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Andrew Fung

Andrew Fung Wai-kwong (, born 27 June 1961) is the current information coordinator for the Office of the Chief Executive of Hong Kong.

Biography
Fung was born on 27 June 1961. He was educated at the University of Hong Kong and was president of the Hong Kong University Students' Union in 1984 and president of the Hong Kong Federation of Students in 1985. He was a member of the pro-democracy political group Meeting Point and treasurer of the group until it was merged into the Democratic Party where he was elected the founding treasurer of the party and had been on the party's Executive Committee. He is also on the Hong Kong Basic Law Consultative Committee, and was formerly a member of the Central Policy Unit and Urban Renewal Authority.

Fung was first elected in South Horizons West constituency to the Southern District Council in the 2007 District Council election. He was re-elected in 2011 District Council election.

Once a member of the pro-democratic Democratic Party, he quit the party in 2012 and he joined Leung Chun-ying's government in 2013.

In December 2013, he was appointed by Leung Chun-ying as the government's information coordinator under the Office of the Chief Executive. Due to the tensions between the Democratic Party and Leung, when he applied for the undersecretary posts in June 2012, he was condemned as traitor and he subsequently quit the party.

Fung, perhaps unwittingly, shared a photograph on Facebook of a bloodied policeman who had allegedly been the victim of protester violence overnight on 15 October during the 2014 Hong Kong protests. It turned out to have been a hoax by people who had taken a publicity shot from an upcoming drama series about zombie cops, but Fung's sharing of the image occurred the same day that television footage surfaced of a handcuffed protester, Ken Tsang, being violently assaulted by seven policemen made prime time news bulletins. Fung condemned the violence of pro-democracy protesters, and had hoped to gain sympathy for the police with his post, but instead resulted in being ridiculed.

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Gladys Taylor (nurse)

Dame Gladys Taylor, (1890 – 11 January 1950) was a British military nurse and nursing administrator who served as Matron-in-Chief of Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service from 1943 to 1948.

Born in 1890, Taylor trained at University College Hospital, London. She was appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1949 New Year Honours.

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Walnut Creek, Ohio

Walnut Creek is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in central Walnut Creek Township, Holmes County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 908. Located in Ohio's Amish Country, Walnut Creek is a popular location for tourists.

History
Walnut Creek was laid out in 1826. Originally named New Carlisle, the village was renamed to Walnut Creek when the post office was established in 1841.

Beginning in the 1990s business leaders developed Walnut Creek into an American-Victorian themed town, which the University of Dayton's Susan Trollinger calls "puzzling" because of the stark contrast between Victorian overdecorating and the Amish plainness. Tourist-oriented businesses typically include "resting places" such as parlors in hotels or wrapround porches lined with rocking chairs or other seating on retail shops, which emphasizes a sense of having plentiful time. Her conclusion is that the Victorian theme and emphasis on resting places is capitalizing on the attraction of nostalgia for a simpler life with plentiful time, which it has in common with the Amish. Large parking lots and sidewalks connect the business district, which is condensed into six square blocks and connected by wide sidewalks, further encouraging a feeling of a slower-pace and life lived on foot. American flags and other patriotic-themed decor are commonly displayed in both exterior and interior spaces, which Trollinger again finds interesting when contrasted to the Amish, who refuse to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and do not fly flags at their schools and homes.

Geography
Walnut Creek is in eastern Holmes County, sitting atop a 200 ft ridge between Goose Creek to the north and Walnut Creek to the south. It is part of the Tuscarawas River watershed.

It lies at the intersection of State Routes 39 and 515. Route 39 leads west 11 mi to Millersburg, the Holmes county seat, and east 17 mi to New Philadelphia, while Route 515 leads north 6 mi to Winesburg.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Walnut Creek CDP has a total area of 5.8 sqkm, of which 4467 sqm, or 0.08%, are water.

Education
East Holmes Local Schools operates Walnut Creek Elementary School in the community.

Walnut Creek has a public library, a branch of the Holmes County District Public Library.

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Georgiana Iuliana Anitei

Georgiana Iuliana Anitei (born 26 March 1999) is a Romanian female triple jumper, who won an individual gold medal at the Youth World Championships.

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Catherine Meadows

Catherine Ann Meadows is an American cryptographer known for her development of tools for the formal verification and automated discovery of flaws in cryptographic protocols. She is a senior researcher in the Center for High Assurance Systems at the Naval Research Laboratory and the head of the laboratory's Formal Methods Section.

Education and career
Meadows is a 1975 graduate of the University of Chicago. She completed a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1981. Her dissertation, Projections of Varieties, concerned algebraic geometry and was supervised by E. Graham Evans Jr. She was an assistant professor of mathematics at Texas A&M University from 1981 to 1985 before joining the Naval Research Laboratory.

Recognition
A symposium was held in Meadows's honor in Fredericksburg, Virginia in May 2019, and a collection of essays from the symposium was published as a festschrift.

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Eilema borbonica

Eilema borbonica is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It is endemic to Réunion.

It has a length of approx. 10 - 12 mm and a wingspan of 20 - 22 mm.

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Abel, Alabama

Abel is an unincorporated community in Cleburne County, in the U.S. state of Alabama.

History
A post office was established at Abel in 1889, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1907. The community was named after the biblical Abel, the second son of Adam and Eve.

Demographics
According to the census returns from 1850 to 2010 for Alabama, it has never reported a population figure separately on the U.S. Census.

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Outdoor Survival/Food

I feel that food can be divided into two categories: That which crawls, and that which sprouts. First, I'll cover plants, then I'll say some about ways to get meat.

Growing, Catching, and Preparing Food - An Overview
If you are facing the prospect of gathering and / or catching food in the wild, you are facing one of two circumstances: this is a lifestyle choice, or you're in a long-term survival situation, where chances of rescue within weeks are slim.

The time frame of weeks may surprise some, but the reality is that in most survival situations, food is the least important factor, i.e., if you make it your number one survival priority, you'll probably get killed by something more important like not having sought adequate shelter while you were chasing badgers with a pointy stick. But getting down to brass tacks...

Chances are, you're not going to develop the skills necessary to hunt wild animals without firearms in any immediate timeframe, so the next option available to us is to prepare snares and traps. Snares and traps have the distinct advantage that they are hunting for you night and day, rain or shine. A simple circuit of your traps once a day is all that is required. The most important, and hopefully obvious consideration with traps is site selection: place traps where animals will be. Bait is fine, but to have bait, you have to have already caught something, haven't you? If you haven't, consider that animals invariably seek water, so a simple snare along a well worn path to the creek is perfect.

Types of Traps:
 * Deadfalls
 * Snares
 * Cage Traps
 * Nets
 * Fishing Lines

Edible & Poisonous Wild Plants
Here are some guideline for eating wild plantlife. In most situations, if you don't know what a plant is, don't eat it. You can live 3 weeks or more without food. You can live a lot less long with poison in your system. Only eat wild plants if you have devoted a good deal of time to studying them.

 * Do not eat mushrooms or fungi unless you know for certain that it is edible. Most are poisonous, and there is no way of determining which ones are edible without properly identifying the species.
 * Plants with umbrella-shaped flowers should not be eaten.
 * Avoid legumes (beans and peas).
 * Bulbs should generally be avoided. Wild garlic and onions are edible but have poisonous look-a-likes. However, garlic and onions smell distinctively like garlic and onions.
 * Avoid white and yellow berries, as most of them are poisonous. Blue and black berries are usually safe to eat.
 * The "berry rule" is that 10% of white and yellow berries are edible; 50% of red berries are edible; 90% of blue, black, or purple berries are edible, and 99% of aggregated berries are edible. This is only a guideline, and unknown berries shouldn't be eaten.
 * Aggregated fruits and berries are almost always edible (blackberry, raspberry, salmonberry, and thimbleberry).
 * Single fruits on a stem are usually considered safe to eat.
 * Plants with shiny leaves or a milky sap are considered to be poisonous. The two that don't follow this rule are Dandelion (and its close relatives such as chicory, Cichorium intybus and salsify, Tragopogon porrifolius) and Fig. (Both have milky sap.)
 * It is a myth that if an animal eats something, then it is safe. For instance, deer will eat poison ivy.
 * Wild nuts that taste or smell like almonds are EXTREMELY dangerous. They contain hydrogen cyanide.
 * Wild fruits and berries can be checked for edibility in the following way:
 * 1) Put a small amount of juice on your forearm and wait until it dries.  If there is no burning, swelling or redness go to the next step.
 * 2) Put a small amount of juice on the corner of your mouth and wait until it dries. If there is no burning or stinging go to the next step.
 * 3) Put a small amount of juice on your tongue. If there is no burning or stinging go to the next step.
 * 4) Eat a very small amount. (If you immediately feel sick or vomit, stop eating!) If no symptoms occur in 24 hours, the item most likely is not poisonous.
 * 5) Eat sparingly at first, and if symptoms still do not occur, proceed to eat as much as you like.

NOTE: This technique can be very dangerous. Many plants (Agave, to name one example) contain compounds that won't burn or tingle, but can be powerful emetics and/or laxatives. Others may be safe in small quantities, but can be dangerous when large amounts are eaten. Your best bet is to familiarize yourself with a few common plants for your area that can be eaten, and not rely on potentially dangerous methods such as the one listed above.

