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= July 7 =

Why was he born so beautiful?
The above question about national anthems that have been parodied led me to mention "Why was s/he born so beautiful, why was s/he born at all". I put it into an Australian context, because I have always assumed it's an Australian song. I've only ever heard it at Australian birthday parties – if only because I've never attended a birthday party while overseas. It even borrows the tune of what later became our national anthem, Advance Australia Fair. But I was surprised to see no mention of it in that article or even the talk page, so I thought I'd do a bit of digging and find when and where it originated.

A quick look at Google tells me it's strongly associated with rugby or other forms of football – but with no special link to Australia. The first mention of anything Australian was this link, which says: "The renewed debate about the worthiness of Advance Australia Fair has prompted this musing from Anita Ryan, of Margaret River, WA: 'Is it just my imagination, or is our national anthem set to the tune of Why Was She Born So Beautiful?'"

So, rather than the ditty borrowing the tune of the anthem, the suggestion (perhaps not entirely serious) is that the borrowing was in the reverse direction.

All this is telling me that my own experience of the song is not a reliable guide to its provenance. I'm not a football lover, so I wouldn't have known it had any association with that family of sports.

My searches so far just confirm it sometimes uses bawdy lyrics (that are repeated ad infinitum), that it's a "football song" or a "rugby song" and so on, but I have yet to see any info about who first wrote the words and when, and what tune they used. Has the tune changed, or is it sung to different tunes in different places? Was it really set to the tune of Advance Australia Fair, or did that just sort of evolve antipodistically? Most importantly, did it predate Advance Australia Fair (1878), and is it even remotely possible the tune of our hallowed national anthem is based on a pre-existing bawdy rugby song from God-knows-where? -- ♬  Jack of Oz  ♬  [your turn]  00:33, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Can you give a link to this song being sung? The only clear version I could find was of some louts who sounded like they were singing "Miss Lucy had a baby". μηδείς (talk) 00:54, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Me too. There are a few YouTube versions, but they're of family parties or whatever and there's too much shouting going on to make out much.
 * Google and YouTube would have any reasonable researcher believing it goes:
 * Why was he born so beautiful?
 * Why was he born at all?
 * He’s no fucking use to anyone
 * He’s no fucking use at all.
 * I must have led an especially protected life, because the only version I’ve ever heard (always in polite company) is:
 * Why was he born so beautiful?
 * Why was he born at all?
 * Because he had no say in it
 * No say in it at all.

 * There are numerous hits for English and Welsh versions, all with the bawdy lyrics, and I guess if anyone knows about traditional bawdy raucous rugby songs, those good folk would.
 * Singing it after "Happy Birthday" is listed here as among the cliches Australians most love to hate, so that definitely proves it has a solid presence here.
 * This American site says he had no luck tracking down its origin. But then, he’s not the Wikipedia Reference Desk.  --  ♬  Jack of Oz  ♬  [your turn]  01:59, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
 * In Prime Suspect, Tennison gets this treatment from the lads after solving her first case. Sussexonian (talk) 07:15, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

 * There seems to be a parallel with the American birthday song, which has a boring "proper" version:

Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to (insert first name here), Happy birthday to you.

 * And the versions the kids sing when the adults leave the room, such as:

Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, You look like a monkey, And you smell like one, too.

 * StuRat (talk) 08:22, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

 * When I did my A level music in the mid 1970s, my music teacher had a collection of humourous records, one of which contained the "O why..." song set to music in various different styles. So you had a Baroque version (with "he's no sanguinary use" as the 3rd line), a jazz version, a plainchant version... Blowed if I can find a reference to it now. From what I can see it seems to have been common in World War 2 and features in quite a few Army song compilations. I'll keep looking. --TammyMoet (talk) 08:27, 7 July 2012 (UTC) Further to the OP's original question, the tune is a hymn tune but I can't remember which one it is. I'm asking around. It's definitely not Advance Australia Fair! --TammyMoet (talk) 08:33, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

 * OK. We're making headway here.   There are 3 different non-bawdy versions of the lyrics here.  More stuff here.  There’s a “hasher” version here.

 * The commentary at this YouTube clip of the final scene of the film if.... identifies the tune as the hymn tune "Ellacombe".  (If you’ve never seen if...., I advise you not to watch this clip as it will completely ruin your enjoyment of it when you do see it.  Fantastic movie, not often seen.)  We don't have an article on "Ellacombe", but this is a good instrumental  version of it, and reveals it's anonymous but has been used for a variety of hymns.  That prompts me to remember hearing people singing Why was he born to this tune, as well as to Advance Australia Fair.
 * The best known in the UK is the Easter hymn, The day of resurrection! Earth, tell it out abroad. Alansplodge (talk) 02:08, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
 * So, we have a song that's been sung to at least 2 different tunes and an apparently unlimited number of sets of lyrics. It's extremely well known in at least 3 major anglo countries - does anyone in NZ or Canada know this song?  Yet, its origins seem to be a complete mystery.   --  ♬  Jack of Oz  ♬  [your turn]  08:49, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

 * (after EC) The hymn tune is known today as "Ellacombe" and is first found in the Wurttemberg Gesangbuch (1784), thus predating AAF by a good century. I suspect the bawdy version has its origins around World War 1 but I've found nothing to back that up, just a hunch. --TammyMoet (talk) 08:52, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Right on. The two tunes have identical rhythmic patterns and are close enough melodically that one could easily morph into the other mid-song.  Footballers etc are not exactly known for their musical skills, so it's very easy to see how "Ellacombe" could get distorted in Australia to something very similar that they knew better, the tune of Advance Australia Fair.  For my money, that's as good as we're going to get on the tune.
 * That still leaves the words: who first dreamt them up, under what circumstances, and what was the original version? --  ♬  Jack of Oz  ♬  [your turn]  09:22, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
 * I've found a couple of mentions of Winston Churchill, upon arrival at Bristol in 1929 (to take up the position of University Chancellor) being greeted at Temple Meads station by students singing "Why was he born so beautiful, why was he born at all?" The 1979 Australian film ''Dimboola included the song to the tune of "Ellacombe" at a wedding reception as seen in this you tube clip.--Melburnian (talk) 14:22, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

