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Web quest

Introduction

Web quests are about making studying fun.

Fact № 1 We all know that children like playing.

Fact № 2 We also know that they like studying interesting things and, moreover, they like using the knowledge they have gained. Or in other words, children like active learning.

Why, then, most of the students eventually lose their interest in school? Because, we teachers, eventually forget these two facts.

Knowledge for real life Nobody likes studying something that is useless. Children are not an exception. It does not matter whether you are a teacher in Maths, English or Computer Skills you should motivate your pupils that they are studying something very important for their lives and also you have to show them how exactly they could use the new knowledge.

Children and school nowadays Children nowadays communicate less and less with each other. Most of them spare their time in front of the computers surfing in the Internet. Undoubtedly, there is a lot of useful information there. Children nowadays are much more informed on different topics then ever. Sometimes, pupils even know more on particular topics than their teachers. Is it possible to make pupils interested in school then? Yes, teachers can make pupils interested in school by using interesting and useful topics shown in an amusing way. One possible method that fulfills these acquirements is the Web Quest.

What is a Web Quest?
The inventor of the Web Quest is Bernie Dodge. He defined his new learning method as an “inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from recourses on the Internet.” In other words, it is a didactic concept within which explorative activities with the Internet are planned by the teacher and he/she transforms from teacher into guider guider of the learning process. ''The aim is the autonomous acquisition and presentation of knowledge. '' A good Web Quest has the following structure:

•	Introduction – it aims to motivate the pupils about the topic in a visually interesting and thrilling way.

•	Task – explanation what they have to do in every lesson.

•	Process – detailed step-by-step instructions how to do their tasks.

•	Resources – all internet addresses used in the Web Quest.

•	Evaluation – pupils use it for self-evaluation and then the teacher evaluates them using the same evaluation criteria.

•	Conclusion – concludes the result of the successfully finished work. What the pupils know now and how they could use it in their lives.

•	Teacher Page – information about the teacher who has designed the Web Quest and about the Web Quest itself.

What skills does a pupil need to develop in order to work with a Web Quest?

Working on a particular Web Quest means that a pupil has to:

•	follow strictly their teacher’s instructions

•	work with particular internet addresses

•	find particular information

•	work on this information with a partner

•	find the answers on particular questions by themselves or in a team

•	make a final project (in a group)

•	self-evaluation.

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2019 World Athletics Championships – Men's 110 metres hurdles

The men's 110 metres hurdles at the 2019 World Athletics Championships was held at the Khalifa International Stadium in Doha from 30 September to 2 October.

Summary
Five athletes returned from the 2017 final, the defending champion and Olympic champion Omar McLeod, silver medalist Sergey Shubenkov, Olympic silver medalist Orlando Ortega, Devon Allen and Shane Brathwaite, added as a 9th finalist after he was interfered with in the semi-finals when Ronald Levy drifted out of his lane.

In the final, McLeod and American collegian Grant Holloway got out even, but by the second hurdle, Holloway was edging ahead with Ortega the next behind. Holloway was gaining a little on every hurdle, and by the fourth, Pascal Martinot-Lagarde was even with Ortega. As Holloway's lead extended, McLeod pressed. McLeod rattled the eighth hurdle. Ortega again was slightly ahead of Martinot-Lagarde, but Shubenkov was also there moving fast on the outside. McLeod hit the 9th with his foot flat, losing his balance while running at full speed. He popped up trying to get over the final barrier, bumping Ortega to his right as he failed, crashing to the track. Holloway won by a metre with Shubenkov beating Martinot-Lagarde to the line. After the bump, Ortega managed to stay upright, crossing the line in fifth, his arms outstretched as if asking what could be done after he was interfered with.

Holloway continued celebrating all the way through the first turn and half way down the backstretch before dramatically flopping to the track on his back. McLeod was disqualified for interference. After the race, Spain filed a protest and Ortega was awarded a second bronze medal.

Records
Before the competition records were as follows:

The following records were set at the competition:

Qualification standard
The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 13.46.

Schedule
The event schedule, in local time (UTC+3), was as follows:

Heats
The first four in each heat (Q) and the next four fastest (q) qualified for the semi-finals.

Semi-finals
The first two in each heat (Q) and the next two fastest (q) qualify for the final.

Final
The final was started on 2 October at 23:00.

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see stars

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: sea stars
 * Homophones: sea stars

Verb

 * 1)  To experience apparent flashing lights in one's field of vision, especially after receiving a blow to the head.
 * 2)  To be reeling immediately after a sudden misfortune analogous to a blow.
 * 1)  To be reeling immediately after a sudden misfortune analogous to a blow.
 * 1)  To be reeling immediately after a sudden misfortune analogous to a blow.
 * 1)  To be reeling immediately after a sudden misfortune analogous to a blow.

Translations

 * French:
 * German: alle Sterne am Himmel leuchten sehen
 * Greek: βλέπω αστεράκια
 * Italian: vedere le stelle
 * Portuguese: ver estrelas
 * Romanian: vedea stele verzi
 * Spanish: ver estrellas
 * Walloon:

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Den Kenjirō

Baron Den Kenjirō (田 健治郎) was a Japanese politician and cabinet minister in the pre-war government of the Empire of Japan. He was also the 8th Japanese Governor-General of Taiwan from October 1919 to September 1923, and the first civilian to hold that position. Den was also a co-founder of Kaishinsha Motorcar Works, a predecessor to present-day Nissan and the original manufacturer of Datsun automobiles.

