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User:Antaeus Feldspar/scratch

Note to smarmy jerks who go snooping around user pages and then loudly proclaiming that they "understand" what I'm about better for spying on my works-in-progress than they would by listening to what I'm saying: Get a fucking life and get off my back.

Scientology as of 2007-04-16
continue later...
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121341599
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121771691
 * Information that Scientologists have claimed alleviation of dyslexia removed. Very sure this could be addressed.
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121784389
 * GO 121699 called "canceled"
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121786268
 * GO 121699 is falsely called "one instance" rather than a policy which dictated that it become a practice used whenever "needed"
 * "No actual violation of the Auditor's Code #19 has been documented however." Supporting reference is not from a reliable source with no stake in the case; it is part of Ken Hoden's testimony.
 * May be corrected by this
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121800976
 * Absolute bullshit. Removes all details of Barley Formula containing honey with bullshit edit summary "Silent birth and infant care - part deflated. As long as there is no case of Scientology kid infant botulism this is all theory and unsourced."
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121802408
 * Questionable re-interpretation of funeral rites
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=prev&oldid=121806758
 * Removal of adjective "colourful" when Scientologists themselves are saying these details make them look unusual.
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121807523
 * Removal of "Internal Scientology publications are often illustrated with pictures of spaceships and oblique references to catastrophic events that happened "75 million years ago" (i.e., the Xenu incident)."
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121810394
 * Large removal of text on Hubbard's medical views with false edit summary "uncited, false and double text removed"
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121824910
 * Major changes to description of Hubbard's association with Parsons. "performing rites" is changed to "witnessing rites"; Hubbard referring to Aleister Crowley as "my very good friends" is changed to referring to him as a "Mad Old Boy".
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121843248 "my very good friend" re-added though not in same place; "witnessing" not fixed. Hubbard's recommendation of a book by Crowley added.
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121835056, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121838803
 * Following text removed: "In the 1965 edition of Scientology: The Fundamentals of Thought, he added, "Scientology is that branch of psychology which treats or (embraces) human ability. It is an extension of Dianetics which is in itself an extension of old-time faculty-psychology of 400 years ago."" Fact tag had only been on for 9 minutes.  edit summary is "book checked, quote not in there, to the contrary: "Any comparison between Scientology and the subject known as psychology is nonsense." (p.9)"  Even if he had the 1965 edition, far-fetched that he could have conclusively determined the quote to not be there in nine minutes.  Also changed "redefined" to "defined" in discussing Hubbard's characterization of Scientology as a religion in 1960.
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121842933
 * removal of Sterling Management Systems
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=prev&oldid=121882367
 * reference improperly removed because of broken URL; text of same paper is at http://www.suppressiveperson.org/psych/psychiatry-and-scn-west.html
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121882550
 * "Independent Scientology groups" changed to "Scientology splinter groups" with edit summary "correct term used"
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121953596
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121970272
 * Misou; edit summary "WP:RS has no problem with self-published sources being cited for their own views (Antaeus Feldspar)"; completely avoids discussion of the fact that the tag says that the self-published sources may be being cited as authority (which appears to be case with Hoden ref, if nothing else)
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=122029117 COFS repeats *exact same edit summary*: "WP:RS has no problem with self-published sources being cited for their own views (Antaeus Feldspar)"
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=121998260
 * Deceptive edit; sentence about auditing sessions presented in "have you lived?" removed from "Xenu and Body Thetans" section moved to "past lives" section, fact that some of these auditing sessions predated sci. estimates of age of universe removed completely. Reads suspiciously as if sentence had already been subtly denuded of inconvenient facts regarding space opera content of those auditing sessions.
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=122064134
 * COFS removes POV of the Freezone and inserts false information that all breakaway groups refer to themselves collectively as Ron's Org.
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Scientology&diff=next&oldid=122068879
 * Bullshit spinning re: celebrities -- "consistently sought to recruit artists and entertainers" is converted to "consistently attracted artists and entertainers". What was correctly presented as Scientology's description is replaced by "L. Ron Hubbard saw to the formation of a special Church of Scientology which would cater artists, politicians, leaders of industry, sports figures and anyone with the power and vision "to create a better world""

Atlanta Nights
http://www.lisamaliga.com/AtlantaNightsLosAngelesTimes.htm http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/789153911.html?dids=789153911:789153911&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+5%2C+2005&author=Scott+Martelle&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&edition=&startpage=E.1&desc=Please+publish+this+dud

Albert Hofmann
Convert to Cite.php

Kathleen Willey and Edward E. Willey Jr.
http://dir.salon.com/story/politics/feature/2002/03/12/ray/index.html?pn=1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/willey031998.htm

Template:Imdb title
Add optional "description" parameter

A. B. and C.
Complete synopsis

Fred T. Goldberg, Jr.
Check just what information is and isn't supported by the NYT story

Scientology vs. the Internet
While the Church issued an official statement (*) claiming that it was only taking legal action to combat hate speech, critics accused it of surpressing freedom of speech, and pointed out that under Church doctrine any opposition of Scientology comes from a hateful person (**) and can be considered hate speech.

 * The existing write-up is so POV I'd rather have some details on this statement: when was it issued, what exactly did it say?

 * This gets the point across, I think, but I'd like to look up the actual relevant Church doctrines to get it word-for-word, if possible.

Dr. Mabuse article
should probably include link to Propaganda re: their song.

Narbonic article
Taking Kevin and Kell as a model:

 * 1) About the strip
 * 2) Setting and characters
 * 3) Other significant characters
 * 4) Storyline
 * 5) External links
 * 6) Kevin and Kell comics online
 * 7) Other resources

To be done: Antonio Smith did appear once more after the first story arc; he identified the handwriting of Pip the Mutant Ur-Gerbil for the Dave Conspiracy (07/09/02). Done

Also, Dave's machine talent was revealed by Helen on 08/09/02 and 08/10/02.

References: Done
 * The Fly (the 80's movie)
 * Little Nemo In Slumberland
 * The Cold Equations
 * Slaughterhouse-Five
 * Flowers for Algernon

The Victorian Narbonic
Hapax Legomenon

Publication schedule
Originally, the strip was planned to run seven days a week, with all strips contributing to the ongoing storyline and the Sunday comic larger and in color. This schedule turned out to be draining, and it was quickly changed to the schedule it now keeps: storyline strips run Monday through Saturday, and Sunday may

Dave Barker
Dave Barker is a real person who has been written into the strip. He was first mentioned in the Sunday strip of August 27, 2000 where the Narbonic Labs gang gathered to respond to reader letters; Barker's letter accidentally upset Helen by guessing her age to be "late 30's" when she was really 26, and also bringing up the painful fact that she wasn't really "Dr." Narbon because she'd never finished her doctorate, only her master's. By the end of the strip, Helen was ragefully announcing "I'll kill him!  I'll kill MIT student Dave Barker!" and from there, her occasional plottings for revenge against "MIT student Dave Barker" became a running gag in the weekday strip.

Dave meets Dave in the unstuck in time arc

Language is a virus
This shouldn't be a redirect to "meme"; it should link to "meme" but it's hardly just that.

LZ77 (algorithm)
While the LZ77 algorithm works on past data, the LZ78 algorithm attempts to work on future data

I'm trying to figure out why someone would believe this is correct. Both algorithms try to look ahead and find the largest chunk of yet-unencoded data starting at the current position that can be encoded by reference to past data. The actual difference is that LZ77 maintains the sliding window, and any string within that sliding window is available to be referenced; LZ78 maintains the dictionary, to which entries are added at a much slower rate but can be accessed at a lower average cost.

Stolen Honor

-- now needs registration

Cilk
/Cilk cilk

spawn

sync

inlet

abort

''Cilk is a general-purpose programming language for multithreaded concurrent programming based on ANSI C. Cilk is especially effective for exploiting dynamic, highly asynchronous parallelism, which can be difficult to write in data-parallel or message-passing style.''

