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Acertainkindof is a user whose importance is not of much importance. He likes bricks, wood, pavement, flowers, walls, chimneys, and socks.

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Talk:Tim Bowles (attorney)

Article listed for deletion - AfD round 4
Please see Articles_for_deletion/Tim_Bowles_%284th_nomination). Orsini 01:54, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you for posting this, I had not even known that the deletion review was finished... Smee 07:18, 25 April 2007 (UTC).
 * Come to think of it, there is probably enough material in citations from reputable secondary sources to do an article on Steven L. Hayes..., , [www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38f698c71386.htm]  Smee 07:32, 25 April 2007 (UTC).

Fishman & Geertz
Is it true that Tim Bowles was the lead attorney during Church of Scientology v Fishman & Geertz ? -- Antaeus Feldspar 04:19, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Don't know, but I notice the lawyers.com site lists Christofferson v. Church of Scientology of Portland, et al., 57 Or.App. 203, 644 P.2d 577 (1981) as one of Tim Bowles' own cases. (I wanted to verify which round of Christofferson v. Church of Scientology it was before adding to the article. It was certainly a notable case, and not part of Moxon & Kobrin) AndroidCat 05:01, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

 * Yes, this has been added to the article, with sourced secondary citation from WP:RS. Smee 04:22, 29 April 2007 (UTC).

American Lawyer, "The Two Faces of Scientology"
Tim Bowles appears to be identified in a 1992 American Lawyer article, "The Two Faces of Scientology", as one of the lead lawyer's for the attempt to open up Narconon's Chilocco center. I can't seem to get hold of the actual article, however. -- Antaeus Feldspar 04:59, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
 * mailed. --Tilman 16:39, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

attempt to shudder into silence
1992, Tim Bowles attempted to prevent a newspaper from reporting about the Corydon book. The newspaper reported anyway, and printed his letter too:. If needed, I do also have the article with the full letter. --Tilman 16:34, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I've now added it. I see it was already in the article about the book, which I've slightly changed. --Tilman 06:37, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Was the letter and Bowles' actions only pertinent to the Corydon book, or others as well? Smee 06:38, 30 April 2007 (UTC).

 * No, only the Corydon book:

Re: Review of Bent Corydon Book

Dear Mr. Rahdert: I represent a number of Churches of Scientology.

It has come to my attention that a Mr. Koff and perhaps others at the St. Petersburg Times are considering publication of a review of L. Ron Hubbard, Messiah or Madman? by Bent Corydon.

We have evidence that your paper has a deep-seated bias against the Church and that you intend to hit the Church hard with this review. You are the only even semi-major paper that is bothering to consider a review of this book. In light of this it is quite apparent and can be proved that your motives in reviewing this book are not literary or for putting forth "news," but are to attack and denigrate the Church through any vehicle you find available.

Corydon's book is so scandalous, full of lies and unprofessional that no major publication has touched it. If you forward one of his lies you will find yourself in court facing not only libel and slander charges, but also charges for conspiracy to violate civil rights. If you publish anything at all on it, you may still find yourself defending charges in court in light of what we know about your intentions. We know a whole lot more about your institution and motives than you think.

Very truly yours, Timothy Bowles. --Tilman 07:01, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

So Bowles intention was clearly to smash freedom of the press. His theme seems to harp on "Anything you say about us will harm us" I wonder what Bowles thinks the intentions of the St. Pete Times are? He makes the intentions of the CofS quite clear, to harass with lawsuits and threatening letters. Real nice institution that is.--Fahrenheit451 16:31, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
 * That letter is amazing.--Gloriamarie 20:05, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

Not CEO of MRB Group
This Tim Bowles is not to be confused with Tim Bowles, former chief executive of MRB Group, the London-based parent of Simmons Market Research Bureau. --Bejnar (talk) 23:21, 26 July 2012 (UTC)

Church of Scientology legal counsel
He personally states he worked as general legal counsel for Church of Scientology International for eight years, but doesn't specific the exact years. Does anyone have a source for the exact period of time he worked for CSI? Laval (talk) 14:04, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

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Latin/Grammatical Definitions

=Glossary of Grammatical Definitions=

Ablative:
The ablative case is an almost adverbial case which also takes many praepositiones. It is not surprising that many adjectives become adverbs by use of the ablative singular case. The ablative case can denote precise position in time or space and thus takes praepositiones such as in and ab. However in looser definitions of time and space, the accusative case is used. For example 'in tres dies', in three days time. 'circum agrum', around the field.

Accusative:
The noun which is in the accusative case is the object of a sentence. E.g. 'The boy runs home.' 'home' is considered to be in the accusative case because it is direct object of the transitive verb 'run'. As well, certain praepositiones take the accusative case.See Direct Object and Case.

Defective:
Defective verbs are verbs which cannot be conjugated in all tenses, moods, numbers, and persons.

Deponent:
Deponent verbs are verbs which appear mainly in the passive case and have active meanings. For example colloquor 'I talk'.

Direct Object:
The noun which is the direct object of a transitive verb. See Case, Accusative.

Genitive:
A noun in the genitive case is said to ecompass the sense of origin. Thus the genitive usually can be equated to the possesive case in English, although it does occasionally take upon additional meanings. E.g. 'The book of Daniel', 'of Daniel' is said to be in the genitive case. See case.

Impersonal Verbs:
Impersonal Verbs are verbs which cannot take a subject, such as the verb 'to rain'. One cannot say 'Daniel is raining', or 'The car is raining', both are grammatically incorrect. The verb 'to rain' can only take the subject 'it', thus 'It's raining'. This can be said to be true with the Latin word for raining 'pluit'.

Indirect Object:
The indirect object is said to be equivelent to the dative case. See Dative, Case.

Locative:
The locative case is an archaic case which remains in certain nouns (such as domus) meaning 'at'. For example, 'domi' means 'at home'.

Nominative:
The noun which is in the nominative case is the subject of the sentence or verb. E.g. The boy runs home. 'The boy' is the subject of the sentence and therefore is in the nominative case. See Subject and Case.

Noun (nomen):
A noun is a part of speech which is divided into three branches: Substantivum, Adjectivum, and Pronomen. A noun in the Latin language is defined as anything that can be thought of or conceived. People, places, things, abstract concepts and qualities are thought to be nouns. Most nouns are said to be declinable (nihil is an obvious exception). See Case, Declension, Parts of Speech, Sentence.>

Person:
A finite verb is said to have person. Person refers to the subject of the verb. A verb must conjugate to the corresponding form of the subject person. There are said to be three persons. First Person, referring to 'I or We', Second person, referring to 'Thou' or 'Ye', and third person referring to 'He, She, It, or They'. A person can be said to be singular or plural in number. Each Third persons are said to have gender. The gender of the subject of a verb in the third person is determined by context if their is no noun in the nominative case present in the sentence, placing a demonstrative pronomen in the nominative case in the desired gender as subject, or if a noun in the nominative case is present, by referring to the gender of the subject noun.

Personal Verbs:
Personal Verbs are verbs which can take a person or object as subject.

Sentence:
A group of words which has at least a verb and a subject and is in a grammatically correct order. Subject: The noun that is in the nominative case. See Nominative and Case.

Tense:
The time period an action took place. Tense is determined by a suffix. Each tense is conjugated differently. There are said to be six tenses in total in the Latin language: Present Imperfect, Future Imperfect, Past Imperfect, Present Perfect, Future Perfect and Past Perfect. These may also be referred to as respectively: Present, Future, Imperfect, Perfect, Future Perfect and Pluperfect.

Voice:
Verbs may be either passive or active in construct. Subjects in active constructs of verbs typically perform the action, while in passive constructs suffer or are affected by the action. E.g. 'Daniel runs home.' has the verb 'run' in the active voice. 'Daniel was destroyed.' In this sentence Daniel is affected by the destruction, thus is in the passive tense. See Verb, Deponent.

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Talk:USS Ranger (1777)

Illustration
There exists an illustration of the vessel that would be excellent for this entry, visible at SeacoastNH.com; however, I am unsure if this image is fair game for inclusion. This image is by Bill Gilkerson, possibly of the late 1990s, probably produced for inclusion in a book of some kind. I cannot seem to locate another copy of this image elsewhere, except at the now-defunct Ranger Foundation (which was only found through a Google image search). Huntster 04:12, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Maine, not New Hampshire
The article says USS Ranger was built in New Hampshire, but the box on the right says Maine. "The History of the American Sailing Navy" by Howard I. Chapelle, Bonanza Books, New York (W. W. Norton) 1949, says Built by James K. Hackett, Portsmouth, NH. However, "Minstrelsy of Maine" by Fanny Hardy Eckstorm and Mary Winslow Smyth, Houghton Mifflin (Riverside Press Cambridge, Mass.) 1927 has two versions of a ballad about Ranger (though one, for reasons unknown, calls her The Stately Southerner). A note by the collectors -- probably by Mrs. Smyth -- says Ranger, the first war vessel to fly the Stars and Stripes, was built on Badger's Island, which is in Maine (though across from Portsmouth), and a bronze tablet marks the spot.2604:2000:2907:8700:1C52:20B:CB03:B665 (talk) 15:49, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Badger's Island near Navy Yard Future site
Badger's Island near Navy Yard Future site. The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard was authorized by a Federal US government and Founded in 1800 or 1801 on Seavy Island a short distance down river from the RANGER's build site - a private Shipyard. Also note John Paul Jones was the prospective commanding officer and government superintendant of her construction. Today different persons and entities perform those functions. Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is in the State of Maine. Shipyards and Navy Yards often carry the Name of the closest city but are in seperate towns. Norfolk Naval Shipyard is in Portsmouth Virginia - accross the Elizabeth River from Norfolk 2601:19E:4081:B140:0:0:0:ADB6 (talk) 03:31, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

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Lower Hutt Central Fire Station

Lower Hutt Central Fire Station is a former fire station in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. When it was built in 1955 it was considered to be one of the most modern fire stations in the southern hemisphere.

