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Ryhope Secondary School
I removed the following from the article because I suspect it's a copyvio. It's style is dodgy, and it was added in one chunk by an anon IP. The JPS 16:42, 31 August 2005 (UTC) == Ryhope Secondary School ==

In the 1900s, facilities for secondary education in the north-east part of the administrative County of Durham in England were almost entirely lacking, pupils from elementary schools in the area desirous of pursuing a course of secondary education being obliged to travel to the County Borough of Sunderland or to Durham.

In 1909 the Durham County Education Authority decided to establish a number of new Secondary Schools at selected centres in the County; the first of these schools was built at Ryhope providing accommodation for 204 pupils.

The School was opened on 11 September 1911, the opening ceremony being performed by County Councillor Robert Richardson, Chairman of the Board of Governors. The number of pupils enrolled was 155, consisting of 74 boys and 81 girls.

The enthusiasm of pupils and parents during the first year of the School's life and the success achieved by the pupils (luring that time proved that the School was meeting a real need and that the Education Committee had made a wise decision in choosing Ryhope as a centre for Secondary Education.

It was not surprising therefore that during the second year there was a large increase in the number of pupils and the school grew from strength to strength. The loyalty and keenness displayed by those first pupils of the School cannot be too strongly emphasised; they left behind them traditions of learning and industry which were worthy of the emulation of those who followed them.

This steady progress of the School during the first three years was interrupted by the outbreak of the Great War (1914-1918).

Those War years were troublesome; many of the Staff were serving with H.M. Forces while senior boys left the School for military training. The excitement of war times, shortage of food, writing material and apparatus, and frequent changes in staff provided difficulties which were only overcome by the loyalty and devotion of staff and pupils alike in assisting the Headmaster to maintain the high level of efficiency which had already been attained.

An important educational development during the War years was the establishment by the Board of Education of Advanced Courses of Instruction beyond the School Certificate year, and it is worthy of note that Ryhope Secondary School was one of the first schools in the country to have Advanced Courses recognised and financed.

This new feature altered considerably the character of the School insomuch as it raised the senior forms and increased the length of school life by two years. Since the introduction of these Advanced Courses providing better facilities for preparation for University Scholarships and admission to Universities, increased numbers of senior pupils have been awarded State Scholarships and Exhibitions and nearly all subsequently take a University degree with honours.

At the conclusion of the war members of Staff returned to their scholastic duties and the School began to settle down to a normal state of affairs. One of the first duties to be undertaken was the provision of a Memorial in honour of the 14 former pupils of the School who had laid down their lives during the war.

Many suggestions were considered as to what form this should take; finally it was decided that an Organ should be erected in the School Hall together with a plaque on which should be inscribed the names of those who had fallen. Funds for this purpose were readily forthcoming from pupils past and present, staff and friends of the School. In 1924 the Organ was dedicated and has since been in daily use during morning prayers.

During the early post war years the Durham County Education Authority in response to a demand for increased facilities for secondary education decided to build Secondary Schools at Houghton-le-Spring and Wellfield, while the Higher Elementary School at Washington was raised to secondary status. This, together with the extension of the Borough of Sunderland to include Fulwell and Southwick resulted in the area from which the School drew its pupils being considerably reduced.

The most important change in the history of the School took place however during the years 1929-33. The conversion of the Higher Elementary School at Seaham Harbour to a Secondary School for Girls resulted in the number of vacancies available for boys being increased. The change-over to a boys school was a gradual one; the last girls were admitted in 1929 and by the Summer Term of 1933 the School had ceased to function as a co-educational establishment. The influence of the girls had always been of a very beneficial character and it was some time before the School became accustomed to the loss it had sustained by their transference.

This change to a boys school resulted in increased demands on the laboratory accommodation which had always proved inadequate to meet the requirements of modern science teaching. To remedy this two new laboratories for advanced work will shortly be available. In addition extensive structural alterations involving the provision of two extra science laboratories, a new dining hall provided with a stage for dramatic performances and concerts, a library, art room and metal work room are now in progress and it is hoped that with these the School will not only maintain but surpass the record of attainment which it has reached during the first twenty-five years of its existence. (Taken from a 1936 booklet celebrating the 25th anniversary of the school).

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Single-responsibility principle

The single-responsibility principle (SRP) is a computer programming principle that states that "A module should be responsible to one, and only one, actor." The term actor refers to a group (consisting of one or more stakeholders or users) that requires a change in the module.

Robert C. Martin, the originator of the term, expresses the principle as, "A class should have only one reason to change". Because of confusion around the word "reason", he later clarified his meaning in a blog post titled "The Single Responsibility Principle", in which he mentioned Separation of Concerns and stated that "Another wording for the Single Responsibility Principle is: Gather together the things that change for the same reasons. Separate those things that change for different reasons.". In some of his talks, he also argues that the principle is, in particular, about roles or actors. For example, while they might be the same person, the role of an accountant is different from a database administrator. Hence, each module should be responsible for each role.

History
The term was introduced by Robert C. Martin in his article "The Principles of OOD" as part of his Principles of Object Oriented Design, made popular by his 2003 book Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices. Martin described it as being based on the principle of cohesion, as described by Tom DeMarco in his book Structured Analysis and System Specification, and Meilir Page-Jones in The Practical Guide to Structured Systems Design. In 2014 Martin published a blog post titled "The Single Responsibility Principle" with a goal to clarify what was meant by the phrase "reason for change."

Example
Martin defines a responsibility as a reason to change, and concludes that a class or module should have one, and only one, reason to be changed (e.g. rewritten).

As an example, consider a module that compiles and prints a report. Imagine such a module can be changed for two reasons. First, the content of the report could change. Second, the format of the report could change. These two things change for different causes. The single responsibility principle says that these two aspects of the problem are really two separate responsibilities, and should, therefore, be in separate classes or modules. It would be a bad design to couple two things that change for different reasons at different times.

The reason it is important to keep a class focused on a single concern is that it makes the class more robust. Continuing with the foregoing example, if there is a change to the report compilation process, there is a greater danger that the printing code will break if it is part of the same class.

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Public interface

In computer science, a public interface is the logical point at which independent software entities interact. The entities may interact with each other within a single computer, across a network, or across a variety of other topologies.

It is important that public interfaces will be stable and designed to support future changes, enhancements, and deprecation in order for the interaction to continue.

Guidance
A project must provide additional documents that describe plans and procedures that can be used to evaluate the project’s compliance. The programmer must create fully insulated classes and insulate the public interfaces from compile-time dependencies.
 * architecture design document.
 * coding standards document.
 * software release plan document.
 * document with a plan for deprecating obsolete interfaces.

Best practices

 * Present complete and coherent sets of concepts to the user.
 * Design interfaces to be statically typed.
 * Minimize the interface’s dependencies on other interfaces.
 * Express interfaces in terms of application-level types.
 * Use assertions only to aid development and integration.

C++ interface

 * Use protocol classes to define public interfaces.
 * The characteristics of a protocol class are:
 * It neither contains nor inherits from classes that contain member data, non-virtual functions, or private (or protected) members of any kind.
 * It has a non-inline virtual destructor defined with an empty implementation.
 * All member functions other than the destructor, including inherited functions, are declared pure virtual and left undefined.
 * Benefits
 * The benefits of using protocol classes include:
 * Insulating applications from the external client
 * Insulating changes that are internal to the interface
 * Insulating changes to the public interface from changes to the implementation of the interface
 * Insulation has costs, but these tend to be outweighed by the gains in interoperability and reusability.
 * Costs:
 * Going through the implementation pointer
 * Addition of one level of indirection per access
 * Addition of the size of the implementation pointer per object to memory requirements

Other information
Various methodologies, such as refactoring, support the determination of interfaces. Refactoring generally applies to the entire software implementation, but is especially helpful in properly flushing out interfaces. There are other approaches defined through the pattern community.

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Archbishop Joseph Powathil
The Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Changanacherry (Syro-Malabar Catholic Church)

A profile of Ministry in 'Truth and Charity'

Born on 14 August 1930 Joseph Powathil had his primary education in Holy Family L. P. School, and St. Peter’s U. P. School, Kurumpanadom and High School education in St. Berchmans’ High School Changanassery. He had his higher studies in S. B. College Changanassery and Loyola College Madras from where he took his Master Degree in Economics.

He did his seminary studies in St. Thomas Petit Seminary, Parel and Papal seminary at Pune. After ordination on 3 October 1962 at Pune he was appointed lecturer in Economics and Warden of St. Joseph’s Hostel in S. B. College, Changanassery. He was in the campus ministry for one decade. During this period he had the advantage of taking a one-year course in Developmental Economics at the prestigious Oxford University.

On 29 January 1972 he was nominated Auxiliary Bishop of Changanassery and was ordained bishop by Pope Paul VI on 13 February 1972 at Rome. After five years on 26 February 1977 he was appointed the bishop of newborn diocese of Kanjirappally. Later on 16 November 1985 he was appointed as the archbishop of Changanassery.

He served as President of Catholic Bishops Conference of India (CBCI) (1994-1998), Chairman of Kerala Catholic Bishops Council (1993-1996), and Chairman of Education Commission of the CBCI. He is at present a member of the Post Asian Synodal Council in Rome, Italy (since 1998), Chairman of KCBC Commission for Education (since 1986), Founder and Chairman of Inter Church Council for Education, Chairman of Inter Religious Fellowship, member of the Pro Oriente Foundation at Vienna, Austria (since 1993) and member of the Scientific Commission of International Publication ‘Oasis’ from Venice, Italy.

His leadership as an educationist starts in early 1970’s when he was the auxiliary bishop of Changanassery. It was then the youth wing of a certain political party came out against the private colleges in Kerala. Following the footsteps of his predecessor, Bishop James Kalacherry, who challenged the unjust educational policies of the famous Sir C.P. Rama Swamy Iyyer, he was at the leadership to defend the educational rights of the minority communities and led the agitation for freedom. In Changanassery, he personally led a large manifestation against the government through the streets. His vision of education is rather liberal and liberating. He joined hands with the other Christian Churches to defend the constitutional rights of the minority communities.

