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Talk:Shishunki Bitter Change

Rewrote plot summary and added details to character list but formatting looks different (uses ; to bold) so dunno how to fix... BTW it's a good read — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:38, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

Romanized Title
About [ the Shishunki -> Shisyunki change]: Where is "Shisyunki" used as the official romanization? I can only find one official romanization "shishunki" from the url comic-polaris.jp/shishunki/. Tsuyn (talk) 08:03, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * The front covers of the comics say "SHISYUNKI BITTER CHANGE" so I think the official romanization is "Shisyunki." I think this is more important than the romanization from the url. But now actually, I don't care so much which romanization will be chosen. --Fuji kyosuke (talk) 18:01, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you. I could not see the front cover text. I don't know which is right so I will just leave it. Tsuyn (talk) 18:51, 9 March 2019 (UTC)

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Surgiya

Surgiya (Сургия; Kaitag: Сургьей) is a rural locality (a selo) in Dzhirabachinsky Selsoviet, Kaytagsky District, Republic of Dagestan, Russia. The population was 182 as of 2010. There are 2 streets.

Geography
Karatsan is located 17 km southwest of Madzhalis (the district's administrative centre) by road. Dzhirabachi and Daknisa are the nearest rural localities.

Nationalities
Dargins live there.

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license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Wikijunior:South America/Guyana

Guyana, officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, is the only country of the Commonwealth of Nations on the mainland of South America. It is bordered to the east by Suriname, to the south and southwest by Brazil and to the west by Venezuela. It is the fourth-smallest country on the mainland of South America (after Suriname, French Guiana, and Uruguay).

Geography
Guyana can be divided into four natural regions: a narrow and fertile marshy plain along the Atlantic (low coastal plain) coast where most of the population lives, then a white sand belt more inland (hilly sand and clay region), containing most of Guyana's mineral deposits, the dense rainforests (Forested Highland Region) across the middle of the country, the grassy flat savannah in the south and finally the larger interior highlands (interior savannah) made up of mountains that gradually rise to the Brazilian border.

There are many rivers in the country, the three main ones being the Essequibo, the Demerara, and the Berbice.The local climate is tropical and generally hot and humid, though moderated by northeast trade winds along the coast. There are two rainy seasons, the first from May to mid-August, the second from mid-November to mid-January.

Guyana has one of the largest unspoiled rain forests in South America. It covers much of the land area and is the habitat of many animals.

The People
English is the official language of Guyana and used, for example, in its schools. There are other languages spoken as well such as Portuguese and Spanish.

The most popular religions in Guyana include Christianity, Hinduism, and Muslim faiths.

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Java Programming/Boolean variables

Java is one of the languages that explicitly supports a primitive Boolean variable type.

Boolean variables
A primitive variable can be declared to be of type boolean and can have assigned to it one of the two boolean literals true or false.

boolean a = true; System.out.println("a is " + a);

The above code would print a is true.

Relational operators
Java supports the full set of relational operators, as described in the general introduction to Boolean variables. Relational operators can be used to compare any two type-compatible primitives.

At the moment, we have only covered two categories of primitives, numeric and boolean.

Any two values that are numeric (of any type) are, or will be made, compatible. The full suite of relational operators may be used without restriction.

As true and false are not numeric values, neither can be said to be greater or less than the other, in the strict mathematical sense. Only the is equal (==) and is not equal (!=) operators may be used for boolean values. The code below will print c = false.

boolean a = true; boolean b = false; boolean c = a == b;       System.out.println("c = " + c);

Note: the use of a double equal sign for is equal and a single equal sign for assignment is a common source of programming errors. It is very easy to accidentally type just one equal sign character in situations where you want two.

Conditional operators
Conditional operators operate only on boolean values. Java has three, conditional-and, conditional-or, and conditional-not (there is another kind of and, or and not that will be covered later, thus the distinction).

The operator for conditional-and is a pair of adjacent ampersand characters &&. The result of conditional-and is false unless both operands are true. The conditional-and operator has one unusual property that can be both useful and confusing: because the result will always be false if the value of either operand is false, the left operand will always be evaluated but the right hand operator will only be evaluated if the left hand operator evaluates to the value true.

The operator for conditional-or is a pair of pipe characters ||. The result of conditional-or is true unless both operands evaluate to false. If the value of the left-hand operand evaluates to the value true then the right-hand operand is not evaluated.

The operator for conditional-not is a single exclamation point !. This is a unary operation and the result is the opposite of the value of the operand.

Boolean expressions
Not everything is quite as simple as is x greater than two.

Take, for example, leap years. How would you write a Boolean expression that evaluates to true if the value of an integer variable year is that of a leap year in the Gregorian calendar? (n.b. there are several "right" ways to do it)

One way to start it is the obvious way: is year divisible by 4? You would use Java's integer remainder operator (%) and compare the result to 0: (year % 4) == 0. The parentheses are not strictly necessary, but improve readability.

Next, we could check to see that year is not divisible by 100: (year % 100) != 0. Finally, check for year is divisible by 400: (year % 400) == 0. Now combine them all together. The first two checks must both be true for it to be a leap year but if the third check is true then the result will always be true. This fact suggests that perhaps we could put the third check first (to take advantage of short circuiting).

((year % 400) == 0) or ((year % 4) == 0 and (year % 100) != 0)

Now we just need to substitute the Java operators for "or" and "and":

((year % 400) == 0) || ((year % 4) == 0 && (year % 100) != 0)

Exercise Try the expression out in a program. Declare a variable year and assign it a value, then have the program print out a message telling whether or not the value is a leap year.

If statements
The most common use of boolean values will appear in if statements. These statements allow you to designate units of code that will only execute if the boolean condition is true. For example, you can print a message if a given year is a leap year, and remain silent otherwise:

If statements and other flow control constructs will be discussed in more detail in the flow control module.

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pudico

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) modest

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1) easily ashamed
 * 2) prudish easily offended or shocked
 * 1) prudish easily offended or shocked

Noun

 * 1) prude a person who is or tries to be excessively proper

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Thick Sand Motorcycling

How to survive thick sand
Riding a motorbike is often an exercise in defeating ones own instincts. Riding a bike in thick sand is a good example of this. Instinct says go slowly when approaching anything threatening; however, going slowly on a bike is a sure way of having an accident, more so when riding in a threatening situation.

When approaching an area of thick sand it is best to slow down while approaching, then gently accelerate upon reaching the sandy patch. Motion is what gives stability to any bike, be it a bicycle or a motorbike.

With a motorbike, this stability is especially linked to the back tire's grip on the ground. Applying too much power will cause the back wheel to spin, thus losing grip, causing the bike to either fall over or dig its back wheel into the sand.

If the sand is particularly thick, fine, or both, and the back wheel has dug itself in, the best thing to do in this situation is to get off, use the "clutch and accelerator" combined to gently apply forward motion; then run with the bike past the worst bit, and finally leap back on.

Instinct causes panic when it feels as if things are out of your control. Often, when in a situation like thick sand, the bike will throw itself about a bit; this is normal, and often a hint that one is going too slowly. The worst thing you can do on a bike is to stiffen up. Rather, sit upright, lean slightly forward, and relax your arms. If the going is really bad, stand up on the pegs, and lean forward. The main thing is relax and give the bike the power it needs to get out.

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Talk:Life's Shop Window

ni byo koko ndabyemeye pe — Preceding unsigned comment added by Churlecturingsessionin masscommunication (talk • contribs) 01:06, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

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Talk:Bhakta Kumbara (1949 film)

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dýrd

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

Noun

 * 1)  extraordinary calm
 * 2)  glory
 * 3) * Hoyrið rødd Harrans í veldi! Hoyrið rødd Harrans í dýrd!
 * Hear the Lord's voice in power! Hear the Lord's voice in glory! (Psalm 29,4)

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User:BrianaKayPhillips

Potential articles to edit:
My choice: I like the topics of the impact of ice on microbial life, papers such as http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v6/n9/full/ngeo1910.html (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.  or https://www.biogeosciences.net/14/3129/2017/ (Links to an external site.)  sound interesting ,these could be added to the wikipedia dimethylsulfide page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyl_sulfide

Estuarine turbidity maxima: Estuarine turbidity maximum

AMOC:Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

Sediment water interface: Sediment–water interface

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El Dhere

El Dhere (Ceeldheere) is a town located in the Galguduud region of Galmudug state in central Somalia. It is to the south of Galmudug's state capital, Dusmareb.

Location
El Dhere is located 30 km to the south of Dusmareb, the administrative and state capital of the Galguduud region and Galmudug state, and 40 km to the north of Guriceel, the commercial capital of the Galgaduud region.

During the 1982 Ethiopian invasion of Somalia, the Somali National Army command in El Dhere organized a counterattack to repulse an Ethiopian armor offensive that had pushed 11km into Somalia.

Demographics
As of 2019 the town has around 50,000 residents. As with most of Galmudug, it is primarily inhabited by Somalis from the Hiraab sub-clan of the Hawiye, particularly the Ayr [Ayaanle Cayr -EBEKAR] sub-clan of Habar Gidir.

Education
There are two primary and secondary schools that provide education in the town along with many Quranic schools. There is one privately owned university that provides undergraduate degrees.

Transportation
Air transportation in El Dhere is served by the nearby Guriel Airport.

Hospitals
Several health centers exist in the town, with most of them being privately owned. There is only one public hospital.

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User:Sweatypalmz13

List of entries that could use improvement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosen_v._United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_%26_Schuster,_Inc._v._Crime_Victims_Board https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosjean_v._American_Press_Co.

