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Kazushige Nojima

Kazushige Nojima (野島 一成) is a Japanese video game writer. He is best known for writing several installments of Square Enix's Final Fantasy franchise—namely Final Fantasy VII and its spin-offs Advent Children and Crisis Core, Final Fantasy VIII, and Final Fantasy X and X-2—in addition to the Kingdom Hearts series, the Glory of Heracles series, and the story to the Subspace Emissary mode in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Nojima also wrote the original lyrics of "Liberi Fatali" for Final Fantasy VIII and both "Suteki da Ne" and the "Hymn of the Fayth" for Final Fantasy X, as well as "No Promises to Keep" for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. He is also the founder of Stellavista Ltd.

Biography
Kazushige Nojima first joined Japanese video game developer and publisher Data East.

Square Co.
He joined Square in 1994. He began work on Final Fantasy VII after the main character settings were done, though Nojima considered this early in the process; he was still working on Bahamut Lagoon.

Nojima also wrote the mythology of Fabula Nova Crystallis, which has been used as the story foundation for all the titles within the series. Nojima also wrote most of the Kingdom Hearts games. He also wrote the scenario for Final Fantasy XV (Previously known as Versus XIII).

Freelance
Kazushige Nojima left Square Enix in 2003 and founded Stellavista Ltd, a freelance scenario company. He wrote the story for Sakura Note. He also contributed some story concepts to the script of Final Fantasy XIII. While developing the scenario for Glory of Heracles, Nojima took inspiration from the Fall of Troy and the Battle of Thermopylae. Not many actual Greek locations were used, but locations derived from Greek mythology were.

In 2011 Enterbrain announced on its Famitsu resource that a short anime and audio drama, based on a novel written by Kazushige Nojima, will be streamed with a name Busō Chūgakusei Basket Army (Armed Middle School Student Basket Army).

Writing style and reception
Nojima has been called one of the "strongest voices" in the video game industry for his writing. His stories have been noted for their complexity and fearlessness in delving into romantic plot lines.

Video games

 * Tantei Jingūji Saburō: Kiken na Futari (1988) – Scenario writer
 * Heracles no Eikō II: Titan no Metsubō (1989) – Scenario writer
 * Tantei Jingūji Saburō: Toki no Sugiyuku mamani... (1991) – Scenario writer
 * Heracles no Eikō III: Kamigami no Chinmoku (1992) – Scenario writer
 * Heracles no Eikō IV: Kamigami kara no Okurimono (1994) – Director, scenario writer
 * Bahamut Lagoon (1996) – Director
 * Final Fantasy VII (1997) – Event planner, story
 * Final Fantasy VIII (1999) – Scenario writer
 * Final Fantasy X (2001) – Scenario writer
 * Kingdom Hearts (2002) – Scenario writer
 * Final Fantasy X-2 (2003) – Scenario writer
 * Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII (2004) – Scenario supervisor
 * Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (2004) – Scenario supervisor
 * Kingdom Hearts II (2005) – Scenario writer
 * Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII (2007) – Scenario writer
 * Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008) – The Subspace Emissary scenario writer
 * Glory of Hercules (2008) – Scenario writer
 * Sakura Note (2009) – Scenario writer
 * Final Fantasy XIII (2009) – Scenario concept
 * Last Ranker (2010) – Scenario writer
 * Lord of Arcana (2010) – Original lyrics
 * Black Rock Shooter: The Game (2011) – Scenario writer
 * Sol Trigger (2012) – Scenario writer
 * Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster (2013) – Scenario writer, audio drama writer
 * Zodiac: Orcanon Odyssey (2015) – Scenario writer
 * Mobius Final Fantasy (2015) – Scenario writer
 * Dragon's Dogma Online (2015) – Scenario writer
 * Final Fantasy XV (2016) – Original story plot
 * Itadaki Street: Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary (2017) – Scenario supervisor
 * Dissidia Final Fantasy NT (2018) – Scenario concept
 * Final Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition (2018) – Original story plot
 * Kingdom Hearts III (2019) – Scenario supervisor
 * Final Fantasy VII Remake (2020) – Story, scenario writer, lyricist
 * Astria Ascending (2021) – Story, scenario writer
 * Final Fantasy VII: The First Soldier (2021) – Scenario supervisor
 * Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin (2022) – Story, scenario writer
 * Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion (2022) – Scenario writer
 * Final Fantasy VII: Ever Crisis (2023) – Story, scenario writer
 * Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (2024) – Story, scenario writer
 * Reynatis (2024) – Scenario writer

Novels

 * Final Fantasy VII: On the Way to a Smile (2005-2009) – Writer
 * Final Fantasy VII The Kids Are Alright: A Turks Side Story (2011) – Writer
 * Final Fantasy X-2.5 ~Eien no Daishō~ (2013) – Writer
 * Basket Army (2013) – Writer
 * Final Fantasy VII Remake: Traces of Two Pasts (2021) – Writer

Film

 * Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children (2005) – Scenario writer

Anime

 * Last Order: Final Fantasy VII (2005) – Story
 * Lupin the 3rd Part V (2018) – Episode 12 screenplay

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Category talk:Muslim Wikipedians

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I found this page and thought the original peace-sign userbox was a wonderful idea. I created the non-Muslim version of a similar statement. I hope this alteration is acceptable to the person who created the original userbox -- does anyone know who he or she is, so I can request permission? Also, I am unsure if this page is the appropriate place to post the non-Muslim version; I chsoe to put it here to get the word out. Finally, I would be indebted it someone could help me reposition the non-Muslim userbox on this page (ideally it would appear directly below the original userbox)

Thanks for creating that userbox; it is a powerful idea, and something that too few of my fellow Americans know about.

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Can someone please add me in --Sultn 21:36, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

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i want your help with islam in china some islamaphobic people are deleting my rerences on the muslim population in china Madman 0014 12:29, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

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Hussein Farrah Aidid

Hussein Mohamed Farrah Aidid (Xuseen Maxamed Faarax Caydiid, حسين محمد فارح عيديد) (born August 16, 1962) is the son of General Mohamed Farrah Aidid. His father was leader of the Somali National Alliance (SNA), the faction that fought UNOSOM II and US forces during 1993.

For several weeks during 1992–1993 he served as a translator for the UNITAF forces commander in Somalia. Farrah succeeded his father as leader of the SNA, and two days after his father's death, the SNA declared Farrah as the new President, although he too was not internationally recognized as such. Farrah relinquished his claim as president in December 1997, by signing the Cairo Declaration, a significant step toward peace in Somalia.

Farrah is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, having served during Desert Storm, serving in the US military from 1987–1995.

Early life
Born in Galkacyo, Farrah is a son of Mohamed Farrah Aidid and is sometimes known as Hussein Mohamed Farrah Aidid, Hussein Aidid or Aidid Junior. He emigrated to the United States when he was 17 years old, and attended Covina High School, Covina, California, graduating in 1981.

In 1987 he went to Citrus College in Glendora, California, and three years after University of California at Long Beach to study civil engineering.

United States military service
In April 1987, Farrah enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve as an artilleryman. Following his training, he was assigned to the FDC, Fire Direction Control center, of Battery B of the 1st Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment at the Marine Corps reserve training center in Pico Rivera, California. He served during Operation Desert Storm when B 1/14 was mobilized in support of that war. During an engineering class, two Marine officers had interrupted a lecture to inform him he was urgently needed in Somalia.

At the end of 1992, US forces deployed to Somalia. Farrah, at the time one of the few available Somali language translator with the Marines, was attached to UNITAF forces commander Lt. Gen. Robert B. Johnston. Farrah was the only person in Marine Corp who was fluent in speaking Somali. On account of this, UNITAF force commander Johnson designated Farrah his personal translator. Farrah was only in Somalia for several weeks during the operation. He served from 18 December 1992 to 5 January 1993 before returning home to the United States the next day. During this period he served as a liaison between US forces and his father, Mohamed Farrah Aidid. Farrah later recounted about his service to the Associated Press: "I always wanted to be a marine...You know how it is watching Marine soldiers. I'm proud of my background and military discipline. Once a marine, always a marine."After the Battle of Mogadishu several months later, Farrah was working for the a local government in California. According to Farrah a Marine colonel had asked him to "beg his father to release a captured American pilot".

