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User talk:Segv11/Archive01

Rouge River (Quebec)
Yes, the article that's up at Rouge River Quebec is definitely a good stub. However, from now on you should wait until you have at least some content before posting anything. It has been decided that articles with no content should be speedily deleted, mainly because if someone goes on the random pages button and sees an article with no content, it is not good. Academic Challenger 20:45, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

 * OK. I guess I should use "show preview" more often, and don't actually do "save page" until I'm ready for the world to see it.  :-) Jamie 20:49, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

Modern language <- Modern Languages move
I agree, that's what I get for thinking when half asleep. Reverted my changes and put up an afd on the redirect page to get this started. Thanks! Thaagenson 12:50, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

AfD's on WP:PNT
As per your recommendation, I've been making AfD nominations for some of the older, entries on WP:PNT. I intent do keep going until I catch up to the two-week mark, skipping articles that have at least had some work on them. Since you used to do this maintainance, please let me know if my practice is consitent with yours.

Also, if I find and article on WP:PNT which has been translated, speedied, deleted, or otherwise taken care of -- but that is still in the main list -- should it be deleted? or moved to the "done/needs attention" list for a few days so contributors can see the updated status?

Jamie 04:15, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

 * If they are deleted, just kill 'em. If it looks like the article still needs help, but it's not translation help, tag them for cleanup, and remove them from WP:PNT. "Done/needs attention" is for things that are clearly sufficiently translated to be kept, but could still use more attention from a translator.
 * Letting contributors know why you removed an entry is usually best accomplished through the edit summary at time of removal. If you look through the WP:PNT history you'll see what typically gets written. -- Jmabel | Talk 04:34, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the comments. Let me know if I'm going the right way will the AfD's, since I'm going to do a whole bunch of them...  Jamie 04:40, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't usually follow AfD unless something I care about gets tagged or someone pings me; feel free to aim me at any page or edit (using URL of diff from history) that you'd like me to check. -- Jmabel | Talk 04:58, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

 * No need to write anything on WP:PNT: just remove it with a comment saying "moved to AfD" (which I did for you just now). See how simple that is?

 * Also, when you remove from WP:PNT, don't forget to remove the notenglish tag from the article itself. That says it's in the midst of its 2 weeks. That's no longer true.

 * This particular one (Sodhe) is an interesting case. I'm not sure it is of encyclopedic importance, but I believe it is in perfectly good English: the Sanskrit terms in it are mostly untranslatable. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:26, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Speedies
Hi Jamie - my speedy deletions haven't come from afd - I've been trawling the new creations page. Brookie :) - a collector of little round things! (Talk!) 08:31, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Jamie - Thanks for the notes. I didn't know the codes for these, and they ought to save me time, since there's only 1 edit required, rather than 3. :-) Lancer Sykera 10:44, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Also, I left this where it was on purpose - I feel just awful now, that you felt it necessary to do that *sob* Lancer Sykera 10:51, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Anbeysivam
Hi, while I liked your comment on the above for its humor, pls. don't feed the troll. --Gurubrahma 13:27, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Deleterious->Mutation
But why should beneficial redirect to mutation? The word beneficial is used in lots of outside contexts that have nothing to do with biology. Deleterious, on the other hand, is used almost exclusively in the biological sciences. Just look up the word on Google - you get a bunch of dictionary definitions and then it's just page after page of genetics articles. --Cyde Weys talkcontribs 19:13, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Replied, see my user talk page. --Cyde Weys talkcontribs 02:06, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Overnight Loss
Question on your disagreement with the nonsense CSD tag. The text contains the following lines: I mean, if you want to say it's BJAODN, I can see that, but to my eyes, the article is completely silly. The only reason I hadn't speedied it before was the fact that the article isn't that new. | Klaw ¡digame! 05:25, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * "Overnight Loss is a emo band from Winettka, Illinois that was brought together in early 1732."
 * "After that, there seemed to be no hope for Overnight Loss there still is none - until highschool came along. "
 * "but was always off by himself soloing and idolizing bands such as Led Zeppelin and the Shitface McGees. "
 * "The band continues to write new music everyday and hopes that one day they will become the biggest band to come from Chicago, besides Peeny McGlennindorf and the Ugly Ones."
 * "The band was also damaged when Andrew was severely beaten by his girlfriend, a romainian immigrant named Yolanda."

 * My disagreement was that while it is complete bollocks, and deserves to be deleted, it doesn't seem to meet the definition of patent nonsense. (Quite frankly, this definition for CSD G1 seems overly narrow to me.... but those are the rules - unless we want to change them.)

 * A closer fit would be to speedy as nn-bio, CSD A7. Unfortunately, this applies to individual people only.  There have been discussions here and here on expanding CSD A7 to include NN bands, as well as other NN groups of people.  If this happens, a lot of cruft on AfD could get speedied.

 * Either an expansion of CSD G1 or CSD A7 would allow this lousy article to get speedied. But to my eye, as things stand, we're stuck waiting for the WP:AFD process.  But of course you're welcome to disagree -- IANARL (I am not a WP:RULES lawyer)  :)

 * Jamie 05:40, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Fair enough. CSD A7 clearly doesn't apply, although I would support the creation of nn-band in a sort of A7(a) class. I figured it was CSD G1; while it's intelligible, it's also pretty clearly a load of crap. Either way I don't see it surviving AfD. Thanks for the reply. | Klaw ¡digame! 05:56, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

re: Brian Doherty (journalist)
Hi Jmason. FYI I took the liberty of removing the speedy from Brian Doherty (journalist), and sent it to regular VfD. I didn't think it was a speedy because as the article states he's an editor at Reason (which if you're not familiar with it is kind of the kingpin of libertarian journals) and has published at least one book. I thought it was pretty far from a speedy -- I don't think it should be deleted at all, let alone speedied -- so I was kind of suprised to see a speedy on it. Herostratus 17:35, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I didn't do the speedy tag, User:Spearhead did. I just moved the tag from the bottom to the top of the article while I was walking through Category:Candidates for speedy deletion.   Jamie 22:11, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Oh, OK, sorry. I didn't look like something you'd do. Herostratus 22:30, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Whoa -- Spearhead is on a rampage. Whats that about I wonder. Herostratus 22:55, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

Massachusetts compromise
Thought you would like to know that the article has been rewritten based on a link provided by User:Billbrock. Please revisit the article and reconsider your vote. Thanks. howcheng  [ t • c • w •  e  ] 22:07, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

our toes on Neglected articles
Oh! Sorry 'bout that; the best way to fix such overlaps is to put a little notice at the top of the section you'r working on like this: "I'll be working from the top of this section for the next 30 min or so. ~ ". I'm not doing any more right now, so feel free to go where you like. Thanks for pointing me to WP:CORP on the AfD; I can't believe I accidentally put the AfD onto the wrong page... JesseW, the juggling janitor 09:19, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Re VfD
I did. Check again. If I missed one, that's because of the number of VfD's I add, a few might slip. - Eagleamn 11:22, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

AfD for baby-actor twins?
NOTE TO SELF: The following twins were contributed in late 2004 by User:62.16.202.204. Let's edit this list to find out which are AfD-worthy. Remove entries which are notable; I'll submit the rest to AfD if Articles for deletion/Anthony & Brian Toro passes.

List of questionable twins:
 * Alexandra and Athina Conley
 * Alicia & Emily Pillatzke
 * Ashlyn & Kayley Messick
 * Avalon, Dillon & Vincent Ragone
 * Brett & Jon Wirta
 * Brianna & Chalice Fischette
 * Cali & Noelle Sheldon
 * Charlotte and Margaret Baughman
 * Colby & Grayson Button
 * Dylan & Jordan Cline
 * Elizabeth & Genevieve Davidson
 * Grace and Kelly deMontesquiou
 * Jacob & Joshua Rips
 * John & Charles Allen
 * Lindsay & Paige Gankema
 * Madison & Brooke Dinsmore
 * Max & Sam Christy
 * Meghan and Alison Tuma
 * Sarah & Emma Smith
 * Tiffany & Edward Palma

 * Reply All of the above are not notable with the exception of Blake and Dylan Tuomy-Wilhoit, Eric & Brandon Billings, and Shawn and Taylor Carpenter, all of whom held onto their roles until they were well into speaking age, and thus could genuinely be said to have "acted" and be "actors". I wish to note that Madison & Brooke Dinsmore is one of the most ludicrous articles I've ever seen (in fact I'm tempted to speedy it)... that set of babies is a backup and never even appeared on-screen!  Andrew Lenahan -  St ar bli nd  06:50, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

AfD correction when using subst
Thanks for fixing after me! I haven't used "subst" before; should have checked what it rendered. - Introvert   talk  01:00, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Copyvio mistake
I was working very quickly (I'm referring to Paco Ibáñez) and I was having trouble editing, so I forgot to blank the content. My focus lately has been on Articles for deletion/GH avisualagency™ - we've had a meatpuppet invasion - and when it closes tomorrow night I can get back to the regular stuff. Anyway, thanks for the catch. | Klaw ¡digame! 04:48, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Deleted pages
Thanks for the note about. I actually didn't know that you should always protect an article after adding this notice. Harro5 10:05, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

Template:Afd
Please don't mangle the AfD template so much. The "cluttered formatting" includes the code for the [show]/[hide] box; this is comonly use by editors to see some shortcuts they can use to aid in their AfD work. Jamie (talk/contribs) 12:09, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Mangle?? Perhaps you should add a note to the template explaining that. Dan100 (Talk) 12:14, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

CSD
already answered on that page. Radiant_ >|< 14:20, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure if that's actually the original reason, but in my understanding Wikipedia mirrors do not qualify as commercial websites (because of the GFDL). Radiant_ >|< 14:36, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

CSD A7
I was actually going to close the poll and do a formal proposal later this week, but User:Radiant closed it for me and User:Nandesuka incorporated the changes to the CSD page. Thanks for checking up on it. howcheng  [ t • c • w •  e  ] 22:56, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Kudos, Segv11, for making the tag. Cheers. PJM 14:08, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Auguste Toubeau
Thanks for the note. I know more about French geography than that of Belgium, so I didn't catch that. Unfortunately, the subject is old enough that there's not much in the way of online sources available. I didn't realize there was a completed section, but admittedly, I didn't look either :) I'll make sure to move them on down when I complete one from now on. .:.Jareth.:. babelfish 21:07, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