The fire station is strongly influenced by the work of architect Frank Lloyd Wright. It was designed to represent a post war, modern city, with expanding industry and state housing projects.

The building along with the Lower Hutt town hall, civic administration building and war memorial library saw the city become a symbol of post-war modernist construction during the 1950s.

When the station first opened it included such features as a control room where the fire engines could be started and stopped remotely, and the appliance doors could open automatically. It was the first fire station in New Zealand to have the technology to record calls.

In the mid-2000s, the New Zealand Fire Service reviewed its coverage of Lower Hutt. On 15 January 2007, the station closed along with fire stations at Petone and Point Howard, with crews and engines split between three new stations at Alicetown, Avalon and Seaview. These three career stations are backed up by volunteer brigades at Stokes Valley, Wainuiomata and Eastbourne.

Since then, the building has been unoccupied and suffered from vandalism. In 2010 the station was officially protected from demolition by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust (since renamed to Heritage New Zealand).

The station was purchased by property developer Mike Friday in November 2015, who is planning to renovate the station into apartments.

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Cookbook talk:Giblet Soup

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Talk:St Stephen's Chapel, Brisbane

Andrew Petrie's role
Why does Andrew Petrie get mentioned in the criteria but nowhere else? Kerry (talk) 00:31, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

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gwaan

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Verb

 * 1) go on - used to shoo away animals.

Etymology
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Verb

 * 1) going on, to go on
 * 2) to happen
 * 3) to behave
 * 1) to happen
 * 2) to behave
 * 1) to behave
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Surgical Procedures/Adenoidectomy

Adenoids, or pharyngeal tonsils, are folds of lymphatic tissue covered by ciliated epithelium. They are found in the roof and posterior wall of the nasopharynx at the back of the throat behind the uvula.

Adenoids are part of the immune system as they trap inhaled viruses and produce antibodies, particularly in children. This function decreases with age as the adenoids shrink. Because of this, the problems caused by enlarged adenoids rarely occur in adults.

The condition where hypertrophy of the pharyngeal tonsils occurs is also referred to as adenoids. Enlarged adenoids can obstruct breathing through the nose, and it is common when this happens for them to be surgically removed in a procedure called adenoidectomy. This procedure is carried out through the mouth under a general anaesthetic and involves the adenoids being curetted or cauterised. Sleep apnoea, recurrent infection of the adenoids or distorted speech are also reasons for adenoidectomy. The procedure is often carried out at the same time as a tonsillectomy. Adenoidectomy is also carried in patients who have chronic ear infections caused by the adenoids blocking the eustachian tube.

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User:Cambrass

Chrisie's Wiki Page
"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." ~Pre~

<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Email Chrisie]

I am a graduate student at Indiana University studying Instructional Systems Technology (IST). I (and the rest of my class) will be creating an instructional design learning unit for wikiversity!

More to come!

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Stephen Bethlen

Stephen Bethlen de Iktár (1582 – 23 December 1648) was the Prince of Transylvania in late 1630.

Early life
Stephen was the younger of the two sons of Farkas Bethlen de Iktár and Druzsiána Lázár de Szárhegy. He was born in his father's estate, Marosillye (now Ilia in Romania), in 1582.

He was the younger brother of Gabriel Bethlen, Prince of Transylvania between 1613-1629 and King-elect of Hungary.

According to contemporaries, Stephen Bethlen was rather poorly educated. Nevertheless, some people saw in him a successor who was to continue the policies of his brother, the prince. Gabriel Bethlen did everything in his power to equip and strengthen his younger brother with privileges. He gave him the castle of Khust and made him Voivode for life of Hunyad (Hunedoara) and owner of the Hunedoara castle (today part of Romania) and property in Máramaros County.

After the death of his brother, Stephen Bethlen tried on January 25, 1630 without success to take over the reign from his sister-in-law Catherine of Brandenburg. On September 28, 1630 he was more successful and raised to the rank of Prince of Transylvania in Kolozsvár, but he resigned after only 60 days later on November 26, 1630 in Segesvár. On December 1, 1630, George I Rákóczi was elected as new Prince of Transylvania by the Transylvanian state parliament.

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Mitridate (Porpora)

Mitridate is an opera by Nicola Antonio Porpora to a libretto by Filippo Vanstriper premiered in Rome in 1730. Porpora and revived and revised the work for London (1736) with actor-manager and librettist Colley Cibber in direct competition with Handel's opera house. The London version of the opera was performed for the 250th anniversary of Porpora's death at the Festival "Winter in Schwetzingen" Directed by Jacopo Spirei, conducted by Felice Venanzoni (November 2017 to February 2018).

The opera was written for the castrati Farinelli, Senesino and the famous soprano Francesca Cuzzoni, the original Cleopatra.

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Harriet A. Brown

Harriet A. Brown (February 20, 1847 - 1930) was an inventor who patented "The Harriet A. Brown system," a dress cutting and making system.

Early life
Harriet A. Brown was born in Augusta, Maine, on February 20, 1847. She was of Scotch parentage.

Career
By contact with working girls Harriet A. Brown learned of the long hours, hard work and small wages of which most of them complained, and her ardent desire was to alleviate their distress. Brown conceived the idea of establishing a regular school of training for women who desired to make themselves self-supporting, and, on the solicitation of many prominent and philanthropic women of Boston, she opened the Dress-Cutting College in that city on October 17, 1886. In opening her college, she had the cooperation of those who induced her to establish such a school in Boston, but the underlying ideas, the scientific rules for dress-cutting, the patented system used, and all the methods of instruction, were her own.

The chief aim of the institution was to be one in which girls of ability and taste, who were engaged in stores, workshops and kitchens, could find employment for which they were better adapted. Brown's system of cutting was the result of years of study. All its points she had thoroughly mastered, and had succeeded in patenting rules for cutting, and also obtained the only patent for putting work together.

She received numerous medals and diplomas as testimonials of the superiority of her methods, and her system was used the leading industrial schools and colleges of the country. Delegates from the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, after investigating all the principal European methods, adopted Brown's system. It was one of the regular features of the Moody Schools, Northfield, Massachusetts, where young women were educated for missionary work.

Brown was an occasional contributor to the newspaper press.

In 1902 she wrote "Scientific dress cutting and making, "The Harriet A. Brown system," simplified and improved; directions for its use".

Personal life
Harriet A. Brown married Albert G. Brown (1848–1935) and had two children: Walter G. (1871–1872) and Clara G. (1886–1895). She died in 1930 and is buried at Brown Cemetery, Voluntown, New London, Connecticut.

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guadagnarsi

Verb

 * 1) to obtain something useful
 * 2) to win thanks or merit
 * 1) to win thanks or merit

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dynamic Multipoint Virtual Private Network

The result was keep. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:12, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

Dynamic Multipoint Virtual Private Network

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There are no independent sources, and seems to be no validatable notability Eddie891 Talk Work 16:46, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep Multiple independent sources discussing the subject in depth e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 etc etc --Pontificalibus (talk) 17:01, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep A simple WP:BEFORE-type search shows quite a few books and and scholarly articles discussing this type of VPN in some depth or as the subject of the article; has linked some of these sources above. Searching for "Dynamic Multipoint  VPN" yields even more results. Seems a clear pass of notability guidelines per WP:GNG. --Mark viking (talk) 20:39, 21 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Keep per above. -- Gpc62 (talk) 17:37, 24 September 2017 (UTC)


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User:SH3RIFFO/sandbox

This, indeed is, an Awesome class.

Level III
Banana

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York U

Broken Link

York University is the best university.

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Functions of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit organization that oversees the use of technological resources. It protects the rights and freedoms of those using modern technology. Some of their tasks include ensuring user privacy. It also facilitates free expression of opinions through media sources. The EFF promotes innovation through analyzing related policies, setting rules and protocols regarding their use, and developing supporting technologies. It regulates the use of open source software. There are mechanisms put in place by the body to ensure that unauthorized persons do not infiltrate encrypted files. It checks on and works towards curbing illegal surveillance by unauthorized parties.

Composition of the EFF
The EFF has employed several professionals to aid in their course. One, they have attorneys who deal with legal matters. The institution also works hand in hand with technologists to facilitate the development and smooth use of technologies. Activists that defend the users of technology and fight for their rights and freedoms are also part of EFF. Being a non-profit organization, EFF depends on the funding of citizens and other well-wishers to sustain its operations and continue offering its services.

