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The Tejas Mk 2, also called "Medium Weight Fighter", is to feature the more powerful General Electric F414-GE-INS6 engine with 98 kN of thrust. In November 2009, Ministry of Defence sanctioned ₹2,431.55 crore (equivalent to ₹46 billion or US$660 million in 2018) for development of Tejas Mk 2, which was expected to be completed by 2018. However, a delay in procurement of engines pushed back the initiation of development till 2013. As of 2018, the project is expected to be completed by 2022. Mk 2 will feature an AESA radar, an on-board oxygen generation system, and a built-in electronic warfare suite among other improvements to avionics. In January 2019, Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa said that the IAF has committed to procure twelve squadrons of Tejas Mk 2 aircraft. In Aero India 2019, a model of Tejas Mk 2 with close-coupled canards was displayed. Mk 2 will be slightly larger with a length of 14.6 m (48 ft) and a wingspan of 8.5 m (28 ft). An increase in payload capacity to 6,500 kg (14,300 lb) will allow it to carry more weapons. It will include an infra-red search and track system and a missile approach warning system.

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Web Design/HTML Challenges

Use the following HTML Challenges to hone your decision making skills in HTML Programming. Should you use a <h2> element or a <strong> element? Hopefully, these challenges will help you figure out the right answer for each situation.

It's important while doing these challenges to not think about how the page will be displayed yet, but instead focus on creating meaningful mark-up!

Challenge 1: Which heading to choose?
OK, let's get started! This first challenge builds on the skills you developed in What is HTML.

Copy-n-paste the following html into a new text-file (in Notepad or your preferred text editor) and save your file with the name html_challenge1.html.

Open your file in a web browser and compare it to the image displayed here (you can right-click on the image to open a larger version in another window or tab).

Your challenge is to add so that your page looks like the one in the image!
 * Headings (, ,  , etc.>)
 * Paragraphs
 * Emphasis and strong ( and  )

Note: Yes, it's true, a web browser will display the  heading very large, and the   heading quite small. But don't get into the habit of selecting an  heading because it displays with the size that you're after! You can always modify the size of your elements using your stylesheet (more on that later).

The key is to use the headings to structure your information in a useful (and meaningful) way! For example, every page should only ever have one main heading - your  heading. An  heading should only ever be a sub-heading of your   heading. Similarly, an  heading should only ever be a sub-heading of an   heading etc.

Once you are happy with your work (and have checked it in your browser), read through Paragraphs and Headings tutorial over at Wikibooks and compare your markup! Make sure you chat about the decisions you made with someone around you if possible!

Once you're all finished, read through the following excellent snippets from HTML dog as a summary of what you've learned:
 * Paragraphs and how to emphasize text!
 * All about headings

Challenge 2: Hyperlinks
For help with this challenge, you can refer to the HTML Dog Link Tutorial.

Local Links
Save your page as links.html and add a link to another page (if you already have an index.html page this would be a good candidate).

Global Links
Add some links to Google.com and this HTML challenges page (don't forget the http:// bit at the beginning! Try it without and see what happens)

Internal Links
Internal links let you link to parts of the same page, like the table of contents at the top of this page.

Create a longish page (use the Lorem Generator or the Lipsum Generator to painlessly create a big block of text), add an identifier about halfway down the page, and put a link to it at the top of the page.

Now add another identifier to the top of the page, and add a 'Top of page' link at your halfway mark so you can quickly navigate from top to halfway and back again. (For bonus points, make a link that goes straight to the Hyperlinks heading on this page! How can you find out what identifier you need to link to?)

Creating an email hyperlink
Add a hyperlink to your email address. When a visitor clicks on the link it should open up their email software with your email address filled in and the subject line set to say "Hello".

You'll have to search to find out how to do this one! What words are best to get the information you need? Hint!.

For merit points consider:
 * Why email links might not be such a good idea.
 * How to avoid some of the problems they create.

Challenge 3: Tables for tabular data

Use the HTML Dog intermediate tutorial on tables to re-create this table.

Notes:
 * If you don't have a border, check the  tag for an attribute you may have missed.
 * You shouldn't need to add any bold to get your heading looking like a heading.
 * As always, validate your page to make sure you've got everything in the right place.

Numbers, bullets and definitions

Re-create the html page shown here (click on the image to see it full size).

For this challenge, you might want to refer to Tizag's list tutorial.

There are 3 lists on the page; a definition list, an unordered list, and an odd looking ordered list.

To re-create the ordered list you'll need to add a 'type' attribute to each  tag. Note that adding this attribute will make your code not validate as HTML 4 Strict, but it can be replaced later when you start working with Cascading Style Sheets.

Nested lists

A 'nested' list is a list that contains another list. On the web, they're commonly used for indexes or tables of contents (such as the one at the top of his page!) or menus that show all the pages inside of a section of a website.

Try recreating the nested list to the right. Use your HTML validation software to check errors as you go along -- it's better to pick up problems early on, especially with how lists must be nested in others.

Hint: To recreate the nested list from the image, you'll need to use the 'type' attribute on the  or   tags. Like the previous list, adding this attribute will make your code invalid, but we can correct it later by using CSS instead.

Challenge 5: A simple form

For this challenge, you might want to refer to HTML Dog's Beginner tutorial for Forms.

Create a small online survey with four questions of your own. Your survey should first collect the participants details (name, address, gender, D.O.B., a password etc), followed by four questions to answer.

Ensure that your survey includes:
 * Simple text inputs
 * A password input.
 * Select drop-down boxes (for State, or within your questions).
 * Radio buttons and checkboxes (as part of your form design).
 * A large text area for comments at the end.
 * A submit button with your own text (such as "Send Survey")
 * A reset button.

Worth 1024 Words
Find a copyright free image on Flickr using Flickr's Creative Commons section. Download the pic into an images directory and then write up a page that includes the image on the left hand side, along with a heading and some descriptive text (perhaps from Wikipedia). The text and heading should appear to the right of the image, and wrap around the picture.

For bonus marks:
 * Have the picture link to the original image on flickr.
 * Prevent the blue/purple border from appearing around the hyperlinked image.
 * Add a 15 pixel margin around the picture using CSS.
 * Add a drop shadow to the image using CSS. (There's a few ways to do this; you may like to check out the box-shadow examples at CSS3.info.)
 * Add an attribution for your image and text (a link back to the original photographer, author or source of your image and text).
 * Add some alt text to your image for accessibility. This will be read to people, so make sure it's accurate and descriptive.

Save your code as images.html and link to your new page from your index page.

