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Wikiversity:Developing Wikiversity through action research/About

Developing Wikiversity through action research is a collaborative research project to facilitate and assess the development of Wikiversity through action research.

What is Wikiversity, and how does it work?
This project is fundamentally about exploring answers to these questions. Wikiversity is a repository of learning materials, a resource for self-study, a space for collaboration, a space in which to learn collaboratively, a space to explore about learning, a space to learn about teaching, etc. So, how does Wikiversity do all this - "how" in the sense of "by what means" - and, crucially, "by what values"..

There will have to be more specific questions too - about what we (individually/collectively) want to change and/or achieve in working on Wikiversity.

But possibly, in its largest sense, the question this project will address is "Why Wikiversity?" In other words: why does Wikiversity exist, and what does its existence mean for the world of education, and/or for you, and/or for me?

Why use action research?
Action research could be an appropriate methodology for researching Wikiversity, because of the inherently collaborative nature of both. Both work through the participation of a community, and both are inherently driven by change. Also, action research can (some would say, should) be organised in such a way to improve the lives (or, at least, understandings) of the participants, as well as the environment/context of research - however, the extent to which this is actually enacted and facilitated in practice is up to the participants.

What does this project hope to achieve?
This is fundamentally up to the people who participate in this research project. Participants of this project need to identify what they would like to explore/change in Wikiversity, and how, and generally set the long and short-term goals of the project.

Who can participate in this project?
Anyone can participate. You can participate by adding points to be discussed, points of action, points of comment etc. You may remain anonymous (though it may help inter-communication if you make yourself known and sign your posts). Participation in this project does not mean that you take any more responsibility than what you explicitly agree to (in other words, you will not be forced to do any work, answer any question etc if you do not want to). Fundamentally your participation is entirely voluntary - but, hopefully, much appreciated.

What will be the outcomes of this project?
One intended outcome of this project is a PhD thesis. (Comment from Cormaggio: I want to make this explicit from the beginning, however I don't want to lay personal claim to the research process, as it is genuinely meant to be a fundamentally collaborative activity - see User:Cormaggio/My? research.)

This project will hopefully generate data and analysis about Wikiversity that will be useful to the community as resource to learn from.


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Talk:Maria Dominiani

Death
Removed references to death. No reliable (non-mirror/wikisites) found to confirm any date of death. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:55, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

source: wikimedia

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

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1939 Balmain state by-election

A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Balmain on 14 January 1939 following the death of John Quirk. His widow Mary Quirk won the by-election.

Results
John Quirk died.

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Template:Did you know nominations/Coloured vote constitutional crisis

Coloured vote constitutional crisis

 * ... that during the Coloured vote crisis of the 1950s the Nationalist government of South Africa expanded the Senate in order to pass an act to disenfranchise Coloured voters?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Battle of San Pedro
 * Comment: Note that the article was created as a userspace draft and only moved to mainspace on 9 July. Please suggest a better hook if you think of one.

Created/expanded by Htonl (talk). Self nom at 13:01, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Symbol confirmed.svg Looks good I think, just don't show Anton Ferdinand.♦ Dr. Blofeld  13:59, 14 July 2012 (UTC)


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Talk:Bloom clock project/What's this plant

Feedback
 * Now, this list I like! --HappyCamper 17:29, 19 December 2006 (UTC)


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Wikipedia:Peer review/Sonic Adventure 2/archive1

Sonic Adventure 2
This peer review discussion has been closed. Considering FACing this sometime later this year. All comments appreciated; thanks! Tezero (talk) 18:56, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Der Wohltemperierte Fuchs ( talk ) 18:21, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Comments by David Fuchs

I'll be back in a day or two. --ProtoDrake (talk) 19:26, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Comments by ProtoDrake

Here we go. Those are the ones that stood out. I could come back for more. --ProtoDrake (talk) 14:30, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Ref 28 needs its url updating. The GameSpot and IGN reviews also need their urls updating to the current ones. I would also archive the online references as several sites have been closing or changing recently. I would also find alternatives to the VGMDb references. They are inadmissible at FAC.
 * "A Nintendo GameCube port of Sonic Adventure 2, entitled Sonic Adventure 2 Battle (ソニックアドベンチャー2 バトル Sonikku Adobenchā Tsū Batoru?), was released..." - "Entitled" seems a little odd in the context of this sentence. "Titled" might be better.
 * "Every level includes five missions; only the first is required to continue on during the campaign, but other missions include completing a harder version of a level and collecting 100 rings. The player earns emblems by completing missions, as well as other tasks, many of them related to Chao raising. Collecting all emblems unlocks a 3D version of the Green Hill Zone level from the original Sonic the Hedgehog.[11]" - You should really find a reference for some of this that isn't a primary reference.

I would expand "Reception" with more than five reviews in the table and discuss the level design, which shouldn't be hard considering the emphasis some of the sources (e.g., IGN) place on it. Moreover, the implication that all of the play styles were equally acclaimed seems false. For example, the Game Informer review I used at Dreamcast argues the slower characters contribute to a disjointed, unfocused experience (I'll send you the text via email).TheTimesAreAChanging (talk) 04:40, 16 February 2015 (UTC) I will do the above as soon as I have access to a computer. (please revert if this is in the wrong place) --George (Talk · Contribs · CentralAuth · Log) 09:36, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
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Online Lenders Alliance

The Online Lenders Alliance (OLA) is an industry association that represents members of the online financial services community. The OLA sets best practices and standards for online lending businesses and monitors the Internet for bad actors operating in the field. OLA members account for an estimated 80% of the nation's small-dollar online lending volume.

History
In addition to setting industry standards, the OLA has been lobbying on issues related to hidden interest rates created by malicious online lenders, and industry concerns related to online advertising.

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Bédarrides

Bédarrides (Provençal: Bedarrida) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.

Name
The settlement is attested as villa Betorrida in 814, Biturrita in 898, Bisturrita in 903, Beddurida in 908, and Bederrida in 1274.

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Proclamation of Independence Memorial

The Proclamation of Independence Memorial (Memorial Pengisytiharan Kemerdekaan) is a museum in Melaka City, Melaka, Malaysia.

History
The memorial building was established in 1912. The building used to house the Malacca Club which was used as the social centre of the British people in British Malaya. The memorial was set up and officiated by former Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman on 31 August 1985, 28 years after the independence of the country.

Architecture
The museum is housed in an elegant Dutch colonial mansion. The two golden onion domes located at the top of the building embellish the stark white stucco.

Exhibitions
The memorial exhibits records and photos of the early era of Malay Sultanate. It also displays the journey of Malaysia from independence and its modern development.

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Talk:List of G.D. Interclube players

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File:Young person's guide.jpg

Licensing
This is a scaled down image of the VHS cover for the television series The Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rock Star. The copyright is owned by Channel 4.

 * Source Amazon.co.uk

Fair use rationale for use:
 * the image illustrates the subject of the article, it is being used as the primary means of visual identification of the subject.
 * the source text is discussed throughout the article
 * no free alternative available
 * the image is a low resolution copy. it does not detract from the value of the text, or the copyright holder's ability to make further profit from it.

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Game Maker

Game Maker was written by Mark Overmars, a professor of the University of Utrecht, partly as a teaching aid for his students. It is gaining recognition as a useful teaching tool in primary and secondary schools because of its easy entry and sophisticated scripting language. It is particularly useful for primary students and secondary students as a task which is both challenging and relevant.

It is believed that wikiversity can use such software to create non-standard learning environment.

Wikiversity the game

 * Currently working on a demo version of a RPG based walkthough of wikiversity

Ideas

 * 5th grade game project:
 * Pick a topic
 * Divide into 5 groups
 * Sounds
 * Backgrounds
 * Sprites
 * Story
 * Have kids create material for each section
 * Put material back together as a game that teaches kids about a topic

Official links

 * Yoyogames - official website and game database.
 * Game Maker Pages - download link, part of official website.
 * Game Maker Community - official forums.
 * The Game Maker's Apprentice - official book website.

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Caroline K

Caroline Kaye Walters (1957 – 12 July 2008), known as Caroline K, was an English singer, songwriter, and artist/producer. She was a founding member of the UK based experimental/industrial music group Nocturnal Emissions in the 1980s. She co-founded Sterile Records with Nigel Ayers in London in 1980. She played piano on the Class War 7 inch EP single Better Dead Than Wed!

She released her solo LP Now Wait for Last Year in 1987 (the first release on the Earthly Delights label). The album's title was taken from a Philip K. Dick book of the same name. She also performed as SM Andrews. She lived in Garfagnana, Italy.

Caroline K died on 12 July 2008 in Pisa, Italy, from leukemia complications.

