did my overdubs."

"Honky Tonk Women" is distinctive as it opens not with a guitar riff but with a beat played on a cowbell by producer Jimmy Miller.

The concert rendition of "Honky Tonk Women" on Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! (1970) differs significantly from the studio hit, with a markedly dissimilar guitar introduction and the first appearance on vinyl of an entirely different second verse.

Release
The single was released in the UK the day after the death of founding member Brian Jones, with "You Can't Always Get What You Want" as the single's B-side. The picture sleeve was designed by John Kosh and photographed by Ethan Russell.

In the UK, the song remained on the charts for seventeen weeks, peaking at number one for five weeks. It remains the band's last single to reach number one in their home country. The song also topped the US Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks from 23 August 1969. It was later released on the compilation album Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) in September. Billboard ranked it as the No. 4 song overall for 1969.

At the time of its release, Rolling Stone magazine hailed "Honky Tonk Women" as "likely the strongest three minutes of rock and roll yet released in 1969". Record World said it was "the Rolling Stones at their funky best." It was ranked number 116 on the list of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in April 2010. The song was later put into the track listing for the video game Band Hero. In 2014, the song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Releases on compilation albums and live recordings
The single version of "Honky Tonk Women" appears on the following Rolling Stones compilation albums:
 * Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2) (1969)
 * Gimme Shelter (1971)
 * Hot Rocks 1964–1971 (1971)
 * Rolled Gold: The Very Best of the Rolling Stones (1975)
 * 30 Greatest Hits (1977)
 * Solid Rock (1980)
 * Story of The Stones (1982)
 * Singles Collection: The London Years (1989)
 * Forty Licks (2002)
 * Singles 1968–1971 (2005)
 * GRRR! (2012)
 * The Rolling Stones in Mono (2016)

Concert versions of "Honky Tonk Women" are included on the albums Live'r Than You'll Ever Be (1969), Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! (recorded 1969, released 1970), Love You Live (recorded 1976, released 1977), Live Licks (recorded 2003, released 2004), Brussels Affair (Live 1973)  (recorded 1973, released 2011), Hampton Coliseum (Live 1981) (recorded 1981, released 2012), L.A. Friday (Live 1975) (recorded 1975, released 2012), Live at the Tokyo Dome (recorded 1990, released 2012), Live at Leeds (recorded 1982, released 2012), Hyde Park Live (2013), Sticky Fingers (Deluxe and Super Deluxe editions) (recorded 1971, released 2015), Totally Stripped (recorded 1995, released 2016), and Havana Moon (2016). The song has appeared in numerous Stones concert films and boxed sets, including Stones in the Park, Some Girls: Live in Texas '78, Let's Spend the Night Together, Stones at the Max, Voodoo Lounge Live, Bridges to Babylon Tour '97–98, Four Flicks, The Biggest Bang, Sweet Summer Sun: Hyde Park Live, and Havana Moon. Some of the live versions include a Paris verse not included on the original single.

"Country Honk"
"Country Honk" is a country version of "Honky Tonk Women", recorded before it but released five months later on the album Let It Bleed (1969). As noted above, the country arrangement was the original concept of "Honky Tonk Women". Richards has maintained that "Country Honk" is how "Honky Tonk Women" was originally written.

"Country Honk" was recorded at Olympic Studios. Byron Berline played the fiddle on the track, and has said that Gram Parsons was responsible for him being chosen for the job (Berline had previously recorded with Parsons' band the Flying Burrito Brothers). Producer Glyn Johns suggested that Berline should record his part on the pavement outside the studio to add ambiance to the number. Sam Cutler, the Rolling Stones' tour manager, performed the car horn at the beginning of the track. Nanette Workman performs backing vocals on this version (although the album sleeve credits actress Nanette Newman). Berline's fiddle and all vocals were recorded at Elektra. There is a bootleg recording in existence that contains neither the fiddle nor Mick Taylor's slide guitar.

