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Triệu dynasty

The Triệu dynasty or Zhao dynasty (Nhà Triệu; 茹趙) ruled the kingdom of Nanyue, which consisted of parts of southern China as well as northern Vietnam. Its capital was Panyu, in modern Guangzhou. The founder of the dynasty, Zhao Tuo (Triệu Đà), was a Chinese general from Hebei and originally served as a military governor under the Qin dynasty. He asserted the state's independence in 207 BC as the Qin dynasty was collapsing. The ruling elite included both native Yue and immigrant Han peoples. Zhao Tuo conquered the Vietnamese state of Âu Lạc and led a coalition of Yuè states in a war against the Han dynasty, which had been expanding southward. Subsequent rulers were less successful in asserting their independence and the Han dynasty finally conquered the kingdom in 111 BC.

Historiography
The scholar Huang Zuo produced the first detailed published history of Nanyue in the fifteenth century. Chinese historians have generally denounced Nanyue as separatists from the Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD), but have also praised them as a civilizing force. A particularly strident denunciation was produced by poet Qu Dajun in 1696. Qu praised Qin Shi Huang as a model of how to uphold the purity of Chinese culture, and compared Zhao Tuo unfavorably to the emperor. A more positive view of Nanyue multiculturalism was presented by Liang Tingnan in Nányuè Wŭ Zhǔ Zhuàn (南越五主傳; "Biographies of the Five Lords of Nanyue") in 1833. Cantonese refer to themselves as Yuht, the Cantonese pronunciation of Yuè/Việt. In modern times, the character (yuè) refers to Cantonese while  (yuè) refers to Vietnamese. But historically, these two characters were interchangeable.

Meanwhile, Vietnamese historians have struggled with the issue of whether to regard the Triệu dynasty heroically as founders of Vietnam, or to denounce them as foreign invaders. For centuries afterward, Zhao Tuo was a folk hero among the Viets, and was remembered for standing up to the Han Empire. After Lý Bí drove the Chinese out of northern Vietnam, he proclaimed himself "Emperor of Nam Việt" (Nam Việt đế; 南越帝) in 544, thus identifying his state as a revival of the Nanyue, despite obvious differences in terms of location and ethnic makeup. In the thirteenth century, Lê Văn Hưu wrote a history of Vietnam that used the Triệu dynasty as its starting point, with Zhao Tuo receiving glowing praise as Vietnam's first emperor. In the 18th century, Ngô Thì Sĩ reevaluated Zhao Tuo as a foreign invader. Under the Nguyễn dynasty, Zhao Tuo continued to receive high praise, although it was acknowledged that the original Nanyue was not in fact a Vietnamese state. The current government of Vietnam portrays Zhao Tuo negatively as a foreign invader who vanquished Vietnam's heroic King An Dương despite there being a campaign to reconsider the role of Zhao Tuo due to rising tensions between Vietnam and China. Modern Vietnamese are descended from the ancient Yue of northern Vietnam and western Guangdong, according to Peter Bellwood.

Zhao Tuo
Zhao Tuo (r. 204–136 BC), also called Triệu Đà, the founder of the dynasty, was an ethnic Chinese born in the State of Zhao, now Hebei province. He became military governor of Nanhai (now Guangdong) upon the death of Governor Ren Xiao in 208 BC, just as the Qin dynasty was collapsing. The Qin governor of Canton advised Zhao to found his own independent kingdom since the area was remote and there were many Chinese settlers in the area. He asserted Nanhai's independence declared himself the king of Nam Việt in 204 BC, established in the area of Lingnan, the modern provinces of comprises Guangdong, Guangxi, south Hunan, south Jiangxi and other nearby areas. He ruled Nanyue and committed acts of defiance against Emperor Gaozu of Han and he severed all ties with the Han dynasty, killed many Han employees appointed by the central government and favored local customs of the Yue people. Being a talented general and cunning diplomat, he sought a peaceful relationship with both the Qin dynasty and the succeeding Han dynasty.

In 196 BC, the Emperor Gaozu of Han sent the scholar Lu Jia to the court of Zhao Tuo. On this occasion, Zhao Tuo squatted and wore his hair in a bun, in the Yuè manner. "You are a Chinese and your forefathers and kin lie buried in Zhending in the land of Zhao", Lu told the king. "Yet now you turn against that nature which heaven has given you at birth, cast aside the dress of your native land and, with this tiny, far-off land of Yue, think to set yourself up as a rival to the Son of Heaven and an enemy state....It is proper under such circumstances that you should advance as far as the suburbs to greet me and bow to the north and refer to yourself as a 'subject'." After Lu threatened a Han military attack on Nanyue, Zhao Tuo stood up and apologized. Lu stayed at Panyu for several months and Zhao Tuo delighted in his company. "There is no one in all Yue worth talking to", said the king, "Now that you have come, everyday I hear something I have never heard before!" Lu recognized Zhao Tuo as "King of Yue". An agreement was reached that allowed legal trade between the Han dynasty and Nanyue, as the people of Nanyue were anxious to purchase iron vessels from the Han dynasty. When Lu returned to Chang'an, the Emperor Gaozu of Han was much pleased by this result.

Lü Zhi, the Han empress dowager, banned trade with Nanyue in 185 BC. "Emperor Gaozu set me up as a feudal lord and sent his envoy giving me permission to carry on trade," said Zhao Tuo. "But now Empress Lü...[is] treating me like one of the barbarians and breaking off our trade in iron vessels and goods." Zhao Tuo responded by declaring himself an emperor and by attacking some border towns. His imperial status was recognized by the Minyue, Western Ou (Âu Việt), and the Luolou. The army sent against Nanyue by Empress Lü was ravaged by a cholera epidemic. When Zhao Tuo was reconciled with the Han Empire in 180 BC, he sent a message to the Emperor Wu of Han in which he described himself as, "Your aged subject Tuo, a barbarian chief". Zhao Tuo agreed to recognize the Han ruler as the only emperor.

Peace meant that Nanyue lost its imperial authority over the other Yue states. Its earlier empire had not been based on supremacy, but was instead a framework for a wartime military alliance opposed to the Han. The army Zhao Tuo had created to oppose the Han was now available to deploy against the Âu Lạc kingdom in modern-day northern Vietnam. This kingdom was conquered in 179–180 BC. Zhao Tuo divided his kingdom into two regions: Cửu Chân and Giao Chỉ. Giao Chỉ now encompasses most of northern Vietnam. He allowed each region to have representatives to the central government, thus his administration was quite relaxed and had a feeling of being decentralized. However, he remained in control. By the time Zhao Tuo died in 136 BC, he had ruled for more than 70 years and outlived his sons.

In modern Vietnam, Zhao Tuo is best remembered as a character in the "Legend of the Magic Crossbow". According to this legend, Zhao Tuo's son Trong Thủy married Mỵ Châu, the daughter of King An Dương of Âu Lạc, and used her love to steal the secret of An Dương's magic crossbow.

Zhao Mo
Zhao Tuo died in 136 BC and was succeeded by his grandson Zhao Mo (Triệu Mạt). He was 71 years old at the time of ascending to the throne. In 135 BC, the Minyue attacked and Zhao Mo requested the assistance of the Han Empire. The Emperor Wu of Han offered to "help" by sending his army, ostensibly to suppress the assist Nanyue, but with an eye of seizing the country should an occasion arise. Crown Prince Zhao Yingqi was sent to live and study in the Han court. Zhao Mo took this as a gesture of goodwill by the Emperor Wu of Han, whom he viewed as a brother, to strengthen the relationship between Han and Nanyue. Zhao Mo died in 124 BC. His mausoleum was found in Guangzhou in 1983.

Zhao Yingqi
Zhao Yingqi (, Triệu Anh Tề, r. 124–112 BC) was the crown prince when his father, Zhao Mo, died. Zhao Yingqi's appointment to kingship was a conciliatory measure to the Han emperor in Chang'an as a sign of respect. This crowned prince, Zhao Yingqi, lived most of his life in the Han dynasty where he had fathered a son by an ethnic Chinese woman surnamed Jiu ; In one popular theory, she was Emperor Wu's own daughter. He named the son Zhao Xing. Only when his father, Zhao Mo, died did Zhao Yingqi receive permission to go home for his father's funeral. This happened in 124 BC. Zhao Yingqi then ascended the throne of Nanyue. Not much is known about Zhao Yingqi's reign, probably because it is a short one and he was subservient to the Han emperor. His son, Zhao Xing, was only about 6 years old when he died. Owing to Zhao Xing's extreme youth, his mother Lady Jiu, became the Empress Dowager.