Creating an Image Map

Using some free third party software of your choice such as MapEdit (or Online Image Map Editor for Mediawiki or hand code it if you're really keen. You can find a tutorial on how to do that here), use the map of Australia (or your own country) as a graphical table-of-contents. When a user clicks on a state, they should be taken to a separate page just for that state.

You will need to create:
 * An index.html containing your image map.
 * Links to pages in the wikipedia from at least two different states (e.g. NSW, Queensland) to demonstrate that you can link the image map.
 * You should be able to explain how the html for the image map works.
 * And of course, all your pages should validate.

Challenge 7: Some advanced table features
Tables can get quite a bit more stylish (and accessible) than the previous challenge! For some examples ranging from no-style to pretty tables, check out FluidMind's Styling tables with CSS.

Work through Veerle's CSS Styled Table tutorial, trying it out as you go (you'll need to download the provided images). To do this you will need to know how the basics of how to use CSS - see HTML Dog's Basic CSS tutorial for more information.

Once you've got your beautiful table working from the example,
 * Open up your HTML Challenge 3 - Tables for tabular data and save it as challenge7.html.
 * Add an extra column of data to your table.
 * In this column add the missing city data (each row of data was for the three cities: Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide)
 * Add another row of data for Hobart, with the following temperatures: January: 24.8, February: 25.2, March: 19.8
 * Apply the styles from your example to your own table (this should only require a few changes to your markup!)

Challenge 8: An accessible form with style

Have a go at creating a new webpage that displays a form with the fields in the image. You might need to read through HTML Dog's Accessible forms tutorial for this challenge.

 * Note that fieldsets are being used to group the form fields.
 * Since we may not yet know how to process the information on a form, for the moment just use the form attribute  to send yourself an email (modify with your own address).
 * As always, ensure that your page validates!
 * Oh, and you'll need to add a submit button!

Once you have your form displaying, we'll take it one step further by adding some accessibility:
 * Identify all the labels for your fields using the  element.
 * Add access keys for your fields and test them!

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Philotheca virgata

Philotheca virgata, commonly known as Tasmanian wax-flower, is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It is a slender, erect shrub with wedge-shaped to oblong leaves and white or pale pink flowers at the ends of branchlets. It is the only philotheca with four sepals and petals.

Description
Philotheca virgata is a slender, erect shrub that typically grows to a height of about 1–2 m and has prominently glandular warty branchlets. The leaves are sessile, narrow wedge-shaped to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 10–20 mm long and 2–4 mm wide and glandular warty on the upper surface. The flowers are arranged singly on the end of branchlets on a thin pedicel 4–6 mm long. The four sepals are more or less round, fleshy and about 1 mm long. The four petals are white or pale pink, broadly elliptic and about 5.5 mm long and the eight stamens are about 8 mm long and hairy. Flowering occurs from May to December and the fruit is about 5 mm long with a short beak.

Taxonomy
Tasmanian wax-flower was first formally described in 1840 by Joseph Dalton Hooker from an unpublished description by Allan Cunningham who gave it the name Erisotemon virgatus. Hooker published the description in The Journal of Botany. In 1998, Paul Wilson changed the name to Philotheca virgata in the journal Nuytsia.

Distribution and habitat
Philotheca virgata grows in heathland and forest in coastal areas of southern and western Tasmania, south of Eden in New South Wales and in the extreme north east of Victoria.

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Mirny, Burlinsky District, Altai Krai

Mirny (Мирный) is a rural locality (a passing loop) in Burlinsky Selsoviet, Burlinsky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 1 as of 2013. It was founded in 1955. There is 1 street.

Geography
Mirny is located 12 km northwest of Burla (the district's administrative centre) by road. Kineral is the nearest rural locality.

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Dorian van Rijsselberghe

Dorian van Rijsselberghe (born 24 November 1988, in Den Burg) is a sailor (windsurfer) from the Netherlands.

He won his first Dutch title when he was 13.

Van Rijsselberghe on the Dutch RS:X won the gold medals at the 2012 Olympics in Weymouth, and the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Personal life
Van Rijsselberghe was a student at CIOS. Van Rijsselberghe is married and has two daughters.

2012 Olympics
Van Rijsselberghe dominated the competition completely by finishing first among the 38 competitors in 7 out of 10 races, second twice and third once. After the ninth race, he had accumulated a sufficient lead over the second placed Nick Dempsey to be certain to win the gold medal – as long as he competed in the remaining races – irrespective of his results in the 10th race and in the medal race.

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User:Sharon1411/sandbox

FORKS CITY

Forks is a city in Clallam County, Washington, United States. The population was 3,532 at the 2010 census.[5] The population was 3,545 at 2012 Estimate from Office of Financial Management. It is named after the forks in the nearby Quillayute, Bogachiel, Calawah, and Sol Duc rivers.

For many years, the city's economy was fueled by the local timber industry. More recently it has drawn tourism related to the novel series Twilight and movies of the same name, set in Forks. With recent declines in the timber industry, Forks has relied on the nearby Clallam Bay Corrections Center and Olympic Corrections Center as sources of jobs. Forks is a popular destination for sport fishers who fish for salmon and rainbow trout in nearby rivers.

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Ringicula blanchardi

Ringicula blanchardi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ringiculidae.

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Manuchekhr Safarov

Manuchekhr Firdavsiyevich Safarov (Манучехр Фирдавсиевич Сафаров,, born 31 May 2001) is a Tajikistani professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Uzbekistan Super League club Neftchi Fergana.

Khujand
On 12 July 2019, Safarov signed for FK Khujand on loan from Futsal club Sipar Khujand.

Lokomotiv Pamir
On 1 August 2020, Safarov left Khujand to sign for Lokomotiv-Pamir.

Istiklol
On 29 March 2021, Safarov signed for FC Istiklol.

Persepolis
On 7 November 2021, Safarov left Istiklol with Vahdat Hanonov to sign for Iranian club Persepolis, on a contract until 30 June 2024. On 17 January 2022, Safarov made his debut in a 3–0 away win against Zob Ahan Esfahan.

Lokomotiv Tashkent
On 20 July 2022, Lokomotiv Tashkent announced the signing of Safarov.

Neftchi Fergana
On 8 December 2023, Neftchi Fergana announced the signing of Safarov to a two-year contract following the expiration of his Lokomotiv Tashkent contract.

International career
Safarov made his senior team debut on 10 September 2019 against Mongolia.

International
Statistics accurate as of match played 11 June 2024

International goals

 * Scores and results list Tajikistan's goal tally first.

