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1987 in Australia

The following lists events that happened during 1987 in Australia.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Elizabeth II
 * Governor-General – Sir Ninian Stephen
 * Prime Minister – Bob Hawke
 * Deputy Prime Minister – Lionel Bowen
 * Opposition Leader – John Howard
 * Chief Justice – Sir Harry Gibbs (until 5 February) then Sir Anthony Mason

State and territory leaders

 * Premier of New South Wales – Barrie Unsworth
 * Opposition Leader – Nick Greiner
 * Premier of Queensland – Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen (until 1 December), then Mike Ahern
 * Opposition Leader – Nev Warburton
 * Premier of South Australia – John Bannon
 * Opposition Leader – John Olsen
 * Premier of Tasmania – Robin Gray
 * Opposition Leader – Neil Batt
 * Premier of Victoria – John Cain Jr.
 * Opposition Leader – Jeff Kennett
 * Premier of Western Australia – Brian Burke
 * Opposition Leader – Barry MacKinnon
 * Chief Minister of the Northern Territory – Stephen Hatton
 * Opposition Leader – Terry Smith
 * President of the Legislative Assembly of Norfolk Island – John Brown

Governors and administrators

 * Governor of New South Wales – Sir James Rowland
 * Governor of Queensland – Sir Walter Campbell
 * Governor of South Australia – Sir Donald Dunstan
 * Governor of Tasmania – Sir James Plimsoll (until 8 May), then Sir Phillip Bennett
 * Governor of Victoria – Davis McCaughey
 * Governor of Western Australia – Gordon Reid
 * Administrator of Norfolk Island – John Matthew
 * Administrator of the Northern Territory – Eric Johnston

January

 * 31 January – A rally in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, of new ultra-right Grassroots 2000 represents a declaration of war by Queensland Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen and the religious right on the "wets" and "losers" in the Liberal Party of Australia such as Ian Macphee, Peter Baume, Chris Puplick, Robert Hill, Steele Hall and Max Burr. The movement is predicated on the populist appeal of a flat tax, the suppression of trade union power and small government.

February

 * 4 February – Federal Opposition Leader John Howard launches the Opposition's election strategy, promising lower taxes, family policies, needs-based social welfare, and an end to the fringe benefits tax. His coining of the word "incentivation" draws some derision.
 * 6 February –
 * Sir Anthony Mason replaces Sir Harry Gibbs as Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. With other retirements, for the first time the High Court contains no former politicians.
 * Mary Gaudron is sworn in as the first female Justice of the High Court of Australia.
 * 8 February – 9 February – Worried by the damage to their electoral prospects, John Howard, Ian Sinclair and Liberal President John Valder unite to pour scorn on Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen's federal pretensions, hoping that common sense will dissolve the "initial seduction of simplistic solutions".
 * 23 February – The first mobile phone call in Australia is made.
 * 28 February – The Central Council of the Queensland National Party decides to withdraw its 12 federal MPs from the Coalition. They officially leave on 10 April.

March

 * 7 March – An election in the Northern Territory returns CLP government of Stephen Hatton to power.
 * 23 March – Following the publication of transcripts of damaging car phone conversations between Jeff Kennett and Andrew Peacock, John Howard dismisses Andrew Peacock from the Shadow Cabinet.
 * 26 March – Peter Baume resigns from the Shadow Cabinet because of the Liberal Party's opposition to equal opportunity legislation.

April

 * 15 April – Ian Sinclair and John Howard sign a Coalition Agreement which formalises the split with the Queensland Nationals.
 * 21 April – Federal Opposition Leader John Howard reshuffles the Shadow Cabinet, omitting the remaining "wet" Ian Macphee and elevating more "dries".
 * 28 April – The Coalition comes to a temporary end when Liberal Leader John Howard excoriates Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen and Queensland National Party President Sir Robert Sparkes as "wreckers".

May

 * 28 May – Only 8 weeks after promising no early poll, but unable to resist the opportunity afforded by Coalition disarray, Prime Minister Bob Hawke calls a double dissolution election, the trigger used being the Senate's rejection of the Australia Card legislation. The National Party of Australia's campaign collapses as Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen is out of the country when the election is called.

June

 * 16 June – Crazed German tourist Joseph Schwab, known as the "Kimberley killer", is shot dead in a shootout with Western Australia Police at Fitzroy Crossing. Schwab had already killed three people that day, and two others a week previously in the Northern Territory.
 * 23 June – Launching a long campaign at the Sydney Opera House, Prime Minister Bob Hawke promises that "no child will be living in poverty by the year 1990" and woos the environmental vote by promising no mining in Kakadu.
 * 25 June – Federal Opposition Leader John Howard makes his policy speech as a rousing call to middle Australia.

July

 * 11 July – With a good deal of help from the Joh for Canberra campaign which splits the conservative vote between his National Party and the Liberal Party's John Howard, Bob Hawke's Australian Labor Party government is re-elected for a third term. Labor wins six Queensland seats from the Coalition.  A net gain of four seats despite a 1.7% fall in their primary vote gives the Labor Party 86 seats to the Liberals' 43 and Nationals' 19.  In the Senate, seven Australian Democrats senators again hold the balance.
 * 16 July – John Howard retains the Liberal leadership, beating Andrew Peacock in the post-election party room spill 41:28. He is forced to accept his rival as deputy when Andrew Peacock beats Fred Chaney 36:24.
 * 24 July – Prime Minister Bob Hawke undertakes a major reorganisation of the Commonwealth Public Service, reducing the number of departments from 27 to 17, 8 of them "super" departments covering a range of areas. John Dawkins becomes Minister for Employment, Education and Training and Graham Richardson receives the Environment and the Arts portfolio.

August

 * 9 August – Seven people are killed and 19 injured when 19-year-old Julian Knight goes on a shooting rampage in Melbourne – the (Hoddle St Massacre).
 * 14 August – All the children held at Kia Lama, a rural property on Lake Eildon run by the Santiniketan Park Association, are released after a police raid.
 * 17 August – Tony Eggleton's reforms to tighten the Liberal Party of Australia's discipline and procedures are accepted at the Federal Executive meeting. Liberal Leader John Howard then reconstructs his Coalition with the 26 Nationals, only four of whom had opposed the restoration of the agreement.

September

 * 23 September – The increasingly unpopular Australia Card is abandoned when retired public servant Ewart Sith points out that although the Bill could be passed at a joint sitting, it could not be put into practice due to poor drafting, which has omitted a starting date – the regulation to set one would have to go to a still hostile Senate.

October

 * 3 October – Australia finally notes the contribution of the Vietnam War veterans with a Welcome Home parade held in Sydney – 15 years after the last soldiers and national service men have returned.
 * 20 October – Black Monday: After the largest fall in the Dow Jones's history, stock markets nosedive around the world. Australia is no exception as the All Ordinaries falls 25%, making it the biggest one-day drop in the market's history.

November

 * 13 November – Despite support from Queensland Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, enabling legislation for the construction of the planned 107-storey Minuzzo Tower is deferred. Deferment was called for by National Party backbenchers, so that guidelines could be drawn up for super-high rise structures of more than 60 storeys.  The planned tower would have been the world's tallest building.
 * 24 November – Queensland Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen sacks three ministers from his cabinet, accusing them of gross disloyalty.
 * 26 November – The National Party deposes Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen as party leader, but he refuses to resign as premier. He was not present at the caucus meeting.

December

 * 1 December – Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen resigns as Premier of Queensland after 19 years at the top. He is replaced by Mike Ahern, who becomes the only premier never to contest an election as premier.
 * 8 December –
 * Queen Street Massacre: 22-year-old Frank Vitkovic kills 8 and injures another 5 in an Australia Post office building in Queen Street, Melbourne before committing suicide by jumping from the 11th floor.
 * The Queensland Premier's Department releases a list of 60 companies which had expressed an interest in developing Australia's first space port in Queensland's Cape York area.
 * 29 December – 19-year-old Neighbours star Kylie Minogue enters the charts with her first single "I Should Be So Lucky".
 * 31 December – Senator Susan Ryan, Minister assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women, resigns to take a private sector job. The post is demoted outside Cabinet under her successor Margaret Reynolds.  Former Australian Labor Party Federal Secretary Bob McMullan takes over Susan Ryan's Senate term.

Arts and literature

 * Glenda Adams's novel Dancing on Coral wins the Miles Franklin Award

Film

 * Howling III
 * Travelling North
 * The Lighthorsemen
 * The Year My Voice Broke

Television

 * January – Alan Bond, who already owns QTQ-9 & STW-9 purchases TCN-9 & GTV-9 from Kerry Packer for $1.055 billion. The expanded Nine Network becomes the first coast-to-coast network.
 * February – Fairfax, owners of ATN-7 & BTQ-7 purchase HSV-7 from The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd for $320 million. The move sees the replacement of most Melbourne-produced programming with networked programming from Sydney, including long-running shows such as World of Sport & sees Mal Walden sacked as newsreader. The revamped news service, read by former STW-9 newsreader Greg Pearce plunges to as low as zero in the ratings.
 * 6 April – Long running UK children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends gets its first Australian television transmission on ABC.
 * July – Westfield buys Network Ten from Rupert Murdoch's News Limited for $842 million.
 * 19 July – Long-running ABC music program Countdown broadcasts its final episode.
 * August – New cross-media ownership rules force the sale of the Seven Network. Fairfax sells its stations to Christopher Skase's Qintex company for $780 million.
 * 27 December – Rupert Murdoch's ownership of ADS-7, combined with TVW-7's ownership of SAS-10, result in the stations deciding to swap callsigns & affiliations. So, on this day, ADS-7 becomes ADS-10 & SAS-10 becomes SAS-7.

