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Talk:Physics Study Guide

Definition Box
In a few sections a box of definitions seems to be useful so there should probably be a universal style for the box Template:PSG/def here's an example of the usage

Variable Box
In a few sections a box of variable usage explanations seems to be useful so there should probably be a universal style for the box Template:PSG/var here's an example of the usage

Cover Art Needed
This book has ben cited a couple times as an exemplary book and yet we don't have any cover art. Msmithma 22:16, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

TOC template
The template should be placed at the bottom of pages

Collaboration
I wanted to get hold of Karl Wick but I couldn't find an email address - so I am going out on a limb here. I believe we can have a mutually beneficial collaboration. My name is Mark Horner and I started the Free High School Science Texts project. The PR homepage is http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst and our project admin is done through http://savannah.gnu.org . We are going to release our books under GFDL and we'd like to put them on the web. We have much content in Maths, Physics and Chemisty but we are looking for people to help us finish them off. We are past the 1/2 mark but still need help.

All my details are on the project page - please contact me if you are interested.

 * This sounds like the beginning of a beautiful relationship. You should have recieved my email by now, lets chat on my talk page. - Karl Wick

What counts as nonessential?

 * You ask a question that deserves an honest answer. To me, the "essentials" include everything that I needed to know to get a passing grade in a pre-med Physics class.

 * Aha! You're revealing your biases! The reason for learning physics isn't to understand nature, but to get a passing grade!

 * True, there's the ultimate goal as well as the more immediate one.

 * Perhaps a more meaningful description of nonessential would be: extended detailed background. My goal in starting this study guide is to draw attention to the central concepts of introductory physics that are easily lost in the hundreds of pages of text in a typical textbook.

 * Often the biggest stumbling block or time-waster in learning a new topic is the terminology. In physics, add in the equations. This guide is intended to bring a spotlight on the equations and terms and give straitforward exlanatinons to each concept. Beyond this we can link to more in-depth material for further study.

 * --Karl Wick

Equations, equations, and equations, and not even a single overview or explanation of the concepts...

 * Would that mean we should move towards adding overviews? Explanations (if included) should be kept short.  This is, after all, a study guide, not a complete rehash of a Freshman-level Physics book.  Overviews should probably be kept down to maybe basic discourse about the use of such equations (after all, if this is a study guide, I wager it would be helpful to have an idea to help people with "word problems"...)

 * And how deep into each level should we go? Calculus based for everything?  Deep sub-topics into quantum equations, etc? -- Pipian

 * By just presenting equations with no explanation on what they mean, you're just encouraging rote memorization with no understanding...

 * I agree on that point, which is why I do think that SOME explanation is needed, but I do not believe that we need a textbook-like explanation ("Free-fall acceleration is acceleration due to gravity. Some examples of this acceleration can be seen when dropping objects from a height, such as an apple from your hand.  It does, however, have acceleration along the y-axis...") but rather a simple one ("Free-fall acceleration is vertical acceleration thanks to the force of earth's gravity.  It is equal to g, or 9.8 m/s^2") -- <IP_ADDRESS>

 * I'm all into some brief explanations. My goal is to help students learn the material in the quickest and least painful way possible.

 * About the Calculus, let that be another book or special subpages of this one. I have not taken any calc-based physics and it is not necessary for pre-meds, so I want to keep that separate. --Karl Wick

 * I think it would be a good idea to include it, but I think a separate section would probably be a good idea as well (Kinda like how you've partially separated out the advanced work information). An appendix perhaps?  ("A Calculus-Based Approach"?)

 * Also, I think I will rework the formulae in TeX format --Pipian

 * I change my earlier stance and now favor including the calculus-based material. Tex stuff sounds great if you like, I have not familiarized myself with how to write that stuff yet. --Karl Wick

 * Yeah, I was about to say that I was going to add such to the Kinematics section first. Now that you've said it's OK, I'll go right ahead and do that.  Shouldn't be that hard to do it inline.  Only thing is that the TeX outputs on a white background, so we will have to accommodate in terms of the tables. I'll go ahead and alter the Kinematics page first though to give you a taste.  I'll add some more explanation to it later.  Also, because I have a minor qualm with using d for displacement, favoring instead Δx (That's what I've read in every physics book that I've read), which also makes sense in the calculus-context (dx/dt), I'm going to switch those "d"s to "Δx"s. --Pipian

 * OK Karl Wick

 * Take a look. That's how I envision the pages looking (aside from adding a little explanation) -- Pipian

 * I like how the formatting looks under Tex. I'd like to keep everything as simple as possible. Right now I get a bit of a headache looking at all of the equations and for ME it is a bit overwhelming, and I think that it will be even more so for someone just getting into the subject. If possible I'd like to relegate all of the calc-based stuff to separate spots where it will not distract those who dont need it. One solution is for the reader to just ignore it but I'd rather not make him go thru all of that work. The calc stuff can be on a different page or on the same page further down. We could link to each more advanced page beneath the corresponding, simpler treatment. My whole goal in starting this book was to make the subject as approachable to a novice as possible and to eliminate averything that may distract him. My intent is that adding additional stuff is material for another, different book. --Karl Wick

 * OK, let me change my mind a bit again. I dont like the formatting in Tex so much cuz it loses the color that sets the equations apart, and the type is in a different font. I think yours and my goals may be different for the project. Mine include printing up copies of this material to sell on campus when I have all of the sections done. Maybe it would be better if you did a paralell version where you copied all of the material you wanted from here but didnt implement the pseudo-drastic changes you propose .. or do whatever you want to do on separate pages linked off of the existing pages. Talk to me cuz I know you will probably be mad/exasperated/something negative about what I am saying. --Karl Wick

 * The equations should still be fairly noticeable, as they are inscribed in boxes (you could dash them or do various other things instead of tinting the insides). Feel free to change it back if you like, but I believe that it would be best to keep it as it is (since it would be more accurate to what people will see in their books, and calculus equations are more difficult to display accurately without the help of TeX).  It would be nice if TeX would place it on the colored background, but this, unfortunately, does not seem to be possible.  As for Calculus, it would be convenient if it were at the bottom of the same page, rather than on a different page.  I don't mind separating it however. -- Pipian

 * I also think it would be beneficial to arrange it as kinematics, forces, momentum, work/energy (should be one section), circular motion, fluids, fields, gravity, waves/sound (should be one section), thermodynamics, electromagnetism, optics, modern (quantum/atomic) physics as that is a more natural way to learn physics. Each builds on the previous up to fields, and it is confusing to think about energy in the gravity chapter when it has not been mentioned in the study guide.  Everything after gravity is more or less up for grabs as to location, though modern physics should be last. -- Pipian

 * So where do we stand on forthcoming development of this text? Would it seriously be better if I split off? (I also tested making the borders thicker on Kinematics, if it looks alright) -- Pipian

There is some duplicated content in the Physics Exercises book I placed a wiki-link in the apedicies to that book as I figured that worked problems would be a good resource. --Martín S-M

After looking at the Manual of Style I realized the book needs a Physics Study Guide/Cover page and I made it and moved all the relavent information to that page from the table of contents. Also I am in the process of removing all the Category:Physics links from the sub-pages. I also moved the detailed infoamtion on changes on the Author page to the disscussion page leaving only the names of authors on the Physics Study Guide/Authors page. I created the subcategory Category:Physics Study Guide--Martín S-M Oct, 20, 2006

I am at a small college in Florida and as an assignment my students have created Wiki pages for Introductory Physics. Feel free to borrow freely from it here. -- S. Weppner

Outlines
Those box outlines are a bit too fat. I thought you had decided not to develop a different book but maybe we could just work on the same one together. If I want to publish my own version later I can just rework it to what I had originally in mind. Also notice that I restructured the list of topics as it seemed you had suggested, please modify as you see fit. --Karl Wick

 * Alright. I slimmed those down to 3px instead of 4px.  If you want, I'll take them to 2px.  As for the topic list, I re-arranged it slightly to put it in a (seemingly) better order.  If you disagree, let me know. -- Pipian

Tracking Changes

 * Karl Wick
 * This book initiated on 10/29/03
 * Adon Metcalfe
 * Added images throughout on 6/18/04
 * Brendan Abbott
 * Minor update to Electronics page on 10/13/04
 * Tristan Sabel
 * Several additions to Physical Constants page on 3/15/05
 * Creation of Approximate Coefficients of Friction page on 3/15/05
 * Adon Metcalfe
 * Definition fix on sound page on 3/27/05
 * Fromund Hock
 * Some changes on light on 8/1/05
 * Martin Smith-Martinez
 * Suggested that the Physics Exercises be merged into the guide 9/06
 * Updated the Physical Constants page
 * Added some images, changed others to thumbnails to the Linear motion and Vectors and Scalras pages Oct 20, 2006
 * Did some migration of boxed equations into the Template:PSG/eq 19:29, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Created the PSG/var and PSG/def templates and made entries in the Style Guide discussion and migrated the variable and definitions on the Forces page into the template format 07:22, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Print version
Can anyone create a printable version of the entire book? I have tried, but can't seem to get it to work properly.

Yes, a print (PDF)version would be really useful. BTW, what does it take to create a PDF? I have a dial-up access and cannot be of much use here but I hope someone else will do the good work. Kushal_one (on wikipedia)

Freshman?
This book is apparently on the level of Freshman? To what universal stage/degree does that correspond?Adriaan90 (talk) 14:22, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned page
Physics Study Guide/Quantum Mechanics is not linked to by this book. If you like it, please link to it. Otherwise, you could merge the content and label it with or mark it with. -- Adrignola talk contribs 13:12, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

The Question Bank
has anyone noticed the question bank that I have added to the Physics Study Guide? That'll be a great way to add content to the textbook. Ofcourse, once the contributors start adding explanations, we will know how to write the guide better!

