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USCGC Acacia (WLB-406)

The USCGC Acacia (WAGL-406/WLB-406) is an Iris-class 180-foot seagoing buoy tender operated by the United States Coast Guard. Acacia was a multi-purpose vessel, nominally a buoy tender, but with equipment and capabilities for ice breaking, search and rescue, fire fighting, logistics, oil spill response, and other tasks as well. She spent almost all of her 62-year Coast Guard career on the Great Lakes. After decommissioning she became a museum ship in Manistee, Michigan.

Construction and characteristics
Acacia was built at the Zenith Dredge Company shipyard in Duluth, Minnesota. Her keel was laid down on January 16, 1944, she was launched on April 7, 1944, and she was commissioned on September 1, 1944. She was the second-to-last of the 39 similar 180-foot seagoing buoy tenders built. Her original coast was $927,156.

Her hull was constructed of welded steel plates framed with steel I-beams. As originally built, Acacia was 180 ft long, with a beam of 37 ft, and a draft of 12 ft. Her displacement was 935 tons. While her overall dimensions remained the same over her career, the addition of new equipment raised her displacement to 1,025 tons by the end of her Coast Guard service.

She was designed to perform light ice-breaking. Her hull was reinforced with an "ice belt" of thicker steel around her waterline to protect it from punctures. Similarly, her bow was reinforced and shaped to ride over ice in order to crush it with the weight of the ship.

Acacia had a single 5-blade propeller 8.5 ft in diameter. It was driven by a diesel-electric propulsion system. Two Cooper-Bessemer GND-8 4-cycle 8-cylinder Diesel engines produced 600 horsepower each. They provided power to two Westinghouse generators. The electricity from the generators ran an electric motor which turned the propeller.

She had a single cargo boom which had the ability to lift 20 tons onto her buoy deck.

The ship's fuel tanks had a capacity of approximately 28875 USgal''. Acacia's'' unrefueled range was 8000 nmi at 13 knots, 12000 nmi at 12 knots, and 17000 nmi at 8.3 knots. Her potable water tanks had a capacity of 30,499 USgal. Considering dry storage capacity and other factors, her at-sea endurance was 21 days.

Her wartime complement was 6 officers and 74 enlisted men. By 1964 this was reduced to 5 officers, 2 warrant officers, and 42 enlisted personnel.

Acacia was initially armed with a 3"/50 caliber gun mounted behind the pilot house. She also had two 20mm guns, one mounted on top of the wheelhouse and one on the aft deck.  She carried these weapons in the Great Lakes under a wartime agreement with the Government of Canada.  The Rush-Bagot Treaty had largely demilitarized the lakes, but the United States and Canada agreed to suspend some of its provisions during World War II.  After the war ended, the treaty came back into full effect and all of Acacia's on-deck armament was removed, leaving only small arms for law enforcement actions.  In 2006 Acacia and the other 10 Coast Guard cutters in the Great Lakes were armed with M 240B machine guns.  This action was taken due to greater concerns regarding smuggling and terrorists entering the United States by boat.  It was preceded by consultation with the Government of Canada under the terms of the Rush-Bagot Treaty.

At the time of construction, Acacia was designated WAGL, an auxiliary vessel, lighthouse tender. The designation was system was changed in 1965, and she was redesignated WLB, an oceangoing buoy tender.

The ship's original name was Thistle, but when it was learned that the US Army was operating USAHS Thistle the Coast Guard changed it to Acacia.  She was named after the United States Lighthouse Service tender Acacia, the only tender sunk during World War II.

Operating history
Acacia's first home port was Detroit, Michigan. Her primary mission was maintaining aids to navigation. Much of her activity was driven by the annual advance and retreat of heavy winter ice on the Great Lakes. Buoys were brought to port in the fall to prevent them from being damaged, sunk, or set adrift by ice. Acacia was reported to have picked up about 150 buoys from the Detroit River and nearby waters in ten days in December 1948. Buoys were cleaned, repaired, and repainted over the winter and redeployed by the ship in the spring.

Her second mission was icebreaking, a service she performed throughout her career. One aspect of her icebreaking work was to free ships that became trapped in the ice. In January 1945, for example, the freighter James Watt with a cargo of coal for the Ford River Rogue factory became ice-bound in Lake Erie. She struggled to free herself for two days without success. Acacia freed her within a half-hour of her arrival. In a similar case, she freed two tankers and a collier from Lake Erie ice in December 1951. A second icebreaking role was to escort ships through the ice, breaking a channel for the ship following her. This service was not without risk. On April 1, 1954 Acacia was leading the tanker L. S. Westcoat through the ice when she was rammed in the stern by her charge. The hulls of both vessels were damaged. A third icebreaking activity was to clear shipping lanes for future ship traffic. Acacia cleared ice in Lake Erie, the Straits of Mackinac, Lake St. Claire, and the Saint Claire River.

Acacia also participated in numerous search and rescue missions. In October 1951, the freighter George F. Rand collided with another ship in the Saint Claire River. Her hull was breached and she began to flood. Acacia was dispatched to provide assistance which included emergency pumps to control the flooding. On June 1, 1956 Acacia towed the disabled freighter George Hindman from the Saint Claire River where she was blocking ship traffic. The freighter Daniel J. Morrell broke up and sank in a storm on Lake Huron in November 1966. Acacia was dispatched to search for the crew and recovered the bodies of eight. A happier outcome was obtained after two freighters collided at the mouth of the Saint Claire River during the night of August 26, 1971. Acacia was able to rescue 16 people from Trans Michigan.

In the summer of 1958 Acacia's home port was changed to Port Huron, Michigan, where a new berth was built for her. The city spent $10,667 on the dock. The change in home port did not fundamentally change the ship's mission. She was responsible for 145 aids to navigation in the Port Huron area. She continued to break ice in the Saint Claire River, and during several winters participated in "Operation Coal Shovel" to break ice between Toledo, Ohio and Detroit for the coal ships supplying power plants and industries in Detroit.

In May 1975 Acacia sailed from Port Huron to the Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay, Maryland for major renovations. The majority of Acacia's crew transferred to the freshly renovated USCGC Bramble and sailed their new ship back to Port Huron. Acacia's main electrical motor was renovated, and new electrical switchboards and wiring were installed. Her main engines were overhauled. Crew spaces were modernized and enlarged by reducing the size of the forward hold. Water pipes were replaced and a new sewage system was installed. A bow thruster was added to improve the ship's maneuverability. The electric drive that ran the cargo boom was replaced with a hydraulic system. Over $9 million was appropriated for this renovation.

After her refit, Acacia was assigned to Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, where she replaced USCGC Mesquite, which was beginning her own renovation. Mesquite's crew was assigned to Acacia. Upon leaving the Coast Guard Yard, Acacia sailed to the Caribbean for training exercises. She arrived at her new homeport in September 1976. Her time at Sturgeon Bay was similar to her earlier service in Lakes Huron and Erie. Heavy seasonal ice drove much of her work on the buoy system and icebreaking was a frequent responsibility.

In the spring of 1979 Acacia was transferred to Grand Haven, Michigan. She was replaced in Sturgeon Bay by the newly launched USCGC Mobile Bay. Though moved across Lake Michigan, Acacia remained responsible for maintaining the same fleet of 220 buoys from Calumet Harbor to Little Bay De Noc. The smaller Mobile Bay did not have a crane capable of the work. She did get at least one new job while based at Grand Haven. In 1984, in cooperation with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hatcheries and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Acacia released 400,000 lake trout fingerlings on offshore reefs in Lake Michigan. It was hoped that fish released in the middle of the lake would have a higher survival rate than those released along the shore.

For four months during the winter of 1987–1988 Acacia was temporarily assigned to patrol Caribbean waters. During one of her patrols she intercepted 88 Haitians on a 45-foot (14 meter) wooden boat attempting to reach Florida. These refugees were repatriated to Haiti. She also assisted in the arrest of two Cuban drug smugglers. She arrived back in Grand Haven in April 1988, in time to replace buoys after the spring ice break-up.

In December 1989, Acacia responded to the grounding of USCGC Mesquite off of the Keweenaw Peninsula in Lake Superior. Acacia was able to assist in stabilizing the wreck and containing the diesel oil spill. She was awarded the Coast Guard Meritorious Unit Commendation for her work, but winter storms destroyed the abandoned Mesquite. The Coast Guard reassigned Acacia to Charlevoix, Michigan to replace Mesquite. There was no replacement cutter assigned to Grand Haven, reducing the number of buoy tenders in the Great Lakes from five to four. The Coast Guard justified the move based on cost savings, but others attributed it to the influence of U.S. Representative Bob Davis, who represented Charlevoix in Congress. He was vice-chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee at the time. The move left ill-feeling towards the Coast Guard in Grand Haven. Acacia arrived at her new homeport on June 15, 1990.

After rioting broke out in Cuba in August 1994, Fidel Castro announced that anyone who wanted to leave the country could. Thousands did so, creating a crisis of unsafe small boats and rafts intent on reaching the United States. On August 26, 1994 Acacia was ordered to the Caribbean to respond. By the time she reached the area, Operation Uphold Democracy, the United States intervention to restore Jean-Bertrand Aristide to the presidency of Haiti, was underway. Acacia was retasked to survey and buoy the major ports that were used to support the operation including Port-au-Prince, Cap-Hatien, and Miragoane. The ship earned the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal for her work in Haiti. She returned to Charlevoix on November 17, 1994.

Acacia was decommissioned on June 7, 2006, after 62 years of service. She was the last of the 180-foot buoy tenders to be retired.