St. John the Baptist Training College at Nedumkunnam, St. Thomas College of Nursing at Chethipuzha, St. Thomas College of Allied Health Sciences at Chethipuzha and St. Joseph’s College of Communication at Kurisummoodu are founded by him in the Archdiocese of Changanassery during the last decade.

His special care and concern for the margininalised, especially for the mentally challenged children is manifested in nineteen special schools for the mentally challenged in the Archdiocese itself and four schools for the physically handicapped. The first school for the mentally challenged in the central travancore region was opened by his initiative in 1972 (Asha Bhavan) at Ithithanam near Changanassery. Now it is the largest residential school with hundred students and twenty-five teaching and non-teaching staff. Besides he is the inspiration behind 16 mental health care centres and four houses for the terminally ill in the Archdiocese.

Social Development was one of his major concerns. He founded the famous and prestigious Peerumedu Development Society (P.D.S) and the Malanadu Development Society (M. D. S) in 1977 while he was the bishop of Kanjirappaly. The Kuttanadu Vikasana Samithy (KVS) is another brainchild of Archbishop Powathil for the integral development of the place and people of Kuttanadu. Besides, as the Patron of the Changanassery Social Service Society (CHASS) he is the inspiration of numerous developmental schemes. During the last seven years itself the society has built 2000 new houses - with the support of the local people - for those who don’t have proper shelter. Many Scholarship schemes are established for the Dalit Christians in the Archdiocese and the poor and eligible students of the professional courses.

In 1990, Archbishop Powathil founded the prestigious I. C. Chacko award for cultural and literary excellence and it was awarded to Prof. P. C. Devasia, the author of Kristu Bhagavathom in Sanskrit language. Centre for Indian Christian Archaeological Research (CICAR) promoting research is another unique initiative of the Archbishop. Rev. Dr. Joseph Vazhuthanappally is the head of this centre promoting scientific research. Promoting reading habit among the people Archbishop Powathil established the Department of Book Apostolate and they organize the Changanassery Pusthaka Mela in the month of October every year. This Mela is considered as the cultural fest of Changanassery attracting many thousands of people every day. Besides he started family library scheme, school library scheme, Pusthaka Mela in every school etc.

Realizing the importance of the Youth Apostolate he took the initiative in establishing a Diocesan Youth Movement called ‘Yuva Deepthi’ in 1972. In course of time it spread to all the dioceses in Kerala leading to the formation of Kerala Catholic Youth Movement (KCYM) and he was the first chairman of the KCBC Youth Commission. He started Apostolate for the senior citizens, apostolate for the emigrants and apostolate for the tourists in the Archdiocese. CANA, the Indian Section of the Pope John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family, at Thuruthy with head quarters in Rome is another achievement of him.

The Syro Malabar Church in which he was born and brought up was always close to his heart. He was always a devoted son of this Church and therefore always on the forefront in the struggles for the restoration of its legitimate rights and its identity as an individual Church. He did a great deal to promote formation based on this identity, to priests, religious and the laity. Oriental Study Forum, Dukrana - periodical, Christian Orient - periodical, Missionary Orientation Centre (MOC, recognized by the Congregation for Catholic Education, Rome), Amala Theological College for the novices, Mar Thoma Vidya Nikethan for Laity (Master Degree in Religious Sciences: recognized by the Congregation for Catholic Education, Rome) etc. are the means used for the same. He also founded an Eastern Monastic Congregation – Sisters of St. Thomas.

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Close to You (Frank Sinatra album)

Close to You is the eleventh studio album by American musician Frank Sinatra, accompanied by the Hollywood String Quartet.

The album was recorded over a period of eight months and five different sessions, and was arranged by Nelson Riddle.

Nelson Riddle commented that the structure of popular songs does not lend itself to arranging in the true string quartet style of the classics and felt that he hadn't really achieved as much as he had hoped. However, when the album was released it received critical praise and as Riddle remarked, "Sinatra liked it!".

For its CD release, the album was retitled Close to You and More, referencing the bonus tracks.

Track listing

 * 1) "Close to You" (Al Hoffman, Carl G. Lampl, Jerry Livingston) – 3:37
 * 2) "P.S. I Love You" (Gordon Jenkins, Johnny Mercer) – 4:21
 * 3) "Love Locked Out" (Max Kester, Ray Noble) – 2:41
 * 4) "Everything Happens to Me" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) – 3:20
 * 5) "It's Easy to Remember (And So Hard to Forget)" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:34
 * 6) "Don't Like Goodbyes" (Harold Arlen, Truman Capote) – 4:51
 * 7) "With Every Breath I Take" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 3:38
 * 8) "Blame It on My Youth" (Edward Heyman, Oscar Levant) – 2:58
 * 9) "It Could Happen to You" (Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 3:13
 * 10) "I've Had My Moments" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) – 3:47
 * 11) "I Couldn't Sleep a Wink Last Night" (Harold Adamson, Jimmy McHugh) – 3:25
 * 12) "The End of a Love Affair" (Edward Redding) – 4:11
 * CD reissue bonus tracks not included on the original 1957 release:
 * 1) "If It's the Last Thing I Do" (Sammy Cahn, Saul Chaplin) – 4:00
 * 2) "There's a Flaw in My Flue" (Burke, Van Heusen) – 2:41
 * 3) "Wait till You See Her" (Rodgers, Hart) – 3:08

Complete personnel
Tracks 1, 5, 11
 * Frank Sinatra – vocals
 * Nelson Riddle – arranger, conductor
 * The Hollywood String Quartet:
 * Felix Slatkin – violin, leader
 * Paul Shure – violin
 * Eleanor Aller – cello
 * Alvin Dinkin – viola

1-November-1956 (Thursday)- Hollywood. Mahlon Clark (cit); James Williamson (fl); Felix Slatkin*, Paul Shure*, Marvin Limonick (vln); Alvin Dinkin* (via); Eleanor Slatkin* (vlc); Kathryn Julye (harp); Bill Miller (p/cel); Nick Bonney (g); Eddie Gilbert (b); Frank Flynn (d).

Tracks 2, 3, 6, 13

8-March-1956 (Thursday)- Hollywood. Vincent DeRosa (fr-h); Mahlon Clark (cit); Harry Klee (fl); Felix Slatkin*, Paul Shure*, Israel Baker (vln); Alvin Dinkin* (via); Eleanor Slatkin* (vie); Kathryn Julye (harp); Bill Miller (p); George Van Eps (g); Mike Rubin (b); Irving Cottier (d).

Tracks 4, 8, 10, 15

4/5-April-1956 (Wed/Thur) - Hollywood. Vincent DeRosa (fr-h); Mitchell Lurie (cit); Harry Klee (fl); Champ Webb (oboe); Felix Slatkin*, Paul Shure* (vln); Alvin Dinkin* (via); Eleanor Slatkin* (vlc); Kathryn Julye (harp); Bill Miller (p); Bob Bain (g); Mike Rubin (b); Irving Cottier (d).

Tracks 7, 9, 12, 14

5-April-1956 (Thursday) - Hollywood. Harry Edison (tpt); Vincent DeRosa (fr-h); Champ Webb (oboe); Felix Slatkin*, Paul Shure*, Gerald Vinci (vln); Alvin Dinkin* (via); Eleanor Slatkin* (vie); Kathryn Julye (harp); Bill Miller (p/cel); Bob Bain (g); Sam Cheifetz (b); Alvin Stoller (d).

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Balatonfűzfő

Balatonfűzfő is a town at the northeast corner of Lake Balaton in Hungary.

History
The earliest settlements in the area were founded by the Celts, Avars and Romans. Material findings dating from the Middle Ages have been unearthed, which evidence the existence of settlements subsequently destroyedin the 17th century. The growth of the settlement accelerated in 1908 with the building of a railway line around Balaton. By 1920 the village had built its first paved roads, a post office, station, and beach, and started planting vineyards and distributing land. In 1927, the production of gunpowder began, stimulating the industrial population.

Balatonfűzfő has been a self-administrated settlement since 1958, a large village since 1970, an independent self-government since 1990, and a town since 2000.

Sport

 * Fűzfői AK, association football club

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Sue Sanders

Sue Louise Sanders is Emeritus Professor Harvey Milk Institute 2015 (born in 1947 in London). She is an "out and proud" lesbian, a British LGBT rights activist who has specialized in challenging oppression in the public and voluntary sectors for over forty years.

Career
After studying at London's New College of Speech and Drama (now part of Middlesex University) where she received a teaching diploma, Sanders studied counseling on alcohol-related problems as well as gestalt therapy and contribution training. She also holds qualifications on dealing with stress and trauma.

Since 1967, she has been a teacher, tutor and a lecturer on women's studies, drama and homophobia in schools, universities and other organisations, both in London and in Sydney, Australia.

Since 1984, Sanders has worked as a management consultant and trainer for the public and voluntary sector. She was a member of the LGBT Advisory Group to the Metropolitan Police (since 1999), was an independent adviser to the London Criminal Justice Board, and is a member of the Hate Crime Independent Advisory Group for the Ministry of Justice, she was a member of the National Union of Teachers LGBT working party (since 1999), a member of the Southwark anti Homophobic Forum (which she joined in 1997) and was a consultant to the Crown Prosecution Services, helping them produce national policy on prosecuting homophobic crime effectively.

In 1996, she co-founded Chrysalis with Paul Patrick, a consultancy which delivered training around equal opportunity issues – particularly anti-heterosexism.

