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Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Yasser Latif Hamdani (2nd nomination)

User:TopGun, User:Mar4d: Would appreciate your comments on this deletion nomination. --Saqib (talk) 07:39, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

Travesty
Just want to register my dissent that this was a travesty.

— iFaqeer (talk to or email me) 16:37, 4 May 2015 (UTC)


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Image size concerns
The low quality of the image means that reduction in size substantially reduces recognition by viewers as well as limiting the display resolutions at which it can be recognized, a particular issue to those with poor visual acuity. At thumbnail resolution, the resolution displayed inline to articles and recommended for reduction, no individuals or words are unrecognizable. At its full resolution individuals and words are recognizable, fully capturing a single demonstrative moment, but at a low quality which does not interfere with commercial usage. Darker Dreams (talk) 20:08, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
 * The file information page allows you to view 229,760 pixels, yet only 27,060 (about 12%) are used in the articles. What purpose do the additional 88% of the pixels serve? The purpose is to display the file in articles, not to display the file on the file information page. --Stefan2 (talk) 17:46, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
 * At what resolution are you getting the 27,060 count? Regardless, there will always be some overage, and it serves the same as any other blue link; more information if needed. The purpose may be to view the files in articles but unlike a print document a single individual page is not the sole, or even recommended, method of getting information. If minimum required information were the rule Wikipedia wouldn't encourage a half dozen scales of image to be produced for free images. Granting that this is not a free image, the additional 88% does not bring the quality of the image up to the level of competing with any commercial use nor do anything more than make the various aspects of the image more recognizable. Darker Dreams (talk) 05:24, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

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Big-eyed cardinalfish

The big-eyed cardinalfish or bigeye cardinalfish (Epigonus lenimen) is a species of deepwater cardinalfish found in the southern Indian Ocean and southwestern Pacific Ocean from south of Madagascar to New Zealand. This fish occurs at depths from 530 to 820 m. This species can reach 21 cm in total length.

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Talk:Guitar/Alternate Tunings

Copy Museweb?
Maybe it's perfectly okay to copy Alternate Tuning Guide for Contemporary Folk Music and place it under the GFDL? Well, I'm gonna ask the author now... Akagu 17:49, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Nice to see other people starting to work on this book. :) I'd prefer not to let editing get out of hand because I'm still trying to stabilize the layout and structure of the book...but I don't mind, and of course I have no control over it even if I did. ;)

I wouldn't just copy a source here...I think something like that might belong more in Wikipedia, but I'm not sure. Parts of sources might be a different story.

--Furrykef 18:39, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Fb
I'm trying to find an Fb on my piano that I can tune to... Any ideas? (Idea: Fb=E)

 * You should be tuning to F#, not Fb, for Drop B tuning. Fb is the same a E and E# is the same as F, so if you're tuning to E(Fb), that's actually the 5th of a Drop A tuning(Nile is a good example of this.) So remember, tune to F#, not Fb, that'll set you back a full step on all strings. Now if you tune the 5th string to F and tune other strings to it to the 4th interval, you'll get C Standard tuning(Black Dahlia Murder uses this tuning.) Got any questions about tuning, holla back at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>
Alright, I give up.
I've been trying fruitlessly to insert the table I fabricated into the article, but it seems to want to put the text where I direct it to place it, but shove the table way down below the external links. I'd be grateful if anyone can make the software understand that the two go together. Also, sorry for the inconvenience I've caused; don't kill me, I am only a noob. I'll post the table directly below this message. Thanks.

Tuning Dictionary
For your convenience, here are several tunings in a sortable table. For the sake of this table, the accidentals (sharps and flats) will be represented as sharps only.

Thanks Wirey (discuss • contribs) 05:44, 13 May 2011 (UTC)

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What's causing the image not to be displayed: ? I literally copy and pasted from the article. Hyacinth (discuss • contribs) 05:45, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

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Cryptography

Cryptography (sometimes known as cryptology) is the mathematical and computational study of information security; in particular the study of methods used to transmit information securely between two or more parties, unreadable by unauthorized eavesdroppers. Cryptography finds many applications in the modern world, e.g. protecting online logins, smart card protocols, email privacy, confidential documents, and so on.

Fundamentals
Usually, to protect information from being revealed, a person will attempt to render the information unreadable by anyone without some secret information. This process is called encryption. The original data is usually called the plaintext, while the resulting scrambled data is usually called the ciphertext. The secret information can take the form of a password, a number, a file, etc. and is usually called the key (as it can "unlock" the ciphertext).

Any authorized party should be able to, given a ciphertext and its secret key, reconstruct the original information, in a process known as decryption. This allows several parties to transmit information securely using a shared secret key. There are many different methods to perform encryption, varying widely in simplicity and security. These methods are usually called ciphers.

Much of cryptography is also devoted to the opposing field of cryptanalysis, the act of trying to "break" a cipher so that encrypted information can be retrieved, using only part or none of the secret key, by an adversary. The continuous feedback between cryptographers, who develop ciphers, and cryptoanalysts, who break them, has led to the development of many advanced and secure ciphers used today.

There is also some confusion between codes and ciphers. A code is a symbol, whether it be a letter or a symbol, which stands for a word, not a letter. A cipher is a symbol which stands for a letter.

Classifications
Cryptography can be classified into three areas:
 * Classical - before the 20th century, simple substitution and transposition ciphers played major roles
 * Modern - mechanized and digitized cryptography came into existence in the 20th century
 * Key exchanges - Public Key and Quantum cryptography
 * Diffie-Hellman key exchange and RSA in the last few decades has enabled mass secure transmissions and internet transactions
 * Quantum Cryptography - As quantum computers come into existence, algorithms and protocols are fast being developed for this new platform.

Readings and learning media

 * Cryptography
 * History of cryptography
 * Cryptography

Videos

 * Public key cryptography - Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange

Lessons

 * Substitution Algorithms
 * /Caesar Cipher/
 * Data Encryption Standard
 * /Introduction to Simple Substitution Cypher/
 * /More Simple Substitution Cyphers/
 * /Other Substitution Cyphers/
 * /Rearrangement Cyphers/
 * Cryptoeconomics
 * Blockchain
 * Cryptocurrency
 * /Hardware Encryption/

Additional Study

 * Advanced Encryption Standard
 * Ciphertext-only attack
 * Cramer-Shoup cryptosystem
 * Cryptographic engineering
 * Cryptographic hash functions
 * Cryptographic primitive
 * Cryptographic protocol
 * Cryptosystems
 * Data Encryption Standard
 * Digital Rights Management
 * Digital signature
 * E-mail privacy
 * ElGamal encryption
 * Elliptic curve cryptography
 * Export of cryptography
 * Information theory
 * Message authentication code
 * Pretty Good Privacy
 * Public key infrastructure
 * Quantum cryptography
 * Security engineering
 * SSH
 * Symmetric key algorithm
 * Transport Layer Security
 * Transport layer security
 * Caesar cipher
 * Cryptanalysis
 * Frequency analysis (cryptanalysis)
 * Public-key cryptography
 * Transposition cipher

With video lectures

 * 1) Cryptography I, Dan Boneh, Stanford University, 2014
 * 2) Cryptography II, Dan Boneh, Stanford University, 2014
 * 3) Applied Cryptography, Dave Evans, University of Virginia (self paced course on Udacity)

Without video lectures

 * 1) Modern Cryptology, William Cherowitzo, University of Colorado, Spring 2012.
 * 2) Introduction to Cryptography, Yehuda Lindell, Bar-Ilan University, 2013.
 * 3) Foundations of Cryptography, Yehuda Lindell, Bar-Ilan University, 2014.
 * 4) Intuitive Advanced Cryptography, Nguyen Thoi Minh Quan.

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User:DiamondSeeker05/sandbox

I am Donald Trump. Yes I have a wikipedia account. Well I was just bored at the white house one day so I made one lol. So I am gonna go eat something from my 2 STORY FRIDGE! And then go swim in my pool with 4 waterslides! Then maybe go bowling in my house at my bowling alley. So bye.

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User:Brettperkins/sandbox

Big Wide Room is a musical trio featuring the songs of veteran performing songwriters and California natives Mark Davis, Brett Perkins and David Zink. The trio began in 2003 under the 'edited' moniker, releasing a self titled debut EP in 2011. A name change and full length CD followed with 2012's Big Wide Room 'Infinite Distance' release.

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Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Mathematics/2012 July 7

= July 7 =

Air Conditioner running cost.
I have a room that's 934sq ft (feel free to round up) that I want to cool with a window mounted a/c. If I run it for 8hours a day, and about 30 days a month for let's say 4 months. (June, July, August, September) From some guides I found on the internet, it takes about 18000BTU's to cool it, but I was thinking maybe 2 10000's.  Now I'm not sure what it means, but let's say an average SEER rating, 12. My cost per kiloWatthour is about $.06, or 6 cents. Excluding the up front cost of the unit, how much per summer, or hour, or month, will this 1 18000BTU, or these 2 10000BTU cost?. I've tried to calculate this, but it's worse than I can manage. Feel free to ask for any extra information, I just want a rough estimate, aimed high. Also, my windows are 4ft wide, what would I do to fill the space? Bluefist  talk 23:36, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

 * It would depend a lot on how long you run it, how hot it is outside, and how low you set it. I think your .06 is off as well because they usually double that by the end of the bill. You could take your total bill and divide by your kw used and get a true cost. You could calculate the usage in hours at full power and estimate from there. Look at the sticker for 'wattage'. 1000 watts for each hour running = 1kiloWatthour = $.06 and then use your actual cost which is probably $.12 - $.15.--Canoe1967 (talk) 23:53, 7 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Well I guessed the cost, I can't find the electric bill. I don't have an ac, so I don't know the actual kWh.  From about 95 to 80F, I live in West Michigan, so I don't need it for a long time, but it's always hotter inside than out, even with fans. Like I said, I just want a rough high estimate.   Bluefist  talk  00:33, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