Museum
Immediately after decommissioning, Acacia was donated to the State of Illinois for the benefit of the American Academy of Industry. This nonprofit group planned to turn her into a maritime museum in Chicago. The vessel, which was delivered in full working order with only her machine guns removed, was temporarily moored at Burns Harbor in Indiana. The plan for a Chicago-based museum was never executed because suitable moorage could not be found. Through the efforts of a common board member, the ship was transferred from the American Academy of Industry to The Society for the Preservation of the S.S. City of Milwaukee. On October 16, 2009, Acacia steamed under her own power to Manistee, Michigan, where she became part of the SS City of Milwaukee National Historic Landmark museum. The ship was dedicated in her new museum role on August 13, 2011. Acacia is open to the public as part of the museum.

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Ludwik Fleck

Ludwik Fleck (11 July 1896 – 5 June 1961) was a Polish Jewish and Israeli physician and biologist who did important work in epidemic typhus in Lwów, Poland, with Rudolf Weigl and in the 1930s developed the concepts of the "Denkstil" ("thought style") and the "Denkkollektiv" ("thought collective").

The concept of the "thought collective" defined by him is important in the philosophy of science and in logology (the "science of science"), helping to explain how scientific ideas change over time, much as in Thomas Kuhn's later notion of the "paradigm shift" (on the possible influence of Fleck on Kuhn see ) and in Michel Foucault's concept of the "episteme". His account of the development of facts at the intersection of active elements of the thought collective and the passive resistances of nature provides a way of considering the particular culture of modern science as evolutionary and evidence-oriented.

Life
Fleck was born in Lemberg (Lwów in Polish, now L'viv, Ukraine) and grew up in the cultural autonomy of the Austrian province of Galicia. He graduated from a Polish lyceum (secondary school) in 1914 and enrolled at Lwów's Jan Kazimierz University, where he received his medical degree.

In 1920 he became an assistant to the famous typhus specialist Rudolf Weigl at Jan Kazimierz University. From 1923 to 1935 Fleck worked in the department of internal medicine at Lwów General Hospital, then became director of the bacteriological laboratory at the local social security authority. From 1935 he worked at the private bacteriological laboratory which he had earlier founded.

With Nazi Germany's occupation of L'viv, Fleck was deported with his wife, Ernestina Waldmann, and son Ryszard to the city's Jewish ghetto. He continued his research in the hospital and developed a new procedure in which he procured a vaccine from the urine of typhus patients. Fleck's work was known to the German occupiers and his family were arrested in December 1942 and deported to the Laokoon pharmaceutical factory to produce a typhus serum. He and his family were arrested again and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp on 7 February 1943. His task was to diagnose syphilis, typhus and other illnesses using serological tests. From December 1943 until the liberation of Poland on 11 April 1945, Fleck was detained in Buchenwald concentration camp; there, he worked with Marian Ciepielowski to produce a working typhus vaccine for camp inmates, while producing a fake vaccine for the SS.

Between 1945 and 1952, he served as the head of the Institute of Microbiology of the School of Medicine of Maria Sklodowska-Curie University of Lublin. In 1952, he moved to Warsaw to become the Director of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Mother and Child State Institute. In 1954 he was elected a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Fleck's research during these years focused on the question of the behavior of leucocytes in infectious and stress situations. Between 1946 and 1957 he published 87 medical and scientific articles in Polish, French, English and Swiss journals. In 1951 Fleck was awarded the National Prize for Scientific Achievements and in 1955 the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta.

In 1956, after a heart attack and the discovery that he was suffering from lymphosarcoma, Fleck emigrated to Israel where a position was created for him at the Israel Institute for Biological Research. He died in 1961 at the age of 64 of a second heart attack.

The Ludwik Fleck Prize is awarded annually for the best book in the area of science and technology studies. It was created by the 4S Council (Society for the Social Studies of Science) in 1992.

Thought collective
Fleck wrote that the development of truth in scientific research was an unattainable ideal as different researchers were locked into thought collectives (or thought-styles). This means "that a pure and direct observation cannot exist: in the act of perceiving objects the observer, i.e. the epistemological subject, is always influenced by the epoch and the environment to which he belongs, that is by what Fleck calls the thought style". Thought style throughout Fleck's work is closely associated with representational style. A "fact" was a relative value, expressed in the language or symbolism of the thought collective in which it belonged, and subject to the social and temporal structure of this collective. He argued, however, that within the active cultural style of a thought collective, knowledge claims or facts were constrained by passive elements arising from the observations and experience of the natural world. This passive resistance of natural experience represented within the stylized means of the thought collective could be verified by anyone adhering to the culture of the thought collective, and thus facts could be agreed upon within any particular thought style. Thus while a fact may be verifiable within its own collective, it may be unverifiable in others. He felt that the development of scientific facts and concepts was not unidirectional and does not consist of just accumulating new pieces of information, but at times required changing older concepts, methods of observations, and forms of representation. This changing of prior knowledge is difficult because a collective attains over time a specific way of investigating, bringing with it a blindness to alternative ways of observing and conceptualization. Change was especially possible when members of two thought collectives met and cooperated in observing, formulating hypotheses and ideas. He strongly advocated comparative epistemology. He also notes some features of the culture of modern natural sciences that recognize provisionality and evolution of knowledge along the value of pursuit of passive resistances. This approach anticipated later developments in social constructionism, and especially the development of critical science and technology studies.

Honors

 * 1954: Fleck became a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
 * 1955: He was honored with the Order of Polonia Restituta (Officer's Cross).

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Good Neighbours (film)

Good Neighbours (onscreen title, though some movie posters in United States used spelling Good Neighbors) is a 2010 Canadian thriller film written and directed by Jacob Tierney. It is based on the book by Chrystine Brouillet.

Plot
Louise works as a waitress in a Chinese restaurant in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood of Montreal where she lives. She has become obsessed with the story of a recent spate of serial murders/rapes, committed in the area, and scours newspapers for stories about each victim. When the latest victim is a co-worker who last spoke of a blond, muscular man she met at the bar, and with whom she had a drink date after she got off work at midnight, she becomes much more fearful. Louise's wheelchair-using neighbour, Spencer, shared her interest to a point but values his privacy and solitude. Victor is an awkward and talkative elementary school teacher who recently moved into their apartment building, and ingratiated himself into their lives, shares her concern. Louise, prefers the company of her cats, Tia Maria and Mozart, to humans. She warms to Victor who walks her home after work after her co-worker was murdered and she was questioned by an officer who fit her co-worker's description of who was supposed to get drinks with after work the night she was murdered.

Spencer dispassionately reveals to Victor that he was paralyzed in a car accident that killed his wife, and rejects Victor's sympathy. He later reacts angrily when Victor installs a wheelchair-accessible ramp in the building.

Victor, who has developed a crush on Louise, invents an imaginary love life with her and tells his brother at a party that they have become engaged. At the party, Victor surprises Louise with the arrival of his cat from China that his brother brought after its customs quarantine. Louise is instantly enamored with Balthazar. During the cover of night, Spencer sneaks out his window and climbs the fire escape, secretly enjoying the city's nightlife. He spots a woman and is later seen having sex with her seemingly dead body. Later as Spencer returns home via the fire escape, one of Victor's friends spots him. In the morning Victor dismisses the possibility that it could be Spencer. Louise comes by to see Victor's cat.

On Christmas morning, their abusive Francophone neighbour, Valérie, poisons Louise's cats. Louise spends more time at Victor's apartment, preferring to be alone with his cat and even taking the cat to her home.

Louise uses sensationalist media reports to plan the murder of Valérie. After seducing Victor, she collects a sample of his semen, which she saves. After cleaning herself up, she visits Spencer for a drink and hits on him.

Louise leaves work early claiming to be sick and tired home to begin her revenge plan. Having kept Victor's semen from their sexual encounter, Louise uses it to give the impression that Valérie has been raped as well as murdered.

After violating Valérie's corpse to plant Victor's semen and fit the serial killer's profile, Louise returns home and she runs into Spencer, who has decided to go out. With both caught in compromising positions, Louise asks for his help reaching the fire escape. She hands him her bag of evidence to which he looks surprised but he helps her nonetheless. After she asks, he gives her back her murder kit. Curious about the noise, Victor looks out his window and sees Spencer, and begins to suspect he is the serial killer.

While the same officers are questioning Louise once again, Spencer calls and invites her over for a drink and warns her not to say anything unnecessary.

That evening, Victor intercepts Louise before she goes to Spencer's for a drink. He explains what he spoke to the police about and that he saw Spencer running outside the night Valèrie was murdered and proposes trapping Spencer as he knows he will come for Victor next.

Later, Spencer outright suggests that he and Louise frame Victor for the murders, unaware that Louise has already spoken to Victor and that he wants to trap Spencer. Victor's plan involves Louise acknowledging their "engagement" after Victor mistakenly says too much to the investigating police officers.

Spencer plans a dinner party as part of the set up of Victor. As Louise leaves Victor's window open per Spencer's plan she notices the car of the investigating officers sitting across from the apartment building. Victor seems ready for what is to come as Louise says good night to him. Spencer breaks into Victor's apartment, the police who were tipped off by Victor, rush to his help, as Victor confronts Spencer and then follows him out the fire escape to prevent him from going to Louise's apartment. Spencer is about to tell Victor who really killed Valèrie but Victor kicks him and he falls off the fire escape. Louise is quite uninterested and ignores the entire conflict as she feeds Victor's cat, though once she smiled upon hearing Spencer's rage upon discovering her betrayal.

As Victor looks down at Spencer bleeding out in the snow, he seems to be in shock as the investigating officer tells Victor to call 911 while he goes down there. The officer tells Victor he did the right thing. Louise lets the cat out the window, enters Spencer's apartment, and climbs on top his fish tank.

