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Introduction to Thiya Billawa community

In the Parashurama Shrusti the members of the community known differently as THIYA-BELCHADA- MALAYALI BILLAWA were the inhabitants from time immemorial concentrated between north of Chandragiri river ( Kasaragod ) and south of Kalyanpura river ( Hejamamdi ) and West to East between the shores of the Arabian sea to Sulya region. This Belchada / Thiya community though extremely backward in the financial and educational sphere, has a rich heritage and has its own unique Customs, Rituals and Aradhana.

There exist 18 important Bhagavathi Kshetras apart from many Tharavad / Family shrines spread over Kasaragod, Mangalore and Udupi districts. Though the ruling deity of community is BHAGAVATHI ,there are temples dedicated to VISHNUMOORTHY, WAYANAD DAIVA AND KORATHI-the later to are believed to be incarnation of Lord Shiva and Shakthi respectively. Chaitanyas like KALLURTI, PANJURLI ,GULIGA, NAGADEVA are being devotionally worshipped by this community and regular KOLA ,THAMBLIA, KALIYATA etc. are performed to invoke their blessings.

THIYA BELCHADA community is divided into 8 Illams which traces it’s origin to one Amruthamani born out of the Lord Shiva’s grace and seven others born to to the Sapthamathas through the same Lord’s divine blessings, which means Thiyas are the progeny of Lord Shiva. Marriage between the same ILLAMS is considered a taboo being Sagothra. This community is coming under the spell the 19th century Great Saint and reformer Sri.NarayanaGuru’s teachings.

Owing to mobility in search of livelihood, the community members are spread out and a good chunk of them are concentrated in cities like Mumbai and Bangalore. Beyond the above noted original habitat Thiya Samaj was formed in Mumbai. More than 50 years back, in particular and many KSHETRA SAMITIS in general, have been functioning extremely well striving their best to organize and serve the community.

Now this THIYA BILLAVA community proud to own a website, www.thiyabillawa.comThiya Billawa which is designed by Ranjith Bajpe with support from Ishwar M Ail. This is site is sponsered by THIYA SAMAJ Mumbai.

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Please, please stop writing in capitals. Has no one told you, writing in capitals is SHOUTING and there is no need to shout here. Now, before you do anything else, go back and convert Illams and 18 important Bhagavathi Kshetras to lower case (with proper capitalisation of proper names of course). -- RHaworth 13:32, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

Please introduce articles
Rather than simply making lists of unclear meaning, please write introductions to the material, so that a reader may know what Illams means--because I have no idea, and the article gives no context. The introduction you have written on your talk page is probably a good start, if you would copy it over so that readers of the articles may understand what they are reading. Thanks! NickelShoe 19:40, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Ranjith Bajpe
The article you created at Ranjith Bajpe was listed for deletion as An article about a real person that does not assert the importance or significance of its subject, criterion 7 in the criteria for speedy deletion, Articles section. Since it appears to be about you I've moved it to your user space instead, which was probably what you intended in the first place (a common mistake among newcomers!).

If you really did mean to create an article about yourself please be aware that this is often considered a bad idea, even if you do meet the guidelines for inclusion of biographies.

I know Wikipedia can be confusing for new editors, so you are welcome to ask for help at the help desk or on my talk page. Just zis Guy you know? 11:57, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

User:Thiyabillawa
I've added the "" template to your user page (User:Thiyabillawa), suggesting that it be deleted according to the proposed deletion process. I've explained why in the deletion notice (see also "What Wikipedia is not" and Wikipedia's deletion policy).

Please note that the purpose of a user page is not as personal homepage or Wikipedia is not a general hosting service, but as way for active editors of Wikipedia to introduce themselves to other editors. If you disagree with the notice, discuss the issues here or on my user talk page. You may remove the deletion notice, and the page will not be deleted for the moment, but note that it may still be sent to Miscellany for Deletion, where it may be deleted if consensus to delete is reached, or if it matches any of the speedy deletion criteria. Calton | Talk 13:12, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

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Our Lips Are Sealed

"Our Lips Are Sealed" is a song co-written by Jane Wiedlin, guitarist of the Go-Go's, and Terry Hall, singer of the Specials and Fun Boy Three.

It was first recorded by the Go-Go's as the opening track on their album Beauty and the Beat (1981) and was their debut American single in June 1981. The single eventually reached the top 5 in Australia and Canada, and the top 20 in the United States. Originally written and performed with three verses, the song appears in an abbreviated version on Beauty and the Beat. Most of the song's vocals are performed by lead singer Belinda Carlisle, with co-writer Wiedlin singing the bridge.

In 1983, Hall's band Fun Boy Three released their version of "Our Lips Are Sealed". Issued as a single, the track became a top-ten hit in the United Kingdom, besting the recording by the Go-Go's which only made it to No. 47 in the UK.

Record World described the song as being as "innocent and infectious as pop music can be", with a "steady, pulsating dance beat" and "candy-coated keyboard riffs".

In 2000, Rolling Stone & MTV put the Go-Go's' original version of "Our Lips Are Sealed" at No. 57 on a list of 100 Greatest Pop Songs. In 2021, their version was also listed at No. 477 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The Go-Go's performed the song, along with "Vacation" and "We Got the Beat", during the 2021 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony.

Origins
The Go-Go's supported the Specials on the latter's 1980 Seaside tour of England. According to Jane Wiedlin, she and Terry Hall had a brief affair despite his being in a relationship with another woman at the time. After Wiedlin returned to the United States, Hall mailed her some lyrics, and this led to their co-writing the song. The Go-Go's version is significantly more upbeat than Fun Boy Three's, which Wiedlin describes as "great" but also "gloomier".

Music video
The official music video for the song features sequences of the band members in carefree tableaux (riding around LA in a 1960 Buick convertible, stopping at a lingerie shop, and splashing around in a fountain) interspersed with footage of the band playing at a club.

Jane Wiedlin says the band was initially unenthusiastic when Miles Copeland, president of their label, I.R.S. Records, told them they would be doing the video. "We were totally bratty", she recalls. The video was financed with unused funds from the Police's video budget.

The group wanted an older-style convertible, and found a red 1960 Buick LeSabre at Rent-a-Wreck. After riding around Beverly Hills, at some point, they stop at the famous Trashy Lingerie store located at La Cienega Blvd. The girls go into the shop, but Jane Wiedlin remains in the car to sing the bridge of the song (although Carlisle can be seen in the driver's seat trying to hide). The day of shooting was very hot so it was the band's idea to end the video by jumping into the fountain on the corner of Wilshire and Santa Monica. Wiedlin later said "I thought, at any minute the cops are gonna come. This is gonna be so cool."

Wiedlin looks back on the video experience fondly. "I have horrible '80s poodle hair in it", she recalled in a 2011 history of MTV. "But there's a simplicity and innocence to the video that appeals to me."

The music video received heavy airplay on the fledgling MTV.

Chart performance
The original version peaked at number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and 15 on the Billboard Top Rock Tracks chart. On the dance chart, the song peaked at number 10. A song of unusual longevity as a hit, it remained on the Billboard charts until March 1982, long after its peak, ultimately charting for 30 weeks.

Fun Boy Three version
The following year, co-writer Terry Hall re-recorded the song with his own band, Fun Boy Three. It was included on their second album Waiting and reached number seven on the UK Singles Chart, and was the last single to chart in the UK before their split later in 1983. Backing vocals were provided by Mo-dettes drummer June Miles-Kingston, who also played drums on the single and the Waiting LP.