CSD templates
After your reversions of Mark's changes, none of the csd templates puts the tagged page into Category:Candidates for speedy deletion anymore. So you might think of reverting your own changes. - Bobet 09:26, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * The page I noticed that on was Stephanie Anne Roberts, which isn't placed in the correct category. And here: Is this page in the csd category? (I'll remove that later, just making a point :) ) But I guess db-copyvio does work, the ones i tested didn't. - Bobet 09:36, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * As far as I can tell, db-copyvio works because it has the notes-field put in at the end. The others don't have that, so they don't. I have no idea why db-reason was changed in the first place so I can't really help more, sorry. - Bobet 09:46, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Responded on your talk page. Basically, Mark's version wasn't quite right, and neither was Pathoschild's... after some work I've fixed the categorization on all the CSD templates, and null-edited all the main-namespace articles that use them in order to propagate the category.  Jamie (talk/contribs) 11:10, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks. - Bobet 11:33, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

speedy delete no-category option
Hello, since you've edited the templates, your comments are welcome at Template_talk:Db-reason. Shawnc 12:42, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

One Of Us or One Of Them
Hi Jamie. Since you voted at Articles for deletion/One Of Us or One Of Them, the original editor has worked on the article a lot and brought it up to scratch. Just thought I'd let you know in case you wanted to revisit the article and review your vote. Regards, CLW 23:32, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Speedy deletion categories
Hi Jamie. Thanks for fixing up those templates. I only edited them as such as a band-aid solution to stop speedy deletion grinding to a halt, pending the fixing of Pathoschild's edit to the parent template. :) - Mark 01:29, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Pages needing translation
Thanks for listing the page for translation. Sorry about that, I didn't know. What do I have to do to retract the nomination?-- Vary 06:14, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

All done, and thanks again! -- Vary 06:29, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Hi
Thanks for welcomming,

my interests in participating in the maintenance so soon origin in sheer egoistic motives - you would not believe how much nonsense my students keep copy-pasting from wikipedia... (also there is lots of plagiarism - if people are not using their own brain, they should at least learn something while using other peoples brains ...)

anyway thanks for saying hello & the tips, this is most helpful as wikipedia is a bit confusing, sometimes ...

--Enfiladissa 09:07, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

Charmed and Dangerous (Charmed Episode)
Rewritten, in English, as a stub. Perhaps you'll change your vote in the AfD. Ifnord 19:23, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Howcheng's RfA
Thank you for your support in my recent request for adminship. I was successfully promoted with a final tally of 74/0/0. I will endeavour not to let you down. Thanks again.  howch e  ng   {chat} 07:28, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

An article about my books
Hi,

My name is Angelo Stagnaro. A friend set up a Wikipedia article about me and directed me to it. I subsequently found out that it was deleted as advertizing.

I've never been one for self-promotion but my publisher thought it would be a good way to get the word out about my books.

How can the article be adjusted to make it less "commercial?"

Thanks,

Angelo Stagnaro (stagnaroangelo@hotmail.com)

 * I'm going to answer here in public on Wikipedia rather than in email. Hopefully, you or your friend will check my talk page, since you did log in to leave this message.

 * According to Articles for deletion/Angelo Stagnaro, the article in question was indeed nominated for deletion by as advertisment. Two other wikipedians, including me, agreed with the nomination, and none disagreed.  The article was then deleted by a administrator.  You may also want to ask the other participants in the deletion discussion, (between the nominator, the voters and the deleting admin there were 4 of us), all signed our comments in the discussion which is linked above.  See Deletion to see how the deletion process works, and what the criteria for deletion are.  My comments follow:

 * Articles such as this one tend to be listed for deleteion either as "advertising" or as "non-notable biography". According to policy,  Wikipeida is not a soapbox...  articles promoting a particular product tend to be deleted.  This is a consequnce of the requirements that Wikipedia articles be verifiable and written in a neutral point of view.  Also many wikipedians believe that the subject of articles should be notable and not merely of interest to those who know them.  (I recentely voted for deletion of a page about a colleague of mine from university on this basis...)

 * Getting your artcile to be kept on Wikipedia is going to be difficult for these reasons. Wikipedia is not a "good way to get the word out" about something... according to most Wikipedians, the "word" should already be "out" on a subject before it warrants an article.   Certainly any such article would have to be written in a neutral point of view, with no bias in favour of the books.  It would also have to be verifiable based on respected third-party sources.  Even so, it would probably not last long on Wikipedia because if you are still trying to "get the word out" about your books, then they will not yet be considered "notable" by most people.

 * Best of luck in promoting your books. If they become very popular, you may come back in a year and find that someone else has written a fine article about them.

 * Segv11 (talk/contribs) 04:25, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

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The Northwest Academy

Northwest Academy is an independent, arts-focused middle and high school (grades 6–12) in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. The school is accredited by the Northwest Association of Independent Schools (NWAIS). Teachers include former college instructors and professional artists, directors, dancers, musicians, and writers. Students are grouped by proficiency rather than age and advance based on demonstrating what they have learned.

History
The high school was founded in 1997 by Mary Vinton Folberg and had 26 students its first year. Folberg was an English and dance teacher in California before launching the Jefferson High School dance department in Portland in 1969 and then The Jefferson Dancers in 1976. She founded Northwest Academy to develop an arts-focused high school. The middle school was opened in 2002. The total school enrollment was over 200 students for the 2015–2016 school year.

Notable alumni

 * Esperanza Spalding – jazz musician

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John Hollins

John William Hollins (16 July 1946 – 14 June 2023) was an English football player and manager. He initially played as a midfielder, before becoming an effective full-back later in his career. Hollins played in the Football League, predominantly for Chelsea, with whom he won the FA Cup, Football League Cup and UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. He made 592 appearances for Chelsea over two spells from 1963 to 1975 and from 1983 to 1984, making him one of six players to have made over 500 appearances for the club.

He subsequently played for Queens Park Rangers (1975–1979) and Arsenal (1979–1983), and made a total of 714 First Division appearances, an English top division record for an outfield player and second only to goalkeeper Peter Shilton. He moved into football management and took charge of Chelsea in 1985, winning the inaugural Full Members Cup in 1986, but was sacked in 1988. He later managed Swansea City, Rochdale and Crawley Town.

Playing career
Born in Guildford, Surrey, Hollins was born into a footballing family – his father, grandfather and three brothers were all professional footballers as well. One of those siblings, Dave, played international football for Wales.

Chelsea
Hollins joined Chelsea as a youth player and made his debut for the Blues against Swindon Town in September 1963 aged only 17. A talented and hard-running midfielder, usually wearing the number 4 shirt, he was known for his dedicated attitude to the game and went on to become a regular and eventually club captain. Hollins played 592 games, and scored 69 goals in his first spell at Chelsea, and was part of the successful Chelsea sides of the mid-1960s and early 1970s. After establishing himself in the Chelsea side in 1964, he rarely missed a game over the next decade, appearing in 400 out of a possible 420 league games, at one point making 167 consecutive appearances, a club record.

Hollins played in the first leg of the 3–2 aggregate victory over Leicester City in League Cup final in 1965 and the loss to Tottenham in the FA Cup final two years later. In 1970, he played a significant part in Chelsea's hard-fought FA Cup final win over Leeds United, supplying the cross for Ian Hutchinson's late headed equaliser at Wembley. Chelsea eventually won 2–1 in the replay at Old Trafford. They won the Cup Winners' Cup in Athens against Real Madrid a year later, again after a replay, but Hollins missed the second match due to an injury. He was Chelsea's player of the year two years running. While at Chelsea, he also won a solitary England cap, against Spain, on 24 May 1967.

Hollins had his most prolific goalscoring season for Chelsea in the 1971–72 season, finding the net 17 times. Chelsea also reached another League Cup final in 1972, losing to Stoke City, but declined thereafter, though Hollins remained until the side's relegation to the Second Division at the end of the 1974–75 season, when he was sold to nearby Queens Park Rangers.

Queens Park Rangers
In June 1975, Hollins signed for Queens Park Rangers for £80,000, reuniting with his former Chelsea manager Dave Sexton. He was with QPR for four seasons, playing 183 matches in total, In his first season with the club, QPR notably finished behind Liverpool by just a single point. Hollins, along with ex-Chelsea veteran David Webb and ex-Arsenal veteran Frank McLintock (captain of the Arsenal double winning team) had combined to so very nearly be First Division champions.

Arsenal
In the summer of 1979, the 33-year-old Hollins made a surprising move to Arsenal, initially as a cover player, but he ended up becoming a regular in the Arsenal side, although by now he played more often as a defender than in midfield. Hollins made his Arsenal debut versus Liverpool at the 1979 FA Charity Shield. He played 172 matches and scored 13 goals, and was part of the Arsenal side that lost the Cup Winners' Cup final in 1980, coming on as a substitute and then scoring in the penalty shoot-out. He did, however, miss out on a place in the squad for the same season's FA Cup final, which Arsenal also lost. In the second half of the 1981-82 campaign, Hollins began to fill in at right back after John Devine fell out of favour, and became a firm favourite with the crowd. At 36, he won the Arsenal Supporters Club player of the season award in 1982.

Return to Chelsea
Hollins returned to Chelsea on a free transfer in 1983, and helped the club gain promotion back to the First Division in 1983–84, playing a further 30 times. He retired at the end of that season, having played 939 first-class matches in total.

Chelsea
Hollins was immediately appointed coach at Chelsea; a year later he became first-team manager following John Neal's retirement. Chelsea built up a strong title challenge in 1985–86 and went top in February, but they finished sixth after collecting a mere nine points from a possible 33 during their final 11 games.

Chelsea won the Full Members Cup in the same season, though, hanging on for a 5–4 win over Manchester City at Wembley Stadium, having almost let slip a 5–1 lead.

Hollins was sacked in March 1988 with the club in the midst of a four-month run without a league win which would see the season end in Chelsea being relegated in the first ever two-leg relegation/promotion play-offs against Middlesbrough.