Studio albums

 * Now Wait for Last Year (LP, Album) Earthly Delights 1987 (re-released in 2010 in CD format by Klanggalerie with bonus tracks)

Production

 * Tissue of Lies (LP) Sterile Records 1980
 * Funky Alternatives Three (CD)
 * Tracking with Close-Ups Concrete Productions, Pinpoint Records 1989
 * Befehlsnotstand / Shake those Chains (CD, Album, Ltd) Klanggalerie 2007

Co-production

 * Traxtra (LP, Album) Trax 1982
 * Shake those Chains Rattle those Cages (LP) Sterile Records 1985
 * Songs of Love and Revolution (LP) Sterile Records 1985 (re-released in CD format by Dark Vinyl Records in 1992, and by Klanggalerie in 2007)
 * Project One (LP) Shankini Nadi The Produkt Korps 1987
 * Beyond Logic, Beyond Belief (LP) Earthly Delights 1990
 * Tissue of Lies: Revised (CD) Dark Vinyl Records 1990 (re-released by Klanggalerie in 2008)
 * Befehlsnotstand (CD) Dark Vinyl Records 1992
 * Must Be Musique 2 (CD) Never Give Up Dark Vinyl Records 1993
 * Befehlsnotstand / Shake those Chains (CD, Album, Ltd) Klanggalerie 2007

Tracks appear on

 * Funky Alternatives Three (CD)
 * Tracking with Close-Ups Concrete Productions, Pinpoint Records 1989

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/mononbehavior.it

Links

 * mononbehavior.it resolves to [//<IP_ADDRESS> <IP_ADDRESS>]
 * mononbehavior.it is hosted on mononbehavior.altervista.org
 * mononbehavior.altervista.org resolves to [//<IP_ADDRESS> <IP_ADDRESS>]
 * Link is not on the blacklist.
 * Link is not on the domainredlist.
 * Link is not on the Monitorlist.
 * None of the mentioned users is on the blacklist.
 * Link is not on the whitelist.
 * Link is not on the monitor list.
 * Link is not on the domainredlist.
 * Link is not on the Monitorlist.
 * None of the mentioned users is on the blacklist.
 * Link is not on the whitelist.
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User:Cassie Swackhamer/Evaluate an Article

Evaluate an article
This is where you will complete your article evaluation. Please use the template below to evaluate your selected article.

 * Name of article: (link)  Food chain
 * Briefly describe why you have chosen this article to evaluate. I chose to evaluate this article because my major is biology and I believe this will tie in nicely between my major and this gen ed.

Lead

 * Guiding questions

 * Does the Lead include an introductory sentence that concisely and clearly describes the article's topic?  Yes, the lead sentence gives a descriptive definition on what a food chain is.
 * Does the Lead include a brief description of the article's major sections?    Yes. but there is only one major section.
 * Does the Lead include information that is not present in the article? Due to there only being one major section, I believe the lead can be broken down into more sections.
 * Is the Lead concise or is it overly detailed?  As stated before, the article is only the Lead and one major section, so I do believe the Lead is more detailed for the amount of sections given.

Content

 * Guiding questions

 * Is the article's content relevant to the topic?   Yes, everything written is on task.
 * Is the content up-to-date? I believe newer studies could help upgrade the article and add more information.
 * Is there content that is missing or content that does not belong?   I believe more information/examples can be added.

Tone and Balance

 * Guiding questions

 * Is the article neutral? Yes, there is no bias.
 * Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position? No.
 * Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?  No/
 * Does the article attempt to persuade the reader in favor of one position or away from another?  No.

Sources and References

 * Guiding questions

 * Are all facts in the article backed up by a reliable secondary source of information? Yes.
 * Are the sources thorough - i.e. Do they reflect the available literature on the topic? I believe the sources provided can add more information to the article.
 * Are the sources current? Yes, sources are from multiple different years, including present year.
 * Check a few links. Do they work? Yes.

Organization

 * Guiding questions

 * Is the article well-written - i.e. Is it concise, clear, and easy to read? The Lead feels jammed, but the information is nicely written.
 * Does the article have any grammatical or spelling errors? No.
 * Is the article well-organized - i.e. broken down into sections that reflect the major points of the topic? No, I believe the organization needs more work.

Images and Media

 * Guiding questions

 * Does the article include images that enhance understanding of the topic?  The two images are on topic.
 * Are images well-captioned? Yes, easily understood.
 * Do all images adhere to Wikipedia's copyright regulations? Yes.
 * Are the images laid out in a visually appealing way? I believe they can be enlarged a bit more given I did not realize they were there until this question.

Checking the talk page

 * Guiding questions

 * What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?  The article needed a clean up a few years back.
 * How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects? Start-class, WikiProject ecology.
 * How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?  We have yet to discuss this topic in class.

Overall impressions

 * Guiding questions

 * What is the article's overall status? Good, but not great.
 * What are the article's strengths? Good information.
 * How can the article be improved? Broken down more.
 * How would you assess the article's completeness - i.e. Is the article well-developed? Is it underdeveloped or poorly developed?  Well-developed, but could have more.

Optional activity

 * Choose at least 1 question relevant to the article you're evaluating and leave your evaluation on the article's Talk page. Be sure to sign your feedback

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Seh Chub

Seh Chub (, also Romanized as Seh Chūb) is a village in Mazul Rural District, in the Central District of Nishapur County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 259, in 72 families.

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Roald

Etymology 1
From, , from earlier , from , , from +. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Etymology 2
From, originally an island name; from , a variant of , and an uncertain second element. .

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PathCheck

PathCheck Foundation is a volunteer-led nonprofit organization founded in February 2020 at MIT that develops COVID-19 apps for digital contact tracing. The organization consists of over 1000 volunteers. In addition, various companies donate employee time to the foundation. The organization was previously known as COVID Safe Paths (and before MIT Safe Paths) but was renamed PathCheck Foundation on June 28, 2020.

The original technology for the PathCheck app was based on the MIT Private Kit: Safe Paths app created by Ramesh Raskar with Sandy Pentland, Kent Larson, Steve Penrod, and Kevin Esvelt. The founding team included Abhishek Singh, Kristen Vilcans, Alina Clough, Francesco Maria Bendetti, Kaushal Jain, Khahlil Louisy, Sienna Leis, Greg Nadeau, Rachel Barbar, and John Werner.

On July 8, 2020, Ramesh Raskar, chairman of PathCheck Foundation, addressed the United States House of Representatives Committee on Financial Services Task Force on Artificial Intelligence during their hearing on "Exposure Notification and Contact Tracing: How AI Helps Localities Reopen Safely and Researchers Find a Cure", describing the use of contact tracing technologies used by PathCheck. He also spoke about PathCheck's surveillance and privacy methods at the Wall Street Journal Tech Health event.

Apps developed by PathCheck have been adopted by the governments of Minnesota, Hawaii, Guam, Puerto Rico, Teton County, Wyoming (home of Yellowstone National Park),    and Cyprus.

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Immune system/Role

The role of the immune system is to protect our body from any foreign matters that might cause any damage or homeostatis imbalance. The success of the immune system depends on its ability to discriminate between foreign(non self) and host(self) cells. When an organism is threatened by microorganisms, viruses, or cancer cells, the immune system acts to provide protection. Normally the immune system does not mount a response against self. This lack of an immune response is called tolerance.

When a foreign matter enters the human body, our defense system recognizes this as foreign through the immune system. How the human body recognize foreign against itself employs a complex "I.D." system. Each cell in the human body carries on it's surface a mixture of proteins and sugars that serve to identify the cell to the immune system. Foreign objects lack the identifiers that all of the body's cells have, but each one has unique features or antigens where the immune system attaches identifiers called antibodies. This is the basis for the specific defense mechanisms. Once you have built the antibodies for a specific antigen, the immune system will respond faster than if the had been no previous exposure to the antigen (i.e. you are immune to the pathogen, but only that specific pathogen, because your immune system responds faster.) The non-specific part of the immune system is mostly composed of phagocytes (eating-cells) which engulf and digest foreign substances like bacteria and viruses, which do not bear the body's specifc idenifers.

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Intelligence Intensification/Information Grasping

Vocabulary
Learn to be cognizant of words that you do not yet understand. Cognizant means to be consciously informed.

It is generally known that it is easier to learn something which you want to learn. When do we want to learn? One situation when we usually want to learn is when we have to in order to solve a concrete problem. This leads to the concept of information availability. If you have access to information when you need it, you will learn more. For instance, if you need to understand a word and have a handheld computer with a dictionary, you will probably look it up. If you haven't any dictionary available, and the need of knowing the word cease to exist, you never learn the word.

We also learn when we are curious. If you can access the information you need, again maybe using a handheld computer, you can learn while you are curious. Later in the day you might feel that other things are more important.

Metaphor
According to some cognitive scientists, notably George Lakoff, most abstract concepts are founded on metaphor. The number line represents quantity as distance, for example, and the Cartesian coordinate system generalizes that same metaphor to function in two dimensions. René Descartes did not invent this metaphor: people from many cultures say "the price went up" (or the equivalent), regardless of their native language. The metaphor "more IS up" (in Lakoff's notation) is quite old, but Descartes did formalize and extend it, allowing it to be applied to a new array of intricate concepts.

But a metaphor can only be extended by a certain amount, after which it loses its meaning. Much of the power of mathematics comes from systematic and well-documented limits to the application of its metaphors. As soon as a new metaphor is added to the field, mathematicians thoroughly test exactly where it does and does not apply, and record their results explicitly in theorems that guide future work.

The convention in other fields is to give metaphors much less explicit limits, forcing the reader or listener to find them out by trial and error. Returning to the "more IS up" example, some quantities tend to go up only with difficulty but go down quite easily, or vice-versa. In these cases, your intuitive understanding of gravity can be added to the metaphor, if you imagine that some quantities sink, while others float. If this doesn't apply, then the metaphorical "weight" of a quantity won't help your understanding.

Some teachers are cognizant of the role that metaphor plays in learning, but in many courses, the metaphors behind the concepts presented are only vaguely hinted at. Actively searching for them and thoroughly testing their limits as early as possible can be quite helpful.


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Charles Kincaid Mackenzie

Charles Kincaid Mackenzie, Lord Mackenzie (1857–1938) was a Scottish lawyer who served as a Senator of the College of Justice. He was also a cricketer.

Life
He was born on 8 March 1857. He was educated at Edinburgh Academy then at Repton School.

He studied law at University College within Oxford University, there playing for the university cricket team in the first inter-university match against Cambridge, and graduating BA (Hons).

He was the Scottish bar in 1881 and in 1895 was living at 47 Heriot Row. He was Sheriff of Dumfries and Galloway 1899/1900 and became Sheriff of Fife and Kinross in 1901.