I think your maximum wattage is 1500-1800w on a normal 120 volt breaker and plug there. Most AC units would use that at max output. So it would cost 1.5 to 1.8 x .06 to .15 per hour to run at full bore. This would make it $.09 to $.27 per hour. Those are the extremes for a normal circuit with the above figures. Larger units would need a different plug and circuit with more power. Does this help at all?--Canoe1967 (talk) 01:04, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
 * To fill the space in the window you can just cut a thin piece of plywood to fit and then wrap it in foam or staple foam to it. Cut five when you have the saw out. One will be too big, one will be too small, one will be a spare, and the other two you can sell to the stranger at the gate.--Canoe1967 (talk) 01:18, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Yes both of those answers helped. Do you think that 6 fans running at about 72 watts (120V*.6A) almost all day would equal near that amount?  Because that's what we're doing right now, and I think that A/C is cheaper, or at LEAST cooler, because on 95F weather, fans do nothing.  Bluefist  talk  01:27, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

 * I might have just figured this out, by my math it's $46.66 a month to run 6 fans 24 hours a day, give or take ~$5 for turning some off or maybe it uses more than it says. Bluefist  talk  01:47, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

 * On filling the gaps: I use Styrofoam alone, which works fine (much better than the plastic baffles they provide), and is an excellent insulator, as long as you tape up all the way around. However, if your windows are accessible (ground floor, near fire escape, etc.), this does pose a security issue, since the window lock no longer offers any protection with an A/C unit installed, and Styrofoam is easily knocked out by a robber.  StuRat (talk) 01:51, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

 * On the use of fans: During dry, cool nights, blow hot air out half the windows (upstairs is best, since heat rises) and cool air in the other half.  Keep them on 'til the sun rises, to get is as cool inside as possible.  During the day, aim them directly at people, and close all the windows.  Doing both of these should help, but, when the outside temps are too high or humidity is too high, fan's aren't enough. StuRat (talk) 01:51, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the help, but I don't have an upstairs, or basement. That's basically what we do already, but it got up to 98 this week (thanks heat wave), and usually hotter than outside.  Fans just can't cut it, especially for 3 cats, which I feel so bad for.  Bluefist  talk  02:18, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

 * In that case, point all the fans in on the cool side (East or North, in the evening) and out on the hot side, and leave all doors open. Counter-intuitively, don't open any other windows, and close the windows containing fans as much as possible, to prevent local circulation (cool air blowing in and right back out again). StuRat (talk) 03:34, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

 * They should like my cat does.--Canoe1967 (talk) 02:24, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

 * That's not a real cat, is it ? The nose looks fake. StuRat (talk) 03:29, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Do you mean real as in alive or does dead and stuffed count? I may never tell. Actually that may be vaseline to prevent hairballs that makes her nose so shiny.--Canoe1967 (talk) 19:46, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
 * They all hate the fridge for some reason, only one of them can tolerate being near it even, and that's because we give him ham from it sometimes. Bluefist  talk  02:32, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

 * 0.6 x 72 x 24/7 would cost more than AC. 432 watts only but running far longer. Fans just move air they don't cool it. Most AC will shut down a lot of the time if you don't try to turn your place into a fridge. 74-78F is a comfy high setting that most would be ok with. You may want to look into an Evaporative cooler they may cost a little more up front, but use far less power than AC. They just run a small fan and not a huge AC compressor. You could probably google and make a homemade one. I haven't read the article yet, but ones I know of cost 300-600 and are on wheels so you can move them from room to room. They do need water added more often in heat though.--Canoe1967 (talk) 01:53, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Fans can lower the temperature of inside air, if you use them to blow cooler outside air in (mainly at night). Also, this strategy only requires use of all the fans at night, which is maybe 1/3 of the day, in summer.  And evaporative coolers are mainly useful in dryer climates than Michigan. StuRat (talk) 01:58, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

 * I do agree about timing and windows on fans. Take advantage of cool night air, and then trap it inside. I just read the evaporative coolers article briefly. The one I saw working effectively was in Salmon Arm. I don't know what the humidity is there, but summers can be very hot. It didn't need a window mount either. Was a fan that blew air through really expensive mystery material that looked like thin straw. The straw just did the Capillary action thing from a tank that was filled below. 2-3 tanks per day when really hot, I think.--Canoe1967 (talk) 02:12, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Those will also raise the humidity inside, which is only desirable if you live in an extremely dry climate, like a desert. A good way to benefit from evaporative cooling without the added humidity inside is to hose down the outside of the house during the hottest part of the day, or, better yet, aim a sprinkler at it. StuRat (talk) 03:26, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Now some suggestions just for the cats:

 * 1) If they are long-haired, get them a short haircut. Makes a huge difference.

 * 2) Leave them cool water, maybe with some ice in it to keep it cool.

 * 3) Have a metal plate for them to sleep on, which will conduct heat away from them. They also sell those for cooling laptops.  (A ceramic tub or sink also works, so you might find cats sleeping there.) StuRat (talk) 03:39, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

 * One other suggestion, block windows facing the Sun with Styrofoam (white is best). This limits solar heating. StuRat (talk) 03:47, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Also, you can use a hybrid of the various systems, as I do:

 * A) Fans at night are enough to cool it off all day, when not too hot.

 * B) When a bit hotter, also use fans blowing on yourself (or the cats), to supplement this night cooling.

 * C) When still hotter, or too humid to use fans at night, then I resort to window A/C units. StuRat (talk) 03:57, 8 July 2012 (UTC)

 * My in-laws live near Grosse Pointe, and it costs them about $40/mo to run two A/C units for a similar floor area. I don't know anything about the BTUs or efficiency. I live in Holland, and close enough to Lake Michigan that our air is about 5-10 degrees colder most days, and it costs about $30 to run our central air for about 1300sqft in this weather. We keep the house at 72 and actually crank it down to 68 or so at night - my wife is pregnant and gets uncomfortably hot at night otherwise. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:10, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

 * On a multi-story house, sleeping on a lower floor can keep you cooler in summer, since heat rises. If you only have a single floor, then having a fan blow in the window in the bedroom (with the door open and another window fan blowing out elsewhere) should keep you cool, when it's cool and dry outside.  If not, close the windows, aim a fan directly at your wife with minimal covers, and, if still necessary, turn on the A/C, but hopefully not set as low. StuRat (talk) 17:14, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

 * For long term thermal control, planting trees near the house can make a huge difference, in that they block light in summer, and, at least in the case of evergreens, keep heat from radiating away in winter. StuRat (talk) 17:17, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Mention of the basement being cooler reminds me of another method. If you have a forced air furnace you can run just the fan to bring cool air up from the basement. Some even adjust the intake from upstairs return vents and force it to draw more cool air from the basement. Some wall controls have a setting for fan only and most furnaces have them inside. Many are just a white cylindrical button that you pull or push. I think most furnace fan motors are only 1/4 to 1/2 horsepower. 1 hp = approx 746 watts. That is shaft hp so you need to divide by the effiency to get the input wattage or use volts x amps. 1/2hp = approx 375 watts x .85 eff = .44Kw per hour.--Canoe1967 (talk) 17:17, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

 * You said to divide by efficiency, but that's a multiplication sign in your math. StuRat (talk) 05:59, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

 * That must be the way I was taught math. Efficiency is an inverse coefficient so when you multiply by it you actually have to divide.--Canoe1967 (talk) 07:50, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Weirdness. I'd either write 375/0.85 = 441 or 441×0.85 = 375.  If you try your method on a calculator, it's not going to work. StuRat (talk) 08:10, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

 * I did not read the full discussion. But I remember my neighbour has a very modern Heat pump installed in his house. It warms the house in winter and cools it in summer. And he said it uses almost no energy. I know there are also some available which use no energy at all, with either a heat storage tank burried underground, or a downhole heat exchanger, but I guess they are more expensive because of the drilling needed. So I think should be possible to find some very efficient units which should lower the usage costs massively. --helohe (talk)  22:38, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

 * Heat pumps have their place, but they aren't the magic solution they appear to be:

 * 1) While they might not use any energy to produce heat or "coolth", but just move it from outside to inside, it still takes plenty of energy to pump that heat around.

 * 2) They tend to only work in a certain range of temperatures, meaning you may need a regular A/C and heater, too, which adds to the cost, complexity, etc.

 * 3) As you said, the installation costs are extreme. So much that the total operating cost over the life of the unit may well be more than A/C. StuRat (talk) 23:39, 15 July 2012 (UTC)


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Talk:Dee Hepburn

The Bruce
Have reverted the information as the film exists. http://www.learmedia.ca/product_info.php/products_id/803

Have again reverted the information. Just because it is not listed in imdb does not mean it is not true. Refer to the archived The Independent article at http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19990117/ai_n9653577

 * And just becasue it is listed here does not mean that it is true IMDb cast lists are usually the most accurate thing on there webpage and your first link from learnmedia does not mention her in the cast, however the find articles link states that she was, perhaps, in the cast so The Bruce ref can stay, but there is as yet no backup for the Wolf series so it is removed. Wikipedia requires verifiable sources for entries on its pages. MarnetteD | Talk 23:51, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

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Portal:Biography/News

 * 13 February 2024 – Estonia–Russia relations
 * Prime Minister of Estonia Kaja Kallas is reportedly placed on the Russian Interior Ministry's register of wanted people due to the country's removal of Soviet War Memorials, making Kallas the first known government leader to be added to a wanted list by Russian authorities. (The Guardian)

 * 4 February 2024 – 66th Annual Grammy Awards
 * Taylor Swift wins Album of the Year for Midnights, becoming the first artist to win the award four times. She also announces the release of a new album, The Tortured Poets Department, on April 19. (Variety)

 * 27 January 2024 –
 * Venezuela's Supreme Court ratifies a ban from seeking any political office for 15 years on María Corina Machado, opposition leader backed by the United States. (Le Monde) (The Economist)

 * 24 January 2024 –
 * The Constitutional Court of Thailand acquits former Move Forward Party leader Pita Limjaroenrat for owning shares in the defunct media company iTV, thereby allowing Limjaroenrat to resume serving as a Member of Parliament in the House of Representatives. (AP)

 * 23 January 2024 –
 * North Korea demolishes the Arch of Reunification in Pyongyang after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ruled out peaceful reunification with South Korea. (NDTV)
 * The Senate of the Philippines' committee on women conducts a public hearing regarding the alleged abuses within the Kingdom of Jesus Christ. Three women, two Ukrainian nationals and one Filipino, accuse church leader Apollo Quiboloy of sexually abusing them. (CNN Philippines)

Updated: 6:33, 14 February 2024

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User:MariahBeltran/be bold

My sandbox is a safe space to try editing without the fear of making a big mistake.