 * 2x7" single (Chrysalis FUNB 1 + FBFRE 1)

 * 12" single (Chrysalis 4V9-42689)

 * 12" UK single (Chrysalis FUNBX 1)

Hilary and Haylie Duff version
Sisters Hilary and Haylie Duff covered the song for the soundtrack of the 2004 film A Cinderella Story, in which Hilary starred. The cover, which was released on June 5, 2004, was produced by Charlie Midnight and Spider. The Duff sisters said in an interview that they had wanted to record together, and Hilary chose "Our Lips Are Sealed" because the "secretive" theme of the song relates to the film A Cinderella Story. As of July 27, 2014, the song had sold 161,000 copies in the United States. It was released on June 3 and received medium airplay on MuchMusic in Canada and MTV in the U.S. Though the video was popular on the MTV video chart show Total Request Live, the single failed to chart on the US Hot 100. In Australia it was released on August 30, 2004 and reached number eight.

The single's music video was directed by Chris Applebaum and filmed in Toronto, Canada, in May 2004. Similar to the video for the Go-Go's single, it depicts the Duff sisters driving around town in a car and goofing about, and is interspersed with footage from A Cinderella Story. A second version of the video, which had new scenes and is not interspersed with scenes from A Cinderella Story, was included on the Dignity deluxe edition DVD. The song was included on Duff's compilation album, Most Wanted (2005) and the Japanese and Australian editions of Hilary Duff's second compilation album Best of Hilary Duff.

Track listing

 * 1) "Our Lips Are Sealed" – 2:40
 * 2) "Our Lips Are Sealed" (music video) – 2:50
 * 3) A Cinderella Story movie trailer – 1:44

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Daughters of the Cross

The Daughters of the Cross of Liège (Filles de la Croix de Liège) are religious sisters in the Catholic Church who are members of a religious congregation founded in 1833 by Marie Thérèse Haze (1782–1876). The organization's original mission is focused on caring for the needs of their society through education and nursing care.

Origins
The founder, born Jeanne Haze in the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, was forced into exile with her family in Germany when French Revolutionary Army forces occupied her principality. Her father died during that period, leaving the family in poverty.

Her family returned to Liège. After their return, because of their own experiences, Haze and her sister Ferdinande felt drawn to help people in most need. When their mother died in 1820, the sisters wanted to enter a religious community, but were not able to do so due to the restrictions of Church law at the time. In an answer to a request by their pastor, Canon Cloes, the Dean of St Bartholomew Collegiate Church, the sisters opened a school for poor children in the parish in 1829 in the home of the curate of the parish, Canon Jean-Guillaume Habets. The creation of an independent Kingdom of Belgium the following year allowed them to establish the school officially as a Catholic institution.

Soon other young women joined the pair in their desire to follow the consecrated life. Habets, originally skeptical of their desire, came to support them. He helped the group to write their Constitutions.

On September 8, 1833, the Haze sisters professed perpetual religious vows, receiving the names Mother Marie Thérèse and Mother Aloysia in the Carmelite Church of Potay, next to their own convent. Two other companions, Sisters Clara and Constance, made their temporary vows for one year and two postulants began their novitiate. Thus the Congregation of the Daughters of the Cross was established under a Rule of life based on Ignatian spirituality.

The Daughters of the Cross of Liège took over the administration of a women's prison in 1841 and a house for the rehabilitation of prostitutes the following year. In 1843 they opened a shelter for the homeless, which housed 125 residents.

The congregation was formally approved by Pope Gregory XVI on October 1, 1845, thereby raised to the status of a congregation of pontifical right. By that time the congregation had grown to 84 Sisters who operated 4 schools, with a total enrollment of about 1,000 girls. Of those girls, 80% were given a free education. Their constitutions were approved by Pope Pius IX in 1851. She was the foundress of the school "St. Teresa's Secondary School" in Kidderpore.

Expansion
The sisters began to serve in other countries with their establishing a foundation in Germany in 1849. At the invitation of the Vicar Apostolic of Bombay, they opened schools in the British Raj in 1861. This led to their working in the United Kingdom in 1863.

United States
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In 1855, Auguste Martin, the Bishop of the Diocese of Natchitoches, Louisiana, held conversations with Mother Mary Hyacinth (1816–1897) of the Daughters of the Cross to ask for missionary workers in Louisiana. Her order was interested in teaching in America. Permission was granted by the Bishop of France for ten nuns to undertake this task. On Oct. 19, 1855, the Daughters of the Cross arrived in Avoyelles Parish. In 1860, John Pierre invited them to Shreveport to found a school next door to Holy Trinity Catholic Church (Shreveport, Louisiana), which remained open until 1954. By 1870, the order had opened six schools in North Louisiana. In totality, 21 schools in the state were established by the Order over the years, including St John Berchmans Catholic School in Shreveport in 1949.

After the Civil War's end in 1866, Pierre advised the order about a parcel of land south of Shreveport that would be an excellent location for a girl's boarding school. Hyacinth then purchased 100 acres and a building. St. Vincent’s Academy opened in October, 1868, as a day and boarding school solely for girls. It was accredited to confer high school diplomas and college degrees, as well as to teach first through 12th grades.

The school's enrollment continued to rise until a devastating Yellow fever epidemic in 1873. Subsequent growth was mostly due to the efforts of Napoleon Joseph Roulleaux, who was chaplain of the convent and school. In 1906, a fire destroyed the school but the buildings were rebuilt with a gothic design from clay bricks on the same property. In September, 1962, the academy was transferred to a new site on Fairfield Avenue, where it remained until its closure due to economic struggles at the end of the 1987–88 session, culminating in 119 years of devoted service by the Daughters of the Cross. St. Vincent's Academy declined to consider a merger at the time with Loyola College Prep, which was a local all-male Catholic high school founded by the Jesuits in 1902.

Only a very small number of nuns from the order remain in the Northern Louisiana community. They are retired and are no longer involved in the operations of any of the numerous remaining schools the order founded in the region. The Order of the Daughters of the Cross, overall, now has a very limited and declining active presence in the United States, primarily restricted to ministries of caring for seniors, the sick, dying, and the home bound, which are organized and conducted under the auspices of the United Kingdom province. In 1958, four nuns from the Daughters of the Cross of England had come to Tracy, California to open St. Bernard's School. Over the years their ministry expanded to Angel's Camp, Lockford, Manteca, San Andreas, and Stockton, but having gained no new recruits, they have since left Tracy.

United Kingdom
Haze sent her sisters to England in 1863. In the United Kingdom, the Daughters of the Cross are constituted as a registered charity. In 2006–7 it had a gross income of £56,197,000, making it one of the 100 largest charities in the United Kingdom.

Schools

 * St Philomena's Catholic High School for Girls, Carshalton, Surrey

Charities

 * St Anthony's Hospital, Cheam, Surrey, England
 * St Raphael's Hospice, Cheam, Surrey, England
 * St Elizabeth's Centre, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, England. Centre specialising in education and care for individuals of all ages with a range of complex medical and educational needs.  Comprises St Elizabeth's School; St Elizabeth's College (post 19) and St Elizabeth's Care Home.
 * Holy Cross Hospital, Haslemere, Surrey, England
 * St Michael's Hospital, Hayle, Cornwall
 * Holy Cross College, Bury, Greater Manchester, England
 * St. Joseph's Convent Grammar School, Donaghmore, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland

India

 * St. Joseph's Convent High School, Panchgani, Maharashtra
 * St. Joseph's High School, Matigara, West Bengal
 * St. Agnes' Convent School, Howrah, West Bengal
 * St. Mary's Girls' Higher Secondary School, Gayaganga, West Bengal
 * St. Helen's School, Kurseong, West Bengal
 * St. Teresa's Secondary School, Kidderpore, West Bengal
 * St. Paul's Boarding & Day School, Kidderpore, West Bengal
 * St. Joseph's Convent, Bandra, Mumbai, Maharashtra
 * Sacred Heart Convent School, Keshwapur, Hubli, Karnataka
 * St. Joseph's Primary School, Bandra, Mumbai
 * St. Joseph's High School, Bandra, Mumbai
 * St. Joseph's Convent International School, Bandra, Mumbai
 * St. Joseph's High School, Agripada, Mumbai
 * Vimal Miriam Primary School, Anand, Gujarat
 * Vimal Miriam High School, Anand, Gujarat
 * St. Joseph's Convent School || Rourkela, Odisha
 * Nirmala Girls High School, Kainsara, Sundargarh, Odisha
 * Daughters of the Cross Convent, Jorethang, South Sikkim.