Animals
There are three main types of meat you can get in a survival situation: Insects, fish, and game. Here they are covered in that order; easiest to hardest.

There are some species of toxic birds that you should not eat. Even quail can be hazardous. Don’t eat birds you have never encountered before. Most mammals are okay to eat as long as they are properly cooked. You should never eat the liver of a carnivore or omnivore. The liver can hold dangerous toxins.

Do not eat dog/wolf liver, it contains high levels of vitamin A which can lead to hypervitaminosis and death.

Eating a long term diet of only rabbits can lead to "rabbit starvation" and death. Rabbits have no fat which your body needs. Rabbits do have fat in their intestines, however, so eat as much of the rabbit as you can stomach.

Insects
In many places, insects are a staple of local diets. Some basic guidelines for insect eating:

 * Avoid brightly colored insects.
 * Avoid insects that bite or sting.
 * Avoid fuzzy or hairy insects.
 * Most worms and grub are good to eat. It helps to toast grub until they are dried.
 * Some ants are good food. Dip a stick in water after letting it be coated by ants; repeat until you have enough.
 * Before eating grasshoppers and crickets, remove their wings and legs. (They scratch on the way down.)
 * Only eat fresh, healthy insects.
 * Grasshoppers can contain tape worms, grab them behind the head and hold their body and pull out the stomach and intestines, and it is a good idea to line them up on a small stick and roast them on a rock by a fire.
 * Only eat bees, wasps, and other stinging insects if they are already dead.

Fish
Fish are easier to catch than wild game. It's best to go fishing in the morning and at dusk; just after sunrise and before sunset. In streams, look for deep still pools, undercut banks, and the areas around and behind sandbars. In lakes, bass gather around cover. Try areas around plantlife, sunken logs and boulders, docks, and areas around dropoffs and ledges. In the ocean, try reefs, points, deltas, and channels. Here I have listed some ways of catching fish, along with how to use these ways to catch various types of fish:

Common Types of Fish

 * Bass
 * live in lakes and ponds. They like warm, clear, slow-moving water. They gather around cover (as mentioned above). A predatory fish, they like large worms, frogs, liver and other organs, crickets and grasshoppers, any meat, and crayfish. They average about 2-5 pounds. Bass weighing 8 pounds or more are uncommon, but not unheard of.

 * Catfish
 * are bottom feeders living in lakes, ponds, channels, and slow-moving rivers. There are also saltwater species. They like deep water, and will eat anything strong and smelly, such as meat, organs, and cheese. They have even been caught using things such as bubblegum and cottonballs soaked in meat juices. They are also one of the only fishes that can caught by noodling. For using a rod & reel, put bait and a heavy weight on the end of you line. Then, throw it out into the deep water at the middle of a lake. Let it sit there until a catfish comes across it. As for weight, they are usually around 2-5 pounds, though the biggest on record was 646 pounds!

 * Bluegill
 * are small fish sometimes called panfish and bream. They are caught on either flies or live bait. They gather around underwater vegetation. The average weight is a pound or two.

Techniques

 * Rod & Reel
 * Using a rod & reel is one of the best ways to catch fish. You can use it in the normal fashion, or use the line and hooks to make "set lines." (See below.)

 * Nets
 * Nets, when properly placed, can provide a wealth of food. Lay one down in a creek with a line tied to each corner. Wait till fish swim over it, then lift it up. Also, try tying one under a waterfall. As fish pass over the falls, they get caught in the net. Also a "gill net" consists of thin strands of material making a "curtain". When fish take water in through their gills, they draw in the strands and suffocate.

 * Set Lines
 * Your time can be used more efficiently by setting many fixed lines from things such as tree branches overhanging water. This is the same technique used by trappers; rather than hunt one animal at a time, they set dozens of traps, increasing their odds of catching something.

 * Spearfishing
 * Fish can be harvested with a spear. To make an improvised fishspear: Find a long, strait pole or piece of bamboo. Wrap a piece of cord (tightly) around one end, about a foot from the end. Split the end of the pole evenly in half. The split will stop at your cord wrap. Sharpen the two points. You may also fire harden them.
 * To use it, stand perfectly still in waist deep water. If you have bait to spare, you may scatter some around you if you wish. Keep the spear-point in the water and move it VERY slowly towards a fish. When your point is a foot or so away from it, jab it sharply, pinning it to the bottom. Try to make the fish slip between the two points, wedging it. Wedging it is better than piercing it; stabbing it can mess up the meat. Now, reach down and grab it firmly; as long as it's still in the water, it can fight with amazing power. Throw it on the bank and continue fishing.

 * Fishtraps
 * You can construct fishtraps out of vines, bamboo, wire, or plastic jugs. As a rule, the time it would take you to construct a fish trap (if you could at all) is best spent on other things. However, I'll still include directions for their construction. To make a simple fishtrap from a large narrow-mouthed plastic jug: Cut the top few inches off of the jug, widening the hole just enough allow comfortable access for a fish. Then, cut the top third off of the jug. Invert the removed section, and stick it in the rest of the jug, creating a funnel. Secure it in this position. Put bait in the jug. Fish will be "funnelled" in towards the bait, but will be unable to exit. You are actually more likely to catch crawfish and lobsters than fish with this! The same design is used to make woven and wire traps. (If someone knows the exact way to weave traps, put it here!) Also, on a beach, you can build a fishtrap from logs and stones: When the tide is low, create an inland-facing halfcircle of logs and stones. The tide comes in, and the trap is submerged. When the tide goes out, fish a trapped in the halfcircle as the water level drops. They may then be picked up.

 * Fishing Poisons
 * There are some plants that deoxidise water (remove oxygen). When added to a small pool of still water, they cause fish to suffocate and float to the surface. Because you did not actually poison them, there is no danger when eating fish caught this way. (The green husks from the Chestnut tree and the Black Walnut tree can be added to still water to stun fish. (Illegal, but in a survival situation it is good to know) Also the pods from the Black Locust Bean Gum tree (Arkansas)

 * Handfishing
 * With practice, you can actually catch fish by hand. When you catch catfish in this way, it is called noodling. (Catching catfish uses a special technique, not covered here.) To catch fish by hand: Find an undercut bank over still water. Lay Down on your belly on the ground next to the water. Stick your hand in the water. Move very slowly and gingerly until you feel a fish. Work your hand under his belly. Grip firmly and lift him out. This is kind of like spearfishing with your hand. It takes a lot of practice.

Older people have mentioned tickling the fish, then jamming your thumb into the gills for extra grip.

Next Step
Now that you have a fish (or several fish) you should scale and clean them. (Instructions for scaling and cleaning to be added.) You can eat the heart and liver. Save the other organs for bait. Cut open the stomach to see what the fish has been eating, so you can get an idea of what bait to use. If the stomach is empty, it means that the fish are very hungry, and will bite almost anything. You can put the head on a large hook and drop in the water to catch a snapping turtle. Scatter whatever is left in the water to attract other fish.

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And Tango Makes Three is a 2005 children's book written by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson and illustrated by Henry Cole. The book is based on the true story of Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins in New York's Central Park Zoo. Roy and Silo made a nest together, but they could not have offspring. Mr. Gramsay, the zookeeper gifted them an extra egg from another penguin couple at the zoo. Roy and Silo took turns sitting on the egg and eventually it hatched. The female chick was named "Tango" by the zookeepers.

The book has won many awards, including the ALA Notable Children's Book Nominee in 2006, the ASPCA Henry Bergh Book Award in 2005, and was one of the Bank Street Best Books of the Year in 2006. And Tango Makes Three has also been at the center of numerous censorship and culture war debates on same-sex marriage, adoption, and homosexuality in animals. The ALA reports that And Tango Makes Three was the most frequently challenged book from 2006 to 2010, except for 2009 when it was the second most frequently challenged.

Plot Summary
The story is set in the Central Park Zoo, which is described as housing many families of all different species. The story then transitions to the time of the year when all the chinstrap penguins in the penguin house couple up, and typically a couple consists of a male penguin and a female penguin. However, the main characters of this story, Roy and Silo, are a couple and they are both males. They are described as doing everything together, such-as singing, swimming, and building a nest. They even try to hatch their an egg of their own, but what Roy and Silo are sitting on and caring for is a rock, not an egg. Once the zookeeper, Mr. Gramzay, notices that Roy and Silo are in love and want an egg of their own, he brings them an extra egg. Roy and Silo care diligently for their egg until it hatches. They name their baby penguin Tango, and continue to care for her and raise her. The zoo goers notice Tango and her two fathers, and they cheer for her. The story ends by reiterating that Roy, Silo, and Tango are a happy family.

The True Story of Roy and Silo
At the Central Park Zoo, in 1998, the zookeeper noticed two chinstrap penguins who seemed to be especially fond of each other. The penguins would call for each other and complete the typical mating rituals that penguin couples usually completed. Most of the penguin couples consisted of one female penguin and one male penguin, but Roy and Silo were both males. The homosexual pair was then seen by zookeeper, Robert Gramsay, building a nest and placing a rock in the nest—seen as an effort to hatch an egg. Gramzay said that he never saw the pair complete a sex act, but the two did engage in mating rituals like entwining their necks and vocalizing to one another.