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Bakersfield High School

Bakersfield High School (BHS) is a public four-year high school located in Bakersfield, California, United States. Opened in 1893, Bakersfield High School serves grades ninth through twelfth within the Kern High School District.

Notable alumni

 * Larry Barnes – former MLB player (Anaheim Angels, Los Angeles Dodgers).
 * Theo Bell – former NFL football player
 * Jeff Buckey – former NFL football player
 * Pete Cross – former NBA player.
 * Marion Osborn Cunningham – artist.
 * Ric Drasin – actor, author, designer of the Gold's Gym and World Gym logos, and retired professional wrestler
 * Robert Duncan – poet, was a key figure in the San Francisco Renaissance
 * Frank Gifford – Pro Football Hall of Fame and Monday Night Football commentator
 * Merle Haggard – singer-songwriter.
 * Jerry Marion – former NFL player
 * Kevin McCarthy – Congressman, 55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
 * Matthew Todd Miller, American citizen held by North Korea
 * Spain Musgrove – former NFL defensive lineman
 * Doug Loman – former MLB player (Milwaukee Brewers)
 * Ruth B. Love (Class of 1950) – Educator, former education administrator, school superintendent and author. Love is noted as the first African–American and woman to serve as superintendent of Chicago Public Schools, the nation's third largest school district.
 * Steve Ontiveros – former MLB player (San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs)
 * Dennis Ralston – Davis Cup winner
 * Don Robesky – former Stanford football player
 * Rick Sawyer – former MLB player (New York Yankees, San Diego Padres)
 * Jeff Siemon – former NFL football player
 * Jeremy Staat – former NFL player
 * Michael Stewart – former NFL football player
 * Robert Swift – former NBA player
 * Jerry Tarr – former professional football player
 * Phillip Thomas – former NFL football player
 * Jake Varner – four time All-American and two time national champion wrestler at Iowa State University and winner of a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London at 26
 * Tyrone Wallace (Class of 2012) – Paris basketball player, NBA player, former California Golden Bears basketball player
 * Earl Warren – California Attorney General, three-term Governor of California, Chief Justice of the United States, and chairman of the Warren Commission
 * Larry Welz – noteworthy early contributor to underground comics movement

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Cookbook talk:Traditional Pound Cake

Page history from wikipedia
Legend: (cur) = difference with current version, (last) = difference with preceding version, M = minor edit

 * (cur) (last) . . 02:51, 29 Jan 2004 . . Gentgeen (Transwikied recipes to wikibooks)
 * (cur) (last) . . 18:12, 22 Dec 2003 . . Noldoaran
 * (cur) (last) . . M 17:08, 6 Dec 2003 . . Seglea (link to recipe)
 * (cur) (last) . . M 17:07, 6 Dec 2003 . . Seglea (linkfix)
 * (cur) (last) . . 17:06, 6 Dec 2003 . . Seglea (added authentic equal-quantities recipe)
 * (cur) (last) . . M 13:20, 6 Dec 2003 . . Jengod (wikify)
 * (cur) (last) . . 09:00, 6 Dec 2003 . . <IP_ADDRESS> (Sorry if the recipe is a little non-specific, but it is a old handed down recipie, so is likely public domain)

Better recipe
I have found a new and supposedly better recipe for lemon pound cake in an old issue of Cook's magazine, along with a lemon glaze and a lemon-poppyseed variation. The same magazine claims that the classic recipe (shown here) was recieved poorly by tasters, saying that "the texture was described as 'leaden' and the taste resembled 'an underbaked sugar cookie.'" Should it replace the current recipe and be cited? --Whoop whoop pull up (talk) 16:55, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

 * I'll take your silence as a "yes." --Whoop whoop pull up Bitching Betty 16:26, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

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Portal:Management

Welcome to the Management Department of the School of Business

Management comprises directing and controlling a group of one or more people or entities for the purpose of coordinating and harmonizing that group towards accomplishing a goal. Management often encompasses the deployment and manipulation of human resources, financial resources, technological resources, and natural resources. Management can also refer to the person or people who perform the act(s) of management.

Curriculum
The following courses are recommended:

Lessons

 * Principles of Management
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 * Strategic management

Current Wikibooks

 * Change Management
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 * See also ← for requested books on management.

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Adjective

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The Anti-Chomsky Reader

The Anti-Chomsky Reader is a 2004 anthology book about the linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky edited by Peter Collier and David Horowitz. Its contributors criticize Chomsky's political and linguistic writings, claiming that he cherry-picks facts to fit his theories.

Contents
The Anti-Chomsky Reader contains the following essays:

 * An introduction by Peter Collier
 * "Whitewashing Dictatorship in Vietnam and Cambodia" by Steven J. Morris, Senior Fellow at The Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University, accuses Chomsky of denying repression and mass murder under the communist regimes of Vietnam and Cambodia. Morris claims that Chomsky adheres to a Marxist-derived view of the Indochina wars which refuses to acknowledge the totalitarian nature of the regimes in question. (pages 1–34)
 * "Chomsky and the Cold War" by Thomas M. Nichols, chairman of the Department of Strategy and Policy, U.S. Naval War College, claims that Chomsky has distorted the history of the Cold War in order to minimize the role of Communist ideology and blame the conflict on the United States. He accuses Chomsky of misusing sources and footnoting his books in manipulative and dishonest ways "to create a kind of pseudo-academic smog" often leading back to Chomsky's own work. He discusses a 1990 letter from Chomsky to Alexander Cockburn which Nichols claims laments the defeat of the Soviet Union and other Communist states and movements at the end of the Cold War, particularly singling out Czech dissident Václav Havel for vituperation. (pages 35–65)
 * "Chomsky and the Media: A Kept Press and a Manipulated People" by Eli Lehrer, former editor of American Enterprise, is a critique of the propaganda model of the media put forward by Edward S. Herman and Chomsky in their book, Manufacturing Consent. Lehrer accuses Chomsky of being "an outsider who knows relatively little about the media... except to the degree that 'media subservience' serves to explain why there is no outcry against the evil he sees everywhere in the American enterprise." (pages 67–84)
 * "Chomsky's War Against Israel" by Paul Bogdanor criticizes Chomsky's stance on Israel. Bogdanor charges that Chomsky distorts historical fact and falsely accuses Israel of atrocities and rejectionism while downplaying Arab aggression and violence against the Jewish State. (pages 87–116)
 * "Chomsky and Holocaust Denial", by Werner Cohn of Brooklyn, New York and professor emeritus of sociology at the University of British Columbia, analyzes Chomsky's role in the Faurisson affair through his connections to Faurisson's publisher La Vieille Taupe. Cohn accuses Chomsky of close connections to French anti-semites and Holocaust Deniers through this organization (pages 117–58). Chomsky replied in Outlook.
 * "Chomsky and 9/11" by David Horowitz and Ronald Radosh analyzes a speech given by Chomsky at MIT immediately after 9/11. Horowitz and Radosh allege that "Chomsky detected [a] plot by Washington to deliberately starve 3 to 4 million innocent Afghan civilians". They also claim that Chomsky justifies the 9/11 attacks in his speech and distorts American history to make the United States appear to be a terrorist nation. (pages 161–80)
 * "Noam Chomsky's Anti-American Obsession", by David Horowitz, accuses Chomsky of being an anti-American ideologue who sees the United States as evil and rewrites American history accordingly. Horowitz claims that Chomsky is the intellectual source of left-wing anti-Americanism today. (pages 181–200)
 * "A Corrupted Linguistics" by Robert D. Levine and Paul M. Postal, both professors of linguistics, claims that Chomsky's linguistic work has been largely superseded or abandoned. They also accuse Chomsky of intellectual misconduct in his linguistic writings. (pages 203–31)
 * "Chomsky, Language, World War II and Me" by John Williamson criticizes Chomsky's linguistic work and recounts a long email debate between Chomsky and the author in which Williamson claims Chomsky repeatedly lied about his own statements and about historical facts and sources. (pages 233–48)

The authors claim Chomsky suppresses evidence to suit his theories.

Criticism of the Propaganda Model
Eli Lehrer criticized the propaganda model theory on several points. According to Lehrer, the theory:

 * ignores revelations by the media of government and corporate misconduct and that it is this kind of reporting that wins rewards and gives reputation. (page 76)

 * neglects that major media such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times sharply disagree on most issues in their editorials. The owners of media also have different political views. Media companies may also be owned by thousands of shareholders. While some CEOs may see their company as a soapbox for their own views, most do not, and a single media company sometimes owns newspapers with very different editorials. (pages 69–70)

 * is inconsistent, sometimes arguing that the media only serve to distract people with unimportant entertainment and little real news, but sometimes instead arguing that the media move public opinion on all important issues and current events. (page 70)

 * is incorrect regarding the influence of advertisers. Chomsky and Herman have pointed to two statements from two advertisers who in the 1970s wanted the programming that carried their ads to present a generally positive view of business. Lehrer argues that entertainment programs are in fact anti-business, with one study finding businessmen three times more likely than any other profession to be depicted as criminals, and nine times out of ten depicted as being primarily motivated by greed. (pages 74–76)

 * has difficulty explaining the popularity of conservative radio talk shows. Assuming that people want to hear the far-left political views that Chomsky advocates, but are being fed right-wing views by filtered media, or lulled into compliancy by mindless entertainment, then they should at least not voluntarily tune into conservative views. (page 78)

 * ignores alternative explanations for differences in media coverage. For example, Chomsky has frequently argued that the greater US media coverage of the murder of the priest Jerzy Popieluszko in Communist Poland, as compared with the US media coverage of the murders of priests in Latin America, is evidence for the theory. Lehrer argues that there are many alternative explanations, like that the very fact that such murders were common in Latin America meant that they were not new news. Or that Popieluszko had played a prominent part in protests which a few years earlier had forced military intervention and that his murder further turned the public opinion in Poland against the Communist regime. (pages 79–81)

 * ignores new media such as the many forms of Internet media. Although Manufacturing Consent was published before the Internet, Chomsky has continued to almost entirely ignore these media also in recent publications and speeches. When commenting, he seems to have a poor knowledge of the Internet, for example stating that only "sizeable commercial entities" have run successful Internet sites, which Lehrer argues is strange for someone claiming to be a modern media theorist. (pages 77–78)

 * is not new, but only another variant of the Marxist idea of "false consciousness". (page 72)

 * treats with contempt the views and opinions of nearly all people, who are described as the "bewildered herd." People are either too stupid to understand how media manipulates every aspect of their lives, or complicit pawns. (page 82)

Reception
The conservative historian Keith Windschuttle, in a review in the conservative magazine New Criterion, states that "Collier, Horowitz, and their six other authors have produced a book that has long been needed. It provides a penetrating coverage of the disgraceful career of a disgraceful but very influential man, who has so far avoided a criticism as thoroughgoing as this."

