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Portal talk:Spanish/Contributors

I don't even know what a contributor is supposed to be here (do i have to contribute something? what exactly does this need?). So i hesitate to put my name there. --Elnole 14:52, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

I want to become a studentElatanatari 00:10, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

I would like to participate
I am unable to figure out how to navigate this page. I have located sign up lists, but can't figure out how to sign up, or add my name to list-such as contributors.

Is there anyone here that can help explain what is going on??? Sensorymoments 17:09, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

participations
This is a wiki, you should open participation to all people. I am a teacher in real life and I'd like to help but I don't understand how

Merge
Well, i agree to merge this site with a general list.--Juan 14:15, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

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zuzüglich

Preposition

 * 1) plus
 * 2) excluding
 * 1) excluding

Usage notes
Often abbreviated to zzgl.

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Soap dispenser

A soap dispenser is a device that, when manipulated or triggered appropriately, dispenses soap (usually in small, single-use quantities). They can be automatic or manually operated by a handle and are often found in public toilets or private bathrooms

Manual
The design of a manual soap dispenser is generally determined by whether the soap comes in liquid, powder or foam form.

Liquid soap
When soap is dispensed in liquid form, it is generally in a squeeze bottle or pump. The most popular soap dispensers of this type are plastic pump bottles, many of which are disposable.

William Quick patented liquid soap on August 22, 1865. Minnetonka Corporation introduced the first modern liquid soap in 1980 and bought up the entire supply of plastic pumps used in their dispensers to delay competition entering the market.

Parts

 * Actuator – This is the top of the pump from which is pressed down to get the liquid out
 * Closure – Closure is the bottle that is fastened to the bottle's neck. it has a smooth or ribbed surface
 * Outer gasket – Made up of plastic or rubber, it is fit inside the closure and prevents leakage
 * Housing – The main pump that keeps the other components in the right place and sends liquid to the actuator from the dip tube
 * Dip tube – This is the visible tube that carries liquid from the bottom of the bottle up to the housing
 * Interior components – A spring, ball, piston or stem that helps move the liquid to the actuator

Operation
The handwash bottle acts much like an air suction device that draws liquid upwards to the user’s hands against the force of gravity. When the user presses down the actuator, the piston compresses the spring and upward air pressure pulls the ball upward, along with the liquid product into the dip tube and then reaches the housing. When the user releases the actuator, the spring returns the piston and actuator to the normal position and the ball returns to its earlier position to stop the backflow of the liquid back to the bottle. This process is called ‘priming' and is only used when the handwash is put in the bottle.

When the user presses the bottle again, the liquid in the housing is drawn from there and is released out of the actuator. The housing is again filled up with the handwash from the bottle, and the process goes on.

Dry soap
Some soap dispensers grate, plane or grind solid soap bars to flakes or powder as they are dispensed. About 40 g fresh weight of soap is equivalent to 1 liter of liquid soap, providing soap for up to 400 handwashings.

Soap mills are common in public washrooms in Germany. Soap graters made specifically for home use can be wall-mounted or free-standing (like a pepper grinder) and waterproof for use in a shower. Some graters take specially-dimensioned soap bars, others will take a range of ordinary soap bar sizes.

Dispensers of pre-powdered soaps, such as borax, often take the form of a metal box with a weighted lever; when the lever is pressed, a handful of soap is released. Ground soap is also used to wash laundry.

Foam soap
Foam soap dispensers have dual foam pumps that when used, move both air and soap, injecting both together through small openings to create a lather. They can be found in both manual and automatic varieties.

Manual dispensers of foam soap often consist of a large button that squeezes the foam out of a tube. Many liquid soap dispensers operate in this way as well. A few dispensers operate with a lever that pulls forward and squeezes the soap out.

The majority of manual foam soap dispensers have the soap in a bladder in the dispenser in liquid form, as the pump is pressed the liquid soap is pushed through a small foaming nozzle which foams the soap.

Automatic

An automatic soap dispenser is specifically a hands-free dispenser of liquid or foam soap, and generally can be used for other liquids such as hand sanitizers, shampoos or hand lotions. They are often battery-powered-powered. Hands-free dispensers for water and soap/hand sanitizer have particular virtues for operating theatres and treatment rooms.

Mechanism
The touch-free design dispenses the liquid when a sensor detects motion under the nozzle. The electronic components of an automatic soap dispenser allow for a timing device or signal (sound, lights, etc.) which can indicate to the user whether they have washed their hands for the correct amount of time or not.

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Listed buildings in Salford

Salford is a city in the City of Salford Metropolitan Borough, Greater Manchester, England. The city, which includes the suburbs of Broughton, Charlestown, Kersal, Ordsall, Pendleton, and Weaste, contains 195 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, four are listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, nine are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.

Although Salford was a manor recorded in the Domesday Book, few listed buildings date from before the arrival of the Industrial Revolution in the form of the textile industry. There was a considerable increase in population in the early 19th century, particularly following the arrival of the railways, and many houses date from between 1830 and 1850, and these were followed by churches and public buildings. The earliest listed buildings are a country house, a manor house and a church. In the early 19th century are a public house, churches and a bridge. Following that are houses, more churches, and a surviving mill; then there are more houses and associated structures, churches and items in churchyards, and public buildings. Other later types of listed buildings include railway structures, memorials and statues, social clubs, offices, a telephone kiosk, and items of public art.

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Sofi Flink

Ida Sofi Emilia Flink (born 8 July 1995) is a Swedish track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. Her personal best throw of 61.96 m is the Swedish women's record.

Career
Flink won silver at her first international competition, the 2011 World Youth Championships. In 2012, she won gold at the World Junior Championships. In July 2013, she won gold at the European Junior Championships. The next month she competed at the 2013 World Championships, her first senior international competition. She set a personal best and Swedish record of 61.96 m to advance through the qualification round then finished tenth in the final with a 59.52 m throw.

In July 2014, Flink sought to defend her title at the World Junior Championships. She ultimately finished second, losing her title to Ekaterina Starygina. In August, she competed at the 2014 European Championships, where she made it through the qualification round and finished twelfth in the final.

Flink next competed at the 2016 European Championships. She finished twenty-third in the qualification round and did not advance to the final. She participated in the 2017 European U23 Championships, where she failed to register a valid throw in the qualifiers.

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Category:World TeamTennis stadiums

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Alberto Vallarino Clément

Alberto Vallarino Clément, (Panama City, April 2, 1951) engineer, businessman and president of Grupo VerdeAzul, S.A. since 2011.

Biography
Alberto Vallarino Clément was born in Panama City on April 2, 1951. He is the son of Mr. Alberto Vallarino Céspedes and Mrs. Marta Stella Clément Linares. His great-grandfather Enrique Linares served as president twice and was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence of the Republic. Another grandfather, Carlos Clément, was one of the heroes of the Independence in Colón.

On July 24, 1981, Vallarino married Adriana Lewis Morgan, daughter of Samuel Lewis Galindo and Itza Morgan de Lewis. They have three children: Ana Maria, Diego and Ximena.

Studies
In 1968, he obtained his diploma of Bachelor of Science from Colegio La Salle, with first place of honor of his class. In 1973 he graduated in Industrial Engineering from Cornell University, where he also earned a master's degree in business administration in 1974.