Personnel
According to authors Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon, except where noted:

"Honky Tonk Women"
The Rolling Stones
 * Mick Jagger – lead vocals, backing vocals
 * Keith Richards – backing vocals, lead guitar, rhythm guitar
 * Mick Taylor – lead guitar (fills)
 * Bill Wyman – bass
 * Charlie Watts – drums

Additional personnel
 * Nicky Hopkins – piano
 * Jimmy Miller – cowbell
 * Steve Gregory and Bud Beadle – saxophones
 * Johnny Almond – saxophone arrangements
 * Madeline Bell – backing vocals

"Country Honk"
The Rolling Stones
 * Mick Jagger – vocals, car horn
 * Keith Richards – backing vocals, acoustic guitar
 * Mick Taylor – steel slide guitar
 * Charlie Watts – drums

Additional personnel
 * Byron Berline – fiddle
 * Nanette Workman – backing vocals

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ivette Corredero

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The result of the debate was Speedily deleted. HappyCamper 06:39, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Ivette Corredero
Another digusting attack page that an anon won't leave as a redirect to Big Brother (USA TV series). Another non-notable game contestant who doesn't need her own article. There seems to be an agenda among the anons to make certain members of the game look as bad as possible. Zoe 04:22, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Agreed. Groeck 04:28, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete this garbage Ryan Norton T 04:31, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete w/ redirect. Quicksandish 04:34, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Can't this be speedied somehow? Noone would object, surely. Dottore So 05:05, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
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1922–23 WCHL season

The 1922–23 WCHL season was the second season for the Western Canada Hockey League. Four teams played 30 games each.

Final standings
Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF= Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points

Stanley Cup Finals
The Edmonton Eskimos won the WCHL championship and advanced directly to the Stanley Cup Finals, where they would face the National Hockey League champion Ottawa Senators. Ottawa had previously defeated the Pacific Coast Hockey Association champions, the Vancouver Maroons. Ottawa then defeated Edmonton two games to none in the best-of-three series to win the Stanley Cup.

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Logical Unit Number masking

Logical Unit Number Masking or LUN masking is an authorization process that makes a Logical Unit Number available to some hosts and unavailable to other hosts.

LUN Masking is a level of security that makes a LUN available to only selected hosts and unavailable to all others. This kind of security is done on the SAN level and is based on the host HBA, i.e. you can give access of specific LUN on the SAN to specific host with specific HBA.

LUN masking is mainly implemented at the host bus adapter (HBA) level. The security benefits of LUN masking implemented at HBAs are limited, since with many HBAs it is possible to forge source addresses (WWNs/MACs/IPs) and compromise the access. Many storage controllers also support LUN masking. When LUN masking is implemented at the storage controller level, the controller itself enforces the access policies to the device and as a result it is more secure. However, it is mainly implemented not as a security measure per se, but rather as a protection against misbehaving servers which may corrupt disks belonging to other servers. For example, Windows servers attached to a SAN will, under some conditions, corrupt non-Windows (Unix, Linux, NetWare) volumes on the SAN by attempting to write Windows volume labels to them. By hiding the other LUNs from the Windows server, this can be prevented, since the Windows server does not even realize the other LUNs exist.

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Virtual tape library

A virtual tape library (VTL) is a data storage virtualization technology used typically for backup and recovery purposes. A VTL presents a storage component (usually hard disk storage) as tape libraries or tape drives for use with existing backup software.

Virtualizing the disk storage as tape allows integration of VTLs with existing backup software and existing backup and recovery processes and policies. The benefits of such virtualization include storage consolidation and faster data restore processes. For most mainframe data centers, the storage capacity varies, however protecting its business and mission critical data is always vital.

Most current VTL solutions use SAS or SATA disk arrays as the primary storage component due to their relatively low cost. The use of array enclosures increases the scalability of the solution by allowing the addition of more disk drives and enclosures to increase the storage capacity.

The shift to VTL also eliminates streaming problems that often impair efficiency in tape drives as disk technology does not rely on streaming and can write effectively regardless of data transfer speeds.

By backing up data to disks instead of tapes, VTL often increases performance of both backup and recovery operations. Restore processes are found to be faster than backup regardless of implementations. In some cases, the data stored on the VTL's disk array is exported to other media, such as physical tapes, for disaster recovery purposes (scheme called disk-to-disk-to-tape, or D2D2T).

Alternatively, most contemporary backup software products introduced also direct usage of the file system storage (especially network-attached storage, accessed through NFS and CIFS protocols over IP networks) not requiring a tape library emulation at all. They also often offer a disk staging feature: moving the data from disk to a physical tape for a long-term storage.

While a virtual tape library is very fast, the disk storage within is not designed to be removable, and does not usually involve physically removable external disk drives to be used for data archiving in place of tape. Since the disk storage is always connected to power and data sources and is never physically electrically isolated, it is vulnerable to potential damage and corruption due to nearby building or power grid lightning strikes.