''Cilk is particularly effective for programming numerical algorithms, such as matrix factorization and N-body simulations, both dense and sparse. Cilk's runtime system employs a scheduler that allows the performance of programs to be estimated accurately.''

Three world-class chess programs have been programmed in Cilk: StarTech, *Socrates, and Cilkchess.

Cilk is a general-purpose programming language designed for parallel programming.

''"data-parallel" seems to mean that large data sets are processed in parallel by processors performing identical computations. See. Not a horribly useful point to explain what Cilk is.''

-- turn all explanations of the relation between C and Cilk into one paragraph

Cilk is a general-purpose programming language designed for parallel programming.

The major design principle behind Cilk is that the programmer should concentrate on exposing opportunities for parallelism

Advanced parallelism with Cilk
inlets

Swing Out Sister
Remove self-reference, include mention of "Breakout" (when/where/how big was it a hit?)

http://www.oldies.com/artist/view.cfm/id_3342.html <= top 10 in US, more hits in UK?

Learned helplessness
If that's Tony Robbins (and even if it isn't) get some more academic/credible references for the terminology. Theory originated with Martin Seligman

http://www.noogenesis.com/malama/discouragement/helplessness.html

Scientology
Resummarize Scientology controversy -- edit down Snow White and describe major points of controversy.
 * Probably not needed now, Modemac seems to have done it.

Fanon
Definition needs to be corrected; currently it reads as if saying "it's information that's perfectly true, only the creators don't know it yet."

Kaiju Big Battel
listed for tone and technical cleanup

Big Bad Beetleborgs
spelling, wikilinks, organization, links to original series

Bead sort
What it's not good for (like sorting where the largest number is large, since the numbers are represented in unary)

[|Rape]

 * Revise custodial rape section to clarify that it includes rape of persons under custody whether they are being "protected" or punished.
 * Shift discussion of prison rape in "rape as punishment" section to custodial rape section and replace with notation in punishment section.
 * Note opposing viewpoint that it is male-on-male prison rape that is not taken seriously, incl. for the reason that rape of males is not taken as seriously as it should.
 * Note that many commentators spoke jokingly or seriously of John Wayne Bobbitt receiving his just rewards for crimes he had been accused of, but acquitted of. (or is that too far off-topic?)

Jason Lee (actor)
Note drug problems (at odds with his membership in Scientology)

Dianetics Today
Remove POV fork material. If there is any attempt to restore it, AfD the article.

Plot
Needs to be split into main article and disambiguation or disambiguation and satellite articles. (Check WhatLinksHere to see which is the most frequent usage.)

List of mythological allusions
Qualifications: should be a reference which an average educated speaker will understand the meaning of even if they don't know the story behind it.

 * Achilles' heel
 * Sword of Damocles
 * Trojan horse

Getter Robo
Getter Robo - 1974

 * Professor Saotome
 * Michiru (daughter)
 * Musashi

Getter Robo G - next year?

Sequels: Neo Getter Robo, Shin Getter Robo?

Original series useful background info

Create redirects for Getta Robo, Getter Robo G, Getta Robo G, Starvengers etc.

George Franklin, Sr.
also needs redirect at George Franklin Sr. http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/moments/s1222356.htm

http://www.holysmoke.org/sdhok/sat19.htm

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9111452?hook=474089

Jeremy Perkins
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/JeremyPerkins/

Psycho-babble
Check Talk:Psycho-babble on or after October 15, 2005 Done. Still needs a lot of de-personal-essay-ing.

Popular psychology
Should L. Ron Hubbard be listed as "popular psychology"? Item placed October 10, 2005

Template:Public watchlist
Left message March 2 suggesting modification to take a parameter. Also needs instructions on usage.

Play around with cosmetics of template: /watchlist template

Special characters problem
' (apostrophe typed at keyboard)

now, C&P from Gamaliel version of Stolen Honor page:

Mark Nevins, a spokeman for the Kerry presidential campaign, stated: "This group is the poor, distant cousin of the Swift Boat Veterans for Bush. It?s comprised of people with questionable backgrounds whose sole mission in life is to smear John Kerry."

According to conservative commentator Deroy Murdock: "It presents POWs who argue that John Kerry's fallacious spring 1971 claims that U.S. atrocities occurred on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command' amplified their agony under America's North Vietnamese enemies."

The production company's website states that "Stolen Honor investigates how John Kerry?s actions during the Vietnam era impacted the treatment of American soldiers and POWs. Using John Kerry?s own words, the documentary juxtaposes John Kerry?s actions with the words of veterans who were still in Vietnam when John Kerry was leading the anti-war movement."

''aha! Preview shows that apostrophes do become ?s!''

Topbanana's Reports
User:Topbanana/Reports/This page contains a link that might be mis-punctuated

To do

 * "Sanctions have one of three rationales: punitive, preventative, or rehabilitative."  I realized that I omitted a fairly important fourth rationale, although I don't have a catchy one-word name for it.  The above three rationales are all defined by the effect the sanction is supposed to have on the putative wrong-doer.  The fourth rationale for applying a sanction is for the effect it will have on people or situations other than the person who supposedly earned a sanction.

 * I mentioned that the stigmatizing topic-bans pronounced upon multiple editors who have shown no interest in editing the topic for a year or more make no sense from the standpoint of prevention or rehabilitation. However, it could easily be explained from the fourth rationale:  the Arbitration Committee might have wanted to "send a message" warning off any future editors from getting involved in the Scientology articles (I'd certainly warn any editors away from touching them, at this point.)  Or perhaps the Committee wanted to pre-emptively defuse the inevitable accusations of favoritism/bias by showing that it could punish both sides "equally" regardless of whether punishments were earned by both sides equally.

 * This would go a long way towards explaining the statements offered by more than one Committee member, that topic-banning "did no harm" if the editor so banned had already stopped editing in that topic -- if you are primarily thinking about how a punishment will look, or what "message" it will send, and you overlook issues such as reputation and trust, then I suppose it might indeed look like

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Sulpicius Alexander

Sulpicius Alexander (fl. late fourth century) was a Roman historian of Germanic tribes. His work is lost, but his Historia in at least four books is quoted by Gregory of Tours. It was perhaps a continuation of the Res gestae by Ammianus Marcellinus (which ended in 378 AD) and dealt with events at least until the death of Valentinian II (392 AD). The work of Sulpicius Alexander as extracts in Gregory's Decem Libri Historiarum (II 9) is considered an important source in any discussion of the origin of the Frankish tribes.

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Constant Troyon

Constant Troyon (August 28, 1810 – February 21, 1865) was a French painter of the Barbizon school. In the early part of his career he painted mostly landscapes. It was only comparatively late in life that Troyon found his métier as a painter of animals, and achieved international recognition.

Early years
He was born in Sèvres, near Paris, where his father was connected with the famous manufactory of porcelain. Troyon entered the ateliers very young as a decorator, and until he was twenty he labored assiduously at the minute details of porcelain ornamentation; and this kind of work he mastered so thoroughly that it was many years before he overcame its limitations. By the time he reached twenty-one he was travelling the country as an artist, and painting landscapes so long as his finances lasted. Then when pressed for money he made friends with the first china manufacturer he met and worked steadily at his old business of decorator until he had accumulated enough funds to permit him to start again on his wanderings.

Later development
Troyon was a favorite with Camille Roqueplan, an artist of distinction eight years his senior, and he became one of his pupils after receiving certain tuition from a painter, now quite unknown, named Alfred Riocreux. Roqueplan introduced Troyon to Rousseau, Jules Dupré, and the other Barbizon painters, and in his pictures between 1840 and 1847 he seemed to endeavour to follow in their footsteps. But as a landscapist Troyon would never have been recognized as a thorough master, although his work of the period is marked with much sincerity and met with a certain success. It may be pointed out, however, that in one or two pure landscapes of the end of his life he achieved qualities of the highest artistic kind; but this was after lengthy experience as a cattle painter, by which his talents had become thoroughly developed.

