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Frying pan (Karlsruhe 75/11)

The Cycladian frying pan (formerly Karlsruhe, Baden State Museum, inventory number 75/11) is an ornately decorated stone object of the type nicknamed as frying pans, from the Bronze Age Cycladic civilization. It dates to the Early Cycladic period, between the 27th and 24th centuries BC (EC II). The find spot is unknown, except that it originated on the Cycladic island of Naxos. The item derived from an illegal excavation and was acquired in 1975 by the Baden State Museum in Karlsruhe. On 6 June 2014 it was repatriated to the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, Greece.

It is one of only a few Cycladic frying pans in stone; the great majority of the 200-odd known are pottery.

Description
The frying pan is a round dish with a diameter of 17.5 cm and a depth of 2.8 cm. There is a 2.2 cm long handle in the shape of a pie slice. It is made from greenschist, which derives from the Cycladic island of Naxos.

The front side, with a flat bottom and narrow, recessed edge, is undecorated. It is the back side which makes the object stand out. This surface is surrounded by a chip patterned band, even on the handle. The area inside this band is filled with a pattern of interwoven spirals. A single large spiral in the centre is connected by double strands to seven medium-sized spirals surrounding it. These seven spirals are surrounded by an outer row of fourteen yet smaller spirals. Each of the seven medium spirals are connected to two of their neighbours and to three of the spirals in the outer row. The spirals on the outer edge are each connected to their two neighbours and are formed of three or four spirals, depending on whether they are linked to one or two of the medium-sized spirals. On the handle, double and triple strands form a crisscross pattern with triangles.

The outer surface of the bowl is a bit weathered, slightly knocked and has a few scratches on it. On the inside there are flecks of sinter; a thick layer of sinter was removed from the decorated back side in modern times, revealing the patterns now visible.

Patterns of interlocking spirals are often incised in Cycladic pottery, but in stone they are found on only a few items, particularly pyxides. An example was discovered in excavations on the island of Amorgos and acquired for the Antikensammlung Berlin by Georg Ferdinand Dümmler. The quality of the work and the very carefully executed pattern ought to be attributed to an experienced and especially talented artisan. The frying pan must have been a prominent prestige object for its owner.

In the Keros-Syros phase of the Cycladic civilization, to which this piece is attributed, ceramic frying pans are very common. In addition a very few are known which are made out of marble. But the only other example made out of stone is an undecorated example first published by Nikolaos M. Kontoleon in 1972. This frying pan is thus unique in material and execution and is therefore seen as a "masterpiece of Cycladic art."

Purpose
The use and purpose of Cycladic frying pans is unclear. They are mostly known as grave goods in especially rich graves. Christos Tsountas originally suggested that they were mirrors. According to him, the flat bowl would have been filled with water and the user would have been able to see their reflection in them. A 2009 study concluded, via experimentation, that the frying pans work effectively as mirrors when filled water or olive oil, particularly if either liquid was darkened with pigments. While the study found olive oil to be particularly effective it is believed to have been too rare and expensive for this kind of use in the early Cycladic period, though recent discoveries on the island of Keros of a large pyramid, complex plumbing, and highly advanced metallurgy suggest that olive oil may have not been seen as rare. Any civilization that can move large blocks of stone from 10 kilometers away was surely capable of providing olive oil for any such purpose.

On account of several finds in the cemetery of Chalandriani on the island of Syros and small examples of clay and bone with paint residue, Nikolaos M. Kontoleon suggested that they could have been palettes for the creation of paints from crushed pigments.

The decoration of the frying pans recall water, almost without exception. Spirals, ships and stars are usual. The ceramic frying pans often have two handles, projecting from the body with a women's genitals incised in the triangular space between them. On account of this, it has been suggested that they received libations in some kind of fertility rite; sea, Sun and femininity may have been seen as symbols of the fertility of the body and the sea, which was essential for human life.

A further possibility was raised by Christos Doumas in 1993, who suggested that they were used to process sea salt. Doumas connected the issue of trade and exchange of goods before the invention of money with this, proposing that salt might have served as a valuable material, while leaving no archaeologically detectable traces.

Provenance
In 1975, in the lead up to the 1976 exhibition "Kunst der Kykladen" (Art of the Cyclades), the then curator of the Badisches Landesmuseum, Jürgen Thimme, bought the frying pan from an art dealer for 35,000 marks along with a female Cycladic figurine (Karlsruhe 75/49) and other artefacts. The frying pan did not derive from a legal excavation, but the vendor guaranteed that the object had been acquired before 1970, although he offered no evidence and remained anonymous. In any case, an illegal excavation violated Greek law and the object could only have been removed from the country by smuggling. But since the original acquisition took place before 1970, the UNESCO Convention for the Banning and Prevention of Illegal Import, Export and Sale of Cultural Artefacts enacted in 1970 would not have been violated and the purchase would have been legal under international law. In addition, the German Republic only signed the convention in 2007.

The exhibition in the Karlsruhe Schloss in 1976 featured by far the widest collection of Cycladic objects displayed up till that time. In accord with the then prevailing view in Museum circles and with the support of the International Council of Museums loans from international museums and a number of private collections were displayed without scrutinising their provenance. The Greek antiquities department objected to this at the time of the exhibition first being publicised and therefore refused to make any pieces from their state collections available for the exhibition. However, the then leader of the antiquities department of the Cyclades, Christos Doumas wrote the chapter for the exhibition catalogue on the archaeological exploration of Cycladic culture and spoke in it about graverobbing.

After Germany acceded to the UNESCO convention in 2007, museums found themselves in a problematic situation - especially the Badische Landesmuseum. In their second great international exhibition in 2011, Kykladen - Lebenswelten einer frühgriechischen Kultur (Cyclades - Life-world of an Early Greek Culture), the Landesmuseum specifically identified the provenance of the exhibits and displayed only objects from national and international collection which disclosed the origin of the pieces. Objects from private collections were not displayed. But the Greek authorities were not satisfied with their handling of the issues and again refused to loan items.

Long negotiations followed and on 6 June 2014, the frying pan, along with figurine 75/49 were returned to the National Archaeological Museum of Athens by the State Secretary of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Scholarship, Research & Art, Harald Siebenmorgen, in the company of the Greek Minister of Culture Panagiotis Panagiotopoulos. The current value of the frying pan has been estimated to lie in the millions of Euros.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Un bidonville

The result of the debate was delete. Mailer Diablo 02:04, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Un bidonville
Badly named article, with content half original research, half already contained in shanty town (where bidonville already redirects). No sources. Delete. --Pablo D. Flores (Talk) 13:21, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

This article is offering an explanation to the word 'bidonville' in addition to the aticle mentioned above. It should not be deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fordj005 (talk • contribs)

 * Delete per nom. JPD (talk) 15:20, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Eivindt@c 19:31, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom.  OhNo itsJamie Talk 23:11, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. --Khoikhoi 04:12, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

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List of demonyms for US states and territories

This is a list of demonyms used to designate the citizens of specific states, federal district, and territories of the United States of America. Official English-language demonyms are established by the United States Government Publishing Office (USGPO); however, many other terms are in common use.


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The International Molinological Society

The International Molinological Society (TIMS) has been active since 1965 and is the only organization dedicated to mills and molinology on a worldwide scale. It brings together more than six hundred members, mostly from Europe and the USA. TIMS is a non-profit organization with cultural and scientific aims. It was founded in 1973 after earlier international meetings (Symposia) in 1965 and 1969. The original initiative for these meetings was taken by the Portuguese Molinologist Dr. João Miguel dos Santos Simões.

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Talk:Majika

Why have separate Character and Cast sections?
Hi. The article originally had a single section for "Characters and Cast" that listed information in the following manner: (a) the name of the character, (b) the actor that played the role, in parentheses, then (c) a description/discussion of the character (like so: Juno (Katrina Halili) - a rival of Sabina).

However, this unified "Characters and Cast" section has been revised (twice as of this writing), being split into two sections -- a separate "Characters" section, and a "Cast" listing -- each time without explanation. I'd like to know why is such a divided presentation of the info preferable to the original combined format?