 * The book "Fighting Songs and Warring Words" mentions that "The Erk's Lament" was based on OWWHBSB. As "Erk" is WW2 slang for the lowest ranked aircraftsman, that means OWWHBSB must predate World War 2. (I found this on Google Books, by the way.)--TammyMoet (talk) 16:27, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

Thanks all. The earliest mention seems to be 1929 at this stage (Churchill, per Melburnian). But there's no suggestion it was written for that occasion, so presumably it was already well known by then. I'll keep looking. -- ♬  Jack of Oz  ♬  [your turn]  12:28, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

Can someone familiar with "why was he born so beautiful?" listen to "miss lucy had a steamboat" and advise me if the melodies are the same? μηδείς (talk) 02:29, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
 * No, this is the right tune (the note attributing the music to Henry Smart is an error). Unless you're Australian, in which case it's this. Alansplodge (talk) 02:45, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Yet these guys seem to be using the Miss Lucy melody--am I mishearing them? μηδείς (talk) 02:54, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, you're quite right. I suspect the finer points of 19th century hymnody are lost on the younger generation. O tempora, O mores!. Here is a better class of drunken lout with the correct melody. Alansplodge (talk) 02:58, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

 * And here's the tune it is often sung to in Australia, or at least often morphs into at some undefined point of the song.  --  ♬  Jack of Oz  ♬  [your turn]  06:00, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

FWIW I've found a slightly earlier reference in 1928. Herbert Williams, MP for Reading, in the House of Commons 24 May 1928:

"...I was hoping that he [ David Lloyd George ] would have continued the very interesting disquisition which he gave in my constituency last Saturday, when the proceedings were enlivened by community singing. On the arrival of the right hon. Gentleman they sang: "Why was he born so beautiful?" Judging from the condition of his hon. Friends who have addressed the House, I think the song ought to have been: "Why was he born so pessimistic?" --Melburnian (talk) 11:38, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

 * And here's another mention of the same event referred to in parliament. It occurred on 19 May 1928.  --  ♬  Jack of Oz  ♬  [your turn]  21:17, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

 * I'm fairly certain that it's going to be WWI vintage. Another ditty to a well-known hymn tune was "Fred Karno's Army" to the tune of The Church's one foundation: We are Fred Karno's Army / Fred Karno's infantry. / We cannot march, / We cannot shoot, / What bloody good are we? / But when we get to Berlin, ? The Kaiser he will say; / Hoch! Hoch! Mien Gott! What a bloody fine lot! / Fred Karno's infantry." Alansplodge (talk) 17:15, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

 * I suspect you're right, but I really want to see confirmation. It was certainly created pre-1928, because it wouldn't have been mentioned in the way it was in those two 1928 cites if it had been a recently released song.  It was something that any MP/reader would have been expected to know, and the war had ended only 9 years earlier.  I've googled the title with "first world war", "world war I", "boer war", etc, but produced nothing of value. I checked out the sound track of Oh, What a Lovely War! but it wasn't listed.  Someone, somewhere, must have dreamt up the words ab initio.  Maybe it wasn't a songwriter as such, but just some ordinary soldier, who had no interest in seeing their name recorded for posterity, and who may have fallen in Flanders fields, never knowing their little ditty survived, caught on and continues to be sung to this day.  The words contain no military associations, so maybe it was written by someone who had no connection with the military or the war, apart from being alive at the time.  It wouldn't even surprise me if it predated the war.  --  ♬  Jack of Oz  ♬  [your turn]  21:17, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

 * A sort of indirect reference: The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA) Thursday 24 June 1937; "WIDER SCOPE OF NEW SOLDIERS' FUND - Appreciation Of Imperial Service Men... After insisting on the singing of "Why was he born so beautiful," His Excellency spent the next hour moving round the tables, chatting to those present and leading the singing of popular songs of the Great War vintage." Alansplodge (talk) 01:19, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Fascinating. Winston Dugan, 1st Baron Dugan of Victoria was that governor. Tks, Alan.  --  ♬  Jack of Oz  ♬  [your turn]  03:37, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

The march-like music composition played before every association football match
What is The march-like music composition played before every association football match, while the players are walking from inside the interior of the stadium to the play field? I think it was composed by Mozart — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 12:40, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Are you perhaps thinking of the FIFA anthem? -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 13:45, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
 * That is, the FIFA Anthem, composed by Franz Lambert. Ghmyrtle (talk) 10:56, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

There is no standard music played before every association football match. Each club chooses its own, although some tournaments may have a stipulated theme, like the Champions League. We are the champions is a common choice, but more idiosyncratic choices include Hi Ho Silver Lining (Wolves) and the theme tune from Z-cars (Everton). I think we used to have an article about this... I'll dig. --Dweller (talk) 23:36, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
 * The best I can find so far is a userspace draft, entirely focused on English club sides: User:U+003F/List of football entrance music --Dweller (talk) 07:23, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

 * This question maked me wonder, what is the organ tune played at american football (or was it baseball?) matches at the beginning? It is slowly starting then getting faster. --helohe (talk)  23:36, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Spoiler warnings in negative reviews
I've never understood one thing – if there is a negative review for, let's say a movie, and the review says right away to the reader not to see the movie, then why would the reviwer still either not spoil the movie's ending, or if he does so, place a spoiler warning? A review saying that a work is so bad that you should never, ever see it and yet explicitly declining to elaborate on the plot or ending, or having a spoiler warning seems strange to me. It would be understandable if it was a positive review and the reviewer was recommending the reader to see the work, but since it's a negative review, wouldn't it be logical to spoil the film's plot right away so that we would never need to see the film? As it is sometime said, "I watch it so you don't have to". Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 15:00, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

 * There are people who will only go and watch movies that the critics hate. It often seems to be the case that what critics hate, turns out to be very popular with the public. Given that, why should a critic spoil the plot for such people? --TammyMoet (talk) 16:22, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

 * In case you need an example, here's one. Note that many of the reviews I have seen for the work in question were negative. Narutolovehinata5 tccsdnew 16:26, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

