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Talk:Statistics/Summary/Variance

Hi! I came here looking for an explanation of why the differences are squared when calculating standard deviation. The text gives the same explanation as many other texts on statistics I've seen: to get rid of the minus signs. However, if this was the whole story, it would be sufficient to take the absolute value of each difference, and divide by N to get what I think is called "average deviation".

So what makes standard deviation better than average deviation?

Greetings, Simon

 * I'm not sure I would say that the standard deviation is "better" or "worse" than the mean deviation. Most of the equations are based around the standard deviation, and so that is what we use.  This is just a guess, but since the advent of computers it may also have to do with subtraction of nearly equal numbers being inaccurate and the absolute value in general can be non-useful to work with if you are trying to keep a "running estimate" of the deviation estimate.

 * For example, with the standard deviation, we only need to calculate the sum, the sum of squares, and the number of entities to find the variance (and from there, the standard deviation) for any number of values.  This computational method is more accurate on a computer (since it avoids subtraction of nearly equal numbers), and mathematically identical to the "standard method" used.

 * With the mean deviation, I don't know of any cute ways of rewriting it to avoid that step, so every time a number is added the mean would have to be recalculated, along with each differential along the way. Thus, for the list of numbers {5, 4, 3, 2, 1} we only have to store the numbers 55 (the sum of squares), 15 (the sum), and 5 (the number of entries.  If we add the number 6 to the list, we can calculate 91, 21, and 6 without having to go back to the original list of numbers.  This is much simpler than for the mean deviation, where we need to go back and calculate each individual differential ({2, 1, 0, -1, -2} in the first case and {1.5, 0.5, -0.5, -1.5, -2.5} in the second).

 * Does that make any sense? --Llywelyn 04:17, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

The standard deviation is a good estimate of scale when the data are normally distributed. In practice, it is common for data to be non-normal. They can often be transformed to something resembling normality (often, taking logs is a good choice). However, even after transformation it is common that the data will be heavy tailed and subject to outliers.

In these circumstances, the standard deviation is not "better" than the mean absolute deviation. In fact, it is much less efficient (i.e. its variance is higher). There are, however, even better estimates of scale than the mean absolute deviation. One is the mad (median absolute deviation).

This issue is used by Huber (1981) as an example that suggests robust methods over classical methods (Huber's book has recently been republished in paperback format and is more affordable than previously). I believe that Tukey also drew attention to the shortcoming of the standard deviation in this respect as far back as 1960s. This article on robust statistics might be of interest.

P. J. Huber, Robust Statistics, Wiley, 1981
 * Hey that's interesting to hear, because I just posted a comment on the article saying that the "get rid of minus" argument is tosh - just that I had assumed there would be sound reasonings otherwise. I'm writing a statistics test soon, and so I'm sure I'll be using the conventional method there, but may look into this later on. Sean Heron (talk) 20:29, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

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Library assessment

Library assessment is a process undertaken by libraries to learn about the needs of users (and non-users) and to evaluate how well they support these needs, in order to improve library facilities, services and resources. In many libraries successful library assessment is dependent on the existence of a 'culture of assessment' in the library whose goal is to involve the entire library staff in the assessment process and to improve customer service.

Although most academic libraries have collected data on the size and use of their collections for decades, it is only since the late 1990s that many have embarked on a systematic process of assessment (see sample workplans) by surveying their users as well as their collections. Today, many academic libraries have created the position of Library Assessment Manager in order to coordinate and oversee their assessment activities. In addition, many libraries publish on their web sites the improvements that were implemented following their surveys   as a way of demonstrating  accountability to survey participants.

Several libraries have undertaken renovation or expansion projects as a result of their assessment activities as well as enhance resource discovery tools, improve web site usability and stop redundant services.

Tools
In order to determine what is important to library users and how satisfied they are with services, resources and physical space, library assessment utilizes a variety of research methods such as:  website usability testing, observation, 'In-Library Use' surveys, focus groups, interviews, wayfinding, balanced scorecard, furniture usability, photo and mapping surveys, organizational climate, statistics and satisfaction surveys. The most widely used library satisfaction survey is LibQUAL+, a service quality evaluation survey developed by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) based on ServQUAL. Other satisfaction surveys are: the SCONUL Satisfaction Survey, Insync Surveys (formerly Rodski), and Counting Opinions LibSat survey.

USA, UK, Australia and Israel
Although library assessment has become almost ubiquitous in United States, Australia, UK and some European countries such as Italy and Denmark since 2000, it is still relatively uncommon elsewhere. Below are a selection of library assessment sites that show the multitude of activities undertaken by assessment teams: University of Washington, USA; University of Virginia, USA; University of York, UK, Council of Australian University Libraries (CAUL).

One notable exception is Israel whose University of Haifa Younes and Soraya Nazarian Library began a systematic process of library assessment in 2007, and has been conducting a Hebrew version of the University of Washington's 'In-Library Use' survey since 2008, and LibQUAL+ Lite (also in Hebrew) since 2009 in three-yearly cycles.

Conferences
The library assessment community holds two biennial conferences: the Library Assessment Conference (LAC) in USA and the Library Performance Measurement Conference (LibPMC), formerly the Northumbria Performance Measurement Conference which is generally held in Europe. Also relevant are the annual Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries Conference (QQML) and the annual Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference (EBLIP).

Courses
Although courses on library assessment are not commonplace on the curricula of library schools, in the past few years several schools have opened courses, such as: the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science and the joint Digital Library Program of Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway, Tallinn University, Estonia, and the University of Parma, Italy.

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42nd Venice International Film Festival

The 42nd annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 26 August to 6 September 1985.

Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion winner was Vagabond directed by Agnès Varda.

