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Talk:James Bond/Archive 2

The anime Bond rumor
I'm uncomfortable with new "Rumors" section about an apparent anime version of Bond that was added a few days ago. I don't think we should have rumors on this page, unless a direct source can be given. Also, the anonymous contributor who added this also put up some dubious edits on a number of Bond movie pages that K1Bond007 had to revert. Perhaps this item might be more suited for the James Bond 21 page which already has a few rumors of its own. Thoughts? 23skidoo 01:18, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Yeah I don't like it either, I'll remove it. Somehow I missed this one. I went through the rest of that guys contributions and reverted anything that was off. He's the same one that made up that whole rumor on Bond-21 about Emma Watson being a Bond girl. K1Bond007 03:41, Jan 4, 2005 (UTC)

 * I didn't realize it was the same guy. Emma might be a good Bond girl around Bond 24, though... 23skidoo 04:35, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Parody
In order to decrease the size of the page, I'm planning on moving the parody section to it's own article. To be frank, it really doesn't add much to the character of James Bond, the films or the novels. Hopefully with the new article we can add more films and novels to the list (because I'm sure there are tons more) and hopefully create more of an article including the arguement that the modern Bond has basically become a parody of himself (see above). If anyone objects, please reply. I believe the name of the article will be James Bond parodies or Parodies of James Bond. One or the other. K1Bond007 04:04, Jan 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Works for me. James Bond parodies is my preferred title. 23skidoo 04:40, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Rumours
This rumour states that Disney-MGM accquired Pierce Brosnan's 007 titles in '004. The rumour was started in '004. - 24.159.186.88

 * Uhhh what? K1Bond007 20:20, Jan 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * I just started a rumor that Angelina Jolie is my girlfriend, too... ;) Seriously, though, this is getting into vandalism territory. And since when has Disney ever had anything to do with MGM, which has owned the Bond films for more than 20 years anyway? 23skidoo 20:26, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Since 1989. Ryan F

 * It's a theme park only. It has no relevance to James Bond. See Disney-MGM Studios. K1Bond007 21:38, Jan 7, 2005 (UTC)

Bond's drink tally question
I've noticed over the last few weeks a steady stream of different numbers being cited for how many drinks Bond has consumed over the years. The latest number posted, 300 in the Fleming novels alone, is questionable. I've read all of Fleming's Bonds, and half of Gardner's, and for Bond to have that many drinks would require him pretty much to have a drink in his hand in every chapter all the way up to Brokenclaw. Can anyone cite a source for this number? If not, I'm not convinced of its accuracy. 23skidoo 05:29, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * LOL, I was wondering this too. K1Bond007 05:42, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok heres a webiste: http://home.earthlink.net/~atomic_rom/007/stats.htm - I don't know how accurate it is though. K1Bond007 03:29, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * Hmm. There should be an Official James Bond Fact Book for such dilemmas. There probably is one. Though I assume that James Bond's drink tally would be constantly increasing as time goes on. -Alexander 007 05:13, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Date of Birth
Are we absolutely sure that Bond's DoB is in 1924? I only ask because I've seen numerous websites claim it was 1920. I've also read a few times that the dates (if you do the math), during Fleming's novels seem to change off and on to balance out the fact that Bond is somewhere between upper 30's to lower 40's (forever). Anyone have any sources or can cite from which book where it's listed that he was born in 1924? K1Bond007 19:18, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * According to the Pearson biography of Bond, he was born in Wattenscheid, Germany (near Essen) on Nov. 11, 1920 to a Scottish father and a Swiss mother. I have seen 1924 mentioned elsewhere but can't recall where exactly. The You Only live Twice obituary doesn't give a year. That still would only make Bond 13 when he took possession of his Bentley (per Fleming). 23skidoo 20:53, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Well I made a few changes to this. See what you think. It may need to be reworded.

 * Also while rummaging the internet, I found a statement saying that Bond lost his virginity at 16 according to FromAVTAK - our bio seems to state otherwise? Are we sure we're correct on this? Source for that info: http://www.mjnewton.demon.co.uk/bond/jbond.htm Heh.. we need to start looking into this. K1Bond007 02:29, Jan 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * The Bond Files gives a different age from AVTAK which is contradicted by Gardner. I'll have to dig out my copy and read it again. I personally don't recall this even being mentioned in the story. 23skidoo 03:34, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * What book does Fleming say the year in which Bond purchased the vehicle? I'm currently reading Live and Let Die and Fleming only mentions that the car is a 1933 Bentley - not that Bond bought it in that year. ??? K1Bond007 06:20, Jan 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * I believe Moonraker gives this information but it's been several years since I last read it. 23skidoo 06:48, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmm well reading on the internet plus reading this book is confusing. A lot of websites (see Forbes.com ) claim the first Bentley was a 1930 Bentley bought by Bond in 1933 and stored during WW2, but Fleming clearly states in Ch2 of Live and Let Die (first sentence): "The grey Bentley convertible, the 1933 4.5 litre.....". It makes no sense. It's been a while since I read Casino Royale, but I thought these Bentleys were the same? Bond's 2nd Bentley is bought in Moonraker according to the same websites, but they also say that after being damaged in Casino Royale (which I remember) it was repaired and brought back briefly in Moonraker. I've come to three conclusions 1) No one read Live and Let Die 2) My book sucks?? 3) I'm going insane. Heh.. K1Bond007 07:28, Jan 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * Haha wow.. I'm reading Moonraker now and the car is described as a 1930 Bentley bought by Bond in 1933. Totally contradicts Live and Let Die. I wonder if my copy is off or something. Wouldn't surprise me if my copy of Live and Let Die was edited more than just changing a few british spellings (centre -> center) and the infamous "chapter five" title. K1Bond007 05:05, Jan 16, 2005 (UTC)

Trimming the fat
I hate to bring it up again, but this page somehow keeps getting bigger. After removing the parody stuff we went from something like 50K to 43K. Somehow we've grown to 45K - doh. Does anyone have an idea what we can remove to thin the page? For starters, IMO, I think we should remove the Bond characters section. Merge the 00-agents with List of James Bond allies and just leave the section with links to villains, allies and Bond girls. The section is totally redundant and some of these characters are mentioned elsewhere in the page, such as M.

Also I've mentioned it in the past in the edit summary, but I think the supporting cast column in the film table should be removed. It's something I see as unnecessary since they're all listed on the seperate film pages. It just seems kind of wrong when we don't even list regular cast members that play the roles of M, Q, Moneypenny, and sometimes although not always, Felix Leiter.

Ideas, comments ? K1Bond007 07:58, Jan 14, 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree that there's no need to list film supporting characters. Actually, I don't see the need to list any film information beyond title, year, and the actor playing Bond, since all the other information of interest can be found under the appropriate pages, just like we can have a minimum of information about the books since each book has its own page where that information can be provided. 23skidoo 06:12, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

James Bond themes
I'm thinking of creating a page titled James Bond themes where we could expand on the "Music" section that was recently added to this page. Currently I'm thinking of moving The James Bond Theme there and adding The 007 Theme article to it. ?? Thoughts. K1Bond007 22:51, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Works for me. Probably better than doing individual articles for each. I didn't even know there was an article for "007". 23skidoo 00:52, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Was recently created by someone. I noticed it yesterday. I just don't think there's that much room to grow really with these articles and they would do better to be compiled in a bigger article about the music of James Bond (in general -> at least keeping in mind that specific soundtracks are covered on their respective film articles). K1Bond007 00:58, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah. Although a number of songs have their own Wiki articles, they also tend to be VFD magnets. I think it works better to have them all in one place where details like the alternate version of "You Only Live Twice" or Sheena Easton's Oscar night performance of "For Your Eyes Only" complete with cameos by Jaws and Oddjob, can be discussed. 23skidoo 02:55, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

So James Bond themes is a good name? Comprised of List of James Bond theme songs, The James Bond Theme, and The 007 Theme? Just checking. K1Bond007 06:04, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Given our own disagreement over what constitutes a "theme" per se, maybe "James Bond music" might be a better title, since that would also make it applicable to featured songs like "We Have All the Time in the World" and "If You Asked Me To" and other popular songs introduced by the movies. 23skidoo 04:45, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I was actually thinking the same. K1Bond007 04:52, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Great minds think alike! 23skidoo 04:58, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

My Reason for adjusting the pic size
"Users hate scrolling left to right. Vertical scrolling seems to be okay, maybe because it's much more common. Web pages that require horizontal scrolling in standard-sized windows, such as 800x600 pixels, are particularly annoying.

From Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes by Jakob Nielsen (usability consultant)

With the pictures of the 5 movie Bonds at a 125px width, you are causing people with 800x600 screens to horizontal scroll. Zzyzx11 00:07, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Picture tutorial Zzyzx11 01:49, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * I Found The Answer!!!

Fact check
I fact checked a lot of the information (specifically dates) using a variety of resources in addition to the books that I actually have - Biographies of Fleming, the Bedside Companion (Benson), etc.

 * The specific date of Bond's birth in which we only had "other data point to November 16" - I couldn't find the actual day anywhere so I removed this until a reputable source can be found - however I did expand on 1924.