I don't see any advantages with having separate sections for Characters and Cast. First, it splits closely related information. If I wanted to know who portrayed Juno, I would have to search in one place; and then, if I wanted to know who Juno is, I'd have to look in another. However, for TV series, "Who is Juno?" almost always connects the Character/role to the Actor, so I believe it's just intuitive to put the answer(s) in one place/section.

Secondly, having separate Cast and Character sections actually duplicates the list of characters: one to list the actors, and again for the character descriptions. Aside from containing redundancy, this lengthens the article -- particularly for listings of a large number of characters (which is the case with Majika).

For insight, looking at how other articles on TV series handle Characters/Cast, so far the ones I've seen all combine Characters and Cast into one section: Lost, C.S.I., Buffy the Vampire Slayer, 24 to name a few. I don't see why the same shouldn't be applied to Majika.

May I have other Wikipedians' thoughts on this? Thanks. --Mercurio 16:26, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Majika is one of my personal favorite shows on GMA mostly because angel locsin is in it and the fantasy format is so amusing in a way so ........

Can I edit with my personal observations and revelations from the show? Because the article seems rather boring EVEN with the addition of the story, so it helps if I edit the profiles... May I? Heran et Sang'gres 12:43, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

name origins
Please indicate certainty of name origins Kevin philippines 07:18, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

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The Majika web site says that Eloida's real child is Argo and not Juno. This means the wiki must be updated. See http://www.igma.tv/showcast.php?showid=174

Cleanup please. This one gets too much opinionated, as if a child was writing this article.<IP_ADDRESS> 17:57, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Copyediting needed
The episodes section needs copyediting for format and wording. RJFJR (talk) 03:41, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

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Article Evaluation

 * Third country resettlement
 * The facts are really outdated - most recent information from 2004
 * In "Usefulness of resettlement" is confusing and some of the claims have no explanation
 * "Selection Process" is too vague - refugees go through way more before they are allowed to resettle
 * UNHCR Statistics outdated
 * Some of the information does not seem to have enough evidence
 * Most sources are from the UNHCR though, so seems like a valid source
 * Does not discuss why people would choose "Third country resettlement" over the other two durable solutions for refugees
 * Information seems pretty neutral - mostly stating facts
 * Sources:
 * http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/figures-at-a-glance.html
 * International Rescue Committee
 * Need an appropriate introduction section
 * Very good break down of decades - a lot of information
 * Although, there is no information for 2010 or beyond
 * Information of current work is outdated - most recent work is from 2010
 * Does not say where the offices in the US are located
 * Does not explain the various programs IRC has or even all the departments IRC is composed of
 * Sources:
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Martin Circus

Martin Circus was a French band formed in the late 1960s, whose musical style developed over time from progressive rock through pop to disco and new wave music in the 1970s and 1980s.

Career
The band formed in 1968, at a time when the popular music scene in France was dominated by singers and bands performing versions of American and British songs, and established yé-yé and chanson-style singers. Martin Circus was one of the first French bands set up with the aim of writing and performing rock music with French language lyrics. Encouraged by English musician Mick Jones, who had played in Johnny Hallyday's backing group, the band was established by Gérard Pisani (b. 1941, saxophone) – who had also been in Hallyday's band – and Jean-Pierre "Bob" Brault (b. 1945, bass, vocals), soon joined by Patrick Dietsch (vocals, guitar), Paul-Jean Borowsky (vocals, keyboards), and Jean-Francois Leroi (drums). Their first single "Tout tremblant de fièvre", written by Dietsch and Pisani and released by Disques Vogue, was successful in 1969, and they recorded an LP, En Direct du Rock 'n Roll Circus.

By 1971, Dietsch, Borowsky and Leroi had left the band, to be replaced by Alain Pewsner (b. 1948, guitar), Gérard Blanc (1947–2009, vocals, guitar), Sylvain Pauchard (b. 1950, keyboards), and René Guérin (b. 1949, drums). Pewsner and Guérin had been members of the Alan Jack Civilization, and Blanc and Pauchard joined from the band Balthazar. They released a lavishly-produced double album, Acte II, in 1971, featuring the hit single "Je m'éclate au Sénégal", written by Brault and Pisani. The band toured widely, performed at many festivals, and appeared in the 1971 movie Les Bidasses en folie. Pisani left the band in 1972, following which they appeared in the 1973 rock opera show La Révolution Française. They released the album Acte III in 1974.

By now, a four-piece pop group comprising Blanc, Pewsner, Pauchard and Guérin, Martin Circus released the album No. 1 USA Hits of the 60's, on which they recorded French language versions of American pop hits. They had their biggest hit single in 1975 with "Ma-ry-lène", a version of the Beach Boys' arrangement of "Barbara Ann". The albums Tu Joues Ton Cœur and Rock'n'Roll Circus followed in 1976, and the band continued to perform live.

In 1978, they appeared in, and provided the soundtrack for, the movie Les Bidasses en vadrouille, one of a long-running series of Bidasses comic movies. The soundtrack album was released as Martin 'Disco' Circus, and featured a 14-minute track, "Disco Circus", written by Blanc and Pewsner and arranged by Gilles Tinayre, who also played keyboards. Several versions of the track were issued internationally, including a version edited by François Kevorkian, and it has been widely sampled and appeared on several compilations of dance music. The album was issued in the US by Prelude Records as Disco Circus, with a revised track order.

Guérin left Martin Circus as their use of drum machines developed, and the remaining trio of Pewsner, Pauchard and Blanc released the album Shine Baby Shine in 1979. The band then shifted towards a new wave focus with the album De sang froid, which featured the return of original songwriter and saxophonist Gérard Pisani. However, it was not successful, and the band split up in the mid-1980s.

In 2001, an early line-up of Brault, Pisani, Borowsky, Dietsch, Blanc, and Guérin came together to record the album Origines, comprising a mixture of new and re-recorded material. Blanc died in 2009. Another reunion under the Martin Circus name, this time of Pewsner and Pauchard with singer Tom Bock and drummer Félix Sabal-Lecco, took place in 2016.

Discography

 * En Direct du Rock 'n Roll Circus (1969)
 * Acte II (1971)
 * Acte III (1974)
 * No. 1 USA Hits of the 60's (1975)
 * Tu Joues Ton Cœur (1976)
 * Rock'n'Roll Circus (1976)
 * Martin 'Disco' Circus (1978, aka Disco Circus)
 * Shine Baby Shine (1979)
 * De sang froid (1982)
 * Origines (2001)

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Talk:David Rath

Video
The video of David Rath may be notable. I suspect not. But a video is not a meme. Is there any concensus for deleting the reference to the video? Bejnar 20:55, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Jewish
On 16 December 2007 IP editor <IP_ADDRESS> added a category Category:Czech Jews to this article. <IP_ADDRESS> provided no citation. I have been unable to find any reference to David Rath being Jewish, so I have deleted the category pending citation. I do note that in Czechoslovakia prior to WWII there were individuals with the last name of Rath who were Jewish. --Bejnar (talk) 00:59, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

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Peoples Voice (Singapore)

Peoples Voice (abbreviation: PV) is an opposition political party in Singapore.

History
Peoples Voice was formed after Lim Tean resigned from the National Solidarity Party in 2017, thus stepping down from the secretary-general position as well, citing fundamental differences in approach to politics. PV was officially registered on 31 October 2018 with the Registry of Societies.

In March 2019, Leong Sze Hian was made the PV shadow finance minister. Kok Ming Cheang is the shadow cabinet minister for health.

PV had put forward 10 candidates to contest in the Mountbatten Single Member Constituency, Jalan Besar Group Representation Constituency (GRC) and Pasir Ris–Punggol GRC for the 2020 Singaporean general election, which was called on 23 June 2020 with the dissolution of the 13th Parliament of Singapore, for the latter it was also a three-cornered contest against a third party, Singapore Democratic Alliance. On 10 July, the party won none of the constituencies, and their five-member team for Pasir Ris–Punggol GRC team had lost a combined $67,500 election deposit (five times the deposit of $13,500 per candidate) for garnering only 12.18% of the votes, falling just 0.32% short of the one-eighth threshold (12.5%) in order to keep their deposit. In terms of the share, they got 21.26% of the votes cast on all the constituencies contested, and 2.37% based on overall popular vote.