Honours
Istiklol
 * Tajik Supercup: 2021

Persepolis
 * Iranian Super Cup runner-up: 2021

Tajikistan
 * King's Cup: 2022
 * Merdeka Tournament: 2023

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Talk:Goldwind Australia

Hi was wondering if you no who owns the property 568 cheesemans lane lake gold smith <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 08:54, 19 May 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:Pershing Middle School (Houston)

History
I think it was really 1949 that it opened. My mother was in the 7th grade in 1948 and attended Pershing Junior High on University Blvd. as the new school on Braes Blvd. was not open. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:44, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

B-class assessment
I have assessed this article as B-class, because I feel it meets all 6 of the B-class criteria :

 * 1) The article is suitably referenced, with inline citations where necessary. ✅
 * 2) The article reasonably covers the topic, and does not contain obvious omissions or inaccuracies.
 * 3) The article has a defined structure. ✅
 * 4) The article is reasonably well-written. ✅
 * 5) The article contains supporting materials where appropriate. ✅
 * 6) The article presents its content in an appropriately understandable way. ✅

The article is presently nominated for deletion. I want to make clear that this assessment does not make this article "immune" from deletion or anything else. Respectfully, Michaelzeng7 (talk) 20:17, 4 November 2013 (UTC)

 * I have knocked this down to C-class. The 'Athletics' section could use expansion, and the "Notable alumni" section could elaborate more on each person. Explain some of their significance and mention how they are related to Pershing, i.e. what years they went to this school. If an editor feels that the article has met all 6 criteria again, feel free to change it. Note that the article may have other issues that I haven't found yet. ;) Michaelzeng7 (talk) 20:36, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

Old address
Before the school moved in the late 1940s, this was the address:

WhisperToMe (talk) 00:28, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
 * Patterson, Homer L. Patterson's American Educational Directory, Volumes 26-46. American Educational Co., 1945. p. 528.
 * "John Pershing Junior High School, 801 University Blvd.; Clarence Orman. Prln."

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Charles Perrot

Charles Perrot may refer to:

 * Charles Perrot (minister) (1541–1608), Reformed minister who served in Geneva
 * Charles Perrot (politician) (1642–1686), Member of Parliament for Oxford University
 * Charles Perrot (priest) (1929–2013), Roman Catholic priest and theologian

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User:PanzerKardinal

I am a college student from the United States. In my spare time, I enjoy playing Cannons (http://www.playray.com/play/cannons) an online game where you are a cannon and must shoot other cannons.

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Highway Tune

"Highway Tune" is a song by American rock band Greta Van Fleet. It was their first single from their debut EP Black Smoke Rising. It topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock and Active Rock charts in September 2017. The song, and the rest of its respective EP, is also part of the band's double EP From the Fires, released on November 10, 2017.

Background
"Highway Tune" was the first song the band Greta Van Fleet had ever written and recorded together. The song's initial guitar riff was cited by guitarist Jake Kiszka as being written as early back as 2010—seven years prior to the song's release as a single, and two years prior to the band even being formed. The riff was then brought to early writing and recording sessions upon the band forming in 2012, and was later reformatted and demoed twice before being recorded in its final form. The song was initially used in an episode of the television show Shameless in January 2016. The song was officially released as one of four songs for the band's debut EP, Black Smoke Rising. The song was released on March 31, 2017 as a single, and on the EP on April 21, 2017. The song's music video was released 2 days prior to the EP's release, and is mostly a performance-based video, with the band playing in an abandoned warehouse.

Themes and composition
The song has received many comparisons to the work of Led Zeppelin, including comparison to the vocals of Robert Plant.

Reception
The song topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock and Active Rock stations in September 2017. The Mainstream Rock chart was topped in just 14 weeks. Billboard magazine noted that, outside of solo musicians breaking away from their original band, Greta Van Fleet with "Highway Tune" was the fastest for a band to top the Mainstream Rock charts with their debut single since Tantric's 2001 single "Breakdown" and 3 Doors Down's 2000 single "Kryptonite". Loudwire named it the second best hard rock song of 2017. HelloMusicTheory ranked the song as the 8th best rock song of the 2010s.

Personnel

 * Joshua Kiszka – lead vocals
 * Jacob Kiszka – guitar
 * Samuel Kiszka – bass guitar, keyboards
 * Daniel Wagner – drums

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2008 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament

The 2008 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament involved 64 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the 2007–08 national champion of women's NCAA Division I college basketball. It commenced on March 22, 2008, and concluded when the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers defeated the Stanford University Cardinal 64–48 on April 8, 2008, at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, Florida.

Notable events
The preliminary rounds largely followed the seeding, with every number one and number two seed advancing to the regional finals. In the Greensboro and Oklahoma City Regionals, the top seeds Connecticut and Tennessee won respectively to head to the Final Four. Connecticut had to beat Big East rival Rutgers to make the advance. Tennessee' Candace Parker was injured in the game against Texas A&M and had to leave twice, and be fitted with a sleeve to stabilize her shoulder. She still scored 26 points in a game which was won by only eight.

In the other two regionals, the two seeds prevailed. In the New Orleans Regional, LSU beat North Carolina to reach the Final Four for the fifth consecutive time, tying a record set by Connecticut between 2000 and 2004. In the Spokane Regional, Stanford beat the top seed Maryland to go to their first Final Four since 1997, but one that would be the first of a five-year string of consecutive Final Four appearances.

Connecticut and Stanford met in one semifinal. They had played each other earlier in the season at the Paradise Jam held in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands in November. The Huskies had won that game 66–54, but the team had been at full strength. Subsequent to that game Mel Thomas and Kalana Greene both starters, had season ending injuries. Connecticut cut a Stanford lead to a single point, 47–46 when Candice Wiggins hit two three-pointers to start a 10–0 run. Wiggins would go on to score 25 points in the game and would be named the Women's Basketball Coaches Association national player of the year. The Cardinal went on to win the game, and advance to the national championship.

The game between SEC foes Tennessee and LSU didn't win style points, and was described by the New York Times as "one of the ugliest games played this or any season". Tennessee led early opening up a ten-point lead at 37–27, but LSU responded with a 10–0 run to tie the game. With seconds left in the game LSU hit two free throws to take a one-point lead. Tennessee inbounded the ball to Candace Parker who passed it inside to Nicky Anosike, but her shot was deflected to Alexis Hornbuckle, who had missed seven of her field goal attempts. With under one second remaining, Hornhuckle caught the deflection and hit the winning basket. The Lady Vols won 47–46, as the two teams combined scores set an NCAA record for the fewest points scored in a semifinal game.

