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Portland Press Herald

The Portland Press Herald (abbreviated as PPH; Sunday edition Maine Sunday Telegram) is a daily newspaper based in South Portland, Maine, with a statewide readership. The Press Herald mainly serves southern Maine and is focused on the greater metropolitan area of Portland.

Founded in 1862, its roots extend to Maine’s earliest newspapers, the Falmouth Gazette & Weekly Advertiser, started in 1785, and the Eastern Argus, first published in Portland in 1803. For most of the 20th century, it was the cornerstone of Guy Gannett Communications, before being sold to The Seattle Times Company in 1998.

Since 2023, it has been a part of the Maine Trust for Local News, a nonprofit group run by the National Trust for Local News that includes four other daily newspapers and 17 weekly newspapers.

19th century origins
The Portland Daily Press was founded in June 1862 by J. T. Gilman, Joseph B. Hall, and Newell A. Foster as a new Republican paper. Its first issue, published on June 23, 1862, announced strong support for Abraham Lincoln and condemned slavery as "the foulest blot upon our national character." Its offices, along with the offices of all the newspapers in the city, were destroyed on July 4, 1866, in Portland's Great Fire. On the morning of July 6, the Portland Daily Press published a double-sided handbill about the fire.

The paper quickly gained the largest circulation in Portland, and was one of five daily newspapers in the city to survive to the 20th century. In 1904, the paper was bought by a syndicate of Maine Republicans, including Henry B. Cleaves and gubernatorial candidate Joseph Homan Manley, who the paper had previously opposed.

Guy Gannett ownership
In 1921, the Portland Daily Press was merged with the Portland Herald to form the Portland Press Herald in a sale of the Press from then U.S. Senator Frederick Hale to Guy P. Gannett, who had bought the Herald earlier the same year. The first edition of the Portland Press Herald was published in November 21, 1921. The Press Herald's circulation skyrocketed in the first year of Gannett's ownership, when the paper sold for two cents; circulation went from a little over 18,000 to nearly 29,000. Under Gannett's ownership, the traditionally pro-Republican newspaper adopted a balanced editorial approach; during the 1922 gubernatorial campaign, the newspaper published Democratic candidate William Robinson Pattangall's criticism of the Republican incumbent, Governor Percival Baxter. In a letter to readers, Gannett wrote, "The American people think for themselves. They want and should be given the news and all the news fully and uncolored by any personal or political consideration."

In the 1920s, Gannett's media empire in Maine grew: he purchased the Portland Evening Express and Daily Advertiser in 1925 (whose name he shortened to Evening Express) and by 1929 also bought Augusta's Kennebec Journal and Waterville's Central Maine Morning Sentinel.

In 1923, Gannett built a new building to house all of the paper's operations on 390 Congress Street across from Portland City Hall.

In 1928 the Portland Press Herald merged with the Portland Sunday Telegram to form the Portland Sunday Telegram and Sunday Press Herald .

Blethen Maine Newspapers
In 1998, the family trust that ran what was by now Guy Gannett Communications decided to break up its media interests. Ultimately, it decided to sell the Press Herald to The Seattle Times Company. Gannett officials cited shared values; the Times Company was also a family-owned business, and its owners, the Blethen family, had roots in Maine. The Press Herald and its sister publications were reorganized as Blethen Maine Newspapers, an independent division of The Seattle Times Company.

A paid advertisement in the newspaper's February 3, 2007, "religion and values" section, placed by the First Baptist Church of South Portland, listed the sermon as "The Only Way to Destroy the Jewish Race"; this caused outrage in Greater Portland's Jewish community, and led to an apology by the minister of that church. Two weeks later, an ad for PeoplesChoice Credit Union ran, depicting a "Fee Bandit" character that used stock photography of a Hasidic Jew to represent the character rather than the Old West banker intended for the visual representation. This incident prompted investigations by the Anti-Defamation League; Steven Wessler, director of the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence and the person in charge of dealing with hate crimes in the state; and the Jewish Community Alliance. The newspaper's management, as well as the credit union, later apologized for the advertisements; the newspaper said it would scrutinize ad content better in the future.

On March 17, 2008, the Press Herald converted from its traditional multi-section format to two sections. A brief editorial highlighted advertising concerns and said the other sections could be found online. The next day, the Blethens announced that they were putting the Press Herald and its other Maine newspaper properties up for sale. The Portland Press Herald also had three rounds of job cuts in 2008; in the third round of cuts, the newspapers' owner eliminated 36 jobs and closed the news bureaus in Augusta, Biddeford, Bath, and Washington, D.C., in response to declining newspaper ad revenue.

Richard Connor ownership
After more than a year on the market, on June 15, 2009, the papers were sold to MaineToday Media, Inc., headed by Richard L. Connor, publisher of Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, with financing from HM Capital Partners and Citizens Bank. MaineToday also owned a variety of Maine press properties, including the Kennebec Journal, Morning Sentinel, and Bath's Coastal Journal, as well as mainetoday.com.

Although MaineToday originally announced a plan to move the paper's offices out of downtown into the South Portland printing plant, it was later reported that the company's headquarters would move to One City Center in downtown Portland. As part of the sale, Portland Newspaper Guild members took a 10% pay cut in exchange for 15% ownership in MaineToday Media. More than 30 non-union jobs were eliminated.

Connor's short tenure was characterized by controversy and a rapid decline in the newspaper's financial condition. On September 11, 2010, the Press Herald reported on local Ramadan celebrations with a front-page story. Later that day, Connor insisted on apologizing to readers for his editors' decision to run that story. "Many saw Saturday's front-page story and photo regarding the local observance of the end of Ramadan as offensive, particularly on the day, September 11, when our nation and the world were paying tribute to those who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks nine years ago," wrote Connor.

Connor's apology attracted nationwide scorn. In Time Magazine, critic James Poniewozik called Connor's behavior "craven" and "depressing for the state of journalism." In an appearance on NPR's On The Media, Connor admitted that "some of the people who complained about the lack of 9/11 coverage were really couching anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic attitudes," but refused to retract his apology, and he eventually hung up on host Bob Garfield before the segment was over.

Connor demonstrated a similar lack of ability in managing the business side of the newspaper. In 2011, he eliminated 61 positions, many of which were in the newsroom, and in November of that year, a paper supplier sued the newspaper for $124,000 in unpaid bills. Connor finally left the newspaper at the end of 2011 under strong pressure from the board of directors and a restructuring firm that had taken over day-to-day management.

S. Donald Sussman/Maine Values LLC ownership
Maine Values LLC, a company owned by wealthy businessman and philanthropist S. Donald Sussman, made a $3–4 million investment in MaineToday Media in February 2012, acquiring a 5% equity stake in the company and a seat on its board. The next month, Maine Values boosted its ownership stake in MaineToday to 75%. Sussman, who lived in North Haven, Maine, therefore held a majority stake in the newspapers.

In 2013, Travelers Casualty & Surety Co. paid MaineToday Media over $500,000 under the company’s employee theft insurance policy to recoup money that former publisher Richard P. Connor had allegedly stolen from the company for unauthorized personal use. Forensic audits by MaineToday and its insurers had revealed that Connor had given himself unauthorized salary increases and used company funds to pay for personal expenses, including credit card bills, dental work, an SUV, vacation home rentals, and numerous other personal expenses.

Reade Brower ownership
In 2015, MaineToday Media was sold to Reade Brower, owner of a number of midcoast Maine newspapers and a printing operation in Brunswick, Maine. Over a decade, Brower has consolidated six of Maine's seven daily newspapers, as well as 21 weekly newspapers, under his ownership.

National Trust for Local News
In July 2023, it was announced that a national nonprofit, the National Trust for Local News, would buy the Press Herald from Brower. The Press Herald, along with 4 daily and 17 weekly Maine papers owned by Brower, is part of the new Maine Trust for Local News.

Journalists
Notable alumni of the paper include Thomas Haskell, known as Cap'n Haskell, who covered marine news for the Eastern Argus newspaper from 1857 to 1920 until it merged with the Portland Press and stayed with the paper until three months prior to his death in 1928; May Craig, who was Washington correspondent from 1935 to 1965; sportswriter Steve Buckley, who later joined the Boston Herald; sportswriter Jerry Crasnick, who later worked for ESPN and is now senior advisor to the Major League Baseball Players Association; and Marjorie Standish, who wrote a food column for the Maine Sunday Telegram for 25 years.

Current notable journalists include investigative journalist and book author Colin Woodard, who was named Maine Journalist of the Year in 2015; vegan food columnist Avery Yale Kamila, and opinion columnist Bill Nemitz.

Awards
In 2006, the paper received a Missouri Lifestyle Journalism Award for General Excellence, Class III.

In 2012, Maine Sunday Telegram reporter Colin Woodard received a George Polk Award in the "Education Reporting" category "for detailing how online education companies steered development of Maine’s digital education policies."

In 2016, Colin Woodard of the Portland Press Herald was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for his "compelling account of dramatic ecological changes occurring in the warming ocean region from Nova Scotia to Cape Cod."

In 2016, the Portland Press Herald reporters Whit Richardson and Steve Mistler received a Gerald Loeb Award for their 2015 series "Payday at the Mill" in the "Local" category. The series detailed a lack of accountability in the Maine New Markets Capital Investment program, a state tax-incentive program.

Editorial stance
The newspaper's predecessor, the Portland Daily Press, was formed as a pro-Republican newspaper in an era when most American newspapers had strong political allegiances. In the 1920s, under Guy P. Gannett's leadership, the newspaper adopted a more balanced editorial approach, and today the news and opinion sections of the paper are separate.

In 1929 and 1930, the Portland Press Herald and the Portland Evening News "waged an editorial war" about the Kellogg–Briand Pact and the 1930 London Conference on naval arms limitations: the Evening News took a pacifist view, arguing in favor of the Pact; the Press Herald took the opposite view, calling the Pact "a delusion and a dream." This dispute illustrated a political chasm within the Maine Republican Party at the time between "Old Guard regulars" and pacifists.

Later in the 20th century, the Press Herald was regarded as having a more liberal and pro-Democratic editorial stance than the Bangor Daily News, which leaned toward conservatism and Republicans. Over its history, however, the Press Herald "has covered and endorsed candidates of various political persuasions, including independents Angus King, who was elected governor in 1994 and 1998, and Eliot Cutler, who came in second in the 2010 gubernatorial campaign." The Press Herald endorsed conservative Republican candidates (Dean Scontras and Jason Levesque) in both of Maine's congressional districts in 2010. They were defeated by the Democratic incumbents, Chellie Pingree and Mike Michaud. In the 2016 presidential election, the paper's editorial board endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. The paper endorsed an override of Governor Paul LePage's veto of L.D. 1504, a pro-solar energy bill.

Online
Content from the Portland Press Herald appears on its website pressherald.com. The Portland Press Herald acquired the domain name Portland.com in 1996 for free, using it as the Web address for the papers; Portland.com was sold to a marketing firm and became a visitor's guide for the city of Portland, Oregon, in 2004.

Press Herald Building
In 1923, Guy Gannett built the Press Herald Building to house all of the paper's operations at 390 Congress Street across from Portland City Hall. An addition was added to the north side of the building facing Congress Street in 1948. In 2010, under Richard Connor's ownership, the newspaper sold the building and printing plant (attached by a tunnel running under Congress Street) and moved its news staff to the nearby One City Center office building.

In 2015, the 110-room Press Hotel opened in the newspaper's former headquarters. It was developed by Jim Brady and sold to a San Francisco-based real estate private equity firm in 2021.

