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Sikth

Sikth (also typeset as SikTh) are a British progressive metal band from Watford, Hertfordshire, formed in 1999.

Early days (1999–2002)
Sikth formed in late 1999, but consolidated their line-up in March 2001. That line-up consisted of dual vocalists Mikee Goodman and Justin Hill, guitarists Dan Weller and Graham Pinney, bassist James Leach and drummer/percussionist Dan Foord.

Their first official release was an EP titled Let the Transmitting Begin. Released in 2002, it featured three tracks, as well as a limited edition live CD from the BBC Radio 1 recordings of the same songs.

The band's first release for Gut Records was an EP titled How May I Help You? Released in 2002, it featured three tracks, two of which were on the band's debut album. A video for the song "(If You Weren't So) Perfect" was also contained. The song "How May I Help You?" contained a story about a person called Rodney. The song was made into an animated video, which was written, directed and produced by Mikee Goodman. It went on to win the best video award in The Big Cheese Magazine, as well as reaching number 1 on MTV UK, and being an A-list video on MTV Asia.

Debut album (2003–2005)
Sikth's debut album The Trees Are Dead & Dried Out Wait for Something Wild was released on 18 August 2003 through Gut Records. The album was produced by the band themselves, along with Andrew Scarth. Mixing duties were handled by Colin Richardson. Two singles were released from the album in "Scent of the Obscene" (October) and "Peep Show" (December). The album has sold approximately 30,000 copies in the UK, Japan and Australia.

In support of the album, Sikth performed at Download Festival at Donington Park in 2003. The band subsequently travelled to Japan in 2004, firstly supporting Anthrax and Killswitch Engage, then playing at the Fuji Rock Festival in August with Lou Reed, PJ Harvey and Primus. Also in 2004, the band made an appearance at the debut Fuse Leeds festival of cross-disciplinary New Music, at the personal invitation of festival curator Django Bates (they played a support slot to Bates' own jazz ensemble on the closing night of the festival).

Second album (2006–2007)
The band returned in 2006 with their second full-length album Death of a Dead Day. It was released in the UK on 26 June 2006 on their new label Bieler Bros. Records. It was earlier released in the US on 6 June. The album entered the UK album charts at number 94. The album was once again produced by the band themselves, with mixing duties handled by Matt Plant.

In support of the album, Sikth performed a show at The White Horse in High Wycombe, the venue of their first ever gig, on 6 June 2006 and at the Download Festival 2006 four days later, as well as short UK tour.

An EP titled Flogging the Horses was released in October 2006, featuring demo versions from Death of a Dead Day tracks, as well as a remix version of "Where Do We Fall?". The track "Each Other and Ourselves" was also included, which was a bonus track on the Japanese version of the album. The EP was limited to just 1,500 copies.

Departure of vocalists and hiatus (2007–2013)
On 8 May 2007, it was announced that vocalists Mikee Goodman and Justin Hill would be leaving the band at the conclusion of the July 2007 "The Black Summer Starts Here" UK tour set, due to their ongoing projects and producing careers. Mikee Goodman's and Justin Hill's final performance in SikTh was at the Carling Academy, Islington, London on 14 September 2007 (this was a rescheduled show).

On 27 May 2008, Sikth announced that the band had decided to split due to numerous factors. The main reasons cited for their break-up was the inability to find a replacement for Mikee and Justin, as well as commitment to other projects.

On 15 January 2012, an official Sikth Facebook Page was created by the band in order to reissue and sell Sikth merchandise. The band also stated that when they do reform, it will not be "for the wrong reasons" and that "we owe it to our fans to produce something very special when we return."

Reunion (2014–present)
On 16 December 2013 it was revealed in a surprise announcement that Sikth were to be playing a reunion set at Download Festival 2014, headlining the Red Bull stage. This was the band's first live performance since 2007 and their first appearance at Download Festival since 2006. On 25 March, they were also announced to be headlining October's Euroblast festival in Cologne, Germany. On 13 June 2014, Sikth announced a full autumn UK tour via their Facebook page running through October and November. Sikth have also been announced to play UK Tech-Metal Festival as the main headliner on 14 June 2014. They were also main headliner of Silence Festival V in Nepal 17–18 October 2014,sharing same stage where Enigmatik, Vader, Textures and Behemoth had headlined before.

On 27 April 2015 Sikth announced via their Facebook page that they are planning to release new music in the form of a crowd funded EP with a tour to follow. Fans who pre-ordered the EP were able to visit the pledgemusic page and gain access to exclusive updates, content and merchandise for the duration of the funding campaign. The six track EP, titled Opacities, was released on 4 December 2015. Sikth were also the opening act for Slipknot on their 2016 U.K tour in February alongside Suicidal Tendencies. They were announced to be performing the Arctangent Festival in August 2016, but later pulled out. They appeared in 2017.

On 3 June 2016 Justin Hill announced his retirement in order to focus on his production career. Joe Rosser from Pin's second band Aliases was announced as his replacement.

The band will be in the UK in September for their "Riddles of Humanity" tour and will feature Loathe as their support act in September 2018. Their final show of the year was at Festivile on 20 October 2018, it was also at this show where frontman Mikee Goodman said that "This will be the last show we'll do for a while" he also stated he is unsure if they will return soon and if new music will be made.

Sometime between 2019 and 2021, Joe Rosser departed the band to pursue other musical endeavours, in late 2022 the band announced that Justin Hill would rejoin the band for a set of anniversary shows in November 2022, at the Manchester date of the show the band brought out Joe Rosser for the songs "Sanguine Seas of Bigotry" and "Bland Street Bloom" as a thank you to his tenure in the band when Justin departed.