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Talk:Trasporti Pubblici Luganesi

Tram system dates?
The article currently quotes an establishment date for the tram company of 1884, and a system opening date of 'three years later' (ie. 1887), based on the cited history page from TPL's web site. The wp:it article on the TPL says the same, presumably based on the same source.

But I have my doubts. 1887 is quite early for an electric tramway, and the Vevey–Montreux–Chillon–Villeneuve tramway, opening in 1888, is usually regarded as Switzerland's first electric tramway. And at that time it was at the bleeding edge of technology; it is several years before the industry standardised on the norm of single-wire, rail-return, DC electrification. There is no sign that the Lugano lines were other than conventional, which suggests to me they were later.

And indeed a more specific wp:it article (it:Rete tranviaria di Lugano) quotes an establishment date of 1894 and an opening date of 1896, unfortunately based on a cite of a book I have no access to. My gut incliniation is to change this article in line with that, but without seeing the cite I cannot really do that.

Any advice or help gratefully received. -- chris_j_wood (talk) 14:03, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

 * Well I've moved on, but I'm still confused. I've realised the the wp:it article on the tramways (the one that gives an 1896 opening date) also says that the trams were originally three-phase, which damages my argument in favour of 1896 above. But I've also found corroboration of the 1896 date in the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland . Help!. -- chris_j_wood (talk) 15:28, 26 October 2012 (UTC)

 * Decided to go with my gut feel, and the 1896 date. -- chris_j_wood (talk) 12:00, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

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Justin Marshall (curler)

Justin Marshall (born June 9, 1986 in Benson, Illinois) is an American wheelchair curler.

He participated in the 2018 Winter Paralympics where American team finished on twelfth place.

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User:PHansen/Fteam

NEG

 * Feb-2015
 * en:Module:Sandbox/PHansen/Fteam --- User:PHansen/Fteam ---
 * 'Fteam' : F for Football (soccer) --- team: national teams for adults and youths (21, 19, 17) -  men and women
 * Intention : to replace separate templates with one 'Fm/k/u' via Lua-module - short form : 'Fmku' (men/women/youth)

Examples

 * m: men - k: women - U: Youth

Some possible errors

 * No parameters

 * No country

 * Wrong order

 * Prefix

 * Too many parameters is no problem

Adult

 * Men

 * Women

Youth

 * Men

 * Women

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GarageBand/Getting Started

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Getting Started With GarageBand
GarageBand is very simple yet it produces professional quality sound. Best of all, GarageBand feels comfortable to use.

Because GarageBand is so simple, some of the tools are hidden. You have to search a little to find all the tools that you need to create film scores.
 * The secret of GarageBand

Software Instruments
To get started with GarageBand, we will concentrate on creating moods made with the virtual "software instruments" which live inside your computer.

1. Start by selecting a new track and select "Software Instruments". Then select "Musical Typing" in the menu and learn how to create musical notes.

2. Then try recording your musical keystrokes by clicking on the record button. Turn off the metronome if it annoys you.

3. Finally, try playing back your music by clicking on the rewind and then the play buttons.

Jam Pack:Symphony Orchestra/Boldt Packages
By itself, GarageBand is great fun!

But GarageBand can do a whole lot more if it has the musical instruments of a symphony orchestra.

It is Jam Pack:Symphony Orchestra and the Boldt Packages which makes GarageBand useful for filmmakers to create simple but effective film scores for their motion pictures.

That is what you need!!!!

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Keep it simple!
When you start with GarageBand, you will quickly want to use all the wonderful features of this fantastic program. DON'T !

GarageBand comes with pre-recorded sound files called "Apple Loops". You can access the Apple Loops in the Loop Browser.
 * [[Image:Crystal Clear action editdelete.png|24px]] (1) Apple Audio Loops - NEVER!

Apple's audio Loops are wonderful for creating songs and for creating background music for multimedia and event video. But Apple audio Loops are not good for filmmakers who want to score dramatic productions. For now, never use Apple audio Loops.

 * Apple also has some MIDI loops. These loops are OK because you can modify them.  You cannot change the notes of audio loops.

GarageBand allows you to record audio using a microphone. Therefore, you can record someone playing real musical instruments while watching the movie.
 * [[Image:Crystal Clear action editdelete.png|24px]] (2) Real Instruments

However, for filmmakers, the virtual software instruments are easier to use.

Therefore, I recommend that you start by using the software instruments rather than real musical instruments that must be with a professional microphone in a very quiet room.

GarageBand has many of the basic tools of musicians. However, you do not need them to create musical sound effects.
 * [[Image:Crystal Clear action editdelete.png|24px]] (3) Most tools for musicians

If you want, you can ignore the Tempo, the Time Signature, or the Key. Learn about them later.

 * }

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The "Musical Typing" Keyboard

 * The most useful feature of GarageBand
 * GarageBand allows you to use your computer keyboard as a substitute for a MIDI keyboard. Professional musicians will never do this because the computer keyboard is not velocity sensitive.  But for filmmakers, the musical keyboard is simply wonderful.

 * Getting started
 * To use the musical typing keyboard, just select it from the menu. While it appears on the screen, you can use your Macintosh keyboard as a piano.

 * Velocity
 * Look at the two keys marked Velocity. You can adjust the velocity with these two keys.  Later, you can adjust the velocity of the notes in the note editor.

 * Pitch
 * Look at the two keys which move you down or up an octave. You will use these keys a lot.

 * Sustain
 * The tab key works like the sustain pedal of a piano. This produces interesting sounds.

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Velocity vs. Volume
When you increase the velocity, the sound gets louder. When you decrease the velocity, the sound gets softer.
 * Velocity is very much like volume

Therefore, people assume that velocity and volume are the same. In Jam Pack:Symphony Orchestra, they are not!

In Jam Pack:Symphony Orchestra, when you increase the velocity, not only does the sound get louder, the sound has a much stronger sound. The best example of this is the software instrument for Guitar.

Here is a [[Media:Guitar sound velocity 70.ogg|Guitar sound at velocity of 70]]. As you would expect, the sound is faint.
 * Velocity equals "70"

Here is a [[Media:Guitar sound velocity 100.ogg|Guitar sound at velocity of 100]]. As you would expect, it is stronger.
 * Velocity equals "100"

Here is a [[Media:Guitar sound velocity 127.ogg|Guitar sound at velocity of 127]]. At this velocity, the sound is very different. The sound is not just louder but now the guitar sounds like the string is being rubbed (slapped) as well as plucked.
 * Velocity equals "127"

Note: The musical instruments in the Boldt Packages have only one kind of sound at all velocities.

Note: If you have trouble playing OGG files on your computer, look at the instructions at the Wikipedia help page for OGG files. Your instructor uses MPlayer to listen to OGG files.
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Adding one musical notes

 * Simple ways to add notes
 * 1) To create music, click on record and press a key on the "musical keyboard".
 * 2) Use the pencil tool to add a note.
 * 3) Drag a midi file to an empty track.

 * The Pencil Tool
 * Since I am a computer nerd, I like to cut and paste. Therefore, I prefer to use the pencil tool to add notes to the timeline at the bottom of the screen.  However, there are a few odd things you must understand before you can do this.   You can only draw notes in a region.  When you grab the pencil tool (by holding down the Command key), GarageBand does not automatically create a region for you.  You must first click in the track (again holding the Command key down) to create a region. Once you create a region and draw one note, you can cut, copy, paste, stretch, move and adjust the notes as you wish.

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Working with computer programs
When you first begin working with a computer program like GarageBand, it never seems to work the way you want it to.
 * GarageBand has its quirks

Even though GarageBand is easy to use, it sometimes works in strange ways.

The solution is to learn how the programmers prefer to work. When you get lost, just ask yourself, "What would a computer nerd do in this situation?"

Once you understand how the programmers think, GarageBand becomes very easy to use.

I think you will really enjoy this program.
 * }

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A New Film Scoring Course

 * This course has been combined with a general course on film scoring. The new course is designed to work with GarageBand but it is more general, more complete, and hopefully more fun.

 * Please begin the new film scoring course.

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Talk:Conlang/Intermediate/Irregularities

Untitled
Okay start, but we really need to sort this out into a more regular format. That is, figure out how to get this information in more of a 'guide' format. -- Maknas 16:27, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * I've created a draft version but I'm not sure about it. The sound change example would be better if it used a natlang but I couldn't think of a natural example that was simple enough. The original version is available in the history should anyone need to refer to it. --Ingolemo 19:43, 16 Aug 2004 (UTC)


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How To Search/Boolean Logic

Boolean logic symbolically represents relationships between entities. There are three Boolean operators:

AND Use the AND operator to retrieve a set in which each citation contains all the search terms. This operator places no condition on where the terms are found in relation to one another; the terms simply have to appear somewhere in the same citation.

OR Use the OR operator to retrieve documents that contain at least one of the specified search terms.

Use OR when you want to pull together articles on similar subjects.

NOT Use the NOT operator to exclude the retrieval of terms from your search.

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User:Mu301/Learning blog/2007-02

February 2007

 * The Systemic project now includes a wiki at <IP_ADDRESS>  At the request of one of the admins there I created a Wikiversity stub article that points to the Observational astronomy/Extrasolar planet page here.--mikeu 01:44, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Dave Mello

Untitled
I have always heard that Dave Mello is mormon. Can anyone confirm this? If not, what is the story behind the song "Missionary" by Operation Ivy? —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 10:51, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

 * Shouldn't be hard for someone to answer that, as the article appears to have been written either by him or someone close to him... AdRock (talk) 15:36, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

 * I do not believe this to be true. In fact, I saw him drink a beer last week. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) —Preceding undated comment was added at 07:56, 24 December 2008 (UTC).

