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NPOV?
Sorry to put a downer on this. I really do love their sound, but do we need hyperbole such as saying that Spiers "instinctively" played Morris. Get real! And where does the nickname "Squeezy" Spiers came from? and "Scratchy" Boden? Is this a private joke? Ogg 08:48, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Perhaps "instinctively" (not my term) is a bit precious, but not exactly hyperbolic, or "unreal". He was brought up in the Morris tradition so that was what he played. Delete it if it really bothers you. As for the nicknames, you'd have to ask them! Try visiting their website meanwhile? Flapdragon 11:38, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Visited the website but failed to find any reference to Squeezy or Scratchy. If the nicknamed isn't used widely, then it should not be mentioned. Ogg 11:49, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

 * It's mentioned at http://www.squeezy.fsnet.co.uk/spiers_boden/links.html (you may also notice something about the URL itself) as well as in their stage act. As for where the name comes from, well, he plays the accordion you see. No offence intended, but couldn't you have found out this much for yourself? A quick Google search would have sorted it out long since. Flapdragon 12:31, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Still not convinced. The page quoted above makes no reference to Squeezy or Scratchy, other than in the URL. Also the new album is strange. The price label calls it "Songs" and so does the amazon website, yet the actual cover of the CD, and the spine calls it "Tunes" i.e. exactly the same name as the previous album. Is this a mistake, or some kind of post-modernist irony? Ogg 16:19, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Don't know about Scratchy, but Squeezy is regularly referred to as "Squeezy". And yes, the spine of Songs does say Tunes and it is a printer's error, according to Squeezy. "Visited the website but failed to find any reference to Squeezy or Scratchy. If the nicknamed isn't used widely, then it should not be mentioned." lol @ the internet generation - if it ain't on the website it doesn't exist :) They're a folk duo who tramp around lots of small gigs all over the country, there's more to them than what's on the website.

I'm 15 years late to the party here, but if you want references to Squeezy John, try his website, his Facebook and his Twitter. Monxton (talk) 16:54, 1 September 2020 (UTC)

Tone & References
The article is full of POV and OR. Facts need to be independently verifiable and from reliable sources. This is not the place to draw conclusions, and offer interpretation and opinion, but to present the facts as found. - Tiswas (t/c) 19:40, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

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Could use a reference to Umbrellowhead. Murkeychris (talk) 05:41, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

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Arcadia, Victoria

Arcadia is a small town in Victoria, Australia. It is on Kennedys Road, in the City of Greater Shepparton, south of Shepparton. At the, Arcadia had a population of 212.

The local railway station on the Goulburn Valley line opened on 13 January 1880 and closed on 30 June 1977.

The Post Office opened on 24 November 1873, being replaced by Arcadia Railway Station office, which was renamed Arcadia around 1902 and closed in 1993.

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Perbromic acid

Perbromic acid is the inorganic compound with the formula HBrO4. Perbromic acid is characterized as a colorless liquid which has no characteristic scent. It is an oxoacid of bromine, with an oxidation state of +7. Perbromic acid is a strong acid and strongly oxidizing, though dilute perbromic acid solutions are slow oxidizing agents. It is the most unstable of the halogen(VII) oxoacids. It decomposes rapidly on standing to bromic acid and oxygen, which releases toxic brown bromine vapors. It can be used in the synthesis of perbromate salts, by reacting with a base.

Perbromic acid is unstable and cannot be formed by displacement of chlorine from perchloric acid, as periodic acid is prepared; it can only be made by protonation of the perbromate ion. Perbromic acid is stable in aqueous solutions no greater than 6M. Perbromic acid solutions greater than 6M are unstable in air, where an autocatalytic decomposition of the compound will occur. Metals such as Ce4+ and Ag+ can also catalyze the compound.

Discovery
Perbromic acid was discovered through the decay of a radioactive selenate sample, SeO4−2, where bromine crystals were exposed to gamma radiation.

Safety
Perbromic acid is corrosive and an irritant, therefore it is extremely dangerous to the skin, eyes, airways, and digestive tract. Overexposure can lead to various effects such as suffocation of the lungs, loss of consciousness, and death. Due to its toxicity, prolonged or repeated exposure could also lead to organ damage via the lungs, kidneys, and intestines.

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Pitfall (1948 film)

Pitfall is a 1948 American film noir crime film directed by André de Toth. The film is based on the novel The Pitfall by Jay Dratler and stars Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, and Jane Wyatt, and features Raymond Burr.

Plot
John "Johnny" Forbes (Dick Powell) works for the Olympic Mutual Insurance Company in downtown Los Angeles. On a day when he is especially downhearted about his boring, routine work life, private investigator and former policeman J.B. "Mac" MacDonald (Raymond Burr) reports to him that he's identified a woman an embezzler, who had been bonded by Olympic Mutual, has given expensive gifts. Bill Smiley (Byron Barr), is serving time for the crime, and is eligible for parole in two months. Gifts to his girlfriend, Santa Monica model Mona Stevens (Lizabeth Scott), include a speedboat named Tempest.

Admitting to Forbes he's attracted to Mona, Mac offers to go speak to her about the illicit gifts. Forbes tells the investigator his job is done and that he will go himself. At her apartment, Mona cooperates with the snooping insurance man, especially after she learns that Smiley's parole may be sped up if she does. Forbes suggests they go for a drink. They go out on the speedboat, taking turns driving it; Forbes notices how much she loves the boat. After the drinks, Mona suggests dinner. Mac, parked outside her apartment, sees Forbes leave much later that night.

The next day, Mac waits for Forbes in his office. He says he has noticed the list of items reclaimed from Mona, but that the boat is not there. Denying knowledge of it, Mac reveals to Forbes that he has the bill of sale. He asks Forbes what he's found to spend so much time talking with Mona about. Forbes decides to allow the boat to be repossessed. He tells Mona that Mac knew he had let her keep the boat and could cause trouble about it. She reveals that Mac had been pounding on her door the previous night "until all hours".

When Forbes arrives home, Mac is waiting outside and proceeds to beat him up, saying, "Maybe this will keep you home where you belong for a few days".

A happy Mona awakes the next morning and finds that Forbes has left his briefcase in her apartment. From her job at May Company department store she telephones his office and learns that he has called in sick. She borrows a co-worker's car, having decided to go to Forbes' home to visit him and take him some food; she gets his address from a card in the briefcase. She arrives at the moment when the doctor, Forbes' wife Sue (Jane Wyatt), and their son Tommy (Jimmy Hunt) are all outside. She overhears their conversation and realizes her lover's marital status. When he recovers from Mac's beating, Forbes meets Mona and she breaks off the affair, not wanting to destroy his family.

Forbes rededicates himself to his wife, son and career, feeling a new contentment. Meanwhile, Mac continues to stalk Mona, both at her job and at home; she tells him bluntly that she does not like him, but he is not deterred. She contacts Forbes to tell him that when she threatened to call police, Mac in turn threatened to tell Sue about the affair. Forbes goes to Mac's apartment and repays him for the beating, promising to kill him if he ever talks about his family again. Mac visits Smiley in prison and drops broad hints that Mona has been fooling around with the insurance adjuster. Shortly, Mona learns that her cooperation had an effect and that Smiley is getting out of jail imminently. She visits him the day before and he angrily asks about both Mac and Forbes; he sees that she is not wearing the engagement ring he had given her with the stolen funds.

Mona tells Forbes how Mac has been visiting Smiley and provoking him. At home, Sue, who has not believed the story that her husband told her about being beaten up by muggers, probes him to tell her what is on his mind. As he is about to do so, their son has a nightmare about somebody coming at him through the window.

When Smiley is freed, Mona finds him in her apartment drinking. He has a gun given to him by Mac, and wants to know from her why Mac wants him to kill Forbes. Mona admits the affair but begs him to understand it is over. He says he can forgive her, but not Forbes, and leaves. Mona telephones Forbes to warn him; Forbes tries to get Sue and Tommy to leave but fails. He tells Sue that a man from the office is coming to talk to him. He grabs his gun and waits in the dark for Smiley. Forbes manages to sneak up on Smiley and order him to leave, but Smiley comes around the front and breaks a window. Forbes shoots him dead.

Thinking that both his rivals are taken care of, Mac shows up at Mona's, fully expecting her to go away with him. As he packs her suitcase, she shoots him twice in the back.

Forbes allows the police to think that he has killed a prowler, and after they are gone, confesses everything to Sue. Over her objections, and after walking the streets all night, he also makes a full confession to the District Attorney (John Litel). The DA reluctantly states that his story matches Mona's, who is now in custody, and that Forbes is free to go. It was justifiable homicide as Smiley was indeed coming to kill him. The charge against Mona depends on whether Mac lives or dies.

Outside, Sue is waiting for Forbes in the car. He asks her if she wants a divorce but she will give the marriage another chance, though she is not sure it will ever be the same.

Cast

 * Dick Powell as John Forbes
 * Lizabeth Scott as Mona Stevens
 * Jane Wyatt as Sue Forbes
 * Raymond Burr as MacDonald
 * John Litel as District Attorney
 * Byron Barr as Bill Smiley
 * Jimmy Hunt as Tommy Forbes
 * Ann Doran as Maggie
 * Selmer Jackson as Ed Brawley
 * Margaret Wells as Terry
 * Dick Wessel as Desk Sergeant

Hays Code infraction
According to Madeleine Stowe, guest host on the May 21, 2016, Turner Classic Movies screening of the film, the production was in trouble because the script violated the Hays Code, as the adulterer was insufficiently punished. When director de Toth found out, he met with two senior Hays Code members, whom he had selected with care. De Toth revealed that he knew the two were both married and both had mistresses. There were no problems after that.