Zhao Yingqi's death precipitated the events that would lead to the seizure and domination of Nanyue by the Han forces.

Zhao Xing
Zhao Xing (r. 113–112 BC), also called Triệu Hưng, was just 6 years old when he ascended the throne. Soon thereafter, Emperor Wu of Han summoned him and his mother, Lady Jiu, to an audience to pay homage in the Han court. The Han dynasty held Lady Jiu and Zhao Xing under the pretext that the young king needed their protection. By acquiescing to this gesture, both the empress dowager and the young emperor gave the public the impression that they were just puppets in the hands of the Han court.

With Zhao Xing in their hands and the queen dowager beheaded, the Han dynasty prepared their army for an invasion. In 112 BC, the emperor sent two of his commanders, Lu Bode and Yang Pu (Western Han), along with 5,000 of his best soldiers to invade Nanyue.

Zhao Jiande
Nanyue's senior prime minister, Quan Thai-pho, Lü Jia sent out the army to meet the Han at the border to repel the invasion. The army was strong, but smaller in number. Meanwhile, inside the country, the word has spread that Zhao Xing was in the hand of the Han dynasty. The Nanyue feared that if they resist, their king would be harmed by the Han dynasty. The country was now in a state of chaos. When the Han kept sending more and more reinforcements for his army at the border, the Nanyue's army was unable to hold their position. Lü Jia saw that Nanyue must have a new king in order to calm its people and to stir up Nanyue patriotism to fight. Zhao Jiande (also called Triệu Kiến Đức), Zhao Yingqi's eldest son from one of his concubines, took the burden of leading his people to war.

Decline of the dynasty
Emperor Wu of Han dispatched soldiers against Nanyue. With its king being too young and inexperienced and leading an untrained, however brave army, Nanyue was only able to keep their stronghold for a while. Han crushed the Nanyue army along with Lü Jia and his King (Zhao Jiande), both resisted until the end. Based on many temples of Lü Jia, his wives and soldiers scattering in Red River Delta of modern-day northern Vietnam, the war might last until 98 BC.

After the fall of Panyu, Tây Vu Vương (the captain of Tây Vu area of which the center is Cổ Loa) revolted against the First Chinese domination from Western Han dynasty. He was killed by his assistant Hoàng Đồng (黄同).

Afterwards, Nanyue territory was divided into nine districts and incorporated into the Han dynasty as the prefecture of Jiaozhi (Giao Chỉ). Han dynasty would dominate Jiaozhi until the revolt of the Trưng Sisters, who led a revolt in AD 40.

Nanyue culture
There was a fusion of the Han and Yue cultures in significant ways, as shown by the artifacts unearthed by archaeologists from the tomb of Nanyue in Guangzhou. The Nanyue tomb in Guangzhou is extremely rich. There are quite a number of bronzes that show cultural influences from the Han, Chu, Yue and Ordos regions.

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List of programs broadcast by Univision

This is a list of television programs currently broadcast (in first-run or reruns), scheduled to be broadcast or formerly broadcast on Univision, a Spanish-language American broadcast television network.

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Template talk:AFV

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Using this template
Try to be specific about the exact vehicle model or version, because specs can vary greatly between similar vehicles. Use a photograph of the same model if possible; if not then label both the table and photo.

Leave an item blank for missing data, or enter, "–" for non-applicable fields, or "[secret]" for secret information.

Caption is optional; omit it if there isn't something interesting to say about the photo, but always put something into the image's description.

Enter all figures in metric with abbreviated units, eg, "4.17 m". When the original figures were in non-metric units (eg, U.S. and older British AFVs) also enter these in parentheses, eg, "4.17 m (13 ft 8 in)". Observe significant digits.

 * crew—How many personnel. If it's not obvious, you can write something like "3 (commander, driver, and radio operator)".  Personnel carriers can use a notation like "2 (+6 passengers)".
 * length—In metres (feet). Use hull length if available, otherwise label as "(including gun)".
 * width—In metres (feet).
 * height—In metres (feet). If possible, use height over the hull roof, turret roof, or commander's cupola, rather than the clearance including a machine gun or other removable equipment.
 * weight—in metric tonnes (US short tons, 0.907 tonnes, or UK long tons, 1.016 tonnes). If possible, use loaded weight or "combat weight", rather than empty factory weight.  Sometimes this can be inferred from NATO "bridge classification" markers; round yellow labels on the front of an AFV bearing its maximum weight in tonnes.
 * armour—Thickness, in millimetres (inches). For modern tanks, usually enter "[secret]".
 * primary—main armament, usually calibre, type, and model (e.g., "7.62mm rifled gun F-34"). If an AFV only has a machine gun, that is its primary armament.  If an AFV is unarmed, enter a dash ("–").
 * secondary—secondary armament.
 * engine—gasoline or diesel, type, model.
 * engine_power—Horsepower (0.746 kW), Kilowatts (1.341 hp). Horsepower is more common, so we use it first (metric horsepower is virtually identical to hp).  If available, enter bhp, hp SAE, or other indication of how power was measured.
 * suspension—common types include leaf-spring, Horstmann suspension, Christie, and torsion-bar. See Suspension (vehicle).
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 * engine_power= hp ( kW)
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Example: M1A1 Abrams
Example code for the sample template at the top of this page:

About this template
This is based on Template:Tank. Because the way data is entered (with units, instead of having hard-coded units in the template), I've started separate development instead of simply updating that template. Thus, articles can have the new template added one at a time, instead of having to be updated all at once.

Changes from Template:Tank:

 * Removed the hard-coded units from length, width, height, weight, speed_road, range, armour (e.g., for the M1A1 Abrams, metres and km/h are derived from feet and miles/h).
 * Deleted speed_off, which is arbitrary. Replaced hp and kW with engine_power, so they can be typed free-form (e.g., Abrams kW is derived from hp).
 * Added power-to-weight ratio
 * Re-ordered contents:
 * 1) General characteristics
 * 2) crew
 * 3) length
 * 4) width
 * 5) height
 * 6) weight
 * 7) Armour and armament
 * 8) armour
 * 9) main armament
 * 10) secondary armament
 * 11) mobility
 * 12) power plant
 * 13) suspension
 * 14) road speed
 * 15) power-to-weight ratio
 * 16) range

Discussion
What do you think? —Michael Z. 2005-10-12 07:11 Z

 * Ockham's razor suggests that we should rather try to correct the good ol' Template:Tank. So, I will leave my comments there. Halibutt 08:09, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I'd like to do that, but the hard-coded units would require editing the content of every single instance of the template when it changes. I was planning to do this, but when I considered the task practically, I decided to create a new template instead.  I purposely built this one to be an evolutionary step from 'tank.  —Michael Z. 2005-10-12 08:51 Z

 * I go with Halibutt. Gradual evolution for the tank template. If you want to have a general AFV template then it also has to account for IFVs APCs and wheeled vehicles adequately. I would also suggest you put breaks into the info box between sections - to split dimensions from the fighting capability (armour and arms) and then from the mobility. GraemeLeggett 08:22, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I haven't given much thought to IFVs or wheeled vehicles, but I think this should work fine. Can you think of any special requirements?

 * I would like to split the sections, but I haven't had a chance to work out the graphic details. Have to keep it simple.  I'll see if I can do some work in that direction on the weekend.  —Michael Z. 2005-10-12 08:51 Z

 * done, not difficult as you'll see - i just reused the same lines of code as for the Title/general characteristics. GraemeLeggett 09:05, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Looks good; I was thinking of something much too complicated. I've meddled with your changes, of course.  —Michael Z. 2005-10-13 14:58 Z

did you know there was a Template:Infobox Battle Tank, it only linked to the Arjun so I've swopped it for tank (for the moment?)GraemeLeggett

 * Hadn't seen that one. —Michael Z. 2005-10-13 14:58 Z

For other AFVs
Is the selection of fields in this template generic enough to work for wheeled AFVs, APCs, engineering vehicles or ARVs, etc?

I suppose we would get more fields containing "–" or "none", "crew: 2 (+8 passengers)", "suspension: wheeled". Can anyone foresee any problems?

It may be useful to add a field like "special equipment" or "notes", for miscellaneous additions. —Michael Z. 2005-10-13 15:03 Z

Open questions
Last call for comments.