In 1988, the newspaper opened a $40 million print plant at 295 Gannet Drive in South Portland. In 2016, J.B. Brown & Co. purchased the print plant and its surrounding 21 acres in an office park for a reported $4.9 million. J.B. Brown & Co. then leased the building back to the newspaper. The newspaper's newsroom, printing press and distribution functions are located in South Portland.

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Galen Head

Galen Russell Head (April 16, 1947 – March 14, 2020) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who spent the majority of his career, which lasted from 1967 to 1976, with the Johnstown Jets of the Eastern Hockey League and North American Hockey League. Head played one game in the NHL with the Detroit Red Wings during the 1967-68 NHL season and wore #15.

Juniors
Head started out playing in the Grande Prairie Minor Hockey Association at age 13. Three years later, Head moved to senior hockey and played in the South Peace Hockey League as a member of the Grande Prairie Athletics, where he won SPHL Rookie Of The Year honors in 1963–64.

He remained with the Athletics until midway through the 1964–65 season, where he received an invite from the Edmonton Oil Kings. Head remained with the Oil Kings during the 1965–66 season, where he faced off against the Oshawa Generals, a team led by future Hockey Hall Of Fame member Bobby Orr. The Oil Kings defeated the Generals and won the Memorial Cup. Head scored 16 points in 19 games during the 1965–66 post-season.

Head continued to play with the Oil Kings for one more season, scoring 50 goals and 42 assists and trailing Garnet "Ace" Bailey in regular season point totals.

Professional
Head received an invitation from the National Hockey League's Detroit Red Wings to attend training camp in the fall of 1967. In camp, he was assigned #15 and was given $130 for a one-game tryout but was released on September 22.

Head was later assigned to the Johnstown Jets, a team in the Eastern Hockey League. He scored 53 goals in his rookie season. As a result, Head was recalled by Detroit where he would "play six or seven shifts" in his only game with the Red Wings, on March 21, 1968, against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Head also had ice time with the Fort Worth Wings, another Detroit affiliate.

The following season, Head had his best statistical season. He scored 67 goals and 121 points in 72 games, which led all EHL players.

Head later became player/coach of the Jets during the 1973–74 season as a result of a coach walking out prior to the start of the season. Head was later named official head coach that season and be named captain of the team. He played until the 1975–76 season, after which he retired after eight seasons with the Jets.

Head ranks among the leader in many career statistics in Johnstown history. His 308 goals as a member of the Jets ranks third all time, while his 601 points rank fourth and his 293 assists are sixth highest. His 67 goal season and 69 single season goals (regular and post-season) were a record until former Johnstown Chiefs forward Mark Green eclipsed the totals with 68 goals in the regular season and 70 single season goals in 1991–92.

Awards

 * CMJHL Second All-Star Team – 1967

Personal
Head, like several members of the 1975–76 Johnstown Jets, had a part in the movie Slap Shot. He played one of the uncredited hockey players. His wife, Grace Head, had a credited speaking part as "Pam", one of the hockey wives in the movie.

Head was one of several people responsible for founding the Bishop McCort hockey program in 1985. With Head leading the team as head coach, McCort won three Pennsylvania state championships over a period of eleven years.

On October 18, 2003, Head was the third person to have their number retired by the Johnstown Chiefs. Although he did not play for the Chiefs, as they were founded after his retirement, he was recognized for his contributions as a player with the Jets, his tenure with the Chiefs providing game night scouting reports, and for his contributions to hockey to the city of Johnstown. He is also a member of the Cambria County Sports Hall of Fame, the Johnstown Hockey Hall Of Fame, and the Grande Prairie Hockey Hall of Fame.

Head died in Johnstown, Pennsylvania on March 14, 2020.

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Somersham

Somersham is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Somersham lies approximately 9 mi east of Huntingdon and 4 mi north of St Ives. Somersham is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England.

There has been a settlement in this corner of the country for at least 2,500 years and probably much longer than that. The village may not be full of ancient buildings, but it possesses a rich heritage of recorded history. Somersham lies on the Greenwich meridian line. There is a marker on the pavement in the High Street denoting the location of the October 1884 Greenwich Prime Zero meridian line.

There was once a railway station at Somersham connecting it to the towns of March and St Ives, as well as a short branch to Ramsey.

History
The manor of Somersham was held by the Abbots (later Bishops) of Ely who obtained it from the Anglo Saxon Ealdorman Byrhtnoth following his death at the Battle of Maldon in Essex in 991 AD.

Somersham was listed as Summersham in the Domesday Book in the Hundred of Hurstingstone in Huntingdonshire. In 1086 there was one manor at Somersham and 41 households. There were eleven ploughlands with the capacity for a further one, 20 acre of meadows, 1361 acre of woodland, and three fisheries.

The manor passed to The Crown when Elizabeth I seized it via dubious means at the end of the 16th century. New trustees were appointed in 1631, and in 1634 the residue of the term was settled for life as jointure on Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I, and power was given to her trustees to grant leases for terms not exceeding 21 years. It remained in royal hands until the aftermath of the English Civil War, when it was disposed of by Parliament. The manor was sold to Robert Blackborne of Westminster in 1653, who in turn sold to Oliver Cromwell's brother-in-law Valentine Walton, which ultimately resulted in a suit between the two parties. Following the Restoration, the manor was returned to the Crown.

There was a substantial manor house at Somersham with formal gardens dating to the 12th century and possibly earlier. A Tudor palace was constructed over the mediaeval building by Bishop James Stanley, of Ely, under Henry VII but by the time the Hammond family came into possession in the late 17th century the buildings were in a poor state of repair. They were pulled down in the middle of the 18th century.

In the latter part of the 14th century, the church in Somersham was a living in possession of the English Cardinal and papal courtier Adam Easton and he relied on its wealth until his death in 1397.

During the 18th century there was a Spa just outside the town that was actively promoted by one of the royal surgeons. James Hammond, an elegiac poet who died in 1742, was born and brought up in Somersham; his work remained popular throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, being reprinted several times, but is no longer well known today.

Government
As a civil parish, Somersham has a parish council, consisting of fifteen councillors. The second tier of local government is Huntingdonshire District Council. Somersham is a district ward and is represented on the district council by two councillors. The highest tier of local government is Cambridgeshire County Council Somersham is part of the electoral division of Somersham and Earith and is represented on the county council by one councillor.

At Westminster Somersham is in the parliamentary constituency of North West Cambridgeshire, currently represented by the Conservative MP Shailesh Vara, who has represented the constituency since 2005.

Somersham was in the historic and administrative county of Huntingdonshire until 1965. From 1965, the village was part of the new administrative county of Huntingdon and Peterborough. Then in 1974, following the Local Government Act 1972, Somersham became a part of the county of Cambridgeshire.

Population
In the period 1801 to 1901 the population of Somersham was recorded every ten years by the UK census. During this time the population was in the range of 833 (the lowest was in 1801) and 1653 (the highest was in 1851).

From 1901, a census was taken every ten years with the exception of 1941 (due to the Second World War).

All population census figures from report Historic Census figures Cambridgeshire to 2011 by Cambridgeshire Insight.

In 2011, the parish covered an area of 4670 acre and the population density of Somersham in 2011 was 522. 1 persons per square mile (201. 6 per square kilometre).

Culture and community
Containing a public house, two schools, and many shops, it is a well catered village, despite the recent closing of a number of small shops. Current shops include a Tesco express, Costcutter & post office, Florists, Printers, Pet shop, Chemists, 4 hair salons/barbers, a Chinese takeaway, Indian takeaway, a cafe, Fish and chip shop, 2 doctors surgeries and 2 playgroups.

Sport and leisure
The local football club, Somersham Town, plays in the Cambridgeshire League, having previously been members of the Eastern Counties League.

Somersham Town Band is the only brass band in the old county of Huntingdonshire. It can trace its history back to 1919, although the current band was reformed in 1980 after being dormant during the 1970s.

Transport
From 1848 to 1967 the village was served by Somersham railway station, which was part of the Great Eastern Railway between St Ives and March.

The village is currently served by bus services that run from St Ives to Ramsey, as well as from St Ives to Cambridge as part of the Cambridgeshire Guided Busway.

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 * The Saskatoon Storytellers' Guild meets on the third Friday of each month, except July and August, at 7:30 pm in the meeting room of the Mayfair Branch of the Saskatoon Public Library, 602-33rd Street West in Saskatoon. Beginning, recreational and professional storytellers are welcome, as are all listeners.

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Grant Bristow

Grant Bristow (born February 1958 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) was an undercover spy, or mole, for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), who co-founded and successfully infiltrated the Heritage Front white supremacist group for six years. Several months after the assignment, Bristow was exposed by Toronto Sun reporter Bill Dunphy, in August 1994. His work inside the Heritage Front became highly controversial in Canada, when exposed, due to much of his activity being viewed as that of a contributory nature, reflected by an August 14, 1994 Toronto Sun headline, "Spy Unmasked: CSIS Informant 'Founding Father' of white racist group".

Career and initial CSIS work
Grant Bristow began his career as a private investigator, working with several Toronto-based investigation firms through the early and mid-1980s. Through this work, he developed both the personality and resources necessary to perform covert infiltrations and intelligence gathering. Bristow's CSIS involvement commenced in 1986 through an official at the South African embassy. He was hired to perform security work at their Ottawa embassy, which was the target of many demonstrations at the time due to the nation's continued Apartheid policy. According to an interview Bristow gave to The Walrus in September 2004, and as implied in the SIRC report of December 1995, one of two Embassy officials he had contact with at the time also requested he gather and provide intelligence on the Canadian anti-Apartheid demonstrators individually. He says he was opposed to this idea (gathering intelligence on Canadians for a foreign government), desiring only to provide security for the embassy. However, he feigned interest in the proposal and secretly arranged a meeting with a CSIS officer to report the Official's request. This meeting marked the beginning of Bristow's involvement with the intelligence agency. Following the meeting with the CSIS representative Bristow proceeded to co-operate, reporting details on the progression of the 'mission'. His work was successful and on August 20, 1986, the Canadian government expelled one of the South African officials and prohibited the other from re-entry to Canada designating him persona non grata.

Introduction to the Canadian far-right
He maintained his relationship with CSIS and the following year (while employed by day as an in-house investigator for a shipping firm), after being introduced through an acquaintance to far-right activist Max French, reported the introduction to his handlers. Satisfied with his previous performance, they encouraged him to befriend French and see what information he could gather on the activities of Canada's far-right. Due to his lack of any substantive knowledge, Bristow was given a crash-course introduction to the major players of the far-Right, as well as a copy of the Turner Diaries to familiarize himself with. His relationship with French bore little fruit and was short-lived. Fortunately for Bristow, an associate subsequently introduced him to another far-right sympathizer who provided an "in" via Don Andrews' Nationalist Party of Canada. It was through this introduction and his attendance of Nationalist Party meetings that he made the connections and gathered the information that allowed the commencement of what was to be called "Operation Governor".

Operation Governor begins
Operation Governor began in the autumn of 1988. Its original scope was extremely broad, with no particular targets or goals. Its primary function was basically nothing more than gathering any and all information available to him. The Autumn of 1988 was an ideal time for this mission to begin primarily because many of the groups were lacking in numbers and intelligent membership. As an educated professional, Bristow was an attractive prospect. These factors made it simpler for him to infiltrate without raising any eyebrows. Bristow quickly became friends with Party leader Don Andrews, crediting their fast friendship with "mirroring", an intelligence technique where one mimics the target's thoughts and feelings, forging a bond to gain trust. Through his friendship with Andrews, he attended a 'Welcome Home' party for Wolfgang Droege, returning from a US prison where he served time for cocaine trafficking and a weapons charge. This was his first encounter with Droege, with whom he immediately struck up rapport. After a few conversations he realized that unlike the primarily verbal Andrews, Droege was the real thing. He was interested in taking real action in support of his extreme ideas, which motivated Bristow to slowly move his focus and efforts from Andrews to Droege.