After observing Roy and Silo's attempt at hatching a rock as an egg, the zoo staff at the Central Park Zoo provided an extra egg from another heterosexual couple to Roy and Silo for them to have as their own. After thirty-four days of Roy and Silo taking care of the egg, the baby penguin finally broke out of its shell. Roy and Silo then began taking care of a female baby penguin that the staff of the Central Park Zoo named Tango. After six years of their relationship, Silo left Roy for a female penguin named Scrappy. Roy continued raising Tango by himself as Silo continued to mate with his new female partner. Tango eventually grew up and began to mate with her homosexual female partner Tazuni.

The Authors
Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, the two authors of And Tango Makes Three are married, with one daughter. Richardson is a professor of psychiatry, as well as a practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst at Columbia University. Richardson received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University. Parnell is a playwright whose works have been performed at The Public Theater and Broadway in addition to many other venues.

The idea for Tango came after Parnell and Richardson read the New York Times article, "Love That Dare Not Squeak Its Name" by Dinitia Smith. The article began with Roy and Silo's story. Reading the article aloud, Richardson states that the life of Roy and Silo "started sounding like a children’s story". While writing Tango, Parnell and Richardson "visited the zoo several times so that [they] were able to write from what [they'd] seen". The two authors also took care to erase anthropomorphism within their drafts of the book. In an interview with The Guardian, the authors stated that, “We didn’t want to put thoughts and feelings into the heads of the penguins.”

We wrote the book to help parents teach children about same-sex parent families. It's no more an argument in favor of human gay relationships than it is a call for children to swallow their fish whole or sleep on rocks.

The motivation for writing Tango was the way Richardson and Parnell believe the subject of homosexuality is approached by parents. According to Richardson, “One of the areas that parents find very difficult to discuss with their children is homosexuality” and they intended Tango to be a device to ease this difficulty parents experience in addressing homosexuality.

During the writing process both Richardson and Parnell "expect[ed] a negative reaction" to Tango. Although Tango never explicitly mentions homosexuality, "homosexuality and talking to children about sexuality have been highly politicised" states Richardson. The editor of Tango at Simon & Schuster, David Gale, stated that those working on Tango "never expected a reaction to such an extent".

Reception
Some parents have objected to their kids reading this book due to the issue of homosexuality. Homosexuality in animals is seen as controversial by some social conservatives, who believe that asserting the naturalness of animal homosexuality affects the morality of homosexuality in humans. Others believe that it has no implications and is nonsensical to equate animal behavior to morality.

The American Library Association (ALA) tracks challenges and censorship cases made against literature in public libraries. It reports that And Tango Makes Three was the most challenged book of 2006, 2007, and 2008. The book dropped to the second position in 2009 but returned to the top slot in 2010.

Shiloh, Illinois
Some parents of students at Shiloh Elementary School requested in November 2006 that the book be placed in a restricted section of the library and for the school to require parental permission prior to checking the book out. Superintendent Filyaw organized a five-person panel to examine how to handle the book, and the panel ultimately suggested that the book be censored by being moved and requiring permission. Christine Farmer, the mother of two Shiloh Elementary students and the parental representative on the panel, said, "I don't know why sexuality of any type is appropriate for kids that age. I feel they're learning to count, learning colors. To make that leap to books-- is that really appropriate school material?" Another parent, Lilly Del Pinto, added, “Please let us decide when our kids are ready. Please let us parent our kids.”

Despite this, Filyaw resolved instead to keep the book freely available. The district's attorney advised Superintendent Filyaw that moving the book might be legally challengeable censorship. "My feeling is that a library is to serve an entire population," Superintendent Filyaw said. "It means you represent different families in a society -- different religions, different beliefs. That's the role of a school library."

Charlotte, North Carolina
Peter Gorman, the superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), along with other members of the school board, removed And Tango Makes Three (Tango) from school libraries on December 20, 2006. A miscommunication and failure to follow procedure allowed for the ban.

Among the leadership of the school board and county, there was discourse on the propriety of Tango. The GOP county commissioner in Charlotte, Bill James, had communicated to Gorman that he was “opposed to any book that promotes a homosexual lifestyle to elementary school students as normal” and wanted to know if CMS had the book. Additionally, CMS administrators, Ruth Perez, Ronald Dixon, and Gloria Miller, were in favour of banning of the book, as they stated in their memo addressed to the principals. These administrators asserted that Tango “focuses on homosexuality” and they “did not feel that such information was vital to primary students” nor would the book “stimulate growth in ethical standards”.

The discovery of the administration’s failure to follow the procedure to ban a book occurred when the Charlotte Observer requested copies of the complaints which would have initiated the process to ban a book according to CMS policy. However, it was found there were no complaints on file. Robert Avossa, the chief of staff for superintendent Gorman, had done research on the process for book removal for CMS schools after Gorman asked him to do so after discussing the book with parents and the county commissioner. Superintendent Gorman thought that procedure had been followed when Avossa told him about CMS procedure regarding the removal of books, hence the ban.

After the realisation of the oversight, Superintendent Gorman returned Tango to schools. The case concluded when CMS officials made a statement that “the book [would] be reviewed only if parents ask for its removal, which hasn't happened.”

Loudoun County, Virginia
In 2008, Loudoun County Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Edgar B. Hatrick removed the book from general circulation at public elementary school libraries on the basis of a parent's complaint. The parent complained that Tango “promoted a gay agenda” and was an “attack on families headed by heterosexuals." After the parent formally challenged the book, the principal of Sugarland Elementary School convened an advisory committee of principals, librarians, teachers and parents to review the book. The group deemed it acceptable, and the principal concurred. Following this decision, the anonymous parent appealed. Another committee of administrators, librarians and parents reviewed the book, and that committee also recommended that it remain in the collection. Superintendent Hatrick decided to override the decision of the committees and the principal and made the book available only to teachers and parents.

Not long after his announcement, Hatrick received a copy of an inquiry from a School Board member about any legal implications involved in the decision regarding this book. This led Hatrick to review School Board Policy 5-7, which includes the “Procedure for Review of Challenged Materials,” and he found that the procedure was not adhered to. Subsequently, he returned the book into circulation, citing "significant procedural errors that he believes void the process followed in this matter."

Ankeny, Iowa
In November 2008, parents at the local elementary school were concerned with the contents of And Tango Makes Three and requested the library to remove the book. After the library denied their request, the parents appealed to their school board, asking that And Tango Makes Three be placed in a restricted section of the library, so only parents could check it out. The parents’, citing the nature in which the parents believed the book attempts to normalize homosexuality to young children, request comes from the idea that the children of the school should only be allowed to engage with this type of literature with the explicit permission of themselves. The restriction of the book would allow the parents to directly oversee when and where students could read this type of literature. The parents, next, wrote a letter to the newspaper of the city of Ankeny in order to “warn” other parents about the book. In an effort to preserve the book within the school district, the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) and the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression (ABFFE) sent a letter urging the board to preserve students' access to And Tango Makes Three. In this letter, the NCAC and ABFFE state that “Those who object to this book are entitled to their view, but they may not impose it on others. Any other decision threatens the principle that is essential to individual freedom, democracy, and a good education: the right to read, inquire, question, and think for ourselves”. In December 2008, the School Board of Ankeny voted, by a vote of 6-1, to keep the book in the libraries as well as to add on an additional process of book review for the school system. During the hearing, the school board’s lawyer argued that a decision to remove the book from the shelves, if challenged, would likely not hold up in court.

Chico, California
In November 2008, the book sustained its placement on library shelves after being challenged by “two parents at Emma Wilson [Elementary] School and one from…Shasta [Elementary] School”, all within the Chico Unified School District. According to an article within the Chico-Enterprise Record, the counter-argument states that “one group of parents cannot decide what all students have access to, but should continue to monitor what their own children check out”. Therefore, the book was voted unanimously by a committee of parents, teachers, librarians and administrators to stay within the appropriate library shelves. Jody L. Strong, a parent whom was in favor of the committee’s decision, commented that the children's book promotes "qualities I want my children to possess", like love, tolerance, and acceptance.

Cases resulting in censorship
Candi Cushman, education analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said the book is far from a “true story”. “It’s very misleading,” she said, “and it’s a very disingenuous, inaccurate way to promote a political agenda to little kids". Silo's heterosexual behavior was widely reported in national news, including the Chicago Tribune.

Savannah, Missouri
On February 13, 2006, parents objected to the book’s placement at Rolling Hills Consolidated Library and requested a change of assignment within the library stacks. According to Aaron Bailey’s article in the St. Joseph News-Press, parents objected to the book’s placement in the fiction section, thus insisted the book to be placed in the non-fiction section instead. The book was transferred because “fewer people browse the children’s nonfiction section” and “because it was based on the true story of two male penguins that hatched an egg in the New York City Zoo”. The permanent move of the book was made on March 4, 2006, just shy of the book being on shelves for one year.

Massachusetts
The book is listed on the "15 Most Controversial Picture Books" because of the controversy surrounding the popular children's book. A school librarian feared losing her job after introducing the book to students.

