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-nik

Etymology
From the suffix represented by 🇨🇬. This suffix experienced a surge in English coinages for nicknames and diminutives after the 1957 Soviet launch of the first Sputnik satellite. English usage is heavily influenced by usage of  and similar borrowed words (nogoodnik, nudnik, kibbutznik).

Etymology
From.

Conjunction

 * , that

Usage notes
The form taken by this clitic depends on the ending of the verbal form to which it is attached, see the usage notes at.

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Etymology
From.

Suffix

 * 1) ; -er

Declension
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Inanimate nouns:

Noun

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Etymology
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Suffix

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Impersonal nouns:

Etymology
,, itself originally by nominalization of adjectives in *-ьnъ with the suffix *-ikъ (whence ). The suffix originates from the period; compare with dialectal Lithuanian  (from ) and Old Prussian.

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Městský fotbalový stadion Srbská

Městský fotbalový stadion Srbská, currently known as the ADAX Invest Arena for sponsorship purposesis, a multi-purpose stadium in Brno, Czech Republic. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FC Zbrojovka Brno. The stadium holds 10,200 people and was built in 1926. The club moved into the stadium in 2001, having previously played at Stadion Za Lužánkami.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/History of Saturday Night Live (1975–80)

The result was   keep. Keeping ALL Nakon  02:29, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

History of Saturday Night Live (1975–80)

 * – ( View AfD View log  Stats )

Redundant information (mostly cast lists and non-notable trivia) already presented at main Saturday Night Live article as well as the 40 season pages. I am also nominating the following:

 * History of Saturday Night Live (1980–85)
 * History of Saturday Night Live (1985–90)
 * History of Saturday Night Live (1995–2000)
 * History of Saturday Night Live (2000–05)
 * History of Saturday Night Live (2005–10)
 * History of Saturday Night Live (2010–present)

Completely arbitrary to chronicle television series by five-year increments rather than seasons, and the season pages encompass every episode and are better referenced anyway. No information would be lost if these pages are deleted. -- Wikipedical (talk) 22:32, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Television-related deletion discussions. N ORTH A MERICA 1000 13:50, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of History-related deletion discussions. N ORTH A MERICA 1000 13:50, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of United States of America-related deletion discussions. N ORTH A MERICA 1000 13:50, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
 * Delete -- we have articles on each season and on the series as a whole. That is ample. The series article has a navbox linking to the quinennial articles as well as the season articles.  This will need to be altered sothat the deletion does not result in a load of red links.  Peterkingiron (talk) 23:50, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Merge with the appropriate season articles, since it seems like there's quite a bit of info on some of these pages that isn't in the appropriate season articles. (Of course, quite a lot of it needs referencing.) StewdioMACK Talk page 11:52, 12 February 2015 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Missvain (talk) 05:52, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

 * Weak keep, sort of - I can certainly see why you'd want to write more broadly themed articles like this, but certainly not in their current form. Why the five-year chunks? This would be much better if broken into four or five articles, covering the beginning, Ebersol era, the 90s, 2000s cast, and the current iteration. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 03:06, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep -- SNL is an important American tv show, & the behind-the-scenes events are worth explaining in extensive detail that would bog down the main article. Specifically, the program had a brilliant beginning, went thru several years of uneven quality, then recovered & become a solid late Saturday night feature for American audiences; a narrative of this evolution is a notable subject & worth doing. However, I'll repeat Ed's point that these articles need to be better organized, statements all over the articles need sourcing (although I've not encountered anything that is off-the-tracks wrong) & some of the information is too trivial for inclusion. In brief, while the subject matter is notable, in their current state the articles are of substandard quality. -- llywrch (talk) 07:58, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Comment to address the recent keep votes: I don't think anyone is suggesting Saturday Night Live or its history or even content included in these articles is not notable. But that's why there are 40 (!) season articles, which more thoroughly (and more consistently with other WP:TV pages) document the history of SNL and are better sourced.  Everything in these pages are redundant with those articles.  The main objection here is the completely arbitrary 5-year increments (no one has taken a position defending those yet).  I believe that if these articles aren't deleted, then merging them with the season articles adequately address the keep votes' concerns  --  Wikipedical (talk) 05:19, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Sure, but those are very narrowly focused. There's a good argument for overall looks at wide swaths of the show's history, starting with the Not Ready For Primetime Players and coming through the present day. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 18:12, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Perhaps, but five-year increments are completely arbitrary. Saturday Night Live (season 1) through season 5 already contain the same text verbatim in the first "History" article.  If you believe Not Ready For Primetime Players merits its own article, for example. sure, create it.  But as it stands, these general "overview"/"history" articles are poorly sourced and inconsistent with the way we chronicle television on Wikipedia.  Putting aside the show's early history for a moment, you really believe History of Saturday Night Live (2010–present) should be kept?  --  Wikipedical (talk) 22:19, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep. Agree with argumentation and rationale by, above. Cheers, — Cirt (talk) 16:40, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep - I agree that some of the info on these pages is the same as things other pages (Cast lists, ect.), but it seems like it's there for easy comparison with the info unique to this page (Of which there's quite a bit). These pages seem to be more of a comparison to between seasons - a running history if you will. I do agree with Ed that the 5 year chunks don't really make sense. A lot of it needs further sourcing too, so it might be better to fix this before merging (If merging is an option.) so as not to compromise other articles. - samdod2427 22:03 18th February 2015 (GMT) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Samdod2427 (talk • contribs)
 * Merging with the better sourced season articles is definitely an option. --  Wikipedical (talk) 03:36, 19 February 2015 (UTC)


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Ariel Motorcycles

Ariel Motorcycles was a British maker of bicycles and then motorcycles in Bournbrook, Birmingham. It was an innovator in British motorcycling, part of the Ariel marque. The company was sold to BSA in 1951 but the brand survived until 1967. Influential Ariel designers included Val Page and Edward Turner. The last motorcycle-type vehicle to carry the Ariel name was a short-lived three-wheel tilting moped in 1970.

Ariel made bicycles before making motorcycles, and also made cars. Car production began in 1902, moved to Coventry in 1911 and ceased in 1925.

The 'Ariel' name was reused in 1999 for the formation of Ariel Ltd, a sports car producer.

Bicycles and early motorised vehicles
The original company was established in 1870 by James Starley and William Hillman. They built wire-spoke wheels under the first British patent; this allowed them also to build a lighter "penny farthing" bicycle which they named 'Ariel' (the spirit of the air). They put the name on the factory where they made penny-farthing bicycles and sewing machines. In 1885 James Starley's nephew, John Kemp Starley, invented the Rover Safety Bicycle - a bicycle with similarly sized wheels and chain drive to the rear wheel, the design used on bicycles today.

Ariel merged with Westwood Manufacturing in 1896 and made a powered tricycle in 1898 with a 2.25 hp de Dion. Hillman left soon afterwards to found Premier Motorcycles. More tricycles were produced and motorised quadricycles were added in 1901 as Ariel moved into car production. (See also List of motorized trikes and/or Quadricycle)

Components Ltd.
In 1902, Ariel produced its first motorcycle, which had a Kerry engine with a magneto ignition and a float carburettor. That year, Ariel was taken over by Components Ltd, owned by Charles Sangster. Sangster built a three-speed, two-stroke motorcycle sold as the "Arielette", but he stopped production on the outbreak of the first world war.

In 1918, Sangster's son Jack began managing the Ariel division of Components Ltd and developed a successful motorcycle with a 4 hp White and Poppe engine. Jack increased the range of motorcycles to include 586 cc and 992 cc machines. A range of motorcycles was made until 1926 with engines bought in or assembled to others' designs, until a new designer, Val Page, joined Ariel from JAP. That year Page created a pair of new engines which used many existing motorcycle parts, then redesigned the motorcycle for 1927. These new models are known as Black Ariels (1926–1930) and were the basis on which all Ariel four-stroke singles were based until their demise in 1959 (except the LH Colt of the mid-1950s). During the Black Ariel period, the Ariel horse logo came into being, as did the slogan 'The Modern Motor Cycle'.

Ariel Motors
Components Ltd. suffered several financial crises including spells in receivership in 1911 and in the early 1930s. In 1932, Components Ltd went bankrupt, and Jack Sangster, Charles Sangster's son, bought the Ariel subsidiary from the receivers at a bargain price. The company was renamed Ariel Motors (J.S.) Ltd, and promptly resumed production. A new factory was set up at Selly Oak in Birmingham. One of their first bikes was the Ariel Square Four, designed by Edward Turner, followed by the Ariel Red Hunter. The Red Hunter was a success, and enabled Ariel to purchase Triumph.

The Ariel Square Four, with a 500 cc engine designed by Edward Turner, was launched for the 1931 season. Around this time the company went into receivership and then a new company was formed. The Square Four displacement was increased to 600cc. Throughout their history, the Square Fours had overheating problems with the rear cylinders which resulted in distorted heads. A redesign in 1937 resulted in a 995cc OHV version designated the 4G.

From 1939, Anstey-link plunger rear suspension was an option. It was still available when production restarted in 1946, with a telescopic front fork superseding the girder fork.

During the Second World War the Ariel factory was turned over to military production, including the Ariel W/NG 350 army motorcycle based on the civilian NG model but with higher ground clearance frame inspired by that used successfully by Fred Povey in the ISDT.

In 1948 Ariel introduced a 500cc parallel-twin engine, following the trend that Triumph Engineering set with the Speed Twin and Tiger 100. Ariel offered the twin in two models: the low-tuned KG and slightly higher-tuned KH.