This template has become stable, and I'd like to move along with implementing it. Here's a list of unresolved questions from discussion here, at Talk:Tank, and Template talk:Tank:

 * 1) Whether to include ground pressure, which is difficult to determine and variable.  I'll defer to Halibutt and remove it.
 * 2) Whether to leave out off-road speed, which is not determined by any known method, and probably not comparable between vehicles.  I haven't found any evidence that this is a meaningful figure, and would rather omit it.
 * 3) Whether to alter the existing template:tank instead of replacing it.  Hard-coded units are an impediment; I'd rather replace templates one at a time than have to change all of their contents in one go (~150 occurrences).
 * 4) Will this work for all types of AFVs (wheeled, support, etc.)?  I think so.
 * 5) Whether metric units are first, or source units first and derived units second (eg, feet vs. metres).  The former is good for consistency, but how do we indicate source/derived units?  It would work if we only show non-metric units when those are the source; can U.S. readers live without feet and inches in all other cases?

Please make sure to look over the proposed documentation, above. Choosing and entering data consistently is important too. —Michael Z. 2005-11-9 21:35 Z

Using placement (That is, order of appearance) to indicate source values as opposed to converted values creates a long-term usability nightmare. Pick one side for the metric units and one side for the other units (FSS, imperial, US) and stick to it. Use some other method to inddicate if the value is original info or a conversion. Right now the metric units are sometimes on the left, sometimes on the right. --AlainV 04:28, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Okay, how does this sound?
 * Metric on the left
 * Source units naked
 * derived units in parentheses
 * So the M1 could include:

length     (7.9 m) 26 ft    width       (3.7 m) 12 ft    height      (2.4 m) 8 ft    weight      63.0 tonnes (69.5 short tons) engine     (1100 kW) 1500 hp    road speed  (72 km/h) 45 mph
 * Or just always go metric/imperial, and forget about indicating source units?
 * —Michael Z. 2005-11-10 06:57 Z

 * Forget indicating source units, the degree of precision isn't relevant since a tank could be a few inches shorter if you left off a track guard, or a few kilos heavier with a minor equipment change. Apart form that the current template looks very reasonable. Though engine_hp ought to be engine_power.
 * Might I suggest that the best conversion scheme is to add the new variables to the existing articles first and then merely change tank to AFV in the first line of the template declaration. The template ignores variables it doesn't recognise. GraemeLeggett 09:28, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd prefer dimensions etc. to be stated like this:
 * length: 7.9 m (26 ft)
 * The colon is optional, but I think it looks better. As the metric system is the only internationally accepted system of units, it looks odd to have the metric values in parens, especially when they are on the left. As mentioned before, none of these values is likely to be "exact" so there is no real reason not to use metric units. This of course doesn't apply to the callibre of the turret / guns / etc.
 * My take on points mentioned before:
 * ground pressure
 * Depends on the softness of the ground. Omit.
 * off-road speed
 * Depends on the kind of off-road. Omit.
 * alter the existing template:tank
 * I'd say change stuff at your leisure. No one expects you to perform miracles.
 * Will this work for all types of AFVs
 * First impression: yes.
 * metric units/source units
 * I don't think source units are relevant, but I'd opt for inluding them between parens if they're not metric.
 * A few minor points: A line break between the picture and the caption would be nice. There isn't enough room for the Crew:

Crew     4 (commander,          driver,           gunner,           loader) Length   (...)
 * Consider:

Crew     4 commander, driver, gunner, loader Length   (...)
 * Apart from that I like how it looks - thumbs up! Shinobu 11:27, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks Graeme, Shinobu.

 * Graeme, the problem with replacing the existing template is that that one has units hard-coded ("t", "m", "km", etc), while this one requires them to be entered with the values, for flexibility. To swap them, one has to manually type the units into each article, resulting in either numbers with no units before it's done, or redundant units being visible until all ~150 articles are updated.  I still think it's best to just replace it in articles one at a time (but I'll give this a bit more thought).  I'm happy to get on with the gradual change-over, but I can't promise to do them all myself real soon.

 * Shinobu, it sounds like your text is much bigger than mine. What browser and Wikipedia skin are you using?  Have you changed your browser's default font size setting?  Here's a screen shot in Safari/Mac.  I may have to alter the template code to make it display consistently.  Here's a screen shot of its appearance in my browser (Safari/Mac); does your display differ a great deal?.  —Michael Z. 2005-11-10 17:20 Z

 * PS: I'll implement the suggestions in the next day or two. —MZ

Large font-size to window-size ratio
I've decided to put this in a new section since the previous sections is becoming a bit too long.

Yes the problem is that I'm using a relatively large font-size compared to my window-width. In the old days this was never a problem but today web-pages display all kinds of navigation bars etc that munch screen real estate. However, don't get the impression that my font-size is set excessively large - for most Wikipedia pages it's ideal (the added smoothness speads up reading or allows me to sit back a bit while reading) only sometimes I run into infobox trouble. My bad. Sometimes the infobox is too small compared to what's supposed to go inside (specifying the size in ems usually solves that problem), but once I met an infobox so large that to text on the left

looked

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like

this.

In this case however, there is a lot of blank space to left of the crew members, which is why I think a solution exists. And of course I long for the times when you could properly use the entire window width. Of course in reality text was cramped back then as well because of the small monitors, but still... Shinobu 01:59, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I could specify width in ems for the infobox, but not for the image, so it would be difficult or impossible to get the nice clean borderless look we have now. What if text size was specified in pixels; would it stay a fixed size in your browser then?  I know, letting it resize is more accessible, and that's the whole point of your resizing the text.

 * Getting the text to wrap the way you describe can't be done with a two-column table like this, and it would visually break up the implied line which makes it so readable without more cluttery lines. It could be done using the   CSS property, but it's not supported by MSIE/Windows.

 * I'll give this some thought. —Michael Z. 2005-11-11 03:38 Z

Test minor layout change
I know that Wiki has a few drawbacks in terms of image sizing; that can't be helped then. The  and the colspan=2 work fine. Shinobu 19:01, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Unfortunately it doesn't look good now that the word Commander starts before the end of the word "crew" and the rest of the subjects. GraemeLeggett 20:11, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Also, the new line-break before the image caption means that when there is no image or caption, the title has a big solid green space over it. Did you put that in because your info-box is showing up wider than the image, so the caption appears to the right?  —Michael Z. 2005-11-11 22:32 Z

Hm. I guess the fist is a question of taste; leave it as it is then, or do something fancy with a lot of col- and rowspans. The second is true: the infobox shows up wider than the image. If a  is not okay, let's try something else: a paragraph. That should solve the problem. I have also removed the imperial units to get a feeling for how that looks in comparison with leaving them in. Another note: Power/weight: are these metric tonnes? By the way power/weight has the dimension of acceleration: [Power/weight] = W / kg = kg m / s / s / kg = m / s / s = [a]. Come to think of it this isn't illogical. Shinobu 11:51, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

 * The paragraph element works fine in my browser (I tested it without caption or without image and caption); I guess an empty <p> is all margins, so it collapses with the elements above and below. [Update: tested in Firefox/Mac, Opera/Mac and MSIE/Win; updated the template with a paragraph tag around the caption. —Michael Z. 2005-11-12 17:24 Z ]

 * "Tonne" is always a metric ton. I guess power/weight relates to acceleration, but horsepower is measured at a particular level of engine revs, so I think the vehicle would only achieve this acceleration at a particular point on the power curve.  My knowledge of this is minimal, and I have no idea if a gas turbine outputs power the same way as an internal combustion engine.  —Michael Z. 2005-11-12 16:42 Z

Units for engine power, power-to-weight ratio
I've updated the template according to our talk. I think everything's covered, except:
 * 1) No change in the layout for "crew" yet.  I haven't thought of a good way to satisfy Shinobu's needs.
 * 2) I've changed it to say leave unknown data blank, instead of entering a "?", which clutters the table without adding useful information.
 * 3) Horsepower is still the primary unit, kW secondary (also hp/t, instead of kW/t).  While all other units are now metric, with imperial/US optional secondary, horsepower seems to be much more commonly used in English-language sources.  It's easy to convert horsepower to kW, and many sources listing hp have probably converted it from kW.  Should we stay 100% metric and list kW first, or is hp so ingrained that readers have an intuitive understanding of it?  Likewise hp/t (20 hp/t = 14.9 kW/t).

