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Ghazipur City–Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Weekly Express

The Ghazipur City–Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Express is an Express train belonging to Northern Railway zone that runs between Ghazipur City and Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra in India. It is currently being operated with 14611/14612 train numbers on a weekly basis.

Service
The 14611/Ghazipur City–Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra Express has an average speed of 49 km/h and covers 1391 km in 28h 15m. The 14612/Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra–Ghazipur City Express has an average speed of 56 km/h and covers 1391 km in 24h 50m.

Route and halts
The important halts of the train are:

• Ghazipur City

• Aunrihar Junction

• Dobhi

• Kerakat

• Jaunpur Junction

• Jaunpur City

• Sultanpur Junction

• Nihalgarh

• Lucknow Charbagh

• Moradabad Junction

• Saharanpur Junction

• Ambala Cant. Junction

• Ludhiana Junction

• Jalandhar Cant. Junction

• Pathankot Cant.

• Jammu Tawi

• Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra

Coach composition
The train has standard LHB rakes with a maximum speed of 130 km/h. The train consists of 18 coaches:

 * 1 AC II Tier
 * 4 AC III Tier
 * 7 Sleeper coaches
 * 1 Pantry car
 * 3 General Unreserved
 * 2 End-on Generator

Traction
Both trains are hauled by a Ludhiana Loco Shed-based WAP-4 electric locomotive from Ghazipur City to Lucknow Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Katra for the remainder journey and vice versa.

Direction reversal
The train reverses its direction once:

 * Zafarabad Junction


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Feliks Gromov

Fleet Admiral Feliks Nikolayevich Gromov (Феликс Николаевич Громов; 29 August 1937 – 22 January 2021) was a Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy.

Gromov was born in Vladivostok and joined the navy in 1955. He completed the S.O. Makarov Pacific Higher Naval School in 1959. He served as an officer on a destroyer and in 1961 served in the strategic missile troops on an exchange programme. Gromov returned to the navy in 1962 and served on the Sverdlov-class cruiser SOVIET CRUISER Admiral Senyavin and the Kotlin-class destroyer Vdokhnovennyy. He subsequently commanded the cruisers Senyavin and Dmitriy Pozharsky.

In 1977 Gromov became commander of a squadron of surface ships in the Baltic Fleet and was transferred to the Soviet Northern Fleet in 1982. In 1984 he became deputy commander of the Soviet Northern Fleet and was promoted to its commander in 1988.

In 1992 Gromov was given command of the Russian Navy following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet by Boris Yeltsin in 1996 and retired on 7 November 1997 at age 60, the mandated retirement age for Admirals and Fleet Admirals.

The Jamestown Foundation speculated that Gromov was dismissed because of a Russian Pacific Fleet ammunition explosion which seems to have attracted wide attention. He died in his dacha and was buried at the Federal Military Memorial Cemetery.

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Volchy Rakit

Volchy Rakit (Волчий Ракит) is a rural locality (a selo) in Ustyansky Selsoviet, Burlinsky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 49 as of 2013. It was founded in 1939. There are 2 streets.

Geography
Volchy Rakit is located 53 km east of Burla (the district's administrative centre) by road. Podsosnovo is the nearest rural locality.

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Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger

Hey Hey It's Esther Blueburger is a 2008 Australian independent teen film written and directed by Cathy Randall. It stars Danielle Catanzariti, Keisha Castle-Hughes and Toni Collette. The film follows Jewish 13-year-old Esther (Catanzariti), an outcast at her posh school, where she has no friends. That changes when she meets nonconformist Sunni (Castle-Hughes) from the local public school.

With Esther's character based loosely on her own adolescence, Randall was inspired to write the film's script by what she saw as a lack of role models for teenage girls. In 2002, the script earned her a fellowship to the Los Angeles Film School's Feature Development Programme, where she developed the project, and it was later picked up by Tama Films. Randall returned to Australia for casting, and Catanzariti was eventually chosen in the lead role after she attended an audition for minor roles and extras. Production spanned from October to December 2006, with filming taking place in Adelaide, South Australia and Sydney.

The film premiered on 9 February 2008 at the Berlin International Film Festival and was released in Australia on 20 March 2008. It failed to earn back its A$6 million budget with a total domestic gross of approximately $800,000. The film attracted mixed reviews; some critics praised the originality and the acting, though others found Randall's direction dull and the script poorly written. Catanzariti won the Australian Film Institute's Young Actor Award for her performance, and the film received a further three AFI nominations and a nomination for a Film Critics Circle of Australia Award.

Plot
Esther Blueburger is a 13-year-old Jewish outcast at her posh private school. Things are no better at home, where her twin brother is beginning to develop into a sociopath and her controlling mother pressures Esther to conform. She finds her only friend in a duck called Normal, and she frequently prays into a toilet asking God to "get me out of here". After escaping her own Bat Mitzvah, Esther bumps into Sunni, a rebellious girl from the local public school, who she had observed and spoken to on previous occasions.

The two girls form a friendship, and Esther begins attending Sunni's school, unbeknownst to her parents, under the guise of a Swedish exchange student. She revels in the easygoing nature of the public school and enjoys spending time with Sunni's friends and Sunni's laid-back single mother, Mary, who works as a stripper. As Esther gains popularity and submits to numerous acts of peer pressure – including attacking a girl from her old school – her friendship with Sunni starts to deteriorate. At her old school, meanwhile, her classmates have been led to believe that she was chosen for an elite social experiment, and when she returns she is treated like royalty.

Esther later discovers that Mary has died in a motorcycle accident, and a grieving Sunni is transferred to Esther's private school under her grandmother's care. Ultimately deciding that being true to herself is more important than fitting in, Esther discards her pretenses and renews her friendship with Sunni.

Cast

 * Danielle Catanzariti as Esther Blueburger
 * Keisha Castle-Hughes as Sunni Kaire
 * Toni Collette as Mary
 * Christian Byers as Jacob Blueburger
 * Essie Davis as Grace Blueburger
 * Russell Dykstra as Osmond Blueburger
 * Jonny Pasvolsky as Mr. Hooper
 * Cassandra Jinman as "The Slug"
 * Janay Mosby as Vanessa
 * Yen Yen Stender as Lissy
 * Caitlin McDougall

Development
Cathy Randall's script for Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger stemmed from her desire "to make a film about a kick-ass chick, a heroine for teenagers and people of all ages", wanting to take a female twist on The Catcher in the Rye's Holden Caulfield. She said that she had "always been struck by the fact that there are not enough role models for teenage girls". Esther's character was drawn loosely from Randall's own adolescence; like Esther, she had a Bat Mitzvah, she had a twin brother and she attended both a private and a public school. She explained, however, that the story was "warped and twisted and filtered through my imagination so, in fact, it doesn't feel like Esther resembles me at all".

Based on her original script, Randall was awarded a fellowship to the Los Angeles Film School's Feature Development Programme in 2002. She said that, under the mentorship of the school's faculty, "The screenplay evolved by becoming lighter and funnier and also the story and structure got tighter." In 2003, Randall was nominated for an Australian Writers' Guild AWGIE Award for Best Unproduced Screenplay. Randall's script was subsequently picked up by producer Miriam Stein and her production company, Tama Films. Stein said that "The script resonated with me from the start", particularly because of her similar adolescent experience as a Jewish girl who felt like an outsider. Stein brought the film into production after recruiting Nice Pictures CEO Heather Ogilvie as executive producer, Los Angeles-based Harry Clein as associate producer and Buena Vista International to handle distribution in Australia and New Zealand.

Casting
To cast the title character, the film's producers worked with a casting agent to find experienced actors but also held open auditions for 12- to 15-year-old girls in search of "a new face". The producers had spent four months overseeing over 3,000 girls' auditions before Danielle Catanzariti attended a cattle call audition advertised in a local newspaper for minor roles and extras. Randall asked Catanzariti to stay behind and read a scene from the script; she went to a number of callback auditions and was later offered the main role. Having been raised in the Catholic faith, Catanzariti took lessons in Jewish history and Hebrew to prepare for her Bar Mitzvah scenes.

Keisha Castle-Hughes was Randall's first choice for the role of Sunni based on her performance in the New Zealand film Whale Rider (2002). Castle-Hughes agreed to star in the film when she first read the script at age 13, but was 16 by the time finance had been raised and filming began. Castle-Hughes' pregnancy was announced shortly before production was scheduled to begin but filming went ahead unaffected. Toni Collette was confirmed to have joined the cast in May 2006; her scenes were filmed over one week.

Filming
Filming took place from 30 October to 15 December 2006. The film was shot on location in Adelaide, South Australia and Sydney, with financial incentives from the South Australian Film Corporation. Specific filming locations included Annesley College, St Peter's College as Esther's school and Marryatville High School as Sunni's school.

Soundtrack
The film's opening song and recurring theme, "The Only One" was composed by Paul Mac and recorded by Mac, Bertie Blackman and the Sydney Children's Choir. The Sydney Children's Choir's contributions to the soundtrack were Randall's own idea, inspired by the children's chorus covers from The Langley Schools Music Project. The original score was composed by Guy Gross.

Track listing

 * 1) "The Only One" – Paul Mac (featuring Bertie Blackman)
 * 2) "Don't You Think It's Time" – Bob Evans
 * 3) "I Melt with You" – Sydney Children's Choir
 * 4) "Ribbons" – Guy Gross
 * 5) "The Wrong Girls" – Missy Higgins
 * 6) "Bar Mitzvah Prep" – Guy Gross
 * 7) "Clapping Song" – Operator Please
 * 8) "Be a Woman" – Persian Rugs
 * 9) "Lucky Lipstick" – Surferosa
 * 10) "The Only One (Duck Dissection)" – Paul Mac (featuring the Sydney Children's Choir)
 * 11) "Esther on Stage" – Guy Gross
 * 12) "6/8" – Operator Please
 * 13) "Duck Walk" – Guy Gross
 * 14) "Sometimes" – Danielle Catanzariti and the Sydney Children's Choir
 * 15) "Long Live the Girls" – Sara Storer
 * 16) "Young Folks" – Chasing Bailey
 * 17) "Strange Little Girl" – Sydney Children's Choir
 * 18) "Liar" – Bob Evans
 * 19) "The Only One (Toy Piano)" – Paul Mac
 * 20) "Bar Mitzvah Meldey Hora" – Ilan Kidron and Glass

Release
Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival on 9 February 2008 before it was released theatrically in Australia on 20 March 2008. It was later screened at numerous international film festivals, including the Dungog Film Festival, Hamburg Filmfest, Washington Jewish Film Festival, London Australian Film Festival, Toronto Jewish Film Festival, Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival, San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, Boston Jewish Film Festival and the Stockholm International Film Festival.

