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Talk:Claw hammer

Comprehensive rewrite
I figured before I chop the entire article up I should post here first?

"associated with woodworking but is not limited to use with wood products..." I have always been taught that this tool is strictly for woodworking, and am unable to find anything suggesting the contrary. Driving nails through another object and into wood or engineered wood is still woodworking. In the following sentence an unrelated hammer for metalwork is added, but this is incomplete as this is not nearly the only metalworking hammer, cross pein hammers are also for metalwork and drilling hammers are for masonry/chisel work, the list goes on and on. I think instead something to the effect should be clearly stated that hammers have become very specialised over the tremendous generations and this hammer is strictly for woodworking, as it has a brittle head. The see also section already links to the hammers page where other types of hammers for other activities are listed.

The body of the types section currently reflects the composition of the hammers, which I feel is a design or composition concept rather than type and I would like to shorten it and put it up there, along with the sentence about head weight. There are two types of claw hammer, traditional claw and rip (or straight) claw. My source is experience but a quick search brings these up: 1.2 Rip/straight claw hammers have a straight mostly flat claw which allows you to get into much tighter spaces to pry nails and also allows you pry apart surfaces like trim, but for delicate work you need to hold a cloth or something under the head so you don't mar it. A traditional claw hammer has a very curved claw which allows you to get more leverage without marring the surface, but can't fit into as tight of spaces, and is only suitable for pulling nails since the tip of the claw is angled downwards. 74.199.20.10 (talk) 18:02, 23 December 2019 (UTC)

Citation
It's pretty obvious a hammer can be a dangerous tool —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rob.derosa (talk • contribs) 12:54, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Two-piece hammer
This article could use a picture of the two-piece version. Both photographs depict single-piece hammers and the the drawing depicts a completely different method of fastening the head. --Khajidha (talk) 13:00, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

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Razorline

Razorline was an imprint of American comic book company Marvel Comics that ran from 1993 to 1995. It was created by filmmaker and horror/fantasy novelist Clive Barker, with its characters existing in one of the many alternate universes outside the mainstream continuity known as the Marvel Universe.

Publication history
The Razorline imprint consisted of four interrelated titles, based on Barker's detailed premises, titles and lead characters. These were:
 * Ectokid — written first by James Robinson, then by Lana Wachowski, and pencilled by Steve Skroce
 * Hokum & Hex — written by Frank Lovece, penciled by Anthony Williams
 * Hyperkind — written by Fred Burke, pencilled by Paris Cullins and inked by Bob Petrecca
 * Saint Sinner — written by Elaine Lee, pencilled and inked by Max Douglas

Marcus McLaurin was the editor. The four titles were preceded by a one-shot sampler cover-titled: Razorline: First Cut.

As Barker described: "I wanted to do a superhero comic, something which would be my take on what superheroes were going to be like in the '90s... Hyperkind fell into that category. I wanted to do something that was magical and mystical in the way that Doctor Strange was and still is. Doctor Strange was one of my favourite comics from when I was a kid. So I suppose Hokum & Hex is my take on that. Ectokid, which is perhaps the second weirdest of the bunch, is a kind of dream story for the 15-year-old that's still alive to me — the tale of an adolescent who lives in two worlds and has access to a whole other sphere of reality. And Saint Sinner is just a wild one, the series which hopefully will press the limits of what comics can do."

Razorline was launched in 1993 as several other publishers, including Malibu Comics, Defiant Comics, and Dark Horse Comics, were launching superhero lines. The line lasted under a year. There was a second wave of titles that were written but were not released. Comics historians Keith Dallas and Jason Sacks analyzed that "by the summer of 1993 the market was so oversaturated with new titles and new universes, there was no room for imprints as unique as the Barkerverse to stand out".

In 2005, the appendix page of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe one-shot involving alternate universes revealed that the Earth of the Razorline imprint is designated as Earth-45828. Relatively real-world, without other superheroes, it includes Marvel Comics as a comic-book publisher, with Razorline characters making references to "X-Men comics" and to Marvel editor Stan Lee's Fantastic Four writing.

Hokum & Hex and Hyperkind were superhero series, while the other two were supernatural series. All were released with a Comics Code seal. The Razorline's short run of seven to nine issues each was due in large part to market conditions.

Two one-shots followed: Hyperkind Unleashed (which included a "Hokum & Hex" prose short story) and Ektokid Unleashed (which included a "Saint Sinner" prose short story).

Other titles
In total, 10 comic lines were planned. Before the cancellations, several issues of four subsequent series were in various stages of completion: Wraitheart (written by Frank Lovece, art by Hector Gomez),  Schizm (written by Fred Burke), Mode Extreme (written by Sarah Byam), and Fusion Force.

Columnist and former comics publisher Cat Yronwode wrote: "Several issues of each of the Marvel-Barker titles have been fully scripted and illustrated, and Marvel still retains the rights to publish them if and when the market takes an upturn. And make no mistake, it is the current state of the comic book market, not any problems with Clive or his popularity that caused Marvel to stop work on the three Barker titles. In fact, it seems that the decision to shelve these books was based on the fact that Marvel's recent new launches have not been as successful as hoped. Hulk 2099 was cancelled with issue six, and two other titles went directly from open-ended to four-issue miniseries, when sales reports on the first issues came in."

In other media
A 2002 Barker telefilm titled Saint Sinner bore no relation to the comic. In Barker's words: "I was always disappointed with the way that Marvel handled that entire line of comics, particularly Saint Sinner. I thought that's a waste of a good title. It was something that called for finding a new life in some way or another".

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Evans Ice Stream

The Evans Ice Stream is a large ice stream draining from Ellsworth Land, between Cape Zumberge and Fowler Ice Rise, into the western part of the Ronne Ice Shelf. Mills Glacier flows adjacently into the ice stream from the southwest side. The feature was recorded on February 5, 1974, in Landsat imagery. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Stanley Evans, a British physicist who, starting in 1961, developed apparatus for radio echo sounding of icecaps and glaciers from aircraft; he carried out upper atmosphere research at Brunt Ice Shelf, 1956–57.

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UbuWeb

UbuWeb is a web-based educational resource for avant-garde material available on the internet, created by poet Kenneth Goldsmith and active from 1996 to 2023. It offered visual, concrete and sound poetry, expanding to include film and sound art mp3 archives.

In January 2024, UbuWeb announced it was no longer active, posting: "As of 2024, UbuWeb is no longer active. The archive is preserved for perpetuity, in its entirety."

Philosophy
UbuWeb was founded in response to the marginal distribution of crucial avant-garde material. It remains non-commercial and operates on a gift economy. UbuWeb ensures educational open access to out-of-print works that find a second life through digital art reprint while also representing the work of contemporaries. It addresses problems in the distribution of and access to intellectual materials.

Distribution policy
UbuWeb does not distribute commercially viable works but rather resurrects avant-garde sound art, video and textual works through their translation into a digital art web environment - re-contextualising them with current academic commentary and contemporary practice. It houses and distributes freely the entire archive of the Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine project. In 2020, Kenneth Goldsmith wrote in his book Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of Ubuweb that “Perhaps no collection of audio inspired UbuWeb more than the Tellus cassettes….”

Content
Beyond its repository of works, UbuWeb features curated sections including /ubu Editions book-length editions of contemporary poetry, selected and introduced by the poet Brian Kim Stefans. UbuWeb: Ethnopoetics, curated by Jerome Rothenberg, is fusing the avant-garde with traditional ethnic practices. UbuWeb: Papers is a series of contextual academic essays. UbuWeb:Outsiders considers the legitimization of Outsider works and features The 365 Days Project curated by Otis Fodder.

Infrastructure
UbuWeb is not affiliated to any academic institution, instead relying on alliances of interest and benefiting from bandwidth donations from its partnerships with GreyLodge, WFMU, PennSound, The Electronic Poetry Center, The Center for Literary Computing, and ArtMob.

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Chibanian

The Chibanian, more widely known as Middle Pleistocene (its previous informal name), is an age in the international geologic timescale or a stage in chronostratigraphy, being a division of the Pleistocene Epoch within the ongoing Quaternary Period. The Chibanian name was officially ratified in January 2020. It is currently estimated to span the time between 0.770 Ma (770,000 years ago) and 0.129 Ma (129,000 years ago), also expressed as 770–126 ka. It includes the transition in palaeoanthropology from the Lower to the Middle Paleolithic over 300 ka.

The Chibanian is preceded by the Calabrian and succeeded by the proposed Tarantian. The beginning of the Chibanian is the Brunhes–Matuyama reversal, when the Earth's magnetic field last underwent reversal. Its end roughly coincides with the termination of the Penultimate Glacial Period and the onset of the Last Interglacial period (corresponding to the beginning of Marine Isotope Stage 5).

The term Middle Pleistocene was in use as a provisional or "quasi-formal" designation by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). While the three lowest ages of the Pleistocene, the Gelasian, Calabrian and Chibanian have been officially defined, the Late Pleistocene has yet to be formally defined.

Definition process
The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) had previously proposed replacement of the Middle Pleistocene by an Ionian Age based on strata found in Italy. In November 2017, however, the Chibanian (based on strata at a site in Chiba Prefecture, Japan) replaced the Ionian as the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy's preferred GSSP proposal for the age that should replace the Middle Pleistocene sub-epoch. The "Chibanian" name was ratified by the IUGS in January 2020.

Climate
By early Middle Pleistocene, the Mid-Pleistocene Transition had changed the glacial cycles from an average 41,000 year periodicity present during most of the Early Pleistocene to a 100,000 year periodicity, with the glacial cycles becoming asymmetric, having long glacial periods punctuated by short warm interglacial periods. Millennial-scale climatic variability continued to be highly sensitive to precession and obliquity cycles.

The late Middle Pleistocene was a time of regional aridification in the Levant, with a shallow lake covering what is now the Shishan Marsh drying and developing into a marsh.

