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172.142.242.185 and 204.168.97.160, we know who you are. This is no place for political propoganda. That's what franking privilege is for. Watch out -- this wouldn't look good in the press.

Campaign Websites
It seems inappropriate to list the campaign website for his likely opponent in the links section. There is no link to Kuhl's campaign site on Eric Massa's page. If someone is looking for Eric Massa's campaign site, aren't they likely to go to his Wikipedia page to find it, not Kuhl's? If there is no objection, I intend to remove that link in a couple of days. If anyone feels different, please post here. Thanks. Souldrifter 18:34, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

I think the link to massa's campaign should stay. I reciprocated by linking to Kuhl' campaign site on the Eric Massa page, something I had done before, but someone removed it. I now watch both Kuhl's and Massa's pages and will ensure that the campaign links stay (unless of course there is some sort of consensus that they should be deleted) thanks for the heads-up Souldrifter User:Cjs56

It still seems goofy to me, personally, to list the opponent's campaign site on either page...however since each page has a link to the opponent's campaign site, at least it is fair...since you've contributed way more to these two particular articles than I have, I don't have a problem with your judgement... and since my reasoning is based on a personal opinion, not on any wikipedia guidelines and no harm is done, I'll shut my mouth and let you do your thing. Thanks for the response and for the dedication to the articles. Souldrifter 17:10, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

I repeat the admonition of the gentleperson whose comments begin this page: This is not a place for propaganda; that is what the franking priviledge is for. I re-entered the information about the contents of the papers, which are historically noteworthy. I also reinserted the link to Massa's website as the Massa page reciprocates in this matter. I'm watching you: 216.144.250.162 --Cjs56 22:12, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

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Please refrain from undoing other people's edits repeatedly. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia under the three-revert rule, which states that nobody may revert a single page more than three times in 24 hours. (Note: this also means editing the page to reinsert an old edit. If the effect of your actions is to revert back, it qualifies as a revert.) Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.166.224.67 (talk • contribs) 05:02, 25 October 2006

POV tags
We're not mind-readers here. If you want to put a POV tag on the talk page or a section of the article, fine, but it's then incumbent on you to go into SPECIFICS about why you consider the text to be POV. Citing a wikipedia policy gets you bonus points (and some credibility), but isn't manadatory.

I've removed the tags; feel free to put them back AFTER you've explained, on this page, why you're posting them. Also, please note that I shortened the section on "Domestic disputes" (as well as removing the section heading); I suspect that doesn't address your POV concerns but mention it just in case. John Broughton |  Talk 22:47, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

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Brodrick road
Roadcruft. DS 13:52, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete there's hundreds of roads with Victorian houses - see: . The house prices seem more notable than the street!    Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk   14:13, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
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Helen Flanagan

Helen Joyce Flanagan (born 7 August 1990) is an English actress and model. She is best known for playing the role of Rosie Webster in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street from 2000 to 2012; she returned to the role in 2017, before going on maternity leave on 8 June 2018, from which she did not return.

Early life
Flanagan was born in Bury, Greater Manchester, England. She attended Westholme School in Blackburn, Lancashire.

Career
Flanagan first appeared as Rosie Webster in Coronation Street in January 2000. In 2006, she was nominated for the award of "Best Dramatic Performance from a Young Actor or Actress" at the British Soap Awards, losing to Ellis Hollins of Hollyoaks. In 2007, she was nominated for "Villain of the Year" at the same awards, this time losing to Coronation Street co-star Jack P. Shepherd. In 2010, Flanagan appeared in Coronation Street spin-off Coronation Street: A Knights Tale as her character Rosie Webster. In 2011, she had her own Coronation Street spin-off Just Rosie, which explored her character Rosie Webster trying to build a modelling career in London. Flanagan left Coronation Street in February 2012 to pursue other interests.

In November 2012, Flanagan participated in the twelfth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, finishing in seventh place. In September 2013 she appeared in Celebrity Super Spa, a reality-television programme based in a Liverpool Salon on Channel 5. In January 2014, Flanagan starred in an episode of Celebrity Wedding Planner alongside Hugo Taylor on Channel 5. The following August she appeared as agency nurse Kirsty Brompton in an episode of Holby City. In October 2016, it was announced Flanagan would reprise her role as Rosie in Coronation Street in February 2017. She left on maternity leave in June 2018.

In 2023, Flanagan was a contestant in I'm a Celebrity... South Africa, leaving on day 12 of the show in joint 7th place, after a double eviction with Dean Gaffney.

Personal life
Flanagan's parents are Roman Catholic.

In 2016 Flanagan revealed that she has been diagnosed with both Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and bipolar disorder. In 2024, she revealed that she had suffered a psychotic episode due to a reaction to ADHD medication.

Flanagan became engaged to Bristol Rovers winger Scott Sinclair on 31 May 2018. They have two daughters, and a son. In October 2022, the media reported that Flanagan's relationship with Sinclair had ended after 13 years.

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Brendon McNichol

Brendon McNichol (born November 1969), is a lap-steel/guitar player, who has played with bands including Queens of the Stone Age, Masters of Reality.

Biography
In 1990 Brendon lived in Hollywood, California.

The Drills released a 5-song EP in 1991 produced by Dave Jerden. In 1996 Brendon joined Masters of Reality led by Chris Goss, and appeared on tour with the band, and on the live album "How High The Moon: Live At The Viper Room". In 2000 he joined Queens of the Stone Age, teaming up with his longtime friend Josh Homme, playing not only guitar, but also lap-steel and piano. Besides touring he also recorded various studio songs. Brendon has also played with bands including K.C. and the Sunshine Band, The Drills, Stacy Q., Pablo Moses, Michigan and Smiley, Charlie Chaplan, Drone w/ Ted Parsons, Desert Sessions, Levi Chen, Photek, Discordia, The Dwarves, Palmerville as well as countless soundtracks, commercials and albums as a session player.

Bands

 * the Drills (band) (1990–1995)
 * Masters of Reality (1996–present)
 * Queens of the Stone Age (1999–2001)

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Fleet Faction

The Fleet Faction (艦隊派) was an informal political faction within the Imperial Japanese Navy active in the 1920s and 1930s. The kantai-ha sought to drastically increase the size of the Imperial Japanese Navy in order to reach force parity with the fleets of the United States Navy and Royal Navy in the Western Pacific Ocean. The group advocated for the kantai kessen, a doctrine specifying a need for larger warships and larger-caliber guns.

Opposition to the Washington Naval Treaty led to the formation of the Fleet Faction, which was led by Admiral Kato Kanji. The Fleet Faction was formed in reaction to the Treaty Faction, who had successfully negotiated the terms of the treaty. The treaty would lead to increasing militancy and opposition to the established naval staff, who were seen as defeatists and endangering Japanese national security. Further opposition to the Geneva Naval Conference and London Naval Treaty fueled increasingly hawkish demands for naval expansion by the kantai-ha, leading to a split between junior and senior naval officers in the Navy Ministry. During the rise of statism in Shōwa Japan, the Fleet Faction consolidated power in a series of purges and political violence against treaty proponents, eventually resulting in the abrogation and denunciation of the Washington Treaty by Japan in 1934 and Japan's withdrawal from the Second London Naval Treaty conference in 1936.

Meiji–Taishō era naval buildup
During the Meiji Restoration, the Imperial government undertook a series of modernizations of the officer corps. This included European modernization and education of Japanese naval officers, with the Tracey Mission establishing a naval school for some 100 cadets in 1867. After the First Sino-Japanese War, Japan acquired a significant indemnity, using it to undertake an unprecedented naval buildup. Japan doubled its naval personnel and increased its naval tonnage from 30,000 prewar to 250,000 tons in 1903. Japan's naval buildup elevated it to the fourth largest naval power by the completion of the Six-Six Fleet plan.

Rise of the Big Gun faction

Following the Russo-Japanese War, the proponents of a larger battle line fleet were vindicated as they saw the Battle of Tsushima as a textbook Mahanian "Decisive Battle". A number of the battles in that war were fought at a greater distance than many had thought possible, showing the advantage in having guns that could fire the maximum distances. Satō Tetsutarō, who would become a future influence on Japanese naval strategy in the interwar period, established the principle of the Big Gun based on his inferences from Tsushima. Tetsutaro's writing would heavily influence Kato Kanji's thinking in regards to a future maritime conflict with the United States, with his postulations on a 70% ratio in total naval strength vis-à-vis the USN influencing later naval opposition to arms control.

Further following Mahanian thinking in regards to a "hypothetical enemy", the navy ministry, under Kato Tomosaburo, assigned the United States the designation of a "budgetary enemy" and argued that Japanese naval strength should be expanded and based on the US Pacific Fleet's armament strength. The IJN also obtained confidential information in regards to the US's plans for a war against Japan in the Pacific (War Plan Orange), further vindicating the navy's stance on the decisive battle doctrine and the 70% strength ratio. Such doctrine regarding the United States as a primal budgetary threat to the IJN became internalized and justified within the naval ministry as "maintaining balance" with a US navy that sought to become "second to none".