In 2000, she became the co-chair of Schools Out, a group working for the equality of LGBT people in the education system, which was started in 1974. Neither her nor Paul Patrick were there at the start. With the help of the Schools Out committee, she and Paul Patrick instituted the UK's first LGBT History Month; this was launched in December 2004 at Tate Modern and then took place the following February. Then in 2011 she instigated The Classroom, a website with over 50 lesson plans free for teachers to 'Usualise' and 'Actualise' LGBT issues across the curriculum and in all key stages tied to the national curriculum.

Sanders has directed many plays in London's fringe theatres and has been involved in the production of radio programmes for ABC in Sydney.

She is the author of poetry and short stories as well as many articles and brochures on feminist issues, education and homophobia. She regularly appears on TV and radio programmes dealing with equality and LGBT issues and is a keynote speaker and workshop leader in many conferences dealing with diversity, homophobia, and LGBT issues.

In 2018, she deposited her archive in the collections of the Bishopsgate Institute.

Awards
In 2024 she was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Education Union and the Centrica 30 Years of Diva Honouree Award.

In 2022 she was awarded the Golden Tupilik award from International Lesbian and Gay Cultural Network for outstanding years-long support for human rights and LGBTQ rights and identity.

In 2019 Sue was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award from the Rainbow Honours Board.

In 2014 she was short-listed for the lifetime achievement award in the National Diversity Awards.

She regularly appears in the Independent LGBT Power list.

In 2012 she was awarded a Commendation from the Metropolitan Police Service for her long-standing involvement and commitment to the MPS LGBT Advisory Group and her contribution to improving policing services for LGBT Londoners.

In 2005, Sanders received the Clio's Silver Cup Award from the International Lesbian and Gay Cultural Network for outstanding achievements in documenting and disseminating information about LGBT history.

In July 2009 she was awarded the first Derek Oyston Award in recognition of her lifetime's campaigning for LGBT rights at the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association (GALHA) and the 40th anniversary of the Campaign for Homosexual Equality (CHE). In 2002 she received the Crown Prosecution award for Equality and Diversity.

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Shrewsbury railway station

Shrewsbury railway station serves the town of Shrewsbury, in Shropshire, England. Built in 1848, it was designated a grade II listed building in 1969.

The station is 69 km north-west of Birmingham New Street. Many services starting at or passing through the station are bound for Wales, and it is a key hub for its operator, Transport for Wales; services are also provided by West Midlands Railway.

History

The station was formerly known as Shrewsbury General and is the only remaining railway station in the town; others, including Shrewsbury Abbey, have long since closed.

Shrewsbury railway station was originally built in October 1848 for the county's first railway, the Shrewsbury to Chester Line. The architect was Thomas Mainwaring Penson of Oswestry and the contractor was Thomas Brassey. The building is unusual, in that the station was extended between 1899 and 1903 by the construction of a new floor underneath the original station building. The building style was imitation Tudor, complete with carvings of Tudor style heads around the window frames. This was done to match the Tudor building of Shrewsbury School (now Shrewsbury Library) almost directly opposite and uphill from the station. The station's platforms also extend over the River Severn. It was operated jointly by the Great Western Railway (GWR) and the London and North Western Railway (LNWR).

At Shrewsbury in steam days, the GWR regularly turned its locomotives by running round the triangle formed by using the Abbey Foregate loop, which links the Wolverhampton Line with the Welsh Marches Line and enables through running for freight trains, summer Saturday specials and formerly for trains like the Cambrian Coast Express. Until 1967, Shrewsbury was served by the GWR, latterly BR Western Region, express services between London Paddington and Birkenhead Woodside.

The station was given Grade II listed status in May 1969; this applies to the main building on Castle Foregate, adjacent to platform 3.

Arwel Hughes composed Tydi a roddaist in 20 minutes during a wait between train connections in 1938. A plaque to mark this was unveiled on platform 3 in 2004.

Signalling

Severn Bridge Junction signal box, at the south east end of the station and built by the LNWR, is the largest surviving mechanical signal box in the world, with a frame accommodating 180 levers, and is a listed building. Whilst the line beyond Abbey Foregate signal box to Wolverhampton has been updated to electronic signalling, Shrewsbury itself is set to remain lever operated for the foreseeable future. As a result of Shrewsbury's joint (GWR/LNWR) history, and having been transferred at different times between the Western and London Midland regions of BR and more recently Network Rail – it is now in the Great Western territory again – the signalling is a diverse mixture of lower-quadrant and upper-quadrant semaphore signals, with a few colour lights too. Crewe Junction, on the north end of the station, accommodates around 120 levers and is of the same design as Severn Bridge Junction.

The other Shrewsbury signal boxes are at Abbey Foregate (to a GWR design), controlling the eastern corner of the triangle and Sutton Bridge Junction where the Aberystwyth line diverges from the Hereford line (the now closed Severn Valley Railway to Bridgnorth and Hartlebury also left the main line there).

Two other boxes at Crewe Bank and Harlescott Crossing (slightly further on towards Crewe) were both abolished (and subsequently removed) in October 2013, when the Crewe line had its signalling replaced by a new modular system controlled from the South Wales Rail Operating Centre in Cardiff. The former box had been "switched out" of use for several years previously and had been proposed for abolition by Network Rail back in 2009.

In Autumn 2010 changes were made to allow Cambrian and Welsh Marches line trains to depart in a southerly direction from platform 3. An upper quadrant signal replaced the previous shunting disc and a facing point lock was added to the points. Though the track layout could already accommodate this, until the lock was added only non-passenger movements southbound from platform 3 could be made.

Platforms and facilities
There are five platforms in use, numbered 3 to 7 (platforms 1 and 2 have been disused since the 1980s and have no track; around 2019 platform 2 was dismantled). Of these, platforms 4 to 7 are grouped on a main island, while platforms 1 to 3 are separate, located by the main station building. The platforms are numbered in order from west (Shrewsbury Castle side) to east (The Dana side) from 1 to 7.

Platform 3 was until recently only used by trains running in from the Wolverhampton direction and out towards Chester. Changes made in 2010 to the signalling and track now allow additional passenger trains (those coming in from and going out to the Hereford, Heart of Wales and Cambrian lines) to use platform 3. A passenger lift was opened on the platform in 2009 and a waiting room opened shortly after. A lift has also been built for access to platforms 4–7, making the station fully accessible for wheelchair and mobility-impaired users.

Platforms 4 and 7 are through platforms, usually used for trains between Holyhead (via Chester and Wrexham General) and Cardiff Central/Birmingham International and between Manchester Piccadilly (via Crewe) and Cardiff Central, Carmarthen, and Milford Haven. Platforms 5 and 6 are bay platforms, used mainly for trains to and from Aberystwyth and Birmingham, as well as trains for the Heart of Wales Line and local stopping trains to Birmingham New Street.

The island platforms are connected to the main station building and platform 3 by a pedestrian subway running underneath the station. A pedestrian footbridge over the platforms still exists but has long been disconnected from the station; instead, it is a public walkway allowing pedestrians to cross over the station area, and part of a route named "The Dana". All platforms are fitted with CIS screens and automatic announcement speakers and there are customer help points on platforms 3 and 4. A Starbucks, toilets, and vending machines selling snacks and drinks are sited between platforms 4 and 7.

Ticket gates are in operation at the entrance to platforms 4 to 7, with the nearby ticket office staffed throughout the week. Self-service ticket machines are also available for buying tickets or collecting tickets for pre-booked journeys.

Opposite platform 7 is a high concrete wall that divides the rest of the station from what could be considered to be platform 8. This platform does not see any use and was built for the use of transporting prisoners from HM Prison Shrewsbury. (The prison gateway, surmounted by bust of prison reformer John Howard, is visible from platform 7.) It is believed that this platform was only used a few times each year between 1868 up until just before the First World War.

Transport for Wales
All of the services above are operated by s, s, s or s, except the Premier Service which is operated by a Class 67 and Mark 4 coaching stock.
 * Alternate hourly service from Holyhead via Chester and Wrexham General to Birmingham International or Cardiff Central.
 * Two-hourly services from Aberystwyth and Pwllheli via the Cambrian Line to Birmingham International which merge at Machynlleth. Some additional Aberystwyth trains start and finish here at certain times of day. Some late evening services also terminate at Machynlleth.
 * Hourly services from Manchester Piccadilly to Cardiff Central via the Welsh Marches Line. Most services on this route extend to Swansea and Carmarthen, with through running to Milford Haven every two hours. Some services terminate at Tenby, Maesteg or Pembroke Dock. There is also a two-hourly local stopping service to Crewe on this route.
 * Services via the Heart of Wales Line to Swansea. Five trains per day each way Monday–Saturday (plus two services to Llandrindod Wells except Saturdays) and two trains each way on Sundays.
 * Locomotive-hauled Premier Service between Holyhead and Cardiff Central via Chester. Three trains each way per day.
 * Local Stopping services to Wrexham General (morning & late evening only)

West Midlands Railway

 * 1 train per hour to Birmingham New Street via Tame Bridge Parkway operated by s, calling at all stations.
 * 1 train per hour semi-fast to Birmingham New Street, calling at Wellington, Telford Central, Shifnal, Wolverhampton and Smethwick Galton Bridge.

Former services
Prior to the June 2024 timetable change, Avanti West Coast operated a daily direct service to and from London Euston via Birmingham New Street and Coventry, with Class 221s.

Accidents and incidents

 * On 15 October 1907, a mail train hauled by Experiment class locomotive No. 2052 Stephenson was derailed at Shrewsbury due to excessive speed on a curve. Eighteen people were killed.
 * On 6 November 2017, an Arriva Trains Wales Class 175 DMU, numbered 175109, caught fire, causing the station to be evacuated for approximately two hours. There were no casualties but significant travel disruption occurred.

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Satan's Mistress

Satan's Mistress (also known as Demon Rage, Fury of the Succubus and Dark Eyes) is a 1980 horror film. It was released in theatres in 1982. It is about a sexually frustrated housewife, Lisa (played by actress Lana Wood), who, having been distanced from her husband Carl (Don Galloway), begins having nightly trysts with an apparition that gradually takes on the form of a tall, dark stranger (played by Kabir Bedi) who turns out to be a ghost from the other side.

