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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dylan Scott Pierce

The result was   delete. Does not provide any RS in the article. Unreferenced BLP. Nakon 01:10, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

Dylan Scott Pierce

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Fails GNG no coverage in RS. Article claims several 'profiles' in natiional media but I have been unable to locate any coverage. So also WP:NRV. Does not meet WP:ARTIST. JBH (talk) 15:47, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
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 * Oppose: A quick Google search returns a lot of coverage. -- Taku (talk) 16:33, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment Yes there is a lot of Google stuff but it is all things like "Famous people with autism" and "prodigy painter" on blogs. I can find no coverage in WP:RS. He has no real notability as an artist, no awards, not talked about by critics, no major exhibitions in major galleries etc. If you can find some coverage I missed please link it on his talk page or ping me on mine. Thanks for helping out. JBH (talk) 17:43, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
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 * Weak delete He does get quite a few hits on Google, but they are not Independent Reliable Sources - they are things like his former teacher's website. I was unable to confirm any of the Reliable Source profiles claimed in the article. I found some local coverage about him  but not enough to amount to an article. Maybe it's just a little WP:TOOSOON for him. --MelanieN (talk) 23:56, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Weak keep Some links: Scholastic Magazine, Art Business News;Feb2004, Vol. 31 Issue 2, p22. He's featured in a reader but it's hard to count that as about him. LaMona (talk) 00:24, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

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User:CarolOgden/sandbox

The IELI Intensive English Language Program offers English preparation courses for international students who want to study at The University of North Texas or at a university or college in the United States.

History

In the mid 1970s, English Language Services, a company located in Dallas, was conducting ESL classes on the UNT campus in College Inn. Dr. Charles Martin, a linguistics professor in the English Department, presented the idea to Associate Dean Hugh Ayer and people from the newly-formed International Education group that the university should have its own Intensive English Program. The idea was accepted, and planning began for the school. Dr. John Crow, the Institute’s first director, was hired in l977 by Fred Kessler, the first head of International Education at the university. Fall of l977 was the opening semester for the Intensive English Language Institute.

In fall of l977, enrollment in IELI was 35 students--80% from Iran and other Middle Eastern countries. Amir Abassi, who later received his doctorate at UNT and became the Director of the Sponsored Students Office, was the first officially matriculated student. There were four instructors who began with the program the first semester: Dr. Evelyn Black, who remained at the school until her retirement in l996, Caroline McMichael, Ann Wallace, and Marie Crane.

IELI was originally headquartered in John Crow’s office in the English Department. Classes met all over campus, but only in the afternoon because that was when rooms were available. IELI moved to the west wing, second floor of Kendall Hall in the fall of l978. In l990, instructors’ offices moved to the newly acquired space on the west wing, first floor of Kendall Hall. In the fall of l996, IELI expanded into the east wing of the second floor of Kendall Hall, adding more classrooms and a state-of-the-art language lab.

The original listening lab opened in l981, and there were no computers in the lab at that time. In l984, the lab acquired 11 Apple computers. The lab became fully computerized in l990 with a physical expansion, which allowed computer use.

The original design of the intensive program was five levels, with sixteen-week terms. In 1990 the curriculum changed to six levels, and the terms were reduced to eight weeks. The positions of Curriculum Coordinators for Writing and Communication were created at that time also. After John Crow (1977-1984), IELI has had other directors: Grant Henning (1984), Dan Robertson (1984-1989), Rebecca Smith-Murdock (1989-1991), and Eva Bowman (1991-2010). There have also been several interim directors: Nancy Strickland, Marjorie Knowles, Nancy Sandoval, and Gaye Childress. Dr. Fernando Fleurquin (2010 – present) serves as the director of IELI.

Accreditation

IELI was accredited by the Commission on English Language Program Accreditation (CEA) in 2000 becoming one of the first six IEPs in the country to receive full accreditation. It is currently accredited through 2015. CEA is recognized by the US Department of Education.

IELI is one of the few Intensive English Programs in the U.S. that is accredited by CEA and is a member in good standing of AAIEP and UCIEP.

Academic

IELI curriculum has been designed in such a way that each course builds on the skills taught in previous courses. Content is logically sequenced with built-in redundancy to ensure that students are prepared for the next level. Goals and objectives and syllabi for every academic skill at each level of instruction are available for these courses:

Core sequenced classes

 * Communication, Levels Pre-1 to 6
 * Writing, Levels Pre-1 to 6
 * Supplemental sequenced classes
 * Supplemental sequenced classes
 * Supplemental sequenced classes

Auxiliary classes

 * Graduate Preparation Class (GPC)
 * International Teaching Assistants (ITA)
 * Pre-MBA/MS Program
 * TOEFL Preparation Class
 * Pre-MBA/MS Program
 * TOEFL Preparation Class
 * TOEFL Preparation Class

General Philosophy and Guidelines:

An eclectic approach to teaching the target skills in Communication classes has developed over the years at the IELI as a result of several influences. These include research in second-language acquisition and applied linguistics; development of new methodologies and techniques in ESL; the perspective of TESL graduate programs in the U. S. and abroad; and the ongoing development of teaching techniques and materials by IELI teachers. The teaching philosophy is continually modified as changes occur in the field and in the institute itself. During the term students are given standardized reading skills tests, vocabulary tests, speaking tests and listening tests. These tests were created by IELI teachers. They are revised every term by the Curriculum Coordinator based on teachers’ feedback and suggestions. Level-specific final exams, which have both a reading and listening component, are given at the end of the term.

Faculty

IELI have instructors with master’s degrees in TESL, Applied Linguistics, Second Language Education, or a closely related field.

Students

With over 450 students from over 30 different countries, IELI offers small classes, with an average class size of 12.

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Acacia blakei

Acacia blakei, commonly known as Blake's wattle or Wollomombi wattle, is a shrub belonging to the genus Acacia and the subgenus Juliflorae that is native to north eastern Australia.

Description
The erect tree typically grows to a height of less than 15 m and has fissured grey coloured bark. It has light green to brown coloured branchlets that are angular toward the apices but otherwise terete that are sometimes pruinose or scurfy. Like most species of Acacia it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The phyllodes are flat and falcate with an elliptic to narrowly elliptic shape and a length of 5 to 17 cm and a width of 4 to 22 mm. They are thinly coriaceous and usually glabrous and have two or three conspicuous longitudinal nerves and two or three less prominent nerves separate to the base. It blooms between August and November producing simple inflorescences that occur in groups of one to three in the axils. The cylindrical flower-heads are 2 to 6 cm in length with yellow to pale yellow or cream-coloured flowers. After flowering straight to curved seed pods form that are more or less flat except over the seeds. The glabrous to sparsely hairy seed pods have a length of 3 to 10 cm and a width of 2 to 4 mm and have a firmly papery to thinly leathery texture and are smooth or wrinkled longitudinally.

Taxonomy
There are two known subspecies: The specific epithet honours the botanist Stanley T. Blake (1911–1973) who once worked for the Queensland Herbarium.
 * Acacia blakei Pedley subsp. blakei
 * Acacia blakei subsp. diphylla (Tindale) Pedley

Distribution
It is endemic to central and eastern parts of southern Queensland as far north as Emerald and the Blackdown Tableland extending south to north eastern parts of New South Wales to around the Coxs River and Lake Yarrunga to the south west of Sydney. It is usually part of dry sclerophyll forest and woodland communities.

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Talk:David Davis (Australian politician)

awesome name — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 23:51, 6 October 2021 (UTC)


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Cibi (disambiguation)

The Cibi is a Fijian war dance, now performed at rugby matches.

Cibi or CIBI may also refer to:

 * CIBI Information, Inc., a credit rating company in the Philippines
 * Cibi Lake, Yunnan province, China, a lake

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Talk:biatch

It's not only alternative spelling, it's pronounced differently as well. <IP_ADDRESS> 08:46, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Good point. I'm changing it. Torgo 17:22, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Origins of the term
The first time I heard the term biatch, if I recall correctly, it was on Make Me Laugh on Comedy Central. As far as I am aware, this might be the earliest use of the term. If I recall correctly, the comedian wanted to use a term that rhymed with another word he'd used previously, and since the word bitch did not rhyme, he instead said biatch (which did rhyme). It appeared to me that he created the word on the spot. Can anyone confirm whether this was, indeed, the origins of the term? If it was not, can anyone determine what was the term's origins? Cheers, allixpeeke (talk) 05:18, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

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Al Jihad fil Islam

Al Jihad fil Islam (Eng: The Concept of Jihad in Islam) is a book written by Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi on the subject of jihad in Islam. The book is an English translation of the classic book in jihad, originally written and published in 1927 in the Urdu language.