Musical style
Sikth's style of music is hard to categorise as they incorporate many different elements of metal, rock and hardcore. They are commonly categorised as progressive metal due to their unorthodox approach, as well as avant-garde metal and mathcore due to the complex nature of their instrumental playing abilities and the regular inclusion of dissonance into their music.

According to guitarist Dan Weller;

"'Energy has always inspired us, things that really get you pumping. We play extreme music, sure, but in the sense that we go to all extremes. If something sounds good, then we'll do it, and that includes beautiful, melodic music, which we all love, too'."

According to guitarist Pin;

"'But we're always concerned with the quality of the tune; just writing crazy music isn't enough, and I think that's what makes us different from other bands who go really technical. We're definitely writing songs.'"

In a review for Sikth's second album Death of a Dead Day, DecoyMusic.com described the band's style as containing elements of "speed metal, progressive metal, thrash, nu metal, metalcore, and cock-rock". The website Drowned in Sound "sees the band come across like a heady America-friendly mix of Dillinger Escape Plan's feather-fingered guitar contorting melded with Korn's manipulated rhythms, thundering through the bizarre nuances of System of a Down".

In a review for the band's debut album The Trees Are Dead & Dried Out Wait for Something Wild, MusicOMH.com described the album as containing "guttural throaty vocals mixed with harmonized melodies, viciously rhythmic drumming which instantly metamorphosises into elaborate percussion, and haunting atmospheric piano interludes which sit superbly between slices of metal brutality". In the early days of the band, Goodman once described their sound as "scatcore", a reference to their fast-jabbering scat style of singing.

Current members

 * Mikee Goodman – vocals (1999–2007, 2013–present)
 * Dan Weller – guitar, piano (1999–2008, 2013–present)
 * Graham "Pin" Pinney – guitar (1999–2008, 2013–2018, 2022–present)
 * Dan "Loord" Foord – drums, percussion (2001–2008, 2013–present)
 * James Leach – bass (2001–2008, 2013–present)
 * Justin Hill – vocals (2001–2007, 2013–2016, 2022–present)

Former members

 * Tristan Lucey - vocals (1999–2000)
 * Jamie Hunter - bass (1999–2000)
 * [unknown name] - unknown (1999–2001)
 * Joe Rosser – vocals (2016–2021)

Members and other projects
Alongside producing and vocal coaching, Goodman is a member of Primal Rock Rebellion, featuring Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith and Sikth drummer Dan Foord. Mikee's first project after Sikth was The Painted Smiles and appeared on the tracks 'Dark Matter' by This Is Menace and 'Sleep Street' by Cyclamen. He also sings/screams on Deathembers EP  A Thousand Flatlines  track 4 The Linear Act. His latest musical project is the band Outpatients (later renamed Outside the Coma), a "male and female dual vocal, experimental, electronic/rock/metal band".
 * Mikee Goodman – vocals

Weller is currently the guitarist of In Colour, which features TesseracT vocalist Daniel Tompkins. Weller produced Enter Shikari's 3rd album, A Flash Flood of Colour, and assisted in the production of their 2nd album Common Dreads. He has also produced two albums by the band Young Guns. Dan wrote the music alongside co-writer, Ciaran Cahill (who plays keyboards alongside him in In Colour) for Transmission Impossible with Ed & Oucho on the BBC.
 * Dan Weller – guitar, piano

James teaches bass and is Gallows' drum tech. He is a member of supergroups Krokodil and Gold Key, and allegedly part of the hardcore punk group The Hell. James also played bass for Pure Love's live shows on their 2014 farewell tour. Devin Townsend confirmed on Twitch that James is playing bass on his upcoming production Lightwork.
 * James Leach – bass

Loord has performed session work for the bands Primal Rock Rebellion, Sol Invicto and The HAARP Machine.
 * Dan "Loord" Foord – drums, percussion

Justin featured on the track Predisposed from the 2006 album No End in Sight, then returned the favour on Return The Favour from the 2007 album The Scene Is Dead by This Is Menace, Dreams Without Courage from the 2007 album Entities by Malefice and Distance from the 2013 album Severance by Heart of a Coward. Justin also works as a producer.
 * Justin Hill – vocals

Pin is currently a member of the progressive metal band Aliases, who are signed to Basick Records. They have released one EP, Safer Than Reality, and are currently working on a full-length album. He also is a guitar teacher.
 * Graham "Pin" Pinney – guitar

Rosser was announced as the replacement for Justin Hill following Hills departure in order to focus on production. Joe Rosser is also a member of guitarist Pins other band, Aliases. Rosser debuted on the Aliases single 'Exasperated', subsequently appearing on Aliases second release Derangeable. Rosser debuted as co-vocalist alongside Mikee Goodman on Sikth's 2017 record The Future In Whose Eyes?
 * Joe Rosser – vocals

Not much is known about the band's lineup before 2001, except the band's other vocalist besides Goodman was Tristan Lucey instead of Hill, and there were two other members, one of them named Jamie Hunter.

Demos and promos

 * Pussyfoot/Suffice (2000)
 * Hold My Finger/Such the Fool (2001)
 * Pussyfoot (2003)

Tours and festivals

 * 2000 – UK Tour with Sanctum.
 * 2001 – UK Tour with Dead Life Portrait.
 * 2002 – UK Tour supporting American Head Charge.
 * 2003 – UK Tour supporting Mad Capsule Markets.
 * 2003 – UK Tour supporting Mudvayne.
 * 2003 – Download Festival 2003 at Donington Park, 3rd stage.
 * 2003 – Europe Tour supporting Machine Head.
 * 2004 – UK Headline Tour With Akercocke and Hondo Maclean
 * 2004 – Ireland tour with Akercocke and Labrat.
 * 2004 – Japanese tour supporting Anthrax & Killswitch Engage.
 * 2004 – Fuji Rock Festival in Japan.
 * 2004 – UK tour supporting Pitchshifter.
 * 2006 – Fury Fest in France.
 * 2006 – French headline tour.
 * 2006 – Barfly/Jägermeister UK tour in March/April.
 * 2006 – Album release show on 6 June, High Wycombe.
 * 2006 – Download Festival 2006, 2nd stage.