Cast

 * Jay Baruchel as Victor
 * Scott Speedman as Spencer
 * Emily Hampshire as Louise
 * Anne-Marie Cadieux as Valérie
 * Diane D'Aquila as Miss Van Ilen
 * Xavier Dolan as Jean-Marc
 * Gary Farmer as Brandt
 * Clara Furey as Nathalie
 * Nathalie Girard as Nightclub Waitress
 * Kaniehtiio Horn as Johanne
 * Pat Kiely as Bilodeau
 * Micheline Lanctôt as Mme Gauthier
 * Sean Lu as Mr. Chou
 * Jacob Tierney as Jonah
 * Kevin Tierney as Jérôme Langlois

Production
Tierney filmed it under the working title Notre Dame de Grâce in and around Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Release
The film had its world premiere as part of the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival on 15 September 2010. Magnolia Pictures released it for the Whistler Film Festival.

Reception
Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 67% of 30 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 5.9/10. Metacritic gave it a weighted average rating of 60/100 based on 12 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Jim Slotek of the Toronto Sun rated it 3.5/5 stars and wrote, "A film short on conventional action, Good Neighbours nonetheless conveys a sense of imminent danger and tightly wound passions". Stephen Cole of The Globe and Mail rated it 3/4 stars and called it "a wickedly funny noir" which satirises the 1995 Quebec referendum. John Anderson of Variety wrote that it "never finds a comfortable groove, or a tone that would enable its convoluted yet predictable plotting to engage the viewer." Kirk Honeycutt of The Hollywood Reporter called it "a kind of deconstruction of noir atmosphere and its tropes into a meditation on the treachery of the human heart." Jeannete Catsoulis of The New York Times wrote, "We are never in any doubt as to the identity of the serial killer who haunts the news and the neighborhood’s shadowy corners, but suspense is not the point — alienation is." Alison Willmore of The A.V. Club rated it B− and described it as "something of a rejection of urban communal sentiment, a cautionary tale against getting to know the locals." Paul Schrodt of Slant Magazine rated it 1.5/4 stars and wrote, "Tierney's is the kind of post-post horror-thriller that puts all of its killings in clear air quotes, making you cringe at the same time you admire its assumed cleverness."

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Raphanus

Raphanus (Latin for "radish" ) is a genus within the flowering plant family Brassicaceae.

Carl Linnaeus described three species within the genus: the cultivated radish (Raphanus sativus), the wild radish or jointed charlock (Raphanus raphanistrum), and the rat-tail radish (Raphanus caudatus). Various other species have been proposed (particularly related to the East Asian daikon varieties) and the rat-tail radish is sometimes considered a variety of R. sativus, but no clear consensus has emerged.

Raphanus species grow as annual or biennial plants, with a taproot which is much enlarged in the cultivated radish. Unlike many other genera in the family Brassicaceae, Raphanus has indehiscent fruit that do not split open at maturity to reveal the seeds. The genus is native to Asia, but its members can now be found worldwide. Growing wild, they are regarded as invasive species in many regions.

Raphanus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including cabbage moth, Endoclita excrescens, the garden carpet, and the nutmeg.

The genomes of Raphanus raphanistrum (wild radish) and Raphanus sativus (cultivated radish) have been sequenced.

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The result of the debate was delete. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:47, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

International Asperger's Year
See Votes for deletion/Asperger Adults of Greater Washington - term coined by them. One editor - original research most likely -- Ryan Norton T 04:40, 24 August 2005 (UTC) Do not delete It. merge it if you most.
 * Delete nn Ryan Norton T 21:57, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn. Dottore So 06:45, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless some proof of major national/international media recognition. Average Earthman 09:27, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. the wub  "?/!"  13:24, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm pretty sure this is unknown to everyone outside the organization. Optichan 20:55, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * merge to 2006 and other aspie articles Worthwhile and notable, not sure that it deserves its own article. Roodog2k 17:30, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
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Are you kidding me? Louis Dorman was publicly exposed, and the links prove it quite clearly. The claims of the article are forthright and fully verifiable. I thought I should add, they came with an public admission of tampering with photos:

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Please note: I deleted the link from the above post as it is on the spam blacklist and prevented the page from being saved. Find it in the edit history. Tyrenius 13:25, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

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You can disagree without being abusive as in this edit. It's called a personal attack and it's not allowed, or it can lead to being blocked. AGF. Thanks. Tyrenius 13:24, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

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Consider the above for this comment to be a final warning. Tyrenius 17:32, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

And for this comment. Your behaviour is quite unacceptable. You have no right to be so rude and uncivil just because you disagree with someone. I would be grateful if you strike those comments immediately, by putting in front of them and after them and make an apology to Sarah Ewart forthwith. Tyrenius 17:41, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

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The block message you mentioned should have absolutely no effect on you. --WinHunter (talk) 14:31, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

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Yadkin College, North Carolina

Yadkin College is a census-designated place (CDP) in rural Davidson County, North Carolina, United States, located 9 miles (14 km) northwest of Lexington. Contrary to its name, it is not part of Yadkin County.

Yadkin College is named for the college of the same name that operated there from 1857 to 1895, which was in turn named after the Yadkin River that runs alongside the village.

The Yadkin College Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

The latitude of Yadkin College is 35.872N. The longitude is -80.375W. The ZIP code is 27295.

It first appeared as a CDP in the 2020 Census with a population of 377.

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List of law schools in New Zealand

This is a list of law schools in New Zealand.

 * School of Law, Auckland University of Technology
 * Faculty of Law, University of Auckland
 * Faculty of Law, University of Waikato, Hamilton
 * Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington
 * School of Law, University of Canterbury, Christchurch
 * Faculty of Law, University of Otago, Dunedin

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User talk:Travisty

Re: the email you sent me about being blocked. The rules are the same for experienced as for inexperienced users. I don't know what was in the page that Francs2000 deleted, so I won't comment on whether or not it was nonsense. If you object to his deleting the page, you can discuss it civilly on his talk page, or you can bring it up at Votes for Undeletion. "Teaching him a lesson" is not acceptable. Ironically, he wasn't around while you were messing with his page, so it didn't bother him at all. FreplySpang (talk) 04:43, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Starting the conversation by blanking Francs2000's user pages, in spite of warnings, meant that you forfeited an opportunity to present your side of the story. And, you could wait a day to have a civil discussion or visit Votes for Undeletion. I'll lift the block, but the rules still apply. Blanking user pages is not an effective negotiation technique here. If you go back to doing it (or similar actions) you'll be blocked, by me or another admin. What was the page he deleted, anyway? FreplySpang (talk) 05:01, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * There, I unblocked User:220.245.180.130, that should do it. And, thank you for starting the conversation at Francs2000's user talk page. FreplySpang (talk) 05:06, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

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Carnitine palmitoyltransferase I deficiency

Carnitine palmitoyltransferase I deficiency is a rare metabolic disorder that prevents the body from converting certain fats called long-chain fatty acids(LCFA) into energy, particularly during periods without food. It is caused by a mutation in CPT1A on chromosome 11.

Carnitine, a natural substance acquired mostly through the diet, is used by cells to process fats and produce energy. People with this disorder have a faulty enzyme, carnitine palmitoyltransferase I, that prevents these long-chain fatty acids from being transported into the mitochondria to be broken down.

Symptoms and signs
Signs and symptoms of this disorder include low levels of ketones (hypoketosis) and low blood sugar (hypoglycemia). Together these signs are called hypoketotic hypoglycemia. People with this disorder typically also have an enlarged liver (hepatomegaly), muscle weakness, and elevated levels of carnitine in the blood.

Genetics

Mutations in the CPT1A gene cause carnitine palmitoyltransferase I deficiency by producing a defective version of an enzyme called carnitine palmitoyltransferase I. Without this enzyme, long-chain fatty acids from food and fats stored in the body cannot be transported into mitochondria to be broken down and processed. As a result, excessive levels of long-chain fatty acids may more rapidly build up in tissues, damaging the liver, heart and/or brain. This condition has an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern, which means the defective gene must be inherited from both parents. The parents of a child with an autosomal recessive disorder are carriers of one copy of the defective gene, but are usually not affected by the disorder.

The prevalence of mutations associated with this condition reach 68% to 81% in certain arctic coastal populations, suggesting that the condition had some adaptive value in those habitats at some time. Fewer than 50 people have been identified with this condition.

Diagnosis
Genetic testing is necessary for diagnosis.

Differential diagnosis
This condition is sometimes mistaken for fatty acid and ketogenesis disorders such as Medium-chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency (MCAD), other long-chain fatty acid oxidation disorders such as Carnitine palmitoyltransferase II deficiency (CPT-II) and Reye syndrome.

Treatment
Treatment for this condition is supportive. There is no cure. Affected people should eat a high-carbohydrate, low-fat diet and avoid fasting.


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Zakarine

King Zakarine (ສັກຣິນທຣ໌; also known as Sakkarin, Sakharine, Sackarine, Zackarine and Zacharine; originally Kham Souk, ຄຳສຸກ; full name: Samdach Brhat Chao Maha Sri Vitha Lan Xang Hom Khao Luang Prabang Parama Sidha Khattiya Suriya Varman Brhat Maha Sri Sakarindra, ສົມເດັຈພຣະເຈົ້າມະຫາວິຕລ້ານຊ້າງຮົ່ມຂາວ ຫລວງພຣະບາງ ປຣມະສິທະຂັຕິຍະສຸຣິຍະວໍຣມັນ ພຣະມຫາຊິວິຕ ສີສັກະຣິນທຣ໌) (16 July 1840 – 25 March 1904) was the king of Luang Prabang from 1895 to 1904.

Note: The Lao spelling above would be read: Sak Rin or Sak Rin Thra

Early life
Zakarine was brought up in Luang Phrabang. He was educated privately, a privilege reserved for wealthy Lao people at the time. Later on, he married seven wives, included Queen Thongsy, and had 10 sons and 4 daughters. Thongsy was childless, so he adopted Queen Khamphane, wife of King Sisavang Vong. He commanded the Royal Forces against the Haw invasion (Chinese rebels of the Taiping rebellion) in 1874. He fled to Bangkok after the sack of Luang Prabang in 1887.