Criteria for Evaluating Tech-companies’ Performance
The EFF believes that safeguarding technology users and developers’ rights and freedoms is having their back. They call for social media and technology firms to embrace the attitude of having their users’ back especially when the government comes calling. However, while some companies have performed exemplary, others have scored low upon research in how they protect the users and developers of their software. Surprisingly, the most prominent industries are the ones that rate poorest. Only a few tech companies have been able to get the full five-star rating of the EFF”s “Who has your back scorecard”. The five stars represent the following options: Adhering to industry-wide best practices. Alerting or notifying users to government requests for their data and protecting them from the same when possible, is another basis for evaluation. Fulfilling the promise to preserve user privacy and anonymity is another criteria used to rate these firms. Ability to challenge National Security Letters gag orders which comes along with the request to access user data depicts how active and robust a company is when it comes to protecting the rights of its users. Finally, such firms ought to ensure a pro-user public policy is followed. These five options are the criteria used for evaluating tech companies in the report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

"Who Has Your Back?" Reports and Ratings by the EFF since 2011
There are many reports released by EFF, rating various technology firms, with the most recent of them published this year. All these reports are five-star ratings based on the criteria or options described above. In the 2017 publication, technological giants that were given a clean pass in all the five determining factors were Adobe, Pinterest, Uber, Sonic, Credo mobile, Lyft, Dropbox, Wickr and WordPress. Those that came close to accomplishing the task with four stars were Google, Yahoo, Apple, LinkedIn, Slack, Microsoft and Facebook. The lowest rated ones included WhatsApp and Amazon with two stars, Comcast, T-Mobile, and Verizon all with one star. This low rating meant that their performance in some of the aspects was wanting.

Some companies have managed to achieve the incredible feat of high rating year after year, as indicated in the 2016 and 2011 reports. In the 2016 report which had six stars, Uber and Lyft earned credit in all aspects, as was the case in 2017. These companies had not yet come to be in the year 2011 when the EFF began its rating. However, a close look at the 2011 report shows considerable improvements by some companies to date. Apple, Microsoft, and Yahoo all who had a twenty-five percent star rating back then have now upgraded to an eighty percent rating. Dropbox has shown the most significant improvement, shooting from twenty-five to one hundred percent.

Extra / Opinion?
It is the responsibility of technology companies to protect the data of their users from being accessed by unauthorized parties. When the government comes calling, these firms have to ensure that they notify users before handing it over. If it is against the user’s wishes, or there are some suspicions over questionable dealings, it is up to them to protect this information and stand up even to the National security Letter orders. They should also initiate bills seeking to defend their clients in Congress and court.

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'Who Has Your Back?' by the The Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Who Has Your Back reports have been published since 2010, by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, offering an overview of the policies large technology and communications companies adopt when confronted by law enforcement demands. The latest reports are written by Nate Cardozo (Senior Staff Attorney), Jennifer Lynch (Senior Staff Attorney), Andrew Crocker (Staff Attorney), Reiney Reitman (Activism Director) and Kurt Opsahi (Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel). The authors were assisted Hugh D’Andrade and Gennie Gebhart. The EFF has dedicated itself to ensuring proper channels are followed to protect users and their data from the government. This is because the boom of the “gig” economy has brought companies that give users the ability to sell and purchase services from each other. Aside from offering outstanding services to clients these companies maintain databases that contain sensitive user data collected through the digital fingerprint they leave online. Such data can show individual habits like where a person eats, sleeps and travels to. It is important that users are notified when law enforcement agencies request for their data. The EFF requires that data should only be made accessible when the agency requesting the data has a warrant from a court. The EFF reports have also encouraged companies to raise their standards to ensure that they protect user data from the government. The EFF also encourages that “gig” companies conform to their public policies regarding protection of user data.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit organization that oversees the use of technological resources. It protects the rights and freedoms of those using modern technology. Some of their tasks include ensuring user privacy. It also facilitates free expression of opinions through media sources. The EFF promotes innovation through analyzing related policies, setting rules and protocols regarding their use, and developing supporting technologies. It regulates the use of open source software. There are mechanisms put in place by the body to ensure that unauthorized persons do not infiltrate encrypted files. It checks on and works towards curbing illegal surveillance by unauthorized parties. The EFF also publishes reports that evaluate the performance of technology and communication companies in response to government requests.

'Who Has Your Back' Reports
Since 2010, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has published reports offering an overview of the policies large technology and communications companies should adopt to ensure they protect users from data requests by the government, including telling users about such requests. The latest reports are written by Nate Cardozo (Senior Staff Attorney), Jennifer Lynch (Senior Staff Attorney), Andrew Crocker (Staff Attorney), Rainey Reitman (Activism Director) and Kurt Opsahi (Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel). Hugh D’Andrade and Gennie Gebhart assisted the authors.[4] The EFF has dedicated itself to ensuring proper channels are followed to protect users and their data from the government. This is because the boom of the “gig” economy has brought companies that give users the ability to sell and purchase services from each other. Aside from offering outstanding services to clients these companies maintain databases that contain sensitive user data collected through the digital fingerprint they leave online.[2] Such data can show individual habits like where a person eats, sleeps and travels to. It is important that users are notified when law enforcement agencies request for their data. The EFF requires that data should only be made accessible when the agency requesting the data has a warrant from a court. The EFF reports have also encouraged companies to raise their standards to ensure that they protect user data from the government. The EFF also encourages that “gig” companies conform to their public policies regarding protection of user data.

In its 2017 “Who Has Your Back?” report, the nonprofit found that every company under evaluation had adopted industry wide baseline best practices including that they all published transparency reports and required a warrant before they could give the government user information.[4] further, the study found that telecoms including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Comcast were the worst performing companies as it relates to user privacy and transparency.[4] The report concluded that telecom companies have chosen to prioritize government’s data requests rather than prioritize user privacy. The report found that two technology companies, Amazon and WhatsApp, lagged behind other technology companies on various areas. One, they lack effective public policies relating to notifying users when government requests for their data, they have not made a public declaration to request for review of NSLS in the courts, and they failed to meet EFF’s criteria on revealing users. [4] The reports in 2011 show that companies like Twitter and Google have tried to conform to user data protection standards put forward by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.[6] Twitter fights for the privacy of user data in courts and in Congress. Google also publishes a list of the users whose data was requested, and the demands made. This is in line with EFFs requirement to be transparent with users when the government demands access to sensitive information. This gives users the opportunity to defend themselves. [6]

According to a report by “Ars Technica”, WhatsApp, comcast and AT&T are among the lowest scorers in the latest Who Has Your Back reports.[4] The goals of the report are to describe how technology companies behave in regard to user data when government requests access to such data. The methodology involves evaluating companies based on five categories. They are a company follows industry best practice, promises not to sell out users, stands up to NSL gag orders, and a company is pro-user in its public policy. [3] Twitter has been hailed for how it dealt with requests from the Central Intelligence Agency to remit user data. This contrasts with how WhatsApp corporation dealt with user data. Despite embracing end to end encryption WhatsApp has not taken sufficient measures to earn a full star rating in the who has your back reports. Users are also encouraged to participate in ensuring their data is protected and that they are informed in case any government agency needs access to their data.

Criteria for Evaluating Tech-companies’ Performance
The EFF believes that safeguarding technology users and developers’ rights and freedoms is having their back.[4] They call for social media and technology firms to embrace the attitude of having their users’ back especially when the government comes calling. However, while some companies have performed exemplary on protecting the privacy of users and being transparent, others have scored low upon research in how they protect the users and developers of their software. Surprisingly, the most prominent industries are the ones that rate poorest. Only a few tech companies have been able to get the full five-star rating of the EFF” s “Who has your back scorecard”. The five stars represent the following options: Adhering to industry-wide best practices. Alerting or notifying users to government requests for their data and protecting them from the same when possible, is another basis for evaluation. Fulfilling the promise to preserve user privacy and anonymity is another criterion used to rate these firms. Ability to challenge National Security Letters gag orders which comes along with the request to access user data depicts how active and robust a company is when it comes to protecting the rights of its users. Finally, such firms ought to ensure a pro-user public policy is followed. These five options are the criteria used for evaluating tech companies in the report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Since, the publication of the first ‘who has your back’ report the criteria for evaluation has become more stringent. According the latest report, companies do not earn credit for having a public policy that protects user data from the government; they must notify clients before data is handed over to the client.[4] This has encouraged good practices in terms of privacy and more companies are adhering to these standards. Invasive access by the government is analysed in the report using specific and measurable guidelines. The evaluation criteria is quite tough for tech companies like WhatsApp and Amazon. According to the latest report, Amazon and WhatsApp have adopted the industry-accepted practices but have failed to adopt strong public policies to alert users of government requests. They have also failed to meet the EFF’s criterion of not selling out users. They do not openly promise clients to review NSL gag orders in court.

In addition to the above evaluation criteria, companies earned credit for supporting reforms to section 702 in the FISA Amendments Act (2008). This amendment will curb surveillance by the NSA on users because it challenges the agency’s mass internet surveillance.[4] The report considers positions, policies and practices that are publicly available. Privately held standards are not factored into the evaluation. According to the 2017 report, publishing public policies ensures that companies cannot change their policies due to pressure from government agencies. Privately held company standards can be changed easily; therefore, they are not practical approaches to evaluating the practice of a company with respect to privacy and protection of user data.[4]

Reports and Ratings by the EFF since 2011
There are many reports released by EFF, rating various technology firms, with the most recent of them published this year. All these reports are five-star ratings based on the criteria or options described above. In the 2017 publication, technological giants that were given a clean pass in all the five determining factors were Adobe, Pinterest, Uber, Sonic, Credo mobile, Lyft, Dropbox, Wickr and WordPress (Farivar). Those that came close to accomplishing the task with four stars were Google, Yahoo, Apple, Linked in, Slack, Microsoft and Facebook (Reitman). The lowest rated ones included WhatsApp and Amazon with two stars, Comcast, Amazon, T-Mobile, and Verizon all with one star. This low rating meant that their performance in some of the aspects was wanting.