Being bold is important on Wikipedia.

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Talk:uſe

Clearly wideſpread uſe
Searching for the scanno “ufe” (and its inflexions) on Google Book Search yields the following number of hits: I seriously doubt that a real verb “to ufe” exists, and even if it does, I doubt far more that the existence of such a verb could explain away even one hundredth (195) of the results yielded by GBS. † ﴾(u):Raifʻhār (t):Doremítzwr﴿ 10:07, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * “ufe” — 13,800
 * “ufed” — 2,478
 * “ufes” — 1,901
 * “ufing” — 1,289

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User:Balloonguy/sandbox

Greetings are very important to know in Japan. It is something even Japanese people don't truly master, and yet it is a huge and important subject. This short lesson will go over the easier and more useful forms of address and greetings. Consider this situation

Situation 1: Meeting someone for the first time
Mr. Tanaka is arranged to meet with Ms. Hayasaka at the airport. Neither party has met the other before. She is waiting for him with a sign that has his name on it.

Japanese
です. : ようこそ、さん. はじめまして. です. : よろしくおいします. : こちらこそ、よろしくおいします.

Japanese (Romanized)

 * Tanaka: Hajimemashite. Tanaka desu.
 * Hayasaka: Youkoso, Tanaka-san. Hajimemashite. Hayasaka desu.
 * Tanaka: Yoroshiku o-negai shimasu.
 * Hayasaka: Kochira koso, yoroshiku o-negai shimasu.

English Translation

 * Tanaka: Pleased to meet you. I'm Mr. Tanaka.
 * Hayasaka: Welcome, Mr. Tanaka. Pleased to meet you. I'm Ms. Hayasaka.
 * Tanaka: I look forward to working with you.
 * Hayasaka: Likewise, I look forward to working with you.

Saying Hello!
Saying hello takes many different forms, depending on the time of day. The Japanese have no one word for hello, they instead have three major greetings based on morning, afternoon, and evening.

 * Good Morning!
 * "おはようございます" "Ohayou-gozaimasu!" or simply "Ohayou!" (it is early)

 * Good Afternoon!
 * "こんにちは" "Konnichiwa!" (this day)

 * Good Evening!
 * "こんばんは" "Konbanwa!" (this night)

Now that wasn't too painful, was it? There's one more thing you should know how to say along these lines, and that's good night, used before someone goes to bed.

 * Good Night
 * "おやすみなさい" "Oyasuminasai" or just "おやすみ" "Oyasumi!" (Take a rest!)

Use "Ohayou" from waking to about 12:00, "Konnichiwa" until dusk, "Konbanwa" throughout the evening, and "Oyasumi" only before bed or sleeping.

Saying Goodbye!
Goodbye is done in two ways. Say "Sayonara" for goodbyes that are more formal or more permanent. A simple informal "bye bye" is fine for friends. Occasionally you will hear friends use "Ja ne," which is tough to translate. Literally, it would probably be more akin to "well, all right then," but it is employed in the same way as we would say bye bye.

Please and Thank you
Please has multiple ways of manifesting itself, as does Thank you, but keep in mind the two simple forms of these terms until the Honourifics section. Please is said as "Kudasai" or "Onegaishimasu." Thank you is "Arigatou." Further expansion on this subject of thanks and requests will be dealt with in the Honourifics section as the giving and receiving of gifts is an important part of Japanese culture, and the language thereof is both more slightly complex and very flowery. It tends to be very nice though, and one begins to enjoy hearing exchanges of go-aisatsu (greetings).

Everyday Japanese Phrases Japanese/Lessons/Introduction/Konnichiwa/Formal salutations b:Japanese: Lesson: Introducing yourself b:Japanese:Elementary Japanese: Lesson 1

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Wikiversity talk:Wikiversity (overview)

Moved from Wikiversity (overview) introduction (Red=Jdforrester, Green=Cormaggio)

 * Have toned this down to "proposed", and slightly tweaked the wording to match and make it more easily flow.

 * Yes, but I think you've watered it down unnecessarily. It is a project (well, sub-project) of the Foundation and it will serve as a resource of learning. I thought this was meant to be a kind of "sales pitch" anyway..

 * It's a Wikiproject of a Foundation project; it's not a sub-project of the Foundation, and certainly not a project of the Foundation... yet. Yes, this is a "sales pitch", but I thought that we're meant to be selling the potential of the project, not as an already-running one (which would be bending the truth rather). By pointing out how early we are with this, we can stress how much of an influence this document's readers can have... I dunno.

How was this determined?
"Some project members hope it will eventually become a fully-fledged e-learning resource, but the wider community is as yet undecided on how this will be managed or whether it should exist."

It strikes me as bullshit but if true then the time for a fork may already be upon us. Who is the "wider community" considering that a solid two thirds of 300 votes supported the activation of the Wikiversity project six months ago? What is a "fully fledged e-learning resource?" User:lazyquasar 11:08, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

This section needs substantial rework.
"How would it work?

Wikiversity would work alongside the other Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia. Wikipedia is already the world's biggest encyclopædia and aims to be the world's best. Large learning communities have formed in the larger projects (like English, French, German, Japanese) and these are all engaged in the production of resources which are free to be used in a variety of ways. Wikiversity would be similar, both in consisting of and being based around a learning community of people interested in education, and also in working to complement Wikimedia projects for students and teachers to develop articles for Wikipedia, books for Wikibooks, media files for Wikimedia Commons, and so on. In this sense, teachers and students would be engaged collectively in a learning process, developed according to their own needs and interests."

Wikiversity as proposed intially was not biased towards existing educators and students. It was intended to be a resource created, maintained and used by people interested in self education across the internet and digitial divide.

The above panders to existing educational professionals and processes. Non of whom really benefit should Wikiversity succeed in adding a revolutionary process .... student to student information flows. The existing tightly held educational system is not necessarily going to welcome internet revolutions in their area of expertise and practice and biasing the initial Wikiversity towards this population may not provide sufficient diverse participation to succeed. <IP_ADDRESS> 11:21, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

 * This paragraph isn't meant to suggest that Wikiversity is completely biased towards existing educators and students, but it will be focused on educational materials and, probably, projects. Self-education will be key to this (and it should be stressed). But I absolutely disagree that Wikiversity will not benefit existing educational professionals - what about resource-hungry teachers? What about someone looking for a collaborative space in which to encourage their students to work? We're certainly not going to make their jobs or institutions redundant, or, at least, not overnight ;-) Cormaggio @ 14:57, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

 * This section should be deleted. AFAIK no one really knows yet how a wikiversity will work beyond the clear fact that people can exchange, organize, validate and update information in a wiki.  Clearly educational processes can be evolved for this medium.  If you want to keep this section then you should discuss specific details with the people leading specific efforts regarding what is actually working and what is not currently yet working.  I suspect you will find nobody has adequate participation yet to cite specifics with the possible exception of MFinny, who is following a rather specific training methodology pioneered by the U.S. military and used extensively througout U.S. trade and industry .... if I understand correctly, Wikiversity for his fire school is currently a publishing platform, not yet a revolutionary means of using wiki to exchange or develop information and learning resources.  It will be instructive to see how wiki influences his fire school but I suspect it is too early to identify trends.  We may find that some traditional approaches work so well as is that in some instruction delivered at Wikiversity: the only innovation the use of public internet wikis brings is convenient cost effective worldwide participation.  The proposal sent to the Board for authorization to initialize the Wikiversity project should be concise, accurate, and generic.   Not filled with a lot of speculation or sales spin that can later be misconstrued as Board approved Wikiversity policy or intent.  Time enough to evolve specific Wikiversity policy or marketing efforts towards specific demographics after we have some participants actually prototyping effective methods under documented Wikimedia Foundation policy and approval.  User:lazyquasar 01:23, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

 * I really think you are taking the idea that we are specifying exactly how Wikiversity is going to work too far. All we need to do is to put together a proposal that answers the kind of questions that people will have. Asking what Wikiversity is and how it will work are completely valid questions, and they have been asked, repeatedly. We need to answer them. But I fully agree that we should be generic, as well as accurate and concise. Cormaggio @ 07:18, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

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Northcote Town Hall

Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre is an arts and community centre located in High Street in Northcote, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia.

History
The town hall was built in 1887 as the municipal offices and council chambers for the former City of Northcote. It was designed in the Classic Revival style by George Johnson. After the amalgamation of the City of Northcote with the City of Preston in 1994 to form the City of Darebin, the Town Hall was redeveloped and renovated into an arts, community and cultural venue. The present building comprises the original neoclassical building, an art deco extension housing the main hall, and modern expansion from 2006.

Arts and Community centre
The centre now has seven meeting rooms for community meetings, training and passive recreation, two large studios for performances and events, a large main hall for functions and events seating  up to 300 people and  an outdoor civic square used for outdoor markets and performances.

As well as being an used as a performance and conference space, many of the rooms are used for other purposes, such as for rehearsal groups, children's music groups, yoga and pilates.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Prominent American slave holders

The result was Delete (since content is covered better in category), then redirect per W. Marsh as a reasonable search term. Xoloz 15:06, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Prominent American slave holders
No references (not that it isn't most likely true, of course, but still). An improperly formatted list. Also, POV in title: what denotes a slaveowner as being "prominent": his popularity by today's standards or by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries' standards? --FuriousFreddy 03:59, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * There is a category Category:American slaveholders which seems to do what this list does, only better. I would say the scope of this article can be covered in prose at History of slavery in the United States until/if there's enough for a sub-article. --W.marsh 04:55, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete, all entries are now in Category:American slaveholders except Columbus, who I'm not sure should be considered American. Gazpacho 05:16, 11 August 2006 (UTC)


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Van der Vorst

van der Vorst is a Dutch surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 * Henk van der Vorst (born 1944), Dutch mathematician
 * Monique van der Vorst (born 1984), Dutch cyclist
 * Patrick van der Vorst (born 1971), entrepreneur

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User:Obtusesquare/be bold

Being bold is important on Wikipedia. Chickens make good backyard pets. Being bold is important on Wikipedia. Being bold is important on Wikipedia. Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3. Not really sure who Charles the Bold was...there was also a Charles the Bald, who can be assumed to be bald.

