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User:Kuyabalista

Aljon Burgos is a vampire, turned by HazelFe Obejero 20 years prior to the series' debut. He is the first son of Dulcisimo Burgos and the older brother of Bryan Burgos. He is portrayed as a charming, handsome and snarky person who loves tricking girls, and takes them to heavenly pleasure.

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Biogenesis (disambiguation)

Biogenesis is the generation of life from existing life.

Biogenesis may also refer to:
 * "Biogenesis" (The X-Files)
 * Biogenesis baseball scandal (involving MLB players taking growth-hormone)
 * Mitochondrial biogenesis
 * Organelle biogenesis
 * Ribosome biogenesis
 * Recapitulation theory, the biogenetic law of Ernst Haeckel

source: wikimedia

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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School:Economics

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Are you teaching or studying economics and need a question answered?

Just edit the text below using the link at the right-hand side of the page and replace the text below with your question/s, include the name of your course or topic, and someone might answer it for you. (It is assumed that all questions start with "Given some assumptions ..." and end with "..., ceteris paribus").

If you need help writing mathematical formulae please read Help:Formula.

Questions and answers will be archived on the Economics /Q & A/ page and could be added to the testbank of questions and answers in the economics syllabus project.

Please help answer this question:
what is productive efficiency and how do you calculate production efficiency?

Wikiversity does not currently have a resource on productive efficiency. There is an entry in Wikipedia on productive efficiency which is not well-documented but may be of help. Please feel free to start a resource here on this topic. Please also feel free to end your contributions with four ~ marks. Thank you for asking and we hope you will open a Wikiversity account and contribute to the school of economics. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 15:00, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

If the prices are expected to decrease, it is expected that consumers will suspend current consumption?

If the current price is the optimal price, then a decrease in price will lower sales. Other factors such as gains in economies of scale can lower costs. If producers pass some of this on to consumers, prices drop and current consumption can increase. Prices usually arise from a balance between supply and demand. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 14:04, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
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New project - Wikiversity School of Economics syllabus
A new project has been started to establish a Wikiversity School of Economics syllabus. The long term goal is to construct a syllabus for an entire economics degree. The short term goal is to construct a syllabus for first year university or principles level course called Introductory Microeconomics. This project aims to organize links to relevant Wikipedia entries, other learning materials, and to provide teachers and students with an organized test bank of exam questions and answers online. Via collaboration on Wikiversity, this project aims to describe the set of questions and answers that test a student's knowledge of the topics in the economics syllabus and serve as the basis for the economics university curriculum.

By answering sets of questions that are designed to rigorously test their knowledge and understanding, students will be able to build confidence in their mastery of the economics syllabus. Once a critical mass of questions and answers has been compiled online, the help of anyone with the skills to create new pages that translate these questions and answers into the interactive form made possible by the Wikiversity quiz extension will be greatly appreciated. Questions and answers in an interactive format are themselves useful learning materials.

Students often study by asking each other questions and helping each other learn by correcting wrong answers and congratulating each other when they answer correctly. The Wikiversity School of Economics syllabus/testbank project provides an opportunity for students around the world to encourage each other to learn. We've crunched the numbers and there are 100s of 1000s of students around the world taking almost identical courses to you right now - you can help each other by putting questions and answers online.

Rationale
This project aims to help direct efforts in the Wikiversity School of Economics to creating organized sets of questions and answers, rather than recreating Wikipedia-type entries on the School of Economics pages. Establishing a syllabus and sets of exams will allow students to test their knowledge and demonstrate their achievements. With an emphasis on assessment tasks in many university courses, the tests used to assess students' knowledge and understanding of a subject tend to become the de facto syllabus of a course and the learning activities that enable a student to complete assessement tasks successfully tend to become the de facto curriculum. Improving the quality of tests then provides one way to improve the quality of a course. Establishing a set of questions and answers that embodies the economics syllabus might also help identify the types of learning materials and experiences that will best help students to learn economics.

Tests measure student performance but they also indirectly measure the quality of learning materials and teaching methods. Sets of questions and answers that embody the syllabus can be used as a yardstick for measuring the effectiveness of alternative learning materials and methods of learning in order to design new learning materials and thereby improve educational outcomes. The learning materials that are currently available can be used to create sets of questions and answers that test students' knowledge of the syllabus, which in turn can be used to help test and develop the next generation of learning materials.

Additionally, by investigating the possible limits for questions and answers to embody the economics syllabus and curriculum, this project will also help identify other academic skills and learning experiences that are important for a university education in economics. It is possible that tests of these additional components of a university education generally take the form of tests of participation and records of attendance in classes, ultimately depending on the reputation, status and branding of a university institution. However, alternative hypotheses include the possibility that answering appropriate questions under exam conditions can be a sufficient test of a student's knowledge and understanding and the possibility that other forms of participation in learning activities, online or in person, can serve the same purpose as a conventional enrolment.

This BBC News article includes some discussion of the "tricky question" of accreditation and online courses. This Wikiversity School of Economics project will investigate the degree to which online education will need to test participation using homework assignments with regular deadlines (the model currently being tested by edX) versus the degree to which freely available online questions and answers can serve as the basis of assessment (albeit by subsequently testing students' knowledge and understanding under conventional exam conditions).

Wikiversity itself does not seek to provide accredited qualifications. Instead, students can use sets of questions and answers to test their own knowledge of the syllabus. They can also use their performance on tests to demonstrate their knowledge and understanding to others. It is, however, possible for other university institutions to adopt any examinations developed by the Wikiversity School of Economics as the basis of their own processes of assessment. One aim is to establish a set of questions and answers that a teacher would feel comfortable using for the purposes of assessment, even though students will have had access to this set of questions and answers before they are asked to answer the questions under exam conditions. For examples of the kind of question that might satisfy this criterion please visit Authoring Questions and Answers for the Economics Syllabus.

One interesting possibility if the syllabus and examination questions compiled by the Wikiversity School of Economics reach a sufficiently high level of quality and academic standard, is that they could be then adopted by the OER University. The syllabus of Introductory Microeconomics could become part of the OER University inaugural Bachelor of General Studies degree, which will be accredited by participating universities around the world. A completed Wikiversity School of Economics syllabus could even eventually serve as the basis for a Bachelor of Economics, accredited by the OER university partners. A compatible syllabus of economics adopted by many universities around the world would give students the opportunity to study in different locations at different stages of their coursework, whilst seeing the world.

Progress so far
So far, a page has been created for the economics syllabus, by starting with a syllabus for a first year university or principles level microeconomics course called "Introductory Microeconomics". If you'd like to help with this project please visit the syllabus pages, and either add links to Wikipedia entries and other learning materials or add questions and answers to the relevant pages.

Alternatively, if your area of interest is not introductory microeconomics, it could be a good idea to start creating pages for other common university courses, e.g. introductory macroeconomics, introductory mathematical economics, intermediate microeconomics, and so on, and to start compiling lists of topics for syllabus modules and associated test banks of questions and answers. For something different, consider putting together a syllabus for a course/s based on John Quiggin's book Zombie Economics. What would the prerequisites be?

What's the next task?
The next task is to add links to relevant Wikipedia entries and other learning materials and to add questions and answers to the syllabus of Introductory Microeconomics.

Work has started by creating links to the best online videos available that seek to teach elements of the Introductory Microeconomics syllabus. Why should students listen to different people present half-baked explanations of the same concepts when everyone could learn from the best?

The best found so far are the Economists Do It With Models online videos and the MIT Open Courseware. Links need to be added to the videos that match the topics listed in each module of the syllabus. Then, questions and answers related to these videos needed to be created on the Q & A pages.

This project does not aim to replicate the great work of Jodie Beggs, MIT, the UK Open University, Coursera, or edX. Instead, it will provide links to this material and contribute by compiling sets of questions and answers. This will serve the aim of describing the economics curriculum in question and answer form, which could become the basis of new learning activities once questions and answers begin to be translated into an interactive form using the Wikiversity quiz extension.

(The structure needs to be changed so there is one page, called "Introductory Microeconomics learning materials" for the collection of links to Wikipedia entries and other learning materials pages but retaining the multiple pages for the corresponding Q & A pages.)

 * If anyone is currently revising for an introductory microeconomics course, they might like to watch the Economists Do It With Models videos and the MIT Open Courseware videos and other learning materials and make up relevant questions and answers for the Introductory Microeconomics Q & A pages as part of their study.

 * If anyone is currently preparing questions and answers for an introductory microeconomics practice exam or final exam, please consider sharing these questions and answers on Wikiversity (before or after) the actual exam.

 * Tutors, please consider asking your students to write questions and answers to test each others' knowledge and understanding of introductory microeconomics. One half of a group could write questions to test the other half. These questions and answers could then be added online to the relevant Q & A pages.

Advice about creating good economics questions and answers can be found on Authoring Questions and Answers for the Economics Syllabus.

Goals of the School of Economics
These are the current goals of the School of Economics.

