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Island Shangri-La

Island Shangri-La, Hong Kong is a five-star luxury hotel of Shangri-La Hotels and Resorts. It is located in Admiralty, Hong Kong and is the sister hotel to the Kowloon Shangri-La in Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon. It is housed within Two Pacific Place, a 213-metre, 57-storey skyscraper opened on 1 March 1991.

History
The Island Shangri-La, Hong Kong was opened on 1 March 1991 as part of Pacific Place, a complex of office towers, hotels and a shopping centre at 88 Queensway in Admiralty. The hotel was part of phase two out of three, the initial phase having opened in 1988, and the final third phase in 2004. It contains 557 guestrooms which start at US$606 per night, of which 34 are suites which start at US$1,041 per night., spread through the top half of the tallest tower of the complex, which is 213 metres tall. The hotel also contains eight restaurants, a business centre, a 24-hour health club, a 645-square-metre ballroom, and seven function rooms. The bottom half of the tower contains office space, known as "Two Pacific Place".

Pacific Place contains three other luxury hotels: the Conrad Hong Kong, the JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong, and The Upper House. The complex is directly connected to Admiralty station, which began operation in 1980 as part of Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway.

Design and construction
The hotel's interior was designed by Leese Robertson Freeman Designers. 771 Viennese chandeliers are used throughout the interior, while carpets are provided by Tai Ping.

The proximity of Hong Kong Park, covering 80,000 m², has meant that the hotel has become popular with leisure travellers who are able to jog there in the mornings, according to former VP and GM Wolfgang Krueger.

Art collection
The Great Motherland of China, a silk painting composed of 250 panels, is the centrepiece of the hotel's art collection. It scales an internal wall of over 16 stories and can only be seen from within the hotel's inner atrium, stretching from the 41st to 56th floor and only accessible to guests. The painting was created by a team of 40 artists from Beijing and took six months to complete.

The hotel also holds a collection of over 700 artworks, and frequently hosts art fairs and auctions. As well as auctions in its ballroom by the likes of Bonhams that focus on contemporary Asian art, the hotel was also selected as the venue for art entrepreneur Dong Myeong Kim's Bank Art Fair, which showcased over 100 emerging Korean artists on floors 41 and 42 as part of Art Basel Hong Kong from 23–26 May 2013.

Rooms and suites
The hotel has 523 standard rooms, 17 executive suites, 14 Harbour View Suites, two speciality suites at and a Presidential Suite. Each has views of either the Victoria Harbour, or Victoria Peak. The rooms are all scented with the hotel's own brand fragrance, which it has made available for sale.

Restaurants
The hotel contains seven restaurants. Fine dining facilities includes the one-Michelin-starred Cantonese restaurant Summer Palace and the one-Michelin-starred French cuisine Restaurant Petrus, both of which received the recognition in the guide's inaugural 2021 Hong Kong and Macau edition.

Health Club
Located on Level 8, the Health Club offers yoga and pilates circuit classes. Treatments include the signature Caviar Crystal Soothing Treatment, using the European approach of entrusting selected products such as jojoba, almond, peppermint and rosemary oil for spa treatments in order to be unobtrusive. The club contains five treatment rooms, two for women, two for couples and one for men.

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Category:IMPA aircraft

This category is for those aircraft that have been designed and/or built by the argentinian Industrias Metalúrgicas y Plasticas Argentinas (IMPA).

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Wikiversity talk:Community Portal

To raise general topics about Wikiversity, make general suggestions about Wikiversity, to ask questions, or to talk about anything else of a general nature, use the Colloquium.

Community Portal | talk | Archive 1 (2006-2007)

'If you wish to post something below, go ahead. It's a talk page. But you are more likely to get a response by going to the Colloquium.'

Protection
Since many sister projects have semi-protection to their community portals, and due to the importance of the portal for navigation, I have set semi-protection to the community portal page. MathXplore (discuss • contribs) 01:41, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

IRC Channels Deadlink
Unless there's an issue on my end, looks like the links to IRC channels are dead. Should we just delete the section, perhaps? Are those channels are no longer maintained? Addemf (discuss • contribs) 20:59, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

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Veil of Tears – Part One

"Veil of Tears – Part One" is the fiftieth episode of the nineteenth series of the British medical drama television series Holby City. The episode was written by Joe Ainsworth and directed by Jan Bauer, and premiered on BBC One on 19 September 2017. The episode features the wedding of established characters Zosia March (Camilla Arfwedson) and Oliver Valentine (James Anderson), who both work on the show's fictitious Darwin ward. It formed the first of a two-part collective of episodes leading up to Arfwedson's departure from the series. The episode also featured Zosia's father Guy Self (John Michie) ruining her wedding day, getting drunk and falling on a shard of glass. Other characters battle in the operating theatre to save his life. While registrar Dominic Copeland (David Ames) and nurse Ben "Lofty" Chiltern (Lee Mead) sleep together forming part of their ongoing gay storyline.

Location filming was done at Brocket Hall, a Grade I-listed classical English country house. Arfwedson described the episode as "such a romantic episode" and said that it was a fun process to create. The episode was promoted by the BBC with trailers airing on their website and televised segments on BBC1. The episode was watched by 4.3 million people during the BBC One airing.

Plot
The episode follows the wedding day of ST3 doctor Zosia March (Camilla Arfwedson) and registrar Oliver Valentine (James Anderson). Zosia's father Guy Self (John Michie) attends a meeting with CEO Henrik Hanssen (Guy Henry) and medical director Nina Karnik (Ayesha Dharker). They inform him that Guy is suspended for being under the influence of alcohol in the operating theatre. Nina asks consultant cardiothoracic surgeon Jac Naylor (Rosie Marcel) to review all medical cases involving Guy to find possible errors. Nina then orders Jac to send a patient home waiting for a pioneering cosmetic procedure. She argues that the hospital is short staffed, needs beds and no negative attention. Nina talks to the patient and changes her mind, opting to assist Jac on the operation.

Guy attends the wedding venue where he tries to make amends with Zosia. She initially forgives him, but orders him to leave when she realises he is manipulating her. Zosia's best friend, registrar Dominic Copeland (David Ames), walks her down the aisle and she marries Oliver. Guy drinks a bottle of whisky and destroys the wedding cake. He proceeds to make speech criticising his daughter and ruining their reception. Nurse Ben "Lofty" Chiltern (Lee Mead) puts Guy in a guest room to sleep, but Guy smashes glasses and bottles in the room.

Dom's boyfriend Freddie Chapel (Aaron Fontaine) complains that the wedding is boring and abruptly leaves. An upset Dom is mean to Lofty who offers his support. He later goes to Lofty's room to apologise and kisses him. The pair sleep together unaware of trouble unfolding outside. Zosia finds Guy unconscious in the guest room. He has taken an overdose and fallen on a shard of glass. He is rushed to hospital where Jac and Nina battle to save his life. They manage to resuscitate him and remove the shard of glass. He has to have his spleen removed and is stabilised. Oliver tries to comfort Zosia who seems disinterested in him, as she sits by her father's bedside.

Production
The episode features Zosia and Oliver's wedding as the main story. The episode was highly anticipated by fans of the two characters. Arfwedson believed viewers were "terribly excited" because they wanted the pair finally achieve happiness together following difficult times. Holby City producer Kate Hall told Daniel Kilkelly from Digital Spy that "the 'Zollie' wedding is a fascinating story about a young woman, the pressures she has faced through her diagnosis, and the very complex relationship she has with her father."

"Veil of Tears – Part One" was written by Joe Ainsworth and directed by Jan Bauer. Zosia and Oliver's wedding was filmed on location at Brocket Hall, a Grade I-listed classical country house set in a large park near Hatfield in Hertfordshire, England. Of her experience of filming there, Arfwedson told Sarah Ellis from Inside Soap that "it was so much fun and such a romantic episode." Lee Mead who plays Lofty was written into the episode. The actress also found it strange that he was attending her character's wedding when she had never worked with Mead on-screen before. In addition Anderson found filming the wedding scenes to be "weird" because he was about to marry in real life. He married off-screen within twenty-four hours of the episode being broadcast.

Arfwedson told Victoria Wilson from What's on TV that the episode features her character as "quite a lonely figure, pacing around this grand house". This is because she has cancelled many of the wedding guests' invitations due to her argument with Guy. The episode was also one of a two-part collective of episodes, with the following episode titled "Veil of Tears – Part Two". These episodes formed the lead up to Arfwedson's departure from the series. The actress told What's on TV that it was "nice to have this big wedding" episode leading to her exit. She described filming the two parts as "very full on and quite exhausting".

Promotion
In August 2017, Hall stated that the episode would be one of the show's "biggest of the year". She praised all the main cast's acting performance in the episode and promoted it as "a brilliant, brilliant episode." On 5 September 2017, scenes from the wedding were publicised via a trailer previewing the show's stories due to air in late 2017. The show's official website later released a teaser trailer featuring scenes involving Jac and Nina to promote the episode. The BBC also aired a televised trailer to promote the episode. It was broadcast on 19 September 2017 on BBC One in the United Kingdom.