Sport

 * 4 February – The 1987 America's Cup ends in Perth with the US regaining the America's Cup after Australia won it in 1983 as the first Nation ever after US-Teams won it 25 times for 132 years in a row.
 * 22 March – Steve Moneghetti is Australia's best finisher in the men's competition at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships, staged in Warsaw, Poland. He finishes in 11th place (37:11.0) in the long-distance race over 11,950 metres. In the women's competition Krishna Stanton ends up in 8th place in the long event (5.050 metres).
 * 27 March – The Brisbane Bears (now the Brisbane Lions) make their debut in the VFL. At the MCG, the Bears upset North Melbourne 19.23.137 to 15.12.104.
 * 29 March – The West Coast Eagles make their debut in the Victorian Football League. At Subiaco Oval, they defeat the Richmond Tigers 20.13.133 to 16.12.119.
 * 5 April – It is announced that Newcastle will join the NSWRL in 1988. They are later joined by Brisbane and the Gold Coast to form a 16-team competition.
 * 7 June – Daniel Boltz wins the men's national marathon title, clocking 2:14:36 in Sydney, while Tani Ruckle claims the women's title in 2:37:53.
 * 15 July – Queensland win the 1987 State of Origin series by defeating New South Wales 10–8 in the third and deciding game.
 * 26 September – The Carlton Blues (15.14.104) defeat the Hawthorn Hawks (9.17.71) to win the 91st VFL/AFL premiership.
 * 27 September – Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles defeat the Canberra Raiders 18–8 to win the 80th NSWRL premiership. It is the last grand final ever to be played at the SCG. The Western Suburbs Magpies finish in last position, claiming the wooden spoon.
 * The Dally M Medal and the Rothmans Medal are won by Parramatta Eels halfback Peter Sterling.
 * The Clive Churchill medal for man of the match is won by Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles five-eighth Cliff Lyons.
 * The Brownlow Medal is shared by John Platten (Hawthorn) and Tony Lockett (St Kilda). Lockett becomes the first full-forward to win the Brownlow Medal.

Births

 * 15 January – Greg Inglis, rugby league footballer
 * 19 January – Angus Monfries, Australian footballer
 * 30 January
 * Ben Cutting, cricketer
 * Lance Franklin, Australian Rules footballer
 * 13 February – David smith, sprint canoeist
 * 15 February – Jarrod Sammut, rugby league player
 * 21 February – Heli Simpson, actress, singer, dancer, equestrian, comedian, and doctor
 * 27 February – Bridie Kean, wheelchair basketball player
 * 18 April – Samantha Jade, singer
 * 30 April – Nikki Webster, singer and model
 * 1 May – Marcus Drum, Australian footballer
 * 26 May – Josh Thomas, comedian and actor
 * 27 May – Bella Heathcote, actress
 * 5 June – Shea Moylan, rugby league player
 * 17 June – Rebecca Breeds, actress
 * 22 June – Lara Worthington, model and social media personality
 * 30 June – Tim Blanchard, racing driver
 * 15 July – Jimmy Rees, entertainer
 * 17 July
 * Gemma Beadsworth, water polo player
 * Darius Boyd, rugby league footballer
 * 27 July – Simon Dunn, bobsledder (died 2023)
 * 31 July – Brittany Byrnes, actress
 * 10 August – Damon Heta, professional darts player
 * 16 August
 * Evan Berger, footballer
 * Kyal Marsh, actor
 * 18 August – Robert McNamara, figure skater
 * 21 August – Kerser, rapper
 * 1 October – Mitchell Aubusson, rugby league player
 * 18 October – Sam Clark, actor
 * 29 October – Cleopatra Coleman, actress
 * 10 November – Jessica Tovey, actress
 * 11 November – Giles Matthey, actor
 * 10 December – Ben Nicholas, actor
 * 21 December – Brad Howard, Australian rules footballer

Deaths

 * 3 April – Lynda Heaven (born 1902), first female Labor MHR in Tasmania
 * 14 April – Brian Carlson (born 1933), rugby league player
 * 28 July – Jack Renshaw (born 1909), Premier of New South Wales
 * 17 August – Olga Agnew (born 1899), child actress

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Mid-range

In statistics, the mid-range or mid-extreme is a measure of central tendency of a sample defined as the arithmetic mean of the maximum and minimum values of the data set:

 * $$M=\frac{\max x + \min x}{2}.$$

The mid-range is closely related to the range, a measure of statistical dispersion defined as the difference between maximum and minimum values. The two measures are complementary in sense that if one knows the mid-range and the range, one can find the sample maximum and minimum values.

The mid-range is rarely used in practical statistical analysis, as it lacks efficiency as an estimator for most distributions of interest, because it ignores all intermediate points, and lacks robustness, as outliers change it significantly. Indeed, for many distributions it is one of the least efficient and least robust statistics. However, it finds some use in special cases: it is the maximally efficient estimator for the center of a uniform distribution, trimmed mid-ranges address robustness, and as an L-estimator, it is simple to understand and compute.

Robustness
The midrange is highly sensitive to outliers and ignores all but two data points. It is therefore a very non-robust statistic, having a breakdown point of 0, meaning that a single observation can change it arbitrarily. Further, it is highly influenced by outliers: increasing the sample maximum or decreasing the sample minimum by x changes the mid-range by $$x/2,$$ while it changes the sample mean, which also has breakdown point of 0, by only $$x/n.$$ It is thus of little use in practical statistics, unless outliers are already handled.

A trimmed midrange is known as a  – the n% trimmed midrange is the average of the n% and (100−n)% percentiles, and is more robust, having a breakdown point of n%. In the middle of these is the midhinge, which is the 25% midsummary. The median can be interpreted as the fully trimmed (50%) mid-range; this accords with the convention that the median of an even number of points is the mean of the two middle points.

These trimmed midranges are also of interest as descriptive statistics or as L-estimators of central location or skewness: differences of midsummaries, such as midhinge minus the median, give measures of skewness at different points in the tail.

Efficiency
Despite its drawbacks, in some cases it is useful: the midrange is a highly efficient estimator of μ, given a small sample of a sufficiently platykurtic distribution, but it is inefficient for mesokurtic distributions, such as the normal.

For example, for a continuous uniform distribution with unknown maximum and minimum, the mid-range is the uniformly minimum-variance unbiased estimator (UMVU) estimator for the mean. The sample maximum and sample minimum, together with sample size, are a sufficient statistic for the population maximum and minimum – the distribution of other samples, conditional on a given maximum and minimum, is just the uniform distribution between the maximum and minimum and thus add no information. See German tank problem for further discussion. Thus the mid-range, which is an unbiased and sufficient estimator of the population mean, is in fact the UMVU: using the sample mean just adds noise based on the uninformative distribution of points within this range.

Conversely, for the normal distribution, the sample mean is the UMVU estimator of the mean. Thus for platykurtic distributions, which can often be thought of as between a uniform distribution and a normal distribution, the informativeness of the middle sample points versus the extrema values varies from "equal" for normal to "uninformative" for uniform, and for different distributions, one or the other (or some combination thereof) may be most efficient. A robust analog is the trimean, which averages the midhinge (25% trimmed mid-range) and median.

Small samples
For small sample sizes (n from 4 to 20) drawn from a sufficiently platykurtic distribution (negative excess kurtosis, defined as γ2 = (μ4/(μ2)²) − 3), the mid-range is an efficient estimator of the mean μ. The following table summarizes empirical data comparing three estimators of the mean for distributions of varied kurtosis; the modified mean is the truncated mean, where the maximum and minimum are eliminated.

For n = 1 or 2, the midrange and the mean are equal (and coincide with the median), and are most efficient for all distributions. For n = 3, the modified mean is the median, and instead the mean is the most efficient measure of central tendency for values of γ2 from 2.0 to 6.0 as well as from −0.8 to 2.0.

Sampling properties
For a sample of size n from the standard normal distribution, the mid-range M is unbiased, and has a variance given by:
 * $$\operatorname{var}(M)=\frac{\pi^2}{24 \ln(n)}.$$

For a sample of size n from the standard Laplace distribution, the mid-range M is unbiased, and has a variance given by:
 * $$\operatorname{var}(M)=\frac{\pi^2}{12}$$

and, in particular, the variance does not decrease to zero as the sample size grows.

For a sample of size n from a zero-centred uniform distribution, the mid-range M is unbiased, nM has an asymptotic distribution which is a Laplace distribution.

Deviation
While the mean of a set of values minimizes the sum of squares of deviations and the median minimizes the average absolute deviation, the midrange minimizes the maximum deviation (defined as $$\max\left|x_i-m\right|$$): it is a solution to a variational problem.

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Denis Pitts

Denis Pitts (6 January 1930 – 19 April 1994) was a journalist, filmmaker and novelist.

Denis Pitts first became widely known for his reports on the Suez Crisis and his subsequent articles in the New Statesman. In Suez he made the acquaintance of Michael Parkinson, who at the time was in charge of liaising with the press, and they would later work together for the Granada regional news programme, Scene at 6.30. While at Granada he wrote an episode of Coronation Street and did a series of interviews with Clement Attlee which the former prime minister agreed to if published posthumously.

He continued to work in television making a film called ‘What the Hell Happens in Marlborough?’ which caused a stir locally. He went on to make ‘The World of Gracie Fields’ and ‘The World of Bob Hope’ for the BBC. Gracie Fields revealed marital problems, also for posthumous publication, which he wrote up for the People. While making the Bob Hope film, he filmed the anti-Vietnam protest at Kent State University in which the National Guard killed four students.

He published three novels. This City is Ours (US title: Target Manhattan) about a native American hijacking of a ship in New York harbour; The Predator which told the story of a wealthy businessman kidnapping Common Market leaders during a summit and which includes a long section set during the Suez Crisis. The last one, Rogue Hercules, tells of amoral pilots carrying a plane load of arms over southern African countries in search of a buyer.

He was a senior editor for Chronicle yearbooks, Chronicle of the 20th Century and Chronicle of the World. His Guardian obituary called him a ‘Fresh Breeze in Moscow’, relating to his stint working as the correspondent there for the Daily Express.

Much earlier in his career he was the last editor of Lilliput where he gave cartoonist, John Glashan his break.

His views on the death of Grace Archer in the radio soap, The Archers, are quoted by Greg Dyke in his McTaggart Lecture of 2000.

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Foot cavalry

Foot cavalry was an oxymoron coined by the media to describe the rapid movements of infantry troops serving under Confederate General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson during the American Civil War. Jackson's men marched on foot but they were able to cover long distances day after day to surprise the enemy.

Origin
Cavalry units during the Civil War practiced the so-called foot cavalry drills. The media started to apply the phrase foot cavalry to Jackson's men starting from 1862. This was after Jackson's successful Shenandoah Valley campaign, in which Jackson usually surprised his Union opponents by completing much faster operational maneuvers.

On July 26, 1862, The Evening Star published the following, "Stonewall Jackson is now the idol of the army and the people. His soldiers are proud of the name 'Jackson's Foot Cavalry.'"

On September 10, 1862, The National Republican wrote,"Ancient Israel was invaded by confederate nations from the east much as Stonewall Jackson is invading the country north of the Potomac! ... instead of being 'bagged,' he, with his 'foot cavalry,' will recross the Potomac—horse, foot, and dragoons."

