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Hi! Can you please delete the page named chavo shrestha... i had created that page as a prank and want to take it off now... sorry for the inconvenience

Hi! I just saw your update to New Rome, Ohio—do you have a link for the story about the judge's order to dissolve it? I'm eager to read more on it...it's especially hard to keep up with the news on it since the Dispatch's stupid website is pay only. I grew up in Columbus, and remember quite clearly when one of the very first things that I was told by my driver's ed instructor many years ago was "watch out for New Rome." It's a fascinating, weird subject. Thanks! Postdlf 22:53, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Re: Homosexuality laws map

The new colours look great, IMHO. Many thanks! --Ultra Megatron 22:17, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

DCA and PC
They're wrong. (As in many things, trusting the Government is a rather bad idea.) Much more authoritative sources, like Debrett's Correct Form, show the correct way. (As an online example, this page from the College of Arms website shows "PC" after "CVO", and I'd certainly expect the College of Arms to know what they're talking about.) Proteus (Talk) 16:01, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Honours precede all other post noms PC is an appointment it is not an honour so it goes with QC etc. The DCA site is wrong sadly and various HMSOs publications agree with Proteus as do Burkes and DebrettsAlci12 15:44, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Hello Ibagli. Thankyou for reverting the vandalism on my userpage. Regards, ßlηguγΣη | Have your say!!! - review me 01:51, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Your edit to North Africa
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Prince Charles and the Saskatchewan Order of Merit
Hi there,

I notice that a few days ago you added the Saskatchewan Order of Merit to List of titles and honours of Charles, Prince of Wales. I've checked the offical lists in which Charles is not listed. Due to this I have removed the listing. Do you have a link that states that Charles recieved it ? As far as I knew none of the royal family have ever held the provincial orders which I belive are not headed by the queen by rather by the Lt Governor. Thanks Dowew 14:50, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I have learned not to trust wikipedia artles for citable info. They are a great starting point, but you should double check before repeating info somewhere else, otherwise incorrect rumor can just snowball.  Its pretty simple, just a quick googlesearch for Saskatchewan Order of Merit will turn up the official page.  I've always thought it kinda strange that the Queen has never been given any of the provincial orders, particularly when she was in attendance for the first investiture of the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador.  Dowew 15:02, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

British Royalty
D B  D  11:12, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology
Since you are interested in flags and emblems I would like to inform you that the WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology has just been created. Why not take a look? I hope you can join. Inge 20:43, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Honourific prefixes
Thanks for the notice. I mainly edited photographes of GGs and LGs for 'His Honour'/'Her Honour' according to the Canadian protocol.Cahk 04:23, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

BRoy Style Guide
I've just created a proposal for our Style Guide - HERE - please do discuss it on the talk page // D  B  D  12:55, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

BRoy titles templates poll
Hi, ! I've just started a poll about Category:British royal titles templates, and would really value your input - please do have your say! Cheers, – DBD 13:06, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

PC
"Unfortunately, the current MoS prevents "The Right Honourable" and other similar prefixes from being used at the beginning of an article. I've given my views on that matter several times, but to no avail." In that case surely an exception needs to be made in respect of an overseas, non-ennobled, member of the Imperial Privy Council to indicate his or her appointment to it. However, members of the Canadian Privy Council are not "Right Honourable" by virtue of their being Privy Counsellors. When Canadian appointments to the Imperial Privy Council were abolished by the Pearson Government in the 1960s (Prime ministers and Chief Justices of Canada had previously been appointed; it had become anomalous in the case of chief justices when appeals to the JCPC were finally re-abolished in criminal cases and abolished anew across the board in all other cases in 1949 so that chief justices no longer travelled to Westminster to sit on the Judicial Committee) the honorific "Right Honourable" was reinstated as a Canadian honour for prime ministers, chief justices, and certain other eminent persons who are granted it from time to time. Otherwise Canadian Privy Counsellors are merely Honourable. Masalai 03:54, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * - Kittybrewster 21:10, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Fair use image on user namespace
Thanks, that's most likely very nice of you.  B. Mearns * , KSC 00:32, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks here too, I was unaware the image was Fair Use (not that ignorance is an excuse, of course!). Cheers - Wezzo (talk) (ubx) 08:27, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

Katharine of Aragon
Hello there. Just wondering if you could give some advice on a debate on the Catherine of Aragon page regarding the spelling of her name. There is some heated discussion on the discussion page, could you drop by and add your thoughts?? CheersPaul75 01:09, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Removal of PC
Heho, there was a discussion about this on Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style_(biographies). Obviously it is used at non-peers anyway sometimes, we also therefore use the PC normally in articles here. Greetings Phoe  talk 21:12, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Re: Lise Thibault still LG
I reverted your edits because you've removed the DEFAULTSORT template and made a category a red link. Please correct these before applying your own agenda to the article. Thanks, Craigy (talk) 20:47, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry if the word "agenda" sounded a bit arsey. I guess I was trying to say that whatever if was you were adding to the article didn't particularly concern me (only the removals), but tried to put it in the nicest way I could think of :-). Regards, Craigy (talk) 20:52, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Degrees of South Vietnam Gallantry Cross
It is my understanding that the degrees of the Gallantry Cross (individual awards) are derived from the level at which a person was cited, e.g. Palm device indicates citation by commander of armed forces ("cited at armed forces level"), Gold Star devide indicates citation by commander of Corps ("cited at corps level") and so on. The higher the level one is cited, the more prestigious the award. However, I did not think the Gallantry Cross as created by Decree No 74-b, 15 August 1950, allowed unit awards. This was created by decree No58/QP/ND of 20 January 1968, and repeats the scheme of degrees but on a collective basis.

My source is a 1969 publication called "Huy Chuong an thuong tron Quan-luc Viet-nam cong-hoa" (literally "Decorations and Medals of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Vietnam"), issued by the "Bo Tong Tham-Muu QLVNCH" (Strategic Technical Directorate of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Vietnam). The National Library of Australia holds a copy (call number VIET 1359, record ID 2828177). If you agree with this interpretation I think this page needs a little correction, and I'd be happy to draft same.

Guran70 03:07, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Full names
Hi! I see you have put in some time to post full names of those receiving honours recently. Are you open to taking these down again if those being cited feel a little uncomfortable? I know plenty of folk who would rather their full names weren't paraded! I just want to try to promote consensual biographical entries to (1) encourage more to appear in Wikipedia and (2) assist those for whom a degree of responsible anonymity is important.

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Shieldman (talk • contribs)

Re: British Monarchy
I was just wondering...why did you state that Britain is not the same as the United Kingdom? Nat Tang ta 17:00, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
 * "United Kingdom" is much, much less ambiguous than "Britain." Some will take "Britain" to refer to only the island of Great Britain, without including Northern Ireland. There had been comments on the talk page to the effect that the use of the word "Britain" could introduce confusion, while others held that "Britain" and the "United Kingdom" were synonymous. Those that believe in their synonymity could surely not be upset by the changing of a word to one they believe is equivalent, and those who contend that they are not would surely not be upset by the changing of the word to one that is less ambiguous, so I changed it.-- Ibagli ( Talk ) 17:42, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Newark Township, Licking County, Ohio
I'm not entirely sure what you mean by adding the bit about the Newark city enclaves; could you explain on my talk page? Thanks! Nyttend 04:59, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Now that you explain it, and now that I'm not half-asleep, I understand...thanks :-) Nyttend 15:41, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Ask for help
Would you mind add some references of the Inter-service decorations of the United States military?