In 1846 Troyon went to the Netherlands, and at the Hague saw Paulus Potter's famous "Young Bull". From the studies he made of this picture, of Cuyp's sunny landscapes, and Rembrandt's noble masterpieces he soon evolved a new method of painting, and it is only in works produced after this time that Troyon's true individuality is revealed. When he became conscious of his power as an animal painter he developed with rapidity and success, until his works became recognized as masterpieces in Britain and America, as well as in all countries of the European Continent. The art critic Albert Wolff wrote about this period of Troyon, after the exhibition "Cent Chefs-d'Oeuvres" in Paris, 1886: "It was accident and a journey to Holland which revealed to Troyon his true mission, that of an animal painter of the first rank ... At a distance of two centuries Troyon continued the traditions of the celebrated Dutch animal painters without imitating them. Paul Potter was to find a successor worthy of him ... Fancy the astonishment at the sight of Troyon's animals, with their large life, their broad brush-work in deep, pure colors, studied with a discriminating sympathy for every race and species, and moving through landscapes of a master's creation. These were not the fashionable stuffed beasts, but living, moving herds, stretching themselves luxuriously in the sun, breathing the breezes cool with morning, or huddling close together at the approach of the storm."

Success, however, came too late, for Troyon never quite believed in it himself, and even when he could command the market of several countries he still grumbled loudly at the way the world treated him. Yet he was decorated with the Legion of Honour, and five times received medals at the Paris Salon, while Napoleon III was one of his patrons; and it is certain he was at least as financially successful as his Barbizon colleagues.

Troyon died, unmarried, at Paris on 21 February 1865, after a term of clouded intellect. He was buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre in the Montmartre Quarter of Paris.

Recognition
All his famous pictures are of date between 1850 and 1864, his earlier work being of comparatively little value. His mother, who survived him, instituted the Troyon prize for animal pictures at the École des Beaux Arts. Troyon's work is fairly well known to the public through a number of large engravings from his pictures. In the Wallace Gallery in London are "Watering Cattle" and "Cattle in Stormy Weather"; in the Glasgow Corporation Gallery is a "Landscape with Cattle"; the Louvre contains his famous "Oxen at Work" and "Returning to the Farm"; while the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other galleries in America contain fine examples of his pictures. His "Vallée de la Toucque, Normandy", is one of his greatest pictures; and at Christie's sale-room in 1902 the single figure of a cow in a landscape of but moderate quality fetched £7350. Émile van Marcke (1827–1891) was his best-known pupil.

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User talk:SocratesJedi

Welcome to the Wikipedia
Here are some links I find useful:

 * Policy Library
 * Utilities
 * Cite your sources
 * Verifiability
 * Wikiquette
 * Civility
 * Conflict resolution
 * Brilliant prose
 * Neutral point of view
 * Pages needing attention
 * Peer review
 * Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
 * Village pump
 * Boilerplate text
 * IRC channel
 * Mailing lists
 * Current polls

Feel free to ask me anything the links and talk pages don't answer. You can sign your name by typing 4 tildes, likes this: ~.

Cheers, Sam [Spade] 18:34, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hello, please don't be offended if I'm writing this in the wrong place. I'm writing in regard to the wikipedia page I made a change on which you reversed. It was about the PA chromosome. You mentioned that I was wrong, and that the philadelphia chromosome was reciprocal. It was very much a good faith edit on my part. I just got back from school and was about to change it when I saw your reverse. Thank you for having my back. I'm a medical student who should know better before simply changing things like that. Take care. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Boonshofter (talk • contribs) 05:39, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Hello there again! Hopefully school isn't driving you too nuts! :) I didn't know who to ask, but I was wondering what you did in cases where you see vandalism. Do I just reverse the vandalism and go my way, or do I try to find out who did it and report them? Specifically, I am talking about this article: Tetanospasmin. If you take a look at the contents, where it's supposed to say "clinical", you'll see what I mean. I learned my lesson from last time, so I won't be changing anything until I'm sure I know what I'm doing! :)

Boonshofter 07:15, 14 December 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Boonshofter (talk • contribs)

shrek vandalism
thank you for saying thank you. not many people do that.

Jakken 01:30, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

Safe Sex NPOV Tag
I tagged safe sex with the NPOV tag because it looked like there was a bunch of arguing/disagreeing going on in the discussion page (religious people vs non-religious people, etc) and because it looked like people were trampling over each others edits. Feel free to remove it if this isn't the case, I just noticed it when watching recent changes. Damicatz 18:12, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
And thank you for your warm response! I get the impression that you are going to be a quite welcome addition here. Glad to have you, Sam [Spade] 18:50, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Signature
Please be careful to sign votes, some people will fail to count them if they are unsigned, Cheers, Sam [Spade] 21:08, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

EP Page
could you evaluate the my recent changes to the Engineering physics page? James C. 08:08, 2004 Jul 25 (UTC)

Vandalism
See the Village pump page. There seems to be a bug right now with people being misdirected to anonymous user pages. RickK

Obi-Wan Kenobi
Hi SocratesJedi. I'm glad you enjoyed the link to the "Earth from above" map. Did you notice that the map is "interactive" (that is, if you click on any other section of it, it will focus on that part of the globe - say Europe or Asia...). At the bottom of the page, you can also change the satellite feed. About the image, it's my fault for not addind the proper tag in it's page. That is a promotional shot for the movie (Episode II), and promotional shots are considered fair use, since they are meant for distribution in the media freely, as a means of promoting any given film. I'll add the tag to the image's page. Regards, Redux 01:50, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)

NPOV and MathWorld
My objection to P0lyglut's addition of a quality section is entirely one based on NPOV, not accuracy. I am sure you have read Talk:MathWorld. If we comment on MathWorld's accuracy, then Wikipedia takes a point of view, which we cannot do. If we had some sort of external verification of the accuracy of lack thereof, that would be entirely appropriate. Dysprosia 09:49, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

That looks like a valiant effort on MathWorld - I'll take a closer look later. Could you, however, provide some links to direct usenet posts via Google Groups? We still need to have some sort of direct reference to criticism. Dysprosia 22:41, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Image confusion
Don't worry. I forgot that sometimes the Wiki software has issues with images and what links here. I've tried to delete images that didn't appear to be there for me but turned out to be because my ad-blocker was blocking anything stored in a */ad/* directory. Evil Monkey → Talk 08:36, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)

Fhqwhgads
I had actually been meaning to get around to it for a couple of days, but wasn't sure it was a good idea.

Getting good images out out of the Homestar Runner flash files is easy if you open up the actual flash file in your browser without the encapsulating HTML. This allows you to do two things: use Flash's control menu to pause and step forwards and backwards, and make the display size much larger.

Being able to stop and step makes it easy to get what you're actually aiming for, and making the display size bigger gives you more room to crop out things that you don't want in the screenshot. It's not so important on this image, but it was useful for the other character shots. -- Cyrius|✎ 06:42, 12 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Cerro de la Silla
Hi SocratesJedi, I just wanted to let you know that I posted a cropped version of the Cerro de la Silla picture on FPC, and am wondering what you think. Thanks alot! --Spangineer ∞ 22:20, Jan 18, 2005 (UTC)

Peer review
Hey, SocratesJedi, I think you may have forgotten that you asked for comments about how to improve Eric W. Weisstein a while back, on Peer review. There are some comments there, if you're still interested. Compare also the Talk page.--Bishonen | Talk 16:57, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Regarding copyright violations
Hello Socrates, Please go to Image:Photo of magazine page.jpg to read the latest regarding this image, which I have restored. I am confident its use is within legal bounds, as per enclosed comments of my attorney. You might want to pass this on to the other editors, as it seems to clearly delineate what can be done. Haiduc 12:50, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Template: Islam
Thanks for your note. —iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 21:02, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)