LSU fell to 0–5 in the Women's Final Four. Combined with the 0–6 mark of the men's team, LSU's 0-11 all-time combined Final Four mark was the worst for schools which have made multiple appearances in both the men's and women's Final Fours. LSU's women ended this drought by defeating Virginia Tech in the 2023 national semifinals.

After the drama of a one-point game in the semifinal, the final game was anticlimactic. The Lady Vols pulled out to a 30–19 lead, and the Stanford Cardinal were unable to close the gap. The win gave Tennessee their second consecutive national championship and a career total of 982 wins, the most of any coach in basketball, men's or women's, along with eight national championships for coach Pat Summitt.

Subregionals
Once again, the system was the same as the Division I men's basketball tournament, with the exception that only 64 teams received bids, and there was no play-in game. Automatic bids were secured by 31 conference champions and 33 at-large bids.

The subregionals, which once again used the "pod system", keeping most teams at or close to the home cities, were held from March 22 to March 25 at these locations:
 * The Pit, Albuquerque, New Mexico (Host: University of New Mexico)
 * Pete Maravich Assembly Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (Host: Louisiana State University)
 * Arena at Harbor Yard, Bridgeport, Connecticut (Host: Fairfield University)
 * Comcast Center, College Park, Maryland (Host: University of Maryland, College Park)
 * Wells Fargo Arena at the Iowa Events Center, Des Moines, Iowa (Host: Iowa State University)
 * Ted Constant Convocation Center, Norfolk, Virginia (Host: Old Dominion University)
 * Maples Pavilion, Stanford, California (Host: Stanford University)
 * Mackey Arena, West Lafayette, Indiana (Host: Purdue University)

This was the fourth and final year that eight sites hosted subregional games. The committee, in September 2007, voted to return to the 16-site format for the early rounds starting with the 2009 tournament.

Regionals
The regions (once again named after the host cities, a practice begun in 2005) were held from March 29 to April 1 in the following regions:

 * Greensboro Regional, Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, North Carolina (Host: Atlantic Coast Conference)
 * New Orleans Regional, New Orleans Arena, New Orleans (Host: University of New Orleans)
 * Oklahoma City Regional, Ford Center, Oklahoma City (Host: University of Oklahoma)
 * Spokane Regional, Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, Spokane, Washington (Host: Washington State University)

The regional winners advanced to the Final Four, held April 6 and 8, 2008 at the Tampa Bay Times Forum, in Tampa, Florida, hosted by the University of South Florida. USF and the Tampa Bay Times Forum also hosted a first and second round Men's Tournament subregional on March 21 and 23. Also, akin to the men's tournament, at the regional sites, the NCAA installed floors that were custom made for the first time.

Tournament records

 * Rebounds—Sylvia Fowles, LSU, recorded 20 rebounds in the semifinal game against Tennessee, most ever recorded in an NCAA semifinal game.
 * Points—Tennessee and LSU combined for 93 points (47–46) setting the record for fewest points scored by both teams combined in a semifinal game.
 * Free throws—Tennessee hit two of seven free throw attempts in the national semifinal game against LSU, the lowest free throw percentage (28.6%) recorded in an NCAA Tournament game.
 * Final Four appearances—LSU appeared in their fifth consecutive Final Four, tied for the longest such streak, with Connecticut (2000–04)
 * Free throws—Kansas State made 21 of 21 free throw attempts, tied with several others for 100% free throw shooting percentage in an NCAA Tournament game, while the 21 completions is the largest number of completions.

Qualifying teams – automatic
Sixty-four teams were selected to participate in the 2008 NCAA Tournament. Thirty-one conferences were eligible for an automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA tournament. Of these thirty-one automatic bids, a total of 30 teams receive automatic bids for winning their conference tournament championship. The Ivy League does not hold a tournament, so its regular season champion receives the automatic bid. Because Cornell, Dartmouth, and Harvard finished in a tie for first place, Ivy League rules called for a two-game stepladder playoff. Dartmouth defeated Harvard in the first game and went on to face Cornell for the automatic bid, which Cornell won 64–47.

Qualifying teams – at-large
Thirty-three additional teams were selected to complete the sixty-four invitations.

Bids by conference
Thirty-one conferences earned an automatic bid. In twenty-two cases, the automatic bid was the only representative from the conference. Thirty-three additional at-large teams were selected from nine of the conferences.

Bids by state
The sixty-four teams came from thirty states, plus Washington, D.C. Texas had the most teams with six bids. Twenty states did not have any teams receiving bids.

Bracket
Data source

NOTE: All initials used are the same in the official NCAA Bracket in External Links listed below.

Final Four – St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, Florida

Initials: GRE-Greensboro; SPO-Spokane; NOR-New Orleans; OKC-Oklahoma City.

* – Denotes overtime period

Record by conference

Nineteen conferences — Atlantic Sun Conference, Big Sky Conference, Big South Conference, Big West Conference, Horizon League, Ivy League, MAC, MEAC, Missouri Valley Conference, Northeast Conference, Ohio Valley Conference, Patriot League, Southern Conference, Southland, SWAC, Sun Belt Conference, Summit League, WAC and West Coast Conference — went 0–1.

All-Tournament Team

 * Candace Parker, Tennessee
 * Shannon Bobbitt, Tennessee
 * Nicky Anosike, Tennessee
 * Candice Wiggins, Stanford
 * Sylvia Fowles, LSU

Game Officials

 * Tina Napier(semifinal)
 * Clarke Stevens (semifinal)
 * Lisa Jones (semifinal)
 * June Courteau (semifinal)
 * Beverly Roberts (semifinal)
 * Mary Day (semifinal)
 * Dee Kantner (final)
 * Eric Brewton (final)
 * Denise Brooks (final)


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2019 Chengdu Open – Singles

Bernard Tomic was the defending champion, but retired in the first round of the qualifying tournament against Denis Istomin.

Pablo Carreño Busta won the title, defeating Alexander Bublik in the final, 6–7(5–7), 6–4, 7–6(7–3).