In total, Bristow was paid $50,000 by CSIS.

Nationalist Party and Libya visit
As time progressed and Bristow became further involved in the far-right, he was promoted from member to Security Chief of the Nationalist Party. Throughout this time his friendship with Droege continued to grow, with Droege revealing more and more about himself and his past. Looking back on these times in 2005, Bristow said, "I was keeping watch over violent hate groups, it was the right thing to do." From this position, he screened and collected detailed personal information on all new members, which was promptly copied and forwarded to CSIS. By mid-1989 however, Droege was increasingly dissatisfied with Andrews and the Party and began considering a departure to form a new group more to his liking.

In late July 1989, Libyan head of state Muammar al-Gaddafi invited delegates from the Nationalist party to attend celebrations for the 20th Anniversary of his revolution, all expenses paid. Andrews was unable to attend due to legal obligations, so Droege and Bristow went together at Droege's insistence. Their flight to Libya took them to Rome, where Italian Intelligence officers detained them and unsuccessfully attempted to convince them to cancel their Libyan visit. They arrived in Tripoli with many other extremists from around the world (Qadaffi had invited many leaders of far-left and far-right movements around the world, hoping to unite them in opposition to their common enemy in Zionism), but despite their best efforts Droege left with only a $1,000(US) gift.

On their way home the plane stopped in Chicago, where due to his previous trafficking convictions Droege was arrested (having been barred from entering the United States) and detained, while Bristow was again detained as well and strip-searched. He was furious upon his return (Droege was still being held by US authorities), having gone through terrible stress worrying that either foreign intelligence service encounter could have blown his cover. He fumed at his CSIS handlers, accusing them of using him as "an expendable pawn." This prompted the amendment of his agreement with them to include that he 'must be informed beforehand of any future takedowns'.

The Heritage Front saga
Prior to Droege's release from U.S. custody and subsequent return to Canada, he became convinced that Andrews had somehow arranged his arrest, the final catalyst in the formation of what was to be the Heritage Front. Bristow was along every step of the way, a close confidant of Droege's throughout this period. Bristow claims that he used this confidence to dissuade Droege from undertaking a number of potentially illegal or violent acts. As the Front was formed and began to grow, Bristow documented and relayed to CSIS details of an eco-terrorism plot against North American agriculture being promoted by an American Aryan Nations member to Droege. Bristow managed to talk Droege out of going to Libyan agents in New York with the information, which was altogether scientifically unsound anyhow. It was nonetheless a sobering indication of the extremes to which Droege would go, and provided further justification for the mission to CSIS.

During this period, Bristow got to know the upper echelons of Canadian and international white supremacy and revisionism, serving as a bodyguard for both David Irving and Ernst Zündel. As well, Droege sent Bristow to rendezvous with Terry Long, leader of the Canadian chapter of Aryan Nations. Immediately taking to Bristow, Long passed on the membership list of his group with 180 names for Droege's use, which Bristow copied and provided to CSIS. After this success (and a CSIS-sponsored British vacation), he left with Droege and Zündel for an international Far-right symposium in Germany. In his capacity as security for the Canadian contingent, he video and photodocumented the conference, again providing the data to CSIS. The conference was raided by German Police, however, and Droege and Bristow narrowly avoided arrest. The arrest of Zündel in the raid dashed CSIS' hopes of identifying the major foreign financiers of Canada's Far-right.

Shortly after his return to Canada he was dispatched by the Front to travel to Richard Butler's famed Aryan Nations compound in Idaho. CSIS agreed to this, hoping to acquire the identities of Canadian attendees. It was here that the interconnectedness of the North American Far-right became clear, and the prevailing danger evident. Visits from major American racists like Tom Metzger of White Aryan Resistance were cut short through Bristow's disclosing to CSIS of their whereabouts, so they could be arrested and deported.

Final days in the Front
It was from the publicity generated by these sorts of arrests that major opposition to the Front began to rise. Groups like Anti-Racist Action began to appear, and were present whenever the Front was in Court or on the streets. Tensions were building, and so were numbers on both sides. Bristow walked a very fine line, his role in CSIS preventing him from engaging in the ever-growing violence, a potential Achilles' Heel for his ongoing espionage. These demonstrations and counter-demonstrations culminated in a riot in Ottawa on May 29, 1993, with physical attacks taking place against parties on both sides. These events culminated in calls by the majority of young and angry Front members for retaliatory attacks, and when these calls went unanswered by the Front's leadership, a splinter gang of violent white power skinheads was formed. Bristow passed an emergency message onto his CSIS handlers. Immediately this gang sprang into action, robbing a donut shop the first night and threatening a major attack on the Canadian Jewish Congress. The group had a large weapons cache when police apprehended them.

Soon after these incidents and under the guise of job-hunting, Bristow took a US vacation to marry his girlfriend. Upon his return it became evident he would be forced to terminate his involvement with the front, as Droege was being charged with assault and if Droege was imprisoned, Bristow would become the de facto leader of the Front, an untenable position for a government-employed mole. The exit wouldn't be easy, but not terribly difficult either. Due to the legal hurdles and a general dwindling of support (both public and internal), the Front was beginning to fade. Bristow soon informed Droege of his plan to leave the movement for a job in Eastern Canada, Droege was sad but grateful for the friendship they had and Bristow's efforts for the movement. It was March 1994 when Operation Governor officially concluded, Bristow having prepared dossiers on remaining Far-righters who still posed a threat of some sort beforehand.

Bristow's exposure
On August 12, 1994, Bristow was contacted by Toronto Sun reporter Bill Dunphy, who informed him he was about to go to press with a story about Bristow's being a CSIS asset and exposing much of his Front activity through the duration of his work. Given the violent tendencies of his former targets, Bristow requested Dunphy not to publish the story, but Dunphy insisted and went to press just two days later — on 14 August 1994. Bristow realized he had to get his family and himself out of Toronto and into hiding immediately and CSIS obliged. They were first moved to Jasper for a brief stay and opportunity to evade the situation while plans were made. Eventually resettled in Alberta, his 1995 return to Toronto for a funeral again found him caught by the media, with a CSIS crisis team having to meet to deal with a Toronto Star reporter's questions and subsequent publishing of the identities of and photos of both Bristow and his wife. Feeling apathetic by this point due to stress, they decided simply to return home and hope for the best.

2004 media interview
For the first time, Bristow decided in September 2004 to break his silence regarding the whole issue, and granted an in-depth interview to the Canadian current affairs magazine The Walrus, which led to a resurgence of media coverage around the issue. In the interview, Bristow gives details about his time with CSIS, activities before and after the affair and his current life. While he remains concerned about retaliation, he has largely moved on in his life and has let go of the past.

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Rich Healey

Richard Thomas Healey (born March 12, 1938) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played one game in the National Hockey League with the Detroit Red Wings during the 1960–61 season, on January 4, 1961, against the Toronto Maple Leafs. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1959 to 1970, was spent in various minor leagues.

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Talk:Geoff Johns

Criticism section
I removed the "criticism" section because I feel it isn't needed. Many of the other comic book writers on Wikipedia have no such sections, and Johns is more popular than a large number of them. The argument that Johns wants to revert the status quo is also a fallacy, since he is co-writing a series that will fundamentally alter the DCU. The text I'm removing is as follows:

"Ever since the revival of Hal Jordan in Green Lantern: Rebirth, Johns has been accused by some comic readers of trying to bring the status quo of the DC Universe backwards towards the Silver Age, and his Teen Titans run has some fans believing he's trying to go back to the Titans' "glory days" under the Wolfman/Perez team. Despite criticism, he is a very popular writer. His runs on JSA and the Flash are hailed."

 * I reverted your Criticism removal because your addition to the Talk section hadn't yet appeared. If you revert again, may want to add the part you removed to Talk -Abe Dashiell 16:04, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Started on Flash?
I thought Johns started on the godawful Stars and STRIPE series? ('95, I think?)
 * Um, well, yes and no. He started on that series but it wasn't godawful. At any rate, he started out on Stars and STRIPE, then moved to co-writer on JSA around the same time he did the Day of Judgment miniseries, then later moved on to write Flash, Teen Titans and Green Lantern. So someone should change that, but I don't care to do it myself.208.135.167.124 04:11, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

(UTC) ==Photo credit== Someone named Fplay deleted the portion of the caption of the photo in the artcile crediting it to me, giving as his only reason, the curt, '''No real name? No photo citiation.''' Um..................no. There is no rule requiring the use of one's real name in order to upload or include an image. The use of usernames is one of the most basic priviledges afforded to Wikipedians, and there is nothing on the Images page indicating otherwise. All it says regarding photos or artwork that a Wikipedian makes themself (under the heading Making images yourself) is this:

 * You can take a photograph with your digital camera, mobile phone with integrated digital camera, or scan drawings or photos taken with a film camera and upload the image. Or you can create a figure by drawing it with an appropriate program.

Nothing I see on the page mentions any prohibition about Usernames. Thus I restored the credit. Please do not do that again. Thanks, and Happy Holidays. :-) Nightscream 07:41, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

All Star Wonder Woman ?
Is he working on the series--Brown Shoes22 03:16, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

No, he's working on All-Star Batgirl. Cubzrule 06:26, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Overhaul Required
I just realized this whole section on geoff is word for word either copied from or been copied by ComicBookDB.com (Comic Book Database). With that and the need to update this to encyclopedic standards, im going to start the ball rolling on overhauling it, but I hope others chip in. --Midusunknown 08:40, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

myspace?
anyone knows his myspace account? †Bloodpack† argh! 10:54, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

List
I've added the list-to-prose template. Wikipedia guidelines deprecate such checklists. Significant milestones and career highlights from the list should be incorporated into the bio. --Tenebrae 19:09, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Information from convention panels
Regarding recent changes, and an admin's inappropriate "Don't be silly" edit summary: Per WikiProject Comics/Style guidance: "[P]anel discussions at conventions regularly contain hype, story elements scrapped before publication, or even incorrect information to promote upcoming releases...." Also, WP:TONE and other MOS policies is to use last names, after first mention, not first names. --Tenebrae (talk) 04:34, 28 July 2008 (UTC)

This guy's a terrible writer (about time, someone has the guts, to admit it). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.145.131.1 (talk) 09:02, 29 March 2010 (UTC)

Smallville
the episode Booster from season 10 was left out.174.239.227.59 (talk) 03:42, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

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Racist? What is up with that occupation?
Why is racist, added to his occupation Hido F (talk) 10:51, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Twitter source
I removed the Twitter source for Fisher's accusations, since Twitter isn't a reliable source, and the Hollywood Reporter source included the tweet anyway. I meant to put that in the edit summary but I clicked through it too fast. Apologies for the inconvenience. Muteki Buffalo (talk) 16:47, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

More info in lead paragraph
Can someone please add more info about his comics work to the lead paragraph? I think the lead is good but there needs to be additional information about his comics work. Like the J. Michael Straczynski article has. He is also another film and television guy who has done comics work and has more info about his comics work in his lead paragraph. 173.66.8.230 (talk) 03:55, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

Updates to his comics career
Can we update his career section more? His recent comics like New golden age, flashpoint beyond, and stargirl lost children should be added to his career section. 173.66.8.230 (talk) 03:57, 7 February 2023 (UTC)

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Havisham

"Havisham" is a poem written in 1993 by Carol Ann Duffy. It responds to Miss Havisham, a character in Charles Dickens' novel Great Expectations, looking at her mental and physical state many decades after being left standing at the altar, when the bride-to-be is in her old age. It expresses Havisham's anger at her fiancé and her bitter rage over wedding-day trauma and jilted abandonment. Duffy's use of language is very powerful and passionate. Throughout the poem oxymorons and juxtaposition such as "Beloved sweetheart bastard" and "Love's hate" portrays the ambivalence and restless uncertainty of the character, while a sexual fantasy reveals both the unrequited love and the passion that remains within Havisham following the wedding, a devastation from which her heart has never recovered.