Singapore
In July 2014, Singapore's National Library Board (NLB) announced it would destroy three children's books with pro-LGBT families themes as they saw the titles as being "against its 'pro-family' stance following complaints by a parent and its own internal review." And Tango Makes Three, was one of the problematic books. And Tango Makes Three was eventually placed in the adult section instead of being pulped, and the NLB announced that their book selection and review processes would be refined.

Calvert County, Maryland
Near Washington, D.C., a mother requested that the book be removed from the children's section and placed in an area specifically for books about "alternative or non-traditional families". The library board of trustees denied the request, concluding that libraries should disseminate information fairly and without bias or judgment. Shortly thereafter, in November 2008, the Calvert County Library Board of Trustees heard another challenge to the book. A parent described the book as presenting issues of sexuality to children too young to understand them. She asked that the book be removed from the library, shelved with adult books on sexuality, or marked with a "red dot" to alert parents to its controversial nature. The parent charged that the book's statement that penguins Roy and Silo "slept together" is a reference to sexual behavior between the birds.

Scholarly Reviews
A variety of scholars, parents, and teachers have written on behalf of the value of And Tango Makes Three.

Literary criticisms have explored the values of And Tango Makes Three as it is related to settings like the classroom. Jennifer Harvey, a Curriculum Librarian and Assistant Professor at Calvin T. Ryan Library, University of Nebraska, Kearney, wrote a literary criticism where she positioned that the book’s diverse makeup and its subsequent lessons adds to its overall value. In the criticism, Harvey states that “since families vary, literature that explores types of families can improve the chances of the reader having a healthy response to non-normative family units, whether their own, or the family of an acquaintance”. The inclusion of two male parents is reflective of a typical upbringing in American culture, which Harvey is satisfied with being included within the classroom. She argues in favor of the book because it “can increase the likelihood of compassion for difference".

Deborah Stevenson from Johns Hopkins University Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books writes about the book’s value in prompting discussion about different types of families. Selena E. Van Horn, a doctoral candidate in literacy education at the University of Missouri published a piece titled "How Do You Have Two Moms?" Challenging Heteronormativity While Sharing LGBTQ-Inclusive Children's Literature" in the National Council of Teachers of English where she suggested And Tango Makes Three as a book to be used to challenge heteronormativity in classrooms. And Tango Makes Three was published in the UK as a result of a study done in the country titled No Outsiders. The study was conducted in the United Kingdom from 2006-2008. The study was conducted by Dr. Elizabeth Atkinson and Dr. Renee DePalma, and after the study was concluded, Dr. Elizabeth Atkinson was awarded a scholar-activist award by the American Educational Research Association. "And Tango Makes Three" was also integrated into Turkish curriculum in an effort to include books about diversity. Along the same lines of fostering inclusivity, an article written by Anna Paula Peixoto da Silva, recognized that the inclusion of appropriate diverse literature and toys that are reflective of both male and female and "various ages and ethnicities" in elementary school curriculum that spoke to same-sex families creates appropriate spaces for said families. One of the age-appropriate books recommended for preschoolers was, indeed, And Tango Makes Three. The publishing site Scholastic recommends the book to be used in curriculum for children in preschool through second grade.

Authors' Intention
According to the authors of the children's book, the motive for creating this book was to foster inclusivity in book format and in the mindset of young children. A quote from one of the authors, Justin Richardson, prefaced that himself and Peter Parnell, the additional author, “wanted to write a book in which kids who have same sex parents would see their family represented". The additional motivation for writing Tango is because they believe that the subject of homosexuality is something hard to approach as a parent and they intend Tango to be a device to ease this difficulty parents experience in addressing homosexuality.

The Science of Homosexuality in Animals
According to scientific research, homosexual behavior in animals has been observed in around 1500 species. Scientists also claim that, typically, animals in the animal kingdom tend to exhibit bisexual activity. As sociologist Eric Anderson of the University of Bath in England says, “Animals don’t do sexual identity. They just do sex”.

The term “homosexual behavior” is not to only be defined through sexual actions among organisms. It can also be looked upon as mating interactions, parenting, courtship, etc. Sex can also be used as a social function to strengthen bonds and alliances between two animals not necessarily for the intimacy.

From a physiological standpoint, the amount of sex hormones and the size of the animal’s gonads seem to have an indirect relation towards homosexual behavior in animals. Nathan Bailey, the author and biologist states that it is possible animals that exhibit homosexual behavior lack the gene that allows them to distinct the difference between the sexes.

Pop Culture
And Tango Makes Three is available in an audiobook, and it is narrated by Neil Patrick Harris. The New York Times writer Sarah Weeks describes And Tango Makes Three as “well-written” and “a welcome addition to the libraries of families” for readers looking for themes of inclusion.

Editions

 * And Tango Makes Three, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, April 26, 2005 ISBN 0-689-87845-1

Awards and nominations

 * National book awards:

 * American Library Association Notable Children's Book - 2006
 * ASPCA's Henry Bergh Award - 2005
 * Gustavus Myer Outstanding Book Award- 2006
 * Nick Jr. Family Magazine Best Book of the Year - 2006
 * Bank Street Best Book of the Year - 2006
 * Cooperative Children's Book Council Choice, and CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book - 2006
 * Lambda Literary Award finalist - 2006

 * Awards from children's groups:

 * Sheffield Children's Book Award - shortlisted - 2008

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Category scope/name
I'm going to wait until this discussion is completed before doing this (to avoid any further confusion there), but most of the articles in this category should be moved to a new category called "Ottoman Baroque architecture" or something to that effect. The name of this category, which was created long before the Ottoman Baroque architecture article, implies European-style Baroque architecture present in the Ottoman Empire. That appears true of one article in this category, the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit (predictably a 19th-century church). But that's not what "Ottoman Baroque" is; that label is based on the influence of European Baroque architecture on existing Ottoman architecture (roughly speaking; some scholars have argued that it's just Ottoman architecture with superficial additions, others like Doğan Kuban, Goodwin, and Rüstem argue that it was more creative than that). It would be a subcategory of Ottoman architecture, whereas this category shouldn't (edit: depending on how the parent categories end up being organized). All the other articles currently in this category belong to the "Ottoman Baroque" style, which should not be conflated with European Baroque tout court. R Prazeres (talk) 22:49, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

 * I've created Category:Ottoman Baroque architecture to sort out the problem above. Will move most of the relevant categories and articles to there where appropriate. I don't love the similarity in names but I don't see any way around it currently. R Prazeres (talk) 00:20, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
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The Design and Organization of Data Centers/Fire Protection

Fire alarms systems are designed to detect and notify building occupants of a possible fire condition, so that proper reactive steps can be taken.

Some examples of fire alarm equipment include the following:
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 * Beam Detectors
 * Pull Stations
 * Sprinkler System Monitoring Equipment
 * Audible and/or Visual Notification Appliances

Sprinkler systems
Water and computers don't mix. A damaged sprinkler head will spray water regardless of a fire, and smoke detectors can be set off by dust.

Avoid sprinkler systems that hold water, instead use a pre-action sprinkler system, preferably a double-interlocked pre-action system. With a double-interlocking pre-action valve, water is prevented from entering the sprinkler piping until two different kinds of heat/smoke detecting devices trigger the valve to open. The typical devices used are pneumatic actuation by a sprinkler head activating and releasing pressurized air stored in the piping and an electric actuation from heat or smoke detectors.

Halon
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Sae (given name)

Sae (written: 紗英, 紗江, 佐江, 沙恵, 三重, 彩恵, さえ in hiragana or サエ in katakana) is a feminine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include:

 * Sae Isshiki (一色 紗英), Japanese actress
 * Sae Itō (伊藤 沙恵), Japanese shogi player
 * Sae Miyakawa (宮川 紗江), Japanese artistic gymnast
 * Sae Miyazawa (宮澤 佐江), Japanese singer and actress
 * Sae Murase (村瀬 紗英), Japanese singer
 * Sae Nakazawa (中澤 さえ), Japanese judoka
 * Sae Tachikawa (立川 サエ), Japanese educator
 * Sae Watanabe (渡辺 三重), Japanese gymnast
 * Sae Yamamoto (curler) (山本 冴), Japanese curler

Fictional characters

 * Sae, a character in the manga series Hidamari Sketch
 * Sae, a character from the manga and anime Twin Star Exorcist
 * Sae Niijima, a character in the video game Persona 5
 * Sae Kurosawa, a character from the horror video game  Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly
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Cheryomushkino

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Oskaloosa City Hall

The Oskaloosa City Hall is a historic government building located in Oskaloosa, Iowa, United States. It was designed by Des Moines architect Frank E. Wetherell, an Oskaloosa native, in the Renaissance Revival style. It was originally designed along with the adjoining fire station in 1905. The buildings were designed for phased construction, and the city council decided to build the fire station first. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. Previously it had been included as a contributing property in the Oskaloosa City Square Commercial Historic District.

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Elected Topic for BGC Assignment- Estuarine Turbidity Maxima: Estuarine turbidity maximum

Chemical processes that occur: -Nutrient Element Dynamics:

Elevated turbidity can limit primary production (less light) so not consuming nutrients and chemical reactions (adsorption-desorption) at water and particle interfaces become more important in nutrient budget.

