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Aminuddin Baki Institute

Aminuddin Baki Institute (Institut Aminuddin Baki, IAB) is the main educational management institute in Malaysia which trains people to be in the school top management. The main campus is located in Bandar Enstek, Labu, Negeri Sembilan. IAB also have four branches in Genting Highlands (Pahang), Jitra (Kedah), Kota Kinabalu (Sabah) and Kuching (Sarawak). Institut Aminuddin Baki is a member of ANTRIEP, the Asian Network of Training And Research Institutions in Educational Planning.

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Talk:Saguenay (Province of Canada electoral district)

Party colours
Party colours are given for each member. In doing so, care must be taken to avoid anachronistic use of modern party colours. Party affiliation was a fluid and dynamic concept, and changed throughout the 26 years of the existence of the Province of Canada. WikiProject Political parties and politicians in Canada/list of parties does not have colours assigned to pre-Confederation parties, so colours have been assigned to each party or group from the range of colours available.

In the table of members for Saguenay, the following colours have been used:

 * Buff: Anti-Unionist
 * Green: French-Canadian Group

Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 15:00, 17 March 2024 (UTC)

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Internet Technologies/Search engine

A search engine is a type of computer software used to search data in the form of text or a database for specified information.

Search engines normally consist of spiders (also known as bots) which roam the web searching for links and keywords. They send collected data back to the indexing software which categorizes and adds the links to databases with their related keywords. When you specify a search term the engine does not scan the whole web but extracts related links from the database.

Please take note that this is not a simple process. Search engines literally scan through millions of pages in its database. Once this has taken place all the results are put together in order of relevancy. Remember also not to get a search engine and directory mixed up. Yes they are used interchangeably, but they do in fact perform two different tasks!

Before 1993 the term search engine never existed. From then until now that has changed drastically, and almost everyone knows what it is. Since the Internet is used by millions of Americans daily, a search engine sees a lot of visitors especially ones such as Google and Yahoo. Almost all of us use one of the two if we have the Internet. By simply typing words into the engine, we get several results which gives us a list of sites. (Seigel)

Usually a search engine sends out a spider which fetches as many documents as possible. An index is then created by what is called an indexer that reads the documents and creates it. Only meaningful results are created for each query though, a process called proprietary algorithm. (Webopedia)

Work Cited
Boswell, Wendy. "How do search engines work?" What is a search engine? 19 September 2008. http://websearch.about.com/od/enginesanddirectories/a/searchengine.htm

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Spanish/Word Order

The word order in Spanish is not as rigid as it is in English.

It is normally SVO (subject - verb - object):
 * Juan comió una manzana (Juan ate an apple)

However, it is possible to change the word order to emphasize the verb or the object:
 * Comió Juan una manzana (VSO)
 * Una manzana comió Juan (OVS)

Note: To say "An apple ate Juan," that is, Juan was eaten by an apple, insert the word "a" (personal "a") like this:
 * Una manzana comió a Juan.  (SVO)

The subject is frequently omitted because the verb ending already gives information about the person:
 * Yo comí una manzana (I ate an apple)
 * Comí una manzana (I ate an apple)

In the second sentence we know that I ate the apple because the verb ending would be different for all other persons.

If you want to say "Juan ate it," the word order will have to be changed to accommodate the direct object pronoun:
 * Juan la comió (SOV)

This is always the word order when using a direct or indirect object pronoun.

In general, Spanish is very flexible because the core grammatical structure gives you the liberty of changing the order of words. A Spanish sentence can be constructed in a photographic manner so that you put words in the sentence in the same order you tend to think that you're observing them. Spanish tries to make possible the compatibility between the formal logic and the descriptive quality of the message.

The main departure from English grammar is that instead of an adjective-noun form, it's noun-adjective. So, in English we would say blue car, while in Spanish you would say "car blue" (coche azul). There are, as in many other languages, exceptions to this rule, particularly when the adjective has a double meaning. For example, "a poor man" could be expressed as "an unfortunate man" (pobre hombre), or a "wealth-less man" (hombre pobre). As a rule of thumb, the more permanent meaning dictates that the adjective go before the noun, but when in doubt, place the adjective after the noun.

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Air sports at the 2013 World Games

The air sports competition at the 2013 World Games was held from August 3 to August 4 in Cali, Colombia.

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School talk:Entrepreneurship

Looking through all the of the College of Practical Arts and Sciences pages, it struck me as odd that this school only has links to resources, no sort of introduction or course structure, and no one to contact about creation of content. It would be my suggestion that this page be erased/modified from being a school of the college to a wikipage unless someone rescues it and wants to teach some classes in the subject. --Kfitton 01:16, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * There is an active learning project, Lunar Boom Town, where entrepreneurs of all levels can practice skills in developing business plans. Mirwin 20:07, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Entrepreneurship development using cultural inputs.
I have been working upon the training of entrepreneurs in India using the inputs from Indian culture. Has anybody tried it in other regions? I am open to the idea of starting a new course on entrepreneurship development using cultural/ social inputs and using oriental knowledge along with latest learning techniques. Do I have the support of world community especially the entrepreneurs who could contribute by shiring their experience and learnigs? this way you can contribute to the society.

Prof. Vivek Sharma, Chandigarh, India

Yes, I fully agree. Such a school will be a great learning experience. Jennifer
 * Please let me know if some more like-minded people are willing to invest time and energy in starting a new program for entrepreneurship development. Pl mail me at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>about your support for this project on wikiversity as an international project.Those who think that it will be a useful project/ they would like to join/share their experience/ contribute in any other way pl. also mail.

 * Prof. Vivek Sharma

 * Your request may get better response if you register an account and request wiki participants to open a dialogue on your user talk page. Also, if you select your options to provide it there is an email relay system built in to the wikimedia software we use.  Many wiki participants are a bit leery of handing out their email addresses.  Personally I think such a course at Wikiversity would be lovely and would grow slowly at first and then faster as the community enters exponential internet growth.  Mirwin 20:25, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Could be perhaps this user ? Erkan Yilmaz uses the Chat (try) 13:52, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

i invite everyone interested in sharing experience and promoting entrepreneurship to contact me via my talk page. Vivek --Prof. Vivek Sharma 12:52, 24 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Hello professor Vivek Sharma. I work as a system developer in the Netherlands and in 2011 I started the Dutch wikiversity. I think in this information/ knowledge intensive world you can also learn about entrepreneurship when participating in learning projects. You don't have to set up a business right away. You can participate on wikimedia projects and learn how to create knowledge, how to collaborate, etc. An example is project RuralWeb: free laptop. In this project African an Dutch people are working together with the aim to get laptops in five African schools. I learned a lot about entrepreneurship in this project. If it's possible I'd like to get in contact, so we can share some of our experiences. I will send you an e-mail. Cheers, Tim Ruijters, Timboliu (discuss • contribs) 07:24, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

MyWikiBiz
Perhaps we should link to MyWikiBiz... it is a site for commercial self promotion (unless I have misunderstood the premise). Emesee 21:11, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

i certainly do not want to get any kind of commercial benefit out of it. I am willing to contribute my time and expertise free of cost to this school if i am guided how to go about it. my idea is to register some participants as co- learners, who will learn from various online free resources, perform some activities at their respective places and in the end, if possible get some certification for their work. i request the wikiversity community to help me by sharing of experience and information on the subject and pl. feel free to contact me via my talk page. --Prof. Vivek Sharma 13:00, 24 August 2008 (UTC) Vivek Sharma

Michael Gerber quote
I would like to shorten the following quote: "The entrepreneur builds an enterprise; the technician builds a job." (Michael Gerber) to "The entrepreneur builds an enterprise" (Michael Gerber). My reasoning is this: many small businesses are started by plumbers, carpenters, painters, exterminators, and many other "technicians" who learn a trade, become good at it, and decide to start their own business. These are technicians who take the next step to become entrepreneurs. Incidentally, technicians do not build jobs, they practice trades like a physician practices medicine, then opens her/his own practice. Comments and criticisms welcome. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 00:33, 2 June 2014 (UTC)

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Talk:Dennis Bailey (footballer, born 1965)

Religious belief
As I'm sure you understand, Wikipedia has to be careful about attributing religious beliefs to living people without any reliable source to back it up, so I've undone the edit which added such without a citation. You are welcome to re-add the information if you also supply a reliable source as verification. cheers, Struway2 (talk) 18:33, 27 June 2008 (UTC)


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Hilton Wick

Hilton Addison Wick (February 11, 1920 – March 17, 2006) was an American politician and Vermont Senator.

Life
Hilton Addison Wick was raised in Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania. After serving in World War II, he graduated from Maryville College and Harvard Law School Harvard, and in 1949 he moved to Vermont with his wife Barbara Shaw. He practiced law and became the President of the Chittenden Trust Co. He was a Trustee of Middlebury College from 1969 to 1984. His role as a community leader and charitable fundraiser helped to launch his political career.

In 1984, he opposed Vermont Attorney General John Easton, Jr. for the Republican nomination in the 1984 Vermont gubernatorial election, but lost the nomination to Easton. In 1988 he was elected a Senator for the Chittenden district, and served from 1989 until 1991. He then resumed his law practice with his sons until his death in 2006.

Ancestry
He was a distant cousin of the Revolutionary War heroine Temperance Wick and the United States Congressman William W. Wick. In Vermont his name became proverbial for charitable fundraising, and the Hilton Wick Award, which is an annual award honoring persons who have engaged in charitable activities, is named after him.

Wick House
In 2014, the Wick House in Burlington, which was originally built in 1820, was moved several hundred feet from its original site. Hilton Wick was the last member of the Wick family to own the house.

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Francis Willoughby (1613–1671)

Francis Willoughby  (1613 – April 10, 1671) was the son of Colonel William Willoughby (1588-1631) of London, England. A merchant and shipwright, he immigrated to Charlestown, Massachusetts on August 22, 1638 and served as selectman (1640-1647), representative in 1649 and 1650, and was elected an assistant (representative in the colonial assembly) in 1650, 1651 and 1654. Willoughby returned to England in 1651 where he was appointed commissioner of the navy at Portsmouth and served in the Third Protectorate Parliament in 1659, representing Portsmouth. He returned to Massachusetts in 1662 and was deputy governor from 1665 until his death in 1671.