Thank you.--东北虎(Manchurian Tiger) 08:58, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

Queen
Hi there, It is an online community. Sometime their info is correct, other times it isn't. It is about 50/50 which is why I stressed it was a rumour. If you have anymore questions please let me know. Doyley Talk 22:37, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Monarchy pages
Ibagli- I see you've been involved in the editing of Canadian monarchy and on its talk page. There's presently a poll going on regarding the format of the titles for all Commonwealth realm monarchy articles. If you'd like to register an opinion, please do so here. Cheers. --G2bambino (talk) 15:56, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

TharkunColl
Ibagli - first off, thanks for your input at Talk:Canadian monarchy. I've been trying to deal with Thark for some time now, and, as you know, recently filed the Wikiquette alert you commented at.

As he seems to have a general issue with suspecting a number of us, myself primarily, of manipulating cited material in order to put forward an anti-UK point of view, and he has taken his battle against this perceived conspiracy across a number of articles - after being soundly defeated at the last - I requested that he present his arguments in support of these serious accusations before ArbCom so that they may rule on the matter. He, of course, shows no sign of being willing to do so and seems to be promising to continue to cause disruption.

Because of this, I'm starting to prepare an RfC/User at my sandbox. If you'd like to contribute and or make suggestions, please do so. But, more importantly, as WP:RFC/User requires at least two people to have contacted the user in question, either on their talk page or an associated article talk page, and tried to resolve the problem, I wondered if you'd be willing to be that other person, should Thark continue to cause disruption. I'm keeping my fingers crossed he won't, but I've done that too many times in the past to have much faith in it this time.

Thanks. --G2bambino (talk) 02:06, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Tharky seems to have departed. He may have waved goodbye to Wikipedia, with his finger (we can only guess, which one). GoodDay (talk) 17:12, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

The Wessex Children
Dear Sir, you are cordially invited to join a discussion on this matter at WikiProject British Royalty. Yours in anticipation, DBD 16:47, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

Discussion of SVG vs. PNG map
On Talk:Results of the 2008 Democratic Party presidential primaries there is a discussion about whether to use the SVG or PNG version of the 2008 Democratic Primary Results map. I notice that you've replaced the PNG map with the SVG map on several occasions in this article, so I thought I'd let you know about the discussion so you can add your input. --Bryan H Bell (talk) 07:25, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Commonwealth realms
Welcome aboard, Ibagli. GoodDay (talk) 23:19, 21 March 2008 (UTC) Italic text

Speedy deletion of Template:CapPun-US
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Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 21:12, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

Dear sir/madam
Hello Ibagli, as the admin who protected the page Canadian Royal Family I would like to invite you to the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Commonwealth realms. Thanks --Cameron (t/c) 15:14, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

The "Prince/ss X of Wales" Issue
Just thought I'd let you know that there's a discussion about the above at the WikiProject, and I'm inviting all of the members to join in DBD 13:35, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Add your special interest
Would you mind adding you interests to our "new" member list!? The link is here. Thanks so much! --Cameron (t|p|c) 20:43, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Discussion on the expansion of Wikiproject:Commonwealth realms
There is a discussion going on here about a possible expansion of Wikiproject Commonwealth realms to incorporate all the British Empire topics! Please take the time to comment = ). --Cameron (T|C) 18:09, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Image of the Queen
I'm very sorry that I didn't pick that up in my oversight of the diff. I've raised this with the writer of the script. Thankfully, you fixed it soon after. Tony  (talk)  07:30, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

Time for resolution
Hiya. For several months now, the article naming for 18th Century British royals has been ever-which-where — all over the shop. In an attempt to solve this, I have prepared a page for discussion: here. Please, please, please come and discuss, even contribute to the Poll. Cheers! DBD 15:31, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Order of preference
You reverted a number of edits I did with regards to honorific prefixes. While these articles where not biographies, MOSBIO refers to how we write about people, including how we address them, in all articles. However, if you prefer a more clearly general guideline on this, you can check Writing better articles, section Writing better articles. Fram (talk) 21:43, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Post-nominal letters
Ibagli, I noticed you've changed a number of biography articles to make the subject's post-nominal letters in a large font as opposed to the previously existing small font. I've searched for some kind of guideline on this matter, but came up with nothing. Was there some official reason for your reverts? I've seen the small font used in a good number of articles and, personally, prefer that format. --Miesianiacal (talk) 07:28, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

rem kilgour honorifics?
-- Please help me to understand.--Asdfg12345 23:29, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
 * hah, it is awesome that know that! Well done, and thanks for explaining.--Asdfg12345 03:40, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

By the way, suggest reading about this man's work, since you have come into contact with this subject. This is highly current, very relevant, overall a very big deal, even in terms of history: --Asdfg12345 03:50, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Lieutenant governor lists
If you've some issue with the way I made up the lists of Canadian lieutenant governors, please tell me what it is so that we can work something out and I can then apply it to all the lists; I made some effort recently to bring all ten such pages into a consistent format. You made mention of the size of the numbers - I made them small, as at regular size, they seemed to my eye to distract from the actual name of the individual, which is the more important information; I tried various other methods to rectify this, including bolding the names, but making the numbers small seemed the best resolution to me. You also mentioned the post-nominals template - that was created after a discussion somewhere (I can't now recall exactly where), again, over the size of letters; one camp said strings of full-size post-nominals (with periods) were a distraction to the reader, and another camp said making them small (which I think is 50% of full size) made them difficult to read and was distracting. The template sets all post-noms at a compromise 85% of full size. I should add that I just noticed I contacted you back in January r.e. your reverting of the parameters from around post-nominals; you may well have been in the anti-small camp I just mentioned (?). I'm confused, then, as to why you'd replace the template with now... -- Ħ   MIESIANIACAL  23:55, 8 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm not in the anti-small camp for lists, I'm in the anti-small camp (including the 85% "compromise") for the leads of biographical articles.-- Ibagli ( Talk ) 02:33, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

Presidential Inauguration (Ireland)
Well done on your work on the above article. A very interesting, and at times entertaining read. I have tagged lots of things on it in the hope that others will follow up on the good start you have made with well-sourced facts etc. Well done on your work. Regards. Staighre (talk) 21:14, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

Re-directs to Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Howdy Ibagli. I think Elizabeth II of the Commonwealth realms, would've been a better 're-direct' name. GoodDay (talk) 16:37, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Followed your advice & created Elizabeth II of the Commonwealth realms re-direct. GoodDay (talk) 20:04, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Update Obama Travel Map (Please)
Hey, Gaijin Ninja here - I saw you created the map for the travels of President Barack Obama (I'm the guy who usually writes-in where he travelled). I have absolutely no idea as to how you make those maps properly coloured in (already tried Paint), so I was hoping you could update the colouring of the map for Norway (and Denmark, in the immediate future). Or perhaps give me a hint as to how? Thanks! Gaijin Ninja (talk) 08:25, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Denmark Update
Hey, could you please update your map of the Presidential trips of Barack Obama? Denmark should be re-coloured to take into account Barack Obama's two trips to the country. Much thanks. --Gaijin Ninja (talk) 01:53, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom GA review
A review to see if Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom meets Good article criteria has started, and has been put on hold. Suggestions for improvement are at Talk:Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom/GA2, and are mainly to do with coverage and neutrality, and building the lead section. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom is one of our most high profile and popular articles, attracting an average of over 11,000 readers every day. You have made more than 30 edits to the article, and so you might be interested in helping to make the improvements needed to get it listed as a Good Article.  SilkTork  *YES! 12:46, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom/Article title
You are invited to join the discussion at. DrKiernan (talk) 09:08, 18 March 2010 (UTC) (Using )

