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Talk:John O'Neill (businessman)

NPOV
This page needs some serious WP:NPOVing. Jpeob 07:51, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Not in my opinion. It was superlative until you attempted to rename soccer football. Where were you when this page needed expansion? But you do not like a fair and balanced approach? well make fair changes but do not corrupt it, because it is all cited. --Ehinger222 07:57, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Ehinger222, your edits reek of POV. Also I have never heard any of those nicknames used for John O'Neil.Tancred 09:11, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Use of footnotes, NPOV problems
G'day. Quite a number of claims on this page are unfounded and plainly unencyclopedic. Namely these:
 * "he also offended many in the rugby union community with his extravagant approach."
 * "he was whiteanted from within the ARU by Flowers, Kilip and others who had gradually made their positions within the organisation more powerful." - '''This is an especially disturbing addition as the source cited to supposedly support this claim (here), does not mention him being "whiteanted", let alone "undermined" and there is no mention of a Kilip. Such claims are unfounded, and, really, make it hard for me to assume the good faith of certain editors.
 * "Rugby Union has since declined in Australia"
 * "Many have criticised his tenure despite its economic success as destroying the fabric of Australian Rugby Union"
 * "Soccer Australia was at that point creating debts of over A$16 million a year and its national competition had an average attendance of little more than 4000"
 * "Among continually publicly attempting to demean it (Rugby League), his competitions have been based in a deliberate attempt to undermine support for Rugby League in Australia." - '''This is yet another bad faith addition. The Source supposedly supporting this claim, yet again, does not even mention John O'Neill, let alone some concerted attempt to destroy or even give bad remarks towards Rugby League. In my opinion, this is not in good faith, and as such I have removed the link and the claim.
 * "O'Neill offended many duing his tenure as head of the Australian Rugby Union making increasingly bizarre claims about rugby union's international reach, which is qualitively very weak, and also very limited." - this claim is also unfounded, and certainly not WP:NPOV - offended? - bizarre? - weak? - limited?:
 * "He was also accused of plotting when he suggested that there was nothing stopping rugby league from rejoining rugby union, suggesting that rugby league was nothing more than a game that began when a few guys in a pub made a deal and was accused by some of plotting against Rugby league in Australia." - this needs a legitimate source.
 * "He attended St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill, which might explain his animosity. Joeys has a strict policy refusing to allow the game of Rugby League to be played" - if they do not play it, does it mean there is a strict policy?... this is unsourced yet again.

I will endeavour to clean up some of these claims, or try to verify them if I can. I ask all editors to try to do the same and remember to write from a neutral point of view, and try to write with good faith so that we can assume that very same faith and have a better community for it.

Further, it would also help if editors did not merely revert back to their own last version, but look constructively at the additions and changes of others.

Cheers, Jpeob 06:19, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

 * "Among continually publicly attempting to demean it (Rugby League), his competitions have been based in a deliberate attempt to undermine support for Rugby League in Australia." - This is yet another bad faith addition.
 * This article was discussing the link between football and Irish-Australians at one point, it did not have to do specifically with his animosity, but to do wth the fact that paddys traditionally support football in Sydney so therefore it is strange that he would not. Your claims of bad faith are all mostly similar to this and I would encourage you to rewrite your objections. It is compulsory to play either Union or soccer at private schools, football is not permitted etc. etc. etc. He made many references to Union having an International stage. A bizarre claim when New Zealand are the best in the world and Union's sphere is only slightly larger than footballs. He was accused of plotting by www.concreteboots.com but that site has since collapsed. His extravagant approach was noted in some of the articles there, claims of the world cup becoming the "john O'neill show". His sport's administrationship has been based on attacking football's traditional areas, if Wollongong get in the A-League, that will be 4 teams in NSW against only one in every other state. I did not see the need to reiterate it. RU has gone down in the Sweeney support, which I know is a discreditable organisation, but it has gone down everywhere else too, cable ratings etc. t.v. ratings- the Kangaroos game are now rating higher in last year's football tri nations.He was whiteanted, he controlled the whole organisation but essentially had his control seized from him by places that nevr formally existed within the organisation. Ehinger222 08:54, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I you suggest you get out and travel a little more before trying to state "Union's sphere is only slightly larger than (Rugby League)". League gets almost no print media coverage in the UK, and in Scotland I have not seen the game mentioned.  Rugby on the other hand gets a lot of coverage, though a lot less than football.  In Europe the game played with the egg shaped ball is Rugby, not Rugby League. A quick trawl of wikipedia shows some of the national League teams are made up of Australian's, hardly showing how strong the game is locally.Tancred 19:50, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

 * see here is part of the animosity to football link

 * Here is a good example of the animosity created by the exaggerated claims of RU to being international http://www.concreteboots.com/league.htm NB this is strictly domestic and does not include super12. NRL is now also much more popular now with average attendance in excess of 17000 in 2005.

 * This was former Australian football captain Gorden Tallis responding to O'Neill[]. Notice the game never took place and RU ran scared. Ehinger222 09:05, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

I understand your point. However, Please remember that Wikipedia is not the place to engage in ideological disputes however, but an encyclopedia based on simple rules. It is not a Publisher of Original Thought nor a soapbox. Thanks, Jpeob 09:30, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

 * i've half a mind to go through and delete a whole bunch of this text. it's not about john o'neill at all, it's about pushing a point of view. Dibo 23:19, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

 * This is a fair and balanced encyclopedic reference to John O'Neill. His character needs to be discussed because it was influential to his sacking from the ARU. Oh and please stop trying to call soccer football. Wikipedia adheres to most commen usage. So by all means, add to it, but do not delete it in an ignorant haste. p.s. what pov is being pushed? that O'Neill is renowned for his talents with the business side of sport bringing him both success and dislike? That is commenly accepted. Ehinger222 14:04, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

 * 'Oh and please stop trying to call soccer football. Wikipedia adheres to most commen usage.' - surf the pages, it's called 'football', or 'football (soccer)', so your common usage claim is bunk. quit pushing a wagon.

and terms like 'renowned' and 'commenly [sic] accepted' are not encyclopaedic. you don't look something up in an encyclopaedia to read 'everybody knows that $$x$$' because that simply means the author thinks $$x$$ and wants readers to think everyone else does too. third party verifiable claims or nothing. Dibo 23:43, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

POV etcetera
Tancred, your edits reek of pov. Soccer is the commen usage term in Sydney for soccer and football is the commen use term in Sydney for Rugby League.

Secondly, there is nothing ideological here, just a record of O'Neill's animosity to Rugby League. I am not the creater or contributer to that site, but it is a record of the animosity that he created among football supporters.

Thirdly I have no soapbox or point I wish to pursue, all I hope for is a fair and balanced article. There is a lot more that needs to be admitted considering the huge effect that he has had on Australian sport, like firstly that he was a bank manager, secondly his ARU tenureship was from 1995 to 2003 and oversaw the ARU's growth as a rival to Rugby League and AFL, thirdly his style of management and directorship etc. etc. which are widely documented.

Ehinger222 12:22, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Football is Football and Rugby league is Rugby League. Go and look at the official names, or the usage in the media.Tancred 19:38, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Usage in the media? You will notice in the daily telegraph (which has the highest circulation in Sydney) that it is soccer []. The Sydney Morning Herald changed it last November to call soccer football when Alan Oakley took it over. But you will notice that he is an English immigrant [] and so it is therefore useless to use that as an estimation of anything but the decadence of capitalism and foreign imperialism. This guy wants an Anglo monoculture to replace Australian multiculturalism and Australian football, so he is useless. Channel Nine refers to it as "friday night football". The vast majority of media usage sure as hell does not call soccer football, but refers to rugby league as 'football'.

Official names? [] It was only 20 years ago that the football was dropped as part of Rupert Murdoch's influence on football. This however was only dropped as a marketing name however, and they still retain the rights to the term "australian rugby football league". As you will notice 2/3 of the way down this page under criteria for coaches from the official Work in UK page [].

Most junior clubs in Sydney are JRLFC. [] [] [] [] []

Even the women's clubs call it football [].

The official name is RL football or football administered by the Rugby League and played to their rules. I could go on with these links to infinity but why bother...

In England, the official name is [] rugby football league. Clubs like Hull FC play football by the rules of the Rugby League.

In Sydney, noone but an angry, thankfully small and aggressive Anglo monoculture refer to soccer as football. It is Rugby League that is referred to as football or "footy".