Reception
Film critic Fernando F. Croce wrote about the screenplay and direction,"The title's abyss, pitilessly moral, sprawls horizontally rather than vertically, a lateral track following disheveled Dick Powell bottoming out, wandering the streets after confessing murder and adultery to wife Jane Wyatt. Fate may be at play, yet André de Toth's grip is less determinist than humanist, airtight but wounded, each pawn in the grid allowed trenchant space to deepen the fallout of their own actions."

Film critic Dennis Schwartz wrote of the film,"Powell is the archetypal average American man living out the American Dream in the suburbs, where his type is viewed as the backbone of the country. This film does a good job of poking holes at that dream, showing underneath the surface all is not well."

A one-time police officer sued the producers for libel claiming the film was based on him.

Home media
Pitfall was released on Blu-ray and DVD by Kino Lorber Studio Classics in November 2015.

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Absolute block signalling

Absolute block signalling is a British signalling block system designed to ensure the safe operation of a railway by allowing only one train to occupy a defined section of track (block) at a time. Each block section is manually controlled by a signalman, who communicates with the other block sections via telegraph. This system was used on double or multiple lines where use of each line is assigned a direction of travel before the introduction of track circuits, and is still used on lines which lack track circuiting.

A train approaching a section is offered by a signalman to his counterpart at the next signal box. If the section is clear, the latter accepts the train, and the first signalman may clear his signals to give permission for the train to enter the section. This communication traditionally takes place by bell codes and status indications transmitted over a simple telegraph wire circuit between signalmen using a device called a block instrument, although some contemporary block working is operated wirelessly. This process is repeated for every block section a train passes through. The absolute block system does not replace the use of any other form of signalling, such as fixed signals, hand signals, or detonators – and, in fact, usually relies on fixed signals.

Prior to the introduction of block systems, time intervals were used to keep trains sufficiently far apart; typically if five minutes had passed since the first train had departed then a second train was allowed to proceed; although the driver was warned that there was a train only five minutes ahead. This was insufficient to prevent a train colliding with the rear of one that had stopped unexpectedly.

Block section
In absolute block working, a block section (or simply section) is a section of railway line between one signal box and another – in the typical absolute block, lines are paired, with an up – towards London (or in Scotland, Edinburgh) – and a down line in the opposite direction. The signal box towards which a train travels is said to be in advance and the signal box from which it travels is said to be in rear. A block section is normally the section of track from the most advanced signal controlled by the signal box in rear, and the rearmost signal controlled by the signal box in advance. Because many signal boxes are at stations, the last signal controlled by the rear box is called the starter signal, whether or not there is a station at which trains stop. This signal, and the rearmost signal controlled by the box ahead, are stop signals, which a train should not pass if they are in the on position, showing a red light. The first stop signal controlled by a box is called the home signal. A distant signal is also provided some distance from the home signal, which will only show a clear aspect if all stop signals under a signal box's control are clear, and will otherwise show caution – this gives a driver advance warning of a need to stop.

Intermediate block section
Some signal boxes have an intermediate block section, or IBS. This normally takes the place of an old absolute block section, and is commonly found where former absolute block sections and their associated signal boxes have been removed. Essentially an intermediate block section allows two block sections, and therefore two trains, to be on the same line but controlled by the same signal box.

Typically, a signal box with an intermediate block section will have a home signal (and associated distant signal), starting signal and an intermediate block home signal which has its own distant signal. The line from the starting signal to the intermediate block home signal is called the intermediate block home section. The line from the intermediate block home signal to the home signal of the next signal box on the same line in the same direction of travel is the absolute block section. To clear the intermediate block home signal a "line clear" is required from the signal box in advance.

An intermediate block section means that a train can approach the intermediate block home signal while there is a train between the intermediate block home signal and the home signal of the next signal box on the same line in the same direction of travel. Generally, all intermediate block home signals and their respective distants are colour light signals, normally showing two aspects.

Station limits
The extent of the line from the rearmost home signal to the most advanced starting signal controlled from the same signal box is called station limits at that signal box (this does not necessarily refer to a passenger station). Within station limits, the signalman controls the safe movement, and in normal circumstances he can directly see the position of trains there. Usually no communication with other signalmen is needed for movements within station limits.

Railway telegraphy
Electrical telegraphy was the first practical use of current electricity and was developed in the 1840s and 1850s at the same time as the development of railways. The first commercial electrical telegraph was the Cooke and Wheatstone system. In July 1837 William Fothergill Cooke installed a demonstration system on the Euston to Camden Town section of Robert Stephenson's London and Birmingham Railway for signalling rope-hauling of carriages (as the locomotives could not cope with the steep incline).

Cooke also put forward the idea of dividing a single line into grand divisions of between 15 and 20 mi, each subdivided into stages 2 to 5 mi long that were to be connected together by telegraph, with instruments that showed the state of each stage. In 1842 he published these ideas in a book entitled Telegraphic Railways: Or the Single Way Recommended by Safety, Economy, and Efficiency, Under the Safeguard and Control of the Electric Telegraph. Cooke's ideas were not taken up by the railway companies until the 1850s and 1860s. When they were developed into a practical system, it provided the ability for signalmen to communicate with each other and provided the basis for the absolute block system. By 1872 it was used on 44% of lines in Britain, rising to 75% by the end of the decade and was made mandatory on passenger-carrying lines in 1889. It successfully managed train control over most of the British railway system until generally superseded by more sophisticated systems from 1950.

Block instruments
Block instruments are located in signal boxes. They show the state of the block sections before and after the signal box. Originally the different displays and commutator handle were in a variety of cabinets. The standard British Railways block instrument brought them together in a single small cabinet; its front face displaying two indicators, a commutator handle, a bell and a tapper. The upper indicator shows the state of the forward block – along the line leading away from the signal box. The commutator is used by the signalman to indicate the state of his block, and the lower indicator displays this state, which is also displayed on a repeater indicator in the box for the block from which a train will come. At the bottom is a single-stroke bell and the tapper to sound the bell in the next box. The commutator and each of the two indicators has three positions: normal (or line blocked), line clear, and train on line. In the simplest case of a signal box serving a two-track section, there will be two block instruments, one for communicating with each of the neighbouring boxes.

In a simple double line configuration, where the signal boxes are A, B and C in succession in the up direction, the signal box at B will have two block instruments, one for communicating with box A for trains on the up line and one for box C for down trains. The block instrument for communicating with box A will be used to receive on the bell a request from box A to take an up train. The other block instrument will do the same for box C for a down train. The commutator and lower display on the two instruments relate to the up line and the down line respectively. The upper display is a repeater from the signal box of the block ahead.

Signalling bell
The signalling bell, also known as a block bell, is used in conjunction with the block instruments if the bell is not integrated with them. It is a single stroke design that is used to communicate from one signal box to an adjacent one. Each bell has its own distinctive sound so that the signalman knows which box is communicating with him.

There are a set of standard bell codes. Each communication starts with a single strike of the bell meaning “Call attention”. The recipient signalman then shows that he has received the message by repeating it back to the sender. All subsequent bell messages are acknowledged promptly by repeating back to the sender – with the single exception of six strikes which indicate “Obstruction danger” which is not echoed back until all relevant signals have been set to “Stop”.

Example block-bell exchange

An example is the process of signalling a train in the up direction (from A to C) past a signal box B. The signal box in rear is A and the signal box in advance is C. The block indicators at B are in the Normal position. The signalman at A "offers" the train to B by sending an "Is Line Clear?" code on the block bell; for example to offer an express passenger train, he sends four beats consecutively; an ordinary passenger train is offered by sending three beats, and after a pause one more beat, usually written as 3-1. If the signalman at B can accept the train safely (if the line is clear up to B's clearing point and will not need to be blocked by another train) he "accepts" the train by repeating the bell signal, and placing the commutator on his block instrument for the section from A to "Line Clear". The "Line Clear" is repeated at box A, and allows the signalman at A to clear, or "pull off", his signals. In case the line is not clear, B simply does not acknowledge A's "Is Line Clear?", and leaves the commutator in the Normal position.

At this point, B will not clear any of his signals. Firstly, he cannot clear his starting signal without a "Line Clear" from C. As a result, B will not clear his home signal – he can only clear it when he either has a clear run through (which he does not have without a "Line Clear" from C), or is confident that the train will be able to stop at his starting (or section) signal (this is not done until the train is in view and visibly under control). Finally, his distant will not clear without both his home and starting signals being clear.

As the train passes the starting signal at A, the signalman there sends the "Train Entering Section" signal (2 beats) on the block bell to B, and the signalman at B acknowledges the signal and moves the commutator to "Train On Line". His lower indicator on the block indicator to A repeats the position of the commutator.

B immediately offers the train on to C, after calling for attention, by sending the "Is Line Clear?" bell signal (repeating the same steps A had done while offering the train to B); if C accepts it, he repeats the bell signal and places his block indicator to "Line Clear", which moves the position of the upper needle indicator in B's block instrument to repeat that indication. B may now clear his signals for the train.

After an interval, the train will arrive and pass B; as it does so, B sends "Train Entering Section" on the block bell to C. Then C acknowledges the bell signal and places the block instrument to "Train On Line". As the train passes, he restores his signals to danger, and when the whole of the train passes B complete with tail lamp attached, B sends the "Train Out Of Section" bell signal (2-1) to A and when A acknowledges it, he places his block indicator to "Normal". The block section between A and B is now normal and A can offer B another train, if he has one.