 * The year in which he lost his virginity - I fixed this too. According to Fleming he was 16. What I can't confirm, although I left in, is the mention in Brokenclaw. I'll leave that to someone who has the novel. It could have been accidentally flipped, which is my guess. K1Bond007 22:22, Mar 7, 2005 (UTC)

Biography
The biography section is an absolute mess to be honest. I tried to organize it, at first literary v cinematic, but I had to change that to reduce redundancy from "In the novels ____, but in the films ___." Some of the information is redundant found in the Character overview section or for that section entirely out of place, such as the mention of Bond's polymathy. Honestly, I believe the best course of action here is to remove it all from the page to it's own page on the character where more sense of this can be made. - Truly not all information as it would be best to leave information about the background of the character, such as what hes known for and where the name, inspiration (Fleming) came from, information that if you're searching for James Bond you'd actually want instead of details such as when Bond lost his virginity or to a more extreme extent the lengthly information on when Bond was born. The more detailed information isn't needed for this page, especially when its written like this.

This needs to be discussed at least on how we can organize this information better. Please note that this page is horribly over the preferable article size (currently 50+kilobyes when we should be technically down around 35), a cut like this would be pretty good. At least discuss options here. K1Bond007 07:39, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

 * One possible alternative:

 * If the dual biographies (book and movie) of James Bond are similar, one could write an integrated "story". But if they're sufficiently different, then perhaps the approach to take is to write the "book" biography or the "movie" biography, and then write a separate section describing how the "other" biography differs.

 * Which to write as the main biography? Well, a purist would probably write the book-based biography. But more people are probably familiar with the movie-based character. Is there enough "movie-based" biography to make a compelling, consistent story?

 * Atlant 11:24, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * They're pretty different. Even the things that make Bond, Bond such as ordering a martini shaken not stirred or announcing himself as "Bond.. James Bond.." are not in most books (rarely if used). The problem with the literary version is that Fleming, besides You Only Live Twice, didn't write a backstory for Bond. A lot of it came from John Pearson's official biography and soon to be Charlie Higson's Young James Bond. So you have technically three people telling you similar, but different things (see the paragraph on age) + a different cinematic biography = pretty confusing. I understand most of it and its still confusing to me from the way we have it written, grouped together etc. K1Bond007 15:39, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)

Psychological/Medical survey on James Bond
Does anyone know about this old Psychological/Medical survey, where several psychiatrists/doctors etc. investigated the Bond character, and found that his personal habits, (sex with exotic prostitutes, heavy drinking, smoking etc) would have been just as dangerous for him as adventurous lifestyle?
 * Never heard of this, but all of the above were contributors to Ian Fleming's death (well except the sex probably). K1Bond007 15:32, May 4, 2005 (UTC)

SilverFin, the car
About the line addressing the issue of the Bentley, I'm not really sure how to rephrase this. I'll list the facts and if anybody wants to put this info back in then go for it I guess. The truth is in SilverFin Bond inherits a 1.5 liter Bamford & Martin Sidevalue Short Chassis Tourer. Bamford & Martin later became Aston Martin. In the novel he's thirteen and learns to drive from his Uncle. In fact Bond's knowledge and love for cars and engines actually comes from his Uncle. The Bentley, from what I understand is (in the book) currently owned by his Aunt Charmain who is his guardian (the Uncle and Aunt are sister and brother of James's father, FYI). It is possible that his Aunt's car is not the Bentley spoke of in Casino Royale, but it is identical, Bond has a thought like "if ever I were to own a car it would be one like this." Considering the book takes place in 1933, I'm sure its the same one.

So really the issue of the car isn't that big of a deal. At 13 Bond knows how to drive and technically has his own car (though its technically stored).

I also don't think adding the line about the Bentley isn't useful to determine Bond's age since it's creation itself is unclear. Bond says its from 1933 in Casino Royale and Live and Let Die, but in Moonraker its from 1930. This is an example of Fleming fudging the numbers (3 years, Moonraker is the 3rd book). K1Bond007 16:33, May 5, 2005 (UTC)

Whoever is reverting my edits
hey, i realize this page is important to you. but this is wiki.

I have no problem with you criticizing my writing, correct me if you wish. but i do have a problem with you reverting my work like it was vandalism. it is not. I like bond and i'm just trying to make this page better. and i know you are too. i think there's a bit of ego involved here.

if you don't like my changes, react in the spirit of wiki and edit my writing as i have done to yours. don't just discard my changes with a reversion as though you don't have the time to even consider my writing and edit it.

Humbly, Joe21983813
 * Actually, to revert when a number of changes have been made that need to be changed is perfectly fine. K1Bond007 beat me to it because I felt the changes added nothing to the article and in a couple of places were quite confusing. If there are any particular reverts to which you object, I invite you to go into the history, cut-and-paste the edit in question here, and then we can look at it. I would like to remind you of point No. 2 under the "Do not submit copyrighted work without permission" headline on the Edit page: "If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, do not submit it." Editing -- and reverting -- is in the spirit of Wikipedia provided it is done so in the spirit of making the article has good as possible. Not everyone will agree. That's why we have a discussion page. PS. I have gone through the first few sections and done some copyediting. I've kept some of your edits and reverted others, and have also cleaned up stuff that I have written there in the past. 23skidoo 21:09, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Not to say all your edits were bad, but I disagreed with a good number of them as most either didn't add anything to the article as 23skidoo mentioned or were merely rewordings of sentences that didn't have the same effect or was missing information including the opening statement that James Bond is fictional, which is a common thing to note at the top of fictional characters, organizations or whatever on Wikipedia to seperate from what is real and what isn't regardless if it's explained that he/she/it comes from a work of literature or film. James T. Kirk for example. K1Bond007 21:42, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, i will say that i don't nearly have as much time as you all to bicker over this. so enjoy. sometimes, I think the closedmindedness of wikipedians hurt this this article. so, good luck and good bye.
 * Sorry you're upset at all this, but part of being a Wikipedia editor is you have to work together. You'll find it in most other articles. And if you think K1Bond007 (or myself) have any ownership over this article, or think that it's perfect, check the failed feature article nomination link at the top of this talk page. My suggestion is to spend time exploring the different pages and looking at how edits are handled and what types of edits people make. You'll find, for example, that not all reverts are due to vandalism by any means (I certainly never saw your edits as such), and reverts happen to users with longtime experience here (happened to me just the other day at The Prisoner when I posted something the general consensus disagreed with). There is no close-mindedness here except to make articles as clean, clear, and factually accurate as possible. 23skidoo 22:05, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree with this totally. K1Bond007 22:10, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Okay boys, I'm not referring to the recent edits. I can see how some of my writing was incorporated. i defintely appreciate that.

 * What i am refering to is the revert done by k1bond007 here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Bond&diff=15508735&oldid=15483152

 * I spent some time doing the revisions that I thought would improve on this article and bond007 just deletes all of them with one click. I like editing wiki, but k1bond007's action was a real turn off. what's the point of doing all of this if a zealous editor will change it without considering its merits, or even explaining himself???

 * I can see K1bond007 likes to guard his territory here, and i think it damages the article. I certainly found it hard to read when i first looked it up. that's why i changed it. but i now realize why its hard to read - people who try to improve it are shut out by egotisical reversions like the one i saw.

 * again, i like doing this - that's why we all spend time here, but that was the last time i'm going to help editing the bond page. i'm sure some of y'all are glad to hear that. bye.
 * Please don't forget to sign your comments as it makes it easier to read these threads. I'm afraid I have to disagree with you on the assessment of K1Bond007's motives (at the risk of talking out of turn). Forget his nick for a moment, he has no "territory" to guard any more than I do. What occurred was an obvious difference of opinion, but the fact is anyone who edits Wikipedia could have jumped in and reverted K1Bond007's reversion of your work. The fact no one did suggests implied agreement with his edit. I could have reverted his changes anytime I wanted to, but I didn't because I happened to agree with them; I was able to incorporate some of your additions later. But the fact is several of your edits resulted in incomplete sentences and improper grammar, and you also created a couple of factual errors by deleting material (i.e. changing a sentence so that it would read at first glance that Bond was a real person, as noted by K1Bond007). The same sort of editing will happen in other articles. It's the nature of this community and we don't always agree. The "Golden Pen Attitude" simply cannot exist because there's always someone waiting to revert or "mercilessly edit" you. And I treat personally everyone fairly; unless you're a known vandal I don't go out of my way to see what Joe21983813 or K1Bond007 is up to (although I could if I wanted to). I have more than 200 Wikipedia pages on my Watchlist, and if I see an edit that in my opinion is not a good one, I will revert or edit it and am prepared to discuss my actions with the parties involved. And someone may come along and make another change, or revert me, or say to hell with the article and nominate it for deletion. Most people have no problem with edits, and they usually submit another edit that 9 times out of 10 is better than the last one.23skidoo 02:24, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Hey this has taken up way too much time. all i can say is i have never come across this the attitude i've seen here on any other page i've done.: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Bond&diff=15508735&oldid=15483152

 * yes the edit was imperfect, and so was the orinal article, but one does not discard it completely. you say that bond007's revert was justified because no one reinstated my version. tis a silly argument because no one would have saw it. I say again i do not have a golden pen attitude. i have an attitude that does not react well to revertin my writing like it was trash. bond007 didn't comment, didn't edit didn't keep anything. i'm tired. this is my last edit here. i will read your comments, though if you have any for me. thanks boys. Joe21983813 02:36, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Joe21983813 02:36, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I think I've already said enough on the matter (in addition to what 23skidoo has already said) and I did explain the reasoning for my revert in the edit summary as well as here. All I can do now is quote Wikipedia policy. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, do not submit it. Anyone and everyone has the opportunity to revert my edits and I do not, regardless of what your belief is, view this page or any other page for that matter as my "territory". My apologies if you think my edit was personal or something. K1Bond007 03:36, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