And John O'Neill changing it does not make it different. Ehinger222 13:54, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

I lived in Sydey for 20 years and League was the common term. Your pushing of your idea that Alan Oakley is the person you should blame for the change at the SMH is interesting. I'm sure he also somehow convinced SBS, ABC, Foxtel, Sportal, NineMSN, Yahoo and others to use the term football. I also suggest you look for your "Football Fever" in Tuesdays daily telegraph. Tancred 12:05, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

I have lived in Sydney my whole life and "league" is only a term used by white collars and professionals. Everyone calls it football. Nobody calls soccer football except for a tiny minority that has emerged in the past half year. Certainly not nommen usage. ABC has a policy of calling a sport by what its administration wants to call it. Foxtel owns the t.v. rights, hardly a creditable source for commen usage. Nine as you saw also calls football football. You soccer guys should stop pushing such a blatent agenda. Ehinger222 08:42, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Linking problems
I think the problem with my links were from how they were presented by Tancred's edits which diluted their original usage. I implore tha you set them up Jpoeb against my original version and I am sure that they will make better sense. Ehinger222 12:38, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Unjustified Reverting
It seems that Ehinger has just reverted this page back to your version of 01:59, 12 August 2006, before my and other's' changes to the page due to legitimate concerns. This is unacceptable without discussion on the talk page as you have previously advocated. Such unfounded action - "Look I can think that we can all agree that this version is better, and O'Neil is a fat cat" - is not in the interests of Consensus. Jpe|ob 12:46, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I just reverted back to the consensus page. We must all make sure that 3RR is not breached, however difficult that may be. Jpe|ob 12:50, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Look my point was that Tancred had destroyed the validity of the links and I was trying to show you that. Look through them before the corruption and I am sure they will make more sense. NB Tancred's edits need a massive NPOV re-edit. I will explain each of your objections very soon. Ehinger222 21:45, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

 * I did not "destroy" any links, I changed your links to the shorter link style. I find your POV comments rather interesting.  I have used the official name of the sport/sporting body and corrected some broken wikilinks.Tancred 22:22, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Big Edit
have just given the article a big going over. there was much that was not NPOV, or sourced, or even syntactically or typographically correct. the article is therefore trimmed quite a bit, for anything going back in there should be sources attached. this is not assuming bad faith, this is simply in recognition of the fact that we're talking about a living person here about whom we need to be careful to not provide false or misleading information (this includes skewed information based on pushing a particular POV). cheers, Dibo 00:36, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Your sanctimony is admirable. I will go through from the grossly flawed current copy to seek to change it for the better. p.s. I remember that O'Neill fell out with George Gregan badly. After the defeat of the All blacks in 2003 WC semis, O'Neill was so happy he hugged many Wallabies players and later whoever was hugged had to scull a beer. His extrvagant approach is well documented. You soccer people who are trying to rewrite his history because he is now the soccer administrater have to understand this. Ehinger222 11:01, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

 * there are two things that need to be shown before that goes in -

 * verifiable truth - this means you need more than to say it's "well documented", and;
 * demonstrable relevance to what is essentially a mini-biography - if it's simply trivia then i don't think it's got much of a place, other than perhaps under a specific trivia heading.

from my eyes, i'm really happy to see the content be added to, i just want to see the article be _good_ rather than _big_ and i especially don't really want to see material aimed at a particular conclusion Dibo 11:35, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Merchant banker
[]- Reference to his career as a merchant banker. Where his nickname the merchant comes from.

You will notice here that he was soccer association chief before he dubiously created the title of "football federation" to the revolt of most Aussies. [] Therefore it should state that he was picked up by soccer Australia and the heading should be soccer.

His bias against football is already documented further up the page.

etc. etc. Ehinger222 11:24, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

 * ^^and you wonder why people keep reverting your edits for NPOV reasons. wikipedia is not here to cast judgements or put arguments, it's here to report unarguable fact. "john o'neill is the head of the FFA and was the head of the ARU." can go in, "as you can see from this article, this article and this article, john o'neill hates rugby league" can't. Dibo 11:35, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Page protected
This page is now protected and we need to work the problems out on the talk page. Ehinger222, just reverting the page to your original edits does not help develop the topic. It's very clear you have an axe to grind here. You need to start providing evidence for your claims. For example, the nicknames you claim John O'Neil has. How about some evidence. It in not enough to show the O'neil has been a merchant banker, please show were people are using this term as a nickname. Tancred 11:52, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

No axe
I have no axe to grind. I think O'Neill's record shows that he is a superb sports administrater. However his dislike of football is well documented. His extravagant style is well documented. His corporatisation approach to sport is well documented. Ehinger222 08:30, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
 * "well documented" does not cut it for inclusion in wikipedia. present credible, relevant sources or it will be deleted. Dibo 12:46, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I have already presented sources for the bias against football. This was inexplicably deleted. Ehinger222 13:54, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

Evidence of Kilip
I remember somebody asking about the involvement of Kilip in O"Neill's whiteanting. Here is a reference Ehinger222 14:41, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
 * ...thanks, but I can't see the word "Kilip" anyway in that said article reference! Jpe|ob 23:59, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, you are quite right. It would have helped if you had clarified it earlier but that mistake of typing Dilip as Kilip was an incorrect one from me. But perhaps you entirely missed the error yourself and were looking for specifically Kilip. Whatever, it requires inclusion. Ehinger222 10:23, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
 * This is all it says about "Dilip":"What goes around, comes around," former Australian Rugby Union chief executive John O'Neill said yesterday from Leipzig, Germany, following the decision by ARU chairman Dilip Kumar to stand down." Jpe|ob 10:19, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

there is Dilip's role defined. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs) 06:35, August 31, 2006.

Age etc amid resignation
After updating the article re: his resignation, i have also added his year of birth and the fact he was head of the state bank...this is sourced in his comment here: :
 * "I was 35 when I took over the State Bank and I'm now 55. It's been a fantastic 20 years of running things and I'd like to continue to run something."

Jpe|ob 11:46, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

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Spanish/Partes del cuerpo

< Lesson 8

=El cuerpo (The Body)=

In Spanish, possessives are used much less frequently than in English when relating to body parts and clothes.

Le duele la cabeza = his/her head aches Mírame a los ojos = look at my eyes Tienes rota la camisa = your shirt is torn

A sentence like “le duele su cabeza” sounds artificial. However, probably due to badly translated television movies, you can hear “dame tu mano” instead of “dame la mano” (give me your hand).

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Eudice Shapiro

Eudice Shapiro  (1914–2007) was a violinist, chamber musician and violin professor.

Shapiro was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1914.

Education
Shapiro began studying violin with her father when she was 5, won her first prize when she was 10 and began her solo career with the Buffalo Philharmonic when she was 12. She studied with Gustave Tinlot at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and with Efrem Zimbalist at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

Music career
She moved to Los Angeles in 1941 to begin playing in Hollywood studios for Paramount, United Artists and RKO. She was the first female concertmaster in any studio orchestra, beginning at RKO and Paramount.

Career as educator
She was on the University of Southern California faculty starting in 1956.

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Rorgue

Rorgue is a French producer of custom-made cooking ranges and stoves.

Founded in 1893 in Clermont-Ferrand as a domestic hotwater and boiler maker, the factory moved to Saint-Denis, next to Paris, at the beginning of the 20th century. There they had access to a number of cafes and restaurants, which all had need for ranges, stoves and ovens.

After producing its first ranges running on solid fuel, Rorgue was one of the first to produce ranges and stoves running on gas, then on electricity.

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Bloomfield High School (New Jersey)

Bloomfield High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Bloomfield, in Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, operating as the lone secondary school of the Bloomfield Public Schools. The school was established in 1871, with its current facility completed in 1911.

As of the 2022–23 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,029 students and 168.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.0:1. There were 664 students (32.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 126 (6.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

History
The original high school building, located on Broad Street, was completed in 1871 at a cost of $30,000 (equivalent to $ in ). The current school building was built as an extension of the original building and celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2011.

Awards, recognition and rankings
The school was the 217th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 221st in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 226th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 181st in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 225th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. Schooldigger.com ranked the school 277th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 9 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).

Athletics
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The school participates with Columbia High School in a joint ice hockey team in which Nutley High School is the host school / lead agency. The co-op program operates under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year.

The school's football rivalry with Montclair High School was listed at 19th on NJ.com's 2017 list "Ranking the 31 fiercest rivalries in N.J. HS football". Bloomfield was the stronger school in the initial years of the competition, with Montclair dominating in since the early 1980s and leading the rivalry with a 69-26-1 overall record as of 2017.

The baseball team won the Greater Newark Tournament in 1935, 1945, 1952 and 1996. The program's four titles are tied for fifth-most in tournament history through 2019. The team won the 1996 Greater Newark Tournament title, defeating Livingston High School 3-0 in the finals.

The boys basketball team won the Group IV state championship in 1937 (defeating Asbury Park High School in the tournament finals), 1953 (vs. Thomas Jefferson High School), 1957 (vs. Trenton Central High School), 1958 (vs. Linden High School) and in 1971 (vs. Ewing High School). The 1937 team won the Group IV title with a 30-24 win against Asbury Park in front of a crowd of 3,600 at Rutgers University. The 1953 team won the Group IV title against Thomas Jefferson of Elizabeth with a 60-45 victory in front of a crowd of 3,500 at the Elizabeth Armory for the championship game. The team ran their record to 26-0 after winning the 1957 Group IV title with a 51-47 victory against Trenton Central in the championship game played at Princeton University. With a 71-64 win against Linden in the Group IV championship game at Rutgers University, the 1958 team finished the season with a record of 24-0 and extended their winning streak to 50 games.

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The girls basketball team won the Group IV state championship in 1989, against runner-up Neptune High School in the playoff finals.

The Bengal bowlers, with three female and two male team members, won the Essex County Tournament for the first time in the 1998–99 season.

