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Talk:Strogg

"id Software have stated that Quake II should not be considered a direct sequel to Quake (in the same way that Quake 4 is to Quake II)"

Be careful, Id Software never stated this! I'll leave it alone for a while, unless someone posts a source.
 * I've added the source as being the PlanetQuake FAQ, although you're quite right, said FAQ is unnoficial so I will also change the wording.Makron1n 23:33, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

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revealing matthew kane because a strogg is a MAJOR spoiler, that shouldnt be part of the article unmarked  —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 10:55, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

 * Not with the new spoiler guidelines, it isn't. Furthermore, the knowledge of Kane's Stroggification was revealed by the developers, so wasn't a surprise to anyone who was reading previews. Xihr 00:15, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

 * The tagline for the game is something along the lines of "The only way to beat them is to become one of them."

laffs
"Viewing of the entire process may make certain viewers vomit." .. heh -Froth 03:58, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

If you're interested, there's a link to a Google Video of the entire proccess on the article for Matthew Kane. Unicyclopedia 06:31, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Tank picture
I've inserted the Tank picture that I created underneath the Makron picture, with the aim of giving the poor, forgotten Strogg of Quake II a bit more of a presence on this page. However, I don't have an in-depth knowledge of image syntax and I must admit it looks pretty ugly. Feel free to move or (sniff) delete it if you really have to. P.S. Yes, I am a student hanging around before I go off to Uni with way too much time on my hands. :P Makron1n 12:41, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

 * A good addition! There should be some more pics of the Q2 Stroggs, the article focusses to much on Quake4.--<IP_ADDRESS> 13:16, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I've got some more pictures on the List of Strogg in Quake II page, if anyone wishes to implement them here. Makron1n 15:21, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

Strogg art
The following sentence seems wrong to me: "If the Strogg express creativity or self-exploration through art, music or literature, it has not yet been portrayed in the Quake series." What is with the Makron´s palace in Quake II? It´s build in an obvious artistic style, with ornaments and decorations and everything.--<IP_ADDRESS> 13:16, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
 * That's true I guess. Kinda imperialistic, self-celebrating art (a la the Nazis), but still art... Anyone like to reword it? It's still pretty accurate. Hmmm, I don't know... Makron1n 15:24, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

When I wrote that sentence I was focusing more on Quake 4 and forgot the original Makron's palace. Sorry folks :P D Boland 01:10, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

Lack of Quake II representation
While I realize that Quake 4 offers far more information on the Strogg than the relatively bare bones Quake II, I feel that the latter is not quite properly represented here. In fact, the two official expansion packs seem to be entirely overlooked. While I don't mean to criticize without actually doing anything to improve the article, I have to admit that I wasn't paying too close of attention to anything during Quake 4 (My brain just kind of slept through the whole thing). Therefore, I'm not keen on dabbling into areas of which I'm not too familiar, as most of the article here covers only Quake 4. However, I feel that I can at least offer some Q2-related information that I believe could be useful to the article:

 * In Quake II, the Strogg aircraft fighters often seen flying in the skies and during the intro cinematics are called "Gorgon" fighters (This name is revealed in the Ground Zero expansion manual). Other types of vehicles seen in Q2 include trains on vast networks of rails, drill machines, a gondola lift(!) seen in one of the expansion packs, and a wide variety of other spacecrafts. Of note is the "experimental Strogg fighter" used in the Ground Zero expansion pack by the hero to escape, and the Makron's (unnamed) vessel that Bitterman enters during the final showdown complete with escape pods.

 * In addition to torturing and experimenting on humans, Quake II also suggests that the Strogg are eating them as well, or at least somehow processing humans into food. This is mentioned in the Q2 instruction manual and one of the missions in the expansion packs which requires the player to shutdown an automated food processing line (Which is seen to be a long conveyor belt with waiting humans being transported to an unseen location). I believe this fact could be added to the "Strogg capture policy" section.

 * Not too much is mentioned in the article about the Strogg's home planet Stroggos. The Q2 instruction manual says that Stroggos has large amounts of volcanic activity (Which explains the abundant amounts of lava) and that slime and pools of toxic waste are common all over the planet due to the many refineries. The water is stated as being safe enough to enter, though.

 * The planet Stroggos is known to have at least one moon, and the expansion pack The Reckoning dealt with the player travelling there and destroying the Strogg's secret moon base.

 * In addition to the "Big Gun" that was featured in Q2, the Strogg also developed a very powerful weapon known as "The Gravity Well" which is central to the Ground Zero expansion. This weapon could alter the planet's gravitational field, preventing Earth's fleets from being able to leave the planet's orbit. Of course, it was eventually destroyed with an anti-matter bomb by the expansion pack's hero.

 * The Q2 manual states that, "bluish crystals called Steedium are the source for most of the energy that powers Stroggos. The energy gained from processing these crystals provides them with the power run their entire civilization as well as their planetary defense weapons systems." This explains all the mines and mining activity seen throughout the game and the expansion packs. Incidentally, the name of these bluish crystals is most likely a less-than-subtle reference to Paul Steed.

 * The official Q2 strategy guide suggests that the Strogg are impotent. And I quote: "But still, much more remains a mystery to human scientists, psychologists, and our military. So you have to go with what's known. And you prefer to leave the academic study of suspected Strogg sexual impotence to academics." Hmm, perhaps this isn't so noteworthy so as to merit inclusion within the article as everything else, but heck, erectile dysfunction can deserve a place anywhere! :) MarphyBlack 07:13, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Steroids
Can anyone with some knowledge of the subject name the kind of steroid used? There are, naturally, different kinds (the ones we usually think of are anabolic steroids.) <IP_ADDRESS> 19:12, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

 * It's never stated in the game. The comment about steroids is made by human doctors examining Matthew Kane after he's rescued from the Strogg medical facilities and is taken back to the Hannibal.  You can check the article on steroids; they have far more medical uses than the standard one everyone thinks about. Xihr 19:16, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Higher Brain Functions
This is a minor detail that I'd like to make clear on my end or correct (if needed) the article. It says that their higher brain functions were eventually completely stripped from them, but as of Enemy Territory: QUAKE WARS, the strogg show independant thought (obviously because of being Player controlled), granting them a sense of humor (by replying to eachother with statements like "Why, thank you!" and "Oh you're welcome!" in a jesting tone), as well as the fact that the strogg instruction giver (I'd guess he's like the high commander or something of the sort)will say things like "Oh my Strogg they're going after the Databrain!", and amongst others (can't remember but he mentions something about the sewers when the strogg lose on the Sewers map and sighs, murmuring something like "earth humor"). Maybe Enemy Territory: QUAKE WARS isn't canon, maybe that's why no one put it in, but it'd be much appreciated if someone could clear this up for me. Thanks in advance everyone. Victis Kato (talk) 03:06, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

 * It's done to make the multiplayer game more appealing; it's not meant to be taken literally. After all, the command voices for both GDF and Strogg are overly facetious. Xihr (talk) 04:18, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Q2tank.jpg
Image:Q2tank.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

BetacommandBot (talk) 06:50, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Makron picture
Can we please replace the picture of the Makron with something else that's less spoilerish? After starting Quake 4, I looked up Strogg on here and I had what the new Makron looked like revealed to me before I had gotten there in the game. He's not even a good representation of what a Strogg looks like. The Makron is mostly machine with a face and a hard to see body. What about sticking a picture of an Enforcer or one of the lowly grunt guys? That's not even an ingame picture of the guy! SkreeHunter (talk) 00:08, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

 * By all means, . Xihr (talk) 02:37, 3 March 2008 (UTC)

 * I would but I have no idea how to add images. That's why I was hoping someone else who was more profecient could do it. SkreeHunter (talk) 15:51, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

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Merge undone
I've reverted the merge. A huge ammount of information was to be lost if the merge prevailed. Robfbms (talk) 15:28, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Its been merged again? Shame, as it had a lot of information on it. Any chance of this being undone or is this decision permanent? I see no reason on the talk page for the merger. Mondas 13:01, 10 September 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk)
 * I reverted to get back the information that was lost. The page does need cleanup, by what are we accomplishing by simply deleting all the real information on this page and making it about 3 sentences on the Quake series page? Chrono951 (talk)
 * I starting cleaning by rearranging sections to make the article flow better. I merged Stroggification under the captue policy because it seemed a little repitive under tech. Also I moved Architecture from tech to culture. Chrono951 (talk) 08:18, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

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Cookbook:Indian Potatoes

| Cuisine of India | Vegan Cuisine

This dish is extremely creamy and rich; don't expect to be able to eat much of it. It goes very well with Indian beans and Indian rice.