 * 2006 – Death of a Dead Day UK Headline tour supported by Dead Man in Reno & Architects.
 * 2007 – Death of a Week Day UK tour in July.
 * 2007 – Final show before split at the Islington Carling Academy in London on Friday 14 September.
 * 2014 – Headlined the Red Bull Stage at Download Festival on Saturday 14 June.
 * 2014 – Silence Festival in Nepal on 18 October.
 * 2015 – BIG69 Festival in Mumbai, India, 18 January
 * 2015 – Breakout Festival Brighton, 26 September
 * 2016 – UK tour supporting Slipknot and Suicidal Tendencies
 * 2016–2000 Trees festival
 * 2016 – USA Tour supporting Periphery
 * 2017 – European & UK tour supporting Trivium and SHVPES
 * 2017 – Download Festival 2017, Main Stage.
 * 2017 – ArcTanGent Festival
 * 2018 – UK TechFest
 * 2018 – UK Tour with Loathe
 * 2018 – UK Festivile 2018
 * 2019 – PULP Summer Slam 2019 in Quezon City, Philippines

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Pronunciation
The "local" pronunciation given for Bath (both the recording and the IPA transcription) is in fact an RP or Standard Southeastern English pronunciation. While there are plenty of posh RP speakers who have migrated to Bath, the local pronunciation of someone with a more traditional Bath accent would be [baːθ]. Is "local" meant to represent RP (in opposition to an American pronunciation), or the actual local accent? Secondus2 (talk) 12:12, 8 August 2022 (UTC)

 * The text currently says /bɑːθ/. Not sure I quite understand: are you suggesting that square brackets should be used, thus: [bɑːθ] ? MichaelMaggs (talk) 17:09, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm suggesting that either [baːθ] be used, rather than /bɑːθ/, and the recording changed to that of a local accent, or the word "locally" changed to "British English" to reflect that this is a phonemic transcription, based on a Southeastern standard, not a phonetic transcription of a local accent Secondus2 (talk) 13:18, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, in that case I agree. Would you like to make the change? MichaelMaggs (talk) 13:21, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
 * OK, done :) Secondus2 (talk) 12:24, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure that ⟨aː⟩ in the local pronunciation means a vowel that is DISTINCT from, meaning that there are two long open unrounded vowels in Bath English (and some other varieties of West Country English) - hence a separate transcription (which makes no sense otherwise, in Australia and New Zealand is also central and yet we always use the diaphonemic symbol ⟨ɑː⟩ for it (or ⟨ɑːr⟩, whenever the corresponding GenAm pronunciation is rhotic)). See Ae-tensing for a very closely related phenomenon in North American English. Sol505000 (talk) 01:17, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Source? All I can gather from sources (Wells; Altendord & Watt) is that the /æ/–/ɑː/ contrast is absent or variable in the West Country with the exception of Bristol and Southampton, which West Country English too would have you believe. So the choice between the diaphonemes and  becomes arbitrary and either conveys almost nothing, hence the phonetic transcription. Also I don't think $⟨a⟩$ here means central. Nardog (talk) 04:35, 9 January 2023 (UTC)

Football
There is too much repetitive detail about the club's history whichh should be in the article about the club itself. This article is about the city not the club. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 21:10, 12 January 2023 (UTC)

"Possible reintroduction" of trams - update?
The subsection of the Transport section detailing this has a latest dated detail at least 6 years ago. It would be worth mentioning if there has been any progress on the project since.Cloptonson (talk) 19:12, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
 * It's wishful thinking on someone's part. Unlikely ever to happen. Probably better just to delete it. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 18:19, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I don't live near Bath or have access to its local news, I would say let those closest to the scene of events make the cut.Cloptonson (talk) 19:01, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Agreed, I'm a long way away as well. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 20:36, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

Rotork
I'm pre-empting the inevitable revert of my edit. Rotork is one of two FTSE250 companies based in the city - the other being Future - and both should have at least a brief mention in this article. The economy section mentions hosts of other employers, but somehow a mention of one of Bath's most successful businesses, and which has a well established Wikipedia article of its own, is not allowed?! 193.223.71.81 (talk) 17:52, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

 * Yes, that looks reasonable, provided the mention is neutral, factual and brief. In fact, one might expect any notable company, which has a presence in the city, to be mentioned in the same way? Martinevans123 (talk) 18:05, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

 * The bar for inclusion is surely when a company and a city have a close connection - the relationship (over many decades now) and importance of Bath to Rotork (and to a lesser extent, vice versa) is detailed in the Rotork article. 193.223.71.81 (talk) 18:45, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Then that looks like an additional good reason. Martinevans123 (talk) 18:46, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

 * Thanks. I should add that I have absolutely nothing to do with the company! 193.223.71.81 (talk) 19:46, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Ah right, so not Dorothy Thompson or Kiet Huynh, then. What a let down. Martinevans123 (talk) 20:17, 2 May 2024 (UTC)

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Sean Whitton of the Wikipedia Information Team has suggested I contact an established editor/admin living in my area to arrange verification that I am indeed the person I say I am. He gave me informations that led me to the page of those in my area and I have put this posting on the talk pages of several. I am myself in The OC. If you are agreeable to verifying my existance, how might we do so? A meet to examine my ID? Something similar? Thank you. Michael Q. Schmidt (talk) 01:26, 24 June 2008 (UTC)

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User talk:Brummie dave

Welcome to the Wikipedia
Welcome, newcomer!