"academic post-nominals"
I chuckled when I saw this edit on Pat McGeer, as I've seen all kinds of "alphabet soup", as a lat friend of mine called that stuff, on all kinds of Canadian politician bios; e.g. Gordon Campbell (Canadian politician) and Stephen Harper, whose p.r. people bolstered their lack of real honorifics with academic credentials to give them some (IMO undeserved) "intellectual stature". You're welcome to take a lawnmower to the inhabitants of Canadian politician categories; there's all kinds of them that flout their degrees....I didn't know they were anti-MOS or would have removed them long ago...Skookum1 (talk) 15:44, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
 * I've removed them from the Campbell and Harper articles, but I invite you to explore the categories they belong to and "go at it"....maybe there's a way to remove degree links/pipes from infoboxes by using a bot?Skookum1 (talk) 16:05, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Donald Ethell
Did you want to add a picture? - I was at the ceremony and have started uploading some of the images there. Donald Ethell category It was a wonderful ceremony, brought tears to the eyes, one felt like one should clap but it was the wrong type of venue. Please consider suggesting the article for Wikipedia's IN the news SriMesh |  talk  03:11, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Post-noms template
Hi Ibagli. I note you've worked on the post-nominals template I created. I intended the template to use only one size font, so I'm curious as to why there's now an option to have the font either 85 or 100%; with one template offering two size options, the question will inevitably arise: which size is used where and why? Do you have any thoughts on that? -- Ħ   MIESIANIACAL  04:38, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
 * The option has been there for 14 months. All I did today was reinsert it after it was taken out, just in case any uses of it had made use of it. As for what you'd intended...-- Ibagli ( Talk ) 04:42, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, I see. My question of use still stands, though. -- Ħ   MIESIANIACAL  05:43, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Hgg-001.jpg
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Historic population tables in Ohio communities
Hi, thanks for adding these! Definitely useful information. One quibble: you don't need to split up several citations into several different ref tags when they're all supporting the same element in the article, and you're not using the "ref name" function to reuse a reference. They can be combined within one ref tag, something like how I've changed it here. Cheers, postdlf (talk) 20:24, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Ban Ki-Moon Map?
Hey, I was wondering if you were interested in collaborating on making a map of the countries Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has visited during his term in office? I don't know how to color in the maps (all I have is Paint), but I'd be willing to compile the data for you. Give me a shout if you're interested. Gaijin Ninja (talk) 05:18, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

Seeing your interest in royal tours of Canada...
I've started 2011 Royal tour of Canada, but I'd really welcome any help. Regards, --  Zanimum (talk) 23:20, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

September 2011 Newsletter for WikiProject United States
--Kumioko (talk) 21:16, 5 September 2011 (UTC)

Licking County townships
I would ask that you see http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/geosurvey/pdf/cotwpmap.pdf if it hadn't been taken down from the servers when Strickland left office; it showed the non-paper townships with their original boundaries. They're not fictitious. I can provide a complete citation, in case you care. Nyttend (talk) 03:10, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
 * It's obvious from it the complete boundaries of the townships, as is not obvious from the current maps. This is how every township article in the state is written; if we were to go with the complication of cities that are separate from their townships, these sections would often be impossible to write, and they would be subject to the ever-likely chance of municipalities becoming separate and the less likely chance of municipalities becoming un-separate, rather than the extremely unlikely chance in modern times of a township's borders being altered versus other townships.  Nyttend (talk) 03:40, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
 * No, different map. Some pieces of land within the complete boundaries of many of these townships are now occupied by cities, as I have already demonstrated.  You're simply interpreting these words differently from how they're written, and an incorrect inference from a statement does not make that statement wrong.  The bit that you quote on my talk page from the PDF that you link refers to the fact that historic paper townships are included, such as Mill Creek Township in Hamilton County.  Nyttend (talk) 03:49, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

January 2012 Newsletter for WikiProject United States and supported projects
--Kumi-Taskbot (talk) 19:04, 16 January 2012 (UTC)

Dayton International Airport
Hi! I noticed that a couple of months back you changed the information on Dayton International Airport to state that the airport is in Dayton, Ohio and not Vandalia, Ohio. However, while the airport may be referred to as the "Dayton" airport, its physical address is listed as Vandalia. This is verifiable from both the Vandalia, Ohio page here on Wikipedia and on the airport's own website on their map. As such, I have restored it in the infobox to Vandalia, Ohio. ProfessorTofty (talk) 04:29, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
 * I... see. Should it be removed from the Vandalia, Ohio page that the airport is located there, then? ProfessorTofty (talk) 14:31, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

Obama map
File:Barack Obama foreign trips.svg needs Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania added, if you don't mind. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.65.234.20 (talk) 23:37, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Opinion
Hi, i would like to have your opinion about a discussion which i started here, thank.Kingroyos (talk) 23:13, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Your edit to "Voter ID laws in the United States"
It appears your edit should have been more extensive. The source you added seems to indicate the law amendments that were predicted by the previous version of the article have actually occurred. Jc3s5h (talk) 21:41, 22 October 2014 (UTC) == Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and St. Kitts and Nevis listed at Redirects for discussion == An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and St. Kitts and Nevis. Since you had some involvement with the Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and St. Kitts and Nevis redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. The Theosophist (talk) 13:44, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

Attribution for a modified version of your work
I've modified one of your and want to upload it to Wikimedia Commons. I've completely filled in all districts with party colors. I didn't see it on your talk page on Wikimedia Commons. How should I attribute your work with my modification? Keep up the great work. Mitchumch (talk) 10:25, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Death of Diana listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Death of Diana. Since you had some involvement with the Death of Diana redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you have not already done so. --Nevé–selbert 16:50, 11 February 2017 (UTC)

Ohio Wikimedians User Group - Invitation
Hi Ibagli,

I'm Kevin, one of the founding members of the Ohio Wikimedians User Group. Created in July 2016, we're working to be a central group of Ohio Wikimedians who organize and support offline events, promote the Wikimedia movement in Ohio, build connections throughout our state, and above all, support each other. We already have a handful of members and have worked to support multiple events, including Wiki Loves Monuments in the United States and several Art+Feminism edit-a-thons at universities throughout Ohio.

I wanted to reach out to you and invite you to join the Ohio Wikimedians User Group. Being a part of the user group will allow easy communication between active Ohio editors, notifications of upcoming events in the Ohio area, and, if you're interested, the opportunity to help organize events such as edit-a-thons or workshops. Some notes:
 * All members receive a monthly newsletter with recent happenings, upcoming events, and more. Check out our April newsletter here.
 * This Thursday at 8:30 EST, we're having our first online meeting. Check out our meeting page here for more details, an agenda, and a section to sign up if you'd like to join us. Topics will include introductions and brainstorming for future projects.