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Portal:Denmark/Selected article/Archive

This is an archive of articles that have been chosen as the week's selected article on the Denmark Portal.

Today, July 29, 2024, is in week number . For previous years' archives, see below:
 * Year 2006 archive
 * Year 2007 archive
 * Year 2008 archive
 * Year 2009 archive
 * Year 2010 archive

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Novobarnaulka

Novobarnaulka (Новобарнаулка) is a rural locality (a selo) in Shilovsky Selsoviet, Kalmansky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 121 as of 2013. There are 2 streets.

Geography
Novobarnaulka is located 41 km northwest of Kalmanka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Chayachye is the nearest rural locality.

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Miroslav Sekera

Miroslav Sekera is a Czech pianist who has won numerous awards, including first prize awards in the Chopin Competition at Marianske Lazne and The Johannes Brahms International Competition at Portschach, Austria, and from the Prague Academy of Music.

Mirek was a child actor who played the part of the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the 1984 film Amadeus. He is seen in only one short but important scene in which he is playing the harpsichord and violin for the Pope in the Vatican.

Competitions
Chopin Competition at Mariánské Láznĕ - First Prize (1991)

National Competition of Czech Conservatories - First Prize

Baden Competition - Best Performance of a work by Leoš Janáček

Prague Academy of Music Arts - First Prize (1999)

Johannes Brahms International Competition - First Prize (2002)

Recordings
Augury of Amadeus - unknown

Composer: Various

What A Piece Of Work Is Man - Albany Records 2005 Discography

Composer: Joseph Summer

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? - Albany Records 2006 Discography

Composer: Joseph Summer

So Many Journeys - Albany Records 2009 Discography

Composer: Joseph Summer

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Mells Village Hall

Mells Village Hall in Mells, Somerset, England was built in the 14th century as a tithe barn and now serves as the village hall. It is a Grade II* listed building.

History
The hall was built as a tithe barn, belonging to Glastonbury Abbey, in the 14th century. A new roof was constructed and the building revised around 1500. A new ceiling was installed in the 20th century.

The hall is used as a village hall run by a charitable committee, following a lease and trust deed signed in 1964. Toilets and a kitchen have been installed which were refurbished in 2012.

Architecture
The six-bay stone building has a tiled cruck roof. Buttresses are used to support the walls.

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Topic talk:Math for computer programming

 * The title for the topic is misleading. The content is about arithmetic in  various bases.  --Hillgentleman|User talk 14:45, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Arithmetic in various bases = math. This particular math is extremely valid in computer programming. Hence: It seems quite fitting to me. Please add whatever sub-topics you feel are appropriate to this topic. -- Richard2me 15:53, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I am not a programmer. For me, Mathematics for computer programming includes a lot of other things such as computation geometry and algorithmic complexity.  I suggest that we move the content to a seperate page in the main namespace, such as base change and programming.  A Topic: page is to host wikiversity content development, not the contents themselves.  (naming conventions)--Hillgentleman|User talk 02:39, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * But wikiversity is about growth and personal interpretation of what's "right". To me, "Math for computer programming" is a broad subject which can easily have a specialized course oriented towards math concepts used specifically for computer programming. Just because this page only contains the math relating to radixes right now doesn't mean that it cannot have more complex topics. I'll put a message on top to make that clear. -- Richard2me 10:29, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Overview
Just found a structuring of Math for computing that could be helpful:
 * Set, Relations and Graph Theory
 * Number Theory (like number systems)
 * Algebra
 * Reasoning
 * Finite Model Theory
 * Category Theory

This should be most of the math basics you need to study Computer Science

Sterling 20:08, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

In addition to the topics Sterling listed, I think a bit about floating-point math (e.g. explaining how it can't represent every possible real number, how the programmer has to be careful about precision, algorithms to test "equality," etc.) would be useful -- mrchaotica


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owlet moth

Noun

 * 1) Any moth of the family.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, Eulenfalter
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 夜蛾
 * Korean: 밤나방
 * Swedish: nattfly
 * Welsh: noswyfyn

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/Local/kitsonlinetrainings.com

Links

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Draft talk:FIRST Power Up

Draft status
I reworked the draft to add the infobox and such. It still isn't ready for publishing, and likely still won't be until January 6, 2018 when the full game is announced. Elisfkc (talk) 14:35, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Have you read what I wrote here yet? --Elisfkc (talk) 04:11, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

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User:LJ 2000

Afro-Amerindian is someone born in the United States who is half African American and half Native American who makeup 0.5% of the US Population.

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Perl Programming/Modifiers

In addition to the basic control structures, Perl allows the use of statement modifiers. The statement modifier is placed at the end of the statement that it modifies. Note that the do {…} until (…) and do {…} while (…) loop constructs are actually statement modifiers. The complete list of modifiers is:

Unlike BASIC-PLUS, statement modifiers in Perl cannot be stacked.

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Ascalista letourneuxi

Ascalista letourneuxi is a species of sea snail in the family Columbellidae.

Distribution
This marine species occurs off the Austral Islands, French Polynesia.

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suojelupoliisi

Noun

 * 1) security police, intelligence agency, security service government organisation that aims to protect its nation and its secrets from enemies

Usage notes

 * Primarily used as the official name of the Finnish Security Intelligence Service. Similar agencies in other jurisdictions may be called, , or  depending on the verbatim translation of the official name.

Derived terms

 * (acronym)

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Talk:Barry Downing

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How to contact Barry Downing.
I just wanted to know if anyine knww how to contact or if it's even possible to contact Barry downing? Atwell Wells (talk) 02:14, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes, he has a publicly listed email address, if you want to find it. You could also probably reach him if you contact his previous church. Emk9 (talk) 20:54, 18 February 2018 (UTC)

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Talk:Kabukichō

Kabukichō is not particularly dangerous, especially during the daytime or the early evening. It is quite a bit safer than similar entertainment districts in Paris, London, New York City, Boston, San Francisco, or Seattle. The greatest danger is unexpectedly high charges, especially if you go drinking.

The dinner crowd, especially the families with kids, diminishes around 9PM; and is replaced by the nightclub crowd. Most of the bar crowd clears out before the trains stop running around midnight. After midnight is when the hard-core denizens are about.

Reservations are highly recommended at the better restaurants.

Kabukichō is the kind of place that, if you are looking for a particular type of entertainment and are willing to pay for it, you'll probably find it. But its reputation is highly exaggerated. You can ignore the nightclub touts (and they won't waste their time on couples in any case); and if you are solicited by a prostitute you may want to consider what behavior patterns you were exhibiting to make her think that you would be a potential client.

[for african AMERICANs, its dangerous alright, because the africans GENERALLY don`t like african-americans. one (african) picked a fight with me last night. i ignored him and immediately left the area. i hope he (Ishihara) gets them on visa problems as well... they are making us all look bad. now store owners follow me around the store. they never used to do that. it`s becoming like america.]<IP_ADDRESS> 03:06, 15 May 2007 (UTC)yfs (forgot my password)
 * Yeah, it's a terrible shame that African-American culture has gotten so bad that people the rest of the world over (particularly African Africans) should be upset and angry over it. Also, of course, a terrible shame that you should be the victim of discrimination and treated like just any other African-American. But, you really have to admit, there's a huge swath of people in the States who have no respect for authority whatsoever, or for other people in general, and rather deserve whatever's coming to them for making black people look bad.

Passive Text
I'm concerned about the way much of this article is written. It is written in a style that is not encyclopedic. It does not state facts, but rather makes judgements based on values. The text is very passive. for example, the paragraph:

"Nonetheless, Kabukichō's reputation of being a dangerous or otherwise unseemly area is highly exaggerated. There is little reason for visitors to be concerned for their physical safety. With this said, women, especially foreign women, are advised to be wary of harassment or solicitation, particularly recruitment for employment in hostess clubs. Couples are never harassed; and in the early evening there are numerous adult couples, some with children in tow, patronizing the high-class establishments. Lone individuals wandering the area aimlessly late at night are a different matter"

This paragraph has no citations and is written by someone who clearly has a 'viewpoint' of the town, like someone trying to advertise the town. I recommend it be sharpened up. Although it reads nicely, I don't think it is written in an encyclopedic fashion. Loki at6 08:01, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

It's been a month and a half and nothing's been changed. Parts of this article are clearly written by someone with biases, and perhaps a vested interest in making this place sound nice. I'm sure it is nice, but this is an encyclopedia not a tourist pamphlet. If it isn't altered soon I will change it myself on the grounds that it is not encyclopedic and is POV.Loki at6 02:32, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Furthermore, the following paragraph has a fundamental problem:

"Crimes caused by illegal immigrants are also a problem. According to a 2002 report by the Immigration Bureau, 75.6% of the illegal immigrants are either Korean, Chinese, Thai, or Russian. But since the bureau set up an office in Kabukichō in 2003, the number of illegal immigrants here have reduced drastically."