In 1905 he was a King's Counsel (KC).

In December 1905 he was elected a Senator of the College of Justice replacing James Adam, Lord Adam. He stepped down from this position in 1922 due to ill health.

He died in his Heriot Row home in Edinburgh on 1 April 1938. He is buried in the churchyard of St John's, Edinburgh on Princes Street, close to his home on Heriot Row.

Family
He married Lillian (Lily) Young (1854-1945) of Gullane, daughter of George Young, Lord Young, Lord Advocate of Scotland, on 19 April 1881.

Their only son, Mark Kincaid Mackenzie (1888-1914), played first-class cricket for Oxford University and was killed in the First Battle of the Aisne during the First World War.

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Cookbook:Pecan Spinach Pasta

| Vegan Cuisine

This recipe can be a stand-alone meal; it's also good cold as a leftover. It sometimes turns out a bit dry.

Ingredients

 * 500 grams pasta (ideally penne)
 * 3 generous tablespoons olive oil
 * 2 large garlic cloves, chopped
 * 1 onion (ideally red), sliced
 * ¾ cup pecan halves
 * 1 pack of frozen spinach, or, better, a moderate amount of fresh spinach
 * Crushed red pepper flakes, to taste
 * Salt to taste
 * 1 cup feta cheese or feta substitute (optional)

Procedure

 * 1) Bring a pan of water to a boil and once it has a good rolling boil, put in the pasta. Start checking it about 2 minutes before the amount of time specified on the package by tasting a piece. A commonly held ideal for pasta is that it should be al dente, which means a tiny, tiny bit undercooked, rather than soft and mushy; it does not mean raw. Drain the pasta once it's done.
 * 2) While the pasta is cooking, combine the olive oil, red pepper flakes, and garlic in a cold skillet. Put them on medium heat.
 * 3) After a brief amount of time, add the onion slices.
 * 4) Once the onion is slightly browned, add the pecan halves and sauté them for two minutes.
 * 5) Add the spinach.
 * 6) Once the spinach is done, add salt.
 * 7) Put the sauce on the drained pasta and serve.

Notes, tips, and variations

 * If frozen spinach is used, consider steaming it quickly before using it in this recipe.

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Talk:Yo, Blair

Why does this exist?
Uh, who cares? Why can't this be merged into G8? Shadow1 16:22, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

I listened to the transcrpit and he clearly (to me at least) said Yeah blair and not yo. I am an american raised in Los Angeles. I also cannot tell the diffrence between caught/cot,(los angeles is part of the 40% which merged these vowels) but i am pretty sure that is not relevant here.

jestrada5

Blair vs Rice
What is probably the most important aspect of the incident is missing from the article: Blair begging Bush to send him and sort out the "shit", and Bush telling him to stay put because Condie was already going to handle it. <IP_ADDRESS> 23:49, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Why does this exist?
Why do we need a whole article about a greeting Bush used? J I P | Talk 08:36, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Because its significance, in Britain at least, was much wider. There is also some interesting etymological stuff. LymeRegis 23:00, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Misquote
I've changed this article to state that its misquote. There was a BBC radio programme http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainframe.shtml?http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/afternoon_reading about this misquote. Video sites can lead you to plenty video references to the actual video where he clearly says "Yeah Blair" --Z o l t a r 10:11, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

the language report (sic)
Susie Dent's the langauge report (Oxford, 2007), which post-dates this article by at least year, appears to draw quite heavily on it: at least its references, including to the Sunday Times and Private Eye. IXIA (talk) 07:47, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Poodle
The use of poodle in international affairs does not depend on Lloyd George; suggesting it does, without source, is WP:SYNTH. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 06:10, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Except it hasn't particularly been used in international affairs. It has been bandied about in British domestic politics. LymeRegis (talk) 13:20, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Source
Is this source a fitting one to use to make a major change to the article? --John (talk) 20:49, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
 * You can use these  and check 17 seconds in of this video  Govgovgov (talk) 20:51, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, these are already in the article. The YouTube link won't really show anything. Any better sources? Perhaps there is a compromise we can come to. --John (talk) 21:56, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
 * In the video he clearly says "Yeah, Blair" and I don't want the article to misinform readers any longer. I don't know what's better than those sources. My edit just let readers know that it was actually "Yeah, Blair" and left the rest of the article as referring to it at "Yo, Blair" so I don't know what to compromise on. Govgovgov (talk) 22:57, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Maybe leaving the rest of the article as "Yo, Blair" is a compromise. Govgovgov (talk) 23:02, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Well, I think we would need more sources to enact that kind of change. Let's see what others think. --John (talk) 23:14, 4 January 2013 (UTC)
 * The talk page is a graveyard so I don't think any more people are coming. I concede that most source use "Yo, Blair", however, some sources use "Yeah, Blair", others point out the mistake and audio of the conversation clearly shows it to be "Yeah, Blair". Although the OR rule may prevent us from using the audio argument, the article shouldn't be left wrong because of it. Govgovgov (talk) 23:42, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

 * If most sources use "Yo, Blair", we cannot allow one editor to use their own interpretation of an audio track to rewrite this article. We follow the sources and we do not conduct this type of original research. --John (talk) 12:18, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Request for Comment: "Yeah, Blair" or "Yo, Blair"
Should the article state that it was actually "Yeah, Blair" or ignore that because it was popularised as "Yo, Blair"? Govgovgov (talk) 18:58, 6 January 2013 (UTC)
 * This proposed edit was removed and what I want the RfC to decide on . Here are some sources:  and check 17 seconds in of this video  for proof that it was "Yeah". Govgovgov (talk) 22:19, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

The truth of the matter is that it probably was "yeah", but most of the mainstream media transcribed it as "yo", the comment about which forms the majority of this article and the subsequent discussion of the political relationship between the U.S. and UK. The article already notes that some news outlets thought it was "Yeah", so it's not really misleading. To be honest, neither leader has been in power for some time, so it's all rather old news now. Bob talk 00:11, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
 * I'm concerned because readers will read this article and think it was "Yo" when it was "Yeah". Is it possible to have an audio recording of it on this page? A description under it should mention that it's been reported as "Yeah". That option will obey WP:UNDUE and give the readers the correct information if they play the recording. Govgovgov (talk) 02:02, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

 * Rename to "Yeah, Blair" - Did a quick search engine test on this one which leads me to believe that most sources use "Yeah, Blair". Per WP:COMMONNAME, I'd rename this article to reflect that, and explain early in the lead that it was popularized to "Yo". NickCT (talk) 19:01, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Leave title as Yo. It's only well-known because of that. The text itself is OK.IXIA (talk) 14:02, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

Missing the point?
This article (and this talk page) seems to spend a lot of time on whether he said "Yo", or "Yeah", but misses the central point; addressing Blair by his surname (as he might to a servant, or a hireling) was disrespectful of the Prime Minister's position as an equal (Bush wouldn't have addressed the President of Russia as "Putin", or the Chancellor of Germany as "Merkel") hence the comments about Blair being no more than a "poodle"; I've put something in, but the point may need expanding... Swanny18 (talk)
 * That's original research on your part and I've removed it. None of the sources specifically mention that, if you have an RS that does, it can be re-added with proper citations. JesseRafe (talk) 22:47, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Original Research, Jesse? I thought I was stating the obvious: What part exactly do you feel needs a reliable source?
 * That addressing someone by their last name only is talking down to them, and insulting to someone of equal rank? this lot seem to think so, though I doubt any of them would be acceptable under WP:RS; what did you have in mind?
 * That the correct way to address the British PM would be "Mr Prime Minister"? I thought the source given confirmed that.
 * Or that the significance of this was that it was indicative to the British public of the master/servant relationship existing between the US and the UK? Several comments at the AfD pointed this up, though it isn't at all plain here; and the disquiet in the UK over that relationship is explored extensively at the two linked articles (here and here). It's also touched on in the source on the page, and in the external links, yet there's hardly anything in the text itself.
 * If you are unhappy with what I wrote, how would you suggest the point is better made? Swanny18 (talk) 23:05, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I wouldn't rewrite it in any way because I don't recognize your point as being encyclopedic in any way, so you're asking me to argue the impossible. It's your opinion. In many cultures calling someone by their given name is disrespectful, the complete opposite of the essay of personal opinion you just wrote about addressing someone by their surname. Neither, though, is notable for an encyclopedia, which this is. JesseRafe (talk) 17:10, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

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Plus sizing

Plus sizing is the practice of replacing an automotive wheel with one of a larger diameter fitted with a new tire of lower aspect ratio so that the new tire has close to the same diameter and circumference as the original tire to minimize any changes in speedometer accuracy, torque and traction control, while reducing sidewall flex and (generally) increasing cornering ability.

The number following the "plus" describes the number of inches which is added to the diameter of the rim. For example, plus one sizing means increasing the wheel by 1 in – i.e. from a 15 to 16 in rim size.

A "plus zero" upgrade means changing to a wider tire size while using the same diameter wheel.

Changing to a wider tire requires reducing the aspect ratio (the second number in the sequence of numbers that describes the tire's size). Since the aspect ratio is a percentage which is used to calculate the height of the tire's sidewall, if follows that is a larger number is used for the width, a smaller number must be substituted if the final result is to remain the same—which is the objective of Plus sizing.

Plus sizing example
These are simply examples and do not represent all the possible combinations which could achieve the same result. For an R16 tire, 195/65, 205/60, 215/55, 225/55, 235/50, 245/50, 255/45, 265/45, 275/45 and 285/40. width/aspect ratio tires have essentially the same diameter.

The exact dimensions of tires in the same size might differ slightly depending on tire brand, model, etc.