King of Luang Phrabang
In 1888, the King of Siam appointed him regent for his father. Zakarine officially succeeded his father on 15 December 1895 and was crowned at Luang Prabang on 14 July 1896. During his reign, he accepted French protectorate over the kingdom on 3 October 1893 after his father agreed to having French protection. He died from cerebral hemorrhage on 25 March 1904. He was succeeded by his son, King Sisavang Vong.

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Aaron Gillespie

Aaron Roderick Gillespie (born July 18, 1983) is an American musician, best known for being the original and current drummer and clean vocalist for the rock band Underoath and the lead singer and rhythm guitarist for the alternative rock band the Almost. He has also worked with the band The Dangerous Summer. Gillespie also maintains his own solo project and released his debut full-length album, Anthem Song, in 2011. From 2013 to 2016, he was the touring drummer for Paramore.

Background
Aaron Roderick Gillespie was born on July 18, 1983, in Clearwater, Florida. Ever since he was born, he has been nearly blind in his left eye. He grew up in a devout Christian family, attended private schools, and went to church regularly. Gillespie's parents divorced when he was 18.

At age 14, Gillespie worked at the church and vacuumed for $60 a week. He enjoyed playing the drums at church, but was told that he did not play well and that he played too loud. However, one of the leaders in the church came up to him and said that he believed Gillespie would "travel the whole world playing drums". At this time, he received a call from Underoath asking him to play drums for them.

In 2008 he achieved the HM magazine's Readers Award for "favorite drummer", along with his bandmate Timothy McTague who received "favorite guitarist" of 2008. He was one of the preaching pastors at Unveiled Church based in the Tampa Bay area of Florida.

Aaron and his former wife ran a clothing label, Pig Cloth.

Gillespie left Underoath after a European tour in 2010 but later rejoined the band.

Gillespie did guest vocals on the song "All About Us" by indie pop band He Is We, which was released on the album "My Forever" on November 23, 2010.

Gillespie has discussed his issues with hypochondria and generalized anxiety disorder, stating that they played into his departure from Underoath.

Underoath
Gillespie had performed on every Underoath release before Ø (Disambiguation) and first began to add clean vocals on Underoath's third album The Changing of Times, which shifted Underoath's original extreme metal music style into a more straightforward metalcore sound and was released in 2002. After lead vocalist Dallas Taylor parted with the band, Spencer Chamberlain joined and the band began to change its style of music even more.

Most of the lyrics on the album They're Only Chasing Safety are written by Gillespie and are about him ending a four-year relationship. He stated to Alternative Press "I think I would've died if we didn't write those songs. I thought I had ruined someone's life. It's hard to explain, but you can't just pretend that things are great and go on and get married." The follow-up to They're Only Chasing Safety, Define the Great Line was released on June 20, 2006, it debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 selling over 98,000 copies in its first week, the record was certified Gold by the RIAA on November 11, 2006, representing 500,000 shipped units of the album.

On April 5, 2010, Underoath announced that the band and Gillespie had agreed to mutually part ways pending the end of their European tour. On the same day, Gillespie posted a message on his personal blog. On August 17, 2015, in an interview article for Alternative Press, Chamberlain and Gillespie confirmed that the band was reuniting.

The Almost
Gillespie performed lead vocals for the alternative rock band the Almost. The band's debut album Southern Weather was released on April 3, 2007, along with their first single, "Say This Sooner". The single reached a peak of No. 7 on the Billboard's US Modern Rock Charts. Gillespie recorded every instrument on the Southern Weather album except for bass on a couple of tracks, with which Kenny Vasoli from The Starting Line helped.

On November 24, 2008, the Almost released an EP, No Gift to Bring.

On October 6, 2009, they released another EP, Monster EP. On November 3, 2009, they released their second album, Monster Monster, in which the rest of the bandmates were more incorporated in the writing and recording processes.

On June 11, 2013, the band released their third full-length album, Fear Inside Our Bones.

In an interview released on February 8, 2015, on Emery's BadChristian podcast, Gillespie stated that he had placed lower priority on the band, citing his "busy schedule" (as Paramore's touring drummer, a solo artist and producer) and the "busy schedules" of the other band members.

On September 24, 2019, they announced a fourth full-length album, Fear Caller, to be released on October 18, 2019, then released, "Chokehold", with an accompanying music video as part of the announcement.

Solo work
Shortly after leaving Underoath, Gillespie announced that he was working on a worship-based solo project. He went to The Compound recording studio in Seattle on June 28, 2010, to record the album that would eventually be released in March 2011. On his Twitter account on July 24, he posted "Finished my record. So great to be a part of it. Goodnight." Gillespie's solo album Anthem Song was released on March 8, 2011. It debuted at number 90 on the Billboard 200.

"Anthem Song" was Gillespie's revisit to his musical beginning, which began in worship. In an interview with CBN.com, Gillespie recounted the experience and how a trip to Africa helped shape Anthem Song. He stated "I saw people worshiping God because He exists, because that's what we were created to do. I believe everybody worships something, whether it be your job or your family or a relationship or whatever. We were all made to worship just one, and that's Jesus. And it really, really messed me up, seeing these African people who have nothing worshiping God, just because He exists. It gave me the fuel to go and do this record and also convicted me to leave Underoath and to pursue this ministry area in my life."

On February 3, 2015, he released his second worship album, Grace Through the Wandering. The record was made on the road while touring with Paramore and was produced by Paramore's touring key player, John.

In 2016, Gillespie released the self-produced Out of the Badlands. Gillespie and his studio partner, Andrew Goldring, made the record at Gillespie's Salt Lake City studio, Soundcave. Goldring engineered, mixed and performed on the record. The album is a departure from his former worship record and instead focuses on his personal grieving and honesty.

Paramore
On August 26, 2013, Gillespie was officially announced as the new touring drummer for Paramore, after their previous touring drummer, Miles McPherson, suffered from an injury. He was to remain only for their duration of The Self-Titled Tour's European dates, but later remained for the duration of their North American fall tour of that year, as well as the Australian and New Zealand legs of the tour. Gillespie has stayed in the Paramore touring line-up for the next few years, playing drums on the Monumentour (Paramore's co-headlining tour with the band Fall Out Boy in 2014) and the Writing the Future Tour (in 2015), along with two of the band's "Parahoy!" Cruises — the first one (in March 2014) and the second one (in March 2016). However, in February 2016, Gillespie clarified that his role in Paramore doesn't extend beyond live performances and that he isn't involved in the songwriting/recording process with the band. With the reinstatement of Paramore's original drummer and with the reunion of Underoath, Gillespie is now back with Underoath full-time.

Producer
Aaron Gillespie operated as a producer out of Soundcave Studios from 2015 to 2017. Alongside singer-songwriter, producer, and engineer Andrew Goldring, Gillespie worked on productions, most notably, Gillespie's solo record, "Out of the Badlands". Goldring also engineered, mixed and performed various instruments on the record.

Other examples of Gillespie's producer credits include Collington's, We Swim in Seas that Never Rest. Gillespie produced the record, played drums and did other various session work with Goldring and Collington. The album was debuted by Relevant Magazine on their series "The Drop". Gillespie and Collington crossed paths when Collington was opening for Aaron Gillespie in Boston. Taking a liking to Collington's music, Gillespie invited Collington to Salt Lake City to create a record. Collington originally laughed at the offer thinking it was a joke.

FM419
Gillespie worked and toured with the Billy Graham Association's FM419; an event that helps train students to share their faith. The event is a prelude to a much larger event, held a few months later where students can practice what they learned by leading others to Christ. Gillespie performed each day at the beginning and end of the conference.

Emergency surgery
While on tour with Underoath in 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Gillespie underwent emergency surgery due to an infected thumb. Instead of canceling shows, Underoath recruited Kenny Bozich, former drummer of The Almost, to fill in on drums. Spencer Chamberlain and Timothy McTague shared duties in singing his vocal parts.

Discography
With Underoath With the Almost
 * Act of Depression – 1999
 * Cries of the Past – 2000
 * The Changing of Times – 2002
 * ''They're Only Chasing Safety – 2004
 * Define the Great Line – 2006
 * Survive, Kaleidoscope – 2008
 * Lost in the Sound of Separation – 2008
 * Live at Koko – 2010
 * Erase Me – 2018
 * Voyeurist – 2022
 * Southern Weather – 2007
 * No Gift to Bring – 2008
 * Monster EP – 2009
 * Monster Monster – 2009
 * Fear Inside Our Bones – 2013
 * Fear Caller – 2019

Solo
 * Anthem Song – 2011
 * Echo Your Song (Live) – EP – 2012
 * Grace Through the Wandering – 2015
 * Out of the Badlands – 2016
 * Stick Figure Cowboy – 2021

Appearances in other albums
 * "We Swim in Seas that Never Rest" (drums, guitars and vocals) from Collington -2016
 * "You're The Wanker, If Anyone Is" from Say Anything's In Defense of the Genre – 2007
 * "My God" from This Beautiful Republic's Perceptions – 2008
 * "Then They Will Know" from Preson Phillips' The Observant and the Anawim... – 2008
 * "Sahara" from Relient K's Forget And Not Slow Down – 2009
 * "All About Us" from He Is We's My Forever – 2010
 * "With Everything" by Nine O Five – 2010
 * "Someway Somehow" from Run Kid Run's Patterns – 2011
 * "I Survive" from We Came As Romans's Tracing Back Roots – 2013
 * "The Reaper" from As It Is's The Great Depression – 2018
 * "Super Hero" from Atreyu's In Our Wake – 2018
 * "Infinite" from Silverstein's A Beautiful Place to Drown – 2020
 * "Come Along" from The Dangerous Summer's All That's Left of the Blue Sky – 2021
 * "Signals" by Venacava – 2020
 * "Goodbye" by Dvddy featuring Aaron Gillespie – 2020
 * "Dark Love" from Sullivan King's LOUD – 2021
 * "Apertures" by Glass Houses – 2021
 * "Tear You Apart" by GG Magree – 2021
 * "U 2" by 408 – 2022
 * "Background Character" by Supmikecheck – 2022
 * "Healing Pool" by The Safest Ledge – 2022
 * "Out Loud" from True North's Out Loud – 2022
 * "VEN0M" by nothing,nowhere. - 2023
 * “Day By Day” by A Foreign Affair (feat. Aaron Gillespie) - 2023
 * "a bulleT w/ my namE On" by Bring Me the Horizon - 2024

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Tibial nerve

The tibial nerve is a branch of the sciatic nerve. The tibial nerve passes through the popliteal fossa to pass below the arch of soleus.