In 1949 Ariel revised the Mark 1 Square Four engine to include a cast aluminium cylinder block and head in place of the cast iron components previously used, in an effort to promote cooling. With the lower weight the bike was a 90 mph plus machine.

BSA
In 1951 Jack Sangster sold Ariel and Triumph (which Ariel bought in 1936) to the Birmingham Small Arms Company group (BSA) and joined the BSA board. In 1954 Ariel launched the KHA, which was a high-performance version of the KH with an aluminium alloy cylinder head. Also in 1954, Ariel launched the FH, a 650cc parallel twin to compete with the Triumph Thunderbird. However, instead of enlarging the KH engine, Ariel used the BSA A10 engine, with a different timing cover to badge-engineer it as an Ariel. Reliable and capable of 100 mph, the FH proved popular with sidecar enthusiasts. The models were later given names. The FH was named the Huntmaster, and the KH was named the Fieldmaster.

By 1956, Sangster was voted in as the new Chairman, defeating incumbent Sir Bernard Docker 6 to 3. Sangster promptly made Edward Turner head of the automotive division, which then included Ariel, Triumph, and BSA motorcycles, as well as Daimler and Carbodies (the manufacturer of London Taxicabs).

In 1953 the Mark 2 Square Four was given a redesigned cylinder head, making it capable of 100 mph.

The Red Hunter formed the basis for Sammy Miller's 1955 trials motorcycle which proved very successful in competition.

Two-strokes and demise
In 1959, Ariel dropped its four-stroke engines and produced the Ariel Leader, a fully enclosed 250 cc two-stroke with a fully faired body from the headlamp aft. The Leader aimed to combine the benefits of the motorcycle with the advantages of a scooter. Ariel also made the Arrow, a more open version of the Leader which kept the Leader's enclosed chain case and deep mudguards. Both models were an unsuccessful attempt to compete with new Japanese imports.

BSA closed the Ariel factory at Selly Oak in 1962 and moved production of the Leader and the Arrow to the BSA factory at Small Heath. Production of the 50 cc Pixie began in 1963.

In 1965, Ariel produced its last motorcycle, the Arrow 200 with capacity reduced to 200 cc introduced earlier during 1964 to qualify for lower UK rider insurance. Ariel motorcycles ceased production in 1967.

Later use of the Ariel name
In 1970, parent company BSA produced the Ariel 3, a 49 cc automatic tricycle with a coupling between the front and rear frame sections allowing banking when cornering. The front half was hinged to the rear and could tilt into corners while keeping all three wheels on the ground. The design was licensed from George Wallis, of G.L.Wallis & Son, who had patented it in 1966. A small museum dedicated to the trike has been established in Bristol, England.

Following the failure of the Ariel 3, the design was licensed to Honda which produced it as the Honda Gyro.

In 1999 a new company was formed using the old 'Ariel' name. Initially, the Ariel Motor Company made only one model, the Atom, a high performance, minimalistic 2-seat road-legal sports car, followed by a large-capacity motorcycle named Ariel Ace.

Famous models

 * Models A - G
 * VCH
 * KHA
 * Cyclone (model owned by Buddy Holly)
 * Trials HT5
 * Trials HT3
 * Scrambles HS (Mk1,11,111)

Cars
Cars were produced over two periods: from 1902 to 1915, and again from 1922 to 1925. The first proper Ariel car was a 10 hp twin-cylinder car produced in 1902. In 1903 its first four-cylinder was a 15/19 model. Both these vehicles had a leather cone clutch that was entirely separate from the flywheel. In 1904 the 15HP car had the distinction of being the first motor car to ascend Snowdon, albeit using the mountain railway trackbed which has long stretches of 1 in 5 gradient. In early 1904, Ariel began production of a six-cylinder model built on a seemingly inadequate tubular steel chassis.

An entirely new range was announced at the end of 1905; called the 'Ariel-Simplex', these cars were Mercedes-inspired four-cylinder designs of 15 hp and 25/30 hp and a six of 35/40 hp. In 1907–1908 the company began production of their 50/60 hp six, which offered a 15.9-litre engine for a chassis price of £950. In 1907 Ariel sold its Birmingham factory to the French Lorraine-Dietrich company, who wanted to enter the British market; Ariel cars were thereafter assembled at the Coventry Ordnance Works, a branch of Cammell Laird. The arrangement with Lorraine-Dietrich was cancelled in 1910. Production of a 1.3-litre light car ended with the outbreak of World War I.

Ariel resumed making motor cars in 1922 when it launched the Ariel Nine light car. The Nine had a 997 cc water-cooled side-valve flat twin engine with "square" dimensions of 85 mm bore and 85 mm stroke made by A Harper Sons & Bean, Ltd of Dudley. The Nine was designed by Jack Sangster, the son of Ariel's owner, who had designed the similar, but air-cooled, twin-cylinder Rover 8 when he worked for Rover.

The Nine was capable of 55 mph and about 700 were made. However, the engine was vibratory and noisy, so in 1924 Ariel discontinued the model and replaced it with the 10 hp (RAC) car.

The "Ten" had a 1097 cc four-cylinder Q-Type engine made by the Swift Motor Company. Unlike the Nine it was a long-stroke engine, with a bore of only 60 mm and stroke of 97 mm. The Ten had a gearbox combined with the rear axle. The car was advertised at £180 for the chassis, and about 250 were made. In 1925 Ariel discontinued car production to concentrate on motorcycles.

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Talk:Neil Hennessy

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I have removed the musical importance tags, as he seems to be a member of several notable bands. -Ladybirdintheuk 14:49, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Neildrums.jpg
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How To Search/Other search type list

The following list contains search mechanisms that have yet to be categorized but are described in this book.

 * ../Directory of Open Access Journals/
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 * ../Millennium-III/
 * ../MS Windows file search/
 * ../Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Image:612722471 l.jpg

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was Boldly closed and listed on IfD feel free to revert if you feel I'm out of order .--Isotope23 19:15, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

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I think this user was just playing around. --evrik 15:06, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Speedy close and move to WP:IFD, which is just around the corner. -- Kicking222 15:42, 11 August 2006 (UTC)


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Mari Konno

Mari Konno (紺野 麻里) is a Japanese former basketball player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Personal life
She has been married to Ryuzo Anzai, a head coach of the Tochigi Brex.

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Shitim

Shitim (שיטים) is a community settlement in southern Israel. Located in the Arabah valley, it falls under the jurisdiction of Hevel Eilot Regional Council. In 2019 it had a population of 4.

History
The village was established in 1984 as a Nahal settlement, with soldiers often living at the site following the end of a combat role and working in nearby kibbutzim. In the early 1990s, the nearby army base was taken over by a different battalion, which largely operated in the West Bank. This caused disruption in the day-to-day agricultural activities of the village and it was abandoned by the IDF in 1997, with the site given to kibbutz Ketura. Attempts to establish a civilian village at the site failed and the settlement was dismantled.

In 2002 a group of followers of Rajneesh founded a guesthouse on the site under the name 'Ashram BaMidbar' (Ashram in the Desert), with people working at the guesthouse re-establishing the village.

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San Dimas station

San Dimas station is an under construction light rail station in the Los Angeles Metro Rail system. The station is located on San Dimas Avenue near its intersection with Bonita Avenue along the Pasadena Subdivision right-of-way in San Dimas, California. It will be served by the A Line. It is currently under construction as part of the Foothill Extension Project and is slated to open in early-January 2025.

A city-owned 300-space park and ride facility is located adjacent to the facility at 205 S San Dimas Avenue. The former Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway San Dimas Depot is located about 1/5 mi to the northwest and houses the Pacific Railroad Museum.

Connections
The following connections will be available when the station opens:

 * Foothill Transit: 492, 499 to Los Angeles Union Station

Notable places nearby
The station is within walking distance of the following notable places:
 * Raging Waters Los Angeles, one of California's largest water parks
 * The Pacific Railroad Museum, a museum and library in the former AT&SF San Dimas Depot on Bonita Ave., operated by the Pacific Railroad Society
 * Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park

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User:Fauviste

I created this account in order to participate in the Ms. Fembot Edit-a-Thon and Meetup/Los Angeles/2015 ASECS.

My academic research interests include political theory; the history of political thought, particularly of the early modern period and the Enlightenment; feminist political theory; politics and literature; the history of the book; and the history of emotions.

You can read more about my research on my own site and you can find me on Twitter @twasmegan.

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Self Paced Reading Labs/Food Processing/Making Tomatoe Paste

How to complete this module
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Self Test
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Make some tomatoe juice or sauce at home from fresh tomatoes with an adult. insert links here to appropriate cookbook recipes that can be printed out

Routing Information
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If you missed one question then complete another module on this level for additional practice.

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 * Tomato processing on MoonLunar_Boom_Town/Luna%27s_Tomatoes%2C_Juice_and_Picante_Sauce


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Cookbook:Onigiri

| Cuisines | Cuisine of Japan

Onigiri (also called omusubi) is a ball or triangle of hot or cold rice, often with a filling, frequently wrapped in nori making it easier to eat. It is a popular snack food, and is also common as part of a packed lunch. Depending on your location, some convenience store chains have shelves with a large selection of fresh onigiri for sale.