Advantages

 * Larger tires improve handling and cornering, due to wider tread faces and stiffer sidewalls.
 * Wider tires may decrease braking distances on dry pavement.
 * Wider tires may also increase acceleration, especially in very powerful vehicles such as muscle cars.
 * Larger wheels with lower profile tires are sometimes aesthetically desirable.

Disadvantages

 * Larger wheels typically cost more. Wider tires tend to be more expensive because they are less common, and there is less competition between brands.
 * Performance improvements beyond what is achieved in a Plus One sizing are often minimal.
 * Lower profile tires tend to have stiffer sidewalls, which might decrease riding comfort.
 * Low profile tires are likely to sustain more damage to tires and wheel rims when encountering road debris and potholes.
 * Larger and wider wheels decrease fuel efficiency and increase consumption. A test done on Volkswagen Golf 2.5 saw a 10% decrease in fuel efficiency from 23.3 to 21.1 U.S. miles per gallon (from 10.1 to 11.2 liters per 100 km) in a Plus Four sizing.
 * Larger and wider wheels may also degrade acceleration on many everyday vehicles. The test done on a Volkswagen Golf 2.5 saw a 0.3 second degradation in 0 to 60 mph acceleration from 7.6 seconds to 7.9 seconds in a Plus Four sizing. Although this is likely caused by the 14 lbs weight difference, per corner, in "unsprung weight".
 * A larger tire-footprint can increase the time taken for "return to center" (steering) after taking a sharp turn.

Controversial issues
Some people claim larger wheels wear faster. Wheels with reduced sidewall heights may increase risk of damaged rims, breaking the bead, and/or damaged sidewalls. The increased width of the contact patch of wider tires may increase the risk of hydroplaning.

Plus sizing tires may enhance the vehicle's value. Improving the vehicle from the factory specifications may increase value.

The additional height and weight of plus-sized wheels may reduce vulnerability to rollovers, particularly by changing the center of gravity. During rapid tire deflation at speed, reduced sidewall height may decrease rollovers.

Total wheel weight (tyre & rim) represents ”unsprung“ weight. Standard fit wheels and tyres tend to have less unsprung weight than oversized rims and tyres. With less unsprung weight, the shock absorbers and dampers are much better able to control the lower inertia and consequently, the vertical “bounce“ of a wheel over a bumpy road surface, resulting in better and more consistent tyre contact with the road surface.

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User:Dimakatso Toni Moabelo

=Miss Teen Social Entrepreneur Finalist-Toni Moabelo=

What is Miss Teen Social Entrepreneur?
Miss Teen Social Entrepreneur as a female empowerment program aimed at developing social responsibility and entrepreneurial skills.With an objective to provide a platform where all young women can gain knowledge, confidence and skills to create their own sustainable businesses while making a social impact.

Why I entered?
South African's are facing real challenges. Sitting around and waiting for something to change is not going to make a real difference. I needed a foundation to make a change within the communities around me: Miss Teen Social Entrepreneur is the foundation I needed.

What I have learnt
Miss Teen Social Entrepreneur has taught me:

 * business leadership skills
 * confidence
 * entrepreneurial skills
 * social responsibility
 * It has also bought me awareness about the issues facing the economy like:
 * the gender wage gap
 * lack of female representatives in parliament

Conclusion
I believe that every female should be involved in a program like Miss Teen Social Entrepreneur. A program like Miss Teen SESA creates a change not only within communities but globally. To every women out there remember...

"you the change the world has been waiting for ''

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senary

Etymology
From the, from +  (whence the  suffix ).

Adjective

 * 1) Of sixth rank or order.
 * 2) * 2001, Manish K. Gupta, David G. Glynn, and T. Aaron Gulliver, On Senary Simplex Codes, in Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and Error-Correcting Codes: proceedings of 14th International Symposium, Serdar Boztaş, Igor E. Shparlinski (eds.), page 112
 * In particular, one can construct mixed binary/ternary codes via senary codes by applying the Chinese Gray map (see Example 1).
 * 1)  Of, pertaining to, or based on six.
 * The senary fraction 0.2 is one-third, i.e. two-sixths.

Translations

 * Catalan: senari, senària
 * French:
 * Russian:

Noun

 * 1)  The numeral system which uses six as the base.

Translations

 * French: système sénaire
 * German: Sechsersystem
 * Japanese: 六進法
 * Portuguese: sistema senario

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Firmin Peigneux

Firmin Peigneux (1904–1968) was a Belgian colonial administrator. He was governor of Kasaï Province in the Belgian Congo from 1948 to 1952.

Life
Firmin J. A. Peigneux was born in 1904 in the village of Moha, Liège. His parents were Arthur Joseph Peigneux (1876–1942) and Flore Lega (1879–1952). He joined the colonial service and arrived in the Belgian Congo in 1925 at the age of 21. Peigneux spent his entire colonial career in the southwest of the Belgian Congo, in Bas-Congo, Léopoldville and Kasaï. In 1926 his supervisor said in an evaluation report, "This officer has the qualities needed to become an elite administrator in the short term." He was sensible, tactful and thoughtful in his dealings with the natives, and that had earned him the confidence of leaders and elders.

Pierre Ryckmans travelled through Bas-Congo District in 1930–1931 investigating labor conditions. He reached the territory of Thysville on 6 November 1930, where Peigneux was the administrator 1st class. He found that censuses had badly under-counted dependent women and children, and excessive numbers of Africans were being employed by the European companies and on the railway. The north of the territory, near the river, held the center of Kimbanguism. Peigneux showed Ryckmans examples of Kimbanguist chants, psalm-like hymns that proclaimed the glory of the pure and the confusion of the unfaithful, Black and White, when Jesus would return. They interpreted the Old Testament curses against evil kings as allusions to missionaries and administrators.

Peigneux became commissioner of Kwango District, with capital at Kikwit. He became Governor of Kasaï Province on 19 July 1948, replacing Léon A. Hofkens. He held office until 11 April 1952, and was replaced by Roger Le Bussy. Peigneux had been recalled to Belgium for health reasons. He was one of the few provincial governors who were openly socialist in their views. Peigneux was admitted to the Order of Léopold on 15 November 1946. He was promoted to the rank of officer on 19 October 1949.

Peigneux's signature as a director, and that of governor Hector Martin, appears on notes of the Central Bank of Belgian Congo and Rwanda-Burundi (Banque Centrale du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi) between 1956 and 1958. In 1957 he was elected a member of the International Institute of Differing Civilizations. He was a member of a commission of inquiry sent to Rwanda in January 1960 to report on the violence there in November 1959. He died in 1968 in Huy, Liège at the age of 64.

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User:Gorjus

Gorjus is an artist and writer who lives in Jackson, Mississippi. He primarily works in a comic strip format or with Polaroid instant cameras, most of which can be viewed at PrettyFakes. His name comes from a silver gelatin print by the famed photographer Sally Mann.

He is an infrequent editor of Wikipedia, often attempting to streamline or grammar-check articles.

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Japanese/Vocabulary/Verbs

 * The kanji for ある／いる are rarely used.
 * ¹Strictly speaking, だ/です is the copula and is verb-like, but not a verb. As such is not given a conjugation class.

Other verbs
Verbes (japonais)

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Eerik-Juhan Truuväli

Eerik-Juhan Truuväli (7 March 1938 – 25 June 2019) was an Estonian lawyer and professor of legal theory at the University of Tartu.

From 1989 to 1993 he was the chairman of the Estonian National Electoral Committee.

From 1993 to 2000 he was the Chancellor of Justice of Estonia.

Honors

 * 2000 Order of the National Coat of Arms
 * 2001 Ida-Virumaa Order (Ida-Virumaa teenetemärk)
 * 2006 Order of the White Star

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Kayla Clarke

Kayla Clarke (born 6 August 1991) is an Indigenous Australian swimmer who represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in swimming, and has medalled at the 2010 Australian Disability Age Group Nationals, and 2010 International Paralympic Swimming World Championships, 2009 Queensland State Championships, 2009 Queensland Secondary School Titles, and 2009 Global Games. She competes in a number of events, including the 100m freestyle, 100m backstroke, 100m breaststroke, 100m butterfly and 200m individual medley.

Personal
Clarke was born in Silkstone, Queensland. She has an intellectual disability. She attended Ipswich Central High School and Bremer State High School, and was named the 2009–10 Ipswich News YoungStar Sports winner.

Swimming
Clarke started swimming competitively in 2007, and competes in the S14 classification. She was a member of the Woogaroo Swimming Club, and was coached by Tony Keogh, who became her coach in 2008. She has a swimming scholarship with the Queensland Academy of Sport, is involved in the Australian Institute of Sport program, and received A$20,000 in Australian Government Direct Athlete Support (DAS) funds in the 2011–12 financial year. One of her major swimming rivals is fellow Australian swimmer Taylor Corry.

At the 2009 Queensland State Championships, she won five gold medals in her classification races. The Queensland Secondary School Titles that year ended with her winning seven first-place finishes, and she earned five gold medals, a silver medal two bronze medals at the 2009 Global Games.

In 2010, she won eight gold and two silver medals at Australian Disability Age Group Nationals,  and competed in the International Paralympic Swimming World Championships, where she finished second with a personal best time of 1:11.13 in the S14 100m backstroke event. She also finished fourth in the 200m freestyle and fifth in the 100m breaststroke.

Clarke became affiliated with the Yeronga Park Club in 2011 in an effort to make the Paralympic Games, and switched coaches, taking on Rick Van Der Zant as her new coach. The 2011 Australian national championships saw her win six golds in seven events, including the 100m freestyle, 100m backstroke, 100m breaststroke, 100m butterfly and 200m individual medley. She competed in the inaugural 2011 Para Pan Pacific Championships, where she finished first in the S14 200m freestyle event, and at the 2011 Can-Am Swimming Open, in which she posted first-place finishes in the 100m backstroke and 200m freestyle events.