Should we list kW and kW/t, or hp and hp/t first? —Michael Z. 2005-11-13 06:36 Z

The use of hp is ingrained in Canada despite metrification because we still read and listen to the US media and all the cars we drive are not fully, exclusively metrificated (metrified?) having, among other things, KM indications written in large numbers and Miles in smaller numbers (giving us "bicultural" vehicles in a weird meaning of the term) but in the rest of the world outside the US and the non-metrificated parts of the former British Empire hp is meaningless. That's why it's so important to keep the metric units clearly to one side, and the non-metric units clearly to another side. Putting hp in just like that means visualy jumping to another system, which might be known a bit or unknown. --AlainV 13:06, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

 * (some cars' speedometers now indicate only km/h in Canada.)

 * But if you read Horsepower, it sounds like many countries have traditionally used horsepower, and still do (if not officially)—there's Watt's traditional horsepower (hp), and the very similar (non-SI) metric horsepower, called by various names (=0.986 hp). My UK AFV books all quote only horsepower, although none of them is very new.  A quick browse through the interwiki links for T-34 shows that hp (cv, PS, pk, ĉp, л.с., коња, 馬力) is used more often than kW.  —Michael Z. 2005-11-13 15:59 Z

 * T-34: V12-Dieselmotor mit 500 PS
 * T-34: Motorpovo:	373 kW (500 ĉp) dizela
 * T-34: Moteur	V12 diesel V2-34 de 500cv
 * T-34: מנוע:	500 כוחות סוס על בסיס דיזל
 * T-34: 出力:	500馬力
 * Kereta kebal T-34: Janakuasa: 373 kW (500 hp) Disel
 * T-34: Vermogen - 500 pk
 * T-34: Motor:	Diesel 500 hp, (373 kW)
 * Т-34: Мощность двигателя, л.с.	500
 * Т-34: Мотор	Diesel model V-2 500 коња (373 kW)

 * After some thought, here's my take on it:
 * To most readers, neither hp nor kW is likely to have much intuitive meaning; it's simply a way to compare AFVs. If this was all that mattered, I would list the SI units first (kW).
 * To a minority of car buffs, engineers, and AFV enthusiasts, in the English-speaking world and in at least some other countries, it seems to me that hp is still the most understandable unit (I know without checking that 400 hp is a hot car, and the quickest tanks approach 30 hp/t). This include traditional English hp, and the practically equivalent non-SI "metric" horsepower (1% difference).
 * Both of these statements also apply to hp/t and kW/t for power-to-weight ratio, except that even fewer readers will have encountered them.
 * Since it would help some readers, and not matter to all the others, I suggest sticking with hp (kW), and only hp/tonne (I've never seen kW/t quoted anywhere). If someone wants kW/t, I won't argue against adding it.  What do you think?  —Michael Z. 2005-11-14 07:10 Z

My concern here is with being able to spot it easily. That is spot easily, visually that "now we're in metric" and "now we're not". Which means that if one column (left or right, you pick) is metric it stay metric from top to bottom and same thing with the non-metric column.--AlainV 00:26, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree that consistency is a good thing. But with the units right next to each number, I don't think there's any problem.  I haven't heard any complaints about this aspect of the current template:tank.  —Michael Z. 2005-11-15 02:24 Z

Oomph
@acceleration: there also the deceleration due to air resistance and other forms of friction, so it wouldn't be an accurate figure for the actual acceleration the vehicle can achieve in any case. I mean, you can have a 1100 kW engine, but if your tank is shaped like an inverse parachute, you're going nowhere. Shinobu 00:08, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

 * the power weight ratio is a short hand for the amount of oomph the vehicle has. A higher ratio implies a faster, more mobile vehicle (within the limits of the design). GraemeLeggett 09:32, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

I know that much, thank you very much. *coughTopGearcough* That's also why it makes sense it has dimension of acceleration. Still it doesn't equate with any specific acceleration, for the reasons stated above. Shinobu 10:04, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

Finalized, for now
I've decided to live with these two issues:

 * Very large fonts cause text in the crew field to wrap awkwardly—this situation is rare, and although probably annoying, it is not a killer.
 * Horsepower occurs before kW. This is contrary to the metric-first policy of other table rows, but it will remain consistent.  Metric hp is almost identical to Imperial hp anyway.

This weekend, I'll have a last look over the documentation and start adding this template to articles. —Michael Z. 2005-11-25 17:30 Z

Oh, I thought this had been finalized days ago. If I'd known I would have mentioned that the day before yesterday I was flipping through one of my reference books on tanks and saw bhp (brake horsepower) as an indicator for several UK vehicles. I then remembered that this way of counting engine output had been popular in the UK and Commonwealth countries for a long time. Still is in recent books, like the one by David Miller that I had in my hands: Tanks of the world, from WW I to the present (2000). --AlainV 00:42, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Hm; interesting point. This is another issue; not which units to use for power, but how power is measured (read horsepower for details).  I hadn't encountered AFV listings before which indicated the way horsepower is measured, so I didn't bring it up.  It appears to me that most sources simply list "hp" without qualification.  In cases where the information is available, I think we should list the more specific bhp, hp SAE, or whatever—another good reason to remove hard-coded units from the template.  Your thoughts?  —Michael Z. 2005-11-26 17:02 Z

Template in use
This template is now ready to use. I've added it to T-34. —Michael Z. 2005-12-1 06:34 Z

Empty infoboxes
Let's formulate a policy on placing empty or nearly-empty infoboxes on AFV pages, to help an edit-war over over PPG tankette. Examples are on ZiS-30, KhTZ-16, NI tank, ANT-IV, NKL-26, RF-8, and others.

In my opinion an infobox is a consistent structured method of presenting a body of data. We don't use empty infoboxes to encourage editors' input any more than we would put a blank table on a page to encourage someone to fill in rows of figures—it just makes the article look unfinished and unprofessional. This is especially true in the case of experimental, improvised, or short-run production AFVs, where there exists the possibility that data will never be filled in. —Michael Z. 2005-12-21 20:41 Z

 * I placed infoboxes and filled what I can or have time to fill. If the data will not be filled, still there is some data in the boxes. So such lines without data can be filled with words such as "unknown", "?", "-" etc. In MOST articles about AVFs there are unfilled lines, not only of my creation. --Nixer 21:58, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

 * That's true, and thanks for starting all of those articles—perhaps we should wait a while and see what develops. The articles are a good prompt for further work, but I think even a couple of lines of description is better than all those empty spaces or question marks.  I hate to see articles that contain more meta than data.  —Michael Z. 2005-12-21 22:38 Z

Uncommented changes
I've reverted Someguy0830's changes. Please don't make major changes without discussing first, and use the edit summary. I have no idea what the intent of the extensive changes was, but I reverted for the following reasons: —Michael Z. 2006-04-02 13:52 Z
 * Restored semantic table headings, which simplify format and contribute to table accessibility
 * Reverted unnecessary bolding of table headers: their nature is obvious by their position
 * Restored white/grey bars which help readability when table cells wrap to two or more lines
 * Restored table cell padding, so that the headers wouldn't butt up against the table border
 * Restored table width to be specified in pixels; using ems potentially adding margins around the image depending on the browser's font setting
 * Restored the suggested 250px image size to the cut-and-paste template
 * Reverted a bunch of seemingly arbitrary changes to a tested template

Changed fontSize to 92%
The "smaller" fontSize doesn't actually result in text that is smaller than the body text. I don't know if that is a browser bug, or something else, but to make the template modest again, I've changed the fontSize to 92%. I chose 92% because other small text on Wikipedia (e.g. the "From Wikipedia" line) is also 92%. Shinobu 07:05, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Sounds like a browser bug to do with not recognizing CSS relative keywords or inheritance. The smaller keyword seems to work in Safari and Firefox/Mac.

 * Most visual browsers use a default font size of 16px. "Smaller" is the next font size down by a factor 1.2 (=83.33%), so in most browsers' default display it calculates a font size of 13.33px, and rounds that to 13 (=81.25%).  I'll change this to 83%, so the display will remain unchanged in browsers which don't suffer from the bug.  —Michael Z. 2006-09-01 17:43 Z

Improvement to the template
What would you think of adding the system used by the ship template to ignore empty fields ?