Ingredients

 * 6 small potatoes, peeled and cut in half
 * 2 small cans coconut milk
 * ½ can tomatoes
 * 2 cloves garlic, minced
 * ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes
 * Olive oil
 * Salt to taste

Procedure

 * 1) Sauté the garlic in olive oil.
 * 2) Add tomatoes. Cook for 10 minutes, until the oil and tomatoes separate (they will bubble).
 * 3) Stir in the coconut milk.
 * 4) Add ½ teaspoon red pepper, and salt to taste. Boil it all together.
 * 5) Add the potatoes. Cook over low-medium heat until the potatoes are done. They will become fairly soft; check with a fork.

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Yang Terbaik

Yang Terbaik is a greatest hits album by Indonesian singer Ari Lasso. It was released on June 15, 2012 by Aquarius Musikindo. The album compiled eight songs from five previous studio albums with six newest songs, "Kisah Kita", "Karena Aku Tlah Denganmu", "Cintailah Aku Sepenuh Hati", "Satu Cinta", "Doa Untuk Cinta" and "Cinta Adalah Misteri". In marketing this album, Ari and the record label working with KFC that this album would be circulated in all KFC stores in Indonesia.

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blaag

Etymology
Compare western German colloquial or dialectal.

Noun

 * 1) child, kid, only said of minors, in this sense usually in the plural
 * 2) rascal, brat
 * 1) rascal, brat

Alternative forms

 * blau, blaug
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Talk:Longsight Electric TMD

Northern
Could this article please be updated in regards to what rolling stock Northern Trains store at Longsight electric TMD. Maurice Oly (talk) 22:46, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

Reference 1
Can somebody who is good with working with the wayback machine please edit the page is the link to the first reference is dead and the only way to access the news site is via archive.org.

Many Thanks. Maurice Oly (talk) 23:29, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

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Pro Engineer/Create Features

Models in Pro/Engineer are constructed from a series of features. The features are represented in a model tree that can be displayed on screen. The basic workflow changed between Pro/Engineer version 2001 and the Pro/Engineer Wildfire releases. The procedures here are written for Pro/Engineer Wildfire releases, as generically as possible. Where there is a difference between Wildfire releases, Wildfire 2.0 has been used.

Feature Creation

 * 1) Typical feature creation processes

Solid features

 * 1) Extrude
 * 2) Revolve
 * 3) Hole
 * 4) Chamfer
 * 5) Round (Fillet)

Datum features

 * 1) Datum planes
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Jeff Reese

Jeffrey K. Reese (born March 24, 1966) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played eleven seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Calgary Flames, Hartford Whalers, Tampa Bay Lightning and New Jersey Devils. He has been the Dallas Stars' goaltending coach since 2015 and was the goaltending coach for the Lightning from 2001 to 2009 and for the Philadelphia Flyers from 2009 to March 2015.

Playing career
The Toronto Maple Leafs drafted Reese in the fourth round, 67th overall, of the 1984 NHL Entry Draft from the London Knights. He spent four seasons with the Knights before turning pro with the Maple Leafs' American Hockey League farm team, the Newmarket Saints, in 1986.

Toronto Maple Leafs
During his second season as a pro he made his NHL debut when he was called up to Toronto and appeared in five games. The following year he doubled his totals playing ten games with the Leafs and 37 more with Newmarket. In 1989–90 he logged 21 games with the Maple Leafs sharing duties with Allan Bester and Mark Laforest. The following season he upped his totals to 30 games backing up rookie Peter Ing who won the starting job in Toronto. A year later, the Maple Leafs made a blockbuster trade to bring in Hall of Famer Grant Fuhr to handle the goaltending duties (with Ing part of the package leaving town) allowing Reese to apprentice in the crease behind Fuhr but it was a short lived arrangement because Reese himself was soon part of an enormous trade. On January 2, 1992, Reese was included in a ten-player trade that also sent Craig Berube, Alexander Godynyuk, Gary Leeman and Michel Petit to the Calgary Flames in exchange for Doug Gilmour, Jamie Macoun, Kent Manderville, Ric Nattress and Rick Wamsley.

Calgary Flames
With the Flames, Reese became the backup to incumbent Mike Vernon and parts of three seasons in Calgary and played 26 games in 1992-93 posting an impressive 14-4-1 record. The highlight of his time in Calgary came on February 10, 1993, when he entered the NHL record book by posting three assists in a 13-1 Flames victory. With the emergence of first round draft pick Trevor Kidd in the Flames net, Reese was out of a job and found himself on the move early in the 1993–94 season when Calgary traded him to the Hartford Whalers in exchange for defenseman Dan Keczmer.

Hartford Whalers
In Hartford, he was acquired to back up Sean Burke. When Burke struggled with back issues, Reese and goaltender Frank Pietrangelo each logged 19 games in the Hartford crease. Much like in Calgary before, the emergence of a younger netminder - this time Jason Muzzatti - pushed him out and led to a trade to the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Tampa Bay Lightning
Tampa Bay had a solid starting goalie in Daren Puppa but his backup, Jean-Claude Bergeron was struggling for the Lightning so the veteran Reese took over the duties and acquitted himself well with a 7-7-1 record in 19 appearances. During the off-season, he was on the move again when he was sent to New Jersey in a swap for goaltender Corey Schwab.

New Jersey Devils
With the Devils, Reese was slotted behind Martin Brodeur but quickly lost his backup job to rookie Mike Dunham and instead spent the majority of the 1996–97 season with the Detroit Vipers of the International Hockey League, splitting time with starting goaltender Rich Parent. The duo combined to win the James Norris Memorial Trophy, allowing the fewest goals in the league. The Vipers went on to win the 1997 Turner Cup. Reese was the starting goaltender for the Vipers during the 1997–98 season. He was named to the All-IHL Second Team in both 1997 and 1998.

Return to the Toronto Maple Leafs
As an unrestricted free agent in the summer of 1998, Reese's career went full-circle when he signed with the Toronto Maple Leafs organization. The Maple Leafs signed goaltender Curtis Joseph that summer as well and had planned to deal incumbent Felix Potvin away, but when that trade did not transpire, that started the season with both Joseph and Potvin on the roster pushing Reese down to the minors. He would play his final two NHL games with the Maple Leafs while also playing 27 games with the St. John's Maple Leafs of the American Hockey League. He was traded back to Tampa Bay in the off-season so they would have a veteran goalie to expose in the 1999 NHL Expansion Draft. He was not selected by the Atlanta Thrashers and retired that summer.

Coaching career
After retiring Reese worked as a goalie coach with the Lightning organization and won the Stanley Cup with them in 2004. On June 25, 2009, he was hired by the Philadelphia Flyers as their goalie coach, replacing Réjean Lemelin. On March 6, 2015, Reese and the Flyers management mutually agreed to part ways. On June 15, 2015, he joined the Dallas Stars as their goaltending coach.

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Cookbook talk:S'mores

page history from S'more
Legend: (cur) = difference with current version, (last) = difference with preceding version, M = minor edit

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 * (cur) (last) . . 03:14, 29 Jan 2004 . . Gentgeen (transwikied recipe to wikibooks)
 * (cur) (last) . . 10:49, 14 Jan 2004 . . <IP_ADDRESS> (replaced word)
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 * (cur) (last) . . M 01:23, 19 Sep 2003 . . Scott Sanchez (Observed practice.)
 * (cur) (last) . . M 09:52, 18 Sep 2003 . . Guppy (italicized correction)
 * (cur) (last) . . M 09:50, 18 Sep 2003 . . Guppy (copy edit, typo, italicized s'more)
 * (cur) (last) . . 09:46, 18 Sep 2003 . . Guppy (new article)

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рана

Etymology 1
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Adverb

 * 1) early

Etymology 2
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Etymology
From. Possibly, a resultant noun from (with regular loss of *w- before *-r-) or from an unknown substratum.

Noun

 * 1) wound
 * 2) injury

Etymology 1
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Noun

 * 1) wound
 * 2) injury
 * 3)  heartache, chagrin, sorrow, suffering

Etymology 2
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Noun

 * 1) fodder
 * 1) fodder

Usage notes

 * Usually used in the sense of fodder.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) wound

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) wound, injury

Etymology
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Noun

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Etymology
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Hucul (surname)

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

 * Cliff Hucul (born 1948), Canadian racing driver
 * Fred Hucul (born 1931), Canadian ice hockey player
 * Jenni Hucul (born 1988), Canadian bobsledder
 * Sandy Hucul (born 1933), Canadian ice hockey player and coach

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Jesse Howard

Jesse Howard (1885–1983) was an American artist known for his hand-lettered signs. A self-taught artist, Howard's first professional recognition came when Art in America magazine profiled him in 1968. Howard worked from what he called "Sorehead Hill", a 20-acre farm in Fulton, Missouri where he both produced and displayed his work.