Biography
Den was born in Tanba-Kaibara Domain, located in Hikami District of Tanba Province (part of the modern-day city of Tanba, Hyōgo), where his father was a village headman (nanushi). After the Meiji Restoration, he sought his fortune in Kumamoto Prefecture (1874), followed by Aichi Prefecture in 1875. Entering service of the police department, he was subsequently assigned to Kōchi Prefecture, Kanagawa Prefecture and Saitama Prefecture. Around 1890, he came to the attention of Communications Minister Gotō Shōjirō, who recruited him into the central bureaucracy of the Meiji government. He rose to the position of vice minister, and concurrently served on the board of governors of the Japanese Government Railways. In 1898, he resigned from government service to accept an appointment as president of the Kansai Railway Company.

He returned to government service in 1900 as Director of the Administration Bureau of the Communications Ministry, but resigned again only a year later to run for election to the Lower House of the Diet of Japan under the sponsorship of Itō Hirobumi and the Rikken Seiyūkai political party. He served for two non-consecutive terms, returning each time to a senior post within the Ministry of Communications. In 1906, he was appointed to the House of Peers, and the following year was made a baron (danshaku) within the kazoku peerage system. In politics, he became closely aligned with the faction under the conservative genrō, Yamagata Aritomo, but later broke with Yamagata over issues pertaining to the Siemens scandal.

Den was also one of the founders of the Kaishinsha Motorcar Works in 1914. The "D" in the company acronym "DAT" was from "Den". Later changed to "Datsun", the company was acquired by the Nissan zaibatsu in the 1930s.

From 1916 to 1918, under Prime Minister Terauchi Masatake, Den was appointed Minister of Communications. During this period, he expressed concerns over the dominance of the United States and Great Britain over the new League of Nations, which contributed to an "encirclement" of Japan. In 1919, Den was appointed Governor-General of Taiwan, the first civilian to be appointed to that post. As Governor-General, he promoted new policies of social and political assimilation, wherein discriminatory laws in education were repealed. Several major reforms were carried out during Den's tenure, including various administrative reforms, expansion of the public education system, reduction of police involvement in local administration, construction of the Chanan Reservoir, and the legalization of Japanese-Taiwanese intermarriage. Den’s stated goal was that the Taiwanese populace was to eventually enjoy the same political rights as the Japanese in the Home Islands, and that the Taiwanese would be assimilated into normal Japanese society. Business laws were eased to allow Taiwanese entrepreneurs to complete with Japanese, and several Taiwanese-owned newspapers were established. Under his tenure, then Crown Prince Hirohito made a state visit to Taiwan.

Following the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, Den was recalled to Japan, and asked to take the posts of Minister of Justice and Minister of Agriculture and Commerce in the 2nd Yamamoto Gonnohyōe administration. Together with Home Minister Gotō Shimpei, he laid the foundations for the reconstruction of Tokyo after the disaster. However, along with the rest of the cabinet, he was forced to resign in the aftermath of the Toranomon Incident. After 1925, he served as a member of the Privy Council. Den died of complications following an Intracranial hemorrhage in 1930 at his home in Setagaya, Tokyo. His grave is at the Tama Cemetery in Fuchū, Tokyo.

Den kept a detailed diary from 1906 to his death in 1930, which forms an important source document for the history of politics during the Taishō period of Japanese history.

Peerages and titles

 * Baron (21 September 1907)

Decorations

 * Grand Cordon of the Order of the Sacred Treasure (25 December 1919)
 * Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun (1 November 1920)
 * Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers (16 November 1930; posthumous)

Order of precedence

 * Fourth rank (28 February 1898)
 * Third rank (30 September 1916)
 * Second rank (1 April 1930)

Foreign

 * Flag of France.svg France: Officer of the Legion d'Honneur (12 April 1894)
 * Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark: Commander of the Order of the Dannebrog (20 January 1897)
 * Austria-Hungary: Knight Second Class of the Order of the Iron Crown (28 May 1897)
 * Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg Ottoman Empire: Order of the Medjidie, 2nd Class (26 August 1897)

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Ayatsuri

Ayatsuri (Аяцури; Dargwa: ГӀяяцӀуримахьи) is a rural locality (a selo) in Urarinsky Selsoviet, Dakhadayevsky District, Republic of Dagestan, Russia. The population was 150 as of 2010.

Geography
Ayatsuri is located 41 km southwest of Urkarakh (the district's administrative centre) by road. Butulta and Mukranari are the nearest rural localities.

Nationalities
Dargins live there.