In June 2023, PV leader Lim Tean announced the formation of an alliance with three other opposition parties: Reform Party, People's Power Party and the Democratic Progressive Party. The alliance, called People's Alliance, will contest in the 2025 Singapore General Election under the banner of the alliance. Under the new alliance, Lim Tean will assume the position of Secretary-General while Reform Party's Secretary-General, Kenneth Jeyaretnam will be the chairman. Other notable members include Goh Meng Seng, the Secretary-General of the People's Power Party, who wiill assume the position of Organising Secretary.

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See also ST47's Techlog pages over on the WikiCast wiki :-) ShakespeareFan00 13:53, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

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Subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn

Subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn is a rare form of lobular panniculitis occurring in newborns that is usually self-remitting and non-recurring. Proposed causes include perinatal stress, local trauma, hypoxia and hypothermia, though the exact cause is unknown. It has been suggested that the brown fat seen in newborns is more sensitive to hypoxic injury than fat seen in adults, and that such hypoxia, usually in the context of a complicated birth, leads to the fat necrosis. Complications can include hypercalcemia, hyperlipidemia, dehydration, hypoglycemia, seizures, vomiting, constipation, and thrombocytopenia, and can present months after the onset of SCFN symptoms.

Signs and symptoms
Subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn (SCFN) occurs in full-term newborns usually in the first six weeks of life as indurated plaques or erythematous to violaceous nodules on the cheeks, back, buttocks, or proximal extremities. Usually, the abdomen and chest are unaffected. There has been a case report of SCFN with localized scalp alopecia covering an erythematous nodule. Tenderness is common in lesions.

About 50% of newborns with subcutaneous fat necrosis of the newborn (SCFN) experience hypercalcemia, a potentially fatal consequence. Some infants with SCFN experience anemia, hypoglycemia, thrombocytopenia, and elevated triglycerides. Rarely, thrombocytosis is seen in infants with SCFN.

Causes
Although the exact cause of the newborn's subcutaneous fat necrosis is unknown, several systemic maternal diseases, including preeclampsia and diabetes, as well as asphyxia, hypothermia, meconium aspiration, and obstetric trauma, may act as precipitating factors in the development of SCFN.

Diagnosis
A skin biopsy and the clinical presentation must both be taken into account for the most accurate diagnosis. But in order to prevent skin biopsy, ultrasonography examination has been shown to be useful in identifying the newborn's subcutaneous fat necrosis when combined with Doppler blood flow analysis; this usually indicates a subcutaneous high echo signal, either with or without calcifications.


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User:Maldonaj14

My name is Jeff Maldonado and I am a Group Account Director at Kwittken, a global brand strategy agency headquartered in New York City.

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Bradley Woods

Bradley Woods is an area of woodland in Wiltshire, south of Longleat Woods and north of Gare Hill.

A 48.7 hectare area within the site has been notified as a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest, notification originally taking place in 1986.

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Talk:Algorithms/Mathematical Background

Use Set Notation?
Let's have a discussion about just using set notation for big-O. I think instead of saying that
 * $$O(n\lg n)\le O(n^2)$$

and
 * $$f(n) = O(g(n))$$

We should use the set notation only:
 * $$O(n\lg n)\subset O(n^2)$$

and
 * $$f(n)\in O(g(n))$$

We could still define what the "="s notation means, and mention that it's also used. But it would be nice to avoid these notational issues and follow the "newer" trend and adopt the set notation. We still would say "T(n) is O(n)" instead of "T(n) is in O(n)", because "is" in English is commonly understood to be in only one direction, not both. --MShonle 19:39, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas Cormen, et. al. (ISBN 0-262-03293-7) explains its use of = by pointing out that sometimes we will want to say $$3n^2+2n-17 = 3n^2+\Theta(n)$$ or even $$3n^2+\Theta(n) = \Theta(n^2)$$, which don't work if we just replace = with ∈. So it's probably better to keep = and just explain what it means.

 * Good point, we shouldn't get too far off the beaten path. We could leave the set interpretation as just a side note. MShonle 05:16, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Anyway, in order to understand any of this, readers need a basic understanding of set theory, or at least its notation. Discrete_mathematics/Set_theory, Naive set theory, and Set all have basic summaries of the needed notation which could be copied here. I like Naive set theory's best. Was there any resolution to the discussion at Staff_lounge? --jyasskin 01:36, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

 * Hey Jyasskin: BTW, Thanks for your contributions. There was no resolution with how to handle Mathematics books (and the like). For this book I'd like to see it be as self-contained as possible (it assumes the sister book on Data Structures, however it doesn't assume all of Data Structure book's content either). I think it would be safe to assume some knowledge of descrete math, but we wouldn't want to demonstrate, say, the continuum hypothesis.
 * Also, we'd probably want to use more examples than the wikipedia. For example, defining some natural sets along with the notation right away just so the material won't seem so abstract. A section on Set Theory right after the Mathematical Definitions sounds good. (Or perhaps you might like set theory first, to introduce relations too, which the Mathematical Definitions section uses). MShonle 05:16, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Little-o vs. Small-o
I always called what you call "small-o" "little-o."

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Little-oNotation.html
 * That makes sense. Thanks. MShonle 03:50, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

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Undefined Logical Negation symbol under types of relations
In describing the different types of relations, the logical negation symbol is used, for instance in defining irreflexive. However nowhere before that point or around it a suitable interpretation of that symbol is provided. Besides the interpretation is going to depend on the particular relation being defined and its set. --Balbir Thomas 17:00, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

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Battlefield 2142

Battlefield 2142 is a 2006 first-person shooter video game developed by DICE and published by Electronic Arts. It is the fourth game in the Battlefield series. Battlefield 2142 is set in 2142, depicting a war known as "The Cold War of the 22nd Century", in which two military superpowers – the European Union (EU) and Pan Asian Coalition (PAC) – battle for the remaining unfrozen land during a new ice age.

The game was designed primarily for multiplayer gameplay and allows for a maximum of 64 players on a server or a maximum of 16 players in single player mode against bots on Conquest mode. It has its own ranking system to keep track of the user's statistics similar to the one used in its predecessor, Battlefield 2. It opens up new categories of vehicles and weapons not seen in Battlefield 2. Battlefield 2142 has an unlock system that allows the player to choose a new unlock every time they achieve a new rank instead of forcing the player to purchase items. A booster pack called Northern Strike contains new maps, unlocks, and vehicles; a deluxe edition was released that contains Battlefield 2142 and Northern Strike.

In July 2014, all online components of the game were deactivated following the shutdown of GameSpy. The game's online multiplayer was revived by the Project Revive community in 2016. However, the project was shut down in 2017 following a legal notice from Electronic Arts. The game's online multiplayer is currently only playable with the community 2142 Reclamation Project formed after the shutdown of Project Revive.

Gameplay
Battlefield includes two gameplay modes, Conquest and Titan, the latter of which can only be played online in multiplayer maps (without using modifications ("mods")). Both modes support varying numbers of players, up to 64, depending upon the server a player chooses to join online. The single player mode consists of a maximum of 16 players, which includes 15 AI bots. Commander Mode from Battlefield 2 returns, as one player from each team can apply and either accept or turn down the role of becoming commander. The player in the commander position has vital roles in the game, such as deploying UAV's, artillery strikes, airdropping supplies or vehicles for their team.

Classes
Battlefield 2142 features four different playable kits. These kits can be selected at any time during gameplay. The kits are a combination of the kits in Battlefield 2, which had seven playable kits, but were less customizable and upgradeable in comparison. Each kit has different weapons and equipment that are unique. Each contains a basic weapon, a secondary weapon, and a knife. The knife differs in this game from Battlefield 2 because when a player is killed with a knife, the killer acquires the player's dogtag. The player is able to gain rank, options, and equipment by acquiring points in the game. Battlefield 2142 has customization, allowing the player to gain more unlocks for one kit, which makes it more effective. Each class has two unlockable weapons and one passive unlock which upgrades the soldier's helmet, each helmet upgrade having different functions. The benefits of one soldier's helmet upgrade will be shared with their squadmates.