Subjectivity
"He was one of the key pieces to the musical feel of Operation Ivy." - As a fan of the band, and while I believe this may be partially true, it cannot really be verified, unfortunately. Perhaps if a source from a professional music critic or some other sort of analysis stating this fact can be found, it can be added with more appropriate wording. For now, I'm removing it. lethalenoki (talk) 16:34, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

Primary Sources Needed!
I was able to find some unreliable secondary sources for some of the information that was already in the article, and I have added them as something is better than nothing, as long as it isn't defamatory. However, primary sources for this page and really all pages associated with Operation Ivy are really in need of better sources. I imagine that due to the brief and independent nature of the band that official biographical information likely does not exist. However, by piecing together interviews and maybe obscure sources I may not have access to, I'm sure a more accurate picture can manifest of this worthy band.

If you have any primary sources, or any sources at all really, please add them to this and the other Op Ivy related pages.

If you have a source but do not know how to add it, please either add them to this Talk page or contact me via my Talk page by clicking the link next to my name and I will add them for you.

Thanks. lethalenoki (talk) 18:04, 3 February 2013 (UTC)

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1931 Kansas Jayhawks football team

The 1931 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the Big Six Conference during the 1931 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Bill Hargiss, the Jayhawks compiled a 5–5 record (1–3 against conference opponents), finished in fourth place in the conference, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 112 to 54. They played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas. Otto Rost was the team captain.

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Wikipedia:Peer review/History of discoveries/archive1

History of discoveries
I've listed this article for peer review, (please go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_Discoveries, where the request is made previously, 2019-09-22, as the page was cut and pasted to a redirect "List of discoveries", the request didn't proceed to the relevant talk page), thanks, Armoracia-1 (talk) 17:51, 22 September 2019 (UTC)


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cerno

Etymology
Perhaps from, from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) steady, firm, upright
 * 2) hard
 * 3) inner

Etymology
From, from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, and possibly 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to distinguish, divide, separate, sift
 * 2) to perceive, see
 * 3) to (intellectually) comprehend, discern, regard, understand
 * 4) to decide
 * 1) to (intellectually) comprehend, discern, regard, understand
 * 2) to decide
 * 1) to decide
 * 1) to decide
 * 1) to decide

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 * Old Francoprovençal: cierdre
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ипсилон

Noun

 * 1) The Roman letter Y, y.

Etymology
and.

Noun

 * 1)  upsilon Υ, υ; the twentieth letter of Classical and Modern Greek; the twenty-second letter of Old and Ancient Greek
 * 2)  Y, y 25th letter of the German alphabet

title: ипсилон


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balde

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) bucket, pail

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) pail; bucket
 * 2) pailful; bucketful

Verb

 * 1) to fetch water using a pail

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) bucket; pail

Noun

 * 1) buttock (each of the two large fleshy halves of the posterior part of the body)
 * 2) ball (of a foot)

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) bucket, pail

Adverb

 * 1) soon, shortly

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) bucket; pail

Etymology 1
. Suggested derivations include:
 * , from ;
 * for ;
 * , feminine of Classical.

Noun

 * 1) bucket (container)

Descendants

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Etymology 1
origin.

Noun

 * 1) bin, bucket

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) bucket; pail
 * 2) act of washing the floor with water
 * 3) empty kerosene can
 * 1) empty kerosene can

title: balde


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Talk:Automatic Control and Robotics

This is a work in progress. I have to split but will finish tomorrow.
 * Have you seen this?--Rayc 02:02, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

This looks interesting! Is there a radio link between the robot and a controlling computer or a serial cable? Mirwin 02:10, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

It's connected via serial port. There are many options on where to go from there. They make radio serial connectors so you can make it radio controlled if you want to. Blue Tooth also has a serial over Blue Tooth option. My friends and I used it to emulate a Null Modem so we could play the old Master of Orion II head to head. For this set up, I run the serial and power over standard CAT-5 cable. I should add that to the how-to since it cuts back on the number of wires you need by a whole bunch. Mundhenk 01:20, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Should I move the Nerd-cam how-to to its own page and build a page like the one suggested by Rayc here. I don't want to replicate the page already at: this, but we should have a portal I think here. Maybe we should make this page more technical and hands on, and suggest that this should be more theory? Comments? Nathan 02:53, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

title: Talk:Automatic Control and Robotics


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User:Peter J Dunn

In the main I dip into Wikipedia to post about the wonderful TV series The Prisoner or actors connected with it such as Earl Cameron or other 60s and 70s UK TV.

title: User:Peter J Dunn


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Auxarthron californiense

Auxarthron californiense is a fungus within the family Onygenaceae family and one of the type species of the genus Auxarthron. A. californiense is generally distributed around the world and it is frequently found on dung and in soil near the entrances of animal burrows.

History and taxonomy
As one of the first species selected in the genus Auxarthron, A. californiense was first isolated from pack rat dung in 1963, at California. The genus Auxarthron was erected by Orr and Kuehn to accommodate species with swollen septa of the peridial hyphae, formerly classified in genus of ''Gymnoascus. However, both Apinis(1964) did not accept this new genus, because they could also observe swollen septa in other species of Gymnoascus. Although this feature may not be significant for distinguishing new genera, the genus Auxarthron'' could also be identified on the basis of the presence of wall thickenings in the vicinity of septa which they called "knuckle joints". The genus Auxarthron is related to Amauroascus and Arachnotheca, but differs from these two genera in possessing dark ascomata with distinct appendages. In 1965, this taxon was examined on cellophane buried in calcareous fen soil and on bird dung.

Growth and morphology
Colonies grown at freezing agar are at first white, then yellow, tan to yellow-brown and granular. then the colonies turn powdery. Colonies grow slowly on YpSs agar and become umbonate in center. The color of the colonies are often brownish and the reverse is reddish-brown in center to yellowish at the margins. This restricted, granular appearance with a reddish-brown reverse colony makes it distinguished from other species in the genus. Cylindrical or oblong conidia are produced in asexual reproduction. Conidia are pale yellow-orange, smooth to slightly rugose. Both intercalary and apical conidia were observed.

Appearance
Ascomata of A. californiense are globose. Young ascomata are rosy, and turn orange-brown at maturity. Ascospores are oblate and they have a pale yellow-brown color. This punctate ascospores appears broadly around the colony, forming a reticulate structure. The peridial hyphae of A. californiense also have a pale orange-brown color. These septate peridial hyphae are asperulate and cuticularized. A loose network appears with all the peridial hyphae together. A. californiense have uncinate appendages. Different from other species in the genus, the appendages of A. californiense are arise at odd angles from the ascocarps. In other species, the appendages are projecting forth at right angles. A. californiense is similar to Uncinocarpus uncinatus, in having thick-walled appendages that are hooked at the tip. However, the crozier-shaped tips of A. californiense have an acute end while the tips of U. uncinatus have a blunt and parallel end.

Habitat and ecology
Auxarthron species, like most Onygenaceae, have usually been isolated from strongly anthropized soil, enriched with human or animal keratinaceous remnants. The genus Auxarthron is considered as keratinolytic on the basis of hair perforation studies. However, the keratin degradative ability was not found in the specie A. californiense, different from other species in the genus. By Phylogenetic studies, this absence of keratinolytic ability shows that during the course of evolution the keratinolytic ability of Auxarthron genus is decreasing. In 1998, A. californiense was isolated on the veil, tunic and wood fragments on the remains of a ninth century Longobard abbess at Pavia, Italy. The presence of A. californiense in this habitat indicates that A. californiense might be able to utilize some of the nutrients in human decomposing substances.

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User:JWSchmidt/Blog/18 January 2007/Statistics

Wikiversity statistics
There are 20,051 total pages in the database. This includes "talk" pages, pages about Wikiversity, minimal "stub" pages, redirects, and others that probably don't qualify as content pages. Excluding those, there are 1,591 pages that are probably legitimate content pages.

837 files have been uploaded.

There have been a total of 74,907 page edits since the wiki was setup. That comes to 3.74 average edits per page.

The job queue length is 2. User statistics

There are 5,527 registered users, of which 14 (or 0.25%) are Custodians.

 * Alexa traffic rank average for the past week: 21,002.
 * English Wikimedia stats
 * All Wikiversity stats
 * Statistics
 * page hit analysis
 *

Interesting Wikipedia statistics.