Deterioration of Japanese relations with the West
Japanese expansionism significantly worsened Anglo-Japanese relations and American-Japanese relations in the 1920s. The Japanese occupation of the Shandong Peninsula worsened the Shandong problem with the Republic of China. The Japanese imposition of the 21 Demands and Nishihara Loans further worsened relations with the west, which combined with evolving British Commonwealth interests and the looming Washington Naval Conference would result in the collapse of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance.

Debate over the Eight-Eight Fleet

The First World War gave the Japanese navy a cause for increasing the size of its budgetary requests. The Japanese seizure of strategically valuable territories in the Central Pacific, administrated by the South Seas Mandate, changed the strategic calculus of the navy in the event of a war with a major naval power. The IJN also undertook the construction of secret military installations in Micronesia, in violation of demilitarization laws concerning the administration of the region. The strategic calculus of the navy was the creation of "unsinkable aircraft carriers", attempting to nullify the US Navy's advantage in tonnage via the fortification of Japan's interior lines in the Western Pacific. Following Woodrow Wilson's renewal of a shipbuilding program increasing the strength of the US Navy, the Imperial Diet, pressured by the IJN, approved a motion calling for the expansion of Japan's fleet to include eight battleships and eight battlecruisers. Immediately, issues with the fleet expansion plan surfaced because of the cost of procurement of such expensive vessels. Kato Tomosaburō, the architect of the 8-8 fleet plan, stated that competing with the industrial and budgetary hegemony that the United States had, constituted a feat that Japan could not achieve. Tomosaburo concluded that the cost of constructing such a large fleet would amount to financial ruin for Japan, which was under the strain of a post war economic recession. The navy ministry, trying to avoid an arms race while under adverse financial and budgetary restrictions, accepted an invitation to the Washington Naval Conference. The Japanese diet concurrently passed a resolution calling for a reduction in arms spending, which had grown to 48% of Japan's budgetary expenses.

Washington Naval Treaty

Kato Tomosaburo was appointed head of negotiations by Prime Minister Hara Kei, as Tomosaburo had a powerful reputation and was capable of restraining the navy from making outrageous demands. During the negotiations at the conference, Tomosaburo and Kato Kanji split on multiple issues, representing the Treaty and Fleet Factions, respectively. Both had, initially, a baseline "absolute requirement" for 70 percent naval strength vis-à-vis the United States Navy. Kanji personally opposed the ratio as a matter of principle, arguing that Japan should have total parity, but stated that the 70 percent ratio was a "maximum concession". The two Kato's were both shocked by the demands of the US representatives, who demanded a ratio of 60 percent strength. The proposed treaty limited the total capital ship tonnage of each of the signatories. No single ship could exceed 35,000 tons, and no ship could carry a gun in excess of 16 inches. Only two large aircraft carriers were permitted per nation. No new fortifications or naval bases could be established, and existing bases and defenses could not be improved in external territories and possessions specified in the treaty. The tonnage allotment to Japan was based on a 5:5:3 ratio, compared with the United States and United Kingdom, with the justification being that these two countries needed to maintain fleets on more than one ocean whereas Japan had only the Pacific Ocean. Tomosaburo, though "dumbfounded", readily accepted the US's terms in return for a guarantee of the status quo on US bases in Guam and the Philippines. In contrast, Kanji vehemently opposed the proposal. Kanji argued that the treaty was "outrageous" and stated that the US was attempting to enforce its hegemony upon Japan through arms control, calling the treaty an "unequal treaty" and an "unbearable humiliation". Kanji was reinforced by the Naval Affairs Research Committee for the League of Nations, which stated that any ratio under the 70 percent strength limit was non negotiable. Kanji went through private channels without informing Tomosaburo, moving to subvert Tomosaburo's senior position at the conference by wiring the Naval General Staff his dissident views. Tomosaburo had already told the senior naval staff, including admiral Tōgō Heihachirō, his position, resulting in Kanji's maneuver being ultimately futile. By the time of the treaty's signing, Kanji shouted "As far as I am concerned, war with America starts now, We'll get our revenge over this, by god!. Tomosaburo's subordinates in the Navy Ministry would continue the "Washington Naval Treaty System" after his death from colon cancer, weakening opposition to the Kantaiha.

Aftermath of the naval treaty
The navy gained internal political influence after the naval treaty, allotting it significant influence over the Seiyukai party, which advocated for an increased naval budget. The navy's influence over the Seiyukai allowed them to manufacture a sense of crisis regarding the strength of Japanese naval power, creating pro navy propaganda and influencing the public in order to support "navalism". The Fleet Faction's efforts would not go without merit, as the public's support for naval expansion increased year over year. Kanji was appointed commander in chief of the Combined Fleet in August 1927, where he instituted massive training exercises to make up for the navy's inferiority in tonnage with the western powers. Kanji described US naval exercises in 1925 as a "naked demonstration of the American naval buildup against Japan" and a "full-dress rehearsal for a transpacific offensive". Tomosaburo, in the aftermath of the inter-naval bickering of the treaty tried to reform the navy by installing civilian ministers as administrators. His death would result in the failure of his attempted reforms, though the treaty provisions negotiated by Japan would be enforced. As the Treaty faction retained significant influence in the IJN, it supported subsequent arms control agreements including the Geneva Naval Conference and London Naval Treaty. By the signature of the London Naval Treaty in 1930, Harold Quigley from Current History concluded that the Japanese military had moved to "greater democratic rule" with the "defeat of the naval die-hards" as Japan was maintaining its pro treaty position. However, a growing rift was opening between the commanders of the Combined Fleet and the Navy Ministry. Yamamoto Eisuke, who was the commander of the Combined Fleet in 1930, protested that the fleet was constantly engaged in exercises because of its inability to match Western armaments. Yamamoto described the officials in the navy ministry as "civilian desk officers" and angrily tied the navy's failings to the Washington Conference and Kato Tomosaburo. The conflict between the two factions continued to boil as Kato Kanji resigned in the aftermath of the 1930 treaty, refusing to accept the naval board's negotiated position on tonnage strength.

The Fleet Faction's seizure of power

In the 1930s, as the Fleet Faction's influence steadily increased due to the militarist takeover of the armed forces, the "pragmatic" politicians and naval officers of the treaty faction were sidelined in favor of the expansionists. Former naval minister Takabe Takereshi was forcibly retired to the reserves in the early 1930s and was subject to an assassination attempt by junior officers in the navy. "Pragmatic officers" such as Teikichi Hori and Yamanashi Katsunoshin were dismissed from high command by Mineo Osumi, who was under the influence of the faction.

With hawks in control of the IJN, the IJN allowed arms control agreements negotiated by members of the treaty faction to expire and began requesting increasingly higher budget appropriations from the central government in order to expand the size of the fleet. The militarists also announced the formulation of a "Pan-Asiatic doctrine", termed the Amau doctrine, claiming hegemony in East Asia against "western exploitation". Japanese representatives to the Second London Naval Convention walked out of the convention, resulting in the failure of a substantive treaty. After the expiration of the Washington Treaty, Japan openly engaged in a naval buildup, expanding the tonnage of its navy significantly. Japan's naval buildup triggered an arms race with the United States, which historian Stephen Pelz described as the "Race to Pearl Harbor".

Contributions to Japanese militarism
The contention over the Washington Naval Treaty resulted in increased military dissatisfaction with the civilian government, who had collaborated with Tomosaburo to reduce naval expenditures—pressuring Japan to accept the terms of the naval treaty. Prime Minister Osachi Hamaguchi was assassinated by militarists enraged by his signing of the London Naval Treaty in 1930. Japanese naval officers also participated in the League of Blood Incident, assassinating Junnosuke Inoue and Dan Takuma. Junior officers then attempted to instigate a coup d'etat against the civilian government in the May 15 incident, assassinating prime minister Inukai Tsuyoshi and attempted to assassinate Charlie Chaplin in order to cause a war with the United States.

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Hong Kong Cricket Sixes

The Hong Kong Cricket Sixes is a six-a-side international cricket tournament held at the Kowloon Cricket Club comprising between eight and twelve teams. Organised by Cricket Hong Kong, it is sanctioned by the International Cricket Council. The tournament is designed for television viewing, with rules and a venue that encourage aggressive batting and high scoring. Because every player (except the wicket-keeper) is required to bowl one over, the format suits all-rounders.

All editions of the tournament have been held at the Kowloon Cricket Club except for the 1996 and 1997 editions, which were held at the Hong Kong Stadium.

History
In 2007, Sri Lanka defeated an All-Stars team (featuring players such as Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Shane Warne) to take the title.