 * Assault: The Assault and Medic classes from Battlefield 2 are combined as the Assault kit in Battlefield 2142. The main weapons are assault rifles with unlockable rocket or shotgun add-ons. Other unlocks include advanced first-aid kits which can be deployed to restore the health of anyone standing close to it, smoke grenades for screening, and a defibrillator for reviving fallen comrades.
 * Engineer: The Engineer class works the same way it was intended since Battlefield 1942. Engineer can still repair vehicles and have the access to heavy weapons that can damage and destroy enemy vehicles, such as rocket launchers and mines.
 * Support: The Support class provides ammunition with ammo boxes and can deploy turret guns and electric shields to help the team in the close quarters combat.
 * Recon: The Recon kit is aimed to provide perimeter support for the team with high velocity sniper rifles. In the other hand the Lambert-carbine is a full-automatic carbine weapon suitable for the assault gameplay style and combined with RDX explosives and the cloaking device recon turns into special ops class.

Conquest
Conquest mode, similar to its predecessors, involves two teams of players fighting each other while working to capture and defend spawn points. Spawn points are represented by flags and display the color of the controlling faction. To hold a simple majority of flags will initiate a ticket drain on the opposing faction, which will only speed up if one faction controls all the flags. Both teams begin the match with a preset number of tickets. Each time a soldier dies, a ticket is removed from their team. Players have the opportunity to reduce their number of lost tickets by reviving their "critically wounded" teammates with the Assault class' defibrillator. By reviving a teammate within 15 seconds (or the amount of time the server has been set to), no ticket will be lost and the player will not need to respawn (the player who killed the now revived player will keep their kill point). The team that has no tickets, or no places to spawn with no one alive, loses the match.

There are several types of Conquest modes: Head-on, Assault, Assault Lines, and Double Assault Lines, Conquest Assault, No Vehicles.
 * In Head-on, both teams start with one flag that cannot be captured. The rest of the flags are neutral.
 * In Assault, play in either of the Assault Lines modes.
 * In Conquest Assault, which is identical to normal Assault in both its coding and function, the PAC starts with one uncapturable flag (an immobile Titan), while the EU starts off with the rest of the flags and an immobile Titan which can be captured by the PAC.
 * In No Vehicles, infantry are the only option, which will stack with the conquest mode that the map uses. No vehicles will spawn, including static ground turrets.

Titan
The Titan mode involves players from opposing teams whose objective is to destroy the other team's Titan, while trying to defend their own. Titans are massive, heavily armored, flying warships that have powerful force fields protecting them from enemy intrusion or conventional weapons fire. As the force fields are up during the first part of a battle, players must fight to control the anti-Titan missile silos scattered about the battlefield on the ground. Titans can be moved around the battlefield, but only by the team's Commander. Each Titan can defend itself and contribute to the fight on the ground with 4 anti-ground guns and 2 anti-aircraft guns. Titan movement can cause latency issues, so some players prefer not to move them at all. Some servers even disable the commander's ability to move the Titan.

After the shields are down, there are two methods to destroy the enemy Titan. One way is to simply remain on the ground and hold the anti-Titan missiles until they wear down the hull. A quicker alternative is to board the Titan using "assault pods" launched from an APC (Armored Personnel Carrier), air transport, Titan, or spawn beacon, spawn on your squad leader, or land an air transport on a Titan as a mobile spawn point. Once inside, the players must destroy 4 reactor consoles to gain access to the reactor room. There, they can blow up the reactor, and have 30 seconds to flee the Titan before it is destroyed.

During the beta release of the game, players who managed to escape the destroyed Titan before the 30-second timer ended received an award. In the retail game, the round ends when the Titan is destroyed, and because player deaths triggered by the end of a round do not count, the evacuation of the Titan had little significance aside from inciting a rush in the player. In patch 1.05, DICE reinstated the award for those attacking players who escaped the destruction in the "Titan Survival Pin." However, receiving the pin requires very precise timing to land on the ground, causing confusion amongst players initially.

Vehicles
The vehicles of Battlefield 2142 are similar to those in Battlefield 2 except for a more futuristic design. For example, the PAC team tank, the Type 32 Nekomata, has a hovercraft driving system. The air vehicles are more futuristic, propelled by turbines instead of rotors. Almost all vehicles have a short duration protective shield called active defense. The active defense protects the vehicle from all attacks (except for electromagnetic attacks) for about five seconds.

Statistics tracking
The ranking and points system of Battlefield 2142 is similar to Battlefield 2, however, different ranks are featured. As with Battlefield 2, a key feature of the game is "Character Persistence", which saves and tracks almost every aspect of gameplay for players. Unlike Battlefield 2, however, the user is given the option to create up to four soldiers, as opposed to Battlefield 2's limitation of one per account. When playing the game in online multiplayer mode on specified servers, a master server tracks player points, ranks, equipment, and other statistics.

Ranks
The Battlefield 2142 rank system consists of a number of partially fictitious, partially realistic military ranks, and are (for the most part) each divided by a silver/gold format, with players attaining the silver version of the rank (e.g. Corporal Silver) before reaching the gold rank (e.g. Corporal Gold). New ranks are earned by attaining experience points, which can be earned for actions on a ranked server such as killing an enemy soldier/vehicle, healing/resupplying teammates, repairing ally vehicles/strategic objects (SAT Track, UAV, Orbital Strike, and EMP Strike which are located at the main base), capturing/neutralizing control points/missile silos, assisting in kills (such as piloting a gunship) or carrying out orders given by the Squad Leader/Commander (negative points may be earned by actions such as teamkilling).

The rank system is designed to be progressive so ranks are earned faster when a player begins (for example, 40 points are needed to climb from the lowest to the 2nd lowest rank while 3600 points are needed to advance from the 2nd highest to the highest rank). This provides new players with a number of unlocks straight away to give them an edge (as well as ambition). Later ranks require more effort, time, and skill from the player as the extremely high number of points can usually be attained only through awards (which may give up to 2000 points apiece). The final three ranks of the game are only given to a certain number of players at a time, with Major General given to 50 players, Lieutenant General given to 25 players, and the highest rank, Supreme Commander, given to only one player at a time. These top three are brevet ranks; players retain those ranks until other players surpass them.

Awards
Awards can be earned only in multiplayer mode, with each award having its own specific criteria. Most awards typically have two to five criteria, composed of In A Round (IAR) criteria and Global criteria. IAR criteria must be accomplished within a single round, not through multiple rounds. Global criteria are accumulated by playing on a ranked server. For example, the Titan Commander badge (silver) requires a player to be the commander in Titan mode for twenty minutes in one round after accumulating 1000 commander points in Titan mode globally. Each award (with the exception of medals, which are more for prestige, since they are the hardest to obtain) delivers a certain number of experience points, which go towards attaining a new rank. Badges, which have three levels of achievement (bronze, silver, and gold), and ribbons deliver the most points, while pins offer very few points since they are relatively easy to get, and may be obtained more than once.

Unlocks
In Battlefield 2142, every time a player earns a new rank, they are able to choose a new unlock. Players with the Northern Strike Booster Pack are also able to earn unlocks by earning the badge or ribbon awards associated with Northern Strike. There are a total of 50 unlocks (40 Battlefield 2142 Core Game, 10 Northern Strike) and there are different categories of unlocks including class unlocks, squad unlocks, and ability unlocks. Class unlocks are specific to the class type which is being used. Ability unlocks are universal for all the classes. Squad unlocks can be equipped by anybody but they may only be used by squad leaders who have the required number of members in their squad. Unlocks are in tiers and require the player to progress up through the tree to unlock higher-level equipment. The player can test the other unlocks by picking up a dead soldier's equipment who is higher rank and contain more unlocks than the player.