Somali National Alliance (SNA)
When he turned 30 years old, Farrah was selected by the Habar Gidir clan as successor to his father and returned to Somalia. In the second half of the 1990s, different faction leaders vied for the Presidency, with none receiving international recognition. General Mohamed Farrah Aidid claimed to be President from June 15, 1995 to his death on August 1, 1996. Following this Hussein was sworn in as "interim President", and became leader of the Somali National Alliance (SNA), the same alliance his father led against the US forces. Farrah was seen by the West as a chance of improvement for the relationships between them and Somalia.

On September 1, 1996, Aidid met with UN representatives for the first time, to deal with issues left over as legacies of his father's administration. Issues addressed at the meeting which needed to be resolved before the return of UN workers and the resumption of UN assistance.

On December 17, 1996, rival warlord Ali Mahdi Mohamed attacked his headquarters, leaving 135 dead after five days of fighting in Mogadishu.

On December 22, 1997, he relinquished the disputed title of President by signing the Cairo Declaration, in Cairo, Egypt following a peace process between the Salbalar administration and the Soodare Group.

On March 30, 1998, Ali Mahdi Mohamed and Hussein Aidid signed a peace treaty in which they agreed to share power over Mogadishu, ending seven years of fighting following the ousting of Siad Barre.

On February 23, 1999, militiamen loyal to Aidid murdered 60 civilians in Baidoa and Daynunay.

Somali Reconciliation and Restoration Council (SRRC)
Hussein Aidid refused to recognize the newly forming Djibouti-backed Mogadishu-based Transitional Federal Government (TFG), accusing it of "harboring militant Islamist sympathizers." Instead he formed the rival Somali Reconciliation and Restoration Council (SRRC) in early 2001.

At some time during late 2001, he advised US President George W. Bush that a money transfer and telecommunications company, Al Barakaat, "had ties to terrorists and that there were terrorists in Somalia sympathetic to Osama bin Laden." He also "warned that militant Islamist Pakistani proselytizers were active in Mogadishu and other Somali cities and that they have strong links to Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya."

Transitional Federal Government (TFG)
Offices held:

 * Deputy Prime Minister (2005 – May 13, 2007)
 * Minister of the Interior (2005 – February 7, 2007)
 * Minister of Public Works and Housing (February 7, 2007 – December 2008)

In July 2003, at the Somali National Reconciliation Conference, the SRRC and TNG leadership reached key compromises: "The TNG accepted the number of parliamentarians proposed by the SRRC while the latter approved the inclusion of politicians as requested by the TNG."

On October 25, 2005, Aidid handed over the USC/SNA's combined 3,500 landmines to non-profit Geneva Call. He and other faction leaders had agreed to stop burying land mines as a further sign of the ending of years of civil war.

On December 28, 2006, after the defeat of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), Aidid was present when government forces entered Mogadishu. On January 2, 2007, Aidid was quoted as suggesting Somalis in Ethiopia and Somalia should share a common passport, raising concerns of whether Somalia had plans to annex the Somali Region of Ethiopia.

On February 7, 2007, as part of Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Ghedi's cabinet reshuffling, he was moved from Minister of the Interior to Minister of Public Works and Housing.

On May 13, 2007, he was sacked from the position of deputy prime minister, with the reason being given that he was inactive in his duties. This followed Aidid's defection to Asmara, Eritrea, and his accusation that Ethiopia was guilty of "genocide" and calling for its withdrawal.

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Artūrs Zakreševskis

Artūrs Zakreševskis (born 7 August 1971, in Riga) is a former football defender from Latvia and is currently the assistant of Latvia U-15 team. He is currently a member of Latvia national beach soccer team too.

He started his career in Vidus Riga, and has since played for RAF Jelgava, Daugava Riga, FHK Liepājas Metalurgs, FC Skonto and now FK Rīga.

He debuted for the Latvia national team in 1995, and was included in the Euro 2004 squad. He has played 55 international matches and scored one goal.

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Talk:Metastability (electronics)

Asynchronous circuits and metastability
Moved discussion of asynchronous circuits and metastability to Arbiter (electronics).--Carl Hewitt 21:37, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

NPOV-ish
The last paragraph could use a slightly more neutral tone of voice, but it can wait until there's some additional appropriate content to add there. The concerns expressed are valid; the voice used is somewhat less appropriate.

The issue is NOT peculiar to electronic devices
Any multistable device or system can show similar characteristics. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.26.54.150 (talk) 04:47, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

Missing information
I think this article is missing examples and figures to illustrate (it is all text at the moment). At the end it also refers to links; I think it should instead include that informaion.

--Mortense (talk) 06:59, 23 October 2010 (UTC)

The example supplied is precisely the simplest example of what the issue of metastability in electronics is about.
[[File:SRLatch-lowres.gif|thumbnail|An animated SR latch. Black and white mean logical '1' and '0', respectively.

(A) S = 1, R = 0: set

(B) S = 0, R = 0: hold

(C) S = 0, R = 1: reset

(D) S = 1, R = 1: not allowed

The restricted combination (D) leads to an unstable state.]]

The information is certainly not inaccurate and the GIF was simply copied from the flip-flop (electronics) page.

That it is summarily deleted without justification is contrary to multiple principles of Wikipedia. 96.237.136.210 (talk) 05:18, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

 * The figure seems to portray the D case as oscillatory. This is not what metastable usually corresponds to.  In the metastable state, the outputs cannot be interpreted as discreet logical states. Dicklyon (talk) 05:44, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

 * No Dick. This is precisely what the concept of metastability in electronic circuits is about.  And it is the simplest manifestation of the concept that I can think of.  If you can find a simpler example or a better GIF, go for it. 96.237.136.210 (talk) 06:01, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

 * That's oversimplified, so I can't find simpler; nor an appropriate animated gif. But I suggest you have a look at this memoir and Figure 3 in this paper to get an idea how the relevant behavior is not digital.  Portions of these are reproduced in my book chapter. Dicklyon (talk) 06:14, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

 * No, it's not oversimplified, it's the core simplification for an introduction to the concept. I only took a quick glance at the two references you made (which appear pretty old and I don't see why this author is decidedly the authority).  The textbooks disagree with you.  If you Google "digital logic metastability", the first hit is this article.  Then check out the second and the third and the fourth hits.  I am not going to bother scanning the page out of my Roth textbook from the seventies.  I see that there is a (probably not legal) copy of that classic digital logic text online.  Download it and read it.  It's quite fundamental and it was the choice of intro to logic classes I have seen at four different universities as either student or faculty.  Here is another reference that you can download.
 * The metastability of an RS flipflop occurs when both "Set" and "Reset" are asserted, which is a contradictory assertion. But even if it's logically a contradictory assertion (which is why sometimes they say "not allowed"), there is nothing stopping the EE from applying that signal pair to the flipflop.  The result is that the flip-flop is in a metastable state and this is the simplest example that exists for that concept.  96.237.136.210 (talk) 06:49, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
 * There's nothing undefined or disallowed about applying 1s to both NOR gate inputs. The metastability results if those inputs both change to 0s at about the same time.  And the result, as shown by the refs, might be either oscillatory or not, but is not an oscillation between logic states, but rather an electrically undecided state.  If you have old textbooks (70s), they won't acknowledge this, because Chaney and Molnar hadn't yet characterized and published on it (I can't get your Roth textbook to download). And did you know you could give links to your Google hits, in case mine are not in the same order?  Dicklyon (talk) 07:02, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
 * OK, got the Roth book to download; but it's not an old one. It says, "Theoretically, the two-inverter circuit of Figure 11-2 and the set-reset of Figure 11-3 can exist in a third stable state. This is the situation where the voltage level at the output of the two inverters or gates is approximately halfway between the voltage levels for a logic 0 and a logic 1. This state is referred to as a metastable state."  Obviously this is unlike your simplification to logic state oscillation. Dicklyon (talk) 07:22, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Also, if you don't see why Tom Chaney and Charlie Molnar and Fred Rosenberger are the authorities, you're not really up on this concept at all. Go study their papers.  Or give Tom a call. Dicklyon (talk) 07:30, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

[[File:SRLatch-lowres.gif|thumbnail|An animated SR latch. Black and white mean logical '1' and '0', respectively.