The film earned A$393,000 from 134 locations on its opening week at the box office. Its total gross surpassed $600,000 by the next week, having taken a per-screen average of $1,123 over its second weekend. By the end of 2008, the film had earned a total gross of $800,000 at the Australian box office, making it the fifth highest-grossing Australian film of the year, but it still failed to earn back its initial budget of $6 million. Variety magazine critic Richard Kuipers attributed the film's poor performance in part to its "M" (mature audiences) classification by the Office of Film and Literature Classification although the film was targeted at preteens and teenagers.

Critical reaction
Film industry magazine Screen International critic Peter Brunette noted that in spite of minor faults, the film was "an otherwise enjoyable piece of highly competent, commercial filmmaking," which "should perform well in all markets, from theatrical through to ancillary." In a review for The Age, Jake Wilson gave the film 3 stars out of 5, describing it as "a quirky Australian coming-of-age story that gives the genre a good name". He wrote that while it lacked the film "craft or pizazz" of other teen movies, the film broke the conventions of the genre. The Sydney Morning Herald's Sandra Hall awarded Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger 3 out of 5 stars and thought that it was entertaining but "too polished". She praised the acting, particularly from Danielle Catanzariti and Russell Dykstra, but felt that the script lacked spontaneity. Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton of At the Movies each gave the film 3.5 stars out of 5. Stratton enjoyed the "terrific" performances, namely from Catanzariti and Keisha Castle-Hughes, while Pomeranz praised the film's "eccentricity" and the discomfort caused to the audience at times.

Other critics were less positive. The Herald Sun's head reviewer Leigh Paatsch gave the film no stars, claiming the film tried to match the edginess of the 2007 comedy film Juno but was, "way, way off the mark". He wrote, "If you think the title screams 'Go watch something else', just wait until you get a load of this lame local production." Jim Schembri of The Age opined that the film was an example of "just how bad local [Australian] films can get". In particular, he criticised the "stiff" performances, the "woeful" directing and the plot's implausibility. Variety magazine's Richard Kuipers wrote that the film was "sporadically amusing" and lacked "scripting smarts and pulling power across demographics". He praised the soundtrack and Castle-Hughes' portrayal of Sunni, but felt that the film was brought down by dull cinematography and "uninspired dialogue and direction". Bernadette McNulty of The Daily Telegraph noted that the film's greatest downfall was that "the jokes aren't funny enough and the sadness barely breaks your heart". She complimented Toni Collette's performance but felt that "her slight role is insufficient to make it fly the distance". Luke Goodsell, writing for Empire magazine, awarded the film 2 out of 5 stars and deemed it to be deserving of "an all-purpose warning label to stay the Hell away".

Awards and nominations
Danielle Catanzariti won the Australian Film Institute's Young Actor Award for her performance as Esther. The film received three other AFI Award nominations for Best Screenplay – Original (Cathy Randall), Best Costume Design (Shareen Beringer) and Best Sound (Liam Egan, Tony Murtagh, Phil Judd and Des Keneally). Catanzariti was nominated by the Film Critics Circle of Australia for the FCCA Best Actress Award. Randall won an award for directing at the Hamburg Filmfest Michel Children's and Youth Film Festival.

Box office
Hey, Hey, It's Esther Blueburger grossed $863,950 at the box office in Australia.

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You Got the Silver

"You Got the Silver" is a song by the English rock and roll band the Rolling Stones from their 1969 album Let It Bleed. It was also released as the B-side to the "Let It Bleed" single in Japan.

Recording
Recorded on 18 February 1969, "You Got the Silver" is the first Stones song to feature guitarist Keith Richards on solo lead vocal throughout. Richards previously sang separate lead vocals on parts of "Something Happened to Me Yesterday" from Between the Buttons and on "Salt of the Earth" from Beggars Banquet.

One of Richards' own compositions, "You Got the Silver" is said to have been written about his then-girlfriend Anita Pallenberg.

The band recorded a version of the song with Mick Jagger on lead but opted to use Richards' version for the official release. The Jagger version has since become a well-known bootleg recording.

"You Got the Silver" was the last Stones recording released with Brian Jones's participation, one of his two appearances on the album. He plays autoharp. Jones' autoharp contribution can only be heard clearly on the alternate mix with Jagger on vocals, and it is played only during the section of the verses where the drums join in. Bill Wyman's bass playing also stands out more in the unreleased alternate mix. The official/album mix has the autoharp mixed very low, though it can be heard in the right-hand channel between 1:04 and 1:25. The bootleg mix with Jagger on vocals places Jones's autoharp much more prominently in the mix. Nicky Hopkins' overdubbed organ and piano to the track and a backwards echo effect is applied to Richards' slide guitar track.

The story that the Jagger vocal was accidentally erased has been repeated by many since 1969, including engineer Glyn Johns in his book Sound Man. The legend is that Richards recorded the vocal because Jagger was in Australia filming Ned Kelly. However, the high quality bootleg recordings of the Jagger vocal indicate that the Richards vocal was a deliberate choice. Jagger finished filming Ned Kelly in September. Final work on Let It Bleed continued into October and Jagger could have re-recorded the lost vocal at that time.

The song was played live for the first time during the No Security Tour in 1999. It was brought out again by Richards for the 2005-2007 A Bigger Bang Tour. A November 1, 2006 live performance captured on the 2008 concert film Shine a Light is featured on the album of the same name. The song was also played during the Rolling Stones' 50 and Counting tour, and a July 2013 performance appears on Hyde Park Live, featuring Ronnie Wood playing slide guitar. Richards played it during the No Filter Tour on 2 June 2018 at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry, and also on November 21, 2021 at Super Stage, Circuit of the Americas, Austin, Texas. During live performances, the song is notable for being sung by Richards without playing guitar or any other instrument.

"You Got the Silver" was featured in the Michelangelo Antonioni film Zabriskie Point.

Personnel
The Rolling Stones
 * Keith Richards – vocals, acoustic, electric and slide guitars
 * Brian Jones – autoharp
 * Bill Wyman – bass guitar
 * Charlie Watts – drums

Additional Personnel
 * Nicky Hopkins – piano, organ

Cover versions
The song was covered by blues singer Susan Tedeschi on her 2005 album, Hope and Desire and by neo-bluegrass group Crooked Still on its 2010 album, Some Strange Country.

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Pomacentrus

Pomacentrus is a genus of marine damselfish in the family Pomacentridae. These fish inhabit tropical locations and are often captured or bred as aquarium fish.

Species
There are currently 76 recognized species in this genus:

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User:Vuara/PINXXIEE Method

 * http://www.tienstrokes.com/english/Technology.htm
 * http://www.tienstrokes.com/english/company.htm
 * http://www.tienstrokes.com/english/beijing_px_report.htm
 * http://www.tenstrokes.com/english/Global%20Alphabet%20Chart.htm

 * maxx 	=	mother
 * ccaaott =	grass
 * muutv 	=	tree
 * fentt	=	scent
 * xiaaokk	=	smile
 * gguoq	=	nation

 * liannthht + hhejy + gguoq => Lianheguo (United Nations)

 * muu 	=	eye

CHINESE CHARACTER PINXXIEE METHOD

 * Introduction
 * What is PX or Modernized Internet-Chinese Script
 * The PX Rules

Introduction:

Chinese Character Pinxxiee Method is based on the Chinese Language Pinyin Scheme, the official Chinese phonetic standard, as promulgated and published by China and recognized by the United Nations.

What is PX or Modernized Internet-Chinese script?

If the user wishes to learn the complete Pinxxiee language input method, Chinese Computer Communication, Inc. has a DOS version of PX 2001 Tutor#, which serves as a Chinese word processor and also instructs the user how to input Chinese characters using the complete Pinxxiee language technology.

Pinxxiee language technology (Æ´Ð´ÓïÑÔ¼¼Êõ) has advanced to the point that it will complement the other input methods (ÊäÈë•½•¨)), popular on the market, such as Cangjie Code (²Öò¡), Wubizi Code (Îå ±Ê×Ö), Pinyin (Æ´Òô) or Zhuyin (×¢Òô) spellings, and can also facilitate the use of telegraphic code (µç±¨ Âë), Three-corner Code (Èý½Ç), Four-corner Code (ËÄ½Ç), or Simple Stroke (±Ê») or other graphic-phonetic (ÐÎÉù) hybrid methods, with or without AI or abbreviations, for speedy Chinese word-processing . However, in the long run, speed of input should not be the only criterion of economy. We need to consider the meaning of the input language in word-processing and writing manuscripts for the users’ true productivity and creativity.

The meaning of an input language is highly significant for the average Chinese user, as it is for the ordinary English user of the typewriter or word processor. Stenography and shorthand are high-speed tools of English language specialists, but ordinary writers of English do not learn stenography or shorthand to do typing or word-processing. In fact, ordinary writers need a meaningful language to learn, to read, and to type. What’s typed should be readable and memorable. There are hundreds of Chinese input methods but they are mostly not readable or easily memorable by the average person. Hence, the need for this Pinyin+Pinxxiee Computer-Chinese language.

In brief, Pinxxiee language is Computer-Chinese, electronic Chinese, or e-Chinese for the Internet. Its time has come. It is the linear transformation of the square Chinese character in the computer of Information Age. Pinxxiee Æ´Ð´ integrates, explains, and aids the other input methods in their functions as speed tools, just like the English language must be the foundation of English shorthand, stenography or abbreviations.