Here are some useful tips to ease you into the Wikipedia experience:

 * First, take a look at the Wikipedia Tutorial, and perhaps dabble a bit in the test area.
 * When you have some free time, take a look at the Manual of Style and Policies and Guidelines. They can come in very handy!
 * Remember to use a neutral point of view!
 * If you need any help, feel free to post a question at the Help Desk
 * Explore, be bold in editing pages, and, most importantly, have fun!

Also, here are some odds and ends that I find useful from time to time:

 * Policy Library
 * Utilities
 * Cite your sources
 * Verifiability
 * Wikiquette
 * Civility
 * Conflict resolution
 * Brilliant prose
 * Pages needing attention
 * Peer review
 * Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
 * Village pump
 * Boilerplate text

Feel free to ask me anything the links and talk pages don't answer. You can most easily reach me by posting on my talk page.

You can sign your name on any page by typing 4 tildes, likes this: ~~~~.

Best of luck, and have fun!

ClockworkTroll 21:13, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Leeds
Could I ask what you are doing with the Leeds page? There is a debate going on about the merge. You seem to be remaking the merge before the debate is over. I think you are on VERY dodgy ground. --Tagishsimon

 * I see you have done Bradford too. Are you going to do this for every Town/Borough pair? Do you not understand that a) the matter is still being debated and b) this makes the article pattern for these boroughs differ from all other boroughs. Do you know what there is a consensus convention for this sort of thing which you are breaking. WTF --Tagishsimon

Leeds discussion
The Leeds discussion is currently happening mostly on WikiProject UK Subdivisions, which may be why you missed it.

But it is also on Talk:Leeds.

Perhaps someone should have removed the "This page should be merged" annotation :-).

 * I've removed the merge notices and reverted the Leeds and Bradford merges. --Tagishsimon

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User talk:MediGuy

Welcome to the Wikipedia
Welcome, newcomer!

Here are some useful tips to ease you into the Wikipedia experience:

 * First, take a look at the Wikipedia Tutorial, and perhaps dabble a bit in the test area.
 * When you have some free time, take a look at the Manual of Style and Policies and Guidelines. They can come in very handy!
 * Remember to use a neutral point of view!
 * If you need any help, feel free to post a question at the Help Desk
 * Explore, be bold in editing pages, and, most importantly, have fun!

Also, here are some odds and ends that I find useful from time to time:

 * Policy Library
 * Utilities
 * Cite your sources
 * Verifiability
 * Wikiquette
 * Civility
 * Conflict resolution
 * Brilliant prose
 * Pages needing attention
 * Peer review
 * Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
 * Village pump
 * Boilerplate text

Feel free to ask me anything the links and talk pages don't answer. You can most easily reach me by posting on my talk page.

You can sign your name on any page by typing 4 tildes, likes this: ~~~~.

Best of luck, and have fun!

ClockworkTroll 21:13, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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User talk:MrVacBob

Welcome to the Wikipedia
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 * First, take a look at the Wikipedia Tutorial, and perhaps dabble a bit in the test area.
 * When you have some free time, take a look at the Manual of Style and Policies and Guidelines. They can come in very handy!
 * Remember to use a neutral point of view!
 * If you need any help, feel free to post a question at the Help Desk
 * Explore, be bold in editing pages, and, most importantly, have fun!

Also, here are some odds and ends that I find useful from time to time:

 * Policy Library
 * Utilities
 * Cite your sources
 * Verifiability
 * Wikiquette
 * Civility
 * Conflict resolution
 * Brilliant prose
 * Pages needing attention
 * Peer review
 * Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense
 * Village pump
 * Boilerplate text

Feel free to ask me anything the links and talk pages don't answer. You can most easily reach me by posting on my talk page.

You can sign your name on any page by typing 4 tildes, likes this: ~~~~.

Best of luck, and have fun!

ClockworkTroll 21:13, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

How you doing, MVB?-- Saoshyant talk / contribs (I don't like Wikipedophiles) 16:21, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

goons MrVacBob 02:55, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

NPOV Caramelldansen Article
The actual popular ones: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm740147 (live-action), http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm2201564 (IDOLMASTER, I think this started it over there...). I don't have the Youtube versions, though. MrVacBob (talk) 02:36, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

 * Those were made almost at the begining at 2008, the spoof section was to mention the oldest ones created that are documented and with fair quality. Unless they are really that old, they can be added to the article, I will need the author and the date first posted. If you notice at the end of the article I added links to the webpage you mention. But the thing is that I have a hard time with japanese, I could use some help to find out if the originl auhor is posted there, also the date, it has to be older that June 2007.--Ruakuu (talk) 18:01, 29 February 2008 (UTC)

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User:Eric B. and Rakim/Threads (computer science)

A thread is a line of execution for a program. Simple programs only have one line of execution and are therefore sometimes called single-threaded. This is an example of that kind of program in C:

#include        int main {               int n;                for (n = 0; n < 10; n++) {                       printf("n is %d.\n", n); }       }

Single-threaded programs are relatively easy to understand. They only do one thing at once and therefore only has one state at any time. The output of the program will be:

n is 0. n is 1. ...       n is 9.

When the computer executes the program, it executes all the instructions in the order they were typed. First it makes the variable, sets it to 0, checks if it is less than 3, prints "n is 0.", adds 1 to  , checks if it is less than 3, prints "n is 1.", etc.

