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Talk:Declan Donnelly

Date of break-up?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1125684/Its-hands-Dec-Sky-Sports-colleagues-rib-Georgie-Thompson-new-romance-Declan-Donnelly.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by YokoIrl (talk • contribs) 12:12, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

When did you decide you wanted to start a career on screen EllaMairJones (talk) 22:12, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

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Career on Screen
When did you decide you wanted to start a career on screen? EllaMairJones (talk) 22:14, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Nationality
Added Irish. The children of Irish born Irish citizen are automatically Irish citizens. This is the same manner as the children of British born British citizens are also british citizens. this was re-edited before. I've put back my original edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevinc565 (talk • contribs) 20:28, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
 * No, to be classed as Irish in Wikipedia the person has to claim Irish heritage. There is zero evidence provided that Declan relates to his Irish heritage. GimliDotNet (talk) 20:31, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

There is no requirement in "wikipedia" for a person to acknowledge his/her nationality. Citizenship is determined by law, not feelings.

 * I’m afraid you’re mistaken. There are many years of discussions about this subject, especially when it comes to people in countries like the UK, where a person may identify as one of the constituent countries. We go with what the person is more widely identified as. When you provide a verifiable and reliable source that Dec identifies as Irish, feel free to provide it. GimliDotNet (talk) 05:39, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

 * Ireland is not a constituent country of the UK both Declans parents are Irish born Irish citizens so that makes him an irish citizen automatically. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevinc565 (talk • contribs) 02:10, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
 * You’re confusing citizenship with nationality. Unless you provide a source that shows Declan chooses to identify as an Irish national, Irish does not go into the info box. GimliDotNet (talk) 05:09, 3 October 2020 (UTC)

No you are doing that. Under Irish law his parents are Irish citizens as they are born in Ireland. therefore under Irish law he is an Irish citizen. he does't need to acknowledge that, as it is a fact. Note: Ireland isn't in the uk, so english. scot. welsh themes a are irrelevant. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevinc565 (talk • contribs) 04:07, 3 January 2021 (UTC)

Ant and dec
Hes my idiol 2A02:C7F:FB25:A800:EDC4:33D2:D415:3268 (talk) 14:34, 5 February 2022 (UTC)

Just a minute...
...I've noticed that this page was moved today with his first name shortened yet I don't see a discussion here first.

I still think that "Declan Donnelly" is the common name in the English media by looking at some references and external links in this article and it appears the other wikis with our set of letters have him titled with Declan being part of these titles. Returning this page whence it came and do a requested move discussion should have some agreement to see which one of these titles (Declan or Dec) should be the correct location of the article. Iggy (Swan) (Contribs) 08:47, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

 * Thanks for pointing this out, I have reverted the undiscussed move as "Declan" is indeed more the common name, see Google Ngrams,, "Dec" doesn't even show up. The user that did the move themself has been blocked for "disruptive editing", if anyone wants to do a requested move discussion then they can if they want too. Ollieisanerd  (talk) 16:10, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I didn't even notice the mover had been blocked ages ago. Thanks for returning the article whence it came. Iggy (Swan) (Contribs) 21:22, 12 May 2023 (UTC)

love actually
Il sont apparu aussi dans le films love actually il son présentateur 2A01:E0A:8B2:4DD0:7E89:7651:F1A4:1699 (talk) 20:59, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

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Talk:Cristian Montaño/GA1

GA Review
The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.''

Reviewer: Kosack (talk · contribs) 07:35, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

I'll take this one up as well, review coming as soon as possible. Kosack (talk) 07:35, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Lead

 * Link loan to Loan (sports).
 * Done.EchetusXe 10:12, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * League Two is linked twice in the lead.
 * Done.EchetusXe 10:12, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Early life

 * Generally countries are an WP:OVERLINK, so the Colombia and United Kingdom links are probably unnecessary.
 * Done.EchetusXe 10:12, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

West Ham United

 * Link the first mention of loan again.
 * Done.EchetusXe 10:12, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Oldham Athletic

 * "He scored twice in 15 games in the first half of the 2013–14 season", needs a source.
 * Done.EchetusXe 10:12, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
 * "as the support of friends and supporters", the support of supporters is quite repetitive in the quote caption. Can this be reworded slightly?
 * Done.EchetusXe 10:12, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Port Vale

 * "better at left back then when", probably worth amending then to than here as it's a minor quote error, per MOS:SIC.
 * Done.EchetusXe 10:12, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

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Maison folie de Wazemmes

The Maison Folie Wazemmes is a cultural facility of the City of Lille, opened on the occasion of the Lille 2004 event, the European Capital of Culture. This former textile mill was rehabilitated by the Dutch agency Nox and the architect Lars Spuybroek accompanied by Ducks Scéno (Stylized as dUCKS scéno) a French company based in Villeurbanne specializing in scenography and museography. for the design of the scenography of the 250-seat auditorium and the recording studio and Flanders Analyzes for the acoustic studies, to become in 2004, the house Folie Wazemmes.

Description
The Folie Wazemmes house is a mixed place, located in a district famous for its popular spirit and its cultural vitality. With the vocation of promoting popular cultures and provoking encounters, its principle is diversity: it is at the heart of exchanges and multiple crossovers between disciplines, artists from all backgrounds, and especially audiences. The old factory, made up of two buildings arranged face to face and separated by an interior street, now contains exhibition rooms, spaces for creation and residence, an inn with multiple possibilities and configurations, and a meeting room. conviviality, work rooms ... In its extension, a new building, covered with an intriguing shimmering metallic dress, serves as a performance hall. We wander from one space to another along the second interior street, a strong traffic axis in the district, which connects modernity to existing heritage. It is located at 70 rue des Sarrazins in Wazemmes, a popular district of Lille.

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Guitar

The aim of this book is to introduce beginners to the basic concepts of the guitar. Important techniques are given their own sections with exercises and examples provided. It includes an extensive section on amplifiers and numerous tips and advice on all aspects of the guitar. Music theory concepts are clearly presented and explained.

Getting Started

 * /Different Types of Guitars/
 * /Anatomy of a Guitar/
 * /Buying a Guitar/
 * /Buying an Amplifier/
 * /Tuning the Guitar/
 * /Tablature/
 * /Lead Guitar and Rhythm Guitar/

For Beginners

 * /The Basics/
 * /Open Chords/
 * /Intervals and Power Chords/
 * /Muting and Raking/
 * /Learning Songs/
 * /Technical Exercises/

Lead Guitar

 * /Scales/
 * /Scale Theory/
 * /Major Patterns/
 * /Picking and Plucking/
 * /Arpeggios and Sweep Picking/
 * /Slides/
 * /Hammer-ons, Pull-offs, and Trills/
 * /Bending and Vibrato/
 * /Harmonics/
 * /Tremolo Bar Techniques/
 * /Tapping/
 * /Octaves/

Rhythm Guitar

 * /Chord Types/
 * /Barre Chords/
 * /Movable Chords/
 * /Chord Progressions/
 * /Alternate Picking/
 * /Tremolo Picking/
 * /Rhythm/

Playing Styles

 * /Folk Guitar/
 * /Blues/
 * /Slide Guitar/
 * /Rock/Alternative Guitar/
 * /Country and Western/
 * /Metal/
 * /Jazz/
 * /Classical Guitar/
 * /Flamenco/
 * /Reggae/

General Guitar Theory

 * /Tone and Volume/
 * /Singing and Playing/
 * /Writing Songs/
 * /Playing With Others/
 * /Recording Music/
 * /Tuning Your Ear/
 * /Playing What You Hear/

Equipment

 * /Guitar Accessories/
 * /Effects Pedals/
 * /E-bow/
 * /Cables/
 * /Bass Guitar/
 * /Harmonica and Guitar Combo/

Maintenance

 * /Guitar Maintenance and Storage/
 * /Adjusting the Guitar/
 * /Stringing the Guitar/

Appendices

 * /Alternate Tunings/
 * /Scale Manual/
 * /Chord Reference/
 * /Blues Exercises/
 * /Song Library/
 * /Blanks/ - These are templates used for writing tabs and making scales in this book.

About this Book

 * /Authors/

Music Theory Wikibook: The Basics

 * Introduction
 * Music Notation Systems
 * Rhythm
 * Scales and Intervals
 * Modes
 * Chords
 * Chord Structures
 * Consonance and Dissonance

Gitarre Apprendre la guitare Chitarra גיטרה Gitaar Nauka gry na gitarze Guitarra Kitarakirja Guitar 吉他

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Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/2020 August 9

= August 9 =

The or a
Sanity check: at 1963 Moscow protest, in the phrase "Moscow, a second Alabama" is "a" the correct article or "the" would be appropriate? Thanks. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 09:52, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
 * It's "a". There could be more than one place compared to Alabama. Besides which, if that's an exact quote, then it is what it is. <-Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots-> 11:48, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Presumably the placards were in Russian, which has no articles. I found this which suggests the correct translation might be "Moscow is (a/the) second Alabama", since in Russian the long — usually stands for the omitted verb "to be". Or also likely, the intended effect was simply headlinese "Moscow — second Alabama", as texts on placards usually are. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 17:41, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
 * It would more probably be "a" in "Moscow is a second Alabama", but "the" in "Moscow is the third Rome". Of course, the Russian language has neither indefinite nor definite articles... AnonMoos (talk) 15:45, 9 August 2020 (UTC)


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Talk:2020 Moto3 World Championship

Where does it say that Tech3 would be racing with Husqvarna? MrLW97 (talk) 08:57, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

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Song Dong

Song Dong (, born 1966) is a Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installations, performance, photography and video. He has been involved in many solo and group exhibitions around the world, covering a range of themes and topics including his relationship with his family and their experience of living in modern China (the topic of his widely exhibited installation Waste Not), the transformation of China's urban environment and the impermanence of change.