And similarly, Pinxxiee completely solves the Chinese homophone problem and also serves as a computer-compatible language. As with any languages, you, of course, have to learn it. On the average, it takes 15 hours to learn Pinxxiee, if you are familiar with Pinyin and Chinese characters. Furthermore, the user can learn Pinyin+ Pinxxiee language with PX 2001 Tutor, independently. Now, let’s learn step 1: Pinyin+Tones, so that we can apply Pinyin+Tones to Chinese input for Palm-size personal computers, effectively and efficiently.

The CAIS’99 Dictionaries within the Manual serves you as a standard for Chinese and Pinyin+ spellings of Chinese characters. Pinyin+ gives you faster and more efficient graphic input tools with a future. And this CAIS’99 Dictionaries helps you now with proper spelling and writing of any lanugage as the PX 2001 Tutor will give you a glimpse into the bright future of Chinese/English and bilingual word-processing and multilingual data management.

The PX Rules

1. The Pinyin Rule: Use the Pinyin syllable as the phonetic base. Xinhhua ZiidiaannÑ [New China Dictionary] serves as this Manual’s standard reference for Pinyin syllabary, character fonts and stroke counts.

2. The Pinyin+Tone Rule: Replace the Pinyin diacritic tone marks with tonal letters, according to a linguistic consonant-vowel principle: that is, repeat a consonant (to raise the tone) or repeat a vowel (to lower the tone). For example:

1st tone: ma = £í ¨¡= ma (Âè )

2nd tone: mma = £í ¨¢= mma (Âé )

3rd tone: mmaa= £í ¨£= mmaa (Âí )

4th tone: maa = £í ¨¤= maa ( Âî ) so that,

1st tone: The Pinyin spelling base remains unchanged. Remove the level tone mark from the principal vowel (¨¡), but add no letters. e.g., ma (Âè ), ba, ci, de, er, etc.

2nd tone: Remove the tone-raising mark from the principal vowel. Replace it with the tone-raising consonant by doubling the consonant. e.g., mma (Âé ), bba, cci, dde, err, etc.

3rd tone: Remove the tone-lowering-and-raising mark from the principal vowel. R eplace it with two letters, by doubling both the associated consonant and the principal vowel a. e.g., mmaa (Âí ), bbaa, ccii, ddee, eerr, etc.

4th tone: Remove the tone-lowering mark from the principal vowel. Replace it with the tone-lowering letter, by doubling the principal vowel. e.g., maa ( Âî ), baa, cii, dee, eer, etc.

What if the Pinyin syllable has more than one consonant?

2.1 The Pinyin+tone nth Rule. Whenever the consonant letter n is present in any syllable e.g. man, n is the consonant to be doubled to signal the tone (2nd or 3rd). The nth Rule’s power and its ease to master becomes more obvious with the following examples:

1st tone 2nd tone 3rd tone 4th tone

an °² ann [ÎÞ ] aann Ûû aan °µ

ban °ã bann ÙØ baann °å baan °ë

chan ²ó chann µ¥ chaann Ùæ chaan âã

…

man ò© mann Âù maann Âú maan Âý

nan àî nann ÄÐ naann [ÎÞ ] naan ÄÑ

ren [ÎÞ ] renn ÈË reenn ÈÌ reen ÈÏ

zheng Õù zhenng [ÎÞ ] zheenng Õû zheeng Õý

What if the Pinyin syllable has two or more consonants and no letter n?

The following 2.3 Rule is applied:

2.3. The h-rule: Whenever h is present without n (e.g. cha), h is the consonant to be doubled. Examples of the two rules, respectively:

1st tone cha = cha (²æ) 2nd tone cha = chha (²è) 3rd tone cha = chhaa (ïï) ) 4th tone cha = chaa (²î )

What if a syllable has no consonants at all, but only vowels?

The following Rules are applied:

2.4. The single-vowel rule: For single-vowel Pinyin syllables (e.g. "a" or "e"), add an h at the end, and then follow the 2.3.h-rule:

1st tone a = ah (°¢) 2nd tone a = ahh (àÄ) 3rd tone a = aahh (ºÇ) 4th tone a = aah (ºÇ )

2.5. The double-vowel rule: For Pinyin syllables with two vowels and no consonants (e.g. "ao"), have the second vowel act as a consonant:

1st tone ao = ao (°¼) 2nd tone ao = aoo (°½) 3rd tone ao = aaoo (°À) 4th tone ao = aao (°Â)

What about homotonic and homophonic Ideographic characters?

Please, once again, recall the Pinxxiee Formula to our aid:

Pinxxiee = Pinyin + Tone + Radical = Ideograph Px = Py + T + R = Hz Æ´Ð´ = Æ´Òô + Éùµ÷ + ²¿ Ê× = ºº ×Ö Pinxxiee = Pinyin + Shengdiaao + Buushhaao = Haanzii

That’s when we add the needed radical stroke letter(s)to the Pinyin+toned syllable to complete the spelling.

3. The Pinxxiee Radical Rule: Change the ideographic radicals to look-like alphabetic letter suffixes. Chinese characters, through a process of TiENSTROKES Pinxxiee transformation, are changing stroke(s) into a letter or letters, and then make the stroke letters into a radical suffix. For instance, the t-radical is condensed from the H-stroke Ò» and L-stroke l, which, combined, form the t letter, or the -t suffix. A Pinyin+ syllable plus a radical suffix produce a Pinxxiee word, similar to an English alphabetic spelling, e.g., ma + xx = maxx (mother). The following 4 examples show how spellings of Pinxxiee words are naturally derived from Chinese characters themselves, thus retaining their ancient historical roots:

Hanzi Tenstrokes Radical Script Pinyin+Plus Radical Pinxxiee English

Âè CJH-PZH cjh-pzh ma -xx maxx mother

Ä¿ LP-HH-H d-hh muu -dhh muu* eye

²Ý HLL-LPHH-HL tt-lphh-t ccaao -tt ccaaott grass

Ä¾ HL-JY tv muu -tv muutv tree

 * muu Ä¿ can also be spelled as muudhh with itself as radical.

These spellings, maxx Âè, muudhhÄ¿, ccaaott ²Ý, and muutv Ä¾, contain silent Pinxxiee suffixes, serving as the semantic radicals in the original square characters. These radicals must be added to Pinyin+Plus spellings in order to be differentiated from their homophones, e.g. muu Ä¿ must be spelled differently from muutv Ä¾. And so, each Chinese character (square ideograph) has been transformed into a unique monosyllabic Pinxxiee word (linear ideograph) as its original in the computer Internet world.

However, you only need to learn TiENSTROKES Alphabet VHLJY TGPCZ and then about 50 of the most-frequently-used radical-suffixes (like -xx, -dhh, -tt, -tv…) in order to process 95% or more of the ordinary Chinese text. A set of 250+ silent Pinxxiee radical-suffixes has been created to spell differentially all homophones for both complex and simplified characters. This applies to all 60,000+ Chinese ideographs, and even more characters, if created. These suffixes are easy to remember, because they are created to look like the original radicals, by neuro-association, based on a child’s game: search for English letters in Chinese characters! Study the following characters and you will see what we mean:

ccaaott = ²Ý = grass; fentt = •Ò = scent; zhhukk = óÃ; xiaaokk = Ð¦ smile and others.

4. The Two-Syllable Compound Rule: Omit the silent radical suffixes when entering a two-character compound word as follows:

Âè + Âè => ÂèÂè

maxx + maxx => mama

5. The Three-Syllable Compound Rule: Omit the silent suffixes and the tone letters when entering a three-character compound word as follows:

Áª + ºÏ + ¹ú => ÁªºÏ ¹ú

liannthht + hhejy + gguoq => Lianheguo (United Nations)

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Conclusion Report On Dr. H. C. Tien’s [Ìï Èý ÎÄ ] PINXXIEE Technology

by Experts at Standardization Conference

AUTHENTICATION OF CERTIFICATE

The China Standardization Association hereby decrees that the panel of experts were indeed authorized to review Dr. H. C. Tien’s (Tiann San Wenn, Ìï Èý ÎÄ ²© Ê¿ ) presentation and demonstration in defense of his Pinxxiee Language Technology. Furthermore, this conference was declared on public record that the expert panel’s conclusions are true and valid.

On November 3, 1999, a conference was held in Beijing, China, at which Dr. H. C. Tien demonstrated and defended his Pinxxiee Language Technology. The technology was subsequently validated by the China Standardization Association. The CSA invited China’s experts in the following fields to participate in the review: information technology, standardization, ergonomics, software evaluation, software design, language coding analysis, psychology, internet software analysis, et al.

The following conclusions were reached by the commission of panel experts.

Pinxxiee Language Technology was developed based on the Chinese Government’s official standards of spoken Mandarin and the Chinese ("Pinyin") phonetic spelling method. Moreover, this technology adheres to the contents of China’s official Mandarin language Xinhua Dictionary. In conclusion this language technology’s overall design is in accordance with China’s national Mandarin language policies. This technology is an effective system of writing Chinese characters because the problem of duplicate Chinese character spellings is rendered small. All aspects of a Chinese character -- i.e. the phonetic spelling, tone, and semantic root -- are expressed in its Pinxxiee language spelling. This technology is a breakthrough in solving the problem of homophone ambiguity in Mandarin because Pinxxiee spells out all aspects of the Chinese character (see above point # 2). For all practical purposes, the homophone problem has been solved. Pinxxiee Language Technology is in ASCII, so it can be used on the Internet to send Chinese Mandarin email messages (as easily as in English) without the ambiguity that arises when the phonetic "Pinyin" spelling method is used. Thus, fluent speakers of Mandarin, who do not know English and do not have a Chinese character platform on their PC, now have a convenient method for sending and receiving email messages in Mandarin Chinese. This is especially true for international communication, and will have ever increasing usefulness in the future. There is sufficient education software available for Pinxxiee Language Technology, and the PX-2001 software package (PX Toolbox) makes learning this technology easy. In summary, Pinxxiee Language Technology’s method of spelling Chinese characters is technically sound; it has simple rules and very little memorizing needed for Mandarin’s inflection tones. It is suitable for being introduced for learning as early as the elementary and junior high school grade levels by students who have knowledge of the phonetic "Pinyin" spelling method.