Although there is a reference for the statistics on illegal immigrants, there is not reference for the fact 'crimes caused by illegal immigrant are... a problem". If there is no evidence of this then the whole paragraph is unwarranted, and almost borders on racist. To give this statistic is totally unnecassary since it bares no significance at all on whether or not the crimes are a problem or whether or not they are performed by illegal immigrants. Loki at6 02:39, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

 * Feel free to edit the article (see WP:BOLD). The following templates may also be of some use to you: Fact, POV-statement, Verify source. Bendono 02:49, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Good statements. There is a serious problem with racism and xenophobia in some area's of Japan; attributing crime to "illegal immigrants" is one way that it's been seen to manifest. Also, that nonsense about African-Americans above is pure racist drivel. The vast majority of African-American's are law abiding; crime rates among African-Americans seems disproportionate because the poverty among African Americans is disproportionate-a correlation can be made, reasonably, between the two. Negative attitudes about Blacks in Japan have existed since slaves where seen on the Black Ships, and have continued ever since-that being said, plenty of Japanese persons treat Black folk like any other folk (mostly the younger generations). ````Christopher —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 23:07, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Someone has sanitized this entry entirely too much. While there is mention of massage parlors, love hotels etc., there seems to be no explicit mention that prostitution occurs, nor of the methods of solicitation. One is almost given the impression that it is the only red-light district in the world that doesn't have prostitutes. In fact the only explicit mention of brothels is to tell the reader that many have been shut down.  Anyone, at least any male, that has ever been there can tell you that you literally cannot take ten steps into the place without being solicited by various male touts wandering the area.  When I was last there with a friend, I had been past the entrance (the famous one pictured in the entry) for less than thirty seconds(this is not an exaggeration) before I was told that "shower, massage, sex" would cost me 18000 yen.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 17:23, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

I feel sad about the prejudice in this article
I think most of us can agree that this article has some serious prejudices that linger. Apparently by reading this, one would think that by reducing illegal immigrants, crime has been greatly reduced. What kind of crime are we talking about? Illegally working, or assault? Of course there is no citation to support this outlandish argument, other than that a crude note at the bottom of the page which explains the primary source of this article is the Japanese version of wikipedia. (Just don't ask me what pages the Japanese version cited, because I'm afraid to look and find nothing.)

I feel sorry for the people who continue to digest whatever racist, discriminatory, prejudiced, and/or xenophobic garbage the Japanese version contains. It doesn't reflect well on the people who write those articles, or who read them, and then still permit them to exist. --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 08:53, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

The African hustlers in Kabukicho are extremely aggressive. It's hard to ignore them when they grab you and insult you, but responding to them is even worse. There's no way they can be good for any kind of business in the area. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 06:52, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Man, you aren't kidding about the African hustlers being aggressive. When I was there last in 2006, one of them actually followed me and a friend around the entire district trying to entice us to enter a bar/strip club.  He even followed us into a Circle K that is located on the outskirts of the district.  The fact that we told him no at least a dozen times had no discernible effect.  And when he finally left us alone, he accused us, no I am not kidding, of racism for not following him.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 17:11, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

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Requested move 8 October 2020

The result of the move request was: Moved, uncontested (non-admin closure) BegbertBiggs (talk) 16:02, 17 October 2020 (UTC)

Kabukichō, Tokyo → Kabukichō – there is only one with this name. Gryffindor (talk) 23:38, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

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Hello!
I'm finally getting into the brave new world of wikipedia editing!

I'm a graduate student at the University of Oxford where I work broadly on matters covering the law, politics, and human rights.

Right now, I'm having fun setting up my user page and doing the odd edit where I think my knowledge and expertise could be valuable to all. I would always be glad to hear from you.

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DCMO

DCMO (military)
The Deputy Chief Management Officer is a senior military official in the United States Department of Defense who reports directly to the United States Secretary of Defense.

"'The Deputy Chief Management Officer (DCMO) is the Principal Staff Assistant and advisor to the Secretary of Defense and Deputy Secretary of Defense for matters relating to the management and improvement of integrated defense business operations. In this role, the DCMO leads the synchronization, integration, and coordination of the DoD’s business functions to ensure optimal alignment in support of the warfighting mission. The DCMO leads the Office of the DCMO.'"

DCMO (technology)
DCMO (Device Capability Management Object) is an Open Mobile Alliance specification that allows a management authority to make use of the functionalities provided by OMA DM v1.2 protocol to remotely manage the device capabilities. (follow this link: http://www.openmobilealliance.org/Technical/release_program/docs/DCMO/V1_0-20081024-C/OMA-TS-DCMO-V1_0-20081024-C.pdf for more details)

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ricostruire

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to rebuild, to reconstruct
 * 2)  to restore
 * 3)  to reconstruct by deduction (e.g. the facts of a crime)
 * 4)  to describe in detail (e.g. events in a story)

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Chinese (Mandarin)/Lesson 4

=Lesson 4: Word order and Verbs=

Subject-Verb-Object
The order of most Chinese sentences, like in English, is S-V-O, that is Subject-Verb-Object.

 * 我看这本书.
 * 我看這本書.
 * Wǒ kàn zhè běn shū.
 * I read this book.

Word order in Chinese is more rigid than in English. However, sometimes you may find sentences that seem to defy normal word order. For example, 我住在中国. wǒ zhù zài zhōngguó. The English translation does this too: I live in China. The reason for this is that "in China" is a preposition (prepositions indicate place or time) that is tacked on to the main sentence—"I live." More examples:

 * 下午一点半，我们走.
 * Xiàwǔ yīdiǎn bàn, wǒmen zǒu.
 * At 1:30 in the afternoon, we'll go.

 * 在青岛，我看到了.
 * Zài qīngdǎo, wǒ kàn dào le.
 * In Qingdao, I saw it.

As in English, a preposition can also appear after a subject.

 * 我在我家看这本书.
 * 我在我家看這本書.
 * Wǒ zài wǒ jiā kàn zhè běn shū.
 * I read this book at my house.

 * 我明天看这本书.
 * 我明天看這本書.
 * Wǒ míngtiān kàn zhè běn shū.
 * I will read this book tomorrow.

When using both a preposition for time and a preposition for place, put the preposition for time first.

 * 我明天在我家看这本书.
 * 我明天在我家看這本書.
 * Wǒ míngtiān zài wǒ jiā kàn zhè běn shū.
 * I will read this book at my house tomorrow.

 * 明天在我家，我看这本书.
 * 明天在我家，我看這本書.
 * Míngtiān zài wǒ jiā, wǒ kàn zhè běn shū.
 * Tomorrow at my house, I will read this book.

 * 明天，我在我家看这本书.
 * 明天，我在我家看這本書.
 * Míngtiān, wǒ zài wǒ jiā kàn zhè běn shū.
 * Tomorrow, I will read this book at my house.

Note the variation in word order. You can also place a preposition for place, but not for time, at the end of a sentence.

 * 我看这本书在我家.
 * 我看這本書在我家.
 * Wǒ kàn zhè běn shū zài wǒ jiā.
 * I read this book at my house.

Topic-Comment
Another structure for Chinese sentences is topic-comment. That is, the first thing mentioned is the topic of discussion and then the speaker will add a comment following that.

It is used to emphasize a certain part of the sentence. In the following example, the speaker wants to emphasize that he is going to read the particular book being discussed.

 * 这本书，我明天在我家看.
 * 這本書，我明天在我家看.

Zhè běn shū, wǒ míngtiān zài wǒ jiā kàn.
 * I will read this book tomorrow.

Comparisons Using bǐ [比]

 * 她比我忙.
 * Tā bǐ wǒ máng.
 * She is busier than I am.

 * 东尼也比我忙很多.
 * 東尼也比我忙很多.
 * Dōngní yě bǐ wǒ máng hěn duō.
 * Tony is also a lot busier than I am.

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Topic talk:Physical fitness

Yeah, I'll admit it's a bloody ugly mess right now, but it's a work-in-progress. Have to admit I'm still familiarizing myself with Mediawiki, but this page will get better over time. If anyone wants to pretty the place up a bit, I'd be much obliged. --Ex Machina 19:31, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Anne Weightman

== Hi! I'm new to this, so I hope I will be forgiven. Some new information for someone else to process, if they are interested. It's not sourced: it's just snippets which might inspire someone to write a more in-depth article ==

10:07, 23 April 2013 (UTC)Numanonja (talk)Anne Weightman Walker Penfield (1844 - February 25, 1932), was a philanthropist, and one of the richest women in world in 1904.

She was born in 1844 to William Weightman and his wife Louisa Stellwagen (1823-1884), daughter of Joseph Stellwagon and Anna Maria Ford. William and Louisa married in 1841. He made his initial fortune from manufacturing quinine for the treatment of malaria, which was greatly in demand during the Civil War, and later in real estate. He had three children, William, John Farr and Anne Marie Weightman. Both sons earned an M.D. degree and eventually worked with their father in the chemical manufacturing company. They each died in their 40's but left a number of descendants. By the time the Quinine King died in 1904 his fortune was variously estimated to be worth between 30 and 70 million dollars, and he left it all to his daughter, give or take a few bequests, such as $750,000 to his grandson, William Walker Weightman III.

His eldest son William Jr. married the socially ambitious Sabine Josephine d’Invilliers and they had 6 daughters. (Please note, as an aside: Thomas Parke D'Invilliers is both a pen name of Francis Scott Fitzgerald and a character in his quasi-autobiographical first novel, This Side Of Paradise.) Sabine challenged the will in court, claiming there was a missing codicil.

His second son, John Farr Weightman (15 August 1845/50-1886), married Martha Thomas Rogers (1848-1903) in 1871. In the 1870 census, John Farr (25) was living at home with his parents William (56) and Louisa (48). From now on it gets confusing. One account says he had three children, two of whom died in infancy, and one who survived him: William Walker Weightman III (4 February 1895 – 1965). And now the data makes no sense at all, because one source says that William Walker Weightman III was 8 when his father died and his uncle, Aubrey H. Weightman, alleging that his mother was unfit and a danger to the child, gained guardianship of him. None of this makes sense. If Aubrey was an uncle, he must have been a brother of John Farr Weightman’s: but he was a son. John Farr died in 1886: WWWIII is said to have been born in 1895. So WWWIII cannot have been John Starr’s son, although he was acknowledged by William Senior to be his grandson in his will. Grandfather? Grandson? Are there other relationships at play here? And why was he given the middle name Walker, presumably after Robert Jarvis Cochran Walker, the man his aunt, Anne Marie, eventually married? Additionally, we do have a motive for Aubrey taking control: WWWIII inherited $750,000 in his ‘grandfather’s’ will in 1904. So let’s play around a little. We find John Farr and Martha in the 1880 census. He is 30, she is 25 and her middle name starts with an F. They have two sons, Malcom R. Weightman (6) and Aubrey H. Weightman (3), and 4 servants. I have no idea what happened to Malcom. Aubrey (circa 1878-1954) married more than once, and we find him in the 1910 census as a 33 year old widower, living in New Jersey with his mother-in-law and his two daughters, Fanny (5) and Martha (3). He may have been divorced by an Helen Potter in 1947. His last wife seems to have been Mary Pape (1893-1958).