The most common form of onigiri has a filling in the center. This is often something sour or salty, as it helps preserve the rice for longer periods of time. Common fillings include umeboshi (Japanese pickled plum); katsuobushi (dried bonito flakes, often called "okaka" in this case) moistened in soy sauce; cooked, salted salmon ("sake"); cod roe ("tarako"); kombu; and canned tuna ("sea-chicken") with mayonnaise. Less common is onigiri with the filling mixed in with the rice, making it spread throughout the rice.

A related dish is yaki-onigiri, which is a plain onigiri without fillings that has been brushed with soy sauce or barbecue sauce and grilled. This is a common side dish in pubs. A creative variation is a yaki-onigiri in a bowl of dashi garnished with chopped leek and katsuobushi.

Ingredients

 * 100 ml (½ cup) uncooked Japanese-style short grain rice
 * Filling of choice, such as any of the following:
 * Umeboshi (pickled plums), stones removed
 * Canned tuna, mixed with mayonnaise and seasoned to taste with chopped leeks, soy sauce, or chilies; sour or salty flavours work well.
 * Cooked salmon
 * Cooked egg
 * Katsuobushi, moistened with a small amount of soy sauce
 * Nori sheets

Procedure

 * 1) Cook the rice according to package or rice cooker directions. Let cool just enough to handle with your hands.
 * 2) While the rice is cooking, prepare your fillings.
 * 3) Fill a bowl with salt water to rinse your fingers and season the onigiri. You can fill and shape the onigiri using two different methods:
 * 4) * Method 1: Wet your hands in the salt water. Take two large spoonfuls of rice into one hand (carefully; the rice is hot), and gently squeeze and flatten it with the other. Make an indentation in the middle, and put some of the filling into the center. Be a little careful to get the filling only in the center and not all over the ball; that can make the rice less sticky, and stickiness is good. "Fold" the rice over the filling so it becomes covered. Squeeze gently, and mold it into a triangular shape by folding both your hands along the palms while keeping the fingers straight. Squeeze like that, rotating the ball a few times, and you will soon have a very neat triangle—this really is much harder to explain than to do. Once the ball is done, put it down on a clean surface to cool down. Rinse your hands in the salt water and repeat.
 * 5) * Method 2: Use a bowl and some plastic film. Place about ⅔ of the mixture into the centre of the cling wrap that has been draped into the bowl loosely. Then, add approximately 2 teaspoons of filling (this is working off of about 3–4 portions per cup of rice. Then, place the last ⅓ of the rice to the top. Then, mould the onigiri within the cling wrap. This drastically reduces mess and also is slightly more 'kid friendly'.
 * 6) Once the balls are reasonably cool, you need to protect them from drying out. The easiest way is to wrap them in cling wrap, or put them into an airtight plastic food container. When it is time to eat, take one rice ball, wrap it in a piece of nori, and eat away. If you don't mind soggy nori, you can wrap the balls in nori beforehand.

Notes, tips, and variations

 * You must use Japanese-style short grain rice; if the rice isn't sticky, the onigiri won't hold together.
 * A rice cooker is recommended since it will be far more 'hands-off' and will also free up more time to prepare the fillings.
 * There is wide latitude on what you can use as a filling. Try experimenting!
 * It is a good idea to have a moderately large, clear workspace that is easy to clean afterwards. The rice is sticky, and you will end up getting it everywhere in the area.
 * Do not use refrigerated, cold rice. Do not refrigerate the onigiri after assembling. Store in lunch cooler or thermos—otherwise the rice gets hard and doesn’t taste good. You can freeze onigiri, then microwave them to defrost.
 * Fillings for onigiri are only limited to your imagination. One point to remember is to choose fillings that are not overly hard/crunchy. If they are reasonably hard they become quite difficult to eat. Western fillings that can be quite delicious include such things as corned meats, avocado, even olives or semidried tomatoes. A recommendation is to use fillings with a lot of flavour and cut into small pieces.

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bekräfta

Etymology
From or  (rare, more often ), from. Equivalent of. The synonym went out of use during the 17th century. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to confirm, to acknowledge

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Ida Margaret Graves Poore

Ida Margaret Graves Poore, Lady Poore (28 December 1859 – 5 February 1941), was an Anglo-Irish autobiographer and poet.

Life and work
Born Ida Margaret Graves to Rt Rev Charles Graves and Selina Cheyne on 28 December 1859. Her father was Dean in the Chapel Royal in Dublin Castle and Poore grew up between there and their home in Parknasilla, Kerry until her father became Bishop of Limerick. Poore was sister of Alfred Perceval Graves, and aunt of poet Robert Graves. Poore was sent to a preparatory school for young ladies in Fulham, England. For her secondary level education she was first put under the care of a governess at home, which was then in Blarney, Cork. Poore was then sent to Fanny Metcalfe's school in Highfield where she was a classmate of Blanche Athena Clough. On her return to Kerry, Poore acted as her father's secretary in the aftermath of the Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland. There were also various guests of the family including Sheridan Le Fanu's brother William.

Due to her father's health at various times he traveled Europe and Algeria and took her with him. She also traveled in Egypt which was where she met her future husband. Her biography gives a fascinating insight into the history of the countries where she and her family were living. She tells the story of the anti-catholic riots in Alexandria and the results of the shelling of the city by the British forces. Poore married Sir Richard Poore, 4th Baronet on 14 September 1885. They had one son, Roger. He followed his father into the Navy and was killed in action in 1915. Richard Poore rose to the position of Admiral in the Navy. Poore wrote two autobiographical books on life as a woman and as the wife of an admiral. She was known as Flag Mother to the sailors who worked with her husband. From 1908 to 1911 she and her husband were assigned to Sydney, Australia, where Lady Poore was the first president of the Bush Book Club  and her good friend, Phoebe Ellen Wesché, was the vice-President.

She died on 5 February 1941 in Switzerland.

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Neophrida aurolimbalis

Neophrida aurolimbalis is a species of snout moth in the genus Neophrida. It was described by Heinrich Benno Möschler in 1882 and is known from Suriname.

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David Schiaffino

David Schiaffino (28 May 1913 – 16 December 2005) was an Argentine sports shooter. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics and 1952 Summer Olympics.

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1999 Torneo Internazionali Femminili di Palermo

The 1999 Torneo Internazionali Femminili di Palermo was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts in Palermo, Italy that was part of the Tier IV Series of the 1999 WTA Tour. It was the 12th edition of the Internazionali Femminili di Palermo and took place from 12 July until 18 July 1999. Qualifier Anastasia Myskina won the singles title.

Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
 * 🇮🇹 Maria Paola Zavagli
 * 🇮🇹 Flora Perfetti

The following players received wildcards into the doubles main draw:
 * 🇮🇹 Flavia Pennetta / 🇮🇹 Adriana Serra Zanetti

The following players received entry from the singles qualifying draw:

 * Miroslava Vavrinec
 * 🇷🇺 Anastasia Myskina
 * 🇮🇹 Alice Canepa
 * 🇮🇹 Giulia Casoni

The following players received entry to the singles main drawn as a lucky loser:

 * 🇺🇸 Samantha Reeves
 * 🇧🇪 Patty Van Acker

The following players received entry from the doubles qualifying draw:

 * Joannette Kruger / 🇨🇳 Li Fang

The following players received entry to the doubles main draw as a lucky loser:

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Machine Gun?
In the Plot Summary, the gun that shot Jim near the conclusion of the movie wasn't a machine gun. The following link and picture within clearly shows that it was not a machine gun but a shotgun. The link: http://www.imfdb.org/index.php/Harsh_Times#SWD.2FCobray_Street_Sweeper

I was wondering if we should change the summary to reflect the actual weapon used in the movie. Detonator0072003 01:34, 31 May 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Detonator0072003 (talk • contribs)

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Patterson Creek (Deep River tributary)

Patterson Creek is a 7.72 mi long 2nd order tributary to the Deep River in Lee County, North Carolina.

Course
Patterson Creek rises in a pond about 1 mile west of Sanford, North Carolina and then flows north to the Deep River about 1.5 miles southeast of Gulf, North Carolina.

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Patterson Creek drains 7.22 sqmi of area, receives about 47.7 in/year of precipitation, and has a wetness index of 383.71 and is about 72% forested.

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DeWayne Lee Harris

DeWayne Lee Harris (born 1963), also known as The Seattle Jungle Killer or Chilly Willy, but most widely known as The Seattle Shoelace Slasher is an American serial killer who killed three women in Seattle between 1997 and 1998, dumping their bodies near freeways. While jailed for a robbery charge, he confessed to the murders and was later sentenced to 94 years imprisonment.

Murders
The first victim was 42-year-old Denise Marie Harris (no relation), whom DeWayne met on First Avenue in downtown Seattle. Along with an unnamed accomplice, they strangled Denise with a belt, removing some of her clothing and then binding her hands and ankles with shoelaces. He also stuffed a brassiere in her mouth. Harris' body was then dumped in the "Jungle", an underdeveloped plot of land under the I-5 and I-90 freeways. Denise's body was found on September 12 by a transient man wandering the area.

Not long after, Harris picked up 33-year-old Antoinette Jones. He accused her of stealing drugs from him, and proceeded to strangle her with a leather belt. Like Denise, he then bound her wrists and ankles with shoelaces, wrapping an additional shoelace around her neck. Her body was dumped in the Jungle, where her skeletal remains were found on February 1, 1998, about half a mile from where Harris was found. Forensic tests proved that she had been there for at least three months.

The last victim was 25-year-old Olivia Smith, whose date of death is uncertain. After picking her up from an apartment building at Airport Way South, Harris and Smith engaged in a violent argument about exchanging drugs for sex, after which DeWayne took out a knife and stabbed her numerous times and slashed her throat. He left the body on the scene, where it was discovered on the stairwell on January 10, 1998.