Older Statistics

 * in the beginning.....(Aug 15, 2006. Older versions of files in histories is due to imports from Wikibooks and the meta wiki) (First entry in the Wikiversity logs: 07:12, 15 August 2006 Brion VIBBER)
 * 100 registered users 02:40 August 18, 2006 (not long after a link to Wikiversity was put on the Wikipedia main page). 200 registered users at 00:41 August 20 (5 blocked indefinitely). 300 users at 3:01 Aug 22. 400 users at 02:38 on August 24. 500 users 11:59 August 26. 600 users 11:09 29 August (Kfitton). 700 users 5:12 1 September. 800 users 08:31 4 September. 900 users 23:52 6 September. 1000 users 13:09 9 September.
 * 10,000 page edits 23 August 22:20. How many of these edits are in the histories that were imported from Wikibooks? 15:06 25 August about 11,000 page edits.
 * 2 weeks; 10:06 29 August There are 1,970 total pages in the database
 * 3 weeks; 11:17 5 September 2,687 total pages, 200 pages that are probably legitimate content pages, 67 files have been uploaded, 20,329 page edits since the wiki was setup, 835 registered users, 9 custodians. About 520 imported pages, new pages: 178 main namespace (40 talk), 273 user pages (862 talk), 105 "Wikiverity:" (47 talk), 122 "Template:" (11 talk), 271 "Category:" (4 talk), 32 "School:" (33 talk) "9 Portal:" (I know this is too low), 77 "Topic:" (19 talk).
 * 4 weeks, 3,281 total pages, 256 pages that are probably legitimate content pages, 87 files have been uploaded. 1,100 users at 11:50, 12 September 2006. 22,790 page edits since the wiki was setup. First 11 days of September 1856 ± 1% Main page hits per day (21.8030%).
 * 1200 user accounts 18:48, 15 September. 18 September 11:26 1300 users.
 * 5 weeks (19 September 13:24) For the first 18 days of September 2522 ± 1% Main page hits per day (21.3151%). 3,666 total pages, 24,311 page edits since the wiki was setup. 273 pages that are probably legitimate content pages.
 * 1400 users 14:30 22 September. 1500 users 02:45 Setember 25.
 * 6 weeks (26 September) 4,049 total pages, 308 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. During the first 25 days of september the main page has had an average of 2337 visits per day	(21% of the total) and 116 files have been uploaded and 25,832 page edits since the wiki was setup.
 * 1600 user accounts 07:15 28 September
 * 1700 user accounts 02:31 October 2. 30 days of September 2,325 main page hits per day (21.7338%)
 * 7 weeks (3 October) 4,358 total pages in the database, 350 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. 131 files have been uploaded and there have been 27,569 page edits since the wiki was setup. For the first 2 days of October 2,787 Main Page hits per day (25.0776% of total).
 * 1800 user accounts 01:43 6 October
 * 8 weeks (10 October 15:03) First 9 days of October 2,468 main page hits per day (24.1511% of total). 4,674 total pages in the database. 306 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. 161 files have been uploaded and 29,999 page edits since the wiki was setup. 1,935 registered users.
 * 2,000 registered user accounts 12 October 16:45
 * October 14th, 60 days since launch. There are 4,917 total pages in the database, there are 342 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. 179 files have been uploaded and 31,405 page edits since the wiki was setup. That comes to 6.39 average edits per page and there are 2,055 registered users. During the first 13 days of October the main page had 2,468 (24.0597% of total) hits per day.
 * 2,100 registered user accounts 09:40 October 15th
 * 2,200 registered user accounts 01:35 October 18th
 * 2,300 registered user accounts 21:11 October 20th
 * 2,400 registered user accounts 00:51 October 24th - 1 week average Alexa traffic rank 30,474.
 * 25 October 2006 "en.wikiversity.org" is finally number 3 in Google search results for "Wikiversity" (behind two Wikibooks pages). Alexa 1 week averages for wikiversity.org; traffic rank: 28,594 | reach per million: 41. en.wikiversity.org
 * 2,500 registered user accounts 19:43 October 26th
 * 2,600 registered user accounts 08:27 October 29th - 1 week average Alexa traffic rank 25,357.
 * 2,510 main page views per day (23.5746% of the total) During October
 * 2,700 registered user accounts 05:25 November 1st - 1 week average Alexa traffic rank 23,848.
 * 2,800 registered user accounts 17:18 November 4th - 1 week average Alexa traffic rank 29,189.
 * 2,804 main page views per day (23.4773% of the total) during the first 4 days of November
 * 2,900 registered user accounts 05:10 November 8th - 1 week average Alexa traffic rank 34,191.
 * 3,000 registered user accounts 23:28 November 10th - 1 week average Alexa traffic rank 43,587. During the first 10 days of November 2,693 Main Page views/day (23.2778% of total). There are 6,327 total pages in the database, there are 623 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. 355 files have been uploaded and 40,725 page edits since the wiki was setup. According to Alexa, en.wikiversity.org - 64%, de.wikiversity.org - 29%, es.wikiversity.org - 4%
 * 3,100 registered user accounts 05:16 November 14th - 1 week average Alexa traffic rank 39,050. For the first 13 days of November 2,778 Main Page views/day (23.3145% of total).
 * November 15, 12,300 page views per day during first 14 days of November. 6,504 total pages, there are 687 pages that are probably legitimate content pages and 400 files have been uploaded. 41,949 page edits since the wiki was setup.
 * 3,200 registered user accounts 21:53 November 16th - 1 week average Alexa traffic rank 31,560
 * According to Wikicharts there were 2305 main page views per day (about 21% of the total) during the 7 days at the end of August. The Browse page was second with 610 views per day.
 * 3,300 registered user accounts 09:56 November 20th.
 * 3,600 registered user accounts 18:43 November 28th. First 27 days of November, 2,876 main page visits/day (23.1226% of total).
 * all of November: 2,965 main page views per day (22.9883% of total)
 * November 2006: Wikipeidas 1,739 M words, Wikisource 276 M words, Wictionary 63.0 M, Wikibooks 33.8 M words, Wikiquotes 18.7 M words, Wikinews 9 M words, Wikiversity 0.85 M words
 * 3,700 registered user accounts 14:05 (day 108) December 1.
 * 4,000 registered user accounts 18:01 December 10. 1 week Alexa traffic rank for wikiversity.org: 16,694.
 * 4 Months, 122 days. 4,200 registered user accounts 03:07 December 15. 3 month Alexa traffic rank for wikiversity.org: 29,947
 * Project day 141. January 3, 2007. 1,023 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. 4,897 user accounts.
 * Jan 5 18:37 5,000 user accounts. In December the main page had 3,092 views per day (20.7821% of total). 14 custodians, 14,277 total pages, 1,043 pages that are probably legitimate content pages and 683 files have been uploaded. A total of 63,882 page edits since the wiki was setup.
 * January 11. After going through the main namespace and categorizing pages: 1,378 pages that are probably legitimate content pages.

Newer

 * During the first 20 days of January 2007: 7,196 main page hits per day (20.2962% of total)
 * 27 January 2007. There are 20,867 total pages in the database and 1,655 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. 920 files have been uploaded. There have been a total of 78,311 page edits since the wiki was setup. There are 5,886 registered users.
 * 9 Feb 2007. 22,669 total pages, 1,827 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. 1,088 files have been uploaded. 83,802 page edits since the wiki was setup. 6,410 registered users
 * 22 Feb 2007. 24,391 total pages, 1,961 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. 1,231 files have been uploaded. There have been a total of 89,515 page edits since the wiki was setup. There are 6,864 registered users.
 * 7 March. 25,234 total pages, 2,025 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. 1,357 files have been uploaded. 93,630 page edits. 7,388 registered users
 * claims all of January 5,869 per day (seems unusually high). All of Feb 3,720. First 7 days of March 3,877 main page visits per day (20.5885% of total)
 * 21 March. 28,251 total pages, 2,142 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. 1,517 files have been uploaded. 100,836 page edits. 7,886 registered users. First 20 days of March 3,496 main page views/day (20.3925% of total).
 * 23 April. 30,028 total pages, 2,481 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. 1,843 files have been uploaded. 112,647 page edits. 8,961 registered users. First 22 days of April 3,302 main page views/day (20.3252% of total).
 * 24 May. 31,796 total pages, 2,972 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. 2,035 files have been uploaded. 124,208 page edits. 9,976 registered users, 20 (or 0.20%) have Custodians rights. 3,398 main page views/day (19.7987% of total).

Stats updates

 * August 21, 2007. There are 37,001 total pages in the database. There are 4,540 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. 2,853 files have been uploaded and 151,113 page edits. There are 12,821 registered users (34 per day), of which 20 (or 0.16%) have Custodians rights.
 * November 2, 2007. 42,462 total pages in the database. There are 5,886 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. 3,383 files have been uploaded and 180,178 page edits. There are 15,116 registered users (31 per day since August 21), of which 22 (or 0.15%) have Custodians rights.
 * January 13, 2008. 45,854 total pages in the database. There are 6,045 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. 3,717 files have been uploaded. There have been a total of 201,940 page edits since the wiki was setup. There are 16,781 registered users, of which 22 (or 0.13%) have Custodians rights.
 * May 5, 2008. There are 53,317 total pages in the database. There are 7,472 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. 4,599 files have been uploaded. There have been a total of 259,657 page edits since the wiki was setup. There are 20,026 registered users, of which 24 (or 0.12%) have Custodians rights.
 * May 9, 2008. Sister Projects Interview: Wikiversity There are 53,587 total pages in the database. There are 7,520 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. 4,600 files have been uploaded. There have been a total of 261,235 page edits since the wiki was setup. There are 20,126 registered users.
 * May 22. There are 54,689 total pages in the database. 7,707 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. 4,617 files have been uploaded. There have been a total of 268,423 page edits since the wiki was setup. That comes to 4.91 average edits per page. There are 20,477 registered users,
 * June 11. There are 56,482 total pages in the database. 7,941 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. 4,646 files have been uploaded. There have been a total of 278,139 page edits since the wiki was setup. That comes to 4.92 average edits per page. There are 22,220 registered users.
 * Aug. 8, 2008. 59,120 total pages in the database. 8,438 pages that are probably legitimate content pages. 4,709 files have been uploaded. 300,719 page edits since the wiki was setup. That comes to 5.09 average edits per page. 26,251 registered users, of which 25 (or 0.10%) have Custodians rights.
 * November 1, 2008. Page statistics: Total Pages 65,251; Content pages 9,287; Uploaded files 6,317. Edit statistics: Page edits since Wikiversity was setup 355,624; Average edits per page 5.45. User statistics: Registered users 50,536; Active users 652; Bots 13; Custodians 25.
 * December 18, 2009. Content pages 11,732. Page edits 510,889. Uploaded files 7,608


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Col de la République

The Col de la République or Col de Grand Bois (1161 m) is a mountain pass in the Pilat massif within the Pilat Regional Natural Park in the Loire department of the Rhône-Alpes region in southern France. Located on the D1082 (ex-RN 82 ) in the commune of Saint-Genest-Malifaux, it connects Saint-Étienne with Annonay in the Rhône valley. The road was constructed in 1830 and the col has an altitude of 1,161 metres.