When the train has reached C, the signalman there sends "Train Out Of Section" on the block bell and when B acknowledges it, C places the block indicator to "Normal".

Bell codes
Bell codes are used to communicate with adjacent signal boxes. They can communicate information regarding the type of train being offered, the status of trains within sections or emergency information. A bell code is acknowledged as being understood by repetition.

Nearly all bell codes are preceded by a single stroke on the bell, referred to as Call Attention — the main exception being Train Entering Section. The Is Line Clear? bell signal describes the train, distinguishing between ordinary and express passenger trains, and various categories of goods train. In some locations, routing information is included in the bell code, such an ordinary passenger train to be routed to a branch at the signal box in advance would be offered by the bell code 1-3 instead of 3-1. These often vary by location.

Train classification
All trains, whether operated by a (passenger) train operating company (TOC) or a freight operating company (FOC), are allocated to one of ten classes, as set out below. It is a generalized guide intended to assist signalling staff in prioritizing trains according to their importance as well as ensuring that any special instructions that may apply at a specific location are carried out. Passenger trains are generally classified in accordance with their stopping pattern while the classification of freight trains depends upon maximum permitted speeds. Class 1 trains (together with Class 9 services, which are officially their equivalent in this regard) have the highest priority, followed by Class 2 and then so on down the list.

Supplemental codes
These codes are supplemented by codes either side, to show the status of the train within the section or the section itself:

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Norman Makin

Norman John Oswald Makin AO (31 March 1889 – 20 July 1982) was an Australian politician and diplomat. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1919 to 1946 for Hindmarsh, from 1954 to 1955 for Sturt, and from 1955 to 1963 for Bonython. He was Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives from 1929 to 1932 and served as Minister for the Navy, Minister for Munitions (1941–1946) and Minister for Aircraft Production (1945–1946) under John Curtin, Frank Forde and Ben Chifley. He was the first President of the United Nations Security Council in 1946, and served as Ambassador to the United States from 1946 to 1951.

Early life
Makin was born on 31 March 1889 in Petersham, New South Wales. He was the son of Elizabeth (née Yates) and John Hulme Makin, who had immigrated from Lancashire, England. At the time of his birth his father was a patternmaker at the Eveleigh Railway Workshops.

Makin's family moved to Melbourne in 1891 and to Broken Hill in 1898, where he attended Broken Hill Superior Public School. He left school at thirteen and became a parcel boy for Boan Bros drapers. He was a member of the Shop Assistants' Union at fourteen; he worked for two stationers and newsagents, sold the Barrier Miner in the streets of Broken Hill, and was chief assistant at the C Day & Co bookstore at eighteen. He was largely self-educated and became a keen reader, and was involved in local debating and literary societies. In 1909, while still a shop assistant, he was a witness for the defence at the conspiracy trial of trade unionist Tom Mann. At eighteen, Makin undertook an apprenticeship in pattern-making and engineering, and was employed in various mines; he joined the Amalgamated Society of Engineers.

He moved to Adelaide in 1911, and married Ruby Florence Jennings on 10 August 1912. He worked in a Kapunda foundry, and for James Martin & Company at Gawler. He had difficulty finding work at times due to his political activities, and returned to Broken Hill for a period, but returned to Adelaide in 1914 to work at Gray Bros. at Port Adelaide, and then in the Islington Railway Workshops. Having been involved in the labour movement from an early age, Makin was president of the North Adelaide district branch of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers in 1914 and secretary of its political committee in 1917. He was an unsuccessful Labor candidate for Barossa at the 1915 state election, reportedly riding over 2000 miles during the campaign, and again for Wakefield at the 1917 federal election. He publicly campaigned against conscription during World War I, and was president of the South Australian branch of the Labor Party from 1918 to 1919, in the aftermath of the 1916 Labor split over the issue. In 1918, he published a book on the progress of the labour movement in South Australia entitled A Progressive Democracy.

Makin was a lifelong Methodist, and in 1977 received a certificate from the church commending him on having been a lay preacher for seventy years.

Early political career
Makin was elected to the House of Representatives for Hindmarsh at the 1919 federal election, defeating Nationalist MP and 1916 Labor defector William Archibald in an acrimonious campaign. He was re-elected without difficulty in 1922, 1925 and 1928, reverting Hindmarsh to its traditional status as a safe Labor seat. He spent ten years in Opposition before the election of the Scullin Labor government in 1929. While in opposition, he served as secretary to the Labor caucus and had been touted in 1925 as a potential successor to John Gunn as state Labor leader and Premier of South Australia.

Upon the election of the Scullin government, Makin was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives, defeating four candidates in the Labor selection vote. As with his Labor predecessor Charles McDonald, he declined the ceremonial wig and gown. He was described as having been a "well-respected" Speaker, and was commended for his "dignity and impartiality" as Speaker as the 1931 Labor split unfolded. Following the defeat of the Scullin government in 1931 amidst the split, Makin was an outspoken loyalist of official Labor, alleging that he had been subject to an attempt to bribe him to leave the party, condemning both the pro-Premiers' Plan and Lang Labor defectors, and repeatedly clashing with Premier Lionel Hill. His staunch opposition to the Premiers' Plan led to him being rumoured as a potential challenger to Scullin for the federal Labor leadership, although he denied interest and no challenge eventuated. At the 1931 federal election, Makin was the only Labor member elected from South Australia.

During his second stint in opposition in the 1930s, he was again secretary of the Labor caucus, and served as federal president of the Labor Party from 1936 to 1938. He stood for leader of the Labor Party in 1935, following Scullin's resignation, but received only two votes. He shifted his vote to John Curtin on the second ballot, allowing him to win by a single vote over Frank Forde.

Makin was one of the three Labor members on the Advisory War Council from October 1940. By 1941, when Labor returned to power under John Curtin, of who Makin was a close supporter, Makin had an undeniable claim to office, and became Minister for the Navy and Minister for Munitions, responsible for the Department of Munitions which oversaw the Small Arms Ammunition Factories around the country. These were key posts in a wartime government. In 1945 he also became Minister for Aircraft Production. He established good relations with service chiefs and played an important role in Australia's successful transition to a wartime economy, and later advocated for munitions factories to be retained in government control and adapted to civilian use to boost post-war manufacturing.

When Curtin died in 1945, Makin contested the leadership ballot along with Ben Chifley and caretaker Prime Minister Frank Forde. He was unsuccessful, winning only seven votes out of 70 caucus members.

Diplomat
Makin had sought a diplomatic post as early as 1944 and had been in consideration for the positions of High Commissioner to Canada and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, but he had been convinced by Curtin that he could not be spared. He was Acting Minister for External Affairs for four months during the absence overseas of Herbert Evatt until January 1946 while negotiations for the Australian–Thai Peace Treaty took place and Australia re-established a Commissioner in Singapore. In January 1946, he was selected by Chifley to lead the Australian delegation to the first General Assembly of the United Nations, having previously represented Australia at the London conference in early 1945. The government had initially planned to send only an official delegation to the United Nations, but made a late decision to send Makin after significant criticism that the lack of ministerial presence was inadequate for the importance of the event. The selection of Makin was nonetheless criticised by the opposition and some media due to a perception that he lacked experience in external affairs and did not have the stature of a figure such as Evatt.

On 14 January 1946, the day Makin arrived in London, Australia won a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council; as the provisional rules appointed the body's president by rotation among members in alphabetical order, Makin became the first President of the United Nations Security Council from 17 January to 16 February that year and presided over its first meeting. He described it as "the most impressive day of my life". His presidency included responses to the Iran crisis of 1946, the Indonesian National Revolution and the presence of British troops in Greece, and the appointment of the first Secretary-General. Canadian journalist Ross Munro, in comments widely reported in the Australian press, sharply criticised Makin's tenure as President of the Security Council, claiming that he was insufficiently strong or decisive, that Makin seemed "uncertain about procedural matters" and was hesitant in applying and interpreting the United Nations Charter; Munro quoted one delegate who had commented that Makin "seemed overawed", and other correspondents that he "was too anxious to please". The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Makin's chairmanship had been "scathingly criticised in the lobbies" in England, while The Daily Mirror defended Makin, stating that he had "conducted proceedings with scrupulous fairness, great care, obvious sincerity and no small degree of skill", and deriding what they labelled a "campaign to belittle and disparage" him. He again served as President of the Security Council when the presidency returned to Australia in January 1947.

In June 1946, Chifley announced that Makin would be appointed as Australian Ambassador to the United States, a decision that had been expected since December 1945, while also elevating the position in rank from resident minister. He arrived in Washington DC, and presented his credentials in September. He retained his Cabinet posts until the 1946 election, reportedly because Chifley was unsure whether his desired successor would replace Makin. The United States ambassadorship was a position of great importance in the gathering Cold War atmosphere of the post-war years, atop a rapidly-expanding Australian presence in Washington. The teetotal Makin found the cocktail party circuit "arduous", and although he acknowledged the opportunities for more informal diplomacy, resented the limitations of the demanding social calendar on his home life. His practice of drinking only orange juice at such events was described as "almost unique among high-living diplomats". In 1947, he was involved in canvassing support in the United Nations for the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, and signed the papers bringing Australia into the International Monetary Fund. He remained in the post after Labor lost government to Robert Menzies in 1949, and served until 1951. His last official act as ambassador was to read the opening prayers for the United States Senate.