Clarke was selected to represent Australia at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in the S14 100m backstroke, 200m freestyle and 100m breaststroke events. These were her first Paralympic Games, and she was the only female swimmer from Queensland. Going into the Games, she was ranked second in the world in the 100m backstroke. She trained for the Games in China in order to acclimatise, and participated in a two-week-long national team training camp in Cardiff prior to the start. Support for her Paralympic efforts came from sponsors including TogTastic Racing and Training Swimwear. She made the finals in all three events, but finished outside the medals, being placed fourth in the 200m freestyle and 100m breaststroke, and sixth in the 100m backstroke.

Clarke won five gold and a silver medal at the 2014 Pan Pacific Para-swimming Championships in Pasadena, California. After the Championships, she underwent shoulder surgery.

Personal bests
Personal bests as of 16 September 2012:

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User:Tuj14627/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Cuisine of Philadelphia

 * Article Evaluation
 * Many details in this article that are very much related to the topic. Some newer articles and more information can be added, though. Article is written neutrally with no biases. Yes all claims have citation after the sentence. After the sentence, is little numbers that direct you to the sources. All pictures have citations as well. The citations are reliable, but are not cited properly under "References." In the "Talk" page most people graded the article as being C-class.

 * Sources
 * Jacobson, Kurt. “Philadelphia - Discovering Its History through Flavors.” Food, Wine & Travel, 2 Aug. 2017, https://fwtmagazine.com/philadelphia-history-food/.
 * NewsCore. “The History of the Philly Cheesesteak.” Fox News, FOX News Network, 21 Nov. 2016, https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/the-history-of-the-philly-cheesesteak.
 * Douglas, Mary. Food in the Social Order, Routledge, 2002. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/templeuniv-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1665766.
 * Baskin, Ernest, and Sean P. Coary. “Implications of the Philadelphia Beverage Tax on Sales and Beverage Substitution for a Major Grocery Retailer Chain.” Journal of International Food & Agribusiness Marketing, vol. 31, no. 3, July 2019, pp. 293–307. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/08974438.2018.1520180.

Option 2

 * Article title
 * History of Sugar

 * Article Evaluation
 * A great amount of information that helps the reader learn about sugar and its history. Towards the end of article, can speak about sugar today and how the history of sugar helped shape the sugar of today. Neutral article that does not have bias. All the citations, links that direct you to source, are after the information and are presented fairly. Pictures have citations as well. The citations are reliable that mostly seem to be academic articles. The article is rated in C-class.

 * Sources
 * Craddock, Kat, et al. “The Illustrated History of How Sugar Conquered the World.” Saveur, https://www.saveur.com/sugar-history-of-the-world/.
 * Harvard Health Publishing. “The Sweet Danger of Sugar.” Harvard Health, https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/the-sweet-danger-of-sugar.
 * Ellis, Deborah Ellen. 1905. An Introduction to the History of Sugar as a Commodity. Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co. Available through: Adam Matthew, Marlborough, Global Commodities
 * Reed, William. 1866. The History of Sugar and Sugar Yielding Plants together with an Epitome of Every Notable Process of Sugar Extraction, and Manufacture, from the Earliest times to the Present. London: Longmans, Green and Co. Available through: Adam Matthew, Marlborough, Global Commodities

Option 3

 * Article title
 * High-fructose corn syrup

 * Article Evaluation
 * A large amount of information is given to the reader in this article. The information is also very clear and understanding, and provides the reader with a bunch of details. The article does not have any bias. There are very good citations. All pictures and reports are cited as well. The article is rated a B-class.

 * Sources
 * “What Is High Fructose Corn Syrup and Is It Bad For You?” Health.com, https://www.health.com/nutrition/high-fructose-corn-syrup-video.
 * “A Brief History of High-Fructose Corn Syrup.” EarthSky, https://earthsky.org/human-world/a-brief-history-of-high-fructose-corn-syrup.
 * Rippe, James M. Fructose, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Sucrose and Health. Dordrecht: Springer, 2014. Internet resource.
 * Drewnowski, Adam, et al. “Sugars and Sweeteners: Science, Innovations, and Consumer Guidance for Asia.” Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 28, no. 3, Sept. 2019, pp. 645–663. EBSCOhost, doi:10.6133/apjcn.201909_28(3).0025.
 * Loureiro, Guilherme. "The Effect of Dietary Polyphenols on Intestinal Absorption of Glucose and Fructose: Relation with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes." Food Reviews International 35.4 (2019): 390-406. Web.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * Article Evaluation
 * Sources
 * Sources
 * Sources

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 * Article Evaluation
 * Sources
 * Sources
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Spinningfields

Spinningfields is an area of Manchester city centre, in North West England, developed in the 2000s between Deansgate and the River Irwell by Allied London Properties. The £1.5 billion project consists of 20 buildings, totalling approximately 430,000 sqm of commercial, residential and retail space. It takes its name from Spinningfield, a narrow street which ran westwards from Deansgate. In 1968, Spinningfield and the area to the south were turned into Spinningfield Square, an open paved area. Landmark buildings within the scheme include the Manchester Civil Justice Centre and 1 Spinningfields, a 90 m tall office building.

History
The proposal to create a central business district originated in 1997 when Allied London purchased a number of buildings around the John Rylands Library. Allied London executive Mike Ingall was convinced of the site's regeneration potential and Manchester City Council was keen to redevelop the city centre after the 1996 Manchester bombing.

The development, named from a narrow street which ran westwards from Deansgate, is bounded by Bridge Street to the north, Quay Street to the south, Deansgate to the east, and the River Irwell to the west. The Financial Times said in 2012 that the development spread over 22 acre and contained 3,000,000 sqft of office space. By 2008, many had been completed and others were under construction or in the planning stages. The structural, civil and geo-environmental engineers were Capita Symonds Structures based in Cheadle Hulme.

Following the demolition of the old Manchester Magistrates' Court in 2006, the vacant space became Hardman Square, a new public realm area created in the centre of Spinningfields. The area was never intended to be a permanent public space, but Allied London later decided not to develop on the land and instead leave it as a green area within Spinningfields.

The financial crisis of 2007–2010 resulted in Allied London almost leaving the development half-completed, but the company reached an agreement with the city council who bought the freeholds of 1 and 2 Hardman Square and 2 and 3 Hardman Boulevard which allowed the development to proceed. Deborah Linton of the Manchester Evening News claimed the cost of the freeholds would be in the region of £15 million; and it later emerged that £15.9 million was paid.

Allied London marketed Spinningfields' retail area as a "Knightsbridge of the North" after letting 2 Spinningfields Square (renamed 1 The Avenue) to Emporio Armani and Armani Collezioni. The scheme's flagship thoroughfare, The Avenue, was created to attract high-end stores, traditionally based on nearby King Street. The project has come under scrutiny due to its performance, with the Manchester Evening News describing The Avenue as a "ghost town", whilst contrasting its performance with the thriving businesses in the bohemian Northern Quarter elsewhere in the city.

By 2010, Manchester City Council noted in a report that around 16,000 people were employed in Spinningfields and that the area now accounted for over 35% of Manchester's prime office space. A large number of firms in Spinningfields were noted to be financial and professional services companies. Since 2001, twelve buildings had been developed including seven office blocks and 450 apartments, according to the report.

In July 2010, Allied London scrapped the 'Manchester Hotel' project which would have replaced Manchester House. Instead, a retail and office development incorporating a retail arcade linking Bridge Street to The Avenue was created by reconfiguring the building. Tower 12, the building in question, was also refurbished.

In July 2013, it was announced that work was set to begin on 1 Hardman Street, a five-storey office block, with tenant MediaCom to occupy the entire 17,000 sqft building. Mike Ingall described it as "a watershed for the restart of commercial development at the estate, which has been on hold since the completion of 3 Hardman Street in 2009". In November 2013, Allied London submitted plans for a new office block, the Cotton Building. Planning permission was granted for the 10-storey building in January 2014. Allied London began construction after securing a £15m loan towards the building; the North West Evergreen Fund provided £10m and Greater Manchester Combined Authority's Growing Places fund supplied £5m. In March 2016, with the building – renamed as XYZ – nearing completion and fully pre-let, Allied London sold it to Union Investment for £85 million.

Also in January 2014, Allied London submitted plans for the demolition of Quay House and the construction of Number One Spinningfields, a 19-storey high-rise designed by SimpsonHaugh and Partners. The building provides over 340,000 sqft of office space and features a restaurant on the top floor. Ingall stated that "No 1 Spinningfields will be the district's most imposing building to date and one of Manchester's most stand-out office buildings". Allied London agreed a pre-let with PwC for 50,000 sqft in March 2015, with demolition of Quay House beginning thereafter. In February 2017, the building topped out, with full completion scheduled for July.

Present day
The area is dominated by commercial office developments and has been described as the "Canary Wharf of the North"; the Financial Times has noted, "London has Canary Wharf and Paris has La Défense, Manchester has its own modern financial centre in the form of Spinningfields". Its anchor tenants include Regus, Barclays, DAC Beachcroft, Deloitte, HSBC Bank, Global Radio, Grant Thornton International, Guardian Media Group and Royal Bank of Scotland. Flagship buildings include 1 The Avenue and the Civil Justice Centre.

Across from 1 Hardman Boulevard is 2 Hardman Street, occupied by Deloitte and, after the Manchester Evening News moved out in 2010, DWF. Manchester Evening News vacated the site and relocated offices to Chadderton following the sale of the title from the Guardian Media Group to Trinity Mirror. 3 Hardman Street was constructed on the old Manchester Evening News building site. The 16-storey building was designed by Sheppard Robson was completed in 2009 and is the third-tallest building in Spinningfields as of 2023.