Long-term

 * Develop a syllabus for the School of Economics
 * Develop the world's best online guide to writing test questions for economics courses at Syllabus of Economics/Authoring Questions and Answers. Meeting this goal will encourage participation in the Wikiversity School of Economics and visitors to the site who are writing exam questions and answers might also contribute their efforts to the Syllabus of Economics testbank project.
 * Encourage the OER University to adopt the Wikiversity School of Economics syllabus

Short-term

 * Develop a syllabus for Introductory Microeconomics
 * Find the best recorded lectures and videos online that explain elements of the Introductory Microeconomics syllabus. List the links to these videos in order of rank from "Number 1. Best in the World", and so on down the rankings.
 * Provide the best set of lecture slides and handouts for an introductory microeconomics course in the world for anyone to use.
 * Encourage the OER University to adopt the Wikiversity School of Economics Introductory Microeconomics syllabus
 * Encourage participation in the School of Economics
 * Make the Wikiversity School of Economics the best School on Wikiversity. (Why not? Economists like competition).
 * Improve the quality of the test questions used to assess introductory micreconomics courses around the world
 * Either improve the Wikiversium grade by measuring up to its obscure standards or deleting the symbol from the top right of the page since it seems to be based on rather arbitrary criteria and imposes a negative vibe.

To Do List
We need your help! This is a list of tasks you could help with.

 * Develop the long-term goals of the school
 * Develop the short-term goals of the school
 * Create an economics portal to help people navigate Economics pages on Wikiversity
 * Add questions and answers to the syllabus of Introductory Microeconomics
 * Add links from the topic modules in the Introductory Microeconomics syllabus to relevant learning materials. Start with links to the Economists Do It With Models online videos. Then, create questions and answers for each module based on the content of these videos.
 * Establish a series of lectures with slides and handouts for each module in the Introductory Microeconomics syllabus. These slides and handouts will be freely available teaching materials for introductory microeconomics courses around the world. These learning materials can also act as a guide for creating new questions and answers for each module based on the content of this series of lectures.
 * Add examples of questions of different kinds that help people write new questions and answers for the syllabus. Example questions and approaches for creating good economics questions and answers can be added to this page: Syllabus of Economics/Authoring Questions and Answers
 * Create new pages that translate questions and answers compiled as a text format to an interactive format using the Wikiversity quiz extension
 * Organize lesson plans and list topics for lessons plans plus provide links to open education resources that can be used with these lessson plans, including teaching slides, videos, descriptions of activities, and worksheets.
 * Encourage participation in the Wikiversity School of Economics by improving the appearance and design of its pages.

Other projects under development
These are some other learning resources related to economics. These pages are under heavy development and should not yet be considered ready for classroom use.

 * Monetary Circuit Model
 * Overview of economic schools of thought
 * Economic learning resources

Page Inventory
This is an inventory of pages in the economics category. Pages in the "Content" section likely have educational content which may be of value. They should be expanded or have their contents added to an active project. Pages in the "No Content" section are complete stubs or otherwise do not have anything useful. They should be expanded or removed. Pages that are part of actively developed projects or are good quality should go in the appropriate sections above.

Online Resources
This project aims to collect links to good online resources for students and teachers. Resources can include textbooks, data sources, lectures, etc.

 * Julie Nelson, "A problem-centered and student-centered approach to teaching pluralist economics" (paper about teaching economics)
 * R. Preston McAfee, "Introduction to Economic Analysis" (Orthodox microeconomics textbook)
 * Yoram Bauman, "Quantum Microeconomics"
 * David Andolfatto, "Macroeconomic Theory and Policy (2e)"
 * Economics in one lesson (Austrian school)
 * Thomas Taylor, "Introduction to Austrian Economics" (Austrian)
 * Gene Callahan, "Economics for Real People" (Austrian)
 * Lorie Tarshis, "The Elements of Economics (ebook)" (Keynesian)
 * The Economics Network Online Text and Notes
 * TradingEconomics data
 * United States economic data
 * UC Berkeley webcasts
 * MIT OpenCourseWare
 * COREECON, Economics for a changing world. The Economy, a free, open access text for introductory undergraduate courses.
 * Economics for inclusive prosperity.
 * Economics Dictionary of Arguments (A synopsis of theories and counter positions)

Blogroll
The Blogroll project aims to collect links to blogs of professional economists and organizations of economists, broadly sorted by school of thought.

Research and Discussion Projects

 * Economics colloquium
 * Investigating Ripple
 * Novel economic mechanisms
 * 2008 global economic crisis
 * What do the unions do?

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Uronic acid

Uronic acids or alduronic acids are a class of sugar acids with both carbonyl and carboxylic acid functional groups. They are sugars in which the hydroxyl group furthest from the carbonyl group has been oxidized to a carboxylic acid. Usually the sugar is an aldose, but fructuronic acid also occurs. Oxidation of the terminal aldehyde instead yields an aldonic acid, while oxidation of both the terminal hydroxyl group and the aldehyde yields an aldaric acid. The names of uronic acids are generally based on their parent sugars, for example, the uronic acid analog of glucose is glucuronic acid. Uronic acids derived from hexoses are known as hexuronic acids and uronic acids derived from pentoses are known as penturonic acids.

Examples
Some of these compounds have important biochemical functions; for example, many wastes in the human body are excreted in the urine as their glucuronate salts, and iduronic acid is a component of some structural complexes such as proteoglycans.

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United States National Slavery Museum

The United States National Slavery Museum was an unfunded proposal for a museum to commemorate American slavery.

Fredericksburg proposal
In 2001 a non-profit organization was founded in Fredericksburg, Virginia, to raise funds and campaign to establish a national museum on slavery in America.

On October 8, 2001, Douglas Wilder, mayor of Richmond, Virginia, announced his intention to build a National Slavery Museum in Fredericksburg, on 38 acres donated by the Silver Company at the Celebrate Virginia Retail and Tourism complex. The site overlooks the Rappahannock River and is located less than one mile from Interstate 95 (the principal North-South artery for the U.S. East Coast). Originally projected to open in 2004, the museum was to be part of the state's "Celebrate Virginia" development along the busy I-95 travel corridor between Richmond and Washington DC.

In 2005 the Fredericksburg City Council set a deadline to begin construction by August 1, 2008, in order for the project to retain its special-use permit (allowing the planned building to exceed zoning restrictions on height.) The museum project made its last tax payment on May 15, 2008, and the following day the executive director wrote the City Council to request to delay construction for one year (until August 2009). In June 2008, appeared before the City Council to ask for an exemption to pay real-estate taxes (retroactive to 2002), but this request was denied on June 24, 2008, by a vote of 6-1. By the end of the year the project's leased offices in Fredericksburg were reported to be vacant. The local Fredericksburg newspaper reported in February 2009 that the offices had never had much staff beyond Executive Director Vonita Foster and one assistant.

The museum was intended to have as its primary mission education, re-education, and policy formation regarding slavery in America and its enduring legacy. Former Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder is the museum project's founder. The project, effectively, died in 2008 due to its inability to raise sufficient funds to pay property taxes, let alone begin construction. On September 22, 2011, the organization filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Fredericksburg. In early 2011 museum founder, Douglas Wilder, was refusing to respond to or answer any questions from either news reporters or patrons who had donated artifacts.

Work ceased in 2007 with the dedication of a small (one-third acre) Spirit of Freedom Garden. In June 2008 the museum was denied tax-exempt status. From that time, taxes on the land had not been paid and the property was at risk of being sold at auction by the city of Fredericksburg.

According to a news report in mid-August 2011, the museum property has an assessed value of $7.6 million, and delinquent property taxes for the years 2009, 2010, and 2011 amount to just over $215,000. Virginia tax authorities said the property became eligible to be sold as a tax sale on December 31, 2010. Official notification of the commonwealth's intent to sell the property was planned for late August 2011, but a tax official said it was unlikely "anything would really happen" for six months (until early 2012), and the planned tax sale would be dropped if taxes were paid. But then the organization filed for Chapter 11 protection in September, although it remains unclear if the purpose was reorganization or liquidation.

On October 21, 2013, the Hagerstown Suns and Diamond Nation finalized an agreement to purchase the land of the proposed museum property. Under the deal, the city of Fredericksburg will receive $450,000 in back taxes owed from the US National Slavery Museum's failure to pay its taxes.

Richmond plan
The former Governor of Virginia, Bob McDonnell, committed 11 million dollars in state funds toward the 30-plus million needed to build a National Museum of Slavery in the Shockoe Bottom, in Richmond, Virginia. The proposed development project would include the museum, new business and residential properties, a Kroger grocery store, and a baseball stadium, intended to help improve a generally depressed area. The National Museum of Slavery would be built next to a slave graveyard and what is considered (after New Orleans) the second-largest slave trading station in U.S. history. In a February 10, 2014, Richmond City Council meeting, the council voted unanimously to commit $5 million (~$ in ) to honor slave-history sites. This complemented the $11 million proposed by McDonnell. This deal did not include funding for a planned ballpark. However, according to columnist Michael Paul Williams, writing in the Richmond Times-Dispatch in June, 2015, "the idea went nowhere."

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batina

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) cassock clerical clothing
 * 2) academic gown
 * 1) academic gown

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) club (stick)

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User:Ember The Spell

Wuss poppin. I is known as Pyro. I have swag and I disagree with communism. I have good friends and I like fire.