Return to politics and later life
After leaving his diplomatic post, Makin returned to Australia. In October 1951, several months after his return, he campaigned for a "no" vote in the 1951 referendum on banning the Communist Party. In 1954, he decided to return to electoral politics, although he was by then 65 years old. At the 1954 election he captured the marginal Liberal seat of Sturt for Labor, defeating incumbent Keith Wilson with a 53 percent primary and two-party vote from a 5.4 percent swing. Sturt was significantly redistributed prior to the 1955 election. Most of the Labor-friendly territory in Sturt was shifted to the newly created Bonython. While this redistribution made Sturt notionally Liberal, Bonython was notionally a comfortably safe Labor seat. Makin opted to transfer to Bonython, a move which proved prescient; while Makin won Bonython easily, Wilson retook Sturt for the Liberals almost as easily. While still a Member of Parliament in 1961 he authored a book with brief biographies of all leaders of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party until that time. He retired at the 1963 election, following an amendment to Labor Party rules that introduced a mandatory retirement age of seventy, though Makin unsuccessfully appealed the decision to the federal executive. He remained active in Labor affairs for many years following his retirement.

He died in 1982 at the age of 93, at Glenelg, where he had spent his last years in a Uniting Church aged care home, and was cremated. He was survived by two sons, who published Makin's memoirs, The Memoirs of Norman John Oswald Makin, 31 March 1889 – 20 July 1982, posthumously later that year. He was the second-last surviving member of the Curtin Cabinet behind Frank Forde, who died the following year.

Honours
He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 1980 Australia Day Honours.

The House of Representatives electorate of Makin, established in 1984 in Adelaide's northeastern suburbs, is named after him.

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Talk:German cruiser Admiral Hipper

Untitled
KM or not KM? Some writers prefix German warships with 'KM' or 'KMS' (Kriegsmarine or Kriegsmarine Schiffe) - equivalent to 'HMS' for Royal Naval vessels. The advantage is that it distinguishes between the ship and the thing (person, place etc) it's named for and immediately identifies a warship. Is there a Wiki convention? I've also used 'IJN' for Imperial Japanese Navy & 'USS' for US naval ships. There are other instances.

Comments please.

Folks at 137 08:52, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

I have no objection to KMS, or IJN for that matter.

Out of interest, did the damage to Hipper from Glowworm's ramming attempt really qualify as "heavy"? From what I've read it amounted to a section of armour belt becoming dislodged (reducing speed to 25 knots)and a torpedo mounting dismounted. Inconvenient, certainly, but I'm not sure if it qualifies as "heavy". Hipper's behaviour after the action (stopping to rescue survivors, continuing with her moderately danagerous mission) does not suggest a badly-hurt ship. -- The dates are screwed up. The "fate" entry on the sidebox does not correspond to the eventual fate that is listed in the article. Could someone clean it up? I'm not familiar enough to determine which one is correct.

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008
Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 14:43, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

It would be useful
It would be useful to also express the bores and other measurements of the armaments of the main armaments of all of the cruisers of this class in inches, just for the sake of comparison with the America, Australian, British, Canadian, and New Zealand warships of the same era. Also, by the Washington Naval Treaty, the heavy cruisers of that era were defined by and limited to eight-inch guns (and projectiles), and light cruisers were defined by and limited to six-inch guns (and projectiles) - which I believe is 203 millimeters - though I believe that the U.S. Navy had one or two cruisers with 15 six-inch guns that were classified as heavy cruisers.

Also, there were two standard diameters of torpedoes, which were 18 inches and 21 inches, though the Imperial Japanese Navy did design, mass-produce, and deploy thousands of heavy and long-range "Long Lance torpedoes" with the diameter of 24 inches.

While you are at it, it might also be useful to express the overall length, beam, and draft of these ships in feet as well as in meters, like this: 100 meters (330 feet).98.67.102.100 (talk) 00:10, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

Comparison to other ships
I would like to see the article compare the design of this ship to other heavy cruisers, both German and foreign. Jc3s5h (talk) 12:55, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

 * Unfortunately, that would not be possible. To do so would require a heaping amount of synthesis and original research, and would be a bad idea in general. We are not in the business of editorializing warship designs. Parsecboy (talk) 13:09, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

 * I have seen reliable sources which compare warship designs, but those sources were for battleships. If such sources exist for Admiral Hipper they could be used. Jc3s5h (talk) 13:21, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

 * Even then, it's highly problematic. There was an article that compared North Carolina class battleship and King George V class battleship that was deleted for the reasons I highlighted above. You're asking to compare apples to oranges. Different navies built their cruisers for totally different reasons, with totally different strategic and tactical doctrines, and totally different combat expectations. Parsecboy (talk) 13:35, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
 * FWIW, the article was Comparison between HMS King George V and USS North Carolina. Parsecboy (talk) 13:47, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

 * Good Wikipedia articles put their subject matter in proper perspective. If reliable sources exist that allow the perspective to be given, but the article lacks perspective, the good article nomination should be failed.

 * The overview in Admiral Hipper class cruiser would be a good example of the kind of perspective that would be helpful, except that article only has two inline footnotes that actually seem to refer to a specific article in an external source. Jc3s5h (talk) 14:09, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

 * Look, I've written 25 featured articles on warships here; you don't need to lecture me about what should and should not be included in a high quality article. If you are planning on reviewing more warship articles for GA (after the HMS Vanguard (23) review), then you need to review articles that are already rated as GAs and familiarize yourself with what's expected for articles of that rating. Parsecboy (talk) 14:24, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

The Good article criteria state "Broad in its coverage:"
 * "(a) it addresses the main aspects of the topic;[4] and"
 * "(b) it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style)."

with the footnote:

"[4]This requirement is significantly weaker than the 'comprehensiveness' required of featured articles; it allows shorter articles, articles that do not cover every major fact or detail, and overviews of large topics."

So, assuming sources exist, it would seem that the lack of perspective could be forgiven under the good article criteria, but not under the featured article criteria.

As for referring to other good and featured articles about warships, judging by the samples I've viewed of all warship articles (not necessarily good or featured), they systematically focus on minutia, giving details about when the ship went to this or that port, and ignoring issues of perspective, such as how the designers decided to make changes to the proceeding class, or how the ship compared to ships of the same category in other neighbors. If there are large numbers of "good" and "featured" articles that suffer from these faults, then I consider those assessments to be in error. Jc3s5h (talk) 14:44, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

 * What did I just say? If you can't handle communicating with people without resorting to lecturing them, please stay away from me and from reviewing articles I write. I wish to have no further dealings with you if you can't behave civilly. Parsecboy (talk) 14:49, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

 * You do not get to pick who reviews your article. Imagine if authors could send a list of acceptable reviewers to the The New York Times Book Review. Jc3s5h (talk) 15:05, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

 * I am not picking who reviews my articles. I am telling you to stay away from me if you continue to make outrageous demands on articles (like requesting we violate WP:SYN and WP:OR as you have elsewhere) and arrogantly lecturing long-time contributors on basic policy. If you can't seem to handle that simple request, we can go over to WP:ANI. Parsecboy (talk) 15:18, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Location of bell
There is a Hipper bell at the German naval museum at Laboe, I saw it there today. Is there more than one bell, or is this article incorrect? Intelligent Mr Toad (talk) 19:03, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

 * It was probably transferred back to Germany some time after Groener initially wrote his book (in the early 1960s) - the editors who updated the book in the 1990s may have missed the transfer of the bell. Is there a good source for the bell being in Laboe (like a photo on their website or something)? Parsecboy (talk) 19:15, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

 * I've posted my photos from Laboe at the Axis History Forum, here: http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=193942

I don't know if you regard that as an acceptable source. If not, the article will have to stay wrong (if it is wrong). Intelligent Mr Toad (talk) 20:51, 24 October 2012 (UTC)

 * This photograph: https://www.flickr.com/photos/yetdark/3452725426/in/photostream/ is taken at Laboe, Kiel. It is a plaquet next to the Hipper bell. It is fully readable if it is magified. It states that the bell was taken to England after the war, but returned to Germany in 1982. From 1983 it has been on display at Marine Ehrenmal Laboe, Kiel Deutschland. KjellG (talk) 20:09, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Scuttled, was she?
From the article:

1) "Her crew scuttled the wrecked ship at her moorings at 04:25 on 3 May."

2) "Admiral Hipper in dry dock at Kiel 19 May 1945".

3) "In July 1945, ..., Admiral Hipper was raised"

When was she scuttled? KjellG (talk) 21:17, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

 * scuttled with explosive charges while docked on May 3 1945. --Denniss (talk) 21:34, 17 October 2013 (UTC)

 * So Hipper was scuttled on May 3. floating in drydock on May 19 th and raised in July -45? Confusing to me. KjellG (talk) 20:15, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
 * No, she was badly damaged by bombers on 3 May (effectively neutralized) and scuttled on 19 May (to make sure she couldn't put to sea, even to be towed) and raised in July for scrapping. I don't see what's confusing here. Parsecboy (talk) 20:30, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Article says: "Her crew scuttled the wrecked ship at her moorings at 04:25 on 3 May." You say she was scuttled on May 19th. KjellG (talk) 21:08, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I was confused - you referenced the 19th above and I didn't check the article carefully enough. Parsecboy (talk) 15:23, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

"Denmark Strait" and ship classes
The article refers in several places to "Denmark Strait" as a route for Hipper to return to Germany. Apparently this is supposed to refer to the Danish straits, i.e., the straits between the Danish islands and between Denmark and Sweden that lead into the Baltic from the North Sea and that were under German control after the occupation of Denmark. "Denmark Strait", however, refers to the strait between Iceland and Greenland.