Tables Namespace
I really like your idea for a table namespace and intuitive editor. It seems that this issue hasn't come to light though in the larger community (or at least I only randomly found it). I'd be interested in helping your support this if you wanted to raise awareness in the community at large. If you have a moment, leave me a message with what's been happening with that proposal (if it isn't obvious from the link in your user page) and if you're still interested in pursuing it further. In any case, I was very excited to see your proposal and would be very interested in helping you champion it. -SocratesJedi | Talk 08:09, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Yeah, I can't seem to get people to notice it. Nothing's been happening with the proposal.  I will do all I can to help create it, but I don't know PHP/mysql/whatever people use to make this stuff.  But yeah, it mostly just hasn't caught on yet.  If you can help, please do. - Omegatron 14:09, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)

National Medal of Science
Nice work on the page, I was thinking of putting up a list of medal winners, seperate from the page about the Medal. I think the full list will provide a wealth a red links for bio writers, and most if not all the winners are notable researchers. I think the name and the year are sufficient - in a format like the Lasker Award, what do you think?--nixie 04:12, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * In a fit of obsessiveness I put up the List of National Medal of Science winners. If you're looking for some busy work - red-link winners in biology, chemistry and engineering need their names checked, to make sure a variation of their name isn't already in wikipedia :) --nixie 01:52, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Peer review/Eric W. Weisstein
Hi, I notice that Bishonen commented on this a while ago but there is no response. Would you be able to make a short note acknowledging the feedback? That would be nice :-) It gets a little discouraging when people take the time to give specific feedback and noone responds on peer review! - Ta bu shi da yu 00:58, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

The Giver
Hi. I noticed you claimed a "minor contribution" to the article on The Giver (and a very nice contribution it was). I've just finished adding a metric truckload of material on the book's publication history, critical reception, classroom use, challenges, etc., and I would more than welcome the people who worked on the article before to check it out again.

Best wishes, Anville 18:45, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Nixon image
Thank you for thinking of me as a "learned community member"—I am truly flattered!. As for the image: it probably was an accident, intended for the Whacking day article. My first thought was that it was from The Simpsons, and a Google Image Search seems to confirm my suspicions. The uploader is Shadyvinny; based on his/her contribs, I'd say this user probably would best be classified as a clueless newbie. Warmest regards --Neutralitytalk 07:53, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Excellent. I saw your VfD comment and fully concur. If you need me for anything else, you know where to find me. --Neutralitytalk 08:09, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC)

Logic gate images
For images like Image:ORGate.JPG, (with large areas of the same color, or simple patterns in pixels) PNGs are generally used, since they don't get artifacts like JPEGs and can often be made much smaller.. This is reccomended here. Frencheigh 13:15, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Herman B Wells
Thanks! I don't know why Wikipedia prevented it before, but I'm glad it's been fixed now. --Durin 19:22, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Stub template images
Hi SocratesJedi - please see my note at Template_talk:Reli-stub re: stub template images. Grutness|hello? 02:27, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Nah - that's fine. Being bold is often the best thing. Hope I didn't tread on your toes too hard! :) Grutness|hello? [[Image:Grutness.jpg|25px|]] 03:09, 7 May 2005 (UTC)

Religious violence
Hey -- I took a stab at religious violence. Would you like to take a look at it and see what you think? I tried to expand the topic a little and offer a little more tangible information, while still keeping it in the realm of NPOV, but I wouldn't mind a second opinion there. -- Captain Disdain 23:20, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Gallwespen gerade übersetzt!
Hi. I'm an anonymous internet surfer with way too much free time, no previous knowledge of Gall wasps, and pretty near fluent ability in German. Accordingly, I've just finished translating into Gall wasp, as per your request of January 29. I have removed the request from the pending list, as well.

As my knowledge of German far exceeds my knowledge of Gall wasps, I imagine there are probably some errors here and there, something you or somebody else might be able to address. There are issues such as the fact that a lot of the species common names didn't translate especially well, etc. In particular, I noticed that the classification Tracheata is sometimes referred to as a subphylum, sometimes as a superclass, while Hexapoda gets named a subphylum on WikiEnglish but a superclass on WikiDeutsch! Elsewhere online, Hexapoda seems to carry both definitions. This is way outside my area of expertise, so I've left it as a subphylum in the interest of consistency, but I suppose there might be a big error in the classification system article in one language or the other?

Anyway, just wanted to let you know.

--66.32.3.94 01:22, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

NPOV
Please check out Neutral point of view/BCE-CE Debate, Slrubenstein  |  Talk  00:04, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Reli-bio-stub
Please don't take your being called on the carpet as a reason to edit my change. Stained Glass and clasped hands do not convey any religious iconography. I believe that Grutness would have removed it himself if they had been.

I worked very hard to develop an image that would be broad-based, encompassing and not originating from any particular point of view. -- ℬ astique ▼ talk 15:51, 16 May 2005 (UTC)

Safe sex
It looks good. I never saw preceding 1's but this might be peculiar to my browser version. Anyway it looks sweet and I can tell it's a sub-list which is all what's good. Cheers. Ø 21:05, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Hey all that new stuff and formatting on safe sex is looking pretty tight. Good job. Ø 22:08, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Wow you're pretty awesome. I don't think I've got the patience for this kind of excellent communication so kudos to you on this whole safe sex/safer sex split issue.

Copyvio is not speedyable
Copyvio isn't automatically a candidate for speedy deletion, please use the copyvio tag instead. Kappa 18:22, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for your kind words. It's the middle of my exam week and my wiki-stress is exasperated by real-life stress. ;) Thanks again, and warmest regards --Neutralitytalk 02:21, May 24, 2005 (UTC)

Safer sex
Thank you for your interest in this topic.

The Safe sex article seems focussed on STD and activities like solitary masturbation and phone sex. Is the suggestion of wearing medical gloves during masturbation serious?

All this hides the central issue that safer sex was developed as guidelines to reduce the spread of AIDS. It is a harm reduction approach.

I am very reluctant to start an editing war in an attempt to improve the safe sex article as you suggest.

Sci guy 15:35, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your further comments. The success of safer sex promotion is based on a simple message like - "if its not on, its not on". Meaning if a condom is "not on" then the sex is "not on".

Burying this simple message in a long article about phone sex and masturbating with a latex glove obscures the issue.

I fear that any attempt to clean up the safe sex article will start a reversion war - but I am happy to work through some of the details with you if you have the time. Sci guy 16:48, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

I really appreciate your attitude. I am sure together we could work through the issues. But I also need to respect the need of wikipedians to vent all the other issues like cyber sex and mastubating in latex gloves. On balance, I think two articles are easier to manage Sci guy 15:59, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

History writing on Wikipedia?
Hello,

I’m a historian working at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University (http://chnm.gmu.edu/) and we are very interested in digital historical works, including people writing history on Wikipedia. We’d like to talk to people about their experiences working on articles in Wikipedia, in connection with a larger project on the history of the free and open source software movement. Would you be willing to talk with us about your involvement, either by phone, a/v chat, IM, or email? This could be as lengthy or brief a conversation as you wish.

Thanks for your consideration.

Joan Fragaszy

jfragasz at gmu dot edu

Hello again. If you have any questions about my request please do get in touch with me. I am trying to contact Wikipedians who have worked on articles about history and the history of science, and User Talk pages seemed like the best way to contact people. You can find out more about our larger project on the history of science, technology, and industry on our website, http://echo.gmu.edu. Best regards, Joan Fragaszy

:)
Thanks for telling me about signing my name. That was the first time I voted on something and I didn't know I had to sign my name. You not signing yours kinda made me think it wasn't important, but thanks for the correction. This'll also be the first time I leave someone a message so I hope I don't screw something up. :P (I'm really good at that)

and I forgot to sign this page too... fudge -Atsquish

Thank you
Thank you very much for your message. It is pleasing to see that my work is causing some impact. :) Cheers. --Sn0wflake 15:51, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Reply
I just noticed your reply (I am a new Wikipedia editor, though I have been using it for a while). I got the picture of Stephanie Pace Marshall from IMSA's webpage. www.imsa.edu Go to "Message from Our Founders."