In action
It was said of Jackson's foot cavalry, they take not what they cannot reach. To achieve the reputation for amazing speeds of marching (30 mi a day), Stonewall Jackson used a combination of great audacity, excellent knowledge and shrewd use of the terrain, added to the ability to inspire his troops to great feats of marching and fighting. His men endured forced marches and he used an intimate knowledge of the passes and railroad tunnels along the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia to move between the Piedmont region and the Shenandoah Valley with unanticipated rapidity, confounding his opponents in the Union leadership.

Because his opponents learned early in the War that they could not accurately predict his location, Jackson and his "foot cavalry" are considered by many historians to have been a major factor in leadership failures of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and General George B. McClellan during the Peninsula Campaign. In fear of Jackson, Lincoln ordered extra troops held back from McClellan's expedition to protect Washington, D.C. McClellan, whose actions were later seen as overcautious, was unnerved by Jackson's sudden appearance in front of him at the beginning of the Seven Days Battles. In combination, these actions of Lincoln and McClellan contributed significantly to the failure of the main mission of the Peninsula Campaign, which was to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond in the summer of 1862. Richmond would not be captured until the last days of the war.

Recognition
On January 16, 1866 The Daily Phoenix (Columbia, S.C.) called the Jackson's foot cavalry "immortal."

Indeed, contemporaries marveled at what Jackson's foot cavalry was capable of,"The laws of the human body seemed to have been reversed for these men. They marched, and fought, and triumphed, like war-machines, which felt no need of rest, or food, or sleep. In one day they marched from Harper's Ferry to Strasburgh, nearly fifty miles. ... The very rapidity of their marches separates them from all soldier-comforts—often from their very blankets, however cold the weather; and any other troops but these and their Southern comrades would long since have mutinied and demanded bread and rest. But the shadow of disaffection never flitted over forehead in that command."

Historian Robert K. Krick wrote,"For the men in the ranks who gasped and sweated through the general’s epic marches, his oddities likewise became lovable quirks and his insanity genius. The men discovered that a victory lay at the end of each march, usually without excessive cost in blood. Trading sweat for blood, and exertion for victory, made great good sense to them."

In honor of Jackson and his "foot cavalry" there is a 100 mi trail run in Fort Valley, Va with a division called "Stonewall Jackson Foot Cavalry Division".

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Twi ba

The twi ba is a percussion instrument, popular within the Caribbean. It is usually used in the folk music of Guadeloupe. The twi ba is a type of idiophone, which is an instrument that makes sound based on the vibrations caused by making contact with the instrument.

The twi ba is used often in ensemble forms. Chouval bwa, biguine, and zouk are all Martinican styles that have been influenced by the use of the twi ba.

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 * 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 Consensus is to delete. DS 20:42, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Tramptech
"Tramptech is a little known internet based club." -- Kjkolb 07:03, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
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A Matter of Time (Hilltop Hoods album)

A Matter of Time is the debut album by Australian hip hop group Hilltop Hoods, released in 1999.

The promotion, manufacturing and marketing of the album was funded by a grant from the band's local government and resulted in the band once it became successful setting up its own grant scheme for South Australian hip hop musicians.

"It was a publicity grant. We used it mainly to print up flyers and put ads in local street press for our album. To put out the album before that EP we actually had to take out a bank loan just to finance it. We were young and broke at the time and really had no other resources to get money. Luckily we had enough money left over from the sales of that to bring out our second album"

The album is currently out of press, but is available as a free download from the Hilltop Hoods official site.

The quote used in the song, "A Matter of Time", is taken from the 1994 movie The Shawshank Redemption, where Morgan Freeman's character, Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding, says to Tim Robbins's character, Andrew "Andy" Dufresne, "That's all it takes, just pressure and time".

Track listing
Songwriting credits from Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA).
 * 1) "A Matter of Time" (D. Smith, M. Lambert) – 4:35
 * 2) "1979" (M. Lambert) – 3:53
 * 3) "The Anthem" (D. Smith, M. Lambert) – 4:13
 * 4) "Time Wasted" – 0:39
 * 5) "B-Boy Battlegear" (M. Lambert) – 3:01
 * 6) "Give It Up" (D. Smith, M. Lambert) – 3:19
 * 7) "Clap Your Hands to The..." – 1:10
 * 8) "Let Me Show You" – 3:32
 * 9) "Deaf Can Hear" (featuring Bukue One) (D. Smith, T. Torrance, M. Lambert) – 4:00
 * 10) "Common Streets" (D. Smith) – 3:29
 * 11) "A Matter of Time" (instrumental remix) – 2:18
 * 12) "1979" (remix) (M. Lambert) – 3:31
 * 13) "Whatcha Got?" (D. Smith, M. Lambert) – 4:03
 * 14) "Whatcha Got?" (instrumental remix) – 1:19

Personnel

 * Daniel Smith (Pressure)
 * Matthew Lambert (Suffa)
 * Barry Francis (DJ Debris)
 * Tion Torrance (Bukue One) — track 9

Credits

 * Producer: Barry Francis — tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 Matthew Lambert — tracks 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12 Daniel Smith — track 11 Chris Lambert — track 13
 * Mastered: Neville Clarke
 * Mixed: Barry Francis, Matthew Lambert
 * Artwork: Chris Lambert, J. Englehardt

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Les Janka

Leslie A. Janka is President-Saudi Arabia for Quincy International LLC, resident in Riyadh Saudi Arabia.. He has more than 25 years experience as an international affairs specialist in the U.S. Government, business consulting and academic institutions. Prior to joining Quincy International, Janka was President of Raytheon Arabian Systems Company in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Prior to managing his independent consulting firm, Les Janka International from 1995 to 2007, he directed the international practice of the energy utility and telecommunications specialty consulting unit of Arthur Andersen, LLP. Janka is a frequent writer and lecturer on the Washington political scene, specializing in international affairs and the formulation of U.S. foreign and defense policy.

Education
A graduate of the University of Redlands, Janka received a master's degree in International Relations and Middle East Studies from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Career
Janka worked for the United States Information Agency from 1964 to 1968 and was Assistant Dean of the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University from 1968 to 1971, when he was appointed Special Assistant to Henry Kissinger on the National Security Council at the White House.

Janka became Senior National Security Council Staff Member for Legislative and Public Affairs in 1974. He moved to the Pentagon in 1976 as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near Eastern and African Affairs. Between 1978 and 1982, he worked for DGA International, a consultant assisting European corporations in marketing advanced military technology to the Pentagon.

In 1984, after serving in the White House as Deputy Press Secretary for Foreign Affairs under President Ronald Reagan, he founded the Council for American-Saudi Dialogue, a foreign policy lobbying and public affairs consulting firm.

In 2020, Janka, along with over 130 other former Republican national security officials, signed a statement that asserted that President Trump was unfit to serve another term, and "To that end, we are firmly convinced that it is in the best interest of our nation that Vice President Joe Biden be elected as the next President of the United States, and we will vote for him."

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The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions

The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions is a four-disc box set by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis compiling recordings between August 19, 1969, and February 6, 1970—including the 1970 double album Bitches Brew in its entirety—and released on Columbia/Legacy on November 24, 1998.

Background
The title of the box set is somewhat of a misnomer: outside of the Bitches Brew tracks themselves, none of the other tracks were recorded during the same August 1969 sessions that resulted in Bitches Brew. Furthermore, additional material recorded for, but not used in Bitches Brew (mainly rehearsal takes and unedited performances of the six album tracks), is not included in this set.

When questioned by Paul Tingen why most of the material in fact was not recorded either for or at the same sessions as the original album, re-issue producer Bob Belden clarified how the team's thought process went. According to him and the engineer, all the songs Miles Davis recorded between August 1969 and early February 1970 used very similar line-ups to those on Bitches Brew, and the main thing they all had in common was the emphasis on keyboards. Every song in the set includes two to three keyboard players, most often Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul and Herbie Hancock. It was not until late February 1970 that Davis refined his concept by dropping the multiple electric pianists for a more guitar-heavy sound. Those following sessions were collected on The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions.

The box set includes some tracks that had never been previously released, one of which, the Wayne Shorter composition "Feio," has since appeared as a bonus track on late compact disc reissues of Bitches Brew. A few of the other tracks in the box set had previously appeared on the albums Live-Evil, Big Fun, and Circle in the Round.

The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions is number "6" in a series of Miles Davis box sets issued by Columbia/Legacy (the numbering scheme refers to the chronological order of the original recordings, not the release order of the box sets themselves). The set was reissued on 11 May 2004 with new packaging. Mosaic Records released the 6 LP set.

Reception
The AllMusic review by critic John Bush states:"The music is simply fabulous—the simultaneous birth and peak of jazz-rock/fusion, with a host of major players (John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, Jack DeJohnette) and many innovations.... Though the unreleased selections are distinctly inferior to those released on Bitches Brew, 'Yaphet,' 'Corrado,' and 'Trevere' are intriguing jam sessions that reveal much about the creative process between Davis and producer Teo Macero during recording.... The music here is another glowing testament to Miles' importance to the development of jazz in 1969, as in 1949."

Track listing
All songs written by Miles Davis, except where noted.

Personnel
Collective listing for all recording sessions.
 * Miles Davis – Trumpet, Vocals
 * Don Alias – Percussion, Conga, Drums
 * Khalil Balakrishna – Sitar
 * Harvey Brooks – Bass, Electric bass
 * Ron Carter – Bass
 * Billy Cobham – Drums, Triangle
 * Chick Corea – Electric piano
 * Jack DeJohnette – Drums
 * Steve Grossman – Soprano saxophone
 * Herbie Hancock – Electric piano
 * Dave Holland – Bass, Electric bass
 * Bennie Maupin – Bass clarinet
 * John McLaughlin – Electric guitar
 * Airto Moreira – Berimbau, Cuíca, Percussion
 * Bihari Sharma – Tabla, Tamboura
 * Wayne Shorter – Soprano saxophone
 * Juma Santos (Jim Riley) – Conga, Shaker
 * Lenny White – Drums
 * Larry Young – Organ, Celeste, Electric piano
 * Joe Zawinul – Electric piano
 * Frank Laico – Engineer [Original Recording] (tracks: 2–3 to 2–6)
 * Stan Tonkel – Engineer [Original Recording] (tracks: 1-1 to 2–2, 3–1 to 4–5)

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Nucleoside analogue

Nucleoside analogues are structural analogues of a nucleoside, which normally contain a nucleobase and a sugar. Nucleotide analogues are analogues of a nucleotide, which normally has one to three phosphates linked to a nucleoside. Both types of compounds can deviate from what they mimick in a number of ways, as changes can be made to any of the constituent parts (nucleobase, sugar, phosphate). They are related to nucleic acid analogues.