It was the first climb on the first Tour de France in 1903, but was the scene of notorious violence in 1904 that involved fighting and officials firing gunshot warnings. It has been part of the route on 13 occasions.

History

The name 'La République' and that of the nearby hamlet of 'La République' derive from the attempt by members of the Beguine religious sect to found an independent community there called the Republic of Jesus Christ. The Beguines were well established in Saint-Jean-Bonnefonds, but in November 1794 they moved 20 kilometres to the plateau to be ready for the arrival of the prophet Elijah.

Details of the climb
From Saint-Étienne (north), the climb is 17 km long. Over this distance, it gains 644 m at an average of 3.8%. The maximum gradient is 6.3%.

From the south, the climb starts at Bourg-Argental; from here, the ascent is 12 km long, climbing 626 m at an average of 5.2%, with a maximum of 7.9%.

Vélocio
At the top is a monument in memory of Paul de Vivie, who wrote under the pseudonym Vélocio and was important in the development of bicycle touring. The col de la République was his favourite morning ride. Every year since 1922 the volunteers of the 'Comité Vélocio de Saint-Étienne' have organized the Journée Vélocio (Vélocio Day-Trip), a 12.788 km climb of the col.

Tour de France
The col de la République was the first pass of over 1,000 metres crossed by the Tour de France, in 1903 during the second stage of the first Tour de France (Lyons - Marseilles via Saint-Étienne) when Hippolyte Aucouturier was the first rider to reach the summit.

The following year, in the 1904 Tour de France, it was the scene of some of the most notorious violence in the history of the tour when supporters of the regional favourite Antoine Fauré attacked his opponents. This caused the organizers to avoid the Loire department until the 1950 Tour de France. In 1905, the tour's organiser Henri Desgrange chose to ignore the col de la République, and focused instead on the introduction of the Ballon d'Alsace, because he saw that he had missed the opportunity of publicity previously.

In the 1904 incident, Andre Fauré led the race and 200 fans tried to stop the rest of the cyclists from following him. Garin hurt his hand during the incident, and Giovanni Gerbi had to give up with broken fingers. The situation was only solved after race officials fired shots in the air. Further on, nails and broken glass had been spread along the road, which caused many flat tires. Because of this help, Fauré was the first on top of the col, but was over-taken by the favourites later.

At the summit a sign post says
 * Col de la République
 * 1er col à plus de 1000 mètres franchi par le tour de France cycliste le 5 juillet 1903
 * (The 1st col higher than 1,000 metres traversed by the cycling Tour de France on 5 July 1903)

Appearances
The col has been used 13 times in the Tour de France, and the first rider to cross the summit on each occasion was:

title: Col de la République


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Talk:Diane Keen

Untitled
Diane can be seen in the very last scene of the 1967 film, Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush, possibly her very first screen appearance. Rosa Lichtenstein (talk) 03:56, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

title: Talk:Diane Keen


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mérito

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) merit something worthy of positive recognition

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1)  worthy

Noun

 * 1) merit

title: mérito


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unfledged

Adjective

 * 1) Not having feathers; (of a bird) not yet having developed its wings and feathers and become able to fly.
 * 2)  Not yet fully grown or developed; not yet mature.
 * 3)  Inexperienced, like a tyro or novice.
 * 1)  Not yet fully grown or developed; not yet mature.
 * 2)  Inexperienced, like a tyro or novice.
 * 1)  Not yet fully grown or developed; not yet mature.
 * 2)  Inexperienced, like a tyro or novice.
 * 1)  Not yet fully grown or developed; not yet mature.
 * 2)  Inexperienced, like a tyro or novice.
 * 1)  Inexperienced, like a tyro or novice.
 * 1)  Inexperienced, like a tyro or novice.
 * 1)  Inexperienced, like a tyro or novice.
 * 1)  Inexperienced, like a tyro or novice.

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Charles Perrot (minister)

Charles Perrot (1541–1608) was a French Reformed minister who served in the Republic of Geneva.

Perrot came from a French family who were Nobles of the Robe and was born in Paris. He studied at the Genevan Academy and in 1564 became a minister. He married Sarah Cop (daughter of Michel Cop) in 1566, and became a citizen of Geneva in 1567. Perrot served as a minister in the city from 1568 until his death. He acted as rector at the Academy from 1570-2 and 1588–92.

Scott Manetsch describes Perrot as "an idealist prone to discouragement, a man of deep piety who valued Christian charity as much a theological precision." Perrot's "pulpit jeremiads against social injustice and his advocacy for the poor sometimes put him at odds with Geneva's magistrates."

title: Charles Perrot (minister)


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Computer Programming/OS Programming

Operating System (OS) Programming
A computer is a series of electrical pathways some of which can be changed by use of some of its own electrical pathways.

A computer instruction is a series of electrical signals that make use of a computer.

A computer program is a series of computer instructions.

An operating system (OS) is a computer program with the purposes of:

 * allowing user input in its operation
 * maintaining itself
 * switching computer operation to other computer programs (tasks)
 * maintaining other computer programs (tasks)
 * controlling hardware
 * allocating memory to software as needed

OS programming is ...

Many people are dissatisfied with currently-available operating systems, and research ways to improve them—or introduce entirely new replacements.

Some computer engineers develop entirely new computing hardware, and need to write a new OS for it (typically by adapting parts of some pre-existing OS).

 * A Neutral Look at Operating Systems
 * Operating System
 * Operating system
 * http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OperatingSystemsResearch
 * http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?OperatingSystemsDesignPrinciples
 * the TUNES Project Wiki http://cliki.tunes.org/

title: Computer Programming/OS Programming


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Kasmala

Kasmala (Касмала) is a rural locality (a selo) in Chernopyatovsky Selsoviet, Pavlovsky District, Altai Krai, Russia. The population was 52 as of 2013. There are 3 streets.

Geography
Kasmala is located by the banks of the Kasmala near its mouth in the Ob, 28 km northeast of Pavlovsk (the district's administrative centre) by road. Nagorny is the nearest rural locality.

title: Kasmala


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Talk:Bredele

"Bredla" (thats the plural of "Bredle") are not only baked in the Elsace, they are baked in all german speaking regions. It isn't a "french dessert" an its not a "Low Alemmanic" word; it's common in the complete Alemannic region. The standard german word for it is "Plätzchen", but literally it translates to "Brötchen", which means little bread. --Flowneppets00 (talk) 20:30, 20 December 2020 (UTC)

title: Talk:Bredele


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Tore Down House

Tore Down House is an album by the guitarist Scott Henderson, released in 1997. The album contains three instrumental tracks; it includes a cover version of "Continuum", originally a Jaco Pastorius song, and a re-recording of "Same as You", which appeared on Henderson's Dog Party. Thelma Houston sings on "Meter Maid", among other songs.

Critical reception
Stereo Review wrote that "wailing harp, percolating organ and punchy horns make a perfect foil for Scott's scalding, raunchy Strat tones." The Sydney Morning Herald thought that "what really makes this album work ... is Thelma Houston's wonderfully rich, gutsy vocals—a pleasant surprise."

Track listing

 * 1) "Dolemite" – 5:52
 * 2) "Tore Down House" – 7:37
 * 3) "Meter Maid" – 4:29
 * 4) "I Hate You" – 4:38
 * 5) "Gittar School" – 5:10
 * 6) "Xanax" – 5:38
 * 7) "Continuum" – 4:00
 * 8) "You Get Off On Me" – 3:53
 * 9) "Mocha" – 7:29
 * 10) "Harpoon" – 6:46
 * 11) "Same as You" – 4:36

Personnel

 * Thelma Houston – vocals
 * Masta Edwards – vocals on "I Hate You"
 * Scott Henderson – guitars
 * Scott Kinsey – keyboards
 * Pat O'Brien – harmonica
 * Albert Wing – alto sax, tenor sax, flute, Fearless Horn Section leader
 * Walt Fowler – trumpet, flugel horn
 * Mike Nelson – tenor sax, baritone sax
 * Dan Fornero – trumpet, flugel horn
 * Eric Jorgenson – trombone
 * Dave Carpenter – bass
 * Kirk Covington – drums and vocals
 * T.J. Helmerich – background vocals
 * Mark Nonisa – background vocals
 * Richard Evans – Album cover design

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1988 in Thailand

The year 1988 was the 207th year of the Rattanakosin Kingdom of Thailand. It was the 43nd year in the reign of King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Rama IX), and is reckoned as year 2531 in the Buddhist Era.

Incumbents

 * King: Bhumibol Adulyadej
 * Crown Prince: Vajiralongkorn
 * Prime Minister:
 * until 4 August: Prem Tinsulanonda
 * starting 4 August: Chatichai Choonhavan
 * Supreme Patriarch:
 * until 27 August: Ariyavangsagatayana VII

February

 * 19 February – ceasefire agreement ends Thai–Laotian Border War.