Seeds
The top four seeds received a bye into the second round. • #🇺🇸 John Isner (second round)

• #🇨🇦 Félix Auger-Aliassime (second round)

• #🇫🇷 Benoît Paire (second round)

• #🇧🇬 Grigor Dimitrov (quarterfinals)

• #🇷🇸 Dušan Lajović (second round)

• #🇺🇸 Taylor Fritz (first round)

• #🇬🇧 Kyle Edmund (first round)

• #🇨🇦 Denis Shapovalov (semifinals)

Seeds
• # 🇵🇱 Kamil Majchrzak (qualified)

• # 🇩🇪 Peter Gojowczyk (withdrew, accepted into Zhuhai main draw)

• # 🇦🇺 Alexei Popyrin (qualified)

• # 🇺🇸 Bradley Klahn (qualified)

• # 🇦🇺 Bernard Tomic (first round, retired)

• # Lloyd Harris (qualifying competition, lucky loser)

• # Jason Jung (qualified)

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Full resume!
OK, all the stuff recently put onto this page from user "Birney2" appears like it's just cut and pasted from a resume of some sort. We really don't need these level of in-depth lists here, do we? Otto1970 06:23, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Ah! I missed this line: Note: Information provided by David Birney and his representatives. Please see WP:AB and that autobiographies are strongly discouraged. Also, see WP:COI regarding conflicts of interest and writing on behalf of somebody. Otto1970 06:32, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as stub, and the rating on other projects was brought up to Stub class. BetacommandBot 15:22, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Date of Death
He died on April 27, 2022, not on April 29. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:57, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

 * That was misstated about the date of death, it was really on Wednesday April 27, 2022. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 20:23, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

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The Whole World
maybe note that The Whole World Is (i presume) a band? Cause some not very bright people mightnt understand. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs)

Plastic pipe twirlers
On Nurses Song with Elephants,which of the five listed tracks features the plastic pipe twirlers? Andy Mabbett (User: Pigsonthewing ); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 16:16, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Answered in new edit to article. Now I have a question re. the EB Band's single: does "drop out" mean "decline to vote"?  "Drop out" sounds like a candidate dropping out of the running.  Or maybe I've misunderstood it. --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 13:24, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Thank you; I also added that info to John Peel. I lifted that text from the EBB article; I've added a clarifying link. Andy Mabbett (User: Pigsonthewing ); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 15:00, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I modified the sentence on John Peel's page because (complex explanation) although there are 27 pipe twirlers (we're talking about those long plastic tubes that you rotate above your head, sold in carinvals etc.), there are only 7 players, so I presume 3 layered overdubs were made. --A Knight Who Says Ni (talk) 21:55, 26 April 2010 (UTC)

Helium
I remember seeing an item about Bedford on UK television many years ago, and my recollection is that only one member of the choir was required to inhale helium. Halmyre (talk) 06:49, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

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Talk:Normal, Illinois

Important Tips Before Editing This Article
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twin town?
I'm going to bring the discussion over from Bloomington, Illinois, I've never heard BN called "twin town" has anyone else? Otherwise, I think it should be removed. --Donutey 04:42, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I have lived here since 1975 and the first time I heard it was in here. Lets remove it.--

fun vandalism note
While it can probably be reinserted into the article (after rewording), I've removed the following note from the article's "trivia" section, pending citation:
 * One fact the article fails to mention is a period of time during the early 1970s after an adventurous vandal had climbed the water tower and spray-painted "AB" in front of the town's name.

Tom e rtalk 03:00, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, I never took a picture of it, and I don't know if anyone else did either. What was amazing to we students at the time was how long it took for the city fathers to fix it. It sat that way for months. I don't know if "fun vandalism" is the right word. Whoever did it, the joke was over quickly and it was just an eyesore after that. Wahkeenah 06:00, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
 * The "fun" wasn't meant to modify "vandalism", it was meant to modify "vandalism note". Tom e rtalk  05:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Downtown Normal
I just saw someone reverted the "uptown" crap, good work. Kudos, I have no idea why it said uptown.A mcmurray 00:56, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

 * I agree. Been here 32 years and its DOWNTOWN, not uptown.  Can't be an uptown without a downtown and a midtown.. and the whole thing is only about 2 blocks wide from north to south anyway, and if you did a lefttown / righttown / midtown thing, it still isnt big enough anyway.  Besides, uptown simply sounds stupid. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk)

 * It may have been a bad faith edit. We shall make sure it doesn't change. I watch the page for vandals so it should be no problem.A mcmurray 15:53, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

 * A McMurray: Well- I don't know if you heard- but the town council decided it should be called "uptown". So, I guess it is officially now known as "uptown".... thats why it said that, but its still pretty corny..........

 * I have heard now. That's the dumbest thing I have ever heard.A mcmurray 16:58, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Here's a town council reference to "uptown" and another. So, should the article reflect local preferences or the official version? Rklawton 16:49, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

 * As far as I know there is no "official" designation for Downtown Normal, although it is ubiquitously referred to as Downtown Normal in the Bloomington Normal area. While it really doesn't matter, both words mean basically the same thing, I think the nomenclature, in the article, should reflect usage considering that there is no official name. Basically what I am saying is that the place has historically been known as downtown, marketing campaigns aside.

 * I don't know how far this Uptown thing has gone but it appears to be nothing more than a PR campaign to bring attention to the redevelopment plan and differentiate itself from Downtown Bloomington. I don't know if we should be in the business of supporting PR nonsense. Just my two cents.A mcmurray 16:57, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

 * That's a good question. The challenge is - is this "official" PR nonsense (ie, from the city's leaders), or is this just local developers?  Rklawton 18:12, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Either source is just as dubious in this instance, in my opinion. Neither source could be considered reliable because they both have vested interests in portraying the area the way they see fit.A mcmurray 18:28, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

Well, if there's been an official name change, we'll need to report it as such. Rklawton 18:52, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

 * This appears to have been decreed but would need a reference, such as the ordinance. Regardless I doubt this name change was or is without controversy, this should be noted as well. As well as the fact that anyone who has lived there for more than a year or so would still say Downtown Normal.A mcmurray 19:01, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

yeah, i changed it originally, and i'll change it back from uptown to downtown any time anyone changes it until they ban my account. or until there's a point made in the entry that it is, at least, up in the air. i kind of don't really care, but like all decisions that were made by and for money and not the people themselves, i feel i have a vested interest in paying attention, having lived here all my life and all. the truth of the matter is the town council spent a bunch of money to buy signs that said uptown normal... i'm uncertain if they even have the actual power to rename a neighborhood, although i'm sure they'd disagree. but it was very much done quietly and not with a great deal of good faith, with the purpose of trying to make rich people more comfortable here and poor people unwelcome. i suppose if someone could point me down the rabbit hole that absolutely proved that the TC had the ability to change anything about the name they wanted, i'd shut up. but i really doubt that's going to be the case. User:me/me 25:84 31 Feburary 2007 (FTW!)