If a program has more than one thread it is called multi-threaded, and when it is executed it will do more than one thing simultaneously. Here is an example of a multi-threaded program written in C with pthreads:

#include        #include         #include         /* First thread. Prints even numbers: 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 void print_even {               int n;                for (n = 0; n < 5; n++) {                       printf("n is %d.\n", n * 2); sleep(1); }       }        /* Second thread. Prints odd numbers: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 void print_odd {               int n;                for (n = 0; n < 5; n++) {                       printf("n is %d.\n", n * 2 + 1); sleep(1); }       }        /* Main function. */       int main {               pthread_t thread1, thread2; /* Create and start the threads. */               pthread_create(&thread1, NULL, (void *)print_even, NULL); pthread_create(&thread2, NULL, (void *)print_odd, NULL);

/* Wait for the threads to finish. */               pthread_join(thread1, NULL); pthread_join(thread2, NULL); }

To compile this program, you need to link with pthread. With gcc it is done like this:

gcc -o program program.c -lpthread

The output of the program will be identical to the previous program. However, experiment with the parameters to the calls to the sleep function and seemlingly strange things will happen. As will become apparent is that the order of the output, is totally dependant on what parameters the sleep calls receive. If the threads was run one by one, the output would look like the illustration on the right. But when they are run in parallell, we can't on beforehand predict what the exact output will be.

How threads are useful
Threads are useful in any situation when a program needs to do two things, tasks, at once. Especially when one of the tasks involves waiting for input from a resource, like the user. A common use of threads is having one thread paying attention to the graphical user interface, while others do a long calculation in the background. The following pseudo-code demonstrates how one might solve the problem employing threads.

void interactWithUser {               while(1) {                       waitUntilTheUserDoesSomething; doWhatTheUserWants; }       }        void longCalculation {               calculateOneTrillionDecimalsOfPi; }       void main {               /* In here would be code that starts the both threads and waits until the user wants to quit the application. */       }

The problem IS possible to solve with a single-threaded approach. It would look something like this, but would be much worse:

void main {               while(userDoesntWantToQuit) {                       if (hasUserDoneSomething) doWhatTheUserWants; calculateOnePartOfTheProblem; }       }

The reason that this approach is that we have to use polling and that we have to switch between serving the user and working on our problem. Polling means that we periodically check if some event has happened and that is exactly what the line  does. We also have to break our calculation of pi down in small manageable chunks that doesn't take so long to calculate, otherwise we won't have time to serve the user. That is what  call does.

As a result, the multi-threaded program can respond to user's interaction much faster than a single-threaded approach. Also, when the user isn't doing something, the computer can devote all its resources to calculate the long calculation. The last and most important advantage is that it will be much easier to read and write the source with threads.

Threading issues
Previously it was said that threads can make a program easier to write. However, there are so many more things that can go wrong when using multiple threads. In fact, the pitfalls are so many that many consider threads the most complicated part of Computer Science.


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Charles H Kraft

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was - kept

Charles H Kraft
Vanity Page Plaintext 21:17, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete. Vanity Page -- but not necessarily unrecoverable. Author needs to add some description of why Dr. Kraft is notable. The list of books, while long, is not really sufficient, especially given that some of them seem to have small sales (per Amazon sales rank). We wouldn't consider an article for every Ph.D. at the Fuller Institute, so what is notable about Dr. Kraft?  Best luck. Chrisvls 22:01, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep Carr
 * Delete as written. Serious POV problems, smacks of zealot-written puff piece. Less than 1000 Google hits, though that's more than J. Fred Muggs, whom I voted to keep. (What can I say?) A few books on Amazon. --NathanHawking 03:42, 2004 Oct 15 (UTC)
 * Delete: promo, nonnotable. Wile E. Heresiarch 05:41, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, of course, and stop deletion trolls. Intrigue 21:42, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I lean toward delete. Needs NPOV at least.  The long list of publications is good, but then pretty much every professor has a list of publications; it's what they do. Isomorphic 16:05, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable. anthony (see warning) 16:22, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notable. GRider 19:57, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Hilton, Dorset

Hilton is a village and civil parish in the county of Dorset in southern England. It is sited at an elevation of 135 m in a small valley which drains chalk hills in the eastern part of the Dorset Downs, approximately 8 mi west-southwest of the town of Blandford Forum. The summit of Bulbarrow Hill (274 m) is 1+1/2 mi north of the village. In the 2011 census the parish—which includes the settlement of Ansty to the west—had 231 dwellings, 206 households and a population of 477.

Hilton used to form a part of the estate of the nearby Milton Abbey when it was owned by the rich Hambro family; the Hambros, who often used to entertain Edward VII, planted woods on the surrounding hills, to provide cover for pheasants. However the woods surrounding Hilton today are mostly post-war plantations of beech (Fagus sylvatica) and ash (Fraxinus excelsior) as the hills were cleared during WW2. Large areas are privately owned, although there are open access areas owned and managed by the Forestry Commission. The church of All Saints is a typical Dorset country church and is mainly in the late Gothic style. In the north aisle a fine range of windows from the cloisters of Milton Abbey have been reused. The fan vault in the porch probably comes from the same source. Also from the abbey are a set of 12 panels with paintings of the Apostles: these are of high quality and early 16th century in date.