Besides, we could use a number of other fields : Rama 08:45, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Fuel consumption
 * swim speed
 * ground clearance

 * This template will be replaced by template:Infobox Weapon. See T-55 for an example. —Michael Z. 2006-10-27 09:15 Z
 * I notice that the new infobox dóesn't have "striping". While perhaps nonstandard, it does make the infobox more readable. Perhaps it's an idea to standardize striping in some way? How to go about this? Shinobu 14:39, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi... my 2 cents
Hi. I think we need to add the following:

 * Type- IFV/APC/MBT/Light tank/ Whatever....
 * Country

 * Hull Length
 * Acceleration- 0-32 kmph

 * Mobility:
 * Vertical Obstacle
 * Trench
 * fording
 * Shallow
 * Deep
 * Climbing Gradient
 * Side Slope

 * Armament:
 * Length of barrel- (eg 44 cal, 52 cal- can be added inline.)
 * Elevation- (eg -9/+20)
 * Traverse rate- (30 degree/second) (for turret)
 * Rate of Fire
 * Type of rounds fired- (eg. HEAT, HESH, APFSDS, etc.)

Figures in Bold are those that I think are crucial. The others are not so needed. We could include them, but make it so that they don't necessarily need to be added, and can be left blank. Type of vehicle and Country are absolutely essential IMO.

We could also have a specifications section like on aircrafts.

Another suggestion of mine is to split this into different sections, since some parts are common for most vehicles, but others may not be, and may be different for AFVs, MBTs and APCs.

Many tank pages are not using this template. I just changed the Leopard 2 template to this one. Can we get consensus on those pages and change the template from Template:Infobox Weapon to this one, which is more relevant and apt.

Cheers. Sniperz11 14:18, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

 * This template is obsolete, and being replaced by template:Infobox Weapon. Please see WikiProject Military history and its discussions. —Michael Z. 2007-05-19 15:19 Z

The conversion is done: WikiProject Military history/Infobox conversion. Should this page be deleted or redirected or something?--Sus scrofa 18:13, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I don't think so. there are still quite a few pages that use this template. Plus, there may still be some use of this template in improving other templates. It is quite a good template all said and done, just that it doesn't serve the purpose. Sniperz11 19:14, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

 * The only pages linking to this template are project and talk pages, so it's not in use per se, but if there's reason that it should stay around then it should I guess. I'm asking because another Template:Infobox Castle was redirected to Template:Infobox Military Structure when that conversion was over.--Sus scrofa 19:19, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

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Tommy Mooney

Thomas John Mooney (born 11 August 1971) is an English former professional footballer who played mainly as a striker. He made more than 600 appearances in the Football League and Premier League – with 250 for Watford and more than 100 for Scarborough – and scored in each of the top four divisions of the English football league system.

Early career
Mooney initially began his career at Aston Villa, appearing for the youth and reserve sides over two years, but was released in 1990 by Graham Taylor without ever playing for the first team. Mooney then joined Scarborough, where he made a name for himself, scoring 40 goals in 129 first-team appearances. After three years at Scarborough, he moved to Southend United for a reported £100,000.

Watford
After just one season at Southend he arrived at Watford – initially on loan, before eventually signing for £95,000 in July 1994 as a 'makeweight' alongside midfielder Derek Payne, with Keith Dublin moving in the opposite direction.

In his early days at the club, under manager Glenn Roeder, he failed to cement a successful striking partnership with Jamie Moralee and soon found himself in the reserves or on the bench. He eventually ended up playing as part of the defensive line during the Second Division championship-winning campaign of 1997–98.

Mooney started the 1998–99 season in a defensive role, but slipped out of the side as Watford reverted to 4–4–2. Meanwhile, Watford, after a good start, had fallen out of the play-off positions as the season drew to a close. On 3 April 1999 during a home league match against Tranmere Rovers Watford manager Graham Taylor brought on Mooney as part of a triple substitution. The effect was almost immediate with Mooney whipping in a cross for Peter Kennedy to half volley home, as Watford went on to win 2–1.

Taylor picked Mooney for the following week's away fixture against Birmingham City in his favoured striker's role. He scored the first and made the second in a 2–0 win. Watford went on to reach the play-offs gaining 19 points (out of a maximum 21) from their last seven games with Mooney scoring in every game bar one. He went on to give valuable performances in both legs of the subsequent play-off semi final (against Birmingham) and the final against Bolton Wanderers at Wembley Stadium, despite not scoring in either.

Watford's inaugural Premiership season started brightly enough for Mooney, who scored the only goal in front of The Kop at Anfield to secure a memorable away win against Liverpool – his boyhood club. He scored again the following week at home to Bradford City. He was injured in a 1–0 win against Gianluca Vialli's Chelsea in mid-September. He was only able to make eight appearances as Watford were relegated.

A return to the First Division in 2000 witnessed a fully fit Mooney back as centre forward. He became the first player in nearly a decade to score twenty league goals for the club. This achievement was enough to earn Mooney his second Player of the Season award.

In May 2006 Mooney became the fourth inductee into the Watford Hall of Fame, alongside Luther Blissett, John McClelland and Tony Coton.

Birmingham and beyond
Out of contract with Watford, Mooney took up the offer of a better contract to play for Birmingham City, playing for the West Midlands club from June 2001 to July 2003 and making a total of 29 league starts. He featured heavily in the side that took Birmingham from the First Division to the FA Premier League via the playoffs in the 2001–2002 season. However Mooney played just one game in the top division before being loaned to Stoke City. At Stoke Mooney played 12 times scoring three goals one of which came against his former club Watford. Two other loans followed that season for Sheffield United and Derby County. At Sheffield United he scored once in the FA Cup, against future club Walsall.

Mooney then moved to Swindon Town for the 2003–2004 season. Mooney played a crucial part in Swindon reaching the play-offs that season, scoring 20 goals and setting up many more. Swindon lost in the play-off semi-final to Brighton & Hove Albion, with Mooney missing his kick in the penalty shootout when keeper Ben Roberts just tipped it around the post. Then in the summer of 2004, he transferred to Swindon's rivals Oxford United, having failed to agree a new contract with Swindon. He was Oxford's top scorer for the club in 2004–2005.

In the summer of 2005 Mooney signed for Wycombe Wanderers, on a two-year contract. His first season at Wycombe started superbly, scoring a volley against Carlisle United on his debut but ended in misery as he limped out of Wycombe's play-off semi final against Cheltenham, which Wycombe went on to lose. He was also captain of the side. Mooney also played in the biggest game of the latter part of his career when he played for Wycombe in the League Cup semi-final against Chelsea (both legs) including making the flick header to Jermaine Easter which resulted in a 1–1 draw in the first leg at Adams Park. Wycombe went on to lose the second leg 4–0 at Stamford Bridge

In July 2007 Mooney rejected a contract with Wycombe saying that they had not made enough changes to have a good chance of promotion the following season. He subsequently signed for newly promoted League One side Walsall.

Mooney's contract expired at the end of the 2007–08 season, and the player rejected the chance of an extension with the club. It was announced in June 2008 that Mooney had joined Segunda División B side UD Marbella. who were to be his last club before retirement.

Coaching career
As of August 2018, Mooney was working as a coach at Aston Villa.

Personal life
His son Kelsey is also a footballer.

Media
Mooney currently has various media roles with Watford, and is a matchday commentator alongside Jon Marks for the club's live match streaming platform 'Hornets Hive Live'. He also regularly appears on the Watford FC Official Club Podcast.

Career statistics
Source:

 * A. The "Other" column constitutes appearances and goals in the Anglo-Italian Cup, Football League Trophy and Football League play-offs.

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Ooredoo Kuwait

Ooredoo Kuwait, formerly known as Wataniya Telecom, is a telecommunications company in Kuwait owned by the Ooredoo group. Its operations began in December 1999 when it launched wireless services as the second operator in Kuwait. It provides mobile, broadband internet and corporate managed services.

It is the strongest performer in the local market, during the latest announcements, the revenue, EBITIDA growth and dividends per share scores the highest in comparison to the local Kuwaiti telecom market.

title: Ooredoo Kuwait


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Cecil C. Rousseau

Cecil Clyde Rousseau, Jr. (January 13, 1938 Philadelphia - April 10, 2020 Memphis) was a mathematician and author who specialized in graph theory and combinatorics. He was a professor at The University of Memphis starting in 1970 until retiring in 2008, and was involved with USAMO in many capacities, including serving as chair.

Rousseau received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1968 from Texas A&M University.

He has an Erdős number of 1, and is Erdős' 5th most common co-author, with 35 joint papers. He also frequently collaborated with Memphis faculty Ralph Faudree and Dick Schelp.