Popliteal fossa
The tibial nerve is the larger terminal branch of the sciatic nerve with root values of L4, L5, S1, S2, and S3. It lies superficial (or posterior) to the popliteal vessels, extending from the superior angle to the inferior angle of the popliteal fossa, crossing the popliteal vessels from lateral to medial side. It gives off branches as shown below:

 * Muscular branches - Muscular branches arise from the distal part of the popliteal fossa. It supplies the medial and lateral heads of gastrocnemius, soleus, plantaris and popliteus muscles. Nerve to popliteus crosses the popliteus muscle, runs downwards and laterally, winds around the lower border of the popliteus to supply the deep (or anterior) surface of the popliteus. This nerve also supplies the tibialis posterior muscle, superior tibiofibular joint, tibia bone, interosseous membrane of leg, and the inferior tibiofibular joint.
 * Cutaneous branches - Tibial nerve also gives off a cutaneous nerve called the medial sural cutaneous nerve from the middle of the popliteal fossa and exits at the inferior angle. It supplies the skin of the lower half of the back of the leg and lateral border of the foot until the tip of the little toe.
 * Articular branches - There are three articular branches arises from the upper part of the fossa: superior medial genicular nerve (located on the surface of medial condyle of femur, middle genicular nerve (pierces the posterior capsule of the knee joint to supply the structures located in the intercondylar notch of the femur, and inferior genicular nerve (runs along the upper border of the popliteus to reach the medial condyle of tibia).

Back of the leg
At the inferior angle of the popliteal fossa, tibial nerve passes deep to the tendinous arch of soleus to enter the back of the leg. In the leg, it runs downwards and medially to reach the posteromedial side of the ankle, midway between the medial malleolus and medial tubercle of the calcaneum. It terminates deep to the flexor retinaculum at the origin of the abductor hallucis by dividing into medial and lateral plantar nerves to supply the foot. The tibial nerve gives off several branches to supply the back of the leg:

 * Muscular branches - Supplies tibialis posterior, flexor digitorum longus, flexor hallucis longus, and deep part of soleus.
 * Cutaneus branches - The medial calcaneal nerve pierces the flexor retinaculum to supply the skin of the back and lower surface of the heel.
 * Articular branches - Supplies the ankle joint

Foot
In the foot, the nerve terminates by dividing into medial and lateral plantar branches.
 * Medial plantar nerve - It is the larger terminal branch of the tibial nerve. It passes between the abductor hallucis and flexor digitorum brevis to divide further into branches. Its distribution resembles to that of the distribution of median nerve in the hand. Its muscular branches supply the abductor hallucis, the flexor digitorum brevis, the flexor hallucis brevis and the first lumbrical. Cutaneous distribution of the medial plantar nerve supplies the medial sole and medial three and one half toes through four digital branches. Each digital branch give off a dorsal branch to supply the nail beds on the dorsum. This nerve also gives off articular branches to supply the bones of the tarsus and metatarsus.
 * Lateral plantar nerve - It is the smaller terminal branch of the tibial nerve. It courses laterally and forward until the base of fifth metatarsal bone, where it divides into superficial and deep branches. Its distribution resembles to the distribution of ulnar nerve in the hand. The main trunk of the nerve supplies two muscles: flexor digitorum accessorius and abductor digiti minimi. This nerve also supplies the skin of the sole. The superficial branch is divided into medial and lateral branches. The lateral branch supplies three muscles: flexor digiti minimi, 3rd and 4th interossei, and the skin over the lateral side of the toe. The medial branch communicates with the medial plantar nerve and supplies the skin over the fourth interdigital cleft. The deep branch supplies the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th lumbricals, first and second plantar interossei and adductor hallucis.

Clinical significance
Damage to the tibial nerve is rare, and is often a result of direct trauma, entrapment through narrow space or compression for long period of time. Damage results in loss of plantar flexion, loss of flexion of toes and weakened inversion (The tibialis anterior can still invert the foot).

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Talk:Gotō Islands

Rename to Goto Islands
I suggest this article be renamed to Goto Islands. There are precedents for translating shotō, rettō into "islands" in names, e.g.: Yaeyama Islands, Ogasawara Islands, Izu Islands, Oki Islands. —Tokek 04:53, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me. I think I started the article "Okinawa Honto" (not logged in); jpatokal renamed it Okinawa Island. Makes good sense. Fg2 07:42, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

Dimensions of islands
Are the sizes of the islands off by a decimal place? That is, should Fukue be 17 x 13.4 and Nakadōri 23 x 7.4? That would make them more in line with the area of the city of Goto (for example). Fg2 10:59, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

Location of Islands
Could someone please find or create a map image that shows where these islands are located geographically with respect to the main islands of Japan? Maybe a zoomed out map showing a "blow up" of the islands -- that would be great? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.172.201.168 (talk) 23:54, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

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Buca di Beppo

Buca di Beppo is an American restaurant chain specializing in Italian-American food. The name roughly translates as "Joe's small place" from Italian (buca, which literally means "hole" or "pit", can be a dialectal word in Tuscany for a small room or place, and Beppo is a diminutive of the name Giuseppe). The chain of 81 establishments (76 company-owned, 5 franchises in UK) has been a subsidiary of Planet Hollywood since 2008.

The chain is known for its vintage photographs hung closely spaced throughout the restaurant.

Menu
The food at Buca di Beppo is served family style, each item served à la carte and shared among the dining party. Some locations also have a lunch menu, featuring individual-sized portions.

Each room at Buca is themed. Each restaurant has a Pope Table.

In an attempt to boost sales during 2005, Buca introduced a Buca Mia menu, meaning "My Cellar", with less-expensive portions for two.

Corporate history
Phil Roberts founded Buca di Beppo in 1993 as an imitation of "red sauce joints", Italian-American family restaurants in the northeast United States. Not Italian himself, Roberts wanted his restaurant's stereotypical depiction of Italian-American culture to be "intentionally in bad taste, but good-natured bad taste". He hired Vittorio Renda, a Milanese chef, and Roberts's architect son decorated the restaurant with Italians' family photographs from flea markets. In 1996, a new CEO, Joseph Micatrotto, brought less exaggerated Italian-American cultural depictions, based on his family's history, to the chain as it prepared to go public.

The first restaurant, named Buca Little Italy, was opened in the basement level of a Minneapolis apartment building in 1993 by Twin Cities restaurant company Parasole Restaurant Holdings. Five years later, it was spun off and renamed Buca di Beppo. By 1999, there were 20 locations when Buca, Inc. began trading on the NASDAQ stock exchange.

The chain continued to grow, but began to hit some rough spots a few years later. Business losses mounted, and in 2005, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission began investigating the company over securities laws. Two top executives left the company, three Buca di Beppo sites were closed, and the company described those restaurants and the Vinny T's chain as "discontinued operations" in fourth quarter 2005 earnings statements.

However, on May 22, 2006, the company announced that it would be keeping the Vinny T's stores, but converting them to Buca di Beppo locations. On September 25, 2006, Buca, Inc. sold their 11 Vinny T's of Boston restaurants to Bertucci's Corp. for $6.8 million.

On June 7, 2006, Micatrotto and two other former Buca executives were charged with stealing more than US$200,000 from the company.

On August 5, 2008, Planet Hollywood's parent company, Planet Hollywood International, Inc., agreed to purchase the Buca chain for US$28.5 million. Under terms of the deal, Buca became a wholly owned subsidiary of Planet Hollywood. Its founder, Robert Earl, restored Buca di Beppo's gaudy decor of photographs covering walls. In 2011, Buca moved its headquarters from Minneapolis to Orlando, Florida, home of its parent company, citing financial incentives. In 2012, Rick Tasman was named CEO & President. In 2015, Rich Saultz was named the new CEO & President and is currently in that position.

By 2016, the company had 100 locations in the U.S. and U.K.

, the chain has 77 restaurants in 24 states; Honolulu is the highest-grossing location. In 2019, Earl Enterprises announced that a point-of-sale credit card breach affected credit-card users who visited Buca (or other Earl Enterprise-owned restaurants) between May 23, 2018, and March 18, 2019.

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Around the world
For a young person, I think I've seen quite a bit of the world. Most of my lodging is onboard cruise ships.

My most revent voyage was aboard Cunard Line's RMS Queen Mary 2 from 25 March 2005 to 2 April 2005. We had a fabulous time, being aboard for 8 nights. It was our first balcony accomidation. We visited St. Thomas, St. Kitts, and St. Maarten. No, we did not visit Orient Beach.

Our next cruise is aboard the Crown Princess, of Princess Cruises. It sets sail 7/20/06 for 9 nights, during the Inaugural Season.