In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Hilton like this:

"HILTON, a parish in Blandford district, Dorset; under Bulbarrow camp, 7+1/2 mi WSW of Blandford town and r. station. It contains the hamlets of Aller, Anstey, and Hartsfoot-Lane; and its post town is Milton-Abbas, under Blandford. Acres, 2, 974. Real property, £3, 945. Pop., 833. Houses, 162. The property is divided among a few. Orchards and gardens occupy considerable space. Slate, coal, and bog iron abound; and some gold has been found. There are many mineral springs. Druidical remains, Roman urns and coins, early English coins, and other ancient relics have been found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, £.273.* Patron, the Bishop of Salisbury. The church is tolerable, and has a tower."

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Tyndall effect

The Tyndall effect is light scattering by particles in a colloid such as a very fine suspension (a sol). Also known as Tyndall scattering, it is similar to Rayleigh scattering, in that the intensity of the scattered light is inversely proportional to the fourth power of the wavelength, so blue light is scattered much more strongly than red light. An example in everyday life is the blue colour sometimes seen in the smoke emitted by motorcycles, in particular two-stroke machines where the burnt engine oil provides these particles. The same effect can also be observed with tobacco smoke whose fine particles also preferentially scatter blue light.

Under the Tyndall effect, the longer wavelengths are transmitted more, while the shorter wavelengths are more diffusely reflected via scattering. The Tyndall effect is seen when light-scattering particulate matter is dispersed in an otherwise light-transmitting medium, where the diameter of an individual particle is in the range of roughly 40 to 900 nm, i.e. somewhat below or near the wavelengths of visible light (400–750 nm).

It is particularly applicable to colloidal mixtures; for example, the Tyndall effect is used in nephelometers to determine the size and density of particles in aerosols and other colloidal matter. Investigation of the phenomenon led directly to the invention of the ultramicroscope and turbidimetry.

It is named after the 19th-century physicist John Tyndall, who first studied the phenomenon extensively.

History
Prior to his discovery of the phenomenon, Tyndall was primarily known for his work on the absorption and emission of radiant heat on a molecular level. In his investigations in that area, it had become necessary to use air from which all traces of floating dust and other particulates had been removed, and the best way to detect these particulates was to bathe the air in intense light. In the 1860s, Tyndall did a number of experiments with light, shining beams through various gases and liquids and recording the results. In doing so, Tyndall discovered that when gradually filling the tube with smoke and then shining a beam of light through it, the beam appeared to be blue from the sides of the tube but red from the far end. This observation enabled Tyndall to first propose the phenomenon which would later bear his name.

In 1902, the ultramicroscope was developed by Richard Adolf Zsigmondy (1865–1929) and Henry Siedentopf (1872–1940), working for Carl Zeiss AG. Curiosity about the Tyndall effect led them to apply bright sunlight for illumination and they were able to determine the size of 4 nm small gold nanoparticles that generate the cranberry glass colour. This work led directly to Zsigmondy's Nobel Prize for chemistry.

Comparison with Rayleigh scattering
Rayleigh scattering is defined by a mathematical formula that requires the light-scattering particles to be far smaller than the wavelength of the light. For a dispersion of particles to qualify for the Rayleigh formula, the particle sizes need to be below roughly 40 nanometres (for visible light), and the particles may be individual molecules. Colloidal particles are bigger and are in the rough vicinity of the size of a wavelength of light. Tyndall scattering, i.e. colloidal particle scattering, is much more intense than Rayleigh scattering due to the bigger particle sizes involved. The importance of the particle size factor for intensity can be seen in the large exponent it has in the mathematical statement of the intensity of Rayleigh scattering. If the colloid particles are spheroid, Tyndall scattering can be mathematically analyzed in terms of Mie theory, which admits particle sizes in the rough vicinity of the wavelength of light. Light scattering by particles of complex shape are described by the T-matrix method.

Blue irises

The color of blue eyes is due to the Tyndall scattering of light by a translucent layer of turbid media in the iris containing numerous small particles of about 0.6 micrometers in diameter. These particles are finely suspended within the fibrovascular structure of the stroma or front layer of the iris. Some brown irises have the same layer, except with more melanin in it. Moderate amounts of melanin make hazel, dark blue and green eyes.

In eyes that contain both particles and melanin, melanin absorbs light. In the absence of melanin, the layer is translucent (i.e. the light passing through is randomly and diffusely scattered by the particles) and a noticeable portion of the light that enters this translucent layer re-emerges via a radial scattered path. That is, there is backscatter, the redirection of the light waves back out to the open air.

Scattering takes place to a greater extent at shorter wavelengths. The longer wavelengths tend to pass straight through the translucent layer with unaltered paths of yellow light, and then encounter the next layer further back in the iris, which is a light absorber called the epithelium or uvea that is colored brownish-black. The brightness or intensity of scattered blue light that is scattered by the particles is due to this layer along with the turbid medium of particles within the stroma.

Thus, the longer wavelengths are not reflected (by scattering) back to the open air as much as the shorter wavelengths. Because the shorter wavelengths are the blue wavelengths, this gives rise to a blue hue in the light that comes out of the eye. The blue iris is an example of a structural color because it relies only on the interference of light through the turbid medium to generate the color.

Blue eyes and brown eyes, therefore, are anatomically different from each other in a genetically non-variable way because of the difference between turbid media and melanin. Both kinds of eye color can remain functionally separate despite being "mixed" together.

Similar phenomena different from Tyndall scattering

When the day's sky is overcast, sunlight passes through the turbidity layer of the clouds, resulting in scattered, diffuse light on the ground (sunbeam). This exhibits Mie scattering instead of Tyndall scattering because the cloud droplets are larger than the wavelength of the light and scatters all colors approximately equally. When the daytime sky is cloudless, the sky's color is blue due to Rayleigh scattering instead of Tyndall scattering because the scattering particles are the air molecules, which are much smaller than the wavelengths of visible light. Similarly, the term Tyndall effect is incorrectly applied to light scattering by large, macroscopic dust particles in the air as due to their large size, they do not exhibit Tyndall scattering.