(A) S = 1, R = 0: set

(B) S = 0, R = 0: hold

(C) S = 0, R = 1: reset

(D) S = 1, R = 1: both outputs low

A transition from combination (D) to (B) leads to a metastable state, portrayed here as an oscillation between logic states.]]

For now, I changed the caption. But the figure is still not right, as it shows state (D) as having some funny input values, neither black nor white marbles, rather than showing a transition to input configuration (B) which is what can provoke the instability. Dicklyon (talk) 07:38, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

 * I agree with Dicklyon. Your motive in adding the image was unimpeachable, 96.237.136.210; this article desperately needs some good diagrams.  However the flipflop animation, while an honest attempt to represent metastability, is just too misleading and will give introductory readers an erroneous impression.  The animation doesn't show a metastable state, the only states it shows are logic 1 (black ball) and logic 0 (white ball).  As Dicklyon said, a metastable state is not an oscillation between stable states, it is an intermediate value.  -- Chetvorno TALK 08:39, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

That's not metastability that's being shown, although metastability might occur when you remove the two one RS inputs.

Maybe we could get some informative graphs out of a transistor level LTSPICE simulation or something.GliderMaven (talk) 16:45, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Exactly; if you vary the timing of the transitions from 1 to 0, you can plot a range of responses and demonstrate a few that take a long time to resolve; like in the oscillogram in the Chaney and Molnar paper that I linked. SPICE should be up to it if someone wants to give it a try. Dicklyon (talk) 17:46, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

I agree with the IP that the SR NOR latch is a good simple example, so I edited and expanded on that part of the contribution, and included a simple static schematic. Dicklyon (talk) 21:18, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Exponential decay
The article currently states:
 * ... a bistable device can enter into a state that is neither true nor false and has a positive probability that it will remain indefinite for any given period of time, albeit with exponentially decreasing probability over time.

but this seems dubious to me. It makes as a base assumption that the decay is exponential. Yes, the exponential has infinite support (mathematics) so if its actually exponential, then the statement is true. But exponential assumes that the equation describing the system is a simple first order ODE; for more complex PDE's, its not obvious that the solution wouldn't have finite support (i.e. the probability shrinks to exactly zero in finite time.) Examples of such equations are things that have a topological soliton, e.g. the KdV equation, but also e.g. things with lax pairs, etc. (basically, you need to cook up a diff eq that has a textbook bump function as a solution, and bingo, indeterminism is bounded, right?) I'm objecting to the idea that the indeterminism is necessarily unbounded; it is not obviously so. 67.198.37.16 (talk) 07:50, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

 * I think you're mistaken. First, the response doesn't need to be exponential for the probability of still being indeterminate after a time to be exponential.  You can get this with a system of any order, or a PDE, that has a metastable point in its state space.  If it's possible to cook up equations that don't behave this way, I don't understand how. Dicklyon (talk) 07:58, 20 January 2017 (UTC)

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Commissurotomy

A commissurotomy is a surgical incision of a commissure in the body, as one made in the heart at the edges of the commissure formed by cardiac valves, or one made in the brain to treat certain psychiatric disorders.

Patients with scleroderma, a disease that thickens and hardens the skin, sometimes require oral commissurotomy to open the corners of the mouth, the commissures, to allow dental treatment. This procedure often leaves characteristic scars.

In cardiac valves
Commissurotomy of cardiac valves is called valvulotomy, and consists of making one or more incisions at the edges of the commissure formed between two or three valves, in order to relieve constriction such as occurs in valvular stenosis, especially mitral valve stenosis.

In neurosurgery
In neurosurgery, as a treatment for severe epilepsy, the corpus callosum, or the area of the brain that connects the two hemispheres, would be completely bisected. By eliminating the connection between the two hemispheres of a patient's brain, electrical communication would be cut off greatly diminishing the amount and severity of the epileptic seizures. For some, seizures would be completely eliminated.

Though no effect on behavior was observed after commissurotomy was performed on monkeys, it gave peculiar effects on human perception. Different functions of cognition are predominantly located on one of the hemispheres. For example, Brocas area, crucial for forming sentences, is on most people situated in the left hemisphere ventral to the facial motor cortex. The left hemisphere is referred to as the "talking" hemisphere and the right the "silent". A commisurotomy prevents any sensory input to the silent hemisphere from reaching the talking hemisphere. Since the left visual field is processed in the right hemisphere, a person with a commissurotomy is unable to describe objects to the left, because the "talking" hemisphere has not seen anything. It appears as though the person had not seen anything at all, and it does not bother him either. It can be demonstrated that stimuli to the right hemisphere for example give emotional response, but because of the severed corpus callosum it cannot be verbalized.

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CountyWatch

CountyWatch is a direct action group in the United Kingdom that was set up in 2004 to remove what they consider to be wrongly placed county boundary signs – i.e. signs that do not mark the historic or ancient county boundaries of England and Wales. Since 2005, Count Nikolai Tolstoy has been a patron of CountyWatch. CountyWatch and its supporters claim to have removed, re-sited or erected 80 county boundary signs in Dorset, County Durham, Greater Manchester, Hampshire, Lancashire, Lincolnshire, North Yorkshire, Somerset and Warwickshire.

A prominent member of the group is Anthony Bennett, a British politician. In May 2002 Bennett was prosecuted for removing 29 metric road signs, claiming they were illegal and that he was preventing the law from being broken. He buried the signs in four locations under bushes. Initially found guilty of theft and criminal damage, his theft conviction was overturned in October 2002 on appeal. The judge stated that "there was no evidence of dishonesty or that he intended to permanently deprive the owners of their signs." His conviction for criminal damage was upheld, but the judge discharged the sentence, which had been 50 hours of community service.

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The Anglo-Saxons set up a network of shires whose boundaries, in some cases, have been unchanged for over 1,000 years. The Normans may have conquered us in 1066 but at least they left our shire boundaries in place, just changing the name to "Counties" when they placed their own Counts in charge of the shires. The Conservatives under Edward Heath started the process of dismantling our network of shire Counties when they created the hugely unpopular new "Counties" of Avon, Humberside and Cleveland. Now it seems Labour wants to finish them off. Many English people have a strong sense of place and we are sure many of them will fight hard to keep alive and healthy the names and the real boundaries of our Counties.

CountyWatch sees the abolition of democratically elected county councils in the UK as part of a long-term project to weaken the constituent nations of Europe, notably the UK, and to concentrate power at two levels: Brussels (the European Commission) and the "regions" within countries. CountyWatch believes in taking direct action within the law to counter aspects of this project.

There have been similar illegal acts before. The former county of Humberside was extremely unpopular with some of its residents. The book The Fight for Yorkshire by Michael Bradford detailed a series of cases where signs were altered to read "East Riding of Yorkshire" in North Humberside. None of these acts were ever prosecuted and in 1996 the county was abolished.

Bedfordshire
In August 2007, CountyWatch took its campaign to Bedfordshire, where, in November 2006, Bedfordshire County Council erected four signs on the main roads on the north, west and south sides out of Luton proclaiming 'Welcome to Bedfordshire'. Luton is the largest town within the historic and ceremonial county of Bedfordshire. Some letter writers still address mail to "Luton Beds". Some organisations based in Luton, such as the University of Bedfordshire, include 'Bedfordshire' as part of their address. In 1996, the Royal Mail stopped using Postal Counties as a method of sorting mail, using instead the post code. However, they have a "flexible addressing policy" whereby historic counties can be used. Luton became a unitary authority on 1 April 1997. Bedfordshire County Council no longer runs any services in the area covered by Luton Borough Council.