The All-Stars returned for the 2008 event with West Indies batting great Brian Lara and New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming as members. They joined nine representative international teams in the tournament – defending champions Sri Lanka, Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa, and hosts Hong Kong.

The 2009 tournament, held from 31 October to 1 November, saw eight teams competing, with South Africa defeating Hong Kong in the final.

In 2011, the Hong Kong Cricket Association was awarded HK$3.5 million by the Hong Kong SAR government's Mega Event Fund (MEF) to organise the event, with added sponsorship from the KARP Group. To comply with the Mega Events Fund's objectives of promoting Hong Kong as an events capital in Asia, some changes were made to the format. These included expanding the tournament from two to three days, with tournament play starting on the Friday of the event weekend. The field was also increased from 8 to 12 teams with the addition of three more national teams and an invitational squad of international players.

The HKCA did not make another MEF application in 2012 due to time constraints, preferring instead to rely on a smaller grant through the government's 'M' Mark scheme. This resulted in a downscaled tournament played over two days on 27–28 October with eight teams (excluding the All-Stars side).

In 2013, the Hong Kong Cricket Association's applications for MEF contributions (at first HK$10 million then revised to HK$5 million) were turned down, leaving it with a budget of HK$1 million from the M-Mark scheme to organise the tournament. The association felt that a further HK$500,000 to HK$1 million would be needed to organise the tournament and cancelled it after not securing private sponsorship.

On 28 June 2017, Cricket Hong Kong announced that the Hong Kong Sixes would return on 28–29 October following a five-year absence. The event that year took place at the Kowloon Cricket Club.

Match rules
The Laws of Cricket apply, except:
 * Games are played between two teams of six players, and each game consists of a maximum of five six-ball overs bowled by each side (eight-ball overs in the final match).
 * Each member of the fielding side bowls one over, with the exception of the wicket-keeper.
 * Wides and no-balls count as two runs.
 * If five wickets fall before 5 overs are completed, the last remaining batsman bats on with the fifth batsman acting as a runner. He always takes strike. The innings is complete when the sixth wicket falls.
 * Batsmen retire not out on reaching 31 runs. The idea being to reach 36 runs by hitting 6 sixes. A retired batsman can return to the crease after lower-order batsmen either retire or are out.
 * A tournament points system awards two points for each match won.

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Railroads connecting New York City and Chicago

The Northeast and the Great Lakes states are connected by an east-west railroad corridor. The endpoints of this corridor are New York City and Chicago. Along the way, the corridor passed through cities such as Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Cleveland. There were branches off the corridor to cities such as Cincinnati, Detroit, Indianapolis, and St. Louis. For over a century, this corridor was dominated by four major railroads, and an aggregate of other railroads that served as a fifth option.

New York Central Railroad
The first New York-Chicago route was provided on January 24, 1853 with the completion of the Toledo, Norwalk and Cleveland Railroad to Grafton, Ohio on the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad. The route later became part of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway, owned by the New York Central Railroad. In 1914, the New York Central and Hudson River were merged with the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway to create the New York Central Railroad, which ran the New York-Chicago route as one company.

Pennsylvania Railroad
In 1857, the Fort Wayne Railroad Bridge was completed across the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and trains began to run from Philadelphia to Chicago along the Pennsylvania Railroad and Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail Road (later part of the PRR).

The Connecting Railway in Philadelphia opened for revenue service on June 3, 1867, with direct service between Philadelphia and Jersey City, New Jersey, across the Hudson River from New York. Through freight between Jersey City and Pittsburgh began the next month, and soon some trains began running between Jersey City and Chicago.

Erie Railroad
The Erie Railroad was originally made to connect New York and Lake Erie. In 1941 they expanded to Chicago by merging with Nypano Railroad.

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
From its original charter terminus of Wheeling, West Virginia, reached in 1853, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad pushed west by construction of new rails and by leasing other pre-existing ones. The B&O had reached Newark, Ohio by 1866, Sandusky by 1869, and had built a new line west into Chicago by 1874.

Alphabet Route
"Alphabet Route" referred to a series of railroads linking Chicago with Baltimore on the East Coast. From west to east, this route consisted of the Nickel Plate Road (NKP, or New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad) going east from Chicago, connecting with what formerly had been the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad (acquired by the NKP in the late 1940s) at Cleveland. The NKP/W&LE went into southeastern Ohio at the West Virginia border to meet the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railroad (P&WV). Finally the P&WV would meet the Western Maryland Railroad (WM) outside of Pittsburgh, and traffic was carried to Baltimore and beyond.


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Treaty Faction

The Treaty Faction (条約派) was an unofficial and informal political faction within the Imperial Japanese Navy in the 1920s–1930s of officers supporting the Washington Naval Treaty.

Background
The Washington Naval Treaty, also known as the Five-Power Treaty, limited the naval armaments of its five signatories: the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, France, and Italy. The treaty was agreed at the Washington Naval Conference, which was held in Washington, D.C. from November 1921 to February 1922.

The treaty limited the total capital ship tonnage of each of the signatories; no single ship could exceed 35,000 tons, and no ship could carry a gun in excess of 16 inches. Only two large aircraft carriers were permitted per nation. No new fortifications or naval bases could be established, and existing bases and defenses could not be improved in the external territories and possessions specified in the treaty. The tonnage allotment to Japan was based on a 5:5:3 ratio compared with the United States and United Kingdom, with the justification being that the latter countries needed to maintain fleets on more than one ocean, whereas Japan had only the Pacific Ocean.

Development
The terms of the treaty were extremely unpopular with the Japanese public, many of whom saw the 5:5:3 ratio as another way of being regarded as an inferior race by the West.

The Imperial Japanese Navy was also split into two opposing factions, Fleet Faction and Treaty Faction. The Treaty Faction argued that Japan could not afford an arms race with the Western powers, and hoped through diplomacy to restore the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. It argued that the current treaty limitations would serve Japan for the time being.

The Treaty Faction was composed of the political left-wing within the Navy, including influential admirals in the Navy Ministry such as Takarabe Takeshi, Taniguchi Naomi, Yamanashi Katsunoshin, Sakonji Seizo, and Teikichi Hori.

In the 1920s, the Treaty Faction, which was supported by the civilian government, was predominant. However, the even more restrictive London Naval Treaty of 1930 divided the Treaty Faction into two parts. The "Anti-London Treaty Faction" pushed for military and economic expansion into the South Pacific, and thus became more closely aligned with the "Fleet Faction".

With increasing Japanese militarism in the 1930s, the growing conflict with the United States over China, and the blatant disregard for the terms of the treaty by all major powers, the Fleet Faction gradually gained the upper hand. Furthermore, many of the Treaty Faction members who had direct first-hand experience in Britain or the United States went into retirement from 1933 to 1934, including Isoroku Yamamoto's mentor, Teikichi Hori.

On 29 December 1934, the Japanese government gave formal notice that it intended to terminate the treaty. Its provisions remained in force until the end of 1936, and it was not renewed.

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Ralph Teetor

Ralph Teetor (August 17, 1890 – February 15, 1982) was a prolific inventor who invented cruise control. He was the longtime president of the automotive parts manufacturer The Perfect Circle Co. (acquired in 1963 by Dana Holding Corporation, then sold to Mahle GmbH in 2007) in Hagerstown, Indiana, a manufacturer of piston rings.

Early life
Ralph Rowe Teetor was born on August 17, 1890, in Hagerstown, Indiana to John H. Teetor. Teetor injured his eye at the age of five with a knife. Within a year, he developed sympathetic ophthalmia and became blind in both eyes. As a grown man he preferred never to discuss his disability.

Teetor graduated from Hagerstown High School in 1908. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1912. He returned to the University of Pennsylvania and received a master's degree in engineering around 1930.

Early career and World War I
After college, he returned to Hagerstown and worked at the Teetor-Hartley Motor Company. He remained with his family's company until they sold their motor division off in 1918. In 1918, Teetor went to Camden, New Jersey to help the New York Shipbuilding Corporation balance turbine rotors on torpedo-boat destroyers in World War I. Teetor's highly developed sense of touch proved helpful in developing a technique for balancing steam turbine rotors used in Navy torpedo-boat destroyers. Dynamic balancing of large components had puzzled others before Teetor solved the problem.

Perfect Circle Company
After the war, he returned home. He designed a fluid-operated gearshift that he sold to Bendix in the 1920s. In 1919, he began to work for the Piston Ring Company (later called the Perfect Circle Company), the successor to the Teetor family's piston rings manufacturing division of the Teetor-Hartley Motor Company. From 1919 to 1946, he oversaw the engineering division as director and vice president. He was president of the company from 1946 to 1957. He remained on the board of directors until 1964. Perfect Circle was sold to the Dana Corporation in 1963.

