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Matt Carroll (basketball)

Matthew John Carroll (born August 28, 1980) is an American former professional basketball player.

Carroll is 6ft 6in tall and weighs 212 lb. He played high school basketball at Hatboro-Horsham High School in Horsham, Pennsylvania, under coach Walt Ostrowski. He played college basketball at the University of Notre Dame.

Early career
At Hatboro-Horsham High School, Carroll averaged 26.5 points, 7.3 rebounds and four assists per game as a senior shooting guard. He recorded even more rebounds and assists his first three seasons, when he started at point guard for the Hatters.

At the end of high school, Carroll ranked second in scoring in the history of southeastern Pennsylvania, trailing only former Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant. Carroll surpassed Bryant by becoming the only Pennsylvania player to be named Mr. Basketball twice.

Basketball gurus around the nation noticed, as they twice selected Carroll for the United States Junior National Team. That selection teamed Carroll up with players such as the Orlando Magic's Mike Miller, Stanford's Casey Jacobsen and Arizona's Michael Wright to compete in the Dominican Republic in 1998 and Portugal in 1999.

In addition to the U.S. junior national team, Carroll made it onto the roster for prep all-star games such as the Magic Johnson Roundball Classic, where he finally had the chance to play for his grandfather, and the Capital Classic in Washington, D.C.

He was recruited by coach John MacLeod, played for Matt Doherty as a freshman and played the rest of his college career for former Delaware coach Mike Brey at the University of Notre Dame.

College career
Carroll played in 133 games over his four-year career at the University of Notre Dame and averaged 13.9 points, 4.3 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 0.9 steals. He finished sixth on Notre Dame's all-time leading scoring list with 1,850 points.

Carroll also ranks as Notre Dame's second all-time leader in three-point field goals made (301) behind Colin Falls (331), three-point field goals attempted (762), games played (133), games started (125) and second in free throw percentage (.825). He scored in double figures in 96 of 133 career games. He was named All-American Honorable Mention by the Associated Press and All-Big East First Team as a senior.

Professional career
Carroll entered the 2003 NBA draft but went undrafted. He signed with the New York Knicks as a free agent and played in their summer league. He spent the 2003–04 training camp with New York and was one of the Knicks' final cuts.

Portland Trail Blazers
Carroll signed with the Portland Trail Blazers as a free agent on November 7, 2003 and appeared in 13 games for Portland during the 2003–04 season and averaged 1.0 points. He was released by the Trail Blazers on January 7, 2004.

Roanoke Dazzle
After being cut by the Blazers in the 2003–04 season, Carroll signed with the Roanoke Dazzle of the NBA Development League. He played 11 games with the Dazzle before signing with the Spurs. Carroll scored 15.5 points and registered 2.8 rebounds a game.

Carroll re-signed with the Roanoke Dazzle on December 11, where he excelled — being named 2004–05 NBADL Most Valuable Player. He led all scorers in the NBADL with 20.1 points in 24 games. He also averaged 2.8 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 1.1 steals in 31.7 minutes. He shot .503 from the field (177–352) and .605 from the three-point line (23–38). Carroll scored an NBADL season-high 43 points against the Florida Flame on February 9 and was named NBADL Player of the Month in January after averaging 22.3 points. After January 1, Carroll led Roanoke to a 14–4 record and first place in the NBADL.

San Antonio Spurs
Carroll signed with the San Antonio Spurs as a free agent on March 8, 2004 for the remainder of the season. He appeared in three games for San Antonio during the 2003–04 season and averaged 2.0 points.

Carroll played in the 2004 Summer League for the Golden State Warriors. He appeared in six games for Golden State during the preseason and averaged 2.8 points and 1.0 rebounds before being released prior to the regular season and returned to Roanoke Dazzle.

Charlotte Bobcats
Carroll signed with the expansion Charlotte Bobcats on February 23, 2005 and appeared in 25 games and averaged 9.0 points and 2.4 rebounds in 17.2 minutes. In his first season with the Bobcats, Carroll reached double-figure scoring 12 times and scored a career-high 22 points at Washington on April 17. He also posted six consecutive games with 10-plus points from April 5–16.

Carroll became a free agent in the summer of 2005 and was re-signed by the Bobcats. He played in all but four of the Bobcats games in 2005–06, averaging 7.6 pts and two rebounds in 16 minutes per game. The team picked up his option for the 2006–07 season. Carroll gained some media attention after completing five four-point plays during the regular season. The record for four-point plays in one NBA season stands at six, and belongs to Mitch Richmond.

In 2006–07, Carroll had his best NBA season by far, averaging 12.1 ppg, 2.9 rpg, and 1.3 apg. He also led the Bobcats in free throw percentage, shooting .904 from the line, as well as three-point percentage, shooting .416 from beyond the arc.

On July 17, 2007, Matt Carroll re-signed with the Bobcats. Bobcats executive vice president of basketball operations Bernie Bickerstaff had the following comments: "Matt was one of our off-season priorities and we are glad to have him back. [...] He has proven to be the consummate professional on and off the court, and his production has continued to increase since he joined us from the D-League over two years ago."

Dallas Mavericks
On January 16, 2009, Carroll was traded to the Dallas Mavericks along with Ryan Hollins in exchange for DeSagana Diop.

Second stint with the Bobcats
On July 13, 2010, Carroll was traded back to the Charlotte Bobcats along with Erick Dampier and Eduardo Nájera in exchange for Tyson Chandler and Alexis Ajinça.

New Orleans Hornets
On November 13, 2012, Carroll was traded by the Bobcats to the New Orleans Hornets in exchange for Hakim Warrick. He was waived by the Hornets on November 20, 2012.

Post-playing career
On March 18, 2014, Carroll was named the Charlotte Hornets' Community Ambassador.

Personal life
His brother, Pat, starred at Saint Joseph's University.

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Painless Parker

Painless Parker (born Edgar R.R. Parker; 22 March 1872 – 8 November 1952) was a Canadian-born street dentist described as "a menace to the dignity of the profession" by the American Dental Association. However, "Much of what he championed—patient advocacy, increased access to dental care, and advertising—has come to pass in the U.S."

Parker was born in Tynemouth Creek, New Brunswick, Canada. He studied at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia and the Baptist Seminary in St. Martins, New Brunswick, but was expelled from both. He worked as a cook on a ship and as a travelling merchant before deciding to pursue medicine. Finding the costs prohibitive, he instead enrolled at the New York College of Dentistry. While in New York, he began offering his services through door-to-door dentistry, but when the college found out, he was expelled. From there, he went to the Philadelphia Dental College, which would become the Temple University School of Dentistry. He earned his diploma in 1892. He returned to New Brunswick to start work as a dentist. After six weeks without a single patient, he decided to advertise. He hired one of P.T. Barnum's ex-managers to help him take his practice on the road. Parker travelled across Canada before finally settling in Brooklyn, New York, in the late 1890s. He created the Parker Dental Circus, a traveling medicine show with his dental chair on a horse-drawn wagon while a band played. The band attracted large crowds and hid the moans and cries of patients who were given whiskey or a cocaine solution that he called "hydrocaine" to numb the pain. He charged 50 cents for each extraction and promised that if it hurt, he would pay the patient $5.

At one point, he claimed to have pulled 357 teeth in one day, which he wore on a necklace. He legally changed his first name to "Painless" when he was accused of breaking a false advertisement law by claiming that his dentistry was truly painless. When business thrived, he hired assistants and established a chain dentistry business. In the end, Parker ran 28 West Coast dental offices, employing over 70 dentists, and grossing $3 million per year.

Parker is mentioned in the song "Orange Claw Hammer" by musician and poet Don Van Vliet. The Historical Dental Museum at the Temple University School of Dentistry has a display dedicated to Parker, with his necklace of 357 teeth and a large wooden bucket filled to the brim with teeth that he had personally pulled. The bucket of teeth sat by his feet as he lectured the crowds on the importance of dental hygiene.

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Sheffield Development Corporation

The Sheffield Development Corporation (SDC) was created in 1988 to oversee the urban regeneration of the Lower Don Valley area of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

History
The area had been the major industrial region of Sheffield but had gone into decline since the 1960s. Huge parts of it were derelict and the city as a whole was suffering from large unemployment. The Corporation was established in 1988 and, in common with other development corporations, it was the planning authority for the area during its existence. It was wound down in 1997 with development operations ceasing on 1 April 1997 and dissolved on 1 July 1997.

Key economic indicators
During its existence it invested £101 million of government money and £7.5 million from the European Union. This was supported by £680 million of private investment. It reclaimed 600 acres (2.4 km2) of land and created over 5 million square feet (460,000 m2) of commercial floor space. It also created 18,000 new jobs. It also regenerated the local landscape with 160,000 trees and shrubs and renovated the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation.

Developments
The most famous development during its time was Meadowhall Centre, which was Europe's largest shopping centre when it was built in 1991. It also brought the Abbey National share exchange centre to the area along with several call centres. Sheffield City Airport was also built during this time but proceeded to close in 2008. The Victoria Quays at the end of the Don Valley Navigation also received a large investment. Although largely built in the region the SDC had no involvement with the World Student Games development.

