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Talk:Sempervivum

Hello Sempervivum-interests,

I began to set this article. Did you add more relevant informations? Do you have informations and hints for me?

Thank you in advice,

Manuel Werner, Germany

Moved from main article:
 * Copyright (c) 2004 Manuel Werner, Germany

 * Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.

 * A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

How about moving the species list out of the taxobox? Brya 08:57, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Depends on which format gives the most compact page (least page scrolling); here, with a lot of text, placing the list in the box makes the page more compact - MPF 12:02, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

The photography in the Taxo-Box seems for me not to be Sempervivum tectorum, it is a Jovibarba.

Manuel Werner, Germany

The article uses the phrase "more local" as if everyone is in the same unspecified location.

Stephen Boisvert, UK. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.149.7.208 (talk) 23:11, 7 August 2010 (UTC)

Photos and classification/Taxonomy
This is an article about the genus Sempervivum. In the moment in this english Wikipedia you separate the genus Jovibarba from the genus Semperivum (this is contraversial, the other possibility is to integrate the Jovibarba as subgenus into the genus sempervivum like in the german Wikipedia, so that Jovibarba globifera subsp. hirta then is called Sempervivum globiferum subsp. hirtum - it is the same species). In the moment the genera or subgenera are separated here as genera, so it is not useful in the moment, to show in the Taxo-Box a Jovibarba, better would be then a picture like this: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Sempervirum_tectorum1.jpg

The Sempervivum tectorum-photo aktualy in the article shows Sempervivum with big etiolement and is therefore not optimal ... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.2.237.196 (talk) 21:07, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Schratmaki —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.218.18.169 (talk) 14:12, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

Species list
Why no species list?

Older version of the article had it, why take it out? There is a brief mention of cultivars, but no basic species... 2001:1970:4000:D4:C906:45C2:74D:80BD (talk) 11:17, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

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The Inspector

The Inspector is an American series of 34 theatrical cartoon shorts produced between 1965 and 1969 by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises and released through United Artists. The cartoons are dedicated to an animated version of Inspector Clouseau comically battling against a rogues' gallery of internationally styled villains.

Outside of the episode titles, much of the humor in these shorts is derived in part from the surreality of the villains and situations, and also from the stylized animated slapstick, the brunt of which is endured by the Inspector, who is often bested by his nemeses, forcing him to face the wrath of his supervisor, the blustery and ill-tempered Commissioner (based on Herbert Lom's portrayal of Commissioner Dreyfus, if somewhat more violent) who holds him in well-deserved contempt.

The Inspector
The Inspector is a senior detective for the Sûreté and assisted in most earlier episodes by Sergeant Deux-Deux, who is voiced by Pat Harrington Jr.; In The Pink Panther Show bumpers, he is instead voiced by Marvin Miller. Though his actual name is never mentioned, the character is clearly based on Inspector Jacques Clouseau from The Pink Panther films (to the point its design was later reused in the opening credits of the 1968 Inspector Clouseau film, implying that both inspectors are in fact one and the same). But in slight contrast to the completely inept live-action Clouseau, the animated Inspector is more competent, though still prone to bad luck and poor judgment.

Sergeant Deux-Deux
The Inspector's young and timid assistant, Sergeant Deux-Deux (pronounced "Doo-Doo"), is a slow-talking Spaniard and gendarme. Like the Inspector, he is voiced by Pat Harrington Jr., and in bumpers for The Pink Panther Show, he is voiced by Marvin Miller; in "La Feet's Defeat", he is instead voiced by Don Messick, and the character is given a younger appearance and more naive personality. He frequently utters the exclamation "Jole Frijoles" ("Holy Beans") in exciting or extreme situations, and often replies to the Inspector in his native tongue, saying "Sí", only to be admonished by the Inspector who often tells him, "Don't say 'sí', say 'oui'", which sometimes leads to confusing situations between the two. Deux Deux usually responded afterwards by intoning: "Sí, I mean oui, Inspector." In one cartoon, Deux Deux said "ouisick" instead of "seasick". On a couple of occasions, when the Inspector is incapacitated, Deux-Deux himself almost effortlessly manages to apprehend the culprit. He thinks of the Inspector as his hero.

The Commissioner
The Commissioner, as his name implies, is the commissioner of the French police force and the boss of the Inspector and Sgt. Deux-Deux. The Commissioner is a heavily built, blustery, ill-tempered, bullying, bald man dressed in a suit and a black tie. He was voiced by Larry Storch in his first two appearances, then by Paul Frees from 1966 to 1967 (sans 1967's "Canadian Can-Can", where he is voiced by Mark Skor), and by Marvin Miller in all remaining appearances. He is usually angry in his interactions with the Inspector, for instance because of the Inspector's failure to complete his missions or because the Inspector has inadvertently caused him physical harm. The short "That's No Lady - That's Notre Dame" introduces his wife (voiced by Diana Maddox) who refers to him as 'Henri'. Despite the Inspector's general incompetence (which the Commissioner acknowledges) the Commissioner never actually fires him, or at least not permanently.

Production
Pat Harrington Jr. provided voices for both the Inspector and Deux-Deux; (in "La Feet's Defeat", Deux-Deux is voiced by Don Messick and sports a younger, more naive appearance.) The Commissioner was voiced by Larry Storch for his first two appearances, before Paul Frees took on the role up until "Bomb Voyage", and voiced the character one last time in "Le Escape Goat". In "Canadian Can-Can", the Commissioner is voiced by Mark Skor, who also voiced the evil face of Two-Faced Harry, the short's antagonist. The Commissioner was then voiced by Marvin Miller for his remaining appearances. Miller also assumed the role of both the Inspector and Sgt. Deux-Deux in the wraparound bumpers produced for the inaugural season of The Pink Panther Show.

The first entry in the series, The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation, preceded screenings of the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball.

The Inspector character design remained basically the same throughout the DePatie–Freleng shorts, and was used in the opening credit sequence of the 1968 live-action film Inspector Clouseau (with Alan Arkin as Clouseau), but in the opening titles of later Pink Panther features beginning in the 1970s, his look is changed dramatically to resemble Sellers, and then Steve Martin in the 2006 reboot of the series.

The theme music heard during the titles of the cartoon was the instrumental "A Shot in the Dark" by Henry Mancini, from the 1964 feature film of the same name (the second entry in the Pink Panther live-action film series). Additional music in the cartoons was composed initially by William Lava, then Walter Greene. Two shorts had their own unique arrangement of the theme music during the opening sequence, Napoleon Blown-Aparte and Cock-A-Doodle Deux Deux.

17 entries made their television debut during the inaugural season (1969–1970) of The Pink Panther Show, featuring shorter opening titles (minus credits). The remaining 17 entries appeared during the show's second season with complete theatrical opening titles.

Cast

 * Pat Harrington Jr. – The Inspector, Sergeant Deux-Deux (except for La Feet’s Defeat - in this entry, Sergeant Deux-Deux is portrayed by Don Messick)
 * Paul Frees – The Commissioner (1966–1967)
 * Larry Storch – The Commissioner (1965–1966) (The Great DeGaulle Stone Operation, Napoleon Blown-Aparte)
 * Marvin Miller – The Commissioner (1967, 1968–1969), The Inspector and Sgt Deux-Deux (The Pink Panther Show)
 * Mark Skor – The Commissioner (1967) (Canadian Can-Can)

Home video
A DVD containing the first 17 shorts was released on March 4, 2008, from MGM Home Entertainment/20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.

A DVD set titled Pink Panther and Friends Classic Cartoon Collection released on January 27, 2009, by MGM contains the previously released set of the first 17 shorts and a second set of the last 17 shorts.

The first season of The Pink Panther is available for viewing on Amazon Video in the United States.

On April 26, 2016, Kino Lorber released The Inspector: The DePatie-Freleng Collection on DVD and Blu-ray - this 2-disc DVD and Blu-ray release set collects the 34 (17 for each disc) classic shorts, along with retrospective featurettes focusing on DePatie-Freleng Enterprises.

Revival
The Inspector was revived in 1993 for the syndicated series, The Pink Panther, voiced by Brian George. The Inspector often works alongside the Pink Panther when he is depicted in law enforcement.

In other media
A back-up feature starring the Inspector appeared regularly in The Pink Panther and the Inspector comic books published by Gold Key comics, and he also starred in his own title. He also appears in the computer game The Pink Panther: Passport to Peril, where he hires the Pink Panther to help him fight crime. The Inspector and Deux-Deux also appear in the 1981 story record A Pink Panther Christmas from Kid Stuff Records, in which they try to capture The Pink Panther while he is helping Santa Claus.