The film gives higher screen credit to Britt Ekland, who had only a minor role but more star power, having previously played Mary Goodnight in The Man with the Golden Gun. Lana Wood is known to many as Plenty O'Toole from the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever. Kabir Bedi was featured as the Bond villain's henchman Gobinda in Octopussy.

The film was released the same year as the similarly themed The Entity, differing in that the sex in Satan's Mistress is consensual.

The film has a cameo by veteran horror actor John Carradine as Father Stratten.

Cast

 * Britt Ekland - Ann-Marie
 * Lana Wood - Lisa
 * Kabir Bedi - the spirit
 * Don Galloway - Carl
 * John Carradine - Father Stratten
 * Sherry Scott - Michelle
 * Elise-Anne - Belline
 * Tom Hallick - Burt

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Hilsea railway station

Hilsea railway station is a railway station on Airport Service Road, Hilsea, Portsmouth, England serving the northern end of Portsea Island, including a large industrial estate nearby. The station was once the closest to Portsmouth Airport, which was closed in 1973.

It is located on the Portsmouth Direct line which runs between London Waterloo and Portsmouth Harbour. There were extensive sidings at Hilsea during World War II.

This railway station is mainly used by commuters who work in nearby Anchorage Park industrial estate. Only stopping trains call here. The station is unmanned.

Historically, during the Battle of Havant, Hilsea was the terminus of an omnibus link from Havant New, just east of Havant. When the Portsmouth Direct Line had been constructed by the LSWR, at the request of the residents of Portsmouth, it was necessary that trains run from the Portcreek Junction railway triangle, to Havant Junction, along track owned by the rival LBSCR. The latter firm refused to allow that and engaged in militant obstruction of the track to prevent the running of a through train service for several months.

The road that crosses over the railway line and station at Hilsea is named Norway Road after the novelist and aeronautical engineer, Nevil Shute Norway.

Services
Services at Hilsea are operated by South Western Railway and Southern using Classes, and  EMUs.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
 * 1 tph to London Waterloo via Guildford
 * 1 tph to London Waterloo via Basingstoke
 * 2 tph to London Victoria via Horsham
 * 1 tph to Southampton Central
 * 5 tph to Portsmouth & Southsea of which 4 continue to Portsmouth Harbour

During the peak hours, there are additional services to London Waterloo as well as services to Brighton and London Victoria.

On Sundays, the services to London Waterloo via Guildford and to London Victoria, do not run, and as such the service to Portsmouth & Southsea reduces to 2tph, with 1 of these continuing to Portsmouth Harbour.

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Reduplicative paramnesia

Reduplicative paramnesia is the delusional belief that a place or location has been duplicated, existing in two or more places simultaneously, or that it has been 'relocated' to another site. It is one of the delusional misidentification syndromes; although rare, it is most commonly associated with traumatic or acquired brain injury, such as stroke, particularly when there is simultaneous damage to the right cerebral hemisphere and to both frontal lobes.

Presentation
Reduplicative paramnesia has been reported in the context of a number of neurological disorders, including stroke, intracerebral hemorrhage, tumor, dementia, encephalopathy and various psychiatric disorders.

Taken from the Benson and colleagues study, the following example illustrates some of the core features of the delusion. In this instance, the patient had had a head injury after a fall in his home. The impact had caused a fractured skull and frontal lobe damage to both sides (although more pronounced on the right) owing to the formation of intracerebral hematomas:

A few days after admission to the Neurobehavioural Center, orientation for time was intact, he could give details of the accident (as related to him by others), could remember his doctors' names and could learn new information and retain it indefinitely. He exhibited, however, a distinct abnormality of orientation for place. While he quickly learned and remembered that he was at the Jamaica Plain Veterans Hospital (also known as the Boston Veterans Administration Hospital), he insisted that the hospital was located in Taunton, Massachusetts, his home town. Under close questioning, he acknowledged that Jamaica Plain was part of Boston and admitted it would be strange for there to be two Jamaica Plain Veterans Hospitals. Nonetheless, he insisted that he was presently hospitalized in a branch of the Jamaica Plain Veterans Hospital located in Taunton. At one time he stated that the hospital was located in the spare bedroom of his house.

The illusory relocation to a familiar place (such as a home or town the patient knows well) is a common theme, although occasionally the patient may believe that they are resident in more fantastical or exotic locations.

Mechanism
Early psychodynamic explanations suggested that reduplicative paramnesia was not directly connected to brain injury, but arises from a motivated denial of illness; particularly, as Weinstein and Kahn claimed, in those that regard illness as an "imperfection, weakness or disgrace". Other early investigators did accept that brain injury was an important factor, but suggested that the disorientation was a "hysterical reaction" motivated by a desire to return home.

The majority of modern theories, however, suggest that the disorder is caused by disruption to the brain systems involved in memory and familiarity. This was the theme of Pick's original explanation, in which he suggested that the crucial mechanism was a "convulsive attack" that disrupted conscious memory.

Benson and colleagues later argued that damage to the right hemisphere of the brain rendered patients unable to maintain orientation owing to impaired visuospatial perception and visual memory, while frontal lobe damage made it difficult to inhibit the false impressions caused by disorientation.

More recent research has broadly supported this view, and links have been made to the literature on confabulation, where patients seem to recall false memories without any realisation that they are false, often also in the context of frontal lobe damage. Right hemisphere damage is also linked to anosognosia, where patients seem unaware of often striking disabilities present after brain injury, also suggesting a link to the lack of insight seen in this disorder.

One case study has suggested a more refined explanation, suggesting that damage to the ventral stream of the visual system, that connects the visual cortex to areas in the temporal lobes, could produce the required visuospatial disorientation and poor memory integration. The temporal areas (including the hippocampus) are known strongly to interact with the frontal lobes during memory formation and retrieval, suggesting an explanation for why frontal damage could also lead to the condition.

History
The term reduplicative paramnesia was first used in 1903 by psychiatrist Arnold Pick to describe a condition in a patient with suspected Alzheimer's disease who insisted that she had been moved from Pick's city clinic to one she claimed looked identical but was in a familiar suburb. To explain the discrepancy she further claimed that Pick and the medical staff worked at both locations.

In retrospect, however, the phenomenon has been found to have been first reported by the Swiss naturalist Charles Bonnet in 1788, who described a woman who also had what would now be called Cotard delusion. Henry Head and Paterson and Zangwill later reported on soldiers who had the delusional belief that their hospital was located in their home town, although in these cases traumatic brain injury seemed to be the most likely cause.

It wasn't until 1976 that serious consideration was given to the disorder, when three cases were reported by Benson and colleagues. Benson not only described striking reduplication syndromes in his patients, but also attempted to explain the phenomena in terms of the neurocognitive deficits also present in the patients. This was one of the first attempts to give a neuropsychological explanation for the disorder.

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Atmos

Atmos may refer to:

Technology

 * ATMOS 2000, a 155 mm/52 calibre self-propelled gun system
 * Atmos clock, a mechanical torsion pendulum clock manufactured by Jaeger-LeCoultre
 * Dolby Atmos, a surround sound technology
 * EMC Atmos, a cloud storage services platform
 * Ford FX-Atmos, a concept car built by the Ford Motor Company
 * Oric Atmos, a model of 6502-based home computer

Other

 * Ambience (sound recording) (also atmos), the sounds of a given location or space in filmmaking
 * ATMOS, a fictional technology introduced in the 2008 Doctor Who episode "The Sontaran Stratagem"
 * Atmos (album), by Czech bassist Miroslav Vitouš featuring Norwegian saxophonist Jan Garbarek
 * ATMOS (festival), the annual techno-management festival of BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus
 * Atmos Energy, one of the United States' largest natural-gas-only distributors
 * ATMOS Software, one of two developers of the video game Escape Velocity Nova
 * Workshop on Algorithmic Approaches for Transportation Modeling, Optimization and Systems, a conference co-located with the European Symposium on Algorithms

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Talk:Rashidi dynasty

Leave Saudi Arabia?
Anybody else out there interested in the history of the Rashidis? I have read that the new King, Abdullah, has a Rashidi mother; does anybody know if this is correct? The writer/social anthropologist Madawi Al Rasheed writes that they had to leave Saudi Arabia after 1975..as her fathers sisters son Prince Faisal bin Musad had assassinated his paternal uncel, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. I am presently reading the book by Madawi Al Rasheed, does anybody else have a knowledge/opinion about it? Huldra 16:50, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

 * This is an old comment, but just to clarify; not all the Al Rashid left in 1975. As for King Abdullah, his mother was from the same tribe as Al Rashid (the tribe of Shammar), but she was not from Al Rashid. -- Slacker 05:13, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Ordering
As the article stands now it is quite messy. I propose that everything that happened between 1836 -1921 will go in the "Amir"-section, under the appropriate amir. Somethings should be cut out completely: Eg: "The House of Saud and the House of Rashid, are the two most powerful houses in central Arabia. In the seventeenth century the alliance between the Saudis and the Wahhabi religious sect made them paramount."............. That text is not "at home" in this article, is it? Huldra 01:21, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

NPOV
This article contains factual mistakes that are biased against Shia. I removed the most obvious parts of the POV statements. -- Eagleamn 02:52, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Added book, saying hello
I added book to the bibliography -- it's a survey of the various "Western" explorers, has lots of info re the Rashidis and the Saudis, lots of quotes. May be available to readers when primary sources aren't.

I'm not an expert and I don't speak or read Arabic (I hope to correct that). I'm interested in the roots of Wahabbism and I've been reading English sources for the history of Arabia. I'm going to be putting Doughty through Distributed Proofreaders so that a free e-book will be available. Zora 06:17, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Name...
The name should be Rashid and not Rashidi, the prince (Amir) was known as Ibin Rashid, and the family is called Al-Rashid. I corrected the arabic name, but left the english to be consistent with the article name which should be changed. --DelftUser 18:33, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Moved from article...