Arrest, trial and imprisonment
Some time after the murders, Harris was jailed for an unrelated robbery charge. While in jail, around April 1998 he phoned a detective and told him that he could lead him to the murderer. He later was confronted and confessed to murders of three women, claiming that it was his 'hobby' and he got a thrill out of doing it. Shortly after his confession, he was charged with all three murders, and was detained at the King County jail on $5 million bail.

At his trial, Harris, strapped in a restraining chair because of his unruly behavior, was described as a cunning and manipulative predator who preyed on vulnerable women. According to his attorney, John Hicks, his only reason for confessing was that he "wanted Seattle to recognize there was a serial killer." He was found guilty of all charges in December 1998, and finally sentenced to 94 years imprisonment the next month. Upon hearing the verdict, he dropped his head backwards and started to laugh, much to the courtroom's shock. For his final words before the court, Harris told the King County Superior Court Judge Marsha Pechman that there were more like him out there, and that nobody was safe, even in their own homes and apartments. He also added that there was no true justice, as he was still living and breathing, and had certain privileges in prison. He also expressed hopes for the victims' families' forgiveness. Upon being escorted out of the room, he hurled insults at the jury which convicted him. Initially at the Clallam Bay Corrections Center, DeWayne Lee Harris is currently serving his sentence at the Stafford Creek Corrections Center (SCCC).

In an interview, Harris claimed to have committed 32 other murders.

Popular culture
Dewayne Lee Harris murders and related investigation were adapted in the first episode of "Real Detective", a Canadian produced docudrama.

Harris was also featured in season one, episode two of "American Detective", a documentary series appearing on Discovery+.

Harris is interviewed on the "Unforbidden Truth" podcast dated January 26, 2021.

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User:Sherurcij/Beslan school hostage crisis/sandbox

The Beslan school hostage crisis (also referred to as the Beslan school siege or Beslan Massacre) began when armed terrorists took over 1200 school children and adults hostage on September 1 2004, at School Number One (SNO) in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia.

On the third day of the standoff, shooting broke out between the hostage-takers and Russian security forces. According to official data, 344 civilians were killed, 186 of them children[, and hundreds more wounded.

Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev took responsibility for the hostage taking, reportedly led by his principal Ingush deputy Magomet Yevloyev.

Background
September 1 is the start of the Russian school year and is traditionally called "First September" or "Day of Knowledge". Children are accompanied by parents and other relatives. Commonly, the first-year students give a flower to those entering their final year, and are then taken to class by the older children.

In 1992, SNO had served as an informal detention centre during the Georgian-Ossetian conflict, when unknown Ossetian militants used it to detain people of Ingush race, resulting in several being killed.

SNO was one of seven schools in Beslan, and with approximately 900 students, 59 teachers and a small support staff.

Day 1
At 09:30 local time on September 1, a group of approximately 32 attackers arrived at SNO in a GAZel van and a GAZ-66, wearing black ski masks and carrying explosive belts.

After an exchange of gunfire with police, in which five officers and one attacker were killed, the attackers seized the school building taking more than 1,300 hostages. The Russian government initially downplayed the numbers, stating there were only 354 hostages, which reportedly angered the attackers. At first some mistook the attackers for Russians when they tried to lure children from the playground into the school speaking Russian and offering chocolate bars, before firing their guns in the air. . During the initial chaos about fifty people managed to flee to safety and alert authorities.

It was later revealed that the terrorists had killed twenty adult male hostages and thrown their bodies out of the building that day. .

security cordon was soon established around the school, consisting of Militsiya and Russian Army forces, OSNAZ including the Alpha Group of the FSB, and members of the OMON unit of the MVD.

The attackers mined the gymnasium and the rest of the building with improvised explosive devices, and surrounded it with tripwires. In a further bid to deter rescue attempts, they threatened to kill fifty hostages for every one of their own members killed by the police, and to kill twenty hostages for every gunman injured. They also threatened to blow up the school should government forces attack.

The Russian government initially said that it would not use force to rescue the hostages, and negotiations towards a peaceful resolution did take place on the first and second days, led by Leonid Roshal, a pediatrician whom the hostage-takers had reportedly asked for by name. Roshal had helped negotiate the release of children in the 2002 Moscow Theatre Siege.

That night, the hostagetakers began exploring the area surrounding the school, preparing for an exit strategy once their demands had been met. .

At Russia's request, a special meeting of the United Nations Security Council was convened on the evening of September 1, at which the council members demanded "the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages of the terrorist attack". U.S. President George W. Bush made a statement offering its "support in any form" to Russia.

Day 2
On September 2, 2004, negotiations between Roshal and the hostage-takers proved unsuccessful, and they refused to allow food, water and medicines to be taken in for the hostages or for the bodies of the dead to be removed from the school.

Many children took off their clothing because of the sweltering heat within the gymnasium — which led to rumors of sexual impropriety, though the hostages later explained it was merely due to the stifling heat. After the attacks, several girls did claim to have been raped. . Surviving hostage Kazbek Dzarasov reports that the terrorists would pick from amongst the prettiest adolescent girls and take them to another room with an excuse of having them fetch water, rape them and return them a few hours later.

In the afternoon, the gunmen agreed to release 26 nursing women and their infants following their negotiations with former Ingush President Ruslan Aushev, to whom they handed off a nursing infant whose mother refused to leave the school because of her other children.

At around 15:30, two RPGs were fired by the hostage-takers at security forces outside the school, approximately ten minutes apart. .

Day 3

Around 13:04 on September 3, 2004, the hostage-takers agreed to allow medical workers to remove bodies from the school grounds. However when the medical workers approached the school the hostage-takers opened fire, and shortly after two large explosions were heard from the gymnasium. Two of the medical workers were killed, while the rest retreated. Part of the gymnasium wall was demolished by the explosions, allowing a group of about thirty hostages to escape, though a large number was killed when the hostage-takers fired at them and as a result of crossfire from the hostage-takers and army.

 * Presidential advisor Aslambek Aslakhanov later said that the cause of firing and the subsequent storming of the school had been a spontaneous explosion — according to an escaped hostage, one of the bombs had been insecurely attached by an adhesive tape and had fallen and exploded.

These two accounts may be reconcilable. Ruslan Aushev, a key negotiator during the siege, told the Novaya Gazeta that an initial explosion was set off by a hostage-taker accidentally tripping over a wire; as a result, armed civilians, some of them apparently fathers of the hostages, started shooting. Reportedly, no security forces or hostage-takers were shooting at this point, but the gunfire led the hostage-takers to believe that the school was being stormed; in response, they set off their bombs.
 * In a conflicting account, an anonymous employee of the Ministry of Emergency Situations said that the shooting began after the medical workers' truck arrived at the pick-up point. He did not know whether the armed fathers of hostages or the hostage-takers fired first (see the article in Izvestia below). Other witnesses reported hearing increasing automatic weapons fire before the blasts.

The third version has it that a couple of female terrorist bombers blew themselves up as soon as they heard gunfire. This version is contradicted by the following sources.

 * The surviving hostages' stories such as the one by the Alania soccer team's cameraman Karen Mdinaradze published by Newsru September 17 . The man lost his eye and saw others hurt by the blast which killed the bombers long before the storm.
 * The captured suspect hostage-taker Kulayev's story (see Investigations below).
 * The September 17 statement attributed to Shamil Basayev where only 2 female perpetrators were mentioned

The fourth version is that a special forces sniper shot the hostage-taker whose foot was on a dead-man detonator. Some, especially government sources, say that it was an unauthorized action that the sniper took upon himself, though others suggest that the shot was authorized in order to resolve the hostage crisis.

 * Part of the task force was away from the scene at the urgent training exercise in a similar school.

 * It was at this point that Russian special forces activated their action plan to storm the school to rescue any possible survivors. A chaotic battle broke out as the special forces sought to enter the school and cover the escape of the hostages. The task force members blew holes in walls to allow hostages to escape.

In addition to the special forces, army and Interior Ministry troops engaged, there were Mi-24 Hind and Mi-8 Hip gunships, and at least one tank (most probably two T-72s and one either T-80 or T-90) as well as several BTR armoured personnel carriers.

Many local civilians also joined in the battle, having brought along their own weapons. Afterwards, the Russian government defended the use of tanks and other heavy weaponry, arguing that it was used after surviving hostages escaped from the school. However, this contradicts the eyewitness accounts, as many hostages were seriously wounded and could not possibly escape by themselves.

The attack was followed by more large explosions of further detonating terrorist bombs, totally destroying the gym and setting much of the building on fire.

The Aftermath
By 15:00, two hours after the assault began, Russian troops claimed control of most of the school. However, fighting was still continuing in the grounds as evening fell, and three gunmen were located in the basement along with a number of hostages. They were eventually killed, along with the hostages they were holding.

During the battle a group of 13 hostage-takers, including two women, broke through the military cordon and took refuge nearby. The women reportedly tried to pass themselves off as medical personnel.

Several hostage-takers were believed to have entered a 2-story additional building. The building was destroyed by tanks and flamethrowers around 21:00, according to the Ossetian committee's report.

Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Fridinsky said that 31 of 32 attackers had been confirmed dead and one had been seized.

One suspected hostage-taker was beaten to death by the fathers of hostages when he was injured and driven to the hospital (see the article in Izvestia below). Another suspected terrorist was lynched on the scene, an event filmed by the Sky News crew.