Along the northwestern Australian coast, the intensification of the Leeuwin Current resulted in an expansion of reefs coincident with the Great Barrier Reef's formation.

Events
The Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary saw the migration of true horses out of North America and into Eurasia. Also around this time, the European mammoth species Mammuthus meridionalis became extinct and was replaced by the Asian species Mammuthus trogontherii (the steppe mammoth). This was coincident with the migration of the elephant genus Palaeoloxodon out of Africa and into Eurasia, including the first appearance of species like the European straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus). With the extinction of Sinomastodon in East Asia at the Early-Middle Pleistocene boundary, gomphotheres became completely extinct in Afro-Eurasia, but continued to persist in the Americas into the Late Pleistocene. There was a major extinction of carnivorous mammals in Europe around the Early-Middle Pleistocene transition, including the giant hyena Pachycrocuta. The mid-late Middle Pleistocene saw the emergence of the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), and its replacement of Mammuthus trogontherii, with the replacement of M. trogontherii in Europe by woolly mammoths being complete by around 200,000 years ago. The last member of the notoungulate family Mesotheriidae, Mesotherium, has its last records around 220,000 years ago, leaving Toxodontidae as the sole family of notoungulates to persist into the Late Pleistocene. During the late Middle Pleistocene, around 195,000-135,000 years ago, the steppe bison (the ancestor of the modern American bison) migrated across the Bering land bridge into North America, marking the beginning of the Rancholabrean faunal stage. Around 500,000 years ago, the last members of the largely European aquatic frog genus Palaeobatrachus and by extension the family Palaeobatrachidae became extinct.

Palaeoanthropology
The Chibanian includes the transition in palaeoanthropology from the Lower to the Middle Paleolithic: i.e., the emergence of Homo sapiens sapiens between 300 ka and 400 ka. The oldest known human DNA dates to the Middle Pleistocene, around 430,000 years ago. This is the oldest found,.

After analyzing 2,496 remains of Castor fiber (Eurasian beaver) and Trogontherium cuvieri found at Bilzingsleben in Germany, a team of scientists concluded that, around 400 ka, hominids in the area hunted and exploited beavers. They may have been targeted for their meat (based on cut marks on the bones) and skin.

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Carlson Inlet

Carlson Inlet (-78°N, -78.5°W) is an ice-filled inlet, 100 mi long and 25 mi wide, lying between Fletcher Ice Rise and Fowler Ice Rise in the southwest part of the Ronne Ice Shelf. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Lieutenant Ronald F. Carlson, U.S. Navy, pilot of R4D-8 and C-130 aircraft with Squadron VX-6, who made innumerable flights in support of International Geophysical Year and United States Antarctic Research Program field parties in the 1950s and 1960s. On December 14, 1961, he commanded a C-130 Hercules flight from McMurdo Station across the Ellsworth Mountains, during which he observed, photographed and roughly sketched this inlet.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Historical narrative

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The result of the debate was redirect to Historicism. Jitse Niesen (talk) 21:31, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Historical narrative
Delete. There's no information in this article. Hoovernj 21:39, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Redirect to Historicism until someone writes a real article on the subject. Jkelly 22:11, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
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Lars Hanson

Lars Mauritz Hanson (26 July 1886 – 8 April 1965) was a Swedish film and stage actor, internationally mostly remembered for his motion picture roles during the silent film era.

Biography
Born in Göteborg, Sweden, Hanson began his career on the stages of Sweden after studying drama in Helsinki and Stockholm as a Shakespearean actor, appearing in such classics as Othello and Hamlet. Hanson made his film debut in the 1915 film Dolken, directed by Mauritz Stiller, and his popularity as a leading man in his homeland grew with ensuing roles. He was a student of the Royal Dramatic Training Academy.

While already a well established popular actor in Sweden and much of continental Europe, Lars Hanson gained greater international recognition for his role as the title character in the 1923 Stiller film Gösta Berlings saga (English: The Story of Gösta Berling), which featured a young Mauritz Stiller protégée named Greta Garbo in one of her first major appearances on screen as well as film stage actress Gerda Lundequist. At the request of American actress Lillian Gish, Hanson arrived in Hollywood, California in 1926 (the same year as Garbo) to star opposite Gish in the film version of The Scarlet Letter directed by fellow countryman Victor Sjöström.

In 1922, Lars Hanson married the ex-wife of influential director Gustaf Molander, Swedish actress Karin Molander. The couple remained married until Hanson's death in 1965.

Hanson's Hollywood career as an actor steadily grew momentum during the 1920s and he was paired with Greta Garbo in two more motion pictures; MGM's 1927 box-office hit Flesh and the Devil, which also starred Garbo's offscreen lover, the successful film actor John Gilbert, and 1928's The Divine Woman, again directed by Victor Sjöström. Sjöström also directed Hanson in a performance opposite Lillian Gish in The Wind (1928). By the end of the 1920s however, the era of the silent film was waning, and seeing that his heavy Swedish accent might be a liability in American films, Lars Hanson returned to Europe.

Upon arriving back in Europe in 1928, Hanson starred in the aptly titled German film Heimkehr (English: Homecoming) opposite Gustav Fröhlich and Dita Parlo. The following year, he starred in a British version of The Informer filmed at Elstree Studios, playing the same role for which Victor McLaglen won an Academy Award for Best Actor in the John Ford-directed version six years later.

Lars Hanson continued to appear in Swedish films until the early 1950s before retiring. Hanson's last performance was in the 1951 film Dårskapens hus (The Nuthouse).

In Sweden, Hanson balanced his film work with an outstanding stage career, making memorable appearances in A Dream Play (1935), The Ghost Sonata (1942), and as James Tyrone in the world premiere of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night (1956). In 1956, Hanson, along with actress Inga Tidblad (who played Mary Tyrone) also became the first two actors to receive The Eugene O'Neill Award; today known as Sweden's most prestigious theatre award and presented annually to the country's most outstanding stage actors. Hanson was also a successful Shakespearean actor, especially for his performances as Richard III and Hamlet.

Lars Hanson died in Stockholm, Sweden in 1965 after a short illness at the age of 78.

Selected filmography

 * The Wings (1916)
 * The Lass from the Stormy Croft (1917)
 * A Dangerous Wooing (1919)
 * Synnöve Solbakken (1919)
 * Erotikon (1920)
 * The Saga of Gosta Berling (1924)
 * Ingmar's Inheritance (1925)
 * To the Orient (1926)
 * The Scarlet Letter (1926)
 * Flesh and the Devil (1927)
 * Captain Salvation (1927)
 * The Divine Woman (1928)
 * Sin (1928)
 * The Wind (1928)
 * Heimkehr (1928)
 * The Call of the North (1929)
 * The Informer (1929)
 * Walpurgis Night (1935)
 * Conflict (1937)
 * Första divisionen (1941)
 * Ride Tonight! (1942)
 * There's a Fire Burning (1943)
 * His Excellency (1944)

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Orville Coast

Orville Coast is that portion of the coast of Antarctica lying west of Ronne Ice Shelf between Cape Adams and Cape Zumberge. It was discovered by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947–48, under Ronne, who named this coast for Captain Howard T. Orville, USN, Head of the Naval Aerological Service, who was largely responsible for formulating the RARE meteorological program. The name "Orville Coast" is considered a more useful reference than "Orville Escarpment," the name originally applied for this area.

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Sally Rogers

Sally Rogers (born 1964) is an English actress, best known for her role as Detective Constable/Sgt. Jo Masters in ITV's The Bill.

Rogers trained as a children's nanny, before taking up acting at the age of 20. She studied at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art in London before working at the Royal National Theatre.

Acting career
From 1989 to 1990, Rogers starred in several plays at London's Royal Court Theatre.

Her television work includes the BBC's Out of Hours in the late 1990s and Murphy's Law with James Nesbitt. She has also appeared in Casualty and EastEnders (1992), where she played an escort named Debbie, who was hired by Ian Beale. Additionally, Rogers appeared as Paul Calf's former girlfriend Julie in Steve Coogan's Paul and Pauline Calf's Video Diary and as Juliet Bray in The Lakes. Also, in 1996, she appeared in A Touch of Frost in an episode entitled The Things We Do for Love playing a character called Vicky Philips.

In 2000, Rogers starred as Yvonne in the cult BBC2 drama series Attachments, where she worked with David Walliams. She then went on to appear alongside Walliams in a number of sketches in the first three series of Little Britain.

Between January 2005 and August 2010, Rogers played DC / Sergeant Jo Masters in The Bill. By the time the series ended she was the longest-serving female on the series. She had previously appeared in The Bill in 1994.

In one of her first roles after The Bill, Rogers appeared in Matt Lucas and David Walliams' new comedy show Come Fly with Me, which debuted on the BBC on Christmas Day 2010. She plays FlyLo check-in desk manager Helen Baker.

In 2013, Rogers starred as nurse Helen Dolan in the second series of Kay Mellor's The Syndicate.

In 2015, Rogers starred in the CBBC children's programme The Dumping Ground, portraying Tee and Johnny's mum Lucy.

In December 2016, she made another appearance in EastEnders, this time as a parking attendant named Karen Beckworth who convinces Lee Carter (Danny-Boy Hatchard) not to commit suicide, in a two-episode stint.

In February 2020, Sally Rogers recorded a three-part The Bill Podcast interview with co-star Chris Simmons (D.C. Mickey Webb), where they also discussed their new collaboration on Sally's debut play The Still Room. She also plays a guest role as Jenny Gifford’s (Fay Ripley) sister, Sheila in Cold Feet.

Personal life
Rogers gave birth to her first child in January 2006 and resumed filming The Bill again in August 2006. Her character reappeared on screen on 19 December 2006.

Rogers lives in Surrey with her son.

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User:Immortol Crayon

Does Godzilla really like pie or are you just being stupid?