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User:LexxxVyper

Born 28, September. Long Island, NY; United States.

I publish all of my work under the alais Lexxx Vyper. Many people in my community know me by that name. Congratualtions to those people.

Email: Steamincleamin@hotmail.com

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Talk:Electronics/Magnetic Field

Constructive critism (I hope)
''A electron moving through space creates a magnetic field that spins around the charge according to the right hand rule. The magnetic field is created by the spin of the moving electron. If the wire is bent in the shape of a ring, when its current is flowing it magnetic field will resemble water flowing through a hose. In order for the ring to have a magnetic field, its magnetic field must first displace the magnetic field that is already there. This is why inductors initially resist any changes in current when a voltage is applied. Over time the magnetic field changes to reflect the magnetic field of the ring and current starts flowing''

This paragraph needs a lot of work. The field is created by the moving charge of the electron not it's spin (Well there is a tiny field due to the spin, but i don't think you need to wory about it). if you bend a wire into a ring you gat a torus shaped field, I'm not sure what you mean by "resemble water flowing through a hose". Magnetic fields don't need to displace each other, they just add together.Inductors resist changes in current because the changing current creates a changing magntic field wich in turn creates a back EMF. Apart from these problems the paragraph looks fine ;-) Theresa knott

no it is the quantum spin of the particles that make the field because of gravity waves. User:<IP_ADDRESS>

Completely false. Any interaction between quantum spin and gravity is negligible above the Planck scale -- with gravity waves, more so. Magnetic fields are correctly predicted by Maxwell's equations, which are purely classical. If quantum spin were a necessary part of the explanation for magnetism, Maxwell would have not been able to explain it. Carandol 05:39, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

This chapter is not pitched at a consistent level. Some of the material -paramagnetism, diamagnetism, etc- should go to the expanded edition, probably in the introductory basic principles chapter

I agree. That's because I am still reworking the book to figure out what I should include where. Hence the warnings all over the place. When I am done the book will be pitched at a more consistent level and some things will go to the expanded edition and others will vanish. Wanderer

But maxwells equations are wrong becaus quantum theory is better

 * Maxwell's equations aren't wrong, in the sense that 1=2 is wrong.

Rather, they are solutions of QED in the classical limit, which means we can with care use them as a guideline to the nature of QED.

 * That magnetic fields in the classical limit are accurately described by Maxwell proves that quantum spin doesn't affect the classical behaviour of magnetic fields, which is what this book is concerned with, and hence that an hypothetical spin-0 charged particle will produce a magnetic field when in motion, as can be confirmed by QED. If it didn't Lorentz invariance would be broken, which would be a real mess. Carandol

Are you saying that quantum spin isn't responsible for gravity and magnetism??

are u saying that quantum spin isnt responsibal for gravity and magnatism??

 * I am. We don't have a working theory of quantum gravity yet, which makes any claim quantum spin is responsible highly tentative, at best. We can though safely say that any common cause of gravity and magnetism is only going to be relevant at the Planck length, and uttterly irrelevant to this book. Carandol

From what I can tell spin has to do with neutralizing the effects of the magnetic moments of electrons. For a given orbital there are two electrons in it with opposite spins and magnetic moments. If both electrons are there then the moments cancel and if one electron is there than it has a moment and hence a magnetic field.

 * Electrons do have a magnetic field proportional to their spin, but that is not the sole cause of magnetism. Anyone moving relative to a charge will see a magnetic field, even if the charge has neither spin nor magnetic moment.Carandol

''Spin has to do with exclusion. Electrons come in pairs due to the Pauli exclusion principle, and if only one electron exists then it is affected by magnetism and has a magnetic dipole moment. If both electrons exist the effects cancel.''

The previous paragraph, removed from this chapter, is incorrect.
 * Spin has to do with behaviour under rotation. Exclusion is an indirect conseqence.

 * Electron states come in pairs because of both the exclusion principle and electrons being spin 1/2

 * Paired electrons are still affected by magenetism. All effects do not cancel completely, and the Lorentz force wouldn't cancel anyway. That force is eVxB, proportional to electron charge, not electron spin

I'm not sure where people are getting this misconception from, but there's no doubt it's wrong

Self inductance
This is what happens when you turn on DC in an inductor.

 * 1) The voltage increases very rapidly ( in a matter of ms) as you turn on the switch.
 * 2) This causes a very rapidly changing current to flow.
 * 3) This current has an associated magnetic fiels which also changes very rapidly.
 * 4) The rapildly changing field induced an e.m.f. (Faraday’s Law) that tends to oppose the increase of current (Lenz’s  Law).However it cannot stop it increasing cdompleatly, just slow it down.
 * 5) Once the current reaches it's maximum (determined by the voltage ad the ordinary resistance of the wire) it ceases to change, the magnetic field becomes constant and the back EMF goes to zero.

All remains calm until you try to turn the thing off

 * 1) The field collapses very suddenly
 * 2) The changing magnetic field induces a back EMF which tries to oppose the collapse of the field (Lenz’s  Law again)

For large coils the EMF can be huge, sparks can fly!

Isn't really an issue for DC though except when turning on and off. But for AC the current is varying all the time, so things never settle into a stready state. The higher the frequency, thwe faster things are changing and so the greater the inductance. I hope all this is reasonably clear now. Theresa knott 13:49, 30 Apr 2004 (UTC)

 * Surely the inductance (L) doesn't depend on frequency? Norman Weiner

 * Not for AC purposes, but the impedence due to inductance does (ωL), which -- talking loosely -- comes to the same thing.

 * At sufficiently high frequencies, capacitators acquire non-negligible inductance and vice versa. Inductance starts changing with frequency, just below the point where it stops being a useful concept, and you have to resort to full EM. For the purposes of this chapter, and of circuit theory generally, we don't need to consider gigahertz frequencies, so we can say inductance and capacitance are constant.Carandol
 * Sorry about talking about inductance when i should have said impedence. I don't know why I'm so sloppy all the time, it drives me round the bend it really does. Fortunately there is always some noce person around to correct me. Theresa knott 08:32, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

 * The simple relation

$$   L\frac{di}{dt} + iR + \int \frac{i}{C} dt = V(t) $$ should handle everything just fine, where L and C depend on only the geometry. Norman Weiner

So what do people know about toroids? Wanderer

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Top-rated United States television programs of 1979–80

This table displays the top-rated primetime television series of the 1979–80 season as measured by Nielsen Media Research.


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mary Shomon

The result was delete. Eddie891 Talk Work 01:10, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Mary Shomon

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Advertorial by a WP:SPA. Google finds about 11 pages of hits (indicating 106 unique, for what that's worth), but all of them seem to be promotional and not RS. Redux: Spam. Guy (help! - typo?) 22:27, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Authors-related deletion discussions. Ⓩⓟⓟⓘⓧ Talk 22:39, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

 * Delete - obscure health cultist. -- Orange Mike |  Talk  23:43, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete. Promotional article for a non-notable quack. JoelleJay (talk) 23:48, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - no substantial in-depth coverage in RS. Neutralitytalk 00:17, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete - no sources to speak of. GPinkerton (talk) 00:21, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete sourceless. Kinda quaint really. -Roxy the inedible dog . wooF 07:46, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete Fails GNG. Hemiauchenia (talk) 22:31, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Academics and educators-related deletion discussions. TJMSmith (talk) 03:07, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
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 * Delete, Non notable article, looks promotiional. Alex-h (talk) 08:29, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable -- Devoke water   (talk)  23:11, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
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General Chemistry/Molecular Shape

Covalent molecules are bonded to other atoms by electron pairs. Being mutually negatively charged, the electron pairs repel the other electron pairs and attempt to move as far apart as possible in order to stabilize the molecule. This repulsion causes covalent molecules to have distinctive shapes, known as the molecule's molecular geometry. There are several different methods of determining molecular geometry. A scientific model, called the VSEPR (valence shell electron pair repulsion) model can be used to qualitatively predict the shapes of molecules. Within this model, the AXE method is used in determining molecular geometry by counting the numbers of electrons and bonds related to the center atom(s) of the molecule.

The VSEPR model is by no means a perfect model of molecular shape! It is simply a system which explains the known shapes of molecular geometry as discovered by experiment. This can allow us to predict the geometry of similar molecules, making it a fairly useful model. Modern methods of quantitatively calculating the most stable (lowest energy) shapes of molecules can take several hours of supercomputer time, and is the domain of computational chemistry.

Table of Geometries
The hybridization is determined by how many "things" are attached to the central atom. Those "things" can be other atoms or non-bonding pairs of electrons. The number of groups is how many atoms or electron pairs are bonded to the central atom. For example, methane (CH4) is tetrahedral-shaped because the carbon is attached to four hydrogens. Ammonia (NH3) is not trigonal planar, however. It is trigonal pyramidal because it is attached to four "things": the three hydrogens and a non-bonding pair of electrons (to fulfill nitrogen's octet).

Tetrahedral Shape
Consider a simple covalent molecule, methane (CH4). Four hydrogen atoms surround a carbon atom in three-dimensional space. Each CH bond consists of one pair of electrons, and these pairs try to move as far away from each other as possible (due to electrostatic repulsion). You might think this would lead to a flat shape, with each hydrogen atom 90° apart. However, in three dimensions, there is a more efficient arrangement of the hydrogen atoms. If each hydrogen atom is at a corner of a tetrahedron centered around the carbon atom, they are separated by about cos-1(-1/3) ≈ 109.5°—the maximum possible.

Hybridization
To align four orbitals in this tetrahedral shape requires the reformation of one s and three p orbitals into an sp3 orbital.