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Manu Balda

Faberth Manuel 'Manu' Balda Rodríguez (born 21 February 1992) is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays for C.D. El Nacional as a winger.

Club career
Born in Portoviejo, Balda moved to Barcelona in 2001, aged nine, and started his career at CE L'Hospitalet's youth setup. He finished his formation with UDA Gramenet, and made his senior debuts with the reserves in the 2010–11 campaign; he also appeared with the main squad, being relegated from Segunda División B.

On 30 January 2013 Balda moved to AE Prat, also in the third level. He suffered another relegation in 2013–14, being mostly used as a backup.

On 17 July 2014 Balda signed for fellow league team CF Badalona, and featured regularly for the club during his spell. On 19 January of the following year he rescinded his link and moved to Superleague Greece side Panthrakikos F.C.

Balda played his first match as a professional on 24 January 2015, coming on as a late substitute in a 1–0 home win against Levadiakos F.C.

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Half a Mill

Jasun Wardlaw (April 6, 1973 – October 22, 2003) better known by his stage name Half a Mill, was a Brooklyn-based American rapper.

Career
Half a Mill was considered an underground rapper in the early 1990s. His mainstream breakthrough came in 1997 when he scored a guest spot on supergroup the Firm's only release, The Album.

Personal life and death
Wardlaw would commit suicide by shooting himself in the head in Brooklyn's Albany Projects on October 22, 2003. His body was found by police inside his apartment. He left behind a son, Jasun Jabbar Wardlaw Jr., who is a rapper and actor.

Half a Mill was the subject of the 2010 full-length documentary Player Hating: A Love Story by filmmaker Maggie Hadleigh-West.

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Simargl Air Company

Simargl Air provides charter passenger VIP, sightseeing and crop-spraying flights in the Caucasus region of Russia.

Destinations

 * Sightseeing flights
 * Flying around on a circular route in Nalchik
 * Circled area of the Blue Lakes
 * Circled area Tyrnyauz
 * Circled area Adiyuh Palace (n.p. Habez, KCR) on a circular route
 * Circled area Dombai
 * Circled area Arkhyz
 * Shuttle flights (Excursions)
 * Nalchik, Nalchik Chegem waterfalls, without landing
 * Nalchik, Nalchik, Blue Lakes, without boarding
 * Nalchik, Nalchik Bezengi gorge, without landing
 * Nalchik-area Tyrnyauz (rest), Nalchik
 * Tyrnyauz-V. Baksana-Tyrnyauz, without landing
 * Nalchik, Nalchik V.Baksan, without landing
 * Nalchik-Khabazi (CBD), Nalchik, without landing
 * Nalchik-Khabez (KCR), Nalchik, landing in Khabez
 * Khabez-Dombai (rest 2–3 hours) Khabez
 * Khabez-Arkhyz (rest 2–3 hours) Khabez
 * Khabez-mineral water-Khabez
 * Khabez-Stavropol-Khabez
 * Khabez-Nevynomysk-Khabez
 * Khabez-Armavir-Khabez
 * Nchk-Teberda/Dombay-Nalchik

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator/ISTJ

The Introverted Sensor Thinker Judger is a traditionally masculine personality type, detached, unexpressive, concrete, and not given to speculation.

Real

 * George H.W. Bush
 * Jeb Bush
 * Angela Merkel
 * Harry Truman
 * George Washington

Fictional

 * Chaol Westfall (Throne of Glass)
 * Grand Moff Tarkin (Star Wars)
 * Dwight Schrute (The Office)
 * Manny (Ice Age)
 * Soichiro Yagami (Death Note)
 * Susan Pevensie (The Chronicles of Narnia)
 * Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games)

Working with an ISTJ
ISTJ's are detail people. You will mostly find them in technical service industries, including medical fields, accounting, police work, engineering, office managers, and so forth. They are keen sensors of their environments; tastes, smells, noise levels. They often prefer a quiet work environment, where they can concentrate and focus on the task at hand. They work slowly and methodically, and don't like to be rushed. They can be focused on keeping structure in order and feel most comfortable when everyone is doing what they are supposed to be doing. ISTJ's value their personal privacy, and like to remain professional. Due to their discreet and reserved nature, others may see them as snobbish or uptight. Often times they remain anonymous for achievements they have accomplished. They may be upset with people who don't follow the rules, honor their promises, or follow through, but may not say so publicly. Traits they may value among fellow coworkers are loyalty, friendliness, and a strong work ethic. They are usually willing to lend their help to others in need if they have time.

ISTJs in relationships
ISTJ Relationships in the general sense are regarded as of high importance, and are expected to be of same value to associates.

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Cleon Throckmorton

Cleon Francis "Throck" Throckmorton (October 8, 1897 – October 23, 1965) was an American painter, theatrical designer, producer, and architect. During the early 1920s, Throckmorton resided in Washington, D.C., where he created sets for stage productions by Howard University, a historically black college.

While associated with Howard University, he operated the Krazy Kat speakeasy in Washington, D.C., a gathering place for artists and intellectuals. After noticing Throckmorton's set design work for Ridgely Torrence's Simon the Cyrenian at Howard University, producer George Cram Cook recruited Throckmorton to create the sets for the Provincetown Players' upcoming production of playwright Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones.

Following the success of The Emperor Jones, Throckmorton became one of the most prolific set designers of the Jazz Age. His set designs were featured in over six hundred productions. During the heyday of his career, it was said that the only person whose name appeared on more playbills than Throckmorton's was the fire commissioner. He was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2002.

Early life and education
Born in Absecon, just outside Atlantic City, New Jersey, Throckmorton's parents Ernest Upton Throckmorton and Roberta Cowing Throckmorton had moved to Washington, D.C. by 1912 where Ernest ran a cigar store. His mother was an artist employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Throckmorton's early years were spent in Atlantic City and Washington, D.C. He purportedly was deeply influenced by the gothic atmosphere of the American South which he drew upon in later years when he designed sets for All God's Chillun Got Wings (1924) and Porgy (1928).

As a young man, Throckmorton studied engineering at the Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1917–18 and George Washington University from 1918–19. As a student, he worked as a lab assistant at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He developed an interest in painting, and studied painting with portraitist Charles Webster Hawthorne and Alexis Many. According to Throckmorton, his career began as a bet made with other artists in Washington, D.C. The artists claimed he could not succeed both in engineering and painting. Within a year, Throckmorton won the bet by graduating with an engineering degree and had an exposition of his paintings at the Biennial Exposition of Contemporary Artists. Attempting to reconcile his passion for painting with his love of engineering, he gradually became aware of "the perfect marriage of the two professions—set designing."

Early efforts and speakeasy owner
After obtaining an engineering degree and following an exhibition of his paintings, Throckmorton began advertising himself as a specialist "in difficult tasks for the theater that require the combination of the artist and the engineer." Soon after, he became a frequent collaborator and associate with the African-American drama department at Howard University, a federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. He taught classes, produced plays, and designed sets at Howard University circa 1920–22.

While associated with Howard University, Throckmorton operated the Krazy Kat Klub, a raucous nightclub and speakeasy situated at No. 3 Green Court near Washington, D.C.'s Thomas Circle. As a pre-Raphaelite impressionist, Throckmorton believed that artists should pursue their vocation day and night by surrounding themselves with appropriate settings that inspired creativity, and the venue fulfilled that purpose.

Due to its courtyard and tree-house, the establishment became as an idyllic haunt for artists, bohemians, flappers, and other free-wheeling "young moderns" during the Jazz Age. A frequent club habitué was Kathryn Marie "Kat" Mullin, a model and sketch artist known for her radio performances as a singer and ukulele player with the Crandall Saturday Nighters. During this period, a 24-year-old Throckmorton married his model and muse 19-year-old Kathryn Mullin on January 10, 1922, in Manhattan, New York.

While operating the Krazy Kat Klub speakeasy in Washington, D.C., Throckmorton became acquainted with theater producer George Cram Cook, a key figure in the experimental theater collective known as the Provincetown Players located in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Cook had been impressed by Throckmorton's avant-garde work on Ridgely Torrence's Simon the Cyrenian at Howard University, and he offered Throckmorton the opportunity to design the sets for the upcoming first production of Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones (1920). Throckmorton completed the sketches and sets in only three days, and the play opened to rave reviews on November 1, 1920.

Meteoric success and cultural zenith
Due to the ecstatic critical reception of Throckmorton's set work for The Emperor Jones, Throckmorton went on to work on stage design or set design for over six hundred productions during the next decade. His many works included The Hairy Ape (1922), In Abraham's Bosom (1926; Pulitzer Prize, 1927), Porgy (1928), the American premiere of The Threepenny Opera (1933), Sidney Howard's Alien Corn (1933), the 1935 American premiere of Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding (retitled as The Bitter Oleanders), and a 1942 production of Nathan the Wise. During this heyday of Throckmorton's career, it was said that the only person whose name appeared on more playbills than Throckmorton's was the fire commissioner. Many notable artists and stage designers worked with Throckmorton at the Provincetown Players, including Mordecai Gorelik, Alexander Calder, and Robert Edmond Jones.