Jury
The following people comprised the 1985 jury:
 * Krzysztof Zanussi, Polish filmmaker and producer - Jury President
 * Guido Aristarco, Italian film critic and author
 * Gaspare Barbiellini Amidei, Italian sociologist
 * Ricardo Bofill, Spanish architect
 * Frank Capra, Italian-American filmmaker
 * Jean d'Ormesson, French novelist
 * Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and art critic
 * Kon Ichikawa, Japanese filmmaker
 * Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright
 * Elem Klimov, Soviet filmmaker
 * Lino Miccichè, Italian film critic
 * Zoran Mušič, Yugoslavian painter
 * John Schlesinger, British director
 * Renzo Vespignani, Italian painter

Venice International Film Critics' Week
The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for this section:
 * A Strange Love Affair by Eric de Kuyper, Paul Verstraten (Netherlands)
 * El Haimoune (En. Wanderers of the Desert) by Nacer Khemir (Tunisia, France)
 * Fandango by Kevin Reynolds (United States)
 * Ain't Nothin' Without You a.k.a. Noisy Martha (Nicht nichts ohne Dich) by Pia Frankenberg (West Germany)
 * The Record (Der Rekord) by Daniel Helfer (West Germany, Switzerland)
 * The Disciples (A tanítványok) by Géza Bereményi (Hungary)
 * Yesterday by Radosław Piwowarski (Poland)

Main Competition

 * Golden Lion: Vagabond by Agnès Varda
 * Grand Special Jury Prize: Tangos, the Exile of Gardel by Fernando Solanas
 * Special Jury Prize: The Lightship by Jerzy Skolimowski
 * Silver Lion: Dust by Marion Hänsel
 * Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Gérard Depardieu for Police
 * Volpi Cup for Best Actress: NOT ASSIGNED. (The jury deemed the best performances to be Sandrine Bonnaire (Vagabond) and Jane Birkin (Dust), but decided against awarding the prize as both films won major awards )
 * Volpi Cup Special mentions:
 * Sonja Savić for Life Is Beautiful
 * Galya Novents for The Tango of Our Childhood
 * Themis Bazaka for Stone Years

Career Golden Lion

 * Federico Fellini

Special Lion

 * John Huston
 * Manoel de Oliveira

Sergio Trasatti Awards

 * Manoel de Oliveira for The Satin Slipper
 * Special Mention: Juraj Jakubisko for The Feather Fairy

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User:Bestian~enwikibooks

nice simplification of wikiversity front page - if that was you :-) Lobster 05:54, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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Occupational hazard

An occupational hazard is a hazard experienced in the workplace. This encompasses many types of hazards, including chemical hazards, biological hazards (biohazards), psychosocial hazards, and physical hazards. In the United States, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conduct workplace investigations and research addressing workplace health and safety hazards resulting in guidelines. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) establishes enforceable standards to prevent workplace injuries and illnesses. In the EU, a similar role is taken by EU-OSHA.

Occupational hazard, as a term signifies both long-term and short-term risks associated with the workplace environment. It is a field of study within occupational safety and health and public health. Short term risks may include physical injury (e.g., eye, back, head, etc.,), while long-term risks may be an increased risk of developing occupational disease, such as cancer or heart disease. In general, adverse health effects caused by short term risks are reversible while those caused by long term risks are irreversible.

Chemical hazards
Chemical hazards are a subtype of occupational hazards that involve a wide variety of chemicals. Exposure to chemicals in the workplace can cause acute or long-term detrimental health effects. There are many classifications of hazardous chemicals, including neurotoxins, immune agents, dermatologic agents, carcinogens, reproductive toxins, systemic toxins, asthmagens, pneumoconiotic agents, and sensitizers.

NIOSH sets recommended exposure limits (REL) as well as recommends preventative measures on specific chemicals in order to reduce or eliminate negative health effects from exposure to those chemicals. Additionally, NIOSH keeps an index of chemical hazards based on their chemical name, Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number (CAS No.), and RTECS Number. Furthermore, OSHA has set permissible exposure limits (PEL) on around 500 chemicals which are enforceable by law.

These exposure limits include evidence that a certain amount of a chemical exposure is linked to one or more adverse health effects. For instance, heart disease is more prevalent in workers who are exposed to the chemicals found in engine exhausts. Exposure to carbon tetrachloride has shown to cause liver and kidney damage. Exposure to benzene has been linked to leukemia.

Biological hazards
Biological agents, which create biological hazards, include bacteria, fungi, viruses, microorganisms, and toxins. These biological agents can cause adverse health effects in workers. Influenza is an example of a biological hazard which affects a broad population of workers.

Exposure to toxins generated by insects, spiders, snakes, scorpions,  etc., require physical contact be made between the worker and the living organism. Skin exposure to biological agents can cause contact dermatitis (caused by exposure to urushiol from poisonous Toxicodendron plants ), Lyme disease, West Nile virus, and coccidioidomycosis (caused by exposure to fungi). According to NIOSH, outdoor workers at risk for these hazards "include farmers, foresters, landscapers, groundskeepers, gardeners, painters, roofers, pavers, construction workers, laborers, mechanics, and any other workers who spend time outside."

Health care professionals are at risk to exposure to blood-borne illnesses (such as HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C) and particularly to emerging infectious diseases, especially when not enough resources are available to control the spread of the disease. Veterinary health workers, including veterinarians, are at risk for exposure to zoonotic disease. Those who do clinical work in the field or in a laboratory risk exposure to West Nile virus if performing necropsies on birds affected by the virus or are otherwise working with infected tissue.

Other occupations at risk to biological hazard exposure include poultry workers, who are exposed to bacteria; and tattooists and piercers, who risk exposure to blood-borne pathogens.

Psychosocial hazards
Psychosocial hazards are occupational hazards that affect someone's social life or psychological health. Psychosocial hazards in the workplace include occupational burnout and occupational stress, which can lead to burnout.

According to the Mayo Clinic, symptoms of occupational burnout include a cynical attitude towards work, severe lack of motivation at work, erratic sleeping habits, and disillusionment about one's occupation.

Physical hazards
Physical hazards are a subtype of occupational hazards that involve environmental hazards that can cause harm with or without contact. Physical hazards include ergonomic hazards, radiation, heat and cold stress, vibration hazards, and noise hazards.

Heat and cold stress
Heat and cold stress occur when the temperature is significantly different from room temperature (68-74 degrees Fahrenheit). When the body is exposed to heat stress, excess sweating can lead to a range of heat-related illnesses. Excessive cold can also lead to several cold-related illnesses like hypothermia, frost bite, etc.

Vibration hazards
Occupational vibration hazards most often occur when a worker is operating machinery that vibrates as a symptom of its functioning (e.g., chainsaws, power drills, etc.). The most common type of vibration syndrome is Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS). Long-term exposure to HAVS can lead to damage occurring in the blood vessels, nerves, muscles, and joints of the hand, wrist, and arm.