Pakistan

 * St Joseph's Convent School (Karachi)
 * St. Joseph's College (Karachi)

Current status
The congregation opened institutions in the Belgian Congo (1910), in Ireland (1920), in the Netherlands (1924), in Italy (1929) and in Brazil (1953). In 1975 the sisters numbered about 1,500 members, serving in 113 institutions worldwide. By 2009 the membership had been reduced to 833 Sisters, a quarter of whom were Indian.

The General Motherhouse of the congregation was moved from Liège to England in 2012.

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Ulysses S. Grant IV

Ulysses Simpson Grant IV (May 23, 1893 – March 11, 1977) was an American geologist and paleontologist known for his work on the fossil mollusks of the California Pacific Coast. He was the youngest son of Ulysses S. Grant Jr., and a grandson of President Ulysses S. Grant and Senator Jerome B. Chaffee. He was born at his father's farm, Merryweather Farm, in Salem Center on May 23 1893 Westchester County, New York. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to San Diego, California.

Early life and education
Grant studied geology at Harvard University, graduating cum laude in 1915. Following graduation he mined for gold in Mexico. During World War I, Grant enlisted in the United States Army as a private. By the end of the war, he was a second lieutenant. From 1919 to 1925 he was connected with the New York Stock Exchange. In 1926, he returned to school and took graduate courses at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1927 he entered the graduate program in paleontology at Stanford University. Grant received his doctorate in 1929.

Career
After he received his doctorate, Grant worked at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County as the curator of invertebrate paleontology. Grant then taught paleontology at the University of California, Los Angeles beginning in 1931. He rose from instructor to chairman of the geology department, a post he held for eight years. He retired in 1959. Grant wrote several papers and often collaborated with Leo George Hertlein, his classmate at Stanford.

Later life and death

In 1953, Grant IV appeared on Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life, where the consolation question was usually "Who is buried in Grant's tomb?".

Grant died at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California, from lung failure caused by leukemia. Grant is buried at Greenwood Memorial Park (San Diego) alongside his father.

Personal life
His first wife was Matilda Bartikofsky. They were married in Spartanburg, South Carolina, on October 4, 1917, and later divorced. In 1950, he married Frances Dean, who was born circa 1911 in Kentucky and died December 8, 1991, in Honolulu, Hawaii. They had one child named George Grant.

Grant's cousin was Major General Ulysses S. Grant III, the son of Major General Frederick Dent Grant.

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Club (soft drink)

Club is the brand name for a series of Irish carbonated soft drinks produced in Ireland by Britvic Ireland and previously by Cantrell & Cochrane (C&C). It is bottled by the Britvic plant in Dublin. The series includes Club Orange, Club Lemon, Club Rock Shandy (a mixture of the orange and lemon flavours) and Club Apple soft drinks.

Ingredients
In the case of Club Orange, the ingredients are carbonated water, sugar, orange juice, citric acid, the preservative (sodium benzoate), the colours beta carotene and apocarotenal, and vitamin C (ascorbic acid). Club Orange includes fragments of fruit flesh (juice vesicles), referred to in marketing material as "bits", that remain in the glass after the drink has been consumed.

Promotion
The previous advertising slogan of Club was "the bits inside make it come alive" although it was rarely seen on Club bottles and commercials. From 2009, the products slogan is "Some bits are crucial", making reference to its orange vesicles. Since 2011, the slogan has been "The Best Bits in the World".

Product history
Club Orange, an orange flavoured carbonated drink, was the first orange fruit juice to appear on the Irish market. It was launched in the late 1930s, with the formula refined since then to its present state. The name Club derives from the Kildare Street Club in Dublin, which commissioned C&C to make an orange-flavoured drink. In 1960, Club Lemon was introduced as a sister product, and in the 2000s several other flavours were added to the range.

In 2004 C&C relaunched Club Lemon, which now also contains vesicles. Over the years a number of drinks have appeared under the Club label, including Club Orange and Cranberry, Club Berry, and Club Apple. Diet and sugar free versions were also produced.

In 2003 Club Energise was launched. Club Energise is an isotonic drink, marketed for sports recovery and rehydration. It was developed together with sports physiologist Dr. Liam Hennessy.

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ABB ALP-44

The ABB ALP-44 was an electric locomotive which was built by Asea Brown Boveri of Sweden between 1989 and 1997 for the New Jersey Transit and SEPTA railway lines.

New Jersey Transit
New Jersey Transit acquired 32 ALP-44s for use on its electric railway lines. The first fifteen, numbered 4400–4414 and designated ALP-44O (Original), were delivered in 1990 (prototypes 4400 and 4401 in late 1989). Five additional units, numbered 4415–4419 and designated ALP-44E (Extended), were delivered in 1995. The final 12 locomotives, numbered 4420–4431 and designated ALP-44M (Microprocessor), were delivered in 1996 for the new Midtown Direct service.

NJT's ALP-44s were to be overhauled for a cost of $2 million during a two-year period by Philadelphia-based Interfleet Technology. A car builder had not yet been selected to carry out the overhaul. However, by June 2009, NJT decided that it would be more efficient (economically and physically) to replace the ALP-44s rather than overhaul them, and exercised an option of 9 additional ALP-46A's to enable the replacement to take place.

By late 2011, all NJ Transit ALP-44 O, E, and M locomotives had been retired, having been replaced by the ALP-46 and ALP-46A locomotives. The exceptions were units 4405, 4407, and 4409, which were assigned to the Atlantic City Express Service (ACES); however, these remaining units were also placed into retirement with the cancellation of ACES service in early 2012. Units 4402, 4403, 4408, and 4410 were leased by Amtrak for work train service through the Hudson River tunnels for a period of time during summer 2011, but were returned.

During 2012, most NJ Transit ALP-44s were prepared for storage in groups of at most five at a time. This work included the removal of pantographs and having the cab windows covered with steel plating. These units were then moved to Port Morris Yard and the Lackawanna Cut-Off stub track for storage in Stanhope, New Jersey, where they are now stored. Four ALP-44M units numbered 4421, 4424, 4429, and 4430, remained stored at the Meadowlands Maintenance Complex; in July 2023, one of the units (4424) was donated by NJ Transit to the United Railroad Historical Society of New Jersey (URHS) in Boonton, NJ.

SEPTA
SEPTA received a single ALP-44S unit, #2308, from ABB, which was part of a damages settlement for a lawsuit stemming from the late delivery of N5 cars for the Norristown High Speed Line. It was replaced, along with the AEM-7s, with the ACS-64 in October 2018,  with a farewell trip on December 1, 2018.

After the farewell, 2308, as well as seven AEM-7's, were leased to NJ Transit to help alleviate a locomotive shortage due to positive train control installation on their locomotives. However, they were never used for New Jersey Transit and returned to SEPTA in May 2019. The AEM-7s and the ALP-44 were eventually reassigned to SEPTA work service until 2021. In February 2022, the AEM-7s and ALP-44 were withdrawn and sold off. As of late 2022, all AEM-7s and the ALP-44 have been scrapped.

Specifications
The ALP-44 was based on the Rc6 model and designed specifically for New Jersey Transit as a variant of the EMD AEM-7 electric locomotive, used by Amtrak (until June 2016), MARC (until April 2017), and SEPTA (until December 2018). ALP-44 stands for ASEA Locomotive Passenger 4-Axle 4.32 MW. The ALP-44 is powered by overhead lines through one of the locomotive's two pantographs and can produce up to 7000 hp (5.2 MW) with a top speed of up to 125 mph (201 km/h). In commercial use, however, both New Jersey Transit and SEPTA ALP-44s were only cleared for speeds up to 100 mph (161 km/h).

ALP-44M
The ALP-44M is a variant of the original ALP-44 design. It includes microprocessor control for functions such as braking and the then new EPIC brake control stand. These locomotives were notorious for their faulty software, which frequently caused problems and kept them out of service for maintenance.