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Finningley

Finningley is a village and civil parish in the City of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. Historically in Nottinghamshire, it lies on the A614 road between Bawtry and Thorne, about 6 miles south-east of Doncaster. In the 2011 census, it had a population of 1,497. The Finningley ward of Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council covers 16.8 square miles, including the villages of Auckley, Branton, Blaxton, Hayfield and Bessacarr Grange, and part of Cantley.

History
The parish church of Holy Trinity is Norman, with a 13th-century chancel.

The place name Finningley contains the Old English word, fenn, a fen, a marsh, marshland + -ingas (Old English), the people of...; the people called after... + lēah (Old English), a glade, clearing; (later) a pasture, meadow... so a "Clearing of the fen-dwellers".

Airport
Finningley is known for its airport, once RAF Finningley. The station housed a 'V' force of Vulcan bombers in the Cold War, and for 35 years hosted a regular air show, which by the 1990s was the country's largest one-day event of its kind. However, the end of the Cold War led to the airfield closing in April 1996 and the air show coming to an end.

The 3000 yd long runway, currently the second longest in Northern England, was large enough to take even Concorde, and in the period after the closure of the RAF airfield there were several campaigns to turn Finningley into a commercial airport for the unserved South Yorkshire region, along with neighbouring Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire).

Plans for the conversion were approved in 2003 and the first flights served in April 2005. The airport was named Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield, then renamed Doncaster Sheffield Airport. In November 2022 it closed to passenger traffic. Planning permission had been given for a railway station – the former Finningley railway station, which closed in 1961 – but it is now unlikely to be built.

Notable businesses
Leon Motors, a company located in Finningley, operated bus services in Doncaster. Formed in 1922, it was taken over by MASS of North Anston in 2004 but has since ceased operating from the Old Bawtry Road site in Finningley.

Finningley is home to a Motocross venue.

Notable people

 * Elsie Howey (1884–1963), a leading suffragette, was born here.

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Sheep (disambiguation)

Sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammals that are typically kept as livestock.

Sheep may also refer to:

Animals

 * Ovis, a genus including domestic sheep, bighorn sheep, Dall sheep, argali, and mouflon
 * Sheep (meat), or lamb and mutton, the meat of domestic sheep
 * Category:Sheep breeds

Fictional characters

 * The Sheep, a character in Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
 * Sheep, a character in WordWorld
 * The Sheep, characters from Animal Farm

Music

 * Sheep (album) or the title song, by Zoë Lewis, 1998
 * Sheep (EP), by Smile Empty Soul, 2019
 * Sheep (mixtape), by Arca, 2015
 * "Sheep" (The Housemartins song), 1986
 * "Sheep" (Lay song), 2017
 * "Sheep" (Pink Floyd song), 1977

Other media

 * Sheep (novel), a 1994 novel by Simon Maginn
 * Sheep (video game), a 2000 puzzle video game
 * The Sheep (film), a 1920 Italian silent film
 * Sheeep (animated series), a British children's animated television series

Other uses

 * SHEEP (symbolic computation system)
 * Sheep (zodiac) or Goat, a sign of the Chinese zodiac
 * Sheep, a term for unquestioningly obedient, naive, or innocent followers

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Krasnogvardeysky District

Krasnogvardeysky District may refer to:
 * Krasnogvardeysky District, Russia, several districts in Russia
 * Krasnohvardiiske Raion (Krasnogvardeysky District), a district in Crimea
 * Krasnohvardiiskyi District (Krasnogvardeysky District), until 2015, the name of Chechelivskyi District, a district of the city of Dnipropetrovsk in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine
 * Chervonohvardiyskyi Raion (Krasnogvardeysky District), a district of the city of Makiivka, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine

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GCN

GCN may refer to:

Media and society

 * Gay Christian Network, now called Q Christian Fellowship, a nonprofit organization and associated social networking site
 * Gay Community News (Dublin), Ireland's longest running gay newspaper, published since 1988 by the National Lesbian and Gay Federation
 * Gay City News, a free weekly LGBT newspaper stylized as gcn.
 * Gay Community News (Boston), a weekly journal published in Boston from 1973 to 1992
 * Genesis Communications Network, a US radio network
 * Global Cycling Network, a YouTube channel

Science and technology

 * General Coordinates Network, formerly known as Gamma-ray burst coordinates network
 * Graphics Core Next, an AMD graphics microarchitecture series
 * Degenerate codon for the amino acid Alanine (A)

Other uses

 * Grand Canyon National Park Airport (IATA code)
 * GameCube (GCN), a video game console developed by Nintendo

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Talk:The Bund

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Art Deco or Art Nouveau
Wasn't the Bund one of the remaining refuges for Art Deco or Art Nouveau architecture?

 * There are a few art deco/art nouveau buildings, but most of the older bank buildings, esp the most famous, HSBC building, are in classical/neo-classical styles.--Sumple 23:24, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

Images
What about "The Bund seen from Pudong"? ATM, there are only images taken *from* the Bund!

Pronunciation
Does anybody know how to pronounce "bund" in "The Bund".Is it pronounced "bund" as u in "up", or as it in "put"?

'Bund' as in bundle of joy.

P & T Architects (Palmer & Turner)
Palmer and Turner built most of the famous buildings on the Bund: the HSBC Building, the Peace Hotel, the Yokohama Specie Bank, the Bank of China Building, etc. Yet there isn't a page on them. Does anyone know anything about this firm and what became of them? --Sumple (Talk) 10:57, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Architectural styles
The article says the Bund has "Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque" architecture... other than being clearly false this is just historically impossible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ospeand (talk • contribs) 18:00, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I have updated based on the descriptions of the individual buildings to the relevant revival styles, it seems that most of the buildings are described as "Eclecticist", though a few are clearly art deco. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 20:16, 12 December 2012 (UTC)

Move? (16 March 2015)

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved. The move has already been carried out by an administrator to revert an earlier, undiscussed move. Zanhe (talk) 11:04, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

The Bund (Shanghai) → The Bund – The Shanghai area is the WP:PRIMARY topic for The Bund and a WP:RM should happen to determine a different consensus. – Niceguyedc Go Huskies! 21:36, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

 * The Bund in Shanghai is famous, but there are many structures called bunds. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:39, 16 March 2015 (UTC)

 * Support per nom. The Shanghai area is the primary topic for The Bund and the hatnote will direct those seeking other topics to the DAB page.  —  AjaxSmack   05:23, 22 March 2015 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Construction dates
Article mentions almost no construction dates, not even in the list of buildings. - Jmabel | Talk 00:05, 11 August 2015 (UTC)

The Bund Finance Center
Hello editors. I'm assuming some of you live near The Bund. We really need a pic of The Bund Finance Center. Thanks!!!! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 10:47, 1 August 2018 (UTC)

Move
I guess this is an improvement over The Bund (Shanghai) but it's the Bund, not The Bund, "The Bund", or The Bund. There's no reason for an article there. See also Big Apple, Sun, Moon,, etc. (I mean, there is The Buddha but that's just a silly mistake too. No one there is actually writing his name that way in the running text. They just overcompensated trying to move it from things like Siddhartha Gautama to the .)

If people don't think this is the for Bund itself, then Bund (Shanghai) is still where this should go according to. The Bund is a TV show or German newspaper. This isn't either. — Llywelyn II   17:21, 21 March 2024 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jus cerebri electronici

This page is an archive of the discussion surrounding the proposed deletion of the pages entitled Jus cerebri electronici and Fifth World nation.

This page is kept as an historic record.

The result of the debate was to delete the articles.

Jus cerebri electronici aka Law of the Server: made-up twaddle -- we wnt through all of this with the original version of the Fifth World article, now he's back. -- The Anome 14:36, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

Articles created by User:IndigoGenius. Also Fifth World nation -- it's the same stuff all over again that had to be replaced by the real Fifth world article.

I mean, just read this:

From Fifth World nation:

 * In their short existence, Fifth World nations have already gained the respect of many Native Americans, who view them almost as fulfillment of their own Fifth World prophecies; they have gained the moral support of a multinational corporation (NewRoot); they have produced credible online universities and news services; they have given substance to new fields of academic study, and new concepts of law; they have conceived new religious ideas and religions; and finally, they even control several alternative top-level domains, and entire IPv4 networks.

Interpolated into Fifth World:

 * The Fifth World Native Americans prophesied may be coming alive today. The term Fifth World is currently used to describe both pre-industrial and post-industrial small nations, an unusual alliance of American indigenous and informatics tribes. In political science the term denotes Fifth World nations, an authentic New World Order.

 * Sometimes the words Fifth World and Indigo are associated with each other as well, and perhaps this is beginning to identify the neo-indigenous race of Native American prophecy.