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Talk:Qadir Magsi

Untitled
Dr Qadir Magsi has been accused of plotting in 30th Sep 1988 Hyderabad shooting that left 300 civillians dead. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.57.32.122 (talk • contribs) 21:41, 30 September 2005

Hyderabad shooting
I removed the reference to the Hyderabad shooting because it was unreferenced. It should not be restored unless it is referenced. --Eastmain (talk) 23:58, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Dr. Magsi involved in Urdu-Sindhi riots 1988
I removed reference to 'Qadar Magsi was invloved in the Urdu-Sindhi roiots of 1988'.

After thoroughly reading the PDF source link, I found a small box in the 'summery of violent incidents 1985-1990', where it's written, 'Jiye Sindh Tehrik Progressive faction led by Qadir Magsi was alleged behind the killings', as opposed to the word 'involved' used here in the Wikipedia article. The word 'alleged' according to the Wikipedia article is defined as, ''In law, an allegation (also called adduction) is a claim of a fact by a party in a pleading, charge, or defense. Until they can be proved, allegations remain merely assertions. The PDF'' source link also does not refer to the violent incident as 'Urdu-Sindhi', but rather (between) 'JSSF & MQM'. It looks as though someone was trying to vandalize the biography here. (SarfarazLarkanian 23:09, 14 March 2016 (UTC))

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of song titles phrased as questions (2nd nomination)

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The result of the debate was DELETE. -Splash talk 23:18, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

List of song titles phrased as questions
This list has reached the point of unmaintainability.

 * Delete. (unsigned comment from anon)
 * Keep What about all the other lists of songs. I think the list is a bit odd but someone may have a use for it. See also Articles for deletion/List of songs with brackets in their titles. CambridgeBayWeather 21:56, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete -- the musical equivalent of knowing someone's on-base percentage when there are men on second and third, the pitcher is ambidextrous, and there is a flock of passenger pigeons flying overhead. At best, too specialized for Wikipedia. Haikupoet 02:07, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete useless and unmaintainable list. —Wahoofive (talk) 05:02, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * All are welcome to contribute to the discussion at Centralized discussion/Lists of songs —Wahoofive (talk) 05:02, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as unmaintainable, unencyclopedic listcruft. MCB 07:06, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per MCB. Xoloz 08:06, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete (see also Articles for deletion/List of songs about romance (including breakups). --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 10:52, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete? as above --TimPope 11:11, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, unmaintainable. Extraordinary Machine 11:26, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, listcruft. No one needs lists for everything. Punkmorten 22:10, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, unmaintainable. -Sean Curtin 00:25, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Keep, stop deleting useful pages and start creating some. Dmn  € Դմն 12:21, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, harmless list, not unmaintainable, and only encompasses a small percentage of all songs (unlike "List of songs about romance"). Somebody obviously found it interesting enough to create. sjorford #£@%&$?!  12:49, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Double Dragon

Game series page?
Should move this page to Double Dragon series like Metroid series and The Legend of Zelda series? We could use the original Double Dragon article for an article on the first Double Dragon game and place information about the other games in the series on their own articles. --Jtalledo (talk) 21:42, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I've moved this page to Double Dragon (series), because I wanto to create a Double Dragon Disambiguation page. David Pro 11:14, 02 February 2007 (UTC)

Abobo Smash!
There was a popular internet meme about Abobo. Maybe it should get a little shout out love in the trivia section. I dunno. Alls I know is: Abobo SMASH!!! Bobak 21:04, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Sounds like something Hulk would say. Hulk SMASH!!! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.53.95.31 (talk • contribs).

Contact Million Corp.?
Does anyone have any information about this mysterious company that now owns the Double Dragon copyright? Some fans are looking to contact them! ;) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.53.95.31 (talk • contribs).

Split
I think this article should be split. The sequels and spin-offs have enough info for their own articles and this article is above 32 KB. --Jtalledo (talk) 01:03, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Agree - There are many games discussed here that could easily have their own pages. I would suggested making the Double Dragon article be about the series and have easily accessible links on it, or perhaps a Double Dragon (video game series) article. - Zepheus <ツィフィアス> 19:38, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I already in the process of cleaning up this article. Jonny2x4 04:06, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Game Boy Advanced Version
The link for this version redirects here. A article separate would be better. Talude 06:45, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Agree that it shouldn't point here, but I think it should point to the page on the first game, as its really an expanded adaptation of that game, not an original game. oknazevad 01:58, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Van Damme
Is there any citatiins for Double Impact being a ripoff of Double Dragon?

And as long as I have your attention, in which game is Marian actually killed? I know, I'm gruesome. Lots42 02:58, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

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Requested move 14 October 2016

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The result of the move request was: Moved. Note that some links may need to be changed as a result of this move. (non-admin closure).  Anarchyte  ( work  |  talk )   06:26, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

– The Double Dragon series seems to meet the following criteria on WP:NCVG:"'...If a video game series has a naming conflict solely with the first game in the series (e.g., Final Fantasy), the series page should reside at the primary name if the series possesses a minimum of 3 video game articles as well as at least one other unrelated video game or related media item. Otherwise, the first game in the series should occupy the primary name, and the series article should be disambiguated with '... (series)'.'"...So, with that being said, should the series page be moved to the base title? Steel1943 (talk) 04:29, 14 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Double Dragon (series) → Double Dragon
 * Double Dragon → Double Dragon (video game)
 * Support we have multiple multiple games, a Cartoon, and a Hollywood film in this franchise.--76.65.40.153 (talk) 03:02, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Support as clearly within policy.  InsertCleverPhraseHere  23:58, 15 October 2016 (UTC)

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Glitch in the NES version
I remember going from store to store to store trying to find this game and no one had it. Then, someone told me it was recalled because of a glitch that reset the game during the third level, but I did manage to borrow someone's DD NES game before this and he said it didn't happen and yes, I never saw this glitch. Though, I know it has other bugs for sure. The snare (talk) 16:09, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

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Tallahassee Tiger Sharks

The Tallahassee Tiger Sharks were a minor league professional ice hockey team that played in Tallahassee, Florida, from 1994 to 2001 as members of the East Coast Hockey League. The Tiger Sharks home rink was the Tallahassee-Leon County Civic Center. While in Tallahassee, the franchise was affiliated with the NHL's New York Islanders, Florida Panthers, and Montreal Canadiens. Since the loss of the Tiger Sharks franchise, several attempts have been made by local residents to bring ice hockey back to Tallahassee. Thus far, none of these efforts have been successful.

Franchise history
The franchise started in 1981 as the Nashville South Stars in Nashville, Tennessee, in the Central Hockey League. Henry Brabham then took over the team in 1983 and relocated it mid-season to Vinton, Virginia, to become the Virginia Lancers. Brabham and the Lancers were then one of the founding members of the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) in 1988. The franchise remained in Vinton until 1993 when it relocated to Huntsville, Alabama, as the Huntsville Blast for one season.

In 1994, the Huntsville franchise relocated to Tallahassee and became the Tiger Sharks. The team adopted a new color scheme of black and gray, with white as an official accent color. Terry Christensen was named head coach of the Tiger Sharks, a position he held for five of the team's seven seasons in Tallahassee. The Tiger Sharks qualified for the playoffs in each of its first three seasons. Christensen left the organization to coach the Miami Matadors hockey club in 1998. At the start of the 1998–99 ECHL season, the color scheme was changed to red, white, and black. Jeff Brubaker, a former NHL enforcer who won the ECHL's Riley Cup as the coach of the Greensboro Monarchs, coached the team during the 1998–99 season. Following the folding of the Miami Matadors after one season, Christensen returned to coach the Tiger Sharks again for the 1999–2000 season. During the 2000–01 season, the Tiger Sharks were coached by Gerry Fleming, a former enforcer who spent ten years with the Fredericton Canadiens as both a player and as an assistant coach. During the 2000–01 season, the team was in position to qualify for the playoffs after missing in the previous three seasons, but was penalized $50,000 and 15 points in the standings for violating the team salary cap and making improper payments to NHL and AHL teams to get assigned players. After the conclusion of the 2000–01 season, the franchise was relocated to Macon, Georgia.

Playoffs

 * 1994–95: Defeated Hampton Roads 3–1 in first round; defeated Birmingham 3–1 in quarterfinals; lost to Richmond 3–2 in semifinals.
 * 1995–96: Defeated Raleigh 3–1 in first round; defeated Richmond 3–1 in quarterfinals; lost to Charlotte 3–1 in semifinals.
 * 1996–97: Lost to Pensacola 3–0 in first round.
 * 1997–98: Did not qualify.
 * 1998–99: Did not qualify.
 * 1999–00: Did not qualify.
 * 2000–01: Did not qualify.

Mascot
The Tiger Sharks' mascot was an ice-skating 6 ft gray tiger shark named Frenzy. Frenzy was immensely popular among Tiger Sharks fans (and Tallahasseans in general).

Notable NHL alumni
List of Tallahassee Tiger Sharks alumni who played more than 25 games in Tallahassee and 25 or more games in the National Hockey League. • Kimbi Daniels

• Ben Guite

• Todd Reirden

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Late Pleistocene

The Late Pleistocene is an unofficial age in the international geologic timescale in chronostratigraphy, also known as the Upper Pleistocene from a stratigraphic perspective. It is intended to be the fourth division of the Pleistocene Epoch within the ongoing Quaternary Period. It is currently defined as the time between c. 129,000 and c. 11,700 years ago. The late Pleistocene equates to the proposed Tarantian Age of the geologic time scale, preceded by the officially ratified Chibanian (commonly known as the Middle Pleistocene). The beginning of the Late Pleistocene is the transition between the end of the Penultimate Glacial Period and the beginning of the Last Interglacial around 130,000 years ago (corresponding with the beginning of Marine Isotope Stage 5). The Late Pleistocene ends with the termination of the Younger Dryas, some 11,700 years ago when the Holocene Epoch began.