Work experience
Alberto Vallarino began his career in 1974 at Citibank, N.A. Later he worked as general manager of Industria Nacional de Plásticos, S.A. (1975–1988) and Executive Vice President of Metalforma, S.A. (1979–1988). In 1988, he was appointed Executive Vice President of Banco del Istmo and its subsidiaries.

He also served as CEO of Grupo Banistmo for 20 years, until its sale in 2007 to the HSBC group.

In 1999, Alberto Vallarino founded the Buenaventura Tourism Development.

In addition, Vallarino was member of the board of directors of several companies: Cable & Wireless Communications Panama, S.A., Caja de Seguro Social (Social Security), Banco Nacional de Panamá and Empresa de Transmisión Eléctrica S.A. (Electric Transmission Company).

On February 19, 2013, he was appointed as a member of the board of directors of the Panama Canal Authority for a period of nine years.

Since 2011, Alberto Vallarino has been the CEO of Grupo Verdeazul, S.A.

Political career
In 1984 he was General Sub Coordinator of the presidential campaign of Arnulfo Arias. Meanwhile, during 1989 he participated from corporate associations in the Cruzada Civilista (Civil Crusade) to overthrow the military dictatorship.

For the elections of May 2, 1999, Vallarino was the presidential candidate for Acción Oppositora, which emerged from the alliance of four opposition groups, including Partido Demócrata Cristiano.

Between 2009 and 2011, Alberto Vallarino served as Minister of Economy and Finance of Panama in the government of former President Ricardo Martinelli.

During his tenure as head of the ministry, Panama won in 2010 the award of Investment Grade of three risk rating agencies, over a period of time of 90 days: on March Fitch Ratings upgraded the qualification of Panama, allowing the nation to achieve the Investment Grade Category for the first time;  on May Standard & Poor's Ratings Services also upgraded Panama's rating to Investment Grade, due to the prospects of moderate deficit and the expectations of economic growth; meanwhile, on June Moody's awarded Panama with the Investment Grade, due to the "significant improvement" in the country's fiscal policies and a solid economic growth.

Also, during Alberto Vallarino's period as minister, Panama managed to be excluded from the list of tax havens by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in July 2011, as well as being removed from "the list of countries which identified Panama as an uncooperative tax haven, as is the case of Mexico, France, Italy and others", in the words of Vallarino.

Philanthropic work
Alberto Vallarino served as president of the Unión de Trabajo Industrial de Panamá (1981–1982), Asociación de Industriales Latinoamericanos (1982) and Asociación de Exportadores Panameños (1983); besides being founder and life member of Instituto de Competitividad Infantil de COSPAE; member of Fundación para el Desarrollo Económico y Social de Panamá (Fudespa) and the National Centre of Competitiveness; and president of Fundación Por Un Mejor Panamá.

Also, he constituted Fundación Vallarino Clément, to promote programs and projects related to education, economy and culture.

While he was part of Banistmo, Vallarino established and directed Valores del Istmo, the corporate social responsibility arm of the bank. Then he took that same philosophy to Grupo VerdeAzul, S.A. in 2007, through Fundación Por Un Mejor Panamá.

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Hinako Takagi

Hinako Takagi (born 1989) is a Japanese composer and pianist. She is a lecturer in composition at the Osaka College of Music. In 2019, she became the second Japanese to win first prize in the composition category of the Geneva International Music Competition. Her award-winning work "L'instant" was selected as a task piece in the oboe section of the same competition held in 2021.

Biography
Takagi was born and raised in Hyogo, Japan. In junior high, she was asked to compose a song for her class for a school event. The experience inspired her to be interested in music composition. She majored in piano in high school, and enrolled in composition major in university.

In her freshman year, she received an assignment from her teacher, Yoko Kubo, to compose "100 variations of the same piece in one year." She later said that she learned the basics of composition from this assignment.

She studied composition with Yoko Kubo and Allain Gaussin. In 2012 she was appointed as a lecturer at Osaka College of Music in Osaka, Japan.

As a music genre that one may find difficult to listen to, Takagi wants to turn contemporary music into something more familiar for everyone and find a balance between academic music theory and popularity. She has organized many small concerts with new musical arrangements to engage people's interest in contemporary music. In 2019, she composed a pantonality song called "My owner is a smartphone addict", which talks about the story of a cat named "Gorota", and his owner who is addicted to smartphone and is not interested in playing with him. From the viewpoint of the cat and the modern vocabularies used in the lyrics, the song illustrates the various issues in modern communication.

She is a fan of Takarazuka Revue. Her piece "Revue!" was inspired by the Takarazuka Revue.

Performances
In 2019, she won First Prize in the composition category of the Geneva International Music Competition a gateway for young musicians. Her award-winning work "L'instant" was selected as a task piece in the oboe section of the same competition held in 2021.

"L'instant" means "moment" in French, and was inspired by the famous painting "Candle" from the Japanese painter Yajuro Takashima. In this work, the "mystery" and "impression" of the ancient Greeks fire were revived and expressed through modern music.

In June 2020, "Lost in ______" for flute solo was selected in the open call for works of PROJECT21st Masterclass (Hong Kong). This work is based on the motif of modern people under the COVID-19 situation, and will be performed in Hong Kong in the summer of 2022 by Italian flute player Mario Caroli.

In September 2020, "Messenger: 4 Studies of Clouds", with the theme of "cloud", was premiered at the recital (Osaka) of Takeshi Hidaka, the chief guest horn player of the Japan Century Symphony Orchestra.

In October 2020, she wrote and composed the school song for "Shonai Sakura Gakuen," which is scheduled to open in Toyonaka City, Osaka Prefecture. In this work, the desire to "support the children who will open up the future" and the desire to "remember the school that is no longer integrated" are included.

On October 31, 2020, her piece "Revue!" was performed by percussionist Marianna Bednarska and pianist Lorenzo Soulés in the "Weekend des Lauréats du Concours de Genève" at the 2020 Geneva International Music Competition.

Awards

 * 3rd place (Composition Division), 86th Japan Music Competition 2017 (winning work "Atmospheric circulation" for string quartet and prepared piano)
 * 1st place (Composition), Geneva International Music Competition 2019 (winning work "L'instant")
 * Winner, PROJECT21st Masterclass and Concert Series (MaCS) Call-for-Score (Composition for Flute), Hong Kong
 * Sakuya Konohana Award (Music), Japan, 2020
 * Cultural Future Encouragement Award, Amagasaki City, Japan, 2020
 * Recognition award from the Commissioner for Cultural Affairs Japan (International Arts Division), 2021

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ChocoMimi

ChocoMimi (チョコミミ) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Konami Sonoda. It was first serialized in the magazine Ribon Original in 2003 and was moved to the main Ribon magazine in March 2004. The series was put on hiatus in the September 2019 issue of Ribon due to Sonoda's poor health, and she later died from breast cancer on August 4, 2019.

In Japan, the series was popular among elementary and junior high school students, with critics citing the fashion focus and emphasis on friendship as its strong points. The popularity of the series led to a live-action television drama adaptation in 2007.