Some companies have managed to achieve the incredible feat of high rating year after year, as indicated in the 2016 and 2011 reports. In the 2016 report which had six stars, Uber and Lyft earned credit in all aspects, as was the case in 2011. These companies had not yet come to be in the year 2011 when the EFF began its rating. However, a close look at the 2011 report shows considerable improvements by some companies to date. Apple, Microsoft, and Yahoo all who had a twenty-five percent star rating back then have now upgraded to an eighty percent rating. Dropbox has shown the most significant improvement, shooting from twenty-five to one hundred percent. Technology companies have adopted better practices regarding user data and privacy since the publication of the first report in 2011. The Electronic Frontier Foundation through the ‘who has your back’ reports encourage companies to take advantage of the legal protections on privacy and user data. An analysis of the trends since the publication of earlier reports has shown that many technology and communications companies have scored credit in at least one of the criterion. By 2017, less than 50% of the evaluated companies committed themselves to adopting the required practices on privacy.

The ‘Who has your back’ reports have helped to raise awareness of consumers and industry stakeholders about issues of transparency and user privacy.[4] There is no evidence thus far that technology and communications companies mentioned in the report have adopted public policies and practices that protect users and the company from requests by the government because of being identified as poor scorers in the reports. According to the reports, several companies are yet to improve on their practices and policies to help safeguard users from government surveillance. Further legal action to help in EFF’s quest includes reforming of the FISA Amendment Act of 2008. Therefore, the EFF encourages companies to support this campaign since it will help strengthen privacy policies. The EFF also acknowledges companies that have fought NSL gag orders in court.

It is the moral and legal responsibility of technology companies to protect the data of their users from being accessed by unauthorized parties.[4] When the government comes calling, these firms have to ensure that they notify users before handing it over. If it is against the user’s wishes, or there are some suspicions over questionable dealings, it is up to them to protect this information and stand up even to the National Security Letter orders.

Composition of the EFF
The EFF was founded in 1990 by John Gilmore, Mitch Kapor and John Perry Barlow. It has employed several professionals to aid in their course. One, they have attorneys who deal with legal matters. The institution also works hand in hand with technologists to facilitate the development and smooth use of technologies.[2] Activists that defend the users of technology and fight for their rights and freedoms are also part of EFF. Being a non-profit organization, EFF depends on the funding of citizens and other well-wishers to sustain its operations and continue offering its services. [2]

The EFF has different departments headed by various individuals. Through their coordination, the EFF can perform its roles. The Chief Computer Scientist is Peter Eckersley. His main role is to lead the team of technologists in detection of threats to user freedom and devising ways to fix them. Eckersley and his team write code that helps to make sure the internet is safer, secure, open and adheres to the core principles of freedom. Peter Eckersley and his team started an initiative to address the issue if Artificial Intelligence and machine learning. They are involved in suggesting policies that should be adopted regarding AIs and users’ privacy. The team was also involved in security and privacy initiatives like, Lets Encrypt, HTTPS everywhere among other initiatives. Peter Eckersley holds a PhD from University of Melbourne in Computer Science and Law. The Executive Director is Cindy Cohn, she held the office of Legal Director at EFF from 2000-2015. She was named by the National Law Journal as among the top 100 most influential lawyers in the United States. As previously mentioned, the EFF has numerous employees. To help summaries the composition, each post will be named alongside the professional in charge. Andres Arrieta is the Technology Projects Manager, he joined EFF to help build tools that address security and privacy issues. Caroline Bokman is the Staff Accountant at EFF. Vivian Brown is the Software Engineer at EFF. She develops websites and maintains them for EFF. A more detailed list of employees and their jobs in the EFF is found in the EFF’s websites.[7] The main jobs at EFF are based on law, technology, security, activism and privacy. The list of employees is too extensive to fully summarize in this article.

Aside from employees, the EFF has a Board of Directors that oversees the activities of the organization in safeguarding privacy and security for internet users. John Perry Barlow who is among the Co-founders is an Entrepreneur, Lyricist and Writer.[8] The Board is chaired by Brian Behlendorf.[8] He is an entrepreneur and technologist who has been enthusiastic about the EFF since the 90s. He has headed several initiatives in the field of technology. [8] Sarah Deutsch; a lawyer and former corporate executive is also a board member.[8] She retired from Verizon Communications as Deputy General Counsel and Vice President. Deutsch was involved in the global Internet Protocol practice at Verizon. She handled patents, licensing, trademarks and unfair competition. She also worked as an advisor to the US on Copyright treaties. Before working for Verizon communications, she was an associate in Morgan Lewis and Bockius law firm. In 2014, she received an award at “America’s Women in Business Law Awards”. Sarah Deutsch is also a professional photographer. She was a member of the Board of Directors from 2005-2006. [8]

David Farber works at Carnegie Mellon University as a Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy. Before his involvement with EFF he was a Professor in several universities. He received the ‘ACM Sigcomm’ award for his contribution to the field of computer communications. In 1997, he won the ‘John Scott’ award for his contribution to humanity.[8] John Gilmore is among the board members and co-founders of EFF. He is a technologist and entrepreneur. Aside from the EFF, Gilmore is also the co-founder of Cygnus Solutions, Cypherpunks,Des Cracker and the ‘alt’ newsgroup. He is also a participating board member at CodeWeavers, Usenix Association and ReQuest. Prior to EFF, Gilmore worked as a programmer for 30 years.[8]

Brewster Kahle is well known for his efforts to provide universal access to all human knowledge.[8] Aside from being a board member at EFF, he is a cofounder of several services available in the internet. He invented the ‘Wide Area Information Server.[8] WAIS was the internet’s first publishing system. It was sold to America Online in 1995. He was also the co-founder of Alexa Internet which was sold to Amazon in 1999. Other board members include Pamela Samuelson, Bruce Schneier, Shari Steele and Johnathan Zitrain. Pamela Samuelson is the vice chairwoman of the board.[8] Aside from her role in the EFF board, she is a professor of law and information at University of California. She is the co-director at Berkley Center for law and Technology. She is an expert in intellectual property law.[8] The National Law Journal recognised her as among the top 50 most outstanding female lawyers 1998. Pamela was a Fellow of ‘Association of Computing Machinery’ and ‘John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’. She is also a writer, editor and a board member of the Northern California Chapter.[8]

Bruce Schneier is an author and security technologist. He has authored 14 books. The New York Times best seller ‘Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your World’ is a good example of his work. He also manages ‘Crypto-Gram’ a newsletter that has a wide reach. He is also a Fellow at Belfer Center and Berkman Center. Aside from being a board member at EFF, he is also an advisor to IBM Security and the CTO of Resilient.[8] Shari Steele worked at EFF as the Executive Director before joining the Board of Directors in 2015. Before her appointment as Executive Director she worked at EFF as the Legal Director.[8] Her job as Legal Director involved advising the NTIA, the US Sentencing Commission and the National Research Council on issues of hate crimes, sentencing guidelines and encryption policy respectively.[8] Johnathan Zitrain is a professor of international law at Harvard University. He is also a professor of computer science in Harvard’s school of Engineering and Applied sciences.[8] He is the current Vice Dean for ‘Library and Information Resources’ at Harvard Law School. He cofounded ‘Berkman Center for Internet and Society’. He worked with the OpenNet Initiative to conduct the first tests of Internet filtering in Saudi Arabia and China.[8] He was a fellow for the World Economic Forum. Zitrain was appointed as a Trustee of the Internet Society. He also authored ‘The Future of Internet and How to Stop It’.[8]

Follow Industry-Wide Best Practice
The Who Has Your Back report evaluates companies on three aspects. The companies must have a published public policy that protects users from unwarranted access of data. A company should publish reports that show how many times the government has requested data. In addition to that, the company must have a published law enforcement guide detailing how they respond to requests from any government agency. The ‘who has your back’ report will only give credit if these requirements are met.

User Awareness about Government Data Requests
To receive a good rating in this criterion, the company’s public policy must promise to alert users when the government requests their data unless in cases of emergency. In cases where notification may compromise an investigation the companies should notify users when the gag orders expire.[4]

User Confidentiality
A company can earn credit in this sector only if they their public policy assures users that data will not be given to the government outside the law enforcement policy. Exceptions to this criterion can occur when the customers or the company are the victims. In this case the company can submit data to help in investigations.

Stands up to NSL Gag orders
Companies earn credit in this criterion by challenging secret data requests by the government in court. This is possible due to the USA FREEDOM Act allowing companies to counter indefinite gag orders.

Pro-User Public policy: Reform 702
The reports awards credit to companies supporting the reforms in section 702 of the FISA Amendment act to protect users from mass surveillance by the NSA.