The term Upper Pleistocene is currently in use as a provisional or "quasi-formal" designation by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). Although the three oldest ages of the Pleistocene (the Gelasian, the Calabrian and the Chibanian) have been officially defined, the late Pleistocene has yet to be formally defined.

Following the brief Last Interglacial warm period (~130-115,000 years ago), where temperatures were comparable to or warmer than the Holocene, the Late Pleistocene was dominated by the cool Last Glacial Period, with temperatures graduate lowering throughout the period, reaching their lowest during the Last Glacial Maximum around 26-20,000 years ago.

Most of the world's large (megafaunal) animals became extinct during the Late Pleistocene as part of the Late Pleistocene extinctions, a trend that continued into the Holocene. In palaeoanthropology, the late Pleistocene contains the Upper Palaeolithic stage of human development, including the early human migrations of modern humans outside of Africa, and the extinction of all archaic human species.

Last Ice Age
The proposed beginning of the late Pleistocene is the end of the Penultimate Glacial Period (PGP) 126 ka when the Riß glaciation (Alpine) was being succeeded by the Eemian (Riß-Würm) interglacial period. The Riß-Würm ended 115 ka with the onset of the Last Glacial Period (LGP) which is known in Europe as the Würm (Alpine) or Devensian (Great Britain) or Weichselian glaciation (northern Europe); these are broadly equated with the Wisconsin glaciation (North America), though technically that began much later.

The Last Glacial Maximum was reached during the later millennia of the Würm/Weichselian, estimated between 26 ka and 19 ka when deglaciation began in the Northern Hemisphere. The Würm/Weichselian endured until 16 ka with Northern Europe, including most of Great Britain, covered by an ice sheet. The glaciers reached the Great Lakes in North America. Sea levels fell and two land bridges were temporarily in existence that had significance for human migration: Doggerland, which connected Great Britain to mainland Europe; and the Bering land bridge which joined Alaska to Siberia.

The last Ice Age was followed by the Late Glacial Interstadial, a period of global warming to 12.9 ka, and the Younger Dryas, a return to glacial conditions until 11.7 ka. Paleoclimatology holds that there was a sequence of stadials and interstadials from about 16 ka until the end of the Pleistocene. These were the Oldest Dryas (stadial), the Bølling oscillation (interstadial), the Older Dryas (stadial), the Allerød oscillation (interstadial) and finally the Younger Dryas.

The end of the Younger Dryas marks the boundary between the Pleistocene and Holocene Epochs. Hominids in all parts of the world were still culturally and technologically in the Palaeolithic (Old Stone) Age. Tools and weapons were basic stone or wooden implements. Nomadic tribes followed moving herds. Non-nomadics acquired their food by gathering and hunting.

Africa
Its present physical geography and climate have changed over time caused by the movement of tectonic plates and volcanoes but glacial cycles and sea level variation have a more significant effect on the vertebrate communities during the Late Pleistocene.

The Late Pleistocene was the time when most animals evolved to resemble modern-day animals and they managed to live through the Late mid-Pleistocene since there were no extinction events of megafauna until the end of the Late Pleistocene.

Some species which went extinct at the end of the Late Pleistocene in Southern Africa are the giant warthog, long-horn buffalo, Southern springbok, etc. These species were common because their distribution changed in response to climatic influences on vegetation. Carnivores were more widespread due to their varying habitat requirements. In Egypt, the Late (or Upper) Palaeolithic began sometime after 30,000 BC. People in North Africa had relocated to the Nile Valley as the Sahara was transformed from grassland to desert. The Nazlet Khater skeleton was found in 1980 and has been radiocarbon dated to between 30,360 and 35,100 years ago.

Most of the knowledge of the Late Pleistocene is obtained from regions like Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, some coastal regions of Maghreb, Libya and Egypt. The only issue with interpreting the data from this region is due to the lack of chronological information. The resemblance of Late Pleistocene species in Northern Africa to modern animals is the same as in Southern Africa but it's extremely difficult to date when these fauna came into place because of the lack of reliable samples from the mid-Pleistocene. Most of the significant fossil records are from the Maghreb because of its geology which helps to create deep caves which is conducive for preserving fossils.

Eurasia
Neanderthal hominins (Homo neanderthalensis) inhabited Eurasia until becoming extinct between 40 and 30 ka, towards the end of the Pleistocene and possibly into the early Holoceneand were replaced with modern humans (Homo sapiens) who emerged from East Africa about 195,000 years ago. Neanderthals co-existed with the Homo sapiens until they died out.

In Eurasia, extinction happened throughout the Pleistocene but those that happened during the Later Pleistocene were of megafauna and there were no replacements for the extinct species. Some Molluscan species went extinct but not on the same scale as the mammals living during the time. Some examples of species which extinct without replacements include the Straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus), Giant deer (Megaloceros giganteus), cave bear (Ursus spelaeus) and woolly rhinoceros (Coelodonta antiquitatis). Several large mammalian species including the mammoth, mastodon, and Irish elk became extinct.

Upper Paleolithic people also made paintings and engravings on walls. Cave paintings have been found at Lascaux in the Dordogne which may be more than 17,000 years old. These are mainly buffalo, deer, and other animals hunted by humans. Later paintings occur in caves throughout the world, including Altamira, Spain, and in India, Australia, and the Sahara.

Magdalenian hunter-gatherers were widespread in western Europe about 20 -12.500 cal BP years ago until the end of the Pleistocene. An example of this is the antler-working done by the human groups who lived in the Santimamine cave in the Magdalenian. They invented the earliest known harpoons using reindeer horn.

Climatic conditions during the Late Pleistocene in Eurasia were predominantly cold with glaciation events happening in northern Europe, northwest Siberia and the Alps and interglacials (temperate phase). The evidence of the changes in climatic conditions was from fragmentary sequences in formerly glaciated areas in northern Europe.

The only domesticated animal in the Pleistocene was the dog, which evolved from the grey wolf into its many modern breeds. It is believed that the grey wolf became associated with hunter-gatherer tribes around 15 Ka. The earliest remains of a true domestic dog have been dated to 14,200 years ago. Domestication first happened in Eurasia but could have been anywhere from Western Europe to East Asia. Domestication of other animals such as cattle, goats, pigs, and sheep did not begin until the Holocene when settled farming communities became established in the Near East. The cat was probably not domesticated before c. 7500 BC at the earliest, again in the Near East.

A butchered brown bear patella found in Alice and Gwendoline Cave in County Clare and dated to 10,860 to 10,641 BC indicates the first known human activity in Ireland.

Far East
The topography and geography of Asia were subject to frequent changes such as the creation of land bridges when sea levels dropped which helped with the expansion and migration of human populations. The first human habitation in the Japanese archipelago has been traced to prehistoric times between 40,000 BC and 30,000 BC. The earliest fossils are radiocarbon dated to c. 35,000 BC. An archeological record of Neanderthals has been found in Asia along with records of two other hominin populations, the Denisovans and Homo floresiensis.

Japan was once linked to the Asian mainland by land bridges via Hokkaido and Sakhalin Island to the north but was unconnected at this time when the main islands of Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku were all separate entities.

North America
Human migrations happened during this time with people coming in from Eurasia. From about 28 ka, there were migrations across the Bering land bridge from Siberia to Alaska. The people became the Native Americans. It is believed that the original tribes subsequently moved down to Central and South America under pressure from later migrations.

In the North American land mammal age scale, the Rancholabrean spans the time from c. 240,000 years ago to c. 11,000 years ago. It is named after the Rancho La Brea fossil site in California, characterized by extinct forms of bison in association with other Pleistocene species such as the mammoth. During the Late Pleistocene about 35 genera of megafauna went extinct including species such as mastodons, saber-toothed cats and giant ground sloths. Some other species went extinct in North America but not globally. it is still heavily debated what caused the extinctions.

Bison occidentalis and Bison antiquus, an extinct subspecies of the smaller present-day bison, survived the late Pleistocene period, between about 12 and 11 ka ago. Clovis people depended on these bison as their major food source. Earlier kills of camels, horses, and muskoxen found at Wally's beach were dated to 13.1–13.3 ka B.P.

South America
Over 50 genera (~ 83%) of megafauna in South and North America went extinct during the Pleistocene. most mega mammals (>1000kg) and large mammals (>40kg) went extinct by the end of the Late Pleistocene. During this period there was a major cooling event called the Younger Dryas and the Clovis culture of capturing game became more prominent. Diverse factors such as climate change may have triggered this extinction but it's still in debate what the major factors were.

The Late Pleistocene saw a change in the use of coastal resources and advancements in marine technology. The reasons for these changes have not been confirmed; various triggering mechanisms have been theorized such as climate change, the arrival of new people, or the struggle for resources.

The South American land mammal age, the Lujanian, corresponds with the late Pleistocene. The Lujanian is a geologic period from 0.8 - 0.11Ma specifically for prehistoric South American fauna.

Oceania
There is evidence of human habitation in mainland Australia, Indonesia, New Guinea and Tasmania from c. 45,000 BC. The finds include rock engravings, stone tools and evidence of cave habitation.

In Australia, there are sites which show evidence of pollen records from the Late Pleistocene and they are mostly found in more temperate regions of the continent. Some megafauna decreased in size over time, while others remained the same; however, the fossil record is limited in the exact chronologies of the extinctions.

In general, various reasons have been stated to have caused the extinctions during the Late Pleistocene but the topic is still being debated.

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Jagtial

Jagtial is a city in and the district headquarters of Jagtial district of Telangana state, India. Located about 190 km north of the state capital Hyderabad, it has an average elevation of 293 m. In 2011 the population was about 104,000

Road

 * NH 61 Bhiwandi Ahmednagar Nanded Nirmal Jagtial
 * NH 63 Latur Nizamabad Jagtial Mancherial Bijapur Jagdalpur
 * NH 563 Jagtial Karimnagar Warangal Khammam
 * Jagtial to Peddapalli R&B Highway

Bus
TSRTC has a bus depot named JAGTIAL(JGTL).Jagtial bus depot is one of the major profitable depots in TSRTC.Many rural people ply from villages to this city daily for their needs.Jagtial has direct connectivity to Hyderabad ,Vijayawada ,Shirdi, Mumbai ,Ongole ,Tirupati etc.,

Railway
Station Code : LPJL There is a railway station at Jagityal located at Lingampet village. So station name is Lingampet Jagityal. It is a part of the Peddapalli-Nizamabad line.