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Nil Popov

Nil Alexandrovich Popov (Нил Александрович Попов, 9 April 1844 – 3 January 1892) was a Russian historian, slavist, philologist and archivist, a major authority on the history of West Slavs. A professor at Moscow University (where he was the head of the History and Philology faculty in 1873-1885 and was awarded the title of the Meritorious professor in 1882), and a corresponding member of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1883, onwards), Popov published numerous acclaimed works on the history of Serbia, Bulgaria, and Poland. His doctorate study, "Russia and Serbia. 1806-1856" earned him the Uvarov Prize. In 1864 Popov became the head of the Moscow Slavic Committee (which later changed its name to the Slavic Charity Organization). He was also the head of the Archive Committee of the Ministry of Justice and the chairman of the ethnography department at the Society of Devotees of Natural Science, Anthropology, and Ethnography. Professor Vasily Klyuchevsky described Popov as "one of the last major figures from the Golden age of Moscow University."

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Steve Webster

Steve Webster may refer to:
 * Steve Webster (sidecar racer) (born 1960), English sidecar racer
 * Steve Webster (golfer) (born 1975), English golfer
 * Steve Webster (bassist) (born 1958), Canadian bassist

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Barbo

Barbo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 * Antonio Gil Y'Barbo (1729–1809), pioneering settler of Nacogdoches, Texas
 * Giovanni Barbo (died 1547), Italian Roman Catholic prelate
 * Franz Engelbert Barbo von Waxenstein (1664–1706), Slovenian nobleman
 * Josef Anton Barbo von Waxenstein (1863–1930), Slovenian aristocrat, politician, landowner, and member of the Imperial Council of Austria-Hungary
 * Joseph Emanuel Barbo von Waxenstein (1825–1879), Slovenian politician and aristocrat
 * Ludovico Barbo (1381–1443), Venetian Roman Catholic bishop
 * Marco Barbo (1420–1491), Venetian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
 * Pantaleone Barbo, diplomat of the Venetian Republic
 * Pietro Barbo (Pope Paul II), Pope from 30 August 1464 to his death in 1471

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Wikiversity:Civility

Civility is a rule for the conduct of edits, comments, and talk page discussions on all Wikimedia projects. Whereas incivility is roughly defined as personally targeted behavior that causes an atmosphere of greater conflict and  stress, our rule of civility states plainly that people must act with civility toward one another. A civility policy is a reasonable way to delimit acceptable conduct from the unacceptable.

The problem
Many people forget that criticizing an edit is easily conflated with insulting the person who made it — and so they are unnecessarily harsh on the giving end and unnecessarily sensitive on the receiving end. Textual communication on the Internet does not transmit the nuances of verbal conversation, so a small, facetious comment can be easily misinterpreted. What starts with one uncivil remark becomes an exchange of those same, during which people are no longer interested in improving articles and instead focus on "triumphing" over the "enemy". This is not what Wikiversity is about (see What is Wikiversity?).

Examples
Petty examples that contribute to an uncivil environment:

 * Rudeness
 * Judgmental tone in edit summaries ("fixed sloppy spelling," "snipped rambling crap")
 * Belittling contributors because of their language skills or word choice
 * Ill-considered accusations of impropriety of one kind or another
 * Starting a comment with: "Not to make this personal, but..."
 * Calling someone a liar, or accusing him/her of slander or libel. Even if true, such remarks tend to aggravate rather than resolve a dispute.

More serious examples include:

 * Taunting
 * Personal attacks
 * Racial, ethnic, and religious slurs
 * Profanity directed at another contributor
 * Lies
 * Defacing user pages
 * Giving users derogatory names via Page move Trolling
 * Calling for unjustified bans or blocks
 * Using straw men

Incivility happens, for example, when you are quietly creating a new page, and another user tells you, If you're going to write a pointless page, could you spell-check it?. Escalation occurs when you reply, Mind your own business.

This style of interaction between editors drives away contributors, distracts others from more important matters, and weakens the entire community.

When and why does it happen?

 * During an edit war, when people have different opinions, or when there is a conflict over sharing power.
 * When the community grows larger. Each editor does not know all the others and may not perceive the importance of each individual to the project — so they don't worry about maintaining relationships that don't exist. Reputation does not count as much as in a smaller community.
 * Sometimes, a particularly impolite user joins the project. This can also aggravate other editors into being impolite themselves.
 * People's different point of views may lead up to a debate, the people involved in the debate may be rude.

Most of the time, insults are used in the heat of the moment during a longer conflict. They are essentially a way to end the discussion. Often the person who made the insult regrets having used such words afterwards. This in itself is a good reason to remove (or refactor) the offending words.

In other cases, the offender is doing it on purpose: either to distract the "opponent(s)" from the issue, or simply to drive them away from working on the article or even from the project, or to push them to commit an even greater breach in civility, which might result in ostracism or banning. In those cases, it is far less likely that the offender will have any regrets and apologize.

It should be noted that some editors deliberately push others to the point of breaching civility, without committing such a breach themselves.

Why is it bad?