The girls volleyball team won the Group IV state championship in 1999, defeating runner-up Ridgewood High School in the final match of the playoffs.

The girls' softball team made it to the 2006 North I Group IV state sectional championship, falling to Ridgewood High School by 3–0.

The boys' volleyball team won the 2006 Essex County Championship for the first time in Bloomfield's history, after defeating Livingston High School. The team advanced to the state sectional quarterfinals over Livingston High School once again, and fell to Fair Lawn High School.

The wrestling team won the 2007 North I, Group IV state sectional championship, the first in team history, with a 34–33 win over Hackensack High School

Administration
The school's principal is Christopher Jennings. His administration team includes four assistant principals.

Notable alumni
Mark Mocerino Class of 1976 Baseball Played collegiate baseball for Upsala College. 1980 college World Series # 4 in nation. Went on to play professionally in Italy for SG Fortitudo in Bologna IT.

 * Alaa Abdelnaby (born 1968), professional basketball player.
 * Robert Birmelin (born 1933), figurative painter, printmaker and draughtsman.
 * Hank Borowy (1916–2004), professional baseball player who pitched in Major League Baseball from 1942 to 1951.
 * Kevin Burkhardt (born 1974, class of 1992), sportscaster who has been one of the play-by-play voices for Fox NFL and for the Tampa Bay Rays on Fox Sports Sun.
 * Joe Duckworth (1921-2007), football end who played in the NFL for the Washington Redskins.
 * Bud Ellor (1905-1932), professional football player who spent one season in the National Football League with the Newark Tornadoes in 1930.
 * Tom Fleming (1951-2017), distance runner who won the 1973 and 1975 New York City Marathon.
 * Bill Geyer (1919-2004), football halfback in the National Football League who played three seasons for the Chicago Bears.
 * Johnny Gibson (1905–2006), Olympic athlete.
 * Roger Lee Hall (born 1942, class of 1960), musicologist.
 * Ernie Hambacher (1906–1990), American football fullback who played in the NFL for the Orange Tornadoes.
 * Benjamin Holman (1930–2007), pioneering African American newspaper and television reporter.
 * Michael Knapp (born 2000), professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for USL Championship club New York Red Bulls II.
 * Mike Kochel (1916-1994), one of the seven blocks of granite at Fordham University, he played in the NFL for the Chicago Cardinals.
 * Andy Kostecka (1921–2007), Basketball Association of America player for the Indianapolis Jets.
 * Bob Ley (born 1955), ESPN sportscaster.
 * Frank Muehlheuser (1926–2006), American football fullback and linebacker who played in the NFL for the Boston Yanks and New York Bulldogs.
 * Robert A. Pascal (1934–2021), politician who served as county executive of Anne Arundel County, Maryland from 1975 to 1982.
 * Charlie Puleo (born 1955) a Major League Baseball pitcher from 1981 to 1989 for the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds and Atlanta Braves.
 * Jack Robinson (1921-2000), professional baseball pitcher whose MLB career consisted of three games played for the Boston Red Sox in 1949.
 * Don Savage, (1919-1961, class of 1937), Major League Baseball player for the New York Yankees in 1944 and 1945.
 * Mark Sceurman (Class of 1975), graphic artist who is co-creator and publisher of Weird NJ magazine, his fellow graduates voted him "most likely to spontaneously combust".
 * Anish Shroff (born 1982), ESPN sportscaster and play-by-play voice of the NFL's Carolina Panthers.
 * Kristjan Sokoli (born 1991), NFL defensive end for the New York Giants.
 * Robert Stempel (1933–2011), former Chairman and CEO of General Motors, former Chairman and CEO of ECD Ovonics.
 * Mildred Fairbanks Stone (1902–2002), the first woman officer of a major American life insurance company (Mutual Benefit).
 * Frank Tripucka (1927–2013), former pro football quarterback.
 * Kelly Tripucka (born 1959), former NBA player and commentator for the New Jersey Nets.
 * Todd Tripucka (born 1954), former college basketball standout for Lafayette
 * Marlene VerPlanck (1933-2018), jazz and pop vocalist whose body of work centered on big band jazz, the American songbook and cabaret.
 * Bob Woollard (born 1940), former professional basketball player for the Miami Floridians of the American Basketball Association.

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floristry

Noun

 * 1) Production, commerce and trade in flowers.
 * 2) The art of flower arrangement.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Finnish: floristiikka
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: bláthadóireacht
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: floristică
 * Russian:
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: floristika
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish:

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User:Adriannasandoval/sandbox

The resilience of coral reefs is the biological ability of coral reefs to recover from natural and anthropogenic disturbances such as storms and bleaching episodes. Resilience refers to the ability of biological or social systems to overcome pressures and stresses by maintaining key functions through resisting or adapting to change. Reef resistance measures how well coral reefs tolerate changes in ocean chemistry, sea level, and sea surface temperature. Reef resistance and resilience are important factors in coral reef recovery from the effects of ocean acidification. Natural reef resilience can be used as a recovery model for coral reefs and an opportunity for management in marine protected areas (MPAs).

Thermal tolerance
Many corals rely on a symbiotic algae called zooxanthellae for nutrient uptake through photosynthesis. Corals obtain about 60-85% of their total nutrition from symbiotic zooxanthellae. Slight increases in sea surface temperature can cause zooxanthellae to die. Coral hosts become bleached when they lose their zooxanthellae. Difference in symbionts, determined by genetic groupings (clades A-H), may explain thermal tolerance in corals. Research has shown that some corals contain thermally-resistant clades of zooxanthellae. Corals housing primarily clade D symbionts, and certain types of thermally-resistant clade C symbionts, allow corals to avoid bleaching as severely as others experiencing the same stressor. Scientists remain in debate if thermal resistance in corals is due to a mixing or shifting of symbionts, or thermally resistant vs. thermally-sensitive types of zooxanthellae. Species of coral housing multiple types of zooxanthellae can withstand a 1-1.5 °C change in temperature. However, few species of coral are known to house multiple types of zooxanthellae. Corals are more likely to contain clade D symbionts after multiple coral bleaching events.

Research studies of the Mediterranean species of coral Oculina patagonica reveal that the presence of endolithic algae in coral skeletons may provide additional energy which can result in post-bleaching recovery. During bleaching, the loss of zooxanthellae decreases the amount of light absorbed by coral tissue, which allows increased amounts of photosynthetically active radiation to penetrate the coral skeleton. Greater amounts of photosynthetically active radiation in coral skeletons causes an increase in endolithic algae biomass and production of photoassimilates. During bleaching, the energy input to the coral tissue of phototrophic endoliths expands as the energy input of the zooxanthellae dwindles. This additional energy could explain the survival and rapid recovery of O. patagonica after bleaching events.

Coral Bleaching effects on Biodiversity
Coral bleaching is a major consequence of stress on coral reefs. Bleaching events due to distinct temperature changes, pollution, and other shifts of environmental conditions are detrimental to coral health, but corals can restore from bleaching events if the stress is not chronic. When corals are exposed to a long period of severe stress, death may occur due to the loss of zooxanthellae, who are vital to the coral's survival because of the nutrients they supply. Coral bleaching, degradation, and death have a great effect on the surrounding ecosystem and biodiversity. Coral reefs are important, diverse ecosystems that host a plethora of organisms who contribute different services to maintain reef health. For example, herbivorous reef fish, like the parrotfish, maintain levels of macro algae. The upkeep of sea weed contributes to decreasing space competition for substrate seeking organisms, like corals, to establish and propagate, creating a stronger, more resilient reef. However, when corals become bleached, organisms often leave the coral reef habitat which in turn takes away the services that they were previously supplying. Reefs also administer many ecosystem services such as food provision for many people around the world who are dependent on fishing reefs to sustain themselves.

Anthropogenic Disturbances
Anthropogenic forces contribute to coral reef degradation, reducing their resiliency. As humans, many of our actions result in detrimental outcomes for the environment. Some anthropogenic forces that degrade corals include pollution, sedimentation from coastal development, and ocean acidification due to increased fossil fuel emissions. The combustion of fossil fuels results in the emission of green house gases, such as carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The ocean uptakes some of the emitted carbon dioxide, injurious to the natural processes that occur in the ocean. Ocean acidification results in a lower ocean water pH, negatively affecting the formation of calcium carbonate structures which are imperative to coral development. Developing coastal areas has the potential for chemical and nutrient pollution to run off into surrounding waters. Nutrient pollution causes the overgrowth of water plants which have the ability to out compete corals for space, nutrients, and other resources. Another anthropogenic force that degrades coral reefs is bottom trawling; a fishing practice that scrapes coral reef habitats and other bottom substrate dwelling organisms off the ocean floor. Bottom trawling results in physical wreckage and stress that leads to corals being broken and zooxanthellae expelled.

Managing coral reefs
In an attempt to prevent coral bleaching, scientists are experimenting by "seeding" corals that can host multiple types of zooxanthellae with thermally-resistant zooxanthellae. MPAs have begun to apply reef resilience management techniques in order to improve the 'immune system' of coral reefs and promote reef recovery after bleaching.