His work is included in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the American Folk Art Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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byname

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A secondary name for a person or thing; a person's surname.
 * 2)  A nickname.
 * 3)  A pseudonym; nom-de-plume.
 * 4)  A ritual title for a god or goddess used in Heathenry.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Macedonian: пре́зиме
 * Ottoman Turkish: لقب
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,

 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: tilnavn
 * Finnish:
 * Macedonian: пре́кар
 * Ottoman Turkish: لقب
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To assign a byname to.

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Patania mundalis

Patania mundalis is a species of moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by South in 1901. It is found in China (Hubei).

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Talk:Purple Rose Theatre Company

Accepted
Substantially better than the page deleted 2012. —SmokeyJoe (talk) 09:29, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

History merge?
Propose history merge:
 * Purple Rose Theatre Company. Redirect per Articles for deletion/Purple Rose Theatre Company
 * user:Thomas.Macias/sandbox. August-September 2019 re-drafting with suspected missing attribution to the old article.
 * Purple Rose Theatre Company (Michigan theatre). Result of a copy-paste from the sandbox.

—SmokeyJoe (talk) 09:33, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

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Portal:Mathematics/Page name cleanup

Take a look at the school namespace and all the pages with names like School:Mathematics/Philosophy of Mathematics. The names of these pages do not conform to Wikiversity name conventions. Pages in the school namespace should be content development pages that are concerned with organizing Wikiversity mathematics-related content.

School:Mathematics/Philosophy of Mathematics should be moved to Topic:Philosophy of Mathematics.

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Alican Kaynar

Alican Kaynar (born 30 October 1988) is a Turkish yacht racer competing in the Finn class. The 1.91 m tall athlete at 100 kg is a member of Fenerbahçe Sailing, where he is coached by Mehmet Dinçay.

Alican Kaynar is a student of Industrial engineering at the Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul.

He qualified for participation at the 2012 Summer Olympics, in the Finn class event, he placed 18th with 154 points. He competed in the same event at the 2016 Olympics, finishing in 13th.

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User:Rassidatou/sandbox

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
The article is concise and is limited to presenting mostly work that is only relevant to the scope of work of the ministry. Nonetheless, there is mention of a department that is no longer part of the ministry as a new branch is now in charge of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy or AYUSH. Even though the article states that this is no longer under the ministry scope, it can still be considered relevant given that it is also about health and used to be taken care of by the ministry.

The article is presented without any apparent bias or heavily supported personal opinion from the writer. From the ideas shared to the vocabulary used in expressing them, everything points to the conclusion that the article has a neutral tone and is free from any subtle bias.

On the downside, there are multiple points in the article that are incredibly underrepresented. The article presents the two main departments of the ministry, along with the different programs they run and the sub departments they include. But the article gives no information whatsoever on any of the programs. For example, the National Cancer Program of the Indian government is listed but without any further details on what it is, its content or other related information.

The article is supported by few references. Two out of 5 references are from the same online news website, and the other sources are all from the official websites of the Indian government. Some of the sources talk about totally different matters than the topic of the page and only mention the information cited in a sentence. Nonetheless, the article is heavily connected to other articles on wikipedia.

Each fact is not related to a reliable source as mentioned above, none of the sources is from a peer reviewed journal for example. In addition those sources incorporate bias. The online newspaper articles particularly defend an argument against an action taken by the Ministry of health and therefore present very opinionated articles. As for the official websites, they are from the ministry of Health so they evidently will portray the picture that makes the ministry look the best.

The page was last edited less than a month ago, os the information is still pretty accurate. A lot of information could be added pretty much about each of the programs undertaken by the two departments within the ministry.

On the talk page, the conversation is around the National Rural Health Mission initiated by the Indian Government. There are also conversations around one of the department I mentioned above, namely AYUSH.

In terms of quality, the article got a C-CLass and is ranked in the top-importance category. The article is part of the WikiProject India.

Epidemiology of breast cancer
The article is focused on the topic at hand and does not diverge onto other completely unrelated topics. All the information provided has to do with breast cancer epidemiology only. The article also presents charts explaining information on other types of cancers, showing their incidence as well as mortality rates next to those of breast cancer.

There are no claims in the article that signal any type of bias. All the information is shared from a neutral perspective and does not attempt in any way to defend or criticize one position or another. It rather presents each fact objectively.

This article introduces a lot of points but does not follow through on providing enough information on each of them. For example, the article is meant to talk about breast cancer epidemiology on a global scale but it only develops on data from the US, UK and developing countries together. As for the 12 world regions the article mentions, it only gives the breast cancer incidence in these regions.

This article is largely and extensively backed up with references. Though it is short, nearly every single fact is linked to a reference. This further explains why the article is free of any bias given that it draws from so many sources. The sources used are very diverse, but they do contain a lot of peer reviewed sources such as WebMd. However, one of the sources is not traceable because the format of the citation does not provide enough information on where the information was retrieved from.

As mentioned before, the article provides a reference for every fact presented and most of the sources used are reliable sources, exception of a few only. There are official websites and also no peer reviewed journals and other sources considered valid.

Most of the references cited by the articles are pretty old, going back to even 1999 and early 2000s. The facts provided in the article are mostly from newer sources, though some still link back to old sources. A lot of information is missing, especially regarding breast cancer epidemiology in the 12 world regions. More could be said about incidence, sources of differences between regions, treatment methods and control programs for example. There is also one section in the article that talks about cancer in terms of age in only one line. This clearly does not provide enough information on breast cancer prevalence by age and could use some help.

There is currently no talk page for this article, so its rating is unavailable and there is no information on whether or not it is part of any WikiProject.

Epidemiology of breast cancer
This article does not have a talk page yet. The information provided on breast cancer epidemiology in developing countries in the article could be improved to reflect more facts about breast cancer in other developing countries, particularly on those in Africa. These articles could help in this endeavour.

The descriptive epidemiology of female breast cancer: An international comparison of screening, incidence, survival and mortality
Youlden, Danny R. “The Descriptive Epidemiology of Female Breast Cancer: An International Comparison of Screening, Incidence, Survival and Mortality.” Cancer Epidemiology, Elsevier, 27 Mar. 2012, www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187778211200029X.

This article provides, as the title suggests, a worldwide overview of breast cancer that I could use to enrich "Epidemiology of breast cancer"'s section on "developing countries." I will focus my contribution on adding information regarding breast cancer in African countries only given that the wikipedia article does not mention anything about it. This article will help put the information I get on African countries in perspective of the information on other countries.

==== A meta-analysis of male breast cancer in Africa ==== Ndom, Paul, and Germaine Um. “Use the SFX Sidebar to Access Full Text or Other Library Services for This Item.” SFX by Ex Libris Inc., Science Direct, June 2012, ucelinks.cdlib.org:8888/sfx_local?ID=doi%3A10.1016%2Fj.breast.2012.01.004&genre=article&atitle=Review%3A%2BA%2Bmeta-analysis%2Bof%2Bmale%2Bbreast%2Bcancer%2Bin%2BAfrica&title=The%2BBreast&issn=09609776&isbn=&volume=21&issue=3&date=20120601&aulast=Ndom%2C%2BPaul&spage=237&pages=237-241&sid=EBSCO%3AScienceDirect%3AS0960977612000069.

This article is a review of articles dealing with male breast cancer in Africa. This is an issue that is often forgotten due to its compared insignificance to the burden of female breast cancer. Including information on male breast cancer in my contribution would make it more holistic in a way that the conversation about breast cancer is not only limited to the one touching women alone.

==== Delayed presentation and diagnosis of breast cancer in African women: a systematic review ==== Espina, Carolina, and Fiona McKenzie. “Delayed Presentation and Diagnosis of Breast Cancer in African Women: a Systematic Review.” SFX by Ex Libris Inc., Anals of Epidemiology/ Science Direct, 22 Sept. 2017, ucelinks.cdlib.org:8888/sfx_local?ID=doi%3A10.1016%2Fj.annepidem.2017.09.007&genre=article&atitle=Review+article%3A+Delayed+presentation+and+diagnosis+of+breast+cancer+in+African+women%3A+a+systematic+review&title=Annals+of+Epidemiology&issn=10472797&isbn=&volume=&issue=&date=20170901&aulast=Espina%2C+Carolina&spage=&pages=&sid=EBSCO%3AScienceDirect%3AS1047279717304027.

This article addresses the part of epidemiology that is concerned with incidence of breast cancer. It presents a lot of information not only on the incidence of breast cancer but also on the stages at which they are diagnosed in African countries. This is relevant to the section on African countries I want to create and certainly to having a general knowledge of breast cancer epidemiology.

Breast Cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities to Reduce Mortality
Pace, Lydia E., and Lawrence N. Shulman. “Breast Cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa: Challenges and Opportunities to Reduce Mortality.” The Oncologist, AlphaMed Press, June 2016, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4912363/.

This article provides detailed information on breast cancer incidence, as well as mortality rates in subsaharan Africa in particular. The information provided in the paper will enrich my contribution on African countries, especially through the mortality rates that are not as extensively discussed in the other sources I will be using. In addition, It also talks about treatment, as well as screening, which provides near complete information on the epidemiology of breast cancer in African countries that I can utilise.