The English professor Mark Bauerlein, in a generally positive review in the libertarian magazine Reason, claims that "Collier and Horowitz understand well the manufactured reality of political fame, and to dismantle it requires not contrary vitriol or clever rejoinders but direct, fact-based assertions that undermine the authenticity of the image. To that end, the contributors follow a simple procedure: Quote actual statements by Chomsky and test them for evidence and logic. The best contributions to the volume add the effective and timely tactic of citing Chomsky's progressive virtues and revealing how smoothly he abandons them."

In Commentary Magazine, Arch Puddington called The Anti-Chomsky Reader “The most comprehensive critique of Chomsky that has yet appeared,” and that it “benefits from the political sophistication of its contributors, most of whom are familiar with the dynamics of radical politics and are not distracted by Chomsky's pretense to scholarly rigor and truth-seeking.”

The author Anthony F. Greco criticized Collier and Horowitz for being biased and selective and not acknowledging any merit in Chomsky's writings.

John Feffer accused Collier and Horowitz of blatant dishonesty and has stated that they wrote the book to attack Chomsky because their careers were failing after their popularity died out during the Clinton administration years. Feffer also added that they had to make a dishonest living creating fictitious allegations of liberal bias in academia.

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User:Sam916/School

Welcome to the Sam916 University This is the University of Sam916. A small quaint little school that is dedicated to just random things. You'll Never know what the teacher, Me, will do.

Architecture Division

 * Dubai Architecture

Participants
All you need to do is add yourself, and you're enrolled.

School News Board
9/9/06 - School Founded

Category:Specialty Schools

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User:Fephisto

Hey, welcome to my user page, my main page is at Wikibooks:

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/1 toledo spain evening sunset 2014.jpg

Sunset at Toledo, Spain
Voting period ends on 18 Feb 2015  at 01:35:43 (UTC)
 * Reason:High Resolution
 * Articles in which this image appears:Toledo, Spain +1
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Places/Panorama
 * Creator:Chensiyuan

 * Support as nominator – National Names 2000 (talk) 01:35, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support any prefer ALt. It is crisp and clear, especially the water and around. Hafspajen (talk) 03:08, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment' It's also been downsampled (compare the size of any convenient building between the two) and cropped (look at the hill on the right). Support original only. Adam Cuerden (talk) 09:38, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * As the creator of the alt I would like to comment on that. First of all, most panoramas are downsampled to some degree. As an image editor, I look for a reasonable balance between sharpness and resolution and the left frames used here were somewhat blurred and not perfectly in focus. If you really want to check this, download both versions and scale them to the same height. The difference is much samller than what the figures would suggest. This is not a scan where additional resolution translates into more detail because it's captured under controlled conditions. The original is also somewhat incorrect because the images were shot with different exposure times and therefore an unrealistic gradient is introduced that makes the left areas appear darker than they were. --DXR (talk) 10:06, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I'd probsbly forgive that, but the crop on the right seems highly unfortunate. Adam Cuerden (talk) 10:08, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Well sb criticized it on commons FPC. I can redo it, I don't feel too strongly about either the res or the crop. Just takes me some time. --DXR (talk) 10:12, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I do think we need the full width of the panorama to really see Toledo in context. Adam Cuerden (talk) 13:12, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

 * Support ALT is fine. Spectacular picture. The street lights are a bit of a distraction, but it's natural so it's okay. Étienne Dolet (talk) 03:41, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support Original, the Alt does not look natural to me. talk→   WPPilot   04:17, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support Original gaz hiley  13:54, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support.--Jobas (talk) 12:32, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Support Original - CorinneSD (talk) 00:35, 11 February 2015 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 01:37, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Only the original has enough support for promotion. Armbrust The Homunculus 01:37, 18 February 2015 (UTC)


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Funny Creatures Lane

Funny Creatures Lane is the second album by the Italian psychedelic rock band Jennifer Gentle, released in 2002.

Track list

 * 1) My Memories' Book
 * 2) Locoweed
 * 3) Wondermarsh
 * 4) Mad House
 * 5) Oui, c'est moi!
 * 6) Floating Fraulein
 * 7) Ectoplasmic Garden Party
 * 8) The Stammering Ghost
 * 9) Ultraviolet Lady Opera
 * 10) Lord Hypnosis
 * 11) Couple in Bed by a Green Flashing Light
 * 12) The Wax-Dolls Parade

Line Up
Marco Fasolo – voice, guitar

Alessio Gastaldello – drums

Isacco Maretto – guitar, accordion

Nicola Crivellari – bass, guitar

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Atlas Shrugged/Synopsis/Section 2

=Atlas Shrugged, Part 2, Chapters 1-5=

Section 211: Part 2, Chapter 1, Section 1

 * Plot summary:
 * While waiting for Dr. Ferris to arrive, Dr. Stadler paces in his office and thinks about the outrageous weather and the Ferris' outrageous book. Stadler is worried about how the book will be received. Although it was not written by him, it was published by the State Science Institute, and whatever notoriety it acquires will inevitably be attributed to him, since his name helps affirm the SSI. He is worried about the philosophy in the book which begins "Thought is a primitive suspicion. Reason is an irrational idea." After some time Dr. Stadler screams to himself that "I had nothing to do with it!"
 * Dr. Ferris arrives one hour late because his car broke down and he "had a hell of a time trying to find someone to fix it." They briefly talk of the trouble with reclaiming the Wyatt oil fields - the scientists cannot discover the special method Wyatt used. Dr. Ferris had yet to reclaim one drop but has received many large grants from the government. Moreover, he gauges the project's success based on approval from certain incumbents, rather than actual results. Dr. Stadler attempts to ask for actual results, but Ferris tells him he's not interested in practical technological endeavors. Stadler then complains of the lack of heating due to the oil shortage. Dr. Stadler then asks about Project Xylophone or Project X. Ferris informs him that it is a top secret project that has to do with sound. Stadler then presses Ferris on the book. Ferris is flustered and asks "did you find the text confusing?" Stadler warns of the dangerous message of the book and Ferris shrugs it off. Ferris claims the audience is one that does not want to think and thus will not be troubled by the content. He believes the audience will embrace the books for giving them justification for not thinking.
 * Dr. Stadler lets Ferris leave without saying he will denounce the book in public. He fears this threat would not faze Ferris. He begins to feel that his word no longer had any power.
 * His secretary informs him that Dagny is on the line. She asks him to meet with her in New York, and although he does not have an engagement there, he lies so that he can meet her today. He leaves as soon as he can, desperate for another mind of like competence.
 * The following Places in Atlas Shrugged are used as settings in this section:
 * Dr. Stadler's office
 * The following Characters in Atlas Shrugged appear in this section:
 * Dr. Robert Stadler
 * Dr. Ferris
 * Ellis Wyatt (mentioned)
 * Dagny
 * The following quotations appear in this section:
 * Excerpts from Why Do You Think You Think by Dr. Floyd Ferris
 * " "Thought is a primitive superstition. Reason is an irrational idea." (316)
 * "The more we know, the more we learn that we know nothing" (316)
 * "Do not expect consistancy. Everything is a contradiction of everything else. Nothing exists but contradictions." (317)
 * "You cannot be sure of anything" (317)
 * "You see, Dr. Stadler, people don't want to think. And the deeper they get into trouble, the less they want to think. But by some sort of instinct, they feel that they ought to and it makes them feel guilty. So they'll bless and follow anyone who gives them a justification for not thinking. Anyone who makes a virtue—a highly intellectual virtue—out of what they know to be their sin, their weakness and their guilt." (264)
 * The following pieces of Literature in Atlas Shrugged appear in this section:
 * Why Do You Think You Think by Dr. Floyd Ferris