Megalomania. Trimming as appropriate.

-- The Anome 14:39, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete all. Nonsense by His Majesty Cesidio Tallini. Wile E. Heresiarch 16:02, 28 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Seriously POV articles from self-admitted opinionated religious person. Jus cerebri electronici is patent nonsense.  Fifth World and Fifth World nation have one msn group dedicated to it.  Also see Talk:Indigo_child.  and Image:Flag of Fifth World Council.jpg.  This user needs someone to talk to him nicely; if he wants to hang around (hasn't been active since 14th).  Respect right to have opinion but... delete Dunc Harris | Talk 16:10, 28 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Oh, not again. Please delete. - Lucky 6.9 16:21, 28 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Average Earthman 18:06, 28 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete all of this nonsense. RickK 19:30, 29 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Incoherent rubbish content - also now interpolated into the "micronation" article on Italian language version of Wiki. Delete--Gene_poole 21:23, 29 May 2004 (UTC)
 * So the scientific ideas of the critics here about Cesidio Tallini are no better than simply delete all his ideas, right? Sounds very scientific! Kind of reminds me of what the Catholic Church did with Galileo Galilei, and they too were right! I also don't understand what the problem with religion is here; there are several articles about that in the Wikipedia, unless you are trying to say you are anti-religious, and that is about as unbiased as being anti-scientific. And why is Jus cerebri electronici aka Law of the Server "made-up twaddle"? Are you guys trying to say that the legal discoveries by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (Links to EFF are supplied below the article for reference), with which they successfully fought the US Government, are also "made-up twaddle?" You can actually prove that Jus cerebri electronici already works in the real world with that stuff! HM Cesidio Tallini may be eccentric, but he's not out of his mind. You people are! Let me also add that the Fifth World is mythology, and nowadays mythology becoming real (which doesn't deserve a well-written article?), and that has nothing to do with "made-up twaddle". "Made-up twaddle" is not mentioned in encyclopedias, while important myths are. I also don't understand why you've eliminated the article Fifth World nation entirely, unless you work for the US government, and therefore you have no business even commenting on these things if you still follow international law. Do you guys work for the US government? Are you telling me that contrary to international law, a People like Fifthworlders don't have a right to exist, and may be mentioned here only if you ecclesiastical, bull-shit artists approve? I say go read international law, because like the US, you are not following it here, and one day it will be used against the Wikipedia entirely. Yes, the Wikipedia will die just like you will, if it keeps on going down the way you're going. I'm an expert of prophecy or mythology from many traditions, and I know what I'm talking about. --IndigoGenius 21:37, 29 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. Let him start his own webpage to peddle this nonsense. Denni 21:48, 29 May 2004 (UTC)
 * I have plenty of websites, plenty of domains, plenty even of top-level domains. But go ahead and delete my hard work, as you guys seem to enjoy doing, and I swear to God, I'll delete the entire Italian article about micronation, which I wrote, and which is better written than the English one, and I have the right to destroy that article because I'm it's author entirely. And it won't end here either, you Mother Fornicators! It won't.--IndigoGenius 22:33, 29 May 2004 (UTC)
 * The information at the bottom of the page says that you have given up all claim to the article. It is no longer yours.  Although I wouldn't mind seeing all Micronation nonsense gone, it's not your choice to make.  RickK 22:39, 29 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete all - how could any sane person think an MSN group is encyclopedic? And is it just me, or does the Fifth World nation flag remind anyone of the Time Cube? -Sean 22:50, 29 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete. Unencyclopedic. --Zundark 10:23, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

There are plenty of people calling the Fifth World nonsense here, yet none of them are authorities on mythology, or authorities even on today's Fifth World movement. I bet that none of these "scientists" knows that Occam's Razor, what scientists gratuitously swear by these days, is a concept that was developed by a medieval Franciscan friar. I bet none these skeptics knows that Jeffersonian Dualism, that omnipotent concept of Church and State separation often taken to be "secular" today, is actually the n-result of thinking by an Augustinian monk named Martin Luther. Before the Protestant Reformation, such thinking would have been impossible, or people would have risked dieing for these ideas. These people call themselves "scientists," but they deny or grossly ignore that the very origins of science are in religion itself, and by doing so they show themselves to be even less than medieval monks! Even the first great scientists of the Renaissance were highly religious people, and Einstein too was very religious. These people couldn't shine those scientist's shoes! HM Cesidio Tallini does not think that an MSN Group is "encyclopedic," but that is exactly where the Fifth World movement was born, and the Fifth World is more than an MSN group, albeit an interesting one. The Fifth World controls at least 8 top-level domains that are even beyond powerful ICANN's control; in fact, ICANN doesn't even have jurisdiction over the TLDs of the Fifth World. And we wouldn't have it any other way. The Fifth World controls and actually owns an IPv4 network as powerful as the one the Falkland Islands owns, as powerful as the network of the Central African Republic. We can potentially act as hosts for 256 clients or servers, and I believe that is no joke. We also have among our citizens, a former Italian Minister of Parliament, a Canadian Internet Scientist that runs his own top-level domains in addition to our TLDs, and several brilliant persons of high human stature and potential. We also have the moral and other support of a Dutch multinational company. We run credible news services; a university doing pioneering research in several fields; and we run TLDs for the Savoy Royal Family, and for the government of Italy, with their knowledge and bewilderment. We support several non-profit organisations that have little or nothing to do with the Fifth World, and we enjoy the support of a few Native Americans from federally registered tribes. We are known to New York Senators, to Italian Senators, and to MEPs as well. If this is nonsense, I suggest you have your head examined, or study this movement directly for further evidence. Those very words you are using against this movement could one day come back to haunt you, as has often happened to senile authorities in the past who were too quick to judge. I may not have the right to destroy my own article, but I do have the right to state briefly what the Fifth World was called by the people of Wikipedia. If you have the authority to destroy and mutilate my articles, then you will be destroyed and mutilated by my mouth. --IndigoGenius 01:04, 30 May 2004 (UTC)

 * I see your mouth moving, but all I hear is blah, blah, blah. I suggest you take a course in Getting To The Point. Denni 02:39, 30 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Oh, for goodness sakes! Racist and POV. Delete; send it back to Stygian emptiness from whence it came. Kael
 * Who is the racist here? People who call Indigos a non-existent race (as if you knew that race to begin with), or myself who doesn't have a fiber of racism in his body? And even the blah, blah, blah I write here is encyclopedic, by the way. You guys, on the other hand, have taken a decently written article about the Fifth World, and turned into a stub! That is vandalism without any merit whatsoever. You have neither spoken about the Fifth World in any credible way, nor have you've managed to get down and do some real research. I won't ask you what you know about mythology, because it's obvious you don't know a damn thing. I'll ask you this: where is your literary ability to make up for it? Where is the work that is supposed to improve mine? I hope some big guy from Wikipedia reads this and throws you bums out! If Italy was made up of bums like you instead of Michelangelo and Leonardo, there would have never been a Renaissance! We would still be in the Dark Ages. --IndigoGenius 14:42, 30 May 2004 (UTC)
 * The big guy is called Jimbo, but you may seek dispute resolution if you have a particular cross to bear. Good luck with that btw. Dunc Harris | Talk 22:15, 30 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Hmm. I'll quote from the unaltered article: "...According to their prophecies, Pahana will not be like the white men, who are cruel and greedy..." Naw, that's not racist. If you ask me, it was certainly worth keeping, if not for its scholarship than for its entertainment value. I'm sure all here will suffer a fuzzy purple doom of some sort for our lack of vision - but I can bear that with a great deal of fortitude. Kael

I'd just like to select a few quotes from the above: BJAODN, I think. -- The Anome 23:20, 30 May 2004 (UTC)
 * "we run TLDs for the Savoy Royal Family, and for the government of Italy, with their knowledge and bewilderment"
 * "If you have the authority to destroy and mutilate my articles, then you will be destroyed and mutilated by my mouth."
 * "The Fifth World controls and actually owns an IPv4 network as powerful as the one the Falkland Islands owns, as powerful as the network of the Central African Republic. We can potentially act as hosts for 256 clients or servers, and I believe that is no joke."