 * "Downtown" is descriptive and meaningful. "Uptown" is hype. Wahkeenah 02:19, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Has it been long enough now that the angry vandalism kiddies have graduated from ISU and we can cut out the "in 2007 the town council renamed downtown" part? I cannot imagine there being value in mentioning "oh by the way this used to be called downtown!" except as protest disguised as history.  This from a 25+-year resident, and decidedly non-rich-person, by the way. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 03:34, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

 * I think the answer is that yes, it had been long enough. Guess all the angsty ISU students vandalizing the page because they were afraid of change, however minor, finally graduated and lost interest? 2601:193:8300:1380:D1B9:CB7C:E517:4D30 (talk) 03:00, 28 April 2017 (UTC)

Vandals
This page has been hit pretty hard by vandals lately, please watch it.A mcmurray (talk • contribs) 15:01, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I just reverted some stuff that may have been missed previously. WLU 15:08, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Cool, I have requested some folks from WikiProject Illinois to keep an eye on it along with myself and another user who is a self described "anti-vandal patriot." Things should be okay now. There was a lot, so much that I couldn't really find a version to revert to so I just went through and started removing stuff that looked like vandalism or spam.A mcmurray (talk • contribs) 15:12, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * If you actually know anything about the town, you might want to check the people I just removed, I couldn't find a link to Normal so I took 'em out, but that doesn't mean the links aren't there. WLU 15:14, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Until I get up to speed on this article, I will only be able to revert content only or obvious cases of vandalism. I can't remember the last time I was in Illinois. Ronbo76 15:20, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Yeah I used to live nearby. I'll check em out.A mcmurray (talk • contribs) 15:23, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

I just reverted a line in the geography section that called the town 11.3 square miles of corn stubble. User:East-West

Change to geolinks
Geolinks is the preferred mapping engine these days for Wikipedia. It can be scaled at cityscale for a large town; hoodscale for an intermediate suburb or photo for a smaller community like Normal, IL. In addition, the photo scale is useful for showing a picture (if available of a distinct object/building/etc.) that when the scale is brought down on WikiMapia displays really nicely. Clicking on the WikiMapia link, you will now see the community. Plus, you can see a university to the west along with some domed stadium (if you zoom in using the plus sign near the top left). Cheers, Ronbo76 15:44, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

 * That would be Illinois State University and Redbird Arena. A mcmurray (talk • contribs) 16:13, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

 * It works real nice on arenas, local landmarks, bridges, etc. The coordinates can be found by opening a WikiMapia entry to the nearby item you would like mapped by dragging the map until the crosshairs are over the landmark. Then in the upper left corner, select Add Place and a box will be superimposed over the item. You can enlarge the box or even change the scale as appropriate. Once it is defined, the coordinates will be displayed when you save it. Unfortunately, you need to convert the minutes to decimal minutes, i.e., 40.3060N 89.9910W would required the .3060 and .9910 to be divided by 60 to get the correct decimal minutes. Ronbo76 19:59, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

This is nice
It is nice to see some constructive activity around this page. Thanks to everybody who is trying to improve this article. I am trying to get WikiProject Illinois to make it their next collaboration. The current one, Springfield, Illinois, has gone really well.IvoShandor 14:54, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

 * I would recommend some photos. One of the red wikilink Children's Museum (outside) would be high on my list. Maybe even a gallery. Ronbo76 14:56, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

 * I tend to lean toward using commons to link to pages there as opposed to adding bulky galleries here. They can have long load times on slow connections, and Wikipedia is a great source of knowledge for the developing world. : )IvoShandor 15:02, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Unreferenced stuff
Following is the trivia section, it is unreferenced. The burden is on the editors who added it to provide references not on me who removed it, please don't readd it as a trivia section instead integrate it, once referenced, into the appropriate sections. See WP:V if this is problematic but it shouldn't be. IvoShandor 11:50, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Trivia

 * The first Steak 'n Shake restaurant was located in Normal. The original building, on Main Street near the creek, burned in the late 1950s and was rebuilt on-site, where it continued as a Steak 'n Shake franchise for several more decades. It was finally sold and became a Monical's Pizza.
 * Mitsubishi's vehicle manufacturing facility in Normal is the company's only plant in North America.
 * The mayor of Normal will pay US$50 to anyone who can tell him a joke about his town he hasn't heard before.
 * Musician Marilyn Manson mentioned Normal is his autobiography The Long Hard Road Out of Hell. Manson wrote about his 1997 tour stop in Normal as part of the Dead To The World Tour. Manson's outrageous style evoked some controversy on his visit to the generally-conservative area.
 * In episode 12 ("Tornado Days") of the short-lived science fiction TV series Eerie, Indiana second prize for the 87th annual Tornado Day sweepstakes was an all expense paid trip to Eerie's "sister city" Normal, Illinois.
 * Mat Devine of the alternative rock band Kill Hannah attended Illinois State University in Normal, and actually met the girl named Hannah at a party in Normal who quickly broke his heart and motivated him to begin his band.
 * An episode of the science fiction TV series First Wave is named "Normal Illinois" and the setting is supposed to be Normal, Illinois. In real life, First Wave was filmed on location in Vancouver, BC.
 * Ten Minutes from Normal by Karen Hughes takes its name from the town.
 * Alternative rock band The Junior Varsity is from Normal.
 * Actor/Actresses: John Malkovich, Laurie Metcalf, Gary Cole, Sean Hayes, and Judith Ivey all attended Illinois State University.
 * The Normal Community West High School Wind Ensemble performed at Carnegie Hall in the Spring of 2004
 * The Normal Community West High School Marching Band Performed at the Fiesta Bowl in 2001 and will be performing there this year (2007)

Improving the article
I added a transportation section. Feel free to edit.

I'll get some photos pretty soon, perhaps this weekend. Any nominations? I think the Watterson Towers, The Normal Theater, and Constitution Trail are no-brainers. ISU Homecoming Parade is October 13th, so that might be a candidate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by East-West (talk • contribs) 17:16, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

Attractions
I am working with the Bloomington-Normal Area Convention & Visitor's Bureau to make the Wikipedia page more user-friendly for those wishing to plan a visit to the area. I have added the attractions section and I have made some additions to the transportation and education sections.

All of my citations are to the Bloomington-Normal Convention & Visitor's Bureau Area Visitor's Guide with direct approval from the author, himself. None of the material I am posting is in violation of copyrights.