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League Island

League Island was an island in the Delaware River, part of the city of Philadelphia, just upstream from the mouth of the Schuylkill River. The island was developed as the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. Since the late 20th century, it has been redeveloped and now operates primarily as an industrial park under the name "The Navy Yard".

League Island no longer exists as an island, since the Back Channel, which separated it from the mainland, was closed at the eastern end to create land for Mustin Field, a military airfield. This was closed in 1963. The western end of the channel became the present Reserve Basin, which holds the ships of the U.S. Navy's reserve fleet.

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List of schools in Argentina

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Dante Spencer

Dante Spencer (born 1976) is an American actor, model and beauty pageant titleholder who represented the United States at Mister World 2000 and placed 2nd Runner-Up.

Acting
As an actor, he has appeared in Dating Games People Play (2006) and In a Different Key (2008). He also landed roles on television series shows such as Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, The Andy Dick Show, Half & Half, Jerks With Cameras and The Real.

Spencer caught media attention in the summer of 2005 when he dated American Idol judge Paula Abdul, whom he escorted to the Emmy awards.

Dante Spencer is graduated from UCSD where he minored in Biology with an emphasis in Nutrition. He was a nutritionist for many years and holds several health and fitness related certifications (NSCA CSCS, APEX, NASM). He's been featured on the cover of Men's Health magazine three times and received his master's degree in Spiritual Psychology.

Filmography

 * Television
 * The Andy Dick Show Rufus (1 episode, 2001)
 * The Nick Cannon Show (1 episode, 2002)
 * Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (1 episode, 2002)
 * Half & Half (1 episode, 2006)
 * Jerks With Cameras (10 episodes, 2014)
 * The Real (5 episodes, 2015)
 * Film
 * Dating Games People Play (2006)
 * In a Different Key (2008)
 * The Jokesters (2015)
 * The Jokesters (2015)

Published works

 * How to Lose Weight in Your Sleep: Easy No Diet Weight Loss Secrets to Be at Your Dream Weight

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Chinese-Jewish? Please clarify — is she Jewish by religion, or Jewish by genetic/cultural heritage? Johnleemk | Talk 16:39, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

1) AFAIK she is not Jewish. This was vile slander.

Additionally have written to her to ask for permission to use her photo in this entry. Have asked her to canvass for photos for the Malaysian_opposition category too

Are you sure she's the first Chinese woman in parliament? This one seems not right to me but needs checking.

Provisionally removing until there is some evidence. This seems too much like the "jew" troll used earlier

Mistake
She is the first Chinese woman to be elected into the Malaysian parliament

This statement is inacurrate.

Please take note.

I cannot correct it as I'm not sure what the original author intended.

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Yohji Yamamoto

Yohji Yamamoto (山本 耀司) is a Japanese fashion designer based in Tokyo and Paris. Considered a master tailor alongside those such as Madeleine Vionnet, he is known for his avant-garde tailoring featuring Japanese design aesthetics.

Yamamoto has won notable awards for his contributions to fashion, including the Chevalier/Officier/Commandeur of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon, the Ordre national du Mérite, the Royal Designer for Industry and the Master of Design award by Fashion Group International.

Early life
Born in Tokyo, Yamamoto graduated from Keio University with a degree in law in 1966. He gave up a prospective legal career to assist his mother in her dressmaking business, from where he learned his tailoring skills. He further studied fashion design at Bunka Fashion College, getting a degree in 1969.

Career
Yamamoto debuted in Tokyo in 1977, followed by two more shows; a debut in Paris in 1981 and in New York in 1982. His first collection under the label Y's, focused on a collection for women that reflected typical men's garments, with clothes cut in uncluttered shapes with washed fabrics and dark colors. In an interview with The New York Times in 1983, Yamamoto said of his designs, "I think that my men's clothes look as good on women as my women's clothing […] When I started designing, I wanted to make men's clothes for women." More recently he has expounded: "When I started making clothes for my line Y's in 1977, all I wanted was for women to wear men's clothes. I jumped on the idea of designing coats for women. It meant something to me – the idea of a coat guarding and hiding a woman's body. I wanted to protect the woman's body from something – maybe from men's eyes or a cold wind."

His commercially successful main line, Yohji Yamamoto (women/men) and Y's, are especially popular in Tokyo. These two lines are also available at his flagship stores in Paris and Antwerp, and at high-end department stores worldwide. Other principal lines include Pour Homme, Costume d'Homme, and the diffusion line Coming Soon. Yohji Yamamoto Inc. reported in 2007 that the sales of Yamamoto's two main lines average above $100 million annually.

Yamamoto is known for an avant-garde spirit in his clothing, frequently creating designs far removed from current trends. His signature oversized silhouettes often feature drapery in varying textures. Yohji' collections are predominately made in black, a colour which Yamamoto has described as "modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy – but mysterious. But above all black says this: "I don't bother you – don't bother me"."

Poor decisions by finance managers pushed the brand into debts of more than US$65 million in 2009, which angered Yamamoto and led to a company restructuring from 2009 to 2010. The private equity firm Integral Corp was identified as the Japanese company who will restructure the Yohji Yamamoto Inc and by November 2010 the company was out of debt and avoiding the risk of bankruptcy.

Since its Paris debut in 1981, Yohji Yamamoto has continued to expand its cutting-edge influence through fashion. Now, it takes a leap into the wider creative field with the introduction of a new conceptual chapter WILDSIDE.

Fashion advocacy
In 2008, the Yohji Yamamoto Fund for Peace was established to foster development of China's fashion industry and to help heal the long-standing enmity between China and Japan. Each year, an emerging Chinese designer will be awarded with a two-year scholarship to a fashion college in Japan or Europe, and a male or female Chinese fashion model will be selected to make a runway debut during the Paris prêt-à-porter season.

Yamamoto has been quoted as saying: "they must have so many angry young people. Being a fashion designer or an artist, you have to be angry." Of the fashion show he staged in Beijing in spring 2008 to launch this initiative, Yamamoto said, "It's not political. I am going to open a store here, then Chinese people will come and shop there, and then they are happy. The real art is making people happy, but also asking questions about society."

Brand identity
Yamamoto's designs recall Japanese drawing techniques.

His technique consists of wide cuts, exotic and luxurious materials and elaborate handicrafts. The designer endeavors to make his clothes from the back and not from the front. He favors dark colors.

Chronology

 * 1973: Founded Y's joint stock corporation
 * 1977: Tokyo collection debut
 * 1981: Pret a porter collection debut in Paris. Yohji Yamamoto line started at the same time
 * 1984: Yohji Yamamoto joint stock corporation founded
 * 1993: Designed costumes for the Heiner Müller & Daniel Barenboim production of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde at The Bayreuth Festival
 * 1996: Designed alongside Red or Dead founders Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway MBE
 * 2002: Haute couture collection presented in Paris. Relationship formed with exclusive Parisian boutiques
 * 2003: Opening of the Y's line flagship store in Roppongi Hills
 * 2003: Y-3 line and collection debut
 * 2011: Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
 * 2014: Designs third kits for the football club Real Madrid
 * 2019: Designs the All Blacks jerseys for the 2019 Rugby World Cup
 * 2022: Designed a special alternate all-black uniform set for the Yomiuri Giants that was played from September 6–8 against the Yokohama DeNA BayStars

Awards

 * 🇫🇷 France: Ordre des Arts et des Lettres / Chevalier, 1994
 * 🇯🇵 Japan: Medals of Honor / Medal with Purple Ribbon, 2004
 * : Japan brand development (contributed corporation) award from METI, 2005
 * : Ordre des Arts et des Lettres / Officier, 2005
 * : Ordre des Arts et des Lettres / Commandeur, 2011