Post-Chelsea
After leaving Chelsea in February 1989 he came out of retirement to sign for Irish club Cobh Ramblers. However, he only played one league game before returning to England.

Hollins then set up his own sports promotion and agency company, before being tempted back to join the coaching staff of his old club QPR in 1993, and stepped in as caretaker manager between Stewart Houston's dismissal and Ray Harford's appointment during the 1997–98 season. He later had spells as manager of Swansea City, Rochdale and as caretaker-manager of Stockport County. After which he managed Stockport County's Chinese affiliate club Stockport Tiger Star, before becoming a pundit for BBC Radio Five Live.

Hollins was most successful in his managerial reign with Swansea City where he quickly established himself as a fan favourite and guided Swansea to the Division Three title in 1999–2000, but was sacked after they failed to sustain themselves back in Division Two. He steered Rochdale into the play-offs in 2001–02 but was notoriously sacked by fax that summer after prevaricating over a new contract.

Hollins spent a short time as the assistant manager at Raith Rovers in 2004, under Claude Anelka—the brother of Chelsea striker Nicolas Anelka. He resigned following disagreements over tactics and team selection with Anelka.

On 21 November 2005, Hollins was announced as manager of Conference National side Crawley Town after the departure of Francis Vines. He remained with the club during the financial crisis that saw them docked ten points for going into administration, but left the club on 30 October 2006 after Crawley had been beaten by Lewes in the final qualifying round for the FA Cup.

In 2007 when Kenny Jackett left Swansea City, Hollins re-applied to become the manager of Swansea City for the second time. He did not get the job as it went to Spaniard, Roberto Martínez.

In January 2008, Hollins took over as manager of Conference National side Weymouth. He was joined just days later by Alan Lewer who filled the role of Hollins' assistant for the second time as they were together at Crawley Town.

On 13 November 2008, Hollins was suspended from his duties by Weymouth, while the Football Conference launched an investigation into whether there had been a breach of contract. On 3 December 2008, Weymouth announced that Hollins had been sacked.

Personal life and death
Hollins was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to football in the 1982 Birthday Honours, and also made a memorable anti-smoking commercial for television in the same year as part of a Government campaign entitled Look After Yourself.

Hollins's son, Chris, was the main sports presenter on BBC Breakfast between 2005 and 2012 and he also has a daughter Elizabeth.

Hollins died from a heart condition on 14 June 2023, at the age of 76.

Player
Chelsea
 * FA Cup: 1969–70; runner-up: 1966–67
 * Football League Cup: 1964–65
 * European Cup Winners' Cup: 1970–71
 * Football League Second Division: 1983–84

Arsenal
 * European Cup Winners' Cup runner-up: 1979–80

Individual
 * Chelsea Player of the Year: 1969–70, 1970–71
 * Arsenal Player of the Season: 1981−82

Managerial
Chelsea
 * Full Members' Cup: 1985–86

Swansea City
 * Football League Third Division: 1999–2000

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Martian Gothic: Unification

Martian Gothic: Unification is a 2000 survival horror video game developed by Creative Reality for Microsoft Windows and Coyote Developments for the PlayStation and published by TalonSoft for Microsoft Windows and Take-Two Interactive for the PlayStation. It takes place on a Martian base in the year 2019, where a crew of three (Martin Karne, Diane Matlock, Kenzo Uji) have been tasked to investigate 10 months of radio silence. They soon find that the dead crew members of the base have been killed, and now become re-animated bloodthirsty zombies.

The PlayStation version was one of a number of "budget titles" released near the end of the system's lifespan.

Gameplay
The game is very similar to the Resident Evil series: third-person perspective; fixed camera angle; tank controls; “Vac-Tubes” in the place of item boxes; and colored key-cards. The game focuses heavily on puzzle solving and exploration, rather than combat. However, the combat system focuses on crowd control or dispatching small and weak enemies as it is easy to become overwhelmed by enemies such as the non-dead who walk at exactly the same pace as the player. The game is centered on three playable characters that are separated. This separate trio gimmick is similar to Day of the Tentacle. One of the unique features of the game is that if the characters ever meet face-to-face, it will result in a game-over. However the player can easily and quickly switch to any character at any moment. A radio is used for easy communication. It is recommended that the player finds a ‘safe area’ before switching characters. The characters have a very limited inventory. Because the characters cannot meet they can trade items using the Vac-Tubes that are scattered throughout the base. The Vac-Tubes can carry up to four items to another hatch connected to the Vac-Tubes anywhere in the base. If the player needs to leave behind items the Vac-Tubes can hold up to six items. If the player is unsure where they left an item, it can be checked using any in-game computer to bring up the list of contents of any hatch, including ones that have not been accessed yet.

The purpose of the game is to unravel the events before the characters arrival. To do this the player may search dead bodies for letters or micro-recorders which may contains information about the character, plot, passwords, and the method in which they might have died. Many recordings have been stored on some of the base's computers, which also contain information about the characters, plot and further the player's progress.

Another unique feature of the game is that the non-dead enemies cannot be killed permanently. Shooting an enemy enough times will incapacitate it temporarily, but it will reanimate if the player re-enters the area later and comes too close to the enemy's fallen model.

Saving is done through a computer game called "Martian Mayhem" and is limited to 2-4 saves in the PC version and 12 saves in the PlayStation version. Once the player reaches the Necropolis excavation site, a laptop is found that allows the player to save anywhere.

Setting
In Martian Gothic, the player is able to assume the role of three characters sent from Earth to a Martian base called Vita-01. The base was the first human settlement on Mars. The team has been sent to examine why it has been silent for ten months. The last broadcast from the base simply stated: “Stay alone, stay alive.” Upon arrival the player finds that all the residents are apparently dead and must gradually uncover the secrets and nature the last undertaking by Vita-01's crew; the discovery of ancient Martian "Pandora's Box" which, when opened, started a chain of chaotic events that led to the base's downfall, and death of almost all of its inhabitants. However, during the player's progress of uncovering the truth, searching for any possible survivors, and solving Vita-01's many mounting problems, the player finds that the dead crew has become re-animated and begin attacking the player. When the player enters the base each character states that the decontamination process felt wrong. The three characters must not meet due to a threatening alien presence that would cause them to mutate into a “trimorph” if they did.

The Vita-01 base was constructed in 2009 by the Corporation called "Earth Care", governed by Allenby, implied to be Earth's most powerful megacorporation, to research potential alien life from microfossils on Mars, after discovering in 1996 that a Martian meteorite found in 1984 contains ancient bacteria which had crashed in Antarctica in 11,000 BC. Vita-01 is situated very close to Olympus Mons which can be partially visited by the player upon access to the underground "Necropolis" zone, the human-excavated ruins of an old Martian city of Vita-01.

Development
Creative Reality's last game shares the same team and same writer as Dreamweb, and as such it relies heavily on writing and puzzles. In an interview with Stephen Marley for Retroaction, he stated that he was unhappy with the final product.

In this interview it was revealed that the game was initially entitled "Martian Gothic" but during the game's development the team referred to it as "Unification" based on one of the development team's favourite Star Trek episode of the same name as it loosely fitted the theme of a point and click adventure game. This theme was eventually changed to a survival horror game, but it kept many of the item based puzzles from its original concept. As a result of both names a compromise was made to suffix Stephen's title "Martian Gothic" with "Unification" to create Martian Gothic: Unification.

There was also a significant downgrade of the textures for the PlayStation version, but it did allow the player to save more.

Reception
The PlayStation version of Martian Gothic: Unification received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Duncan Turner of IGN said that the PC version had "a lot to offer...the story -- though seemingly cobbled together from many different sci-fi plots -- is engaging and keeps you guessing." Steve Smith of GameSpot stated the same console version was a "missed opportunity" as the designers had good ideas but did not mix the game elements into a balanced game." One of more positive reviews came from PlayStation Illustrated.

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Saint Mary Lake

Saint Mary Lake is the second-largest lake in Glacier National Park, in the U.S. state of Montana.

Located on the east side of the park, Going-to-the-Sun Road parallels the lake along its north shore. At an elevation of 4484 ft, Saint Mary Lake's waters are colder and lie almost 1500 ft higher in elevation than Lake McDonald, the largest lake in the park, which is located on the west side of the Continental Divide. Here, the Great Plains end and the Rocky Mountains begin in an abrupt 5000 ft elevation change, with Little Chief Mountain posing a formidable southern flank above the west end of the lake.

The lake is 9.9 mi long and 300 ft deep with a surface area of 3923 acre. The waters of the lake rarely rise above 50 °F and are home to various species of trout. During the winter, the lake is often frozen over with ice up to 4 ft thick.

The opening scene in the 1980 Stanley Kubrick film The Shining was shot at Saint Mary Lake.

Wild Goose Island rises a mere 14 feet (4.3 m) above the lake. The island is dwarfed by the lake and surrounding mountains, yet it is of one of the most frequently photographed locations along the Going-to-the-Sun Road.

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Talk:Orion's Arm

80.0.61.243
Would anyone like to explain 80.0.61.243's behavior here? And please don't bite (as in WP:BITE), I'm ready for that one already. I've already heard that everything you find inconvenient is my personal theory, so don't use that one either. And don't call it original research, because the material in the edit is directly from Encyclopedia Galactica. 110.55.5.247 (talk) 07:30, 14 July 2016 (UTC)

Sentience algorithms
The Orion's Arm Universe treats neural net algorithms, or "sentience algorithms" as it were as something not available in CE 2016, when in fact in real life in 1975 there were already two neural net algorithms. It also treats these algorithms as the underpinning of their AI design, but the victory of the neats means other techniques are more successful in many situations. 110.55.0.148 (talk) 13:27, 4 August 2016 (UTC)

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List scheduling

List scheduling is a greedy algorithm for Identical-machines scheduling. The input to this algorithm is a list of jobs that should be executed on a set of m machines. The list is ordered in a fixed order, which can be determined e.g. by the priority of executing the jobs, or by their order of arrival. The algorithm repeatedly executes the following steps until a valid schedule is obtained:
 * Take the first job in the list (the one with the highest priority).
 * Find a machine that is available for executing this job.
 * If a machine is found, schedule this job on that machine.
 * Otherwise (no suitable machine is available), select the next job in the list.