The Nature Conservancy has developed, and is continually refining, a model to help manage and promote reef resilience. Although this model does not guarantee reef resilience, it is a comprehensible management model to follow. The principles outlined in their model are:

 * Representation and replication: Coral survivorship is ensured by representing and replicating resilient species and habitats in an MPA network. The presence of resilient species in management in MPAs will help protect corals from bleaching events and other natural disturbances.
 * Critical areas: Conservation priority areas provide protection to critical marine areas, such as sources of larvae for coral reef regeneration or nursery habitats for fish spawning.
 * Connectivity: Preserving the connectivity between coral reefs and surrounding habitats provides healthy coral communities and fish habitat.
 * Effective management: Resilience based strategies are based on reducing threats to maintain healthy reefs. Measurements of effective management of MPAs allows for adaptive management.

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User:SoWhy/drafts/Jessie Duckstein

Jessie B. Duckstein (b. 1885/1886) was an American law enforcement agent and the first woman to be designated a "special agent" by the Bureau of Investigation (the precursor of the FBI), although Alaska P. Davidson is considered to be the first actual special agent.

Personal life
Not much is known about Duckstein's personal life before or after her career at the Bureau. According to contemporary coverage, she was married to Willian O. Duckstein but further details of the marriage are unknown.

Career
On 11 August 1921, then United States Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty appointed Duckstein as a temporary stenographer/typist for the Bureau of Investigation's Washington, D.C. office. By July 1923, she was confidential secretary to BOI director William Burns who on 20 November 1923 changed her official title to "special agent" at her request. A 37-year-old high school graduate, Duckstein was sent to New York City for training, after which she was assigned to the Washington, D. C. field office. Her experience at the headquarter was considered an asset when she went into the field. Her salary was $7 a day, plus $4 when traveling.

In March 1924, Burns was accused to have instructed Duckstein to leak information about the Teapot Dome scandal to her husband, then secretary to Edward Beale McLean, the publisher of The Washington Post.

After J. Edgar Hoover became acting director of the Bureau in 1924 following the Teapot Dome scandal, he asked for both Duckstein's and Davidson's resignation when the Special Agent in Charge at the Washington field office reported that he had "no particular work for a woman agent".

Only three women became agents in the 1920s and, with the resignation of Duckstein and Davidson in 1924 and Lenore Houston in 1928, the FBI had no female agents between 1929 and 1972.

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Kim Kwe-ryong

Kim Kwe-ryong (born 17 December 1979 in Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean former basketball player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics and the 2008 Summer Olympics.

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Goodea luitpoldii

Goodea luitpoldii, the green goodea, is a species of killifish from the family Goodeidae which is endemic to the drainage basin of the Lerma River and the Grande de Santiago River in Mexico. This species was Species description described as Characodon luitpoldii by the Franz Steindachner in 1894 with the type locality given as Lake Pátzcuaro in Michoacán. The identity of the person honoured in its specific name is unknown but it is thought likely to be Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria (1821-1912) whose daughter, Princess Therese of Bavaria (1850-1925) was an explorer and amateur naturalist and she collected the type.

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benigne

Adjective

 * 1)  benign

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1) benign

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) benignly, kindly, benevolently
 * 2)  thank you, you are very kind ; no, thank you
 * 1)  thank you, you are very kind ; no, thank you

Etymology
, from ; compare.

Adjective

 * 1) kind, gentle, mild
 * 2) friendly-looking
 * 3) humane, fair of laws or actions
 * 1) humane, fair of laws or actions

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Ashapura Gomat railway station

Ashapura Gomat railway station is a railway station in Jaisalmer district, Rajasthan. Its code is AQG. It serves Gomat. The station consists of 3 platforms. Passenger, Express, and Superfast trains halt here.

Trains
The following trains halt at Ashapura Gomat in both directions:

 * Leelan Express
 * Ranikhet Express
 * Corbett Park Link Express
 * Jaisalmer–Jodhpur Express
 * Malani Express
 * Jaisalmer–Lalgarh Express

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Ecological engineering

Ecological Engineering is the emerging field of the use of ecological processes within natural or constructed imitation of natural systems to achieve engineering goals. It has also been described as "the design of sustainable ecosystems that integrate human society with its natural environment for the benefit of both" (Mitsch, 1998)

The following is submitted by David Del Porto: The term, "ecological engineering," was first coined by the late Dr. Howard T. Odum in 1962. Howard Odum was professor emeritus at the University of Florida, where his work in systems ecology had flourished.

Ecological engineering, he wrote, is "those cases where the energy supplied by man is small relative to the natural sources but sufficient to produce large effects in the resulting patterns and processes." (H.T. Odum, 1962, "Man and Ecosystem" Proceedings, Lockwood Conference on the Suburban Forest and Ecology. Bulletin Connecticut Agric. Station)

Another definition that follows from that relates to ecosystem management by human society (Center for Wetlands, University of Florida) :

"Ecological engineering is the design of sustainable ecosystems that integrate human society with its natural environment for the benefit of both. It involves the design, construction and management of ecosystems that have value to both humans and the environment. Ecological engineering combines basic and applied science from engineering, ecology, economics, and natural sciences for the restoration and construction of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The field is increasing in breadth and depth as more opportunities to design and use ecosystems as interfaces between technology and environment are explored."

Another definition seeks to use the ecological paradigm to construct ecologies to solve vexing world-class problems, such as pollution:

It is predicated on the belief that the self-organizing order found in stable ecosystms is so universal that it can be applied as an engineering discipline to solve the pressing problems of global pollution, food production and efficient resource-utilization, while providing a high quality of life for all human society. (David Del Porto)

In this definition, the ecological paradigm reveals how to safely utilize the polluting components of unwanted residuals, or "wastes," to ultimately grow green plants that have value to human society, but not at the expense of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Planning, design and construction with the ecological paradigm as a template is the work of ecological engineers.

Ecological engineering is based on the self-designing capacity of nature to take ecosystems to sustainable optimum states. Past engineering approaches overuse fossil fuels and require intensive maintenance because they are out of balance with nature. Ecological engineering solutions rely more on natural energy flows (solar-based) and are often very low maintenance, when done correctly.

Examples of ecological engineering are the restoration of a landscape or the creation of a wetland ecosystem to treat wastewater. In the case of restoring a landscape denuded of all soil by erosion, the ecological engineer would approach the problem not by trucking in tons of soil, he or she would work to establish soil-building organisms to do the work. In the case of wastewater treatment, the conventional engineer would use electricity to pump and aerate the water while dumping in tons of chemicals. The ecological engineer would use the natural assimilative capacity of certain plants and microbes to remove the pollutants of concern in a gravity-flow system.

Coursework

 * Energy Engineering: Renewable energy systems
 * Meteorology
 * Climatology
 * Hydrology
 * Personal Rover Maintenance

Research

 * List of potential Carbon Capture & Sequestration/Reutilization technologies

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User:Faizal.mowancheri

Faizal Mowancheri( Faizal Chettinte Valappil) born in 1983 may 25( arabic Rabi ul Awal 12)in India-Kerala state- kannur district Pallippoyil- chelora panchayath  fourth son of Mr. K.T.Abdulla and Ms. Safiya. His elders Ms. Abida Ashraf, Mr. Ismayil,Mr, Abdul Jabbar and Mr, Najibudheen. His younger sister Ms. Thasleema.

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Talk:Dynamic Ionosphere CubeSat Experiment

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Homepage is here: http://www.sdl.usu.edu/programs/dice — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 18:22, 11 July 2012 (UTC)


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Talk:Edmonton tornado

Picture
Wow that is something else..Is that taken from Rundle Park?

 * Yes, just north of the Beverley bridge. Denni talk 05:20, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Outbreak?
Was there a tornado outbreak that day with other (probably weaker) tornadoes in Alberta? I find it strange that an isolated F4/F5 tornado would develop (in a terrible place)... CrazyC83 00:27, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

 * I think there were a couple other weak (F0-F1) tornadoes, but they were in mostly unpopulated farmland, causing little damage. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by RingtailedFox (talk • contribs) 19:20, 19 March 2007 (UTC).

I had heard that the tornado took out Alberta's last electromechanical telephone switch when it destroyed a CO in the Mill Woods area. Anyone got a citation to back that up? <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:58, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

removing overly sensational statement re weather office
I'm removing this line "At one point, the tornado came close to the building that housed the Alberta weather office, where several employees were forced to take cover."

The employees may have taken cover, but the tornado was never all that close to the weather office. See the refs we cite for the tornado's path. The office was at 50th St and about 98 Ave. The tornado crossed Baseline Rd (101 Ave) in Refinery Row between the two railway overpasses just west of 17th St. That's about 2.5 km east of the weather office. Meters (talk) 03:40, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

Possible F5
I can find no reliable sources to support the statement "This tornado has been under scrutiny by Environment Canada in recent years, as to whether or not it could be considered for an F5 rating." The cited source merely says that it "may have briefly raged as an F5." Meters (talk) 22:38, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
 * A version of this claim seems to have first appeared in the article in 2008, so "recent years" is not appropriate. It was tagged as unsourced at one time, but as I pointed out, the current source is not sufficient. I'll give it a few days, but unless someone provides a reliable source i'm going to remove this. Meters (talk) 22:47, 3 March 2016 (UTC)

Map image contains anachronism
I feel the map used showing the path of the tornado should reflect the layout of Edmonton as it was in July 1987. As such it shouldn't show the southwest leg of Anthony Henday Drive, which was only built a few years ago. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:21, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Images
Have found images of the aftermath of the tornado taken by my grandfather, no images of the tornado it's self unfortunately. I will try to get the uploaded within a week, finally images for the article long over do. Cheers - Kyle1278 (talk) 15:32, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

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User:Malbatta/sandbox

Avid advocate of the importance of books and literacy and key driver in the establishment of publishing and literacy related ventures and initiatives in Sharjah, the United Arab Emirates, and the GCC region. Holds a BA (Hons) from Cambridge, an MSc in Medical Anthropology from University College London, and has successfully completed publishing courses from both Yale and Columbia.