The article also refers to Gneisenau and Scharnhorst as "battleships" and to Lützow (former Deutschland) and Admiral Scheer as "heavy cruisers". Both the former and the latter were armed with 280 mm (11") guns, which are heavy even for heavy cruisers but light for battleships. For this reason, the Deutschland (Lützow) class (Lützow, Admiral Scheer, Admiral Graf Spee) are usually referred to as "pocket battleships" (though this was not an official classification), while the Gneisenau class are often referred to as battlecruisers -- after all, 11" main armament was originally typical of German WW1 battlecruisers (e.g., von der Tann, Moltke class, Seydlitz).--Death Bredon (talk) 16:03, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
 * In short, no and no. The article correctly refers to the Denmark Strait (as opposed to trying to break through the Channel [a la Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, and Prinz Eugen]). And no, we’re not going to use a British propaganda term. The Germans themselves reclassified them as heavy cruisers once they had proper battleships, which they did with the Scharnhorsts (which has in turn been discussed to death at that page). Parsecboy (talk)|

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Talk:Noble House (novel)

Third tai-pan
Wasn't Malcolm Struan (Culum & Tess's son) technically the third tai-pan? He wasnt officially given the title due to his age, but he had every right to call himself one in the short time he had. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jessielange (talk • contribs) 08:52, 8 October 2005.

 * Technically, Hag Struan never officially turned over power to him. In order to claim the mantle of tai-pan, he would have had to go through some specific ceremonies, swear certain oaths in front of the previous tai-pan and the compradore, etc. Gordon Chen, the compradore, lays it down to Malcolm in a letter as follows:

Facts: though you are formally my stepbrother's heir, your mother correctly says you have not undergone the obligatory ceremony, attestations, oaths and signatures laid down in my Honourable Father's Will and Legacy that are necessary before you can be tai-pan, which, to be valid, must be witnessed personally and attested to in writing as properly executed by the current compradore, who must be of my branch of the House of Chen. Only then is the chosen one the tai-pan.

Before your father died he did in fact appoint your mother tai-pan. It was correctly done in all details. I witnessed it. She is tai-pan legally and has power over the Noble House. It is true that your father and mother expected the position to be passed over to you quickly, but she is also correct that one of the tai-pan's obligations is to attest before God to the integrity of his successor, and also true the Noble House is governed only by what the tai-pan, he, or she, decides, particularly the choice and timing of any succession.

 * JubalHarshaw 17:52, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

List of Characters, Links
I don't think the long list of characters is warranted. I recommend that only the main characters be retained, and their associated one paragraph "articles" be incorporated into this article. See, for example, The Brothers Karamazov for a good article on a much more important work. Notice that even very notable characters such as Ivan Karamazov do not get their own page.--S Roper 02:23, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Agree I've started a lot of merge discussions. JASpencer 20:07, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Since there didn't seem to be any objection over a month later, I merged most of the articles I could find that had tags (and one or two really stubby ones that didn't). And I agree, the long lists do need to go. I am removing the "refered" one at this time and the other one might need to go sometime as well. Radagast83 23:19, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Missing character
I'm missing out the Japanese girl that AMG was married to. She decended from Toranaga (Shogun). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.163.233.101 (talk • contribs) 18:15, 31 May 2006.

 * That would be Riko Anjin, aka Riko Gresserhoff, who is actually descended from John Blackthorne, not Toranaga Yoshi. JubalHarshaw 17:58, 28 December 2006 (UTC)

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removals from minor characters list
I am removing one-off incidental characters for balance-more important ones like Riko Gresserhoff were left off. Removed are:
 * Tom Connochie - CIA agent
 * Bill Foster - Struan agent in Australia
 * Henry Foxwell - Senior Superintendent of Traffic
 * Alan Holdbrook - Struan's stockbroker
 * Captain Janelli - Lincoln Bartlett's pilot
 * Kin Sop-ming - Member of Werewolves criminal gang
 * Mona Leung - Quillan Gornt's mistress
 * Tom Leung - Dunross' chief jockey
 * John Mishauer - U.S. Navy intelligence officer
 * Kelly O'Gorman - O'Gorman was Hag Struan's grandson through her daughter Rose. When Hag was apparently on her death bed, O'Gorman tried to force her to hand over all powers of the tai-pan to her.  When he brought her to a safe to retrieve the corporate seal-chop, she instead retrieved a loaded pistol and shot him dead.
 * Bill O'Rourke - Lincoln Bartlett's co-pilot
 * Manuel Perriera - Librarian
 * Jenny Pollard - Lincoln Bartlett's air hostess
 * Marty Povits - CIA agent
 * Sven Svensen - Lincoln Bartlett's plane steward
 * Mary Yok - Richard Kwang's niece and secretary

I am moving O'Gorman to Struans, as he is part of the timeline continuity. Chris (クリス) (talk) 06:31, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Minor characters
Another editor has removed the entire list. I will cull these for characters that, though minor, are crucial to the storyline. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 00:45, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Geoffrey Allison - Allison is the highly competent Governor of Hong Kong. A seasoned diplomat, he is very polite and sociable, but at the same time very alert and shrewd.  He has a hands-off style of leadership, and uses his authority quietly in the background to help insure things continue running smoothly.
 * Vincenzo Banastasio - American mafioso with ties to Asian smuggling
 * Sir Dunstan Barre - Business executive
 * Sir Luis Basilio - Head of the stock exchange
 * Charles Biltzmann - Vice-president of American Superfoods
 * Barbara Chen - John Chen's overbearing wife
 * Claudia Chen - Executive secretary to the tai-pan, distant cousin to Phillip Chen
 * Dianne Chen - Dianne Mai-wai T'Chung, wife of Phillip Chen, descendant of Dirk Struan
 * John Chen - Son of Phillip Chen; director of Struan's, secretly colluding with Lincoln Bartlett
 * Pun Po Chen - Member of Werewolves criminal gang and distant cousin of John Chen
 * Sarah Chen - Phillip Chen's aunt
 * Smiler Ching - Banker, drug runner
 * Lim Chu - Alastair Struan's personal servant
 * Jacques deVille - Member of Struan's inner court
 * Susanne deVille - Wife of Jacques deVille
 * Adryon Dunross - Daughter of Ian and Penelope Dunross
 * Duncan Dunross - Son of Ian and Penelope Dunross
 * Glenna Dunross - Daughter of Ian and Penelope Dunross
 * Penelope Dunross - Wife of Ian Dunross
 * Sam and Molly Finn - Known communist sympathizers
 * Ginny Fu - Gregor Suslev's mistress
 * Andrew Gavallan - Member of Struan's inner court, brother-in-law of Ian Dunross, main character in later Whirlwind
 * Kathren Gavallan - Sister of Ian Dunross
 * Alan Medford Grant - associate of the Institute for Strategic Planning in London, and an informant for Struan's
 * Riko Gresserhoff - Wife of Alan Medford Grant, descendant of John Blackthorne
 * Martin Haply - Muckraking journalist from Canada
 * Paul Havergill - Deputy chief manager of Victoria Bank, secret ally of Quillan Gornt
 * Tang-wa Jen - Nationalist General, chief of illegal Kuomintang secret police
 * Wei-wei Jen - Lady friend of Ian Dunross, niece of Tang-wa Jen
 * Bruce Johnjohn - Assistant to Havergill and successor-to-be at Victoria Bank
 * Kin Min-ta - Head of Werewolves criminal gang
 * Koronski - Soviet chemical interrogations expert
 * Richard Kwang - Head of Ho-Pak Bank, nephew of Four Finger Wu
 * Duncan MacIver - Helicopter pilot, main character in later Whirlwind
 * David MacStruan - Distant cousin of Dunross, head of Struan's Canadian operations
 * Ming-Li - John Chen's mistress
 * Fleur Marlowe - Wife of Peter Marlowe
 * Peter Marlowe - Novelist researching a book about Hong Kong, a former English FEPOW and thinly veiled fictionalization of Clavell himself; featured prominently in King Rat
 * Lando Mata - Macao's gambling and gold syndicate boss
 * Donald McBride - Steward of the Turf Club
 * Dr. Meng - Forensic pathologist and communist sympathizer
 * Dimitri Metkin - Russian sailor and spy
 * Jason Plumm - tai-pan of Asian Properties, an ally of Quillan Gornt and a lifelong enemy of Struan's and Ian Dunross; also secretly a descendant of Tyler Brock
 * Afternoon Pok - Waiter at Victoria and Albert Hotel
 * Goodweather Poon - Smuggler
 * Venus Poon - Actress and Richard Kwang's mistress, possibly loosely based on Connie Chan Po-chu
 * Richard Hamilton Pugmire - Tai-pan of H.K. General Stores
 * Orlanda Ramos - Former mistress, assistant to Quillan Gornt
 * Stanley Rosemont - CIA Deputy Director of Station
 * Edward Sinders - Head of MI-6
 * Donald C.C. Smyth - Corrupt police inspector, nicknamed "The Snake"
 * Ishwar Soorjani - Indian moneylender and stockbroker
 * Joseph Stern - Quillan Gornt's stockbroker
 * Alastair Struan - Ninth tai-pan, born 1900
 * Linbar Struan - Member of Struan's inner court
 * Gregor Suslev - Captain of Soviet spy ship, KGB Colonel who flees from Hong Kong after a natural disaster, leading Roger Crosse to believe him dead, character in later Whirlwind
 * Ah Tam - Old refugee woman who works with street criminals
 * Pockmark Tang - Smuggler
 * Tang-po - Police sergeant, Dragon of triad controlling street gambling
 * Shitee T'Chung - Business leader, descendant of Dirk Struan through May-may
 * Hiro Toda - Japanese shipping magnate, descendant of Toda Buntaro
 * Tok-toh Tip - Chinese presumed to work for Bank of China
 * Alexi Travkin - Russian noble in exile, Dunross' trainer
 * Tsu-yun - Chinese businessman, thorium smuggler
 * Zeppelin Tung - Son of Tightfist Tung
 * Igor Voranski - Russian sailor, actually Major Yuri Bakyan of the KGB
 * P.B. White - Mysterious bank executive and Struan ally
 * Sandra Yi - Ian Dunross' personal secretary