 * Because it makes people unhappy, resulting in discouragement and leaving Wikiversity.
 * Because it makes people angry, resulting in non-constructive or even uncivil behavior themselves, further escalating the level of incivility
 * Because it puts people on the defensive, closing their minds to other ideas and preventing a consensus from forming
 * Because people lose good faith, resulting in even less ability to resolve the current conflict — or the next one

Preventing incivility within Wikiversity

 * Prevent edit wars and conflict between individuals (constraints on editing are set by the project — essentially a community answer)
 * Force delays between answers to give time to editors to calm down and recover and to avoid further escalation of a conflict (protecting pages, or temporary blocks of editors in case of conflict)
 * Use positive feedback (praising those who do not respond to incivility with incivility)
 * Apply peer pressure (voicing displeasure each time rudeness or incivility happens)
 * Solve the root of the conflict between the offender and the other editor(s) or the community — or find a compromise.
 * Use negative feedback (suggesting that an editor involved in conflict should leave a conflict or even temporarily avoid all controversial areas in Wikiversity). It may be worthwhile making such suggestions to both sides of the conflict.
 * Block certain users from editing specific pages that often trigger incivility
 * Create and enforce a new rule — based on use of certain words — that allows temporary blocking or banning an editor using them more than a certain number of times.
 * Filter emails by the offender, or filter mail based on certain keywords and reject emails to the Wikiversity mailing list with those words
 * Accepting that incivility and rudeness can't be entirely avoided in such a project, and not responding in kind.
 * Giving awards for good edits.

Reducing the impact

 * Balance each uncivil comment by providing a soothing or constructive comment
 * Do not answer offensive comments. Forget about them. Forgive the editor. Do not escalate the conflict. (an individual approach)
 * Ignore incivility. Operate as if the offender does not exist. Set up a "wall" between the offender and the community.
 * Revert edits with a veil of invisibility (&bot=1) to reduce the impact of the offensive words used in edit summaries (the comment box)
 * Walk away. Just go edit somewhere else for a while and return when tempers have cooled.
 * If you happen to offend someone, apologize. Remove the offense, if possible, and keep the apology. However, please do not expect or attempt to mandate that others act likewise.

Removing uncivil comments

 * Strike offensive words or replace them with milder ones on talk pages (this is often seen as controversial, as is refactoring other people's words)
 * Remove offensive comments on talk pages (since they remain in the page history, anyone can find them again or refer to them later on)
 * Revert an edit with &bot=1, so that the edit made by the offender appears invisible in Recent Changes (do-able on IP contributions, requires technical help for logged-in user)
 * Delete (entirely and permanently) an edit made by the offender (requires technical help)
 * Permanently delete an offensive comment made on the mailing lists (requires technical help)
 * Replace a comment made in an edit summary by another less offensive comment (requires technical help)

Explain incivility
Some editors are badly shaken by uncivil words directed towards them, and can't focus on the source of the conflict itself. It may help to point out to them why unpleasant words were used, and acknowledge that while incivility is wrong, the ideas behind the comment may be valid.

The offended person may realize that the words were not always meant literally, and could decide to forgive and forget them.

It can be helpful to point out breaches of civility even when done on purpose to hurt, as it might help the disputant to refocus on the issue (controversial).

Suggest apologizing
The apology is a form of ritual exchange between both parties, where words are said that allow reconciliation.

For some people, it may be crucial to receive an apology from those who have offended them. For this reason, a sincere apology is often the key to the resolution of a conflict: an apology is a symbol of forgiveness. An apology is very much recommended when one person's perceived incivility has offended another.

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Göran Printz-Påhlson

Göran Printz-Påhlson (1931–2006) was a Swedish poet essayist, translator and literary critic. Among his essay collections are Solen i spegeln from 1958 and Appendiks from 1960. He was awarded the Dobloug Prize in 1992. He held academic posts at Cambridge University, Harvard University, and elsewhere.

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Used with the WikiU Film School Lesson on how to draw thumbnail storyboards with ArtRage2 free version.

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Bruno Loerzer

Bruno Loerzer (22 January 1891 – 23 August 1960) was a German air force officer during World War I and World War II. Credited with 44 aerial victories during World War I, he was one of Germany's leading flying aces, as well as commander of one of the first Imperial German Air Service Jagdeschwaders.

Loerzer's close friendship with Hermann Göring led to Loerzer's service in the World War II Luftwaffe, with subsequent promotion to Generaloberst by the war's end. Göring described Loerzer as "his laziest general," but swept aside criticisms of him, commenting "I need someone I can drink a bottle of red wine with in the evening."

World War I
Born in Berlin, Loerzer was a prewar army officer who learned to fly in 1914. Hermann Göring flew as Loerzer's observer from 28 October 1914 until late June 1915. Transferring to fighters, Loerzer flew with two Jagdstaffeln in 1916 before joining Jagdstaffel 26 in January 1917. By then he had scored two victories over French aircraft. He had his aircraft painted distinctively striped in black and white. As his victory score mounted, he was awarded the Iron Cross First Class and House Order of Hohenzollern. In November 1917, he and his squadron mate Göring each had 15 kills, and both still coveted the highest Prussian decoration - the blue enamel cross of the Pour le Mérite. Thirty years later, Loerzer would snicker to colleagues that Göring had inflated his mission claims. "Do the same," Loerzer claimed Göring had urged him, "otherwise we'll never get ahead!" His tally reached 20 victories at the end of October and he received the Pour le Mérite in February 1918.