Filmography

 * Notebook on Cities and Clothes (1989) by Wim Wenders
 * Brother (2000) by Kitano Takeshi
 * Dolls (2002) by Kitano Takeshi
 * Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (2008) by Heiner Müller
 * Yohji Yamamoto: This is My Dream (2011) by Theo Stanley
 * Yohji Yamamoto: Dressmaker (2016) by Ngo The Chau

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Raine Spencer
I don't think her latest husband was the title holder of "Comte de Chambrun". As you know, French nobility is quite different from the British Peerage. Any descendant of a French 'peer' can use the title, but is not the title holder, and thus are not considered a 'peer' by British standards. Raine's third husband, I believe, was not the actual title holder, and thus she did not marry a 'peer' by British standards, and therefore retains her courtesy title of Countess Spencer. British widowed peeresses retain their title unless they marry a peer. Courtesy title-holders are not considered peers. Eddo Widowed peeresses lose their title on marriage to a commoner as well as to a peer, so as the divorced wife of a commoner she would be Mrs Raine de Chambrun. As you say, french nobility is complex and I will do more reseaerch on Mr de Chambrun.--Westminsterboy 08:09, 8 November 2005 (UTC) Jean Pierre Francois Joseph Pineton, Marquis de Chambrun, had three sons, Charles the Comte de Chambrun (heir to the title marquis), Comte Jean Francois de Chambrun, who briefly married the widow of the 8th Earl Spencer and Comte Pierre Antoine de Chambrun. --Westminsterboy 10:14, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

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A widow who re-marries loses any title or precedence she gained by her previous marriage, and is not recognised as having claim to bear the title of her deceased husband (e.g. at a coronation or other State ceremonial the widow of a Peer would not be summoned as a Peeress if she had subsequently married a commoner and, if having married a Peer of a lesser degree than her former husband, would only be recognised by the rank acquired by her last marriage.). See:- http://www.debretts.co.uk/etiquette/correct_forms_of_address.html#W

--Westminsterboy 10:18, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

 * During the French marriage, she was not Countess of Chambrun, she was Countess Jean-Francois de Chambrun, since her husband was a younger son, and, as per French usage, would be referred to as Mme de Chambrun, with the title used only by servants and so-called inferiors.

Cats
All categories should really belong to the larger network of categories to that the categories are navagable in and of themselves. Now that Special:Uncategorizedcategories is back down to a manageable size, so Categories in that report will tend to stick out. Fplay 14:24, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Dispute on Iain Lee
Hi Westminsterboy. More 'new editors' on Iain Lee are continually inserting a claim that he is engaged. Slightly more believable than the claim that he is gay, but it's completely unsourced and the modus operandi of the editors inserting it is very similar to those that were inserting the gay claims. They claim that Iain Lee said in an email that he said he was engaged, but this is dubious and unprovable anyway, so it's not a reliable source.

Basically I'm asking you, to put it bluntly, to back me up on this. I can't keep this out by edit warring, and I can't start dispute resolution if it's only me taking the position that this information is dubious, unsourced and should stay out. If more than one editor tries to point out the meaning of 'reliable source' to the 'new editors', we can progress to RFC if they refuse to acknowledge it. Or, of course, you could tell me that you know the thing about him being engaged is actually true, and I'd take your word for it.

I've considered requesting CheckUser for the 'new accounts', but I don't think their edits are obvious enough vandalism to justify it for the moment.

I've posted similar messages to Arniep and JamieHughes (the real one). --Sam Blanning (formerly Malthusian) (talk) 23:07, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

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The Oratory School logo
Um, i think the pic u uploaded, is not the oratory's logo. please remove it. Dingyv03 02:36, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

The arms were awarded to the school in 2001--Westminsterboy 11:27, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

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2005–06 in Belgian football

The 2005–06 season was the 103rd competitive season in Belgian football.

Overview
For the first season since 2000, the football fancard is not needed to see a first division game. Tickets for matches can now be purchased with a single ID card and on the day of the match, which was not permitted since the introduction of the fancard. Furthermore, for the second season in history (the first time was in the 1960s), one game of each matchday is shown on public television. Another premiere is that every Jupiler League game can be watched on a private television channel.

Events

 * July 30, 2005 - Club Brugge claim the first silverware of the season when they beat Germinal Beerschot 1-1 (4-2 on penalties) to win the Supercup.
 * September 22, 2005 - Germinal Beerschot coach Marc Brys is sacked after having collected 4 points in 7 matches. He is replaced by Jos Daerden.
 * September 29, 2005 - The two Belgian clubs playing the UEFA Cup (Genk and Germinal Beerschot) are defeated in the first round.
 * October 3, 2005 - AA Louviéroise coach Emilio Ferrera is sacked due to the poor debut of his team (4 points in 9 matches).
 * October 20, 2005 - Gilbert Bodart is confirmed as the new AA Louviéroise coach.
 * November 2, 2005 - Paul Put is sacked as manager of Lierse SK because of a lack of results (8 points in 11 matches).
 * November 7, 2005 - René Trost replaces Paul Put at the helm of Lierse SK.
 * November 22, 2005 - Gil Vandenbrouck replaces Geert Brouckaert as caretaker of Mouscron.
 * December 12, 2005 - the Serbian coach Slavoljub Muslin of KSC Lokeren OV signs a contract with Lokomotiv Moskva starting on January 1, 2006.
 * December 23, 2005 - Aimé Anthuenis replaces Muslin at the helm of KSC Lokeren OV.
 * January 9, 2006 - Mouscron chooses Paul Put as a new coach.
 * February 5, 2006 - the match-fixing scandal starts with the Flemish TV programme Panorama.
 * February 9, 2006 - coach Herman Vermeulen is fired by Sint-Truidense VV after the cup defeat to Charleroi in the quarter-finals and a poor 18 points in 21 matches in the championship. He is replaced two days later by Thomas Caers.
 * February 14, 2006 - As the main coach Aimé Anthuenis suffers from chest pains, he is replaced by coaches Rudy Cossey and Wlodek Lubanski.
 * February 17, 2006 - Paul Put is sacked by Mouscron for being involved in the match-fixing scandal, and is replaced by Gil Vandenbrouck. Former Lierse players Marius Mitu and Laurent Delorge are fired by their club Anderlecht for the same reason.
 * February 21, 2006 - Gilbert Bodart resigns as AA Louviéroise coach as he is cited as a potential actor in the match-fixing scandal. He is replaced by Frédéric Tilmant.
 * February 23, 2006 - Club Brugge is eliminated from the UEFA Cup after a double 2–1 defeat to AS Roma. It was the last Belgian club competing in a European cup.
 * February 27, 2006 - The former Belgium coach Aimé Anthuenis stops his coaching career for medical reasons.
 * April 3, 2006 - Jan Ceulemans is sacked as Club Brugge manager and is replaced by Emilio Ferrera.
 * April 24, 2006 - Gent player Mbark Boussoufa receives the Belgian Ebony Shoe.
 * May 5, 2006 - Anderlecht finally wins the Jupiler League on the last matchday with a 3–0 victory against Zulte-Waregem. Lierse finished 17th and is qualified for the second division final round.
 * May 7, 2006 - Mons wins the second division thanks to the defeat of leader KVSK United to Oud-Heverlee Leuven. Mbark Boussoufa wins the professional footballer of the year award.

National team
Belgium continued their qualifying campaign for the Football World Cup 2006 but did not qualify.

* Belgium score given first ** Match stopped after 65 minutes because of bad weather

Key
 * H = Home match
 * A = Away match
 * F = Friendly
 * WCQ = FIFA World Cup 2006 Qualifying, European Zone Group 7
 * o.g. = own goal

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Mike England

Harold Michael England (born 2 December 1941) is a Welsh former footballer and manager.

Playing career
Playing as a central defender, England began his career at Blackburn Rovers in 1959, before moving to Tottenham Hotspur in July 1966, ultimately winning four major trophies: the FA Cup in 1967, the UEFA Cup in 1972, and the League Cup in 1971 and 1973.