This station is a major exporter of mangoes, maize, rice and other agricultural products. In the future this station will become a major junction with passengers and goods transport. A weekly Train between Lokmanya Tilak (Mumbai) - Karimnagar was started in 2022 has a halt at Jagityal. Daily a MEMU Pushpull train from Nizamabad-Sirpur town runs and stops at this station. There is a proposal of Jagityal City people and surrounding rural people for running of Tirupati- Karimnagar express to extend and Start from Jagityal Railway Station.

 * JNTUH College of Engineering Jagtial, located in Nachupally Jagtiyal
 * Prof Jayashankar Agriculture University college of Jagtiyal
 * NAAC National Academy of Construction
 * Government Medical College Jagtiyal
 * Government Nursing College Jagtiyal
 * SKNR Government Degree college
 * Government women's Degree college
 * Government Intermediate Junior College
 * NSV Educational Institutions KG to PG
 * SM Shubamastu Convention Hall

Notable people

 * Duvvasi Mohan Actor and comedian in Telugu cinema
 * Venu Sriram Film director in Tollywood
 * Harish Shankar Film director in Tollywood
 * Alishetti Prabhakar, writer and painter
 * T Jeevan Reddy politician, MLC, Ex R&B Minister
 * L Ramana politician from TRS Party, MLC

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Uli Jon Roth

Uli Jon Roth (born Ulrich Roth; 18 December 1954) is a German guitarist who became famous for his work with the hard rock band Scorpions and is one of the earliest contributors to the neoclassical metal genre. He is also the founder of Sky Academy and designer of the Sky Guitar. He is the older brother of fellow guitarist and artist Zeno Roth (1956–2018).

Dawn Road and Scorpions
Roth formed a band called Dawn Road in the early 1970s. When guitarist Michael Schenker left the Scorpions to join UFO in 1973, the two remaining Scorpions members Rudolf Schenker and Klaus Meine joined the four members of Dawn Road, but decided to use the name Scorpions rather than the less-well-known Dawn Road. Scorpions released four studio albums during his tenure as lead guitarist, main songwriter and occasional lead singer between 1974 and 1977.

Electric Sun
Roth formed his own band named Electric Sun—releasing three albums: Earthquake (1979) dedicated to the spirit of Jimi Hendrix, Fire Wind (1981), dedicated to Anwar Sadat and featured a song called "Enola Gay (Hiroshima Today?)" about the atomic bombing of Japan by a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber of that name, and his third and final Electric Sun album Beyond the Astral Skies (1985), dedicated both to Martin Luther King Jr. and to Roth's fans. This final album featured ex-Jethro Tull drummer Clive Bunker on drums and timpani.

Solo career
Roth entered a new phase of creative work after Electric Sun, composing four symphonies and two concertos and sometimes performing with symphony orchestras throughout Europe. Roth used the name "Uli Jon Roth" for all subsequent album releases and concert appearances.

The G3 European tour of 1998 featured Roth playing with Joe Satriani and Michael Schenker. The show at London Wembley Arena also featured a jam with Brian May.

Roth played at the outdoor rock festival at Castle Donington in 2001 (also featuring original Scorpions lead guitarist Michael Schenker on the bill). This was filmed and subsequently released on DVD.

Roth appeared in concert with Scorpions onstage at the Wacken Open Air Festival in 2006 along with two other former members of the band. Billed as "A Night to Remember; A Journey Through Time", the Scorpions played four songs from the Roth era, most of which they had not played live since Roth had left in 1978. This concert was also filmed and released on DVD.

Although this was meant to be a "one night only" special event, its success meant that the format was repeated on several tours subsequently.

At the Rock am Ring festival in Germany in June 2007, Roth joined The Smashing Pumpkins on-stage for their epic closing song "Gossamer." He made another appearance with the Pumpkins upon their return to Germany on 26 February 2008.

Roth had begun working on a new full-length studio album in 2007 which was to be released the following year. The title of the album would be: "Under A Dark Sky" and was going to be the first official release in the long-awaited series of Symphonic Legends (a cycle of music written by Uli for his all-encompassing Sky of Avalon project.)

Roth debuted songs from "Under a Dark Sky" on 18 July 2008 in his headline set at the G-TARanaki Guitar Festival in New Zealand. This was his first concert in the country. Roth also took his "Sky Academy" tuition classes to Taranaki, Waitara, Inglewood and Ōpunake. Guests musicians included Vernon Reid and Gilby Clarke.

"Under a Dark Sky" was released in Japan on 20 August 2008 via Marquee records. The European and USA releases followed a month later on 20 September 2008 on the SPV record label. Uli Jon Roth released a two-CD studio album entitled Scorpions Revisited, which was recorded in 2014 in Hanover in early 2015. Roth revisited his personal favourites from the early Scorpions period.

A tour called The Ultimate Guitar Experience with fellow guitarists Jennifer Batten and Andy Timmons followed. Uli soon thereafter embarked on another world tour: this time playing The Tokyo Tapes, songs from the Scorpions 1978 tour of Japan and ensuing live album.

A double CD and Blu-ray/DVD were released in December 2016 of a concert Uli and his band played in Japan in 2015 commemorating the anniversary of The Tokyo Tapes. Roth concluded a short North American tour in March 2017, highlighting songs from both Scorpions Revisited and Tokyo Tapes.

Roth participated a second time at the G3 European tour with Joe Satriani and John Petrucci in March 2017.

Roth contributed an afterword to the 2017 book Shredders!: The Oral History of Speed Guitar (And More) by Greg Prato.

Sky guitars
Roth commissioned construction of custom guitars with additional frets from luthier Andreas Demetriou in the 1980s. Roth has had five of these "Sky" guitars made. To be able to emulate the high notes of a violin, all of the Sky Guitars have more frets than a typical electric guitar. The first Sky Guitar (used on the album Beyond the Astral Skies) had 30 frets. Later versions of the Sky Guitar overcame the problem of the higher register frets becoming too narrow by widening the frets by whole steps for the highest notes. In an April 2001 Guitar Player magazine interview, Roth reported that the guitars are either fretless above the 30th fret or have whole step fret spacing above the 27th fret, with 35 effective (half step) frets. All of the Sky Guitars with frets have scalloped fretboards. The Sky Guitar's pickups are custom 4-coil humbuckers, made by John Oram, with one guitar having an Oram pickup hidden under the 24th fret. For a time, Roth used a Framus Dragon amplifier, although currently he promotes Blackstar Artisan 100 & Series One 200 Watt heads. He has also used a stalk mounted Vibesware guitar resonator (sustainer) to introduce infinite sustain as on the instrumental Benediction on his Under A Dark Sky album. Dean Guitars produced 25 Custom Sky Guitars based on Roth's custom models with six and seven strings in 2011.

Playing style
Initially, Roth was inspired by The Beatles, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Eric Clapton's fretwork on John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and Cream. He would, later on, reveal his appreciation for fellow 1970 guitar heroes such as Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore and Jeff Beck, especially his fusion masterpiece Blow by Blow. In 1971 he began studying piano and classical guitar. His influences broadened, now including spanish guitar virtuoso Andrés Segovia and violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Roth's solo on Scorpion's "Sails of Charon," off the Taken by Force album, is notable for impressive speed and precision. The solo displayed a number of classical techniques, weaving pedal point sequences, harmonic "Middle Eastern" sounding scales and rapid-fire arpeggios. Of note, Metallica's Kirk Hammett famously quoted a portion of this solo on "Battery", the opening song of Master of Puppets (1986).

In Roth's early days with Scorpions, his soloing style was based primarily on the blues scale, occasionally incorporating notes from other modes. However, by the time the band recorded the Virgin Killer album, he began incorporating more advanced compositional elements from European classical music: such as pedal tone sequences and intricate arpeggios. Beginning with Electric Sun, the classical influence began to dominate his playing style- notable in songs like "Cast Away Your Chains" and "Still So Many Lives Away". His style eventually became a fusion of blues-based rock with European classical sensibilities. Roth employs major and minor pentatonic, the blues scale, phrygian, harmonic minor, diminished, and the whole tone scale.

Personal life
Roth was romantically involved with artist Monika Dannemann who was with Jimi Hendrix when he died. Roth and Danneman collaborated on various songs including "We'll Burn the Sky" from Scorpions' Taken by Force

Danneman also painted the album sleeves for all three of the releases by Electric Sun.

Monika Dannemann was convicted of breaking a 1996 British High Court order not to repeat allegations that Kathy Etchingham was an "inveterate liar" for accusing her of playing a role in Jimi Hendrix's death. Although Etchingham asked the judge to jail Dannemann she was released. Monika Dannemann was found dead in a fume-filled Mercedes-Benz near her cottage in Seaford, East Sussex two days later—aged 50. Her death was ruled a suicide, but Roth publicly stated his opinion that her death was the result of foul play. He dedicated his later works to the memory of Dannemann.

Roth has been living in the UK for several years. His current home is in Llansilin in Powys. Roth performed a charity concert of his interpretation of Vivaldi's Four Seasons at Saint Silin's Church in his home town on 21 June 2019. This was an effort to raise money to help the church.

Roth has been a vegetarian since the Scorpions days.

Legacy
Roth has been on the cover of many guitar magazines and has influenced many notable guitar players including: Billy Corgan, Kirk Hammett, Marty Friedman, Yngwie Malmsteen, Gus G, Andy DiGelsomina, Michael Romeo, Wolf Hoffman, Syu, Eric Peterson of Testament, Hank Shermann of Mercyful Fate, Joe Stump, James Byrd, and Fredrik Åkesson from Opeth and Ghost.