Cancer Incidence and Mortality Worldwide
This is considered in academia and by many experts as the source for the most up to date data on cancer worldwide. I used it to get comparative data on the incidence of breast cancer between different African regions.

Breast Cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunities for Prevention
I used this paper in different parts of my contribution given that it covered a lot of information. I used some of the data on incidence, as well as the current challenges.

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
The talk page for this article gives elaborated content on the National Rural Health Mission, which is not part of the main article but is related to the topic discussed. There is also notification that copyright information previously in the article no longer remains as it has been cleared, and proposed categories that the article could use. Given that the article provides no detail on most of the programs listed, I will focus on the National Cancer Control Program and aim to add a description of the program.

National Cancer Control Programme in India: Proposal for Organization of Chemotherapy and Systemic Therapy Services
GuliaA, Seema. “National Cancer Control Programme in India: Proposal for Organization of Chemotherapy and Systemic Therapy Services.” Journal of Global Oncology, American Society of Clinical Oncology, June 2017, ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200/JGO.2015.001818.

This article is a review of the cancer care delivery realm in India, which falls under the scope of the National Cancer Control Programme. It focuses on delivery methods and identifies the flaws in the system. For that reason, it contribute to pointing out some of the short fallings of the programme and discusses potential solutions. Though I will not be mentioning the solution in my addition, the rest of the information provided in the paper would be useful.

Challenges to effective cancer control in China, India, and Russia
Goss, Paul E., and Kathrin Strasser-Weippl. “Challenges to Effective Cancer Control in China, India, and Russia.” The Lancet Oncology, Elsevier, 11 Apr. 2014, www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1470204514700294?via%3Dihub#cesec210.

This article, as the title indicates, talks specifically about cancer control in China, India and Russia. The information provided in the section of the article that deals particularly with India is the part that interest me and will serve in many ways to the contribution I will make to my assigned article. Here, the authors give a background of cancer incidence in the country and the address the disease's fast growth in the country. This will allow me to provide information on why a national cancer program was needed in the first place. The article then explains the details of the national cancer control program, which I will use in my addition. The article also addresses the challenges that the program faces, which would help make my addition more representative of the information available on the topic as one of the sources I am using provides details on the achievements of the programme.

Indian National Cancer Control Programme: Setting sight on shifting targets
Sarin, Rajiv. “Indian National Cancer Control Programme: Setting Sight on Shifting Targets.”Ebscohost, Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutiucs, Oct. 2005, eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=10&sid=35d0f38e-94f8-43bd-9c0c-5ca02d97db6c%40sessionmgr4009.

This article will be useful in providing information on the history of the creation of the National Cancer Control programme. The article gives numerous details on the beginning of the programme, as well the initial goals the government set for it. The article provides more information on the achievements of the programme but given that it is not a new article, those might be outdated now. Therefore, I will only use the information on the history of the launch of the programme.

National cancer control and registration program in India
Rath, Goura Kishor, and Ajeet Kumar Gandhi. “National Cancer Control and Registration Program in India.” Ebscohost, Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology, 2014, eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=11&sid=35d0f38e-94f8-43bd-9c0c-5ca02d97db6c%40sessionmgr4009.

This article serves as confirmation for a lot of the information I am retrieving from other sources, as it also briefly talks about the creation of the National Cancer Control Programme and its goals. This article is particularly useful because it also gives details on the evolution of the National Cancer control program, which would be important information to add to my contribution. It also talks about specific programs initiated by the Government as well as subsequent and sometimes bigger ones that came out of the control programme. This will all allow me to enrich my contribution.

Cancer Country Profiles India
This is a document put together by the World Health Organisation that provides a summary of all the information available on cancer in India. In addition to giving the quantitative data related to the disease, they also provide an assessment of policies by the government to control the disease, which was useful for me in talking about the achievements of the NCCP.

History
With the emergence of Cancer as a growing threat to Public Health, the Indian Government, through the Ministry of Health and Welfare, initiated the National Cancer Control Program (NCCP) in 1975. Initially, the focus of the program was prevention as its aim was to educate the population and make detection and diagnosis resources available. Another goal for the program was to increase capacity in the structures already dealing with cancer and address the short fallings of palliative care. The program was subsequently revised between 1984 and 1985 to better set it up for success in its goal of reducing cancer morbidity and mortality in the country, mainly through primary prevention and early detection. Between 1990 and 1991, the cancer control program was decentralised with the introduction of services at the district level. The last revision on the NCCP intervened in 2005.

Achievements
Since its creation, the program has had many major accomplishments such as the establishment of the National Cancer Registry Programme in 1982. Even though the registry does not cover the whole population affected by cancer, it is gives the most updated information on the burden of cancer in the country and informs policies enacted to fight cancer such as provisions for additional funding to public hospitals and the creation of cancer centres in 27 regions. Through the National Cancer Control Programme, the country was able to put in place effective policies to foster primary prevention such as a tobacco control policy to minimise the negative impacts from the use of tobacco. The country also disposes of policies to control and prevent obesity and alcohol abuse, and policies to foster physical activity and ensure that is available for everyone. Cancer screening and early detection services are generally offered in public health centres, especially for breast and cervical cancer. The NCCP led to the creation of 27 cancer centres across the country, and 85 additional oncology programs in medical schools.

Challenges
Despite the successes, the National Cancer Control Programme is faced with numerous challenges. Accessibility, availability, and affordability of cancer care resources remain a major issue faced by the program. Problems of access are due to lack of financial means to afford the resources that are available or the lack of financial to make the decisions that would reduce the risks of developing the disease. These include lifestyle decisions such as smoking, alcohol consumption and nutrition patterns. Availability is a major problem particularly in rural areas because the resources are concentrated in cities and solving the geographical gap between resources such as facilities and personal remains a challenge for the NCCP.

Incidence and Mortality
Data on breast cancer in Sub Saharan Africa is available, though extremely limited compared to developed countries. Breast cancer has the highest incidence among Sub Saharan African women, and has now also the highest mortality rate in many of the countries in the region, before cervical cancer. Breast cancer causes 20% of cancer deaths in women and represents 25% of cancers diagnosed. Incidence rates of breast cancer varies from region to region in Sub Saharan Africa and are 30.4, 26.8, 38.6 and 38.9 respectively in Eastern Africa, Central Africa, Western Africa and Southern Africa. Sub Saharan Africa has lower incidence rates for breast cancer than developed countries but the mortality rates reflected in the region are much higher. Many reasons were found to be the source of this disparity, including the fact that breast cancer is diagnosed at later stages in Sub Saharan Africa. For example, while Central Africa had a mortality/incidence ratio of 0.55 in 2012, the US had only 0.16. In addition to being diagnosed at later stages, breast cancer in Sub Saharan Africa was also found to have an earlier onset compared to western countries. Screening is considered an important tool to tackle the late stage diagnosis of breast cancer by most policy makers in African Countries, especially given that treatment is greatly limited by the lack of resources. More research is also required to produce more updated data on breast cancer and better understand the variances there and how they affect the burden of the disease in the region.

Challenges
One of the major challenges in reducing the burden of breast cancer in Sub Saharan Africa remains the lack of National Cancer Control Programs and the lack of human as well as financial resources. The majority of countries lack integrated prevention and treatment programs, which complicates the control of the disease in those countries. Also, the regions disposes of a disproportionally low number of cancer registries, along with resources and facilities for treatment. This all factors into the different countries' difficulties to ensure that women at high risk are identified and that the disease is diagnosed early enough to have better chances of being treated. The lack of affordable and effective treatment methods also renders the efforts to promote early detection because those affected are then faced with inaccessible and unaffordable resources in the cases where they are available. The challenges to tackling breast cancer in Africa are varied, not fully understood, and further complicated by possible unique risk factors that could be highlighted by further studies, but developing strategies that foster early detection are viewed in literature as a priority for effective fight against the disease.

Male breast cancer
Male breast cancer is a much less talked about issue due to its lower incidence with less than 1% of breast cancer in Sub Saharan Africa. A review of the disease found that male to female ratio was higher in Sub Saharan Countries than in developed countries and that onset of the disease occurred on average 7 years latter in men than in women. There is a noticeable decrease in the male to female breast cancer ratio in recent years but that might be associated to the recent increase in female breast cancer in the region. There is still little understanding of the causes of the higher risk for male breast cancer in Sub Saharan Africa and on male breast cancer in general, leading to poor clinical management of the disease.

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Financial Accounting/MBA

Welcome to the Financial Accounting learning project of the Wikiversity Master of Business Administration Program.