Plot
ChocoMimi follows the daily lives of best friends Choco and Mimi, two fashionable junior high girls, as well as their own social circle and family. While Choco is serious and diligent, spoiled sweet Mimi is imaginative and spacey. Together, they experience and explore everyday problems at home, with their friends, and at school. Each chapter ends with a fashion tip from both Choco and Mimi.

Main characters

 * Chiyoko Sakurai (桜井 ちよこ) / Choco (チョコ)
 * portrayed by Yukika Teramoto (TV series)
 * Choco is a gentle and reliable teenager who does well in school and has a liking towards fashion. She is best friends with Mimi and often tries to serve as a figure of responsibility amidst the former's antics. She enjoys cooking and creating crafts. Some jokes in the manga revolve around her poor singing and drawing abilities. Her family runs a cafe called the March Rabbit; she herself hopes to find a future of opening her own cafe.

 * Mimi Nekota (猫田 ミミ)
 * portrayed by Kayano Masuyama (TV series)
 * Mimi is a carefree, optimistic girl. She is a poor student and often tries to slide out from working on her schoolwork, but she has a wild, amusing imagination. Most of her daydreams consist of finding true loves and secret worlds. She claims Mikami is her "dream prince," although she is shown to have feelings towards Mumu. She owns a plush bear toy named Pirate Bear (カイゾクグマ), a recurring mascot in the manga.

 * Ryūnosuke Andō (安藤 竜之介) / Andrew (アンドリュー)
 * portrayed by Yuya Kido (TV series)
 * Andō is transfer student from Osaka who is quiet and plays guitar in a band. He is intimidating at first glance, but he is kind and cares deeply for animals. He is good friends with Choco, although their relationship becomes awkward at times due to their feelings for each other.

 * Mumu Momoyama (桃山 ムム)
 * portrayed by Tōko Miura (TV series)
 * A mischievous student with a self-centered attitude that causes him to constantly clash with Mimi. He has a very cute, feminine appearance that he takes pride in. He has feelings for Mimi and gets easily jealous when Mimi tends to favor Mikami instead of himself. He adores Mimi's dog, Chiffon. Like Mimi, he is a poor student and despises school and homework. He owns a plush bear toy named Death Bear (デスベアー), a counterpart to Mimi's Pirate Bear.

 * Kōmei Mikami (三上 功明) / Mikachin (ミカちん)
 * Portrayed by: Masahiro Usui (TV series)
 * Ando's classmate whom Mimi compares to a prince. He is a good student and does well academically, but he is rather air-headed and prone to making bizarre comments. He is Mr. Take's nephew.

 * Kojika Mori (森 小鹿) / Bambi (バンビ)
 * Portrayed by: Ayame Gouriki (TV series)
 * Bambi is Ando's level-headed, tomboyish childhood friend. She loves singing and playing sports. She has slight feelings for Ando but puts them aside for Choco and Ando's relationship. In spite of this, she is very close to Choco and gets along well with the rest of the group.

Other characters

 * Masato Takeda (竹田 正人) / Mr. Take (タケちゃん)
 * Portrayed by: Taro Suwa (TV series)
 * Choco, Mimi, and Mumu's homeroom teacher. He is constantly exasperated by Mimi's shortcomings and is often frustrated with her inability to concentrate on her studies. He is also the uncle of Mikami and Aoi.

 * Misaki Tsubakiyama (椿山 美咲)
 * Misaki is a third-year student and Choco and Mimi's senior. She is very pretty, but is rather eccentric. At times, she behaves in an outlandish, almost stalker-like manner due to her extreme crush on Mr. Take, which often disturbs the others. She was introduced in the fourth volume.

 * Abe (阿部くん) / Captain (キャプテン)
 * Abe is a third-year student who is the captain of the soccer team. He is friendly and has a crush on Choco. He remains on good terms with her and her friends even after she turns him down.

 * Yamada (山田くん)
 * A classmate of Choco and Mimi who is extremely popular in their class. He has a crush on Misaki and has been in love with her since he saw her at the entrance ceremony. He does not understand Misaki's obsession with Mr. Take.

 * Maho Kawai (河合 真帆) / Maho-Maho (マホマホ)
 * Maho-Maho is Mimi's old friend from her childhood. They knew each other when they were young and had made a promise to marry each other, although Mimi has forgotten about it. Mumu is jealous of him. He is honest, though not very bright, which pleases Mimi to see that someone is duller than herself. He works in the library with Mikami. He was introduced in the sixth volume.

 * Sae Kiguchi (木口サエ)
 * A shy and pessimistic first-year student who has a crush on Mumu. She was friendless before meeting Mumu and the gang. She was introduced in the seventh volume.

 * Remi Kinosaki (城崎レミ) / Remi-sama (レミ様)
 * A beautiful but narcissistic first-year student. She is constantly competing with Mumu over who has the best appearance. She claims that she will not fall in love with any other person because she is in love with herself. She was introduced in the seventh volume.

Family members

 * Mimi's father (ミミの父)
 * Portrayed by: Kousei Amano (TV series)
 * Mimi's father who dotes on her and honors her every request. He becomes upset whenever she is disappointed in his actions.

 * Jin Sakurai (桜井 仁)
 * Portrayed by: Reo Sawada (TV series)
 * Choco's energetic, youngest brother in the fifth grade. He and Ando get along very well with each other due their hobby of playing video games. He has a crush on Aoi.

 * Rai Sakurai (桜井 礼)
 * Choco's second younger brother. He is usually poker-faced and very stoic; the others often comment on how he does not look related to his siblings. He is a year younger than Choco. Mimi and Mumu often tease him by calling him the name "Rachel," which he dislikes. He is often compared to Ando on their similar appearances and behaviors. He was introduced in the fourth volume.

 * Aoi Mikami (三上 葵)
 * Portrayed by: Kana Okunoyama (TV series)
 * Mikami's sweet younger sister, whom Jin has a crush on. She is a year older than Jin and loves reading.

Animals

 * Chiffon (シフォン)
 * (TV series)
 * Mimi's pet dog who communicates in an archaic dialect. He dislikes it when Mimi dresses him up, as he believes himself to be a samurai.

 * Huckleberry (ハックルベリー)
 * (TV series)
 * Choco's sassy, female pet cat.

 * Picho (ピッチョ)
 * Ando's female pet chick, whom he constantly dotes on.

 * Anko (アンコ)
 * A kitten that was found by Choco and Mimi at school, whom Mumu takes in. His real name is Dark Rose Prince Black Requiem Dark Soul II (暗黒のバラ王子ブラックレクイエムダークソウルII世), but Mumu calls him "Anko" in public out of embarrassment.

Manga
ChocoMimi debuted on Ribon Original in 2003. After the magazine became defunct in 2004, it was moved to Ribon. The chapters were later released in bound volumes by Shueisha for a total of 11 volumes under the Ribon Mascot Comics imprint. Sonoda put the series on hiatus beginning the September 2019 issue due to health issues and later died from breast cancer on August 4, 2019.

Viz Media licensed the series in English and released the first five volumes under their Viz Kids imprint. The first volume was released with a sticker set.