Carnival Triumph New England/Canada 4 night August 1999 - Celebrity Zenith Bermuda 7 night August 2001 - Norwegian Sea Bahamian 7 night July 2002 - Celebrity Galaxy Western Caribbean 10 night August 2003 - Norwegian Wind 14 Night Vacation -10 Nights shipboard and 4 nights at the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani in Honolulu- August 7 - 21 2004

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Talk:Dirty Jobs

Episode Quandary
I'm watching a marathon of "Dirty Jobs" and they just televised the 200th episode; however, the page indicates less than that. I looked on the official website and Amazon Prime (which has all 8 season), however I can't find ALL 200! Not sure what to do to rectify. Don't want to edit page without all the needed information.

--Lynn Artz (talk) 23:15, 21 November 2020 (UTC)

Cleanup of History Section?
I noticed that the sections of "History" named "Possible Revival," "Rowe'd Trip," and "Revival" look kind of messy. Should they be combined together under a heading titled something like "Rowe'd Trip & Revival" or just "Revival"? I was thinking it could look sort of like this: "[Header:]Revival On August 12, 2018, Rowe posted on Facebook that "the idea is being floated around" to reboot Dirty Jobs on the Discovery Channel.[9] On November 3, 2019, Rowe wrote that "there's been a lot of chatter about a reboot, and I’m open to it. So too, is (producer Dave) Barsky. Stay tuned…"

On June 23, 2020, it was announced that a spin-off titled Dirty Jobs: Rowe'd Trip had finished filming and would premiere on July 7, 2020. Rowe mentioned that the spin-off happened because the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted plans to film episodes in the original Dirty Jobs format.

On November 15, 2021, Discovery, Inc. announced that Dirty Jobs would return, again with Rowe as host. The premiere of the revived series aired on Discovery and Discovery+ on January 2, 2022."

Just a thought.

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Carnitine palmitoyltransferase II deficiency

Carnitine palmitoyltransferase II deficiency, sometimes shortened to CPT-II or CPT2, is an autosomal recessively inherited genetic metabolic disorder characterized by an enzymatic defect that prevents long-chain fatty acids from being transported into the mitochondria for utilization as an energy source. The disorder presents in one of three clinical forms: lethal neonatal, severe infantile hepatocardiomuscular and myopathic.

First characterized in 1973 by DiMauro and DiMauro the adult myopathic form of this disease is triggered by physically strenuous activities and/or extended periods without food and leads to immense muscle fatigue and pain. It is the most common inherited disorder of lipid metabolism affecting the skeletal muscle of adults, primarily affecting males. CPT II deficiency is also the most frequent cause of hereditary myoglobinuria.

Signs and symptoms
The three main types of carnitine palmitoyltransferase II deficiency are classified on the basis of tissue-specific symptomatology and age of onset. Among the few people diagnosed with CPT2, some have unknown and/or novel mutations that place them outside these three categories while remaining positive for CPT2.

Neonatal form
The neonatal form is the least common clinical presentation of this disorder and is almost invariably fatal in rapid fashion regardless of intervention. Symptomatic onset has been documented just hours after birth to within 4 days of life. Affected newborns typically experience respiratory failure, low blood sugar, seizures, liver enlargement, liver failure, and heart enlargement with abnormal heart rhythms leading to cardiac arrest. In most cases, elements of abnormal brain and kidney development are apparent, sometimes even at prenatal ultrasound. Infants with the lethal neonatal form usually live no longer than a few months. Neuronal migration defects have also been documented, to which the CNS pathology of the disorder is often attributed.

Infantile form
Symptomatic presentation usually occurs between 6 and 24 months of age, but the majority of cases have been documented in children less than 1 year of age. The infantile form involves multiple organ systems and is primarily characterized by hypoketotic hypoglycemia (recurring attacks of abnormally low levels of fat breakdown products and blood sugar) that often results in loss of consciousness and seizure activity. Acute liver failure, liver enlargement, and cardiomyopathy are also associated with the infantile presentation of this disorder. Episodes are triggered by febrile illness, infection, or fasting. Some cases of sudden infant death syndrome are attributed to infantile CPT II deficiency at autopsy.

Adult form
This exclusively myopathic form is the most prevalent and least severe phenotypic presentation of this disorder. Characteristic signs and symptoms include rhabdomyolysis (breakdown of muscle fibers and subsequent release of myoglobin), myoglobinuria, recurrent muscle pain, and weakness. The myoglobin release causes the urine to be red or brown and is indicatory of damage being done to the kidneys which ultimately could result in kidney failure. Muscle weakness and pain typically resolves within hours to days, and patients appear clinically normal in the intervening periods between attacks. Symptoms are most often exercise-induced, but fasting, a high-fat diet, exposure to cold temperature, sleep deprivation, or infection (especially febrile illness) can also provoke this metabolic myopathy. In a minority of cases, disease severity can be exacerbated by three life-threatening complications resulting from persistent rhabdomyolysis: acute kidney failure, respiratory insufficiency, and episodic abnormal heart rhythms. Severe forms may have continual pain from general life activity. The adult form has a variable age of onset. The first appearance of symptoms usually occurs between 6 and 20 years of age but has been documented in patients as young as 8 months as well as in adults over the age of 50. Roughly 80% cases reported to date have been male.

Enzyme structure
The CPT system directly acts on the transfer of fatty acids between the cytosol and the inner mitochondrial matrix. CPT II shares structural elements with other members of the carnitine acyltransferase protein family. The crystal structure of rat CPT II was recently elucidated by Hsiao et al. The human homolog of the CPT II enzyme shows 82.2% amino acid sequence homology with the rat protein. Significant structural and functional information about CPT II has thus been derived from the crystallographic studies with the rat protein.

In addition to similarities shared by the acyltransferases, CPT II also contains a distinct insertion of 30 residues in the amino domain that forms a relatively hydrophobic protrusion composed of two alpha helices and a small anti-parallel beta sheet. It has been proposed that this segment mediates the association of CPT II with the inner mitochondrial membrane. Moreover, the insert might also facilitate the shuttling of palmitoylcarnitines directly into the active site of CPT II after translocation across the inner membrane by virtue of its juxtaposition to the active site tunnel of the enzyme.

Catalytic mechanism
CPT II catalyzes the formation of palmitoyl-CoA from palmitoylcarnitine imported into the matrix via the acylcarnitine translocase. The catalytic core of the CPT II enzyme contains three important binding sites that recognize structural aspects of CoA, palmitoyl, and carnitine.

Although kinetic studies are hindered by high substrate inhibition, strong product inhibition, very low Km values for the acyl-CoA substrates, and complex detergent effects with respect to micelle formation, studies have shown that CPT II demonstrates a compulsory-order mechanism in which the enzyme must bind CoA before palmitoylcarnitine, and then the resulting product palmitoyl-CoA is the last substrate to be released from the enzyme. The carnitine binding site is made accessible by the conformational change induced in the enzyme by the binding of CoA. This ordered mechanism is believed to be important so that the enzyme responds appropriately to the acylation state of the mitochondrial pool of CoA despite the fact that the concentrations of both CoA and acyl-CoA found in the matrix well exceed the measured km value of the enzyme (most CPT II will already have bound the CoA).

The histidine residue (at position 372 in CPT II) is fully conserved in all members of the carnitine acyltransferase family and has been localized to the enzyme active site, likely playing a direct role in the catalytic mechanism of the enzyme. A general mechanism for this reaction is believed to involve this histidine acting as a general base. More specifically, this reaction proceeds as a general base-catalyzed nucleophilic attack of the thioester of acetyl-CoA by the hydroxyl group of carnitine.

Biochemical significance of disease-causing mutations
The majority of the genetic abnormalities in CPT II deficient patients affect amino acid residues somewhat removed from the active site of the enzyme. Thus, these mutations are thought to compromise the stability of the protein rather than the catalytic activity of the enzyme. Theories regarding the biochemical significance of the two most common mutations are noted below:
 * Ser113Leu Hsiao et al. theorize that this mutation may disturb the hydrogen-bonding between Ser113 and Arg 498 and the ion-pair network between Arg498 and Asp376, thereby indirectly affecting the catalytic efficiency of the His372 residue. Isackson et al. suggest that this mutation increases the thermolability of the enzyme, structurally destabilizing it.  This is noteworthy in light of the fact that this mutation is associated with the exercise-induced adult form (i.e., rising core body temperature may exacerbate enzymatic defects leading to symptomatic presentation).  Rufer et al. speculate that mutation of serine to the bulkier, hydrophobic leucine alters a critical interaction with nearby Phe117, ultimately modifying the position and environment of the catalytically important residues Trp116 and Arg498, reducing enzyme activity.
 * Pro50His This proline is 23 residues from the active site, and is located right below the hydrophobic membrane insert in the active CPT II enzyme. Hsiao et al. speculate that this mutation indirectly compromises the association between CPT II and the inner mitochondrial membrane and disturbs the shuttling of the palmitoylcarnitine substrate into the active site of the enzyme.

Enzyme activity and disease severity
The clinical significance of the biochemical consequences that result from the genetic abnormalities in patients with CPT II Deficiency is a contested issue. Rufer et al. support the theory that there is an association between level of enzyme activity and clinical presentation. Multiple research groups have transfected COS-1 cells with different CPT II mutations and found varying levels of reduction in enzyme activity compared with controls: Phe352Cys reduced enzyme activity to 70% of wild-type, Ser113Leu reduced enzyme activity to 34% of wild-type, and several severe mutations reduced activity to 5-10% of wild-type.

However, most researchers are reluctant to accept the existence of a causal relationship between enzyme functionality and clinical phenotype. Two groups have recently reported a limited correlation (lacking in statistical significance) between the genotypic array and the clinical severity of the phenotype in their patient cohorts. There is a need for further explorations of this topic in order to fully assess the biochemical ramifications of this enzymatic deficiency.

The rate of long-chain fatty acid oxidation in CPT II-deficient patients has been proposed to be a stronger predictor of clinical severity than residual CPT II enzyme activity. For example, one study found that although the level of residual CPT II activity in adult versus infantile onset groups overlapped, a significant decrease in palmitate oxidation was noted in the infantile group when compared to the adult group. This group concluded that both the type and location of CPT2 mutation in combination with at least one secondary genetic factor modulate the long-chain fatty acid flux and, therefore, the severity of the disease.

