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Ross Tokely

Ross Tokely (born 8 March 1979) is a Scottish football coach and former professional player who played for Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Ross County, Brora Rangers, and Nairn County, he currently manages Nairn County.

Tokely joined Inverness from Highland League club Huntly in 1996 and remained at the club until June 2012, for a total of 16 seasons at the Inverness club. Tokely was ICT's longest serving player and currently holds their appearance record. He also holds the distinction of having played and scored in every division of Scottish league football, from Third Division to the SPL, for Inverness.

Inverness
Tokely was born in Aberdeen. He was signed to Inverness Caledonian Thistle by manager Steve Paterson and made his first appearance in the side that won the Third Division title in 1997. Tokely gradually established himself in the side, usually playing at right back, although he has sometimes played in central defence or as a holding midfielder.

Tokely retained his place in the team as Inverness progressed through the Third Division and Second Division to the First Division.

Tokely also had more positive successes during this period, notably a fantastic goal against his boyhood heroes Hearts in the 2002 Scottish Cup. Tokely hit a 20-yard shot into the top corner at Tynecastle as Inverness defeated another SPL club in the cup, having won 3–1 at Celtic Park in 2000. Tokely also scored the winning penalty in a shoot-out against Dunfermline Athletic in the following season's League Cup.

Tokely was part of the squad that won promotion to the SPL in 2004, by winning the First Division title. As Inverness moved into the SPL, he retained his spot in the side, being awarded the number 2 jersey. After 10 years of service to the club, Tokely was awarded a testimonial match against Sheffield United.

Throughout their five-year stint in the top league, Tokely was an established player in the side. His longest spell out of the team came in 2007, when he missed a month of first team action after being sent off for an off the ball punch on Motherwell player Steven McGarry. As the Highland club unsuccessfully battled against relegation in 2009, manager Terry Butcher joked that he wanted his side to achieve more league points than Tokely's total of disciplinary points. Tokely racked up further disciplinary points as he was sent off for a professional foul on the final day of the season against Falkirk. Inverness went on to lose the decisive match 1–0, and were consequently relegated.

Nonetheless, Tokely retained his place in the Inverness side after their drop back down to the First Division, helping the club gain promotion straight back to the SPL in 2010. He was made captain of the team for his 500th appearance for Inverness, a 1–0 win against Airdrie United. Tokely agreed a new contract with Inverness in June 2010, despite receiving offers from overseas. In May 2012, he rejected a contract offer from Inverness and ended his 16-year career with the club.

Ross County
On 7 June 2012, Tokely signed for Ross County on a one-year contract.

Brora Rangers
Tokely joined Brora Rangers as a player/coach in January 2013. On Saturday 5 October Brora drew 1–1 with league rivals Cove Rangers, but went on to beat them 3–0 away from home in the Scottish Cup, flying high in the Highland League, Brora were favourites to beat Clyde in the 2nd round but lost 2–1 at Broadwood.

In 2013–14 Brora won the Highland League for the first time in their history - by twenty-clear-points. They also won the North Of Scotland Cup for the fourth time when they beat Elgin City in the 2014–15 final.

On 26 July 2014, Brora knocked Stenhousemuir out of the Challenge Cup after extra-time 3–1, Alex Sutherland hat-trick, to be beaten by East Fife in the second round 3–1.

St Duthus
Midway through the 2018–19 season, Tokely made a return to senior football when he joined North Caledonian League club St Duthus. During his time with the Tain based club, he won two cup medals, the Football Times Cup in 2020, and the North Caledonian Cup in 2022.

Nairn County
After starting the 2022-23 season with St Duthus, Tokely was released to sign for Nairn County on 24 October 2022. Tokely decided to end his playing career at the end of 2023-24.

Coaching career
Tokely was appointed Brora Rangers manager in December 2016. Brora knocked SPFL clubs Stranraer and East Fife out of the 2017–18 Scottish Cup, before eventually losing to Premiership club Kilmarnock in the fifth round (last 16). They had poorer results in the 2017–18 Highland Football League, however, and Tokely left the club near the end of the season.

Tokely returned to Inverness to become their Under 16 Youth Team coach.

On 26 April 2024, Tokely was appointed as manager of Highland Football League club Nairn County.

Honours
Inverness Caledonian Thistle
 * Scottish First Division: 2003–04, 2009–10
 * Scottish Third Division: 1996–97
 * Scottish Challenge Cup: 2003–04

Brora Rangers
 * Highland League: 2013–14 2014-2015
 * North Of Scotland Cup: 2013–14, 2014–15

St Duthus
 * Football Times Cup: 2019-20
 * North Caledonian Cup: 2021-22

Nairn County

 * North Of Scotland Cup: 2023–24

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Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Copperchair

I endorsed the outside view because Copperchair's talk page is his own, and if deleting sections of his talk page is his form of archival I have no complaint with it. There are far more problematic behaviors on his part for us to worry about—I can afford to assume good faith about his talk page. — Phil Welch 00:10, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * As I mentioned on someone's Talk page -- Ral315's, maybe? -- blanking user Talk pages to remove vandalism warnings is hardly "archiving" and should not be excused as such. I've explained this to him several times, and he hasn't gotten the point. Then again, he hasn't gotten the point about consensus, either, so why should I expect him to listen to anything I say?--chris.lawson 01:25, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * In response to Philwelch's statement, I suupose you could consider his blanking of his own talk page as a form of unintentional archiving, since all previous edits are archived in the page's history. If someone wants to see his history, then they could view it there. The Wookieepedian 15:55, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * That was my point. Obviously removing vandalism warnings is an exception but that's the minority of what Copperchair's been removing. — Phil Welch 20:37, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Not really. He's removing discussion and questions posed to him by other Wikipedians without following up at all. He's basically refusing to answer any reasonable questions directed at him on his Talk page, especially if those questions have any semblance of criticism at all. And the majority of what I've posted on his Talk page has been either warnings or reprimands for his behaviour, or questions about why he's behaving how he is. This is all getting blanked, without response or change in behaviour. That has to stop.--chris.lawson 23:25, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * He's back at it. He now has reverted the cast list on A New Hope and has removed, like always, the remark about the Palpatine photo being from "the original version." The Wookieepedian 02:42, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

With regard to Copperchair's response, I think we need to distinguish two points: firstly, whether Copperchair has a valid point to make about who to list in the cast sections, and secondly, whether Copperchair is going about making that point in a civil way that helps Wikipedia. The first point is a content dispute that I personally have little interest in. As for the second point, Copperchair has not only claimed there was a consensus as to Wedge's inclusion in the cast listing (since a large number of people were reverting his edits and he was the only one reverting back, I think the real consensus was evident), he has also inconsistently claimed that consensus doesn't matter. I'm not even comparing statements he made at different points in time—both these viewpoints are clearly present within his response to this very RfC. I'd like to note that despite what Copperchair thinks, consensus does matter. Copperchair is free to hold a dissenting belief but insofar as consensus is Wikipedia's guiding principle, he cannot be allowed to practice this belief on Wikipedia like he has been doing as of late. — Phil Welch 03:20, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

I also have to note that I find it to be in very bad faith for Copperchair to be using misleading edit summaries again. (I've noted an example of this in the evidence section.) — Phil Welch 03:26, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I basically agree with the above distinction. Weighing in on the reasons why one cast list is more appropriate than another is fine. Using backhanded or deceptive editing practices to push one POV is poor form, and to ignore warnings about misbehavior is grounds for administrative action. Dystopos 05:09, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Some examples of Copperchair's conduct
I'm not sure where to put these, but Copperchair is mischaracterizing his actions.

While he says he is only deleting "bulllying accusations of vandalism", this is a good example of the sorts of messages he is deleting from his talk page. Note that among these notices are a warning and a block notice for vandalizing a user page.

He has also labeled controversial changes in structure to a cast list as "Sp.", such as seen here.

These facts, I feel, bring Copperchair's good faith into question. - A Man In Black (Talk | Contribs) 03:46, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * And I've warned him about that, too. See his Talk page's history, about a month or two back, for my comments about his disingenuous edit summaries. He blanked those, too, by the way.--chris.lawson 04:47, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * He's done it again. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 04:44, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Reverting after acceptance of RfM
Looks like Copperchair is continuing his habit of not keeping his agreements. This is the main reason I'm staying away from the mediation request—there is little point making agreements with Copperchair given his patterns of behavior. — Phil Welch 05:13, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

RFAr
Seeing as Copperchair has continued to revert, I've escalated this to a Request for Arbitration.. - A Man In Black (conspire | past ops) 05:15, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

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The Way Ahead

The Way Ahead (also known as Immortal Battalion) (1944) is a British Second World War drama film directed by Carol Reed. The screenplay was written by Eric Ambler and Peter Ustinov. The film stars David Niven, Stanley Holloway and William Hartnell along with an ensemble cast of other British actors, including Ustinov in one of his earliest roles. The Way Ahead follows a group of civilians who are conscripted into the British Army and, after training, are shipped to North Africa where they are involved in a battle against the Afrika Korps.