Comment: Obscurantist piffle + megalomania - not encyclopaedic, but always good for a Monday morning guffaw. --Gene_poole 00:29, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

I'm tired of talking here. And getting no results. The latest developments were taken out of the article Fifth World, making it even more of a stub, and an antiquated one; nobody visiting Micronation will now know there is even a Fifth World movement, since the link to Fifth World nation has also been eliminated (I wonder why); the Indigo child article was reduced even further, and recent work by other authorities other than myself was eliminated. I don't even want to meet this Jimbo if this is what he allows. It seems also that you guys don't even believe that the Fifth World does run its own TLDs, that the .god domains, and others, are not a figments of hundreds of people's imaginations. Any of you smart enough to verify, however, like a true scientist, are invited to visit this link on the Inclusive Namespace, and how to travel in it. It's a parallel Internet of 13 root-servers around the world, none of them controlled by ICANN. Jesus Christ is coming, and he'll probably have to burn this earth to the ground. I can't wait till he eliminates these imposters of humanity from my face. May the meek inherit the earth. Goodbye. I'm not working for this encyclopedia anymore. --IndigoGenius 02:01, 31 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Take a tour on the Namespace link. It's too funny for words. The Kingdom of Bucksfan, with a buck (as in, a male deer, not a dollar bill) as a logo. Just for starters. I bet the kingdom of Bucksfan has a lovely store where you can buy fruitcake. Denni 04:43, 31 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete...ye goodness. This is the part of the episode where I begin smashing my head on the computer desk and wishing this would just go away. This could be the longest BJAODN ever, or we could start People_Who_Just_Don't_Know_When_To_Quit and make this the starter. If voting 'delete' makes me an Indigo-hating racist bastard, then hook me up. Sorry if I sound bitter. Lord Bob 17:14, May 31, 2004 (UTC)

See also Talk:Fifth World nation

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Épée

The épée (, ; "sword"), also rendered as epee in English, is the largest and heaviest of the three weapons used in the sport of fencing. The modern épée derives from the 19th-century épée de combat, a weapon which itself derives from the French small sword.

As a thrusting weapon, the épée is similar to a foil (contrasted with a sabre, which is designed for slashing). It has a stiffer blade than a foil. It is triangular in cross-section with a V-shaped groove called a fuller. The épée also has a larger bell guard designed to protect the user’s arm. In addition to the larger "bell" guard and blade, the épée weighs more than the foil and sabre which contributes to its reputation of being the slowest form of fencing. The techniques of use differ, as there are no rules regarding priority and right of way. Thus, immediate counterattacks are a common feature of épée fencing. The entire body is a valid target area.

Overview

While the modern sport of fencing has three weapons — foil, épée, and sabre, each a separate event — the épée is the only one in which the entire body is the valid target area (the others are restricted to varying areas above the waist). The épée is the heaviest of the three modern fencing weapons. As with all fencing disciplines, fencing matches with the épée require concentration, accuracy, and speed. Since the entire body is a target, a successful épée fencer must be able to anticipate the opponent's moves and strike the opponent at the correct time.

In the highest-level competitions, an electrically grounded (earthed) piste is used to prevent floor hits from registering as touches. In épée fencing, unlike in the other two disciplines, there are no right-of-way rules regarding attacks, other than the aforementioned rule regarding touches with only the point of the weapon. Touches are awarded solely on the basis of which fencer makes a touch first, according to the electronic scoring machines. Also, double-touches are allowed in épée, although the touches must occur within 40 milliseconds (1/25 of a second) of each other.

A special aspect of the épée discipline is the counterattack, a tactic employed in response to an attack. Some specifications include two varieties, the stop-thrust and the time thrust, which are (respectively) a simple counterattack and a counterattack on the opposition. With the absence of right-of-way, following an attack and landing a counterattack correctly can be a highly efficient way to score a touch, hence the counterattack's ubiquity in épée fencing.

Description

A modern épée, of size 5, for use by adult fencers has a blade that measures 90 cm from the guard to the tip. The total weight of the weapon ready for use is less than 770 g, with most competition weapons being much lighter, weighing 300–450 g. Épées for use by children under 13 are shorter and lighter (e.g. size 2), making it easier for them to use.

The blade of an épée is triangular in section, whereas that of a foil is rectangular, and neither blade has a cutting edge. Wires may run down a groove in épée blades fitted for electric scoring, with a depressible button capping the point. In competitive fencing, the width of any of the three sides of an épée's blade is limited to 24 mm.

The guard has numerous forms, but all are essentially a hemispherical shield, the section of which fits in a 10–13.5 cm cylinder. This is frequently called a bell guard. As the hand is a valid target in competitive fencing, the guard is much larger and more protective than that of a foil, having a depth of 3–5.5 cm and a diameter more likely to be toward the maximum of 13.5 cm.

As with a foil, the grip of an épée can be exchanged for another if it has a screw-on pommel. Grip options primarily include the French grip and the pistol grip.

In competitions, a valid touch is scored if a fencer's weapon touches the opponent with enough force to depress the tip; by rule, this is a minimum of 750 g-f. The tip is wired to a connector in the guard, then to an electronic scoring device or "box". The guard, blade, and handle of the épée are all grounded to the scoring box to prevent hits to the weapon from registering as touches.

In the groove formed by the V-shaped blade, there are two thin wires leading from the far end of the blade to a connector in the guard. These wires are held in place with a strong glue. The amount of glue is kept to a minimum as in the unlikely (but possible) case that a fencer manages a touch in that glue, the touch would be registered on the electrical equipment, as the glue is not conductive (the blade is grounded). In the event of tip to tip hits, a point should not be awarded. A "body cord" with a three-pronged plug at each end is placed underneath the fencer's clothing and attached to the connector in the guard, then to a wire leading to the scoring box. The scoring box signals with lights (one for each fencer) and a tone each time the tip is depressed.

The tip of an electric épée, called the "button", comprises several parts: the mushroom-shaped, movable pointe d'arrêt ('point of arrest') at the end; its housing or "barrel" which is threaded onto the blade; a contact spring; and a return spring. The tips are generally held in place by two small grub screws, which thread into the sides of the tip through elongated openings on either side of the barrel. The screws hold the tip within the barrel but are allowed to travel freely in the openings. While this is the most common system, screwless variations do exist. The return spring must allow the tip to support a force of 750 g-f without registering a touch. Finally, an épée tip must allow a shim of 1.5 mm to be inserted between the pointe d'arrêt and the barrel, and when a 0.5 mm shim is inserted and the tip depressed, it should not register a touch. The contact spring is threaded in or out of the tip to adjust for this distance. These specifications are tested at the start of each bout during competitions. During competitions, fencers are required to have a minimum of two weapons and two body wires in case of failure or breakage.

Bouts with the different fencing weapons have a different tempo; as with foil fencing, the tempo for an épée bout is rather slow with sudden bursts of speed, but these are more common in épée due to counterattacks.

Dueling

The French word épée ultimately derives from Latin spatha. The term was introduced into English in the 1880s for the sportive fencing weapon.

Like the foil (fleuret), the épée evolved from light civilian weapons such as the small sword, which, since the late 17th century, had been the most commonly used dueling sword, replacing the rapier.

The dueling sword developed in the 19th century when, under pressure from the authorities, duels were more frequently fought until "first blood" only, instead of to the death. Under this provision, it became sufficient to inflict a minor nick on the wrist or other exposed area on the opponent in order to win the duel. This resulted in emphasis on light touches to the arm and hand, while downplaying hits to the torso (chest, back, groin). Rapiers with full-cup guards had been made since the mid 17th century, but were not widespread before the 19th century.

Sport
Today, épée fencing somewhat resembles 19th-century dueling. An épée fencer must hit the target with the tip of the weapon. A difference between épée versus both foil and sabre is that corps-à-corps (body-to-body) contact between fencers is not necessarily an offense in épée, unless it is done with "brutality or violence".

In the pre-electric era, épée fencers used a different kind of point d'arrêt, a three-pronged point with small protruding spikes, which would snag on the opponent's clothing or mask, helping the referee to see the hits. The spikes caused épée fencing to be a notoriously painful affair, and épée fencers could be easily recognized by the tears in their jacket sleeves. A later evolution of the sport used a point that was dipped in a dye, which showed the location of touches on a white uniform; the dye was soluble in weak acid (e.g., acetic acid) to remove old marks. Today, competition is done with electric weapons, where a circuit is closed when the touch is made. Non-electric weapons are now typically used only for practice, generally fitted with plastic buttons or solid "dummy points".

In 2007, MIT fencing coach Eric Sollee and his student Johan Harmenberg authored a book that explored a line of tactical thought that diverged from fencing styles established in the 1970s and 1980s. Harmenberg won the World Fencing Championships and the Olympic gold medal using this strategic approach, built on what he called the "Sollee conjectures" or the "three conjectures":

 * 1) Is it possible for the fencer with the lower technical ability to decide the technical level at which a bout will be fought?
 * 2) Can the fencer with the shorter fencing distance control the distance in a bout?
 * 3) Is it possible to force one's opponent into your one's own area of greatest strength?