 * The total Rasheed Family men & woman alive around 400 persons . Have spent 2 decades on the Shammar tribe family tree. Hope somebody can do a research / book on the political role of the tribes in the Arabian peninsula.

 * Turki Faisal Al Rasheed

The above was added to the article by user: Tfrasheed. --DelftUser 18:45, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Rashidis in Iran
Are Iranians with that surname related to the Arabs who bear it?--Anglius 06:28, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

No, the proper name is Al-Rashid. --DelftUser 19:08, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I thank you, sir, but they are still somehow related (both descended from the Abbasid dynasty)?--Anglius 22:03, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

No, Al-Rashid decsend from Arab tribes of Najd. I understand your mistake but the man known to history as Al-Rashid is a Caliph and that is not his name but a kind of surname taken on assuming the reigns, meaning the wise.

If you read the article it clearly states that the name comes from the grandfather of the first prince; he would have lived ca. 1800 AD!!--DelftUser 19:04, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Sir, I appreciate your explanation and hope that I was not wasting any of your time or energy. However, out of curiosity, who are the Persian Rashidis descended from?--Anglius 02:59, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I apologise if I am correcting you, sir, but I thought that he lived from the mid(or perhaps late)-8th century until the early 9th century. I hope that I am not being impolite, either.--Anglius 03:05, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I sorry again, for I thought that you meant Harun Al-Rashid.--Anglius 03:47, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

However, sir, are you aware the Persian ones' ancestry?--Anglius 22:14, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

 * No I don't, but I am sure they have nothing to do with Al-Rashid of Ha'il. --DelftUser 09:33, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

I thank you, sir, and I apologise for having bothered you.--Anglius 20:04, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

 * I was glad to be of service. --DelftUser 15:42, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

==Note: The history of Al Rasheed is so frustrating. there is no enough unbiased information about them. I think the entire history about them is not accurate simply because the AlSaud took over with the aid of Britain, and re wrote the history after. It reminds me with that history of Palestine and how the Zionists re wrote it according to their agenda. we need more accurate information from decent people and more info about the great leader Abdulaziz Bin Met'ab Al-Rasheed who won the battle "Al Sarif", no doubts that he deserves a documentary movie about his glorious life.

Map
Does anybody have a source regarding the map? It seems a bit exaggerated. -- Slacker (talk) 14:50, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Images on wikicommons

--DelftUser 08:40, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

British Command
I think the statement that the Ibn Saud's conquest was at British command is surely wrong. Robert Lacey in The Kingdom describes one of the outcomes of Churchill's 1921 Cairo Conference as "Abdul Aziz was left to his own devices in Nejd" (p.161) but that Percy Cox suggested that his pension (subsidy) be raised to the same level as King Husain's in Mecca. Lacey also notes that Abdul Aziz felt the British were surrounding him with enemies and that the attack on the Rashids was pre-emptive. Padres Hana (talk) 09:52, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Current head of the Rashidi dynasty?
Who is the current head of the Rashidi dynasty? --Oasorgard (talk) 12:01, 27 September 2015 (UTC)

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Flag of the dynasty
Is there any proof that the flag currently up is the actual historical flag used by the dynasty and their Emirate? Gknight3 (talk) 07:43, 9 December 2023 (UTC)

Kurdish Iranian are related to Saudi Rashidi
My name is Mohammed Emin Rashidi I did blood work and genetic testing and found that I have Saudi heritage so I ask my grandfather who explains that some Rashidun caliphate members under the surname Rashidi ran from the House of Saud because they knew eventually they wanted to wipe the house of Rashidi out. We survived in Kurdistan Iran and spread throughout the world.

Bro we took Riyadh once and we were royalty, my blood comes from the Caliphate of the members of those who walked with the prophet. MunTSol (talk) 15:05, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

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Bedhampton railway station

Bedhampton railway station serves the former village of Bedhampton, now a suburb lying a mile west of the centre of Havant, in Hampshire, England.

History
Opened in 1906 as "Bedhampton Halt", the station was at first staffed separately, but in the late 1940s it came under the control of Havant; since then it has been staffed only part time. In August 2007, the old platform surfaces were resurfaced, new shelters and a railway crossing were added, and Platform 1 (Havant bound) was extended to make it suitable for longer trains.

Facilities
The station has a ticket office on the Portsmouth bound platform, which is staffed during weekday and Saturday mornings. At other, the station is unstaffed and tickets can be purchased from the self-service ticket machine at the station.

Both platforms are fitted with shelters and modern help points and there is also bicycle storage available at the station. Step-free access is available to both platforms at the station.

Services
Services at Bedhampton are operated by South Western Railway using Classes and  EMUs. Southern also operate a limited service from the station using Class 377 EMUs

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:
 * 1 tph to London Waterloo via Guildford
 * 1 tph to Portsmouth Harbour

During the peak hours, there are additional services to London Waterloo as well to Portsmouth Harbour.

South Western Railway also operate a single late evening service to Southampton Central that runs directly from Bedhampton to Cosham. Southern also call a small number of trains here in the early mornings and late evenings.

On Sundays, Southern serve the station with an hourly service from Brighton to Portsmouth Harbour

Bus Connections
The station is served by the Stagecoach South route 23 which provides regular connections to Leigh Park, Havant, Portsmouth and Southsea.

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Sermon of the week workspace:

Sig: --Lord Bishop Voldemort (Dark Mark) 21:04, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Sig: --Lord Bishop Voldemort (Dark Mark) 21:04, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

WP:CCW WP:BS WP:M WP:COTW WP:WC WP:VAND WP:NPOV WP:RCP WP:CON

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WinPlay3

WinPlay3 was the first real-time MP3 audio player for PCs running Windows, both 16-bit (Windows 3.1) and 32-bit (Windows 95). Prior to this, audio compressed with MP3 had to be decompressed prior to listening. It was released by Fraunhofer IIS ("Institute for Integrated Circuits"), creators of the MP3 format, on September 9, 1995. The latest version was released on May 23, 1997. Since then, the Fraunhofer Society has removed any trace and mention of WinPlay3 from their web sites. However, the software remains available by utilizing the Web Archive.

The program became popular thanks to the warez scene. The first warez group to bring WinPlay3 to attention of a wider audience was Compress Da Audio. They released MP3 rips of CDs, with copies of WinPlay3 included, on several FTP-based warez sites. Rabid Neurosis emerged shortly afterwards, after which the scene exploded.

Until the release of Winamp in 1997, WinPlay3 was the sole option for playing MP3-compressed music on Microsoft Windows. Unlike modern audio programs, such as Winamp or iTunes, it lacked advanced features such as equalizers, or playlists as a menu option, and concentrated mostly on playback. A playlist can be created by hand, however, in a simple text file listing the system path to each MP3 and saving the file with an M3U extension. The m3u playlist support made it the first widely available media player application that offered a well-integrated streaming experience for the web user. Clicking a link on a webpage launched WinPlay3, which would start a stream of the mp3 listed in the m3u file. The limitations were most likely due to the requirement of a 486DX processor running at 66 MHz for real-time playback, which at the time was fairly high.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kanpai

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was MERGE. Obviously not deleting the article. So what advice is offered for the kept article? A strong desire to merge; it being barely a sentence that seems like the right option anyway. -Splash 02:25, 10 September 2005 (UTC)

Kanpai
Foreign dicdef. Nowhere to merge to. Punkmorten 16:56, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Wikipedia is not an indiscriminant collection of information. DV8 2XL 17:08, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete As per above IINAG 17:33, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to Common phrases in different languages. Tonywalton | Talk 18:56, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and Forward --Quasipalm 20:25, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep SamsonFro 14:32, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * transwiki move to wiktionary or merge with Common phrases in different languages. Dread Lord C y b e r S k u l l ✎☠ 21:40, 2005 September 2 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.

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File:Spiderspot.png

Summary
Cover to Spectacular Spider-Man #99. . Art by Herb Trimpe.

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User talk:Dansich

Tony Bradan
Greetings! I noticed you included a biography from The Canadian Encyclopedia in the Tony Bradan article. However, this is a possible copyright violation. Please take a look at our welcome page for more information about writing articles. Welcome to Wikipedia! GinaDana 16:57, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Hi! Would it be alright for me to continue editing the page, with this section removed? How do I go about quoting text? Dansich 11:53, 1 September 2005

Speedy deletion of Ivan Eyre
A tag has been placed on Ivan Eyre requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section A7 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article appears to be about a person or group of people, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in an encyclopedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert the subject's importance or significance may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, as well as our subject-specific notability guideline for biographies.

If you think that this notice was placed here in error, you may contest the deletion by adding  to the top of the article (just below the existing speedy deletion or "db" tag), coupled with adding a note on the article's talk page explaining your position, but be aware that once tagged for speedy deletion, if the article meets the criterion it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would would render it more in conformance with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Merenta (talk) 15:27, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry case
You have been accused of sockpuppetry. Please refer to Suspected sock puppets/Dansich for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with notes for the suspect before editing the evidence page.  freshacconci  speak to me  17:37, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
 * User:Csich claims she and User:Dansich are married. She is also a new user. Both users are strongly advised to edit per their own interests but to avoid violating WP:SOCK and not vandalize, such as removing legitimate tags. — Rlevse  •  Talk  • 21:46, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Ivan Eyre
Ivan Eyre, an article you created, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that Ivan Eyre satisfies Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and the Wikipedia deletion policy). Your opinions on the matter are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/Ivan Eyre and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Ivan Eyre during the discussion but should not remove the articles for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you.  freshacconci  speak to me  20:47, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

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Blood Ritual (album)

Blood Ritual is the second album by the Swiss heavy metal band Samael, released in 1992 on the Century Media Records label.