Drama CD
A drama CD adaptation featuring ChocoMimi, along with Love-Berrish! and Animal Yokochō, was released as a mail-order gift with the December 2005 issue of Ribon, featuring the voices of Ami Koshimizu as Choco, Ai Nonaka as Mimi, Takayuki Sasada as Ando, and Motoki Takagi as Mumu.

Television drama
The manga was adapted into a live-action television drama series. The series was directed by Yoka Kusano and aired weekly for 26 episodes on TV Tokyo from October 1, 2007 to March 31, 2008 at 5:30 PM. Each episode was divided into two parts and used flash animation for effects and animated segments. ChocoMimi starred a number of child and teen newcomer actors, with its main cast composed of Yukika Teramoto as Choco, AKB48 member Kayano Masuyama as Mimi, Yuya Kido as Andrew, Tōko Miura as Mumu, and Masahiro Usui as Mikachin.

The opening theme, "Happy Happy!", was performed by Teramoto and Masuyama under the name Choco & Mimi, which charted #175 on the Oricon Weekly Singles Chart upon release. The ending themes are "I Can't!!" by Mystic for episodes 1-13; and "Rocket" by Teramoto, Masuyama, Yuya Kido, Tōko Miura, and Masahiro Usui under the name Choco & Mimi with Andrew, Mumu, and Mikachin for episodes 14-26.

Reception
In Japan, ChocoMimi was popular among its target demographic of elementary and junior high students. The fashion focus of the series has been compared to Love and Berry: Dress Up and Dance!, while Choco and Mimi's friendship was compared to Nana and Hachi's from Nana. Lori Henderson from School Library Journal reviewed the series favorably, approving of its "short and sweet" stories and emphasis on friendship, while recommending the series to children in the 9-12 age group. On the other hand, Katherine Dacey from School Library Journal criticized Choco and Mimi's characterization for enforcing negative stereotypes of teen girls as "materialistic, ditzy, and uninterested in school" and felt "bothered" about the stories where Choco and Mimi were concerned about their weight. Publishers Weekly recommended the series specifically to preteen girls, especially ones interested in Japanese culture.

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 * he [Mavji Dave] said: 'I would far rather that you sent him to England. My son Kevalram says it is very easy to become a barrister. In three years' time he will return. Also expenses will not exceed four to five thousand rupees. Think of that barrister who has just come back from England. How stylishly he lives! He could get the Diwanship for the asking. I would strongly advise you to send Mohandas to England this very year. Kevalram has numerous friends in England. He will give notes of introduction to them, and Mohandas will have an easy time of it there.'

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 * Hungarian: csak egy szavába kerül, csak kérnie kell

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2008 Australian Open – Men's singles qualifying

This article displays the qualifying draw for the Men's singles at the 2008 Australian Open.

Seeds
• # Robin Haase (qualified)

• # 🇺🇸 Bobby Reynolds (moved to main draw)

• # 🇫🇷 Nicolas Devilder (second round)

• # 🇱🇺 Gilles Müller (first round)

• # 🇮🇹 Flavio Cipolla (second round)

• # Rik de Voest (second round)

• # 🇩🇪 Denis Gremelmayr (qualified)

• # 🇦🇷 Máximo González (first round)

• # 🇷🇺 Yuri Schukin (first round)

• # 🇪🇸 Iván Navarro (first round)

• # 🇺🇸 Wayne Odesnik (qualified)

• # 🇷🇺 Teimuraz Gabashvili (first round)

• # 🇷🇸 Viktor Troicki (qualified)

• # 🇷🇺 Igor Kunitsyn (qualifying competition)

• # Kristian Pless (first round)

• # 🇵🇰 Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi (first round)

• # 🇪🇸 Marcel Granollers (qualified)

• # 🇺🇸 Robby Ginepri (first round)

• # Roko Karanušić (qualified)

• # 🇺🇸 Amer Delić (qualified)

• # 🇪🇸 Alberto Martín (second round)

• # Konstantinos Economidis (qualified)

• # 🇮🇹 Federico Luzzi (second round)

• # 🇺🇸 Zack Fleishman (first round)

• # Jimmy Wang (first round)

• # 🇦🇹 Oliver Marach (first round)

• # 🇸🇰 Lukáš Lacko (qualified)

• # 🇹🇭 Danai Udomchoke (qualifying competition)

• # 🇨🇿 Lukáš Dlouhý (qualified)

• # 🇮🇱 Harel Levy (qualified)

• # 🇦🇹 Daniel Köllerer (qualifying competition)

• # Wesley Moodie (first round)

Qualifiers
• # Robin Haase

• # 🇨🇿 Lukáš Dlouhý

• # Roko Karanušić

• # Kevin Anderson

• # 🇺🇸 Amer Delić

• # 🇺🇸 Sam Warburg

• # 🇩🇪 Denis Gremelmayr

• # 🇸🇰 Lukáš Lacko

• # 🇬🇧 Jamie Baker

• # 🇮🇱 Harel Levy

• # 🇺🇸 Wayne Odesnik

• # 🇦🇹 Martin Slanar

• # 🇷🇸 Viktor Troicki

• # 🇪🇸 Marcel Granollers

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Talk:Underground (Murakami book)

Rewrite

 * I rewrote many sections of this, including the lead and the common themes, both of which were identified as problem areas in the 2009 GA Assessment. I also added the History section and updated the references. Any feedback would be appreciated! --Revolutionetc (talk) 09:08, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I rewrote this fairly extensively, adding references and sections, fixing grammar and spelling as far as I could plus adding an infobox. Any feedback on this would be very useful. --Phl3djo 11:19, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Your input has been just great, thank you very much for taking your time. Could you also see the Aum Shinrikyo article? It expanded over time following arguments and debates and currently there are repetitions and somewhat clumsy parts that would benefit from evaluation. ExitControl

Great work
I passed the article for GA status. Great work here, not at all diminished by the article's size. --Dark Kubrick 19:22, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

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

BetacommandBot (talk) 19:11, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Translation
There should really be a section discussing the English translation in more detail, since it appears the book has been abridged quite a lot from the original. Jmj713 (talk) 18:22, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

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List of protected heritage sites in Chaumont-Gistoux

This table shows an overview of the protected heritage sites in the Walloon town Chaumont-Gistoux. This list is part of Belgium's national heritage.

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Jonathon Rendina

H. Jonathon Rendina is an American social and health psychologist. He is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Hunter College and the Director of the Applied Intersectionality & Minority Stress Lab (AIMS Lab) in the PRIDE Health Research Consortium. His research focuses on intersectionalities sexual minority stress, LGBT health disparities, and the stigma of living with HIV.

Education
Rendina completed a B.Phil in interdisciplinary studies with a focus on sexuality and health and minors in psychology and human development and family studies at the Schreyer Honors College at Pennsylvania State University in 2008. His thesis was titled Predictors of high risk sexual behavior among young gay and bisexual males. Rendina's thesis supervisor was Anthony D'Augelli. He earned a M.A. in psychology at the Graduate Center, CUNY in 2012. His master's thesis was titled Concealing and revealing: The nature and function of possible selves for HIV status disclosure. In 2013, Rendina completed an M.P.H. in epidemiology and biostatistics at Hunter College and CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy. His thesis was titled Stigma and sexual compulsivity in a community-based sample of HIV-Positive Gay and Bisexual men. He completed a Ph.D. in basic and applied social psychology in 2014 at the Graduate Center, CUNY. His dissertation was titled Hot and bothered: the role of arousal and rejection sensitivity in dual process sexual decision making for gay and bisexual men. His doctoral advisor was Sarit Golub.