Section 212: Part 2, Chapter 1, Section 2

 * Plot summary
 * While at work, Dagny reminisces the recent events -- the dying companies, and Jim's triumph. Hammonds and Stockton have disappeared, and Dagny has no longer become astonished at this steady disappearance of the producers. Through his friends in Washington, Jim has managed to make all the restrictive legislatures favor Taggart Transcontinental, in some way, usually through forced elimination of competition. Jim has thus grafted large sums of money, "Listed as profit, on the glossy pages of his report to the stockholders, was the money he had not earned--the subsidies for empty trains; and the money he did not own--the sum that should have gone to pay the interest and the retirement of Taggart bonds, the debt which, by the will of Wesley Mouch, he had been permitted not to pay. (327)" He proclaims to Dagny, "'You have always considered money-making as such an important virtue... well, it seems to me that I'm better at it than you are (327)."
 * In her conversation with Stadler, Dagny almost finds herself sympathizing with Stadler when he offers a potential scientist to take on the quest of reconstructing the motor. This type, as Stadler admits himself, is the type who would refuse to work for the State Science Institute. The small talk of incompetent railway workers broaches up the rhetorical question, "Who is John Galt?" Stadler mentions that he knew of a John Galt once, "He had such a mind that, had he lived, the whole world would have been talking of him by now (334)." Ominously, Stadler declares that this John Galt must be dead, he has to -- even though he appears to be lonely for a like mind.
 * The following Places in Atlas Shrugged are used as settings in this section:
 * Taggart Tunnel
 * Dagny's office
 * The following Characters in Atlas Shrugged appear in this section:
 * Stadler
 * James Taggart
 * Dagny Taggart
 * John Galt (mentioned)
 * incompetent railway workers
 * Hammond
 * Stockton's sister

Section 213: Part 2, Chapter 1, Section 3

 * Plot summary
 * Rearden receives a mysterious order from the State Science Institute demanding that he sell 10,000 tons of Rearden Metal for a certain Project X. Recent legislation has required that he limit sales to any one customer only 500 tons -- which is clearly an arbitrary sum set by some clueless incumbent, since it's barely enough to lay 3 miles of Taggart rail. Rearden refuses to sell to the State Science Institute.
 * The Wet Nurse, a representative from Washington hired to monitor Rearden's progress, advises Rearden to reconsider, because the source is the government, and that there will be trouble if he rejects it.
 * When a representative of the State Science Institute comes to discuss the issue with Rearden, Rearden states that because it's his creation, he has a moral right to know what use is made of his metal -- regardless of the fact that just a short while ago, the State Science Institute had issued libel against Rearden Metal. The spokesman invokes a bunch of words, stating that it's a great project of great social value, but does not actually state what Project X is. Rearden then gives him the ultimatum -- if you want the metal, just go out and take it like any looter. He can't shoot him, but he will not help make this extortion look moral and legal. The spokesman leaves, ominously stating that he will regret his action. Rearden, however, feels elated. His reaction is a step closer to understanding of his role in the Sanction of the Victim.
 * The following Places in Atlas Shrugged are used as settings in this section:
 * Rearden's office
 * Rearden Metal
 * The following Characters in Atlas Shrugged appear in this section:
 * Rearden
 * Rearden's Superintendent
 * Miss Ives
 * The Wet Nurse

Section 214: Part 2, Chapter 1, Section 4

 * Plot summary
 * Rearden buys Dagny a bunch of expensive luxury items, some of which he can't afford, in hopes of turning her into his own luxury item. Dagny claims the ownership is righteous because he has bought her long ago through his ability and achievement. (This ritual of courtship through merit is typical in Ayn Rand's romances.) Hank admits that he'd never had a reason for spending the money he'd earned -- he'd always envisioned that he'd buy treasures for a woman, but has not found her until now.
 * Dagny tells Rearden of Quentin Daniels and the possibility of finding a mind to revive the motor. She mentions Stadler, and Rearden tells her that Stadler wanted from Dagny a recognition that he's still great, "to juggle reality for him, so that his greatness would remain. (350)"
 * The following Places in Atlas Shrugged are used as settings in this section:
 * Dagny's apartment
 * d'Anconia Copper (mentioned)
 * Elegant and hidden Inn situated in a knoll in the woods
 * The following Characters in Atlas Shrugged appear in this section:
 * Hank Rearden
 * Dagny Taggart
 * Dr. Stadler (mentioned)

Section 221: Part 2, Chapter 2, Section 1

 * Plot summary:
 * Within view of the giant citywide calendar across the street, Dagny reminisces recent events in her office in New York. The giant calendar is a looming presence that haunts her with the thought that her days are limited, and that she's working towards an end it knows, but she does not know.
 * She remembers her meeting with Quintin Daniels, the scientist Stadler suggested to her who might remake the motor. Daniels had refused to work at the State Science Institute on the basis that "Governmental scientific inquiry" is a contradiction in terms. Instead, Daniels works as a night watchman at the Utah Institute of Technology. The low pay is sufficient to pay for his meals, and he has full access to the labs; cut off from the world, he is doing research for his own personal enjoyment. He had refused Dagny's high monthy pay, stating that he would gamble with his own mind and not with her money, uncertain about whether he will succeed in reconstructing the motor. However, when and if he succeeds, he will demand a high percentage of the profits. Daniels' method of payment is both ideally Objective and a tribute to the meaning and worth of money, which is clarified later in this chapter by Francisco's speech at Taggart's wedding.
 * As Dagny leaves the building, the cigarette-collecting old man at the cigar stand stops her, telling her that he'd looked everywhere to try to find the manufacturer of the cigarette with the sign of the dollar she had given him -- though the cigarette is definitely machine made, to the best of his knowledge, "that cigarette was not made anywhere on earth."

 * The following Places in Atlas Shrugged are used as settings in this section:
 * Giant citywide calendar "Calendar in the sky beyond the windows of her office (352)"
 * Dagny's office
 * Corner cigar stand
 * The following Characters in Atlas Shrugged appear in this section:
 * Quentin Daniels
 * Dagny Taggart
 * Dr. Stadler (mentioned)
 * Ted Neilsen
 * Roger Marsh (mentioned)
 * Old man at the cigar stand

Section 222: Part 2, Chapter 2, Section 2

 * Plot summary:
 * Rearden sits in his room in the Wayne-Falkland Hotel reminiscing his secret meeting with Dannager. He had arranged to give Dannagar enough Rearden Metal to reinforce the roofing of Dannagar's mines from caving in. Dannager is one of the only competent men remaining, and Rearden feels this underhand action is a blow against the looters. Yet, he feels contempt for himself that he is reduced to having to pull a secret meeting for an honest trade.
 * After the waiter has cleared away the in-room dinner cart, Lillian bursts into the room. Rearden is surprised at her appearance. Though he does not want to attend the party, Lillian convinces Rearden to attend Taggart's wedding. The fact that she has convinced him to go to the party means that she still holds him as a victim.
 * The following Places in Atlas Shrugged are used as settings in this section:
 * Wayne-Falkland Hotel
 * The following Characters in Atlas Shrugged appear in this section:
 * Lillian Rearden
 * Ken Dannager
 * Hank Rearden

Section 223: Part 2, Chapter 2, Section 3

 * Plot summary:
 * Cherryl reminisces while she dresses for her wedding under the supervision of a sob sister who had taken Brooks under her protection. Masses of reporters have tailed after Brooks, shooting pictures of her in her slum neighborhood, making Brooks something of a sensation, though to her chagrin. Brooks senses something wrong in the sort of publicity she's receiving -- indeed, Taggart had not only not offered her money to escape the reporters, he had also not hired her an escort to take her to the wedding. The sobsister would be the one to drive Brooks to her wedding.
 * Cherryl also recounts her "romance" with Taggart. She had been surprised that Taggart had dropped by her slum room one day, out of the blue. Taggart seems to find in her an unlikely confidante; he spills out his animosity towards his contemporaries, both heroes and looters, while Brooks, understanding little of what he rambles about, innocently assumes the burden of listening to his words. Taggart is drawn to Brooks by her innocence, her hero-worshipping ideals; he feels like he's winning by making Brooks believe that he is the hero, and Dagny and Rearden the villains.
 * The sob sister warns her that "there are people who'll try to hurt you through the good they see in you--knowing that it's the good, needing it and punishing you for it. Don't let it break you when you discover that. (364)" Rather than taking heed from the sobsister's words, Brooks is optimistic that she'd soon be Mrs. James Taggart.
 * The following Places in Atlas Shrugged are used as settings in this section:
 * Cherryl Brooks' Apartment
 * The following Characters in Atlas Shrugged appear in this section:
 * Cherryl Brooks
 * Sob Sister

Section 224: Part 2, Chapter 2, Section 4

 * Plot summary:
 * The section on Cherryl and Jim Taggart's wedding. Jim has received media attention for his democratic wedding--that his bride is one of the poor.
 * Bertran Scudder states that "Money is the root of all evil". To which d'Anconia gives a lengthy rebuttal.
 * Lillian asks Dagny for the bracelet back, but Dagny refuses to return it. Lillian attempts to get Dagny to admit that she's having an affair with Rearden, yet when Dagny gets to the point, Lillian realizes how ludicrous the speculation is. Taking Dagny's side, Rearden asks Lillian to apologize to Dagny.
 * In Francisco's speech, he asserts that "money is the root of all good." Those who believe it is evil have let money be its own value, when the value of money is dependent on its creator and trader. This value can be deprecated into something evil if money is abused through fraudulent trade.
 * The party ends when Francisco states to Rearden that he has instigated the crash of D'Anconia Copper Stock, and the party guest leave in a hurry to try and talk to their respective stockbrokers.
 * The following Places in Atlas Shrugged are used as settings in this section:
 * Wayne-Falkland Hotel
 * The following Characters in Atlas Shrugged appear in this section:
 * Cherryl Brooks
 * James Taggart
 * Dagny Taggart
 * Lillian Rearden
 * Hank Rearden
 * Francisco d'Anconia
 * Orren Boyle
 * Bertran Scudder
 * Paul Larkin
 * Eugene Lawson
 * Balph Eubank
 * Wesley Mouch (mentioned)
 * Several unnamed party guests