History
Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi is a leading contributor to the development and growth of Sharjah and the UAE.

In her primary capacity, she serves as chairperson of Shurooq, the Government of Sharjah’s Investment and Development Authority, which was originally set up as Al Qasba Development Authority in 2004. In 2009, the authority was renamed and the scope of its mandate increased to oversee the social, cultural, environmental and economic development of Sharjah. Shurooq facilitates investment activities and conceptualises the development of tourism and infrastructure projects. Within this scope, Sheikha Bodour ensures that the initiatives retain and reflect the distinct Arab and Islamic identity which is looked upon as a key driver of sustainable and holistic growth in Sharjah.

Under her leadership, Shurooq is changing the face of Sharjah into a contemporary city that affords modern-day luxury while remaining true to its cultural heritage. Her relentless efforts and far sighted vision have consequently positioned Sharjah as a must-visit destination on the global tourism map.

Driven by a clear vision and passion for the growth of Sharjah, Sheikha Bodour steered Shurooq to launch world class tourism and leisure projects including Al Qasba and the Al Majaz Waterfront. In the same vein, iconic development projects are underway such as the Heart of Sharjah, a five-phase heritage and leisure restoration project as well as the ground-breaking Kalba eco-tourism project, the Chedi Khorfakkan Resort and, most recently, Al Bait Hotel, the first authentic Emirati hospitality venture in the UAE. Shurooq’s complementing role in enhancing the stature of Sharjah bore fruit when the emirate was declared 'Capital of Arab Tourism for Year 2015' by the Council of Arab Tourism Ministers.

With a clear directive from the Government to ensure the emirate’s long-term sustainable growth, Shurooq is equally committed to attracting global investors to Sharjah. In pursuit of this objective, Sheikha Bodour has demonstrated consistent efforts to link international investors with opportunities in Sharjah and position the emirate as an attractive investment destination.

Sheikha Bodour’s commitment to the sector was recently recognised by Forbes Middle East when she was named one of the Most Influential Women in the Arab world in the Investment Development Sector category. She also received the first ever Tourism Personality of the Year accolade, an award instituted by the Sharjah Commerce and Tourism Development Authority (SCTDA), that was presented to her during the Sharjah Tourism Excellence Awards 2013.

As a woman, wife, and mother, Sheikha Bodour works to support the intellectual and social development of women and children. In 2002, she took on the role of deputy chairperson of the Sharjah Ladies Club, an entity of the government of Sharjah. During her tenure, the club was refurbished to incorporate a complete range of facilities such as a fitness centre, spa, day-care and pre-school. Today, the club not only serves as a renowned centre for community work, but also ranks high among the preferred leisure destinations for women.

In recognition of her social, economic and cultural contributions to UAE, Sheikha Bodour was honoured by the Emirates Women Award and named as a Hot Forty young leader paving the way for a prosperous future for the UAE’s children.

Sheikha Bodour is also involved in a number of non-profit and charity organizations that prioritise maternal and infant wellness.

A strong advocate of literacy among individuals of all ages, she has to her credit a number of publishing initiatives. In 2007, she founded Kalimat, the first publishing house dedicated to the production of Arabic titles for children. To date, Kalimat has published over 155 children’s books in Arabic. In appreciation of her contribution to Arab literature, Sheikha Bodour was named Personality of the Year at the 2013 Emirates Airline Festival of Literature as well as Personality of the Year at the Sharjah Award for Educational Excellence 2013.

In addition, Sheikha Bodour is the Patron of the UAE Board on Books for Young People (UAEBBY), the national section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), which is a non-profit organization that represents an international network of people from all over the world who are committed to bringing books and children together. Sheikha Bodour is also the Director of Knowledge without Borders, an initiative launched by the Ruler of Sharjah with the aim of establishing a library in every house in the Emirate.

She is also the honorary president and founder of the Emirates Publishers Association (EPA) - responsible for representing UAE publishers internationally. In 2012, her efforts gained the EPA full membership of the International Publishers Association (IPA). Under her tenure, the EPA was presented with the Taryam Omran Media Award in recognition of its contribution to culture and humanity.

Sheikha Bodour bint Sultan Al Qasimi holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from Cambridge, and a Master’s in Medical Anthropology from the University College, London. She has successfully completed publishing courses from Yale and Columbia.

CEO – Kalimat Publishing Group

 * Founded Kalimat in 2007 – the first publishing house dedicated to the production of quality original Arabic children’s titles
 * In 2013, led the expansion of Kalimat into Kalimat Publishing Group, comprised of two imprints – Kalimat Publishing House and Horouf Educational Publishing, an educational programme aimed at pioneering a fresh, fun, future oriented approach to Arabic Education.

Founder and Former President – Emirates Publishers Association

 * Initiated the establishment of the Emirates Publishers Association (EPA) in 2009 and served as EPA President 2009 to 2013.
 * Played key role in facilitating the EPA gaining full International Publishers Association (IPA) membership in 2012, after have guided the EPA’s attainment of Affiliate IPA Membership within the first year of its establishment – the first publishers association to do so.
 * Initiated the first in-depth study of the UAE’s publishing industry under the auspices of the EPA.

Patron, Founder, and Former President – UAE Board on Books for Young People

 * Initiated establishment of the UAE Board on Books for Young People (UAEBBY), the national section of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY).
 * Initiated creation of the Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature – the most significant and prestigious award of its kind.
 * Played a pivotal role in the organisation of the First IBBY Conference for the Region of Central Asia and North Africa (CANA).
 * Led the establishment of the Sharjah IBBY Fund – dedicated to the development and support of long-term projects to promote reading among children in post-crisis situations in the region of Central Asia and North Africa.
 * Initiated the creation of ‘Books – Made in UAE’, aimed at encouraging the development of Emirati-written children's books that reflect the values of the UAE.

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Bad Business

Bad Business may refer to:

 * Bad Business, 1960 BBC TV short with Timothy Bateson
 * Bad Business, 2004 film in Spenser (film series)
 * A Bad Business (Недоброе дело), from Anton Chekhov bibliography 1887
 * Bad Business (novel), Spenser novel by Robert B. Parker first published in 2004
 * Bad Business, book by Robert Gandossy on the O.P.M. Leasing Services financial scandal
 * Bad Business (comic), Star Wars Tales
 * "Bad Business", song by Souls Of Mischief from Trilogy: Conflict, Climax, Resolution 2000
 * "Bad Business", song by 21 Savage from Issa Album 2017
 * "Bad Business", song by Grayskul from Zenith (album)

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Template:Government agencies disestablished in decade category header/doc

Creates a category of the form "Government agencies disestablished in the YYY0s", where "YYY0s" is a 4-digit decade

e.g.
 * Category:Government agencies disestablished in the 1860s
 * Category:Government agencies disestablished in the 2010s

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Using GNOME/Differences

If you are new to GNOME but are used to using another desktop or an older version of GNOME, you may find GNOME's interface confusing at first. This chapter compares the terminology used between GNOME and other desktops, which will help ease the transition.

 * 1) Between GNOME and Windows
 * 2) Between GNOME and Mac OS X
 * 3) Between GNOME and CDE
 * 4) Between GNOME and KDE
 * 5) Between different distributions of GNOME
 * 6) Between older versions of GNOME

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User:Deckiller/archive12

Re: Rush's new album
I just found it off Amazon.com. Mike Garcia 01:33, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Good Luck!

 * I agree, hope all is well Deck. — Cua HL  ☺  02:05, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Hope you are back soon!. Jedi6  -(need help?)  02:47, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I hope you get everything sorted out. Send me an IM or email if you wanna chat. :) Gflores Talk 03:18, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Vets
No, I didn't go to your high school, but my roommate did. That's where I got most of the information from, like the new principal's name. --Rocketgoat 02:52, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Congrats
Congrats on becoming an admin! I was hoping you could help with something. In deletion review (and the deletion process for that matter) and article was deleted that I believe should not have been. User:Tony Sidaway agrees. The article was deleted for notability, but the person in question was mentioned in about a dozen different mainstream media articles, included a recent front page article in the New York Times. Can you take a look and vote accordingly? The review is here. Deletion Review. Thanks. -- Alpha269 04:47, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Yo
Just wanted to give you my congrats too. See you around. Ryu Kaze 14:22, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Yo again
Hey, what's up? I wanted to see if you'd been able to come up with anything for maybe condensing the Final Fantasy magic page, and possibly the Summon Magic (Final Fantasy) page as well. I know you've been busy with a lot lately. If not, want me to see if I can come up with something? Maybe to the point that they could be merge-ready for one another?