Famous numbers categorization
Regarding the recent revert of my moving the Category:Famous numbers tag from this page to 007 (a disambig page), my reason for categorizing the number itself instead of James Bond is that the 007 page lists both the articles which make it a famous number, namely the one about our good Cdr. Bond, and the one about the Korean Air Flight 007 shootdown. In short, 007 is a number, "James Bond" is not. --Wernher 17:30, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I understand your rationale, but James Bond is the ONLY reason why the number is famous. I don't see TWA Flight 800 in that category and it is far more known than the Korean Air Flight 007. To also say "James Bond is not a number" is also a good point, but then what about "The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything", "Number of the Beast (numerology)", and a couple others on that page. They're no more numbers than James Bond. K1Bond007 19:13, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, I guess we'll just leave it there. Main thing is that Bond is a member of the category, this way or that (shaken or stirred, as it were...). --Wernher 19:48, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

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Assessment
I have assessed this article for the Schools Project, giving it a Low priority. However, given the listing of alumni, this school may be eligible for higher importance within the project. This cannot be done until there is substantial referencing with reliable sources. If there is substantial improvement to this article, especially in terms of referencing, please request a reassessment. LonelyBeacon (talk) 16:51, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

History
This section of the Wiki article mentions "Reach for the Top" and states "On April 20, 2018, Glebe Collegiate Institute's Reach for the Top trivia team won the Ottawa Regional Championships for the first time in the school's history. This qualified Glebe Collegiate's Reach for the Top team for the 2018 Provincials, where they placed 11th out of 38." This overlooks the performance of Glebe's 1969-'70 team which won regional and provincial finals, and which participated in the national finals in Edmonton. The team consisted of Claire Brigstocke, Charmion and David Chaplin, and Michael Theilmann. Someone else will have to come up with a source for the footnotes; my source is family knowledge and literally not notable. Ab.chaplin (talk) 14:40, 22 May 2021 (UTC)

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Enemies, A Love Story

Enemies, A Love Story (Sonim, di geshikhte fun a libe) is a tragicomedy novel by Isaac Bashevis Singer first published serially in the Jewish Daily Forward on February 11, 1966. The English translation was published in 1972.

Plot summary
It's New York City, a few years after World War II. Herman Broder, a Jewish man who has lost his faith but still enjoys Talmudic scholarship, is married to a Polish woman named Yadwiga Pracz, not of Jewish origin, who had worked as a servant in his father's family in Poland and had kept Herman alive, during the Holocaust, by hiding him in a hayloft in her native village. Almost all Herman's family perished in the Holocaust, including, he believes, his first wife, Tamara, whom an eyewitness told him was shot, along with the couple's two children. Broder married Yadwiga after he received a visa for America, perhaps partly out of a sense of obligation. He brought her to Brooklyn, and in their apartment in Coney Island, she works diligently as a homemaker, learning how to cook such Jewish foods as matzo balls with borscht, carp's head, and challah, but although there are moments of tenderness between them, it isn't a happy union. He calls her a "peasant" to her face and mocks her wish to convert to Judaism. He has told her that he works as a book salesman and that he has to travel for his job up and down the Eastern seaboard, but in fact he works as a ghost-writer for a rabbi in Manhattan named Milton Lampert, who's a showboat and a schemer, and the nights that Yadwiga thinks he's on the road, he is in fact spending in the Bronx, where he pays rent on a second apartment for his mistress, Masha, who is a concentration camp survivor, and her mother, a pious woman named Shifrah Puah. Herman isolates himself from the larger Jewish community, in part because he is haunted by the Holocaust—he often daydreams about what it would be like to have to live for years in whatever room he happens to be in—in part because he is ashamed of his somewhat disreputable line of work, and in part because he wants to hide his double life with Yadwiga and Masha. That romantic arrangement becomes even more complicated when Herman reads his name in a classified ad in a Yiddish newspaper, answers it, and learns that Tamara is alive and in New York City. The comedy of the novel consists in Herman's doomed attempts to keep his three wives from knowing about one another; the tragedy is in the inability of Herman and other characters to make the accommodations and compromises that would reconcile them to their survival.

Critical reception
The New York Times wrote that "Singer's marvelously pointed humor has turned black and bitter, the sex is flat, and there is little irony or selfconsciousness," and condemned Enemies as "a bleak, obsessive novel that offers neither release nor hope." The Times Literary Supplement (London), on the other hand, praised the novel's "larger moral subtleties" and considered it "a fine addition to a legendary body of work," and the New York Review of Books, after noting that Enemies was "a religious novel in its way," wrote that the book "adds to invention, wit, and observation the sympathetic imagination of a writer of genius and an understanding of the important but cruelly narrow possibilities of this world."

Adaptations
The book was adapted for the theater by Sarah Schulman and premiered at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia in 2007.

An eponymous film, based on the book and directed by Paul Mazursky, was released in 1989.

The novel was adapted as an opera by Ben Moore; it premiered at Palm Beach Opera in 2015.

In 2022, the originally serialized novel was released for the first time in book format in standard Yiddish by the Swedish publisher Olniansky Tekst Farlag. Mario Moishele Alfonso transcribed the whole book into standard Yiddish from online copies of the Forverts, and the book was edited by Emil Kalin and Nikolaj Olniansky.

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Friendship Sloop

The Friendship sloop, also known as a Muscongus Bay sloop or lobster sloop, is a gaff-rigged working boat design that originated in Friendship, Maine around 1880 and has survived as a traditional-style sailboat.

History
Fishermen in Friendship and neighboring Bremen collectively originated the boat's design, influenced in part, by the fishing sailboats of Gloucester, Massachusetts. The boat was used primarily for lobstering or local commerce. Boat builder Wilbur A. Morse was principle among five major Muscongus Bay builders that produced the design from the 1880s to the 1910s. From then until 1960 four major builders continued the tradition, three from the region.

One person could manage its single-masted rig and haul traps unassisted, yet the boat could carry sizable loads. With an open cockpit aft, and a small forward cabin outfitted with bunks and a stove, it made fishing during cold weather much less arduous than in an open boat. By 1900 these sloops ranged from 30-40 ft feet long along the deck and were used for bringing fish or lobsters from offshore vessels to processing plants.

In the 1900s the boats received auxiliary motors until 1920, when power boats supplanted them for commercial use. Thereafter, the fleet became available to those who adapted boats to become affordable sailing yachts.

Modern reproductions, both wooden and fiberglass, continue to be built. although the cockpits and interiors of such pleasure craft tend to be substantially different from the original workboats. The overall design and historical example of the type are preserved through the Friendship Sloop Society. The society holds annual races in Maine.

Design and classification
Friendship sloops typically have a clipper bow, a full keel, an elliptical stern and a bowsprit. The mast height is approximately equal to the length of the deck and stepped forward, such that the head sails are attached to the bowsprit. The hull typically has a full length keel, traditionally ballasted with rocks or more recently with steel. They are gaff-rigged, with a mainsail, a staysail and normally a jib. They may additionally have a topmast with a main topsail and jib topsail (flying jib). They have ranged from 19-50 ft feet along the deck; plans are available for such vessels up to 40 ft along the deck.

The Friendship Sloop Society initially classified the boats, as follows:

 * Class A – Original vessels
 * Class B – Replicas
 * Class C – Near replicas
 * Class D – Near replicas other than wood

In 1986, it combined classes B through D. The boats recognized as "one of a kind" outnumber those regarded as "semi-production". Races are held in two divisions for boats 25 ft or shorter on the deck (Division I) and those longer than that (Division II).

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Santo Santoro

Santo Santoro (born 27 April 1956) is an Australian former politician and a former deputy leader of the Liberal Party in Queensland. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1989 to 2001; and a member of the Australian Senate from 2002 to 2007, representing the state of Queensland. He resigned from John Howard's ministry and from the Senate in the wake of a number of breaches of the Ministerial Code of Conduct and of the Register of Senators' Interests. He now works as a lobbyist.

Early life
Born in Sicily, Italy in 1956, Santoro emigrated to Australia with his family at the age of 5. He was educated at Marist College Rosalie in Brisbane before attending the University of Queensland, where he was awarded the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Economics with honours.

Queensland state politics
Santoro was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Queensland as Liberal member for Merthyr in Brisbane from 13 May 1989 until 19 September 1992. He was then elected as member for Clayfield from 19 September 1992 until he was defeated on 17 February 2001 by Liddy Clark. From 26 February 1996 to 26 June 1998, he was the State Minister for Training and Industrial Relations.

He was also the deputy leader of the State Liberal Party from 1992 to 1995.

Australian Senate
On 29 October 2002, Santoro was selected by the Queensland Parliament to replace Liberal Party of Australia Senator John Herron, who had resigned from the Senate to become Australia's Ambassador to Ireland.

As a senator, Santoro was a strident critic of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, using parliamentary privilege in 2003 to accuse the national broadcaster of "sloppy and shoddy" journalism, and disloyalty to Australian soldiers serving in Iraq, after an internal memo to ABC news staff instructed them to refrain from referring to soldiers as "our troops".