Early life and career
Song Dong was born in Beijing in 1966 to a family that was once prosperous but was reduced to poverty by China's repeated upheavals. His father Song Shiping was caught up in the Cultural Revolution and was one of the millions of Chinese people sent to a re-education camp for supposedly being a "counter-revolutionary". The younger Song was raised by his mother, Zhao Xiangyuan.

Song was an enthusiastic artist from an early age and began painting with the encouragement of his mother – though his father was not so supportive – and first trained in oil painting. He graduated in 1989 from the Fine Arts Department of Capital Normal University in Beijing, and slowly began painting in a less conventional manner following his 1992 Solo Exhibition 'Show of Oil Paintings' in Beijing's Culture Palace. In 1992 he married a fellow artist, Yin Xiuzhen. The two turned their back on their academic training and turned to avant garde and experimental art forms including performance and video.

Artistic themes
Several of Song Dong's works have conveyed a theme of the impermanence of change, highlighting the way that although a single person could effect a minor change it could only have a fleeting impact. In 1995 he began writing a daily diary on a flat piece of stone using clear water rather than ink, so that the letters would disappear as he wrote them. He subsequently visited Tibet, where he photographed himself striking the Lhasa River with an old-style Chinese seal. The following year, he visited Tiananmen Square in Beijing on a freezing New Year's Eve to create the piece Breathing, showing himself lying face-down on the ground for 40 minutes until his breath had created a temporary sheet of ice on the pavement. He repeated the same thing on a frozen lake in a Beijing park that made no impression on the existing sheet of ice.

Both Song and Yin have made Beijing itself a major subject of their work. As the historic city has been progressively demolished to make way for modern buildings, the pair have retrieved fragments of the razed buildings to make artistic installations from them. Song highlighted China's dramatic transformation through a series of edible installations called Eating the City that were staged between 2003 and 2006 in Barcelona, Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Oxford and Shanghai. As he puts it,

"the purpose ... is for the city I build to be destroyed ... As cities in Asia grow, old buildings are knocked down and new ones built, almost every day ... My city [is] tempting and delicious. When we are eating the city we are using our desire to taste it, but at the same time we are demolishing the city and turning it into a ruin."

Song's relationships with his parents have also been a recurring theme of his work. Touching My Father, created in 1997, tackled his distant relationship with his father (who died in 2002). It consists of a video in which Song's own hand, superimposed over a film of his father, appears to stroke him. More recently, he created the installation Waste Not displaying over 10,000 household items from the home of his late mother, whose extreme thriftiness led her to obsessively hoard anything that could possibly be re-used. As of 2012, it has so far been displayed in eight cities around the world.

Song was awarded a UNESCO/ASCHBERG Bursary Laureate in 2000 and won the Grand Award at the Gwanju Biennale in South Korea in 2006. He has put on many solo shows around the world, including Projects 90, at the Museum of Modern Art in 2009 and A Blot in the Landscape at Pace Beijing in 2010. His first major retrospective in Europe was presented in 2015 at Groninger Museum and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. His group exhibitions include China Now, Alors Le Chine: Chinese Contemporary Art at the Centre Pompidou, Paris in 2003; Re-Imagining Asia HKW, at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin in 2008, and at The New Art Gallery Walsall in 2009; and The 10th Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool in 2010. In 2012, Song contributed to the dOCUMENTA (13) exhibition at Kassel, Germany with his Do nothing garden.

Artwork
This artwork is about Song Dong projected an image of his hand onto his father's body with a projector. Starting from his father's face, the hand swept all across his father's body slowly and stopped at heart. Song Dong believes that there is a generation gap between him and his father. However, he always wants to express his love to his father. During that time, a Chinese father usually acts as an emperor of the family. The relationship between father and son was normally like a ruler and subject. His father declined him whenever Song Dong request to touch his father. In the end, Song Dong tells his father, “I will be famous if you let me finish this artwork.” These words influenced his father's opinion and allowed him to finish the artwork. At that moment, Song Dong realized that his father sacrificed his dignity and authority as a father for his son's success and future. More information https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0J_ot7SkKU

Another artwork Song Dong created is called doing nothing garden, this installation is a 6 meters tall mound piled with organic trash, and is fully covered by grass and flowers. It had been exhibited in Kassel Germany for Documenta 13 exhibition in 2010-2012. This artwork discusses about doing things: doing nothing rather than doing something, doing nothing leads to creating something. His work has a sense of helplessness to change the nature and society that human has limited power to change the nature. After the exhibition, Song Dong removes everything and no more garden remains, just like human doing so much work to protect nature, but nothing changes.

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The Voice of Poland season 10

The tenth season of The Voice of Poland began airing on 7 September 2019 on TVP 2. It aired on Saturdays at 20:05 and 21:10.

For the second season in a row the coaching lineup was changed heavily with only Michał Szpak remaining as a coach for his third consecutive season. After only a year off Tomson & Baron returned for their eighth season while the other two coaches Kamil Bednarek and Margaret debuted on the show.

Alicja Szemplińska won the competition, marking Tomson & Baron's first win as a coach.

Coaches and hosts
On July 9, 2019, it was announced that Mam talent! runner-up Kamil Bednarek would become a new coach and the first coach to be announced for season 10. A week later, along with the announcement of the jury for The Voice Kids and The Voice Senior, it was confirmed that Margaret would also be joining the show as a new coach, alongside returning coaches Michał Szpak and Tomson & Baron. Meanwhile, Marcelina Zawadzka replaced Barbara Kurdej-Szatan as the show's new host, alongside returning presenter Tomasz Kammel and Maciej Musiał.

Teams

 * Color key

Winner

Runner-up

Third place

Fourth place

Eliminated in the Live 3 (Semifinals)

Eliminated in the Live 2 (Quarterfinals 2)

Eliminated in the Live 1 (Quarterfinals 1)

Eliminated in the Knockout round

Artist was stolen by another coach (Name is strikethroughed)

Artist was stolen but was later switched with another artist and got eliminated

Eliminated in the Battle rounds

Blind auditions

 * Color keys

Episode 10 (October 5, 2019)
by Anna Jantar by Bajm by T.Love by Baranovski by Kamil Bednarek by Antek Smykiewicz by Edyta Bartosiewicz by Kortez

The Battle Rounds
In this season, the stealing system from Season 7 was once again implemented. There is a notable change from this season. From this season, each coach could steal without limit. The battles therefore end with seven participants from each team advancing to the next stage.

 * Color keys

by Hey by Mrozu by Skaldowie & Łucja Prus by Zalewski

Episode 14 (November 2, 2019)
Knockouts took place on 2 November 2019.

 * Color keys

by Bajm by O.N.A. by Grażyna Łobaszewska by Andrzej Zaucha

Live Shows

 * Color keys

Episode 15 (November 9, 2019)
by Mrozu by Bajm by O.N.A. by Püdelsi (orig. Piotr Szczepanik) by Edyta Bartosiewicz

Episode 16 - Quarter-Final (November 16, 2019)
by Mrozu by Zbigniew Wodecki by Skubas by Anna Jantar & Zbigniew Hołdys by Bracia by Grubson

Episode 17 - Semifinal (November 23, 2019)
Ursine Vulpine (feat. Annaca) version

Episode 18 - Final (November 30, 2019)
by Czesław Niemen by Bogusław Mec by Bajm

Overall

 * Color keys
 * Artist's info

Artist from Team Tomson & Baron

Artist from Team Michał Szpak

Artist from Team Margaret

Artist from Team Kamil Bednarek

 * Result details

Artist was proclaimed as winner

Artist was proclaimed as runner-up

Artist was proclaimed as third place

Artist was proclaimed as fourth place

Artist advanced to the finals

Artist was saved by his/her coach

Artist was saved by the public

Artist received the fewest accumulated total points and was eliminated

Artist received the fewest of the public's vote and was eliminated

Team

 * Artist's info

Artist from Team Kamil Bednarek

Artist from Team Margaret

Artist from Team Michał Szpak

Artist from Team Tomson & Baron

 * Result details

Winner

Runner-up

Third place

Fourth Place

Artist advanced to the finals

Artist was saved by his/her coach

Artist was saved by public

Artist was eliminated

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Alienation (speech)

"Alienation" (also known as the rat race speech) was Jimmy Reid's inaugural address as Rector of the University of Glasgow. Reid's election in October 1971 came during his attempt to save jobs at the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders, threatened by cuts in government subsidies. The address was delivered on 28 April 1972 to students and the university court in Bute Hall. Reid's subject was Marx's theory of alienation and he used the example of the modernisation of the Clyde shipyards which he considered risked breaking the pride workers had in their products. In one famous passage he lamented the "scrambling for position" in modern society and stated that the "rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings". The speech was reprinted in full by the New York Times and has since been referred to as one of the most outstanding speeches of the 20th century. It raised Reid's profile and led to a number of national television appearances.

Background
Jimmy Reid was a shop steward of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers and a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). As a worker at the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders (UCS), an amalgamation of five separate companies in the historic shipbuilding area of Clydeside in Glasgow, Reid opposed the proposed withdrawal of subsidies by Edward Heath's Conservative government. This would have led to the closure of most of the business and the loss of 6,000 of the 8,500 employees. Reid and other union leaders led a work-in, an alternative to a strike where the employees continued to come to work without pay to demonstrate the productivity of the yards. The work-in was well-run and eventually led to the business being restructured around two of the main yards, Govan Shipbuilders and Scotstoun Marine Ltd (a third, Yarrow Shipbuilders Limited had previously been separated from UCS).