The poem is featured in the examining board AQA's English Literature Anthology for its GCSE qualification in English Literature. It is featured alongside works by Duffy, and three other contemporary writers: Simon Armitage, Seamus Heaney and Gillian Clarke. This poem is also featured in the Scottish Qualifications Authority's National 5 and Higher English Critical Reading paper, in the Scottish Texts section. Candidates study Anne Hathaway, War Photographer, Originally, Valentine and Mrs Midas alongside this poem.

"Havisham"

Beloved sweetheart bastard. Not a day since then I haven't wished him dead, Prayed for it so hard I've dark green pebbles for eyes,

ropes on the back of my hands I could strangle with. Spinster. I stink and remember. Whole days in bed cawing Nooooo at the wall; the dress yellowing, trembling if I open the wardrobe; the slewed mirror, full-length, her, myself, who did this to me? Puce curses that are sounds not words. Some nights better, the lost body over me, my fluent tongue in its mouth in its ear

then down till I suddenly bite awake. Love's hate behind a white veil; a red balloon bursting in my face. Bang. I stabbed at a wedding-cake. Give me a male corpse for a long slow honeymoon. Don't think it's only the heart that b-b-b-breaks.

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YCM

YCM may refer to:

 * Y chromosome microdeletion, a family of genetic disorders caused by missing genes in the Y chromosome
 * YCM, the IATA code for St. Catharines/Niagara District Airport, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada

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Great Staughton

Great Staughton is a village and civil parish in Cambridgeshire, England. Great Staughton lies approximately 8 mi south-west of Huntingdon. Great Staughton is situated within Huntingdonshire which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire as well as being a historic county of England.

History
In 1085 William the Conqueror ordered that a survey should be carried out across his kingdom to discover who owned which parts and what it was worth. The survey took place in 1086 and the results were recorded in what, since the 12th century, has become known as the Domesday Book. Starting with the king himself, for each landholder within a county there is a list of their estates or manors; and, for each manor, there is a summary of the resources of the manor, the amount of annual rent that was collected by the lord of the manor both in 1066 and in 1086, together with the taxable value.

Great Staughton was listed in the Domesday Book in the Hundred of Toseland in Huntingdonshire; the name of the settlement was written as Tochestone in the Domesday Book. In 1086 there was just one manor at Great Staughton; the annual rent paid to the lord of the manor in 1066 had been £10 and the rent was the same in 1086.

The Domesday Book does not explicitly detail the population of a place but it records that there was 21 households at Great Staughton. There is no consensus about the average size of a household at that time; estimates range from 3.5 to 5.0 people per household. Using these figures then an estimate of the population of Great Staughton in 1086 is that it was within the range of 73 and 105 people.

The Domesday Book uses a number of units of measure for areas of land that are now unfamiliar terms, such as hides and ploughlands. In different parts of the country, these were terms for the area of land that a team of eight oxen could plough in a single season and are equivalent to 120 acre; this was the amount of land that was considered to be sufficient to support a single family. By 1086, the hide had become a unit of tax assessment rather than an actual land area; a hide was the amount of land that could be assessed as £1 for tax purposes. The survey records that there were 10.5 ploughlands at Great Staughton in 1086 and that there was the capacity for a further 4.5 ploughlands. In addition to the arable land, there was 24 acre of meadows and 100 acre of woodland at Great Staughton.

The tax assessment in the Domesday Book was known as geld or danegeld and was a type of land-tax based on the hide or ploughland. It was originally a way of collecting a tribute to pay off the Danes when they attacked England, and was only levied when necessary. Following the Norman Conquest, the geld was used to raise money for the King and to pay for continental wars; by 1130, the geld was being collected annually. Having determined the value of a manor's land and other assets, a tax of so many shillings and pence per pound of value would be levied on the land holder. While this was typically two shillings in the pound the amount did vary; for example, in 1084 it was as high as six shillings in the pound. For the manor at Great Staughton the total tax assessed was six geld.

By 1086 there was already a church and a priest at Great Staughton.

Government
As a civil parish, Great Staughton has a parish council. The parish council is elected by the residents of the parish who have registered on the electoral roll; the parish council is the lowest tier of government in England. A parish council is responsible for providing and maintaining a variety of local services including allotments and a cemetery; grass cutting and tree planting within public open spaces such as a village green or playing fields. The parish council reviews all planning applications that might affect the parish and makes recommendations to Huntingdonshire District Council, which is the local planning authority for the parish. The parish council also represents the views of the parish on issues such as local transport, policing and the environment. The parish council raises its own tax to pay for these services, known as the parish precept, which is collected as part of the Council Tax. The parish council consists of nine councillors and meets approximately six times a year in the village hall.

Great Staughton was in the historic and administrative county of Huntingdonshire until 1965. From 1965, the village was part of the new administrative county of Huntingdon and Peterborough. Then in 1974, following the Local Government Act 1972, Great Staughton became a part of the county of Cambridgeshire.

The second tier of local government is Huntingdonshire District Council which is a non-metropolitan district of Cambridgeshire and has its headquarters in Huntingdon. Huntingdonshire District Council has 52 councillors representing 29 district wards. Huntingdonshire District Council collects the council tax, and provides services such as building regulations, local planning, environmental health, leisure and tourism. Great Staughton is a part of the district ward of Kimbolton and Staughton and is represented on the district council by one councillor. District councillors serve for four-year terms following elections to Huntingdonshire District Council.

For Great Staughton the highest tier of local government is Cambridgeshire County Council which has administration buildings in Cambridge. The county council provides county-wide services such as major road infrastructure, fire and rescue, education, social services, libraries and heritage services. Cambridgeshire County Council consists of 69 councillors representing 60 electoral divisions. Great Staughton is part of the electoral division of Brampton and Kimbolton and is represented on the county council by one councillor.

At Westminster Great Staughton is in the parliamentary constituency of Huntingdon, and elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. Great Staughton is represented in the House of Commons by Jonathan Djanogly (Conservative). Jonathan Djanogly has represented the constituency since 2001. The previous member of parliament was John Major (Conservative) who represented the constituency between 1983 and 2001.

Population
In the period 1801 to 1901 the population of Great Staughton was recorded every ten years by the UK census. During this time the population was in the range of 746 (the lowest was in 1901) and 1373 (the highest was in 1871).

From 1901, a census was taken every ten years with the exception of 1941 (due to the Second World War).

All population census figures from report Historic Census figures Cambridgeshire to 2011 by Cambridgeshire Insight.

In 2011, the parish covered an area of 5078 acre and so the population density for Great Staughton in 2011 was 112.9 persons per square mile (43.6 per square kilometre).

Culture and community
The village has two public houses, The White Hart and The Snooty Tavern, a post office and a butcher's shop. Great Staughton also has a doctor's surgery and a primary school. There are some good walks in the area.

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Ahmed Brahim (al-Qaeda)

Ahmed Brahim (born 1945) is a convicted al-Qaeda member from Algeria. Spanish authorities arrested him in 2002 on charges that he was a chief financier for al-Qaeda in Spain. He is also alleged to have been a planner in the bombing of two US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Brahim is married to a Finnish national identified as Pirjo. Spanish counter-terrorism judge Baltasar Garzón has also alleged that Ahmed Brahim had "routine contacts" with Swiss-born Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan in 1999.

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Shawn Heaphy

Shawn M. Heaphy (born November 27, 1968) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. He played one game in the National Hockey League for the Calgary Flames during the 1992–93 season. His sole game was played against the Tampa Bay Lightning, where he did not register a point, but was credited with two shots on goal. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1991 to 2006, was mainly spent in Europe. Before the NHL, Heaphy played for the Michigan State Spartans.

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User:Ruthherrin

Feel free to contact me via email: ruthherrin@gmail.com (yes I have invites)

I also use aim and msn: ruthherrin (AIM); reh_42(AT)hotmail.com (MSN)

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Moisie, Quebec

Moisie is a district (secteur) of the city of Sept-Îles, Quebec, Canada.

Prior to February 12, 2003, Moisie was an independent city; on that date, it and the Municipality of Gallix were merged into Sept-Îles.

History
Originally Moisie was a small fisherman village located at the mouth of the Moisie River. Its name, taken from this river, has been in use since the 17th century and its meaning and origin are unknown. The village, which was at sea level, was relocated in 1967 after several storm surge floods.

Molson Inc. established a smelter on the other bank of the river in the late 19th century. The company was plowing through three feet of pure iron black sand lying on the beaches as raw material for the forge. Prospectors later explored the region upstream of the river which led to the discovery of large iron ore deposits around Labrador City and Schefferville.

Between 1933 and 1949, the Hudson's Bay Company had a post at Moisie, operating as an outpost of Sept Iles.

On January 1, 1955, the Municipality of Moisie was created out of territory ceded by the Township of Letellier.

The community became home to RCAF Station Moisie in the late 1950s, when the Royal Canadian Air Force established a Pinetree Line early warning radar station nearby. The facility was later renamed CFS Moisie and closed by the early 1990s after defence cutbacks.

On October 29, 1983, the Municipality of Moisie and the Municipality of Rivière-Pigou merged to form the City of Moisie. On February 12, 2003, the City of Moisie was amalgamated into Sept-Îles.

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Sagwora

A Sägwora is a healer of the Gurage people of Ethiopia. One visits a Sagwora when suffering from an illness believed to be caused by evil spirits.

The Sägwora then prescribes a remedy to rid the person of the spirit. Often this includes the sacrifice of a sheep of a particular colour. The flesh of the sacrificed animal is then eaten by the relatives of the sick as well as others that are present at the ceremony. This type of exorcism is not always permanent, however, but it does allow the affected to develop a "friendly" relationship with the possessing spirit.

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Yves Héroux

Yves Héroux (born April 27, 1965) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey right winger who played in one game in the National Hockey League with the Quebec Nordiques during the 1986–87 season. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1984 to 2000, was mainly spent in the minor leagues.

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Jason Herter

Jason Herter (born October 2, 1970) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He is currently an associate head coach at Western Michigan.

Drafted in the first round, eighth overall by the Vancouver Canucks in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft, Herter played one National Hockey League (NHL) game, scoring an assist in a game with the New York Islanders during the 1995–96 season.

Herter represented Canada at one International Ice Hockey Federation-sanctioned event, winning gold at the 1990 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Helsinki, Finland. Herter also represented Canada at the 1990 Goodwill Games where Canada finished in fourth place.

Personal life
Herter was born on October 2, 1970, in Hafford, Saskatchewan. He is married to wife Laura and has a daughter, Jordyn, and a son, Jacob. Jason is of French Métis descent. Herter attended Notre Dame College in Wilcox, Saskatchewan, for four years.

