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Robert Nairac

Captain Robert Laurence Nairac (31 August 1948 – 15 May 1977) was a British Army officer in the Grenadier Guards who was abducted from a pub in Dromintee, south County Armagh, during an undercover operation and killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on his fourth tour of duty in Northern Ireland as a Military Intelligence Liaison Officer.

Several men have been imprisoned for his death. His body has never been found.

Early life
Nairac was born in Mauritius, then a British Crown colony, to an English mother and a father of French Mauritian origin. His mother, Barbara (née Dykes) was Anglican and his father, Maurice, a Catholic who worked as an eye surgeon. At the age of one, Nairac's family relocated to Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, where his father worked at Sunderland Eye Infirmary. Nairac was the youngest of four children; he had two sisters and a brother. His brother David died of myocarditis in 1962, aged 24.

He attended preparatory school at Gilling Castle, a feeder school for Ampleforth College, a Catholic public school, which he attended a year later. Whilst at Ampleforth he academically excelled, was head of his house and played rugby for the school. He became friends with the sons of Lord Killanin and went to stay with the family in Dublin and in Spiddal in Connemara, County Galway.

Nairac read medieval and military history at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he excelled in sport; he played for the Oxford University Rugby 2nd XV and revived the Oxford University boxing club, with which he won four blues in bouts with Cambridge. He was also a falconer, keeping in his rooms a bird that was used in the film Kes.

He left Oxford in 1971 and entered the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst under the sponsorship of the Grenadier Guards, into which he was commissioned on graduation. After Sandhurst, he undertook postgraduate studies at Trinity College Dublin, before joining the regiment.

Military service in Northern Ireland
Nairac's first tour of duty in Northern Ireland was with No.1 Company, the Second Battalion of the Grenadier Guards. The Battalion was stationed in Belfast from 5 July 1973 to 31 October 1973. The Grenadiers were given responsibility first for the Protestant Shankill Road area and the predominantly Catholic Ardoyne area. This was a time of high tension and regular contact with paramilitaries. Ostensibly, the battalion's main objectives were to search for weapons and to find paramilitaries. Nairac was frequently involved in such activity on the streets of Belfast and was a community relations activist at the Ardoyne sports club. The battalion's tour was adjudged a success with 58 weapons, 9,000 rounds of ammunition and 693 lbs of explosives taken and 104 men jailed. The battalion had no casualties and did not shoot anyone. After his tour had ended he stayed on as liaison officer for the replacement battalion, the 1st Battalion of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. On their first patrol, Nairac narrowly avoided the impact of the explosion of a car bomb on the Crumlin Road.

Rather than returning to his battalion, which was being transferred to Hong Kong, Nairac volunteered for military intelligence duties in Northern Ireland. Following the completion of several training courses, he returned to Northern Ireland in 1974, attached to 4 Field Survey Troop, Royal Engineers, one of the three subunits of a Special Duties unit known as 14 Intelligence Company (14 Int). Posted to South County Armagh, 4 Field Survey Troop was given the task of performing surveillance duties. Nairac was the liaison officer for the unit, the local British Army brigade and the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC).

He assumed duties outside his official jurisdiction as a liaison officer, including undercover operations. He apparently claimed to have visited pubs in Irish republican strongholds, sung Irish rebel songs and acquired the nickname "Danny Boy". He was driven to pubs by the future Conservative MP Patrick Mercer, who was then an army officer. Former Special Air Service (SAS) Warrant Officer Ken Connor, who was involved in the creation of 14 Int, wrote of him in his book, Ghost Force, p. 263:

"Had he been an SAS member, he would not have been allowed to operate in the way he did. Before his death, we had been very concerned at the lack of checks on his activities. No one seemed to know who his boss was, and he appeared to have been allowed to get out of control, deciding himself what tasks he would do."

Nairac finished his tour with 14th Int in mid-1975 and returned to his regiment in London, having been promoted to Captain on 4 September 1975. Following a rise in violence culminating in the Kingsmill massacre, the British Army increased their presence in Northern Ireland, and Nairac accepted a post as a liaison officer. On his fourth tour, Nairac was a liaison officer in Bessbrook Mill.

Death
On the evening of 14 May 1977, Nairac drove alone to The Three Steps pub in Dromintee, a village in south County Armagh. He is said to have told regulars of the pub that he was Danny McErlaine, a motor mechanic and member of the Official IRA from the Irish Republican Ardoyne area in North Belfast. The real McErlaine, on the run since 1974, was ultimately killed by the Provisional IRA in June 1978 after stealing arms from the organisation. Witnesses say that Nairac got up and sang a republican folk song, "The Broad Black Brimmer", with the band who were playing that night. At around 11.45 p.m., he was abducted, following a struggle in the pub's car park and taken across the border into the Republic of Ireland to a field in the Ravensdale Woods in the north of County Louth. Following a violent interrogation, during which Nairac was allegedly punched, kicked, pistol-whipped and hit with a wooden post, he was shot dead in a field. He did not admit to his true identity. Terry McCormick, one of Nairac's abductors, posed as a priest in order to try to elicit information by way of Nairac's confession. Nairac's last words according to McCormick were: "Bless me, Father, for I have sinned". Claims that his body was disposed of by being put through a meat grinder have been dismissed as a myth.

His disappearance sparked a large-scale search throughout Ireland. The hunt in Northern Ireland was led by Major H. Jones, Brigade Major at HQ 3rd Infantry Brigade. Nairac and Jones had become friends and Nairac would sometimes eat supper at the Jones household. After a four-day search, the Garda Síochána confirmed to the RUC that they had reliable evidence of Nairac's killing.

An edition of Spotlight, broadcast on 19 June 2007, claimed that his body was not destroyed in a meat grinder, as alleged by an unnamed IRA source. McCormick, who has been on the run in the United States for thirty years because of his involvement in the killing (including being the first to attack Nairac in the car park), was told by a senior IRA commander that he was buried on farmland and reburied elsewhere. The location of the body's resting place remains a mystery. Nairac is one of three IRA victims whose graves have never been revealed and who are among those known as 'The Disappeared'. The cases are under review by the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains.

In May 2000, allegations were made claiming that Nairac had married and fathered a child with a woman named Nel Lister, also known as Oonagh Flynn or Oonagh Lister. In 2001, her son sought DNA testing and revealed the allegations to be untrue.

Criminal prosecutions
In November 1977, Liam Townson, a 24-year-old IRA member from the village of Meigh outside Newry, was convicted of Nairac's murder. Townson was the son of an Englishman who had married a County Meath woman. He confessed to killing Nairac and implicated other members of the unit involved. Townson made two admissible confessions to Garda officers. The first was made around the time of his arrest, it started with "I shot the British captain. He never told us anything. He was a great soldier." The second statement was made at Dundalk police station, after Townson had consulted a solicitor. He had become hysterical and distressed and screamed a confession to the officer in charge of the investigation.

Townson was convicted in Dublin's Special Criminal Court of Nairac's murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. He served 13 years before his 1990 release. In 1998, he was part of Conor Murphy's election campaign team.

In 1978, the RUC arrested five men from the South Armagh area. Three – Gerard Fearon, 21, Thomas Morgan, 18 and Daniel O'Rourke, 33 – were charged with Nairac's murder. Michael McCoy, 20, was charged with kidnapping and Owen Rocks, 22, was accused of withholding information. Fearon and Morgan were convicted of Nairac's murder. O'Rourke was acquitted, but found guilty of manslaughter and jailed for ten years. McCoy was jailed for five years and Rocks for two. Morgan died in a road accident in 1987, a year after his release. O'Rourke became a prominent Sinn Féin member in Drumintee.

Two other men, Terry McCormick and Pat Maguire, wanted in connection with this incident, remain on the run. Maguire has been reported as living in New Jersey in the US. In September 2021 Terry McCormick was reported to have died.

On 20 May 2008, 57-year-old IRA veteran Kevin Crilly of Jonesborough, County Armagh was arrested by officers of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). He had been on the run in the United States but had returned to Northern Ireland under an alias. He was charged the following day with the kidnapping and false imprisonment of Nairac. In November 2009, Crilly was also charged with the murder of Nairac at Newry magistrates' court during a bail hearing on the two counts on which he had been charged in 2008. Crilly was cleared on all counts in April 2011, as the judge considered that the prosecution had failed to prove intention or prior knowledge on his part.

Nairac's killing is one of those under investigation by the PSNI's Historical Enquiries Team (HET).

George Cross award
On 13 February 1979, Nairac was posthumously awarded the George Cross.

Collusion allegations
Posthumous claims have been made about Nairac's involvement in the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings, the killing of an IRA member in the Republic of Ireland and his relationship with Ulster loyalist paramilitaries.