Santoro was sworn in as Federal Minister for Ageing in John Howard's government on 27 January 2006.

Share trading scandal and resignation
On 14 March 2007, Senator Santoro disclosed that he had breached the government's ministerial code of conduct by holding shares in CBio, a biotechnology company related to his portfolio. Santoro claimed he had received the shares in January 2006, had failed to declare or divest them when he became Minister for Ageing, until he sold them in January 2007 after realising three months earlier that there might be a conflict of interest. Initially Prime Minister John Howard and other government ministers defended the breach on the grounds that it was inadvertent.

On 20 March, Santoro announced he would resign from the Senate, and federal politics altogether. This meant that he had served as a Commonwealth Minister without ever facing election. He was replaced in the Senate by Sue Boyce.

Later career
Santo Santoro was federal Liberal Party vice-president until resigning in 2014 when he was forced to choose between that and being a paid lobbyist. He owns Santo Santoro Consulting and is registered as a lobbyist on both the Queensland and federal registers.

In 2010 it was reported that Santoro was considering a run for Italian politics.

However his move into Italian politics never eventuated.

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DSL modem

A digital subscriber line (DSL) modem is a device used to connect a computer or router to a telephone line which provides the digital subscriber line (DSL) service for connection to the Internet, which is often called DSL broadband. The modem connects to a single computer or router, through an Ethernet port, USB port, or is installed in a computer PCI slot.

The more common DSL router is a standalone device that combines the function of a DSL modem and a router, and can connect multiple computers through multiple Ethernet ports or an integral wireless access point. Also called a residential gateway, a DSL router usually manages the connection and sharing of the DSL service in a home or small office network.

Different DSL routers and modems support different DSL technology variants: VDSL, SDSL, and ADSL.

Description
A DSL router consists of a box with an RJ11 jack to connect to a standard subscriber telephone line. It has several RJ45 jacks for Ethernet cables to connect it to computers or printers, creating a local network. It usually also has a USB jack which can be used to connect to computers via a USB cable, to allow connection to computers without an Ethernet port. A wireless DSL router also has antennas to allow it to act as a wireless access point, so computers can connect to it forming a wireless network. Power is usually supplied by a cord from a wall wart transformer.

It usually has a series of LED status lights which show the status of parts of the DSL communications link:
 * Power light - indicates that the modem is turned on and has power
 * Ethernet lights - there is usually a light over each Ethernet jack; a steady (or sometimes flashing) light indicates that the Ethernet link to that computer or device is functioning
 * DSL light - a steady light indicates that the modem has established contact with the equipment in the local telephone exchange (DSLAM) so the DSL link over the telephone line is functioning; newer modems that support ADSL2+ bonding will have one light for each line
 * Internet light - a steady light indicates that the IP address and DHCP protocol are initialized and working, so the system is connected to the Internet
 * Wireless light - (only in wireless DSL modems) indicates that the wireless network is initialized and working

Many routers provide an internal web page to the local network for device configuration and status reporting. Most DSL routers are designed to be installed by the customer for which a CD or DVD containing an installation program is supplied. The program may also activate the DSL service. Upon powering the router it may take several minutes for the local network and DSL link to initialize, usually indicated by the status lights turning green. There are also PCI DSL modems, which plug into an available PCI card slot on a computer.

DSL concept
The public switched telephone network, the network of switching centers, trunk lines, amplifiers and switches which transmits telephone calls from one phone to another, is designed to carry voice frequency signals, and is therefore limited to a bandwidth of 3.4 kHz. Before DSL, voice-band modems transmitted information through the telephone network with audio frequencies within that bandwidth, which limited them to a data rate of about 56 kbit/s. However, the copper wires that connect telephones with the local switching center (telephone exchange), called the subscriber loop, are actually able to carry a much wider band of frequencies, up to several megahertz. This capacity is unused in normal phone service. DSL uses these higher frequencies to send digital data between the DSL modem and the local switching center, without interfering with normal telephone service. At the local switching center the data is transferred directly between the customer's phone line and internet lines, so DSL signals do not travel through the telephone network itself. It is not necessary to dial a telephone number to initiate a connection; the DSL connection is "on" whenever the modem is on.

Data transmission
The device at the local switching center which communicates with the DSL modem is called a Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer (DSLAM), which is connected directly to the Internet. The local switching center must be equipped with these devices to offer DSL service.

With ADSL, the modem and the DSLAM communicate by a protocol called discrete multitone modulation (DMT), which is a form of frequency division multiplexing. The modem only uses frequencies above 8 kHz, to avoid interfering with normal phone service. The bandwidth of the line between 8 kHz and about 1 MHz is divided into 247 separate channels, each 4 kHz wide. A separate carrier signal carries information in each channel. Thus the system acts like 247 separate modems operating simultaneously. The bits of the incoming digital data are split up and sent in parallel over the channels. Each data stream is sent using an error-correcting code to allow minor bit errors due to noise to be corrected at the receiving end. Most of the channels are unidirectional, carrying download data from the DSLAM to the modem, but some on the low frequency end are bidirectional, to carry the smaller quantity of upload traffic. The modem constantly monitors the transmission quality on each channel, and if it is too impaired it will shift the signal to other channels. The modem is constantly shifting data between channels searching for the best transmission rates. Thus interference or poor quality lines will generally not interrupt transmission, but only cause the data rate of the modem to degrade.

For example, when downloading a web page, the packets of web page data travel over optical fiber Internet lines from the server computer directly to the DSLAM at the neighborhood telephone exchange. At the DSLAM they are split into as many as 247 parallel data streams. Each is modulated onto a separate carrier signal and sent through a separate frequency channel over the subscriber's telephone line to the DSL modem. The modem demodulates the carrier, extracting the data stream from each carrier signal, performs error correction, puts the data together again in the proper order, and sends it to the computer over the Ethernet line, or for a wireless (Wi-Fi) network by radio signals.

Data rates and access
Most consumer DSL lines use one of several varieties of Asymmetric DSL (ADSL). The "asymmetric" means that more of the bandwidth of the line is dedicated to downstream (download) data than upstream (upload) data, so, download rates are faster than upload rates, because most users download much larger quantities of data than they upload. Because the telephone lines were never designed to carry such high frequency signals, DSL is distance-sensitive. The farther away from the switching center the modem is, the longer the telephone wires, the weaker the signal, and the lower the data rate that the modem can achieve. Users in cities, close to switching centers, may have access to higher rate service, up to 24 Mbit/s. The distance limit for ADSL is 18 000 feet (5.5 km or 3.4 miles). However, other devices installed in telephone lines by the phone company, such as loading coils and bridge taps, block the signal, and may disqualify a given phone line from DSL service.

Filters
To prevent the DSL signal from entering the phone lines into telephones, answering machines, faxes and other devices where it could cause interference, DSL modems come with low pass filters which must be plugged into the phone lines going to all voiceband devices on the same line. The filter blocks all frequencies above 4 kHz, so it blocks the DSL signal while allowing voice frequency signals through. A filter must not be inserted in the phone line going to the DSL modem, because it would block the communication between the modem and switching center.

Comparison to voice-band modems
A DSL modem modulates high-frequency tones for transmission to a digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM), and receives and demodulates them from the DSLAM. It serves fundamentally the same purpose as the voice-band modem that was a mainstay in the late 20th century, but differs from it in important ways.

 * DSL modems transfer data at a rate which is at least 10 to 20 times that of a voice-band modem.
 * DSL does not interfere with normal telephone calls on the telephone line, and does not require dialing a telephone number to initiate a connection, it is always "on". A voice-band modem dials a telephone number to initiate a connection, and while it is connected the telephone line cannot be used for normal telephone service.
 * DSL routers, the most common form of DSL modem, are external to the computer and wired to the computer's Ethernet port or its USB port, whereas voice-band modems are usually internal devices installed in the computer itself in a PCI interface slot in the back. Internal DSL modems are rare but available.
 * Microsoft Windows and other operating systems regard voice-band modems as part of the hardware of the computer, and similarly to other parts of the computer's hardware such as the mouse or hard disk are configured through the Windows Control Panel. In contrast, DSL routers are regarded as separate nodes in the LAN (local area network). DSL modems rarely require manual configuration or attention, but when they do they can be accessed using the internet browser. Routers usually have a webpage, accessed by typing an IP address given in the router's manual into the browser's address bar, with which various technical changes can be made, such as changing the wireless network's password, and adjusting the router's firewall.
 * For external DSL modems connected by USB, Microsoft Windows and other operating systems generally recognize these as a Network interface controller.
 * For internal DSL modems, Microsoft Windows and other operating systems provide interfaces similar to those provided for voice-band modems. This is based on the assumption that in the future, as CPU speeds increase, internal DSL modems may become more mainstream.
 * DSL modems use frequencies from 25 kHz to above 1 MHz (see Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line), in order not to interfere with voice service which is primarily 0–4 kHz. Voice-band modems use the same frequency spectrum as ordinary telephones, and will interfere with voice service - it is usually impossible to make a telephone call on a line which is being used by a voice-band modem. Because a single phone line commonly carries DSL and voice, DSL filters are used to separate the two uses.
 * DSL modems vary in data speed from hundreds of kilobits per second to many megabits, while voice-band modems are nominally 56K modems and actually limited to approximately 50 kbit/s.
 * DSL modems exchange data with only the DSLAM to which they are wired, which in turn connects them to the Internet, while most voice-band modems can dial directly anywhere in the world.
 * DSL modems are intended for particular protocols and sometimes won't work on another line even from the same company, while most voice-band modems use international standards and can "fall back" to find a standard that will work.