Example
Suppose there are five jobs with processing-times {4,5,6,7,8}, and m=2 processors. Then, the resulting schedule is {4,6,8}, {5,7}, and the makespan is max(18,12)=18; if m=3, then the resulting schedule is {4,7}, {5,8}, {6}, and the makespan is max(11,13,6)=13.

Performance guarantee
The algorithm runs in time $$O(n)$$, where n is the number of jobs. The algorithm always returns a partition of the jobs whose makespan is at most $$2-1/m$$ times the optimal makespan. This is due to the fact that both the length of the longest job and the average length of all jobs are lower bounds for the optimal makespan. The algorithm can be used as an online algorithm, when the order in which the items arrive cannot be controlled.

Ordering strategies
Instead of using an arbitrary order, one can pre-order the jobs in order to attain better guarantees. Some known list scheduling strategies are:
 * Highest level first algorithm, or HLF;
 * Longest path algorithm or LP;
 * Longest-processing-time-first scheduling, or LPT; this variant decreases the approximation ratio to $$\frac{4}{3}-\frac{1}{3k}$$.
 * Critical path method.
 * Heterogeneous Earliest Finish Time or HEFT. For the case heterogeneous workers.

Anomalies
The list scheduling algorithm has several anomalies. Suppose there are m=3 machines, and the job lengths are: "3, 2, 2, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 9"Further, suppose that all the "4" jobs must be executed after the fourth "2" job. Then, list scheduling returns the following schedule:

 * 3, 9
 * 2, 2, 4, 4
 * 2, [2 idle], 4, 4

and the makespan is 12.

Anomaly 1. If the "4" jobs do not depend on previous jobs anymore, then the list schedule is:

 * 3, 4, 9
 * 2, 2, 4
 * 2, 4, 4

and the makespan is 16. Removing dependencies has enlarged the makespan.

Anomaly 2. Suppose the job lengths decrease by 1, to 2, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3, 3, 8 (with the original dependencies). Then, the list schedule is:

 * 2, 3, 3
 * 1, 1, 3, 8
 * 1, [1 idle], 3

and the makespan is 13. Shortening all jobs has enlarged the makespan.

Anomaly 3. Suppose there is one more machine (with the original lengths, with or without dependencies). Then, the list schedule is:

 * 3, 4
 * 2, 4, 9
 * 2, 4
 * 2, 4

and the makespan is 15. Adding a machine has enlarged the makespan.

The anomalies are bounded as follows. Suppose initially we had m1 machines and the makespan was t1. Now, we have m2 machines, the dependencies are the same or relaxed, the job lengths are the same or shorter, the list is the same or different, and the makespan is t2. Then: "$\frac{t_2}{t_1} \leq 1+\frac{m_1-1}{m_2}$."In particular, with the same number of machines, the ratio is $$2-\frac{1}{m}$$. A special case is when the original schedule is optimal; this yields the bound $$2-\frac{1}{m}$$ on the approximation ratio.

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Mama's Boys

Mama's Boys were a 1980s hard rock/heavy metal group from County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. The band includes the three McManus brothers Pat, a.k.a. "The Professor", (guitar, fiddle), John (bass, vocals), and Tommy (drums). Later in their career they became a four-piece, adding Rick Chase on vocals in 1986, who in turn was replaced by Keith Murrell in 1987 due to Rick's ill health. Keith was later replaced with Connor McKeon in 1989 who was subsequently replaced with Mike Wilson in 1990.

Biography
The McManus brothers grew up on a farm near the village of Derrylin, County Fermanagh, and started their musical career as award-winning traditional Irish musicians but were inspired by the Irish celtic rock band, Horslips, as well as younger brother Tommy's passion for the drums to form a rock band. In the late 1970s, the brothers had become fans of Horslips and attended their gigs at every possible opportunity. They eventually got to know and became friends with the band members. It was around that time that they started their own band which was originally called Pulse before they changed it to Mama's Boys. Barry Devlin of Horslips heard about their band and went to see them rehearse at their home. He was suitably impressed and offered them a support slot for Horslips' 1979 tour.

Although their heroes Horslips mixed traditional music with hard rock and the McManus brothers were top notch traditional musicians, Mama's Boys did not really go for the Celtic fusion sound, apart from the occasional fiddle solo by Pat, but went for a harder edged more heavy metal sound.

They recorded their first self-funded album Official Album (re-released in 1981 as Official Bootleg) in 1980 in only four hours. In 1981 they were invited to support Hawkwind on their UK tour. They recorded and self-financed their second album, entitled Plug It In in 1982, and achieved a hit single in Ireland with the most pop-oriented song on the album, "Needle in the Groove".

The third album Turn It Up was released in 1983. The same year they toured with Thin Lizzy on that band's farewell tour, played at the Reading Rock Festival and signed a worldwide record deal with Jive Records. The first album released on Jive contained some songs previously released on early albums but completely re-recorded with a few new songs. One of the new songs, a cover of Slade's "Mama Weer All Crazee Now" was released as a single and reached number 54 in the American charts. The video for the song got a lot of airplay on MTV and helped the band to become known in the US which they toured in 1984. Coincidentally, the American heavy metal band Quiet Riot also released their cover version of the song at the same time as Mama's Boys, but Quiet Riot's version gained more airplay.

1985's Power and Passion album broke into the Billboard top 100 in the US and the band toured in the US, Europe and Japan. During the European leg of the tour Tommy had a relapse of leukemia which he had been treated for as a child and a replacement drummer Jimmy DeGrasso was brought in to complete the tour. The recovering Tommy re-joined the tour in Ireland but had to be rushed back to hospital after another relapse.

In 1987, former Airrace vocalist Keith Murrell was brought in after Rick Chase started having trouble with his vocal cords and they recorded the album Growing Up The Hard Way. Murrell left in 1988 to join Cliff Richard as a backing singer. Connor McKeon replaced Keith on 1989, but this was short lived and he was replaced by Mike Wilson.

In 1990, with a new vocalist, Mike Wilson, and under new management they moved their base to the UK. The live album Live Tonite was released in 1991 and the band toured extensively in Europe. They released the album Relativity in 1992. While on tour in Italy in 1993, Tommy became ill again and the tour had to be cancelled. The following year Tommy underwent a bone marrow transplant but he did not survive. His brothers were devastated and Mama's Boys did not continue. On the first anniversary of Tommy's death, John composed a traditional lament on the low whistle for his brother and this led to himself and Pat revisiting their traditional Irish music roots and forming a Celtic/new age group called Celtus.

In 2003, Pat McManus joined with Irish rock band 'Indian' for two albums and live shows. After this he joined the Painkillers for a short while, and then formed "Pat McManus and High Voltage" which in 2007 became the Pat McManus Band with (Marty McDermott on bass and Paul Faloon on drums).

The Pat McManus Band released Tattooed in Blue in 2018, and an acoustic guitar based album called Rewind in 2019, alongside a European tour.

Former members

 * Patrick Francis "Pat" McManus – lead guitar, fiddle, backing vocals (1978–1993) (1960, Derrylin)
 * John McManus – bass, lead vocals, backing vocals, low whistle, tin whistle, uilleann pipes (Irish bagpipes) (1978–1993) (24 March 1961, Enniskillen)
 * Thomas "Tommy" McManus – drums, bodhran (Irish drum), backing vocals (1978–1993) (25 March 1966 – 16 November 1994, aged 28)
 * Rick Chase – lead vocals (1986)
 * Keith Murrell – lead vocals (1987–1989)
 * Connor McKeon – lead vocals (1989)
 * Mike Wilson – lead vocals (1990–1993)
 * Alan Williams – keyboards (1989–1993)
 * Dillon Tonkin – keyboards (1991)
 * Jimmy DeGrasso – drums (1985)

Albums

 * "Official Bootleg" (1980)
 * "Plug It In" (1982)
 * "Turn It Up" (1983)
 * "Mama's Boys" (Compilation Album) (1984)
 * "Power and Passion" (1985)
 * "Growing Up the Hard Way" (1987)
 * "Live Tonite" (1991)
 * "Relativity" (1992)

Singles

 * "Rollin' On" (1980)
 * "High Energy Weekend" (1980)
 * "Silence is out of Fashion" (1981)
 * "Belfast City Blues" / "Reach for the Top" (1982)
 * "In the Heat of the Night" (1982)
 * "Needle in the Groove" (1982)
 * "Telephone Teaser" (1983)
 * "Loose Living" (1983)
 * "Too Little of You to Love" (1983)
 * "Midnight Promises" (1984)
 * "Face to Face" (1984)
 * "Mama We're All Crazee Now" (1984)
 * "Runaway Dreams" (1985)
 * "If the Kids are United" (1984)
 * "Needle in the Groove" (1985)
 * "Hard 'N' Loud" (1985)
 * "Lettin' Go" (1985)
 * "Waiting for a Miracle" (1987)
 * "Higher Ground" (1987)
 * "Spirit of America" (1987)
 * "The Flight Tonight" (1991)
 * "Laugh About It" (1992)

DVDs

 * "Mama We're All Crazee Now" (2006)

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Metaphysics (Aristotle)

Metaphysics (Greek: τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά, "those after the physics"; Latin: Metaphysica ) is one of the principal works of Aristotle, in which he develops the doctrine that he calls First Philosophy. The work is a compilation of various texts treating abstract subjects, notably substance theory, different kinds of causation, form and matter, the existence of mathematical objects and the cosmos, which together constitute much of the branch of philosophy later known as metaphysics.

Date, style and composition
Many of Aristotle's works are extremely compressed, and many scholars believe that in their current form, they are likely lecture notes. Subsequent to the arrangement of Aristotle's works by Andronicus of Rhodes in the first century BC, a number of his treatises were referred to as the writings "after ("meta") the Physics", the origin of the current title for the collection Metaphysics. Some have interpreted the expression "meta" to imply that the subject of the work goes "beyond" that of Aristotle's Physics or that it is metatheoretical in relation to the Physics. But others believe that "meta" referred simply to the work's place in the canonical arrangement of Aristotle's writings, which is at least as old as Andronicus of Rhodes or even Hermippus of Smyrna. In other surviving works of Aristotle, the metaphysical treatises are referred to as "the [writings] concerning first philosophy"; which was the term Aristotle used for metaphysics.