The reason I ask all these questions is that young WWWIII went on to have a rather notorious career. Coincidence is a very strange thing: researching Anne Marie’s husband, Robert J. C. Walker, while unsuccessfully trying to find a marriage date for the couple, I note that a Robert J. C. Walker and a woman called Annie had a child called William Wrightman Walker on the 6th of Jan 1865 in Philadelphia. Reference ID: bk 1865 p 8/GS Film number:1289309/Digital Folder Number: 004198957/Image Number: 00379. Annie Weightman, who soon afterwards changed her name to Anne, would have been about 20 at that time. A man born in 1865 called William Wrightman Walker could well have been the father of a son called William Walker Weightman, born in 1895, who would have been about 8 when his grandfather died in 1904, and whose grand-uncle’s name would have been Aubrey. And the existence of this William Wrightman Walker might be the source of mysterious rumours about a beloved grandson who was given 4 million dollars and who ‘died overseas at the age of 21’. Those details are a smokescreen of sorts. I suspect that William Walker Weightman III was really a great-grandson. This may go some way to explaining the mysterious secret note which halted the legal dispute over the old man’s will in 1904, and Anne Marie’s attachment to the Catholic Church.

His daughter, Anne Marie, married Robert Jarvis Cochran Walker (Robert J. C. Walker), an attorney and congressman. He died 19 December 1903 at the age of 65. Anne inherited approximately $10 million from her husband and lived with her father at Ravenhill, in the East Falls section of Philadelphia. After the deaths of her brothers, father, and husband, Anne Marie ran the Powers and Weightman Company for several months in 1904.

To summarise, William died in 1904 at the age of 91, by which time his two sons had predeceased him. Ravenhill passed to Anne. A spectacular court case ensued over William’s $60 million fortune when her widowed sister-in-law, Sabine Josephine d’Invilliers Weightman, now Mrs Jones Wister, sued for part of the estate. In court, a letter, or note, was given to the legal team. When they shared the contents with Mrs Jones Wister, she fainted. She later rallied, suggesting that William Senior had been of unsound mind, because he had made advances to her after her husband’s death. Whatever the truth of the matter, Anne won the case: took the money, and later made bequests to her sister-in law’s children in her own good time.

The alleged grandson, who inherited $750,000 in his grandfather’s will, had an adventurous life as a wealthy young man. He was eventually convicted of bigamy: ‘William Weightman III was the grandson of William Weightman, and a bigamist who tried to commit suicide in 1926. In 1925 he was convicted of bigamy and sentenced to two years in prison. On July 10, 1926 he was sent back to Auburn Prison by a grand jury in Vineland, New Jersey. When his second wife left him he tried to commit suicide with a pistol on November 10, 1926. He had four wives in all. (Wiki) He was interested in cars, planes, speed, women and the theatre, and the Press called him Wild Bill. I think he later received another $100,000 from Anne’s estate in 1933. Anne went on to marry Frederic Courtland Penfield (1855-1922), an orientalist and diplomat, in 1908. To celebrate her wedding she gave $1 million to charity, which must have come as an unpleasant surprise to the rest of the family. Penfield became the United States Ambassador to Austria-Hungary from 1913 to 1917. During the period of United States neutrality (1914-1917) in World War I, he took care of the interests in Austria-Hungary of several of the belligerents.

After her husband’s death, Anne had a strange little interlude dabbling in theatrical productions in New York, which seems out of character.

When she died, only $20 million of the original estate remained. ````numanonja

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Consciousness studies/One-hand clapping

The title comes from a zen koan. The respected buddhist 18th century monk Hakuin would walk into a village and catch the attention of prospective students by raising his hand aloft and saying 'Who can hear the sound of one hand clapping?'.

To catch the attention of students with a single thing, and then from there, the student may explore the different understandings we have made throughout history.

A useful exercise which monks put themselves through on their search for enlightenment is single-pointed meditation. When they look at a chair, for example, they think of the materials and how they were brought there; the manufacturing of the materials; the original maning of the base materials; the processes that materials undergo industrially; the history of these processess; or starting from a completely different angle, the use of a chair in society; the meaning of thrones, toilets, the evolution of the chair; or again, the sound of the word associated with the object; and so on. We can use this thinking exercise to present all human knowledge relative to a single thing.

A good example is a lighter. To hold up a lighter and explain how it works, or what it means to us humans. Honestly, pick up a lighter, take a look at it, use it, and let your mind pursue all the directions of knowledge it is capable of. Imagine a site where you can follow the different explanations, which might involve experiments, so that an eager student can pursue lines of thinking into the vast knowledge base that is human. Once they get lost, they can always return to the thing in their hands.

An example video can be found here: explain this.

Active participants
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Brandermill, Virginia

Brandermill is a major suburban residential and commercial development in the Southside of Richmond, Virginia. It is located near Midlothian, Virginia at the southern terminus of the Powhite Parkway and is centered on the Swift Creek Reservoir. The Census Bureau defines it as a Census-designated place (CDP), with a population of 13,730 as of 2020, slightly higher than its population in 2010 of 13,173.

History
Chesterfield County approved the planned community of Brandermill in 1974 and construction began in 1975. In 1977, Brandermill developers East West Partners (then known as "The Brandermill group") were recognized for their work when Brandermill was named "The Best Planned Community in America" by Better Homes and Gardens and the National Association of Home Builders. It was the first planned community in Chesterfield County. It has a golf course, a church, and 3 public schools adjacent to it: Swift Creek Elementary School, Swift Creek Middle School, and Clover Hill High School.

Notorious murderer John List was arrested while living in Brandermill.

List of Neighborhoods
There are several neighborhoods in the Brandermill development.

Parks and Recreation
The Brandermill development has various parks and recreational features. Brandermill has 15 miles of paved walking and cycling trails around the community. There are several parks and playgrounds located around Brandermill, such as those at Sunday Park, Nuttree Park, and Waterside Park. Brandermill's parks are not open to the public. Sunday Park has a private boat launch and marina for kayaking; a parking pass is required to access Sunday Park. There is also a marina located in Harbour Pointe. In addition to parks and boating, the Brandermill Country Club maintains an 18-hole golf course.

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User:AntiCompositeNumber/Lowell Canal System

The Lowell Power Canal System is the largest power canal system in the United States, at 5.6 miles in length. The system's estimated output is 10,000 horsepower, operating six major canals on two levels, controlled by numerous gates. The system was begun in the 1790s, beginning its life as a transportation canal called the Pawtucket Canal, which was constructed to get logs from New Hampshire down the Merrimack River to shipbuilding centers at Newburyport, Massachusetts, bypassing the 30-plus-foot drop of the Pawtucket Falls.

In the early 1820s, Associates of the recently deceased Francis Cabot Lowell bought up the old Pawtucket Canal in what was then East Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Within a few years, the new industrial center that became Lowell was using canals feeding off of a widened and deepened Pawtucket Canal as a direct power source for their textile mills. The first of these canals was the Merrimack Canal, which powered the Merrimack Manufacturing Company. The repurposing of the Proprietors of Locks and Canals allowed the Associates to sell water power to other companies, starting with the Hamilton Canal, leading to the explosive growth of the town, and then shortly thereafter, city, of Lowell.

By the late 1840s, Lowell's canal system was producing as much power as possible. However, the Chief Engineer of Locks and Canals, an Englishman by the name of James B. Francis devised the Northern Canal and the Moody Street Feeder, to increase the capacity of, and availability of water to various parts of, the whole system. The Pawtucket Gatehouse was constructed to control flow from behind the Pawtucket Dam into the Northern Canal.

The dam itself, which was built twenty years earlier, was lengthened at that time, diverting the entire Merrimack (during periods of lower flow) into the two canal system entrances above it. It is a stone dam topped with wooden flashboards – a system still used on this dam today. The level of the water is regulated by the flashboards and the metal pins that hold them back. When there is too much water going over the top of the dam, the pins bend backwards, releasing the boards, and the outflow of the dam is increased.

The Gatehouse contains ten wooden gates that control the flow of the Merrimack into the canal. Originally, they were opened by a Francis Turbine, also an invention of James B. Francis. Today, the Gatehouse is controlled electrically and remotely by Boott Hydroelectric, who is partially a continuation of the Proprietors of Locks and Canals, and who operates a 24-megawatt hydroplant on the Northern Canal.

The Canal System and the Gatehouse were designated a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the ASCE in 1984 and a Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark by the ASME in 1985 and are part of Lowell National Historical Park. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, and declared a National Historic Landmark the next year.

Timeline of canals

 * 1796: Pawtucket Canal
 * 1822: Merrimack Canal
 * 1825: Hamilton Canal
 * 1828: Lowell Canal
 * 1831: Lawrence Canal, Western Canal
 * 1835: Eastern Canal
 * 1847: Northern Canal, Moody Street Feeder, and Pawtucket Gatehouse


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inaniloquent

Etymology
From +  (from ); compare.

Adjective

 * 1) Tending to speak inanely; loquacious; garrulous.

Synonyms

 * inaniloquous

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User:Detective juanny at your service

Mysterious green lamp.

if you are like me and undoubtably many others, you may have noticed a strange green lamp that keeps popping up in movies, games, and other such media. This mystery has fascinated me, out of all the lamps, this strange green one is the most prevalent. If you are itching to know the name of this lamp, it is called A Green Bankers Lamp and I have seen it so much in my life that I'm beginning to suspect that there is a darker force at play. May it be aliens or the government? The most plausible situation in my opinion is that it is a Matrix like universe that we are in, by no means am I completely convinced or follow this idea wholeheartedly but I do not deny the possibility of it. This seemingly insignificant green lamp opens what I believe to be a door that humans have never taken seriously, I call it Probable Existence due to an Existential Anomaly. we will never be able to explain it to non interested individuals but to my friends who have taken notice to the green lamp anomaly: You are Not Alone

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User:Vuara/Ancient FAQ

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

How do I tell when to read from the right to the left or where to start?