Getting started
A good place to start is Accounting. While most MBA's are not a big fan of double entry book keeping, finance starts with accounting. Understanding what depreciation (the spreading of the cost of a tangible asset over time) and amortization (the spreading of the cost of an intangible asset over time) are is going to be essential to understanding corporate finance (if only because you are going to need to reverse out the effects from GAAP Income Statements to get cash flows).

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Pianoforte (film)

Pianoforte is a 1984 Italian drama film. It is the debut film of director Francesca Comencini. Pianoforte won the "De Sica" award at the 1984 Venice Film Festival.

For her performance Giulia Boschi, at her film debut, was awarded as best actress at the Rio de Janeiro Film Festival and won a Silver Ribbon for best new actress.

Cast

 * Giulia Boschi: Maria
 * François Siener: Paolo
 * Giovannella Grifeo: Alessandra
 * Karl Zinny: Robertino
 * Marie-Christine Barrault: Maria's mother

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Constructivist Theories in Education

Front Matter

 * 1) /Introduction/

Foundations

 * 1) Piaget and Genetic Epistemiology
 * 2) Vygotsky
 * 3) Bruner
 * 4) Gergen and Social Constructivism
 * 5) The New Century:Classroom Applications of Constructivism
 * 6) Constructionism

Applications

 * 1) /Guided Reading/
 * 2) /Making Words/
 * 3) /Puzzles, Paradoxes, Debates/

Appendices

 * 1) /Resources/

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User:Rajesh Manimala

Rajesh Manimala' Popular water colour painter lives in manimala, Working on Police epartment Kerala, India. Made more or less 120 portraits of suspected in different crimes and helped to department to identify the persons who involved in the crime.He got Nanma J C Daniel award 2017 for best social committed artist in Kerala.

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Puzzles/Logic puzzles/Knights, Knaves & Spies/Solution

Puzzles | Logic puzzles | Knights, Knaves & Spies | Solution

A - Knight B - Spy C - Knave

Reasoning
B is not the knight, since if he is, then A would also be the knight.

C is not the knight, since his statement would then be a lie. Therefore A is the knight.

Hence C is the knave, and B is the spy.


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utterable

Adjective

 * 1) Capable of being expressed in words, especially audibly.

Translations

 * Polish: wypowiadalny
 * Spanish: decible

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/EndChan

The result was delete.  Sandstein  07:42, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

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Not really seeing significant coverage in reliable sources independent of the subject (WP:N). Specifically, everything that's more than a brief mention is solely in the context of Bærum mosque shooting. As it's mentioned in that article, a redirect is probably in order, but a stand-alone article doesn't seem necessary. — Rhododendrites  talk \\ 17:41, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
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 * Delete: The Bærum mosque shooting has covered all that matters about this website, which amounts to on sentence. I have no prejudice against a merger or redirection verdict, but deletion appears the most appropriate. flowing dreams (talk page) 08:20, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. Outside of a sea of passing mentions, I found one, but that's about it. I'm switching to delete unless any more can be found. ミラP 01:18, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

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Cristoberea assamensis

Cristoberea assamensis is a species of longhorn beetle in the subfamily Lamiinae, and the only species in the genus Cristoberea. It was described by Stephan von Breuning in 1954 and is endemic to India.

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User:Konstantin357/sandbox

Vadim Vadimov (born march 12, 1952 in Poltava) — architect, doctor of architecture, professor, member of the Ukrainian National Union of Architects, honored architect of Ukraine, State Prize of Ukraine in Architecture laureate, Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Architecture, member of the Ukrainian urbanists Union. Expert appraiser of Ukraine appraisers Union.

Biography
Born March 12, 1952 in Poltava. In 1974 he graduated from the Architectural Department of the Dnipropetrovsk Institute of Civil Engineering, speciality "Architecture". Started his career in the design department of Nikopol. Design of housing and public buildings, urban design and landscape architecture objects. Worked as deputy chief architect of the city of Nikopol and Poltava. Candidate thesis defence in 1986, speciality – city planning. Head of Department in Poltava Engineering Institute from 1985. In 1994 founded a private company "Creative architectural workshop "Urbanistika" and the Poltava branch of the Kiev Urban Institute, head till 2004. Specialization – scientific designing and consulting. In 1996 design of Ukraine first zoning plan for United States Agency for International Development (USAID) program. Doctor thesis defence in 2003, speciality – architect theory. Since 2005 deputy director of the State Institute of Urban Planning "Miskbudproekt". Since 2006 till 2016, head of the Department of City Planning and Architecture, chief architect of Poltava.

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Astrangia solitaria

Astrangia solitaria, the dwarf cup coral or southern cup coral, is a species of stony coral in the family Rhizangiidae. It is native to shallow water in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

Description
A colony of Astrangia solitaria consists of a small number of cylindrical corallites (stony cups), 4 to 6 mm in diameter and 4 to 8 mm high, each secreted by the polyp that sits inside it. New polyps grow on short stolons and the coenosarc (soft tissue) does not cover the skeleton in a continuous sheet as it does in most coral species. The stolons may become abraded leaving the individual polyps completely or semi-separated. The corallites can have 48 septa (stony ridges) but 36 is a more usual number. The septa of adjoining corallites are connected by wide, flat, granular costae (ridges). The colour of this coral is usually pale brown, but the corallites may have brown extremities and white bases, or even be completely white. A. solitaria can be confused with the northern cup coral (Astrangia poculata) but that species usually forms clumps with more numerous, smaller corallites. A. poculata often contains symbiotic zooxanthellae in its tissues while A. solitaria does not.

Distribution and habitat
Astrangia solitaria is found down to depths of about 40 m in the western Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, including Florida, the Bahamas, the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Belize. It is found on hard surfaces including coral rubble and the underside of plate corals. This coral is found in sheltered shallow water but on a particular stretch of coast on Grand Cayman, a large onshore boulder was found to harbour the remains of numerous colonies of A. solitaria that were carbon-dated to an age of six hundred years. This boulder was likely shifted onshore by a hurricane three hundred and thirty years ago, an event which would have resulted in the death of the corals.

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Talk:Isamu Chō

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With a name like Cho, is he by any chance a Zainichi Korean? —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:42, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

 * There is a discrepency between Cho's date of death and the date of death listed on Ushijima's page, despite the fact that they committed ritual suicide together. It is most likely June 22nd, based on Japanese sources.

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Στύξ

Etymology
From the same source as.

Proper noun

 * 1) the river Styx
 * 2) Styx, a goddess or a nymph in Greek mythology

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Talk:Conworld

Conworld
Hmm. It looks like a good start so far. Nice job! :P

Some comment/questions though:

Looking at the categories on the main page, I think we should fuse a few together. Conscripting should be merged with Conlanging (as I can already see you have a "writing systems" section in the conlanging one).

Also, what's the difference between "Concultures" and "Consocieties"?

And as for the "Conmusic", "Conart", and "Consports", well, couldn't those be merged into Conculture? Or at least merge Conmusic and Conart.

Also, what will you put in "The Way of Con-" and "Exemplary Conworlds"?

So far so good, though :D

-- Maknas

 * Ran, you really should leave Conart seperate, just so you can use it as a heading. Even it breaks the flow and structure. It's just that good.

 * -- Space Dracula

the above was moved from http://spinnoff.com/zbb/viewtopic.php?p=120771

 * Yeah, Conscripting and Conmusic should probably be merged into Conlanging and Conart.

 * As for Consocieties, I was envisioning a sort of "Conpolitics/Coneconomics/Consociety" kind of thing. You know, like how the government is run, social classes, etc etc. Maybe there's a better way of putting that?

 * Exemplary Conworlds would be a list of well-made conworlds! Almea, for example, would be on the list. And as for the "Way of Con-", I thought of it as a sort of philosophy section. You know, some people make conworlds for fun, some make it to express their views, some make conworlds that are scientifically accurate, some people are freer with magical systems and such. The "Way of Con-" was meant to summarize all of it, as an overview of worldbuilding styles and such. -- Ran 14:40, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * I've gone ahead and merged the Conmusic and Conscripting sections. -- Maknas 16:08, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Use of Con-
I don't think that each of catogories should begin with Con- as this could scare of newcomers. We should explain the popular usage of the prefix in The way of Con- but limit it's use within the actual articles. --Ingolemo 15:01, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Duly noted... I've added a paragraph of explanation on the Conworld page. How does it look now? -- Ran 15:24, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * The paragraph is good but, what I meant was that we should avoid the use of colloquial terms from the ZBB (such as con-whatever or natlang) which would not be understood by anyone who is not from the conworld community. Although we could refer them to the Glossary when such word appear, I don't think the wikibook should require the learning of colloquial terms when constructed whatever and natural language would suffice. --Ingolemo 16:26, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

New ToC's
I've went ahead and made some starting Tables of Contents for some of the other sections off the main page. Ran, if you would, you should probably work out the base for the 'Way of Con' and 'Exemplery Conworlds', since I still don't exactly understand what you mean... And is there a way to see all of the new discussions in the ConWorld WikiBook? It's a pain to have to look through each page's Talk Pages. -- Maknas 16:48, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * The Related Changes might do that. - Circeus

 * You could always add each page to your watchlist and then check that every so often. --Ingolemo 17:01, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Ooh, that works. Thanks! -- Maknas 17:17, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

conmusic
I am willing to write an article on conmusic to publish as a chapter of conarts Markus Miekk-oja 18:12, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Go ahead. Do you want someone to make a ToC for the "Conart" section first? -- Maknas 18:14, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

That'd be preferrable, yes. Markus Miekk-oja 19:03, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Done. I don't know much about the field, so it's still pretty simple. Just click on the "Music" link in it to start editing. -- Maknas 19:11, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Editing
Just a little suggestion. Please, when you make an edit to a page (excluding Talk pages), please describe the edit you made in the "Summary" box next to the "Save Page" button. This makes it a lot easier to track changes. -- Maknas 20:50, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

"Conscripting" considered infelicitous
The trouble is that English already has a word "conscript"; as a noun it means a person pressed into service (often against their will), and as a verb it means to press a person into service.