The County Council erected the signs only in November 2006 in a struggle to save Bedfordshire County Council from extinction against rival bids from the Borough of Bedford to become a unitary Borough Council and from Mid Bedfordshire and South Bedfordshire Councils to become another unitary authority, to be called Central Bedfordshire.

The signs were unpopular with some Luton residents, some of whom called the signs "snooty". Bedfordshire County Council responded by saying, "Luton has been a unitary authority since 1997 and is therefore not part of Bedfordshire. In July 2007, the government announced that Bedfordshire County Council would be abolished in 2010.

On 9 August 2007, CountyWatch removed four Welcome to Bedfordshire signs from Luton, claiming they were misleading to the public. One sign was removed from the B653 to Wheathampstead and re-erected on the A505 near Stopsley in front of a Welcome to Luton sign. The other three signs were removed from the A6, the A505 and the B579. CountyWatch claimed these were being stored at a secure location and added that the signs would be returned to the County Council if they were re-sited on what CountyWatch deem to be the true Bedfordshire boundaries. The County Council responded by stating that, "This is absolutely crazy. We are proud of our county and we like to ensure that visitors are given a warm welcome. The signs on the edge of Luton mark the boundaries of their responsibilities and the beginnings of ours."

Berkshire
In April 2006 the group set up "Royal County of Berkshire" signs on the ancient border between Berkshire and Oxfordshire. The signs were quickly removed. The Mayor of Abingdon, once the county town of Berkshire, now administered by Oxfordshire County Council, said "I still get letters addressed to me with Abingdon, Berkshire, and many older people still have allegiances." The Mayor of Wantage, however, noted, "I think Count Tolstoy and his supporters are living in the past. They need to face reality. I know there are many older people in Wantage who still think of themselves as Berkshire people, but the reality is that time has moved on and we can't go backwards." The Mayor of Faringdon said that "Faringdon should stay in Oxfordshire", noting that "when we were in Berkshire, County Hall in Reading was so far away. It's much better for us to get into Oxford."

Dorset and Hampshire border
On 10 November 2005, Tony Bennett removed a Dorset sign from Chewton Bunny at Highcliffe and moved it to its historic location at the original County Gates border between Bournemouth and Poole, claiming that while Bournemouth and neighbouring Christchurch had been administered by Dorset County Council for the past 30 years, they remained historically Hampshire towns.

Durham
In May 2006, CountyWatch announced that it has been contacted by Durham residents who were unhappy that Durham County Council had recently relocated signs from the historic boundary between Durham and Yorkshire and relocated them to the Darlington boundary. It would be travelling around Durham looking to see whether signs were on what it consider to be the correct, true border and would remove County Durham signs from the border with the unitary authority of Darlington to the historic and currently ceremonial border with North Yorkshire on the River Tees on 25 May 2006 and re-erect them on suitable posts along the River Tees.

The BBC and Tyne Tees Television filmed CountyWatch removing the boundary signs at Royal Oak. Twelve signs with, "County Durham: Land of the Prince Bishops" were removed. Three of them were re-erected along the historic border between Yorkshire and Durham – the River Tees, also the current ceremonial border. The Council were informed by CountyWatch of the location of the other signs they removed. Durham County Council issued a statement saying that CountyWatch's actions were "nothing more than sheer vandalism, no less mindless or anti-social than smashing bus stops or phone boxes".

On 31 May 2006, an article in The Northern Echo newspaper praised the group's actions, calling the council's statement "a trifle wide of the mark" and ended the article - "Carry on CountyWatch".

Lancashire
In November 2005 CountyWatch removed over thirty 'Welcome to Lancashire' signs from Blackburn, Blackpool, Skelmersdale and Southport, placing all of them on the historic Lancashire/Yorkshire border at Blacko near Nelson, where they telephoned the Council's Solicitor. Lancashire County Council reacted by stating that "the cost of replacing the signs would be met from taxpayers' money." and also that it would be speaking to the police about the group. The Welcome to Lancashire signs were erected on the boundaries with Blackburn with Darwen and Blackpool unitary authorities by the county council in 2004 to show where its services begin. CountyWatch responded stating that, "The sign says 'Welcome to Lancashire', it doesn't say 'Welcome to the administrative unit of Lancashire County Council - that would be all right." The signs which were dumped by the side of the A682 in Blacko, near to the historic border with Yorkshire, were recovered by Lancashire County Council who stated that they would re-erect them.

CountyWatch also claimed to have removed the larger brown-coloured motorway signs on the M6, M66 and M61 which read "Welcome to Lancashire the Red Rose County". They also claimed that they had a legal right to remove signs under the section 131 of the Highways Act 1980 because "they misinform the public".

Lincolnshire
On 27 July 2005, the BBC TV Look North regional news programme featured the group and filmed it in the act of removing a "Welcome to the County of Lincolnshire" sign near Brigg. Lincolnshire County Council Area Highways Manager Eric Jorgensen described the group as "self-appointed and unelected" and stated that taxpayers would be forced to pay for the signs to be replaced.

On 22 September 2005, CountyWatch removed ten road signs stating: "Welcome to the County of Lincolnshire" between Brigg and Immingham, which the group claimed there was no point in putting up a welcome sign 15 miles into the historic county. CountyWatch claimed, "Lincolnshire starts where Yorkshire finishes – not 20 miles into Lincolnshire. We want them erected on the proper boundary". Lincolnshire County Council however attacked the group for taking council property and said "it will cost the taxpayer to put the signs back up". The signs were deposited at a council depot after being removed.

Somerset
In August 2004, CountyWatch's first action was the removal of five signs saying 'Welcome to the County of Somerset', on the northern border of the non-metropolitan county of Somerset with either Bath and North East Somerset or North Somerset. The signs were taken down by CountyWatch members and relocated on the historic borders of Somerset with neighbouring historic counties Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.

Nine new local authorities
On 25 July 2007, the Local Government Minister, John Healey from the Department for Communities and Local Government announced that nine all-purpose local authorities would be created in 2009 in England.

CountyWatch see this as the next phase of attempts to replace the administration of England and Wales by county and district councils with a series of so-called 'unitary' authorities, which combine the administrative functions of both district councils and county councils. Region-wide functions will be carried out by regional development agencies and new government quangos, following the announcement earlier in the month of the abolition of unelected regional assemblies from 2010.

On 4 November 2020 County Watch was represented by Patron Count Nikolai Tolstoy and Secretary Tony Bennett at the formation of the new All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Historic Counties. The meeting was chaired by Andrew Rosindell, Conservative MP for Romford. The Parliamentary Group consisted of Conservative and Labour MPs and members of both houses. County Watch has made a written submission to the APPG making suggestions for achieving greater recognition of the nation's historic county boundaries.

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Beech Fork Lake

Beech Fork Lake is a 720 acre (2.9 km2) reservoir located near Lavalette in Wayne County, West Virginia, United States. Beech Fork Lake is also partly located in neighboring Cabell County. Millers Fork and Stowers Branch join Beech Fork with their own river valleys contributing to the majority of the lakesurface of Beech Fork Lake. These streams are tributaries of Twelvepole Creek.

Beech Fork Lake as a flood control impoundment was authorized by the Flood Control Act of October 23, 1962 and was constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the mid-1970s. The lake was completed and dedicated in May 1978.

History of Beech Fork
Known in agrarian times as "Bean Capital Of The World" because of its abundant harvests, remote Beech Fork and its fertile farms had by the mid-20th century devolved into a "Tobacco Road" cut off from the opportunities of modern development.

Some tombstones in the park's Bowen Cemetery date to the 18th century; and family names adorning Civil War graves can be seen on roadside mailboxes even today. Government appropriation of private land for the lake caused rancor among locals with historic land holdings. The Beech Fork strain of Adkins family (appropriately known as "Beech Fork Adkinses") was largely driven out to the Huntington metropolitan area. So numerous were these displaced persons that townsfolk joked about an "Adkins factory" at Beech Fork which mass-produced persons of the surname. It has also been said that in the last days, Willie Adkins "the Jews will go back to Palestine and the Adkinses will go back to Beech Fork."