There was also due to be a four lane link road from junction 34 of the M1 at Meadowhall to the city centre. This was abandoned for a more modest improvement of the local roads when the early 1990s recession struck. In the end a total of 9 mi of road was improved.

Criticism
In 1989 there was accusations that the chairman was using his authority for personal financial gain. Although he was never found to be doing anything improper or asked to step down, he did have business interests within the region. He was also a non-executive chairman of a company who invested in regeneration projects in Sheffield.

After the SDC
The land continued to be developed after the dissolution of the SDC. A further 6,000 jobs were already due to be created and £124 million was pledged to redevelopment of Sheffield by the government over the next 7 years. Since 1997 the lower Don Valley has also seen further investment due to its links. Valley Centertainment, including one of the country's largest cinema complexes, has also been built since 1997. In May 2005 Sheffield City Council announced a £1 billion investment scheme for the Attercliffe area taking 20 years to complete.

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Talk:Hyperinsulinism

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I removed the following because of multiple errors.

Hyperinsulinism is a condition in which the body's cells do not respond properly to insulin, the hormone that functions to control blood sugar levels. (this basic definition is simply wrong) Insulin transports nutrients (mainly glucose) across cell membranes.

Insulin resistance With insulin resistance, less glucose is absorbed from the blood, resulting in higher insulin secretion. (this is not a confirmed mechanism but rather a popular "as if" explanation) Insulinoma Hypoglycemia due to hyperinsulinism can be a feature of insulinoma, a (usually benign) tumor that secretes insulin. (and many other things)

alteripse 02:19, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Removed section about insulin overdosage
I removed the following section from the article: ==Hyperinsulinism due to insulin injection== The treatment of diabetes mellitus with insulin replacement therapy can easily result in diabetic hypoglycemia due to the difficulty of balancing insulin delivery.

Transient hyperinsulinism can also occur when insulin is injected by non-diabetic athletes attempting to enhance their anaerobic performance. I removed it because insulin overdosage (or eating too little after taking insulin) does not constitute hyperinsulinism! It is just plain overdosage. --Seren-dipper (talk) 04:13, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Reverted link removal
User:Alteripse removed the "See also"-section along with its links. The Edit Summary given was: «(→See also: removed unrelated conditions)».I disagree, and have now moved them back into the article, because Harris' article from 1924 shows that those two topics, on the contrary, are closely related to hyperinsulinism! --Seren-dipper (talk) 04:46, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

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Gerringong railway station

Gerringong railway station is a single-platform intercity train station located in Gerringong, New South Wales, Australia, on the South Coast railway line. The station serves NSW TrainLink diesel multiple unit trains travelling south to Bomaderry and north to Kiama. Early morning and late night services to the station are provided by train replacement bus services. In the past, the station precinct also catered to freight trains carrying dairy products.

History
The NSW Government Railways opened its South Coast Line extension, from Bombo to Bomaderry, on 2 June 1893. The town was initially served by both the main Gerringong Station and a smaller, unmanned stop called Omega, two kilometres to the north. The timing was fortuitous: the district's main link to Sydney, the jetty at Boat Harbour, had been destroyed in a storm two years previously. The arrival of the railway marked the end of coastal shipping to Gerringong after close to half a century of service.

The Gerringong district was home to a highly productive dairy industry. The opening of the railway dramatically improved local producers' access to the lucrative Sydney market, so the then Gerringong Co-Operative Dairy Society moved its operations to a site neighbouring the station in 1908. The factory's rail siding was extended in 1936.

On the night of 18 August 1941, lightning struck wiring leading to Gerringong's weatherboard station building, setting it alight. A report in the local Kiama Reporter says that 150 townsfolk gathered at the scene, and a firehose was run from the adjacent factory to fight the blaze, but the building was lost – only the brick chimney and an iron safe remained. "The train from Sydney ... was held up for about twenty minutes on account of the fire," the Reporter recorded. A new brick station building was built in its place in 1942 in the functionalist style; it remains on the site in modified form today.

Over time, freight declined in importance for the railway, and cost pressures led to the closure of low-patronage stations across the network. By 1986, the Omega railway station  had closed, and in 1991 the dairy co-op abandoned its siding in favour of road transport.

Operations
The South Coast Line south of Kiama is non-electrified single track. Since 2001, northbound trains from Gerringong terminate at Kiama, requiring passengers to change to electric multiple unit services to Wollongong and Sydney. In 2005, then Minister for Transport John Watkins announced that electrification would be extended to the terminus at Bomaderry at an unspecified future date, but the proposal did not progress.

Gerringong Station was upgraded to be wheelchair-accessible in 2012. In 2014, electronic ticketing in the form of the Opal smart card became available at the station.

Platforms and services
Gerringong has one platform. It is serviced by NSW TrainLink South Coast line services travelling between Kiama and Bomaderry.

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Robert Arthur (radio announcer)

Robert "Bob" Arthur (June 21, 1921 – March 25, 1997) was a radio personality, a television newscaster and a motion picture actor. He is best remembered for partnering with Ken Minyard on the "Ken and Bob Company" morning radio program on KABC-AM (790) Los Angeles, California, from 1973 to 1990. The pair coined the popular term "EGBOK" meaning “everything’s gonna be OK.”

As actor, Arthur had roles in The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988), True Confessions (1981) and Skin Deep (1989)

Born Joseph Arthur Prince in Kansas, Arthur studied journalism in college and began his career in Wichita. He was an anchorman at KOAT-TV in Albuquerque, New Mexico before coming to Los Angeles in the mid-1960s to work for KTLA/Channel 5. He later moved to LA's KNX radio, and after two years at KNX, he moved to LA's KABC radio in 1969 as a newsman. He retired in 1990, to devote more time to a project setting up care homes for Alzheimer's patients in Long Beach. Arthur died March 25, 1997, at his home in Albuquerque.

For their contribution to radio, Bob Arthur and Ken Minyard were awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6808 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pig City

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Delete. Note: An article for Sixth Grade Secrets does not exist at time of closing. Carbonite | Talk 12:14, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Pig City
A club from a book does not warrant it's own entry. It could be included in a possible entry for the book itself. Cpaliga 02:21, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom Justin Bacon 06:03, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to the book if that's created during the Afd. Else *Delete  Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk  06:22, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete assuming that no article for the book is created before the AfD is finished, otherwise redirect to the book per WP:FICT. --Metropolitan90 06:39, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable. utcursch | talk 07:51, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect if book is created, otherwise delete. - Mgm|(talk) 08:17, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless an article for the book pops up. In which case it should be merged. --Optichan 19:38, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment Are you literary critics? Lol. Go read a bit before sending non authoritative opinions. Acheronovich 19:48, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I've read the book. Cpaliga 21:42, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Merge and redirect if book is created, otherwise delete. Hard to buy the notability of the club if the book is not even noted yet.  Once that is in place, may warrant resubmission.--Daniel Lotspeich 20:31, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

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Jaffee v. Redmond

Jaffee v. Redmond, 518 U.S. 1 (1996), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court created a psychotherapist-patient privilege in the Federal Rules of Evidence.

Background
Mary Lu Redmond was a police officer for the Village of Hoffman Estates, Illinois. On June 27, 1991, she was the first to respond to a fight-in-progress call. She arrived to find Ricky Allen chasing another man and brandishing a butcher knife. Redmond repeatedly ordered Allen to drop the knife, but Allen ignored her. At one point in the chase, it appeared to Redmond that Allen was about to stab the man he was chasing, and so she shot Allen. Allen died at the scene.

Acting as the representative of Allen's estate, Jaffee filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, claiming that Redmond had used excessive force during the altercation. Witnesses testified that Allen was not armed during the altercation. During discovery, Jaffee discovered that Redmond had sought counseling from a licensed clinical social worker. Jaffee sought the social worker's notes for the purpose of cross-examining Redmond at the trial. Redmond opposed the request, claiming that the notes were protected by the psychotherapist-patient privilege. The trial judge rejected this argument, and the jury later awarded Allen's estate $545,000 in damages.

Redmond appealed to the Seventh Circuit, which vacated the decision of the trial court and remanded. In its opinion, the privilege of which Redmond sought to avail herself did exist in federal law, and the trial court should have applied it. Jaffee asked the Supreme Court to review the Seventh Circuit's decision, and it agreed to do so.

Majority opinion
When the United States Congress enacted the Federal Rules of Evidence in 1975, it expressly left the development of evidentiary privileges to the courts. The "privilege of a witness... shall be governed by the principles of the common law as they may be interpreted... in the light of reason and experience." Under these common-law principles, the law favors compelling witnesses to give whatever evidence they can, unless there is some other "public good transcending the normally predominant principle of utilizing all rational means for ascertaining truth."

The psychotherapist-patient privilege, like the attorney–client and spousal privileges, flows from society's desire to facilitate certain relationships of confidence and trust. "Effective psychotherapy... depends upon an atmosphere of confidence and trust in which the patient is willing to make a frank and complete disclosure of facts, emotions, memories, and fears. Because of the sensitive nature of the problems for which individuals consult psychotherapists, disclosure of confidential communication made during counseling sessions may cause embarrassment or disgrace. For this reason, the mere possibility of disclosure may impede disclosure of the confidential relationship necessary for successful treatment." These are the important societal interests the psychotherapist-patient privilege works to protect.