During the period of the work-in an election was held for the position of Rector of the University of Glasgow. The rector is the students' representative to the university authorities and is elected by the student body on a triennial basis. The position was often filled by an establishment figure, such as a peer or leading politician, and the outgoing rector was the Church of Scotland minister George MacLeod, Baron MacLeod of Fuinary. Reid had no prior involvement with the university which was traditionally middle-class and conservative in leaning; indeed it was not a member of the National Union of Students at the time as they were considered too left-wing. However, Reid considered that an election campaign would provide good publicity for his UCS proposal.

Reid's opponents in the election were former Labour minister Peggy Herbison; local Conservative MP and former minister Teddy Taylor; Liverpool poet Roger McGough and television personality Michael Parkinson; McGough and Parkinson were eliminated before the poll due to errors in their nomination paperwork. Reid stood on a platform of greater student involvement in the running of the university and promised he would appoint a student assistant to help present issues to the university's senior management. Reid was largely absent from the campaign, owing to his commitments at the UCS work-in. He had less to spend on marketing than the other candidates but his campaign may have been helped by his frequent television and radio appearances during this time.

Reid was elected to a three-year term in October 1971 with 1,458 votes; Taylor received 891 and Herbison 810. The Glasgow student president Martin Caldwell hailed the result as "a victory for the ordinary people of Clydeside against paternalism, academic snobbery, and the present government" that showed that the Glasgow students, many of whom came from the city, cared for the plight of UCS workers. The result was covered in the press which helped boost morale at the work-in and improve Reid's public image. His inaugural speech was not due until April 1972 and in the meantime Reid successfully concluded the UCS work-in. He also became involved in Glasgow student affairs, including lending his support a group of undergraduates who had been evicted from their hall of residence and opposing moves by the university to assert greater control over student funds.

Speech
Reid's inaugural address took place in Glasgow University's Bute Hall on 28 April 1972, the same day as the government approved the rescue deal for UCS. Although some previous rectors had used professional speechwriters, Reid wrote his speech himself the day before the event. The address formed part of a grand ceremony with the university court present in academic dress; Reid wore the rector's robe and, for the first time in his life, white tie. Some disruption was caused when two students dressed as a pink pantomime horse attempted to enter the hall but otherwise Reid was not interrupted during his address, except for rounds of applause from the audience. Reid spoke in his usual working-class Clydeside accent and presented his address as a reasoned argument, not as a rabble-rousing speech. At its conclusion he received a two-minute standing ovation.

Reid's address was entitled "Alienation" and its primary subject was Marx's theory of alienation. Marx described social alienation as a consequence of the capitalist mode of production which he claimed seeks to divide society between professions and remove the individual's connection to the product of their labour. Marx thought alienation led to the working class having little understanding, control or influence of the world in which they lived, leading to indifference and passivity.

Reid had been inspired to write on the subject of alienation after witnessing, in Connolly's Bar in Glasgow, the tearful reaction of shipyard workers to news of the sinking of the Clyde-built Seawise University (the former RMS Queen Elizabeth) in Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour on 9 January 1972. Reid thought that recent modernisation of industrial practices and the purchase of Scottish shipbuilders by English and foreign companies would lead to a loss of such a connection between workers and their products. Reid considered that the new shipyard owners lacked knowledge of the long history of shipbuilding in Scotland and were focused only on the economic benefits of largescale production and centralisation. Though he framed his argument with reference to the shipbuilding industry, Reid's address had a broader application to society as a whole. Reid stated in his address that a lack of social support by the government exacerbated alienation and its effects on young people led to anti-social behaviour and the use of drink and drugs.

Reid decried a modern society that promoted "scrambling for position, trampling on others, back-stabbing, all in the pursuit of success" and called on students to reject this, stating "a rat race is for rats. We're not rats. We're human beings". He cautioned them that the cost of participation in such a society was the "loss of your dignity and human spirit" and quoted Christ: "what doth it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?". Reid called for greater involvement of the people in decision making at all levels, comparing the "untapped resources" of people to those of the North Sea oil fields. He lamented wasted potential, saying "I am convinced that the great mass of our people go through life without even a glimmer of what they could have contributed to their fellow human beings. This is a personal tragedy. It is a social crime. The flowering of each individual’s personality and talents is the precondition for everyone’s development". Reid warned his audience not to hate the capitalists who he stated were also a product of the alienation in society.

Reid's biographers William Knox and Adam McKinlay stated that the address had a liberal, middle-class and "almost Victorian" tone in the way it espoused the virtues of public service. They note that he referenced the Christian religion, Marx and even Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and may have been inspired by the works of William Morris that he studied in his youth. Throughout the speech Reid used "we" as a mark of inclusivity and collective spirit, though he characterises the struggle against alienation as an individual contest. A few months after making the address Reid was approached by the psychiatrist R. D. Laing who praised the speech and asked him what research he had carried out to prepare for it; Reid replied that his only research was his working life spent on the Clydeside.

Impact

The speech was reprinted in full in The New York Times, which hailed it as the "greatest speech since President Lincoln's Gettysburg Address". In the Glasgow newspaper The Evening Times it was afforded only 57 lines and placed lower in prominence than the council's plan to invest in a radio station and a bus that crashed into a tree. The Evening Times article was headlined "I have a dream by Rector Jim Reid", despite the fact that Reid never went by "Jim". The Glasgow Herald mentioned the speech in its editorial. The coverage of the speech helped raise Reid's profile to the highest levels of his career, and led to appearances on national television such as Open to Question in May 1972 and A Chance to Meet in November.

Reid's speech was criticised by some Trotskyist opponents, including Stephen Johns of the Socialist Labour League who stated: "this could be one of these speeches by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of Edinburgh or even a Tory. After all we are all against the 'rat race', and it would be nice if the ordinary bloke got a bit more say in things – make him feel wanted.  It is noticeable that the 'communist' Reid censored all mention of capitalism, the working class, revolutionary change and socialism". Others praised the address, which was described as poetic and demonstrating Reid's intelligence. CPGB leaders praised the speech and Alex Murray told the party's Scottish Congress: "Previous Rectors, among them Gladstone, Disraeli and Sir Robert Peel, must be spinning in their graves ... It matters not as they represent the past ... that which [Reid] represents; those whom he represents – our Party, our ideas and our ideals, the working class, the youth, represent ... Scotland's future".

Reid stood for the CPGB in Central Dunbartonshire (which included Clydeside) in the February and October 1974 general elections, losing decisively to the Labour candidate both times. His term as rector ended in 1974 and he was replaced by Arthur Montford, a football commentator. Reid later moved away from the CPGB and joined Labour, for which he unsuccessfully stood in Dundee East in the 1979 general election. Afterwards, he presented a series of BAFTA-winning documentaries about the USSR on Grampian Television. He became disillusioned with New Labour and, in 2005, joined the Scottish National Party. He died in 2010.

After Reid's death the address was referred to as "a working-class hero's finest speech" by The Independent and the writer Kenneth Roy regarded it as "one of the outstanding speeches of the 20th century". Scottish Labour Party Leader Iain Gray described the address as "one of the finest political speeches of the 1970s" and the most famous portion, the phrase "a rat race is for rats", is still quoted widely decades later.

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welp

Etymology
Representing pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Compare, , , and.

Interjection

 * 1)  Well, typically used to express exasperation, a matter-of-fact or unenthusiastic attitude, or helpless acceptance of something surprising.

Etymology
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) whelp, young mammal of certain carnivorous species, notably canine pup, bear - or lion cub
 * 2) human youngster, especially of age group 8-11 in boy scouts

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) whelp

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Wikipedia:WikiProject Spam/LinkReports/eclateducare.com

Links

 * eclateducare.com resolves to [//<IP_ADDRESS> <IP_ADDRESS>]
 * Link is not on the blacklist.
 * Link is not on the domainredlist.
 * Link is not on the Monitorlist.
 * None of the mentioned users is on the blacklist.
 * Link is not on the whitelist.
 * Link is not on the monitor list.
 * Link is not on the whitelist.
 * Link is not on the monitor list.

Additions

 * Displayed all 3 additions.


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User:AntiCompositeNumber/Lowell Canal System/notes

 * Proprietors of Locks and Canals on the Merrimack River incorporated in 1792
 * PL&C began work on Pawtucket Canal in 1792
 * Pawtucket Canal completed in 1796
 * Pawtucket Canal used for transportation to bypass Pawtucket Falls
 * ~1803 Pawtucket Canal traffic decreased with decrease in Newburyport timber demand
 * Competed with Middlesex Canal, which connected Merrimack R. to Boston
 * 1821 Boston Associates purchase controlling stock in PL&C
 * 1822 Merrimack Manufacturing Company opens
 * 1822 Pawtucket Canal begins to feed power canal system
 * 1826 Two new canals built with plans for 4 more
 * 1836 Planned system complete
 * Two levels of power
 * 1837 James B. Francis becomes chief engineer
 * First Pawtucket Dam was "crude wooden structure"
 * c. 1830 "Masonry dam seated on heavy wooden cribbing"
 * 1833 "Two more courses of granite headers" and wooden flashboards added to dam
 * 1840s water shortages, excess flows common (not at same time)
 * Excess flow decreases efficiency of mills
 * Increased current in canals decreases head
 * JBF proposes Northern Canal
 * Would require more control over river flow
 * Would require lower flow through canals at night to store water
 * Essex Company of Lawrence and PL&C partner to gain control over NH lakes
 * 1847 Northern canal finished
 * Northern canal "reversed the current in the Western Canal from the junction to the Swamp Locks Basin".
 * 1848 Francis completes Moody Street Feeder
 * Underground Boott Penstock transfers flow from Merriack Canal to end of Eastern Canal
 * Northern canal cost $551,585
 * Moody Street Feeder cost $86,132
 * Boott Penstock and Western Canal work cost $15,000
 * Previous system had capacity of 91 "mill power"
 * Northern canal increased system to 139 mill power in all seasons
 * Additional power was available when conditions permitted
 * Accounted for almost 12,000 HP
 * Francis would close gates during lunch break in summer to save water
 * 1846 turbine experiments showed turbines more efficient than breast wheels in common use at time
 * Turbine conversion happened during and after Northern Canal construction
 * Pawtucket Gatehouse used by Francis to study turbine operation and weir flow
 * Gatehouse contained testing chambers, other scientific equipment
 * Gatehouse one of first industrial research labs in US
 * Francis published research in 1855 Lowell Hydraulic Experiments
 * 1847 Pawtucket Gatehouse contained first practical Francis Turbine
 * 9ft diameter, positioned vertically in cylindrical granite wheel pit
 * Francis turbine is inward-flow turbine
 * Francis turbine improvement on 1838 design by Samuel Howd
 * 1849 Improved turbine installed in Boott Mills
 * Francis was in charge of landscaping along Northern Canal (Note: Records apparently exist in PL&C papers of plantings. Inquire with UMLL CLS?)
 * Canals became part of Lowell NHP in 1978
 * Northern canal is 4,373 ft long, 100 ft wide (avg), 15 to 21 ft deep
 * Single bend designed to reduce friction head loss
 * First 130 feet of wall downstream from dam is concrete and rubble
 * Next ~1000 ft built on island of rubble in cement, backfilled with cleay and earth and rubble retaining wall
 * Last section is Great River Wall, with walkway
 * (continue at Pawtucket Gatehouse)
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Template:Welcome/old

Usage
To use this template simply type on the users talk page. No signature is required, it will automatically put it in the intro.