Noise
Each year in the US, twenty-two million workers are exposed to noise levels that could potentially harm their health. Occupational hearing loss is the most common occupational illness in the manufacturing sector. Workers in exceptionally high noise environments, such as musicians, mine workers, and even those involved with stock car racing, are at a much higher risk of developing hearing loss, when compared to other workers (e.g., factory workers, etc.).

While permanent noise-induced hearing is often preventable through proper hearing protection, limiting the amount of time one is exposed to high levels of noise is still required. As such a widespread issue, NIOSH has been committed to preventing future hearing loss for workers by establishing recommended exposure limits (RELs) of 85 dB(A) for an 8-house time-weighted average (TWA). The Buy Quiet program was developed by NIOSH to encourage employers to reduce workplace noise levels by purchasing quieter models of tools and machinery. Additionally, a partnership with the National Hearing Conservation Association (NHCA) has resulted in the creation of the Safe-in-Sound Award to recognize excellence and innovation in the field of hearing loss prevention.

Furthermore, OSHA's development and implementation of the Hearing Conservation Program (HCP) has required employers to more effectively protect their workers against noise levels that are too high. The HCP empowers workers to not only receive noise exposure testing, as well as audiometric testing, but also to have access to noise protection devices adequate for the noise levels they are being exposed to.

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2003 Ordina Open – Women's singles

Eleni Daniilidou was the defending champion, but did not compete this year.

Kim Clijsters won the title after Justine Henin-Hardenne was forced to retire due to a left wrist injury. The score was 6–7(4–7), 3–0.

Seeds
The first two seeds received a bye into the second round. • # 🇧🇪 Kim Clijsters (champion)

• # 🇧🇪 Justine Henin-Hardenne (final, retired due to a left wrist strain)

• # 🇫🇷 Amélie Mauresmo (second round)

• # 🇷🇺 Elena Dementieva (quarterfinals)

• # 🇷🇺 Nadia Petrova (semifinals)

• # 🇺🇿 Iroda Tulyaganova (quarterfinals)

• # 🇺🇸 Ashley Harkleroad (first round)

• # Katarina Srebotnik (second round)

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Botswana Hotel Travel & Tourism Workers' Union

The Botswana Hotel Travel & Tourism Workers' Union (BHT&TWU) is a trade union affiliate of the Botswana Federation of Trade Unions in Botswana.


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Introduction to Calculus/Quiz 1

It would be better if you solve the quiz in your usename space, e.g. User:Your Username/Introduction to Calculus. After solving the quiz post the link to this quiz's talk page.

If you can pass this quiz, you are ready to take this course

 * 1) Express $$\tan(\theta) \!$$ in terms of $$\sin(\theta) \!$$
 * 2) If $$\csc(\theta)=1/x, \!$$ then what does $$x \!$$ equal?
 * 3) Prove $$\tan^2(\theta)+1=\sec^2(\theta) \!$$ using $$ \sin^2(\theta)+ \cos^2(\theta)=1 \!$$
 * 4) $$\cos(A+B)=\cos(A)\cos(B)-\sin(A)\sin(B) \,\ $$
 * 5) * Find the double angle idenities for the cosine function using the above rule.
 * 6) * Find the half angle idenities from the double angle idenities.
 * 7) * Find the value of $$\cos^2(\theta)\!$$ without exponents using the above rules.
 * 8) * (Challenge) Find the value of $$\cos^3(\theta)\!$$ without exponents.

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Talk:Armour/Making Basic Armour

This how to was largely written by Pengryphon on Wikipedia, Auximines did some editing as well. I simply cut-and-paste moved it from Wikipedia to Wikibooks. Siroxo 09:28, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

More to come?
Is anyone planning to expand this book? I would be interested in helping with that. --Erraunt 17:27, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I've done a little, but the subject is maybe too broad for a Wiki-book. I might put some pointers to (several) published works  Ralph 31Jan06

i thing that it will do a lot for the book if you add some picturs pluss it wikk help you understand better how to do it and maby some step by step explenations images if someone will be so kind to make some perhaps ssomeone who understand how its done --<IP_ADDRESS> 18:27, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Muharram/Archive 1

PreIslamic Muharram
Should be mentioned...--Skatewalk 19:00, 2 September 2007 (UTC) it is actually haram to do maatam. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:23, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

Almuharram not Muhaarm
Dear Editors please correct this article name into "Almuharram", saying Muharram without al, is so common but wrong. --Abu aamir (talk) 08:37, 9 September 2019 (UTC)

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Antonio Franco (blessed)

Antonio Franco (26 September 1585 – 2 September 1626) was an Italian Catholic priest and prelate of Santa Lucia del Mela. Franco was beatified in 2013 when a miracle was discovered to have been performed through his intercession. Cardinal Angelo Amato beatified him on behalf of Pope Francis.

Biography
Franco was born in 1585 in Naples to a noble family of French origins. He was born as the third of six children to Orlando Franco and Francesca Pisana di Antonio. Franco studied theology and obtained a doctorate in civil and canon law on 23 September 1602 and he later pursued further studies at the behest of his father in Rome. But he would move to Madrid to serve at the royal court at the insistence of his parents.

He was ordained to the priesthood in 1610 and he asked King Philip III to be a member of his court. On 14 January 1611 he was named a royal chaplain and Franco was later appointed as major chaplain of the Kingdom of Sicily in 1616. With that appointment came the Prelature of Santa Lucia del Mela. When Franco was in Rome, Pope Paul V confirmed the appointment. He was formally installed in 1617.

Franco was regarded as a man of holiness who lived with deprivations to life. He didn't eat much and he slept on the floor. He wore two chains all the time. He died at the age of 41 due to his deprivations and his remains were deemed to be incorrupt. He is buried in the Basilica of Santa Lucia del Mela.

Beatification
The cause of beatification for Franco commenced on 11 April 1984 under Pope John Paul II with the declaration of nihil obstat - this stated there were no objections to the commencement of the cause. That meant he could be made a Servant of God. Pope Benedict XVI declared him to have lived a life of heroic virtue and proclaimed him to be venerable on 14 January 2011. He later approved a decree ratifying the existence of a miracle on 20 December 2012 leading to his beatification.

He was beatified on 2 September 2013 by Cardinal Angelo Amato.