Nucleoside and nucleotide analogues can be used in therapeutic drugs, including a range of antiviral products used to prevent viral replication in infected cells. The most commonly used is acyclovir.

Nucleotide and nucleoside analogues can also be found naturally. Examples include ddhCTP (3ʹ-deoxy-3′,4ʹdidehydro-CTP) produced by the human antiviral protein viperin and sinefungin (a S-Adenosyl methionine analogue) produced by some Streptomyces.

Function
These agents can be used against hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus, herpes simplex, and HIV. Once they are phosphorylated, they work as antimetabolites by being similar enough to nucleotides to be incorporated into growing DNA strands; but they act as chain terminators and stop viral DNA polymerase. They are not specific to viral DNA and also affect mitochondrial DNA. Because of this they have side effects such as bone marrow suppression.

There is a large family of nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitors, because DNA production by reverse transcriptase is very different from normal human DNA replication, so it is possible to design nucleoside analogues that are preferentially incorporated by the former. Some nucleoside analogues, however, can function both as NRTIs and polymerase inhibitors for other viruses (e.g., hepatitis B).

Less selective nucleoside analogues are used as chemotherapy agents to treat cancer, e.g. gemcitabine. They are also used as antiplatelet drugs to prevent the formation of blood clots, ticagrelor and cangrelor.

Resistance
Resistance can develop quickly with as little as one mutation. Mutations occur in the enzymes that phosphorylate the drug and activate it: in the case of herpes simplex, resistance to acyclovir arises due to a mutation affecting the viral enzyme thymidine kinase. Since nucleoside analogues require two phosphorylations to be activated, one carried out by a viral enzyme and the other by enzymes in the host cell, mutations in viral thymidine kinase interfere with the first of these phosphorylations; in such cases the drug remains ineffective. There are, however, several different nucleoside analogue drugs and resistance to one of them is usually overcome by switching to another drug of the same kind (e.g. famciclovir, penciclovir, valaciclovir).

Examples
Nucleoside analogue drugs include:
 * deoxyadenosine analogues:
 * didanosine (ddI)(HIV)
 * vidarabine (antiviral)
 * adenosine analogues:
 * galidesivir (Ebola)
 * remdesivir (Ebola)(Marburg)(Coronavirus)
 * deoxycytidine analogues:
 * cytarabine (chemotherapy)
 * gemcitabine (Chemotherapy)
 * emtricitabine (FTC)(HIV)
 * lamivudine (3TC)(HIV, hepatitis B)
 * zalcitabine (ddC)(HIV)
 * guanosine and deoxyguanosine analogues:
 * abacavir (HIV)
 * aciclovir
 * entecavir (hepatitis B)
 * ribavirin
 * thymidine and deoxythymidine analogues:
 * stavudine (d4T)
 * telbivudine (hepatitis B)
 * zidovudine (azidothymidine, or AZT)(HIV)
 * deoxyuridine analogues:
 * idoxuridine
 * trifluridine

Related drugs are nucleobase analogs, which don't include a sugar or sugar analog, and nucleotide analogues, which also include phosphate groups.

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Talk:Nanjing Massacre/Archive 1

''This is the 2003 archive. For more recent comments, please see the Talk page.''

Forgotten memory
I removed the following:

 * This was almost forgotten(Maybe that is true for people of other country, but Chinese will never forget this massacre, forever), but since 1980s, the Communist China has utilized this incident as a diplomacy card and to take the spotlight off from massacres by themselves.

It is POV, both the original version and the annotated one ("Maybe..."). People's memory of this event is not as easily measurable as the statements above imply. If it is, provide legitimate sources to back up the statements. --Menchi 01:10, 2 Oct 2003 (UTC)

sources of 200K figure?
PinkBotRX, do you have a source we can cite for the 200,000 figure? -- Pde 08:10, 4 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Death toll
The article says that Chang reached a figure of 260,000. But this page says: "Ms. Chang concludes that upwards to 350,000 Chinese lives were destroyed by the Japanese." What gives? Is Kagan talking about something other than the death toll? -- Pde 00:13, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)

-Pde, the death tolls for this vary hugely, some of the articles I quoted discuss the issue. Basically the estimates range from 20,000 all the way to 400,000. Many very well respected historians stay the number is probably in the range of 60-120,000. China's official figure is 300,000. It also depends on the area, who you include and a range of other factors...

Move?
[Rape of Nanking] seems to be more common:. Should this be moved? --Jiang 10:54, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)

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Marilyn McCoo

Marilyn McCoo (born September 30, 1943) is an American singer, actress, and television presenter, who is best known for being the lead female vocalist in the group the 5th Dimension as well as hosting the 1980s music television show Solid Gold.

Since 1969, McCoo has been married to singer Billy Davis Jr., the founder and a co-member of the 5th Dimension. She has a three-octave vocal range.

Early years
Marilyn McCoo was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, to Waymon and Mary (née Holloway ) McCoo, who were both physicians. Her grandfather was doctor Thomas Vivian McCoo of Eufaula, Alabama. She is African American. She spent her first seven years in Columbus, Georgia. At the age of seven, she moved with her parents, two sisters, and brother to Los Angeles, where she began voice, piano and dance lessons. At the age of 15, she made her television debut on Art Linkletter's Talent Show and began modelling. After graduating from Susan Miller Dorsey High School, she enrolled in UCLA, where she earned a degree in business administration. In 1962, McCoo entered the Miss Bronze California beauty pageant where she won "Miss Grand Talent".

Music career
In the early and mid-1960s, McCoo was a member of the Hi-Fi's, who often opened for Ray Charles. She had been invited to join the group by photographer Lamonte McLemore, who would himself join McCoo in the 5th Dimension. Other Hi-Fi members included Harry Elston and Floyd Butler, who later formed the Friends of Distinction. She met Billy Davis Jr. in 1966 when he established the 5th Dimension, then called the Versatiles, which also included Ron Townson and Florence LaRue. The group's first big hit was with 1967's "Up, Up and Away", written by Jimmy Webb. The song won four 1968 Grammy Awards and was the title track to 5th Dimension's first hit LP. A year later, the group recorded Laura Nyro's "Stoned Soul Picnic". A medley of "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" (from the musical Hair) reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in April to May 1969 and won the Grammy for 'Record of the Year'. The group's recording of another Nyro composition, "Wedding Bell Blues", topped the Hot 100 in November 1969. By the early 1970s, McCoo began to sing lead on the group's remaining hits, "One Less Bell to Answer", "(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All", and "If I Could Reach You".

In 1975, McCoo and Davis left the 5th Dimension and began performing as a duo. Landing a contract with ABC Records, they recorded their 1976 debut album, I Hope We Get to Love in Time. As a duo, McCoo and Davis were not as successful as the 5th Dimension; however, their first album did score two major hits and three overall singles: "I Hope We Get To Love In Time" (#91, March 1978), "You Don't Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)" (#1, September 1976), and "Your Love" (#15, March 1977). McCoo and Davis won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for "You Don't Have to Be a Star". The song peaked at number 21 in Australia. They became the first African American married couple to host a network television series, The Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr. Show, on CBS in summer 1977. The duo released their next album on ABC in 1977, titled The Two Of Us. The album spawned the single "Look What You've Done To My Heart" (#51, August 1977). The pair signed with CBS Records and released their next album, 1978's Marilyn + Billy, although it did not include any Hot 100 hits. This would be the duo's last album until thirty years later; in October 2008 the pair released The Many Faces of Love, a collection of hit songs from the 1960s and 1970s.

After breaking from the 5th Dimension to perform as a duo and subsequently releasing three albums, McCoo and Davis Jr. next decided to go solo professionally in the early 1980s. McCoo began hosting the popular American music television show Solid Gold from 1981 to 1984 and returned again from 1986 to 1988. She also embarked on a nightclub and concert act and went on to play the role of Tamara Price on the soap opera Days of Our Lives in 1986, as a friend of the character Marlena Evans. Price later became involved with James Reynolds' character Abe Carver. McCoo left the series in 1987.

McCoo's 1991 album, The Me Nobody Knows, was nominated for a Grammy. She also released a Christmas album in 1996. McCoo won her eighth Grammy (which also included work with the 5th Dimension) for her contributions to Quincy Jones' Handel's Messiah.

In 2021, McCoo and Davis released Blackbird Lennon-McCartney Icons, their first studio album in over 30 years. Entrepreneur Kathy Ireland released the album through her record label EE1. The duo said it was a civil rights movement which became a human rights movement with a goal to encourage people to come together during trying times. During an interview about the album on June 29, 2021, Questlove called McCoo and Davis "the first couple of Pop and Soul". They would later appear in Quest's directorial debut, ''Summer of Soul. ''

Acting career
McCoo has acted in a number of movies, including Grizzly Adams and the Legend of Dark Mountain (1999), My Mom's a Werewolf (1989) and several television movies, often playing herself. She has appeared on stage in productions of Anything Goes, A...My Name is Alice, Man of La Mancha, and the Broadway production of Show Boat in 1995 through 1996. McCoo appeared together with Davis on The Jamie Foxx Show as Fancy's parents, the Monroes. McCoo also guest-starred on a Canadian game show in the 1990s, called Acting Crazy.

Personal life
McCoo is married to fellow 5th Dimension bandmate Billy Davis Jr. On July 26, 2019, they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. The couple shared their story of love and faith in the 2004 book, Up, Up and Away. They continue to perform together in venues around the country. McCoo is a member of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority. She is an emerita member of the board of directors of the Los Angeles Mission. McCoo and Davis are born-again Christians.

Features

 * My Mom's a Werewolf (1989)
 * Grizzly Adams and the Legend of Dark Mountain (1999)
 * Summer of Soul (2021)

Television

 * It Takes a Thief (1 episode, 1970)
 * The Love Boat (1 episode, 1978)
 * Solid Gold (host, 1981–1984, 1986–1988)
 * The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins (1984)
 * New Love, American Style (1 episode, 1986)
 * The Fall Guy (1 episode, 1986)
 * Days of Our Lives (1986–1987, 2019–2020)
 * Punky Brewster (1 episode, 1988)
 * Night Court (1 episode, 1990)
 * The Kingdom Chums Original Top Ten (voice, 1990)
 * The New Adventures of Captain Planet (voice, 2 episodes, 1993)
 * Women of the House (1 episode, 1995)
 * The Jamie Foxx Show (2 episodes, 1999–2001)

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Talk:Ramming

Sheep?
Is there any connection with the word "ram", as in the male sheep? Isn't this what they use their horns for? DS 13:57, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
 * It's dereived from 'battering ram' as stated, as far as I know this got it's name because battering rams were sometimes sculpted with the heads of rams. Plus ram is a commonly used verb for a forced thrust, this may also be derived from a verb for the headbutting of sheep. --Preasure 21:53, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

V-1
RAF pilots used to "touch" V-1 missiles heading for London with the tip of their wings to destabilize them. Does this qualify as ramming ? Nicolas1981 (talk) 23:52, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, it does. Due to the V1's high speed only the fastest aircraft could expect to succeed in this; even then, the pilot had already to be in place waiting for a dumb victim to show up. Preplanning and luck played a part. Binksternet (talk) 07:27, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I was about to add this piece of information, but I re-read the V-1 article to be sure, and I could only find the following as an attack technique:

''These included the hair-raising method of using the airflow over an interceptor's wing to raise one wing of the Doodlebug, by sliding the wingtip to within six inches (15 cm) of the lower surface of the V-1's wing. If properly executed, this manoeuvre would tip the V-1's wing up, overriding the gyros and sending the V-1 into an out-of-control dive. At least three V-1s were destroyed this way.''