It is notoriously difficult to specify the date at which Aristotle wrote these treatises as a whole or even individually, especially because the Metaphysics is, in Jonathan Barnes' words, "a farrago, a hotch-potch", and more generally because of the difficulty of dating any of Aristotle's writings. The order in which the books were written is not known; their arrangement is due to later editors. In the manuscripts, books are referred to by Greek letters. For many scholars, it is customary to refer to the books by their letter names. Book 1 is called Alpha (Α); 2, little alpha (α); 3, Beta (Β); 4, Gamma (Γ); 5, Delta (Δ); 6, Epsilon (Ε); 7, Zeta (Ζ); 8, Eta (Η); 9, Theta (Θ); 10, Iota (Ι); 11, Kappa (Κ); 12, Lambda (Λ); 13, Mu (Μ); 14, Nu (Ν).

Books I–VI: Alpha, little Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon

 * Book I or Alpha begins by discussing the nature of knowledge and compares knowledge gained from the senses and from memory, arguing that knowledge is acquired from memory through experience. It then defines "wisdom" (sophia) as a knowledge of the first principles (arche) or causes of things. Because those who are wise understand the first principles and causes, they know the why of things, unlike those who only know that things are a certain way based on their memory and sensations. The wise are able to teach because they know the why of things, and so they are better fitted to command, rather than to obey. He then surveys the first principles and causes of previous philosophers, starting with the material monists of the Ionian school and continuing up until Plato.
 * Book II or "little alpha": Book II addresses a possible objection to the account of how we understand first principles and thus acquire wisdom, that attempting to discover the first principle would lead to an infinite series of causes. It argues in response that the idea of an infinite causal series is absurd, and argues that only things that are created or destroyed require a cause, and that thus there must be a primary cause that is eternal, an idea he develops later in Book Lambda.
 * Book III or Beta lists the main problems or puzzles (aporia) of philosophy.
 * Book IV or Gamma: Chapters 2 and 3 argue for its status as a subject in its own right. The rest is a defense of (a) what we now call the principle of contradiction, the principle that it is not possible for the same proposition to be (the case) and not to be (the case), and (b) what we now call the principle of excluded middle: tertium non datur — there cannot be an intermediary between contradictory statements.
 * Book V or Delta ("philosophical lexicon") is a list of definitions of about thirty key terms such as cause, nature, one, and many.
 * Book VI or Epsilon has two main concerns. The first concern is the hierarchy of the sciences: productive, practical or theoretical. Aristotle considers theoretical sciences superior because they study beings for their own sake—for example, Physics studies beings that can be moved—and do not have a target (τέλος telos, "end, goal"; τέλειος, "complete, perfect") beyond themselves. He argues that the study of being qua being, or First Philosophy, is superior to all the other theoretical sciences because it is concerned with the ultimate causes of all reality, not just the secondary causes of a part of reality. The second concern of Epsilon is the study of "accidents" (κατὰ συμβεβηκός), those attributes that do not depend on (τέχνη) or exist by necessity, which Aristotle believes do not deserve to be studied as a science.

Books VII–IX: Zeta, Eta, and Theta
Books Zeta, Eta, and Theta are generally considered the core of the Metaphysics. Book Zeta (VII) begins by stating that "being" has several senses, the purpose of philosophy is to understand the primary kind of being, called substance (ousia) and determine what substances there are, a concept that Aristotle develops in the Categories. Zeta goes on to consider four candidates for substance: (i) the 'essence' or 'what it is to be' of a thing (ii) the universal, (iii) the genus to which a substance belongs and (iv) the material substrate that underlies all the properties of a thing. Finally, he concludes book Zeta by arguing that substance is really a cause.
 * He dismisses the idea that matter can be substance, for if we eliminate everything that is a property from what can have the property, such as matter and the shape, we are left with something that has no properties at all. Such 'ultimate matter' cannot be substance. Separability and 'this-ness' are fundamental to our concept of substance.
 * Aristotle then describes his theory that essence is the criterion of substantiality. The essence of something is what is included in a secundum se ('according to itself') account of a thing, i.e. which tells what a thing is by its very nature. You are not musical by your very nature. But you are a human by your very nature. Your essence is what is mentioned in the definition of you.
 * Aristotle then considers, and dismisses, the idea that substance is the universal or the genus, criticizing the Platonic theory of Ideas.
 * Aristotle argues that if genus and species are individual things, then different species of the same genus contain the genus as individual thing, which leads to absurdities. Moreover, individuals are incapable of definition.

Book Eta consists of a summary of what has been said so far (i.e., in Book Zeta) about substance, and adds a few further details regarding difference and unity.

Book Theta sets out to define potentiality and actuality. Chapters 1–5 discuss potentiality, the potential of something to change: potentiality is "a principle of change in another thing or in the thing itself qua other." In chapter 6 Aristotle turns to actuality. We can only know actuality through observation or "analogy;" thus "as that which builds is to that which is capable of building, so is that which is awake to that which is asleep...or that which is separated from matter to matter itself". Actuality is the completed state of something that had the potential to be completed. The relationship between actuality and potentiality can be thought of as the relationship between form and matter, but with the added aspect of time. Actuality and potentiality are distinctions that occur over time (diachronic), whereas form and matter are distinctions that can be made at fixed points in time (synchronic).

Books X–XIV: Iota, Kappa, Lambda, Mu, and Nu

 * Book X or Iota: Discussion of unity, one and many, sameness and difference.
 * Book XI or Kappa: Briefer versions of other chapters and of parts of the Physics.
 * Book XII or Lambda: Further remarks on beings in general, first principles, and God or gods. This book includes Aristotle's famous description of the unmoved mover, "the most divine of things observed by us", as "the thinking of thinking".
 * Books XIII and XIV, or Mu and Nu: Philosophy of mathematics, in particular how numbers exist.

Legacy
The Metaphysics is considered to be one of the greatest philosophical works. Its influence on the Greeks, the Muslim philosophers, Maimonides thence the scholastic philosophers and even writers such as Dante was immense.

In the 3rd century, Alexander of Aphrodisias wrote a commentary on the first five books of the Metaphysics, and a commentary transmitted under his name exists for the final nine, but modern scholars doubt that this part was written by him. Themistius wrote an epitome of the work, of which book 12 survives in a Hebrew translation. The Neoplatonists Syrianus and Asclepius of Tralles also wrote commentaries on the work, where they attempted to synthesize Aristotle's doctrines with Neoplatonic cosmology.

Aristotle's works gained a reputation for complexity that is never more evident than with the Metaphysics — Avicenna said that he had read the Metaphysics of Aristotle forty times, but did not understand it until he also read al-Farabi's Purposes of the Metaphysics of Aristotle."I read the Metaphysics [of Aristotle], but I could not comprehend its contents, and its author's object remained obscure to me, even when I had gone back and read it forty times and had got to the point where I had memorized it. In spite of this I could not understand it nor its object, and I despaired of myself and said, 'This is a book which there is no way of understanding.' But one day in the afternoon when I was at the booksellers' quarter a salesman approached with a book in his hand which he was calling out for sale. (...) So I bought it and, lo and behold, it was Abu Nasr al-Farabi's book on the objects of the Metaphysics. I returned home and was quick to read it, and in no time the objects of that book became clear to me because I had got to the point of having memorized it by heart."

The flourishing of Arabic Aristotelian scholarship reached its peak with the work of Ibn Rushd (Latinized: Averroes), whose extensive writings on Aristotle's work led to his later designation as "The Commentator" by future generations of scholars. Maimonides wrote the Guide to the Perplexed in the 12th century, to demonstrate the compatibility of Aristotelian science with Biblical revelation.

The Fourth Crusade (1202–1204) facilitated the discovery and delivery of many original Greek manuscripts to Western Europe. William of Moerbeke's translations of the work formed the basis of the commentaries on the Metaphysics by Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus. They were also used by modern scholars for Greek editions, as William had access to Greek manuscripts that are now lost. Werner Jaeger lists William's translation in his edition of the Greek text in the Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis (Oxford 1962).

Textual criticism
In the 19th century, with the rise of textual criticism, the Metaphysics was examined anew. Critics, noting the wide variety of topics and the seemingly illogical order of the books, concluded that it was actually a collection of shorter works thrown together haphazardly. In the 20th century two general editions have been produced by W. D. Ross (1924) and by W. Jaeger (1957). Based on a careful study of the content and of the cross-references within them, W. D. Ross concluded that books A, B, Γ, E, Z, H, Θ, M, N, and I "form a more or less continuous work", while the remaining books α, Δ, Κ and Λ were inserted into their present locations by later editors. However, Ross cautions that books A, B, Γ, E, Z, H, Θ, M, N, and I — with or without the insertion of the others — do not constitute "a complete work". Werner Jaeger further maintained that the different books were taken from different periods of Aristotle's life. Everyman's Library, for their 1000th volume, published the Metaphysics in a rearranged order that was intended to make the work easier for readers.

Editing the Metaphysics has become an open issue in works and studies of the new millennium. New critical editions have been produced of books Gamma, Alpha, and Lambda. Differences from the more-familiar 20th Century critical editions of Ross and Jaeger mainly depend on the stemma codicum of Aristotle's Metaphysics, of which different versions have been proposed since 1970.

Editions and translations

 * Greek text with commentary: Aristotle's Metaphysics. W. D. Ross. 2 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924. Reprinted in 1953 with corrections.
 * Greek text: Aristotelis Metaphysica. Ed. Werner Jaeger. Oxford Classical Texts. Oxford University Press, 1957. ISBN 978-0-19-814513-4.
 * Greek text with English: Metaphysics. Trans. Hugh Tredennick. 2 vols. Loeb Classical Library 271, 287. Harvard U. Press, 1933–35. ISBN 0-674-99299-7, ISBN 0-674-99317-9.
 * Aristotle's Metaphysics. Trans. Hippocrates Gorgias Apostle. Bloomington: Indiana U. Press, 1966.

Ancient and medieval commentaries

 * (rpt. Notre Dame, Ind.: Dumb Ox, 1995).