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User:Edgehead1212

Welcome one, welcome all! To the imperceptible enigma that is me!

This user is a member of WikiProject Ice Hockey

title: User:Edgehead1212


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raksi

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) A traditional distilled alcoholic beverage in Nepal and Tibet.

Translations

 * Japanese: ラキシー

Etymology 1
Borrowed from dialectal.

Noun

 * 1) hanging loop small loop sewn into a jacket, towel etc. for hanging
 * 2) sling loop for suspending a heavy object
 * 1) sling loop for suspending a heavy object
 * 1) sling loop for suspending a heavy object

Etymology 1
From, from , from. .

Etymology 1
From, from. .

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Ayatsimakhi

Ayatsimakhi (Аяцимахи; Dargwa: ГIяяцимахьи) is a rural locality (a selo) in Karbuchimakhinsky Selsoviet, Dakhadayevsky District, Republic of Dagestan, Russia. The population was 126 as of 2010.

Geography
Ayatsimakhi is located 41 km southwest of Urkarakh (the district's administrative centre) by road. Karbuchimakhi and Duakar are the nearest rural localities.

Nationalities
Dargins live there.

title: Ayatsimakhi


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Jean-Pierre Windal

Jean-Pierre Marie Andre Luc Windal (9 December 1936 – 23 August 2009) was a French field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

title: Jean-Pierre Windal


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Dianthus broteri

Dianthus broteri is a species of flowering plant in the carnation family Caryophyllaceae. It is native to Portugal and Spain, preferring to grow close to the coasts. Dianthus broteri is a complex of polyploid races, with 2n=2x=30, 2n=4x=60, 2n=6x=90 and 2n=12x=180 chromosomes detected in different populations, the largest polyploid series in the genus.

title: Dianthus broteri


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1876 United States presidential election in Nebraska

The 1876 United States presidential election in Nebraska took place on November 7, 1876 as part of the 1876 United States presidential election. Voters chose three representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Nebraska voted for the Republican nominee, Ohio Governor Rutherford B. Hayes, over the Democratic nominee, New York Governor Samuel J. Tilden by a margin of 29.4%.

With 64.70% of the popular vote, Nebraska would be Hayes' second strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote after Vermont.


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Wierzbięta

Wierzbięta or Wirzbięta is a Polish-language name and surname derived as a diminutive of the name Wierzba. Notable people with this surname include: Notable people with this name or surname include:

 * Maciej Wirzbięta (alternatively Wierzbięta; (b. 1523 Kraków, d. June 1605) – Polish printer, translator and bookseller
 * Wierzbięta z Ruszczy, a Voivode of Kraków
 * , founder of Krotoszyn
 * Wierzbięta z Paniewic, owner of Kępno
 * Bartosz Wierzbięta (born 1974), Polish musician, dubbing director and translator

title: Wierzbięta


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Category talk:Device discovery protocols

Significance

 * Currently, device discovery protocols sums up a set of protocols otherwise only categorized by operating on OSI layer two.


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engraft

Etymology
From earlier, equivalent to.

Verb

 * 1) To insert, as a scion of one tree or plant into another, for the purpose of propagation; graft onto a plant
 * 2) To fix firmly into place

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Bashkir: ялғау
 * Bulgarian: ,

Adjective

 * 1)  Engrafted.

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Wikipedia talk:Contact us/Archive 1

Vandalism contacts

 * Since Wikipedia is a wiki we get our share of vandalism. If you see vandalism to a page then please revert the page to its last version (see: How to revert a page to an earlier version for details). If you do that and the user is still vandalizing pages, then please alert other Wikipedians about this on our Vandalism in progress page. Then, if needed, a Wikipedia Administrator may block the IP address or user name of the vandal.

Is this necessary? I know people sometimes contact us about spelling errors and suchlike, but I'm unaware of any non-Wikipedians contacting us about vandalism. Martin 23:48, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

 * I don't think it deserves a whole section, but it is worth mentioning in the "article content" section. Is leaving in the summarised version ok? Angela. 14:23, Mar 14, 2004 (UTC)

I removed it, but I will add it back, I think. Martin

Being blocked from editing
Sometimes it becomes necessary to block the IP address of a troublesome user. Rarely, however, that user may share the same IP address with another person trying to edit Wikipedia.

If you are such a person, you should follow the directions on the 'Blocked user' message that is displayed when you try to edit. You can also directly contact a Wikipedia Administrator by visiting Administrators (look for Administrators who have "email" links by their user names, then use those links).

 * I removed this, because it duplicates MediaWiki:Blockedtext. Martin 15:00, 27 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Didn't know there was any sandbox where you can edit whatever you can to test, didn't see it anywhere

Drop "Us"?
Anyone have any problem with moving this page to Wikipedia:Contact and dropping the "Us"? It implies a closed, insular community of editors and seems amateurish. I'd also like this page to express a greater distinction between contacting editors and the Foundation/Jimbo. Andre ( talk ) 08:30, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

 * I think "Contact us" is the more familiar term on the Internet, and the one people are likely to look for when they do want to contact someone. The phrase has 1,330,000,000 Google hits. Angela. 06:47, July 24, 2005 (UTC)

Templates to generate
I never can memorize the code to generate a bordered window with a color background. like for instance, this template below:

I want a template with a raw text field and variable background color to be generate, will you consider that? It would be much easier than memorizomg the code. --SuperDude 16:06, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

 * This is discussion about the Contact us page. If you need help, please go to the Help desk. Angela. 06:47, July 28, 2005 (UTC)

A header to Help Desk and Reference desk?
After looking into a little of this page's history, I'm wondering if a header like the RD header or the HD header which would offer links to the Help desk and Reference desk might be suitable here. I don't mean the extensive instructions on those headers as much as the large red notices at the top. I know that any patient user would be able to actually read through the page to find those, but I realize that some users aren't getting the picture. Any ideas? -JJLeahy 00:41, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, I made what I was proposing - feedback welcome. -JJLeahy 05:15, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

There should be a front page link
At the bottom next to "about us" there should be a "contact us" link. If I were a casual browser, I would find locating a contact address too difficult. lots of issues | leave me a message 22:33, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Are you using the default skin? Contact us is linked from the sidebar on every page. Angela. 05:50, August 1, 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes I'm just not very perceptive. :-(... lots of issues  | leave me a message 09:00, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

Makes it impossible to contact us
What is the purpose of a "how to contact us" page which hides or omits the addreess of the English Wikipedia Mailing List? I can't even find a link the archives.

As the admin of the mailing list, this greatly offends me, and I daresay it disturbs our community and those seeking to join it, interact with it, or even just enjoy our product. Uncle Ed 16:06, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

 * That's true. After all, many new users often come to this page asking for an email address.  It would increase the mail from newcomers.  I'm not sure of the orginal purpose of the mailing list, but if its to respond to newcomers, then I think we should add it.  Idea - what about making a new mailing address for people not familiar with Wikis?  That way, members (like those on the Welcoming committee) could easily reach and respond to newcomers, and prevent newcomers from flooding any of the others.  I'm not as experienced with Wikipedia as I'd like to be - is this a reasonable proposal? -JJLeahy 16:46, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, an additional mailing list for topics other than "discussions among old-timers" sounds good. Let's bring that up at wikien-l and bat it aroud a bit befor creating it, though. Uncle Ed 17:21, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

 * I concur. I've sent an email - let's see what reaction this gets. -JJLeahy 19:49, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

 * A new list has just been created at helpdesk-l. Angela. 19:37, September 4, 2005 (UTC)

Stylistic Revision and Inclusion Suggestions
Please simplify or at least include easy-to-follow suggestions for the brain-weary! I am not sure I understand how any of this works.

 * I did what I could. Please let us know what else could done to clarify this page. -JJLeahy 01:26, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

suggestion
hi my name is Sofia Im new to Wikipedia and, from what I can see, It looks great!!. I want to suggest this page to my friends who can I Do it? Could you add a link to suggest this site.

Sofia

 * Sofia, I'm not exactly sure what you mean - if you want to give your friends a link to Wikipedia, you can give them http://en.wikipedia.org or http://www.wikipedia.org - or copy and paste the address of an article you like. If you want a good introduction to Wikipedia, you can go to Introduction (or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Introduction).  If you want to suggest a new article to us, you can go to Requested articles.  Once you get there, you'll see a bunch of big catagories - Applied arts and sciences, culture and fine art, etc.  Click on the catagory that you think is best, and add your title to the list.