Plot
In the days after the Dunkirk evacuation in the Second World War, recently commissioned Second Lieutenant Jim Perry (Niven), a pre-war Territorial private soldier, is posted to the (fictional) Duke of Glendon's Light Infantry, known as the "Dogs", to train replacements to fill its depleted ranks. He is joined by Sergeant Ned Fletcher (Hartnell), a veteran of the British Expeditionary Force.

In contrast to Perry, the rest of the squad is shocked to have been conscripted to the army. Evan Lloyd, an unscrupulous rent collector, Sid Beck (Leslie Dwyer), a travel agent, Geoffrey Stainer (Jimmy Hanley), a friend of Lloyd's, Ted Brewer (Stanley Holloway), a plumber working in parliament, Herbert Davenport (Raymond Huntley), a department store manager with his young employee Bill Parsons (Hugh Burden) and finally Scottish farm labourer Luke (John Laurie).

A patient, mild-mannered officer, Perry does his strenuous best to turn the bunch of grumbling ex-civilians into soldiers, earning himself their intense dislike. The conscripts also mistakenly believe that their drill sergeant Fletcher is treating them harshly due to a minor incident where Stainer spilt tea on the older man. Stainer grumbles about it, saying he'll give him what for but it's Lloyd who decides to air this grievance with Perry by reporting Fletcher for being unfair to the squad. When Perry approaches Fletcher over Lloyd's accusation, Fletcher in fact discloses that he is pleased with the way they are developing and even goes so far to state that a few of the men (including Lloyd) could be future NCOs.

When Parsons appears to desert his post, Perry takes a kindly stance with the young man and learns that his wife is being threatened by debt collectors. Perry speaks up for the young man at his court martial and he is allowed to rejoin the unit. The other men go on a training exercise and to "avenge" Perry's treatment of Parsons they sabotage the war game bringing shame on the battalion. Perry angrily rebukes the men who afterwards learn that Parsons was saved by Perry. Eventually the men come to respect both sergeant Fletcher and Perry.

After completing their training, the battalion is transferred to North Africa to face Rommel's Afrika Korps, but their troopship is torpedoed en route and they are forced to abandon ship. When Sergeant Fletcher is trapped below deck by a burning vehicle, both Perry and Private Luke (John Laurie) intervene and work to save him. The survivors are evacuated to a nearby destroyer and are taken to Gibraltar, missing the invasion entirely.

When they eventually arrive in North Africa, the platoon is assigned to guard a small town. Perry appropriates a cafe as his headquarters, much to the disgust of the pacifist owner, Rispoli (Peter Ustinov). He instructs the men to respect the cafe owner and the men form a bond after playing darts and allowing Rispoli to join in. When the Germans attack, Perry and his men fiercely defend their positions, aided by Rispoli.

As the battle seems to turn, the Germans approach the British position under a white flag and invite Perry to surrender to save his men. Perry through his interpreter Beck tells the Germans to "Go to Hell!". The besieged British soldiers fix bayonets and join other surviving units in advancing on the enemy, hidden in the smoke from explosions. The film ends with two veteran "Dogs" appreciatively reading about the men's bravery.

Platoon

 * David Niven as Lieutenant Jim Perry
 * William Hartnell as Sergeant Ned Fletcher (credited as Billy Hartnell)
 * Hugh Burden as Private Bill Parsons
 * James Donald as Private, later Corporal, Evan Lloyd
 * Leslie Dwyer as Private Sid Beck
 * Jimmy Hanley as Private Geoffrey Stainer (credited as Jimmie Hanley)
 * Stanley Holloway as Private Ted Brewer
 * Raymond Huntley as Private Herbert Davenport
 * John Laurie as Private Luke

Wives

 * Penelope Dudley-Ward as Mrs Jim Perry (credited as Penelope Ward)
 * Grace Arnold as Mrs Ned Fletcher
 * Esma Cannon as Mrs Ted Brewer
 * Eileen Erskine as Mrs Bill Parsons

Others

 * Peter Ustinov as Rispoli, cafe owner
 * Reginald Tate as the Training Company Commanding Officer
 * Leo Genn as Captain Edwards
 * Renée Asherson as Marjorie Gillingham (credited as Renee Ascherson)
 * Mary Jerrold as Mrs Gillingham
 * Jack Watling as Sergeant Buster
 * Raymond Lovell as Mr Jackson
 * A. E. Matthews as Colonel Walmsley
 * Lloyd Pearson as Sam Thyrtle
 * John Ruddock as Old Chelsea Soldier
 * A. Bromley Davenport as Old Chelsea Soldier (credited as Bromley Davenport)
 * Tessie O'Shea as Herself
 * Trevor Howard as Ship's Officer (uncredited)
 * George Merritt as the Sergeant-Major (uncredited)
 * Tracy Reed as the Perrys' Daughter (uncredited)

Production
The Way Ahead was written by Eric Ambler and Peter Ustinov, and directed by Carol Reed. The three had originally produced the 1943 44-minute training film The New Lot, which was produced for the Army Kinematograph Service. The Way Ahead was an expanded remake of their earlier film, this time intended for a commercial audience. The two films featured some of the same actors, including John Laurie, Raymond Huntley and a 23-year-old Peter Ustinov.

The driving force behind the film was David Niven, a 1930 graduate of Sandhurst, who at the time was a major in the British Army working with the Army Film Unit and later served in Normandy with GHQ Liaison Regiment. Niven was the executive producer on The Way Ahead.

The last scene in The Way Ahead shows the soldiers advancing in a counter-attack. Instead of the film ending with the words "The End", it concludes with "The Beginning". In a film made and released during the war, this was an effort to galvanise public support for the final push in the war effort, with a perhaps not unintended reference to one of Winston Churchill's famous quotations: "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

In the United States, an edited version of The Way Ahead, with an introduction by journalist Quentin Reynolds, was released as Immortal Battalion.

Reception
According to trade papers, The Way Ahead was a success at the British box office in 1944. According to Kinematograph Weekly the 'biggest winners' at the box office in 1944 Britain were For Whom the Bell Tolls, This Happy Breed, Song of Bernadette, Going My Way, This Is the Army, Jane Eyre, The Story of Dr Wassell, Cover Girl, White Cliffs of Dover, Sweet Rosie O'Grady and Fanny By Gaslight. The biggest British hits of the year were, in order, This Happy Breed, Fanny By Gaslight, The Way Ahead and Love Story.

In 1945, The Way Ahead (referred to as Immortal Battalion) was listed as one of the Top Ten Films by the USA National Board of Review.

As Immortal Battalion, film critic and historian Leonard Maltin noted: "Exhilarating wartime British film showing how disparate civilians come to work together as a fighting unit; full of spirit and charm, with an outstanding cast, and fine script by Eric Ambler and Peter Ustinov."

The final scene of the advancing soldiers was imitated for the closing credits of the long-running BBC sitcom Dad's Army. John Laurie appeared in both productions and his performance in the sitcom credits replicates this film.

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Talk:Calauag

kumusta mga kaibigan?
sana higit pang magkaroon ng pagkakaisa ang bayan ng calauag. subalit akoy naniniwala na sa ikauunlad ng bayan "DC"plina ang kailangan. -Engr. Darwin Coral

sa aking mga kababayan, magandang araw sa inyong lahat, hangad ko ang kaunlaran ng calauag at boung quezon. Taga pinagtalleran po ako. --- Engr. Robinson Chua —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.3.251.210 (talk) 04:00, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Number of Barangays
I think Calauag, officially, has 81 barangays after 9 from the original 90 barangays were reverted back to Sta. Elena, Camarines Norte after the latter won in their border dispute involving the said 9 barangays. But the article Overview states that "It has a total land area of 42,318 hectares spread over ninety (90) barangays with..." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.76.212.143 (talk) 04:50, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, correct. Corrections made with official references. -- P 1 9 9 ✉ 16:37, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Number of towns
It says forty (39). Which is it? Leefkrust22 (talk) 08:24, 15 December 2011 (UTC)

Coordinate error
The following coordinate fixes are needed for Calauag, Quezon.