The same month, he took command of the newly formed Jagdgeschwader III, the third of Germany's famed "flying circuses." His aces included his brother Fritz, who claimed 11 victories. Leading Jasta 26 and three other squadrons, with Hermann Dahlmann's support as adjutant and wingman, Loerzer proved a successful wing commander. Equipped with the new BMW-engined Fokker D.VII, JG III cut a wide swath through Allied formations in the summer of 1918, and his own score mounted steadily. He achieved his last ten victories in September when he reached his final score of 44 victories. Shortly before the armistice, he was promoted to Hauptmann (captain).

Between the world wars
Loerzer irregularly fought with Freikorps anti-communist paramilitary units from December 1918 until March 1920. He commanded FA 427 in the Baltic area, supporting the Eiserne Division in the tactical air role. During the 1930s he was a leader in various civil aviation organizations (National Socialist Flying Corps: NSFK), and rejoined the Luftwaffe in 1935 with the rank of Oberst (colonel).

On 15 March 1937, Loerzer was tasked with the creation of Jagdgeschwader 334 (JG 334—334th Fighter Wing) and appointed its first Geschwaderkommodore (wing commander). He held this position until 31 March 1938 when he was appointed Inspekteur der Jagdflieger (Inspector of Fighters). Command of JG 334 was then passed on to Oberstleutnant Werner Junck.

World War II
During the early war years he was commander of II Air Corps, being awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross in May 1940. His II Air Corps participated in the invasion of the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941, as a section of Kesselring's 2nd Air Fleet—in support of Field Marshal von Bock. His unit was transferred to Messina, Sicily in October 1941, and he remained there until the middle of 1943, when his section returned to the Italian mainland after suffering heavy losses.

In December 1942, fighter ace Werner Baumbach, Group Commander of III/Kampfgeschwader 30, wrote a letter to Hans Jeschonnek, then Chief of the General Staff of the Luftwaffe, regarding the heavy losses suffered by the II Air Corps under Loerzer's leadership. Loerzer was removed from command of the II Air Corps in February 1943, and subsequently promoted by Goering to Generaloberst as Chief of the Luftwaffe Personnel Department and Chief of Personnel Armament and National Socialist Leadership of the Luftwaffe. Loerzer showed his gratitude on the occasion of the Reichsmarshall's birthday in January 1944, where he presented Goering with a carload of black market goods from Italy - women's stockings, soaps, and other rare items, complete with a price list in order to keep black market prices uniform throughout Germany.

In December 1944 he was assigned to the Führerreserve. He retired in April 1945, and was captured by the Americans in May 1945, and held until 1948.

Postwar
Loerzer died in Hamburg in 1960, at the age of 69.

Awards

 * Iron Cross (1914)
 * 2nd Class: 7 March 1915
 * 1st Class: late 1917
 * Knight's Cross Second Class of the Order of the Zähringer Lion with Swords: award date unknown
 * Knight's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords: late 1917
 * Pour le Mérite: 12 February 1918 as Oberleutnant and leader of Jagdstaffel 26
 * Iron Cross (1939)
 * 2nd Class: unknown award date
 * 1st Class: 14 September 1939
 * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross: 29 May 1940 as Generalleutnant and commanding general of the II. Fliegerkorps.

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Pancit Malabon

Pancit Malabon is a Filipino dish that is a type of pancit which originates from Malabon, Metro Manila, Philippines. It uses thick rice noodles. Its sauce has a yellow-orange hue, attributable to achuete (annatto seeds), shrimp broth, and flavor seasoned with patis (fish sauce for a complex umami flavor) and taba ng talangka (crab fat). Local fresh seafood toppings may include cooked shrimp, squid, smoked bangus (milkfish), mussels, and/or oysters. Other optional garnishes can include pork, hard-boiled duck/hen eggs, crushed chicharrón (pork rinds), chopped green onions, lightly browned sautéed minced garlic, and spritz of calamansi juice.

It is very similar to pancit palabok, differing in the use of thicker noodles, the use of taba ng talangka in the sauce, and the common addition of mussels and oysters.

An early version of pancit Malabon, known as pancit labong, uses bamboo shoots instead of noodles.

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Talk:John Creasey

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Well, its good to see my Dad, John Creasey, on Wikipedia but there are a lot of inaccuracies here. For example:

Dad died in the UK not “Tucson, Arizona”. To be precise about the place he died at New Hall, Bodenham, Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK. Yes, “he became an English author of crime thrillers, published 562 books under 28 different pseudonyms, keeping to a consistently high standard of quality throughout”, but this suggests he was only published in the UK and only wrote 562 books. BBC’s h2g2 webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A610886 gives a slightly fuller picture, which I edited myself. Here’s just one paragraph from it:

He published over 600 books (no one is sure exactly how many!) following 743 rejection slips, with worldwide sales in November 1971 of over 80 million copies in at least 5000 different editions in 28 different languages. Britain and the United States were his main markets with total sales in each of over two million copies a year with at least half a million elsewhere. There are 11 different series, four of them (Roger West, the Toff, the Baron and Patrick Dawlish) with either 50 titles reached or very close, two series (Dr Palfrey and Department Z) with over 30 titles, and the great Gideon with 21. A further 50-odd titles have been published as written by Michael Halliday.