Hidden Hand documentary
Nairac has been accused of involvement in the murder of an IRA member and of collusion with loyalist paramilitaries.

Allegations were made concerning Nairac in a 1993 Yorkshire Television documentary about the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings of May 1974 entitled Hidden Hand. The narrator states:

"We have evidence from police, military and loyalist sources which confirms the links between Nairac and the Portadown loyalist paramilitaries. And also that in May 1974, he was meeting with these paramilitaries, supplying them with arms and helping them plan acts of terrorism against Republican targets. In particular, the three prime Dublin [bomb attacks] suspects, Robert McConnell, Harris Boyle and the man called 'The Jackal' (Robin Jackson, Ulster Volunteer Force [UVF] member from Lurgan), were run before and after the Dublin bombings by Captain Nairac."

According to the documentary, support for this allegation was said to have come from various sources:

"They include officers from RUC Special Branch, CID and Special Patrol Group; officers from the Gardaí Special Branch; and key senior loyalists who were in charge of the County Armagh paramilitaries of the day...."

Geoff Knupfer of the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains stated that Nairac was in Ashford, Kent, England at the time of the bombings.

Holroyd
MI6 operative Fred Holroyd said Nairac admitted involvement in the assassination of IRA member John Francis Green on 10 January 1975 to him. Holroyd claimed in a New Statesman article written by Duncan Campbell that Nairac had boasted about Green's death and showed him a colour Polaroid photograph of Green's corpse taken directly after his assassination.

These claims were given prominence when, in 1987, Ken Livingstone, in his maiden speech as a MP, told the House of Commons that Nairac was quite likely to have been the person who organised the Miami Showband killings and that the same gun that was used by Nairac on his cross-border trip to assassinate John Francis Green was used in the Miami showband massacre. Livingstone concluded: "There is something rotten at the heart of the British security services, and we will not have a safe democracy until it is exposed in its entirety and dealt with."

The Barron Report stated that:"The evidence before the Inquiry that the polaroid photograph allegedly taken by the killers after the murder was actually taken by a Garda officer on the following morning seriously undermines the evidence that Nairac himself had been involved in the shooting."

Holroyd's evidence was also questioned by Barron in the following terms: "The picture derived from this is of a man increasingly frustrated with the failure of the British Authorities to take his claims seriously; who saw the threat to reveal a crossborder SAS assassination."

Geoff Knupfer of the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains states Nairac was 80 mi away in Derry at the time.

Barron Report
Nairac was mentioned in Mr Justice Henry Barron's inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan bombings when it examined the claims made by the Hidden Hand documentary, Holroyd and Colin Wallace.

Former RUC Special Patrol Group member John Weir, who was also a UVF member, claimed he had received information from an informant that Nairac was involved in the killing of Green:

"The men who did that shooting were Robert McConnell, Robin Jackson and I would be almost certain, Harris Boyle who was killed in the Miami attack. What I am absolutely certain of is that Robert McConnell, Robert McConnell knew that area really, really well. Robin Jackson was with him. I was later told that Nairac was with them. I was told by… a UVF man, he was very close to Jackson and operated with him. Jackson told [him] that Nairac was with them."

In addition, "Surviving Miami Showband members Steve Travers and Des McAlee testified in court that an Army officer with a crisp English accent oversaw the Miami attack", the implication being that this was Nairac. Travers was uncertain whether or not Nairac was the man overseeing the attack, stating that his distinct impression was that the man had fair hair, in contrast to Nairac's dark hair.

Fred Holroyd and John Weir also linked Nairac to the Green and Miami Showband killings. Martin Dillon, however, in his book The Dirty War, maintained that Nairac was not involved in either attack. Geoff Knupfer of the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains states Nairac was in either London or Scotland at this time.

Colin Wallace, in describing Nairac as a Military Intelligence Liaison Officer said "his duties did not involve agent handling". Nevertheless, Nairac "seems to have had close links with the Mid-Ulster UVF, including Robin Jackson and Harris Boyle". According to Wallace, "he could not have carried out this open association without official approval, because otherwise he would have been transferred immediately from Northern Ireland". Wallace wrote in 1975; Nairac was on his fourth tour of duty in 1977.

Robin Jackson was implicated in the Dublin and Monaghan bombings of May 1974, and Harris Boyle was blown up by his own bomb during the Miami Showband massacre.

The Barron Inquiry found a chain of ballistic history linking weapons and killings under the control of a group of UVF and security force members, including RUC Special Patrol Group members John Weir and Billy McCaughey, that is connected to those alleged to have carried out the bombings. This group was known as the "Glenanne gang". Incidents they were responsible for "included, in 1975, three murders at Donnelly's bar in Silverbridge, the murders of two men at a fake Ulster Defence Regiment checkpoint, the murder of IRA man John Francis Green in the Republic, the murders of members of the Miami showband and the murder of Dorothy Trainor in Portadown in 1976, they included the murders of three members of the Reavey family, and the attack on the Rock Bar in Tassagh." According to Weir, members of the gang began to suspect that Nairac was playing republican and loyalist paramilitaries off against each other, by feeding them information about murders carried out by the "other side" with the intention of "provoking revenge attacks".

In fiction
Eoin McNamee's 2004 novel The Ultras contains a fictionalized account of Nairac's life. McNamee has said that he had had "the idea of Nairac in my head for a long time, but I wasn't able to find a way into the whole subject. In the end, I used him as a conduit to the covert and psychic infrastructure of the time, to the gripping physical and moral texture of what was going on."

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Ilario Pantano
I've been doing my best to follow the Ilario Pantano case. It looks like you have a lot of sources of information about his case. I have a bunch of questions about his case to which I haven't been able to find answers. Maybe your contributions to the article could answer some of them? Did you look at the questions and comments I put on the Talk:Ilario Pantano, and have now moved to User:Geo Swan/Pantano? -- Geo Swan 19:17, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

I've responded at length to the discussion page on your user page. Feel free to email me with further questions. kit.jarrell@gmail.com. -- --Kit Jarrell 14:13, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

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Western Hotel (Ouray, Colorado)

The Western Hotel opened in 1892. Located on 7th Avenue in Ouray, Colorado, USA, it was built near the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad's Passenger Station. It is one of the few remaining examples of a wood-frame hotel from the 1880s that remain today. The building was purchased by Zeppelin Development in 2021 and underwent major renovations.

This structure is a contributing property of the Ouray Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.

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User:Kit Jarrell

Overview
I am 32 years old and my ego compels me to pimp myself on this venue. I currently am a freelance editor and military weblog writer, as well as a former administrator for deviantART. I am also a full-time aeronautics student.

After 4 1/2 years at deviantART, I stepped down from my position as a long-standing core administrator in late July 2005, in protest of the unethical termination of Scott Jarkoff, one of the site's two founders. I also stand in protest of the business practices utilized by Angelo Sotira.

I was formerly euphoriadev here at Wikipedia, but have changed to my name for the purposes of transparency and disclosure.

Euphoric Reality
I am the owner and senior writer of the military blog EuphoricReality.net. Some of the larger stories ER has been involved with include:

 * Ilario_Pantano Case: Sgt. Daniel Coburn, the chief accuser against Pantano, wrote several statements on EuphoricReality.net during the investigation.  These statements were reported to authorities, as they were in direct contradiction to statements Coburn had made to investigators.  The comments were later used against Coburn on the witness stand, where he denied making them, but later admitted to writing them. ER was also the only blog to have several exclusive interviews with Pantano's attorney Charles_Gittins and other key players in the case.  Ultimately, ER's coverage of the Pantano case was recognized by Michelle Malkin and World Net Daily.

 * Bryan Roney Case: Airman Bryan Roney was charged with several offenses in Qatar and put before a special courtmartial. ER had exclusive coverage of the case and the not guilty verdict.

 * Brother Against Brother: The Brother Against Brother story was a ten-part series about the men of F Company, 58th Infantry, 101st_Airborne in the Vietnam_War. They have been accused of war crimes, but the  investigation my co-writer and I conducted shows those accusations to be false and malicious.

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Upcoming articles: /58th Infantry, /Gary Linderer, /Bryan Roney, /Daniel Coburn, /Kenn Miller, /Riley Cox, /Long Range Patrol

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 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 keep. --Tony Sidaway Talk 18:07, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Joshua reeves
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 * Speedy Delete A7. RasputinAXP   talk  *  contribs  17:00, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable as yet. -- DS1953 17:28, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with TECC -- Corey.spring 18:30, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with TECC for the moment until he does something else of note. Capitalistroadster 18:52, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
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Fauldhouse

Fauldhouse (Fauldhoose; Falas) is a village in West Lothian, Scotland. It is about halfway between Glasgow and Edinburgh. The nearest towns to Fauldhouse are Whitburn and Livingston. Other neighbouring villages include Longridge, Shotts and Stoneyburn. At approximately 750 feet above sea level, Fauldhouse is one of the highest villages in West Lothian.