They credited the system for helping Harmenberg close the fencing distance, use absence of blade with destructive parries to prevent opponents from their own strongest moves, and pushing them into attacking high - a prerequisite for Harmenberg using his own strongest move. Harmenberg used this approach to win eight individual and team gold medals at Olympics, World Fencing Championships, and Fencing World Cup competitions.

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Talk:Auguste Kerckhoffs

His full name
I had hoped someone would unearth Kerckhoffs unearthly full name. Congratulations, Matt! ww 14:37, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure what his parents were thinking...also, I have my text justified, and his full name does horrible things to the layout! — Matt 14:39, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

More gloating
Came across this:
 * "Just for the record, the only verifiable/reliable on-line reference I found on biographical details on Kerckhoffs is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Kerckhoffs." —

Good work! — Matt 00:30, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Pronunciation
When it comes to the foreign name, especially French name, I sometimes hesitate to pronounce it. Can I read his name as Curk-hof? Is there anyone who can read his name correctly? I appreciate any input. — stegano —Preceding undated comment added 06:51, 2 October 2005 (UTC).

 * Cairk-hofs. Känsterle 14:25, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

That's how the Dutch would pronounce it, with the first syllable stressed. The French would pronounce it with a silent 'h' and the second syllable stressed. FYI: in Dutch Kerckhofs means: "of the graveyard". I'm not quite sure all those first names are really spelt with hyphens. Magere Hein 04:01, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

 * The German version of this article has his given names without hyphens (separated by spaces instead). The Dutch article only gives one name, not the whole string.  Then again, both give his family name as "Kerckhoffs von Nieuwenhoff".  Worth a check.  On the given names: Dutch usage separates them by spaces, just as English does.  Unlike the US, the number of given names varies; one to three is common, four less so; seven is quite rare but not completely unheard of, and probably wasn't quite so strange in the 19th century. Paul Koning (talk) 19:15, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

 * Another place to check would be the Volapuk version of the article, which is much longer than the others. Paul Koning (talk) 19:18, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

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Tijuana Toads

Tijuana Toads is a series of 17 theatrical cartoons produced by DePatie–Freleng and released through United Artists.

Plot
The series concerns two toads, El Toro and Pancho, who live in the Mexican city of Tijuana. Throughout the cartoon they try to eat their prey, but always get outsmarted. They would sometimes themselves be targeted by a bird, Crazylegs Crane, and would in turn always outsmart him.

The series introduced two characters who later got their own series. The Blue Racer first appeared in "Snake in the Gracias" (1971) before getting his own series in 1972. Crazylegs Crane first appeared in "Go for Croack" (1969), and also spun off to his own series for television in 1978 on ABC. Both characters were voiced by Larry D. Mann, except in "Flight to the Finish" where Bob Holt voiced Crazylegs Crane.

El Toro was voiced by actor Don Diamond and Pancho voiced by Tom Holland. Crazylegs Crane was voiced by Larry D. Mann. Directorial duties were split between Hawley Pratt, Art Davis, Grant Simmons, and Gerry Chiniquy.

When the series began airing in 1976 as part of The Pink Panther Laugh and a Half Hour and a Half Show, it was re-dubbed and renamed Texas Toads to make the series less offensive. A laugh track was added to the new soundtrack, and the toads were given the new names of Fatso and Banjo. Producer David H. DePatie later commented on the process: ""When they (Tijuana Toads) went on television, we had to completely change them around and the series became known as the Texas Toads, and we had to redo all of the tracks that had any type of ethnic content and it really watered down the series. We all thought it was a hell of a lot more funny when it was the Tijuana Toads, but at the time we had to do it in order to bring the thing on television"."

Note
Tijuana Toads shorts aired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang.

Remade and reused scenes and plots

 * Tijuana Toads (first Episode, a.k.a. Tall in the Grass) reused scenes based from Tree for Two, Dr. Jerkyll's Hyde, and Two Crows from Tacos.
 * A Pair of Greenbacks reused some scenes based on Mouse and Garden and Two Crows from Tacos.
 * Go for Croak reused the drinking of nitroglycerin trick from Mouse Mazurka.
 * Never on Thirsty reused scenes from The Honey-mousers.

Revivals
The characters were resurrected for the 1993 TV series The Pink Panther. As the case when the original shorts were shown on TV, they were rebranded as the Texas Toads. The toads were redesigned as western sheriffs with oversized cowboy hats replacing their sombreros.

VHS
In 1987, Go for Croak was released on VHS as part of Cartoon Festival.

DVD and Blu-ray
In 2016, Kino Lorber released the complete series with the original soundtrack, digitally remastered from the original negatives and in the original ratio.

Popular culture
A restaurant dubbed under the name Pancho i Toro - Pizza & Grill Sesvete is located in Sesvete, Croatia.

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Richard Wright (footballer)

Richard Ian Wright (born 5 November 1977) is an English football coach and former professional footballer who is a goalkeeping coach for Premier League club Manchester City.

As a player he was a goalkeeper. He joined Ipswich Town as a trainee, going on to play for the club 298 times between 1995 and 2001. He then moved to Premier League club Arsenal, before being signed by Everton in 2002, where he spent five years. A brief spell on loan from West Ham United with Southampton was followed by a transfer back to Ipswich Town. After a short spell at Sheffield United, a third stint at Ipswich and a brief time at Preston North End, he joined Premier League champions Manchester City on a free transfer in 2012. After four years at City, during which he did not play at all, he announced his retirement in May 2016. He remained with City as a coach under new manager Pep Guardiola.

He was a member of the England squad, earning two caps, and was included in Kevin Keegan's 23 man squad for UEFA Euro 2000 but did not see the field.

Ipswich Town
Wright was born in Ipswich, Suffolk and signed a professional contract with Ipswich Town on 2 January 1995 after serving his apprenticeship and made his debut as a 17-year-old in a 2–0 victory at home to Coventry City in May that year. The season ended with Ipswich's relegation from the Premier League, and for the following four, Ipswich lost in the promotion play-offs from the Football League First Division.

He played a major role in Ipswich's 1999–2000 season when the club were promoted via the play-offs at the fifth attempt. On 29 May 2000, in the play-off final against Barnsley, Ipswich won 4–2, with Wright's long goal kick being flicked on by Marcus Stewart for Richard Naylor to put them 2–1 up. Wright scored an unfortunate own goal when a shot rebounded off the bar and hit him, and then gave away a penalty kick by fouling Craig Hignett, but saved it from Darren Barnard. In Ipswich's first season back in the top flight, he inspired them to 5th place and qualification to the UEFA Cup.

Arsenal
Wright joined Arsenal on 5 July 2001 for £2 million. He signed a five-year contract. Manager Arsène Wenger envisaged him as a long-term successor to David Seaman and also as a more experienced competitor for the previous second-choice goalkeeper Alex Manninger, who soon left the club.

Wright made his debut against Derby County on 29 September, keeping a clean sheet in a 2–0 win at Pride Park which put his team on the summit of the table. On his UEFA Champions League debut against Panathinaikos he saved an Angelos Basinas penalty to help his side win 2–1. Despite an injury to Seaman which gave him an extended run in the team, he did not capitalise on the opportunity, punching the ball into his own net in a 4–2 home defeat to Charlton Athletic on 4 November when trying to clear from Paul Konchesky, and then two weeks later he was at fault for Gus Poyet's injury time equaliser in the North London Derby against Tottenham Hotspur. Four days later, he was substituted at half time with injury in a UEFA Champions League match away to Deportivo de La Coruña, being replaced by youth goalkeeper Stuart Taylor in the 2–0 defeat. He slipped to third choice behind Taylor and played mostly FA Cup matches for the remainder of the season, up to and including the semi-final against Middlesbrough, although Seaman replaced him for the final, which Arsenal won 2–0 against Chelsea. He made his last Arsenal appearance on the final day of the 2001–02 season, a 4–3 victory over Everton. Arsene Wenger deliberately started him for the match, so that he ended the season with 10 league appearances, qualifying him for a winners' medal; he was substituted for Stuart Taylor late in the game, so that Taylor also had 10 appearances and earned a medal. Wright made 22 appearances for Arsenal in total.

Everton
After Seaman was given a one-year contract extension, Wright sought first-team action elsewhere, and on 24 July 2002 he moved to Everton for an initial £3.5 million, potentially rising by another million if a set number of appearances were reached.

On his Goodison Park debut on 17 August, he made an error and gifted a goal to Les Ferdinand in a 2–2 draw with Tottenham Hotspur, but a week later he saved a penalty from Kevin Phillips in a 1–0 win at Sunderland. After the season had ended, on 13 June 2003 (Friday the 13th), he had a freak accident when he fell from his loft, injuring his shoulder.