This is perhaps the first obstacle to reading the script because the authors, at that time in history, had no solid agreement of which direction their symbols would be read or written. It appears that there is a preference for writing from right to left, opposite of what westerners are familiar with doing, and from bottom to top in the script associated with the Purgatory River area in Colorado. Another thing to keep in mind was that, quite often, the script is written in a deliberate and clever way so that the meaning of the phrase is more or less the same, no matter which direction it is read.

When it comes to the holy name of God, "Alef" or a circle is used to denote "Yah" or "El."

How do I tell when I have come to the end of one word and the beginning of the next word?

Ligatures are when two or more symbols are connected together to form a single shape. When grouped together like this, the entire ligature is usually a single word. Ordinarily, in old Negev script, the final letter of a word is repeated, signaling the end of the word. If there is more than one variant to any particular letter that terminates a word or phrase, the alternate sign is often placed next to the original sign. Another way that word breaks are indicated is in the deliberate rotation or enlargement of the last letter in a word string. It appears that each author had their own set of preferred rules but, with a little patience, the correct patter can usually be found with a little effort.

Many of the translations give me a collection of possible phrases -- how do I know which ones are correct?

Old Negev is a Hebrew dialect that was originally written without vowels. As variations in Hebrew dialects began to grow, vowel sounds were later added to standardize the exact sound of certain words and phrases. As a result, today there are several different words which have the same order and number of consonants but have different vowels. As a result, all of the possible words and meanings must be given equal weight. This may sound problematic but it is not. The different vowels that have been added to root words made of similar consonants all have similar root meanings so that the translation will usually be apparent regardless of the difference in vowels.

The order of concepts and grammar can vary as much as English. The subject, verb and object can be inverted (i.e. "I went to the store to buy bread," could also be written as "For bread I did go to the store," or "I go for bread to the store..."). It takes some practice and familiarity with the habits of the author(s) of the region in which the Negev script is found.

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Anthony John Moore

Born to the Son of a Soldier on the 21st September 1960 in Kingston, Jamaica.

Father is John William Moore And Mother is Lorna Whisken

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Ratna Vajra Rinpoche

Ratna Vajra Rinpoche (born 19 November 1974), is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher who served as the 42nd Sakya Trizin from 2017 to 2022, considered one of the highest qualified lineage masters of both the esoteric and exoteric traditions of Buddhist philosophy and meditation. He is a descendant of the famous Khon family in Tibet, which holds an unbroken lineage of great and famous masters for over a thousand years. He is the eldest son of the 41st Sakya Trizin Ngawang Kunga. He teaches Buddhism and travels extensively throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and North America. Ratna Vajra was enthroned as the head of the Sakya school on 9 March 2017. On 16 March 2022, the throne of the Sakya school was passed by Ratna Vajra to his younger brother Gyana Vajra, who became the 43rd Sakya Trizin.

Education
From birth, Rinpoche has been the recipient of blessings, empowerments, initiations and teachings from many of the foremost high lamas and scholars of this age. Most of these were bestowed by the 41st Sakya Trizin and others were bestowed by the 14th Dalai Lama, Chogye Trichen Rinpoche (1920–2007), Luding Khenchen Rinpoche and Dezhung Rinpoche (1906–1987). In addition to receiving many empowerments and teachings from the Sakya Trizin, he learned many facets of traditional rituals from him also.

On the 14th day of the 11th Tibetan lunar month, the anniversary of Sakya Pandita (20 December 1980), he began to receive the cycle of the precious uncommon Lam Dre teachings from the Sakya Trizin for the first time at Sakya Thubten Namgyal Ling monastery in Puruwala, India.

At the age of six, he started his formal education under the tutorship of Venerable Rinchen Sangpo. He took his first oral examination on 10 October 1981 in the presence of his tutor Sakya Trizin and prominent members of the Sakya Centre on The Remembrance of the Triple Gem, The Three Heap Sutra, The Confession Sutra, the extended lineage Guru's prayers and several other texts. Since then, he has taken many oral examinations, including the examinations in which he had to lead special rituals in the Sakya Centre. In 1986 he performed his first meditation retreat together with his mother, Gyalyum Kushok Tashi Lhakee.

In 1987, when Rinpoche was fourteen, he passed his first major examination at the Sakya Centre, Rajpur, India. Two years later, he completed all his basic studies of different rituals and scriptures. The following year, he entered the Sakya College and studied there for seven years. During that time, he studied Buddhist philosophy mainly under Khenpo Ngawang Lekshey Kunga Rinpoche (aka. Khenpo Migmar Tsering. 1955–1999). In 1998, he graduated with a Kachupa Degree, which is equivalent to a Bachelor's Degree.

From his adolescent years to adulthood, Rinpoche has sought and received numerous teachings from the great Sakya scholars including Khenchen Appey Rinpoche (1927–2010), Khenpo Kunga Wangchuk Rinpoche (1921–2008) and Khenpo Lungrik Senge. He has also completed many retreats on the principal deities of the Sakya tradition.

Family
On 12 September 2002, Ratna Vajra Rinpoche married Dagmo Kalden Dunkyi. Their first child, daughter Jetsunma Kunga Trinley Palter Sakya was born on 2 January 2007, the Parinirvana Day of Sakya Pandita, which is considered auspicious according to Tibetan custom.

Their son, Dungsay Akasha Vajra Rinpoche, was born on 27 March 2010, the 12th day of the 2nd month of the Tibetan calendar, the anniversary of the Paranirvana of Jetsun Drakpa Gyaltsen. His birth was accompanied by a slight earthquake in New Delhi where he was born. Such an event is considered an auspicious sign according to Tibetan belief. It portends that a great being has entered this world. On 24 January 2013 their second daughter, Jetsunma Kunga Chimey Wangmo Sakya, was born in Dehra Dun, India.

Ratna Vajra Rinpoche oversees the management of many Sakya monasteries and Sakya centers throughout the world.

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Tanner Dieterich

Tanner Dieterich (born May 4, 1998) is an American soccer player who plays as a midfielder.

Youth
After time with various youth teams in his native Tennessee, Dieterich spent time with both the Real Salt Lake academy in Arizona, as well as the IMG Academy in Florida.

College and amateur
Dieterich played four years of college soccer at Clemson University between 2016 and 2019, making 75 appearances, scoring 9 goals and tallying 13 assists. He captained the Tigers for three seasons and in 2019 he was named Second Team All-ACC.

While playing at college, Dieterich appeared for NPSL side Nashville FC in 2016, and in the USL PDL for Nashville SC U23.

Professional
On January 9, 2020, Dieterich was selected 28th overall in the 2020 MLS SuperDraft by Nashville SC. On February 25, 2020, Dieterich signed with Nashville.

On August 6, 2020, Dieterich was loaned out to USL League One side Charlotte Independence for the remainder of the season. He made his professional debut on August 15, 2020, appearing as a 67th-minute substitute in a 1–0 loss to Greenville Triumph.

Dieterich's contract with Nashville expired following the 2020 season.

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English in Use/Nouns

 * This page is written in English, and therefore needs to be translated at a later date to other languages for it to become more useful.

A noun, or noun substantive, is a part of speech (a word or phrase) which functions as the head of a noun phrase. The word "noun" derives from the Latin nomen meaning "name", and a traditional definition of nouns is that they are only those expressions that refer to a person, place, thing, event, substance, quality, or idea. They serve as the subject or object of a verb and as the governed term of a preposition, and can co-occur with articles and attributive adjectives.

There are different groups of nouns:

 * Common nouns—"chair",
 * Proper nouns—"Fred",
 * Abstract nouns—"love",
 * Collective nouns—"gaggle",
 * Compound nouns—"butterfly",
 * Verbal nouns—"triumphing".

Each of these different groups of nouns have different properties, each making them different in how we use them.

Thus, nouns are names of objects, places, people and things. They are used with adjectives to describe something, and with verbs to show an action.

Concrete nouns
Concrete nouns are proper nouns and common nouns.

Proper nouns
Proper nouns are the names of people, places, groups or dates: as, Adam, Boston, the Hudson, the Romans, the Azores, the Alps. They almost always have a capital letter as their first letter. Example:

 * "Timmy is not someone to be toyed with."No one likes to hear other people boast their talents.

Common nouns
Common nouns are the names of a sort, kind, or class, of beings or things: as, beast, bird, fish, insect, creatures, persons, children. They often refer to objects or things which we can see, touch and feel, like the word chair. Example:

 * "I sat at the table."

Individual nouns
Their refer to only one thing of the same kind, for eg: man, player, cow, chicken, minister.

Collective nouns
Collective nouns are the names of a groups of objects or many individuals together: as, council, meeting, committee, flock. Example:

 * "They are a group."

Abstract nouns
Abstract nouns are the names of some particular qualities considered apart from its substance: as, goodness, hardness, pride, frailty. They are often names of the things that we cannot touch or see, but are there all the same. Example:

 * "I think I've fallen in love!"

Verbal nouns
Verbal nouns or participial nouns are the names of some actions, or states of being; and are formed from a verb, like a participle, but employed as a noun: as,

 * "The triumphing of the wicked is short."—Job, XX, 5.

Sui generis
A thing sui generis, (i.e., of its own peculiar kind,) is something which is distinguished, not as an individual of a species, but as a sort by itself, without plurality in either the noun or the sort of thing: as, galvanism, music, geometry.

Adjectives made nouns

 * "The Ancient of days did sit."—Bible.
 * "Of the ancients."—Swift.
 * "For such impertinents."—Steele.
 * "He is an ignorant in it."—Id.
 * "In the luxuriance of an unbounded picturesque."—Jamieson.
 * "A source of the sublime;"—Burke.
 * "The vast immense of space:"—Murray.
 * "There is none his like."—Job, XLI, 33.
 * "A little more than a little, is by much too much."—Shakespeare.
 * "And gladly make much of that entertainment."—Sidney.
 * "A covetous man makes the most of what he has."—L'Estrange.
 * "It has done enough for me."—Pope.
 * "He had enough to do."—Bacon.
 * "All withers here; who most possess, are losers by their gain, stung by full proof, that bad at best, life's idle all is vain."—Young.
 * "Nor grudge I you the much the Grecians give, nor murmuring take the little I receive."—Dryden.