 * It's not the job of a critic to either actively encourage readers (to go and see the movie or buy the book/CD or whatever) or actively discourage them. It's to provide one person's perspective, but presumably that of someone who knows a thing or two about the film industry/writing/music profession.  It should be balanced: very few films and books are so bad that there's absolutely nothing good to say about them; or vice-versa.  Critics should have no interest - particularly not a financial interest - in whether readers see the films they like and avoid the ones they dislike.  It would make no sense for a film critic to be employed by a film studio, or a book critic to be employed by a publishing house, as their freedom to provide frank and fearless independent opinions about their employers' products would be severely curtailed, and their reviews of other companies' products would be implicitly suspect.  So, they have to remain independent and professional, and it's not professional conduct to be revealing the endings of movies (except where it's already well known, like Titanic) or the punch lines of jokes.  Besides, a film critic doesn't waste space laboriously relating the plot.  A robot could do that.  They have to reveal certain aspects of the plot in order to have something to write about, but their focus should generally be macro rather than micro.  Sometimes a book critic will point out an unexpectedly high number of spelling errors, or the absence of an index that would have made the book far more useful and attractive; or other things (both positive and negative) the public ought to be aware of before choosing to buy the book.  But for a critic to come right out and say "I strongly advise you NOT to buy this book/CD/see this movie" is overstepping the boundaries.  I guess that wouldn't bother you if you watch TV talent shows where the judges, rather than remaining impartial and objective, become just like any other audience member and sometimes even lead the standing ovations that have now become obligatory fare for anyone who's not totally horrible.  Talk about devaluing special gestures once reserved for truly exceptional performances.  If everyone's that exceptional, then no one is.  --  ♬  Jack of Oz  ♬  [your turn]  21:26, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Critics will sometimes allude to an interesting ending, but not spoil what it is. They may not be earning money from the studios, but if they cross the line, they might be banned from preview screenings and the like, and that would tend to work against them. In the old days when I watched shows like Siskel & Ebert, I became aware that critics enter the theater with a predefined set of expectations. That may seem biased, but keep in mind they have seen thousands of films and know all the patterns. So if it meets or exceeds expectations, it's thumbs up, and if not, it's thumbs down. As Jack notes, it's not their job to lay out the plot line, but just to give you enough to decide whether you might like to see it, regardless of whether professional critics like it or not. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:11, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Speaking of Roger Ebert, I am reminded of his review of the 1994 film North where he famously and bluntly stated "I hated this movie. Hated, hated, hated, hated, hated this movie. I hated it." Yes, he did briefly explain what the film was about, but I guess he was too upset about its entire basis and that he really did not need to spoil the ending to make his point. Zzyzx11 (talk) 09:43, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
 * There is nothing bad one can say about The African Queen, Star Wars, Gosford Park, The Fifth Element, or O Brother, Where Art Thou, and nothing good one can say about The Phantom Menace, Catwoman (film), or Shaft (2000). μηδείς (talk) 22:04, 7 July 2012 (UTC) to all of that.  --  ♬  Jack of Oz  ♬  [your turn]  22:23, 7 July 2012 (UTC)
 * When the first Star Wars came out, most everyone loved it, but some criticized what they saw as the robots being human and the humans being cartoonlike. The box office figures indicated that was OK with the audience. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 22:11, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

 * The tricky part is when an otherwise decent movie has a terrible ending, like Total Recall. How can you tell them why the ending is bad without telling them what the ending is ? (SPOILER ALERT: The Martians apparently designed a system to terraform Mars in 30 seconds flat, but forgot to turn it on.) StuRat (talk) 05:56, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

 * There are ways. I think it was Leonard Maltin's book that said the ending of The Usual Suspects "invalidates the rest of the movie", but he doesn't say what the ending is. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 11:52, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Not sure I understand that critique. The ending was a "twist", meaning that what you thought was true was not, but this is intentional, so complaining that it invalidated the rest of the movie seems odd. StuRat (talk) 17:49, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

 * What Stu said. Such a criticism fits Suspicion remarkably well though, imho. Also Bunny Lake Is Missing to some degree. —Tamfang (talk) 22:13, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

 * The African Queen was spoilt by casting Katharine Hepburn who was slightly too old for the part and could not convincingly play an English woman. On the other hand Shaft 2000 could have been longer. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 16:27, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Hepburn plays a spinster, so I cannot possibly see her age as a problem. She spoke stage English natively, so I couldn't fault her for failing to portray a British accent--she didn't try.  Of the movies I listed above, this is the only one I couldn't praise for its cinematography.  But you'd have to hold me down and force me to listen to Lady Gaga while waterboarding me with Budweiser to admit it. μηδείς (talk) 21:50, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

 * I never mentioned her accent. I said she was not convincing as an English woman. As an aside, Borgart's accent was so bad they changed his part from British to Canadian. The point was that you made a statement about something that is down to individual taste. Which is why I no longer bother with reviews, preferring to judge a movie for myself. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 15:17, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Yes, they moved him to Tudor City, Canada. (Frankly, the accents were entirley irrelevant to the theme, characterization, and the effectiveness of the plot.)

 * I'm a bit lost here. If we put her accent to one side, what was it about the rest of her being/performance that did not convince you she was or could pass for an Englishwoman?  --  ♬  Jack of Oz  ♬  [your turn]  20:56, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

 * After all these years I'm really not sure but I do remember at the time being unconvinced by her. Anyway as I already said that wasn't the point. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 13:09, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

"Since I Don't Have You"
Does anyone have a hard copy of "Since I Don't Have You"? Our image of its cover has some background colors that have prompted a discussion at WP:MCQ regarding its copyright status; it would help to know if the spotty circular area of the black background is part of the original design or the result of a bad scan of what is actually pure black. Nyttend (talk) 20:19, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

 * I believe it's supposed to be pure black, but the circular pattern you are seeing is actual wear on the album cover, where it's pushed up by the CD inside. Doing Google searches, I see plenty without this, and only one with it, which appears to be an exact duplicate of our Wikipedia image: .  There is also a "STRICTLY LIMITED EDITION ORANGE VINYL" version of this album which does have a circular feature, but it's SMALLER, bright orange, and at the top: . StuRat (talk) 09:04, 8 July 2012 (UTC)


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Hector Lombana Piñeres, (8 March 1930 – 19 October 2008) was a Colombian sculptor, painter, and architect from Riofrío, Magdalena.