In 2012, Rousseau received the Paul Erdős Award from the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions.

To his students and colleagues, he was known affectionately as C²R.

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earlier comments
this article could do with links and or sources which could be used by others to verify it Mozzerati 22:35, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

ALP and Coalition ideology
Do people think it's more precise to classify the ALP as social democratic, rather than center-left. By the same token do people think it's more precise to classify the Coalition as neoliberal, rather than center-right. If anyone has any input into this please see the discussion at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Australian_federal_election%2C_2007#Description_of_ALP. Alans1977 22:01, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Notability & citations
The article needs to be improved comprehensively with references and citations to establish notability. In particular, significant independent coverage is needed to verify the information in the article - all of it currently appears to be original research. Australian Matt (talk) 04:45, 31 October 2010 (UTC)


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Africando

Africando is a musical project formed in 1992 to unite New York–based salsa musicians with Senegalese vocalists. Musicians from other African countries were later included under the name Africando All Stars.

Salsa has been a hugely popular style in Central and West Africa since the 1940s to 1950s, and the goal of Africando was to merge salsa rhythms from both sides of the Atlantic, mainly based on the African salsa tradition.

Africando was initiated by producer Ibrahim Sylla from Côte d'Ivoire and Malian arranger Boncana Maiga of Fania All Stars. Some of the musicians initially involved were: Ronnie Baro (of Orquesta Broadway), Pape Seck (ex member of Star Band), Nicholas Menheim (associate of Youssou N'Dour), and Medoune Diallo (formerly with Orchestre Baobab).

The first two albums were a big success in Africa and in the World Music scene. Singer Pape Seck died in 1995, and was replaced by Gnonnas Pedro from Benin (who died August 2005) and Ronnie Baró of Orquestra Broadway.

For the album Mandali (2000), well known African musicians, such as Tabu Ley Rochereau, Koffi Olomide, Salif Keita, Sekouba Bambino, Amadou Balaké and Thione Seck were invited. This new constellation led to the new name Africando All Stars. Whilst in the beginning, the songs were Latin American classics sung in wolof language or a mix of wolof and Spanish, newer songs were African popular music classics, redone with Latin rhythms and instrumentation. With both approaches, Africando has been equally successful.

For the album Martina (2003) the group name reverted to the name Africando. The singers on this tribute to mothers, sisters, wives and girlfriends include Ismaël Lô from Senegal, and Nyboma and King Kester Emeneya performing Papa Wemba's song "La Référence".

Gnonnas Pedro's last recording is the title track of Ketukuba (2006) – he died before the CD was released. The same fate befell Alfredo Rodriguez who arranged 3 tracks on the album. With the emphasis on the links between Cuba and Africa, Ketukuba includes a Latinized version of Franco's "Mario", sung by Madilu System, and Joe King singing "Nina Nina", previously made famous by the Fania All Stars.

In 1998, the group covered Aïcha, primarily recorded by Khaled.

Discography

 * Albums
 * Volume 1: Trovador (Stern's Africa STCD1045, 1993)
 * Volume 2: Tierra Tradicional (Stern's Africa STCD1054, 1994) Released in France as Sabador
 * Gombo Salsa (Stern's Africa STCD1071, 1996)
 * Baloba (Stern's Africa STCD1082, 1998)
 * Mandali (Stern's Africa STCD1092, 2000) Credited to Africando All Stars. Released in France as Betece
 * Live! (Sono CDS8907, double CD, 2001) Out of print
 * Martina (Stern's Africa STCD1096, 2003)
 * Ketukuba (Stern's Africa STCD1103, 2006)
 * Viva Africando (Stern's Music STCD1120, 2013)
 * Contributing artist
 * The Rough Guide to World Music (World Music Network RGNET1001, 1994)
 * The Rough Guide to the Music of Senegal (World Music Network RGNET 1284, 2013)

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Raymond Green

Raymond Green (1913–1949) was a pioneer in broadcasting. He was the CEO and Founder of WFLN Radio in Philadelphia and in 1946. He went on to be an announcer and manager at NBC.

Born in Torrington, Connecticut, Green was named, in 1949, to be one of the most successful entrepreneurs of the 1940s. While most radio stations had an AM station and then added an FM station, Green's Network was just the opposite. The FM station was issued their license on Tuesday, January 1, 1943. It went on the air two weeks later. Sign on was at 5 p.m. on February 22, 1943. Broadcasts in the early days were confined to evening hours and Transcription Broadcast Network was on the top three networks for three years straight.

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Noxubee River

The Noxubee River (NAHKS-uh-bee) is a tributary of the Tombigbee River, about 90.6 mi long, in east-central Mississippi and west-central Alabama in the United States. Via the Tombigbee, it is part of the watershed of the Mobile River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico.

Course
The Noxubee rises in Choctaw Lake in the Tombigbee National Forest in Choctaw County, Mississippi, and flows generally southeastwardly through Winston, Oktibbeha and Noxubee Counties in Mississippi, and Sumter County in Alabama, through the Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge and past the town of Macon, Mississippi. It joins the Tombigbee River from the west, about 2 mi (3 km) west of Gainesville, Alabama.

Name
Noxubee is a name derived from the Choctaw language meaning "to stink".

According to the Geographic Names Information System, the Noxubee River has also been known as:

 * Hachcha Osi River
 * Hatch Oose River
 * Hatcha River
 * Hatchaoose River
 * Hatche Oose River
 * Hatchoose River
 * Nooksabba River
 * Noxaby Creek
 * Noxiby River
 * Noxshubby River
 * Noxube River
 * Noxuby Creek
 * Oaknoxaby River
 * Oaknoxubee River
 * Ohanexubee River
 * Oka Noxubee
 * Oka Onoxubba River
 * Okanoxubee River
 * Okenoxubbee River
 * Okenoxubee River
 * Olamoyubee River
 * Ruisseau Nachebe Tchitou River

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You were listed on the Wikipedians/Europe page as living in or being associated with Europe. As part of the User categorisation project, these lists are being replaced with user categories. If you would like to add yourself to the category that is replacing the page, please visit Category:Wikipedians in Europe for instructions.--Rmky87 04:13, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

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Secure Flight

Secure Flight is an airline passenger pre-screening program, implemented from August 2009 by the United States Transportation Security Administration (TSA). Secure Flight matches passenger information against watch lists maintained by the federal government. The initial implementation phase of Secure Flight resulted in the complete transfer of responsibility for passenger watch list matching to TSA from aircraft operators whose flights operate within the United States. The second phase of Secure Flight will result in the transfer of responsibility for passenger watch list matching to TSA for flights into, out of, and over the United States.

Secure Flight is intended to prevent individuals on the No Fly List from boarding an aircraft, as well as to subject individuals on the Selectee List to enhanced screening to determine if they are permitted to board an aircraft.

History
The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA) of 2004 requires the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to assume from aircraft operators the function of conducting pre-flight comparisons of airline passenger information to federal government watch lists for international and domestic flights. The final report of the National Commission on the Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission Report) recommends that this watch list matching function "should be performed by TSA and it should utilize the larger set of watch lists maintained by the Federal Government" (See 9/11 Commission Report p. 393).

To fulfill this recommendation, TSA published the Secure Flight Final Rule on October 28, 2008. The Final Rule went into effect on December 29, 2008.

Benefits
Previously, individual aircraft operators conducted watch list matching using lists provided by TSA. By assuming watch list matching responsibilities from the airlines, TSA will:
 * decrease the chance for compromised watch list data by limiting its distribution
 * provide earlier identification of potential matches, allowing for expedited notification of law enforcement and threat management
 * provide a fair, equitable, and consistent matching process across all airlines
 * reduce instances of misidentified individuals
 * offer consistent application of an expedited and integrated redress process for misidentified individuals via the Department of Homeland Security's Travel Redress Inquiry Program (DHS TRIP), a method by which misidentified travelers can file an inquiry to have erroneous information corrected in DHS systems

Implementation
Secure Flight began implementation with select domestic aircraft operators at the beginning of 2009 and completed implementation for all covered domestic and international airlines in December 2010.

TSA's Office of Threat Assessment and Credentialing is the lead for the program. Contractors supporting the program have included IBM, Accenture, ESR, InfoZen, and Deloitte. Infoglide Software provided the underlying identity resolution technology.

TSA met its goal to vet 100 percent of all domestic commercial flights by early 2010 and 100 percent of all international commercial flights by the end of 2010.