I'd just edit the page except that I don't have a ready substitute. Conorthography? Conwriting? I dunno.

 * We could say Con-script as the introductory title, and then use conscript everywhere else? I'm fairly sure there won't be much problems--Circeus 22:18, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * I don't see any problem. English already has many such homophones that are easially determined by context (not vs. knot or poor vs. pour). I doubt the average English speaker would be able to confuse con-script and conscript to such an extent (especially as the naming priciples are explained on the front page) -- Ingolemo 12:58, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Conhistory, Fiction and the Lexicon RPG
I am not sure I see a great distinction between 'conhistory' and 'writing fiction set in your conworld'. Perhaps the latter topic would be better incorporated into the former. Seems to me the Lexicon RPG (Google it if it means nothing to you) would be an interesting topic to cover as it provides a tool for creating conhistory in a usable form and is a game activity in its own right.

 * I'm afraid I don't quite see your point. For me, conhistory and writing fiction are distinct subjects. The major difference between the two is the time; Conhistory takes place during the past and Fiction is set in the present.

 * I googled for "the Lexicon RPG" but I'm afraid I don't quite understand what this has to do with conhistory - Ingolemo 14:37, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Anybody there?
Hey there, I just found this wikibook and it's awesome, but I noticed that there hasn't been any discussion here since '04. Are people still writing? --Ajallan 17:12, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

My thoughts exactly. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:23, 26 January 2008 (UTC)

Where is everyone? Everything you've made so far is perfect. Does anyone still work on this? -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:25, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

Interwiki Link to wikia:Conworld and wikia:Conlang
Hello there,

perhaps it would be great to interlink Wikipedia articles and Wikia sites like these with this project: Are there Templates for beautified interwiki Links for the above (WP and Wikia) on en.wikibooks? -- <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 09:16, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Conworld
 * Conlang
 * Conworld
 * Conlang

What about even more ambitious conworlding projects?
So far this set of wikibooks are pretty good in covering more common con-world projects (e.g., creating a language, a culture, maps, or even planets), but what about even more complex or ambitious projects?

For example, I know of a project involving a universe where there aren't stars and galaxies and planets, but spherical worlds formed by the emanation of something called 'ley'.

One of my past personal projects also involved the creation of an entire universe complete with its own version of the Big Bang, its own physics and elementary particles (if it can be called that; those "elements" are completely unlike particles in the real world), resulting in a complex structure only a small part of which is inhabited. It was much fun to start with completely different premises than the real universe and discover the consequences of your choices as you go. (The resulting world was also extremely foreign, completely unlike "our" universe in almost every respect.)

And what about fantasy worlds where there aren't planets and galaxies as such, but planes (astral planes?) and other large-scale structures? It would be nice to discuss these different approaches to con-universe structure. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs) 00:32, 8 July 2008.

Objectives of this series
I've rewritten the paragraph of the main page about what this series of books is for. It seemed too easy to infer, from the old paragraph, that each of these books is just a short summary of a subject for people too lazy to read an actual book on that subject — which would be a slap in the face to both the books and the readers. Poor form, to suggest either that the readers are lazy, or that if they aren't lazy they shouldn't bother with these books. Poor policy, to tell prospective authors of these books that they should aim low. I realize I'm setting the bar for these books almost impossibly high, but some of these proposed books should be able to reach that high — and in the long run, IMO, the ones that can't probably shouldn't be kept. Although it might not actually be practical to ask that the entire series eventually become Featured Books, it still seems that a book with no hope of ever achieving that status is underjustified.

The question I set out to answer was, what would make it worthwhile to read these books as something other than scaled-down versions of good introductory books on their subjects? Otherwise, the thing to do would be to make sure wikibooks has good introductory books on all these subjects. Before tackling the paragraph here I honed my thoughts on the subproblem of objectives for the Conlang wikibook, which is after all a particularly separable part of the series. (Conlanging is often logically, as well as historically, prior to conworlding: building languages doesn't require any peripheral constructions, while at the same time it tends to motivate and inspire them, as with Tolkien who created languages and then found that to make the languages sufficiently rich he had to build an entire cosmos to go around them.)  But a good introductory book on linguistics isn't going to be a good introduction to conlanging (unless, perhaps, deliberately designed from that perspective), and in fact the Conlang wikibook has had to struggle continuously against the linguistics-book impulse. Pi zero (talk) 18:38, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

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Philosophy and religion should be merged into belief systems.

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Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories

Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories (IBT Labs) was an American industrial product safety testing laboratory. IBT conducted significant quantities of research for pharmaceutical companies, chemical manufacturers and other industrial clients; at its height during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, IBT operated the largest facility of its kind and performed more than one-third of all toxicology testing in the United States. IBT was later confirmed of engaging in extensive scientific misconduct and fraud, which resulted in the indictment of its president and several top executives in 1981 and convictions in 1983. The revelations of misconduct by IBT Labs led to reforms in the regulation of pesticides in the United States and Canada.

Early years
IBT was founded in 1953 by Joseph C. Calandra, an Italian American professor of pathology and biochemistry at Northwestern University. Calandra, the first of his family to pursue higher education, contributed to the concept of toxicologically innocuous doses during his tenure at Northwestern.

Described by his colleagues as a "man of high scientific standards who also knew how to make a dollar", Calandra was an effective entrepreneur; his laboratory was contracted by the Department of Defense to evaluate irradiationally preserved food within its first year of operation.

By 1960, IBT reported that its professional staff included twelve biologists, five chemists, a mathematician, four physicians and a veterinarian, and that it employed sixteen technicians. Calandra was president and director and John H. Kay was the associate director. At that time, it listed its research areas as "industrial toxicology, food, drugs, cosmetics, pharmacology, radioisotopes, medical, dental, and veterinary products".

By the early 1960s, IBT had attained a significant reputation for producing quality work at a reasonable price. As of mid-decade, it had annual revenue estimated at nearly $2 million US.

1966–1970: Nalco acquisition, expansion
Nalco Chemical acquired IBT in 1966 for an estimated $4.5 million. Utilizing the company's new financial prowess, Calandra oversaw considerable expansion of the company and constructed two new facilities. IBT began conducting tests on polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in 1969. In 1970, Calandra began construction of a large $2 million laboratory and made two executive appointments: Moreno Keplinger as Manager of Toxicology and James Plank as Group Lead of Rat Toxicology.

1971–1976: Eminence
In March 1971, IBT hired Paul L. Wright, one of Monsanto's toxicologists, to oversee its PCB testing. Donovan E. Gordon joined IBT as a pathologist in August 1971, and IBT finalized its safety analysis of PCBs in November 1971.

Irregularities in IBT's data were discovered in April 1976 by Adrian Gross, an investigator at the Food and Drug Administration, whose aide retrieved one of the laboratory's naproxen studies that had been conducted for Syntex, a pharmaceutical company recently outed by a whistleblower. Gross examined the study further; it struck him as being unrealistic and piqued his interest. The FDA proceeded to probe IBT, and Gross personally inspected its facilities on April 11 and July 12, 1976. During Gross' physical inspection of the laboratory, he gained access to the study's raw safety data and found frequent references to an unknown acronym, "TBD/TDA," which he said perplexed him until learning that it denoted a testing animal whose body had "too badly decomposed."

1977–1983: Investigation, indictment, notoriety
Revelations of suspected scientific misconduct would go on to be presented in March 1977 at Senate Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research hearings held by U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA), in which the integrity of safety data produced by IBT, as well as G. D. Searle & Company and Biometric Testing, Inc., was publicly called into question by FDA officials. Calandra vacated his role as president of the laboratory on March 25 and was succeeded by A. J. Frisque, who had previously worked as a research executive at Nalco. Plank parted ways with IBT in April, and Philip Smith, who would later testify against the laboratory, was "fired and given 20 minutes to clean out his office" in approximately June 1977. That same month, on June 2, IBT would also shred more of its internal documents, an action which Frisque characterized in a subsequent official statement as being "entirely inadvertent."