Pathophysiology
Carnitine is a hydrophilic natural substance acquired mostly through dietary meats and dairy products and is used by cells to transport hydrophobic fatty acids. The "carnitine shuttle" is composed of three enzymes that utilize carnitine to facilitate the import of hydrophobic long-chain fatty acids from the cytosol into the mitochondrial matrix for the production of energy via β-oxidation.
 * Carnitine palmitoyltransferase I (CPT I) is localized to the outer mitochondrial membrane and catalyzes the esterification reaction between carnitine and palmitoyl-CoA to produce palmitoylcarnitine. Three tissue-specific isoforms (liver, muscle, brain) have been identified.
 * Carnitine-acylcarnitine translocase (CACT) is an integral inner mitochondrial membrane protein that transports palmitoylcarnitine from the intermembrane space into the matrix in exchange for a molecule of free carnitine that is subsequently moved back out of the mitochondria into the cytosol.
 * Carnitine palmitoyltransferase II (CPT II) is a peripheral inner mitochondrial membrane protein ubiquitously found as a monomeric protein in all tissues that oxidize fatty acids. It catalyzes the transesterification of palmitoylcarnitine back into palmitoyl-CoA which is now an activated substrate for β-oxidation inside the matrix.

Molecular genetics

CPT II deficiency has an autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance. CPT2 is the gene that encodes the CPT II enzyme, and it has been mapped to chromosomal locus 1p32. This gene is composed of 5 exons that encode a protein 658 amino acids in length. To date, sixty disease-causing mutations within the coding sequence of CPT2 have been reported in the literature, of which 41 are thought to result in amino acid substitutions or deletions at critical residues.

Amino acid consequences of some reported mutations

 * Ser113Leu (338C>T) is the most common mild mutation observed in adult cases, it has an observed allelic frequency of 65% in adult cases, and both homozygous and heterozygous cases have been documented.
 * Pro50His (149C>A) is also relatively common in the adult form, with an allelic frequency of 6.5%.
 * Arg161Trp, Glu174Lys and Ile502Thr are other homozygous mild mutations associated with the adult form
 * Arg151Gln and Pro227Leu are examples of severe homozygous mutations that have been associated with the mutisystemic infantile/neonatal form of the disorder.
 * The 18 known severe mutations that result in prematurely truncated proteins lack residual CPT II activity are associated with the neonatal onset and are likely incompatible with life in most circumstances.
 * Val368Ile and Met647Val are polymorphisms have been linked to CPT II deficiency. These genetic abnormalities alone do not directly cause the disorder, but they seem to exacerbate the reduction in enzymatic efficiency when combined with one or more primary CPT2 mutations.

Recent research found that mutations associated with a specific disease phenotype segregated to specific exons. In this study, infantile-onset cases had mutations in exon 4 or 5 of the CPT2 gene, while adult-onset cases had at least one mutation in exon 1 and/or exon 3. This group suggested that Ser113Leu (exon 3) and Pro50His (exon 1) might confer some sort of protective advantage against the development of the severe infantile phenotype in patients predisposed to develop the adult form of the disorder, since these two mutations have never been identified in cases of compound heterozygous infantile cases. In support of this theory, an independent group reported two cases where mutations that have been shown to cause the infantile (Arg151Gln) or neonatal (Arg631Cys) forms when homozygous instead were associated with the milder, adult-onset phenotype when present as compound heterozygous mutations with Ser113Leu as the second mutation.

Diagnosis

 * Tandem mass spectrometry: non-invasive, rapid method; a significant peak at C16 is indicative of generalized CPT II deficiency
 * Genetic testing and carrier testing to confirm deficiency using a skin enzyme test. Pregnant women can also undergo testing via amniocentesis.
 * Enzymatic activity studies in fibroblasts and/or lymphocytes
 * Laboratory findings: most patients have low total and free carnitine levels and high acylcarnitine:free carnitine ratios. Adult patients often have serum and/or urine screen positive for the presence of myoglobin and serum creatine kinase and transaminase levels 20-400x higher than normal levels during an attack.  Signs of metabolic acidosis and significant hyperammonemia have been reported in infantile and neonatal cases.

Treatment
Standard of care for treatment of CPT II deficiency commonly involves limitations on prolonged strenuous activity and the following stipulations:
 * The medium-chain fatty acid triheptanoin appears to be an effective therapy for adult-onset CPT II deficiency.
 * Restriction of lipid intake, increased carbohydrate intake
 * Avoidance of fasting situations
 * Glucose infusions during infections to prevent catabolism
 * Avoidance of valproic acid, ibuprofen, diazepam, and general anesthesia
 * Dietary modifications including replacement of long-chain with medium-chain triglycerides supplemented with L-carnitine
 * Rigorous meal schedule
 * Avoidance of rigorous exercise.


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O'Connor (surname)

O'Connor (Ó Conchobhair) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Medieval kings

 * Cathal Crobhdearg Ua Conchobair (1153–1224), King of Connacht
 * Conchobar Máenmaige Ua Conchobhair (died 1189) last independent King of Connacht
 * Ruaidhrí Ó Conchobhair (died 1198), last High King of Ireland (also known as Rory O'Connor)
 * Toirdealbhach Mac Ruaidhrí Ó Conchobhair (1088–1156), High King of Ireland (also known as Turlough O'Connor)
 * Toirdealbhach Mac Ruaidhrí Ó Conchobhair (1088–1156), High King of Ireland (also known as Turlough O'Connor)

Arts

 * Alexander James O'Connor, more known as Rex Orange County (born 1998), British singer-songwriter
 * Brian O'Connor, American bassist
 * Caroline O'Connor (born 1962), Australian singer, dancer and actress
 * Carroll O'Connor (1924–2001), American actor
 * Celeste O'Connor (born 1998), American actress
 * Claudio O'Connor (born 1963), Argentinian singer
 * Denis O'Connor (born 1947), New Zealand ceramicist, sculptor and writer
 * Denis O'Connor (British-Irish sculptor), sculptor
 * Des O'Connor (1932–2020), British singer and TV comedian
 * Donald O'Connor (1925–2003), American actor and entertainer
 * Elmo O'Connor (born 1994), American rapper and singer known as BONES, founder of TeamSESH.
 * Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor, more known as Lorde (born 1996), New Zealand singer-songwriter
 * Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964), American author
 * Frank O'Connor (1903–1966), Irish author
 * Frank O'Connor (1881–1959), American actor, director, and screenwriter
 * Frank O'Connor (Charles Francis O'Connor) (1897–1979), American actor and husband of Ayn Rand
 * Gavin O'Connor (born 1964), American film director, screenwriter, producer, playwright and actor
 * Gavin O'Connor (born 1972), Irish actor
 * Hazel O'Connor (born 1955), English singer and actress
 * James O'Connor, American drummer
 * Joe O'Connor, American actor
 * Josef O'Connor, artist
 * Joseph O'Connor (born 1963), Irish novelist
 * Mark O'Connor (born 1961), American fiddler
 * Raymond O'Connor (died 2023), American character actor
 * Renee O'Connor (born 1971), American actress
 * Ruairi O'Connor (born 1991), Irish actor
 * Simon O'Connor (born 1949), New Zealand actor and playwright
 * Siobhán O’Connor (born 1991), Irish author
 * Sinéad O'Connor (1966–2023), Irish singer-songwriter
 * Una O'Connor (1880–1959), Irish character actress
 * O'Connor, Argentinian band

Law and politics

 * Arthur O'Connor (1763–1852), United Irishman and later a general in Napoleon's army
 * Basil O'Connor (1892–1972), American lawyer, co-founded National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis with Franklin D. Roosevelt
 * Batt O'Connor, Irish builder, who worked for the revolutionary Michael Collins
 * Bob O'Connor (mayor) (1944–2006), Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
 * Dennis O'Connor, Associate Chief Justice of Ontario
 * Edmund O'Connor (1848–1898), President pro tem of the NY State Senate 1895
 * Feargus O'Connor (1794–1855), Irish Chartist leader
 * Frank O'Connor (1903–1966), Canadian politician
 * Frank D. O'Connor (1909–1992), New York politician
 * Gavan O'Connor (born 1947), Australian politician
 * Gordon O'Connor (born 1939), Canadian politician
 * James O'Connor (1870–1941), American politician
 * Jeremiah F. O'Connor (1933–2010), American politician
 * Jerry L. O'Connor (born 1953), American politician
 * John O'Connor (1824–1887), Canadian politician
 * Joseph O'Connor, Irish author
 * Joseph O'Connor, Irish revolutionary, soldier and politician
 * Joseph O'Conor (1916–2001), Irish actor
 * Judith G. O'Connor (born 1936), American politician
 * Justice O'Connor (disambiguation), various people
 * Sir Kenneth O'Connor (1896–1985), British Judge
 * Larry O'Connor (born 1956), Canadian politician
 * Máireag Bean Uí Conchobhair Fáilghe, (died 1451), Queen, and patron of the arts
 * Maureen O'Connor (born 1951), Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and member of the Ohio Supreme Court
 * Maureen O'Connor (born 1946), Mayor of San Diego, California, from 1985 to 1992
 * Matt O'Connor, founder of the fathers' rights pressure group Fathers 4 Justice
 * Michael O'Connor (1865–1940), Australian politician
 * Patrick J. O'Connor, Chicago alderman
 * Ray O'Connor (1926–2013), 22nd Premier of Western Australia, convicted fraudster and Australian rules footballer
 * Richard O'Connor (1851–1912), Australian politician and jurist
 * Sandra Day O'Connor (1930–2023), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
 * T.P. O'Connor (1848–1929), Irish journalist and politician
 * Terence O'Connor (1891–1940), British politician