Miniseries article
Yeah, I know this is the article for the book, but could someone come on over to Noble House (TV series) and help me out? Now that it's been released in North America on DVD, I figure it should have a better article. LonelyPker (talk) 16:57, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

Is a topic missing from the plot section
OK, I have a confession to make, I've never read the book. I am here actually for the TV miniseries, but since that article is so small, I came here. And I didn't watch the series either, except one episode and that was long ago. So I was talking about old TV shows and someone mentioned one in which the main character had to do a favor to everyone who had a coin. And this is what I remember of the series. So I dug a little in the imbd and found only a quote of the main character saying: "To whomsoever gives me the other half of any of these coins, I will grant one favor." And the cover of the book which featured does present one such coin. So my point is, shouldn't this be mentioned or clarified in the plot section? I would do it myself if only I had read the novel and had a clue about it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.246.7.138 (talk) 16:37, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

 * You have a very good point here. The plot is barely summarized at all. At some point, the plot section turned into an unsourced history review of Mr. Clavell's influences. This requires significant cleanup to restore a decent summary of the plot. Wellspring (talk) 17:05, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Banks in the novel
There is a good description of what real companies the fictional companies are based on. But does anyone have any information on what Banks the fictional Banks (Victoria, BLCS, and Ho-Pak) are based on?

130.32.42.1 (talk) 16:27, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

 * I would have a guess at the Victoria being The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (now part of HSBC), BLCS being Standard Chartered Bank, and HoPak being Hnag Seng Bank (When Hang Seng bank suffered a run on its deposits in 1965, HSBC came to the rescue, buying up a 51 percent share in Hang Seng, the equivalent of £200 million at the time). Hope this helps and if someone wants to add this to the main article as I don't have the knowledge.
 * 130.32.42.1 (talk) 09:06, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Article desperately overuses the word, "Desperately."
And Desperately So. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.218.86.80 (talk) 11:45, 6 March 2011 (UTC)

"...Queen of England [sic]..."?
Is the word 'sic' in the original quotation or was it added by an author of this article? Was there a mistake that has been corrected? She is indeed the Queen of England, per List of titles and honours of Elizabeth II --142.163.194.167 (talk) 00:43, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

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Third Tai-Pan
Wasn't Malcolm Straun (Culum & Tess's son) technically the third tai-pan? He wasnt officially given the title due to his age, but he had every right to call himself one in the short time he had.

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Archies Creek, Victoria

Archies Creek is a small town in Victoria, Australia. It is located between the Dalyston - Glen Forbes Road and Loch-Wonthaggi Road, on the Archies Creek Road, in the Bass Coast Shire, north-west of Wonthaggi.

Much of the development in this particular corner of South Gippsland was due to the discovery of coal at Cape Paterson in 1825–26. But it was far more than just coal which caused this area to grow. Many pioneers had realised the potential of the land and had begun clearing it to raise cattle and sheep long before coal mining began in 1859.

Early records indicate that a factory was established at Archies Creek in the late 1800s. Still, very little development actually took place in the township until after the turn of the century. In 1902, when an application was made for a hotel licence by Mrs Mary A Dixon, it appeared that the only other business in the town was the Melbourne Chilled Butter Factory. This privately owned factory was sold to the Wonthaggi Dairy Produce Company in 1903 for the sum of 800 pounds. It was run as a co-operative with local dairy farmers on the Board to control operations. It built up a world-wide reputation for quality butter and other dairy products.

The township was well established when, on 14 August 1902, a group of men met in the Royal Mail Hotel to discuss the possibility of building a public hall. Jas Dixon offered to buy the land and the local people were canvassed to raise the 200 pounds required for its construction. The Grand Ball to mark its opening occurred on 1 January 1904, with tickets admitting two ladies and one gentlemen costing 5 shillings. Dances were often held on the full moon to provide the light for the men on horses to find their way back home. As the old hall deteriorated over time a new brick hall was built in 1958. In February 1963 the first wedding of Mary and Graeme Mabin was catered for by the Ladies Committee.

The butter factory was the life blood of Archies Creek. It provided employment for over 200 people at the peak of the operations and was at the forefront of dairy factory development in Australia. It became one of the first dairy factories to transport milk in bulk tankers, starting a pilot scheme in 1957.

The Post Office, Archie's Creek, opened on 17 November 1899 and closed in 1986 The Postmaster at the time was Michael Bentick.

Archies Creek was the seat of the Shire of Bass until it amalgamated in 1994 and is now in the Bass Coast Shire.

In May 2019 the inaugural Archies Bald Portrait Prize was held at the Archies Creek Hall and curated by Liane Arno of ArtSpace. Inspired by Deb Rielly, a paramedic and cancer sufferer who died in April 2019, who suffered taunts because she refused to wear a wig or scarf when she lost her hair due to chemotherapy, the local community art gallery, ArtSpace, along with the Hall, organised a painting and sculptural exhibition in honour of the beauty of the hairless head. A sold out Biggest Morning Tea raised money for Cancer Research.

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Halber Mensch (film)

Halber Mensch (also known as 1/2 Mensch) is a 1986 film by Japanese director Gakuryū Ishii, then going by the name Sōgo Ishii, with German band Einstürzende Neubauten. It was originally released on VHS, and re-released on DVD in 2005. The film's title comes from the album of the same name.

The one-hour film documents Einstürzende Neubauten's visit to Japan in 1985. It includes concert footage along with scenes of the band performing in an industrial building. Several songs from the "Halber Mensch" album are presented as music videos, some with accompanying Butoh dancers.

According to DVDManiacs, the DVD was originally mastered from a VHS tape, and the quality is therefore not as high as a usual DVD. The band, due to disputes with the manager of the label involved, have since released a remastered DVD on their own label.

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Carlos Vergara
Carlos Vergara is an American television news anchor.

Carlos anchors and reports for WCAV in Charlottesville, Virginia and Ebru Television News in Somerset, New Jersey.

Vergara has worked in other U.S. television markets including Bakersfield CA, Corpus Christi TX, and WTVJ, an NBC television owned and operated station in Miami FL, where he reported on daily news events in South Florida. He also has international experience, having contributed reports and filled-in anchor for Brian Andrews at RCN News in English in Bogota Colombia.

Having worked two US/Mexico border markets in his career, he's gained access to exclusive illegal immigration and illicit drug trade stories.

Carlos has interviewed presidents George W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. Also, Senators John McCain (AZ) and Jon Kyle (AZ), as well as other major politicos like Bush Campaign Chairman Ken Mehlman, Chief political adviser Karl Rove, Jesse Jackson, former HUD secretary and San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, former Governors James Florio (NJ), Zell Miller (GA), Bill Richardson (NM) and Janet Napolitano (AZ).

Among his most memorable interviews, a backstage Las Vegas chat with Colombian pop sensation Juanes in 2005, and California Congressman Sonny Bono two weeks before his tragic skiing death.

Carlos has been asked to testify at two seperate murder trials. In both instances,confessions were made to him on camera. Carlos has volunteered his free time to various organizations including reading councils, the American Heart Association, and Instituto de Cultura Hispanica in Corpus Christi, where he is an honorable lifetime member of the board. The board graciously honored him with a special presentation in 2002, when they announced September 26th as Carlos Vergara Night in Corpus Christi.

Carlos is a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Web page: www.i2santacruz.com/CLOS/Demo_09/Anchoring.html

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Long Melford

Long Melford, colloquially and historically also referred to as Melford, is a large village and civil parish in the Babergh district, in the county of Suffolk, England. It is on Suffolk's border with Essex, which is marked by the River Stour, 3 mi from Sudbury, approximately 16 mi from Colchester and 14 mi from Bury St Edmunds. It is one of Suffolk's "wool towns" and is a former market town. The parish also includes the hamlets of Bridge Street and Cuckoo Tye. In 2011 the parish had a population of 3918.

Its name is derived from the nature of the village's layout (originally concentrated along a 3-mile stretch of a single road) and the Mill ford crossing the Chad Brook (a tributary of the River Stour).

History
Prehistoric finds discovered in 2011 have shown that early settlement of what is now known as Long Melford dates back to the Mesolithic period, up to 8300 BC. In addition, Iron Age finds were made in the same year, all within the largely central area of the current village.

The Romans constructed two Roman roads through Long Melford, the main one running from Chelmsford to Pakenham. Roman remains were discovered in a gravel pit in 1828, a site now occupied by the village's football club. In 1997, Roman finds were uncovered including complete skeletons (with one being in a stone coffin), part of the original Roman Road, and complete samian ware pottery in a villager's garden.