Lone Electron Pairs
The VSEPR model treats lone electron pairs in a similar way to bonding electrons. In ammonia (NH3) for example, there are three hydrogen atoms and one lone pair of electrons surrounding the central nitrogen atom. Because there are four groups, ammonia has a tetrahedral shape but unlike methane, the angle between the hydrogen atoms is slightly smaller, 107.3°. This can be explained by theorizing that lone electron pairs take up more space physically than bonding pairs. This is a reasonable theory: in a bond, the electron pair is distributed over two atoms whereas a lone pair is only located on one. Because it is bigger, the lone pair forces the other electron pairs together.

Testing this assumption with water provides further evidence. In water (H2O) there are two hydrogen atoms and two lone pairs, again making four groups in total. The electron pairs repel each other into a tetrahedral shape. The angle between the hydrogen atoms is 104.5°, which is what we expect from our model. The two lone pairs both push the bonds closer together, giving a smaller angle than in ammonia.

Electron-Poor Atoms
In some molecules, there are less than four pairs of valence electrons. This occurs in electron deficient atoms such as boron and beryllium, which don't conform to the octet rule (they can have 6 and 4 valence electrons respectively). In boron trifluoride (BF3), there are only three electron pairs which repel each other to form a flat plane. Each fluorine atom is separated by cos-1(-1/2) = 120°. A different set of hybrid orbitals is formed in this molecule: the 2s and two 2p orbitals combine to form three sp2 hybrid orbitals. The remaining p orbital is empty and sits above and below the plane of the molecule.

Beryllium, on the other hand, forms only two pairs of valence electrons. These repel each other at cos-1(-1) = 180°, forming a linear molecule. An example is beryllium chloride, which has two chlorine atoms situated on opposite sides of a beryllium atom. This time, one 2s and one 2p orbital combine to form two sp hybrid orbitals. The two remaining p orbitals sit above and to the side of the beryllium atom (they are empty).

Bent vs. Linear
Some elements will have a bent shape, others have a linear shape. Both are attached to two groups, so it depends on how many non-bonding pairs the central atom has.

Take a look at sulfur dioxide (SO2) and carbon dioxide (CO2). Both have two oxygen atoms attached with double covalent bonds. Carbon dioxide is linear, and sulfur dioxide is bent. The difference is in their valence shells. Carbon has four valence electrons, sulfur has six. When they bond, carbon has no non-bonding pairs, but sulfur has one.

Five and Six Groups
Recall that some elements, especially sulfur and phosphorus, can bond with five or six groups. The hybridization is sp3d or sp3d2, with a trigonal bipyramidal or octahedral shape respectively. When there are non bonding pairs, other shape can arise (see the above chart).

How The Shapes Look
The yellow groups are non-bonding electron pairs. The white groups are bonded atoms, and the pink is the central atom. This is referred to as the AXE method; A is the central atom, X's are bonded atoms, and E's are non-bonding electron pairs.

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George A. Smith (Michigan politician)

George A. Smith (March 8, 1825 – January 29, 1893) was a Michigan politician.

Early life
George A. Smith was born on March 8, 1825, in Danbury, Connecticut. In 1839 or 1840, his father, Azariel Smith, settled on a farm in Somerset Township, Michigan, south of the village of Gambleville. George started living in Gambleville around 1854 or 1855.

Career
Smith was a merchant. In 1860, Smith served as the supervisor of Somerset Township, a position his father Azariel held in 1841. On November 4, 1862, Smith was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives where he represented the Hillsdale County 3rd district from January 7, 1863, to December 31, 1864. On November 6, 1866, Smith was elected to the Michigan Senate where he represented the 12th district from January 2, 1867, to December 31, 1868. Sometime around 1879, Smith served as a postmaster in Somerset Township. On November 4, 1884, Smith was elected to the Michigan Senate where he represented the 9th district from January 7, 1885, to December 31, 1886.

Personal life
George A. Smith had a son named Le Grand Smith who lived in Azariel Smith's old farm sometime around 1879.

Death
Smith died on January 29, 1893, in Somerset Township.

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2017–18 CERH Women's European League

The 2017–18 CERH Women's European Cup is the 12th season of Europe's premier female club roller hockey competition organized by CERH.

Format
Fourteen teams joined the first round while title holders Voltregà got a wildcard for the quarterfinals.

Teams
Fifteen teams from six federations joined the competition. The participants were confirmed on 19 September 2017.

Results
The draw was held at CERH headquarters in Lisbon, Portugal, on 23 September 2017.

Preliminary round
The first leg was played on 11 November and the second leg on 2 December 2017.

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Quarterfinals
The quarterfinals will be played on 20 January and 17 February 2018.

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Final Four
The Final Four was hosted in Lisbon, Portugal.

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9 Degrees West of the Moon

9 Degrees West of the Moon is the 6th studio album by the Italian progressive power metal band Vision Divine. It was released in 2009. The album marks the return of the singer Fabio Lione after the departure of Michele Luppi.

Credits

 * Fabio Lione - Vocals
 * Olaf Thörsen - Guitars
 * Federico Puleri - Guitars
 * Cristiano Bertocchi - Bass
 * Alessio Lucatti - Keyboards, Piano
 * Alessandro Bissa - Drums
 * Barbara Garzoni - Violin, Viola
 * Fausto Solci - Cello

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Muthoni wa Gichuru

Alice Muthoni Gichuru, who writes as Muthoni wa Gichuru, is a Kenyan writer of fiction for children and young adults, as well as short stories.

Life
Muthoni wa Gichuru grew up in Matanya, a small village in Nanyuki. As a child she recalls her father reading to her from a Gikuyu book titled Kamina na Kamina. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in information sciences from Moi University.

Gichuru's husband, Joseph Kamau, encouraged her to start writing stories in 2002. Her first published book, Breaking the Silence (2009), was runner-up for the 2011 Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature in the English-language youth category. The Carving (2019) was the winner of the 2018 CODE Burt Prize for African Young Adult Literature in Kenya.

Works

 * Breaking the Silence. Nairobi: East African Educational Publishers, 2009.
 * The Hidden Package. Nairobi, Kenya: East African Educational Publishers Ltd., 2016.
 *  The Other side and Other stories : Nairobi, Kenya:Storymoja Publishers., 2016
 *  The Bitter Sweet and Other Stories  : Nairobi, Kenya:Storymoja Publishers., 2016
 *  The Scary Trip and Other Stories  : Nairobi, Kenya:Storymoja Publishers., 2016
 * Beyond the Barricades. Nairobi, Kenya: East African Educational Publishers Limited, 2016.
 * Moon Scapes: Short Stories and Poetry. 2017.
 * The Carving. Nairobi, Kenya : Longhorn Publishers, 2019.
 *  Smart Sidi and the Poem. Nairobi, Kenya : Longhorn Publishers, 2019.
 *  Smart Sidi and the lost ball. Nairobi, Kenya : Longhorn Publishers, 2019.
 *  Smart Sidi and the play house. Nairobi, Kenya : Longhorn Publishers, 2019.
 *  Kefa's Quest. Phoenix Arizona, USA : Worlds Unknown Publishers, 2020.

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Talk:Ted Bundy (film)

Grammar
The grammar on the article page needs some work done on it; it appears to have been written by a non-native speaker. — Preceding unsigned comment added by VennerRoad (talk • contribs) 20:04, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Gross

 * Ted Bundy has grossed $6,083 in the United States and Canada, and $62,643 in other territories, for a worldwide total of $68,716.

These figures seem incredibly low. Were they supposed to be millions rather than dollars? --  Jack of Oz   [pleasantries]  11:21, 25 November 2020 (UTC)

Ted Bundy
Can You Identify The Girl That Ted Bundy Brought To A Wooded Area,While She Was In Her Underwear & The Girls That Were Sleeping In Their Underwear,When Ted Bundy Bashed Their Heads With Firewood?Jackjohnson52183 (talk) 16:21, 29 January 2022 (UTC)jackjohnson52183

Budget
Even though we might not know the film's true budget (I once saw a user estimate on IMDB claiming that it was $1.2 million), isn't "Ted Bundy" (2002) an independent film ? Correct me if I'm mistaken.

I'm posting this because someone recently told me to refrain from changing, deleting, or adding film categories to a particular movie's Wikipedia article. JonahCampbellRocks2004 (talk) 05:31, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

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KSOC

KSOC may refer to:

 * KSOC (FM), a radio station (94.5 FM) licensed to serve Tipton, Oklahoma, United States
 * KZMJ, a radio station (94.5 FM) licensed to serve Gainesville, Texas, United States, which held the call sign KSOC from 2002 to 2017
 * Korean Sport & Olympic Committee

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User:Hadamu

GEOLOGY OF KARSHI FCT

Karshi, which is part of the Basement Complex of North central Nigeria is located within the South Eastern part of Abuja. It is predominantly underlain by high grade metamorphic and igneous rocks of Precambrian age (600±50million years) generally trending SSW. These rocks consists of gneiss, migmatites, granites and schist, which outcrops along the western (Kupayi) margin of the area. The schist broadens North wards and attains a maximum development in the area. Their is little concentration of placer gold deposit. Granites mostly occupy the South eastern part of the area (Kurape Hill) while gneiss and migmatites dominate the main settlement. Most of the rocks are intruded by pegmatite. The topography of Karshi is rugged with high relief. In general, the rocks are highly sheared. Karshi is endowed with various industrial minerals of economic importance such as gneiss, granites, schist, laterite, sand and gravels. These minerals are use for building and construction purposes.

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般若

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1)  prajñā; Buddhist transcendental wisdom

Etymology

From  or, itself a transliteration of   or.

Noun

 * 1)  prajñā, Buddhist transcendental wisdom
 * 2)  a type of mask with the appearance of a grinning horned demoness
 * 3) a kind of  featuring a hannya mask
 * 4) A star or ,
 * : a dreadful face
 * 1) a -class aromatic wood
 * 1) a -class aromatic wood

Proper noun

 * 1)  the
 * 2)  the Hannya Temple in Nara

authors: Maitrī-karuṇā (benevolence and compassion)

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User:Wikibobjk/sandbox

Judy Kay (born 1951) is an Australian academic. She is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sydney is well known in the User Modelling, UbiComp and AIED research communities. She is co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal for AI in Education and an editor of the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT). She is an ACM Distinguished Member.

In the 1980's Judy Kay and Piers Lauder developed the fair-share cpu scheduling algorithm .