History
Settlements and farms within Fauldhouse have existed since, at least, the Middle Ages, and was known until the 19th century by the names Falas, Fallas, Fawlhous and Falhous. The first written mention of Fauldhouse was in 1523. The seventeenth century Dutch mapmaker Willem Blaeu features Fauldhouse as Falas on two maps in his Atlas Novus of Scotland, and there are families with the surname Fallas. The name Fallas or Fauldhouse has been translated as "house on the fold", "house in the field", or "house on unploughed (fallow) land". However, the name may be older than the Middle Ages, and might even be derived from the Brythonic or Welsh-type language once spoken in the Lothian region. Historically, Fauldhouse was in the parish of Livingston but in 1730 it was transferred to Whitburn.

Fauldhouse is a former mining community. A mine existed in the area as early as 1790. However, the community developed extensively from the 1830s following discovery of coal and iron resources, in particular the discovery of an extractable slatery ironstone. Focusing initially around three smaller settlements (Crofthead, Drybridge and Greenburn), the village eventually grew and combined as one settlement, following new mines and the coming of the railway in 1845 (transportation of mine workings) and a second line in 1869. Some twenty mines were in operation around Fauldhouse, with the last closing in 1974. Nearby significant local mines and quarries (now closed) included:

 * The Greenburn Pit (iron ore).
 * Crofthead Quarry and mines (sandstone and iron ore), below the area now marked by Quarry road. Crofthead also included a brick works. Operations ceased in 1909 and the area was used as a rubbish dump by West Lothian County Council before returned to private ownership.
 * Fauldhousehills and Fallahills quarries (sandstone).
 * Braehead quarries (sandstone, coal and other minerals).
 * Shotts road colliery, established between 1864 and 1899.
 * Bridge-end colliery (coal).
 * Eastfield collieries (coal and iron ore).

The central street, Main Street has a number of substantial ashlar stone cottages. These are known locally as the “Garibaldi Row”. Those stone houses in the West End were constructed by Thomas Thornton & Co who also owned the miners shop. In 1895, the Caledonia Hotel was built and served as a station hotel and cultural venue for the village. The building has oriel windows. The hotel was damaged by fire in 1985 and then closed in 1992 when it was converted into flats. In 1900, Crofthead Primary school was built in the village. The school was three storeys and has since been converted into a care home, as other new schools have been built. In 1908, a drill hall was built in the village and alter incorporated into the structure of the local mining institute. The hall had an indoor firing range and in 1914 the hall was base for "F" Company, 10th [Cyclist] Battalion, Royal Scots.

The village previously had a theatre and cinema, the Palace Theatre, which opened in 1914. It later became the Savoy Bingo Club and was then demolished.

Transport
The village is served by the Fauldhouse railway station, on the Shotts Line between Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Lothian Country operate bus services:

 * 72 - Fauldhouse - Whitburn - Blackburn - Livingston - Broxburn - Kirkliston
 * 74 - Fauldhouse - Stoneyburn - Addiewell - West Calder - Polbeth - Livingston

Education
The village has two primary schools, Falla Hill and St. John the Baptist RC. The local high school for Falla Hill is Whitburn Academy and for St John the Baptist, St. Kentigern's Academy in Blackburn.

Religion
There are two churches in Fauldhouse. St Andrew's Kirk on Main Street was built in 1866 and designed by Angus Kennedy. It is in a Gothic revival style and has buttresses and a traceried window. There was previously a United Free Church in Crofthead, which was united with Fauldhouse church in 1973 to form Fauldhouse St Andrew's Parish Church.

The church of St. John the Baptist was the first Roman Catholic parish in West Lothian and was built in 1873. Designed by W & R Ingram, it consists of a chapel with corbelled belfry and spirelet above a rose window and contains several fine examples of Stained Glass.

Geography
3.4 kilometers to the south east of Fauldhouse, overlooking the village, lies the Leven Seat hill. The hill has a hight of 356 meters.

Atop the hill there is a small statue of Buddha on the hill's trig point. The Leven Seat Klostoph Buddha uses to sit on the water trough at the bottom of the hill. It was frequently carried to the trig point and back down but now sits permanently at the top. Over the years it has been painted white from its original grey and more recently, gold.

Football
The local football club is Fauldhouse United, winners of the Scottish Junior Cup in 1946, who now play in the East of Scotland Football League.

In 2001, the Fauldhouse Foxes BC was formed, later known as Fauldhouse FCA. They now operate with teams ranging from Under 9 up to Under 19. The Under 13s won the Scottish Cup in 2011, beating Syngenta Juveniles 3–0 in the final.

Golf
To the south of Fauldhouse is the 18-hole Greenburn Golf Course which was founded in 1892, but has been on its present site for around 50 years. Trains run through the course over a viaduct.

Cricket
The local cricket club is Fauldhouse Victoria. They were established in 1855, and are one of the oldest clubs in Scotland. The 1st team plays in the East of Scotland Division 1. As of 28 June 2023 no trace of the cricket club as an active club can be found. The last activity seems to have been in East League division three in 2018.

Swimming
The swimming club in Fauldhouse is called the Fauldhouse Penguins. They are part of the swimming development programme in West Lothian called Swim West Lothian (SWL).

Notable people
Stephen Greenhorn, who wrote River City and Marchlands, is from Fauldhouse. In 2013, Greenhorn adapted his musical Sunshine on Leith for the big screen. The film was shot in Glasgow and Edinburgh in late 2012; it stars Peter Mullan and Jane Horrocks, and is directed by Dexter Fletcher.

John McLaren, won the title Scottish Junior Cross Country Champion in 1954, and then retained the title. In 1955, McLaren won the English title and came in 12th in the 1956 International Cross Country Championships. He represented Scotland six times throughout his career.

Robert Whiteford Robert Whiteford (born 12 April 1983) is a Scottish mixed martial artist competing in Featherweight division. A professional competitor since 2009, he formerly competed for the UFC, being the first Scottish fighter to be signed by the promotion, Bellator MMA, and Absolute Championship Berkut.

Paige Turley, winner of the TV show Love Island.

Jack Aitchison football, former Celtic player.

Neil Findlay Former Member of the Scottish Parliament.

Craig Robertson International badminton, now badminton coach.

Reese Lynch Boxing, won gold at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games.

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When was this picture taken? I think may have been there, since I saw them at the NOJHF this year. Just wonderin'.Bjones

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Littoral (Benin)

Littoral (, "Littoral") is one of the twelve departments of Benin. At 79 km2, Littoral is the smallest department in the country. Its capital is Cotonou, Benin's largest city. The department was created in 1999 with the splitting up of territories of Atlantique Department.

As per 2013 census, the total population of the department was 679,012 with 325,872 males and 353,140 females. The entire population was urban while the total labour force in the department numbered 253,892. The proportion of households with no level of attained formal education was 21.1%, by far the lowest of any department in the country.

Geography
Littoral Department borders Ouémé Department and Atlantique Department and is situated in a coastal area that has interconnected lakes and lagoons and elongated coastlines with wide marshes. Freshwater and seawater fishing is the major profession in the region. Petroleum was discovered in the 1960s in offshore areas, while titanium, low-quality iron ore, ilmenite and chromite are the major minerals. The southern regions of Benin receive two spells from March to July and September to November while the northern regions of the country receive one season of rainfall from May to September. The country receives an average annual rainfall of around 1200 mm, but Littoral Department receives less rainfall. The department's region has mostly low-lying sandy coastal plains towards the Atlantic Ocean, marshes, lagoons and lakes. The highest elevation in the department around the coastal plains is 20 m compared to the average 200 m above average mean sea level of the country.

Demographics
According to Benin's 2013 census, the total population of Littoral Department was 679,012, with 325,872 males and 353,140 females. The proportion of women was 52.00%. The entire population lived in urban areas. The proportion of women of childbearing age (15 to 49 years old) was 28.00%. The total foreign population in the department was 57,516, representing 8.50% of the total population. The labour force participation rate among foreigners aged 15–64 years was 40.70%. The proportion of women among the foreign population constituted 48.90%. The number of households in the department was 166,433 and the average household size was 4.1. The intercensal growth rate of the population was 0.20%.