A "Field Upgrade" is a temporary unlock which can be awarded to all members of a squad when they either kill, resupply, heal or revive a teammate while they are following an attack or defend order. The Field Upgrade is a sort of 'try before you buy' feature (while the player has their own customizable inventory), allowing players to experience certain unlocks before they use one of their hard earned unlock credits to unlock it. They only allow players to test the equipment one level higher on their original unlock tree. Field Upgrades will be available to the player until the player disconnects from the server. If a player unlocks a new item which they have already Field Upgraded on their current server, the next unlock will not become available to them for a Field Upgrade until they leave the server. Certain unlocks are only available after purchasing the Northern Strike booster pack, and they are on top of all the other unlocks in the unlock trees of the core game. Field Upgrades also allow players without Northern Strike to have temporary access to the upgrades that are only available in Northern Strike. Field Upgrades are only applicable on ranked servers.

Synopsis
In the year 2106, a new ice age began. As the ice expanded, millions of people all over the world were displaced, particularly in Russia and Japan. Combined with their increasing inability to find sufficient natural resources, the Pan Asian Coalition grows desperate. Meanwhile, the European Union is able to withstand the displacements and find sufficient resources, mostly from North Africa due to their relationship with the Union of African States (Africa remaining mostly ice-free). Seeing this, the PAC launches a full-scale invasion of Europe and North Africa in 2139, beginning the Cold War of the 22nd century, a war for the world's last remaining land and resources.

The Final Stand multiplayer expansion pack for Battlefield 4 gives new insight about the cold war, revealing that the PAC was formed as early as 2020 (the year Battlefield 4 takes place) as early versions of the coalition's symbol can be seen. Furthermore, early prototypes of Titans and other vehicles and futuristic technology were already in development in 2020 by the PAC in remote regions of Russia.

Development
Battlefield 2142 was rumored to be in development ever since a 30-second video was leaked to the Internet in January 2006. The video described itself as an "internal test." The proof of concept depicts the game's various vehicles storming through a futuristic city. A screenshot depicting the walker was taken from this video and subsequently used in marketing for the game. The rumors began in earnest following a February 2006 interview with Dan Blackstone, a senior producer from Electronic Arts, in which he mentioned "We're about to announce something very big, so stay tuned. One other interviewer asked this and I gave him a hint, so it's only fair that I do the same for you: 3213/3*2. Or said another way: S.R. 4588164."

The square root ("S.R.") of 4588164 is 2142 (3213÷3×2 equals 2142 as well), hence the rumors. The only proof of existence was the cover story of the PC Gamer magazine and the trailer, published on the very same magazine, until March 21, 2006, when Electronic Arts and DICE announced that the next game in the Battlefield series would be Battlefield 2142, in their March 21, 2006 Community Update.

Several pieces of early concept art were released onto the internet. However, during a hacking attack on the board where the images were posted, most of the images were lost. Early in the development process, the game was set on a different planet, as hinted by three moons in the sky in one piece of concept art. Additionally, it was to be the United States, rather than the European Union, versus the Pan-Asian Coalition, and several files within the game indicate the U.S. (most notably the texture files used by the EU and PAC, with the EU folder being labeled 'US' rather than 'EU').

In the Battlefield 2 Armored Fury Booster Pack map Midnight Sun, there was a drivable muscle car with license plate number 2142. Additionally in Armored Fury, there was a billboard advertising a digital wrist watch, which displays '21:42' as the time, and a Mushroom cloud with the caption message, "Watch For The Future." Additionally in Armored Fury, the drivable semi-truck had a magazine on the passenger seat that reads "Ice Age Approaches."

Battlefield 2142 was officially announced and playable at E3 2006."

The Battlefield 2142 beta was released in the third week of August. However, it was revealed that the beta was not a complete "open" beta upon its release. At first, the general belief was that it was to be a FilePlanet subscriber-only beta, but it was later revealed to additionally have an invite system. At that time the beta was only available to certain FilePlanet subscribers (keys were given out on a first-come, first-served basis) and those who were invited. Some fan-sites had been holding contests giving out invitations to the BF2142 beta as prizes. On August 31, a large number of keys were given out by FilePlanet for free, and the beta client was upgraded. The FilePlanet beta ended on September 12, 2006. It was noted by many users that at the beginning of the beta the game worked great, but by the end it was horribly broken, with players getting stuck in walls and titans disappearing into thin air. It was decided to ship it anyway.

At the 2007 WWDC, it was announced that Battlefield 2142 would be released for Macintosh computers in July 2007. It was released in 2007, for Mac OS X. Since the game uses Cedega it will only work with Intel based Macintosh systems and not PowerPC.

Advertising components
Battlefield 2142 shipped with dynamic in-game advertising provided by IGA Worldwide. A similar system is featured in games such as Battlefield 2, Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, and PlanetSide. The system changes advertisements on objects such as billboards in-game. These in-game advertisements have been dubbed adware by some, and there has been a vocal backlash against this element of the game.

Additionally, much of the recent "advertising space" has been used to show propaganda for new in game features and helping to feed rumors of a new game type in the works. Intel has advertised in the game, and recently the Discovery Channel has placed advertising in the game for their Future Weapons series. More recently advertisements for the DVD release of the movie Ghost Rider have appeared.

An in-house advertisement for Battlefield: Bad Company have appeared recently, stating such things as "Celebrating the 134th anniversary of the Battlefield: Bad Company demo."

Another current one is advertising the DVD and Blu-ray release of I Am Legend. Billboards without paid advertisements generally have recruitment posters for the factions, and ads for "DICE Travel." These travel ads sell the reader into going to the various maps, such as Verdun or Berlin, for £2142, with taglines such as "Gun not included" and "One-way." Some billboard ads recently added after the new year can be found during the gameplay saying "Happy 2143 EU Soldiers!" Additionally there is a reference to the sci-fi film Starship Troopers, and by extension, World War II recruitment posters, on billboards featuring the slogan – "He's Doing His Part. Are You?"

Ads have also recently appeared for the Northern Strike booster pack, displaying pictures like those of the Goliath, with a tag line of "A soldier's best friend", and PAC propaganda posters with the faction flag and a line reading "Европа завоёвана!" ("Europe is conquered!"), in Russian. In the UK, ads consist almost entirely of ads for Intel Core 2 Duo which states "Battle-Tested" and EA's own Northern Strike. More recently in Britain (August 2007), the bank Lloyds TSB placed adverts in-game showing various accounts and products available from them. Also recently, billboards sporting ads for Battlefield: Bad Company have been popping up. The most recent of which being advertisements for Bad Company's free Conquest mode addition.

Updates
EA Games released five updates for Battlefield 2142. These addressed various issues in-game, some of which are causes of minor imbalance (for example, a bug causing the missiles of one faction's gunships to be homing while the other faction's gunship had "dumb" missiles). However some players complained that minor issues (such as small bullet deviation adjustments to guns) were repeatedly tweaked while major issues (exploits which allowed sentry guns to locate players behind walls, allowed critically wounded players to "see through" the whole Titan, and "Pod Surfing" which would allow players who altered their controls to extend the APCs' and Squad Leader Beacons' drop pod range almost infinitely) remained unaddressed. Certain fixes have also created more problems. For instance, an exploit that allows players to reach normally inaccessible locations such as high rooftops was remedied in the 1.25 update. However, the fix had repercussions in the form of equipment that can kill the player or become stuck on map geometry. Patch 1.4 fixed many of these exploits and enhanced certain features of the game. Three major additions (in 1.40) are the new map Highway Tampa, and an auto save feature that saves the last kit layout used for each class (although there have been noted problems with certain weapons and gadgets randomly being saved incorrectly). The 1.40 update allows a second gunship to spawn on each titan after the first one has taken off. In the Highway Tampa map, there are a total of three gunships per faction. Patch 1.50 was released for Windows-based systems on May 30, 2008 and includes 2 new maps – Wake Island and Operation Shingle – as well as numerous bug fixes and game enhancements; a mid-June 2008 announcement on the Battlefield website indicated that Patch 1.50 would eventually also be released for the Mac OS; the Mac patch became available. The latest patch to date, Version 1.51, featured the 4 new maps of Molokai, Yellowknife, Operation Blue Pearl, and Strike at Karkand as well as a Northern Strike booster pack.