Right now we have a Wikipedia Takes Columbus photo event going on, a Wiknic coming up this summer, and opportunities to attend the upcoming Ohio Private Academic Libraries Conference. If you're interested in joining us, feel free to add your name here - and feel free to reach out to me (or post on the user group's talk page) with questions or discussions. Thanks! ~ Super  Hamster  Talk Contribs 07:29, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Your Midi file for the Westminster Quarters Article
I created a midi file with Musescore, that might be of interest for You. You can check it, if You want. I have carefully listened to the sounds of the YouTube-Video named "Big Ben Chime (12) Good Quality Sound" from the channel with the name "BigBenChime", and so I created a midi file, that comes pretty close to the real chimes. --Matthias Brosius (talk) 22:31, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

File:Conesville Power Plant.JPG
Hello! I left you message earlier about this on. I created the article on the Conesville Power Plant. The article has been approved on DYKNA: Conesville Power Plant and will be featured on the Main Page very soon. Since you were the person to upload the photo (File:Conesville Power Plant.JPG), I was wondering if you can change the contrast/brightness of the photo. It's difficult to see the structure of the power plant within the article without clicking on the photo. FunksBrother (talk) 13:37, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

 * Nvm. The image has been edited by @. FunksBrother (talk) 16:13, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

2019 US Banknote Contest
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Khol

The khol is a terracotta two-sided drum used in northern and eastern India for accompaniment with devotional music (bhakti). It is also known as a mridanga (< Sanskrit mṛd + aṅga, lit. 'clay limb'), not to be confused with mridangam. It originates from the Indian states of West Bengal, Assam and Manipur. The drum is played with palms and fingers of both hands.

Description
The khol is regarded as resembling to the ancient gopuchha shape of drums, as described in Natya Shastra. The right face of the drum has a high pitch and produces a metallic sound, whereas the left face, produces a lower bass sound. The larger side can be tuned with humidity. On a humid day the larger side will loosen up and vibrate more producing the lower sound. During a dry day the side tightens up producing a high pitched sound. Players of the instrument will add water to their drum if they feel it does not produce a low enough sound. They will put a bit of water on their finger and spread it around the edge of the large side. They will either let it sit there for a few minutes, or manually stretch it with their palm.

Construction
The khol is a drum with a hollow earthen body, with drumheads at both ends, one far smaller than the other. The drumheads are made of cow or goat skin, and are three-layered and treated with a circle of rice paste, glue, and iron known as syahi. Some modern instruments are made with a fibreglass body and synthetic drumheads.

History
There are so many histories about its origin. Different types of Khol are available in north eastern India. Odisha, Manipur, Bengal and Assamese Khol are commonly found in different forms. The wooden khol was made into terracotta by the Assamese polymath Sankardev.

Use
The khol is considered an integral part of the Ek Saran Naam Dharma culture and is used in bhaona (plays), gayan-bayan', prasanga-kirtan and borgeet''s (lyrical songs) in Assam. Assamese polymath Sankardeva is known to have adapted and evolved the tradition of gayan-bayan by using musical instruments like the khol and taal. According to Assamese Neo-Vaishnavites, playing the khol is regarded as a holy activity and it is also considered to be one of the most important traditional percussion instruments. It is also a key musical instrument that accompanies a Sattriya performance.

The instrument is used in every Vishnu (Jagannath, Radha Krishna) temple in Odisha during arati rituals. The drum is used to accompany Odia, Bengali kirtans by medieval poets like Chandidas, Govindadasa and Gyanadas. It is also used to accompany Gaudiya Nritya, one of the nine Indian classical dances (as recognized by Ministry of Culture, and not recognized by Sangeet Natak Akademi).

In the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON, "Hare Krishnas") and in Gaudiya Vaishnava societies, the khol is the primary drum for bhajan and kirtan.

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Calma

Calma Company, based in Sunnyvale, California, was, between 1965 and 1988, a vendor of digitizers and minicomputer-based graphics systems targeted at the cartographic and electronic, mechanical and architectural design markets.

In the electronic area, the company's best known products were GDS (an abbreviation for "Graphic Design System" ), introduced in 1971, and GDS II, introduced in 1978. By the end of the 1970s, Calma systems were installed in virtually every major semiconductor manufacturing company.

The external format of the GDS II database, known as GDS II Stream Format, became a de facto standard for the interchange of IC mask information. The use of this format persisted into the 21st century, long after the demise of the GDS II computer system. In the integrated circuit industry jargon of 2008, "GDS II" referred no longer to the computer system, but to the format itself. Vendors of electronic design automation software often use the phrase "from RTL to GDSII" to imply that their system will take users from a high-level logic design to a completed integrated circuit layout ready for delivery to the mask vendor.

In the mechanical area, the DDM (for "Design Drafting and Manufacturing") product was introduced in 1977. It was later extended, under the name "Dimension III", to address the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) market. By 1983, these two products together accounted for 60% of Calma's revenue. Dimension III continued to be used as late as the late 1990s.

History
Calma Company was incorporated in California on November 13, 1963. Its initial business was as a product distributor, continuing the business of a previously existing partnership of the same name. The company took its name from its founders, Calvin and Irma Louise Hefte.

In 1965 Calma introduced the Calma Digitizer, a device consisting of a table-like surface with constrained cursor, whereby an operator could enter coordinate data from a paper drawing and have it turned into computer readable form.

In about 1969, the company undertook to develop a minicomputer-based graphics system built around a digitizer. This effort was spurred by the arrival of Josef Sukonick, a recent MIT math PhD who had become aware of the market potential for such a system for integrated circuit (IC) design through his work at the CAD (computer-aided design) group of Fairchild Semiconductor in Sunnyvale, CA. The GDS software system was conceived and, in its initial implementation, almost single-handedly built by Dr. Sukonick. The first GDS system was shipped in late 1971 to Intel.

The growth of sales of GDS paralleled that of the nascent integrated circuit industry. By August 1976 there were 121 GDS systems installed at 70 companies including many Fortune 500 corporations including Motorola, International Telephone & Telegraph, Fairchild Semiconductor, and others. Of these, 43 were installed outside the U.S.

In 1978, Calma, which never had a public stock offering, was acquired by United Telecommunications, Inc., (UTI) of Kansas City, Missouri, for $17 million in stock. Calma became part of UTI's United Computing Systems (UCS) operating unit. UTI took a hands-off approach to managing its acquisition, allowing Calma to continue largely unchanged on its growth path.

In 1978, Calma introduced GDS II (pronounced "G-D-S two"), a modernized replacement for GDS. With its 32-bit database, GDS II met the need for greater capacity and resolution in IC designs. GDS II quickly replaced GDS as the data entry system of choice for many IC design groups. By late 1980, there were 171 installed GDS II systems.

In December 1980, the sale of Calma by UTI to General Electric (GE) was announced. The sale price was $110 million, with an additional $60 million contingent on Calma's profits over the next five years. The acquisition was completed on April 1, 1981.

GE had grander designs for Calma than had UTI. In addition to the hope of maintaining dominance in the IC market, GE aimed for Calma to expand in the architectural, engineering, manufacturing and construction markets – "factory of the future" was a prominent slogan. Due partly to a mass exodus of talent after GE moved its own people into key management positions, partly due to excessive expectations, the changing nature of the market and the inherent difficulty of keeping up with rapidly changing technology, these ambitions went largely unrealized.