Reception
The episode was watched by 4.33 million people during the BBC One airing. Twenty-eight days later, the episode's rating continued to increase, to a new total of 4.52 million viewers. "Veil of Tears – Part One" saw a decrease of 30,000 viewers in the overall rating figures from the previous episode. The following episode decreased to 4.32 million viewers. TVTimes included the episode in their "pick of the day" feature and gave it a three star rating. Their reporter opined "it's Oliver and Zosia's big day! Well, when we say big day, we mean a rather pitiful affair with just a handful of guests and no string quartet, photographer, bad disco or drunk bridesmaids." A What's on TV reporter branded it a "nightmare wedding" and said that Guy made it "one to remember - for all the wrong reasons." Another said it was their "wedding nightmare" and "Zosia certainly doesn’t look like a woman about to marry the man of her dreams. A reporter from Soaplife included it in their "Must see TV" feature. Olivia Wheeler from OK! wrote "like any good soap wedding, the two characters' big day was thrown into chaos when Zosia's dad, CEO Guy Self – played by John Michie, got drunk and crashed the reception." Digital Spy's Kilkelly branded the wedding episode as "eventful". A writer for the Inside Soap Yearbook 2018 included the ceremony in their "Wedding Gloom" feature for the month of September. They observed, "Zosia and Ollie's wedding was thrown into disarray when her unhinged father, Guy, turned up and tried to stop the ceremony!"

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This is the table of contents from the normal skunk page to start planning a skeleton for the western spotted skunk

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Talk:Botany/Microbes

I started adding to this page, but it may not be totally in line with the how the chapter was planned initially:

Chapter 1 begins like this (now): Botany is the branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of plants. Traditionally, botanists studied all organisms that were not generally regarded as animal. However, advances in our knowledge about the myriad forms of life, especially microbes (viruses and bacteria), have led to spinning off from Botany the specialized field called Microbiology. Still, the microbes are usually covered in introductory Botany courses, although their status as neither animal nor plant is firmly established

This sounds like chapter 6 should be about bacteria en viruses in general. However, I am focussing on plant pathogenic bacteria and viruses - I think that makes more sense in the context of this textbook. I you think different - please tell me how you think it should be done.

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Molecular evolution

Welcome to the Wikiversity Molecular Evolution Project.

Content summary
Participants in this project explore the molecular evolution of DNA, RNA and proteins.

Learning materials
Learning materials and learning projects are located in the main Wikiversity namespace. Simply make a link to the name of the lesson (lessons are independent pages in the main namespace) and start writing!

You should also read about the Learning model. Lessons should center on learning activities for Wikiversity participants. Learning materials and learning projects can be used by multiple projects. Cooperate with other departments that use the same learning resource.
 * Molecular evolution/Intermediate filament proteins - explore the evolution of this family of cytoskeletal proteins
 * The concept of irreducible complexity - are there some features of living organisms that cannot be accounted for by conventional evolutionary mechanisms?

Texts

 * Sequence - Evolution - Function; subtitle: "Computational Approaches in Comparative Genomics" by Eugene V. Koonin and Michael Y. Galperin (2002) ISBN 1-4020-7274-0
 * How Genomes Evolve, Chapter 15 in Genomes, Third Edition by T. A. Brown, May 2006.
 * "Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses" by Thomas Cavalier-Smith in Biology Direct (2006) 1: 19.
 * Origins and Evolution of the Actin Cytoskeleton by Francisco Rivero and Fatima Cvrcková.

Activities

 * Select a protein of interest and explore which living organisms have a gene for that type of protein.
 * etc.

Readings
Each activity has a suggested associated background reading selection.
 * Molecular evolution
 * etc.

Active participants
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Cell Biology/History

Some History of the development of understanding of the Cell
The origin of the idea that living organisms are made of cells is often traced back to observations of thin slices of cork. In 1665 the book Micrographia: Some physiological descriptions of minute bodies made by magnifying glasses was published by Robert Hooke. He wrote:
 * . . . I could exceedingly plainly perceive it to be all perforated and porous, much like a Honey-comb, but that the pores of it were not regular. . . . these pores, or cells, . . . were indeed the first microscopical pores I ever saw, and perhaps, that were ever seen, for I had not met with any Writer or Person, that had made any mention of them before this. ..

We now know that the "cells" Hooke observed were an indication of the cellular structure of multi-cellular organisms. During the 1670s, Antony van Leeuwenhoek used microscopes to observe sperm, red blood cells, and protozoa. While many cells are about 10 microns in diameter, some protozoa are visible to the naked eye, reaching over 1 millimeter in length. Leewenhoek is the inventor of the microscope. Thus, while it is true that the small size of most cells made it difficult to develop the theory that all living organisms are composed of cells, it was also difficult to recognize that living cells have certain functional components such as the nucleus and a surface membrane that allow cells to exist as the basic functional components of all living organisms. In 1833 Robert Brown published a report describing microscopic observations of plant cells in which he used first used the term "cell nucleus":
 * In the compressed cells of the epidermis the nucleus is in a corresponding degree flattened; but in the internal tissue it is often nearly spherical, more or less firmly adhering to one of the walls, and projecting into the cavity of the cell.

Such observations of the microscopic cellular components of cells helped make it possible for	Schleiden and Schwann to propose a cell theory specifying that nucleated cells are key structural and functional units in plants and animals (1832-1838). However, they did not understand cell reproduction. About this time microscopists such as the Belgian botanist Barthelemy C. Dumortier observed and reported the binary fission of cells. By 1879 the zoologist Walther Flemming was using chemical staining of "fixed" cells to allow clear visualization of chromosomes during cell division.

During the 1890s, Ernest Overton, developed a theory of lipid membrane structure and function, based largely on the osmotic properties of cells. Visualization of lipid bilayer membranes at the surface of cells had to wait until the development of electron microscopy.

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Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/September 26, 2019

"Intended for the 150th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase (shown in white)," There seems to be a difficulty here as to whether "Louisiana Purchase" refers to the act of acquisition (which can have an anniversary) or the area of land thus acquired (which can be shown on a map). I believe that the term can be applied to either, but here it is being made to refer to both simultaneously, which is not good semantics.
 * I think the solution would be to alter the parenthetical. I'm open to suggestions, but they should be very brief.--Wehwalt (talk) 16:56, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Having considered this some more, "Louisiana Purchase" in US-speak, designates both the event and the land. We do fudge between them a bit but not in a way that is going to confuse the reader. We did something quite similar with Gadsden Purchase half dollar a month or so ago BTW. We can either change the parenthetical or just let it stand and I think it would be OK either way.--Wehwalt (talk) 18:14, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I understand that the name can apply to either: I do not believe it is good semantics to make it do both jobs simultaneously.
 * Is there a change to the parenthetical you would propose?--Wehwalt (talk) 21:31, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * "Territory of Louisiana shown in white"/"Area purchased shown in white" I wouldn't really know what synonyms for 'Louisiana Purchase' (the land area) are used.  I think the area involved was more than New France, or we might use "Colonial French Louisiana shown in white"?.  Kevin McE (talk) 23:20, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * That starts to get complicated.--Wehwalt (talk) 23:23, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * A crafty sleight of hand to move the bracketed 'shown in white' from the prose to the caption: neat sidestep of the confusion. Kevin McE (talk) 11:52, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

"the coin was sought by ..." Permission to mint the coin was sought, the coin itself was not and could not have been. (Article has "coin was lobbied for", which seems fine to me). Kevin McE (talk) 16:49, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I'm inclined to think it's OK as is (you can seek something nonexistent, i.e. the impossible dream) but I'm open to suggestions.--Wehwalt (talk) 16:56, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I don't believe that Mitch Leigh would claim that he was writing in encyclopaedic tone. Is there an objection to the article's "the coin was lobbied for by..."? Kevin McE (talk) 21:20, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
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Ira Rischowski

Ira (Irene) Rischowski (1 August 1899 – 1989) was one of Germany's first female engineers and active in the German anti-Nazi resistance group Neu Beginnen before fleeing to Britain. In the UK she became a member of the Women's Engineering Society, serving on the Council and supporting efforts to encourage British women to become engineers.

Early career
Rischowski was born in Germany in 1899 to Albert Rischowski (b. 10 January 1848 - ) and Ida née Salomonsohn (12 June 1867– 26 November 1943), the eldest of four children. The family were Jewish by heritage but the children were baptised. Albert Rischowski ran shipyards and took young Ira with him to watch the riveting of the ships which inspired her to become an engineer. In 1919, Rischowski enrolled as the first female engineering student at the Technical University of Darmstadt. Her successful application was supported by six months experience repairing agricultural equipment. From 1928, Rischowski was employed as an engineer, following training at the electrical company Siemens-Schuckert. In 1930 Rischowski became a member of Germany's central engineering institution, the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure (VDI). In 1933, there was a women's section in the VDI, but Rischowski refused to join it since it was affiliated with the Nazi Party.

In 2019, the Institute for Nuclear Physics at Technical University of Darmstadt created the Rischowski scholarship programme for female students in her honour.