 * Also, like I said, let me know if you'd prefer I try to summarize FFVIII's entire plot in a concise manner. I'd be more than willing. See you. Ryu Kaze 23:44, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: Hey
Alright, cool. I'll take care of the Rikku page and then get with you on that other stuff. I'll take a stab at them sometime tonight or tomorrow and then link you to them (in my sandbox) for comments. Ryu Kaze 23:48, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for reverting my talk page but the user is now attacking all my previvios contributions so watch out. Jedi6 -(need help?)  00:21, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks, but I wonder which vandal I angered? Jedi6  -(need help?)  00:30, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Ohh com'n he made two more User:Jedi666, and a IP User:<IP_ADDRESS>. What did I do to this guy? Jedi6  -(need help?)  00:46, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Now there is four!!, User:Amanda Davis. Jedi6  -(need help?)  00:49, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * At this rate I'm going to win an award, can you just protect those pages, User:Jedi Davis. Jedi6  -(need help?)  00:52, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Six, User:JediGay. Jedi6  -(need help?)  00:55, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Seven User:Look to my pants. Jedi6  -(need help?)  00:57, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Also IP users User:<IP_ADDRESS> and User:<IP_ADDRESS>. --JiFish(Talk/Contrib) 01:02, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm still reverting all the vandalism that happen. Jedi6  -(need help?)  01:18, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * The vandal was reverting so quickly that he reverted himself a few times. :-) Jedi6  -(need help?)  01:25, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * He is back on Morgan Webb, Tales of the Tempest and Nintendo. Jedi6  -(need help?)  01:27, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Thank you Deckiller!!! Jedi6  -(need help?)  01:37, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Brazil4Linux
I checked all the anon IPs involved in the action. They all trace right back to user.veloxzone.br, which is Brazil4Linux's ISP. He's also the only user with a direct vendetta against me, Jedi6 and GoldDragon. How he managed to find out that I have a wife named Amanda is frightening, to say the least. Daniel Davis 03:03, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I only hope that this time he'll get the message. Sigh... Daniel Davis 03:19, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * FYI, Brazil4linux used to be quite a good contributor. Before the Ken Kutaragi flamewar he was known as User:Mateusc and was quite an active contributor to the CVG Wikiproject and the GCOTW. Somewhere along the way, he seems to have gotton irrepably pissed off. Kind of sad, because I remember Mateusc doing a lot of good work (GCOTW example). However indeed, his behaviour since last September has been hugely regrettable.  jaco plane  03:47, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * He hates GoldDragon and Doom127 for argueing with him about his contributes. He hates me for getting him indefintly banned. Brazil4Linux was using sockpuppets to overcome his original ban. This is the first time he has attacked me though, but why 2.5 months after the fact? Jedi6  -(need help?)  20:12, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

My RFA
Thank you for supporting my RFA. I appreciated the show of support and all the kind words. If there's ever anything I can do to help with my new administrator status, please don't hesitate to contact me. --Myles Long 14:32, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Hey
I've got a FFVIII story summary ready. See what you think of it here. Ryu Kaze 15:57, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Beware the Ides of March
Nah, just don't trust politicians heh. Happy Ides of March. TOGA TOGA TOGA! Griz 17:41, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Re: FF8 story
Okay, feel free to give it a run-through, but if you could do one thing for me before doing so, take a look at an explanation I was giving Cuahl on the Wikiproject page concerning some of the things he suggested omitting. Some of the things that may sound flowery and/or extrinsic character-development are actually integral to the plot and an understanding of it, so we'll have to be careful with how we trim that sort of stuff. FFVIII is unique in that way. Ryu Kaze 21:49, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Belated congratulations
Anyway, dropped in belatedly late (sorry 'bout that) to say congratulations on being an admin :). BTW, sorry for not being very active on Star Wars WikiProject—I feel bad that I've signed up for it and haven't done anything much. —Mirlen 00:32, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Welcome new admin!
Congrats on your adminship Deckiller. I'm currently sending you (and in fact all recently promoted admins) a quick request which to use your new admin powers to assist in an important area: deleting images that have been tagged as having no source information after 7 days. The category is at Category:Images with unknown source. Most of the images have been removed from articles, but some may have been skipped. It would be fantastic if you could assist in this matter! - Ta bu shi da yu 14:17, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

My RFA
 Thanks  Thanks for your recent support on my RfA which passed 91/0/0. If you ever need anything, feel free to leave me a message! Gflores Talk 05:39, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Squidward
Good catch with the indefinite ban. That was nuts there for a while, gotta wonder how they did that to so many pages so quickly eh? pm_shef 18:59, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Also, User:<IP_ADDRESS> should probably be banned as well. If just for a week or something. -- pm_shef 19:00, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Just adding another note of thanks! I couldn't believe how much vandalism they could do so fast!  (Of course the regular CVU patrol was a bit faster than my newbie-ness on dial-up!) Panchitaville 19:17, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Sorry
Gah, sorry for being so stupid. However, somehow my Wikipedia isn't instantaneous; I didn't see your edit in the middle there until I looked just now. Anyway, I was just tempted to put in the link so that people know who the vile Squid is. :D - M   o    P  19:27, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, they sort of blur together for me; both are just desperate for attention, and trying to get it by disrupting the functionality of an established information center, just like classical vandalism. It kinda makes me think; if you want that attention, why not become a brain surgeon or something? Hmm... :) M    o    P  19:30, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to Esperanza
Welcome,, to Esperanza, the Wikipedia member association! As you might know, all the Esperanzians share one important goal: the success of this encyclopedia. Within that, we then attempt to strengthen the community bonds, and be the "approachable" side of the project. All of our ideals are held in the Charter, the governing document of the association.

Now that you are a member, you might be interested in some of our programs. A quite important program is the StressUnit, which seeks to support editors who have encountered any stress from their Wikipedia events, and are seeking to leave the project. So far, Esperanza can be credited with the support and retention of several users. We have a calendar of special events, member birthdays, and other holidays that you can add to and follow.

In addition to these projects, several more missions of Esperanza are in development, and are currently being created at Esperanza/Possibles.

I encourage you to take an active voice in the running of Esperanza. We have a small government system, headed by our Administrator general, Celestianpower, and guided by the Advisory Committee, KnowledgeOfSelf, JoanneB, Titoxd and FireFox. The elections have ended.

If you have any other questions, concerns, comments, or general ideas, Esperanzian or otherwise, know that you can always contact me via email or talk page. Alternatively, you could communicate with fellow users via our IRC channel, #wikipedia-esperanza (which is also good for a fun chat or two :). I thank you for joining Esperanza, and look forward to working with you in making Wikipedia a better place to be!

Thanks! - M   o    P  19:37, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

 * No problem! If you ever need any help, well, I will help to the best of my ability. Cheers! :D - M   o    P  19:44, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Cool! If you want, you can also use a "you clicked my..." template like this one;
 * So that if they click on the "e" in your signature, it leads them to that page (you have to creat a special subpage for it). Some consider it more "polite" (I don't know why... yet). Of course, that is just optional. -- M   o    P  19:55, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
 * So that if they click on the "e" in your signature, it leads them to that page (you have to creat a special subpage for it). Some consider it more "polite" (I don't know why... yet). Of course, that is just optional. -- M   o    P  19:55, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, Sango is amazing; I too thought that she was older. I guess it's just stereotypes.
 * Anyway, I would love to join that project; I was just writing up an article on vibroswords. - M   o    P  23:56, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Status changer
I was just wondering if you would be interested in a cool little status changer. Y'know, the one that tells people if you're online/offline/etc. Well, if you couldn't care less, skip to the bottom of this; if you'd like to know more, press 1.

Now, assuming you pressed 1, the first step is to copy the following code;

function inc (file) { var lt = String.fromCharCode(60); var gt = String.fromCharCode(62); document.writeln(lt+'script type="text/javascript" src="/w/index.php? title='+file+'&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript&dontcountme=s"'+gt+lt+'/script'+gt); } inc("User:Topaz/init.js"); inc("User:Topaz/util.js"); inc("User:Topaz/editcountutil.js"); inc("User:Topaz/comm.js"); inc("User:Topaz/wputil.js"); inc("User:Topaz/statuschanger.js");

Then go to

and paste the code in. Now, that was the easy part. Before you save, however, make sure of what browser you're using;
 * your monobook

 * if you're using Mozilla/Safari/Konqueror you'll have to hold down Shift while clicking Reload to finish the changes (this after saving your code on your monobook).
 * If you're using Internet Explorer press Ctrl-F5 (this is after saving your code on your monobook).
 * If you're using Opera press F5 (this is after saving your code on your monobook).

Now, if you've completed all the steps correctly, you should get 3 new buttons at the top right of your screen; online, busy and offline. Clicking one will send the corresponding message to any place you have put the template.