Beginning in 1988, GE sold Calma. The electronic side of the business was sold to Valid Logic Systems in April 1988. (Valid in turn was acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 1991). The remainder of the business (mechanical/architectural) was acquired by Prime Computer in a sale completed in January 1989. Prime had just completed a hostile take-over of Computervision. Prime basically merged the Calma Mechanical and AEC product lines with Computervision. Computervision, including the Dimension III product, was acquired by Parametric Technology Corporation in 1998.

Business and financial
The following data on sales, earnings, and employee count are drawn from a number of sources. Financial data 1973–1977 are from.

At the time of the 1978 acquisition by UTI, the largest shareholder was Calma board chairman Ronald D. Cone. He held 321,706 of Calma's 635,266 outstanding shares.

Legal
In February 1977, Computervision (CV) filed suit in federal court over Calma's hiring of a group of 5 employees from CV in San Diego. (This group developed Calma's DDM product.) The CV suit against Calma and the five employees alleged breach of competition, breach of non-competition agreements, and interference with contractual relations. This draining lawsuit was finally settled out of court in October 1979. In the UTI acquisition of Calma in 1978, 5% of the newly issued stock was held in escrow as a reserve pending the outcome of this litigation.

Buildings
As early as 1970, Calma occupied a building at 707 Kifer Road in Sunnyvale. Roughly 10000 sqft, the building consisted of a large warehouse/manufacturing area in the rear, with an office area of about 10 offices in the front. Somewhat later, an additional building to the rear (on San Gabriel Drive) was leased as a manufacturing/shipping area, bringing total square footage to 35,000.

In February 1978, the company relocated to a 67000 sqft single-story building at 527 Lakeside Drive in Sunnyvale, part of the newly developed Oakmead Village industrial park.

Additional buildings were added as the employee count grew. In 1979, the R&D department moved to a building at 212 Gibraltar Drive (corner of Borregas Avenue) in the Moffett Park area of Sunnyvale. Other buildings were added in the area.

In 1980 a new 210000 sqft manufacturing facility was opened in Milpitas, California.

In 1982 a new 109000 sqft headquarters was opened in Santa Clara, California.

In 1984 Calma bought a 108000 sqft facility near Dublin, Ireland, that had originally been built for Trilogy Systems.

General description (1978)
The following is quoted from: Calma's computer-aided design and drafting systems (also referred to as interactive graphics systems) are comprisedof [sic] component hardware modules, electronic interfaces, and software programs. Most of the systems sold are constructed by combining available components to meet the requirements of the customers' specific design or drafting application. Calma's systems enable customers to automate a wide variety of design and manufacturing processes which have previously been performed manually.

The primary hardware components of a system are a central processing unit, operator stations and plotter outputs.

Their GDS I and II software operated on Data General Corporation's Nova and Eclipse line of 16 bit mini Computers. Sketches or layouts of electronic system were first manually drawn on mylar or paper to scale and were placed on large backlit 48 by 60 inch table digitizers. Using a moving stylus, these layouts were organized in layers, first placing the smaller common and custom circuits, created in a library, then manually traced their interconnecting circuitry on further layers, the completed layout then stored in computer files.

Printed Circuit Boards (PCB's) and Small Scale Integrated Circuits (SSIC) were manually traced buy an operator, usually a draftsman or electronic engineer then plotted on a large pen plotter (In later years to faster Electrostatic Plotters) to be visually inspected to confirm that the physical layout properly matched the schematic. Once the layout and schematics final edits were manually checked to confirm their accuracy, the multiple layers of the physical circuitry were sent to a film plotter to create masks for fabrication.

The central processing unit consists of a minicomputer, a computer console and page printer, a magnetic tape transport and a magnetic disk memory unit. Other optional peripheral devices such as card readers and paper tape punches are also available. These components are interfaced with Calma-designed and manufactured controllers, and integrated into a single unit with system software designed and programmed by Calma.

An operator station consists of a digitizing device, an interactive cathode ray tube (CRT) display unit, coordinate readouts and a keyboard. The main difference between stations is in the type of digitizing input station used. The Calma digitizer is a backlit 48 by 60 inch table. To digitize analog graphical data directly on computer-compatible medium, the operator of the digitizer manually traces graphical data with a moveable stylus. The graphic tablet has a smaller surface and is operated with an electromechanical graphic pen and were used primary to edit an electronic layout once it was digitized.

The digitizing input station is linked by system software to the CRT display, which allows an almost instantaneous display of any segment of the source drawing or a graphic element from the library. The CRT display also has windowing and magnification capability.

An alphanumeric keyboard is used for entering text, scaling information, dimensions and commands, and an optional functional keyboard is available for entering frequently used functions, symbols and macro commands.

The output most commonly used in Calma's systems is a graphic plotter. Calma software supports both on and off-line pen and photo plotting devices.

Calma's computer-aided design systems are used in a wide variety of applications. To date systems have been sold principally to electronics firms for use in the design of integrated circuits, printed circuit boards and electrical schematics; to governmental agencies and public utilities for use in cartographic applications; and to manufacturing companies for use in the design of mechanical parts and systems.

GDS II
For an overview of the GDS II system as it was 1981, see. Some scanned product documents can be found at and.

The original GDS system used Data General mini-computers to digitize and assemble chip designs. The UI consisted of simple one or two letter commands, and a set of colored lights as a response. The operator typed a command, and if the green light came on, it was successful.

GDSII introduced an actual Command Line Interface (CLI), where the user typed commands that were echoed back to the screen. GDS systems had no text screen at all, just a "green-screen" oscilloscope type display. GDSII introduced a text display, using a regular text terminal in addition to the 'scope screen, and also introduced the first color screens.

This ushered in the new method of "online design", where the drafting employees actually sat at the screen and drew the chips. In the older GDS systems, an operator took the mylar drawings and digitized them in.

A typical GDSII system in 1980 would have a 300mb disk, 1/2 mb of memory, using a 16bit DG minicomputer and up to 4 screens. This cost over $500,000 in 1980 dollars.

DDM
DDM (short for "Design, Drafting, Manufacturing") was a 3-dimensional wireframe computer-aided design application. In the mid-1980s, it was one of the top ten selling CAD packages on the market. By 2006, DDM continued to be supported by Parametric Technology Corporation as "Dimension III".

The General Motors Central Foundry Division (GM-CFD) had applied DDM to the design of castings and tooling for automotive components such as engine blocks, cylinder heads and steering knuckles. DDM was run on Calma's proprietary dual monitor workstation hardware connected to Data General Nova and later Digital VAX 11/780-series computers. GM-CFD had DDM installations in Saginaw, MI, Pontiac, MI, Defiance, OH, Bedford, IN, Danville, IL and Massena, NY.

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John C. Wells

John Christopher Wells (born 11 March 1939) is a British phonetician and Esperantist. Wells is a professor emeritus at University College London, where until his retirement in 2006 he held the departmental chair in phonetics. He is known for his work on the Esperanto language and his invention of the standard lexical sets and the X-SAMPA phonetic script system.

Career
Wells earned his bachelor's degree at Trinity College, Cambridge and his master's degree and his PhD at the University of London.

Wells is known for his book and cassette Accents of English, the book and CD The Sounds of the IPA, Lingvistikaj Aspektoj de Esperanto, and the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. He is the author of the most widely used English-Esperanto dictionary.

Until his retirement, Wells directed a two-week summer course in phonetics for University College London, focusing on practical and theoretical phonetics, as well as aspects of teaching phonetics. The course ends with written and oral examinations, for which the IPA Certificate of Proficiency in the Phonetics of English is awarded.