Section 231: Part 2, Chapter 3, Section 1

 * Plot summary:
 * Rearden returns to his hotel room in the Wayne-Falkland Hotel after Taggart's party. Lillian announces that she's going to take a train home and complains that she hates d'Anconia, that he could have kept his mouth shut until tomorrow morning, that "he owed a certain duty to his stockholders, didn't he? (392)" The tension in her voice is revealed in a later section.
 * Rearden escorts Lillian by taxi to the train station, still dressed in his evening clothes.
 * Rearden gives the taxi driver the address of Dagny's apartment, and he goes there immediately after dropping Lillian off.
 * At Dagny's apartment, Dagny explains the nature of their love for one another--that it is like a mutual trade. In accords with Ayn Rand's Theory of Sex, Dagny tells Rearden that that her "way of trading is to know that the joy [he] gives [her] is paid for by the joy [he] gets from [her]--not by [his] suffering or [hers]. (394)" She won't accept sacrifices, and if he asks her to give up her railroad, she'd leave him. She tells him that if the pleasure of one is bought by the pain of the other, then the trade is a fraud. She warns him that, "You don't do it in business, Hank. Don't do it in your own life. (394)" Dagny's words remind Rearden of how different she and Lillian are.
 * Rearden asks Dagny who had been her first lover. Dagny refuses to answer, in part because of Rearden's motive in asking, and instead prompts Rearden to understand his error in envy over her first man, "Do you know your only real guilt? With the greatest capacity for it, you've never learned to enjoy yourself. You've always rejected your own pleasure too easily. You've been willing to bear too much. (395)" Ironically, Rearden mentions that that's exactly what Francisco told him at the party. Dagny asks Rearden what he thinks of Francisco, and Rearden admits that he's the one man to whom he'd entrust his life.
 * Rearden apologizes for the insults he threw at Dagny, the morning after at Wyatt's house.
 * The following Places in Atlas Shrugged are used as settings in this section:
 * Wayne-Falkland Hotel
 * Taggart Terminals
 * Dagny's apartment
 * The following Characters in Atlas Shrugged appear in this section:
 * Lillian Rearden
 * Hank Rearden
 * Francisco d'Anconia (mentioned)
 * taxi driver
 * Dagny Taggart
 * Ellis Wyatt (mentioned)

Section 232: Part 2, Chapter 3, Section 2

 * Plot summary:
 * The radio announces the stock-market crash of d'Anconia Copper.
 * Lillian returned to the Wayne-Falkland hotel earlier the previous evening, and is waiting when he returns in the morning, to discover's Hank's unfaithfulness. She wants him to move out but will not allow a divorce and loss of her social status.  He refuses to tell her with whom he has been having an affair.
 * Dr. Ferris wants Rearden to sell the State Science Institute some Rearden Metal for use in Project X. He threatens Rearden with the possibility of ten years jail time for illegally selling Rearden Metal to Ken Dannager.  Rearden has Dr. Ferris thrown out of his office.
 * The following Places in Atlas Shrugged are used as settings in this section:
 * Wayne-Falkland Hotel, New York City
 * Rearden's office at Rearden Steel, Pennsylvania
 * The following Characters in Atlas Shrugged appear in this section:
 * Hank Rearden
 * Lillian Rearden
 * Gwen Ives
 * Dr. Ferris

Section 233: Part 2, Chapter 3, Section 3

 * Plot summary:
 * Eddie Willers is talking to the Worker in the employee cafeteria of Taggart Transcontinental. He mentions how Rearden and Ken Dannager were both indicted for the illegal sale of Rearden Metal. He fears what will happen if Ken Dannager quits and abandons his business, because while Rearden can take it, Dannager is barely hanging by a thread; Dagny has recognized that he is "ready for the destroyer" and a small push might set him off and make him quit.  He also mentions that Dagny wishes she knew who the destroyer was, so that she could kill him, even if it meant she had to die in the process.
 * The following Places in Atlas Shrugged are used as settings in this section:
 * Cafeteria of the Taggart Transcontinental Building
 * The following Characters in Atlas Shrugged appear in this section:
 * Eddie Willers
 * The Worker

Section 234: Part 2, Chapter 3, Section 4

 * Plot summary:
 * Dagny goes to Pittsburgh to try to see Ken Dannager and prevent him from quitting.
 * There is an unannounced visitor already in the office with Mr. Dannager, who is causing his appointment with her to run late. This is extremely unusual for Dannager, who is as punctual as a train schedule.
 * Dagny is admitted to Dannager's office, only to find that the visitor ahead of her was The Destroyer, who has convinced Dannager to quit. Dagny tries to beg Dannager not to quit, but is unsuccessful, and he will be leaving that day.  Dannager asks Dagny to tell Hank Rearden that he is probably "the only man I ever loved," indicating how much he cared about Rearden.
 * Dannager tells her not to worry, as she'll be seeing him again soon. "Oh?  Are you going to return?"  "No.  You're going to join me."
 * The following Places in Atlas Shrugged are used as settings in this section:
 * Dannager's office at Dannager Coal Company in Pittsburgh.
 * The following Characters in Atlas Shrugged appear in this section:
 * Dagny Taggart
 * Ken Dannager's Secretary
 * Ken Dannager
 * Unnamed visitor (The Destroyer, actually turning out to be John Galt).

Section 235: Part 2, Chapter 3, Section 5

 * Plot summary:
 * Rearden is sitting in his office thinking about how badly he feels that his friend Ken Dannager has quit. Dagny's mention to him of Dannager's admission of how much of a friend Rearden was to him has made him realize how much he will miss Dannager.
 * As Rearden prepares to leave the office, he discovers Francisco d'Anconia waiting outside. Francisco talks to him about whether his actions in making metal or running his business have given him any benefits, or is he simply being punished for his good qualities, and whether any one should continue under the circumstances.  "Mr. Rearden, if you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders—what would you tell him to do?"  "I... don't know.  What... could he do?  what would you tell him?" "To shrug."
 * As Francisco tries to speak to Rearden about the nature of his burdens and ask him a question, an alarm sounds as a break-out has occurred at one of the furnaces. Rearden and Francisco both run out to the furnace, and both begin acting to stop the furnace from overflowing.
 * While responding to the break-out, Rearden saves Francisco's life as he almost slips and falls into a pool of molten metal.
 * After the crisis is over, Rearden suggests Francisco come work for him in order to appreciate the business he has inherited. Francisco admits he wishes he could, but he can't.  Rearden asks him to tell him the question he was going to ask.  Francisco admits that it's pointless to ask the question, he already knows the answer.
 * The following Places in Atlas Shrugged are used as settings in this section:
 * Rearden's office at the mill
 * Mill floor in front of a furnace
 * The following Characters in Atlas Shrugged appear in this section:
 * Hank Rearden
 * Francisco d'Anconia
 * Various mill workers

Section 241: Part 2, Chapter 4, Section 1

 * Plot summary:
 * Rearden's family prepares to celebrate Thanksgiving, but are unhappy that he might end up going to jail over the illegal sale of metal that he and Ken Dannager were indicted over, instead of cooperating with the government.
 * Rearden listens to Lillian's condemnation of him, and realizes what she is stating represents a monstrous system where one's own goodwill is used for one's very destruction.
 * Lillian says they know what he is thinking, and that's why they are cracking down on him. He says they don't, and he's going to tell them at his trial.  Phillip criticises Rearden's attitude, saying he thinks he's guilty as hell and finds it contemptible.  Rearden tells him if he talks that way to him again in his house he will throw Phillip out on the street.
 * Rearden, disgusted with his family, walks out to go to New York.
 * Rearden remembers how the Wet Nurse knew about his deal with Dannager, but never told anyone about it.
 * Rearden goes to Dagny's Apartment in New York, but discovers she's at her office. Rearden goes there and meets Eddie, who tells Rearden that his trial is something he doesn't believe in and even if it's done in the name of the people, he's not one of the people that is represented. Dagny tells Rearden that if he's sent to jail she'll quit, without any destroyer coming to see her.  Rearden does not think that will happen, and informs Dagny that for the sixty thousand tons of steel they ordered, he is actually going to deliver eighty thousand tons of Rearden Metal, and if anyone finds out, he will make it look like he is the only one to blame, and he doesn't want her to ever admit she knows about it.
 * The following Places in Atlas Shrugged are used as settings in this section:
 * Rearden's home
 * Rearden's office
 * Dagny's apartment
 * Dagny's office
 * The following Characters in Atlas Shrugged appear in this section:
 * Hank Rearden
 * Lillian Rearden
 * Phillip Rearden
 * Rearden's Mother
 * The Wet Nurse
 * Eddie Willers
 * Dagny Taggart

Section 242: Part 2, Chapter 4, Section 2

 * Plot summary:
 * Hank Rearden appears for his trial for illegally selling Rearden Metal. He is asked to enter a plea in his own defense.  He admits he has no defense because he does not recognize the court's right to try him, as he is not before a tribunal of justice, but, in effect, a kangaroo court, and will not allow them to disguise what they are.  They can rule in whatever fashion they please, since he has no rights and no ability to defend himself, but he will not co-operate in their actions.  If they want him to go to jail, they will have to send armed men to carry him; if they want to impose fines upon him, they will have to seize his property themselves, he will not pay it.  He has done nothing but act honorably in his business, and he will neither accept sacrifices from others nor be sacrificed for others, or be a victim.  "If it is now the belief of my fellow men, who call themselves the public, that their good requires victims, then I say: The public good be damned, I will have no part of it!"  The audience in the courtroom cheers.
 * The judges are overwhelmed by Rearden's stand, and choose to fine him $5,000 and suspend sentence. The audience in the courtroom laughs at them.
 * Rearden tries to understand why people had allowed themselves to accept the doctrines of self-destruction such as what the court had effectively been a part of, and that is the real sentence imposed upon him, to learn why.
 * The following Places in Atlas Shrugged are used as settings in this section:
 * Courtroom in Philadelphia
 * The following Characters in Atlas Shrugged appear in this section:
 * Hank Rearden
 * Dagny Taggart
 * Eddie Willers
 * Mr. Mowen
 * Paul Larkin
 * Bertram Scudder
 * Lillian Rearden
 * Three judges
 * Members of the courtroom audience