Music
An official soundtrack has been released, containing 14 songs, including a new version of the classic Battlefield: 1942 theme. Each song (excluding tracks 1, 6, 7, and 14) corresponds with a map from the game. All tracks were composed by Gregor Narholz.

Demo
EA released an online-only standalone demo of the retail game, featuring the Sidi Power Plant map, with either conquest or Titan modes. Demo versions were limited to demo-only servers, of which a few were initially run by EA, but were quickly supplanted by player run servers.

Ranked points or unlocks could not be earned in the demo, though several demo servers ran their own ranking system. The demo was not updated in parallel with the complete game, and so several exploitable glitches and bugs existed, though most were patched or policed by the demo modding community and server admins. Unlike in the full game, a modding community thrived within the demo servers, primarily because of the static frozen environment untouched by patches, and the desire and competition between server administrators, to create fresh and diverse features to add to an otherwise limited gaming environment.

EA discontinued support for the demo August 11, 2011; it is no longer possible to create a player character in the demo game client, or login with an existing demo account to an EA player database server, which essentially renders the demo game no longer functional.

Retail bonuses

 * Collector's Edition: A Collector's Edition of the game was released on DVD, which came in a numbered metal box. This edition came with a Battlefield 2142 chain and handphone strap, as well as a free rank.
 * Best Buy: Players who pre-ordered Battlefield 2142 from Best Buy were not only given a free 64MB dog tag styled flash drive, but also a free "downloadable assault weapon", which replaced the existing standard EU assault rifle (Scar 11), with the "Bofors Defense Machine Gun", which was a cosmetically changed version of the same weapon. The Bofors Defense Machine Gun causes many players to reinstall the game and sell the code for the price difference because of the massive size of the weapon compared to the SCAR 11.
 * GameStop: Players who pre-ordered Battlefield 2142 from GameStop received a free in-game rank. This rank was stackable with the Battlefield 2 Veteran's Program promotion, allowing players to begin halfway through the second rank upon release of the retail game.
 * BF2 Veterans Program: People that played Battlefield 2 could participate in a "Veterans Program" that let them reserve their name for Battlefield 2142 before launch, get an immediate in-game rank-up, placed the red '2' from the Battlefield 2 logo next to their in-game BF2142 username during play, and receive exclusive verbal taunts to use against other players in Battlefield 2.

Reception
Battlefield 2142 received a "Silver" sales award from the Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA), indicating sales of at least 100,000 copies in the United Kingdom.

Battlefield 2142 generally received positive reviews according to review aggregator Metacritic. Hyper's Kosta Andreadis commended the game for its "Titan Mode, refined reward and promotion system [and] well designed maps". However, he criticized it for "lag issues when boarding Titans".

Months after the buggy initial release, EA released a patch which resolved most of the game's bugs; official widescreen support didn't come until the 1.5 patch was released for the PC version of the game on May 30, 2008. The Mac version of the patch was released two months later, on August 1, 2008.

During the 10th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards, the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences nominated Battlefield 2142 for "Computer Game of the Year" and "Outstanding Achievement in Online Gameplay".

Northern Strike
On March 8, 2007, Electronic Arts released the Northern Strike booster pack for the Battlefield 2142 game.

In Northern Strike, the battle moves to northern and central Europe and is set in 2145. The PAC has set up strongholds in the urban areas left abandoned due to their constant assault, and the advancing ice sheets. The EU launches an offensive to take back its land from the PAC. This fictional invasion greatly resembles the 1944 invasion of Normandy, when Europe was finally reclaimed by Allied Forces.

The booster pack contains ten new unlocks, three new maps, two new vehicles, and a new game mode called Assault Lines. The booster pack was exclusively available through the EA Link for $9.95 US$; Since January 2008, Battlefield 2142 Deluxe Edition contains Northern Strike. It is now available from retailers outside the U.S.

Awards and unlocks
Northern Strike contains eleven new awards: Four new ribbons, two new badges (with three ranks each), and a new pin. Each new award in Northern Strike is worth one equipment unlock credit including each level of the badges for a total of ten unlock credits (except the pin, which is worth 10 career points toward a player's in-game rank). While these unlocks can be used to unlock Northern Strike items, they can also be used to unlock items from the core game. While it is not possible to permanently acquire Northern Strike unlocks without purchasing the expansion, they can be chosen as Field Upgrades if the unlocks preceding them are unlocked, or can be used by picking up the equipment of a fallen soldier if that soldier had a Northern Strike unlock equipped when they died.

Maps
Northern Strike offers three new maps, Bridge at Remagen, Liberation of Leipzig, and Port Bavaria. The new maps, which are the only available maps for Assault Lines (excepting the Highway Tampa map, obtained through the 1.40 patch), are the only maps that spawn either of the new vehicles, and feature relatively large numbers of Battlewalkers but no tanks and little air support outside of Titan Mode, which is also available on the Port Bavaria and Bridge at Remagen maps. They also feature a new "Horizontal Pod Launcher" structure that functions similarly to the Pod Launchers found on the Titans (but with reduced range and a maximum time after the player gets in until the pod is automatically launched).

Assault Lines
Assault Lines mode is similar to Conquest, but with a couple of major differences. Most asymmetrical Conquest maps feature the PAC as the attacking force with the EU defending, whereas Assault Lines reverses the roles. In Assault Lines, the APCs on Port Bavaria and the Goliath are spawn points for troops, much like they are in Titan mode, however the Goliath may not be stolen by the other team. Finally, the PAC home base cannot be captured until every other base on the map belongs to the EU team before they can begin claiming the base as their own. Completion of this awards a pin to those playing as EU at the time, players who switch teams after the home base has been captured do not receive the pin. If the PAC successfully recaptures the base and controls at least one other point on the map then it becomes locked again while the EU can not lock this point even through controlling all other points on the map.

Reception
Northern Strike received "generally favorable reviews", albeit slightly less than the original Battlefield 2142, according to Metacritic.

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Where Are You My Love?

Where Are You My Love? may refer to:

 * "Where Are You My Love", a song by Eddie Low
 * "Où es-tu mon amour? (Where Are You, My Love?)", a song written by Emile Stern and Henri Lemarchand in 1946
 * ¿Dónde estás amor de mi vida que no te puedo encontrar? (Where Are You My Love, That I Cannot Find You?), a 1992 Argentine drama film

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1916 Kansas Jayhawks football team

The 1916 Kansas Jayhawks football team was an American football team that represented the University of Kansas as a member of the Missouri Valley Conference during the 1916 college football season. In their second season under head coach Herman Olcott, the Jayhawks compiled a 4–3–1 record (1–2–1 against conference opponents), finished in fifth place in the MVIAA, and were outscored by a total of 72 to 68. The team's November 18 victory over Nebraska snapped a 34-game unbeaten streak for the Cornhuskers. The Jayhawks played their home games at McCook Field in Lawrence, Kansas. Adrian Lindsey was the team captain.

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Business English/Course Outlines

These are sample class plans originally developed for a Business English conversation class in Mexico City, Mexico.

Class 1

 * Introduction of the teacher and the class
 * Personal chatting

Class 2

 * Discussion of course policies
 * Students present selves to teacher
 * Students explain company-related activities to teacher
 * “Being (held) accountable for something”
 * Discussion of book

Class 3

 * Topic for discussion: the company; what makes it different, market challenges, biggest future opportunities.
 * Student experiences with international (English-speaking) clients and any travels into English-speaking parts of the world.
 * Student motivations for speaking English, related to and besides current work-related issues.
 * Answer any specific language or culture questions.
 * Assigned homework: Module 1, Business Grammar Book. Due on.