Notre Dame Hounds
Herter played midget high school hockey at Athol Murray College of Notre Dame in Wilcox, Saskatchewan aka: Notre Dame Hounds of the Saskatchewan Hockey Association (SHA). During the 1986–87 season, he played on the Hounds midget team that placed second at the 1987 Air Canada Cup in Gloucester, Ontario. His 86-87 high school hockey teammates included future NHLers Scott Pellerin (1992 Hobey Baker Winner as the best player in NCAA college hockey), Rod Brind'amour, Jeff Batters and Joby Messier Herter remained with the Hounds for the next season when the team moved from minor hockey to Junior A, joining the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL). In the team's first season, Herter scored 38 points in 54 games as the Hounds won the Credential Cup as SJHL champions. After winning the Anavet Cup and Abbott Cup, the Hounds advanced to the 1988 Centennial Cup in Pembroke, Ontario. There, Herter scored two points in five tournament games—including one goal in a 9–7 victory over the Thunder Bay Flyers—as the Hounds defeated the Halifax Lions 3–2 in the final game to win the national Junior A championship.

University of North Dakota
Following his Centennial Cup-winning season with Notre Dame, Herter moved to the University of North Dakota to play college hockey with the North Dakota Fighting Sioux of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA). Midway through his freshman season, Herter was ranked as the top player available at the 1989 NHL Entry Draft by the NHL Central Scouting Bureau. Herter finished his freshman season with eight goals and 24 assists in 41 games. His 24 assists and 32 points set single-season freshmen assist and point records at North Dakota, although his point record has since been broken. Following the season, Herter entered the 1989 NHL Entry Draft ranked second overall among North American skaters, dropping one position in the NHL Central Scouting Bureau's final draft ranking. On June 17, 1989, he was drafted 8th overall by the Vancouver Canucks.

Despite being drafted, Herter returned to North Dakota for his sophomore season. He also had the option of joining the Saskatoon Blades, the team that held Western Hockey League rights, but chose North Dakota because the Canucks had five other prospects playing there. Throughout the season, Herter suffered from chronic groin injuries and a knee sprain which limited him to only 38 games. However, despite his injury-plagued season, Herter scored eleven goals and 39 assists. Nine of his eleven goals were scored on the powerplay, a North Dakota single-season record for a defenceman. Further, his 39 assists and fifty points are both fourth all-time for a defenceman in a single season with the Fighting Sioux. For his performance, Herter was named to the WCHA Second All-Star Team as well as the All-Tournament Team at the 1990 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

At the completion of his sophomore season, Herter chose once again not to sign a professional contract and returned to North Dakota for his junior year.

Vancouver Canucks
Following his junior season with North Dakota, Herter signed a three-year, $500,000 contract with the Vancouver Canucks that included a $100,000 signing bonus, despite Fighting Sioux coach Gino Gasparini suggesting he play his senior season. Herter then joined the Canucks for his first professional training camp and played in five pre-season games before being assigned to the Milwaukee Admirals, Vancouver's International Hockey League (IHL) affiliate. Herter's chronic groin injuries continued throughout his rookie professional season and he played in only 56 of Milwaukee's 82 regular season games and one of five playoff games.

New York Islanders
In December 1995, Herter was recalled by the New York Islanders after multiple injuries to Islanders defencemen. On December 7, Herter made his NHL debut in a 7–4 loss to the Hartford Whalers. Herter was one of the bright spots in the Islanders' loss, as he was on the ice for three of New York's four goals and none of Hartford's seven goals. He also assisted on Zigmund Palffy's second goal of the game and was partnered on defence with NHL All-Star Mathieu Schneider.

International play
Herter represented Canada at one International Ice Hockey Federation-sanctioned event. In July 1989, he was among 32 players invited to the Canadian national junior team's summer evaluation camp in Kitchener, Ontario, for the 1990 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships. Later that year in December, Herter was invited to the national junior team training camp, after which he was named to the final Canadian roster for the tournament despite finishing training camp with a groin injury. Herter finished the tournament with one assist in seven games as Canada achieved a 5–1–1 record to win the gold medal.

In July and August 1990, Herter was a member of the Canadian team at the 1990 Goodwill Games in Seattle, Washington. After finishing the round robin with a 3–0 record, the Canadian team lost 5–4 in a shootout against the United States in their semifinal game and 6–1 to Sweden in the bronze medal game to finish the tournament in fourth place.

Post-playing career
After retiring from ice hockey, Herter became a scout with the United States Hockey League (USHL). He then became head coach of the Overland Park, Kansas-based Russell Stover U16 ice hockey team of the Midwest Elite Hockey League (MWEHL). In April 2008, Herter joined the Fargo Force as an assistant coach behind former University of North Dakota head coach Dean Blais. Jason Herter left after the 2010-11 season to become an assistant coach at the University of Minnesota-Duluth.

Transactions

 * June 17, 1989 – Drafted in the first round, 8th overall by the Vancouver Canucks in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft
 * August 6, 1993 – Signed as an unrestricted free agent by the Dallas Stars
 * September 21, 1995 – Traded by the Dallas Stars to the New York Islanders for cash

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Nolot

Nolot is a chess test suite with 11 very difficult positions from real games. They were compiled by Pierre Nolot for the French chess magazine Gambisco and posted on the rec.games.chess Usenet group in 1994. Some of these positions were particularly hard to solve for chess engines at the time.

Problem 1
FEN: r3qb1k/1b4p1/p2pr2p/3n4/Pnp1N1N1/6RP/1B3PP1/1B1QR1K1 w - - 0 1

26.Nxh6!! c3 (26... Rxh6 27.Nxd6 Qh5 (best) 28.Rg5! Qxd1 29.Nf7+ Kg8 30.Nxh6+ Kh8 31.Rxd1 c3 32.Nf7+ Kg8 33.Bg6! Nf4 34.Bxc3 Nxg6 35.Bxb4 Kxf7 36.Rd7+ Kf6 37.Rxg6+ Kxg6 38.Rxb7 +-) 27.Nf5! cxb2 28.Qg4 Bc8 (28... g6!? 29.Kh2! 29.Qd7 30.Nh4 Bc6 31.Nc5! dxc 32.Rxe6 Nf6 33.Nxg6+ Kg7 34.Qg5 Nbd5 35.Ne5 Kh8 36.Nxd7 +-) 29.Qh4+ Rh6 30.Nxh6 gxh6 31.Kh2! Qe5 32.Ng5 Qf6 33.Re8 Bf5 34.Qxh6 (missing a mate in 6: 34.Nf7+ Qxf7 35.Qxh6+ Bh7 36.Rxa8 Nf6 37.Rxf8 Qxf8 38.Qxf8+ Ng8 39.Qg7#) 34...Qxh6 35.Nf7+ Kh7 36.Bxf5+ Qg6 37.Bxg6+ Kg7 38.Rxa8 Be7 39.Rb8 a5 40.Be4+ Kxf7 41.Bxd5+ 1-0

The best Novag computer, the Diablo 68000, finds 26. Nxh6 after seven and a half months (Pierre Nolot has let it run on the position for 14 months and one day, until a power failure stopped an analysis of over 80,000,000,000 nodes.) but for wrong reasons: it evaluates white's position as inferior and thinks this move would enable it to draw.

Today Gambit Tiger 2.0 for example can find it pretty fast: Most free engines running on 64 bit processors in 2010 could solve this problem and the others in a few seconds.

1.Qd4 c3 2.Bxc3 Nxc3 3.Qxb4 Nxe4 4.Qxb7 Rb8 5.Qxb8 Qxb8 6.Bxe4 d5 7.Rb1 μ (-1.20)   Depth: 12   00:00:09  6055 kN 1.Nxh6 c3 2.Nf5 cxb2 3.Qg4 Rb8 4.Nxg7 Rg6 5.Qxg6 Qxg6 6.Rxg6 Bxg7 7.Nxd6 ³ (-0.48)   Depth: 12   00:00:21  14368 kN 1.Nxh6 c3 2.Nf5 cxb2 3.Qg4 Rc8 4.Nxg7 Rg6 5.Nxe8 Rxg4 6.Rxg4 Rxe8 7.Rg6 μ (-0.74)   Depth: 13   00:00:55  38455 kN 1.Ne3 Rxe4 2.Bxe4 Qxe4 3.Nxd5 Qxd5 4.Qc1 Qf5 5.Qxh6+ Qh7 6.Qe6 Nd3 7.Re2 Nxb2 8.Rxb2 ³ (-0.58)   Depth: 13   00:01:30  62979 kN 1.Ne3 Rxe4 ³ (-0.58)   Depth: 14   00:02:02  84941 kN 1.Ne3 Nxe3 2.Rexe3 Bxe4 3.Qg4 Rg6 4.Qxe4 Qxe4 5.Bxe4 Rxg3 6.Rxg3 d5 7.Bf5 Re8 8.Bc3 ³ (-0.30)   Depth: 15   00:03:05  128968 kN 1.Nxh6 ² (0.32)   Depth: 15   00:07:58  350813 kN With the next ply showing a clear advantage.

Stockfish 14dev 64bit 4CPU running on 2020 hardware recognises the significance of Nxh6!! in 1 second. Stockfish_21092606_x64_avx2: NNUE evaluation using nn-13406b1dcbe0.nnue enabled.

19/32	00:01	   7708k	4882k	+3,00	Nxh6 Rxh6 Nxd6 Qh5 Bg6 Qxd1 Nf7+ Kg8 Nxh6+ gxh6 Bh5+ Kh7 Rxd1 c3 Bxc3 Nxc3 Rd7+ Kh8 Rxb7 Ne4 Re3 Nxf2 Kxf2 Bc5 Ke2 Bxe3 Kxe3 Nd5+ Kf2 49/73	15:02	 5118270k	5673k	+6,15	Nxh6 Rxh6 Nxd6 Qh5 Rg5 Qxd1 Nf7+ Kg8 Nxh6+ Kh8 Rxd1 c3 Nf7+ Kg8 Bg6 Nf4 Bxc3 Nbd5 Rb1 Bc6 Bd2 Nxg6 Rxg6 Ne7 Rxc6 Nxc6 Rb6 Rc8 Ng5 a5 Ra6 Bb4 Be3 Ne5 Bd4 Nc6 Bb6 Bd2 h4 Kf8 Bc5+ Kg8 Be3 Bxe3 fxe3 Kf8 Kf2 Ke7 Nf3 Kd7 Rb6 Ne7 Rb5 Kd6 Rxa5 Rc2+ Kg3 Re2 Nd4 Rxe3+ Kf4 Rd3 Nf5+ Kc7 Nxe7

Problem 2
FEN: r4rk1/pp1n1p1p/1nqP2p1/2b1P1B1/4NQ2/1B3P2/PP2K2P/2R5 w - - 0 1

22.Rxc5!! Nxc5 23.Nf6+ Kh8 24.Qh4 Qb5+ (computers think there is perpetual check here, but...) 25.Ke3! 25... h5 26.Nxh5 Qxb3+ (26... d5+ 27.Bxd5 Qd3 28.Kf2 Ne4+ 29.Bxe4 Qd4+ 30.Kg2 Qxb2+ 31.Kh3 +-) and White won in 41 moves.