At least one surviving female hostage committed suicide after returning home.

The Russian government has been heavily criticized by many of the local people who, days after the end of the siege, did not know whether their children were living or dead. Some human remains were even found by a local man in the nearby garbage dump several months later, prompting further outrage.

During the operation 11 fighters of the special groups Alpha and Vympel were killed, among them the commander of Alpha - the highest casualties in a single engagement in these units' history. Wounds of varying severity were received by more than 30 fighters of the OSNAZ special forces.

Later it was reported that an unknown number of survivors may have died as a result of a government-ordered vaccination called Nalaxon meant to counter the effects of Fentanyl-based poisons.

Days 6 and 7
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a two day national mourning for September 6, 2004 and September 7, 2004. The second of these days saw 135,000 people join an anti-terror government rally on the Red Square in Moscow. Putin then cancelled planned meetings with German chancellor Gerhard Schröder in Hamburg and in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein.

Identities of those responsible
Initially, the identity of the attackers was not immediately clear. It was widely assumed that they were separatists from nearby Chechnya, but Presidential Aide Aslambek Aslakhanov denied it, saying "They were not Chechens. When I started talking with them in Chechen, they had answered: We do not understand, speak Russian".

The Chechen separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov quickly denied that his forces were involved in the siege, condemning the action through a statement issued by his envoy Akhmed Zakayev.

On September 17, 2004, Chechen terrorist Shamil Basayev issued a statement claiming responsibility for Beslan school siege. Newspaper reports also linked his Ingush deputy, Magomet Yevloyev, to the school attack.

The Russian government had stated that the attackers were an international group consisting of connnections to al-Qaeda, including the claim that Abu Omar as-Seif financed the attack. Critics claim that this was a veiled attempt to simply bring Western countries such as the United States into believing that Chechnya should be considered a front in the War on Terror.

Some of the 32 hostage-takers are tentatively named:

 * Polkovnik Ruslan Tagirovich Khochubarov (leader, disputed identity)
 * Vladimir Khodov - nicknamed Abdullah, Ossetian from nearby Elkhotovo where he was wanted for detonating a bomb in the marketplace. (leader, though terrorist leader Basayev has since said he was an FSB double agent)
 * Magomed Yevloyev - nicknamed Magas, Ingush national also involved in the Basayev's attack on Nazran (leader)
 * Ali Taziyev - Ingush ex-policeman, debate rages whether an alias/stolen identity of Khochubarov or Yevloyev
 * Doku Umarov - 40-year-old warlord that hostages reportedly claimed to recognise, saying he was the only one to not wear a mask. He definitely did not die in Beslan however, since he is still an active Chechen field commander
 * Khaula Nazirova - 45-year-old member of Black Widows from Grozny, husband had been tortured to death five years earlier by Russians (possibly a leader)
 * her 18-year-old son - cousins were killed a year earlier
 * her 16-year-old daughter - cousins were killed a year earlier when Russia bombed a school in Chechnya
 * Khizir-Ali Akhmedov
 * Magomed Aushev
 * Sultan Kamurzaev
 * Magomet Khochubarov - had a prior conviction for possessing illegal firearms
 * Iznaur Kodzoyev
 * Nur-Pashi Kulayev - 24-year-old Chechen, the sole surviving hostage-taker who was sentenced to life in prison.
 * Hanpashi Kulayev - one-armed brother of the above, a former bodyguard of Shamil Basayev, also called Khan
 * Adam Kushtov - 17-year-old Ingush who fled the 1992 ethnic cleansing in North Ossetia to Ingushetia
 * Abdul-Azim Labazanov - 31-year-old Chechen, born in Kazakhstan, initially fought on the federal side in the First Chechen War
 * Arsen Merzhoyev - 25-year-old Chechen native of Engenoi
 * Mairbek Shainekkhanov (also spelled Mayrbek Shaybekhanov) - arrested shortly before the school attack
 * Buran Tetradze - 31-year-old Georgian, native of Rustavi in Georgia, disputed by security minister
 * Issa Torshkhoev - 26-year-old Ingush native of Malgobek where he was unable to find work - five of his friends were killed in March 2004 after his house was raided by Russian police. Had a prior conviction for robbery.
 * Musa Tsechoyev - 35-year-old Ingush native of Sagopshi, owned the GAZ-66 that drove the hostage-takers to the school, suspected.
 * Bei-Alla Tsechoyev - 31-year-old brother of above, also spelled Bay or Ala. Had a prior conviction for possessing illegal firearms. Body identified in November 2004.
 * Osman Larussi, a British Algerian, who had already been reported killed earlier.
 * Yacine Benalia, who had already been reported killed earlier.
 * Slav nicknamed only Fantomas - thought to have also been a bodyguard to Shamil Basayev, his body was identified by Nurpashi as "a gorilla-like bald-headed man, dressed in a vest and black uniform trousers".
 * a Negroid
 * a Russian-Korean

On September 12th 2005 however, the lead prosecutor against Kulayev announced that only 22 of the 32 bodies had been identified, lending more confusion to which identities are confirmed.

28-year-old Akhmed Merzhoyev and 16-year-old Marina Korigova of Sagopshi were both arrested by Russian authorities in November 2004, Merzhoyev is charged with providing food and equipment to the hostage-takers, and Korigova with having possession of a phone that Tsechoyev had phoned multiple times - Korigova was released when her defence attorney Sharip Tepsoyev showed that she was given the phone by an acquaintance after the crisis.

Five unnamed 'suspects' were killed around the same time, though their names are unknown

Demands
The hostage-takers in Beslan were reported to have made the following demands:

 * Withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya.
 * Presence of the following people in the school:
 * Aleksander Dzasokhov, president of North Ossetia,
 * Murat Ziazikov, president of Ingushetia,
 * Ruslan Aushev, former president of Ingushetia,
 * Leonid Roshal, a renowned pediatrician.

Investigations
ITAR-TASS reported a territorial law enforcement source told them that militants disguised as repairmen had concealed weapons and explosives in the school in July 2004 after visiting three schools in Beslan, but this version was later refuted.

The suspected hostage-taker Nur-Pashi Kulayev, 24, born in Chechnya, was captured and was identified by former hostages. The state-controlled Channel One showed fragments of his interrogation. Kulayev said the group was led by a Chechnya-born militant nicknamed "Polkovnik" (Colonel) and by Khodov, 28, who was a suspect in the May 15, 2004, Moscow-Vladikavkaz train bombing.

According to Kulayev, Polkovnik shot a militant and detonated two female suicide bombers because they objected to capturing children in the midst of the siege.

Kulayev recognized the body of a short man with a barrel-like torso, a fiery red beard and a freckled face as Polkovnik. The official investigators identified Polkovnik as Ruslan Tagirovich Khochubarov born in the village of Galashki of the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Republic in 1972.

The official version of the Polkovnik's identity was refuted in the message attributed to Basayev. According to the message, Polkovnik was a colonel of the Ichkeria forces Orstkhoyev. The message suggested that the Kulayev's testimony could be forced by his interrogators.

The authorities linked the third body to Magomet Yevloyev nicknamed Magas. Magas was an Ingush from the Chechen capital Grozny who, together with the notorious Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, prepared an attack on Ingushetia on June 22, 2004, in which 98 people were killed.

Kulayev recognized the body of a bald-headed man dressed in a vest and black uniform trousers as belonging to a militant nicknamed Fantomas.

Nur-Pashi Kulayev is represented by Umar Sikoyev.

At the press conference with foreign journalists Vladimir Putin rejected the prospect of an open public inquiry (The Guardian, September 7, 2004) but cautiously agreed with an idea of investigation (that is, a parliamentary commission) by the Duma. He warned though that the latter might turn into a "political show".

On November 27, 2004, the Interfax news agency reported Alexander Torhsin, head of the parliamentary commission, as saying that there was evidence of involvement by a foreign intelligence agency. He declined to say which, but said "when we gather enough convincing evidence, we won't hide it".

On January 28, 2005 the parliamentary commission revealed their investigation found that Russian and Beslan government officials did not do all there best to prevent the attack.

Russian authorities claimed that the hostage-takers had "listened to German hard rock group Rammstein on personal stereos during the siege to keep themselves edgy and fired up."

On December 26, 2005 Russian prosecutors investigating the siege on the school claimed that authorities had made no mistakes. Family members of the victims of the attacks have claimed the security forces of incompetence, and have demanded that authorities be held accountable.

Criminal trial
On May 17, 2005, Nur-Pashi Kulayev, the sole survivor of the suspected hostage-takers, was put on trial in Vladikavkaz. He was charged with terrorism, murder and hostage-taking, and plead guilty to seven of the accusations. Albert Pliyev was appointed as his lawyer. In May 2006, he was found to have committed an act of terrorism.

Domestic repercussions
Many agreed the handling of the siege could have repercussions on Vladimir Putin's administration. Despite earlier promises to peacefully resolve the crisis, Russian special forces resorted to armed force, failed to keep the battleground secure from entry by civilians or exit by the militants, and provided inconsistent reports of the situation to the media.

Putin has since acknowledged that widespread graft and corruption hampered efforts to reform the intelligence agencies and prevent terrorist attacks such as the siege at Beslan.