By 1928, following his divorce from his first wife Kathryn Mullin and his second marriage to screen actress Juliet Brenon, Throckmorton had relocated to Hoboken, New Jersey, where he and his intimate friend, writer Christopher Morley, co-founded the Hoboken Theatrical Company. They produced at the Old Rialto Theatre a series of successful revivals of old-time melodramas from the gaslight era, "complete with peanuts—hisses for the villain and cheers for the heroes."

The efforts of Throckmorton and Morley led to a brief cultural flowering in the city. They concurrently produced an assortment of experimental crafts including an illustrated map of Hoboken, Hoboken passports, and a book, "Born in a Beer Garden, or She Troupes to Conquer" (1930), written with then-unknown poet Ogden Nash. Throckmorton and Morley later produced plays at the Millpond Playhouse in Roslyn, New York, including a well-received production of Morley's "The Trojan Horse".

While residing in a studio at West Third Street in New York City during the early 1930s, Throckmorton produced a series of drawings which soon decorated the "Volare" restaurant in Greenwich Village in New York City, where they have been hanging since 1933. In 1934, Throckmorton's four concept drawings for the scene designs in The Emperor Jones were included in the 1934 International Exhibition of Theatre Art at the Museum of Modern Art.

During this period, Throckmorton also became known as an architect and designer of theaters, working on the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village, the Westport Country Playhouse in Connecticut, the Cape Playhouse at Dennis on Cape Cod, and many others. In 1935, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Theatre Arts to study classic European theaters.

Decline and later years
After his artistic zenith during the Jazz Age, Throckmorton's theatrical work steadily declined in the 1940s, and he was forced to move on to other ventures. He became an event planner, created murals for restaurants and nightclubs, and designed private homes. He also did pioneering television work designing simulations of historical events, battles, and other events that could not be filmed. He became the first art director for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) during the early years of television.

As his career declined, Throckmorton divided his time between his Greenwich Village apartment and a residence in the Bahamas. In his final years, Throckmorton lived with his second wife Juliet Brenon in semi-retirement at 33 South North Carolina Avenue in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He died at 68 years old on October 23, 1965. Nearly forty years after his death, he was posthumously inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2002.

Marriages
Throckmorton's first wife was Kathryn Marie "Kat" Mullin (1902–1994). A model, sketch artist and later costume designer, Mullin was a frequent habitué of Throckmorton's speakeasy known as "The Kat" in Washington, D.C., and she was known for her radio and stage performances as a singer and ukulele player with the Crandall Saturday Nighters. For her stage performances, she was billed as "The Girl With the Million Dollar Legs." When not performing, she was a renowned expert in women's saber fencing and gave public exhibitions.

After four years of marriage, Kathryn sued Cleon for divorce on December 17, 1926, after catching him in an extramarital affair with an unidentified woman—possibly silent movie actress Juliet Brenon—in their Greenwich Village apartment in New York City. Kathryn's friend, African-American stage actress Blanche Dunn, served as a witness on her behalf in the divorce suit. Cleon did not contest the divorce, and Kathryn did not seek alimony. After her uncontested divorce from Throckmorton, Kathryn married New York Daily News political journalist John Parsons O'Donnell on May 6, 1927, in a civil ceremony, but they divorced shortly thereafter in 1929.

Immediately after his divorce from Kathryn Mullin, Throckmorton married his second wife, silent movie actress Juliet Brenon (1895–1979) on March 13, 1927. The Brenons were a musical and theatrical family; her father Algernon had been a music critic, and her uncle Herbert Brenon was a prolific film director who directed the first cinematic adaptation of The Great Gatsby in 1926. Juliet's sister Aileen (1894–1967) was a music critic and theatrical publicist whose husband was art critic Thomas Craven.

During the 1930s, Throckmorton's and Brenon's Greenwich Village apartment became an after-hours salon for thespians, artists, and intellectuals such as Noël Coward, Norman Bel Geddes, Eugene O'Neill, and E.E. Cummings. Their politically leftward salon notably raised funds for the Republican faction during the Spanish Civil War.

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Macroeconomics/Macroeconomic Objectives

Macroeconomic objectives
Broadly, the objective of macroeconomic policies is to maximize the level of national income, providing economic growth to raise the utility and standard of living of participants in the economy. There are also a number of secondary objectives which are held to lead to the maximization of income over the long run. While there are variations between the objectives of different national and international entities, most follow the ones detailed below:
 * 1)  Sustainability  - a rate of growth which allows an increase in living standards without undue structural and environmental difficulties. 'Economic growth' will be studied later on in this book.
 * 2) Full employment - where those who are able and willing to have a job can get one, given that there will be a certain amount of frictional, seasonal and structural unemployment (referred to as the natural rate of unemployment).
 * 3)  Price stability - when prices remain largely stable, and there is not rapid inflation or deflation. Price stability is not necessarily the same as zero inflation, but instead steady levels of low-moderate inflation is often regarded as ideal. It is worth noting that prices of some goods and services often fall as a result of productivity improvements during periods of inflation, as inflation is only a measure of general price levels. However, inflation is a good measure of 'price stability'. Zero inflation is often undesirable in an economy. ("Internal Balance" is used to describe a level of economic activity that results in full employment with no inflation.)
 * 4) External Balance - equilibrium in the Balance of payments without the use of artificial constraints. That is, the value of exports being roughly equal to the value of imports over the long run.
 * 5) Equitable distribution of income and wealth - a fair share of the national 'cake', more equitable than would be in the case of an entirely free market. Like the other economic objectives,  the distribution of income is a partly subjective or normative issue
 * 6) Increasing Productivity - more output per unit of labour per hour. Also, since labor is but one of many inputs to produce goods and services, it could also be described as output per unit of factor inputs per hour.
 * 7) Trade Equilibrium - equilibrium in the Balance of payments without the use of artificial constraints. That is, exports roughly equal to imports over the long run.

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Talk:Excuse My French (album)

Song with the Weeknd?
around the background paragraph the article says he has a song with The Weeknd called "Gifted". Lower on the confirmed tracks section the song is listed as "Lifted". Is it Lifted or Gifted?

EDIT; XXL said the track is called Gifted one the 2013 freshman class issue(may?) — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:58, 8 May 2013 (UTC)

Danny Boy Styles is NOT Danny!
@STATicVapor Danny Boy Styles is not Danny!, as this also confirms that it is not Danny Swain, but Danny Schofield, confirmed by AllMusic, please revert it back, thank you Npabebangin (talk) 02:08, 23 January 2014 (UTC)

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Peruvian units of measurement

A number of units of measurement were used in Peru to measure length, mass, area, etc. The Metric system adopted in 1862 and has been compulsory since 1869 in Peru.

System before metric system
Units from Spanish Castillian were used.

Length
One vara was equal to 0.83598 m. One pie was equal to 0.27866 m/3 varas.

Mass
Several units were used to measure mass. One libra was equal to 0.46009 kg.  Some other units are given below:

1 arroba = 25 libra

1 quintal = 100 libra

1 fanega = 140 libra.

Area
One topo was equal to 2706 m2. One fanegada was equal to 6459.6 m2.

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Fire and emergency management/Fire Officer I/Emergency Services Delivery

4.6.1 Termial Objective Given an assigned facility. A preplan must be developed.The forms and all the required elements must be identified and completed and processed. This must be in accordance with the policies and procedures of the preplanning policies.

Enabling Objectives
 * Must have knowledge of the elements of the local emergency plan.
 * Must draw and project building construction at the basic level.
 * Must give detailed information on the available water supply.
 * A detailed list of building contents and the effect it will have on the fire load.
 * This infromation must be presented both orraly and in a wriiten plan.

4.6.2 Termial Objective Given emergency response resources, and size up imformation.A plan of action must be developed.The plan must detail what resources will be needed to control the emergency.

Enabling Objectives
 * Must be able to analyze and be able to communicate a good scene size-up
 * Must be able to have additional resources available and ready to respond if needed.
 * Must understand how to activate the emergency plan at local level.
 * A understanding of the evacuation procedures and the resources that will be neede to carry out safely and effectively

4.6.3 Termial objective Given an incident and the assigned resources.A action plan must be implemented at the emergency operations level. The plan must deploy the responding resources to the proper places to mitigate the situation

Enabling Objectives
 * Must have knowledge and understand standard operating procedures.
 * A incident management system must be implemented
 * A accountability system must be implemented to personal safety and tracking.
 * Resources must be available and ready to respond to mitigate the emergency.

4.6.4 Termial Objective Given a single unit incident. A post incident analysis must be developed and conducted.Forms and all the critical elements must be identified and processed to the proper channels. This is in accordance with the post incident policies and procedures.

Enabling Objectives
 * Must understand what a post analysis is what this is designed to do.
 * Must communicate areas that may have been problems water, building construction,fire growth fire protection systems.
 * How was emergency dispathed and does the alarm assigments need to be up graded.
 * The ability to fill out and complete forms in a manner to provide a means to research the incident. Must be able to communicate these findings orraly.


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If you no longer wish to keep this log, you can turn it off using the preferences panel, and nominate this page for speedy deletion under CSD U1.