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Bridge (Speed album)

Bridge is an album by J-pop girlband Speed, released on November 27, 2003. This album was released as part of the "Save the Children" charity project in 2003. It contains their new singles Be My Love and Walking In the Rain/Stars to Shine Again. The album is unique in that it is produced by different artists, not just their main producer: this leads some people to believe it doesn't sound like an album: however, not many people are aware it is produced by different top performers and producers.

Track listing

 * 1) "Be My Love"
 * 2) "Stars to Shine Again" Produced by Tommy february6.
 * 3) "Cryin'"
 * 4) "Walking in the Rain" Produced by The Gospellers.
 * 5) "Need Your Hands Tonight"
 * 6) "Way To Go!" Produced by Tsunku.
 * 7) "Bridge to Heaven"
 * 8) "Kiss": Produced by Chara.
 * 9) "Kimi to mata aeru hi wo (君とまた会える日を)"
 * 10) "Still Blowing:"
 * 11) "Hana (華)"
 * 12) "Yotsuba no clover (四ツ葉のクローバー)"
 * 13) "With..."

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At first I tried to read the French site, but my French is poor. I got that they were founded by Louis-Joseph Antoine and believed in dualism and reincarnation, but that was about it. I put into Babel Fish which of course gave a confused deal. However I gleaned from it what I wrote here. So what I'm saying is this is likely off so feel free to edit. --T. Anthony 09:40, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

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√Done. I have copyedited the entire article. Note: I have left my comments (such as suggestions for rewording ambiguous statements) in invisible text. It takes the form of < ! - - This text is a comment this text is a comment this text is a comment. - - > (Without the spaces, of course; because the formatting is actually html comment formatting, it cannot be shown with "nowiki" tags.) Bronsonboy (talk) 03:43, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

 * Thank you Bronsonboy for your help. I corrected some sentences, following your comments and after checking the references, as I'm not very familiar with the subject. In the phrase "Later, he was a steelworker in a boiler", I tried to translate the French word "chaudronnerie" with "boiler". Unfortunately, I don't know what is the proper word for this. --Europe22 (talk) 09:59, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

 * Always happy to help. Unfortunately, I am not aware either what the definition of chaudronnerie is; I have not yet learned this word. You will note some further comments throughout the article, but overall, you did a very good job. I appreciate the amount of effort you took to find sources and "do your homework" so to speak. Perhaps you could consult a fluently bilingual user on this question? Wikipedia has categories of users who speak each language; the trick would be to find one who speaks both French and English—it might be quite a bit of sifting. Have you tried translation engines like Google? Bronsonboy HQ 13:37, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, I tried translation engines like Google which gave "boiler"... However, according to wordreference.com, it appears that "boiler manufacturing" would be the more accurate translation, but as you say, it may be better to seek advice from a bilingual user. I will also read your comments throughout the article and try to fix what's wrong. Thanks again for your help! --Europe22 (talk) 19:35, 25 April 2011 (UTC)

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Fair use in Bridge (Speed album)
Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:
 * 1) It's a low resolution copy of a CD/album cover.
 * 2) It doesn't limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the CD/album in any way, in fact, it may encourage sales.
 * 3) Because of the low resolution, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the album artwork on another CD.
 * 4) The image is itself a subject of discussion in the article or used in the infobox thereof.
 * 5) The image on the cover is significant because it was made by a famous artist.

Source

 * 1) Derived from a digital capture (scan/photo) of the album/CD cover (creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party). Copyright held by the record company or the artist. Claimed as fair use regardless.

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The result of the debate was RESULT. Woohookitty 11:26, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
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Non-notable (7 uniques hits on Google) Demogorgon's Soup-taster 09:41, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
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 * Delete all blogs. Proto t c 10:05, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
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 * Delete Red Dalek 11:47, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Don't delete all blogs, but set the bar very high. The exploits of one adulterous man aren't particularly notable, no matter what medium they're recorded in. android  79  12:06, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. DV8 2XL 14:01, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

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 * KEEP! I like it. wikiwild 15:17, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
 * It's a winner, don't delete!! This guy can write and it's about to be a book hangman 18:43, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
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List of results of the Australian national rugby league team

The following list is a complete collection of results for the Australia National Rugby League Team. It includes Test matches, World Cup matches and Tests played under the banner of Super League (Australia).

Test Matches
Below is the table of the official representative rugby league matches played by Australia at test level up until 5 November 2023:

Test Matches & Internationals
Bold indicates World Cup match. Italics indicates that an Australasian team played, consisting of players also from New Zealand.

1990s - Est. League Tests
1 These matches are only recognised as tests by the Australian Rugby League (ARL).

1990s - Super League Tests
The following Super League matches are considered to be Tests by the Rugby League International Federation, New Zealand Rugby League and Rugby Football League, but not by the Australian Rugby League.

Exhibition matches

 * R.L. = Rugby League
 * R.U. = Rugby Union


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Blackrod railway station

Blackrod railway station serves the towns of Blackrod and Horwich, Greater Manchester, England. It is 6.5 miles (10 km ) north west of Bolton railway station. It is just 1+1/4 mi from the town centre of Horwich - closer than Horwich Parkway station.

It lies on the Manchester-Preston Line and is served by Northern Trains, who run express trains from Manchester Airport to Blackpool North. Despite its high passenger usage and the recent refurbishment (see below) the station is currently unstaffed. A drop in passenger usage in the year 2017/18 is largely due to industrial action and engineering works with the drop in the year 2020/21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and reduced timetable.

History
The station was opened on 4 February 1841 as Horwich Road by the Manchester and Bolton Railway. It was renamed Horwich and Blackrod, then Horwich Junction, then Horwich and Blackrod junction, and finally Blackrod in 1888

Blackrod was once the junction for a short branch to serve the original Horwich station (closed to passengers on 27 September 1965 ) and Horwich Locomotive Works (sold in 1988, after which the line was closed and lifted). Until the 1980s, Blackrod had a poor frequency of service, but for many years it has been a popular commuter station.

Technical railway information
The station had until recently a signal box, the only one on the entire Manchester to Preston route. This had outlasted the others as it acted as the 'fringe' to both the Manchester Piccadilly signalling centre and Preston PSB. The train description system used in the Preston installation was incompatible with that installed at Piccadilly so the signaller at Blackrod had to transfer train data manually from one system to the other as each one passed through his/her control area. A similar situation existed at Bromley Cross on the Bolton to Blackburn line, where the two control areas also overlap. Network Rail announced in May 2012 that the box was due to be abolished in January 2013, with control passing to the Piccadilly signalling centre. This is part of a programme of signalling renewals associated with the planned electrification of the Manchester-Preston line (due for completion in 2016). The box was duly decommissioned on 10 February 2013 and subsequently demolished.

2012 refurbishment
Over one million pounds' worth of improvements to the station (including the removal of the footbridge shown in the photo and its replacement with step-free access ramps) were completed in November 2012.

Facilities
A ticket vending machine is in place for purchase of tickets or promise to pay coupons and for the collection of pre-paid tickets. Digital station information boards are in operation on both platforms along public announcements. Car parking is available. Both platforms have step-free access via ramps from Station Road. The signal box is not in use any more. Since May 2020, certain mobility scooters can be carried on all services from Blackrod.

Services
As of December 2022, 1 train per hour calls at this station off-peak 7 days a week between Manchester Airport and Blackpool North. Services run half-hourly Monday-Saturday between 06:00 - 09:00 and 16:30 - 19:30 in both directions and also northbound between 19:30 and 21:00.

Saturday and Sunday services were replaced by buses most weekends from May 2015 until November 2018 due to the late-running electrification work on the route. Weekend services resumed on Sunday 11 November 2018 after the completion of the electrification engineering work. Sunday services were regularly replaced by buses between December 2018 and March 2021 due to train crew shortages but a full Sunday service is now in operation.

For several years the station was served hourly by the Manchester Victoria to Preston service. In December 2021, this service was withdrawn due to train crew availability and to improve reliability on the line, and both Blackrod and Adlington were only served at peak times. In May 2022 the timetables were adjusted so the hourly Blackpool North to Manchester Airport service would stop at both of these stations throughout the day and the station receives hourly off-peak services as of 2023.

Since the December 2022 timetable change, most services are operated by 6-carriage Class 331 units (however in December 2023 some "quieter" services will be formed of 4 coaches) which were previously too long to allow all doors to open on platform 1 (for services from Manchester towards Blackpool); as a result only the doors in the front 5 carriages would open when the train stops on platform 1. Platform 2 (for services from Blackpool towards Manchester) is longer and all train doors can be used. Platform 1 has been extended in 2023 and as a result all doors can now open on both platforms.

Renovation and electrification
It was announced by the Department for Transport in December 2009, the line between Preston and Manchester, on which the station is situated, will be electrified which should reduce journey times to Manchester by up to ten minutes. There have been many delays but completion is expected before December 2018.

Electric service commenced on 11 February 2019, initially utilising Class 319 electric multiple units.

Post electrification services
A new timetable was introduced in May 2019 featuring new electric trains and shorter journey times; daytime services run hourly between Preston and Manchester Victoria with evening and additional peak services running between Blackpool North and Manchester Piccadilly and onwards to Manchester Airport or Hazel Grove. Initially all services utilised Class 319 electric multiple units. Since December 2019, all services have utilised Class 331 electric multiple units.

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Russell Latapy

Russell Nigel Latapy CM (born 2 August 1968) is a Trinidadian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder, and is currently the assistant coach of Macarthur. In a senior career which spanned more than twenty years at both club and international level, he played in Portugal (eight years with three clubs, most notably Porto) and Scotland (eleven seasons representing four teams, Hibernian, Rangers, Dundee United and Falkirk).

Latapy gained 81 caps for the Trinidad and Tobago national team. As a member of the squad that competed at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, Latapy was awarded the Chaconia Medal (Gold Class), the second highest state decoration of Trinidad and Tobago.

Early life
Born in Port of Spain, Latapy was first noted playing organised football at under-10 level. As a youth he played in the Trinidad and Tobago Secondary School's Football League, and was called up to the national under-16 and under-19 teams.