Two reporters known as openly critical to the government could not get to Beslan. Andrey Babitsky, a journalist with the Russian service of Radio Free Europe — Radio Liberty, was indicted of mischief after an alleged conflict with security guards in the Moscow Vnukovo Airport and sentenced to a five-day arrest (see external links). The Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya fell into a coma in the airplane bound to Rostov-On-Don and had her health seriously damaged. There are concerns that both incidents were provoked by the Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti. Pro-government allies point out that RFE/RL is a US propaganda tool funded initially by CIA. They link Babitsky to Chechen militants and find Politkovskaya's mistake in being Chechen-friendly.

According to a poll by Levada-Center conducted a week after Beslan crisis, 83% of polled Russians believe that the government has been hiding at least a part of the truth about Beslan events from them.

Regional medical workers were stripped of their mobile phones and forbidden to leave local hospitals at the end of their shifts, in what is suspected to be a move to suppress leaks of casualty figures and related information.

North Ossetian Interior Minister Kazbek Dzantiev resigned shortly after the crisis. At the same time, Vladimir Putin fired the head of the republic's Federal Security Service (FSB) branch, Valery Andreyev.

The Committee of Beslan Mothers also called for Putin to dismiss the North Ossetian president Alexander Dzasokhov. Dzasokhov resigned in May 2005, claiming that he has decided "to give way to a younger generation".

Raf Shakirov, chief editor of the Izvestia newspaper, was forced to resign after criticism by the major shareholders of both style and content of the Saturday, September 4, 2004, issue. In contrast to the less emotional coverage by other Russian newspapers, Izvestia had featured large pictures of dead or injured hostages; it also expressed doubts about the government's version of events (listen to CBC's The Current).

Increased security measures have been introduced in Russian cities. More than 10,000 people without proper documents have been detained by Moscow police. At least one incident of police violence has been recorded. Magomet Tolboev, an aide to Duma deputy from Dagestan, was beaten on a street in Moscow by two policemen because of his Chechen-sounding name.

Russian president Vladimir Putin had proposed changes to the political system. According to his plan, governors of Russia's oblasts, which were directly elected under the current system, are now appointed by the president. The election system for Russian Duma has also been changed. The reform plans drew criticism from the United States and European countries, as well as from Russia's liberals. Some critics have alleged that Putin is trying to increase his personal power, using the Beslan crisis as an excuse.

At the same time Putin suggested to create the Public Chamber that would control state bureaucracy, law enforcement and task force bodies.

Russian public appears to be generally supportive of increased security measures. Levada-Center poll found 58% of Russians supporting stricter anti-terrorism laws and death penalty for terrorism. 33% would support banning all Chechens from entering Russian cities.

A year later, it was reported that an unknown number of survivors may have died as a result of a government-ordered vaccination called Nalaxon meant to counter the effects of Fentanyl-based poisons.

Charity efforts

Countries and charities around the world donated to funds set up to assist the families and children that were involved in the hostage-taking. As of the end of 2004 the International Foundation For Terror Act Victims had raised over $1.1 million with a goal of $10 million.

The Beslan town council, itself having organised a charity fund, announced that it would donate $36,000 to aid the victims of the December 26, 2004, Indian Ocean Earthquake. The council stated that "The whole world reacted to our tragedy, so we cannot remain indifferent either".

In January 2005, an international group representing the organization "Children As the Peacemakers" travelled to Moscow and Beslan on a Peace Mission. The group consisted of 9 Americans, 2 Canadians and 1 Japanese in addition to guides and translators. There were four children in the delegation. The mission was to create a new section of the 'Banner of Hope' dedicated to the victims.

During Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov's visit to China in November of 2005, the Chinese Health Ministry announced that they were sending doctors to Beslan, and offered free medical care to any of the victims who still needed treatment.

Main article: Beslan charity efforts.

Films

 * Beslan (2009). Feature film produced by Firefly Films. Producer: Matthew Hobbs. Currently in development.
 * Children of Beslan (2005). Produced and directed by Ewa Ewart and Leslie Woodhead.  HBO Documentary Films and BBC co-production.
 * Three Days in September (2006). Directed by Joe Halderman, narrated by Julia Roberts. Full Credits


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Σέλευκος

Etymology
Probably from Aeolian [with -ᾱ-!], from regular Attic δι⁽ά⁾-λευκός [with -ῐ-, -ᾰ-]

Proper noun

 * : Seleucus

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Introduction to Paleoanthropology/Acheulean Technology

Homo ergaster/erectus, the author of the Acheulean industry, enjoyed impressive longevity as a species and great geographic spread. We will review several cultural innovations and behavioral changes that might have contributed to the success of H. ergaster/erectus:
 * stone-knapping advances that resulted in Acheulean bifacial tools;
 * the beginnings of shelter construction;
 * the control and use of fire;
 * increased dependence on hunting.

The Acheulean industrial complex
(1.7 million - 200,000 years ago)

Stone tools
By the time Homo ergaster/erectus appeared, Oldowan choppers and flake tools had been in use for 800,000 years. For another 100,000 to 400,000 years, Oldowan tools continued to be the top-of-the-line implements for early Homo ergaster/erectus. Between 1.7 and 1.4 million years ago, Africa witnessed a significant advance in stone tool technology: the development of the Acheulean industry. The Acheulean tool kit included:
 * picks;
 * cleavers;
 * an assortment of Oldowan-type choppers and flakes, suggesting that the more primitive implements continued to serve important functions;
 * mainly characterized by bifacially flaked tools, called bifaces.

A biface reveals a cutting edge that has been flaked carefully on both sides to make it straighter and sharper than the primitive Oldowan chopper. The purpose of the two-sided, or bifacial, method was to change the shape of the core from essentially round to flattish, for only with a flat stone can one get a decent cutting edge.

One technological improvement that permitted the more controlled working required to shape an Acheulean handax was the gradual implementation, during the Acheulean period, of different kinds of hammers. In earlier times, the toolmaker knocked flakes from the core with another piece of stone. The hard shock of rock on rock tended to leave deep, irregular scars and wavy cutting edges.

But a wood or bone hammer, being softer, gave its user much greater control over flaking. Such implements left shallower, cleaner scars and produced sharper and straighter cutting edges.
 * With the Acheulean Industry, the use of stone (hard hammer) was pretty much restricted to the preliminary rough shaping of a handax, and all the fine work around the edges was done with wood and bone.

Acheulean handaxes and cleavers are generally interpreted as being implements for processing animal carcasses. Even though cleavers could have been used to chop and shape wood, their wear patterns are more suggestive of use on soft material, such as hides and meat. Acheulean tools represent an adaptation for habitual and systematic butchery, and especially the dismembering of large animal carcasses, as Homo ergaster/erectus experienced a strong dietary shift toward more meat consumption.

Acheulean tools originated in Africa between 1.7 and 1.4 million years ago. They were then produced continuously throughout Homo ergaster/erectus'  long African residency and beyond, finally disappearing about 200,000 years ago.

Generally, Acheulean tools from sites clearly older than 400,000 to 500,000 years ago are attributed to Homo ergaster/erectus, even in the absence of confirming fossils. At several important Late Acheulean sites, however, the toolmakers' species identity remains ambiguous because the sites lack hominid fossils and they date to a period when Homo erectus and archaic Homo sapiens (e.g., Homo heidelbergensis) overlapped in time.

Other raw materials
Stone artifacts dominate the Paleolithic record because of their durability, but early people surely used other raw materials, including bone and more perishable substances like wood, reeds, and skin.

A few sites, mainly European, have produced wooden artifacts, which date usually between roughly 600,000 and 300,000 years ago:
 * Ex. At the site of Schöningen, Germany, several wooden throwing spears, over 2 m long. They arguably present the oldest, most compelling case for early human hunting.

Diffusion of Technology
Wide variability in stone tools present with H. erectus. In Eastern Asia, H. erectus specimens are associated not with Acheulean tools, but instead with Oldowan tools, which were retained until 200,000 to 300,000 years ago.

This pattern was first pointed out by Hallam Movius in 1948. The line dividing the Old World into Acheulean and non-Acheulean regions became known as the Movius line. Handax cultures flourished to the west and south of the line, but in the east, only choppers and flake tools were found.

Why were there no Acheulean handax cultures in the Eastern provinces of Asia?
 * history of research;
 * other explanations:
 * quality of raw materials (fine-grained rocks rare)
 * different functional requirements (related to environment and food procurement)
 * "bamboo culture": bamboo tools used in place of stone implements to perform tasks;
 * Early dates in Java and Dmanisi explain situation
 * Acheulean developed in Africa from the preceding Oldowan Tradition only after 1.8 Myrs ago, but if people moved into eastern Asia at 1.8 million years ago or before, they would have arrived without Acheulean tools.

In sum, while the Acheulean tradition, with its handaxes and cleavers, was an important lithic advance by Homo ergaster over older technologies, it constituted only one of several adaptive patterns used by the species. Clever and behaviorally flexible, H. ergaster was capable of adjusting its material culture to local resources and functional requirements.

Subsistence patterns and diet
Early discoveries of Homo ergaster/erectus fossils in association with stone tools and animal bones lent themselves to the interpretation of hunting and gathering way of life. Nevertheless this interpretation is not accepted by all scholars and various models have been offered to make sense of the evidence.

First Scenario: Scavenging
Recently, several of the original studies describing Homo ergaster/erectus as a hunter-gatherer have come under intense criticism. Re-examination of the material at some of the sites convinced some scholars (L. Binford) that faunal assemblages were primarily the result of animal activity rather than hunting and gathering.

Animal bones showed cut marks from stone tools that overlay gnaw marks by carnivores, suggesting that Homo ergaster/erectus was not above scavenging parts of a carnivore kill.