Recreation
Boating, fishing, hiking, camping, and picnicking opportunities are available on site. Biking or walking along the roadways around the park, however inviting, is not generally recommended due to automobile traffic along the narrow rural routes.

Birding
The park is an excellent site for birdwatching. Thousands of square miles of Appalachian hardwood trees surround the Beech Fork Lake area, providing a habitat for wood warblers, vireos, thrushes, chats, cuckoos, ovenbirds, and many other forest dwelling birds. Due to a lack of extensive wetlands attractive to waterfowl, such species are comparatively less common.

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Gilbert Plains (electoral district)

Gilbert Plains is a former provincial electoral division in Manitoba, Canada.

It was created by redistribution for the 1903 provincial election, and eliminated with the 1958 election.

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Maniac Magee

Maniac Magee is a novel written by American author Jerry Spinelli and published in 1990. Exploring themes of racism and inequality, it follows the story of an orphan boy looking for a home in the fictional town of Two Mills. Two Mills is harshly segregated between the East and West, blacks and whites. He becomes a local legend for feats of athleticism and helpfulness, and his ignorance of sharp racial boundaries in the town. It is popular in middle school curricula, and has been used in social studies on the premises of reaction to racial identity and reading. A TV movie was released on February 23, 2003.

Major characters

 * Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee is an orphan and finds himself in Two Mills, where he becomes a local legend while trying to find a home. He has astonishing athletic abilities, runs everywhere he goes, can untie any knot, is allergic to pizza, and crosses the barrier between the East End and West End as if blind to racial distinction. He has done many heroic feats such as running for a long period of time, hitting many home runs in a row, entering Finsterwald's backyard, and untying Cobble's Knot. He lived in many temporary homes, even once in a buffalo pen.
 * Amanda Beale is the first person Jeffrey meets in Two Mills. She carries her books in a suitcase so they aren't ruined by her younger siblings, Hester and Lester. She defends Jeffrey from Mars Bar and eventually provides him with a home. She is very stubborn. When someone destroys one of her books, Encyclopedia A, she becomes very upset.
 * Mars Bar Thompson is the bully in the East End. He dislikes Jeffrey's presence in the East End, which is exacerbated when Jeffrey beats him in a race. However, he eventually rescues Russell McNab from the trolley truss, and offers Jeffrey a place for a while. As his nickname implies, he is known for eating Mars Bars. His real first name is never revealed.
 * John McNab is infuriated when he cannot strike out Jeffrey with his ball. After acting as a bully, he welcomes him into his home when he brings back John's younger brothers, Piper and Russell, after their attempt to run away to Mexico. He remains convinced that the black East Enders are planning a rebellion.
 * Piper and Russell McNab are John McNab's younger brothers who frequently commit truancy, steal, and constantly try to run away from home. In their house, they use toy machine guns to shoot the "rebels" from the East End. Piper also had a party at the end of the book. They made Mars Bar mad at Jeffrey. Later they play on the trolley tracks and Mars Bar saves Russell. They are eight years old.
 * Earl Grayson is the groundskeeper at the zoo and resident of the YMCA, though he was once a minor league baseball pitcher who struck out Willie Mays. He becomes friends with Jeffrey, who listens to his stories and Jeffrey teaches him to read. They end up living together in a makeshift house, which makes him responsible. He is very kind and cares about Jeffrey. Tragically, Grayson's sudden death shortly after Christmas leaves Jeffrey all alone once again.
 * Mrs. Beale is the kind and caring mother of Amanda, Hester, and Lester. She is very thoughtful of Jeffrey as well.
 * Hester and Lester are the younger siblings of Amanda Beale, and the son and daughter of Mrs. Beale. They are very hyperactive, and will vandalize anything that they can get their hands on.

Background
The town of Two Mills is based on Jerry Spinelli's childhood town of Norristown, Pennsylvania. Spinelli has said that the material from the story was inspired by his childhood experiences there, and a number of geographical correspondences confirm this. Norristown, like Two Mills, is across the Schuylkill River from Bridgeport, and neighboring towns include Conshohocken, Jeffersonville and Worcester, all of which are mentioned in the novel. The Elmwood Park Zoo is in Norristown, and Valley Forge, where Maniac wanders, is nearby as well. There is also a street named Hector Street in Conshohocken.

Critical reviews
The book was well-received upon publication, variously lauded in reviews as "always affecting," having "broad appeal," and being full of "pathos and compassion." Booklist reviewer Deborah Abbot says, "...this unusual novel magically weaves timely issues of homelessness, racial prejudice, and illiteracy into a complicated story rich in characters and details...an energetic piece of writing that bursts with creativity, enthusiasm, and hope."

Reviewers noted that the theme of racism was uncommon for "middle readers". Criticism concentrated on Spinelli's choice of framing it as a legend, which Shoemaker calls a "cop-out," seeming like a "chalkboard lesson."

Awards and honors
Awards and honors for the book include:
 * 1990: Boston Globe/Horn Book Award
 * 1991: Carolyn Field Award, Newbery Medal (American Library Association)
 * 1992: Charlotte Award, Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, Flicker Tale Award, Indian Paintbrush Book Award, Rhode Island Children's Book Award
 * 1993: Buckeye Children's Book Award, Land of Enchantment Award, Mark Twain Award, Massachusetts Children's Book Award, Nevada Young Readers' Award, Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award, Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award, West Virginia Children's Book Award, William Allen White Award

The U.S. National Education Association named Maniac Magee one of "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children" based on a 2007 online poll. In 2012 it was ranked number 40 among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal, a monthly with primarily U.S. audience.

Use for educational and research purposes
The book is popular in elementary schools as a historical-fiction novel. Many study units and teaching guides are available. including a study guide by the author. It has been used as a tool in scholarly work on childhood education and development. Fondrie cites it as an example in a discussion of how to bring up and discuss issues of race and class among young students. McGinley and Kamberlis use it in a study of how children use reading and writing as "vehicles for personal, social, and political exploration." Along the same lines, Lehr and Thompson examine classroom discussions as a reflection of the teacher's role as cultural mediator and the response of children to moral dilemmas, and Enciso studies expressions of social identity in the responses of children to Maniac Magee.

In a less pedagogical vein, Roberts uses the character of Amanda Beale as an archetypal "female rescuer" in a study of Newbery books, and Sullivan suggests the book as being useful in discussions of reading attitudes and difficulties.

Adaptations
The book was adapted as a TV movie in 2003 which was nominated for the Humanitas prize in the children's live action category, and as an audiobook by Listening Library in 2005. (ISBN 978-0-307-24318-8)

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The Archives of Anthropos

The Archives of Anthropos is a Christian series of six fantasy novels for children written by the British author John White. Written in the tradition of C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia, this series present a fantasy world of kings, sorcerers and goblins in an allegorical fashion.

About the books
The books, in order of publication, are:

 * 1) The Tower of Geburah (1978) ISBN 0-87784-560-3
 * 2) The Iron Sceptre (1981) ISBN 0-87784-589-1
 * 3) The Sword Bearer (1986) ISBN 0-87784-590-5
 * 4) Gaal the Conqueror (1989) ISBN 0-87784-591-3
 * 5) Quest for the King (1995) ISBN 0-87784-592-1
 * 6) The Dark Lord's Demise (2001) ISBN 0-87784-521-2

The books, in chronological order, are:

 * 1) The Sword Bearer (1986) ISBN 0-87784-590-5
 * 2) Gaal the Conqueror (1989) ISBN 0-87784-591-3
 * 3) The Tower of Geburah (1978) ISBN 0-87784-560-3
 * 4) The Iron Sceptre (1981) ISBN 0-87784-589-1
 * 5) Quest for the King (1995) ISBN 0-87784-592-1
 * 6) The Dark Lord's Demise (2001) ISBN 0-87784-521-2

The Archives of Anthropos is written in the style of The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis, and use the same type of allegory: children from Earth are magically transported to another world where they are called by a Christ-figure to play key roles in that other world's history.