External links and additional sources

 * Hagiography Circle
 * Saints SQPN
 * (for Chronology of Bishops) $[self-published]$
 * (for Chronology of Bishops) $[self-published]$

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Talk:PHP Programming/Mailing

What are the correct headers to avoid becoming spam? <IP_ADDRESS> 03:35, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Email address format
>> There is no requirement to write E-mail addresses in format "Name ", you can just write "email".

Actually, there is, it's in the standard. Many SMTP servers will refuse to send your email if you do not put addresses in angle brackets. "Name" is optional, though.

Error detection or shutup operator?
I became interested in the entry about "error detection", expecting to see at least one example of try/catch or something like... Instead, came to found you only hide the error below the carpet using the shutup operator: "@". Jefrancomix (discuss • contribs) 08:02, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/American ISIS fighter

The result was keep. (non-admin closure) Winged Blades of Godric On leave 08:20, 29 September 2017 (UTC)

American ISIS fighter

 * – ( View AfD View log  Stats )

Wikipedia is NOT a news paper. This article relies on speculation and does not even identify the individual in question. The notability of this individual cannot be assessed by anonymous sources or speculation. CommotioCerebri (talk) 11:20, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete Wikipedia is not a newspaper.  Bobherry  Talk   Edits  12:58, 21 September 2017 (UTC) Changing to Weak Keep  Bobherry   Talk   Edits  13:33, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note -- First, this nomination shows all the signs of a bad faith nomination. Nominator recently started this wiki-id, after editing largely or entirely using anonymous IP addresses. They started this wiki-id after I explained something to an IP contributor.  They said I hurt their feelings, and since then almost all the edits they have made, using this wki-id are reversion of edits I made, comments on my contributions, and five nominations to delete articles I started.  The assumption of good faith is not a suicide pact, and their behavior has established that these nominations for deletion are not motivated by a desire to improve the wikipedia, but rather is a serious violation of WP:BATTLEGROUND.
 * Keep -- Of course, knowing this individual's name is desirable. And we should know it as soon as the Center for Constitutional Rights files a writ of habeas corpus on him.  But not knowing an individual's name, or not knowing their real name, has never been a bar on creating an article on someone. We have an article on False Geber, an important figure in the history of Science, the first person to record the technique for isolating Sulfuric Acid -- even though we not only don't know his name, we don't even know his nationality, religion, occupation.  He did something significant, notable, that authoritative reliable sources commented on.  If the Unabomber was still anonymous, still at large, who would question having an article on Unabomber?
 * claims the article relies on anonymous sources. In fact I quoted several authoritative, reliable sources who were notable enough they had wikipedia articles of their own: Karen J. Greenberg, Spencer Ackerman, Matthew Waxman.  The Pentagon official who was the spokesman in this matter, is a Major in the Marines.  He hadn't been the spokesman of any other incidents I had followed, soI didn't bother including his name.  This does not make him an "anonymous source", for all conventional interpretations of the term "anonymous source".  Geo Swan (talk) 13:31, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

 * Keep I've been critical of some of Geo Swan's articles on related topics over the years, but this is clearly a highly notable topic. The recent capture of this person has attracted significant coverage in reliable sources, and it can be reasonably assumed that this will continue. I'd note that an alternative to a straight deletion here (if the discussion goes that way) would be to merge and redirect to Foreign fighters in the Syrian and Iraqi Civil Wars or similar. Nick-D (talk) 09:10, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Military-related deletion discussions. Nick-D (talk) 10:17, 22 September 2017 (UTC)

 * Keep While the AfD might have been spared and notability more clear two-three weeks from hence - this individual is clearly notable. And will doubtlessly notable for standalone (unless after being named it will be someone with a wiki article, in which case we will have a merge). Holding as enemy combatant vs. treason charge is also an interesting legal quandary. Ample sources.Icewhiz (talk) 13:21, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Comment A future upmerge or similar might also be in order if the legal case is more significant than the individual or it turns out that there are multiple such individuals and they're not individually notable per WP:BIO and WP:BLP1E, but the current tile and scope seems fine for now. Nick-D (talk) 23:57, 22 September 2017 (UTC)


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mid-twentieth

Adjective

 * Since the mid-twentieth century, the exchange of Orders has become less personal and more formal and diplomatic.
 * Since the mid-twentieth century, the exchange of Orders has become less personal and more formal and diplomatic.

Synonyms

 * mid-20th

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Jochem Kamphuis

Jochem Kamphuis (born 11 April 1986) is a Dutch football referee who officiates in the Eredivisie. He has been a FIFA referee since 2020, and is ranked as a UEFA third category referee.

Refereeing career
In 2008, Kamphuis began officiating in the Eerste Divisie. Three years later, he made his refereeing debut in the top-flight Eredivisie. His first match officiated in the league was on 15 October 2011 between SC Heerenveen and De Graafschap. Kamphuis also officiated matches in the Belgian Second Division and the Saudi Professional League. In 2020, he was put on the FIFA referees list. On 18 August 2020, he was named as the video assistant referee for the 2020 UEFA Europa League Final between Sevilla and Inter Milan.

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Lindsay Cahill

Lindsay Cahill is a Canadian chemist who uses Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI ) to study metabolic abnormalities in pregnancy. She has published more than 70 articles on her research related to nuclear magnetic resonance in studying electrochemical materials and for imaging animal fetuses and placenta. She has published widely-used protocols for the imaging of mouse brains.

Education and early career
Cahill completed her B.Sc. and Ph.D. in chemistry at McMaster University. In her Ph.D., she used solid-state NMR to study lithium-ion batteries. She employed 6Li and 7Li solid-state NMR to study the dynamics of the transport of lithium ions through materials.

After completing her PhD, she held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Physics at Warwick University under the supervision of Mark Smith (physicist). In 2009, she moved to the Mouse Imaging Center at the Hospital for Sick Children. One of her contributions at the Mouse Imaging Center was the identification of a mouse model for autoimmune encephalomyelitis that may serve as a better model for multiple sclerosis in humans than previous models. Prior to her scientific career, she was a captain in the Barrie Safety Patrol.

Independent career
.Cahill was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Memorial University of Newfoundland in January 2020. She received the Discovery Award from the Banting Research Foundation and a Discovery Grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. In 2022, Cahill was the project leader for a grant from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation to establish the Micro-Ultrasound Lab at Memorial University. She was also named one of the 2022 Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research Program by the Brain Canada foundation.