Anti-Nazi Resistance
Rischowski joined the underground anti-fascist group Neu Beginnen in 1932 and became a key clandestine operative with codename 'Gabriele'. She was responsible for encoding and decoding correspondence with comrades abroad. In 1933, the group's operational office moved to Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, masquerading as an engineering consultancy. Rischowski worked at disguising Marxist literature, and transferring documents to the Social Democratic Party in exile in Prague.

Seeking Refuge
In September 1935, Rischowski was arrested while attempting to move banned literature to a safe place. She managed to talk herself free, but fearing surveillance, quickly fled to Prague. In July 1936 she moved on to the UK through the domestic servant visa scheme.

Rischowski was invited by Caroline Haslett to attend meetings of the Women's Engineering Society, and she became an associate member in 1939, giving her profession as "engineer, technical secretary graduated" in the 1939 Register for England and Wales.

Interned for a year at the Rushen Camp on the Isle of Man as an enemy alien, she was released without restrictions in November 1941 on appeal

Career
She worked as a draughtsman and planning engineer, first at Tuvox Ltd and later at James Gordon Ltd, where she became Head of Projects. In 1950, she and fellow Women's Engineering Society members, Winifred Hackett and Sheila Leather published a report on equal pay for women in engineering, which concluded that there was "no justification for lower salary scales for women". Rischowski was the accommodation secretary for the second International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists held in Cambridge in 1967, whilst working as a consultant in power generation for Elliott Process Automation.

Family life
Rischowski met her future husband Fritz Bruno Karthäuser (1898–1973) while studying engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt. They married in December 1922, and they had two daughters. Their first child Hellen Isot was born in 1924 and their second Herta Maria (Kindi) in 1930. Bruno and Ira divorced in 1933. When she was forced into exile in 1935, Rischowski left her children in the care of her elderly mother Ida in Berlin until 1938 when, with support from members of the Women's Engineering Society and their connections, she was able to bring them both to London. Ida was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto where she died in 1943.

On her death in 1989, the then WES President Dorothy Hatfield called Rischowski "an inspiration to us all".

Family memorial
Rischowski's sister Edith Novak donated a seventeenth century silver cup, made by Hans Paulus, to the Victoria & Albert Museum, to remember "her mother Ira [sic] Rischowski, her aunt Rosa Friedlander and Hedwig Malachowski, and in gratitude for the safety found by younger members of her family in the British Commonwealth" (Ira is a mistake for Ida).

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auspicare

Etymology
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Verb

 * 1)  to hope (to/for/that)
 * 2)  to augur
 * 1)  to augur
 * 1)  to augur
 * 1)  to augur
 * 1)  to augur

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User:Alaa.abouelmagd

Alaa AbouElmagd

علاء ابوالمجد

Banker and Economist

Bio

A well-presented, industrious and highly personable individual who has extensive in-depth experience of the entire banking & financial inclusion industry. Possessing a huge range of abilities from providing support and leadership to staff.

Also having a proven record of contributing to the profitability of previous employers by generating income and revenue growth and cost synergy in addition to, increase the adaption and migration rates from manual to digital transactions.

Professional Instructor for Banking Technology systems/Digital Channels and Products (Beacon FinTrain),(Developers for Training and Consultancy)& (Baker Tilly)

Managing Projects & Products from being an idea tell it generates revenues and save expense, responsible for restructuring the organization in terms of products, channels and services.

Career

Working as Associate Director - Global Transaction Banking, Global Transaction & Digital Banking Group – COO Area at [Http://cibeg.com Commercial International Bank CIB], from December 2018 till date.

Working as Professional Instructor for Banking Products and Channels at Baker Tilly from August 2020 till date.

Working as Professional Instructor for Banking Technology systems and Products at Developers for Training and Consultancy, From January 2020 till date.

Working as Professional Instructor for Banking Products at Beacon FinTrain, from June 2020 till date.

Worked as Manager/Team Head - Global Transaction Banking (Cash Management Products, Implementation, Corporate Digital Channels), Corporate Investment Banking & Medium Enterprises at AlexBank Subsidiary of Intesa San Paolo, from August 2017 to December 2018.

Worked as Sr. Officer - Global Transaction Banking & Digital Transformation (Cash Management Products & Digital Transformation), Corporate Banking Division at Ahli United Bank Egypt, from November 2015 to July 2017.

Worked as Senior Support Officer - at HSBC GSC Egypt from May 2015 to November 2015.

Worked as Support Officer – Western Union at TP Egypt from Dec 2014 to May 2015.

Worked as Senior Service Quality & MIS Analyst – Banking Operations at Dunia Finance Dubai, UAE from April 2013 to November 2014.

Worked as a Products Development Support Officer at Majid Al Futtaim Finance, Dubai, UAE (Najm Visa & MC Credit Cards), Member of MAF group from August 2012 to March 2013.

Worked as a Services Analyst at Stream Global Services from October 2011 to April 2012.

Worked as a Senior CSR at Global Net Telecom from October 2010 to October 2011.

Education

- Cairo University: B.Sc. in Computers and Information Technology. - Cairo International Schools: From 1992 To 2004 High school “Mathematical Science”.

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User:Koalakid15/sandbox

Ethnophoresy.

Similar to a species reintroduction, Ethnophoresy refers to the process by which primates are brought to areas beyond their home range by humans. As opposed to many reintroductions which may occur to restore populations of endangered species to the wild, ethnophoresy refers to introductions of primates unintentionally, often to island ecosystems.

A well-known example of ethnophorency is the barbary macaques of Gibraltar. Other examples include vervet monkeys (Cercopithecus [Chlorocebus] aethips [sabaeus]) introduced to islands around the Caribbean by European settlers, who brought them over as a source of food, pets, and trade on long journeys across the Atlantic. were released to Cape Verdes islands around 1462, when the islands were first discovered, surviving today on Santiago and Fofo (Dore) and also to Cayo Cantilles, a 3,4000-ha island off the coast of Cuba in 1984 and 77,700-ha Cayo Romano, an island in Cuba's Camaguey Archipelago in the early 1980s. The purpose of the release was also to establish a free-ranging colony from which monkeys could be harvested for biological research. There were were 50 founders, also from St. Kitts.This release was also managed by the Cuban Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnologia, and medio ambiente.

Rhesus macaques were brought to the Florida keys for biological research on Raccoon key, where a population still lives. They cause extensive damage to the keys' red and black mangroves and wildlife. Rhesus macaques also were translocated to Cayo Santiago for biomedical research.

Many primates were originally brought to Cuba (Borroto-Paez, R 2009. Invasive mammals in Cuba: an overview. Biological Invasions 11: 2279-2290). Patas monkeys were brought to Puerto Rico on the islands of Guayacan and Cuerva off the southwest coast between 1971 and 1979 as research subjects for studies that have since been shut down. The monkeys escaped through the mangrove swamps and established a viable population, along with rhesus macaques on the islands.

Mona monkeys were released on the island of Grenada between 1600 and 1899, likely originating from Sao Tome & Principe.

There are also groups of squirrel monkeys and other primates in Florida. Squirrel monkeys were released on the 14-ha hectare Bartlett estate in the 1940s or 60s by a social club. Furthermore, the silver springs monkeys were released in Silver springs, Florida along with rhesus macaques. Others were brought to Hawaii and Masterpiece Gardens, a tourist attraction in Lake Wales Florida in the 1960s to enhance tourism, growing to as many as a thousand in the 1980s.

Another example from around the world includes the introduction of the Common brown lemur to Comoros.

Impacts

Many of these primates cause harm to the island ecosystems where they live. For example, the rhesus macaques in Puerto rico, Cayo Santiago cause approximately US $1.5 million in agricultural losses annually. An example of this is crop raiding on the islands of the Caribbean including Barbados and St. Kitt's, where they have become agricultural threats and are dangerous to the local habitat. There are efforts to remove these monkeys, especially from the islands of St Martin and Tortola, to which they were brought in the 1970s. However, it is difficult to communicate the benefits of eradication of these animals from the islands

Cultural attachment

Many islanders express a strong cultural attachment to the monkeys, despite their nuisance presence. On Gibraltar, the monkeys proved a critical part of British cultural heritage, and many residents of Florida express similar sentiments to the populations established there. Many residents in Dania beach Florida feed the green vervet monkey s and like the tradition of having them nearby.

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Talk:Starting and Running a Wiki Website

About

 * Started: 23 March 2004
 * Size: 2,400 words (Sep 2008)
 * Focus: instructions about wikis in general. No research and no case studies. Could cover instructions for corporate in-house wikis, for which public wiki hosting is inappropriate.
 * Out of scope: wiki markup.
 * Focus: instructions about wikis in general. No research and no case studies. Could cover instructions for corporate in-house wikis, for which public wiki hosting is inappropriate.
 * Out of scope: wiki markup.