Residential buildings take the form of the 16-storey Leftbank Apartments, which overlook the River Irwell. Situated in the area is the People's History Museum, a former pump house, and on the other side of the river is Salford Central railway station.

Spinningfields is home to various different law courts. Manchester Crown Court, in Crown Square, is in the area; adjacent is Manchester City Magistrates' Court and Coroner's Court. The Manchester Civil Justice Centre, an 80-metre (262 ft) tall building was completed in 2007. The Civil Justice Centre was the first major court complex built in Britain since George Edmund Street's Royal Courts of Justice in London completed in 1882.

Also completed in 2007 were 3 and 4 Hardman Square designed by Norman Foster. 3 Hardman Square was occupied by Halliwells LLP until it went into administration in 2010. Number 4 is occupied by HSBC Bank and Grant Thornton.

Leftbank Apartments are close to a cluster of restaurants including Café Rouge, Carluccio's, Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Giraffe, Ha! Ha!, Strada, Wagamama and Zizzi. Living Ventures owns four establishments in Spinningfields: Artisan, The Alchemist, Australasia, and Manchester House. Manchester House is a £3 million fine dining establishment which opened in September 2013 and featured on BBC2 documentary Restaurant Wars. Fast food operators represented include: Costa Coffee, Greggs, Philpotts and Pret a Manger. The Spinningfields area was voted by Manchester residents as being the most family-friendly area in Manchester in a 2013 study by hotel chain Premier Inn.

A new street food initiative was announced for Spring/Summer 2015 named 'The Kitchens', which hosted a number of local traders on the Leftbank area of Spinningfields.

Granada Studios acquisition
Following the decision of ITV to relocate from its Granada Studios site adjacent to Spinningfields, in order to move to the nearby MediaCityUK development, the 13.5-acre plot on Quay Street became available for development. After entering into negotiations with sellers ITV, Allied London, alongside Manchester City Council, acquired the land in September 2013 in a £26.5 million deal. The council and Allied London have created a partnership under the name of Manchester Quays Limited, and plan to jointly redevelop the site, renamed St John's, into a mixed-use area featuring apartments, retail and 1,200,000 sqft of office space.

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Historical Introduction to Philosophy/Theories of Mind

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Theories of Mind
What is the relationship between the mind and the body? Of what type of substance is the mind? Of what type is the body? These are the type of questions that philosophers of the mind ask.

The two main schools of thought that deal with the mind-body problem and theories of mind are Monism and Dualism. Monism holds that there is only one type of substance, while Dualism holds that the mind and body are of different substances.

Monism
Monism is the view that all of reality is comprised of one type of 'substance'. The roots of the monist perspective can be traced back to Parmenides (515-445 BC). For Parmenides there was only one “thing”, existence, and thus all plurality was false. The three main branches of monism are materialism, idealism, and neutral monism/dual-aspect monism. George Berkeley believes that any object falls into one of two categories, either spiritual or idea. He believes that for anything to be spiritual then it has to be active, conscious, and in motion, whereas ideas are inert and passive. He also believes that ideas or sense objects don't exist on their own and that they have to be perceived and supported to be real. Also it is hard or impossible to define a hedge meaning. For example trying to explain how comfortable a chair is, or pointing to a general area of a floor and telling somebody to stand there. As well taking complex speech and trying to take the simple meaning of a statement.

Likeness Principle
George Berkeley believes that two things can not be compared. That basically ideas are in the mind, so physically objects become ideas so there is no way to compare two ideas. As well abstract ideas like colors or taste can not be compared since each person see or taste different ways. As well George Berkeley believes that objects, or abstract ideas are only ideas in the mind. As well only two perceived ideas could be compared but that two or more ideas can't be hypthosed to be compared.

Anti-abstractionism
George Berkely believes that Anti-abstractionism works in conjuction with the Likeness Principle. That we can not strip the particular qualities from the idea to form new instrinic general ideas. Also that we can not create objective abstract ideas.

Materialism
Materialism has its beginning in the early atomic viewpoints of Leucippus (5th century BC) and Democratis (460 BC), and it has been championed more recently by the likes of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679 AD) and Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655). Materialism holds that the only thing that truly “exists” is matter and all phenomena are the result of material interactions. All mental phenomena can be reduced to physical interactions. With the modern success of scientific theories such as quantum theory materialism is probably the most popular monist theory. George Berkeley believes that only ideas exist. That everything we know only exists as ideas, even god only exists as an idea. That the world doesn't exist as atoms, but as things like poetry, spirits, dreams, etc. As well he believes that secondary qualities like, taste, smell, etc. are perceived along with the sensation. For example if a grape is sour, the sour taste is perceived at the same time as eating the grape. Basically George Berkeley believes that there are no physical objects. That our senses gives us the information to perceive the idea. For example our senses gives us the information to perceive when someone comes in the room, what a piece of food tastes like, etc.

Language
Some philosophers have argued that language is intimately connected with mind, and that mind can be discovered through careful study of language. Gottfried Leibniz was among these philosophers. He thought that carefully study of language was the best way to understand the mind. Leibniz thought language represented the mind, but that existing languages clouded human reason simply because they did not represent human thoughts as clearly and unambiguously as they could. He worked on a plan for a universal language that would more perfectly reflect thoughts. This language was to include symbols that represent mental constructs, and logical rules for working with the symbols. Leibniz's language would perfectly perfectly reflect the human mind! This was possible, he argued, because all thoughts that go through the human mind could be broken down into simple concepts that could not be broken down further. These indivisible ideas would be represented by the symbols of his universal language. A carefully formulated set of rules for combining these symbols would produce a language that would perfectly reflect human reasoning, without the ambiguities that exist in other languages. Leibniz envisioned people using the universal language to easily resolve disagreements. Both parties would establish the fundamental ideas behind their arguments, express them in symbols, then do some calculations to see if they used valid rules for manipulating the symbols. No one would be able to disagree after discovering who used valid rules for manipulating the simple concepts they worked with to reach their conclusions. Leibniz agreed with Thomas Hobbes’ belief that all human thoughts are computational. He was not a materialist like Hobbes, but he believed the human mind works much like a machine, using logical rules to work with simple concepts.

Dual-aspect Theory and Neutral Monism
Neutral monism is the view that all of reality is of one kind, neither mental nor physical. Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677 AD) held the dual-aspect theory which says that the mental and physical are distinct modes of a single substance, God. Neutral monism is, in a way, an agreement with both materialist monism and idealist monism. George Berkeley believes that the brain as an object and the brain as a concept are not separate. That basically the brain isn't an organ like an arm or leg. Or that the mind holds the object of cognitive.

Idealism
Idealism is the view that everything is mental in nature, that is, that everything which exists is mental. One famous idealist was George Berkeley (1685–1753 AD), who claimed that “to be is to be perceived”, thought that both mental and physical phenomena are just perceptions in the mind of God.

George Berkeley belives that objects don't exist until someone perceives the object. As well he believes that objects are just ideas. Basically his logic is (1) we perceive objects like flowers, rivers or whatever, (2) we only perceive ideas, there for objects are just ideas. For example the philosophy book isn't really there until someone looks at or thinks about the book. As well Berkely believes that things that we don't know about or can't conceive doesn't really exist, or that the only things that exists are things that we can perceive or conceive.

Dualism
Dualism is the view that there are two distinct kinds of existence, the mental and the physical. The first truly dualistic theory originated in Plato’s theory of forms.

Cartesian Dualism
Rene Descartes (1596-1650 AD) believed that the mind is distinct from the body. In this view the essense of the physical is extension in space. Minds are unextended substances and thus are distinct from any physical substances. The essence of a mental substance is to think. George Berkeley believed that there is no real world. That the world exists in our mind and perceptions. That what we expierence is our sensations. As well Berkeley believes that humans don't have free will, that God puts all our sensations in our mind,

Parallelism
Both Malebranche (1638-1715 AD) and Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716 AD) both espoused views of parallelism, the view that the physical and mental realms run parallel to each other but that there is no causation between the two. Malebranche's version of parallelism is called occasionalism. This is the view that at each moment God creates the world anew in such a way that it seems as if causation exists. Leibniz's view is called preestablished harmony and it claims that mental and physical phenomena seem to be causaly related because they co-occur in the posible world God actualized (this one) much like two synchronized watches. Because of obvious difficulties parallelism has been mostly abandoned. George Berkeley (1685-1753 AD) believed that our mind percieves the characteristics of an object. For example we perceive the distance to an object, or the objects and magnitude. Basically everything that we perceive is based on our judgement and not on our senses. As well we can not perceive another person's idea by itself. But that we can perveive the idea by the physical responses the idea produces. For example if the other person's idea causes their eyes to diolate or their face to turn red.