By contrast, if there existed no privilege for communications between psychotherapists and their patients, people would decide not to seek treatment for mental illness, particularly illnesses and traumas that are likely to result in litigation. If there were no privilege, evidence such as that sought from Redmond by Allen's estate would not likely arise in the first place, and would remain out of court just as if it were privileged.

Two other considerations favored recognizing a federal psychotherapist-patient privilege. First, all 50 states recognized some form of the psychotherapist-patient privilege; thus, the "reason and experience" of those states counseled in favor of recognizing the privilege in federal courts. Indeed, as long as federal courts declined to recognize the privilege, those courts undermined the promise made by the states that afforded the privilege to their citizens. The secrets they shared with their psychologists could still be revealed to the world in federal courts housed across the street from the courts of their own states.

Second, the proposed draft of the Federal Rules of Evidence included nine specific privileges, one of which was a psychotherapist-patient privilege. In the past, the Court had rejected an attempt to create a state legislative privilege within the Federal Rules of Evidence because that privilege was not included in the draft version of the Rules. When it rejected the draft including specific privileges, Congress did not specifically intend to reject the individual privileges. It simply intended to leave the contours of the privileges to the Courts. For all these reasons, the Court held that a psychotherapist-patient privilege existed within the Federal Rules of Evidence.

The Court also had no trouble applying it to therapy provided by a licensed clinical social worker. Social workers provide a significant amount of mental health treatment. Their clients often are of modest means and cannot afford the assistance of psychiatrists and psychologists. The vast majority of states explicitly extend a testimonial privilege to social workers. Thus, the Court saw no reason to delimit the privilege so as to exclude social workers from the privilege.

Dissenting opinion
Justice Scalia disputed every major logical premise on which the majority's decision rested. The heart of his dissent, however, stemmed from two basic propositions. First, that the relative social importance of psychotherapy was not established. "Effective psychotherapy undoubtedly is beneficial to individuals with mental problems, and surely serves some larger social interest in maintaining a mentally stable society. But merely mentioning these values does not answer the critical question: Are they of such importance, and is the contribution of psychotherapy to them so distinctive, and is the application of normal evidentiary rules so destructive to psychotherapy, as to justify making our federal courts occasional instruments of injustice [by excluding truthful evidence from court]?"

Second, the lack of sufficient basis to distinguish psychotherapists from others in society in whom people place valuable confidences. "For most of history, men and women have worked out their difficulties by talking to... parents, siblings, best friends, and bartenders—none of whom was awarded a privilege against testifying in court." As a result, he could not see how extending an evidentiary privilege to psychotherapists would facilitate mental health treatment.

From Scalia's vantage point, two flaws in the majority's argument were most troubling. Although all states had a psychotherapist privilege as part of their law, those states had enacted the law through legislation. The majority, by contrast, was creating one judicially after Congress had expressly declined to do so. The majority's justification—that the federal privilege was necessary to avoid undermining the laws of the states—seemed to Scalia to be an inverse form of preemption.

Also, the states were not uniform in their treatment of the question presented in the case—whether the testimony of a licensed social worker should be privileged from disclosure in court. Social workers serve a variety of roles and have a variety of backgrounds and training. "Does a social worker bring to bear at least a significantly heightened degree of skill — more than a minister or rabbi, for example? I have no idea, and neither does the Court."

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Isotonic regression

In statistics and numerical analysis, isotonic regression or monotonic regression is the technique of fitting a free-form line to a sequence of observations such that the fitted line is non-decreasing (or non-increasing) everywhere, and lies as close to the observations as possible.

Applications
Isotonic regression has applications in statistical inference. For example, one might use it to fit an isotonic curve to the means of some set of experimental results when an increase in those means according to some particular ordering is expected. A benefit of isotonic regression is that it is not constrained by any functional form, such as the linearity imposed by linear regression, as long as the function is monotonic increasing.

Another application is nonmetric multidimensional scaling, where a low-dimensional embedding for data points is sought such that order of distances between points in the embedding matches order of dissimilarity between points. Isotonic regression is used iteratively to fit ideal distances to preserve relative dissimilarity order.

Isotonic regression is also used in probabilistic classification to calibrate the predicted probabilities of supervised machine learning models.

Isotonic regression for the simply ordered case with univariate $$x, y$$ has been applied to estimating continuous dose-response relationships in fields such as anesthesiology and toxicology. Narrowly speaking, isotonic regression only provides point estimates at observed values of $$x.$$ Estimation of the complete dose-response curve without any additional assumptions is usually done via linear interpolation between the point estimates.

Software for computing isotone (monotonic) regression has been developed for R, Stata, and Python.

Problem statement and algorithms
Let $$(x_1,y_1),\ldots,(x_n,y_n)$$ be a given set of observations, where the $$y_i \in \mathbb{R}$$ and the $$x_i$$ fall in some partially ordered set. For generality, each observation $$(x_i,y_i)$$ may be given a weight $$w_i \ge 0$$, although commonly $$w_i=1$$ for all $$i$$.

Isotonic regression seeks a weighted least-squares fit $$\hat{y}_i \approx y_i$$ for all $$i$$, subject to the constraint that $$\hat{y}_i \le \hat{y}_j$$ whenever $$x_i \le x_j$$. This gives the following quadratic program (QP) in the variables $$\hat{y}_1, \ldots, \hat{y}_n$$:

 * $$\min \sum_{i=1}^n w_i (\hat{y}_i - y_i)^2$$ subject to $$\hat{y}_i \le \hat{y}_j \text{ for all } (i,j) \in E$$

where $$E = \{(i,j): x_i \le x_j\}$$ specifies the partial ordering of the observed inputs $$x_i$$ (and may be regarded as the set of edges of some directed acyclic graph (dag) with vertices $$1,2,\ldots n$$). Problems of this form may be solved by generic quadratic programming techniques.

In the usual setting where the $$x_i$$ values fall in a totally ordered set such as $$\mathbb{R}$$, we may assume WLOG that the observations have been sorted so that $$x_1 \le x_2 \le \cdots \le x_n$$, and take $$E = \{(i,i+1): 1 \le i < n\}$$. In this case, a simple iterative algorithm for solving the quadratic program is the pool adjacent violators algorithm. Conversely, Best and Chakravarti studied the problem as an active set identification problem, and proposed a primal algorithm. These two algorithms can be seen as each other's dual, and both have a computational complexity of $$O(n)$$ on already sorted data.

To complete the isotonic regression task, we may then choose any non-decreasing function $$f(x)$$ such that $$f(x_i) = \hat{y}_i$$ for all i. Any such function obviously solves
 * $$\min_f \sum_{i=1}^n w_i (f(x_i) - y_i)^2$$ subject to $$f$$ being nondecreasing

and can be used to predict the $$y$$ values for new values of $$x$$. A common choice when $$x_i \in \mathbb{R}$$ would be to interpolate linearly between the points $$(x_i,\hat{y}_i)$$, as illustrated in the figure, yielding a continuous piecewise linear function:
 * $$f(x) = \begin{cases}

\hat{y}_1 & \text{if } x \le x_1 \\ \hat{y}_i + \frac{x-x_i}{x_{i+1}-x_i}(\hat{y}_{i+1}-\hat{y}_i) & \text{if } x_i \le x \le x_{i+1} \\ \hat{y}_n & \text{if } x \ge x_n \end{cases}$$

Centered isotonic regression
As this article's first figure shows, in the presence of monotonicity violations the resulting interpolated curve will have flat (constant) intervals. In dose-response applications it is usually known that $$f(x)$$ is not only monotone but also smooth. The flat intervals are incompatible with $$f(x)$$'s assumed shape, and can be shown to be biased. A simple improvement for such applications, named centered isotonic regression (CIR), was developed by Oron and Flournoy and shown to substantially reduce estimation error for both dose-response and dose-finding applications. Both CIR and the standard isotonic regression for the univariate, simply ordered case, are implemented in the R package "cir". This package also provides analytical confidence-interval estimates.

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Railgon Company

The Railgon Company, (reporting marks GONX, GNTX) established in 1979, is an American company that owns railroad gondola cars available for use by multiple railroads by placing the cars in a cooperative pool.

Shipments in gondola cars and other rolling stock are often used to transport goods on more than one railroad before reaching the receiver. Under the regulations governing railway transport, individual railroads paid fees, called car hire, for the time and mileage to utilize other railroads’ railcars (whether loaded or empty) Car hire was designed to promote the rapid return of rolling stock, since delays equated to extra money spent.

Because of the desire to reduce costs by minimizing car hire, non-owning railroads may have declined the practice of allowing cars to continue on past their initial destination to points further from the car's "home". This had the effect of decreasing efficiency on these lines, and Railgon (and Railbox) used this argument to promote use of their rolling stock.

Railroad deregulation as part of the Staggers Act reduced the need for this service, and the use of this cooperative arrangement consequently declined. As a result, today the Railgon pool is significantly smaller than at its peak.

Railgon (and the similar Railbox Company) are currently subsidiaries of TTX Company, formerly the Trailer Train Company, which is owned by multiple railroads and leases cars to them. There are currently 1188 cars in the Railgon fleet, compared with over 13,000 boxcars in the Railbox fleet.