About copying content from WikiWikiWeb
I have e-mailed Ward Cunningham, but until I hear back from him, I will operate from my interpretation of the following excerpt from Wiki Copy Rights:

 * Q: Can I take unsigned pages relevant only to wiki use? I would like to start my own wiki based on the perl code distributed at the wikibase. I would like to copy the pages that were written primarily to help new users get over the first few moments of questions about wiki. --JohnRepici

 * A: It would be fair use if you quoted wiki modestly and included a proper link or citation. (See HowToCiteWiki.) Taking pages from this site and posting them as your own would not. -- WardCunningham

I interpret this to mean that we can do what I have just done, i.e. quote from the WikiWikiWeb and give appropriate credit. The same page raises a good point: why copy a Wiki when one can just link to it? Some possible answers: (add things I missed) I believe the former. For those who believe the latter, I encourage you to improve the guide at WikiWikiWeb. Whatever you do, do not inappropriately copy material from WikiWikiWeb, i.e. without first getting permission from the original author of what you copy.
 * Wikis should be duplicated because one is Copyleft and the other is not, or
 * Wikis should not be duplicated.
 * If the other Wiki is only linked to, then if it goes down the current Wiki will lose content.

-Rs2 05:17, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Update - Ward's response
Ward confirmed that fair use is the rule. He referred me to the following material that he wrote to address exactly these issues: -Rs2 17:45, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)
 * http://c2.com/ppr/about/copyright.html
 * http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HowToCiteWiki

test

"stolen link"
I just now deleted the line

"**Wiki Hosting- someone seems to have "stolen" the link?"

Edit 35207 ( http://wikibooks.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wiki_Science:How_to_start_a_Wiki&diff=35207&oldid=34152 ) originally added that link. As far as I can tell, that site does not currently offer any special Wiki support (perhaps they did in the past).

If they do (perhaps in the future) offer wiki support, please post a link to the exact page that mentions Wiki support.

-- DavidCary 06:10, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Learning Wiki markup
I searched "wiki markup" and got information on how to start a wiki, but no information on how to create and edit pages. Something with simple instructions would be helpful. Standard html does not seem to work.

Thanks!

NPOV
I found it very much agianst the NPOV that there where only two wiki-engines mentioned (they are not the only and not the best solution for everything. Instead I put in some links to sites which compare wiki-engines. If you disagree, please leave a note on my userpage in the german wikipedia. Thanks. --<IP_ADDRESS> 13:28, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

Wikis for Existing Hostings
I was not able to find any information regarding which wiki engines do not require special privilege to install. If I already have a web hosting and want to add wiki in a particular section, which engines will work for me ,without any need to contacting technical support of hosting providers. I will be very happy if some body provides me with this information on this talk page. Thanks in advance.

Free Wikis comparison table out of date
As of Oct 2005, the free wiki comparison table seems to be quite outdated. For example, Schtuff.com apprently does have revisions and history, to the contrary of the table entry. Also, X-Wiki and some others have now very interesting advanced features, which would deserve mentioning in the "pros" column. --Andras

MediaWiki
I like a section about how to start a MediaWiki engine.

Paid wiki hosting
I suppose a web host included in this section should provide a reasonable set of services that enable people to build and maintain a wiki site. But no such set is described here, and I personally know that one of the web hosts listed here do not even provide the ability to run a basic MediaWiki maintanence script. I would rather drop this section or provide more accurate information about each host.

freewiki
Is http://freewiki.info/ useful enough to add to this module? I like the screenshots there.

Wikipedia
Is the big Wiki hosted on one of these? If it is hosted, on what? -Salty <IP_ADDRESS> 03:04, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

 * They run dedicated servers for the big wikis. <IP_ADDRESS> 16:08, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Links from Wikipedia
The text of the article suggests, "Link to your wiki on a relevant page in the Wikipedia namespace." Some readers have become quite upset by the fact that, when they follow this advice, their links are removed from Wikipedia. More clarification is needed. After all, Wikipedia is not a collection of links, and unless the wiki is particularly informative, there always going to be editors who will oppose its addition to Wikipedia articles. -<IP_ADDRESS> 15:55, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

 * w:WP:NOT does allow for linking to relevent articles by people involved, but one must justify the relevency and value to avoid people who only partially understand the rules. <IP_ADDRESS> 16:07, 15 July 2006 (UTC) w:User:HighInBC

Annoying Message
I just created a wiki at editthis.info, and whenever I add an external link to a page, it says:

"Hello link spammer. Just so you know, google does not follow links off this page. The links are tagged to be ignored by search engines, so go somewhere else. All you are doing is annoying users. Adding links here will not help you page rank

Thanks, Rob -a sysadmin who doesn't need soma ;)".

Does anyone know why this is happening?--<IP_ADDRESS> 20:15, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

I'm getting exactly the same message! That's reeeeeally annoying! I've posted a message at the editthis help desk, but apparently no one's there!

<IP_ADDRESS> 22:10, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

WYSISWYG
I have a request. I dont know if Ishould be discussing here but I need a Wiki (preferably free but I dont mind paying if it is really good) that will allow the maximum ease of use. I am pretty fammiliar with Wiki syntax but I wish to use one which will not require Wiki syntax or little for a project. Most of all I want a tabular format which I can edit with as much ease as MS excel. What I want is something like this: I create a set of tables (with or without syntax) but each cell in the table should be editable individually by clicking on it. Is there a Wiki which offers a lot of ease for naive computer users. --<IP_ADDRESS> 13:26, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

Terminology
The terms "self-hosting" and "Hosted wikis" currently used in chapter names seem dubious. Better terms are welcome. Other terms coming to mind are "in-house", "outsourced", and "outsourcing". --Dan Polansky (talk) 10:06, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Oppose merging
I just saw that a user suggested merging and I think that it’s not a good idea. This book is more about the technical side of running a wiki, and the other book is also about “the wisdom”. I think that it’s better to have them as separate books and maybe link to each other in the “see also” section. -Gifnk dlm 2020 From Middle English Wikipedia 📜📖💻 (talk) 16:15, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
 * That makes sense. I agree with Gifnk dlm. L10nM4st3r / Roar at me 11:38, 27 June 2022 (UTC)


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Guide to the Galaxy

Guide to the Galaxy may refer to:

 * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, science fiction comedy series
 * Geek's Guide to the Galaxy, podcast focusing on fantasy & science fiction

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Wikiversity:Library services

Here is a repository of free textbooks and educational materials:

The question: How does one get access to online database?

General

 * Wikibooks (multilingual) - all resources are freely accessible and copyleft
 * Wikisource (multilingual) - all resources are freely accessible and copyleft
 * LookSmart Find Articles - hosts HTML versions of countless journals; many of the articles are free to access
 * Google Books - full text search for countless books; some have full text available
 * Textbook Revolution
 * Cornell University Library
 * The National Academies Press - PDF books both free and for sale
 * Project Gutenberg
 * The Open Library - a project of the Internet Archive

Subject-specific

 * Digital Library for Physics and Astronomy
 * Textbooks in Mathematics
 * FreeBooks4Doctors medical books

Public libraries
The following passage is adapted from http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/001285.php.

From Wikipedia

 * Wikipedia:Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library/OA

Several large public libraries in the U.S.A. provide electronic access to vast document collections. Some of these libraries sell memberships for about $100 (annual membership fee) that allow access to commercial document databases. For example, the San Francisco Public Library provides access to about 100 document databases to members. The that to get a library card from the San Francisco Public Library you must prove residence in the state of California. Anyone living in California can get a library card for the San Francisco Public Library (for free) that give access to the JSTOR online journals. To get your card you need to go to the library in person.

Ohio and Michigan have consortiums of public libraries that provide access to many databases.

The New York Public Library allows membership to non-residents of New York and remote (internet) access to about 85 of its 300 document databases. These 85 databases do not include the JSTOR database. Access is provided to collections of e-books, audio books, and videos that are available for legal downloading. For the New York Public Library you can apply online and receive your card by mail.

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Circuit Merit

The Circuit Merit system is a measurement process designed to assess the voice-to-noise ratio in wired and wireless telephone circuits, especially the AMPS system, and although its reporting scale is sometimes used as input for calculating mean opinion score, the rating system is officially defined relative to given ranges of voice-to-noise ratios.

Various technical sources state that experimental research vary in what ratio is required for good understanding, but is typically above 20 dB, and noticeably higher reports of voice quality can be achieved when the ratio is near 30 dB.

There are 5 levels of quality, detailed as follows:

Measurement of audio speech-to-noise ratios in a way which reflects interfering effects in a meaningful manner is difficult for the kinds of noise often encountered at mobile system receivers. For this reason and as a matter of convenience, a subjective rating of the interfering effect of the noise using the term “circuit merit” is commonly used in place of metered measurements. This method uses a scale of five steps to describe performance. These are listed and defined in the above table. The speech-to-noise ratios in dB included in this table are arbitrary numbers which apply if both speech and noise are measured on either a 2B noise measuring set with F1A line weighting or a 3A noise measuring set with C-message weighting. In making such measurements, noise is measured in the normal manner and speech volume is read by the method used with a VU meter.

Circuit Merit 3 is generally regarded as the minimum acceptable for public mobile telephone service, and is used as a basis for drawing coverage boundaries. Where necessary, CM2 may be found tolerable for occasional calls, but this grade of transmission is clearly unsuitable as a service offering. In typical service areas so defined, users will experience transmission as poor as CM3 only when the mobile station is situated near the fringes of the area. They will enjoy better transmission throughout the bulk of the coverage area and, as a usual consequence, on most of their calls. Situations in which fringe coverage areas pass through important localities heavily frequented by local mobile stations should be avoided since users may not find CM3 agreeable if experienced on any large proportion of their calls.