The Commission’s panel of experts raised the following relevant issues regarding Pinxxiee Language Technology that it felt must be considered and addressed:

China is a huge country with many different ethnic dialects; and although the Chinese government has extensively taught Mandarin Chinese for more than 30 years, the vast majority of Chinese people still find difficulty in speaking Mandarin properly. They find even greater difficulty in writing Chinese phonetic "Pinyin" spellings. Since teaching Pinxxiee Language Technology is based on both the correct speaking of Mandarin and the spelling of "Pinyin" sounds, Pinxxiee Language Technology will be very difficult to promulgate. Because Pinxxiee Language Technology has all the aspects of the Chinese character contained in its spelling system, its Chinese character representations are much longer than all the other systems used in China today. In addition, the Commission stated that any further developments or improvements of Pinxxiee Language Technology must be in accordance with the Chinese language standards set down by the Government’s relevant official bodies. Up until now the phonetic "Pinyin" spelling method has been primarily used for learning Mandarin Chinese. It has also been a beneficial tool in Chinese character display for software. With the introduction of Pinxxiee Language Technology, we now have what can be called "the Chinese writing script" for the PC and Internet environments. In fact, it has become Chinese language technology for international communication. Needed now is for the general populace to master it while the relevant government bodies support its use. The China Standardization Association hereby decrees that the panel of experts were indeed authorized to review Dr. H. C. Tien’s demonstration and defense of his Pinxxiee Language Technology. Furthermore, this conference was on public record and the expert panel’s conclusions valid.

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1999 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2001

1. COMPANY OVERVIEW: In 1960, while working as a practicing physician with dyslexic children, H. C. Tien, M.D.[UMICH.MED] discovered a historic and scientific link between the two major languages of the world, English letters and Chinese characters. In 1983,

Dr. Tien, President and CEO founded CCC, Inc. By 1997, after having received 3 patents for his inventions, he closed his private practice of medicine and decided to launch CCC on the Internet supermarket.

2. DISCOVERY: What he discovered in 1960 turned out to be the "genetic code" of Englishó Chinese transcription in TiENSTROKES ALPHABET. Using TiENSTROKES®, CCC can speed up U.S. trade & communication with China.

3. RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT: After more than a quarter of a century (1961-1999) of R&D with considerable equity investment from family’s savings and a number of private investors, Dr. TiEN perfected the PINXXIEE theory and its language technology TREE model:

HLJY ó Ä¾ ó MUUH ó TREE.

CCC has copyrighted, trademarked and patented [1960-99] the intellectual properties of a global TiENSTROKES ® Alphabet, and its derived Pinxxiee ComputerChinese™ dictionaries, InternetChinese scripts and language technologies.

4. BUSINESS MISSION: To achieve this mission, CCC seeks strategic investors and experienced technology partners to help plan an IPO by 2001. Today, almost one-forth (1/4) of the world’s population is Chinese, the vast majority can’t touch-type Chinese characters directly on the computer keyboard in their own language (ºº ×Ö ) ! The remaining three-quarters (3/4) including Americans, who are trading with China can’t read Chinese ºº ×Ö. However, the basic invention and the applications of TiENSTROKES to Chinese-English translations has readily enhanced the commercialization of products and services on the market. CCC supplies accurate and rapid Englishó Chinese translation service, using its own products, the 3 InternetChinese™ word-processing and translation tools.

5. PRODUCT & SERVICE:

Ìï ™ TiENSTROKES® INTERNET-CHINESE™ TOOLBOX™, retailing @ $775/box: contains the 3 key tools used by CCC over the years (1983-date) in its Translation Services:

[i] Pinxxiee® Internet-Chinese AutoInput System’98 (CAIS’98), retailing @ $375/ per tool; a Chinese character word-processor that works like English.

[ii] TiENSTROKES® Pinxxiee® e-Chinese SpellChecker’99, retailing@ $350/per tool; for checking the spellings of linearized Chinese characters!

[iii] TiENSTROKES® MindMasterTutor2000™, retailing $300/per tool; a hand-held computer educational tool for students and language workers in translating Chinese ºº ×Ö ó Pinxxiee ó English documents and database.

6. FOCUS: Washington Post has forecast that CCC will eventually become the leader in Pinxxiee Chinese script technology. CCC is ready to enter the largest and fastest growing Internet markets with its Toolbox™99 for US-China & global trade. Although already well known to some important governmental customers and users, e.g., the State of Michigan; GM and EDS, and other fortune companies, CCC aims to fulfill its destiny as a leading corporation in the multilingual information industry, championing for the Golden Age of East-West trade in Peace with Prosperity for the 21st Century.

Æ´ Ð´ PINXXIEE (pin+shay = phonics+graphics) CORPORATION ¹« Ë¾

801 Glenhaven Avenue, East Lansing, Michigan 48823 USA

e-mail contact<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Phone:517 336-9500; Fax:<PHONE_NUMBER>

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pihistää

Etymology
, probably through eastern dialects due to lack of expected -d- (which is mostly absent in eastern dialects).

Verb

 * 1)  to snitch, steal
 * 2)  to skimp to live stingily

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Yukiko Kobayashi

Yukiko Kobayashi (小林夕岐子) is a Japanese actress. She appeared in more than ten films since 1965.

title: Yukiko Kobayashi


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Help talk:Transwiki

 * See also: Category talk:Pages to be merged, Template talk:merge and Help talk:Transwiki.

Clarification needed
HI I think the following needs clarification:

 * "Tag it with or if the existing page starts with a lower case letter tag it with:.

Having gotten this far on a list of items I have marked to merge, I don't know what next to do. If only admins can merge with a merge bot, we should say something like "An admin bot will merge them" or if its like wikipedia, users are encouraged to merge documents manually, but to leave a flag on the redirect page that says underneath the redirect command, which tells other users to retain redirect page as a history of a merge. Should Wiktionary copy that? If so the template needs to be created. Goldenrowley 23:01, 26 October 2007 (UTC) Please note this is only to save both history pages (if necessary). Goldenrowley 23:14, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

 * Well, you are breaking new ground for us, in general. (No one has taken the effort seriously, so far.)  I don't see any problems with merging the content and marking the history as being in need of a sysop-history-merge.  AFAIK, there is no bot process that anyone has written to do the history merges.  The sysop steps are as follows (correct me if I'm wrong!):
 * delete target
 * move tw page to target
 * restore all versions
 * manually edit the "last good" version, removing ""
 * I'm not familiar with the Wikipedia method for doing the same. I suppose we could have  simply redirect to, right?  --Connel MacKenzie 00:00, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

 * Well If administrators can and are willing to do sysop-history-merges, I can offer to make that the final point on these instructions  (noting where history-merge instructions are, for new administratoris... where are they?)  Otherwise I would suggest we just copy Wikipedia's already hashed out procudure and just mark merged pages as keepers, to redirect indefinitely purely for the legal reasons to document our sources. Saying that I work in a legal dept but am not a lawyer.Goldenrowley 20:02, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

 * Here's English Wikipedia's procedures to which I refer: "Merging and moving pages..Selective paste merger" Goldenrowley 20:10, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

 * I guess I should point out that the reason a Wikipedia article might be merged is very much opposite Wiktionary's needs. As a rule, we want entries split into separate entries.  For Transwikis (and Transwikis only) the merges need to happen.  To comply with the GFDL, we do a history merge.  So, copying Wikipedia's approach might not only be wrong (non-GFDL compliant for how we use it,) but might also mislead people into thinking that is acceptable.

 * There is a brief "new sysops" guide floating around somewhere, but it doesn't go into any detail about merges (if it mentions them at all.) So, any verbiage you come up with is likely to be quite helpful.  --Connel MacKenzie 20:28, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Two merge types
I guess I'm seeing the problem more clearly now. There are two types of merges:

 * Page content merges (that anyone can do)
 * History merges (than only sysops can do)

For content merges, yes, the Wikipedia process (linking the "from" page in the edit summary) is fine and GFDL compliant...partially. Since this is only used for Transwikis, the history itself should be merged over. This means that the content should just be added on the target page, removed from the transwiki page, and replaced with the history-merge request tag, .

I think it would help immensely, to not commingle the two issues. Perhaps we could have a template for tagging potential content merges. That would allow us to reserve to the understood role of history merges only.

Does what I said, make any sense at all? Should I rephrase it? Comments?

--Connel MacKenzie 21:33, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes it makes some sense. Here's an example I merged a music definition from Transwiki:Coloration (music) to coloration. I redirected the 1st to the 2nd once finished. The only thing left to do is to merge or preserve the history section. Goldenrowley 04:01, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

 * How about "merge" stays non-assuming and as the parent category with at least 2 sub-categories? I can see sub-category within the merge category where one can separate "content merge" requests versus complete "over-write" requests? Goldenrowley 20:36, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

 * Hm. Add a parameter type= to template:merge for the subcats?  That might work.  --Connel MacKenzie 20:45, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

 * Yes I think so, it will also allow someone (me) to help finish the instructions for each. In the meantime editors who dont have time or expertise to make judgement calls can put them in "merge" for someone else to think about. Goldenrowley 22:04, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

What the license mandates
I copied this from the GNU Free Documentation License. Bolding mine. It dictates to keep all renditions of a content-merged page, although collect all the history in one place. Question do administrators have the ability to do collect all the history in one place?? . This wold only apply to the pages Transwiki'd articles where elements were merged into a page already at Wiktionary. Goldenrowley 03:36, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

"5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS

You may combine the Document with other documents released under this License, under the terms defined in section 4 above for modified versions, provided that you include in the combination all of the Invariant Sections of all of the original documents, unmodified, and list them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its license notice, and that you preserve all their Warranty Disclaimers.

The combined work need only contain one copy of this License, and multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single copy. If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but different contents, make the title of each such section unique by adding at the end of it, in parentheses, the name of the original author or publisher of that section if known, or else a unique number. Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list of Invariant Sections in the license notice of the combined work.