If you are concerned about anything I have posted please feel free to let me know. Bloomington-Normal Area Visitors & Convention Bureau (talk) 18:25, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

 * Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not a tourist guide. The attractions section looks very touristy, and I do have a problem with that. Please try to keep neutrality. Sorchah (talk) 03:33, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Origin of name
For a town with such an unusual and distinctive name shouldn't there be a mention of how that name came about? — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:17, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

The town got its name from the local university, then called Illinois State Normal University - a school where people went to learn to become teachers. As the town grew around it, it was named 'Normal' after the University, and the University came to be Illinois State University. (https://www.normal.org/index.aspx?NID=382 and https://www.normal.org/index.aspx?NID=378 ) Kelvari (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 09:53, 11 April 2016 (UTC)

Weather Boxes
Can we get Weather Boxes on the Normal and Bloomington pages? They're on about 75-80% of other town pages. I find them valuable when looking at municipality pages on Wikipedia to get a better idea of how climate differs from one town to another. I'm not that good at formatting, otherwise I'd do it myself. East-West

Population History
A while ago, I put a box on this page listing the census population over 70 years, in an attempt to show the dramatic population growth. It was taken down (I read) because someone said that it made the town look small. The town of Bloomington doesn't have one either, for the same reason, I suspect. Isn't that an important thing to know about a city or town, when it had its largest growth?

By the way, here's the data for Normal's historical population from US Census: 1890  3459	N/A 1900  3796	9.7% 1910   4024	6.0% 1920   5143	27.8% 1930   6768	31.6% 1940   6983	3.2% 1950   9772	39.9% 1960  13357	36.7% 1970  26396	97.6% 1980  35672	35.1% 1990  40023	12.2% 2000  45386	13.4% 2010  52497	15.7% East-West

 * Per WP:USCITY, I see no reason not to add the information back in. "making the town look small" is not a good reason for removal. Feel free to add it back in. Cheers Dkriegls (talk) 21:07, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

 * I added a census table, using the data from above, and verified the 2010 census. •  Sbmeirow  •  Talk  •  06:42, 19 May 2012 (UTC)

Questionable Naming Origin
I was surprised to see the following statement on the origin of the Normal town name:

 * The name "Normal" is an English corruption of the original name. Like many cities in the region, it was originally settled by the French. The earliest expedition to the location termed it "Noire Mal" in their journal, an appellation that denotes "dark and evil". As the journal was later discovered, and no survivors returned from the expedition, the reason for this daunting entry is unknown.

Because this statement has no citation, was added by an anonymous account with only a single contribution in their history, and provides a rationale for the 'Normal' naming that suspiciously arrives at the same result as the obvious Normal School history, I have removed it to this location for further discussion and research. --Mindfrieze (talk) 16:24, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

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Normal and alcohol
When I was in Normal (1971-73) it was dry and we had to go to Bloomington to get a drink. This seems like something worth mentioning in the History section. Details should be in the Pantagraph but I can't access it from Europe. Also, there were apparently beer riots at ISU in 1984. Roundtheworld (talk) 12:45, 9 September 2021 (UTC)

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William Pagel

Friedrich Wilhelm August Pagel aka William Pagel (5 February 1878 Plathe, Pomerania, Germany - 13 October 1948 Knysna) was a ‘strong man’ and South African circus proprietor. He was the second of eight children raised by Antonia Fraudnich and August Pagel.

Friedrich took after his father physically in having great size and strength. His first working years were spent as a blacksmith, but after qualifying at seventeen, he joined a ship's crew as a stoker. After extensive travelling he went ashore at Sydney, Australia, and was employed in various menial occupations. His robust build found him a position as bouncer at a licensed restaurant where he also peeled potatoes and washed dishes. In 1899 in Tasmania he met and married Mary Dinsdale (1865-1939), a Yorkshire woman with a keen understanding of financial matters. Under her guidance their fortunes improved, while Pagel's act gained renown. In 1904 the couple visited Europe, and in England assembled the equipment necessary for a travelling circus. A voyage along the African East Coast saw them landing at Durban in February 1905. They toured the province, continuing to Johannesburg where Pagel worked on extending the repertoire of his circus.

A tour of South Africa followed and another to Rhodesia, the success of which established Pagel's Circus as a national institution. Pagel's feats of strength and his control of the big cats soon made him a household name, particularly in the countryside. However, the circus as a career remained financially hazardous. In early 1906 Pagel and his wife travelled to India and Burma to acquire tigers, elephants and other animals. Madame Pagel herself entered the ring in an act starring lions, tigers and leopards. The Circus flourished until the advent of the First World War (1914-1918) when Pagel, because of his German origin, was regarded with grave suspicion by the authorities, and crowds became openly hostile. Madame Pagel displayed her marriage certificate above the box-office in an attempt to defuse the situation. Even so, Pagel was interned at Pietermaritzburg near the beginning of 1918 for a brief period. After the War he acquired South African citizenship.

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Department of Youth and Sports Development

The Department of Youth and Sports Development (and later the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development) was an executive department of the Philippine government. It was meant to deal with sports and youth related affairs in the country.

Currently, the Philippine Sports Commission is the body responsible for government initiated effort in sports and assists the privately run Philippine Olympic Committee.

History
The Department of Youth and Sports Development (DYSD) was created upon the approval of Presidential Decree No. 604 issued by then President Ferdinand Marcos on December 10, 1974. This led to the abolishing of the Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation in 1975 with the Philippine Olympic Committee succeeding the PAAF.

The government body was renamed as the Ministry of Youth and Sports Development (MYSD) when the country adopted a parliamentary form of government. Through a letter of instructions issued by President Marcos on October 31, 1979, the MYSD implemented the Project Gintong Alay sports program.

Upon the enactment of the Education Act of 1982, the MYSD was integrated with the Ministry of Education and Culture (MECS) which became the Department of Education and Culture (DECS) through the 1987 Constitution. Republic Act 6847 created the Philippine Sports Commission and the DECS became the Department of Education.

Proposed revival
On February 26, 2016, a press release from the Philippine House of Representatives indicates that the creation of a Department of Sports in the Philippines has been filed to improve the state of sports in the country. Rep. Karlo Alexei B. Nograles, chairman of the House committee on Labor and Employment, proposed House Bill 6440 (Department of Sports Act) to address the issues surrounding Philippine sports.

The proposed Department of Sports, as indicated in the press release, will be "a cabinet-level agency to provide leadership in the promotion and development of sports in the country and set the parameters to address the needs of athletes, coaches, trainers and sports officials". The department will also aim to create policies that will improve the country's performance in international sport competitions.

In the press release, Rep. Nograles said, "It is now high time for the government to prioritize sports in the national agenda, and consider sports as an integral factor in nation building." Nograles believes that the PSC has not done well in improving the sports in the country, stating, "After more than 20 years since the creation of the PSC, the state of Philippine sports appears to have worsened rather than improved.”