Delivered Audio Quality
For use on digital voice telephone systems, the DAQ reference is used. This differs from Circuit Merit in that it adds definitions for digitized voice and a static SINAD for multipath fading, using levels described in TIA/EIA TSB-88-A.

History
The Circuit Merit system was developed early in the 20th Century by AT&T to quantifiably measure voice quality on the PSTN, and later adapted to include wireless telephone circuits, such as the early MTS (which was first used in 1947), IMTS and the later cellular telephone system (field trials date from 1976). It is intended to be used on a statistical basis, by collecting multiple data points (either subjective scores by human listeners, or by electronic measurements), to then produce a comprehensive report on the circuit quality. The system does not include any provision for reporting RF signal strength, and is thus inappropriate for routine use on non-telephone voice radio systems.

Circuit merit is specifically designed to report the signal-to-noise ratio of a communications circuit, preferably by use of electronic test equipment. See also Figure of Merit

The Circuit Merit system is also used mistakenly by some amateur radio operators unfamiliar with its origins to overcome perceived inadequacies in using the R-S-T System. This belief is contrary to the published description of the R-S-T System (which uses the same number of levels for readability), and of modern (as of 2006) requirement "...that plain language be used for multi-agency, multi-jurisdiction and multi-discipline events, such as major disasters and exercises..." instead of numeric codes in radio traffic in NIMS/ICS. As both Circuit Merit and the R-S-T System use numbers that are often difficult for operators to map to meanings, neither complies with the intent of the NIMS plain language directive.

There is at least one plain-language voice and signal strength reporting system that does meet the NIMS plain language directive—the Plain Language Radio Checks as described in section 611 of Allied Communications Procedure 125(F): Radio Checks, Signal Strength, and Readability. The best-possible radio check report possible under this system, "LOUD AND CLEAR", is commonly used in film, television, and literature depictions of radio communications.

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Molts
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Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2019 September 14

= September 14 =

Left foot on an accelerator
When people drive cars, they put their right foot on the accelerator. But in the song Bye Bye, Jo Dee Messina says she puts her left foot on the accelerator. Why?? (The article says nothing about the use of the phrase "left foot" anywhere.) Georgia guy (talk) 20:27, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Because she has no intention of using her left foot to brake. The other lines make it clear she has no intention of slowing down her car.  ""You'll find what's left of us in a cloud of dust on highway 4". -- Jayron 32 01:25, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Do right-handers sometimes brake with their left foot? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 01:59, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I have heard such a thing claimed by people I wouldn't expect to create a reliable source. HiLo48 (talk) 02:49, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * When I was learning to drive (about 1970), there was disagreement about which foot you should used to brake if you had an automatic transmission. Using the left foot reduced your reaction time, but it also allowed you to accidentally press both pedals at once. --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:52, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * It is, however, standard practice in racing cars that have clutch paddles on the steering wheel and therefore, like automatic transmission cars, only two pedals. Obviously racing drivers have sufficient training and skill to avoid inappropriate deployments. {The poster formerly known as <IP_ADDRESS>} <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 08:37, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I grew up in farmland. Most of the farmers drove with their left foot resting on the brake pedal. The result is that the brake lights blinked now and then as they drove because their foot pressed just enough to get the light to turn on. I tried to explain to them that they were wearing out their brake pads, but there is not arguing with stubborn farmers. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 13:34, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Incidentally, are the foot pedals reversed in British cars ? SinisterLefty (talk) 03:44, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * No, and they aren't reversed in American cars either. --<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:52, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Which is kind of a left-handed way of saying the gas pedal corresponds to the driver's right foot, no matter which side of the car the instruments are on. And by the way, many American postal vehicles have the instruments on the right side, for ease of pickup and dropoff at streetside mailboxes. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 17:40, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

 * You'd need to have your right leg amputated to get your left foot on the accelerator in my car. DuncanHill (talk) 17:47, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

 * Must be a mighty cramped car. SinisterLefty (talk) 19:58, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
 * I would think it's possible even in a Cooper Mini. Not that it would be a good idea. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 20:57, 15 September 2019 (UTC)

Despite what some online lyrics sites say, I am sure this lyric is actually "lead foot". --Khajidha (talk) 20:17, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Such sites are about as reliable as IMDb's goofs pages, I reckon. —Tamfang (talk) 20:22, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * It may be my imagination or lack of experience with other genres, but I've seen waaaaaay more mistakes than I would expect with country music lyrics. Almost as if the transcribers are completely unfamiliar with southern accents. --Khajidha (talk) 00:06, 22 September 2019 (UTC)


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Why is it an immunomodulator
I can't access the source cited for it being an immunomodulator. Need better source ? - Rod57 (talk) 11:41, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

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Venansius Baryamureeba

Venansius Baryamureeba (born 18 May 1969) is a Ugandan mathematician, computer scientist, academic, and academic administrator. He was the Acting vice chancellor of the Uganda Technology and Management University, a private university in Uganda, from September 2013 until 28 September 2015. He left the position to join the presidential race in Uganda to take place in 2016. Before that, he served as the vice chancellor of Makerere University from November 2009 until August 2012.

Background and education
He was born in Kasharara Village, Kagongo Parish, Ibanda District, in the Western Region of Uganda. He holds a Bachelor of Science in mathematics, obtained in 1994 from Makerere University. He also holds a Master of Science and a Doctor of Philosophy, both in computer science and both from Bergen University in Norway, awarded in 1996 and in 2000, respectively. In 1997, he was awarded the postgraduate Diploma in the Analysis of Linear Programming Models by the University of Trondheim, also in Norway.

Career
His career in academia began soon after his first degree, when he worked as a teaching assistant in the Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics at Makerere University, from 1994 until 1998. He then worked as an assistant lecturer at the Institute of Teacher Education Kyambogo, which now is part of Kyambogo University, from 1995 until 1996. While pursuing graduate study in Norway, he worked as a teaching assistant in the Department of Informatics at Bergen University from 1997 until 2000. He also worked as a research fellow, in the same department and institution, from 1995 until 2000.

Beginning in 1998 until 2000, he worked as a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics at Makerere University. He was a senior lecturer in the Institute of Computer Science at Makerere University, from 2001 until 2006 (which was transformed into the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing and IT (FCI)). He then became an associate professor, and, in November 2006, he was made a professor, continuing to teach until August 2012 at FCI. From October 2005 until June 2010, he served as the dean of FCI.

From November 2009 until August 2012, he was vice chancellor of Makerere University.

At Uganda Technology and Management University, he has served since September 2012 as the vice chancellor and as a professor of computer science in the School of Computing and Engineering.

Works

 * The enhanced digital investigation process model
 * Extraction of interesting association rules using genetic algorithms
 * Cyber crime in Uganda: Myth or reality?
 * The role of ICTs and their sustainability in developing countries
 * Mining High Quality Association Rules Using Genetic Algorithms.
 * Optimized association rule mining with genetic algorithms
 * ICT as an engine for Uganda's economic growth: The role of and opportunities for Makerere University
 * ICT-enabled services: a critical analysis of the opportunities and challenges in Uganda
 * Towards domain independent named entity recognition
 * Computational issues for a new class of preconditioners
 * The role of TVET in building regional economies
 * Computer forensics for cyberspace crimes
 * On the properties of preconditioners for robust linear regression
 * On a class of preconditioners for interior point methods
 * Logit analysis of socioeconomic factors influencing famine in Uganda.
 * Solution of robust linear regression problems by preconditioned conjugate gradient type methods
 * A new function for robust linear regression: An iterative approach
 * Approaches towards effective knowledge management for small and medium enterprises in developing countries-Uganda
 * The role of academia in fostering private sector competitiveness in ICT development
 * On a class of preconditioners for interior point methods
 * Logit analysis of socioeconomic factors influencing famine in Uganda.
 * Solution of robust linear regression problems by preconditioned conjugate gradient type methods
 * A new function for robust linear regression: An iterative approach
 * Approaches towards effective knowledge management for small and medium enterprises in developing countries-Uganda
 * The role of academia in fostering private sector competitiveness in ICT development
 * A new function for robust linear regression: An iterative approach
 * Approaches towards effective knowledge management for small and medium enterprises in developing countries-Uganda
 * The role of academia in fostering private sector competitiveness in ICT development
 * The role of academia in fostering private sector competitiveness in ICT development
 * The role of academia in fostering private sector competitiveness in ICT development
 * The role of academia in fostering private sector competitiveness in ICT development
 * The role of academia in fostering private sector competitiveness in ICT development
 * The role of academia in fostering private sector competitiveness in ICT development
 * The role of academia in fostering private sector competitiveness in ICT development
 * The role of academia in fostering private sector competitiveness in ICT development

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Polymers/Electron beam

Electron Beam generators are used to modify surface and bulk properties of polymer films by grafting or crosslinking, but also for initiating polymerisation and curing.