Today Deep Junior 8.ZX for example finds it very quickly (around 1 minute):

1.Kd1 Rac8 2.Bh6 Qb5 3.Rc3 Qf1+ 4.Kc2 Rc6 5.Bxf8 -+ (-2.11)   Depth: 12   00:00:04  10422 kN 1.Nxc5 Nxc5 2.Rxc5 Qxc5 3.e6 Rae8 4.e7 Nc8 5.Kf1 Nxd6 6.Bf6 b5   -+  (-2.10)   Depth: 12   00:00:14  25054 kN 1.Bf6! μ (-1.35)   Depth: 12   00:00:17  34601 kN 1.Bf6 Qb5+ 2.Ke1 Bb4+ 3.Kf2 Bc5+ = (0.00)   Depth: 12   00:00:20  34601 kN 1.Bf6 Qb5+ 2.Ke1 Nxf6 3.Nxf6+ Kg7 4.Nh5+ gxh5 5.Qf6+ Kg8 6.Qg5+ Kh8 7.Qf6+ = (0.00)   Depth: 15   00:01:01  130544 kN 1.Rxc5! = (0.15)   Depth: 15   00:01:12  145875 kN 1.Rxc5 Nxc5 2.Nf6+ Kh8 3.Qh4 Qb5+ 4.Ke3 h5 5.Nxh5 Qd3+ 6.Kf2 Ne4+ 7.fxe4 Qd4+ 8.Kf1 Qd3+ 9.Ke1 Qb1+ 10.Bd1 +- (2.18)   Depth: 15   00:01:18  145875 kN

Stockfish 14dev 64bit 4CPU running on 2020 hardware recognises the significance of Rxc5!! in 1 second.

Stockfish_21092606_x64_avx2: NNUE evaluation using nn-13406b1dcbe0.nnue enabled. 21/25	00:01	   5822k	5545k	+6,61	Rxc5 Qxc5 Nxc5 Nxc5 Bh6 Nbd7 Bxf8 Rxf8 Qe3 Rc8 f4 Nxe5 Qxe5 Ne6 Bxe6 Rc2+ Kd3 Rxh2 46/86	11:27	 5057055k	7355k	+7,61	Rxc5 Qxc5 Nxc5 Nxc5 Bf6 Ne6 Qh6 Nd4+ Kf2 Nf5 Qg5 Nd7 h4 Nxf6 Qxf6 Ng7 d7 b5 Bd5 Rab8 b4 Nh5 Bxf7+ Rxf7 d8R+ Rxd8 Qxd8+ Rf8 Qd5+ Kg7 e6 Kf6 Qd7 Ng7 Qd4+ Kxe6 Qxg7 Rf7 Qc3 Ke7 Qc5+ Ke8 Qc8+ Ke7 h5 gxh5 Kg3 h4+ Kh2 h6 Qc5+ Kf6 Qxb5 Kg7 f4 Rxf4 Qe5+ Rf6 b5 h3 Qd4 Kg8 Qxf6 h5

Blacks 22. .. Nxc5 is suboptimal and leads faster mate 77/44	09:18	 6987714k	12518k	+M22	Nf6+ Kh8 Qh4 Qb5+ Ke3 Qxb3+ axb3 h5 Nxh5 Nd5+ Kd4 Ne6+ Kxd5 Nxg5 Qxg5 gxh5 f4 Rad8 f5 f6 Qxh5+ Kg7 Qg6+ Kh8 e6 b6 e7 Rb8 exf8Q+ Rxf8 Ke6 b5 Ke7 Rb8 Qh5+ Kg7 Qf7+ Kh8 Kxf6 Rf8 Qxf8+ Kh7 Qg7+

Problem 3
FEN: r2qk2r/ppp1b1pp/2n1p3/3pP1n1/3P2b1/2PB1NN1/PP4PP/R1BQK2R w KQkq - 0 1

12.Nxg5!! Bxd1 13.Nxe6 Qb8 14.Nxg7+!! Kf8 15.Bh6! Bg4 16.0-0+ Kg8 17.Rf4 +-

White wins with a queen sac but black has defensive resources.

Stockfish 8 64bit 3CPU running on 2016 hardware recognizes the significance of Nxg5!! in 55 seconds.

Stockfish 14 dev (Stockfish_21092606_x64_avx2) 64bit 4CPU running on 2020 hardware recognizes the significance of Nxg5!! in 1 second.

NNUE evaluation using nn-13406b1dcbe0.nnue enabled.

21/34	00:01	 8291k		4530k	+2,78	Nxg5 Bxd1 Nxe6 Qb8 Nxg7+ Kd8 Kxd1 b5 N3f5 Bf8 Rf1 Kc8 Nh5 Kb7 Bxb5 Ne7 g4 a6 Ba4 Nxf5 gxf5 Ka7 Nf4 c5 47/59	37:49	 10390430k	4578k	+3,16	Nxg5 Bxd1 Nxe6 Qb8 Nxg7+ Kd8 Kxd1 b5 Rf1 Kc8 N3f5 Bf8 Ne6 Kd7 Nf4 Ne7 g4 a5 Ke2 Qb7 h4 Ra6 a3 Kc8 Be3 Kb8 Kf3 Rb6 Bd2 Qc8 Kg3 c5 Be3 c4 Nxe7 Bxe7 Bf5 Qd8 h5 Qg8 Kh3 Bg5 Rf3 Ra6 Raf1 b4 Nxd5 Qxd5 Bxg5 bxc3 bxc3 Rb6 Be3 Rb3

Blacks 14 .. Kf8 is suboptimal and leads loss fast

41/68	06:31	 3269727k	8350k	+9,28	Bh6 Kg8 Rxd1 Bf8 N3h5 Bxg7 Nxg7 Qf8 Nf5 Ne7 Bxf8 Nxf5 Bxf5 Rxf8 Be6+ Kg7 Rd3 Rf4 Bxd5 c6 Rg3+ Kf8 Rf3 Rxf3 Bxf3 Kg7 Rf1 Re8 Be4 Re6 Ke2 a5 Ke3 Rh6 h3 a4 Kf4 Re6 h4 Re8 Ke3 h6 h5 Rf8 Rxf8 Kxf8

Problem 4
FEN: r1b1kb1r/1p1n1ppp/p2ppn2/6BB/2qNP3/2N5/PPP2PPP/R2Q1RK1 w kq - 0 1

10.Nxe6!! Qxe6 11.Nd5 Kd8 12.Bg4 Qe5 13.f4 Qxe4 (13...Qxb2 stronger but not sufficient: 14.Bxd7 Bxd7 15.Rb1 Qa3 16.Nxf6 Bb5 17.Qd4 Qc5 18.Rfd1 +-) 14.Bxd7 Bxd7 15.Nxf6 gxf6 16.Bxf6+ Kc7 17.Bxh8 and Black resigned on move 27.

Stockfish 14dev 64bit 4CPU running on 2020 hardware recognises the significance of Nxe6!! in 1 second. Stockfish_21092606_x64_avx2: NNUE evaluation using nn-13406b1dcbe0.nnue enabled.

22/37	00:01	    6955k	5367k	+4,00	Nxe6 Qxe6 Nd5 Kd8 Bg4 Qe5 f4 Qxb2 Rb1 Qa3 Bxd7 Bxd7 Nxf6 Bb5 Rf3 Qxa2 c4 Bxc4 Rf2 Qa5 Nd5+ f6 Nxf6 Kc7 Rc1 b5 Qd5 gxf6 Bxf6 Kb8 Rxc4 Qe1+ Rf1 51/70	47:10	 14538911k	5137k	+5,76	Nxe6 Qxe6 Nd5 Kd8 Bg4 Qe5 f4 Qxe4 Bxd7 Bxd7 Nxf6 Qf5 Qd4 Kc8 Nd5 Bc6 c4 f6 Nb6+ Kb8 Bh4 Be7 Rae1 Bd8 Nxa8 Kxa8 Bf2 Kb8 Qxd6+ Bc7 Ba7+ Kc8 Qe6+ Qxe6 Rxe6 h5 h4 Rd8 Re7 g6 Be3 Ba5 Kf2 Rd6 Rc1 Bd8 Rg7 Be4 Rg8 Kd7 c5 Rd3 Rc4 Bd5 Rg7+ Ke6 Rd4 Rxd4 Bxd4 Kf5 Rd7 Bc6 Rxd8 Kxf4 Bxf6

Problem 5
FEN: r2qrb1k/1p1b2p1/p2ppn1p/8/3NP3/1BN5/PPP3QP/1K3RR1 w - - 0 1

21.e5!! dxe5 22.Ne4! Nh5 23.Qg6!? (stronger is 23.Qg4!! Nf4 24.Nf3 Qc7 25.Nh4 +- ) 23...exd4? (23...Nf4 24.Rxf4! exf4 25.Nf3! Qb6 26.Rg5!! covering b5 and threatening Nf6 or Ne5-f7+) 24.Ng5 1-0

Stockfish 8 64bit 3CPU running on 2016 hardware recognises the significance of e5!! in 5 seconds. Stockfish 12 dev (Stockfish_20062212_x64_modern) 64bit 1CPU running on 2016 hardware recognizes the significance of e5!! in 11 seconds.

25/42	00:06	 7 963k	 1309k	+6,93	e5 Nh5 Ne4 dxe5 Nf3 Nf4 Qg4 Qc7 Nh4 Bc6 Nf6 g5 Rxf4 exf4 Qh5 Qe7 Ng6+ Kg7 Nxe7 Rxe7 Ng4

37/62	03:12	 298 083k 1545k	+10,70	e5 Ng4 Qxg4 Qg5 Qh3 Qxe5 Nde2 g5 Rxf8+ Kg7 Rff1 Rf8 Re1 Qf5 Qg3 Rad8 Nd4 Qf4 Nxe6+ Bxe6 Rxe6 Qxg3

Problem 6
FEN: rnbqk2r/1p3ppp/p7/1NpPp3/QPP1P1n1/P4N2/4KbPP/R1B2B1R b kq - 0 1

13... axb5!! offers an exchange to keep the white queen out of play. 14.Qxa8 Bd4 15.Nxd4 cxd4 16.Qxb8 0-0! 17.Ke1 Qh4 18.g3 Qf6 19.Bf4 g5? (Ivanchuk found 19...d3! during post-game analysis.) 20.Rc1 exf4 21.Qxf4 Qd4 22.Rd1 bxc4 23.e5 Qc3+ 24.Rd2 Re8 25.Bxd3 cxd3 -+

Tasc R30 finds 19... d3! in 2 1/2 hours. 19... Bf5!! is even stronger than 19... d3.

Position is already lost at 19... d3 +8.00 for black, ... Bf5 not much better

Stockfish 14dev 64bit 4CPU running on 2020 hardware recognises the significance of axb5!! in 1 second. Stockfish_21092606_x64_avx2: NNUE evaluation using nn-13406b1dcbe0.nnue enabled. 21/28	 00:01	     9264k	4714k	-1,22	axb5 Qxa8 Bd4 Nxd4 cxd4 h3 Nf6 Bg5 0-0 cxb5 h6 Bxf6 Qxf6 Re1 Nd7 Kd1 Qg6 Qa4 Qg3 Qc2 Qxa3 Bd3 Qxb4 Qb1 46/67	1:05:00	 18113493k	4644k	-2,40	axb5 Qxa8 Bd4 h3 Nf6 Nxd4 exd4 Kf2 Nxe4+ Kg1 Nd7 Bg5 Qxg5 Qxc8+ Ke7 Qc7 Qe5 d6+ Qxd6 Qxd6+ Kxd6 bxc5+ Ndxc5 cxb5 d3 h4 d2 Rh3 Ke5 Be2 f5 Ra2 Rd8 Bd1 Rd4 Re3 f4 Re2 b6 a4 Kd6 Rc2 Kd5 Ra2 h6 Rb2 Nxa4 Bxa4 Rxa4 Rexd2+ Nxd2 Rxd2+ Kc4 Rd7 g6

Problem 7
FEN 1r1bk2r/2R2ppp/p3p3/1b2P2q/4QP2/4N3/1B4PP/3R2K1 w k - 0 1

1.Rxd8+!! Rxd8 (1...Kxd8 2.Ra7! Qe2 3.Qd4+ Ke8 4.h3 Qe1+ 5.Kh2 Rd8 6.Qc5 Qh4 7.Ba3 Rd7 8.Ra8+ Rd8 9.g3 1-0) 2.Ba3 Qe2 3.h3! Bd7 (better but still losing was 3...Qe1+ 4.Kh2 Qa5 5.Re7+ Kf8 6.Rd7+ Kg8 7.Bb4 Rxd7 8.Bxa5 +-) 4.Nf5! Qd1+ 5.Kh2 f6 6.exf6 1-0

The exchange sacrifice keeps control of the 7th rank. Genius 2 does better than the R30 on this one, but needs more than a month to find 1.Rxd8!!, even on a 90 MHz Pentium.