Awards

 * 2020 Banting Research Foundation Discovery Award
 * 2022 Future Leaders in Canadian Brain Research Program

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bisbiglio

Etymology 1
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Noun

 * 1) whisper, murmur, susurration
 * 2) rumour, whisper, tittle-tattle
 * 3)  rustling, a sound similar to the movement of leaves

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Forced Entry (1973 film)

Forced Entry is a 1973 adult horror film written and directed by Shaun Costello under the pseudonym Helmuth Richler. It stars Harry Reems (credited as Tim Long) as an unnamed and psychotic Vietnam War veteran who sexually assaults and kills women who stop at the filling station where he works as an attendant. Called "one of the most disturbing and unpleasant porn features ever made," the film utilizes actual footage of the war, predominantly in the rape and murder sequences.

Plot
After opening with newspaper articles, footage, and quotes relating to the Vietnam War and the psychological condition of the American soldiers who have returned from it, the authorities are shown investigating a crime scene in which a man was shot in the head.

Going back an unspecified amount of time, the man is revealed to be a gas station attendant, and is shown coercing a female customer into giving out her name and address by claiming they are needed for a credit card transaction. After the woman drives away, the attendant goes to her apartment building, and watches through a window as she has sex with her husband. When the husband leaves, the attendant breaks into the apartment and forces the woman to perform oral sex on him while he verbally abuses her, slitting her throat after he climaxes.

Back at the gas station, the attendant gives a lost motorist directions, and follows her to the address she was looking for. The man breaks into the house, drags the woman out of the shower, and forces her to fellate him at gunpoint. He then sodomizes her, stabs her, and kisses her as she dies. Later, a ditzy female hippie picks up an equally vapid hitchhiker, and the two travel to the gas station. The attendant tricks the driver into giving out her address, and goes to her home, where she and her companion are doing drugs, and having sex. The attendant sneaks in and tries to force the girls to submit to him, but the pair are too intoxicated to take him seriously, frustrating him to the point of a psychotic break. As he screams "Stay away from me!" and has a series of flashbacks to both the war and the rapes and murders he has committed, the attendant shoots himself in the head. Returning to the intro, the man's body is covered by a sheet, and hauled away by the police.

Cast

 * Harry Reems (as Tim Long) as Gas Station Attendant
 * Laura Cannon as Lost Driver
 * Jutta David as David's Wife
 * Shaun Costello as David
 * Ruby Runhouse as Hippie Girl
 * Nina Fawcett as Hippie Girl

Reception
In his autobiography, star Harry Reems wrote that Forced Entry was the one film he regretted doing.

DVD Talk gave the film zero stars, calling it "morally repugnant".

Noting the film is "the first film to show a disturbed war vet coming home from Vietnam," Ed Demko calls the film "one of the more important and relevant films to ever come out of that age of pornography. It’s a film that really transcends the time that it was made and might even be more important now than the age it was made. Sure there’s a ton of nasty sexual activity in the film but the subject matter and what the movie is actually saying goes way beyond that."

Analysis
In "Forced Entry: Serial Killer Pornography as Patriarchical Paradox", scholar Robert Cettl assesses the film's role as pivotal in the history of American serial killer films and discusses its subversion of American patriarchy "by highlighting a paradox in relation to hegemonic masculinity" and how the director turns pornography "into self-conscious political discourse", arguing the film critiques patriarchical reaction to second-wave feminism (represented by the independently-living female victims) as grounded in war-mongering (rape-murder scenes interspersed with footage from the Vietnam War) and ultimately doomed to self-implosion (the killer's suicide).

Remake
In 1975, the film had an R-rated remake starring Tanya Roberts and Ron Max.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Talk:X-8 (artist)

Yikes! This is my first article for Wikipedia. I am a newcomer and hope to contribute more articles in the future.

I have cleaned up the page according to the criticism I received. I used X-8's biography as a template, but now have deleted drug and music references, although I think those were major influences on his work. I was asked by Wikipedia to be bold, but I guess 'not too bold' is the working medium.

I have emphasized his art and added more links showcasing his work to the external links section.

I have put his publishing efforts (in Flipside and GOD) as secondary to his art.

Some art can never be categorized and I noticed that others are trying to redine 'visionary art' to mean not self-taught. The Museum of Visionary Art emphasizes that visionary art is mostly self-taught.

I hope to add more text and information to this page in the future. It's only a few weeks old and it has been quite a learning process for me.


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Leonardo Marques

Leonardo Rios Marques is a Brazilian singer songwriter, music producer, sound engineer and owner of the Ilha do Corvo studios, and is one of the founders of the La Femme Qui Roule. record label. He studied at Fundação de Educação Artística in Belo Horizonte, the Silverlake Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles, California and at UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais).

Background
Marques was the guitar player of the band Diesel (later called Udora). The band was on the main line up of the Rock in Rio III Festival, playing for over 250 thousand people as an opening act for the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Silverchair and Deftones. He moved to Los Angeles with the band and signed a record deal with Clive Davis (J-records/RCA) and worked with Matt Wallace (Maroon 5, Faith no more) Gavin Mackillop (Goo Goo Dolls, Toad the wet sprocket) Camus (David Byrne, Arto Lindsay) Bob Marlette (Black Sabbath, Tracy Chapman, Alice Cooper) e Thom Russo, 16th times Grammy Award (Michael Jackson, Audioslave, Johnny Cash, Maná).

Moving back to Brazil he recorded for Som Livre his last work with Udora, co-produced with Henrique Portugal (Skank) and founded the band Transmissor, which has 3 studio records - Sociedade do Crivo Mútuo (2008), Nacional (2011) e De Lá Não Ando Só (2014) - the last one produced by Carlos Eduardo Miranda (Skank, O Rappa, Cansei de Ser Sexy, Mundo Livre SA).

Solo career
Leonardo Marques has released three solo records - "Dia e noite no mesmo céu ” (2012), "Curvas, lados, linhas tortas sujas e discretas ” (2015), which was released in Japan by Disk Union, where he toured in 2015, and in 2018 he released his third solo record - “Early Bird”   on CD by Think Records/Disk Union in Japan. Also released in the US, Europe and Japan on vinyl through the French record label 180g together with Disk Union.