Lombana was born in Riofrío. One of the most prolific sculptors in history, his works can be seen all over the world, with monuments present in the cities of Cartagena de Indias, Santa Marta, Cali, Barrancabermeja, Bucaramanga, Honda, Cimitarra, and Villavicencio in Colombia, Penonomé and Panama City in Panama, and Coral Gables in Florida, United States. Famous examples include 'El Cangrejo' (The Crab), 'Los Zapatos Viejos' (Old Shoes), 'India Catalina', el 'Sendero Yuma' (Path of the Yuma), 'Monumento a la Solidaridad' (Monument to Solidarity), among others. He died in Santa Marta, aged 78.

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Garineh

Garineh (, also Romanized as Garīneh and Gereyneh; also known as Gazīneh) is a village in Zeberkhan Rural District, Zeberkhan District, Nishapur County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 1,725, in 514 families.

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User:Antonio Eco

Hi. Welcome to my user page, my name is Antonio Escobar, I am from Moquegua, Peru. I am here to collaborate to improve the articles on Wikipedia, I am currently collaborating on the article on the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru (in Spanish and English) in updating information and visual content. My apologies if you find any typos, I currently have a basic level of English.

Main userpage: es:Usuario:Antonio_Eco

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User:Roadrunner~enwikiversity/Research ideas

One problem I have is that I think up of too many interesting questions and things to do. Here are a few research ideas that I don't have time to really develop.

This is in addition to BoomCode/Projects and QuantLib.

 * Extend methodology to look at other indicators of corruption in PRC investments

 * Come up with a stochastic model for PRC interest rates
 * Lin and Zheng have come up with this paper . Use the model in the paper to come up with a model to price interest rate swaps.  Combine with  this.

 * Come up with a model for the behavior of the RMB
 * In particular use Rebanto's method of normal composition to decompose RMB

 * Combine the above two to come up with a model for non-deliverable swaps

 * Combine the above to have a model for PRC interest rate swaps

 * Look for systematic changes in autocoorelation in Shanghai markets over time
 * The important thing is to look for an autocoorelation in the first phase of Shanghai/Shenzhen markets that aren't in the current set of market data

 * Look for systematic changes in covariance between A/B/H/G shares over time

 * Take the papers of Nicholas Lardy, which argues that the Chinese economy is dangerously overdependent on investment and the papers of the Goldman-Sachs research group, which argues that it isn't. Try to figure out what is going on.  In particular, what are the consequences of certain policy choices if the data which underlies those choices in incorrect.  Suppose we take Lardy's suggestions and the Chinese economy *isn't* overdependent on investment, what happens.  Suppose we take Goldman-Sach's papers and the Chinese economy *is* overdependent on investment, what happens.
 * A lot of this depends on conflicting ideas over what Chinese corporate profits are like. Goldman research says profits are booming.  Nicholas Lardy says that the are not.
 * Here is another data point http://www.feer.com/articles1/2006/0611/free/p023.html
 * What someone can do is go through the articles by Lardy, Goldman, and the FEER article and pull out every statistics and every conclusion that they draw based on the statistic, and summarize it all in a chart.

 * Investigate the Chinese steel industry

 * Research universities in the lower Yangtze valley in the 19th century
 * Some of this might involve looking at distributions of current Chinese scientists

 * Why are finance people optimistic about the Chinese economy and management people negative. For the negative view, read Yasheng Huang's work

 * Was capital intensity in the PRC really increasing in the 1990's?

 * A "one country, two constitutions" model for Mainland-Taiwan relations. This would be an elaboration of the "one country, different interpretations" principle and would involve creating a legal infrastructure in which both the 1947 ROC constitution and the 1982 PRC constitution are both considered valid.

 * A "third lever" model of the Chinese economy.

 * How to develop a "fund model" of Chinese state ownership

 * Someone really need to do an oral history of the early 1990's and the first wave of online universities

 * would be nice if there were some sort of page counter of read articles on wikiversity

 * can you use REIT's to help peasants make use of the industrial development of farmland

 * discuss the similarities and differences between the "guan shang he ban" enterprises of the late Qing-dynasty and the current set of listed companies see [|Koll Investing in Modern China] also relate to the Bureaucratic-Tributary Mode of Production and the Petty Capitalist Mode of Production of Hills Knowton
 * discuss the following proposition. The corporate enterprises of the late Qing dynasty were *successful* examples of economic development that were destroyed in the economic chaos that followed the fall of the Qing dynasty.

 * reformulate quantitative finance using the Boltzmann formulation of physics

 * question: Assume that the vast majority of Chinese enterprises are owned by the state with a profit motive and income designed to pay for social welfare and pension needs. Discussion the effects on the business cycle and income equality of this system.

 * Discuss the effects of the industrialization of the south and the civil rights movement on the "great compression" in living standards

 * Compare and contrast Article 8 of the Legislation Law which limits criminal violations to national law with Section 91(27) of the Canadian Constitution Act of 1867 which limits criminal cases to federal cases.

 * Discuss the "Slaughterhouse Cases" of 1873. Suppose the case had be decided the other way.  Could this have lead to a civil law understand of rights rather than a common law understanding.  Once one establishes that state citizenship rights are protected, could one conceive of a body of law in which infringement of rights by individuals is judiciable in state courts leading to a system of litigation similar to civil law.

Question: Is the fact that the plantiffs in the Slaughterhouse Cases came from the only civil law jurisdiction in the United States significant? Could their argument of an expanded definition of the term "rights" be due to their civil law training?

 * What are the legislative origins of Articles 19-21 of the PRC Criminal code?

Question: There are two basic theories of law, the positivist model and the natural law model? Is there a correspondence between these two models of law and the behaviorist and the developmentalist models of early child education? Can the work of Vygotsky in developing a "compromise" between these two models of ECE be used to develop a compromise between these two theories of law?

 * Discuss the connection of my ideas with Ayer's school of Texas Institutionalism.

 * Question: Dai Zhen's criticism of Neo-Confucianism is that it ignores the value and importance of human emotions. Is it a coincidence or not that the Neo-Confucianism idea of rational discovery of the universe also matches the modern idea that emotions are only the reserve of "primitive people" and that "advanced people" should control their emotions (i.e. the British stiff upper lip).  Is it possible that this idea was borrowed through Jesuit missionaries or Cantonese traders or something else?  Or is there some deep philosophical connection that caused these ideas to develop independently?  Or is this all a coincidence?