Career
Rendina joined Hunter College in 2016 as a full-time faculty member. He is an assistant professor of psychology at Hunter College and the director of the AIMS Lab, which is part of the PRIDE Health Research Consortium. In 2017, he became the principal investigator of a $3.6 million NIH grant to study stigma and HIV-related health outcomes. Co-investigators include Sarah Feldstein Ewing. Rendina's lab studies the intersectionalities of sexual minority stress, LGBT health disparities, and the stigma of living with HIV.

Personal life
Rendina is gay.

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Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/LightFromABrightStar/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets

Doug Weller talk 16:23, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Comments by other users

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
A bit complicated. talk:MorningSunBright stated that their account was compromised after they were blocked for disruptive editing. They were allowed to edit from another account, StopPrejudiceNow. This name was found to be unsuitable, so she renamed to LightFromABrightStar. After continued editwarring and a warning by User:Deepfriedokra they started the same disruptive editing with CherryBlossomsInTheNight. I CU checked the last two and confirmed they were the same. . Doug Weller  talk 16:23, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I hadn't realised the age of the LightFromABrightStar account. I'm making sure the tags are right but the master here is LightFromABrightStar, so this needs renaming. Doug Weller talk 18:57, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

 * ✅. In future, could you please use the "clerk" case status for move requests? It helps make it clear that there's still work to be done on a case page even if the actual investigation is complete. Sir Sputnik (talk) 17:29, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Retagged LFAB as the master, not a sock. Cabayi (talk) 05:53, 23 September 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

See below. — Berean Hunter   (talk)  22:40, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

Comments by other users

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
✅

— Berean Hunter   (talk)  22:42, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

Same narrow topic interest, especially with other socks Laptua-skye and Interracial-is-best, particularly Chinese history; especially re-adding information to Spanish flu about effects in China (diff). Other overlapping topics include various articles on animal domestication (especially in China) and human haplogroups. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 19:49, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

Comments by other users

 * I'm not a sockpuppet of LightFromABrightStar. Looking at the age of the account, it started in the year 2012, when I was nine years old. I am not old enough to have started an account that long ago. I am interested in Chinese history because I am Chinese.

 * The only reason that I edited Spanish flu is because I looked at Spanish flu: Revision history and Talk:Spanish flu was mentioning the effects of the Spanish flu on China, and I noticed that in between the editing wars that happened between multiple sockpuppet accounts, some actually high quality sources got deleted from the article.

 * The sources/information I added to the Spanish flu article, I got from this Reddit post from r/AskHistorians that I previously had read and upvoted several months ago. [Link ]

 * --Leppaberry-123 (talk) 21:18, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
✅ to previous socks in the archive + and. Blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 21:35, 17 January 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

Same focus on topics as recent socks (Laputa-skye, Leppaberry-123), especially effects of the Spanish Flu in China; same pattern of username. Not even trying to be subtle about any of it. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 02:29, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Comments by other users

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅, . ST47 (talk) 16:58, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

IP is restoring text by previous sock: and,  and ,  and. Both geolocate to same place.  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 16:54, 29 January 2020 (UTC)

I know the CU tool cannot be used for IPs explicitly, but given some of the comments at User_talk:Hunan201p, I would like to request a sleeper check. mentioned WorldCreaterFighter who is a prolific socker.  Eve rgr een Fir  (talk) 18:31, 30 January 2020 (UTC)

Comments by other users

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
IPs will not be checked. CU declined.--Bbb23 (talk) 18:48, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
 * IP edits are now stale. Closing. — JJMC89  (T·C) 03:41, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

Water-aqua-123's username beers an obvious similarity to that of LightFromABrightStar's previous sockpuppet, Leppaberry-123. They have both made edits to China-specific articles, including edits that seem to be related to public interest in the recent Wuhan flu.

Furthermore, both have made edits at the obscure "Ashina tribe" article. Leppaberry-123 places citation tags on claims in the "Analysis of written sources and traditions" section at the Ashina tribe article, which were already cited earlier in the article, whereas the newer account (water-aqua-123) attempts to delete the entire section. Both account's user contributions also show an usual amount of China-related edits.

Water-Aqua-123's short contributions page shows his numerous edits to virus epidemics, bats as food (related to the rumors about the Wuhan flu outbreak), obscure articles like "Chinese in India", and the Ashina tribe article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Water-aqua-123

See Leppaberry-123's multiple edits to articles related to China/viruses in China, small mammals, the efficiacy of bear bile (traditional Chinese medicine), "Ethnic Chinese in Russia", the obscure Ashina tribe article, etc:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions/Leppaberry-123&limit=100&target=Leppaberry-123

LightFromABrightStar is supposed to be banned from this website. -- Hunan201p (talk) 10:13, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Comments by other users

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments
✅, blocked, tagged, closing.--Bbb23 (talk) 19:33, 18 February 2020 (UTC)

Suspected sockpuppets

See the contribs pages of Dynasty-Warriors-Fan and the most recently blocked sockpuppets (Water-aqua-123 and Leppaberry-123) of this master account. Note also the two hyphens in their usernames.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Dynasty-Warriors-Fan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Water-aqua-123

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Leppaberry-123

Both accounts have edited the "Bat as food" article with relation to the Wuhan flu epidemic in China.

Both accounts have edited pages related to Chinese people.

Both accounts have edited pages related to the ancient history of Turks/China's frontier wars in the western regions. Water-Aqua-133's sole edit, in this respect, is "Ashina tribe". However, their previous sockpuppet, Leppaberry-123 edited this article many more times. Dynasty-Warriors-Fan has edited "Xiongnu", "Han-Xiongnu war" and "Western Regions" -- all of which relate heavily to Turks.

Dynasty-Warriors-Fan has, like Leppaberry-123 and Water-Aqua-123, followed and edited things that I edited in relation to the origins of Turkic people, in this case, the Salar people page. Hunan201p (talk) 00:56, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Comments by other users

Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * ✅ ST47 (talk) 12:20, 3 March 2020 (UTC)


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Wandering Rocks (sculpture)

Wandering Rocks is a 1967 steel sculpture by Tony Smith, made in an edition of five plus one artist's proof. The Minimalist work comprises five different polyhedral elements painted black.

Description

The five elements of the sculpture have different size and shapes, based on tetrahedrons and octahedrons, with faceted surfaces painted with a semi-gloss black, and are individually named "Crocus", "Dud", "Shaft", "Slide", and "Smohawk". They measure from 23 in to 45.5 in in height and weigh from 361 lb to 742 lb. Several of the editions are exhibited in public, typically installed outdoors on a grassed area. The elements have no fixed positions, and their relative positions and orientations may vary according to the requirements of the specific location, so each installation is different.