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User:Bill Smoot

As an American citizen, I propose a "Trust Fund For Global Education." The fund would be privately controlled by a multi-partisan board of directors and would recieve funding both privately and through grants from the United States government. The fund would be used to create a global network of university campuses that focused on developing international solutions. It would promote continuously expanding international student and intellectual (professor and teacher) exchange programs. On US campuses, I would advocate for it to focus on topics such as:

 * Reducing Poverty In the 21st Century At Home and Abroad
 * Expanding Access To Health Care At Home and Abroad
 * Expanding Access To Education At Home and Abroad
 * Facing The Reality Of Global Climate Change
 * Combating Discrimination In Employment
 * Expanding Democratic Participation
 * Balancing Public Safety and Criminal Justice
 * Expanding International Exchange and Understanding
 * Rationalizing International Trade and Domestic Stability
 * Energy Policy and The Environment
 * Stablizing and Reducing State College Costs
 * Enhancing The Environment and Limiting Urban Sprawl
 * Creating A More Peaceful and Nonviolent Foreign Policy
 * Modernizing and Expanding Public Transportation
 * Reducing Military Spending and Creating a Peace Based Economy
 * Building Solidarity With Human Rights Activist Across the Globe

Many of these topics could be studied with some benefit by the current US Democratic Party. The party currently seems to lack a sufficiently positive agenda and cannot effectively challenge the militaristic, capitalistic and religionistic (I think I just made up that word) policies of the current national government. I would like to see the Democratic Party organize 1,000 study groups around the country to meet together, study some of the issues listed above, and work on plans of action.

We need to increase the respect given to teachers and the teaching profession. The federal government should give every teacher a tax credit. We need more teachers. Throwing money at the problem is a good idea. Smaller class sizes contribute to better education. That is why rich people send their children to expensive private schools with small class sizes. Does anyone think that a class of sixty children functions as well as a class of 4 or 8 children? Did you learn better in a big lecture hall, or working one on one with the teacher?

Global warming is here and its going to get worse. The planet is a big greenhouse and it is getting hot. I will not link to the global warming article because controversial topics such as this tend to be politicized on wikipedia. I tend to agree with the vast scientific consensus that it is probably a major problem. In fact, I believe much of humanity is potentially headed in a downward spiral toward oblivion if CO2 emmissions continue escalating. For this reason, I have revised my earlier opposition to nuclear energy. I now believe the United States and other countries should expand the use nuclear energy quickly. I am interested in the pebble bed reactor concept and other allegedly safer nuclear designs.

Solar energy, energy efficiency, hybrid and electric vehicles are part of the solution. I am a hypocrit in this regard, since I drive a rusty old Dodge Van. We have not achieved anywhere near our potential in the areas of energy efficiency. The hydrogen economy is probably not in our future. It takes a lot of electricity to make hydrogen. Why not just use the electricity. Maybe we will develop some other great energy sources in my life time or my children's lifetimes. Maybe fusion energy will save our planet.

In America we have an economic opportunity deficit which is fueled by strong elements of racism and classism. People need a "living wage." The minimum wage should be doubled, at least, if not tripled. We need stronger laws to combat unfair labor and employment practices. We need to strengthen the rights of employees to form unions and worker associations by create private rights of action for individuals who have had their union organizing or other employment rights violated. American workers need laws that give them a cause of action to sue their employers in court where their rights to organize or act collectively were violated by their employers. Workers ought to be able to sue for compensatory damages, punitive damages, attorney's fees and costs. This would put an army of lawyers on the side of the workers, and would counterbalance the awesome power of Wal-Mart and other giant corporations. We need to strengthen employees' rights to bring class action lawsuits.

Professor Manning Marable has contended that there are three key barriers to black participation in American capitalism that include high unemployment, high rates of incarceration and disenfranchisement of black voters. In Mississippi, for example, as many as 30% of African American men have been disenfranchised because of law barring individuals with criminal convictions from voting. Under the current regime, these problems are getting much worse, not better.

I am also a big advocate of establishing improved barriers to corporate participation in elections. Corporations have gained the power of citizens in the United States. It seems wrong to me that the corporations are buying political power and many political offices. Unregulated capitalism leads to an erosion of democracy, the environment, and humane values. Take one of our major corporations, AT & T. This company is the leading purveyor of pornographic movies. They are willing to exploit women and promote a course and vulgar society in order to make money. Corporations such as AT&T have an ideal vision for society. It looks like the strip in Las Vegas. In this vision, they own the casinos, the brothels, the peep shops, and the cable porn channels. You and I are the johns and the prostitutes, the gambling addicts, the drunks. We are the saps. Who is AT&T and its executives. They are the pimps. I don't want to be pimped by a big corporation and its fat cat executives.

I am also a big advocate of eliminating the death penalty. Countries with severe human rights problems, like China, Cuba, Burma, Iran, and Russia can point to the U.S. as having a poor human rights record as long as the US has the death penalty. There is a great deal of improvement that can be made in the US on the human rights front, but, by comparison with the above countries, the US is a human rights paradise at home. In its foreign policy on the other hand, the US can justifiably be described as a terrorist state and a supporter of terrorism.

We need to work to stamp out racism, nationalism, superstition and religous fundamentalism and capitalistic fundamentalism. God does not exist. We live on a rock in the middle of an unimaginably large vacuum called space. We evolved from a fish who evolved from a single celled organism. Jesus Christ was a nice guy, but, his idea of advanced technology was a wheelbarrow. What leads people that believe that Jesus was the son of God, that they can communicate with Jesus who died 2000 years ago, that God created the earth in 6 days and that Jonas lived in the stomach of a whale for three days? Isn't this kind of thinking, combined with some serious narcisism and other mental disorders, that brought us Osama Bin Ladin. We need to avoid accepting the illusions that are often peddled by religious fanatics. We need to avoid the delusions that can corrupt our thought processes.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/BIBU

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was speedy deleted as blatant hoax. - Mgm|(talk) 08:19, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

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hoax NeilN 02:24, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, Googling Insect and Bibu returns no relevant hits. Possible speedy:A1 --CastAStone 02:34, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * scrubs the snatches with his brucks counts as Speedy for me. Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk  06:24, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Hoax. utcursch | talk 07:50, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
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Kiama railway station

Kiama railway station is a heritage-listed intercity train station located in Kiama, New South Wales, Australia, on the South Coast railway line. The station serves NSW TrainLink diesel multiple unit trains traveling south to Bomaderry and electric multiple unit trains north to and Sydney. Early morning and late night services to and from stations to the south are provided by train replacement bus services. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.

History
As a seaside town, Kiama was initially reliant on coastal shipping for its links to Wollongong and Sydney. The railway first arrived in the Kiama district in November 1887, with the opening of a new station at Bombo (since renamed Bombo), on the town's northern outskirts. The terminus was only a temporary arrangement, however: the NSW Government Railways had already signed contracts to further extend the railway south the previous year. Kiama was the northernmost station on that extension, built by firm of W. Monie & J. Angus between 1886 and 1893. The new station opened in June 1893.

Kiama was built as a passenger station and combined signal box on an island platform in the centre of the town. The goods yard was also opened and a locomotive sub-depot south of the station. From the timber footbridge, an elaborate landing and covered stair led down to the platform and the brick station was the first example of its type, the design of which was used at many stations built over the next 30 years. The design of the footbridge and stairs (plans dated 1892) were signed by Henry Deane. The line remains a single track with a crossing loop at the station.

The Kiama Railway Station yard was originally huge, extending from Terralong Street at the north end to Barney Street to the south. NSW Railways plans dated 1925 for "Station Arrangements" show (from north to south): a cottage south of Terralong Street; platform extensions and removal of a lamp room from the platform; retaining walls; a cream loading platform on the east side of the yard, east of the platform; tanks under the Bong Bong Street overbridge and a rest house southeast of the overbridge; a cattle yards and weighbridge southeast of the overbridge; and further south, stock yards and an engine shed and turntable (west of rail lines); a goods shed with platform and loading stage, and east of these, another rest house. At the far southern end of the yard, on the south-eastern side, was the Station Master's residence and the Dairy Farmers Co-operative Milk Company building (just north of the Barney Street overbridge).

Structures that have since disappeared include the footbridge and stairs, the Station Master's residence, the Bong Bong Street overbridge, the goods shed and the engine shed. A Dairy Farmers Co-Op siding and a N.S.W. Produce Company siding opened in 1947 are also no longer used. Ash pits are shown in the 1925 plan of the station arrangements, north of the turntable: one within the (no longer extant) engine shed and one north of the engine shed.

Electric trains began operating on the line from Dapto to Kiama in November 2001, but the line to the south has remained as non-electrified single track. Since 2001, northbound trains from Bomaderry terminate at Kiama, requiring passengers to change to electric multiple unit services heading north. In 2005, the then Minister for Transport, John Watkins, announced that electrification would be extended to the terminus at Bomaderry at an unspecified future date, but the proposal did not progress.

Kiama Station was upgraded to be wheelchair-accessible in 2003, with a lift to the platform completed with a concrete footbridge link to Eddy Street and concrete stairs. In 2014, electronic ticketing in the form of the Opal smart card became available at the station. Planning is currently underway to extend the platforms by about 8 metres to accommodate 10 car D sets.