In the combination, you must combine any sections Entitled "History" in the various original documents, forming one section Entitled "History"; likewise combine any sections Entitled "Acknowledgements", and any sections Entitled "Dedications". You must delete all sections Entitled "Endorsements."

 * I've expanded the instructions substantially to clarify content merges, adding nothing new just the unwritten procedures. If we've come to a consensus, I can work next on tweaking this to differentiate the name of the "content merge" template from the "replacement page merge" template. Goldenrowley 04:27, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

 * So, since Wiktionary has no Wiktionary-specific invariant sections, just the GFDL, the only acceptable way to history merge is to have a sysop delete/move/restore/edit merge them. Thanks for digging up the relevant portion of the license.  --Connel MacKenzie 22:19, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Potential Import problem
I haven't seen this in a very long time, but it is something that anyone interested in transwikis should keep an eye out for. When re-transwiki-ing a previously transwiki'ed and redirected entry, newer edits from Wikipedia can supersede the redirect. Since the current bot tries to refuse to automatically re-transwiki entries, this is not such a big problem right now. --Connel MacKenzie 22:43, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

 * This nasty glitch has made merging more difacult than planned. The history of the over written pages aren't even showing unless you do a final "manual" restore save of the final page. After trial and error this month, I've gone ahead and clarified and simplified steps and offered work-around for the glitches. Goldenrowley 05:14, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

 * Note: I found the "redirect" step was causing some glitches before a merge (it appears to make it hard to identify what to merge, and also puts the history in a circular loop after the merge) thus removed "redirect" as a step. Goldenrowley 05:14, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

{| class="prettytable" ! The following conversation is no longer live. It has been archived here from Requests for deletion/Others and removed from that page.

Transwikis that Wikipedia kept and keeps
I propose to delete Transwiki entries over a year old where its clear Wikipedia kept the article and keeps editing them, even though they Transwikied them to us. We have a backlog from prior years here of 'Pedia imports, particularly from Feb 2007 when our Bot transferred about 1200 entries in one month. There are 3 reasons: (1) we have a backlog going back 3 years of imports; (2) Wikipedians can add considerable edits in one year on any entry, so our imports go out of the date comparatively (3) and any entries Wikipedia keeps means the history of edits is cloned. I propose to work from the Wiktionary export list from 2007 as a start:, to identify the entries Wikipedia kept. Some good examples are: Thank you for your consideration. Goldenrowley 04:12, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Transwiki:Cook Islands Maori
 * Transwiki:Direct quotation
 * Transwiki:Going over the top

 * Support. AFAIK, you're the only person with the intestinal fortitude to deal with these in bulk, so AFAI am concerned, what you say goes. :-) -- Visviva 05:48, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

 * +1 —Ruakh TALK 18:14, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I support this proposition. Shouldn't it be bot-doable? (Any such bot would have to be able to check histories, though.)—msh210 ℠  21:42, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Okay I'll wait the obligatory 30 days. I think the only way to do it is manually. Goldenrowley 03:22, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Seeing how much sense it makes, I just started with the old imports from 2005-2006. I eliminated 20% from year 2005 that were kept and better handled on Wikipedia. I look forward to the day we can finish Transwiki in process 2005 and 2006 lists. However we're down to the "hard words" and other languages. I am recruiting help there. Goldenrowley 04:11, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

 * Keep transwikied glossaries. Coming late here, I propose to keep transwikied glossaries in Wiktionary, regardless whether they are kept in Wikipedia, no matter how old they are. Processing glossaries takes a lot of time, and they are useful to have in Wiktionary appendix namespace. --Dan Polansky 16:59, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

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langouste

Etymology
Borrowed from. .

Noun

 * 1) The spiny lobster

Etymology
,, borrowed from , from , from , of uncertain origin. Cf. also the Old French, , , which was inherited from the Latin, as well as , which was a learned borrowing.

Noun

 * 1) spiny lobster

Etymology
Borrowed from, from , from , of uncertain origin. Cf. also the doublet, , , which was inherited from the Latin, as well as , which was a learned borrowing.

Noun

 * 1) grasshopper

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Wikiversity talk:Services

Having two pages that differ only in pluralization is confusing. - dcljr 22:56, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree. Perhaps if we rename one. How about renaming this one to something like What can Wikiversity do for me?. - Trevor MacInnis 02:08, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Note to interested parties: Discussion has continued at Wikiversity talk:Service. - dcljr 20:03, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Testing / Assesment
Hi, i am missing the assesment part. After a training there should be an assesment, maybe diagnostic, pointing to new education.

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Talk:Dummy code

As pseudocode and dummy code are the same thing, and pseydocode is already developed, I am redirecting this acritcle to pseudocode. Pierre Monteux 05:35, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikiproject Computing
I have removed the WikiProject tag, as this article is either a redirect or deleted. If you oppose, please restore the tag. Thank you, fahadsadah (talk,contribs) 16:07, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

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List of people from Gorgan

Following is a list of notable people from Gorgan, the capital of Golestan Province in northern Iran.

Contemporary prominent figures

 * Mohammad Reza Lotfi, Musician.
 * Maryam Zandi, Photographer.

Historical figures

 * Abd-al-Qaher Jorjani, Grammarian and literary theorist.
 * Mir Damad
 * Gorgani, Zayn al-Din Isma‘il ibn, royal physician
 * Gorgani, Abu Saeed, astronomer and mathematician
 * Gorgani, Rustam, physician
 * Masihi Gorgani, Avicenna's master
 * Ali ibn Mohammed al-Jurjani, encyclopedic writer and theologian
 * Fazlallah Astarabadi, 14th century Islamic mystic and founder of the Hurufi movement
 * Bibi Khatoon Astarabadi, a notable writer, satirist, and one of the pioneering figures of the women's movement of Iran

Mayors after the Islamic Revolution, February 1979 onwards

 * Ebrahim Karimi (son of Abbass), holder of B.A. in Theology & Islamic Laws
 * Ebrahim Karimi (son of Abbass), appointed (selected by the Gorgan City Islamic Council), in June 2007, for the 2nd time

Califs

 * Abbasid Calif Harun Al-Rashid
 * Imam Reza

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Vryburg Airport

Vryburg Airport is an airport serving Vryburg, a town in the North West province, South Africa. It is located approximately 2.5 kilometers south of the Vryburg CBD.

History
In 1919 the Royal Air Force built the first airport in Vryburg. It was located to the north of the town and west of the Gert Lubbe Sports Grounds. The area was originally identified by Major Court Treatt as a landing strip for the regular flights between Cairo and Cape Town. At that time the town council rented the terrain to the Royal Air Force for 10 cents a year.

The current airport, which is located south of Vryburg was completed during March 1939. At that stage it could accommodate any existing aircraft type. The airport was used by the South African Department of Defence during the Second World War. After the end of the Second World War the Department of Defence notified the town council that it would no longer require the airport for defence purposes. The town council decided that it would continue the operation of the airport and applied to the Director of Civil Aviation (now the South African Civil Aviation Authority) for an aerodrome license and on 1 November the license application was granted.

Northern Cape Flying Services was granted permission to construct a hangar on 3 August 1946. The first buildings, a fuel bowser and a telephone service followed.

On 8 February 1957 the Bechuanaland District Development Agency requested that the Central Government consider upgrading the airport and that a regular air service be implemented. This was however rejected as the airport at that time could not accommodate the Douglas DC-3 Dakota type aircraft.

In February 1967 Interstate Air Services initiated an airline between Vryburg, Kuruman, Sishen and Silverstreams. This service was taken over by United Air in the early 1970s but was discontinued temporarily in 1974 due to the deterioration of the runway.

The terminal building at the airport was officially opened by the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. Piet Badenhorst on 14 August 1981.

Accidents
On 28 October 2008, a Cessna 210 returning from a survey flight, experienced an engine failure and performed a forced landing approximately 600 metres west of the airport. The pilot (sole occupant) escaped unharmed. The aircraft was part of a geological survey operation that was conducted in the area.

On 6 October 2019, a Piper PA-28-140 Cherokee crashed in Huhudi, approximately 800 meters east of the threshold of runway 18.

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1949 Kansas Jayhawks football team

The 1949 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the Big Seven Conference during the 1949 college football season. In their second season under head coach Jules V. Sikes, the Jayhawks compiled a 5–5 record (2–4 against conference opponents), finished fifth in the Big Seven Conference, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 259 to 183. They played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas.

The team's statistical leaders included Bud French with 510 rushing yards and 66 points scored, and Dick Gilman with 885 passing yards. Forrest Griffith and Dick Tomlinson were the team captains.

NFL draft
The following Jayhawks were selected in the National Football League draft following the season.

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2003 Estoril Open – Women's singles

Magüi Serna was the defending champion and successfully defended her title, by defeating qualifier Julia Schruff 6–4, 6–1 in the final.

Seeds
• # Katarina Srebotnik (second round)

• # 🇪🇸 Magüi Serna (champion)

• # 🇫🇷 Virginie Razzano (semifinals)

• # 🇮🇹 Rita Grande (first round, retired)

• # 🇸🇰 Henrieta Nagyová (second round, retired)

• # 🇨🇿 Klára Koukalová (first round)

• # 🇦🇹 Patricia Wartusch (first round)

• # 🇨🇿 Iveta Benešová (second round)

Qualifying seeds
• #

Qualifiers
• #

Lucky losers
• # 🇺🇦 Elena Tatarkova

• # 🇨🇿 Sandra Kleinová

• # 🇦🇷 Gisela Dulko

Protected ranking

 * 1) 🇪🇸 Anabel Medina Garrigues

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2017 World Baseball Classic

The 2017 World Baseball Classic (WBC) was an international professional baseball competition, composed of 16 competing nations, held from March 6 to 22, 2017. It was the fourth iteration of the World Baseball Classic. The first-round hosts were Seoul, Tokyo, Miami, and Zapopan. The second-round hosts were Tokyo and San Diego, and the championship round was played in Los Angeles.