The work was first created as a full-size plywood mock-up and then replicated in painted metal. The sculpture may allude to the structure of molecules and crystals, or the Japanese rock garden of Ryōan-ji in Kyoto. As Smith described it: "The Rocks were really conceived as one piece, although I didn't think of them as having a fixed spatial relationship to one another. They did, however, have a temporal sequence. I thought of each piece as having an identity but also as a constituting part of a group. In this group, positions were thought of as changing."

Editions

The work was created in an edition of five, plus one artist's proof:
 * Wandering Rocks (AP) has been displayed in Seattle, Washington, since 2007, and is now at the Olympic Sculpture Park, donated to the Seattle Art Museum by the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection in 2016 for the museum's 75th anniversary
 * Wandering Rocks (1/5) is at Kykuit - the John D. Rockefeller Estate - in Pocantico Hills, New York
 * Wandering Rocks (2/5) is at Lynden Sculpture Garden, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, donated by the Bradley Family Foundation in 2012
 * Wandering Rocks (3/5) is in a private collection, in Cleveland, Ohio
 * Wandering Rocks (4/5) is at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., having been bought by the National Gallery of Art in 1981
 * Wandering Rocks (5/5) is at the Kröller-Müller Museum, at Otterlo, in the Netherlands.

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Clue VCR Mystery Game

Clue VCR Mystery Game is a 1985 VCR murder mystery game based on the board game Clue, known as Cluedo in the UK.

Plot and gameplay
The game contained a 60-minute live-action videotape of three separate stories and 18 individual games, three sets of clue cards, 18 investigation cards, and ten suspect cards. The four new suspects Monsieur Brunette, Madame Rose, Sgt. Gray, and Miss Peach would later appear in the 1988 board game Clue Master Detective.

Sequel
The sequel Clue II: Murder In Disguise VCR Game was released in 1987 with most of the cast reprising their roles.

Critical reception and legacy
The German localisation was cited by as a potential learning supplement for students.

In a 21st century retrospective, Clue VCR Mystery Game was recognized as "a new way to play a familiar game [that] also ushered in a new type of gaming altogether".

The 2013 documentary ''Who Did It? The Clue VCR Game'' was directed by Tim Labonte and Frank Durant.

Reviews

 * Jeux & Stratégie #52
 * Games #68
 * 1985 Games 100

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List of protected heritage sites in Incourt, Belgium

This table shows an overview of the protected heritage sites in the Walloon town Incourt, Belgium. This list is part of Belgium's national heritage.

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Gime Touré

Gime Touré (born 7 May 1994) is a French professional footballer who plays as a winger and striker most recently for Scottish League One club Cove Rangers.

Career
Touré spent his early career with Brest II, Viry-Châtillon, La Roche, Fontenay, Macclesfield Town, AFC Fylde, Sutton United and Hartlepool United. He spent one season with Hartlepool, where he finished the 2019–20 season as top scorer for them with 13 goals in all competitions.

He left Hartlepool at the end of the 2019–20 season after expressing a desire to play at a higher level. In August 2020 he signed for Carlisle United. Touré scored on his debut against Fleetwood Town in the EFL Trophy, opening the scoring in a 3–1 home defeat, before later being sent off in the game. On 21 October 2021, Toure returned to the National League to join Aldershot Town on loan. On 9 May 2022, it was announced that Touré would be released by Carlisle United at the end of the 2021–22 season.

On 12 August 2022, Touré signed for National League side Yeovil Town. On 9 December 2022, Touré left Yeovil by mutual consent.

On 3 February 2023, Touré joined Scottish Championship club Cove Rangers.

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User:POCO

POCO is an organization at Bard College that works to integrate the roles of performer and spectator using a diverse selection of artistic media. Events are based on improvising in the moment through the collaboration of visual artists, musicians, film makers, audience members, etc. We wish to facillitate a forum in which one is encouraged to express themselves through any collaborative artistic means. Each event is a unique incarnation of these objectives.

On November 17th, 2005 we had our first POCO event, "POCO Lounge," prior to being established as a Bard Club. The event was successfull considering the financial constraints. We rented a space and set up the room as a gallery/lounge displaying current art from various art students. We set up two stages in the room, one geared to larger acts and one smaller for single performers. We had seven different acts: solo vocals, jazz ensemble, recited poetry, bluegrass, country, dramatic prose readings, previously recorded electronic music. We had live video feed manipulated and replayed on a large projection screen controlled by several film students. Also included in the Lounge were a Master of Ceremonies, a girl dressed as a clown, a bouncer, a bartender (who then played his music on top of the bar), a girl putting fake tattoos on whoever wanted them, a palm reader, and a magician. The atmosphere was one of controlled chaos. We had a guest book that people were prompted to sign by our Master of Ceremonies - over 100 people signed their names. During and after the event we were approached by many of the participants - audience and artisans - who were thrilled. At least four people mentioned that it was the best event they'd been to at Bard College.

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Talk:Richard E. Aaron

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Dru Brown

Dru Brown (born March 21, 1997) is an American professional football quarterback for the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football at Oklahoma State and Hawaii.

College career
Brown did not start until his senior season of high school and did not receive any Division I offers. He attended the College of San Mateo in his freshman year, playing in 11 games, and completed 104 of 194 passes for 1,870 yards and 21 touchdowns. He then transferred to Hawaii Rainbow Warriors for the 2016 season.

2016
After not playing in Hawaii's first three games, Brown entered the Rainbow Warriors fourth game against the Arizona Wildcats in the second half, replacing Ikaika Woolsey. Brown was able to direct the Rainbow Warriors to three touchdown drives in the second half, but they lost to Arizona 47–28. He was named the starting quarterback before the Rainbow Warriors match against Nevada Wolf Pack. Against the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders in the 2016 Hawaii Bowl, he threw for 274 yards and four touchdowns while also accounting for a rushing touchdown en route to a 52–35 victory. He was also named one of the game's most valuable player for his efforts.

2017
Coming off of Hawaii's first bowl victory in ten years, Brown was once again named the starting quarterback for the 2017 season. He threw for 2,785 yards and 18 touchdowns that season on a struggling Rainbow Warriors team that lost nine of the last ten games, mostly attributed to a battered offensive line whose position coach left mid-way through the season, and top receiver John Ursua lost to a torn anterior cruciate ligament. After the 2017 season, he announced his intention to transfer, enrolled at Oklahoma State as a graduate transfer, and was immediately eligible to play. He finished his career at Hawaii with 5,273 career passing yards and 37 touchdowns.

2018
At Oklahoma State, Brown joined a crowded QB room competing for the Cowboys starting quarterback job following the departure of the four-year starter Mason Rudolph. Brown was named the primary back-up quarterback to the starter Taylor Cornelius before the start of 2018 season. Despite playing in the Cowboys' 2018 Liberty Bowl, Brown was able to redshirt under the NCAA's new redshirt policy and keep his final year of eligibility.

2019
Following Cornelius' graduation and departure, Brown was one of the favorites to win the starting quarterback job, competing for it with redshirt freshman Spencer Sanders. Brown was once again named the primary back-up as Sanders was named the starting quarterback for the Cowboys' season opener against the Oregon State Beavers.