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Talk:Zuo Zongtang

Chicken
The paragraph on General Tso's Chicken is completely redundant with the article on General Tso's Chicken that is linked at the bottom, so I removed that section of text. — RJH 21:15, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)

This reference seems of interest to many readers, so I have supplied this text:
 * General Tso's chicken was introduced in New York in the 1970s, and has only a tenuous connection with the historical figure, if any.

 * For some reason, the section has been repeatedly blanked (sometimes in good faith), changed to nonesense, or at best given unreferenced assertions. The most recent asserted that General Tso was associated with ordering by numbers in Chinese restaurants. The reference, however, contains no mention of General Tso, "his" chicken, or ordering by numbers. ch (talk)

I reverted the really quite amusing assertions that the University of Chicago Oriental Institute translated scrolls! Are you sure that they weren't found in a tomb? Glad to see that somebody has a sense of humor. ch (talk) 20:59, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Cho
His biography in Chinese could be a good reference for this article. 67.117.82.1 22:11, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

The assertion that the correct pronunciation of Tso is not "Cho" is correct, but the alternative "So" doesn't match the pinyin (zuo, in which zu is very much not s). [--Teucer]

I agree with the last comment, and modified the entry. It's still possible that 'so' is correct in some other dialect, so I clarified that it's ts in Mandarin. (In Cantonese, too.) Zompist 23:23, 3 September 2005 (UTC)

Contradiction
In the "Notability" section, the following claim is made about the naming of General Tso's Chicken: "...the reasoning behind this, if it exists, has not yet been discovered."

In the very next section "See Also", a claim is made as to the reasoning behind the name.

One of the claims must be incorrect.

NPOV
Almost obvious when you read the introduction on the article. ref to American tastes and Knowledge, as well as status as individual make this one seem to me very NPOV. TomTPlant 18:30, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

"Other Military Poultry Heroes"
This seems questionable as Col. Sanders was a Kentucky Colonel, not a military officer. Lithoderm (talk) 16:40, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

 * That section heading is hilarious by the way. --160.39.138.50 (talk) 23:18, 16 May 2008 (UTC)

 * I got a big laugh. "Seems questionable" gave me another.  Way to miss a joke.  -- AvatarMN (talk) 05:40, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Recent changes
The recent changes seem to have introduced a large amount of material that is not quite English, and is basically incomprehenisble.--Filll (talk |  wpc ) 22:16, 17 June 2008 (UTC)

 * I removed this sentence:

In this battle,Qing dynasty's military spending loan from the HSBC that Zuo suggested this plan(on loan). I considered changing it to "The Qing dynasty's military spending was financed by a loan from the HSBC, a plan suggested by Zuo" but that is too much of a guess, especially about HSBC. If anyone knows what the sentence means, please rewrite it and insert it after "and Chinese Turkestan in the 1870s." -Colfer2 (talk) 16:23, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Cantonese
Can someone add the SAMPA and/or IPA pronounciations of Cantonese for the name, to go along with Mandrin? 76.66.202.139 (talk) 10:59, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Absolutely not! He didn't speak Cantonese and didn't have any connections to the region where Cantonese is spoken at all. He is from Hunan. You are disrepecting his native Xiang dialect. --188.99.186.139 (talk) 19:19, 13 May 2017 (UTC)

Zuo Zongtang does not died of natural causes
he is leader of War Hawk, he believe should be fight continue to last and win, then he live in Fuzhou, its very danger because French force close him but he donot know, even Qing government announced Zuo died of natural causes because dove Li Hongzhang keep in Beijing,Zuo died of natural causes is not true you should believe if you really understood this history. (talk) 10:59, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

 * ...I'm not sure if I understand. Do you have a WP:RS that says so? Colipon+ (Talk) 15:01, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Don't believe User:Hans yulun lai. This user is blocked by zh.wikipedia.org (see zh:User:裕綸) until 2010 after repeatedly adding incorrect information to articles.--Mewaqua (talk) 12:19, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

 * That's right. He has been vandalizing many articles. Can any administrator do something about this please? Lonelydarksky (talk) 10:10, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

liu jintang
http://www.google.fr/search?tbm=bks&tbo=1&q=liu+jintang+governor

Liu Jintang was one of Zuo Zongtang's suboordinate commanders. Expansion is required on their (zuo and liu's) tenure in reforming xinjiang.

05:37, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

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Pelephone

Pelephone (פלאפון,, lit. "wonder phone") is a mobile network operator in Israel, and also the first company to offer mobile telephony services in Israel. Due to this, the brand-name "Pelephone" became the genericized trademark for mobile phones in Israel, regardless of service provider. The company is a subsidiary of the Israeli telecommunications conglomerate Bezeq, which is also the principal provider of fixed-line telephone service in the country. As of June 2016 Pelephone had 2.26 million wireless subscribers.

History

Pelephone was founded as a company in 1985 as a joint venture between Motorola and Tadiran, after Motorola was awarded the contract to build Israel's first mobile phone network in November 1983. Pelephone began operations of its mobile phone network in March 1986. Pelephone's first television commercial featured Israeli actor Hanan Goldblatt using his car phone to buy and sell shares via a stockbroker while driving at the same time. Pelephone's first CEO was Benny Epstein, who served in that position until 1994.

In 1994, Bezeq acquired 50% ownership of Pelephone, and in 2004 acquired full ownership of the company from its co-owner Motorola.

In December 2011 Pelephone became the host network of "Rami Levy Communications", the first MVNO to begin operating in Israel. As of 2012, Pelephone states that it has 4,500 employees, although the workers' union says that there are just 3,800.