—Ken imperial14 (talk) 13:55, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

 * Appears to have been corrected by requesting editor. Feel free to re-request, with a more specific statement, if there is something else needed. — TransporterMan  ( TALK ) 16:58, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Business listings
The business listing is removed because WP is not a directory, see WP:NOTDIRECTORY. It would be much better to expand the Economy section with descriptions on the various business sectors. -- P 1 9 9 ✉ 16:37, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

"Calauag's Population to Surpass That of Lopez in the Near Future"
How could that happen? The population of Calauag is actually steadily declining while Lopez, currently, has 25,000 more people than Calauag.

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1827 Chilean presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Chile on February 13, 1827, after the National Congress of Chile decided by vote to elect a new president.

Following the coup d'état by Colonel Enrique Campino and the resignation of vice president and acting president —since Manuel Blanco Encalada's resignation— Agustín Eyzaguirre, Congress petitioned General Ramón Freire to take the seat of president on January 30, 1827.

On February 5, Freire presented his resignation before Congress, which decided to elect a new president of the Republic on February 13. The Congress elected Freire as the new president with 37 votes, and Francisco Antonio Pinto as vice president with 27 votes, from a total of 48 deputies present. Congress knew Freire would resign after Pinto's arrival in Santiago, so the election was only a sign of appreciation towards him.

Pinto's election, although won with a scant majority, signified a great victory for the liberals.

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Lawrence Babbio Jr.

Lawrence T. Babbio Jr., generally called Larry, is a former vice chairman and president of Verizon, with responsibility for the Verizon Telecom and Verizon Business units. He was also a member of the board of directors of Verizon Wireless. Since 2007, Babbio has been a senior adviser to Warburg Pincus, a private equity firm. He currently serves as the CEO of Afiniti.

Babbio began his communications career in 1966 with New Jersey Bell Telephone. He served in a variety of positions in engineering, network construction, and technology development with New Jersey Bell and AT&T. In January 1995 he was elected vice chairman of Bell Atlantic Corporation.

Prior to the Bell Atlantic/GTE merger, Babbio was president and chief operating officer for Bell Atlantic. He shared oversight of, and responsibility for, all of the corporation's business operations, restructuring of the business units, the GTE merger process, and developing new growth opportunities.

Babbio also served as chairman of the company's Global Wireless Group, one of the largest wireless operations worldwide. He was the lead executive in charge of developing Bell Atlantic's domestic and international wireless communications strategy. Under his leadership, Bell Atlantic substantially increased the size and scope of its domestic and international wireless holdings.

In May 2002 Babbio was elected to the board of directors of Hewlett-Packard Company. He previously served on the board of Compaq Computer Corporation since 1995. He has served on the board of ARAMARK Corporation since 1999. Babbio also serves as chairman of the Board of Trustees of Stevens Institute of Technology.

He holds a B.E. in electrical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, and an M.B.A. from New York University.

Attorney General Matter
On September 17, 2009 Attorney General Anne Milgram announced charges against Lawrence Babbio and Stevens Institute of Technology president Harold J. Raveché. According to the state's 16-count lawsuit, Stevens' leaders kept several trustees in the dark about the school's financial condition. Raveché and his administration allegedly spent the school's money at greater rates than the board approved, scavenging restricted assets, excessive loans and gifts to the school earmarked for other purposes. Milgram also sought reforms to the school's governance and accounting.

The lawsuit alleged that Raveché and Babbio misrepresented the finances of the school and caused the endowment to fall by $42 million from $157 million in 2000 to $115 million in 2009. The lawsuit detailed that Raveché received below-market loans from the school, at least some of which were forgiven by Stevens. The complaint also raises questions about Raveché's salary which had been greater than that of the president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a much larger, better known school.

The school disputed the allegations, brought a preemptive lawsuit against the State of New Jersey, and contended that the state attorney general had overstepped her legal authority. Stevens also sought unsuccessfully to keep the Attorney General's lawsuit confidential.

The litigation was settled on January 15, 2010, on Milgram's last day in office. The settlement required Dr. Raveché to repay low-interest loans from the school, and for Stevens to correct by-laws to forestall future allegations of perceived misconduct. Raveché voluntarily stepped down as president of the Institute at the end of the 2010 academic year, after 22 years in office. He was succeeded as president in 2011 by Dr. Nariman Farvardin. Mr. Babbio's term as Board Chairman expired in May 2013, and he was succeeded as Chair by a fellow Stevens alum and Verizon executive, Ms. Virginia P. Ruesterholz. Babbio was subsequently named Chairman Emeritus of the Stevens Board by President Farvardin.

On June 6, 2016, the Consent Judgment which had been in place since January, 2010, between Stevens Institute of Technology and the New Jersey Attorney General was lifted by Court Order and with the consent of the Attorney General's Office. The Consent Judgment arose from circumstances at Stevens pre-2010, and addressed a number of matters relating primarily to governance.

As stated in the Consent Judgment, “Stevens has fully complied with the obligations to which it agreed in the Consent Judgment and has demonstrated to the State a continued focus on maintaining best practices in the area of governance for institutions of higher education. Lifting the Consent Judgment will afford Stevens added flexibility to make further enhancements to the ways it oversees its affairs and to respond and adapt to the evolving landscape of best governance practices....”

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Vevega

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. Neutralitytalk 13:39, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Vevega
no-brainer vanity protologism. — brighterorange  (talk) 00:12, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. nn. Andrew pmk | Talk 01:20, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * delete as above, va-voom. Pete.Hurd 04:11, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Quale 04:13, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Per nom. Cnwb 06:01, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, as above. --Ashenai 09:10, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - as per nom CLW 11:01, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nom. Qaz  ( talk ) 23:27, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.

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Talk:Walter Johnson

1907
Apparently Cobb's estimation of Johnson as a "rookie" when he faced him in 1907 was a bit overstated. Johnson had played the entire season with the Weiser Kids of the Idaho State League, had set a minor league record with 77 consecutive innings pitched without a run scored which still stands, and had turned down contract offers from several teams, including the Senators, wishing to finish out the season before risking anything on a move. (Thomas, Henry W. (1995) "'The Weiser Wonder': Walter Johnson in Idaho" Grandstand Baseball Annual) --Dystopos (talk) 21:08, 13 April 2016 (UTC)

Trivia
Before he was signed 1907, a scout said Johnson had to know where he was throwing, or there'd be dead bodies all over Idaho. Ump Billy Evans claimed not to get second-guessed calling his strikes, because batters had their eyes shut, too. (Others couldn't see them anyhow.) And Ty Cobb got hits off him by crowding the plate, one of the few batters willing to risk it, because he knew Johnson didn't really want to kill him. (Or so Ken Burns' "Baseball" said.) Trekphiler 05:07, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Hitting
Perhaps there should be something on his prowess as a hitter? 547 hits is probably a record for career pitcher. Mglovesfun

I've shortened the following section a bit:

"That 1.14 ERA in 1913 should have been lower if not for one of manager Clark Griffith's traditions. For the last game of the season, Griffith often treated the fans to a farce game. The farce game in 1913 saw the 43 year old Griffith playing a ball off his head while playing right field. He also misplayed a liner that resulted in an inside-the-park homer, and he also was one of eight pitchers to appear in the game. Griffith played Walter Johnson in Center Field until bringing him in to pitch in the 8th inning. In that appearance, Johnson lobbed pitches to two hitters that resulted in hits before he was sent back to playing Center Field. The subsequent pitcher (actually a catcher making his only Major League pitching appearance) then allowed the two runners to score. Some record books still indicate that Johnson had a 1.09 ERA for 1913. The official scorekeeper ignored the game, but later, Johnson was charged with those two runs, raising his ERA."

I felt like this section was too long for one single game for a pitcher who pitched over 800 games. I've decided to add to the article by adding some hitting stats. Mglovesfun 14:53, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Ancestry
I hope the change I just made to the article will dispel the myth that Walter Johnson was of Swedish, or Scandinavian, descent. His biography, written by his grandson, puts that falsehood to rest in its very first sentence. Any doubts? Or do I need to quote that sentence, or the last paragraph of Shirley Povich's foreword to the book? DutchmanInDisguise (talk) 04:56, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

 * It looks solid to me, I don't think quoting the books is needed. Dan D. Ric (talk) 06:13, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

I just deleted another reference to Walter's nonexistent Swedish ancestry by removing him from the "American sportspeople of Swedish descent" category. I see the same person who put him in that category also added him to an "American sportspeople of British descent" category. At the moment he's the only person in that category. I question whether the category is relevant to anybody, especially to Walter, whose Brit ancestors were several generations back in his family tree. I say Delete him from that category too. The category itself seems as phony as the people with bronze statues category somebody was trying to drum up a few days ago.