After Sanders suffered a hand injury in the middle of a game against the Kansas Jayhawks, Brown entered the game in relief and threw a touchdown pass on his first play. He finished the game with 3 completions on 5 attempts for 70 yards and a touchdown in the 31–6 victory. He started his first career game as a Cowboy against the West Virginia Mountaineers the following week, where he racked up 196 yards and two touchdowns in a 20–13 victory. For his performance against West Virginia, he was named the Big 12 Newcomer of the Week.

Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Following his college career, Brown was added to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers roster on March 11, 2020. However, he did not play in 2020 due to the cancellation of the 2020 CFL season. In 2021, he was the fourth string quarterback and spent most of the year on the practice roster. However, after the Blue Bombers clinched first place, Brown dressed in his first professional game on November 13, 2023, against the Montreal Alouettes. He played in the final two regular season games in 2021, where he completed seven of 14 pass attempts for 49 yards. He did not dress in either of the team's post-season games and was on the practice roster for the team's 108th Grey Cup championship over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats.

During the first game of the 2022 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season, Brown came in to the game late in the fourth quarter to complete a game-winning field goal drive. He entered the game after starting quarterback Zach Collaros was pulled from play by injury spotters after he took a hit to the head. During the 2023 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season, Brown again took over the offence after Collaros left the game with an upper body injury after a high hit during a week 9 game against the Edmonton Elks. He brought the Bombers back from a 22 point deficit throwing for 307 yards and four touchdowns as the Bombers beat the Elks 38-29. He made two starts in 2023, winning both of them, and set a new CFL record for the most touchdown passes (9) without recording an interception.

Ottawa Redblacks
As a pending free agent, Brown's playing rights were traded to the Ottawa Redblacks on January 18, 2024, in exchange for a fifth-round pick in the 2024 CFL Draft. On January 24, 2024, it was announced that Brown had signed a two-year contract, with a minimum $286,000 plus $54,000 in playtime incentives in 2024, and a minimum $355,000 plus $45,000 in playtime incentives in 2025.

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User:Kspepple

Kspepple
I am a student at the University of Pittsburgh. I am in a course that works on creating and editing art history pages. I study history and English literature with a minor in museum studies. If you have any questions or concerns please contact me.

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User:Srobinso

Biography According to the Stanford Philosophy Enclyapedia Renee Descartes was born on March 31, 1596 in La Haye France, to Juachim Descartes and Jeanne Brochard. He had two siblings and two half siblings. His father was a Lawyer and did not spend much time with his family. His mother died from tuberculosis when he was a year old. His grandmother raised him and his bother Pierre and sister Jeanne. The boy was susceptible to illness and coddled for example, allowed him to sleep until noon. He was sent to the Jesuit College at la Fleche in Anjou sometime between the ages of six to ten. Here, he again slept late most days. Descartes believed that he did his best thinking in bed and often to advantage of this time for reflection. He invented analytical geometry connecting algebra with geometry. The lines we use on maps are known as Cartesian coordinates. When he was 33, he relocated to Holland because of its religious tolerance. In 1595 he moved to Sweden to tutor the Queen. He died a year later from pneumonia.

Decartes Scratch Page

Decartes Scratch Page

Descartes  Historical Introduction to Philosophy

Rene’ Descartes France b.1596 d.1660

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User:Mwinog2777/Davey Alba

Davey Alba is a New York Times technical reporter covering online disinformation.

Early life and education
Davey Alba was born in Manilla, Phillipines, and attended De La Salle University, earning a degree in communication arts. Her father is an academic, mother an economic consultant and her sister is VP of a multi-national investment bank. She came to the United States at age 23 in 2010. She studied at Columbia University and received a masters in technical writing.

Career
Alba's first job out of training was at Popular Mechanics; she was technical editor and got to test gadgets and phones. She worked as a technical writer at BuzzFeed News, Wired and Gizmodo before joining the New York Times as a technology reporter 2019. Her areas of coverage at the Times have included disinformation and the power of Big Tech companies to spread it.

In 2018, working at BuzzFeed, she reported how Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte used fake news. For the BuzzFeed article on Duterte, Alba won two 2019 awards. She was awarded the Livingston Award for International Reporting, documenting how Facebook ignored fake news, fueled the Filipino drug war, and adversely impacted a vulnerable community by enabling Duterte to manipulate public opinion and win election. After Duterte won, the machinery of manipulating opinion became a state-sponsored one to punish oppponents, sometimes with death." She won the Mirror Award for Best Story for Journalism in Peril.

After reporting on videos supportive of President Trump's recommendation for the use disinfectants in the treatment Covid-19, Davey was the target of "weaponized harassment." Davey reports that she was targeted as a reporter who is an immigrant, a woman and a person of color.

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Talk:Dujon Sterling

Move to Rangers
At the time of writing, his move to Rangers is not confirmed.

Regarding the name of the club and Rangers' bankruptcy; let's not let our affiliations taint our contributions eh? ;) Mongoletsi (talk) 07:00, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

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Παλλήνη

Proper noun

 * 1) Pallene, one of the Alkyonides in Greek mythology
 * 2) one of a number of places called Pallene or Pallini

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Music Theory/Chord Structures

A chord structure, also called a chord progression or harmonic progression, helps indicate where the melody should go.

The purpose of chord structures
It can be argued that many forms of music are organic, while imposing a rigid "structure" can be hampering. This is a legitimate concern. However, consider that rigid chord structures occur most often in improvisational music (especially jazz), which is usually not rigid in itself. Furthermore, many composers do not consider chord structures much when composing, perhaps trying various things out and just going with what works, or maybe simply having an intuitive understanding of the structures involved. Knowledge of chord structures will help you communicate with other musicians, but is not a must for participating in any kind of jam session. Jamming can begin and end anywhere either with or without structure.

Common chord structures
By far the most common chord structures revolve around, or at least contain, the I, IV, and V chords. This is why it is important to know the Roman Numerals for these scale degrees: they pop up a lot! Many songs use only these three chords (and possibly variations of them). The first we will consider is the classic twelve bar blues based on the 'Blue Scale'.

The twelve bar blues
The twelve bar blues, despite its name, pops up in a variety of genres, from jazz to rock. It has been used in many great songs, such as the theme from the Batman television show. Its most basic structure is this:

I I  I  I  IV IV I  I  V7 IV I  I The roman numerals are also used for different songs. e.g E E E E / A A E E / B A E E. This can be used for any chords but you must use the same pattern repeatedly. That is, the first four bars are the I chord, the next two the IV chord, the next two the I chord again, and so on. It begins on the tonic and ends on the tonic, which is common in many progressions. Many chord progressions start at the tonic, move away to somewhere else, only to come back to the tonic. To complicate this, however, twelve bar blues structures sometimes feature a turnaround at the end, meaning the very last bar is a V7 chord, or it has a I chord followed by a V7 chord. Turnarounds usually occur at the end of a verse or some other section in preparation for the next section. Usually the very last bar of a song will not have a turnaround.

In some genres, such as jazz, seventh chords occur more commonly, so the basic twelve-bar blues might become something more like this:

I I   I  I7  IV IV7 I  I7  V7 IV  I7 I

It can also be modified further. For instance, the tenth bar (the last occurrence of IV) might become another V7 chord. This alteration was often used when adapting the twelve-bar blues to rock and roll.