Nutrient adsorption-desorption from suspended particulate matter load Remobilize particles and show an estuarine maximum of particles and nutrients Increase the amount of nutrient delivery to the shelf Laboratory experiments show nitrate, silica, and ammonia are readily desorbed from particles, while phosphate can be active or conservative (simple dilution through estuary from source) in turbidity max zones. Anthropogenic sources of nitrogen and phosphorous are added more rapidly by desorption than natural sources in suspended particulate matter.

References- Zhang, J., Yu, Z., Liu, S., Xu, H., & Liu, M. (1997). Dynamics of Nutrient Elements in Three Estuaries of North China: The Luanhe, Shuangtaizihe, and Yalujiang. Estuaries, 20(1), 110-123, retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.proxy.library.oregonstate.edu/stable/1352725

Topic ideas for Biogeochemistry: Types of extremophiles Psychrophile Piezophile sources to explore to contribute to this article: (Michoud & Jebbar, 2016) Science Direct Search Oligotroph

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Talk:Martin Saidler

CoI edits
Hello all,

I've been contacted by someone at Centralway asking me about the CoI tag currently on this article (there's also a couple of requested changes, see below). This is a mildly interesting story, but the bottom line is that they would like to do things the right way (after doing it many times the wrong way).

There are basically three articles related to the company: Martin Saidler (founder), Centralway and Centralway Numbrs. It appears that over the years a number of employees have been editing the company articles: the gentleman I spoke with told me that and  most certainly belonged to former employees (and for the former I would add  and ). He could not tell me about, , , and  who also edited in the past: it's a reasonable bet that they were close to the company, but probably not part of his department (or gone before he arrived; in any case they haven't edited in ages and unlikely to come back and confirm one way or the other). He also told me about two Upwork contracts (300 USD each): one with for the present article (see above), and another one with a guy whose username he did not know - by the look of it, I'd say the person behind  (apparently sockpuppet of, now banned). I've updated the talk pages of Centralway and Centralway Numbrs with the appropriate declarations for Andrew and Jacqueline, with a note redirecting people to the present section. For the others, I leave it to others to make the call.

All in all, there is a genuine and good faith effort at coming out clean and trying to do things the right way (having new people helps): they've only asked to upload a picture of M.Saidler (OTRS pending cleared) for the article, and remove the University of Vienna from the Infobox (he never graduated, as indicated in the second sentence of the career section).

in light of the above, I'm pinging you as you've put the CoI banners here and on Centralway Numbrs (anyone else: feel free to pitch in). The present article has apparently already been scrubbed clean of non-factual info, and the appropriate declarations made. What do you think? Pplc (talk) 12:12, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

 * The issue is that these articles are written by someone (a group of people) for pay. This is Wikipedia, we do not really allow "ads". We are supposed to be independent. These articles are not and thus they are tagged.
 * They have also not disclosed all the account that they have paid... So not exactly coming clean. If they did not wanted tagged articles they should not have bought them. They are simple contributing to our sock puppet problem. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 12:22, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * No offense meant, but I think you have an unreasonable expectation that people should spontaneously know the rules : of the accounts above, three at least tried to add "centrlway" to their usernames, so there hardly is a concerted attempt to hide things. Wikipedia's very design encourages wannabe editors to directly try their hands at editing. For the undisclosed professional paid editor who gave them a bad job I guess they should sue, but that's not very realistic either.
 * Now, as far as the present article is concerned:
 * the tag seems unwarranted as the CoI declaration was properly made when creating the article (else the author should have been blocked, which he hasn't; the other guy with a blocked account was active elsewhere). No SPA edited here either;
 * the photo has been released under a CC-license; and
 * there is an incorrect claim that does need to be corrected.
 * As indicated earlier, for the other two articles I don't know what to do for the CoI declarations (include all suspect accounts, or not?). I haven't looked in details but the tone and content seem factual and neutral enough, which should be the most important part. Pplc (talk) 16:33, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm going to remove the tag, for no other reason than that it does not meet the criteria for its addition, as laid out clearly at Template:COI. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:32, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I have restored it. This article was written by someone with a conflict of interest without a full review by someone without. Hiring someone to come and get the tag removed is not how things work.
 * The policy says "If the article/ edit also has problems with neutrality, however, then use of the tag is likely appropriate."
 * No ref for example supports this text "He has also worked on projects to improve access to financial services that led to a meeting with former president Shimon Peres at the Peres Center for Peace in 2016."
 * Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:15, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * And I've removed it again, for the same reason as before. Please read the template's documentation before using it again, on any article. They include: "Do not use this tag if you can quickly solve the problem, e.g., by removing peacocking and puffery..." (emboldening in original). And please refrain from splitting this discussion over multiple talk pages. Finally, please strike your utterly bogus insinuation that I was "hired" to remove the tag. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:30, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * The bigger concern is what is left out. The person in question requests all positive details placed. Without a neutral person looking at the person in question we are not going to get a neutral article.
 * No one said User:Pigsonthewing was hired to remove the tag, what was said is User:Pplc was hired to remove the tag. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 23:31, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I didn't say you said it; I said you insinuated it, since I alone (and of my own volition) removed the tag. Strike it. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:35, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I never said it or insinuated it. But have adjusted the wording.
 * Details that are missing include those discussed here Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 23:36, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ...I alone (and of my own volition) removed the tag. No you didn't, you're doing it on behalf of a COI. Whether you're getting a cheque is immaterial, so all the Wikilawyering in the world doesn't change the validity of the COI tag. --Calton | Talk 05:20, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Wikitionary has a good definition of "volition". HTH. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:24, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Conflict of interest tags
I've added a conflict of interest and advert tag to this article. This signifies to readers that the article has been extensively edited by someone with a conflict of interest, and is likely to have bias, in the form of missing negative content, overemphasis on "positives", non-neutral language (all of which are violations of the WP:NPOV content policy), and is likely to have unsourced or poorly sourced content, in violation of the WP:VERIFY content policy. It is likely that the content promotes the subject of the article, in violation of the WP:PROMO policy. Independent editors need to review the article and correct it, and then may remove the tag. If you do so, please leave a note here. Jytdog (talk) 00:17, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

 * Please read the COI template's documentation before using it again, as you did so in error on this article. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 00:54, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I work with it more than you do. Please see your talk page. Jytdog (talk) 02:57, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Argument from authority; how droll. If you use the template so much, all the more reason why you should learn about your error regarding its use. As for, I'm utterly unimpressed by your asinine threats. Bring it on. Far better you waste your time investigating me, than smearing BLP subjects with miss-applied "badges of shame". Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 08:19, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * How exactly is it not appropriate to include it? We know it was written by a paid editor whose articles have from experience been less than exemplary in terms of sourcing and NPOV. Unless you have reviewed all the sources cited, as well as reviewing what others are available, then is completely appropriate to include the COI tag as a warning to readers. This is in no way a "badge of shame" as you contest and to suggest that it can't be used on BLPs is frankly ridiculous. SmartSE (talk) 11:39, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

From Template:COI/doc:

Can someone explain to me just what the non-neutral passages are in the article text? and I'll volunteer to clean them up myself, if nobody else is going to. I don't see where the editors placing the tag started a discussion or explained just what the non-neutrality consisted of. In those circumstances, what would be the point of the second paragraph I quoted above, if not to allow the removal of the tag? --RexxS (talk) 12:14, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

 * Just choosing something at random, currently this source is used to reference He subsequently sold off the companies to various major firms including Axel Springer, Daily Mail UK, CME (Time Warner), Deutsche Telekom, Tamedia, MCI, Jelmoli, and others.[2]. First problem, regardless of sourcing is that this is promotional name-dropping of large important companies. Second problem, the source is an interview with the subject which is not a brilliant source of information. Most seriously however, is that none of that information can actually be found in the source - i.e. it's a fake reference. From my experience with the editor who wrote this, this is a common occurrence and obviously if they are just inventing content out of thin air, potentially received directly from the subject, then the content cannot be NPOV. As I said before, all the content needs to be checked like this, and until it has been, the COI tag should remain in place. SmartSE (talk) 12:37, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I had assumed that the original placement of the tag had followed a source checking, so I would have hoped that the list of problems would already be available (to avoid duplicated effort). If that's not the case, then perhaps we can use the remaining few days of full protection to create such a list here – forcing discussion is normally the point of protection.
 * In that specific example, I quickly found that the third reference http://www.boersenpoint.de/boersenblog/blog/martin-saidler-der-erfolgreichste-online-unternehmer-der-schweiz-1793041/ supported the sales to Daily Mail, Axel Springer, and Time Warner, but I agree that such confusion smacks of having a prepared script, rather than working from the sources. That makes it worth investigation. I'm going to suggest a copyedit to clean out the extensive name-dropping in two other places. We almost certainly don't need "including ..." followed by seven names and " ... and others"! At most one example of a notable company would be DUE in each case, IMHO. --RexxS (talk) 13:06, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I can't speak for Doc James, but I certainly add coi tags without listing every single problem on the talk page first. While ideally we would do so, in practice there are so many articles affected that we barely have time to find them and tag them, let alone list every problem. Feel free to create a list, but the topic of this current discussion is whether or not Andy was justified in removing the COI tag, which he clearly was not. SmartSE (talk) 17:22, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Not listing everything is fine, but you should be posting at least one problem on the talk page when you add this tag. WhatamIdoing (talk) 18:13, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry,, but Andy was clearly justified. You seriously can't read if you place this tag, you should promptly start a discussion on the article's talk page to explain what is non-neutral about the article . If you do not start this discussion, then any editor is justified in removing the tag without warning any other way.
 * The topic of this discussion is how to improve the article. You can save aspersions about editor behaviour for elsewhere. --RexxS (talk) 20:45, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