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Once Upon a Time in the Midlands

Once Upon a Time in the Midlands is a 2002 British romantic comedy film directed by Shane Meadows, and co-written with Paul Fraser. The film stars Robert Carlyle, Rhys Ifans, Kathy Burke, Ricky Tomlinson, Shirley Henderson and Andrew Shim. It is set in Nottingham, in the East Midlands region of England.

Plot
Set in Nottinghamshire, Dek (Rhys Ifans) proposes to his girlfriend Shirley (Shirley Henderson) on TV. When Jimmy (Robert Carlyle), "the great love of her life" and father of her daughter Marlene (Finn Atkins), sees this, he returns in an attempt to win back her heart. However, after deserting his friends in Scotland during an unsuccessful robbery of some clowns, his friends turn against him and come to the Midlands to try to track him down. In the end, Shirley refuses to go with Jimmy and professes her love for Dek; likewise, Marlene refuses to have anything to do with Jimmy, and accepts Dek as her father figure.

Cast

 * Robert Carlyle as Jimmy, Carol's foster brother, Shirley's ex-husband and Marlene's father
 * Vanessa Feltz as herself
 * Ricky Tomlinson as Charlie, Carol's estranged husband
 * Kathy Burke as Carol, Jimmy's foster sister
 * Vicki Patterson as Audience Guest
 * Shirley Henderson as Shirley, Jimmy's ex-wife and Marlene's mother
 * Finn Atkins as Marlene, Jimmy and Shirley's daughter
 * Kelly Thresher as Donna, Carol's daughter
 * Rhys Ifans as Dek, Shirley's boyfriend
 * Andrew Shim as Donut, Donna's boyfriend
 * Ryan Bruce	as Emerson, Carol and Charlie's son and Lake and Donna's brother
 * Eliot Otis Brown Walters as Lake, Carol and Charlie's son and Emerson and Donna's brother
 * Anthony Strachan as Jumbo (credited as Antony Strachan)
 * David McKay as Dougy (credited as David Mckay)
 * James Cosmo as Billy

Production
This was the third time that Carlyle had worked with Henderson (first in Hamish Macbeth and the second in Trainspotting), the second time he had worked with Ifans (the first in The 51st State), and the fourth time he had worked with Tomlinson (first in Riff-Raff, second in Cracker and third in The 51st State).

Awards

 * Gijón International Film Festival 2002
 * Nominated: Best Feature (Grand Prix Asturias) – Shane Meadows

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2019–20 Stetson Hatters men's basketball team

The 2019–20 Stetson Hatters men's basketball team represents Stetson University in the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Hatters, led by first-year head coach Donnie Jones, play their home games at the Edmunds Center in DeLand, Florida as members of the Atlantic Sun Conference.

Previous season
The Hatters finished the 2018–19 season 7–24 overall, 3–13 in ASUN play to finish in a tie for 8th place, but after tiebreakers, they missed the ASUN tournament.

Following the conclusion of the season, Stetson fired head coach Corey Williams, who finished his time at Stetson with a six-season record of 58 wins and 133 losses. On March 29, 2019, Donnie Jones was named as Williams' successor.

Schedule and results
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Shahabad, Razavi Khorasan

Shahabad (, also romanized as Shāhābād) is a village in Rivand Rural District, in the Central District of Nishapur County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 14, in 4 families.

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All Pakistan Women's Association

The All Pakistan Women's Association, or APWA, (آل پاکستان ویمنز ایسوسی ایشن) as it is commonly known, is a voluntary, non-profit and non-political Pakistani organisation whose fundamental aim is the promotion of moral, social and economic welfare of the women of Pakistan.

APWA was founded in 1949 by Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan, a famous activist for women's rights, who had said that the role of women is no less important than that of men. Initially APWA was formed to handle the refugee crisis in the newly independent Pakistan after the 1947 partition of British India. Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah, Pakistan's first woman editor and publisher, was one of APWA's many prominent leaders and Zubeida Habib Rahimtoola was a dedicated member of the association.

APWA has been a very active organisation since its founding, with branches in 56 districts across Pakistan, and even in rural and urban areas. It celebrates major events such as International Women's Day, UN Day and UNICEF Day annually, and is a charity organisation which relies on donations to fund its work.

APWA received the UNESCO Adult Literacy Prize in 1974 and later the Peace Messenger Certificate in 1987.

After the secession of East Pakistan as Bangladesh in 1971, the organisation's branch in Dacca was renamed as Bangladesh Mahila Samiti.

In 2016, at the 68th anniversary of APWA's founding, an annual dinner at the High Commission of Pakistan, London was held to pay tribute to the APWA founder, Begum Ra'ana Liaquat Ali Khan. A speaker at the event said that Begum's vision motivated Pakistani women to contribute positively to Pakistani society.

Aims and objectives
The aims and objectives of the All Pakistan Women's Association are briefly stated as follows:

 * 1) "The informed and intelligent participation of the women of Pakistan in the growth and development of their country.
 * 2) The advancement of the welfare of Pakistani Women through the Improvement of their Legal, Political, Social, and Economic status.
 * 3) The promotion of educational and cultural programmes and policies all over the country.
 * 4) The Health and well-being of the people of Pakistan in the home and the community.
 * 5) The promotion of international goodwill and the brotherhood of mankind."

Affiliations and Associations
APWA enjoys consultative status with the:

 * 1) Government of Pakistan
 * 2) ECOSOC i.e. the economic and social council

The APWA also keeps close touch with U.N. and its specialized agencies at home and abroad.

It is internationally affiliated with many organizations, such as:

 * General Federation of Women's Clubs
 * International Alliance of Women

On a national level, APWA is associated with:

 * Ra'ana Craftman Colony
 * APWA Cottage Industries
 * Gul-e-Ra'ana Community Center
 * Gul-e-Ra'ana Nusrat Industrial Home
 * Women's International Art Club
 * General Federation of Women's Clubs (GFWC)

Programs
APWA offers programs in:
 * Mother and child health services
 * Nutrition Programmes at healthcare clinics
 * Montessori/Primary Education schools
 * Adult education/Literacy
 * Social Education and Social Work among the needy
 * Population and Family Planning Programs
 * Legal Aid clinics
 * Skill Training and Handicrafts Retail Shops
 * R H Education
 * Adolescents Programs
 * Pharmacies and Dispensaries

Memberships are open to and provided to Pakistani women regardless of their caste, creed, or colour. Non-Pakistani women are also welcome and eligible for memberships.

Projects
APWA, before and after the partition of east and west Pakistan, covered the following fields:

 * 1) Social Welfare: this included numerous ventures in health volunteer training, educational programs, urban community developments, clinics, and hospitals. APWA also took the initiative in requesting a Ministry of Social Welfare and has been associated with many activities on national and international welfare agencies.
 * 2) Education: APWA runs hundreds of primary schools and mothers' clubs, secondary schools for girls in Karachi, and promotes literacy and the importance of education by constantly upgrading educational facilities. APWA created The Karachi College of Home Sciences and Home Science departments in universities located in Lahore and Dacca.
 * 3) Rural Reconstructions: APWA works near the Government's Village Aid Programs and has developed Community Centers to promote general rural programs.
 * 4) International Affairs: APWA is in charge of covering all international conferences, delegations, and arranging visits for foreign guests and visitors.
 * 5) Rights and Responsibilities for Women: APWA is responsible for educating women about their rights and responsibilities by holding seminars, and meetings and seeking any necessary legislative or other actions.

Other projects include the distribution of relief materials, cultural affairs, advice & legal assistance, publicity, and youth work.

Financing
APWA receives funds from:

 * 1) Internal fund raising efforts
 * 2) Membership fees
 * 3) Government grants

Headquarters
APWA Headquarters are located in Karachi, Pakistan. The governing body meets annually to make its principal policies.

Branches are also located in Lahore, Peshawar, London and Sri Lanka.

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Pabitra Mohan Pradhan Medical College and Hospital

Pabitra Mohan Pradhan Medical College and Hospital previously Mahanadi Institute of Medical Science and Research is a tertiary Government medical college in Talcher, Odisha, East India, and is accredited by the National Medical Commission. The college awards the degree Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS). The college was established by Coal India limited.

History
Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), the public sector undertaking and subsidiary of Coal India Limited reiterated its commitment to set up a medical college and hospital in the state, and signed a MoU with National Building Corporation of India (NBCC) for medical college. On 2022 Government of Odisha agrees to run the Medical college, while MCL will provide funds for operation.

Courses offered
The college offers the degree Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS). Selection to the college is done on the basis of merit through the National Eligibility and Entrance Test. Yearly undergraduate student intake is 100 and the college has 500 beds.


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Talk:Operating System Design/Case studies

Linux already has reliable journalling filesystems, several graphical interfaces, massive amounts of written documentation, etc. etc. Why would anybody want to use a DOS type of OS?? r3m0t (cont) (talk) 07:33, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I agree - anyone who would consider basing an OS on DOS (even back in the 80's and early 90's when Microsoft was doing this with Windows) needs to learn more about the topic. DOS doesnt allow for much expansion (more filesystems), is single tasking (that means no running mozilla at the same time as notepad, and even GUIs themselves are almost unusable in this state) unless this is done manually by almost replacing all of DOS. The command line is defianately an advantage, however anyone familiar with a DOS command line would notice its almost impossible to work in by today's standards. Any Unix implementation has all the desirable features of DOS, only they actually are desirable for Unix - the command line is useable. Also, DOS offers no security whatsoever, any application can delete anything and stop the system from functioning and prevent recovery of any data. Unix is very secure (much moreso than Windows, this is a topic of debate, however anyone who has experience with both systems rather than just believing what microsoft says would defianately agree). Unix's only real shortcoming is the GUI - X11 is seriously slow and lacking in features desirable by the common user. While X is certainly more than sufficient for web browsing, word processing and most other things, benchmarks show that it is slower than Windows, and the fact alone that many applications look and behave differently is a serious problem. No GUI for DOS even competes with X however. I have deleted the FreeDOS section, no offence to the author, but it is misinforming.