When he was 19 years old, Latapy had an opportunity to attend Florida International University, but he chose to continue with his football career. This decision was supported by his mother despite the fact that in the 1980s very few Trinidadians were noted to have had careers in the sport that allowed them to earn a decent living.

Portugal
In 1990, aged 22, after playing in his country and in Jamaica, Latapy moved to Portugal and signed for Académica de Coimbra, playing four years in the second division. During his spell in Coimbra, he appeared in nearly 150 official games, and scored eighteen goals in his last two seasons combined, but the club failed to win promotion. He also credited coach Vítor Manuel as one of the coaches he admired the most.

Latapy's performances with Académica saw him signed by FC Porto. Under Bobby Robson, he helped the club to back-to-back national championships, being used regularly in his second year (twenty-six games, five goals). Also, he earned the distinction of being the first Trinidadian to play in the UEFA Champions League.

In summer of 1996, Latapy signed with city neighbours Boavista FC. On 29 October, he scored twice in a 5–0 home win against FC Dinamo Tbilisi in that season's UEFA Europa League (5–1 on aggregate), and was also part of the squad that won the campaign's Portuguese Cup, even though he did not play in the final against S.L. Benfica (3–2).

Scotland
In the 1998 off-season, Latapy was recruited by manager Alex McLeish to join Scottish First Division side Hibernian. He quickly became a fan favourite at his new club and earned numerous team accolades, including two Player of the Year awards and a Scottish Division 1 Player of the Year award; he also contributed with six goals in twenty-three games in an eventual promotion to the Premier League, as champions.

Despite his contributions, Latapy was sacked from Hibernian early in 2001 after a night that began with him socialising with countryman and Manchester United player Dwight Yorke, and ended with him being charged by police for drunk driving. The incident represented a breach of the code of conduct for Hibernian players, who were forbidden to drink for 48 hours before a match. It was around this time that both players quit international football after being dropped from the starting line-up by national coach Renê Simões, after they failed to show up for a training session.

Following his dismissal from Hibernian, Latapy was signed by Rangers, who were managed by Dick Advocaat. He failed to reproduce his best form at Ibrox Stadium, even when McLeish replaced the Dutchman at the helm of the club – the new manager expressed a desire to field younger players, Latapy was 34; in addition to his age, his partying tendencies also did little to put him in favour with the coach, and he eventually left in January 2003.

Latapy finished the 2002–03 season with fellow league team Dundee United. In the summer, he was brought to Falkirk by manager John Hughes, his former teammate at Hibs, who had 'tracked him down' in Portugal. The veteran started strongly, scoring a total of fourteen league goals in his first two seasons, and was an essential component of the team as they returned to the top flight in 2005, as champions. In the process, he was awarded the First Division 'Player of the Month' for April and was again named the league's Player of the Year.

Latapy received another individual award in 2006, this time the SPL 'Player of the Month' for August. The Bairns once again retained their top division status in 2008–09, but he only appeared in three games, leaving the club in January 2009 at nearly 41 after 194 competitive appearances (29 goals), and signed with Caledonia AIA in his homeland. Latapy was inducted into the 'Falkirk Hall of Fame' on 29 November 2008. To mark this occasion the club hosted a 'Russell Latapy Day'. In October 2011, at 43, he came out of retirement to sign for East of Scotland Football League's Edinburgh City, ahead of their Scottish Cup tie against Irvine Meadow.

International career
Latapy's debut for Trinidad and Tobago was on 30 October 1988, in a 0–0 home draw against Honduras for the 1990 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. He was part of the squad known as the Strike Squad whom, needing only one point in its last game to qualify for the finals in Italy, was defeated 1–0 at home by the United States.

In 2005, after four years without one single appearance, Latapy returned to the national team following the intervention of his friend Yorke – who had done the same the previous year – and FIFA vice-president Austin "Jack" Warner. His first match in his second spell was a 3–2 home win over Guatemala in which he scored, and he took part in a further five contests in the 2006 World Cup qualifying campaign, including both games in the decisive playoffs against Bahrain, with the Soca Warriors qualifying to the FIFA World Cup for the first time in its history.

Latapy's input in the finals in Germany consisted of 25 minutes in the 2–0 loss against Paraguay, in an eventual group stage exit. The national team returned to a hero's welcome at Piarco International Airport in Trinidad and, in recognition of their achievements, each member of the team was awarded Trinidad and Tobago's second highest honour, the Chaconia Medal in gold, and TT$1,000,000 (roughly US$160,000 at the time).

Trinidad & Tobago
Latapy became assistant to Trinidad and Tobago manager Francisco Maturana and, following the Colombian's resignation in April 2009, was appointed his successor. In his first game on 6 June, the team lost 3–2 at home to Costa Rica in 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifying, thereby falling to last in the group.

On 13 January 2011, it was confirmed by the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association that Latapy would cease his duties as national manager, as the team failed to qualify to the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup after being eliminated before the semi-final stage of the 2010 Caribbean Cup. In his 23 games in charge, he recorded nine wins, three draws and eleven losses.

Assistant
In January 2014, Latapy was working as an assistant coach for former club Boavista. He then linked up again with John Hughes, becoming his assistant at Inverness Caledonian Thistle.

Latapy helped Inverness win the 2014–15 Scottish Cup. He left the club in July 2015, as he sought to become a manager in his own right.

On 2 January 2017, Latapy became an assistant coach of the Soca Warriors where he worked along with its head coach Tom Saintfiet at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.

Barbados
On 1 April 2019, Latapy became manager of the Barbados national team on a two-year contract. His team won promotion from the 2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League C on goal difference after a 3–0 final-day win over the Cayman Islands, but fell 8–1 to Bermuda in the ensuing 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup qualification first round. He left in June 2022.

International goals

 * Scores and results list Trinidad and Tobago's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Latapy goal.

Honours
Porto
 * Primeira Liga: 1994–95, 1995–96
 * Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 1994

Boavista
 * Taça de Portugal: 1996–97
 * Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 1997

Hibernian
 * Scottish First Division: 1998–99

Rangers
 * Scottish League Cup: 2001–02

Falkirk
 * Scottish First Division: 2004–05
 * Scottish Challenge Cup: 2004–05

Trinidad and Tobago
 * Caribbean Cup: 1992, 1996

Individual
 * T&T Footballer of the Year in 1989, 1996
 * Scottish Premier League: Player of the Month August 2006
 * Scottish First Division: Player of the Year 1998–99, 2004–05
 * Scottish First Division: Player of the Month April 2005
 * Hibernian Player of the Year in 1998–99, 1999–2000
 * T&T Chaconia Medal Gold (World Cup qualifying squad) in 1989
 * T&T Chaconia Medal Gold (World Cup Finals squad) in 2006
 * T&T Hummingbird Medal Gold (for Sport) in 1996
 * Edinburgh Evening News Sports Personality of the Year in 1999
 * T&T Olympic Committee Sports Personality of the Year in 2000 P
 * Nominated for the BBC Scotland's Off The Ball Overseas Player of the Year in 2004
 * Best XI 2000 CONCACAF Gold Cup

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Minogue

Minogue is a surname of Irish origin, which is an anglicized form of the Gaelic Ó Muineog, meaning "descendant of Muineog", which is a name derived from manach ("monk"). Notable people with the surname include:

 * Áine Minogue (born 1977), Irish musician
 * Craig Minogue (born 1962), Australian convicted murderer
 * Dan Minogue (1891–1961), Australian footballer
 * Dan Minogue (politician) (1893–1983), Australian politician
 * Dannii Minogue (born 1971), Australian singer-songwriter
 * Walter Minogue (1910-1958), Australian rules footballer
 * Kenneth Minogue (1930–2013), Australian political scientist
 * John Minogue (born 1959), Irish hurling manager and former player
 * Kylie Minogue (born 1968), Australian singer, songwriter and actress
 * Mike Minogue (1923–2008), New Zealand politician
 * Mike Minogue (actor), New Zealand actor

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Horwich Parkway railway station

Horwich Parkway is a railway station serving the town of Horwich and suburb of Middlebrook in Greater Manchester, England. The station is 16+1/4 mi north west of Manchester Piccadilly on the Manchester to Preston line. The station is close to Junction 6 of the M61 motorway which adds to its convenience as a park and ride railway station. It has digital information displays. Rail services are operated by Northern Trains. Horwich Parkway opened on 2 July 1999. It is the only railway station owned and managed by TfGM. A ticket office was built in 2007 and car parking provision has been expanded on several occasions. A wind turbine was built in 2012 and the station is powered by green energy. Horwich Parkway is the railway station for the University of Bolton Stadium, home of Bolton Wanderers F.C. and the Middlebrook shopping, leisure and business complex.

On 1 February 2021, management of the station was transferred from Northern Trains to Transport for Greater Manchester.

Facilities
The station has a ticket office on Platform 1, which is open Monday-Saturday 06:20-19:35. A ticket vending machine is in place for purchase of tickets or promise to pay coupons when the ticket office is closed and for the collection of pre-paid tickets. Digital station information boards are in operation on both platforms. Car parking is available adjacent to the ticket office.

Services

There are two trains per hour Monday to Saturdays, northbound to Blackpool North and southbound to Manchester Airport via Manchester Piccadilly.

The delayed electrification work on the Manchester to Preston line (running two years behind schedule) led to a temporary reduction in service frequency here from the start of the summer 2018 timetable, along with regular weekend engineering blockades and replacement buses in place of the scheduled train service. Weekend services resumed on Sunday 11 November 2018 after the completion of the engineering work after more than three years of regular weekend possessions.

Electric service commenced on 11 February 2019 utilising Class 319 electric multiple units.

Prior to December 2022, 1 train per hour southbound terminated at Hazel Grove.

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Catholic Junior College

Catholic Junior College (CJC) is a junior college in Singapore, offering a two-year course for pre-university students leading to the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Advanced Level examination. Founded in 1975, Catholic Junior College was the third junior college to be established in Singapore.

History
Plans for a junior college operated by the Catholic mission was first announced by then-Prime Minister Mr Lee Kuan Yew at the opening of National Junior College in May 1970, as one of several planned to be set up. Subsequently, the Catholic mission disclosed plans for a fund-raising campaign in June 1970. The college was to occupy about 15 acres of land along Whitley Road, and to use both English and Chinese to conduct classes.