Twelve of the sixteen competing nations qualified based on their performance during the first round of the 2013 tournament; the remaining four nations were the winners of four qualification tournaments that took place in February, March, and September 2016. Two of the four qualifiers, Colombia and Israel, made their first appearance in the WBC, and both have secured their positions for the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

The Netherlands, Japan, Puerto Rico, and the United States advanced to the championship round. Defending champion Dominican Republic was eliminated in the second round. The United States defeated Puerto Rico to win the championship game, 8–0. Marcus Stroman was named tournament MVP. He made three starts for the U.S. and posted a 2.35 ERA in 15$1/3$ total innings, including 6 shutout innings in the championship game.

Qualification
The top three teams from each pool of the first round of the 2013 World Baseball Classic automatically qualified.

Format
The first and second rounds of the tournament were played in round-robin format, with each team playing each other team in their pool once, as was the case in 2006. However, in an effort to reduce the likelihood that a team would be eliminated on statistical tiebreakers, the tournament schedule allowed for a seventh game at each pool-play site.

 * If there is a two-way tie for first, since both teams advance, there would be no extra game. The team that won the original game between the teams would be declared the pool winner, and the other team the pool runner-up.
 * If there is a three-way tie for first (all three teams being 2–1, and the last team 0–3), head-to-head results would not help to break the tie. In this case, statistics would determine the first-place team, and the other two would play to determine the pool runner-up.
 * If there is a three-way tie for second (all three teams being 1–2, and the first team 3–0), statistics would determine the top two teams who would then play to determine the pool runner-up. The team ranked worst on the calculation would be eliminated.

In either of the latter cases, the statistics used to rank the tied teams were:
 * 1) Fewest runs allowed per inning of defense in head-to-head games
 * 2) Fewest earned runs allowed per inning of defense in head-to-head games
 * 3) Highest batting average in head-to-head games
 * 4) Drawing of lots

Venues
Six stadiums were used during the main tournament:

Pools composition
Note: Numbers in parentheses indicate positions in the WBSC World Rankings at the time of the tournament.

Pool A

 * }

Pool A of the First Round of the 2017 World Baseball Classic was held at Gocheok Sky Dome, Seoul, South Korea from March 6 to 10, 2017, between Team Israel, the Netherlands, South Korea, and Taiwan. Pool A was a round-robin tournament. Prior to the start of the tournament, ESPN considered Team Israel, ranked 41st in the world, to be the biggest underdog in the tournament, referring to them as the "Jamaican bobsled team of the WBC".

Team Israel (3–0) and Team Netherlands (2–1) qualified for the second round, in Japan. Israel became the first baseball team to go undefeated in the first round of the WBC's main draw after entering the main draw by winning in a qualifying round. In what NBC reported was thought to be the tallest batter-pitcher matchup in baseball history, the Dutch team's 7 ft Loek van Mil walked Israel's 6 ft Nate Freiman. Israel's catcher, Ryan Lavarnway, was named Pool A MVP, after going 5-for-9 (.556/.692/.889), with four walks, a home run, and three RBIs.

Pool B

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Two-time champion Japan concluded Pool B with a 3–0 record. Cuba defeated Australia to advance to the second round. In the first round, after batting .364, Japanese outfielder Yoshitomo Tsutsugoh was named the Pool B MVP.

Pool C
After falling behind 5–0 in the sixth inning, Dominican Republic rallied to defeat the U.S. 7–5 in their second game. On the last day of the pool, Colombia tied their game against Dominican Republic 3–3 in the eighth on a Jorge Alfaro home run, and had a chance to win in the ninth inning, but Oscar Mercado was called out at home trying to score on a sacrifice fly. The game continued into extra innings, where Dominican Republic scored 7 runs in the 11th to win and finish the pool undefeated. The U.S. then took an early lead on Canada, winning 8–0 to claim the second berth in San Diego. Manny Machado of the Dominican Republic was named MVP for the first-round Pool C bracket of the WBC, after batting .357.
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Pool D

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 * Tiebreaker game

 * }

While Puerto Rico cruised in all three of its games, the fight for the other three places was extremely tight. Italy scored 5 runs in the bottom of the 9th inning to shock Mexico in the first game, then lost an extra-inning slugfest against Venezuela. In the final game, Mexico defeated Venezuela in another slugfest and thought they had scored enough runs to advance on tiebreakers, though this turned out not to be the case.

The first tiebreaker criterion is fewest runs allowed per defensive inning played (RA/IPD) in the games among the tied teams. Although Mexico allowed the fewest runs in those games (19, to Italy's 20, and Venezuela's 21), Mexico played fewer defensive innings (17, while the other two teams had 19) and thus had the highest average RA/IPD (1.117, to Italy's 1.053 and Venezuela's 1.105). This occurred for two reasons: the Italy-Venezuela game went 10 innings, and Mexico was the road team while losing to Italy. In fact, the Mexico-Italy game did go into the bottom of the 9th, in which Italy scored runs that were charged against Mexico but Mexico failed to record an out. There was confusion during and after the Mexico-Venezuela game, with an initial calculation showing that Mexico had advanced. Mexico filed a formal protest of its elimination, but the protest was denied.

As specified in the rules, Mexico was eliminated by the tiebreaker calculation and a tiebreaker game was played between Italy and Venezuela, which Venezuela won with a 9th-inning rally.

According to the rules as announced at the time, Mexico's last-place finish would have required it to participate in a qualifying tournament in order to re-qualify for the 2021 World Baseball Classic. However, MLB announced in 2020 that the field of teams for the 2021 WBC would be expanded, with all 2017 WBC participants qualifying automatically and four new teams coming from qualifying tournaments.

Pool E

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Undefeated Japan (3–0) and the Netherlands (2–1) advanced to the semi-final round, as Israel (1–2) came in third, and Cuba (0–3) fourth.

Pool F

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Pool F started with Puerto Rico handing the Dominican Republic its first loss since the 2009 World Baseball Classic. Puerto Rico ended Pool F still undefeated and Venezuela was eliminated, going 0–3. The final game of the pool was a rematch between the United States and Dominican Republic to advance to the championship round. The DR took an early 2–0 lead in the first inning, but the United States came back to win 6–3 to eliminate the defending champions.

Semifinals

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Final

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Final standings
The final standings were calculated by the WBSC for inclusion in the WBSC Men's Baseball World Rankings system.

In the final standings, ties were to be broken in the following order of priority:

 * 1) The team with the highest Team's Quality Balance (TQB=(RS/IPO)–(RA/IPD)) in all games;
 * 2) The team with the highest Earned Runs Team's Quality Balance (ER–TQB=(ERS/IPO)–(ERA/IPD)) in all games;
 * 3) The team with the highest batting average (AVG) in all games;

When the 2017 WBC was played, it was assumed that the field for the following 2021 WBC would remain 16 teams. Under the qualification format in use at the time, the bottom four finishers from 2017 (Canada, China, Mexico, and Chinese Taipei) would've been forced to re-qualify for 2021. However, in January 2020, MLB announced it was expanding the field for the 2021 WBC from 16 teams to 20 and that all 16 participants from 2017 would receive automatic bids for 2021, thus sparing the bottom four nations from relegation to the qualifiers.

First round

 * Pool A – Ryan Lavarnway
 * Pool B – Yoshitomo Tsutsugo
 * Pool C – Manny Machado
 * Pool D – Francisco Lindor

Second round

 * Pool E – Wladimir Balentien
 * Pool F – Yadier Molina

Championship round

 * Tournament – Marcus Stroman

2017 All-World Baseball Classic team
Source:

Attendance
973,699 (avg. 24,342; pct. 72.3%)

First round
508,830 (avg. 20,353; pct. 74.3%)
 * Pool A – 52,286 (avg. 8,714; pct. 51.9%)
 * Pool B – 206,534 (avg. 34,422; pct. 82.0%)
 * Pool C – 163,878 (avg. 27,313; pct. 74.3%)
 * Pool D – 86,132 (avg. 12,305; pct. 76.9%)

Second round
354,977 (avg. 29,581; pct. 72.0%)
 * Pool E – 209,072 (avg. 34,845; pct. 83.0%)
 * Pool F – 145,905 (avg. 24,318; pct. 60.5%)

Championship round
109,892 (avg. 36,631; pct. 65.4%)
 * Semifinals – 58,327 (avg. 29,164; pct. 52.1%)
 * Final – 51,565 (avg. 51,565; pct. 92.1%)

Batting
* Minimum 2.7 plate appearances per game

Pitching
* Minimum 0.8 innings pitched per game ** Zeid is tied with 12 others with a 0.00 ERA but he has pitched the most innings (10.0)

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USA-91

USA-91, also known as GPS IIA-11, GPS II-20 and GPS SVN-37, was an American navigation satellite which formed part of the Global Positioning System. It was the eleventh of nineteen Block IIA GPS satellites to be launched.

Background
Global Positioning System (GPS) was developed by the U.S. Department of Defense to provide all-weather round-the-clock navigation capabilities for military ground, sea, and air forces. Since its introduction, GPS has also developed into a valuable tool for a wide range of civilian uses and sectors, including surveying, tracking corporate vehicle fleets, and outdoor enjoyment (such as sailing, flying, and hiking). GPS employs 24 spacecraft in 20,200 km circular orbits inclined at 55.0°. These vehicles are placed in 6 orbit planes with four operational satellites in each plane.

GPS Block 2 was the operational system, following the demonstration system composed of Block 1 (Navstar 1 - 11) spacecraft. These spacecraft were 3-axis stabilized, nadir pointing using reaction wheels. Dual solar arrays supplied 710 watts of power. They used S-band (SGLS) communications for control and telemetry and Ultra high frequency (UHF) cross-link between spacecraft. The payload consisted of two L-band navigation signals at 1575.42 MHz (L1) and 1227.60 MHz (L2). Each spacecraft carried 2 rubidium and 2 Cesium clocks and nuclear detonation detection sensors. Built by Rockwell Space Systems for the U.S. Air force, the spacecraft measured 5.3 m across with solar panels deployed and had a design life of 7.5 years.