YouPhone (Alon Cellular) was a member of the Pelephone network as a virtual MVNO operator. It was established as a subsidiary of Alon Blue Square Israel, but since 2015 it has been owned completely by Pelephone and also merged its operations with Pelephone.

Network
The Pelephone network started as AMPS/NAMPS in the 850 MHz band. In 1998 it converted to IS-95 CDMA and in 2004 CDMA2000/EV-DO mobile data capabilities were added as well.

A 3G UMTS network in the 850/2100 MHz bands was launched in early 2009 and in March of that year, Pelephone stopped selling cellphones that use the CDMA system. In mid-2010, the UMTS network was upgraded to HSPA+. In 2014 the company launched an LTE network in the 1800 MHz band. and in 2020 5G NR services were launched, using the 3500 MHz band.

In April 2017, Pelephone announced plans to shut down their CDMA network over the summer, and did so on June 28, 2017.

Operations and services
Pelephone lost its monopoly status in 1994, when Cellcom was founded, breaking Pelephone's monopoly as a mobile network operator, and in 1999, a third competitor, Partner (formerly known as Orange) was established.

The prefix (area code) for Pelephone customers is 050, although customers who requested to keep their old number from a different cellular company may have a different area code, as required by law.

Between 2003 and 2022, Pelephone pursued a multibranding strategy to reach previously underserved market segments. These included Esc, a youth-focused subsidiary which operated between 2003 and 2007 in cooperation with radio station אקו 99FM, Sawa, a lower-cost flanker brand targeting the Arab-Israeli sector, and k-mobile, which operated between 2017 and 2019. All the flanker brands were closed and merged into the main Pelephone brand by 2022 as the result of Pelephone's new CEO Ilan Siegel's decision to focus on 5G expansion.

Hii mobile
On April 11, 2016, Pelephone launched a new mobile brand "Hii-Mobile", in cooperation with Hunnam (owned by Yaakov Kedmi). This brand appeals particularly to young people, soldiers and students with attractive offers and packages for this target audience.

Pmobile
Pelephone and the Bug Multisystem retail chain launched the cellphone brand "Pmobile" in May 2016. The brand offers Pelephone network services at prices significantly lower than normal.

Involvement in Israeli settlements
On 12 February 2020, the United Nations published a database of companies doing business related in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as well as in the occupied Golan Heights. Pelephone was listed on the database on account of its activities in Israeli settlements in these occupied territories, which are considered illegal under international law.

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Derek Kirk Kim

Derek Kirk Kim (born 1975 (age 30)) is a Korean-American comics artist and filmmaker.

Personal life
Derek Kirk Kim was born in South Korea in 1975 (age 30), and moved to the United States at age eight. From Pacifica, California, by 2005 he was living in San Francisco. There, Kim attended the Academy of Art University where he majored in illustration, though he later wished he had attended "a regular school so I could have gotten a more rounded education and been exposed to different subjects."

Career
Kim began publishing semi-autobiographical serialized short stories on his website, lowbright.com, in 2000. Some of those stories from 2000 to 2003 were collected by Kim and published in Same Difference and Other Stories, an award-winning publication that he later said kick-started his professional career. Through the early 2010s, Kim described himself as being singularly focused on writing and drawing comics.

For his character, Andy Go, an art-school dropout who finds himself trapped in a world that outlawed creativity, Kim began branching out by 2012. In the webcomic Tune, Kim stepped back from drawing volume two and instead brought on artist Les McClaine to take over those duties—Kim could no longer handle the monotony of the drawing, and instead preferred to focus on production and writing. In the live-action YouTube series Mythomania, a impetus for which was the casting–whitewashing controversy in 2010's The Last Airbender, Kim found he enjoyed filmmaking more than drawing.

Kim was credited as a designer on Animation Domination High-Def's 2013 video, Sympathy for Slender Man Song, which was a 2014 Webby Awards nominee in the category Online Film & Video: Animation.

Influences
Kim became interested in graphical storytelling as a child in South Korea, reading and watching Astro Boy, Gundam, Mazinger Z, Captain Harlock stories, Marine Boy, and Star Blazers. In 2004, citing their oversized influence on development, Kim expressed an interest in illustrating children's books, citing The Little Prince and Oh, the Places You'll Go! as examples.

In 2005, NPR's Jacki Lyden noted that, like Kim, both main characters in Same Difference are Korean-American, though she felt they did not exhibit any explicitly-Korean attributes; Kim told her that he avoided obvious or stereotypical signifiers of their Asianness, instead grafting similar scenes as he and his Korean-American friends had while growing up. In a 2013 interview by Gene Luen Yang for First Second Books, Kim agreed that, in addition to many of his main characters being Asian-American, he consciously imbued his work with an "Asian American-ness", though was saddened it needed to be conscious: "The default race for a central character shouldn't have to be white."

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Reception
In November 2001, Kim was highlighted and praised in The Comics Journal for his serials Same Difference and Half Empty—then hosted on GeoCities. In September 2004, Shaenon K. Garrity reviewed his body of work for The Webcomics Examiner, and heaped praise on the artist, explicitly calling out his "technical precision and emotional expressiveness."

In September 2002, the Xeric Foundation awarded Kim a self-publishing grant for Same Difference and Other Stories. For his publication thereof, Kim received a 2003 Ignatz Award for Promising New Talent, a 2004 Eisner Award for Name Deserving of Wider Recognition, and a 2004 Harvey Award for Best New Talent. The third story in 2009's The Eternal Smile, "Urgent Request", earned Kim a 2010 Eisner Award for Best Short Story.

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