In June 2013, some archaeological evidence of a Saxon and Bronze Age settlement in the northern area of the village was discovered by Carenza Lewis and her team from Cambridge University during a student dig.

Middle Ages
The Manor of Melford was given to the Abbey of St Edmundsbury by Earl Alfric about 1050. The village is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086, which lists the manor of Long Melford as having 41 villagers, including two freemen, nineteen smallholders, and sixteen slaves. There were eight plough teams of the lord of the manor and seventeen others. The manor had both meadow and woodland, two mills, and one church. The livestock was three cobs, thirty cattle, 140 pigs, and 300 sheep. The neighbouring Manor of Kentwell is also recorded.

During the Middle Ages, the village grew and gained a weekly market and an annual fair in 1235.

Long Melford survived the Black Death in 1348-9, and was a brief stop-off in the Peasants' Revolt in 1381. By the early 15th century, the manor of Kentwell belonged to the Clopton family. John Clopton was arrested in 1461 and charged with treason. He was spared execution, released and returned to Kentwell. There he organised and largely helped to pay for the rebuilding of the parish church, a notable example of a wool church. During this time the wealth of the parish was increasing, with most of the inhabitants being free men, renting their homes and lands. Guilds were founded, and weaving cloth became a key part of the village's economy. In the official inspector's returns for the year 1446, there were as many as 30 named weavers in Long Melford, who between them produced 264 finished "cloths".

Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Henry VIII granted the manor to Sir William Cordell.

Modern era
In 1604, an epidemic of the plague arrived in Melford and 119 people died between the months of May and September. During the English Civil War, a Puritan mob of over one thousand arrived in Melford pursuing Elizabeth Savage, Countess Rivers, a staunch Catholic and Royalist, from her property in St Osyth to her Suffolk estate at Melford Hall. The hall was sacked and plundered and the Countess fled to Bury St Edmunds, then to London where eventually she was imprisoned for debt and died a pauper.

By the end of the 17th century, cloth production had once again become important in the area as many new entrepreneurs started to produce a range of materials known as 'Bays and Says', similar to baize and serge. These were lighter, cheaper types of cloth than the traditional woollen broadcloths that had been made in the 15th and 16th centuries but, once again, many of the cloth merchants became extremely wealthy and for some years prosperity returned to Melford.

Soon after the beginning of the 19th century, a range of new industries such as horsehair weaving, an iron foundry, a flax works and coconut matting production started in Melford. By 1851, there were three horsehair manufacturers in Melford employing over 200 men, women and children. Prince Bertie, who later became King Edward VII, together with Princess Alexandra visited the village in November 1865, and large archways were constructed at key points in their honour to welcome them in, with the crowds. During the 1880s, a series of wage cuts in the coconut industry caused widespread anger and eventually resulted in strike action. Feelings ran high, culminating in a riot breaking out on polling day in December 1885, during which considerable damage was caused throughout the village. Troops were summoned from Bury St Edmunds to restore order; they arrived by train and marched from Melford station to read the Riot Act from the steps of the Police Station.

In World War I, hundreds of village men volunteered to serve their country. They joined many diverse army regiments, such as the Scots Guards, Prince of Wales Regiment, Royal Engineers, the Suffolk Regiment, serving in Gallipoli, Ypres, the Somme and numerous military campaigns. Other men fought in the Royal Navy, and the newly formed Royal Flying Corps. The personal stories of these 1,100 men and how the war affected the village is found in Long Melford and the Great War – The Stories of a Thousand Lives by David Gevaux. In October 1920, the village war memorial was unveiled, and is located at the entrance of the Holy Trinity Church.

During World War II, Long Melford was a location for American and Allied service personnel, who flew B24 and B17 aircraft from two large bomber stations, RAF Lavenham and RAF Sudbury, located nearby. Troops from, amongst others, the Berkshire and Black Watch Regiments, were billeted and garrisoned within the village. Injured airmen, troops from the D-Day landings and prisoners of war were treated at the large nearby 136th Station Hospital, located between Long Melford and Acton. Band leader Glenn Miller and his orchestra briefly visited Long Melford and played to injured airmen, invited locals and hospital staff at the 136th hospital in 1944.

German prisoners of war were interned at a camp near the 136th Station Hospital, and Italian prisoners were located at a camp at the nearby village of Borley. USAF personnel from bases at Lakenheath, Mildenhall, and Wethersfield airbases often lived within Long Melford. By the end of the war, two B24 Liberators, one B17 Flying Fortress and one RAF de Havilland Mosquito had crashed in the parish with over twenty persons killed or injured. Numerous pillboxes and temporary gun emplacements were constructed in the village during the war, and in 2012 a previously unknown underground bunker room was located. According to the Remembrance Plaque at Holy Trinity Church, ninety-six serving villagers were killed in World War One, and eleven during World War Two.

Governance
Long Melford has three tiers of local authority governance; Long Melford Parish Council, Babergh District Council, and Suffolk County Council. An electoral ward in the same name exists. This ward includes Alpheton and has a total population at the 2011 Census of 3,774.

Buildings
The size and architecture of Holy Trinity Church make it unusual for a village parish church, and it was the only church in Suffolk to receive five stars in the book England's Thousand Best Churches by Simon Jenkins. The church dates from the reign of Edward the Confessor, but was then substantially rebuilt between 1467 and 1497 by John Clopton of Kentwell Hall. It is one of the richest "wool churches" in East Anglia and is noted for its flushwork, Clopton chantry chapel, and the Lady Chapel at the east end, as well as having one of the finest collections of medieval stained-glass of any village church in England. Edmund Blunden, the First World War poet, is buried in the churchyard. Next to the church is the Hospital of the Holy and Blessed Trinity, an almshouse founded by William Cordell in 1573 and restored in 1847.

The village contains two country houses, Kentwell Hall and Melford Hall, both visited in the 16th century by Elizabeth I, and all built from the proceeds of the wool trade in the Middle Ages. Kentwell Hall and Holy Trinity Church were financed by the Clopton family, in particular by John Clopton. Both Kentwell Hall and Melford Hall are open to the general public, with Melford Hall being a National Trust property.

The village has 100 listed buildings, including many of the inns that were built along its main street. The village's history is recorded in the Long Melford Heritage Centre, which contains finds uncovered in the July 2011 Long Melford Dig. There are also displays of old photographs, and ancient finds from the village, including a collection of locally found Roman artefacts.

Education
The village contains one school, Long Melford Church of England Primary School. Opened in 1974, it has been part of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich Diocesan Multi Academy Trust since 2016. The village's previous school was built in 1860, in the Elizabethan style, enlarged in 1895 and is now a community centre.

Transport
Long Melford once had a railway station on the Stour Valley Line, but this closed in March 1967 when the line was cut back to Sudbury. It is connected to several large towns by bus, notably Sudbury, Colchester, Bury St Edmunds, Haverhill and Ipswich.

Sport and leisure
Long Melford has a Non-League football club, Long Melford F.C., which plays at the Stoneylands ground, just off St Catherine's Road. They are members of the Eastern Counties League Premier Division following promotion as champions of Division One in the 2014/15 season.

Until the 1980s a prominent feature of the village's large, elongated village green was a group of great elms that included one of the largest in England. These trees were included in a 1940 painting by the watercolourist S. R. Badmin in his picture 'Long Melford Green on a Frosty Morning', now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Long Melford has a large water meadow on the approach to Liston and a network of footpaths. Among these paths is the Melford Walk, which follows the route of the disused railway line before joining the Valley Walk path to Sudbury. The Suffolk Cycle Route also passes through the village. Located at the southern end of the village next to the River Stour at Rodbridge Corner is Long Melford Country Park. This was formed by gravel excavations for nearby airfields during the second world war, leaving some large, attractive lakes with wildlife habitats and walking areas for visitors.

The Long Melford Big Night Out Guy Fawkes Night fireworks event is held annually in November at Melford Hall.

In popular culture
Long Melford was visited by Daniel Defoe, who mentioned the village in his book A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain. Defoe wrote, "Near adjoining to it [Sudbury] is a village call'd Long-Melfort, and a very long one it is, from which I suppose it had that addition to its name; it is full of very good houses, and, as they told me, is richer, and has more wealthy masters of the manufacture in it, than in Sudbury itself."

Between 1962 and 1967 Peter Pears and Benjamin Britten organised a series of Bach Weekends at Holy Trinity Church, with guests including the English Chamber Orchestra. A performance of Christmas Oratorio from 1967 was recorded for BBC Television.

The Bull Hotel in Long Melford features in the BBC documentary The World of John and Yoko. Melford village, and many of the buildings surrounding it were used as settings for the BBC television series Lovejoy. The 1968 film Witch Finder General and Terry Jones's film Wind in the Willows were both partially shot in Long Melford. The frontage of Kentwell Hall was digitally added into the 2005 film, The Chronicles of Narnia. The Long Melford Dig was filmed and documented in Michael Wood's 2012 BBC series The Great British Story. In early July 2014, Kentwell Hall was used as a location for the filming of Tulip Fever.

Long Melford was rated by a Times article in September 2015, as being one of the Top Ten most desirable villages in Britain.