Is any of this connected with the British adoption of bureaucracy, which is the ultimate in rational organizations?

 * Question: Is the term “incomplete market” as used in quantitative finance the same as used in neo-classical economics? (Answer: Yes)

 * Question: My own philosophy asserts the correctness of the economic calculation problem as stated by von Mises and Hayek, while at the same time accepting the monetarist theories of Milton Friedman. Question: is this logically consistent?

Other things I'm interested in

 * comparative legislative procedure
 * the geography of innovation


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Etymology
From, feminine of.

Pronoun
(masculine vestro)

 * 1) your;

Adverb

 * 1) in the west

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This Is Going to Hurt

This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor is a nonfiction book by the British comedy writer Adam Kay, published in 2017 by Picador. It is a collection of diary entries written by Kay during his medical training from 2004 to 2010. Kay's book discusses political issues in the health care system of the National Health Service in the United Kingdom and societal conflicts between the general population and neglected doctors. Kay accomplishes this by incorporating humour into his personal anecdotes that depict his life as he progresses through his medical training, and his eventual resignation from this career.

Background
This Is Going to Hurt is mostly composed of diary entries Adam Kay wrote during his medical training under the National Health Service. It was recommended to Kay to write this diary as a "reflective practice" in which he could log any interesting clinical experiences he experienced throughout his training. Five years after his resignation, Kay was officially removed from the medical register which prompted him to dispose of all the medical files he had been storing, leading him to review his reflective journal. Around this time in 2015, junior doctors entered contract disputes with the NHS leading the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Jeremy Hunt, to accuse junior doctors of being greedy. This event motivated Kay to respond to this accusation by releasing This Is Going to Hurt, which illustrates his own experiences as a junior doctor.

Outline
Kay began his medical training as a House Officer in 2004 with the United Kingdom's National Health Service after attending Dulwich College and Imperial College School of Medicine. In his comedic recollection of his time as a house officer, Kay describes four foreign objects he removed from patients' rectums, his first time saving someone's life, and long nights spent in the A&E. Kay became a Senior House Officer by August 2005, a year after officially becoming a doctor. It is at this point in his career that he decided to specialise in obstetrics and gynaecology, or "brats and twats" as Kay referred to it.

In August 2007, Kay was promoted to Registrar, the third highest ranking position after Consultant and Senior Registrar. His diary entries in his time as these positions describe multiple successful births, failed births, infertility problems, and sexually transmitted diseases/infections, along with a gruelling workload that included sleepless nights, unpaid overtime, minimal gratitude from co-workers, sleeping in the car park, and inability to have someone cover a shift leading to minimal holiday and sick time. Throughout these experiences, Kay recalls times in which he gets close to quitting due to the vast amount of stress the job inflicted on his life, harming his health and social relationships. What kept him going was positive outcomes from helping patients in multiple ways ranging from helping couples become pregnant to delivering a multitude of babies a night. This feeling of being a "low-grade superhero" is what Kay claims helped him push through all the other inconveniences related to the job.

In August 2010, Kay received his promotion to Senior Registrar. In the diary, Kay takes note of the increased responsibility that came with the promotion and how it added a new form of pressure since he was now supposed to be the person contacted in severe emergencies, where the Senior House Officer and Registrar were unable to solve the problem.

On 5 December 2010, Kay began to perform a caesarean on a patient who had undiagnosed placenta praevia. Kay first delivered the placenta and then the baby, which was dead and unable to be resuscitated. The detached placenta caused heavy haemorrhaging; Kay and the senior consultants called into theatre failed to stop the bleeding and, after 2 hours and 12 litres of blood loss, a hysterectomy was performed. The mother was transferred to the intensive care unit and Kay was told to expect the worst. After this event Kay became depressed. Whilst he had followed best practice, and the missed placenta praevia should have been found in previous scans, Kay obsessed that he might have prevented the death of the baby and endangerment of the mother's life by somehow diagnosing the placenta praevia prepartum. Several months after this event, Kay resigned his position.

Themes
The most prevalent theme present in This Is Going to Hurt is the mistreatment and neglect that doctors have to endure. Throughout his time working for the NHS, Adam Kay was deprived of multiple basic amenities that other occupations have. Kay was forced to stay hours after his shift would end with no pay, be unable to have a sick day or go on holiday because it was extremely difficult to find someone to cover his shift; while on shift, he would be unable to sleep even if he had free time; and, in general, junior doctors like Kay felt severely underpaid for their services. Kay notes that his starting wage as a junior doctor was so poor that he would be better off financially working at McDonald's. This sense of neglect was emphasised after Kay's career-ending event since he wasn't allowed to take any time off to emotionally recover. The next day he was forced to go back to work even though he was not in the right mindset to and had asked for a week off. No therapy was offered to Kay to possibly help him after the traumatic event, further debilitating his emotions and mind.

The traumatic event emphasises another theme present which involves the humanising of doctors. In This Is Going to Hurt Kay discusses how the general public expects doctors to be more than human. They expect doctors to be available at all times at their full efficiency, disregarding the fact that they are also humans. Kay claims that people forget doctors also have to spend time with their families and friends, they have to sleep, eat and take care of themselves, and more importantly they expect doctors to be error-free. Doctors' fallibility is unavoidable since they are human and are always prone to making mistakes. Not only did Kay make a mistake by missing the diagnosis of placenta praevia, but he had previously slightly cut the cheek of a newborn baby during a caesarean, mainly due to lack of sleep during his night shift.

The book combines these themes to form a powerful argument against Jeremy Hunt's comments concerning the motivation of doctors, justifying the view that doctors are not greedy, and do not pursue a career in medicine entirely motivated by money. Through this book Kay highlighted the many adversities junior doctors must face for the minimal pay they receive, and sought to spread awareness to support doctors in their contract disputes with the NHS.

Critical reception
Upon its release in September 2017, This Is Going to Hurt was praised for having comedy while also spreading awareness of the lives of junior doctors. A review in The Scotsman said that the book "will make your eyes water... and it may well make you choke on hot tea." The social importance of the book is stressed in the review as being "vital and timely; it should be required reading for anyone who ever has any political or financial responsibility for [England's] health services."