Guest appearance

 * Live at Wacken Open Air 2006 (2006) (DVD)
 * The Sunflower Jam 2012 (2012) (DVD)
 * Angels Cry 20th Anniversary Tour (2013) (DVD)

Session work

 * Disco Motion (1978) lead guitar on "Rock Tell" by The Original Red Apple Orchestra

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User:Istara

Currently trying to glean details of long-lost British writers, including:

June Boland

Mrs George de Horne Vaizey (aka Jessie Mansergh)

Amélie Claire Leroy (aka Esmè Stuart)

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Paul Harrison Taylor

Paul Harrison Taylor (born July 12, 1957, in London, England) is a sculptor of English and Israeli nationalities.

He worked as a recording engineer and producer at Decca Studios in West Hampstead, London, before finishing his studies at the City and Guilds of London art school in 1984. During his tenure in the record industry he met musicians such as Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, Bing Crosby and the Goons, and was able to use his art skills creating album covers.

Taylor married an Israeli woman and moved to Jerusalem. He quickly found a studio and continued to make sculpture. Taylor was soon offered a teaching post and began a high school sculpture course in Jerusalem, introducing the varied elements of sculpture to the youth of the city, as well as taking on an additional teaching position at the Israel Museum. He continues to practice and teach stone carving, clay, and steel construction.

He won an award from Foundation Yad Yosef, Ramat-Gan, in 1990. He has exhibited his work around the globe, especially in Israel, Britain, and the United States.

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Victor Agali

Victor Okechukwu Agali (born 29 December 1978) is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a forward.

Career
In 1997, Agali joined French club Olympique de Marseille. Finding it hard to establish a first team place, he quickly moved to Sporting Toulon Var and subsequently to Germany where he played in Hansa Rostock and Schalke 04. From 2005 to 2007 he played in the Turkish Süper Lig, returning to German Bundesliga team Rostock in August 2007. At Rostock Agali did not do well, after just one goal in 23 league matches he was given a free transfer to the Greek club Skoda Xanthi FC. After a season with Greek club Skoda Xanthi the Nigerian striker has signed for Anorthosis Famagusta.

On 27 December 2009, he was arrested at Schiphol airport near Amsterdam for carrying fake passports.

He moved in summer 2010 to the Chinese Super League club Jiangsu Sainty.

Agali is the head coach of AS Racine FC, a Lagos based professional football club that competes in the Nigeria National League.

International career
Agali has played for Nigeria at a number of occasions, including the 2000 Summer Olympics.

Club
Schalke 04
 * UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2003

International
Nigeria
 * Africa Cup of Nations third place: 2004

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Talk:Higher National Diploma

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here's a fascinating article about the history of HNC, HND, ONC, and ONDs in the UK... I didn't know they went back to 1922! http://www.technicaleducationmatters.org/publications/historyexams/chapter4 139.166.230.63 (talk) 18:03, 8 November 2012 (UTC)macdaddy]]

--- I want to know whether the HND can be used as a enitial to put next to your name. Some BTEC qualifications allow this.

 * Yep - at the end of your name - basically anything above a high school diploma can be used as such - once their is a tradition or custom. Djegan 21:48, 30 September 2005 (UTC)WHY???

 * So, in the UK any qualification above AVCE or an A-level can be put as an enitial next to the qualifiers name?

 * It depends on the particulars of each qualification but certainly HNC, HND and Fd are post-nominal letters - on a fundemental level it is a matter of custom and tradition and any awards body could give the specifics of what is accepted. Djegan 09:56, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I find this very interesting, thanks for your help. I will be back and forth here now and again.

grading
Just want to know, like with most courses when you get an overall grade, do you get an overall grade with the HND?
 * The HND does not contain an overall grade, if you enter a degree with a HND, the entry would go by all the individual modules passed on your final year. If you get Merits all around on a final year of the HND you will be able to do a second year of a degree. Amlder20 16:37, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

HND
You do not need a HNC to study the HND, the HNC is actually the HND but part timed.

-They are not the same, the HND contains different modules, I'm on a part time HNC at the moment (taking 1 and 1/2 years) and then the HND will take a further 1 and 1/2 years. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.12.81.68 (talk) 10:52, 27 October 2010 (UTC)

Pointless
Should it be noted that they are completely pointless ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.13.223.120 (talk) 11:46, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

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How many ESTC credits has a HND ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.154.151.64 (talk) 13:48, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

HELLO, CAN ANYBODY TELL THE EXEMPTIONS OF HND IN CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT IN ICAEW...REPLY ME ON THIS EMAIL ID ssarn4514@hotmail.com. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.154.24.3 (talk) 07:50, 9 September 2011 (UTC)

List of Holders
SHould a list of HND dolder be created? Terry Christian? aand mention Template:User degree/HND. --Kitchen Knife (talk) 22:06, 26 January 2015 (UTC)

Further Education or Higher Education
This article states that a Higher National Diploma is a further education qualification whereas the HND disambiguation page says that it is a higher education qualification - which is it?

BobKilcoyne (talk) 07:44, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

 * It used to be a higher education qualification when it was awarded by higher education institutions (universities and polytechnics) but it is now taught by further education colleges so I guess it is more appropriately seen as a further education qualification.  With the expansion of university students (500% growth since 1992), the people who used to study HNDs in the UK, now study degrees.  FreeFlow99 (talk) 14:11, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

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What happened to HND students when polytechnics transitioned into universities and stopped teaching HNDs?
When polytechnics ceased offering HND courses, but expanded their student intake for degrees, were the HND courses morphed into degree courses so that students could seamlessly transition? Or were HND diplomats offered and extra year to gain a degree? Or did they merely leave after 2 years with an HND? This is interesting as it informs understanding on the perceived difference between degree and HND students. FreeFlow99 (talk) 14:17, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

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Arthur Bostrom

Arthur Bostrom FRGS (born 6 January 1955) is an English actor, best known for his role as Officer Crabtree in the long-running BBC TV sitcom 'Allo 'Allo!.

Early life
Bostrom was born in Rugby, Warwickshire and attended Lawrence Sheriff School, where he was a contemporary with Kevin Warwick. He graduated from St Chad's College, University of Durham. In 1977 he performed at the Edinburgh Festival as part of Durham University Sensible Thespians (DUST). Besides his television career, he acted on the stage regularly, also being a trained life coach. He lived in Manchester for a long time.

Professional career
Bostrom had a small role in Miss Marple series 1 The Body in the Library in 1984. Bostrom had a recurrent character in 'Allo 'Allo!, first appearing midway through the second series and remaining until the show's finale. Officer Crabtree was played as a hopeless British undercover officer, disguised constantly as a French local policeman during the Second World War. Much of the character's humour derived from his supposed inability to pronounce French words correctly in conversation, which, on an English-language television programme, was represented by ludicrous exaggeration and mispronunciation of ordinary English words. For example, "Good morning" would be pronounced as "Good moaning", "I was just passing round the corner" would be "I was just pissing roond the corner", and famously, "The bombers were being chased by fighters when they dropped their bombs on the London docks" became "The bummers were being chased by farters when they drooped their bums on the London dicks'. Bostrom actually speaks fluent French. Prior to this he appeared in Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie's 1983 sketch show pilot The Crystal Cube which was not commissioned for a series. In 2005, Bostrom guest-starred in Dead Man Walking, an audio drama based on the television series Sapphire and Steel. From December 2007 to January 2008, he continued his pantomime run when he appeared in a production as an ugly sister in Cinderella in Middlesbrough. On 8 January 2008, he appeared in an episode of Big Brother's Big Mouth on E4. He discussed events in the house after introducing the show in the familiar character of Officer Crabtree.

On 3 March 2010 he appeared as a vicar in the BBC One daytime soap opera Doctors and again in Doctors (17:163) on 25 January 2016 as sommelier Murray Bathurst.

Bostrom appeared (alongside fellow  'Allo 'Allo! alumnus Sam Kelly) in the BBC radio dramatisation of The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek in November 2008, playing the part of Wendler.

In November 2012, Bostrom appeared in Hebburn as a newspaper editor.

In 2017, he appeared in the BBC series Father Brown as Richie Queenan in episode 5.12 "The Theatre of the Invisible"

In 2017 he appeared on a celebrity edition of Pointless.

In October 2018 he reprised his role from  'Allo 'Allo! in the book Good Moaning France: Officer Crabtree's Fronch Phrose Berk, in which he attempts to teach others to 'spook the Fronch longwodge'.

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Greensboro Monarchs

The Greensboro Monarchs were a professional ice hockey team based in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Monarchs joined the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) as an expansion franchise prior to the start of the 1989–90 season and surrendered the franchise back to the league when the Monarchs ownership obtained an expansion franchise in the American Hockey League (AHL) at the conclusion of the 1994–95 ECHL season.

History
The Monarchs played in the ECHL from 1989 until 1995, reaching the playoffs in every season. They won the Riley Cup league championship in their inaugural season, beating the Winston-Salem Thunderbirds four games to one. Goalie Wade Flaherty was named playoff MVP. The Monarchs also reached the Riley Cup Finals in 1991 and 1995.

With some of the owners voting to enter the higher level American Hockey League, the franchise was canceled by the ECHL. The ownership renamed the new franchise the Carolina Monarchs and played in the AHL for the 1995–96 season before their lease was revoked by the Greensboro Coliseum when the Hartford Whalers of the National Hockey League (NHL) moved temporarily to Greensboro and became the Carolina Hurricanes. The Hurricanes then moved into their new arena and permanent home in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Season-by-season results
Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, OTL = Overtime losses, SOL = Shootout losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, PIM = Penalties in minutes.

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Robust Header Compression

Robust Header Compression (ROHC) is a standardized method to compress the IP, UDP, UDP-Lite, RTP, and TCP headers of Internet packets.