Section 243: Part 2, Chapter 4, Section 3

 * Plot summary:
 * Dagny admits to Rearden as a result of the decision in his trial that she will never doubt that right wins in the end. Lillian chides Rearden over his stand in the trial.
 * The Wet nurse asks Rearden a question about his speech: "What's a moral premise?" "Something you're going to have a lot of trouble with."  Rearden discovers that his fellow businessmen are unwilling to refuse to be victims, or to stand up for themselves, despite the results that occurred in his own case.
 * Rearden sits in his hotel room, wanting to see Francisco, then realizes he could simply go see him in his suite in the same hotel. Rearden does so, and discovered Francisco had been listening to Rearden's trial over the radio.  Rearden admits he does not understand why someone with the intelligence and the ability of Francisco has chosen to live as a womanizing wastrel playboy.
 * Francisco introduces Rearden to the value theory of sex, that only a neurotic man chases worthless women, and since he isn't a neurotic, it's another reason: to camouflage his actions for a secret purpose of his own.
 * Rearden admits that since Francisco has told him a secret, he will tell him one: Rearden has secretly ordered copper from d'Anconia copper in order to fill the order for Taggart Transcontinental's rail, an order that is ten times the size of the one he was indicted for.
 * Francisco is furious, reminding Rearden that he had told him never to deal with d'Anconia Copper. Francisco reaches to use a telephone, but stops himself.  Rearden realizes there is something Francisco has the power to prevent, but it is a power he will not use.  Pained, Francisco swears to Rearden that despite what he is going to find out, he is still Rearden's friend.
 * Rearden is informed he will not be receiving the copper, because Ragnar Danneskjold has sunk the d'Anconia ore freighters.
 * Rearden later realizes he must stay away from Francisco, lest he kill him on sight.
 * The following Places in Atlas Shrugged are used as settings in this section:
 * Rearden's Office
 * Rearden's suite at the Wayne-Falkland hotel
 * Francisco's suite at the Wayne-Falkland hotel
 * The following Characters in Atlas Shrugged appear in this section:
 * Hank Rearden
 * Lillian Rearden
 * Various businessmen
 * Francisco d'Anconia
 * Dagny Taggart
 * The Wet Nurse

Section 251: Part 2, Chapter 5, Section 1

 * Plot summary:
 * Various businesses are closing, affecting other business and often causing them to close in turn.
 * The Atlantic Southern bridge over the Mississippi River collapses. After investigation, two other bridges are condemned, leaving the Taggart Bridge as the only train bridge crossing the Mississippi.
 * Dagny is at a Taggart Board Meeting. A Mr. Weatherby from the government is there, although his role is unclear. Taggart Transcontinental is becoming a financial disaster. One reason of many is that there are less goods to ship on any given line due to closed businesses, there is no longer an economy of scale. Mr. Weatherby wants a raise in wages and a drop in rates. Dagny responds that she can't make the company profitable any longer. The Board must close one of the lines in order to use track from one to repair another. They decide to close the John Galt Line for political reasons as opposed to financial ones.
 * Leaving, Dagny sees Francisco waiting for her. He knew what would happen and came to help her get past it. They talk about how the world is being run these days, the injustice of it.
 * The following Places in Atlas Shrugged are used as settings in this section:
 * Taggart Transcontinental
 * A diner

 * The following Characters in Atlas Shrugged appear in this section:
 * Dagny Taggart
 * Jim Taggart
 * Clem Weatherby
 * Francisco d'Anconia
 * Danagger's Cousin
 * Mr. Quinn (mentioned)
 * Lawrence Hammond (mentioned)
 * Dwight Sanders (mentioned)
 * Ragnar Danneskjöld (mentioned)
 * Wesley Mouch (mentioned)
 * Bertram Scudder (mentioned)
 * Simon Pritchett (mentioned)
 * Oren Boyle (mentioned)
 * Nathaniel Taggart (mentioned)
 * Buzzy Watts (mentioned)
 * Chick Morrison (mentioned)
 * Tinky Holloway (mentioned)
 * Joe Dunphy (mentioned)
 * Bud Hazelton (mentioned)
 * Kip Chalmers (mentioned)
 * Ellis Wyatt (mentioned)
 * Andrew Stockton (mentioned)

Section 252: Part 2, Chapter 5, Section 2

 * Plot summary:
 * Dagny and Hank are in Colorado to buy any machinery that can be salvaged from closed businesses. They leave on the last run of the John Galt line. They hear other passengers quoting various popular sayings of the time, about their needs being important because of that need, about the greed of the industrialists.
 * The following Places in Atlas Shrugged are used as settings in this section:
 * On a Taggart train
 * The following Characters in Atlas Shrugged appear in this section:
 * Dany Taggart
 * Hank Reardon
 * Ted Neilsen (mentioned)
 * Roger Marsh (mentioned)
 * Dr. Floyd Ferris (mentioned)
 * Dubious Sellers
 * various passengers

Section 253: Part 2, Chapter 5, Section 3
Lillian meets Jim for lunch. He accuses her of double crossing him regarding Hank's behavior at his trial for illegally selling steel. She was supposed to control Hank. She tells him she didn't betray him, she just failed, and she doesn't yet know why.
 * Plot summary:

Lillian decides to meet Hank when his train comes in, but there is no car reserved for anyone named Hank Rearden. She realizes that Hank must be in a car under some other name, and suspects that he is having an affair. This pleases her, as she has been waiting for this moment. She saw that Hank was good and pure and hated him for it. She married him solely to destroy the good in him.
 * The following Places in Atlas Shrugged are used as settings in this section:
 * A fancy restaurant in New York City
 * The following Characters in Atlas Shrugged appear in this section:
 * Lillian Rearden
 * Jim Taggart
 * Mr. Weatherby
 * Gwen Ives
 * Dagny Taggart (mentioned)
 * Hank Rearden (mentioned)
 * Wesley Mouch (mentioned)
 * Balph Eubanks (mentioned)

Section 254: Part 2, Chapter 5, Section 4

 * Plot summary:
 * Lillian confronts Hank at Taggart Terminal. She was hoping that Hank's mistress was a nobody, and is angry to learn that it is Dagny because Dagny is a true threat. Hank confirms the affair but is completely unapologetic, he tells Lillian to either divorce him or let it be. Either way, she is not to speak to him of Dagny again.
 * The following Places in Atlas Shrugged are used as settings in this section:
 * The Taggart Terminal
 * The following Characters in Atlas Shrugged appear in this section:
 * Lillian Rearden
 * Hank Rearden
 * Dagny Taggart

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Ebrahimabad, Zeberkhan

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The Medicaid Estate Recovery Program (MERP) is a process initiated by state governments in the United States for recovering payments that they made under the Medicaid program to program beneficiaries. The government recovers the sum of payments from the estate at the time of death of the program beneficiary.

States are required to recover long-term-care-related (LTCR) Medicaid expenses from people 55 or older who have received Medicaid from recipients' probate estates. (LTCR here means precisely: Nursing home or other long-term institutional services, home- and community-based services, and hospital and prescription drug services provided while the recipient was receiving nursing facility or home- and community-based services. )

States also have the option to recover costs of all other Medicaid services for people 55 or older and have a separate option to extend the recovery beyond probate estates. The latter option is generally called "expanded estate recovery".

Recovered amounts may include capitation charges whether or not medical services were used, as well as expenses directly paid under Medicaid to the service provider for utilized services.

The scope of the recovery includes "traditional" Medicaid (meaning the versions of Medicaid that existed prior to the ACA), as well as the expanded Medicaid introduced by the Affordable Care Act.

The moral justification for Estate Recovery has been stated as “if you’re receiving a public benefit and the state is trying to support you, you should give back if you are able".

Details
Under certain conditions, money remaining in a trust after a Medicaid enrollee has passed away may be used to reimburse Medicaid. States may not recover from the estate of a deceased Medicaid enrollee who is survived by a spouse, child under age 21, or blind or disabled child of any age. States are also required to establish procedures for waiving estate recovery when recovery would cause an undue hardship.

States may impose liens for Medicaid benefits incorrectly paid pursuant to a court judgment. States may also impose liens on real property during the lifetime of a Medicaid enrollee who is permanently institutionalized, except when one of the following individuals resides in the home: the spouse, child under age 21, blind or disabled child of any age, or sibling who has an equity interest in the home. The states must remove the lien when the Medicaid enrollee is discharged from the facility and returns home.

Historical origin
The states have been authorized to implement estate recovery programs since 1965 when Medicaid first began. However, prior to 1990, only 12 of the states had established Medicaid estate recovery programs.

the federal government made it a requirement for every state to implement an estate recovery program for Medicaid in the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993. This was done with primary concern towards recipients who received long-term care services, which had required the applicant to have very low asset levels (an "asset test"), but allowed recipients and their spouses to retain a home and certain other modest assets, to avoid total impoverishment, while they are alive. The estate recovery collected the assets from the estate, when both the recipient and their spouse were deceased. The Act also gave states the option of recovering other Medicaid expenses.

View that the recovery is problematic
The view that there were problematic aspects of the interaction of non-LTCR Medicaid estate recovery with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was put forth in various places starting from the time the ACA was passed,     and stemmed from the fact that much of the coverage made available under the ACA is Medicaid, which is subject to estate recovery for people 55 and older, in a number of states.

The ACA was designed to make available, and promoted as making available, affordable health insurance to all people without other forms of insurance.