Privacy
TSA has stated it will not collect or use "commercial data" to conduct Secure Flight watch list matching. It has also released a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA). The TSA policy, however, makes no mention of any limitations on what the airlines themselves, who collect the sensitive (birth date, etc.) information, may do with this.

Secure Flight has many similarities with CAPPS II and the No Fly List, and therefore raises the same validated concerns about civil liberties and due process. Specifically, civil libertarians argue that under the Secure Flight program, there are insufficient redress mechanisms for innocent citizens on watch lists. Additionally, the content and quantity of the watch lists has fallen under scrutiny.

Overflight
The Secure Flight Programme applies to non-US flights overflying the United States. TSA uses a table of airport pairs to determine if a flight is overflying the United States.

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Keith Semple (cricketer)

Keith Fitzpatrick Semple (born August 21, 1970) is a Guyanese cricketer who played for the West Indies in 1998/99. He has never had the chance to make a name for himself on the Test stage, but he was called up for One day matches during the 1998/99 season against South Africa.

Semple is a right-handed batsman and a fast pace bowler.

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1976 National League Championship Series

The 1976 National League Championship Series was a postseason series between the two division champions of the National League in the Cincinnati Reds and the Philadelphia Phillies. This was the eighth NLCS held in baseball history. For the fourth time in seven seasons, the Reds won the best-of-five series to reach the World Series. They did so in a three-game sweep, winning easily in the first two games before ending the series in their last at bat in Game 3.

Stars of the series for the Reds included batters Johnny Bench (4 for 12, HR), Dave Concepción (4 runs scored), George Foster (2 H, both home runs), Ken Griffey (5 for 13, triple), Pete Rose (6 for 14, 2 RBIs, 3 runs scored), and pitchers Don Gullett (win, 8 IP, 2 hits), Pedro Borbón ($4 1/3$ IP, 0.00 ERA), and Pat Zachry (win, 5 IP, 3 SO).

Game 1
Reds starter Don Gullett held the Phils to two hits in eight strong innings, but allowed them to score first when Dave Cash hit a leadoff double, moved to third on a groundout and scored on Mike Schmidt's sacrifice fly. Gullett then walked three to load the bases, but got Tim McCarver to fly out to end the inning. The Reds tied the game in the third on Tony Perez's sacrifice fly off of Steve Carlton, then took the lead in the sixth on George Foster's home run. After a double and error put two on, Gullett's RBI single made it 3–1 Reds. After allowing a leadoff double and walk in the eighth, Carlton was replaced by Tug McGraw, who allowed a one-out two-run double to Gullett and RBI double to Pete Rose. The Phillies attempted to rally in the ninth off of Rawly Eastwick. Garry Maddox hit a leadoff single and scored on Greg Luzinski's double. After Dick Allen singled, Jay Johnstone's RBI single made it 6–3 Reds, but Eastwick retired the next two batters to end the game and give the Reds a 1–0 series lead.

Game 2
Buoyed by an RBI single by Bob Boone in the second after two leadoff singles and a homer by Greg Luzinski in the fifth off of Pat Zachry, Phils starter Jim Lonborg no-hit the Reds until the sixth. After giving up a leadoff walk, one-out RBI single to Pete Rose, followed by another single by Ken Griffey, Lonborg was removed from the game by manager Danny Ozark. Gene Garber came in relief and after an intentional walk loaded the bases, two runs came across on an error by first baseman Dick Allen on a ball hit by Tony Pérez, then George Foster's RBI groundout made it 4–2 Reds. They added to their lead next inning on Griffey's RBI single off of Tug McGraw and Perez's sacrifice fly off of Ron Reed. Pedro Borbon pitched the last four innings to close to give the Reds a 2–0 series lead heading home.

Game 3
Once again, the Phillies got a strong starting pitching performance that went for naught. Jim Kaat held the Reds to one hit after six innings. Meanwhile, his teammates provided him a 3–0 lead via a consecutive doubles in the fourth by Mike Schmidt and Greg Luzinski off of Gary Nolan and RBI doubles by Garry Maddox and Schmidt in the seventh after a leadoff walk off of Manny Sarmiento.

But in the bottom of the seventh, Kaat began to lose it. Ken Griffey led off with a single, Joe Morgan walked. Ron Reed then replaced Kaat to face Tony Pérez, who promptly singled home Griffey. George Foster followed with a sacrifice fly. After a walk to Johnny Bench, Reed retired Dave Concepción, but then surrendered a two-run triple to César Gerónimo to put the Reds ahead 4–3.

In the eighth, the Phillies rallied against Reds closer Rawly Eastwick. Jay Johnstone led off with a double and went to third on a wild pitch as Bob Boone walked. Larry Bowa doubled in Johnstone and Dave Cash hit a sacrifice fly to give the Phillies the lead at 5–4. The Phillies added another run in the top of the ninth on an RBI triple by Johnstone to make it 6–4.

With Reed still on the mound in the ninth, Foster and Bench hit back-to-back homers to tie the game. Gene Garber relieved and promptly gave up a single to Concepción. Tom Underwood came on to surrender a walk to Geronimo. Pinch-hitter Ed Armbrister sacrificed the runners to second and third. Underwood then intentionally walked Pete Rose to load the bases. With the infield drawn in, Griffey hit a high bouncer toward Bobby Tolan playing first. Tolan charged, but the ball got past him and Concepción scored to send the Reds to their second straight World Series; they would sweep the Yankees in four games, becoming the only team in the divisional era (to date) to go undefeated in the postseason.

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Castroverde

Castroverde is a municipality in the province of Lugo, in the autonomous community of Galicia, Spain. It belongs to the comarca of Lugo.

Castroverde is very rural area. The main economic activity is milk and meat production. There are also a few rabbit and poultry farms. Rural tourism has some importance with a few rural hotels. Because farming is increasingly automated, Castroverde's population shrank during the 20th century, and prospects say that this process will continue until the present century.

Administrative subdivisions are called parishes; it has its origin in church organization. These 37 parishes are rich in archeological vestiges, churches and chapels, waterwheels and pazos (a type of Galician traditional house). Remains of an important castle are also present in Castroverde.

Geography
The territory is a transition zone between the plateau and the Sierras Eastern. The field is gaining height towards the east, Sierras de Moneiro, from O Mirador (with a height of 1034 meters in Pradairo), from A Baqueriza with a height of 836 meters and from Puñago. Numerous rivulets run down from these mountains. The rivers Guimaras, Azúmara, Romean, Outeiro and Tórdea are all tributaries of the Minho river.

The climate is oceanic with continental nuances. It has a temperature variation of up to 13 °C between low winter temperatures (5.6 °C in January) and mild summer (17.7 °C). Rainfall measures at about 1,000 millimeters.

Historical events
The king Silo of Asturias, who reign from 774 until 783, overturn a rebellion of Galician nobles in the parish of Montecubeiro, Castroverde.

Notable people

 * Paco Pestana: Sculptor born in Peredo parish, Castroverde.
 * Baldomero Pestana: Photographer and draftsman.
 * Ricardo Gómez Polín: A philologist whose works include several on medieval Galician-Portuguese literature, the Way of St. James (especially the primitive route that goes through Castroverde), he also studied popular Galician traditions, crafts and archeology.

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Amygdalodon

Amygdalodon ("almond tooth" for its almond shaped teeth) was a genus of basal sauropod from the Middle Jurassic of Argentina. The type species is Amygdalodon patagonicus. Fossils of Amygdalodon have been found in the Toarcian Cerro Carnerero Formation of the Jurassic (about 180-172 million years ago). Very little is known about it, but it is one of the few Jurassic dinosaurs from South America found thus far.

Discovery
The holotype (MLP 46-VIII-21-1) consists of some vertebrae, ribs, four complete and three partial teeth, and a partial pelvis and shoulder-blade, of which was discovered in 1936. The type species, Amygdalodon patagonicus, was described by Cabrera in Argentina in 1947. Until 1936 sauropod fossils from Argentina were completely unknown then, prompted by Piatnitzky's brief mention of "bones of a saurian of no less than 5-7m long", Dr. Tomás Suero took a trip to Chubut to check out deposits overlying the Liassic of the Pampa de Agnia and discovered the remains of a Jurassic sauropod dinosaur around twice the size of Piatnitzky's estimation (in 1936).

Size
Amygdalodon is estimated to have been 12 m long and 4 m tall. This quadrupedal dinosaur had an estimated weight of over 5 t.