Launch
USA-91 was launched at 00:07:00 UTC on 13 May 1993, atop a Delta II launch vehicle, flight number D220, flying in the 7925–9.5 configuration. The launch took place from Launch Complex 17A (LC-17A) at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), and placed USA-91 into a transfer orbit. The satellite raised itself into medium Earth orbit using a Star-37XFP apogee motor.

Mission
On 14 June 1993, USA-91 was in an orbit with a perigee of 20033 km, an apogee of 20334 km, a period of 717.88 minutes, and 54.9° of inclination to the equator. It broadcast signal PRN 07, and operated in slot 4 of plane C of the GPS constellation. The satellite had a mass of 840 kg. It had a design life of 7.5 years, and ceased operations on 20 December 2007.

Following decommissioning, it was kept as a reserve satellite. It was finally put in a disposal orbit approximately 1000 km above the operational constellation on 18 March 2016.

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Value Fabric Wikipedia Page
A value fabric is a mesh of interwoven, cooperating organizations and individuals collectively called parties. The value fabric shows the interaction among collaborating parties. Some parties engaged in a value fabric deliver value directly to their customers and assure that the value continues to meet their customers’ expectations. Other parties deliver and assure value indirectly. Customers also play a role in the value fabric. The concept comes from the digital world and was introduced by John Reilly in a series of his blogs and his often-read 2014 book, Frameworx: Mastering the Digital World. The fabric’s use continues to expand in the world of digital services. The example of a fabric below shows a cloud broker and its interactions with other parties engaged in the fabric. The arcs and their labels represent key points of interaction among the parties.

Key to making the most of the value fabric is the ability for all the parties to effectively collaborate in delivering value to the customer. The digital bridge is a pathway among engaged parties that simplifies partnering, integration and end-to-end management of digital services or any service. It provides a common language, business processes, information, key performance indicators (KPIs) and application programming interfaces (APIs) for successful digital partnerships.

Comparing the value fabric to the value chain
A value chain is a chain of activities that a firm operating in a specific industry performs in order to deliver a valuable product or service for the market. The concept comes from business management and was first described and popularized by Michael Porter in his 1985 best-seller, Competitive Advantage: Creating and Sustaining Superior Performance. In the value chain, inbound logistics, operations, outbound logistics, marketing and sales, and service are categorized as primary activities. Secondary activities include procurement, human resource management, technological development and infrastructure. A value fabric is more like a value system than a value chain. A value system, or an industry value chain, includes the suppliers that provide the inputs necessary to the firm along with their value chains. After the firm creates products/services, they pass through the value chains of distributors (which also have their own value chains), all the way to the customers. All parts of these chains are included in the value system.

Similarities

 * Value system and the value fabric can be used by any industry. Although the value system was originally envisioned for products or tangible goods, such as those offered by the manufacturing industry, it has been adapted for the service or intangible goods industry.
 * Value system and value fabric involve collaborating parties.
 * Value system and value fabric focus on value of products/services offered to the market.
 * Value system and value fabric involve the customer.
 * Value system and value fabric contain a set of underlying activities and information.

Differences
Value fabrics represent the next step in the evolution of the value chain and value system in order to more fully accommodate how enterprises conduct business in today’s digital world. Even though the value system resembles a mesh or network the linkage appears visually to be sequential. In today’s digital world, sequential collaborations among parties are viewed as out of date. Straight lines often imply a single collaboration, while arcs imply a more involved, closer collaboration that is not sequential and often involves multiple parties.
 * Collaboration versus chaining

In the value fabric, more importance is placed on value threads/streams (a group of interrelated activities) in which parties, including the customer, engaged in the fabric participate. This is quite different when compared to the concept of an implied chain of value activities in the value system.

The value system places a high importance of the value of the product/service being offered to the market by an enterprise. The value fabric expands this to include value added by other parties, value delivered to the customer and value provided directly to customers by other parties engaged in the fabric, as well as value continuing to be realized by the customer.
 * Definition of value

Unlike in the value system, the customer can/does play an integral role in the value fabric. They are can/are directly involved with value threads/streams which are woven into the fabric and they carry out activities within the threads not traditionally performed by them. These include configuring their own products/services, assisting in the diagnosis of problems associated with them, and monitoring the status of their service level agreements with an enterprise.
 * Increased focus on the customer

Underlying the value fabric are a set of processes and the associated information that manage the entire lifecycle of a customer. This also includes metrics that measure how well an enterprise is delivering value to the customer. This is all part of managing the customer experience and included are best practices on how to do so.

The value system references a Value Reference Model (VRM) developed by the trade consortium Value Chain Group that offers a proprietary information model for value chain management, encompassing the process domains of product development, customer relations and supply networks. It includes an integrated process framework that guides the modeling, design and measurement of business performance by encompassing the plan, governance and execution requirements for the design, product, and customer aspects of business.
 * Use of standardized frameworks

While proprietary models are a step in the right direction, standard, industry-wide and agnostic models are preferred, such as those provided by the TM Forum. The models should also be accompanied by an application framework, an integration (interface) framework, and a metrics framework, as well as best practice guidance, such as how to enter into service level agreements with multiple parties. All of this provided by TM Forum Frameworx, which enables an enterprise to conduct business in the digital world.

Key to making the most of the value fabric is the ability for all the parties to effectively collaborate in delivering value to the customer. The digital bridge is a pathway among engaged parties that simplifies partnering, integration and end-to-end management of digital services or any service. It provides a common language, business processes, information, KPIs and APIs for successful digital partnerships. All collaborations among engaged parties are facilitated using the digital bridge and this is where standardized frameworks, such as TM Forum Frameworx, provide important capabilities, including component frameworks (process, information, application, integration), open digital service interfaces and best practices, such as service level agreement KPIs, that support the collaboration.
 * The digital bridge

The digital bridge
One of the keys to making the most of the value fabric is the ability for all the parties (individuals and organizations) to effectively collaborate in delivering value to the customer. This is realized by deploying and using digital bridges, as shown in the figure above. The digital bridge is a pathway among engaged parties that simplifies partnering, integration and end-to-end management of digital services or any service. It provides the common language, business processes, information, APIs, KPIs and best practices/how-tos necessary for successful digital partnerships. All collaborations among engaged parties are facilitated using the digital bridge. These same capabilities also enable more effective operation of an enterprise and collaboration among an enterprise’s organizations. This is where standardized frameworks, such as TM Forum Frameworx, provide important capabilities. The development of Frameworx is driven by three strategic programs: Agile Business and IT, Open Digital and Customer Engagement. The underlying Frameworx component is explored in more detail here for each capability provided by the bridge.

A common language
Not having a common language makes it quite difficult for collaborating parties to communicate. Imagine the challenges if two or more parties attempt to communicate in their native languages when each only knows their own language. Each of Frameworx’ component frameworks – Process, Information, Application, and Integration – provides a common language in which parties can communicate. These cover not just the name of a term, such as customer order handling, but a description of it, along with a description of the associated customer order, a description of a customer order management application and a description of customer order APIs.

Business processes
A standards-based description of the processes is a step in the right direction in building the bridge. Process Frameworks, like the TM Forum Business Process Framework, contain much more than is needed to enable effective collaboration. The processes are organized into an easy to understand structure (decomposition/outline) that contains what is called a core process, such as order handling, as well as up two levels of sub-processes into which a core process decomposes.

The Business Process Framework also contains example process flows (value stream/threads) that can be used as a starting point to develop enterprise-specific flows. A set of best practice guidelines that can be used by an enterprise to further extend the framework is included as well.

Information
Like the Business Process Framework, the TM Forum Information Framework provides a detailed information model that contains not only definitions of entities (things of interest to the business), such as a customer order, but also facts that describe each entity, such as customer order number, and the associations (relationships of interest) between entities, such as a customer places a customer order. Details such as these are necessary to effectively communicate information among collaborating parties engaged in the fabric. This level of detail is also needed for APIs that are used to interchange information among parties. Also included are a set of best practice guidelines that can be used by an enterprise to further extend the framework.

APIs
APIs that exchange standards-based information are also part of the digital bridge. They are being and have been developed as part of the Open Digital strategic program (REST APIs) and the TM Forum Interface program (Java, XML, Corba, web service APIs) and as needed have driven enhancements to the Information Framework. For example, catalog and order management REST APIs facilitate the interchange of product/service catalogs and orders among parties.

KPIs
KPIs are essential to the bridge and to the internal operation of an enterprise. Common KPIs associated with service level agreements that measure the performance of product/services can be exchanged via the digital bridge using APIs. A customer’s experience/engagement with an enterprise can be measured using a set of common KPIs developed as part of TM Forum’s Agile Business and IT, and Customer Engagement, strategic programs. Other KPIs can be used to monitor the internal operations of an enterprise.

Best Practice and how-tos
It is all well and good to provide all the capabilities above. However, what is also needed is best practice on how to and when to apply and use them. Scenario-based how-tos, including many web-based ones in development, are being driven by ongoing work in all three strategic programs. These, in addition to those specific to the frameworks, include the Digital Services Reference Architecture, B2B2X partnering, and SLA management. B2B2X and SLA management web-based how-tos are now appearing on the TM Forum web site.

Having a digital bridge is important, but having it soundly constructed using a set of standards and best practices developed by a large and growing group of world-wide industry experts, such as the TM Forum and other industry groups, is even more so.

Participants in the value fabric
Who are the cooperating organizations and individuals, collectively called engaged parties, that participate in the value fabric? How is a vibrant fabric composed of these engaged parties developed? What are the keys to successful participation? An engaged party represents an individual or an organization, or an organization unit, that is of interest, involved, or that provides value directly or indirectly from an enterprise perspective. (enterprise is to be understood here as any individual or organization that makes offers to a market or markets). Hence an engaged party plays one or more roles with the enterprise or with another party, playing a role with the enterprise (indirectly). So the only party an enterprise would be interested in and will consider in its applications is a party playing a role (directly or indirectly). Roles can be added to the fabric as needed. Digital ecosystems are represented using value fabrics to depict the roles parties play within the fabric.