How is this a wikibook topic? - anonymous

I don't think this belongs. It acts as if a new os is going to be created in the book. This is not the case according to the preface.

I have to agree with the above. This sounds like the author is going to document writing their own OS from scratch. Much better for this type of textbook (imho) would be to discuss the issues, and various approaches to resolving them. Using real life examples (particularly open source ones like Linux or the BSDs) to point the user to implementations that match specific approaches. For example most OSes have some kind of memory management, some kind of task scheduler, and some kind of file system. The actual implementations can vary massively, and there are many ways of dealing with the associated problems. In the spirit of this I'll try modifying this page to state more explicitly what could make this a good text book.


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User:Naryathegreat~enwikibooks

Welcome to my page. I'm not new to wikis or to this format (I am one and the same as Naryathegreat on Wikipedia).

My main area of work will be and is here: World History

I'm proud to say I've turned it from neglect onto the road to speedy recovery and eventual presentation as a complete and featured Wikibook.

Test of new signature.--Naryathegreat|(talk) 02:40, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * What is the current status of World History?? It looks like an interesting (and huge!) project.  Buddpaul 02:44, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

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José Manrique

José Manrique was the Governor of New Mexico from 1808 to 1814 during the period just before the Republic of Mexico gained independence from Spain.

Career
Manrique's predecessor as New Mexico Governor, Joaquín del Real Alencaster, made himself unpopular by raising taxes and suppressing the smuggling of contraband. One source says that in 1808 Manrique started to raise a militia company in Santa Fe, which he said was for local defense. He was jailed by Alencaster. Later that year Alencaster was removed from office, and don Alberto Maynez was made the interim Governor. Records are scanty and dates are uncertain. Maynez has been identified as acting governor from 1807-1808. He was succeeded by Manrique, who perhaps for a while was acting Governor while Alencaster remained technically the Governor.

Manrique continued Maynez's policy of letting the New Mexico colonists embark on large-scale expeditions to trade with the Plains Indians. Apart from the economic benefits, this served to counterbalance U.S. influence. On 21 August 1809 Manrique was called to the Pecos Pueblo to parley with Comanches. Jose Manrique was concerned to prevent uprisings by the Pueblo Indians, and after 1810 supported their use of the Protector de Indios office to obtain justice, an office that had fallen out of use since around 1720 but which he revived. In March 1810 a New Mexican patrol caught a small group of traders from the United States in the north of the territory, and took them to Santa Fe. Manrique sent them down to Chihuahua, where they spent two years in jail.

It was during Manriques governorship that the first and last election was held for a representative for New Mexico in the Spanish Cortes. The main candidates were Antonio Ortiz, Juan Rafael Ortiz and Pedro Bautista Pino, with the last being chosen to make the long journey to Cadiz. Lieutenant Colonel don José Manrique and his wife, doña Inez Tellez, are both recorded as residents of Chihuahua when they became the godparents in 1814 of Ramón Ortiz y Miera, son of Antonio Ortiz, who was later to become an influential and patriotic priest during the Mexican–American War of 1846-1848.

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User:Mliu92/sandbox/Manson Construction Wotan

Wotan is a 500 ST capacity Clyde Iron Works model 42 barge-mounted crane which is one of the largest revolving floating cranes on the West Coast of the United States.

History
The Wotan floating barge-crane was built for Manson Construction; the barge was sourced from New Orleans, and the crane was (reputedly) the "Little Wolf" crane used at Highland Fabricators at Nigg Yard.

Capacity
The Clyde Iron Works Model 42 crane can lift 500 ST using the main hoist on a 200 ft boom at any point in the crane's revolution; capacity rises to 600 ST when using the main hoist oriented astern. Motive power for the main hoist is provided by a diesel engine, and electric power for the barge is provided by a 800 KW diesel generator set.

Notable heavy lifts

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Dellmus Colvin

Dellmus Charles Colvin (born August 3, 1959) is an American serial killer who, during his employment as a truck driver, kidnapped and murdered at least six women in Ohio between 2000 and 2005. He was arrested after a DNA profiling exam exposed his guilt in two of the murders, and not long after he confessed to the other crimes and an earlier 1987 murder in New Jersey. He is currently serving six life sentences at the Lebanon Correctional Institution.

Biography
Dellmus Colvin was born on August 3, 1959, and grew up in the countryside of Akron, Ohio. Colvin's childhood was normal. In his teenage years, he began having conflict with his mother, but he did not display signs of aggressive behavior. In high school, Colvin wrestled and played football. After graduating from high school, Dellmus became a driver, after which he worked as a taxi driver in Atlantic City and its various suburbs. In the mid-1980s, he began to show signs of anti-social behavior and had problems with social skills. He was unpopular in the area, and began leading a criminal lifestyle, often preferring to spend time in the company of prostitutes. In the late 1980s, Colvin moved to Ohio, where over the years he lived in the cities of Swanton, Lima, Orient, and Toledo. In 1989, in Summit County, he was arrested on assault charges and illegal weapons possession. He was convicted and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. Dellmus was paroled in 1992, but was jailed again in July 1993 for violating his parole. Three years later, he was released a second time and moved to Toledo, where he soon found work as a truck driver. In subsequent years, he was seen displaying increasingly impulsive and violent behavior towards women. In April 2004, he was arrested after a woman contacted police, claiming that Colvin kidnapped her from a truck stop, robbing, beating and attempting to rape her, but she managed to escape. During the investigation, a blood and saliva sample was taken from him for DNA testing, in order to see if he had committed any similar crimes in the past.

Exposure
In November 2005, based on the results from the DNA analysis, Dellmus Colvin was charged with the murders of two women: 33-year-old Jackie Simpson and 37-year-old Melissa Weber, who were murdered in Toledo on April 16 and May 9, 2003, respectively. In addition, he was charged with a rape that occurred that same year. In September 2006, Colvin stood trial for the murders. During said trial, the Lucas County Attorney General's Office, which suspected Colvin was responsible for more murders due to his occupation as a truck driver, proposed a plea bargain in exchange for taking the death penalty off the table. Agreeing to the proposal, Dellmus pleaded guilty to the murders of Simpson and Weber, as well as three others. According to his testimony, in January 2000, he lured 38-year-old Valerie Jones into his truck, strangled her, and then dumped her body in Lake Erie, in Ottawa County; on September 1 of that year, he lured 42-year-old Jacquelynn Thomas into his truck's cabin, after which he violated and subsequently killed her. Her body was found the next day in Monroe County. He also killed 43-year-old Lily Summers, whom he had previously offered money in exchange for sex; her body was found in April 2002.

On October 3, 2006, Colvin unexpectedly confessed to another murder. He admitted to his involvement in the murder of 40-year-old Dorothea Wetzel, who was found murdered on August 5, 2000, on the banks of the Maumee River in southern Toledo. During interrogation, Colvin stated that his motive for the killings was misogyny, which was caused by his sexual complexes and inferiority complex. In October of that year, on the basis of the plea bargain, he was given several terms of life imprisonment.

In June 2010, Colvin was charged with the cold case murder of 27-year-old Donna Lee White, who was killed on September 15, 1987, in Atlantic City. Dellmus was extradited to New Jersey, where he appeared before the court in April 2011. During the trial, he pled guilty to White's murder. In his statement, he claimed to have met Donna while working as a taxi driver, after which he made the girl an offer to go to his apartment, where they would drink and have sex, to which she supposedly agreed. A few hours later, Donna began taking drugs, and fainted from an overdose. However, instead of helping her, Colvin strangled her with a plastic bag and then dumped the body on the outskirts of the city.

Based on his testimony, in April 2011, Dellmus Colvin was convicted of White's murder and received an additional 30 years imprisonment, to be served concurrently with his life sentences.

In September 2020, during a telephone conversation with podcaster Phil Chalmers, Colvin claimed that, between 1983 and 2005, he killed 52 girls and women across the United States. To support his claims, he shared details about the murder of a prostitute he committed in 2005 in LaSalle County, Illinois, near Ottawa. According to his testimony, after committing the murder, he dumped the victim's body in an abandoned building located in the small town of Peru. Following Colvin's statement, the LaSalle County Sheriff authorized a search at the designated dump site, resulting in two bones, believed to belong to a woman's skeleton, were found by law enforcement officials. They were subsequently taken to a forensic anthropologist for identification, but found to be non-human.

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Talk:Diora Baird

Natural bust
Is it?

Skepticism is wise but seeing models like Keeley Hazell I'm willing to believe Miss Baird may also be one of the rare few to whom puberty was very generous.

yes, yes, excellent

Regarding Diora's Bust
According to askmen.com, and it's even on this page. it says that Diora personaly states that they are real.