Pronouns made nouns

 * "A love of seeing the what and how of all about him."—Story's Life of Flaxman: Pioneer, Vol. i, p. 133.
 * "The nameless he, whose nod is Nature's birth."—Young, Night iv.
 * "I was wont to load my she with knacks."—Shak. Winter's Tale.
 * "Or any he, the proudest of your sort."—Shak.
 * "I am the happiest she in Kent."—Steele.
 * "The shes of Italy."—Shak.
 * "The hes in birds."—Bacon.
 * "We should soon have as many hes and shes as the French."—Cobbet's E. Gram., Para. 42.
 * "If, for instance, we call a nation a she, or the sun a he."—Ib., Para. 198.
 * "When I see many its in a page, I always tremble for the writer."—Ib., Para. 196.
 * "Let those two questionary petitioners try to do this with their whos and their whiches."—Spect: Ash's Gr., p. 131.
 * "Such mortal drugs I have; but Mantua's law is death to any he that utters them."—Shak.

Verbs made nouns

 * "Avaunt all attitude, and stare, and start theatric."—Cowper.
 * "A may-be of mercy is sufficient."—Bridge.
 * "Which cuts are reckoned among the fractures."—Wiseman.
 * "The officer erred in granting a permit."
 * "Feel darts and charms, attracts and flames."—Hudibras.
 * "You may know by the falling off of the come, or sprout."—Mortimer.
 * "And you have talked of sallies and retires."—Shak.
 * "For all that else did come, were sure to fail; yet would he further none, but for avail."—Spenser.

Participles made nouns (gerunds)

 * "For the producing of real happiness."—Crabb.
 * "For the crying of the poor and the sighing of the needy, I will arise."—Bible.
 * "Surely the churning of milk brings forth butter, and the wringing of the nose brings forth blood; so the forcing of wrath brings forth strife."—Prov., xxx, 33.
 * "Reading, writing, and ciphering, are indispensable to civilized man."
 * "Hence was invented the distinction between doing and permitting."—Calvin's Inst., p. 131.
 * "Knowledge of the past comes next."—Hermes, p. 113.
 * "I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me."—Sol. Song, vii, 10.
 * "Here's—a simple coming-in for one man."—Shak.
 * "What are your rents? What are your comings-in? O Ceremony, show me but your worth."—Id.

Adverbs made nouns

 * "In these cases we examine the why, the what, and the how of things."—L'Estrange.
 * "If a point or now were extended, each of them would contain within itself infinite other points or nows."—Hermes, p. 101.
 * "The why is plain as way to parish church."—Shak.
 * "It is heaven itself that points out an hereafter."—Addison.
 * "The dread of a hereafter."—Fuller.
 * "The murmur of the deep amen."—Sir W. Scott.
 * "For their whereabouts lies in a mystery."—Book of Thoughts, p. 14. Better.
 * "Bid them farewell, Cordelia, though unkind; you lose here, a better where to find."—Shak.

Conjunctions made nouns

 * "The if, which is here employed, converts the sentence into a supposition."—Blair's Rhet.
 * "Your if is the only peacemaker; much virtue is in if."—Shak.
 * "So his lordship decreed with a grave solemn tone, decisive and clear, without one if or but—that whenever the nose put his spectacles on, by daylight or candlelight—eyes should be shut."—Cowper.

Prepositions made nouns

 * "O, not like me; for mine's beyond beyond."—Shakspeare: Cymb., iii, 2.
 * "I.e., her longing is further than beyond; beyond anything that desire can be said to be beyond."—Singer's Notes.
 * "You whirled them to the back of beyont to look at the auld Roman camp."—Antiquary, i. 37.

Interjections or phrases made nouns

 * "Come away from all the lo-heres! and lo-theres!"—Sermon.
 * "Will cuts him short with a 'What then?'"—Sermon.
 * "With hark and whoop, and wild halloo."—Scott.
 * "And made a pish at chance and sufferance."—Shak.
 * "A single look more marks the internal wo, than all the windings of the lengthened oh."—Lloyd.

Inflections of Nouns
Nouns have modifications of genders, numbers, and cases.

Genders
Genders, in grammar, are modifications that distinguish objects in regard to sex.

There are three genders; the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter:

 * 1) The masculine gender is that which denotes persons or animals of the male kind: as, man, father, king.
 * 2) The feminine gender is that which denotes persons or animals of the female kind: as, woman, mother, queen.
 * 3) The neuter gender is that which denotes things that are neither male nor female: as, pen, ink, paper.

Hence, names of males are masculine; names of females, feminine; and names of things inanimate, literally, neuter.

 * Masculine nouns make regular feminines, when their termination is changed to ess: as,

 * Hunter, huntress; prince, princess; lion, lioness.

 * In some instances the syllable ess is simply added: as,

 * Accuser, accuseress; advocate, advocatess; archer, archeress; author, authoress; avenger, avengeress; barber, barberess; baron, baroness; canon, canoness; cit, cittess; coheir, coheiress; count, countess; deacon, deaconess; demon, demoness; diviner, divineress; doctor, doctoress; giant, giantess; god, goddess; guardian, guardianess; Hebrew, Hebrewess; heir, heiress; herd, herdess; hermit, hermitess; host, hostess; Jesuit, Jesuitess; Jew, Jewess; mayor, mayoress; Moabite, Moabitess; monarch, monarchess; pape, papess; or, pope, popess; patron, patroness; peer, peeress; poet, poetess; priest, priestess; prior, prioress; prophet, prophetess; regent, regentess; saint, saintess; shepherd, shepherdess; soldier, soldieress; tailor, tailoress; viscount, viscountess; warrior, warrioress.

 * In other instances, the termination is changed, and there is no increase of syllables: as,

 * Abbot, abbess; actor, actress; adulator, adulatress; adulterer, adulteress; adventurer, adventuress; advoutrer, advoutress; ambassador, ambassadress; anchorite, anchoress; or, anachoret, anachoress; arbiter, arbitress; auditor, auditress; benefactor, benefactress; caterer, cateress; chanter, chantress; cloisterer, cloisteress; commander, commandress; conductor, conductress; creator, creatress; demander, demandress; detractor, detractress; eagle, eagless; editor, editress; elector, electress; emperor, emperess, or empress; emulator, emulatress; enchanter, enchantress; exactor, exactress; fautor, fautress; fornicator, fornicatress; fosterer, fosteress, or fostress; founder, foundress; governor, governess; huckster, huckstress; or, hucksterer, hucksteress; idolater, idolatress; inhabiter, inhabitress; instructor, instructress; inventor, inventress; launderer, launderess, or laundress; minister, ministress; monitor, monitress; murderer, murderess; negro, negress; offender, offendress; ogre, ogress; porter, portress; progenitor, progenitress; protector, protectress; proprietor, proprietress; pythonist, pythoness; seamster, seamstress; solicitor, solicitress; songster, songstress; sorcerer, sorceress; suitor, suitress; tiger, tigress; traitor, traitress; victor, victress; votary, votaress.

 * In a few instances the feminine is formed as in Latin, by changing or to rix; but some of these have also the regular form, which ought to be preferred: as,

 * Adjutor, adjutrix; administrator, administratrix; arbitrator, arbitratrix; coadjutor, coadjutrix; competitor, competitress, or competitrix; creditor, creditrix; director, directress, or directrix; executor, executress, or executrix; inheritor, inheritress, or inheritrix; mediator, mediatress, or mediatrix; orator, oratress, or oratrix; rector, rectress, or rectrix; spectator, spectatress, or spectatrix; testator, testatrix; tutor, tutoress, or tutress, or tutrix; deserter, desertress, or desertrice, or desertrix.

 * The following are irregular words, in which the distinction of sex is chiefly made by the termination:

 * Amoroso, amorosa: archduke, archduchess; chamberlain, chambermaid; duke, duchess; gaffer, gammer; goodman, goody, or goodwife; hero, heroine; landgrave, landgravine; margrave, margravine; marquis, marchioness; palsgrave, palsgravine; sakeret, sakerhawk; sewer, sewster; sultan, sultana; tzar, tzarina; tyrant, tyranness; widower, widow.

Numbers
Numbers, in grammar, are modifications that distinguish unity and plurality.

There are two numbers; the singular and the plural.

The singular number is that which denotes but one: as,

 * "The boy learns."

The plural number is that which denotes more than one: as,

 * "The boys learn."
 * Plurals in meaning and form:

 * Analects, annals, archives, ashes, assets, billiards, bowels, breeches, calends, cates, chops, clothes, compasses, crants, eaves, embers, estovers, forceps, giblets, goggles, greaves, hards or hurds, hemorrhoids, ides, matins, nippers, nones, obsequies, orgies, piles, pincers or pinchers, pliers, reins, scissors, shears, skittles, snuffers, spectacles, teens, tongs, trowsers, tweezers, umbles, vespers, victuals.

 * Plurals by formation, derived chiefly from adjectives:

 * Acoustics, aeronautics, analytics, bitters, catoptrics, commons, conics, credentials, delicates, dioptrics, economics, ethics, extraordinaries, filings, fives, freshes, glanders, gnomonics, goods, hermeneutics, hustings, hydrodynamics, hydrostatics, hydraulics, hysterics, inwards, leavings, magnetics, mathematics, measles, mechanics, mnemonics, merils, metaphysics, middlings, movables, mumps, nuptials, optics, phonics, phonetics, physics, pneumatics, poetics, politics, riches, rickets, settlings, shatters, skimmings, spherics, staggers, statics, statistics, stays, strangles, sundries, sweepings, tactics, thanks, tidings, trappings, vives, vitals, wages, withers, yellows.

 * Plurals by composition:

 * Backstairs, cocklestairs, firearms, headquarters, hotcockles, spatterdashes, self-affairs. To these may be added the Latin words, aborigines, antipodes, antes, antoeci, amphiscii, anthropophagi, antiscii, ascii, literati, fauces, regalia, and credenda, with the Italian vermicelli, and the French belles-lettres and entremets.