Background
A major part of the book deals with the comparative study of the concept of a just war in various theologies. This book covers various important events of World War I in great detail and provides a critical analysis of the conflict and post conflict development of international accords with respect to war.

Appreciations
Allama Iqbal read Al Jihad fil Islam and hailed it as the best explication of the concept of jihad in any language.

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The Midnight Room

The Midnight Room is the fifth studio album by the Italian psychedelic rock band Jennifer Gentle, released in 2007.

Track listing

 * 1) Twin Ghosts
 * 2) Telephone Ringing
 * 3) It's In Her Eyes
 * 4) Take My Hand
 * 5) The Ferryman
 * 6) Electric Princess
 * 7) Quarter To Three
 * 8) Mercury Blood
 * 9) Granny's House
 * 10) Come Closer

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dynamic site

Noun

 * 1)  A web site that displays information that changes using server-side code, generally with information retrieved from a database.

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Flávio Silva

Flávio António da Silva (born 3 April 1996) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga 1 club Persebaya Surabaya.

Club career
Born in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Silva started his career in Portugal at Real, later joining Sporting CP and Torreense. In the 2014–15 season, Silva scored 8 goals in 11 matches for Torreense senior team in the third-tier league, before leaving the club in the winter transfer window.

On 1 February 2015, Silva signed for Portuguese champions Benfica until June 2020, being assigned to the reserve team. On 8 February, Silva debuted for Benfica B in Segunda Liga, as a substitute.

On 31 August 2015, Silva was loaned out to Covilhã for one season. On 6 January 2016, he terminated his contract with Covilhã and returned to Benfica. In February, Benfica terminated his contract.

On 11 January 2023, Silva joined Indonesian club Persik Kediri. On 23 February 2023, he scored his first goal for the club against RANS Nusantara. On 28 March 2024, Silva scored a quintrick (5 goals) against Persikabo 1973 in a 5–2 win.

International career
In 2015, Silva earned three caps for the Portugal under-19 team, scoring twice.

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DSSP

DSSP may refer to:

 * DSSP (hydrogen bond estimation algorithm), an algorithm that determines the secondary structure of protein subsequences from the coordinates of a protein structure
 * DSSP (imaging), a method of scanning objects into 3D digital representations
 * DSSP (programming), a programming language, acronym for Dialog System for Structured Programming
 * Decentralized Software Services Protocol, a SOAP-based protocol used by Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio
 * Deep Submergence Systems Project, US Navy program to develop methods of rescuing submarines
 * Dessert spoon, a spoon with a capacity of about 2 teaspoons
 * Digital Solid State Propulsion, American aerospace company

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Organic Chemistry/Introduction to reactions/Gibbs free energy

<< Acids and bases |

Gibbs free energy is represented by the following equation:

 * ΔG = ΔH -TΔS

 * ΔG is the change in Gibbs free energy.
 * ΔH is the change in potential energy, sometimes known as the enthalpy of a system.
 * T is the temperature in Kelvin.
 * ΔS is a statistical correlation, known as the entropy of a system.

The basic principle is that total entropy increases. This increase can be because of an increase in the entropy of the chemicals, ΔS, or because the reaction has produced heat, increasing the entropy of the environment.

The Gibbs free energy lets us calculate the total increase in entropy, including the effects on the environment, without needing to know anything about the environment.

At low temperatures, ΔG is approximately ΔH, and nature favours the reaction with lowest energy products, which release the most heat. This may reduce the entropy of the system, but the increase in the entropy of the environment more than compensates.

At high temperatures, ΔG is approximately -TΔS, and nature favours the reaction with high energy products, which may actually absorb heat. This may reduce the entropy of the environment, but the increase in the entropy of the system more than compensates.

Either way, the Gibbs free energy always decreases.

<< Foundational concepts | << Acids and bases | Gibbs free energy | Alkanes >>


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FKN

FKN may refer to:
 * Florida Knowledge Network, a defunct American television network
 * Franklin Municipal–John Beverly Rose Airport, in Virginia, United States
 * Frankston railway station, in Victoria, Australia

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Talk:Dean Solomon

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Ghebremariam

Ghebremariam (ገብረማሪያም, gebiremarīyami) or Gebremariam (ገብረማሪያም, gebiremarīyami) is a common surname in Eritrea and Ethiopia with the meaning Gebre has two meanings as servant and work; Mariam means Mary "(Gebre + Mariam) means servant and work of Mary". It can refer to the following people:

Ghebremariam

 * Ghirmai Ghebremariam, Eritrean diplomat
 * Woldemichael Ghebremariam, Eritrean politician

Gebremariam

 * Alana Gebremariam (born 1997), Belarusian pro-democracy activist and feminist
 * Gebregziabher Gebremariam (born 1984), retired Ethiopian long-distance runner
 * Haile Tilahun Gebremariam (born 1954), Ethiopian officer

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Talk:David Ramsay (Ontario politician)

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Rated Mr. Ramsay "Mid" importance due to his years as an Ontario Cabinet Minister.  PK T  17:07, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

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Venus Envy (sex shop)

Venus Envy is a Canadian sex shop and independent book store with a website and two retail stores (in Ottawa, Ontario and Halifax, Nova Scotia). Venus Envy was the second Canadian business to offer woman-friendly surroundings and service distinct from traditional sex stores.

Locations
The Halifax Venus Envy opened in the South end of the city in 1998 and moved to its current downtown location in 1999. The Halifax location is a full-service book store that serves as the local women's and LGBT book store as well as a sex shop.

The Ottawa store opened in the Byward Market area in 2001 and moved to its second Centretown location in 2005. VE is now located at 226 Bank Street. Venus Envy Ottawa is more narrowly a sex shop than the Halifax location, offering books only on matters of sex, gender, reproduction, and health. In 2015, the Ottawa store was fined by the city for selling a chest binder to a minor. In support of Venus Envy, city councillor Catherine McKenney and mayor Jim Watson called for reform to the bylaw. The fine was later waived. Venus Envy removed sexually explicit videos from their racks in order to make the store an all ages space. In March 2022, the Ottawa location closed indefinitely due to a fire.

Education
Venus Envy offers sexual and health education workshops, and engages in sex education outreach in partnership with local groups such as the Canadian Federation for Sexual Health (formerly Planned Parenthood Canada) and various student and women's organizations. Both Venus Envy locations offer bursary programs in support of local students pursuing post-secondary education.

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Bicycles/Oil

oil suitable for use on bicycles can be a basic 30 weight automotive oil or one of the more recent synthetics.

Some recent oil products evaporate to a waxy finish on exposed areas, making them less likely to retain grit.

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すみません

Etymology
Negative of, lit. "(the trouble) is not settled".

Interjection

 * 1) sorry! in apology, more formal than
 * 2) excuse me! attempting to get someone's attention
 * 3) thank you! in the case of someone having done something for you

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Portal:Internet audio and video

Welcome to the Internet Audio and Video Institute, part of the School of Media Studies.

Participants in the Internet Audio and Video Institute study the historical origins of audio and video media and create new internet audio and video resources.

Divisions help schools with many departments organize related departments. See: Naming conventions.

Division news

 * 4 September 2006 - Division founded!
 * 27 January 2007 - Chrismo joins - Film at 11
 * 13 April 2007 - YouTube unit started

Departments

 * Audio Engineering Department
 * Department of Internet Audio
 * Department of Internet Static Images
 * Department of Internet Moving Images
 * VoIP activity group (hands on)

Departments are pages in the Topic namespace and their names start with the "Topic:" prefix. Individual departments can be used by multiple schools. Schools that use (link to) the same department should cooperate to develop the department.

Learning materials

 * Networked learning
 * Wiki Campus Radio
 * Audacity
 * Introduction to GarageBand
 * Wikiversity Reports
 * Podcasting
 * Web 2.0 - creating internet content including digital audio and video files
 * Wikiversity the Movie
 * Hypatia
 * Wikinews

Learning materials are pages in the Main namespace and their names have no prefix. Learning materials can be used by multiple schools, divisions and departments.

Active participants
The histories of Wikiversity pages indicate who the active participants are. If you are an active participant in this division, you can list your name here (this can help small divisions grow and the participants communicate better; for large divisions a list of active participants is not needed).
 * CQ
 * Chrismo

Resources

 * Superuser learning center - A wiki for developing multimedia learning resources and content under GFDL 1.2 and/or CC-SA-Attrib contact User:Chrismo
 * Some youtube videos of an interesting music device: and
 * Vidipedia - GFDL video
 * Freematrix (Open content internet radio stream)
 * Wikinews Video Pilot intro on YouTube
 * SuTree - an online index and library for free video-based lessons, tutorials, lectures and how-to's.
 * Free and open-source repository software - The Open Access Directory (OAD)
 * MediaGoblin - A free software media publishing platform that anyone can run - a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc.
 * Libre.FM - freely licensed for anyone to stream, download and remix.