Military

 * Bryan D. O'Connor (born 1946), astronaut
 * Francis Burdett O'Connor was an officer in the Irish Legion of Simón Bolívar's army in Venezuela.
 * Luke O'Connor (1831–1915), first recipient of the Victoria Cross and British General
 * Sir Richard O'Connor (1889–1981), British General
 * Rory O'Connor, Irish revolutionary soldier, who commanded Four Courts garrison

Religion

 * Denis T. O'Connor (1841–1911), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toronto
 * James O'Connor (bishop) (1823–1891), Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Omaha
 * John O'Connor (cardinal) (1920–1999), Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York City
 * Michael O'Connor, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh
 * Patrick Edward O'Connor (1932–2014), New Zealand Roman Catholic priest
 * William Patrick O'Connor, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Superior (1942–1946)

Science and academia

 * Annette O'Connor, professor and researcher in health care
 * C. Y. O'Connor (1843–1902), Irish engineer
 * David O'Connor, Australian Egyptologist
 * J. Dennis O'Connor, American academic administrator
 * Johnson O'Connor (1891–1973), American psychometrician
 * Michael Patrick O'Connor (1950–2007), American linguist
 * Thomas H. O'Connor (1923–2012), American historian

Sport

 * Adrian O'Connor (born 1978), Irish backstroke swimmer
 * Brian O'Connor, University of Virginia baseball head coach
 * Christy O'Connor Jnr (1948–2016), Irish golfer
 * Christy O'Connor Snr (1924–2016), Irish golfer; uncle of Christy Jnr
 * Cian O'Connor (born 1979), Irish equestrian
 * Dan O'Connor (baseball) (1868–1942), Canadian baseball player
 * D'Arcy O'Connor (1994), English footballer
 * David O'Connor (equestrian) (born 1962), American equestrian
 * Denise O'Connor (born 1935), American Olympic fencer
 * Donncha O'Connor (born 1981), Cork All Ireland Senior Medalist
 * Drew O'Connor (born 1998), American ice hockey player
 * Fred O'Connor (born 1939), American football player
 * Fred O'Connor (soccer) (1902–1952), American soccer player
 * Gary O'Connor (born 1974), Scottish football goalkeeper
 * Garry O'Connor (born 1983), Scottish footballer (Hibernian, Lokomotiv Moscow, Birmingham City, Scotland)
 * Georgia O'Connor, English boxer
 * James O'Connor (rugby) (born 1990), Australian rugby union player
 * Jamesie O'Connor (born 1971), Irish hurler
 * Jennifer O'Connor (netball) (born 1984), Australian netball player
 * Joe O'Connor (born 1995) English snooker player
 * Karen O'Connor (born 1958), American equestrian
 * Kieran O'Connor (1979–2020), Gaelic footballer
 * Leah O'Connor (born 1992), American steeplechase runner
 * Logan O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player
 * Mary O'Connor (athlete) (born 1955), New Zealand long-distance runner
 * Michael O'Connor (baseball player) (born 1980), Major League Baseball player
 * Michael O'Connor (rugby) (born 1960), Australian rugby union and rugby league player
 * Patrick O'Connor, Jamaican sprinter
 * Pat O'Connor (American football) (born 1993), American football player
 * Pat O'Connor (racing driver) (1928–1958), Formula One driver
 * Paul O'Connor, Irish Gaelic footballer
 * Paul O'Connor, Irish skier
 * Peter O'Connor (athlete) (1872–1957), Irish athlete
 * Red O'Connor, American football player
 * Tommy O'Connor, Irish footballer
 * Tony O'Connor, Irish rower
 * William Joseph O'Connor (1862–1892), Canadian professional oarsman

Other

 * Brendan O'Connor, multiple people
 * Daniel O'Connor, multiple people
 * Erin O'Connor (born 1978), British supermodel
 * Francis V. O'Connor (1937–2017), American art historian
 * Kevin O'Connor, multiple people
 * Liam O'Connor, multiple people
 * Michael O'Connor (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Patricia O'Connor, multiple people
 * Terry O'Connor, multiple people
 * Thomas Burton O'Connor (1914–1952), American journalist & editor
 * Tom O'Connor, multiple people
 * Tony O'Connor, headteacher

Fictional characters

 * O'Connor, the name of O'Brien in the 1956 film adaptation of Nineteen Eighty-Four
 * Enoch O'Connor, the name of a side character in Ransom Rigg's book series 'Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children' who possesses the ability to resurrect the dead via inanimate objects.

Similar names

 * O'Conner
 * Conner (surname)
 * Connor (surname)
 * Connors (surname)
 * Conor
 * O'Conor Don
 * O Connor Sligo

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USCGC Papaw

USCGC Papaw (WLB-308) was a sea-going buoy tender whose design is based on the pre-World War II United States Lighthouse Service Tenders. The original design was modified to provide an armored cutter capable of wartime missions in addition to her primary mission of Aids to Navigation. Papaw was built in 1943 by the Marine Iron and Shipbuilding Company of Duluth, Minnesota. Commissioned 12 October 1943, she was assigned the home port of San Francisco, California.

Papaw saw extensive duty during World War II establishing aids to navigation systems for the newly captured islands in the Pacific. After the war Papaw's home port was moved to Astoria, Oregon. In June 1949, Papaw was shifted to the warm waters of Miami, Florida where she assumed responsibility for the aids to navigation in the Florida Keys and the Caribbean. In 1954, Papaw was moved, this time to Charleston, South Carolina under the command of RJ Papp who would later become Commandant of the Coast Guard alongside William Jennings which the VA is named after. There she maintained buoys, shore stations, and towers. In October 1989 Papaw entered the Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) at the Coast Guard Yard in Curtis Bay, Maryland. She arrived at her new home port of Galveston, Texas on June 18, 1991.

Papaw services approximately 150 aids to navigation from Brownsville, Texas to Calcasieu, Louisiana. The ship carried out many missions throughout the Gulf of Mexico including: Search and Rescue, Drug and Contraband Interdiction, Environmental Protection, Military Readiness Exercises, and Buoy Deployment Operations with the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration.

Papaw's main propulsion system was diesel electric. Two 700 hp General Motors E.M.D. diesel engines each drove a DC generator which provided electricity to the 550 volt Westinghouse main motor. At 1200 hp the main motor turned a single shaft to a maximum speed of 13.5 kn. Electric power was supplied by two 200 kW generators each driven by a Detroit Diesel engine. A bow thruster was fitted during the 1989 Service Life Extension Program giving the Papaw greater maneuverability. The Papaw's main boom was hydraulically operated and had a maximum working load of 20 tons.

Buoys serviced by the Papaw ranged from tiny 6 ft nun buoys to the 35 ft tall 18,000 lb Galveston Entrance Channel Buoy. Most buoys are equipped with electrical lights powered by batteries and solar cells. Some have sound signals, radar beacons, and elaborate power systems. All buoys are pulled from the water at least once a year for painting, maintenance, and position checks.

The Papaw has received many awards during its history. Her wartime honors include: the World War II Victory Medal, the American Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, and two National Defense Service Medals. Papaw has also received many peacetime commendations, these include: two Coast guard Meritorious Unit Commendations, a Humanitarian Service Medal, and a Coast Guard Special Operations Ribbon.

Papaw was decommissioned on 23 July 1999 at Group Galveston, Texas. She was donated to Canvasback Missions of Benicia, California, a nonprofit organization. She is currently operating as the F/V Mersea, an emergency relief ship as part of the Friend Ships fleet. Her sister ship, the USCGC Conifer, is also part of the Friend Ships fleet as the F/V Hope.

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CPT2

CPT2 may refer to:

 * Carnitine palmitoyltransferase II, an important metabolic enzyme.
 * Carnitine palmitoyltransferase II deficiency, a condition that prevents the body from converting certain fats into energy
 * Killarney Airport, CPT2 ICAO airport code, located in Killarney, Ontario, Canada

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Anula, Northern Territory

Anula is a Northern suburb of Darwin, Northern Territory, in the Northern Territory of Australia. The suburb lies to the east of Lee Point Road and to the north of McMillans Road and covers an area of 1.318 km2. It is on the traditional Country and waterways of the Larrakia people.

The suburb lies to the north of Darwin International Airport which is also known as RAAF Base Darwin.

The streets in Anula are named after early NT Mines and mineral fields. Names such as Spring Hill Street, Caledonian Street, Wolfram Court and Zapopan Court being but a few examples.

History
During World War II, in 1945, the No.1 Canadian Special Wireless Group was located in the present day suburb.

The suburb is named after the Anula group of the Yanyuwa nation who live around the Borroloola – McArthur River – Seven Emus area on the coastline of the Gulf of Carpentaria.

When the area was designed in 1966, the linguists' spelling was that listed, but variant uses of the name were Yanyula and Janjula. Yanyula Drive perpetuates one variant name for the tribe group, but the whole suburb enshrines Anula as the adopted name in the 1960s, gazetted finally as a suburb in 1984.

The suburb of Anula was under construction when Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin in late 1974, with a few house constructions started and a handful completed. As part of the reconstruction the blocks, with remains of construction were cleared, the power infrastructure was placed underground and construction started again. Prior to the cyclone most houses were to be of the elevated type, however post cyclone most houses were concrete single level.

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Who, aside from Deanknight, refers to New Zealand as "the New Zealand"? Is this common somewhere in the world? For example, have New Zealanders recently taken to calling their nation "the New Zealand"? --Aussieintn 04:59, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

New Zealanders call "New Zealand", "New Zealand" (or Aotearoa New Zealand) - I'd guess the inclusion of 'the' in the title of this page was an error on the behalf of Deanknight BotrytisNonDePlume 22:59, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

 * since was clearly an error, pg now moved, without the "the".--cjllw ʘ  TALK 07:17, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

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