Most of this paragraph Dad wrote himself in 1971, my numbers update is to take the 562 books to “over 600” because a further 40 were published before (and after) he died in 1973. And in fact no one, even Dad, knew exactly how many books he had published!

In this Wikipedia piece it says “He married Jean and had 2 sons. He later married a further 3 times.” This is nearly right, but in fact he married two more times after marrying my Mum, Jean, who was in fact his second wife. He had one son, Colin by his first wife, three sons not two. No doubt this mistake concerning Tucson, mentioned above, is because his third lived there. And lastly: Yes “In 1967, he founded the All Party Alliance.”  But he founded lots and lots of other organisations during his extraordinary life.

Hope this is helpful.

Richard Creasey -son three.

 * I've added a bit on your father's Roger West BBC series with Patrick Allen. The info is from the BBC radio series The Radio Detectives with Jeffrey Richards that you yourself participated in - here:

List of pseudonyms?
The article mentions that Creasy used 28 pseudonyms - what were they? While it is impractical to list all 600+ titles, it would seem more worthwhile to list a title associated with each of his pen names. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:32, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

...or at least acknowledge each of the different series. The Baron novels were big in their day. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:44, 23 June 2009 (UTC)

 * I've added a few of Creasey's pseudonyms to the article but it's only a few.

Source for the use of “Toff”?
Surely there is no basis in the claim that the term “Toff” is "“a courtesy title given to the eldest sons of Viscounts and Barons”"…? It’s just a slang term for anyone rich, often indolent, and sometimes aristocratic; it isn’t a title which is given, it’s just a general term, used by anyone (probably rarely of one’s self). Jock123 (talk) 15:14, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Science fiction
I removed from the introduction the following text: "and science fiction" in "English crime and science fiction writer". Also removed "science fiction" from genre categorization. There is no evidence in this article or the h2g2 article (linked in this article) that he ever wrote science fiction. I added "romance" and "western" to the intro, as he did write those. Zaslav (talk) 07:39, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
 * I disagree, . Many (though not all) of the Dr Palfrey (Z5) and Department Z novels (particularly those written after WW2) are clearly Science Fiction, and a substantial number of his other novels contain science fictional elements: see his entry in the authoritative Science Fiction Encyclopedia for specific details – note that the bibliographical list in that article "Includ[es] known fantastic titles only."
 * I have restored the lede text, and leave it to you to study the SFE evidence, restore the categorization, and add further description to the body text should you wish. {The poster formerly known as <IP_ADDRESS>} 19:58, 3 June 2021 (UTC)

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Anthony Lakes

Anthony Lakes may refer to:

 * Anthony Lakes (Oregon), a group of about 15 lakes and marshes in northeastern Oregon
 * Anthony Lakes (ski area), in eastern Oregon

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ngentot
Anyone have an Indonesian reference? --Connel MacKenzie 23:44, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Google Books does. --Ptcamn 04:43, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

 * rfvpassed Cynewulf 19:04, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

slang word
Hey, its not official word. It just Indonesian slang words! Azmi1995 12:23, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * This is official word Azmi1995 12:25, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

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Adam Wool

Adam Wool is a former American politician who served as a member of the Alaska House of Representatives from District 5. He was a member of the Democratic Party. Wool is now living in his home state as a physics teacher at the Advanced Math & Science Academy Charter School.

Career
Wool defeated Republican Representative Pete Higgins in 2014, picking up his seat for the Democratic minority.

In 2017, Wool was responsible for pushing legislation through the Alaska House of Representatives that legalized the use of ride-sharing apps such as Uber and Lyft in Alaska.

Personal life
Wool (born May 17, 1961) is originally from Boston, Massachusetts. He lived in Fairbanks with his wife (since 2003) Kate and their two daughters, before moving back to Massachusetts. He previously owned Fairbanks's Blue Loon bar, which he founded, but the building was bought by Nathan Davis to grow cannabis. He now he teaches physics classes in Marlborough. His students describe him as "glorious, handsome, and noble." wool has 12 rulers, measuring 12 inches each.

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User:Hwonder

I live in Bogot%C3%A1, Colombia and am just starting out on Wikipedia to learn more about use of wiki.

Projects / Contributions
Just finished translating List of TransMilenio stations from Spanish. It could stand to be cleaned up a good deal.

Want to tie that in with Bogotá neighborhoods' translation to English. Also doing some of the roads.

This is all being done with User:Fisherjs. See all my contributions at Special:Contributions/Hwonder.

I also like to visit random pages on the Spanish wiki to see if there's a decent page on the en wiki. If not, I take a stab at translating it.

Started the 2006–2007 Colombian para-political scandal, part of the Colombia WikiProject. Assessed a ton of articles for that project and now am working to improve them, one slow bit at a time.

Things I know

 * I know about the INA, especially about visas. That's how I spend my time.
 * I do a lot of web programming in PHP using mySql. I'm starting to use PHP-GTK and Ruby on Rails, as well.
 * I'm an avid Mac user, and have been since 1986. I have worked for an Apple consultancy.
 * I'm a former bus driver. I enjoy urban planning as a hobby.
 * I enjoy geography, mostly US States and highways, but also just knowing my way around towns and public transportation.
 * Latin American politics, especially related to economic, political development, and drug politics.