 * So, is this "touch" thing nothing more than a legend ? Nicolas1981 (talk) 21:00, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Hair-raising indeed. I'd count six inches as a touch; in practice, there'd certainly be a touch or two over a number of attempts. It is getting somewhat away from ramming, though. There's no wikipedia page for precision formation air attacks... o_O Binksternet (talk) 00:57, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Prose description in general or lists of specific ramming events
I would like to see this article retain its flowing prose descriptions of the general trends of ramming peppered with specific descriptions of significant ramming attacks. I don't think that attempting to compile comprehensive lists of individual rammings for each belligerent will add much value; in fact, I think such a development of this article will help readers turn away and prevent them from finishing the whole page. Binksternet (talk) 05:20, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

 * I've deleted the list for the reasons given above. Binksternet (talk) 14:40, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Additional: first jet-fighter ramming
28 November 1973 Soviet MiG-21SM Fishbed pilot Gennadii N. Eliseev intercepted an Imperial Iranian Air Force RF-4E Phantom II in Soviet airspace. After an unsuccessful attempt at firing a AA-2 Atoll missile at the Phantom, Eliseev destroyed the Phantom by ramming it. The Phantom's crew of IIAF pilot Major Shokouhnia and USAF backseater Saunders parachuted to safety and were captured by Soviet border guards. They were released 16 days later. http://www.silent-warriors.com/shootdown_list.html In Russian Елисеев, Геннадий Николаевич —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.154.203.7 (talk) 13:03, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Tanks
I remember reading a few accounts of tanks ramming other tanks during the second world war... I'll try to track something down and add it, but if anyone else has some info, please include it in the article Mike McGregor (Can) (talk) 22:00, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

 * I have seen descriptions of a Sherman ramming a Tiger in the Operation Goodwood article, but the current tank ramming paragraph in the Ramming article cites no sources; multiple (internet) sources also claim that soviets ramming German tanks is a myth. 77.57.23.123 (talk) 21:05, 16 March 2014 (UTC)

Non-military ramming with vehicles
No mention is made of vehicular ramming where a car or truck is used to ram another for various reasons, or used to ram a non-vehicle target. Binksternet (talk) 18:50, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

USAF
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_XP-79 AThousandYoung (talk) 22:31, 22 May 2010 (UTC)

 * That aircraft was supposed to be fitted with guns—it was not designed for ramming. Binksternet (talk) 04:53, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

kamikazes?
Why are the Japanese kamikazes not mentioned? They seem to fit the definition.SpecInterest (talk) 15:40, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

Should the 30 March 2020 - Naiguatá > RCGS Resolute "ramming" be removed?
The Official Report by the Portuguese authorities concluded that, while the collision was caused by the Naiguatá and appeared intentional, they may not have intended to ram the RCGS Resolute. The collision may have been caused by a suction effect between the vessels as the faster patrol boat passed the bow of the cruise ship.

It should be noted that both sides have argued that the other ship rammed them.

Including this collision in this article as X rammed Y, when the 3rd party investigator has concluded that it may have been accidental, seems misleading. 2601:19A:C101:1459:B54D:4BF9:97B0:562B (talk) 23:14, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

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Mindfields

Mindfields is the tenth studio album (though counted as the 11th album overall — see Toto XIV) by the American rock band Toto. It was released in Europe and Japan in March 1999, followed by a US release on November 16, 1999. Mindfields saw the return of vocalist Bobby Kimball, who had departed the band in 1984 during recording sessions for the Isolation album.

Reception
The album received mixed reviews from critics. Michael Gallucci of AllMusic wrote: "Overlong, overwrought, and devoid of personality, this incredibly dull world-view update of Toto's crassly professional sound manages to pillage several cultures at once without contributing a single song worth remembering. The playing is tight—as you would expect from a bunch of studio session musicians—but all the skills in the world can't liven these 14 plodding tracks."

1999 Bonus Tracks
1 On some copies of the album, a longer version of "High Price of Hate" was used with a length of 9:49.

2018 All In Remaster
3 Track 1 ("Cruel") and 12 ("After You've Gone") switched places

4 Track 13 ("Better World") was originally titled "Better World (Parts I, II and III)"

5 Track 14 ("Spanish Steps") was originally titled "Spanish Steps of Rome"

Personnel
Adapted from album's liner notes.

Toto
 * Steve Lukather – guitars, lead vocals (tracks 1, 2, 6, 8, 11, 13), backing vocals (tracks 1, 4, 6, 8, 10–14)
 * David Paich – keyboards, horn arrangements (tracks 2, 5), backing vocals (tracks 3, 8), slide guitar solo (track 5), lead vocals (track 14)
 * Mike Porcaro – bass guitar, cello (track 1)
 * Simon Phillips – drums, tabla (track 1), percussion (tracks 5, 6, 8, 10, 13), loops (track 11), backing vocals (track 13)
 * Bobby Kimball – lead vocals (tracks 2–5, 7, 9, 10, 12) backing vocals (tracks 3, 4, 8–10, 12, 13)

Guest musicians
 * Steve Porcaro – keyboards (tracks 7, 11)
 * Clint Black – harmonica and backing vocals (track 6)
 * Lenny Castro – percussion (tracks 1–3, 9, 11, 13-14)
 * Jim Horn – horns (tracks 2, 5, 12)
 * Tom Scott – horns (tracks 2, 5, 12), horn arrangements (track 12)
 * Bill Reichenbach Jr. – horns (tracks 2, 5, 12)
 * Chuck Findley – horns (tracks 2, 5, 12)
 * Gary Grant – horns (tracks 2, 5, 12)
 * Mark Hudson – backing vocals (tracks 1, 2, 5)
 * Timothy B. Schmit – backing vocals (tracks 1, 2, 5, 11)
 * Phil Soussan – backing vocals (track 1)
 * Richard Page – backing vocals (tracks 3, 7, 9, 12)
 * Chris Thompson – backing vocals (tracks 6, 8, 10, 11, 13)
 * Maria Vidal – backing vocals (track 14)

Production

 * Producers – Toto and Elliot Scheiner
 * Recorded by Eric Cowden, Steve Genewick, Steve MacMillan, Charles Paakari, Elliot Scheiner, Al Schmitt, Jess Sutcliffe and Jeff Thomas.
 * Mixed by Elliot Scheiner at Capitol Studios (Hollywood, CA).
 * Mastered and Sequenced by Ted Jensen at Sterling Sound (New York, NY).
 * Editing by Steve MacMillan
 * Production Coordination – Shari Sutcliffe
 * Copyist – Dan Ferguson
 * Creative Director – Doug Brown

Singles

 * Melanie / Spanish Steps Of Rome

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Released

Released may refer to:

 * Released (Jade Warrior album), 1971
 * Released (Patti LaBelle album), 1980
 * Released: 1985–1995, an album by Kronos Quartet, 1995
 * Released, an album by Westlife, 2005
 * "Released", a song by Norther from Dreams of Endless War, 2002

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Jamie Johnston

James Michael Johnston (born July 7, 1989) is a Canadian actor and singer-songwriter. He is best known for his role as Peter Stone on Degrassi: The Next Generation.

Personal life and career
Johnston was born July 7, 1989, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Johnston portrayed Peter Stone on Degrassi: The Next Generation from 2005 to 2010. He has been nominated for 8 Young Artist Awards in Los Angeles and won 2. He has also starred in the series Wild Card and Zixx: Level One. He has a wide range of interests, including soccer, snowboarding, skateboarding, cycling and playing the guitar and numerous other instruments. Jamie went to Kenya with the organization "Free the Children" to build a school and filmed as a special for MTV. Jamie has made numerous appearances on ET Canada and etalk. He has traveled extensively. He played guitar in a band called SoundSpeed along with a few of his fellow Degrassi cast mates. He also played the male lead as Lucas Green in the feature film Love Me. Other films include, "Jesus Henry Christ", "The Tenth Circle", "Killer Instinct",  "My Babysitter's a Vampire", and numerous Movie of Week productions. In 2016, Johnston reprised his role as Peter Stone on Degrassi: Next Class for 4 episodes during its second season. He is currently in another band that has been signed, as the drummer. He also writes and composes.

Filmography

 * Symphony of Fire – Independent Short

Theatre

 * Aesop Fables: A Man, A Boy & A Donkey – Donkey
 * The Chrysalids – Mark
 * Epimenides – Cabin Boy
 * Job & The Snake – Neptune

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Talk:Hydrocele

Pronunciation
I added the pronounciation of hydrocele, as I figured that other people (like myself) would not necessarily know how to spell hydrocele, but spell it as hydroseal. This way, the search facility will pick this page up. If there is a better way of doing this, then please can you implement it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sjb72 (talk • contribs) 22:28, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Photo needed
This needs illustration, like all other pathologies with visible results. —  SMcCandlish  [talk] [cont] ‹(-¿-)› 08:43, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Redundancy
All hydroceles are testicular hydroceles (hydrocele testis). This article needs to be consolidated with the testicular hydrocele page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pitabread640 (talk • contribs) 01:32, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Hydrocele testis
Definition is wrong, let me just say it bluntly. The tunica vaginalis is also defined anatomically incorrectly 182.255.99.214 (talk) 07:55, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

American/British spellings
Throughout this article, the spelling of the subject alternates between American hydrocele and British hydrocoele. I'm sure many readers, less acquainted with the dark side of Standard English spelling variants, might find this to-ing and fro-ing quite confusing. Could we at least acknowledge at the head of the article that both of these spellings are current, usually in American and British/Commonwealth medical literature; and then stick consistently to either the diphthongised or the non-diphthongised spelling throughout the remainder of the article? Or, even better, hydrocœle with the diphthong ligature. Nuttyskin (talk) 20:14, 5 April 2018 (UTC)

Spellings
Actually, the OED shows "hydrocele" and "hydrocoel" as two different words, the former being what this article is about, the latter being "the water-vascular system of an echinoderm." The final syllables are from different Greek words: The former from "κήλη tumour", the latter from "κοιλία cavity of the body".