Among women, the average age of first marriage was 23.4 and the average age at first birth was 29. The synthetic index of fertility of women was 3.7. The average number of families per house was 1.1 and the average number of persons per room was 1.7. The total labour force in the department was 253,892, of which 46.00% were women. The proportion of households with no level of education was 21.10% and the proportion of households with children attending school was 88.50%. The crude birth rate was 33.6, the general rate of fertility was 120.10 and the gross reproduction rate was 1.80.

Administrative divisions
The department of Littoral was created in 1999, when it was split off from Atlantique Department and Cotonou was made its capital. It is the smallest of all departments in the country. Littoral comprises just one commune/city, Cotonou, Benin's largest city and its economic capital. Cotonou is subdivided into 13 arrondissements, which are further subdivided into 165 neighborhoods.

Benin originally had six administrative regions (départements), which have now been bifurcated to make 12. Each of the deconcentrated administrative services (directions départementales) of the sectoral ministries takes care of two administrative regions. A law passed in 1999 transformed the sous-prefectures, the lowest level of territorial administration, into local governments. Municipalities and communal councils have elected representatives who manage the administration of the regions. The latest elections of the municipal and communal councils were held in June 2015.

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Little Nellie Kelly

Little Nellie Kelly is a 1940 American musical-comedy film based on the stage musical of the same title by George M. Cohan which was a hit on Broadway in 1922 and 1923. The film was written by Jack McGowan and directed by Norman Taurog. Its cast included Judy Garland, George Murphy, Charles Winninger and Douglas McPhail.

The film is notable for containing Judy Garland's only on-screen death scene, but she re-appears in the film as the daughter of the character who died.

Plot
In Ireland, Jerry Kelly (George Murphy) marries his sweetheart Nellie Noonan (Judy Garland) over the objections of her ne'er-do-well father Michael Noonan (Charles Winninger), who swears never to speak to Jerry again, even though he reluctantly accompanies the newlyweds to the U.S., where Jerry becomes a policeman and all three become citizens. Michael continues to hold his grudge against Jerry even when Nellie dies shortly after giving birth to her daughter, also named Nellie.

Years later, Jerry is now a captain on the police force, and Nellie (also played by Judy Garland) has grown up as the spitting image of her mother. Michael dotes on his granddaughter but is embarrassed when she sings in public at the police department parade (It's a Great Day for the Irish). He uses a supposed weak heart, for which he takes a tot of whiskey from a medicine bottle, to get his way with Nellie and to avoid work. When Nellie becomes enamored with Dennis Fogarty (Douglas McPhail), the son of Michael's old friend Timothy Fogarty (Arthur Shields), the conflict in the home intensifies. Jerry is happy for her, but Michael objects to the romance, and when Nellie, encouraged by her father, finally stands up to him, he leaves home.

Eventually, the three generations are reconciled, and Nellie and Dennis remain a couple.

Cast

 * Judy Garland as Nellie Noonan Kelly and as Little Nellie Kelly
 * George Murphy as Jerry Kelly
 * Charles Winninger as Michael "Mike" Noonan
 * Douglas McPhail as Dennis Fogarty
 * Arthur Shields as Timothy Fogarty
 * Rita Page as Mrs. Mary Fogarty
 * Forrester Harvey as Moriarity
 * James Burke as Police Sergeant McGowan
 * George Watts as Mr. Keevan, NYC Bar Owner

Songs
Judy Garland sings a swing version of "Singin' in the Rain" more than 10 years before Gene Kelly famously sang it in his film Singin' in the Rain (1952) as well as sings several newer songs, including the traditional "A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow" sung partly in Irish-Gaelic. There are also two production numbers, one set at the New York City Policeman's Ball and the other written by Roger Edens. In the latter, Garland sings "It's A Great Day for the Irish" while marching in New York City's St. Patrick's Day Parade. This song became one of Garland's bigger hits.

Songs cut from the film include "Rings on Your Fingers and Bells on Your Toes" (used in Garland's later film Babes on Broadway, 1941), "Danny Boy" and "How Can You Buy Killarney".

Production
After the success of The Wizard of Oz (1939), the film was a "test" by MGM to evaluate both Garland's audience appeal and her physical image. It was rumored at the time that George M Cohan sold the rights expressly as a vehicle for Garland. The film gave 18-year-old Garland the opportunity to grow up as she is in the first half of the picture set in Ireland, in which she plays Nellie Noonan, the mother of Little Nellie Kelly. Although called "a bit of Blarney", overall the film was well-received. Critics noted Garland "gets prettier with each picture".

Box office
According to MGM records, the film earned $968,000 in the U.S. and Canada and $1,078,000 in other markets, resulting in a profit of $680,000.

Home media
The film was released on DVD on March 15, 2011.

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User talk:Rrenner

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SqueakBox (Richard): Sorry for the delay in answering. I had not realized I had a discussion page until my communication with Bcatt about Mayan Languages. Thank you for the links to introductory materials. r3 04:17, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Mayan Languages

 * It appears that when I intended to remove something small, I actually removed a large portion of the article by accident. I will fix that immediatly. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. bcatt 04:01, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Ok, restored the deleted material. Please take a look and tell me if I missed anything. Sorry about that. bcatt 04:08, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Thank you, Bcatt. My faith in good faith is restored. The Mayan Languages page still needs some work. The language tree does not have the languages grouped or organized in the most informative structure. Also, there is more information in the world about the available writings in these languages. The fuller descriptions could give readers access to this rich culture. r3 04:17, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Thank you for the invitation, but I really don't know anything about Mayan languages at all! I had just noticed that an anonymous user had gone through a lot of pages and vandalized them, I was trying to work my way through their list of "contributions" and remove any that had not been caught by other users. However, it sounds like a very interesting subject and I will do some internet research and see if it's something I have a capacity for. bcatt 05:12, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Columbus, Ohio
--Julián Ortega - drop me a message 22:12, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
 * This article seems more a news article than an encyclopedia article. Would you consider moving it to Wikinews?
 * In order to be usable in all Wikimedia projects, and since you took it and allow its (almost) free use, you can upload this image to Commons.

The edit to Portal:Politics/News

 * The information on Current events was updated to include some attendance totals and additional info, and I copied it over. Please note, though, that somewhere along the line, a discussion has to be to be had as to which of the related events is most notable. While there is room in the article space for as much information as is notable, infoboxes have to be condensed. As a result, there has to be a decision made by the community as to which is most notable, not simply whether or not it is actually notable. --DMG413 02:37, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I guess the best thing to do would be to start an article linking from the current events page and other relevant pages. The article should have a fairly condensed title that people might actually search for - something along the lines of March 2006 Immigration law rallies and cover it from an encyclopedic view, not that of a news article. If you don't have a lot of experience starting new articles, you might want to take a look through a few of the policies first, particularly NPOV, NOR and What Wikipedia is not. --DMG413 03:23, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Infinitesimal
I am a bit confused by your addition of the Infinitesimal section. It just repeats the calculation at the previous "History of the infinitesimal" section. The point has been made in that "History of the infinitesimal" section that calculus with infinitesimals is not rigurous, I see no reason then for your section where you repeat the same thing. Wonder if you can comment on that, you can reply here, thanks. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 03:49, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
 * You are right that my calculation was a repeat of the one in the "History of the infinitesimal" section. However, I believe the big-0-dot notation makes infinitesimal calculus accessible, and even intuitive for students who want a practical understanding.  In any event, my section did not survive its first hour.  It was removed with this comment:
 * Lethe (Talk | contribs) (rv: the weird circledot notation notwithstanding, this material is mostly correct, though it mixes nilpotency with infinitesimals. could be a useful addition to the article with more context)
 * r3 04:39, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

But again, what you are doing is just replacing dx with that strange O and repeating the earlier section. And how do you know that that strange O squared is zero? I think it is not, things are more subtle than that. Anyway, I agree with the material removal by Lethe. I think you mean well but that section was not right the way it was in many ways. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 04:57, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Questions about my candidacy
Hi Rrenner. I answered your questions on meta. Un abrazo! --Zuirdj 14:57, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Well done, thank you. Excelente, gracias. r3 20:08, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

NPR
I noticed on your userpage that you work for NPR. To your knowledge, have they ever done a piece on Wikipedia? --Daniel Olsen 05:04, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

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I believe that the "albino" peacocks in your photo are not albinos but genetic mutations .Frankyboy5 00:54, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

 * I see now. Thank you. I corrected the photo description. r3 14:21, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

Donations
Greetings! I noticed you had asked a question about where to send a check. The mailing address is on the donations page on the Foundation wiki, but I will add that to the FAQ. Thanks, Kat Walsh (spill your mind?) 08:52, 23 December 2006 (UTC)