Latest Productions
Among with the releases of over 100 records, singles and EPs, in 2018 Rolling Stone magazine featured “Thinking Out Loud” by the band Moons one of the best 25 records of the year which Leonardo recorded, produced, mixed and mastered. Long time collaborator with the band Maglore, He produced together with Rafael Ramos (Titãs, Elza Soares, João Donato, Pitty) the latest two records released by Deck Disc - "III " (2015) and “Todas as bandeiras ” (2017). He also featured as a guitar player on Maglore's 2019 DVD “Maglore Ao Vivo ”, recorded at Cine Joia, São Paulo - Brazil.

In October 2018 he recorded Milton Nascimento together with the Californian record producer Jonathan Wilson (Roger Waters, Father John Misty, Dawes, Jackson Browne) the drummer and producer Joey Waronker (R.E.M, Beck, Atoms for peace, Roger Waters) and the bass player and Producer Gus Seyffert (Black Keys, Beck, Dr. Dog, Roger Waters, Norah Jones).

He produced several releases For Natura Musical, including Iconili's latest album, “Quintais”, featured Paulo Santos (Uakti), and Azul Flamingo EP produced together with Pupillo (Nação Zumbi, Céu, Erasmo Carlos, Gal Costa, Nando Reis) and also Teago Oliveira (Maglore) first solo record

In 2020 Leonardo Marques featured on two tracks of Maxime Guiguet's (Blundetto) sixth studio record entitled “Good Good Things”, ten years after his debut with “Bad Bad Things”, featuring also the Moroccan singer Hindi Zahra and Hervé Salters, member of General Elektriks.

Diesel
Diesel (2000)

Independent release

Udora
Liberty Square (2005)

Goodbye, Alô (2008)

Independent release

Transmissor
Sociedade do Crivo Mútuo (2008)

Nacional (2011)

De Lá Não Ando Só (2014)

Record Label - Ultra music

Solo career
Dia e noite no mesmo céu (2012)

Curvas, lados, linhas tortas sujas e discretas (2015)

Early Bird (2018)

Record Label - La Femme aqui Roule

Think Records - Disk Union

180g

Maglore
III (2015)

Todas as bandeiras (2017)

Maglore Ao vivo (2019)

Record Label - Deck Disc

Congo Congo
Congo Congo (2017)

Record Label - La Femme Qui Roule

Blundetto
Good Good Things - (2020)

Record Label - Heavenly sweetness

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User:Imran~enwikibooks/tempusenet

What is Usenet ?

If your familiar with mailing lists or web-based forum, then the general principle of Usenet is simple so you may just want to skim over this first section.

To explain what Usenet is, I'll try and make analogies with real-life that most people are familiar with. Imagine Usenet as a pin-up board, where anyone can come along and stick a message up, people can then come by read the original message and attach a reply to the board, and then someone els can come along and look at the messages written, and if they want add their own message.

In a basic view that's all that Usenet is, an exchange point for messages.

Now imagine that about 25 million people were reading and writing messages for this pin-board, with one pin-board it would get overcrowded very quickly, the obvious solution is to have more pin-boards, say one for every topic

The technically correct name for Usenet's pin-boards is "newsgroups", currently there are approximately 25,000 active(active meaning in-use) newsgroups, with overall somewhere between 150,000 and 250,000 that currently are dead (dead meaning they are not in use currently).

Returning to our pin-board analogy, it would be very busy if all 25 million users were in the same area, so instead we have replicas created, meaning there are copies of these pin-boards all over the world.

(From now on I'll be calling the pin-boards "newsgroups" as that's the most commonly used term)

I'll introduce some more terminology here, as it makes the explaination go easier later.

News server = These are the places where copies of the newsgroups are held, there is no central news server from where all copies are held, but rather

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Talk:ElkY

Opening comment
This article clearly explains why this person is notable in the 2nd paragraph.Rray 13:29, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Not a wikipedia user, but could someone that follows this page add something about his book accomplishments, mostly regarding Kill Everyone and The Raiser's Edge. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 17:19, 12 January 2012 (UTC)

Additional citations needed and source explanation
I've added a few takes regarding citations needed for certain facts, though I admit the article is for the most part quite good about that. I'd also question how pokerstarsblog.com suits WP:RS as person-level blogs and general gossip are usually not considered appropriate. It's the subjective "facts" I'm questioning, and not the ones that have an objective statistic attached to them. Thanks. Datheisen (talk) 23:58, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

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Sponsorship Update Request
Elky left PokerStars in January of 2018, has not been a Partypoker Pro since he became a brand ambassador for GGPoker in April 2020 -

https://www.pokerstrategy.com/news/world-of-poker/ElkY-leaves-PokerStars_103084/

https://www.pokernews.com/news/2020/04/bertrand-elky-grospellier-latest-ggpoker-ambassador-37062.htm

He also no longer resides in Prague, though I cannot find any sources that specify his current home in Seoul, Korea. I recommend removing the section about his current residence until a source can be found. Chris H (GGPoker) (talk) 06:28, 25 August 2023 (UTC)

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Periyar E.V.R. College

Periyar E.V.R. College is a general degree college located in Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu. It was established in the year 1965. The college is affiliated with Bharathidasan University. This college offers different courses in arts, commerce and science.

Science

 * Statistics
 * Chemistry
 * Physics
 * Mathematics
 * Computer Science
 * Geography
 * Botany
 * Zoology
 * Biochemistry

Arts and Commerce

 * Tamil
 * English
 * History
 * Economics
 * Commerce

 Application

 * BCA

Accreditation
The college is recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC).

Notable Alumnies

 * Imayam (writer)

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Mauren Brodbeck

Mauren Brodbeck (born 1974) is a Swiss contemporary artist.

Early life and education
Mauren Brodbeck was born in Geneva, Switzerland. She trained in screenwriting, production and filmmaking in Canada. She was hired as an assistant director on the production of the film Drawing Flies, whose executive producers were Scott Mosier and Kevin Smith. From 2001 to 2004, she completed a degree at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena (California), gaining a Bachelor of Fine art in Photography and Imaging. She followed postgraduate studies in new media at the Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD) in Geneva, a program called Immédiat.