 * If you have questions, feel free to add it here or on my talk page, User talk:JJLeahy. Thanks! -JJLeahy 20:09, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

(removing the VfD notice on Potterish)
moved to Talk:Potterish

Restructuring
The page was changed from a bunch of paragraphs to a series of lines to make it easier for users.

Some guidelines on what to add or not to add: The page must remain relatively short, or people won't take the time to find out the proper link to use. That means stuff already on the Help Contents or on one of the links already on the page should not be added. If you think a useful link should go there then go ahead and add it to the proper section. Elfguy 16:46, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Removal of all addresses
Is there any reason all the email addresses have been removed? The page used to include the email addresses of Jimbo, the Board, info-en, and the wiki-en mailing list. Now most of those are gone and the Board's address seems to only be hidden in the "Wikipedia users" section with no mention in the Foundation section. Angela. 15:43, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

 * Modified accordingly. Elfguy 18:11, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I also refer you to the above comment from Uncle Ed, although the email I sent isn't in the archives for some reason. --JJLeahy 18:22, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Offensive Users
Where does one go to:

1) See the rules on offensive users

2) Complain about offensive users

??? <IP_ADDRESS> 21:47, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

WELL??? how long does it take to get an anwer? <IP_ADDRESS>

 * 1) Please post unrelated questions as separate entries :P

Moved from project page
Hi, Do you have information about living scientits Hans Bhete<EMAIL_ADDRESS>El_C 20:36, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Please see: Hans Bethe. Regards, El_C 20:36, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Inclusion of a Hits Counter
Hi, this is not a complaint. I was just wondering whether it would be a good idea to have a hits counter included in every article. In this way, we can see which articles generate the most interest, and which articles can be deleted, if necessary. — PM Poon 02:03, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * We had this in the past, but since the articles are cached in several places, the counting of hits is not easily possible.

Questions section
There was a complaint on the helpdesk mailing list about the confusing mass of links on this page with no clear way to email anyone (even though they did manage to mail the list) - so I've taken the liberty to move the questions section to the top of the page, as I feel these will be the main issues/wants a total newbie will have. Still, the section could be even clearer, I think. Cormaggio @ 22:58, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

irc link
I was wondering if we should remove the mention of the IRC channel from the contact us link since the majority of users are not active on IRC and in general consensus lately has been to seperate the IRC channel from wikimedia at least at the official level including the recent removal of mentioning the IRC channel on the error notices. Jtkiefer T - 20:54, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't really care but how else will new people find it? Elfguy 19:43, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

"Unofficial" press contacts
A recent news story mentions that "Wikipedia did not respond to the M&G Online's queries". I asked the reporter how she contacted us, and she responded that she used this page, looked under Press Inquiries, and emailed Jimbo as directed.

Now I don't know why she didn't get a response, but I'd imagine Jimbo is rather busy. Could we put some other options under Press Inquiries? Jimbo and others designated by the Foundation should be making the official press comments, but with active Wikipedians online 24/7, there ought to be a method for getting comments from ordinary users (at least, the active ones.) Maybe a short listing of active Wikipedians who are willing to give interviews/comments? With the number of people in this project, there should never be an article on us going to press with no comment from the Wikipedia community at all. Isomorphic 02:27, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
 * It's a difficult issue because most journalists are not able to grasp the difference between what's an official statement of Wikimedia and what's just personal opinion. I'm currently compiling a list of active wikipedians as interview partners for journalists - suggestions welcome. There's also a press address on OTRS<EMAIL_ADDRESS>but it isn't very much in use yet. It would be nice to have a team of volunteers from the english wikipedia for this like in the other languages (french and german wikipedia handle their press contacts in the OTRS). If you'd like to help, please contact me. --Elian Talk 04:17, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

More on contacting the helpdesk
I think this entire page could do with a bit of a reword, to format it into a table or something easier to navigate than at the top. In particular, people going to a contact us page are looking for an email address, and when they see it will click it and write an email. So here, people don't read the bullet points, they only read the email address and so send many unneeded requests to the HelpDesk. Also, while there is a big header on WP:HD explaining what should and shouldn't be asked, there is none here when linking to the HelpDesk.

But what is most important is that people know that ''anything you write to the HelpDesk and all related correspondence will be published online under the GFDL. Archives are found here'' or something of the kind.

jnothman talk 11:10, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Radical rethink
The contact us page is awful in just about every single way it can be.

It's too long. It's got too many options. Too much text. Too many links. It's confusing. It doesn't what it wants to be - a list of contacts or a list of useful links. It doesn't help new users much.

To be honest, I could probably write a 5 page essay on what's wrong with it.

So I present to you, the lovely and wonderful radical rethink of "contact us". It's very much work in progress, and I've only really started thinking about this in the last few hours :)

Very interested in comments though. Thanks, Tom- 02:17, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree. This much text is too much for a "contact us" page, and will likely look confusing to the reader. And I like your way of splitting it up into seperate pages concerning the various different kinds of requests a user might want to make. So I say: Go for it! Shanes 02:31, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

 * As noted above in a mess of a post, I definitely agree. I'm making some minor changes to your mock-up if you don't mind. Also, I think we need something more than "a specific fact" to direct people to the reference desk, as reference questions often come through to the HelpDesk that aren't specific facts, but certainly aren't on using Wikipedia as the HelpDesk seems to be intended for. I also think donate should be directly available. jnothman talk 06:57, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I certainly agree, though the content and wording of the proposal could use some work. — Dan | Talk 18:55, 21 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I think Tom is mostly looking for simplicity and usability, which will hopefully also reduce nonsense requests to the HelpDesk. But I guess you should just edit it yourself if you think it needs changes. jnothman talk 00:43, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I like the overall concept (navigate to get to a specific question), and it can be filled out over time in wiki-fashion. Is there any reason not to just do this? -- Rick Block (talk) 00:58, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

 * There's no reason it can't be made live now, but I wanted to give it a little while to let the linked content mature. Maybe give it a week or so first. Tom- 01:05, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Having thought about it I doubt the linked pages will really mature unless it's live... so I've been bold and made it so. Comments still very much appreciated! Tom- 00:26, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I think it's a very bad design. Wikipedia is lagged enough as is, there there is no need to put the content of a single page into many. Plus these chances are purely to make it 'look' better, and ends up saying nothing at all. Elfguy 22:56, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Your analysis is not perfectly informed. This change will not impact the servers in any way, as this is by no means a "major" page. It is also not analogous to splitting up a (small) article. By making it "look better", it is made more usable, and more inviting - so yes, these changes are to make it look better, and good on them for doing so. As for "saying nothing at all", you seem unfamiliar with the fact that users are highly discouraged by being given too many things to choose from/consider when they intend to make a simple choice. Your preferred version is overcrowded. A user will open it, and attempt to scan it for relevant words. Failing that, they'll either become frustrated and leave, or they will become frustrated and attempt to use the page. Both cases are not desireable. In my opinion, the new version is drastically better. –MT 07:35, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

should this page remain protected?
Usually, protection of pages like this is not done without consensus. However, there seems to be no consensus in protection this page. I would like to hear some thoughts on whether this page should be protected. I personally think that it shouldn't be. --Ixfd64 18:16, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

 * This page has gone to complete hell. From a page that had easy to follow links to the various information, to a page that says absolutely nothing, made that way simply for appearance sake. And now it's protected. Shame. Elfguy 22:54, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

Two e-mail addresses
Having two e-mail addresses is not a good idea. What on earth is the difference between "e-mailing the help desk" and sending a "private inquiry" to new users? We should just have the one, or have some very clear guide as to what "private" means exactly.

The first question I was asked when I showed the current design to a new user was "what's a private inquiry?". So what address should we have? Tom- 01:13, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I agree. private inquiry isn't clear and is generally unnecessary. The public nature of the lists is only there as a warning, not for an alternative. jnothman talk

HelpDesk-l made private?
Depends on what you mean by private: Anyone can still subscribe to the list and read all emails, but the archives are no longer being put on the web. Yes in terms of why we were warning, maybe the message should be removed.

As for info-en: why do we need it if HelpDesk-l is the same but has a larger set of respondents?

jnothman talk 22:21, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Suggestions
We need still more links to the reference desk: I would put under top questions "Who led Nairobi in the 1960s? and other factual questions..."

Also, since Rdsmith4's revision adding "about using Wikipedia" to the HelpDesk-l description:
 * 1) Make using wikipedia emphasised
 * 2) Put the email address on a new-line, for the sake of look at most common screen resolutions.

jnothman talk 21:44, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Insulting the Muslem's Prophet
We reject insulting the Muslem's Prophet because press freedom don't mean to insult the others religion

 * Actually, freedom of the press absolutely does extend to criticizing, satirizing, or insulting others' beliefs. Regardless, Wikipedia seeks to insult no one, but we do present information that is unpopular with adherents of various belief systems. Wikipedia is not censored. Babajobu 20:31, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

K"OE"NIG not K"O E"NIG
Hello, That's OK! Stephan KŒNIG
 * To log in I need a special character in large letters. Thank you. Stephan

Login is okay !
If you have any difficulties to find something: contact me and let me know. (Bee Gees, Beatles, Bill haley, surf music and so on :-)  Stephan KŒNIG 19:17, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Just saw a TV journal in Belgium 1 hour ago...
'''WARNING: a very naughty virus is announced to be launched on the Net next Feb. 3, 2006. You might have to update your antivirus and firewall!!!''' All the best from Liège (Belgium, western Europe). Stephan KŒNIG 19:23, 29 January 2006 (UTC) '''* code: as "blackmail" which will install itself in all the PCs connected and afterwords
 * 1. will delete all your files then
 * 2. will infect the USB keys, floppy discs etc.
 * 3. will destroy irreparably all the PCs connected!!!
 * Info taken from M. Rudi Smet (IBPT) - Belgium'''   Stephan KŒNIG 09:02, 30 January 2006 (UTC) (GMT + 1) :-)
 * I think the better thing is to disconnect all the material on that day: I will do that.'''