Cruise control
Family lore suggests that Teetor was inspired to invent cruise control one day while riding with his family's lawyer, Harry Lindsay. The lawyer would slow down while talking and speed up while listening. This rocking motion so annoyed Teetor that he was determined to invent a speed control device. In 1945, after ten years of tinkering, Ralph Teetor received his first patent on a speed control device. Early names for his invention included "Controlmatic", "Touchomatic", "Pressomatic" and "Speedostat", with "Speedostat" becoming the trademark name. Teetor received a patent for the "Speedostat" on August 22, 1950. The Perfect Circle device wasn't used commercially until Chrysler introduced it as a luxury model option called the "Auto Pilot" in 1958. Cadillac marketed the product as "Cruise Control" and the name stuck and became the common name for the invention.

The throttle was controlled by a bi-directional screw drive electric motor, the two connected during use by an electromagnet. A 12v post would stay nearly centered between two throttle mounted electric contacts, one for turning the motor's screw for more throttle, the other for less. The floating post would "guide" the motor (and throttle and vehicle speed) with input from 1) sprung leveraged spinning weights driven from the transmission's speedometer cable, and 2) a counter-spring tension set by a cable from a dial near the steering wheel. This first-mass-marketed design was the industry standard for just over a decade (GM changed to vacuum-actuator/turn-signal-engage-button in 1969, though still a "Speedostat" product).

Other achievements
Teetor managed to live his life almost as if his accident had never happened, and went on to become successful as an engineer, manufacturing executive and entrepreneur. His other inventions included an early powered lawn mower, lock mechanisms, and holders for fishing rods.

In 1936, Teetor was elected as president of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE). In 1963, he endowed the SAE's Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award which is awarded annually to stimulate "contacts between younger engineering educators and practicing engineers in industry and government."

In 1965, Teetor received two honorary degrees, Doctor of Engineering at the Indiana Institute of Technology and Doctor of Laws at Earlham College, Indiana. He was also made a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The planetarium and one of the residence houses at Earlham College are named in Teetor's honor.

In 1988, Teetor was posthumously inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame in Dearborn, Michigan, for his numerous contributions to the automotive industry.

Personal life
Teetor married Nellie Van Antwerp of Huntington, Indiana on December 30, 1922. Together, they had one daughter, Marjorie.

Charles N. Teetor, the inventor of a railway inspection car, was Teetor's uncle.

Death
Teetor died on February 15, 1982, at Reid Memorial Hospital in Richmond, Indiana.

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The Réseau de télécommunications sociosanitaire is the internal network of the health sector of the province of Quebec and administered by Quebec's Ministry of Health and Social Services.

All hospitals and CLSCs, and many CHSLDs are connected and so can share information and services.


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Merger
I've suggested that this page (Opener) be merged into the section for opening batsmen at Batting order (cricket). The content seems to be pretty much duplicated, and I think it would be better in context on the Batting Order page. Obviously we can just redirext people to the right place. Alternatively, it could just be left with a main article link to Opener.

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Double Team (film)

Double Team is a 1997 action comedy film directed by Hong Kong filmmaker Tsui Hark in his American directorial debut, and written by Don Jakoby and Paul Mones. It stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as counter-terrorist agent Jack Quinn, who is assigned to bring an elusive terrorist known as Stavros (Mickey Rourke) to justice. Things become personal when Stavros kidnaps Quinn's pregnant wife after his own lover and child were killed in an assassination attempt gone awry. Aiding Quinn in his rescue is his flamboyant weapons dealer Yaz (Dennis Rodman). It received negative reviews and was nominated for and received three Golden Raspberry Awards: Worst Supporting Actor (Rodman), Worst New Star (Rodman) and Worst Screen Couple (Rodman and Van Damme).

Plot
After retrieving a truck load of plutonium stolen from a US military base in Croatia by freelance international terrorist Stavros, anti-terrorist agent Jack Paul Quinn retires to Southern France with Kathryn, his pregnant wife. A government representative tells Quinn that Stavros, Quinn's nemesis, has become active again and convinces Quinn to come out of retirement.

Quinn travels to Antwerp, Belgium where quirky arms dealer Yaz outfits him. Quinn and his team track Stavros to an amusement park, but Quinn hesitates to shoot Stavros when he sees Stavros is meeting with his six-year-old son. Stavros exploits Quinn's hesitation and a shootout ensues. Stavros' son is killed. Stavros flees into a hospital, pursued by Quinn. Stavros and Quinn fight in the maternity ward, and Quinn is knocked unconscious by an explosion.

Due to his hesitation, Quinn is declared killed in action and placed in 'The Colony', an invisible penal island for secret agents. The occupants of the Colony are expected to analyze terrorist threats and register themselves every day using a fingerprint scanner. While analyzing information from a terrorist bombing, Quinn picks up a message from Stavros telling him that Stavros has kidnapped Kathryn. Quinn slices off the skin of his fingertip and puts it into an automated device to fool the fingerprint scanner, then escapes the energy field surrounding the island by attaching himself to cargo due to be extracted from the air. Another agent on the Colony, Goldsmythe, is activated as Quinn's "guardian", responsible for tracking him down.

Quinn enlists Yaz's assistance by promising access to CIA bank accounts. The two go to Quinn's house, where they are ambushed by Stavros' men. After fighting the men off, Quinn receives a message from Stavros telling him that he must go to Rome for his baby's sake. When they arrive in Rome, Quinn admits to Yaz that the bank accounts are empty, and he has nothing to offer for Yaz's services, but a promise to repay him. However, Yaz volunteers his help after he learns that Quinn's wife is pregnant from a sonogram delivered to the given rendezvous. Quinn emails Stavros encouraging him to meet in a town square.

At the meeting point, Quinn catches sight of Kathryn in a car but is intercepted by Stavros and a shootout occurs as Kathryn is driven away. Quinn tracks Stavros' sniper to the hotel suite where Kathryn was being held and finds a clue to her whereabouts: a prescription bottle label. With the help of an order of monks Yaz has equipped with computers and Internet access, Quinn reaches the hospital. He finds Kathryn has given birth and Stavros has taken his son. Quinn locates Stavros and the baby in a Roman amphitheater. Stavros leaves Quinn in the middle of a minefield with his son and a tiger.

Yaz arrives on a motorbike and snatches the baby, leaving Quinn to escape from the tiger and go after Stavros. While Quinn and Stavros fight in the minefield, Yaz moves the markers, leading Stavros to step on a mine, unable to move without setting it off. Goldsmythe, who has tracked Quinn, finds the baby; Quinn, his son, Goldsmythe and Yaz run as Stavros is charged by the tiger and takes his foot off the mine. They take shelter from the explosion behind a vending machine. Goldsmythe asks Quinn for his hair and shirt as proof that he successfully tracked him; Yaz drops a smoke bomb, allowing Quinn to escape.

Cast

 * Jean-Claude Van Damme as Jack Paul Quinn, a government counter-terrorist agent, forced out of retirement by the kidnapping of his pregnant wife, Kathryn, by Stavros.
 * Dennis Rodman as Yaz, an eccentric arms dealer. Yaz is based in or near Antwerp, Belgium, and boasts that he stocks military hardware so new that even he does not know he has it. Yaz initially agrees to help Quinn defeat Stavros after being offered access to CIA bank accounts but commits himself freely after discovering Kathryn is pregnant.
 * Paul Freeman as Alex Goldsmythe, a friend with whom Jack Quinn is reunited after arriving at the Colony and who Jack had previously thought dead. Alex is Jack's 'guardian'. Jack's welfare and performance is Alex's responsibility and Alex is involved with tracking Jack once he escapes the island.
 * Mickey Rourke as Stavros, an international terrorist. Stavros works freelance for any government willing to offer him sufficient financial incentive. At the start of the film, he is implicated in the theft of plutonium from a United States military base with the suggestion being that he intended to sell it to Iraq. He undertakes a personal vendetta against Quinn, blaming Quinn for the death of his son.

 * Natacha Lindinger as Kathryn "Kath" Quinn, Jack's wife and a sculptor by trade. Kathryn and her then unborn son are kidnapped by Stavros.

Filming
Double Team was filmed on location in Antwerp, Belgium; Nice and Arles, France; and Rome, Italy. Whilst the film implies that the climactic fight between Quinn and Stavros takes place in Rome's Colosseum, the scenes were actually filmed in and around the Arles Amphitheater in Southern France.

Score
Original music for Double Team was composed by Gary Chang, who had previously worked on films including The Breakfast Club and The Color of Money. The soundtrack includes songs by Joey Schwartz, Leareo Gianferrari, and Crystal Waters featuring Dennis Rodman.