Background and recording
When Samael's one-album-only contract with Osmose Productions expired the group signed with Century Media which, in the words of vocalist/guitarist Vorphalack, offered them a "rather interesting" deal. The long time between Worship Him and Blood Ritual, explains Vorphalack, was due to negotiations between them and the label. The band chose to record their new record in Germany rather than Switzerland due to the expensive studio time of their native country.

Music
Vorphalack argued that the main change between Worship Him and Blood Ritual was the record production and not the music. According to him there are songs in their sophomore album that pre-date their debut.

Track listing

 * 1) "Epilogue" – 0:40
 * 2) "Beyond the Nothingness" – 4:31
 * 3) "Poison Infiltration" – 3:58
 * 4) "After the Sepulture" – 4:35
 * 5) "Macabre Operetta" – 6:41
 * 6) "Blood Ritual" – 3:25
 * 7) "Since the Creation..." – 0:34
 * 8) "With the Gleam of the Torches" – 6:25
 * 9) "Total Consecration" – 2:40
 * 10) "Bestial Devotion" – 4:50
 * 11) "...Until the Chaos" – 3:25

Personnel

 * Vorphalack - Vocals, Guitars
 * Masmiseim - Bass
 * Xytraguptor - Keyboards, Drums, Percussion

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Havant railway station

Havant railway station is a railway station in Havant, Hampshire, near Portsmouth, located on the Portsmouth Direct Line which runs between London Waterloo and Portsmouth Harbour.

Havant is served by trains operated by Southern, who provide the most trains at the station, and South Western Railway who also provide frequent trains and manage the station.

Havant is the nearest station to Hayling Island and also serves the nearby town of Waterlooville. Buses depart from the nearby bus station to both these places.

History
The first station at Havant was built in 1847 by the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) 500 metres to the east - a small wayside station (called Havant Halt). It was demolished after a serious fire. A newer station was then built 200 m west to serve the then new London & South Western Railway (L&SWR) Portsmouth Direct Line. This station was demolished so that a bigger station could be built 300 m further west to serve the new Hayling Island branch line. It had three platforms, one for Hayling Island and two for the stopping main line services.

Prior to grouping, the "Battle of Havant" took place between the LB&SCR and the L&SWR when the two railway companies fought for the right to use LB&SCR tracks into Havant in order for the L&SWR to reach Portsmouth (see Havant New).

Havant was the terminus for the Hayling Island branch services until late in 1963. Apart from the platform there was a run round loop, a siding serving a warehouse and a water column supplied by a circular metal water tank located near the signal box. In the Spring of 1966 the Hayling Island tracks were removed. The space they occupied was later replaced with a car park and a fence on the south side of the platform.

As part of the Waterloo to Portsmouth electrification the station was completely rebuilt in 1938. The number of tracks was increased from two to four, two for stopping trains and the two for non-stop, generally express trains. The northernmost of the two fast tracks (as mentioned above) was later removed, and the remaining fast (through) track was also removed in late 2006. Judging by the new track layout east of the station, this arrangement seems to be permanent.

After the engineering work of 2007 was finally completed after a lengthy delay that had lasted from the beginning of the year, the stations two platforms have become bi-directional platforms. This means that both platforms can be used for trains going in either direction. Such as when the fast Waterloo service, the xx34 is running late behind the slow Waterloo service xx40. This means that the Slower service may be placed on Platform 1, which services to London go on, and wait, while the faster service is brought onto Platform 2, and then over take the service, so that it can make up the time lost, and not lose more time while waiting to overtake the slower service up in Haslemere station.

Recent changes
Since July 2006, the Hayling Island platform face no longer exists and a new cycle centre has been built in place of the former platform. A new station name pole has been erected at the position also. As well as these, most of the signs within the station were changed and new seats have been installed on the platforms. This was in line with commitments made in the South Western franchise.

There has been some discussion about putting a third (terminating) platform in the gap, however this would have to be very short and narrow. There has also been discussion about reinstating the Hayling Island platform, and even the whole Hayling Island branch. Both of these proposals have now been completely abandoned.

In December 2006, the fast southbound through track was removed. Both the entry and exit from the southbound platform were straightened out to allow a quicker entry and exit speed. New crossovers were put in place to allow bi-directional working on both platforms. From west to east the new layout will be: new NB->SB crossover, new SB->NB crossover, existing road bridge, platforms, new NB->SB crossover, existing SB->NB crossover, level crossing. The level crossing was also resurfaced and new crossing gates installed

Services
Havant is a junction station and provides passengers with an interchange between the West Coastway Line and the Portsmouth Direct Line. It therefore has services to Portsmouth, London Waterloo, London Victoria via Gatwick Airport, Brighton and Southampton.

Most trains at Havant are provided by Southern, who operate five trains per hour in each direction to and from London Victoria, Brighton, Littlehampton, Portsmouth and Southampton. South Western Railway serve the station with two trains per hour in each direction between London Waterloo and Portsmouth.

The typical off-peak service in trains per hour is:

 * 2 tph to London Waterloo via Guildford (1 semi-fast, 1 stopping)
 * 2 tph to London Victoria via Horsham
 * 3 tph to Brighton via Worthing
 * 5 tph to Portsmouth & Southsea of which 4 continue to Portsmouth Harbour
 * 2 tph to Southampton Central

Services at Havant are operated using a mixture of rolling stock including Class 377, 444 and 450 EMUs.

Former services
Until May 2022, Great Western Railway operated limited services between Brighton, Portsmouth Harbour and Bristol Temple Meads that called at Havant.

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Meltdown (festival)

Meltdown is an annual festival held in London, featuring a mix of music, art, performance and film. Meltdown is held in June at Southbank Centre, the arts complex covering 21 acre and including the Royal Festival Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and The Hayward. Each year, the festival chooses an established music artist or act as director of the event, and they pick the performers of their choosing. Directors of the festival have included Elvis Costello, David Bowie, Patti Smith, Lee Scratch Perry, Morrissey, Jarvis Cocker, Nick Cave, Scott Walker, John Peel and Ornette Coleman, Grace Jones, and Chaka Khan. The festival has been held annually since 1993, except in 2006 when the Royal Festival Hall was closed for refurbishment, and when the 2020 Meltdown was postponed to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Pictures uploaded by me, RHaworth to the Commons and en.Wikipedia as at 2008 April 9.

Commons
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However the tool only looks at the most recent uploader so if an image has been changed by someone else it will not appear in Daniel's list. I therefore prepared this more comprehensive list as at 2008 April 9. It lists the following 135 images:

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Ed Bickert

Edward Isaac Bickert, (November 29, 1932 – February 28, 2019) was a Canadian guitarist who played mainstream jazz and swing music. Bickert worked professionally from the mid-1950s to 2000, mainly in the Toronto area. His international reputation grew steadily from the mid-1970s onward as he recorded albums both as a bandleader and as a backing musician for Paul Desmond, Rosemary Clooney, and other artists, with whom he toured in North America, Europe and Japan.

Early life
Bickert was born in the small Plautdietsch-speaking Mennonite village of Hochfeld, Manitoba to Harry Bickert, a Russian Mennonite immigrant from Molotschna colony and Helen Dyck of Plum Coulee, Manitoba. Bickert's parents were semi-professional musicians, his father playing fiddle and his mother playing piano.

As a child, Bickert and his family moved to Vernon, British Columbia where his parents operated a chicken farm and had a small country dance band. When he was ten years old, Bickert started playing a guitar owned by his older brother, and he was soon performing at country dances with his parents. In his late teens, Bickert worked for a little over a year as a sound engineer at a local radio station near Vernon. In 1952, Bickert decided to move to Toronto with the thought of pursuing music as a career. Once in Toronto, he again took a job as a sound engineer at radio station CFRB to support himself. Bickert said of this period "I was really taken aback by the guitar players I heard [in Toronto]. I thought, 'Well, I'm not ready for this!' So I didn't play at all for a couple of years. I worked at CFRB as an engineer, and while I was doing that I gradually got a little fired up about music, met some musicians, played some sessions..."

Breaking into the Toronto jazz scene (1952–1957)
When saxophonist Jimmy Amaro Sr. offered Bickert a place in his band in 1955, Bickert felt confident enough to quit his radio job and try making music his career. By 1957, Bickert had joined two local jazz groups, one led by saxophonist Moe Koffman, the other by clarinetist Phil Nimmons. Bickert played on Koffman's North American hit record "Swinging Shepherd Blues", which made it to number 23 on Billboard's Top 40 chart during the spring of 1958. With Nimmons, he began appearing regularly on CBC radio broadcasts and on records released internationally by Verve Records and RCA. During this period, Bickert also joined the rhythm section of the Howard Cable Orchestra, which was featured on the "Showtime" program on CBC TV.

Studio musician years and the beginning of The Boss Brass (1958–early 1970s)
By the end of the 1950s, Bickert was regularly working as a studio musician in Toronto, recording on commercial and jazz sessions. Bickert's commercial, radio, and television work increased through the 1960s, though he also continued to play jazz gigs at night.

During these years, Bickert first worked with Rob McConnell and many of the Toronto jazz musicians who later became the core of McConnell's Boss Brass big band. The Boss Brass was a part-time band led by McConnell for more than thirty years. The group was first organized in 1968 to record instrumental pop music for radio broadcast and the easy listening LP market, in the wake of the success of Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass group. By 1976, the Boss Brass had added a saxophone section and had evolved into a contemporary jazz big band that played occasionally in Canadian jazz clubs and festivals. Bickert played and recorded with the group until 1998, appearing on more than 15 of the group's jazz-focused albums, and on most of the group's early commercial sessions as well. During the 1970s Bickert also continued to play in Moe Koffman's group, and Koffman himself was a fellow member of the Boss Brass during the 1970s and 1980s.