Featured article candidates/Starfleet ranks and insignia
The article has been improved drasticaly, I think this is a good enough reason to reopen the FA status of this article. To be fair I am notifying all parties involved with the article on old candidacy. If I forgot one of you, its not intentional. Thats all for now -- Cat chi? 1 July 2005 00:15 (UTC)

Deletion
Thank you for your friendly remarks, and I assure you I read no malice into your nomination. I've submitted some 2000 articles to Wikipedia, and it is not all that rare that one gets listed on VfD. I might be more annoyed if one of them ever ended up actually getting deleted, but so far none have. - SimonP July 2, 2005 02:24 (UTC)

Alfred Kinsey
Thanks for encouraging me to write more about Kinsey's family. Unfortunately, that was the extent of the information available, except for the stub I wrote on his wife. I was surprised that there wasn't more information on her, as I understood that she contributed significantly to his work. But perhaps he took credit for it, others did not believe a woman could make a contribution, or she actually didn't do much. (The movie gave the impression that she did make a contribution.) --Westendgirl 9 July 2005 19:14 (UTC)

Willy on Wheels vandalism
Hi, we are reverting User:Willy on Wheels vandalism absolutely as fast as possible. Please help out. Antandrus (talk) 16:20, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Here:   Look at the move log; that explains what is going on. The "profane edit comments" to which you refer were the vandal's user name which we were reverting. Here are the vandal's contributions:. The ones marked as [top] haven't been reverted yet. After we move them all back to the correct titles, we have to delete the redirects. It's the most difficult vandalism to clean up, which is why he keeps coming back and doing it again. Hope this helps, Antandrus (talk) 16:29, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

It's all done now. Anyway, hope that helps for the next time, because he's been hitting us every weekday, usually several times a day. Antandrus (talk) 16:49, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Requesting comments on template alteration
Hello. I see you are using one or more of the User instruments templates in your Babel box. Inspired by some recent developments, I want to rework all the templates in there (including ones used on user pages), to make them more like the regular Babel templates. However, I thought I should hear from the people this would affect before actually doing it. Please weigh in at User:Ddawson/User instruments. Ddawson 10:28, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

VFD: Bracketed songs
Just a quick message to let you know that a page that you have voted to keep in the past List of songs with brackets in their titles, is up for deletion againhere :( David 5000 18:26, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

HH equation
If it's any consolation, I spelled it wrong myself, that's why I found your version first, not the -balch version. :) - Stillnotelf 22:32, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

Calculus with polynomials
Thank you for your additions to this article. One remark. According to the Manual of Style, one should not use capitals except at the beginning of heading and in proper names. That is to say,

===Power rule==

is better than

==Power Rule==

I will fix this now at this article. Thank you and enjoy! Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 05:42, 19 November 2005 (UTC)

Hey
Just thought you might be interested in Articles for deletion/Battle of Hogwarts (2nd nomination) because you participated in the first vote. Savidan 21:09, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

 * SocratesJedi, you voted keep at Articles for deletion/Battle of Hogwarts (2nd nomination) based on remaning the article. Could you please propose what you feel would be an appropriate name at that page. I have no idea what renaming would do to address some of the more fundamental objections to the article but I would at least like to know what you are proposing. Savidan 18:33, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Fair-use image removed from your user page
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Proposal on Notability
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MathWorld
Hello, I have been making edits recently in the Quality section. I just noticed your Jan 2005 request to discuss such edits on the talk page first. My apologies. But I hope you like much of what I've done & I did like your version more than what came before and realize there was need for compromise w/harsh Mathworld critics, requiring "weasel words"-which is a nnpov moniker itself. If we do disagree substantially, I'm willing to discuss and negotiate.Regards,Rich 20:34, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

The Case for Christ
I saw that you were concerned that the The Case for Christ article was biased against Christianity and was hoping that you might review the current state of the article. I agree that previous incarnations of the article did have some elements that were not suitable for inclusion, but I think the article is up to quality now. I have rewritten some previous information on Challenging the Verdict that I think is NPOV because it sticks to only talking about what the author actually said. Would you please review it at your convenience and provide comments? Thanks! -SocratesJedi | Talk 01:17, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, I wasn't specifically concerned about bias against Christianity, just that the criticisms sounded like they came from a know-it-all and didn't contain enough published material! In that respect it seems much better now - except that all the external links are to freethought website critiques! Easily fixed. Leon 07:13, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Simione Kaitani
Hi there! I see you have changed the spelling of "apologised" to "apologized."

I've changed it back. It's not a big deal to me, but a de facto policy of Wikipedia is that insofar as possible, articles pertaining to a particular country should be written in the dialect of that country (e.g., British English for England, American English for the United States, Indian English for India, etc.) Because of its colonial past, Fijian English is derived from British English, and favours British spellings.

-ISE versus -IZE: Historically, -ISE was the "standard" British spelling. In recent years, -IZE has gained currency in England - BUT not all former British colonies have followed suit, especially not Fiji. In many ways, Fijians are more British than the British themselves with respect to their use of English. I know one Fijian Wikipedian who feels strongly about this. Out of respect for people like him, I try to ensure that Fiji-related articles use what is considered correct spelling in their variety of English. David Cannon 11:23, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Adultery article
Which version of combining the two do you prefer? And do you have any wording of one or the other that improves how it reads before I change it? Atom 01:57, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

If you could particpate to help resolve the block in the adultery article it would be appreciated. I am not asking you to agree with my perspective, but to participate in a consensus process that results in wording satisfactory to all. At the moment it is very frustrating to me as another user will not offer any alternative wording, but just keeps reverting my changes the fix the NPOV issue. If you could offer wording of your own origination that seems to address both perspectives for the intro para, and see if we can find consensus, it would be appreciated. Atom 20:36, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi:

I was trying to find a way to not use the word "extramarital", but yet still impart the meaning. As adultery in some context has to do with sexual intercourse of married people, outside of marriage I tried to phrase it that way. "Extramarital" could apply to a variety of other situations not related to that. Atom 16:48, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

simple links
Your edit to completing the square inspires this comment. There's no need to write algebraic; it suffices to write algebraic. The reader sees the whole word, not just the part in brackets, as a clickable link, and it links to the article whose name is in the brackets. Simiarly with hyphenated, logical, cats, evolutionary, rabbinical, Egyptian, dogmatic, apocryphal, fur trader, antagonistic, etc. The more complicated thing can be used for things like philosophies, scientific, French, etc. Michael Hardy 21:48, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Same user on commons
I assert that I am the same user as commons:User:SocratesJedi -SocratesJedi | Talk 22:24, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Possibly unfree Image:EricWWeisstein.jpg
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Leads
Leads summarize articles. Since the science is most of the article text, I would have thought you'd leave this in. You might be able to come up with a better way to summarize the studies. Be— —Critical 08:21, 9 November 2011 (UTC)

President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
As you will know, Verifiability policy mandates that "anything challenged or likely to be challenged be attributed in the form of an inline citation that directly supports the material". Identifying reliable sources guidelines further state "Articles should be based on reliable, third-party, published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy." At present the only source for this article is not a third-party. Cusop Dingle (talk) 18:08, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok, that is a reasonable argument. I've reverted the article back to the last version by you, which includes the citation. SocratesJedi | Talk 21:02, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Cusop Dingle (talk) 21:08, 11 November 2011 (UTC)

Neurofibromatosis type I
Hi SJ,

I noticed you made some updates to the Neurofibromatosis Type 1 page. I see you are an MD/PhD. Are you interested in working in neurofibroma as a research area? I've been updating pages related to this area. I tried to start an NF WikiProject or an NF Medicine Task Force for this area but the reaction I got was that it was too specialized, even though it is in fact a challenging and deep research area. Here is a pointer to the 2011 Children's Tumor Foundation conference which is a good overview of current work: 2011 NF Conference, and here are conference summary articles and abstracts from past conferences: NF Conferences.

Research talent for this problem is widely dispersed. Nationally, only about 21 institutions over the last 5 years have received research grants from CTF. I have tried to interest several people working in neuroscience, biology and bioinformatics in this subject with no success. I think as a rule people may be attracted to areas with bigger funding bases, although it is possible in NF with some preliminary success to get good levels of NIH and DOD funding.