Most of these differences are of little interest to consumers, except the greater speed of DSL and the ability to use the telephone even when the computer is online.

Hardware components

As technology advances, functions that are provided by multiple chips can be integrated onto one chip. Higher levels of integration have benefited DSL just as they benefited other computer hardware. A DSL modem requires the following for its operation; exactly what is on the circuit card and how it is arranged can change as technology improves:

 * Power supply
 * Data connection and power circuitry (for example, USB, Ethernet, PCI)
 * DSL digital data pump
 * DSL analog chip and line driver
 * Microcontroller
 * Filter

Service features
Apart from connecting to a DSL service, many modems offer additional integrated features, forming a residential gateway:
 * An 802.11n or 802.11ac wireless access point
 * DNS (Domain Name System) caching, a relay or proxy DNS cache which queries DNS servers on the Internet
 * Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server
 * Router functionality that includes Network Address Translation (NAT) to share a single IPv4 address.
 * A built-in switch (typically 4 ports)
 * Voice over Internet Protocol functionality including quality of service (priority control for data flows between users)
 * Virtual Private Network termination

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Talk:Gomery Commission

The True Powers of the Gomery Commission

This is a preventative strike here; there has been a serious misrepresentation of what the Gomery Commission can do. The media and the Liberals have been saying time and time again; “Let Gomery get to the bottom of things”. The impression they have given, one that alas the majority of Canadians have bought into, is that Gomery has the power to name names, to identify who was responsible for the sponsorship fraud. In fact, Gomery has no such power. Gomery’s mandate is not to identify who was responsible for the fraud; his only mandate is to identify if there were any “problems” with the sponsorship program, and if there were, to suggest recommendations to ensure that none of these problems emerge again, all without naming names. Even Scott Brison has admitted “Gomery is on a fact-finding mission” and nothing more. Unfortunately, Mr. Brison and the rest of Liberals have usually not been this honest, giving Canadians the distinct impression that Gomery is on something more then a fact-finding mission.

Gomery can say that there were “problems” with the sponsorship program; what has mandate prevents him from doing to naming who was responsible for these “problems”. However, because the majority of Canadians believe that Gomery has the power to name names, when he issues his report and does not name names, the Paul Martin and the rest of the Liberals will no doubt try to spin it that this proves that they had no involvement with the sponsorship fraud, that this entire multi-million fraud was all the work of a rogue bureaucrats and advertising agencies heads, that the Liberals were the hapless and unknowing victims of this colossal fraud committed by a few middle-ranking civil servants. And no doubt, some Liberal supporter or someone has bought into the spin, will try to say here that the Gomery Commission has “cleared” the Liberals of any involvement of the sponsorship scandal since it didn’t name names. For the reasons I have just explained here, such an interpretation is total nonsense. If Gomery had the power to name names, and he didn’t name any senior Liberal as being involved, then I might say that the view that Gomery has “cleared” the Liberals might have something to it. But as it is, Gomery doesn’t have the power to name names; so when he issues his report and does not name names; please remember this is not because Gomery didn’t find any evidence that the Liberals were involved, but only because Section IV, clause I of the Inquiries Act prevents him from saying so. A.S. Brown 05:28, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

 * So ... why, then, is the first report titled, "Who is Responsible"? --142.242.2.248 19:46, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
 * just a clarification: Gomery can assign blame, but he cannot offer any "conclusion or recommendation regarding the civil or criminal liability of any person or organization". In other words, he can assign blame, as it would be difficult to uncover what occured without naming individuals involved, but he cannot say that these individuals should be charged or punished or recommend any punitive action against them.

Some questions about the First Report section
The statement: "such abuses would not have been possible had Chrétien set the program up in the first place", doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to me. Could someone review it?

Also, the assertion that the government seems unlikely to fall before the final report is tabled seems POV. Anything could happen in a minority government, the likelihood of anything happening ir not is a matter of opinion. Feets 21:14, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
 * That statement about abuses is a bad statement. I wrote it and I can barely tell what I mean. I'll review it straight away. And I would argue that, as a) the opposition basically has to topple the government this week in order to avoid a Christmas election, b) nobody wants a Christmas election right now, c) the New Democrats seem likely to prop the government up anyway if the government implements some of their policy, d) by the time the House can convene after Christmas, it'll be close enough to the final report that they may as well wait for the thing, it's quite likely that the government will survive until Gomery gets his final report out. Lord Bob 21:30, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Someone fixed the statement for me. Problem solved. :) Lord Bob 21:34, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Groovy. You're probably right about the election business, too.  I struck my previous concerns. Feets 22:00, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

Adding a new link for "Gomery Report"
It took me quite a few click to find "the Gomery Report." I'm not too familiar how to do so, but perhaps we could add a link so it would be easy to find, in the search engine for wiki, "Gomery Report." Perhaps making a new page called Gomery Report and then redirecting to the article in this page? --CyclePat 17:17, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I took the honour of adding a new page called "gomery report" and redirecting it to here.--CyclePat 17:39, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

The Mandate section
The information under the Mandate heading seems to be false, or misleading, considering the scope of Gomery's first report .. --142.242.2.248 23:22, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I think it was a mistaken assumption by the National Post that the contributer put in. I have replaced it with a more general comment on the mandate.  I did leave the previous submission as a comment as it my be worth trying to fix it and reintegrate it back in.  -- Webgeer 21:07, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

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Richard Pine-Coffin

Colonel Richard Geoffrey Pine-Coffin, (2 December 1908 – 28 February 1974) was an officer of the British Army who saw service during the Second World War. He commanded the 3rd Parachute Battalion in North Africa and the 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion in Normandy, Belgium and Germany. His troops, amused by the unusual applicability of his family name (soldiers were usually buried in simple pine wood coffins), referred to him as "Wooden Box".

Early life
Born to John Edward Pine-Coffin and Louise Pine-Coffin at Portledge, the Pine-Coffin family estate in Devon, he was one of six siblings, of which a brother named John was the youngest. He was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. His family had a long tradition of serving in the British armed forces; his father, a brevet major in the British Army, served with the mounted infantry in the Second Boer War (gaining the Distinguished Service Order) and died in 1919, while his uncle, Lieutenant Tristram James Pine-Coffin, served in the First World War and died in northwestern Russia in 1919.

During the Second World War, R. G. Pine-Coffin's older brother, E. C. Pine-Coffin, known as Claude to his family and friends, served in Malaya as a lieutenant colonel in the British Indian Army and was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in February 1942. Unlike many prisoners of war captured by the Japanese, Claude survived. R. G. himself had been commissioned into his local infantry regiment, the Devonshire Regiment, as a second lieutenant in 1928. He was promoted lieutenant in 1931, and captain in 1938. He was promoted major (war substantive) shortly after the beginning of the Second World War.

Geoffrey and one of his sisters, Gwen were very close and shared a love of cars, as a result of which they kept a large collection of sports cars between them. The two maintained constant correspondence even after Gwen moved to South Africa, where she contracted tuberculosis of the bone and had her leg amputated at the hip.

North Africa
After the 2nd Parachute Battalion was formed on 30 September 1941, Pine-Coffin was attached from the Devons to the battalion. He subsequently moved to the 3rd Parachute Battalion in 1942 as second-in-command. He later became its commanding officer after becoming a temporary lieutenant-colonel.

After the Allied landings against Axis-occupied northwestern Africa in November 1942, the 1st Parachute Brigade was ordered to Algeria and the 3rd Battalion was sent ahead, landing in Algiers via Gibraltar. The battalion's first operation came on the morning of 12 November, when it was dropped over a strategically important airfield near Bóne by the US 64th Troop Carrier Group. They had landed just minutes before German paratroopers were able to carry out a similar operation, which was aborted after the presence of British paratroopers was realised. The only German opposition to the 3rd Battalion came from Ju 87 Stuka dive-bombers, which had little impact. The airfield was reinforced later in the day by commandos and Spitfires. Pine-Coffin's battalion was withdrawn days later.

The 3rd Battalion served in North Africa until the end of the campaign in 1943, notably at Bou Arada and Tamera. Pine-Coffin's actions during the campaign resulted in him being awarded the Military Cross.

Pine-Coffin's tenure as the 3rd Battalions' commanding officer ended when he was called back to Britain, at a time when the battalion was preparing to take part in the Allied airborne assault on Sicily. He was appointed commanding officer of the 7th (Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion (formerly the 10th Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry), which formed part of the 5th Parachute Brigade, 6th Airborne Division.

Normandy

With the 7th Battalion, Pine-Coffin played an important role in the 6th Airborne Division's airborne assault around the River Orne in the early hours of 6 June 1944. His battalion was tasked with reinforcing Major John Howard's 181-strong coup de main force, which had captured the Caen canal and Orne river bridges. The successful defence of these bridges was vital to 6th Airborne Division's objective of securing the Allied eastern flank. The bridges were to be held until relieved later on in the day following the Allied amphibious landings.