Class 4

 * Discuss grammar homework.
 * First student presentation (?)
 * Students bring technical documents related to their work. These can be from professional magazines, Internet or books, but should be in English.
 * Discuss significance of the documents, any practical application to current work, any difficult words, phrases or constructions.
 * Discuss handout on business idioms.
 * Answer any specific language or culture questions.
 * Assigned homework: Module 2, Business Grammar Book. Due on.

Class 5

 * Discuss grammar homework.
 * Student presentation, followed by questions and answers by the class.
 * Discuss Christmas/holiday plans and traditions in Mexico and US, in individual families, holiday food and/or recipes.
 * Students bring articles about international trade.
 * Answer any specific language or culture questions.
 * Assigned homework: Module 3, Business Grammar Book. Due on.

Class 6

 * Discuss grammar homework.
 * Student presentation, followed by questions and answers by the class.
 * Students bring articles about finance.
 * Answer any specific language or culture questions.
 * Assigned homework: Module 4, Business Grammar Book. Due on.

Class 7

 * Discuss grammar homework.
 * Student presentation, followed by questions and answers by the class.
 * Students bring articles about business and organizational management.
 * Discuss unfulfilled dreams.
 * Answer any specific language or culture questions.
 * Oral exams.
 * Assigned homework: Module 5, Business Grammar Book. Due on.

Class 8

 * Discuss grammar homework.
 * Student presentation, followed by questions and answers by the class.
 * Students bring articles about technology.
 * Discuss, “What is the best advice that someone can give another person”.
 * New year's resolutions.
 * Answer any specific language or culture questions.
 * Oral exams for those who did not take it on.
 * Assigned homework: Module 6, Business Grammar Book. Due on.

Class 9

 * Students bring articles about sports and sports heroes.
 * Telephoning exercise.
 * Student presentation by ______________________, followed by questions and answers by the class.
 * Discuss grammar homework, Module 4, Business Grammar Book.
 * Assigned homework: Module 5, Business Grammar Book.
 * Answer any student questions about language, grammar, culture, etc.

Class 10

 * Students bring articles about hobbies.
 * Students bring any reports and proposals that they have written in English.
 * Discuss, “Basic business letter formats”.
 * Student presentation by ______________________, followed by questions and answers by the class.
 * Discuss grammar homework, Module 5, Business Grammar Book.
 * Assigned homework: Module 6, Business Grammar Book.
 * Answer any student questions about language, grammar, culture, etc.

Class 11

 * Students bring articles about culture and society.
 * Discuss general values and customs in US and abroad (cultures working with the company).
 * Student presentation by ______________________, followed by questions and answers by the class.
 * Discuss grammar homework, Module 6, Business Grammar Book.
 * Assigned homework: Module 7, Business Grammar Book.
 * Answer any student questions about language, grammar, culture, etc.

Class 12

 * Students bring articles about business etiquette.
 * Discuss taboos in the US and other cultures doing business with the company.
 * Student presentation by ______________________, followed by questions and answers by the class.
 * Discuss grammar homework, Module 7, Business Grammar Book.
 * Assigned homework: Module 8, Business Grammar Book.
 * Answer any student questions about language, grammar, culture, etc.

Class 13

 * Students bring articles about English and English learning.
 * Review English résumés, students bring own résumés.
 * Oral exams.
 * Discuss grammar homework, Module 8, Business Grammar Book.
 * No grammar homework assigned.
 * Answer any student questions about language, grammar, culture, etc.

Class 14

 * Students bring articles about branding.
 * Discuss, “What is the best advice that someone can give another person”.
 * Oral exams for those who did not take it on.
 * Discuss grammar homework, Module 9, Business Grammar Book.
 * No grammar homework assigned.
 * Teacher/class feedback form.

The class will include surprise topics along the way as well, and the teacher is willing to be flexible and include specially suggested topics and/or deviate from the official class plans as the students request.

Note
You can search for great articles at the following websites: nytimes.com, economist.com, wikipedia.org, news.google.com, etc.

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Eleonora Troja

Eleonora Troja is an Italian astrophysicist. In 2017 she led the discovery of X-ray emission from the gravitational wave source GW170817.

Education
Troja completed a B.A. in physics and astronomy at University of Palermo in 2002. She completed a thesis, X-ray spectroscopy of He-like ions in optically thin astrophysical plasmas, under supervisor Giovanni Peres. Troja earned a M.Phil. in physics and astronomy at Palermo in 2005 under Fabio Reale. Her graduate thesis was titled XMM-Newton observations of the supernova remnant IC 443: analysis of the thermal X-ray emission. She completed a Ph.D. in physics and astronomy in 2009 under advisor Giancarlo Cusumano. Her dissertation was titled Gamma-ray bursts in the Swift era: evidence of long lived central engines and implications for progenitor models. From July 2009 to July 2012, Troja was a postdoctoral fellow at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) under advisor Neil Gehrels.

Career
In July 2013, Troja became the Swift Guest Investigator Program Lead at NASA GSFC. In 2021 she joined the University of Rome Tor Vergata as Associate Professor.

Research
Troja researches high energy astrophysics, gamma-ray bursts (GRB), and electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational waves. In her career Troja worked on a variety of different aspects of the GRB phenomenon, although her focus is the connection between short duration GRBs, neutron star mergers, and gravitational wave sources. In 2017 she led the discovery of X-ray emission from the gravitational wave source GW170817.

Troja's main interest is to investigate the observational signatures of compact binary mergers, that is, binary systems composed by either two neutron stars (NS-NS) or a neutron star and a black hole (NS-BH) which slowly spiral into each other and eventually collide due to energy losses to gravitational radiation. Compact binary mergers lie at the intersection of several key aspects of modern astrophysics:

 * they are the most likely cause of short duration gamma-ray bursts;
 * they are strong sources of gravitational wave radiation, and prime candidates for direct detection with advanced LIGO and Virgo;
 * they are the most promising r-process sites for the formation of all the heavy elements (i.e. gold, platinum, uranium, …) found on Earth.

These three fundamental areas of investigation are at the core of Troja's research.

Awards and honors
Troja has won the following awards:

 * NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (2021)
 * NASA Silver Achievement Medal (2018)
 * Italian Bilateral Scientific Cooperation Award (2018) to recognize an Italian eminent scientist who, in performing his/her research abroad, has made a remarkable contribution to the advancement of science and technology, thus improving Italy’s S&T relations with foreign countries and with International Organizations.

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Talk:Doug Lowe (Australian politician)

Dates in infobox inconsistent
The infobox seems inconsistent with the article text. The box says ALP to 1979 while the article says Mr Lowe resigned from the ALP in 1981. Further, to say his party was 'independent' after that is confusing; being independent isn't being a member of a party. The box also lists his time as an MLC and his electorate under his premiership, which is not really correct. I'll look up the references before making any changes. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RichardA64 (talk • contribs) 02:24, 10 October 2013 (UTC)
 * It's been like that for 6 years, probably my mistake, well spotted! I've changed the year. It's fairly standard to list "Independent" in the party section of the infobox, I can't think of any better place to put it. Could probably do something about the MLC electorate appearing under the Premiership... --Canley (talk) 03:03, 10 October 2013 (UTC)

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Talk:Christiane Baroche

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Filmmaking Basics/Understanding Filmmaking

{| cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin:0em 0em 1em 0em; width:100%" Learn by examples
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Look at a real example

 * In this lesson, we look at a real example of a television drama filmed and edited in Hollywood.

 * For this lesson, you need the "Follow Dave?" Editing Workshop disk.

 * NOTE : Currently, it takes up to 4 weeks to send disks to Africa, 12 days to Egypt, etc, so let me know your mailing address as soon as possible.

Take the exams

 * Once you are finished looking the disk, you take a pop quiz to see if you have learned anything. That is on the next page.

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The disk for this lesson
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 * You need a disk
 * To do this lesson, you need a disk called "Follow Dave?" Editing Workshop CD. Even though the Star Movie Shop is now closed to the public, I still have some copies of this disk. I can loan you the disk for one month... if you promise to return it.