Playing for Paul Desmond
The rhythm section of Rob McConnell's Boss Brass—bassist Don Thompson, and drummer Terry Clarke—were frequent partners with Bickert at jazz gigs in Toronto in the early 1970s. By the mid-1970s, the trio of Bickert, Thompson, and Clarke was serving as the house band at Toronto's Bourbon Street nightclub, where visiting American jazz musicians would employ the group for extended engagements. In June, 1974, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond of the Dave Brubeck Quartet played a two-week engagement at the club with Bickert, Thompson, and Clarke. Desmond liked the Canadian musicians so much that he booked two more engagements for the following year. In September, 1974, Desmond brought Bickert to the United States to record the studio album Pure Desmond, which featured Bickert and Desmond in a quartet setting with Ron Carter and Connie Kay. This was Bickert's first major appearance playing jazz on a U.S. record label in over a decade, and it served as a showcase for Bickert's guitar playing. “I consider it Ed’s album, really,” Desmond told writer Gene Lees for the album's liner notes.

For his 1975 Bourbon Street engagements, Desmond hired drummer Jerry Fuller in place of Clarke, and started calling the band his "Canadian Group". Three live recordings by Desmond featuring Bickert, Thompson, and Fuller were issued from recordings made during 1975 at Bourbon Street. (In 2020, these were included as part of a 7-CD boxed set of Desmond's 1975 Toronto recordings that was released by Mosaic Records.) In September, 1976, Bickert played for the last time with Desmond at shows in San Francisco and Monterey, California. At this time, Desmond was fighting lymphatic cancer, and the saxophonist died of the disease in May, 1977.

In addition to Desmond, Bickert accompanied Zoot Sims, Art Farmer, Milt Jackson, Red Norvo, Frank Rosolino, and Kenny Wheeler, among others, at Bourbon Street from the mid-1970s to 1984, when the club changed it booking policy and stopped hiring touring jazz stars.

Starting a solo career (1975–1981)
In 1975, Bickert recorded his first solo album, a live trio recording with Don Thompson and Terry Clarke. The same group recorded a studio album in 1976, 'Out of the Past', which was unreleased until 2006. In 2019, Terry Clarke explained to journalist and music producer Bill King how The Ed Bickert Trio was organized:

"'We were playing with Moe Koffman and Mr. Ed was kind of languishing in a super sideman world, and Don Thompson and I went downtown to Bourbon Street one night and we had decided between the two of us we were going to make Ed the leader, and we were going to be part of the Ed Bickert Trio. We cornered him on a break and told him he was going to be the leader, and we would organize everything. The trio didn’t exist until we forced him to do it. That’s when we decided to record whenever we did and recorded live at George’s and a lot of CBC stuff too at Studio 4S.'"

Don Thompson made much the same point to Toronto Globe and Mail writer J.D. Considine in 2012, saying "He's not an aggressive guy....He was a reluctant bandleader."

With Thompson, Bickert also recorded duo albums in 1978 and 1980 (with Thompson appearing on piano for the latter). The Ed Bickert Trio served as the rhythm section on live and studio albums recorded in Toronto by Frank Rosolino, Ruby Braff, Buddy Tate, and Humphrey Littleton. As his solo jazz career blossomed in the mid-to-late-1970s, Bickert's commercial studio career in Toronto slowed down, which the guitarist attributed to his lack of interest in contemporary pop and rock guitar styles. He called the gradual phase out of his commercial work a "mutual parting", though he continued to take occasional commercial studio jobs when he felt like the music was a good fit for his style of playing.

During Bickert's career, most of his work was performing as a backing musician in the Toronto area (working in both live appearances and recording studio jobs). While Bickert did regularly record records as a leader or co-leader from 1975 to 1999, he did not pursue a career as a touring bandleader. Bickert did occasionally do short tours outside of Canada as a member The Concord All-Stars, The Canadian All-Stars, and in the groups of Paul Desmond, Milt Jackson, Rosemary Clooney, and Rob McConnell, appearing in the United States, Europe, and Japan.

The Concord years and beyond (1982–2000)
By 1982, Bickert had secured a recording contract with Concord Jazz, for which he recorded nine albums as a leader or co-leader between 1983 and 1997. Bickert also appeared on the label as a backing musician for artists including Benny Carter, Ken Peplowski, Rob McConnell, Fraser MacPherson, and Rosemary Clooney. Bickert played on five Clooney albums between 1983 and 1987, and the two recorded nine songs during these years as guitar/vocal duets.

In the 1990s, the pace of Bickert's recording and performing career began to slow down. He made no albums as a solo leader after 1989's Third Floor Richard, though he continued to record regularly with The Boss Brass, and with groups led by Moe Koffman and Toronto drummer Barry Elmes. He also appeared on several albums each by singers Trudy Desmond and Shirley Eikhard. His last two small-group Concord recordings were a live duo album with pianist Bill Mays, and a trio album co-led by Rob McConnell and Don Thompson. Bickert made two more small-group jazz recordings in 1999, as part of a cooperative trio organized by Mike Murley specifically to provide Bickert with an opportunity to play jazz standards in public.

Retirement
In the winter of 1995, Bickert slipped on some ice and broke bones in both of his arms, which halted his musical activity for a period of months. Then, in 2000, his wife Madeline died, and Bickert decided, at age 67, to retire completely from music. Bickert's son Jeffery explained to Billboard magazine in 2019:

"'Madeline kept him focused, on track, and without her it was very different and difficult for him. So he let that go, ended up working in the garden, caring for the pool he never swam in, perfecting his knowledge of bird songs, spending time with his grandchildren and listening to performers he didn’t know, many of them younger, and discovering a love for certain musical styles in the classical genre, as well as returning to early 20th century composers, whom he had always found compelling. And getting out, with the help of my/our sister Lindsey, to hear pianists -- Ed liked listening to pianists more than anyone else.”"

Bickert himself explained his retirement to the Toronto Globe & Mail in 2012:

"'I haven't played for 12 years, and I don't know if I could even remember how to hold the instrument right now. No, I just packed it up completely. Maybe I'd had enough… My wife passed away, and at the time, I was having some problems with arthritis, and I was starting to drink quite heavily, and those things combined sort of finished me off. I just never tried to get back to it. I envy or admire people who keep going until they drop. But it just wasn't for me.'"

Personal life
Bickert married Madeline Mulholland, a private secretary, in the early 1960s. The couple had four children, and were married until Madeline's death in 2000. One of Bickert's daughters predeceased him in 2013. Bickert died of cancer in 2019.

Musical style
Bickert was a mainstream jazz musician, specializing in interpreting jazz standards from the Great American Songbook, and instrumentals from the swing era. Bickert occasionally recorded tunes from the 1940s bebop repertoire (Charlie Parker's "Ah-Leu-Cha" and "Barbados"), and the 1950s hard bop repertoire (Jimmy Heath's "C.T.A." and Horace Silver's "Nica's Dream").

Bickert had a reputation for knowing many semi-obscure pop ballads from the 1920s-1950s, and on his own albums, he recorded such examples as "I'll Wait and Pray", "Keeping Myself for You", "I'll Never Stop Loving You", "I Know Why (And So Do You)", and "Maybe You'll Be There".

Bickert did not typically play music from the modal jazz and jazz fusion styles that were predominant during the height of his career in the 1970s and 1980s. He explained his thoughts on these contemporary jazz sounds to Downbeat magazine in 1984, when he was 52: "'I haven't really heard that many of the newer guitar players. Some of the few that I've heard, who are more up to date, like John Scofield, I enjoy. Ralph Towner, I can't name too many. Some of it I enjoy; some of it I just appreciate. At the same time I don't think that I can start trying to play anything close to that, as far as being more modern, more sophisticated, or more assertive. That's partly because I don't have the background in harmony and such that some of the younger guys do. It’s partly because I'm in that age bracket, I suppose, where you get settled into something. And it's partly my nature. I'm not an aggressive kind of person; the way I play's like that, too.'"

Bickert's facility for accompanying a soloist was frequently noted by musicians and jazz writers as one of the things that made his playing noteworthy. Jazz journalist Mark Miller wrote, "It is not to diminish his solos, which are models of succinct melodicism, to suggest that the Bickert identity lies in the chords that he plays." Musician Don Thompson, who played bass with Bickert from the early 1970s to the late 1990s, said, "The inner voice movement was perfect, the logic is impeccable, every chord was the best possible chord … it was perfection all the time."

Bickert's solos, Miller wrote, were in the melody-driven tradition associated with players like Lester Young and Chet Baker: "[Their] harmonic sophistication notwithstanding, their direction is essentially linear—or rather, naturally linear, full of graceful movement and bluesy inflection."

Bassist Steve Wallace, who played and recorded with Bickert from the early 1980s through the late 1990s, wrote: "'His playing could be lyrical, sophisticated and elegant, but there was also some grit and earthiness there, and in this regard he reminds me of vibraphonist Milt Jackson, another great musician Ed played very well with. Both are heavily, but not exclusively, rooted in the blues – it informs their phrasing, ideas, sound, where they leave spaces and so on. Ed could also make more pure music just accompanying people than most musicians could when soloing or in the spotlight. This was my favourite aspect of his playing, great though his solos could be."

Use of solid-body guitar
Although there was some precedent for using solid-body guitars in mainstream jazz, jazz guitarists prior to Bickert mostly used hollow body or semi-hollow electric guitars. Bickert was noteworthy as being one of the few mainstream jazz guitarists in the 1970s and 1980s who used a solid-body electric guitar, an instrument primarily associated with rock, soul, blues, country, and jazz fusion styles at the time. At the beginning of his career, Bickert played hollow-bodied electric guitars, including a Gibson ES-175. Bickert can be heard playing this instrument on Phil Nimmons' 1960 Verve album Nimmons 'n' Nine. Bickert said of the ES-175 "I guess I chose that guitar because guys like Jim Hall and Joe Pass were playing one. I played that for many years. But because of all the studio work I was doing, I needed the versatility of a solid body guitar so I got the Telecaster. It did take a while to get used to it for jazz playing."