John White, the author, admitted having crafted the series after Lewis' own children's allegory. He writes in the appendix of his fifth book, Quest for the King:

"'My own children ganged up on me and came with the request that since I wrote books for adults, I could write them for children too. (Of course their assumption was incorrect!) 'We won't bug you any more,' they said, 'if only you'll write a book for us. But it has to be just like Narnia!' So, intrigued, I decided I'd have a crack at it ... I wrote, and then read them my opening chapter of what eventually turned into The Tower of Geburah.'"

Responding to the criticism that he was merely copying Lewis' work, he writes "People said (quite accurately), 'He's just trying to copy Lewis.' I was. This was what my children wanted. That is, I was trying to copy Lewis at first, but I soon ceased to. Copying gets you nowhere. You have to make any genre your own for it to work."

Reading order
As John White explains in the appendix of Quest for the King, he wrote The Tower of Geburah and The Iron Sceptre first, but felt compelled to write the prequel novels to explain parts of the prior history of Anthropos, such as "Where did the tower of Geburah come from?" In regards to the published vs. chronological order of the books, he writes:

"'So if you wish to read them in the least confusing arrangement, follow the [chronological] sequence'"

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Grizzly River Run

Grizzly River Run is a river rapids ride located at Disney California Adventure at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California. It is similar to Kali River Rapids in Disney's Animal Kingdom but distinctive as the rafts are engineered to spin as they descend chutes. The attraction's name comes from Grizzly Peak, the bear-shaped mountain that the rapids flow around. It was designed by Walt Disney Imagineering.

In 2015, the "Condor Flats" area in Disney California Adventure was merged with Grizzly Peak to become the Grizzly Peak Airfield.

History
On October 14, 1998, Disney announced that they would be constructing a brand new theme park next to Disneyland called Disney California Adventure. It would be themed after the history and culture of California and would feature various attractions, such as California Screamin', Soarin' and Maliboomer. The park would also feature a river rapids ride named Grizzly River Run. This new ride would wrap around Grizzly Peak, a snarling bear-shaped mountain that served as the central icon for Disney California Adventure. Construction of the ride began in early 1999 when the mountain began rising.

Grizzly River Run was completed on time for Disney California Adventure's grand opening on February 8, 2001.

In November 2018, warming huts were added outside the attraction. These were removed shortly after, with it being discovered that the Humphrey the Bear decals decorating them were copied from fanart of the character.

Queue
The queue takes place in the fictional Grizzly River Rafting Company. The extended queue winds past an office that features a radio, a map of the river, a canoe, and a list of the various rapids on the river. Guests pass various water buckets as they head to the loading station.

As part of the park's major 2007–2012 refurbishment, the old queue that had been themed around extreme sports was replaced with an homage to California state parks, specifically after Redwood Creek and the Sacramento River. Elements that evoke the "golden age" of national parks are placed around the entrance, alluding to the wave of turn-of-the-century wildlife conservation.

Main ride
The raft trip around Grizzly Peak begins with the raft being lifted up a wooden conveyor that runs under leaking pipes that spray water on the riders. Upon reaching the top of the conveyor, the rafts are dropped into the water to be descended down the peak, passing through a cave and bumping against a log jam. The climax of the ride drops the rafts down into a geyser field. The final drop has a unique element in that the rafts are spun as they begin their descent.

As with all flume-type rides, there must be a location to store or drain the water in the upper sections of the flumes when the pumps are shut down. The original plan was to create a large, underground basin beneath Grizzly Peak to hold water. This would have required costly excavation and construction. Upon looking at the final layout of California Adventure, it was noticed that the Pacific Wharf area of the park had a water element meant to simulate a tidal basin. The tidal basin is located across a walkway from Grizzly River Run and became the catch basin for water from the raft ride. The rise and fall of water in the tidal basin serves the dual purpose of providing a location to store water and being a scenic element that simulates a rising and falling tide.

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Aristonicus of Alexandria

Aristonicus of Alexandria (Greek Ἀριστόνικος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς, Aristonikos ho Alexandreus) was a distinguished Greek grammarian who lived during the reigns of Augustus and Tiberius, contemporary with Strabo. He taught at Rome, and wrote commentaries and grammatical treatises.

Works
Aristonicus is mentioned as the author of several works, most of which were related to the Homeric poems.

 * On the wanderings of Menelaus (περὶ τῆς Μενελάου πλάνης)
 * On the critical signs of the Iliad and Odyssey (περὶ τῶν σημείων τῆς Ἰλιάδος καὶ Ὀδυσσείας), on the marginal signs by which the Alexandrian critics used to mark suspected or interpolated verses in the Homeric poems and in Hesiod's Theogony
 * On ungrammatical words (ἀσυντάκτων ὀνομάτων βιβλία), a work of six books on irregular grammatical constructions in Homer

These and some other works are all now lost, with the exception of fragments preserved in the passages above referred to. By far the most important fragments of Aristonicus' work are preserved in the scholia of the Venetus A manuscript of the Iliad.

Editions
Erbse, H. 1969–88, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem, 7 vols. (Berlin) Friedländer, L. 1965 [1853], Aristonici Alexandrini περὶ σημείων Ιλιάδος reliquiae emendatiores, reprint (Amsterdam)
 * Scholia on the Iliad:
 * Aristonicus' work reconstructed from the Iliad scholia:

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Andrejs Prohorenkovs

Andrejs Prohorenkovs (born 5 February 1977) is a Latvian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Club career
Prohorenkovs was born in Ogre. He started his career with Interskonto in the Latvian Higher League, and has since played for Hutnik Warszawa, Odra Opole and Górnik Zabrze in Poland, Maccabi Kiryat Gat and Maccabi Tel Aviv in Israel, Dynamo Moscow in Russia, Melnā Roze and FK Jūrmala in Latvia, Racing de Ferrol in Spain, Ionikos in Greece, Liepājas Metalurgs, FC Jūrmala and FK Ogre in Latvia.

Prior to the 2014 Latvian First League (second tier) season Prohorenkovs was appointed as the manager of FK Ogre, also remaining a player's role.

International career
Prohorenkovs made 32 appearances for the Latvia national team scoring four goals between 2002 and 2007. He debuted in 2002, and played at the Euro 2004, making an assist for Māris Verpakovskis in Latvia's tournament opening goal against Czech Republic.

Honours
Maccabi Tel Aviv
 * Israeli Premier League: 2002–03
 * Israel State Cup: 2004–05

Liepājas Metalurgs
 * Latvian Higher League: 2009

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Dick Bartell

Richard William Bartell (November 22, 1907 – August 4, 1995), nicknamed "Rowdy Richard", was an American professional baseball player, coach, and manager. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a shortstop from to. One of the most ferocious competitors of his era, he won both admirers and critics at each stop during a career which saw him traded every few seasons, often under acrimonious circumstances. While hitting .300 over a full season five times, the two-time National League All-Star led the National League in double plays four times and in putouts and assists three times each. From 1927 through 1946, Bartell played for the Pittsburgh Pirates (1927–30), Philadelphia Phillies (1931–34), New York Giants (1935–38, 1941), Chicago Cubs (1939) and Detroit Tigers (1940–1941). After two years of military service in World War II, he played briefly in 1946 before retiring. At 5'9" and 160 pounds, he batted and threw right-handed.

Career
A native of Chicago, who grew up in Alameda, California (and received the Cal-Hi State baseball player of the year while at Alameda High school in 1926), Bartell played in three World Series and the 1933 All-Star Game, the first to be played. He had one year in the minors, 1926, with the class A Bridgeport Bears in the Eastern League, where he hit .280 in 148 games. At 19, Bartell was the youngest player in the National League. He appeared in only one game at the end of the season, drawing two walks in four plate appearances. He played flawlessly in the field with five chances and one double play. The Pirates lost to the Yankees in four games and the team had to wait until 1960 to make amends.