Safe Drinking Water Act
Greetings! I noticed some edits on the Safe Drinking Water Act page on whistleblowers. While important in and of itself, there does not appear to be a justification in the text section you wrote as to why this information is so important with regards to the Safe Drinking Water Act and why there should be a link farm to a host of whistleblower orgs. Was it the first piece of legislation with a similar provision? Has it been used widely or notably? Cheers, Kristan 14:42, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * The SDWA was not the first US environmental law with an employee protection (the Water Pollution Control Act, also called the Clean Water Act, was). However, the employee protection is a key part of the enforcement scheme. In my experience, too many employees don't know about the employee protection. They still think they have to do whatever the boss says, and they then play along with unhealthy illegality. When more employees know that they can refuse illegal orders, and report violations, with legal protection for their jobs, then we are all going to have more security in our drinking water. It is especially important to include information about the unusually short time limit to initiate complaints -- 30 days. Too many people find out after this time limit has expired. The SDWA is unique in that it allows the recovery of exemplary damages for violations of the employee protection. I wish all environmental laws had this provision. r3 23:37, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

New Philadelphia photo
You wrote: ''Do you really think the photo of parked cars is a better first impression of New Philadelphia, Ohio, than the photo of Tuscora Park? Why? r3 19:57, 20 April 2007 (UTC)''
 * Hi Rrenner-- Wikipedia's guidelines for image placement advise placing images "near relevant text." A photo of amusement rides in a park doesn't really make sense at the top of an article about a city.  It does make perfect sense next to the portion of the article which describes that park.
 * As for making "a better first impression" of the town, that's not really Wikipedia's mission. I think the picture of High Street does a fair job of describing a typical view of the main street in the city's downtown.  (It's inevitable that such pictures in modern times would include automobiles, and I don't think they overwhelm the picture in this case, particularly considering the percentage of space they occupy within the frame of the photo.)  I think a picture of the streetscape of a town's "Main Street" (or similar thoroughfare) functions on Wikipedia similarly to a picture of a downtown skyline in an article about a larger city.  So I think the placement of the picture in question (which, for what it's worth, I find neither particularly flattering nor unflattering) is appropriate in this article.
 * Best wishes--Malepheasant 01:49, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Trival dumb movies list.
This is the quickest way to settle the matter - I have AFD'd the article - make your case there. --Fredrick day 18:01, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

Your contributions history shows that you have been aggressively cross-posting. Although the Arbitration Committee has ruled that "The occasional light use of cross-posting to talk pages is part of Wikipedia's common practice."1, such cross-posting should adhere to specific guidelines. In the past, aggressively worded cross-posting has contributed towards an Arbitration Committee ruling of disruptive behavior that has resulted in blocks being issued. It is best not to game the system, and instead respect Wikipedia's principle of consensus-building, by ceasing to further crosspost, and instead allowing the process to reflect the opinions of editors that were already actively involved in the matter at hand. --EEMeltonIV 21:15, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
 * If by "cross-posting," you mean that I was making links to the page I had just created, then I was doing so for the purpose of helping interested readers find the rest of the Total Film list at Dumbest Decisions in Movie History. I did so before the new page was submitted to "Articles for Deletion" (AfD). I did not intend to use cross-posting to influence the debate on AfD.r3 00:05, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Please stop spamming other editors who have had previous problems with User:Fredrick day. Past conflicts with the nominator is not a valid reason for cross-posting to uninvolved editors, asking them to comment at the AfD. You are attempting to corrupt the AfD process. Please don't do it again. Sarah 09:19, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

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Valeriy Litskai

Valeriy Anatolievich Litskai (Валерий Анатольевич Лицкай) (born 13 February 1949) was the foreign minister of Transnistria from 2000 until July 2008. He was born in Tver in Russia in 1949 and obtained Transnistrian citizenship after Transnistria declared independence. He is the head of the commission of negotiations of Transnistria and Moldova and also one of initiators of the Hague initiative on settlement of conflicts in CIS and executive secretary of the Community for Democracy and Rights of Nations.

Recently, Litskai has come under pressure from the Supreme Soviet for the lack of success he has had in getting Transnistria recognized internationally. It was speculated that the pro-western Litskai would soon be replaced by pro-Russian Vladimir Yastrebchak, currently first deputy minister of foreign affairs, also because president Igor Smirnov is now criticising him. On April 2, 2008, Litskai appeared before parliament to defend himself against criticism. Litskai convinced parliament to let him keep his job, but will have to show progress when returning to parliament in July. On July 1 president Smirnov issued a decree to fire Litskai immediately. He was replaced by Yastrebchak, as was previously predicted. This is despite apparent success in talks with Moldova, which resumed earlier this year and were organized by Litskai.

Litskai speaks English and Spanish.

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Spanish Green

Spanish Green is a hamlet in the village of Stratfield Turgis, Hampshire, England.

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Utsurun Desu

Utsurun Desu (伝染るんです.) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Sensha Yoshida. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 1989 to 1994, with its chapters collected in five tankōbon volumes.

A video game, titled Utsurun Desu: Kawauso Hawaii e Iku!!!, was released in 1992. A three-episode original video animation (OVA), produced by DLE, was released in 2009. A series of 50-episode live-action shorts was released in that same year.

The manga has had over 3 million copies in circulation. It won the 37th Bungeishunjū Manga Award in 1991. It is regarded as one of the pioneers of the absurd gag manga.

Characters

 * Kawauso (かわうそ)
 * Kappa (かっぱ)
 * Professor Yamazaki (山崎先生)
 * Mitchie (ミッチー)
 * Shiitake (しいたけ)
 * Tami Inuyama (犬山 タミ)
 * Kawanuma (川沼)
 * Mitchie (ミッチー)
 * Shiitake (しいたけ)
 * Tami Inuyama (犬山 タミ)
 * Kawanuma (川沼)
 * Shiitake (しいたけ)
 * Tami Inuyama (犬山 タミ)
 * Kawanuma (川沼)
 * Tami Inuyama (犬山 タミ)
 * Kawanuma (川沼)
 * Kawanuma (川沼)
 * Kawanuma (川沼)
 * Kawanuma (川沼)

Manga
Written and illustrated by Sensha Yoshida, Utsurun Desu was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 1989 to 1994. Shogakukan collected its chapters in five tankōbon volumes, released from November 1990 to August 1994.

A special chapter was published in Big Comic Spirits on November 12, 2012, as part of the "Heroes Come Back" anthology, which comprised short stories by manga artists to raise funds for recovery of the areas afflicted by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. A four-panel manga, titled Kawauso Seven (かわうそセブン), started in the Tokyo Shimbun newspaper on April 3, 2021. It changed to online publication on the newspaper's website on July 8, 2022.

Video game
A video game, titled Utsurun Desu: Kawauso Hawaii e Iku!!! (伝染るんです. かわうそハワイへ行く), published by Takara, was released for the Nintendo Famicom on March 6, 1992.

Original video animation
A three-episode original video animation (OVA), produced by DLE, was released on DVD from August 21 to October 23, 2009.

Live-action shorts
A 50-episode live-action series, consisting of one-minute short episodes, was released on the BeeTV mobile phone television service starting on October 6, 2009.

Reception
The manga has had over 3 million copies in circulation. In 1991, the series won the 37th Bungeishunjū Manga Award. It is regarded as one of the pioneers of the absurd gag manga.

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Reinli Stave Church

Reinli Stave Church (Reinli stavkyrkje) is a preserved parish church of the Church of Norway in Sør-Aurdal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the village of Reinli. It is the former church for the Reinli parish which is part of the Valdres prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Hamar. The brown, wooden church was built in a long church design around the year 1300 using plans drawn up by an unknown architect. The church seats about 70 people.

History
The first references made to a church at Reinli comes from King Olaf Haraldsson who traveled through Valdres in the year 1023 and also visited Reinli. It is believed that there was a pagan temple at the same location before the first church was erected. The first church was possibly a wooden post church that was built during the early 11th century. Modern archaeologists have found evidence that this church burned down before the present church was constructed.

After the previous church burned down, a new wooden stave church was built on the same site. The exact age of this church is uncertain. Through radiocarbon dating, logs in the church have been dated to 1190, which somewhat contradicts previous datings of the church. Other beams in the nave date to the years 1225 and 1272. There are some claims that the church was built after 1326, but this seems to be outside the margin of error for the radiocarbon dating. Most historians say the church was built in the late 13th century. There is, however, a written account of the present church's existence in 1327, so it was certainly built by then. It is also possible that after the fire, the old church was heavily rebuilt with some materials being reused.