The 22-year-old model has been blessed with sultry bedroom eyes, a tiny waist and generous 32DD breasts -- proving once and for all that nothing grows in the shade. In case you're wondering, they're real and they're fabulous. "I'm pretty well-endowed," she admits. "My mother definitely passed down good genes in that area."

Source: http://www.askmen.com/women/models_300/320b_diora_baird.html

Regarding Introduction of Page
Can we please rephrase the "she is best know for her large natural breasts, which are 32DD" line in the beginning paragraph. I think in certain ways it can be taken as offensive. Dropdead Joe 02:36, 14 June 2007

Natural Bust, part two
If they are real, then why do they not look anywhere near as large in the picture on her wiki page? The caption states that she is 24, and she looks a bet heavier, but nowhere near as top-heavy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 15:21, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

dude, that's only because she is wearing all black. the solid color of black can do that from straight on. like, make something look smaller. it also depends on the bras that she wears and if she is wearing one. but look at her topless photos man, she is 125% real. 32DD implants would look like someone sewed two bowling balls in her chest. but that's if they were fake. but their not, their legit. no ifs ands or butts. just look at her topless or playboy pics. PS. she is hot as hell too, even without makeup. total package. don't we all wish though. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:34, 12 July 2008 (UTC)

If anyone still has doubts, just check out the scene in Wedding Crashers when she flops down on the bed. There is no way fake breasts would jiggle the way hers do. For me, that clip is proof enough that they're real. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 08:04, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Is this her? (NSFW)
I am not spamming. This is a serious question. Is this her? you porn. com/watch/9187 —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 12:41, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Date links
I have removed the links for dates per MOS:NUM. In an effort to work with User:G.-M. Cupertino, I'm taking the discussion here as to why he keeps going against the new MOS guideline about date linking. So, please explain why you feel that delinking of dates is vandalism.

I have also delinked various common English words and phrases per WP:OVERLINK. These words and phrases include such things as "vice president", "clown", "caterer", "waitress", and "pre-school". These items have very little relation to the subject of the article and don't serve a useful purpose. While someone may find value in a link to, for example, Guess? because Baird worked directly for them, any user will likely not find any value at all in a link to "waitress". It is a common English word and the waitress article doesn't really relate at all to Baird. Dismas |(talk) 02:35, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

Miscredited
FYI Nuts Magazine in the UK mistakenly ran a piece about Diora claiming she plays the sexy Orion Slave girl in the Star Trek film by JJ Abrahms. The Orion girl was in fact played by the lovely Rachel Nichols. -- Horkana (talk) 05:27, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

It's not a miscredit, Diora's scene was cut from the final version of the movie. She was not an Orion slave girl, just an Orion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bagboysa (talk • contribs) 06:43, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Young People Fucking
An edit I made to the opening of this article earlier today pointed out Baird's high-profile role in Young People Fucking, a notable film made by Swiss director Martin Gero in Canada in 2007, which primiered at the Toronto Film Festival. This was reverted by User:Spanneraol with the edit summary  Film is not notable enough for the lead.

Per our article on Young People Fucking, however, "The movie garnered critical acclaim in Canada after headlining the Toronto International Film Festival. It went on to be one of the highest grossing English Language Canadian Films of all time, staying in theatres for over 14 weeks. The total box office receipts after 4 weeks of release was $420,206.[3]"

"In addition to its commercial success, the movie has been nominated for several Canadian film awards. Kristin Booth won a Genie as Best Supporting Actress for her role as Abby. Recently, Y.P.F. earned eight nominations at the Canadian Comedy Awards which will be announced on October 2, 2009.[4]."

Zloyvolsheb (talk) 21:03, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

 * I agree with Spanneraol. This film is not notable enough to appear in a lead paragraph. Valrith (talk) 03:50, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

 * The film was released direct-to-dvd in the U.S.... I can find no source for the assertion that it was one of the highest grossing Canadian films.. If 420,206 is the highest grossing that is no big claim to fame. Whatever success it had at the Toronto Film Festival, it is still a festival film which doesnt make it as successful as "Wedding Crashers" and "Texas Chainsaw" which both made millions of dollars. Spanneraol (talk) 14:17, 4 June 2010 (UTC)

Reliable Source
Is Perfect People web site a reliable source for a BPL article? --BweeB (talk) 07:03, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Nope.. I've removed the line cited with that source. Spanneraol (talk) 13:18, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks. --BweeB (talk) 18:18, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

Full name
Why the name was edited back? There's good evidence that her full name is indeed Diora Lynn Baird. This is a picture of her passport she posted on her official twitter account: http://twitpic.com/5ib1nx If that doesn't suffice as proof, I don't know what else might. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:41, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Date of Birth
there are 2 DOB's listed 1980 and 1983. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 14:51, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

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Should this article exist?
I ran across this article on the DAB page Baird, and find that this actress I've never heard of was very popular among young men for her breasts talents some years back. The sourcing does not seem to indicate notability, though I'm no expert at WP:N for actors. Seems to have had a start as a fan page, and now I believe it may be maintained by her PR firm's undisclosed paid editors. Edit: Apparently, the fans are maintaining the article. In any case, the sources need some cleanup.--Quisqualis (talk) 15:42, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

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Arthur Vere Harvey, Baron Harvey of Prestbury

Arthur Vere Harvey, Baron Harvey of Prestbury, (31 January 1906 – 5 April 1994) was a senior Royal Air Force officer and a British Conservative politician who served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 26 years.

Early life and Second World War
Harvey was educated at Framlingham College, Suffolk and served with the Royal Air Force 1925–30 and during the Second World War. He was an advisor to the Southern Chinese Air Forces 1932–35 and a squadron leader in the Auxiliary Air Force in 1937. He founded the No. 615 (County of Surrey) Squadron and commanded it through the Battle of France. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1942. He later became a company chairman and director of several firms.

Member of Parliament
Harvey was selected as the Conservative candidate for Macclesfield after the previous candidate Guy Gibson was killed in action. Harvey was elected as Member of Parliament for Macclesfield in 1945, and held the seat in seven further general elections. He was knighted in 1957.

In the Commons, Harvey was chairman of the backbench 1922 Committee from 1966 to 1970. On 14 October 1969 he was made an Honorary Freeman of the Borough of Macclesfield.

Harvey was created a life peer as Baron Harvey of Prestbury, of Prestbury in the County Palatine of Chester on 1 May 1971. He was succeeded as MP in the subsequent by-election by fellow-Conservative, Nicholas Winterton.

Family and later life
He was married three times.
 * in 1940 to Jacqueline Dunnett (two sons, marriage dissolved 1954)
 * in 1955 Mrs Hilary Williams (died 1978; marriage dissolved 1977)
 * in 1978 Mrs Carol Cassar-Torreggiani; three adopted daughters.

He died at St Martin's Port, Guernsey 5 April 1994.


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Sir Edward Gage, 1st Baronet

Sir Edward Gage, 1st Baronet (c.1626 – January 1707) was an English baronet.

Gage was born at Firle, East Sussex, the third son of Sir John Gage, 1st Baronet and Penelope Darcy. He was the grandson of Thomas Darcy, 1st Earl Rivers. From his mother, he inherited Hengrave Hall in Suffolk. He was a supporter of Charles I during the English Civil War. Following the Restoration he was created a baronet, of Hengrave in the County of Suffolk in the Baronetage of England, on 15 July 1662.

Gage was married five times. His first marriage was to Mary, daughter of Sir William Hervey of Ickworth, Suffolk  and his first wife Susan Jermyn, by whom he had one son, Sir William, his successor, and two daughters. Hervey later married Gage's twice-widowed mother Penelope Darcy, a noted recusant. He married secondly Frances, a daughter of Walter Aston, 2nd Lord Aston of Forfar and Gertrude Sadler. Sir Edward married, thirdly, Anne Watkins, by whom he had one son, and fourthly Lady Frances Feilding, daughter of George Feilding, 1st Earl of Desmond and Bridget Stanhope. His final marriage was to his fourth wife's relation, Bridget Feilding.

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Bolt (CMS)

Bolt is a free, open-source content management system based on PHP. It was released in 2012 and developed by Two Kings and the Bolt community. Bolt uses Twig for templates and includes features for content and user management. Bolt can be installed on any Apache or Nginx web server with SQLite, MySQL or MariaDB and PHP 7.2.9 or later.

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User:ROBLOX Law/sandbox

The question "Is big boy dumb?" pops up a lot. Here is the answer to that question: Yes. It could not be confirmed 100% until he chose to be Jeff Bezos over Elon Musk.

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Biblical Studies/New Testament Commentaries/1 John/Chapter 5

v 1 The church was characterized by its faith in Jesus as the Messiah, and Jesus promised that through him, as the Son of God, his followers could become sons of God as well. A key element in this is faith in him. The church was filled with the faithful, who were set apart from the faithless in the world. It was a much sharper distinction than today, as the decision to follow Christ was often met with steep opposition and persecution. So those who stayed in the church had to do so through faith, not just a family tradition or feeling of comfort.