The II-V-I
In jazz, the II-V-I is probably the most common chord progression. As its name indicates, it goes:

IIm7 V7 Imaj7

As always, the exact type of chords can be modified to give a different feeling, such as in this melodic minor, ascending form only, version:

IIm7b5(9) V7alt Imaj7

Note: Only the IIm7b5(9) and V7alt chords are from melodic minor scales.

The Minor II-V-I
Another commonly used chord progression is the minor ii-V-i. One can derive this from the melodic minor scales shown above, while substituting a IminMaj7 for the IMaj7 chord, or by using three modes from one harmonic minor scale, which produces the following chord progression:

IIm7b5(b9) V7b9(b13) IminMaj7(b6)

Applications of II-V-I's
II-V-Is can be chained together, creating complex progressions. Here's an example:

C     Bm7b5 E7   (I     II  V)  Am7    Dm7   G7   (I     II  V)  C      (etc...)   (I     etc..)

An example of complicated progression that can be created this way is the "Coltrane Changes", where the "I" chords move by Major 3rd intervals. Here's a simple example:

Dm7 G7  Cmaj7    (II V I  ) F#m7 B7 Emaj7    (II V I  ) Bbm7 Eb7 Abmaj7  (II V I  ) Dm7 etc... (I etc...)

The way the II-V-I progression works is that first the II chord moves by 4ths upwards, which very often produces interesting results, and then when moving from the V chord to the I chord the 7th of the V chord descends a half step and becomes the 3rd of the I chord.

II-V-I progressions can also be used in other styles, such as classical.

Two-chord structures
Two-chord structures are much simpler than three-chord structures, of course. However, they are harder to work with! It is more difficult to write an interesting piece with fewer chords, therefore the musicians must get the most they can out of them. One example of this can be found in the song "O Superman" by Laurie Anderson.

One-chord structures
One-chord "structures" are uncommon, but they do exist. For instance, Frere Jacques is a one-chord song because it can be played against a single major chord. More contemporary examples are "On the Road Again" by Canned Heat, numerous rap songs, and so on.

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Lucid Dreaming/Reality Checks/Nose

Presentation
With the nose reality check, you close one eye, and try to see your nose. If you can't, then you're dreaming.

See Talk:Lucid Dreaming: Reality Checks: Nose for a discussion of this reality check's effectiveness.

Examples of this reality check working

 * I closed one eye to try and see if my nose was still there. Many people had told me that you shouldn't see your nose at all, but that wasn't true in this dream. It was smaller, and hard to look at. I became lucid.

Examples of this reality check failing

 * I closed one eye to look at my nose. It was still there and looked completely normal.
 * I tried to see if my nose was there. It was, but it was bent the wrong way. Unfortunately, I didn't become lucid. Instead, I carried on doing the RC over and over until it went back to normal.

Sueño lúcido/Test de Realidad/Nariz

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Verb

 * 1)  to adulterate
 * 2)  to argue using sophisms
 * 3)  to quibble

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) sophistication

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Introduction to Math for computer programming

This page is currently only a very very small fraction of what I intend it to be. If you have idea for topics or the heavenly inspiration to contribute something great to this topic: Please click that "edit" button and do it!

Please try to keep this simple and easy to understand without prior knowledge of anything beyond introductory algebra unless the topic warrants it. If you know calculus: Good for you. That doesn't mean the average viewer of this page does.

Number systems
The following is a list of common number systems. The names of which are derived from latin.

 * Unary is of very limited usefulness since only positive integers can be expressed in it. The same is more-or-less true for any numbering system whose absolute value is equal to one.
 * Binary is used to portray the specific values of on (1) and off (0) used in digital electronics like computers
 * Octal was more commonly used in the early days of computing and especially on computers whose byte size was divisible by three. It is still used in some computing cultures and for some specific purposes but its use has been largely supplanted by hexadecimal.
 * Hexadecimal is often used to portray binary numbers in a smaller, neater-seeming form

Determining number value
Because people tend to be most familiar with dealing with numbers in Decimal, that is the basis we will use to get a feel for a number's value.

You may determine the decimal value of a number in any given base using the following formula:

Where:
 * K = Decimal value of a given number
 * d = Decimal value of a value in a specified base
 * B = Decimal value of the base of the number being evaluated
 * i = Decimal value of the index at which the number currently being evaluated is located (0 = right-most; 1, 2, 3, etc. are 1, 2, 3, etc. places from the right-most)

In this scheme, the right-most digit in any number in any base is:
 * The digit place with the smallest potential value
 * Has an index (i) value of 0

It is common to determine the value of a number, starting with the right-most value. That's what I'm going to be doing in the following examples.

Converting decimal to decimal
Converting the decimal number 931 to decimal: 1 * 10^0 =  1 3 * 10^1 =  30 9 * 10^2 = 900 900 + 30 + 1 = 931

Converting the decimal number 23 to decimal: 3 * 10^0 = 3 2 * 10^1 = 20 20 + 3 = 23

Converting binary to decimal
Converting the binary number 0b01001100 to decimal: 0b00000000 = 0 * 2^0 = 0 0b00000000 = 0 * 2^1 = 0 0b00000100 = 1 * 2^2 = 4 0b00001000 = 1 * 2^3 = 8 0b00000000 = 0 * 2^4 = 0 0b00000000 = 0 * 2^5 = 0 0b01000000 = 1 * 2^6 = 64 0b00000000 = 0 * 2^7 = 0 64 + 8 + 4 = 76

Converting the binary number 0b11111111 to decimal: 0b00000001 = 1 * 2^0 =  1 0b00000010 = 1 * 2^1 =  2 0b00000100 = 1 * 2^2 =  4 0b00001000 = 1 * 2^3 =  8 0b00010000 = 1 * 2^4 = 16 0b00100000 = 1 * 2^5 = 32 0b01000000 = 1 * 2^6 = 64 0b10000000 = 1 * 2^7 = 128 128 + 64 + 32 + 16 + 8 + 4 + 2 + 1 = 255

Converting hexadecimal to decimal
Converting the hexadecimal number 0x16 to decimal: 6 * 16^0 = 6 1 * 16^1 = 16 16 + 6 = 22

Converting the hexadecimal number 0xBEEF to decimal: F = 15 * 16^0 =    15 E = 14 * 16^1 =   224 E = 14 * 16^2 = 3,584 B = 11 * 16^3 = 45,056 45,056 + 3,584 + 224 + 15 = 48,879

Binary
Binary relys on only two digits which are usually written 0 and 1, but are easilly encoded as "off" and "on" in switch circuits, which makes Binary the language of choice in low-level Computing and Digital Electronics.

Hexadecimal
Hexadecimal is commonly used to represent binary data, as it occupies only one quarter of the space when written down.

Corollary
In all number systems, prefixed zeros can be ignored (do not affect the value represented), however common practice is to prefix all octal numbers with a leading 0 (zero), all hexadecimal values with 0x and all binary numbers with zeros so that it contains a number of digits which is divisible by eight.


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Etymology
From (also, ), equivalent to. Akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and also calques 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) wonderful

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