The Reinli stave church follows a plan set by continental churches in monasteries. The choir also has an apse, which is believed to be a little newer than the rest of the building, although some details in the building's history seem unclear. The church (other than the apse) measures approximately 11.5x5.6 m. There is an open-air corridor that surrounds the whole church. Later the church was rebuilt by Sira Thord, who is buried beneath the south-east entrance. The church is generally assumed to be close to its original configuration, although some sources dispute this.

In 1734, it was decided to demolish the stave church and build a new church on Bagnsmoen for Reinli and Bagn (where the local stave church disappeared a few decades earlier). After protests from Reinli, however, the Reinli stave church remained standing, and a new Bagn Church was built at Bagn, and that church became the main church for the parish.

The church underwent interior changes in 1884–1885. By the mid-20th century, discussions again took place about the future of the old stave church. It did not have electricity for heating or lighting, and it was quite old and small. It was decided to build a new church and maintain the old church as a museum. In 1965, a new Reinli Chapel was built across the road from the ancient stave church. The new chapel replaced the stave church as the parish church for Reinli. Since then, the stave church is only used for special occasions in the summers. Restoration work was done on the exterior in 1976–1977.

Of medieval fixtures, only the altarpiece and the baptismal font are left in the church. An old pillory stands outside the church, but is no longer in use. On 17 May 1845 its use was formally abandoned when the old medieval law was changed.

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Rotherham County F.C.

Rotherham County F.C. was an English football club based in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. They spent a number of years in the English Football League before merging with rivals Rotherham Town in 1925 to form Rotherham United.

History
The club was founded in 1877, as Thornhill Football Club (later 'Thornhill United'), before, in 1905, changing to Rotherham County. It joined the Midland League in 1903, and stayed in that competition until it was abandoned for World War I. They won the Midland League title for four consecutive seasons, from 1911–12 to 1914–15 inclusive.

After the War, they were elected to the Football League when the league expanded from 40 clubs to 44 in 1919. In 1925 they merged with local rivals Rotherham Town to form Rotherham United who are still members of the Football League.

Notable former players
Players that played in the English Football League with Rotherham County –

 * John Ackroyd
 * Arthur Beachill
 * George Bertram
 * Jackie Bestall
 * William Birch
 * Thomas Birtles
 * John Bramley
 * Philip Bratley
 * Jimmy Broadhead
 * Frank Brown
 * Robert George Brown
 * Billy Clarkson
 * George Cook
 * Harry Draper
 * Billy Easton
 * Charles Elliott
 * Reuben Grice
 * Tommy Hakin
 * John Hammerton
 * Howard Humphries
 * Richard Jackson
 * Jack Lambert
 * Joe Lees
 * James Lofthouse
 * Percy Mackrill
 * Jack Manning
 * Ernest Milton
 * John Murphy
 * Billy Palmer
 * Albert Pape
 * George Reid
 * Archie Roe
 * Joe Scott
 * George Simpson
 * George Stacey
 * George Thompson
 * Joey Williams

League

 * Midland League
 * Champions: 1911–12, 1912–13 1913–14, 1914–15

Cup

 * Sheffield & Hallamshire County Cup
 * Winners: 1922–23
 * Runners-up: 1924–25
 * Sheffield & Hallamshire Senior Cup
 * Winners: 1912–13, 1913–14
 * Runners-up: 1908–09

Records

 * Best league performance: 16th, Football League Division 2, 1921–22
 * Best FA Cup performance: 1st round, 1922–23

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mono. it's one of the departement of Benin. it bigest town is Lokossa. in this departement is know as the maker of palm oil and cassava flor

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Derrick Morris

Derrick Morris (24 March 1930 – 30 July 2005) was, at the time of his death, Europe's longest-surviving heart transplant recipient, living 25 years after the transplant performed by Sir Magdi Yacoub in 1980. He died from an illness that was not heart or transplant related.

Morris had his first heart attack in 1975 and was told to expect to live only months. He became an active campaigner against heart disease, an advocate of organ donation as well as a symbol of the success of organ transplantation.

Early life and illness
Derrick Morris was born on 24 March 1930. He was from Swansea in Wales, and was working as a supervisor at Swansea Docks when he suffered his first heart attack in 1975. He was given only a 15% chance of survival, and was told to "live six months at a time".

Heart surgery
Morris was initially sceptical when a heart transplant was suggested but was persuaded by his doctor. He recalled, "we were told of the dangers. Because transplant work was in its infancy, the chances of survival were slim. But I decided for the family's sake to go ahead." His surgeon Magdi Yacoub later commented that Morris's transplant helped shape public opinion: "Most importantly, Derrick went on to show that transplantation was a good thing."

The operation took place on 23 February 1980 at Harefield Hospital and was Yacoub's third such procedure and one of 14 performed at Harefield that year, following an initial moratorium on heart transplant procedures and before the introduction of cyclosporin. The procedure had been discontinued in 1973 due to poor results. The donor was a 26-year-old woman who had been killed in a car crash. After the operation, Morris eventually returned to work at the docks. He was the eleventh person in the UK to receive a heart transplant.

It was argued that the cost of the operation was not money well spent because the National Health Service would have been better to spend it on preventing heart disease rather than doing transplants. Several people who had transplants at Harefield died while Morris was recovering.

Morris's fate became intertwined with the largely transformative transplant success of Yacoub.

Later life
By the 20th anniversary of his operation, Morris already held the European survival record. The longest heart transplant survivor in Britain before Morris's surgery was Keith Castle, who had surgery performed by Sir Terence English in August 1979 at Papworth Hospital. In conjunction with celebrating his two decades of postoperative life, Morris said his heart disease was serious and debilitating, noting: "Twenty years ago I was a complete invalid. I couldn't even walk. In February 1980 Yacoub gave me my new heart and since then I have come on in leaps and bounds." This enabled him to travel to a number of countries, including making five journeys to the United States, and see his grandchildren grow up. These were all experiences that would not have been possible without the transplant.

By 2000, Harefield ran the largest heart and lung transplant programme in the world. Yacoub and his team went on to perform more than 3,000 heart and heart–lung transplants.

Morris retired at the age of 65 and outlived his wife Beryl. When 25 years arrived, Morris expressed surprise: "It was an anniversary I thought I would never get to." In July 2005, Morris joined 1,000 other people who had survived heart and lung transplant operations at a celebration at Harefield Hospital to mark 25 years of transplant surgery. He was Harefield and Europe's longest surviving recipient. Just weeks before his death, he participated in a 4 km stroll along Swansea Bay to raise funds for heart disease research.

Death and legacy
Morris died from a flu-like illness on 30 July 2005 at the age of 75, six months after the 25th anniversary party. By then, he had three grandchildren.

His long lasting legacy was that: "Most importantly, Derrick went on to show that transplantation was a good thing", said Yacoub. Morris is said to have been instrumental in a sea change in public opinion about this type of surgery. Morris promoted campaigns to fight heart disease and was effectively both a benchmark and a "poster child" for signing up potential organ donors. His survival and his lifetime example was called a transplant medicine "inspiration" by Yacoub. His successful operation and prolonged survival had a profound effect on public opinion relative to heart transplants.

His longevity record was later surpassed by John McCafferty, who became Britain's longest surviving heart transplant recipient by 2013 at the age 73.

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Audefroi le Bastart

Audefroi le Bastart (modern French Bâtard) was a French trouvère from Artois, who flourished in the early thirteenth century.

Little is known about Audefroi's life beyond what can be inferred from his work. Two songs mention Jehan de Nesle, which Theodore Karp suggests dates them before 1200 when Jehan joined the Fourth Crusade. Song 5 (Com esbahis) is addressed in its envoy to the Lord of Harnes, a town almost midway between Arras and Lille. Given Audefroi's potential dates, this could be Michel de Harnes, the so-called 'knight-trouvère', who features in Guillaume de Dole by Jean Renart. Michel also joined the Fourth Crusade. Another song (RS77) is interpolated into the Roman de la violette (c.1225) by Gerbert de Montreuil. Karp suggests he is a native of Picardy, near the Artois border. The registre of the puy d'Arras notes the death of Audefroi's wife.

Audefroi was the author of ten chansons d'amour, mainly found in the chansonnier du roi (Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 844 = TrouvM) and the chansonnier de Noailles (Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 12615 = TrouvT) and six narrative songs which modern scholars term chansons de toile or romances. A few of the chansons occur in other sources: RS223 is in TrouvO (F-Pn fr.846) and with empty staves in TrouvC (CH-BEb 389); RS1436 is in TrouvR (F-Pn fr. 1591). The songs appear in the same order in both TrouvM and TrouvT, although in a different order in the index of the former. TrouvT lacks the last three of the six romances/chansons de toile. Three of the romances are in TrouvC and two in TrouvU (F-Pn fr.20050).