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Joseph Andrew Mclean

Joseph Andrew McLean (born 30 November 1979) is a Scottish film and TV producer. He has produced over 60 episodes of the TV drama River City for BBC Studios He has also produced commercials, documentaries, music videos and short films in the UK and USA.

He founded the Glasgow-based production company Partickular Films and is also the founder of Partick Film Festival.

Early life and education
McLean was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of Anne (née Wason), and Alistair McLean. He has three older siblings Alyson, James and Lynn.

He attended St. Peter's Primary in Partick and St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School in Jordanhill.

Born on St. Andrew's Day, he is named after Scotland's Patron Saint.

He had a love of film from a young age and was an avid cinema goer, frequenting the local Grosvenor Cinema in Ashton Lane and the Salon Cinema in Hillhead.

In 2013 he graduated from the University of Glasgow with a Master of Arts (Scotland) in English Literature and Politics.

Joseph studied screenwriting at the University of California and University of Strathclyde.

Career
McLean made a number of short films during his time at the University of California and University of Glasgow.

His first feature film script Utopia, loosely based on the events surrounding Jim Jones, the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple, best known for the mass murder-suicide in November 1978 of 909 of its members in Jonestown, Guyana was voted runner-up at the 20th Anniversary University of California, Irvine Screenwriting Festival in 2012.

After leaving university, McLean founded his own production company Partickular Films which specialises in commercials, documentaries, films and music videos.

In 2013, he released the short film Sectarian Secret Police about a Partick Thistle supporter who is kidnaped by a special police unit who demand he disowns his favourite football team in favour of Rangers or Celtic. The film screened at numerous film festivals throughout the UK, including Screentest: The National Student Film Festival in London and the Loch Ness film festival.

In the same year he also directed the music video Nothing on Earth for the band Casual Sex, the music video was showcased by SXSW and featured in The Daily Record and The Skinny.

In 2014, McLean wrote a pilot for a TV series called 2014 which revolved around the organisers for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

McLean was commissioned to write a script for an animated film as part of Deep Roots, Kilmarnock's major Homecoming Scotland event in 2014, charting the history of Dean Castle and the Boyd family, who were lords of Kilmarnock for over 400 years. The 10-minute animation was screened onto the side of the castle to an audience of over 1400 local school children.

His short film Nomad about the Scottish Independence Referendum was inspired by a scene from The Parallax View starring Warren Beatty. The film was screened at the Shorts on Tap Beyond Scotland event at 93 Feet East, Brick Lane, London.

McLean's short film Car Sick (2023) has screened at festivals in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and Ireland.

He is a member of BAFTA Scotland.

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Isabelle Olsson (designer)

Isabelle Maj Olsson (born August 20, 1983 ) is a Swedish senior industrial designer for Google. Olsson joined the X Lab at Google in 2011 and became the lead designer of the Google Glass product.

Olsson started working for Google in 2011. Previously she worked for Fuse Project. She quickly became the designer of Google Glass. In 2013, Olsson custom-designed a tortoise-shell framed Google Glass.

Olsson has been interviewed and profiled in a number of publications.

Metropolis magazine invited Olsson to publish her account of her research into making a sustainable substitute for leather out of Pineapple leaves. The magazine called Olsson one of "the textile industry's foremost experts."

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User:Rajpatrayoga/sandbox/Andrey Lappa

Andrey Lappa

Andrey Lappa, born in Ukraine on August 31 1965, is one of the most influential yoga masters of the post Soviet countries trained in India under several stalwarts of yoga, including Sri K. Pattabhi Jois and B.K.S. Iyengar. He is the founder of Universal Yoga lineage and has taught thousands across the world authentic Himalayan yoga practices through his book, Yoga: Tradition of Unification. He is the first citizen of Ukraine to study yoga extensively in India and Nepal and is the president of Kiev's Yoga Federation since 1999.

During initiation with Sri Rajnish, he was named Chetan Uttsarga (Gifted with Consciousness); he was accepted in Sri Aurobindo Ghosh community and lived in Auroville over a long period of time; he had training in the ancient Indian marshal art - Kalarypayat in Trivendram and also ancient styles of Indian dance - Bharata Natyam in Madras and Odissy in Kiev with one of the best Indian dance master - Pratibha Jena. In addition, for years in Kiev, Andrey learned the art of Zyong-Shin and Viet-Vo-Dao with Vietnamese masters, Chan Chung Zung and Chan Ti Zung; as well he practised Karate under guidance of Ukrainian Champion.

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Arakoon, New South Wales

Arakoon is an eastern suburb of the town of South West Rocks in Kempsey Shire, New South Wales, Australia. At the, Arakoon had a population of 420 people.

Arakoon was the original settlement of the town of South West Rocks. The settlement was later moved to the present location, where better land conditions for building were available.

The area today is home to a small number of houses, a cafe, a caravan park and the Trial Bay Gaol.

Heritage listings
Arakoon has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
 * Cardwell Street: Trial Bay Gaol
 * Lighthouse Road: Smoky Cape Lighthouse

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United States Law/Copyright

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Learning Project Summary

 * Project code:
 * No Prerequisites
 * Time investment:
 * Assessment suggestions:
 * Scholarly Discussions with others about Copyright Law from 1976 onward, and relevant Case Histories: 35%
 * An In-Depth Essay about Modern Changes in Copyright in relation to a particular field, technology, or Art: 35%
 * Developing course content as you see fit: 30%
 * Portal:
 * Copyright Law
 * School:
 * School of Law
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 * Intellectual Property Law Department
 * Stream
 * United States Copyright Law
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 * Introductory level

Content summary
In this Learning Project, participants will learn about the state of copyrights in 1976, then about the series of changes that have occured since then. Participants will take time to focus on the Copyright Act of 1976, the effect by the Act on Mass Media and vice-versa, and the recent changes in Copyright law that have been passed. The Senate Report on the Extension Act of 1996 will be read and analyzed in detail, and the effects of the DMCA on our Digital Millenium will be introduced.

Goals

 * Understand the reasons behind the Copyright Act of 1976 and how the Act changed American culture;
 * A thorough knowledge of the 1996 Senate report on the Copyright Term Extension Act;
 * To recognize the implications of the DMCA.

Texts

 * US Copyright Law
 * Copyright Act of 1976
 * Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998
 * Digital Millenium Copyright Act
 * Senate Report on the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1996 (Warning- large HTML page)
 * The Digital Millenium Copyright Act (Warning- large HTML page)

Lessons

 * Lesson 1- "'To Promote Progress':" The Institution of Copyright Before 1976.
 * Lesson 2- "A Sign of the Times:" The Copyright Act of 1976: Purpose and Content.
 * Lesson 3- "The Rise of Mass Media:" Effects of the Copyright Act of 1976 and the New Media Culture.
 * Lesson 4- "'No Significant Cost':" The Senate Report on the Copyright Term Extention Act of 1996.
 * Lesson 5- "'Effectively Controls Access':" The Digital Millenium Copyright Act.

Active participants
Active participants in this Learning Group

 * AdamG

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Talk:969

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there seems to be a discrepancy in the date of death of harald the second, is it 969 as the page implies or 976 as his article states?

Need a disambiguation page for the Buddhist 969 movement in Myanmar. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 20:02, 8 April 2013 (UTC)

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Ada Whiting

Ada Clara Whiting nee Cherry was an Australian oil and watercolour painter and miniaturist. She was active from 1898 to 1944, and received prestigious commissions to paint vice regal representatives, prominent members of society and celebrities, in Melbourne and later Sydney.

Biography
Ada Clara Whiting (1859-1953) was born Ada Clara Cherry in Hobart, Tasmania. She was the second-eldest of five children of the English-born photographer, artist and miniaturist George Cherry and Mary Ann Mathilda (née James). After the early death of her parents, Whiting moved to Geelong with her siblings, where she attended the Geelong Technological School and School of Drawing. In 1874, she was awarded first prize for figure drawing and in 1879 she received prizes for flowers in nature and shells. Whiting's work was also included in the Melbourne School of Design's exhibitions at the Academy of Arts in 1877.

Whiting obtained work with the photographic studio Johnstone, O'Shannessy and Co, hand-colouring photographs. She married photographer Saville Whiting in 1888. Her husband had also been employed at Johnstone, O'Shannessy and Co. After a difficult marriage and two children, they eventually divorced in 1899, with Whiting citing "desertion and habitual drunkenness" as the causes. Whiting had already found a studio and was working to support herself and her children as early as 1893.