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ἀποκόπτω

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to cut off, amputate
 * 2) to beat the chest in mourning, to mourn
 * 3)  to cut off

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Next Generation Choices Foundation

The Next Generation Choices Foundation, also known as Less Cancer, is an American nonprofit organization (501(c)(3)) founded by Bill Couzens in 2004 to educate the public about cancer prevention through digital media and community-supported programming. Less Cancer seeks to make risk reduction and prevention vital parts of cancer cures. The organization's goal is to increase public awareness about cancer prevention, including sharing information about environment- and food-based causes of cancer. They also provide information on risk-reduction strategies; changing community or corporate practices and products; and sharing information about healthy lifestyle choices.

Mission
LessCancer.org addresses social and health issues regarding prevention, including food and nutritional access, specific contaminants, pollution sources, and healthy lifestyle choices, such as diet, exercise, and nutrition. The organization targets its messages to at-risk populations, such as children, low-income communities, and workers. Less Cancer's goal is to raise awareness of prevention and reduce incidence of diagnosed cancer in all people; they also support reduced use of chemicals in food production as a means to reduce cancer.

In addition to online media, Less Cancer communicates its cancer prevention message through live events, fundraisers, blogs, letters to the editor, outreach to lawmakers, round tables, and panel discussions with health-related constituencies, as well as through self-sponsored speaker series and congressional testimony. The organization encourages supporter education and activism regarding exposures to lawn and garden pesticides, and spraying at schools and other communities where children and others are at risk.

Public outreach and media coverage
LessCancer.org sponsors a speaker series, promoting speakers who address concerns related to the organization's mission, including a talk by Gary Hirshberg on the use of chemicals and genetically modified organisms in daily diet.

The Next Generation Choices/LessCancer organization's active YouTube channels include "Less Cancer Minute" segments, which provide information on topics such as specific nutrients and the benefits of organic food. The reporter/host of the Less Cancer Minute sequences, Holli Thompson, has written a book on nutrition. The Next Generation Choices Foundation produced the Healthy Town YouTube channel videos, which were shown on Capitol Hill. The group also produced Too Cool to Smoke, (a.k.a. MySchools2Cool2Smoke).

On February 24, 2010, in his remarks to the House of Representatives, Congressman Frank Wolf of Virginia recognized the Next Generation Choices Foundation and founder Bill Couzens for their efforts to raise awareness about cancer prevention.

Couzens has also spoken at a conference for the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, held at the University of Pittsburgh's Cancer Institute April 8, 2005; on Capitol Hill for National Cancer Prevention Day February 4, 2013;, at the University School of Medicine, and at schools about cancer prevention, including the Foxcroft School.

On October 10, 2013, Michigan State Senator Bert Johnson recognized LessCancer for the organization's 2013 Port Huron to Mackinac Island Cycle Ride.

LessCancer.org Board members Bill Couzens and Margaret I. Cuomo were interviewed by The Huffington Post on the subject of cancer prevention. Both Couzens and Cuomo write blogs on The Huffington Post that promote the organization and address issues related to cancer prevention. In addition to her blog, Cuomo also wrote a book on cancer prevention titled A World Without Cancer: The Making of a New World and the Real Promise of Prevention.

In December 2012, the organization partnered with the Children's Hospital of Michigan Foundation to create the LessCancer.org Prevention Fund, which will support research and advocacy to stop diseases caused by environmental hazards, lifestyle choices, and diet.

Concurrent with the Port Huron to Mackinac Boat Race, Less Cancer also has sponsored a 300-mile fundraising bicycle ride in Michigan in July 2013 and July 2014. Journalist Miles O'Brien and Sanjay Gupta reported on and rode in the race in 2014. CNN covered the 2015 bike ride in connection with journalist Miles O'Brien's recovery from a partial arm amputation. The 2015 ride aimed to raise $50,000 to help the Foundation get out its message about environmental and lifestyle changes for preventing cancer.

Elsie Hillman was recognized by LessCancer with an "Annie" award, named for Founder Bill Couzens' sister who died from cancer. LessCancer gives out the award to recognize individuals for their efforts in support of cancer prevention awareness.

LessCancer created an honorary Ronald B. Herberman Memorial Lecturer in honor of Herberman, who served as a board member. Graham Colditz served as the Herberman Lecturer in 2014; David L. Katz was the Lecturer in 2015.

Couzens and LessCancer.org were profiled on LoveToKnow.com.

Bill Couzens and Margaret Cuomo were interviewed by The Huffington Post regarding National Cancer Prevention Day on February 4, 2015. Cuomo was also interviewed by Hamptons Magazine and quoted by DigitalJournal.com in connection with the 2015 event. The Huffington Post presented a series of blogs on cancer prevention as part of National Cancer Prevention Day in 2015.

Less Cancer led the campaign to establish Cancer Prevention Days in Virginia, New Hampshire, New York, and Michigan, as well as National Cancer Prevention Day. A resolution calling for National Cancer Prevention Day was introduced in the U.S. Congress in 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015 by Rep. Steve Israel of New York. As part of this activity on February 4, 2014, Rep. Israel, Graham Colditz, MD, Margaret I. Cuomo, Rep. Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania, and Howard Koh spoke at a panel discussion on cancer prevention in the Rayburn Building. The National Cancer Prevention Day speakers for 2015 included Dr. David Katz, Acting Assistant Secretary of U.S. Health & Human Services Anand Parekh, Rep. Israel, Rep.Dent, Rep. Debbie Dingell, Rep. Don Beyer, New Hampshire Representative (and Less Cancer representative) Thomas Sherman, MD, journalist Miles O'Brien, documentary filmmaker Jon Whelan, dermatologist Sandra Read, MD, and LessCancer Board Member Veronique Pittman.

Bill Couzens has conducted outreach at The Highland School, speaking with students studying Social Justice about his experiences advocating for the cause of preventing cancer. Seventeen students from Highland attended National Cancer Prevention Day on Capitol Hill in February 2015.

In his capacity as a representative in the New Hampshire legislature, Next Generation Choices Chairman of the Board Tom Sherman co-sponsored a bill to ban teenagers from patronizing tanning salons. The bill was passed into law by Governor Maggie Hassan in early June 2015.

On July 28, 2015, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-12) and Congressman Tim Murphy (PA-18) announced the formation of the bipartisan Congressional Cancer Prevention Caucus. The caucus, which is the first of its kind, was formed in collaboration with Bill Couzens, founder of National Cancer Prevention Day and the non-profit organization Next Generation Choices Foundation, widely known as Less Cancer, to expand education and awareness about cancer prevention. On February 2, 2016, Dingell posted in op-ed in The Huffington Post promoting the Cancer Prevention Caucus and advocating legislative action to "promote and support legislation focusing on issues such as diet and exercise, protective vaccinations, education about the risks of tobacco and alcohol, and many others." The Huffington Post editorial was written "in recognition of National Cancer Prevention Day (Feb. 4), and in conjunction with lesscancer.org's event on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., that day."

According to Congresswoman Dingell's website, "The Congressional Cancer Prevention Caucus is designed to help stop [the ongoing impact of cancer on American families] by providing a bipartisan forum to engage Members of Congress, their staff, the medical community, advocacy groups, academia and the public on lifestyle and environmental factors that can reduce cancer risk. The caucus will seek to increase education and awareness and advance policy solutions that improve public health and help prevent cancer before it starts."

In late 2015, Bill Couzens the Next Generation Choices Foundation founder was asked to join the True Health Initiative, a coalition of prominent medical professionals and nonprofit groups founded by David Katz to combat preventable diseases through lifestyle changes. Next Generation Choices Board member Margaret I. Cuomo is also a member of the True Health Council.

On February 17, 2016, U.S. Representative Charlie Dent (R-PA) served as the Elsie Hillman Speaker at the Next Generation Choices' 2016 National Cancer Prevention Day event. An article in the Ripon Advance quoted Dent as stating that there was bipartisan support in Congress for cancer prevention measures: "Last year's appropriations bill provided a $2 billion increase for the National Institutes of Health, and as we prepare for fiscal year 2017, I will once again work to ensure that this critical funding is provided for efforts that can make a true difference going forward."

Less Cancer's mission was profiled in Seacoast Online on February 28, 2016. The report included interviews with NGCF Founder Bill Couzens and Board member New Hampshire State Representative Dr. Tom Sherman.

Less Cancer was mentioned in a blog written by Congressman Tim Murphy (R-PA) for being one of several organizations "that work towards advocating for better personal and community health."

Less Cancer and Bill Couzens were discussed by Congresswoman Debbie Dingell on her official website in connection with the Cancer Prevention Caucus on February 1, 2017.

Bill Couzens and his work with the Next Generation Choices Foundation were profiled in the February edition of Middleburg (VA), Life Magazine.

Less Cancer was mentioned in a list of ten cancer-fighting charities "doing amazing work" in the field of cancer care.

The group's June 2017 328-mile "Split the Mitt" bicycle ride through Michigan raised over $70,000 for cancer prevention initiatives. The race ran from Detroit to Traverse City, MI; the ride started with 17 cyclists, with additional riders joining along the route. The race ended at the National Cancer Survivor's Day Picnic.