Works
RS numbers given according to the number standard catalogue. The order of the songs is that in the two main manuscripts and, for the chansons d'amours the edition by Cullman.

Chansons d'amours

 * 1. Quant voi le tens verdir et blanchoier (RS1260)
 * 2. Tant ai esté pensis ireement (RS688)
 * 3. Bien doi faire mon chant öir (RS1436)
 * 4. Pour travail ne pour paine (RS139)
 * 5. Com esbahis (RS1534a=729)
 * 6. Fine amour et esperance (RS223)
 * 7. Amours, de cui j'esmuef mon chant (RS311)
 * 8. Onques ne seu chanter (RS831)
 * 9. Ne sai mès en quel guise (RS1628)
 * 10. Destrois, pensis, en esmai (RS77)

So-called chansons de toile

 * 11. Bele Ysabiaus, pucele bien aprise (RS1616)
 * 12. Bele Idoine se siet desous la verde olive (RS1654)
 * 13. En chambre a or se siet la bele Beatris (RS1525)
 * 14. En nouvel tens Pascour que florist l'aubespine (RS1378)
 * 15. En l'ombre d'un vergier (RS1320); this is a dialogue with a lamenting knight so is often omitted from collections of chansons de toile.
 * 16. Bele Emmelos es prés desous l'arbroie (RS1688)

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Jody Shelley

Jody Shelley (born February 7, 1976) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger. During his National Hockey League (NHL) career he played for the Columbus Blue Jackets, San Jose Sharks, New York Rangers and the Philadelphia Flyers.

He was known as an enforcer and had the most regular season major penalties for fighting since he joined the league; when he retired – on August 9, 2013 – he had 173. Shelley rejoined the Columbus Blue Jackets in August 2013 when he was named a broadcast associate and team ambassador.

In May 2014 he became the Blue Jackets television color analyst alongside Jeff Rimer.

Early life
Born in Thompson, Manitoba, Shelley moved to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia when he was 12 for his father to work at a tin mine operated by Rio Algom in East Kemptville. He attended Yarmouth Consolidated Memorial High School, graduating in 1994. He was involved in a number of competitive sports in his high school years, including hockey, swimming, and soccer, as well as a brief stint on the volleyball team.

Playing career
Shelley began playing hockey in the Yarmouth County Minor Hockey Association until his midget year. He moved away from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia when he was 18 to play for the Halifax Mooseheads of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Shelley then played 19 games for Dalhousie University before being signed by the Saint John Flames in the AHL to make his pro debut. Jody Shelley was signed as a free agent by the Calgary Flames on September 1, 1998, but never played for them. He played until 2000 with Saint John.

Almost 2 years later, on August 17, 2000, he was signed as a free agent by the Columbus Blue Jackets and played one game for them in the 2000–01 season. During that one game, he had ten minutes in penalties. After that, he played fairly regularly as the Blue Jackets' enforcer averaging over 200 minutes in penalties a season. He fought Bob Probert in each of the three periods in a 2–1 Blue Jackets loss to the Chicago Blackhawks at the United Center on January 10, 2002. The three fights by the same two adversaries in a single NHL match would next be achieved fourteen years later when Evander Kane and Alex Petrovic did it on February 9, 2016. During the 2003–04 NHL season, he got into a career-high 30 fights. He played five-and-a-half seasons for the Blue Jackets.

On January 29, 2008, he was traded to the San Jose Sharks for a sixth-round draft pick in 2009 and he re-signed with the Sharks in the off-season. In a 2008 regular season match against the Dallas Stars, Sean Avery hit Brad Lukowich and after the incident, Shelley and Avery began to throw water and Gatorade at each other while jawing at each other.

Two years after joining San Jose, on February 12, 2010, Shelley was traded by the Sharks to the Rangers for a conditional sixth-round draft pick.

On July 1, 2010, Shelley signed a three-year contract with the Philadelphia Flyers.

On September 20, 2011, Shelley was suspended for the remainder of the preseason and 5 regular season games for boarding Darryl Boyce.

On August 9, 2013, with no NHL contract offers following the expiration of his deal with the Flyers, he announced his retirement from professional hockey and joined the team he started his NHL career with (the Blue Jackets) on a front office job.

International play
During the 2004–2005 NHL Lockout, Shelley played for the JYP in the Finnish SM-Liiga. He played 11 games in the regular season with no goals, one assist and 20 penalty minutes. During the playoffs he played 3 games with no points and 25 penalty minutes.

Personal life
On July 11, 2004, Jody married fiancée, Mandy Shelley (née Thompson) of Laurelville, Ohio. They met in Columbus, Ohio while he was playing for the Blue Jackets. In November 2008, they had their first son.

In addition to Shelley's duties on Blue Jackets broadcasts, he represents the club as a team ambassador where he spearheads the organization of the Blue Jackets Player Alumni Association.

Shelley hosts the Jody Shelley Golf Fore Health in his hometown of Yarmouth every summer which raises money for hospital equipment. As of June 2018, the event has raised over $480,000 in support of Yarmouth Regional Hospital.

The Town of Yarmouth declared July 13, 2013, as Jody Shelley Day, and honoured Shelley by renaming Cottage Street as Jody Shelley Drive, and also renumbering the Mariners Centre, the local winter sports facility, as 45 Jody Shelley Drive, after his jersey number.

Records

 * Also holds the single season record for penalty minutes (357) for the Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League
 * Holds single-game penalty minutes record for the San Jose Sharks. (41)
 * His sweater number, 25, was retired from the Halifax Mooseheads.

Career statistics
Bold indicates led league

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Chuck Cottier

Charles Keith Cottier (born January 8, 1936) is an American former second baseman, manager, coach, and scout  in American Major League Baseball.

Born in Delta, Colorado, Cottier graduated from Grand Junction High School, where he lettered in four sports – baseball, basketball, football and wrestling. He batted and threw right-handed, standing 5ft 11in and weighing 178 lb.

Cottier was a good-fielding, light-hitting infielder during his nine-year big league playing career. He appeared in 580 games and compiled a lifetime batting average of .220 with 348 hits, 63 doubles, 17 triples and 19 home runs with the Milwaukee Braves (1959–60), Detroit Tigers (1961), Washington Senators (1961–65) and California Angels (1968–69). He finished his career with an overall .973 fielding percentage.

His playing career ended in May when he sustained an Achilles tendon injury as a member of the Angels and began his minor league managing career in.

Cottier was in his third season as the Seattle Mariners' third base coach in 1984 when manager Del Crandall was fired with 27 games left and Cottier was appointed interim manager on September 1. He led the team through 1985 and into the first 28 games of 1986. With the M's at 9–19, sixth in the AL West, Cottier was fired on May 8 and succeeded by interim manager Marty Martínez for one game before Dick Williams took over. His career record as a major league manager was .450.

Cottier also was a coach for the New York Mets (1979–81), Chicago Cubs (1988–94), Baltimore Orioles (1995) and Philadelphia Phillies (1997–2000); he was a major league scout for the New York Yankees, and a special assistant to the general manager for the Washington Nationals.

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/The NOVA laser

The NOVA laser

This is an image of the massive NOVA laser at LLNL taken in 1984. It is used in the article on inertial confinement fusion. I remember this (rather historically important, I think) image being very widely published in the '80's popular scientific literature and then it seems like it virtually disappeared and can now only be found in very low quality images on the internet. So at work the other day, I scanned the image at very high resolution from the '84 LLNL annual laser program report, its grainy up close but the image is so big I think it is negligible when at normal size. Here's where I need some help, obviously the color is faded quite a bit and there is a seam running down the center where the pages meet. But the thing is, I do not see certain colors terribly well and can't really fix it myself. If someone could correct this in the image I would be extremely grateful!! For some idea of what the color SHOULD be like, I think the Roger Ressmeyer images in the Corbis archives and this PDF  from LLNL are likely more accurate.