Notable residents

 * John Reeve (1479-1540), the last abbot of Bury St Edmunds, was born in Melford
 * Sir Roger Martyn, Lord Mayor of London in 1567, was born here
 * The World War I poet Edmund Blunden lived, and is buried, in Long Melford;
 * The opera singer Mignon Nevada died here
 * racing driver Richard Seaman lived at Kentwell Hall during part of his childhood.
 * England international footballer William Cobbold was born in the village
 * Henry Wickham Steed, editor of The Times, was born here.
 * The notorious 17th century witch-hunter John Stearne, one of the two main instigators of the Bury St Edmunds witch trials, grew up in Long Melford.
 * The children's author Beatrix Potter was a cousin of Ethel, Lady Hyde Parker, of Melford Hall, and was a frequent visitor there between 1899 and 1916.
 * In the 20th century, artist Francis Bacon was a regular visitor to Long Melford, and his longtime companion and heir John Edwards subsequently bought a house there.
 * The woodgraver and watercolourist Lady Mabel Annesley retired to Long Melford in 1953 and is buried in the village.
 * The lawyer and Liberal Democrat peer Andrew Phillips, Baron Phillips of Sudbury, was born in Long Melford.
 * The classicist and orientalist Professor H W F Saggs died here in 2005.
 * Anne Cullen, the actress who originated the part of Carol Tregorran in the radio soap The Archers, lived in Long Melford until her death in 2015.
 * Charles John Drew was murdered by his namesake son in his house on the high street in 1740.

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Rugby Borough Council elections

Rugby Borough Council elections are held three years out of every four, with a third of the council elected each time. Rugby Borough Council is the local authority for the non-metropolitan district of Rugby in Warwickshire, England. Since the last boundary changes in 2012, 42 councillors have been elected from 16 wards.

Council elections

 * 1973 Rugby Borough Council election
 * 1976 Rugby Borough Council election
 * 1979 Rugby Borough Council election (New ward boundaries)
 * 1980 Rugby Borough Council election
 * 1982 Rugby Borough Council election
 * 1983 Rugby Borough Council election
 * 1984 Rugby Borough Council election
 * 1986 Rugby Borough Council election
 * 1987 Rugby Borough Council election
 * 1988 Rugby Borough Council election (Borough boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same)
 * 1990 Rugby Borough Council election
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 * 1992 Rugby Borough Council election
 * 1994 Rugby Borough Council election (Borough boundary changes took place but the number of seats remained the same)
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 * 2016 Rugby Borough Council election
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 * 2019 Rugby Borough Council election
 * 2021 Rugby Borough Council election
 * 2022 Rugby Borough Council election
 * 2023 Rugby Borough Council election

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Talk:Eileen Ivers

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"I've met Eileen, and saw her in concert twice". Does this belong in an encyclopedia? Ogg 09:00, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

The reference to Cherish the Ladies in Discography implies that Eilieen Ivers appeared on all of their CDs, not just a subset. This should be cleaned up... 12.157.129.234 (talk) 20:08, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

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Talk:Psi (Cyrillic)

Strange. I swear that in russian words from greek words starting with psi retain the p and s sounds: психика, псих, психология. Why does the article say that psi is pronounced as "S" in such words. In english "ps" is pronounced as "s", but there is no letter "psi" in english, and moreover, this article is discussing cyrillic.

--ChadThomson 09:00, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

 * It looks to me like someone was writing about the Greek psi, and its legacy in English loan words from Greek here, and didn't make that clear. —Michael Z. 2005-10-8 16:35 Z

1708
Article could briefly mention what happened in 1708 to cause the letter to not be used anymore. And wouldn't it have survived for some time afterwards if it was an edict? Tempshill 05:34, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Merge proposal
Merge this article into Psi (letter). Brad7777 (talk) 11:48, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Rationale There is no reason to split Psi (letter), the article isn't that long. Brad7777 (talk) 11:51, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I completely agree. Either this page should be merged with Psi (letter) or Psi (letter) should be renamed to Psi (Greek). The former makes more sense, as Psi (letter) should encompass all variants of the letter in related writing systems, such as Cyrillic and Greek. —  | J  ~  Pæst  |   08:23, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

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User talk:Dchi3f

Supreme court photo
Where did you get Image:Lawcourtsydney.jpg from? Enochlau 09:00, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

It is from a Google search of "Law Courts Sydney" and is the only decent picture of the Supreme Court Building that I have seen on the net

 * Unfortunately, the fact that it's the only decent one on the net doesn't necessarily mean that we can upload it onto Wikipedia. Do you have the URL of the site where it came from? If so, I might be able to dig around and check the copyright conditions. Enochlau 01:25, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

the url is http://www.neoferma.com/ stain/applications.htm

Please do not add copyrighted pictures to articles - just because it is available on the internet does not mean that you can use it here. I've deleted the one you added to New South Wales Legislative Assembly (which is obviously ripped from another site) - if it happens again, you're likely to wind up blocked from editing. Ambi 04:42, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Copyrighted images
Please stop replacing free images on articles with copyright restricted images. Just because you can download an image from the internet does not give you the right to upload it to wikipedia. I am going to check your image uploads and mark all image copyright violations to be deleted. You are not helping wikipedia by repeatedly doing this. I would be nicer about it if you hadn't been warned multiple times before. This is important it is against the law to steal other peoples images. If you have any questions please drop by my talk page. --Martyman- (talk) 22:09, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I notice not only that, but you have also been stealing text from other websites and uploading it here. This is also against the law. PLEASE STOP! --Martyman- (talk) 22:17, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

 * If you continue to add copyrighted material to wikipedia you will be in danger of being blocked from editing by an administrator. --Martyman- (talk) 22:51, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

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Last Dance (1996 film)

Last Dance is a 1996 crime drama thriller film directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid and Peter Gallagher.

Plot
Cindy Liggett is waiting on death row for a brutal double murder she committed in her teens, 12 years earlier. Clemency lawyer Rick Hayes tries to save her, based on the argument that she was under the influence of crack cocaine when she committed the crime of which she was found guilty and that she is no longer the same person she had been at the time of the murder. After being initially strapped in in preparation for her execution, a last-minute stay is granted for her case to be reviewed by an appeals panel. However, a short time later her death sentence is carried out. Afterward, Rick discovers an intricate drawing of the Taj Mahal Cindy had made among the artwork that was created while she was incarcerated. The film ends with Rick on a trip to India to visit the Taj Mahal after Cindy's execution.

Cast

 * Sharon Stone as Cindy Liggett
 * Rob Morrow as Rick Hayes
 * Randy Quaid as Sam Burns
 * Peter Gallagher as John Hayes
 * Jack Thompson as The Governor
 * Jayne Brook as Jill
 * Pamala Tyson as Linda, Legal Aid Attorney
 * Skeet Ulrich as Billy Liggett
 * Don Harvey as Doug
 * Diane Sellers as Inmate Reggie
 * Patricia French as Guard Frances
 * Ralph Wilcox as Warden Rice
 * Buck Ford as District Attorney Rusk
 * Dave Hager as Detective Vollo
 * Christine Cattell as Louise
 * Peg Allen as Helen
 * Charles S. Dutton (uncredited) as John Henry Reese

Production
Last Dance was filmed in Nashville.

Critical reception
The film was largely ignored at the box office, and suffered in comparison to the 1995 film Dead Man Walking, which was an Academy Award-winning drama whose treatment of the death penalty theme was still fresh in the minds of audiences.

Last Dance received negative reviews from critics. It currently holds a 30% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 23 reviews, with an average rating of 5.2/10. Sharon Stone was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst New Star (as the new serious Sharon Stone) for this film and Diabolique, where she lost to Pamela Anderson for Barb Wire.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times felt the film handled "potentially powerful material thoughtfully" and made a "good showcase for Stone". However, he pointed out that the film suffered from the "inescapable misfortune" of being following too soon after the "unquestioned masterpiece" of Dead Man Walking. In comparison, Ebert felt Last Dance "comes across as earnest but unoriginal". James Berardinelli of ReelViews also felt Dead Man Walking was "far superior". He felt Last Dance was a "less compelling tale" and "a little too safe", with "a little too much manipulation and melodrama". He praised Stone as giving the "most impressive performance of a rather lackluster career", but criticized Morrow as "leav[ing] something to be desired". He concluded that Last Dance is "perfectly watchable, and even worth a marginal recommendation, [but] in comparison to Dead Man Walking, it feels diluted."

Janet Maslin of the New York Times praised Stone's "stellar presence and surprisingly intense performance" in the film, describing her "dead-end role" as the film's "lifesaver". However, she was critical of the overall film, stating: "...soon the story begins taking sentimental turns, and even Ms. Stone's startling ferocity gets buried in sludge." Peter Travers of Rolling Stone was critical of the film and concluded: "Last Dance is a prison melodrama that embraces all the cliches that Dead Man Walking artfully dodged. Last Dance acts tough, but its heart is pure soap opera." Desson Howe of The Washington Post was also critical of the film, suggesting that the film "isn't quite "Dumb Blonde Walking", but that satirical slur isn't so far off the mark". He described the film as "formulaic" with a "strangely distancing" emotional effect.

Barbara Shulgasser of the San Francisco Chronicle described the film as "simplistic, puerile rubbish", adding that Stone needed to "start picking difficult material if she really wants to become an actress". Edward Guthmann of the same newspaper felt the film had "able" direction and acting, but that Dead Man Walking was "far superior". He praised Stone's performance, but added: "The moments when Last Dance doesn't gloss over Stone's character are the best, and they make you wish the movie had been restructured." He described the film as an "earnest, unremarkable addition to the Hollywood canon of prison movies". Anne Billson of the UK newspaper The Telegraph felt Stone "emerges from this enterprise with a certain amount of dignity", unlike Morrow, who is given "a wilfully unsympathetic role". She described the film as providing the "usual compendium of clichés".

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