The OED shows the second word as having alternative spellings "hydrocoele, hydrocele", but no alternatives for the word with which this article is concerned. Nevertheless a Google Book Search does, indeed, show many results for "hydrocoele" in this sense. But Google Ngram shows that even in British usage, "hydrocele" is much more common.

So I suggest that the spelling in this article be uniformized as "hydrocele".

Perhaps there should also be a Wikipedia article Hydrocoel. (A Google Book Search for that spelling, with no final "e", only gives, so far as I can see, results concerning the vascular system of an echinoderm.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.229.58.171 (talk) 19:49, 13 March 2019 (UTC)

2019/03/21: I've made the above changes in spelling, leaving the spelling "hydrocoele" only under "synonyms". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.229.58.171 (talk) 20:52, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

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KEIB

KEIB (1150 AM) is a commercial radio station in Los Angeles, California. Owned by iHeartMedia, the station brands itself as The Patriot, and broadcasts a conservative talk radio format. The station's studios are on West Olive Avenue in Burbank.

By day, KEIB is powered at 50,000 watts, the maximum for commercial AM stations in the U.S. At night, to minimize interference to other stations on 1150 AM, it reduces power to 44,000 watts. The transmitter uses a directional antenna with a four-tower array, located in the City of Industry.

Programming
The weekday schedule on "The Patriot" features all nationally syndicated talk programs: The Sean Hannity Show, The Glenn Beck Program, The Ramsey Show with Dave Ramsey, The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, Our American Stories with Lee Habeeb, The Jesse Kelly Show and The Michael Berry Show.

The station carries UCLA Bruins and Anaheim Ducks games in case of conflicts with their regular radio stations. Weekends feature repeats of weekday shows and two local hosts: Mark Moss and Joe Escalante, along with syndicated programs The Weekend with Michael Brown and The Jesus Christ Show with Neil Saavedra. On weekends, some hours are paid brokered programming. Most hours begin with an update from Fox News Radio.

Early years
KEIB is one of the oldest stations in Southern California. It originally signed on as KMIC, licensed to, Inglewood, in January 1927. The call sign changed to KMCS in 1930. In 1932, new owners moved the station to the Spring Arcade Building at 541 S. Spring Street in Los Angeles, and adopted what would be its longest-lived callsign, KRKD, a reference to the word "arcade". Two broadcast towers on the roof, with "a long-wire flattop transmitting antenna", had the KRKD letters on the side.

From 1928 to 1961, KFSG 1150 (1120 before 1941) shared the KRKD frequency and transmitter. The International Church of the Foursquare Gospel bought KRKD to keep from having to share time, airing mostly secular programming. From 6 P.M. to midnight, KRKD aired services from Angelus Temple.

KRKD-FM aired the same programming as the AM station before 1966. After that, the two stations aired the same adult standards programming after 2 in the afternoon and were known as "Your Album Stations of Southern California". On its own KRKD-FM aired theatrical performances, light classical music and opera. At one point, the AM aired college football while the FM kept the album format, and when the games ended, the AM continued the album format and the FM aired theater and opera.

KIIS
The Foursquare Church sold KRKD AM in 1970 (and changed KRKD-FM to KFSG). In 1970, the KRKD call letters were then changed to KIIS to identify it with its AM frequency (1150=IIS). The new owners changed the format to soft rock with jingles created by PAMS of Dallas, some of which were in the style of Richard and Karen Carpenter. It was known as "the Kiss of California". In 1975, its owners, Combined Communications, "married" KIIS 1150 AM to their FM station, KKDJ 102.7 FM, in an on-air wedding on Charlie Tuna's KKDJ morning show. KKDJ then became known as KIIS-FM. The AM and FM stations ("AM and FM, K-Double I S") did simulcasts during the day and reverted to two stations in the evening hours (with this, the AM aired their own version of the jingle package which had been produced for its sister FM station). The combined stations had many popular jocks including Humble Harve, Jay Stevens, Charlie Tuna from KKDJ.

KPRZ
In late 1979, as KIIS-FM went to an all-disco format, KIIS AM briefly changed its format to religious talk and the station became Christian radio KPRZ ("K-Praise"). KPRZ implemented AM stereo during this time.

But soon thereafter, KMPC unexpectedly dropped its adult standards format and fired its DJs. Dick Whittinghill, Gary Owens, Johnny Magnus and Pete Smith all moved over to KPRZ, which took over the KMPC music and called it "The Music of Your Life". Whttinghill would complain about "all that noise down the hall at sister station KIIS-FM". If the door to the KPRZ studios was open, the Top 40 music on KIIS-FM could even be heard in the background on the AM station.

Today, the KPRZ calls are assigned to a Christian radio station serving the San Diego metropolitan area.

KIIS
KMPC returned to standards a few years later, which hurt KPRZ. The station ended its standards format New Year's Eve 1984, and became KIIS AM again. KIIS carried a virtual simulcast of KIIS-FM's programming, although with different DJs during middays and afternoons and programming being delayed by up to 3 minutes, to avoid FCC restrictions on simulcasting. Around 1988, this would transition to a full-time simulcast when the FCC relaxed the rules on major market stations simulcasting each other.

KXTA
On March 10, 1997, KIIS became sports radio KXTA, the flagship station of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The KIIS call letters would later resurface in Santa Clarita in 1998, with another simulcast of KIIS-FM (that station is now known as KHTS, having changed its call letters in 2003).

XTRA Sports 1150 flipped to Fox Sports 1150 for a time.

In 2003, KXTA, by this time a Clear Channel Communications station, was falling off in the ratings and had lost the Dodgers to KFWB. KXTA flipped back to XTRA Sports, this time on both 1150 AM and 690 AM, the successful XTRA in San Diego.

The KXTA call letters are now assigned to a regional Mexican station serving Twin Falls, Idaho.

KTLK
On February 4, 2005, Clear Channel conducted a far-reaching format swap of three radio stations in the area. The XTRA Sports format moved to AM 570, where it retains its call letters of KLAC. It had the slogan XTRA Sports 570, but is now known as just AM 570. AM 690 took on KLAC's previous format, an adult standards station called The Fabulous 570 and redubbed The Fabulous 690. 1150, meanwhile, would adopt a progressive talk format.

On February 4, 2008, KTLK altered several of its time slots. Marc Germain, also known as "Mr. K," was removed from the lineup and replaced by Rachel Maddow from 3 to 6 p.m. Mike Malloy's show was returned to the station. Finally, Phil Hendrie's show was returned to the lineup, from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Ed Schultz was dropped. The station removed its award-winning and popular weeknight show "Harrison on the Edge," hosted by Cary Harrison and produced by Linda Blake on February 27, 2007 after an 18-month run.

During this time nationally syndicated hosts were Stephanie Miller who was also simulcasted on Current TV from 2012 to 2013 from the KTLK studios, Randi Rhodes, Norman Goldman, Clark Howard, Mike Malloy, Phil Hendrie, and Bill Press. Miller is distributed by Dial Global, Rhodes, Howard, and Hendrie by Premiere Radio Networks (which had the same parent company as the station), Goldman by Compass Media Networks, and Malloy is self-syndicated.

Two local shows were in the weekday lineup: Diverse L.A., which promotes itself on the station's webpage as follows: "We as Angelenos don’t look, think or even vote alike…so why should we sound alike?", and an afternoon drivetime show hosted by David Cruz.

Former programs include those of Ron Reagan, Sam Seder and Janeane Garafalo's "Majority Report," and Lionel, who all left the schedule when Air America Media folded. Other past offerings were local Cary Harrison and national show Thom Hartmann, who was picked up after comedian Al Franken ended his early 9 a.m.-noon show over Air America in order to prepare for his eventual successful run for the U.S. Senate from Minnesota. In turn, Hartmann was taken off the schedule when Dial Global moved his show to the exact noon-3 p.m. time slot as Rhodes' show.

On weekends, the station featured local hosts including Johnny Wendell (a.k.a. Johnny Angel), the comedy duo Frangela of Angela V. Shelton and Frances Callier, and Mario Solis-Marich. The syndicated StarTalk Radio Show hosted by Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson aired on Sunday afternoons.

In these years of Air America affiliation and, later, as an independent station, KTLK used in turn the promo slogans "L.A.'s Progressive Talk," "The Voice of Reason" and finally "Your Voice". Another line heard often in station IDs that referenced the station hosts' political take was "From Minority to Majority".

On January 8, 2014, KTLK changed call letters to KEIB and became "The Patriot", converting from progressive-leaning format to one that emphasizes a conservative viewpoint.

Randi Rhodes had already planned a transition to an online-only show and encouraged her fans to continue listening by downloading the iHeartRadio application for their smart phones and tablet computers. However, only months after the launch of her online model, Rhodes announced that she was ending her show, citing her frustration with the media in general.

KEIB
On January 2, 2014, KEIB began airing a conservative talk format, branded as "The Patriot," featuring radio icons such as Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity, all three of whom are nationally distributed through iHeartMedia's syndication arm, Premiere Networks. Aside from the change in the station's programming viewpoint (from progressive to conservative), the programming move ensured continued clearance in Los Angeles of 3 of Premiere's most popular programs — The Glenn Beck Program, The Rush Limbaugh Show, and The Sean Hannity Show. In particular, Hannity was picked up from KABC after that station's owner, Cumulus Media, purged Hannity from its talk-formatted stations on or before the end of 2013. The move also allowed for a split in programming nature among iHeartMedia's LA talk stations, as KFI (Limbaugh's former home) began adopting an emphasis on local hosts and subjects. The station aired The Rush Limbaugh Show at the time of Limbaugh's death in 2021, and it currently airs The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show, Premiere's designated replacement for Limbaugh's program.