What does anybody else think? DutchmanInDisguise (talk) 01:52, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Cobb/ Johnson Matchup
The Johnson/Cobb matchup having the most ABs against each ohter in history a fact or an opinion? Records were not kept that well back then, and I have never actually heard someone say it as a fact. It can be inferred because of overlapping careers. Id prefer it said that "It is possible they could have more ABs against each other in history" rather than saying it as fact, unless someone can a credible source for it. Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.162.31.142 (talk) 17:06, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Walter Johnson (disambiguation) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RM bot 03:45, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Walter Johnson was a badass who should get top billing, and that's that.98.71.245.241 (talk) 00:25, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

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 * Walter Johnson’s Jersey number was 26. 2601:98A:400:7940:31AB:4A63:69C5:D79B (talk) 04:05, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

Second Division?
In the context of American baseball,what does this mean:

"Although his Hall of Fame plaque reads that he pitched 'for many years with a losing team,' during his career the Senators finished in the first division 11 times, and the second division 10 times." ???

Baseball isn't like British football where the good teams move up a division and the bad teams move down.

Walter Johnson played for the Senators from 1907-1927, and the Senators had 12 losing seasons and 9 winning seasons in that stretch. But they played in the American league the entire time and MLB didn't have divisions back then (just two leagues). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.141.98.34 (talk) 04:29, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Back when each league had eight teams, the teams that finished in first through fourth place were said to finish in the first division, ie the top half of the league. 5th through 8th place constituted the "second division." Indrian (talk) 05:36, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Players in the 1st division also got a cut of the world series loot. So at the end of the season teams in 3rd through 6th place often had mini-pennant races to see which would finish in the first division. 64.201.125.92 (talk) 17:06, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

 * One commentator might have considered that the Hall of Fame would know something about the 1st and 2nd division. There's a lot of people who think they know something about baseball history who are clueless. Missaeagle (talk) 17:08, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Barney?
I don't think so. I'd deleted the nickname 'Barney' and was reverted by an editor pointing out that it is attributed on page 94 of a 1995 book by Johnson's grandson. Walter Johnson is commonly known by the nickname 'The Big Train', and there's a nickname for you. Barney? Because his grandson says so? Let's banish that from the page, hopefully never to be seen again, and The Big Train will be smiling above. If we have to dig deep into a book by his grandson then it's not a common nickname. After looking around it seems some people who knew him nicknamed him Barney after Barney Oldfield, for his "flamboyant motoring habits". My grandpa was known among his grandchildren as 'Silver Dollar giver at Christmas', but I wouldn't put it in a Wikipedia article about him. Randy Kryn (talk) 23:53, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

I do think so. I started following baseball 70+ years ago and was well aware of the "Barney" nickname, although I was aware it wasn't used as much as "Big Train". So it didn't come as a surprise when Hank mentioned it in his book. DutchmanInDisguise (talk) 00:57, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
 * Okay, thanks, I just never heard of it before, and it came across as an insult (this is Walter Johnson, the dignified possibly greatest pitcher in history, Satchel Paige would pitch the second game of that double-header). I bet we could have a good talk about old(er) time baseball. Randy Kryn (talk) 01:06, 1 November 2019 (UTC)

Time of breaking the strikeout record
Are Cy Young and Tim Keefe’s strikeout numbers from the 19th century not being counted? It says in the text that Walter Johnson broke Christy Mathewson’s strikeout record, but Cy Young and Tim Keefe each had more strikeouts than Mathewson, albeit they played some or all their careers in the 19th century. Jay72091(2) (talk) 19:09, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

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Neranus (ner ron us) is the alias of a 15 year old girl born in the U.S.A. Though Neranus is her main alias she also goes by many others including Emiliana, Elia, Rose or any combination of the three. Neranus has a passion for writing and reading which she spends most of her spare time doing. She is often found with her nose shoved in a book or writing her own. Out of the many genres she has read she chooses fantasy above all. She loves being dragged into a book and once she picks one up she has to finish it to the end. Her love of fantasy contributed to her large collection of graphic novels. Collecting since she was 7, Neranus now has over 200 graphic novels that she still rereads even to this day. From her love of reading she began to write her own, many of which she is constantly changing and modifying to her liking. She started writing when she was only in first grade and still clings to her dream of becoming a writer. She has detailed her stories right down to the calendars and races and hope to continue her work, one day getting her writings published. Neranus loves to draw, submitting her art on many websites for other to see and critique including Deviant Art, Elfwood, and Sheezyart. Though she has come a long way since she began, she is still no where as good as she wants to be. She began drawing to portray her characters to people instead of just describing them. From the idea she created a deep love for the hobby. Neranus also adores RPGs or role-play games which are the only ones she plays, her favorite being the Legend of Zelda's and Chrono Cross. She adores the Final Fantasies and other popular rpgs. "Anything with a great plot, a lot of characters, and a lot of kicking the crap out of stuff is an awesome game." Last but not least of five loves is Neranus passion for music. Her favorite genre being among alternative rock, Neranus likes to get lost in a good song or one she can dance to. Though she is hardly gifted with singing she is not afraid to belt it out to her favorite tunes. She also like slow songs that can calm her or just make her feels better with a nice cup of cocoa.

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Talk:Sei Shōnagon

No sources, possibly bad information
I read through the article and found that none of the facts have been sourced. It's a problem because Ivan Morris cites some very different facts in his translation. The biggest ones regard both the actual name of Sei Shonagon, and her personal life. While he asserts that personal details of her life were either unknown, or purely speculative, this article claims quite a few things.

If you read the notes for his translation, and this article, there's a clash between the personal details of her life (whether or not she'd married, whether or not she had children, and details of her family).

There should at least be a warning about the accuracy of the information in this article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.49.211.129 (talk) 09:04, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

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United States v. Moreland

United States v. Moreland, 258 U.S. 433 (1922), was a case heard by the Supreme Court of the United States on March 9 and 10, 1922, and decided a month later on April 17. The case involved a Fifth Amendment rights issue centering on whether or not hard labor was an infamous punishment (thus triggering the necessity of a grand jury indictment) or whether imprisonment in a penitentiary was a necessity for punishment to be considered infamous.

The majority opinion also included the court's contention for continued support of the findings of a previously held case, Wong Wing v. United States,. Lawyers for the United States argued that Wong Wing was improperly applied in the Moreland case, and had been modified or overruled by subsequent cases. The court strongly rejected the government's contentions regarding Wong Wing in its opinion, and ruled in favor of Moreland.

Facts and History
The dissenting opinion written by Justice Louis Brandeis offers a succinct account of the facts that led up to this case:

On January 18, 1921, an information, under the Act of March 23, 1906, c. 1131, 34 Stat. 86, was filed against Moreland in the juvenile court of the District of Columbia for willfully neglecting to provide support for his minor children-girls aged 8 and 13. He was tried by a jury and found guilty.

(An information is defined as “a formal accusation of a crime made by a public officer rather than by grand jury indictment.”)

The statute described by Justice Brandeis (also referred to as the Act of March 23, 1906 or the Act) suggests the punishment of

‘a fine of not more than $500 or by imprisonment in the workhouse of the District of Columbia at hard labor for not more than twelve months or by both such fine and imprisonment.’

Mr. Moreland underwent a jury trial and was found guilty of failing to provide proper child support; the Supreme Court found no issue with the proceedings themselves. The juvenile court suspended sentence and gave him a chance to make these obligatory payments. After a month of failing to do so, “Moreland was sentenced on April 19, 1921, to be committed to the workhouse at hard labor for 6 months.”

Moreland objected to the sentence, claiming the offense he had been charged with amounted to an infamous crime because the Act of March 23, 1908 included hard labor as a potential punishment; the Fifth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution would therefore apply, as would its ban on individuals being held to answer for infamous crimes without indictment or presentment by a grand jury. The juvenile court overruled his claim. Moreland appealed.