Interwiki link to vi:
If there aren't any problems with having interwiki links on this page, could someone please add an interwiki link to the Vietnamese version of this page?

vi:Wikipedia:Liên lạc

I haven't translated everything that the page links to yet, but I'm working on it. Thanks.

– Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 00:38, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Done. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 22:23, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Nyxem.E - blackmal - blackmail...
Sorry, I did not find a link written in English... Stephan KŒNIG 11:26, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

http://fr.news.yahoo.com/27012006/7/le-virus-nyxem-e-se-propage-discretement-avant-d-attaquer.html

Redirect 'specific fact'
I propose redirecting the 'Contact us/Specific fact' subpage to Questions, which serves the same purpose. Naturally, the link in this article would be changed to match. -- Ec5618 17:38, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Done (the redirect was made by Ec5618 yesterday with no objections). --RobertG ♬ talk 10:34, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Please don't revert/delete seeing it's only a discussion between Dr. Debug and I. Thank you. Stephan KŒNIG 23:55, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Are you talking about Blackmal?
I, in fact, wrote a naughty virus called Blackmail is installing itself all over the Net and in all the computers connected and then will attack next Feb. 3, 2006: it will copy all your files, then will destroy them and your comp too. Pay attention with suspect e-mails (file(s) to be downloaded: don't open! Was it you wanted me to reply?  Stephan KŒNIG 23:49, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Sindhi Language Page must be in SINDHI-ARABIC script
Dear Sir/Madam, It is mentioned on the page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindhi_people

that there are 23 million Sindhi speakers. Though this figure is much lower than the fatual figure, but an other page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindhi_language

states that the number of Sindhi speakers in only 19.7 millions. It is contradictions in what the Wikipedia states for Sindhi lanauge.

There is an other controversial statement on

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindhi_language

that Sindhi is written in Devnagri script. The fact is that the Devnagri script is never recognized officially. Even the govt. of India declares Sindhi as one of its official and national languages in ARABIC SINDHI script. Even if you consider the Devnagri script more acceptable to Sindhi Hindus in India, considering their smaller number (2.8 millions: as stated by one of your pages), the Sindhi article on the page

http://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

must have been place in Sindhi Arabic script. Sindhi is practically used as official language in Sindh in Sindhi Arabic Script. The official website of NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR PROMOTION OF SINDHI LANGUAGE (INDIA) provides a Sindhi font for downloading, which is an ARABIC-SINDHI font. This established the fact that even in INDIA, Sindhi is dominantly accepted and written in ARABIC-SINDHI script.

Kindly redress the issue; by placing the articles in ARABIC-SINDHI script. In Devnagri script, that article on the page

http://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

seems NONESENSE to almost 100% percent of the Sindhi speakers.

Ahsan Ahmad Ursani

Avoid overloading info-en
A lot of people email info-en asking for:
 * Information about products of companies on which we have articles.
 * Information about registering in universities.
 * Permission to reproduce our text or images.
 * General questions on science, history etc.

All these people receive "boilerplate" answers which redirect them away. In order to relieve the load on info-en, all such requests should be discouraged. David.Monniaux 13:19, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not sure I agree. Boilerplate answers are exceedingly easy to send, and I doubt many people will bother to read the now-lengthy instructions. I prefer to keep it short and sweet. — Dan | talk 15:59, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree with this, with one exception: We need to discourage questions about text permissions. Linuxerist E/L/T 17:44, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Devid Naryzhnyy

The result was keep. Socks or not, almost nobody wants to delete this.  Sandstein  08:39, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Devid Naryzhnyy

 * – ( View AfD View log  Stats )

Simply does not meet either WP:GNG or WP:NSKATE.  Onel 5969  TT me 02:29, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Sportspeople-related deletion discussions. – Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 02:39, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Russia-related deletion discussions. – Lord Bolingbroke (talk) 02:39, 22 September 2019 (UTC)

*Keep What’s going on? This is ridiculous. I don’t know why it has to be deleted ...... but whatever you do with it, somehow they will compete Junior World Championships 3months later. It’s waste of time to discuss about this. I don’t get why onel5969 insisting on this. There are many figure skaters’s creation made like this and I never saw the discussions of deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonibyjourne (talk • contribs) 04:01, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep Does meet #7 at WikiProject Figure Skating/Notability. Skaters who qualify to the Junior Grand Prix Final can be presumed to have the ability to compete in the free skate at the World Junior Championships (criteria #2 at WP:NSKATE; only 6 teams can qualify to JGPF whereas 20 ice dance teams would compete in the free dance. Articles have been created for skaters at similar points in their skating career (i.e. qualified to JGPF, but have not yet competed at World Junior Championships) without being flagged for deletion; for example, Avonley Nguyen / Vadym Kolesnik. Sunnyou31 (talk) 03:56, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Struck, a blocked WP:NOTHERE user. Jovanmilic97 (talk) 17:08, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

 * — Jonibyjourne (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

WikiProject Figure Skating/Notability. WP:NSKATE clearly says : “For notability guideline for ‘all’ figure skating-related subjects, see WikiProject Figure Skating/Notability.” So it does meet #7 Skaters who qualify to the Junior Grand Prix Final.
 * Keep well.I guess the user who made this discussion misunderstood about

Another Figure Skater Kamila Valieva she is also qualified for JGP final and never competed at Junior World Championship but her page is valid. Anna Shcherbakova when she was only competed Juior grandprix series her page was made and I dont recall any suggestion of deletion either. Lee Hae-in(figure skater) and Andrei Mozalev never qualified junior grandprix final and never competed JWC.

Just go watch 2019–20 ISU Junior Grand Prix Final qulified skaters names. I think figure skating fans have a right to know about who the skater is when skater is about to compete at JGP final. Junior Grand prix final is even hard to qualify than JWC in FS world. It is really common who never competed at Finals but competing JWC multiple times. Guess original standard of wikipedia is a bit awkard anyway. Think I should suggest a revise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yoniiieei (talk • contribs) 07:28, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
 * — Yoniiieei (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

Both Junior World Championship and Junior Grand Prix Final is the biggest event in figure skating considering they are the only 2 international competition giving points in Junior league. (it is counted for world ranking of figure skate) Also if Junior world championship is a only standard for deletion, they should consider qualified for Junior Grand prix “final” in first place. This is even more difficult to qualify than Junior World Championship. Have no idea why it isnt in the list. Maybe they only thought Junior Grand Prix series not final. 🤷♀ My point is every year who qualified for JGP final, they were almost the same person who became top 3 of JWC(unless they got injured and drop the competition). if you cant believe me you can check the list from here. ISU Junior Grand Prix Final and World Junior Figure Skating Championships. Go and watch “medalist” of ice dancers. Deleting this article is only a waste of time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joanaones (talk • contribs) 06:22, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep Considering Elizaveta Shanaeva and Devid Naryzhnyy team’s qualifing Junior Grand Prix final for 1-1 it’s obvious they will be selected for Junior World Championships which is few months later.
 * — Joanaones (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus. Relisting comment: It has been suggested to me that there may be substantial sockery here, which I didn't initially notice. Upon closer inspection, I agree this is likely, so I've backed out my close and relisting.
 * Comment I did manage to find one independent source: .4meter4 (talk) 17:49, 29 September 2019 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, -- RoySmith (talk) 16:32, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep Qualifying for the JGP Final is more significant than qualifying for the free skate at Junior Worlds, especially as they did so with two gold medals.CaptainCanada (talk) 17:45, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment - closer, please see Articles for deletion/Elizaveta Shanaeva. Onel 5969  TT me 21:02, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Comment- for the record, my problem to be suspected as sockery (requested by user:Onel5969 has been solved by administrator. As my efforts to prove with reliable sources leaded to negative effect on previous article i will stay out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joanaones (talk • contribs) 21:39, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

 * Comment- please consider most of users voted on ‘keep’ has many histories contributed to put sources on figureskating related articles, so it is presumed they have sufficient backgrounds. On the contrary, user voted ‘delete’ at AFD about Elizaveta Shanaeva and users put flagged on this article has no history contributing on figureskating related articles. They simply have lots of histories on managing wikipedia in general grounds. Also I remember onel5969 told me user doesnt know anything about figure skating when we had a personal discussions. It is not wrong users not having acquaintances on figureskating! for sure! but discussing and make consensus about notability has to be judged by “facts” that can be proved with decent common acquaintaces on the Sports. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Yoniiieei (talk • contribs) 23:41, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

http://www.isuresults.com/isujsstat/sb2019-20/sbtsdto.htm Hergilei (talk) 10:08, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Keep. I believe that WikiProject_Figure_Skating/Notability: #7 ("Won a Junior Grand Prix event or qualified to the Junior Grand Prix Final.") should have been included at WP:NSKATE. Skaters who win gold at a JGP event are among a very small, select group of the top junior skaters in the world. This accomplishment is just as, or even more prestigious, than bullet #3 (Competed in the free skate at the World Junior Figure Skating Championships) which is included at WP:NSKATE. Also, Shanaeva/Naryzhnyy are #19 on the ISU season's best list (which is composed of international scores from both senior and junior events). That means S/N are competitive with notable senior skaters.

 * Keep. Qualifying for the JGP Final should have been included here WP:NSKATE. Junior figure skaters should have a somewhat similar notability rules than what Junior gymnasts have there.