The need for header compression
In streaming applications, the overhead of IP, UDP, and RTP is 40 bytes for IPv4, or 60 bytes for IPv6. For VoIP, this corresponds to around 60% of the total amount of data sent. Such large overheads may be tolerable in local wired links where capacity is often not an issue, but are excessive for wide area networks and wireless systems where bandwidth is scarce.

ROHC compresses these 40 bytes or 60 bytes of overhead typically into only one or three bytes, by placing a compressor before the link that has limited capacity, and a decompressor after that link. The compressor converts the large overhead to only a few bytes, while the decompressor does the opposite.

The ROHC compression scheme differs from other compression schemes, such as IETF and, by the fact that it performs well over links where the packet loss rate is high, such as wireless links.

Main ROHC compression principles
The ROHC protocol takes advantage of information redundancy in the headers of the following:

 * one single network packet (e.g. the payload lengths in IP and UDP headers)
 * several network packets that belong to one single stream (e.g. the IP addresses)

Redundant information is transmitted in the first packets only. The next packets contain variable information, e.g. identifiers or sequence numbers. These fields are transmitted in a compressed form to save more bits.

For better performance, the packets are classified into streams before being compressed. This classification takes advantage of inter-packet redundancy. The classification algorithm is not defined by the ROHC protocol itself but left to the equipment vendor's implementation. Once a stream of packets is classified, it is compressed according to the compression profile that fits best. A compression profile defines the way to compress the different fields in the network headers. Several compression profiles are available, including the following:

 * Uncompressed
 * IP-only
 * UDP/IP
 * UDP-Lite/IP
 * ESP/IP
 * RTP/UDP/IP
 * RTP/UDP-Lite/IP
 * TCP/IP

Modes of operation
According to RFC 3095, the ROHC scheme has three modes of operation, as follows:

 * the Unidirectional mode (U-mode)
 * the Bidirectional Optimistic mode (O-mode)
 * the Bidirectional Reliable mode (R-mode)

Both the compressor and the decompressor start in U-mode. They may then transition to O-mode if a usable return link is available, and the decompressor sends a positive acknowledgement, with O-mode specified, to the compressor. The transition to R-mode is achieved in the same way.

Unidirectional Mode (U-Mode)
In the Unidirectional mode of operation, packets are only sent in one direction: from compressor to decompressor. This mode therefore makes ROHC usable over links where a return path from decompressor to compressor is unavailable or undesirable. In order to handle potential decompression errors, the compressor sends periodic refreshes of the stream context to the decompressor.

Bidirectional Optimistic Mode (O-Mode)
The Bidirectional Optimistic mode is similar to the Unidirectional mode, except that a feedback channel is used to send error recovery requests and (optionally) acknowledgments of significant context updates from the decompressor to compressor. The O-mode aims to maximize compression efficiency and aims for sparse usage of the feedback channel.

Bidirectional Reliable Mode (R-Mode)
The Bidirectional Reliable mode differs in many ways from the previous two modes. The most important differences are a more intensive usage of the feedback channel, and a stricter logic at both the compressor and the decompressor that prevents loss of context synchronization between compressor and decompressor, except for very high residual bit error rates.

Compressor/decompressor states
The notion of compressor/decompressor states is orthogonal to the operational modes. Whatever the mode is, both the compressor and the decompressor work in one of their three states. They are basically finite state machines. Every incoming packet may cause the compressor/decompressor to change its internal state. Every state refers to a defined behaviour and compression level.

The ROHC algorithm is similar to video compression, in that a base frame and then several difference frames are sent to represent an IP packet flow. This has the advantage of allowing ROHC to survive many packet losses in its highest compression state, as long as the base frames are not lost.

Compressor states
The compressor's state machine defines the following three states:

 * Initialization and Refresh (IR) state
 * First Order (FO) state
 * Second Order (SO) state

Operations in the different compressor states
In Initialization and Refresh (IR) state, the compressor has just been created or reset, and full packet headers are sent. In First-Order (FO) state, the compressor has detected and stored the static fields (such as IP addresses and port numbers) on both sides of the connection. The compressor is also sending dynamic packet field differences in FO state. Thus, FO state is essentially static and pseudo-dynamic compression. In Second-Order (SO) state, the compressor is suppressing all dynamic fields such as RTP sequence numbers, and sending only a logical sequence number and partial checksum to cause the other side to predictively generate and verify the headers of the next expected packet. In general, FO state compresses all static fields and most dynamic fields. SO state is compressing all dynamic fields predictively using a sequence number and checksum.

Transitions between compressor states
Transitions between the above states occur when the compressor:

 * compresses a packet that contains too many variations
 * receives a positive/negative feedback from the decompressor
 * periodically refreshes the context

Second-Order ROHC headers – 1-byte headers
A typical ROHC implementation will aim to get the terminal into Second-Order state, where a 1-byte ROHC header can be substituted for the 40-byte IPv4/UDP/RTP or the 60-byte IPv6/UDP/RTP (i.e. VoIP) header. In this state, the 8-bit ROHC header contains three fields:

 * a 1-bit packet-type flag (set to '1' only for longer ROHC headers)
 * a 4-bit sequence number (with a range of −1 ... +14 packets from the base frame)
 * a 3-bit CRC

Decompressor states
The decompressor's state machine defines the following three states:

 * No Context State
 * Static Context State
 * Full Context State

Transitions between the above states occur when the decompressor:

 * successfully decompresses a packet
 * fails to decompress several packets

Robustness
The size of the sequence number (SN) field governs the number of packets that ROHC can lose before the compressor must be reset to continue. The W-LSB algorithm is used to compress the SN in a robust way. The size of the sequence number in 1 and 2 byte ROHC packets is either 4 bits ( −1/+14 frame offset ), or 6 bits ( −1/+62 frame offset ), respectively, so ROHC can tolerate at most 62 lost frames with a 1-2 byte header.

Additional compression profiles
The defines a generic compression mechanism. It may be extended by defining new compression profiles dedicated to specific protocol headers. New RFCs were published to compress new protocols:

 * The defines a compression profile for IP headers or IP tunnels.
 * The defines a compression profile for UDP-Lite/IP and RTP/UDP-Lite/IP headers.
 * The defines a compression profile for TCP/IP headers.

Newer ROHC RFCs
There have been two new RFCs published and  to address the confusion some have encountered when attempting to interpret and implement ROHC. The first document defines a ROHC framework, while the second defines newer versions of the established ROHC profiles.

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Daily Air

Daily Air Corporation is a Taiwanese regional airline with its headquarters in Songshan District, Taipei, Taiwan. It operates scheduled passenger services, primarily to domestic destinations such as to offshore islands from Taiwan, including Penghu, Green Island and Orchid Island, as well as helicopter contract services and charters. Its main base is Taipei Songshan Airport, with hubs at Kaohsiung International Airport and Taitung Airport.

History
The airline was established in 1992 as a helicopter operator. Aircraft services began 8 June 2005. The airline is owned by Sincere and Durban Shopping Mall, Miramar Entertainment Park, DC Development (Construction) Group, Mayer Steel Pipe, Tze Shin Transportation and Terminal and Far Eastern Air Transport (5%). It had 100 employees, as of March 2007.

Fleet
As of November 2016, the Daily Air fleet consists of the following aircraft:

Incidents and accidents

 * On 13 April 2017, Flight 55571, a DHC-6, overran the runway and crashed into a guard rail in Lanyu Airport in Taitung County. None of the people on board were hurt.

 * On 7 June 2017, a Daily Air-operated DHC-6-400 experienced malfunction in its front landing gear. No person on board was hurt.

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Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum

The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, Texas, is the state-designated official historical center of the famed Texas Rangers law enforcement agency. It consists of the Homer Garrison Jr. museum gallery, the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame, the Texas Ranger Research Center and the Headquarters of Texas Rangers Company "F". The City of Waco serves as the appointed trustee on behalf of the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Legislature.

Location
The Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum is located near Interstate Highway 35 Exit 335B in Waco, Texas.

Mission
The mission of the nonprofit Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum is to: (1) Disseminate knowledge and inspire appreciation of the history, public service and ideals of the Texas Rangers, a legendary symbol of Texas and America; and (2) Serve as state designated repository for artifacts and archives relating to the Texas Rangers.

Institutional history
In 1964 the Texas Department of Public Safety chartered the City of Waco, Texas, to construct and operate the official museum of the Texas Rangers. The City of Waco agreed to commit 32 acre for a building site, provide an ongoing annual operating subsidy, and build and sustain a headquarters for Texas Rangers Company "F". More than three million persons have visited the historical center since it opened in 1968.

The museum complex was originally named Fort Fisher, after an 1837 Ranger camp from which the City of Waco traces its origin. It was designed in a vernacular style of Texas hill country architecture reminiscent of a 19th-century Texas Ranger headquarters. The first museum gallery was named after Col. Homer Garrison Jr., who served and later directed the Texas Department of Public Safety and its Texas Rangers division from 1938 to 1968.

In 1971 the Texas Legislature appointed the Texas Ranger Commemorative Commission to honor the 150th anniversary of the Texas Rangers. The commission was charged with raising funds and erecting the official state Hall of Fame of the Texas Rangers. The project was opened for the American Bicentennial in 1976. Soon afterward the name of the historical complex was changed to the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum to reflect its broader role.

In 1975 the Moody Foundation of Galveston donated seed money to establish the Moody Texas Ranger Memorial Library. Along with the State Library and Archives in Austin, it has become a primary research center on the history and popular culture of the Texas Rangers. In 1997 it was renamed as the Texas Ranger Research Center, with the permission of the Moody Foundation, to recognize its expanding role.

After the museum's 30 years of service, the Texas Legislature passed a 1997 resolution designating the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum as the official repository for memorabilia, archives and other materials relating to the Texas Rangers. Texas Ranger artifacts and archives donated to the institution become property of the People of Texas through the trusteeship of the City of Waco.