Recognition
Listed are all the recognitions This Is Going to Hurt has received since its release:

 * 2017 Winner Blackwell's Debut of the Year
 * 2017 Winner Books are My Bag Non-fiction Book of the Year
 * 2017 Short-listed Blackwell's Book of the Year
 * 2017 Winner Books are My Bag Readers Awards Non-Fiction Award
 * 2018 Short-listed British Book Awards: Non-fiction Narrative Book of the Year
 * 2018 Short-listed Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize

Adaptations
Shortly after its release in September 2017, Naomi De Pear of Sister Pictures acquired the television rights to This Is Going to Hurt. Sister Picture, an independent production company founded in 2015, acquired these rights in a 12-way auction between other interested producers. The television series based on This Is Going to Hurt is being written by Adam Kay and developed by Katie Carpenter along with Naomi De Pear, who will also executive produce the series. On 6 July 2018, the BBC announced that the adaptation would be made by Sister Pictures and shown on BBC Two as a seven-part comedy-drama. In February 2022 this adaption was broadcast as a seven-part comedy-drama on BBC1.

In 2024, an extract was taken from the book and used as a source for a GCSE Language Paper 2 exam.

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Mohammad-Mehdi Abdekhodaei

Mohammad-Mehdi Abdekhodaei is an Iranian conservative activist.

Son of Sheikh Gholamhosein Mojtahed-e Tabrizi, he had a lower-middle-class bazaari background and was a minor attendant in a small hardware store. On 13 February 1952, when he was a 15-year-old member of the Fada'iyan-e Islam, he attempted to assassinate Hossein Fatemi who was delivering a speech at the grave of journalist Mohammad Masud who had been assassinated in 1948. Fatemi survived the shooting. Abdekhodaei was tried as a juvenile and imprisoned for twenty months.

He revived the Fada'iyan-e Islam after the Iranian Revolution, though the organization is not a significant actor.

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shrinking violet

Etymology
Possibly from the inconspicuous nature of the violet (genus Viola) flower and plant. The term appears to have been first used in the literal sense in the early 19th century.

Noun

 * 1)  A very shy or timid person, who avoids contact with others if possible.

Usage notes

 * Often in the negative form no shrinking violet.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:shy person

Translations

 * Greek:
 * Macedonian: срамежливец
 * Polish:
 * Russian:

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Talk:deathbed

usage rates:
 * deathbed 1,780,000 googles
 * death-bed and death bed are combined by google ("death-bed") and return 890,000 googles

Both seem to occur but the one word form seems to be preferred. RJFJR 21:41, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

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Tamika Domrow

Tamika Domrow  (born 6 September 1989) is an Australian synchronized swimmer. She competed in the 2008 Summer Olympics, where her team finished seventh and the 2012 Summer Olympics, where Australia finished in eighth.

Personal
Domrow was born on 6 September 1989 in Brisbane and is from Camp Mountain. She attended Samford State School and St Paul's School, Bald Hills. She has a Certificate in Companion Animal Services. , she lives in Brisbane and works for Samford Pet Resort as an apprentice kennel technician. Her employer accommodated her training schedule.

Domrow is 165 cm tall, weighs 56 kg and is right handed.

Tamika is married to Mathew Glover.

Synchronized swimming
Domrow is a synchronized swimmer,  taking up the sport at the Valley Pool in Brisbane when she was ten years old. In 2008, she was a member of Neptunes Synchronised Swimming Club. a member of the Gold Coast Mermaids. She was coached by Mike Burgess. Her former coach died in July 2008, not long before the 2008 Games. She has been coached by Marina Kholod since 2005.

Domrow broke into Australia's senior national team when she was fifteen years old. In 2007, she competed at the FINA world championships in the team event. The ten person team was the first Australian one to make it in the finals for the synchronised swimming free combination routine.

Domrow competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics as an eighteen-year-old. Her team came in seventh. Prior to going to Beijing, she participated in a ten-day training camp at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre. Following the Beijing Games, she retired from the sport for eighteen months.

Domrow and Jenny-Lyn Anderson competed in the Open Free Duet at the 2011 National Championships, coming away with a fourth-place finish. In 2012, she competed with the national team at events in Perth, Spain and New Caledonia.

Domrow was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics in synchronized swimming. She qualified for the Olympics as a member of the national team at the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai. At her second Games, she will be twenty-two years old. In preparation for the Games, she spent up to nine hours a day in the pool.

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User:Manudouz/sandbox/Prolegomenon

Prolegomenon, usually used in its plural form prolegomena, is a long introduction either placed at the head of a book or conveying all the preliminary concepts to a science. It is a prefatory text serving to introduce and interpret an extended work.

Etymology
Prolegomenon derives from the Ancient Greek word, meaning "that which is said beforehand". It is based on, meaning "before",  , meaning "to speak", and  , an affirmative conjunction meaning "really, truly".

Works

 * In 1377, Ibn Khaldun published his prolegomena, Al Muqaddima.
 * In 1783, Kant published the Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Present Itself as a Science.
 * In 1827, Pierre-Simon Ballanche published Prolegomena for his social Palingenesis.
 * Around 1840, Franz Liszt composed the Prolegomena to the Divine Comedy, catalog S 158b (annex to the 3 Petrarch Sonnets initial version, 1844-45, S 158, 2nd version of After a reading of the Dante - Fantasia quasi sonata, in the years of pilgrimage, 2nd year, Italy)
 * In 1908, the Egyptologist Émile Amélineau published Prolegomena to the study of the Egyptian religion.
 * In 1945 André Breton published Prolegomena to a third manifesto of surrealism or not.
 * In 1986, the philosopher and phenomenologist Jean-Luc Marion published Prolegomena to charity.
 * In 2012, Jacques Derrida, History of lies: Prolegomena, published by Galileo. This text, however, comes from a lecture given in April 1997 at the International College of Philosophy. It was translated into English in 2002, then published in French in the Cahier de l'Herne Jacques Derrida, directed by Marie-Louise Mallet and Ginette Michaud in 2004.
 * In 2012, Benjamin Loiseau, architect, publishes Less is too much? : Dizziness of the void in Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and urban insurgency prolegomena.