With the launch of "The Patriot" on AM 1150, a new call sign was assigned to the station, with KTLK becoming KEIB, a play on Limbaugh's "Excellence in Broadcasting" slogan. iHeartMedia applied for the KEIB call letters to ease the move of his show in the LA market from its longtime home at higher-rated KFI to become a magnet for the new 1150. The KTLK call letters in turn moved to iHeartMedia-owned KTCN (AM 1130) in the Minneapolis/St. Paul market; KTCN's programming (which includes Limbaugh and Hannity) had been previously heard on KTLK-FM (100.3 FM), which became the sports oriented KFXN-FM in August 2011 when the stations swapped programming. (The KTLK calls, until 2002, were assigned to what is now KDFD in Denver, an iHeartMedia-owned progressive talk station. Before that, the calls were applied to another Denver station, which was one of the first full-time talk stations in the nation; that station is currently the Regional Mexican music station KBNO.) On October 15, 2015, Armstrong & Getty announced on-air that their 'Voice of the West' morning drive time show would be joining the KEIB line-up on November 2, 2015; the duo replaced The Glenn Beck Program. Armstrong & Getty moved their show to KABC in 2019.

On March 16, 2016, it was announced that sister station KLAC will be the new flagship for the Los Angeles Clippers. In case of a scheduling conflict with the Los Angeles Dodgers (also on KLAC), the Clippers will be heard on KEIB.

Sports
The station was the flagship outlet of the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League and the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer until 2014. Currently, the station airs games of the UCLA Bruins, and Anaheim Ducks, in case of conflicts with their regular radio stations. It has also aired National Football League games from Westwood One. During the KTLK era the station was the former radio home of the Los Angeles Clippers (traded to KSPN in exchange for Kings' rights, now on KLAC), the Los Angeles Sparks (contract not renewed after 2008), and the Los Angeles Avengers (team folded in 2009). The Kings returned to KEIB for one season, and since 2019, the team has no terrestrial radio flagship station, as its games are now exclusively streamed on the iHeartRadio network.

On April 2, 2012, the station broadcast the NCAA men's basketball championship game in which Kentucky defeated Kansas. The tourney had been carried locally on KLAC, but that station had a programming conflict due to also being the flagship radio station of the Los Angeles Dodgers that season. As a result, KLAC's coverage of the Dodgers' spring training game against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim preempted their broadcast of the Wildcats-Jayhawks game which was then accommodated on KTLK.

On-air lineup

 * The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show
 * The Sean Hannity Show
 * The Glenn Beck Radio Program
 * The Ramsey Show with Dave Ramsey
 * The Jesse Kelly Show
 * Our American Stories with Lee Habeeb
 * The Michael Berry Show

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Vapen & ammunition

Vapen & ammunition (Swedish for Weapons & Ammunition) is the fifth studio album by Swedish alternative rock band Kent. It was released on 15 April 2002 through RCA Records and BMG. Absent from this album is a long, mostly-instrumental song, rounding the album off, as had been a characteristic of the band ever since their second record Verkligen. The white tiger on the cover is a tribute to the band's hometown Eskilstuna: the zoo in town had white tigers as its main attraction.

Vapen & ammunition was voted Best Album of 2002 on the Grammis awards, the Swedish equivalent to the Grammy. It is the best-selling album by Kent. In 2003, the album had sold over 600,000 copies worldwide.

Track listing
All music and lyrics written by Joakim Berg, except "FF" lyrics written by Berg and Nancy Danino.

Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Vapen & ammunition.

Kent

 * Joakim Berg – music, lyrics, vocals, guitar
 * Martin Sköld – bass, keyboards
 * Sami Sirviö – guitar, keyboards
 * Markus Mustonen – drums, backing vocals, keyboards, piano
 * Harri Mänty – rhythm guitar, percussion

Additional musicians

 * Martin von Schmalensee – slide guitar on track 1, acoustic guitar on track 9
 * Titiyo – vocals on track 4
 * Nancy Danino – vocals on track 8
 * Henrik Rongedal, Ingela Olson, Jessica Pilnäs, Niklas Gabrielsson – backing vocals on track 9
 * Thobias Gabrielsson – backing vocal arrangement on track 9
 * Jojje Wadenius – acoustic guitar on track 10

Technical

 * Kent – producer
 * Zmago Smon (Zed) – producer, mixing, recording
 * Martin von Schmalensee – producer, recording
 * Björn Engelmann – mastering

Artwork

 * Jonas Linell – photography
 * Helen Sköld – design

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Fairchild tangerine

The Fairchild tangerine is a cross between a Clementine mandarin and an Orlando tangelo. The skin is thin with a deep orange color, is somewhat pebbly, and doesn't peel as easily as some other tangerines. It is juicy with a rich and sweet flavour and contains seeds. It is a popular variety in the United States, available from October until the middle of January and especially during the winter holidays. The Fairchild tangerine is one of California's most heavily planted varieties.

Fairchild tangerines are sometimes found with the stem and leaves still attached. The Chinese believe the stems and leaves attached to the tangerine are a symbol of prosperity and good luck.

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Support de Microphones

Support de Microphones is the debut album of Finnish hip hop group Don Johnson Big Band. With sales of 10,000 copies, the album is considered to be the best selling self-published album in Finland. Initially the album was also self-distributed, but later distributed by Sony Music.

Track listing

 * 1) "Intro" - 0:42
 * 2) "Burn de Microphones" - 5:33
 * 3) "Helsinki Cadenza" - 2:34
 * 4) "Subway Stars" - 3:56
 * 5) "Disco San Francisco" - 3:50
 * 6) "Klaus Orbital" - 3:33
 * 7) "Turbo Boost" - 4:20
 * 8) "Get on the Mic" - 3:49
 * 9) "Milano" - 6:15
 * 10) "No. 1 at the Hamburg Concept" - 7:27
 * 11) "Wonderful World" - 3:39
 * 12) "Jesus Adidas" - 5:14
 * 13) "Jass" - 5:46
 * 14) "24h" - 3:21
 * 15) "All Agents Operate Synchronously" - 3:43
 * 16) "Illyrical" - 3:02
 * 17) "Suru" - 6:25

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Gustav Adolf Stave Church

The Lutheran Gustav Adolf Stave Church (Gustav-Adolf-Stabkirche) is a stave church situated in Hahnenklee, a borough of Goslar in the Harz mountains, Germany. Construction of the church began in 1907 and it was consecrated on 28 June 1908. The church is a copy of the medieval Borgund Stave Church in Norway. It was erected during the sudden rise in Hahnenklee's popularity as a spa town and major tourist destination, with adaptions to fulfil its role as a parish church. The plans were designed by Karl Mohrmann (1857–1927), architect of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover, a representative of the historicist Hanover school of architecture. He had visited Borgund and held the view that stave churches once were common in the medieval Saxon areas too.

The church was built from spruce trunks harvested at the nearby Bocksberg mountain. The interior comprises numerous carvings of archaic symbols as well as Viking ship design features. The building soon became a frequently visited landmark and a popular wedding church.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bonermeister

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The result of the debate was Delete Ryan Norton T 20:29, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Bonermeister
Neologism/dictionary/vanity page. Probable speedy deletion candidate. — Mark (Mkmcconn) ** 07:22, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * This afd nomination was orphaned. Listing now.  Delete made-up words. —Cryptic (talk) 12:47, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom.    Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk   17:25, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * delete per above. not even funny. Youngamerican 02:39, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * delete as above. Rd232 23:08, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

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Evolver (The Grid album)

Evolver is the third album by English electronic dance group the Grid. It was released in 1994. "Swamp Thing" is the best-known song from the album. It became a dance club favourite and chart-hit in the UK, Europe and Australia. "Texas Cowboys" and "Rollercoaster" were also released as singles. Evolver reached number 14 on the UK Albums Chart.

Critical reception
Paul Mathur from Melody Maker said, "Evolver is packed with potential incidental music for sporting highlights, but manages to cram in a heap of hitherto techno-unfriendly sounds just to further irritate those who believe in the sanctity of the dancefloor metronome." Johnny Dee from NME wrote, "Like magicians conjuring white rabbits, doves and ham sandwiches from top hats into the foreign land of the theatre, The Grid's Evolver gameplan centres around their fantastic techno handbag and the ensuing merry cavalcade of a thousand comical wedding reception dances."

Track listing
All tracks written by Grid members Richard Norris and Dave Ball.
 * 1) "Wake Up" – 7:53
 * 2) "Rollercoaster" – 6:34
 * 3) "Swamp Thing" – 6:41
 * 4) "Throb" – 5:04
 * 5) "Rise" – 6:07
 * 6) "Shapes of Sleep" – 6:44
 * 7) "Higher Peaks" – 6:11
 * 8) "Texas Cowboys" – 5:51
 * 9) "Spin Cycle" – 5:31
 * 10) "Golden Dawn" – 9:38

Additional information

 * Susannah Melvoin provides vocals on the track "Rollercoaster".
 * Although the track "Golden Dawn" is listed as being 9:38 long on the cover it is actually only approximately 7:21 in length. After the music finishes there is one minute of silence followed by a hidden track at 8:21.  This consists of a jocular message left on a telephone answering machine.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nehemiah 8

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The result of the debate was DELETE. — J I P | Talk 05:11, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Nehemiah 8
Duplicates material already on Wikisource. FJG 07:23, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. — FJG 07:23, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I like Bible articles (and this is not just a verse) but text with no article should be shot on sight. Can't we have a 'nothing but source text already on wikisource' as a speedy criterion. --Doc (?) 13:24, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per nomination. Speedy for source text on wikisource is a good idea. Qaz  ( talk ) 16:24, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
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Electro Glide in Blue

Electro Glide in Blue is the second studio album by English electronic music group Apollo 440. It was first released on 3 March 1997 in the United Kingdom by Stealth Sonic Recordings and Epic Records and on 9 September 1997 in the United States by 550 Music. The album features Charles Bukowski, Billy Mackenzie, and a tribute to Gene Krupa; all three of whom had died by the time of the album's release. Its title is a reference to the 1973 film Electra Glide in Blue.

In popular culture
"Stealth Mass in F#m" was played several times on BBC Radio 1 on 31 August 1997, when their regular schedule was suspended due to the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

The title track was featured on the soundtrack to the 1998 film Homegrown, and in episode 1 of Blue Jam.