@Smartse: I have never claimed that "it can't be used on BLPs", so please do not misquote me. What I have pointed out is that using it contrary to the criteria in its documentation (which I linked to, and which RexxS has kindly quoted in part above (the highlighting is in the original, BTW); and another part of which does indeed refer to the misuse of the template as a "badge of shame", hence my use of quote marks), breached WP:BLP. Note also that "it was written by a paid editor whose articles have from experience been less than exemplary" is not one of those criteria for using this template. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:24, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * True... my mistake. You are still saying that adding the tag is a BLP violation which I disagree with in the strongest possible way. The "badge of shame" thing is about tagging an article that is 100 % ok content wise, purely because it has been edited by a COI editor, but this is clearly not the case here as outlined above. You've made zero effort to verify anything, and yet have declared that the article is NPOV. Template documentation is not policy or even a guideline and given the previous problems I've found with Lingveno's work, adding a tag to an article until it has been reviewed is prudent. SmartSE (talk) 17:22, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * The biggest issue as I previously mentioned is that this article is not neutral. Ie notable details are missing that are less than positive. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 18:40, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Straw man. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:35, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Ah, this is how PR works. You state all the positive wonderful things about your client and than simple leave out anything you do not want to be seen. What one gets is non neutral non indepedent content. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 21:38, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Still utterly irrelevant to your misuse of the COI template. And Saider is not my client - that's another snide insinuation which you should strike. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:45, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Seriously? We have 12 accounts that have a COI. I am NOT talking about you Andy. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 22:01, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * You replied to my comment - no-one else's - with "...this is how PR works. You state ... your client ", and the rest of your ad hominem smear. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:05, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Whatever. Take it to ANI if you wish. The "you" refers to those involved in "PR" not Andy Mabbett. If I meant Andy Mabbett I would have written that. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 22:08, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * No that's not what I'm saying, as I have just pointed out. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:35, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Andy what you wrote above was smearing BLP subjects with miss-applied "badges of shame". You just completely misrepresented your argument. More wikilawyering bullshit. Jytdog (talk) 20:06, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * No, my argument is consistent. Your comment makes no sense. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:35, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * No, you are confusing the article with the person. There is no doubt, whatsoever, that this page has been heavily trafficked by paid editors (like yourself) who have come here to promote their CEO.  You have not said - not once - that you yourself took the effort to go look for sources to make sure that the article is actually NPOV.  The COI tag says explicitly that it may require cleanup.  Since you did not actually check, your edit warring has nothing to do with WP or its policies.  Not a damn thing. It is pure wikifriend bullshit with no integrity. Not a drop.  It is remarkable that your focus is purely on your wikifriend's paying client and not on the actual content, nor on our readers.  Remarkable.  Jytdog (talk) 22:19, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * one of the sources in the article even talks about how Wikipedia has been manipulated to promote him. Jytdog (talk) 23:08, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Think you got your links mixed up as I can't see any mention in there but the 2014 piece in SonntagsZeitung does mention it. SmartSE (talk) 10:32, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

More on the template's documentation
Doc James is now edit-warring to remove some of the wording that cautions against applying the template in the manner that he did on this article - the first half of the wording quoted by RexxS, above. It is ironic not only that he should do so after complaining of me edit warring, but that he should do so when he clearly has a conflict of interest. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:39, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * That really needs to be discussed on its merits at Template talk:COI . It will not be solved by edit-warring. --RexxS (talk) 21:53, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * And you could join the conversation on that talk page. Reverting without discussion is frowned upon. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 22:02, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * It is. As is WP:BRDR . Nevertheless, I've tried to make a contribution there. I'd like to see some compromise wording you could both agree on. More eyes welcome. --RexxS (talk) 23:12, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Andy's perspective on this is not mainstream and will not get consensus as we go improve the documentation.  We need to fix the documentation so it cannot be wikilawyered in this way. Jytdog (talk) 23:35, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I could be wrong, but I thought the mainstream view on virtually all maintenance templates is "No discussion = No tag". Otherwise it's not fair on those editors trying to clean up. It's great if the tagger does the clean-up, of course, but the tag ought to be attracting other editors to help. Getting them started and filling in the background seems to me the most courteous, and ought to improve the chances of getting those other editors to join in. --RexxS (talk) 23:45, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I could be wrong, but I thought the mainstream view on virtually all maintenance templates is "No discussion = No tag". Otherwise it's not fair on those editors trying to clean up. It's great if the tagger does the clean-up, of course, but the tag ought to be attracting other editors to help. Getting them started and filling in the background seems to me the most courteous, and ought to improve the chances of getting those other editors to join in. --RexxS (talk) 23:45, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

the tag was first added in this diff on 18 September 2017, which was the fourth edit to the page. The article was created directly in mainspace with no review, with the paid editor disclosing in their edit note. Any editor looking at the article and its history for a half a second can see the reason for the tag; of course an article created directly in mainspace that is the product of paid editing needs a basic review done.

This principle was confirmed in the just-closed arbcom case, which stated in its second principle:

 Because Wikipedia is intended to be written from a neutral point of view, it is necessary that conflicts of interest are properly disclosed, and articles or edits by conflicted editors are reasonably available for review by others. Editors are expected to comply with both the purpose and intent of the applicable policies, as well as their literal wording.

In this case the tag is what signals that the article needs that review  -- it is what makes this page "available" for review. This is neither controversial nor even hard to understand. The fact that no independent editor wanted to volunteer their time to assuage the concerns of a paid editor, in a way that met whatever timeframe paid editor is working within and who was focused solely on removing the tag, has nothing to do with the need for review signified by the tag. Pigsonthewing has no leg here. Jytdog (talk) 23:55, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * What part of if you place this tag, you should promptly start a discussion on the article's talk page to explain what is non-neutral about the article. If you do not start this discussion, then any editor is justified in removing the tag without warning., conveniently highlighted in yellow both in the original and twice in quotes given above, are you having trouble grasping? Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 00:06, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Your position here is fringe. You can highlight and bold things all you want. I suggest you get oriented to the realities of Wikipedia in 2018. Jytdog (talk) 00:14, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
 * And what is quite interesting is that when you parachuted in, in response to the request from your wikifriend, and removed the tag, and made your first comment here on talk, there was already significant ongoing discussion about why the tag was needed. No independent editor had done the needed review yet.  Your pal had indeed disclosed the heavy trafficking by conflicted editors and Doc james had already explained the problems.  You really have no leg. Jytdog (talk) 00:21, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
 * The only specific content discussed is a note about a single referenced statement (to which no Cn had even been added), made after my first post here. Nothing "significant"; nothing whatsoever about what was supposedly non-neutral. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 00:35, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
 * : "In this case the tag is what signals that the article needs that review -- it is what makes this page "available" for review" - No it isn't. That tag is an invitation for other uninvolved editors to help resolve concerns that have been expressed in discussion. You'll get no consensus for slapping tags on articles merely on the suspicion that something may be wrong with it. By acting so far beyond what is considered reasonable by most editors, you risk alienating the vast majority of uninvolved editors when we go after the genuinely problematic paid editors. The end most often does not justify the means and you need to appreciate that. You make the case that specific text is POV and you'll have my support 100% to apply tags, recruit uninvolved helpers and do whatever we have to in order to clean-up. Heck, I've even volunteered to work on specific problems that Smartse identified – and I'll keep that promise. But in the time you've been prosecuting an non-existent case here, you could have listed a dozen issues that we could have agreed to fix. What's your priority here? --RexxS (talk) 00:44, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
 * No. But in any case his should be discussed further at the template; we are far afield from discussing how to improve this article, which is what this page is for. Jytdog (talk) 01:11, 20 January 2018 (UTC)

 * Don't think Jytdog has made a good case here. Aspro (talk) 20:20, 7 February 2018 (UTC)

Refresh cache
I've updated the infobox image (portrait crop). Normally I would do a dummy edit to refresh the cache, but I can't since the page is currently protected. Please do a dummy edit for me. Cheers. nagualdesign 01:58, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks. nagualdesign 02:02, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks to everyone involved, and I am sorry it escalated so quickly and so aggressively. I'll leave it there so everyone can cool off. Cheers, Pplc (talk) 08:50, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * This is only beginning. Jytdog (talk) 22:28, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

Cite news access dates
This article relies heavily on Cite news, whose documentation says:

"access-date: Full date when the content pointed to by url was last verified to support the text in the article... should be used for links to news articles on commercial websites (these can change from time to time, even if they are also published in a physical medium)."