He made 44 international appearances for Wales over twelve years, scoring 4 goals. He was the youngest ever Wales permanent captain for many years, until superseded by Aaron Ramsey in 2011.

Management career
He later managed the Wales national team from March 1980 to February 1988. His reign as manager was marked by a series of frustrations, as a team of limited resources, but with talented players such as Neville Southall, Ian Rush, Mark Hughes and Mickey Thomas, very narrowly missed out on qualification to a series of major tournaments, including the 1982, and 1986 FIFA World Cups. Perhaps most agonisingly, Wales only missed out on qualification for the UEFA Euro 1984 by minutes when an injury-time winning goal by Ljubomir Radanović for Yugoslavia in the final game of qualifying group 4 against Bulgaria eliminated Wales.

England was sacked as Wales manager on 3 February 1988 after another initially promising attempt to qualify for UEFA Euro 1988 ended in failure. That was to be the final job he would ever have in football. He later managed a nursing home in North Wales, and then owned two nursing homes and ran his own timber business.

Honours
Tottenham Hotspur
 * FA Cup: 1966–67
 * Football League Cup: 1970–71, 1972–73
 * UEFA Cup: 1971–72

Individual
 * Rothmans Golden Boots Awards: 1970
 * NASL All-Stars: First-team: 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978

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Both Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel and French-speaking Université Libre de Bruxelles translate to "Non-Denominational (Free) University of Brussels", hence the occasional confusion. Daubechies herself lists the Dutch-speaking one, see http://www.pacm.princeton.edu/~ingrid/vitae/shortcv.html. BertK 16:44, 6 October 2005 utc

I changed the pronunciation of her last name to something that most accurately displays the phonetic sounds.

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 09:55, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Merge sections?
What would other editors of this article think about merging the "Awards" and "Major awards" sections? There's a lot of overlap between the two, but also some of the things not listed as "major" are actually more major than some of the things that are listed. For instance: election to the American Academy and to the National Academy are both more significant than the IEEE and AMS society fellowships. —David Eppstein (talk) 07:04, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

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Dugin

Dugin (Russian: Дугин) is a Russian masculine surname originating from the word duga (a curve); its feminine counterpart is Dugina. Notable people with the surname include:

 * Aleksandr Dugin (born 1962), Russian political philosopher, analyst, and strategist
 * Darya Dugina (1992–2022), Russian journalist and political activist, daughter of Aleksandr Dugin
 * Dmitri Dugin (born 1968), Russian water polo player
 * Egor Dugin (born 1990), Russian ice hockey center

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The Bomboras

The Bomboras are an American all-instrumental surf band from Los Angeles, California, United States. The band was formed in the summer of 1994, sharing a love of 1960s surf and garage music such as The Ventures, Booker T, and The Sonics.

Donning Day of the Dead regalia onstage, the fivesome tempered their retro-stylings with an update by way of The Ramones, The Pandoras, and Nuggets. Accompanied by frenzied Go Go girls, spitting flames, stage-diving, and destroying their own equipment, the Bomboras’ livid funhouse take on surf rock became an object of fan adoration, albeit a worry to the local fire department.

The Bomboras took their name from a classic surf instrumental by the Original Surfaris (not to be confused with a different song with the same title, "Bombora," by the Australian surf combo The Atlantics) and released several albums on Burbank-based indie label Dionysus Records between 1995 and 1997. In summer 1997 Rob Zombie took notice of the band and signed them to his then newly formed Zombie a Go-Go label, which was distributed by Geffen Records. The Bomboras finally called it quits in 2000 with some of the members forming the Lords of Altamont and some members formed The Legendary Invisible Men. Drummer Dave Klein is currently running his own recording studio in Los Angeles, Dave Klein Recording. On December 31, 2006, New Year's Eve of 2007, The Bomboras played a return show in Hollywood at Vine Street Lounge (now closed). The Bomboras played a full set of songs at The Wild'O Fest in Mexico City June 16, 2018. They also played a full show at "Tiki-Au-Go-Go" at The Warehouse Restaurant in Marina Del Rey, California on January 25, 2020.

More recently, the band has been involved with the MuSick Recordings label, and released a "comeback" EP The Return Of The Up Up Sound (2021), and the first new full-length since 1998, Songs From The Beyond! in 2023.

Line up

 * Action Andy - bass/vocals
 * Von Franco - guitar
 * Dave Klein - drums
 * Shane "The Showman" Van Dyke - bass/vocals
 * Johnny DeVilla - guitar/vocals
 * Gregg Lord Hunt - guitar/vocals
 * Jake Cavaliere - keys/vocals

Selected discography

 * Savage Island, 1995 The band's first album for Dionysius, Savage Island cost only $200 to make and was recorded in just two days.
 * Swingin' Singles!, 1996
 * Organ Grinder, 1995/1997
 * Starship Troopers, 1997
 * It Came from Pier 13!, 1997 The album was described by Stewart Mason on AllMusic as being "as good as neo-surf instrumental albums get"
 * Board Headz Movie, 1998
 * Head Shrinkin' Fun, 1998
 * The Return Of The Up Up Sound, 2021
 * Songs From Beyond!, 2023

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Sarah Baartman District Municipality

The Sarah Baartman District Municipality (uMasipala weSithili sase Sarah Baartman; Sarah Baartman-distriksmunisipaliteit), formerly the Cacadu District Municipality, is situated in the western part of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa, covering an area of 58,242 square kilometres. The area of the district municipality includes seven local municipalities. The seat is the city of Gqeberha, although Gqeberha is not itself in the district (it is in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality). As of 2011, the languages most spoken among the 388,201 inhabitants were Xhosa and Afrikaans. The district code is DC10.

The municipality is a multi-ethnic administration, formed by the African National Congress government through the merging of the predominantly Afrikaans-speaking western part of the Eastern Cape, together with Xhosa areas near the Fish River, and the English district of Albany (with its own distinctive local culture, dating back to the 1820 settlers).

The name Cacadu is regarded by the Xhosa as covering the entire area of the district municipality, but in fact it is taken from a river that runs entirely in Gqeberha. Cacadu, meaning "bulrush water", is the Xhosa form of the Khoekhoe name of the river. The Dutch name is a translation: Papenkuils (in Afrikaans a bulrush is called a papkuil). The river rises in the Parsons Vlei and runs to the sea close to the Gqeberha industrial suburb of Deal Party.

In 2015, the municipality was renamed for Saartjie "Sarah" Baartman (1789–1815), a Khoekhoe woman who was taken to London to perform at freak shows and after her death her remains were exhibited until 1974. The renaming is part of an effort to redress marginalisation of the Khoekhoe people.

Government
The Executive Mayor of Sarah Baartman District Municipality is Khunjuzwa Eunice Kekana, and the Municipal Manager is Ted Pillay.

Geography
The Sarah Baartman district covers an area of 58243 km2 in the southwestern part of the Eastern Cape province. It extends to the Great Fish River in the east and the Sneeuberge in the north. The metropolitan area around Gqeberha is excluded from the district, being in the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality.

The southwestern part of the district (west of Gqeberha) is marked by several ranges of mountains that run parallel to the sea, including the Baviaanskloof mountains, the Kouga mountains and the Tsitsikamma mountains. In the southeastern part (east of Port Elizabeth) is the Albany region around the city of Grahamstown. The northern interior of the district is the southeastern end of the Karoo.

To the west the district borders on the Garden Route and Central Karoo districts of the Western Cape; to the north it borders on the Pixley ka Seme district of the Northern Cape; and to the east it borders on the Chris Hani and Amathole districts of the Eastern Cape.

Sarah Baartman district is divided into nine local municipalities, as below:

After the municipal elections on 3 August 2016, the Camdeboo, Ikwezi and Baviaans municipalities were merged to form the new Dr Beyers Naudé Local Municipality, with its head offices in Graaff-Reinet. This merger resulted in there being seven local municipalities within the Sarah Baartman District.

Demographics
The following statistics are from the 2001 census.