Achieving notability
Whiting's father had known Arthur Streeton and it is possible that Streeton suggested she try her hand at miniatures. She acquired the skills necessary, including "stippling with a camel hair brush", and she achieved notability, which was commented on regularly during her career, when one of her early miniatures was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1900. Painting miniatures was time-consuming, but Whiting was known for working quickly and her watercolour miniatures on ivory were greatly admired. She usually only required a small number of sittings and was adept at painting from photographs, including portraits of people who had died. The latter sort of commission was quite common.

In 1900, she was exhibiting at the Albert Street Galleries in Fitzroy, and her miniatures were regarded as being worthy of the name "miniature" and were regarded as "daintily pretty". By 1901, Whiting had established her studio on Collins Street, Melbourne. Her success at the Royal Academy resulted in a steady stream of commissions from influential people, and her skill in creating miniatures was widely recognised.

In 1902, it was noted in the Melbourne newspapers she was undertaking a number of commissions, mostly of children from prominent families.

In 1904, the then National Art Gallery, Sydney (now known at the Art Gallery of NSW), was exhibiting a small set of her miniatures and in 1905 acquired three of these for their collection, including one of Miss Ruby Webb.

In 1909, Whiting was invited to submit works for the Federal Art Exhibition in South Australia, with her four miniature pictures being regarded as "all that can be desired in this delicate branch of art".

From 1915, Whiting continued to exhibit and receive prestigious commissions. with regular complimentary references in the newspapers of the day, such as: "Mrs Whiting ... stands at the head of her profession in the miniature branch of portraiture". Those regular references would have been an important part of maintaining her reputation as a skilled miniature portrait painter in the minds of potential clients. She regularly visited her son Saville in Sydney, and received commissions to paint members of the wealthy Australia Hordern dynasty, as well as the daughter of the NSW Governor.

Whiting received many prestigious commissions to paint miniatures, including ones of the great Victorian art benefactor Alfred Felton and the Earl of Linlithgow.

Whiting and Dame Nellie Melba

As well as the many miniatures quite regularly completed of and for Dame Nellie Melba, in 1903, Whiting had completed two further miniature of Melba, who was regarded as a close friend A newspaper columnist for the Arena-Sun, Melbourne described Whiting as being "the most accomplished of the Melbourne practitioners of the art", with one of her miniatures to be given to one of Melba's friends, Miss Violet Clarke, the daughter of the then State Governor. In 1904, Whiting received a message from Melba in Paris, asking her to paint her father, David Mitchell. Despite his initial objection to sitting for a portrait, it was quickly completed and was dispatched to Melba in London. Melba regarded the miniature as her "dearest treasure". Melba also commissioned a miniature of author Beverley Nichols, which she took to London for his mother. One of the miniatures painted by Whiting, completed in 1919, was of Melba in one of her famous tiaras wearing "a lace gown with camellias which she had first worn when she performed La Traviata."

Whiting never travelled abroad, despite being encouraged by clients such as Melba, who offered influential introductions, and the arts writer for one of Melbourne's newspapers expressed the wish that Whiting had had "a wider field of action". Melba continued her patronage and, when interviewed by The Argus on the eve of her departure for London in 1919, she spoke of her friendship with Whiting saying: "I have had some miniatures painted by Mrs Whiting and they are very beautiful. She talks of coming to London. I hope she will." Whiting also completed a miniature of Melba's granddaughter Pamela, which was "a dainty bijou carried off in Melba's suitcase like a mascot".

Later years
Despite the waning of interest in the miniature, Whiting continued to receive commissions and regularly exhibited, with mentions of her participation in the annual exhibitions of the Victorian Society of Artists in 1925, 1926, 1930 and 1933. In 1934, Whiting was invited to send her work to the Paris Salon. She included her portrait of "Australia's loveliest girl", Jessica Harcourt. Whiting mostly gave up painting miniatures when her eye sight started to trouble her, although she used a magnifying glass for commissions, and completed a miniature in 1944. Almost until her death in 1953, Whiting was painting larger works, mostly flowers in oils.

She died at the home of her son, Saville Whiting, in North Brighton, Melbourne.

Exhibitions

 * 1896-1916: Victorian Society of Artists
 * 1900: Royal Academy London
 * 1905: Royal Art Society, Melbourne
 * 1909: Federal Art Exhibition, South Australian Society of the Arts
 * 1917: Royal Scottish Academy
 * 1934: Royal Hibernian Academy
 * 1934: Paris Salon

External sources
Works are in the collections of:

 * Miss Ruby Webb, 1905. Art Gallery of NSW
 * Miss Jessica Harcourt, 1925. Finalist, Archibald Prize, 1925
 * National Gallery of Victoria
 * Australiana Magazine, November 2009
 * Portrait of Ada Cherry, 1863 by her father George Cherry
 * "Portriat of Ada Cherry, ca. 1860" by her father George Cherry.

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Point Blank (comics)

Point Blank is a five-issue comic book limited series written by Ed Brubaker with art by Colin Wilson. It was published by Wildstorm comics.

It starred Grifter from the Wildcats investigating an attempted murder on his friend John Lynch.

Plot
Cole Cash also known as Grifter is supposed to meet up with his friend John Lynch in a bar. Both were soldiers in Team 7 and despite their differences over the years, they still trust each other. He then finds out that Lynch has been shot and is in a coma.

Cole decides to avenge Lynch and find out who killed him. His investigation leads to Tao, a former member and enemy of Grifter's team the Wildcats. Grifter is contacted by Holden Carver, a member of Tao's organisation, who turns out to be a sleeper agent. Lynch is the only one who knows about Carver's status as an agent and Carver hopes that Grifter can help him now Lynch is in a coma.

Grifter promises to bring in Carver, but returning to his room, he finds Tao. Tao tells Grifter that he had been under Tao's influence and that in fact Grifter himself was the one who shot Lynch. Tao then erases all memory of the past few days from Grifter's mind. Grifter returns to the bar to wait for Lynch, leaving Carver within Tao's organisation with no hope of extraction.

Sequel
The story continues in the series Sleeper.

Collected editions
The series was collected into a trade paperback:
 * Point Blank (5-issue limited series, tpb, 128 pages, December 2003, ISBN 1-4012-0116-4)

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Polish/Adjectives

= Adjectives =

The adjective (przymiotnik) is a significant part of speech in Polish. It declines very regularly depending on case, number and gender. It can also be used as a noun. For example Polish adjectives "bogaty" (rich) and "czarny" (black) are often used as "nouns" (taking forms "bogata" and "czarna" in feminine gender).

While there is only one pattern, the final consonant group takes different endings.

The vocative always has the same form as the nominative.

Fields, by colour:
 * White - basic form (feminine singular nominative)
 * Green – second form (with "i") in the case of adjectives ending in "ka", "ga" or "ia" in the base form, first form (without "i") otherwise
 * Purple – second form (with "i") in the case of adjectives ending in "ia" in the basic form, first form (without "i") otherwise
 * Red – final consonant group must be palatized (or "softened"), and "i" or "y" must be added, depending on result

Some softening rules are (compared to the singular masculine nominative):

See polski for sample "-ki" declension.

Adjective forms can also get comparative and superlative forms.

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St. Paul's Cathedral (Oklahoma City)

St. Paul's Cathedral is an historic church building located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. It is the seat of the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma and it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1977. In 2020, it reported 881 members, 284 average attendance, and $967,260 in plate and pledge financial support.

History
St. Paul's began as a mission in 1891. The congregation met in several locations including the federal courthouse. The first frame building for the congregation was built in 1893 and the mission was raised to parish status on May 14, 1902. The cornerstone for the present church was laid in 1903 and the first service in the building was held on March 13, 1904. The parish house was opened the same year. The Diocese of Oklahoma elected in January 1909 to make St. Paul's its Cathedral. The educational building was built in 1949.

St. Paul's Cathedral was extensively damaged when a bomb exploded at the nearby Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995. The Celtic Cross on top of the church was shattered. The roof was lifted and the walls were splayed outward. The cathedral was closed for two years while it was rebuilt. Additional property was purchased and a new facility to house offices and the parish's outreach programs was built. The total price for the renovations and expansion totaled $7.5 million.

Architecture
Arthur J. Williams designed the church in the Norman Gothic style. The exterior features a Norman style tower. The interior has two Tiffany windows behind the altar. Stained glass windows on the Gospel side of the Church depict the Evangels: St. John, St. Paul and St. Luke. The windows on the Epistle side depict events from the life of Christ including the Nativity, Crucifixion and Resurrection. The altar, pulpit and the baptismal font are carved from Carrara marble.