Some interesting factoids about NF1:
 * 1) Hundreds of different mutations to Neurofibromin 1 lead to the primary initial diagnostic feature, which is cafe au lait spots.
 * 2) There are few to no public mutation databases, but some private collections such as one at University of Alabama where the database owners are inclined to share.
 * 3) There are many unfortunate developmental outcomes associated with NF1.  Other than the spots, which are benign, there is no phenotype correlation of the various negative outsomes with individual observed neurofibromin 1 mutations at present.  Some people at Harvard are doing genome-wide association studies to establish a phenotype with other genes.
 * 4) There is no such thing as gene therapy per se for NF1, just drug therapies such as Gleevec after tumor formation has begun.
 * 5) The key to this area is probably understanding the common features in the signalling pathways for the RASopathies.

Thanks, Erxnmedia (talk) 22:41, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Early life of Joseph Smith
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Lars Gustafsson

Lars Erik Einar Gustafsson (17 May 1936 – 3 April 2016) was a Swedish poet, novelist, and scholar. Among his awards were the Gerard-Bonnier-Preis in 2006, the Goethe Medal in 2009, the Thomas Mann Prize in 2015, and the International Nonino Prize in Italy in 2016.

Life and career
Gustafsson was born in Västerås, completed his secondary education at the Västerås Gymnasium and continued to Uppsala University, where he studied literature, aesthetics, sociology and philosophy. In 1960, he received a licentiate degree in philosophy. In 1978, he was awarded a PhD in theoretical philosophy with a dissertation on speech and literature. He later served for four years on the university's board of regents (1994–1998).

Already by 1960, Gustafsson was publishing novels and poetry regularly. In addition to his literary work, he was editor-in-chief of the renowned literary journal Bonniers Litterära Magasin from 1962 to 1972. He soon established international contacts, notably with the German authors in Group 47. In 1972, through a DAAD fellowship he came to West Berlin, where he lived for two years. During this period, he also traveled extensively, among other places to Australia, Singapore, Japan, Israel, and the United States. Throughout his career, he attended and participated in many international academic and cultural events. John Updike described Gustafsson as "the enviably ideal conferee, a red‑bearded fish never out of water, loving books, ideas, and discourse equally, and everywhere adept."

Having been invited to visit the University of Texas at Austin by its Germanic Studies department in 1972 and again in 1974, and because Austin was his wife's hometown he moved there in 1983, where he served at first as adjunct professor in Germanic Studies, later as professor, then Distinguished Professor, in the Plan II Honors program, teaching philosophy and creative writing. He returned to Sweden in 2003 while continuing to hold a research professorship at the university; in 2006, he retired. He lived in Stockholm, spending summers in Västmanland. He died at the age of 79 on 3 April 2016.

Gustafsson was married three times: in 1961 to Madeleine Gustafsson (two children); in 1982 to Alexandra Chasnoff (two children); in 2005 to Agneta Blomqvist. In 1981 Gustafsson converted to Judaism.

In May 2009, Lars Gustafsson declared that he would vote for the Pirate Party in the upcoming elections for the European Parliament. However, in August 2010 he left the Pirate Party in protest of its cooperation with the WikiLeaks portal, which he accused of delivering death lists for the Taliban.

Writing
Gustafsson published poetry, novels, short stories, critical essays, and editorials. He gained international recognition as a Swedish writer. By 1990, he had already received a dozen major literary awards including the Prix européen de l'essai Charles-Veillon in 1983, Una Vita per la Letteratura in 1989, as well as the Swedish Bellman Prize in 1990. He won a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for poetry in 1994. Among later awards were the Gerard-Bonnier-Preis in 2006, the Goethe Medal in 2009, and the Thomas Mann Prize in 2015. He won the 2016 International Nonino Prize in Italy.

Gustafsson's novels and poetry have been translated into fifteen languages, the most often translated being the novels The Death of a Beekeeper (En biodlares död), Bernard Foy's Third Castling (Bernard Foys tredje rockad), and Afternoon of a Tiler (En kakelsättares eftermiddag). Harold Bloom includes Gustafsson in The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (1994, p. 557).

The Death of a Beekeeper, published in 1978, is Gustafsson's best-known novel. John Updike praised it as "a beautiful work, lyrical and bleak, resonant and terse." Ia Dübois has called it "one of his greatest works." Eva Stenskar has written that it "seems so effortless yet lyrical that only an artist at the height of his powers could've produced it." Its main theme is the agony of disease, as it follows Vesslan—a beekeeper who is dying of cancer—through entries he makes on notepads. The book's innovative structure allows Gustafsson to explore identity through its expression in a variety of forms: imagination, memory and even the mundane details of life. The book's central theme is revealed by the repeated motto of the protagonist, "We never give up. We begin anew." Gustafsson himself has described it as "A book about pain. It describes a journey into the centre where pain rules—and pain can tolerate no rivals." The novel was re-published in 1984 as the last in a five-novel sequence Sprickorna i muren (The Cracks in the Wall), the other volumes being Herr Gustafsson själv, Yllet, Familjefesten, and Sigismund.

Bernard Foy's Third Castling (1986) is nearly as well known as The Death of a Beekeeper. Its settings are Sweden; Paris; Worpswede, Germany; and Texas. The overt genre is the detective story, but there are three plots, and Bernard Foy is three separate characters: a Houston rabbi, an old Swedish poet, and a Swedish teenager. Each gradually turns into a character in the writing of the succeeding Foy. Gustafsson said that he was prompted by a “connection to Descartes' dream argument: You start with a story and it proves to be the story of a completely different person who is dreaming up the story which proves to be the story of a third person and it is all written by one or another person.”

In 1989, Gustafsson ventured into the field of science fiction and published Det sällsamma djuret från norr och andra science-fiction-berättelser. The book takes place 40,000 years into the future, when humans are extinct and the galaxy is populated by artificial intelligences. It is a philosophical exploration of life and existence and can be seen as an homage to Stanislav Lem.

Gustafsson's two major fields of interest interacted from the start of his career. In 2003, he wrote that "sometimes I cannot see any sharp boundary between [my literary work] and [my philosophical work]. I tend to regard myself as a philosopher who has turned literature into one of his tools." When asked where he finds his inspiration, Gustafsson answered "I listen. I listen and I look. Creativity knows no rules. You can get an idea for a novel from a little something someone says, or just a face you see. A rabbi once told me that when God spoke to Moses in that bush, it wasn't in a thundering voice but in a very weak voice. You have to listen carefully for that voice. You have to be very sharp."

In 2003, Yllet, the second novel in The Cracks in the Wall (Sprickorna i Muren) series was made into a feature film, directed by Jimmy Karlsson and starring Magnus Krepper.

While the problem of identity has been the defining theme of Gustafsson's writings, his social criticism often vexed the Swedish cultural elite. As a result, he is seen as a controversial writer in Sweden rather than as one embraced by the establishment.

In 2016, he received the Zbigniew Herbert International Literary Award.