Col. Homer Garrison Jr. Gallery
The Garrison Gallery (museum) was dedicated in 1968 and tells the story of the Rangers and their service through three centuries. It preserves more than 14,000 irreplaceable artifacts dating back to the founding of the Texas Rangers. Items on display include rotating displays of the 2,500 historic firearms and accessories in the collection, artwork, Texas Ranger badges and credentials, items from 1930s gangsters Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker and displays about forensics and famous Texas Rangers.

Texas Ranger Hall of Fame
The Hall of Fame is a memorial to Texas Rangers who significantly contributed to the development of the service or died heroically in the line of duty. A separate mission of the Hall of Fame is the compilation of a memorial roll of Texas Rangers killed in the line of duty from 1823 to 2004.

Rangers inducted in the Hall of Fame with Wikipedia articles include:

 * Armstrong, John Barclay
 * Aten, Ira
 * Baylor, George W.
 * Brooks, James
 * Burton, Marvin "Red"
 * Crowder, Robert A.
 * Ford, John Salmon
 * Gillett, James B.
 * Gonzaullas, Manuel T.
 * Hall, Jesse Lee
 * Hamer, Frank
 * Hays, John Coffee
 * Hughes, John R.
 * Jones, John B.
 * McCulloch, Benjamin
 * McDonald, William J.
 * McNelly, Leander
 * Smith, Erastus
 * Ross, Sullivan Ross
 * Walker, Samuel H.
 * Wallace, William A. A

The Texas Ranger Research Center
Each year more than 3,000 researchers utilize the center to research ancestors, write books or produce movies and television shows. The collections hold more than 300,000 items including the personal and case files of Texas Rangers, reference books on Ranger history and the firearms and equipment used by Texas Rangers, photographs and pop culture items from movies, television and radio. The center has been used by the Texas Rangers in the investigation of cold cases.

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Emu Bay Shale

The Emu Bay Shale is a geological formation in Emu Bay, South Australia, containing a major Konservat-Lagerstätte (fossil beds with soft tissue preservation). It is one of two in the world containing Redlichiidan trilobites. The Emu Bay Shale is dated as Cambrian Series 2, Stage 4, correlated with the upper Botomian Stage of the Lower Cambrian.

Its mode of preservation is the same as the Burgess shale, but the larger grain size of the Emu Bay rock means that the quality of preservation is lower. More than 50 species of trilobites, non-biomineralized arthropods, palaeoscolecids, a lobopodian, a polychaete, vetulicolians, nectocaridids, hyoliths, brachiopods, sponges, chancelloriids, and a chelicerate are known from the Emu Bay Shale.

Description
The Emu Bay Shale of Kangaroo Island, South Australia, is Australia's only known Burgess-Shale-type Konservat-Lagerstätte, and includes faunal elements such as Anomalocaris, Tuzoia, Isoxys, and Wronascolex, in common with other Burgess-Shale-type assemblages, notably the Chengjiang Biota in China, the closest palaeogeographically, although somewhat older. A few genera of non-biomineralized arthropods, among them Squamacula, Kangacaris, and the megacheiran Tanglangia, are known only from the Emu Bay Shale and Chengjiang. The site is also the source of high-quality specimens of trilobites such as Redlichia takooensis, Emuella polymera, Balcoracania dailyi, Megapharanaspis nedini, Holyoakia simpsoni, and Estaingia (=Hsuaspis) bilobata. Balcoracania and Emuella are the only known genera of the distinctive Redlichiina family Emuellidae, known for possessing the greatest number of thoracic segments known for Trilobita as a whole (a record of 103 in one Balcoracania specimen), and so far entirely restricted to Australia and Antarctica.

The sedimentary depositional environment of the majority of Burgess-Shale-type assemblages is outer shelf, deeper water. The Emu Bay Shale in contrast, appears to represent deposition in restricted basins on the inner shelf, indicating that soft tissue preservation occurred in a range of environmental settings during the Cambrian. Some Emu Bay fossils display extensive mineralization of soft tissues, most often of blocky apatite or fibrous calcium carbonate, including the oldest phosphatized muscle tissue – along with records from Sirius Passet in Greenland, the first thus far reported from the Cambrian. Mid-gut glands are preserved three-dimensionally in calcium phosphate in the arthropods Isoxys and Oestokerkus, as in related species from the Burgess Shale.

The type section of the Emu Bay Shale crops out on the east side of Emu Bay where it conformably overlies the White Point Conglomerate. Here it yields a rich assemblage of Estaingia, Redlichia, hyolithids, brachiopods, and the scleritome-bearing Chancelloria. At the Big Gully locality (8 km east of White Point), its presumed correlative is unconformable on the White Point Conglomerate and yields soft-bodied fossils in addition to the trilobites, including two species of the giant predator Anomalocaris (A. briggsi and Anomalocaris cf. canadensis), Isoxys, Tuzoia, two species of the nektaspid arthropod Family Emucarididae (Emucaris fava and Kangacaris zhangi), the palaeoscolecid worm Wronascolex, the problematic Myoscolex and Vetustovermis, and a number of rarer elements. The Big Gully trilobites rarely preserve any trace of non-biomineralized tissue; a small number of specimens of Redlichia have been reported with antennae. Taxa documented from a quarry located inland of the shoreline exposure at Big Gully include Oestokerkus, a genus of leanchoiliid closely related to the well-known Leanchoilia, the early chelicerate Wisangocaris and the type species of a monotypic genus of artiopodan arthropod, Australimicola. An armoured lobopodian of the Family Luolishaniidae is known from a single specimen that closely resembles an unnamed species from the Burgess Shale popularly known as Collins' Monster.

In 2011, seven fossils of large, isolated compound eyes were described from the inland quarry site at Emu Bay, as well as the first well-preserved visual surfaces of the eyes of Anomalocaris. The latter specimens are consistent with anomalocaridids being closely related to arthropods as had been suspected. The find also indicated that advanced arthropod eyes had evolved very early, before the evolution of jointed legs or hardened exoskeletons. The eyes were 30 times more powerful than those of trilobites, long thought to have had the most advanced eyes of any species contemporary with Anomalocaris and which were only able to sense night or day. With more than 16,000 lenses, the resolution of the 3 cm wide eyes would have been rivaled only by that of the modern dragonfly, which has 28,000 lenses in each eye.

Paleobiota
After Paterson et. al.(2015).

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The Best of the Beta Band

The Best of the Beta Band - Music and The Best of the Beta Band - Film are retrospective best of collections by The Beta Band, on CD and DVD respectively, released on 3 October 2005. The cover artwork combines elements from the covers of each of the three EPs and three albums released by the band in its seven-year lifespan.

CD one
The best of the studio recordings, as selected by the band
 * 1) "Dry the Rain"
 * 2) "Inner Meet Me"
 * 3) "She’s the One"
 * 4) "Dr. Baker"
 * 5) "It’s Not Too Beautiful"
 * 6) "Smiling" (edit)
 * 7) "To You Alone"
 * 8) "Squares"
 * 9) "Human Being" (radio edit)
 * 10) "Gone"
 * 11) "Broke" (radio edit)
 * 12) "Assessment" (radio edit)
 * 13) "Easy"
 * 14) "Wonderful"
 * 15) "Troubles"
 * 16) "Simple"

CD two
Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire, 30 November 2004
 * 1) "Squares"
 * 2) "It’s Not Too Beautiful"
 * 3) "Inner Meet Me"
 * 4) "Simple"
 * 5) "She’s the One"
 * 6) "Easy"
 * 7) "Dr. Baker"
 * 8) "Dry the Rain"
 * 9) "Quiet"
 * 10) "Broke"
 * 11) "Assessment"
 * 12) "Dogs Got a Bone"
 * 13) "The House Song"

Trailers

 * 1) "Chalk and Cheese"
 * 2) * Directed by John Maclean
 * 3) "King Rib"
 * 4) * Directed by Pete Rankin, Steve Mason
 * 5) "Highland Fidelity"
 * 6) * Directed by John Maclean
 * 7) "Old Jock Radio"
 * 8) * Directed by Pete Rankin

Videos

 * 1) "Inner Meet Me"
 * 2) * Directed by John Maclean
 * 3) "Los Amigos Del Beta Bandidos"
 * 4) * Directed by The Beta Band
 * 5) "Dance O'er The Border"
 * 6) * Directed by John Maclean
 * 7) "Smiling"
 * 8) * Directed by Mark Szaszy and Corinne Day
 * 9) "Brokenupadingdong"
 * 10) * Directed by Josh Eve
 * 11) "Squares"
 * 12) * Directed by John Maclean
 * 13) "Al Sharp"
 * 14) * Directed by John Maclean
 * 15) "Assessment"
 * 16) * Directed by John Maclean and Robin Jones
 * 17) "Lion Thief"
 * 18) * Directed by Andrew Cranston
 * 19) "Wonderful"
 * 20) * Directed by Nina Chakrabarti
 * 21) "Trouble"
 * 22) * Directed by John Maclean
 * 23) "Out-Side"
 * 24) * Directed by Robin Jones and John Maclean
 * 25) "Rhododendron"
 * 26) * Created by Robin Jones
 * 27) "Country Bird"
 * 28) * Directed by Steve Mason and Pete Rankin
 * 29) "Simple"
 * 30) * By Andrew Keller
 * 31) "Weirds Way"
 * 32) * Directed by Steve Mason and Pete Rankin
 * 33) "Remote Troubles"
 * 34) * Directed by John Maclean and Robin Jones

Documentaries

 * The Depot To Monte Cristo
 * Directed by Sam Tyler
 * 1997–2004
 * Directed by John Maclean
 * Let It Beta
 * Directed by Pete Rankin

Live at the Shepherd's Bush Empire
Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire, 29 November 2004
 * 1) "Inner Meet Me"
 * 2) "Dry the Rain"
 * 3) "Broke"
 * 4) "Assessment"

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