Athletics99 (talk) 13:53, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Junior gymnasts are presumed notable if they meet any of the criteria below
 * 1) Won an individual gold medal at the junior national championships for any of the following countries: USA, Russia, China, Romania (females only)
 * 2) Won an individual gold medal, in the junior division, at an elite international competition*
 * 3) Won an individual medal at the Youth Olympic Games or Junior World Championships


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Talk:David Rorvik

Untitled
I removed the following material which I could not verify:
 * Rorvik and five scientists received a provisional patent in 2006 for the use of phycocyanobilins in a number of disease processes and formed a company for the development of these substances.

AxelBoldt (talk) 22:49, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

Book title
I changed the capitalized word "His" to uncapitalized "his" in the title of Rorvik's book "In his Image: the Cloning of a Man"

The word "his" is intentionally left uncapitalized by the author at least on the cover. I assume Rorvik did this to underscore the play-on-words concerning a man cloning himself (thereby creating a being in "his" image), as opposed to the more familiar meaning of the phrase (a supreme being creating a life in "His" image, usually a direct reference to God) in which case the word "His" in the phrase "In His Image", would of course be capitalized regardless of whether it appeared in a title or not. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 03:13, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

 * Here is a link to an image of the book cover confirming the word "his" left uncapped in the title.--Racerx11 (talk) 04:46, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

 * I have now also cited the book itself. --Racerx11 (talk) 04:20, 6 October 2011 (UTC)

Searching for "Rorvik"
When one searches for "rorvik", the suggestions that drop down do not distinguish between an "o" and an "ø", the Norwegian "slashed o". So what happens is you get, I assume, the most popular pages for "rørvik" as well as for "rorvik". Thats fine, but all the suggestions contain the slashed "ø" and when one then tries to get to the disambiguation page for "rorvik" you can only get to this page, which is the disambiguation page for only "rørvik", with the slashed ø. This disambiguation page does distinguish between the two o's so you dont get anything without the slashed ø. If you simply hit enter with "rorvik" in the search box it takes you to the city in Norway.

What this all amounts to is, if one tries to search for the author David Rorvik, incredibly you cannot get to his article by searching his last name! Racerx11 (talk) 01:38, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

 * ✅ (nine years ago) when one User:Racerx11 extended the Rørvik disambiguation. --P64 (talk) 15:31, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

Selected works
Should there be a "Selected works" section heading and list here?

Note the 1983 science fiction novel Sabra by David Rorvik was published in 1982 as The Sharing by M. M. Faraday, the only known book by the latter. Library of Congress and WorldCat do not recognize Faraday=Rorvik and Sharing=Sabra. --P64 (talk) 15:40, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
 * -- and parent novel for reference
 * [//worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2009-61492 Works by or about Faraday] in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
 * [//worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2009-61492 Works by or about Faraday] in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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User:Ddhix 2002

Firstly welcome. Secondly chill, one person adding safety tips in way you don't like is no reason to get so hot under the collar.

The page has not been deleted, nor is it likely to be given your comments. Come and talk about it over on VfD and we'll work it out. I think this whole episode has beem just a missunderstanding. You added the proceedure, someone was worried and added safety tips. Those tips made it look unprofessional. Someone else sees the unprofessional looking page, suggests it should be deleted and so on.

With a bit of wikilove and a dollop of good humour we can all become friends. Theresa knott 15:50, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

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Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python 2.6/Debugging

What is debugging?

 * "As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.  Debugging had to be discovered.  I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs." — Maurice Wilkes discovers debugging, 1949

By now if you have been messing around with the programs you have probably found that sometimes the program does something you didn't want it to do. This is fairly common. Debugging is the process of figuring out what the computer is doing and then getting it to do what you want it to do. This can be tricky. I once spent nearly a week tracking down and fixing a bug that was caused by someone putting an  where a   should have been.

This chapter will be more abstract than previous chapters.

What should the program do?
The first thing to do (this sounds obvious) is to figure out what the program should be doing if it is running correctly. Come up with some test cases and see what happens. For example, let's say I have a program to compute the perimeter of a rectangle (the sum of the length of all the edges). I have the following test cases:

I now run my program on all of the test cases and see if the program does what I expect it to do. If it doesn't then I need to find out what the computer is doing.

More commonly some of the test cases will work and some will not. If that is the case you should try and figure out what the working ones have in common. For example here is the output for a perimeter program (you get to see the code in a minute):

Height: 3 Width: 4 perimeter = 15

Height: 2 Width: 3 perimeter = 11

Height: 4 Width: 4 perimeter = 16

Height: 2 Width: 2 perimeter = 8

Height: 5 Width: 1 perimeter = 8

Notice that it didn't work for the first two inputs, it worked for the next two and it didn't work on the last one. Try and figure out what is in common with the working ones. Once you have some idea what the problem is finding the cause is easier. With your own programs you should try more test cases if you need them.

What does the program do?
The next thing to do is to look at the source code. One of the most important things to do while programming is reading source code. The primary way to do this is code walkthroughs.

A code walkthrough starts at the first line, and works its way down until the program is done. loops and  statements mean that some lines may never be run and some lines are run many times. At each line you figure out what Python has done.

Lets start with the simple perimeter program. Don't type it in, you are going to read it, not run it. The source code is:

 * Question: What is the first line Python runs?
 * Answer: The first line is always run first. In this case it is:

 * What does that line do?
 * Prints, waits for the user to type a number in, and puts that in the variable height.

 * What is the next line that runs?
 * In general, it is the next line down which is:

 * What does that line do?
 * Prints, waits for the user to type a number in, and puts what the user types in the variable width.

 * What is the next line that runs?
 * When the next line is not indented more or less than the current line, it is the line right afterwards, so it is:  (It may also run a function in the current line, but that's a future chapter.)                                                                        What does that line do?
 * First it prints, then it prints.

 * Does  calculate the perimeter properly?
 * Let's see, perimeter of a rectangle is the bottom (width) plus the left side (height) plus the top (width) plus the right side (huh?). The last item should be the right side's length, or the height.

 * Do you understand why some of the times the perimeter was calculated "correctly"?                                                                            : It was calculated correctly when the width and the height were equal.

The next program we will do a code walkthrough for is a program that is supposed to print out 5 dots on the screen. However, this is what the program is outputting:

. . ..

And here is the program:

This program will be more complex to walkthrough since it now has indented portions (or control structures). Let us begin.
 * What is the first line to be run?
 * The first line of the file:

 * What does it do?
 * Puts the number 5 in the variable number.

 * What is the next line?
 * The next line is:

 * What does it do?
 * Well,  statements in general look at their expression, and if it is true they do the next indented block of code, otherwise they skip the next indented block of code.

 * So what does it do right now?
 * If  is true then the next two lines will be run.

 * So is ?
 * The last value put into  was   and   so yes.

 * So what is the next line?
 * Since the  was true the next line is:

 * What does that line do?
 * Prints one dot and since the statement ends with a ',' the next print statement will not be on a different screen line.

 * What is the next line?
 * since that is following line and there are no indent changes.

 * What does it do?
 * It calculates, which is the current value of   (or 5) subtracts 1 from it, and makes that the new value of number.  So basically it changes  's value from 5 to 4.

 * What is the next line?
 * Well, the indent level decreases so we have to look at what type of control structure it is. It is a   loop, so we have to go back to the   clause which is

 * What does it do?
 * It looks at the value of number, which is 4, and compares it to 1 and since  the while loop continues.

 * What is the next line?
 * Since the while loop was true, the next line is:

 * What does it do?
 * It prints a second dot on the line.

 * What is the next line?
 * No indent change so it is:

 * And what does it do?
 * It takes the current value of number (4), subtracts 1 from it, which gives it 3 and then finally makes 3 the new value of number.

 * What is the next line?
 * Since there is an indent change caused by the end of the while loop, the next line is:

 * What does it do?
 * It compares the current value of number (3) to 1.  so the while loop continues.

 * What is the next line?
 * Since the while loop condition was true the next line is:

 * And it does what?
 * A third dot is printed on the line.

 * What is the next line?
 * It is:

 * What does it do?
 * It takes the current value of number (3) subtracts from it 1 and makes the 2 the new value of number.

 * What is the next line?
 * Back up to the start of the while loop:

 * What does it do?
 * It compares the current value of number (2) to 1. Since   the while loop continues.

 * What is the next line?
 * Since the while loop is continuing:

 * What does it do?
 * It discovers the meaning of life, the universe and everything. I'm joking. (I had to make sure you were awake.)  The line prints a fourth dot on the screen.

 * What is the next line?
 * It's:

 * What does it do?
 * Takes the current value of number (2) subtracts 1 and makes 1 the new value of number.

 * What is the next line?
 * Back up to the while loop:

 * What does the line do?
 * It compares the current value of number (1) to 1. Since  is false (one is not greater than one), the while loop exits.

 * What is the next line?
 * Since the while loop condition was false the next line is the line after the while loop exits, or:

 * What does that line do?
 * Makes the screen go to the next line.

 * Why doesn't the program print 5 dots?
 * The loop exits 1 dot too soon.

 * How can we fix that?
 * Make the loop exit 1 dot later.

 * And how do we do that?
 * There are several ways. One way would be to change the while loop to:    Another way would be to change the conditional to:    There are a couple others.

How do I fix the program?
You need to figure out what the program is doing. You need to figure out what the program should do. Figure out what the difference between the two is. Debugging is a skill that has to be practiced to be learned. If you can't figure it out after an hour, take a break, talk to someone about the problem or contemplate the lint in your navel. Come back in a while and you will probably have new ideas about the problem. Good luck.


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Amber and Ashes

Amber and Ashes is a fiction, fantasy novel in the Dragonlance book series and is the first of a trilogy called "The Dark Disciple", based around the character Mina. The book takes up where the War of Souls left off. This trilogy will explore the Chaos that is post-war Krynn. It is authored by Margaret Weis, who was a co-founder of the Dragonlance series, along with Tracy Hickman. This is Weis's fourteenth novel in the series, and first solo hardcover since the publication of the extremely popular Dragonlance title The Soulforge in 1998.