From 2003 to 2007 he was president of the International Phonetic Association. He is also a member of the six-man Academic Advisory Committee at Linguaphone.

Wells has long been a pioneer of new technology. He is the inventor of the X-SAMPA ASCII phonetic alphabet for use in digital computers that could not handle IPA symbols. He learned HTML during the mid-1990s, and he created a Web page that compiled media references to Estuary English, although he was sceptical of the concept. After retirement, Wells ran a regular blog on phonetic topics from March 2006 to April 2013. He announced the end of his blog on 22 April 2013 saying, "if I have nothing new to say, then the best plan is to stop talking."

Work on accents of English
A considerable part of Wells's research focuses on the phonetic description of varieties of English. In 1982, Cambridge University Press published his three volumes of Accents of English that described accents all over the English-speaking world in phonetic terminology. This applied consistent terminology to accents that had previously been analysed in isolation. Accents of English defined the concept of lexical sets, a concept in wide usage. A lexical set is a set of words (named with a designated element) that share a special characteristic. For example, words belonging to lexical set BATH have the phoneme in the United States and  phoneme in Received Pronunciation. In addition, Wells is acknowledged as the source of the term rhotic to describe accents where the letter r in spelling is always pronounced phonetically.

Before writing Accents of English, Wells had written a very critical review of the Linguistic Atlas of England, which was the principal output of the Survey of English Dialects. He argued that the methodology was outdated, that the sample was not representative of the population and that it was not possible to "discover with any certainty the synchronic vowel-system in each of the localities investigated". KM Petyt noted in his review of Accents of English that Wells had made abundant use of the data from the Survey of English Dialects in some sections of the work whilst criticising the survey in other parts of the same work.

Wells was part of the committee of the Atlas Linguarum Europae for England and Wales, but never played a large role.

Longman Pronunciation Dictionary
Wells was appointed by Longman to write its pronunciation dictionary, the first edition of which was published in 1990. There had not been a pronunciation dictionary published in the United Kingdom since 1977, when Alfred C. Gimson published his last (the 14th) edition of English Pronouncing Dictionary. The book by Wells had a much greater scope, including American pronunciations as well as RP pronunciations and including non-RP pronunciations widespread in Great Britain (such as use of a short vowel in the words bath, chance, last, etc. and of a long vowel in book, look, etc.). His book also included transcriptions of foreign words in their native languages and local pronunciations of place names in the English-speaking world.

Esperanto
Wells was the president of the World Esperanto Association (UEA) from 1989 to 1995. He has also been the president of the Esperanto Academy (2007–2013) and the Esperanto Association of Britain (2011–2013).

Work for spelling reform
Wells was president of the Spelling Society, which advocates spelling reform, from 2003 to 2013. He was criticised in a speech by David Cameron for advocating tolerance of text spelling.

Personal life
His father was originally from South Africa, and his mother was English; he has two younger brothers. Wells grew up in Up Holland, Lancashire, born to the vicar of the parish, Philip Wells. He has commented on the accent of the area and how it contrasted with the Received Pronunciation that was spoken in his home in his book Accents of English; vol. 2: the British Isles.

He attended St John's School, Leatherhead, studied languages and taught himself Gregg shorthand. Having learned Welsh, he was interviewed in Welsh on radio; according to his CV, he has a reasonable knowledge of ten languages. He was apparently approached by the Home Office to work on speaker identification but turned down the offer as it was still considered unacceptable to be gay at the time, and he feared that the security check would make his sexual orientation public. In September 2006 he signed a civil partnership with Gabriel Parsons, a native of Montserrat and his partner since 1968.

Music
Wells is a member of London Gay Men's Chorus and was featured in their It Gets Better video. He is also a player of the melodeon and has uploaded videos of his playing to YouTube.

Essays

 * 1962 –  [A specimen of British English]. In: Maître Phonétique Nr. 117, S. 2–5.
 * 1967 – .  [Specimen. Jamaican Creole]. In: Maître Phonétique, Nr. 127 S. 5.
 * 1968 – Nonprevocalic intrusive r in urban Hampshire. IN: Progress Report, UCL Phonetics Laboratory, S. 56–57
 * 1970 – Local accents in England and Wales. In: J.Ling., Nr. 6, S. 231–252.
 * 1979 – Final voicing and vowel length in Welsh. In: ''Phonetica'. 36.4–5, S. 344–360.
 * 1980 – The brogue that isn't. In: JIPA vol. 10 (1980), S. 74–79. Can be read online.
 * 1985 – English accents in England. In: P. Trudgill (Hrsg.): Language in the British Isles. Cambridge University Press. 55–69.
 * 1985 – English pronunciation and its dictionary representation. In: R. Ilson: (Hrsg.): Dictionaries, lexicography and language learning. Oxford: Pergamon.
 * 1994 – The Cockneyfication of RP?. In: G. Melchers u.a. (Hrsg.): Nonstandard Varieties of Language. Papers from the Stockholm Symposium 11–13 April 1991. 198–205. Stockholm Studies in English LXXXIV. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International.
 * 1995 – New syllabic consonants in English. In: J. Windsor Lewis (Hrsg.): Studies in General and English Phonetics. Essays in honour of Prof. J.D. O'Connor. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-08068-1.
 * 1995 – Age grading in English pronunciation preferences. In: Proceedings of ICPhS 95, Stockholm, vol. 3:696–699.
 * 1996 – Why phonetic transcription is important. In: Malsori (Journal of the Phonetic Society of Korea) 31–32, S. 239–242.
 * 1997 – What's happening to Received Pronunciation?. In: English Phonetics (English Phonetic Society of Japan), 1, S. 13–23.
 * 1997 – Our changing pronunciation. In: Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society xix, S. 42–48
 * 1997 – One of three named "main technical authors" for Part IV, Spoken language reference materials. In: D. Gibbon u.a. (Hrsg.): Handbook of Standards and Resources for Spoken Language Systems. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1997.
 * 1997 – Whatever happened to Received Pronunciation? In: Medina & Soto (Hrsg): II Jornadas de Estudios Ingleses, Universidad de Jaén, Spain, S. 19–28.
 * 1997 – Is RP turning into Cockney?. In: M. P. Dvorzhetska, A. A. Kalita (Hrsg.): Studies in Communicative Phonetics and Foreign Language Teaching Methodology. Kyiv State Linguistic University, Ukraine, S. 10–15.
 * 1999 – Which pronunciation do you prefer?. In: IATEFL Bd. 149, June–July 1999, "The Changing Language", S. 10–11.
 * 1999 – Pronunciation preferences in British English. A new survey. In: Proc. of the 14th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, 1999.
 * 2000 – British English pronunciation preferences. A changing scene. In: Journal of the International Phonetic Association (1999) 29 (1), S. 33–50.
 * 2000 – Overcoming phonetic interference. In: English Phonetics (Journal of the English Phonetic Society of Japan), Nr. 3, S. 9–21.
 * 2001 – Orthographic diacritics. In: Language Problems and Language Planning 24.3.
 * 2002 – John Wells. In: K. Brown, V. Law (Hrsg.): Linguistics in Britain. Personal histories. Publications of the Philological Society, 36. Oxford: Blackwell.
 * 2002 – Accents in Britain today. In: Ewa Waniek-Klimczak, Patrick J. Melia (Hrsg.): Accents and Speech in Teaching English Phonetics and Phonology. Lang, Frankfurt/M. 2002 [2003]. ISBN 3-631-39616-3, S. 9–17.
 * 2003 – Phonetic research by written questionnaire. In: M. J. Solé, u.a. (Hrsg.): Proc. 15th Int. Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, R.4.7:4
 * 2003 – Phonetic symbols in word processing and on the web. In: M. J. Solé u.a. (Hrsg..): Proc. 15th Int. Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Barcelona, S.2.8:6