Platforms and services
Kiama has one island platform with two faces. It is serviced by NSW TrainLink South Coast line electric services from Sydney and diesel multiple unit services from Bomaderry. Services to Sydney Central & Bomaderry usually depart from platform 2, while platform 1 is not in use.

Transport links
Premier Illawarra operates one bus route via Kiama station, under contract to Transport for NSW:
 * 71: Stockland Shellharbour to Kiama Hospital

Kiama Coaches operate two routes via Kiama Station:
 * 125: to Seven Mile Beach via Gerringong & Gerroa
 * 126: to Minnamurra Falls via Jamberoo

Description
The station complex includes the platform building and island platform (1893), turntable (1897), Bong Bong Street overbridge (c. 1990 and footbridge (2005).

 * Platform building (1893)

This is a single storey painted brick building (painted in heritage colors: brick colour for walls; drab for stucco reveals to windows and doors; manilla for window frames and doors) with a gabled corrugated steel roof with timber tongue & grooved boarding to gable ends. The building has timber framed double hung windows with 9 paned top sashes with coloured glass panes to top sashes and frosted glass to bottom sashes. The majority of doors are timber paneled, and there are some timber paneled double doors, all with multipaned fanlights (some fanlights covered over). Door and window openings have elaborate sandstone reveals and triangular pediments. The awnings on both sides of the building have corrugated steel skillion roofs and elaborate decorative steel awning brackets, mounted on sandstone wall brackets.

There is a small weatherboard addition to the south end of the main platform building which has 4 early stop chamfered timber posts at each corner, indicating that this is a weatherboard infill structure within an originally open awning structure. There are modern security screens to windows, and some modern timber flush doors. There is a brick screen wall to the north end of building to screen the entry to men's toilets.

Internally, the waiting area has modern floor tiling, and modern ticket windows, timber panelled double doors both sides with frosted glass 8 paned fanlights, a later ceiling with timber battens, and later timber veneer panelling to around 2m height internally to the waiting room. Offices also have later ceilings and later timber veneer panelling to around 2m height (indicating possible presence of rising damp).

The island platform generally has a concrete face but its face is open at the northern end. The platform surface is asphalt.
 * Platform (1893)

 * Turntable (1897) and ash pits

A 60 ft turntable located southeast of the southern end of Eddy Street. The turntable is a sunken circular brick edged structure with a single rail on timber sleepers running around the inside, and a cast iron turntable machine in the centre of the circle marked "William Sellers & Co. Philadelphia No. 1327". The brick edging of the turntable has a soldier course capping, but is otherwise in stretcher bond.

Two rectangular ash pits were reportedly located to the north of the turntable, one of which was formerly within the now no longer extant engine shed. These were described in an earlier study and on historic plans, but were not confirmed to be extant at the time of the station's heritage listing.

A modern concrete, steel and glass structure with lift and stairs to platform, also modern canopy connecting platform building to the footbridge.
 * Footbridge (2005)

A modern concrete road overbridge with concrete piers, located south of the footbridge. Excluded from listing.
 * Bong Bong Street Overbridge (c. 2005)

There are views from the Station footbridge and platform to the southeast to the ocean and Norfolk Island pine plantings along the Kiama ocean frontage respectively.
 * Landscape/natural features

 * Condition

The platform building and island platform were in good condition at the time of the heritage listing, with the modern footbridge and overbridge in very good condition. The condition of the turntable was unknown, and it was unclear if the ash pits were still extant.

The platform and platform building are intact except for minor additions (modern platform canopies). The yard structures at Kiama (with the exception of the turntable and possibly the ash pits) have been removed.

Heritage listing
Kiama Railway Station group – including the platform, platform building, turntable and ash pits – are of State heritage significance. Kiama Railway Station is of historical significance as the first railway station on this section of the Bankstown Line completed in 1893 from Central to Lidcombe and for its role as a transport hub for the town of Kiama since 1893. The turntable and ash pits are remnant structures from a once substantial yard layout which served the dairying and pastoral industries. The Kiama Railway Station 1893 platform building is of aesthetic significance as the first example of an island platform building that became the model for the standard plans for this building type, known as A8-A10, issued by the NSW Railways in 1899. The building has particularly fine detailing to platform facades and awnings. The Kiama turntable is rare (one of only 3 turntables now extant on the Illawarra line – Bomaderry, Waterfall and Kiama) and of technical significance.

Kiama railway station was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999 having satisfied the following criteria.

The place is important in demonstrating the course, or pattern, of cultural or natural history in New South Wales.

Kiama Railway Station is of historical significance as the first railway station on this section of the Illawarra line completed in 1893 from Bombo to Bomaderry, and for its role as a transport hub for the town of Kiama since 1893. The yard remains are remnant structures from a once substantial yard layout which served the dairying and pastoral industries.

The place is important in demonstrating aesthetic characteristics and/or a high degree of creative or technical achievement in New South Wales.

The Kiama Railway Station's 1893 platform building is of esthetic significance as the first example of an island platform building that became the model for the standard A8-A10 plans issued in 1899. The building has particularly fine detailing to platform facades and awnings. The turntable is of technical significance as evidence of late 19th century railway technology.

The place has strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group in New South Wales for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.

The place has the potential to contribute to the local community's sense of place, and can provide a connection to the local community's past.

The place possesses uncommon, rare or endangered aspects of the cultural or natural history of New South Wales.

The Kiama turntable is rare (one of only 3 turntables now extant on the Illawarra line - Bomaderry, Waterfall and Kiama).

The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a class of cultural or natural places/environments in New South Wales.

The Kiama Railway Station platform building is considered a fine representative platform building of the design later known as A8-A10, predating the issue of the standard designs in 1899, and forming a model for platform buildings of this design.

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Trio The Punch – Never Forget Me...

Trio The Punch: Never Forget Me... (トリオ・ザ・パンチ) is an arcade game released by Data East in 1990. Chelnov and Karnov were produced by the same director, and the three games are grouped together by Data East as the Deco-gē Trio (デコゲー3トリオ).

The game was re-released in 2007 as part of Oretachi Gēsen Zoku (オレたちゲーセン族), a series which ported arcade games from the 1980s and 90s to the PlayStation 2. The mobile phone game company G-mode acquired the rights to the game after Data East's bankruptcy, and a mobile phone version of the game has been released for the Vodafone EZweb network.

Though the game was initially planned as a sugoroku game titled TV Sugoroku Trio the Punch (TVすごろく トリオ・ザ・パンチ), the content was completely changed during production into its released form, according to the arcade game magazine Arcadia (Coin Op'ed Video Game Magazine Arcadia). The sheep from this game later appeared in Suiko Enbu: Fuunsaiki as Makoto Mizoguchi's desperation move.

Gameplay
Trio The Punch is a beat 'em up game where the player chooses a character from three playable characters, and fights numerous enemies across a side-scrolling game screen. Most of the levels are played scrolling to the right, but some loop around the left and right edges of the screen. Other levels allow the player to scroll upwards or downwards by jumping, while some do not contain scrolling at all. The game is completed when the player finishes all 35 levels.

The player controls their character with an 8-way joystick and 3 buttons (attack, jump, and special attack). Certain enemies leave behind a heart on the screen after being defeated, and collecting the required number of these hearts for each level causes a boss to appear, who must be defeated in order to complete the level. The bosses appear from the start in some levels, so hearts do not always need to be collected.

Setting
The game begins in a tropical environment, but later levels may take place in the rainforest, urban cities, Middle Eastern desert, medieval Japan, or a futuristic military base. No instructions or explanations on the plot structure are given as the player progresses across the different levels.

The game also contains a "game over" screen, which consists of an image of Michelangelo's sculpture, the Dying Slave. Choosing to continue the game on this screen causes the sculpture's face to change into a childish, cartoonish version of the original image, though the shadowed portion of the face remains in its original, realistic depiction.

Text
The game's text is displayed almost entirely in Japanese, and uses a unique mixture of hiragana, katakana, and kanji, which ignores conventional grammar and speech.

As with many other Japanese games, English appears frequently, but is treated with disregard for grammar and readability.

In-game persona
Many of the game's enemies appear in contexts. While it is fitting to have ninjas appear in the medieval Japan level, and to have robots appear in the space level, the boss of the first level is a gigantic bronze statue of Karnov, which is carried on the shoulders of 4 smaller Karnovs. The word Mamorigami (守神) is etched onto the statue's base, and the statue attacks by breathing fire. It will change expressions after receiving damage. The boss of the second level is a gigantic bronze statue of a human fist.

Parodic elements
Trio the Punch is similar to games like Parodius and Konami Wai Wai World in the sense that Data East parodied some of its own games by having Karnov and Chelnov appear as enemies. Other parodic elements include the Darumasan ga koronda feature, where all of the objects on the screen are forced to stop moving.

Structure and game design
The traditional game structure of defeating weak, generic enemies before facing a stronger boss is often ignored in Trio the Punch. Some levels are much shorter than others, and only require one or two enemies to be killed before the boss, and the boss may even appear at the very beginning of some levels.