Other Dualistic Theories
There are many other dualistic theories but they are far too complex for the limitations of this course. If you wish to learn about them, visit [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dualism/. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dualism/.] George Berkeley believes as well that humans don't have free will. He believes in Determinism, that everyone's choices are controlled by God telephatically George Berkeley's Cognitive Theory. George Berkeley believes that sensory perceptions brings up certain ideas and perceptions depending on which sensory organ is used. Also each sense is separate and distinct from each other and are innate. As well our experience is postulated through our experience. As well the only access to reality that we have is through our ideas. George Berkeley and Direct Realism. George Berkeley believes that things do not actually exist. For a desk or a chair to exist a person has to be perceiving the object. Also any information that comes through our senses are just ideas. So any object are just ideas within us. George Berkeley argument against skepticism is relatively simple. Berkeley believes that there is no out there or that there is no real world. That we can can't go outside ourselves to perceive the real world, so all we have is our ideas. Basically that all primary and secondary qualities are ideas that we perceive. Basically trying to get outside ourselves to perceive objects would lead to skepticism. George Berkeley believes that with language is a conventional language. That our mind uses arbitrary signs which makes us perceive actual or tactical experiences or reality. And people through habit conjoin ideas or through the arbitrary signs form language through the will of a Universal Mind. George Berkeley doesn't believe in physical causation. Since all there are no physical objects then there are no objects to cause the idea in our head. That perceptions are based upon the observer, or how the observer perceives primary and secondary qualities of an object. He believes in mental causation though, that our ideas is the basis for causation. George Berkeley uses Occam's Razor as well. Occam's razor basically says that "Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate" or "plurality should not be posited without necessity." The words are those of the medieval English philosopher and Franciscan monk William of Ockham (ca. 1285-1349). Berkeley uses it to justify to eliminate material substances, or that people only need their ideas and mind to explain everything.

Assignments
If you haven't read 'Phaedo' by Plato in the previous section then do so now, it can be found here Phaedo Read Descartes' 'Meditations on First Philosophy' Meditation 2, which can be found here http://www.wright.edu/cola/descartes/meditation2.html Read Parmenides: Fragments which can be found here http://philoctetes.free.fr/parmenides.pdf Read 'A Treatise Concerning Human Knowledge' by George Berkeley, which can be found here http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4723 Now, think about what it is about the human condition that makes it so difficult to completely characterize our experiences. This is no easy task...

Works Referenced
Audi, Robert. "Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy" 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press 1995, 99 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/ Kolak, David and Thomson Garret. The Longman Standard History of Philosophy. Pearson Education Inc: New York, 2006.

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Talk:Block (meteorology)

Rex blocks
The reference to 'Rex blocks' as consisting 'of a high situated to the north of a low' needs to be debated a little. According to the US National Weather Services site it is indeed: Rex Block - A blocking pattern where there is an upper level high located directly north of a closed low. However all blocking patterns occur when the high is poleward of the low and hence to the south in the southern hemisphere. If a 'Rex block' is specific to the USA as I have not heard of it before [I live and work in the field within Australia], then I believe that its definition should be referred to as being specifically a USA phenomenon, because no blocking pattern in the southern hemisphere arises with the high to the north of the low.

The current content makes no specific mention of this being the case and should be altered accordingly.

Nsdave (talk) 03:27, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Atlantic blocks

 * What classification is a blocking barricade-like high ridge from Iceland to the Azores? This brings cold weather from the north to Britain (where I am enduring the European winter storms of 2009–2010). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:49, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Mechanism
How and why does a cut-off low develop? · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 20:34, 2 February 2021 (UTC)

Re: Nsdave's comment from 2008: Article now refers to "Northern Hemisphere" etc.
I live in the Northern Hemisphere. Nsdave's comment in 2008 would have been about the article as it was then. I had never heard about Block (meteorology) until very recently, when the article was linked from 2021 Western North America heat wave. I suppose Nsdave's comment is no longer needed. I'm not bold enough to delete Nsdave's comment here. Oaklandguy (talk) 20:48, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

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Acanthoclinus matti

Acanthoclinus matti is a longfin of the family Plesiopidae, found only in New Zealand at depths down to 17 m. The specific name honours Hardy's son, Matthew.

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Max Nemni

Max Nemni is a Canadian political scientist and writer, best known for a series of biographies of former Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau which he cowrote with his wife Monique Nemni.

He is a retired professor of political science at Université Laval, and a former coeditor of Cité Libre.

The first volume of the Trudeau biography, Young Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada, 1919-1944, won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing in 2006. The second volume, Trudeau Transformed: The Shaping of a Statesman, 1944-1965, was a shortlisted nominee for the same award in 2011. A third volume, focusing on Trudeau's career in elected politics after 1965, is slated for future publication.

Works

 * Young Trudeau: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada, 1919-1944 (2006, ISBN<PHONE_NUMBER>495)
 * Trudeau Transformed: The Shaping of a Statesman, 1944-1965 (2011, ISBN<PHONE_NUMBER>258)

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Fifth of July (play)

Fifth of July is a 1978 play by Lanford Wilson. Set in rural Missouri in 1977, it revolves around the Talley family and their friends, and focuses on the disillusionment in the wake of the Vietnam War. It premiered on Broadway in 1980 and was later produced as a made-for-television movie.

The play is part of the Talley Trilogy, a series of Wilson plays revolving around the Talley family of Lebanon, Missouri. The other plays, both set on July 4, 1944, are Talley's Folly, a one-act dialogue between Sally Talley and her husband-to-be, Matthew Friedman, and Talley & Son, the story of a power struggle between Sally's father and grandfather.

Plot summary
Kenneth Talley Jr. is a gay double amputee Vietnam veteran living in his childhood home with his boyfriend, botanist Jed Jenkins. At the beginning of the play, he is due to return to his former high school to teach English, but has decided not to. Visiting Ken and Jed are Ken's sister, June Talley, and her daughter, Shirley, as well as Ken and June's longtime friends, John Landis and his wife Gwen, inheritor of a large industrial copper conglomerate. John is ostensibly visiting to purchase the Talley house for Gwen to convert to a recording studio, so that she can have a career as a country singer. Unbeknownst to anyone but June, John and Ken, Shirley is actually John's daughter, and the visit is also his attempt to gain joint custody of Shirley. Ken, meanwhile, believes that the singing career is a way of distracting Gwen so that John can take over her business. Other visitors include Weston Hurley, Gwen's guitarist, and Ken's aunt, Sally Talley, who still has her husband Matt's ashes in a candy box a year after his death. The play culminates with a "bidding war" between Sally and John for the house, after it is revealed that Ken plans on selling it to Landis. Sally ultimately outbids Landis and says she will give the house to Jed so he can finish his garden.

Production history
Fifth of July debuted off-Broadway at the Circle Repertory Company on April 27 and closed on October 1, 1978. Directed by Marshall W. Mason, the cast starred William Hurt as Kenneth Talley Jr., Jeff Daniels, Amy Wright, Danton Stone, and Jonathan Hogan, who also composed the incidental music for the production. The production was designed by John Lee Beatty. It ran for 159 performances.

The play made its Broadway debut at the New Apollo Theatre on November 5, 1980, directed by Mason with Daniels reprising the role of Jed, Christopher Reeve as Ken, and Swoosie Kurtz as Gwen. Replacement actors for the role of Ken included Richard Thomas, Michael O'Keefe, Timothy Bottoms, and his brother Joseph Bottoms. Laraine Newman replaced Kurtz as Gwen. Kathy Bates was also a replacement, in the role of June.

A television film was made in 1982, directed by Mason and Kirk Browning. The film stars Daniels, Kurtz, Hogan, Stone, Cynthia Nixon, Joyce Reehling, Helen Stenborg, and Richard Thomas as Ken, the role in which he succeeded Reeve on Broadway.

A revival, starring Robert Sean Leonard as Ken and Parker Posey as Gwen, was included in the Signature Theater Company's 2002–2003 tribute season to Wilson.

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Deshnoke railway station

Deshnoke railway station is a railway station in Bikaner district, Rajasthan. Its code is DSO. It serves Deshnoke town. The station consists of 2 platforms. Passenger, Express and Superfast trains halt here.

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2008 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics – Results

These are the full results of the 2008 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics which took place between September 5 and September 7, 2008, at Villa Deportiva Nacional (VIDENA) in Lima, Peru.

100 meters
Heat 1 – 5 September 16:00h Wind: -0.6 m/s

Heat 2 – 5 September 16:00h Wind: +0.0 m/s

Final – 6 September 9:55h Wind: -2.0 m/s

200 meters
Final – 7 September 14:10h Wind: -1.0 m/s

400 meters
Heat 1 – 5 September 16:40h

Heat 2 – 5 September 16:40h

Final – 6 September 10:15h

800 meters
Final – 7 September 14:30h

1500 meters
Final – 5 September 17:00h

5000 meters
Final – 7 September 15:00h

10,000 meters
Final – 6 September 11:00h

3000 meters steeplechase
Final – 6 September 15:40h

110 meters hurdles
Final – 6 September 9:30h Wind: -2.5 m/s

400 meters hurdles
Final – 7 September 10:45h

High jump
Final – 6 September 9:00h

Pole vault
Final – 7 September 9:00h

Long jump
Final – 7 September 11:00h

Triple jump
Final – 6 September 11:00h

Shot put
Final – 6 September 9:00h

Discus throw
Final – 7 September 11:00h

Hammer throw
Final – 5 September 14:50h

Javelin throw
Final – 6 September 9:00h

Decathlon
Final – 7 September 9:00h {{legend|#F2F5A9|The highest mark recorded in each event is highlighted in yellow|border=solid 1px #AAAAAA}}

20,000 meters walk
Final – 7 September 7:00h

4x100 meters relay
Final – 6 September 17:00h

4x400 meters relay
Final – 7 September 15:50h

100 meters
Final – 6 September 9:45h Wind: -2.5 m/s

200 meters
Final – 7 September 14:00h Wind: -1.2 m/s

400 meters
Final – 6 September 10:05h

800 meters
Final – 7 September 14:20h

1500 meters
Final – 6 September 10:25h

5000 meters
Final – 5 September 17:20h

10,000 meters
Final – 7 September 9:20h

3000 meters steeplechase
Final – 6 September 15:20h

100 meters hurdles
Final – 6 September 9:20h Wind: -2.1 m/s

400 meters hurdles
Final – 7 September 10:30h

High jump
Final – 7 September 10:45h

Pole vault
Final – 5 September 14:40h

Long jump
Final – 7 September 9:00h

Triple jump
Final – 7 September 14:30h

Shot put
Final – 7 September 14:30h

Discus throw
Final – 6 September 14:30h

Hammer throw
Final – 6 September 11:00h

Javelin throw
Final – 5 September 16:30h

20,000 meters walk
Final – 6 September 0:00h

Heptathlon
Final – 6 September 0:00h {{legend|#F2F5A9|The highest mark recorded in each event is highlighted in yellow|border=solid 1px #AAAAAA}}

4x100 meters relay
Final – 6 September 16:40h

4x400 meters relay
Final – 7 September 15:30h

Note
The names of the Brazilian athletes were completed using the published list of participants.