IBT was criminally implicated in 1977 for producing fraudulent studies on widely used household and industrial products, including Nemacur, Sencor, Naprosyn, and trichlorocarbanilide. The magnitude of IBT's scientific misconduct was considered to have been extensive: 618 of 867 (71%) of studies audited by the FDA were invalidated for having "numerous discrepancies between the study conduct and data." Consequently, IBT would later be described as being "at the center of one of the most far-reaching scandals in modern science, as thousands of its studies were revealed through EPA and FDA investigations to be fraudulent or grossly inadequate."

Although the criminal case against IBT and its employees was proceeding, information about which chemicals were "suspect" because of IBT's misconduct was kept confidential by the Canadian and American government agencies responsible to regulating them.

In early 1980 the Regina Leader-Post obtained a Canadian government agency list of 106 chemicals about which there were concerns. The Regina Leader-Post also obtained a letter written Jan. 25, 1980 by R.O. Read, who was Chief of the Division of Additives and Pesticides in the Bureau of Chemical Safety Health Protection, a Branch of Canada's Health and Welfare Department, to, that said: "All long-term rodent studies and multigenerational reproductive studies performed by IBT are considered invalid," and noted that the Canadian government had sent letters to a number of chemical companies pointing out that many had "failed to submit the information required by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Canadian health protection branch." Documentation obtained from a variety of Canadian and American sources by the Regina Leader-Post included sloppy or inadequate record keeping that invalidated test results. In a number of cases, sick test animals were replaced with healthy ones, resulting in invalid test results.

In October 1983, three former officials of the company were convicted by a US federal jury of fabricating key product safety tests used to gain government approval for marketing two popular pesticides and two commonly used drugs. They were convicted after one of the longest criminal trials in US history, involving six months of testimony and nearly eleven days of jury deliberation. At the time it was regarded as "the most massive scientific scandal in the history of this country and perhaps the world." The decision was subsequently appealed and upheld in United States of America v. Moreno L. Keplinger, Paul L. Wright, and James B. Plank.

Federal trial
Following the 1981 grand jury indictment of several key IBT officials, a federal trial began on April 4, 1983, to evaluate whether IBT had committed scientific fraud.

According to a May 13 article in The Wall Street Journal, "investigators charged that three big chemical companies— [ Monsanto, Olin Corporation, and FMC Corporation ] —knowingly submitted flawed data to the EPA in support of a widely used swimming pool chlorinator that was suspected of causing kidney and bladder problems." All three companies denied allegations of wrongdoing and reaffirmed the safety of their products.

On May 25, Cornelius Garrett testified that "[no] research animals survived the entire testing period" for either Sencor or Nemacure.

Garrett also testified that Smith instructed him to falsify subject data, which he said was a "common practice".

Smith testified that he was himself instructed by Wright to similarly falsify data on trichlorocarbanilide tests.

Calandra requested a mistrial to have cardiac surgery and received approval on July 11. Keplinger, Plank and Wright resultingly argued that they should also receive a mistrial because his absence would undermine their case, but their request was denied on July 12.

Testimony included that of an attorney retained by Nalco to defend IBT, Merrill Thompson, who refused to participate during earlier investigations of the laboratory. "As I got into it and worked on these things more, and found out more, and worked with IBT people more, and looked at the evidence of other practices in the industry, I decided I couldn't defend IBT's practices," Thompson testified. Testimony drew to a close on September 22.

Closing arguments concluded on October 4 and juror deliberation ensued. The case was decided by John Albert Nordberg on October 21, 1983.

Aftermath
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on July 11, 1983, that 34 pesticides would be pulled from the market unless manufacturers provided additional safety data within 90 days, although an indefinite exception was made for those who committed to do so at a later time. Environmental organizations characterized the EPA's response as insufficient and negligent, expressing a desire for more decisive action. In September 1983, the agency revealed that it was still a "long way from solving problems associated with the integrity of hundreds of studies produced by IBT and other large independent laboratories." Keith Schneider reported in the Winter 1983 edition of Amicus Journal that "IBT performed over 2,000 key product safety tests approved by federal scientists to market 212 agricultural pesticides. After a seven-year review of its files, in 1983 the EPA reported that it had determined that only 16 percent of IBT's testing results were valid. Just a handful of the invalid studies have been replaced, the agency said, and most of the pesticides continue to be sprayed on fields and forests." Good Laboratory Practice regulation in the United States resulted from the episode.

The Law Reform Commission of Canada noted in a 1987 report that Canadian agriculture's increasing dependence on pesticides had led to inaction against many of those approved on the basis of IBT's research data. Agriculture Canada banned use of Reglone until further safety testing could be conducted and evaluated by Health and Welfare Canada, though application of the chemical continued illegally on a significant majority of lentils produced. Chlorbromuron, cyprazine, dinitramine, and phosphamidon were also banned "because their manufacturers did not promise replacement studies," with Allidochlor and Captan being restricted.

Clientele
According to various reports, IBT's clientele included a wide variety of companies such as 3M, American Cyanamid, American Seed, Avitrol Corp, BFC, Black Leaf Chemical, Buckman, Casoron, Chemagro, Chevron, Ciba‑Geigy, Conrel, Diamond Shamrock, Dow Corning, DuPont, FMC, Glyco, Gulf, MGK, Mobay, Mobil, Monsanto, Montedison, Nissan, Noram, Olin, Penwalt, Procter & Gamble, PPG, Sandoz, Shell, Thompson-Hayward, Uniroyal, Upjohn, US Borax, Velsicol Chemical Company, Vertac Chemical Corporation, and Zoecon, as well as the United States Army, the Department of Defense, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Cancer Institute, and the World Health Organization.

Polychlorinated biphenyls
Eric Francis and Marie-Monique Robin have cited IBT's research into the safety of polychlorinated biphenyl, which was not investigated, as also being potentially fraudulent.

Philip Smith later testified on October 28, 1991, during a court case against Monsanto, that he had observed PCB data falsification during his employment as an assistant toxicologist at IBT.

The Ecologist claimed in a 2007 article that IBT had provided expert testimony against Douglas Gowan during a court case in which Monsanto allegedly sought to discredit and silence him over the wanton disposal of PCBs and other toxic waste at Brofiscin Quarry.

Other
In April, 1980 the Regina Leader-Post obtained and published a Canadian government list of more than 97 chemicals tested by IBT for which studies were considered "suspect". In June, 1980 an additional nine chemicals were added. According to Fagin and Lavelle in Toxic Deception, Wright tampered with safety data for Machete and monosodium cyanurate, both Monsanto products. IBT performed safety tests on Dinoseb, which was later discovered to cause birth defects and then pulled from the U.S. market in 1986. IBT also originally evaluated the safety of atrazine, a herbicide now thought to be an endocrine disruptor, suspected carcinogen, and possible teratogen.

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Uemura Shōen

Uemura Shōen (上村 松園) was the pseudonym of an artist in Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese painting. Her real name was Uemura Tsune. Shōen was known primarily for her bijin-ga, or paintings of beautiful women, in the nihonga style, although she produced numerous works on historical themes and traditional subjects. Shōen is considered a major innovator in the bijin-ga genre despite the fact she often still used it to depict the traditional beauty standards of women. Bijin-ga gained criticism during the Taisho era while Shōen worked due to its lack of evolution to reflect the more modern statuses of women in Japan. During bijin-ga's conception in the Tokugawa, or Edo, period, women were regarded as lower class citizens and the genre often reflected this implication onto its female subjects. Within the Taisho era, women had made several advancements into the Japanese workforce, and artistry specifically was becoming more popular outside of pass times for the elite, which opened way for Shōen's success. Shōen received many awards and forms of recognition during her lifetime within Japan, being the first female recipient of the Order of Culture award, as well as being hired as the Imperial Household's official artist, which had previously only employed one other official woman in the position. In 1949 she died of cancer just a year after receiving the Order of Culture Award.

Biography
Shōen was born in Shimogyō-ku, Kyoto, as the second daughter of a tea merchant. She was born two months after the death of her father and, thus, grew up with her mother and aunts in an all-female household. Her mother's tea shop attracted a refined, cultured clientele for the art of Japanese tea ceremony. As a child at age 12 (1887), Shōen drew pictures and exhibited considerable skill at drawing human figures. By the age of 15 (1890) she was exhibiting her work and winning awards in official art contests as well as commissioning work for private patrons. She became obsessed with the ukiyo-e, Japanese woodblock print, works of Hokusai. Her mother supported her decision to pursue an artistic career. This was quite unusual for the time, and although Shōen did have successful contemporaries who were female, such as Ito Shoba (1877–1968) and Kajiwara Hisako (1896–1988), women were largely still not part of the Japanese public art scene outside of Tokyo. Among Japan's wedding traditions, specifically among upper-class unions, brides were gifted a konrei chōdo (bridal furnishing set), usually containing art supplies, such as brushes and paints. Provided with the necessary tools, many women pursued painting as an individual and private hobby, out of the public eye and in an amateur setting. Due to most women of the time's lack of formal education in the arts, few made a professional career of painting, regardless of how talented they may be. However, women living in the company of a professional artist, such as their fathers or husbands, had the resources and guidance to hone their skills in the craft, although few of these women became known for their work as an individual away from their educators.