Regular plurals
The plural form is usually represented orthographically by adding s to the singular form. The phonetic form of the plural morpheme is by default. When the preceding sound is a voiceless consonant, it is pronounced. Examples: boy makes boys; girl, girls; chair, chairs; cat, cats.

Where a noun ends in a sibilant sound, the plural is formed by adding es (pronounced ), which is spelled es if the word does not already end with e: glass makes glasses; dish, dishes; witch, witches; phase, phases; judge, judges.

Most nouns ending in o preceded by a consonant also form their plurals by adding es (pronounced ): hero makes heroes; potato, potatoes; volcano, volcanoes.

Nouns ending in a y preceded by a consonant drop the y and add ies (pronounced ): cherry makes cherries; lady, ladies.

Proper nouns (particularly those for people or places) ending in a y preceded by a consonant form their plurals regularly: Harry makes Harrys; Germany, Germanys.

This does not apply to words that are merely capitalised common nouns: as, P&O Ferries.

A few common nouns ending in a y preceded by a consonant form their plurals regularly: henry makes henrys; zloty, zlotys.

Words ending in ey form their plurals regularly, in order to avoid the unpleasant-appearing vowel sequence eie: monkey, monkeys.

Almost-regular plurals
Many nouns of Italian or Spanish origin are exceptions to the oes rule: canto makes cantos; piano, pianos; portico, porticos; quarto, quartos; solo, solos.

Many nouns ending in a voiceless fricative mutate that sound to a voiced fricative before adding the plural ending. In the case of changing to  the mutation is indicated in the orthography as well: calf makes calves; bath, baths; mouth, mouths; house, houses.

Some retain the voiceless consonant: proof makes proofs; moth, moths; place, places; dwarf, dwarfs or dwarves; hoof, hoofs or hooves; staff, staffs or staves; turf, turfs or turves; roof, roofs or rooves.

Irregular plurals
There are many other less regular ways of forming plurals. While they may seem quirky, they usually stem from older forms of English or from foreign borrowings.

Irregular Germanic plurals
The plural of a few Germanic nouns can also be formed from the singular by adding n or en, stemming from the obsolete weak declension: ox makes oxen; child, children.

The plural is sometimes formed by simply changing the vowel sound of the singular, in a process called umlaut (these are sometimes called mutated plurals): foot makes feet; goose, geese; louse, lice; man, men; mouse, mice; tooth, teeth; woman, women.

Some nouns have singular and plural alike, although they are sometimes seen as regular plurals: as, aircraft, sheep, deer, fish, cod, trout, head, cannon.

Generally, plurals refer to several species or kinds of animal, while the unmarked plural is used to describe multiple individual animals; one would say the classification of fishes, but five fish in an aquarium.

Irregular plurals of foreign origin
Such nouns often retain their original plurals. In some cases both forms are still vying: for a librarian, the plural of appendix is appendices; for physicians, the plural of appendix is appendixes. A radio engineer works with antennas and an entomologist deals with antennae. The "correct" form is the one that sounds better in context. Correctly formed Latin plurals are the most acceptable, in academic and scientific contexts. In common usage, plurals with s are sometimes preferred.

 * Final a becomes ae (also æ) or just adds s:

 * Formula makes formulae, lamina, laminae; macula, maculae; minutia, minutiae; nebula, nebulae; siliqua, siliqiuae; dogma, dogmas or dogmata; exanthema, exanthemas or exanthemata; miasm or miasma, miasms or miasmata; stigma, stigmas or stigmata.

 * Saliva and scoria have no occasion for the plural.

 * Final ex or ix becomes ices (pronounced or ) or just adds es. Of nouns in x, there are few, if any, which ought not to form the plural regularly, when used as English words; though the Latins changed x to ces, and ex to ices, making the i sometimes long and sometimes short: as,

 * Apex, apices, for apexes; appendix, appendices, for appendixes; calix, calices, for calixes; calx, calces, for calxes; calyx, calyces, for calyxes; caudex, caudices, for caudexes; cicatrix, cicatrices, for cicatrixes; helix, helices, for helixes; index, indices, for indexes; matrix, matrices, for matrixes; quincunx, quincunces, for quincunxes; radix, radices, for radixes; varix, varices, for varixes; vertex, vertices, for vertexes; vortex, vortices, for vortexes.

 * Some Greek words in x change that letter to ges: as, larynx, larynges, for larinxes; phalanx, phalanges, for phalanxes. Billet-doux, from the French, is billets-doux in the plural.

 * Final is becomes es (pronounced . Of nouns in is, some are regular: as, trellis, trellises: so, annolis, butteris, caddis, dervis, iris, marquis, metropolis, portcullis, proboscis.

 * Some seem to have no need of the plural: as, ambergris, aqua-fortis, arthritis, brewis, crasis, elephantiasis, genesis, orris, siriasis, tennis.

 * But most nouns of this ending follow the Greek or Latin form, which simply changes is to es: as, amanuensis, amanuenses; analysis, analyses; antithesis, antitheses; axis, axes; basis, bases; crisis, crises; diaeresis, diaereses; diesis, dieses; ellipsis, ellipses; emphasis, emphases; fascis, fasces; hypothesis, hypotheses; metamorphosis, metamorphoses; oasis, oases; parenthesis, parentheses; phasis, phases; praxis, praxes; synopsis, synopses; synthesis, syntheses; syrtis, syrtes; thesis, theses.

 * In some, however, the original plural is not so formed; but is made by changing is to ides: as, aphis, aphides; apsis, apsides; ascaris, ascarides; bolis, bolides; cantharis, cantharides; chrysalis, chrysalides; ephemeris, ephemerides; epidermis, epidermides.

 * So iris and proboscis, which we make regular; and perhaps some of the foregoing may be made so too.

 * Final ies remains unchanged: as, series, species.
 * Final on becomes a. Of nouns in on, derived from Greek, the greater part always form the plural regularly: as, etymons, gnomons, ichneumons, myrmidons, phlegmons, trigons, tetragons, pentagons, hexagons, heptagons, octagons, enneagons, decagons, hendecagons, dodecagons, polygons.

 * So trihedrons, tetrahedrons, pentahedrons, etc., though some say, these last may end in dra.

 * For a few words of this class, however, there are double plurals in use; as, automata or atomatons, criteria or criterions, parhelia or parhelions; and the plural of phenomenon appears to be always phenomena.

 * The plural of legumen is legumens or legumina; of stamen, stamens or stamina: of cherub, cherubs or cherubim; of seraph, seraphs or seraphim; of beau, beaus or beaux; of bandit, bandits or banditti.

 * Final um becomes a or just adds s: as, addendum makes addenda, medium makes media or mediums. Of nouns in um, some have no need of the plural: as,

 * Bdellium, decorum, elysium, equilibrium, guaiacum, laudanum, odium, opium, petroleum, serum, viaticum. Some form it regularly; as, asylums, compendiums, craniums, emporiums, encomiums, forums, frustums, lustrums, mausoleums, museums, pendulums, nostrums, rostrums, residuums, vacuums. Others take either the English or the Latin plural; as, desideratums or desiderata, mediums or media, menstruums or menstrua, memorandums or memoranda, spectrums or spectra, speculums or specula, stratums or strata, succedaneums or succedanea, trapeziums or trapezia, vinculums or vincula. A few seem to have the Latin plural only: as, arcanum, arcana; datum, data; effluvium, effluvia; erratum, errata; scholium, scholia.

 * Final us becomes i (second declension), era, ora (third declension), or just adds es (especially in fourth declension, where it would otherwise be the same as the singular): as, alumnus makes alumni, viscus viscera, corpus corpora, prospectus prospectuses.

 * But such as have properly become English words, may form the plural regularly in es; as, chorus, choruses: so, apparatus, bolus, callus, circus, fetus, focus, fucus, fungus, hiatus, ignoramus, impetus, incubus, isthmus, nautilus, nucleus, prospectus, rebus, sinus, surplus.

 * Radius makes radii or radiuses. Genius has genii, for imaginary spirits, and geniuses, for men of wit. Genus, a sort, becomes genera in Latin, and genuses in English. Denarius makes denarii or denariuses.

 * Of nouns in us, a few have no plural: as, asparagus, calamus, mucus.

 * Some have only the Latin plural, which usually changes us to i: as, alumnus, alumni; androgynus, androgyni; calculus, calculi; dracunculus, dracunculi; echinus, echini; magus, magi.

 * Final us in nouns of Greek origin "properly" add es. These words are also heard with the Latin i instead, which is sometimes considered "over-correct", but this is so common as to be acceptable in most circumstances, even technical ones: cactus makes cactuses or cacti; hippopotamus, hippopotamuses or hippopotami, octopus, octopuses, octopi, or octopodes; platypus, platypuses, rhinoceros, rhinoceroses or rhinoceri, uterus, uteruses or uteri.

 * Final as in one case of a noun of Greek origin changes to antes: Atlas makes Atlantes; atles, atlases.
 * Final ma in nouns of Greek origin add ta: stigma makes stigmata; stoma, stomata; zeugma, zeugmata.

 * Though some take s more commonly: schema makes schemata or schemas; dogma, dogmata or dogmas; lemma, lemmata or lemmas.

 * Some nouns of French origin add x: beau makes beaux; chateau, chateaux; bureau, bureaus or bureaux.
 * Nouns from Slavic languages: kniazhestvo makes kniazhestvos or kniazhestva; kobzar, kobzars or kobzari, oblast, oblasts or oblasti.
 * Nouns of Hebrew language origin add im, ot (generally m/f), or just s: cherub makes cherubim or cherubs; seraph, seraphim or seraphs; matzoh, matzot or matzos.

 * The Hebrew plurals cherubim and seraphim, being sometimes mistaken for singulars, other plurals have been formed from them.

 * Some nouns of Japanese origin have no plural and do not change: as, samurai, otaku.

 * However, other nouns such as kimonos, futons and tsunamis are more often seen with a regular English plural.