In 2017 Judy was appointed a Distinguished Professor at the University of Sydney.

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Kasturirangan

Kasturirangan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 * Gopalaswamy Kasturirangan (1930–2020), Indian cricketer
 * Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan (born 1940), Indian space scientist
 * Rajesh Kasturirangan, Indian mathematician

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Wal-Lex Recreation Center

The Wal-Lex Recreation Center, or simply Wal-Lex, was an entertainment complex located in Waltham, Massachusetts, which operated from 1947 until 2002. Considered a landmark in Waltham and the surrounding area, Wal-Lex consisted of a 60-lane candlepin bowling facility, a rollerskating rink, billiard tables, and video games. It also featured mini-golf until 1985.

The name is a portmanteau of Waltham and Lexington, as the facility was located on Lexington Street in Waltham, not far from the town line where the road became Waltham Street in Lexington.

History
Wal-Lex, the brainchild of John Rando, Fred Tortola Sr., Thomas Cappadona and George Rando, first opened its facilities on July 4, 1947, and at the time consisted only of a twenty lane candlepin bowling alley.

During the 1950s and 60s, the Wal-Lex became increasingly popular necessitating the addition of an eighteen lane annex building in 1954 and the addition of a twenty-two lane second floor in 1960. The complex was a major attraction in the Greater Boston area and became a popular spot for celebrities heading into Boston as well as professional bowlers.

In 1950, a roller-skating rink was constructed next door to the bowling alley which featured skate rentals, a snack bar, and a live organ player. At one point, the facility also included a mini-golf course, kiddie rides, and a dairy stand.

At the time of its closure, the facility was showing its age. The original pinsetters were still operational (although, at first the pins were set manually by pinboys) and scores were still being taken by paper and pencil. The wooden lanes had been sanded down to the nails. Still a popular attraction for youths and bowling leagues, the Wal-Lex did not shut its doors due to lack of business, rather because the facility had simply become a victim of its own age.

On the spot once occupied by the mini-golf course now sits a Burger King restaurant which opened in 1986. The rest of the facility remained operational until it was closed and demolished in 2002. The former site of Wal-Lex now houses a CVS and a Staples store.

The Wal-Lex bowling alley was the filming site for the television show Candlepins for Cash after the show moved to WXNE-TV Channel 25 in 1982.

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Merahi metua no Tehamana

Merahi metua no Tehamana (English Tehamana Has Many Parents or The Ancestors of Tehamana) is an 1893 painting by the French artist Paul Gauguin, currently in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. The painting is a portrait of Paul Gauguin's wife Teha'amana during his first visit to Tahiti in 1891–1893. This marriage has always provoked controversy because it was arranged and completed in the course of a single afternoon and Gauguin claimed Teha'amana was just thirteen years old at the time.

A sculpted head is also known to be a portrait of Teha'amana. She is assumed to have posed for numerous other paintings of the time, including the celebrated Spirit of the Dead Watching.

Teha'amana

Teha'amana was the native wife of Paul Gauguin during his first visit to Tahiti in 1891 to 1893. It was common at that time for French colonists to take native wives; the wives simply referred to as vahine, Tahitian for "woman". These vahines were often underage children, as was the case with Teha'amana, their marriage being arranged by their family for reasons of status or financial advantage. The marriages were generally not legally binding. All three of Gauguin's vahines, the two he took after Teha'amana eventually returned home while Teha'amana herself declined to continue their relationship when Gauguin returned to Tahiti in 1895. Teha'amana undoubtedly saw herself as conventionally married according to her local customs, but for Gauguin the marriage was clearly a temporary arrangement. Nevertheless, he did profess a tender love for Teha'amana in his journal . Pierre Loti's Le Mariage de Loti, a book that influenced Gauguin's decision to travel to Tahiti, was an immensely popular account of such a marriage twenty years earlier, although in that case the marriage was actually a fictional composite of many casual liaisons indulged by Loti during a two-month visit to Papeete. In Loti's account his wife was fourteen years old, while in Gauguin's account Teha'amana was just thirteen years old.

The name Teha'amana is formed from the definite article te, the causative particle ha'a and the substantive mana ("strength"), and thus signifies "giver of strength", hence its frequent occurrence in ancient prayers and folklore. In his account of their idyll together, Gauguin described how in the evenings Teha'amana would recount their ancient myths as they lay in bed. Teha'amana was nevertheless a Christian, as evidenced by the missionary dress she wears in the portrait, and would have known nothing of Tahitian mythology. Bengt Danielsson, the Kon-Tiki anthropologist, notes that Teha'amana recounting the old myths is an especially barefaced fiction, because not only were these largely forgotten, they had always been withheld from women. All Gauguin's accounts of ancient Tahitian religion in Noa Noa were copied from other sources without adequate acknowledgement.

Men took vahines for sexual and other practical advantages, such as gathering food supplies. This was because Tahitian families were self-sufficient in food. The staples of breadfruit and bananas were gathered high in the mountains on a weekly basis, while fish was abundant in the lagoons. Pigs were hunted in the undergrowth. As a consequence there was no trade in foodstuffs and offering food was regarded as an act of charity. Instead of gathering the food himself, Gauguin opted to take a vahine so that her family could provide for him. Having a vahine meant at least he had access to wild fruit and fresh shrimp gathered by her, as well as her own family's extensive food stores.

Gauguin's account of Teha'amana in Noa Noa, where he refers to her as Tehura, is mainly confined to their marriage, contracted in a single afternoon in the course of a planned excursion round the island, and a few other episodes including notably the genesis of his painting Spirit of the Dead Watching. Danielsson was able to find some oral and civic sources in the course of his researches.

Teha'amana's family came from Rarotonga, one of the Cook Islands. Before settling in Tahiti, they spent some time in Huahine, one of the Society Islands, where Teha'amana was born. In Tahiti they settled at Fa'aone, some fifteen miles to the east of Gauguin's bamboo hut at Mataiea, where Gauguin encountered them at some time during or after November 1891, taking Teha'amana as his vahine the same day. No birth certificate is known to confirm her age, but it is likely she was only in her early teens, as were his two subsequent vahines. She was pregnant by August 1892 according to a letter of Gauguin's, but there is no further record of the child: Danielsson thought it had been aborted, Mathews thinks it more likely was adopted, as was commonly the custom in Tahitian society. Gauguin records Teha'amana was at the quay on 14 June 1893 to wish him a traditionally tearful departure from Tahiti. When Gauguin returned in 1895, Teha'amana had married again, but nevertheless spent a week with him before returning to her husband, according to a letter Gauguin sent Monfreid. Gauguin makes no further mention of Teha'amana. After his death, when he had become famous, Teha'amana made no effort to come forward as his vahine. Mathews thinks this may indicate there was in reality no single Teha'amana, or that she was simply indifferent to his memory as a matter of little consequence.

After Gauguin left in 1893, Teha'amana remained in Mataiea, working at first for Chief Tetuanui, but soon marrying a young Tahitian boy, named Ma'ari, from neighbouring Papara. They had two sons, one of whom was still alive when Danielsson was researching Gauguin. From him, Danielsson gathered the information that the reason Teha'amana declined to live with Gauguin in 1895, despite generous gifts of bead necklaces and brass rings, was that she was repulsed by Gauguin and the syphilitic sores covering his entire body. Danielsson was able to locate a death certificate showing that Teha'amana died on 9 December 1918 in Mataiea from the Spanish flu epidemic that carried off a quarter of Tahiti's native population. She is buried in Mataiea, although her tombstone bears no indication of her relationship with Gauguin. A circa 1888 photograph of a young Tahitian girl by Charles Georges Spitz is often reproduced as one of Teha'amana, although Danielsson points out there is no evidence at all for the identification.

Description
The inscription below the idol reads "MERAHI METUA NO | TEHAMANA". This means "Teha'amana has many parents", a reference to Teha'amana possessing foster-parents as well as her natural parents in accordance with the  Tahitian custom (Gauguin had to negotiate with both sets of parents when arranging the marriage). The placement of the inscription below the idol may also emphasise the belief that all Tahitians descended from the union of the ancient deities Hina and Ta'aroa.

Danielsson thought the painting a farewell portrait, depicting Teha'amana in regal state dressed in her best churchgoing clothes and holding a plaited palm fan, a symbol of beauty. The red tiare flower she wears at her left ear signifies she is married. When he was researching his book, Danielsson showed a photograph of the portrait to a native, Puto'ura a Ta'iterafa'ato'a, fifteen years old in 1893 when the portrait was painted. Ta'iterafa'ato'a recognised Teha'amana at once, identifying the scar tissue above her right eye as the result of an accident she suffered when she was very young riding a pony, defying her parents. The portrait was bought in at Gauguin's 1895 Hôtel Drouot auction at only 300 francs and subsequently gifted to Daniel de Monfreid, Gauguin's great champion in Tahiti, suggesting it held sentimental value for Gauguin.

Charles Stuckey remarks that the two ripe mangoes, placed on a low table to Teha'amana's right, probably represented the bounty of Tahiti, if not Teha'amana's fertility herself. The idol is taken to be a representation of Hina, borrowed from Hindu sculptures presenting the life-giving gesture. As a counterfoil, the heads that hover above each of Teha'amana's shoulders are evil spirits, suggesting a dialogue between good and evil or between life and death. The glyphs behind Teha'amana's head are Rongorongo glyphs from Easter Island, although Gauguin's examples are imaginary. These glyphs had been discovered scarcely thirty years earlier and Gauguin would have seen examples both at the Exposition Universelle of 1889 and in Papeete, where a local bishop researching them had a number of examples in his care. The glyphs have never been deciphered and Gauguin's intention was probably to emphasise the impenetrability of Tahitian culture. In his Noa Noa account, he remarked he found Teha'amana herself impenetrable, thus perhaps the Mona Lisa expression he gives her in the portrait.

The portrait is closely based on a charcoal study and, taken together with the unduly short proportions of the arms, suggests the portrait may not have been painted directly from the model.