Pine-Coffin dropped with his battalion at 00:50; they began to arrive at the bridges at about 01:40, taking up positions in Bénouville and Le Port, west of Caen Canal. With 7th Battalion's arrival, Pine-Coffin succeeded Major Howard to command of the bridges' defence. The 5th Parachute Brigade's position was precarious; 7th Battalion had been scattered and could only muster about 40% of its strength, while the 12th Battalion was in a similar situation at Ranville, east of the Orne. Pine-Coffin's battalion came under sustained attack by the 716th Infantry Division and elements of the 21st Panzer Division but they, with difficulty, held their positions. The first relief for the beleaguered troops came at about 13:30, when elements of Lord Lovat's 1st Special Service Brigade arrived from Sword Beach and crossed the bridges to reinforce the Ranville positions. The 7th Battalion's own relief would not begin until the arrival of the 3rd Infantry Division's 2nd Royal Warwickshire Regiment at 21:15.

The 7th Battalion was moved to positions east of the Orne when their withdrawal from the bridges was completed. After a German assault by the 346th Infantry Division was driven off on 10 June, Pine-Coffin was ordered to plan for an operation to take the Le Mariquet woods, which the remnants of the German attacking force had retreated into. Just two of the 7th battalion's companies were present, but they were, with support from tanks, successful in taking the woods, and captured up to 100 soldiers. The 7th Battalion would continue to be engaged in bloody defensive battles in the area until the Allied breakout and advance to the Seine in August. Despite concerns by Pine-Coffin that his battalion was greatly fatigued, the 7th Battalion maintained its involvement in the intense Allied advance. Finally, in mid-September, the 6th Airborne Division was withdrawn back to Britain to recuperate and reorganise.

Pine-Coffin was one of many soldiers awarded medals for their service in Normandy; he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) for his command of the Caen Canal bridge's defence on 6 June.

Belgium and Germany
After Germany launched its Ardennes Offensive in December, the 6th Airborne Division was rushed to Belgium to reinforce the Allied defence. Pine-Coffin's battalion and most of the division had only limited involvement (compared to US forces) and, after Germany's offensive was defeated in January, were withdrawn to the Netherlands and thence to Britain in February 1945.

The 7th Battalion next saw active service in the Allied airborne assault over the Rhine on 24 March 1945. Pine-Coffin was awarded a Bar to his DSO for the important role he played in the success of the operation, which was the 7th Battalion's last parachute jump of the war. His battalion's objective was to seize and hold positions near Hamminkeln, to act as a covering force for the rest of 5th Brigade in its advance on the main objectives. The battalion was the last of its brigade to make the drop, doing so whilst subject to fierce German attack from flak and other ground forces.

During heavy fighting to take the battalion's objectives, Pine-Coffin sustained serious wounds to his face; he refused to leave for treatment and continued to move around his battalion's positions encouraging his men. He was (according to the citation for the bar to his DSO) instrumental in rallying his battalion to hold out against German counter-attacks, which played a pivotal role in the successful completion of the Brigade's main objectives. The 7th Battalion was subsequently withdrawn to 5th Brigade's main positions. The battalion ended its war with the rest of the division at the Baltic port of Wismar, in May 1945.

Later life
In August 1945 Pine-Coffin was promoted to substantive major; he continued to command the 7th Battalion as a temporary lieutenant-colonel, serving in the Far East and Palestine, until he left them in 1947. He was Mentioned in Despatches for service in Burma in 1946. He was promoted to the substantive rank of lieutenant colonel on 3 July 1948, and took command of the 1st Battalion, The Devonshire Regiment in Malaya. Pine-Coffin commanded the battalion through the early stages of the Malayan Emergency and oversaw its move to Colchester in February 1951. He received a further Mention in Despatches for his Malayan service.

Pine-Coffin left the Devons soon after, returning to the Parachute Regiment as its regimental colonel and commander of Depot The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces, a post he held from 1952 to 1955. He then became commandant of the Army MT School and garrison commander at Bordon. He retired on 20 December 1958 and was granted the honorary rank of colonel with reserve liability (which expired in 1963). He died on 28 February 1974, in the Royal Naval Hospital Haslar, survived by his son Peter.

Pine-Coffin's Second World War diaries were the basis for the 2003 book The Tale of Two Bridges, adapted by Barbara Maddox and self-published by his son, Peter Pine-Coffin.

Personal life
Between his time with the army, Richard married Joan Godfrey, who gave birth to their son, Peter Pine Coffin in 1939 whilst the family was stationed in India. In 1944, Joan died of meningitis, and so five-year-old Peter was sent to live with his Aunt Kay who raised him until the end of the world war. In addition to this, Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Pine-Coffin was very tall and insisted on wearing cowboy boots during combat, making him easily recognisable to his fellow Allied soldiers in Normandy.

Another relative, Sgt Geoffrey Tristam Pine-Coffin (RAF/568487) was killed on 13/14 July 1943, serving as a flight engineer with 102 Squadron on an operational bombing raid to Aachen.

Honours and awards
Richard Pine-Coffin's ribbons as they would appear today.

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Direct navigation

Direct navigation describes the method individuals use to navigate the World Wide Web in order to arrive at specific websites. Direct navigation is a 10-year-old term which is generally understood to include type-in traffic.

Direct navigation traffic was first discovered circa 1996. The few lucky domainers who had premium names and analyzed their traffic found people were typing in their domain names and bypassing search engines. Many of them immediately realized the potential of these domain names. At that time the direct navigation segment of the World Wide Web was born.

Domainers describe direct navigation as an Internet user navigating to a website directly through the browser address bar. They bypass online search engines by typing a name like "hotels" and adding ".com". For that reason direct navigation traffic is more valuable than search engine traffic since it is better targeted. Short words that describe large segments of a market are the most valuable direct navigation names. Domainers call these names premium names and they have sold in the millions of dollars year after year since 1997.

Marketers also include bookmarked traffic in the direct navigation group. Domainers do not consider bookmarked traffic as direct navigation since in most cases they do not involve a direct navigation premium domain name. A bookmark is made when an internet user actively adds a URL to their list of bookmarked pages. This is very different from using the browser address line to navigate to a premium domain name like hotels.com. Hence the inclusion of bookmarked traffic is not included in the domainer's version of the direct navigation market.

A 2005 study of Internet traffic by WebSideStory's StatMarket division revealed that direct navigation traffic such as browser type-in traffic, bookmarks of existing sites, and visits to existing, known website domain names converts into sales for advertisers at 4.23% of total visits compared to 2.3% for product and service related searches performed via the search box at search engines such as Google and Yahoo.

In September, 2008, the first direct navigation search engine, ubexact.com was released. In addition to providing results by type in traffic, the search engine utilized new proprietary technology that was able to provide in context search results from one URL to the next URL.

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Western Sea

Western Sea may refer to:

 * Admiral of the Western Seas, Zheng He, of the Ming Dynasty of China
 * Qinghai lake, amongst the Chinese "four seas"
 * USS Western Sea, a U.S. Navy ship name
 * USS Western Sea, a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919
 * SS Western Sea, a steam cargo ship built in 1918 and scrapped in 1931
 * 2010 Western Sea conflict, in Korea's Western Sea, the Yellow Sea

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The True Powers of the Gomery Commission

This is a preventative strike here; there has been a serious misrepresentation of what the Gomery Commission can do. The media and the Liberals have been saying time and time again; “Let Gomery get to the bottom of things”. The impression they have given, one that alas the majority of Canadians have bought into, is that Gomery has the power to name names, to identify who was responsible for the sponsorship fraud. In fact, Gomery has no such power. Gomery’s mandate is not to identify who was responsible for the fraud; his only mandate is to identify if there were any “problems” with the sponsorship program, and if there were, to suggest recommendations to ensure that none of these problems emerge again, all without naming names. Even Scott Brison has admitted “Gomery is on a fact-finding mission” and nothing more. Unfortunately, Mr. Brison and the rest of Liberals have usually not been this honest, giving Canadians the distinct impression that Gomery is on something more then a fact-finding mission.

Gomery can say that there were “problems” with the sponsorship program; what has mandate prevents him from doing to naming who was responsible for these “problems”. However, because the majority of Canadians believe that Gomery has the power to name names, when he issues his report and does not name names, the Paul Martin and the rest of the Liberals will no doubt try to spin it that this proves that they had no involvement with the sponsorship fraud, that this entire multi-million fraud was all the work of a rogue bureaucrats and advertising agencies heads, that the Liberals were the hapless and unknowing victims of this colossal fraud committed by a few middle-ranking civil servants. And no doubt, some Liberal supporter or someone has bought into the spin, will try to say here that the Gomery Commission has “cleared” the Liberals of any involvement of the sponsorship scandal since it didn’t name names. For the reasons I have just explained here, such an interpretation is total nonsense. If Gomery had the power to name names, and he didn’t name any senior Liberal as being involved, then I might say that the view that Gomery has “cleared” the Liberals might have something to it. But as it is, Gomery doesn’t have the power to name names; so when he issues his report and does not name names; please remember this is not because Gomery didn’t find any evidence that the Liberals were involved, but only because Section IV, clause I of the Inquiries Act prevents him from saying so. A.S. Brown 05:32, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

 * That's an interesting point of view, but from his initial report it seems fairly obvious that he can name names, he simply has no ability to pass legal judgement. The political damage he could inflict on people he deems guilty, even without legal damage, is quite potent.-- Scïmïłar  parley 23:19, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

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The first sentence of the second paragraph makes no sense. User:Zoe|(talk) 18:56, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

OK, I went back through the history to find a good sentence and replaced it. User:Zoe|(talk) 18:59, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

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Mick Leahy (explorer)

Michael James Leahy MBE (26 February 1901 – 7 March 1979) was an Australian explorer and gold prospector, famed for his exploration of the Highlands area of Papua New Guinea. He photographed, filmed and published many of his explorations widely.