Shōen was sent to the Kyoto Prefectural Painting School, where she studied under the Chinese style landscape painter Suzuki Shōnen (1849–1918). She also began studying the Kanō school and Sesshū schools styles of painting. Suzuki was so impressed that he gave her the first kanji of his own pseudonym of "Shōnen" in recognition of her talent. Shōen even allowed her to pursue her desire to paint figurally in his private studio despite the fact that the school's traditional teaching method did not allow students to being figural practice until their later years. This was an exceptional breakthrough for the times; however, for a while her reputation was tainted as she was suspected of a liaison with her teacher, which may have been true. Soon afterwards she gave birth to an illegitimate son (the future painter Uemura Shōkō), whom she raised as a single mother. She later gave birth to a daughter and, likewise, never revealed the name of the father.

In 1894, Shōen became a disciple of Kōno Bairei and later of his successor Takeuchi Seihō. She won her first local award in 1898 with a work selected for the Exhibition of New and Old Art ("Shinko Bijutsu Tenrankai" or "Shinkoten") in Kyoto. She won her first national award in 1900 for a painting submitted to an exhibition sponsored by the Japan Fine Arts Academy (Nihon Bijutsuin) with the Japan Painting Association (Nihon Kaiga Kyokai). She later focused on producing work for display and sale at the government-sponsored Bunten exhibitions starting from 1907. The purchase of her painting, The Beauty of Four Seasons, by the Duke of Connaught on his visit to Japan, raised her to celebrity status at the mere age of fifteen. Shōen was chosen shortly after by the Japanese government to have her work shown in the Chicago World Exposition of 1893 along with many other prominent artists at the time, all older and mostly from Tokyo in comparison. Shōen painted another version of The Beauty of Four Seasons for the exposition and received an award for the painting.

Shōen drew from her artistic training and her personal interest in woodblock prints and older painting styles to develop new techniques and styles of composition with a broad range of subjects. Themes and elements from the traditional Noh drama frequently appeared in her works, but images of beautiful women (bijin-ga) came to dominate her work. Eventually, her work would combine the themes of both Noh and women in a single composition.

With all her might, she painted Honō (焔, Flame) in 1918, a painting about female jealousy and eternal love that cemented her reputation. For a while after that, she did not exhibit her work.

In 1924, she returned to the art world by exhibiting a painting titled Yōkihi (楊貴妃, the consort Yang Guifei) at the Fourth Exhibition of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. The painting is now at the Shōhaku Art Museum in Nara.

During the 1930s, when Shōen was in her late 50s and early 60s, she began producing very large works. These include Spring and Autumn (1930), Jo-no-mai (1936), and Soshi-arai Komachi (1937). Many of these works, especially Jo-no-mai are now considered her greatest masterpieces. It is believed that the model for Jo-no-mai is Shoen's daughter-in-law portraying a confident and dignified women in a brilliantly colored orange kimono fading into a cloud pattern at the hem.

Jo-no-mai and Soshi-arai Komachi were inspired by the Noh theater. (Jo-no-mai is a dance performed in the introduction to a Noh play, and Soshi-arai Komachi is the title of a Noh play about the Heian period poet Ono no Komachi.) Shoen took great inspiration from the female character in noh theater. It is important to note that men performed all the roles in noh theater including the female roles. Despite this Shoen used women models to recreate the poses of her work suggesting something of her views of women. Both paintings are characterized by a strong feeling of majesty, with a large central figure against an empty background. The use of color is carefully planned so that the light surfaces of clothes and other items stand out prominently against the negative space.

In 1941, Shōen became the first woman painter in Japan to be invited to join the Imperial Art Academy. She was appointed a court painter to the Imperial Household Agency in 1944.

During World War II she supported nationalism in pieces like Late Autumn which depicts a beautiful woman doing her part to help the war. Despite her advanced age, she traveled to the war zone in China at the invitation of the Japanese government for propaganda purposes, to prove to people back home that all was going well. Many of her works from this period, including Twilight (1941), Clear Day (1941), and Late Autumn (1943), depict working women engaged in daily chores, who display a strong sense of vitality. As with her work from the 1930s, Shōen shows a skillful use of negative space, with realistic detail, neat lines, and a calm use of color. As the war situation deteriorated, in February 1945, Shōen was evacuated from Kyoto to the suburbs of Nara.

In 1948, she became the first woman to be awarded Japan's prestigious Order of Culture. Her painting Jo no mai was the first painting by a Japanese woman to be rated as an Important Cultural Property by the Agency of Cultural Affairs.

Beautiful women
Despite being known for works of beautiful women bijinga (Ukiyo-e beauty portraits) Shōen reportedly said "Never once did I paint a work with the expectation that it would be a fine work as long as the woman depicted was beautiful. My earnest hope is that all my works are like fragrant jewels, always with a sense of fresh purity, never with even an iota of the vulgar". She is respected for her fight for women's rights in Japan and her achievements as a great artist, not just a female artist.

During Shōen's time, Japanese art was experiencing a change in style and influence. Western production of oil paintings became popular for many artists. Shōen, however, stuck to her use of mineral pigments, or iwaenogu, and Japanese-style themes. Her paintings show ordinary women, female characters in noh theater, but the majority of her work shows women out in the elements in their finery. In Women Walking Against a Snowstorm (1911), a dramatic action scene is depicted of a beautiful woman not bending to the elements or the power of the storm. Shōen's work shows the quiet empowerment of women through her subtle portrayal of emotion. Uemura's 1918 work on the theme of jealousy, Honō (焔, Flame), which depicts an living ghost incarnate in jealousy without compromising dignity, is considered to have raised the standard of nihonga. This work solidified her reputation by overturning the criticism some critics had made of her earlier work, calling her a "faceless doll". This work was directly inspired by Lady Rokujō, who appears in The Tale of Genji and the noh play Aoi no Ue, and was also inspired by Bijin zu (美人図, Beauty), an 18th century painting by Soga Shōhaku now in the collection of the Nara Prefectural Museum of Art. Shōen contributed to the change for how the public viewed women's art through her own works.

Philately
Uemura Shōen's works have been selected as the subject of commemorative postage stamps twice by the Japanese government:
 * 1965: Jo no mai, to commemorate the 1965 Philatelic Week
 * 1980: Mother and Child, as part of the Modern Art Series

In 2000, Uemura Shōen herself was the subject of a commemorative postage stamp under the Cultural Leaders Series by Japan Post.

In 2017, Shōen's work was featured in Uemura Shōen and Quintessential Bijinga, Paintings of Beautiful Women, a two month-long (August 29, 2017 - October 22, 2017) an exhibition organized by Yamatane Museum of Art and Nikkei Inc. The exhibition featured four sections: Uemura Shōen—Fragrant Beauty, Famous Women from Literature and History, Maiko and Geisha, Beauties Past and Present—Chic Japanese Garb Gorgeous Western Garb. Shōen dominated the selected works in the first section, with additional work being showcased in the second.

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Becklesius

Becklesius is an extinct genus of Paramacellodid lizard known from the Late Jurassic to Late Cretaceous of Europe, the type species, B. hoffstetteri is known from Kimmeridgian aged sediments of the Alcobaça Formation in Portugal. An indeterminate species is known from Berriasian aged sediments of the Lulworth Formation in the UK. Another species B. cataphractus is known the Barremian aged sediments of the Una locality, part of the La Huérguina Formation, Spain. A third species, B. nopcsai is known from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Sânpetru Formation of Romania.

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Malay and Islamic World Museum

The Malay and Islamic World Museum (Muzium Dunia Melayu Dunia Islam) is a museum about Malay and Islamic cultures in Malacca City, Malacca, Malaysia. It is housed in the Bastion House building which was built in 1910 and occupied by the British rubber company Dunlop until 1986. The building has the English architectural elements, the rectangular shape design with deep slanted roofs. The museum displays the information about the spread of Islam in the world, important and historical Malay and Muslim figures, important Islamic buildings, artifacts, traditional dress etc.

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Participants at the Wikiversity Science Journalism Center develop learning resources about science journalism. The 2006 journal article RNA Silencing Sheds Light on the RNA World by Rachel Jones explored the implications of RNA interference for the molecular origins of life. See also: RNA World.

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