The trial originated in the D.C. court system, so the appeal went directly to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which reversed the juvenile court's decision and directed that the complaint be dismissed, freeing Moreland. The Court of Appeals relied upon the findings of Wong Wing in making its determination that Moreland's claim was valid, and therefore found the Act of March 23, 1908 to be unconstitutional. Writ of certiorari was filed and granted by the Supreme Court.

Issues
Three separate but interconnected issues were addressed:

First, there was contention over the issue of what exactly made a crime (or its punishment) infamous: the location (a penitentiary), or the inclusion of hard labor in the sentence.

Crimes in which only a fine was faced are not considered infamous, and crimes where a convict must serve at a penitentiary had previously been found to be infamous. But Moreland argued crimes where a convict must spend time in confinement (penitentiary or not) and carry out hard labor should also be considered infamous. Merely the addition of hard labor to a sentence was enough to make it infamous. The United States contended that hard labor was not in and of itself an infamous punishment, and that time in a penitentiary was a necessity.

Second, because the Act gave the option of either a fine, imprisonment, or both, the United States maintained that the Act was not unconstitutional because the threat of imprisonment was severable from the threat of fine (which would not be infamous). Because the court could decide to impose only a fine, the United States argued the Act as a whole should not be struck down.

Third, the United States in its arguments attacked the legality of Wong Wing v. United States and its application to this case, arguing that other Supreme Court cases modified or overruled Wong Wing. Wong Wing was the primary case cited by the Court of Appeals in finding the Act of March 23, 1908 unconstitutional, so in arguing this, the United States argued for the entirety of the Court of Appeals' decision to be set down.

Majority Opinion
The Court, in its 5-3 ruling (Justice Clarke not having participated), upheld the Court of Appeals’ decision fully, including its decisions to strike as unconstitutional the Act of March 23, 1908, and to order Moreland's release. The majority opinion – written by Justice Joseph McKenna and joined by Justices Day, McReynolds, Pitney, and Van Devanter – noted their reluctance in the inevitable end result, but felt duty-bound to uphold the right of a U.S. citizen to be protected by the Fifth Amendment, and “... the right, at times, must be accorded one whose conduct tempts to a straining of the law against him.”

Infamy and Severability
In deciding the issue of infamy and infamous crimes, the Court had to lay down some basic definitions. The Court ruled the workhouse at Occoquan in the state of Virginia (a prison farm), to which Moreland was to be sent, was not a penitentiary. It was the contention of the United States that this meant the crime was not infamous, because they argued “the place of imprisonment – that is, imprisonment in a penitentiary – ... makes the infamy; the accompaniment of hard labor being but an incident.”

However, the Supreme Court held that the status of Occoquan was not a relevant fact to the Moreland case; crimes requiring time served in a penitentiary had already been deemed to be infamous in the 1885 case Ex Parte Wilson (114 U.S. 417). The focus of the case instead rested upon the sentence of hard labor, and the majority quoted from the Wilson case: “... it was declared that, if imprisonment was in any other place than a penitentiary and was to be at hard labor, the latter ... made it infamous.” The United States’ contention was in direct opposition to the findings of Wilson, and was rejected.

The Court also rejected the United States’ argument that “the provision of the Act [Moreland was charged under] for punishment by fine or imprisonment are severable.” Justice McKenna wrote:

The contention is untenable. It is what sentence can be imposed under the law, not what was imposed, that is the material consideration. When an accused is in danger of an infamous punishment, if convicted, he has a right to insist that he be not put upon trial, except on the accusation of a grand jury.

In upholding the Court of Appeals’ decision the Supreme Court again upheld a key finding of Wilson, noting that even the possibility of an infamous punishment (regardless of whether or not lesser punishments like fines were available) made the crime infamous, and required Fifth Amendment constitutional requirements to be met.

Defense of Wong Wing
Justice McKenna devoted a vast portion of the majority opinion to a defense of Wong Wing v. United States in a prime example of the principle of stare decisis. McKenna wrote that the United States “resists both the authority and extent of [Wong Wing] by the citation of others, which, it asserts, modify or overrule it. A review of it, therefore, is of initial importance.”

The majority opinion found odd the United States’ efforts to “modify the case or to remove it as authority for” the issue at hand before the Court of Appeals, noting “the means and pains taken to accomplish [that goal] are somewhat baffling to representation.” Arguments that the Supreme Court (and the Court of Appeals) were wrong to even cite Wong Wing and that a key finding of that case was incorrectly applied gave the majority pause and lead to a lengthy defense of that 1896 verdict.

The United States noted Wong Wing was not referenced in the opinion of Fitzpatrick v. United States (178 U.S. 304) (1900), a case that occurred four years later. The United States claimed that this omission meant Wong Wing did not apply, or had been set aside by the Supreme Court, but this argument is rejected in the court's opinion for two reasons: “… a case is not overruled merely by an omission to mention it”; and Ex Parte Wilson had been cited in both Wong Wing and Fitzpatrick to justify the findings of each case.

In Wong Wing, just like in Ex Parte Wilson, a punishment requiring hard labor was set aside because it was brought about without the involvement of a grand jury indictment. But the United States suggested Wong Wing's punishment was found to be infamous because he was to be sent to a penitentiary, and not because the sentence involved hard labor.

The majority opinion found this contention odd, because the Detroit House of Corrections, to which Wong Wing was sent many years ago, was in fact not a penitentiary: “it was, and is, what its name implies – a place of correction and reformation, not of condemnation to infamy.” Since the hard labor sentence against Wong Wing was set aside and not done so because he was to be sent to a penitentiary, it can only have been because the inclusion of hard labor was infamous and therefore led to a Fifth Amendment violation.

Dissenting Opinion
Justice Brandeis wrote the dissenting opinion, which disagreed with the majority on key issues.

In regards to findings of the Wong Wing case, the dissenters felt the case had been improperly applied, agreeing with the United States’ case. In particular, the minority found the Detroit House of Correction to be a penitentiary. A court commissioner, and not a grand jury, sentenced Wong Wing to an infamous penitentiary imprisonment; this is why the Wong Wing punishment was in violation of the Fifth Amendment. The minority opinion devoted several sentences to the suggestion that the workhouse at Occoquan was nothing like a penitentiary. Therefore, they focused on the matter of hard labor as a trigger for infamy.

Citing several examples from colonial America or examples in history of times when hard labor was considered an acceptable punishment, the minority sided with the United States: “It is not the provision for hard labor, but the imprisonment in a penitentiary, which now renders a crime infamous.” The minority disagreed that Wong Wing found the presence of hard labor alone to be an infamous sentence.

The minority noted a statement made in Ex Parte Wilson: “‘What punishments shall be considered as infamous may be affected by the changes of public opinion from one age to another’.” Because the Constitution contains no mention of hard labor, and the Fifth Amendment only refers to infamous crimes, the minority contended the two could not be linked together, because “commitment to Occoquan for a short term for nonsupport of minor children is certainly not an infamous punishment.”

However, this statement ignored another finding of Ex Parte Wilson mentioned by the majority: “… if imprisonment was in any other place than a penitentiary and was to be at hard labor, the latter … made it infamous …” Also, this same cited statement would seem to apply to the majority opinion as well: through the cases of Wong Wing and now United States v. Moreland, public opinion had changed to include any hard labor as the very definition of infamy.

Justice Brandeis contended that the Court had never held hard labor alone to be an infamous punishment; it did so in its Moreland opinion.

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Talk:History of Spain (1975–present)

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The article would benefit from a complete rewriting. It seems to be put together by someone with a secondary school level of English as a foreign language Asterion 00:16, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

There is a mistake... Zapatero is not supported by CC, only by ERC and IU, although CC is not against, we shouldn't say that they are helping him. Also, as recent news, we could speak about the aptitude of ERC with the Statut of Catalonia, that could result in breaking relations between PSOE and ERC and letting CiU the gate to negotiate with PSOE.

It's fairly misleading to imply that the Madrid bombings were the only causal factor in Zapatero's win in the 2004 elections (and also a bit weasley). This article makes it sound as if the PP was almost sure of winning prior to March 11, and that the bombings changed everyone's mind. Give the Spanish people more credit than that.

Well, actually the PP was almost sure of winning prior to March 11. Some people say they were even going to have the majority to rule without needing a coalition. I wouldn't go that far, but I remember that spanish TV station Tele5 predicted a victory of the PP in the evening of March 14, because they had done a poll during Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday; the usual way is to do it in the day the elections are held. People didn't change their vote from the PP to the PSOE; what happened was that a lot of people who originally planned to abstent, then decided to punish the PP for doing what they saw as manipulation of the facts. A couple of months after the elections, a poll showed 20% of people saying that they changed their mind after the bombings, though I haven't a source for this...