April

 * 5 April – Kuwait Airways Flight 422 hijacked by Lebanese guerillas (suspected Hezbollah) after departing from Bangkok. During the incident the flight, initially forced to land in Iran, travelled 3,200 miles from Mashhad in northeastern Iran to Larnaca, Cyprus, and finally to Algiers. Two hostages were killed, prior to the crisis ending on 20 April.

May

 * 24 May – Miss Thailand Phonthip Nakhirankanok won the crown title of the Miss Universe 1988 held in Taipei, Taiwan.

July

 * 24 July – 1988 Thai general election – victory for the Thai Nation Party, which won 87 of the 357 seats. Voter turnout was 63.6%.

September

 * 9 September – Vietnam Airlines Flight 831 crashes with 76 fatalities.

November

 * 10 November – Phra Narai Lintel returned to Thailand and widely celebrated.

Births

 * December 4 – Mario Maurer, Thai model and actor

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Jiro Harada

Jiro Harada (Japanese: 原田 治郎) (November 10, 1894 – December 20, 1989) was a Lieutenant-General in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

Biography
Jiro Harada was the commander of the IJA 100th Division during the Battle of Mindanao, one of the strongest forces in the area. He was in charge of most of the defenses on the island, along with Lt. Gen. Gyosaku Morozumi and Rear Admiral Naoji Doi. Despite his bravery, Harada had to retreat, also refusing to defend the city of Davao. At Kibangay, the pursuit halted and Harada was able to stop the long and tiring retreat. He ordered his troops to disperse and forage in the mountains, effectively disbanding the 100th Division.

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Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's team rosters

This is a list of players named to participate in the women's basketball competition at the Games of the XXX Olympiad.

The following is the Angola roster in the women's basketball tournament of the 2012 Summer Olympics.

The following is the China roster in the women's basketball tournament of the 2012 Summer Olympics.

The following is the Croatia roster in the women's basketball tournament of the 2012 Summer Olympics.

The following is the Czech Republic roster in the women's basketball tournament of the 2012 Summer Olympics.

The following is the Turkey roster in the women's basketball tournament of the 2012 Summer Olympics.

The following is the United States roster in the women's basketball tournament of the 2012 Summer Olympics.

The following was the Australia roster in the women's basketball tournament of the 2012 Summer Olympics.

The following is the Brazil roster in the women's basketball tournament of the 2012 Summer Olympics.

The following is the Canada roster in the women's basketball tournament of the 2012 Summer Olympics.

The following is the France roster in the women's basketball tournament of the 2012 Summer Olympics.

The following is the Great Britain roster in the women's basketball tournament of the 2012 Summer Olympics.

The following is the Russia roster in the women's basketball tournament of the 2012 Summer Olympics.


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Heterosexuality Questionnaire

One of the pleasant phenomena of questionnaires is their variability. The questionnaire below can also be reformed by exchanging homosexual, monosexual, oligosexual, or polysexual for heterosexual. Have some fun and enjoy learning by doing.

Heterosexuality Questionaire
Read the Heterosexuality Questionnaire and comment below in the Discuss section.

 * 1) "What do you think has caused you to be heterosexual?"
 * 2) When and how did you first decide you were a heterosexual?
 * 3) Is it possible your heterosexuality stems from a neurotic fear of people of the same sex?
 * 4) If you've never slept with a person of the same sex, how do you know you wouldn't prefer it?
 * 5) Isn't it possible your heterosexuality is just a phase you may grow out of?
 * 6) Isn't it possible that all you need is a good gay lover?
 * 7) If heterosexuality is normal, why are a disproportionate number of mental patients heterosexual? (Fact check: there is a disproportionate number of homosexual mental patients  )
 * 8) To whom have you disclosed your heterosexual tendencies? How did they react?
 * 9) Why do heterosexuals place so much emphasis on sex? Why are they so promiscuous? (Fact check homosexuals in the Western countries are more promiscuous. See here for further discussion.)
 * 10) Do heterosexuals hate and/or distrust others of their own sex? Is that what makes them heterosexual?
 * 11) If you were to have children, would you want them to be heterosexual knowing the problems they'd face?
 * 12) Your heterosexuality doesn't offend me as long as you don't try to force it on me. Why do you feel compelled to seduce others into your sexual orientation?
 * 13) The great majority of child molesters are heterosexuals. Do you really consider it safe to expose your children to heterosexual teachers?
 * 14) Why do you insist on being so obvious, and making a public spectacle of your heterosexuality? Can't you just be who you are and keep it quiet?
 * 15) How can you ever hope to become a whole person if you limit yourself to a compulsive, exclusively heterosexual lifestyle, and remain unwilling to explore and develop your homosexual potential?
 * 16) Heterosexuals are noted for assigning themselves and each other to narrowly restricted, stereotyped sex-roles. Why do you cling to such unhealthy role playing?
 * 17) Even with all the societal support marriage receives, the divorce rate is spiraling. Why are there so few stable relationships among heterosexuals? (Fact check: the divorce rates vary among homosexuals, with lesbians being even less stable than among heterosexuals.)
 * 18) How could the human race survive if everyone were heterosexual like you, considering the menace of overpopulation? (Fact check: non-sequitur.)
 * 19) There seem to be very few happy heterosexuals. Techniques have been developed that could help you change if you really wanted to. Have you considered trying psychotherapy or even aversion therapy? (Fact check: see Point 7.)
 * 20) Could you really trust a heterosexual therapist/counsellor to be objective and unbiased? Don't you fear he/she might be inclined to influence you in the direction of his/her own preferences?
 * 21) How can you enjoy a full, satisfying sexual experience or deep emotional rapport with a person of the opposite sex when the differences are so vast? How can a man understand what pleases a woman, or vice-versa?
 * 22) Would you describe yourself as "polyamorous", "oligoamorous", or "monoamorous"?

 * Keynote lectures/Sex integration
 * Women's studies

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User:JKizzieHumanities/Rhode Island Foundation

The Rhode Island Foundation is a non-profit public charity established in 1916 by the Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company. It is one of the nation's oldest charitable foundations and the largest foundation in Rhode Island.

The Foundation manages and distributes funds based upon its strategic initiatives of "Economic Security, Educational Success, and Healthy Lives". The initial endowment, donated by United States Senator Jesse H. Metcalf, was $10,000 (the equivalent of $233,000 in 2019) and has grown to $970,000,000 as of 2018. Donors to the Foundation elect to have the Foundation determine where the money should go, or they can determine how they want their donation to be distributed.

Members of the Foundation's Board have included John Nicholas Brown II, the honorable Maureen McKenna Goldberg, and Mayor Jorge Elorza; current members of the board include Janet Robinson and the honorable Ernest C. Torres.


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User:Tabalji

This is just a little opportunity to say who we are. We are Chandra and David Courtney, a husband / wife team who are exponents of North Indian music. We are performers, teachers, as well as scholars on the subject of Indian vocal and tabla.

Let me first tell you about my wife. Chandra was born Chandrakantha Nada in Macchalipatnam on Feb 2, 1954. She began her singing career as a child. She was a regular singer on Balala Karyakramam in All India Radio, Vijaywada, and was attached to Suvartha Vani, Rasana Samaikhya, and Bhavana Kala Samiti. In 1971 she enrolled in the Govt. College of Music and Dance (Vijaywada), and trained under the late J.V. Subba Rao until 1975 when her family moved to Hyderabad. She then became an artist with All India Radio (Hyderabad) and Swara Tharangini. When television was established, she then became a regular artist in Doordarshan (Hyderabad). In 1977 she toured South Africa, Malaysia, Singapore, and Mauritius along with the Om International troupe. She married me in 1978, and I brought her to the United States in 1980. She has been a teacher and performer of Indian vocal in the Houston area since this time.

My name is David Courtney, and I have been playing the tabla since 1972. I first studied pakhawaj under the famous Zakir Hussain at the Ali Akbar College of Music. I then moved to India and learned tabla under the late Ustad Shaik Dawood Khan of Hyderabad. I have performed on stage, and have a certain reputation for my academic contributions. During the 80s, I did a lot of work on the application of computers to Indian music. This may be found in my doctoral dissertation "A Low Cost System for the Computerization of North Indian Classical Music".

We are both pretty active. We are active in the fusion group Vani, and have numerous books, CDs, and articles. In the mid 80s we composed the theme music for "Asiana" (Houston Indian community's TV program). In 1990, we were both board members of the Texas Institute for Indian Studies. Since the early 90s we have been active artists in “Young Audiences”. In 1994 we were awarded the "Artists of the Year" by Asian Women Magazine. It was in 1995 that we gave a number of programs in Germany under the sponsorship of the Deutsch Indische Geselschaft. Subsequently we have given numerous performances in Germany and the UK under the sponsorship of a variety of organizations. In 1996 we were given the "Award of Excellence" for our artistic contributions in the field of music by the American Telugu Association. In 2005 we composed music for "Dancing in Twilight", a film staring Erick Avari, Louise Fletcher, Mimi Rogers, Kal Penn, Sheetal Shet. We are also regular programmers for KPFT’s (Pacifica - Houston) world music program “Music Beyond Borders” which airs twice a week in the Houston area.

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Ibson

Ibson Barreto da Silva (born 7 November 1983), simply known as Ibson, is a Brazilian football coach and former player who played as a central midfielder. He is the current assistant coach of Amazonas.

Flamengo
Born in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, Ibson arrived at Clube de Regatas do Flamengo in 1992, at the age of nine. He was promoted to the first team in the 2003 season and made his debut in a match against CR Vasco da Gama, totalling nine appearances in the Série A that year; his father, Laís Souza, eventually became a scout at the club.