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Using GNOME/Accessibility

GNOME is designed for all users, including users with disabilities that make using a computer difficult.

This section will cover accessibility tools in GNOME.

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Talk:Soap dispenser

Hyperbole, you finish and I will work on it later, so don't keep stepping on each other. -- FloNight  talk  01:55, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

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Portal talk:Physiology

wouldn't it be more helpful if more content was added on this page ? I'm new so have not addded any thing but I thought the article was vague !

would a more experienced person help out ? or at least advise me on what to do about this

 * Everything at Wikiversity is very new. I have taught physiology in medical school. If you tell me what you are interested in, I can start to add some content. --JWSchmidt 14:41, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:German/Level I/Essen

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I've deleted the conversation under 'Ordering at a Restaurant" because it focuses on certain topics (wine, for example), gives an example before introducing the topic, and looks too much like German: Level II. I hope you don't mind.

I've also deleted the 'nationalities' section: Unless it relates to restaurants, it belongs in Lesson 5. - SamE 22:40, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Guido, could you construct a list of different types of food in Germany under "Ordering at a Restaurant in Germany"? It would be a big help. - SamE 22:46, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Hey SamE, That's ok with me. I'm sorry, but what do you mean, a "different types of food"? Like Meat, Salads, Fish and so on?
 * Regards
 * --- Guido 06:44, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * I mean different types of restaurants, such as seafood or steak or hamburgers, and whatever else is common and/or popular in Germany. If McDonald's is popular, then that would go in the list, too.

 * As for the nationalities, we would need a direct way to say "We eat at the Japanese restaurant." and "He likes Mexican food." If we would need to teach the nationalities to do this, we could reinstate that section (but not as a major section, as a subsection or subsubsection). But I think that belongs in lesson 5. - SamE 14:12, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)

''Just like in last lesson, where you could say, "Ich spiele Fußball gern.", you can also extend it to food. "I like to eat cheeseburgers." is translated as "Ich esse Cheeseburger gern."''

Nobody in German says "Ich (verb) (noun) gern". It must be "Ich (verb) gerne (noun)"! Example: Ich esse gerne Cheeseburger

 * Wow, that's not at all what I've been taught. Could you clarify this with one of the native German speakers on this site (with a username). I'm sorry, but I don't want to make that change only based on what an anon says. - SamE 03:39, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * He / she is right. It is not wrong, but uncommon. You could answer Ich spiele Fußball gerne, e.g. if someone asks Wie gerne spielst du Fußball (How much do you like playing soccer?; you can use gern as well as gerne) - but that are niceties. --Thomas G. Graf [I see, Sma already said it: depends on the situation] 19:20, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Well you cannot tell it definetly, because you can say "Ich mag (das Fach) Deutsch gern(e). But you also can say "Ich mag gerne Kartoffeln." so both structures can be used, but it depends on the situation where it is used. Sma 14:26, 30 Oct 2004 (UTC)

I'd like to leave würden out of this lesson, as it is a very advanced verb form (imperfect subjunctive) that really shouldn't be introduced until year 3. I hope you don't mind. - SamE 23:19, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * no problem, I have already guessed why you put it out again, but actually it is the most polite form to ask for the bill, but you´re with the fact, it should be talked about later on Sma 16:02, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Looks pretty cool, what you're doing here. But I spotted a mistake. Actually "dankeschön" doesn't mean "thanks, pretty". The "schön" is probably more of an adverb than an adjective. I think "dankeschön" is shortened für "Ich danke schön" which literally translates to "I thank prettily". It is definitely no compliment. --- Conny from Germany

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I spotted a mistake too. At the section 'Main Dishes' You can't say "das Hot Dog" Correct: "der Hot Dog" -- Stephan from Germany

 * I would say "das HotDog". - iBlue from Germany.

And BTW the dialogs are not understandable for me. - iBlue

Sorry, this Dialogue is *complete* BS
Frans: Hallo, Greta! Wie geht's? Greta: Sehr gut. Ich habe Hunger. Frans: Ich auch. Möchtest du etwas essen? Greta: Ja! In der Gaststätte Greta: Ich möchte Salat, Brot, und Wasser. Frans: Hast du jetzt keinen Hunger? Greta: Nein, ich habe viel Hunger. Was bekommst du? Frans: Ich bekomme Apfelstudel, ein Stück Kuchen, und einen Eisbecher. Greta: Das ist schrecklich. Du sollst eine Bratwurst haben. Frans: Nein, ich bin zufrieden. Ich habe nicht so viel Hunger.
 * Frans is no German name, it's Franz. BTW Greta and Franz are quite senior names now... don't expect to meet anyone under 50 with these names...
 * "I'm fine. I'm hungry." ...sense?!
 * no articles, no sense
 * of course she's hungry, otherwise she wouldn't order would she?
 * Nein has to be "Doch"
 * Apfelst_r_udel actually _is_ a cake (Kuchen). And who takes a cup of ice cream _with_ two pieces of cake?
 * "That is awful. You shall posess a sausage."... wtf?! and why?!
 * "No, I'm fine. I'm not so hungry" - well - I guess a sausage shouldn't be that much more than two pieces of cake with a cup of ice cream?!

please, PLEASE let these dialogues be at least a) a bit senseful b) (reality-)checked by native speaking Germans. Really. Don't want to offend anyone who has invested his time and effort, but you cannot expect to learn German with this...

Endymi0n 05:05, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Alright, I feel that I have to reply to this. First of all, you can't expect a first year german student to be able understand an actual german conversation by lesson three. What the writers were trying to do is create a somewhat realistic situation based on the vocabulary they already know, which is quite limited. A few corrections I feel that you should be aware of: first off, articles aren't always required. Think about how you would sound if you used an article for every single noun you used in english. Secondly, the phrase "Du sollst eine Bratwurst haben" means, in english, "You should have a bratwurst", not "You shall possess a sausage." Most of these sentences do, in fact, make sense. So perhaps you should stop ranting about corrections that should be made to tailor to your personal preference. Just because you don't have ice cream with your cake doesn't mean that an imaginary person can't say that for the purposes of an educational conversation. MasterSheep 01:04, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

 * The dialogue seems really odd to me.
 * Franz 	Hallo, Greta! Wie geht's?
 * Endymi0n already said something about the choice of names.
 * Greta 	Sehr gut. Ich bin hungrig.
 * This is a contradiction. There should be something in between to resolve it, e.g. “Sehr gut, aber im Moment habe ich Hunger.”
 * Franz 	Ich auch. Möchtest du etwas essen?
 * Greta 	Ja!
 * 	In der Gaststätte
 * Greta 	Ich möchte Salat, Brot und Wasser.
 * This is not a typical German dish that can be ordered from the menu. And why would anyone go to a restaurant for it? I would buy these things in a supermarket.
 * Franz 	Hast du jetzt keinen Hunger?
 * should be “Hast du jetzt keinen Hunger mehr?” (+“anymore”)
 * Greta 	Doch, ich habe großen Hunger. Was bekommst du?
 * Franz 	Ich bekomme ein Stück Apfelstrudel und einen Eisbecher.
 * That's only a dessert. Again, very strange…
 * Greta 	Warum das? Du sollst eine Bratwurst nehmen.
 * That's typical fast food. But a fast food retaurant is not called ‘Gaststätte’ but ‘Imbissbude’.
 * [Rest seems okay…]
 * -- Sloyment (discuss • contribs) 19:11, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

 * Sloyment: I think you can just go ahead and change this wikibooks without discussing your changes (in particular if there is no audio recording) since no one is actively working on this wikibook. --Martin Kraus (discuss • contribs) 20:41, 31 July 2011 (UTC)

Offer
Hey guys, I don't want to read the whole book to find some misstakes, but if anyone has a question about grammar or the German language, just mail at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>I'm a German (I'm a Native speaker, live in Germany, and have the identity card of the Federal Republic of Germany), so I think I would be able to answer all questions. There's one thing you should add to the lessons: There are not many information about the German culture, the people, the history, our food...

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Cookbook:Steaming

Steaming is the cooking of food by the application of steam. In this cooking process, the food is put into a steamer, which is a cooking utensil that consists of a vessel with a perforated bottom placed over one containing water. As the water boils, steam rises and cooks the food in the upper, or perforated, vessel. Steamers are sometimes arranged with a number of perforated vessels, one on top of the other. Such a steamer permits the cooking of several foods at the same time without the need of additional fuel, because a different food may be placed in each vessel.

Steaming is preferable to boiling in some cases, because there is no loss of mineral salts nor food substances. The flavour is not so likely to be lost as when food is boiled. Some delicate fish is best cooked by steaming as it does not break up as it might in boiling water. Vegetables prepared in this way prove very palatable, and very often variety is added to the diet by steaming bread, cake, and pudding mixtures and then, provided a crisp outside is desired, placing them in a hot oven to dry out the moist surface.

Recipes that call for steaming

 * Bengal Potatoes
 * Mussels with Potatoes
 * Steamed Artichoke
 * Steamed Rice

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title: Cookbook:Steaming