Construction on the college campus was underway by July 1974, and was expected to have a capacity of 1,500 students. CJC took in its first batch of 500 students in January 1975, but as the college campus was not ready, the students initially attended classes at other Catholic schools. The first section of the college, comprising four tutorial blocks, was completed in March 1975, while the rest of the campus was completed by August that year. With the college's opening, pre-university students that were then attending classes in Catholic schools moved over to the college.

In March 1977, the college set up a co-operative. In the late 1970s, CJC formulated its own moral education syllabus designed specifically for its students. Consisting of role-playing and sharing sessions, it took into account ideas from students shared during engagement sessions. In 1985, the college campus was upgraded at a cost of $1 million.

Crest
The principal symbol of Catholic Junior College is the Holy Spirit. The school crest was redesigned and unveiled in 2013.

Motto
The College motto "In Veritate et Caritate" translates as "In Truth and Love".

Uniform & Attire
Catholic Junior College's uniform is themed in a light shade of blue. The uniform was designed by the first batch of CJ students. Male students wear plain light blue shirts with light blue pants while female students wear light blue blouses with light blue skirts. A collar pin bearing the flame insignia of the College is worn on the left collar of the uniform. Navy blue blazers and ties are worn during important ceremonies and events.

The PE uniform consists of a blue t-shirt with the crest on the left side of the shirt and the college flame and abbreviation on the back of the t-shirt, and black shorts with the college flame and abbreviation on the bottom left. It is typically only worn for PE lessons and CCA sessions.

Students are also allowed to wear a polo "dress-down" shirt. This consists of a navy blue shirt with the crest on the left side of the shirt and white stripes on both sleeves and on the sides. This shirt also includes the college motto on the back. Students may order a set of shirts with their CCA listed on the left sleeve of the polo. Student leaders are given a separate polo shirt upon completion of the Leadership Training Camp, which is the same as the regular polo shirt except for the removal of the white stripes in favor of an all-blue shirt, and a shortened form of the college's mission "Thinker with a Mission, Leader with a Heart" imprinted on the back instead of the college motto.

On Friday, students are allowed to wear their house t-shirt, which may be red, orange, yellow or green depending on the student's house. Sports leaders may wear a polo shirt variation. Students are also permitted to wear the collegiate shirt on Fridays.

Admission & affiliation
Catholic Junior College is affiliated to all Catholic schools in Singapore that offer secondary education. Students from the affiliated institutions are entitled to two additional point reduction to their L1R5 raw scores for their GCE Ordinary Level examination results when applying for admission into CJC as the first choice (a maximum of 4 reduction points to L1R5 score is allowed for JC Joint Admission Exercise, with the exception for appeals through Language Elective Programmes to participating pre-university centres, which allows up to a maximum of 6 reduction points).

Campus
Catholic Junior College is located off Whitley Road, and was built on a site previously occupied by the British forces.

Academic information
Catholic Junior College offers Arts and Science courses that leads up to the Singapore-Cambridge GCE Advanced Level examinations.

Co-curricular activities (CCAs)
The list of co-curricular activities (or CCAs) offered at Catholic Junior College are listed below.

Notable alumni

 * Tan Chorh Chuan, President, National University of Singapore
 * Jessica Tan Soon Neo, Member of Parliament for East Coast GRC
 * Cheryl Chan, Member of Parliament for East Coast GRC
 * Phua Siok Gek Cynthia, Former Member of Parliament for Aljunied GRC
 * Chia Yong Yong, Singaporean lawyer, disability advocate and a Nominated Member of Parliament of Singapore
 * Paulin Tay Straughan, Professor of Sociology and Vice Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore; Nominated Member of Parliament
 * Tan Cheng Han, former Dean, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
 * Tan Kheng Hua, actress, comedian, playwright
 * Christine Tan, CNBC anchor
 * Tay Ping Hui, actor and director
 * Jacelyn Tay, actress and health coach
 * Joan Pereira, Member of Parliament
 * Sean Foo, entrepreneur, filmmaker and LGBT advocate
 * Madeleine Lim, filmmaker and LGBT activist
 * Colette Wong, Fox Sports Asia presenter
 * Cheryl Koh, pastry chef
 * John Yap, Co-Founder, Awfully Chocolate

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Order of Sion

The Order of Sion was a mediaeval order of canons which, according to a papal bull of the 12th century, had abbeys on Mount Sion in Jerusalem, on Mount Carmel, in Southern Italy (Calabria), and in France. The Order occupied its "mother" abbey, the Abbey de Notre Dame du Mont Sion, built on the foundations of the original apostolic Cenacle, or Coenaculum, traditionally assumed to be the location of the Last Supper. The abbey was maintained up until c1291, when it fell to the Muslims.

Connections with the Priory of Sion are generally believed to be a hoax perpetrated in the 1960s in France.

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Taking the piss

Taking the piss is a colloquial term meaning to mock at the expense of others, or to be joking, without the element of offence. It is also sometimes phrased as a question, 'are they taking the piss?', when referring to an individual who takes above and beyond what is thought acceptable, similar to the expression, 'give them an inch and they take a mile.' It is a shortening of the idiom taking the piss out of, which is an expression meaning to mock, tease, joke, ridicule, or scoff. It is not to be confused with "taking a piss", which refers to the act of urinating. Taking the Mickey (Mickey Bliss, Cockney rhyming slang), taking the Mick or taking the Michael are additional terms for making fun of someone. These terms are most often used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia.

Usage
The term sometimes refers to a form of mockery in which the mocker exaggerates the other person's characteristics; pretending to take on his or her attitudes, etc., for the purpose of comedic effect at the expense of another. This would be described as "taking the piss" out of that person, or "a piss-take". It may also be used to refer to a ruse whereby a person is led to believe a plainly unbelievable fact for the purpose of ridicule of the subject, e.g. "Are you being serious?" "No, I'm just taking the piss."

The phrase is in common usage throughout British society and to a lesser extent in Irish society, employed by headline writers in broadsheet gazettes and tabloids as well as colloquially. It is also used in English-speaking countries such as Australia.

In colloquial usage, "taking the piss" is also used to refer to someone or something that makes a claim which is not in line with a recognised agreement, e.g. an invoice that is double the quoted price with no explanation for the added charge could be said to "take the piss", or likewise if something consistently misses a deadline.

The term can also mean to take unfair advantage; for example, if someone has a food buffet and one guest clearly takes more than his expected share. It can also relate to an abuse of trust, such as "You can use my 'phone, but don't take the piss!", i.e., do not abuse my offer of assistance by making lengthy calls that will cost me a lot of money. Equally, a wilfully unproductive employee could be described as "taking the piss" for accepting a wage while knowingly failing to deliver on their obligation, or an employer could be accused of "taking the piss" for making unreasonable requests of their employees, e.g., expecting them to do unpaid overtime.

Origin
"Take the piss" may be a reference to a related (and dated) idiomatic expression, piss-proud, which is a vulgar pun referring to the morning erections which happen when a man awakens at the end of a dream cycle (each about 90 minutes in length throughout the night) or may be caused by a full bladder pressing upon nerves that help effect an erection. This could be considered a "false" erection, as its origin is physiological, not psychosexual, so in a metaphoric sense, then, someone who is "piss-proud" would suffer from false pride, and taking the piss out of them refers to deflating this false pride, through disparagement or mockery. As knowledge of the expression's metaphoric origin became lost on users, "taking the piss out of" came to be synonymous with disparagement or mockery itself, with less regard to the pride of the subject.

Conversely, the North East of England also lays claim to the phrase's origin, citing the urine trade which was seen as an undesirable cargo for sailors working from the River Tyne. Because the city collected urine from public facilities and exported a refined version of it, it was often used as ship's ballast in place of water - having a resale value at the other end of the journey. Consequently, sailors discussing their cargo in local establishments would genially accuse others reputed to be lying about their cargo of "taking the piss", or hauling urine.

"Take the mickey" may be an abbreviated form of the Cockney rhyming slang "take the Mickey Bliss", a euphemism for "take the piss." It has also been suggested that "mickey" is a contraction of "micturition," in which case "take the micturition" would be a synonymous euphemism for "take the piss." The phrase has been noted since the 1930s.

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CJC

CJC may refer to:

Law and jurisprudence

 * The Corpus Juris Civilis, a collection of Imperial pronouncements issued from 529 to 534 by order of (Eastern) Roman Emperor Justinian I, comprising:
 * Codex Justinianus (the Justinian Code);
 * Digest (Roman law), a compendium or digest of juristic writings;
 * the Institutes of Justinian; and
 * the Novellae Constitutiones (the Novels of Justinian)
 * Canadian Judicial Council, the regulating body for Canadian judges composed mostly of chief justices and associate chief justices of Canada's superior courts
 * Criminal Justice Commission (Australia), the former commission for investigating corruption and misconduct in Queensland, Australia

Organizations

 * Canadian Jewish Congress, a defunct umbrella group of Jewish organizations in Canada
 * Collectives of Communist Youth, a juvenile Spanish Marxist–Leninist organization
 * Community of Jesus' Compassion, an Anglican religious order founded in 1993

Education

 * California Jazz Conservatory, a music conservatory in Berkeley, California.
 * Catholic Junior College, a junior college in Singapore
 * Central Johannesburg College, a South African college founded in September 2001
 * Cisco Junior College, a community college located one mile north of Cisco, Texas
 * College of Journalism and Communications, a college of the University of Florida
 * Confédération des jeunes chercheurs (French: "Confederation of Young Researchers"), a national postgraduate representative body
 * Cornway Junior College, a private, co-educational, day and boarding school in Zimbabwe.
 * Cor Jesu College, a Catholic educational institution in Davao del Sur, Philippines

Other meanings

 * Canadian Journal of Chemistry, a scientific journal published by the National Research Council of Canada
 * CjC, an alias for electronic musician Conor J Curran
 * Utah Children's Justice Center, These centers coordinates investigation and prosecution of child abuse, especially child sexual abuse
 * The IATA code for El Loa Airport in Calama, Chile
 * The ICAO code for Colgan Air, a US airline operating between 1991 and 2012

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