Monographs

 * 1962 – A study of the formants of the pure vowels of British English. Unpublished MA thesis, University of London.
 * 1971 – Practical Phonetics. London: Pitman. ISBN 0-273-43949-9 (with G. Colson)
 * 1973 – Jamaican pronunciation in London. Publications of the Philological Society xxv. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-14730-6. (Revised version of his PhD dissertation, 1971.)
 * 1990 – Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. Longman. (ESU Duke of Edinburgh's Prize.)
 * 1993 – Hutchinson Dictionary of Difficult Words. Edited by John Ayto. Oxford: Helicon.
 * 1994 – Longman Interactive English Dictionary. CD-ROM, incorporating a spoken version of the Longman Pronunciation Dictionary. ACT Multimedia/ Harlow: Longman, ISBN 0-582-23694-0.

Books

 * Vol. 1: an Introduction; vol. 2: the British Isles; vol. 3: Beyond the British Isles
 * Wells, J. C. (2014). Sounds Interesting: Observations on English and General Phonetics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 * Wells, J. C. (2016). Sounds Fascinating: Further Observations on English Phonetics and Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 * Wells, J. C. (2014). Sounds Interesting: Observations on English and General Phonetics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 * Wells, J. C. (2016). Sounds Fascinating: Further Observations on English Phonetics and Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 * Wells, J. C. (2014). Sounds Interesting: Observations on English and General Phonetics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 * Wells, J. C. (2016). Sounds Fascinating: Further Observations on English Phonetics and Phonology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion

Minister of Regional Economic Expansion was an office in the Cabinet of Canada from 1969 to 1990. On February 23, 1990 the position was merged into that of Minister of Industry, Science and Technology.

Ministers
On December 7, 1982 the position was renamed Canadian Minister of Regional Industrial Expansion. The Department of Regional Industrial Expansion (DRIE) was created when Industry, Trade and Commerce was combined with the Department of Regional Economic Expansion (DREE).


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Robert List

Robert Frank "Bob" List (born September 1, 1936) is an American attorney and politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 24th Governor of Nevada from 1979 to 1983, as Nevada Attorney General from 1971 to 1979, and as Carson City District Attorney from 1967 to 1971. Currently List practices law in Las Vegas with the law firm Kolesar & Leatham, Chtd. He was the last Governor to serve from outside Clark County until Jim Gibbons' election. After his term ended, he became a supporter of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. List was defeated for re-election in 1982 by Nevada Attorney General Richard Bryan.

Education
List received his J.D. and LL.D. degrees from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1962. He is licensed with the State Bar of Nevada, District of Columbia Bar, and U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the American Bar Association, Nevada State Bar Association, Society of Attorneys General Emeritus and Past Governors' Association.

Current practice
On December 1, 2010, List joined Kolesar & Leatham, Chtd., a Las Vegas business law firm, as a senior partner. He is also the chief executive officer of The Robert List Company, a lobbying firm. List served as Carson City, Nevada District Attorney from 1966 to 1970 and Attorney General of Nevada from 1970 to 1978. In 1978, he was elected Governor, serving in that capacity until 1983. He served as Chairman of both the Western Governors Association and the Conference of Western Attorneys General.

Personal life
He is married to Mary Ann (Polly) Minor List and they have two children, Robert and Elizabeth. He also has three adult children; Suzanne, Hank, and Michelle.

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Notice there are some connecting fibers between this book and The dark tower series even though they are weaker than in some of his other works. There is a reference to "the white" which is the guiding force Roland of Gilead follows in those books. Also in the dark tower there is a reference to "the pedlers moon" which is described as slinking back to hell with its bag of screaming souls, or something to that effect. Talandandrus 05:18, 26 October 2006

This appears to be a blurb for the Stephen King novel 'Needful Things', although at first glance I thought it was the demented ravings of a madman. or woman.

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Myra Evans and Cora Rusk
Who killed who? Reading each characters mini-biography, it says that Cora killed Myra with a gun but Myra killed her first. It doesn't make any sense. I've never read the book, so can someone help? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.247.244.120 (talk) 00:57, 11 September 2008 (UTC)

Castle Rock
Castle Rock is mentioned again in Under the Dome—worth mentioning in this page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.110.91.117 (talk) 00:53, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

Multiple Issues Label
This article was tagged as being excessively detailed back in 2009; since then the plot summary has been largely gutted. I'd argue that there may be too little information at this point, but would people at least agree that it doesn't need a too-detailed flag anymore? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.184.104.214 (talk) 08:09, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

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Armada

Armada is the Spanish and Portuguese word for naval fleet. Armáda is the Czech and Slovak word for armed forces.

Armada may also refer to:

Explorations and military campaigns

 * Portuguese India Armadas (armadas da Índia), fleets of ships dispatched from Portugal to India, following the sea route opened up by Vasco da Gama in 1497–1499
 * 2nd Portuguese India Armada (Cabral, 1500)
 * 3rd Portuguese India Armada (Nova, 1501)
 * 4th Portuguese India Armada (Gama, 1502)
 * 5th Portuguese India Armada (Albuquerque, 1503)
 * 6th Portuguese India Armada (Albergaria, 1504)
 * 7th Portuguese India Armada (Almeida, 1505)

Military campaigns

 * Spanish Armada or Great Armada, an unsuccessfully attempted invasion of England by Spain in 1588
 * English Armada or Counter Armada, an unsuccessful English naval campaign in 1589 aimed at capturing Lisbon and other coastal towns from Spain
 * 2nd Spanish Armada, a second unsuccessful Spanish invasion of England
 * 3rd Spanish Armada, a third unsuccessful Spanish invasion of England
 * Armada of 1779, an unsuccessfully attempted invasion of England by France and Spain in 1779

Ships

 * HMS Armada, two ships in the British Royal Navy
 * USS Armada (AM-145), a World War II minesweeper of the US Navy

Armed forces

 * Armada, the Spanish Navy
 * Armada Bolivariana de Venezuela, the Bolivarian Navy of Venezuela
 * Armáda České republiky, the Military of the Czech Republic
 * Armada de Chile, the Chilean Navy
 * Armada Ecuatoriana, the Ecuadorian Navy
 * Armada Nacional, the Colombian National Armada
 * Armada Portuguesa, the Portuguese Navy
 * Armada de la República Argentina, the Argentine Navy
 * Marina Armada, the Mexican Navy
 * Armada de Barlovento, a subdivision of the Spanish Navy assigned to the Windward Islands during the 1700s
 * Komando Armada Barat (Western Fleet Command) and Komando Armada Timur (Eastern Fleet Command), fleets of the Indonesian Navy

Music

 * Armada (album), an album by black metal band Keep of Kalessin
 * The Armada (band), a band formed by ex-The Tea Party lead singer Jeff Martin
 * Armada Music, a music label created by Armin van Buuren