Though the game is seemingly an orthodox side-scrolling action game, jumping on top of enemy bullets causes the player's character to bounce away as if he had landed on a trampoline. This action occurs often throughout the game, but the image of bouncing off of small bullets gives the game an unnatural feel where the laws of physics are ignored.

The game's BGM was composed by Data East's music team, Gamadelic (ゲーマデリック).

Characters

 * Tough Guy (Santos (サントス)) - the first playable character wears a baseball cap and track gear, and uses a sandbag and iron claw as weapons. He is best at close-range combat, and is the only playable character that can attack upwards. He makes cameo appearances in several other Data East games, including Boogie Wings (The Great Ragtime Show in Japan).
 * Ninja (Kamakura-kun (カマクラくん)) - the second playable character is a ninja that wears a samurai mask over his face. He attacks with throwing knives and shuriken, and is the only character who can use long-range attacks from the start. He automatically transforms into a tree every time he receives damage from enemy characters, and the player cannot move or attack while the transformation lasts.
 * Swordsman (Rosesub (ローズサブ)) - the third playable character is a muscular swordsman who can wield a torch, sword, or morning star to fend off enemies. He has the longest weapon reach out of the three characters.
 * Chin-san (チンさん) - Chin is a stereotype of the martial arts masters that appear in old kung-fu films, and seems to be a teacher figure for the three playable characters, but he appears as a boss in levels 7 and 24, where his body stretches or grows gigantic, and he attacks by shooting bullets shaped like the character 痛 (lit. "pain" or "hurt").
 * Karnov (カルノフ) - the title character from Karnov appears as a generic enemy in Trio the Punch. He is bald, bearded, obese, and half-naked, and appears in several different color and shape variations.
 * Chelnov (チェルノブ) - the title character from Chelnov appears as a boss character in Trio the Punch. His body is encased in a powersuit, and he attacks with a huge hammer, which was not present in Chelnov.

Reception
In Japan, Game Machine listed Trio The Punch – Never Forget Me... on their May 15, 1990 issue as being the twenty-fourth most-successful table arcade unit of the month.

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All India Radio (band)

All India Radio is an Australian electronic band. Their style includes genres such as lo-fi, downtempo and instrumental. The founding (and constant) member of the band is Martin Kennedy. Their debut album, The Inevitable, was released in 1999.

All India Radio have had their music featured in film and TV including CSI: Miami, One Tree Hill, Sicko, Till Human Voices Wake Us, Big Brother Australia, Bondi Rescue and Recruits. Kennedy, with All India Radio and Steve Kilbey, provided the original soundtrack music for the Australian film The Rare Earth.

All India Radio's self-titled third album was nominated for an Australian Recording Industry Award (ARIA) Award in 2003. The band has worked with Steve Kilbey, Graham Lee, Ed Kuepper, and David Bridie, among others.

Wired Magazine described the group's sound as "mash[ing] the ambient-hop signatures of DJ Shadow, Tortoise and Thievery Corporation with the instantly recognizable guitar sound tracking of Ennio Morricone and Angelo Badalamenti."

All India Radio's 19th studio album The Generator of All Infinity was released in September 2022.

ARIA Music Awards
The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. They commenced in 1987.

! Ref.
 * 2003
 * All India Radio
 * Best World Music Album
 * Nominated
 * Nominated

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User:Prestinian

Hello all. Here is a list of my contributions.

Prestinian 15:58, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

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Frank Kendall Everest Jr.

Brigadier General Frank Kendall "Pete" Everest Jr. (August 9, 1920 – October 1, 2004) was a U.S. Air Force officer who is best remembered as an aeroengineer and test pilot during the 1950s.

Early years
Everest was born August 9, 1920, in Fairmont, West Virginia. After he graduated from Fairmont Senior High School in 1938, he attended Fairmont State College for one year. He later studied Engineering at West Virginia University to prepare himself for a flying career. He graduated from the Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Virginia, in 1956.

Military career
He entered United States Army Air Forces aviation cadet pilot training on November 11, 1941, graduated and received a commission on July 3, 1942. Among his classmates in Class 42-F was future ETO ace Robert S. Johnson. After Curtiss P-40 aircraft training, he was sent to North Africa and flew 94 combat missions in Africa, Sicily and Italy with the 314th Fighter Squadron, 324th Fighter Group. During that tour of duty, he shot down two German Ju 52 transports on April 18, 1943, and damaged another.

In May 1944 he was assigned to a fighter squadron at Venice, Florida, as an instructor. He asked for combat duty again and was assigned to the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations. There he was assigned to command the 17th Provisional Fighter Squadron, 5th Provisional Fighter Group of the Chinese American Composite Wing at Zhenjiang, China. This wing consisted of both USAAF and Republic of China pilots flying in mixed elements. He completed 67 combat missions before his plane was shot down by ground fire in May 1945. He was captured and tortured as a Japanese prisoner of war before being repatriated at the end of hostilities.

Following a rest leave, he was assigned in February 1946 to the Flight Test Division at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio as a test pilot. Graduating from Air Materiel Command Flight Performance School with the Class 46D, he took part in many experimental tests of the Bell X-1 and established an unofficial airplane altitude record of 71,902 feet.

In September 1951 he was transferred to the Air Force Flight Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and became the chief Air Force test pilot as head of the Flight Test Operations Division. During his stay at Edwards, Everest tested the X-1, 2, 3, 4 and 5; XF-92 and YB-52. He also took part in test programs for the F-88, 100, 101, 102, 104 and 105; the B-52, B-57 and 66 aircraft. On October 29, 1953, he established a world speed record of 755.149 mph in a F-100A.

Everest test-flew the Bell X-1B to a speed of Mach 2.3 (2.3 times the speed of sound) in December 1954, making him the second fastest man in the world, Later flights in the Bell X-2 rocket plane established him as "the fastest man alive" when he attained a new unofficial speed record of 1,957 mph or Mach 2.9.

He was transferred to Hahn Air Base, Germany, in March 1957, as commander of the 461st Fighter Squadron of the 36th Fighter Wing. He was assigned to North Africa in July 1958 as a group commander and later became deputy for operations at Wheelus Air Base, Libya. He became director of operations, 401st Tactical Fighter Wing, England Air Force Base, Louisiana, in January 1961, upon returning to the United States.

Everest next commanded the 4453d Combat Crew Training Wing at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, and in June 1964 he transferred with the wing to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona In May 1965 he was transferred to Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, to become commander of the 4520th Combat Crew Training Wing.

In June 1966 Everest became director of aerospace safety in the Office of the Deputy Inspector for Inspection and Safety, Norton Air Force Base, California. He was transferred to the Pentagon in January 1969 as assistant director (Operational Test and Evaluation), Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering.

During the period January 1966 to September 1972, he regularly deployed to Southeast Asia where he flew 32 total combat missions in F-4 Phantom, A-1 Skyraider, F-100 Super Sabre, C-130 Hercules, C-141 Starlifter, and HC-130 Hercules aircraft.

Everest assumed command of Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service, of the Military Airlift Command, at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, in April 1970.

He was promoted to the temporary grade of brigadier general effective November 1, 1965, with date of rank October 29, 1965. He retired from the Air Force on March 1, 1973.

General Everest's service-wide nickname was "Pete".

Honors
His military decorations and awards include the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters, Distinguished Flying Cross with two oak leaf clusters, Air Medal with seven oak leaf clusters, Air Force Commendation Medal with oak leaf cluster, Purple Heart, Distinguished Unit Citation Emblem with two oak leaf clusters, Air Force Outstanding Unit Award Ribbon, and the Chinese Aviation Award.

He is a command pilot with more than 9,000 flying hours and a graduate of the U.S. Army Parachutists School at Fort Benning, Georgia.

In addition to these and other military honors, General Everest has been recognized repeatedly for his contributions to aerospace progress. He was chosen as one of 1955s "Ten Outstanding Young Men" by the U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce. In 1956 the U.S. Chamber of Commerce named him one of the nation's "Greatest Living Americans." A year later he was awarded both the Harmon Trophy and the Octave Chanute Award.

In 1988, he won the Godfrey L. Cabot Award. He was inducted into the Aerospace Walk of Honor in 1991. In 2009, Everest received the USAF Test Pilot School's Distinguished Alumnus Award from Class 08B. This award is presented bi-annually to a USAF TPS graduate who has made significant and lasting contributions to aviation science and the flight test community. In 1989, Gen Everest was enshrined in the National Aviation Hall of Fame for his work as a test pilot and record setter in the 1950s.

Was no relation to General Frank F. Everest.

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Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park

Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park (TSMP), formerly Thompson Speedway and Thompson International Speedway, is a motorsports park in Thompson, Connecticut, featuring a 5/8 mi asphalt oval racetrack and a 1.7 mi road racing course. Once known as the "Indianapolis of the East", it was the first asphalt-paved racing oval track in the United States and is now under the American-Canadian Tour (ACT) and Pro All Star Series (P.A.S.S) banners. Each year, Thompson hosts one of the great fall variety events "The World Series of Speedway Racing" highlighted by the Monaco Modified Tri-Track Series and the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour. This event frequently draws over 350 race cars in 16 separate divisions over three days. Besides that, it currently hosts the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, and also hosted various SCCA sports car races between 1957 and 1972, NASCAR Grand National series races between 1951 and 1970, and two SCCA F5000 events in 1968 and 1969.