Other portraits

The only other portrait known certainly to be of Teha'amana is a sculpted head in the form of a hollow mask in the Musée d'Orsay. The wood carving is curious because it carries a roughly hewn figure of Eve in its inside. Stuckey suggests this is a reference to the Edenic paradise Gauguin said he had found with Teha'amana, but observes also that Gauguin had questioned her fidelity in his Noa Noa account and suggests the figure might also represent fantasies on Teha'amana's part as Eve the temptress, the greens eyes of the polychromed head perhaps signifying jealousy.

References and sources

 * References

 * Sources
 * Danielsson, Bengt (1965). Gauguin in the South Seas. New York: Doubleday and Company.
 * Gauguin, Paul; Morice, Charles (1901). Noa Noa: The Tahiti Journal of Paul Gauguin.
 * Mathews, Nancy Mowll (2001). Paul Gauguin, an Erotic Life. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, ISBN 0-300-09109-5.
 * Pollock, Griselda. Avant-Garde Gambits: Gender and the Colour of Art History, London: Thames and Hudson, 1993.
 * Solomon-Godeau, Abigail. Going Native, Paul Gauguin and the Invention of the Primitivist Modernist. The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History. 1st ed. Boulder, CO: WestView, 1992. 313-329
 * Thomson, Belinda (1987). Gauguin. London: Thames and Hudson. ISBN 0-500-20220-6.
 * Taylor, Sue. "Oviri: Gauguin's savage woman". Journal of Art History, Volume 62, Issue 3/4, 1993. 197–220.
 * Wadley, Nicholas (1985). Noa Noa: Gauguin's Tahiti, London: Phaidon Press. ISBN 0-7148-2375-9.
 * Taylor, Sue. "Oviri: Gauguin's savage woman". Journal of Art History, Volume 62, Issue 3/4, 1993. 197–220.
 * Wadley, Nicholas (1985). Noa Noa: Gauguin's Tahiti, London: Phaidon Press. ISBN 0-7148-2375-9.

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Machaerina rubiginosa

Machaerina rubiginosa, commonly known as soft twig rush, flat leaf twig rush or common twig rush, is a flowering plant in the sedge family, Cyperaceae, that is native to Asia and the Pacific.

Description
The robust grass-like sedge is rhizomatous and perennial, it typically grows to a height of 4 m and a width of 2 m. It blooms between August and March producing brown flowers. It has rigid, terete and biconvex culms that are smooth and glabrous. The culms are 20 to 110 cm in length and 1 to 5 mm in diameter. The narrow and erect inflorescence has an interrupted-oblong shape in outline forming dense clusters that are around 7 to 20 cm long and with a diameter of 1 to 2.5 cm. After flowering an ellipsoid to obovoid shaped pale red-brown to bright orange coloured nut. The nut is smooth with a hispid apex with a length of 2.2 to 4 mm and a diameter of 1.2 to 2 mm.

Distribution and habitat
It found in swamps and on the margins of lakes and streams along coastal areas in the Mid West, Wheatbelt, Peel, South West, Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance regions where it grows in damp silty-sandy soils. It is also found in Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory.

The upright foliage and spreading rhizomatous habit allow the plant to form large dense swards in wet areas. It can grow in nutrient poor soils in water up to a depth of around 50 cm. The plant tends to grow taller in permanently damp areas and shorter in ephemeral environments. It is suitable for use in artificial wetlands.

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The result of the debate was delete. Shanel 01:59, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Beer Bogganing

 * Delete as non-notable neologoism. Just 100 hits in Google. Doesn't look popular enough. -Ambuj Saxena (talk) 14:06, 20 March 2006 (UTC).
 * Delete neologism lacking in notability. - Mithent 14:43, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Delete as non-notable. --Ed (Edgar181) 15:38, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
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The Steel Woods

The Steel Woods are an American country music group. from Nashville, Tennessee. Their debut album, Straw in the Wind, was released in 2017.

The band has cited influences such as Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Led Zeppelin, and have toured in support of artists such as Lynyrd Skynyrd, Dwight Yoakam, Jamey Johnson, Cody Jinks, Miranda Lambert, and Blackberry Smoke.

Founding member and guitarist Jason "Rowdy" Cope died on January 16, 2021.

History
The Steel Woods were cofounded by Wes Bayliss and Jason "Rowdy" Cope. Cope was the creative lead of the band as well as its lead guitarist, songwriter and co-producer, while Bayliss is a multi-instrumentalist, lead singer and co-producer.

Bayliss grew up in Woodland, Alabama, playing music in his family's gospel band and learned to play harmonica, mandolin, and guitar. In 2007, he moved to Mobile, Alabama, where he experimented further on different instruments. Cope began to learn guitar at the age of 11 in his hometown of Black Mountain, North Carolina. He later worked as a Los Angeles-based musician before moving to Nashville in 2007 and joined Jamey Johnson's band. In his nine years with Johnson, Cope co-wrote "Can't Cash My Checks" and helped Johnson make the Grammy-nominated "That Lonesome Song" (2008) and "The Guitar Song" (2010).

In the early days of The Steel Woods, Bayliss and Cope spent a lot of time fishing and writing what would eventually evolve into the bands first studio album, Straw in the Wind (2017) released on Thirty Tigers/Woods Music. The album featured a guest vocal appearance by Lindi Ortega, and Brent Cobb also contributed as a songwriter. On June 10, 2017, it reached number 42 on the Billboard Independent Albums chart.

In the subsequent years, the band toured with fellow Southern rock artists Cody Johnson, Cody Jinks, Whiskey Myers, and Blackberry Smoke as well as inspirations such as Lynyrd Skynyrd and Miranda Lambert.

They recorded their second album, Old News, in Asheville at the site of an old church during a break in their touring schedule. The album was released on January 18, 2019.

Cope died in January 2021. The band's third album, All of Your Stones, was released in May 2021.

On March 28, 2024, Wes Bayliss announced that after the completion of a final United States tour throughout 2024, The Steel Woods would disband, citing personal reasons to end the band and cancelling a scheduled autumn 2024 UK and European tour with fellow Southern rockers Blackberry Smoke.

Personnel

 * Wes Bayliss – guitar and vocals
 * Jason Cope – guitar (d. 2021)
 * Johnny Stanton – bassist
 * Tyler Powers – guitar
 * Isaac Senty - drummer

Discography
Albums
 * Straw in the Wind (2017)
 * Old News (2019)
 * All of Your Stones (2021)
 * On Your Time (2023)

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Please Don't Touch!

Please Don't Touch! is the second studio album by English guitarist and songwriter Steve Hackett. It was released in April 1978 on Charisma Records, and it is his first album released after leaving the progressive rock band Genesis in 1977. Hackett had released Voyage of the Acolyte (1975) during his time in Genesis. For his next solo release he recorded in the United States and hired various guest artists, including singers Randy Crawford, Richie Havens, and Steve Walsh, drummers Phil Ehart and Chester Thompson, bassist Tom Fowler, with Van der Graaf Generator violinist Graham Smith.

Following its release, the album reached No. 38 in the United Kingdom and No. 103 in the United States. To promote the album, Hackett assembled a band and completed his first concert tour as a solo artist in 1978. A remastered edition of the album was released in 2005 on Hackett's label Camino Records with bonus tracks. A 5.1 surround mix by Steven Wilson was included on the Premonitions: The Charisma Recordings 1975–1983 in 2015.

Background
In October 1977, news of Hackett's departure from the progressive rock band Genesis was made public. After the band's 1977 tour in support of their eighth studio album Wind & Wuthering (1976) and their first EP, Spot the Pigeon (1977), Hackett informed his band mates of his decision to leave during the mixing of the live album Seconds Out (1977). Hackett had previously released his debut solo album Voyage of the Acolyte (1975), but he grew increasingly frustrated by the collaborative process of Genesis which left many of his song ideas unreleased. At the time, Hackett was signed to Charisma Records in the UK but to Chrysalis Records in the US. He recalled that both labels had a different idea on what direction they wanted him to take and he later said, "Their opposing viewpoints coloured the album to some degree, although I think the 'European' styled tracks came more naturally to me."

Hackett based the material on Please Don't Touch! on images that had conjured in his mind, and made a conscious effort to capture many different styles of music, including a crossover of white and black music. He wanted to incorporate various strange sounds on the songs for added atmosphere, and visited a Victorian shop named Jack Donovan's that sold old toys. A fairground organ at the pier in Santa Monica, California and a puppet named Bimbo were also recorded.

When the time arrived to record, he decided to record with various guest American musicians and travelled to Los Angeles. He arranged for singers Randy Crawford, Richie Havens, and Steve Walsh to sing on the album, plus bassist Tom Fowler, drummers Phil Ehart and Chester Thompson, with Van der Graaf Generator violinist Graham Smith. He believed America produced "by far the best vocalists" due to their more "street corner heritage". After recording the album, Hackett felt a great amount of pressure off his shoulders. The album's cover was completed by Kim Poor, Hackett's girlfriend of three years and his future wife. It depicts a Victorian couple being attacked by automata in a toy shop.

Side one
"Narnia" is a song about childhood, and is based on the children's fantasy novel The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. Hackett wrote it with "a picture of kids skipping around and having fun" in his mind, and wanted Walsh on vocals and Ehart on drums after he liked the a capella vocals on the 1976 Kansas song "Carry on Wayward Son". A version with John Perry on vocals was also recorded. A version of "Narnia" with Walsh on vocals was considered as a potential single for the album, but management at Charisma rejected the idea because they were afraid listeners might be confused and think it was Kansas. The alternate version with Perry on vocals was deemed strong enough as a single, and was released as a bonus track on the 2005 remaster of Please Don't Touch!.

"Carry on Up the Vicarage" is a musical tribute to Agatha Christie. It features vocals from Hackett himself. The vocals during most of the song consist of a double line of an artificially high pitched voice and a low pitched one. Hackett has often used similar distorting effects on his vocals in his solo career. The liner notes indicate that the pipe organ that can be heard on the song is the "Robert Morton pipe organ, since destroyed by fire at the Record Plant". Parts of Please Don't Touch were recorded at the Record Plant's location in Los Angeles; it is known that the location's Studio C was destroyed by fire in early 1978. No information about this organ appears to be available; it is not listed in Robert Morton's opus list.