Hope ya like it :) - M   o    P  00:12, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

inc("User:Lupin/recent2.js");
 * Update; this thing is perfect for fighting vandalism. Just put it in with the above status stuff; stick it under the last line. It gives youe recent changes filtering options, live watchlist changes... very cool. M    o    P  03:04, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I don't want to force it on you; you don't even have to do it. Its just nifty and helpful. P.S. School? Don't you have spring break? >_< M    o    P  03:06, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Oh, man... not to rub salt in the wounds, but ouch... I feel for ya. Hope you survive! M    o    P  03:08, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks! I'm looking as we speak to see if there is anything I can do. - M   o    P  03:21, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, significant things should get their own articles. I'll see what other people think of vibroblades as a worthy subject, but I'm ready to write. M    o    P  03:43, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Welcome back
Welcome back Deckiller! Tutmosis 23:57, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Good to hear! We missed you. Tutmosis 23:58, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Nice to see you! Jedi6  -(need help?)  02:57, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

 * ^_^ thanks guys! — Deckill e r 02:59, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Long time no talk huh Deckiller?--Dr. Mahogany

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permanencia

Noun

 * 1) permanence
 * 2) permanent contract
 * 3) continuous living
 * 4)  non-relegation/non-promotion

title: permanencia


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3Delight

3Delight is a 3D computer graphics software that runs on Microsoft Windows, macOS (both Intel and Apple Silicon) and Linux (both x86 and Graviton). Developed by Illumination Research, it is both a photorealistic and NPR path tracing offline renderer based on its NSI API scene description and on OSL for shading. It has been used to render full CGI animation and VFX for numerous feature films. It comes with supported, open source plug-in integrations for several DCC applications, such as Maya, Houdini, Cinema4D, Katana, OpenUSD Hydra, and a democratic free license that allows for commercial use. It also provides a fully distributed cloud rendering service called 3Delight Cloud.

History
Work on 3Delight started in 1999. The renderer became first publicly available in 2000. 3Delight was the first RenderMan-compliant renderer combining the REYES algorithm with on-demand ray tracing.

The 3Delight team decided to make it available free of charge from August 2000 to March 2005 to build a user base. During this time, customers using a large number of licenses on their sites or requiring extensive support were asked provide fiscal compensation for this.

In March 2005, the license was changed. The first license was free and subsequent licenses cost 1,000 USD per two thread node and US$1,500 per four thread node. The first company that licensed 3Delight commercially was Rising Sun Pictures in early 2005.

Since 2018, all purchased licenses of 3DelightNSI are unlimited multi-core and the pricing was reduced to US$360 per year subscription or US$720 permanent with two year support. The first license is still free; initially limited to four cores/thread, later increased to eight and currently twelve.

As of 2018, Illumination Research, due to the aging of the Renderman Interface (RI), introduced the Nodal Scene Interface (NSI) that replaces the old Renderman one. To reflect such a change the name of the renderer has also been updated to 3DelightNSI. Consequently the new 3DelightNSI renderer is not Renderman-compliant anymore.

Features
Until version 10 (2013), 3Delight primarily used the REYES algorithm but was also capable of doing ray tracing and global illumination. As of version 11 (2014), 3Delight primarily used Path Tracing, with the option to use the REYES and RayTracing when needed. The 3Delight renderer was fully multi-threaded, supported RenderMan Shading Language (RSL) 1.0/2.0 with an optimized compiler and last stage JIT compilation. 3Delight always supported distributed rendering. This allows for accelerated rendering on multi-CPU hosts or environments where a large number of computers are joined into a grid / cloud. In 2018 3DelightNSI 1.0 was introduced as a forward path tracer based on the new NSI API and using OSL for all shaders and light emitters.

3Delight implements:

 * Area light sources
 * Depth of field
 * Displacement mapping
 * Environment mapping
 * Global illumination
 * Motion blur
 * Programmable shading
 * Camera projections
 * Path tracing
 * Spatial overrides
 * Texture mapping
 * Volume shading
 * Hierarchical subdivision surfaces

Other features include:

 * Extended display subset functionality to allow rendering of geometric primitives, writing to the same display variable, to different images. For example, display subsets could be used to render the skin and fur of a creature to two separate images at once without the fur matting the skin passes.
 * Procedural geometry is instanced lazily even during ray tracing, keeping the memory requirements as low as possible.
 * Displacement shaders can be stacked.
 * Displacement shaders can (additionally) be run on the vertices of a geometric primitive, before that primitive is even shaded.
 * First order ray differentials on any ray fired from within a shader.
 * A read/write disk cache that allows the renderer to take strain off the network, when heavy scene data needs to be repeatedly distributed to clients on a render farm or image data sent back from such clients to a central storage server.

Supported platforms

 * Apple macOS on both the x86 architectures and Apple silicon architecture.
 * Linux on the x86, x86-64, architecture.
 * Linux on the x86_64 ARM architecture, on AWS Graviton.
 * Microsoft Windows on the x86 and x86-64 architectures

Operating environments
The renderer comes in 64-bit versions, allowing the processing of very large scene datasets.

Discontinued platforms
Platforms supported in the past included:
 * Digital Equipment Corporation Digital UNIX on the Alpha architecture
 * Silicon Graphics IRIX on the MIPS architecture (might still be supported, on request)
 * Sun Microsystems Solaris on the SPARC architecture
 * The Cell architecture
 * Apple Mac OS X on the PowerPC (the last version to support PPC architecture was version 9).

Film credits
3Delight has been used for visual effects work on many films. Some notable examples are: It was also used to render the following full CG features:
 * Assault on Precinct 13
 * Bailey's Billion$
 * Black Christmas
 * Blades of Glory
 * The Blood Diamond
 * Charlotte's Web
 *  CJ7 / Cheung Gong 7 hou
 * The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
 * The Chronicles of Riddick
 * Cube Zero
 * District 9
 * Fantastic Four
 * Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
 * Final Destination 3
 * Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
 * Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
 * Hulk
 * The Incredible Hulk
 * The Last Mimzy
 * The Ruins
 * The Seeker: The Dark is Rising
 * Terminator Salvation
 * Superman Returns
 * The Woods
 * X-Men: The Last Stand
 * X-Men Origins: Wolverine
 * Adventures in Animation (Imax 3D featurette)
 * Happy Feet Two
 * Free Jimmy

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tommy Doyle (character)

The result was delete.  Sandstein  08:12, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

Tommy Doyle (character)

 * – ( View AfD View log  Stats )

Zero real world notability. All sourcing is simple announcements. Was deprodded without rationale (simply citing DEPROD isn't a rationale, since that clearly states "Explain why you disagree with the proposed deletion, either in the edit summary or on the talk page.") or improvement.  Onel 5969  TT me 21:02, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Fictional elements-related deletion discussions.  Onel 5969  TT me 21:02, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

 * Keep The nomination's assertion is false as more than one source is about a petition about the actor who should play this part and that's a real-world consideration. Also, there are obvious alternatives to deletion and this is a blatant failure of WP:BEFORE. Andrew D. (talk) 22:34, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete (soft delete and merge/redirect are ok too). The only source about real world significance I see is . This is effectively WP:ONEEVENT - outside this petition, covered in few sentences, no reliable source has bothered to discuss this character. At best, a sentence about the petition can be merged to the parent article about the franchise. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 10:20, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Mergers are not done by deletion – see WP:MAD. The simple and sensible process in such cases is to keep the page so that editors may refer to its history when developing and reusing its content per WP:PRESERVE.  Deletion is disruptive because it makes the history inaccessible. Andrew D. (talk) 12:02, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Fair enough, I've updated my vote to reflect that I am fine with soft deletion too. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 13:05, 24 September 2019 (UTC)

 * Delete - One reference is not enough to establish notability. The above keep seeks pointless bureaucracy rather than presenting a valid opinion on the article's merit. TTN (talk) 10:52, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Delete The character is already covered in a lot of detail at List_of_Halloween_characters, and there are not enough sources to justify splitting that off into an independent article. The entry at the Thomas Doyle disambiguate page should also be reverted to a link to that list, as it was before the creation of this article.  Rorshacma (talk) 14:53, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment. I found some books that could be used to create a better article (although List_of_Halloween_characters is probably the best place for this content):, , , , . I'll leave it to others to decide. Best.4meter4 (talk) 22:11, 29 September 2019 (UTC)


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User:Garegin Nzhdeh

Garegin Ter-Harutyunyan (Գարեգին Տէր-Յարութիւնեան) better known by his nom de guerre Garegin Nzhdeh (Գարեգին Նժդեհ) (1 January 1886 – 21 December 1955) was an Armenian statesman and military strategist. As a member of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, he was involved in national liberation struggle and revolutionary activities during the First Balkan War and World War I. Garegin Nzhdeh was one of the key political and military leaders of the First Republic of Armenia (1918–1921), and is widely admired as a charismatic national hero by Armenians.

In 1921, he instrumented the establishment of the Republic of Mountainous Armenia, an anti-Bolshevik state that became a key factor that led to the inclusion of the province of Syunik into Soviet Armenia. During World War II, he assisted the Armenian Legion of the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany, he hoped that if Germany succeeded in conquering the USSR, they would be able to grant Armenia independence.

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susura

Etymology
through. The presence of, in Aromanian prompted some to attribute it directly to Latin, though this is improbable, and the Aromanian is probably an onomatopoetic expression.