Bickert bought his Fender Telecaster in the mid-1960s, and found it to be durable and a practical instrument for live gigs. Solid-bodied electric guitars are less susceptible to tuning issues and damage caused by fluctuation in temperature, and less susceptible to unwanted audio feedback. And, Bickert liked being able to transport his guitar in a lightweight gig bag without worrying that it would be damaged by accidental knocks or impacts. In 1978, Bickert replaced the original Fender single-coil neck pickup with a Gibson humbucker pickup, which was the only significant modification he made to the instrument over the decades that he played it. Bickert was able to play his Telecaster in a wide variety of musical contexts, from big band sessions with Sammy Nestico and Rob McConnell to the intimate jazz played by Paul Desmond, and to exploit the unique qualities that solid-bodied instruments have, particularly regarding the sustaining of notes and chords.

According to bassist Don Thompson, the solid-body guitar was key to shaping Bickert's aesthetic, particularly as an accompanist: "The Telecaster was his instrument, and I don’t think he could have done it on another guitar. It had a lot to do with that sound. It was so dark, giving the illusion the chords were way bigger than they were. It was that sustain, and he was so in tune that set him apart." Journalist Mark Miller wrote that Bickert's chords "pulsed with a soft glow,", and guitarist Lorne Lofsky said "The sound he got out of his guitar was very different. The first time I heard the Pure Desmond album, I thought that it was an electric piano playing the chords."

Though Bickert's Telecaster tone was praised by musicians and fans, Bickert himself was not always fond of it. He told Guitar Player magazine in 1978:

"'There are also things about the Telecaster that I really don’t like at all. The body shape of the thing is kind of strange. I don’t care about aesthetics–I wouldn’t care what any of these things look like–it’s just the way it feels; the balance isn’t right. Tone is another thing, because the sound I’m getting is a compromise. The sound I like is the sound George Benson or Jim Hall gets. The sound I’m trying to get out of the Telecaster never quite comes off. It seems that in order to get rid of the ringy quality of the Tele you have to cut off the highs to the point where it gets muddy.”"

Despite these reservations, however, Bickert recorded almost exclusively using the Telecaster during the final three decades of his career, including on all of the albums for which he was leader or co-leader.

Awards and honors

 * Juno Award for Best Jazz Recording, Sackville 4005 with Don Thompson, 1980
 * Juno Award for Best Traditional Jazz Album - Instrumental, Live at the Senator with Mike Murley and Steve Wallace, 2002
 * Juno Award for Best Traditional Jazz Album, Test of Time with Mike Murley and Steve Wallace, 2013
 * Member of the Order of Canada, 1996

As leader or co-leader

 * 1976 - Ed Bickert (PM)
 * 1976 - Out of the Past (first released in 2006 on Sackville)
 * 1977 - I Like to Recognize the Tune (Canadian Talent Library/United Artists)
 * 1978 - Ed Bickert/Don Thompson - (Sackville, reissued in 2004 on CD with 4 bonus tracks as At the Garden Party)
 * 1979 - Jazz Canada Europe '79 - Ed Bickert Trio; 1 LP in 4-LP boxed set (Radio Canada International) (reissued as part of The Guitar Mastery Of Ed Bickert, Unidisc, 1996)
 * 1979 - Days Gone By - Sonny Greenwich and Ed Bickert Quartet (first released in 2000) (Sackville)
 * 1980 - Dance to the Lady - Don Thompson and Ed Bickert (piano / guitar duets) (Sackville)
 * 1983 - At Toronto's Bourbon Street  - The Ed Bickert 5 feat. Scott Hamilton and Warren Vaché (Concord Jazz)
 * 1984 - Bye Bye Baby - Ed Bickert Quartet featuring Dave McKenna (Concord Jazz)
 * 1984 - Mutual Street - duets with Rob McConnell (Innovation, reissued in 1993 by Jazz Alliance/Concord)
 * 1985 - I Wished On The Moon - Ed Bickert Quartet featuring Rick Wilkins (Concord Jazz)
 * 1985 - The Quartet Of Lorne Lofsky & Ed Bickert And Friends - Lorne Lofsky and Ed Bickert (Unisson, reissued in 2022 by Cornerstone Records)
 * 1989 - Third Floor Richard - Ed Bickert Trio with special guest Dave McKenna (Concord Jazz)
 * 1990 - This is New - Ed Bickert/Lorne Lofsky Quartet (Concord Jazz)
 * 1994 - Trio Sketches - with Rob McConnell, Neil Swainson (Concord Jazz)
 * 1994 - Concord Duo Series Volume 7 - with Bill Mays (Concord Jazz)
 * 1997 - Three for the Road - with Rob McConnell, Don Thompson (Concord Jazz)
 * 1999 - Test of Time with Mike Murley, Steve Wallace (first released in 2012) (Cornerstone Records)
 * 2000 - Live at the Senator with Mike Murley, Steve Wallace (Cornerstone Records)

With Paul Desmond

 * 1974 - Pure Desmond (CTI)
 * 1975 - Live (A&M/Horizon)
 * 1975 - Paul Desmond (Artists House, released 1978)
 * 1975 - Like Someone in Love (Telarc, released 1992)
 * 1975 - The Complete 1975 Toronto Recordings (Mosaic, released 2020, includes all of Live, Paul Desmond, and Like Someone in Love, plus previously unreleased music)
 * 1976 - Edmonton Festival '76 (Gambit, released 2008)

With Rosemary Clooney

 * 1983 - Rosemary Clooney Sings the Music of Harold Arlen (Concord)
 * 1984 - Rosemary Clooney Sings the Music of Irving Berlin (Concord)
 * 1985 - Rosemary Clooney Sings Ballads (Concord)
 * 1986 - Rosemary Clooney Sings the Music of Jimmy Van Heusen (Concord)
 * 1987 - Rosemary Clooney Sings the Lyrics of Johnny Mercer (Concord)

Selected appearances as backing musician

 * 1957 - Cool And Hot Sax - Moe Koffman (Jubilee Records)
 * 1960 - Phil Nimmons and Nine - Phil Nimmons (Verve)
 * 1963 - Take Ten - Phil Nimmons Group (RCA)
 * 1964 - Mary Poppins Swings - Phil Nimmons Group (RCA)
 * 1976 - Thinking of You - Frank Rosolino (Sackville)
 * 1979 - Ruby Braff With The Ed Bickert Trio - Ruby Braff (Sackville)
 * 1981 - The Ballad Artistry of Buddy Tate - Buddy Tate with The Ed Bickert Trio (Sackville)
 * 1983 - Humphrey Lyttelton in Canada - Humphrey Lyttelton with The Ed Bickert Trio (Sackville)
 * 1985 - Old Friends/New Music - Rob McConnell Sextet (Unisson, reissued in 2023 by Cornerstone Records)
 * 1985 - Jazz Prose - Fraser MacPherson Quintet (Concord)
 * 1985 - A Gentleman and His Music - Benny Carter (Concord)
 * 1985 - Night Flight - Sammy Nestico (Sea Breeze)
 * 1985 - With a Song in My Heart - Jane Hall with Ed Bickert (ArtistShare, first released 2017)
 * 1987 - Double Exposure - Ken Peplowski (Concord Records)
 * 1988 - Oop-Pop-A-Da - Moe Koffman feat. Dizzy Gillespie (Soundwing)
 * 1990 - The Jive 5 - Rob McConnell (Concord)
 * 1993 - East-West - Barry Elmes (Cornerstone Records)
 * 1994 - Jamie Mitges and the Jazz Legends - Jamie Mitges Quintet (self-published/RDR Music Group)
 * 1997 - Different Voices - Barry Elmes (Cornerstone Records)

Selected albums with the Boss Brass

 * 1976 - The Jazz Album (Attic)
 * 1977 - Big Band Jazz (Umbrella)
 * 1978 - Again! (Umbrella)
 * 1980 - Present Perfect (MPS)
 * 1981 - Tribute (Pausa)
 * 1981 - Live in Digital (Palo Alto)
 * 1983 - All in Good Time (Sea Breeze/Palo Alto, 1982)
 * 1985 - Atras Da Porta (Innovation)
 * 1985 - Boss Brass and Woods (Innovation)
 * 1991 - The Brass Is Back (Concord)
 * 1992 - Brassy and Sassy (Concord)
 * 1993 - Our 25th Year (Concord)
 * 1994 - Overtime (Concord)
 * 1995 - Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Concord)
 * 1996 - Even Canadians Get the Blues (Concord)
 * 1997 - Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass Play the Jazz Classics (Concord)
 * 1998 - Big Band Christmas (Concord)

See The Boss Brass for more information.

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KSDA-FM

KSDA-FM (91.9 FM) is the call sign for the radio station JOY FM broadcast at 91.9 FM from Agana Heights, in the United States territory of Guam.

KSDA began as "Adventist World Radio-Asia" (AWR-Asia) in 1987 and continues to broadcast on shortwave from Agat, Guam to various countries in Asia. In 1990, AWR launched a local FM station at 91.9 MHz. KSDA-FM first broadcast from AWR's Agat studio, and later from Agana Heights.

When AWR shifted its mission away from local broadcasting, KSDA-FM's operation was passed on to the church's Guam-Micronesia Mission in the early 1990s. In 2000, Good News Broadcasting Corporation (GNBC), a non-profit 501-c3 organization composed of members from various Adventist entities on Guam, received KSDA-FM's license from AWR.

The FM station was known as JOY 92 until mid-2008, when GNBC secured a construction permit for a transmitter on Saipan. The Saipan transmitter KORU rebroadcasts the Guam station on 89.9 MHz, necessitating the name change.

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I have created a stub for this copyvio. He is a notable Canadian Jazz guitarist.

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The Armistice of Copenhagen of 1537 ended the Danish war known as the Count's Feud. No formal peace was signed but the Swedish debt to Lübeck was considered settled, and the trade monopoly of Lübeck in Sweden came to an end.

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