Critical reception
Double Team attracted many negative reviews, holding a current score of 11% on review aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes. Rodman's contribution as Yaz attracted particular criticism with attention being brought to the character's esoteric fashion sense, one reviewer pointing out that "his hair covers all known hues of the spectrum." In addition, the film's plot and production was attacked by several reviewers for being unimaginative and impassive. The New York Times wrote that Double Team's "sets are impersonal. Actors sleepwalk. Scenes do not end, they just stop."

Criticism was not, however, universally negative. The Los Angeles Times referred to Double Team as "one of Van Damme's best" and continued to praise both Rodman's and Rourke's performances. In addition, the film was awarded four stars out of five by boxoffice.com in a retrospective review written in 2008.

Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale.

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Mentallo

Mentallo (Marvin Flumm) is a fictional supervillain, a mutant appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. After having been fired for cause after attempting a covert S.H.I.E.L.D. takeover, he has since operated as both a freelance criminal and subversive, and a high-ranking agent of HYDRA. He is usually depicted as using technology to increase his power.

Publication history
Mentallo first appeared in Strange Tales #141 (Feb. 1966) and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.

Fictional character biography
Marvin Flumm was born in Watford City, North Dakota. He once worked as a shoe salesman. As a mutant telepath of moderate ability, Mentallo was recruited by the original S.H.I.E.L.D. as a candidate for their ESP Division. However, he teamed with the Fixer in an attempt to take over S.H.I.E.L.D., clashing with Nick Fury for the first time. He then served as a division leader in the fragment of HYDRA led by Silvermane. Mentallo teamed with the Fixer again, and they placed Deathlok (Luther Manning) under their control. They attempted to make the U.S. President into their slave, but were thwarted by the Fantastic Four. Mentallo and the Fixer were employed by HYDRA again, but Mentallo was rendered comatose by the Micronauts. In Professor Power's custody, Mentallo battled Professor X on a psychic plane. Mentallo was captured by the Super-Adaptoid (impersonating the Fixer) but he was rescued by the Avengers.

As the Think Tank, he was a member of the Resistants which was originally an incarnation of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. The Resistants opposed the Mutant Registration Act, and Flumm fought Captain America. He was imprisoned and resumed his Mentallo identity. He started a mass breakout at the Vault by using Venom due to Truman Marsh's treatment. However, his powers were briefly amplified and used by Iron Man to compel the escapees to surrender. He then directed an unsuccessful attack on the Hulk and the Thing. Mentallo later attended the A.I.M. weapons exposition.

Mentallo once worked for the Red Skull and partnered with the Juggernaut in a successful attempt to brainwash the Hulk to attack the Avengers. Mentallo managed to mentally impersonate the Hulk's wife-killing father and bully into submission.

Shortly after World War Hulk, Mentallo was among the members of the Hood's Crime Syndicate. He remained with them until they were defeated by the New Avengers.

Some time after, Mentallo was hired by MODOK to be part of a supervillain heist squad. Due to his psychic powers, he realized MODOK created a psychic illusion of money to secure everyone's loyalty, and MODOK secretly told him the "full extent" of the plans would be revealed to him, and several other villains. Mentallo quickly decided that instead he was going to sell the villain out to whoever stumped up the cash. After noticing the Chameleon had a telepathic shield and Spider-Man's powers and Spider-Sense, he went to offer to betray MODOK's plans to the Avengers for cash. Unfortunately for Mentallo, it was not Spider-Man at all but A.I.M.'s Ultra-Adaptoid which incinerated him to protect its cover. He was presumed dead, but Mentallo was revealed to be alive when he appeared at Ryker's Island to inform the Fantastic Four and S.H.I.E.L.D. about the New Defenders.

In Secret Invasion, a person who look likes Mentallo appears as part of the Hood's alliance with super-powered heroes. The group is intent on defeating the Skrull invasion force of New York City. He was later seen, during an attack on the New Avengers.

During Dark Reign, Norman Osborn has Mentallo torture Clint Barton for the New Avengers' location.

During the Heroic Age storyline, Mentallo once again encountered the Avengers. He attempted to control Reptil's mind, but Reptil transformed into a dinosaur and Mentallo is unable to control the reptilian mind. Reptil was unable to control himself as well, and Mentallo is badly savaged as a result.

Mentallo psychically enslaved the Kaiju monsters of Monster Island on behalf of the Roxxon Corporation (who attempted to seize control of Monster Island to drill for oil). He was stopped and defeated by the X-Men, after he double-crossed Roxxon and tried to flee with his professional fee of a billion dollars. While attempting to flee, one of the giant monsters dropped a cargo hold directly on top of him, which contained the entire billion dollars in cash.

Flumm later appears as the Minister of Public Affairs for the new High Council of A.I.M. (consisting of the Scientist Supreme, Graviton, Jude the Entropic Man, Superia, Yelena Belova, and the undercover Taskmaster). He is able to split his focus between his physical self and the nanites which control sentient drones as the Iron Patriot.

During Avengers: Standoff!, Mentallo was an inmate of Pleasant Hill, a gated community established by S.H.I.E.L.D.

After escaping recent confinement, Flumm would later turn up in the service of William Stryker who had ascended to become a demon lord in pursuit of anti-mutant goals. Flumm would trade his own soul to the demonized reverend for greater power and in exchange he would found a cult of the wealthy elite as well as mutants and mutant affiliates to fund a fast trending movement of followers all brought under their flag through his bolstered mutant abilities as the Master of Psionics.

Flumm would later be seen amongst a host of mutants, both heroes and villains, being welcomed into the sovereign state of Krakoa by Charles Xavier/X.

Powers and abilities
Marvin Flumm is a mutant with weak psychic powers which he has had augmented through scientific means throughout his criminal career, often times being provided by the Fixer. Mentallo boasts telepathy able to read the thoughts of any human mind within an approximate five mile (8 km) radius. He has the ability to project "mental bolts" at opponents, create psionic screens to protect himself from psychological assault, control the bodies and minds of other sentients, communicate telepathically, cast mental illusions and psychically possess the bodies of others. Mentallo has difficulty focusing his powers on moving targets. He is unusually vulnerable to psionic attack unless he erects a mental screen. He is also mildly telekinetic, once shown floating off the ground and again when erecting an invisible barrier to deflect heavy rain from himself.

Mentallo wears a modified S.H.I.E.L.D. battle-suit. He has used various weaponry, including conventional firearms, rocket-guns, and a "sonic whammer" which projects intense vibratory blasts. He usually wears headgear that augments his normally weak abilities into something more much more powerful. The Fixer's device created for him called the Psycho Helmet also protects him against telepathic feedback, background noise, and psionic assault from other telepaths. The Fixer has supplied him with "electronic masks" (or "servo-pods") which adhere to victims' faces and place them under Mentallo's control. The Fixer's "mentascope" enables Mentallo to use his psionic power to locate and attack victims from afar. Mentallo is capable of flight via the Fixer's "anti-grav propellant unit" or "flying discs" and has also used a tank that can bore through the ground. He has also utilized technology to further bolster himself numerous times, usually through the help of other geniuses, for various ends. Such as accessing billions of minds across the world or controlling the simple consciousnesses of titanic creatures.

Mentallo also has the ability to send out mental probes to identify the shape and size of objects in his near vicinity, effectively acting as a radar-sense. He can even locate invisible and intangible objects this way. He has a limited ability to influence peoples emotions as well. As Think Tank, he rode within a small tread-propelled vehicle in which he sat, with his upper body and head still exposed. This tank unit was armed with a wide range of weapons — machine guns, metal grappler arms etc. — which he directly controlled with his telepathic ability and a special interface helmet.

In the services of A.I.M., Mentallo's abilities were further bolstered through nanotech, able to cast his consciousness between micro-machines and his own body for ranged technopathic effect.

As the Master of Psionics, his powers were made greater than ever before. Able to control thousands to tens of thousands of people without any booster equipment, on top of shaping and manifesting psychic energy. His deal with the demonized Stryker also gave him some demonic powers of his own, like taking on a more monstrous form that seemed to strengthen his physicality as well as his mutant powers to the point that he could take on and nearly take down all of Weapon X-Force on his own. Even while untransformed, his psi talents had increased to the point he could even psionically enhanced another mutants abilities through the act of concentration.

House of M
In the House of M reality, Mentallo (alongside Arclight and Wild Child) is a member of the Red Guard that was positioned in Australia to serve Exodus.

Ultimate Marvel
The Ultimate Marvel incarnation of Marvin Flumm is an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. After the Maker's nuclear attack on Washington, D.C. killed almost the whole political cabinet, he took advantage of the civil war chaos as Nick Fury's "replacement" as acting director of S.H.I.E.L.D. to order the Ultimates' capture, while trying to be an adviser to the new President. After Iron Man defeats the Maker, Flumm (under orders from Mr. Morez/Modi) tries to kill Captain America, but his traitor status is revealed by Black Widow and is subsequently fired from S.H.I.E.L.D.