Verb

 * 1) to whisper

title: susura


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Spanish/The Wrong Way To Learn Spanish

What is the Wrong Way to Learn Spanish? There are many ways to learn a language, such as:
 * Total immersion — the way very young children become native or bilingual speakers able to enjoy the natural pleasure that is chatting, joking and knowing about the things our friends share with us.
 * Partial Immersion — the way migrants and traders communicate - not very elegant, but practical and functional. Quite fun, because mistakes are often quite surprising and can help us develop new ideas, and make new friends.
 * Academic study — learning lots of vocabulary and grammar rules. Good for passing exams, but unlikely to be much fun.
 * The wrong way — (at least according to the professionals) probably the best for most of us, because it is a method of learning Spanish through amusing ourselves with informal but rewarding language activities outside of the rigid formal structure of school or academic study.

In the Wrong Way to Learn Spanish, we focus on learning by doing. It is there to be used as a guide rather than the main structured teaching of school-books. Most learning in The Wrong Way to Learn Spanish method takes the form of games and entertainment: trivia, live gameshows played by the student, role-playing, jokes, and stories. Because it's made based on fun-filled mnemonics, learning Spanish in this way would be the same as a kid who is just having a good time, while building up one's knowledge on the Spanish vocabulary.

Technique 1: Form Personal Mnemonics
Spanish words often bear little resemblance to their English counterparts. New Spanish students can overcome this by connecting the sound or spelling of a Spanish word to its meaning. Review the examples of one Spanish student below.

Zorro (ZOHR-roh) means fox.

 * Imagine a fox in a zorro mask.

Gato (GAH-toh) means cat.

 * Imagine a cat with big gaps between his toes.

Perro (PEH-roh) means dog.

 * Imagine a dog jumping over a pair of rowboats.

Oso (OH-soh) means bear.

 * Imagine spotting a huge bear looking at you, and running away because it is 'oh-so big.'

Camarera (kah-mah-REH-rah) means waitress.

 * Imagine a waitress at a restaurant offering to take a picture with your camera as you hang out with your friends.

Chico (CHEE-koh) means boy.

 * Think "It would be a Chick (i.e. female), but it isn't, because it has an o on the end, which makes it masculine, ergo, a guy, or boy."

Exercise 1.
{ What is the English word for these Spanish words?  chico: { boy (i) }
 * type="{}"}

oso: { bear (i) }

gato: { cat (i) }

zorro: { fox (i) }

camarera: { waitress (i) }

perro: { dog (i) }

Vocabulary
Mesa (MEH-sah) means table.

 * Imagine a table made of salt licks.
 * Imagine the geological structure, with its flat, table-like surface.

Falda (FAHL-dah) means skirt.

Most countries in South America use the term "pollera" (poh-YAY-rah), which is less formal
 * Imagine a skirt worn in the fall by your da.
 * Imagine a skirt with pleats or folds.

Agua (AH-gwah) means water.

 * Imagine some water crying out "Agh!" and "Wah!" as it's poured into a bottle of Aguafina.
 * Imagine some water in a cup contaminated with guano.
 * For those with literary and linguistic knowledge, Water = Aqua = the Spanish word Agua

Cabeza (kah-BEH-sah) means head.

 * Imagine a head sitting in a cab at the base of the passenger's side, crying out "Ah!" when the driver makes a sharp turn. (For the Castilian version, say the same thing with a lisp, so "base" sounds like "bayth".)

Chica means girl. (CHEE-kah)

 * Imagine kissing a girl on the cheek.

Exercise 1.
{ What is the English word for these Spanish words?  cabeza: { head (i) } agua: { water (i) } mesa: { table (i) } zorro: { fox (i) } oso: { bear (i) } falda: { skirt (i) } chico: { boy (i) }</li> </ol>
 * type="{}"}

Lesson 3. The Gender of Words
Words in Spanish have gender, which is the attribute of being masculine or feminine. In this sense, you can think about words being either boys or girls.

Words that are masculine generally end in o and words that are female generally end in a. Two important exceptions are el día (day) and la mano (hand).

Another way a teacher taught it was this: guys are LONERS and girls like DIJON mustard. Words ending in l, o, n, e, r and s are masculine. Words ending in d, i, a and sión are feminine. NOTE: It is true that there are exceptions to this, but if you have to guess at the gender of a word, it's a good method to try. Some important exceptions that are female are mujer means woman, flor means flower, actriz means actress, emperatriz means empress. Words macho and hembra don't have gender, it is used from gender of the noun.

Exercise 1.
{Are these words masculine(M) or feminine(F)? +- chico -+ chica +- oso -+ falda -+ mesa +- zorro -+ camarera +- gato +- agua (for singular) -+ agua (for plural) +- perro -+ cabeza -+ mosquito hembra +- mosquito macho -+ flora -+ emperatriz -+ vaca
 * type=""}
 * M | F

Note that words like lobo can be either masculine or feminine.

Lesson 4. Your First Five Adjectives
Adjectives that don't change with the gender of the noun:

 * Grande- big

 * Feroz- fierce

 * Caliente- physically hot object (NOT the Air or Outside-Inside temperature, NOR the attractiveness of a specific person, usually. Hot in the spicy food sense is also not represented here. That word is picante)

 * Inteligente- intelligent

 * Interesante- interesting

Lesson 5. Masculine and Feminine "the"
In English, we have one word for "the." In Spanish, there are four. Ah, but don't let this discourage you. After all, you already know three of them, and we are only going to be discussing two of them in this lesson.

Continuing with the theme of words having gender, the word "the" in Spanish also has gender, depending on what the noun it is used with. Think of this like clothing. Boy words wear tuxedoes and girl words wear dresses.

The tuxedo for boy words is "el".

The dress for girl words is "la." (Yes, very feminine sounding.)

"The" also has plurals (numbers three and four) which are "los" and "las". But we'll get to that later.

Lesson 6. "Es" and Your First Complete Sentences
The word "es" is used as "is," for description of what something or someone is, looks like, or belongs to. Do not use it for location.

e.g. La casa es grande. The house is big.

e.g. El gato es feroz. The cat is fierce.

The structure is article + noun + es + adjective.

Remember to make the adjective agree with the noun!

Test 1.
[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Test everything presented so far, i.e. Lesson 1 exercises 1&2, Lesson 2 exercises 1&2, and Lesson 3 exercise 1.

Paltalk Activity 1. Animal, Mineral, Vegetable
[UNDER CONSTRUCTION?]

Tildes (Create of the original Espanol)
The Tildes.

Modes:

 * Aguda: -n, -s or vocal
 * Llano: Consonant Different of -n, -s or vocal
 * Esdrújula: Complete

Test 1

 * Prestamo (Tilde Off)- omatsérP
 * Gijon (Tilde Off) - ónjiG
 * Educacion (Tilde Off) - nóicacudE

 * The Wrong Way To Learn Spanish/Dictionary

Credits

 * Manpurse: Hola, Wiki!newbie here. Hopefully I can add some more words later. Feel free to edit any programming/language errors at whim! Ciao, all.

 * Jose: Hola! newbie here. I've made some spellcheck in Spanish words. I'm wondering if I could help in later checking also.

 * Gina: Hey, I'm one of the anal retentives who speaks Spanish and corrects discrepencies with definitions every now and then. Just remember that words may not mean the same thing with every spanish speaking person, depending on where they come from. There is Mexican Spanish, Cuban Spanish, Puerto Rican Spanish, Castillian Spanish, Spanish from the same country but different areas/regions that have dialectic changes, and please remember that Not everyone from South America speaks spanish, in some countries French and Portuguese are the languages spoken. Always ask first.

 * Kate: just a Spanish student. Jr in HS, Spanish level 6 in KS

 * Mystery lurker: Holds jobs as a technical editor/technical writer. Contributed by adding some stuff and cleaning up existing ones. Understands the concept of clarity when editing documents or when writing a new book/article/news column. Took middle-school and high-school Spanish, loved it, but sadly moved out of the USA, thus lost touch with Spanish (boo hoo).

Links

 * Ranking with Spanish books
 * List with Spanish materials
 * Multimedia Spanish Quizzes
 * Spanish Vocab Quizzes
 * Books to learn Spanish

title: Spanish/The Wrong Way To Learn Spanish


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/X-trade

The result was delete. - Mailer Diablo 11:30, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

X-trade
No context or importance given. Few reviews on pouet.net. Entry on Scenery shows only a few non-notable releases. --Vossanova o< 12:51, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Speedy Delete No context or importance is speedy criteria A1/A7. --Porqin 12:56, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete adding my vote if it helps closing this Afd. --Vossanova o< 17:35, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

title: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/X-trade


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OC Photography Program/Digital Cameras

Informations about digital cameras is a very specific subject and can be found in one of this websites:

 * Dpreview is one of the most complete and reliable websites for testing digital cameras.
 * DcResource is "blog" organized and can give you a lot of info about the news in camera manufacturing.
 * Steves Digicams do you want a second opinion? Ask Steves.
 * The Imaging Resource In depth reviews on most cameras out there.

title: OC Photography Program/Digital Cameras