John called the faithful to love one another as brothers in one family, all sons of the same Father. To be a Christian meant to love God, and here John continues insisting that the Christian must also love his brothers in the church.

v 2 Again John insists that to love God is to do what God commands, which includes loving the other Christians. They are not just any person, but sons of God himself, and therefore even more deserving of love. The love of a Christian is tested by how he treats the others. Not even in John’s time was being part of the church any guarantee of how a person lived, he still needed to have his actions tested.

v 3 To love God is to obey his commands. But so this doesn’t seem so much like an unsupportable burden, John reminds us that this is not impossible. It could feel impossible to his audience, having to live a life so different from their surrounding culture in so many details, having higher moral and ethical standards and doing many things the “hard way”. To adults, the idea of “obedience” is usually pretty foreign, and John was aware of this when he asked it of his flock.

v 4 Why was it possible to obey God’s commands? Because his audience was made up of children of God, who used their faith to overcome the world. Being a child of God means getting strength from him to continue growing to be ever more like him. John himself was a victor over the world, and was of the same shared faith as his audience. The battle continued even as he wrote but he said that the victory had already been given, a victory over worldly desires and a worldly lifestyle, a continuing and ongoing victory.

v 5 The key to victory was faith in Jesus as the unique Son of God. If Jesus was the Son of God, then everything that he taught was trustable. That meant that his promise of eternal life for the faithful, and judgement of the disobedient, called everyone’s actions into account on the final day. This would have been a huge motivator for the disciples because it was a double-edged sword – blessing as well as punishment. But on top of that, the deep love shown by Jesus’ willing self-sacrifice as God’s Son gave a deep emotional push to the Christians’ relationship with their maker and their obedience to him.

v 6 Water and blood: symbols of Jesus’ baptism and death, or death and life through the spirit. Blood and water came out of Jesus’ side when he was pierced on the cross (Jn 19:34). The Spirit is a witness: not the flesh. The Christians lived by a new set of rules that were very different than those of the world around them, and the other people did not understand the symbols of water or blood as did those of the Spirit. But, the Spirit is truth, even though the truth is contrary to much of common wisdom. (Help me on this verse!)

v 7 This verse was apparently added later on and was probably not in the original letter John wrote. “There are three witnesses in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these three are one. And three are the witnesses on the earth, (the Spirit, the water and the blood). Only four late Greek manuscripts have the verse, recorded from the fourteenth century to the present.

v 7-8 John was a witness, and called upon other witnesses to support what he had seen: the Spirit, the water and the blood. The irony of the life in the Spirit and the water is that it came only through the death symbolized by the blood. Just as Christ died, he calls his followers to die to their old life through baptism and to begin a new life through the Spirit in communion with his blood.

v 9 Testimony about Jesus came from the men and women who were with him, but also through God himself, who asserted that Jesus was his son. That testimony came from God to man through the Spirit and the changed lives of those who followed Jesus. (Jn 1:32-34, 8:47, Lk 3:21-22, 9:35) The testimony was also understood individually by the people who responded to the Christians’ message and converted to faith in Christ.

v 10 In becoming a Christian, a person came to believe in God and Jesus as his son, and changed his heart dramatically in response to the love shown by God’s willing sacrifice of his son and Jesus’ willingness to submit for the benefit of others. This faith and change of attitude were the testimony of the heart of a Christian. On the other hand, those who did not believe in God, and consequently in Jesus, his Son, were denying what God said about Jesus. This made God out to be a liar, (v 1:10) and was a grave error on the part of the unbeliever. Each believer and every person should mind what God says and not try to oppose him (parable of the warring kings).

v 11 Explanation of God’s testimony: eternal life through his Son. God gives it to his children, the Christians, (Jn 1:12-13) and does so solely through Jesus (Jn 14:6).

v 12 To have the son of God is to have an intimate relationship with him, that is, to be one of Christ’s disciples. Life is eternal life forever with God in heaven, as well as meaning, purpose and joy in the Spirit even amidst suffering in life here on the earth. These are privileges of Christians only, not enjoyed by those who do not know God.


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Talk:Fire alarm notification appliance

"Common problems" section
Currently, the "Common problems" section reads like a technical manual, and is a big jump from the rest of the article. I don't know if it needs to be transwiki'd, rewritten, or just plain old tossed out. Thoughts? SchuminWeb (Talk) 11:33, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

I agree completely; the section is irrelevant to the rest of the article and is unecessary for the user needing basic information about the fire alarm. JosephSH 13:28, 21 March 2006

From a fire protection expert
I do not recommend deleting information because the layman who is "just looking" may not understand it. Believe me, nobody "just looks" at any fire protection items because nobody cares enough unless he or she has a real need. Then, suddenly, the seemingly irrelevant or perhaps disturbing items that may irk an administrator for basic editorial reasons, which are also relevant generically, can become very important indeed.--Achim 16:22, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I've been doing some thinking about the material in question, and I actually think that we need to do a considerable restructuring of the entire cluster of fire alarm articles, since right now, we have a not-so-well-defined article, and a few child articles. SchuminWeb (Talk) 00:02, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

N-alarm Fire
Someome please tell me if this is correct, if not please fix it:

The term N-alarm Fire (for example 2-alarm fire) refers to the number of vehicles dispatched to fight the fire.

Once correct, I want to add it to the article.<IP_ADDRESS> 21:37, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

It refers to the number of "agencies" (firehouses) responding. user:dss311

Fire Risk Student
If anyone comes to rewrite this article they should remember to include verbal fire alarms which are in increasing use. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs).
 * Are you referring to voice evacuation systems, where, when a fire alarm is activated, instead of a horn, it's a voice saying, "A fire emergency has been reported in the building"? If so, that's not a bad idea, but as I've said before, fire alarm stuff on Wikipedia needs a MAJOR overhaul.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 18:14, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Renamed
Since this article is mainly about fire alarm notification appliances (bells, horns, strobes, etc.), I renamed it as such, and turned the title fire alarm into a disambiguation page, since "fire alarm" is used to refer to any or all elements of the whole fire alarm system. Since people say, "I'm going to pull the fire alarm" referring to a manual pull station and "the fire alarm is going off" referring to a notification appliance, this makes the most sense.

Of course, now we need to clean this article up to make it more specifically notification, and either remove or find new homes for the other information. SchuminWeb (Talk) 05:21, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

 * To note moves: The "devices" section has been moved to Fire alarm system, and the bit about false pulled alarms has been moved to manual pull station. Some general material was straight-up removed due to being too general for the article's new, more specific scope, and I don't know where this ought to go.  I also removed some uncited material, which I believe may be inaccurate.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 06:48, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

Buzzer pattern?
I know an elementary school near the outskirts of town. The fire notification appliances have older fire alarm horns (according to the Web, they look like Simplex 4050 horns) retrofitted on a silver panel with a red flashing light on the bottom (it isn't a strobe; it might be LED). They have a different noise pattern than the ones described on this page. It buzzes like, 1-second pulse, 1-second pause, 1-second pulse, 1-second pause, 1-second pulse, 1-second pause, 1-second pulse, etc. The light flashes on and off in time with the buzzing. Does this pattern have a name or something? Do newer notification appliances use this pattern? --Wile E2005 14:16, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

 * , I'm assuming you're talking about codes? The article mentions code 3 and continuous but I'm not sure if you're referring to march time or code 4-4-4-4 (aka the cadence marching code) but I'd imagine that WP:INDISCRIMINATE would explain why it doesn't mention all this. Also, those flashing lights you mentioned are neither strobes nor LED's; they're actually incandescent lights.--2601:153:800:8308:3813:9EF8:FA5A:C703 (talk) 04:36, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

 * Just read "the majority of audible notification appliances installed prior to 1996 produced a steady sound for evacuation" (i.e. continuous) so it looks like coding was unusual during the time the 4050 horns were made. They used code 4-4-4-4 (better known as cadence marching code) from the 1920s until the 1960s (the horns or bells would make 4-pulses, 4-times, and after 4-rounds of 4, the alarms would automatically reset themselves, this code allowed for a quick-and-orderly evacuation) but other than that, codes weren't really implemented, and everything was continuous, until 1996. I guess those 4050 horns you mentioned would be an exception.--2601:153:800:8308:3813:9EF8:FA5A:C703 (talk) 18:41, 19 May 2018 (UTC)

Terminology
Should there be any mentioning of fire bell and fire horn in the article? I've heard these terms used before in reference to the notification appliances of an alarm system.--2601:153:800:8308:3813:9EF8:FA5A:C703 (talk) 03:48, 17 February 2018 (UTC)

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2000–01 Sheffield Shield season

The 2000–01 Sheffield Shield season known as the Pura Cup was the 99th season of the Sheffield Shield, the domestic first-class cricket competition of Australia. Queensland won the championship.

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Talk:Midas

RFV discussion
Sense 2. I've never heard of this, and there's nothing like it in the OED. -- WikiPedant 00:08, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

 * The figurative sense seems common. There may even need to be an adjective sense added.  I think this would be better, if moved to WT:RFC.  --Connel MacKenzie 18:22, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

RFV failed, sense removed. "Midas" is definitely used metaphorically, but our def said that "a Midas" is a kind of situation, and I see no evidence for such a claim. —Ruakh TALK 21:02, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Fliegerabwehrkanone

Purged all the nonsensical information from this page - Flugerabwehrkanone does not seem to be a word, and the statement that the word comes from German anti-bomber campaigns is frivolous. I'm also unsure as to the correct location for this page, so I shall be requesting that it be deleted or transwikied to Wiktionary soon, as appropriate. Supersheep 15:27, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Also, flak only refers to gunfire, not SAMs. Supersheep 15:32, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

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