The Ultimate version of Mentallo makes a minor appearance in Jefferson Davis's undercover story. Mentallo is captured by Toad and used as an early genetic source for a "mutate" (Marvel's term for genetically-modified humans as opposed to natural mutants) for Wilson Fisk and the Enforcers. S.H.I.E.L.D. stops this illegal transaction, but Mentallo's fate is unknown.

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Blue-crowned Motmot taken by myself at Arnos Vale, Tobago on 2004-12-01.

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Movable nu

In ancient Greek grammar, movable nu, movable N or ephelcystic nu (νῦ ἐφελκυστικόν nû ephelkustikón, literally "nu dragged onto" or "attracted to") is a letter nu (written ν; the Greek equivalent of the letter n) placed on the end of some grammatical forms in Attic or Ionic Greek. It is used to avoid two vowels in a row (hiatus) and to create a long syllable in poetic meter.

Grammatical forms
Movable nu may appear at the end of certain forms of verbs, nouns, and adjectives. In grammatical paradigms, it is usually written with a parenthesis to indicate that it is optional.

Usage
Movable nu is used before words starting in a vowel to prevent hiatus.

 * πᾶσιν ἔλεγεν ἐκεῖνα "he said those things to everyone"

It is often omitted before consonants, but may be included there to produce a heavy syllable where the poetic meter requires one

 * πᾶσι λέγουσι ταῦτα "they say these things to everyone"
 * πᾶσι λέγουσιν ταῦτα "they say these things to everyone" with the dactylic pattern – ⏑ ⏑ | – – | – ×

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Bush on the Couch

Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President is a 2004 book by psychoanalyst Justin A. Frank. The central premise of Frank's book is that President George W. Bush displays signs of poor mental health which makes him ill-suited to rule the United States. Frank suggests Bush suffers from megalomania, that he is probably incapable of true compassion and shows signs of sadism, and that as an untreated alcoholic, is in constant danger of a relapse. Further, in Frank's opinion, Bush manifests the symptoms of a "dry drunk", principally irritability, judgmentalism and a rigid, inflexible world view. Frank also analyses, among other things, Bush's tendency to mix up his metaphors and concludes Bush has substantial problems with abstract, flexible thinking.

An updated version of the book was released in October 2007, including a new introduction and a new afterword.

Critical analysis of the book
Bush on the Couch has received endorsements from such distinguished professors of psychiatry as Irvin Yalom of Stanford University and James Grotstein (UCLA), who calls it a "remarkable – and frightening – piece of careful scholarship." Frank's book also has its detractors. Writing for the conservative magazine The Weekly Standard, Irwin Savodnik, a psychiatrist who teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles, described Frank's book as a "psychoanalytic hatchet job" and said that "there is not an ounce of psychoanalytic material in the entire book." The code of the American Psychiatric Association, of which Frank is not a current member, states that "it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement." Although Frank had in the past written for Salon, the online magazine reviewed the book unfavorably, arguing that it included "dubious theories" and that Frank had failed in his avowed intention to distinguish his partisan opinions from his psychoanalytic evaluation of Bush's character.

However, in interviews Frank freely admits his partisan affiliation, but claims his book is in a tradition of psychological assessments of leaders frequently undertaken, for example, by the CIA. Frank also claims that some of his readers have reacted to his book by gaining increased sympathy for Bush; for example, Joan Baez admitted this to Frank.

Reviews

 * History News Network Review
 * Shrinking the President: A mind is a dangerous thing to psychoanalyze, The Weekly Standard, September 19, 2004
 * The inner W, Salon, June 16, 2004

Impact
Frank's book Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President was extensively quoted from by Fidel Castro in his annual speech in 2004.

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 * Delete per nom... and "page under construction" is so 1995. — ceejayoz ★ 15:41, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
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Kanangra Falls

Kanangra Falls is a waterfall on the Kanangra River, in the Kanangra-Boyd National Park, near, in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia. The waterfall is located at Thurat Walls about 800 m northeast of Ianthe Hill, with the fall height reported in 1930 as being 225 m in two sections.

Kanangra Falls is popular with canyoning and abseiling groups.

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Maastunnel

The Maastunnel is a tunnel in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, connecting the banks of the Nieuwe Maas. About 75,000 motor vehicles and a large number of cyclists and pedestrians use the tunnel daily, making the Maastunnel an important part of Rotterdam's road network. Building commenced in 1937 and finished in 1942. There was no official opening ceremony, but the Dutch held an unofficial opening ceremony in secret without Nazi participation.

Construction of the tunnel was preceded by years of animated discussions. Although there was agreement as to the need for a new permanent connection between the two banks of the Nieuwe Maas, there was lack of agreement as to whether it should be a bridge or a tunnel. A tunnel proved to be more attractive financially than a bridge, largely because of the great height a bridge would have needed to avoid hindering the passage of ships from the port of Rotterdam, the largest port in Europe.

The Maastunnel was built using the sunken tube or immersed tube method. Separate parts of the Maastunnel were built elsewhere in a dry dock, and then floated into place and sunk into a trench dug in the river bottom, a technique used in many other Dutch tunnels after the Maastunnel. The Maastunnel was the world's first rectangular shaped underwater tunnel built in this way. Earlier tunnels were all of a circular design. Each of the nine parts of the tunnel has a length of over 60 metres, a height of 9 metres and a width of 25 metres. They contain two side-by-side tubes for motorised traffic, and, beside those, two vertically stacked tubes, one for cyclists and moped riders and the other for pedestrians. Cyclist and pedestrian access is by escalator, the wooden escalators are sized to fit bicycles. The tunnel can also be accessed via two elevators (one on each side) this is mostly used for heavier cargo bikes and mopeds, but accessible to anyone. At one time there was a laboratory in one of the ventilation buildings to examine the air quality in the tunnel.

The Maastunnel was opened to the public on 14 February 1942 and was the first car tunnel in the Netherlands. At the end of the Second World War overhead lines were installed to allow for the passage of trolleybuses. Although two buses were ready for these experimental rides, they were never used for public transportation in Rotterdam, as the overhead lines were removed from the tunnel and used to repair the Rotterdam tramway network overhead lines which had been destroyed during the bombing. In 1944 the German invaders placed explosives in the tunnel so they could destroy it at a moment's notice.

The length of the Maastunnel is 1373 metres (including access roads). The underground part is 1070 metres long. The lowest point of the tunnel is approximately 20 meters below sealevel. Above ground, the tunnel's location can be recognized by its characteristic ventilation buildings on both sides of the river. It can be seen from the nearby Euromast tower as well.

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Travis Carter

Travis Carter (born November 21, 1949) is a former car owner and crew chief in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series. He served as crew chief for two decades, winning a championship with Benny Parsons in 1973. Carter was the winning crew chief when Parsons won the 1975 Daytona 500. He owned Travis Carter Motorsports from 1970 to 2003. He is the uncle of NASCAR crew chief Larry Carter, and the father of NASCAR driver Matt Carter.

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Non-encyclopedic. Looks like an appeal for money. josh 14:06, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
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Late breaking news. "Mostek Dies Another Death". The remainder of the original Mostek HQ site will be closed, it was announced today. This affects the jobs of approx 1000 employees at the Carrollton, TX site, many of whom are long-term employees who have survived several previous stages of the Life & Death of MOSTEK.

The article originally read: (United technologies) sold it again to SGS-ATES in 1981.

However the MostekLives site states that it was purchased not by SGS, but Thomson, and in 1985, not 1981. Anyone have more sources we can compare?

Maury 14:07, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

 * At the time, or perhaps shortly thereafter, it was SGS-Thompson, which is now STMicro. I'm not sure about the date.  --Brouhaha 18:27, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Thompson first bought Mostek from UTC in October, 1985. Mostek had indicated that it was going to close down and run out the fab line. A few days after that Mostek and Thompson came to an agreement and the company was sold. Thompson and SGS formed SGS-Thompson after that time. That company is now STMicroelectronics. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Colonyrice (talk • contribs).

UTC actually closed the operation totally — firing everybody. Thomson bought it a few days later but called back only 1000(?). JdelaF (talk) 03:49, 20 July 2022 (UTC)

Etymology of the name
Does origin of Mostek name ( M etal O xide S emiconductor) need explanation? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.159.157.84 (talk • contribs).

 * I think so. Please be bold and add an explanation!