Early life
Leahy was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, the fourth of nine children of Irish migrants Daniel Leahy, a railway guard, and his wife Ellen, née Stone. After an education at the Christian Brothers' College in Toowoomba, Leahy initially worked as a railway clerk before leaving to become a freelance timber cutter. He abandoned this in 1926 upon hearing about the Edie Creek gold strike in New Guinea. He was soon followed to New Guinea by his brothers Paddy, Jim and Danny, while another brother, Tom, remained in Toowoomba.

After suffering from an almost fatal bout of malaria upon trying to reach the gold fields, Leahy instead took a construction and labour management job.

Explorer
Mick Leahy with Mick Dwyer walked across New Guinea in 1930 and disproved the prevailing opinion that the interior of the island was unpopulated. In 1931, together with his brother Patrick, he explored the Kukukuku land.

Mick and his brother Danny were leaders of the 1933 expedition into the Western Highlands. He also made two pioneering airplane flights into the western highlands, discovering the Wahgi Valley, taking thousands of photographs and movie film.

He was one of the first Europeans to reach and climb the country's second tallest mountain – Mount Giluwe (1934). However, Jack Hides had also laid claim to be the first to discover Mount Giluwe, so Leahy went to England in 1935 and forced the Royal Geographical Society to set up a hearing into the two opposing claims. The following year Leahy was awarded the Murchison Award by the Society and published his discoveries in their journal.

Leahy believed in his right to go anywhere in New Guinea, in pursuit of gold, and he was accorded the right to penetrate the Highlands by the Administration. His diaries record that he and his party were responsible for 41 deaths between 1930 and 1934. In 1936, revelations of these deaths led to an inquiry, led by ADO (Assistant District Officer) Jim Taylor. He concluded that Leahy had acted in self-defence, and viewed such deaths as inevitable if prospectors were afforded the right to explore territories beyond the control of the colonial authorities.

During the Second World War he joined the Royal Australian Air Force as a flight lieutenant and was assigned to the US chief engineer to build an airstrip in Telefomin. For his services during the war Leahy was awarded the US Medal of Freedom with bronze palm in 1948, appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1952 and made an honorary member of the Explorers Club in 1959.

The 1983 award-winning documentary film 'First Contact' is about the exploration of the Wahgi Valley and Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea based on much of Leahy's footage.

He died at Zenag in Morobe Province, in 1979.

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Bill Switzer

William Ashton Switzer (born March 28, 1984) is an American-Canadian voice, film, and television actor. He is known for his work on the animated television series Mummies Alive! He had a leading role in Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension and he also performed in Sabrina: The Animated Series. While he has voiced several roles in anime, he was also Philthy from MythQuest and the voice of Harvey Kinkle from Sabrina: The Animated Series and Sam "Cannonball" Guthrie from X-Men: Evolution. He also voiced Billy's former friend Nick in the second season of Billy the Cat which he took over from Lee Tockar who also wrote one episode of the show.

Career
Switzer attended his first audition and won his first role, in a Shari Lewis special, when he was a teenager. He voices the lead character; Presley Carnavon in the television show Mummies Alive!

Switzer was nominated for a Young Artist Award for The Christmas List (1997).

Switzer was noticed for his starring role in Mr. Rice's Secret (2000), in which he played a young cancer patient. He was in almost every scene of the film. Elvis Mitchell of the New York Times wrote, "In the leading role, Mr. Switzer is fine as Owen, especially given that he has to spend a great deal of time talking to himself". The Vancouver Province wrote, "[T]here's an appealing freshness to the young cast of this Vancouver-filmed movie, especially Switzer in the lead role".

He had a leading role in the television show Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension.

Switzer was reported to be directing a short film at age 17.

Personal life
Switzer, who lived in Tsawwassen at the time Mr. Rice's Secret was in production, was reported to be a good swimmer and baseball player in his youth. He learned to ride a horse for his guest role in The Adventures of Shirley Holmes.

Film

 * Mail to the Chief – Kenny Witkowski
 * Cheats – Garret
 * The Dinosaur Hunter – Daniel
 * When Danger Follows You Home – Andrew Werden
 * Locked in Silence – John
 * The Right Connections – Gary Fleming
 * The Christmas List – Danny Skyler
 * A Call to Remember – Sandy Halper
 * The Life – Jason
 * Mr. Rice's Secret – Owen Walters
 * Death Note – Sasaki (voice)

Television

 * The Adventures of Shirley Holmes – Matt
 * Cold Squad – Stewart
 * Dead Man's Gun – JoJo
 * The Dead Zone – Doug Hirsh
 * Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension – Mitchell Taylor
 * First Wave – Nick Patterson
 * MythQuest – Philthy
 * Scorn – David
 * The Sentinel – Edward Lazar

Anime roles

 * Mobile Suit Gundam SEED – Sai Argyle
 * Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack – Hathaway Noah
 * Zoids: New Century Zero – Jamie Hemeros, Lineback
 * Cardcaptors – Eli Moon
 * MegaMan NT Warrior – Chaud Blaze
 * Infinite Ryvius – Ikumi Oze
 * Ranma ½ – Harumaki's Grandson
 * Master Keaton – Shinsuke Yunase
 * Dragon Drive – Ichiro Sumishiba
 * Trouble Chocolate – Boy with Card, Raisin
 * Boys Over Flowers – Junpei Oribe

Voice Work

 * Billy the Cat – Nick (Season 2)
 * Extreme Dinosaurs – Additional Voices
 * Greatest Heroes and Legends of the Bible – Various characters
 * Mama, Do You Love Me? – Sam and Rascal
 * Milo's Bug Quest
 * Mummies Alive! – Presley Carnavon
 * Rainbow Fish – Stingo
 * Sabrina: The Animated Series – Harvey Kinkle
 * Silverwing – Shade
 * X-Men: Evolution – Sam "Cannonball" Guthrie

Video games

 * Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space – Kou Uraki
 * Mobile Suit Gundam SEED: Never Ending Tomorrow – Sai Argyle
 * Sabrina: The Animated Series: Magical Adventure – Harvey Kinkle

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Attornment

Attornment (from French tourner, "to turn"), in English real property law, is the acknowledgment of a new lord by the tenant on the alienation of land. Under the feudal system, the relations of landlord and tenant were to a certain extent reciprocal. So it was considered unreasonable to the tenant to subject him to a new lord without his own approval, and it thus came about that alienation could not take place without the consent of the tenant. Attornment was also extended to all cases of lessees for life or for years. The necessity for attornment was abolished by the Administration of Justice Act 1705.

In mortgages, an attornment clause is a clause whereby the mortgagor attorns tenant to the mortgagee, thus giving the mortgagee the right to distrain, as an additional security. As used in modern legal transactions, the term attornment refers to an acknowledgment of the existence of the relationship of landlord and tenant. A tenant often has the duty under the tenant's lease, particularly in commercial leases, to provide an attornment upon request, and is required by a creditor or potential buyer of property from the landlord to establish the nature of existing encumbrances on and income streams flowing from a property, as an element of the due diligence process associated with the transaction. Frequently, a tenant must declare the existence of any outstanding disputes with the landlord at the time the attornment is executed and waives any dispute not declared at that time.

A request for an attornment from a tenant which is refused can be used by a landlord as a basis for establishing grounds for eviction on the grounds of insecurity that the lease will be honored, or the existence of an actual case or controversy suitable for resolution in a declaratory judgment action.

Attornment in commercial real estate is generally used in the context of a subordination, non-disturbance and attornment agreement (SNDA), which protects both the tenant and the lender in the event the landlord defaults on its commercial lending obligations. The lease remains in full force and effect.

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Ablach

Ablach may refer to:

 * Ablach (Danube), a right tributary of the Danube in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
 * Ablach (Krauchenwies), a village part of Krauchenwies, a municipality in the district of Sigmaringen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany
 * Emain Ablach, a mythical island paradise in Irish mythology

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Vicia pyrenaica

Vicia pyrenaica, known as Pyrenean vetch, is a species of flowering plant in the bean family Fabaceae. It is grown as an ornamental and is a hardy perennial with compact foliage that produces deep crimson flowers in Summer.

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Alloway Creek

Alloway Creek is a 23.2 mi tributary of the Delaware River in Salem County, New Jersey in the United States. The name is a derivative of Allowas, an Indian chief. It has also been known by other names: Aloes River, Aloes Creek, Cotton River, Korten River, Short River, Monmouth River, Munmouth River, and Roiter's River.

The headwaters of the creek are to the southeast of Daretown, in Upper Pittsgrove Township. It flows roughly parallel and to the south of Commissioners Pike, meeting Cool Run before turning west and flowing under the pike. Entering a marshy area, it meets an unnamed tributary and flows under Alloway Road. Here the creek enters Alloway Lake, formed by a dam at the town of Alloway and the largest lake in Salem County. Cedar Brook also feeds the lake, entering from the south.