Selected works

 * Truth and Lie (Språk och Lögn. En essä om språkfilosofisk extremism i nittonde århundradet, 1978)

Novels and Stories

 * Bröderna (The Brothers 1960; not available in English)
 * Den egentliga berättelsen om herr Arenander (The Real Story of Mr. Arenander 1966; not available in English)
 * Sprickorna i muren (five-novel cycle)
 * Herr Gustafsson själv (Mr. Gustafsson Himself 1971; not available in English)
 * Yllet (Yllet 1973; not available in English)
 * Familjefesten (Family Reunion 1975; not available in English)
 * Sigismund, or the Memories of a Baroque Polish Prince ISBN 978-0-8112-0924-3 (Sigismund, ur en polsk barockfurst minnen, 1976)
 * The Death of a Beekeeper ISBN 978-0-8112-1775-0 ISBN 978-0-8112-0810-9 (En biodlares död, 1978)
 * The Tennis Players ISBN 978-0-8112-0861-1 (Tennisspelarna, 1977)
 * Stories of Happy People ISBN 978-0-8112-0978-6 (Berättelser om lyckliga Människor, 1981)
 * Funeral Music for Freemasons ISBN 978-0-8112-1017-1 (Sorgemusik för frimurare, 1983)
 * Bernard Foy's Third Castling ISBN 978-0-8112-1086-7 (Bernard Foys tredje rockad, 1986)
 * Det sällsamma djuret från norr och andra science-fiction-berättelser ISBN 978-91-1-891322-8 (Stockholm: Norstedt. Libris 7155137, 1989), not available in English
 * A Tiler's Afternoon ISBN 978-0-8112-1240-3 (En kakelsättares eftermiddag, 1991)
 * The Tale of a Dog ISBN 978-0-8112-1395-0 (Historien med hunden, 1993)
 * Mannen på den blå cykeln (The Man with the Blue Bicycle 2012: not available in English)
 * Doktor Wassers recept (The Prescription of Doctor Wasser, posthumously 2019; not available in English)
 * Dr Weiss sista uppdrag (The Final Task of Dr. Weiss, posthumously 2019; not available in English)

Poetry

 * Selected Poems (1972; translated by Robin Fulton)
 * Warm Rooms and Cold (1975; translated by Yvonne L. Sandstroem)
 * Stillness of the World Before Bach ISBN 978-0-8112-1058-4 (1988; collection of poems selected from volumes published between 1962 and 1984, including the title volume Världens tystnad före Bach, 1982; edited by Christopher Middleton; translations by the editor, Robin Fulton, Harriett Watts, Yvonne L. Sandstroem, and Philip Martin)
 * Elegies and Other Poems ISBN 978-0-8112-1441-4 (2000; collection of poems selected from volumes published between 1968 and 1996; edited by Christopher Middleton; translations by the editor, Yvonne L. Sandstroem, Philip Martin, and Bill Brookshire)
 * A Time in Xanadu (2008; translated by John Irons) ISBN 978-1-55659-275-1 (En tid i Xanadu, 2002)
 * Selected Poems (2015; collection of poems selected from volumes published between 1998 and 2012, plus unpublished poems; translated by John Irons) ISBN 978-1-85224-997-7

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Suited connectors

Suited connectors is a poker term referring to pocket cards that are suited and consecutive, for example  Q♥ J♥ . These hands are considered stronger than average because they have the highest potential to form straights and flushes when combined with the community cards.

In Texas hold'em, suited connectors play well against multiple players when they can see the flop for cheap. Experienced players will generally not raise with them, because raising usually causes a few players to fold, decreasing the pot odds in the event of a straight or flush draw on the flop. However, a hand like ace-king suited might do well to raise because the cards will also work well if they pair, which is the more likely possibility, so the pot odds are less important.

Suited connectors in cash games
Suited connectors can be especially effective in deep stack poker. An experienced player might call a loose player when he raises and re-raises with suited connectors in an attempt to win a big pot. Large stacks increase the value of suited connectors because of larger implied odds. In tournament play, where the stacks are normally shallow, suited connectors are very marginal hands. The idea behind playing suited connectors is that they will mostly be folded on the flop, but when they hit a quality draw or a made hand, a player should be looking to win all or a large portion of the opponent's stack. In Harrington on Cash Games, a chapter is dedicated on explaining the poker paradox: "Big hands" such as AA and KK tend to win small pots, and "small hands" such as 4♠ 3♠ tend to win big pots, simply because the small hands create well-concealed monsters and will only continue when they hit.

Suited gappers
Non-consecutive suited pocket cards which are nonetheless close enough to each other in value that they can form a straight on the flop are generally referred to as a "suited gapper." For example, A♠ 3♠ is a suited 1-gapper and  5♦ 9♦  is a suited 3-gapper. In general, suited gappers are not as strong as suited connectors because they have a lower likelihood of making a straight.

Probability
Suited connectors and suited gappers have a higher chance of making a straight or straight draw on the flop than non-connected hands.

The table shows the probability of hitting each outcome.

 * {| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;"

!      Hand !! Straight !! Straight Draw !! Average Straight Draw Outs
 * Ace King || 0.33%   || 12.18%        || 1.03
 * King Queen || 0.65%   || 16.92%        || 1.22
 * Queen Jack || 0.98%   || 22.12%        || 1.33
 * Jack Ten || 1.31%   || 27.84%        || 1.40
 * Ace Queen || 0.33%   || 12.84%        || 1.08
 * King Jack || 0.65%   || 17.06%        || 1.25
 * Queen Ten || 0.98%   || 22.78%        || 1.35
 * Ace Jack || 0.33%   || 13.31%        || 1.1
 * King Ten || 0.65%   || 18.04%        || 1.26
 * Ace Ten || 0.33%   || 14.29%        || 1.11
 * King Nine || 0.33%   || 12.98%        || 1.13
 * }
 * Queen Ten || 0.98%   || 22.78%        || 1.35
 * Ace Jack || 0.33%   || 13.31%        || 1.1
 * King Ten || 0.65%   || 18.04%        || 1.26
 * Ace Ten || 0.33%   || 14.29%        || 1.11
 * King Nine || 0.33%   || 12.98%        || 1.13
 * }
 * Ace Ten || 0.33%   || 14.29%        || 1.11
 * King Nine || 0.33%   || 12.98%        || 1.13
 * }
 * King Nine || 0.33%   || 12.98%        || 1.13
 * }

There are two main factors that influence the chance of a straight:
 * Higher card outs: A hand that is jack-high has a higher chance of making a straight than a hand that is ace-high. This is due to the jack-high being able to include cards higher than itself as outs.
 * Low straights: A hand that includes an ace can make a high straight: 10-J-Q-K-A or a low straight: A-2-3-4-5. This causes an ace-ten hand to have a higher straight draw probability than a king-nine hand.

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SpaceShipOne flight 16P

Flight 16P of SpaceShipOne was a spaceflight in the Tier One program that took place on September 29, 2004. It was the first competitive flight in the Ansari X PRIZE competition to demonstrate a non-governmental reusable crewed spacecraft, and is hence also referred to as the X1 flight. A serious roll excursion occurred during boost, so the flight did not achieve the expected altitude. However, it exceeded 100 km altitude, making it a successful X PRIZE flight.

Scheduling
X PRIZE rules required that the date and place of competitive flights be announced to the X PRIZE Foundation at least 60 days before the flight. Due to problems encountered during flight 15P on June 21, 2004, Scaled Composites did not immediately set a date for their competitive flights, suspecting that another test flight might be required. By July 7, 2004 Burt Rutan reported that the faults had been resolved and the next flights would be competitive. On July 27, 2004, the X PRIZE Foundation announced that Scaled Composites had given notice that they would make their first competitive flight on September 29, 2004.

The pilot initially selected for the flight withdrew due to stress about two weeks before the flight, after his wife gave birth and he also fell ill. Mike Melvill, who also piloted SpaceShipOne's sole previous spaceflight, stepped in to fly in his place. The choice of pilot was not publicly announced until about two hours before planned takeoff. Melvill was seen as a surprise choice, because after the previous flight he had said he wanted to take a break from flying SpaceShipOne and ride his motorbike more.

Manifest
Under Ansari X PRIZE rules, the flight was required to carry 180 kg payload, to simulate two 90 kg human passengers. Scaled Composites announced early on that this, their first X PRIZE flight, would carry inanimate payload rather than live passengers. The payload included:
 * X PRIZE flight monitoring equipment, known as the "gold box"
 * the Explorers Club flag, by arrangement between the Explorers Club and the X PRIZE Foundation
 * video equipment, producing a video stream that was broadcast live
 * mementos from team members, including:
 * photographs
 * personal tools, including Burt Rutan's college slide rule
 * tree seedlings
 * the ashes of Burt Rutan's mother, Irene Rutan, who had died a few years earlier
 * an heirloom watch
 * a copy of Charles Lindbergh's book The Spirit of St. Louis
 * a teddy bear being carried for the British charity Great North Air Ambulance
 * lead ballast to make up the payload mass

The practice of carrying arbitrary non-functional items into space, which has previously been carried out by many Space Shuttle missions, is evidence that space travel is still widely seen as special. The value of symbolic items increases enormously if the item has flown in space, due to the restricted access to space. The teddy bear being carried for charity will be auctioned at a much higher price than it would otherwise command. Scaled Composites employees were made to sign a contract forbidding them from selling the mementos they put on the flight.