Fritz 9 plays 1.Rxd8!! in 2 seconds.

Stockfish 8 64bit 3CPU running on 2016 hardware recognises the significance of Rxd8!! in 8 seconds.

Problem 8
FEN r3rbk1/ppq2ppp/2b1pB2/8/6Q1/1P1B3P/P1P2PP1/R2R2K1 w - - 0 24

24.Bxh7+!! is natural, but Black has some defensive resources. 24...Kxh7 25.Qh5+ Kg8 26.Rd4! gxf6 27.Rg4+ Bg7 28.Qh6 Kf8 29.Rxg7! Rac8 (computers prefer 29...Be4 which also loses after 30.Rg4+ Ke7 31.Rxe4 Rad8 32.c4 Qa5 33.Rae1 +-) 30.Qh7 b5 31.Rd1 Bd5 32.c4 bxc4 33.bxc4 1-0.

Stockfish 15dev 64bit 4CPU running on 2020 hardware recognises the significance of Bxh7+!! under 1 second (Stockfish_23010111_x64_avx2). 25/38	00:01	  5557k   5380k	+0,83	Bxh7+ Kxh7 Qh5+ Kg8 Rd4 Bf3 gxf3 Qxc2 Rd7 Qg6+ Qxg6 fxg6 Be5 Re7 Rad1 Kf7 R7d4 Rc8 h4 Ke8 Kg2 b6 Rg4 Rc2 Rxg6 Rxa2 h5 Ra5 f4 Rd5 Rxd5 The position is probably drawn with perfect play 50/70	06:21  1850368k   4851k	+0,49	Bxh7+ Kxh7 Qh5+ Kg8 Rd4 Bf3 gxf3 Qc5 Qxc5 Bxc5 Rg4 Bf8 c4 a6 Rd1 Rac8 a4 Rc6 Bd8 e5 h4 Ree6 f4 Red6 Rxd6 Rxd6 Bc7 Rd1+ Kg2 exf4 Rxf4

The suggested move 26...gxf6 is blunder which loses 42/76	03:59  1404483k   5862k	+4,56	Rg4+ Bg7 Qh6 Kf8 Rxg7 Qf4 Rxf7+ Kxf7 Qxf4 Rad8 Re1 Rh8 Qc4 Rd6 f3 Rh5 a4 a6 Re2 Rhd5 c3 Rh5 Kf2 Rdd5 h4 Rh8 Qg4 e5 h5 Rg8 Qc4 Kg7 Qh4

Problem 9
FEN r4r1k/4bppb/2n1p2p/p1n1P3/1p1p1BNP/3P1NP1/qP2QPB1/2RR2K1 w - - 0 1

1.Ng5!! hxg5 2.hxg5! (with the idea of 3. Nf6!!) and now:

A. 2...Rac8 3.Nf6!!

A1. 3...gxf6 which loses if white plays precisely: 4.gxf6 and now:

A1a. 4...Nxd3? 5.Rxd3 Bxd3? 6.Qh5+ is mate in 4.

A1b. 4...Re8 5.Rxc5! (5.Qh5!? Kg8 6.Rxc5! Bg6! 7.Qh4 Bxc5 8.Be4 Ne7 9.Kg2! is winning as well.) 5...Bxc5 6.Qh5 with the idea 7.Be4 and White is winning.

A1c. 4...Bg6 5.Bxc6 Bxf6 (6...Rxc6 6.fxe7 Re8 7.Bg5 f5 8.Bf6+ Kg8 9.Qd2 is winning) 7.Rxc5 Be7 8.Rcc1 and White is better.

A2. 3...Nb8 4.Bd5!! (to block d5 so White can play Kg2 without having to deal with ...Qd5+; 4.Qh5!? Bxf6 5.gxf6 Nbd7 (5...gxf6 6.Rxc5! Rxc5 7.Be4 f5 8.Kg2! Rg8 9.Rh1 Rg7 10.Bh6 Nd7 11.Bxg7+ Kxg7 12.Qxh7+ Kf8 13.Qh6+ Ke8 14.Qg5 is winning.) 6.Bb7 Nxb7 7.Rxc8 Rxc8 8.Qxf7 Rg8 9.Qxd7 with advantage for White.) 4...exd5 (4...Qxd5 5.Nxd5 exd5 6.Kg2! should win as well.) 5.Kg2! Bxf6 6.Rh1! Bg5 7.Qh5 Bh6 8.Bxh6 with mate to follow.

B. 2...Rfc8 3.Nf6!!

B1. 3...gxf6 4.exf6! (4.gxf6 Nxd3 (4...Bf8 5.Rxc5! Bxc5 6.Qh5 Kg8 7.Be4 Bxe4 8.dxe4 wins for White.) 5.Rxd3 Bxd3 6.Qxd3 Nxe5! 7.Rxc8+ Rxc8 8.Bxe5 Qa1+ is unclear, probably a draw.) and now:

B1a. 4...Bf8? 5.Rxc5! Bxc5 6.Qh5 Kg8 7.Be4 Bxe4 8.dxe4 is winning for White, e.g. 8...Qa4 9.Rc1 Ne7 10.fxe7 Qe8 11.Kg2! f6 12.Qh6.

B1b. 4...Nxd3 5. Rxd3 Bf8! (6...Bxd3 6. Qxd3 wins for White.) 6.Rxc6 (6.Bxc6!? Rxc6 7.Rxc6 Qd5 8.Rc7 is better for White.) 6...Rxc6 7.Bxc6 Rd8 8.Rd1 is also favorable for White.

B2. 3...Bg6 is probably Black's best try:

B2a. 4.Bxc6 gxf6 5.exf6 Bf8! 6.Bxa8 Rxa8 7.Rc4 and Black seems to hold.

B2b. 4.Qg4 gxf6 5.gxf6 Nxd3 (5...Bf8? 6.Qh3+ Kg8 7.Bh6! is winning) 6.Rxd3 Bf8 7.Rdd1 is unclear.

Pierre Nolot seems to have repudiated this problem.

As first move Nxh6 is much better than Ng5 Stockfish_20042208_x64_modern: 65/114	49:42:09 568217595k  3176k	+6,06	Nxh6 gxh6 Bxh6 Qd5 Bg5 Ra7 Bxe7 Rxe7 Ng5 Qxe5 Qh5 f5 Bxc6 Qd6 Qh6 Kg8 Bb5 Rb8 Be8 Nd7 Bf7+ Rxf7 Nxf7 Qf8 Qxf8+ Nxf8 Ne5 Bg6 Nxg6 Nxg6 Rc6 Kf7 Re1 Nf8 Ra6 Rb7 Rxa5 Kf6 f4 Nd7 Rc1 Kf7 Rc4 Nf6 Kf2 Rb6 Rxd4 Kg7 Ra8 Kg6 Kf3 Nd5 Ke2 although according to SF15 dev (Stockfish_23010111_x64_avx2) after forcing moves suggested by Pierre Nolot 1.Ng5!! hxg5 the position is still winning 62/77	1:32:35	  28015307k  5043k +2,15	hxg5 Rfc8 Nf6 gxf6 exf6 Nxd3 Rxd3 Bf8 Rxc6 Rxc6 Bxc6 Rd8 Rd1 Qb3 Rd2 Kg8 Qe5 Qc4 Qc7 e5 Bxe5 Qc1+ Kg2 Qxd2 Qxd8 Qe2 Qxd4 a4 Bf3 Qc2 Bd6 Qd3 Bc5 Qxd4 Bxd4 b3 Bd5 Bc2 Kf3 a3 bxa3 Bxa3 g6 Bxg6 Bxb3 Kf8 Ke2 Bf5 f3 Bd7 Bc4 Bc1 Kf2 Ba4

Problem 10
FEN r1b2rk1/1p1nbppp/pq1p4/3B4/P2NP3/2N1p3/1PP3PP/R2Q1R1K w - - 0 15

15.Rxf7!! Rxf7 16.Bxf7 Kxf7 17.Qh5+ Kg8 16.Qe8+ Bf8 19.Nd5 Qxd4 20.Ne7+ Kh8 21.Rf1 Qf6 22.Rxf6 and white won on move 29.

Stockfish 8 64bit 3CPU running on 2016 hardware recognises the significance of Rxf7!! in 9 seconds.

Stockfish 15dev 64bit 4CPU running on 2020 hardware recognises the significance of Rxf7!! under 1 second (Stockfish_23010111_x64_avx2). 25/32	00:00	  5895k	6115k	+2,47	Rxf7 Rxf7 Bxf7+ Kh8 Nd5 Qxb2 Nxe7 Nc5 Nf3 Bd7 Nf5 Rf8 Nxd6 Bxa4 Qd4 Qxd4 Nxd4 Nxe4 Nxe4 Rxf7 Ng3 Bd7 h3 g6 Ra3 Re7 Nge2 Be8 Kg1 Bf7 Rc3 Kg7 49/74	05:02	1671688k	5520k	+3,94	Rxf7 Rxf7 Bxf7+ Kh8 Nd5 Qxb2 Nxe7 Nf6 Rb1 Bg4 Rxb2 Bxd1 Bc4 b5 Bd3 bxa4 Kg1 Rf8 Rb1 e2 Nxe2 Bxe2 Bxe2 Nxe4 Nd5 g5 Ra1 Rb8 Bxa6 Rb2 Ne3 Rb4

Problem 11
FEN r1b3k1/p2p1nP1/2pqr1Rp/1p2p2P/2B1PnQ1/1P6/P1PP4/1K4R1 w - - 0 1

Neishtadt's "Leçons de tactique" gives: "1.Rxh6!! the g pawn will be helped by the h pawn 1...Nxh6 (1...Rxh6 2.Bxf7+ Kxf7 3.g8Q+) 2.Qg5 Nf7 3.Qd8+!! Nxd8 4.h6 and there is nothing to prevent h6-h7+ 1-0"

But 4...Qd4!! 5.h7+ Kf7 6.g8Q+ Ke7 7.h8Q Kd6 8.Rg7 Qxd2!! 9.Qxd8 Qd1+! (if 9...Kc5? 10.Rxd7 Bxd7 11.Qxa8 Kb4 12.Qh1! and White wins. Not 12.Qxa7? Qe1+ 13.Kb2 Qc3+ with perpetual check.) 10.Kb2 Qd4+ 11.Ka3 Qc5+ 12.b4 Qe3+ 13.Bd3 Qc1+ 14.Kb3 Qb1+ 15.Kc3 Qe1+ 1/2 as White cannot escape the black checks.

Stockfish 8 64bit 3CPU running on 2016 hardware recognises the drawing significance of Rxh6!! in 7 seconds.

title: Nolot


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Pope Proterius of Alexandria (died 457) was Patriarch of Alexandria from 451 to 457. He had been appointed by the Council of Chalcedon to replace the deposed Dioscorus. He regarded as hieromartyr by the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church.