Things I do not know

 * How to spell.
 * A multitude of other things, but I will correct that by reading everything on Wikipedia.
 * My own limits, apparently. (see above)

Actual contributing I should do

 * Colombia stubs
 * WikiProject Colombia/Assessment

Maintenance tasks

 * Dead external links (not really so much, anymore)
 * New pages patrol -> Special:Newpages

My tools

 * Citation Guide
 * Template Guide
 * Templates for use on User pages
 * Sandbox

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amberjack

Etymology
From +.

Noun

 * 1) Any of several large food and game yellowtail fishes of the genus, found in warm waters of all oceans.

Translations

 * German: Gelbschwanzmakrele
 * Greek:
 * Japanese:
 * Maltese: aċċola
 * Portuguese:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Latin:
 * Turkish:

 * Arabic:
 * French:
 * Italian:
 * Korean:
 * Mandarin: ,

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قبط

Etymology
From, , from Late , from earlier , from.

Noun

 * 1)  racially non-Arab Egyptians regardless of religion (such as the Ancient Egyptians or medieval Egyptian converts to Islam); indigenous Egyptians; Hamitic Egyptians
 * 2)  Christian Egyptians who use the  in liturgy regardless of genealogy or place of birth (such as  or  Christians)
 * 3)  non-Chalcedonian Christian Egyptians who use the  in liturgy; Miaphysites;  Christians, Copts
 * 4)  Christian Egyptians regardless of denomination, theology, or liturgy (such as, , , or  Egyptians)
 * 1)  non-Chalcedonian Christian Egyptians who use the  in liturgy; Miaphysites;  Christians, Copts
 * 2)  Christian Egyptians regardless of denomination, theology, or liturgy (such as, , , or  Egyptians)

Etymology 1
From.

Verb

 * 1) to seize, to take, to grab
 * 2) to capture, to arrest
 * 3) to hold

Etymology 2
From.

Verb

 * 1) to give into (someone's) possession

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Morris Oxford Empire models

Morris Oxford is a series of motor car models produced by Morris Motors of the United Kingdom, from the 1913 bullnose Oxford to the Farina Oxfords V and VI.

Named by W R Morris after the city of dreaming spires, the university town in which he grew up, the manufacture of Morris's Oxford cars would turn Oxford into an industrial city.

From 1913 to mid-1935 Oxford cars grew in size and quantity. In 1923 they with the Cowley cars were 28.1 per cent of British private car production. In 1925 Morris sold near double the number and they represented 41 per cent of British production. The model name was recycled in 1948 and lasted almost another 23 years through to 1971 but in this time the market sector and engine-size remained nearly constant between 1476 cc and 1622 cc.

Aside from the Oxford Sixes and these Oxford Empire models all Oxfords since 1918 have been 12 or 14 HP cars of about 1500 to 1800 cc..

Oxford 15.9
The 2½-litre Oxford 15.9 Empire model was displayed as "a Colonial Chassis" at the Olympia Motor Show of October 1926. A complete car was on display at nearby main dealers.

The standard coachwork is a four or five seater body with four doors. The driving seat, the rake of the steering, the positioning of the clutch and brake pedals are all adjustable. Gears are controlled by a central flexible lever operating in a visible gate and there is a catch for reverse.

Brakes suspension steering
Steering is carried out through a worm and complete wheel in a box screwed to the frame. New gear positions are available at a low price. The brake pedal operates internally expanding brakes on all four wheels, the handbrake operates at the back using separate shoes. The brake drums are enclosed. Standard fittings include a spare (steel artillery) wheel and tyre. Shock absorbers are provided. There are semi-elliptic springs all round, flat set at the front. The rear springs are underhung. Cross-braced by three direct members the chassis channel-section side members are narrowed at the front and rise over the back axle

Empire size ground-clearance
The car can be driven safely through 20 inches, 510 mm, of water. The ground clearance is 10¼ inches, 260 mm. A full 11 inches, 278 mm, is allowed at the forward running board bracket cross stay. This clearance is now greater than on many American cars. This "falsifies hostile propaganda to the contrary".

Equipment includes dipping headlamps for use during fog and to prevent dazzle of other motorists controlled by a lever on the right of the driver.

The motoring correspondent of The Times reported as follows. The car is well finished for £375. For export the finish might be cheaper with less nickel inside. There were draughts at the bottom of the rear doors. The brakes were effective but might respond more quickly. The change-speed was delightful to handle and there could be no complaints about the clutch action. The comfortable maximum is about 55 mph.

The chassis alone costs £245, the five-seated tourer £325.

The following summer this price was dropped £20. No change was made to Morris's catalogue of the 15.9 for the October 1927 Motor Show Morris's 17.7 hp Light Six was first shown at this 1927 Show.

This Oxford 15.9 was replaced by another four cylinder Oxford, Oxford 16/40.

The website of the International Alliance of Morris owners explains that this car was designed by Morris-Commercial, the part of Morris's empire that made commercial vehicles and their engines and Morris gearboxes and back axles. This 15.9 hp Morris-Commercial engine was intended for a truck.