Title: "Modern Spain", or "History of Spain (1975–present)"?
We should stick with using History of...(year - year), as with History of the United States (1988–present), History of the Soviet Union (1927-1953), History of Ireland (1801–1922), History of the United Kingdom (1945-2000), and many others. Three reasons: Right, I'm gonna be bold and move the article. Feel free to revert and discuss. Omphaloscope talk 01:02, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Neutrality — Scholars disagree on when "Modern Spain" began and ended:
 * Raymond Carr's Modern Spain begins in 1875 and ends in 1980.
 * Richard Herr's An Historical Essay on Modern Spain kicks off in the 1960s.
 * Jon Cowans' Early Modern Spain: A Documentary History sets the starting date in the mid-15th century.
 * Conformity is important for Wikipedia's ease of use.
 * Clarity — it is not clear from "Modern Spain" that this is a history article. It could very well be a piece on Spanish art, architecture, you name it.

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I agree - the article is badly written. I note one of the contributors is "Andromeda" - a Catalan who writes any number of articles in poor English. Could he be the culprit?

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 * I agree... this article needs almost a complete rewrite. --Francisco Valverde 12:27, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup
I've started cleaning up the grammar and writing style, which is very poor. I would appreciate it if someone could also do a little background check, since a lot of the assertions (e.g. the King's interview with Newsweek) could use some backing up and referencing just for completeness' sake, and there are a lot of sentences which don't introduce the reader to what's going on - namedropping like that Arias in the first section implies (wait for it) that the writer assumes that the reader must know who Arias is. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Acachinero (talk • contribs) 23:03, 17 January 2007 (UTC).

No mention of Spains withdrawal from Iraq in ANY of the articles on Spains modern history
Not a word about Spain withdrawing their troops from Iraq as a consequence? On 18 April, 2004 "Spain's new prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero has given orders for Spanish troops in Iraq to be brought home in "as short a time as possible". (BBC) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3637523.stm and stating so already in March: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3518826.stm Nunamiut (talk) 18:58, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

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it sucks 140.232.177.180 (talk) 01:41, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

edit on the other hand actually i do appreciate the explanation of context in a lot of these things. Im here for a project. But giving some explanation as to more minor details is actually pretty interesting and super helpful for enhancing my comprehensive understanding, assuming its true, but the way it is written is still very not-wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.232.177.180 (talk) 01:43, 2 February 2023 (UTC)

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I have a question about the "combined decocking lever/safety". With the hammer cocked does engageing the safety cause the hammer to fall safely like the SIG P-226, or does it "de-cock" the weapon in some other sense with hammer staying back in the cocked position?

 * --The hammer falls when the safety or decocker is applied. --D.E. Watters 00:25, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

-- The firing pin pad is turned away, it will not convey the impact of the hammer. Also, since trigger was not pulled, the trigger safety will prevent firing pin from moving even if firing pin is hit. Alex R. A.

Combat Use is kind of confusing, especially the part that says
 * "Many soldiers serving in military today, though never having used a military M1911A1 .45 cal, still feel it to be the rightful pistol of the U.S. Military and show animosity towards the M9. In Iraq, many soldiers and Marines felt that the M9 is more effective halting cars than their rifle, not due to its (inferior) stopping power, but because the sight of a pistol being drawn still reminds Iraqis of the days when the Saddam Hussein era government would execute people with a pistol, not a rifle. Hence, he who has the pistol is in charge."

isn't the Beretta 92 the same thing as the M9? Aznfurball 02:20, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

-- It is, though it has written on the slide that it is M9. Some say that M9 has worse finish (paint) than the 92FS. Military pays less for the M9 than you or I would for 92FS, seems that Beretta takes a few short cuts with the M9. Not much but some say they see the difference in quality.

Filmography Reverts
The constant reverts to incorrect info is becoming a pet peeve. Only list major appearances, or create a seperate article. Frankly, the Beretta 92 has been in a lot of films and TV shows; we do not need to list every single one. But if we are going to list these programs, make certain that you are listing correct info.
 * 1. Do not list anything prior to 1976. The Beretta 92 did not enter production until this year.

 * 2. Do not list appearances of Beretta pistols other than the Model 92. For example, Bronson used a Beretta 84 in Death Wish II.

 * 3. Make certain that the pistols used are actually Beretta 92, and not other makes and models.

Examples:
 * Starsky and Hutch (TV): Starsky called his pistol a Beretta, but it was actually a Smith & Wesson, either the Model 39 or 59.
 * CHiPs (TV): The CHP officers carried revolvers not the Beretta 92.
 * CHiPs (Movie): Who really knows what anyone will be carrying in this film, it isn't out for another 2 years. FWIW: The CHP currently issues S&W 4006.
 * 48 Hrs.: Nolte carried a M1911 and later a S&W large-frame revolver, probably a Model 29.
 * Another 48 Hrs.: Nolte again carries a S&W large-frame revolver, probably a Model 29.
 * Miami Vice (TV): Over the course of the series, Crockett either carried a SIG P220, a Bren Ten, a S&W 645, a S&W 4506, a Detonics Combat Master, and a S&W 6906.  Tubbs carried a S&W Bodyguard revolver and sometimes a SIG P226.
 * Cobra: Stallone carried a Colt Commander.
 * Red Heat: Arnold has a modified Desert Eagle and later a S&W Model 29 revolver. Belushi carries a snubnose S&W large-frame revolver, probably a Model 629.
 * Mad Max and its sequels: Max carried a sawed-off double barrel shotgun, not a Beretta 92.
 * Magnum P.I.: Magnum carried a M1911, not a Beretta 92.
 * Nash Bridges: Nash carried a custom M1911, not a Beretta 92.
 * Any Steven Seagal film: Seagal typically carries some variant of the M1911. --D.E. Watters 02:37, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Merge
I see no need for the merge notice added by Darz Mol. This seems to be the first on the talk page about this, and I invited the user to come here and comment. -Mulder416 01:26, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I have added a new merge notice and suggest that this page be merged into Beretta 92. There should never have been separate pages for all the variants of the Beretta 92 model. We now sit with the typical problem associated with this type of duplication:
 * All pages for these variants contain large sections that are identical (duplication)
 * Contributions to one page aren't propegated to other
 * Each page viewed on it's own does not make sense at all, so for instance a page for the "Beretta 96D Brigadier Inox" doesn't really show that's simply a Beretta 92 in .40S&W with the optional heavier slide and finished in stainless steel and gone is the history of thre Beretta 92, lists of other variants or options, in short, no context.
 * The 92F and 92FS isn't even the same thing, but two distinct variants (or developments) of the first 92. On the 92's page this is now explained and made clear and there is a spot for each variant to be described in however must detail is required.
 * I think we can move the nice sections on "(dis)advantages", "sport use", "combat use" to the 92's page and then merge ("redirect") this page. What do you guys say? Deon Steyn 13:16, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree. -- nae'blis (talk) 21:13, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I have merged this page with Beretta 92 (by redirect) and I'm also adding this talk section to thaht page's talk section. Deon Steyn 11:33, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Regarding the M9 Trials Winner and the Disputed Contract Bids
At the end of the M9 Trials and the completion of the first round of bidding, the SIG P226 had the leading score of 853.6 in six evaluation factors, while the Beretta 92 scored 835.34.

However, in the final bids for the M9 contract, Beretta underbid Saco (SIG's U.S. importer at the time). Saco bid $77,816,000 for the pistols, magazines, and spare parts. Beretta bid $74,762,000. This was controversial since in the original series of bids, Saco had underbid Beretta by just over $9 million. With the final prices factored in, the scores changed to Beretta 858, Saco 847.

This led to allegations that the Army had leaked Saco's bids to Beretta for the purposes of undercutting them. This argument was bolstered by the fact that Beretta USA's gerneral manager delivered their final bid personally. The bid document was type-written with blanks for the final prices, which were then written in and initialed with ink by the general manager. The General Accounting Office investigated this upon request by Congress. The report is titled Pistol Procurement - Allegations on Army Selection of Beretta 9-mm as DOD Standard Sidearm (June 1986). --D.E. Watters 00:31, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Some of the language in the section(s) regarding the Small Arms trials and efficacy in combat need to have the language neutralized; they read like either apologetics or advertisements. -- nae'blis (talk) 19:29, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

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Sweat (Canadian TV series)

SWEAT is an OLN/TSN show hosted by Julie Zwillich that aired in 2003–2004.