In August 2003, Everton brought in veteran Nigel Martyn. On 13 September, Wright went off injured 26 minutes into an eventual 2–2 draw against Newcastle United. He faced knee surgery and missed the remainder of the season.

During the 2005–06 season, Martyn had a spell out with injury, but Wright injured himself soon after while warming up for a match against Chelsea on 8 February 2006; a large sign instructed players to use temporary goals for their warm-up but he ignored the warning and fell on the sign, injuring his ankle. Despite Martyn's retirement, Wright remained second in the pecking order for the 2006–07 season behind new arrival Tim Howard. He played 71 games in total for Everton, but only two in his last campaign.

West Ham United
Wright was released by Everton at the end of the 2006–07 season, and signed for West Ham United on 4 July 2007. Second-choice to Robert Green, he made his Hammers debut on 28 August in a 2–1 win at Bristol Rovers in the second round of the League Cup.

On 20 March 2008, having only played two further League Cup games for West Ham he joined Southampton of the Championship on a month's loan as their first three goalkeepers were all unavailable through injury. Two days later, he made his debut in a goalless home draw with Coventry City. On 18 April, the loan was extended to the end of the 2007–08 season, he totalled seven appearances for the Saints.

Return to Ipswich Town
Wright rejoined Ipswich on 21 July 2008 for an undisclosed fee on a two-year contract with the option of a third year. He then made his 300th club appearance for Ipswich in a 4–1 loss against Wigan Athletic on 23 September in the third round of the League Cup. His fine performances for his hometown club earned him the Players and supporters' player of the season awards for the 2008–2009 season. On 1 December 2009 Wright was ruled out for up to four months following a knee injury suffered during a 2–1 win against Cardiff City. Wright was released by Ipswich at the end of the 2009–10 season.

Sheffield United
After a brief trial spell, Wright joined Sheffield United on a free transfer on a four-month short-term deal in September 2010, having been extended until the end of the season. Despite this Wright spent most of his time at Bramall Lane injured and made only two starts, both times being withdrawn midway through the game due to further injuries. His contract was terminated with Sheffield United by mutual consent at the start of April 2011.

Third spell at Ipswich Town
Wright returned to Ipswich in the summer of 2011 to train with the club. Having been on trial at other clubs he had impressed enough while training with Ipswich to earn a call up to the reserves, in which he featured in a game against Colchester United.

Wright re-signed for the club for his third spell on 23 November 2011. Earlier in the week he had stated he wanted to return to the club: "I love Ipswich Town Football Club, I don't hide that. I think everyone knows that, but at the moment there's nothing there for me – simple as that, you just get on with it and look elsewhere. If anything changed and something came up (at Ipswich) then I'd be a liar to say I wouldn't consider it because I would." In his third debut for the club, Wright conceded three times in a 3–2 home defeat to Reading.

Preston North End
On 1 July 2012, Wright signed for Preston North End; however, he left the club only one week into pre-season training as he was suffering from homesickness, having made no appearances for the club.

Manchester City
Following a trial with Colchester United, Wright signed for Manchester City on 30 August 2012, completing a free transfer and agreeing a one-year contract. On 10 July 2013, Wright signed a one-year extension with City. Despite not making a competitive appearance for the club in either season, he was awarded a new contract for the 2014–15 season, at the expense of second-choice Costel Pantilimon. The contract was extended by one year for the fourth consecutive season, during summer 2015. Wright remained on the books of Manchester City for four years in total, but never made a first-team appearance before announcing his retirement on 17 May 2016. He remained as a coach under new manager Pep Guardiola.

International career
Wright was capped twice for England, making his debut against Malta in a friendly on 3 June 2000; he gave away two penalty kicks, conceding the first as David Carabott's shot rebounded into the net off his head after hitting the post, and saving the second, again from Carabott, in the 88th minute as England won 2–1. He was a member of the England UEFA Euro 2000 squad, where he was third choice behind David Seaman and Nigel Martyn.

On 15 August 2001, he earned his second and final cap, replacing the injured David James, who himself had replaced Martyn at half-time in a 2–0 friendly defeat against the Netherlands at White Hart Lane. Wright kept a clean sheet, as England were already 2–0 down when he came on.

Coaching career
Following his retirement at the end of the 2015–16 season, Wright remained with Manchester City and became a goalkeeping coach on Pep Guardiola's coaching staff.

Personal life
In November 1998, Wright and his girlfriend Kelly Hammond had a son, Harry. In May 2000, two days after Ipswich had beaten Bolton Wanderers in the play-off semi-final to reach Wembley, he and Kelly married. Wright's father-in-law, Geoff Hammond, a former full-back, scored two goals in 69 Ipswich appearances between 1970 and 1973. Harry, who also plays as a goalkeeper, signed a professional deal for Ipswich on his 17th birthday.

Honours
Ipswich Town
 * Football League First Division play-offs: 2000

Arsenal
 * Premier League: 2001–02
 * FA Cup: 2001–02

Individual
 * PFA Team of the Year: 1998–99 First Division, 1999–2000 First Division
 * Ipswich Town Player of the Year: 2008–09
 * Ipswich Town Players' Player of the Year: 2008–09

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Brock Chisholm

George Brock Chisholm (18 May 1896 – 4 February 1971) was a Canadian psychiatrist, medical practitioner, World War I veteran, and the first director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO). He was the 13th Canadian Surgeon General and the recipient of numerous accolades, including Order of Canada, Order of the British Empire, Military Cross, and Efficiency Decoration.

Background
Brock Chisholm was born on 18 May 1896, in Oakville, Ontario, to a family with deep ties to the region. Under Sir Isaac Brock, his great-grandfather fought against the Americans during the War of 1812. His great grandfather’s brother, William, was Oakville’s founder. His father was Frank Chisholm, who ran a coal yard. He had a Presbyterian upbringing.

Canada
In 1915 during the First World War, age 18, Chisholm joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force, serving in the 15th Battalion, CEF as a cook, sniper, machine gunner and scout. His leadership and heroism were twice rewarded (after being twice wounded): with a Military Cross for his efforts in a battle outside of Lens, France; and the Bar. He rose to the rank of captain, was injured once, and returned home in 1917.

After the war, Chisholm pursued his lifelong passion of medicine, earning his MD from the University of Toronto by 1924 before interning in England, where he specialized in psychiatry. After six years in private practice in his native Oakville, he attended Yale University where he specialized in the mental health of children. During this time, Chisholm developed his strong view that children should be raised in an "as intellectually free environment" as possible, independent of the prejudices and biases (political, moral and religious) of their parents.

At the outbreak of the Second World War, Chisholm rapidly rose in stature within the Canadian military and government. He joined the war effort as a psychiatrist dealing with psychological aspects of soldier training, before rising to the rank of Director General Medical Services, the highest position within the medical ranks of the Canadian Army. He was the first psychiatrist to head the medical ranks of any army in the world.

In 1944, the Canadian Government created the position of Deputy Minister of Health. Chisholm was the first person to occupy the post and held it until 1946.

WHO
In 1946, Chisholm became executive secretary of the Interim Commission of the World Health Organization (WHO), based in Geneva, Switzerland. The WHO succeeded the League of Nations's Health Organization. Chishom was one of 16 international experts consulted in drafting the agency's first constitution. He recommended the WHO's name, with emphasis on "world." He defined health for the WHO as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." The WHO charter also established that health is a fundamental human right and that "the health of all peoples is fundamental to the attainment of peace and security."

The WHO became a permanent UN fixture in April 1948, and Chisholm became the agency's first Director General on a 46–2 vote. Chisholm was now in the unique position of being able to bring his views on the importance of international mental and physical health to the world. Refusing re-election, he occupied the post until 1953, during which time the WHO dealt successfully with a cholera epidemic in Egypt, malaria outbreaks in Greece and Sardinia, and introduced shortwave epidemic-warning services for ships at sea.

Later career
Chisholm served as president of the World Federation of Mental Health (1957–58).

He was one of the signatories of the agreement to convene a convention for drafting a world constitution. As a result, for the first time in human history, a World Constituent Assembly convened to draft and adopt the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.

Beliefs
Chisholm was a controversial public speaker who nevertheless spoke with great conviction, and drew much criticism from the Canadian public for comments inspired by his communist beliefs in the mid-1940s that children should not be encouraged to believe in Santa Claus, the Bible or anything he regarded as supernaturalism. Calls for his resignation as Deputy Minister of Health were quelled by his appointment as Executive Secretary of the WHO, but his public perception as "Canada's most famously articulate angry man" lingered.