Oxford 16/40
A new version was announced in September 1928 given a new name before the announcement of the 15.9 horsepower Oxford Six. There were minor improvements of appearance but this was no more than a 15.9 with a new name.

This 16/40 was replaced by Oxford Six 15.9 hp.

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QuantLib

Welcome to the QuantLib Institute at Wikiversity.

To participate, add yourself to the<EMAIL_ADDRESS>mailing list and e-mail an intro e-mail to the list.

Items are currently being moved over from http://quantlib.org/

$$ \frac{\partial V}{\partial t} = -\frac{1}{2}\sigma^2 S^2 \frac{\partial^2 V}{\partial S^2} - rS \frac{\partial V}{\partial S} + rV $$

 * A free/open-source library for quantitative finance

The Quantlib project is aimed at providing a comprehensive software framework for quantitative finance. QuantLib is a free, open-source library for modeling, trading, and risk management in real-life.

QuantLib is written in C++ with a clean object model, and is then exported to different languages such as Python, Ruby, and Scheme. Also available is an Excel add-in (downloads available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/quantlib/files/, and http://www.bnikolic.co.uk/ql/exceladdin.html ). There are ports to the .NET framework in C# (http://www.quantlib.net" and http://www.capetools.net/) and to Java (http://www.jquantlib.org). Bindings to other languages (including Java), and porting to ddd, Matlab/Octave, S-PLUS/R, Mathematica, COM/CORBA/SOAP architectures, FpML, are under consideration. See the extensions page for details.

Appreciated by quantitative analysts and developers, it is intended for academics and practitioners alike, eventually promoting a stronger interaction between them. QuantLib offers tools that are useful both for practical implementation and for advanced modeling, with features such as market conventions, yield curve models, solvers, PDEs, Monte Carlo (low-discrepancy included), exotic options, VAR, and so on.

Finance is an area where well-written open-source projects could make a tremendous difference:

 * any financial institution needs a solid, time-effective, operative implementation of cutting edge pricing models and hedging tools. However, to get there, one is currently forced to re-invent the wheel every time. Even standard decade-old models, such as Black-Scholes, still lack a public robust implementation. As a consequences many good quants are wasting their time writing C++ classes which have been already written thousands of times.
 * By designing and building these tools in the open, QuantLib will both encourage peer review of the tools themselves, and demonstrate how this ought to be done for scientific and commercial software. Dan Gezelter's talk at the first Open Source/Open Science conference discussed how the scientific tradition of peer review fits well with the philosophy of the Open Source movement. Open standards are the only fair way for science and technology to evolve.
 * The library could be exploited across different research and regulatory institutions, banks, software companies, and so on. Being a free/open-source project, quants contributing to the library would not need to start from scratch every time.
 * Students could master a library that is actually used in the real world and contribute to it in a meaningful way. This would potentially place them in a privileged position on the job market.
 * Researchers would have a framework at hand, which vastly reduces the amount of low-level work necessary to build models, so to be able to focus on more complex and interesting problems.
 * Financial firms could exploit QuantLib as base code and/or benchmark, while being able to engage in creating more innovative solutions that would make them more competitive on the market.
 * Regulatory institutions may have a tool for standard pricing and risk management practices.

The QuantLib license is a modified BSD license suitable for use in both free software and proprietary applications, imposing no constraints at all on the use of the library.

A few companies have committed significant resources to the development of this library, notably StatPro Italia, a leading risk-management consulting firm in Italy, where the QuantLib project was born.

Help deciding the development road-map and start contributing to the library: the project-overview page gives a summary of the work in progress. Documentation is also available.

Feedback and questions concerning this site and project can be directed to the QuantLib-users mailing list.

 * Projects

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Klaus Greinert

Klaus Greinert (born 3 June 1940) is a German field hockey player. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics.

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Talk:Derek Paravicini

Focus? A savant and disabled person, or a pianist despite disabilities?
At some point one has to ask what's really important about a person whose artistic work attracts crowds. I learn almost nothing about his oeuvre, but everything about his disabilities (which aren't all that uncommon). Why wouldn't this page start with ".. is a concert pianist specializing in pop, jazz and light classical music, despite his profound mental disabilities".

Talking about the disabilities is important in this case, but not if his work as a pianist isn't taken seriously. I don't know much about him, so I'm not going to try to rewrite this page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Davidswelt (talk • contribs) 12:22, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

"Stop Press"
Removed the blatant advertising nonsense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:40, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

Surrey?
A recent feature on BBC Radio 4's Today program states that he actually lives in Bristol. http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8069000/8069572.stm Jon H (talk) 13:23, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

Inside his brain
This section is pure speculation, so it should be removed.Autarch (talk) 18:42, 21 September 2010 (UTC)

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acyanoblepsia

Etymology
From a- not, cyan blue, and ablepsia blindness.

Noun

 * 1) Inability to see the colour blue.

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Organic Chemistry/Introduction to reactions/Review of nucleophilic substitution

Remember, SN1 and SN2 are the same reaction just undergoing a different mechanism.