Biography
Her work was shown in the 2005 exhibition reGeneration 1 : 50 photographes de demain at the musée de l’Élysée in Lausanne, Switzerland, then traveled to Germany, Italy, China, and the United States. In 2006, she founded Compactlab with designer Oliver Rubli, and conducted multisensory, scripting and coloring of collective environments, with smells and sounds—an activity that she developed until 2018. From 2009 to 2012, for the Hans Wilsdorf Foundation, Brodbeck produced a photographic report of the Hans Wilsdorf Bridge construction in Geneva. At her solo exhibition Mood Motel, in 2016, at the Andata Ritorno contemporary art laboratory in Geneva, she presented a series of self-portraits taken in Hollywood motels. A conference entitled The Missing Motel was organized at the Pavillon Sicli on April 19, 2016, with art critic Reyner Banham and Jacques Ferrier. As part of the 6th edition of the Triennale 50JPG (50 jours pour la photographie à Genève), Brodbeck participated in the group exhibition Osmoscosmos at the Geneva Photography Center, from June to August 2019.

Exhibitions

 * reGeneration 1 : 50 photographes de demain, musée de l’Élysée, June to October 2005 and traveled to Germany, Italy, China, and the United States.
 * Urbanscape, Cityscape and Chocolate Gallery Heckenhauer, Berlin, April 2007
 * Sweet People, Lausanne, May 2010, Los Angeles, October 2010
 * Seven Wonders, Espace R, 50 JPG, Geneva Photography Center, Genève, July 2010
 * Barenaked, January 2015, Hermance (Switzerland), in Fondation Auer Ory pour la photographie Hermance de Michel Auer
 * Mood Motel, Andata Ritorno Laboratory for Contemporary Art, Geneva, April 2016
 * Erasure, Galerie J.J. Heckenhauer, Munich, June 2019
 * Osmoscosmos, 6th edition of the Triennale 50JPG (50 jours pour la photographie), Geneva Photography Center, August 2019

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Sleepless (The X-Files)

"Sleepless" is the 4th episode of the second season and 28th overall of the science fiction television series The X-Files, premiering on the Fox network on October 7, 1994. The episode was written by supervising producer Howard Gordon and directed by Rob Bowman. The episode is a "Monster-of-the-Week" story, unconnected to the series' wider mythology, although it features the first on-screen appearances of recurring characters X and Alex Krycek, who are central to the show's continuity. Its closing scene also sets the stage for the subsequent story arc of Scully's abduction. "Sleepless" earned a Nielsen rating of 8.6 and was viewed by 8.2 million households. The episode received mostly positive reviews from critics.

The show centers on FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) who work on cases linked to the paranormal, called X-Files. In this episode, Mulder is assigned a new partner, Alex Krycek (Nicholas Lea). The two investigate a case where doctors and marines who were part of a sleep deprivation experiment are being killed off.

Howard Gordon, the episode's writer, was inspired by various cases of insomnia. During the first season, Chris Carter had written a similar themed episode but stopped working on it when he became "unhappy" with the result.

Plot
In New York City, Dr. Saul Grissom finds a fire outside his apartment. Firefighters arrive and evacuate the building. One man who is being evacuated has a distinctive horizontal mark on the back of his neck; as he is being evacuated, he looks up at Grissom's apartment and smiles knowingly. The firefighters find no fire or any related damage, but discover Grissom's lifeless body in his apartment.

Fox Mulder anonymously receives a tape cassette of Grissom's 9-1-1 call. He tries to take the case, only to learn that another FBI agent, Alex Krycek, has opened it first. Deciding to leave Krycek out of the loop, Mulder calls Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) and asks her to conduct Grissom's autopsy. He then heads to Grissom's clinic in Stamford, Connecticut, where he is confronted by an angered Krycek. The two travel back to Quantico to see Scully, who says that Grissom's body showed no signs of a fire, but yet seems to have biologically believed it was burning.

Meanwhile, in a Brooklyn apartment, Vietnam veteran Henry Willig is approached by a fellow ex-Marine, Augustus Cole. Suddenly a group of wounded Vietnamese appear and gun Willig down. Examining Willig's corpse, Mulder and Krycek find a scar on his neck and realize he was in a Marine reconnaissance unit stationed in Vietnam in 1970; he was one of only two survivors, the other being Cole. They head to the VHA hospital in New Jersey where they discover that Cole was discharged, despite the fact that his doctor does not remember doing so.

Mulder meets a mysterious informant named "X", who gives him information on a secret military project that Grissom performed where he eradicated the need for sleep through lobotomy. X provides him with the name of Salvatore Matola, a squad member who was mistakenly reported as killed in action.

A man matching Cole's description robs a drug store. Mulder and Krycek arrive, but not before two gunshots are heard from the room where Cole is believed to be. It appears that the two officers in the room with him shot each other; Cole escapes. Mulder believes that Cole's years of sleeplessness have provided him with illusionary abilities. Mulder and Krycek meet with Matola soon afterwards, who says that he has not slept in twenty-four years due to the experiment. He reveals that another researcher with the squad, Dr. Girardi, was the one who actually performed the lobotomies.

Mulder and Krycek head to a subway station, where Dr. Girardi is expected to arrive for Grissom's funeral. Mulder sees Cole there, and Cole seems to shoot Girardi, but this is shown to be in Mulder's head. In reality, Cole has captured Girardi and holds him hostage, about to show him a similar fate as his other victims. By searching surveillance footage, the agents track his location and find Girardi wounded. Mulder finds Cole, who is ready to kill himself. Krycek, believing Cole is holding a gun instead of the Bible he is actually holding, shoots him, and Cole dies of his wounds. Mulder and Scully find both of their files on the case missing.

Krycek reports to the Smoking Man and others, telling them that the dissolution of the X-Files and the separation of Mulder and Scully has only made their determination stronger. He also notes that Scully is a bigger problem than they anticipated.

Production
Writer Howard Gordon was initially inspired to write this episode based on insomnia he was suffering at the time. Gordon, who wrote many episodes with Alex Gansa in season one, made his solo writing debut with this episode. Originally Chris Carter had written a script for the first season, which shared the same theme as "Sleepless." The original conceit for Carter's episode was, "What makes the perfect soldier?" He also liked the twist on sleep, noting that "sleep is where demons are released in our dreams." He explained that the characters in "Sleepless" were haunted by their memories in real life because they were not able to sleep. Carter sees this episode as one of his favorites.

This episode marked the first appearance of Nicholas Lea as Alex Krycek. Carter had much interest in Krycek, because he replaced Dana Scully as Mulder's new partner. Lea had previously appeared as a different character in the first season episode "Gender Bender." Bowman, who had directed "Gender Bender," thought that Lea "was a [...] strong choice for a fresh-out-of-Quantico FBI agent." When creating him, the writers always had in mind that he would be a recurring character, while they agreed if the character did not work they would kill him off.