Religious and other conservative writers and groups have accused Chisholm of being a Marxist or a Communist or subversive. Others placed Chisholm among three prominent Humanists who early on headed important United Nations agencies: Julian Huxley of UNESCO and John Boyd-Orr of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). At least one conservative women's group in Southern California considered Chisholm to be the Anti-Christ.

Personal and death
On 21 June 1924, Chisholm married Grace McLean Ryrie. They had two children, Catherine Anne and Brock Ryrie.

On 4 February 1971, Chisholm died age 74 in Veterans' Hospital, Victoria, British Columbia, after a series of strokes.

Honors, awards
Chisholm's honors and awards include:

 * 1945: Medal of the Pasteur Institute
 * 1953: Lasker Award
 * 1957: Honorary President of the World Federalist Movement-Canada
 * 1959: Humanist of the Year (American Humanist Association)
 * 1967: Companion of the Order of Canada

He was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, of the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Public Health Association among others.

Legacy
At his death, the New York Times remembered Chisholm as a "small-town doctor who became director general of the World Health Organization" and also called him "Prophet of Disaster."

Historica Canada notes he was an early leader in warning about the "danger of pollution, overpopulation, and the nuclear arms race."

Works

 * Social responsibility, and three memorial papers by Gordon W. Allport (New York: Association Press, 1948)
 * World health problems. Barriers to world health (New York: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1953)
 * Nations are learning to live together (Vancouver: University of British Columbia, 1954)
 * Prescription for survival (New York: Columbia University Press, 1957)
 * Can people learn to learn? How to know each other (New York: Harper, 1958)

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DFB

DFB may refer to:

 * Deerfield Beach, Florida, a city
 * Decafluorobutane, a fluorocarbon gas
 * Dem Franchize Boyz, former hip hop group, Atlanta, Georgia
 * Dfb, Köppen climate classification for Humid continental climate
 * Distributed-feedback laser, a diffraction laser system
 * Dublin Fire Brigade, Ireland
 * Dysfunctional Family BBQ, an annual K-Rockathon event
 * Furka Steam Railway, Dampfbahn Furka-Bergstrecke, Switzerland
 * German Football Association, Deutscher Fußball-Bund or DFB, the national football governing body of Germany

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Richard Fisher

Richard or Dick Fisher may refer to:

 * Richard Fisher Belward (1746–1803), British academic at Cambridge University (born Richard Fisher)
 * Richard B. Fisher (1936–2004), American business manager
 * Richard L. Fisher (1947–2012), American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates
 * Richard R. Fisher, American astrophysicist
 * Richard V. Fisher, American volcanologist.
 * Richard W. Fisher (born 1949), President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
 * Dick Fisher (speedway rider) (1933–1986), English speedway rider
 * J. Richard Fisher (born 1943), American astronomer
 * The Rich Fisher, fictional character Bron in Joseph d'Arimathie verse variant in "Fisher King" literary tradition

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TI-73 series

The TI 73 series is a series of graphing calculators made by Texas Instruments, all of which have identical hardware.

The original TI-73 graphing calculator was originally designed in 1998 as a replacement for the TI-80 for use at a middle school level (grades 6-8). Its primary advantage over the TI-80 is its 512 KB of flash memory, which holds the calculator's operating system and thereby allows the calculator to be upgraded. Other advantages over the TI-80 are the TI-73's standard sized screen (as opposed to the TI-80's smaller screen), the addition of a link port, 25 KB of RAM (as compared to the TI-80's 7 KB of RAM), and a faster 6 MHz Zilog Z80 processor (as compared with the TI-80's 980 kHz proprietary processor). The TI-73 also uses the standard 4 AAA batteries with a lithium backup battery (instead of the TI-80's 2 CR2032 lithium batteries).

In 2003, the TI-73 was redesigned with a new body shape and redesignated the TI-73 Explorer to indicate its currently intended use as a bridge between the TI-15 Explorer and similar calculators and the TI-83 Plus, TI-84 Plus, and similar calculators. Later, the TI-73 Explorer was remodeled to resemble the TI-84 Plus graphing calculator more closely.

Due to lack of demand in middle schools, the TI-73 and TI-73 Explorer have not been huge sellers for TI and are not carried by most retail stores. Most American upper-level middle school algebra courses generally tend to use the TI-83 or TI-84 families instead of the TI-73 or TI-73 Explorer, while most basic middle school math courses generally do not use graphing calculators, instead opting for scientific calculators such as the TI-30 or TI-34 families.

Originally the TI-73 could only run programs written in TI-BASIC, although that has changed in recent years. In 2005, an assembly shell called Mallard was released for the TI-73. Mallard allows the user to run programs written in assembly language. As with the TI-82 and the TI-85 before, a hacked backup file is downloaded containing the assembly shell.

Released in late 2008, the Windows utility Chameleon allows a user to load the TI-73 Explorer with a slightly modified TI-83+ firmware, giving it nearly equivalent functionality.

In 2009, Texas Instruments updated the skin of the TI-73 Explorer to match the shape of the larger TI-84 Plus's case. This resulted in a slight increase in mass from 182 grams to 208 grams. The hardware and software remained unchanged and is identical to an older unit wearing the TI-83 plus style casing.

Technical specifications

 * CPU: Zilog Z80 CPU, 6 MHz
 * Flash ROM: 512 KB with 128 KB available for Flash Applications
 * RAM: 32 KB with 25 KB available to the user
 * Display: Text: 16×8 characters
 * I/O
 * Link port
 * 50 button built-in interface
 * Power: 4 AAA batteries plus 1 lithium battery for backup
 * Integrated programming languages: TI-BASIC

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of US state capitals that end in polis

This page is a silly joke deriving from a debate here. — Chameleon 14:49, 28 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete. DJ Clayworth 16:11, 28 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Not even good enough for BJAODN . delete Dunc Harris | Talk 16:16, 28 May 2004 (UTC)
 * I still think this isn't any sillier than List of people. But no vote. Meelar 16:21, 28 May 2004 (UTC)
 * I agree with Meelar, but I'm going to say delete. Let's try to stop as much sillyness as possible.  blankfaze | &#9835 17:21, 28 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Boring. Delete. Average Earthman 18:07, 28 May 2004 (UTC)
 * I speedy deleted it as this page had been previously deleted due to VfD consensus. see Template:VfD-List of U S state capitals and states that have the same first letter. -- Cyrius|&#9998 18:49, May 28, 2004 (UTC)


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Liliane Bettencourt

Liliane Henriette Charlotte Bettencourt (née Schueller; 21 October 1922 – 21 September 2017) was a French heiress, socialite and businesswoman. She was a board member and one of the principal shareholders of L'Oréal. At the time of her death, she was the richest woman, and the 14th richest person in the world, with a net worth of US$44.3 billion.

Biography
She was born Liliane Henriette Charlotte Schueller on 21 October 1922 in Paris, the only child of Louise Madeleine Berthe (née Doncieux) and Eugène Schueller, the founder of L'Oréal, one of the world's largest cosmetics and beauty companies. When Liliane was five years old, her mother died, and she formed a close bond with her father, who later married Liliane's British governess. At the age of 15, she joined her father's company as an apprentice, mixing cosmetics and labelling bottles of shampoo.

In 1950, she married French politician André Bettencourt, who served as a cabinet minister in French governments of the 1960s and 1970s and rose to become deputy chairman of L'Oréal. Mr. Bettencourt had been a member of La Cagoule, a violent French fascist pro-Nazi group that Liliane's father, a Nazi sympathizer, had funded and supported in the 1930s and whose members were arrested in 1937. After the war, her husband, like other members of La Cagoule, was given refuge at L'Oréal despite his politically inconvenient past. Eventually, the Bettencourts settled in an Art Moderne mansion built in 1951 on rue de Delabordère in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. They had one daughter, Françoise, who was born in 1953.

In 1957, Bettencourt inherited the L'Oréal fortune when her father died, becoming the principal shareholder. In 1963, the company went public, although Bettencourt continued to own a majority stake. In 1974, in fear that the company would be nationalised after the French elections, she exchanged almost half of her stake for a three percent (3%) stake in Nestlé S.A.

As of December 2012, Bettencourt owned 185,661,879 (30.5%) of the outstanding shares of L'Oréal, of which 76,441,389 (12.56%) shares were effectively held in trust (for her daughter). The remainder were owned as follows: 178,381,021 (29.78%) shares owned by Nestlé, 229,933,941 (37.76%) shares were publicly held, and the remainder were held as treasury stock or in the company savings plan. The Bettencourt family and Nestlé acted in concert pursuant to a shareholders' agreement. Bettencourt ended her board director tenure on 13 February 2012 and her grandson, Jean-Victor, was appointed as board director. Bettencourt's daughter and her daughter's husband (Jean-Pierre Meyers) are also members of the board of directors.