In the following campaign, Ibson became one of the team's most important players: under the guidance of Abel Braga and playing alongside the likes of Felipe, Jean and Zinho, he won the Taça Guanabara and the Campeonato Carioca, and also finished as runner-up in the Copa do Brasil; that season, he scored six goals from 44 appearances.

Subsequently, some European clubs showed interest in Ibson and, in January 2005, just three games into the regional championship, he was transferred to FC Porto. Flamengo received many criticism about his transfer, most of it coming from the transfer values – around US$2,5 million. At the time, club directors said they cashed the money as his contract would run out at the end of the year, so they could have lost him for nothing.

Porto / Flamengo return
Ibson had a good start with Porto, quickly becoming a habitual first-choice. In his first complete season he won the Primeira Liga and the Taça de Portugal, appearing in 21 games all competitions combined (one goal) and adding the following year's Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira.

In 2006–07, however, Ibson lost his importance in the squad, also having some problems with manager Jesualdo Ferreira. He would return to Flamengo subsequently, being loaned in July 2007. He arrived with the side placed in relegation zone (18th), signing alongside Maxi Biancucchi and Fábio Luciano and helping to an incredible comeback as they finished third, the best performance since the title-winning season in 1992, which also secured a place in the 2008 edition of the Copa Libertadores; he scored six times in 22 matches and was also elected the league's best right midfielder, and the loan was then extended for a further year.

Journeyman
On 13 July 2009, Ibson was released by Porto and signed a three-year contract with FC Spartak Moscow, being sold for €4 million. He netted twice in 28 matches in the 2010 season, helping to a fourth place in the Russian Premier League.

Ibson represented five teams from 2011 to 2015, including former side Flamengo. On 23 February 2015, he joined Minnesota United FC from the North American Soccer League.

At the end of the 2018 season, 35-year-old Ibson was released by the TCF Bank Stadium-based club.

Later years
At the end of May 2019, Ibson was announced as a new player of Tombense. After leaving the club in the end of the 2020 season, he subsequently played for Amazonas (two stints), Ipatinga and Nacional de Muriaé, retiring with the latter in 2022.

Coaching career
After retiring, Ibson returned to Amazonas on 26 April 2023, as a permanent assistant coach of the club.

Club statistics
according to FlaEstatística
 * Notes

Club
Flamengo
 * Campeonato Brasileiro Série A: 2009
 * Taça Guanabara: 2004, 2008
 * Taça Rio: 2009
 * Campeonato Carioca: 2004, 2008, 2009

Porto
 * Primeira Liga: 2005–06, 2006–07
 * Taça de Portugal: 2005–06
 * Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 2006

Santos
 * Campeonato Paulista: 2012

Corinthians
 * Recopa Sudamericana: 2013

Individual

 * Campeonato Brasileiro Série A Team of the Year: 2007

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Guyvalvoria

Guyvalvoria is a genus of sea slugs, aeolid nudibranchs, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Tergipedidae.

Species
Species within the genus Guyvalvoria include:
 * Guyvalvoria francaisi Vayssière, 1906
 * Guyvalvoria gruzovi Martynov, 2006
 * Guyvalvoria paradoxa (Eliot, 1907)
 * Guyvalvoria savinkini Martynov, 2006

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User:Kilyle

On the TV Tropes wiki, they came up with this definition for Wikipedia:

"Giant website that seeks to be the repository for all the world's knowledge. Spends much of its time hosting arguments about what qualifies as 'knowledge'."

I think they pretty much pegged it.

Language Skillz
I'm debating what to do about the many other languages I've studied...I may add them as 0 entries, because for most of them I know the grammar but don't have enough vocabulary to hold significant conversations. This gives me the ability to take up the language later, but also to parse through texts as long as I have access to a dictionary. This is especially the case with Portugese, which I can basically read without ever having studied--because I have studied Spanish, Italian, French, and Esperanto.

As of this date, I am working on Finnish, Russian, and Spanish... not fast, but at least focused on those three. I found a Finnish version of Final Fantasy VI on BitTorrent, so now I play that in Spanish for a bit and then replay the same section in Finnish and hope to grasp some of the vocabulary and/or grammatical constructions. Do check that torrent out, because there are a lot of languages available for FFIV and FFVI (and some of the non-English releases as well).

Furthermore, I conlang, and I consider it anything but a waste of time.

Math and Programming
In college I memorized Pi thus far:

3.14159<PHONE_NUMBER>23<PHONE_NUMBER>27<PHONE_NUMBER>16 939937 510 5820

...using which scheme I wrote a poem, which unfortunately did not make it into the Vibrations art publication at the college.

Nowadays, I've regressed, and can only quote it to the first zero (which is fine, because that's the point at which every single digit has been used at least once). I'm debating about memorizing E next.

Oh, and I know the logs from one to ten, can work out in my head other logs (albeit not quickly), and am trying to get my mom to memorize the first ten, of which she already has the 301-602-903 pattern down. Go Mom!

I could really use a template for my specific math style: I add (and subtract and multiply) in chunks, rearranging bits of numbers in my head, e.g.:

836 + 782 + 3651 + 134 = 3000, plus 800+800+650+100 (1600+750 (2000+350)), leaving 36+1+34 with a deficit of 18...

...so 5350 plus 60+10+1 still deficient by 18, so 5400 plus 21 minus 18, or 5403.

Oh, and that 800+800+650+100 is more like "8,8,6 1/2,1" with the understanding that they're of a certain unit (100 in this case).

Similarly, I subtract largest to smallest:

8297 - 2376 = 8000 - 2000 (6000) plus 300, minus 3, minus 376, so the 300's cancel, leaving negative 76+3, or 79, thus 6000 minus 79, thus 5900 plus (100-79), or 21: 5921.

And yes, I'm out of practice, so I do check myself, but I'm usually right, and when I'm wrong it's usually in the smaller units, not the largest, or I'm off by 1 in the largest unit. On the most complex problems, I sometimes lose track of units, which makes for larger problems...I need to get back in practice.

I started way back in GW-Basic when I was like 10, went thru Q-Basic, finally encountered Visual Basic, and then had to go to college classes just to figure out how to deal with the minor details, after which point VB became insanely easy and familiar. I'm a little less practiced in C++.

I also program in GML for Game Maker, which is very pleasant to use, and I'm planning to learn the language behind RPG Toolkit.

Reading
Oh, and I read manga in the original Japanese. I also prefer subs and reject dubs, except in the case of Shinesman, which has an amazingly comedic dub version.

As soon as I figure out how to make templates, I'm gonna make one (or more) for positions on Snape. It's looking rather remote by this point, but it's still possible to explain his actions--still possible that he is loyal to the side of good. And whatever his allegiance, my enjoyment of the final book will be significantly focused on learning more about him and the explanations for his involvement in the previous books. ETA: Yeah, should probably update this section by now. Heh.

Since I'm trying to make these darned userboxes move into a more sensible formation, let's see if I can't inflate this text section a little. Here's a list of books I would recommend that you consider reading (mostly Young Adult, because even though I'm almost 30 with two college degrees and highly above-average reading skills, I still enjoy YA books better than most Adult books).

 * Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
 * This Time of Darkness by H. M. Hoover; also, Away Is a Strange Place to Be
 * Invitation to the Game by Monica Hughes; also, Space Trap
 * The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer
 * Village of the Vampire Cat by Lensey Namioka (actually, any of her ronin books, and this isn't the first, either... but don't read White Serpent Castle first 'cuz it sadly brings out a major character point that I enjoyed better after really getting to know Zenta)
 * All-of-a-Kind Family by Sydney Taylor (who by the way has an award named for him that celebrates Jewish literature)
 * The Good Master by Kate Seredy
 * The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde (quite the tearjerker... and probably the only story of his that has anything like a happy ending)

And for a few classics:

 * The Three Musketeers... unabridged. I can't tell you how many times I read this as a child.
 * Little Men... why in the world do people make this a footnote to Little Women? I never grow tired of reading about the boys... especially Demi and Dan.  I am incensed whenever a new movie version rewrites Mr. Bhaer's lines during the "Dan's come back" section and makes out like he never said "This proves to me that we have a hold on his heart... I would no more turn him away now than I would my own Rob."
 * Freckles... yeah, its Aesop is a bit outdated ("You're a good man I can marry because now I've proven that you have good parents!"), and its heroine is a definite Mary Sue, but really, it's a fun read with colorful characters and a powerful sense of the feel of a huge, weighty, and dangerous forest bursting with color and life and unexpected treasures.
 * Les Miserables... sweet. Also, goes on beyond the ending of the movie.
 * Watership Down. It's about rabbits.  They go on a grand adventure.  They pass many perils and finally settle down into a peaceful new home, beginning to enjoy their newfound era of unequaled prosperity.  They then realize that they brought no women along, and have to head out to correct that problem.
 * Go read it... seriously, just go read it. And if you find the first couple of chapters boring or confusing, just keep slogging through it, because I had to pick the book up dozens of times before I got into the action, and now it's one of my favorite stories of all time.

Games
So many games...and I'm working on crafting my own games, too, though I haven't gotten very far yet. Actually working on a card game at present... five suits, twelve rank cards and three face cards apiece. Used for storytelling. Programming a computer version has proved far more extensive than I expected (take 75 possible cards, times two states (upright or reversed), times the card they're playing against (e.g., Hero vs. Villain) which also has 150 possible settings, times possibly a Setting card between them... it gets big fast). On the up side, this proves that my deck is properly equipped to dish out a huge number of possible plots and character relationships, so it's looking good. Of course, the dreaded Procrastinatron is rearing its ugly head, so who knows how far I'll get before I move on to another project? Hrm.