Election results
Election results for Cacadu in the South African general election, 2004.
 * Population 18 and over: 252,570 [65.06% of total population]
 * Total votes: 161,399 [41.58% of total population]
 * Voting % estimate: 63.90% votes as a % of population 18 and over

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I am Kazi Tora Leary. I have written two articles: Steppe Lemming and Lemmus Lemmus

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 * Delete, no technical manuals, howtos, or FAQ lists. Gazpacho 17:41, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
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Kay Gray

Kay Gray was developed by the Wisconsin grape breeder Elmer Swenson c. 1980 and is named after a family friend. It is a seedling of Swenson's own ES 217 (a cross of MN 78 and Golden Muscat). Swenson collected open-pollinated seeds from this vine, and one seedling eventually became Kay Gray. Because of this, the male parent is unknown, though Swenson suspected it might be a nearby vine of Onaka, an old South Dakota cultivar. Kay Gray itself is female and requires a pollen source in order to set fruit.

In some environments it can produce an odd flavored wine that is vastly improved by modest levels of blending. Had it not been for its exceptional disease resistance and winter hardiness it probably would not have been selected. In subsequent years Swenson used this grape as a parent for the more conventionally  flavored  cultivars  'Louise Swenson' and 'Brianna'.

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Hans Strøm

Hans Strøm (25 January 1726 – 1 February 1797) was a Norwegian clergyman. He also became a prominent zoologist and naturalist. He is best associated with his topographical description of the traditional district of Sunnmøre.

Life
Hans Strøm was born at Borgund in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. His father was a clergyman and many other relatives of both his father and mother were ministers. He attended the Bergen Cathedral School. He was educated as a Lutheran clergyman and in 1745 took a theological degree at the University of Copenhagen. Then he worked from 1750 to 1764 as chaplain in Borgund. In 1764 he became parish priest, first in Volda where he served until 1779, when he went to Eiker where he served as Vicar for 18 years. He died at Hokksund in Øvre Eiker in Buskerud.

Topography
Strøm is particularly known as a topographer, and especially for the model physical and economic description he gave of Søndmør's bailiff's office (1762–69), also called Søndmør's Description. In this work he describes how the wave formation and lines of Sunnmøre's mountains were explained by the locals as a result of the Syndfloden's water masses. He himself considers it more probable that they are due to rain, but states that the farmers are absolutely right that the ridges are consistently parallel from northeast to southwest, and thus resemble the waves that the northwest wind creates at sea. He published a similar work on Eiker: Physisk-Oeconomisk Beskrivning over Eger-præstegield in 1784. In Sunnmøre's description, he gave an early account of the construction technique of the Sunnmøre stave churches. In Strøm's time, there were still about a hundred stave churches in Norway, but many had disappeared before the mapping and conservation work began in the 19th century.

Zoological work
Hans Strøm was the first Norwegian who gave species descriptions for Norwegian animals. The results of his research was published as Physisk og Oeconomisk Beskrivelse over Fogderiet Søndmør I–II (Copenhagen, 1762–1766), a work that established his reputation as a scientific authority. He followed up this work with a number of articles, particularly where the natural sciences were strongly represented. He co-founded the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters in 1760, with Gerhard Schoning, the historian, and Johan Ernst Gunnerus, bishop of Trondheim. In 1779, Strøm was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He was also elected as a member of a number of science academies in Norway, Denmark and Germany.

Other sources

 * Apelseth, Arne (1995) Hans Strøm (1726-1797): ein kommentert bibliografi (Volda: Høgskulen i Volda) ISBN 82-7661-025-0

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Amstrad Computer User

Amstrad Computer User was the official magazine for the Amstrad CPC series of 8-bit home computers. This monthly publication, usually referred to as ACU by its readers, concentrated more on the hardware and technical side of the Amstrad range, although it had a small dedicated games section as well.

ACU History
ACU ran from August 1984 to May 1992, producing 90 issues in total. Originally a bi-monthly Amstrad User's club newsletter titled CPC 464 User, it was renamed to Amstrad Computer User when the CPC 664 was released in 1985. Its successor was CPC Attack, which was launched in June 1992.

August 1984 to April 1985
Amstrad Computer User started out as CPC 464 User (subtitled ‘The Official AMSTRAD Micro Magazine’) and the first issue was dated August September 1984 and was 32 pages long. Published by Amsoft, a division of Amstrad, the first couple of issues were not made available to the general public, but only to members of the Amstrad User Club. CPC 464 User’s only editorial credit in the launch issue was Consultant Editor Gareth Jefferson. Content in these early months included News, Overview (an in-depth look at the CPC 464), Q&A, Software Reviews, Listings, Programming and more. Early games featured included Roland in the Caves and Roland on the Ropes.

The Jan/Feb 1985 issue 3, with slightly renamed title, Amstrad CPC 464 User, was the first issue to go on sale to the general public costing 95p and 84 pages long. Simon Rockman is credited as editor along with other contributors.

From issue 4 onwards Amstrad CPC 464 User went monthly. Sorcery, from Virgin Games, is the first game to receive 5 stars in all ratings, Graphics, Playability, Addictiveness and Overall.

ACU - June 1985 to January 1986
May 1985's issue 6 features the newly released Amstrad CPC 664 (basically a CPC 464 with a disk drive instead of a cassette deck) on the cover and in depth analysis and features inside.

Following the release of the CPC 664, the June issue is the first to display the renamed title; the familiar Amstrad Computer User. The Gallup software chart is published for the first time. Topping the top 20 chart is Virgin’s Sorcery. Anne Coker joins the magazine as Assistant Editor.

A slight re-design for July’s issue 8. Credits list includes editorial and, for the first time, Production, Design and Advertising staff. Contents still include the regular Programming, Hardware and Software features.

October 1985's issue 10 looks at the new Amstrad CPC 6128; a new computer with a disk drive plus 128k of memory.

December 1985’s issue 12, and ACU’s 1st birthday, a bumper 148 page issue, featuring a re-design of the games reviews, again; which has a new ratings box that has marks out of 20 for Graphics, Sound, polish, First impression, lasting impression, value and a final comment.

A Year of Changes – February to December 1986
William Poel, General Manager of Amsoft and Managing Director of ACU, announced that he will be leaving to run a software company called New Star. A new Adventure feature ‘Seek and Ye Shall Find’ starts in the February issue

March 1986 and another re-design; clearer layout and main content sections include Regulars, Features, Listings, Reviews and ABC (Amstrad Business Computing). The long running column ‘Hairy Hacker’ debuts this issue; a feature that looks into getting the most out of the CPC including game pokes. Also a 5p rise in the cover price; now up to £1.00.

June 1986, issue 19, introduces new Deputy Editor Jeremy Spencer. Also reviews are given a much needed rework; three reviewers, Colin, Nigel and Liz, are credited as giving their views on the games along with their overall score (out of 20).

Starting October 1986, and ACU credits its publisher as Avralite Ltd.

November 1986 issue seems to be a letters page for professional programmers as Graham Blighe, Andrew and Philip Oliver write in to comment on recent ACU games reviews.

ACU Settles Down – January 1987 to December 1988
A year of continuous fluidity. During 1987 several games are given special 2/3 page feature reviews, including the innovative strategy game The Sentinel, Ranarama, Gryzor and Nigel Mansell’s Grand Prix.

The November 87 issue publishes the ACU circulation figures for Jan-Jun 1987; an impressive 63,599. This figure would turn out to be the only ABC figure that would be published.

ACU's January 1988 and another redesign of the magazine layout. The cover logo has also changed along with the general look of the magazine; more colour and neater design. The regular features remain the same for the time being.

Auntie John is the character behind a new programming feature ‘Auntie John’s Machine Code’ which starts in June 1988’s issue.

A special cover feature on David Perry and his CPC game Savage features in the November 1988 issue.

Incorporation – January 1989 to February 1990
January 1989 and ACU incorporates CPC Computing and the magazine goes through a redesign. The games pages get a new look with the introduction of the 'ACU Star Game' awards; 'ACU Gold Star Game' and the 'ACU Silver Star Game'.