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remanet

Noun

 * 1)  A bill that has been postponed or deferred to another session.

Verb

 * 1)  "he remains behind"

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Snowball Effect (equity crowdfunding)

Snowball Effect is a New Zealand-based online investing marketplace, that enables New Zealand companies to offer shares to members of the public. Snowball Effect launched in August 2014, after being one of the first to acquire an equity crowdfunding license from the Financial Markets Authority. over NZ$75 million has been raised on the platform.

Companies have a range of options when raising capital through Snowball Effect, including public offers, private offers, wholesale investor offers, debt offers, and bespoke capital raising. Snowball Effect offers companies a variety of services to support capital raising efforts, such as shareholder preparation, offer documentation and marketing, and lead investor sourcing.

Snowball Effect has also developed Orchestra, a platform which provides governance and shareholder tools for companies. Orchestra helps companies manage share registry and nominee management, shareholder communications, compliance, and employee share option plans. The platform also includes portfolio management tools for investors and allows lawyers and accountants to manage their clients’ compliance obligations efficiently.

Board of directors

 * Richard Allen
 * Hayley Buckley
 * Simeon Burnett

Highlights

 * Snowball Effect was one of the first two companies to acquire licensing from the Financial Markets Authority.
 * Launched New Zealand's first equity crowdfunding offer, Renaissance Brewing, on 11 August 2014.
 * Snowball Effect has raised over $75 million through more than 60 offers since launch.
 * Invivo Wines has raised a total of $4.4 million through the platform.
 * LINK Business Brokers has raised over $6.6 million through the platform.
 * Zeffer has raised over $3.6m through the platform.
 * AchiPro has raised over $10.6m through the platform.
 * Little Island has raised over $3.2m through the platform.
 * Snowball Effect begins private capital and wholesale investor services.
 * Snowball Effect begins offering share registry services to all New Zealand companies.

Notable Offers
The following is a list of notable offers that have been made through Snowball Effect:
 * LINK Business Brokers: $6.6m
 * Invivo Wines: $4.4m
 * Zeffer: $3.6m
 * Squirrel Group: $3.4m
 * Designer Wardrobe: $2.6m
 * ArchiPro: $2m
 * Reefton Distilling Co.: $1.4m
 * Aeronavics: $1.5m
 * Punakaiki Fund: $2m (Public Offer, June 2015), $889k (wholesale, Jan 2016 as part of a $2,2m round) and $462k (wholesale, Jan 2016 as part of a $2.4m round)

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Georgiana Blankenship

Georgiana Smith Blankenship ( Mitchell; 1861 - January 9, 1936) wrote "Early History of Thurston County, Washington: Together with Biographies and Reminiscences of Those Identified with Pioneer Days".

Biography
Born in 1861 in St. Paul, Minnesota, the daughter of George Mitchell and Elizabeth Pennimer, Blankenship was a writer identified with fraternal and club activities and was always interested in educational work. She was a member of the Olympia Woman's Club and Order of the Eastern Star. She was an officer of the Pioneer and Historical Society of Thurston County in Olympia. The Society was organized on March 2, 1910, and the requirement to be part of it was to have resided in the county for forty or more years. In 1914, she wrote "Early History of Thurston County, Washington: Together with Biographies and Reminiscences of Those Identified with Pioneer Days".

Blankenship lived in California and moved to Washington State in 1890, where she lived at East Bay Drive, Olympia, Washington. She first married a man surnamed Smith. Later she married George Edward Blankenship (1858-1947); they had one daughter, Marion Ruth, later Mrs. Abel.

She died on January 9, 1936, aged 74, and is buried at Masonic Memorial Park, Tumwater, Washington.

Publications
She was the author of Tillicum Tales of Thurston County, a historical and reminiscent book.

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/torrentproject2.com

Links

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Σαρακηνός

Etymology
Perhaps from an Old Arabic predecessor of 🇨🇬, from. In this case the word may originally have referred to the Arabs residing to the east of the fertile strip along the Mediterranean. Compare also, a bedouin tribe, which gave its name to 🇨🇬, ruling dynasty of Emirate of Fujairah; though this may be entirely unrelated. The Oxford English Dictionary disputes this etymology.

According to Michael C. A. Macdonald, likely from Old Arabic or, derived from.

Noun

 * 1)  a desert-dwelling Arabic or para-Arabic nomad of North Arabia; a bedouin
 * 2)  a Muslim; a Saracen

Descendants

 * Unsorted
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User:Iso butane/sandbox

 * Satyam Vijayan was born on 12 september 2001 at Namrup district of Assam, son of Shri Narayan Chandra Das and Shreemati Sipra Das, Lives at silchar.

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differentioida

Etymology
(see 🇨🇬), ultimately from and adapted with the verbal suffix.

Verb

 * 1)  to differentiate to calculate the differential of a function of multiple variables

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Nanayomachi

Nanayomachi (七夜待) is a 2008 Japanese drama film directed by Naomi Kawase.

The story is about a young Japanese woman (Kyōko Hasegawa) who leaves her job and lover in Japan to start a new life in Thailand. She searches for hotels in Bangkok and flees in panic when a taxi driver drives her out of town. Up pops Greg (played by Grégoire Colin) and takes her to a Thai matriarch who teaches him traditional massage.

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Cookbook:Oyster

| Seafood

The name Oyster is used for a number of different groups of molluscs which grow for the most part in marine or brackish water.

The "true oysters" are the members of the family Ostreidae, and this includes the edible oysters, which mainly belong to the genera Ostrea, Crassostrea, Ostreola or Saccostrea. Examples are the Edible Oyster, Ostrea edulis, the Olympia Oyster Ostreola conchaphila, and the Eastern Oyster Crassostrea virginica.

Oysters can be canned, eaten raw or cooked. When caught, like all shellfish they have an extremely short shelf-life. They should be fresh when consumed or serious illness can result. Additionally, oysters can host various illness-causing pathogens. Therefore, consumption of raw oysters should be done with caution. Researchers in Oregon have invented a self-shucking oyster.

Farm raised oysters are listed as a "Best Choice" by the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch Program (non farm raised wild oysters are only list as a "Good Alternative").