Gaming

 * Armada (video game), a video game
 * Star Trek: Armada, a Star Trek video game
 * Wing Commander: Armada, a video game by Origin Systems
 * Battlefleet Gothic: Armada, a Warhammer 40,000 game

Publishing

 * Armada (novel), a 2015 novel by Ernest Cline
 * The Armada (book) (1959), a Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Spanish Armada by Garrett Mattingly
 * Armada (comics), a division of Acclaim Comics Inc., which published licensed own properties
 * Armada Books, a defunct publishing house

Television

 * Transformers: Armada
 * "Armada", an episode of Transformers: Prime

Businesses

 * Armada (company), a company that produces alpine skis and outerwear
 * Armada Asset Management, LLC, a holding company based in Newport Beach, CA
 * Armada Centre, shopping centre in Plymouth, England

People

 * Armada (gamer) (Adam Lindgren, born 1993), professional Super Smash Bros. player
 * General Alfonso Armada, a Spanish military officer condemned as one of the plotters of the 23-F attempted coup
 * Juan Armada y Losada (1861–1932), Spanish politician

Places

 * Armada, Arkansas, a ghost town
 * Armada, Michigan, a small village in the US
 * Armada House, Bristol, in Bristol, England
 * Armada Road Multi-Family District, a U.S. historic district in Venice, Florida
 * Armada Towers, in Dubai, U.A.E.
 * Armada Township, Buffalo County, Nebraska

Sports teams

 * Armada Rijeka, a football-fan club from Rijeka, Croatia
 * La Armada, a nickname for the Spain Davis Cup team
 * Long Beach Armada, a professional baseball team based in Long Beach, California
 * Blainville-Boisbriand Armada, a junior ice hockey team based in Boisbriand, Quebec
 * Jacksonville Armada FC, a professional soccer team based in Jacksonville, Florida

Transportation

 * Mahindra Armada, an Indian SUV/MUV
 * Nissan Armada, a Japanese-American full-size SUV

Other uses

 * Armada (Bas-Lag), the name of a fictional floating city in China Miéville's novel The Scar
 * Armada (Capoeira), a move in the Brazilian martial art capoeira
 * Armada (moth), a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae
 * Armada de Molucca, a 1519 exploration fleet led by Ferdinand Magellan
 * Compaq Armada, a model of laptop computer

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MythTV

MythTV is a free and open-source home entertainment application with a simplified "10-foot user interface" design for the living room TV. It turns a computer with the necessary hardware into a network streaming digital video recorder, a digital multimedia home entertainment system, or home theater personal computer. It can be considered a free and open-source alternative to TiVo or Windows Media Center. It runs on various operating systems, primarily Linux, macOS, and FreeBSD.

History
The MythTV project was started in April 2002 by Isaac Richards, who explained his motivation:

I got tired of the rather low quality cable box that AT&T Broadband provides with their digital cable service. It's slow to change channels, ridden with ads, and the program guide is a joke. So, I figured it'd be fun to try and build a replacement. Yes, I could have just bought a TiVo, but I wanted to have more than just a DVR – I want a web browser built in, a mail client, maybe some games. Basically, I want the mythical convergence box that's been talked about for a few years now.

Features

 * Pause, skip, and rewind live TV shows
 * Completely automatic commercial detection and optional skipping
 * Intelligently schedules recordings to avoid conflicts
 * Interfaces with television listing sources such as XMLTV or PSIP
 * Interfaces with nonprofit subscription listings service Schedules Direct in the United States and Canada. Schedules Direct delivers the same Tribune Media Services listings data that TiVo and other video recorders use.
 * Supports ATSC, QAM, DMB-T/H and DVB (everything supported by LinuxTV) high-definition television
 * Supports Xv, OpenGL, and VDPAU video output
 * Supports H.264 codec
 * Supports VP9 and H.265 codecs as of version 0.28
 * A backend server and frontend client architecture, allowing multiple frontend client machines to be remotely served content from one or more backend servers. A single computer can perform as both the frontend client and the backend server.
 * Plays recordings at an accelerated or decelerated rate, adjusting the audio pitch as necessary
 * Schedule and administer various system functions using a web browser-based interface
 * Controls a set-top box using an infrared remote (IR blaster), or Firewire

HDTV support
MythTV is capable of capturing HDTV streams from any source that will provide unencrypted video. This means broadcast ATSC and DVB content, as well as encrypted DVB content when using a tuner with an integrated CI module. Most U.S. cable and satellite providers use encrypted video only accessible through their own set-top boxes. Cable systems may provide some unencrypted QAM channels, but these will generally only be local broadcast stations, and not cable programming or premium channels.

OpenCable devices are available to access encrypted content on U.S. cable systems, but as this is a full DRM system, and not just CA like DVB CI, every piece of hardware and software on the playback chain must be tested and licensed by CableLabs. At current, Windows Media Center is the only DVR software to meet these requirements, and only it, and other software using its recording libraries, can use these devices. In 2010, CableLabs relaxed the DRM restrictions allowing unlicensed devices to record copy freely content using these devices, however it is still entirely up to cable operators what content they provide flagged as such.

As an alternative to direct digital capture, one can use an external decoder to receive the channels, and then capture using digital-analog-digital conversion (the analog hole). A popular means of doing this conversion is to connect the component outputs of a set-top box to the Hauppauge HD PVR.

Modules
MythTV's add-on modules (plugins) include:
 * MythVideo plays various video file formats
 * MythMusic a music player, jukebox, collection manager, and CD ripper
 * MythGallery online photo gallery manager
 * MythNews RSS feed news reader
 * MythWeather fetches weather forecasts – including weather radar – from the Internet
 * MythBrowser small web browser
 * MythGame frontend for game console emulators
 * MythWeb controls MythTV from a remote web browser
 * MythArchive DVD burner
 * MythNetvision streaming video player intended primarily for Flash-websites like YouTube
 * MythZoneMinder frontend interface for a ZoneMinder system
 * UPnP AV MediaServer v1.0 compliant server: share media files with UPnP-clients

The base system integrates with its modules. A system can be controlled with an infrared remote control using LIRC, or radio remote control using kernel modules.

Operating systems
MythTV is available for many operating systems based on Linux or Unix, including Mac OS. The MythTV website distributes only source code, which must be compiled for the desired system; executable programs can be downloaded from various third-party sources. The software runs on and is officially supported by Microsoft Windows, but no official executable version was available; there are detailed instructions for compiling for Windows. All core frontend features work under Windows, including LiveTV, scheduling, and watching recordings, but most plugins do not work without additional patches.

Bundles
Notable projects that include a Linux distribution bundled with MythTV (and associated libraries) are:
 * FreeBSD has several ports to support MythTV
 * LinHES is a bootCD derivative of Arch Linux. Its MythTV frontend can be run from the CD. An entire installation to the hard disk can be made in minutes.
 * LinuxMCE bundles MythTV with Kubuntu as the Linux distro, along with the Pluto Home automation suite.
 * Mythbuntu combines Ubuntu distributions with MythTV. The Ubuntu community has built extensive resources for installing, configuring and troubleshooting MythTV. It was discontinued in 2016.
 * Ubuntu TV integrates MythTV into a television-ready interface (based on the Ubuntu Unity user interface).
 * Xebian is a distribution of Debian Linux for the Microsoft Xbox game console and includes MythTV.

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