The speedway also had hosted 3 NASCAR Cup Series races, one in 1951 and two between 1969 and 1970. The facility also had hosted 5 NASCAR North Tour events from 1981 to 1985 and 29 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East races, between 1988 and 2018.

History
Following cleanup from the hurricane of 1938, John Hoenig built a 5/8 mi paved oval (in 1940) and 1.7 mi road racing course (in 1952) on his farmland in the northeast corner of Connecticut.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Thompson's Sunday night program was a who's who of modified greats such as Carl "Bugs" Stevens, Fred DeSarro, Fred Schulz, Ron Bouchard, Ed Flemke, Leo Cleary, Smoky Boutwell, and Geoff Bodine. During this period the track hosted memorable special events which drew legendary Southern drivers like Ray Hendrick in the famous "Fireball" #11 to battle the locals. Other surprise stars included Long Island's Fred Harbach and Rene Charland from Massachusetts.

In the late 1970s, the track drew 55 winged Super Modifieds to their World Series race. By owner's choice, all 55 started. During the energy crisis of the 1970s, Thompson hosted a unique division called the "Open Competitive" division which merged the Super Modifieds with the Modifieds. Later, Thompson tried a lower-cost stock-cylinder-head modified division, which chased away some of the tracks regulars. Until the 1980s the track had a unique barrier outside turns 1–2 and 3–4 made of dirt fill.

Today
Hoenig's grandson D.R. and great-grandson Jonathan continue to operate the family-owned facility. As of June 1, 2013, the Hoenig family began work to reconstruct the 1.7-mile road course with and accompanying paddock and staging areas, and the website reflected the renaming of the facility to Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park. The newly rebuilt road course celebrated its "soft opening" with the New England Region of SCCA on the weekend of June 6–8, 2014. Thompson created a private club for individual use of the road course, the website  notes that "The Club" will be limited to 200 members.

Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park continues to run ACT/PASS-sanctioned races on the oval track, with 12 oval events scheduled for 2024. The two largest events, The Icebreaker and The Sunoco World Series of Speedway Racing, are traditionally New England’s season opener and season finale. Both multi-day events draw several hundred race cars from up to 18 divisions. The Road course hosts many more events such as SCCA major and regional races, vintage race festivals, high-performance driving events (HPDEs) and drifting.

The park has hosted nine events for the 24 Hours of LeMons series. The first was in August 2015, and the most recent was in August 2023.

In June 2017, the park hosted two rounds of the 2017 Global RallyCross Championship using a combination of the road course and a dirt track

Use in simulations / games
The current layout appears in the online racing simulation iRacing where it is laser scanned for millimeter accuracy.

A recreation of the track as it appeared in 1970 is included in the retro-themed game NASCAR Legends.

Deaths
Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park has also endured some tragic moments which have claimed the lives of the following competitors: David Peterson (1977), Tony Willman, Fred DeSarro, Harry Kourafus Jr., Dick Dixon, Corky Cookman, Tom Baldwin, Sr., John Blewett III, and most recently Shane Hammond (April 6, 2008). DeSarro's death prompted a memorial fund-raiser which drew the largest crowd to date and the Northeast's best drivers in an open competition Modified race with no purse. Both Evans and Bodine mounted their cars with wings. Baldwin and Blewett died while competing in the same race on the tour, three years apart.

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Kavanagh, Alberta

Kavanagh is a hamlet in Alberta, Canada within Leduc County. It is located on Highway 2A between Millet and Leduc, approximately 30 km south of Edmonton.

The hamlet was settled by workers of the Kavanagh block of the Canadian National Railway and was named for Charles Edmund Kavanagh, railway superintendent. The grain elevators have since closed and been relocated.

Kavanagh was declared a hamlet on January 5, 1980 by Marvin E. Moore, Minister of Municipal Affairs.

Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Kavanagh had a population of 39 living in 19 of its 21 total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of 47. With a land area of 0.33 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Kavanagh had a population of 47 living in 20 of its 21 total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2011 population of 52. With a land area of 0.33 km2, it had a population density of in 2016.

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Jesus/archive1

Jesus
The article is suprisingly comprehensive and there are not POV tags(suprisingly). It is well sourced, so I'm posting it here to see how it could reach FAC. Newbie222 02:28, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

First off this would be amazing to get as a FA and would get you kudos from everyone here :). Anyway, here are some structure issues: Ryan Norton T 15:39, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) One sentence paragraph in opening... for the lead try to have three long paragraphs here instead of the several splintered ones - see WP:LEAD
 * 2) "Religious perspectives" - section could use an intro
 * 3) "Christianity" - several one-sentence paragraphs here. In general this is quite long compared to the other subsections of "Religous perspectives", I'd try to keep them all around the same length
 * 4) "Islam" - kill the list here and make it into prose... no need for it :)
 * 5) "Ahmadiyya Movement" - One sentence paragraph
 * 6) "Hinduism" - two one sentence paragraphs - both too short
 * 7) "Judaism" - again, no need for a list here
 * 8) "Other perspectives" - one sentence paragraphs, several too short. This can be difficult because of the subject matter, however
 * 9) "Life and teachings" - generally uneven paragraphs - some too long, some even veer on being too long (although the shorts are the real issue)
 * 10) " Names and titles" and " Cultural and historical background" some paragraphs too short
 * 11) "Relics" - too short in general - consider making it a subsection someplace else or something
 * 12) " Interpretations of Jesus" - this sounds like something that belongs in see also - if you want to describe these I'd try to do it with actual prose...
 * 13) "Sources and further reading" - you need to seperate the sources from the further reading :)
 * 14) "See also" needs to be sorted - see Autism for an example.
 * 15) "External links" - link farm alert!!! You should generally shoot for around 15 links for FAs
 * Thanks for the input! Newbie222 00:30, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

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USS James C. Owens

USS James C. Owens (DD-776), an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, is the only ship of the United States Navy FRAM II class to be named for Lieutenant James C. Owens Jr., a member of Torpedo Squadron 8 on board USS Hornet (CV-8). His entire squadron was lost in an attack against Japanese aircraft carriers 4 June during the Battle of Midway. Lt. Owens received the Navy Cross and the Presidential Unit Citation (US) posthumously.

Namesake
James C. Owens Jr. was born on 5 December 1910 in Batavia, New York. He was appointed Naval Aviation Cadet, USNR, on 3 September 1935. Following flight training at Pensacola, Florida, he served on board USS Lexington (CV-2) and on 1 September 1941, he joined Torpedo Squadron 8 (VT-8) on board USS Hornet (CV-8). He was appointed Lieutenant 6 January 1942 and was the squadron Executive Officer.

On 4 June 1942 during the Battle of Midway he led the second division of Douglas TBD Devastator torpedo bombers when it pressed home an attack against Japanese carriers. Without the protection of fighters or accompanying dive bombers, the pilots exposed themselves to overwhelming firepower; and every plane of the squadron was shot down. By forcing the enemy ships to maneuver radically, thereby delaying Japanese preparations for a second strike. For his actions Owens received the Navy Cross and the Presidential Unit Citation (US) posthumously.

Construction and commissioning
James C. Owens (DD-776) was laid down 9 April 1944, by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding, San Pedro, California and launched 1 October 1944; sponsored by Mrs. James C. Owens Jr., widow of Lt. Owens. The ship commissioned on 17 February 1945.

World War II
After shakedown off southern California, James C. Owens departed San Pedro 10 May escorting the battleship USS California (BB-44) to Pearl Harbor, arriving on 16 May. She cleared Pearl Harbor on 24 May and sailed as convoy escort via Eniwetok and Ulithi to Okinawa. Arriving 17 June, she continued to Kerama Retto to join DesRon 24, which steamed on 24 June for Leyte, where it joined a cruiser-destroyer striking force. Sailing 13 July via Okinawa, the force entered the East China Sea 22 July to conduct antishipping sweeps. James C. Owens operated with the striking force for a month and then operated out of Okinawa until departing 20 September for Japan as part of the Wakayama Occupation Group. Arriving on 22 September, she supported occupation landings, patrolled off southern Japanese islands, and served as courier and escort ship. Steaming from Japan on 5 December, she reached San Diego on 22 December, departed for the East Coast on 3 January 1946, and arrived at New York on 15 January.

For more than 16 months, James C. Owens operated along the Atlantic Coast from New England to Texas. She conducted anti-submarine warfare (ASW) training out of Newport, Rhode Island; participated in destroyer maneuvers off the Florida coast; and served as escort and plane guard for the carrier USS Saipan (CVL-48) in the Gulf of Mexico. Following operations out of Norfolk, Virginia, she departed Quonset Point, Rhode Island on 30 July 1947 with DesRon 2 for deployment with the 6th Fleet. She cruised the Mediterranean from Algeria to Italy and supported U. S. efforts to settle the unstable situation in Trieste before returning to the United States on 21 December. She returned to the Mediterranean in June 1948 and supported United Nations efforts to establish peace between Israeli and Arab forces. During this deployment, she patrolled the coast of Palestine, supported the evacuation of the U. N. Mediation Team in July, and helped to prevent the spread of conflict in the Middle East. Returning home early in October, she operated along the Atlantic coast until she decommissioned at Charleston, South Carolina on 3 April 1950.