Each of the 13 half-hour episodes of SWEAT features a different outdoor sport: kayaking, mountain biking, ice hockey, beach volleyball, soccer, windsurfing, rowing, Ultimate, triathlon, wakeboarding, snowboarding, telemark skiing and kiteboarding. Guest experts provide examples of the latest sport-specific gear, and techniques as well as provide nutrition and training tips for entry-level participation. Some of SWEATs guest athletes include, Olympic beach volleyball bronze medallists John Child and Mark Heese, Canada’s young soccer superstar Kara Lang, snowboarding champion Alexa Loo and women's hockey Olympic gold medallist Sami Jo Small.

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Untitled!
A non-notable webcomic hosted on a keenspace domain here. The alexa rank for the comicgen.com domain is around 150,000. But if we look at the traffic report, Untitled! doesn't even feature on the list, suggesting a tiny readership. Entry already exists at comixPedia, where it should belong for the time being. - Hahnchen 00:17, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, as per nom. --Ashenai 09:13, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - nn CLW 11:02, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, nn webcomic. Dottore So 20:53, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
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Niles Canyon Railway

The Niles Canyon Railway (NCRy) is a heritage railway running on the first transcontinental railroad alignment (1866, 1869) through Niles Canyon, between Sunol and the Niles district of Fremont in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area, in California, United States. The railway is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Niles Canyon Transcontinental Railroad Historic District. The railroad is operated and maintained by the Pacific Locomotive Association which preserves, restores and operates historic railroad equipment. The NCRy features public excursions with both steam and diesel locomotives along a well-preserved portion of the first transcontinental railroad.

History
The Niles Canyon Railway operates along a portion of the First transcontinental railroad constructed in the 1860s. The rail line through Niles Canyon was amongst the earliest to be built in California and provided the first rail connection between San Francisco Bay and the rest of the nation.

Construction
The Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 authorized the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad to build the transcontinental railroad between the Missouri River and the waters of the Pacific. For various reasons, the Central Pacific Railroad reached an agreement with the first Western Pacific Railroad (1862-1870) (not related to the later company of same name) to build the westernmost portion of the line connecting the Central Pacific in Sacramento to San Jose via Stockton and Livermore. Trains could then continue to San Francisco via the San Francisco & San Jose Rail Road which was completed in 1864.

By 1866, the Western Pacific had built 20 mi of track north and east from San Jose, reaching halfway into what was then known as Alameda Cañon, to about Farwell near milepost 33. The Western Pacific used 500 Chinese laborers to grade and construct the rail line into the rugged canyon with its tight curves and narrow banks. Construction was then halted because of disagreements between the railroad's contractors and its financiers.

In 1869, the Central Pacific Railroad, a subsidiary of which had acquired the Western Pacific and Oakland Point in 1868, restarted work on the railroad line through Alameda Cañon in two opposite directions, both using Chinese laborers. In June 1869, J. H. Strobridge and crew began to lay out a new line starting at a point on the 1866 Western Pacific rails in the west end of Alameda Cañon (San Jose Junction at MP 30.6) westward out of the canyon towards Oakland, while Turton, Knox & Ryan dispatched workers to continue the railroad in Alameda Cañon eastward from the point where the 1866 Western Pacific rails abruptly stopped. Four major timber through (Howe) truss bridges were built to cross Alameda Creek and Arroyo de la Laguna Creek. In addition to building wooden bridges and grading the railroad bed, the laborers built culverts, retaining walls, and bridge piers in masonry. By mid-August 1869, the railroad was completed through Alameda Cañon eastward to Pleasanton and into Livermore Valley.

In September 1869, the railroad from Sacramento through Alameda Cañon to the waterfront Alameda Terminal at San Francisco Bay was completed. According to the Daily Alta California, the first Western Pacific train ran from Sacramento through the canyon on September 6, 1869, to a cheering crowd at Alameda Terminal, while a few cars switched off at the San Jose Junction for San Jose and Gilroy. This opening of a transcontinental railroad to the Pacific coast, as envisioned by the 1862 Pacific Railroad Act, came four months after the Central Pacific and Union Pacific met at Promontory Summit, Utah. On November 8, 1869, the intended western terminus opened at the Oakland Long Wharf, from which ferries connected to San Francisco. These ferries continued to be the final link for passengers to San Francisco until 1958.

At the mouth of Alameda Cañon was Vallejo Mills and the San Jose Junction (MP 30.6) was located about a mile east, inside the narrow confines of the cañon. In 1870 a connector was built just west of Vallejo Mills on the 1869 Central Pacific line to Oakland, connecting it to the original 1866 Western Pacific line to San Jose. At the junction (MP 29.2) in the valley, Central Pacific added a roundhouse and a train depot, complete with a restaurant and saloon for the convenience of the train passengers transferring there. Meanwhile, in 1869 Central Pacific renamed the station for their railroad attorney and stockholder, Addison Niles, who later became associate justice on the California Supreme Court. Shortly thereafter, the Vallejo Mills settlement around MP 29.2 became known as Niles, which has become since 1956 a district within the city of Fremont. Likewise, Alameda Cañon thereafter became known as Niles Canyon.

Railroad use
When built, the rail line through Niles Canyon was the primary route for overland traffic to and from the San Francisco Bay. A shorter rail line between Oakland and Sacramento was established via the California Pacific Railroad and a train ferry at Benicia by 1879. As a result, the original line became less used due to its longer route and its steep grade over Livermore Pass (known today as Altamont Pass). Passenger and freight trains on the line was reduced to local service only. This secondary status was maintained until the early 20th century when the Southern Pacific Railroad (successor to the Central Pacific) came under the leadership of E. H. Harriman. Freight traffic in and out of San Francisco had become too heavy for the ferries across the bay and across the Carquinez Strait to handle. An all land route via San Jose and Niles Canyon was available, but was overly circuitous. Several major capital improvement projects undertaken during this era, including the completion of the Coast Line and the construction of the Dumbarton Bridge, revitalized the original line through Niles Canyon. Steel bridges replaced the covered timber bridges at Farwell and Dresser and the small railroad town of Niles became an important junction as freight from the San Francisco Peninsula and produce from the Santa Clara and Salinas Valleys traveled through the canyon to points east. Despite these improvements, the few rebuilding programs by the railroad left the Niles Canyon line with many of its original cut-stone bridge abutments, culverts, and retaining walls from the Western Pacific's original right of way. Many of these stonework built by Chinese laborers in the late 1860s can still be seen today.

Preservation
The decline in San Francisco's status as a port with the advent of containerization, combined with the movement of produce traffic to the highways once again left the railroad through Niles Canyon with little business. Southern Pacific ceased its operations through the canyon in 1984, and deeded the land to Alameda County; the portion over Altamont Pass was briefly reopened in 1985 for "scab trains" to train management crews ahead of a possible union strike. Commercial rail operations through Niles Canyon now operate on a newer line, which is owned by Union Pacific (formerly Western Pacific) and also used by the Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) commuter train.

The Pacific Locomotive Association leased the right of way from the county and began working to reconstruct the track in 1987. The Niles Canyon Railway ran its first passenger train from Sunol on May 21, 1988. Passenger trains once again connected Sunol and Niles starting on April 9, 2006. The organization continues its work to extend and maintain the track along the line; restore its collection of railroad equipment; and operate historic demonstration trains for the benefit of the public. They plan to eventually extend their demonstration train service to Pleasanton, California.

Niles Canyon Transcontinental Railroad Historic District
The railway, its right-of-way, and its associated structures were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Niles Canyon Transcontinental Railroad Historic District on October 13, 2010. The railway was determined to be eligible under National Register Criterion C to reflect the engineering significance of the resources as fine examples of historic period railroad design, and under Criterion A to reflect its association with the construction of the Original Transcontinental Railroad and its role as an important freight railway in the early part of the 20th century.

The Period of Significance was identified as spanning from 1865 to 1958. This period was chosen to encompass the commencement of construction of this portion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1865 to the end of its significance as a major transportation corridor after World War II and the final incorporation of the Central Pacific Railroad into the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1958.

The historic district includes 108 contributing resources and 39 non-contributing resources. Contributing resources consist of every object within the railroad's right of way constructed between 1865 and 1958. These include the track itself, the graded roadbed, culverts, bridges, signals, telegraph and signal pole lines, structures, signs, and fences. Non-contributing resources consist of things built or altered since 1958, and include non-historic track, buildings, a gas pipeline, and a fiber optic line.