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Battery K, 1st Illinois Light Artillery Regiment

Battery K, 1st Illinois Light Artillery Regiment was an artillery battery from Illinois that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The battery was organized in January 1862 at Shawneetown and spent most of 1862–1863 on guard duty in western Kentucky. However, part of the battery participated in Grierson's Raid and the Siege of Port Hudson in 1863. The battery fought at Okolona, Tupelo, Spring Hill, and Franklin in 1864. The battery mustered out of Federal service in December 1864; new recruits and re-enlisted veterans transferred to Battery E, 1st Illinois Light Artillery Regiment.

Personnel
Battery K, 1st Illinois Light Artillery formed at Shawneetown, Illinois (now Old Shawneetown) and mustered into Federal service on 9 January 1862. The original officers were Captain Angrean Franklin of Vienna, Illinois, First Lieutenants Jason B. Smith and Joseph P. Shelton, both of Vienna, and Second Lieutenants William O. Stephenson of Vienna and James G. Helm of Metropolis. Franklin resigned on 31 March 1862 and was replaced as captain by Smith on 1 April 1862. First Sergeant Isaac W. Curtis of Metropolis was also promoted first lieutenant on that date. Other personnel were four sergeants, eight corporals, Quartermaster Joseph W. Franklin, Bugler Jasper N. Cross, Farrier William L. Marberey, and Blacksmith Ambrose H. Smith, and Wagoner George Clark. There were 74 men enrolled as private.

Battery K was part of the 1st Illinois Light Artillery Regiment which organized at Chicago, Springfield, Ottawa, and Cairo, Illinois. There were 12 batteries named A–M, not including J. The different batteries belonging to the regiment formed between 16 July 1861 (A and B) and 12 August 1862 (M), and enlisted for three years' service. Each battery served independently of the others. The regiment's original commander was Colonel Joseph Dana Webster.

Captain Smith resigned on 11 September 1864. First Lieutenant Shelton died on 13 December 1862. Second Lieutenant Stephenson resigned on 20 March 1863. Curtis was promoted captain on 11 September 1864 and mustered out when the battery consolidated with Battery E on 14 February 1865. Almost all the original soldiers were from Vienna, Metropolis, and Golconda, Illinois, though four were from Marion, Kentucky and one from Shawneetown. Re-enlisting as veterans on 20 March 1864 were 22 privates. Beginning in July 1862, 57 men were recruited into the battery. At consolidation, the veterans and recruits transferred to Battery E, 1st Illinois Light Artillery.

Grierson's Raid
Battery K was ordered to move to Cairo in March 1862. The unit was attached to the District of Columbus, Kentucky in March–November 1862. The battery remained in Cairo, Paducah, Kentucky, or within the District of Columbus until November 1862, and part of the unit continued serving there through October 1863. The battery was attached to XIII Corps in November–December 1862 and to XVI Corps in December 1862–March 1863. The unit was assigned to 6th Division, XVI Corps in March–October 1863. Battery K was assigned to 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, XVI Corps in October–November 1863.

One section of Battery K was detached to Benjamin Grierson's Cavalry Brigade, XIII Corps, Army of the Tennessee in November 1862–March 1863. Evidently, this section performed the most active service during 1863. The section took part in Ulysses S. Grant's Central Mississippi campaign in November 1862–January 1863. The unit participated in a reconnaissance from La Grange to Collierville, Tennessee on 5 November 1862. The section was in action at Ripley, Mississippi on 23 December and Bolivar, Tennessee on 24 December. The section was assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, XVI Corps in March–May 1863. While being stationed at Lagrange and Memphis, Tennessee until April 1863, the section went on an expedition from Lagrange on 8–13 March, including skirmishes at Covington, Tennessee on 9–10 March.

From 17 April to 2 May 1863, the detached section took part in Grierson's Raid from La Grange to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The 1,700 raiders consisted of the 6th Illinois, and 7th Illinois, and 2nd Iowa Cavalry Regiments, plus a detachment of six 2-pounder Woodruff guns from Captain Jason B. Smith's Battery K, 1st Illinois Artillery. On 20 April, Grierson sent back 175 of his least fit cavalrymen to confuse his Confederate pursuers. The raiders reached Okolona, Mississippi on 21–22 April, Garlandville on 24 April, Union Church on 28 April, Brookhaven on 29 April, Wall's Post Office, Louisiana on 1 May, and the Comite River on 2 May. The Woodruff guns contributed to the raid's success. One source stated that the Union cavalry units which took part in Grierson's Raid were supported by either four or six Woodruff guns. Colonel Edward Hatch of the 2nd Iowa Cavalry called the guns 2-pounders.

After the raid, Battery K's detached section joined the Cavalry Brigade, XIX Corps, Department of the Gulf through July 1863. The section fought in the Battle of Plains Store on 21 May 1863 and participated in the Siege of Port Hudson from 24 May to 9 July. During the siege, the section was in action at Clinton, Louisiana on 3-4 June and Jackson Cross Roads on 20 June. After the siege, the section traveled to Memphis on 18–28 July where it rejoined the remainder of Battery K.

Okolona to Franklin

The full Battery K was assigned to 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, XVI Corps in July–November 1863. The unit was stationed at Germantown, Tennessee until November. On 4–17 October, the battery participated in operations against Confederates under James Ronald Chalmers in north Mississippi and west Tennessee. The unit scouted from Germantown to Tullahoma on 22–24 October. Battery K was assigned to 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, 16th Army Corps From November 1863 to June 1864. It took part in operations on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad on 3–5 November, including at Moscow, Tennessee. and again on 28 November–10 December against Confederates under Stephen D. Lee. In the latter operation, there was clash at Saulsbury, Tennessee on 3 December. The battery was involved in a skirmish at Collierville on 27–28 December 1863.

The battery participated in William Sooy Smith's cavalry expedition from Collierville to Okolona and West Point, Mississippi on 11–26 February 1864. At West Point, though confronted by a very inferior force under Nathan Bedford Forrest, W. S. Smith ordered his 7,000 cavalry and 20 guns to begin a retreat on 21 February. In the Battle of Okolona on 22 February, a brigade of Federal cavalry panicked and galloped away, causing five guns to be abandoned. W. S. Smith's report stated that the fleeing cavalry, "drove a battery of little pop-guns off into a ditch, where it was so badly smashed up that we could not get it along". He asserted that the guns were spiked, the ammunition was destroyed, and the horses were saved. W. S. Smith noted that it was Perkins' battery of six M1841 mountain howitzers, and not Battery K. Forrest reported having no more than 2,500 Confederate cavalry. Colonel George E. Waring Jr., who commanded one of the Federal brigades reported that the, "expedition filled every man connected with it with burning shame". Smith reported 388 casualties.

Battery K was assigned to 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, District of West Tennessee in June–November 1864. The unit performed garrison duty at Germantown and Memphis until July. The battery took part in Andrew Jackson Smith's expedition to Tupelo, Mississippi on 5–21 July, including the Battle of Tupelo on 14–15 July 1864. By deft marching, A. J. Smith's 14,000 soldiers and 24 guns occupied Tupelo and took up a defensive position. On 14 July, S. D. Lee and Forrest attacked A. J. Smith's positions with 9,000 men and 20 guns, but were repulsed. The Federals sustained 714 casualties while inflicting losses of 1,326 killed and wounded on the Confederates. On 15 July, the Federal column began a withdrawal to Memphis while repelling several Confederate attacks during the day. Battery K accompanied a second A. J. Smith expedition to Oxford, Mississippi on 1–30 August. There were minor actions at the Tallahatchie River on 7–9 August, Oxford on 9 August, and Hurricane Creek on 13–14 and 19 August. The battery participated in operations in middle Tennessee and north Alabama on 30 September–1 November.

Battery K was attached to 2nd Brigade, 5th Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, in November–December 1864. The battery was assigned to Datus E. Coon's 2nd Brigade, Edward Hatch's 5th Division, and James H. Wilson's Cavalry Corps. The unit took part in the Franklin–Nashville Campaign in north Alabama and middle Tennessee on 1 November–10 December. Hatch's division was originally intended to accompany Sherman's March to the Sea, but George H. Thomas withheld it to provide a cavalry screen between his army and John Bell Hood's Confederate army. Hatch's division arrived near the Tennessee River on 6 November to observe Hood's army. Battery K was near Shoal Creek on 11 November and again on 16–20 November. On 21 November, Hatch reported Hood had 10,000 cavalry and 30,000–35,000 infantry advancing toward Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, a fairly accurate assessment.