Miscellaneous Interests
By the way, don't forget to check out the site TV Tropes. It's excellent, both for writers and for lovers of stories and story elements. You can find it at TVTropes.org so get over there and get clicking!

Contribution
My contribution to Wikipedia? Expect to see:

 * Correction of Spelling
 * Correction of Punctuation

I am very good at both of these, and I do not expect to make many if any mistakes in these areas.

 * Correction of Grammar or English Usage

I shall try not to be pedantic (and shall do my best to refrain from switching "different than" to "different from" even though it bugs me). Due in large part to learning Japanese, I am very good at spotting subjects and objects, and noticing when they get mixed up, or when the subject changes (a recent example: "Tall, stocky, and losing his hair, Charles was born...").

I do not expect to make many grammatical errors, and if I do make an error, I would love to be notified about it on my talk page (since it's an opportunity to learn!).

 * Correction of Wiki Code
 * Correction of Links

I'm learning to use Wiki; I'm a pretty quick study, but still, expect some errors. Several times now, I have edited code, only to realize that I used the code incorrectly myself; this is the most common explanation for various double and triple edits I've made.

 * Correction of Factual Errors

Not as likely, but here and there I can help, especially in an area I am very familiar with. These are likely to be very small errors, nothing ground-shaking. Some grammatical errors fall under here, for example when an inappropriate conjunction leads to a factually incorrect sentence.

 * Improvement to Style

I hate reading long paragraphs. The net is made for skimming, not scanning (or poring), and long chunks of text make my eyes glaze over (even though I am an inveterate reader). Hence, I will break long paragraphs into shorter paragraphs or lists, or split the information up into smaller sections. I much prefer sensible segmenting to long alphabetic lists, since it's easier to deal with large amounts of data in small connected segments (e.g. instead of an alphabetical list of city mottos, try breaking them up by state).

Info on Me
I am (first) very busy and (second) fairly new to Wiki. Hope to update once I figure out what the heck I'm doing.

Kilyle

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Carl Ruiz

Carl Albert Ruiz (April 4, 1975 – September 21, 2019), also known as Carl "The Cuban" Ruiz, was an American restaurant owner and celebrity chef, best known as a judge on various US cooking competition television series on Food Network, such as Guy's Grocery Games.

Early life
Ruiz was born on April 4, 1975, in Passaic, New Jersey, to Yezzid and Elisa Ruiz. His father was Colombian and his mother Cuban. His brother George credits their mother and grandmother's cooking for inspiring Carl. He attended the Collegiate School. He was a classically-trained chef who graduated from the Institute of Culinary Education, in New York City.

Career
Ruiz worked as a sous chef at Dish, a restaurant in Clifton, New Jersey, before being hired as executive chef at Sabor in North Bergen, New Jersey circa 2002. In July 2002, he was hired by the new owner of Stephen's Cafe of North Bergen as a consulting chef for a relaunch of the operation. Ruiz relocated to New York City as the first decade of the 21st century came to a close, working as an executive chef at Son Cubano, a short-lived Cuban restaurant on West 27th Street in Manhattan. The 80-seat restaurant featured live Cuban music and a night club atmosphere.

By 2011, Ruiz was executive chef at Brick Oven in Morristown, New Jersey. Together with his then wife, Marie Riccio, on October 10, 2011, Ruiz opened an Italian deli and cafe, Marie's Italian Specialties, in the Hickory Square Mall in Chatham Township, New Jersey. This cafe was memorably referred to by one food reviewer as "the type of deli you might have visited as a child when visiting your grandmother's house—if your grandmother lived in Hoboken or Jersey City in the 1950s."

It was through this restaurant, and its distinctive food, that Ruiz first made the acquaintance of celebrity chef Guy Fieri. Fieri filmed an episode of his popular Food Network television show Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives featuring Marie's Italian Specialties in October 2012, with an initial air date of January 21, 2013. Fieri would ultimately feature the restaurant twice on the show, boosting the popularity of the nine table deli as well as Ruiz's professional profile. Ruiz was later hired to be a judge on other shows starring Fieri, including Guy's Grocery Games and Guy's Ranch Kitchen.

Ruiz and Riccio subsequently divorced, with Riccio retaining Marie's Italian Specialties following the split. In June 2019, Ruiz opened a new restaurant specializing in authentic Cuban fare, called La Cubana, in the Meatpacking District of New York City. Ruiz held the position of Executive Chef at the new eatery. Through connection to Fieri, Ruiz would become a frequent guest on the Sirius XM radio show Opie and Anthony and its successor, The Opie Radio Show, along with Sherrod Small and Vic Henley.

Death
Ruiz died in his sleep on Saturday, September 21, 2019, aged 44. The cause of death was determined to be atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. He was visiting friends in Bel Air, Maryland, when he died.

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Talk:Cocoa Programming/Memory management

Actually, autorelease pools are propably not part of Objective-C language but rather of NextStep runtime. Should they be even mentioned here?

 * No, they shouldn't. I can tell since I didn't write this part ;) Dysprosia 10:30, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * It's better here. Dysprosia 10:37, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)


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Constitutional and International Law Papers

Welcome to our site. This is a collaborative project in the philosophy of law. Our aim is to examine some of the foundational questions about constitutional law and international law. Our hope is that a comparison between the two will enable us to see some of the problems in both modern constitutions and the systems of both private and public international law. One of the great accomplishments of the modern period has a been a dramatic improvement in the rule of the law. More and more, in various states with differing cultures and histories, the idea of the rule of law has come to govern the actual practice of institutions within the state. At the same time, the idea of the rule of law serves as an ideal that regulates the evolution of law within those states. In many ways, the contemporary system of international law that governs the relations between states faces a number of problems. By drawing a comparison between constitutional law and international law we propose to examine some of the weaknesses of international law and to make suggestions for dealing with the problems we face in strengthening the rule of law at the international level.

Our proposal is to write a book that is modelled on the Federalist Papers. Famously, this set of papers examine the philosophical reasons for adopting a federal constitution that was designed with the features that we now, to some degree, take for granted in the United States of America. The papers identified specific problems that the American people faced immediately after the Revolutionary War. By the end of the 1780's, representatives from a number of states had come to the conclusion that the original Articles of Confederation was insufficient to regulate the relations between the states. For example, it did not provide a sufficient basis for forming a national union, it did not protect against the unwarranted influence of factions in the operation of government, it did not provide a sufficient basis for the protection of the rights of individuals, minorities and the people as as whole and it did not provide a means for taxation to raise revenue or for providing for a national defense.

The book will have two parts. The first part will examine proposals for making both minor and major revisions to the Constitution of the United States. Much has changed in the time between the framing of the Constitution and the the present day. Many amendments have been made--after ratification with the addition of the bill of rights, after the civil war with the provisions for equality under law, and during the early part of the 20th century with the granting of the right to vote for women. In recent decades, however, fewer amendments have been suggested. We intend to examine the major problems that the framers of the constitution faced and to reflect on the way in which the design of the constitution was intended to deal with these problems. Next, we will ask whether or not the problems we face at the beginning of the 21st century are different from those faced by the framers of the constitution. After sorting through some of these problems, we will consider suggestions for improving the constitutional framework of our country.

Courses in the philosophy of law:
 * Northern Arizona University/Philosophy of Law

Wikibooks on Constitutional and International Law:
 * Northern Arizona University/Philosophy of Law/Wikibook


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Category:People from Dundee

 * This category lists Dundonians, people born in Dundee, Scotland.
 * This category is only for people actually born in Dundee. For people who are strongly associated with the city, but not born there, see:
 * Category:People associated with Dundee

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Siayan Island

Siayan is one of the Batanes Islands. Also known as Ditarem Island in the native language, the island is about 1/2 mile to 3/4 miles in diameter and lies about 5 mile north-northeastward of Itbayat Island. The closest island is Mavulis Island which is about 1.5 miles north-northeastward of Siayan. There are several detached rocks off Siayan's northeast side, rendering the channel between it and Mabudis unsafe for larger vessels.

Siayan has an elevation of 538 ft and is listed as an inactive volcano by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology.

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Uncover (EP)

Uncover is the third EP by Swedish singer Zara Larsson. It was released internationally on 16 January 2015 by TEN Music Group and Epic Records. Uncover features six songs taken from her debut studio album, 1 (2014).

Critical reception
The EP received positive reviews from critics upon its release. Kristen Maree of Renowned for Sound stated "Kicking off with laid-back, mid-tempo track 'Wanna Be Your Baby', Zara throws us back to some of Mariah Carey's peppier stuff, move quickly to 'Never Gonna Die' which you would be forgiven for mistaking for Rihanna. The title track 'Uncover' is the pretty ballad of the bunch, while 'Carry You Home' is exceptionally current and unique. The echoey 'She’s Not Me' is the closest we get to cliché, saved by Zara’s stunning vocal performance, while the closing 'Rooftop' is the nicest way to round off the EP, sounding like something from Taylor Swift's 1989."

MuuMuse's Bradley Stern claimed "[Uncover] is the very essence of Swede–pop at its finest – strong songcraft, powerful melodies, and captivatingly pure vocals, from the feel–good, '80's synth–soaked 'Wanna Be Your Baby' to the thoroughly brilliant 'Rooftop' to 'She's Not Me, Pt. 1 & 2', which glides across ghostly wisps like one long, paranoid internal monologue and/or ode to Madonna's Hard Candy jam."

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