Publication history
Amber and Ashes was written by Margaret Weis and published in July 2005. Other books in the series include Amber and Iron (Volume 2) and Amber and Blood (Volume 3).

Plot introduction
Amber and Ashes is set in Krynn shortly after the death of Takhisis at the end of the War of Souls. Magic is back, and so are the gods. But the gods are vying for supremacy, and the war has caused widespread misery, uprooting entire nations and changing the balance of power on Ansalon.

The mysterious warrior-woman Mina, brooding on her failure and the loss of her goddess, makes a pact with evil in a seductive guise. As a strange vampiric cult spreads throughout the fragile world, unlikely heroes—a wayward monk and a kender who can communicate with the dead—join forces to try to uproot the cause of the growing evil.

It begins with Chemosh talking to himself in an abandoned temple about his plans to rule the pantheon and obtaining living servants as opposed to the dead. Shortly after, Mina and Galdar are seen. Mina is grieving the death of Takhisis and is about to kill herself when Chemosh intervenes and makes her his lover. It is then that the plot to create the Beloved of Chemosh begins.

Characters

 * Rhys Mason - Rhys Mason was a monk of Majere, who has lived his life in an isolated monastery. Rhys's brother, Lleu, a Beloved of Chemosh, is brought by Rhys's parents to the monastery in the hopes that the monks will help set Lleu back on the righteous path. Instead, Lleu poisons all of the monks and his parents during dinner. The only person not poisoned is Rhys, because he does not go to the meal but is outside meditating. Rhys discovers the deaths and is appalled that Majere allowed his worshippers to be killed without lending aid. Rhys is approached by the goddess Zeboim in her attempt to thwart the plans of Chemosh. Rhys agrees to follow her, but never seems to fully embrace her as his god.
 * Atta - Rhys's closest companion is his dog, Atta, who he trained to shepherd sheep while at the monastery. He noticed that Atta was able to tell that something was not right about Lleu at the monastery. Now, with the assistance of the kender Nightshade, who is able to speak to the dead, the three are searching for Rhys's brother and Mina, the High Priestess of Chemosh. Atta proves to be as skilled a kender herder as she was with sheep.
 * Lleu Mason - Lleu was a cleric of Kiri-Jolith who is seduced by Mina, the High Priestess of Chemosh. Lleu agrees to worship Chemosh and becomes the first of the Beloved of Chemosh. After killing the monks at the Majere monastery, Lleu is pursued by Rhys, Atta and Nightshade.
 * Nightshade - Nightshade is a kender nightstalker. As a nightstalker, Nightshade has the ability to speak with the dead as well as cast certain, mystical spells. He is not the normal kender, often not following the common kender instincts to seek adventure or “borrow” from others - although he is kept in line by Atta, who is acts as his “sheep dog.”
 * Mina - High Priestess of Chemosh, she was originally introduced in the War of Souls trilogy, where she led the armies of the One God (now known to be the goddess Takhisis). After Mina buries Takhisis under a mountain, she starts to feel that her life is useless and contemplated suicide. Galdar, a minotaur and her second-in-command during the War of Souls, tries to comfort her, but soon Sargonnas comes and transports Galdar back to the minotaur homeland to help fight against the elves. Soon, Chemosh comes for her, and she expects to die. However, Chemosh didn't come for her death, but for her life. Soon she is entranced by the handsome Chemosh, and agrees to become his High Priestess. She goes around the world converting people to Chemosh.
 * Chemosh - the god of death, is the driving immortal force behind the events in Amber and Ashes. Growing tired of being worshiped by the elderly and decrepit, Chemosh concocts a plan to draw younger, attractive worshipers to him. He uses Mina to gain converts by giving her the power to grant all those who declare their loyalty to him, unending life and youth. These undying worshipers are called the Beloved of Chemosh. A Beloved of Chemosh is really a dead person who doesn't realize that they are dead. Instead, they travel through the world, unable to be killed, and looking to create more Beloveds.
 * Krell - Ausric Krell was a Knight of Takhisis serving under the late Dragon Highlord Ariakan. Historically, Krell is known, as the Betrayer for the hand that he played in Ariakan's death. As punishment, Zeboim, Ariakan's mother, imprisoned him on Storm's Keep, a former island stronghold for the Knights of Takhisis during the Chaos Wars. There she repeatedly tortured and killed the knight, eventually turning him into a death knight. He is rescued by Mina, who tricks Zeboim and forces him to work for Chemosh.
 * Zeboim - A god of darkness, who has control over the sea, Zeboim forces Rhys to serve her, after Rhys feels that Majere has abandoned him and his fellow monks.
 * Majere - A god of light, also known as the Mantis God, Majere is the god that Rhys used to worship before Rhys forsook him.
 * Beloved of Chemosh - A new vampire-like 'race' created to spread the worship of Chemosh to the young and beautiful. Seducing the living with promises of immortality and invincibility, these undead kill by kissing the heart of their victims. They appear as the living, breathing, eating, drinking, etc., but are mere shells of their former selves. Over time they lose their identities, becoming nearly invincible and insatiable killers, filled only with the desire to spread their curse.

Related Information
The Dark Disciple Trilogy
 * 1) Amber and Ashes (2004)
 * 2) Amber and Iron (2006)
 * 3) Amber and Blood (2008)

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Reynold D'Souza

Reynold Anthony D'Souza (born 8 September 1937) is a Kenyan field hockey player. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics.

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HTML/Introduction

This course currently has little content. A more develop resource can currently be found at What is HTML.

HTML is a language for describing web pages and stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup language made up of markup tags. HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages. These tags usually come in pairs, are surrounded by angle brackets and generally have 'opening' and 'closing' tags, i.e.

The purpose of a web browser, such as Internet Explorer or Firefox, is to read HTML documents and display them as web pages. You only need 8 tags to create a webpage.

Structure

 * Begin your HTML webpage
 * Begin your HTML webpage

 * HTML tags contain the the code which is not really seen by the website user. It contains for instant javascript or title tags. You will learn more in the next few pages
 * HTML tags contain the the code which is not really seen by the website user. It contains for instant javascript or title tags. You will learn more in the next few pages

 * HTML tag contains the title of the webpage which you see at the top of your browser tab
 * HTML tag contains the title of the webpage which you see at the top of your browser tab

 * HTML tags contain, like it it says, the body of the webpage which the user sees
 * HTML tags contain, like it it says, the body of the webpage which the user sees

Greeting Webpage
HTML/Введение

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Kulchytsi

Kulchytsi (Ку́льчиці, historic name — Кульчачке, Кольчиці, Kulczyce ) is a village (selo), which is located in Sambir Raion, Lviv Oblast, of Western Ukraine. It belongs to Ralivka rural hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine.

The estimated population is around 1,517. Local government is administered by Kulchytska village council.

Geography
The village is situated on the hilly area at a distance 8 km from the district center Sambir. It is situated in the 83 km from the regional center Lviv and 29 km from the city Drohobych.

History
Archaeological excavations have revealed traces of settlements from the 5th to 4th centuries BC, although the official founding date of village is 1284. Thirteen Stone-Age burial mounds (late 3rd millennium BC) near Kulchytsi were investigated. The settlement beginning Iron Age (about the 7th or 6th century BC) have been preserved in territory of village

A historic name of the village was Kulchachke (Кульчачке; Ukrainian) of Tatar origin.

Religious structures and attractions
Christians have an opportunity to visit the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Orthodox Church, Church of the Transfiguration and Church of Saints Florus and Laurus.

In the village has an architectural monument of local importance of Sambir Raion (Sambir district). It is a wooden bell tower of Church of Florus and Laurus 18th century (499-М).

Museums and monuments
Village residents know and want to learn of the history of the village and land. Valuable historical and architectural attractions been saved in the village. This is museum by name Hetman Sahaidachny, a monument to Hetman Petro Sahaidachny, Yuri-Franz Kulchytsky monument, a wooden Bell tower of Church of Florus and Laurus 18th century and other.

The idea of the museum foundation appeared in 1992, when the monument to Petro Konashevych-Sahaydachny was opened. It was decided to found the museum in the native village of the Ukrainian Hetman who had played the most important part in the history of Ukrainian Cossacks. Museum Director Bogdan Sydor is one of the founders of the museum.

Famous people

 * Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny (1570-1622) — Otaman Cossack Army, Getman his the Royal grace Zaporizhia Army. He was an outstanding figure in Ukraine's history, a major political leader and statesman, the leader of the Cossack Regiment and one of the founders of the Kyiv Brotherhood. He played an important role in the life of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the university, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.
 * Marko Zhmaylo-Kulchytskyy — Registered Cossacks Hetman (1625), leader of the peasant-Cossack Zhmaylo Uprising in 1625.
 * Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki (1640-1694) — Polish political and civic leader, coffee businessman

Literature

 * History of Towns and Villages of the Ukrainian SSR, Lvov region. – Київ : ГРУРЕ, 1968 р., Page 834.
 * Богдан Сидор, Подільці і подільчани - Самбір, 2008.

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decadal

Adjective

 * 1) Of or related to the number ten.
 * 2) Of or related to a decade, in its various senses.
 * 3) *  2017, W. Hugh Woodin, In search of Ultimate-L: The 19th Midrasha Mathematicae Lectures (Version: January 30, 2017), p. 2
 * About the same time in a decadal sense, there was a rather unexpected discovery.

Usage notes
Although may be taken as any group of ten years, it is commonly restricted to the informal ten-year periods of the calendar whose last digits run from 0 to 9. In such contexts, decadal refers to such calendar periods while etc. refer to ten-year periods in other contexts.

Synonyms

 * See

Etymology
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Adjective

 * 1)  ten days

title: decadal