"Racing in A" also features Steve Walsh on vocals. The song is electric for most of its duration but the last 1:15 is a classical guitar piece, which decreases in pace throughout, finishing on a relaxing note.

"Kim" is named after Poor, who designed many of Hackett's album covers, including Please Don't Touch!. The track features Hackett playing a classical guitar with his brother John Hackett on flute, and was largely inspired by "Gymnopédie No 1" by Erik Satie. When writing it, Hackett had "a quiet lily pond [... a] quiet peaceful day summer feeling".

"How Can I?" is a slow song with Richie Havens on vocals. The members of Genesis were fans of Havens, and the singer agreed to open for them for their series of concerts at Earls Court, London in 1977. Hackett invited him to dinner at his home, during which he requested Havens to feature on a song of his.

Side two
Side two consists of a suite of songs which flow into each other. It begins with "Hoping Love Will Last" with American singer Randy Crawford on vocals. It has a heavy R&B/soul influence but with some classical style guitar parts as well as atmospheric sections featuring synthesisers. Hackett recalled his Genesis band mates being particularly fond of the song.

"Land of a Thousand Autumns" is an atmospheric instrumental track which contains references to the main theme of the title track. A sudden drum fill leads into the next track.

"Please Don't Touch" is an instrumental track with many time signature changes that features prominent use of the Roland GR-500 guitar synthesiser. Hackett originally pitched the song for Genesis to rehearse during the Wind & Wuthering sessions, but the song was rejected. It was written as a variation on the main theme of the Wind & Wuthering track "Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers...". This theme was also eventually incorporated into the song "Hackett to Bits" on the 1985 album by GTR, a band featuring Hackett and Yes guitarist Steve Howe.

"The Voice of Necam" features references to the "Please Don't Touch" theme before transitioning to an ambient piece of voice drones. NECAM was one of the first mixing console automation systems, developed by the mixing console's manufacturer, AMS Neve; the acronym stood for "Neve Computer Assisted Mixdown". To produce the vocal chords, Hackett sang different notes onto tracks of a multitrack tape, and then made a loop of the tape in a technique similar to that used by 10cc in the song "I'm Not in Love". Each track was fed back to a separate input on the mixing console, and the NECAM system was programmed to "play" chords and melodies by moving the console faders. Hackett later had his vocal tape loops made into a custom Mellotron tape set for use by his live keyboard player Nick Magnus.

"Icarus Ascending" is also sung by Richie Havens. The lyrics are about the Greek myth of Icarus who escaped from the maze of the Minotaur with artificial wings. He came too close to the sun, though, and the wax in his wings melted so that he fell to his death.

Release
A late April 1978 report from Record Mirror published that 11,200 copies of the album had been sold. Following its release, the album reached No. 38 in the United Kingdom and No. 103 in the United States. To promote the album, Hackett assembled a band and completed his first concert tour as a solo artist in 1978.

Track listing
All tracks written by Steve Hackett.

 * 1) "Narnia" – 4:05 - with Steve Walsh
 * 2) "Carry On Up the Vicarage" – 3:11
 * 3) "Racing in A" – 5:07 - with Steve Walsh
 * 4) "Kim" – 2:13
 * 5) "How Can I?" – 4:38 - featuring Richie Havens
 * 6) "Hoping Love Will Last" – 4:23 – featuring Randy Crawford
 * 7) "Land of a Thousand Autumns" – 1:38
 * 8) "Please Don't Touch" – 3:39
 * 9) "The Voice of Necam" – 3:11
 * 10) "Icarus Ascending" – 6:27 - featuring Richie Havens

2005 remaster bonus tracks

 * 1) "Narnia" (John Perry Vocal Version) – 3:36
 * 2) "Land of a Thousand Autumns/Please Don't Touch" (Live) – 7:53
 * 3) "Narnia" (Alternate Version with Steve Walsh on vocals) – 4:30

Personnel
Musicians
 * Steve Hackett – keyboards, Mellotron, electric guitars, acoustic guitars, Roland GR-500 guitar synthesizer, percussion, loops, effects, bells, backing vocals (1, 3, 9, 10), vocals (2)
 * John Acock – keyboards
 * John Hackett – keyboards, flute, piccolo, bass pedals
 * David LeBolt – keyboards
 * Tom Fowler – electric bass
 * Phil Ehart – drums (1, 3), percussion (1, 3)
 * Chester Thompson – drums (2, 4-10), percussion (2, 4-10)
 * James Bradley – percussion
 * Richie Havens – percussion
 * Hugh Malloy – cello
 * Graham Smith – violin

Guest singers
 * Steve Walsh – lead vocals (1, 3)
 * Richie Havens – lead vocals (5, 10)
 * Randy Crawford – lead vocals (6)
 * Maria Bonvino – guest female soprano (6)
 * "Feydor" – vocals (9) (This is a joke credit, being a pun on "fader.")
 * Dale Newman – guest vocals (10)
 * Dan Owen – guest vocals (10)
 * John Perry – lead vocals on "Narnia" (2005 remaster version)

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Talk:2014 Odesa clashes

This article is a poor cover-up of mass murder
Even if someone shot first in the air and there are liars that he was "Pro-Russian", it is meaningless. All the dead were Ukrainians. They had a legitimate political opinion and were murdered by a mob of thugs and war criminals. Of course the false slogan "Russian propaganda" is the answer to every claim. בצלאל א. (talk) 21:54, 30 April 2023 (UTC)

 * Ok RTbot. 2A02:3030:80A:EC17:1:0:8431:1770 (talk) 00:23, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
 * Source? 2A02:3030:815:366A:1:0:664A:231A (talk) 19:05, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Finally someone who at least tried to think outside the box that media build around every head today. Unfortunately you will be called “RTbot” for this by foolish people. Thanks for your comment and here is the link for detailed info about all this what happened, but Wiki decided to be a propaganda tool instead of spreading truth. (And yes, I am related to Odessa very closely) https://ersieesist.livejournal.com/813.html? Da shkov (talk) 06:07, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Wow, the RT trolls never give up on trying to spin this event in a completely nonsensical, fictional direction. FACT is that those who were killed were an organised ARMED group of THUGS who ATTACKED (yes, attacked) a peaceful UNITY demonstration but got themselves overwhelmed and retreated to a building which they lively set on fire themselves, leading to their deaths. They were working on the orders of a WAR CRIMINAL regime and had NO legitimate political opinion.
 * It was a humiliating defeat for the lowlife Kremlin stooges, so embarrassing for them that I thought they would just try to draw a line under it and pretend it never happened. But no, they have made pathetic attempts to spin in a completely fictional narrative to justify aggression against Ukraine, creating the outrageously false label of "odessa massacre", even going as far as to bomb google search results for "odessa" by suggesting the word "massacre" afterwards. A massacre is an indiscriminate slaughter of unarmed people, not the accidental deaths of a bunch of thugs who started a riot and got what they deserved. It's another example of how blatantly false Kremlin propaganda is but no matter how outrageous, blind sheep will still lap it up.
 * Oh, and the link by "Da shkov" is the same old garbage, including the long debunked claim of "strangled pregnant woman" which was a despicable fake. Impulsion (talk) 10:25, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

Football Ultras involvement
Both the hardcore fans of Chornomorets Odesa and FC Metalist Kharkiv put aside their football rivarly and attacked the pro-russia "Anti-Maidan" militants. 2A02:3030:815:366A:1:0:664A:231A (talk) 18:57, 25 July 2023 (UTC)

May 2, 2014 Pro-Ukraine account
Ten years ago, on May 2, 2014, 42 people died in a fire in the House of Trade Unions on Kulikovo Field. Six more were killed earlier in street clashes between supporters and opponents of the Maidan in the center of Odessa. In total, about 250 people were injured.

The events near the House of Trade Unions were already developing as the final stage of a large confrontation on the Greek Square, which could become an analogue of the "Russian Spring" in Donetsk. It was on the Greek Square that the first skirmishes took place. From there, a patriotic march of Odessa and Kharkiv football fans started for the match between Chernomorets and Metallist. They were joined by other patriotic organizations and pro-Ukrainian activists. Before that, in the spring of 2014, anti-Maidan protesters set up a tent camp in Odessa on the square near the House of Trade Unions.

There was a rumor among the anti-Maidan activists that they wanted to disperse their tent city and some of them also came to the city center to disrupt the march. Although the day before the tragedy, members of the Kulikovo Field movement, who took part in Anti-Maidan actions, agreed to avoid meetings with patriots. But the decision was not unanimous, and the "anti-Maidan activists" nevertheless appeared on the march. No one will say why the agreement was violated. This is how the historical center of Odessa turns into a battlefield. First, pyrotechnics are used, then paving stones. Law enforcement officers have almost no control over the situation and do not interfere. Then the first shots and the first dead. Igor Ivanov, foreman of the Right Sector, and Andrei Biryukov, Euromaidan activist.

After that, Euromaidan supporters attacked the tent city on Kulikovo Field and destroyed it. The anti-Maidan activists who were there took refuge in the House of Trade Unions. Molotov cocktails are flying from both sides. After 15 minutes of such fighting, the building of the House of Trade Unions begins to burn. Dozens of people remained blocked. Some, trying to escape from the fire, jumped out of the windows. Rescuers did not arrive for more than half an hour, although there are some hundreds of meters from the nearest fire station to the scene of the events.

According to official data, 34 people died from burns and suffocation, eight more crashed while trying to jump out of windows. Later, the UN noted that the firefighters "arrived too late", although they were repeatedly called.

Despite the great international response, the investigation of the tragedy has not led to anything in ten years. 26 protesters were initially charged, but only five of them ended up behind bars. All of them turned out to be Anti-Maidan supporters.

By 2017, there were 19 suspects left in the case – and all of them were again from the opposition camp. In the same year, the court acquitted them for insufficient evidence. Sergei Dolzhenkov and Yevgeny Mefedov were detained again on charges of separatism, which was not connected with the House by the trade union. Later, Mefedov was sent on an exchange to Russia. The investigation has not identified those responsible for the mass death of people in the House of Trade Unions.

International organizations have repeatedly stated that the Ukrainian authorities did not properly investigate this crime. This was last noted in a recent US State Department human rights report.

Ironcurtain2 (talk) 08:49, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

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