By 22 November 1864, Battery K was at Lawrenceburg and on 24 November it was at Campbellsville. In a skirmish at Campbellsville, Hatch's cavalry was beaten, but they diverted their foes away from John Schofield's two corps, which were retreating toward Columbia. In the event, Schofield's infantry got to Columbia before Hood's cavalry reached it. On 29 November, Forrest outmaneuvered Wilson's Union cavalry then turned west to cut Schofield's line of retreat. By 10:00 pm that evening 19,000 Confederate infantry faced only 6,000 Federals in the Battle of Spring Hill. After an astonishing communications breakdown in Hood's army, Schofield's army escaped the trap. At the Battle of Franklin on 30 November, Hatch's 2,800-man division defeated William Hicks Jackson's 2,500-man cavalry division at Hughes Ford and compelled it to abandon its bridgehead on the north bank of the Duck River. The soldiers of Battery K were mustered out of service on 10 December 1864. Veterans and recruits transferred to Battery "E," 1st Illinois Light Artillery. The battery lost 11 Enlisted men by disease while in service.

Reorganized Battery K
Colvin's Battery Illinois Light Artillery was renamed Battery K, 1st Illinois Light Artillery Regiment in March 1865. The battery was attached to 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, Department of East Tennessee. The unit garrisoned Cumberland Gap and other places in East Tennessee. The battery was mustered out of Federal service on 15 July 1865.


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Cell Biology/Peroxisomes

Cell Biology | ../Parts of the cell/ | ../Organelles/

<< Lysosomes | Peroxisomes | Cytosol >>

It used to be thought that peroxisomes are formed by the budding of smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER). However, now it is thought that they form through self-assembly. (I will get more information references as I do some more thorough literature searches). The peroxisome is another major source of Oxygen utilization (along with the mitochondrion). There are specific proteins associated with the peroxisomes membrane, also there are 3 oxidation enzymes associated with peroxisomes:

 * 1) D-amino acid oxidase
 * 2) Urate Oxidase
 * 3) Catalase

The enzyme contents vary with various types of cells. One of the main functions of peroxisomes in liver cells is detoxification. This is done by the oxidation of substances like:

 * 1) Alcohol - About 1/2 of the ethanol one drinks is converted to acetaldehyde by oxidation.
 * 2) Phenols
 * 3) Formic acid
 * 4) Formaldehyde

Why peroxisomes are not like lysosomes
Peroxisomes are organelles that contain oxidative enzymes, such as D-amino acid oxidase, urate oxidase, and catalase. They may resemble a lysosome, however, they are not formed in the Golgi complex. Peroxisomes are distinguished by a crystalline structure inside a sac which also contains amorphous gray material. They are self replicating, like the mitochondria. Components accumulate at a given site and they can be assembled into a peroxisome. They may look like storage granules, however, they are not formed in the same way as storage granules.

Peroxisomes function to rid the body of toxic substances like hydrogen peroxide, or other metabolites. They are a major site of oxygen utilization and are numerous in the liver where toxic byproducts are going to accumulate.

The peroxisome is made as a phospholipid bilayer, encapsulating oxidative materials. They would be 'sphere-ish' in shape, not necessarily a perfect sphere, and sometimes, they may take other shapes. But most electron micrographs I have seen (2 dimensions) show them as circles. (As you may be aware, the Cell membrane is also a phospholipid bilayer.) Peroxisomes have membrane proteins that are critical for peroxisomal function, to import proteins into their interiors, proliferate or segregate to daughter cells (This update, thanks to Babich Temps). The main differences would be:

 * 1) Types of phospholipids used.
 * 2) Size of the membrane (i.e. peroxisomes are MUCH smaller than the cell).

<< Lysosomes | Peroxisomes | Cytosol >>

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Puzzles/Medium Sequence 1/Solution

The sequence is an = A(n,n), starting at a0. (A is of course the Ackermann function.)

So the next number in the sequence is $$2^{2^{2^{65536}}}-3$$.

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User:MisterCake/South camp

Southern players to get Camp's mention:
 * 2? Owsley Manier
 * 3 W. E. Metzger
 * 4 Lew Hardage

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Lesser melampitta

The lesser melampitta (Melampitta lugubris) is a medium-sized enigmatic terrestrial songbird of mountain forests of New Guinea. It is the only species in the genus Melampitta. It is now classified (with the greater melampitta) in the family Melampittidae, but in some other sources it is variously considered close to or in the Orthonychidae (logrunners), Paradisaeidae (birds of paradise), Corcoracidae (Australian mud-nesters), Cnemophilidae (satinbirds) or Monarchidae (monarch flycatchers).

A local name, used by the Ketengban people of the Jayawijaya Mountains, is golík.

It is approximately 18 cm long and has an all-black plumage with long legs and short tail. Both sexes are almost similar, distinguished by the color of the iris. The male has crimson red iris while the female's are dark brown.

The lesser melampitta builds dome-like nest in the forests. The diet consists mainly of insects.

Widespread and a common species throughout its habitat range, the lesser melampitta is evaluated as least concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

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Kolmogorov's normability criterion

In mathematics, Kolmogorov's normability criterion is a theorem that provides a necessary and sufficient condition for a topological vector space to be ; that is, for the existence of a norm on the space that generates the given topology. The normability criterion can be seen as a result in same vein as the Nagata–Smirnov metrization theorem and Bing metrization theorem, which gives a necessary and sufficient condition for a topological space to be metrizable. The result was proved by the Russian mathematician Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov in 1934.

Statement of the theorem
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Because translation (that is, vector addition) by a constant preserves the convexity, boundedness, and openness of sets, the words "of the origin" can be replaced with "of some point" or even with "of every point".

Definitions
It may be helpful to first recall the following terms:
 * A (TVS) is a vector space $$X$$ equipped with a topology $$\tau$$ such that the vector space operations of scalar multiplication and vector addition are continuous.
 * A topological vector space $$(X, \tau)$$ is called if there is a norm $$\|\cdot\|: X \to \R$$ on $$X$$ such that the open balls of the norm $$\|\cdot\|$$ generate the given topology $$\tau.$$  (Note well that a given normable topological vector space might admit multiple such norms.)
 * A topological space $$X$$ is called a if, for every two distinct points $$x, y \in X,$$ there is an open neighbourhood $$U_x$$ of $$x$$ that does not contain $$y.$$  In a topological vector space, this is equivalent to requiring that, for every $$x \neq 0,$$ there is an open neighbourhood of the origin not containing $$x.$$  Note that being T1 is weaker than being a Hausdorff space, in which every two distinct points $$x, y \in X$$ admit open neighbourhoods $$U_x$$ of $$x$$ and $$U_y$$ of $$y$$ with $$U_x \cap U_y = \varnothing$$;  since normed and normable spaces are always Hausdorff, it is a "surprise" that the theorem only requires T1.
 * A subset $$A$$ of a vector space $$X$$ is a if, for any two points $$x, y \in A,$$ the line segment joining them lies wholly within $$A,$$ that is, for all $$0 \leq t \leq 1,$$ $$(1 - t) x + t y \in A.$$
 * A subset $$A$$ of a topological vector space $$(X, \tau)$$ is a if, for every open neighbourhood $$U$$ of the origin, there exists a scalar $$\lambda$$ so that $$A \subseteq \lambda U.$$  (One can think of $$U$$ as being "small" and $$\lambda$$ as being "big enough" to inflate $$U$$ to cover $$A.$$)

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 * Peter Walker
 * Plants in the Garden
 * Nasher Cafe
 * Programs
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 * Free First Saturday
 * 'til Midnight
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 * Highlights
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"It is a sad fact" is a matter of opinion. It doesn't belong in a definition.

 * It's just an example... it can say whatever it wants as long as it correctly shows the word in use. If you have a problem with it feel free to change it. Nadando 05:00, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Discrete Mathematics/Number theory

I'm thinking that the idea of groups (that is, sets-with-operations) should be well introduced before this section. That way, division can be described as, for a set S, $$f:S\times (S-\{0\})\to S$$. By suddenly assuming that operations (which, yes, are really just functions with two arguments) are known and defined, we're doing much, much more hand-waving than is healthy.

Yes, it's an intuitive idea, but one of the big parts of discrete math is formally defining things that we've learned to take for granted.

Grendelkhan

 * I do strongly think that it's important to introduce groups afterward. I mean how can one introduce something like the group Z3 under addition modulo 3 without having to explain the "modulo 3" part?

 * If there's too much handwaving, we can surely put our hands down and clean up the text. Do you think that we should define things about division in Z more formally? Dysprosia 06:20, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Finite groups may require a bit of handwaving (thought the group consisting of {1, -1} and multiplication is pretty intuitive), but infinite groups like (Z,+) and (Q*,*) can be introduced right after sets and functions.