According to these scholars, at most sites, the evidence for scavenging by hominids is much more convincing than is that for actual hunting.

Which scenario to choose?
The key point here is not that Homo ergaster/erectus were the first hominid hunters, but that they depended on meat for a much larger portion of their diet than had any previous hominid species.

Occasional hunting is seen among nonhuman primates and cannot be denied to australopithecines (see A. garhi). But apparently for Homo ergaster/erectus hunting took an unprecedented importance, and in doing so it must have played a major role in shaping both material culture and society.

Shelter and fire
For years, scientists have searched for evidence that Homo ergaster/erectus had gained additional control over its environment through the construction of shelters, and the control and use of fire. The evidence is sparse and difficult to interpret.

Shelter
Seemingly patterned arrangements or concentrations of large rocks at sites in Europe and Africa may mark the foundations of huts or windbreaks, but in each case the responsible agent could equally well be stream flow, or any other natural process.

Therefore there appears to be no convincing evidence that Homo ergaster/erectus regularly constructed huts, windbreaks, or any other sort of shelter during the bulk of its long period of existence. Shelter construction apparently developed late in the species' life span, if at all, and therefore cannot be used as an explanation of H. ergaster's capacity for geographic expansion.

Fire
Proving the evidence of fire by Homo ergaster/erectus is almost equally problematic. Some researchers have suggested that the oldest evidence for fire use comes from some Kenyan sites dated about 1.4 to 1.6 million years ago. Other scholars are not sure. The problem is that the baked earth found at these sites could have been produced as easily by natural fires as by fires started - or at least controlled - by H. ergaster/erectus.

Better evidence of fire use comes from sites that date near the end of Homo erectus'  existence as a species. Unfortunately, the identity of the responsible hominids (either Homo erectus or archaic Homo sapiens) is unclear.

The evidence at present suggests that fire was not a key to either the geographic spread or the longevity of these early humans.

Out-of-Africa 1: Behavioral aspects
Researchers proposed originally that it was not until the advent of handaxes and other symmetrically shaped, standardized stone tools that H. erectus could penetrate the northern latitudes. Exactly what, if anything, these implements could accomplish that the simple Oldowan flakes, choppers and scrapers that preceded them could not is unknown, although perhaps they conferred a better means of butchering.

But the Dmanisi finds of primitive hominids and Oldowan-like industries raise once again the question of what prompted our ancestors to leave their natal land.

Yet, there is one major problem with scenarios involving departure dates earlier than about 1.7-1.4 million years ago, and that is simply that they involve geographic spread before the cultural developments (Acheulean industry, meat eating, fire, shelter) that are supposed to have made it possible.

A shift toward meat eating might explain how humans managed to survive outside of Africa, but what prompted them to push into new territories remains unknown at this time.

Perhaps they were following herds of animal north. Or maybe it was as simple and familiar as a need to know what lay beyond that hill or river or tall savanna grass. Also an early migration could explain technological differences between western and eastern Homo erectus populations.

The link between butchering tools and moves into northern latitudes is the skinning and preparation of hides and furs, for reworking 1. into portable shelters, and 2. into clothing. more skilful skinning meant that skins would be better preserved, while fire would lead to meat preservation (smoking) by the simple need to hang cuts of butchered meat high up out of reach of any scavenging animals within smoke filled caves or other dwellings. Having smoked meat then allowed deeper incursions into otherwise hostile terrain, or a long-term food supply available in harsh winters. With readily available and storable energy resources, and protective clothing, they could push out into harsh northern latitudes with comparative ease.

Summary
Overall, the evidence suggests that Homo ergaster was the first hominid species to resemble historic hunter-gatherers not only in a fully terrestrial lifestyle, but also in a social organization that featured economic cooperation between males and females and perhaps between semi-permanent male-female units.


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1986–87 Paris Saint-Germain F.C. season

The 1986–87 season was Paris Saint-Germain's 17th season in existence. PSG played their home league games at the Parc des Princes in Paris, registering an average attendance of 20,312 spectators per match. The club was presided by Francis Borelli and the team was coached by Gérard Houllier. Jean-Marc Pilorget was the team captain.

Summary
The follow-up to the league title was not as glorious though. Key players Luis Fernandez, Jean-Claude Lemoult and Thierry Morin departed ahead of 1986–87 and PSG tried to replace them with more gunpowder up front. Gérard Houllier brought in forwards Vahid Halilhodžić, Daniel Xuereb and Jules Bocandé, all of whom joined Dominique Rocheteau in an extremely attack-minded yet unbalanced squad. The end result was a 7th-place finish in the league, an early exit from the French Cup and a disappointing first European Cup appearance, getting knocked out by Czech minnows Vítkovice in the first round.

Players

 * As of the 1986–87 season.

Transfers

 * As of the 1986–87 season.

Kits
French radio RTL and French premium television channel Canal+ were the shirt sponsors. German sportswear brand Adidas was the kit manufacturer.

Statistics

 * As of the 1986–87 season.

Appearances and goals
!colspan="16" style="background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center"|Goalkeepers

!colspan="16" style="background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center"|Defenders

!colspan="16" style="background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center"|Midfielders

!colspan="16" style="background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center"|Forwards

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Feeling So Blue

"Feeling So Blue" is a song by German musical group Michael Mind Project headed by German music producer and DJ Michael Mind. The single features vocals from American singer Dante Thomas. It was released on 15 June 2012 becoming a hit in France, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

title: Feeling So Blue


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Introduction to Philosophy/Logic/Building More Complicated Formulas

Introduction to Philosophy > Logic > Building More Complicated Formulas

 * 'I need a hammer and nails or a screwdriver and screws.'

Though we know what is meant by the above statement, it is technically ambiguous - imagine saying it to a not very bright apprentice. In this case no harm would be done and the apprentice might fetch an unnecessary tool. One could think of other situations where such ambiguity could be lethal.

In propositional calculus we use brackets to prevent any ambiguity:

 * 'I need (a hammer and nails) or (a screwdriver and screws).'

This is just like the usual mathematical use of brackets: you evaluate the contents first.

We don't use brackets around ¬ symbols -- it binds tightly onto whatever is following it.


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VJ-U

Introduction
VJ-U: An educational project to design curricula for the study and practice of visual performance, i.e., VJ-ing. Note: not the kind of VJ on MTV. ;-)

Definitions
VJ= Video Jockey. Not the MTV hosts, rather an artist who performs with -- whose medium is -- video. Aspects of the Art of the VJ include:
 * Live, realtime moviemaking
 * Über Auteur DIY
 * Musical principles applied to cinema
 * site and event specific screen installations
 * Movies played for and made in a dialog with an audience

Core Skills

 * Media Literacy (turning consumers into producers)
 * reappropriation of media
 * critical thinking
 * systems thinking (structural analysis of media production)
 * Composition
 * within a frame
 * in time and space
 * Videography
 * Mixing/Realtime Montage & Compositing
 * Collaboration
 * with musicians
 * with theatrical performers/dancers
 * with other artists
 * Listening/Seeing
 * Technical Skills

Upcoming classes

 * Fall 2007 - VJ-U XStudio at Urban Assembly School of Music and Art (high school), Brooklyn, NY. Instructor: Dan Winckler.

Work by VJ-U students and teachers

 * VJ-U playlist on YouTube - see especially the rough cut of the VJ-U program for NYC public television
 * Ghost Cop
 * videos by Daniel Mauro
 * live visuals by Dan Winckler
 * Benton-C Bainbridge's videography
 * VJ-U Eyebeam students

Syllabi

 * VJ-U undergraduate survey course: a survey-style class for students at the undergraduate level.
 * VJ-U High School class, an introductory course for students in grades 9 – 12.

Lessons
Nutshell descriptions of VJ-U classes

Viral Video
University of Rochester Students responded to news of 'end user' produced Superbowl Ads by making 4 'viral videos' in one hour and posting them to youtube.

Camera Exercises

 * Exquisite Corpse Videos
 * 2 person shooter
 * Cubist Portraiture
 * Obstacle Course/Paparrazzi
 * 1-shot Words
 * Repetition Exercise (from Meisner)

Light

 * Light tagging: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lichtfaktor/589296552/

Past classes

 * Spring 2007 - VJ-U (university-level) at Eyebeam Atelier, Manhattan, NY. Instructor: Benton-C Bainbridge.
 * Spring 2007 - VJ-U XStudio at Urban Assembly School of Music and Art (high school), Brooklyn, NY. Instructor: Dan Winckler.
 * Spring 2006 - VJ-U (public school level) at Eyebeam Atelier, Manhattan, NY. Instructor: Benton-C Bainbridge.
 * Fall 2006 - VJ-U XStudio at UAMA. Instructor: Benton-C Bainbridge.