Korean War
With the outbreak of war in Korea and increased tension in Europe and the Middle East, James C. Owens recommissioned on 20 September 1950 and commenced readiness and antisubmarine training operations. Departing for the Far East on 22 January 1952, she arrived in the Western Pacific on 27 February for blockade and interdiction patrols along the Korean coast. While operating off Songjin 7 May, she engaged enemy shore batteries and silenced several of them, but sustained six direct hits. Departing Korea 22 June, she steamed via the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean to Norfolk arriving on 19 August. She returned to Korean waters on 10 November 1953, and patrolled coastal waters to prevent violations of the armistice signed on 27 July. She remained on this important peace-keeping duty in the Far East until she departed Yokosuka, Japan, 11 March 1954. Steaming via Midway, the West Coast and the Panama Canal, she arrived Norfolk 1 May.

For almost two years James C. Owens operated out of Norfolk and Guantanamo Bay on ASW and destroyer division maneuvers. While in the Caribbean during September 1955, she provided search and rescue assistance to the citizens of Puerto Rico after a destructive hurricane. In April 1956 she sailed with DesDiv 221 via Northern Europe for the Middle East to operate in the Mediterranean, Red Sea, and Persian Gulf. During the Suez Crisis she transited the Canal to demonstrate American interest in a peaceful solution of the crisis. Returning to Norfolk in October, she again deployed to the Mediterranean 28 February 1957 to support the 6th Fleet in the Middle East; then she returned to Norfolk on 7 May. On 3 September she sailed to the North Atlantic for the NATO Operation Strikeback; after coastal operations for eight months, she deployed 6 June 1958, on a midshipman cruise to northern Europe. Following fleet and NATO operations, she returned to Norfolk 4 August.

James C. Owens deployed on her fifth cruise to the Mediterranean and Middle East on 7 August 1959. She ranged the Mediterranean from Italy to Lebanon and transited Suez on 14 October for two months of patrol and convoy escort exercises in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. Returning to the Mediterranean 15 December, she operated with the 6th Fleet for two months; then sailed for Norfolk, arriving 3 March 1960. During September she joined NATO forces in the North Atlantic for Operation "Swordthrust," which stressed both offensive and defensive naval tactics of atomic warfare. In November she steamed to the Caribbean and patrolled the coasts of Nicaragua and Guatemala to intercept Cuban arms bound for Castro-oriented rebels. Retiring to Norfolk 20 December, she departed for the Mediterranean 2 February 1961. Before returning to Norfolk 20 August, she operated with the 6th Fleet from Spain to Greece.

After joining the ASW Defense Force 25 September, James C. Owens steamed to Charleston 11 January 1962, for an 8-month FRAM II overhaul that readied her for a new role in the modern Navy. She resumed operations on 19 December with surveillance patrols off the Cuban coast, then returned to Charleston 4 January 1963, for fleet exercises. Departing 6 August with DesDiv 42 for the Mediterranean again she conducted ASW operations with the 6th Fleet from France to Cyprus. Returning to the United States 23 December, she received DASH facilities at Norfolk during February 1964. She continued her ASW operations during a midshipman cruise to the Mediterranean 11 June-3 September. During the remainder of 1964, James C. Owens maintained her peak efficiency and readiness in coastal operations with nuclear submarines.

The ship departed Charleston on 17 February 1965 for a Mediterranean cruise, and carried out advanced antisubmarine operations during her deployment.

After her returning to Charleston on 12 July, she was designated a recovery ship for the Gemini V orbital space mission. With the mission successfully completed, the ship returned to her home port 13 September. On 2 November she entered the Charleston Naval Shipyard for extended overhaul.

In March 1966 James C. Owens was back on the line at Guantanamo Bay. While there she rendered assistance to burning cruise ship, Viking Princess. After returning to Charleston for a brief visit, James C. Owens embarked midshipmen for their annual at-sea training. In late August she was assigned as the close-in recovery ship for the second in a series of Apollo unmanned space launches. In September the destroyer was deployed with the 6th Fleet; and, while operating in the Aegean Sea, she was ordered to the scene of sinking Greek ferry Heraklion, where she helped rescue the crew. James C. Owens returned to Charleston on 31 January 1967, where it was updated in preparation for service along the coast of Vietnam during 1968. Currently unsubstantiated rumor has DD-776 operating off Vietnam through 1971 as a Special Operations platform.

Battle Stars
James C. Owens received two battle stars for World War II service and two for the Korean War.

Brazilian service
The ship was acquired by Brazil in 1973 and renamed Sergipe. She was stricken in 1995

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User talk:Prestinian

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Disney's LuminAria

Disney's LuminAria was a 2001–2002 fireworks show on Paradise Bay at Disney California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. The show was short-lived, lasting only one winter season. The show design was similar to IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth at EPCOT focusing the audience towards Paradise Bay while fountains played in various changing patterns and fireworks were discharged in sync with seasonal music.

The finale showed various holiday cards on projection screens, a fiber optic Christmas tree, and white lights around California Screamin' and the Sun Wheel. Each day, young guests were invited to draw their own holiday cards, which were then scanned and appeared in that evening's presentation.

Show Credits
The show was conceived and directed by Steve Davison. The music was arranged, adapted, composed and conducted by Don L. Harper, and the main vocals were performed by Miriam Stockley.

Soundtrack
There was an officially released CD for the soundtrack to Disney's LuminAria. The album is called Holiday Magic. The CD also included two other tracks: one for the holiday-themed version of "It's A Small World" entitled "it's a small world" Holiday, and Believe... In Holiday Magic which was a fireworks show at Disneyland.

Track Listing
1. "Believe... In Holiday Magic" Fireworks Spectacular (13:26)

2. "it's a small world" Holiday (15:10)

3. Disney's LuminAria (16:26)

Production
Album Compiled by: Randy Thornton

Production Assistant: Sarah Harris

Album Art Direction: Jordan Foley

Barcode: 050086006076

ISBN 0-7634-1863-3

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Talk:Charles-Alexandre Léon Durand Linois

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Hi,

Mauritius and Réunion are two different entities, although very close. I don't know which is correct.

Tony Bruguier 02:31, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Linois in Fiction
I did a check of Linois to find out more about the man mentioned in the Aubrey-Maturin series. I was surprised this was not noted so I added a quick mention that Linois appeared in that series. The Battle of Pulo Aura article mentions a 19th century work that has a fictionalized account of the battle. Anyone know if Linois was in that novel? If so, the article should mention it. MichaelSH 15:15, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

Regarding his appearance in O'Brian's novels, what is the reason for describing his representation as incorrect? The single phrase "deep old file" is insufficient — Linois was well into his 40s at that point, hardly young, and in any case the same words are routinely used to describe younger characters as well so it clearly isn't meant as a literal statement of age. Everything from "where he is..." to the end of the sentence seems unsupported. Ederiel (talk) 16:28, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 02:47, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

"reasonably successful"?
If you read about the engagements, you'll get the impression Linois was a coward and a failure; ridiculed by his own men. What's up with this positive spin? CapnZapp (talk) 13:38, 3 June 2009 (UTC)


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User:Bmord

I believe in both science and religion - I believe these are distinct and compatible areas of inquiry. There are those who would blur the distinction, however I believe the interests of neither are served by confusing them with each other. Perhaps this is analogous to Hume's is-ought problem - it seems that those who attempt to derive one from the other either fail or else trivialize them into something useless. With respect to science, maybe there are no shortcuts to the scientific process? And also in religion, maybe there are just no shortcuts to faith? Think about it - would God really have provided such a shortcut? Or perhaps ours is not a God of shortcuts?

As a Christian, I do not believe in creationism. I also do not believe the sky is made of water, separated from the waters below by a firmament - not in any literal scientific sense. Creationism is not good science, since it attempts to bypass the scientific process. Just as importantly, creationism is not good religion, because it trivializes the deeper meaning of our faith.

There are today some creationists who attempt to bypass the forums of scientific primary research. These individuals do so by trying to influence forums of secondary research - such as Wikipedia, *before* they have first won their case in the scientific forums of primary research. Such attempted shortcuts are fundamentally dishonest, except for when they are due to a simple misunderstanding of the scientific process. In any case, to maintain the quality of Wikipedia we must ensure that all scientific articles describe only that which official fora of scientific primary research have actually vetted.

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User:Slango

"'I deplore... the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them... These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste and lessening its relish for sound food. As vehicles of information and a curb on our funtionaries, they have rendered themselves useless by forfeiting all title to belief... This has, in a great degree, been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit.'" --Thomas Jefferson to Walter Jones, 1814. ME 14:46

"'Our printers raven on the agonies of their victims, as wolves do on the blood of the lamb.'" --Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1811. ME 13:59

"'From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.'" --Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1816. ME 14:430

"'Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day.'" --Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, 1807. ME 11:224

"'As for what is not true, you will always find abundance in the newspapers.'" --Thomas Jefferson to Barnabas Bidwell, 1806. ME 11:118

"'Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.'" --Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 1819. ME 15:179

"'The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.'" --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Seymour, 1807.

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