The Energy Sciences International Electron Beam at the Laboratory of Polymer Technology at Åbo Akademi University

Principle
Electrons are generated with a wolfram (tungsten) filament in vacuum. The electrons are accelerated in an electric field towards a window allowing them to escape from the vacuum chamber. Samples underneath the beam are subjected to the electrons, which are creating cascades of new, lower energy electrons, when colliding in the material. The penetration depth is a function of material density and acceleration voltage.

Electron beam instruments are often classified as high energy (5.0 - 10.0 MeV), medium energy (0.5 - 5.0 MeV), and low energy accelerators (0.1 - 0.5 MeV). The depicted instrument above can accelerate electrons up to 0.175 MeV.

Doses
The energy absorption in a material is expressed in the SI-unit Gray (Gy) which amounts to 1J (Joule) of energy absorbed in 1 kg of matter. The dose rate is expressed as Gy/s.

Application Example
--Kalle 05:59, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

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Summary
copyright Seth Wulsin, 2006 author Seth Wulsin

Licensing
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Morris Matthews

Morris Matthews (born February 25, 2003) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a defender for Northeastern Huskies.

Youth
Matthews joined the New England Revolution academy in 2016. In 2020, Matthews spent time with the club's USL League One affiliate team New England Revolution II. He made his debut on August 15, 2020, appearing as an injury-time substitute during a 3–3 draw with North Texas SC.

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Authoring Webpages/Adapting a webpage for visual browsers

Introduction
The HyperText Mark-up Language (HTML) allows you to add structure and hyperlinks to a text. This in turn allows a web browser to display that text in a useful manner to the user. The mark-up you use has little or nothing to do with the display of the text: this makes it possible to display the hypertext on a wide array of devices.

The web browser has to make a translation between the mark-up you provide and display properties. For instance, a heading can be displayed in bold, large text on a graphical browser, and can be spoken out loudly in a speech browser, et cetera.

Generally, manufacturers of web browsers make good choices. As well-trained readers, we know that a bold large text on its own line over a mass of normal sized text is probably its heading. So when a browser renders a heading like that, we tend to recognize it as a heading without even thinking. List items are preceded by list item markers such as numbers or 'bullets', emphasized text is printed in bold or italics, et cetera.

Manufacturers of graphical web browser even consider that reading off a screen is hard: paragraphs are divided by empty lines, text is generally printed (by default) using a relatively large font-size, and hyperlinks are clearly marked as such, by using different colors and underlines or surrounding lines (the latter in the case of images).

There are two things though, that current web browsers are getting wrong. One is that they display each and every webpage the same; the other that they generally fail at presenting webpages in an aesthetically pleasing way.

It can certainly be argued that the browser manufacturers cannot be blamed for these problems.

Excercise 4-1
Why can manufacturers of web browsers not be blamed for rendering all webpages alike? Why can they not be blamed for displaying webpages in an aesthetically unpleasing way? You may also argue the reverse, if you like.

One of the few clues a visitor might have about the quality of webpages is provided by a concept called website. A website is a collection of webpages that belong together. Because they belong together, they provide a powerful hint to the visitor that information that was promised on one page of the website, may be found on another page of that website. Similarly, if the visitor accepts the voice of a webpage author as an authority, other webpages by that author may provide an interesting target for further visits.

There are several ways in which an author can make clear that webpages form part of one overarching website. One of these ways has already been discussed: by using a sensible  text, authors can show that pages belong together. The title of this page, "Adapting a webpage for visual browsers - Wikibooks", helps to underline this. All pages on the Wikibooks website have a title that ends with "- Wikibooks". If you feel like reading other textbooks, the message is clear: you should be on this site.

Another way to suggest a relation between webpages, that is, to suggest a website, is in the strategic use of the Uniform Resource Locator (URL), the address of a webpage that is often displayed in a webbrowser's address bar. You can use similar addresses for similar webpages.

The third way to suggest a relation between webpages is probably the most useful, though: you can use a uniform visual style to indicate to visitors on which website they are.

A bit of history
Originally, HTML was a mish-mash of graphical display mark-up and structural mark-up. This sounds perhaps worse than it was: only a few elements were reserved for visual presentation, such as  for bold text, and   for italicized text. Further,  allowed an author to display text using 'plain text formatting' (as discussed before),   forced a graphical browser to start displaying following text on a new line, and   let you display an image at a certain point in the text.

All this wasn't so bad, really. It did not introduce a huge drop in accessibility, but allowed authors of pages for graphical clients (more or less the default since the beginning of the web) to 'ponce up' their pages and make them more attractive to visitors.

However, by allowing display-only elements in an otherwise display-independent language, Tim Berners-Lee opened the door for abuse by browser manufacturers.

The possibility to create a visually pleasing web page made the web a more attractive place to be. Just like the DTP revolution made everybody think that they were graphical designers (mistakenly, most of the time), so did the graphical web open the door for letting form rule over content.

When the web became more popular with users, it of course also became more popular with businesses. Actual businesses were founded to produce web browsers, something almost unheard of before. The most successful of these was Netscape.

Browser wars
Netscape quickly recognised that the instant appeal of pretty webpages was just as strong a selling-point for a web browser, if not stronger, than the other, more solid appeals, such as the promise of becoming one's own publisher, or being able to traverse a associative landscape of ideas.

However, Netscape only had control over the browser, not over the web itself, or its underlying HTM Language. So what Netscape did was let its web browser, Navigator, recognise an extended version of HTML. Frames, for instance, are a Netscape invention, as is JavaScript and the  element. Using this strategy, Netscape Navigator soon became by far the most used browser on the web. With it the web (and with the web the internet) became a public space, rather than the academic space it had been before.

The one software company that had thoroughly missed the internet boat, and that was Microsoft. To the day of writing this, Microsoft still does not understand the internet: they don't see it as a space within which to operate, but rather as a thing to be owned. In the beginning they even tried to replace it with its own 'internet', called MSN; which is of course nonsense, because the internet is not an atomic network. It is a network of network. MSN was to be part of the internet, much to the chagrin of Bill Gates and his people.

Meanwhile, Netscape looked further ahead. For them, the internet was a vehicle to gain control over the 'desktop', the metaphor 1980s' operating systems use to describe themselves. If everybody had Netscape Navigator installed, and Netscape Navigator was this universal tool that could be used for everything, from playing games to word processing, it did not really matter which operating system was running beneath the browser.

Microsoft was, through its original disdain for the internet and the web, suddenly threatened in the core reason of its existence. It then made a strategic decision that pulled it right into the centre of the internet: it would build its own browser.

Microsoft's browser was called Internet Explorer, and it started the so-called browser wars. Microsoft started playing Netscape's game. It first supported almost all of Netscape's HTML extensions, added a few of its own, and changed the behaviour of some elements in a way that made them work slightly better.

The web was under a threat of balkanization: the dividing in parts so small, that dealing with the web, and especially authoring web pages, was to become an ordeal that would almost prove too much for authors and surfers alike.

Authors suddenly had to decided which browsers to support, or if they should support specific browsers at all. The possibility to treat the web as a purely visual medium planted the misguided thought in a lot of heads that web pages should look alike everywhere.

This was when the World Wide Web Consortium stepped in, and started rallying for stricter standards, and a division of document structure and document lay-out. The smartest move of the W3C was to get the browser manufacturers on board. With Microsoft and Netscape both having a direct say about how next versions of HTML would look like, they became stakeholders with an interest in creating a useful web language.

The W3C introduced a programming language for suggesting certain lay-outs to a web browser, called CSS. That abbreviation stands for Cascading Style Sheets. Stylesheets had a couple of things going for them. Most importantly, they promised a 'code once, view everywhere' approach to web authoring. This was good for the W3C, because that approach was what HTML was about in the first place. And it was good for the authors, because now they did not have to learn about the quirks of every web browser.

Other advantages of CSS were from the start:

 * They could be stored in separate files, so that the style for an entire site could be stored in one stylesheet;
 * They allowed for chaining ('cascading') stylesheets, so that part of a website could have its own distinct style from the rest of the site, while still looking part of the site; and
 * They enabled a few tricks that Netscape and Microsoft hadn't gotten to yet, such as more control over text styles.

Future
It could be argued that allowing a few graphical display elements in a hypertext language was a good move. It popularized the web, and with it the internet. It introduced a great deal of authors to the web. However, today many of these authors see the web as a visual medium rather than the (hyper)textual medium it really is. Weaning those people from their wrong notion may prove an impossible task.

Websites
As we saw before, webpages form part of the web, because they link to other pages or because other pages link to them. In other words, web pages do not live in a vacuum. When you receive a folder in a letter box for a pizza delivery service for instance, there is no context. You do not generally receive copies of competing services simultaneously, or a map that shows you where the delivery service is located, or an encyclopaedia that tells you about the history of pizzas.

A webpage does come with such a context. For instance, if you visit a webpage that lets you order pizzas, you probably visited a page before that which let you choose from several pizza delivery services. Also, the order page may link to a map, or to an article about the history of pizzas. Even if it does not do so, the web browser may provide additional functionality to you. For instance, if you selected the name of a pizza in the Firefox web browser, then right-clicked, a menu item would appear that would let you search Google for the selected text in a new tab in the background.