Examples of roles played by engaged parties include those:
 * of interest, such as competitors and sales prospects
 * involved, such as customers and users
 * that provide value directly or indirectly, such as service providers, operators, cloud brokers, infrastructure providers and application developers.

A value fabric must enable new roles to be included in the value fabric, actively creating the conditions for every engaged party to collaborate in order for the fabric to deliver the value expected by its customers. The development of enterprise-specific value fabrics is crucial to an agile enterprise. One way to do this is to construct an as-is and to-be fabric and use them as part of any planned/in-process enterprise transformation project. CxOs should be involved in their development from very beginning, because a value fabric puts the entire enterprise and those with whom it collaborates into context. And the fabric sets the part of the overall strategy on how an enterprise will conduct its business with other engaged parties. Note that the context provided can also be used to support transformations that are not enterprise wide but rather involve the addition of new parties to the fabric. The as-is and to-be value fabric can also be used to show examples of how the parties are involved, as shown in the figure below, which depicts a cloud business broker/integrator value fabric. For example, three parties playing the role of cloud provider are cDev, cStorage and cData. A specific value fabric representation is a stakeholder view (in the architectural sense) or a viewpoint (generalization of a view as a pattern), so a diagram depicting a value fabric should always be in the context of a specific value fabric stakeholder (engaged party). In the figure the view is from the perspective of the cloud business broker/integrator. Depicting the fabric is a first step in its development. In order to be competitive and to sustain innovation, a value fabric requires of its stakeholders a high degree of specialization and operational efficiency through processes automation. Subsequent steps involve employing standards and their associated best practices, such as TM Forum Frameworx, to optimize, streamline and automate how the enterprise goes about conducting its business. These standards and best practices provide the superstructure for the digital bridge that enables collaboration between/among participants in the fabric as well as the internal operations of an enterprise. Standards should contain generalized processes, information and APIs that support parties engaged in the fabric. TM Forum is currently in the process of doing so and has recently released a preliminary set of these standards. Development of them continues. Every participant develops its own fabric and employs the same standards. This also provides an effective way in which to link value fabrics. It is important to note again that the best practices include both those that support partnering with other parities who provide value to customers as well as those that assist in assuring successful engagements with customers.

Value threads (streams)
A close look at any fabric, including the value fabric, reveals that it is woven by interlacing threads as shown in the figure below. What are the value fabric’s threads? How are the threads related to the value chain’s value activities? How are the threads represented and developed? The threads can be viewed as value streams or process flows. Each thread represents the detailed collaboration between/among parties engaged in the fabric, for example, the activities involved with entering into an agreement with another party or on-boarding a party’s offerings. The value chain focuses on a set of primary value activities and support value activities rather than streams/flows. One reason for this focus is that threads/streams are often dependent on the way an enterprise conducts its business. There are many techniques that can be used to represent and analyze threads/streams based on an enterprise’s value activities. In general, they are represented by some form of activity (process) flow. Among the techniques that can be used to develop flows are swim lane diagramming, business process management notation (BPMN) and use cases/scenarios. Each of these representations depict the involvement of engaged parties in the activities that make up a thread/stream. The figure below shows a simple BPMN diagram that depicts the interaction between two parties, one of whom is informed of an order that is in jeopardy of being fulfilled by the requested due date. The interaction uses the general terms ‘supplier’ and ‘buyer’, but these could be replaced by specializations, such as service provider for buyer and content provider for supplier. The benefit of this generic flow is that it can be reused and adapted as needed. It would be woven into the service provider’s value fabric to provide further details about the collaboration with the content provider. The importance of process flows grows with the introduction of the value fabric. The flows should be part of an automated workflow management application that is integrated with other applications, rather than one dimensional diagrams that cannot or are not automated. This enables the flows to be quickly updated and integrated when there are changes in any aspect of the flow, such as changes in the execution sequence or the introduction of new roles to the flow. Automation also enables execution of the flows to be analyzed using simulation tools and they can be optimized by employing value stream analysis techniques. It is preferable that the value fabric’s threads/streams, represented by flows, are developed using activities contained in a standards-based decomposition, or outline, of activities. The benefits of using this type of decomposition include reduction in duplicated activities, ensuring consistency of flows, removing ambiguity caused by undocumented activities and reuse of activities. TM Forum’s Business Process Framework includes such a decomposition. The framework and other TM Forum deliverables also include a number of flows that can be used as a starting point to develop enterprise-specific flows.

Significance
In today’s digital world enterprises no longer employ chains, even linked chains, to deliver value to their customers. A post to TM Forum’s Inform channel, Unleashing service innovation to a new value fabric, referenced a TM Forum Quick Insights report entitled, Digital Services: Assembling the building blocks of success.

This report states:

“Rapid innovation at this scale necessitates a new level of service agility that fosters collaborative development between operators and other parties, such as content owners, and even other industries, such as automotive (think of the connected services already being provided through today’s high-tech dashboards). Multi-media, video, service mash-ups, e- and m-commerce, M2M, B2B, B2B2C, vertical market opportunities – all are pushing toward development, management and delivery ecosystems that are less like traditional value chains and much more like interwoven value fabrics. Operators, partners, suppliers and developers are intimately interrelated as symbiotic players in the fabric.”

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator/QuickTyping

You can use the tools of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator to quickly determine a person's personality type though a method called Speedreading. This process, developed by Paul D. Tieger and Barbara Barron-Tieger in The Art of Speedreading People, lets you use three basic tools to decipher clues in anyone's demeanor, whether your contact is in person, over the phone, or even on a chat line.

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2017 UCI Road World Championships – Women's time trial

The Women's time trial of the 2017 UCI Road World Championships was a cycling event that took place on 19 September 2017 in Bergen, Norway. Annemiek van Vleuten of the Netherlands won the event.

Qualification
All National Federations were allowed to enter four riders for the race, with a maximum of two riders to start. In addition to this number, the outgoing World Champion and the current continental champions were also able to take part.

Participating nations
54 cyclists from 34 nations took part in the women's time trial. The number of cyclists per nation is shown in parentheses.

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The result of the debate was DELETE. J I P | Talk 07:12, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Castul scale
Only references on Google come from Wikipedia or mirrors. No info on author or publication date (if any) of these novels. Bjones 13:40, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Even the book series it is supposed to occur in, does not get any Google hits outside Wikipedia. Delete with extreme prejudice. Also check and remove references. - Andre Engels 14:51, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
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The Psychiatrist (TV series)

The Psychiatrist is an American drama series about a young psychiatrist with unorthodox methods of helping his patients. Roy Thinnes played the title role of Dr. James Whitman. Luther Adler co-starred as Dr. Bernard Altman, the older psychiatrist with whom Whitman worked. Two episodes of the short-lived series, "The Private World of Martin Dalton" and "Par for the Course," were directed by Steven Spielberg. The regular hour-long series ran from February 3, 1971, to March 10 of the same year.

The pilot for the series, a made-for-TV movie called The Psychiatrist: God Bless the Children, aired on December 14, 1970. Actor Pete Duel was at the center of this two hour drama, as Casey Poe, a former drug addict who, after finishing a two-year prison sentence, must battle his own personal demons, as well as the prejudices of others, in order to reenter society. Dr. Whitman is the psychiatrist who must break through Poe's resistance in order to help him form a new life for himself. Duel received much praise for his performance and reprised his role in the first regular episode of the series, "In Death's Other Kingdom."

The Psychiatrist was an element in the wheel series Four in One, which NBC aired in the 10 PM Eastern time slot during its 1970-71 series. The Psychiatrist was the final series of the four to air, following the first-run conclusions of the other three components, McCloud, Night Gallery, and San Francisco International Airport. After all four series had completed their initial six-episode runs, reruns of the four were interspersed with each other until the end of the summer. Of the four elements, McCloud was picked up as one element of a new wheel-format series, the NBC Mystery Movie, and Night Gallery was picked up as a stand-alone series, while San Francisco International Airport and The Psychiatrist were cancelled with no further episodes ordered beyond the original six.

Cast

 * Roy Thinnes as Dr. James Whitman
 * Luther Adler as Dr. Bernard Altman

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Mridula Jaiswal

Mridula Jaiswal is an Indian politician and the current mayor of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

Political life
Jaiswal is a Bharatiya Janata Party politician. In 2017, she became the mayor of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. In the corporation election, she defeated Indian National Congress candidate Shalini Yadav by a margin of 78,843 votes.

Residence
She lives Near "Ghanti Mill Road", Sigra in Varanasi.

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Etymology 1
From (whence ; see there for more).

Verb

 * 1) To eat and/or drink noisily.
 * 2)  To tipple.

Etymology 2
A false Yiddishism, based on no actual attested Yiddish.

Verb

 * 1)  To worry.

Etymology 3
Compare Staffordshire dialectal bibble pebble.

Noun

 * 1)  A bit.

Etymology 4
Corruption of the aboriginal name "bimbil" for certain species of.

Noun

 * 1)  A species of Australian tree, the, , or ,.

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Henryk Wujec

Henryk Wujec (25 December 1940 – 15 August 2020) was a Polish politician who served as a member of the Sejm.

Wujec was born in Podlesie, Biłgoraj County. As a child, he was interned at Majdanek concentration camp. He graduated from Warsaw University with a degree in Physics and went on to study electron technology as a postgraduate in 1970. Wujec also married his wife, physics teacher and dissident Ludwika Wujec, in 1970 as well.

A physicist by profession, Wujec was an activist in the Solidarity movement of the 1980s. In 1984, he was imprisoned at Białołęka for his political activities.

Wujec was Secretary of State in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in the government of Jerzy Buzek in 1999-2000. He acted as an advisor to Bronisław Komorowski when the latter became President of Poland in 2010.

He died at the age of 79 on 15 August 2020 after a long illness. He was buried at the Powązki Military Cemetery and posthumously awarded Poland's highest order, the Order of the White Eagle.

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Bravo Airlines

Bravo Airlines was an airline based in Madrid, Spain. Its main base was Madrid Barajas International Airport.

Fleet
The Bravo Airlines fleet included the following aircraft (as of 21 September 2008):
 * 1 Boeing 767-200ER (which was operated for Air Ivoire)

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