Bettencourt generally shunned media attention and granted few interviews. From 2007, she faced intense media scrutiny and publicity over her relationship with François-Marie Banier, the estrangement with her daughter Françoise and her alleged funding of conservative French politicians, including former French president Nicolas Sarkozy. In August 2012, she sold her private island, D'Arros Island, to a Seychelles-registered conservation business linked to the Swiss Save our Seas Foundation, for £60 million.

Bettencourt died on 21 September 2017. The funeral service was held at Église Saint-Pierre in Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Philanthropy
In 1987, Bettencourt, together with her husband and daughter, founded the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation (la Fondation Bettencourt Schueller) to support and develop medical, cultural and humanitarian projects. The foundation is based in Neuilly-sur-Seine. The foundation, which benefits from assets of €150 million and an annual budget of approx €15 million devotes approximately 55% of its funds to scientific education and research, 33% to humanitarian and social projects and 12% to culture and arts.

In 2008, the foundation helped fund the new Monet wing at the Musée Marmottan Monet. Conversely, in 2007 Bettencourt was jointly "awarded" a Black Planet Award, an award given for destroying the planet, along with Peter Brabeck-Letmathe for proliferating contaminated baby food, monopolising water resources, and tolerating child labour.

Art collection
Bettencourt had an art collection that was said to include Matisse, Picasso, Fernand Léger, Derain, Soutine, Mondrian and Ruhlmann furniture.

"L'affaire Bettencourt"
By most accounts Bettencourt met François-Marie Banier, a French writer, artist and celebrity photographer, in 1987 when he was commissioned to photograph her for the French magazine Egoïste. Over the ensuing years, Banier and Bettencourt became friends and she became his benefactor, bestowing gifts upon him estimated to be worth as much as €1.3 billion. These gifts include, amongst other things, a life insurance policy worth €253 million in 2003, another life insurance policy worth €262 million in 2006, 11 works of art in 2001 valued at €20 million, including paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian, Delaunay and Léger, a photograph by surrealist Man Ray, and cash. The life insurance policies were allegedly signed over to Banier after Bettencourt was recovering from two hospital stays in 2003 and 2006. In April 2013, Forbes magazine listed Liliane Bettencourt as the world's richest woman in 1999 at a value of $30 billion.

In December 2007, just a month after the death of her father, Françoise Bettencourt Meyers lodged a criminal complaint against Banier, accusing him of abus de faiblesse (or the exploitation of a physical or psychological weakness for personal gain) over Bettencourt. As a result of her complaint, the Brigade Financière, the financial investigative arm of the French national police, opened an investigation and, after interviewing members of Bettencourt's staff, determined to present the case to a court in Nanterre for trial in September 2009. In December 2009, the court delayed ruling on the case until April 2010 (later extended until July 2010) pending the results of a medical examination of Bettencourt's mental state. However, Bettencourt refused to submit to these examinations.

In July 2010, the trial was adjourned again until autumn 2010, at the earliest, after details of tape recordings made by Bettencourt's butler, Pascal Bonnefoy, became public. The tapes, which were turned over to police, consisted of over 21 hours of conversation and were made because the butler had feared that Bettencourt was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and was being duped. The tapes allegedly reveal that Bettencourt had made Banier her "sole heir", excluding the L'Oréal shares which make up the bulk of Bettencourt's estate and which had already been signed over to her daughter and two grandsons.

On 6 December 2010, Bettencourt reconciled with her daughter, ending a series of lawsuits. It is reported that Bettencourt and Banier had separated, and he was eventually written out of Bettencourt's will. The spat reignited over the following summer, however, when Bettencourt said her daughter needed to seek psychological help, which renewed their estrangement.

Guardianship
On 8 June 2011, it was reported daughter Meyers had filed an application with the court to make Bettencourt a ward of the state for her health and being incapable of the management of her fortune. On 17 October 2011, a French judge ruled that she was to be placed under the guardianship of members of her family on concerns about Bettencourt's declining mental health. Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers, along with Bettencourt's two grandsons, gained control of her wealth and property. One of the grandsons was additionally named as her personal guardian. Liliane Bettencourt's lawyer said he would appeal, and told Le Monde newspaper that "Mrs. Bettencourt was ready for 'nuclear war' with her daughter." As of 2014, Francoise Bettencourt-Meyers is guardian of the fortune, while Francoise's son, L’Oréal Board member and member of the supervisory board of the Bettencourt family holding company, Tethys, Jean-Victor Meyers oversees her health and personal life after a judge determined he was the only person able to "ward off all conflict between Liliane Bettencourt and Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers."

Madoff victim
Bettencourt was reported to be one of the most high-profile victims of Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, losing €22 million. She was the first investor in a fund managed by Access International Advisors, which was co-founded by René-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet. De la Villehuchet died by suicide on 22 December 2008, after it became known that his funds had invested a substantial amount of their capital with Madoff.

Political scandal
In June 2010, during the Bettencourt affair, Bettencourt became embroiled in a high-level French political scandal after other details of the tape recordings made by her butler became public. The tapes allegedly picked up conversations between Bettencourt and her financial adviser, Patrice de Maistre, which indicate that Bettencourt may have avoided paying taxes by keeping a substantial amount of cash in undeclared Swiss bank accounts. The tapes also allegedly captured a conversation between Bettencourt and French budget minister Éric Woerth, who was soliciting a job for his wife managing Bettencourt's wealth, while running a high-profile campaign to catch wealthy tax evaders as the budget minister. Moreover, Bettencourt received a €30 million tax rebate while Woerth was budget minister.

In July 2010, the scandal widened after Bettencourt's former accountant, Claire Thibout, alleged in an interview with the French investigative website Mediapart, that conservative French politicians were frequently given envelopes stuffed with cash at Bettencourt's mansion in Neuilly-sur-Seine. She alleged that Woerth, while acting as treasurer for the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), was given an envelope containing €150,000 in cash in March 2007 towards the presidential campaign of Nicolas Sarkozy. She also made, then retracted, a claim that Sarkozy was a frequent visitor to the Bettencourt's home while he was mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine from 1983 to 2002 and received envelopes containing cash. A few days later, she declared she had been pressured by French police to retract her testimony about Nicolas Sarkozy's illegal cash. Mr Sarkozy and Mr Woerth both deny wrongdoing. Following these allegations, French police raided the home and office of de Maistre, who heads Clymène, the company owned by Bettencourt to manage her wealth. French law limits political donations to €7,500 for political parties and €4,600 for individuals. Contributions above €150 must be paid by cheque with the donor clearly identified.

Forbes' rankings
Forbes ranked Bettencourt in its list of the world's wealthiest persons with an estimated fortune of US$38.8 billion (as of 28 June 2016). As of 2016, she was the top female billionaire in the world, and was also the richest person in France.

In 2005, Forbes judged her to be the 39th most powerful woman in the world.

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The Te of Piglet

The Te of Piglet is a 1992 philosophical book written by Benjamin Hoff as a companion to his 1982 work The Tao of Pooh. The book was published by Dutton Books and spent 21 weeks on the Publishers Weekly Bestseller List and 37 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List.

Synopsis
In The Te of Piglet, the Piglet character of the Winnie-the-Pooh books explains the Chinese concept of Te, meaning 'power' or 'virtue'. Hoff elucidates the Taoist concept of 'Virtue—of the small'; though, he also uses it as an opportunity to elaborate on his introduction to Taoism. It is written with many embedded stories from the A. A. Milne Winnie the Pooh books, both for entertainment and because they serve as tools for explaining Taoism.

In the book Piglet is shown to possess great power—a common interpretation of the word Te, which more commonly means Virtue—not only because he is small, but also because he has a great heart or, to use a Taoist term, Tz'u. The book goes through the other characters—Tigger, Owl, Rabbit, Eeyore and Pooh—to show the various aspects of humanity that Taoism says get in the way of living in harmony with the Tao.

Reception
The Palm Beach Post stated that although the first book was a "sleeper hit", the Te of Piglet "falls short as a companion to [the] Tao of Pooh". Princeton University's Cotsen Children's Library praised the book. Kirkus Reviews wrote "if you like marshmallow laced with arsenic, it was worth the wait". Publishers Weekly wrote "Hoff's tired attacks on the "Negative News Media" and on "Eeyore Amazons" who "call themselves feminists but ... don't like femininity" weaken his presentation, but on the whole, his Taoist manifesto distills ageless personal and political wisdom, relaying an ecological message we ignore at our peril."

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