History
Proterius was elected by the Council of Chalcedon in 451 to replace Dioscorus of Alexandria, who had been deposed as Patriarch by the same council. Upon his arrival in Alexandria, he was met by a riot. His accession marks the beginning of the Schism of 451 between the Coptic Orthodox and the Greek Orthodox patriarchs of Alexandria, which has never been completely resolved. Because the church of Alexandria was largely anti-Chalcedonian, the deposition of Dioscorus, an anti-Chalcedonian, from the Patriarchate, and the elevation of Proterius, a Chalcedonian, to it, was violently opposed. Finally in 457 the anti-Chalcedonian party in Alexandria elected Timothy Aelurus as Patriarch of Alexandria, in opposition to Proterius, who was either subsequently martyred by a Coptic mob (Evagrius Scholasticus, 2, 8 ) or murdered by the Byzantine garrison in Alexandria (Zachariah of Mitylene, 4,1-3 ).

The murder was commented in several letters by groups of bishops from various Roman provinces (e.g. Galatia Prima) or larger regions to Byzantine emperor Leo I the Thracian (457–474).

Veneration
He is regarded as a Saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church. He is not recognized as a Pope by the Coptic Orthodox, who instead recognize Dioscorus and Timothy as having been the legitimate Popes during this time. (Coptic Orthodox Church Network, Popes Chronology ).

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Talk:Plain

Alluvial
"A plain is a landform formed by the deposition of alluvial soil over a long period of time by a river coming from the mountains." Isn't that just the definition of an alluvial plain, which is something different? Billy Shears 20:20, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes. I have changed "a plain" to "an alluvial plain", though I don't know if it needs to be removed altogether.  Joe D (t) 21:55, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

hi —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.64.68.199 (talk) 22:31, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Merge suggestion
whether it makes sense to merge all these small plain articles into one. `'mikka 19:58, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Missing plains
I removed the list. There is Category:Plains, which works fine. The following articles are red:
 * Alexis Leigh Plain, USA
 * Australian Plains
 * Pianura Padana, Italy

`'mikka 19:58, 7 March 2007 (UTC) You will NEVER find info on this for an assignmebt

All plains have a defined boundary?
i wanted to add a sentence to mention that plains generally as bounded by a geological and physical feature sucha as mountain a set of hills or a body of water. What are there people's thoughts on this idea? Chrisfromcanberra (talk) 01:41, 6 February 2009 (UTC) max− —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.251.10.73 (talk) 13:58, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Contradition in terms
this is all so freakin' wrong!!!!!! have any a y'all been in 8th grade? what idiots

The first sentence reads

'relatively high relief, as well as flat'

Isn't this a contradition? low relief means flat. High relief means the opposite. Chrisfromcanberra (talk)

I changed the wording to

'with relatively low relief, that is flat or gently rolling' BrasilianEngineer —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brasilian Engineer (talk • contribs) 00:59, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

Cleanup needed
I came to this article to understand what is and isn't a "plain," and ended up more confused.

Can they have trees?: I added "[primarily] treeless" to the article description and first sentence, because that's in the definitions of dictionary.com and Merriam-Webster.

Is "plain" a landform or biome? There's an overall confusion in this article: does "plain" describe a landform, or a category of biomes, or both? The flatness suggests landform, the treelessness suggests biome category. (I am quite sure that referring to a flat, forested expanse as a "plain" is would be nonstandard.) The sentence "In a few instances, deserts and rainforests can also be plains" is 'very' confused on whether we're talking about a a biome or landform. I changed it to "In a few instances, deserts and rainforests may also be considered plains." (I haven't checked the source, so I'm trusting it does support that.) Even with this "may also be considered" phrasing, it's unclear: is the idea that a desert biome can cover a plain landform?

Grammar and style: I removed a lot of strange "would be"s, and "on the doorsteps of mountains" - but further cleanup is needed to meet Wikipedia's style guidelines. SSSheridan (talk) 12:48, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

Subtypes: here, "grasslands" and "steppe" etc. are being distinguished by their climate; however, Temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands distinguishes "steppe" as being a term used for Asian temperate grasslands, as "prairie", "pampas", and "veld" are used in North America, South America, and Africa, respectively. SSSheridan (talk) 13:01, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

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Justin Hocking (ice hockey)

Justin Hocking (born January 9, 1974) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played one game in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Los Angeles Kings during the 1993–94 NHL season. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1993 to 2002, was spent in the minor leagues.

Born in Stettler, Alberta, Hocking was selected in the second round (39th overall) in the 1992 NHL Entry Draft by the Los Angeles Kings.

Hocking also played in the International Hockey League, ECHL, American Hockey League and later in the British Ice Hockey Superleague.

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Crybaby Bridge

Crybaby Bridge is a term that refers to numerous bridges across the United States, associated with urban legends and ghost stories involving the sounds of a baby crying. These tales typically involve tragic backstories of infanticide, accidents, or other sorrowful events that purportedly occurred at or near the bridges, for example, an urban legend relating to a baby or young child/children where the mother threw her baby off the bridge and felt so bad that she killed herself. She now looks for her baby while crying in the river sadly. The phenomenon is not limited to a specific location, but represents a type of folklore that has become embedded in the cultural fabric of various regions, each adapting the legend to fit local histories or landscapes.

Kentucky
A bridge on Sleepy Hollow Road near the border between Jefferson and Oldham counties in Kentucky was known as Crybaby Bridge. Reportedly, mothers would drop their unwanted, sick, or deformed babies off the bridge to drown in the water, and their crying can still be heard there. The original bridge has been replaced by a newer one made of steel and concrete. The bridge is one of several rumors about locations along Sleepy Hollow Road.

Egypt Road, Salem
Although the bridge is off of Egypt Road near Salem, Ohio, it is actually on what used to be West Pine Lake Roads, which now dead-ends to the east of the bridge. Legends attribute the crying baby to one that fell in and accidentally drowned. There is also a rumor that there is a cult of some sort in the woods surrounding the bridge. In 2010, there was a murder of an elderly woman that was found, strangled to death, and burned just off the bridge.

Map: 40.92974°N, -80.82998°W

Maryland
In Weird Maryland: Your Travel Guide to Maryland's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets, authors Matt Lake, Mark Moran, and Mark Sceurman include three first-person narratives of crybaby bridge experiences in Maryland. The locations mentioned are the Governor's Bridge Road bridge, one on Lottsford Vista Road, and a third unspecified but possibly described the Lottsford Vista Road bridge as well. The latter narratives make mention of purported Satanic churches near the bridge and the appearance of the Goatman.

De Kalb
"Crybaby Bridge", or "Spook Bridge", located about 25 miles west of Texarkana, runs across county road 4130, located 4 miles south of De Kalb, Texas. Legend says that a mother driving a car plunged into the creek, and the baby drowned in the near-freezing waters.

Lufkin
Jack Creek, a stream west of Lufkin, Texas, has for years been known as Cry Baby Creek, supposedly because a woman and a baby died when their auto veered off a wooden bridge and fell into the steep creek. Annette Sawyer of Lufkin said visitors who come to the site at night claim they have heard sounds resembling a baby crying. One visitor supposedly found the imprint of a baby's hand on her auto window after returning from the bridge.

Port Neches
"Sarah Jane Bridge" on East Port Neches Avenue in Port Neches, Texas, is said to be the bridge from which a baby of the same name was thrown into the alligator-infested water by a man who had murdered the child's mother. It is said Sarah Jane can be heard crying from the water when one stands on the bridge on hot summer nights. The child's mother, a headless ghost wandering the woods nearby, can also be heard whispering "Sarah Jane" as she searches the forest with a lantern. The legendary Sarah Jane is Sarah Jane Block, who lost no children and lived to the age of 99.

Controversy
In 1999, Maryland folklorist Jesse Glass presented a case against several crybaby bridges being genuine folklore, contending that they were instead fakelore that was knowingly being propagated through the internet.

According to Glass, nearly identical stories of crybaby bridges in Maryland and Ohio began to appear online in 1999, but they could not be confirmed through local oral history or the media.

Among Glass' examples was the story of a bridge located in Westminster, Maryland, which concerned the murder of escaped slaves and African American children. It's located specifically on Rockland Road, just off of Uniontown Road outside of Westminster's city limits past Rt. 31. In the 1800s, the story held, unwanted black babies were drowned by being thrown off this bridge. Regional newspapers, such as the American Sentinel and the Democratic Advocate, which usually covered racially motivated murders of the period, make no mention of the events described online.

However, in their book Weird U.S.: Your Travel Guide to America's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets, authors Mark Moran and Mark Sceurman relate the story of a purported crybaby bridge on Lottsford Vista Road between Bowie and Upper Marlboro, asserting that this bridge has "made believers out of many skeptics." The text included from their informant makes no mention of escaped slaves but does repeat a familiar component of such legends: an out-of-wedlock birth.

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Talk:Lam Tin station

station name
Lam Tin might not mean blue field. HenryLi 16:05, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * What do you think it can mean, then? (Note the wording on the article: "literally", not "meaning") De ryc  k C.  16:25, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Elevated
Lam Tin station is high above the ground, not on the ground level. This can be seen from the western train entrance towards the station - trains went in through a bridge. --Deryck C. 16:01, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Hung Hom Station which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 17:00, 17 December 2017 (UTC)

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Ron Homenuke

Ronald Wayne Homenuke (born January 5, 1952) is a Canadian former NHL player. He played in only one NHL game for the Vancouver Canucks, who had drafted him with the 51st pick in the 1972 Draft. He retired in 1976.

Homenuke now works as a missionary with street kids in the Philippines.

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Gulf and Kuwait Medal

The Gulf and Kuwait Medal (Médaille du Golfe et du Koweït, or Médaille du Golfe et du Kuwait ) was a campaign medal created in 1990 to recognize members of the Canadian Forces who had directly participated in the Gulf War, either in the hostilities themselves or during the troop build-up prior to the invasion of Iraq. It is, within the Canadian system of honours, the third highest of the war and operational service medals.

Design
Designed by Bruce W. Beatty, the Gulf and Kuwait Medal is in the form of a 36 mm diameter rhodium plated tombac disc with, on the obverse, the Latin words ELIZABETH II DEI GRATIA REGINA (Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God, Queen) and CANADA surrounding an effigy of Queen Elizabeth II, symbolizing her roles as both fount of honour and Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Forces. On the reverse is a laurel wreath with a maple leaf at its base encircling the words: GULF AND KUWAIT • 1990-1991 • LE GOLFE ET KUWAIT.

This medallion is worn at the left chest, suspended on a 31.8mm wide ribbon coloured with vertical stripes in light blue (representing the Air Command), scarlet (representing the Land Force Command), and dark blue (recalling the Maritime Command), symmetrically flanking a sand coloured central stripe. Originally, the Gulf and Kuwait medal was to have coincidentally had the same ribbon as the British Gulf Medal; only after the manufacturer of the ribbon informed the Chancellery of Honours at Rideau Hall were the two shades of blue on the Canadian version reversed.

Should an individual already possessing a Gulf and Kuwait Medal be awarded the medal bar for combat service, he or she is granted a clasp— in cupro-nickel and bearing a maple leaf— for wear on the ribbon from which the original medal is suspended.

Eligibility and allocation
On 2 August 1990, Queen Elizabeth II, on the advice of her Cabinet under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, approved the Gulf and Kuwait Medal to recognize members of the Canadian Forces who had served in the theatre of the Gulf War. To qualify for the medal, individuals had to have served for 30 consecutive days between 2 August 1990 and 27 June 1991 in the region of the Persian Gulf as a part of the operation to liberate Kuwait from the invading Iraqi forces, and those who for a minimum of one day engaged in direct combat with the enemy during the offensive that lasted from 16 January to 3 March 1991 were entitled to receive the additional medal bar; in total, 4,436 medals were issued, along with 3,184 bars.

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