Although all webpages have a such a context, only the ones provide by you are under your control. When you group a number of related webpages, such a grouping is called a website. Webpages may form a website for any number of reasons; because they belong to the same subject, because they are hosted on the same server, because they live on the same domain, or because the are created by a single person or organisation.

For instance, the collection of webpages at http://www.nasa.gov form the website of the US national space agency NASA. They may not all be served by the same server, and they are not created all by the same person, but they live on the same domain, try to be the voice of NASA on the web and deal with topics that are all related to NASA.

A person or an organisation may of course have multiple websites; and what is called a website in this respect is not really important.

Websites are often characterised by

 * a main site navigation ("menus" of hyperlinks that are repeated on every webpage and that lead to important sections),
 * a coherent visual style across webpages, including a logo and a favicon,
 * coherent page names, for instance by repeating the site's name in the title element,
 * a natural division of the website in topics and subtopics.

All these clues tell you after going from one page to another that you are either on the same website, or have left for another website. Most web authors get these clues at least partially right, and most web page visitors are able to tell which website they are on.

An interesting feature of a webpage is then that it contains information that is at the core of what the author wanted to say with that particular webpage, but that it also contains information to the visitor that they are on a particular website, where they are on that site, where they can go, etc.

Most webpages will contain a lot of information that are pertinent to the subject of that page, and a little information about the website itself. The exceptions are called home pages; home pages are about the website they are part of.

Home pages
The "homepage" is the main page of a website. It is used as a central hub for the rest of the site. This is the file that is displayed when going to a web address that doesn't specify a document, e.g. . It is typically named ,  ,  , or.

A homepage has a number of functions and a number of rules and heuristics that it should adhere to. The functions of a homepage are to:

 * provide a navigational aid for the site
 * provide information on the site's theme
 * establish the brand identity of the website (e.g. the site pages' appearance)
 * provide a means for visitors to reorient themselves
 * provide the minimal location for a web page author to link to
 * live at an easy to remember location

Let's review these.

Navigational aid
When a visitor follows a information scent to your web page, the web page may or may not fulfill the information wish of the visitor. In the latter case, a visitor will either want to track back, or follow further scents.

As we have noted, the indication that a webpage is part of a website provides a powerful hint to the visitor that the same voice that wrote the webpage has written other webpages on possibly similar subjects. A visitor who does not succeed at the current webpage, or who has succeeded, but now has changed goals, may want to further explore your websites.

For example, if you collect jokes, and a visitor thinks the first of your jokes is funny, they may wish to read more of your jokes.

Links on the webpage to related webpages can be very useful; but sometimes these links are lacking, or they are worded in a way that does not help your visitor, or they do not make clear that they lead to parts of the same website; and often a webpage does not show the intentions an author has with a website, the freshness of a website et cetera.

A homepage should provide this sort of information, or at least leads to it. A homepage of a larger should also provide alternative ways of navigation. This could be done through:

 * a search function
 * a main menu
 * a catalogue
 * highlighted webpages

A common way to link to a homepage is to use the logo or site name as a hyperlink, or to link to it from a breadcrumb trail.

Site style
In order to find out that you are on a website, you need to have visited at least two webpages on that site: one to establish that a certain style was used, another to verify that style. Any webpage on a site can be used for that second function, but the homepage must always be usable in this way.

Site meaning
The homepage of a website should always make clear what the website is about, just like a webpage should always make clear what that webpage is about.

News
In lieu of other designated places where a visitor can review whether pages of a website have been added or updated, the homepage should be regularly updated to indicate that a website is still "alive". Popular ways to do this are to show leads to recent news item, to regularly change highlighted items, or to regularly make simple changes to the lay-out of the homepage. Other ways are to introduce seasonal elements into a homepage. For instance, you could use your homepage to wish visitors happy holidays.

Other designated places that allow you to assess the liveliness of a website are the news page, or for example the Recent Changes page at Wikipedia. You can use these pages instead of the homepage for situational feedback, as long as it is clear to visitors that they need to look somewhere else, for instance because you clearly link to a news section.

Location
In general, you will wish to let the world know about specific webpages, instead of your website. However, there are instances when the latter is desirable. For those instances it would be useful if the homepage were easy to find and to get to. One way to achieve is, is to locate the homepage at the shortest possible URL. If your webpages are at http://www.example.com/~wily/friends.html, http://www.example.com/~wily/album.html, and http://www.example.com/~wily/contact.html, your homepage should be at http://www.example.com/~wily/. (When faced with a request for a directory instead of a file, a webserver will generally start looking for files with a certain name, such as index.html, index.php, welcome.html etc. This behaviour differs from webserver to webserver, but index.html is usually a pretty safe file name to give to your homepage.)

Also, when you forget to link to a homepage, or when the link cannot easily be found, visitors will apply a trick called the directory traversal attack. Despite its goulish name and the fact that it is a crime in the UK, this is a perfectly moral and fine thing to do. It works by guessing the parts of a URL that are superfluous for the homepage address.

For example, if you are at http://www.example.com/~wily/friends.html, removing "friends.html" or "~wily/friends.html" from the full address in the address bar of your web browser, may lead to the homepage of this webpage's site.

Recapitulation
In essence, a homepage provides situational knowledge about a website. It should show a visitor what the site is about, what its main themes are, how you can get there, how fresh a site is, etc.

Stylesheets and the style element
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is a language used to "style" markup, such as HTML. CSS is a series of rules, and each rule has three parts: a selector, a property, and a value. a { color: red; font-style: italic; }

In this example, "a" is the selector. It selects all anchors ("links") in the document. Each rule that affects anchors is enclosed in the brackets ({}) following the selector. Here, the two properties are "color" and "font-style". "color" is used to set the color of the text, and "font-style" is used to set the variety of the font. Anchors will appear as red, italicized text.

There are three methods of adding CSS to a web page, but the third is considered the best for most purposes.

1) As a tag attribute. The name of the attribute is "style".

This is considered the worst way of adding styles, in most cases. The reason for this is that it's very hard to maintain. If you wanted to change the color of the anchors on your site, you'd have to find and replace the attribute in every "a" element in every web page, which could occur hundreds or even thousands of times, depending on the size of the website.

2) As a style element. This element is placed inside the  tag.  <stlye>    a {      color: red;      font-style: italic;    }  </style>

This is considered the second worst way of adding styles, in most cases. While not nearly as difficult to maintain as the first method, you'd still have to synchronize all of the style elements across all documents, and as your site grows, this would become more and more awkward.

3) As a linked document. The document ends in .css (e.g. "styles.css"). This is considered the best way, in most cases, because it is the easiest to maintain. To link your web page to your stylesheet, add this in your head tag:

Now, if you want to change any part of the anchors' appearance, you'd only have to edit one file, and it will affect all pages on the website that have that link in the head.

Typography on the web
Empty lines separating block level elements--line widthlosing control--practice: font family--practice: italics, bold, font-size--practice: line-width--practice: line-height.

Colours: dangerous and beautiful
Easy branding with colour--danger: colour blindness--danger: browser settings--solution: never use just colours--solution: always define all colours--practice: applying colours to text and links--practice: applying colour to backgrounds--practice: applying coloured borders.

Preparing for print
The print style sheet.

Answers
For answers, see Answers to Questions and Exercises.

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Johan Pootjes

Johan Pootjes (19 March 1882 – 30 October 1944) was a Dutch painter. His work was part of the painting event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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Is this the same place as Essakane? Badagnani 09:36, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

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Emmanuel Zambazis

Emmanuel Zambazis (Εμμανουήλ Ζαμπάζης; born April 24, 1997), sometimes known as Manolis Zambazis, is a Canadian soccer player who plays for Vaughan Azzurri in League1 Ontario.

Early life
Zambazis began playing soccer at the age of six with Olympic Flame SC. He later played for East York SC and Mississauga SC.

University career
In 2018, after playing three years at the professional level in Greece, Zambazis began attending York University, where he played for the men's soccer team. He scored his first goal on September 7, in a 1-1 draw against the McMaster Marauders. At the end of his first season, he was named an OUA West Second Team All Star. He earned U SPORTS academic all-Canadian honours for the 2020-21 academic year. In 2021, he was named an OUA East All-Star. Over his time with York, he won the OUA Championship in 2018 and an OUA silver medal in 2021.

Club career
In 2014, Zambazis appeared for Vaughan Azzurri in League1 Ontario.

In August 2014, Zambazis signed with Greek Football League club Iraklis. On October 29, 2015, Zambazis made his professional debut for Iraklis in a Greek Football Cup match against PAS Giannina. Zambazis left the clib upon the club's dissolution due to financial troubles.

In November 2018, at the 2018 CPL–U Sports Draft, Zambazis was selected in the second round (11th overall) by York9 FC. In April 2019, he officially signed a contract with the club. He made his first start for York9 FC in a match against Pacific FC on July 17, 2019. In August, he chose to remain with the team, rather than to return to university to play. In September 2019, he terminated his contract with the club by mutual consent.

In 2023, he played with Vaughan Azzurri in League1 Ontario.

International career
Zambazis is eligible to represent Canada or Greece internationally.

In November 2011, he made his debut in the Canadian national program, attending a Canada U15 identification camp.