SpaceShipOne and White Knight bore several logos for the flight. These were:
 * Scaled Composites
 * "SpaceShipOne: a Paul G. Allen project" on SpaceShipOne
 * "White Knight" on White Knight
 * Virgin Galactic, on the tails, following the signing earlier in the week of an agreement for Virgin Galactic to license Tier One technology for space tourism
 * Virgin, on the fuselage
 * Ansari X PRIZE, as required by X PRIZE rules
 * The Spirit of St. Louis, a science center
 * M&M's, apparently in an act of sponsorship inspired by Melvill's antics with M&M's during flight 15P
 * 7-Up Plus
 * Champ Car World Series

Flight profile
The SpaceShipOne pilot was Mike Melvill. There were three chase planes.

All times are in PDT, which is seven hours behind UTC. This was the local civil time at the spaceport on the day of the flight. All measurements are first stated in the U.S. customary units in which they were originally reported, with conversions to SI units also given.

The flight was planned to take off from Mojave Spaceport in the early morning, when wind conditions are most favourable. Takeoff was scheduled for 06:47, but was delayed because of winds gusting to 50 mph (20 m/s), which subsided after sunrise. White Knight, carrying SpaceShipOne, taxied to the runway at 07:00, and took off at 07:11.

After takeoff, White Knight and SpaceShipOne ascended to the launch altitude, planned to be around 14 km. At 08:09 SpaceShipOne was released, glided for 6 s, then went into nose-up attitude and the rocket motor was ignited. The rocket motor was capable of burning for approximately 87 s, having been upgraded since the previous flight. It was planned to shut off the motor at an altitude of 345,000 feet (105 km), presumably to avoid pushing the envelope too far.

The spacecraft started rolling rapidly 50 s into the burn, while travelling at Mach 2.7. This was probably due to, or at least exacerbated by, pilot error. The pilot was not highly concerned by this, being confident that he could correct the situation, and he allowed the burn to continue during the roll. He later said "I thought it was kind of cool." The altitude was too high (and thus the atmosphere too thin) for the roll to cause significant aerodynamic stress, and it was correspondingly infeasible to damp the roll rate using the aerodynamic control surfaces.

When there was sufficient velocity to assure the achievement of the target altitude, as predicted by the navigational system, the ground controllers recommended that the pilot abort the burn. He promptly did so, 76 s into the burn, cutting it short by 11 s. After engine cutoff, the craft continued climbing while rolling. The pilot did not immediately work to damp the roll. Around apogee he took photographs of the Earth using a digital still camera.

The apogee altitude was estimated by the nearby Edwards Air Force Base, based on radar data, to be 337,569 feet (102.9 km). Due to the early burn cutoff, this was far less than originally anticipated. However, it was more than the 100 km necessary to qualify as a spaceflight and satisfy X PRIZE requirements. Early reports said that after the instruction from the ground the pilot had delayed the burn cutoff in order to exceed 100 km; in fact the instruction was issued just after the 100 km altitude was assured, and the pilot's reaction time accounts for the additional 2.9 km.

After apogee, the pilot feathered the wing for atmospheric reentry. He then damped out the roll, without difficulty, using the reaction jets. Overall, the craft did 29 complete rolls. Atmospheric reentry proceeded normally, with the craft rapidly righting its attitude due to the stable high-drag configuration. It changed back to gliding configuration normally, glided back to the spaceport, and landed safely at 08:34. White Knight then landed at 08:39.

Spectacle
As with SpaceShipOne's previous flight, a crowd of thousands watched from Mojave Spaceport. Television coverage also occurred. SPACE.com provided live video from SpaceShipOne's cockpit.

Distinguished attendees included:
 * Sean O'Keefe, NASA Administrator
 * Erik Lindbergh, grandson of the pioneering aviator Charles Lindbergh and a member of the X PRIZE Foundation board
 * James Cameron, action film director
 * John Landis, film director
 * William Readdy, astronaut

At 06:09, shortly before planned takeoff, spectators were told to stay at the spaceport after the flight, to hear a "major announcement" about the future of the X PRIZE Foundation. As of October 4, 2004, it appears that no such announcement was actually made.

Spectator reaction was more muted than for SpaceShipOne flight 15P, the first SpaceShipOne flight to have spectators, which was also the first privately funded human spaceflight.

Later flights
To win the X PRIZE, a spacecraft must make two successful competitive flights within 14 days. With this flight on September 29, 2004, successful, a second spaceflight had to follow by October 13, 2004, in order to win.

Scaled Composites scheduled the second competitive flight, flight 17P, for October 4, 2004, the 47th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1, and it was completed successfully on schedule. There was a possibility of a third competitive flight (18P) occurring by October 13, 2004, if either of the first two flights failed, but in the end this was not required.

The da Vinci Project, another X PRIZE contender, planned to make its first competitive flight on October 2, 2004, but encountered problems and had to delay its flights.

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Kapa

Kapa is a fabric made by native Hawaiians from the bast fibres of certain species of trees and shrubs in the orders Rosales and Malvales. The bark is beaten and felted to achieve a soft texture and dye stamped in geometric patterns.

Description and uses
Similar to tapa found elsewhere in Polynesia (the Hawaiian phoneme corresponds to  in most other Polynesian languages), kapa differs in the methods used in its creation. Kapa is based primarily on the creative combination of linear elements that cross and converge to form squares, triangles, chevrons, and diagonal forms, giving a feeling of boldness and directness. Kapa was used primarily for clothing like the malo worn by men as a loincloth and the pāū worn by women as a wraparound. Kapa was also used for kīhei, a shawl or cape worn over one shoulder. Other uses for kapa depended on caste and a person's place in ancient Hawaiian society.

Kapa moe (bed covers) were reserved for the alii or chiefly caste—several layers of kapa would be stitched together at the edges to form a kapa moe. Kapa robes were used by kāhuna or priestly caste. Kapa was also used as banners where leis were hung from it and images of their gods were printed on it.

Techniques
Cultural anthropologists over the course of the 20th century identified techniques in the creation of kapa that are unique to the Hawaiian Islands. Wauke (Broussonetia papyrifera) was the preferred source of bast fibres for kapa, but it was also made from ulu (Artocarpus altilis), ōpuhe (Urera spp.), maaloa (Neraudia melastomifolia), māmaki (Pipturus albidus), ākala (Rubus hawaiensis), ākalakala (R. macraei), and hau (Hibiscus tiliaceus). In the 18th century, pieces of kapa were often made of grooving or ribbing. It is done by pushing the dampened cloth into the grooves of a special board. The wauke tree is cut and soaked in water. It is then laid on a kua kūkū (polished stone tablet) and beaten with a hōhoa (rounded beater). After the first phase of beating, the kapa is transferred to a sacred house to be beaten a second time, but in a religious manner.

Process
Each kapa manufacturer used an ie kūkū, a beater with four flat sides that were each carved differently. Another way to carve the kapa is by starting on the four-sided affairs, with the coarsest grooves on one side used first in breaking down the bast, or wet bark. Then, the beating continued using two sides with finer grooves. Lastly, finishing touches were accomplished with the remaining smooth side of the beater. The carvings left an impression in the cloth that was hers alone. After the European discovery of the Hawaiian Islands, Western traders travelled to Hawaii especially for kapa.

The process of making kapa was done primarily by women. Young girls would learn by helping their mothers, over time doing the majority of the work, and when older could make kapa by themselves.

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