His proposal includes the abolishment of the PSC, and contrariwise, provides the development of the Amateur Sports Development Bureau (ASDB), which has the primary task in the promotion and development of amateur sports in the country. Likewise, The Grassroots Sport Division and Local and National Sports Competition Division shall be established under the department. Moreover, the International Sports Development Bureau will also be constructed, and will be composed of the National Sports Association Affairs Division and the International Sports Competition Division.

In November 2017, the House of Representatives created a technical working group to facilitates measures on establishment of the department amidst pertinent pending bills.


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not my picture
my picture is at http://davetaylor.name

not sure who put this up there.

don't want to edit it, as last time i did, i got in trouble for it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 09:02, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Reverted it back to your good self. Someone another (talk) 07:24, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

not the Dave Taylor associated with elm
elm was started by this Dave Taylor http://www.intuitive.com/bio.shtml —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:04, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Corrected this article and Elm (e-mail client) citing Dave Taylor of Intuitive Systems as the orignal author. – Conrad T. Pino (talk) 19:27, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

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Adams, New Jersey

Adams is an unincorporated community located within North Brunswick Township in Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The community is located along Cozzens Lane (County Route 608) between Route 27 and U.S. Route 1. Except for commercial businesses lining Routes 1 and 27, the community is made up of mostly residential homes and apartment complexes. The community once had a station known as Adams Station, along the Pennsylvania Railroad (currently the Northeast Corridor Line), located on Adams Lane, just east of Route 1.

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John Wesley Van Dyke

John Wesley Van Dyke (c. 1849–1939) was president of the Atlantic Refining Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1911 until 1927. After the break-up of Standard Oil Trust, Van Dyke led the debt-ridden Atlantic Refining Company into expanded markets and sales of more than $131 million.

The early years
John Wesley Van Dyke was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania in about 1849. In 1867, at the age of 17, young Van Dyke ran away from home to find a job in the western Pennsylvania oil fields. By the age of 21, he was a driller, tool dresser, and small producer, having purchased two oil leases in Venango County, Pennsylvania. Van Dyke was hired as an engineer by Standard Oil's Long Island Refinery in the mid-1870s. In 1879, Standard Oil purchased the Sone & Fleming Refinery in Brooklyn, New York and Van Dyke was made plant manager.

Time With Standard Oil Trust
John Van Dyke was sent to Lima, Ohio in 1886 to manage the newly formed Solar Refinery. Charged with finding a way to remove the sulfur from Ohio’s crude oil, John D. Rockefeller teamed Van Dyke with German chemist, Herman Frasch. Frasch successfully devised the necessary chemistry while Van Dyke invented a hollow water-cooled drive shaft for the furnace employed in the recovery of the copper oxide that was necessary to remove the sulfur from the crude oil.

Standard Oil transferred John Van Dyke to its Point Breeze Refinery in Philadelphia in 1903. Working together with William Irish, the two men developed the technology for the "tower still," which offered greater control over condensation during refining. This technique was considered the industry's first complete distillation process, saving millions of dollars annually in refining costs.

Designer of Railroad Tank Cars
In 1902, John Van Dyke was tasked with designing an improved railroad tank car for Standard Oil's tank car operating unit, Union Tank Line (UTL). His design, patented September 8, 1903, (US 738259) was for an all steel car without a conventional frame, or center sill. This so-called V-car was thoroughly tested by UTL and its design approved by the (Railroad) Master Car Builders’ Association. However, it was considered radical and was not well received by the railroad industry. Few were built. Sources vary as to the actual number, from as few as "about one hundred" to as many as two thousand.

In response to the V-car's poor acceptance, UTL asked John Van Dyke to design a tank car along more conventional lines. This car, later known as the X-car, was patented August 30, 1904 (US 768888). It had a substantial center sill incorporating an anchor, securely riveted to the tank and to the center sill, to prevent the tank from shifting longitudinally in the event of a wreck. The X-car was a success and was built by the thousands for a period of at least ten years.

Time With Atlantic Refining
When the Sherman Antitrust Act broke up Standard Oil Trust in 1911, John Van Dyke became president of the Atlantic Refining Company. Without the huge integrated operation of the former parent company, Atlantic Refining faced many challenges. The company owned three refineries in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Franklin, Pennsylvania. Its domestic markets were confined to the states of Delaware and Pennsylvania. The company did not own or lease any oil wells, pipe lines, or oil tankers, and though sixty per cent of its business was foreign, it had no foreign sales force; it was several million dollars in debt to its former associates.

Van Dyke developed a business plan to expand Atlantic's domestic and foreign markets, but domestic sales came to a halt when the U.S. entered World War I in April 1917. Prior to U.S. involvement in the war, gasoline exports increased to the Allied Forces. As air forces emerged, the demand for aviation grade gasoline grew, and during the time of the U.S. involvement in World War I, fifty percent of the aviation fuel sent abroad was produced at Atlantic's Point Breeze Refinery.

After the war, Van Dyke returned to his business plan for expansion. In response to changes in the source areas of crude oil, he focused on building up the fleet of oil tanker ships owned by the company. A second strategy was to produce oil, rather than rely on purchased crude. By the mid-1930s, Atlantic was producing oil in Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico from more than 1,000 domestic oil wells.

Atlantic's expansion of foreign markets began with the opening of the company's first foreign office in Paris in the spring of 1919. Six months later, a branch was opened in Italy. In 1923, the company entered the South African market, and by the following year had offices in all of Western Europe, on the north, west and south coasts of Africa, and in South America. In 1926, in partnership with Union Oil Company of California, the company began business in Australia.

Van Dyke's Legacy
John Van Dyke retired as president of the Atlantic Refining Company in 1927, at which time he became chairman of the board. Prior to the Great Depression, a boom period occurred and Van Dyke took an unpopular stance in restraining Atlantic's growth. Although employee hours were cut, wages were maintained, and the company met all of its obligations, and continued its dividends.

On November 20, 1937, an 18,500 ton, welded oil tanker, (the first American-built turbo-electric tanker), was launched at Chester, Pennsylvania, bearing the name of "J.W. Van Dyke."

Having returned to Philadelphia in poor health from a trip to Brazil, Van Dyke died at the age of 89, in September 1939. Van Dyke's will created an educational endowment fund for the children of the Atlantic's employees in the amount of $1.5 million.

In 1966, Atlantic Refining merged with the Richfield Oil Company of California creating the Atlantic Richfield Company, (ARCO).

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