Board members

 * Thomas M. Sherman, LessCancer Chairman of the Board of Directors, New Hampshire State Representative, Gastroenterologist
 * William U. "Bill" Couzens, LessCancer President, Founder
 * Rob Bilott
 * Yvette Lee Bowser
 * John M. Couzens (Emeritus Member)
 * Donna Eacho
 * Larry Fisher
 * Ronald B. Herberman (in Memoriam)
 * Greg Lam, Vice President
 * David MacDonald
 * Miles O'Brien
 * Natalia Pejacsevich
 * Veronique Pittman, Information Architecture Designer for Green Schools Alliance, blogger on The Huffington Post, (wife of Robert Pittman)
 * Maryann Donovan
 * Kristiane Crane Graham, Treasurer

Advisory Board Members
 * Jan Carney, former Commissioner of Public Health for the state of Vermont
 * Graham Colditz, Epidepmiologist at Washington University
 * Janie Heath, Dean of University of Kentucky College of Nursing
 * David L. Katz, Nutritionist and Founder of the Yale University Prevention Research Center
 * John Groopman, Anna M. Baetjer Professor of Environmental Health Professor, Johns Hopkins University

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Table tennis at the 2006 Commonwealth Games

Table Tennis at the 2006 Commonwealth Games was held at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre (MSAC) during March 16–26.

Men's team
Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Pool D

Final Rounds

Women's team
Pool A

Pool B

Pool C

Final Rounds


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tremendamente

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) terribly, awfully, tremendously

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) tremendously

title: tremendamente


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Wikiversity:Featured

This page coordinates and informs about featured content on Wikiversity.

What is featured content?
Featured content is considered, for a variety of reasons, to present Wikiversity at its best to the general public. Featured content may show exemplary course design, a novel, usable and fully functioning approach to wiki-based education, or educational resources that have simply reached a high state of completion or had very large amounts of work done on them.

See also: the Picture of the Day system

How is featured content displayed to the public?
There are a number of ways featured content is used.

 * 1) Featured content on Wikiversity is regularly rotated in the "today's featured project" on the main page.
 * 2) A wider range of material from this page, including content which is proposed-for but not-yet featured, is included in a special pseudo-random-page system accessed from the left-hand navigation panel on every page of Wikiversity - see Random project.
 * 3) Many portals also have featured content. This page can be used for finding resources which are suitable for featuring on specific portals. Portals tend to set the bar for featured content somewhat lower, so portals may also feature content not listed here.

An important difference between featured content on Wikiversity and featured content on much larger projects is that on Wikiversity, featured content is rotated. On very large projects, featured content is selected by special interest groups several weeks or months in advance, and is always new. On Wikiversity, to save time, and as a result of the lower level of content production, featured content is rotated on a daily basis. Featured content therefore reappears on the main page at regular intervals.

Who selects featured content?
Selecting and maintaining a featured content system requires a time-consuming long-term commitment and a wide knowledge of Wikiversity content. Few people have ever been prepared to invest time in this. On larger projects, featured content is usually selected by democratic vote. However democratic systems only work when there is a large enough body of well-informed participants in a featured content project. The Wikiversity system is unfortunately rather autocratic at the current time, but any user can propose content (just add it below) and comment on other suggestions. Please inform yourself widely about featured content before commenting if you can.

There is no formal system of criteria at the current time, but you can discuss proposals for criteria on the talk page. On the whole, it would be desirable if featured content could represent as many different subjects and educational levels as possible.

Other ways of drawing attention to educational resources
The following ideas have been suggested at some time or other:
 * Events
 * Add an "events" entry to the left-hand navigation panel, which links to an events page, which in turn lists upcoming events (e.g. meetings, synchronous discussions). This would require someone prepared to regularly maintain the page.
 * Notify events on Mediawiki:sitenotice (requires custodian) or in the main page news box (registered users).
 * Projects and resources in need of development
 * These are "development drives". A development drives page could be created and maintained, which randomly rotates project links in the "development" box on the main page. This would require someone prepared to regularly maintain the page.
 * Projects and resources in need of participants
 * This idea relates to educational resources which are "ready" for the public, but which may have very little content because the content is supposed to come from active community participation. These projects might be candidates for featured status once a community has created a substantial body of content, but at the current time these resources are more sketches or skeletons of ideas for participatory learning. The idea of drawing attention to these is to attract participants who will "develop" the resource, but "development" here is not meant in the usual sense of "development" (as in "development drive") because development (production) and use (consumption) merge. A "needs-participants" page could be created and maintained, which randomly rotates project links in the "community" box on the main page. This would require someone prepared to regularly maintain the page.
 * One could also classify a participation drive as an "event"

Current featured content
Category:Featured resources

 * Reference: Archive of discussions of successful featured content
 * Tour: Featured content
 * Admin: Template:Featured Content/Nav, Template:FOTD, Template:FOTD/CALC, Template:cool, Template:hot
 * Number of pages in featured resources: c. 1500-1600 (about 17%-18% of Wikiversity content)
 * Number of featured resources: 18
 * Average size of featured resources: 83-88 pages

Shortlisted
''This is an administrative section. It contains content which will shortly be added to featured content. The content listed here is currently being cleaned up and checked prior to featuring. Please feel welcome to help with the polishing process. When material here has been processed, it is archived at Archive of discussions of successful featured content.''

New proposals for featured content

 * 1) If you propose something, please give a very brief reason/description (max 1 line) and sign your name. Thanks!
 * 2) Others: please add your comments below the proposal and sign your name too. Thanks!

Please help identify well developed or complete science resources to feature during Year of Science 2016. --mikeu talk 20:20, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

IT Fundamentals
IT Fundamentals is an excellent resource and very useful. --mikeu talk 23:11, 10 February 2016 (UTC)

Review of IT Fundamentals:

The course is aimed at the IT Fundamentals certification. At the outset IT is not a specialty. My initial impression from looking at the course materials starting at Wikiversity is that they are smart, smooth, and well-presented. There are 15 lessons. If there are any weaknesses with the course, I would expect them to be with a dependency on Wikipedia. Sampling, I looked at

1. Hardware and chose something I haven't heard of or read before: from Wikipedia "In computing, a computer bus operating with double data rate (DDR) transfers data on both the rising and falling edges of the clock signal.[1][page needed] This is also known as double pumped, dual-pumped, and double transition." From Google scholar I found using "double date rate" and "the rising and falling edges of the clock signal": "For example, a double date rate (DDR) technique may be used, in which both the rising and falling edges of the clock signal are used to latch data." This informs me that on the certification exam something analogous, similar, or exactly phrased would be accepted as the correct answer to "What is DDR?"

4. Virtualization: from Wikipedia on Cloud computing "SureCloud computing, also on-demand computing, is a kind of Internet-based computing that provides shared processing resources and data to computers and other devices on demand." From Google scholar I found using "cloud computing" and "shared processing resources and data": "Cloud computing, also on-demand computing, is a kind of Internet-based computing that provides shared processing resources and data to computers and other devices on demand." The statement is referenced [25][24] to [R. Meireles, M. Boban, P. Steenkiste, O. Tonguz, and J. Barros, “Experimental study on the impact of vehicular obstructions in vanets,” in Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), 2010 IEEE, pp. 338–345, IEEE, 2010.] and [Md Whaiduzzaman, Mehdi Sookhak, Abdullah Gani, Rajkumar Buyya, “A survey on vehicular cloud computing” , Journal of Network and Computer Applications.] respectively. Again, I would expect this answer would be successful on the certification exam.

9. Commands and Scripting: from Wikipedia "Path (computing)": "A path, the general form of the name of a file or directory, specifies a unique location in a file system." I found on Google Scholar using "specifies a unique location in a file system" and "path": "A “file path” specifies a unique location in a file system. A path points to a file system location by following the directory tree hierarchy expressed in a string of characters in which path components, separated by a delimiting character, represent each directory."

12. Security: from Wikipedia "Hardening (computing)": "In computing, hardening is usually the process of securing a system by reducing its surface of vulnerability, which is larger when a system performs more functions; in principle a single-function system is more secure than a multipurpose one." Using "reducing its surface of vulnerability" and "hardening" on Google Scholar I found "Operating system hardening is the process of securing an operating system by reducing its surface of vulnerability."