Focus Magazines Ltd takes over the publishing of the magazine from March 1989. All change for the April issue as ACU has moved to a new publisher and new office. Mark Evans and Andrew Banner are the new editor and assistant editor respectively. Many new reviewers are credited on the games pages, including Matt, Adrian, Colin, Paul, Billy, Tony and Rik.

May 1989 - As quick as the new editorial staff arrived the quicker they left. New Editor and staff writer are Duncan Evans and Richard Henderson. Another redesign sees a new 'Neon Zone' section where the latest arcade games are featured. The games section is changed again; going under the 'Meltdown' title the games are rated by percentages; Grafix, Sonix, Gameplay and Overall.

June 1989's issue reviews Emlyn Hughes International Soccer, by Audiogenic, and it becomes the first game to gain over 90% overall rating with a 91%.

July 1989 and a completely redesigned magazine with a new front cover logo. New credits mast (including new Editor Carlo Jolly, Sub Editor Harold Mayes, Designer Simon Pipe and contributor Mark Ulyatt. Even contributors have been credited for the first time.  The Arcade feature is renamed 'Combat Zone'.  'Gameplan' is the new name for the games section and games are rated by using a bar indicator.  The higher the indicator went along the bar the better the rating.  Published, again, by Avralite Publications Ltd.

More changes for the October 1989 issue; Guy Matthews is the new editor while the games ratings change back to percentages.

The Forever Changing Face Of ACU – March 1990 to November 1990
March 1990 and one of the largest Gameplan sections yet including, for the first time, a Budget Basement section.

April and the inconsistent game ratings are changed again. The overall rating has changed from the percentage to a picture that represents the score; e.g. Laser Squad gets a sparkling smile rating.

June 1990 and, after a longer than usual stint of stability in the editorial line up, there are more changes; Chris Knight moves up to editor and Marc Jones is the sole reviewer credited.

The publisher changes over to MCM Ltd starting August, still under the MCPC Ltd division as before.

A Turrican comic strip/players guide begins in the November 1990 issue.

The Final Incarnation – December 1990 to May 1992
December 1990 and a completely revamped design; new main logo, a re-established 'ACU Gold Award' accolade which is given to Electronic Zoo’s table top game conversion Subbuteo.

ACU continues unchanged until August 1991 when the games section is renamed 'Bomb Alley'.

The last issue in May 1992 of ACU is published by HHL Publishing.

ACU’s successor, CPC Attack from HHL Publishing, which even advertises for staff in this issue and has a two-page preview slot, will concentrate more on the games playing scene.

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Cathy Gale

Dr. Catherine "Cathy" Gale is a fictional character played by Honor Blackman, on the 1960s British series The Avengers. She was the first regular female partner of John Steed, following the departure of Steed's original male co-star, Dr David Keel (played by Ian Hendry). She made her first appearance at the start of the series' second season in 1962.

Fictional biography
Initially, Gale was one of several rotating partners who worked with Steed (the others being medical man Dr Martin King and nightclub singer Venus Smith). By the third season, however, she was Steed's only partner.

Gale was born 5 October 1930. She was an anthropologist who married a farmer in Africa and there learned to hunt, fight and take care of herself. When her husband was killed, Gale returned to London to earn a Ph.D. in anthropology. She was the curator of a museum when she first encountered John Steed and agreed to work alongside him from 1962 to 1964. She is engaged in charities.

The relationship between Steed and Gale was marked by sexual tension of a type absent from later partners, plus Gale and Steed also had a rocky working relationship, with Gale not always appreciative of Steed's methods nor his habit of "volunteering" her for missions. Still, the two appear to have become quite close as the episode "The Golden Eggs" has her actually living in Steed's apartment as she searches for a new home of her own (the reason for her displacement is not revealed). In keeping with The Avengers' policy of avoiding direct references to romance between the two leads, however, it's quickly stated that Steed is actually sleeping at a nearby hotel.

Cathy Gale was considered a trail-blazing female character for British television, displaying a level of self-assurance and physical prowess rarely seen in women on television before that time. Her later mode of dress — a leather outfit designed to make it easier for Gale to fight — started a fashion trend, as did her wearing of what were dubbed "kinky boots". (The term became a catch phrase and Honor Blackman and her co-star Patrick Macnee even recorded a single entitled "Kinky Boots".) The influence of Cathy Gale could be felt in productions on both sides of the Atlantic; characters considered to have been influenced by her in some way include the TV version of Honey West and the Doctor Who character Sara Kingdom, as well as the character who succeeded her in The Avengers, Emma Peel.

Blackman left the series after its third season in order to co-star in the James Bond film Goldfinger. She was replaced by actress Diana Rigg as Emma Peel, who continued Gale's habit of wearing leather during action sequences until she was given her own unique costuming when series production switched to colour.

The Emma Peel episode "Too Many Christmas Trees" sees Steed receive a Christmas card from Mrs Gale, and he wonders what she can be doing in Fort Knox, a cheeky reference to Blackman's appearance as Pussy Galore in Goldfinger (the climax of the film takes place at the U.S. gold repository there).

Another reference was made to Catherine Gale in the Tara King episode "Pandora", where the names Cathy Gale and Emma Peel are seen on two envelope folders.

She was featured on an episode of The New Avengers, "The Midas Touch", where Steed had a woman visiting at his place, while he had an 8×10 colour photo of her, along with two other photos that included Emma Peel and Tara King. Aside from a cameo by Emma Peel in part one of "K is for Kill", this was the only other time in the revival series that characters from the original were directly referenced.

Unlike her successors, she was rarely knocked unconscious and usually managed to fend off abduction attempts.

Reception
Dave Rogers writes in The Complete Avengers: The Full Story of Britain's Smash Crime-Fightin Team!: "Most people enjoyed the show's originality, and the Cathy Gale character, as one of the screen's earliest liberated women, was a revelation."

In the British Film Institute's 1996 tribute book, The Avengers, Toby Miller writes: "Mrs Gale was known from the first for her clothes, designed by Michael Whittaker with a view to being six months ahead of women's fashions. Guns were kept at different moments in a garter under her culottes, in her armpit, and then in a compact. She wore knee-high boots, tailored leather suits and a trench coat at a time when such outfits were only seen in porn magazines and fetishist outlets." He further writes that "Mrs Gale was straightforward and virtuous as well as sensual, Steed slightly untrustworthy, wilful and exciting: a 'sophisticate but not lacking in virility'. Unlike Mrs Peel, Mrs Gale is a Monica Seles avant la lettre, squealing and screaming as she does battle with assailants in ways that made a few male viewers anxious."

Other media
Beth Chalmers voiced Mrs. Gale in Big Finish's 2017 audio adaptation of the Avengers novel Too Many Targets.

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User:Fidocancan~enwiki

Fidocancan is a loopguru whose raison d'etre is to point out absurdities of the modern world as well as highlight alternative alignments for the betterment of any readers, listeners, and all subjectivities in general.

Fidocancan is committed to advertising the very real though small probability of creating the opportunity for world peace by 2020. It is clear, we don't have the capacity now, nor within the next year. However, if we trust one another to listen to one another, do the best we can, consider the evidence, develop skills through primary social engagement (of which your reading of this wikipedia article is an example), and we align our own personal sense of responsibility and power with collective wellbeing (which includes people who do not have the opportunity to think about such things, who may not own a computer let alone enough food for themselves or their children), we may realise a possibility by 2020.

Of course, it may be much easier to disagree and - what's the term? - revert? or delete this article or any others which Fidocancan contributes to.

Fidocancan is not so much interested in the past, which is the primary perspective of an encyclopedia, to collect facts about the world. Fidocancan is more interested in the future, and whether community members of wikipedia can conceive of the benefit of future projections. That is, let's confront our notions of the future rather than argue about the past.

In this way, Fidocancan trusts you to do the right thing.

title: User:Fidocancan~enwiki