 * Atlant 17:22, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry if this is in the wrong sub-section to write about this, but the "The decline in the face of Japanese competition" is clearly a personal attack on someone and doesn't seem very factual in nature. (i don't wiki very often, sorry if this comment is informal). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.107.75.162 (talk) 12:42, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

 * "The decline in the face of Japanese competition" IS NOT a PERSONAL ATTACK on someone. The fact is the Japanese companies were yielding 90-95% on the 4564 DRAMS.  This meant they could undercut the prices to cheaper than American companies at 20-30% yield.  It is called predatory pricing...Soon afterwards the American companies had to go to high yield manufacturing to survive.  At one time only one American company, Micron Technologies made DRAM memories.  There were trade sanctions which did come about.  Harley-Davidson got trade sanctions on Honda and Yamaha bikes.  John Deere recently got sanctions against Kubota and other Japanese tractors.. 172.10.47.126 (talk) 03:40, 19 October 2023 (UTC)

Japanese Inc
I think the term Japan Inc is obsolete, incorrectly suggesting that these companies were working together, and not neutral. The term is better suited for Anti-Japanese sentiment. Andries (talk) 23:01, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

Worchester?
I assume it's Worcester, but do not have the resources to verify. 208.232.182.67 (talk) 16:56, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

The Decline in the face of Asian competition
"United Technologies blew their investment. They put someone in charge who had zero semiconductor experience (knowing how to build jet engines isn't the same!) and had no comprehension of either the up-front investment required or the long time for ROI.[2] They also sacrificed their leadership position in some markets and put all of their eggs in the DRAM basket. They eventually spent hundreds of millions trying to keep the company going during the various semiconductor and videogame crashes of the early 1980s, and eventually gave up and sold it to Thomson Semiconductor in 1985 for a mere $71 million."

This entire section is much different than the professional tone of the rest of the article. It reads as if the author has a personal vendetta against Mostek. "blew their investment" "knowing how to build jet engines isn't the same!" just to name a few poor word choices.

The vendetta seems to be more against United Technologies' mismanagement of Mostek, mostly for focusing on DRAM - not staying diversified. 192.206.243.220 (talk) 19:33, 28 March 2018 (UTC) wacummins@gmail.com

Low yield Z80s
I've added a citation needed tag for this part: "Zilog had modified the recipe for Z80 chips to keep the yields low". I find it highly dubious because such a change would affect also Zilog's selling prices / revenue.148.64.26.100 (talk) 16:39, 7 January 2022 (UTC) Apass

Could be Zilog bought packaged parts rather than untested wafers, ie they paid only for good parts. So the low yield would only make Mostek’s costs higher. JdelaF (talk) 23:59, 19 July 2022 (UTC)

 * Well - it could very well be like that. But still, if the yield is low, also the number of good parts that can be bought is low so Zilog could not meet the demand. However, I've seen that the article was revised in the mean time and that bit about the low yield was taken out.89.37.121.170 (talk) 07:11, 9 March 2023 (UTC) Apass

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Expreszo

Expreszo is the only magazine for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth in the Netherlands and Flanders. The magazine is published bi-monthly.

The philosophy
The name Expreszo does not refer to espresso. It is a combination of two Dutch words, Expres and Zo which would roughly be translated into English as On Purpose Like This. The name was invented by Peter Zwaal, who was the magazine's first editor-in-chief, though initially there was no such function as the magazine was made by an editorial collective. The name refers to the questions gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youths are confronted with when they decide to be open about their sexual identity. The Expreszo staff claim that there is no need for questions since there already are answers, saying "we're young, we're queer and there is nothing bad about that". This positive attitude from some gay and lesbian youths needed to be shared with other members of their generation who still struggled with their sexual identity.

The magazine Expreszo claims to give the readers the role models that they lack in daily life. The editors also write about serious issues. Coming out of the closet is a continuing story — and unfortunately HIV/AIDS is too. Besides that, while legal emancipation has come to a good ending in civil marriage and adoption rights for gays and lesbians in the Netherlands (2001) and Belgium (2003) and things have changed in society, intolerance from other (religious) minority groups towards gays and lesbians is still a big issue in the Netherlands.

Expreszo ran a poster campaign (Aisha is Cool / Ahmed is Cool, 2004) with kissing Muslim boys and girls that got a lot of media attention.

In order to get attention for the position of gay youth in highschools Expreszo (in co-operation with COC Netherlands) ran a project PinkQuest, resulting in a magazine Put da Cool back into School, distributed in most high schools in the country. Dutch MPs asked questions about the publication, which was co-funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, since a lot of "black" and Christian schools refused to hand out the magazine to their students.

About the publisher and editors
Expreszo was established in 1998. It is claimed to be made for, and made by young people and for this reason staff turnover is frequent. Over forty staff members are involved in making the magazine, maintaining the website, and running the organization. This includes editors, desktop publishers, photographers, and other staff members. In spite of being a purely volunteer organization they claim to have reached a professional standard.

In 1991, 1995 and 2001 the lack of funds seriously threatened the magazine in its existence. In 1995 the publisher, the Stichting Hoezo (Foundation), joined COC Netherlands, the largest lesbian and gay association in the Netherlands. COC boardmembers from 1995 formed the board of Hoezo/Expreszo and COC Netherlands started funding the magazine from 1995 until 2001. A benefit/rescue party in December 2001 gave new energy to the editorial staff. COC funding stopped, but with a new format (e.g. size, full color) the board and staff managed to boost sales and advertisement. For the first time Expreszo started making a profit.

A statute ensures that the editorial staff of Expreszo is independent in their writing (independent from COC).

Production and distribution

 * The magazine was started as a newsletter from the Rotterdam gay youth group Apollo, and after a few years most readers and subscribers were outside the Rotterdam region and in 1990 it was decided to distribute the newsletter through bookshops all over the Netherlands (by Betapress). In 1999 distribution started in Belgium (by AMPnet).
 * Expreszo is published six times a year. (quarterly until 1994, 10 times a year in 1995, 6 times a year since 1996 until present)
 * The makers of Expreszo are all volunteers - mostly students.
 * Expreszo is for sale in over 1,000 bookshops in Belgium and the Netherlands.

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List of media appearances
I have removed the long list of bullet-pointed media appearances. There were way, way too many, and they do not add to the understanding of Thorpe. If a reliable source (such as one of the books listed in the references) can be found that says "Thorpe was portrayed in many documentaries and satirical sketches, such as X, Y and Z", that could be added at the appropriate point. But not just listing them all. The mentions of Dr Who, for example, while mildly interesting, probably belong in articles on those episodes but are emphatically NOT relevant to a biography of Thorpe. My own personal inclination is to remove the "Popular Media" section and burn it with fire, but I can see the necessity for including what is there at the moment. I will not revert over this, as I find edit warring tedious, but I would appreciate it if the matter was discussed here before anyone replaced that bizarre footnote. Sarastro (talk) 09:43, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Hands up on pushing it into a footnote - that was me after my removal of the information was also reverted. Also not wanting to edit war, I went for the second option of pushing it all into a footnote, but my preference is just not to have much of it at all, except where truly relevant. - SchroCat (talk) 09:47, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I agree. My view is that outright removal is the better option. If possible, the gist of the footnote could be added as one sentence if a reference which covers all of this could be found. In fairness, it is perhaps a point that could be made if he was frequently satirised or something similar. I've got a copy of Bloch's biography somewhere, I'll see if it says anything that we could use. Sarastro (talk) 09:51, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Edit conflict. I agree. I would delete all of the "In Popular Media" section. The link back from A Very English Scandal is enough.Graham Beards (talk) 09:58, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Most politicians don't have Channel 4 Secret Lives documentaries or editions of BBC Panorama, made about them. I think these two items could reasonably be restored, if appropriate WP:RS source(s) are available. Martinevans123 (talk) 10:54, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
 * Bloch's book does not really mention anything about Thorpe's "media reception" other than the usual coverage of the scandals. However, he explicitly mentions Peter Cook taking the piss out of Cantley at the Secret Policeman's Ball, which is something that could be added if that was thought worthwhile. Somewhat surprisingly, he makes no mention of the Mangold documentary that I can see; I would also agree this could be added if we can find a decent source (not in that abomination of a media section, but both of these would fit in the trial section). I disagree on Secret Lives (though I could be persuaded); I don't think it is notable that he featured in some documentaries unless those were particularly important or earth-shattering. The Mangold one I think would qualify on these grounds given that its broadcast was stopped. Sarastro (talk) 21:19, 6 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I also notice some of the information about Peter Cook is in the Thorpe affair article. Nothing on Mangold's documentary there either though. Sarastro (talk) 21:29, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

Clarify the shooting
Newton took a shot at Scott, this is conceded by all.

Whose idea was it, Newton’s or Thorpe’s?

The article does not make this clear, but perhaps it is not clear anyway. A summary of the different stories, and when they were offered, would improve the article. 2A00:23C7:E284:CF00:6CB7:7F91:945F:DC9C (talk) 10:30, 27 August 2020 (UTC)

Recent edits
Are edits such as this improvements? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:26, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
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Private Life
Almost every wikipage has a section on private life, but not this one. Why not? Rustygecko (talk) 10:38, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Because the article provides detailed coverage of a private life that became all too public.--Jburlinson (talk) 15:49, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

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Hi, There should not be a tv advertisements section in reference of this page. I would wait for comments before removing it. Yohannvt (talk) 11:30, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

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Nicky Robinson (rugby union)

Nicholas John Robinson (born 3 January 1982 in Cardiff) is a former Wales international rugby union player who played at fly-half.