"Sleepless" also marked the first onscreen appearance of Steven Williams as Mulder's new source, "X." The character was originally intended to be a woman, and Natalija Nogulich was initially cast in the role. However, after shooting her first scene the role was recast with Williams, an actor who had previous experience with writers Glen Morgan and James Wong. Nogulich was replaced because the writing staff felt she was not able to create the "right chemistry" between her co-stars.

Reception
"Sleepless" debuted on October 7, 1994. It earned a Nielsen household rating of 8.6, with a 15 share, and it was viewed by 8.2 million households in the United States alone. Stephen Mark was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 1995 in the category "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Editing for a Series — Single Camera Production", but did not win.

Carter enjoyed the episode, saying, "I really love that show. It's a great idea, well executed. We had a good cast; Tony Todd was wonderful" and saying it was "beautifully directed by Rob Bowman. Entertainment Weekly rated "Sleepless" with a B+, considering that Tony Todd's performance "elevates a just-good story into a great one." John Keegan Critical Myth gave the episode 7 out of 10, saying it was best remembered for its introduction of Alex Krycek. The web site further stated that the episode was decent and was a "fairly standard exploration" for the early season episodes. Dave Golder from SFX named the episode one of the "20 TV Sci-Fi Gamechangers" due to its introduction of Krycek.

Robert Shearman, in his book Wanting to Believe: A Critical Guide to The X-Files, Millennium & The Lone Gunmen, rated the episode four stars out of five. Shearman noted that Gordon was able to make "the cliche of Vietnam war guilt" feel "very personal and even sorrowful." However, he felt that the revelation of Krycek as an enemy was "the biggest shame" in the episode. Zack Handlen from The A.V. Club wrote that, while the episode is "your standard MotW riff", it is important because it features the on-screen introduction of both Krycek and X.

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Filmmaking Basics/Understanding Filmmaking/Analyze George Lucas in Love

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A short movie similar to our short movie

 * Understanding Moods
 * We need to look at a real world example of a motion picture which is similar to what we will be filming. That movie is George Lucas In Love. We need to understand why this movie is such a success while other similar movies are failures.  The secret is the music.  It is the music which creates the mood for George Lucas In Love.

Google search for Deborah Lurie and George Lucas In Love
Who is Deborah Lurie and why is she so important?

 * Start by going to www.imdb.com for a list of the credits for the music composer Deborah Lurie. Notice that her first full credit as a film composer is for George Lucas In Love.

 * Skim through the article at www.theforce.net about George Lucas In Love. Look for the part about the film score.

 * And most importantly, notice that Wikipedia does not even mention Deborah Lurie at  George Lucas In Love. Amazing!!!!

 * Then download and watch the short movie called George Lucas in Love which can be found at Google.

 * Finally turn down the sound and watch this movie without music.

It is Deborah Lurie's music which makes this movie a success.

And it is the music for our movie which will make our movie a success.

Music For Our Movie
Our movie needs the same moods as George Lucas In Love. The only way we can do that is by having music which is just as powerful as Deborah Lurie's score for George Lucas In Love. We begin work on the music in Lesson 8 - Creating the Temp Track.

For now, we will just try to figure out how Deborah did this for George Lucas In Love.

List of all the music in George Lucas In Love
When you watch the movie, you will see:

 * The movie starts with traveling music. This music shows that George is busy.  This music does something else even more important.  It tells us, that this will be a good movie.  If you hear good music at the beginning, you know there will lots of different moods clearly expressed (in music, of course) in the movie.

Note that this traveling music at the beginning of George Lucas In Love is Narrative Music and not Background Music. It certainly sounds like background music because it is soft and gentle. But you can tell it is "in your face" narrative music when it is too strong for any dialog. As soon as the dialog starts, the traveling music is turned down.

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Topic talk:Early learning

English as first language
A good start for this would be "English as first language"... by this I mean learning to speak english, we would need some sound files of basic words and example of proper sentence structures so they can learn to talk and read... an example would be the picture of an apple with "Apple" written under it as a link to a sound file that of a friendly voice saying "Apple".Would it be posible to add sound clips? The layout of the page should be child-friendly, not too complicated, attractive and colorful --Halyks 10:20, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

No learning resources?
Why no learning resources? That's what I had in mind when I suggested this school. Still, I'm glad it exists. --Gray Porpoise 23:53, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I started the page using a template that was developed as a way to begin Wikiversity schools that will organize the development of learning resources for a broad area of study (example). It is up to participants to develop and add the learning resources. --JWSchmidt 14:29, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Etiquette
Not sure if this article "belongs" to this school, but it seems appropriate to the rest of the content here. If someone could please expand it or figure out what to do with it, it would be much appreciated :D. AmiDaniel 05:09, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Same goes for Honesty and integrity. AmiDaniel 05:10, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Let's go!
I'd like to nurture further content here, possibly in connection with the Global Learning XPrize. Anyone interested in joining me? Cscott (discuss • contribs) 17:37, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

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joskin

Etymology
After — dialect

Noun

 * 1) A yokel, country bumpkin.

Conjunction

 * 1)  though, even though, although

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chris Saribay

The result of the debate was delete. Mailer Diablo 01:49, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Chris Saribay
Apparent vanity bio: teenager whose claim to fame is that he founded a website that is of dubious notability itself. Sandstein 06:42, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete Non-notable biography, WP:BIO and WP:Vanity refer. Photograph is unappealing.  Macteens gets an Alexa rank of 173,410, by the way.   (aeropagitica)   06:53, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per above, non-notable and vanity -- T B C [[Image:Confused-tpvgames.gif|18px|]] ???  ???   ??? 07:04, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as per above. --Khoikhoi 08:40, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete wonderful, an article about myself. Flattering, but uh- I'm no more notable than others on the Mac web who do not currently have articles (of which, probably shouldn't either.) Photo was grabbbed from my userspace, it appears. I wouldn't support a AFD on Macteens for the same reasons/validation (Alexa on a site targeted to Mac users exclusively is not going to yield promising results), but this can go. Chris Saribay 11:30, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vanity, nn. I don't see what criteria Macteens is notable under either, I've asked for its importance and WP:WEB compliance to be clarified.  Dei z io  01:10, 22 March 2006 (UTC)