 * I notice that there's already an in-depth treatment of groups in Abstract_algebra/Groups; maybe a quick introduction geared to the material at hand? Something like "A group is a set along with an operation. An operation is a function of two arguments. An in-depth treatment of groups is over at Abstract_algebra/Groups, but these are the essentials for right now." Cosets, *morphisms, order---these things don't need to get described until formal group theory.

 * It'll also depend on how much group theory's going to come up in chapters between here and its formal introduction. If you don't define the basics here, you might end up doing it piecemeal over the following bunch of chapters, all hodge-podgey. Grendelkhan 17:05, 9 Feb 2004 (UTC)

 * Wouldn't it be somewhat useful to not introduce groups in this book, but give link to that Groups book entirely? After all, that is the best thing about a web book like this, linking. huopa 14 Jul 2004

Isn't it GCF (greatest common factor), not GCD? At least, that's the way I was always taught. - SamE 04:35, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * It does have different names. Let's just stick with the notation that's there? Dysprosia 05:26, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

I'm surprised this isn't its own text. Is there some reason for it to be part of Discrete Math? MikeBorkowski 12:00, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

No discussion of primes is complete without mention of the primorials--Billymac00 14:59, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

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Westside Locos

Westside Locos 13 or simply Westside Locos is a predominantly Latino-American street gang based in West Los Angeles with history dating back to the 1970s. They reside mainly in the Odessa neighborhood, and their main subset or "clique" is Halm Avenue Gangsters or "Halm Ave", which street name represents the center of the gang's territory. The gang is most known for their tagging.

Rivalry
The gang's main rivals include the nearby 18th Street gang, Culver City 13, Sotel, Largo, Tortilla Flats, and Harpy.

Graffiti
The gang's use of graffiti is evident with symbols like "WSLS", "LSX3", or simply "WS Locos", "LOKOS" is commonly used.

Allies
The Westside Locos gang is part of a larger Locos 13 alliance gang located throughout Los Angeles County. This alliance includes the CV Locos of Compton, as well as the Westside Locos of Glendale. The gang also has a subset in Simi Valley and San Diego. It historically had other street clicks in Los Angeles such as Bonsallo street, Wesley street, Fontana Locos 13 Mas Bagos, South Central, and other clicks they use to have everywhere in Los Angeles.

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Objective-C Programming/syntax

Objective-C is an object-oriented programming language, and is a layer over the C programming language. This means that if you know how to write C, there are only a few syntax changes to learn.

In this section, we will look at how we can implement classes and instantiate objects in Objective-C. If you are unfamiliar with object-oriented programming, see Objective-C concepts.

Basic syntax
If you have studied C, you can skip this section and proceed to the next section, A word on runtimes. If not, or if you're a little rusty, read on.

In C, code is contained within a function. Functions are composed of several statements, each of which are terminated by a semicolon. For example, a simple function in C to add two numbers may look like this:

This sample has the following lines:
 * 1) The function definition (which returns an int (integer), is named add, and takes two parameters, both of which are integers). // Integers are whole numbers like 6, 66 or 567 and not numbers with decimal places like 5.6.
 * 2) The opening function brace
 * 3) A variable declaration
 * 4) An assignment statement
 * 5) A return statement, which returns the value of c to the calling function/
 * 6) The closing function brace

For control flow, C and Objective-C use: The for, while, and do statements will continue execution of a loop until the condition is false. The switch and if statements jump to different statements depending on the condition.
 * 1) for (<initial>;<condition>;<increment>)
 * 2) while (<condition>)
 * 3) do ... while (<condition>)
 * 4) switch (<condition>)
 * 5) if  then { } [else ]

Objective-C does not implement or import any functions by default. Instead, they need to be imported by using the  preprocessor directive. (#include works too, but generally it is not used in Objective-C - #import works better because it won't import the same thing twice like #include can try to do)

A word on runtimes
Objective-C requires what is known as a runtime system to provide you with Objective-C features. The runtime takes care of the creation, management, and destruction of objects.

If you have the gcc compiler, you should have the Objective-C runtime already installed. Otherwise, you may have to install the runtime separately. Note that gcc is a compiler collection; the full install contains not only the C compiler, but also C++, Java, Objective-C and even Fortran-95 and Ada 2005 compilers. However, it is possible to install gcc only partially, for example only the C compiler. Therefore, the Objective-C runtime may or may not be installed with gcc. Check your distribution.

Two main systems are used to run Objective-C programs:
 * the GNU runtime, which is provided as a part of gcc on Unix and Unix-like operating systems;
 * the NeXT runtime, which is provided on NeXTSTEP, OPENSTEP, and Mac OS X operating systems.

This text assumes you are using the GNU runtime, but the two runtime systems are almost identical.

This text does not cover the OPENSTEP, Cocoa, or GNUstep frameworks, but the skills learned here will be helpful when developing with those systems.

Writing classes in Objective-C
Writing an Objective-C class requires a few design decisions before we start writing any code. Say we are writing a class to represent a point called Point in a two-dimensional plane.

We need to ask ourselves two questions:
 * 1) What data do we need to store and use? This relates to the instance variables we need to declare.
 * 2) What operations do we need to perform? This relates to the methods we need to define.

For this example, we'll use double variables for the x and y coordinates. We'll define a method to get both coordinates, and we'll define a method to get their distance from the origin.

The interface
Let's examine what each element of this interface means.

The @interface line says that we begin the declaration of the Point interface. We inherit from another class called Object. Objective-C provides you with a generic class, called Object. The Object class is a root class -- it does not inherit from another class. The <tt>Object</tt> class provides a set of methods that provide key functionality for an object to be used and recognized by the Objective-C runtime. As in C, we need to include <tt>Object</tt>'s header file, <tt>Object.h</tt>, before we can use the set of methods declared in the header.

If you don't explicitly inherit from some class, your class becomes a root class. (In Objective-C, there can be many root classes.) That's probably not what you want to do, because creating a root class is a very tricky and advanced topic that is only useful in very specific situations. In most cases, you will want to inherit from <tt>Object</tt> or some class that inherits from <tt>Object</tt>, etc. If you develop in NeXTStep / GNUstep / Cocoa, you will mostly be using another root class called <tt>NSObject</tt>, which provides different basic methods than <tt>Object</tt>.

The word <tt>import</tt> means that we only include the file once. This solves problems like recursive includes.

Anything between the braces in an interface declaration specifies the instance variables that the class has.

The <tt>@private</tt> line is a visibility modifier: it says that the instance variables after it are private, i.e. they are accessible only from the class that declares them. It is good practice to mark all your instance variables private: they contain the state of an object and they should never be changed except by the object itself.

The declarations for the methods come after the instance variables. This is a declaration for the method to set the x value. It's common Objective-C style to name the setter method with the same name as the variable it's setting.

The hyphen specifies an instance method (we'll look at these later). Then comes the name for the method (this method is called <tt>x:</tt> - note the colon), and the colon signifies an argument, called <tt>x_value</tt>, and is of type <tt>double</tt>.

The cast on the <tt>x_value</tt> argument is necessary, because unlike C, the default type is <tt>id</tt>, and not <tt>int</tt>. The type <tt>id</tt> is very special—it is a type that can hold any object whatsoever. The first cast is not strictly necessary, but should be used for clarity. The first cast tells us that the method <tt>x</tt> returns an object back.

This is another method named <tt>x</tt> (no colon), but it returns a <tt>double</tt>. This is the specification for the method that gets the value of the x variable. There is no conflict with the previous method because the types are different, and the previous method takes one argument whilst this takes none.

After all the methods and instance variables are specified, this symbol marks the end of the declaration.

The interface specification goes in a <tt>.h</tt> file—a header file. It's customary to call the file after the class, so we would create a file called <tt>Point.h</tt>.

The implementation
This is the implementation for the <tt>Point</tt> class. We implement the methods in the interface defined above. Let's have a look at each element of the implementation in turn.

Again, we import <tt>Point</tt>'s interface, just as we do in C.

This is a marker that identifies the beginning of the implementation.

This is a typical method implementation. We can use the <tt>x</tt> variable directly without having to declare it since it is already declared in the interface, and is accessible only to the methods of this class. The behaviour, in general, is like an ordinary C function. Here we assign the value of the argument <tt>x_value</tt> to the instance variable <tt>x</tt>.

The function then, returns the entire, current object as modified. The keyword <tt>self</tt> represents the current object.

Here is the simple method to get the value of the <tt>x</tt> variable. We simply return it.

The behaviour for the other methods should be similar to those above. The <tt>@end</tt> keyword ends the implementation.

The implementation specification goes in a <tt>.m</tt> file. It's customary to call the file after the class, so we would create a file called <tt>Point.m</tt>.

Using the objects
Since Objective-C comes from C, we write a <tt>main</tt> function to make use of the class that we just created. Here's one typical main function.

Let's examine what happens here.