In February 2016, Zambazis played with the Greece U19 in two friendly games against the Czech Republic U19.

In May 2016, he was called up to a training camp with the Canada U20. In February 2017, Zambazis was called up to represent the Canada U20 at the 2017 CONCACAF U-20 Championship.

Personal life
His maternal uncle is Spiros Papathanasakis, the former owner of Iraklis F.C.

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Talk:David Soyer

Kodaly Solo Cello Sonata premiere?
This ref says that George Neikrug played Kodaly's Solo Cello Sonata in New York in 1947, being the first time it had been performed anywhere in the USA "for many years". Soyer was aged only 24 in 1947, and "many years" earlier would have made him too early to be making such a premiere. It looks like Soyer's essay was after Neikrug's, and thus could not have been the New York premiere as claimed in the article.

Comments? --  Jack of Oz   [Talk]  04:04, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

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Nina Gershon

Nina Gershon (born October 16, 1940) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1996 at the recommendation of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. She assumed senior status on October 16, 2008.

Education and career
Born in Chicago, Illinois, Gershon received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with honors from Cornell University in 1962 and a Bachelor of Laws from Yale Law School in 1965. In 1965 and 1966, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of Economics' Hampstead Clinic. She was a Staff attorney of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Mental Health Information Service from 1966 to 1968, and was then assistant corporation counsel with the Appeals Division of the New York City Law Department from 1968 to 1969, and from 1970 to 1972. She was a professor of law and political science at the University of California, San Diego from 1969 to 1970. She was an attorney for the New York City Law Department from 1972 to 1976, serving as Chief of the Federal Appeals Division from 1972 to 1975 and Chief of the Consumer Protection Division from 1975 to 1976.

Federal judicial service
In 1976, Gershon became a United States magistrate judge of the Southern District of New York, an office she would hold for twenty years. She was also an adjunct professor of law at the Cardozo School of Law from 1986 to 1988. On October 18, 1995, Gershon was nominated by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York vacated by Leonard D. Wexler. She was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 30, 1996, and received her commission on August 1, 1996. She assumed senior status on October 16, 2008.

Notable cases

 * In the 1970s, working as a lawyer for New York City, Gershon won a court ruling that rejected the building of Grand Central Tower on top of Grand Central Terminal, which would have ruined the historical site. The ruling was later upheld in Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City.
 * In 1999, Gershon ruled that New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani could not cut the Brooklyn Museum of Art's funding after it mounted an exhibit entitled "Sensation". Giuliani described the works in the exhibit as "sick" and "disgusting."
 * In 2000, Gershon ruled that New York's century-old kosher food laws violated the First Amendment.
 * In the spring of 2006, Gershon presided over the trial of Shahawar Matin Siraj, a Pakistani immigrant who was accused of plotting to blow up New York's Herald Square subway station. After a four-week trial, a jury found Siraj guilty of four crimes, including plotting to bomb a public transportation system. On January 8, 2007, Gershon sentenced Siraj to 30 years imprisonment for his role in the plot.
 * On December 11, 2009, Judge Gershon issued a preliminary injunction against the United States Government preventing the implementation of a law barring the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) from receiving federal funds. Judge Gerson found that the law, passed as part of an Appropriation bill, was an unconstitutional Bill of attainder. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturned this decision on August 13, 2010.

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Andrew Smith (British writer)

Andrew Smith (born 27 July 1962) is a British screenwriter, playwright and author, best known for his work with the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Career
At seventeen-years-old, Smith achieved his ambition to write for Doctor Who with Full Circle, the third serial of the 18th season. Working titles for this story included The Planet That Slept. It broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 25 October to 15 November 1980. A novelisation of this serial, written by Smith, was published by Target Books in September 1982.

After limited success in television, Smith left the industry and joined the police. Decades later, he would return to Doctor Who, becoming a regular writer for Big Finish Productions. In addition to Doctor Who, Smith's other audio dramas would include Survivors, based on the 1970s BBC television series; Star Cops, based on the cult 1987 TV series created by Chris Boucher, and their Originals boxset, Transference, starring Alex Kingston.

Television

 * Full Circle

Doctor Who main range

 * The Brood of Erys
 * Mistfall
 * The Star Men
 * Hour of the Cybermen
 * Emissary of the Daleks

Lost Stories

 * The First Sontarans

Fourth Doctor Adventures

 * The Movellan Grave
 * The Sons of Kaldor
 * The Sinestran Kill
 * The Quest of the Engineer

Classic Doctors, New Monsters

 * The Sontaran Ordeal

The War Doctor

 * The Eternity Cage
 * The Lady of Obsidian

The First Doctor Adventures

 * The Barbarians and the Samurai
 * Return to Skaro

Early Adventures

 * Domain of the Voord

Third Doctor Adventures

 * Storm of the Horofax

Destiny of the Doctor

 * Vengeance of the Stones

Companion Chronicles

 * The Invasion of E-Space

Short Trips

 * Flashpoint

UNIT: The New Series

 * Earthfall (Extinction)
 * Bridgehead (Extinction)
 * Death in Geneva (Shutdown)
 * The Battle of the Tower (Shutdown)
 * The Sontaran Project (Encounters)

The Robots

 * Toos and Poul

Survivors

 * Judges
 * Rescue
 * The Second Coming
 * Come the Horsemen
 * Lockup
 * Conflict

Blake's 7

 * Battleground
 * The Liberator Chronicles Vol.10: Retribution
 * The Liberator Chronicles Vol.11: Escape From Destiny

Star Cops

 * One of Our Cops is Missing
 * Hostage
 * The New World

Big Finish Originals

 * Transference

Timeslip

 * Volume 1: The Age of the Death Lottery

Space 1999

 * Goldilocks

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Vytis military district

Vytis military district (also Vytis partisan military district) is a military district of Lithuanian partisans which operated in 1944–1953 in the counties of Panevėžys and Ukmergė as well in some parts of the Kėdainiai county. The military district consisted of two territorial detachments (rinktinė) named Briedis and Krištaponis.

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The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity

The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity is a monograph by Eva Mroczek, a scholar of ancient Judaism. Published by Oxford University Press in 2016, it argues that modern concepts of the Bible and even of the book itself—which refer to texts that are generally stable, finalized and/or definitive—are inapplicable to the Second Temple era of Judaism. The book suggests that scholars should avoid employing contemporary ideas of Authorship in their studies of early Jewish texts.


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Leva Fifita

Salesi Halaleva Lapota Fifita (born 29 July 1989) is a Tongan professional rugby union player who plays as a lock for Top 14 club Oyonnax Rugby and the Tonga national team.

Club
Fifita started his professional career in 2016 playing for Waikato, having previously played for Hamilton Old Boys. In February 2017 he trained with the Chiefs development squad, but not play any of the three friendly matches scheduled for the team.

In December 2017 he joined Rugby Pro D2 team FC Grenoble as a replacement for Mickaël Capelli. In March 2018 he extended his contract until June 2019. He later extended his contract for three more seasons. In June 2021 he activated his departure clause early, leaving Grenoble and signing with Irish team Connacht. He made his debut for the club in September 2021.

He joins Oyonnax Rugby in August 2023.

International
He made his international debut for Tonga against Wales on 16 June 2017. He was also part of the Tongan team which emerged as runners-up to Fiji at the 2017 World Rugby Pacific Nations Cup. He was included in the Tongan squad for the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan. He played four games in this competition, against England, Argentina, France and the United States. He was selected again to play against Scotland in Tonga's 2021 tour of the northern hemisphere.

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Sherlyn González

Sherlyn Montserrat González Díaz (born 14 October 1985 in Guadalajara, Jalisco), known simply as Sherlyn, is a Mexican actress and singer.

Biography
Sherlyn showed a passion for music at a young age. After winning a local contest called Vamos a jugar y cantar, she joined a children-oriented group called K.I.D.S., with fellow Mexican singers Dulce María and Fuzz. K.I.D.S.' second album, En el principio, was released, and they participated in a tribute album to Pope John Paul II, titled El pescador.

Sherlyn later began acting in telenovelas. She acted as piojito or Sofía in Marisol. She starred in Clase 406 with Alfonso Herrera, Anahí and Christian Chávez and later starred in Alborada, alongside Lucero. She was cast as Sandy in the Mexican version of Vaselina (Grease), alongside her ex-boyfriend, Aarón Díaz. She was one of the candidates to star as Nessarose in the Mexican version of Wicked but lost the role to Daniela Lujan.

In 2008, she began starring as Rocio in Cuidado con el ángel, alongside William Levy, Maite Perroni and Laura Zapata.

On 27 July 2009 the telenovela Camaleones premiered in Mexico in which she stars in with Irvin "Pee Wee" Salinas, Belinda and Alfonso Herrera. She was then part of the band of the same name while the novela was on air.

In 2010, she was part of the stage play Agosto, worked as a presenter for the TV show Hoy Sábado, and played Ana López in Una familia con suerte. She also acted in the Telehit series Hoy soy nadie (2012), and starred in the novela Amores Verdaderos (2013). She returned to television in 2015, playing Magos in Antes muerta que Lichita.

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