 * Nominate and support. - Deglr6328 17:12, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Extremely boring picture, regardless of historical importance of the subject. Mark1 06:50, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. It's unique and definitely helps the article.  I don't think it's boring at all.  Aside from being a little fuzzy, its shows the size and impressiveness of the machine. --ScottyBoy900Q ∞  14:12, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Good that the image has been put on Wikipedia but not worthy of featured picture status. Oska 23:19, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I think the picture's contents are quite spectacular, but I oppose because of the quality of the picture. Enochlau 05:45, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutral. Good work in fixing up the picture. However, a seam down the middle? That's a bit of a problem. Enochlau 11:02, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. I've uploaded a modified version with increased contrast. Fredrik | talk 14:50, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * WOW COOL! looks great! Thank you so very much Fredrik! :oD --Deglr6328 01:26, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Wow, I can't believe how much better the modified image looks. It's a pity about the seam though the centre, but I suppose you'd need to be really good at photo editing to do anything about that. Raven4x4x 00:45, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Support -- SWEET!! Someone worked a photoshop miracle on this pic!TomStar81 02:50, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * After a bit of deliberation, I'll support. The seam may work against it but it is barely noticable. Raven4x4x 12:42, August 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. It's just too... too... too something. I can't quite put my finger on it, but something is lacking. --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 13:59, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. I like it. Compositionally, it's perfect. Everything is centered and aligned and carefully balanced. It's a formal photograph, and it works quite well as a formal photograph. Plus the subject matter is very impressive. Nohat 02:37, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I have uploaded a new vesion of this photo that removes the fluorescent yellow cast. I also edited out a couple scanning artifacts. I think the photo looks better now. Nohat 07:08, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Best revision yet. Many thanks.--Deglr6328 06:57, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Everyone knows break-even is impossible with these energy hogs. — BRIAN 0918 • 2005-09-4 17:31
 * ?? Scaled implosions show ignition and high gain will be easily achieved on NIF...--Deglr6328 01:34, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
 * As tests with the 4 constructed lasers have shown, they've already run into numerous insurmountable problems that will prevent the thing from even getting its feet off the ground. — BRIAN 0918 • 2005-09-6 00:36
 * Neutral. The composition sucks. Balance everything symmetrically and a photograph becomes boring. The brain skips over it because there's nothing happening. I like the little guy looking up at the big science. --Surgeonsmate 23:32, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Close, submit again soon with the cleaned up version to start with and i bet it'll pass. This link is Broken 21:50, 7 September 2005 (UTC)


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Georg Friedrich Treitschke

Georg Friedrich Treitschke (29 August 1776 – 4 June 1842) was a German librettist, translator and lepidopterist. He was born in Leipzig and died in Vienna.

In 1800 he came to the Vienna Hofoper. From 1809 to 1814 he was principal of the Viennese Theater an der Wien. He wrote mostly librettos for Paul Wranitzky, Adalbert Gyrowetz and C. Weigl (Weisenhaus, The Orphanage), and translated many French operas into German. In 1814 he revised the libretto of Fidelio at Ludwig van Beethoven's request.

Entomological works

 * with Ochsenheimer, F. (1825): Die Schmetterlinge von Europa, Band 5/1. – Leipzig (Fleischer). XVI + 414 S.
 * Treitschke, F. (1825): Die Schmetterlinge von Europa, Band 5/2. – Leipzig (Fleischer). 447 + [1] S.
 * Treitschke, F. (1826): Die Schmetterlinge von Europa, Band 5/3. – Leipzig (Fleischer). IV + 419 + [1] S.
 * Treitschke, F. (1827): Die Schmetterlinge von Europa, Band 6/1. – Leipzig (Fleischer). VIII + 444 S.
 * Treitschke, F. (1828): Die Schmetterlinge von Europa, Band 6/2. – Leipzig (Fleischer). 319 S.
 * Treitschke, F. (1829): Die Schmetterlinge von Europa, Band 7. – Leipzig (Fleischer). VI + 252 S.
 * Treitschke, F. (1830): Die Schmetterlinge von Europa, Band 8. – Leipzig (Fleischer). VIII + 312 S.
 * Treitschke, F. (1832): Die Schmetterlinge von Europa, Band 9/1. – Leipzig (Fleischer). VIII + 272 S.
 * Treitschke, F. (1833): Die Schmetterlinge von Europa, Band 9/2. – Leipzig (Fleischer). 284 S.
 * Treitschke, F. (1834): Die Schmetterlinge von Europa, Band 10/1. – Leipzig (Fleischer). X + 286 S.
 * Treitschke, F. (1835): Die Schmetterlinge von Europa, Band 10/2. – Leipzig (Fleischer). [2] + 340 S.
 * Treitschke, F. (1835): Die Schmetterlinge von Europa, Band 10/3. – Leipzig (Fleischer). [4] + 302 S.
 * Treitschke, F. (Hrsg.) (1840-1843): Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches. Nach William Jardine. Vorwort von K. Vogel. 4 Bände. – Pesth und Leipzig (Hartleben). Ca. 770 S., 180 Taf. (360 Abb.).
 * Treitschke, F. (1841): Naturgeschichte der europäischen Schmetterlinge. Schwärmer und Spinner. – Pesth (Hartleben). [9] + XIV + [2] + 222 S., Frontispiz, 30 Taf.

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Michael Capobianco

Michael Victor Capobianco (born November 12, 1950) is an American science fiction writer.

Capobianco wrote four novels jointly with William Barton. The books were published during the 1990s. The books address themes such as the Cold War, space travel, and space opera.

Capobianco served as President of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) from 1996 to 1998 and again from 2007 to 2008. He received the Service to SFWA Award in 2004.

He was married to the late science fiction author, Ann C. Crispin.

Works

 * Burster; July 1990. (ISBN 0-553-28543-2). Young man on colony ship sent back to Earth after mysterious radio silence.
 * Purlieu; August 2017. (ISBN 978-1947157002).

By William Barton and Capobianco
 * Iris, February 1990 (ISBN 0-385-26727-4) SF novel of colonists' lives on a wandering gas giant.
 * Fellow Traveler, July 1991 (ISBN 0-553-29115-7). SF novel of U.S./Soviet conflict over space travel.
 * Alpha Centauri, July 1997 (ISBN 0-380-79282-6). Terrorists plague a colony ship that is mankind's last hope.
 * White Light, October 1998 (ISBN 0-380-79516-7). Two families travel to the heart of the universe and find a Tipleresque heaven.

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1500 in art

The year 1500 in art involved some significant events and new works.

Events

 * 26 July: Bartolomeo di Pagholo ("Baccio della Porta") becomes a Dominican friar.
 * Sandro Botticelli begins painting of Adoration of the Christ Child (1500-1510) as a tondo (round painting), oil on panel.

Works

 * Fra Bartolomeo – Annunciation (oil tempera on wood; Uffizi, Florence)
 * Sandro Botticelli – The Mystical Nativity (National Gallery, London)
 * Cima da Conegliano - Madonna and Child (National Museum Wales)
 * Albrecht Dürer
 * Lamentation of Christ (approximate date)
 * Paumgartner altarpiece (approximate date)
 * Self-Portrait
 * Seven Sorrows Polyptych (approximate date)
 * Giorgione – Adoration of the Shepherds (approximate completion date)
 * Pietro Perugino - Vallombrosa Altarpiece

Births

 * 3 November - Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (died 1571)
 * date unknown
 * Hans Sebald Beham, German printmaker, engraver, designer of woodcuts, painter and miniaturist (died 1550)
 * Niccolò Boldrini, Italian engraver (died 1566)
 * Giulio Campi, Italian painter and architect (died 1572)
 * Pompeo Cesura, Italian painter and engraver (died 1571)
 * Jean Chartier, French painter, draughtsman, printer and publisher (died 1580)
 * Pieter Claeissens the Elder, Flemish painter (died 1576)
 * Jean Cousin the Elder, French painter, sculptor, etcher, engraver, and geometrician (died 1593)
 * Juan Vicente Macip (or Vicente Joanes Masip), Spanish painter of the Renaissance period (died 1579)
 * Alessandro Oliverio, Italian painter (died 1544)
 * Niccolò Tribolo, Italian Mannerist artist (died 1550)
 * approximate year of birth
 * Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli, Italian painter of the Parmesan School of Painting (died 1569)
 * Domenico Campagnola, Italian painter and engraver of the Renaissance period (died 1564); he was a pupil of his father, the painter Giulio Campagnola
 * Giovanni Battista Castello, Italianhistorical painter (died 1569/1579)
 * Giovanni Filippo Criscuolo, Italian painter (died 1584)
 * Albrecht Glockendon the Younger, German miniaturist and woodcutter (died 1545)
 * Jean Mone, German-Flemish sculptor (died 1548)
 * Luca Penni, Italian painter, member of the School of Fontainebleau (died 1556)
 * Georg Pencz, German engraver, painter and printmaker (died 1550)
 * Ligier Richier, French sculptor (died 1567)
 * Jan van Amstel, Dutch Northern Renaissance painter (died 1542)
 * Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Flemish Northern Renaissance painter (died 1566)

Deaths

 * date unknown
 * Antonio del Rincón, Spanish painter and artist (born 1446)
 * Neroccio di Bartolomeo de' Landi, Italian painter and sculptor (born 1447)
 * Friedrich Herlin, German painter (born c.1425)
 * Bernardo Tesauro, Neapolitan fresco painter (born 1440)

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