Former students
Eyebeam VJ-U, Spring 2007:

 * Anne - interning at Creative Arts Workshops for kids (CAW)
 * Abigail - interning at small made for TV production co, taken a couple video production classes
 * Nick - Animation Collective. Studio Arts major
 * Gail - Emerging Pictures; photography, digital artwork - Photoshop, InDesign
 * Natalie - Richard Corman (photog) ; photography, digital art, design
 * Kali - Paul Taylor Dance Co; done photog, digital art, broad interest
 * Olivia - Cultural Affairs Dept (gov); historical and modern contemporary art
 * David - United for Opportunity Music/Invasion Group; physics, into music
 * Ben - Engel Entertainments - film/media studies major; into improv,
 * Amy - Children's Museum of the Arts - studio arts, psycho ; into art education ; done photog, drawing
 * Luke - 4th Row Films (docu, tv shows, stock footage for VJs) ; film studies ; into film, hasn't done filmstock
 * Liz - Tribeca Films ; film prod major ; done 16mm, digital
 * Daniel - VH1 Classic ; into performance art, installations ;

Useful Info
helpful hints and instructions

Preparing media for VJ software
For most VJ applications running on moderately powerful computers, it's best to compress QuickTime Movies in Photo JPEG at 320x240 or 640x480. Quoting from Vidvox:

"PhotoJPEG is the most common video codec used by VJs. Due to it's low data rates and fast decompression, PhotoJPEG is ideal for video scratching and playback of multiple video files, particularly on laptop hard drives which tend to be slower than hard drives in desktop computers. However, PhotoJPEG is a lossy codec and even when using a high quality setting (90% or above) the image quality is clearly worse than DV or a well-made DVD."

follow these steps for exporting QT movies from Quicktime Pro, etc.:
 * click on the movie to select it
 * select File: Export from the pull down menu (or Apple + E)
 * keep the .mov file name extension
 * choose Movie to QuickTime Movie
 * click Options
 * Select Video checkbox
 * click Settings
 * for Compression Type select Photo - JPEG
 * for frame rate use Current
 * for Keyframes choose Automatic
 * for Depth choose Color or Grayscale when your movie is Black and White
 * for Quality it's worth experimenting. Most common would be High.
 * If you choose, click Options and make sure 'Optimize for streaming' is deselected
 * click OK

 * for Size select 320x240 QVGA or 640x480 VGA. (Preserve Aspect Ratio is important for 16x9 movies, make test movies and play them in your VJ app to determine what option will work best for you). select Deinterlace
 * click OK

 * If your movie has sound then select Audio
 * click Settings
 * select Linear PCM
 * choose Mono if your movie isn't Stereo
 * default sample rate is 48KHz but choose a lower sample rate if you don't have hi-fi sound
 * use Quality: Normal, 16 bit and Little Endian
 * click OK

 * deselect Prepare for Internet Streaming

 * click OK to begin exporting!

Converting troublesome Windows Media files
Please see this how-to for converting Windows Media audio/video files to Quicktime or MPEG-4 on the VideoLAN Wiki.

Copying DVDs
If you are copying a DVD-ROM or non copy-protected DVD-Video on an Apple computer, you can use the Disk Utility program that comes with all Macs.

 * Put the disc you want to copy into the drive.
 * Select it from the list on the left and click on "New Image".
 * A "Save As" menu should pop up.
 * Save the new disc image with an appropriate name. (Benton suggests limiting this name to eight characters in all CAPS and with no special characters. ie: NMROCZKA.)
 * Under the "Image Format" drop down menu select "DVD/CD master".
 * Click SAVE. The disc should begin copying.
 * When it is completed the new disc image should appear in the left hand column with a ".cdr" extension. Select it.
 * Eject the master disc.
 * Put a blank DVD-R into your drive.
 * Click the BURN icon.
 * Press Enter or click BURN.

Ripping DVDs

 * If you wish to extract video from a non copy-protected DVD on an Apple computer, you can use MPEG Streamclip or Cinematize. (instructions to come)

 * If you wish to extract video from a copy-protected DVD on an Apple computer, you can use a free application called Mac The Ripper. You can download this application at www.mactheripper.org/  Mac The Ripper will extract MPEG2 files from the DVD which you will then need to convert to Quicktime movies in DVD2DV or ffmpegX.

 * You can rip DVDs in one go with Handbrake. It uses xViD AVIs (very fast and small), H.264 (slower but looks great and small filesize) or Ogg Vorbis (don't know much about this one).

Ripping the .VOB files in Mac The Ripper:

 * Put the disc you want to extract video from into the drive.
 * Launch Mac The Ripper.
 * The name of the disc you plan to extract video from should appear in a drop down menu below the "Disc" and "Mode" buttons.
 * The size of all video files on the disc will appear in the top-center of the viewer window.
 * The mode of disc extraction will appear below the size.
 * To change the mode click on the "Mode" button. A drop down menu will appear with the types of disc extraction."O
 * Choose the extraction mode that best suits your needs.
 * Click back on the "Disc" button.
 * Make sure the "De-Macrovision" check box is checked. This will eliminate problems during playback.
 * Click the "Go!" button to begin the extraction process.
 * A "Open As" window will appear.
 * I suggest saving your video extraction to the hard drive.
 * Click on the HD image in the left hand menu.
 * Create a new folder to hold your extraction by clicking on the "New Folder" button on the bottom left hand corner of the "Open As" window.
 * Name Your New Folder.
 * Make sure your new folder is selected and click the "Open" button.
 * The extraction will begin.
 * When the extraction is complete a window will pop up explaining that the extraction is complete via "Bomberman". The pop up will also tell you how long the extraction took to complete and that copying DVDs that you do not own is a crime.  Click close.

Converting .VOB files to Quicktime movies in ffmpegX:

 * Open the ffmpegX and the folder with your files
 * Click on File that you want to transfer into DV and drag it into the window labeled from
 * Go to the Window that is labeled To and click the down arrow
 * The arrow will drop a menu
 * Select DV from the menu
 * Click the encode button in the bottom right
 * A download window will appear and downloading has begun
 * It will Click when it has finished and will save in the same area where it was saved before

Uploading to YouTube.com

 * Here is a link to YouTube's Help Center: http://www.google.com/support/youtube/
 * Here is a link to YouTube's recommended movie compression settings: http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=55745&topic=10526

VJ-U calendar
New York City events of interest to VJ-U http://www.google.com/calendar/render?cid=eauh6596bbkba3fu8atms0gl4k%40group.calendar.google.com

visual tools

 * Max/MSP and Jitter (30 day fully functional free trial)
 * PureData - a free and open source alternative to Max/MSP
 * Processing - free and open source Java library you can, among many other things, build a VJ performance app with
 * VDMX (commercial app)
 * Modul8 (Mac-only commercial)
 * Isadora (commercial)
 * ImX (free Mac OSX only)
 * Milkymist (hardware platform for interactive performances)

places to go in NYC to learn, see and practice live visuals

 * Share - free and open audio/visual jams every Sunday in the East Village
 * EyeWash biweekly audio/visual performances
 * Integrated Digital Media Institute - free and open hacklabs and patching circles at Polytechnic University in downtown Brooklyn
 * Dorkbot monthly presentations of cool things done with electricity

Places to post your work online

 * Internet Archive - FREE bandwidth and hosting FOREVER for your creative works.

VJ related pages, sites and blogs

 * Data Is Nature generative art, vj'ing, and more
 * abstrakt.vade.info vj'ing and mo'
 * LeCollagiste VJ Weblog on the culture of the VJING, video information and high tech VJ
 * VJ Kung Fu Online VJ Magazine - Tutorials and More
 * Eyebeam's blog
 * VJ Central - decent hardware and software reviews. do not take the VJs on these fora too seriously  ;)
 * AudioVisualizers - has info on old video synths
 * skynoise - Jean Poole's collection of audiovisual links.
 * Create Digital Motion - Regularly updated live visual news.
 * wikipedia VJ entry - as of this writing needs some work!
 * - strictly speaking not a vj but 'data visualiser' in both sound and images, very impressive!

veejayu youtube playlists

 * Hacking TV - Videos of media hactivism
 * ArtNY Viral Videos - the results of a 1 hour VJ-U competition
 * sampleable - get permission from the makers if not public domain or Creative Commons!
 * teach'a - videos by VJ-U teachers
 * vid synths - movies of, or made with video synthesizers
 * Viral - Viral videos. Why are they so popular?
 * VJ videos - Movies by VJs
 * VJ-U videos - Movies made in VJ-U

defeat censorware tools
Use the following tips and resources to get around the New York State Dept of Education and other censors to get to YouTube and other sites we need to see:
 * one quick way: use Google's translation tool as a lightweight proxy.
 * check Boingboing's big list of ways to route around censorship: http://www.boingboing.net/censorroute.html

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Felice Salis

Felice Salis (8 July 1938 – 2 December 2021) was an Italian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Salis died on 2 December 2021, at the age of 83.

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Talk:Birdengine

Notability
I'm not sure about the notability of Birdengine. I've a little bit of time reading up on him and I'm not entirely convinced that he reaches the requirements of notability on Wikipedia. It's interesting that these days it's relatively easy to get music released by very small record labels or indeed self-published. I'm not making any comment about the quality of the music, it's more about the notability. I've added the notability template to see what other editors think. Seaweed (talk) 20:05, 10 December 2015 (UTC)

 * The only thing that stopped me adding a 'notability' template were the couple of features in his local newspaper. But I agree, his notability is very borderline. Sionk (talk) 01:51, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

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1940 Kansas Jayhawks football team

The 1940 Kansas Jayhawks football team represented the University of Kansas in the Big Six Conference during the 1940 college football season. In their second season under head coach Gwinn Henry, the Jayhawks compiled a 2–7 record (0–5 against conference opponents), finished in last place in the conference, and were outscored by opponents by a combined total of 183 to 75.

The team's statistical leaders included Ed Hall with 294 rushing yards, 251 passing yards, and 27 points scored (four touchdowns and three extra points), and Don Pollom with 158 receiving yards. Don Pierce was the team captain.

Kansas was ranked at No. 153 (out of 697 college football teams) in the final rankings under the Litkenhous Difference by Score system for 1940.

The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence, Kansas.

title: 1940 Kansas Jayhawks football team