History
The first VTL solution was introduced by Cybernetics in 1992 under the name HSTC (high speed tape cache). Later, IBM released a Virtual Tape Server (VTS) introduced in 1997. It was targeted for a mainframe market, where many legacy applications tend to use a lot of very short tape volumes. It used the ESCON interface, and acted as a disk cache for the IBM 3494 tape library. A competitive offering from StorageTek (acquired in 2005 by Sun Microsystems, then subsequently by Oracle Corporation) was known as Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) which leveraged the market dominant STK Powderhorn library as a back store. Each product line has been enhanced to support larger disk buffer capacities, FICON, and more recently (c. 2010) "tapeless" disk-only environments.

Other offerings in the mainframe space are also "tapeless". DLm has been developed by EMC Corporation, while Luminex has gained popularity and wide acceptance by teaming with Data Domain to provide the benefits of data deduplication behind its Channel Gateway platform. With the consequent reduction in off-site replication bandwidth afforded by deduplication, it is possible and practical for this form of virtual tape to reduce recovery point objective time and recovery time objective to near zero (or instantaneous).

Outside of the mainframe environment, tape drives and libraries mostly featured SCSI. Likewise, VTLs were developed supporting popular SCSI transport protocols such as SPI (legacy systems), Fibre Channel, and iSCSI.

The FalconStor VTL is the foundation of nearly half of the products sold in the VTL market, according to an Enterprise Strategy Group analyst.

In mid-2010s VTLs got a rebirth thanks to hi-capacity "archive" drives from Seagate and HGST and more popular "tape in cloud" and Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape (often in cloud) scenarios.

Amazon and StarWind Software in partnership with Veeam, BackBlaze and Wasabi Technologies offer a so-called gateway products that facilitates backing up and archiving "on premises" data as virtual tapes stored in AWS, Microsoft Azure, Wasabi Technologies and BackBlaze public clouds. The idea is to provide a seamless integration of a backup applications incompatible with the APIs object storages expose. Say, at the time Veeam couldn't do AWS S3 and can't backup to the deep archive tier within Azure still.

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1921–22 WCHL season

The 1921–22 WCHL season was the first season for the Western Canada Hockey League. Four teams played 24 games each. The Regina Capitals defeated the regular-season champion Edmonton Eskimos in a two-game total-goals series to win the inaugural league championship.

Final standings
Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, Pts = points 1 The Saskatoon Crescents relocated to Moose Jaw as the Moose Jaw Crescents on 3 February 1922.

Playoffs
Edmonton and Regina ended the season with identical records of 14–9–1 with the sole tie being between the two teams. To decide first place, it was agreed to replay the tie game. Edmonton won the rematch 11–2 to place first.

The Capitals defeated the Calgary Tigers 2–1 (1–0, 1–1) in a two-game totals-goals series to determine second place. The Capitals then went on to beat first place Edmonton 3–2 (1–1, 2–1) in the league's first championship series.

Regina then advanced to play the Pacific Coast Hockey Association champion Vancouver Millionaires in the Stanley Cup playoffs for the right to play in the 1922 Stanley Cup Finals. The Capitals won the first game but lost the two-game total goals series 2–5 (2–1, 0–4). Vancouver advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals against the Toronto St. Patricks of the National Hockey League, with Toronto winning the Stanley Cup, three games to two.

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1923–24 WCHL season

The 1923–24 WCHL season was the third season for the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL). Four teams played 30 games each. The Calgary Tigers defeated the Regina Capitals to win the WCHL title. Calgary moved on to the Stanley Cup playoffs, losing in the Finals to the Montreal Canadiens.

League business
The league approved a rule limiting goaltender pads to 12 in in width.

Regular season
The four teams played an interlocking schedule with the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) teams.

Final standings
Note: W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, GF= Goals For, GA = Goals Against, Pts = Points

Playoffs
The Calgary Tigers played off against Regina for the WCHL title. Calgary wins two-game total-goals series 4–2.

The Tigers then played off against Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) champion Vancouver to advance to the Stanley Cup Finals.

Calgary wins best-of-three series 2–1.

Stanley Cup Finals
In the final, the Calgary Tigers would face the National Hockey League (NHL) champion Montreal Canadiens. Montreal had also defeated Vancouver to advance to the Finals. Montreal then defeated Calgary two games to none in the best-of-three series to win the Stanley Cup.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Angie laakso

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The result of the debate was Speedy delete HappyCamper 06:25, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Angie laakso
Vanity, not notable Groeck 04:27, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nominator. Plus slightly advertising. Quicksandish 04:29, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn, vanity Ryan Norton T 04:33, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete under CSD A7. Delete nn if not speedied. DES (talk) 05:16, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
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