It attempts to make the insurance available (for the case of U.S. citizens ) by (1) retaining existing Medicaid programs ("traditional Medicaid", which generally required both low incomes and very low asset levels); by (2) starting a new class of Medicaid, expanded Medicaid, for people whose Modified Adjusted Gross Incomes (MAGIs) are no more than 138% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) and with no maximum asset levels ; and by (3) offering people with all income levels access to on-exchange insurance plans from private insurers, and offering sliding-scale income-based subsidies for those with MAGIs above 100% of the Federal Poverty level to 400% of the Federal Poverty Level, provided they are not eligible for either a traditional Medicaid or expanded Medicaid or a Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), or an employer's or a family member's employer insurance program.

One aspect of the problematic interaction point of view that was raised is seen by noting that the goal of providing health insurance is interfered with if states exercise their option to recover costs of all medical care (not just LTCR) for people 55 or older. People getting Medicaid (including expanded Medicaid) don't then have the protections normally associated with health insurance. Medical expenses are paid for the recipient at the time they are incurred, but must be paid back by the person's estate when they die. The amount to be paid back may not be just an insurance premium equivalent or capitation payment, but may be all medical expenses incurred. Thus, the view is that the coverage does not offer the protections associated with insurance, and that the coverage is more accurately characterized as, and offers only the protections of, a loan.

(People 55 or older getting Medicaid are not eligible to receive a subsidy on an ACA on-exchange plan, but do have an option of purchasing an ACA on-exchange plan without a subsidy. However, this option may be unaffordable, since the class of people involved often have a MAGI at or below 138% of the Federal Poverty Level.)

Another aspect of the problematic interaction point of view that was brought up is that a large class of people are covered under the ACA by expanded Medicaid, which does not have an asset test. People qualify for expanded Medicaid as long as their Modified Adjusted Gross Incomes are no more than 138% of the Federal Poverty Level, regardless of the amount of assets they own. They do not need to "spend down" assets to receive coverage. However, the problematic aspect is that they may ultimately have to spend down assets in the estate recovery. This can be viewed as an inconsistency, and a contradiction with the goals of the ACA.

An additional problematic aspect of the estate recovery of non-LTCR expenses that was brought up, was the unequal treatment of people below 138% of the FPL under the ACA, who get expanded Medicaid and are subject to estate recovery if they are 55 or older, and people just above 138% of the FPL, who get highly subsidized, very-low-net-cost, on-exchange insurance, which is not subject to estate recovery.

Another aspect raised was that people were obligated under the ACA to be covered under threat of a financial penalty if not covered, but for many people, the only affordable coverage available was Medicaid. The Medicaid came often with capitation charges against the person's estate even if medical services were unused, and further, often came with a risk of large payments for medical services used if the person got sick having to be paid back by the estate. This was viewed as the government being abusive and coercive. (Although the Federal mandate has been removed effective the start of 2019, this aspect continues to have relevance in states which have their own financial penalties for not carrying coverage, which include NJ, DC, and MA among states that currently do estate recovery of non-LTCR Medicaid expenses.   )

A further aspect raised was that notification of estate recovery, when present in the ACA application process, was inadequately conspicuous, and that ACA navigators, designated to help people enroll in the ACA, were not trained to explain estate recovery, or to alert people to it. Further, it was pointed out that the Federal ACA application (used in states which do not have their own exchanges), and which is for both on-exchange-plans and expanded Medicaid, does not contain any warning about Medicaid estate recovery.

In a Jan, 2014 Washington post article, Matt Salo, executive director of the National Association of Medicaid Directors, responded to the issues by indicating "It wouldn’t make sense for a state to pursue a claim on the property of a new Medicaid recipient under the health-care law", and added, “There’s no way any state is going to see it as cost-effective or politically sensible to do that.” (However, subsequently, state Medicaid spokespersons for both NJ and MN made contradictory assertions.  As of Aug, 2019, at least 12 states that have expanded Medicaid, and the District of Columbia, maintain the estate recovery of medical expenses for the new Medicaid recipients in their laws and regulations.                )

In late February 2014 (two months after the main ACA provisions went into effect) the Obama administration's Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a letter stating that “CMS intends to thoroughly explore options and to use any available authorities to eliminate recovery of Medicaid benefits consisting of items or services other than long term care and related services in the case of individuals who are determined eligible for Medicaid benefits using the MAGI methodology."   (Note that "MAGI methodology" for Medicaid eligibility refers to roughly those people added to Medicaid in expanded Medicaid. .)

Argument for non-LTCR estate recovery post-ACA
Medicaid estate recovery documents from the various states that do estate recovery of non-long-term-care related expenses often explain the purpose of their estate recovery program. For example, a NJ document has "DMAHS pursues recovery from estates to supplement funds available for medical assistance programs and limit the burden upon taxpayers caused by rising medical costs. Funds recovered help provide assistance to others in need."

It can be argued that the justifications were written before the ACA main provisions went into effect in 2014, and do not account for the changes in who is affected by the recovery post-ACA, and as well, that the ACA may reflect a changed attitude intended in the law, that affordable health insurance should be, post-ACA, available to all as an expected matter of national policy. Thus, some may consider it important to examine justifications post-ACA, under the assumption of expanded Medicaid.

Post-ACA, the argument to continue non-long-term-care-related estate recovery was expressed by an assistant commissioner for the Minnesota Department of Human Services (a state which had expanded Medicaid) as “The general idea here is that people with assets should help contribute to the cost of their coverage, Many have incurred thousands of dollars of medical expenses at taxpayer expense. That’s the reason for these recoveries. It’s not intended to be punitive.”

State regulation adjustments
Just prior to the ACA main provisions going into effect on Jan 1, 2014, a number of Medicaid expansion states had had laws and regulations which did the non-long-term-care-related estate recovery, and have stopped or limited the practice, though not necessarily permanently. These are:

NY (starting April 1, 2014)

CT (retroactive to ACA main provisions start; expanded Medicaid only; not extending to all non-long-term-care related)

WA (at ACA main provisions start)

OR (at ACA main provisions start)

CA (2017)

MN (2017) Note MN has language on the signature page of its ACA application that may leave open its option to estate recover from current Medicaid recipients if it changes its laws or regulations in the future, and/or to recover from Medicaid recipients in future years on ACA auto-renewals.

CO

In other Medicaid expansion states which did non-LTCR Medicaid estate recovery just prior to the ACA main provisions, (such as MA, NJ, IA, NV, NH, ND, OH, RI, IN, ID, UT, and MD), as well as in the District of Columbia, the recovery of non-LTCR persists (as of 8/2019).

In addition, there are some Medicaid expansion states which did not do non-LTCR Medicaid estate recovery, and still do not (such as PA).

Current statewise initiatives
MA: MA currently indicates in its ACA application process, and in its regulations , that "The MassHealth agency will recover the amount of payment for medical benefits correctly paid from the estate of a deceased member" for most non-long-term-care-related Medicaids, including expanded Medicaid.

There are a pair of bills in the MA legislature (status as of 7/2019) which would stop the recovery of non-long-term-care-related benefits, S734 and H1197.

Federal initiative
There was an attempt by U.S. Rep. Richard Nolan from MN, in 2018, the "Medicaid Estate Recovery Fairness Act",   to limit non-long-term-care related estate recovery, which has been abandoned.

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The 2017 KNSB Dutch Allround Championships in speed skating were held in Heerenveen at the Thialf ice skating rink from 20 January to 22 January 2017. The tournament was part of the 2016–2017 speed skating season. Jan Blokhuijsen and Marije Joling won the allround titles.

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Talk:Pecos Bill

Real person
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakelore Might be worth consulting

Yeah, but Dorson also claimed that Paul Bunyan was entirely created by a lumber company, but later investigations proved that to be untrue. So, even if Pecos is entirely a literary creation, there is always the possibility he was based on tales told about a real person...Also, this whole "fakelore" distinction seems meaningless to me, folklore is simply a story or stories that are passed along by word of mouth and Pecos Bill stories are still often transmitted that way. Why does the source of the folklore make it "authentic" or not? Also, how do we truly know that the supposedly "authentic" folklore characters didn't originally start out as well-known written stories as well and that fact was simply lost in the sands of time? To me, if people interpet it and use it as folklore the fact that it originally came from a written story is irrelevant. Folklore is an abstract, not a literal reality. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 22:22, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

Dynamite or Nitroglycerine?
The article states that the legend says that dynamite was his favorite food, but the way I always heard it told was that nitroglycerine was his favorite drink — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 03:22, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

more Disney refs?
should this article mention more on the Disney version? (Pecos being responsible for most of Texas' landscape; the Gulf of Mexico, gold in the hills, the Rio Grande, the Painted Desert and the Lone Star of Texas)

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天常

Etymology
天 (天生 - natural) + 常 (五常 - the five unchanging relationships)
 * According to traditional Confucianism, there were five kinds of human relationships (五常) which followed natural (天生) laws and were unchanging:
 * ruler and subject (君臣)
 * father and son (父子)
 * husband and wife (夫婦)
 * older brother and younger brother (兄弟)
 * friends (朋友)

Noun

 * 1)  the natural order of things; the natural hierarchy of human relationships

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Taqiabad, Nishapur

Taqiabad (, also Romanized as Taqīābād) is a village in Eshqabad Rural District, Miyan Jolgeh District, Nishapur County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 296, in 75 families.

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Wu Mian rebellion

The Wu Mian rebellion was an insurrection by the Kam people in the mountainous regions of southern Huguang, where they had been forced to migrate due to displacement by Han Chinese farmers. It lasted from 1378 to 1385 before Wu Mian was captured.

Background
In the mid-1300s, drought in Jiangxi province led to migration of Chinese farmers into Kam territory. Gradually these farmers took over more and more Kam land, forcing the Kam to flee into mountain valleys. The displaced Kam led difficult lives and a drought in Wu Mian's village pushed thousands to the point of starvation. However the Ming emperor Zhu Yuanzhang continued to collect taxes from them. They rebelled against the Ming dynasty in 1378.