While this is by no means a thorough examination of the merits of the course and its potential to students, it does demonstrate that the creator has double checked on Wikipedia to make sure the correct and necessary information is being conveyed to students through perhaps the weakest link. Although the course is relatively new to Wikiversity, I endorse its being rated as a Featured resource. --Marshallsumter (discuss • contribs) 02:16, 21 April 2016 (UTC)

Motivation and emotion
Motivation and emotion is one of the longest run and most developed projects on wikiversity. Very high quality. --mikeu talk 23:07, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I've gone ahead and added Motivation and emotion as a featured course: Featured_content/20 and bumped the FOTD counter: Template:FOTD/CALC. I've tried adding it the featured content tour, but isn't showing: Template:Featured Content/Nav. Seems to be something to with being at the end? -- Jtneill - Talk - c 04:54, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

Effective defense and ISIL
Effective defense and ISIL is a quality resource that thoroughly cites the sources used to present a neutral point of view on a topic currently in the news. --mikeu talk 20:26, 18 January 2016 (UTC)

The Crafting Freedom Project
The Crafting Freedom Project is an excellent resource in the public humanities. It tells the stories of how historic events have an impact on the everyday lives of people who are caught up in events beyond their control. --mikeu talk 21:10, 24 January 2016 (UTC)

Egyptian Verbal System (and its Vocalization)
Egyptian Verbal System (and its Vocalization) is one of the more fascinating projects that I've stumbled upon. It is surely a topic of rather idiosyncratic interest, but it is very well done. Resources on this subject would be difficult to find elsewhere. --mikeu talk 22:15, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

Places to go hunting for featured content

 * Category:Completed resources
 * Completed courses list
 * Google search of wikiversity.org
 * Special:MostRevisions (NB: this only has data up to September 2007, so of limited current use).
 * Most edited pages (possibly far more out of date even than the above).
 * Participants - some of the most active participants are engaged in content development, so keep an eye on what they are producing.

Most desired content
This section lists content which is most strongly desired by Wikiversity participants, but which falls far short of featured status. If you wish to create content which quickly becomes featured, then this is a good place to look for projects to work on.

French stream
French stream

 * French. Compare French stream (people who have explicitly stated a desire to learn French) and Category:French. This is a case where demand clearly outstrips supply. Just by providing a coherent set of French learning language resources, we would cater for visitors far better. --McCormack 09:51, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

Spanish
Spanish

 * Spanish. Ditto. Compare Spanish/Registration with Spanish. --McCormack 09:56, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Its my dream to find a wiki way to help in the area:(--Juan 09:11, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Content which was proposed and rejected
Items placed here are periodically archived at /Archive/Delisted.

Related resources

 * Educational Media Awareness Campaign - includes the Picture of The Day system.

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Eva Rausing

Eva Louise Rausing (Kemeny; 7 March 1964 – c. 7 May 2012) was a businesswoman and philanthropist, and a member of the Rausing family, which owns the food packaging business Tetra Pak. She was the wife of Hans Kristian Rausing, whom she met in a rehab clinic in her native U.S., and with whom she had four children.

Biography
She was born Eva Louise Kemeny, a daughter of Tom Kemeny, a PepsiCo executive. In 2008, Rausing and her husband faced drugs charges after she was caught trying to smuggle drugs into the US embassy in London, and hard drugs were subsequently found at their home. She was eventually cautioned by the police.

Rausing was the UK patron of international drug abuse prevention charity Mentor and together with her husband, she also provided financial backing to Action on Addiction, a charity that helps young people with drink and drug problems.

In 2008, Rausing was arrested after trying to enter the United States embassy in central London while carrying wraps of cocaine and heroin. She was held outside the embassy in Mayfair, leading to a police raid on the couple's Chelsea home, where more than £1,500 of drugs were found. Her husband, Hans Kristian Rausing, the heir to the £5bn Tetra Pak drink packaging empire, was then also arrested.

Death
On 10 July 2012, she was found dead at her home in Belgravia, London. Her 49-year-old husband was arrested in connection with her death and on suspicion of drugs charges. On 17 July, he was charged with delaying the burial of her body. Hans Kristian Rausing pleaded guilty, and was sentenced on 1 August to ten months' imprisonment, suspended for two years; the Judge required him to attend a two-year drug rehabilitation programme. The court heard that her heart pacemaker indicated that Eva Rausing probably died on 7 May. At the time of her death she was one of the wealthiest women in the United Kingdom.

On 29 August 2012, the British journalist Ben Quinn revealed in The Guardian that in 2011 Eva Rausing had passed on information to Swedish prosecutors about the unsolved 1986 murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme. Scotland Yard had confirmed the day before that it had given information to Swedish authorities, who wanted to question the widower, Hans Kristian Rausing, as a possible witness about the information his wife claimed to have obtained. Gunnar Wall, a Swedish author who has written two books on the Palme killing, said that Rausing had contacted him in June 2011, claiming that she had learned that Palme had been killed by a Swedish businessman, who feared that Palme was a threat to his business. Wall had conducted an e-mail correspondence with Rausing, who told him that she had written to the businessman on three occasions about the allegations. In one e-mail to Wall she wrote: "Don't forget to investigate if I should suddenly die! Just joking, I hope." Wall told the Guardian: "When her e-mails stopped, I did not think too much about it, until I heard that she had died in circumstances that were unclear ... She also told me that she was going to inform the prosecutors in Sweden and it seemed like she had some arrangement to meet them."

On 14 December 2012, a coroner said Rausing died as a result of her "dependent abuse" of drugs.

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well-formed

Adjective

 * 1)  Correctly written; syntactically correct; expressed in a way that obeys rules for constructing formulas in a certain language.

Usage notes

 * In the context of certain computer languages, such as XML, may have a very specific and precisely defined meaning.

Translations

 * Dutch: ,
 * German:
 * Irish: dea-chumtha

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Wikimedia/The History of Wikibooks/Growing Wikibooks

Until this page is expanded, see Wikipedia's treatment of the subject.

Here's a problem: it's one thing to write encyclopedia articles collaboratively. They are usually on specific, narrowly-focused topics, and it is clear what they require. Books, and even textbooks, by contrast, are very personal. There are thousands of ways to write an English composition textbook, or a textbook on C programming, or on physics. (That's why there are thousands of such textbooks.) What reason is there to think that any sufficiently knowledgeable person will want to put in the many, many hours required to write a textbook when he or she has to collaborate with others who do not share his or her understanding of what the book should look like? What would motivate anyone capable of developing a good textbook to do so with random strangers instead of either by him- or herself, or with trusted colleagues?

An answer: A Wikibook probably shouldn't expect to follow the traditional model of motivating a single author or two to write an entire book. It seems more practical for multiple authors to supply various modules while one or two editors massage the overall book into a consistent style. That way there's not too much load on any one person's shoulders.

 * That works de jure. De facto, there are not nearly enough editors to do this. Currently we have only about 1 to 2 editors per book average, and they do all the work. - SamE 02:29, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)

3 October 2005:

A missing concept: I've been perusing the various Wikimedia projects looking for a suitable forum to collaborate on the creation of new knowledge. The Wikipedia clearly is inappropriate - it addresses that which is history or known to be true. Wikisource explicitly excludes original works of authorship. Wikibooks seems to confine itself to the narrow concept of a textbook, and the answer to the objection raised above implies the persona of the creator of a body of knowledge or work of authorship, or at least the explication of a body of knowledge, is unimportant. Wikisource, in contrast acknowledges this importance, and embraces the concept of "completion" by locking pages once typography and formatting are correct.

Creation of new knowledge is happening at Wikicities, the Metaweb, the original wiki, and many other wiki.

I submit that the concept of a book embraces more than the greater depth and breadth of content when compared to an encyclopedia. A book is an expression of a personal perception of truth or the union of a limited number of such personal perceptions, and the persona(e) of the author(s) is part and parcel of that expression. You can not anonymize Shakespeare, or Einstein, or Hemingway, or Dylan Thomas, or Buckminster Fuller, or any of the other well known and seminal historical contributors to human knowledge and culture. Why then should future contributors be clothed in gray uniforms and anonymous faces? Is such anonymity even possible in an original work? With books, there is such a thing as saying "there, now it is done, complete". Some single individual must have the authority to say it.

''I was under the impression that some very significant contributions were made anonymously -- such as the Federalist Papers. I think that wiki allows people to contribute anonymously, if they should so choose, and also allows people to put their name on the book as one of its editors.''

I would like to point out that the books of the Bible, the Iliad and the Odyssey, Gilgamesh, the Vedas, and many other works far superior to Shakespeare or Hemingway are anonymous.

Wikibooks clearly does not provide such a tool, so I will suggest here what might be done to improve Wikibooks, or perhaps establish a new wiki project to address the needs. To begin with I give a simple list of requirements for me to participate:

1) Copy left is essential - I have no interest in conventional publishers, or proprietary exclusion of readers.

Wikibooks has this -- check.

2) A project format, where the initiator of a book is the principal Author/Editor/Administrator of that book.

I think there are already several Wikibooks that each have one person who declares himself the principle editor of that book.

3) A tiered editing environment:

a) the first tier is a traditional wiki - this facilitates contributions by geographically scattered authors - a meeting place.

b) the second tier is by invitation of the principal author - this allows the principal author to "edit" the contributors - excluding cranks and people with an incompatible approach. No harm is done - they can become principal author of another book derived from the first tier as a starting point.  Tier 2 is not locked, but is protected by the principal author and his or her selected cadre of collaborators.

c) the third tier is a complete book - locked against modification, but subject to peer review, which may include those who had been excluded from contributing by the principal author. Peer review provides a markup mechanism for the benefit of the principal author.  The principal author may incorporate or disregard markups at his or her discretion.

d) the fourth tier is release of the complete book combined with a wikireview mechanism, permitting readers to evaluate and rank what they read, so future readers may easily cull their selections. The released book, like Wikisource, is locked.