So I am at a loss to understand why with an edit summary of "trim access date parameter clutter from refs that have a dateline". Absent a valid justification for this action, they should be restored. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:54, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Access dates are not needed on citations that have datelines and are just clutter. Jytdog (talk) 22:57, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
 * You appear to have missed what I quoted above, from the documentation of Cite news, so here it is again: should be used for links to news articles on commercial websites. You'll understand, I'm sure, that I think it better to believe the template's documentation (which has included that guidance since July 2012) over your unsubstantiated assertion. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:18, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry,, but you're mistaken. Acccess dates are an invaluable aid to recovering dead links on news sites because they specify a date at which the news article was live. That makes it far easier to retrieve a working version from archive.org, in particular the version used by the editor writing the content. I do understand that you're used to academic journals whose url/pmid/doi is very stable, but newspapers regularly archive their articles or otherwise fiddle with the url, so we add access dates for them. I saw your removal, and rather than revert, I went though and checked all 29 sources. Only one of them was a dead link for me, so I added today's date for those that I was able to verify, and restored the original access date for one. --RexxS (talk) 00:26, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Yup the internet archive bot uses these I think when it pulls archive links. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 17:47, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Yup the internet archive bot uses these I think when it pulls archive links. Doc James  (talk · contribs · email) 17:47, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

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I've worked the article over and have removed the advert tag. Very hard to sort out exactly what was Saidler's family office, what was "centralway" and what was "centralway numbrs" in the last five or six years as sources are kind of sloppy, so i simplified all that. I have also redirected the Centralway article here, since it was always pretty much him. Jytdog (talk) 04:41, 22 January 2018 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the edits. We're moving in the right direction, but I remain very concerned about the neutrality of the article after reading through some of the sources. The Skinner article is referenced already but only to support "Many of these transactions were among private companies, so the sources of investment and the amounts of money spent and earned are not known." No mention of the content below, or of the only minor involvement in Scout24.

 * Saidler is not always at cool headed and charming as this. Over the past few months the SonntagsZeitung has spoken with a slew of Swiss start-ups, who have all had bad experiences with the Austrian. His involvement always follow a similar pattern. He agrees to invest into companies that allow him to buy shares at nominal value, even if the company has been going for several years. And then he gets involved operationally, after promising the original founders "to lift their business on to the next level, with his years of experience and international contacts." It turns out to be all talk. However, when the startup founders complain about money not arriving on time or promises made not being kept, he very quickly involves his lawyers and can get very uncomfortable. His tone quickly changes and he writes threats like: How could anybody be so stupid to provoke him. His behavior is also often extremely erratic. One startup founder told the SonntagsZeitung Saidler used to regularly want to speak to him for urgent meetings to buy out his company. And then would never follow up on the offer. "I am still confused what Saidler really wanted", the source said.

 * There is also an Inside Paradeplatz article from June 2017 that is currently not cited. That discusses him "burning" through investment funds, extensively employing his own family, sacking 40 programmers and says "There is a constant fear in the company of people who do not simply say yes and amen to Saidler and his super startup. The mood is characterized by mistrust and the feeling of being permanently monitored."

 * We're still a long way from being NPOV. SmartSE (talk) 11:02, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
 * This article is also not cited, but is the original source for him cutting the workforce by one third in May '17. But apparently the funds are dwindling: For four years, Saidler has developed an app and platform without earning a cent.. SmartSE (talk) 13:53, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Hi Smartse. I am aware of the insideparadeplatz ref and chose not to use it due to its kind of gossipy tone.  I added content about the cuts.  The Bilanz "tsar" article seems really good to me about his management style btw and i thought about adding content from it, but we generally don't have such sections on business executives. (the comment from his boss at BHS, on the record, summarizing his time there is really something... for corporate-speak summarizing a guy's career at a company, rather withering, actually).  If we had such a section, the skinner article could also be used there.  am just not sure, since it is not normal.  what do you think?
 * I think i am going to take the 2013 net worth out. that is only mentioned briefly in the globes article, which is kind of a puff piece... Jytdog (talk) 14:44, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I see what you mean about insideparadeplatz but it's difficult to be sure about the original tone when reading google's translation. There's a 2013 piece in the same source which again doesn't quite match up with the current narrative of the article. I'm afraid working out how to balance the different sources is beyond me right now. If there are sources discussing his management style then why not include it? Good call on the wealth and on the leadership thing - I was going to remove both myself. Speaking of it though, the wealth thing is a bit odd as the 2013 IP article discusses it but the translation is confusing: The story sounds good. Saidler made it in 2011 in the "super-rich balance sheet", at that time with 300-400 million, which came from the sale of his Eastern Europe empire. "All this can not be checked," said the "Bilanz". In 2013 the disclaimer is missing. He owes his fortune to "Eastern European Internet start-ups," according to the Indicative. It sounds as if he was included in a rich list but that the magazine did not verify it. SmartSE (talk) 23:49, 22 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for replying; glad you agree about the wealth thing. The two pieces from InsideParadePlatz are by Lukas Hässig, who is known for this kind of work.  I have been struggling with whether they are RS or not for BLP stuff; the tone is not formal and there is lots of speculative questions like "What if Hillary knew about Benghazi?." ( i don't know if you understand what i am talking about there)
 * By the way google translate did badly - the sentence is playing with Grammatical mood - what it says is he would owe (subjunctive mood) his fortune to "Eastern European Internet start-ups," it said in the indicative (mood). Due to Hässig's writing style it is not clear who said this (heisst es) but maybe it was in a 2013 Bilanz article....
 * I am most interested in where you think i have gotten main facts wrong... it seems to me he built up investments in czech internet companies through centralway then sold them off, the started doing stuff in switzerland with the "incubator"... and was going to have a "centralway venture fund", then bailed on the centralway venture fund and put his money in his family office. in the meantime the Numbrs entrepreneur came into the incubator, and Saidler focused centralway entirely around that, and kept doing other stuff through his family office.  As near as i can tell, those are the main bones of the story. The main centralway website is now for Numbrs.  https://www.numbrs.com redirects to https://www.centralway.com/de/ Jytdog (talk) 01:10, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
 * It's not that there is anything factually wrong with the article at the moment, but it paints a rather rosy picture which seems at odds with the IP articles. If I were considering doing business with the subject I'd be happy to based on what the current article says, but would stay far away after reading those articles. The tone is a bit strange, but the articles have clearly been thoroughly researched and are independent of the subject, which is not necessarily the case for others like the Globes article which just repeats what he says and doesn't appear to have made any attempt to verify information. I'll try and find a native German speaker to take a look at things. I'm especially confused about the wealth rating as he only seems to have appeared in the 2013 list even though it's published every year, but I couldn't find a simple list like Forbes publish. SmartSE (talk) 11:01, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * My German is pretty good...I can help with anything you like. btw i hope you are feeling free to improve the article.  i just did my thing on it, is all. Jytdog (talk) 09:51, 25 January 2018 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Marco Visconti

The result was delete. Yunshui 雲 水 10:30, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Marco_Visconti
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Not notable; neither as musician, nor as Occultist. His only latter claim to fame seems to be his leaving the OTO which is hardly notable on its own. Zero sharp (talk) 01:02, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete. was leaning toward keep based on the number of sources on the page, then realized none of them seem to qualify as WP:RS. Hydromania (talk) 02:07, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Music-related deletion discussions. Hydromania (talk) 02:10, 23 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Italy-related deletion discussions. Hydromania (talk) 02:11, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

 * Delete. Fails WP:SIGCOV and WP:GNG. The independent references mention him only tangentially, or are not about him but the bands he played in. The sources where he is the main subject are all closely related to him. If sources that are independent of the subject can be found I will change my vote to keep.4meter4 (talk) 00:30, 30 September 2019 (UTC)


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Rae Craton

The Rae Craton is an Archean craton located in northern Canada, north of the Superior Craton.

Ungava Peninsula
The Ungava Peninsula, situated on the northeast portion of the Canadian Shield, is where the Rae Province connects with the Superior Province.

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Miss Spain 2017

Miss Spain 2017 may refer to these events:
 * Miss Universe Spain 2017, Miss Spain 2017 for Miss Universe 2017
 * Miss World Spain 2017, Miss Spain 2017 for Miss World 2017

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Talk:2020 Western & Southern Open

118th or 119th men's event?
Infobox says 119th men's event but the article states 118th - which is correct? --Bcp67 (talk) 09:49, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

 * I changed 118th to 119th because the article about last year says it was 118th. Stryn (talk) 16:56, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

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Trigonometry/The Unit Circle

The Unit Circle is a circle with its center at the origin (0,0) and a radius of one unit.

Angles are always measured from the positive x-axis (also called the "right horizon"). Angles measured counterclockwise have positive values; angles measured clockwise have negative values.

Defining sine and cosine in terms of the unit circle
In the unit circle shown here, a unit-length radius has been drawn from the origin to a point (x, y) on the circle.

A line perpendicular to the x-axis, drawn through the point (x, y), intersects the x-axis at the point with the abscissa x. Similarly, a line perpendicular to the y-axis intersects the y-axis at the point with the ordinate y. The angle between the x-axis and the radius is $$\alpha$$.

So, we can say that the sine of an angle is the ordinate of the point on the unit circle at that angle, and the cosine of an angle is the abscissa of the point on the unit circle at that angle.