With an aggressive style of play and fiery attitude which earned him his nickname, Bartell was a competent shortstop with good hands and a strong throwing arm. A skillful hitter, he batted a career-high .320 in 1930. After three seasons over .300 with Pittsburgh, he was traded to the Phillies in 1931, and had collected seasons of 40 doubles and 100 runs three times each by 1934. Bartell helped Philadelphia's perennial cellar-dwellers finish in fourth place in the 1932 season, for the only first-division finish by a Phillies team in a span of 32 seasons (1918–42). In 1933 he was elected to the first All-Star Game, and again in 1937.

Traded to the New York Giants before the 1935 season, Bartell helped the team win two NL pennants (1936–37), and hit .381 in the 1936 World Series. Leading off for the Giants in the Brooklyn Dodgers home opener in 1937, he complained when the first pitch was called a strike – and was promptly hit in the chest with a tomato thrown from the stands. He later played with the Chicago Cubs in 1939. In 1940, his first season in the American League, he teamed up with second baseman Charlie Gehringer to give the Tigers an AL pennant. Bartell started 1941 with Detroit but returned to the Giants in the midseason as a player-coach.

In an 18-season career, Bartell posted a .284 batting average with 79 home runs and 710 runs batted in in 2,016 games played. He also finished with 1,130 runs, 2,165 hits, 442 doubles, 71 triples, 109 stolen bases and 748 bases on balls. Defensively, he recorded an overall .955 fielding percentage playing primarily at shortstop but also at third and second base. In 18 World Series games, he hit .294 (20-for-68) with 10 runs, 6 doubles, 1 home run, 7 RBI and 7 walks.

Bartell later managed in the minor leagues and coached for the Tigers (1949–52) and Cincinnati Redlegs (1954–55). He died on August 4, 1995, in Alameda at age 87 after suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

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She (Charles Aznavour song)

"She" is a song written by Charles Aznavour and Herbert Kretzmer and released as a single sung by Aznavour in 1974. The song was written in English as a theme tune for the British TV series Seven Faces of Woman.

Aznavour also recorded it in French, German, Italian and Spanish, under the titles "Tous les visages de l'amour" (English: All the Faces of Love), "Sie" (English: She) "Lei" (English: She) and "Es" (English: [She] is), respectively. He also recorded the song in a more uptempo French version with different lyrics, simply titled "Elle" (English: She).

The song peaked at number 1 on the UK Singles Chart and stayed there for four weeks; it was certified silver for shipments exceeding 300,000 units. It also reached number 1 in the Irish Charts, spending one week at the top. It was less popular outside the UK (where Seven Faces of Woman did not air); in France, the song narrowly missed the top 40, and in the United States, it failed to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 and charted on the lower end of the easy listening charts.

Elvis Costello recorded a cover version of the song in 1999. This version, produced by Trevor Jones, was featured over the final sequence of the film Notting Hill (while Charles Aznavour's version was featured over the opening credits) and charted throughout Europe.

Track listing

 * "She" – 7" 45 rpm record
 * 1) "She" – 2:50
 * 2) "La barraka" – 2:45

 * "Lei" – 7" 45 rpm record
 * 1) "Lei"
 * 2) "La barraka"

 * "She" (1999 re-release) – CD single
 * 1) "She (Tous les visages de l'amour)" – 2:52
 * 2) "I Didn't See the Time Go By (Je n'ai pas vu le temps passer)" – 3:31

Elvis Costello version
Elvis Costello recorded a cover version of the song in 1999 for the soundtrack of the film Notting Hill. This version of the song peaked at number 19 in the United Kingdom, giving Costello his first top 20 hit in the United Kingdom in 16 years, and his last.

Track listing

 * 2-track CD single – Europe (1999)
 * 1) "She" – 3:10
 * 2) "Painted from Memory" – 4:12

 * 3-track CD single – Europe (1999)
 * 1) "She" – 3:08
 * 2) "This House Is Empty Now" – 5:11
 * 3) "What's Her Name Today?" – 4:11

 * CD single – United Kingdom (1999)
 * 1) "She" – 3:08
 * 2) "Painted from Memory" – 4:14
 * 3) "The Sweetest Punch" – 4:09

Laura Pausini cover
Italian singer Laura Pausini also released an Italian language cover of the song, titled "She (Uguale a lei)". The song was recorded for a Barilla TV spot. The lyrics of the song were adapted by Pausini herself, and are therefore different from the lyrics of Aznavour's Italian-language version of his hit. It was also released as a digital single on 8 March 2006, but was not featured on any of Pausini's studio albums. However, she recorded a new version of the song, included in her greatest hits album 20 - The Greatest Hits.

Live performances
Pausini performed the song live for the first time during the final of Sanremo Music Festival 2006, when she was invited as a guest artist. A live version of the song was included in a medley performed on 2 June 2007, during her concert at the San Siro stadium in Milan, later released as a video album titled San Siro 2007.

Track listing

 * Digital download
 * 1) "She (Uguale a lei)" – 2:59

Other cover versions
In addition to the famous Elvis Costello version noted above, the song has been recorded by many different artists over the years. The most notable versions include:
 * American singer Jack Jones recorded a cover of the song for his 1975 album What I Did for Love. It was released as a single, becoming a big hit in the Philippines.
 * Péter Máté created a Hungarian cover of the song. The first record containing this was only released after his death.
 * British Comedian and music Hall legend Ken Dodd recorded a version for his 1976 album love together
 * Dave Stewart and Terry Hall's short-lived project Vegas had a minor UK hit with the song in 1992, peaking at number 43 on the UK Singles Chart. Aznavour starred in the music video, standing at a fountain while being secretly observed by Hall and Stewart.
 * The British Pop singer Engelbert Humperdinck recorded the song on his 2003 CD Definition of Love. He included a duet of She with Charles Aznavour on his 2014 duets album Engelbert Calling.
 * French singer Jason Kouchak recorded the song for his 2008 album Midnight Classics.
 * Irish singing group Celtic Thunder made a cover version on their second show Celtic Thunder: Act Two (2008) where Paul Byrom performed the song.
 * A version by the composer and record producer Jason Hill, featuring Richard Butler of The Psychedelic Furs, was used in the trailer for David Fincher's movie, Gone Girl, in 2014.
 * Israeli singer Matti Caspi released a Hebrew cover of the song in 2005.
 * Paul Byrom recorded a cover of the song while a member of Celtic Thunder; the song was released on the self-titled debut album and their concert DVD "The Show."
 * Former E.L.O. frontman Jeff Lynne released a cover version of the song on his 2012 album Long Wave.
 * The duo She & Him released a cover of the song on their 2014 album, Classics.
 * Daniel Boaventura recorded for Morde & Assopra (Dinosaurs & Robots) soundtrack and a performance on his live album, "Daniel Boaventura: Ao Vivo" in 2011.
 * Jay-R, the R&B prince, covered it for Philippine soap opera Beauty Queen.
 * CBBC used the song for a reflective montage at the end of the memorial retrospective My Sarah Jane, celebrating the long-running Whoniverse character Sarah Jane Smith following the death of actress Elisabeth Sladen.
 * Bryan Ferry covered it at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival with Aznavour joining him on stage at the end of the performance.
 * Leeteuk (이특) Korean singer and member of the group Super Junior sang it as his solo part in their concert Super Show 4 in 2011/2012 and is recorded on their live album released in July 2013

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Four Crosses, Llandysilio

Four Crosses (Llandysilio) is a village in Montgomeryshire in northern Powys, mid Wales, close to the border with Shropshire. It is in the community of Llandysilio.

Geography
The village sits on the Offa's Dyke Path. The nearest town is Oswestry.

Population
It is home to over 900 persons.

Historic businesses
Historically, the village was a centre for milk collection. The Four Crosses Creamery produced prize winning ice cream which was distributed over a large area of mid/north Wales and adjoining counties.

Transport
The village was served by Four Crosses railway station until 1965. It lies on the A483 road which now bypasses the village to the west.