Below the dam at Alloway, the creek becomes a tidal marsh and meadow estuary. About a mile west of the dam, Deep Run enters from the south. The meanders of the creek become pronounced as the creek turns to flow southwest towards Quinton, where it receives the outlet of Laurel Lake, the water supply for Salem. Route 49 crosses the creek at Quinton. Below Hancock's Bridge, the creek enters the marshes fringing the Delaware. A network of estuarine channels known as Abbotts Meadow lies on the north side. On the south side, a channel has been cut across a meander; Alloway Hope Halfway, a tidal channel connecting with Hope Creek, enters the south side of the meander loop there. The island in the middle of the loop and the land on the south bank from the meander to the mouth are part of Mad Horse Creek Wildlife Management Area.

The Alloway Creek watershed is 75 sqmi, accounting for about 20% of Salem County land area, and providing a habitat essential for commercial and sport fishing, hunting and trapping.

A volunteer organization called Delaware Riverkeeper has a monitoring site at the Route 49 bridge in Quinton. As of 1995, Riverkeepers regularly tested the surface water and recorded stream conditions. The goal of Riverkeeper is to ensure that the Delaware River and every tributary stream of the watershed is actively protected by local residents.

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Mushiking: The King of Beetles

Kōchū Ōja Mushiking (甲虫王者ムシキング), known as Mushiking: The King of Beetles or Mushiking: Battle of the Beetles outside Japan, is a collectible card arcade game developed by Sega and released in Japan and other Asian countries such as the Philippines. The game involves battles between cards describing various species of beetle. The cards can be scanned in by a Mushiking arcade machine, which will both carry out battles and dispense new cards. It is the second trading card arcade by Sega following World Club Champion Football.

As of 2008, more than 100,000 tournaments have been held, and 20 million cards have shipped. The game has made it into the Guinness World Records with the highest numbers of tournaments held for an arcade game. It has inspired several children's card games in arcades released by Taito, Sega, Konami, Bandai Namco, Takara Tomy, Atlus, and Square Enix.

Plot
A long time ago, there was a forest full of trees inhabited by insects and fairies. A fairy named Popo was a friend of the insects of the forest. He refers to the Japanese beetle as "Mushiking". One day, giant beetles from parts unknown arrived in the forest to wreak havoc, under the control of Adder, a wizard exiled from the forest who wishes to conquer it. Popo enlists the player's help to fight against Adder.

Characters

 * Popo (ポポ)
 * Popo is one of the fairies of the forest and is one of the main protagonists. He is responsible for leading the player throughout the events of the games and is a close friend of Mushiking. He is kind and is willing to help and heal other beetles, even if they serve Adder. In the story, he is able to trace and imprison Adder initially with the help of the player, and he imprisons Adder. Though Adder escapes, Popo heals the beetle that helped Adder, and they defeat him again in his fortress. After Adder's supposed death, Popo moves elsewhere to another forest as Adder had burned down their previous one. When Adder is revealed to be alive, Popo continues to have the player and Mushiking stop Adder's plans.

 * Adder (アダー)
 * Adder is a wizard previously banished from the forest, and acts as the game's main antagonist. Prior to becoming a wizard, Adder was a doctor that treated insects of the forest. However, an accident took the life of Adder's son, and the grief-stricken man became evil shortly afterwards. He mutates other beetles by injecting red fluids into their bodies, making them more aggressive, powerful, and submissive only to him. The effects of this mutation is evident by the red, glowing eyes of his beetles. During the games, he returns from his banishment, bringing a wave of foreign and powerful insects to attack the forest. Though he is defeated by Popo and the player, he uses a beetle whistle to escape confinement. After another defeat, Adder proceeds to set the forest on fire. Unfortunately for him, Mushiking had already evacuated the insects of the forest, and he is confronted by the player, Mushiking and Popo, and he is presumably killed at the end.

 * He later reappears, having survived the attempt with a new plan to mutate beetles in their pupa state, with the hopes of making them even stronger than they normally are, and corrupting them before they can even develop properly.

 * Mushiking (ムシキング)
 * Mushiking is a Japanese Rhinoceros Beetle who is good friends with Popo who considers him as the strongest beetle in the forest. During Adder's invasion, Mushiking is unable to fight off all the invading insects, and doesn't appear until much later in the game's story. Once Adder sets the forest on fire, Mushiking appears to save Popo and joins him and the player in confronting Adder for the final fight. He later assists Popo in foiling Adder's new plan of corrupting beetle pupa.

 * During gameplay, Mushiking was initially treated as a standard Japanese Rhinoceros Beetle, but with extra power. By version 12, however, Mushiking was given his own exclusive card, along with his skill level and super finishing attack being readjusted to fit the change.

Gameplay
Mushiking is a rock-paper-scissors-style battle game that can be played by one player against CPU-controlled beetles, or with two or more players against each other in Tournament mode or Tag Battle mode. The game is played with cards representing beetles and skill cards related to three move types-- "Hitting", "Pinching" and "Throwing". Players scan their cards with the card scanner in the middle of the machine, and choose one of the three move types to execute within a given time limit. The first player whose beetle reaches 0 stamina points loses.

The following things can happen during a battle:
 * If a player chooses the winning move, the winning player's beetle shall execute the skill learned for that type of move.
 * If both players pick the same move, a tie will result and both players' beetles lose 10% of their total stamina.
 * If a player has chosen a move and the other player has not selected a move within the time limit, the other player's move will automatically lose.

Tournament mode is a 2-out-of-3 match between two players, and Tag Battle mode allows players to cooperatively play two beetles as a tag team against an opponent, where they can perform joint attacks if they are compatible types.

Cards
The cards for Mushiking have lengthwise barcodes for players to scan into the arcade machines, and come in several types. Later versions, however, changed this to a single crosswise bar code at the bottom of the card, before the bar code was removed from the front entirely. This was presumably to prevent people from simply printing out an image of the card online, and scanning the bar code on the reader.

Beetle cards represent the beetle characters the player can control. Each beetle card is marked with information on the beetle's species (name, Latin name, description, etc.) as well as the card's stats such as strength in the three move types and stamina as well as their base power, which is usually determined by the size of the beetle and rarity of the card. The Finishing Move indicates the beetle's "favored" move, which can cause major damage to the opponent if the player wins through a Finishing Move. Rare beetle cards are printed with a holographic background and is colored in either Bronze (for 160 Base power), Silver (for 180 Base power) or Gold (for 200 Base power). Several different editions, such as the Parallel Edition cards and the Adder Collection, have been released of the same cards.

Skill cards represent the abilities a beetle can use. A player can only scan one skill card per skill type. Every skill card requires a certain skill point number; if the number is equal to the beetle's skill point level, the result will be a perfect compatibility. If the beetle's skill point is greater than the skill, it results in a "good" compatibility. If the beetle's skill point is less than the skill point of the card, it will worsen the effectiveness of the skill used by that beetle.

Special Skill Cards are skill cards that may give a player the advantage over the opponent aside from an elaborate, damaging move. The skill point of Special Skill Cards is marked with an Exclamation Point ("!"). Special Skills are activated when certain conditions have been met, such as pressing a move on the first count of the countdown, experiencing a tie, etc. There are also rare, "upgraded" skill cards with certain low-level beetles' Finishing Moves. If the right skill card is scanned with the right beetle, the result will be a "Super Max" Compatibility and will deal tremendous damage if used. The upgraded skill cards are moves used by beetles with a Base Power range of 100 to 120, which gives them an advantage against rarer, stronger cards with a higher Base Power rating.

License cards can be scanned prior to the battle, which cause the machine to read off a certain title for the scanning player. These cards are normally awarded by Sega and other officiary bodies to winners of major Mushiking championships or tournaments, and are not dispensed by machines.

Other media
Mushiking: The King of Beetles ~ Zach Adventure Series ~ is a manga series written and illustrated by Ooseyoshi. It has been serialized in the monthly CoroCoro Comics from February 2005 to October 2006 and in Bessatsu CoroCoro from April 2004 to February 2008. The manga series has a total of 8 volumes. The story follows the adventures of Zach, who is continuously searching for a treasure on a fictional planet, Dekaiya, while at the same time another, rivaling protagonist, Kabuto Maru, is seeking Mushiking. A Mushiking anime, produced by TMS Entertainment and broadcast by TV Tokyo, aired from April 6, 2005 until March 3, 2006.

Pro Wrestling Noah, a Japanese professional wrestling organization, has given a Mushiking-related gimmick, "Mushiking Terry", to one of its wrestlers, Kotaro Suzuki. Mushiking Terry feuds with his rival Mushiking Joker, portrayed by Ricky Marvin.

On June 23, 2005, Sega released a Game Boy Advance game titled Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking: Greatest Champion e no Michi exclusively in Japan.

On July 24, 2007, Sega released a Nintendo DS version of the game in Japan to commemorate the five year anniversary of the franchise. The DS version comes with the Card Reader that players can use on their existing cards from the arcade game or cards exclusive to the DS game. The game comes with a starter deck that includes 7 cards, three of which give a random beetle in a specialized section every time they are used (rock, paper, and scissors). The game supports all of the arcade modes and includes a Wi-Fi mode to play against unseen players across Japan. Due to a significant difference in power between the Nintendo DS and the arcade machines, there is a noticeable difference in graphical quality and frame rate.

In 2016, Sega released Yakuza Kiwami with a MesuKing minigame, a parody of Mushiking, based on the Catfight minigame from Yakuza 0, on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 in Japan. The game was released in the West in 2017.

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