We import the interface to <tt>Point</tt> so we can use it. We import <tt>stdio.h</tt> so we can use <tt>printf</tt>. This is a typical Objective-C method call: These are some typical instance method calls. We call <tt>point</tt>'s method <tt>x:</tt> and <tt>y:</tt>. In Objective-C terminology, we say that we send <tt>point</tt> a message to apply to the method <tt>x:</tt>.
 * <tt>Point *point</tt> declares, technically, a pointer to an instance of type <tt>Point</tt>. Actually, it may be best to think of this merely as a variable holding a <tt>Point</tt> object, but keep the pointer idea in mind.
 * <tt>[Point new]</tt> calls a method called <tt>new</tt>. The first half before the space represents the object we call the method on. The second half is the method name and arguments. The <tt>new</tt> method is called a class method, because it doesn't do something with respect to an instance of a class, it does something with respect to the class itself. The <tt>new</tt> method allocates memory and initializes the object, making it ready for use. There is no need to explicitly delete an object, as Objective-C keeps track of the number of references to a given object, and deallocates them as necessary.
 * NOTE: The <tt>new</tt> method is shorthand for <tt>alloc</tt> and <tt>init</tt> and may not always be available. If it is not, the object can be initialized and made ready for use in the following fashion: <tt>[[Point alloc] init]</tt>

These messages assign <tt>point</tt>'s <tt>x</tt> and <tt>y</tt> variables. Recall that the <tt>x:</tt> and <tt>y:</tt> methods had in them <tt>return self;</tt>. This means that we can chain the two messages together, as follows: [[point x:10.0] y:12.0];

The message <tt>[point x:10.0]</tt> returns an object, <tt>point</tt>, with its <tt>x</tt> variable set. Then on that object, the outer message assigns its <tt>y</tt> variable.

The <tt>printf</tt> statement has in it the method calls <tt>[point x]</tt>, which returns the value of the <tt>x</tt> variable for printing, <tt>[point y]</tt>, which does the same for the <tt>y</tt> variable for printing, and <tt>[point magnitude]</tt> which calculates the distance and returns that value.

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Bob Mitchell (British politician)

Richard Charles Mitchell (22 August 1927 – 18 September 2003), commonly known as Bob Mitchell, was a Labour Member of Parliament (MP) in the United Kingdom. He represented Southampton Test for Labour from 1966 to 1970, and Southampton Itchen for Labour and then the Social Democratic Party from 1971 to 1983.

Early life
Mitchell was born in Southampton on 22 August 1927. He attended Taunton's Grammar School as a youth and graduated from the University of Southampton with a degree in Economics.

Professional life: Education
Mitchell taught mathematics and science at several schools before eventually finding a position as Senior Master and Head of the Mathematics and Science Department of Bartley County Secondary School, becoming Deputy Head in 1965.

Mitchell was also an active member of the National Union of Teachers.

Professional life: Politics
Mitchell became active in Labour party politics. He was elected of the Southampton borough council in 1955 and contested the safe Conservative seat of New Forest in the 1959 general election.

In the 1964 general election, Mitchell contested Southampton Test, which he lost by a mere 348 votes. However, upon contesting the seat again in the 1966 general election, Mitchell won the seat by over 2,000 votes, propelled by the momentum of the Labour landslide in that election. His hold on Southampton Test would prove to be tenuous. In the Conservative victory in the 1970 general election, Mitchell lost his marginal seat.

However, Mitchell was not out of the House of Commons for long. His former Parliamentary neighbour in Southampton Itchen, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Dr. Horace King, was elevated to the House of Lords in late 1970. Mitchell was selected as the Labour candidate for the seat in the resulting by-election in 1971, which he won by a majority of nearly 10,000.

Once he returned to the House of Commons, Mitchell quickly re-established his reputation as a "classic trades-union rightist" within the Labour Party. He was a firm Atlanticist and a stalwart defender of the constitutional monarchy, but was also in favour of the nationalisation of Britain's ports. He opposed abortion, thinking it would make it more difficult for childless couples such as him and his wife to adopt. He served as Shirley Williams' PPS and as an indirectly elected member of the European Parliament from 1975 to 1979. He acted as consultant to B.A.T Industries Ltd, part of British American Tobacco, which was a substantial employer in the Southampton area at the time.

After the 1979 election, Mitchell felt increasingly uneasy with the leftward drift of the Labour Party. However, he was rooted in the Labour movement and was loath to leave the party that he been a member of for nearly four decades. This deep sense of connection contributed to his initial reluctance to leave the Labour Party but, by May 1981, he had formally announced that he did not plan to stand for re-election as a Labour candidate in Southampton Itchen. However, not until after the Labour conference in the autumn of 1981 did he formally leave Labour for the SDP. When he left, he cited his opposition to "further nationalisation, import controls and withdrawing Britain from the Common Market."

In the 1983 general election, Mitchell finished second with 16,647 votes, 5,290 votes behind the Conservative winner, Christopher Chope. Once out of parliament, Mitchell served as a lecturer in Business Studies at Eastleigh College of Further Education. He tried for selection as SDP candidate for the 1984 Portsmouth South by-election but lost out to Mike Hancock who went on to win the seat. He contested Southampton Itchen again in the 1987 election as the Liberal-SDP Alliance candidate, but finished third behind Chope and the Labour candidate, John Denham. Mitchell died in his native Southampton on 18 September 2003.

Family life
Bob Mitchell was married to Doreen Lilian Mitchell (Nee Gregory). The couple adopted two children.

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Jamile McGee

Jamile McGee (born August 2, 1984, in Columbus, Ohio) is an American b-boy and hip hop dancer. He is also known by his dancing name 'Jamz'. Jamile performed on the first season of So You Think You Can Dance.

Biography
Jamile began dancing at the age of 4. When he was younger, doctors diagnosed Jamile with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis and predicted that he would most probably be wheel-chair bound for the rest of his life. He was trained at Wright State Dance Department in Dayton, Ohio in addition to several years of dance training in studios across the east coast, and utilizes a wide variety of dance styles. He moved to Baltimore, Maryland from Ohio and continued to dance. He works with the Headliners Competition as a judge and instructor for their National Championships and Legends Conventions.

He auditioned for So You Think You Can Dance in Silver Spring, Maryland and then went on to New York City to win a spot on the Fox reality show. He finished number three, just after Nick Lazzarini and Melody Lacayanga.

He has since appeared in numerous music videos, including Nelly Furtado's "Maneater", Mariah Carey's "Pepsi Commercial", Chris Brown's "Gimme That", and Rihanna's "SOS". Recently performed on VH1 Diva's Salute to the Troops.

Jamile is the 3rd dancer in the remake of Bobby Brown's "Every Little Step" featuring Wayne Brady and Mike Tyson, which was released on Funny or Die on September 28, 2010. He was on tour with Wayne Brady since February 2009. He had been travelling with Wayne Brady, performing on his improv show in Africa, Europe, and other places around the world. He had been on tour in Las Vegas with Wayne Brady performing weekly until late 2010.

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Oh Girl

"Oh Girl" is a song written by Eugene Record and recorded by American soul vocal group the Chi-Lites, with Record on vocals and also producing. It was released as a single on Brunswick Records in 1972. Included on the group's 1972 album A Lonely Man, "Oh Girl" centers on a relationship on the verge of break-up.

"Oh Girl" was the Chi-Lites' first and only No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at that position in May 1972 for one week. The single also reached the top position of the Billboard R&B Singles chart the following month, remaining in that position for two weeks. Billboard ranked it as the No. 13 song for 1972. In addition, it reached No. 14 on the UK Singles Chart in July 1972, and was a UK hit again in 1975 when reissued as a double A-side with "Have You Seen Her", this time reaching a new peak of No. 5.

The song prominently features a harmonica.

Personnel

 * Eugene Record – lead vocals, guitar, bass, composer, producer
 * Robert "Squirrel" Lester – vocals
 * Creadel "Red" Jones – vocals
 * Marshall Thompson – vocals, harmonica, melodica
 * Floyd Morris – piano
 * Quinton Joseph – drums
 * Tom Tom (Thomas Washington) – arranger

Paul Young version
The track was most prominently covered in 1990 by Paul Young, from his album Other Voices. It became a top 10 hit in the U.S. (#8) and Canada (#4). It was also a major adult contemporary hit, reaching number one on both the US and Canadian Adult Contemporary charts.

Other versions

 * Country music singer Con Hunley took his version of the song to number 12 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in 1982 with the Oak Ridge Boys on background vocals.
 * In 1987, Glenn Jones had a moderate hit with his version on the US Soul singles chart, at No. 38.

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Etymology
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Adverb

 * 1) always, forever at all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually

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