Sport
The Foxen Manor housing estate has a football field and playground. This field is home to Four Crosses who play in the FAW League One, the third tier of Welsh football. The village was the home of Rodney Rovers Football Club (played behind the Golden Lion public house) which played at a high level.

Former British Light heavyweight Boxing Champion Dennis Powell lived in the village. A plaque is affixed to his training "hall".

The village was a stopping point (Bowyers Garage) on route to the Monte Carlo Rally.

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Stitch's Great Escape!

Stitch's Great Escape! was a "theater-in-the-round" attraction based on Disney's Lilo & Stitch franchise. A non-canon prequel to the original 2002 film that detailed Stitch's "first" prison escape, it was located in the Tomorrowland area of Magic Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort, as the fourth attraction to occupy the building and theater space that was previously used for Flight to the Moon, Mission to Mars and the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter. Designed by Walt Disney Imagineering, many of the animators who worked on Lilo & Stitch were directly involved with the attraction's development. The attraction, which struggled with a mixed reception from park guests during its existence, was the only major permanent attraction based on Lilo & Stitch to have operated in the United States; all other such major attractions since have been exclusive to non-American Disney Parks resorts.

Voice cast

 * Chris Sanders as Stitch
 * Kevin Michael Richardson as Captain Gantu
 * Zoe Caldwell as Grand Councilwoman
 * Kevin McDonald as Pleakley
 * Richard Kind as Sergeant C4703BK2704-90210
 * Dave Fouquettte as Lieutenant Sledge and Donut Guy
 * Doug Stone as Ensign Getco
 * Debra Jean Rogers as First Officer Ombit
 * Jennifer Hale as Cinderella
 * Susan Silo as Computer system

History
On September 21, 2003, Magic Kingdom announced that a new Lilo & Stitch themed attraction would be replacing ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter. On October 10, the park announced more details about the new attraction. It would be named Stitch's Great Escape! and would reuse the Alien Encounter technology. Because Alien Encounter was considered too scary and intense for kids, officials wanted to make the new attraction less scary and more family-friendly. Two days later, Alien Encounter would close to the public on October 12 and the Lilo & Stitch remodel was underway.

Stitch's Great Escape! opened on November 16, 2004. During the opening event, a large inflatable Stitch was outside the park's entrance, but as guests reached Main Street, U.S.A., they spotted some signs noticing that Stitch was causing chaos at the park. Guests could also find security guards who were looking for Stitch. In addition, the Cinderella Castle was decorated with toilet paper and a graffiti message that said, "Stitch is King". Cobra Bubbles told guests that Stitch was on the loose. The opening celebration soon began, but Stitch had already taken over the party with Elvis Presley singers. As he was being escorted off the stage, a large group of elementary school students arrived at the scene. They were dressed in Stitch hats and light blue t-shirts. Several guests were also given interviews with Stitch and Cobra Bubbles. Near the World of Disney store over at Disney Springs, then called Downtown Disney, there was a van that was hijacked by Stitch surrounded by police line ribbons and barriers. Inside the van, there were road signs, a travel guide map, shoes, and boxes with toy dinosaurs.

The attraction was met with mixed reception from guests, as some considered Stitch's Great Escape! a kid-friendly attraction, but others considered it as the worst attraction at Magic Kingdom. The most common complaint was the chili dog burp that made many guests nauseated.

At one time, Stitch's Great Escape! featured a FastPass entrance. When the system was modified to include wristbands instead of tickets, this entrance was removed as the popularity significantly declined.

After October 1, 2016, the attraction entered seasonal operation. In October 2017, the attraction's first pre-show area began being used as a costumed character greeting area for Stitch called Stitch's Alien Encounter Character Greeting!.

The attraction last operated on January 6, 2018, which led to speculation about the attraction's fate. The closure of Stitch's Great Escape! was said to be temporary, but in October, the Stitch animatronic and pre-show were completely dismantled. In 2019, the exterior was given a fresh coat of paint. On July 16, 2020, Disney confirmed that the attraction was permanently closed, with the attraction's signage later taken down on August 10, 2020.

Pre-show
Guests entered the Galactic Federation Prisoner Teleport Center, where the attraction took place. As the doors opened, guests entered the first pre-show. The Grand Councilwoman (voiced by Zoe Caldwell) was shown on the television screens, telling the guests that they would be guards for the United Galactic Federation. After being taught the basic procedures of guard duty, guests entered the second pre-show, where they were introduced by a robot known as Sergeant C4703BK2704-90210 (Richard Kind). He performed a demonstration of the teleportation tubes using an alien named Skippy, who appeared in the former ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter in both normal and "deformed" forms, with the "deformed" form repurposed in this attraction as a separate character known as the "doughnut guy", allowing both forms to appear at the same time. After the demonstration, Captain Gantu (Kevin Michael Richardson) gave an alert of a Level 3 prisoner being beamed to the center, at which point Sergeant 90210 fainted. Guests were then instructed by Pleakley (Kevin McDonald) over a public-address system to proceed to the High Security Level 3 prisoner teleportation chamber.

Main show
Inside the chamber, guests took a seat, and the shoulder restraints lowered into place (to not confuse the prisoner's DNA with the guests'). On screens, First Officer Ombit and Ensign Getco would help guests with the demonstration. The prisoner was then beamed into the chamber via a large plume of smoke and was revealed to be Experiment 626 (Chris Sanders), who called himself "Stitch". Gantu told Ombit, Getco, and the guests to keep an eye on Stitch, while he left to straighten all this out.

Stitch began to spit water in any direction, as Ombit and Getco wondered why the cannons were misfiring. The computer stated that the power was reducing after each spit. Following the second spit, Ombit realized that the system was shutting down. The third spit lead to the screens powering down. As the computer indicated that power had decreased 80%, the TV screens turned off and smoke effects began to blast. Loud explosions were be heard as all the lights in the chamber went out, allowing Stitch to escape. Now in complete darkness, Ombit and Getco told the guests to stay seated and to not let the prisoner out of their sight. As Ombit and Getco went to fix the problem, Stitch destroyed a cell phone. He began to stalk the guests, tickling their heads and jumping on the shoulder restraints. Guests could hear Stitch scurry around the chamber in the speakers as he smells food. Stitch stole a chili dog from a guest and ate it. Soon afterward, Stitch made a big burp, causing a noxious smell to spray into the chamber.

When Gantu returned to the chamber, Ombit and Getco informed him that the prisoner was loose. When the power came back on via emergency power, the laser cannons continued their attempt to bring Stitch down. Again using the cannons' fatal flaws, he managed to fire the laser cannons into the crowd. As the lights and TV screens in the chamber were turned off a second time, Stitch began to leap onto the shoulder restraints and terrorized the guests for a second time while used his antennae to tickle the guests' heads. Then, he reappeared in the teleportation tube and escaped to the Magic Kingdom in Florida. Cameras captured him going into Cinderella Castle where Stitch got into the castle by claiming to be Prince Charming from Cinderella. Off-camera, Cinderella (Jennifer Hale) realized that Stitch was not her prince, and kicked him out of the room. Stitch licked the camera on the screens, making Getco lament that "we've been licked", then Gantu told him to release the guests. The original ending of the attraction had Stitch stalk park guests on Astro Orbiter, with the ending video changing depending on the time of day at the park. This ending was eventually swapped in March 2005. The guests were then released from their restraints and exited into one of two gift shops; Merchant of Venus or Star Traders (previously Mickey's Star Traders during the attraction's run). On the way to the gift shops, guests saw a sign labeled "Days without an escape" and a big number going down, along with "wanted posters" featuring some of Stitch's creator Jumba Jookiba's other genetic experiments.

Technology
The attraction included much of the technology and sets from its predecessor, the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter, including the comical alien Skippy in the second pre-show area. The two 39-inch Audio-Animatronic Stitch figures built by Imagineering were reportedly one of the most complex creations of their size. Other special effects include binaural sound, simulated laser cannons, and a pungent smell of a chili dog.

title: Stitch's Great Escape!