Classification
Rauhut (2003) placed Amygdalodon as Eusauropoda incertae sedis based on examination of the type material. Later, a cladistic analysis conducted by Carballido et al. (2010) recovered the genus as a non-eusauropod sauropod. Holwerda and Pol (2018) concurred, recovering Amygdalodon as sister to Isanosaurus. A basal sauropod classification for Amygdalodon was supported by Pol and colleagues in 2022, with it showing the first signs of dental modification for bulk feeding that is retained in later sauropods, but it does not have the vertebral features found in more derived sauropods. They found it in a polytomy with the Asian taxon Gongxianosaurus, and possibly related to South American Volkheimeria, though the latter had a very labile position.

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Secure Flight
I redirected Secure Flight here. However, it should probably have its own article. Here is the TSA website. --Dforest 04:19, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I moved it to Airport security.

Removed statement

 * While initially denying the existence of such a list, in October, 2002, the TSA acknowledged it.

Other passages say that this list was created by statute, which would obviously make it not-so-secret. This statement needs a reference before it is re-inserted. -- Beland 17:10, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

No fly list
I think the No fly material needs to be split into a new article. Even this article has an article link. Also if you look at what links here, the no fly redirects are substantial. Also, this article is about a specific system to create a no fly list and is not about the general concepts of a no fly list. Vegaswikian 21:22, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Sex Offenders and the No-Fly list
68.90.48.86, the reference does not say what you think it said. Sex offender registries are apparently fed into the NCIC database, which might be one of the databases used for the no-fly -- then again, it may not be. Hardly an iron-clad reference. I'm removing your edits because they are unsourced. -- ArglebargleIV 04:31, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Bad link
If anyone can find the article referenced by link [8] about the 9-month-old, the link currently used is dead and a quick trip to the Internet Archive turned up nothing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rod Meikle (talk • contribs)
 * I reworded that entry to not include those links. There are well over 2 children that have been selected.  Vegaswikian 19:01, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Watch List - clarification needed
In the German wikipedia the article "watch list" is directing here. Apparently it is something else, namely a list of people not allowed to travel into the US, not really because of security but because the are "non grata". Also the article of former Austrian president Kurt Waldheim is directing here. There should be some clarification on this. --Lamme Goedzak 07:21, 24 June 2007 (UTC)

Out of date Secure Flight content
Newbie trying to make the world a (slightly) better place. My only other edit ever was many years ago on sea level rise.

This page had content from 2004 on what was needed before Congress would approve Secure Flight. I don't know specifically what did happen, but Secure Flight was approved in 2009 and also has it's own page. That 2004 info seems out of date, doesn't seem to belong on this page, but might make sense on the Secure Flight page. I deleted it from this page, but that was reversed. Not sure what to do next. Didn't really know I needed to give a reason, or how.

Advice?

Peterjraymond (talk) 19:18, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Your edit was undone since you had no edit comment. Simply based on your reply here, one option would be to move that content to the Secure Flight article, possibly in a history section.  There has to be edit comments on the removal and add showing where the text went to and came from for attribution purposes. Vegaswikian (talk) 19:58, 23 June 2013 (UTC)

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Does the CAPPS system still exist?
Does the CAPPS system still exist? The lead section of the article refers to this program in the present tense, which indicates that the system currently exists. However, the article seems very out of date since around 2004. There is a discussion of a "CAPPS II" program that is described as a proposal, but there is no indication of whether or when the original CAPPS program was discontinued. The article says CAPPS II was "canceled" in 2004, but it does not seem completely clear whether CAPPS II was ever operational or existed only as a proposal. There is a section of the article about "Surveillance Detection Reports" in 2006, but it does not seem clear what that has to do with the CAPPS system. If I understand correctly, CAPPS was eventually replaced with the Secure Flight program. — BarrelProof (talk) 20:58, 19 May 2023 (UTC)


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title: User:Hmwordock53/monobook.js


text:
Qfwfq

Qfwfq is the narrator of many stories appearing in several works by Italian author Italo Calvino including Cosmicomics.

Description
Qfwfq is as old as the universe and has taken various forms, of which Qfwfq retains his memory. For example, in the short story "Blood, Sea" (found in the collection t zero) this character is a man riding in a car with three other people, but this man also remembers when he lived in the form of an amoeba of sorts inhabiting a primeval ocean. He also describes Zylphia, one of the other car passengers, as having been there, raising the question of whether Qfwfq is able to take multiple discrete physical forms at once. Qfwfq also describes having a family, who seem also to transcend time in a similar manner (for example, in "The Aquatic Uncle," Qfwfq's 's uncle remains a fish while the rest of the family has evolved into amphibians).

Qfwfq is creative and remarkably intelligent, demonstrating a remarkable ability to predict natural and human history in "How Much Shall We Bet." He is competitive and often romantically jealous. For instance, in "A Sign in Space," he tells of competitive relationship with a similar entity named Kgwgk, which results in the invention of art. His stories are populated by other entities who are his friends or rivals, who also seem to take many forms throughout the universe's history and who he may meet again in the present day. He is described as "not surprised by anything", and characteristically "not at all sentimental about being the last dinosaur".

Books in which character appears

 * Cosmicomics – Qfwfq explicitly narrates all but two of the short stories in this collection.
 * t zero – Qfwfq narrates most of the stories in this collection. The first four stories are in a section titled, "More of Qfwfq".
 * Numbers in the Dark and other stories – Qfwfq narrates the final two stories in this collection, "Implosion" and "Nothing and Not Much".
 * The Complete Cosmicomics – A 2009 collection including all of Qfwfq's stories from the above books and several newly translated to English.

Qfwfq's name
The name "Qfwfq" (as well as "Kgwgk") is a palindrome. The name may be an allusion to the first law of thermodynamics; substituting = for f gives Q=W=Q, which describes a heat engine.

title: Qfwfq


text:
Geoffrey Dyer

Geoffrey Dyer (1947 – 7 October 2020) was an Australian artist. He was born and died in Hobart, Tasmania.

Career
He won the Archibald Prize in 2003 with a portrait of Richard Flanagan.

He was a finalist of the 2011 Archibald Prize.

Steven Joyce of Hobart's Despard Gallery announced Dyer's death via social media on Thursday 8 October 2020 at age 73.

title: Geoffrey Dyer


text:
Odoardo Di Santo

Odoardo Di Santo (born June 25, 1934) is a politician and administrator in Ontario, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1985, as a member of the New Democratic Party (NDP).

Background
Di Santo was born in Rocca Pia, Italy, and educated at the University of Rome. In Rome, Di Santo was a professional journalist as well as Press Secretary for the Italian Minister of Industry and Commerce. He was a member of the Family Services Association of Metro Toronto in 1974-75, and was an advisor to the Board of Community Workers at George Brown College. Di Santo was also a founding member as well as a federal executive on the Congress of Italian-Canadians in this period. He was also a founding member of the Italian-Canadian Benevolent Corporation. He is married to Toronto city councillor Maria Augimeri.

Politics
He was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1975 provincial election, defeating Liberal candidate Mike Spensieri by 68 votes in Downsview as part of an NDP breakthrough in Toronto's Italian community. He was re-elected by a greater margin in the 1977 election, and defeated future federal cabinet minister Joseph Volpe by 653 votes in the 1981 election. He supported Bob Rae for the party leadership in 1982.

Di Santo was narrowly defeated in the 1985 election, losing to Liberal candidate Joseph Cordiano by 221 votes.

Later life
After the election, the Liberals and NDP signed a two-year pact which ended forty-two years of Progressive Conservative rule. After leaving the legislature, Di Santo was appointed director of the Office of the Worker Adviser.

The New Democratic Party won a majority government under Bob Rae's leadership in the 1990 provincial election, and Di Santo was appointed as chair of Ontario Workers' Compensation Board in 1991. During his tenure as chair, he implemented progressive policies, such as the non-rebuttable presumption that workers exposed to asbestos in the workplace be compensated for their injuries/illnesses - a novelty at the time. In 1994, Rae transferred Di Santo to the Liquor License Board of Ontario.

In 1992, Di Santo was President and founder of Casa Abruzzo, a non-profit for independent seniors.

He campaigned for the House of Commons of Canada in the 1997 federal election, but finished third against Independent candidate John Nunziata in York South—Weston.

title: Odoardo Di Santo


text: Category:Universities and colleges in Finland


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User:DavidParfitt

David Parfitt
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