He is the younger brother of Jamie Robinson. Both were educated at Ysgol Glantaf which has educated several Wales internationals and Cardiff-based players, including Jamie Roberts. Nicky Robinson speaks Welsh fluently.

Nick was one of European rugby's leading fly-halves and he has amassed nearly 1,500 points to date in club rugby for his four professional sides - Cardiff Blues, Gloucester, Wasps & Bristol.

A left-footed fly-half, Nick was famous for his exciting running game.

In May 2009 he joined Gloucester Rugby from Cardiff Blues on a three-year contract. He played a central role as Cardiff Blues thrashed Gloucester in the Anglo-Welsh Cup Final at Twickenham earlier that year.

In his two seasons at Gloucester Nick was a model of consistency for the English Premiership side, making 60 appearances and scoring in excess of 500 points as Gloucester reached the Anglo-Welsh Cup Final in 2010 (where they lost to Northampton Saints), the Anglo-Welsh Cup Final again in 2011 - where Nick was named man-of-the-match as Gloucester overcame Newcastle Falcons - and the Premiership play-off semi-finals, where a late try from Nick wasn't enough as Gloucester went down 12–10 to eventual winners Saracens.

In February 2011 it was announced he would be joining London Wasps from Gloucester Rugby on a two-year contract, teaming up again with former Cardiff Blues coach Dai Young.

Despite 2011/2012 being a difficult season for Wasps off the field, on it Nick was a virtual ever-present in the starting line-up, scoring 230 points in 25 appearances as the club reached the quarter-finals of the European Challenge Cup.

On 21 February 2013, Robinson signed for Bristol Rugby in the RFU Championship and for the 2013–14 season.

On 29 January 2015, it was announced Robinson would join French Top 14 side Oyonnax on a three-year deal from the 2015–16 season.

Robinson retired from playing in July 2016, but re-signed for Cardiff Blues in November of the same year.

In August 2017 it was announced that Robinson would remain at Cardiff Blues in a coaching capacity, taking on the role of kicking coach alongside former Blues scrum half Richie Rees, who would be working as backs coach.

In April 2018 Robinson married Lyndsey Dalglish the daughter of Kenny Dalglish.

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User:DyluckTRocket

About Me
Those who wish to know what my real name is know where to look. I used to be known on here as LichYoshi, but after some years of not actively contributing to the site due to a change in personal priorities, the sleeping behemoth has awoken and I'm now back under my new moniker. Call me Dyluck, for short. I have a tendency to disappear for a while and re-surface as my other commitments allow.

That aside, I live in the city of Brisbane, which lies on the east coast of Australia, a fraction north of the most easterly point of the continent. I used to be a student of Town Planning at the University of Queensland, as a result of my interests in geography and transport. I have a great interest in music, singing in a choir and occasionally writing the odd tune or two for my friends or their projects; to add a twist, I also learnt to play the bagpipes (Great Highland Bagpipe in particular), though I gave up playing regularly in 2010. Although I like to consider it my main hobby, music (especially composition) is prone to lapses in inspiration and motivation. I also like to write, although I have not produced anything for a number of years now as I seek to improve my craft. I have a fantasy novel that's been in development since 1998, and I wrote a complicated sort of fanfiction from approximately 2000-2007. Being raised on a diet of video games, I find inspiration for both of my crafts from this source. I also believe it is what also pointed me towards becoming a member of the Furry fandom, from which I find further inspiration. I also have a love of languages, and after teaching myself some introductory Latin, I am currently using the Heisig method to teach myself kanji in preparation to learn Japanese. In late 2013, I was introduced to the game Ingress, which I am quite involved in as it caters to my socio-geographic interests. If I'm not working, learning kanji, furthering my creative projects, or editing Wikipedia, I'm often out furthering the cause of the Enlightened.

I have travelled somewhat extensively, most notably an eight-month stint during 2009 in parts of the United States (and Vancouver), followed by a three month stint through summer and fall of 2015 in Virginia and Florida where I married my partner of many years. It is my intent to move to the United States permanently.

I came onto Internet in 1997 with a "56K" modem; this lasted over eight years until I got a cable connection in December 2005. Since moving house, my primary access was via ADSL2+ for a few years, until I moved to another place with cable access once more.

Wikipedianess
I was introduced to Wikipedia some time in late 2004 or early 2005 (I forget). I signed up as a Wikipedian in April 2005 after I had made a few minor contributions and fixed a few linguistic errors here and there anonymously for some time beforehand. My contributions made under my former LichYoshi moniker mainly lie in entries related to the Seiken Densetsu/Mana series of video games. For a while, I had some sort of (masochistic) pleasure in occasionally patrolling new Wikipedia articles, seeking rewards in occasionally finding something warranting BJAODN's attention (or so I hoped). I stopped being a regular contributor sometime in 2007, and became more of a reader.

I love to learn about things, so I use Wikipedia as a source of general knowledge about the topics I'm interested in, which predominantly revolve around history, geography and chemistry. It is because I continue to use this site that I've popped up here and there on pages I've come across in my reading projects that have needed some copyediting. It was after I discovered a string of poorly written and neglected articles in my U.S. Highway project that I decided in mid-2012 to make a come-back of sorts, update this page and be more active in fixing errors, or at least highlighting the things that I am not confident enough to fix, in the hope that someone else will.

I believe in unconventional knowledge and respecting the positive contributions of editors. This is pertinent especially in articles about towns and cities where local knowledge is the primary source. I will tend to ask for verification rather than delete material; however, if something has been left unverified for years, I will tend to remove it from the article proper.

Current Project: U.S. Highways
Paired with Google Earth, I have been doing some "virtual tourism" by following the course of U.S. Highways at "helicopter-level" from terminus to terminus according to their mileposts as written here on Wikipedia, i.e. south-to-north and west-to-east. I intend to do them all in numerical order (call me crazy, if you so wish!). While I "travel" along them, I refer to the highway articles, intersecting State highway articles, town and city articles, county and state articles, and other related articles that I find to be relevant/interesting, typically those with a marker in Google Earth.

After discovering a bunch of poorly written or unwritten highway articles in Montana and improving or writing them, I am currently revisiting U.S. Highway 1 and trying to bring the intersecting highways' articles up to at least a "C standard" according to the U.S. Roads WikiProject, if possible. I'm currently revising some of the articles in Miami-Dade County until I reach my Current point again.

A list tracking my State Highway article editing can be found here.

Note to self: Commonly used references for editing highway articles

South Florida SR review for listicle inclusion

Other Projects

 * World History: 1801 to the present by year in Notable Events and Science and Technology
 * Progress: 1914 ≈53%
 * Reason: Because I thought it was shameful that I didn't understand how the modern world formed. I also want to study geopolitics for the sake of my fantasy novel. I will probably revisit this from the beginning as I started this project over ten years ago and many more articles have been written during that time.
 * As a sub-project of this, as it's been brought into being since I started the world history project, I am going year by year in Australian history, 1788 to the present.
 * Progress: 1873 ≈37

 * Countries of the World: History and Depiction, A-Z
 * Progress: Afghanistan '≈'0.4%''
 * Reason: Something that I've tried to do for a long time, since I got the first Encarta as a kid. The main part of this task involves national anthems, flags and coats of arms. This also includes generally recognised countries without legal status (but not micronations).
 * Note to self: List of country name etymologies.

 * National Capital Cities of the World, A-Z
 * Progress: 0%
 * Reason: Doing national capitals by country alphabetically is easy enough. One would start with Kabul (or Sukhumi) and end with Harare. But wouldn't it be more interesting if countries were listed alphabetically according to their capitals? So, I am starting with Abidjan and going to Zagreb instead. I'm also pairing this with having a look at each city in Google Earth.

 * Chemical Elements and Isotopes
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To Do List

 * You -> the player project - The use of "you" in video game articles is one of my biggest pet peeves; if video games are to be taken as a serious medium the way one would take fine art, and not with the attitude of ephemerality that is commonplace, then the articles need to be as professional as possible. If I come across an instance of the second person being used outside of quoting text, I will leap on it like a hyper Rabite with a vengeance. Apart from that, I intend to go through all of the video game articles and rewrite all references to the second person as third, as per WP:CVG/GL. Wish me luck.

Vandal Log
Whoo, I must be a real Wikipedian now. Someone's taken the trouble to vandalise this page.

1. 31/10/05 15:13 (AEST) - Anon. IP
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 * This is the old (as of 1st March, 2007) plot summary from the Secret of Mana article, saved here because it's well-written, but just too long for the article.
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