 * Film Editing Disks
 * This disk is also used for the motion picture editing course at Wikiversity Film School. Therefore, by completing this lesson, you will have the disk you need to begin the film editing course.

 * Designed for the Macintosh
 * The disk was designed for the Macintosh computer. Fortunately, this disk is also a cross-platform disk so most things work on a Windows machine.

 * If you have trouble accessing any of the pieces of these disks, find someone with a Macintosh computer and ask them to convert them to whatever format your programs need.

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 * Promises, promises!
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User:ThomasMbajjwe1/sandbox

Thomas A. Mbajjwe (//ˈtɒm.əs/ Mba.jwə/ is a Ugandan television personality, business magnate and politician.

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Brookston

Brookston can refer to a place in the United States:
 * Brookston, Indiana
 * Brookston, Minnesota
 * Brookston, Texas

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1936 Iowa State Cyclones football team

The 1936 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State College of Agricultural and Mechanic Arts (later renamed Iowa State University) in the Big Six Conference during the 1936 college football season. In their sixth and final season under head coach George F. Veenker, the Cyclones compiled a 3–3–2 record (1–3–1 against conference opponents), finished in fifth place in the conference, and were outscored by opponents by a combined total of 112 to 94. They played their home games at State Field in Ames, Iowa.

End Clarence Gustine was the team captain. Gustine was also selected as a first-team all-conference player.

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Talk:Direct (EP)

Fair use rationale for Image:77sDirect.jpg
Image:77sDirect.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

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Talk:The Movement (literature)

The list of names
I have removed Anthony Thwaite from the list as I believe he is not generally considered a Movement poet. The New Lines 2 anthology is not very useful in defining the list of poets because of its greater diversity of voices (it is less coherent as an anthology) and also because it appeared 'late', when the Movement and its parochial vision were already being pushed aside by new ideas (championed in part by contributors to the New Lines 2 anthology such as Ted Hughes and George MacBeth). Its appearance in the at the age of 12 he star social work
 * Stumps 12:32, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Stumps: It's an interesting point. I've always considered him a "Movement" poet based on the work, the close association with Larkin, and the early publications with Marvell Press. I jumped online to try to prove you wrong and found only two on-point pieces that, very interestingly, both seemed to argue both sides of the point:

 * Bio entry at contemporarywriters.com
 * A review of Thwaite's A Move in the Weather

 * So, while I have the satisfaction of not being transparently wrong, I am not so clearly right that it isn't arguable, and, thus (sigh...), you were probably right to delete it.MaggieT 22:24, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Copyvio or GFDL-vio?
Sadly most of the content here has been taken from "David Morley's first session" which once lived at, www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/undergrad/current/modules/fulllist/special/en331poetry1945/week_3/ but is still available from the Google cache.

The first paragraph is just a skimpy rewrite of Daid Morley's text;

"The phrase, The Movement was a term coined by J. D. Scott, literary editor of the Spectator, in 1954 to describe this group of writers (including Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Donald Davie, D.J. Enright, John Wain, Elizabeth Jennings and Robert Conquest himself). The Movement was essentially an English affair; unlike the previous mafia of The New Apocalyptics, poets in Scotland and Wales were not generally included."

The third paragraph also includes the following text which is straightforward copy and paste from the Morley source;

"Conquest described the connection between the poets as ‘little more than a negative determination to avoid bad principles.’ These ‘bad principles’ are usually described as excess, both in terms of theme and stylistic devices. The polemic introduction to New Lines targeted in particular the 1940s poets, the generation of Dylan Thomas and George Barker — though not by name. A second New Lines anthology appeared in 1963, by which time The Movement was a spent force, in terms of fashion; the ‘underground’ in the shape of ‘The Group‘, and the more American-influenced style of the Al Alvarez anthology The New Poetry having come to the fore."

The lists of the poets contained in both New Lines (1956) and New Lines 2 (1963) are also copy and pasted from the Morley source, although is doubtful whether these are strictly speaking copyrightable.

Antithief 19:54, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Copyvio or GFDL-vio?? As I can't find the source in google cache (maybe it's already gone?) ... I haven't been able to put a date against the source of the alleged copyvio. The fact in the first paragraph are so well known and generic that I don't necessarily see it as a rewrite of the alleged source. The first part of the paragraph has been in place since 2003, and was created by User:Vaganyik. The third paragraph however is more interesting with the sentence "These ‘bad principles’ are usually described as excess, both in terms of theme and stylistic devices." This was added in this change in May 2004 by User:Monk Bretton (who seems to have been inactive since March 06).

 * Can anyone put a date to the warwick.ac.uk source?? With the suspect parts of the wikipedia article being added by different users in 2003 and 2004, it smells more like someone has rewritten the wikipedia article (and the copy and paste would therefore be a GFDL-vio).  Stumps 22:40, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

It certainly wasn't copied from that source. For what it's worth, I wrote most of this myself, with a copy of New Lines in front of me. It may not be that original in concept, but this stuff seems fairly standard anyway. And I certainly typed up the poets from the anthologies, as for dozens of other articles here. Charles Matthews 22:56, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

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uncinato

Adjective

 * 1) hooked
 * 2) barbed
 * 3)  uncinate, unciform

Noun

 * 1)  hamate, hamate bone, unciform

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Yucatán dry forests

The Yucatán dry forests is a tropical dry broadleaf forest ecoregion in southern Mexico. It includes the dry forests of the northwestern Yucatán Peninsula.

Geography
The Yucatán dry forests occupy the northwestern portion of the Yucatán Peninsula. They cover most of the state of Yucatán, the northern portion of Campeche, and small areas of northwestern Quintana Roo. It is bounded on the east and south by the Yucatán moist forests ecoregion. The Gulf of Mexico lies to the north and west, and the coast is fringed with mangroves.

The region is mostly flat, lying below 400 meters elevation. The underlying rocks are porous limestone and coral, and the region has extensive underground drainage, including caverns and sinkholes, with few surface streams or rivers.

The cities of Mérida and Campeche are located in the ecoregion.

Climate
The climate of the ecoregion is tropical and subhumid. Rainfall is less than 1200 mm per year, with a long dry season.

Flora
The predominant vegetation is open-canopied dry forest and thorn scrub. Most trees and shrubs are deciduous, losing their leaves during the long dry season. Cacti are common, particularly nearer the coast. Grassy and herbaceous understory plants are generally sparse.

In the drier central portion of the ecoregion, tsalam (Lysiloma bahamensis) and jabín (Piscidia piscipula) are the predominant trees, with Alvaradoa amorphoides, Bursera simaruba, Cedrela mexicana, Chlorophora tinctoria, Cordia gerascanthus, and Lonchocarpus rugosus. Elsewhere Vitex gaumeri, Brosimum alicastrum, Caesalpinia gaumeri, Cedrela odorata, Ceiba pentandra, and Sideroxylon foetidissimum are common.

Along the northern coast tall columnar cacti are abundant. Common species include Cephalocereus gaumeri, Pterocereus gaumeri, and Lemaireocereus griseus.

About 10% of plants are endemic to the ecoregion. The tropical moist forests to the south isolate the Yucatán dry forests from other dry forest ecoregions in Mexico and Central America.

Fauna
Approximately 96 mammal species are native to the ecoregion. These include the jaguar (Panthera onca), white-nosed coati (Nasua narica), black-handed spider monkey (Ateles geoffroyi), and southern opossum (Didelphis marsupialis).

Over 290 bird species inhabit the ecoregion, with two endemic species. Resident birds include white-fronted amazon (Amazona albifrons) and lesser yellow-headed vulture (Cathartes burrovianus).

Native reptiles include the Mexican beaded lizard (Heloderma horridum).

Conservation and protected areas
Extensive areas of dry forest have been cleared for cattle ranching and for agriculture, including henequén plantations. A 2017 assessment found that only 278 km2, or 3%, of the ecoregion is in protected areas. Protected areas include Ría Lagartos Biosphere Reserve, Los Petenes Biosphere Reserve, Anillo de Cenotes State Reserve, Dzilam State Reserve, and Puuc Biocultural State Reserve.

title: Yucatán dry forests