''While we all agree that this intellectually sounds like it should work, Wikipedia already tried a tiered editing environment (Nupedia) -- and it didn't work. While I certainly am in favor of improving Wikibooks, "it sounds like it would work better" is irrelevant in the face of experimental evidence that it actually works worse. --DavidCary 20:28, 25 October 2005 (UTC)''

4) I like to read in comfortable quiet places. To facilitate this, I download PDFs and read offline.  A true wiki book would have considerable length, and would be available for download for the convenience of the reader.  This, together with the originality of the works, makes the medium akin to a bookstore - an amalgam of a copy left publisher and a bookseller, where the price is always zero.

''Wikibooks already support this point 4. For example, all the various modules of the "Computer_Science:Algorithms" book: moved to the "Algorithms" book are all gathered together (using transclusion) into one long book at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Computer_Science:Algorithms:Full_Text : moved to "Algorithms/Print version" .'' (That page is broken.)

What I am proposing is not radical - it is the essential environment of an academic collaboration. It differs in that it is unencumbered by the necessity of signing away ones ownership rights, and, more significantly, in that it provides a means for people with common interests, who have never met, and who might never be able to meet, to productively collaborate, while excluding unwanted interference.

4 October 2005:

In addition to making some minor clarifications and correcting some typographical errors in the above text, I wish to address a few additional issues which occurred to me overnight (the URL of this contribution is different, because I am on a different machine - I am, however, the author of the 3 October text).

Wikiversity:

While I am aware that the formation of Wikiversity is nascent, and necessarily incompletely formed, it is interesting to me to note that the defining characteristics of Wikiversity are at present a caricature of the essential purpose of a university, namely the pursuit of truth. This necessarily begins with the study of what is already known, which may be accomplished in a rudimentary fashion merely by reading in an encyclopedia, for example the Wikipedia. It does not take long for this approach to become inadequate, and so we have textbooks, which serve as more focussed guides to those seeking understanding. Wikibooks was apparently created to address this need. But anyone serious about learning soon discovers textbooks are at best so much more wastepaper - glib, incomplete, and often misleading if not downright wrong.

So it is that the scholar inevitably takes his mission to a library, seeking a diversity of perspectives from a diversity of authors, in order to form his or her own perception of the truth. Wikisource does not qualify as a library because it excludes new works, and has no mechanism for including access to copyrighted material.

An eventuality that happens sooner for some than others, is that even the library is inadequate, and so the scholar strikes out on his or her own, expressing new ideas in scholarly journals (all of which are encumbered by onerous copyright restrictions), or book length original works of authorship.

Much of the current activity in developing Wikiversity seems to be concerned with testing, grading, and certification. All of these activities are irrelevant to the pursuit of truth, designed primarily to serve as barriers to encumber those who merely seek power. History has show us that these barriers have mixed effectiveness. To emulate such nonsense in the comparatively level playing field of the web strikes me as misguided at best.

Neutral POV:

While neutral POV is admirable for an encyclopedia entry, it is inappropriate for a book. A book is a focussed and elaborate expression of a point of view. In areas such as mathematics or science, that point of view is not necessarily an opinion. More often, it is a logical edifice, founded upon a small set of axioms or empirical data, which may be arbitrarily chosen. It is an elaboration of an abstraction of the author's experience and understanding. Requiring such an expression to be neutral undermines the purpose of pedagogy (the apparent purpose of a textbook), and utterly defeats the purpose of original authorship.

Free Access:

The historical case of Oliver Heaviside serves as a good example of how an improved wikibooks might shine. Heaviside was an uneducated outsider, whose original works were only able to find publication in serial form in a commercial magazine called "The Electrician". Heaviside's contributions to electrical engineering and mathematics were seminal and are now universally accepted. Is it not one of the fundamental purposes of Wikimedia to provide every human being with access to information, without exclusion? Isn't part of the philosophy of the wiki to enable every human to participate, without undue barriers, and to allow the readership to determine what endures? How many Oliver Heavisides have been crushed into obscurity by exclusionary policies? Do not the uniform policies of Wikimedia excluding original works in all of its venues constitute an exclusionary policy?

Vanity, Personal Autonomy, and Personal Responsibility:

An immediate objection to the ideas I am proposing will no doubt be the policy against vanity. It is agreed that vanity is an offensive human quality, but the issue of authorship is deeper than that. At the root of it are the founding concepts of a wiki: personal autonomy and personal responsibility.

It is personal autonomy that gives the wiki its power - everyone is equally accepted without undue suppression of contributions. But it is personal responsibility that holds autonomy in check - the perpetration of vandalism for example is limited to those few individuals who do not yet understand they are responsible for what they do. Were it not so, the problem of vandalism would be intractable.

Authorship, and its formal acknowledgment is nothing more than an abstraction of responsibility. If you write a book length tract of text, you are, for better or worse, responsible for it. It is authorship which holds you accountable, and such accountability is not vanity, for it is a sword which can cut both ways.


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cannone

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  cannon (all senses)
 * 2)  ace person who excels
 * 3)  large tube or pipe
 * 4)  box pleat
 * 5)  large marijuana cigarette, large joint
 * 1)  large marijuana cigarette, large joint

Related terms

 * canna

title: cannone


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Talk:David Pinkney

Untitled
Anybody got any info on his business career, and where his money comes from?--MartinUK (talk) 13:42, 20 August 2009 (UTC)

title: Talk:David Pinkney


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User:Henna/VF/Translations

For an example of the tranlation: nl:Gebruiker:Henna/VFvertaling

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Talk:Dharma (Buddhism)

Relation between Mongolian "nom" and Greek nomos
"In Mongolian dharma is translated as nom, which is noteworthy since it ultimately derives from the Greek word νομος (nomos) (law)."

That sentence makes no sense to me. It seems to link a Mongolian word with a European word ("nom", which could be "name" in french?) with the Greek word νομος. Although I am not a linguist, it seems obvious to me that any similarity between a Mongolian word and a European word is most likely coincidental. If there is a linguistic connection, I'd like to see it traced back to Indo-European and Sanskrit roots from both directions, preferably with some credible citations and sources. Saying that the Mongolian word "ultimately derives" from Greek is nonsense, as I see it. --Lasse Hillerøe Petersen 13:05, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Oh dear, how embarrassing ! Some people have never heard of loan-words apparently !  Yes, the Mongolian word for "dharma" is "nom" and it is, as I wrote, ultimately derived from the Greek word. This loan is extremely well-known -- have a look in Lessing's Mongolian-English Dictionary.  And read up a bit on Central Asian history and you might learn something you didn't know before.  In the aftermath of the Graeco-Indian kingdoms, a number of Greek words found their way into Sogdian and Uighur and thence, as in this instance, into Mongolian.   I know this because I have studied and read Classical Mongolian, but Berzin's account is also accurate.  FYI, Mongolian has a wide range of loan-words from Tibetan, Sogdian, Uighur, Chinese, Arabic, Turkish, Manchu etc.  I asuggest you be a little more cautious in future about dismissing things that you apparently have absolutely no knowledge about.--Stephen Hodge 00:57, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Well, it's possible that it's true, due to the influence of Greco-Buddhism. But I agree that it seems much more likely to be a coincidence.—Nat Krause(Talk!·What have I done?) 15:17, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Okay, a bit of googling has found the apparent answer. This is from the Berzin Archives (which, as far as I'm aware is generally pretty reliably accurate):

 * —Nat Krause(Talk!·What have I done?) 15:22, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

It seems to me that this discussion page is rife with contention and one-upsmanship that is inconsistent with even the most basic understanding of Bhuddism. I tend to think that "There's nobody here but us chickens, some of whom like to play bullfrog." I have read much more Hinduism than Bhuddism, though I have read many books on both, so I have tended to view Dharma as one's situation in life and one's responsibilities and duties in relation to it. That is a very important aspect of my view of why and how I live my life. So, how does the Bhuddist concept of Dharma as "teachings" or "law" relate to the Hindu concept of Dharma as "duty?" PMELD5 (talk) 05:00, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I can't say much about the complexities of the dha*** words. But for the first part of your paragraph, I'll agree that warm or even just polite consideration is at points lacking here. I cringe about this sort of thing leaving people with a sour taste in their mouth as far as dealing with Wikipedia.  And Pali greatly impresses me by giving us the tiny word mettā for what I wish all Discussion could have.  Maybe things get smarter in many ways when we consider rather than bristle.  (At a delay of some years...) I'd like to thank you for bringing up this (met(t)a-)subject of courtesy.  Sean M. Burke (talk) 05:17, 4 April 2011 (UTC)

Dharma within Indian religions
I've removed a large chunk of unsourced text which is also WP:UNDUE and WP:OR. It was added at 13 november 2011 by <IP_ADDRESS>, and re-inserted by the same user at 6 july 2015. Joshua Jonathan  -  Let's talk!   19:32, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Clean-up
anybody in for some cleaning here? Best regards,  Joshua Jonathan   -  Let's talk!   19:53, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Done.VictoriaGraysonTalk 20:38, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
 * LOL!  Joshua Jonathan   -  Let's talk!   20:57, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

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