 * In New Zealand English, nouns of Maori origin can either take an s or have no separate plural form: as, waka makes waka; marae, marae; kohwai, kohwai or kohwais; tui, tuis or tui, kiwi, kiwi or kiwis.
 * Nouns from languages that have donated few words to English, and that are spoken by relatively few English-speakers, generally form plurals as if they were native English words: canoe makes canoes; kayak, kayaks; igloo, igloos; kangoroo, kangoroos; sauna, saunas; cwm, cwms; pizza, pizzas; kindergarten, kindergartens.

 * In Canada and Alaska, some words borrowed from Inuktitut retain traditional plurals: Inuk makes Inuit; inukshuk, inukshuit.

 * Some words of foreign origin are much better known in the plural. In common usage, the proper plural is considered the singular form. Back-formation has usually resulted in a regularized plural: candelabra makes candelabras; data, data; agenda, agendas or agendae; graffiti, graffiti; insignia, insignias; algae, algae or algaes; opera, operas; viscera, viscera; panini, paninis; phalanx, phalanges; magazine, magazines.

Cases
Cases, in grammar, are modifications that distinguish the relations of nouns or pronouns to other words.

There are three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective.

The nominative case
The nominative case is that form or state of a noun or pronoun, which usually denotes the subject of a finite verb: as,

 * "The boy runs;"
 * "I run."

The subject of a finite verb is that which answers to who or what before it: as,

 * "The boy runs."
 * Who runs? "The boy."

Boy is therefore here a noun in the nominative case, or nominative.

For example:
 * I eat an orange.
 * I buy a chocolate.
 * I love my family.
 * I love yellow.

The possessive case
The possessive case is that form or state of a noun or pronoun, which usually denotes the relation of property: as,

 * "My hat;"
 * "The boy's hat."

Boy is here a noun in the possessive case, or possessive.

The possessive case of nouns is formed, in the singular number, by adding to the nominative s preceded by an apostrophe; and, in the plural, when the nominative ends in s, by adding an apostrophe only: as, singular, boy's; plural, boys'; sounded alike, but written differently.

The objective case
The objective case is that form or state of a noun or pronoun which usually tells the object of a verb, participle, or preposition: as,

 * "I know the boy, having seen him at school; and he knows me."

The object of a verb, participle, or preposition, is that which answers to whom or what after it: as,

 * "I know the boy."
 * I know whom? "The boy."

Boy is therefore here a noun in the objective case, or objective.

The nominative and the objective of nouns, are always alike in form, being distinguishable from each other only by their place in a sentence, or by their simple dependence according to the sense.

For example:
 * I am playing with my football.
 * I take her bag.
 * Anoud's room is dirty.

The declension of nouns
The declension of a noun is a regular arrangement of its numbers and cases. Thus: Sing. Nom. friend,   Plur. Nom. friends, Poss. friend's,       Poss. friends', Obj. friend;         Obj. friends.

Sing. Nom. man,      Plur. Nom. men, Poss. man's,          Poss. men's,     Obj. man;            Obj. men.

Sing. Nom. fox,      Plur. Nom. foxes, Poss. fox's,          Poss. foxes', Obj. fox;            Obj. foxes.

Sing. Nom. fly,      Plur. Nom. flies, Poss. fly's,          Poss. flies', Obj. fly;            Obj. flies.

A short syntax
The subject must be in the nominative case, as "You say it."

The subject is placed before the attribute, as "Peace dawned on his mind," except the following cases: a question, as "How many loaves have you?" imperative mood, as "Go you," strong feeling, as "May she be happy!" a supposition, as "Were it true," neither or nor, as "Neither shall you touch it," emphasis, as "Here am I," no regimen, as "Echo the mountains round," dialogue, as "My name is Hassan," and the adverb there, as "There lived a man."

A noun in apposition is put in the same case as the noun it explains, as "But he, our gracious master, knows us."

A possessive is governed by the name of the thing possessed, as "Man's life."

A possessive comes immediately before the governing noun, as "Nature's peace," except the following cases: an intervening adjective, as "Flora's earliest smells," affirmation or denial, as "The book is not John's," a possessive without sign, as "Brother Absalom's house," or "David and Jonathan's friendship."

The predicate is governed by attribute in objective case, as "I found her."

A noun or a pronoun put after a non-transitive verb or participle, agrees in case with a preceding noun or pronoun referring to the same thing, as "The child was named John."

The case of absolute noun or pronoun depends on no other word, as "Your fathers, where are they?"

title: English in Use/Nouns


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File talk:Sukhoi crash grafitti in Solo.jpg

Sukhoi grafitti at Solo
lifted from my talk page

Dear Benny,

If, by chance, you'd know the authors of this grafitti, would you please be so kind to thank them from a friend in a very far away land?

If you don't know them or this is not possible for any other reason, I appreciate it the same.

Terima kasih! --MaeseLeon (talk) 02:49, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

 * If you happen to be the author of this grafitti, you have at least two person (the other one is me!) gratitude you.
 * @MaeseLeon, the grafitti signature is by Nik2 (Nik-nik) Foundation. I've never heard of them before, but I'll ask around to send them your message.
 * Bennylin (yes?) 08:42, 11 July 2012 (UTC)


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B3 Biennial of the Moving Image

The B3 Biennial of the Moving Image (German: B3 Biennale des bewegten Bildes) is a cross-media moving image festival in Frankfurt, Germany. It features films, media art, games, and artistic confrontations with VR, AR and MR by international artists and creative minds. The main focus of the biennial is on the international discourse on the moving image and the developments in storytelling in the digital age.

As a successor to eDIT Filmmaker’s Festival in Frankfurt, it has been held at various venues in Frankfurt since 2013 – initially every other year, since 2019 annually. In 2019, B3 took place for the first time in collaboration with the culture festival THE ARTS+ at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

In addition to films and exhibits, there are lectures, panel discussions, workshops and an awards ceremony where works from all moving image categories compete for the B3 BEN Award.

The exhibits shown in the past include:

 * 2013: a six meter wide dome for 360-degree FullDome-video projections at Weißfrauen-Diakoniekirche
 * 2015: world premiere of the split screen video "The Wall – The Vertical Horizon" by Rotraut Pape, realized over the course of 25 years
 * 2017: a 110-meter-long panorama on the facade of Städtische Bühnen Frankfurt featuring the video installation "The Great Farce" by Federico Solmi
 * 2020: the entire biennial was virtual and all talks (e.g. with Terry Gilliam, Atom Egoyan etc.) were streamed in a specifically created online format. Host like Johannes Grenzfurthner led through the multi-day virtual event.

The B3 is hosted by the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main (University of Art and Design Offenbach). Its artistic director is the president of the university, Prof. Bernd Kracke.

History
The festival start of the Biennial of the Moving Image was 2013 with its theme "Expanded Narration". The B3 festival strives to explore the expansion of narration and storytelling in art, games, cinema, TV series, immersion and transmedia. 2013, eleven awards were offered: B3 Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award, BEN Grand Prize, BEN Young Talent Award, and Ultrashort #B3expandednarration and #B3live. The first B3 Main Award was given to Laurie Anderson.

In 2015, the B3 explored the theme "Expanded.Senses. Art Body Communication". It focused on art, film, TV, games, web, design, and science and cooperated with the Gamescom and the Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing (CAFA). The cooperation with the CAFA was formative for the festival. In June 2015, 60 contemporary Chinese artists were presented in the exhibition "B3+Beijing: Moving in Time". 10 of these artists were presented at the B3 Biennial in Frankfurt. The ten award winners of the exhibition were represented at the Biennial in Frankfurt. The main B3 BEN Award went to Brian Eno.

In 2017, the Biennial attracted around 43,000 visitors. It focused its exhibitions, filmscreenings and conference program on the four main themes art, film, games and VR/AR/MR. The 110-meter-wide media art work "The Great Farce" received a particularly large media response. Its creator is Frederico Solmi.

In 2019, the B3 Festival focused on art, film, games, AR/VR/MR, AI and immersive video environments. In this year, the main exhibition was held in cooperation with THE ARTS+. The main exhibition as well as the Presentation of the B3 BEN Award took place at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The second venue, the VR_PARK, filmscreenings and VR-Works with a focus on political commentary and personal lifeworlds were presented.

In 2020, the B3 Biennial had to be held as a hybrid format with its guiding theme "Truths" due to corona. This year, works in the categories Film, Art, Games and XR were presented. XR, Extended Reality, is a generic term for Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality. The opening ceremony as well as the B3 BEN Awards and the film award ceremonies were streamed from the Astor Film Lounge in Frankfurt. The film and conference program were held virtually.

B3 BEN Award
The winners of the main awards from 2013 to 2020 are:

 * Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau (2022)
 * Dardenne brothers (2022)
 * Oliver Stone (2021)
 * Hito Steyerl (2021)
 * Willem Dafoe (2020)
 * Steve McQueen (2019)
 * Jonas Mekas & Ingvild Goetz (2017)
 * Brian Eno (2015)
 * Laurie Anderson (2013)

The current categories of the B3 BEN Awards are:
 * Lifetime Achievement Award
 * Most Influential Artist
 * Best Emerging Talent
 * Best VR/AR/MR Experience
 * Best Immersive and Time Based Art
 * Best Feature Film
 * Best Short Film
 * Best Documentary

As well as the B3 Rotraut Pape Inspiration Award.

Trailer

 * B3 2022 Trailer
 * B3 2021 Teaser
 * B3 2020 Trailer
 * B3 2019 Trailer
 * B3 2017 Teaser
 * B3 2015 Trailer
 * B3 2013 Trailer

Literature
Bernd Kracke/Marc Ries (Hrsg.): On Desire. Positionen zeitbasierter und immersiver Künste / Positions of time-based and immersive arts. transcript, 29 March 2018, 200 pages. ISBN 978-3-8376-4285-8

Bernd Kracke, Marc Ries (Hrsg.): Expanded Senses. New Conceptions of the Sensual, Sensorial and the Work of the Senses in Late Modernity. Frankfurt am Main, 2015. ISBN 978-3-8376-3362-7

Bernd Kracke, Marc Ries (Hrsg.): Expanded Narration. Das Neue Erzählen. transcript, 7 November 2013, 800 pages. ISBN 978-3-8376-2652-0

title: B3 Biennial of the Moving Image