We define the basic trigonometric functions of any angle $$\alpha$$ as follows:

$$ \begin{matrix} \mathrm{sine:} & \sin(\alpha) & = & y \\ \mathrm{cosine:} & \cos(\alpha) & = & x \\ \end{matrix} $$

$$\tan(\theta)$$ can be algebraically defined.

$$\tan(\theta)=\frac{\sin(\theta)}{\cos(\theta)}\qquad\cos(\theta)\ne0$$

$$\tan(\alpha)=\frac{y}{x}\qquad x\ne0$$

These three trigonometric functions can be used whether the angle is measured in degrees or radians as long as it specified which, when calculating trigonometric functions from angles or vice versa.

Alternative definitions

 * A previous chapter used Soh-Cah-Toa to define the trigonometric functions. The advantage of the unit circle is that θ can be extended outside the first quadrant $$\left[0,\frac{\pi}{2}\right]$$, which allows us to define these functions on the interval $$(-\infty,\infty)$$.
 * If trigonometry is applied to vectors, it is more convenient, if the radius of the circle is not equal to unity. For example, if vector A has magnitude $$A=\left|\mathbf{A}\right\vert$$:

$$ \begin{matrix} x=r\cos(\alpha)&\to & \mathbf{A}_x=\mathbf{A}\cos(\alpha) \\ y=r\sin(\alpha)&\to & \mathbf{A}_y=\mathbf{A}\sin(\alpha) \\ r=\sqrt{x^2+y^2}&\to & \mathbf{A}=\sqrt{\left(\mathbf{A}_x\right)^{2}+\left(\mathbf{A}_y\right)^{2}}\\ \end{matrix} $$

It is important to know why the above equations are true. Knowing $$\cos(\alpha)=\frac{x}{r}$$, $$r\cdot\cos(\alpha)=r\cdot\frac{x}{r}=x$$. The same could be said for the definition for $$y$$. Finally, the final line is the Pythagorean identity.

Video links
More about this topic can be found at the 'Khan Academy:'

 * The unit circle definition of trigonometric function
 * Unit circle definition of trig functions

Some values for sine and cosine
A unit circle with certain exact values marked on it is below:

Unit circles form the basis of most analog clocks and animations on computers since the cos and sin correspond to the x and y positions of the end of the line segments representing the hands of the clock.

The unit circle on the left has the degree, the radian, and the coordinate value on the unit circle. For a coordinate value $$(x,y)$$, if walking around the circle $$\frac{\pi}{3}$$ radians anti-clockwise from the horizontal axis, the coordinate value at which the person walked around the circle is $$\left(\frac{1}{2},\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}\right)$$.

Remember that on a unit circle, the angle $$\theta$$ anti-clockwise from the horizontal axis gives $$\cos(\theta)=x$$ and $$\sin(\theta)=y$$. The same is true for radians. As such, for $$(x,y)$$ corresponding to $$(\cos(\theta),\sin(\theta))$$ on the unit circle, $$\frac{\pi}{3}$$ radians when substituted in the cosine or sine function is the coordinate value on the unit circle. That is:
 * $$\left(\cos\left(\frac{\pi}{3}\right),\sin\left(\frac{\pi}{3}\right)\right)\to\left(\frac{1}{2},\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}\right)$$, OR, equivalently,
 * $$\left(\cos\left(60^{\circ}\right),\sin\left(60^{\circ}\right)\right)\to\left(\frac{1}{2},\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}\right)$$

The unit circle is very useful to your mathematical studies of trigonometry because it tells you the EXACT value of certain angles. Later, you will learn how to find other ratios of angles and radians without needing to rely on the special values of the unit circle – 30, 45, 60, and 90.

It is worth your time memorizing some of the values of sine and cosine on the unit circle (cosine is equal to $$x$$ while sine is equal to $$y$$). You should at least become familiar with the values for $$0^\circ, 30^\circ 45^\circ, 90^\circ$$ and know where $$\frac{\pi}{2},\pi,\frac{3\pi}{2},2\pi$$ are on the unit circle.

If you have some trouble memorizing the values, here are some helpful hints and patterns. Try to find some more other than what is listed.
 * The coordinate value $$(x,y)$$ on the unit circle has the $$\text{numerator}$$ decrease from $$\sqrt{3}$$ in the $$x$$-value coordinate at $$\frac{\pi}{6}$$ to $$\sqrt{1}=1$$ at $$\frac{\pi}{3}$$. The denominator is always $$2$$. Here, see what we mean. Ignore the y-value for now:
 * $$\left(\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2},\sin\left(\frac{\pi}{6}\right)\right)$$, $$\left(\frac{\sqrt{2}}{2},\sin\left(\frac{\pi}{4}\right)\right)$$, $$\left(\frac{1}{2},\sin\left(\frac{\pi}{3}\right)\right)$$.
 * Like the $$x$$-value coordinate, the $$y$$-value coordinate has a pattern in the numerator. As the angle increases, between $$30^\circ$$ and $$60^\circ$$ (inclusive), the $$\text{numerator}$$ increases from $$\sqrt{1}=1$$ in the $$y$$-value coordinate at $$\frac{\pi}{6}$$ to $$\sqrt{3}$$ at $$\frac{\pi}{3}$$. From the above bullet, putting it together, you get the following pattern:
 * $$\left(\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2},\frac{1}{2}\right)$$, $$\left(\frac{\sqrt{2}}{2},\frac{\sqrt{2}}{2}\right)$$, $$\left(\frac{1}{2},\frac{\sqrt{3}}{2}\right)$$.
 * Certain radian values are simply reflections of the other. Take a look at the ones with the same denominator and see if you can correspond any patterns to what you see.

If you are to ever be tested on this, make a quick sketch of the first quadrant of the circle, and remember the pattern that underlies the unit circle.

 * What angle (a) in degrees and (b) in radians do the hour and minute hands of a clock move through in:
 * One hour
 * One minute
 * How far apart in degrees are the hour and minute hand at five minutes past five? (you should take into account that the hour hand is not exactly at the five, but has moved a little further)

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Talk:Beginner Japanese/Introduction to the Japanese Writing System

= Questions=

Pronunciation?
Could you provide links to resources that will help with pronunciation? Actually being able to hear words being pronounced would be a great help. Thanks! Jimmytharpe 14:15, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Pronunciation of Japanese's practice section has audio that illustrates the nuances of Japanese pronunciation.--Balloonguy 23:03, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Dead Link
The linked wikibook page "Japanese: Introduction: Reading Japanese" was deleted and therefore the "Reading" part in this chapter is empty :( Trela 10:45, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

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Databases/Object-relational databases

An object-relational database (ORD) or object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) is a relational database management system that allows developers to integrate the database with their own custom data types and methods. The term object-relational database is sometimes used to describe external software products running over traditional DBMSs to provide similar features; these systems are more correctly referred to as object-relational mapping systems.

This page is initially focused upon hands-on mapping of the MediaWiki engine from an Object Oriented Software Design perspective using UML, the Unified Modeling Language.

Readings

 * Object-relational database

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The Design and Organization of Data Centers/Redundancy

Everything will eventually fail. Redundancy allows you to minimize the damage of a system failure.

Failure characteristics
Planned vs. unplanned

Total vs. partial

Frequency of failure

Length of partial failure or outage

Structure
Ladder

Mesh

N+1

Implementation
Active/active

Active/passive

Human Factors
Notification

Unattended problem resolution

Documentation and problem clarity

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Talk:Tornado outbreak of April 6–9, 1998

1998 and 2003 are BOTH the year with the second most on record? Which is it? Nilfanion 22:03, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

I believed it is 2003 - surpassing 1998, although others may try to confirm that, but I know that 2003 holds the record for tornadoes in one week.--JForget 19:59, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Tornado Table
I've added a tornado table for the outbreak, but I've omitted tornadoes in the Great Lakes, been not sure if it's from the same system. If it's the case, you can add up to the table--JForget 03:04, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Pictures
Do any pictures of the F5 tornado exist? —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs)

 * I haven't seen one site which has a picture of the tornado. Also I don't think that the ABC 33-40's Birmingham tower cam caught the tornado as well mostly because it happened after dark and it was also probably rain-wrapped.--JForget 13:57, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Name
I moved "Birmingham Tornado of April 1998" to "April 1998 Birmingham tornado" to comply with Naming conventions (events). --Rosiestep (talk) 23:25, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Wylam Heights
"Wylam Heights" is a section of Birmingham and not Fairfield. I know, I live there. Please stop introducing erroneious information. - Realkyhick (Talk to me) 02:42, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

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CACS/Glossary/Binary

Binary is a number system in the base 2, which contains only the digits 0 and 1. Since computer memory is made up of off-on switches, all computer programs and data are ultimately encoded in binary.

Binary refers to a program that has been compiled into an executable module. When the module is stored, the .BIN file extension is used. Some development platform compilers produce a binary module that must still be linked with other modules to produce an executable program.

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1161 in Norway

Events in the year 1161 in Norway.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Magnus V Erlingsson (along with Haakon II Sigurdsson)

Events

 * 3 February - King Inge I of Norway was defeated and killed while leading his men into battle against Haakon II of Norway near Oslo.

Deaths

 * 4 February – Inge I of Norway, King (born c. 1135).

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Talk:New Caney, Texas

Notable citizens
Hello all, I removed the "notble citizens" section from this article because it doesn't contribute anything useful to Wikipedia. If you would like to reconstruct it with actual useful information, please do so Nathanww 14:47, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

title: Talk:New Caney, Texas