Rebellion
In 1378, a Kam army surrounded the prefectural city of Liping. The Ming forces were too weak to fight, so they invited the Kam leaders into the city for negotiations. Wu Mian's father was one of the leaders. Once they were inside, they were arrested. Wu Mian's father died soon afterwards.

Wu Mian vowed to take revenge. He attempted to shoot the emperor with bow and arrow, but missed three times. The emperor immediately dispatched 100,000 troops to capture Wu Mian. Wu Mian led an insurrection which lasted seven years before he was captured in 1385.

Aftermath
According to Kam folklore, Wu Mian amassed a great amount of treasure during his time as a fugitive and hid it away under a hill which could only be accessed by a man sized hole. The opening was magic and would close whenever somebody tried to steal the treasure, leaving them trapped inside the vault forever.

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They are ascending powers of 2:

1 2 4 8 16 32 64 ...

Note : 2 raise power 0 (i.e 2^0) equals 1

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Ronald A. Weinberg

Ronald Andrew Weinberg (born 1952) is an American-born Canadian fraudster and former television producer and businessman best known as the co-founder of the CINAR animation studio (later to be known as Cookie Jar Group, now renamed as WildBrain), and its co-CEO during a scandal that eventually brought down the company. In 2014, he was charged with 26 counts of fraud in Montreal. Two years later, Weinberg was sentenced to nine years in prison.

CINAR
In 1976, Weinberg met his future wife, Micheline Charest, in New Orleans, where he attended Tulane University. The two organized an event for a women's film festival, and worked at distributing foreign films to US theatres. The couple moved to New York and formed CINAR as a foreign film distributor.

In 1984, the company relocated to Montreal, and changed its focus to children's television.

Scandal
In March 2000, an internal audit revealed that about $122 million (US) was invested into Bahamian bank accounts without the boardmembers' approval. CINAR had also paid American screenwriters for work while continuing to accept Government of Canada grants for content. The names of Canadians, most notably, Charest's sister, Helene via the alias "Eric Alexandre" (Eric and Alex Weinberg are the names of Charest and Weinberg's sons), were credited for the work, allowing CINAR to benefit from Canadian tax credits. While the province of Quebec did not file criminal charges, CINAR denied any wrongdoing, choosing instead to pay a settlement to Canadian and Quebec tax authorities of $17.8 million (CAD) and another $2.6 million (CAD) to Telefilm Canada, a Canadian federal funding agency. The value of Cinar stock plummeted, and the company was soon delisted.

In 2001, as part of a settlement agreement with the Commission des Valeurs Mobilières du Québec (Quebec Securities Commission) Charest and Weinberg agreed to pay $1 million each and were banned from serving in the capacity of directors or officers at any publicly traded Canadian company for five years. There was no admission of guilt and none of the allegations have been proven in court. In March 2004, CINAR was purchased for more than $140 million (US) by a group led by Nelvana co-founder, Michael Hirsh. Charest and Weinberg reportedly received $18 million (US) for their company shares.

In August 2009, Claude Robinson, a graphic artist and writer, won a copyright case against CINAR, Weinberg, Charest and Co. in relation to his work, Robinson Curiosité, which was plagiarized for the internationally successful animated series Robinson Sucroe.

Arrest
On March 10, 2011, Weinberg was arrested for securities fraud in connection with his involvement in the scandal.

On January 17, 2014, former CFO Hasanain Panju pleaded guilty to undisclosed crimes. The judge noted these crimes were "reprehensible" and placed a publication ban on details surrounding the trial. Panju was sentenced to four years in prison.

On May 12, 2014, Weinberg, John Xanthoudakis of Norshield Financial Group and Lino Matteo of Mount Real Corp. were charged with 26 counts of fraud in Montreal Superior Court. They were convicted on most of the counts on June 2, 2016, and in the trial Panju acted as a key Crown witness. On June 22, 2016, Weinberg was sentenced to eight years and eleven months in prison, and the other two received sentences of seven years and eleven months each. On May 3, 2019, Weinberg was fully paroled.

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Powick Hospital

Powick Hospital, which opened in 1847 was a psychiatric facility located on 552 acre outside the village of Powick, near Malvern, Worcestershire. At its peak, the hospital housed around 1,000 patients in buildings designed for 400. During the 1950s the hospital gained an internationally acclaimed reputation for its use of the drug LSD in psychotherapy pioneered and conducted by Ronald A. Sandison. In 1968 the institution was surrounded by controversy concerning serious neglect of patients. In 1989 it was closed down leaving Barnsley Hall Hospital in Bromsgrove as the remaining psychiatric hospital in the county. Most of the complex has been demolished to make way for a housing estate.

Origins
Founded in 1847 as the Worcester County Pauper and Lunatic Asylum, it was designed by architects J. R. Hamilton and J. M. Medland of Gloucester and opened in August 1852. Situated between Worcester and Malvern on former farmland known as White Chimneys, the asylum was originally erected for the accommodation of 200 inmates but was later extended and by 1858 had 365 patients.

Edward Elgar
The doctors at the Asylum in the 1870s showed a remarkably enlightened attitude when they instituted a series of orchestral concerts there, as well as the Friday night dances for the inmates. Elgar, as a young violinist in the district played in the concerts from 1877, and in January 1879 succeeded Fred S. May in the post of Band Instructor. In 1879, at the age of 22, Elgar composed a number of works, the Powick Asylum Music, for the attendants' band. His job consisted of conducting the Asylum Band, made up of the staff of the Asylum, and composing music for the Friday dances. The authorities paid him £4 per annum less than his predecessor, no doubt because of his inexperience, but he received about £30 per year, plus 5 shillings for every polka and quadrille and one shilling and sixpence for accompaniments to the Christy's Minstrels ditties of the day. The last set of dances he composed in 1884.

Research
By the 1950s it had around 1,000 patients and major research and experimentation in the treatment of chronic depression and schizophrenia was being carried out. In 1952 during a trip to Switzerland and visiting Sandoz, the consultant psychiatrist at Powick, Ronald Sandison, came in contact with Albert Hofmann, who had discovered the hallucinogenic drug LSD by accident. He returned to the UK with 100 vials of LSD, called 'Delysid' at that time by Sandoz. Sandison started by using LSD on his patients in Powick whose psychoanalysis was not advancing their therapy and he recorded significant success even in the most severe cases. He developed a programme he called "Psycholytic Therapy" (literally "mind loosening therapy") for treatment of illnesses such as severe depression and schizophrenia.

A government funded purpose-built LSD treatment unit, the first of its kind in the world, was established at the hospital in 1958 in which Dr. Sandison administered his therapy until he left the institution in 1964. Medical Superintendent Dr. Arthur Spencer continued the programme until Sandoz abruptly withdrew supplies of the drug in 1965, due to the problems of illicit recreational use. Records indicate that 683 patients had been treated with LSD in 13,785 separate sessions before the programme was discontinued. In 2002 the NHS agreed to pay £195,000, in an out of court settlement, to 43 former psychiatric patients who were treated with LSD between 1950 and 1970.

Sandison writes about his early years at Powick: ...the amenities were bleak in the extreme compared with Warlingham. The hospital had been built in 1852 for  200 patients... Arthur (Spencer) and I  were the only  consultants, and two  assistant doctors completed the staff. There were nearly 1,000 patients, 400 of whom were living in  the four  large wards of the  'annexe' built in  the 1890s. I discovered that  the heating  system  was defunct, many  of the internal  telephones did not  work, and the hospital  was deeply  impoverished in  every  department. This state of affairs had been allowed to develop by the previous medical  superintendent, Dr Fenton... who had spent 43 years at Powick. He practised the utmost economy and Powick became the cheapest hospital in the country... After discussion and consultation with  my colleagues at Powick, and with the professor of Psychiatry in Birmingham, I undertook the clinical use of LSD at Powick Hospital towards the end of 1952.

Decline and closure
In 1968 Powick Hospital featured in a controversial edition of the leading British investigative television programme World in Action, showing elderly patients in Ward F13 being left soaking in their own urine. The programme also featured other notorious examples of how the institution 'cared' for its patients in overcrowded conditions without dignity or privacy. This footage was subsequently re-used in a current affairs strand in 1993 - 1994. The footage of Ward F13's patients was superimposed on a picture of an asylum wall while a reporter disguised as a homeless schizophrenic looks back at how psychiatric patients were treated.

The asylum wall at Powick itself was knocked down in the 1950s as part of Dr. Arthur Spencer's initiatives in updating and modernising the hospital. In the World in Action programme, Dr Spencer speaks of having to take the decision, as Medical Superintendent, to spend the limited funds available on acute rather than chronic care. The shocking revelations of the Ward F13 programme contributed to Powick being amongst the first wave of mental hospitals selected for closure in favour of community care developments. Acute admissions ceased in 1978 and the last patients were discharged in 1989. The hospital closed in 1989 and was subsequently demolished, with the site being redeveloped for housing and offices.

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Wode Manor

Wode Manor  (also La Wode, 13th-14th centuries; Wode, 15th-16th centuries) was a manor house in the parish of Brading on the Isle of Wight.

History
Wode, probably the northern wooded portion of the peninsula, seems to have been a member of the manor of East Standen, and passed with it until the death of Nicholas Glamorgan about 1362–3. It then seems to have been divided, part going with Standen to the Bramshotts and Howles, and the rest with Wolverton to the Hakets and Gilberts. The former moiety is not mentioned after 1480; the latter apparently followed the same descent as Wolverton. The name is now lost, and the manor is apparently merged in Bembridge Farm.

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