Track listing
Dialogue: Charles Bukowski (Noko, Trevor Gray, Howard Gray, Dr. John Creaux) Vocals: Billy Mackenzie (Noko, Billy MacKenzie)
 * 1) "Stealth Overture" – 1:00 (Trevor Gray, Elizabeth Gray, Noko)
 * 2) "Ain't Talkin' 'bout Dub" – 4:30 (Edward Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony, David Lee Roth, Noko)
 * 3) "Altamont Super-Highway Revisited" – 6:33 (Noko)
 * 4) "Electro Glide in Blue" – 8:36 (Trevor Gray, Howard Gray, Ewan MacFarlane)
 * 5) "Vanishing Point" – 7:27 (Noko)
 * 6) "Tears of the Gods" – 6:18
 * 1) "Carrera Rapida" (Theme from "Rapid Racer") – 6:48 (Noko, Trevor Gray, Howard Gray, Ian Hoxley)
 * 2) "Krupa" – 6:15 (Noko, Trevor Gray, Howard Gray)
 * 3) "White Man's Throat" – 4:54 (Noko, Howard Gray, Ian Hoxley)
 * 4) "Pain in Any Language" – 8:40
 * 1) "Stealth Mass in F#m" – 6:35 (Trevor Gray, E.Gray)
 * 2) "Raw Power" - 3:50 Not available on some releases. (Noko, Trevor Gray, Howard Gray, Ian Hoxley)

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Schizophonic (Nuno Bettencourt album)

Schizophonic is the 1997 debut solo album by the American guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, the lead guitarist in the band Extreme. Bettencourt is credited on the cover simply as "Nuno". Schizophonic is Bettencourt's first and, so far, only solo effort after the group disbanded.

Overview
In face of the then-current musical trends, Bettencourt added an alternative rock edge to his style. Bettencourt wrote with producer Anthony J. Resta, known for his work with Duran Duran around their big comeback. The album features Restas' Enoesque soundscapes on many of the songs. Bettencourt later went on to record two records leading the band Mourning Widows, one with Population 1 (mostly recorded on his own) and then another with the same touring band but with a different name: Dramagods. Schizophonic's recording started over a stretch of time during Extreme's tour for their last studio album, Waiting for the Punchline.

Bettencourt wrote most of the songs and played most of the instruments on the album, except for "You", on which vocals are shared with co-author and former bandmate Gary Cherone, drums on "Swollen Princess" and "Fine By Me" (Mike Mangini) and "Fallen Angels", and "Note in the Screen Door", "Karmalaa", and "Severed" which were written with Anthony J. Resta. The album cover featured Bettencourt dressed as a woman and with a prominent scar on his forehead.

Track listing
All songs written by Bettencourt, except where noted.
 * 1) "Gravity" – 3:45
 * 2) "Swollen Princess" – 3:12
 * 3) "Crave" – 3:45
 * 4) "What you Want" – 3:31
 * 5) "Fallen Angels" (Bettencourt, Anthony J. Resta) – 4:00
 * 6) "2 Weeks In Dizkneelande" – 3:16
 * 7) "Pursuit Of Happiness" (Bettencourt, Gary Cherone) – 3:33
 * 8) "Fine By Me" – 3:42
 * 9) "Karmalaa" (Bettencourt, Resta) – 3:26
 * 10) "Confrontation" – 3:46
 * 11) "Note on The Screen Door" (Bettencourt, Resta) – 4:13
 * 12) "I Wonder" – 4:21
 * 13) "Got To Have You" – 4:53
 * 14) "You" (Bettencourt, Cherone) – 4:25
 * 15) "Severed" – (Bettencourt, Resta) – 4:06
 * 16) "Hop The Train" (Japanese Bonus Track)
 * 17) "Garbage" (Japanese Bonus Track)

Personnel

 * Nuno Bettencourt – vocals, guitars, bass, drums
 * Gary Cherone – vocals on track 14
 * Mike Mangini - drums on tracks 2 and 8

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Breaking Daylight

Breaking Daylight is the second album by Finnish hip hop group Don Johnson Big Band. It topped the Finnish album charts and has been certified Platinum in Finland. Both singles released from the album reached top-ten on the singles chart.

Finnish singer Emma Salokoski is prominently featured on several tracks.

Track listing

 * 1) "One MC, One Delay" - 3:10
 * 2) "Penguin" - 4:27
 * 3) "Royalty" - 5:14
 * 4) "Harlem Davidson" - 4:12
 * 5) "Behind 16 Bars" - 2:52
 * 6) "Salt Water" - 3:49
 * 7) "Nightman" - 7:28
 * 8) "Northbound" - 5:16
 * 9) "Tokyo Ranger" - 4:25
 * 10) "Nutwood Cut" - 4:00
 * 11) "Two Reasons" - 3:39
 * 12) "Jah Jah Blow Job" - 4:24
 * 13) "Broken Daylight" - 7:15

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Talk:Legion of Honor (disambiguation)

Move proposal

 *  The following was transplanted from Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation pages with links

The disambig page Legion of Honor is nearly empty, with only two real options. Every, or almost every, page that links to it really wants the Légion d'honneur page, not the non-existant page about the building in France or the other one about the building in San Fransisco. Could we just redirect Legion of Honor to Légion d'honneur and add a header to the latter page about the San Francisco art museum? Stillnotelf 23:02, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Support, --Commander Keane 07:29, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Support Pureblade 02:10, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Done. I have redirected Legion of Honor to Légion d'honneur.--Commander Keane 02:42, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

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The word " Honour" FITS best BECAUSE IT IS A TRANSLATION FROM THE FRENCH. Besides there is allready a " Legion of Honor", an order in the Phillipines.

Robert Prummel 00:51, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:R. D. Laing

Laing's Alleged Renunciation
"Laing regarded schizophrenia as a theory not a fact, but later acknowledged his views on schizophrenia were wrong."

Laing modified his views, but he did not "acknowledge that they were wrong"--at least, the two cited sources for this observation do not support that conclusion. The cited book's references to Laing are explicitly hostile and unbalanced, and the book merely states, parenthetically, simplistically, and without support, that "Laing ultimately discarded his theory" (p. 122) after he had a child who developed schizophrenia. Someone needs to amend this incorrect statement in the article, or else I will. Pernoctus (talk) 18:14, 19 March 2023 (UTC)

 * @Pernoctus Agreed - he certainly softened his views later in life, but "acknowledged" and "wrong" are not the words I would choose. The book cited is a particularly poor source.
 * Also, a better description of his view on schizophrenia in the lead is needed - currently says "theory not a fact" which is quite uninformative but also objectively correct insofar as schizophrenia is a syndrome / descriptive label, and not a natural kind. Feline negativity (talk) 09:39, 24 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Agreed. He was critical of his own approaches but hardly recanted or denounced his key discoveries, especially those detailed in The Divided Self. The sources cited are weak. The New York Times one seems to center around his comments about “having to deal with disruptive people”. This is a widely accepted principle in the criminal justice system, and antisocial behaviour. It’s why we have a police force and noise abatement laws. It’s hardly him saying “I got it wrong”. If he explicitly states somewhere that he “got it wrong” I’d be interested to see the source. Michael Z Freeman (talk) 17:24, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Overall edit needed
This article needs an overall edit to unify it and bring out a coherent story of what Laing’s main claims to distinction are. Was he mainly a pop-psychology phenomenon, or did he have serious influence on the field? Did he go through different phases, or was he known only for “The Divided Self”? Did he achieve any successes in treatment, or was he mainly a writer? Antiquated (talk) 06:07, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

 * I've just read a couple of useful sources on Laing's reputation, though one of these is from 2004 and one from 1998, and this might be a very long time ago in terms of psychiatric trends.
 * His entry in the Oxford DNB sums him up: "Despite Laing's intelligence, charm, energy, and many talents... and his remarkable gift for rapport with the mentally disturbed, he was a flawed character. His ideas on schizophrenia were more derivative than his way of expressing them revealed; he maintained that his rise to fame had been more of a solitary struggle than in fact it was; and his account of his childhood in Wisdom, Madness and Folly is not strictly truthful." This is by Charles Rycroft, who worked with him, and probably sums up his rep among a body of professionals.
 * An open-access article in Psychiatric Bulletin says roughly that there are two takes on him: one position, mainly held by psychiatrists, is that "he enjoyed a fashionable notoriety in the 1960s when peddling anti-establishment opinions, but that his views on schizophrenia were dangerous nonsense"; the other, mainly held by non-psychiatrists, is that "Laing championed the cause of the mentally ill... Laing brought humanity to the subject. He demonstrated that the mad were people too, and that their utterances could be understood." The author takes a balanced middle view.
 * As for different phases of his career, Peter Sedgwick breaks it down into two parts: "the radical trip" (roughly, he becomes a counter-cultural guru); "the return to psychiatry" (he retreats from some of his earlier positions and becomes more conservative). No doubt it was more complicated than a simple bipartite thing, but that might not be a bad place to start?

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Überzone

Timothy Wiles, known by the stage name Überzone, is an electronic musician originally from Anaheim, California. He has also been known as Q, named after the popular character in the James Bond series.

Wiles is well known for concocting interesting gizmos and gadgets. He made a hobby out of collecting electronic music gear since his early teen years, which inspired his nickname. He has been an avid producer on the electronic music and breakbeat scenes since the mid-1990s, playing at early raves. His first show as Überzone was for DJ Sharpe at the Edge in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Wiles has produced many popular 12-inch singles which have appeared on many DJ compilation albums, including Botz, his first EP released on indie dance label City of Angels in 1995, and the Space Kadet EP the following year in 1996 (containing "Botz", "Moondusted", "The Brain" and others). In 1999, he collaborated with Afrika Bambaataa from Soul Sonic Force on the electro breaks driven anthem "2 Kool 4 Skool". He has also toured extensively with such acts as The Crystal Method. His debut album Faith in the Future was released on Astralwerks in 2001. Two mix CDs followed, 2002's The Digital Mix (Moonshine) and 2004's Uberzone Y4K (Distinctive Breaks). Wiles' latest album, Ideology, was released on Nitrus/Equation Records on July 31, 2007. He has also been featured in the documentary Better Living Through Circuitry.

Überzone's album Ideology was met with good reviews; in the September 2007 issue of DJ Magazine, it was rated 4½ stars. BijouBreaks.com said in July 2007: "Clearly pushing the boundaries and quality of electronic music to a whole new level. In a world where much EDM-oriented music is converging to a point where many producers are trying to achieve a similar sound or style, Uberzone has managed to shine and stand apart from the rest, while managing to keep things both superbly fun and definitely danceable."

Instrument list

 * Access Virus
 * Korg Prophecy
 * Moog Minimoog
 * Moog Prodigy
 * Roland CR-78
 * Roland JP-8000
 * Roland Juno 106
 * Roland Jupiter 6
 * Roland Jupiter 8
 * Roland JX-8P
 * Roland MKS-50
 * Roland MKS-70
 * Roland SH-101
 * Roland TB-303
 * Roland TR-606
 * Roland TR-808
 * Roland TR-909
 * Roland VP-330
 * Sequential Pro-One
 * Sequential Six-Track
 * Waldorf Q

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Amalie

Amalie may refer to:

People

 * Amalie (given name), a female given name, derived from Amalia

Places

 * Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands, capital of the territory
 * Amalie Arena, a hockey stadium in Tampa, Florida

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