The primary contributing resources of this Historic District include the following:
 * Sunol Depot This one-story Stick style depot was built to Southern Pacific standard design No. 7 in 1884. Railroads such as the SPRR created standard depot designs to serve the many towns along its lines and represents an early application of standard architectural designs on a large scale. More than economical, this standardization created a predictable experience for employees and customers, and contributed to the company's branding. A “combination depot” such as this housed facilities for a company agent, freight and passengers in one building and were designed to serve small towns such as Sunol. Out of at least eleven No. 7 depots built by the railroad, Sunol is the last one remaining. It is 19 feet wide and 67 feet long. The roof is divided into two parts with a gable roof over the east end, and an elevated hip roof over the freight room to the west. Decorative scroll cut brackets supported the eaves and similar bargeboards adorn the east gable end. The depot is divided into a series of rooms to serve a variety of functions. Starting from the east, the first room is the passenger waiting room. The agents office is next to the west and features a five-window bay on the track side from which the company's agent would conduct business related to train operations. This room also contained a public counter at which business could be conducted with shippers, and a small ticket window connects this office with the passenger waiting room. The next room was the baggage room and is currently used for storage. Finally, the freight room takes up the rest of the building and is set about forty inches above grade so that its floor would be level with the floor of freight cars and teamsters’ wagons. This room is now used for exhibits and meetings. The freight room had been surrounded on three sides by a freight platform to facilitate the loading and unloading of freight from rail cars that would have been positioned next to this platform. A track had been located north of the building between the platform and the mainline for this purpose.
 * Dresser Bridge The current bridge is a four-span structure, which features two early U.S. examples of riveted Warren through truss structures. The current superstructure was manufactured in 1906 by the American Bridge Company to replace the second wood truss at this location, which had been constructed in 1893. The original bridge at this location was completed in 1866 and consisted of two wooden Howe trusses. The original coursed-ashlar sandstone piers from 1865–66 are still in use and have been supplemented by concrete piers from 1893 and 1906. The bridge consists of two 125 ft. through Warren trusses and two 60 ft. deck plate girder spans with one at each end of the bridge. The abutments and piers are angled parallel to the course of the river below and are not perpendicular to the railroad's alignment. As a result, the bridge spans are laterally offset from one another.
 * Farwell Bridge This bridge consists of the primary 196 ft. Pratt through pin-connected truss manufactured by Edge Moor Bridge Works in 1896, a 98 ft. Warren through pin-connected pony truss, three 30 ft deck plate spans from 1907, and a 70’ deck plate girder span from 1932. The original bridge at this location was also a single-span covered wooden Howe truss similar to the spans at Dresser. Stonework for two of the bridge's piers dates to the original construction in 1865–66 while later concrete piers and abutments were added in 1896, 1907, and 1932. Caltrans encased the original eastern pier in steel and concrete in the 2000s to protect the highway below in the event of an earthquake. As at Dresser, the piers are at an angle to the bridge, and the spans are offset as a result.
 * Arroyo de la Laguna Bridge Near the station of Bonita, this is a riveted through plate girder structure of five spans, which replaced the original covered Howe truss in 1899. The stone abutments and two of the piers date from the initial construction. This bridge consists of three 101 ft. and two 86 ft. through plate girder spans. Two additional concrete piers were added in 1899 to reduce the length of the new bridge spans.

Rail excursions
The railway's 2013 regular scheduled excursions run on the first and third Sundays each month in January–March and September–October; first and third Saturday and Sunday each month, April–August. Several trips are run, generally alternating between steam locomotives and diesel locomotives, with both open and enclosed passenger cars. See the railway's website for exact schedules and for special trains.

Group charters are also available, from a single caboose to an entire train. During the Christmas period, special "Train of Lights" trips run.

Passengers may board at the western end of the line in Fremont, at the Niles station site adjacent to the Union Pacific Coast Line on which Amtrak operates their Capitol Corridor service. The unrelated Niles Depot Museum displays model railroads and railroad artifacts nearby. Passengers may also board at the 1884 Sunol depot, which is the last surviving example of a Southern Pacific standard Combination Depot #7. Future plans for restoration of the historic Sunol Depot include interpretive educational displays.

Railroad equipment
The Pacific Locomotive Association has, as of 2022, 10 steam and 13 diesel locomotives, and over 40 pieces of rolling stock. There have been many visitors over the years. Previously, the Golden Gate Railroad Museum moved its collection from San Francisco to the NCRy in 2007 for storage and limited operations after their home at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard was shut down for redevelopment. The Golden Gate Railroad Museum announced their departure from the Niles Canyon Railway in Spring 2015, and moved three locomotives to the Northwestern Pacific Railroad in March 2020. In July 2021, plans were announced to move Southern Pacific steam locomotive 2479, a water tower, a round house and turntable from the California Trolley and Railroad Corporation to the NCRy.

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Aneta Corsaut

Aneta Louise Corsaut (November 3, 1933 – November 6, 1995) was an American actress and writer. She is best known for playing Helen Crump on The Andy Griffith Show (1963–1968), Judge Cynthia Justin on Matlock (1991–1992), and Jane in The Blob (1958).

Early life
Born in Hutchinson, Kansas, Corsaut was the daughter of Jesse Harrison and Opal J. (née Swarens) Corsaut. She majored in drama at Northwestern University and studied acting with Lee Strasberg. During her junior year, Corsaut dropped out to pursue a career in acting, although during the run of The Andy Griffith Show, Corsaut took courses at UCLA with plans to earn her degree.

Career
She began acting in New York City in the mid-1950s. In 1958, Corsaut and Steve McQueen made their film debuts in the independent cult horror film The Blob. On television, in 1961–1962, she portrayed Irma Howell on the CBS sitcom Mrs. G. Goes to College.

Corsaut first appeared on the long-running Griffith show in 1963 as schoolteacher Helen Crump, who later became the Mayberry sheriff's wife on the first episode of the spinoff Mayberry R.F.D. In 1965 she was also cast as Kathy McLennan, the young widow of a rancher, in the episode "Paid in Full" on the syndicated Western anthology series Death Valley Days. Corsaut later had a continuing role as policeman Bumper Morgan's pawn-shop-owner friend on the 1975–1976 series The Blue Knight. In the series Adam-12, Corsaut portrayed Officer Pete Malloy's girlfriend Judy. She had a supporting role as Head Nurse Bradley in the 1980s sitcom House Calls, and she appeared in several episodes of Matlock with star Andy Griffith. In addition, Corsaut played the role of nurse Jesse Brewer in 1977 on the long-running ABC soap opera General Hospital when long-time portrayer Emily McLaughlin was too ill to work.

She returned to the role of Helen Crump in the reunion shows Return to Mayberry in 1986 and The Andy Griffith Show Reunion in 1993.

As a writer, she coauthored The Mystery Reader's Quiz Book.

Personal life
Corsaut never married nor had children.

According to the 2015 book Andy & Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show, Corsaut and the married Andy Griffith had an ongoing affair throughout their five years together on The Andy Griffith Show; the affair was an open secret among the cast and crew.

Death
On November 6, 1995, Corsaut died of cancer in Los Angeles, California. A Catholic, she was interred at Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in nearby North Hollywood.

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The result of the debate was delete. Neutralitytalk 13:42, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Syzygy of Idiocy
A long-dead webcomic, which I can not find online, anywhere. Bar a cafepress shop, which I'm guessing hasn't been used for a long time. WP is not a memorial, especially not a memorial for a website which shut down because its hosting was terminated (surely, if its notable, it would have carried on regardless due to popularity and demand?). - Hahnchen 00:20, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * delete doesn't pass my notability threshold. — brighterorange  (talk) 00:26, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Dizzlete with extreme prejudice. FCYTravis 03:07, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. NN. Where do all these webcomic articles come from! Cnwb 06:04, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - nn CLW 11:02, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, nn webcomic. Dottore So 20:53, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
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The result of the debate was speedy deleted. — J I P | Talk 07:26, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Igor Miskovic
self-referential vanity, almost A7. — brighterorange  (talk) 00:20, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Speedy Delete It most definately is A7. The guy admits in the article that he is not worthy of the page yet, he just hopes to be someday. CastAStone 01:26, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Speey delete. Definitely A7, and so marked. Quale 04:15, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
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