Oyster recipes
Recipes using oysters can be found in the oyster recipe index

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User:Chicknhawk

User:Chicknhawk

Some random person with the nickname chicknhawk. Fancy that.

Did time in the Marine Corps. Seven years, three hundred forty two days, seventeen hours, thirty two minutes, to be exact.

We just round and call it Eight.

Don't really care about the seconds. Yes, they are important -- ((import-ent) never figured that one out?)) and add up to become great periods in time.

But right now while we are talkin' about chicknhawk, it snot.

I believe the period was during the Lance Corporal Phase of the Marine Corps Era. Camp Pindletoon was a nice little tucked away place on the left coast of Ameria. I know, I know... things are mispelt. Do you want this to be conversation with a friend, or pomp and circumstance with the Queen. Don't ferget to stick your pinky out whilst sipping on that Pabst Blue Ribbon.(<-- This will be one of those page tranxporters that you click on and you get wooshed away to another page. Is it okay to put all this information withen within parent-heses. See thay're like parents keeping the words together.)

A new page under construction.
Just thought I would adds more no-sense. I learned some new skills at my local college. Computing and Information Technology. Received some certificates with compTia like; A+ Soft and Hard, Networking+, Security+, Linux, and so much other data my head sploaded a few times. I was on the A/B Honor Roll too. So I decided to start up my own business. The name, are you ready?

IT Happens. Get it? A play on words. Like the expression shit happens

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Talk:Cube rule

Law of large numbers?
I don't see how the Cube Rule is related to the law of large numbers. Could someone explain? Thanks. --Allen 01:36, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * that was the Kendall Stuart argument. See Rjensen 01:42, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't believe so. AFAIR, it has more to do with the fact that in modern industrial democracies the geographical distibution of blue-collar versus white-collar workers has a variance of about 13%. see Seats, Votes and the Spatial Organisation of Elections, Gudgin & Taylor (1979); and Geography of Elections, Johnston & Taylor (1976). RodCrosby 02:37, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

 * The law of large numbers reference doesn't appear to be meaningful and should probably be removed. The law of large numbers states that the average of a sequence of random samples will converge to their mean provide "enough" samples are taken. It does not involve a formula and is only a statement about long term behavior, hence there is nothing to really result in a cubic approximation. A reference to the central limit theorem would be slightly more appropriate because here at least the normal curve is involved. In, it is stated that Kendall and Stuart considered voting constituencies (i.e. districts) with normally distributed support for a particular party. Apparently, if a certain standard deviation is used, then as support for one party changes, there will be a cubic relationship between a parties average level of support and the number of constituencies that are above/below the 50% threshold. Other ways in which the Cube Rule can be derived are also discussed. EERac (talk) 15:02, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Three-party politics
The article appears to be self-contradictory with respect to the validity of the rule for three party systems. Brondahl (talk) 12:44, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

The 2002 election
I don't see how the cube rule was relevant in 2002 election. The vote ratio was 1.105:1, but the ratio of seats is only 1.117:1 instead of 1.348:1. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:06, 15 January 2016 (UTC)

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Robin Spriggs

Robin Spriggs (born April 1, 1974) is an American writer, actor, and poet. Known primarily as a dark fabulist, he is the author of the critically acclaimed The Untold Tales of Ozman Droom, Diary of a Gentleman Diabolist, and Wondrous Strange: Tales of the Uncanny. He is the co-author of The Dracula Poems: A Poetic Encounter with the Lord of Vampires and the creator of Capes & Cowls: Adventures in Wyrd City, a "book-in-a-box" superhero board game based on his illustrated series, Capes & Cowls: The Wyrd City Chronicles.

Overview
Spriggs holds degrees in both English and Theatre. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, a Bram Stoker Award, a Rhysling Award, and received honorable mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. His fiction and poetry have appeared in such publications as Beyond, The Rhysling Anthology, Cemetery Dance, Going Postal, Space & Time, Terminal Fright, A Season in Carcosa, and the Shirley Jackson Award-winning anthology The Grimscribe's Puppets.

The literary offerings of Robin Spriggs have been well received by critics. Publishers Weekly, in its review of The Untold Tales of Ozman Droom, observed, "Spriggs evokes terror and awe," and "Medium is the message in this dazzling anti-story, a love letter to the weird."

Rue Morgue declared The Untold Tales of Ozman Droom "A hard-to-describe yet highly entertaining compilation . . . an experience weird fiction fans should not pass up."

According to Cemetery Dance magazine, "Spriggs displays a wide range of talents in both form and substance. He's equally comfortable in the short story, short-short and novella lengths. His tone varies from the gently whimsical to the truly nasty. He crosses genre lines with ease, showing strength in all forms of the fantastic, from horror to fantasy to science fiction."

His lyrical prose, with its dreamlike and often frightening depiction of reality, has been compared to the work of such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Walser, Ray Bradbury, Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Aickman, Flannery O'Connor, and Lord Dunsany. Much of Spriggs's work, in fact, falls into the category of prose poetry, prompting thriller author Harry Shannon to refer to him as "a linguistic acrobat who works without a net."

Noted editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow, in volume 3 of her The Best Horror of the Year, wrote: "Diary of a Gentleman Diabolist by Robin Spriggs is a series of well-wrought interconnected prose poems of the ghostly and uncanny." Internationally distributed fan magazine Fangoria referred to the same collection as "a rather ingenious little grimoire charting—in fractured, dreamlike form—the trip of a seeker, someone who dives head first into the fevered realms of black magic and beyond, encountering all manner of arcane horror and supernatural phenomena."

Due to the cult popularity of his aforementioned Dracula Poems, the long out-of-print book often commands inordinately high prices.

As an actor, Spriggs is best known for his portrayal of Morrison, aka The Ghost, on the second season of PlayStation Network's superhero crime series, Powers, based on the comic book by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. Spriggs has also appeared as Captain Franco in the NBC science-fiction series Revolution, created by Eric Kripke and produced by J. J. Abrams, as Chris Amante in the USA Network drama series Necessary Roughness, and as Harley in The CW TV miniseries Containment. His performance in the rural noir Sinkhole was called "terrific" by Variety.

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